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Johannesburg - Businessman Kenny Kunene has resigned from the party leadership of Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Front with immediate effect.
Kunene, who is known as the "Sushi King", told The Star on Tuesday he was relinquishing his position as head of campaigns, mobilisation and special projects, and will no longer be part of the party's central command team, after "considering a lot of things".
Known for his controversial, flamboyant lifestyle, the former convict and multimillionaire was seen as a crowd-pulling asset, particularly with the youth.
When pressed on whether he would again be seen wearing the EFF's trademark red beret, Kunene said there were "still other decisions he was going to make going forward".
"Obviously I'd like to see economic freedom being realised and I will remain an economic freedom fighter for ordinary people.
"The direction I am taking from now will determine if I will still be active in EFF," he said.
Asked if he will be voting for the EFF in the elections, he said: "My vote remains my secret… If you are in a leadership position, your vote becomes obvious, and if not, it remains your secret."
A former member of the ANC, Kunene joined the EFF after writing an unflattering open letter to President Jacob Zuma in which he denounced him and his leadership style.
There were reports in the media of Kunene being investigated for tax evasion soon after he joined the EFF, which was followed by the party claiming its leaders, including Malema, were being targeted by the taxman as a way of settling political scores.
In his open letter to Zuma, Kunene labelled the president a 'tyrant" and "monster". He said Zuma was feared by those close to him, who, when they spoke to his face, would tell him that "your imperial clothes are very stylish".
Kunene refused to talk about his open letter to Zuma on Tuesday.
When asked if he had resigned from the leadership of the EFF because of his alleged tax difficulties, Kunene said he had settled his matter with Sars.
He was also evasive when asked if this was perhaps a move to return to the ANC.
"I don't want to talk about the ANC. I am not an enemy of the ANC.
"I still meet ANC members, we chat and laugh and like (Zuma would) say, they tell me it's cold outside the ANC and urge me to come back and get warm," he said.
Kunene said Malema had "accepted and respected" his resignation from the EFF leadership, adding that he still believed the party "has a future, even when I am not there".
When contacted, EFF spokesman Mbuyiseni Ndlosi could not confirm Kunene's departure and asked to be given a chance to verify it. Ndlosi could, however, not be reached for comment later as promised.
In his own words:
Why he was joining the EFF:
I am now going full-time into politics as a member and a revolutionary cadre of the Economic Freedom Fighters to make it a force to be reckoned with and to contest the next election.
Why this movement?
The answer is that the majority of people I have interacted with are telling me that we need an alternative voice in this country that will be revolutionary. (The EFF) is the better, alternative voice of South Africans who are fed up with living without hope that things will ever change for the better.
On joining the EFF:
I have taken the decision to be part of a collective working hard and tirelessly to give birth to the Economic Freedom Fighters movement in order to not only take on the challenges facing the poor, disadvantaged and vulnerable, but to show the ANC that it's not just me who feels the way I do. Millions of others do too, and their votes will make that much clearer than anything I could write in a letter.
On announcing that he was joining the EFF:
I am like Paul who used to be Saul but saw the light on his way to Damascus. The life of sushi and my army of women I have put behind me. I see this as a challenge and a blessing that God has given me to have so many followers to make sure I contribute to the development of young people.
On reports of his alleged tax evasion:
This validates what I said in my open letter to President Jacob Zuma that the ruling party is using state organs to settle political scores. Our will and determination to emancipate our people from economic hardship will never be weakened by corrupt individuals.
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There is a myriad of difficulties in overlaying language data with geographical data. But it has be done and can be done. While I was working in México on a language documentation project, I learned that some of the language mixing (not quite diglossia, rather the living of two people groups with different languages in the same spaces) was due geographical factors and economical factors pulling them into the same geographic locations. In the particular case I am thinking of there was a mountain pass and a valley on the way to the major center of trade. In this sort of context the interesting things are displayed not when a polygon is drawn showing a territorial overlay of where various language speakers living, but where something is drawn showing what the density or population dispersion per general population is. Some of the most detailed (in terms of global perspective) language maps can be found in the Ethnologue .
However, as I was working on the language documentation project I found out how much effort actually goes into that sort of map. ArcGIS, the software used to create the maps can not auto-generate a polygon a certain distance around a combined set of given points. A set of points can be selected and each point can get a 5 mile radius. What this means is that each polygon has to be hand drawn. This sort of graphical overly that is used in the the Ethnologue does not show the density of speakers of a language in an area relative to the total population (in the Ethnologue's defense I am not sure it is supposed to). For instance, if I wanted to know "What is the density of speakers in the Me'phaa area of México relative to speakers of other languages?" that would show me some dispersion, and by implication the peopling of the area. This sort of geographical overlay may be closer to displaying social networks, not really bilingualism or diglossia. There might be some bilinguals or some average level of bilingualism there, but the heat map method of plotting is looking still at the density of speakers to an area. A simular map might be created of New York City where certain languages are given a color based on their distribution density in the area. Additionally, these sorts of data overlays are probably more prone to lend insights on language attrition patterns or language speaker migration patterns. Also these hand drawn polygons change (a little) from edition to edition. Because the data used to create the polygons is not referenced (cited) it is hard to tell if the change is keeping pace with language attrition and/or population movement or if the changes are due to a better linguistic understanding in a particular area. When looking at the large area maps in the Ethnologue, it is hard to tell if the red dots represent "traditional" language area (or geographical center thereof) or if the points represent the current geographical center of the speaking area. Either way the plotting functions as if it were a heat map showing the diversity of languages over a geographical area.
