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Waco Custom Cabin series Waco EQC-6 Custom at the Calgary Aerospace Museum painted in the markings of an aircraft operated by Grant McConachie - renowned bush pilot and later CEO of Canadian Pacific Air Lines. Role 4-5 place cabin sesquiplane Manufacturer Waco Aircraft Company First flight 1935 Introduction 1935 Produced 1935-1939 Number built 350+ Unit cost 1938 ZGC-8 (options unspecified) $10,495 (roughly $171,258.30 in 2012 dollars) Variants Waco ZQC-6, Waco E series, Waco N series The Waco Custom Cabins were a series of up-market single-engined 4-5 seat cabin sesquiplanes of the late 1930s produced by the Waco Aircraft Company of the United States. "Custom Cabin" was Waco's own description of the aircraft which despite minor differences, were all fabric covered biplanes. Contents 1 Design, 2 Designation clarification, 3 Operational history, 4 Variants 4.1 1935 OC Series (54+ built), 4.2 1935 UC Series (30+ built), 4.3 1936 QC Series (C-6) (120 built), 4.4 1937-38 GC Series (C-7 and C-8) (96+ built), 4.5 1938 VN Series (N-8) (20 ca. built), 4.6 1939 RE Series (30 built), 4.7 Military Designations, , 5 Operators 5.1 Civil Operators, 5.2 Military Operators, , 6 Aircraft on display, 7 Specifications (ZQC-6), 8 See also, 9 References, 10 External links, Design: Nearly all of the Waco Custom Cabins were powered by radial engines (there being one factory-built exception, the MGC-8) and the purchaser could specify almost any commercially available engine and Waco would build an aircraft powered by it, hence the profusion of designations, as the first letter indicates the engine installed. Some models were offered in case someone wanted a specific engine but not all were built. Fuselage structure was typical for the period, being welded steel tubing with light wood strips to fair the shape in. The wings were made of spruce, with two spars each, and ailerons only on the upper wings mounted on a false spar. Split flaps were installed on the undersides of the upper wings, though two designs were used depending on model - either mid chord (OC, UC and QC), or in the conventional position at the trailing edge of the wing (GC and N). The model N was unusual in being the only model with flaps on the lower wings while the model E was the only one with plain flaps. Wing bracing was with a heavily canted N strut joining upper and lower wings, assisted by a single strut bracing the lower wing to the upper fuselage longeron, except on the E series which replaced the strut with flying and landing wires. Elevators and rudder were counterbalanced aerodynamically and braced with wire cables. Both could be trimmed, the rudder via a ground adjustable tab, the elevators via jack screw on the OC, UC and QC, while the GC, E and N used a single trim tab on the port (left) elevator. The main undercarriage was sprung with oleo struts, and a castoring tailwheel was fitted on all versions except the VN model, which had a nosewheel. Designation clarification: Waco had been building a series of successful cabin biplanes when in 1935, they introduced a new series of upmarket cabin sesquiplanes intended for the wealthy private individual or business. The original biplanes had been given a designation ending in C, however with the new Custom Cabin, Waco decided to differentiate the new design and existing C types that remained in production were recoded as C-S types to indicate Standard Cabin, until Waco changed their designation again in 1936 to just an S. For example, the 1934 Standard Cabin YKC was redesignated as a YKC-S in 1935, and as a YKS-6 in 1936. 1936 also saw adoption of a numerical suffix to indicate the model year of the design, as "-6" for 1936, "-7" for 1937, etc. Since it referred to a model and not the year of production, the "-7" was carried into 1939 for some Custom Cabins, while others were designated "-8". In 1936, Waco started using a short form to refer to the types of aircraft without the engine and model identifiers resulting in C-6, C-7 and C-8 however as Waco only built one type of Custom cabin in each of those years, they refer to the QC-6, GC-7 and GC-8 series respectively. Operational history: The Custom Cabin series, with its improved performance proved to be popular and many were purchased by small commercial aviation firms and non-aviation businesses. Approximately 300 Custom Cabin Wacos of all types (excluding the Waco E series and the Waco N series), were produced between 1935 and 1939. Some were employed as "executive transports". Many served in the Canadian bush country, where they normally operated on skis in winter and EDO floats in summer. Many of these Canadian Wacos were ordered and built as freighters with additional doors. In 1936 an EQC-6 operated by Speers Airways