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Welcome to Black Mail, where we bring you Black History—Special Delivery!
On May 17, 1957, a crowd of approximately 25,000 convened at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., for the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom. This event included three hours of spirituals, songs, and speeches. It was a call to action targeted at the federal government to uphold the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision fully. The date for the event is significant because it was on May 17, 1954, that the Brown v. Board of Education to desegregate schools was handed down from the Supreme Court. Now, three years later, there were still schools in the South that refused to integrate.
Then, 28-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. was the final speaker for the gathering. His “Give Me The Ballot” speech captivated those present, affirming his position as a leader in the civil rights movement. The event was the brainchild of the newly formed Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) as they sought to challenge the Eisenhower administration to take a stronger stance against Southern segregationists seeking to oppose school desegregation efforts.
Despite differences of opinion on the intent of the event, it still drew a notable crowd of community members, celebrities, and civil rights leaders. Attendees included A. Philip Randolph, Adam Clayton Powell, Mahaila Jackson, Harry Belafonte, Sydney Pottier, and Mordecai Johnson, among others. While the pilgrimage hoped to draw a more significant number of participants, its impact was far-reaching. Dr. King’s message served as a call to action, challenging the injustices of segregation and discrimination while also demanding voting rights.
The Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom paved the way for future convenings such as the Selma To Montgomery March and the 1963 March on Washington.
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Dec 08, 2004 5:00PM PST
Ok, so I bought the game. Used a bunch of crappy trade in games and got $57. The game was $60, so I had to borrow some cash from someone, and who other than my dad! Hey, he drove me there. The guy behind the counter didn't add tax, so I got the game for $60.17, which is great cause... No tax? Anyways let me tell you, the game is awesome, it's great! If you have the chance, at least rent the game! The story is great, the gameplay is great, everything about the game is great, I really love this game. I recommend you try this game out. If you played the previous ones, then you gotta play this. It gives you... Well, tells you... Ugh, just play the game, I can't find the right words right now!

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The Steelers are still hopeful that they can trade Le’Veon Bell and net a third-round pick or better in return before Tuesday’s deadline, per Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports. Bell, as we heard earlier this week, does not want to be traded, and given that he would need to sign his franchise tender before he can be dealt, he holds all the cards in that regard. La Canfora tweets that Bell (predictably) balked at returning to the Steelers on the exempt list, so there are still plenty of moving pieces to keep an eye on before this situation is finally resolved.
Now let’s take a quick swing around the AFC:
- Blake Bortles played decently for the Jaguars during their loss in London today, but we heard earlier this week that the fifth-year pro is on a short leash after he was benched during last Sunday’s loss to the Texans. However, Albert Breer of TheMMQB observes that Bortles still took the lion’s share of first-team reps in practice this week (though Cody Kessler did get a few, as anticipated), so it does not appear that there is a quarterback competition at the moment.
- La Canfora writes that the Jaguars were very much interested in Kirk Cousins last offseason and were prepared to offer him a significant free agent contract and move on from Bortles. However, they were not willing to meet the $30MM-per-year figure that Cousins ultimately got from the Vikings (they hoped to land him for something in the $20-24MM range). Instead, of course, they gave Bortles a pay-as-you-go, team-friendly extension, which allows the club the flexibility to move on this offseason if it so chooses.
- Jaguars RB Leonard Fournette is expected to return to the field for Jacksonville’s Week 10 matchup on November 11 against the Colts, per Schefter.
- It does not appear as if the Chargers will get Joey Bosa back for their November 4 matchup against the Seahawks, as they had been hoping for some time. Although Bosa is making progress, Schefter writes that he is not “anywhere near ready to play right now.” It is unclear when Bosa will make his much-anticipated return to the field, but the wait will carry until at least the second week of November.
- Sony Michel returned to practice for the Patriots yesterday, per Mike Reiss of ESPN.com. While Michel will not play in the team’s Monday night contest against the Bills tomorrow, he may be ready to go against the Packers next week. Reiss adds that New England could promote Kenneth Farrow from the taxi squad for tomorrow’s game in order to give themselves three healthy backs.
- The relationship between Browns HC Hue Jackson and OC Todd Haley is not improving, and one of the two could be relieved of his duties in short order.

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Oct / Nov
Body Fat Range 36.4 / 35.7
Water Index 46.5 / 47.1
Muscle Index 39.5 / 40.2
Physique Rating 2 / 6
Calorie 1262 / 1283
Bone Mass 2.5 / 2.6
Visceral Fat 7 / 7
My body weight is still about the same as I had only been to my Jazzercise classes about 6 times in Oct (after puasa month) and 4 times in Nov due to my vacations. But my metabolic age is down by 2 years. (Don't know if I see this wrongly). See how the chart measures when your water index increases! So drink lots of water! And exercise, of course..
Here's the ideal charts...I still have a long way to go.
Body Fat Range (for my age) - healthy 25.6
Water Index 50-55%
Physique Rating 6 - normal; excellent (7-9)
Bone mass - women (50-75kg) 2.4
Visceral Fat (5-9) healthy; (1-4) excellent.
Body fat range: THis range is measured against a minimum training from 10 hours a week. Women 11-18% (So I am still OK if measured 18% less..hehe)
Muscle index: For every extra KG of muscle gained the body uses approximately 100 extra calories a day. Everybody who experiences a change in the muscle mass should monitor and adapt the calorie intake accordingly.
Physique rating: Offers the opportunity to set a desired physique rating to tailor your healthy/fitness programme accordingly. When a person increases their activity, their weight may not change but their balance of body fat and muscle may alter which will change the overall physique or body shape.
BMR: The number of calories the body needs when at rest. Understanding BMR will allow you to monitor the number of calories your body requires according to your physique and lifestyle. The more muscle or general activity you take the more calories you require. BMR decreases as the body ages.
Metabolic Age Rating: BMR starts to decrease after the age of 16/17 years old. Your Metabolic Age rating indicates at what age level your body is currently rated at. If the age is indicated higher than your actual age then you need to improve your BMR. Increasing exercise levels will build healthier muscle tissue which burn more calories, consequently improving your metabolic age rating.
Visceral Fat: Fat that surrounds the vital organs in the trunk/stomach area of the body. High visceral fat levels increases the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Lowering your visceral fat levels can stabilise insulin action substantially, reducing your risk of diabetes and other related illnesses.

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Skimming through the news reports today, I came across this article on CNN.com that criminal defense and criminal appeals attorneys might want to read.
According to the article, the U.S. Department of Justice has recently taken the position that only the Government can decide when Guantanamo detainees should have regular access to their attorneys. At issue is whether a 2008 Supreme Court decision, Boumediene v. Bush, gives federal courts the ultimate power to control habeas petitions from enemy combatants in U.S. military custody. While pro bono lawyers argue that they should have regular access to their imprisoned clients, even if there is no active habeas challenge pending in court, or any pending charges, the Justice Department disagrees.
