On the Centre's direction to Telangana to pay over Rs 6,000 crore dues to Andhra Pradesh, KCR demanded the Centre make Andhra Pradesh pay his state the remaining dues.
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday claimed that it is Andhra Pradesh which owes Rs 17,828 crore towards electricity dues to Telangana.
On the Centre’s direction to Telangana to pay over Rs 6,000 crore dues to Andhra Pradesh, he demanded the Centre make Andhra Pradesh pay his state the remaining dues.
KCR told the Assembly that the power dues from Telangana were only Rs 3,000 crore but the Centre has asked it to pay another Rs 3,000 crore towards interest. The Centre has also stated that if the dues were not cleared in a month, action would be taken.
He argued that the dues receivable by Telangana distribution companies (discoms) from Andhra Pradesh are over Rs 17,000 crore, and the Centre should ask Andhra Pradesh pay remaining dues after adjusting Rs 6,000 crore dues as claimed by it.
The Chief Minister questioned the silence of the Centre over Telangana’s request to order Andhra Pradesh to pay power dues.
The Power Ministry on August 30 directed the power distribution companies (discoms) of Telangana to pay the dues of Rs 6,757 crore to the Andhra Pradesh Generation Corporation (APGenco) within 30 days.
Citing the provisions C(2) and (7) of the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014, the Power Ministry stated that there was no dispute regarding the amount to be paid for the power dues – the principal amount of Rs 3,441.78 crore and late payment surcharge of Rs 3,315.14 crore up to July 31, 2022 – to be paid in addition to the principal amount as per the applicable provisions.
Telangana‘s Energy Minister G. Jagadish Reddy has already announced that the state will wage a legal battle against the Centre’s direction.
Terming the Centre’s order as “absurd” and “politically motivated”, Jagadish Reddy said this was an act of vengeance against Telangana. He alleged that the Centre was conspiring to create a situation of power cuts in Telangana.
KCR told the Assembly that per capita power consumption in Telangana is 1,250 units against the national average of 957 units. He said power capita consumption in India is less compared to even smaller countries.
He alleged that the BJP government is misleading the country with wrong statistics about power consumption, and that the Centre is working to hand over the electricity sector to big corporates.
KCR also threw the challenge that if the statistics he has given about electricity are proved to be wrong, he would immediately resign.
The Chief Minister said the power situation in Telangana would improve further with the completion of Yadadri power plant.


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The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from
its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This
neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as
revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything
from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people
Notable & Unique: People
Some neighborhoods have residents that are more educated than others. But
in this neighborhood there is a dramatic difference. NeighborhoodScout's
exclusive analysis reveals that 36.8% of the adults here have
earned a Masters degree, medical degree, Ph.D. or law degree. This is a
higher rate of people with a graduate degree than is found in
97.6% of U.S. neighborhoods, where the average American
neighborhood has 8.4% of its adults with a graduate degree. If you are
highly educated, you may have much in common with many of your neighbors here.
In addition, one of the most interesting things about the Ghent / Eastern Virginia Medical School
neighborhood is that it has a greater concentration of residents who live
alone than most all neighborhoods in America. With 51.6% of the
households here made up of people living alone, NeighborhoodScout's research
reveals that this is a larger proportion of people living alone than in
97.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
Notable & Unique: Diversity
Did you know that the Ghent / Eastern Virginia Medical School neighborhood has more
Eastern European and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly
any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.3% of
this neighborhood's residents have Eastern European ancestry and 1.2% have Slovak ancestry.
Ghent / Eastern Virginia Medical School is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily
speak Hebrew at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher
than 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
Notable & Unique: Occupations
The Ghent / Eastern Virginia Medical School neighborhood has a higher proportion of
its residents employed as executives, managers and professionals than
97.4% of the neighborhoods in American. In fact, 67.8%
of the employed people here make a living as an executive, a manager, or
other professional. With such a high concentration, this truly shapes
the character of this neighborhood, and to a large degree defines what
this neighborhood is about.
Notable & Unique: Modes of Transportation
Would you like to be able to ride your bike to work? If you are attracted
to the idea of getting a little exercise of the two-wheeled type while
reducing your carbon footprint, bicycling to work might be the answer.
But which neighborhood you live in can make this either impossible, or
alternatively, a great and realistic option. NeighborhoodScout's analysis
revealed that the Ghent / Eastern Virginia Medical School neighborhood is a fantastic
option for bicycle commuters, as 4.3% of commuters here do ride
their bikes to and from work on a daily basis. This is a higher amount
than we found in 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
Also, in the Ghent / Eastern Virginia Medical School neighborhood, walking to work is a real
option for many. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research reveals
walking to and from work is the chosen way to commute for 15.4%
of residents here. This is a higher proportion of walking commuters than
we found in 96.5% of American neighborhoods. Get ready
to put on your walking shoes if you move here!
Notable & Unique: Real Estate
In addition, the real estate in the Ghent / Eastern Virginia Medical School neighborhood really stands out in the way it looks for a unique reason: this neighborhood has a higher proportion of apartment complexes or high-rise apartments than nearly every neighborhood in the country. Most neighborhoods are a mixture of real estate and housing types, but here it is almost entirely dominated by big apartment buildings and complexes. In fact, 66.5% of the real estate here is classified as apartment complexes or high-rise apartments, which is more than is found in 95.2% of American neighborhoods.

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High-fidelity flight simulation has the potential to reduce the cost and increase the safety of ab-initio, or introductory, flight training. However, many existing flight simulation training devices either lack fidelity or are completely unaffordable for smaller flight schools and flying clubs. This thesis details the development and implementation of several cost-effective technologies suitable for use in low-cost flight training devices. Using these technologies, an initially-obsolete and non-functional Cessna 172 flight training device by Vector Training Systems, Inc. (circa 2002) was reverse-engineered, redeveloped, modernized, and its functionality extended to create the Carleton University Redeveloped Vector Simulator (CURVS). Using modern microelectronics in the form of commercially-off-the-shelf hardware and software, this research showed that the potential exists for a new generation of high-fidelity yet cost-effective flight training devices to be created which are suitable for use by small flight training units.


If a plank member is unable to attend a meeting, they can use table member distant voting software program to solid their political election. However , they must follow board governance rules that allow users to participate from a web-based location. Additionally , they must make certain that other panel members and the auto industry can hear them. As well, board associates must set up a policy governing the use of distant voting. In addition , the board ought to consult with table counsel prior to adopting a remote voting plan.
The use of table member remote control voting computer software makes voting easier and more efficient for your business. This technology saves shops money and maintains the integrity of your process. It allows paid out members to follow the gathering online and solid their digital votes. Another benefit is that the method is easy to use and does best practices in planning effective meetings not require the usage of dedicated THAT staff or possibly a dedicated site. This applications are also scalable and can be applied in organizations of virtually any size.
Mother board member remote voting software is protect and comfortable, and this eliminates the situation of deceitful board users pretending to be board directors. It also ensures the integrity of the voting process by giving granular accord to participants.


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I had my first anxiety attack by myself on the train on the way to my sisters house. I felt an overwhelming sense that something bad was about to happen and that I had forgotten something. I felt overcome with panic and I didn’t know what to do.
When I feel anxious it feels like my heart is beating so hard and fast that it could explode, I feel nauseous and I feel light headed.
This was about 10 years ago and I still get incredibly anxious now when I travel and sometimes it stops me leaving the house at all. Over the years I’ve had to cancel countless social engagements because I’ve gotten into such a panic and there was a period where I didn’t leave the house for three weeks straight.
When I first learnt that what I was feeling was anxiety and that I wasn’t about to encounter a horrific event and I hadn’t (probably) forgotten anything, it actually helped me to deal with it to an extent. Now when the feeling comes on I know what it is and that it will pass after a few hours (usually/hopefully) and that everything will be OK. This may not be ideal and it may not work for everyone but it is working (ish) for me for the time being.
It’s like my body is kicking into a fight or flight mode but that I’m not actually able to do either so the adrenaline is just stuck swirling around and around and around and around.
I fear most social situations; having to speak to people (not just strangers) leaves me in a cold sweat. I worry that whatever I say will leave the person I’m talking to bored and disinterested. This usually leads me to trail off stories midway through, mumble and I say a lot of disparaging things about myself.
