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The area of investigation for Expedition 311 is the accretionary prism of the Cascadia subduction zone (Fig. F1). The Juan de Fuca plate converges nearly orthogonally to the North American plate at a present rate of ~45 mm/y (e.g., Riddihough, 1984). Seaward of the deformation front, the Cascadia Basin consists of pre-Pleistocene hemipelagic sediments overlain by rapidly deposited Pleistocene turbidites for a total sediment thickness of ~2500 m. Most of the incoming sediment is scraped off the oceanic crust and folded and thrust upward to form elongated anticlinal ridges with elevations as high as 700 m above the adjacent basins. The thrust faults near the deformation front penetrate nearly the entire sediment section (Davis and Hyndman, 1989).
The primary objective of Expedition 311, on the northern Cascadia margin, is to constrain geologic models for the formation of gas hydrate in subduction zone accretionary prisms. This expedition follows the goals for gas hydrate drilling as proposed by the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Gas Hydrates Program Planning Group: Study the formation of natural gas hydrate in marine sediments.
The specific objectives of this expedition are to test gas hydrate formation models and constrain model parameters, especially models that account for the formation of concentrated gas hydrate occurrences through upward fluid and methane transport. These objectives require (1) high-quality data on the vertical concentration distribution of gas hydrate and free gas and variation landward in the accretionary prism and (2) estimates of the vertical fluid and methane fluxes through the sediment section as a function of landward distance from the deformation front. The study concentrates on the contrast between dispersed pervasive upward flow and focused flow of fluid and methane in fault zones. The pervasive permeability may be on the sediment grain scale, on a centimeter scale (the scaly fabric observed in previous ODP clastic accretionary prism cores), or in closely spaced faults.
Natural gas hydrate occurs in marine continental slope and onshore Arctic permafrost environments. The Arctic occurrences can exhibit very high gas hydrate concentrations but appear to contain less total gas than marine gas hydrate occurrences. Recent studies have indicated that the largest occurrences of gas hydrate may lie in nearly horizontal layers several hundred meters beneath the seafloor of continental slopes, especially in the large subduction zone accretionary sedimentary prisms. Gas hydrate and underlying free gas produce the ubiquitous bottom-simulating reflectors (BSRs) along numerous continental margins of the world. Gas hydrates do occur on passive margins, but they are less common and appear to be usually at lower concentrations.
The two marine gas hydrate areas that have received the most detailed scientific study, including previous drilling during the ODP, are the Blake Ridge region off the east coast of the United States (a passive margin setting) and the Cascadia margin off the coast of Oregon and Vancouver Island (subduction zone accretionary prism). Important new information on Arctic gas hydrate occurrences has been obtained from the Mallik-1998 and Mallik-2002 drilling projects in northern Canada (Dallimore et al., 1999; Dallimore and Collett, 2005). If our conclusions for the occurrence and distribution of gas hydrate in nature are correct, gas hydrate formed within accretionary prisms is the most important both for understanding the geologic controls on the occurrence of gas hydrate and for the role that natural gas hydrate plays in the global carbon cycle. Within accretionary prisms, the largest amount of gas hydrate is predicted to occur in a widespread layer located just above the BSR (Hyndman and Davis, 1992). However, also important is focusing a portion of the upward methane flux into localized migration conduits or channels to form concentrated near-seafloor gas hydrate accumulations. The amount of gas hydrate in the widespread layer above the BSR, compared to that in local concentrations near the seafloor, is especially important for understanding the response of marine gas hydrate to climate change. Near-seafloor gas hydrate accumulations will respond much more quickly to ocean temperature changes compared to gas hydrate several hundred meters below the seafloor. For the region of ODP Sites 889/890, Taylor et al. (2002) calculated that a 30 m thick hydrate deposit lying at the base of the stability field would dissociate due to seabed warming in ~8000 y. However, near-seafloor gas hydrate could dissociate much more quickly and be much more responsive to human-induced global warming (e.g., Wood et al., 2002). Off Vancouver Island a gas hydraterelated BSR occurs in a 30 km wide band parallel to the coast beneath much of the continental slope (Fig. F1). Gas hydrate is thought to be concentrated in a layer 50100 m thick, just above the base of the gas hydrate stability field, which is located 200300 m below seafloor (mbsf) based on earlier interpretations (see, e.g., Hyndman et al., 2001, for a summary of these findings). The gas hydrate concentrations, estimated from downhole logging data collected during ODP Leg 146, may reach ~30% of pore space. The surveys and studies that have been carried out and the evidence for the presence and content of gas hydrate are summarized in two comprehensive review articles (Hyndman et al., 2001; Spence et al., 2000).
Gas hydrate concentrations were previously estimated from downhole acoustic and resistivity logs, multichannel seismic (MCS) data, vertical seismic profile (VSP) velocities, and pore water freshening (e.g., Yuan et al., 1996, 1999; Hyndman et al., 1999). Gas hydrate concentrations determined from the different methods vary slightly but were estimated to be on average 20%35% of the pore space over a 100 m thick interval above the BSR. These are high concentrations for a marine gas hydrate occurrence and are not observed on other margins. ODP drilling and logging at the Blake Ridge offshore South Carolina (passive margin environment) showed gas hydrate concentrations that were on average <10% (Paull, Matsumoto, Wallace, et al., 1996). Results from Leg 204 at southern Hydrate Ridge located on the southern Cascadia margin offshore Oregon, with a very similar tectonic environment to offshore Vancouver Island, showed very low gas hydrate concentrations of <5% except for the unusual summit of Hydrate Ridge (Trehu et al., 2004). An earlier approach by Ussler and Paull (2001) for interpreting chlorinity data from Leg 146 by using a smooth chlorinity baseline suggested lower gas hydrate concentrations at Sites 889/890 but apparently contradicted other geophysical results using electrical resistivity and seismic velocity. In preparation for Expedition 311, the gas hydrate concentrations along the northern Cascadia margin were recalculated using Leg 146 acoustic/electrical resistivity logs and pore water chlorinity/salinity data (Riedel et al., 2005). New estimates show that the concentrations could alternatively be between 5% and 10% on average of the pore volume from ~130 mbsf to the BSR (~230 mbsf).
No conclusive decision can be made using interstitial water chlorinity data from Leg 146 to assess the occurrence of gas hydrate without a more complete analysis of the baseline chlorinity data and without additional pore water chemistry data (lithium and strontium data) to confirm the model by Torres et al. (2004) derived from Leg 204 results. Therefore, gas hydrate concentrations along the northern Cascadia margin as estimated from chlorinity data may either be as low as a few percent, as suggested earlier by Ussler and Paull (2001), or as high as 40%, previously suggested by Hyndman et al. (1999). Gas hydrate concentrations also were calculated from the resistivity data using Archie's equation. Archie's equation consists of several empirical parameters (referred to as a, m, and n), which were determined to be a = 1.4, m = 1.76, and n = 1.0 by Hyndman et al. (1999) using the Leg 146 core data at Sites 888 and 889/890. However, Collett (2000) redefined these parameters to a = 1.0, m = 2.8, and n = 1.9 by using the Site 889 resistivity and neutron porosity logs. The differences in these empirical parameters result in highly different estimated gas hydrate concentrations. The Leg 146 logging data are of relatively poor quality and neither the new parameters nor the previous analyses fit all data well, and a large uncertainty remains in the results. However, results from Leg 204, obtained from a tectonically similar environment, suggest that the Archie parameters by Collett (2000) may be preferable.
Finally, new reference velocity profiles were calculated from the Site 889 porosities using various published empirical relations between porosity and velocity (Jarrard et al., 1995; Hyndman et al., 1993) and the Lee et al. (1993) weighted equation. All the newly proposed baselines are significantly shifted toward higher seismic velocities relative to the former baseline defined by Yuan et al. (1996) and Hyndman et al. (2001). Thus, they result in gas hydrate concentrations that are only between 5% and 10% of the pore volume. However, significant uncertainty remains in the applicability of the empirical parameters for each of the individual equations. If the model by Torres et al. (2004) proposed for Hydrate Ridge (Leg 204) is applicable to Site 889 and if the Archie parameters by Collett (2000) are correct, these two methods (although individually very uncertain) confirm results from the acoustic velocity analyses of Lee et al. (1993). Thus, the total gas hydrate concentration at Sites 889/890 may be much lower than previously assumed.
A general model for deep-sea gas hydrate formation by removal of methane from upwardly expelled fluids was developed earlier for the Expedition 311 area (Fig. F2) (Hyndman and Davis, 1992). Mainly microbial methane, inferred to be produced over a thick sediment section, migrates vertically to form gas hydrate when it enters the stability field. The gas hydrate concentration is predicted to be greatest just above the BSR. A model has also been proposed for how free gas and the resulting BSR will be formed as the base of the gas hydrate stability moves upward due to post-Pleistocene seafloor warming, uplift, and sediment deposition (e.g., Paull and Ussler, 1997; von Huene and Pecher, 1998). In addition, physical and mathematical models have been developed for the formation of gas hydrate from upward methane advection and diffusion (e.g., Xu and Ruppel, 1999).
Recently, evidence for focused fluid/gas flow and gas hydrate formation has been identified on the Vancouver margin. The most studied site is an active cold vent field associated with near-surface gas hydrate occurrences close to Sites 889/890 (e.g., Riedel et al., 2002). Studies include high-resolution subbottom profiling, three-dimensional (3-D) seismic surveys, piston coring, and ocean-bottom video surveying and sampling with the remotely operated vehicle ROPOS. These vents represent fault-related conduits for focused fluid and/or gas migration associated with massive gas hydrate formation within the fault zone and represent, therefore, the opposite mechanism to the widespread fluid flow. It is thus far unknown how important these cold vents are in the total budget of fluid flow in an accretionary prism. Drilling at the vent field will help constrain the significance of fault-related fluid and/or gas flow.
