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Little Mix is reportedly working with Anne-Marie for a brand new single for the solo artist’s upcoming album.
The girl group may have lost Jesy Nelson from their ranks, but now seems poised to team up with Anne-Marie for a new song and video, which they say will be filming Monday.
Collaboration: Little Mix is reportedly teaming up with Anne-Marie for a brand new single for the solo artist’s upcoming album
A source said: ‘Anne-Marie and Little Mix have been buddies for years and this collaboration has been a long time coming.
“They’ve been talking about doing something together for ages, but the timing was never quite right and they never settled on a song. But they all seem to be really excited about this one as they said it was the perfect fit for them.
“They’re silent about what kind of song it is, but two of Britain’s biggest female acts working together is great for girl power.”
The publication reports that the single will likely be released next month, ahead of Anne-Marie’s new album Therapy, which will be released on July 23.
Single: The girl group may have lost Jesy Nelson from their ranks, but now seems poised to team up with Anne-Marie for a new song and video, which they were due to shoot Monday
MailOnline has reached out to representatives of Little Mix and Anne-Marie for comment.
Ex Little Mix member Jesy previously spoke of her love for Anne-Marie, saying a single with her would be “one of their best collaborations.”
She said in an Instagram Q&A: ‘Anne-Marie – we absolutely love her. We have a WhatsApp group with her and we definitely want to work with her.
“If it happens, what fingers crossed will it be, I think it will be one of our best collaborations.”
Plans: Jade Thirlwall, Perrie Edwards and Leigh-Anne Pinnock have reportedly been in talks with Anne-Marie for years about a possible collaboration
Jesy announced her solo recording contract with the renowned label Polydor two weeks ago.
She posted a snapshot of herself in front of the company’s logo, before posing from the comfort of a couch, sharing the news with her followers.
“So excited to announce that I’ve signed my very first solo record deal with @polydorrecords @universalmusicgroup. This is such a pinch. I can’t wait for you to hear what I’ve been working on,” she wrote.
The news comes after it was reported that Little Mix, who works at Sony, has formally severed financial ties with her following her departure from the group.
Career: Ex Little Mix member Jesy Nelson announced her solo record deal with esteemed label Polydor two weeks ago
The remaining trio are expected to bring in a whopping £5million with their upcoming tour, but Jesy will be missing out on winnings as she will no longer serve as CEO of their joint company.
If Jesy had remained part of the company, Eternal Magic Touring, her situation would have been similar to that of Victoria Beckham, who made a cool £1 million from the Spice Girls’ comeback tour in 2019, despite not setting foot on it. had set the stage.
But Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Jade Thirwall and Perrie Edwards are now said to have formalized Jesy’s departure from the BRIT Award-winning group and she won’t be making a dime from future appearances, with a source saying ‘this was the only fair way’. ‘
A source told The Sun: “Jesy could have made megabucks if she’d stayed on as director of Little Mix’s company, Eternal Magic Touring, just like Victoria did with the Spice Girls.”
Big money: Little Mix have become the highest-earning young female artist in the UK, having increased their combined fortunes by £6million in the past year
The insider went on to say that the remaining girls will be playing 24 gigs from April next year, including two sold-out shows in London.
They added: “They expect to make close to £5million from those performances and if Jesy had stayed on board as the company’s director she would have been able to access money from the band’s live shows even if she didn’t have a Note.
“But this was the only fair way for everyone to move forward. It wouldn’t have been good for Jesy to remain a part of it.’
Jesy left the band in December after “constant pressure” “affected her mental health.”
Protecting her mental health: Jesy quit the band in December after ‘constant pressure’ ‘affected her mental health’


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When Adam Liston’s father was learning to cook, his Chinese-born neighbour shared a family recipe for hand-rolled dumplings – a dim sum staple. “Dad didn’t know how good they were until he gave me a few,” says Liston. Now, at his Leigh Street restaurant Shōbōshō, there are four rotating dumpling-rollers on the payroll, hailing from Hong Kong and nearby Guangzhou. Liston takes charge of the fillings.
Adelaide has no shortage of yum cha restaurants: old school, ritualistic eateries that have been a fixture in the city for decades. But Liston is pushing it into the now. “Our [dim sum] gives a nod to tradition … but we do it in a modern way and, more importantly, with premium ingredients,” says Liston. Perhaps most notably, his version comes without roving dumpling carts.
The Cantonese tradition is a progression of small dishes, often in “ascending” order. “You start a bit lighter and move into dumplings, fried foods and barbequed meats,” says Liston. It’s been part of Shōbōsho’s game plan since day one and as of Saturday June 10, it's the new weekend drawcard for daytime diners.
Each weekend’s menu will be slightly different, utilising the kitchen’s unique fire-line where possible, with 10 to 12 individually priced dishes made to order, and a set menu option.
Some staples “won’t move”: vegetable and bean curd wontons with Chinese black vinegar; spicy beef pot-sticker dumplings; and radish cake with grilled lap cheong (Chinese sausage), pickled ginger and house-made XO sauce.
Complementing a full wine list are a few well-considered breakfast cocktails from Maybe Mae award-winning Ollie Margan. “We’ve taken some of the classic brunch cocktails and given them a Japanese twist,” he says. Think Yuzu (Japanese citrus fruit) Bellinis, Mandarin Mimosas and a house Bloody Mary with fresh ginger, tamari and togarashi (a chilli-sesame powder used “in lieu of Tabasco”).
Shōbōsho will serve dim sum on weekends from Saturday June 10. There will be two sittings – 11am and 1pm.

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Banette & Guilmon : We have Pokemon along Digimon, right. And now you will know one more kind of Mon: Guilmon. In the RPG Maker XP game Banette & Guilmon, you will have more detail about this.
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SS 1Geography and History Classwork-Homework Earth from Space Terms to Learn Landforms: mountains, hills, plateaus, and plains Elevation: height above or below sea level Mantle: surrounds the core mostly hot, solid rock Crust: a thin layer of rock, sand, and soil that floats on the melted outer part of the mantle Tectonic Plates: separate sections of the crust Continental Drift: movement of plates Volcanoes: cone shaped mountains created by lava Earthquakes: sudden shifts in the Earth's crust The Layers of the Earth 5:59
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I would like to shed some light on the March 13 article "Orange budgeting hurts film festival." Orange County funded the Florida Film Festival for a total of $115,000 over the past three years. Original funding in 1998 was for $50,000, then $35,000, then $25,000. The organizers of the film festival knew last year that they were not going to be receiving any county general revenue funds this year.
It should be noted that Orange County citizens, through the Board of County Commissioners, contribute $971,344 annually to United Arts. This year, UA has budgeted $33,875 for the festival as an organizational grant to the Enzian.
This year's festival event was planned with full knowledge that it was not going to be getting any county funds. This was made clear to the organizers as far back as 1998 when the declining funding schedule was announced. It was then-Chairman Mel Martinez's decision gradually to wean this project from public funds. It was not until last year that event organizers saw an opportunity to tap into a new revenue source.
The story as written leaves the impression that the organizers had a commitment from the county for funding this year. This is not the case. So if, as reported, the festival has been "forced" to scale back on marketing, it is only because the planners of the event budgeted monies that were never promised or budgeted.
Orange County government, the chairman and commissioners have demonstrated their commitment to the arts by approving new funding in spite of very difficult financial times.
George A. Rodon
Director, Orange county
Economic, Trade and Tourism

