By Omar Bah
A former special adviser to President Adama Barrow has called on him, as a matter of urgency, to fire all of his “numerous advisers and deputy advisers”.
In an exclusive interview with The Standard over the weekend, Gambia Moral Congress (GMC) leader Mai Ahmad Fatty stated: “We all know they are mere political operatives and not professional public servants. Most of them have never handled a single public service file or assignment except requests for undeserved payments and privileges.”
According to the Approved Estimates of 2020, the government will spend at least D2, 215, 985 a year on the four special and two deputy advisers to the president.
Mr Fatty, who himself served as a special adviser to President Barrow, said the president should instead move all his current advisers to his National Peoples Party offices and pay them from the party coffers and “hire people with morals” as advisers.
“If not,” he charged, “he [Barrow] will have to refund every butut of their combined salaries to Gambians on the Day of Judgement. In The Gambia, people are hired to serve as presidential advisers on the back of taxpayers when in reality they are pure partisan operatives. They are barren of policy ideas, and are quick to wag tongues at every partisan political statement made against the president’s party. For God’s sake, they need to be reminded by the PMO and PSC that there are rules governing the conduct, including statements of public servants. If these bodies abdicate their duty, the president should toe the high moral ground by discouraging partisan political statements from his public servant tax paid advisers.”
“Barrow should be reminded that before the Court of Allah, there awaits for him two million files belonging to Gambians. He must account to Allah and to each Gambian, on a day that shall not fail, how he administered their welfare,” the GMC leader reminded.
Fatty, who also served as President Barrow’s Interior minister, said the country will continue to experience leadership deficit unless voters start to vote for people with morals as president. “People have lost confidence in politicians because many of us have no integrity. Politicians say things they don’t mean, and do things because they are politically expedient. Politicians have perfected the art of hypocrisy, insincerity, cheating and lying. They turned a noble profession into a despicable, rotten field,” he noted.
Fatty said most Gambian politicians “do not fear Allah and believe marabouts could make them stay relevant”.
“It is clear in Surah Al-Imran that sovereignty is bestowed by Allah among all those who seek it, and sometimes the least expected is ordained as in the case of President Barrow. Fear of Allah and a sense of morality are important for a leader in a faith-based country as The Gambia. Amazingly, some politicians criticise when it disfavours them, and embrace the same thing when it suits them. Speaking from both sides of the mouth has become the trademark of some politicians, and it is so disgraceful. In this dishonourable endeavour, some civil servants jostle for relevance and in fact end up assuming the contemptuous role of drum beaters, while the politicians dance to the tune of embarrassment,” he said.
The GMC leader advised: “The Gambian has suffered for too long, and our people deserve only the best. We cannot afford to back track along the footsteps of the old regime. We can do better, and we must do better. Many of us would like Barrow to succeed because his success would be The Gambia’s success. If he fails, the country fails. Many of us do not dislike him. We dislike the trend of consolidating the system we overwhelmingly rejected and voted out.
“Money and position may buy one the political loyalty of those who have no value but I can assure that 2021 [election] will spring the kind of unprecedented political surprises that will defy anything known in the rulebook. Those who take others for granted may regret to never recover from it politically.”
Mr Dembo ‘By-Force’ Bojang, Henry Gomez, Dodou Sanno, Siaka Jatta and Saihou Mballow are said to be among the presidential advisers.


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Aretha Franklin’s funeral set for Aug. 30 in Detroit
Aretha Franklin’s funeral will be held Aug. 30 in her hometown of Detroit.
The late singer’s publicist, Gwendolyn Quinn, said Friday that the funeral, to be held at Greater Grace Temple, is limited to the Queen of Soul’s family and friends.
Public viewings will take place Aug. 28-29 at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Franklin will be entombed at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit, along with her father, the Rev. C.L. Franklin; sisters Carolyn Franklin and Erma Franklin; brother Cecil Franklin; and nephew Thomas Garrett.
Franklin died Thursday at her home in Detroit from pancreatic cancer. She was 76.
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In an interview with Rolling Stone, Demi explained that she began having suicidal thoughts at the age of 7, and even had to sign an anti-suicide contract. “The principal called my parents and made me sign this suicide contract saying that I would not kill myself,” she told the mag. “They weren’t expecting that so young.”
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students, and the third leading cause among all people aged 15 to 24. At some point, almost 10% of all college students seriously contemplate it! Here’s what to do if you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide.
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If you or someone you know has thoughts or makes threats of suicide, get help immediately. Tell someone you trust, contact a mental health professional, call your school’s emergency number, or dial 1-800-273-TALK (8255) for 24/7 aid and resources. And don’t wait until it’s too late. Warning signs like rage, hopelessness, isolation, or anything out of the ordinary for someone’s character are reason enough to seek help.
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If you know people who are hurting or witness people being hurt, help them. Give a hug, lend an ear, tell a bully to stop, or offer useful outside resources like mtvU and The Jed Foundation’s Half Of Us. And remember to surround yourself with good people who are positive influences in your life. In an interview with Company magazine, Demi explained the key role her true friends played in her recovery. “If I break my leg in the middle of the night, they’ll come to the hospital with me,” she said. “Or they’ll answer the phone at 4 a.m. if I need them.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Jerry Seinfeld was sued Friday by a company claiming it bought the comedian’s 1958 Porsche for $1.5 million only to discover it was a fake.
Fica Frio Limited’s lawsuit was filed in Manhattan federal court against a comic known for his love of vintage cars.
Seinfeld mixes his affection for fancy vehicles with his love of comedy in his series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.”
The lawsuit said Fica Frio’s representatives paid $1.54 million at a March 2016 auction in Amelia Island, Florida. The price included the 10 percent auction house commission.
The lawsuit, seeking unspecified damages including the costs associated with the purchase, said they learned the car was not authentic. Fica Frio is based in the Channel Islands.
The auction summary of the Porsche boasted that it was “FROM THE JERRY SEINFELD COLLECTION” and said it was a “stunning example of a rare thoroughbred Porsche.”
According to the lawsuit, Seinfeld left a voicemail last June apologizing and promising a full refund. But it said the refund never came.
Seinfeld’s lawyer, Orin Snyder, said the comedian acted in good faith.
“He has asked Fica Frio for evidence to substantiate the allegations. Fica Frio ignored Jerry and instead filed this frivolous lawsuit,” Snyder said in a statement.
Still, Snyder said, Seinfeld “is willing to do what’s right and fair, and we are confident the court will support the need for an outside evaluator to examine the provenance of the car.”
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Beachum honored at conference
City school board President Richard Atkinson recognized fellow board member Lock P. Beachum Sr. at a school board meeting Tuesday.
Beachum, who’s serving his fourth term on the board, was honored last week at the National School Boards Association 73rd Annual Conference in San Diego. Beachum served on the association’s Council of Urban Boards of Education and received a plaque at the conference, honoring his service.
Beachum was the first person from Ohio to serve as chairman of the Council of Urban Boards.
Also at Tuesday’s meeting, Penny Wells, coordinator of the Mahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past, announced that the Ohio Senate had passed a resolution to make the first week in October Nonviolence Week statewide.
Nonviolence Week was started by Sojourn to the Past students. Students who participate in Sojourn travel for 10 days, visiting five states and following the path of the civil-rights movement of the 1960s.


Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) has released the Latest Govt Jobs recruitment of 37 Vacancies for Assistant Security Officer Posts.
BMRCL Recruitment: Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation released vacancies for people looking for Govt Jobs in Karnataka. Find Newly announced latest govt jobs across India first on Govjobfirst.com. At Govjobfirst, you can check the updated job notifications for both fresher and experienced candidates under various departments, and then you can apply for the post which is suitable for your qualification. The vacancies are available for Assistant Security Officer Posts. The total number of vacancies available for BMRCL Recruitment is 37.
BMRCL Recruitment 2021 – Various Vacancies
Karnataka Government released 37 vacancies for Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) Recruitment for Assistant Security Officer Posts. This is good news for candidates looking for Govt Jobs in Karnataka. BMRCL Recruitment Notification is released on 18th October 2021. The applicant must read the BMRCL Recruitment notification before applying. Candidates should have to be retired personnel or equivalent for applying to these Assistant Security Officer Positions. Age Limit for these Assistant Security Officer posts is as per rules. Eligible and Interested Candidates can apply on or before 17th November 2021.
Name of the Post: Assistant Security Officer
No. of Vacancies: 37
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Pay Scale: Rs. 30,000/- PM
Eligibility Criteria: Applicants should be retired personnel viz. retired Polie Sub Inspector or equivalent from for BMRCL Recruitment 2021.
- Minimum Age Limit: 21
- Maximum Age Limit: 28
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Russian-Armenian epidemiologist Arpik Asratyan died in a Moscow medical center Friday, March 27.
Asatryan, who previously worked as a professor in the Department of Epidemiology of the Institute of Professional Education at Sechenov University, had been diagnosed with coronavirus.
The 69-year-old woman was hospitalized from her apartment on March 23, but doctors tested her for Covid-19 only hours before her death, Moskovskij Komsomolets reports.
Health professionals are now working to find out whether the coronavirus was the cause of her death. According to preliminary information, the woman did not travel abroad and had no contact with a coronavirus case in the recent past.
Asratyan was a doctor of medical sciences, a prominent voice in the treatment of viral hepatitis.


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In an apparent snub to the administration's trade policy plans, GE CEO Jeff Immelt - who sits on the Trump-appointed manufacturing council - said he "very supportive" of NAFTA adding that he was "optimistic about Mexico."
Just a day after we showed Mexico's Manufacturing industrial production surge 8.5% year-over-year - the greatest surge since August 2010...
And expectations for employment in US manufacturers are tumbling...
Reuters reports that GE Chief Executive Officer Jeff Immelt said on a visit that Mexico had great potential and was not properly understood. He touted the conglomerate's Mexican operations and the trade deal binding Mexico, Canada and the United States.
"GE as a company, we're very supportive of NAFTA," Immelt told employees at an event to mark the expansion of operations in the northern city of Monterrey. He said the trade accord could be modernized, as Mexico has argued.
The GE boss said trade meant "win-win" opportunities across North America.
"We will continue to work constructively in the context of wanting to see a close relationship between the U.S. and Mexico," he said, noting that GE's exports to the rest of the world from Mexico were worth $3 billion.
"We're optimistic about Mexico, we're optimistic about what we can do here," Immelt added, saying Latin America's no. 2 economy would be a "big part" of GE's future.
As a reminder, Immelt sits on a Trump-appointed manufacturing council (that Mexico has targeted for lobbying as Mexico and Canada push U.S. business leaders to defend NAFTA).
While Trump touts a "Buy American" policy and has railed against U.S. companies moving operations to Mexico (threatening to ditch NAFTA, a lynchpin of the Mexican economy, if he cannot rework it to secure better terms for the United States), unlike some U.S. companies, GE has not backed off plans in Mexico, risking broadsides from Trump on Twitter.
How long before Mr. Immelt gets a tap on the shoulder?


This gun control push was never about solving gun crime. It has always been about control. Everyone is concerned about the government getting our guns. What we need to be concerned about is why the government wants our guns. The problem is not so much the gun bans; the real problem is what the government is going to do to us after they think they have all our guns.


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A Denver police officer has been cleared of any wrongdoing in a July shooting in which the officer exchanged gunfire with a 25-year-old man before the man fatally shot himself.
Officer Andrew Niccum acted within the law when he shot Trevante Johnson on July 31 in the 1000 block of 25th Street, Denver District Attorney Beth McCann said in a letter Monday.
The officer was responding to a report of a prowler when he spotted Johnson hiding behind parked cars. Johnson ran, and Niccum followed him. Johnson then turned around and fired two shots at Niccum, according to the district attorney’s office.
Niccum returned fire and Johnson began to limp as he continued to run away. Niccum shouted to Johnson that he should give up because he was wounded, but the man instead turned around and shot again at Niccum, who returned fire.
Johnson fell but got up again, according to the district attorney’s letter. A few moments later, Johnson lifted his gun to his head and pulled the trigger.
He died immediately. The Denver Medical Examiner’s Office later determined that Johnson had died by suicide. He’d also been struck three times by the officer’s bullets; none of those wounds was fatal. Niccum was not wounded.
“Under these dangerous circumstances, Officer Niccum was forced to make a split-second judgment, and his decision to shoot Mr. Johnson in self-defense was justified under Colorado law,” McCann said in a letter explaining her decision Monday.
Evidence at the scene showed that Johnson fired at least three times, while the officer fired 11 times.


