Viberti was founded in 1922 in Turin. For years it has built its position around an extremely wide range of transport vehicles.
It all began in 1922, when in a small workshop on the out-skirts of Turin Candido Viberti began producing the
first car models that met with the appreciation of Giovanni Ce-irano, pioneer of the Italian automotive industry
and owner of SCAT (Società Ceirano Automobili Torino).
In 1928 after several years of work and with more expe-rience, Viberti decided to take a big step by
establishing his own company Candido Viberti. The company’s seat was on the site of the old SCAT plant on an
area of approx. 8,000 m2 where about 150 employees found employment. It was the first plant dedicated to the
construction of car bodies and industrial vehicles. The owner, guided by the belief that there was growing
demand for this type of products, decided to devote himself entirely to this industry (tanks, buses, trailers,
semi-trailers, special bodies, trolleybuses, trucks).
In 1932 Viberti linked its brand with trailers that have gone down in the history of transport and have been the
com-pany’s hallmark over the years. From that moment on, the plant experienced a period of unprecedented
prosperity and continuous development, as a result of which, in 1935, it was necessary to change the seat to a
larger one. The choice fell on the former car factory in Ansaldo: a complex with an area of 70,000 m2, also
located in Turin, and hiring around 800 employees.
The following year marks another milestone in Viberti’s history: the acquisition of SAIV, a company in Verona,
fo-unded in 1923, specializing in the production of tanks. It was an important strategic move that allowed the
Turin company to expand its product range. In 1937 Viberti began serial production of aviation fuel distribution
trucks on the runways/landing areas.
In 1940 Italy engaged in hostilities, and the Ministry of War entrusted Viberti (which employed more than 1,750
workers in 1943) with the construction of huge amounts of trailers with special containers for the transport of
liquids and fuels for the army, navy and aviation, as well as the construction of means of transport for various
goals. But the outbreak of war was not only a period of increasing or-ders. The company was hit by bombing with
At the end of World War II, Viberti’s situation was not opti-mistic. According to the company’s balance sheets,
almost 60% of the entire industrial area was razed to the ground as a result of bomb attacks and military
Consistency and the market debut of new, highly success-ful products, such as the three-axle articulated vehicle
built in 1950, allowed the company to revive its operations. In the post-war period, Viberti reached over
146,000m2 production area and employed around 2,000 people.
Between 1952 and 1960, Viberti made a number of impor-tant acquisitions, such as Officina Carenzi in Piacenza
and Officine Adige in Verona, which allowed the Turin group to achieve large domestic market shares and offer
customers a diversified product.
Enormous development resulted in the need to build a new plant adapted to the new requirements of the company.
And so, in 1969 the old industrial complex was converted into a new industrial headquarters in Nichelino
In 1996, the company was purchased by the family com-pany Acerbi, a trailer manufacturer, with its own plant in
Castelnuovo Scrivia (near Turin). The resulting plant com-plex covered an area of 350,000 m2.
In December 2010, the Viberti brand was purchased by Compagnia Italiana Rimorchi, based in Tocco da Casau-ria
(Pescara) which owed the Merker and Cardi brands, thus creating the largest Italian base for Italian tractor
In 2015 the company became part of the Wielton Group, changing its name first to Italiana Rimorchi S.r.l. and
then to the present Viberti Rimorchi S.r.l.


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The alternative Sunday Roast
I love a Sunday roast, doesn’t everyone, especially when the weather is colder and the nights are dark, it just makes you feel all warm and cosy inside. I love the fact that you can spend the afternoon prepping a roast, whilst relaxing at home in front of the fire reading a good book.
When I lived in the alps I used to make this version of a roastie every week, it was such a hit with my clients that all returning guests requested it. Over the years I have tweaked and tweaked the recipe to the ultimate final result. I have cooked this so many times I have lost count, but, it always works and tastes just delicious.
Poitrine du Porc (Pork Belly) – Serves 4 (3hrs cooking)
1kg pork belly with skin – no bone
½ bunch of thyme roughly chopped
½ bunch of rosemary roughly chopped
½ head of garlic, cloves peeled and crushed
75ml olive oil
½ bottle of white wine
Salt and pepper for seasoning.
For the sauce:
175ml chicken stock
Cornflour for thickening
Heat the oven to 220c or to its highest setting. Places the herbs, garlic and olive oil
in a heavy duty food processor and puree them roughly.
Place the pork belly in an oven tray, skin-side down and using your hands spread
the herb mixture evenly all over the meat, pressing it on so it sticks to the meat.
Turn the belly skin-side up, wipe the skin totally dry with kitchen paper and then
sprinkle with sea salt evenly all over the skin (don’t put too much on as it might
create a crust and prevent the crackling forming).
Pop the tray in the oven and roast for 1 hour. Once the skin has formed some
crackling, turn the oven down to 170c, pour the white wine into the tray (avoiding
the pork skin) and continue roasting for another hour. If the belly starts to turn
black, cover with foil.
For the last cooking stage, turn the oven down to 110c and continue roasting for the
final hour, until the skin has crackled completely and thoroughly dried.
Remove the pork from the oven and rest on a chopping board. Skim the excess fat
from the baking tray, then add the chicken stock to taste and the cornflour to
Take the crackling off the pork and divide, portion your pork.
Just writing this recipe has got my taste buds going, serve this meal with mashed
potato, or for a more decadent dinner why not cook up some fondant potatoes, my
personal favourite. I always serve with plenty of seasonal greens plus a glass of red or white
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As Tunisia's GDP continued to show healthy growth in recent years, Tunisians' life evaluations continued to plummet.
While Mohamed Bouazizi's protest over the confiscation of his vegetable cart sparked the "Arab Spring," Tunisians' perception of entrepreneurship as a viable option for employment soured.
In Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's last year of rule, Tunisians' satisfaction with basic infrastructure, the cost of living, and basic services dropped noticeably.
Tunisians' Perceptions Spark the "Arab Spring"
Despite Tunisians' sharp increase in positive assessments of their national economy between 2009 and 2010, their perceptions in 2010 worsened on a variety of key variables. Tunisians' perceptions soured on well-being/life evaluation, employment, satisfaction with basic infrastructure, and the perception that businesses can succeed without heavy government interference or control. Recent events in Tunisia and Egypt have also highlighted the shortcomings of development approaches and impact assessments that rely solely on classical economic measures. While monitoring GDP growth and other classical measures are important, recent events highlight the equal importance of tracking perceptions based on behavioral economics, particularly within countries with authoritarian forms of governance.
The current situation in Tunisia offers international development partners, within the region and beyond, an opportunity to bolster the role of citizens, indigenous civil society organizations, and businesses working to harness the talents and skills of job seekers within their country. The regional focus on the events in Tunisia offers international partners an opportunity to invest in projects and businesses working to address some of the development challenges that initially sparked the popular uprising in the country. Playing a successful role in collaborating to rebuild Tunisia's economy and infrastructure will also help such partners bolster their brand in a changing region. They can do this by providing potential opportunities for partnership in other countries in the region, such as Egypt, which is also experiencing a transitional period.
In an effort to examine public perceptions on economic and social challenges facing citizens throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and as part of Gallup's continuous global tracking and worldwide research, Gallup regularly conducts a series of public opinion polls in 19 countries and areas in the MENA region. The following is an assessment of Tunisians' perceptions on a variety of topics related to recent developments in the country. This analysis focuses particularly on changes in perceptions from 2009 to 2010 and, where relevant, compares these with the median of all middle-income countries3 in the region in 2010.
The Deceiving Lens of Classical Economic Measures
The recent uprising in Tunisia, leading to the end of Ben Ali's rule, took most analysts in the West, as well as throughout the region, by surprise. This is primarily because of various positive reviews based on classical measures of the country's economic performance and vibrancy in recent years. For example, Tunisia gained eight points in the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index, from 40 in 2009-2010 to 32 in 2010-2011. Furthermore, Tunisia was the only North African country that did not experience a decline in its rankings in the Competitiveness Index during this same period.