I am generally on the look out for web apps and APIs which can be used to overlay data to bring new insights to situations through graphical representations. I recently found a tool for overlaying data on Google Maps. This tool creates heat maps given data from another source. This tool is called gHeat. This tool was brough to my attention by Been O'Steen as he modified gHeat to display some prices for student properties in the UK. My initial thought was: "Wow how can we do language maps like this?"Obviously I still think that language based heat maps could prove to provide language workers world wide access to visualizations of data that could really add clarity to the language vitality situation.


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Expression of fourteen novel obesity-related genes in zucker diabetic fatty rats
1 Klinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin II, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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3 Klinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin I, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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Cardiovascular Diabetology 2012, 11:48 doi:10.1186/1475-2840-11-48Published: 3 May 2012
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are useful to reveal an association between single nucleotide polymorphisms and different measures of obesity. A multitude of new loci has recently been reported, but the exact function of most of the according genes is not known. The aim of our study was to start elucidating the function of some of these genes.
We performed an expression analysis of fourteen genes, namely BDNF, ETV5, FAIM2, FTO, GNPDA2, KCTD15, LYPLAL1, MCR4, MTCH2, NEGR1, NRXN3, TMEM18, SEC16B and TFAP2B, via real-time RT-PCR in adipose tissue of the kidney capsule, the mesenterium and subcutaneum as well as the hypothalamus of obese Zucker diabetic fatty (ZDF) and Zucker lean (ZL) rats at an age of 22 weeks.
All of our target genes except for SEC16B showed the highest expression in the hypothalamus. This suggests a critical role of these obesity-related genes in the central regulation of energy balance. Interestingly, the expression pattern in the hypothalamus showed no differences between obese ZDF and lean ZL rats. However, LYPLAL1, TFAP2B, SEC16B and FAIM2 were significantly lower expressed in the kidney fat of ZDF than ZL rats. NEGR1 was even lower expressed in subcutaneous and mesenterial fat, while MTCH2 was higher expressed in the subcutaneous and mesenterial fat of ZDF rats.
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New Albany, Ind.—Southern Indiana Rehab Hospital (SIRH) received a gift of new technology for patient care thanks in part to an $8,986 grant from the Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd County.
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"It allows me to walk, but still be safe," said Frederick who at 6'4" towers over his physical therapist, Angela Snyder, who is only 5'2". "I know if something goes wrong, or my knees buckle, I have a safety net."
Frederick can walk using a walker, but alternating the walker with the Sit-to-Stand device is helping him to build stamina.
"The new device enables Steven to walk further and improve his endurance," Snyder said. "It also helps him to push himself during therapy. It's a nice tool for us to transition patients from walking along the parallel bars, which is only 10 feet, to a walker."
Using the device, patients like Steven are able to build up strength and set further distance goals. Snyder says the wheels on the device also allows for more realistic walking, compared to a walker.
"If I pull the device quicker, I can help Steven improve his pace," she said. "Eventually, he will be able to let go of the bars and swing his arms in a more natural stride. The walker doesn't allow us to practice that motion."
SIRH currently has three Sit-to-Stand devices. Two that can lift patients up to 400 lbs. and one for patients who weigh more than 400 lbs. The Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd County funded 40 percent of the cost to purchase the devices. Approximately 40 percent of the patients treated each year at SIRH are from Floyd County.
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'Fast & Furious 7' Wraps Production With Heartfelt Message to Fans
The cast and crew of Fast & Furious 7 just finished production and sent out a heartfelt message to fans thanking them for their support.
This production was definitely tougher than the previous ones due to Paul Walker's tragic death in a car crash last November.
Paul's passing caused the film to be postponed, but with the support of fans, it was not cancelled.
The message, posted Thursday on the Fast & Furious Facebook page, with a photo of Vin Diesel, started off with "We made it. Today we completed the last shot in the production of FAST & FURIOUS 7."
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"We wanted to take this moment to express how thankful we are for your support. We felt the love and strength from our fans throughout this journey, and it's because of you that we got here. There was a time when we didn't know how we could go on, or even if we should. But we listened to you, and you inspired us not only to keep going but to try and make the best FAST & FURIOUS movie yet," the post reads.
The message goes on to thank fans of the franchise for their love and support through this emotional journey.
The lead actor's death seemed to be the driving force behind the message and they made a point to mention him briefly. "Our family is big and strong but it won't ever quite be whole again without Paul." They added that Paul's brothers, Caleb and Cody, joined the team to help complete the film in honor of their brother.
