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During 2014 and 2015 the aviation industry has been faced with a number of tragedies that have created new challenges for our industry.
The most recent and dreadful crash of Germanwings 4U9525 on the 24th March 2015 appears to be caused by someone in the cockpit carrying out changes to the flight path, aimed at the destruction of the aircraft and all on board. A scenario eerily reminiscent of 9/11, yet with chilling differences.
The question now is what can the aviation industry do to address this new threat?
Is the answer to no longer have pilots on the aircraft?
We all know that so called "drones", or Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems (RPAS), are in military use today but a number of large consumer facing companies are investing heavily in these remote technologies, looking at small to medium-sized civilian aircraft with pilots flying the aircraft remotely.
Will the aftermath of the Germanwings change your answer to this question? "Would you fly on an aircraft without a pilot flying with you?"
In NATS, the UK's leading air traffic control company, we are planning for the future with new technologies and capabilities being introduced all the time. We have always relied on remote services and technologies in air traffic control, including Radar data, radio transmitters and receivers, but today's technologies are broadening that scope. They now include the possibility of remote video feeds from airports, satellite communications, satellite surveillance and enhanced tools for our controllers. Controllers could be sitting next to the pilots of remotely piloted airliners, removing the dreadful opportunity of a repeat of the Germanwings crash. But this is only one possibility and is it a solution too far?
Certainly, the introduction of the next generation of satellite surveillance by Aireon, a company NATS is collaborating with for North Atlantic surveillance use, will bring the ability to monitor aircraft anywhere in the world, without the current limitations in coverage that we face with radar and other existing technologies.
The planned introduction of all these new technologies is leading to a bright future for NATS and at NATS' Control Centre at Prestwick; and we are working with a broad spectrum of partners to create new opportunities with our new capabilities – both with our current customer base and with new customers in areas we traditionally would not have served. It could be that our Prestwick Centre has controllers sitting next to the pilots of the aircraft they are both controlling. It could be that we no longer need air traffic controllers at every airfield and that they all work with 'remote towers' from an air traffic control centre. It could be that we use the highly capable site of our air traffic control centre to provide a location for other industries that require a secure site with great connectivity, and a resilient power supply. The possibilities are endless, but no matter what path the future takes us, the truth is that we will continue to require the professionalism, skill and dedication of our people, striving for safety performance unmatched in other transport industries.
The tragedies of the past year or two have shown we must also face the human challenges raised by these events. The industry is already reviewing how we look after our people to avoid a repeat of the Germanwings event. Improvements in already robust fatigue and stress management regimes are being considered, along with changes to how we assist, but not stigmatise, those with illness.
And no matter what technological change arrives, it will be with people at the heart of it all so that we continue to deliver improvements to safety, including the pilot community, no matter where they sit.
• Colin Houston, Head of Prospective Centre Services, NATS Prestwick www.nats.aero

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Kadam Bjorn used to say, "if you don't like your karma, change it." But we have to know how to change it. We believe that we can change our karma simply or merely by manipulating external circumstance. That may change what karma ripens, but it does not actually change our karma itself. Sometimes, in an effort to change our external circumstance, we might create new negative karma. Even if we don't, the karma to experience such suffering remains on our mind, and it is just a question of time before we experience it. Rather than bringing about any change, we often just create the causes for worse things to happen. If we do, in reality we're not improving, we're making things worse for ourselves. In the short term, in the immediate, we feel there has been some improvement. But when we think about it from a karmic perspective, we realize that the opposite is the case. There's been no improvement. We've made things worse for ourselves.
If we had deep conviction in karma we'd behave a lot differently. We'd stop getting angry and behaving out of anger. We'd stop altogether because we understand the consequences of such actions. First, there is the effect similar to the cause – when we yell at others, from a karmic point of view, we are yelling at ourselves, making ourselves afraid in the future, harming ourselves. Second, there is the environmental effect – we live in a hostile environment of war, conflict, where anger is the norm and only way to survive. Third, there is also the ripened effect – we take rebirth in a realm that is the same nature as our anger. Sometimes we have a hot, firey anger (hot hells); other times it is a cold, icy anger (cold hells); sometimes it is a conflictual anger (Reviving hells). Finally, there is the tendency similar to the cause – in the future, we will get angry very easily, so we plant all these seeds again and again. This effect doesn't just ripen in this life, but will ripen in future lives when we don't have Dharma and we will have nothing to hold us back.
For example, sometimes we are abused in some way – someone throws verbal abuse at us, criticizes us, shouts at us, engages in some hurtful or harmful speech. If this happens, we must not react by abusing the other person back. We must not abuse that person and react to abuse with abuse. We definitely have imprints to be abused and imprints to abuse.
What should we do when somebody abuses us? Of course, if we have a means of stopping them from doing so, we should. Allowing others to abuse us does not help them, but instead allows them to create all sorts of negative karma for themselves. If we can't stop them, but we can get away, then we should get away for exactly the same reasons. However, sometimes, there is nothing we can do about the abuse we receive. We can't stop it and we can't get away. In such a situation, we must mentally accept that abuse as a practice of purification of our negative karma. If we don't accept it, then it's possible, probable even, that the second type of imprint will ripen – namely the tendency for us to abuse – and so we'll abuse the other person back. We'll criticize that person, retaliate, and shout at that person. And in this way create the cause for receiving more of the same in the future. And so it goes on and on and on.
When we are harmed, at such times patient acceptance will function as a very powerful purifying effect. We normally think purification practice is primarily doing prostrations, reciting Vajrasattva mantras, and so forth. But a powerful type of purification we can practice almost every day is to practice patient acceptance, especially at the times when we feel that we're being harmed in some way. If we do practice patient acceptance, then we're allowing virtuous imprints to ripen in our mind. And at the same time we're creating the cause for good fortune in the future, both internally and externally. But if we don't accept and we react angrily, then non-virtuous imprints will ripen in such a mental environment. Non-virtue will ripen, and we create the cause for bad results, misfortune in the future, both internally and externally.


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I just saw the dress I wore at Jason's burial washed and folded.
I wasn't prepared for that.
It still had that day on it.
His dirt.
Our goodbye.
I didn't put it in the basket,
but it was there and it was washed.
Now it's clean and new.
But I'm not.
Not even close.


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So large and so significant is English as a literature that you never really lose sight of the need to learn and study more. Additionally I was brought up to suspect the idea of being just a specialist ( though specialists are obviously necessary) so I never wanted to concentrate my efforts on one period or one genre or one extension. It is a subject in which you want, even as you focus on one of its parts, to keep a sense of the whole.
That said, one feels a certain resistance to the contemporary. To keep up with the sheer volume of modern fiction is both an impossibility and from my point of view not specially desirable. One keeps ones eyes on the reviews; one looks -with decreasing hope- to hear of a new writer who will take the literature and the language-and re-direct it -as Eliot or Lawrence or Joyce did a hundred years ago.
This, however, is one of the irritations. I am surrounded by insatiable readers of the latest Booker Prize winners, or the latest young discovery (we've moved from Zadie Smith to Ali Smith to Sally Rooney).
Here I imagine a conversation with a young enthusiast.
Me : I'm interested in Literature too. I spent much of my life teaching it for the Open University and now I write blogs on the subject.
She: Fascinating. I'm looking forward to studying in third year. We've concentrated on modules on post-colonial stuff, as well as plenty on how lack of diversity and lots of racism is shown in the in the writing of the past.
Me: Anything on Chaucer or Piers Ploughman?.