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The stories about Putin’s death can be dismissed as entertainment, but in the North Caucasus, it was far from fun when social media rumors incited an anti-Jewish pogrom, writes Russia correspondent Heikki Heiskanen.
MOSCOW On Thursday, October 26, the General SVR Telegram channel announced the following: The President of Russia Vladimir Putin died this evening at his apartment in Valdai. At 20:42 the doctors stopped resuscitation efforts and declared him dead.
The channel has a convenient explanation for the fact that Putin has appeared in public even after that: it’s a double being.
The British tabloids in particular seem to pick up on rumors about Putin’s illness or even death.
It’s hard to see any meaning other than entertainment value or the joy of wishful thinking in statements that are impossible to verify in any way.
In the background of the General SVR channel are sometimes claimed to be former or current employees of the Russian security services, but it is difficult to say anything for sure about the anonymous channel.
The channel has been suspected of being linked to a political researcher known as a lover of conspiracy theories To Valeri Solovei. Solovei himself has denied being behind the channel.
Over the years, Solovei has said on several occasions, even under his own name, that Putin is seriously ill and will die soon. There is a certain demand for such news in the Western media.
It’s hard to believe in an all-knowing Telegram channel for one simple reason: If information about Putin’s inner circle was really leaked, the security services would surely have blocked the leak quickly and without hesitation. In the conditions of Putin’s current isolation, the circle of possible suspects would inevitably be narrow.
A representative of Ukrainian military intelligence Andrii Yusov guessed for a Ukrainian For Radio NVthat the Russian rulers themselves spread rumor of Putin’s death to test the reactions of Russian society.
It is difficult to say whether there is even such a planned activity behind the rumours.
It is interesting that the General SVR channel has been allowed to operate despite the outrageous stories it has been spreading.
Questions also arise about the unrest that rocked Dagestan in the North Caucasus last weekend. A Telegram channel called Utro Dagestan has been seen as their instigator,
Only when the enraged mob rushed Utro Dagestan was shut down by the Telegram messaging service at the Makhachkala airport to search for Jewish refugees from the plane arriving from Tel Aviv.
The channel had spread rumors about Jewish refugees and incited Dagestanis to accept them.
Utro Dagestan is also a sufficiently mysterious case. The channel has previously been connected to a former Russian MP Ilya Ponomarjovwho defected to Ukraine in 2016.
Former editor-in-chief of Ponomarjov’s media resources Fyodor Klimenko said For the Meduza news sitethat the Utro Dagestan channel is now run by a businessman and social influencer born in Dagestan Abakar Abakarov.
In 2016, Abakarov left for Ukraine. He is said to have founded an Islamic school in Odessa in cooperation with Hizb ut-Tahrir, an organization declared a terrorist organization and banned in Russia. After the Russian invasion in February 2022, Abakarov moved to Istanbul.
It’s hard to know what the truth is in the end. In any case, it would be important for the Russian authorities to show that the culprit for the unrest in the North Caucasus lies outside the country.
President Putin said on Friday that anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia were organized by “overseas actors” – that is, the United States.
In the case of the North Caucasus, the question is why such provocation succeeded so easily, why vague and implausible rumors about Israeli refugees seeking Dagestan found an echo base.
It is a difficult question for Russia’s rulers to the extent that answering it would also require looking in the mirror.
Russia’s secretive political culture and a personal-driven authoritarian political system create a fertile ground for conspiracy theories to spread.
When the difference between the words of those in power and the reality becomes large enough, it is easy for citizens to believe, for example, in the intricate conspiracies of the Byzantines.
From the speeches of President Putin and other Russian politicians, you can hear that even the people in power themselves swear by conspiracies in Russia.
Conspiracy theories are one way to deal with a world that has become incomprehensible. Even in western countries that consider themselves to be enlightened, they have found a catchment area for them.
The scary thought is that there is no big plan, but both the rulers and the citizens alike are groping in the dark, in the midst of growing uncertainty.
Of course, the General SVR channel continues its big story about the death of the Kremlin host.
On Friday, the channel announced that the power circles are now thinking about the work pace and frequency of appearances of Putin’s double being.


Nashville, TN – May 15, 2017 – Bobby Bones, host of iHeartMedia’s The Bobby Bones Show, announced the second leg of his “hilarious” (Tennessean) FUNNY & ALONE STAND UP COMEDY TOUR, following a run of more than 15 sold-out shows earlier this year. Bones will wrap the first leg of the tour later this month with back-to-back sell-outs in Wichita, KS. Leg two is set to launch June 30 in Fort Wayne, IN. Tickets go on sale Friday, 5/19 at 10am local time. For more information, visit: www.bobbybonescomedy.com.
On the FUNNY & ALONE tour, Bones delivers his quick-witted pop culture stacked brand of comedy, lauded by Sounds Like Nashville as “one we’d see time and time again.” An instant hit amongst audiences, some venues sold out within minutes of going on sale. With an innate ability for being at the forefront of breaking new artists and recently honored by ASCAP with the “Partners In Music” Award, Bones will bring special guests Carly Pearce and Nikita Karmen to join him for this leg of the tour.
BOBBY BONES’ FUNNY & ALONE STAND UP COMEDY TOUR
6/30 – Fort Wayne, IN: Rhinehart Music Center
7/1 – Cedar Rapids, IA: Paramount Theater*
7/7 – Baton Rouge, LA: River Center Theater**
7/8 – Jackson, MS: Thalia Mara Hall**
8/11– Modesto, CA: Gallo Center
8/12 – Monterey, CA: Golden State Theater
8/25 – Columbus, GA: Bill Heard Theater
8/26 – Augusta, GA: Imperial Theater
9/15 – Biloxi, MS: Golden Nugget Casino
* Show does not feature Carly Pearce **Show does not feature Nikita Karmen
Bones recently hosted the 2017 iHeartCountry Festival, A Music Experience by AT&T in Austin, TX, where his comedy band, Black River Entertainment’s Bobby Bones & The Raging Idiots, also joined the star-studded lineup of performers who played to a packed house at the Frank Erwin Center. To watch, tune in to the AT&T AUDIENCE Network Friday, May 19 at 9 p.m. ET/PT via DIRECTV Channel 239 or Universe Channel 1114.
Dubbed by Forbes as “the most powerful man in country music,” Bones’ nationally syndicated radio show reaches millions of listeners on 100 stations weekly. His hilarious memoir, BARE BONES: I’M NOT LONELY IF YOU’RE READING THIS BOOK (Dey Street Books), landed at #1 on the New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestsellers Lists. For more information and a full list of tour dates, visit www.bobbybonescomedy.com.


While summer signing Sven Botman and Dan Burn are both able to play at left centre-back, Downie feels there is not that kind of depth when it comes to Allan Saint-Maximin and the wide positions.
What does Newcastle’s squad currently look like?
Thanks to the likes of Botman and Burn, Eddie Howe certainly does have good options in central defence.
Botman arrived at St James’ Park from Lille as one of the best young centre-halves in Europe, while Burn continues to be aerially dominant at the back.
Over the last year, the Englishman has ranked in the 97th percentile for aerials won among his positional peers (via FBref).
Out wide, away from Saint-Maximin, Howe has the likes of Ryan Fraser and Jacob Murphy. However, the 28-year-old and 27-year-old were not able to make much of an impact before the international break, failing to score or assist in Newcastle’s first seven league games.
What has Downie said about Newcastle’s squad?
Downie finds it odd that there is good competition at left centre-back but not in some other areas like on the flanks.
Speaking to GIVEMESPORT, the Sky Sports reporter said: “I think it’s a bit strange that they’ve got two really solid players in that position fighting for the one position and then you look further forward in the wide areas, you’re missing Saint-Maximin, someone playing on the right, and it feels like the team is a little bit sort of top-heavy.
“They’ve got too many good players in one position and not enough in others.”
How will Newcastle address the issue?
When the transfer window reopens in January, Howe will probably look to sign at least one new winger. The Magpies tried to during the summer but were obviously unsuccessful.
According to The Telegraph, they wanted Bayer Leverkusen’s Moussa Diaby but baulked at his £60m price tag.
The same outlet claims that there was also interest in Chelsea star Christian Pulisic but, like Diaby, he remained at his current club in the end.
It remains to be seen whether they go back in for either of those two attackers, but one thing that is for sure is that they cannot solely rely on Saint-Maximin, who has had some injury problems since joining the Magpies.
Therefore, it would be a surprise if Newcastle did not sign a new winger in the next transfer window or the one after.