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Fast & Furious 7 was originally set to be released this week, but will hit theaters April 3, 2015 and will once again star Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris Bridges, Elsa Pataky, Lucas Black and the late Paul Walker.


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T-Mobile today officially introduced its anticipated third-generation (3G) cellular service. Coming after company hints and unofficial tests, the network is now live in New York City and significantly improves both call quality and data access versus the current 2G network. Like other 3G services, T-Mobile's is seamless and allows supporting phones to automatically switch to 3G when they come within range.
Service begins today using more modest UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) access; faster service using HSDPA (High Speed Download Packet Access) is arriving in coming months, the company says. Multiple major urban areas should also receive the enhanced coverage by the end of the year, though T-Mobile is unspecific on these locations. Past reports have alluded to areas such as Los Angeles and Miami being some of the first to receive the update.
While not naming the devices, T-Mobile confirms that several 3G-capable phones are already in use on its network, which include the Nokia 6263 and the Samsung t639.
The addition of 3G heats up competition between cellular providers in the US, with T-Mobile being the last of the top five to add the faster technology and the only other major GSM operator after AT&T to offer the format. The US carrier is using the relatively uncommon 1,700MHz Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum, however, and so will need different devices than those offered by its rival to enable full 3G access. No phone makers have yet announced a multi-band 3G phone that supports both providers.


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A visit to Hartwood Acres' garden certain way to brighten a summer day
Come and see the thick beds of giant orange marigolds and tall stands of wispy fuchsia cosmos.
"They look fantastic," Susan Frost of McCandless said during a recent visit to the vast gardens of colorful annuals and perennials now flourishing at Hartwood Acres, the 629-acre park in Hampton and Indiana townships.
"It's like we have our own little Phipps Conservatory right here in Allison Park," Frost said. "You don't have to travel to Oakland."
Frost recently visited Hartwood's gardens with daughters Quinn, 10, and Lainey, 4, and their friend, Molly Smyers, 10, to snap photos.
Other visitors that day included yellow and black swallowtails — both butterflies — and hummingbird moths drawn to the pink and white echinacea blooms in Hartwood's traditional, English-style, perennial garden.
Master gardener Sally Foster of O'Hara maintains the perennial garden, also a way station for monarch butterflies.
At 78, Foster works three or four days per week on the garden, which includes a protective hedge of 16-foot lilac bushes.
"We're waiting for the monarchs (butterflies) to appear, because we have planted the milkweed on which they lay their eggs for the next generation," said Foster, a member of the Garden Club of Allegheny County and Fox Chapel Garden Club.
Last year, the Smithsonian Institution accepted the perennial, terrace and formal gardens at Hartwood Acres, plus, the grove of hemlocks trees behind Hartwood Mansion, into the Smithsonian's Archives of American Gardens.
Foster helped document the gardens at Hartwood Acres for inclusion in the archives on behalf of the Garden Club of Allegheny County and the Garden Club of America.
The late landscape architects Rose Greely of Washington, D.C., and Ezra C. Stiles of Oakmont designed the gardens in the 1930s for the late John and Mary Flinn Lawrence, former owners of Hartwood Acres.
"Mrs. Lawrence also was a member of the Garden Club of Allegheny County and a very active gardener," Foster said. "So I feel a kinship toward her, very much."
The gardens at Hartwood Acres include asters to zinnias, plus, Mexican sunflowers, Victorian sage and canna lilies.
"It's a hidden gem," Foster said about the collective gardens, which flank Hartwood Mansion. "Just walk up there, and you're blown away with the color."
Each winter, Dave Wislie of Hartwood Acres' public-works crew germinates the gardens' annuals from seeds. He starts the plants in greenhouses behind the stables at Hartwood Acres.
This year, community service groups of Alcoa and Giant Eagle employees, plus area Girl Scouts and the Friends of Hartwood, a nonprofit group of volunteers, planted the seedlings in the formal garden at Hartwood Acres. Last week, Amy Giammattei of the Friends' board of directors transplanted a variety of heirloom irises shipped from the Presby Memorial Iris Gardens in Essex County, N.J., in the formal garden at Hartwood.
"I have irises from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s," she said.
Labels in the perennial and formal gardens identify the ocean of blooms, including tall and miniature yellow snapdragons, magenta gomphrena, pink and white vinca, orange tithonia, pink and white echinacea."
Horticulturist Tammy Watychowicz of the Allegheny County Parks Department recently led a tour of the gardens after the county's 2013 Edible Flowers Luncheon at Hartwood Acres.
"A lot of your snapdragons are annuals, but they'll act like perennials, especially if they're mulched," she said.
Watychowicz, a graduate of Fox Chapel Area High School, recommends the gardens for artists who want to sketch flowers, people who want to educate themselves about annuals and perennials, and those who simply want to relax.