Despite such growth, Tunisians rated their lives noticeably worse at the same time that international finance and economic organizations hailed the country's GDP gains and economic reforms.
Over the past three years, fewer Tunisians were "thriving," despite the fact that such rates often correlate strongly with GDP gains. Such trends were also similar in Egypt, the largest country in North Africa.
Gallup classifies respondents' well-being as "thriving," "struggling," or "suffering," according to how they rate their current and future lives on a ladder scale with steps numbered from 0 to 10 based on the Cantril Self-Anchoring Striving Scale. People are considered thriving if they rate their current lives a 7 or higher and their lives in five years an 8 or higher.
Tunisia is also unique in that it has maintained a vibrant middle class through the early years of the 21st century. Meanwhile, neighboring countries such as Algeria and Morocco as well as Egypt have seen the gap between rich and poor increase dramatically. However, like its North African neighbors, Tunisia struggled with government corruption. This was particularly the case with regard to regulation of the private sector, as corruption often falls off the radar of classical economic measures such as GDP growth.
In this same vein, a major factor putting recent events in Tunisia into context was the perception among the general public that Tunisians did not benefit from their country's economic success. Additionally, the data highlight a sense that ordinary citizens were running out of options, such as starting their own entrepreneurial endeavors, when it came to unemployment challenges. Gallup data underscore how Tunisians' worsening perceptions and increasing frustration with such domestic challenges increased noticeably from 2009 to 2010.
Vanishing Prospects for Employment
In both 2009 and 2010, a majority of Tunisians (56%) said that the national economy in their country was improving overall. On face value, this positive perception was much higher than the middle-income country median of 31% in 2010. This may seem puzzling in light of recent developments in the country, sparked in large part by Tunisians' attitudes regarding economic opportunities and corruption within Ben Ali's regime. However, when examining the degree to which Tunisians perceived themselves as personally benefiting from improved economic conditions, recent events fall into context.
Despite Tunisians' noticeably positive assessments of the trajectory of their national economy, their perceptions in 2010 worsened on a variety of closely related variables. These included various measures of satisfaction with basic infrastructure, services, and the perceptions that the government will allow businesses to make a lot of money and that it makes paperwork and permits easy enough for entrepreneurs.
It is no surprise that government corruption, particularly in the business setting, also may have played a major role in fostering discontent with the Ben Ali regime. However, exposing such corruption during Ben Ali's rule may have been a risky undertaking. When Gallup asked young Tunisians about whether the government was doing enough to fight corruption, response rates of approval were so high that the data were deemed invalid and thus suppressed. The tipping point for Tunisia's unrest was the self-immolation of a 26-year-old Tunisian man who had been harassed and whose goods had been confiscated by a municipal inspector. The data highlight that Bouazizi's frustration was not unique among citizens across the country. In 2009, when asked whether the government makes paperwork and permits easy enough for entrepreneurs, 49% of Tunisians said yes. This number dropped significantly the following year to 37%.
The perception of entrepreneurship, or starting one's own business, as an alternative to prolonged unemployment was also an important factor highlighting Bouazizi's predicament as a symbol for what many in the country were experiencing. In 2010, about two-thirds of Tunisians (63%) said they would consider starting their own business if unemployed for six months or longer. This is down from 80% in 2009, indicating Tunisians grew less confident in entrepreneurship as a feasible alternative to traditional employment opportunities. This change was likely based on an assessment that due to structural and bureaucratic challenges, starting one's own business was not feasible or profitable enough an endeavor to sustain one's needs. In 2010, 59% of Tunisians said that if unemployed for six months or longer, they would be willing to retrain in a different career field.
Furthermore, perceptions that entrepreneurs can trust the government to allow their business to make a lot of money also declined in 2010. In 2009, 72% of Tunisians said so. In 2010, this percentage dropped to 63%. The average for this measure among middle-income countries was 50% in 2010. Tunisians' perceptions of the safety of business assets in their country also dipped; in 2010, the proportion of those who said entrepreneurs can trust their assets and property to be safe at all times dropped to 70% from 80% in 2009. Additionally, assessments of whether one's city or local area is a good place for entrepreneurs looking to start their own businesses also significantly declined from 76% in 2009 to 62% in 2010.
Satisfaction With Basic Needs and Infrastructure Worsen
The availability of affordable housing in Tunisia is important for two reasons. First, like many countries throughout the MENA region, Tunisia is experiencing a demographic youth bulge. This type of shift in the proportion of citizens under the age of 30 places additional stress on a state's ability to meet the basic needs of citizens in this stage of life. This growing young population places high demands on educational institutions, public transportation, and the economic requirements needed for a citizen to transition from adolescence to adulthood (employment, independent living/marriage). As evident from recent events across the region, a government's inability to cope with such demands often engenders a great deal of resentment toward and disappointment with the state and other agents of authority. This extends what is often called in the Arab world the "waithood" period, during which youth, particularly young men, have to wait several years to find employment after they complete their education or training in a particular field. Employment is the crucial first step in enabling young people to begin saving money to cover the expenses of marriage. Housing costs are usually the major expense associated with marriage in North African societies.
Second, as a result of the moderate and stable GDP growth during the previous years in Tunisia, the cost of living, including the cost of housing, began to rise. This rise in costs exacerbates the challenge for young people looking to start their lives as independent adults. An increase in the cost of living also places similar pressures on older citizens struggling to maintain their families' existing standard of living.
Thus, when Gallup asked Tunisians in 2010 whether they were satisfied with the availability of affordable housing, 41% said yes - a sharp decline from 2009 when 74% shared this view. In addition to housing, Tunisians' satisfaction with other public infrastructure, such as public transportation systems, also experienced a notable decline from 2009 (74%) to 2010 (55%). Tunisians were also less likely in 2010 (50%) than in 2009 (59%) to express satisfaction with the quality of the roads and highways they use.
It is important to note that Tunisia, with a relatively well-educated population when compared to neighboring countries, also experienced a drop in satisfaction with local schools and educational institutions in 2010 (67%) when compared with 2009 (73%). Tunisians grew more negative about other basic services, such as satisfaction with the availability of quality healthcare in Ben Ali's last year of rule. In 2010, about one-half (51%) of Tunisians expressed satisfaction with the healthcare to which they had access - a drop from the previous year (71%).
Implications and Recommendations
Gallup's findings highlight a growing sense of frustration among Tunisians with the challenges they face in reaping the benefits of a country hailed as an example of quick social progress and economic growth in North Africa. After the overthrow of Ben Ali, the entire region, governments and citizens alike, are now closely monitoring what is to come in this small country. Regional actors are also closely following the reaction of international partners such as the United Nations Development Program, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and European Union entities with a track record in investment and development initiatives in North Africa, such as the EU Investment Bank.
Recommendations for International and Regional Development Partners
As the political situation stabilizes within the country, the international development and investment communities should seize this rare opportunity of political opening in North Africa and bolster their roles and programs in Tunisia. Western organizations and government agencies, such as USAID, now have a strategic interest in rectifying their tarnished image resulting from their cooperation with the Ben Ali government. Declining satisfaction with basic infrastructure as well as the change in government offer such institutions a chance to build good will with Tunisians as well as with citizens across the region.
For International Development and Trade Partners
Those who wish to invest in Tunisia's development into a stable, economically successful democracy should:
· Invest in improving basic infrastructure, health services, and affordable housing. These opportunities present apolitical means by which such partners can invest in Tunisia's economic development in a manner that touches the lives of average Tunisians.
· Invest in traditional media infrastructure (radio and television), Internet connectivity, as well as other forms of fiber optic communication. In a now more open and free media environment, traditional and new media technology and infrastructure are all areas where state control and censorship had previously overregulated and politicized investments. It is in these fields where for-profit investors can mobilize their resources, not as a form of aid, but as opportunities for potentially lucrative business investments.
International partners, particularly in Europe and the U.S., now have an opportunity to bolster their credibility as partners of the people and not the protectors of regimes perceived to be autocratic and corrupt in the eyes of their citizens.