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The NT Government awarded 23 tenders in the past week to a total of $13.7 million, including a $123,000 contract to Pristine Pools and Spas to clean pools at the world-renowned Howard Springs quarantine facility for 12 months.
Another $145,000 contract went to Delta electrics to supply, develop and manage lighting for street art murals in the Darwin CBD.
And a $504,000 tender went to Wilson Security for security and patrols for Katherine Local Court for three years.
The largest contract awarded was almost $7.9 million to Exact Contracting to upgrade and seal a section of Tanami Road.
In total, 21 tenders worth $13.6 million went to NT-based businesses, and two tenders worth $109,000 went to non-local enterprises.
Read the full summary here:
|Tender||Awarded To||Price||NT Enterprise||Agency|
|Alice Springs – Intensive Care Unit Alice Springs Hospital – Preventative Maintenance Agreement Annual Servicing on all equipment for a Period of 72 Months – 6 years remaining on 10 year warranty. Original company sold to Getinge||GETINGE AUSTRALIA PTY. LTD.||$60,000.00||no||Department of Health|
|Supply Delivery and Commssioning of Three Surgical Drill/Saw Units for Royal Darwin Hospital – Operating Theatres||JOHNSON & JOHNSON MEDICAL PTY LTD||$48,774.22||no||Department of Health|
|All Centres – Supply and Fit Motor Vehicle Tyres to Police, Fire and Emergency Services Vehicles for a Period of 36 Months||TPAS (NT) Pty Ltd||$239,991.00||yes||Police, Fire and Emergency Services|
|Mikhlee Pty Ltd||$575,841.00||yes||Police, Fire and Emergency Services|
|Katherine – Provision of Security and Patrols for the Katherine Local Court for a Period of 36 Months||Wilson Security Pty Ltd||$504,094.68||yes||Department of the Attorney-General and Justice|
|Darwin – Supply and Delivery of One (1) Compact Tracked Loader||RDO Equipment Pty Ltd||$104,357.00||yes||Department of Corporate and Information Services|
|Supply, Development and Management of Lighting for the Darwin Street Art Murals in Darwin Central Business District for a Period of 24 Months||Delta Electrics NT Pty Ltd||$145,097.60||yes||Department of the Chief Minister and Cabinet|
|Alice Springs Region – Tanami Road – Upgrade and Sealing Between CH.261.00KM and CH.271.81KM||Exact Contracting Pty Ltd||$7,868,221.42||yes||Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics|
|Darwin Region – Howard Springs Nature Reserve and Manigurr-Ma (Howard Springs Camp) – Inspection and Cleaning of Rock Pools and Pools for a Period of 12 Months||Pristine Pools and Spas Pty Ltd||$122,716.60||yes||Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics|
|Alice Springs Region – Imanpa School – Design Ablution Block||ZONE A PTY. LTD.||$57,213.40||yes||Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics|
|Alice Springs Region – Rainbow Valley Road – Gravel Re-sheet Ch 7.78km to Ch 21.44km||Asplum Pty Ltd||$449,551.50||yes||Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics|
|Darwin – Knuckey Lagoon – Peter McAulay Centre – House 3 – Internal Repaint and Replace Carpets||Blu Maintenance Pty Ltd||$18,550.00||yes||Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics|
|All Centres – Stuart Highway and Barkly Highway – Supply and Install Audio Tactile Edge Line on Various Sections of National Highway||Aertex Group Pty Ltd||$1,419,254.00||yes||Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics|
|Darwin – Casuarina Plaza 1st Floor – Design and Construct New Office Fitout for Top End Health Service||Expansive Pty Ltd as trustee for the Expansive Group Trust||$*818,811.28||yes||Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics|
|Darwin – Sanderson Middle School – Block E – Exit and Emergency Lights – Installation||K. K. ELECTRICAL PTY LTD||$ 20,132.00||yes||Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics|
|Darwin Region – Trower Road – Install Protection Works and Treat Corroded Bridgerails at Rapid Creek Bridge||Territory Construction Services Pty Ltd||$ 58,800.00||yes||Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics|
|Darwin Region – Buluhkaduru Home Land Centre – Repairs & Maintenance||NT Repairs and Painting||$ 113,000.00||yes||Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics|
|Palmerston Health Precinct – Remove and Make Good Water Feature||civscapes NT||$ 29,800.00||yes||Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics|
|Alice Springs Region – Power Street – Supply of Design and Construct Extension to Core Store||Spears Construction (NT) Pty Ltd||$ 334,500.00||yes||Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics|
|Alice Springs Region – Mount Liebig Aerodrome – Supply and Construct New Fence||Bluedust Solutions Pty Ltd as trustee for The Bluedust Unit Trust||$ 388,293.93||yes||Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics|
|Alice Springs Region – Santa Teresa Aerodrome – Supply and Construct New Fence||Kittle Group Pty Ltd||$ 249,452.80||yes||Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics|
|Palmerston Bus Interchange School Bus Shelter – Design, Development and Documentation||Platt Consultants||$ 47,296.50||yes||Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics|
|East Arnhem Region – Datjala Work Camp Replace Roof Screws||B.I.G Carpentry Pty Ltd||$ 28,865.60||yes||Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics|


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Andalucians have a sense of local loyalty like noone I’ve ever encountered. They are fiercely proud of their Andalucian-ness, with famous cultural markers such as Moorish architecture, flamenco, bullfighting and Lorca inspiring the kind of adoration that borders on obsession.
This sense of regional identity is instilled from an early age. Over the years, my children have come home from nursery or school at around this time of year, displaying a range of appropriately-coloured adornments symbolising the bandera blanco y verde: masks, flags painted on their faces, and flags in their hands.
This year, in the run up to today’s Dia de Andalucia celebrations, my son’s school focused on Blas Infante, the politician and writer who is known as the “Padre de la Patria Andaluz” (Father of the Andalucia Fatherland). It was Blas Infante who drew up a charter for Andalucia in 1918, also designing the Andalucia flag, based on historical symbols: Hercules, lions and the Pillars of Hercules.
According to legend, the Greek god founded Seville – hence the Alameda de Hercules. Infante also wrote the lyrics to the Andalucia himno (anthem). (Dia de Andalucia itself commemorates a later, but no less significant, event: the referendum for regional autonomy which took place on 28 February 1980.)
My son did a project on the story of Hercules and the two lions featured in the flag, and how the flag got its colours – something to do with one of the lions loving (green) olive trees and vines, and the other loving the frothy (white) waves of the sea. The lyrics of the himno talk of white for peace, and green for hope:
La bandera blanca y verde/Vuelve, tras siglos de guerra/A decir paz y esperanza,/Bajo el sol de nuestra tierra. (The green and white flag/Returns, after centuries of war/To tell of peace and hope/Under the sun of our land.)
His class also visited the great man’s house in Coria del Rio, now preserved as the snappily-titled Museo de la Autonomia de Andalucia. They were given a complicated make-it-yourself version – lots of working out which bit goes with which bit – IKEA in miniature. One for a rainy day.
We had the Sevillanos, Cordobeses, Granadinos et al…
We had the animals
We had the writers
We had the painters
We had the flamenco artists
We had a torero and a toro