"It's tranquil and peaceful with the sounds and the smells," said Watychowicz. "All four seasons, there is something to see."
Admission is free, too.
The entrance to Hartwood Acres is at 200 Hartwood Acres, off Saxonburg Boulevard, in Indiana Township. For information, call 412-767-9200.
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REVIEW: In Milady's Chamber by Sheri Cobb South
Dear Mrs. Cobb South,
Of all your regencies I've read, and that's most if not all of them, I don't recall ever reading a bad one. They are well researched, well written, and feature strong characters. But best of all, they're different. I realize this has made it harder for you to market them but I think it makes them worth the effort to seek out.
When one is a Viscountess in Regency England, one might be thought to be happy. Julia Runyan Bertram, Lady Fieldhurst, is young, pretty, and married to a man of wealth, title and position. Yet, after six years of a childless marriage, she feels the disappointment of her husband for not having produced an heir much less a spare. She's under no illusions as to her husband's fidelity and after a small spat before she leaves for an evening ball, she decides to finally take a lover of her own.
But her husband Frederick manages to ruin even that. Well, he didn't plan to be murdered and found by Julia and Lord Rupert as they tried to enter her bedchamber later that night but nonetheless, it did put paid to their plans. Discovering one's husband, dead on the floor from a pair of embroidery scissors in his neck will do that.
Mr. John Pickett, twenty-four years old and newly promoted to the Bow Street runners from the foot patrol, is a bit dazzled when he sees the person who's called for his services. Lady Julia is simply the most beautiful woman he's ever seen. But not even a vision of womanhood distracts him long from the job at hand. Someone has murdered the Viscount – after all, how many men would choose it as a method of suicide? – and the authorities want an arrest quickly.
Pickett soon amasses a group of possible suspects, all of whom had a possible motive and the opportunity to have done the deed. At the top of the list, to Pickett's dismay, is Julia herself. Resisting the pressure of his superiors, Pickett slowly begins to work the case, interviewing suspects, examining clues and, even to his own mind, desperately trying to clear Julia. It's hard, he discovers, to remain dispassionate about a case when one is entertaining daydreams of one's chief suspect, however unlikely that anything could ever come of them.
Lurid broadsheets about the case and the gossip of the ton increase the pressure on Bow Street to solve the crime. Will Pickett be able to control his feelings long enough to prove that Lady Julia didn't commit the crime and find the one who did? And if he can, how will he be able to walk away in the end?
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Just like his modern successors, John Pickett has to deal with the politics of police work, the public clamoring for a case to be solved yesterday, the matchmaking efforts of his land lady and the relatively poor pay deemed acceptable for his profession.
The gossips want him to "tell all," the powers-that-be are willing to lie to cover up what they don't want known, his superiors look down upon him and the witnesses suddenly can't be found. Yeah, just another case in law enforcement. Pickett is new to his job so his missteps during the investigation are understandable. But he learns quickly and doesn't repeat them even as he relies on his natural instincts to guide him along.
Julia, who's been controlled by men, however gently, her whole life suddenly discovers that her widowhood has opened a whole new world for her. By the terms of her husband's will, she can live comfortably on her own with no need to remarry and subject herself to another husband. For a Regency woman, it's as much independence as she's ever likely to get.
At first, she misunderstands the motives behind Pickett's line of inquiry, not ever having dealt with criminal investigations. But once the situation is explained to her, she begins to find in herself a desire to prove her own innocence and a bit of talent in helping things along. I found her actions in line with her upbringing, her intelligence and her place in society. She's not suddenly going to become one of Charlie's Angels.
I like the glimpses we get of her background as a woman of position in this world. Her husband's tenants fondly recall the Harvest festivals she held for them every year and lament that the new, tightfisted Viscountess is unlikely to continue them. As well, Pickett is impressed by her desire to help a servant who helped her as a young, newly married woman.
The solution to the mystery didn't take me totally by surprise. It fits the clues you give and, again, is an age old aspect of murder. I enjoyed the Regency setting and the way you explained it to the lower class John Pickett as a way of explaining it to the reader. That also served as a way to underscore the differences between John and Julia's social standing. While John might long for Julia from afar, he's well aware of the gulf that separates them.
As to Julia's feelings for John, I guess I'll have to wait to read book two, "A Dead Bore" to see if they might progress beyond professional admiration and friendship. I'll admit I'm looking forward to discovering how things might turn out. B
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ASKY [meaning African Sky] serves 22 destinations in West and Central Africa with seven passenger and one cargo aircraft. Ethiopian Airlines is the strategic partner of ASKY with the former owning an almost 40 percent stake. Every week the airlines operates over 100 flights and carries more than 10,000 passengers. The airlines celebrated carrying its millionth passenger in March 2013. Kaleyesus Bekele of The Reporter last week interviewed the chief executive officer of the airlines, Yissehak Zewoldi, at his office in Lomé, Togo. Excerpts:
The Reporter: How was ASKY established? Yissehak Zewoldi: In the demise of Air Afrique (a defunct West African Airline) early in 1980, a serious air transport gap was created in West and Central Africa. In 1998 leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) got together and decided to establish a regional airline to facilitate air travel within the regions. Then a commission was formed.