During Expedition 311, a series of four holes was drilled along a margin-perpendicular transect (Figs. F3, F4) representing different stages in the evolution of the gas hydrate stability zone; an additional fifth site was established to examine an apparent active cold vent.
At the southwestern end of the transect, Site U1326 (prospectus Site CAS-03C) is located on top of the first uplifted ridge, followed by Site U1325 (prospectus Site CAS-02C) located in the first slope-sediment basin. The third Site U1327 (prospectus Site CAS0-01B) is located near Leg 146 Site 889. The fourth site of the transect, Site U1329 (prospectus Site CAS-05D), represents the eastward limit of the gas hydrate occurrence on the margin. The additional fifth site is located at an active cold vent (Site U1328; prospectus Site CAS-06A).
Recently acquired bathymetry data reveal a collapse structure near the originally proposed primary Site CAS-03B (Fig. F5) where we now expect a more complicated geologic history. We decided to switch the former alternate location Site CAS-03C to primary status to avoid coring directly into the slump feature.
The original proposal 553-Full2 "Cascadia Gas Hydrate" included long-term monitoring experiments using Circulation Obviation Retrofit Kit (CORK)-II, Advanced CORK (ACORK), modular formation dynamic testing (MDT), and distributed temperature sensing (DTS). An extra site for a dual-hole hydrogeologic ACORK experiment was proposed near Site 889 (prospectus Site CAS-01C). With this shortened expedition approach under the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), the long-term monitoring experiments were postponed until a second (yet unscheduled) expedition. Other components of the original proposal that had to be deferred included coring, wireline logging, and logging-while-drilling operations at prospectus Sites CAS-04B and CAS-05B and a walk-away VSP at prospectus Site CAS-01B.
At each site we tried to accomplish a three-hole conventional coring, specialized coring, and logging approach to maximize the scientific objectives. The first hole (Hole A) was always dedicated to logging-while-drilling/measurement-while-drilling (LWD/MWD) operations. All LWD/MWD holes were drilled within the first week of the expedition, followed by coring and conventional wireline operations. The second hole (Hole B) in most cases was for continuous coring, temperature measurements, and pressure core sampler (PCS) pressure coring to establish complete downhole profiles of gas hydrate proxies (such as chlorinity, infrared images, etc.). The third hole (Hole C), when included, was dedicated to special tool deployments, especially the two HYACINTH pressure coring systems, the Fugro Pressure Corer (FPC) and HYACE Rotary Corer (HRC), and additional PCS pressure coring.
During this expedition, we conducted LWD/MWD operations prior to coring each site. It was essential to know before deploying the available pressure core systems what the gas hydrate concentrations and vertical distribution were to choose the optimum depths for pressure coring operations. Because these holes were drilled prior to coring, the LWD/MWD data had to be monitored to detect gas entering the hole, since the standard method of hydrocarbon safety management during IODP is core gas ratio measurements. The primary measurement used during Expedition 311 for gas monitoring during LWD/MWD operations was the annular pressure while drilling (APWD) measured by the EcoScope tool in the borehole annulus (the space between the drill string and the borehole wall). On the basis of a calculation of the effect of free gas on the borehole fluid density, it was determined that a pressure decrease of >100 psi from the general trend of fluid pressure indicated that a significant amount of gas had been released into the drilling fluid, requiring some preventative action. For example, a pressure decrease of 100 psi corresponds to 25% gas saturation in a borehole drilled to 300 mbsf. It was also decided to monitor sudden pressure increases of >100 psi, which had been reported as precursors to gas flow into the annulus (Aldred et al., 1998). Figure F6 shows the results for LWD/MWD APWD measurements acquired during the expedition. For the entire LWD/MWD operations, no APWD response was >30 psi above or below the baseline, and hence, no corrective actions were required under the adopted LWD/MWD safety protocol. The observed positive APWD excursions were all related to drilling-related difficulties, such as an increase in pumping rates during drilling hard intervals or cuttings restricting flow in the annulus. Interestingly, small negative excursions were noted at some sites at depths below the BSR (e.g., Site U1328) that were also associated with loss coherence of the sonic waveforms acquired by the SonicVision tool, which may be the result of the presence of free gas.
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Shoichi Yokoi, the Japanese soldier who held out in Guam
It's exactly 40 years since a Japanese soldier was found in the jungles of Guam, having survived there for nearly three decades after the end of World War II. He was given a hero's welcome on his return to Japan - but never quite felt at home in modern society.
For most of the 28 years that Shoichi Yokoi, a lance corporal in the Japanese Army of world War II, was hiding in the jungles of Guam, he firmly believed his former comrades would one day return for him.
And even when he was eventually discovered by local hunters on the Pacific island, on 24 January 1972, the 57-year-old former soldier still clung to the notion that his life was in danger.
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14 September 2000, Volume 1, Number 18
ARMENIAOPPOSITION LEADER CONSIDERS ELECTION LAWS FLAWED. Vazgen Manukian, chairman of the center-right National Democratic Union (AZhM), told journalists in Yerevan on 7 September that he is against pre-term parliamentary elections on the grounds that the country's leading parties are not ready for them and the elections laws are seriously flawed, RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau reported. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 8 September)
AZERBAIJANU.S. URGES BAKU TO ENSURE POLL IS DEMOCRATIC. U.S. State Department deputy spokesman Philip Reeker called on the leadership of Azerbaijan to implement the remaining OSCE proposals aimed at creating conditions that will ensure that the 5 November parliamentary poll is free and fair, Turan reported. Those proposals include guaranteeing access to polling stations by independent domestic election observers and allowing the functioning of free media. The statement also encouraged the Azerbaijani leadership to engage in a constructive dialogue with the opposition in the run up to the ballot. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 8 September)
BAKU REJECTS REQUEST TO HOLD PROTEST DEMO. The Baku municipal authorities have rejected a request by the independent Union of Editors to convene a picket outside the Prosecutor-General's Office to protest the arrest of opposition "Yeni Musavat" newspaper editor Rauf Arifoglu, Turan reported on 7 September. Deputy Mayor Gabil Abbasoglu said such a protest could be construed as pressure intended to influence the conduct of the investigation. Arifoglu is accused of terrorism, illegal possession of a firearm, and complicity in an abortive plane hijack attempt last month. Also on 7 September, presidential administration official Ali Hasanov told a news conference in Baku that Arifoglu's arrest does not constitute oppression of the independent media and that he will be released if found not guilty. The Baku city authorities again denied a picket request on 12-13 September, Turan reported on 11 September ("RFE/RL Newsline," 8, 12 September)
OPPOSITIONISTS FINED FOR 'HOOLIGANISM.' A Baku district court on 7 September handed down fines of $600 each to four members of the Azerbaijan National Independence Party (AMIP) charged with hooliganism after picketing the home of parliamentary deputy Shamil Gurbanov, Turan reported. The four were protesting what they termed slanderous statements Gurbanov had made in the parliament on 21 July about AMIP chairman Etibar Mamedov. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 8 September)
COUNCIL OF EUROPE WARNS AZERBAIJAN OVER JOURNALIST'S ARREST. Lord Russell Johnston, who is president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, has written to Azerbaijan's parliamentary speaker Murtuz Alesqerov to inform him that the 22 August arrest of Rauf Arifoglu, editor of the opposition newspaper "Yeni Musavat," may delay Azerbaijan's admittance as a full member of the council, Turan and AP reported on 8 and 9 September. But on 7 September, presidential administration official Ali Hasanov said it would not be "a tragedy" if Azerbaijan were not admitted to full membership in the Council. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 11 September)
SECURITY OFFICIAL SAYS JOURNALIST SATISFIED WITH JAIL CONDITIONS. National Security Ministry press secretary Araz Gurbanov told journalists on 9 September that there is no truth to claims by Arifoglu's lawyer that the detained journalist's rights are being infringed or that an attempt has been made to poison him, Turan reported. Gurbanov said that Arifoglu is allowed to receive books, newspapers, and food brought by his relatives and to hold unlimited meetings with his lawyer, Vidadi Mahmudov. Mahmudov had quoted Arifoglu as saying that he is strip-searched both before and after his meetings with Mahmudov. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 11 September)
BELARUSAUTHORITIES THREATEN ELECTION BOYCOTTERS WITH IMPRISONMENT. Mikhail Sukhinin, a department chief at the Justice Ministry, told Reuters on 11 September that calls to boycott the 15 October legislative polls can be regarded as an attempt to "hamper the right to vote guaranteed by the constitution." He added that "law enforcement bodies, if they want, may qualify this as a criminal act." His aide said that under the law such actions are punishable by up to two years in jail. The opposition responded by saying the authorities aim to intimidate the population by such statements. "We are confident that we are acting according to the law," Viktar Ivashkevich, an organizer of the boycott campaign, told the news agency. Opposition activists currently visit private households, asking citizens to boycott the vote and distributing leaflets featuring a kissing couple along with the headline "No to Farce!" ("RFE/RL Newsline," 12 September)
AUTHORITIES DISRUPT GAY FESTIVAL IN MINSK. Shortly after the "Gay Pride-2000" festival got under way at a Minsk club on 7 September, electricity to the club was cut off and the club's owner asked the participants to leave, saying he was under pressure from the authorities, Belapan and AP reported. Police sent by the mayor's office kicked participants out of the club and disrupted seminars and film screenings, festival spokeswoman Tsina Klykouskaya told AP. The organizers of the festival--the Belarusian Lambda Gay and Lesbian League--had applied for permission to march through Minsk on 10 September but failed to obtain it because the group is not registered with the Justice Ministry. The group earlier had failed in its attempt to register because of "technicalities." ("RFE/RL Newsline," 11 September)
ESTONIAESTONIANS SPLIT OVER ETHNIC MINORITY ISSUE. A public opinion poll taken last spring but released on 11 September showed that 46 percent of ethnic Estonian respondents "agreed with the statement that the departure of non-Estonians would benefit Estonia," the German press agency dpa reported on 11 September.