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The Mediterranean and Aegean shores of Turkey have a dry subtropical climate, similar to that of Greece and southern Italy. Summers are long and warm and winters are mild. İstanbul, located on the Bosporus, has an average temperature range in January of 3° to 9°C (37° to 48°F). In July the average range is 19° to 28°C (65° to 83°F). Precipitation averages 700 mm (27 in) annually and is heaviest between October and March.
The Anatolian Plateau in central Turkey has a continental climate with hotter summers and colder winters than those along the shore. Ankara, located on the plateau, has an average temperature range of -3° to 4°C (26° to 39°F) in January and 15° to 30°C (60° to 86°F) in July. The average annual precipitation is 410 mm (16 in).
The Anatolian Plateau receives only about half as much precipitation as coastal areas, almost all of which falls between October and April, much of it as snow. The eastern highlands experience even longer and colder winters. Southeastern Anatolia records the country’s hottest summer temperatures, averaging about 30°C (86°F) in July and August.
Except in the more isolated highlands, the natural vegetation of Turkey has suffered centuries of destruction and change as a result of human habitation. Present vegetation types are often hybrids of indigenous types. Plant life varies according to region, depending on soil type, climate, and elevation.
Along the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts and parts of the Marmara region, the characteristic plant cover at low elevations is of the Mediterranean type. It includes stunted trees, bushes, and a variety of thorny, flowering, and bulbous plants. Trees include evergreen oak, pine, laurel, and myrtle. Evergreen scrub forests are found at higher elevations where precipitation is greater. The forests of the Kuzey Anadolu Dağları (Northern Anatolian Mountains) in the northeast, where rainfall is heavy, are the densest and most commercially valuable in Turkey. Eastward from Sinop on the central Black Sea coast, where the Mediterranean type of vegetation ends, the forests are composed of deciduous hardwoods such as maple, walnut, oak, and hazelnut.
Grasslands and grain fields are abundant on the dry Anatolian Plateau, with sparse alpine forests restricted to higher slopes. Various types of grasses, including alpine species, are common. Trees and shrubs grow mainly along stream courses. On the lower slopes of mountains surrounding the plateau, trees such as juniper, carob, and oak are interspersed with grasslands and low bushes.
Asian animal species generally predominate in Turkey, although some European animal species are also found because the land has long served as a passage between the two continents. The lynx, wolf, bear, fox, and jackal are the major carnivorous types; the gazelle, deer, and wild boar are the principal herbivorous types. Many varieties of rodent are also found. Of Turkey’s larger animals, only boar remain abundant in forested areas. Wolf, fox, wildcat, hyena, jackal, deer, bear, marten, and mountain goat inhabit more remote areas. Domesticated animals in Turkey include the camel, Asian water buffalo, and Angora goat. Numerous local species of birds include the wild goose, partridge, and quail. In addition, several birds of prey—including the lesser spotted eagle, buzzard, hawk, kestrel, and falcon—follow a migratory route along the Bosporus. Trout are abundant in the mountain streams, and bonito, mackerel, and bluefish are plentiful in the Turkish Straits. Anchovies are caught in the Black Sea. Encarta "Turkey" © Emmanuel BUCHOT, Encarta, Wikipedia
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Olivia Munn was disappointed with her X-Men: Apocalypse writer and director’s level of X-Men knowledge.
The actor, who played Psylocke in the 2016 superhero film, took part in an interview with GQ magazine and answered questions from the internet.
She was asked if she found it frightening how crazy people get over comic book adaptations.
“No, because I get like that too,” she responded. “I think that people wouldn’t get so crazy if it was just a really great movie.
“When I was doing X-Men, I was actually surprised that the director and the writer didn’t even know that Psylocke had a twin brother,”Munn continued.
“And I had to talk to them about a lot of different things about Psylocke and some other parts of the world that they didn’t know and that, as a fan, was very frustrating.”
Munn said she couldn’t return to the franchise in X-Men: Dark Phoenix because she was shooting The Predator but it’s unlikely now that Disney has acquired 20th Century Fox, including the X-Men film rights, that her iteration of Psylocke will be back.
The final X-Men movie was both a critical and commercial failure and Kinberg has accepted the blame for it.
“I’m here and I’m saying when a movie doesn’t work, put it on me. I’m the writer/director of the movie, the movie didn’t connect with audiences, that’s on me,” Kinberg told KCRW’s The Business podcast.
Bryan Singer’s last movie release was Bohemian Rhapsody though he was fired by Fox before the end of the production.
He was also replaced by Jill Soloway as the director of Red Sonja following fresh allegations of sexual abuse against young boys reported by The Atlantic.

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Elasticity of Demand is more than just nerdy economics jargon. There are some real-life applications and examples of price elasticity of demand that are worth learning about so you can be a better informed consumer, and in some cases, business owner. So, we’ll cover this concept in this week’s edition of MBA Mondays where I share various concepts and theories from my MBA days. I hope you like the series – check out all topics covered (MBA Mondays with Darwin) and subscribe to RSS so you don’t miss future editions!
Elasticity of Demand Definition
The classical definition of price elasticity of demand is the amount by which the demand for a good or service will change with said given price change. In essence, does price matter? Depending on the situation, it matters much more in some cases than others. This type of assessment is utilized by corporations everywhere and you, as a consumer, are subject to the whims of these assumptions and behaviors from your peers. Everything from the pricing of iPads to vaccines in the developing world are subject to elasticity pricing assumptions.
Take a look at the example below. As you can see, as you increase price on an inelastic curve, there’s very little impact to the quantity – it’s almost indifferent. Meanwhile, for elastic pricing, there’s a substantial change to quantity as price is altered, indicating elastic products are much more sensitive to price changes.
- Is it considered a luxury or a necessity?
- Are there suitable substitutes or is this one of a kind?
- Is it perishable or can it be used at any point in the future?
- How “expensive” is the item considered in the context of overall bankroll or income?
Price Elasticity of Demand Examples – Real Life
- Price Gouging/Life and Death – Consider the scenario where there’s been some sort of natural disaster; let’s say something akin to the earthquake in Haiti. With the public water system shut down and any standing water contaminated with cholera, clean drinking water is at a premium. In the absence of any international aide or other viable sources of water, an enterprising (and arguably, unethical) entity may sell bottled water from the US mainland at exorbitant prices. This would be an example of a highly inelastic price scenario. Whether the cost per bottle is $1 or $3, anyone with the money is going to pay the asking price for safe, clean drinking water. We recently saw this during hurricane Katrina with a man selling generators who was summarily arrested for providing a service our incompetent federal government was incapable. I made the case there that price gouging is good. In any event, people were willing to pay 2X, 3X, whatever the guy was asking to get their hands on a generator since they had NO alternative.
- Concert Tickets/Superbowl Tickets – These are also relatively inelastic, especially on the scalping market. While venues will generally sell at a set price established in advance with both historical data and public outrage over gouging as a consideration, once these tickets are in the hands of enterprising purchasers, the free market takes over. If you were a huge Saints fan, you probably would have paid for tickets to make the game whether the asking price was $500, $1000 or $1500 per ticket. Chances are, unless the price was starting to greatly affect your personal finances, you were gonna make that damn game whatever it cost!
- Generic Medications (in the US) – In the United States at least (the emerging markets DO place a great deal of value on “branded generics” due to concerns over quality and brand recognition), if your doctor prescribes a generic script for 1% cortisone cream, there are a dozen generic manufacturers making pretty much the same ointment. Why would you pay a penny more to buy the Teva med over Mylan? The products are generic equivalents, and as such, excluding other marketing/PBM/formulary issues, a typical consumer would just buy the least expensive tube. A price increase would likely have a significant impact on demand. This would be an example of a highly elastic demand.
Now that you understand a bit about the concept and pricing models for price elasticity of demand, you can understand why companies price items the way they do – and how that balance is viewed from their standpoint. This may inform your decisions about whether you want to be an early adopter of new technology, whether you want to buy generic, or how you want to price a good or service you’re going to sell yourself as an entrepreneur.
What Are Some Price Elasticity Examples You’re Thinking About?