She: No they have ditched all that medieval stuff as irrelevant and not sufficiently marketable.
Me: Oh no! Shakespeare?
She: Yes a lot on the Merchant of Venice and anti-semitism in the module on racism. Also Othello came in as the Moor.
Me: So you say you are finishing third year with a dissertation. What do you hope to focus on?
She: Definitely something on Sally Rooney.
Me: But she is still only in her twenties or so isn't she?.
She: So what, she matters!. She's the modern voice of fiction.
Me: I am afraid I read Normal People and found it dreary.
She (shocked): Dreary!
Me: Ok the main relationship , the on and off and then on relationship is sharply observed and well-done. It is very immersive as if the author is very personally involved but there is little or no attempt to set it in the perspective of another kind of reality. The novel shows a young writer hopelessly confined to the non-descript land of "anywhere": depictions of council-house estate, school grades, the emptiness of youth culture, the nonentity of the lives of the rich, condemned because they are rich. Outside the two Connell and Marianne the family relationship is so unexplored. Connell is better with his mother; she at least gives him some moral direction. Of course there is no father and that is just taken for granted. But with Marianne it is as if the brother is a given as a bully and a weakling and the mother is contrived to be opposed to Marianne without sympathy at any point. She is only rich and mean.
She: But this is linked with the father's abuse of her. Women have to fit in. And the brother learns from that too.
Me: Yes. it is a too easy given. It's not really explained or developed
She: But the writer cannot include everything.
Me: Perhaps, but apart from that there is no sense of a real other Ireland, Nature, only the naive Marxist reading of spoilt comfortably-off rich and cheated poor. He offers her "The Communist Manifesto " to read when they are at school for goodness sake. The writer is so caught up in her lived-in world and has no resources to get her beyond being miserable about things. To be so young and dreary! Young creative life shout be a kick against misery not a lament.
She: But that is the world of the young, the world they know. She writes about it and makes it art.
Me: I agree that if you want to learn about the sexual mores and the ways in which the young socialise she is an excellent source allowing for the slant she is taking. As to "art" she gives fine short impressionistic glimpses of the effects of say rain, or as she looks through a window misted by her breath. But then there are other descriptions of her taking a shower and you ask "Why is this here?" So what.
She: Is it not connected with giving a sense of the ordinary, like normal people?
Me: I don't know. For me art is there to make significant. Too much of the description is just detached observation that does not go any where. The detached objective view, neutral.
She: It often runs as if for a film.
Me: Yes , that's a really good observation. The narration is like the neutral eye of the camera viewing things. I say "neutral eye" but it is apparently neutral-it is still chosen. It's like it is being prepared for the cinema or the televising it got.
She: Yes, it's our way of seeing.
Me: But we need to go beyond our common-sense way of seeing rather than just refining it here or there with fine impressionistic glimpses and I don't think she does that.
She: Perhaps but she is still young and it is not just dreary. There is a slow movement towards hope.
Me: Mm, I'm reminded of that quotation "The individual condition is tragic yet there is social hope. "- that might describe Rooney with her rather detached Marxism. They moan at what they call capitalism and say yes to activism but remain detached waiting for things to happen elsewhere. But if there is a vague social hope I am reminded of what F.R. Leavis said about that quotation: "Where if not in individuals is, is what is hoped for to be located?" Especially in the young and creative but I don't get that with Rooney. Connell ends up doing Creative Writing: play around with Creative Writing while you wait for the debacle: it's not inspiring.
She: The lovers do get themselves sorted out. Marianne overcomes her dependency on being trampled on. He gets to the point of commitment. She is freed by his belief in her.
Me: There is something there perhaps. But put the novel in the tradition. One hundred and ten years ago Lawrence wrote Sons and Lovers autobiographically based discovering in himself the problem with finding a relationship with a woman that gets himself beyond the hold on him with his mother. In one relationship he and a secondary girlfriend find a kind of sexual togetherness that connects them with the Nature around them, the "wheeling peewits etc.." There is hardly any sense of Nature in this work certainly not impinging on the world of the lovers. They -or at least Marianne wants to make love in a derelict building. Ok that fits with the theme of her self-negation. But there is also a lack which Lawrence shows in his work: wonder. In The Rainbow the young farmer character looks for a woman with a kind of religious intensity. It isn't piety it is an understanding his sexual longing belongs to his religious urge for wholeness. I don't get that with today's young writers. For these young writers sex is too easy in our world and has become a quagmire.
She: That's interesting but I think she had to clear the ground first and she did that with this novel. It will be interesting to see how she will progress.
He: Well Lawrence did say after writing his autobiographical novel: " one sheds ones sicknesses in books -repeats and presents again ones emotions to become master of them" . Then he became free to write his best stuff. Perhaps Rooney will do the same.


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BLOTTER: Angry ex vows to kill woman, fires gun into ground
LAUREL HILL - An Alabama man was arrested after threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend and firing a handgun into the ground.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office responded to a Laurel Hill home after receiving calls about an armed disturbance, according to an arrest report from the Sheriff's Office.
A woman, who ended her relationship with the victim one month prior, said she and her juvenile son were inside her home when her ex arrived and entered the house. The former couple then got into an argument and the suspect began to push the woman.
She said she was going to call the police, to which he responded, "I don't give a (expletive deleted)."
The woman and her son walked outside to get away from the ex. He appeared and pulled out a black handgun, pointing it at her.
The woman said she was fearful her ex-boyfriend was going to shoot her.
The man fired the gun into the ground and threatened to kill her. He then grabbed her purse and phone from her.
The woman and her son ran to her brother's house next door.
Deputies eventually found the man hiding in a nearby house with the victim's phone in his pocket.
He was arrested and charged with a third degree felony for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without the intent to kill, a first degree misdemeanor for battery and a first degree misdemeanor for larceny.


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So the Limp Dims have overturned a 20,000-vote majority for Zac Goldsmith. Not terribly surprising, really, considering the impetuousness and rash irresponsibility of the man. He had a comfortable level of support in the London mayoral election. Then, he not only snatched defeat form the jaws of victory but positively rammed it down Khan's throat. Then, in a most febrile of atmospheres — and in what was until 2010 a marginal Limp Dim seat — he resigned from the Conservative Party and forced a by-election. Good riddance. The Delightful Mrs May may hardly be delighted by the loss of a seat, but he's been a tremendous thorn in HM's Government's side for some time.
19 thoughts on "Zac Goldsmith: The Fall"
So why didn't a Tory big-hitter contest the seat? Because it would have become a Bremainer playground during the run-up. As it stands the Cleggover crowd can play with themselves – which they will find very satisfying.
Janus: The tacit understanding was that, should Goldsmith be returned to Parliament, he'd continue to support the present government. UKIP and the Conservatives didn't send a candidate to give him the best possible chance to hold his seat. Obviously,this wasn't enough. That said, the Cleggover Crowd can do what they please with themselves — reclaiming a traditionally Limp Dim seat after an MP's spectacular implosion is hardly a great feat.
I'm just waiting for some LibDim to shout that this is a second Orpington and they should all go home and prepare to govern. Instead all they've got is Verhofstadt opening his mouth and emitting hot air as usual. I trust Ms Olney will not give up her day job. She'll probably need it again after the next General Election.
She is an accountant. Hm.
Sheona: Oh, well if Verhodstadt says it then it's all sorted and we know what to do! I had to laugh when I heard Olney's first post-by-election interview. She crumbed within a matter of minutes and PR had to terminate the interview. Were it not so risible it would be tragic.