GEORGIAPRESIDENT WARNS AGAINST PROTEST DEMOS... Eduard Shevardnadze told journalists in Tbilisi on 11 September that protests such as that by residents of the west Georgian town of Tkibuli risk destabilizing the domestic political situation and jeopardizing international financial aid, AP reported. (RFE/RL Newsline, 12 September)
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES AGAIN ATTACKED... Georgian police and security officials fired blank anti-tank shells and used force to disperse an outdoor gathering of some 700 Jehovah's Witnesses in the town of Natuliki in northwestern Georgia on 8 September, AP and Caucasus Press reported. A security official told AP the congregation had been warned not to assemble in the town, which lies in the security zone on the internal border between Abkhazia and the rest of Georgia. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 11 September)
...AS LOCAL MAYOR GIVES GREEN LIGHT. The police action against the Jehovah's Witnesses' meeting also included attacks on journalists, Rustavi 2 television reported on 8 September. The mayor of Zugdidi, military and police officials had warned the meeting organizers that they would not allow the convention to proceed, an eyewitness reported. Despite several requests, the officials failed to provide any written confirmation of a law prohibiting the proposed convention. (Jehovah's Witnesses Current Affairs Office)
POLICE PENSIONERS PLAN PROTESTS. Some 13,000 former Georgian police officers vowed on 8 September to stage countrywide protests if they do not receive pension arrears for the past 10 months totaling 8 million lari ($4 million), Caucasus Press reported. Also on 8 September, a senior pension fund official told Caucasus Press that total pension arrears amount to 18 million lari and that it is unlikely that arrears for last year will be paid. ("RFE/RL Newsline, 11 September)
HUNGARYSLOVAK ADMINISTRATIVE REORGANIZATION WORRIES BUDAPEST. Hungary is concerned about Bratislava's plan to revise Slovakia's territorial administrative divisions, MTI reported on 9 September, citing a Foreign Ministry press release. Foreign Ministry State Secretary Zsolt Nemeth told Stefan Markus, Slovakia's ambassador to Budapest, that Budapest believes that the change would worsen the chance of ethnic Magyars to "influence their own affairs and use their mother-tongue in contacts with the authorities" and would thus negatively impact Hungarian-Slovak relations. Markus replied that the envisaged revision is only "in the draft phase" and that the Slovak government is examining ways to meet the Hungarian minority's demands. ("RFE/RL Newsline, 11 September)
KAZAKHSTANPRETRIAL DETENTION DEEMED 'STALINIST.' A seminar in Almaty, organized by human rights organizations and the Justice Ministry, discussed the country's 'Stalinist-style' penitentiary system on 10 September. Some seminar participants said that when 20-30 suspects are detained in tiny pre-trial detention cells intended for several prisoners, their treatment might be defined as torture. (RFE/RL Kazakh Service, 11 September)
ELECTRONIC NEWS BULLETIN ON THE MEDIA. Internews Network Kazakhstan has published a Russian-language weekly electronic bulletin since January 1998. The project is supported by the United States Agency for International Development. A complete archive can be found at Internews' Kazakh website: http://www.internews.kz/rus/bulletin/index.htm
KYRGYZSTANCOURT OVERTURNS ACQUITTAL OF OPPOSITION LEADER... Kyrgyzstan's Military Court on 11 September annulled the acquittal of former Vice President and opposition Ar-Namys party chairman Feliks Kulov, Interfax and RFE/RL's Bishkek bureau reported. The court called for Kulov to be retried, this time by the Bishkek City Court, and for him to give a written pledge not to leave Bishkek. After a six-week trial, the court last month found Kulov not guilty of abusing his official position as national security minister. Kulov has formally stated his intention to contest the 29 October Kyrgyz presidential poll. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 12 September)
...AS OFFICIAL HINTS AT CLEMENCY FOR A SECOND OPPOSITIONIST... Kyrgyz presidential spokesman Osmonakun Ibraimov told RFE/RL's Bishkek bureau on 11 September that he considers the 16-year jail sentence handed down to opposition politician Topchubek TurgunAliyev too severe, but he added that neither the government nor the presidential administration is empowered to infringe on the independence of the judiciary. TurgunAliyev was found guilty of having recruited semi-literate herdsmen to assassinate President Askar Akaev last year. The verdict was based on testimony given by one man, who later withdrew his statements. Ibraimov hinted that Akaev may soon make "a special statement" on the TurgunAliyev case. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 12 September)
LATVIAOFFICIALS DEFEND BREAK-UP OF 'ILLEGAL' BAPTIST MEETING. The local police, procurator and officials have defended their decision to break up a meeting on private land last month by a Baptist group in the town of Limbazi. Officials told Keston News Service that the group does not have state registration and cannot hold public events. They added that the Baptists had failed to apply to local authorities for the necessary permit to hold the meetings. (Keston News Service, 8 September)
PRISONERS ON SYMPATHY HUNGER STRIKE WITH JAILED BANKER. Six people being held in pre-trial detention announced on 6 September a 10-day hunger strike to protest the treatment of ex-banker Aleksandr Lavent, who has been in jail for some 62 months, despite an ongoing trial. Police officials confirmed the hunger strike, saying the six are under medical supervision but declined to make known their identity or other details, BNS reported. Lavent, who was taken to a prison hospital after suffering an angina attack in court, is likely to remain in hospital for at least a week, according to doctors. His trial is scheduled to resume on 7 September. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 7 September)
LITHUANIATHREE NEO-NAZIS REGISTERED TO TAKE PART IN ELECTIONS. Zenonas Vaigauskas, head of Lithuania's Central Electoral Commission, confirmed on 8 September that three members of the illegal National Social Union have registered to run in the 8 October general elections. Vaigauskas said, "If we had refused to register their candidacies, we would have been taken to the higher court and would have undoubtedly lost the case," BNS reported. The State Security Service said earlier it has evidence that the three candidates forged some of the 1,000 signatures necessary to be registered. Vaigauskas said that despite charges being levied against the three neo-Nazis, they remain innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The three are running in individual constituencies, thus their party affiliation does not play a role in the registration process. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 11 September)
MONTENEGROMEDIA REGULATIONS AND PRACTICE WORKSHOP. The European Institute for the Media (EIM) and ANEM (Association of Independent Electronic Media) will run a workshop on media regulations and judicial practice in Sveti Stefan, on 16 and 17 September 2000 for local judges, lawyers, editors, and students of law and journalism with Western European professionals to discuss media regulation and practice. More information: firstname.lastname@example.org (EIM, ANEM Press Release, 11 September)
POLANDSOLIDARITY LEADER'S TEAM SAYS MEDIA 'DISTORT' CAMPAIGN. The election staff of Solidarity leader Marian Krzaklewski accused public television on 6 September of "distorting the presidential election campaign" by devoting too much airtime to the re-election bid of President Aleksander Kwasniewski, PAP reported. Krzaklewski's election staff cited results of monitoring carried out by a "well-known, independent firm" according to which Kwasniewski appeared on the two public television channels in August for a total of 524 seconds, while Polish Peasant Party candidate Jaroslaw Kalinowski chalked up 100 seconds and Krzaklewski 59 seconds. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 8 September)
RUSSIAFINAL VICTORY FOR NIKITIN. The Supreme Court Presidium dismissed an appeal from the General Prosecutor's Office on 13 September and the prosecution has used up all possibilities to reverse the acquittal of Aleksandr Nikitin. The case has been ongoing for nearly five years. Nikitin was charged with high treason and disclosure of state secrets by the Russian Security Police, or FSB, for co-authoring a Bellona report on nuclear waste hazards in the Russian Northern Fleet. Nikitin was fully acquitted in December 1999. The acquittal verdict was upheld by the Russian Supreme Court in April 2000. In May, the Prosecutor-General's Office appealed the acquittal to the Presidium of the Supreme Court.