The Justice Department acknowledges that it has already started restricting when Guantanamo prisoners can challenge their detention in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. However, the Justice Department has proposed even further changes to the current rules governing attorney access. Under the proposed changes, the Navy base Commander at Guantanamo would have sole veto power over attorney access, as well as access to classified material, including information provided directly by the detainees from interrogations. Some chilling words from the Government’s pleadings:
The dispute thus before the Court, though important, is quite narrow . . .The only question presented is whether detainees who have neither current nor impending habeas petitions are entitled to” challenge continued access to counsel. The answer to that question is ‘no.’
If this language is not scary enough, the Justice Department has argued that although it does not seek to restrict lawyers who have an active legal appeal, the rights of detainees shrink once they have filed their first habeas challenge. According to the report, the military wants lawyers to agree to the new conditions in order to have continued access to their clients and to any classified information the military would deem to release. Wow.
The Judge to whom all the Guantamo cases are assigned, Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of will preside over a hearing on the issue on August 17, 2012.

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Is the use of tasers a
There is no evidence that the adoption of tasers reduces police use of firearms, according to a study released this week from the university of. Tasers are commonly used by police around the nation as a non-lethal weapon to stop confrontation but their use has been marked with. Safety procedures to help ensure the proper use of tasers although policies taser training is required for officers who use the weapons, and. In real life, increasingly, they tend to use taser stun guns, or rather case in point: in april 2013, montgomery county police used tasers to. Use of any technique comes with attendant risks, both for the public and for officers, and tasers remain the subject of significant controversy.
Shall the city set a policy for when police officers can use tasers and authorize the police department to purchase tasers for all officers, subject to specific. Utah highway patrol trooper jon gardner made national news when he used his taser on jared massey on the side of the road in eastern. Over the past few years, the use of tasers (electronic restraining/compliance device) has become more common among law enforcement agencies nationwide. The san francisco police commission voted to adopt a policy wednesday night regulating how officers can use tasers, bringing a.
Chatsworth, ga — a georgia police chief said an officer was justified in using a taser to stun an 87-year-old woman after she didn't obey. Michigan state police were trying to stop boy for recklessly driving the all-terrain vehicle when a taser was used and boy crashed into a pickup. The proliferation of taser devices among police forces internationally has been accompanied by concerns about injuries and health effects, and about the use.
There has been considerable controversy over the use of tasers on children and in schools in 2004, the parents. Protesters gathered on the steps of an old courthouse in southern pennsylvania on friday evening after a video showed police using a taser. Figure 7: specific taser usage in ccrb complaints and practices as a baseline for tracking taser use as it relates to ccrb complaints. Abstract this study explored the police use of tasers and how this has an impact on matters such as public confidence, governance, welfare of officers and.
Is the use of tasers a
Two fatal shootings this week raise the question: if officers have less lethal weapons in their arsenal, then why wouldn't they use them. Studies say tasers can save lives when used properly but reuters found 1005 deaths after their use–far more than the figure offered by the. Taser is the brand name of the home office approved 'conducted energy device ” that is used by the police in the uk it was introduced into the uk in 2003 and. Learn how tasers were invented, how they work and how they are used and get the facts about the controversy surrounding their use.
- Miami — a bystander's video captured a tense standoff between police and a disturbed man who withstood officers' repeated use of tasers.
- In the 13 years since tasers were introduced here, their use has become relatively commonplace yet they remain a controversial tool in the.
- In all iimhl countries police use tasers and mental health leaders are while there is some information on use of tasers in mental health.
In the ombudsman report, how are taser weapons used by the nsw police force a number of case studies are discussed throughout for 11 of the case. Etheridge, who had asked marshall if he had his taser with him, according to a police incident report, defended the use of the taser on. Many agencies have mistakenly sought the taser as a substitute to deadly force for their officers and have identified its use in place of that of a lethal weapon.


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This is our super sweet pet of the week, Tito. Tito is a two-year-old Fox Terrier mix.
The Humane Society says he barely makes a sound and is extremely friendly with people, kids and other pets. Tito is neutered and has a micro-chip.
If you'd like to adopt Tito or learn more information about him, call the Wichita County Humane Society at (940) 855-4941.
Eight people have been found dead in a tractor-trailer outside a Walmart in Texas in what police are calling a tragic human trafficking case.
Minneapolis police chief says she wants to let 'fresh set of leadership eyes' be in charge of department, resigns amid criticism over shooting of Australian woman who had called 911.
Activists supporting the baby's parents will gather Sunday outside the High Court in London where legal proceedings will resume Monday with new medical evidence expected.
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Alina Brazdeikene focused on how you can use narrative and game design to build a world within a game during Casual Connect Eastern Europe 2014. “There’s no point in writing a brilliant story when nobody can read it,” she expressed.
Prior to working at Signus Labs as a game designer and producer, Alina Brazdeikene began her career as a film maker. She held positions as lead writer and editor at Kikoriki, Movie Industry with Rhapsody Games, and at Odessa National Television. Her passion for games led her to change the direction of her career and become a narrative designer. She has now been a narrative game designer and cinematic script writer for more than three years.
Brazdeikene emphasizes the importance of experience, “There is a universal truth: every experience you have and all the knowledge you gain makes you a better designer.”
Play is Work
For her, the fun of being in the games industry comes from the opportunity to play games every day and call it work, feeling the greatest satisfaction was when her first game was released. When she was creating the game, she believed the sky was the limit, and found the real difficulty came in deciding when to stop! “After the game is released, you have to be prepared for anything,” she explains. “The big challenge is seeing what the players’ reactions will be.”
For her own gaming, Brazdeikene prefers to use a PC because it is also the tool she uses for work. Currently, she is trying out The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, enjoying it despite its six-hour length because it is a solid, narrative-driven game. She insists, “I think small games have the same right to be a hit as the big games.”
Fun Over Profit
Brazdeikene strongly believes the vital problem in the games industry today is keeping the focus on making games for players, instead of making them solely to increase profit. She maintains that an enormous number of games released today are made simply to generate revenue and have little to do with the fun players expect. So we see tough monetization, aggressive marketing campaigns, never-ending games, and huge numbers of clones.
At Signus Labs, the primary focus is making games that will be fun for the players. Since every member of the team was first a game player, this is a natural orientation for them. “We should always remember,” Brazdeikene explains, “Games deal not with business only, but also with art.”
She believes the most important trend now developing in the games industry is the story-driven game. “People are tired of just pushing the button,” she says. “They want the story; they want to know what it’s all about.” For the future, Signus will continue focusing on this aspect of game development.


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As I write this morning, it’s 5 below and the forecast is calling for wind chills of -30 or more in a couple of days. I do love winter, but am glad that I have a house for shelter. For wild creatures, winter is a tough time, especially days like these. Those that don’t migrate must find ways to conserve their energy and body heat. Some hunker down and hibernate through the coldest weeks of the year. The rest have found ways to cope with the cold and ice.