Never struck me that Zac Goldsmith was a credible candidate for being an MP in the first place, or mayor.
Always seemed to have the air of a dilettante about him, playing at it. No loss at all.
Sheona you are more than likely right about the extent of her tenure!
CO: Goldsmith lacks shrewdness, pragmatism and a survival instinct. He was the recipient of much goodwill in his political career and had the capacity to become a great statesman. However, he rashly threw it all away twice and now he has nothing.
I have nothing but contempt for Goldsmith and hope he is one of the last Cameronistas to be weeded out. He seems to have treated both the constituency and the constituents of Richmond (not that they don't deserve it) as a passing dalliance, a plaything to fend off the ennui in his life. Good riddance to a man who has come unstuck having apparently nurtured an enormous ego and self regard at the expense of the country's wider interests at a time when a united front is vital to face down the Vehodstadts and Junkers of this world, not to mention our very own fifth columnists festering in the London bubble.
As it is, he has given Tim, Nick, Vince, Ming et al. the unexpected opportunity to get up on their hind legs on the news feeds proclaiming a new dawn for the Liberal Democrats (a misnomer if ever there was one) and their five MPs as if it made a difference. Further to that, these political has-beens are now claiming, on the back of one freak by election result, a mandate to vote against invoking Article 50 and even to demand a second referendum on EU membership.
Tell you what. Applying the recent standards of the illiberal left, let the UK majority declare that the good people of Richmond have been deceived by the lies and distortions of the Remainiac Tendency and that the result is therefore null and void as the voters were clearly too thick to understand the wider picture. The electorate instead will be sent away to vote again as many times as necessary until the 'correct' result is achieved.
Oh, I forgot to mention two other little things,
1) On 23rd June, Richmond was the constituency with the seventh highest 'remain' vote in the country and
2) Labour lost its deposit last night.
One more little gem before bedtime
with the fragrant Julia Hartley Brewer putting the hoof into Ms. Olney earlier today.
Oz: Richmond Park is like Östermalm. It's a rich ghetto, a place so removed from the reality of much of the country that its norms are simply irrelevant. That which it holds dear, the EU, political correctness, etc. are only tenable because the residents that constantly espouse these so-called virtues rarely, if ever, have to actually deal with the consequences. They have their Polish plumbers and house cleaners, Hungarian gardeners and Italian coffee shop owners — but they don't have Romanian gypsies, Bulgarian gangsters or Czech drug dealers making a mess of their streets. Let's not even start on Lebanese, ex-Yugolslav and Russian Mafiosi roaming around the EU courtesy of German and Swedish passports! (Dirty secret: A number of Russian Mafiosi were able to obtain German passports because,until about 15 years ago, ethnic Germans in Eastern Europe and the former USSR were entitled to German passports no matter how far removed from Germany there actual lineage was. The Swedes and Germans gave asylum status and even passports to all sorts of Balkan dregs)
And talking of freedom of movement, the cherished mantra of the Federalists, it turns out that the Huns are on the brink of imposing motorway charges on non-Hun-registered vehicles moving 'freely' in Hunland. The Dutch and Austrians are objecting. Freedom is obviously a moveable feast.
Janus: Quite. The reality is that the Federal Republic is bankrupt. Rather than admit this, the government tries to find ever more innovative ways to squeeze blood out of rocks. As the Hun taxpayer has been squeezed dry they'll have to look elsewhere. One reason why the German regime has been so keen on covert lending to Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland is that they desperately need the interest payments to stay viable.
Now we learn that the Libdims had to use bribery to win Richmond, with a hefty donation to the Greens to persuade them not to stand. Surely the electoral commission should step in there to investigate.
Sheona: all very interesting. Bribery in Richmond Park and a scam in Sub-Canadian North America. The Greens bribed not to run against the Limp Dims, Trump's vote count growing and irregularities favouring Democrats being uncovered…
The LibDems are a bunch of crooks.
As for Zac Goldsmith. If his father hadn't been so wealthy we'd have never heard of him.
Christopher – re you comment a couple above, "The Federal Republic is bankrupt, Rather than admit this, the government tries to find ever more innovative ways to squeeze blood out of rocks." My adopted government has just started applying legislation to tax any property (business or private) that fronts onto, or has direct access via a driveway to, a national (main) road. These new taxes can be upwards of €1,000 per annum on top of everything else.
But that one pales into insignificance against this next Lulu. The gobmunt has recently enacted legislation so that owners of properties facing south will be charged a surtax on their annual property tax for sunshine (something of which Portugal has rather a lot). If that property also has a 'nice view' (a very subjective concept, that) then the surtax is raised further and if the property also has some windows to enjoy the view….., yep, you guessed it, I kid you not.
I particularly admired the ingenuity of Germany's tax raid on foreign registered vehicles. This was deemed discriminatory so the Hun then decreed that a levy would be applied to all vehicles but that German taxpayers could recoup the cost. Very clever that, but again Portugal is streets ahead of the game. Having had their eye-watering import tax on foreign registered vehicles (it can be upwards of €15,000 per vehicle*) declared illegal (even) in the European Court of Justice, the venal barstewards have announced that a carbon emissions tax on foreign imports will be imposed instead, the net result being an increase in revenue for the Estado compared with the scam it replaces and lots more functionaries to administer it.
Fekkers all.
*Just for the record, I myself got hit for €12 grand to get Portuguese plates for a UK plated, V8 petrol engined Range Rover for which I was already paying Portuguese road tax, had an annual Portuguese vehicle inspection and had insured with a major Portuguese insurer, all when the vehicle had UK plates. The blatant rort was as illegal then as it is now, but I am not hopeful of a refund. So much for the oft-quoted and much vaunted four fundamental freedoms of movement of goods, capital, services and people. Like I said, Fekkem!
The UK is too honest to be a member any longer.
Jazz: surely you wouldn't say that Goldsmith is nothing but a more mediocre, if such a thing is possible, British version of Justin Trudeau.
Oz: The Hun regime hasn't been that depraved, but they've found other ways to preserve a semblance of probity while actually gouging people. These so-called reform-based loan packages are designed so that Germany can profit on interest payments. Thus, they can quietly pay-off debts and preparing for unfunded liabilities that are quickly approaching. Naturally, in the past years crisis-ridden countries have gone along with it and their political classes have been happy to pretend to be reform-minded leaders. However, as Italy has shown, people have had it with paying for political follies through their ever ruddier noses. As you know, I was not legally permitted to assume employment beyond part-time basis because the Federal Government and State of Rhineland-Palatinate didn't acknowledge that I even had O levels. I had to pay 400 euros in fees to receive two letters that said that I actually had a university education. Spain was also really, really ghastly with such things.
Janus: I think the UK, Sweden and Denmark are too honest to be members any longer. The Finns only go along with it because of the counterweight to Russia and they're the ones with the history — and border — with Russia.


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Moment protester in a Navy sweatshirt shrugs off a baton beating and tear gas attack by federal officers as President Trump claims Portland has 'lost control of the anarchists and agitators'
New footage shows the moment federal agents hit a protester wearing a Navy sweatshirt before spraying tear gas in the man's face during another night of demonstrations that have been taking place since the death of George Floyd as President Donald Trump claims his administration is just 'trying to help'.
In the footage, the unidentified protester is seen being struck at least three times with a baton as another officer sprays a substance in his face, prompting him to quickly turn away.
As the man starts to walk away, an officer hits him at least two more times before the protester threw his middle fingers in the air.