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Let’s be honest here. Just the name of the restaurant made me determined to like it. Named after the captain of the fishing dhoni, ‘The Keyolhu’ conjures up images of the sea. Images which are reflected in the décor, beautifully done up with anchors, boat wheels and fishing nets. Not to mention the impressive skull of a whale propped up outside.
Although it was nice and cool inside, the array of herbs and other plants they had growing outside kept us interested, and being in a slightly quieter area, we could not pass up the opportunity to spend some time under coconut palms. Which meant that, when it arrived, their lime juice was perfect, the ideal sour and very cold drink for the hot hot day.
It being The Keyolhu, we of course had to order a fish dish, opting for the Freshly Caught Reef Fish on the grill, with spicy salsa and tartar sauce. I am normally not a fan of local grilled fish with chilli, so this was a pleasant surprise. The fish was lovely, moist and flaky, and it being quite a large portion I didn’t need any sides to go with it. We also tried the Steamed Chicken Schnitzel with vegetables, which turned out to be flavorsome and went well with the broccoli and cauliflower in a light broth. But if you are hungry, I would recommend any of the extras they offer, such as Potato baked with rosemary, Grilled vegetables, or Rice with Butter Herbs.
Desserts did not disappoint either, both the Fruit Salad in Waffle bowl and the Chocolate Panna Cotta with fruits were finished off despite protests of being too full.
Located near the northern end of the east beach of Hulhumale, the restaurant has been making something of an impact with its mainly European / Mediterranean cuisine being a bit different from other eateries on that stretch by the beach. The prices are above average but the food is well worth it, as is the friendly service.
The Keyolhu offers pizzas, salads and pastas, in addition to varied breakfast dishes, but for me, the ideal meal there is a late lunch when it is not busy, and you just want to chat with friends in a cool, comfortable and very welcoming place.
Words by Fasah Ahmed
Photos by Fasah Ahmed & Nashwa Saeed


All-Ireland Senior Football
Qualifier Round Two
Tipperary 1-13 Wexford 0-15
What a performance by Tipperary! Surely one of their best for years and it was fittingly rewarded with a single point win over Wexford in the second round of the All-Ireland senior football qualifiers at Semple Stadium on Saturday.
An unlikely outcome in the eyes of the experts, after Wexford’s stirring showing against All-Ireland champions, Dublin in the Leinster championship, but Tipperary’s rising stock under interim manager, Peter Creedon, continues to soar, and this was a display which featured enormous courage, a high level of ability and an inspiring work ethic.
Wexford hammered Tipperary in the National Football League en route to promotion but there was no comparison between this Tipperary side and that which eventually suffered relegation.
There was a passion and purpose about their play that thrilled the home following but most of all there was a self-belief there which carried them through some sticky patches, none more so than in the agonising closing minutes as Wexford gave their all to salvage their season.
It was apparent from the start that Tipperary were in the right frame of mind for a testing contest. And they maintained that intensity right through the game, their harassment of Wexford when the Leinster men had possession reflecting the determination of the side to give no quarter.
Indeed, Tipperary ought not to have had to endure such anxiety at the close but three gilt-edged goal chances went astray, though it has to be acknowledged that Wexford too had unfruitful goal chances, the timber twice coming to the rescue of the home county, and Paul Fitzgerald denying Paul Morris a likely goal in the 9th minute.
It was stirring stuff right from the start. After only 20 seconds, Philip Austin, a constant thorn in Wexford’s side, received from Peter Acheson, but Wexford goalie Anthony Masterson was equal to the challenge, Austin and Alan Campbell had Tipp points to Shane Roche’s effort for Wexford, but then Tipp twice got off the hook, Paul Fitzgerald saving from Eric Bradley in the 9th minute, followed a minute later by a Ciaran Lyng shot which hit the woodwork.
Points from Michael Quinlivan and Peter Acheson to Redmond Barry’s response for Wexford had Tipperary ahead 0-4 to 0-2 after 13 minutes when Tipperary got what was to be the decisive break of the game. Donagh Leahy looked to have no options when grounded near the Wexford goal but he somehow managed to direct a shot in off the Wexford keeper for what was to be a match-winning goal.
Tipp were flying. Quinlivan pointed and Richie Ryan almost had a second goal but for Masterson’s heroics in the Wexford goal. If Wexford thought they had an easy mark coming to Thurles, they knew the reality by now, and though Michael Quinlivan again pointed to give Tipp a 1-6 to 0-2 lead after 24 minutes, the remainder of the half belonged to Wexford. They shot four unanswered points in the closing minutes of the half to trail 0-6 to 1-6 at the break, an interval Tipp manager Peter Creedon was relieved to reach to raise the siege.
The resumption saw Tipperary once more in control. Anthony Maloney, who had come on during the first half, pointed a free and Philip Austin should have had a goal but blazed over the bar with the goal at his mercy.
Donagh Leahy sent wide from a decent chance and as Wexford upped their game, outscoring Tipperary five points to one over the next twelve minutes, to draw level, one wondered would Tipp rue the chances spurned.
Tipp showed their mettle. Brian Fox surged upfield for an inspiring point, and after Redmond Barry’s free for Wexford came off the woodwork, Tipperary broke for Alan Maloney to put them two clear.
P J Banville(2) swapped points with Tipperary’s Hugh Coghlan and Brian Fox as time now became a factor in Tipperary’s favour.
With a minute to go, Banville cut the deficit to the minimum for Wexford and the sight of Michael Quinlivan, one of Tipperary’s heroes on the day, retiring injured, added to the Tipperary tension.
But this was a day in which heroics were rewarded and with the players showing outstanding composure in the manner in which they retained possession and ran down the clock, the victory they so richly deserved came their way.
The euphoria among the Tipp players , backroom team, and football fraternity, said it all afterwards. It was a moment they will savour for some time, though a third round contest awaits them this week-end, but such was the delight in the camp that a joust with All-Ireland champions Dublin, would not have fased them on Saturday evening.
However, similar application, and better finishing will be required to carry the campaign a stage further, and while this was a win to be savoured, and a performance to build on, it must not be a once-off. In the eyes of Tipp folk, all were heroes but the contributions of Peter Acheson, Michael Quinlivan, Brian Fox, Ciaran McDonald, and Philip Austin were worthy of special mention
With their expectations so high coming to Thurles, Wexford were devastated by this defeat, which brought their season to an inglorious end. Perhaps they underestimated the quality of the Tipp challenge following their league win, but it is a setback they will take time to come to terms with. No fault however to such as Daithi Waters, Shane Roche, P J Banville, Ciaran Lyng, Adrian Flynn or Brian Malone, all of whoms trove mightily for the cause.
Tipperary – Paul Fitzgerald; Andrew Morrissey, Paddy Codd, Ciaran McDonald; Brian Fox(0-2), Robbie Kiely, Alan Campbell(0-1); George Hannigan, Hugh Coghlan(0-1); Richie Ryan, Brian Mulvihill, Donagh Leahy(1-0); Michael Quinlivan(0-4), Peter Acheson(0-2), Philip Austin (0-1); Subs- Alan Maloney(0-2) for Mulvihill; Shane Scully for Ryan; Mulvihill for Austin; Atto Matasso for Scully; Lorcan Egan for Quinlivan;
Wexford – Anthony Masterson; Rob Tierney, Greame Molloy, Brian Malone; Adrian Flynn, David Murphy, Lee Chin; Daithi Waters, Colm Morris; Shane Roche(0-5), Andrias Doyle Conor Carthy; P J Banville(0-3), Ciaran Lyng(0-2), Redmond Barry (0-4); Sobs – Paddy Byrne for Carthy; Ben Brosnan(0-1) for Morris; N Murphy for Doyle; Eric Bradley for Roche;
Ref- Michael Duffy,Sligo.
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Today is the last day eligible voters can cast their ballots in the New Zealand 2020 election.
Unlike during the advance voting period, the Electoral Commission's black-out laws are in place today.
All parties need to have removed their hoardings, no political advertising is allowed and people can't post or share content online that's likely or intended to influence someone's vote.
Voting closes at 7pm tonight, when the poll results will start being released. A map of general election voting places in your area is available on vote.nz.
People can still enrol to vote today, even if they weren't previously registered.
The Electoral Commission estimates around 2 million votes were cast during the advance voting period, setting a record for New Zealand. Last election saw 1.24 million votes cast in the entire advance voting period.
Under New Zealand law, you can only vote once. If you cast an advance ballot, that cannot be changed and you cannot vote again on election day.
WHAT HAPPENS IN TONIGHT'S ELECTIONS
The advance votes are counted from 9am today, but won't be released until after 7pm.
Ballots cast on the day will be counted from after 7pm and results released by the Electoral Commission as they come in.
Only the party and electorate votes are being counted today, not the referendum ballots. Instead, the preliminary referendum results will be released by the Electoral Commission on Friday, October 30.
These streams will be available to view worldwide, starting at 5pm Sydney time, 2pm Beijing, 11.30am New Delhi, 7am London and 2am New York.
Tonight's results will be the preliminary results, before the final vote count and official election result is released on Friday, November 6.
Join the conversation from 7pm with the hashtag #YourVote2020 on social media.