The creatures and plants found in lakes and ponds are among those that have ways to cope. Life continues under the ice in winter, but just like in the frozen forests above, lake denizens have to adapt to the changed conditions. As I started reading up on winter under the ice, I found that our understanding of winter life in lakes is beginning to change.
What We Know About Winter In Northern Lakes And Ponds
Ice takes many forms on winter lakes. Photo: Vincent Foret, Unsplash.com
It’s not easy to get data during the winter. Lakes don’t always have good ice cover to travel on and boating in winter is a treacherous thing. I sampled Flathead Lake (Montana) during the winter, years ago now, and remember skiing out over the ice to the middle of the lake. We’d drill a hole and then try to get water samples before our instruments and hands froze. Sometimes we got what we came for, other times not. It’s not surprising that we don’t have a good understanding of freshwater aquatic ecosystems in winter.
We do know lakes can stratify in winter as well as in summer. This is called inverse or winter stratification. It has important implications for nutrient chemistry and the food web. Water becomes less dense when temperatures fall below 39 degrees F (4 degrees C). Warmer water forms layers at the bottom of the lake with progressively cooler water on top. Winter stratification can occur without ice cover, but ice cover doesn’t always mean a lake is stratified. Currents can prevent stratification under the ice.
Winter stratification can lead to significant chemical changes at the bottom of the lake, just like summer stratification does. Oxygen at the bottom of the lake can drop, triggering internal loading of phosphorus. Severe episodes of low oxygen can lead to fish kills under the ice. Water carrying dissolved materials is denser and sinks to the bottom. This means that some things, like dissolved deicing salts can build to high concentrations near the bottom. That can harm the organisms hunkered down there for the winter.
Photosynthetic organisms have numerous ways to ride out the winter. Light for photosynthesis dwindles as the days get shorter, so many go dormant. Aquatic plants that drop their leaves each fall often use rhizomes, tubers, and turions to store carbohydrate food for use in winter and a jump start in spring. Species that keep their leaves typically have specialized winter versions that are tougher and more densely crowded. Fruits and seeds produced by annual aquatic plants are also tough enough to make it through the winter period. Algae produce overwintering cysts with tough covering and stored carbohydrates. These act like seeds, lying dormant on the bottom until conditions improved. Some algae do remain active in winter, including diatoms and cyanobacteria. Some cyanobacteria can even bloom under the ice.
Zooplankton and rotifers also slow down in winter. Most Cladocerans, like Daphnia, produce overwintering eggs (ephippia) that lie dormant til spring. Some overwinter as adults, though there are many fewer individuals than would be found in summer. Copepods do periodically enter a stage of reduced biological activity called diapause, but it’s not always related to winter conditions. Many copepod species are active during the winter and rely on food sources other than phytoplankton to survive.
Fish enter a state of torpor under winter conditions. They locate a spot with good circulation and the warmest water they can find to hunker down. Heart and metabolic rates slow. They need little food or oxygen. Coldwater species are a little more active than warm water ones, but they too slow down. Some fish may burrow down into the mud, but most spend their torpor period in large schools.
What We Don’t Know
In the non-polar parts of the world, we don’t know as much about winter freshwater lake biology as we’d like. It’s long been assumed that there isn’t much biological activity in the winter. Many body functions slow down when temperatures drop. With less sun to support photosynthesis, there is less plant growth and therefore less energy entering the food web. We expect lakes in winter to be quiet places, with most living things dormant or moving as little as possible to conserve their energy until spring.
This is not the case in the polar marine waters, Those areas team with life under the ice (see BBC’s Rich Marine Life Under Frozen Ice). The same temperature limitations on body functions occur there, so life thrives at a slower pace. In the last decade or so, scientists in other parts of the world have begun to use equipment developed for polar waters in the non-polar parts of the world. They are finding that there is more happening under the ice than we knew.
Diatoms growing in sea ice. Photo: Krebbs and Deming, pmel.noaa.gov
Most of the scientific literature suggests phytoplankton productivity is low under the ice, but there is relatively little hard data. Algae grow very well attached to winter sea ice at the poles, but we don’t have a good understanding of how much surface area freshwater ice provides for winter algae in northern climates. Just how much winter phytoplankton contribute to the overall energy processes of a lake remains to be uncovered.
– We have assumed that the winter food web in lakes is similar to the summer one. This doesn’t hold true under the sea ice and may not be true in freshwater lakes either. With fewer phytoplankton, what are zooplankton to eat? Recent studies suggest they eat more detritus or bacteria. Fish may rely more on benthic food sources. That all indicates that the winter food web in lakes, especially ice-covered ones, may be very different from the summer food web.
– Ice cover changes the air-gas exchange processes of a lake. Gasses are essentially trapped until the ice melts. We don’t know much about these processes. We also need to learn more about oxygen cycling in winter months. Higher nitrogen loading to lakes seems to affect the intensity of oxygen depletion under the ice, something scientists are trying better to understand. Low oxygen also leads to nutrient release from the sediment during the winter and we need to better understand what that means for our lakes in summer.
Change in ice thaw dates, showing the decrease in days of ice cover 1905-2019. EPA.gov, see the original.
With climate change, winters are changing rapidly. Lakes are experiencing less ice cover (see the figure for examples from EPA). That may mean more evaporation and lower water levels. Light can penetrate deeper into the water without ice, stimulating phytoplankton growth. More heat from the sun is held by the water, limiting ice formation even more. Less ice cover and warming winter waters affects summer conditions too. Lakes start in the spring with warmer waters, leading to increased late summer temperatures, They stay warmer longer in the fall – all of which means more growing time for algae and plants. Scientists are rushing to gather more information about conditions now so we can better understand what these changes may mean for our lakes in the future.
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Guess What, Cowboy?
CGI & Direction, 2022
Showcasing western themed looks, from denim to leather dresses. The goal of the show is to create an engaging and exciting experience that brings the virtual fashion closer to the public.
3D Art Direction
Matheus Cazuza, Bruno Ferreira - Creative Direction, Lookdev, Animation, Composition and Simulation
Caio Muranaka - Animation
Vitor Oliani - Animation, Music and Sound Design
Pedro Molizane - Illustration
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Part 1 : uncertainties likely to dissipate
The uncertainty surrounding the US-China trade war and Brexit will be less of a focal point in 2020.
Following several months of negotiations, the US and China finally secured a partial trade agreement, which includes almost doubling Chinese imports of US goods over a two-year period. As always, whether this promise will be kept remains to be seen and hostilities between the two countries may resume at any point. Nonetheless, the risk of a near-term escalation in trade tensions has diminished.
In the UK, the overwhelming Conservative majority has left PM Boris Johnson much less dependent on hard-Brexiteer support during the future trade-deal negotiations with the European Union. In addition, both parties start with equivalent regulation, which should facilitate the negotiations, and both are aiming for the closest relationship possible. These factors seem conducive to a trade deal.