The team was led by our board chairman, Gervais Koffi Djondo, a former minister (of Togo), and a visionary and successful entrepreneur who was instrumental in the establishment of the now famous ECO Bank. They hired consultants who work on the establishment of the new airline and they were looking for a strategic partner. After several attempts they came to Addis Ababa to present their vision and discuss possible cooperation or partnership with Ethiopian Airlines.
That was how the partnership between ASKY and Ethiopian was born. Ethiopian Airlines did its own study and totally modified the initial study that was prepared by the consultants. The consultant's idea was more or else to duplicate the old Air Afrique network. The Ethiopian's proposal suggested that the new airline should first focus on serving the regional market (in west and central Africa). After several discussions it was agreed that Ethiopian Airlines would take over the management of the new airline for a period of five years.
Wasn't there any disagreement between the founders of ASKY and the management of Ethiopian Airlines on the business plan of the new airline? The founders wanted the new airline to serve the intercontinental and regional markets while the management of Ethiopian wanted to initially focus on serving the regional market until the airline is well placed in the market place.
No, there was no disagreement. Ethiopian proved to them the rationale behind the focus on the regional market by demonstrating the benefits of regional service. The new study has lots of merits. First focus was given to connecting the regional cities and commercial centers. Second, Ethiopian Airlines proved to them that for a new airline (at early age) venturing into a mature and highly competitive international market to be very risky and unsustainable. So ASKY was established in 2009.
It was established in 2009 and the first flight took off to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on January 15, 2010. Tell us about your market share in the region.
Initially we had some bilateral issues with some countries and we were unable to secure operating permit to a number of countries. That was a real challenge. Still, we have some bilateral issues. The Yamoussoukro decision (the declaration that allows African countries to open their skies for African airlines) is not still fully implemented. Why are African countries denying African carriers traffic rights?
The reason is very simple. It is because they want to protect the interest of their own carriers. But ASKY was established by the private sector in West Africa to serve the underserved west and central market. How can the countries in West and Central Africa deny it an operating permit?
It is very unfortunate but that is the truth. ASKY is totally different from the other airlines in the region. First it is a one hundred percent privately owned airline. Second it is a community airline. If you look at the composition of our staff we come from 35 different African countries. This is very unique. So that is why we claim that we are a Pan-African airline. We serve Africa and the company is owned by Africans. It is wholly run by the sons and daughters of Africa.
But the sad truth is that you cannot fly to an African country without having an operating license, which is often difficult to secure. You cannot fly to Angola or Nigeria even if you are an African carrier. How much is Ethiopian's stake in the company?
Initially it was supposed to be 25 percent but because of few unpaid capital, ET's share now stands at about 40 percent. You said that you still have bilateral issues with some countries.
Yes, we have all the necessary licenses and we have an Air Operator Certificate (AOC) from the Civil Aviation of Togo. But due to some outstanding bilateral agreement issues we are unable to get operating permits to some countries in Africa. We are based in Lome but we are not owned by the Togolese government. But the support we are getting from the Togolese government is tremendous and we are very grateful for that. They have been supporting us right from the inception of ASKY.
How many destinations are you serving now? We are currently serving 22 destinations in West and Central Africa. Can you tell me about your fleet composition? Currently, we have seven passenger and one freighter aircraft. Compositionwise we have three Boeing 737-700 and four Bombardier Q 400. The all cargo aircraft is a B737-400. The Bombardier aircraft are all brand-new and first of its kind worldwide with dual class of service. What is your next plan?
We have prepared a five-year development plan. The board of directors is expected to approve the plan soon. According to our business plan, we will add four more new aircraft in the coming few years.
What type of aircraft?
We are open to explore all types of aircraft but realistically we may go for the Boeing 737-800 aircraft. Why do you specifically need this aircraft?
Because it gives us 50 more seats. We have some routes that demand additional capacity. The first aircraft will join our fleet this year and we intend to arrange the deal on a lease-purchase basis.
How many additional routes will you open according to your five-year plan? We will open 11 new routes by giving priority to some niche markets. Will all be in West and Central Africa?
In the next five years we will venture out to East and Southern Africa and we will also go transcontinental by flying to Beirut. We are also exploring the possibilities of serving a couple of European markets in partnership with Ethiopian Airlines.
So you have plans to fly to Europe.
We have not included that in our five-year plan but there is discussion going on with Ethiopian Airlines to serve some European destinations. Ethiopian Airlines have aircraft that stay overnight in Paris and Brussels and we want to use the ground time of these aircraft and provide good air service to West Africa. It is a little premature but rest assured this project will materialize in the near future.
Where do you want to fly in East and Southern Africa?
Johannesburg is our first choice in Southern Africa. Luanda is also another choice. We are also looking at another destination in East Africa. Is it in Uganda or Tanzania?