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In Unity Connection 7.0 under System Call Handler we have configured Transfer Rule and under Transfer Rule we have configured transfer action to the Extension [the same which is configured in Call Manager] with transfer type as "Release to Switch". In System Call Hander we have saved a Wave file which needs to be played with the message "all the ports are busy".
Call is hitting the voice gateway router, but it is not getting forwarded to Unity Connection.


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Spernall parish has the River Arrow on the west and the Alne Hills on the east. The village consists only of the church and rectory and a few scattered farms and cottages. At some time between 1195 and 1361 the parish was largely depopulated.
The Rectory is a brick-built house of rectangular plan facing north, and is probably of early-18th-century date. The walls were plastered and a south wing added in 1800.


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One by one, the children at Public School 30 on Staten Island dumped their uneaten bananas into a bin in the back of their raucous cafeteria, each greenish-yellow missile landing with a thud. Thud. Thud.
John Sullivan, 9, a fourth grader, said bananas “make my stomach hurt.” Julianna Delloso, 6, a first grader, said “they taste funny.” And Joseph Incardone, 7, also in first grade, was almost gleeful as he explained why he, too, had chucked his unpeeled banana. “I didn’t like it,” he said.
The sad voyage of fruits and vegetables from lunch lady to landfill has frustrated parents, nutritionists and environmentalists for decades. Children are still as picky and wasteful as ever, but at least there is now a happier ending — that banana-filled bin is a composting container, part of a growing effort to shrink the mountains of perfectly good food being hauled away to trash heaps every year
New York City’s school composting program, kicked off just two years ago by parents on the Upper West Side, is now in 230 school buildings in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island, and is expected to more than double in size and reach all five boroughs in the fall, with an ultimate goal of encompassing all 1,300-plus school buildings.
Depending on where the school is, the uneaten and half-eaten leftovers are sent to a compost heap at a former Staten Island landfill or to upstate New York or Delaware, where the slop is churned into nutrient-enriched dirt that farmers or landscape architects can buy. Eventually, the city will send some scraps to a wastewater treatment plant in Brooklyn, where “digesters” turn garbage into usable gas.
“There’s a lot of carbon in that banana that’s going to end up growing something else in your garden at home,” John T. Shea, the chief of the Education Department’s school facilities, said. “It’s the circle of life, baby.”
The hope is that by building up composting in school, the city will help the environment, instill a sense of conservation in schoolchildren and, critically, save some money. The city paid $93 per ton in 2013 to dump in landfills, up from $68 in 2004. Composting saves the city $10 to $50 per ton, because the cost is offset by the sale of the end product, according to the Sanitation Department.
Much of New York’s compost stream is a result of nutrition rules that require every child to be served healthy food, and health rules that ban re-serving unwrapped food once it has been placed on a lunch tray, for fear of contamination and to make sure food is served at proper temperatures. For those reasons, an uneaten apple or banana or even an unopened milk carton cannot be given to another child.
Depending on viewpoint, the sheer amount of school food now being composted is either impressive or depressing.
Even with less than a quarter of school buildings participating, the weight of all the discarded bananas and other scraps — including anything children can put into their mouths, from chips to sandwich meat to salads — came to 1,400 tons between September and March, compared with 450 tons during the entire 2012-13 school year.
Other cities, like Seattle and San Francisco, have been composting school food for years. Chicago has, too, though there the effort has been smaller in scope — the scraps are mostly kept on school grounds, like in gardens, and are limited to fruit and vegetables. But the district is trying commercial composting at one school, Blaine Elementary, and seeing if it can save money.
Chicago has not felt the same imperative as New York, said Meredith C. McDermott, the sustainability manager for Chicago’s schools. “Landfills in the Midwest are cheap, so that’s why we have been slower” to fully embrace composting, she said.
New York’s school composting efforts are part of an expanding citywide program in which residents are being asked to separate their scraps for weekly pickups by city sanitation trucks. The city is also teaming up with school districts in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami and Orlando to makebulk purchases of compostable plates that are used in place of plastic foam plates, said Eric S. Goldstein, the chief executive for school support services for the New York City Education Department.
Those plates go straight into the compost bins — at least when students get it right.
At P.S. 30, students done with their lunch have a choice of three plastic bins: one for landfill garbage like plastic bags, foam cups and wrappers; one for recyclables, like metal, glass, plastic and milk cartons; and one for food scraps. Nearby is a red bucket where unconsumed milk is poured; it is later sent down a drain.
The assembly line operation showed the mind-bending task at hand: Some children wrongly threw the new trays into the landfill bin. Others hastily dumped leftover chips, bag and all, into the food bucket, which was catching all manner of the day’s offerings: intact or half-eaten peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and cheese sandwiches, cucumbers, salad bar detritus and those bananas, which, truth be told, looked a day or so shy of being ripe.
A “green team” of students — wearing latex gloves or holding plastic talons — picked out wayward junk. One of them, Shannon Ahr, 10, said they had noticed that the younger children seemed to get it right more often that the older ones.
After school, the bagged food scraps go on the curb. They are picked up each day by Sanitation Department trucks, then driven to the compost sites, where they are picked clean of contaminants, like plastic bits, and laid on a bed of dry wood chips. More wood chips are laid on. The muck is turned, so oxygen gets in to aid decomposition. Six to nine months later: market-ready dirt.
Of course, it would be much simpler if the decomposition took place inside the child.
“Obviously we can’t force them to have it,” Joseph Napolitano, P.S. 30’s assistant principal, said as he stood by the lunch line, watching each plate get its obligatory banana. At least now, though, he said, “It’s really being recycled whether they eat it or not; it’s not really a waste.”