Dissipating uncertainties should enable the manufacturing sector to pick up, which has been the main weak spot in the global economy. That said, new sources of uncertainty will need monitoring.
In the United States, the next few months should reveal which Democrat party candidate will be chosen to face President Trump during November’s elections. Some candidates are pushing strong left-wing policy programmes, and all are calling for a reversal, to a greater or lesser extent, of Trump’s tax cuts. President Trump’s impeachment trial has started but it is unlikely that the Senate will vote to remove him from office. In all likelihood, the proceedings will shortly come to a close and the economy will take centre stage during the election campaign.
The situation in the Middle East remains delicate. The repercussions of geopolitical risk are most visible in oil price shifts. However, since the rise of shale oil, the structure of the oil market has fundamentally changed: the US has become self-sufficient in energy and less exposed to oil price shocks.
The coronavirus outbreak in China has sparked fears of a pandemic and a slowdown in growth, with the full extent and impact of the outbreak still to be seen. In 2003, the SARS outbreak had a significant economic impact, although if things unfold in a similar fashion, the effects should be temporary.
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|Death: ||Jun. 4, 1915|
Mary was living with her parents on the 1860 census. She married Konrad 13 March 1862. They bought acreage that joined her sister Elizabeth Wirth and were gardeners near present day Hess Lane and Preston Highway.
The death of two of the eight children of Konrad and Mary were not found; therefore they are not listed below. They were:
Mary L. the first born about 1865. At the time of her father's death in 1891 she was married to a Frankel. They had one son, Carl C., born about 1890. On the 1910 census Mary was married to Charles Obst. they had been married nine years. Charles was age 43 and Mary 45. Mary indicated she had two children and that one was living. This would have been Carl C. Frankel, age 20 living in the household with Charles and Mary. Also Mary's sister, Maggie, was with them. They were living on Breckinridge close to Shelby. Charles may have had a saloon at 839 S. Hancock. Mary's uncle, Philip Steinmetz, was a bartender for J.C. Obst on the 1910 census.
Julie, the last of the eight children, was born in 1886. She was at home with her mother on the 1900 census. Julie was married to Frank Eyl when the estate was settled in 1917.
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Nearly a decade after their last release ‘Jonas L.A’, the Jonas Brothers are back with a bash this summer with their new album titled ‘Happiness Begins’.
Fifth among all their studio albums, ‘Happiness Begins’ is set to release on June 7. The trio, however, has already launched two of its singles titled “Sucker” and “Cool” with nearly 111 million and 25 million views on YouTube respectively.
Released two months ago, the album's single ‘Sucker’ features the Nick, Joe, Kevin's better halves, Bollywood megastar Priyanka Chopra, "Game of Thrones" actress Sophie Turner and Daniella Jonas, respectively.
Taking to Twitter, the trio announced the date of the entire album’s release with its cover that highlighted the Jonas brothers lay by a pool with a picturesque background of the hills.
They further posted a video where the brothers are seen full of enthusiasm for their album’s release, as Turner appears and excitedly shouts, ‘It's Lit’.
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Following the announcement, Kevin Jonas also tweeted talking about the hard work carried out by the three for their new album. He wrote:
While the Jonas Brothers are excited about the release of ‘Happiness Begins’, their fans cannot contain their excitement either. Netizens' reaction to their announcement has clearly shown how eagerly they are waiting to groove on songs of the trio yet again after a long wait.
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The Royal Alexandra & Albert School has made a huge improvement to its environmental footprint by installing water and ground source heat pumps to replace its 40 year old, oil-fired boilers. In doing so it has replaced over 90% of its previous use of c. 750,000 litres per annum of oil with electricity from green suppliers, and reduced its carbon emissions by c. 2,000 tonnes per year and its ongoing fuel costs from around 7p/kWh to 4p/kWh. This carbon saving is equivalent to taking almost 1,000 cars off the road.
Inside one of the 13 plant rooms
The school is a voluntary aided state boarding school with 1150 pupils, with around 500 of them being full time boarders. The school undertook a study of potential renewable energy options in 2018, and then started a detailed study on using heat pumps in late 2018 with the joint objectives of becoming “greener” and offsetting the risk of future increases in oil prices. The project was installed during 2020 and early 2021, in the midst of the COVID pandemic.
The scale of the project can be seen by the 13 plant rooms which have been converted, as well as from the 130 vertical boreholes which are 140m deep and also from the 28km of pipe in the main lake, in total generating c. 2.2MW of heat. The £6 million capital cost of the project has been largely funded by normal bank loans and is delivering a positive payback according to Bursar Peter Dawson, who has been one of the main drivers behind the project. The project is also supported by the 20-year Renewable Heat Incentive. As importantly, the system is working well and delivered acceptable levels of heat through the recent cold snap, helped by having installed additional roof insulation as part of the overall project.
Looking forward, plans include more energy efficiency measures such as cavity wall insulation and possibly solar panels.
Congratulations to all involved in this landmark project.


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To live in a place other people dream of visiting is incredible. Through the lens of my camera OnLocation North Idaho will bring you a slice of life as we know it in the Idaho panhandle. Enjoy!
Monday, November 26, 2007
Hundreds of starlings descended on a Post Falls (Syringa Street) neighborhood, blanketing front lawns and trees in their search for food. It was incredible to see them darken the overcast sky, swooping and flying in unison. The starling is a song bird and can mimic other sounds. According to the Birds of Idaho field guide, starlings gather in the hundreds in the fall and feast on insects, seeds and fruit.
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Somini Sengupta’s front-page article, “India’s Growth Outstrips Crops” (New York Times, June 22, 2008) points out various reasons for the current shortage of staple foods in India– including rapidly sinking water tables, inadequate government investment in agriculture and especially in irrigation and access to loans for farmers, agricultural land being sold for residential use since the profits from agriculture were so poor. Between 1968 and 1998 India’s production of cereals had doubled, but between 1998 and 2008 it has gone down due to the cancellation of government support prices, which followed the advice of the World Bank and the United States economists. Based on my own field research on agricultural issues in India over the last fifty years I have always been surprised by the disconnect between what farmers tell me and what I hear from economists (most of whom rarely visit many farms). I see a very different picture.