BEREZOVSKY NAMES HIS 'TRUSTEES'... At a press conference on 7 September, Boris Berezovsky named more than 20 people to whom he will transfer management of his shares in Russian Public Television (ORT). Included on his list were "Kommersant-Daily" journalist Natalya Gevorkian, "Novye izvestiya" editor Igor Golembiovsky and commentator Otto Latsis; "Nezavisimaya gazeta" editor Vitali Tretyakov, ORT journalists Sergei Dorenko, Kirill Kleimenov, Leonid Yakubovich, and Vladimir Pozner; former ORT General-Director and former deputy head of the presidential administration Igor Shabdurasulov, TV-Tsentr journalist Igor Flyarkovsky, "Obshchaya gazeta" editor Yegor Yakovlev, RFE/RL journalist Anna Kachkaeva, "Segodnya" editor Mikhail Berger, "Itogi" editor Sergei Parkhomenko, NTV Director Yevgenii Kiselev, and Ekho Moskvy Director Aleksei Venediktov, attorney Genri Reznik, novelists Vasili Asenov, Fazil Iskander, and Viktor Pelevin, film director Rustam Khamdamov, and theater director Yuri Lyubimov. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 8 September)
...HALF OF WHOM WORK AT HIS COMPANIES. "Kommersant-Daily," "Novye izvestiya," and "Nezavisimaya gazeta" are all publications controlled by Berezovskii. "Segodnya," "Itogi," NTV, and Ekho Moskvy are owned by Vladimir Gusinsky's Media-MOST Group. The attorney Reznik has represented Berezovsky, Gusinsky, and RFE/RL reporter Andrei Babitsky among others. Berezovsky said the list of trustees is still not complete and suggested that he is giving "serious thought" to the possibility of transferring his stakes in other media, such as TV-6 and "Kommersant-Daily." On 7 September, "Kommersant-Daily" reported that Sergei Goryachev has been named ORT's new director. He is former deputy chairman of the All Russia Television and Radio Company. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 8 September)
PUTIN SAYS ORT 'TRUSTEES' MUST BE INDEPENDENT. Speaking at a news conference in New York, where he is attending the UN Millennium Summit, Russian President Vladimir President welcomed Berezovsky's plans to hand over his share in ORT to intellectuals but stressed that those people "must be independent," Reuters reported on 8 September. "If we find that the shares are turned over to other people subject to [Berezovsky's] control, then we will see no effects from the move," the president said, noting that he does yet know what and how much is being transferred and under what conditions. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 8 September)
PUTIN COMMENTS ON GUSINSKY, BEREZOVSKY... In an interview with CNN's Larry King broadcast on 8 September, President Vladimir Putin declined to characterize the arrest of Media-MOST head Vladimir Gusinsky and the transfer of Boris Berezovsky's shares in Russian Public Television (ORT) as issues of freedom of the press, suggesting instead that the Russian government is simply implementing existing laws. Media-MOST, according to Putin, "has been in the red, with credit and debts, and has not returned, according to creditors...$300 billion worth of debt." With regard to ORT, he said that freedom of expression is not the issue because "the owner of 51 percent, the government, by the charter, already has any right to define the policies of that company." ("RFE/RL Newsline, 11 September)
...AS BEREZOVSKY PROTEGE LOSES TV FORUM. Russian Public Television pulled the weekly controversial Sergei Dorenko Show off the air on 9 September--just two days after Boris Berezovsky named Dorenko, along with some 20 other people, as a trustee to manage his shares in ORT. Konstantin Ernst, ORT general director, issued a press release explaining that the decision was taken because Dorenko refused to stop commenting on the conflict "between the state and private shareholders of ORT," according to Interfax. Dorenko, for his part, insisted that President Putin was himself behind the decision to cancel his show: "I meet with the president once a month, and without his decision, nobody can touch a hair on my head." In an interview with NTV on 8 September, Berezovsky praised Putin's response to his naming of trustees to manage his shares, saying that a "constructive dialogue with those in authority" has begun. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 11 September)
...AND CONSIDERS 'NEW' CAREER IN POLITICS. At a press conference on 11 September, Russian Public Television (ORT) anchorman Sergei Dorenko, whose show was recently pulled off the air, declared that "if I am thrown into politics, I will concentrate on it in earnest." Dorenko also said that during a conversation with Vladimir Putin, he told the Russian president that even if there are 100 state television channels, viewers "will still watch one of your channels and one alternative channel." He noted that Putin agreed that "there is such a danger." Commenting on plans to bring leading television channels under state control, Union of Rightist Forces faction leader Boris Nemtsov declared that "democracy is being castrated" and that "somebody in the Kremlin has come up with the idea of giving this arrangement the beautiful name of guided democracy." Communist Party leader Gennadi Zyuganov took the opposite tack, declaring that state television must serve executive power. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 12 September)
PAYING THE PRICE FOR BEREZOVSKY'S SHARES. "One cannot help thinking that the real reason for the sacking of the hosts of the two prime-time TV shows, Flyarokovsky's "Nedelya" (Week) and Dorenko's ORT weekly news show, is due to their willingness to accept Berezovsky's offer," http://gazeta.ru concluded on 11 September. Vladislav Flyarkovsky "could not even conceal his joy," while Dorenko probably was later also denied NTV air-time because NTV General-Director Yevgeni Kiselev was "against catering for his rival." According to gazeta.ru, one TV insider joked, "Why does he need the job anyway, he was paid some one million dollars for [his] anti-Luzhkov campaign..." although "after the anti-Luzhkov campaign" Dorenko's "rating dropped almost twofold, as did his funding." In contrast, "NTV Director-General Yevgeni Kiselev, on his regular Sunday evening political review program 'Itogi,' politely turned down Berezovsky's offer, saying that it would conflict with his interests in NTV," gazeta.ru reports.
REGIONAL MEDIA BEARS THE BRUNT. Although "Moscow newscasters and media barons complain about a Kremlin-ordered press crackdown," a 11 September "Washington Post" article points out that regional media have long felt pressure from local officials. Citing an example reportedly common in other regions, "this summer [30 of 37] media outlets in Volgograd signed an agreement with Russia's domestic security service" agreeing to act as its PR agents. The article also quotes Oleg Panfilov, head of the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations, as saying "the media come under attack in Russian regions every day" and that regional officials "will regard the Kremlin's actions as a green light for their own crackdowns."
PUTIN HONORS SLAIN JOURNALIST. President Putin bestowed the Order of Courage on Larisa Yudina, editor of "Sovetskaya Kalmykiya," Interfax reported on 11 September. Yudina was murdered in June 1998 while investigating official corruption in Kalmykia. Valeri Ostanin, State Duma deputy (Yabloko) and leader of Yabloko's parallel investigation into Yudina's murder, told "Segodnya" that he was pleasantly surprised by the decision to bestow the award on Yudina. However, he added that he suspects Putin might simply be trying to change his image from the "suppressor of glasnost" to that of a "defender of journalists." Yudina was a member of Yabloko. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 12 September)
MILITARY OFFICIAL DENIES JOURNALIST DETAINED, BEATEN. Colonel Georgi Seropyan, commander of the Khankala military base, denied on 7 September that Ruslan Musaev, a Chechen journalist working for AP, was detained in Grozny two days earlier and taken to Khankala, where he was beaten up, ITAR-TASS reported. Musaev claimed he was beaten up, held in a pit overnight, and then driven on 6 September to the border with Ingushetia, where he was released. In Moscow, a spokesman for Russian presidential aide Sergei Yastrzhembski said that no journalist named Musaev is accredited to cover the fighting in Chechnya, according to Interfax. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 8 September)
TATARSTAN PRESIDENT CRITICAL OF MEDIA POLICY BY LOCAL OFFICIALS. Tatarstan's President Mintimer Shaimiev held a governmental meeting on 8 September on the current situation in the republic. He emphasized that "some of Tatarstan's regional administration heads and members of the republican government still cannot or will not build stable relations with the mass media and accept freedom of speech." Shaimiev also indicated that reporters from some regional newspapers only have access to a special list of farms that they can visit to report on Tatarstan's agriculture. ("RFE/RL Tatar-Bashkir Report," 11 September)
ALMOST 1 MILLION PEOPLE BEHIND BARS. Some 980,000 people are currently serving sentences or are in pre-trail custody in Russia, Interfax reported on 8 September. Kamil Bakhtiarov, acting head of the Justice Ministry's prison department, told the agency that about 120,000 people have been released from prison or pre-trial custody under an amnesty program this year and that the total number might reach 250,000 people by 26 November. As of 1 July, Russia's population totaled 145.1 million, according to the State Statistics Committee. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 11 September)
MOSCOW PAPER QUESTIONS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS. Presenting the results of nationwide reporting over the past six months on the March 2000 presidential election, "The Moscow Times" on 9 September concluded that "enough falsification" occurred "to question the legitimacy of the vote." In dispatches written from Saratov, Novosibirsk, Kursk, Nizhni Novgorod, and Kaliningrad oblasts, Primorski Krai, and the republics of Daghestan, Tatarstan, Ingushetia, Bashkortostan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Mordova, and Chechnya, the daily documented both blatant and subtle election manipulations. It alleged that in Daghestan alone, it is possible to "definitively document about 88,000 votes stolen from other candidates and given to candidate Putin." And it suggests that many of the 1.3 million new voters in the 2000 elections were mostly fictional. Unidentified long-term OSCE election observers reportedly expressed "disgust" at the "cheery tone of the day-after [election] OSCE commentary" (see http://www.moscowtimes.ru/09-Sep-2000/todays_issue.htm). ("RFE/RL Newsline," 11 September)
VOLUNTEER ELECTION OBSERVERS INVITED. The International Discussion Club (IDC), a Russian organization active since 1993 in election monitoring, invites volunteers to join official observers at October/December local polls (Novorossiysk; Murmansk Oblast and Krasnodar Krai) and by-elections (St. Petersburg) not usually monitored by international organizations. Application deadline is three weeks before polling dates. Visit http://idc.cis.lead.org/observer/ (Civil Society International, 9 September)
SERBIAEU WORRIED ABOUT AILING JOURNALIST. The EU said on 6 September that it is concerned about the condition of imprisoned journalist Miroslav Filipovic, who suffers from a serious heart condition, Reuters reported. Filipovic, 49, was sentenced on 28 July to seven years in prison for espionage. The EU has demanded that "appropriate measures be taken to address his poor health state until he recovers fully." Filipovic worked for the independent daily "Danas," the French press agency AFP, and the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting. ("RFE/RL Newsline, 7 September)
WRITER'S NEW TRIAL DATE SET. The Nis District Court will start new proceedings against poet, pediatrician, and women's rights activist, Flora Brovina on 14 September, reports Free92, the independent Serbian news agency. In June, the Serbian Supreme Court overturned Brovina's conviction--sentenced in December 1999 to 12 years in prison on charges of "terrorism"--and recommended the case be returned to the Nis District Court. International PEN considers Brovina to be imprisoned due to her protests of Serbian human rights abuses in Kosova. (PEN Writers in Prison Committee, 7 September)
PAPANDREOU ANGERED BY DETENTION OF STUDENT ACTIVISTS. Greek Foreign Minister George Papandreou issued a demarche on 7 September after four members of the opposition student group Otpor were detained after being forced to leave the Greek ambassador's residence in Belgrade, Reuters reported. One of the four, Slobodan Homen, said the students were kicked out of a reception at the residence by Yugoslav security officials and then detained for two hours by police. They were released after the demarche was issued and later met with Papandreou at his hotel. Papandreou said "we reacted immediately and the issue was rectified." ("RFE/RL Newsline," 8 September)
POLICE BEAT STUDENTS, RAID ELECTION OFFICE. Seven members of the student opposition group Otpor (Resistance) were hospitalized in Vladicin Han on 8 September after being beaten by police, Reuters reported. Aljosa Drazovic of Belgrade's Humanitarian Law Fund said police held the students for questioning after they were detained for posting banners. Shortly after being released, they were taken back to the station and beaten with batons and chains. The ordeal ended after a few hundred people gathered at the station and demanded their release. In Belgrade on 8 September, police raided the offices of the independent Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID), removing computers and other materials. According to the CESID's Sobodanka Nedovic, the police said "they were searching for evidence of possible criminal acts." Yugoslav Information Minister Goran Matic said CESID is "an American outpost" and that it "will not be an observer at the elections." He added that no monitors from Western countries considered hostile to Milosevic will be allowed. ("RFE/RL Newsline, 11 September)
JOURNALIST MURDERED. Shefki Popova, an Albanian Kosovar journalist who worked for the daily "Rilindja" for 25 years, was killed in Vucitrin, near Prishtina, by two unknown assailants on 10 September, the Paris-based journalists' group Reporters without Borders reported. An inquiry has been opened by the UN police. The RSF also noted in a letter to Bernard Kouchner, the UN administrator in Kosova, that "Popova is the first journalist killed since the United Nations has been in charge of the Kosovo administration." (Reporters without Borders Press Release, 11 September)
THREE ORTHODOX CHURCHES LEVELED IN AUGUST. Between 14 and 22 August, three Serbian Orthodox churches were leveled in Kosova, despite being under KFOR protection., Keston News Service reported on 11 September. The Serbian Orthodox Church has published information on the desecration and destruction of almost 100 churches, monasteries and religious buildings in Kosova since June 1999. The local Serbian Orthodox diocese has alleged that in one of the three destructions, troops from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) serving with the international force KFOR allowed the destruction to take place.