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If you happen to own the HTC One from Sprint, then you’ll probably be glad to hear that the carrier has begun rolling out their first OTA update to the device earlier today. According to Sprint, this update will bring the HTC One software version up to 1.29.651 which apparently improves the blinkfeed as well as its back and home buttons.This update comes after users started complaining about the touch targets being placed too closely to the screen making it difficult to press the back and home buttons without accidentally pressing the other shortcuts on the screen.
If you’ve not received the software update notification from Sprint, then you can manually check for the update by going to Settings > System Updates > HTC Software Update > Check Now. Do share with us about your HTC One after the update!
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China and U.S. Clash over Asian Infrastructure Bank
In late March, on a small island in southern China, the liberal world order, the basis of global economic prosperity since the end of World War II, was tested. At the annual Boao Forum for Asia, China was asserting its case to lead a new development bank, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which will rival the U.S.-led World Bank and Japanese-led Asian Development Bank (ADB). Speaking to the delegates, Xi Jinping explicitly announced China's political motivation "to build a new regional order."
The United States refuses to join and has asked its allies to put policy first and insist that a new bank enunciate its commitment to the explicit principles of good governance before soliciting membership. Nevertheless, the U.S. resolve to maintain institutional cohesion around shared principles is going unheeded. Eyeing potential commercial opportunities, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy are among the many allies that have joined the Chinese initiative.
But is the Chinese concept good development policy?
The advantages of adding infrastructural capacity, more railways, ports, roads, telcos, is irrefutable. Throughout developing Asia access to transportation, water, electricity and other utilities is inequitable and of poor quality. The developing regions of East Asia need more infrastructure, lots of it and more than any current configuration of financial institutions can supply.
Yet, infrastructural investment has had limited direct effect on poverty and increasing its supply does not guarantee that poor people can use it. Infrastructure can boost GDP growth, but autocratic countries, even those with above average income levels, perform poorly on social indicators. While important for economic growth, the benefits to the poor from more infrastructure have been less than expected and are frequently undermined by weak governance, poor institutions, distorted public investment choices and inadequate maintenance.
Recognizing that the key to reducing poverty resides in the linkages between infrastructure and governance, the mature multilateral organizations such as the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank and the ADB combine their infrastructure projects with efforts to strengthen governance and institutional frameworks. Concern about its impact on poverty reduction is why the investments in infrastructure by multilateral organizations as a percentage of their total investment portfolio diminished during the 1990s. The shift in allocation reflected a consensus that capital shortage was not the main inadequacy in developing countries and that institutions to improve governance and to reduce corruption were necessary before capital investments could be productively employed.
Chinese infrastructure investments follow a contrary logic, one that exalts the philosophy of noninterference in the recipient's sovereignty. It will leave all these thorny questions about governance unattended.
But the Chinese premise – that not encroaching on the internal governance regimes of borrowers will render infrastructure investment "apolitical" – is naive. Infrastructural activities are gigantic opportunities for political incumbents and contractors to rake off surplus revenues and to make distribution decisions that consolidate political loyalties that extend their grip on power.
Seventy years of hard-won development experience stand behind this realization that institutions for accountability within countries are necessary for the successful implementation of infrastructure programs to ensure that the poor benefit. Weak legal frameworks, rule enforcement and competition in procurement are the underlying reasons the expected social benefits do not accrue to the most vulnerable segments of the population. For infrastructure to help reduce global poverty, it must be combined with better governance and stronger institutions – those that separate the private and public interests of leaders.
China might have chosen another path toward shouldering more responsibility for world development by supporting the poverty-reducing mission of the World Bank community and by contributing to infrastructure within the framework of existing donor institutions. Adding to the capital base of those institutions will make its case for a more institutional voice far more compelling, leaving the United States with no reason to be coy about expanded Chinese influence in those institutions.
But by breaking ranks with the very difficult work already underway of building accountable governance in the countries where it is so badly needed, China offers the world's poor an alternative that does not promise to be any brighter than what they now enjoy.
The goal of international lending should be strengthening the linkages between good governance and infrastructure: When these linkages break down, it is usually the world's poor that are the victims. Aligning politics and commerce with policy is the best way to fight global poverty.
Hilton Root is an affiliated senior scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, a professor of public policy at George Mason University and author of Dynamics Among Nations: The Evolution of Legitimacy and Development in Modern States
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Rolls Royce share price is down by more than 2% today, becoming the worst-performing stock in the FTSE 100. The stock has declined by almost 60% this year while the FTSE 100 has fallen by just 17%. This makes Rolls Royce, among the worst-performing stocks in the index this year. So, is Rolls Royce stock price a buy today?
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Thousands of residents in California will find themselves homeless on August 1, as a nationwide ban on evictions is set to expire.
A nationwide ban on residential evictions in the United States will expire on Sunday amid a surge in coronavirus cases due to the Delta variant.
This massive wave of evictions that is expected comes just as the highly contagious strain of COVID-19 continues to take hold of the coronavirus cases throughout California.
Another thing that does not assist is how the vaccine rollout programmes across the entire state started lagging from the beginning of the month.
Now, on top of dealing with 'breakthrough cases,' the state of California finds itself having another issue of residents losing their homes and the timing to have this sorted out while it's weekend remains tricky.
Billions of dollars in federal funding - mainly from Biden's $1.9 trillion plan - were meant to help to assist rental finances for millions of residents across the country, but the money is yet to be tapped.
Democratic leaders in Congress were pushing for an extension, but it was unclear if they had the votes to prevent the ban from expiring.
This is because even among moderates in their own party, it was unclear whether the majority supported the extension or opposed it.
President Joe Biden, during Thursday’s media press briefing, urged Congress to extend this moratorium.
An earlier ruling in June said that the White House could not extend the measure through September as intended.
What's the way forward?
According to national data from Treasury, only about 450 000 households had received aid through the Emergency Rental Assistance programme.
The exact figure for California remains unknown, and although hundreds of people are speculated to have been assisted so far, thousands more remain in compromising situations.
Several states and local governments have yet to pay out any funds, and now there is an issue of application backlogs.
Biden administration eased paperwork and eligibility requirements for the application requirements, but state and local officials are still responsible for managing the aid.
This decision by the White House to shift responsibility to states seems to be somehow a leeway for them to still have some control to facilitate how the funds are distributed.
My thoughts on this
It is without a doubt that landlords with rental properties have been put in a tough spot, and this is going to make it financially hard for them to keep their properties with no revenue.
My friend's apartment management in downtown Los Angeles has already issued notices to various residents in their complex over a week ago, alerting them that their time is up.
Another thing to note is that some people didn't receive their stimulus checks because they didn't file their tax returns while some waited until late to do their aid applications.
Taking responsibility for our own financial situations seems to be a tricky thing for a lot of people to do, especially when one is occupied with the daunting job-hunting process.
At the moment, the president has no options because the courts told him he could not have another extension. If something like this has to be done, it has to be through Congress.
-- Additional sourcing from ABC News, U.S. News, AFP & CDC government.
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Hip-hop artist Chris Brown extended happy birthday wishes today to his ex-girlfriend, Rihanna.
Brown tweeted, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROBYN!" to the singer (real name Robyn Rihanna Fenton) and she thanked him on her own Twitter account.
The reconciliation rumors between the two were sparked last week when Brown reportedly attended Rihanna's early birthday bash. The rapper is also rumored to be singing on a remix of her track "Birthday Cake," called "Cake."
Rihanna is currently rehearsing in Britain and attended Stella McCartney's show at London Fashion Week, and tweeted to fans: "I'll be turning 24 making mu$ic!!!"