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Sneak away to the trees in Little Mulberry Park and escape the hustle and bustle of metro Atlanta with this heart-pumping trail run on the East Mulberry Trail.
Hike the East Cowpen Trail and Panther Creek Trail to the stunning cascades of Panther Creek Falls, deep within Georgia’s lush Cohutta Wilderness.
Hike the two mile, kid-friendly loop at Arabia Mountain near Atlanta, following the Mile Rock Trail and Forest Trail through vast rock fields to a glassy, serene lake.
One of the top running spots in Athens near the UGA campus, the State Botanical Garden of Georgia offers mile after mile of scenic, rolling running and hiking trails.
Hike the Tallulah Gorge State Park rim trails, scoring stunning views of the gorge’s sheer walls and tumbling waterfalls on two of the park’s easiest trails.
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Hike the Homestead Trail at Red Top Mountain State Park, following the ultra-scenic banks of Lake Allatoona to beautiful lake views, and exploring a forest filled with fern and wildlife.
Hike to a mysterious stone wall, a historic fire lookout tower, and incredible overlook views into the Cohutta Wilderness at Fort Mountain State Park in North Georgia.
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On March 28, the Grodno Regional Court of Belarus began a trial in the case of Russian woman Sofya Sapega, who was arrested last year along with Belarusian opposition blogger Roman Protasevich after a forced landing of a Ryanair plane in Minsk. She was charged under seven articles of the Criminal Code.
The judge granted the prosecutor’s motion to hold the hearing behind closed doors. About it informs Correspondent of the Belarusian state agency BelTA.
According to the publication, this decision was made “in order to prevent the spread of information of an extremist nature”, and is also allegedly connected with the fact that during the consideration of the criminal case personal data of more than 230 people, including judges, prosecutors and employees of internal affairs bodies, will be announced. .
The charges were filed under the following articles of the Criminal Code:
- Part 3 of Article 130 (“Commission of intentional actions aimed at inciting other social hatred, committed by an organized group of persons that entailed other grave consequences”);
- part 4 of article 16 and article 364 (“Organization of violence and threats of violence against an employee of the internal affairs body and his relatives in order to obstruct his lawful activities”);
- part 4 of article 16 and article 365 (“Organization of influence on an employee of the internal affairs bodies in order to change the nature of his legal activities by threatening to destroy and damage property, spreading slanderous information and divulging other information that he wants to keep secret”);
- part 4 of article 16 and part 1 of article 366 (“Organization of violence and threats of violence, destruction and damage to property against an official performing official duties”);
- Part 4 of Article 16 and Article 389 (“Organization of a threat of murder, violence, destruction and damage to property against a judge and their relatives, and threats of disseminating slanderous and disclosure of other information that these persons wish to keep secret, committed in connection with the implementation of justice by a judge “);
- part 4 of article 16 and article 198 (“Organization of obstruction in any form of the legal professional activity of a journalist, forcing him to refuse to disseminate information committed with the use of violence, with the threat of its use, destruction and damage to property, infringement of rights and legal interests of a journalist”);
- Parts 1 and 2 of Article 203-1 (“Deliberate illegal collection and dissemination of information about the private life and personal data of another person without his consent, which caused significant harm to the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of a citizen”).
According to investigators, Sofya Sapega administered the Black Book of Belarus telegram channel, which published the personal data of the Belarusian security forces. The channel itself has been declared extremist in Belarus. Last May, state TV channels aired a video where Sapieha said she was the editor of this telegram channel.
The Russian woman was detained on May 23, 2021 after the Belarusian authorities forcibly landed the Athens-Vilnius airliner in Minsk, in which she flew with the co-founder of the Nexta telegram channel Roman Protasevich.
Western countries sharply condemned the actions of Minsk, accusing the regime of Alexander Lukashenko of air piracy in order to kidnap a person. The main attention was drawn to the figure of Protasevich.
Shortly after his arrest, Protasevich began speaking in the Belarusian media criticizing his former associates. Subsequently, he was released from the detention center. The charges against him have not been dropped, but there is no reliable information about where he is now and what he is doing.


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Somerset Farmers Market – Christmas Special
23 December, 2018 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Frome Farmers’ Market is a well established and popular market, and is located in the beautifully renovated Cheese & Grain Market Hall. The market is held on the second Saturday of each month. A very well established range of farmers and food producers with a huge range of vegetables,meats ,cheeses and bread aswell as many new innovative food businesses. Our only indoor market venue so great shopping whatever the weather.
There is a huge variety of stalls with outstanding local produce and a friendly cafe on site for refreshments and live music ….well it is a music venue!
This popular Christmas special, is an ideal time to pick up your pre-ordered turkey and get last minute festive fayre!

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Kaizer Chiefs midfielder Willard Katsande turns 34 on Wednesday and Briefly.co.za shares some interesting facts on his special day.
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Willard Katsande has made a name for himself at Kaizer Chiefs, but the tough-tackling midfielder enjoyed a promising career prior to his move to Naturena.
Katsande celebrates his 34th birthday on Wednesday and was born in Mutoko, Zimbabwe.
The 34-year-old started his football career at Frontier Steel in 2002 and played for various other clubs in his home country.
READ ALSO: Memela on Pirates’ approach against Sundowns: “It’s not about Chiefs”
The midfield anchor's talents were soon noticed and he moved to one of Zimbabwe's more prominent clubs, in the form of Gunners FC in 2009.
His solitary season at Gunners propelled them to league title glory and an outstanding run in the CAF Champions League.
That was enough to attract the interest from PSL club Ajax Cape Town and Katsande moved there in 2010.
READ ALSO: Dumsani Zuma wins goal of the month award and excites Chiefs fans
Again, it took just one season to make his mark and the Glamour Boys soon came calling.
2013 turned out to be a memorable year for Katsande as he won the PSL title as well as the Nedbank Cup.
However, 2013 will also be remembered for Katsande receiving the most bookings of any player, with a red card and 10 yellows.
It took a while for Katsande to register his first goal for Chiefs, but it eventually came in memorable fashion against Orlando Pirates on March 15th, 2014.
If 2013 was good, 2014 was even better as he won most of the individual player awards at the end of season ceremony.
Briefly.co.za gathered that Katsande walked away with R230 000 purely based on the awards won on the night.
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... for all the unique and beautiful square pegs in life that stubbornly refuse to fit into those boring ordinary round holes.
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A Christmas card indeed, perhaps you could use it next year with a Christmas message? #TheGallery
That's a great idea! He's certainly posing - I wonder if that's why they end up on so many cards?
Gorgeous. I find their feet utterly hypnotic. Is it just me?!
Thank you Tara - only just discovered #TheGallery but love it - so many beautiful shots! I know what you mean about their feet - they're so skinny and the texture is so rough!
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A series of posters inspired by the films of James O. Incandenza, a fictional character from the David Foster Wallace novel, Infinite Jest
Blood Sister: One Tough Nun. 35mm.; 90 minutes; color; sound. Parody of revenge/recidivism action genre, a formerly delinquent nun’s failure to reform a juvenile delinquent leads to a rampage of recidivist revenge.
Flux in a Box. 35mm.; 52 minutes; black and white/color; sound. Documentary history of box, platform, lawn, and court tennis from the 17th-century Court of Dauphin to the present.
Good-Looking Men in Small Clever Rooms That Utilize Every Centimeter of Available Space With Mind-Boggling Efficiency. Unfinished due to hospitalization. UNRELEASED
Homo Duplex. Super-8mm.; 70 minutes, black and white; sound. Parody of Woititz and Shulgin’s ‘poststructural antidocumentaries,’ interviews with fourteen Americans who are named John Wayne but are not the legendary 20th-century film actor John Wayne.
Accomplice! 16mm.; 26 minutes; color; sound. An aging pederast mutilates himself out of love for a strangely tattooed street hustler. Withdrawn from dissemination after Cartridge Scene reviewers called Accomplice! ‘…the stupidest, nastiest, least subtle and worst-edited product of a pretentious and wretchedly uneven career.’