of Regina, Saskatchewan was the first non-military government operated air ambulance in Canada. With the onset of World War II, examples were impressed into the air forces of many Allied nations, including the US (USAAC and US Navy), the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Most were used as utility aircraft, however a small number were operated by the US Civil Air Patrol, conducting anti-submarine patrols off the US coastline from March 1942 to August 1943 armed with 50 or 100 pound bombs. A single impressed ZGC-7 referred to as the Big Waco, RAF serial AX695, was used by the British Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) along with a Waco Standard Cain series YKC Little Waco to support their activities behind Axis lines.Flight Regiment 19, Finnish Air Force (Swedish Volunteer Air Force) used one Waco ZQC-6 (OH-SLA) during the Russo-Finnish Winter War in support of Finnish military operations. Numerous Custom Cabin series aircraft of several sub-models are currently registered in the USA, and more are in under restoration. This is still a popular design among owners of classic aircraft. Variants: The Waco Custom cabin series included all of the enlarged-cabin sesquiplanes from 1935 and can be further divided into six basic models, OC, UC QC, GC, RE and VN, with additional sub-types differing primarily in engine installation (indicated by the first letter of the designation or by a low dash number, i.e. -1, -2) and by model year (dash numbers -6, -7, -8). Letters were not used sequentially. Each basic type was offered with almost any engine the customer wished and designations were created accordingly, however some engines were more popular than others resulting in some types being offered, but never built. Due to the wide variety of engines already offered, it was both relatively easy and common to change the installed engine, resulting in a lot of confusion as to the correct designation to use for a specific airframe. 1935 OC Series (54+ built): UOC 210 hp (157 kW) Continental R-670-A or 225 hp (168 kW) Continental R-670-B engine. 4 built. YOC 225 hp (168 kW) Jacobs L-4 engine. 50+ YOC and YOC-1 built. Built as UOC and re-engined. YOC-1 285 hp (213 kW) Jacobs L-5 engine. Built as UOC and re-engined. 1 impressed by USAAF as UC-72N. 1935 UC Series (30+ built): CUC 250 hp (186 kW) Wright R-760-E engine. 30+ built of all CUC types. CUC-1 285 hp (213 kW) Wright R-760-E1 engine. Built as CUC and re-engined. 1 impressed by USAAF as UC-72F. CUC-2 320 hp (239 kW) Wright R-760-E2 engine. Built as CUC and re-engined. 1936 QC Series (C-6) (120 built): AQC-6 330 hp (246 kW) Jacobs L-6 engine. 7 built. 1 impressed by USAAF as UC-72G. AQC-6 Freighter: At least 2 aircraft ordered through Fleet Aircraft and built for use in Canada with additional freight doors on both sides of the fuselage and equipped for floats. Engine same as for standard AQC-6. Additional aircraft may have been modified. CQC-6 250 hp (186 kW) Wright R-760-E engine. None built. DQC-6 285 hp (213 kW) Wright R-760-E1 engine. 11 built. EQC-6 320 hp (239 kW) Wright R-760-E2 engine. 20 built. USCG used 3 as J2W-1 SQC-6 300 hp (224 kW) Pratt & Whitney Wasp Jr. engine. None built. UQC-6 210 hp (157 kW) Continental R-670 or 225 hp (168 kW);hp Continental W-670-K or 220 hp (164 kW);hp Continental W-670-6. None built. VQC-6 250 hp (186 kW) Continental W-670-M1 engine. 1 built. YQC-6 225 hp (168 kW) Jacobs L-4 engine. 13 built. 1 ex-RAAF example re-engined with 200 hp (149 kW);hp DeHavilland Gypsy 6 inline engine. ZQC-6 285 hp (213 kW) Jacobs L-5 engine. 68 built. 1 impressed by USAAF as UC-72Q and 5 as UC-72H.; Swedish AF Tp-8a ZQC-6 Freighter: At least 8 aircraft ordered through Fleet Aircraft and built for use in Canada with additional freight doors on both sides of the fuselage and equipped for floats. Engine same as for standard ZQC-6. Additional aircraft may have been modified. 1937-38 GC Series (C-7 and C-8) (96+ built): AGC-8 300 hp (224 kW) Jacobs L-6 engine. 17 built, 2 modified to EGC-8. 2 impressed by USAAF as UC-72P. DGC-7 285 hp (213 kW) Wright R-760-E1 engine. 2 built. EGC-7 320 hp (239 kW) Wright R-760-E2 engine. 38 built. EGC-8 same as EGC-7 for 1938. 7 built, plus 2 modified from AGC-8, and 1 used to trial 260 hp (194 kW) Menasco C-6S-4 for MGC-8. 4 impressed by USAAF as UC-72B MGC-8 Menasco Buccaneer inline engine. One modified, unknown number built. UGC-7 210 hp (157 kW) Continental R-670 engine. None built. VGC-7 250 hp (186 kW) Continental W-670-M1 engine. None built. YGC-7 225 hp (168 kW) Jacobs L-4 engine. None built. YGC-8 225 hp (168 kW) Jacobs L-4 engine. Trailling edge flaps. None built. ZGC-7 300 hp (224 kW) Jacobs L-5 engine. 28 built. 4 impressed by USAAF as UC-72E ZGC-8 same as ZGC-7 for 1938, 4 built. 