Starting with the colonial occupation of India, the government’s agricultural policies have focused on the accumulation of money by the well-do-do farmers and the government at the expense of those who tilled the land. Instead of focusing on increasing the production of multiple crops, grown in tandem either through crop rotations or by intercropping (such as the intercropping of trees and field crops), the focus was from early on, and more so during the last 10 years, on crops for export (for example bananas and other fruits to Europe) rather than on feeding its own population. The journal Seedling, published by an NGO named GRAIN, points out that all of the largest grain traders in the world have greatly increased their profits during the past two years; Cargill, for example, announced that its profits from commodity trading for the first quarter of 2008 were 86% higher than for the same period of 2007. It is not surprising that the poor do not have enough to eat. See: www.grain.org
While many of us would consider the right to food to be a fundamental human right, the concept of “rights” has paradoxically been appropriated by multinational corporations, as well as governments, to expand the philosophy of neoliberalism. For example, recent changes in Mexican law have elevated the “right” of private ownership over the communal ownership of common lands, water resources, etc., traditionally observed by indigenous communities (Seedling, Oct. 2007, pages 6-7.) And we are all familiar with the use of the “right” to individual (or corporate) ownership to steal traditional products of nature from local traditional societies, including not only indigenous tribal groups but also many preparations used by our grandmothers, by patenting them in a slightly modified form. Seedling quotes a Canadian farmer saying: “farmers all over the world need to start thinking once again of food as a source of nutrition and sustenance and to re-connect with old ideas about fertility, knowledge, labour and community. . . awareness that the corporate strategy for world domination is unsustainable and ultimately self-defeating.” Not only in some parts of rural India, but the world over, people’s “rights ” and their advocates are increasingly being heard, and people are beginning to look to a new pattern of agriculture that will be directed toward feeding people rather than toward profit.
After the dry spell in the mid 1960s-early 1970s, making India self-sufficient in food became a rallying call. But instead of basing the methods for accomplishing this on land reform (along with really well informed, ecologically sound extension), the politically driven emphasis on mono-cropping, export for profit, and complex market chains led to an adoption of the U.S. model of agriculture based on a limited number of commodities. This approach relied on an extensive use of artificial petrochemical-based fertilizers and pesticides, with a strong emphasis on the large and very large farmers (size defined in locally relevant terms). With the so-called “liberalization” of the economy in the last 10 years, there has been a large emphasis on export crops, based on the views of economists who believed that it would be good for trade if India were to import many of its basic grains, taking advantage of what economists call “economies of scale”, a concept borrowed from industry which ignores the realities of rural/agricultural life. As George Mombiot recently pointed out, it has been known since the 1960’s that small farms produce greater yields per acre than large farms, sometimes as much as 20 times greater. (The Guardian, London, 10 June 2008). In the 1950s WalterGoldschmidt’s work, as well as the political reaction to it, made it clear that industrial agriculture is less a matter of efficiency (productivity, energy, or capital usage) than of political power.
In any case, food is not simply a product, like a piece of cloth or a machine, though food companies have tried to turn it into commodities like pieces of cloth.. The growth of plants and animals is part and parcel of local communal life, of the quality of rural day-to-day existence and the local exchange of goods. The current policy also makes people dependent on the transportation of food and food products over long distances (using large amounts of petrochemicals), as well as on petrochemicals for fertilizers, herbicides, and enormous quantities of pesticides which are destructive of the soil, apart from having numerous health impacts.
In addition, the central and state governments have chosen to focus on larger size dams and irrigation projects, while neglecting local-level water conservation and water harvesting along with small household level ponds, the recycling of semi-contaminated water at the local level (such as bath water etc.) and failing to employ the most ecologically sound methods of water use, which has inevitably had a negative impact on agriculture.
In 1995, an important conference organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute based in Washington, D.C. concluded that with existing technology, along with new methods already being tried out–such as the SRI (System of Rice Intensification, developed in Madagascar), India would be able to feed itself for the next 25 or more years. Yet the significant increase in export farming, the continual neglect of small farmers, the belief held by the urban elite that basically nobody wants to farm, the rapid increase in the price of oil and other petrochemical products, has made it extremely difficult for poor farmers and even middle-sized ones. The failure of various south Indian state governments (where I have been working) to support the use of (formerly) common lands by self-help groups of landless women which were producing vegetables both for their own consumption and the local market is one of the pieces of a broader failure to see sustainable agriculture by villagers as a meaningful alternative to so-called “modern” agriculture.
The tendency among the elite, and this includes many (though not all) economists, to belittle small farmers, those that grow for the local community and perhaps the nearby city, encourages farm policies that make rural people more dependent on importing foods from longer and longer distances, and that fail to meet the needs of local farmers and consumers both. The government’s downplaying of procurement policies, buying of grains and basic foodstuffs at lower than market prices, only exacerbates food crises, and may even create them.
I have seen NGOs struggling to obtain funds to help with programs that assist small farmers having to fight both their local government policies as well as those of the central government. I
have also witnessed farm after farm obtaining high yields of multiple crops when they are given not only financial support but also technical advice and examples to follow as well as community support. The focus of these groups is clearly at variance with most government policies.
Agricultural changes in the US today also reflect a rejection of centralized agricultural policies. We are experiencing a major change as more and more people turn to Community Supported Agriculture associations (CSAs), farmers’ markets, and small-scale urban agriculture, which is creating a significant though still small movement which may well transform the way we eat. Even though this movement is against the interests of large corporate interests, it continues to grow. The movement in the US is starting from a very different place compared to the situation we find in India. While the gap between urban elites and food cultivators is every way as great in India as in the U.S., perhaps even greater because of issues of caste in India, it is still possible for Indian farmers to be weaned away from export crops, and to return to production for local and regional markets. For example, in Bangalore I have seen how organic food brought in to a city market usually sells out in a few hours–even in poorer neighborhoods. People want healthier foods. Even urban people are beginning to grow their own vegetables and fruits (though not yet grains), as well as keeping a few hens to provide their families with fresh eggs.
For a number of reasons, the increasing cost of food may serve to send more people back to local consumption. The real problem in India and elsewhere are the really poor, in rural areas the landless, in urban areas the homeless or the slum dwellers, who lack even tiny amounts of space to grow food, or to innovate on water conservation, etc. At this moment in many countries of the world, these people are barely able to afford the minimum nutrition their bodies need. This is fine for the commodity traders, who are in a perfect position to profit from other people’s hunger. Is a trader’s “right” to obscene levels of profit more sacred than a poor person’s right to eat?
Which brings us back to the question of human rights–the right to land, to housing, to water, to food and to a decent quality of life for everyone. With a recognition of these rights most of the people reading this will have the chance to gain more autonomy over their own lives. The struggle for this is essential for both human survival and the survival of all types of life on this planet. .
JOAN P. MENCHER is an Emerita Professor of Anthropology from the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, and Lehman College of the City University of New York. She is the chair of an embryonic not-for-profit called The Second Chance Foundation,which works to support rural grassroots organizations in India and the United States who work with poor and small farmers on issues of sustainable agriculture. She has worked primarily in South India but also in West Bengal briefly, on issues of ecology, caste, land reform, agriculture, women, and related issues over the last half century, and has published widely both in the United States and in India on all of these subjects, primarily in academic journals. For comments or questions, write firstname.lastname@example.org.

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JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The 12th Presidents Cup will begin, fittingly, in presidential fashion. And it could end that way, too.
Three former Presidents – Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama – will stand together on the first tee Thursday at Liberty National as the biennial competition kicks off in patriotic style, and with American staples Lady Liberty and the Freedom Tower not far off in the distance.