TAJIKISTANJOURNALISTS EARN TWO DOLLARS A MONTH. A seminar on 29 August in the oblast center of Kurgan-Tyube, organized by the Ministry of Culture, publicized survey data about local journalists. On average, local journalists in that region earn from 3,600 to 7,000 Tajik rubles ($1.50 to $3.20). In the interests of safety, the local source of this information must remain anonymous. (Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations, 12 September)
JOURNALIST BEATEN. Nematulloi Nurullo, a reporter for the paper "Dzhumkhuriayat," was beaten by Dushanbe policemen on 27 August, reports the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations. The journalist was seized on the street, forced into a car, beaten en route to the militia station, and so badly beaten at the station that he suffered a concussion and a hearing loss in one ear. (Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations, 12 September)
TURKMENISTANRFE/RL LISTENERS CLAIM OSCE MISSION 'DOES LITTLE TO HELP.' A letter from a group of RFE/RL listeners claims that the OSCE Mission in Ashgabat, opened in 1998, "is not able to provide adequate protection of human rights." While criticizing the OSCE mission overall, the letter praises the efforts of Piotr Iwaszkiewicz, a former Human Rights officer whom the Turkmenistan authorities forced to leave the country. The RFE/RL listeners allege that "the new OSCE officials in Ashgabat do not communicate with anybody, rarely leave their offices, and refuse to meet with people who come to visit," and suggests that "the OSCE mission could achieve more if its leadership would not be changed every year." ("RFE/RL Turkmen Report," 8 September)
UKRAINEUKRAINIAN TRADE UNION LEADER ARRESTED. Yuri Pyvovarov, leader of the All-Ukrainian Trade Union "Solidarnist," was arrested in Donetsk on 6 September, Interfax reported. Donetsk Prosecutor Oleksandr Almezov told journalists that the Kharkiv Prosecutor's Office had launched a criminal investigation into "Solidarnist" activists on charges of abuse of office and had ordered "Solidarnist" headquarters in Donetsk to be searched. Almezov said Pyvovarov put up resistance to police officers and inflicted serious injuries on three of them when they tried to enter his office. Subsequently Pyvovarov spent eight hours on a window ledge of the "Solidarnist" headquarters' building to protest the search. After finally persuading Pyvovarov to leave his ledge, police interrogated and then arrested him after he had made two attempts to "disappear." Almezov said there is no link between Pyvovarov's arrest and the 29 August protest action in Donetsk, organized by "Solidarnist," among other groups. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 7 September)
CABINET REPORTS REPAYMENT OF PENSION ARREARS... Premier Viktor Yushchenko on 10 September said he has fulfilled his pledge to pay off pension arrears by 15 September. "I want to apologize to all our pensioners for what they had to go through. The government has done everything possible to avoid a repeat of such a situation," Interfax quoted Yushchenko as saying. At the beginning of this year, wage arrears in Ukraine stood at 1.25 billion hryvni ($230 million). Yushchenko also pledged that the government will seek to increase pensions. The average monthly pension in Ukraine is some 50 hryvni ($9.2). ("RFE/RL Newsline," 9 September)
...BUT DONETSK PENSIONERS TAKE TO STREETS AGAIN. Some 3,000 pensioners in Donetsk took to the streets again on 11 September, less than two weeks after their recent protest action, Interfax reported. The protesters demanded that local authorities grant official status to the Russian language in the region, "stabilize" prices for bread and necessities, lower utility payments, and increase minimum wages and pensions. After staging a picket at the oblast administration building, the protesters blocked traffic in the city center. The Donetsk Oblast Council promised to examine protesters' demands at its emergency session but noted that giving official status to Russian in the region is beyond its powers. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 12 September)
NEW PUBLICATIONS, WEBSITESINTERNATIONAL PRESS INSTITUTE LAUNCHES NEWSLETTER. The International Press Institute, a leading journalists' organization, is launching a new monthly electronic newsletter which will focus on press freedom and on IPI's work to counter violations. IPI encourages its members and others to draw its attention to relevant stories. For further information, write to: email@example.com or sign up on IPI's website: http://www.freemedia.at
NEW JOURNAL ON EUROPEAN ETHNO-POLITICS SEEKS CONTRIBUTORS. The new Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE) seeks submissions of innovative scholarship, case studies, reports, and materials concerning majority-minority relations. The journal, published by the European Centre for Minority Issues, emphasizes research on ethno-political tensions and new approaches to conflict management. It encourages original and unpublished contributions from all pertinent disciplines. Contributions should be sent to Managing Editor Wes McKinney at: firstname.lastname@example.org. For more information, go to the ECMI website at http://www.ecmi.de/jemie (International Journalists' Network, 4-8 September)
END NOTEBAKU'S ATTACK ON THE OPPOSITION
By Liz Fuller
On 18 August, Mehti Huseynli, a member of the opposition Musavat party, staged an abortive attempt to hijack an Azerbaijani airlines flight from Nakhichevan to Baku. But before security guards managed to overpower him, Huseynli made a call on his mobile phone to Rauf Arifoglu, editor of the party's newspaper "Yeni Musavat," to dictate a list of his demands. Police searching for a tape of that conversation searched first the editorial premises of "Yeni Musavat," then Arifoglu's apartment, where they claimed to have found a pistol, which Arifoglu insists they planted there. Arifoglu was promptly arrested, and has been charged with terrorism, complicity in the hijack attempt, and illegal possession of a firearm.
The Azerbaijani authorities have parlayed those events into the rationale for a full-scale witch-hunt against the Musavat party. Its chairman, Isa Gambar, was summoned for questioning on 30 August. Since then, the government-controlled media have propagated numerous accounts of stage-managed meetings at schools, hospitals and industrial enterprises, at which, in a manner recalling Soviet agit-prop, participants denounce the Musavat party as a "terrorist organization" and call for its registration to be annulled and for it to be barred from contesting the 5 November parliamentary election.
This is not the first time that the Azerbaijani authorities have sought to justify preventing Musavat from participating in a parliamentary poll. In 1995, the party was excluded from contesting those 25 parliamentary mandates allocated under the proportional system on the grounds--questioned by UN and OSCE observers--that many of the signatures submitted in support of its application for registration were forged.
It is, of course, entirely possible that Huseynli may have been acting (wittingly or unwittingly) as an agent provocateur. On 18 August, the day of the hijack attempt, the Musavat party leadership issued a statement condemning his action as a violation of party statutes, adding that it could not rule out the possibility that the hijack attempt was a "provocation" directed against the party. If indeed Huseynli acted spontaneously, rather than at the prompting of others, he could hardly have inflicted a more damaging blow on the party of which he is a member. And that damage lies not only in the risk that the party could be banned, but in the impact of Arifloglu's arrest on existing differences within the party's ranks.
Arifoglu has a reputation for arrogance and outspokenness. During a discussion of the Azerbaijani media and political landscape two years ago, he told this writer that he considers the leadership of President Heidar Aliyev as the main obstacle to both democratization and media freedom in Azerbaijan, hence his unequivocal opposition to the present regime. Arifoglu said that between January and late September 1998 he was summoned 10 times to the Prosecutor-General's office and once to the Ministry of National Security in connection with articles published in "Yeni Musavat." He also said that the degree of solidarity among editors of various non-government funded media outlets in Azerbaijan is considerably greater than between the leaders of the various opposition parties. His fellow journalists' coordinated protests against his arrest bear out that observation.