The incident was shared on Twitter early Sunday morning just hours before Trump weighed in on the demonstrations.
'We are trying to help Portland, not hurt it. Their leadership has, for months, lost control of the anarchists and agitators. They are missing in action.
'We must protect Federal property, AND OUR PEOPLE. These were not merely protesters, these are the real deal!' the president wrote.
During the Saturday night protest, fires were started at the Portland Police Association and in dumpsters in the area, according to Portland police.
New footage shows the moment federal agents hit a protester wearing a Navy sweatshirt before spraying tear gas in the man's face during another night of demonstrations that have been taking place since the death of George Floyd as President Donald Trump claims his administration is just 'trying to help'
In the footage, the unidentified protester is seen being struck at least three times with a baton by one officer
Another officer is then seen spraying the man in the face with tear gas (pictured) The incident was shared on Twitter early Sunday morning
As the man starts to walk away, an officer hits him at least two more times before the protester threw his middle fingers in the air
The police department declared the gathering a riot, and began working to clear the downtown area.
'As the crowd was dispersed, several people in the crowd were arrested and officers were able to extinguish the fire. Portland Police did not use any CS gas,' the bureau said in a statement early Sunday. Several arrests were made.
Tear gas was deployed, according to pictures and video from the scene, but it was not necessarily CS gas. Fencing that had been placed around the federal courthouse had also been removed by protesters and made into barricades, police tweeted.
Earlier on Saturday, police said protesters had gathered at the Portland Police Bureau's North Precinct, vandalizing patrol vehicles and taunting officers who were reporting for work.
Later, as police dispersed a group that had gathered near North Interstate Avenue, people threw rocks and paint-filled balloons at officers. Some were injured, the statement said.
Trump has decried the demonstrations, and Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf blasted the protesters as 'lawless anarchists' in a visit to the city on Thursday.
Before the aggressive language and action from federal officials, the unrest had frustrated Mayor Ted Wheeler and other local authorities, who had said a small cadre of violent activists were drowning out the message of peaceful protesters in the city.
Wheeler said the federal presence in the city is now exacerbating a tense situation and he has told them to depart.
'Keep your troops in your own buildings, or have them leave our city,' Wheeler said Friday.
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum late Friday sued Homeland Security and the Marshals Service in federal court.
The complaint said unidentified federal agents have grabbed people off Portland's streets 'without warning or explanation, without a warrant, and without providing any way to determine who is directing this action'.
Rosenblum said she was seeking a temporary restraining order to 'immediately stop federal authorities from unlawfully detaining Oregonians'.
The administration has enlisted federal agents, including the US Marshals Special Operations Group and an elite US Customs and Border Protection team based on the US-Mexico border, to protect federal property.
But Oregon Public Broadcasting reported this week that some agents had been driving around in unmarked vans and snatching protesters from streets not near federal property, without identifying themselves.
Tensions also escalated after an officer with the Marshals Service fired a less-lethal round at a protester's head on July 11, critically injuring him.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and US Rep Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, issued a joint statement Saturday denouncing the Trump administration's actions.
'We live in a democracy, not a banana republic. We will not tolerate the use of Oregonians, Washingtonians - or any other Americans - as props in President Trump's political games. The House is committed to moving swiftly to curb these egregious abuses of power immediately,' they said.
Hundreds of people had gathered Friday night for a vigil outside the downtown Justice Center, which is sandwiched between two federal buildings, including a courthouse.
Across the street, dozens of other protesters entered two recently closed city parks after dismantling chain-link fencing that blocked access.
Federal agents emerged from an office building next door and used impact munitions, stun grenades and tear gas to clear the area.
Federal officers deployed tear gas again just before midnight after a few protesters placed dismantled fencing in front of plywood doors covering the entrance of the federal courthouse.
Early Saturday, Portland police declared the gathering unlawful, saying protesters had piled fencing in front of the exits to the federal courthouse and the Multnomah County Justice Center and then shot off fireworks at the Justice Center.
Federal officers and local police then advanced simultaneously on the demonstrators to clear the streets, making arrests as protesters threw bottles and pieces of metal fence at police, the Portland Police Bureau said.
Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell told reporters Friday that his officers are in contact with the federal agents, but that neither controls the others' actions.
The overnight action by Portland's police was condemned by Jo Ann Hardesty, a prominent member of the City Council. Hardesty said Saturday that local police 'joined in the aggressive clampdown of peaceful protest'.
Hardesty also slammed Wheeler, telling the mayor he needed to better control local law enforcement. Hardesty, who oversees the city's fire department and other first-responder agencies, said in an open letter to Wheeler if 'you can't control the police, give me the Portland Police Bureau'.
Portland police said as they responded to the overnight protests - which included people throwing projectiles at them - some federal agencies took action 'under their own supervision and direction'. Portland Police said city officers arrested seven people, and one officer sustained a minor injury.
The statement said the city's police supports peaceful protests, and beginning Saturday night Department of Homeland Security police wouldn't work in the Portland Police incident command center.
Other footage involving federal agents shows two officers briskly walking toward two protesters on a desolate Portland street.
'What are you doing? Use your words,' the camera woman says, as other nearby witnesses question what the agents are doing,
The camera pans to show a protester, dressed in all black and wearing a face mask, with his hands up in the air.
Black Lives Matter protesters are seen during a demonstration on Friday in Portland, Oregon
Several local Oregon politicians have blasted the arrival of federal agents (pictured center), who are not required to follow the same policing restrictions as local authorities and can use methods like tear gas
The US Attorney for the Oregon District Billy Williams on Friday requested that an investigation be launched into the conduct of federal agents in Portland after two residents appeared to be arrested without probable cause
Several Black Lives Matter protesters and residents in Portland have reported seeing masked federal agents, wearing camouflage and without proper identification, arresting demonstrators without explanation and hauling them into the back of unmarked minivans
Pictured: One woman holds a photo of Breonna Taylor, an EMT from Louisville, Kentucky, who was shot dead by plain clothed authorities in March
Without any explanation, or even a word, the two federal agents arrest the man and escort him towards the unmarked minivan.
'Where are you taking him? What is going on?' witnesses ask the agents. 'You just violated their rights.'
The agents place the man into the back of the vehicle and drive away.
That video was shared by Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley, who condemned the alleged actions in a tweet and furthered his attack against the Trump administration.
'Authoritarian governments, not democratic republics, send unmarked authorities after protesters. These Trump/Barr tactics designed to eliminate any accountability are absolutely unacceptable in America, and must end,' wrote Merkley.
A similar incident happened to Portland resident Mark Pettibone, 29, who told CNN that he was 'kidnapped off the street in my own city for non-violently protesting and showing up in solidarity.'
'About four people just out of the van that pulled up in front of me, and my first reaction was I tried to get away.'
Pettibone was walking with his friend, Conner O'Shea,' when a group of protesters warned them about mysterious minivans stocked with federal agents driving around the area, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting.
'I see guys in camo,' said O'Shea. 'Four or five of them pop out, open the door and it was just like, 'Oh s***. I don't know who you are or what you want with us.''
Footage shared by Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley and others on social media appeared to show two federal agents, who do not identify themselves or explain their actions, arresting a man this week in Portland
Throughout the recorded exchange, the federal agents never reveal what sparked the arrest or what the unidentified man was being taken into custody for
The two federal agents take the unidentified Black Lives Matter protester to an unmarked, grey minivan and drive away (pictured)
Witnesses have said that agents are also detaining people who are simply near federal property and it's unclear if the people detained engaged in criminal activity
Both Pettibone and O'Shea believe they were targeted for wearing black cloths, but O'Shea managed to avoid arrest while Pettibine was taken into custody.