Three past presidents together at a single sporting event; that’s rare, not just in golf but in all of sports. The last time more than one former President has attended the Presidents Cup was 2005 when Clinton and George H.W. Bush were together at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Va. There was also the time that Clinton, H.W. Bush and Gerald Ford played together at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic in 1995.
But how often do three presidents drop a puck in a Stanley Cup Finals game or flip the coin at the Super Bowl?
PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan called it “a remarkably cool aspect” to this year’s Presidents Cup.
“I get excited about the fact that three individuals ascended to the highest office in the land and golf was an important part of their life and continues to be an important part of their life,” Monahan said Wednesday. “… I think it’s a great statement for our game.”
Thursday’s statement, however, may not be the biggest of the week. The tournament’s honorary chairman, President Donald Trump, could possibly show up for Sunday’s final day of action.
“The name of this event is named after the highest office in the land,” Monahan said, “and you’ve heard me say really over the course of a year how we’ve always respected the office of the presidency, so when we extended that invitation … and when he accepted, we were really excited to know that he’d accepted that role and was contemplating coming out here, and we’re excited to have him out here, we really are.
“We hope he comes and he’ll be welcomed by us and by our players.”
Monahan said that the Secret Service has already been out to Liberty National to assess the security demands of Trump attending the event, and that the PGA Tour has helped in the process. Still, there’s no guarantee that Trump will come.
“We’re thinking that he’s going to come, but he hasn’t yet confirmed,” Monahan said. “And we don’t know timing or all the underlying details.”
If Trump were to show, it would likely bring a cloud of controversy to the event, even if Monahan is hopeful that Trump’s presence would be positive. Last week, Trump made comments at a rally in Alabama that NFL players who kneel for the national anthem should be fired. The NFL responded last Sunday to the divisive comments made by the president, as players, coaches and owners chose to kneel, lock arms or even stay in the locker room before their games. Several NFL owners also released statements denouncing Trump’s comments.
So far at Liberty National, American captains and players have insisted they would not protest during the Presidents Cup.
“We’ve had that discussion already,” said U.S. captain Steve Stricker. “None of my players want to do that.”
For Monahan, he’d like to keep it all about the golf this week, as well.
“This is a non-partisan event; we are not endorsing a person, we’re not endorsing a party, and if you look to what’s going to happen on Thursday, to have both sides of the aisle represented on the first hole, to me that’s representative and reflective of this event,” Monahan said. “This event has never been a political event, it’s been a golf event that unites the world’s best players together, unites fans all over the world, a team competition that has done and will continue to do a lot of goodwill.”
Trump’s presence Sunday at Liberty National, however, would bring distractions. But as Monahan defends, the competition is called what it’s called for a reason.
“We’ve always invited the president,” Monahan said. “It’s the Presidents Cup. He’s the President of the United States.”
– Jeff Babineau contributed


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WEST Brom have refuted allegations by Odense that they used medical results as an excuse to try to lower Eric Djemba-Djemba’s fee.
The Baggies called off their chase for the ex-Villa and Manchester United midfielder yesterday after revealing that the club’s medical had uncovered possible issues relating to an old knee injury.
But the Danish club issued a statement last night claiming that Albion’s medical report into the 29-year-old was merely an excuse to get the transfer fee knocked down.
Albion retorted by completely denying those claims.
Djemba-Djemba, who watched Tuesday night’s friendly at Doncaster, was subjected to rigourous and thorough examinations and scans by Albion’s medical and sports science staff.
Those tests uncovered complications relating to a knee problem which the Cameroonian had back in the Spring.
Albion then returned to Odense to try to get the transfer fee renegotiated to reflect the medical results.
But Odense refused, prompting Albion to withdraw from the transfer.
However, Kim Brink, director of Odense asserted his own club’s stance.
He said: “West Bromwich Albion have confirmed to us that there was a problem with the medical and wanted a lower price.
“But I don’t understand this. I want to confirm that Eric has no injuries whatsoever. Yes he was injured during the spring but he’s ready now and there are no problems so I think it is a poor explanation (by Albion) to get a better price.
“People can come and say whatever they want to get a better price but if they really wanted Eric they would pay what we agreed.
“I have experienced a lot in football and most things don’t surprise me but this has surprised me because we were really close.”
One player who is settling into his new surroundings is Borja Valero, who concedes that he was not suited to English football.
The ex-Real Madrid midfielder has just started a binding loan-to-permanent transfer arrangment with Villareal.
He admits now that, while his spell in the English top flight improved him as a player, he was right to move on.
“Villarreal is a club I like – it fits me like a glove,” said Borja.
“It’s very different to English football but I think that experience improved me.
“I’ve grown a lot as a footballer because in England a totally different style previals – one that’s much more physical but a less tactical game. I’m sure I’ll be much more comfortable here.”
Albion, meanwhile, claim they have had no contact with Lens after reports claimed they were preparing an offer for Abdoulaye Meite.
The Baggies have also dismissed claims linking them with FC Twente’s Cheick Tiote.


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Rhonda Lee and Shannon sang on TV, in big bands & in local theater until they met and formed a band called Down To Earth in the 70s. In the 80s they merged with The Radiants and formed Radiant Earth, a hugely popular dance band in Central PA. These two good friends have now reunited to sing oldies in 50s costumes, big band classics, pop, patriotic songs and sacred music for special occasions.


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Code - Augur Nox mp3 album
Augur Nox" is the first album featuring Code's new line up of Aort, Wacian, Syhr, LORDt and Andras. The brand-new material demonstrates the band's fresh personnel in a vivid light, confirming Code's position as a radiant gem in the extreme metal world. The album is Code's most progressive effort to date, yet always captures the band's distinct eerie and arcane vibe
Album Name Augur Nox. Type Album. Дата релиза 19 Ноябрь 2013. Лейблы Agonia Records. Музыкальный стильBlack Metal. Владельцы этого альбома7.
Mould SID Code: IFPI ZY02. Other Versions (5 of 6) View All. Cat.
php?pos site or digitally at agoniarecords. augur nox. resplendent grotesque. MrUnit731 initially I didn't like it, but then it instantly became my favourite album when I was tripping on LSD. It still holds a very special place in my heart. about 2 years ago. Desislav Jordanov. Колкото повече го слушам, толкова повече ми харесва. Жесток албум, поздравления за момчетата! about 2 years ago.
There’s just very little sweeter to my ears than black metal aesthetics combined with progressive theatrics, slick guitar work and the occasional cleanly sung chorus. Code play right into my tastes, so it’s no surprise I can’t speak highly enough of their work on Augur Nox. It’s an album that’s going to demand half a dozen spins just to scratch the surface, even when the melody and energy hit you immediately. But all this espousing can only go so far, as this is a work to be appreciated with an open mind free of expectations. Fans of metal extreme and calm will find much to appreciate in Code’s approach to the dark arts, though those seeking something that adheres solely to one or the other may be disappointed.