Lyle Trachtenberg, a former American actor, and IATSE union organizer. He is best known for having been Whoopi Goldberg’s former husband, an actress, comedian, and television host. Trachtenberg, a native Californian, dreamed of being an actor when he was little. He enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1976 after finishing high school.
After receiving his degree in 1980, he joined the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, a labor organization that today represents over 100,000 technicians, craftspeople, and craftsmen employed in the entertainment sector. By the middle of the 1990s, he had advanced fast through the ranks to become a powerful organizer.
He gained some popularity during this time due to the union’s disruptive behavior on the sets of different independent films. He has gotten recognition over the years for his involvement in a variety of ventures.
He appeared in the comedy Beach Movie in 1998 as an actor. Goldberg’s third and most recent husband was Trachtenberg. In the years 1994 to 1995, they were wed. He is the former stepfather of her daughter Alexandrea “Alex” Martin through Goldberg.
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His Early Life
Lyle Trachtenberg, who was born in Los Angeles, California, on January 1, 1956, always had a passion for performing. He attended to the University of California, Los Angeles in 1976 after finishing high school, where he eventually received his degree in 1980.
Lyle Trachtenberg joined the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees after completing his studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. This organization represents more than 100,000 technicians, craftspeople, and artisans working in the theater, film, television, and trade show industries.
He eventually rose to prominence as a strong and effective union organizer and for his work as a union representative on several sets. Lyle Trachtenberg allegedly caused some issues for independent director Allison Anders and her producers during the production of her 1996 film Grace of My Heart, according to a Variety article from July 1995.
She and her producers, Ruth Charny and Dan Hassid, were able to re-engage a number of the non-union crew members she had previously worked with on her low-budget projects for the $5 million film.
Trachtenberg arrived for lunch the second week after filming started. He set up shop outside beside the food truck and started outlining the advantages of joining the IATSE after being refused access to the set.
IATSE had 25 additional members when lunch was over. There were discussions about calling an impromptu strike as things had grown pretty tense. A deal was eventually negotiated between the producers and the union, and production once more began.
Producer Lawrence Bender talked about his own experiences with Lyle Trachtenberg and the union in his January 1996 Los Angeles Times column. White Man’s Burden (1995), a movie he produced, was being shot when the union intervened, causing considerable delays and financial loss.
In a later interview with the L.A. Times, Bender provided a list of remedies to the issues associated with producing low-budget films alongside the unions. In reply, Trachtenberg cynically suggested that he forego his own earnings for films with a budget of under $3 million, in which the union’s rules would be disregarded. Bender claimed that this wasn’t a long-term effective solution, only an attempt to get around the problem.
Lyle Trachtenberg never achieved any success as an actor, despite his early hopes. He made his acting debut in 1996’s action-horror From Dusk Till Dawn, directed by Robert Rodriguez.
In the comedy Beach Movie, written and directed by John Quinn, he played a role known as the Husky Guy. Additionally, he was given “special thanks” for his work on the movies, Hello, My Name Is Doris (2006), Keeping Up with the Steins (2006), and Girl Fever.
On October 1, 1994, Lyle Trachtenberg and Whoopi Goldberg exchanged vows. The couple’s brief union ended in divorce in 1995.
Following their divorce from Goldberg, Trachtenberg married Adrianna Belan, a Canadian native. Together, they have two daughters: Gabriella and Natasha. Belan was once an actress.
Who is Whoopi Goldberg?
On November 13, 1955, Caryn Elaine Johnson was born in New York, NY. She went to St Columba’s, a neighborhood Catholic school in the Chelsea-Elliot neighborhood. Whoopi dropped out of high school and spent time living and working in East Germany’s theater industry.
She then relocated to Berkeley and took on a variety of odd occupations, including bricklaying and serving customers at restaurants. She joined the Blake Street Hawkeyes theater troupe, where she performed in numerous plays while also instructing lessons in comedy and acting.
She made her debut in the 1982 film Citizen: I’m Not Losing My Mind, I’m Giving It Away. Then, in 1983, Whoopi wrote a one-woman story called Whoopi Goldberg that was made up of many character monologues.
There were 156 performances in total. Her second major break came in 1985 when Steven Spielberg noticed her and hired her in the lead part of Cecile in The Color Purple. The movie received positive reviews and did well financially. It received 11 Oscar nominations, with Goldberg receiving one for Best Actress.
Whoopi finally found her voice in the 1990s, beginning with her role as a psychic in the film Ghost (1990), which also starred Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. She was the second black woman to receive the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for that performance, thanks to that role. After that, Goldberg appeared in two Star Trek films, and Sister Act was released in 1992.
Goldberg received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in that movie, which brought in over $200 million. In the follow-up, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, she played the same part again. In 1994, she was the first African American woman to host the Academy Awards.
She also appeared in The Little Rascals, Corrina, and other well-known movies during the 1990s. Whoopi enjoyed success in the 2000s as well, appearing in films like Girl, Interrupted, and How Stella Got Her Groove Back in supporting parts. From 1998 to 2004, she co-produced Hollywood Squares. Whoopi has been in a number of Star Trek films as an actor.
Whoopi joined Janet Jackson in Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls in 2010. The movie garnered favorable reviews and made over $38 million worldwide. She provided voices for the critically acclaimed and commercially successful Toy Story 3 that same year. In 2016, Golberg created the reality program Strut for the Oxygen network. Tiffany Haddish co-starred in Tyler Perry’s Nobody’s Fool in 2018.
Whoopi is renowned for her role as co-host and moderator on the chat show The View. She joined the show in 2001 to take Rosie O’Donnell’s position. Her premiere attracted 3.4 million viewers, a 7 percent increase over O’Donnell’s debut the season prior. She frequently makes provocative remarks on the program and has sparked debate among fans over the years.
In addition to writing for film and talk shows, Goldberg also writes nonfiction and children’s books. She has also performed as a lead on stage, most notably in a 2010 Broadway version of Sister Act. She cofounded Whoopi & Maya, a business that creates medicinal cannabis products for women who require relief from period cramps. She is an entrepreneur.
LGBTQ rights have always been supported by Goldberg. Her efforts to help the gay and lesbian community earned her the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Vanguard Award in 1999. She marched in support of AIDS awareness and LGBTQ rights during the 1987 March on Washington.
Together with other famous people, she started the Give a Damn campaign in April 2010 to raise awareness of the prejudice faced by the LGBT population. Additionally, Goldberg serves on the National Museum of American Illustration’s advisory national council board. Along with other charitable endeavors, she works with Comic Relief.
Goldberg experienced a plane crash in San Diego in 1978. This caused her to experience PTSD and a lifetime dread of flying.
Whoopi has dated actors Ted Danson and Frank Langella in addition to being married three times. From 1973 to 1979, she was wed to Alvin Martin; from 1986 to 1988, to David Claessen; and from 1994 to 1995, to Lyle Trachtenberg. Alexandrea Martin, her daughter, is a producer as well as an actor. Whoopi gave birth to Alexandrea at the age of 18. In addition to one great-granddaughter, she has three grandchildren.