'I am basically tossed into the van,' said Pettibone. 'And I had my beanie pulled over my face so I couldn't see and they held my hands over my head.'
During this time, Pettibone said none of the agents identified themselves as federal officers or gave any detail about the arrest.
Pettibone, still blinded by his beanie hat, said agents drove around downtown a bit longer before they escorted him inside the federal courthouse.
'It was basically a process of facing many walls and corners as they patted me down and took my picture and rummaged through my belongings,' said Pettibone.
'One of them said, 'This is a whole lot of nothing.'
He was later put in a cell, read his Miranda Rights and interviewed by authorities. Pettibone was released 90 minutes later without receiving any paperwork, citation or reason for his arrest.
'I just happened to be wearing black on a sidewalk in downtown Portland at the time and that apparently is grounds for detaining me,' said Pettibone.
A perimeter has reportedly been established around Portland's first autonomous zone, CLAT,' or Chinook Land Autonomous Territory,' after the police-free zone was built last Tuesday in Lownsdale Park
Since the beginning of nationwide protests on Memorial Day, Portland has held demonstrations for 50 nights straight as protesters deface federal buildings and demand changes to local law enforcement
Pettibone's incident comes after local officials were outraged over cell phone footage that showed 29-year-old Donovan La Bella, a peaceful protester in Portland this week, being shot in the head with a 'rubber bullet' while only armed with a music speaker. La Bella suffered a fractured skull and bled out onto the concrete for some time.
The incidents occurred at the protesters' autonomous zone called 'CLAT,' or Chinook Land Autonomous Territory across the street from the federal justice center.
Williams on Friday said that he called for an investigation after circulating reports showed unidentified federal agents arresting two Black Lives Matter protesters without probable cause.
'Based on news accounts circulating that allege federal law enforcement detained two protesters without probable cause, I have requested the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General to open a separate investigation directed specifically at the actions of DHS personnel,' wrote Williams in the shocking statement.
Trump had previously vowed to 'dominate' the protesters with federal agents after he displayed a heavy-handed, militarized approach to quelling protests.
The US Customs and Border Protection confirmed that they were involved in some Portland arrests, but it's unclear which other agencies may be involved.
'[Customs and Border Protection] will continue to arrest the violent criminals that are destroying federal property & injuring our agents/officers in Portland. CBP will restore and maintain law & order,' wrote Mark Morgan, Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The Commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection, Mark Morgan, confirmed on Twitter that Border Protection agents were in Portland and had conducted arrests
Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley shared video unidentified federal agents arrestig a Black Lives Matter protester on Twitter and called the move 'absolutely unacceptable'
Acting Secretary Chad Wolf of the US Department of Homeland Security defended his decision to deploy federal agents to Portland and claimed his officers had been subject to assaults by 'violent criminals'
Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf, who visited Portland on Thursday, defended his officers actions. He claimed that his officers had been assaulted with frozen water bottles 'from violent criminals'.
'Let's get this right. "Protesters" imply they were peacefully exercising their 1st amendment rights,' wrote Wolf.
'Instead, DHS officers were assaulted with lasers and frozen water bottles from violent criminals attempting to tear down federal property. 2 officers were injured. Facts matter.'
In a 1,700-word statement, Wolf also said troops were sent in to 'restore order' from 'lawless anarchists' who've become 'emboldened the violent mob as it escalates violence day after day.'
'The city of Portland has been under siege for 47 straight days. Each night the violent anarchists destroy and desecrate property, including the federal courthouse, and attack the brave law enforcement officers protecting it,' he said.
His rhetoric matches that of Trump, who has unequivocally sided with law enforcement in recent months and has referred to Black Lives Matter protesters as 'thugs'.
Sen Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts also blasted the Trump administration for allowing federal agents to canvas the city without proper identification.
Sen Elizabeth Warren said: 'I thought we'd already covered this after the attacks in Lafayette Square: the US government should not be using unidentified federal officers as a secret police force to terrorize US citizens & violate their constitutional rights'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also condemned the presence of federal agents in Portland by saying 'Trump & his stormtroopers must be stopped'
Oregon Gov Kate Brown furthered the attacks against DHS and the Trump administration by suggesting their motivations behind deploying federal agents was political, not to enforce public safety
Brown suggested Trump was hypocritical in his criticisms of Portland because of his widely condemned St John church photo-op that caused authorities to use tear gas on peaceful protesters in Washington, DC
'I thought we'd already covered this after the attacks in Lafayette Square: the US government should not be using unidentified federal officers as a secret police force to terrorize US citizens & violate their constitutional rights. This is outrageous,' wrote Warren.
Oregon Gov Kate Brown appeared to summarize her cohorts opinions by suggesting both Trump and Wolf are prioritizing politics over public safety.
'This political theater from President Trump has nothing to do with public safety. The President is failing to lead this nation. Now he is deploying federal officers to patrol the streets of Portland in a blatant abuse of power by the federal government,' she wrote on Twitter.
'I told Acting Secretary Wolf that the federal government should remove all federal officers from our streets. His response showed me he is on a mission to provoke confrontation for political purposes. He is putting both Oregonians and local law enforcement officers in harm's way.
Brown even suggested Trump was hypocritical and pointed out his notorious St John church photo-op where peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square were cleared out with tear gas and alleged less-lethal munitions.
Pettibone said he plans to speak with the National Lawyers Guild and the ACLU, but the latter has already taken legal action against the agency.
On Friday, ACLU announced that it had filed a lawsuit against the DHS over the 'flat-out unconstitutional' arrests.
'Usually when we see people in unmarked cars forcibly grab someone off the street we call it kidnapping — what is happening now in Portland should concern everyone in the US. These actions are flat-out unconstitutional and will not go unanswered,' the organization wrote.
Kelly Simon, interim legal director with the ACLU of Oregon, added: 'This is a fight to save our democracy.'
The American Civil Liberties Union revealed that it will sue the US Department of Homeland Security over actions and arrests they deem 'flat-out unconstitutional'
One person who joined tense protests in Portland on Friday night held a sign reading: 'Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable'
One of the largest problems facing law enforcement in Portland is the different policing restrictions placed on local police and federal agents, who are allowed to use tear gas and less-lethal munitions against protesters
Graffiti made by Black Lives Matter protesters on the Portland courthouse building reads 'Send home Trump's piglets' and 'We Won't Forget La Bella,' in reference to the 29-year-old peaceful protester who was shot by federal agents with a 'rubber bullet' and suffered skull fractures
A smoke grenade burns in front of federal law enforcement officers, deployed under the Trump administration's new executive order to protect federal monuments and buildings
Protesters erect fencing in front of the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse entrance doors to block federal agents inside, but authorities eventually exited through the next door building and clashed with protesters
ACLU also filed a lawsuit against the US Marshals Service and the Portland Police, who they've accused of unfairly targeting journalists and legal observers amid ongoing protests.
If won, federal agents would be held to far more restrictions than they do now. Authorities would be barred from arresting, threatening to arrest or using physical force against journalists or legal observers unless it's 'reasonably known' the individual committed a crime, according to the Oregon Public Broadcasting.
One of the largest problems currently facing law enforcement in Portland in a lack of uniform restrictions and rules from local police to federal agents.
Portland Police Bureau officers and local authorities have been barred from using crowd control munitions against non-violent protesters - but not federal agents.