We have not decided yet as we are still exploring the market situation in East Africa in general. We are conducting a thorough market study to identify which destination easily fits into our network. Can you tell me about Ethiopian's involvement in running ASKY?
Ethiopian Airlines right from the start of the project has been fully committed and actively participating in the establishment and successful launch of ASKY. Ethiopian Airline's assistance in helping ASKY securing AOC (operating certificate) was crucial. A team of highly qualified and professional staff were assigned to prepare us secure the AOC. It was quite a task! Especially taking the limited timeline given into consideration, the team carried out an impressive and successful job.
Based on the management contract between ASKY and Ethiopian Airlines, a management team from Ethiopian Airlines headed by Busera Awol simultaneously started recruiting staff and the day-to-day operation and marketing of the airline. As mandated by the management contract, critical positions were held by ET staff. I would like to take this opportunity to express my highest appreciation to the Ethiopian team who highly contributed to the establishment and running of ASKY during its infancy. To mention a very few names Busera Awol, former CEO of ASKY, Getachew Belete, Director of Technique, Haile Gebrehiwot (Capt.), Director of Flight Operations, Meseret Bitew, Finance Director Getachew Tadesse, Ground Operations, and Seblewongel Azene, Marketing Support. Over and above this, special appreciate goes to our board of directors, Tewolde Gebremariam, CEO of Ethiopian, and the management and employees for the unparalleled support and continued guidance to the success of ASKY.
Who are your competitors in this region? We have a number of competitors like Air Senegal, Air Cote d'Ivoire, Camecor (a new Cameroonian airline), Arik Air of Nigeria and Air Burkina to mention a few. How do you describe the market in West and Central Africa and how do you see the competition?
The market in West Africa is a growing market but unfortunately some markets are highly seasonal. However, we have a solid network that covers the ECOWAS and Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) countries and beyond. We have already established a good brand name in our territories and the feedback we are receiving from our customers are very encouraging. We are the most dependable carrier in West and Central Africa with highly reliable schedule and over 90 percent on time performance. Businesspeople, government officials international organizations are our top customers. We are an airline of choice for these customers. We have the highest number of frequencies into major markets that is also an advantage. We give additional choice and flexibility to business travelers. We can say, very proudly, that we are a businessman's airline and that is why we have a very high load factor in business class. How is the competition?
The competition is there but with a well-established brand name, most dependable schedule and one of the highest on-time-performance in the region now is at par with ASKY.
You are claiming that you excel your competitors with service.
Yes we provide high quality service and dependable schedule. We have a very high on time performance.
Many people say that the West Africa region is under-served. Some complain that when they want to travel from one country to another they have to fly to Europe and come back again. Is that still the case? I should have mentioned that earlier. One of the factors that necessitated the establishment of a community airline in West Africa is the problem you just mentioned. When Air Afrique went bust a huge gap was created in air transport service. Travel from one West African country to another was made via Europe, Casablanca and East Africa. Now we have fully addressed that problem. We have connected all major West African cities. Now one can travel from one West African destination to another within the same day if not under six hours. Our Lomé hub is linking all the major cities in West and Central Africa. We are also feeding passengers to Ethiopian Airlines whereby our passengers could reach their final destinations to any point in the five continents.
How is the passenger traffic in the region?
The passenger traffic between some cities is not enough to support a point-to-point operations. So what we do is we tag cities. For example, to fly from Lomé to Kinshasa we need to fly to another point in order to gather more passengers. The traffic passengers on some routes are thin. It is a thin market but we deploy the ideal and most suitable aircraft, the Bombardier Q400, to serve these routes. In retrospect, the decision to select aircraft was a very wide one. Are you satisfied with the performance of the Q400s and their fuel efficiency?
We are very much happy with the performance of this aircraft. It is also fuel efficient and environment friendly. It is also helping us serve thin markets in West and Central Africa. That is a big advantage for us. Does Ethiopian provide you with MRO service (Maintenance Repair and Overhaul)?
Ethiopian provides us a hundred percent maintenance service. They render MRO service for our both Q400 and B737 fleet. An Ethiopian technical team is based in Lomé and they do line maintenance and 'A' Checks here while other major maintenance work is done at Ethiopian MRO center in Addis Ababa.
Can you tell us about your financial performance?
I don't have the details with me now. Usually, a start up airline does not make profit in the first few years of operation. We reached a break-even level last year as rightly projected in the initial plan. Now we are marginally making a profit. For a start-up airline the financial performance is very encouraging despite the high operating cost in the region. Why?
The price of fuel is very high. In addition, airport charges and taxes are cumbersome and ground handling fees are also exorbitant as there is a monopolistic environment at most airports. Are you a low cost carrier?
We are a hybrid airline between low cost and network carrier. Despite the high operational cost in the region our traffic and financial performance are very encouraging.
Can you give me some figures?
Not now. It has not been yet audited. We will provide you the details once it is being audited and approved by the board. The founding investors are also injecting more money for our expansion plan. How is the price of fuel affecting you?