1938 VN Series (N-8) (20 ca. built): Main article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_N_series AVN-8 330 hp (246 kW) Jacobs L-6 engine. ZVN-8 285 hp (213 kW) Jacobs L-5 engine. 1939 RE Series (30 built): Main article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_E_series ARE Aristocrat 330 hp (246 kW) Jacobs L-6 (4 built, one impressed by USAAF as UC-72A) HRE Aristocrat 300 hp (224 kW) Lycoming R-680-E3 (5 built, 2 impressed by USAAF as UC-72C) SRE Aristocrat 450 hp (336 kW) Pratt & Whitney Wasp Jr SB-2/-3 (21 built, 13 impressed by USAAF as UC-72) WRE Aristocrat 450 hp (336 kW) Wright R-975 - none built Military Designations: A-54 Royal Australian Air Force designation for impressed YQC-6 Tp-8a Swedish Air Force designation for ZQC-6. Tp-8 was a generic designation for all Wacos. J2W US Coast Guard designation for 3 EQC-6 bought from Waco. Additional aircraft impressed by the US Navy were undesignated. UC-72/C-72 US Army Air Forces designation for impressed Custom Cabin series Wacos. Main article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_C-72 UC-72B : EGC-8 4 impressed UC-72E : ZGC-7 4 impressed UC-72P : AGC-8 2 impressed UC-72Q : ZQC-6 1 impressed UC-72G : AQC-6 1 impressed UC-72H : ZQC-6 5 impressed UC-72F : CUC-1 1 impressed Operators: Civil Operators: Wacos were used in small numbers by a very large number of individual operators in many countries. Military Operators: Most operators operated either a single example, or a very small number. Argentina Argentine Navy (EQC-6 and UOC), Australia Royal Australian Air Force impressed (YQC-6), Brazil Exército Brasileiro (30x EGC-7), Canada Royal Canadian Air Force impressed (AQC-6), Department of National Defence purchased (2x ZQC-6), Finland Finnish Air Force impressed (ZQC-6), Netherlands Royal Netherlands Air Force possibly impressed (EGC-7), New Zealand Royal New Zealand Air Force impressed (UOC), Nicaragua Nicaraguan Air Force (EGC-7), South Africa South African Air Force impressed at least 10 Wacos of different types (CUC and YOC), Sweden Swedish Air Force (ZQC-6), United Kingdom Royal Air Force impressed (ZVN-8 and ZGC-7), United States United States Coast Guard (3x EQC-6), United States Navy, United States Army Air Forces (Various - see above), Aircraft on display: Aside from the large number of privately owned Wacos that continue to exist, a number have also found their way into museums. Museum Location Type Identity Canadian Museum of Flight Langley, British Columbia AQC-6 CF-CCW EAA AirVenture Museum Oshkosh, Wisconsin ARE NC20953 Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum Maryland Heights, Missouri AVN-8 NC19378 Golden Wings Flying Museum Minneapolis, Minnesota CUC-1 NC15233 Virginia Aviation Museum Richmond, Virginia YOC NC17740 War Eagles Air Museum Santa Teresa, New Mexico EGC-8 NC19354 Specifications (ZQC-6): Data from General characteristics Crew: 1, Capacity: 5, Length: 26 ft 8 in (), Wingspan: 35 ft 0 in (upper), 24 ft 6 in (lower) (), Height: 8 ft 8 in (), Wing area: 168 sq ft (upper), 76 sq ft (lower) (), Empty weight: 2,023 lb (), Loaded weight: 3,500 lb (), Max. takeoff weight: 3,500 lb (), Powerplant: 1 × Jacobs L-5 7-cylinder radial, 285 hp (), Performance Maximum speed: 166 mph (270 km/h), Cruise speed: 150 mph (241 km/h), Service ceiling: 17,000 ft ()
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August 03, 2012 9:00 am ET
Peter Anthony Cohen - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President, Member of Executive Committee and Member of Operating Committee Jeffrey Marc Solomon - Chief Operating Officer, Head of Investment Banking, Director, Member of Executive Committee, Member of Operating Committee and Chief Executive Officer of Cowen & Company Stephen A. Lasota - Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Ofifcer and Member of Operating Committee Analysts Joel Jeffrey - Keefe, Bruyette, & Woods, Inc., Research Division Devin Ryan - Sandler O'Neill + Partners, L.P., Research Division Presentation Operator Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for joining the Cowen Group, Incorporated Conference Call to discuss the financial results for the 2012 second quarter. By now, you should have received a copy of the company's earnings release, which can be accessed at the Cowen Group Incorporated website at www.cowen.com. Before we begin, the company has asked me to remind you that some of the comments made on today's call and some of the responses to your questions may contain forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties described in the company's earnings release and other filings with the SEC. Cowen Group, Incorporated has no obligation to update the information presented on the call. A more complete description of these and other risks and uncertainties and assumptions is included in the company's filings with the SEC, which are available on the company's website and on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Also on today's call, our speakers will reference certain non-GAAP financial measures, which the company believes will provide useful information for investors. Reconciliation of these measures to GAAP in consistent with the company's reconciliation was presented in today's earnings release.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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Coal in Your Stocking November 03, 2008