For Regional Development and Trade Partners
Development agencies and private-sector companies within wealthier Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries can also now play a pivotal role in the development of Tunisia's economic outlook. As many Gulf countries such as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates have demonstrated a commitment to helping Egypt's economy regain its footing, Tunisia also offers another opportunity for intra-regional cooperation, business, and development.
With nearly one-quarter of Tunisia's labor force engaged in agriculture, GCC countries with food resource challenges should also look to bolster produce trade with Tunisia as a sustainable investment in the country's transition to democracy.
For International Finance and Economic Policy Organizations
These organizations should invest in more accurate, perception-driven tools to measure impact.
A crucial component that led to the unpredictability of the Tunisian revolution was a silo-like focus on assessing the economic and social health of developing countries through classical economic measures alone. While monitoring GDP trends is important, international organizations such as the World Bank and others must now invest in more accurate, perception-driven tools to assess impact. Behavioral and attitudinal data, collected at the individual level, are the best measures of the effect of policies, programs, and initiatives. It is through these metrics that global and international organizations test to what degree policy shifts at the macroeconomic level benefit citizens at the local and microeconomic level. Neglecting this approach will result in a continued loss of large sums of investment and finance funds pumped into countries whose lack of political and social stability result in major economic setbacks and dissuade future investment. With what is hoped to be a more open political environment in Tunisia, such research should be easier to conduct in a more timely, constant, and cost-effective manner.
Without these kinds of performance indicators, countries may continue to grow on a variety of macroeconomic country-wide measures, but still leave individual citizens feeling disenfranchised and less hopeful. Relying on behavioral and attitudinal indicators will also leave international partners better informed about the types of networks and stakeholders they must engage in-country to craft more robust and effective interventions at the local level.
Gallup is entirely responsible for the management, design, and control of this study. For the past 70 years, Gallup has been committed to the principle that accurately collecting and disseminating the opinions and aspirations of people around the globe is vital to understanding our world. Gallup's mission is to provide information in an objective, reliable, and scientifically grounded manner. Gallup is not associated with any political orientation, party, or advocacy group and does not accept partisan entities as clients.
Results are based on face-to-face interviews in Tunisia with approximately 1,000 adults in each survey administration, aged 15 and older, during 2009 and 2010. Surveys in 2009 were conducted February 20-March 25 and August 2-22; in 2010, they were conducted February 3-April 27 and September 10-October 25. For results based on the total sample of adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±2.5 percentage points. The margin of error reflects the influence of data weighting. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.
The questionnaire was translated into Arabic. The translation process starts with an English version. A translator who is proficient in the English and Arabic languages translates the survey into the target language. A second translator reviews the language version against the original version and recommends refinements.
Abu Dhabi Gallup Center
The Abu Dhabi Gallup Center is a Gallup research hub based in the capital of the United Arab Emirates. It is the product of a partnership between Gallup, the world's leading public opinion research firm, and the Crown Prince Court of Abu Dhabi.
Building on Gallup's seminal work in the field of Muslim studies, the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center (ADGC) offers unmatched research on the attitudes and aspirations of Muslims around the world. In addition to its worldwide scope, the ADGC focuses on the specific priorities of its regional base and presents innovative analysis and insights on the most important societal challenges facing the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
 Gallup polls approximately 1,000 nationals in each country twice a year. All samples are nationally representative and are selected randomly in accordance with Gallup's World Poll methodology. All surveys take place in the respondents' home and are conducted in local languages. For more details about Gallup's World Poll methodology see: https://worldview.gallup.com/content/methodology.aspx
 The data displayed for each year are an aggregation of two separate waves of polling. In 2009, Gallup conducted polls in Tunisia February 20-March 25 and August 2-22. In 2010, Gallup conducted polls in Tunisia February 3-April 27 and September 10-October 25.
 The middle-income country group includes: Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria, and Tunisia. Gallup grouped countries into categories according to 2010 estimates of GDP per capita (in U.S. dollars) provided by the International Monetary Fund. Countries fall under one of three income categories: high income (GDP per capita of at least $23,000), middle income (GDP per capita ranges from $2,600 to less than $23,000), and low income (GDP per capita of less than $2,600).

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Archive for spring
A man crosses the street in rain,
stepping gently, looking two times north and south,
because his son is asleep on his shoulder.
No car must splash him.
No car drive too near to his shadow.
This man carries the world’s most sensitive cargo
but he’s not marked.
Nowhere does his jacket say FRAGILE,
HANDLE WITH CARE.
His ear fills up with breathing.
He hears the hum of a boy’s dream
deep inside him.
We’re not going to be able
to live in this world
if we’re not willing to do what he’s doing
with one another.
The road will only be wide.
The rain will never stop falling.
My peonies sleep
curled into their red roots
frozen with the ground.
I walk with what is left of winter
and discover a tiny animal, wet and black,
bereft of possibility.
It’s too close to spring to die.
we need a month of sunny days
before we dig and plant.
a hale storm threw
a million tiny pearls
onto tawny fields
as soon as they landed.
One life,-a little gleam of time between two Eternities.
“To me they are as beautiful as anything I know,” Georgia O’Keeffe said of the sun-bleached bones and skulls she found in the desert. “To me they are strangely more living than the animals walking around…. The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive …”
Lil Jester, the Story
I did know this little guy.
In 2011, I flew from LA to CNY to see my house for the first time (I bought it the month before, sight unseen) and to stay with my neighbor, Tim, who first posted the picture of the house on Facebook.
This was Mother’s Day weekend.
On Mother’s Day, Lil Jester was born, there were twins but one died and this one survived, barely. The mother rejected him, so Tim and I hand fed LJ for the first few days of his life.
There is another story where I was in charge of him and he disappeared and I thought he’d been swallowed by a coyote or ferret and I cried inconsolably, but I’ll save that retelling for later.
Anyway, by the time my house was being renovated in July 2011, he was a handsome young goat with nubs where his majestic horns would be.
In the country, not all goats are created equal and boy goats do hot hold the same rank as a girl goat, a girl can be milked and bred, a boy can be annoying and eaten when he is of the right age.
This was the fate of the little boy goat.
His bones were left in a field behind my house, I knew not where until spring 2013 rolled around and I was on one of my long walks through the mud.
Spring mud pushes bones to the surface that Winter stripped clean.
There he was.
I brought him home.
Dunga Brook Diary
Infused Metal Plates
Float Mounted, Ready To Hang
Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one – not even the artist who created it – can remeasure the influences that caused it.” (Edgar A. Payne)
“One of my mentors, Miss Pamela des Barres, imagines that if my images were music they would sound like Beethoven, Sinatra and the Beatles combined. I’ll take that.
It is my intent to deify and illuminates the ordinary and my desire is that you might find the beautiful in the ordinary, too.
Each photo is imbued with the mystery of love at first sight, infused with my present and my past and my daily rebirth into a new freedom, a swan dive, if you will, into the deep end of the pool, lit by color, texture, and emotion.”
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“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.”
Lately, I have been pushing myself to get better at black and white photography. A good black and white photo seems a poem compared to the novella you find in most of my color photographs. Simple is better. Clear, clean, brilliant, illuminated and ecclesiastical helps.
Here are my most recent attempts.
“Instructions for living a life.
Tell about it.”
― Mary Oliver
Yesterday was a prefect warm and sunny spring day in Central New York.
I live in the country, down a rural road that has little traffic aside from the occasional tractor and day laborer using it as a cut to bigger things, perhaps a town of 200 or more.
There is no town where I live, no there there and that is how I like it, right now.
I lived in Los Angeles before this, another town with no there there but many more people, millions of cars, relentless sunshine and a level of stress that is almost nuclear in its intensity.
Yesterday, the spring breeze was smooth, no nip at all, the clouds were white and fluffy and I meant to sit down and tell you about it as it went along.
But I was too busy.
Living in the moment.
I fell into the day like Alice in Wonderland fell into that great hole of wonder…I got lost, I got macro, I got panoramic…one with the earthy and the sky.
Here are a few photographs that document the day.
“Welcome, wild harbinger of spring!
To this small nook of earth;
Feeling and fancy fondly cling
Round thoughts which owe their birth
To thee, and to the humble spot
Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.”