Well the high cost of fuel is making our fares expensive. If you compare the price of fuel in West Africa with other regions, say East Africa, it is 20 percent more expensive and this makes fares unnecessarily expensive and thus affects our business.
How is your cargo business?
The cargo business is growing. There are landlocked countries in the region that need to transport some of their goods by air. We also have many traders in the region. We are giving more focus to our cargo business now that we have one dedicated cargo aircraft, a Boeing B737-400. We recently hired a highly experienced cargo manager and we have increased our market reach by working with many cargo agents and forwarders. What are the major challenges you are facing in addition to the rising fuel cost?
As I mentioned earlier, securing traffic right has become a serious challenge. Though we are a Pan-African airline we are denied operating permit by some African countries. Exorbitant taxes imposed on fares, high ground handling and airport charges are the major challenges. In some airports, it is only one company that renders ground handling services. So, it charges you whatever price it wants and you don't have another alternative since it has a monopolistic situation.
ASKY is a member of the African Airlines Association (AFRAA). Is there any effort that is being exerted to reduce airport charges and taxes in the region?
AFRAA has tried a lot. It lobbied governments to reduce airport charges and taxes so that it does impact airfares. But there is no change made yet. We do not still see light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to reducing exorbitant airport fees and taxes. Ground handling service is monopolized in almost every country and it is more than 50 percent higher than what we pay in other regions. Night flight operations is also another challenge that should be mentioned here as we cannot fully utilize our aircraft by flying during the day only.
Why? It is because of inadequate air navigation equipment at airports?
No. Most passengers in West and Central Africa do not want to travel at night because of security reasons as some airports in the region are 50 or more km away from the city and passengers do not feel comfortable to drive that far during the night. There are challenges for night operations but, where it is feasible, we need to do more to inform and create awareness on the advantages of night flights as passengers will save valuable time.
How is the security issue affecting you? There are conflicts in Mali, North Nigeria, Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Yes we have conflicts in the countries you mentioned and this affect our operations. Sometimes we are forced to suspend flights. The conflicts are very sad incidents and we feel sorry for those unfortunate people. From pure business point of view, these situations may also benefit an airline as there will be heavy demand for air service to transport UN staff, NGOs, diplomats, etc Ethiopian recently started flying to Brazil via Lomé. How is that helping you in increasing your passenger traffic?
Yes that it true. Ethiopian started operating three weekly flights to Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro with a stopover at Lomé. We collect passengers from West and Central Africa that want to travel to Brazil and feed Ethiopian at Lome and the reverse is also true as ET brings passengers from Brazil and transfer them to ASKY for travel to their final destination. Currently, on average we feed or de-feed about 40 passengers and we are confident that figure will grow substantially in the near future.
You moved to Lomé to assume your position five months ago. Where do you want to see ASKY say in five years time?
I want ASKY to remain a dominant airline in West and Central Africa. ASKY will keep connecting major cities and commercial towns in West and Central Africa with increased frequencies. It will serve destinations in Southern and East Africa. In the near future ASKY will also go transcontinental and in five years time it will serve a number of destinations in Europe. We are working on knowledge transfer and human resource development. We are planning to do some maintenance work on our own here in Lomé. We have already started training technicians and engineers at the Ethiopian Aviation Academy. We will work more on IT as we envisage to be a high tech airline with a big portion of our business coming from online sales. We are working on marketing the airline in different parts of the world. So in five years time I see ASKY as a successful international airline with a solid market coverage. Any final message?
East Africa, particularly Addis Ababa, is one of our major sources of passenger traffic. We see a number of passengers flying with us coming from one of Ethiopian Airlines flights. Currently, ASKY flights connect with ET at points like: Lomé, Accra, Abuja, Bamako, Douala and Abidjan and these connectivity expands our market reaches. So anyone who is coming from Addis Ababa, Nairobi or Entebbe can take Ethiopian Airlines all the way to one of these mentioned destinations in West Africa and continue onward to other detonations in West and Central Africa with ASKY.


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Yes - guns are too costly for society
STEVE ZORBAUGH: There are 788,258 words in a standard King James Bible. The word "gun" isn't one of them.
That tells me that although our Creator endowed man with certain unalienable rights, gun ownership wasn't one of them. Guns aren't religious icons either. Some may treat them as such, but a gun is nothing more than pieces of formed metal that discharge a projectile faster than anything a human body can hurl. It's essentially a killing machine, albeit a compact one, but there's nothing about a gun's nature that calls for the kind of golden-calf homage many in America pay it.
You'll get no argument from me that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution affords individuals the right to own firearms, and now that the Supreme Court has clearly affirmed that right, any argument to the contrary is pointless. That's why I think it's time for our society to re-examine the Second Amendment's usefulness.
To a man, America's founding fathers believed that gun ownership was necessary to guard against a tyrannical government and to provide individuals with a means of self-protection. Their reasoning was well-founded. The King of England had no desire to heed colonial demands for democratic rule and several Native American tribes showed no sign of peaceful surrender of their lands for colonial expansion.