By Max Schulz
Give Barack Obama credit for one thing. When it comes to global warming and coal, he exhibited extraordinary candor about the economic pain his proposals would cause. Unfortunately for John McCain's prospects, Obama's candor was kept hidden for the better part of the year. It wasn't until late Sunday evening that word surfaced of Obama's extremely impolitic comments to the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board last January. Had they been well known before the last, dying gasps of a seemingly interminable campaign, the McCain team might have been able to gain real traction in key battleground states like Pennsylvania and Ohio. Lucky for Obama, the Chronicle editors inexplicably failed to publicize Obama's revelations.
In the January editorial-board meeting, Obama made two stunning comments about the costs of his cap-and-trade proposal to curb greenhouse gas emissions. First, he said, "If somebody wants to build a coal plant, they canit's just that it will bankrupt them, because they are going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted." He mentioned that existing coal plants will have to retrofit their operations. "That will cost money," Obama said. "They will pass that money on to consumers."
He followed that up with an even more damning pronouncement: "Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." Electricity rates would necessarily skyrocketit's the 21st-century equivalent of Walter Mondale's 1984 debate promise to raise taxes.
Voters rarely want to hear that their costs will go up. That's why the Left couches its pro-regulation arguments about countering global warming in terms that avoid the immediate economic hit consumers will face. Or eco-pleaders will play up fuzzy notions about supposed economic benefits, such as the growth of so-called "green jobs," while avoiding strict cost-benefits analysis.
The reality is a lot closer to what Obama revealed in San Francisco. Costs for consumers will skyrocket. Coal is one of the cheapest sources of baseload power, cheaper than renewable technologies like wind and solar by orders of magnitude. Plus, it can provide reliable supplies, while power from windmills and solar panels is intermittent.
Obama promises that his cap-and-trade plan would shut down the industry that provides half the nation's electricity. Running mate Joe Biden signaled similar sentiments in a rope-line gaffe a few weeks ago, when he pledged "no coal plants here in America" (despite the campaign's official support for "clean coal" technology like carbon sequestration).
It's unclear how Senators Obama and Biden would replace that lost power if we bankrupted the coal industry and closed down its plants. According to the government's Energy Information Administration, the U.S. has nearly 750 coal-fired generators with a capacity of over 100 megawatts (MW). More than 200 of these coal plants have a capacity of over 500 MW. The country has 53 coal-fired generators that can
By comparison, the world's largest solar facility, located in the Mojave Desert, needs nine large solar plants covering 1600 acres to produce a total of 354 MW of power. That's an average of slightly less than 40 MW per plant, and comes with an enormous environmental footprint. Wind farms are little better, requiring humongous tracts of land to provide relatively small amounts of energy.
Realists who take a hard look at those numbers will realize that we can't do easily without coal. Yet common sense is often lost in energy debates, which are too often dominated by the pleadings of environmental groups insisting we switch away from fossil fuels and nuclear power and instead embrace clean alternatives. It sounds fanciful because it is.
It's not as if we haven't tried the alternative energies favored by the Greens. And it's not as if we haven't given them boosts with favorable tax policies, direct subsidies, and even mandates to employ them. The fact is that their inherent limitations have kept renewables from gaining a significant foothold in the energy economy. The inability to substitute for more traditional sources of power means that the so-called "alternatives" are hardly an alternative at all.