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To get a better and more complete view, InVision engineers found a new use for Computed Axial Tomography
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The Company also provides its network of participants the most advanced medical management information system over the Internet, and provides patients with access to state of the art imaging technologies, such as magnetic resonance imaging, computed axial tomography
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Scientists recently used Computed Axial Tomography
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Working with colleagues in West Germany and with Yale University's John Ostrom, Wellnhofer has just examined this small specimen though computed axial tomography
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Gas prices continue to rise for the eighth day in a row, as the effect of high oil prices trickles down to the pump.
The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline rose 1.2 cents Wednesday to $3.387, according to a daily survey from motorist group AAA. Prices have jumped 23.6 cents over the past eight days.
Drivers in Hawaii continue to pay the highest prices in the nation, with the average price per gallon at $3.80. The lowest gas prices are in Wyoming, where drivers pay $3.09 a gallon on average.
Gas prices vary widely from state to state based largely on local tax rates. But prices have been trending higher nationwide following a rise in the price of crude oil, the main ingredient in gasoline.
Oil prices rose back above $100 a barrel Wednesday as jittery investors watched the political unrest unfolding across the Middle East, source of much of the world's crude supply. Oil prices jumped nearly 7% in February.
Gas station owners and others argue that the rise in oil prices is due to speculation that the turmoil in Libya, which follows popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, could disrupt cause supply disruptions.
As gas prices rise, economists warn that consumers could begin driving less and cut back on spending. That would be problematic for the shell-shocked U.S. economy, which is driven largely by consumer spending.
Despite the rise in gas prices, demand for large pickups and SUVs actually increased last month.
For the first time ever, Amazon and Facebook are more valuable than Berkshire Hathaway, the storied company run by legendary investor Warren Buffett. More
Venezuela's government issues a decree recently that makes it possible to force workers to work in the country's fields amid food shortages. More
In 1998, Ntsiki Biyela won a scholarship to study wine making. Now she's about to launch her own brand. More
It's about to get harder for some luxury all-cash home buyers to hide their identity from the U.S. government. More

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Despite all the brouha over the bail out for Greece, the most pain from the Eurozone crisis is going to be felt elsewhere in the Mediterranean. Spain doesn’t have the debt of Greece but it does have the highest unemployment and is set for the biggest cuts in government spending in the Eurozone. And it is not going to be quick or easy with a weak economy made worse by fiscal cuts and trouble likely from its feckless regional government and agitation from a generation of youth out of work.
In terms of government debt, Spain looks like a model of virtue compared to many other countries in Europe. Its government debt as a percentage of GDP was a mere 39.9% in 2008 before the Eurozone crisis and had only climbed up to 68.3% by 2011 which is lower than the supposedly virtuous Germans who have a government debt to GDP ratio of 82.6%.
However, the budget deficit of the Spanish government has ballooned due to the effects of the global recession. The initial effects on the Spanish economy was not as bad as elsewhere with a 3.7% decline in GDP in 2009 compared to the Eurozone average of a 4.3% drop. But while 2010 saw a recovery in most European countries, the economy in Spain remained weak and GDP edged down by a further 0.1%. Growth returned in 2011 but was limited to a 0.7% rise in GDP and all eyes had turned to Europe in the midst of its sovereign debt crisis.
What attracted the concern of investors to Spain was the combination of the sluggish economy and a rapidly expanding budget deficit. The budget deficit hit 11.2% of GDP in 2009 and remained stubbornly high in the following years at 9.2% in 2010 and 8.5% in 2011. Along with extra government spending for unemployment benefits and the like, government revenues dried up as two sectors which had benefitted from the boom before the crisis, construction and banking, fell into trouble.
Now, the government has announced plans to implement savage austerity measures to lower the deficit to a target of 5.3% in 2012 and 3.0% in 2013. While saving the country from a rise in the interest rates on government debt and the possibility of similar debt restructuring to Greece, the cuts to government spending will further weaken the economy and this may get Spain in even more trouble by creating a perverse spiral of government cutbacks and economic fallout. Considering the lower level of government debt, a slower pace of budget cutting could be seen to be more appropriate but this is not something that the bond markets or Angela Merkel (among others) seem likely to allow.
Plans to cut the budget are also expected to run in trouble with protests already a common sight on Spanish streets. Also, regional government controls a large part of government spending and won’t be happy to see spending cuts hit home on their turf. So the stories in the papers have been whether the unprecedented 27 billion euros worth of budget cutting measures announced last month will be enough. With a further 1.7% decline in GDP forecast for 2012, it is unclear whether the economy or the Spanish people can take much more.


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WEATHER FORCES GOLF TEAM TO SKIP LSU INVITATIONAL
Feb. 27, 2003
ARLINGTON, Texas...The winter storm that rolled through the Metroplex earlier this week has forced Texas-Arlington head coach Jay Rees to cancel the teams trip to the LSU Invitational on Friday through Sunday, February 28-March 2, at the University Club. Coach Rees sighted that unsafe road conditions were the reason for not making the trip to Baton Rouge.
"I am disappointed that we are not going to LSU because I think we had some great preparation leading up to the tournament," said Rees, who was an assistant at LSU in 1993-94. "I always enjoy the hospitality of the coaching staff and the university."
The team returns to action on March 17-18 at the University of South Carolina-Aiken/Cleveland Golf Championships in Aiken, S.C.