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Allistair Mitchell, alias author PR Moredun, tells David Whetstone how a former shop assistant from Consett duped the literary world.
It was in the old North Road, Durham, branch of Peter Dominic, that Allistair Mitchell apparently stumbled on his God-given talent.
"People would come in for cheap whisky and go out clutching a bottle of malt because I had persuaded them it would taste better," he recalls, flashing the kind of smile that has been smoothing sales since the birth of consumerism.
The man who earlier this year masterminded one of the most colourful hoaxes ever to hit the mass media had discovered his ability to sell.
Allistair's hoax about a hoax duped journalists into believing that a century ago the Germans had tried to con British scientists into believing they had discovered a dragon's foetus.
What caught everyone's imagination was the fantastic model he commissioned to back up his story, a quaint dragon in a huge bell jar, umbilical cord still attached. People saw it and wanted to believe. Even PR man Allistair could hardly believe what he had unleashed.
We meet outside a Waterstone's book shop in Newcastle. In the frenzy of the dragon hoax, reported in news outlets as diverse as Pravda and the Sydney Morning Herald, it was easy to forget it was dreamt up to sell Unearthly History, Allistair's children's fantasy novel published under the pseudonym PR Moredun.
In a turn of events worthy of the whole episode, Allistair has signed a $150,000 deal with HarperCollins in America but had to publish the book himself in this country after being knocked back by publishers and literary agents. Waterstone's offered to sell the book exclusively if he could produce it.
Over coffee, he tells me his story.
Allistair was born 43 years ago in Winnipeg, Canada, where his family had emigrated from the North-East. They returned after he won a scholarship to an Edinburgh public school and settled in Consett. Allistair's father became medical officer at Frankland Prison.
Allistair moved to London in 1986, quickly securing his first job in marketing. Five years later he set up his own marketing company, Dakota. "I worked for Unilever, the BBC, Virgin Radio and we did all the media marketing for Microsoft."
He claims to have invented the idea of newspapers giving away free books, shifting 30,000 Thunderbirds kits in 1993 and 40,000 D-Day books the following year.
"It was great fun. We worked with every national newspaper in the country at some time. It was a way of circumventing the Net Book Agreement and everyone loved it."
It was with an audacious scheme to offer readers free computers that it all went wrong. "Seven weeks from launch, someone from the finance company did a runner and the deal collapsed. I had to close Dakota and make everyone redundant. I lost everything, my house, my car - I was zero.
"That's when I wrote the book."
It was a tale he had told his sons - Duncan, aged 11, and nine-year-old Edward -when driving them at weekends from Warrington, where they lived with their mother, to his home in Oxford. Nobody in Britain wanted it. Publishers said he needed an agent, agents said he needed a publishing deal. "It was Catch 22. But I thought with my marketing background I should be able to make this work."
Allistair set about devising his hoax, commissioning model maker Jez Harris, who worked on Walking With Dinosaurs, to create the dragon foetus which features in his book. "It was done in total secrecy. Only seven people ever knew what I was doing."
As well as the dragon, he bought 100-year-old German writing paper to make fake documents supporting the story. He had had his friend David Hart discover the fake foetus in his house outside Oxford.
The story went that the Germans had sent the foetus to the National History Museum in the late 19th Century hoping to discredit it. Suspicious, museum staff sent the item to be destroyed but a porter, David Hart's grandfather, took it home, where it remained until this day.
Allistair duped his local Oxford paper into publishing the "story" and the world followed up.
The fact it was a hoax, and linked to a book, was finally revealed on TV by Richard and Judy.
He says the newspapers he had duped all loved the hoax about a hoax and gave him yet more publicity.
But none has yet reviewed the novel which he rushed to edit and publish in three weeks.
It is not quite as polished as he would have liked, he says.
But he is happy that 2,500 of the 5,000 copies in the bookshops have been sold and more than happy that the Americans read the manuscript and saw big bucks.
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A British national was charged for allegedly shipping mislabeled drugs into the United States that purportedly treated illnesses for COVID-19, the latest example of fake coronavirus medicine emanating from the United Kingdom.
Frank Richard Ludlow, a 59-year-old resident of West Sussex, United Kingdom, was named in a federal complaint Wednesday and charged with one count of introducing mislabeled drugs into interstate commerce, according to a press release by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Ludlow’s felony offense carries a potential sentence of three years in federal prison.
“Hucksters who hawk ‘treatments’ for this deadly disease put consumers’ lives at risk by peddling unapproved drugs,” said Nick Hanna, a U.S. attorney for the Central District of California.
Hanna continued: “We are aggressively investigating all types of criminal activity associated with the current health emergency, and anyone attempting to cheat the public during this time will face severe penalties.”
Beginning on March 1, according to the complaint, Ludlow repackaged “Trinity Remedy” kits and rebranded them as “Trinity COVID-19 SARS Antipathogenic Treatment” kits. Ludlow is not a doctor, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had not approved these kits to treat coronavirus.
The 59-year-old allegedly smuggled the bogus kits from the UK to California and Utah via mislabeled parcels.
The “cure,” which was labeled as “Trinity Mind, Body, & Soul,” allegedly included vitamin C, potassium thiocyanate, an enzyme mix, and also hydrogen peroxide. Customers were instructed to add 18 ounces of water, recite a prayer, consume half the solution, ingest a probiotic with bee pollen, and then consume the rest of the solution.
Health authorities have cautioned that there is no specific vaccine or other medical treatment for coronavirus. Additionally, new drugs cannot be legally introduced into interstate commerce without first obtained FDA approval.
“Drugs and medical devices are strictly regulated in order to protect the American consumer,” David A. Prince, Special Agent in Charge for HSI Los Angeles, said in a statement. “Individuals who circumvent those regulations potentially expose patients to unsafe products that could cause serious harm. HSI will continue to target those whose actions put the health and safety of our citizens at risk.”
British law enforcement charged Ludlow with violating drug laws on March 23, and he is in U.K. custody.
The case was investigated by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations unit, the Los Angeles and FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations, and received assistance from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
This is not the first instance of purportedly fake COVID-19 medicine being smuggled into the United States from the United Kingdom.
CBP officers working at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on March 17 intercepted prohibited medical testing supplies, including test kits for COVID-19, from the United Kingdom. CBP officers at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) also seized a package containing suspected counterfeit COVID-19 test kits from the United Kingdom on March 12.
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The Portuguese soccer star bought the 2,500-square-foot pad for $18.5 million in 2015. He first put it on the market in 2019.
In this week's Insider Life, we're showing you a (kind of) private jet, an abandoned ski town, and Ferrari's move into fashion.
Gwyneth Paltrow once let neighbor Meryl Streep use her oven on Thanksgiving.
Insider's reporter photographed skinny homes around NYC, from an 1873 townhouse in the West Village to a modern home in Lower Manhattan.
From hidden decks to garage screen doors, these 19 home-improvement projects will give you the coolest home.
I explored a trendy New York City street and its gated block of million-dollar homes once called 'Mixed Ale Alley' — and it reminded me there's history around every corner
One Insider reporter explored Grove Street in NYC's West Village, home to a gated area once named "Mixed Ale Alley" after residents' drinking habits.
London's new 'floating' Sky Pool lets people swim 100 feet in the air between 2 skyscrapers — and the bottom is completely see-through
Engineers, aquarium designers, and architects made a floating pool that bridges two luxury buildings in South London, and the photos look surreal.
There are more than 8 million empty homes in rural Japan, and local governments are selling them for as little as $500 in a bid to lure residents
In Japan, local authorities are giving away renovation subsidies to incentivize people to move into the country's rural areas.
Businesses are starting to play a major role in the Hong Kong government's push to get people vaccinated.
I explored a hidden street in New York City lined with million-dollar homes that used to be horse stables and felt like I traveled back in time
One Insider reporter wandered down Hunts Lane in Brooklyn, New York, and found more than just a dead end.
This week on Insider Life: JLo and Ben Affleck's luxury Montana resort, Palm Beach County's allure, and Peloton's most recent safety update.