Perhaps in time we will learn the San Francisco Chronicle's rationale for sitting on Obama's explosive comments instead of publishing them in January. The revelation of those comments Sunday night has given John McCain and Sarah Palin a small window of time to capitalize. They are trying these last two days to impress on voters that an Obama-Biden victory would mean bad news for coal-producing states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. More than that, however, an Obama win would be bad news for coal-consuming states, i.e., those that get a huge share of their electricity from coal or that house energy-intensive industries. And that's most of the country. Skyrocketing energy costs won't just hurt coal miners. They'll hurt everybody.
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Tim Blair –, Saturday, February, 21, 2015, (12:57pm)
Did you know that multi-lingual Mike Carlton speaks Indonesian? He's very shy about it, but occasionally hints at this astonishing ability.
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Tim Blair –, Thursday, February, 19, 2015, (2:21pm)
Roger Lewis reviews the life and times of Dylan Evans, a global warming fanatic whose demented beliefs led him to abandon civilisation:
Evans couldn't wait to create his retrograde society, where waif-like girls 'with long, tawny dreadlocks' would be doling out 'bowls of bean stew from a steaming cauldron'. He sold his house, gave up his academic career and moved to a field near Inverness. He looked at an adjacent waterfall and thought it could 'generate electricity'. He gazed at an acre of scrubland and believed he could 'keep a few pigs and chickens'. He spotted a deer and, though he had no butchery or tanning training, imagined turning its hide into shoes and gloves.
Evans's sustainable wonderland quickly lured several like-minded idiots ("a former Royal Marine who had ambitions to be a cobbler; a computer-programmer 'passionate about vegetables'; a teacher who'd once met an Inuit; a graffiti artist from Belfast; a Cambridge student keen on the recorder"), but then the problems began:
It attracted only idealists and disaffected romantics when what was needed were people with practical skills, like plumbers, carpenters and engineers. Soon the militant vegetarians were squabbling with the meat-eaters, and the small group began to disintegrate. One member even started to invent his own religion, building a shrine with 'carefully arranged' bits of driftwood and old coins …
There was neither soap nor detergent. 'We got used to a thin layer of slime covering the pans and bowls.' There was no toothpaste or lavatory paper – the sanitary arrangements were grotesque. There was also no music.
Leading to the inevitable conclusion:
It soon became apparent that 'the whole experiment had been a huge mistake'. Jittery, with a permanently wide-eyed expression and wanting only to kill himself, Evans was eventually detained under the Mental Health Act in a maximum security psychiatric hospital.
His journey from utopia to derangement seems to have taken just one year.
(Via Tim T.)
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Tim Blair –, Thursday, February, 19, 2015, (2:18pm)
Known as his nation's hardest-working batsman, former Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim may have the finest technique of any wicketkeeper playing in the World Cup. Just something to look out for when Bangladesh play Australia this Saturday in Brisbane.
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Tim Blair –, Thursday, February, 19, 2015, (1:07pm)
Full disclosure: I am an investor in the Alaskan Rock vodka company. Another full disclosure: Charlotte Crosby is made almost entirely out of legs.
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Tim Blair –, Thursday, February, 19, 2015, (1:06pm)
No comments permitted, because it is an ongoing investigation, but this is fascinating.
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Tim Blair –, Wednesday, February, 18, 2015, (1:44pm)
Further details emerge about Copenhagen gunman Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein:
Former classmates of Mr. El-Hussein described him to local media as a loner who liked to discuss Islam and the Israel-Palestinian conflict and his hatred for Jews …
"I knew him from Mjolnerparken [a residential area where the gunman is believed to have lived]," Sanna al-Baltam told reporters at TV2 while placing a bouquet on the ground. "We're not sure it was him who did it. If it was, it has nothing to do with Islam. He must have been manipulated," she was quoted saying.
As Mark Steyn again notes, it is never to do with Islam. In other nothing-to-with-Islam developments:
The German city of Braunschweig has cancelled a planned carnival parade because of a "specific threat of an Islamist attack", police say.
The event, which was to begin around midday (local time), was called off following a tip by "reliable state security sources", police said in a statement.
And in France:
France's interior minister says several hundred tombs had been defaced at a Jewish cemetery in the northeast of the country, in what he called "a despicable act".
And, no doubt, nothing to do with Islam. By the way, check how the New York Times reported the second Copenhagen attack:
Near a synagogue? Seriously? Tom Gross corrects the former paper of record:
It wasn't near a synagogue. It was at a synagogue. The synagogue was the target. Which is why a Jew guarding the synagogue was shot dead. With the New York Times' reporting one starts to understand how Obama and his spokespeople could say the kosher attack in Paris was "random" even though the perpetrator – interviewed live on French radio during the attack – proudly boasted that he had come all the way across Paris in order to kill Jews gathering before the sabbath.