Mrs May then urged nations to 'stand together' in the face of the Russian threat
The Prime Minister launched the scathing attack at Moscow yesterday as she detailed a 4,000 per cent increase in disinformation activity since the chemical weapons attacks in Salisbury and Syria.
She declared: “Russia is using cyber as part of a wider effort to undermine the international system.
“This disinformation campaign is not just aimed at social media and the UK – it is intended to undermine the actual institutions and processes of the rules based system, such as the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
“We must do all we can at every turn to challenge this.”
Mrs May then urged nations to “stand together” in the face of the Russian threat and cyber efforts.
She went on: “Recent events have strongly underlined the need for nations to stand together in the face of those who would challenge and undermine the rules-based international system which keeps us safe.
“Last month, a military grade nerve agent was brazenly and recklessly deployed on the streets of Salisbury.
“As the UK, EU, G7, Nato and many other countries have concluded, there is no other plausible explanation than Russia is to blame.
“In Syria, a dangerous pattern of behaviour has developed in which chemical weapons – the use of which has been banned for almost 100 years – are being used by the Assad regime against its own people in the most abhorrent way imaginable.
It is understood social media experts in Government have identified over 45,000 posts spreading false information about the chemical weapons attack in Syria.
Cyber bots in Mr Putin’s superstate are understood to be a fundamental pillar in the widespread cyber effort.
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Such technology is capable of reaching an estimated 20million people on social media platforms.
Following the use of a military-grade nerve agent in Salisbury last month, information appeared online claiming that Russia had never produced the agent novichok.
The effort appears to be part of a desperate attempt by Moscow to alter the narrative of events that have forced a swift and powerful international response against it.
The Prime Minister launched the scathing attack at Moscow yesterday
Theresa May has blasted Russia for spreading lies across Britain
The Prime Minister was keen to detail the shocking cyber efforts from Moscow was not just aimed at users in the UK.
She stated such plans seek to undermine global independent institutions such as those investigating the use of chemical weapons.
World War 3 fears have been at an all-time-high since the Salisbury attack and Russia’s response to the recent coordinated strike by the US, UK and France in Bashar al-Assad’s war-torn nation.


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Kapitonov, Ivan Vasil’evich
Born Feb. 10 (23), 1915, in the village of Serovskoe, in present-day Sasovo Raion, Riazan Oblast. Soviet state and party figure. Hero of Socialist Labor (1975). Member of the CPSU since 1939.
The son of a peasant, Kapitonov graduated from the Moscow Institute of Municipal Construction Engineering in 1938 and served as a senior engineer and section chief in construction. Kapitonov has held party and Soviet posts since 1941: he was at first secretary of a primary party organization and then secretary of the Krasnaia Presna City-Raion party committee. He was elected chairman of the raion executive committee of the Krasnaia Presna City-Raion of Moscow in 1947 and appointed chief of a department of the Moscow city committee of the ACP (Bolshevik) in 1948. After holding the post of secretary and second secretary of the Moscow oblast party committee in 1951–52, Kapitonov was elected first secretary of the Moscow city committee of the CPSU in 1952, first secretary of the Moscow oblast committee of the CPSU in 1954, and first secretary of the Ivanovo oblast committee of the CPSU in 1959 (to 1964). In 1964, Kapitonov became chief of a department of the CentralCommittee of the CPSU and in 1965, secretary of the CC. Adelegate to the Nineteenth through Twenty-fourth Party Congresses, he was elected member of the CC CPSU at the Nine-teenth, Twentieth, Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and Twenty-fourth Congresses. Kapitonov was a member of the Bureau onthe RSFSR of the CC CPSU from 1964 to 1966, a deputy to thethird through Ninth convocations of the Supreme Soviet of theUSSR, and a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1954 to 1962. He was awarded three Orders ofLenin, three other orders, and medals.


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Nike and Stranger Things teamed up for a surprising and innovative Nike Tailwind sneaker collab: you will need to burn them.
Some collabs are better than others. For Nike to team up with a Netflix series was already a first. But these Nike x Stranger Things Tailwind sneakers are from another world.
Revealed at San Diego Comic Con, BAIT announced the exclusive drop of the Tailwind collab. The sneaker comes with many hidden details, behind a grey exterior fabric layer you will have to burn away.
Brand: Nike x Stranger Things
Model: Tailwind 79
Key Features: The grey exterior fabric layer can be burned away to reveal secret elements, logos, and messages underneath inspired by the Netflix show.
Release Date: 08/21
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Manga and novels that have an official release in spanish in Spain (mangas not anymore on stock are include too)
Unlike the traditional black and white manga from Japan, these comics are in full color. The distinct stylings, line detail and panelling that are unique to Japanese manga is still easily recognisable however (compared to...
These 2010's and 2020's manga emulate the styles of 80's and 90's manga artists, as well as popular culture and aesthetics of the time, to create something that evokes a nostalgic quality while also being brand new.
This is a complete list of every manga and light novel published in English by Seven Seas Entertainment. These are either incomplete, ongoing or fully published in English.


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"For a documentary that is presumably a case study asking whether or not a woman can ever be elected president in America, Hillary is light on scrutiny of the missteps and miscalculations over the course of Clinton’s three-decade likability makeover, offering up pressure for Clinton to change her last name, her hair, her clothes, and her speech as from society rather than her own team," says Emily Alford. "But in the case of women politicians, is the call coming from inside the house? Perhaps the imagining of what might make a woman more likable and forcing those alterations upon our female candidates is part of the problem."
Despite the title, Hillary isn't really about Hillary Clinton: "Not to the docuseries’ director, Nanette Burstein, anyway," says Shirley Li. "As a veteran of telling stories about controversial subjects, Burstein knew a documentary about one of the most prominent modern political figures would likely be short on revelations. Even with her exclusive access to Hillary Clinton and an array of her friends and staffers, the director understood that she’d be covering the same bases as Clinton’s own memoirs. So instead, Burstein approached Clinton’s life story as a case study, a way to try to answer a pivotal question about the state of U.S. politics today: Can a woman ever—really, actually, not just as a rhetorical question or thought exercise—become president?"

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FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. – Flagler County leaders are urging residents to prepare for “eventual” evacuations in the county as Hurricane Ian bears down on Florida.
The massive storm is churning in the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to make landfall along the coast of Southwest Florida.
Emergency Management Director Jonathan Lord said everyone living in mobile homes and RVs countywide should prepare now to evacuate.
He said other areas should also prepare to be evacuated, including those in Zone A, from Flagler Beach to Marineland; low-lying areas in Zone B, Beulaville neighborhoods east of John Anderson Highway and the Palm Drive and Lambert Avenue neighborhoods; and Zone F, the areas surrounding Dead Lake and Crescent Lake including non-elevated houses in Daytona North.
“At this time, we have not ordered an evacuation, but we want residents living in those areas to be prepared no later than (Tuesday night) as we will likely order evacuations (Wednesday) morning,” Lord said. “The emergency operations center will announce the final areas under the evacuation order and the time when shelters will officially open.”
Lord also recommended that those who must leave their homes plan to go to a relative’s home or a hotel before turning to an emergency shelter.
The general population shelter in Flagler County will be at Bunnell Elementary School and the special medical needs shelter will be at Rymfire Elementary School. No definite opening time for these shelters has been set, but it will coincide with the evacuation orders being made, according to Lord.
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Camping is one of the funnest outdoor adventures that you can experience in life. It is one of the funnest things that life has to offer you, that is why you are going to want to make sure you get the most out of camping. You can do that by reading this article here.
One of the most important parts of your camping gear is your tent. The tent you buy should suit your needs and the size of your camping party. If you have young children, you probably want to purchase a large tent so they can sleep in the same tent with you. If your children are old, buy them their own tent so they don’t have to bunk with the adults.
When packing for your camping trip, do not forget chairs and a radio. One of the best parts of camping is sitting around the campfire. You could sit on an old log, but why bother when you can pack chairs and be comfortable. The radio is for entertainment sitting around the fire. An even better idea is to bring your guitar for a sing along.
You don’t have to be a boy scout to be prepared, if you plan to go camping. One of the first rules is to be sure to tell somebody where you will be. If there isn’t an exact location to give, then give a general idea of major roads nearby or even GPS coordinates if you know them and give a timeframe of when you plan to return.
Navigation is the key when it comes to camping. It is important to know where you are, and how to get back to civilization if you become lost. Always bring a map of the area, and a compass to help you. You can also use an outdoor GPS that will give you navigation information, as well as additional information such as altitude.
While a campfire gives off enough light in the general area around it, you want to be sure you take along a flashlight on your camping trip if you plan to venture outside of the campfire’s glow. This is a definite safety precaution you don’t want to ignore. It can be quite dark out there in the woods at nighttime.
If you are traveling with children, consider staying at a campground that is specifically designated for families. Campers in these areas know what to expect and will not have an issue if you have a cranky toddler or your children want to run around, scream and play. You will probably be more relaxed as a result and have a better time.
As a courtesy to other campers, don’t leave your lighting on overnight, if you are close to others. Pack a timer that you can attach to your lights that will automatically shut them off after a certain time. Leaving lights on overnight is a popular complaint among most American campers!
This article has provided you with a lot of great knowledge about how to get the most out of your camping experience. It’s good to know that you have the option to enjoy yourself with a nice camping experience when you want to dedicate the time to do so, so get out there and do it.