Fredrik Eklund has never watched an episode of 'Selling Sunset' but just closed a 'big, big deal' with Brett and Jason Oppenheim
"Million Dollar Listing New York" star Fredrik Eklund said Brett and Jason Oppenheim from Netflix's "Selling Sunset" "are really awesome."
'Million Dollar Listing New York' star Ryan Serhant says the new season addresses COVID, the election, and Black Lives Matter
"It's not just cool haircuts and expensive apartments," Ryan Serhant told Insider about season 9 of "Million Dollar Listing New York."
The Weeknd put the home on the market with an asking price of almost $25 million, ultimately cutting the price before Madonna bought it.
Cheryl Eisen is the go-to luxury-apartment stager in the New York area. She stages a penthouse in NoHo that was originally listed at $16.5 million.
A TikToker hilariously roasts how ridiculously competitive buying a home is right now, and it's spot on
A TikTok clip satirizing the state of the housing market is getting millions of views, and people are commenting on how outrageously accurate it is.
From the Versace House to Davina's $75 million listing, Insider ranked "Selling Sunset" homes based on square footage, views, and overall design.
Tristan Thompson just sold the Cleveland home he shared with Khloé Kardashian after a $750,000 price cut
Khloe Kardashian gave a mini-tour of the Cleveland, Ohio, home on her Instagram story in March saying that "there's literally nothing like it."
Take a look inside Prince Philip's birthplace, a 19th-century Greek island villa that is now an archaeological museum
Before Prince Philip married into British royalty, he was born on the dining room table of a 19th-century villa on the Greek island of Corfu.
This 325-square-foot Virginia home is one of the oldest tiny houses in the US and was built by a man who couldn't stand his noisy neighbors anymore.


The elite American fighting force known as the G.I. Joes (led by Dwayne Johnson and Channing Tatum) are framed by a shapeshifting evil-doer who has taken the form of the President (Jonathan Pryce).
Unable to fight from within the channels they are used to, the Joes must regroup, re-enlist the “original Joe” (Bruce Willis) and even join forces with some that used to be their enemies in order to defeat their common foe, the man behind all the mayhem, Cobra Commander.
We say, “It’s better than the first one.”
TAYLOR: I wasn’t looking forward to this film, mostly because I was disappointed by the first. I’m not a G.I. Joe expert, but I did enjoy the cartoon series when I was a kid. The first film seemed just too frantic and disjointed, like many action films these days. I also think the filmmakers built up the first film to be too adult oriented. Furthermore (as is often the case), I think there were too many writers for G.I. Joe: the Rise of Cobra, which can rob movies of their directionality. G.I. Joe: Retaliation suffers none of the setbacks of the first film and succeeds.
HOWE: I was lucky enough not to witness the first G.I. Joe movie, maybe because when it came out I thought it looked terrible. So when Retaliation came out I didn’t pin my hopes too high. But now after watching it I found it to be a fun, action-packed film with a pretty intelligent storyline considering it’s aimed for a younger audience.
TAYLOR: Aiming it for the younger crowd was smart. It is, after all, a ridiculous comic book/cartoon crowd-pleaser. Unlike last week’s review of Olympus Has Fallen, where again we were considering the usurping of governmental powers, no one is asking us to wear our politics on our sleeves in order to enjoy this film. G.I. Joe is about fighting to save everyone from cartoon baddies who want to take over the world, in style and with expensive toys. Therefore, the violence (which is very PG-13) and the plot itself is fitting. You can take your 10 and ups to this film without fearing nightmares, plus enjoy the action and quips yourself.
HOWE: I agree with you. Even though there is violence and a high kill factor, you don’t actually see any limbs getting blown or cut off. Come to think of it, I don’t think I even saw any blood being spilt at all. I did enjoy the bad guys: Firefly, with his deadly pet bugs, Storm Shadow, with his ninja skills, and Zartan, with his bag of disguises.
TAYLOR: As well as their history, fans of the G.I. Joe lore know and love these characters. Without giving anything away, you’re in store for a couple of surprises. I’ve heard that G.I. Joe 3 is already in the works and I’m surprised to find myself not disgusted by this fact.
— Taylor gives G.I. Joe: Retaliation 3.5 time altering RC bullets out of 5.
— Howe gives it 3.5 eye-scans out of 5.
The film is currently showing at the Galaxy Cinemas in Vernon,
— Brian Taylor and Peter Howe are freelance movie reviewers living in Vernon, B.C. Their column, Reel Reviews, appears in The Morning Star every Friday and Sunday.


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The All Papum Pare District Students’ Union (APPDSU) has demanded that the Arunachal Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein withdraw his Friday’s statement that non-APST communities settled in Lekang constituency of Namsai district would get permanent resident certificates (PRCs) as a New Year gift.
In a press statement issued on Saturday, the union said that, as per the court’s directive, the chairman of the JHPC alone could not take the decision without involving all the stakeholders and seeking prior approval from all the members of the JHPC.
“Non-APST communities settled in Lekang constituency of Namsai district should know the fact that none of their elected representatives has attended any meeting of the JHPC till date to voice for their rights,” the APPDSU, which is a member of the JHPC on the PRC issue for non-APSTs settled in Arunachal Pradesh, said.
Stating that the matter ‘is not confined to the constituency and the district alone,’ the union asserted that such ‘statement from a very responsible person like him (Mein), holding a very high position in the State Government, is very condemnable.
“Such irresponsible statement can create chaos and confusion in the State,” the APPDSU further said.
The union has threatened to launch a democratic movement against the State Government if the statement is not withdrawn.
Notably, the State Government constituted a joint high-power committee (JHPC), led by Environment & Forests Minister Nabam Rebia as its chairman, earlier this year which is yet to table its report.


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Vintage shopping has long been the perfect way for millennials to stay chic and save money. As a part-time fashion blogger myself, I love to create new outfits, but being a financially challenged freelancer, I have to find clothing on a seriously low budget. I’ve been hitting up some Brooklyn neighborhoods in search of the coolest vintage at the cheapest prices. This week I’m in Bushwick, and here is what I found. (more…)
Keeping cozy in an oversized cardigan and bright blue turban. I love how this fashionista sat in front of a restaurant that perfectly complemented her outfit! As they say in Jurassic Park “clever girl.”
With New York Fashion Week finally over in Manhattan, we can focus our attention back on the best fashion runway there is — the streets of Brooklyn! If Manhattan’s fashion week is all about high end, expensive designers, then the Brooklyn streets are the antidote, with their vintage looks mismatched stylings. One thing that all New Yorkers can agree on is their love of black. Black is chic, always on trend and doesn’t show the dirt in this grimy city.
On this week’s street style post, we see plenty of Brooklynites in black with some pops of color starting to emerge. Check out the uber-cool looks below. (more…)
As far as kickoffs to summer go, you can do a lot worse than spending a weekend saturated in the music, art and street style that takes over north Brooklyn for the annual Northside Festival. This year’s fest wrapped up last night and featured four days of events spread across Bushwick, Greenpoint and Williamsburg. Musical highlights included the reunited Wolf Parade rocking a free show at McCarren Park on Thursday night and Brian Wilson bringing the beach to the city on Sunday and King Khan and the Shrines showing us that every band needs more capes.
On Sunday, as the nation reeled from the news in Orlando, Brooklynites expressed their feelings in paintings and other street art in the middle of Bedford Avenue, which was shut down for the weekend for the annual Williamsburg Walks in conjunction with the festival. Here are some of the best scenes from the weekend; stay tuned for our wrap up of breakout bands from the fest to watch, coming shortly. (more…)

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Bruce Goldwell to Release Book III of his Dragon Keepers Series this Summer
It has been two years since the release of Dragon Keepers II, Bruce Goldwell believes the time has come for his fans to enjoy the next story of the Dragon Keepers saga.