Here is a list of things that I find help me deal with my anxiety (because if you’ve only skim read the rest of this because paragraphs, then I know I can catch you with a punchy list and bullet points because Buzzfeed has changed us):
• Time – reminding myself that with every second that passes I am closer to my anxiety attack passing, without having to really do anything except let time do it’s thing. Good ol’ time. Time’s got your back.
• Meditating – the process of clearing your mind of any thoughts; incredibly difficult but incredibly effective. If you’re new to meditating I’d highly recommend visiting Calm.com who have a free trial to get you started. I’m fond of meditating to their rain soundtrack which has the added bonus of making me feel really calm whenever it’s pouring rain outside!
• Reading – the best way to block out your internal dialogue.
• Exercise – yuck! Amirite!? But so helpful. Ideally something outside. Or yoga. Mainly child’s pose.
• Drawing, painting, colouring in, dot-to-dots, crosswords, sudoku.
• Pinterest combined with Netflix (my favourite one).
• Sometimes you just have to stay in bed, hiding under the covers and letting it pass and that is utterly fine. You’re doing the best you can.
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Having your pet bath in the comfort of your own home is a great thing. This bath robe is great for dogs because it keeps them warm. It doesn’t get hot from washing them in the tub, and you won’t have to worry about them getting burned.
All it needs to keep your dog warm is a warm water bath. It will also protect him from the sun. Dogs can get burned easily. When they are in the bathtub, you will see how much damage they could suffer.
This bath robe has a belly band, which is helpful because it prevents them from Dog Bathrobe pulling on the robe, which makes them stand out and become more noticeable. With this bath robe, you can avoid unwanted attention.
Have you ever thought about adding a little bit more than just your articles? I mean, what you say is valuable and everything. But imagine if you added some great photos or videos to give your posts more, “pop”! Your content is excellent but with pics and videos, this site could certainly be one of the best in its niche. Terrific blog!

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Good hotel in a great location but NO ROOM specialized for physically-challenged guests. We inquired and the hotel staff told us their room (Deluxe King) is big enough for wheelchair users and that their bathroom is accessible. So we booked for a week stay in March2014. But when we got there, the room is ok bt the bathroom is inaccessible. We appreciate upgrading us into an Executive Suite (#728) for FREE wth a bigger bathroom bt still inaccessible. I'm fortunate enough to have both my husband and a caregiver to assist me in the inaccessible bathroom. I think it would benefit the hotel if they would consider amending at least 1-room per floor to make it accessible according to international building codes. They are losing wheelchair-user guests if they remain not having a HANDICAPPED ROOM.
- Official Description (provided by the hotel):
- Within the heart of Kuala Lumpur’s bustling city centre, the Impiana KLCC Hotel is the leading business class hotel in Kuala Lumpur. Located just opposite the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre and Aquaria KLCC, we are also just less then 5 minutes from KLCC Suria Shopping Mall, Pavilion and StarHill Shopping area.Just around the corner, at Jalan P Ramlee you can find free standing restaurants, pub and clubs like the Modesto, Budaba, Beach Club, Aloha Bistro and the Maredo’s Steakhouse.All rooms are with timber flooring, free UNLIMITED multiple wireless internet access and wireless access for designated hotel public areas. A covered air-cond link bridge directly connects Impiana KLCC Hotel to the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre and Bukit Bintang. ... more less
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J.J. Abrams has started filming "Super 8" in West Virginia with Kyle Chandler and Elle Fanning. No one is more overdue for a shot at big-screen stardom than Chandler. For the entire vivid life of the "Friday Night Lights" TV series he has charged the character of a rugged, amiable coach and father with deep-in-the-bone humor and surprising, modulated passion. He and costar Connie Britton as his wife have revived the romance of All-American domesticity.
But does he have the elusive charisma that seems essential to hold the wide (and ever-widening) movie frame? Chandler didn't cast a giant shadow in Peter Jackson's "King Kong" or Peter Berg's "The Kingdom." And for every TV ace who's made the jump, like Steve McQueen and George Clooney, there's been a stumbler like David Caruso, whose bag of tricks proved to be strictly of video proportions.
What do you think the odds are of Chandler making it as a movie star? Who else deserves a chance, and who else has been a disappointment? (I used to love Helen Hunt on "Mad About You," but I usually think she tries too hard in her increasingly infrequent movies, including her Oscar-winning turn in 'As Good As It Gets.")

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Easily the most appealing choice ever, the Rozh Desk is yellow painted onto the dining table top and all other surfaces and making this item the epitome of ‘contemporary cool’. This cool looking desk is covered with a silver chrome-plated metal frame excluding the server and breadboard, all of which are immaculate in white or cream, and include a display board for you drawers, very useful.
The yellow wall of the dining room will surely make the perfect background to your beautiful yellow and white modern design. I am sure you will enjoy the pictures greatly. Above all, I love the porcelain white and black frames. They will look great both in a modern house or in any other contemporary design. And I think they are perfect both in modern and traditional homes. You can use them for decorative photos or other items, in your bathroom or kitchen, on the wall in the bedroom or even in the office. The yellow is so bold and optimistic and the black background is perfect in contrast.


A refreshingly bold, raw and totally gripping fusion of soul and indie-funk. Reminiscent of the likes of Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, this is a sound that hits you immediately the moment you press play.
Based in Hamilton, The HP’s are a funk & soul collective that were created drummer/bandleader ‘Parkside’ Mike Renaud, the founder and owner of noted music company Hidden Pony Records & Management – widely recognised as one of Canada’s premiere talent-development labels and artist management companies.
Taken from the upcoming debut album ‘Gritty City Soul, Vol. 1.’


Professional Household Steam Iron Mini Portable Ironing Machine Clothes Steamer For Travel Drop Shipping
- Material: Plastic
- Metal Color: green
- Size: 8*10*17 cm Weight: about 430 g
This hand-held ironing machine is a combination of dry and wet ironing, one-button water spray, all-round ironing of different clothes in the four seasons, so that the clothes quickly become smooth and tidy, without delaying time. It Irons at a constant temperature of 150℃, which can instantly smooth out the wrinkles of clothes and iron them quickly and efficiently. The large titanium panel and the tip design of the front section make ironing more comprehensive and efficient without hurting clothes. Scope of application: ironing of clothes, shirts, underwear, bags, ties, etc. The integrated design of the transparent and visual water tank and the fuselage makes it easy for you to observe the remaining water volume at any time and add water.
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The New York company buys Oak View Mall in southwest Omaha
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – The struggling Oak View Mall has got a new owner.
NP Dodge officials told 6 News that the mall was purchased for $ 7.5 million by a New York company, Kohan Retail Investment Group.
“The purchase includes the main commercial center, one of the four department stores and the detached Longhorn Steakhouse on 144th Street,” said Trenton Magid, executive vice president of NP Dodge.
The new owner of Oak View Mall owns dozens of shopping centers across the United States. No word yet on future plans for the southwest Omaha property.
Oak View has fought for years. The mall is almost 30 years old and has changed the way consumers shop.
“Closed malls have lost favor with shoppers and the biggest question is, ‘Where is retail going in the United States and in the world? ‘Said Magid.
The Kohan Group owns dozens of shopping malls across the country. According to their website, which lists Omaha’s Oak View Mall as one of their properties, the group sees the future of the aging mall as a place where more than just shopping can be found.
Closed shopping malls have fallen out of favor. Across the city, Omaha is witnessing the demolition of the old Crossroads Mall, which is being replaced by a half-billion dollar multi-purpose development.
“The location of Oak View Mall at 144th and West Center Road is very solid. It is a mile south of the newly developed Heartwood Preserve with some record prices on pad locations and land for all types of use. And here we have a great location, but we have an outdated type of retail product which is the closed mall. “
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Tuesday April 23 2019
Presented by Timbre Concerts
Timbre Concerts Presents:
On Sale Friday February 8th, 2019 at 10am!
Tuesday April 23rd, 2019
Doors 8:00pm, Show 9:00pm
Tickets $16.00 (plus appl. s/c) advance available online at www.ticketweb.ca
Ticketweb direct link: https://www.ticketweb.ca/event/escort-fortune-sound-club-tickets/9169585?pl=timbre
Also available at Red Cat Main St, Red Cat Hastings St and Zulu
Dance music group from Brooklyn, on tour to support their upcoming 2019 release.