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Counterfeit imports worth up to $591B globally, OECD study finds
Imports of counterfeit and pirated goods, ranging from fake footwear to fruit, account for up to $591 billion a year, according to a reported released Monday.
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said the value of all imported fake goods worldwide in 2013 was roughly equivalent to the GDP of Austria, and accounted for up to 2.5 per cent of all global imports
Based on an analysis of half a million customs seizures around the world from 2011 to 2013, the report suggested that the situation has worsened since 2008, when an OECD study estimated that up to 1.9 per cent of global imports were fakes.
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The hardest hit brands are U.S., Italian, French and Swiss. As a percentage of the total value of fakes seized, about 20 per cent of the goods infringed on U.S. intellectual property. Italy was next on the list at 15 per cent, followed by France and Switzerland at 12 per cent each.
While products from popular brands, such as Nike shoes, Rolex watches, Louis Vuitton bags, and Ray Ban sunglasses, seem to be the most counterfeited items, the report said even trademarks on bananas and strawberries were infringed.
Lorne Lipkus, a lawyer with Kestenberg Siegal Lipkus LLP in Toronto and an expert on counterfeit goods, said he is not surprised by the size of the dollar figures in the OECD's report, and he expects the situation has only gotten worse since the time period of the study.
The problem is "huge" in Canada, he told Dianne Buckner, host of The Exchange on CBC News Network, adding that the country is a big transfer point for fake goods heading into the United States.
Most of the fakes originate in middle income or emerging countries, with China the top producer, being the source country for fake goods in just over 63 per cent of seizures in 2013.
"While China is the top provenance of fake goods, its most innovative companies also fall victim to counterfeiters," the OECD said, pointing out that 1.3 per cent of goods seized violated the intellectual property of Chinese producers.
"The findings of this new report contradict the image that counterfeiters only hurt big companies and luxury goods manufacturers," said OECD deputy secretary-general Doug Frantz.
"They take advantage of our trust in trademarks and brand names to undermine economies and endanger lives," Frantz said in a statement.
The report focused on physical counterfeit goods, which infringe trademarks, design rights or patents, and tangible pirated products, which breach copyright. It did not look into online piracy. It also didn't examine fakes that were not imported from one country to another.