In a totally non-Islamic way, of course. Having spent considerable time studying resurgent Islamic terrorism, Graeme Wood, for one, isn't buying this nothing-to-do-with-Islam myth.
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Tim Blair –, Wednesday, February, 18, 2015, (1:34pm)
Locked-on losers claim charity cash:
Professional protest groups linked to high-profile activists who lock themselves to mining equipment are being handed lucrative tax breaks by the tax office.
Groups including Lock The Gate, The Sunrise Project and the Nature Conservation Council of NSW receive GST concessions, income tax exemption and fringe benefit tax rebates.
Moves are now underway to correct this anomaly:
Lock The Gate national co-ordinator Phil Laird described the move to strike them off the charity list as a "bullying" tactic.
Maybe they'd prefer it if tax officials chained themselves to Lock The Gate's stupid protesters.
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Tim Blair –, Wednesday, February, 18, 2015, (1:10pm)
When people talk about a "two-state solution", perhaps they mean one state for Fatah and another for Hamas:
A senior Fatah official in the Gaza Strip on Monday survived an assassination attempt while two of his aides were injured.
Three unidentified gunmen opened fire at a car belonging to Ma'moun Sweidan, who is in charge of Fatah's international relations, in the center of Gaza City …
The attack was the second of its kind against a senior Fatah official in less than 24 hours.
On Sunday night, arsonists set fire to a car belonging to another senior Fatah official, Abdel Muni'm Al-Tahrawi, who lives in the Nusseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Although no group claimed responsibility for the attacks, Fatah spokesman Ahmed Assaf accused Hamas's "armed terror groups" of targeting the Fatah officials.
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Tim Blair –, Wednesday, February, 18, 2015, (12:43pm)
Let's kick off the afternoon with a Frightbat-friendly classic from Hank Williams Jr:
Mr Williams's tune is best heard through a Frightbat sound system.
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Tim Blair –, Tuesday, February, 17, 2015, (6:24pm)
A floral tribute appears in Copenhagen following the weekend's Islamist murder of two innocent people. A floral tribute to the killer, that is.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., April 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- During the morning rush hour on April 14, a car bomb containing an estimated 500-800 pounds of explosives blew up at the Nyanya District bus station on the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria. Brian Michael Jenkins and Bruce R. Butterworth, terrorism experts from the Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI), explained its significance for the rest of the world and put the facts into a larger perspective.
"The bomb obliterated four large buses filled with passengers and many smaller buses," said Mr. Jenkins, director of MTI's National Transportation Safety and Security Center and a terrorism expert. "The latest casualty figures as of April 15 put the death toll at 75, with 141 wounded, but the number of fatalities is expected to rise. That makes this the deadliest bomb attack on Nigeria's capital and the first terrorist bombing in Abuja since December 2011, when a bomb was detonated at a Catholic church, killing 41 people."
In August 2011, another vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) was detonated at the United Nations headquarters in the city. That bomb left 23 dead.
Officials blame the Islamist group Boko Haram
Mr. Jenkins said that, although no group has yet claimed responsibility for the latest attack, authorities blamed it on Boko Haram, an Islamist group that seeks to establish an independent Muslim state in the North of Nigeria. The official name of the group is the Congregation of the People of Tradition for Proselytism and Jihad, but it is generally referred to as Boko Haram, he said, which in the Hausa language translates roughly as "Western Education Is a Sin." Boko Haram was founded in 2002 but began its terrorist campaign in 2009.
The political upheavals across North Africa, in particular, Libya's civil war, destabilized the entire region and exacerbated local conflicts. Boko Haram escalated its campaign. More than 4,000 people have been killed in the past four years. Including casualties from the bus terminal bombing, more than 1,500 people have died in Boko Haram attacks thus far in 2014.
Most of Boko Haram's attacks were directed against police stations, but it has increasingly attacked civilian targets, including public transportation, markets, and churches. The group opposes the education of girls and has also carried out a number of deadly attacks on schools. On the same day as the Abuja bombing, Boko Haram kidnapped 129 students from a girl's school in Nigeria.
This was a message to Nigeria and the world.
"The Abuja bombing belies the Nigerian government's claim that its recent military offensive succeeded in confining Boko Haram to a remote area in northern Nigeria," said Mr. Butterworth, a research associate and terrorism expert with MTI. "That Boko Haram was still in town, able to carry out attacks in the nation's capital, was no doubt the message the group wanted to convey."