Video (New Single): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrWceIujqV4


The Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA) disclosed a security breach that affected over 329,000 members and stakeholders of the association. It is said that unknown hackers compromised the CPA Canada website and obtained information related to the distribution of its magazine. The exposed information includes names, home addresses, email addresses, and other sensitive information. However, CPA clarified that information like passwords and credit card numbers were protected by encryption. “There is no evidence that the encryption keys were affected in this incident and we have no reason to believe the encryption was compromised,” the company said in its security incident report.
According to CPA Canada, the attack by unauthorized third-party members occurred between November 30, 2019 and May 1, 2020. The company warned the compromised data could be used in phishing scams and urged the affected users to remain vigilant. While hackers behind the cyberattack are unknown, CPA Canada stated that it beefed up its security measures and contacted the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre and privacy authorities for further investigation on the incident.
CPA Canada is the national organization representing the Canadian accounting profession, with over 210,000 chartered professional accountants in Canada and around the world. It conducts research on business issues, supports the setting of accounting, auditing and assurance standards for businesses, non-profits, and the government.
“CPA Canada worked closely with cybersecurity experts to conduct its investigation, to ensure that its systems were promptly secured and to identify what information was involved. In addition to notifying potentially affected individuals directly, we have contacted law enforcement, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, and privacy authorities where applicable,” the company said in a statement.
The statement added, “We encourage individuals to remain vigilant, as always, about any emails, text messages or phone calls you may receive asking you to provide sensitive information or click on links or attachments, or that use urgent or threatening language, even if they appear to come from CPA Canada or an individual or company you know or trust.”
Canadians Refuse to Divulge Personal Data
A survey report from the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) revealed that most Canadians refuse to provide their personal information to access free online services. The report “2020 Canadians Deserve a Better Internet Report” disclosed that except online banking services (52%), most Canadians stated that they are unwilling to share their sensitive data for better products and services online. Only 26% of respondents admitted that they are willing to give personal information in return for better video streaming services. Around 23% of Canadians stated that they disclose personal details to use social media services and 15% are willing to share personal data for access to internet-connected devices like baby monitors.


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A recent return to a Northwest favorite — Alderbrook Resort & Spa — reminded us that Mother Nature […]
I recently visited New York City for the first time, and being the (obsessive) planner that I am and being on a tight timeline, I wanted to see and do as much as we could during our trip.
Alaska has been on my list for some time and I knew I didn’t want to do it via cruise ship so when there were flight deals this summer, we booked them right away.
One of the best parts of living in Seattle—in addition to the spectacular summers here—is our proximity to amazing weekend adventures.
National Parks are one of America’s most unique treasures—sprawling protected lands that encourage adventure and exploring nature for everyone. Welcome to Joshua Tree, an area of desert wilderness named after the native yucca brevifolia in southeastern California. Winter does bring cooler temperatures, but there’s still quite a bit of sunshine.
Good eats, awesome trails, and small-town hospitality in Bentonville, AR
When Visit Bentonville invited us to come check out their city, best known as the birthplace of Walmart, I laughed. A lot. They preached about their award-winning chefs and up and coming “High South” food scene, and I rolled my eyes. Why would anyone from Seattle, arguably one of the best foodie cities in the country, go to Arkansas for the food (or for anything)? How many ways could they do meat and potatoes? Also, Bentonville is in the Ozarks which I’ve been binging on Netflix, and it looked scary as shit. I thought about being a typical Seattleite and passively ignoring the invite, but something caught my eye – this unassuming town had 163 miles of award-winning cycling trails weaving in and around it, making it a top destination for a biker’s vacation.
A local writer sends his first book out into the world.
Calling all wanderlusters, seekers and humans in search of something more. A local author has penned his first book—part travelogue, part self-discovery exploration—and we highly recommend you tag along for the exhilarating ride.
Victoria is one of our favorite summertime destinations. It’s only a three hour ferry ride from Seattle, but the European architectural influence and the relaxed atmosphere makes it feels a world away. Here are the top spots we’d recommend for a weekend trip to Victoria.
It’s wedding season again! Every year, the majority of weddings cluster in late spring to early fall. For those who struggle while all your friends are getting married, you can find laughter and solace in this great tumblr. And for those getting married, it seems more and more common that newlyweds are choosing to delay their honeymoon until later in the year or even the following year.

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The heat is on. At least, with your new hot sauce bottle labels it will be! You worked hard on your hot sauce bottle branding. Give it the packaging it deserves by ordering your own custom labels for hot sauce bottles. Or maybe you’re not bottling your own sauce. Maybe you just want something fun like hot sauce wedding favor labels? These work perfectly as wedding hot sauce labels, trust us. With low quantities and great prices, you’ve come to the right place. At Stomp, we love helping our customers. We want to make sure that you’re getting the best hot sauce labels that money can buy. You have our unique promise to make sure your hot sauce labels are our top priority. So, set the world on fire, Stompers! We’re here to help in any way we can!

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Forget all that carving malarkey – get ready for Halloween with this adorable plushie pumpkin. Use it as a pillow, pin cushion, or as part of a ‘ween-themed centre piece. Ouissi Gresty shows us how.
You will need:
• Your choice of fabric or felt
• Soft toy stuffing
• Wool or embroidery thread to match or contrast with your fabric
• Bias tape, ribbon or a strip of felt
Cut out a circle from your fabric or felt about three times wider than you wish for the width of your pumpkin. Sew around the edge of your circle with a running stitch, leaving the end of the thread free.
Form a doughnut shape out of your soft toy stuffing, and place in the centre of your circle of fabric. Pull the two ends of the thread, gathering up the fabric, and tie the ends tightly.
Sew through the pumpkin’s centre, from the gathered side out through the smooth side. Loop round to enter again through the gathered side and leave the end of your wool/ribbon free. Space stitches evenly and pull tightly to form the pumpkin’s bumps.
Tie the ends of the thread/wool on the smooth side in a knot and cut off the ends. Take your bias tape, ribbon or felt and roll into a tube shape. Keep going until you have a stalk that’s wide enough to cover the hole in your pumpkin’s gathered base.
Cut the tape and sew along the edge to form a disc. Sew the stalk to the bottom of the pumpkin, making sure you cover the hole where the fabric was gathered.
Repeat steps 4 and 5 to make a smaller stalk. Sew this on top of the knot, which is on the top of the pumpkin. There you have it: a super-soft addition to the gourd family.
Ouissi is a whiz with a needle and thread. Best known for stitching delicious sculptures of popular treats from felt, she shares her tricks for making plushie pumpkins. britishcreamtea.co.uk


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Background: Under the Affordable Care Act, States have obtained Medicaid waivers to overhaul their behavioral health service systems to improve quality and reduce costs. Critical to implementation of broad service delivery reforms has been the preparation of organizations responsible for service delivery. This study focused on one large-scale initiative to overhaul its service system with the goal of improving service quality and reducing costs. The study examined the participation of behavioral health organizations in technical assistance efforts and the extent to which organizational factors related to their participation. Methods: This study matched two datasets to examine the organizational characteristics and training participation for 196 behavioral health organizations. Organizational characteristics were drawn from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration National Mental Health Services Survey (N-MHSS). Training variables were drawn from the Clinical Technical Assistance Center's master training database. Chi-square analyses and multivariate logistic regression models were used to examine the proportion of organizations that participated in training, the organizational characteristics (size, population served, service quality, infrastructure) that predicted participation in training, and for those who participated, the type (clinical or business) and intensity of training (webinar, learning collaborative, in-person) they received. Results: Overall 142 (72. 4%) of the sample participated in training. Organizations who pursued training were more likely to be large in size (p = .02), serve children in addition to adults (p < .01), provide child evidence-based practices (p = .01), and use computerized scheduling (p = .01). Of those trained, 95% participated in webinars, 64% participated in learning collaboratives and 35% participated in in-person trainings. More organizations participated in business trainings than clinical (63.8 vs. 59.2%). Organizations serving children had higher odds of participating in both clinical training (OR = 5.91, p < .01) and business training (OR = 4.24, p < .01) than those that did not serve children. Conclusions: The majority of organizations participated in trainings indicating desire for technical assistance to prepare for health care reform. Larger organizations and organizations serving children were more likely to participate potentially indicating increased interest in preparation. Over half participated in business trainings highlighting interest in learning to improve efficiency. Further understanding is needed to support organizational readiness for health care reform initiatives among behavioral health organizations.