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The “Dragon Keepers” series is based on a fantasy life of Merlin the Magician (or wizard) and in the first book Merlin is just turning 13 years old. Through the story Merlin learns important principles that empower him to be a great asset to his community and to mankind in general. Bruce’s reason for starting Merlin out in his youth is so that young readers can learn side-by-side with Merlin the same principles he learns. His whole premise is to empower young people to take control of their own life and to understand that they are the ones that determine their present and their future. As Merlin ages through the series, the fan base of Goldwell’s books age as well. By the final book, Merlin will have reached that ripe old age that everyone knows him as and have his full long white wizard beard that he is recognized for.
One teacher in New York City schools was so impressed with the story and the principles it teaches that she ordered copies for her whole classroom and read the book as a reading project. Kally Bougadis is a special education teacher in the New York City school system and she got permission from the school administrators to purchase the books using school funds. Kally called Mr. Goldwell on the phone and her whole classroom got to speak personally with him. It was a treat for her students as well as for Mr. Goldwell.
Bruce has spent many hours contemplating what he would include in book III as he wanted to be sure that the quality of the story surpassed that of the first two releases while providing some fresh empowering new principles in the story. Mr. Goldwell is the Founder of “Mastery of Abundant Living” books and co-authored several titles during 2007. The Mastery books teach the same principles as shared in the best selling book “The Secret” and Bruce embeds those same success principles into the “Dragon Keepers” stories. It is his belief that readers of his books and eventually those that attend the movies will gain a new perspective on life and be able to create an amazing life and be great assets to their communities.
“My passion is to help empower people so that they can have the kind of lifestyle that so many people dream of but never achieve. We can all have such wonderful lives and it is within everyone’s power to do so. What one believes they can achieve. Dragon Keepers helps inspire people to believe in their true nature.” Goldwell stated.
Goldwell’s publisher is Saga Books which is located in Canada and has been very supportive in his work. Bruce is dedicating book III of “Dragon Keepers” to Frank Thompson who passed away December 30th of 2008 and is survived by his wife Ruth. Frank and his wife have been publishing Bruce’s books since 2005 and Mr. Goldwell wants to be sure that the world remembers Frank.
This review of Bruce’s books was posted on Amazon by Frank in April of 2006 after previously reading another review: “I was empowered to write this review when I read the previous one. This book is a simple basic learning tool for the young reader. Although it deals with 'Merlin' it actually sets forth the moral values and coping skills for the emerging adult. Regardless of trials and terrors it brings the young dragon keeper to a maturity of soul and spirit. I would definitely encourage any parent to buy this book; in fact I was so thrilled with it that I am buying several for my grandchildren.”
Book III will be released this summer and Books I and II are available on Goldwell’s web site at: http://www.BruceGoldwell.com. Mr. Goldwell will be announcing the release of Book III via Facebook, Myspace and via press release. Those wishing to know first hand of the release can do so by connecting directly with Bruce on Facebook and/or Myspace. The links are provided on Goldwell’s web page.
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Federico de Vandimion (フェデリコ・ド・ヴァンディミオン Federiko do Vandimion) is the head of the illustrious Vandimion family, the wealthiest noble clan in Berserk. He is father to Farnese, Magnifico, Giorgio, Poliziano and (secretly) Serpico.
Federico is a severe-looking man, with a thick beard and mustache neatly trimmed under narrowed eyes, and his face framed by wavy hair. Federico is tall and lean. He is finely dressed at all times, being a wealthy man who can afford it.
Apparently a cold, uncaring man, he was always working hard to ensure his vast fortune is secure and thus, leaving no time to raise Farnese properly. In truth, he was actually frightened of his ill-tempered daughter, as revealed by his wife to Farnese. His uncaring behavior toward his family is likewise returned to him, with the exception of Farnese, who asked Guts to protect her family when Kushan beasts invaded their noble's ball. He appears to be difficult to please as with the case of Magnifico. However, he does possess some honor as he thanked Guts and his friends for their help, and is shown to possess some care for Farnese as shown when he dismissed the idea of her being a witch with excuses, something that Guts complimented on saying that he is tough.
He is noted by his wife to be an obsessive control freak, though few people know this, and that everything he surveys must be under his distinct control or he cannot focus. This is why Farnese agitates him so, as the "Disaster Child" was unpredictable, violent, and seemingly could not be restrained except by her aid, Serpico.
Years ago, he had an affair with a lower-class woman that resulted in the birth of Serpico, to whom he granted a noble title in exchange for keeping their relation a secret. His reason was that his three sons were already fighting each other to be his heir and the family could not afford to have another candidate. He did, however, provide Serpico with proper education and a decent life, which was all Serpico's mother hoped for. Federico relied on Serpico to look after Farnese and keep her out of troubles.
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Federico is first introduced in Serpico's backstory as his father, before making his in-person debut at Vritannis, lecturing his son Magnifico on why he has not been given the privileges of his two older brothers. Meanwhile, Farnese hopes to visit her father and secure some favor from him so that she and Guts' crew may gain a ship to get to Skellig with, but upon seeing her, Federico is cold and immediately exerts his will over her and commands her to return to her chambers. Farnese, long since developed into a woman that cannot defy authority and having let go of her pyromania and sadistic streak, cannot find it in herself to defy him, but works the situation to her advantage as best she can. With the aid of Magnifico and, more proactively, Roderick, she succeeds in securing a ship for Guts and his crew, at the cost of her inclusion in it in accordance with her father's controlling desires.
Federico's words earlier had a humiliating and emasculating effect on Magnifico, who seized on his sister's return in order to impress Federico and draw out some praise and privelege. Federico however, would be unimpressed, especially as Farnese disappeared at a critical moment. He and the party goers were terrified by the arrival of the Kushan tigers sent to kill everybody. Farnese manages to take the initiative and uses a silver candlestick to attack it. Guts and co. manage to arrive in time to fend off the tigers and stop the Kushan from massacring everybody present. Federico has everybody applaud Guts and co. for saving their lives. In order to dissuade others from believing Farnese is a witch, he says the magic used and the elves present were just an illusion made by the Kushan. Federico and everybody else present is shocked by the sudden appearance of Emperor Ganishka who declares war against them all. He and his family manage to safely escape the ballroom.
Federico is present with the other nobles after the reborn Band of the Falcon manages to defeat the Kushan force sent to invade Vritannis. He tells Griffith that even though Midland has the right to command forces within its territory, the war against the Kushan is a Holy War involving multiple countries affiliated with the Holy See and so the Pontiff should be the one commanding all of the armies. Just then, the Pontiff arrives to everybody's shock and the entire crowd is left stupefied as the Pontiff bows down before Griffith. Federico is left speechless as the Pontiff declares Griffith the Falcon of Light and their Savior.


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From Bangkok to the beach and even in Ayutthaya and Chiang Mai, where there is water there are boats, and tourists have many opportunities to take a cruise as part of their exotic Thai holiday
In Bangkok a cruise is a great way for tourists to see the city. The Chao Phraya River is a major transportation artery and features numerous options for travelers to sightsee via boat; it’s incredibly convenient as well; most boat services connect to the BTS Silom line at Saphan Taksin station and visit sightseeing attractions up and down the river, including the Chao Phraya’s most celebrated sight, Wat Arun (the Temple of Dawn).
In addition to daytime cruises to see the sights, there are a number of dinner cruises where Thai food is served. These dinner cruises are also major attractions in Chiang Mai and Ayutthaya, which is just upriver from Bangkok: a journey which serves as a fascinating cruise of its own.
Around Thailand’s beaches and island there are innumerable opportunities for getting aboard a boat for a single or multi-day adventure. From Phuket, boats provide day trip service to Phan Nga bay, Koh Phi Phi, and even the Similan Islands. From Koh Samui, day cruises combine snorkeling and lunch around Koh Nang Yuan, the postcard-perfect three islands connected by narrow strips of sand. Renovated Chinese Junk ships and other posh sailing vessels are also available to sail upon either for a single day’s outing or a longer, more exclusive romantic holiday.
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The Karnataka Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee organised a protest here on Tuesday seeking an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the alleged sexual misconduct by the former Minister Hartalu Halappa.
Senior leaders of the Belgaum District Congress Committee, including president S.S. Bhiammannavar and L.B. Karale, participated in the procession.