Federal agents have also repeatedly used tear gas, which has been temporarily banned from the Portland Police Bureau by federal court order unless they declare a riot.
Portland Deputy Police Chief Chris Davis said federal agents don't coordinate with his agency and that 'it does complicate things for us'.


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As the pandemic has developed, we have all had to grapple with words and terminology that many will have found confusing. Here is a list of those we had to have explained to us.
Acellular vaccine: A vaccine containing partial cellular material as opposed to complete cells.
Active immunity: The production of antibodies against a specific disease by the immune system. Active immunity can be acquired in two ways, either by contracting the disease or through vaccination. Active immunity is usually permanent, meaning an individual is protected from the disease for the duration of their lives.
Adjuvant: A vaccine component distinct from the antigen that enhances the immune response to the antigen.
Allergy: A condition in which the body has an exaggerated response to a substance (e.g. food or drug). Also known as hypersensitivity.
Antibiotic: A substance that fights bacteria.
Antibody: A protein found in the blood that is produced in response to foreign substances (e.g. bacteria or viruses) invading the body. Antibodies protect the body from disease by binding to these organisms and destroying them.
Antigens: Foreign substances (e.g. bacteria or viruses) in the body that are capable of causing disease. The presence of antigens in the body triggers an immune response, usually the production of antibodies.
Antiviral: Literally "against-virus" — any medicine capable of destroying or weakening a virus.
Attenuated vaccine: A vaccine in which live microbes are weakened (attenuated) through chemical or physical processes in order to produce an immune response without causing the severe effects of the disease. Attenuated vaccines currently licensed in the United States include measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, rotavirus, yellow fever, smallpox, and some formulations of influenza, and typhoid vaccines.
Asymptomatic: When you do not have the symptoms of the virus.
Booster shots: Additional doses of a vaccine needed periodically to "boost" the immune system. For example, the tetanus and diphtheria (Td) vaccine which is recommended for adults every ten years.
Chronic health condition: A health related state that lasts for a long period of time (e.g. cancer, asthma).
Combination vaccine: A product containing components that can be divided equally into independently available routine vaccines.
Community immunity: A situation in which a sufficient proportion of a population is immune to an infectious disease (through vaccination and/or prior illness) to make its spread from person to person unlikely. Even individuals not vaccinated (such as newborns and those with chronic illnesses) are offered some protection because the disease has little opportunity to spread within the community. Also known as herd immunity.
Conjugate vaccine: The joining together of two compounds (usually a protein and polysaccharide) to increase a vaccine's effectiveness.
Cold Chain storage: One of the new vaccine candidates needs to be kept very cold in transit, minus 70 degrees celsius, this means that specialist freezing equipment will be needed for the distribution of the vaccine.
Efficacy rate: A measure used to describe how good a vaccine is at preventing disease.
Immune system: The complex system in the body responsible for fighting disease. Its primary function is to identify foreign substances in the body (bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites) and develop a defense against them. This defense is known as the immune response. It involves production of protein molecules called antibodies to eliminate foreign organisms that invade the body.
Herd immunity: is a form of indirect protection from infectious disease that occurs when a sufficient percentage of a population has become immune to an infection, whether through vaccination or previous infections, thereby reducing the likelihood of infection for individuals who lack immunity.
Immunity: Protection against a disease. There are two types of immunity, passive and active. Immunity is indicated by the presence of antibodies in the blood and can usually be determined with a laboratory test.
Immunization: The process of being made immune or resistant to an infectious disease, typically by the administration of a vaccine. It implies that you have had an immune response.
Infectious: Capable of spreading disease. Also known as communicable.
Infectious agents: Organisms capable of spreading disease (e.g. bacteria or viruses).
Live vaccine: A vaccine in which live virus is weakened (attenuated) through chemical or physical processes in order to produce an immune response without causing the severe effects of the disease. Live vaccines currently licensed in the United States include measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, rotavirus, yellow fever, smallpox, and some formulations of influenza, shingles, and typhoid vaccines. Also known as an attenuated vaccine.
Microbes: Tiny organisms (including viruses and bacteria) that can only be seen with a microscope.
Passive immunity: Protection against disease through antibodies produced by another human being or animal. Passive immunity is effective, but protection is generally limited and diminishes over time (usually a few weeks or months). For example, maternal antibodies are passed to the infant prior to birth. These antibodies temporarily protect the baby for the first 4-6 months of life.
Polysaccharide vaccines: Vaccines that are composed of long chains of sugar molecules that resemble the surface of certain types of bacteria. Polysaccharide vaccines are available for pneumococcal disease.
Potency: A measure of strength.
Prevalence: The number of disease cases (new and existing) within a population over a given time period.
Quarantine: The isolation of a person or animal who is suspected of having a disease in order to prevent further spread of the disease
R Number: the rate of which one person infects another person, for every 1 person how many people do they impact.
Side Effect: Undesirable reaction resulting from immunization.
Susceptible: Unprotected against disease.
Sero-positive individuals: those people already with the antibodies and tracked by https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-covid-19-surveillance-reports/sero-surveillance-of-covid-19
Vaccination: The physical act of administering any vaccine
Vaccine: A suspension of live (usually attenuated) or inactivated microorganisms (e.g. bacteria or viruses) or fractions thereof administered to induce immunity and prevent infectious diseases and their sequelae. Some vaccines contain highly defined antigens (e.g., the polysaccharide of Haemophilus influenzae type b or the surface antigen of hepatitis B); others have antigens that are complex or incompletely defined (e.g. Bordetella pertussis antigens or live attenuated viruses).
Virus: A tiny organism that multiplies within cells and causes disease such as chickenpox, measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis and hepatitis. Viruses are not affected by antibiotics, the drugs used to kill bacteria.
Waning Immunity: The loss of protective antibodies over time.


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Footwear manufacturing the world over has evolved from a cobbler's craft to a massive industry, with key sourcing countries presenting unique offerings and their own spin on the shoe. From China to Italy, and from leather to 3-D printed materials, here's a look at how the global footwear manufacturing sector is securing a more innovative and efficient future.
Brazil has long been known for its high-quality footwear, and diversity of production. Though the country lost some competitiveness both in domestic and foreign markets largely because of the costs of production, the last few years has seen momentum ramp up in the sector. Brazilian footwear makers have been turning to innovation, new technology and new business models to meet current market demands, and the result has been a product that delivers on uniqueness as a value add.
The country dabbles in footwear for men, women and children, ranging from comfort shoes to flip-flops and sneakers, made from materials spanning leather, synthetics, textiles and sustainable materials.
"Brazil is a unique country and, as such, brings uniqueness to everything produced here. The diversity of its people enables us to produce shoes for many different areas of the world," said Roberta Ramos, project manager for Abicalçados, the Brazilian footwear industry association. "We are an industry that was born in exportation, so we have a strong knowhow of international markets."
Exports to U.S.: 11.3 million pairs in 2017
Production: 909 million pairs per year
Did you know? The Brazilian footwear industry has its roots in both Germany and Italy. The machinery to make the shoes was made by Italian descendants, and the fashion influence came from Germany. This has a lot to do with the fact that both Germans and Italians migrated to the Rio Grande do Sul state in Brazil, which is home to the first Brazilian footwear factories.
A newer player in the footwear manufacturing world, Ethiopia has been making a name for itself as a place to source quality shoes—particularly leather.