This album has an average beat per minute of 133 BPM (slowest/fastest tempos: 76/200 BPM). See its BPM profile at the bottom of the page. BPM Profile Augur Nox. Album starts at 164BPM, ends at 112BPM (-52), with tempos within the -BPM range. Try refreshing the page if dots are missing). Recent albums by Code.
Album (Studio full-length). Black Metal, Progressive Metal. Augur Nox Information. Track listing (Songs).
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|10||Trace Of God||3:49|
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NotesHoused in 4-panel Digipak
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With the death of Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov opening up a power vacuum in Central Asia’s most populous state, and worries about civil unrest and jihadism filling it, the other autocrats in this majority Muslim region are nervously looking over their shoulders at what this means for their regimes.
Probably the most nervous should be Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has repeatedly said he would serve as president “as far as people trust me” and has not named a successor, fearing irrelevance when elites, investors and foreign powers start courting the future leader. Nazarbayev was designated the “Leader of the Nation” in 2010 and had the two-term limit abolished for himself in 2011 allowing him to stand for presidency indefinitely.
But Nazarbayev is looking to avoid the mistake of Karimov, who doesn’t appear to have anointed a successor, by trying to keep power very much in the family. In September 2015, Nazarbayev appointed his eldest daughter, Dariga Nazarbayeva, to the post of deputy prime minister. The move reignited succession talk; Nazarbayeva, 53, a former deputy speaker of the Kazakh parliament’s lower chamber, has often been tipped to succeed her 76-year-old father, though critics have pointed to her lack of executive experience as the main hurdle to her leading the country.
Following the early presidential election in April 2015, in which Nazarbayev was re-elected with nearly 98% of the vote on a 95% turnout, Nazarbayeva was rumoured to be in line to become head of the western oil-rich Aktobe Region, the governor of which was said to be in danger of the sack as punishment for delivering one of the lowest votes for the president out of all regions. This would have provided her with the missing experience in governing.
Nazarbayeva’s prospects for succeeding her father were also once seen harmed by her former husband Rakhat Aliyev, one of the most hated figures in the Kazakh establishment. But his suicide last year in an Austrian prison paved the way for the president to consider his daughter as well as her eldest son Nurali, 31, who was deputy mayor of Astana, as potential successors.
When asked by CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in June whether he could envisage a woman as president of Kazakhstan, Nazarbayev replied: “Why do you think there cannot be women [presidents] in Kazakhstan? It is quite possible.”
He noted that women account for 51% of the country’s population of 17.8mn and there were a handful of women members of government, with 30% of MPs being women. “Thus it is quite possible, especially when there are prepared women. Bearing in mind that I have three daughters, I have special attitudes to women,” Nazarbayev added.
Keeping the presidency in the Nazarbayev family could be backed by many of the country's elite groups, who would prefer a smooth transition of power from Nazarbayev to either his daughter or grandson. The designation of a member of one elite group as successor over others could lead to conflict between rival groups vying for power.
“All countries in the region, with the exception of Kyrgyzstan, have established a political system where issues of succession will, ultimately, be decided by various influential groups,” political analyst Andrei Chebotarev tells bne IntelliNews. “That said, only Tajikistan would be the most likely candidate to take the path of Azerbaijan when it comes to the transfer of power,” Chebotarev added, referring to the successful consolidation of power by President Ilham Aliyev upon his father’s resignation due to poor health in October 2003.
Rahmon and on and on...
Tajikistan is run by the relatively youthful 63-year-old Emomali Rahmon, who has long been grooming his son, Rustam Emomali, to be his successor. Tajik citizens voted in a referendum in May to approve amendments to the constitution that would allow the Tajik president to stay in power for life, abolishing a two-term limit for Rahmon with lifelong immunity from prosecution. The amendments also cut the presidential age limit from 35 to 30, enabling Rustam, now 28, to step in as successor should his father decide to step down by the time of the next election.
A less likely candidate is Rahmon’s eldest daughter, Ozoda Emomali. Ozoda, 38, was appointed chief of the presidential staff in January and a member of the upper chamber of Tajikistan’s parliament in May. However, this could be another set of moves at consolidating Rahmon’s overall family power for years to come. With the once biggest political opposition, the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan, defenestrated, the referendum and other moves look certain to ensure the president’s family stays in power for the foreseeable future and thus puts an end to guesswork on who will succeed Rahmon.
Age-related worries seem less of a concern in the secretive and oppressive state of Turkmenistan. Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, 59, succeeded in 2006 the man who ruled gas-rich Turkmenistan through the fall of Communism, Saparmurat Niyazov, with a cult-like status. During his reign, Niyazov declared himself “Head of All Turkmen” and named airports and buildings after himself.
If there were hopes that a saner regime would take over, those have been dashed by the past decade of Berdimuhamedov’s presidency. While he has reversed some of Niyazov’s crazier policies, such as naming certain months after family members, trying to create ice palaces in one of the world’s hottest countries and banning opera performers from the country, Berdimuhamedov has engaged in creating his own personality cult, including publishing 35 books on topics such as herbal medicine and carpets, while ‘winning’ rigged horse-riding competitions.
Human Rights Watch notes that, “There are no free elections in Turkmenistan, nor a free media, and citizens cannot freely protest in the street. Turkmenistan is one the world’s few countries that regularly bars thousands of its citizens from traveling abroad.”
At a testy press conference alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a summit in Germany at the end of August, Berdimuhamedov dismissed the question of human rights with his own rhetorical question: “Tell me which other country gives its citizens gas and electricity for free?”
“Free gas, perhaps (although there are reports that economic problems may soon curb this). But that’s where Turkmenistan’s freedoms dry up,” notes Hugh Williamson, director of the Europe and Central Asia Division of HRW.
With Rahmon looking to have secured a family dynasty in Tajikistan and Berdimuhamedov keeping a tight grip on power in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan is therefore the country where there is the greatest uncertainty over the ability of the ruling family to secure a smooth transition of power, and the biggest chance for another member of the elite to take over.
Outside the family
In October 2015, the Kazakh Rating.kz research agency published a list of potential candidates that could succeed Nazarbayev. According to a poll conducted by the agency among 38 “highly qualified specialists” of political and socioeconomic trends in Kazakhstan, the most likely candidates to success Nazarbayev were the ex-mayor of Almaty Akhmetzhan Yesimov, 65, and Prime Minister Karim Massimov, 51.
Yesimov, who lacks charisma but is believed to be somehow related to the president, has significant financial resources to leverage via his son-in-law, the businessman Galimzhan Yesenov, whose fortune is estimated at nearly $450mn by Forbes Kazakhstan magazine. On the other hand, Yesimov has next-to no experience at the top level of government; the highest post he held was minister of agriculture and he cannot boast a record of crisis management.
By contrast, Massimov is a veteran politician who is heading the government for the second time. Massimov is now seen assuming more and more important functions such as touring the regions – previously Nazarbayev’s preserve. The recent publication of personal details and pictures of Massimov's childhood could also be considered as some sort of promotion of his public image among domestic audiences.