Office-bearers of the Belgaum district and city Mahila Congress also participated in the protest.
Karnataka Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee general secretary Laxmi Hebbalkar, who led a procession from Rani Channamma Circle, submitted a memorandum to Governor H.R. Bhardwaj through the Deputy Commissioner. Ms. Hebbalkar said that women were not treated properly in society after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in the State.
There were many instances to prove that the Bharatiya Janata Party Government in the State had no control over law and order, she said.
The alleged sexual misconduct by Mr. Halappa was disgraceful and had brought disrepute to the State, Ms. Hebbalkar said.
The State Government should register a criminal case against the former Minister and hand over the investigation to the Central Bureau of Investigation, Ms. Hebbalkar said.
The Congress party brought people, including some children, from nearby villages to participate in the protest march in the city.
A senior Congress leader in Belgaum district told The Hindu that he was not aware of who had brought children for a political protest.
The Congress leader said that he would bring the matter to the notice of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee.
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Chinese smartphone manufacturer named OnePlus have come up with the best smartphones one after another. Where currently their top selling smartphone is the OnePlus 3T. Now OnePlus is gearing up for the launch of their next smartphone. Rumored to be known as the OnePlus 5, with a lot of hype surrounded it. Which does not come as a surprise since the fans of OnePlus have never been disappointed with their smartphone.
Some new rumors regarding the specs of the upcoming OnePlus 5 smartphone were leaked on the internet. Which do share some similarity with the earlier leaks regarding the smartphone. It should be known by now that OnePlus 5 will indeed come with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SOC. We say this because OnePlus have always equipped their smartphones with the latest SOC the market has to offer.
Aside from that other specs on the smartphone are not known as of now. Though in previous rumors the upcoming OnePlus 5 was supposed to have 8GB of RAM. Now according to current rumors the phone might come with 6GB RAM. Though 8GB RAM would be nice to have, but it would be an overkill for a smartphone. Where most of it won’t be used anyways. There would also be a finger print scanner embedded in the home button like the one on its predecessor. While the standard version would come shipped with 128GB of storage.
Now let’s talk about the important part of the smartphone, the battery life. Well according to the latest rumors the upcoming OnePlus 5 will be equipped with a 3600mAh battery. Which should improve its battery to around 25% over its predecessor, the OnePlus 3T. Its still not confirmed yet, but it would be nice. If OnePlus didn’t remove the 3.5mm jack from their upcoming OnePlus 5 smartphone.
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The area described in the Schedule to these Regulations is declared to be a Special Development Area in the sense of the Land Utilization Act (Cap. 188). The type of development permitted includes agriculture, forestry, wildlife reserve and environmental protection. The Land Utilization Authority shall draw up a Development Plan for the area after consultation with such local persons and institutions as it may think fit. The Plan shall be submitted to the Minister of Natural Resources, The Environment and Industry for approval. The Plan shall be available for inspection to the public.
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Library ResourceRegulacionesJulio, 2001Américas, América central, Belice
Library ResourceLegislaciónDiciembre, 1999Asia, Asia occidental, Palestina
This basic enactment of the Palestinian Legislative creates a framework for the protection of the environment, public health and biodiversity in Palestine including marine areas. Its 82 sections are divided into 5 Titles: Definitions and general provisions (I); Environmental protection (II); Environmental impact assessment, licensing, inspection and administrative procedure (III); Penalties (IV); Final provisions (V). Article 1 contains an extensive list of definitions, including "natural reserves" and "international waters". Objectives of this Law are set out in article 2.
Library ResourceRegulacionesNoviembre, 1998África, África austral, Sudáfrica
This Notice of the Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, made under section 26 of the Environment Conservation Act, 1989, concerns authorization of activities as identified G.N. No. 879 that may have a detrimental effect on the environment in respect of the Pennington Sensitive Coastal Area and Umtamvuna Sensitive Coastal Area. Those activities include: disturbance of vegetation, dredging, dune stabilisation and earthworks. An application for a permit shall be made to local authorities and shall be accompanied by an environmental impact assessment.
Library ResourceLegislaciónAbril, 1968Oceanía, Nueva Zelandia
The Act seeks to promote a national policy in respect of natural water. It establishes the legal framework for the use, allocation and conservation of water, and for the designation of conservation areas. It further creates the Water Conservation Authority (art. 5) and the Regional Water Boards for various catchment areas (art. 19). The 10 Schedules contain classifications for minimum water quality.
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Betty Ford, who died on Friday at the age of 93, was first lady before I was born, so I knew her only as the namesake of the rehab clinic she co-founded in 1982. When I read the obituaries of Ford published in The Washington Post and the New York Times this weekend, I was surprised to discover that she was, according to the Post, “an activist first lady” who “provided the women’s movement with an impressive ally.” According to the Times:
Mrs. Ford rarely hesitated to make public her views on touchy subjects. She held a White House news conference announcing her support of the Equal Rights Amendment; the mail response ran three to one against her. In 1975, appearing on “60 Minutes,” she said she “wouldn’t be surprised” if her daughter, Susan, had a premarital affair; the mail was four to one against her. Her husband jokingly told her later that the comment had cost him 20 million votes in the 1976 election, she said.
Unfortunately, the backlash against that 60 Minutes appearance caused her to quiet down on other issues dear to her. Though Ford was pro-choice, she did not say anything about the Republican platform which involved a constitutional ban on abortion.
It’s depressing to see that more recent first ladies like Laura Bush and even Michelle Obama have felt they needed to rein in their true beliefs, as Betty Ford ultimately did. Recall Laura Bush’s admission, after her husband left office, that she was both pro-choice and pro-gay marriage. The desire to remain neutral to the public is certainly understandable, considering the flack from certain Republicans that Michelle Obama has received for her attempts to cut down on childhood obesity, something that’s superficially non-controversial. The hysterical, partisan nature of a lot of news coverage probably means that we’ll never see an activist first lady again. But I have high hopes for what Michelle Obama has to say once her husband is out of office.


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DALLAS, TEXAS: The LGBT Chamber of Commerce Foundation is pleased to announce the graduation of its second LGBT Leadership Institute cohort. Launched in 2019, the program was forced to take a brief hiatus during the COVID pandemic, resulting in the first cohort completing the program online in May 2020.
Members of the 2022 LGBT Leadership Institute graduating class include:
- Sophia Bledsoe, she/her; Prism Health North Texas
- Christian Brewer, he/him; Baylor Scott & White
- Scott Carnes, he/him; Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate
- David Gifford-Robinson, he/him; Ericsson
- Kevin Hendricks, he/him; Farmers Insurance
- Traswell Livingston, he/him; AIDS Services of Dallas
- Antoinette McIntosh, she/her; Alliance for Children
- Melissa Malone, she/her; Children’s Health
- Angela Muir, she/her; Comerica Bank
- Tamika Perry, she/her; Dallas Hope Charities
- Gary Sanchez, he/him; Visit Dallas
- Candace Thompson, she/her; Comp-U-Dopt
- Court Wakefield, they/them; Children’s Health
Pictured: Kevin Hendricks, Candace Thompson, Antoinette McIntosh, Angela Muir, Court Wakefield, Scott Carnes, Lisa Howe, David Gifford-Robinson, Traswell Livingston, Sophia Bledsoe, Gary Sanchez, Tamika Perry Not Pictured: Christian Brewer, Melissa Malone
Class members participate in a nine-month program designed to provide valuable skills and knowledge, along with an historical view of the LGBTQ+ equality movement and community.
“Development of the program began nearly 10 years ago,” stated Lisa Howe, who manages the program and serves as Vice President of Membership & Programs for the North Texas LGBT Chamber of Commerce. “Although there are a number of quality leadership programs in North Texas, none are designed to fill the generational information gap in the LGBTQ+ community. The Foundation’s goal has been to fill that gap without duplicating the work of other leadership programs. We like to think of our program as a great preface to other programs where our graduates can be better, more informed representatives of the LGBTQ+ community.”