- Organizational behavior
- Policy reform
- Research-practice partnerships
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health Policy
- Health Informatics
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Since its inception in 1984, has completed more than 30,000 accident-free patient care
flight missions. We offer 24/7 coverage with two EC 145 helicopters. One EC 145 is based at Butler County Airport and the other splits time between a base in Hebron, KY and Mt. Orab. Aviation services are provided by Metro Aviation, Inc.
Following a rigorous day-long flight MD orientation (including high fidelity simulator training) and a number of buddy flights, our EM residents join the Air Care team as flight docs starting in the R2 year and continuing
throughout the remainder of residency. A physician, flight NP or critical care RN is on every flight and functions as an integral part of a two-person medical crew. The experience on the helicopter is an unparalleled training
opportunity within the field of EM, and is a critical factor in the clinical maturation of our residents. Attending medical control is always available by radio or telephone, but our flight docs and flight nurses (each of whom is truly "the best of
the best") have earned considerable autonomy in the care of our critically ill and injured patients. Air Care is clearly one of the jewels of the EM residency program, the Department of EM, and the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
Air Care is a part of the continuum of care offered by the larger organization: Air Care & Mobile University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Air Care & Mobile Care (ACMC) is one of five transport medicine services in the nation to be accredited
by CAMTS (Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems) in four levels of care (BLS, ALS, Mobile ICU, and Air). CAMTS accreditation is a voluntary and rigorous process, and is regarded as a marker of clinical and operational excellence
within the air medical community.
Last year, Air Care transported 1250 patients. Approximately 65% of our flights are interhospital critical care transfers and 35% are scene flights, which are virtually all for trauma. About 10% of our flight volume is pediatric. Our flight crews endotracheally
intubate approximately 10% of Air Care’s patients, either prior to or during flight. The EM residency has an academic membership in AMPA (Air Medical Physician Association). The past five years have seen renewed
focus on research within Air Care, epitomized by our membership in CCT CORE (critical care transport collaborative outcomes research effort; cctcore.org) an international research collaboration of more
than forty programs. Five HEMS-specific studies are currently underway within the program, all of which include resident involvement.
At Air Care & Mobile Care, safety is much more than a priority; it is our most important core value. For instance, in 2013 we completed our fifth, totally voluntary, independent safety audit at considerable cost in order to maximize programmatic safety.
Our commitment to safety is also evidenced by our recent acquisition of night vision goggles, which were implemented in early 2009. Air Care’s aviation services are provided by Metro Aviation, Inc., who employs our pilots and mechanics, with
whom it is a privilege to work as they are some of the best in the worldwide air medical community. Our motto is: "Safety—Every One, Every Mission, Every Day
ACMC has two overriding organizational philosophies: When we make decisions, we make them by first asking "What is the safest way to do this?" and secondly asking "What’s best for the patient?" We don’t just rapidly transport the patient to
the trauma, heart, stroke, or pediatric center. We transport the trauma, heart, stroke, and pediatric center to the patient.
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Grass is finally growing on the new fairway expansions and shifts on the back nine. Below you will see some pictures of the process and our new seedlings as they have emerged over the last 48hrs. We should see a good green cover by the end of the weekend and hope that he weather continues to help make the process as easy as possible.
The seeding process was completed on Sunday. Our method was to first aerify the areas to encourage better gas exchange, less compaction, and to incorporate a little soil to the top to help create a seedbed. We then followed in with the Triwave 60 slit seeder in two directions to help with filling in quickly without over applying (wasting) seed. After the slit seeding process we followed in with a drag mat to help smooth out any low spots and stir in any excess seed. After we finished dragging each of the areas a separate crew would follow in to add soil to any major low spots or chunked up areas. The final step was to roll the entire surface to help smash any seed down and have better seed to soil contact. Now that he grass has started to grow, we will fertilize to ensure it has enough food to survive its first couple weeks of life.
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The 2022 Qatar World Cup has come and gone. Most fans will remember the exhilarating matches and the dramatic final. They will recall the emergence of Morocco as the tournament’s darling. For some, the politics will stick in their mind: expressions of support for the Palestinians, struggles over support for LGBTQ rights, and the unprecedented more than a decade-long campaign by human rights groups and trade unions to improve the working and living conditions of migrant workers.
The tournament may be history but the often-fierce debate about Qatar is not. To be sure, the debate has moved on. It focusses on lessons learnt from a country that at least when it came to workers rights was willing to engage. Those lessons are particularly relevant with countries like Saudi Arabia set to host a slew of tournaments over the next decade and bidding for many more.
The bids include an effort, together with Egypt and Greece, to win the hosting rights for the 2030 World Cup. Saudi Arabia and Egypt, two of the world’s worst violators of human rights, are, in contrast to Qatar, unlikely to recognise their critics, let alone engage with them.
Gulf states’ forays into sports are not limited to hosting. They involve the acquisition of high-profile clubs like Manchester City, Paris St. Germain, and Newcastle United, and now perhaps even Manchester United as well as celebrity players like Neymar and Ronaldo. The forays also involve attempts to control whole sport discipline with Saudi Arabia’s creation of an alternative golf tournament and effort to Saudi to set up world’s richest cricket competition while Qatar has invested in the International Padel Federation to create new global tour.
The Qatari World Cup experience may well embolden the kingdom in maintaining a hard line. Criticism of Qatar was relentless in the 12-year walkup to the 2022 World Cup.
Yet, the Gulf emerged from the successful hosting of the tournament with its reputation enhanced rather than tarnished. Similarly, perceptions of the debate about Qatar that was as much about legitimate rights issues as it was skewed by prejudice, bias, sour grapes, and a Western-centric focus, is likely to reinforce Saudi reluctance to engage.
To discuss these issues, I am joined today by Karim Zidan, an acclaimed Egyptian Canadian journalist, short story writer, and translator. Karim’s coverage of sports and politics is published by major publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and Foreign Policy. Karim also has his own column, Sports Politika, on Substack, which I wholeheartedly endorse. You can subscribe to Karim’s column at karimzidan.substack.com.
Karim, welcome to the show
Karim Zidan (03:37):
Thank you very much, James. It’s, that was a really fantastic introduction and very kind of you to say as someone who’s been reading your work for years and years now. It’s a real pleasure to be here.
James M. Dorsey (03:48):
Thank you. It’s really a pleasure to have you. There’s a lot to talk about, so let’s get straight to it.
Before we get into the lessons learned, let’s focus for a minute on why autocracies like Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt want to host mega sporting events. Critics, by and large, think it’s about improving images tarnished by the abuse of human and other rights. The critics seem to suggest that it’s primarily about what they initially termed reputation laundry and now call sports washing. It strikes me that the issue of reputation is about much more, it’s about positioning on the international stage. It’s an understanding that soft power matters. That diplomacy today is far broader than government to government contacts. It involves cultural and public diplomacy, and people-to people-diplomacy, and it’s about economics, attracting foreign investment and foreign talent. And, of course, last but not least, about domestic human development and social cohesion. You’ve given the issue of reputation a lot of thought. I’d love to hear your take.
Karim Zidan (05:03):
So, I think James, when it comes to the term sportswashing, I think it’s a troubled term in many ways simply because we’ve limited our understanding of sportswashing to the concept of reputation laundering, and therefore I find that the term is really limited. I try to use it as little as possible. Let’s just take Saudi Arabia as an example here for context. Saudi Arabia is not simply doing this as an attempt to launder reputation, though that might be one of the factors. It is also the most basic and shallowest analysis of what Saudi Arabia is doing because as you said, this really is a multi-pronged effort by the kingdom. There are elements of soft power, there are elements of prestige, there are elements of diplomacy, there are enhancements of tourism, and other economic factors at play, general development and divestment from oil and its dependence on oil.
All these are legitimate elements of this concept of sportswashing on top of more issues with regards to tourism. Even the simple concept of social improvements such as getting Saudis to actually get up and move, be more concerned about their health. That at the end of the day is concern for the future of the country, which benefits the economy of the country. So, it’s a perpetual cycle. It’s ongoing when it comes to Saudi Arabia, it’s not simply about just reputation laundering At this point, I think they received so much backlash that reputation laundering really isn’t much of an element anymore. If anything, I believe that they would use brute force to get their way through sports anyways, whether it was a benefit or not to their reputation. Think of elements such as the LIV Golf fiasco that’s ongoing in the United States right now where Saudi Arabia actually invested and created its own rival to the PGA Golf tour.