That reminder may also be aimed at a broader world audience as the World Economic Forum prepares to hold an international summit in Nigeria in May, he said. Upcoming major international events prompt terrorist attacks, as was seen in the Volgograd bombings just weeks before the scheduled opening of the Sochi Olympics. (See MTI Perspective, By the Numbers: Russia's Terrorists Increasingly Target Transportation .)
The attack ranks high for lethality
"Looking at all attacks on public surface transportation systems worldwide since 1970, the Abuja bombing was the 12th most lethal attack," said Mr. Jenkins. "When comparing similar attack methods, it was the ninth most lethal attack. This means looking only at attacks by terrorists (putting aside deranged persons or ordinary criminals) and considers only those attacks involving a single attack method and not a combination of methods, such as a derailment followed by an armed assault to finish off trapped passengers."
He noted that, in terms of attacks involving explosives, it was the seventh most lethal bombing. Finally, looking at the attack in terms of fatalities per explosive device used, it was the fifth most lethal. Interestingly, one of the four most lethal attacks was a 1987 VBIED bombing against at an open-air bus station in Sri Lanka that killed 105 people and injured 200. All figures come from MTI's proprietary database of terrorist attacks against surface transportation around the world.
Nigerian bus stations are common targets
Bus station attacks with high fatalities feature heavily in Boko Haram's terrorist campaign. Three attacks on open-air bus stations killed a total of 116 people, an average of 39 fatalities per attack.
MTI's database records 12 of those attacks in Nigeria. (The data does not count 34 attacks on pipelines, which usually but not always cause no casualties.) All but one of these involved buses, bus stations, or bus stops. These 11 attacks combined killed 146 and injured 215, an average of 13.3 fatalities and 19.5 injuries per attack. Fatalities per attack are four times higher than the worldwide average for bus targets, which is 3.2, and over five times higher than the combined worldwide average for bus, train, road and passenger ferry targets, which is 2.5.
Jihadist attacks are more lethal
Mr. Butterworth noted, "Jihadist groups continue to view public surface transportation targets as lucrative ones offering terrorists the high body counts they seek. Attacks by Islamist extremist groups worldwide – including those not just following al Qaeda's jihadist terminology, but also those dedicated to Salafi-Islamist goals – killed an average of 8.6 people per attack, with the most lethal attacks – excluding passenger ferries – directed against bus stations or bus stops, with 8.8 fatalities per attack. Attacks on passenger buses come close behind at 5.2 fatalities per attack. The three jihadist attacks against bus stations in Nigeria were far more lethal."
By contrast, attacks on surface transportation by non-jihadist groups, including nearly all of the attacks in Israel against bus targets and the lethal campaign waged by the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, achieved an average body count of only 2.2 fatalities per attack – three fatalities per attack against buses and 1.9 fatalities per attack against bus stations and stops.
"Overall, there appear to be more bus attacks worldwide recently, with bus attacks becoming slightly more lethal," he said. "By contrast, while passenger and commuter train attacks have also increased, their lethality has decreased."
VBIEDs deliver high body counts
Looking at the most lethal combination of terrorist devices, targets and delivery methods, open air bus stations featured in three of the 15 most lethal attacks, and VBIEDS were used in four of them. Of these, three attacks were directed against bus stations and one attack against a bus itself.
Looking at all attacks, not just those involving explosives, VBIEDS are the seventh most frequently used terrorist weapon and the sixth most lethal attack method, killing an average of 7.8 people per attack. Interestingly, whether VBIEDs were detonated remotely or by suicide bombers only slightly changes their lethality, far less than suicide delivery does for most IEDs.
Developing nations are hit hardest
"Citizens of western countries tend to think that all terrorism is aimed at them," said Mr. Jenkins. "The Abuja attack reminds us that the developing nations suffer far more from terrorism than the developed nations. In terms of the number of attacks, only four countries are developed nations from among the top 20 whose public surface transportation systems are the most targeted by terrorists. These developed nations are Israel, Russia, Spain, and the United Kingdom."
India and Pakistan are first and second in terms of the total number of attacks on surface transportation systems, with 19 and 17 percent of the total, respectively. Nigeria is in 39th place, although the number of attacks recently has increased.
Mr. Jenkins added, "When we look at where the most lethal attacks on surface transportation take place, the contrast is also stark. Considering the 16 countries with 40 or more attacks – which tends to reduce situations where just a few large-scale attacks can significantly increase the national lethality average – all are developing countries except same four countries – Israel, Russia, Spain and the UK. The worldwide average is 2.3 fatalities per attack."