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The South Flank, NATO’s role in MENA Region and Africa: future challenges and opportunities
Interview with Dr Maurizio GERI
Stabilization Advisor/Strategic Analyst on the South for Three Stones International, NATO Southern Hub and consultant for the Italian Defence General Staff (Defence Innovation Centre, SMD-CID)
What are the unstable situations in the NATO Southern Flank?
After the Arab springs, the various phases of Jihadist terrorism (from Al Qaeda to DAESH) and the civil wars (which later became proxy wars) in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen, the MENA region, including the Sahel, is in a phase of constant instability, exacerbated by demographic and climatic changes and by competition between great powers. The African continent is projected to reach 4.5 billion people by the end of the century, with the largest population growth in human history (counting a fertility rate of 4.5 children, compared to other continents stabilized on an average of 2). At the same time, global warming will produce an ever-increasing desertification and scarcity of resources, primarily water and food, with the threat of natural disasters and new pandemics in Africa. Finally, competition between major powers in the region is in a new phase of “scramble for Africa” with modern means, especially economic, but in some parts (Libya, the Sahel, the Horn of Africa) also military. The future of the South NATO region will therefore be played out on various aspects, which may produce complex challenges, but also opportunities for growth and stabilization, especially if international actors, primarily NATO-EU-UN-AU, provide long-term strategies with efficient and effective cooperation. In this context, Security Force Assistance, with its capacity building activities in support of local institutions, is an indispensable tool for promoting the stability of the MENA countries and Africa.
What role should NATO play?
The role NATO can play in the MENA Region is crucial to counter instability that may result in severe emergency situations and possible conflict escalation in several countries.
NATO’s role will be of crucial importance, in the coming years, in the MENA area and in Africa in general in combating regional instabilities. The Alliance will have a vital role in managing emergency situations and in preventing possible risks of escalating conflicts (with its two core tasks of crisis management and cooperative security), but it will also be crucial for NATO to work on the root causes of the instabilities and finally to contain the greater presence of other big strategic competitors. From this perspective, NATO has an important tool to manage and shape the multiple dynamics that, on the basis of their interactions, make the Region a hybrid and heterogeneous operational environment. The Projecting Stability concept, the importance of which was underlined by the NATO nations during the Warsaw Summit in 2016, provides NATO with a set of solutions, ranging from military actions to partnership cooperation and diplomacy, to intervene in order to mitigate or extinguish the outbreaks of instability present in the Region.
Such an approach has a twofold utility: on the one hand, promoting the stabilization of the Region and, on the other, furthering the security of the NATO borders. As stated by the Secretary-General of NATO recently: “if our neighbors are more stable, we are more secure, so we must do more for our neighbors and with our neighbors.”
NATO has already worked, respectively, with the North African partners, in the Mediterranean Dialogue since 1994, and with the partners in the “Gulf Cooperation Initiative in Istanbul” since 2004. Furthermore, NATO opened a center dedicated to the South in 2018 in Naples: the NSD-South Hub. However, to achieve a greater role in the Southern Flank in the future, NATO will first have to increase confidence building measures, in order to mitigate the negative perception of the Alliance, by reason of certain European and NATO historical events.
In this regard, the support role of the NATO Centers of Excellence will be very important. In particular NATO SFA COE can play a very valid part in offering advanced education to NATO military and civilian advisors, but also to partner countries in the South region. Furthermore, with the promotion and coordination of efforts among all the main stakeholders operating in support of the assisted nation, SFA COE can improve the NATO image in the region and, therefore, further the building of trust, a requirement for efficient cooperation and stabilization. This approach is consistent with the NATO commitment to involve civil society, to better understand what the problems of the future will be and to determine what the solutions will be, listening to the needs of the populations, in addition to those of the states. Human security will in fact become increasingly important for NATO, alongside traditional national security.
How can SFA activities take concrete action in contrasting the trends/causes at the root of instability and on what levels?
Social level. The demographic explosion will first of all have consequences not only for the instability of African countries (and MENA as a result) but also for mass migration in the coming decades. The demographic dividend at the same time will represent an opportunity for growth and technological innovation on the African continent, due to a more youthful and a more developed society. It will also potentially supply a qualified workforce for the countries with the highest rates of aging (primarily Europe, but also China and Russia).
Nevertheless, the strong urbanization that will accompany the demographic bomb in the African countries will bring greater instability, both social and economic, also due to the difficulties of states in providing transport, housing, work, health, education, justice and everything that a state must guarantee. A modern and efficient internal security sector will therefore be necessary. To ensure the development of such a security sector, it will be important for the international organizations, primarily the African Union (AU) and then EU / UN / NATO, to act synergistically. NATO, and in particular the SFA, will have a crucial role to play. Not only will it be important for the direct training of internal defense and security forces, but also for the indirect consequences of this training. In fact, the specialization of Local Security Forces (LSF) can lead to an increase in schooling, technical skills and also organizational and professional skills, which can benefit all of society. Actually, these skills and abilities will ultimately also be usable in the private sector. The principle of dual use will be encouraged and, in concert, the development of Civil Protection and Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) systems, with the use of new procedures and also new technologies. Although the domain of intervention of the SFA is mainly directed towards defense capacity building and the related dimensions of the Security Sector Reform (SSR), it also involves the civil world through governmental and non-governmental agencies (IOs and NGOs) in the broader scope of capacity building. SSR is a holistic concept that includes all the various disciplines and covers various sectors, including defense, justice, intelligence, governance and also the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) of armed groups.
The SFA will therefore be essential to face future social challenges, especially in the Southern Region where security forces are often considered repressive apparatuses in the service of dictatorships. The commitment must be aimed at making them efficient, respectful of the rule of law, and making them work at the service of the population, including in civil emergency operations to deal with natural disasters, mass migrations, pandemics, etc. This is part of the NATO “comprehensive approach” to crisis management and cooperative security, based on the integration of military and civilian tools, including gender mainstreaming in countries where it is not yet developed.
Political level. The dictatorships and the various forms of autocracy in the MENA region and in Africa will have to deal with a great demand for democracy and freedom from the new generations (with the surge in youth due to demographic trends) which will call for reforms to promote democracy and economic development. Furthermore, the inefficiency of unprepared political ruling classes will not be able to effectively manage these requests and all future socio-economic challenges, which will also have a huge impact on politics. As mentioned above, it will therefore be necessary to intervene with governmental advisor programs at a ministerial level, not only in the defense sector, but also to support the administrative and political management of the state, for more transparency, the fight against endemic corruption and all other aspects of good governance.
From this perspective, the SFA is an excellent tool for conveying Building Integrity programs through its activities in favor of Local Security Forces. They in turn will act as a sounding board for civilian society.
Economic level. Apart from the economic crisis caused by the virus, the long-term economic development of the MENA / African region will be of crucial interest to the rest of the world. Although there will be a temporary de-globalization due to the crisis, in reality states will not be able to hinder the trend towards economic integration, especially regionally and especially in Africa, with the new Continental Free Trade Area. In this regard, NATO and the EU must overcome the internal differences and contradictions of individual members and adopt a shared strategy that compensates for the increasingly important role of China and Russia on the continent. Resources must be allocated and stabilization projects developed, with long-term objectives considering the development-security nexus, that is, the close link between the economic development and security of Africa, and therefore of Europe. NATO should also collaborate more with the AU, for example by creating new Crisis Management centers (there is already one in Mauritania) or even Centers of Excellence in partner countries of MENA in the future. This will have a multiplier impact, not only on security, but also on local politics and economies. NATO has committed to expanding cooperation with AU as early as 2016 and is gradually increasing its role, but it could do more. Firstly, it should cooperate with the Regional Economic Communities that also deal with security, as it is starting to do with the IGAD (Intergovernmental Authority on Development, of the Horn of Africa) and, secondly, it should start to cooperate with the G5 Sahel, with which it has already begun interacting. The G5 Sahel in fact has economic and security development roles with the G5 Joint Force that the EU is already supporting with training and funds (EUTM Mali supports, for example, its operationalization).
By promoting security training with its implications on Building Integrity in the area of Anti-corruption and transparency on procurement procedures, NATO SFA COE will also contribute to greater stability in the region through the economic sphere.
Security level . At this level, of course, the SFA contribution will be decisive. As part of the SSR activities, the SFA will have to support political stabilization processes in countries that have come out of a conflict, or which are in any case fragile and with “weak states”. This will be done through coordinated actions of the various international actors: primarily the EU, the AU, the UN and, of course, NATO. As mentioned, the impact of SSR work will be crucial for the stabilization of these countries.
In fact, the SSR represents the restoration or transformation of the security institutions of a country that includes all the actors, their roles, responsibilities and actions. The goal is for the country to be managed effectively, legitimately and responsibly, more consistently with the solid principles of good governance and, therefore, to contribute to a well-functioning security framework. A key element of the defense reform is precisely the Security Force Assistance, one of the pillars of the military contribution to SSR with Stability Policing and DDR. All three activities are interconnected, although military forces generally support the DDR process in disarmament and demobilization, and rarely in reintegration, SFA may have a supporting role in reintegrating eligible former combatants to be incorporated into the security forces of the state, through the possibility of “Generate and Organize” SFA activities. Indeed, the SFA activities of “Generate and Organize”, based on transversal legislative and financial aspects, can have a positive effect on the good governance, through the involvement of military and civilian personnel as advisors for the generating function (for example, the use of defense administrative staff to advise on specific issues: procurement, infrastructure, hiring, the pension system, legal assistance, etc.). At the same time, by contributing to the restoration of law and order, Stability Policing strengthens ex-combatants to develop trust in the DDR and implementing organizations. This leads the host nation to take responsibility for DDR processes.
In summary, UN, EU, AU, regional organizations and NATO can play a concurrent and, at the same time, complementary role in DDR processes. For example, NATO could play a predominant role in typically military activities, such as disarmament and demobilization, while, at the same time, it could support the EU and other organizations in reintegrating eligible ex-combatants into local security forces.
Finally, all these operations, as well as the processes of securing or destroying mines and other dangerous weapons (as done by NATO in the past in Egypt and Mauritania), would help not only to increase the level of security, and positively impact the political, economic and social levels, but also to improve NATO’s reputation and endorsement in Africa.
What direct implications has the COVID-19 Crisis had on the Southern region and what should NATO’s role be?
The Coronavirus crisis has demonstrated that aspects of biosecurity, and in general of CBRN security have an impact on the stability of the Southern region. The main cases of contagion in the MENA region and in the enlarged Mediterranean have been in Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. In MENA as in European countries, containment measures have had, and will have, long-term consequences, both economically and politically. In MENA, in addition to all the problems of the closure of the productive sectors, the tourism sector, already affected by terrorism, will be almost sunk by the pandemic, and the collapse of the oil price could have disastrous consequences, especially for the Gulf economies. In the political sector, in addition to the tightening and control over political life, lockdown, social distancing and fear in general have greatly restricted the space of expressions of dissent. So, a new Arab Spring as predicted by some parties (after protests in Lebanon and other countries) will be postponed, but perhaps not for long.
NATO can also support these countries in the context of biosecurity with the Joint CBRN Defense Center of Excellence, with task forces and various other related centers. But the fundamental point will again be the cooperation between these centers and the international bodies operating in the South region. NATO SFA COE can make its contribution thanks to its “best practices”, learned from the experience of the Allied countries in SFA activities or in medical capacity building. Furthermore, it can promote education and training by coordinating the specificities of the other COEs and integrating them into the NATO Mobile Education and Training Teams (METT) programs. In addition to supporting training and education, NATO SFA COE can develop interoperability and new concepts from lessons learned developed within NATO.


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