Well, that isn’t simply Saudi Arabia, as people think, all just about hosting sports events, but they actually see themselves as capable of challenging traditional and longstanding US sports leagues. I mean, that’s how confident they are in their abilities at this moment. So, I’d say that there’s a lot of context required depending on the country that we’re talking about. And for example, with Saudi Arabia, we’re seeing that this is a very complex, multi-pronged effort. Take tourism. We underestimate just how important the concept of tourism is to them. They are really trying to present themselves as a global hub, not just for sports, not just for entertainment, but for just general travel as well. Saudi Arabia, for those who really don’t know or haven’t really followed the country before, it really came to the forefront under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Saudi Arabia wasn’t a country that just welcomed people very openly. I know this very well, James, but this whole idea that you could just get a tourist visa and go to Saudi wasn’t truly an option unless you had a work visa. You weren’t really going to be visiting Saudi Arabia very often, and if you were, there wasn’t truly much to do. So, the country has changed dramatically, and they’re bringing in players like Christian Ronaldo, like Lionel Messi. I mean, very few people are even talking about how they’re utilising these players. I mean, Lionel Messi literally has a tourism contract with the general tourism authority. That’s how valuable they see this football player, not just as a sports asset to them, but as a tool for promoting tourism overall. S,o there’s a lot to this, I think, and I think people need to start analysing this as something far beyond simple reputation laundering.
James M. Dorsey (08:50):
Well, I think that’s absolutely correct. The tourism aspect is really important. I think there are two other things also. What probably many people don’t realise, and you noted, the health aspects of Saudi sports policy and sports policy. What people don’t really often realise is that the Gulf states have among the highest rates of obesity and of diabetes in the world, and so they have a real healthcare crisis, which they’re trying to address through sports and trying to get people to engage in sports. There’s also one other point, which I think is important in terms of the distinction between Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Saudi Arabia has and had far more of a reputation deficit. You were referring to this earlier. T really was a closed country, a country that was viewed as a secretive medieval kingdom where women were not allowed to drive.
All of that changed, of course, under the Salman’s, but it’s also a country that has serious human rights issues. Just think back of the shakedown of the elite, including members of the ruling family when they were imprisoned in the Ritz Carlton in 2017 or the killing in 2018 of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. This brings me back to the human rights and trade union campaign, which was successful in Qatar in improving the working and living conditions of workers. Sure, implementation remains the problem, but Qatar has implementation issues across the board. It strikes me, however, that the improvements widened the gap of distrust between the Qataris, and maybe the Gulf in general, and particularly the human rights groups. Part of that I think is Qatar not always putting the best foot forward during the campaign. There were multiple things they could have done at little cost or proactively, but to me that doesn’t really explain what went wrong in terms of the human rights campaign. What are your views on this?
Karim Zidan (11:22):
I think Qatar was in an impossibly difficult situation from the time that its bid was successful. It is a much smaller nation in the Gulf. It’s position in the Gulf was a lot more tenuous than say Saudi Arabia’s was, or the United Arab Emirates, which were far more established, and even in terms of public relations, better known around the world. Qatar also had a troubled position geopolitically in the region, making it much more willing to engage with human rights activists and human rights organisations from early stages onwards. Whether, as you mentioned, they never really put their best foot forward for the vast majority, but they certainly did far better than other countries have. I mean, you will not see the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia or many others, Bahrain included, engage with human rights organisations the way that Qatar did.
But I think Qatar was in a position where it absolutely needed to. The end result that has occurred from Qatar hosting the World Cup is that it has now had its own coming out party. It’s now emerged into the sphere. This is a significant amount of prestige for a country that just a few short years ago was embargoed and blocked by its own neighbours in the region. It was having quite a significant amount of geopolitical strife. All that sort of seems to have fallen by the wayside, and they all seem to be slowly regaining diplomatic footing together again. And that’s in large part due to QAR being able to host the World Cup. I mean, Saudi Arabia wanted a piece of the action, and so did Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. They were all hosting flights. They all saw economic value from hosting the World Cup. Meanwhile, Qatar was trying to balance being able to have a somewhat decent PR image in Western world by just getting to that final stage of actually hosting the World Cup, while at the same time trying not to lose face in front of its allies and neighbours in the Gulf.
It’s a difficult position cause Qatar also hosts part of the US fleet in the Middle East. So, I think as a country overall, it’s had a very complicated little process, which is why it doesn’t surprise me at all that the human rights campaign failed to present Qatar as the successful venture overall when it comes to World Cup. I think it’s a complicated situation.
James M. Dorsey (14:06):
I think it’s worth mentioning indeed there was in the final walkup to the 2022 World Cup an effort by neighbouring states, the UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia, to get a piece of the pie. But that really came late in the game. Up until then, particularly the UAE, was actually keen on trying to rest the World Cup from Qatar or at least get co-hosting of the World Cup. And you saw an enormous covert campaign that went on for years. But coming back to the human rights campaign and where the campaign failed, it strikes me that there are basically three issues. One issue was a sense of lack of sensitivity, if you wish, and understanding what is possible and what is not possible.
My sense is that a majority of Qataris, provided their concerns were addressed, did not have real problems with reforming the labour regime or the regime that governs migrant workers. That was very different when it came to LGBTQ rights, and I don’t know that the human rights groups, the LGBTQ groups, really understood what that difference was. I think the second issue we saw was that the debate, in a sense, divided into two areas, a debate about legitimate issues including LGBTQ, including human rights, including migrant workers’ rights, but also we saw this outpouring of, I’d say almost Islamophobic prejudice against Qatar. Those who were in the camp of the critics of Qatar, certainly the human rights groups and others didn’t draw a distinction between what they were saying and what others who were more politically motivated were saying. I think the third point is the issue of media coverage, which both involve accuracy as well as bias. And I know these are things you’ve given some thought to also.
Karim Zidan (16:34):
Oh, absolutely. I mean, just to take each one at a time, there were absolutely some extremely fair issues that needed to be covered. I mean, migrant worker issues is something that’s not restricted just to Qatar, but is a problem across the Middle East, the Gulf region and the Arab world overall. I mean, it’s even well known as something called the kafala system, which is really a form of modern day slavery when you consider the level of exploitation involved in it, the removal of someone’s passport and the full complete control you have over these individuals and the horrific treatment. People very rarely mention a place like Lebanon or Egypt or these places where these issues continue to exist. The focus was absolutely on Qatar that was holding in a very, very big event. So, of course, it was going to get this sort of attention.
This is an issue that was not just limited to Qatar. At the very least, Qatar was attempting to take some sort of action, including judicial action, actual parliamentary changes that were incorporated to modernise their labour laws. So, that’s an improvement that’s worth recognising. Now, when it comes to LGBTQ rights, I’ve found this one to be a very difficult issue because I actually spoke to LGBTQ+ activists in the region. I have quite a few friends across the Middle East, and I spoke to all of them and not a single one of them thought that the Western campaign to promote LGBTQ rights in Qatar was an honest one, mainly because it never incorporated them. Very few of these activists even attempted to reach out to local activists to see how they felt about incorporating Western style acceptance of LGBTQ rights into Qatar.
A lot of these people don’t want the traditional coming out or getting out of the closet the way we see it in the Western world right now in places like Canada, the United States, et cetera. All these stories we see about coming out to your family, et cetera. This is not exactly how a lot of the Arab world wants to handle this. And this is what I’ve heard personally from friends of mine that they don’t see. They don’t have a sense of familiarity with how it’s handled in the Western world. And I think that lack of discussion really hurt the cause when it came to approaching LGBT rights in the discussion.
I think Western activists and western journalists don’t take into account the fact that when you’re trying to pressure a country, impose on a country that you must change your LGBT rights, you must change them now, this s not up for debate. Well, it actually can go around and backfire and hurt the locals once you leave because you are parachuting yourself into a country for a short period of time and claiming that you’ve caused change, then you leave. You never look behind to see what actually happens. And what actually happens is a lot of the locals, the people who have to live with the consequences end up suffering thereafter. That’s something the western media doesn’t really reckon with. This leads us into the other issue of Islamophobia. That’s something I did get the sense when I was reading articles, including from colleagues of mine at The Guardian, I was reading articles and thinking, you seem to have a bit more of an agenda than I’d like. And it comes to small terms. I mean, some of it actually reminded me a lot of terms that the MAGA people from Donald Trump would use, like shithole country. And I’m thinking, this is not supporting your cause in the slight this, as a matter of fact, this is a point against you. I mean, this is not difficult. Discussing authoritarianism or the issues of authoritarianism or human rights doesn’t require to descend into xenophobic comments. I mean, that’s a weakness on your end at that point. So yeah, no, there was a lot of issues that definitely led to the human rights campaign not reaching the desired results or any sort of unified results for that matter.