Arifoglu is, moreover, said to harbor political ambitions. He made no secret of his dissatisfaction that his name figured only seventh on the Musavat party's list of candidates drawn up in late July to contest the proportional seats in the parliamentary poll, rather than among the top five candidates. The opposition newspaper "Azadlyg" on 28 July quoted him as vowing to oust some members of the party's top leadership. Some observers have even suggested that his long-term aim is to replace Isa Gambar as the party's chairman.
The Azerbaijani authorities could choose to play on those tensions within Musavat, arranging for Arifoglu to be informed in the course of his interrogation that it was Gambar who put Huseynli up to the hijack attempt with the express aim of discrediting Arifoglu. If a decision were subsequently made not to jeopardize Azerbaijan's imminent acceptance into full membership of the Council of Europe by banning Musavat outright, but Arifoglu is tried, sentenced and then amnestied within a couple of years, unity within the Musavat party would be next to impossible to restore.
By creating a situation in which Arifoglu is widely perceived both as hero and martyr (Turan on 28 August quoted him as having told his lawyer "I am going to prove there are journalists ready to die for the freedom of expression and the press"), the Azerbaijani authorities have placed Gambar in an unenviable situation. He cannot distance himself from a man whose uncompromising stance could prove a liability without laying himself open to charges of betraying party solidarity. And expressing unconditional support for his party colleague could increase the likelihood of Musavat being banned.
The Central Electoral Commission failed to make good on its threat last month not to register the Azerbaijan Popular Front to contest the 5 November ballot unless the two rival wings of that party reached a reconciliation. But a third prominent opposition party is at risk of being barred from contesting the election. The Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, which is headed by exiled former parliamentary speaker Rasul Guliev, was originally excluded from the poll under an article of the election law according to which only parties officially registered with the Ministry of Justice six months prior to the announcement of the date of the poll may participate. The Democratic Party was registered only in February of this year. The parliament recently amended the electoral legislation to remove that prohibition, thus enabling the Democratic Party to register a list of candidates to contest the proportional mandates. That list was headed by Guliev.
On 31 August, however, it was announced that an investigation into Guliev's alleged involvement in the theft between 1992--1994 of oil products worth some $76 million has been completed. If tried in absentia and found guilty before the 5 November election date, Guliev would be ineligible to contest that ballot. Moreover, according to the election law, if one of the first three persons on a party's list of proportional candidates withdraws, the entire list becomes invalid.

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PROGRESS REPORT ON THE SINGLE EUROPEAN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS MARKET 2009 (15TH REPORT); Brussels, 25.5.2010 COM(2010)253 final (17 pages)
The report is available in Spanish, Czech, German, English, French, Latvian, Maltese, Portuguese, Slovenian and Swedish (10 out of 23 EU languages).
Two short excerpts:
This Communication reports on market and regulatory developments in the EU’s electronic communications sector in 2009.
Consumers and businesses are still faced with 27 different markets and are thus not able to take advantage of the economic potential of a single market.
After analysis of market developments, the regulatory environment and consumer issues, the report reaches the following conclusions:
To move closer to a true single market, it is vital to step up efforts to address the issues identified in this Communication. The Commission will continue to closely monitor market developments so that problems can be tackled swiftly. In line with the Digital Agenda and the measures it outlines on spectrum, universal service, the regulatory treatment of NGAs [next generation access networks] and privacy, the Commission will also take a number of targeted measures:
(1) to address the divergences in regulatory approaches and the lack of timely and effective enforcement of remedies;
(2) to lay solid foundations for a correct and timely implementation of the revised regulatory framework and;
(3) to ensure an effectively functioning Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC).
These measures will in turn strengthen competition for the benefit of consumers and ensure that operators function in an environment which allows them to adapt their business models to new realities.
A press release from the Commission, available in 19 languages, offers an overview of the findings, and it hammers in the message that consumers and businesses still face 27 fragmented national markets: Telecoms: citizens and businesses pay the price for inconsistent application of EU rules (25 May 2010; IP/10/602).
The Commission has also released an explanatory summary: Telecoms: citizens and businesses pay the price for inconsistent application of EU rules - country by country breakdown of 15th Progress Report on European Telecoms Market 2009 and glossary (25 May 2010; MEMO/10/211).
The material can also be accessed from the Commission’s (Information society) thematic page.
Additional materials include the Staff working document SEC(2010) 630 (two parts; not yet on Eur-Lex under preparatory acts) and excerpts with country chapters.
My impression is that information society commissioner Neelie Kroes continues her no-nonsense approach in searching for the European public good in the same vein as when she headed competition affairs. Consumers and businesses have reasons to wish her success. The obstacles are often found closer to home.


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Today we've got the pleasure of premiering two new loosies from Just Luu. Here's the first, "Lock & Load."
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Just Luu, the Toronto rapper formerly known as Luu Breeze, is back today after dropping off "Cowabunga" the other month and introducing his new name.
Tonight, it's our pleasure to bring you an exclusive stream of Luu Breeze's new EP, Goodbye Farewell Remember. The new four track effort will be available to purchase shortly, but before you do that, check it out in advance by streaming it on HNHH.
Luu Breeze's recent track "Hearts in the Trunk" caught our ears when he first dropped it (and yours too, as it was user-rated VERY HOTTTTT) so it seems appropriate that we get to premiere the official music video for the Toronto spitter's track.
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A-Game provides the visuals for his new single "Money Made Me Do It," featuring Luu Breeze. Cameos from OVO's OB O'Brien and Rich Kidd.How did Luu Breeze do on this video? Let us know what you think, folks.
Bump Pick Up, the latest cut from J Star which features Luu Breeze on the assist. It dropped on Thursday, February 7th, 2013. J Star's horizons are broadening with each new release, and Pick Up is no exception.
Luu Breeze delivers the visual for "King Kong" off "This Time Tomorrow"Are y'all feeling this one? Peep the new visual for Luu Breeze's Luu Breeze "Say Word" Video.
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Bump This Time Tomorrow, the latest mixtape from Luu Breeze, which dropped on Monday, July 23rd, 2012. Luu Breeze's horizons are broadening with each new release, and This Time Tomorrow is no exception.
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LaLiga, Spain’s top football league, has announced a “unique, multi-year partnership” with EA Sports.The league is home to some of the world’s most powerful football clubs, including Real Madrid and Barcelona.
According to Marca, the sponsorship agreement will include “title-naming rights for all La Liga competitions” as well as a “complete rebranding of La Liga with EA Sports including all logos, graphics, fonts, and other visual elements.”
LaLiga’s statement also discusses the league’s interest in technology and grassroots initiatives with EA to “truly immerse fans into the world of football,” both physically and virtually.
This new collaboration comes after EA and FIFA parted ways in May after 30 years of collaboration.
Could EA have previously signed a similar agreement while working with FIFA? As previously reported, EA has discussed how the FIFA licencing agreement has limited its ability to bring in new commercial partners, as well as build experiences where football fans can watch and create content.
EA’s sponsorship of La Liga will begin in the 2023/24 season, with more details to follow in the coming months.
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Technical Report NTB 91-34
Grimsel Test SiteOverview of Nagra field and modeling activities in the ventilation drift (1988 – 1990)
The first phase of the Ventilation Test (VE) in the Grimsel Test Site (GTS) was mainly carried out by "GSF-Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit GmbH, Institut für Tieflagerung" between 1983 and 1987. During the phase 2 of the VE (1988 -1990) Nagra participated actively in this test, contributing to the program with complementary field work and model development.
A short overview of Nagra's field-and modeling work as well as the corresponding results is presented in this report. Structural remapping of the ventilation drift assisted in an improved understanding of the flow path geometry. The effects of the observed heterogeneity of the deformation structures on water inflow variations into the drift and on the approach for macropermeability estimation are evaluated. Complementary methods for water inflow measurements are presented, with the emphasis on the newly developed evaporation-measurement method, where the evaporation rate at discrete points at the drift surface can be measured. Finally, highlights of the drilling campaign and the related hydrogeological tests are presented in chapter four. The objective of these tests was to investigate the geometry and deformation of the shear zone observed in the drift as well as to provide a hydrogeological characterisation of this discontinuity.
The modeling work was twofold: a validation experiment, where a prognosis of interval pressures is made prior to the drilling and compared to the results; the further development of inverse methodology in conjuction with geostatistical analysis. Both approaches give valuable information about the permeability variations in tectonically different deformed granitic host rocks.
The hydraulic conductivity and transmissivity derived by the different methods is compared in the last chapter. All methods converge to a permeability in the shear zone about one order of magnitude higher than that of the matrix. The latter however, especially if derived by the classical ventilation tests, may be affected by the drying out of the drift wall and may underestimate the actual saturated matrix permeability value. As a concluding remark, it appears that ventilation tests for the estimation of macropermeability (granitic host rocks), are best suited if inflow fluxes are of the order of 1 mg∙m-2∙s-1.


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Naming a pet is tough. I think a pet's name needs to somehow reflect their personality, and if you've named them before you really know exactly what that personality will be, you can end up with a horrible mismatch. I think I've done pretty well with the 4 pets I've had in my adult life, so here they are:
--Chubby Chubs (1990--2007, RIP) This was my first cat, adopted when she was 6 weeks old. Her name was originally Sprocket, so named because the day we brought her home we drove to West Virginia University to see a concert--Toad the Wet Sprocket. 6 months later she was spayed, and quickly grew into the nickname that eventually became her only name, Chubby Chubs. Just Chubs for short. Sometime affectionately referred to as Chubby One.