The most lethal attacks on average occurred in Sri Lanka (8.4 fatalities per attack) and Algeria (4.6 fatalities per attack). India's lethality rate is 2.7, only slightly less than Israel's 2.8, and Pakistan's was 2.4. By contrast, Russia's fatality rate was 2.1, Spain's 1.6, and the UK's 0.9. Developing countries clearly suffer greatly, said Mr. Jenkins.
The more people rely on buses, the more they are targeted
Terrorist bus attacks can also occur in the developed countries as well. In fact, buses are attacked more than any other set of public surface transport targets in both developing and developed countries. However, the lethality of bus attacks in the developing countries is greater.
Mr. Butterworth said that, excluding Israel from the set of developed countries (because it is probably unique in its reliance on a public bus system instead of passenger, commuter, and subway rail), developed country attacks on buses generated a body count of 1.5 and a rate of 0.8 on bus stations and stops. By comparison, similar attacks in the developing world generated fatality rates of 3.2 for buses and 2.9 for bus stations and stops.
"The more people rely upon bus transportation, the more it becomes a lucrative terrorist target," he said. "Still, we have to remember that attacks against bus targets in the developed countries do happen, and they can be lethal, as indicated by the 2012 bus bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria, which killed 6, as well as last December's attack against a bus trolley in Volgograd, Russia, which killed 16."
Previous Transportation Security Perspectives include By the Numbers: Russia's Terrorists Increasingly Target Transportation ; Mineta Transportation Institute Says Subways Are Still in Terrorists' Sights; and The Terrorist Attack in Kunming, China: Does It Indicate a Growing Threat Worldwide? All are available for free download and no registration.
Brian Michael Jenkins is an international authority on terrorism and sophisticated crime. He directs the Mineta Transportation Institute's (MTI) National Transportation Safety and Security Center, which focuses on research into protecting surface transportation against terrorist attacks. He is also a senior advisor to the president of RAND. From 1989-98, Mr. Jenkins was deputy chairman of Kroll Associates, an international investigative and consulting firm. Before that, he was chairman of RAND's Political Science Department, where he also directed research on political violence. He has authored several books, chapters, and articles on counterterrorism, including International Terrorism: A New Mode of Conflict and Will Terrorists Go Nuclear? Most recently, he published When Armies Divide, a discussion about nuclear arms in the hands of rebelling armies. He also has been principal investigator for many peer-reviewed security-focused research reports for MTI.
Mr. Butterworth has worked at congressional, senior policy, and operational levels, including with the House Government Operations Committee, Department of Transportation, and the Office of the Secretary. He managed negotiations on air and maritime services in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) (now the World Trade Organization), chaired U.S. delegations to United Nations committees, and was part of the response to the bombing of Pan Am 103. He was an executive in airline security, and he launched a successful program of dangerous-goods regulation and cargo security after the 1995 ValuJet crash. He worked closely with Congress and other federal-level agencies and departments. Currently, he is a research associate at the Mineta Transportation Institute. Mr. Butterworth received an MS degree from the London School of Economics and a BA degree from the University of the Pacific (magna cum laude). He was a California State Scholar and a Rotary Foundation Fellow.
MTI conducts research, education, and information transfer programs focusing on surface transportation policy and management issues, especially related to transit. MTI was established by Congress in 1991 as part of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act and won national re-designation competitions in 2002, 2006 and 2011. The Institute is funded by Congress through the US DOT Research and Innovative Technology Administration, by the California Legislature through Caltrans, and public and private grants. In 2006 the US Department of Homeland Security selected MTI as a National Transportation Security Center of Excellence. The internationally respected members of the MTI Board of Trustees represent all major surface transportation modes. MTI is the lead institute for the Mineta National Transit Research Consortium, an affiliation of nine university transportation research centers. MTI is affiliated with San Jose (CA) State University's College of Business. Visit transweb.sjsu.edu
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Olean reconstruction project moves on to third phase
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A major section of East State Street, one of downtown Olean's key thoroughfares, has been rebuilt. And there's more to come.
The first two phases of the East State Street work, pegged at $3.5 million, were funded in part by $1 million from the state's Regional Council initiative. They involved the rebuilding of a stretch from Front to King streets.
A third phase, focusing on the stretch from Front Street to the Olean Creak Bridge, is slated to start on July 8.
Olean Mayor Linda Witte said the roadwork was completed within one year of its start and under budget.
For the first two phases, the work was completed by Niagara Falls' Mark Cerrone Inc. and Lake Shore Paving Co. of Jamestown.
James Fink covers real estate, commercial development and government
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