James M. Dorsey (20:29):
No, I think that’s absolutely true. And there’s also one other point I think that you sort of noted. It’s not just that the geographic spread, for example, the migrant workers’ rights is far broader. It’s also, this has been a long standing issue. I remember when I first visited the Gulf in 1976, I wrote an article out of Kuwait in which I described it as an apartheid regime, which was partially built on the whole issue of migrant labour, the conditions under which migrant labour was working. But also it’s also an issue that brings us to something much broader, which is the issue of perceived double standards, which leads me again, and I don’t have an answer to this, but the Qatar World Cup was the catalyst that forced FIFA to adopt a human rights policy.
The problem is that if you apply that policy, there’s no country that would qualify. Western countries may have better human rights records, but European policy towards migrants involves violations of human and refugee rights. The United States, which is hosting together with Canada and Mexico the 2026 World Cup ,is struggling with the legacy of racism and Republican backtracking on democracy. And then there is, Mexico, which has one of the world’s highest rates of killings of journalists. So, the question is how do you apply human rights to the hosting of megasporting events and can you at all really do so?
Karim Zidan (22:19):
Well, that’s a fascinating question, James, that, honestly, I continue to wrestle with to this day. Right after the World Cup. I wrote a piece for The Guardian, and it was an op-ed at the time, saying that the Qatar World Cup should be a watershed moment in sports journalism. And by that I meant that, okay, we’ve reached a point now that we have agreed almost unanimously in Western media that sports and politics do intersect. Now, I’m relying on that to also be a moment where Western journalists will say, okay, well if we’re applying this lens to Qatar, let’s now apply this to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games because we should be looking at France’s authoritarian tilt that’s going on right now with the changes to the pension system without actually passing a vote in parliament or by installing experimental AI surveillance. That’s very, very authoritarian ahead of the Olympic Games.
These are issues that we should be talking about in France, but there’s a reason why most people aren’t doing that right now, and it’s definitely concerning. But leading on from that, I think the hypocrisy is really, really significant here, James, I think we’re dealing with an issue that’s really hard to balance out. I think for instance, there’s a big debate right now about the potential boycott of the 2024 Paris Games simply because Russia and Belarus could be participating.. The International Olympic Committee is at this point trying to decide whether they will allow Russian and Belarusian athletes back in as neutrals with a lot of caveats of course. But Ukraine has come in and said, no, we demand a boycott and we will be lobbying for a boycott, and none of our national federations will be competing at any event where Russians or be Byelorussians are allowed even as neutrals.
This has led to a wide-ranging discussion saying that we should probably boycott Russia. Now, I have nothing against a symbolic gesture for Ukraine. I understand all Ukrainians right now who are literally under attack wanting Russia not to be involved in the Olympic Games. But I beg people to understand one thing, if you are going to apply a boycott to Russia, the only way this boycott can truly be legitimate is if it is applied equally to all other offending states. That means Israel’s apartheid over Palestine. Israel should be also considered for a boycott. And James, when I use these examples like Saudi Arabia and Yemen, which I mean they’ve reached some sort of peace agreement now, but up until very recently, that’s another country that we could easily have boycotted. And if we’re going to count all sorts of other human rights concerns, well then that list goes on and on and continues to grow.
I tell people that if you really want to have a legitimate boycott, well then you have to apply it equally to everyone. The problem is, as you mentioned the very beginning, if you start applying it to everyone, then who’s actually left over? And that’s a tough question. That’s a tough question with no legitimate answer at this point. Some people will say, well, okay, I think we should apply it to authoritarian regimes because at least in democratic regimes it will have impact. Democratic nations have the institutions in place to be able to rally against corruption, authoritarian tendencies, et cetera. So, if that is the case, then why aren’t we focusing still on France’s issues right now? Because you can’t just focus on authoritarian countries because we’re seeing democratic institutions failing as well. So where do we draw the line?
James M. Dorsey (25:57):
You actually just touched on another point that I really wanted to make, which is that part of the problem I think we’re encountering is that the international sports federations and governments really want to keep up a fiction, they’ve created. They live in a, fictitious world in which they assert that sports and politics are separate. And in fact, as far as I’m concerned, they’re Siamese twins joined at the hip and they’re inseparable. So the real question is how do you regulate a relationship like that? Do you do that with a code of conduct? Do you do that with an independent regulator? But somehow, in fact, all of these issues that we are talking about are political, including the sports policies of the Gulf States, as well as the issues of whether or not Russian athletes should be competing under the Russian flag or whether countries like Saudi Arabia or Israel should be sanctioned because of what they’re doing to populations. The question is how do you regulate that relationship?
Karim Zidan (27:18):
That’s a difficult question and I think it’s a difficult one primarily because I don’t trust the current arbitrators, the regulators that we would have in place. I can’t trust the International Olympic Committee (IOC) or like we talked about FIFA coming up with human rights resolutions etc. Well, I mean, come on now, that is probably the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. I mean, the IOC and FIFA represent two absolutely legal mafias that exist in the world. I would not trust them to arbitrate or to regulate what’s for lunch the next day… We’ve already seen what it’s like when sports institutions regulate for themselves. The OIC has just decided that activism has no place at the actual Olympic Games, which has an incredible history of activism, of sports activism.
The IOC has decided, no, you know what? This is causing too much friction. Let’s ban it all entirely. So, it’s clear to me that they are not working out of anything other than self-interest. And as long as they’re working out of self-interest, there’s going to continuously be corruption. And these regulations will only be applied with political and other agendas in general. So ,if I don’t trust them to be regulators, and when we talk about independent regulators, who could those be? That’s the real question because we are dealing with organisations that are far too big in size. They are far too big. Their lobbying efforts are far too great and significant, and their financial capabilities are even more exceptional than that. And they’ve teamed up with authoritarian regimes for a reason, because they know when it comes to building and expanding upon these large stadiums like the IOC loves to do, FIFA loves to do when it goes to new countries, the easiest place that you can pass those ideas and actually build without dealing with any form of bureaucracy is under authoritarian regimes and dictatorships. Those are the ones who can pass any new laws without having to deal with their own populations. The IOCand FIFA absolutely love that. And if they love dealing with autocrats, I don’t trust them to regulate anything.
James M. Dorsey (29:31):
That’s absolutely true. That’s why you’ve actually seen over the last decade a number of Western countries withdrawing from bids because there was actually popular resistance to spending that kind of money. And you see it in the Saudi-Egyptian-Greek World Cup bid where the Saudis essentially are going to fund all the expenses that Greece and Egypt would have to go to be able to host the tournament, but then get the right to host the 75% of the matches. But all of this brings us also to, I think, another issue or two other issues. One one of the ways of pressuring international sports associations would be if you act greater fan pressure and to the degree that you have fan pressure, it’s coming from the West and it’s really come coming from a minority of Western fans..
I think if you look at the Qatar World Cup, it was economics, the cost of getting to Qatar and attending matches, and the difficulty of getting into the country. You had to get a Haya card and so on and so forth. It was more those issues that stymied to a degree Western fans from attending the World Cup in Qatar, even though there were many who did come. It wasn’t issues of labour, it wasn’t issues of human rights. And so, there’s in a sense, in my mind, a lack of pressure from the bottom up. And it’s even more so when it comes to the Global South and Central and Eastern Europe, with other words from non-Western countries. There’s even less of an interest in trying to have an international sports governance that’s more fit for purpose.
Karim Zidan (31:46):
When it comes to fandom, I think it’s a really interesting one. I think based on my experience covering intersection of sports and politics for a living in a variety of sports where the vast majority of fans really care mostly for escapism, it’s been a really difficult sell and it does take, as you mentioned, a specific type of minority who can really back it or be interested in it. And it’s usually people who have an interest in politics to begin with or economics or the business side of things, or they happen to be from a minority group themselves and understand what it’s like to come from the less privileged elements of society. But if you’re not dealing with that, for the vast majority, you’re dealing with a fan based that really is looking for escapism from reality. And when you start to take the escapism away from them the way Americans felt when Colin Kaepernick at the NFL games, how dare he mentioned racism and police brutality during our favourite sports, that’s exactly how they felt at the time.