--LuLu (1992--2002, RIP) My second cat, found as a stray in a parking lot when she was about 8 weeks old. Started out with the name Daisy, which was OK. But somehow that turned into Daisy Lu, and each time you said it to her with Lu attached, she arched her back and cried. So she pretty quickly became known as LuLu. Also known as The Lu and Ragamuffin.
--Gypsy (Born 6/96) Our first dog. Part German Shephard, part Elkhound. We bought her at a kennel of sorts, and named her within a few days of bringing her home. The dog I grew up with, a Collie mix that was born 1 week after I was, was named Gypsy. Best dog ever, so I figured there'd be good karma attached to the name. 11 1/2 years later I'm happy to report that there certainly was. She also responds to Melonhead, Melly, Melon and Miss Melon.
--Luna (Born 2/07) Our newest family member, adopted from a local rescue group that saved her from a shelter in Ohio. Part lab, part beagle, maybe? No idea really. I like to call her a beaglador. She basically looks like a black beagle, large for a beagle but tiny for a lab. Named Luna after weeks of discussion and list making, and then once we had her trying out the name live. Seems to fit her pretty well. So far she also responds to Loonie and Beagle. In her case, though, we are trying to stick with the original name. We'll see how that goes, our track record isn't so good.

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PETALING JAYA, Sept 14 — Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government will need to review its GE14 pledges.
He said some of the pledges would impose great losses if implemented.
Putting the blame squarely on the shoulders of the previous government for certain roadblocks that made implementation difficult, Dr Mahathir said the promises made need to be re-examined.
“We found some of our promises in the manifesto have raised many problems.
“So there needs to be a study or we need to tell the Pakatan government to review the promises, which we made at a time when we had believed we would have lost,” said the Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM) chairman, after chairing its Central Committee meeting, here.
“But we won, so now the restrictions are imposed on us.”
Among the 10 pledges for the first 100 days of the PH administration that have yet to be fulfilled include increasing the current minimum wage to RM1,500, deferment of National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) loan repayments for those with an income below RM4,000, and abolishment of Felda settlers’ debt.
Dr Mahathir had previously said some of the promises cannot be executed due to the RM1 trillion national debt that was left behind by the previous government.
The government has already fulfilled some of the pledges, including the abolishment of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), stabilising the petrol price and reassessment of mega infrastructure projects, such as the Malaysia-Singapore High Speed Rail, East Coast Rail Link and Mass Rapid Transit 3 (MRT3) projects.

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Alexandria, VA- September 17, 2019 – The American Sportfishing Association today issued the following statement on the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) unanimous vote to fully authorize deep-set buoy gear in the California swordfish fishery as an alternative to drift gillnets.
“As the advocate for the sportfishing industry, ASA has been working to eliminate the use of large mesh drift gillnets off California’s coast,” said ASA Pacific Fisheries Policy Director Danielle Cloutier. “This unanimous authorization of deep-set buoy gear, as an alternative to drift gillnets, is a huge win for the recreational fishing community and saltwater fisheries conservation. ASA thanks the Pacific Fishery Management Council for their efforts to make deep-set buoy gear a legally authorized gear type.”
Cloutier further noted, “As the Driftnet Modernization and Bycatch Reduction Act continues to work its way through Congress, this decision by the Pacific Fishery Management Council will help the California swordfish fishery transition away from drift gillnets and towards gear which results in significantly less bycatch of recreationally important sportfish.”
In addition to Cloutier’s statement, long-time ASA member and AFTCO President and CEO, Bill Shedd, said “By gradually transitioning to deep-set buoy gear, the booming recreational involvement in this fishery will continue to thrive. This decision, along with proposed federal legislation on which I testified in favor of before a U.S. House of Representatives committee, will revolutionize the California swordfish fishery.”
Drift gillnets are nearly-invisible nets that contribute to an excessive amount of bycatch which impact recreationally important fish. ASA has been active in efforts to transition away from drift gillnets in California waters and toward deep-set buoy gear which has shown greater economic benefit.
In May, Shedd testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife on behalf of the Driftnet Modernization and Bycatch Reduction Act (H.R. 1979).


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A woman shot two children, killing one and critically injuring the other, in a suburban Connecticut home, police said Saturday.
Naomi Bell was arrested on murder and attempted murder charges, a Connecticut State Police report said.
Bell, 43, is due for arraignment Monday, and there was no immediate information on her legal representation. A phone message was left at an apparent phone number for her home in the Terryville section of Plymouth, which is near Hartford and Waterbury.
Police haven’t said what relationship, if any, Bell has to the children, aged 7 and 15. Plymouth school system Interim Superintendent Sherri Turner told families in a letter that the two victims were siblings and have a third, middle-school-age sibling who wasn’t home at the time of the shooting.
Police haven’t released the children’s names or said which of the two survived. Turner’s letter said the slain student was in high school, and the injured sibling is in elementary school.
‘We are devastated by this unthinkable tragedy,” she wrote, adding that counseling would be available over the weekend for families and staffers.
Someone in the Main Street home called 911 on Friday evening, State Police Trooper First Class Christine Jeltema told reporters at a news conference.
Officers found the two children with gunshot wounds.
Bell and her family have lived in the neighborhood for years, neighbor Taylor Wells told the Hartford Courant.
He said he hadn’t heard any gunshots Friday evening, realizing there was trouble only when he heard sirens approaching and saw police cars and ambulances pull up.

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We are looking to hire a dedicated and reliable kitchen assistant to assist the cook with ingredient preparation as well as perform all washing and cleaning duties required in the kitchen. The kitchen assistant’s responsibilities include assisting with inventory control, removing the garbage, washing garbage cans, and clearing refrigerators, freezers, and storage rooms. To be successful as a kitchen assistant, you should exercise exceptional time management and ensure that all duties are completed in a timely manner.
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WMA to tackle adverse health conditions in prisonsBMJ 1999; 319 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.319.7217.1090 (Published 23 October 1999) Cite this as: BMJ 1999;319:1090
- Nigel Duncan
- Tel Aviv
Guidelines to combat the increasing public health problems in prisons are to be drawn up by the World Medical Association because of concern about, in particular, the rise of tuberculosis in eastern Europe.
At its annual general assembly last week in Tel Aviv, Israel, the association agreed to develop guidelines for doctors because it believed that adverse prison conditions across the world were leading to the spread of infection and risking the health of prisoners, prison visitors, …


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Isolation, Solitude, Loneliness
If society was ever ripe for full-fledged totalitarianism of a scale unprecedented in history, it is now.
Numquam minus solum esse quam cum solum esset.
(Never was he less lonely than when he was alone)
Cicero, De Re Publico I, 17
In the final chapter of The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt discusses the difference between isolation, solitude and loneliness in the context of totalitarianism and tyranny. A tyrant, Arendt says, strives to isolate people in order to prevent them from joining together in revolt or revolution. But for totalitarianism, this is not sufficient; a totalitarian society can be based only on loneliness, on a total lack of connectedness between individuals.
While solitude is a choice; man’s choice to be alone, in order to think and to act, “… totalitarian domination tries never to leave him alone except in the extreme situation of solitary confinement. By destroying all space between men and by pressing men against each other even the productive potentialities of isolation are annihilated …” Solitude is not possible.
The loneliness required by totalitarianism requires the abolition of common sense, which by Arendt’s definition is not in fact about rationality, but about experience: “Even the experience of the materially and sensually given world depends upon my being in contact with other men upon our common sense which regulates and controls all other senses and without each of us would be enclosed in his own particularity of sense data which in themselves are unreliable and treacherous. Only because we have common sense, that is only because not one man, but men in the plural inhabit the earth can we trust our immediate sensual experience.”
According to Arendt, loneliness has been the curse of the modern masses since the beginning of the industrial revolution.
During the past 30 months loneliness has been taken to the extreme, through isolation, distancing, masking, through the constant push for belief in an increasingly absurd narrative, through relentless gaslighting and censorship. If society was ever ripe for full-fledged totalitarianism of a scale unprecedented in history, it is now.

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Saturday, April 28, 2012
The Eagles led early and late against Hermiston Tuesday but couldn’t hold either time as Hermiston scored three-run fourth and sixth innings and went on to win 7-4.
The Eagles jumped out to a 3-0 lead off Hermiston pitcher Paige Long, scoring two runs in the second inning on an error and an infield single by Erica Enrique and adding another run in the third on a double by Hannah Williams.
Hermiston came right back to it in the fourth. Long started the comeback with a two-run homer, and Mykel Liebe tied the game up with a double.
With the scored tied at 3-3 in the fifth the Eagles took the lead on a two-out single by Amanda McCafferty.
The lead also proved to be short-lived. Maloree Moss led of the sixth with a triple for Hermiston and was driven home on a single by Courtney Howard to tie the game.
One later Liebe crushed a Kayla Byers pitch over the right field fence for a two-run home run.
Hermiston added another run in the seventh. The Bulldogs loaded the bases with two outs, but Byers and the Eagles were a strike away from getting out of the inning before Howard legged out an infield single on a two-strike pitch with a soft ground ball to second base to score a run.
The loss dropped the Eagles to 1-4 in league play, all but eliminating them for conference title contention. Pendleton currently leads the league at 4-1, and HRV would likely need to sweep its remaining seven games, have The Dalles-Wahtonka win its final three games against Pendleton, and then have Hermiston and Pendleton split their seven game series.
The Eagles are still on track to host a state play-in game, ranked No. 12 in the 5A rankings.
The HRV baseball team also had no luck against the Bulldogs. After spotting Hermiston a four-run lead in the first inning, the Eagles twice pulled within in a run, but could not get over the top as Hermiston won 9-5.