With major footwear companies like Caleres, Easy Spirit and Sam & Libby already producing there, interest in the eastern African nation is ramping up. Ivanka Trump was even making footwear for her line in Ethiopia, though she announced in late July that she'd be shuttering the brand.
"There's a lot of people who are still searching for alternatives to the Far East because of what's going on in sourcing today," said Jordan Saliman, a consultant for USAID's East Africa Trade Hub, who's focused on footwear manufacturing in Ethiopia.
Pricing for footwear in Ethiopia can be anywhere from 5 percent to 12 percent cheaper than in the Far East if everything is produced locally, but many components must still be outsourced as the industry develops its capabilities. And though there's no trade uncertainty in the country, as it ships shoes duty and quota free to the U.S. and Europe under preferential trade agreements, Ethiopia still has logistics challenges to work out.
The country's specialties for footwear production range from comfort to dress shoes, both in leather and non-leather, with women's shoes making up more of the exports.
In Ethiopia, Saliman said, there's "good value for money and from the onset a lot of [focus] has been given to green production that ranges from controlled tanneries to using renewable energy sources like hydro power." He added, "It's a special time in the U.S. to have that product on our shelves."
Exports to U.S.: 36.8 million pairs in 2017
Production: 40 million pairs in 2017
Did you know? Ethiopia is the first cattle breeding country in Africa and tenth in the world, with developed tanneries exporting finished leather to Italy, Germany, and China, which is why it has an advantage in high-quality sheep and goat skin footwear.
No matter what shifts in the footwear space, China will likely always be the largest producer of shoes.
However, as costs in China have crept up, its interests in manufacturing have shifted, and its Asian neighbors—particularly Vietnam—continue to snag market share, China's footwear exports have dipped 17 percent since a peak in 2014.
"We're in this environment where China is trying to move away from things like production of apparel and footwear and moving to higher value-added production," said Matt Priest, president and CEO of the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA). "The industry has seen a continued downtrend as it relates to production there."
That said, China is still the world's largest producer of rubber and plastic footwear (accounting for 60.8% of global share), waterproof footwear (46 percent share), textile footwear (37.5% share), and leather footwear (18.3% share).
As trade tensions escalate, however, more companies are looking for a China plus one or China plus two strategy, shifting away from a sole focus on production there.
"Companies went to China because it was a one stop shop," Priest said. "Now they're looking for the next one stop shop and it does not exist. There is nothing that can replace China and its prowess in all of these areas."
Exports to U.S.: 1.7 billion in 2017
Production: 13.1 billion pairs in 2016
Did you know? Since China accounts for roughly 71 percent of U.S. footwear imports, and imports supply more than 98 percent of U.S. footwear demand, it's safe to say, on average, seven out of 10 pairs of shoes found in the typical American closet come from China.
As the leading shoe manufacturing country in Europe, Italy prides itself on traditional leather shoemaking, but the sector, much like the rest of the world, has been bitten by the sneaker bug. Italy is embracing sneaker manufacturing and the technology needed to create it. Augmented reality and 3-D prototyping are among the sector's areas of investments, as well as training for these new skill sets. "Our sector needs artisans of the future who know how to use traditional machinery but also lasers and iPads in order to arrive at the finished product," said Annarita Pilotti, president of Assocalzaturifici, the Italian Footwear Manufacturers' Association.
Made in Italy has a strong presence throughout the entire top-end sneaker sector. In 2017, 26.9 million pairs of sneakers were bought in Italy, and it's estimated that the world market for sneakers may reach a value of $115.6 billion by 2023.
"It is not just a social and cultural phenomenon, but a real business opportunity for the Italian shoemaking industry, which must necessarily continue to show a strong presence in this sector," Pilotti said.
Exports to U.S.: 18 million pairs in 2017
Production: 190 million pairs in 2017
Did you know? Shoemaking entails approximately 200 highly complex steps, from cutting materials to injection. In Italy, these activities represent a wealth of know-how, which companies that have been making shoes for decades can draw on.
For decades, Portugal honed its expertise in material selection and finishing for classic leather footwear. More recently, the industry has extended its offerings to other segments, like sports shoes and comfort footwear.
Framed by the Industry 4.0 concepts, Portuguese footwear companies are prepared to invest, said Luís Onofre, president of APICCAPS, the Portuguese Footwear, Component, Leather Goods Manufacturers' Association. By 2020, companies will have invested 50 million euros in order to be able to create a new relationship with customers, namely through the development of new methods of customization.
"In Portugal, you can find some of the most modern companies in the world, from a technological point of view. This is the result of years and years of investment, made with an aim to optimize the capacity of response of the companies," Onofre said. "A strategy well implemented which has resulted in a recognized ability of the Portuguese companies to respond very quickly to market demands and to adapt to new requirements."
Exports to U.S.: 2.2 million pairs in 2017
Production: 80 million pairs in 2017
Did you know? As a result of a bold communication and image campaign, the Portuguese footwear industry is known as "The Sexiest Industry in Europe."
India has been shaking off its outdated reputation of being an unreliable sourcing country.
As Mukhtarul Amin, Council for Leather Exports chairman, puts it, "The Indian footwear industry has many strengths, like huge abundant availability of skilled manpower, institutional support for product design and development, and also has wide experience in supplying to major brands abroad."
The Indian footwear industry has made substantial investments in the last five years in elevating and expanding its capabilities. Under the Integrated Development of Leather Sector Scheme alone, companies in the leather and footwear submitted applications for $200 million worth of technology upgrades and capacity expansion.
More than 400,000 unemployed people have been trained in for various jobs in the sector in the last five years, and the aim is to double that number in the next three years, upskilling 75,000 existing workers.
Exports to U.S.: 26 million pairs in 2017
Production: 2.2 billion pairs a year in 2017
Did you know? The Indian footwear industry is "very keen" to develop joint ventures and partnerships with the overseas brands and manufacturer for producing non-leather athletic shoes.
United States
Domestic manufacturing can be a good option for brands looking to create more unique product mix that's closer to the end user, but making shoes in the U.S. doesn't come easy.
"Producing domestically would incur no duty, which is one of the highest on any good imported into the country, and if President Trump has his way, it will go higher," Andy Polk, FDRA senior vice president, said. The capital investment in setting up large production domestically, however, could negate the duty savings.
"For high-end athletic, the challenge is setting up robust supply chains and finding talent. Currently, there is only limited capacity for runs and color-ways and companies are having to hire new workers like engineers and scientists that have not worked in footwear before," which Polk said is a "benefit and a challenge."
The leather shoe category faces a skill shortage, too. "The artisans producing custom boots are generally older and employed by smaller firms," Polk said. "Finding younger workers willing to apprentice and learn the trade is a concern voiced my many in the domestic sector."
Production: 25 million pairs a year, according to average estimates
Did you know? Sixty-three percent of footwear factories in the U.S. have less than 10 workers. A few producers even make custom shoes in garages.


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Nearly 30,000 pages of previously classified documents surrounding the death of former President John Kennedy are slated to be released this week. There seems to be two separate schools of thought on if this is or isn't a good idea. Many conspiracy theorists are already preparing for startling revelations in this release, however clearer heads are already trying to downplay the entire release. What if anything do you think will surface, other than a few weeks of fresh unproven theories?
I am anxious for the release of information that they formally said would be withheld until the 2030s. Can we really expect any further revelations outside of the official version provided in the Warren Report? If there were anything truly earth shattering, I doubt that they would release it, but wait toward mid century when all those that could have been involved in the crime are dead.