And this continues to happen. This really continues to happen in Qatar, it was how dare they want to wear arm bands that signal one love, that everybody can love whoever they want. How dare they do that?. So, this is a complaint that happens across sports. I deal with it a lot. In particular in combat sports, it’s writing about mixed martial arts or the UFC or boxing. Those rooms are quite conservative and unless you’re, you’re talking points are conservative, talking points are right-wing leaning or in love with Donald Trump, they are not quite interested in what you have to say. They don’t want to hear about racial tension or racial issues in the United States. They don’t want to hear about police brutality or gun violence or any of those issues domestically in the United States right now. There is a topic of discussion in the United Kingdom, James, about an environmental and climate activists and animal rights activists disturbing and disrupting sports events taking place across the country and how it’s just driving the UK sports establishment and sports stands absolutely crazy right now.
A man just jumped onto a snooper table during the first round match at a world snooper championship snooker of all things and just emptied a packet of orange dust across the table. And this was supposed to be a big political statement about the impending climate crisis that we’re dealing with. And people were like, well, why snooker? What’s it about snooker? So, it was a bit of an odd protest at the time, but it goes show you that people are just mad. They don’t want to see this thing that they’re watching as a form of escapism, be interrupted in any way, shape, or form, no matter how righteous or valuable or important the topic of conversation actually is. S,o it’s really hard to reach most fans, and I think that’s really even more insidious when you think about why authoritarian regimes like to utilise sports.
It is actually really easy because most fans simply want to engage with the sport at a sports level. It is really easy to pass along subliminal messaging to these fans by simply just owning these things. I think about Saudi Arabia taking ownership of New Castle United and how that’s just won them a legion of fans around the world simply for taking ownership of a club that people love so much, have watched for years struggle along while other clubs were richer, more powerful and have more influence. Now, Newcastle United has the opportunity to stand alongside those clubs, is doing quite well for itself in the Premier League standings, and that makes them happy. A lot of these people just see this as a reason to love Saudi Arabia and Mohammed bin Salman. So, the propaganda is actually quite simple when you think about it because fans aren’t A, that smart for the most part, and B, don’t really want to be engaged in anything other than the sports.
James M. Dorsey (35:40):
I’d probably argue that it’s the second point. They don’t want to be engaged rather than they by definition may not be that smart.
Karim Zidan (35:49):
You can tell I’m a bit jaded unfortunately.
James M. Dorsey (35:53):
But I think what you described with Newcastle United, it’s the same thing as what happened with Manchester City when it was bought by the UAE or with Paris St.Germaine when it was bought by Qatar. Which brings me to another point, which I’ve argued before, but I think is interesting and important And that is Gulf countries or Gulf nationals buying sports clubs, particularly in Europe, has really been a mixed experience and it’s almost always failed when it was an in individual doing it for reasons of vanity and it’s almost always succeeded when it was the state in some form or other, whether that was in the case of Qatar a subsidiary of the Qatar Investment Authority, its sovereign wealth fund, or whether it was in the case of Newcastle United the Saudi sovereign wealth fund or in the case of Manchester City where it was the man who is the half-brother of the UAE president and the deputy prime minister. I think one has to realise that it is certain Gulf investors that are truly sugar daddies, if you would, and help clubs for good or for bad become top or remain top performers, whereas it’s not the Gulf or Gulf nationals by definition.
Karim Zidan (37:48):
Absolutely. I think that’s a point that can stand on a wider front. I think this is a point that just generally stands for any of the discussions we’re having. I think when we talk about the intersection of sports, of politics or how old these things intersect, we are at the end of the day talking about the governments, the regimes, rather than the individuals themselves. Because in a lot of these countries, like the one I come from, Egypt, for instance, you don’t actually get a say in what your government’s doing. So, I feel for every one of these countries, some people are going to be very supportive of their governments while others are not going to be. So, I never speak for the nationals, I never speak for individuals themselves. It’s always speaking for the actions of the government, and I think that’s a good point. That’s a good thing to point out always.
James M. Dorsey (38:30):
Absolutely. And in the case of Egypt, this you know far better than I, if you look at Saudi sports policy since Mohamed bin Salman came to office, the first several years of his sports policy were a train wreck.
Karim Zidan (38:48):
Oh, my goodness, my goodness. They even attempted to buy a team in the Egyptian Premier League called Pyramids FC. The whole thing was just a joke really. Yeah, (the Saudi sports czar) Turki al-Sheikh has quite the reputation in Egypt.
James M. Dorsey (39:03):
And they also had an experience with Al Ahli, of course, one of Egypt’s top clubs. But what does it tell you about in terms of evolution of Saudi sports policy?
Karim Zidan (39:17):
I think they are in the process of not just trial and error, but I think they’re learning from each experience. I think we’re dealing with a very, very ambitious government that is evolving rapidly and really taking each lesson it learns. I can just imagine it’ll take absolutely everything it can learn from this LIV Golf experience, no matter what the end result is, whether it ends up being a legitimate rival to the PGA tour, which at this point looks very unlikely with each passing month, or if it’s a massive failure. They have to just take whatever’s left of their investment and run with it,. You bet that they’re going to learn from that before they ever attempt to buy anything within the United States again, and they will learn and they will improve upon each time because that’s what they’re capable of right now. They have the resources, influence, and finances to be able to do so.
I see them as a legitimate threat, not a country to be taken lightly, not a country to be considered a side issue that one can deal with later. US foreign policy likes to deal with a lot of its allies that way it seems to think that, oh, we’ll get them under control at some point. I don’t think Saudi Arabia is the kind of country where you want to do that anymore, based on just the development of their investments in sports from I want to host an event, let’s just host a WWE event, to slowly working their way towards potentially buying the World Wrestling Entertainment, to now slowly investing not just in Western events, but as you mentioned, events in Asia It shows the expansion of their interests, of their intentions, of their geopolitical goals. I think it’s all very, very fascinating and I truly believe that when we talk within the world of sports and in politics, that Saudi Arabia is one of the most significant factors, looming factors that we can discuss at all.
James M. Dorsey (41:20):
I think that’s absolutely true, and there are two aspects of Asia, which I want to come back to. One is, and in fact, that may be motivated by what you were describing as the Saudis may take their time before they take a second sports initiative in the United States, which may very well be why they’re looking at the Cricket Federation and looking at sponsoring or setting up the richest cricket tournament in the world. And cricket really is an Asian sport, and a British sport of course, but very much an Asian sport. There’s a second aspect of Asia, which goes back to the fans issue, and that is that if you look at what Saudi Arabia is doing over the next decade, it’s almost for 90% major Asian tournaments, the World Cup being an exception. And yet what you’re seeing in terms of campaigns by human rights groups, for example, is that Asian events are being ignored. Yet, in many ways it’s Asia where it’s happening.
Karim Zidan (42:40):
It’s really interesting is and it goes to show you just how western-centric a lots of the reporting is, and not just the reporting, but the view of the world. If it’s not happening in Europe or in North America, then it isn’t worth considering when that’s absolutely false. It’s that sorts of arrogant thinking that has cost the United States a lot of its foreign policy over the last years and applies all across Europe. To be honest, I don’t think they realise just how significant what’s happening across the world actually is. Saudi Arabia has also made significant investments in eSports, but everybody only seems to be talking about their eSports and gaming investments when it comes to a big Western brand, but when they’re making massive billion investments in China, nobody’s talking about that yet. I find that to be far more significant because it highlights this growing China and Saudi Arabia relationship, which I mean is extremely significant on a world stage. Now for those who don’t know, I mean, we just witnessed China help broker a historic deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia, one that the United States had absolutely nothing to do with.
So, we can see sports as quite symbolic here. What’s happening in the world of sports is also happening at large elsewhere right now on a global stage in general. Saudi Arabia is emerging from its conservative past and taking much more control on the global stage and its main target now, much like the United Arab Emirates, is Asia, and that makes a lot of sense. They have some of the biggest Muslim populations in the world in Asia, including in India, So targeting cricket makes a lot of sense for that reason as well. When you’re talking about building fan bases around the world, the hardest ones that they were always going to convince were Western audiences for issues of xenophobia, for massive differences in their understanding of thef global politics of democracy…. The steepest uphill battle was always going to be bringing Western audiences onto their side.