The LGBT Leadership Institute provides a safe and nurturing environment for a diverse cohort of individuals to develop skills and explore the critical issues facing the LGBTQ+ community. The LGBT Chamber of Commerce Foundation is now accepting nominations for those interested in participating in the 2023 Leadership Institute class. Participation is open to members of the LGBTQ+ community and Allies. Tuition for the nine-month program is $1,500. Partial scholarships are available. More information is available at https://lgbtchamberfoundation.org/leadership/
About LGBT Chamber of Commerce Foundation
Established by the North Texas LGBT Chamber of Commerce, the LGBT Chamber of Commerce Foundation carries out the charitable and educational objectives of the Chamber, supports young adults, and nurtures the development of leaders in the LGBT community. The Foundation is also home to the LGBT Chamber Foundation Scholarship Fund and Texas Diversity Equity & Inclusion Conference, now in its 7th year.
The LGBT Chamber of Commerce Foundation is a Texas nonprofit organization designated as tax exempt as defined in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Additional information is available at https://lgbtchamberfoundation.org/
For more information on the LGBT Chamber of Commerce Foundation and the LGBT Leadership Institute, please contact Lisa Howe at 214-865-7313 or email firstname.lastname@example.org


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Thomas Larcher, West Cork Chamber Music Composer-in-Residence
Every year, Bantry’s West Cork Chamber Music Festival runs a composition competition open to Irish composers under thirty, in association with the Contemporary Music Centre. This year’s competition called for scores for piano trio (piano, cello and violin) or string quartet, and received nineteen submissions.
The three pieces chosen as winners were Solfa Carlile’s Saul and the Witch (piano trio), Bill McGrath’s Prelude and Fugue (string quartet) and J. Harry Whalley’s Compression (string quartet). The three pieces will receive their premieres during the festival, and the composers will have an opportunity to take part in a masterclass with the festival’s Composer-in-Residence, Thomas Larcher.
The West Cork Chamber Music Festival will take place in Bantry on 29 June – 7 July, and will feature performances, masterclasses and a violin and bow making exhibition. The focus of the festival is on strings throughout, with performances by The Vanbrugh Quartet, Benz Quartet, The Young European Strings Chamber Orchestra and a number of solo string players. These will be joined by a piano trio, and handful of solo performances by pianists, singers and woodwind players.
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A “Fine Kettle Of Fish”
Our Shelby Volunteer Fire Department will be hosting their Annual Fish Fry tomorrow (Friday) night starting a 5 o'clock SHARP over at the fire hall. It's going to be food & FUN with a 50/50 raffle to "boot." Don't worry about a thing...the dinner's FREE, but donations will be greatly appreciated & accepted. It's going to be a HOT time tomorrow night at the Shelby Fire Hall.


The company Vivo detects the phone Vivo V11 in early September in China, and then released it under the name Vivo V11 Pro in India. Later, the Chinese police issue a low proportion of this phone under the name Vivo V11i in the rest of the world, but he was carrying simply the name of Vivo V11 in India. Now in the time you don’t hope to get more out of confusion, the back unit of this phone include a processor MediaTek Helo P60 with sensor fingerprint in the back in China under the name Vivo Z3i.
All these phones have the same dimensions and the same design, now decided phone Vivo V3 join this family. This new phone has the same dimensions, and puts the little pieces in the Middle top of the screen, but it comes in two versions, one includes the processor Snapdragon 670 and the memory of random size of 4GB as well as an internal memory size of 64GB, while the other version processor Snapdragon 710 and the memory of random size of 6GB as well as 64GB or 128GB of internal memory.
Apart from that, both versions come with a front camera accurately 12 megapixels and rear double accurately 16 megapixels sensor first and accurately 2 megapixels sensor of the second, as they come with an LCD screen size of 6.3-inch and accurately +FullHD, battery with a capacity of 3315mAh accept the possibility of charging through the MicroUSB port instead of the USB Type-C.
Phone Vivo Z3 new is now available in three different colors including black, blue, pink, and is priced at 230$ version SD670/4GB/64GB, priced at 275$ version SD710/6GB/64GB, while the cost version SD710/6GB/128GB equivalent of 330$.
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State of the state: Environment
A half-century after cloud-seeding began in the West, it continues to be regarded by many as something akin to chicken-noodle soup for colds. Or, on the more sinister side, snake oil.
But water authorities in Arizona, California, and Nevada don’t see it that way. The three states have been pouring more money into Colorado and other headwater states in the Colorado River Basin to seed clouds.
“We’re believers down here,” says Tom Ryan, resource specialist with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. “The lower-basin folks believe it works. We believe that the science is adequate to move forward.”
While still relatively small, just $152,000 this winter, the money from lower-basin states has more than tripled since 2006. The money has been used to spew silver iodide particles into clouds over the San Juan Mountains, the Gunnison Basin and Grand Mesa. Lower-basin states have also contributed to revived seeding operations at Winter Park by Denver Water and ski-area operator Intrawest.
New Mexico this winter is also contributing $25,000 to seeding of clouds in the San Juans. Colorado’s state government also contributed $175,000, and local water districts, ski areas and other organizations have contributed various amounts. Vail Resorts also continues its seeding operations at Vail, as it has since 1977, the state’s longest-standing seeding operation. Cost this year is $175,000.
The lower-basin states see cloud-seeding as a viable way to increase water in the stressed Colorado River Basin. Two years ago, consulting firm Black & Veatch completed a study commissioned by the lower-basin states that evaluated ways to augment existing water supplies. Desalinization of seawater was deemed highly effective but extremely expensive. The study even evaluated the feasibility of building a pipeline from the Mississippi River to the Southwest. Cloud-seeding along with removal of thirsty tamarisk plants, an invasive species found along rivers, came in as the most effective. Cloud-seeding costs little, requires few permits, and can be deployed rapidly.
Cloud-seeders insist they can augment snowpacks 10 percent to 15 percent – provided they have clouds to seed. Seeding, they say, cannot break a drought. But seeding operations remain under a general cloud of suspicion during any season. The best evidence yet comes from scientific experiments conducted during the 1960s above Fremont Pass, near Leadville.
Wanting firmer evidence, the Wyoming Legislature appropriated funding for experiments using control groups, something that the more anecdotal evidence from practitioners lacks. Those experiments are being conducted by Boulder-based National Center for Atmospheric Research just north of the Colorado border in the Sierra Madre and Medicine Bow ranges. After three winters of tests, Dan Breed, the NCAR project scientist, reports “teasers” and “trends” but not enough cases for conclusions with strong confidence levels.


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Gov. Ralph Northam says more regular deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines are coming from the federal government, and Virginia has now shifted how it allocates doses, meaning a 20 percent increase in "shots in arms" by the end of this week.
The White House, Northam said at a Wednesday news conference, has committed to sending new monthly shipments of the vaccines, rather than weekly, to state health districts based on population. Virginia health officials are also shifting current inventory so that hospitals and clinics aren't saving for second doses.
Northam says the biggest challenge is and will remain vaccine supply, noting the state has so far received 105,000 doses per week.
“Our progress is very much going to be supply dependent,” he said.
The governor's latest update comes as the area's largest hospital system, Inova, announced it was canceling first-dose vaccine appointments due to a supply shortage, and Northern Virginia leaders called on Northam to streamline the process.
School districts in Northern Virginia have begun vaccinating teachers and staff, but many school boards have been waiting for clarity on when a majority of staff will be vaccinated before bringing more students back into classrooms.
Prince William County schools officials recently took matters into their own hands and privately set up clinics for teachers and staff after learning the division would need to wait for vaccines.
Northam said school districts should not base decisions on bringing students back on vaccines for teachers.
"Our emphasis at the state level is to ... really move toward getting children back in classrooms as soon as we can," he said.
Northam also announced he is extending current COVID-19 restrictions, including curfew and limits on gatherings, through the end of February.
"Vaccines are the light at the end of this long and dark tunnel," he said. "They are a great reason for hope and optimism, but I also want to acknowledge everyone is out of patience. It will take time reach everyone, and we are reaching more people every day."