The Bulldogs took advantage of two walks and a hit batter by HRV starter Ty Bofferding and a pair of errors by the Eagle defense to score their four runs in the first.
The Eagles answered with three of their own in the bottom of the inning on a two-run triple by Lucio Alaniz and a sacrifice fly by Nick Weekly.
Both teams scored a run in the third before Hermiston started to pull away in the fourth. The Bulldogs took advantage of another HRV error to put the leadoff runner on before Camran Pollick hit a two-run home run.
Hermiston got another run when Nychal Gritz got on board on a hit by pitch and came around to score on a Larry Posada double.
The Eagles got a run in the fourth on a Cody Walker double but did not score again.
The win allowed Hermiston to move ahead of the Eagles in the league standings and dropped the Eagles to the No. 8 ranking among 5A teams.
Both HRV teams are in Hermiston this weekend for a doubleheader before closing out the series in Hood River Tuesday.
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Lawnmower torches Arbor Vitae on Portland Drive
The riding lawn mower driven by Norma Cannon overheated and made contact with dry arbor vitae owned by Lee and Norma Curtis, sending more than a dozen of the tightly-packed trees up in flames. The mower, visible at far right, was totaled. No one was injured; neighbors first kept the fire at bay with garden hoses and Westside and Hood River Fire Departments responded and doused the fire before it reached any structures. Westside Fire chief Jim Trammell, in blue shirt, directs firefighters. The video was taken by Capt. Dave Smith of Hood River Fire Department. Enlarge


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The Seattle Supersonics moved to Oklahoma City in 2008; now, however, the possibility of another basketball (and hockey) team in Seattle has been rumored in the sports press. This article examines what the economic impact of a new basketball team in Seattle could be, and details the types of businesses which would have the most to gain from a reincarnation of the Supersonics.
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New research from NordLocker has analysed which countries faced the most ransomware attacks in 2020 and 2021.
The study looked at 1,200 companies to establish the worst hit countries and industries in 2020 and 2021 – and the UK has come out in the number two position.
The full top five list, from the top, was: the US, the UK, Canada, France and Germany.
“The latest statistics indicate that a worrying 37% of companies worldwide became victims of ransomware in 2020,” said Oliver Noble, a cybersecurity expert at NordLocker.
“From Newcastle University, the UK’s leading education institution, to Whistl in the logistics industry, cyber attacks affect organisations across all sectors. Our research exhibits the extent of recent ransomware attacks and, at the same time, urges particular industries to exercise caution.”
He continued: “The UK is known for its financial sector, which took a major hit from hackers just last year when the UK-based foreign exchange provider Travelex paid a $2.3 million ransom, forcing a restructuring of the company and a loss of 1,300 jobs. Such attacks hurt companies not only through the ransom itself but also through the damaged reputation that comes as a result of an operations halt.”
NordLocker’s research also found construction to be the top industry hit by ransomware attacks, followed by manufacturing, finance, healthcare, education, technology and IT, logistics and transportation,, automotive, municipal services, and finally, legal.
“It is surprising how many companies still undervalue cybersecurity, inviting hackers to exploit their vulnerabilities,” said Noble. “When successfully attacked, companies lose access to all their employee data, customer details, client agreements, patents, and other valuable business information and threatened that this information will be stolen, leaked, or destroyed for good. To avoid a doomsday, i.e. business operations put to a standstill, damaged reputation, loss of clients, tiresome legal battles, and huge fines, some organisations are left with no choice but to pay the ransom to get the decryption key.”
The study also looked at the most prolific ransomware groups, citing Conti, REvil, DopplePaymer and PYSA as the worst.
Noble concluded, “Internationally operating law enforcement groups work hard to shut ransomware infrastructure down. Just a month ago, it was reported that a joint operation put REvil’s servers offline. However, the Russian Ransomware-as-a-Service gang is expected to re-emerge. Ransomware is no longer what only skilled hackers are capable of. Any paying user, AKA affiliate with little technical knowledge, can use the subscription-based model to employ already-developed tools to execute ransomware attacks against businesses.”


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• Create Sample cup vent holes
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This handy palm-held device greatly simplifies rupturing a ThermoPlastic® sample cup seal and creating a uniform vent hole for maintaining pressure equalization within the sample cup and sample chamber. Appropriate pressure equalization eliminates thin-film sample support planes from being distorted due to pressure variations and skewing analytical results.
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„Lice v Lice" (Face to Face)s newsboys visit Ading
We have started 2013, too, as a socially responsible company. An organized group of newsboys selling the “Lice v Lice” (Face to Face) magazine have once again visited ADING and our daughter company – Biro Proekt.
Our employees have welcomed the action and bought copies of the magazine, which focuses on corporate social responsibility topics such as environment protection, demarginalization of groups and individuals, as well as on cultural development issues. The newsboys are members of the disadvantaged and marginalized groups, and earn 50% of the sales realized.
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Ham Cheese Mini Breakfast Pies ~ a delicious way to start the day! Bake ahead and freeze for busy mornings when you need breakfast on-the-go! I have already a quiche made with pieces of tomato and ham also delicious ( as a snack )
DIY Beverage and Paper Goods Station ~ so easy to make and could be used for any event from a Backyard Cookout to a Holiday Get Together. And the paper goods can be switched by color so easily for any event.


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Gotham City’s past, present, and future all come together to haunt the Dark Knight in exhilarating new stories from some of comics’ most noted luminaries as Batman Black & White continues! Eisner Award-winning writer Chip Zdarsky (Daredevil, Stillwater) and fan-favorite artist Nick Bradshaw (Wolverine & the X-Men, Spidey) team up for a story that brings Poison Ivy to the front door of Wayne Manor to demand ecological responsibility from Bruce Wayne! Superstar writer Joshua Williamson (The Flash, Batman/Superman, Justice League vs. Suicide Squad) pairs with superstar artist Riley Rossmo (Harley Quinn, Dark Nights: Death Metal: Robin King, Martian Manhunter) for a horrific night in Gotham as a new villain emerges, as seen through the eyes of Batman himself. Eisner Award-winning writer/artist Becky Cloonan (Wonder Woman, Gotham Academy) concocts a murder mystery for Batman to solve set at a circus, featuring art by legendary artist Terry Dodson (Wonder Woman, X-Men, Adventureman). Red-hot cartoonist Daniel Warren Johnson puts Batman at the mercy of Two-Face. Batman will have to remember the words of Alfred Pennyworth if he’s going to make it through this ordeal alive. Karl Kerschl, artist of Gotham Academy, writes and draws a tale of Batman investigating the occult mysteries of Gotham City’s past with his new Robin...Gotham Academy’s Maps Mizoguchi?!
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"Yes, it’s a funny little potion, Felix Felicis... Desperately tricky to make, and disastrous to get wrong." For those of us who feel like we could use a little liquid luck every now and then.
Measuring approx 1.6" x 2.75", these stickers are perfect for laptops, e-readers and notebooks. Although they are water resistant, stickers are not meant for outdoor use. If adhering to water bottles, cups, or other items that will get wet, please be sure to gently hand wash to keep stickers looking their best and lasting as long as possible.
Stickers are covered in a laminate finish for added durability.
May not be compatible with all surfaces. Clean, smooth surfaces are best for adhering stickers. Not recommended for use in dishwasher.

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Extrusiones Vinilicas Aragonesas, S.L. (ARAEXfilm), was created on March 1, 2015, after the purchase of EXTRUSION DE RESINAS VINILICAS, S.A. (ERVISA), a pioneering company in the manufacture by extrusion of PVC and polyolefin shrink film.
ERVISA, which was founded in 1979 as a manufacturer and processor of plastic products, in 2014 had two production centers (one in Zaragoza and other in Asturias) that allowed to produce a wide range of products.
ARAEXfilm, after the purchase of the production center of Zaragoza, is dedicated to the manufacture of the same products that till those moments ERVISA manufactured and some other products have been incorporated as the result of the new designs applied
The families of the products manufactured by ARAEXfilm are as follows:
- FILMS DERIVED FROM PVC: Shrink and rigid films
- FILMS DERIVED FROM POLYETHYLENE: Shrink polyolefin films made with the double bubble, multilayer system.
From August 2018, we have begun too the manufacture of polystyrene products.
New products manufactured by ARAEXfilm:
• FILMS DERIVATED FROM POLYSTYRENE: Polystyrene bioriented antistatic films transparent or opaque manufactured by blow extrusion.
The activity of Araexfilm is directed towards the manufacture of plastic film from resins/pellets of polymer materials (mainly derived from the polychloride of vinyl, from the polyethylene and polystyrene) that have a great variety of uses in different fields.
The differences in terms of composition, as much for the material, as for additives (materials that favour the slide, the seal, the thermal resistance, the optical properties, etc.) originate for themselves a wide range of products. Nevertheless, we must not forget that this offer brings to diversify in many major measures due to the wide range of possibilities that they present as soon as the composition is well defined:
On one side, by regulating the thickness of the film, it is possible to make different thicknesses for each product, in the case of polyvinyl chloride usually between 15 and 35 microns with two predetermined standard values (23 and 30 microns), and in the case of polyethylene normally between 11 and 25 microns, and the values more common for polystyrene are between 50 and 70 microns.
On the other hand, the film is wound on the cardboard core in the length and width desired by the customer, here being the possibilities almost infinite; However, although in this phase the flexibility is enormous, it is often used to standardized dimensions for both the width and the length of the rolls, so we have created a stock for immediate service.
ARAEXfilm stands our for developing tailored products according to the customer needs that respond to individual and specific requirements for each application