All the really juicy stuff has likely been destroyed (maybe it was on Hillary's server...ha ha ha)
All we have to do is find the Babuska Lady - she knows everything, right?
There may be a lot of secrets or none -- I heard news from Congress and the White House in 1963 that many of the documents would not be released until AD 2063, so I have incentive to read them. I think many people will become preoccupied with them.
It will be interesting to say the least to find out what has been hidden for so long. I'm pleased that President Trump decided to release the files to the public.
It's amazing that the American public is kept in the dark for so many years on incidents of this magnitude, in the first place.
I have read that Papa Bush is the only one still alive that might be implicated. Everyone wants to know who "Mr. George Bush" is.
"...a memorandum from FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, dated November 29, 1963. Under the subject heading "Assassination of President John F. Kennedy," Hoover reported that, on the day after JFK's murder, the bureau had provided two individuals with briefings. One was "Captain William Edwards of the Defense Intelligence Agency." The other: "Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency."
* https://whowhatwhy.org/2013/09/16/part- … ce-agency/
GW Bush broke his silence recently and came out to bash President Trump, warning about conspiracy theories. I think that is called a show of NWO/Globalist desperation. Anyway, that's the story I'm sticking to for now, but that could change... I love this kind of stuff!
JFK was a nationalist.
my bet is that candidate Bush was the guy behind financing the dossier that McCain and the Democrats have used as the basis of the Mueller witch hunt - so now Trump is going to get the last word in!
It will be interesting when we find out who funded the fake dossier. Fusion GPS officials plead the 5th, they should be held in contempt. Now, I understand they are refusing to turn over their bank records that would show who done it. All a part of the coupe against the President.
There are the Globalists in the Deep State and there are the Nationalists in the Deep State. I imagine the offices that some of them are working together in ... er, against each other in are tense, and has been for a very long time.
Maybe they need to get Lois Lerner and her IRS goon squad to go after those records...
George H.W. Bush did become Director of the CIA in 1975. It wouldn't be logical that he just appeared out of nowhere to assume this position.
It's not the orange man-baby's decision to release these papers. They were set to be released by the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, regardless who was president (in the orange man-bay's case, fake president).
Roger Stone warns that, "The Deep State boys will undermine the President's order by redacting & withholding as much information as they can."
Stone is the one who broke the story that the President would release the JFK files on Infowars, because of Trump's love of transparency and tone. Which followed a phone conversation with President Trump, who made his decision later.
Roger Stone has always been spot on. I don't care about anything else anyone has to say about the guy, I've listen to what he says for the past two years, and then I see what transpires. He always confidently said Donald Trump would win the election, and so much more.
Added: Stone is the author of the book tilted "The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ". So! This is going to be very interesting to see unfold for Roger.
I haven't read his book on the Kennedy assassination. Who does he say killed Kennedy? My husband is ex-CIA and I know whom he says were behind the assassination. I'm anxious to see the materials to see if they back up whom he says perpetrated it. He says there were definitely at least two shooters.
Stone thinks it was LBJ"s hit man, Malcolm Mac Wallace who pulled the trigger and killed President Kennedy.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xichkLr14Vg
That was a terrible day in America, I think everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. I heard it from a friend. It was a shock!
My first husband and I were in college in Texas then, and he worked for a local radio station. He came running into our apartment after class and turned on the radio because he'd heard that there were some shots fired at the motorcade. It was then that we learned that it was the President. A little bit later we learned that President Kennedy was dead. He was soon called in to work. I don't believe anyone who lived through it could ever forget either.
It invokes the feelings of shock and grief to think about even to this day for me, so I emotionally detach the best I can. I hope the files are not heavily redacted like they so often are. I want to know the facts no matter what they are.
Here we sit on the edge of our seats!
"While yesterday's pre-planned release of JFK files was significantly neutered at the request of the CIA and FBI, enraging Lou Dobbs among others, the 2800+ files which were released have been poured over extensively, revealing evidence of a second shooter, a massive CIA infiltration of the MSM, a tipoff phone call received 25 minutes before the assassination, and Soviet intelligence indicating the assassination was a coup involving LBJ among other things."
I would like to know how many government agents with a political agenda are in the MSM now parading as journalists.
* http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-2 … bj-fingere
Apples. bananas, and now organs?
I am here for you if you want/need help and so are many Hubbers.
I can promise you that. Things are changing.
OK, now that the files have been released, or at least most of them, what? One analyst said that it was just a lot of stuff and that he and his associates were just about 1/4 through and hadn't really found anything yet.
We watched the very carefully orchestrated program on the re-enactment of the assassination on the Science Channel the night before the files were released. I say "very carefully orchestrated" because it was very carefully re-enacted to show that Lee Harvey Oswald's bullet was the one that killed the President, and that a second shooter's bullet would have passed through him and killed Mrs. Kennedy. Oswald's second or third shot may very well have been the one that killed the President, but I'm not convinced that there was not another shooter involved. What about the ones that hit Governor Connolly?
The re-enactment may have shed some light on why Jackie was trying to crawl onto the trunk of the car. If so, then she really was hysterical. It also showed that things spiraled out of her control and that she probably didn't have any say about how his body was to be treated nor was she consulted about anything else after the shooting. It purported to "leave her to her grief with the President's body, but IMHO I saw a grieving wife spurned and treated like an idiot by the government wheels rolling.
I'm still waiting on some former intelligence officials to weigh in. There will be many revelations.
I was just reading "JFK Files: The CIA Planned To Murder American Citizens In Miami And Blame It On Cuba During Operation Mongoose"
* http://www.shtfplan.com/conspiracy-fact … e_10282017
I'm reading the file now: https://www.archives.gov/files/research … 112987.pdf
Trump said the FBI and CIA requested to remove the names and addresses of anyone that is still alive in the next file dump. Must be an embarrassment / cover up for someone, perhaps George.
I was disappoint that Obama didn't release documents on Bay of Pigs, he could have.
I'll just leave this here if someone wants to read.
JFK Assassination Records - 2017 Additional Documents Release
* https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/2017-release
JFK Assassin Revealed: Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit Was Real JFK Assassin – Not Lee Harvey Oswald (Video)
The note sent to the FBI reveals that a informant H. Theodore Lee made the allegation against the police officer. --- http://bit.ly/2zWfso7
Added: Julian Assange, shared that on Wikileaks. Never proven wrong!
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The number of known active Peregrine Falcon territories in Montana has increased dramatically from 0 in the mid-70s to 110 active territories in 2016. The accumulative number found active during the in survey years (1998-2018) is 224. Funding for surveys has dwindled since formal national surveys are finished We began project "Montana Peregrine-Watch" in 2010 to determine percent occupancy for our Montana Peregrine Falcon territories during these interim years between major surveys. In 2018, we had over 80 volunteers helping us monitor the Montana Peregrine Falcon territories.
Survey all 224 Peregrine Falcon territories that were active during the 1998-2018 period for occupancy.
Methods Summary:
- Biologists and qualified birders will be shown the peregrine cliff & nesting ledges during March and April.
- Minimum number visits two : one in April & one in July recommended.
- Fill out forms at each visit (Spring & Summer)
- Maximum number of territories per observer – three
- Emphasis on recording occupancy -productivity secondary
- Territory must be near home or work place
- Summary table to MPI or MFWP by 1 September
- Summaries posted on the web (montanaperegrine.org)
- Territory observer unable to survey territory must find a qualified replacement. Changes should be reported immediately.
Coordinators: Jay Sumner, Claire Gower, Bob Hollister, and John Mitchell