Despite having extensive experience of doing the highest government job and plenty of crisis management experience, including negotiations with oil majors on the crucial yet hapless Kashagan oilfield project, Massimov lacks charisma and has a big image problem among ethnic Kazakhs – he is not regarded as a fluent speaker of Kazakh, one of the most crucial requirements set for presidential candidates. There is also a popular belief that he is an ethnic Uighur, although officially his ethnicity is identified as Kazakh.
“It’s evident that people in Kazakhstan feel that his ethnicity is a barrier to becoming president, despite all his experience, his inputs and the trust that the president has in him,” Rico Isaacs, senior lecturer in international studies at Oxford Brookes University, who has extensively studied the Kazakh political scene, told bne IntelliNews. Isaacs believes that a candidate’s ethnicity will trump all other considerations when it comes to choosing the next president, limiting the pool of potential successors to ethnic Kazakhs.
In the second tier of potential successors, according to the Rating.kz survey, were: former National Security Committee chief Nurtay Abykayev, the president’s nephew Kairat Satybaldy, and Speaker of the Senate Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev.
According to the poll, Abykayev could play a role in any forcible transfer of power due to his influence over the country’s security apparatus, but he is extremely unpopular among the elite and little known to the general population.
Tokayev, as a former diplomat, is considered a compromise candidate that would satisfy the interests of elite groups, but he lacks the political and financial resources of other potential successors. As speaker of the Senate, according to the constitution, Tokayev would assume the presidential powers in the case of Nazarbayev's incapacity or sudden death for the rest of the presidential term.
Further down the list of potential successors is the current defence minister, Imangali Tasmagambetov. He enjoys Nazarbayev’s trust, has political influence and possesses financial resources amounting to $650mn through his son-in-law. Tasmagambetov is also extremely popular with the Kazakh intelligentsia and population: his tenures as mayor of Almaty and Astana, and governor of the oil-rich Atyrau Region are widely recognised as successes. Nonetheless, his recent appointment as defence minister is seen by some experts as a demotion, because the defence sphere has been rattled by corruption scandals that could taint his political career.
Notably, the ranking did not include potential candidates from outside the current elite, such as the opposition, Kazakh nationalists and a small but growing group of Islamists. “The authorities have done everything to neutralise the opposition,” Kazakh opposition figure Amirzhan Kosanov said, “but it doesn’t mean the idea of an opposition figure and fatigue with an immovable government doesn't exist in the minds of ordinary Kazakhs.”
Kazakh nationalists, unlike their counterparts for example in Russia, are a liberal lot and the prospect of a Western-leaning, liberal government in Kazakhstan would inevitably prompt a negative reaction from Moscow. Despite lacking Moscow’s approval and legal channels to participate in government, “any well known and influential member of the opposition in certain circumstances and conditions could lead the fight for power,” Kosanov concluded.
In that light, observing Uzbekistan’s forthcoming power-shift is “particularly important [for Kazakhstan], since Uzbekistan’s elites are similarly non-monolithic as the elites in Kazakhstan,” independent political analyst Chebotarev notes, though he believes that “Uzbek elites are more unified, while Kazakh elites tend to engage in internal conflicts”.
Therefore the threats of in-fighting within the ruling elites of Central Asian dictatorships, along with the silence on succession plans, may mean that the often perceived Central Asian stability is shown to be merely an illusion.


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Martha Wainwright, little sister to Rufus and daughter of Loudon Wainwright III and late singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle, is among a slew of artists scheduled to perform at Shank Hall, the venue has announced. Wainwright released her third studio album last October, “Come Home to Mama;” it was recorded at Sean Lennon’s home studio and the first single “Proserpina” was written by McGarrigle.
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SAN ANTONIO - A few years from now streetcars may join the Alamo and the Riverwalk as fixtures of Downtown San Antonio. But is the $190 million streetcar project a wise investment in the future? Or is it being railroaded through over the objection of voters?
News 4 WOAI Trouble Shooter Jaie Avila takes a look at how the streetcar got to be on the fast-track.
The streetcar project is being modeled after one in Portland, Oregon, which has been popular with tourists and locals. It’s also been credited with revitalizing that city's downtown.
Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff was one of the local leaders who went to look at the Portland streetcar, and is one of its most enthusiastic supporters.
“First of all, it rides on the side of the road. Cars can ride on (the tracks) also. It takes forty percent of the buses off the downtown area streets. It reduces traffic congestion, once you get the system up and running it's cheaper to run than to buy buses,” Wolff claims.
Wolff says the greatest benefit is that streetcars encourage people and businesses to move downtown. He points to new apartment buildings along Broadway north of Downtown, and claims developers are building them partly in anticipation of the streetcar line.
“It doesn't cost us a lot to do development down here, in terms of having to add more police or fire, it's all here already. It's expensive to build way out in the county, build new highways, new roads, more congestion,” Wolff told News 4 WOAI.
The proposed streetcar route would run from the Pearl Brewery, down Broadway into Downtown, cutting east through HemisFair Park to the Alamodome.
Not everyone's on board with the streetcar. Some feel improvements to our overloaded roadways should come first. Then there's the heated dispute over how the streetcar is being paid for.
VIA, the City of San Antonio and Bexar County have all agreed to pitch in for the project. But for its part, Bexar County wants to use $92 million of Advanced Transportation District funds. That's money raised by a quarter-cent sales tax increase approved by voters in 2004.
At the time though, VIA’s literature urging voters to pass the new tax promised the money would be used to improve bus service, as well as roads and highways. Voters were told the money would NOT be used for toll roads or a light-rail project.
Opponents like State Senator Jeff Wentworth say VIA and Bexar County have pulled a bait-and-switch on those voters.
“Most voters thought that the increased tax revenue was going to be to help improve public roads, not to build some light-rail, streetcar project Downtown. Now the argument's been made that streetcars really aren't light-rail. Well, we're not going to quibble about that. Voters consider streetcars light-rail," explained Wentworth.
Wentworth has asked the State Attorney General's office for an opinion on whether the county and VIA are breaking what amounts to a contract with voters.
However, Nelson Wolff is adamant that streetcars and light-rail are not the same thing.
News 4 WOAI Trouble Shooter Jaie Avila asked Wolff, “Is that semantics to say it's not light-rail, when it is a kind of rail?”
Wolff responded, “No, no. It is rail. Let's put it that way. But the streetcar systems are more of a Downtown, inner-city, smaller system -- totally different than a light-rail system.”
Wolff and other streetcar supporters claim San Antonio is the only major U.S. city that hasn't started on a transportation system that includes rail. They say the streetcar will help qualify San Antonio for federal money to expand the rail system to other parts of the city in coming years.
It could all be derailed, however, by a lawsuit over the funding issue, or the Attorney General's ruling, which is expected by early fall.