It is possible for stamping parts to be produced and processed with various problems, which results in multiple problems and affects their use. Our goal with this guide is to let everyone know what details are crucial in the production and processing of stamping parts in order to avoid problems based on our years of experience.
When manufacturing the stamping die, the design cannot be changed at will
The stamping die is a crucial component of metal stamping parts manufacturers. It allows the stamping products needed for production to be processed. When manufacturing the stamping die, the design of the stamping die cannot be changed at will. It must be processed according to the reviewed drawings.
The design structure of the die cannot be altered at will, nor can the number of parts of the die be increased or decreased. Debugging, however, can be made easier by trimming the clearance and changing the positioning mode of the original mold structure. It is possible to modify the external and internal dimensions of a convex or concave mold part after Zui without changing the dimensions. The spring-back angle of the bending die, the filet radius, and the drawing depth of the male and female dies of the drawing die can be debugged so that the parts meet the drawing requirements.
It is found during the adjustment that the design and structural design must be changed before qualified metal stamping. When this happens, the mold design department should be contacted with the reasons for the change as well as the design change scheme. As soon as the scheme has been approved, it must be modified together, and then the revised design drawing must be redrawn. By changing the base drawing of the design drawing, the qualified stamping dies can be accurately used and manufactured during the next casting.
Small hole punching precautions during stamping
The microhole processing method that was previously used has gradually been replaced by the Metal Stamping Supplier process as a result of the development of science and technology and society. The punch strength can be improved by making it firm and stable. Fractures can be prevented, and the blank's stress state during punch can be adjusted. Since the punch diameter is tiny, if the standard method is used for punching small holes in stamping parts, the tiny punch is easy to break, so try to improve the punch strength to prevent it from cracking and bending.
Punching a hole plate involves extruding the material into the punch, not shearing it. The punching process is not a shearing process, but an extruding process. A portion of punched waste is compressed and squeezed into the surrounding area of the hole at the beginning of extrusion, so the thickness of punched waste is usually less than the thickness of raw material.
When using aluminum alloy as a mold, what should you keep in mind?
It is recommended that the stamping process be arranged as late as possible, provided that the process is not affected. For dies with many punch holes, one process can be added, and the punching process can be arranged last. Aluminum's hardness is relatively soft, and it is easy to block the mold.
A gap of 10% of the material thickness should be reserved on both sides of the mold, the knife edge should have a straight depth of 2mm, and the taper should be between 0.8 and 1 degree when designing the mold gap. As aluminum raw material is prone to producing aluminum chips during bending, PE film should be applied to it during bending in the stamping plant, causing damage, such as indentation and point damage, to the work piece. Aluminum alloy work piece cutting edges must be processed by slow wire cutting to prevent burrs and uneven blanking. PE film can help reduce the deterioration of the work piece.
Stamping parts for automotive applications: design considerations
The metal stamping parts used in automotive manufacture are called automotive stamping parts. They include brackets, spring seats, spring brackets, end caps, seals, compression valve covers/valve sleeves, etc. The production of products must meet the requirements of service performance and process performance and be more economical. There are some precautions to take when designing automobile stamping parts. Read more: www.tenral.com
Stamping parts manufacturers should use simple and reasonable structural shapes when designing automobile parts and reduce the number of processing surfaces and areas. In addition to meeting the technical requirements of product design, automobile stamping parts must meet the stamping process requirements of stamping parts processing plants as well as the cutting, electroplating, cleaning, and other processing requirements after stamping.


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The full spectrum of the African-American tradition of soul music-which includes urban contemporary, jazz, pop and dance music-can be heard during the ``10th Annual Rhythm and Blues Awards Show`` at 8 p.m. Sunday on WGBO-Ch. 66.
We don`t want to spoil anyone`s surprise but, because the show was taped, we think Chicagoans might be interested in knowing that hometown girl Miki Howard is among the 14 winners selected by record buyers, readers and radio stations that subscribe to Black Radio Exclusive magazine. We will, however, let you guess which category.
``I was so excited,`` Howard said in a telephone conversation from her home in Los Angeles. ``It was my first time (in competition). The audience was good, down-to-earth people.``
Howard, who attended Kozminski High School on the city`s South Side, has just completed a worldwide tour promoting her second album, ``Love
One of eight sisters, Howard grew up in a musical family. Her mother sang with the Caravan gospel group, and her father, Clay Graham, still sings gospel with the Pilgrim Jubilees.
``I always had freedom,`` Howard said. ``I was taught to be very independent with my actions. I had a lot of encouragement from my family.``
As a little girl traveling with her parents through the Midwest, she sang with Rev. James Cleveland`s choir. But her older sisters steered her to secular music, with the help of such favorites as Aretha Franklin, Lena Horne, Dinah Washington and Little Jimmy Scott.
``My favorite singer is Aretha Franklin,`` said Howard, whose first album, ``Come Share My Love,`` established her as a rising star in the Anita Baker, Phyllis Hyman-mold of soulful balladeers. ``Aretha changed the sound of music-she came out of gospel. R&B took on some meaning during (the `60s).``
By the age of 16, Howard had made her professional debut as lead vocalist for the group Side Effect. After paying her dues doing session work with Esther Phillips, Roy Ayers, Dolly Parton, Gap Band and others, she landed a solo recording contract in 1987. That same year, she sang on the soundtrack for Whoopi Goldberg`s film, ``Fatal Beauty.``
Among Howard`s fondest Chicago memories are the plethora of blues clubs in her neighborhood and going to the Regal Theater to see Stevie Wonder.
``There was a church on every corner, and a tavern. I remember the smell and the blues music blowing out the door,`` she said, laughing. ``Chicago is a soulful city.``
In addition to Howard, rappers Doug E. Fresh and Salt-N-Pepa, soul crooner Keith Sweat and jazz/pop singer Jean Carne will perform on Sunday`s show. Actors Olivia Brown (Det. Trudy Joplin of ``Miami Vice``) and Leon Isaac Kennedy host the program.

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Jon Jon Briones & Alistair Brammer Talk MISS SAIGON At 2014 Royal Variety Performance
The stars of MISS SAIGON appear at the 2014 Royal Variety Performance!
The stars of the West End revival of popular mega-musical MISS SAIGON, Jon Jon Briones and Alistair Brammer, discuss their participation in the new production while attending this year's edition of the annual Royal Variety Performance.
MISS SAIGON recently made its highly anticipated return to the West End on Saturday May 3 2014 at the Prince Edward Theatre and is currently booking for performances through to Saturday 25th October 2014. Cameron Mackintosh's new production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg's epic musical has played in 300 cities in 15 different languages, winning awards around the world since the sensational record-breaking run at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane 25 years ago. This epic love story tells the tragic tale of young bar girl Kim, orphaned by war, who falls in love with an American GI called Chris - but their lives are torn apart by the fall of Saigon.
MISS SAIGON has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg with lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. and Alain Boublil, adapted from original French lyrics by Alain Boublil. This new production will be directed by Laurence Connor with Musical Staging by Bob Avian and additional Choreography by Geoffrey Garratt, Production Design by Totie Driver and Matt Kinley from an original concept by Adrian Vaux, Costume Design by Andreane Neofitou, Orchestrations by William David Brohn, Lighting Design by Bruno Poet and Sound Design by Mick Potter.
Order the 2014 London cast recording of MISS SAIGON on Amazon here.