I think it’s going to be a lot less difficult to convince audiences in the East, let’s say for reasons of similarities in culture, similarities in ideals, similarities in religion. I also think we noticed that a bit at the Qatar World Cup. We talk about how difficult it was for some western countries like Europeans say, and North Americans to attend the Qatar World Cup mainly cause of distance because of the various different loopholes you had to go through. I would argue that those are less loopholes than what Arabs and a lot of people around the world go through to get into Europe and North America. Unless you have a really strong passport, you have to get a Schengen visa. Anybody who has gone through the Schengen process knows ut’s horrible, it absolutely is. Getting a visa into Canada or the United States is extremely difficult.
It’s only gotten more difficult since Covid. There’s a lot of people around the world who couldn’t attend the World Cup, even if they had the money to simply because of the passport of where they were born. So Qatar in many ways was actually an equalising factor when it comes to how we host the World Cup and who’s allowed to attend the World Cup. Qatar gained a lot of fans from its attendees in the Middle East and in that region of the world, there were a lot more Moroccans, who were able to go appreciate Morocco’s success of the World Cup than they ever would’ve been if this was 2026 and it was being hosted in Canada, the US and Mexico because they would’ve needed those visas. Canada doesn’t hand out visas left, right and centre. It really, really doesn’t. Same thing for the United States, same thing across Europe. It’s only getting more difficult and as you know, economic issues continue to take place. Political issues take place and across Africa and across the Middle East, those visa issues aren’t going to get any easier. Crossing borders are going to get more difficult. So, in many ways, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are targeting a region of the world that makes sense for them right now.
James M. Dorsey (46:49):
I think that is absolutely true, and I also think that was one of the miscalculations that we saw in terms of dealing with Qatar in the walkup to the World Cup. There was very little recognition that this was going to be a very different demography of fandom in part because it was the first time in the Muslim world, was the first time in the Middle East, and it was in the country that’s at the crossroads, if you wish, of the Mediterranean, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Therefore, you were going to get a very different demography, which meant also that the pressure points for the Qataris were very different than they would’ve been for a European or Latin American country… We’ve talked a lot about the Saudis and why they’re doing things, but what we’re really seeing also particularly with the UAE, but also with Qatar, that it’s a competition between the Gulf states and it’s a rivalry that goes far beyond sports.
Sports is one facet of that with Saudi Arabia obviously being the behemoth in the region and the largest country also wanting to be the wherewithal for everything, the hub for everything, and trying to in fact replace in many ways what the UAE is today. And it seems to me that part of that sports strategy is part of that broader strategy and ambition on the part of the kingdom.
Karim Zidan (48:49):
Oh, absolutely. We cannot talk about Saudi’s overall sports ambition without talking about its regional rivalries. Absolutely, and its biggest regional rival is the United Arab Emirates, the country that has also has its own history of let’s not only use sportswashing, but involve sports diplomacy, soft power used in sports. I mean, they’re very well known for their love of horse racing. I’ve always found the UAE interesting when it comes to the world of combat sports, I like to think about combat sports a lot because there’s something about combat sports and autocrats. They seem to always connect together like glue. They really, really do. There’s something about these dictators and they just love that machismo of connecting themselves with combat sports and it’s no different in Saudi and the United Arab Emirates, believe it or not, the UAE first, it’s from one of its first examples of sports washing that I can think of is its attachment to Brazilian jiujitsu.
Now it hosts one of the biggest, if not the biggest Brazilian Jiujitsu event in the world, the BJJ event, the richest prize in jujitsu, the most prestigious event. It is hosted in the United Arab Emirates, in Abu Dhabi in particular, which is sort of the combat sports hub of the UAE. Now they also host in Abu Dhabi regular UFC events, and at one point during the pandemic, they actually quarantined the specific portion of Yas Island, turned it into a place called Flight Island. And the UFC was just regularly hosting events there during the pandemic. So, the UAE sort of built itself, especially Abu Dhabi, as this sort of fight hub, while Saudi Arabia on the other hand said, no, no, no, you don’t get to just be the only fighting hub and decided they’re going to host the biggest boxing events that they could get a hold of.
And they did. I mean, Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk, like the Ukrainian heavyweight champion, got to compete there, Anthony Joshua got to compete there multiple times. We’ve seen several of the biggest boxing showdowns take place in Saudi Arabia. So ,even on a combat sports level, let alone a general sports level, we’re seeing a geopolitical rivalry in action. And this only expands and gets greater as we talk about sports. Then we go into the world of entertainment because it’s very clear that we’re seeing sort of an entertainment battle going on as well. Who could host the biggest festivals, the biggest expose, the most entertainment? Who can turn their tourism hubs into the fanciest, most Instagram- influencer friendly location? And we’re seeing that happen. It used to be Dubai, we used to think of Dubai as this influencer friendly result. Now people are taking pictures at and online in Al-Ulla and all these different places out in the desert in Saudi Arabia.
So, that rivalry is expanding beyond sports. Sports, is just one facet of this continued rivalry between these countries. I’m very interested to see where Qatar continues to fit in because it does seem that Qatar has at this point played its hand. I mean, it has the stadiums now. It can continue to host events, but it doesn’t get bigger than the World Cup does, it really doesn’t. So that Qatar is now going to take a step back in the world of sports and maybe focus on whatever goodwill, whatever influence it has harnessed, applying it and other and facets. That’s the way I would see it. But I’m very curious to see what happens next between the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia because there’s no stopping those two countries at this point. There really isn’t.
James M. Dorsey (52:12):
Absolutely. Before we come to an end, you mentioned the relationship between autocrats and combat sports, and I want to note and give you a moment to talk about that. Iit’s not just in the Middle East, to a degree it’s in the Muslim world, interestingly enough, but probably even beyond that. Yyou just portrayed it in an article that you wrote about Chechnya.
Karim Zidan (52:47):
Oh yes. I actually made my bones writing about Chechen dictator Ramon Kadyrov, who’s a great and staunch ally of Vladimir Putin and has been at the helm of the Chechen Republic since 2007. Now he’s actually celebrating 16 years of this month. Of all the fascinating and strange and bizarre characters I’ve covered over a decade, Kadyrov remains the most absurd As much as he appears cartoonish, he’s absolutely one of the most dangerous figures I have covered. He has built a cult of personality around his father’s reputation, his reputation, and this brand of Chechen machismo and sports socialisation that has rendered him into this sort of ultra man’s man. The strong man, even though he doesn’t really look like much of a strong man, he looks like a bit of a hairy teddy bear.
Somehow, he has associated with everything from actors like Jean-Claude Van Dam and Steven Segal all the way down to a host of UFC champions over the years that he’s hosted, Floyd Mayweather and Tyson, Mike Tyson, these boxing legends, he has really rocked shoulders with all the greats when it comes to combat sports. A lot of that is to build this reputation that he’s a man’s man and by doing so, he’s also been able to rebuild Chechen identity in his preferred image. Now, if you want to be a successful Chechen man in Ramon Kadyrov’s eyes, you’re either representing him in a cage, in a fight, or you’re representing him out on the battlefield. Those are pretty much your two choices now as a Chechen man, and he was able to sort of socialise his people in less than two decades, and a big facet of that was his love for mixed martial arts and boxing.
James M. Dorsey (54:43):
He’s casting his son in the same mode.
Karim Zidan (54:46):
Absolutely, as he’s also using mixed martial arts for that to prove that he has a dynasty ready to continue. He is now showcasing his kids in MMA fights. Obviously extremely fixed fights. If anyone who’s ever watched a fight, you’ll know it’s a fixed fight instantly. They’re fixed fights. He’s presenting them as these legitimate, serious politicians. I mean, his eldest son actually had a meeting with Putin quite recently. His skilled soldiers have all been dressed up in gear with guns and have had propaganda, PR, or photo ops in occupied Ukraine. So, it’s really interesting to see the length he will go to and how much he believes in formulating this cult of personality and how these specific elements of being a soldier and being a fighter factor into it.
James M. Dorsey (55:33):
Karim, the last hour has passed in the flash. We could go on easily for at least another hour, and hopefully we will have a chance to do that again. This has been an absolutely fascinating conversation. Thank you very much for joining us. I do want to also thank the audience, our listeners and our viewers, and again, I urge you to subscribe to Kareem’s Substack column, and if you haven’t yet done so, allow me to plug you to subscribe to my column, the Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey.
Take care best wishes, and please join me for my next podcast in the coming days.
Karim Zidan (56:20):
Well, thank you so much. Really, really appreciate it. It’s been wonderful.

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