The justification for gun ownership that existed in 1787 no longer exists today. This year marks the 225th anniversary of the ratification of the United States Constitution at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Since that date, we have overthrown our government every two years - at the ballot box - peacefully, except for during the 1861-1865 War of Southern Aggression (yeah, the South fired first), and even then, elections in the North continued unabated. Today, anyone with sufficient cash and a steady stream of talk radio loudmouths can overthrow the American government. Guns provide great campaign slogans, but guns don't vote - people do!
America today has something else it didn't have in 1787 - a million law enforcement officers whose job it is to protect the public and enforce the rule of law. They do an exemplary job and every single one of us is safer because of their efforts. Gun owners might feel safer packing their own heat, but data gleaned from the FBI's 2010 statistics on firearm-related deaths suggests that gun owners are just as likely to die from firearms as their unarmed brethren, which tells me that the "gun for protection" argument doesn't hold much water.
After 225 years, the Second Amendment has clearly outlived its original purpose. What America needs today is something different. What I'm talking about is a new Constitutional Amendment - one that values a communities' right to safety over the right of individuals to unfettered ownership of instruments of death. That end can only be accomplished by allowing all levels of government the power to regulate gun ownership in the same way we regulate our right to drive vehicles or conduct other hazardous activities.
For example, every state in our union requires automobile owners to carry insurance on their vehicle. That's because automobiles are dangerous and cause many deaths and injuries. The human and economic loss caused by automobiles is too great a burden for society to bear alone, so we require those wishing to own automobiles to have their vehicles insured against damages caused by the use of that vehicle.
Requiring gun owners to have their weapons insured for the same reason may sound like a no-brainer, but that would require all firearms to be registered like vehicles, something the Second Amendment apparently forbids. That's why it's time for the Second Amendment to be repealed.
The right to unfettered gun ownership in America imposes a tremendous cost upon society that is seldom recognized. It's a cost we simply can't afford. In Philip Cook's, "Gun Violence: The Real Costs," Cook explains that the cost our society pays each year to guarantee gun ownership exceeds $100 billion and is growing annually at an alarming rate. That's more than America spent on food stamps last year, and at least with those food stamps, the hungry got fed. The same can't be said of the cost society pays to guarantee gun ownership.
With gun violence at record highs, it's time to admit that flooding American streets with firearms is not making anybody safer. Reading about innocent kids getting killed by stray bullets is getting old. So is hearing about teens killing for cell phones, factory workers taking it out on former peers and angry spouses - like the guy in Kentucky who gunned down five because his wife served him cold eggs. Like it or not, unfettered access to firearms means that thousands in America will die needlessly this year. It's time for the Second Amendment to go!
Steve Zorbaugh lives in West Manchester Township.
No - guns protect against tyranny
ELIZABETH ROBERTS: Patrick Henry, in his "War Inevitable" speech, held, "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House."
Replace British ministry with federal government and 10 years with 100.
The fact that some entertain ridding ourselves of the Second Amendment shows what Americans can learn from history is they don't learn from history. In the 1920s, some self righteous government officials decided alcohol consumption loaned itself to the moral degradation of our society, so handed us the Eighteenth Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol.
Unintended consequence: The rise of America's Mafia. It took a few years, but America's legislators, always a step ahead of the rest of us, realized that a few nips of hooch loaned itself far less to America's moral degradation than the Mafia gunning people down in the streets.
Lesson learned? Don't be silly.
Although the war on drugs took root around the time of Prohibition, no president was bold enough to commit half our government agencies to fight that war until 1982 when President Reagan declared, "We are making no excuses for drugs - hard, soft or otherwise. Drugs are bad, and we are going after them." No holds were barred. Even NASA was deployed to engage in this battle.
Unintended consequences: America now boasts the world's highest incarceration rate! Pot smokers share cells with rapists and murderers, and our Constitutional protections have been stretched to their limits. The results reveal that in spite of the $15 billion-a-year and growing price tag, drugs are as available as they have ever been.
Lesson learned? Nope.
But hey, how about that war on poverty? That has been a smashing success. How much are we in the hole for this one - $9 trillion? Is it one in six or one in seven Americans that can no longer feed themselves without government assistance? Remember, there is more than one way to enslave a people. A dependent population is easy to control.
How many wars does the government have to royally botch before we stop trusting them to declare war on stuff? If you'd like a little glimpse of what a government war on guns would look like, Google Waco or Ruby Ridge.
It is in the political left's anti-gun arguments that their contradictions are the most glaring. Death by guns offends them to no end, but death by abortion does not upset them in the least. Running roughshod over the Constitution for which more than a million men and women have given their lives, does not tug on their heartstrings in the slightest. Robbing law-abiding citizens of their right to resist those determined to deprive them of their life, liberty or property is of no consequence.
Those who favor repealing the Second Amendment believe the right to be obsolete. They argue the British government used its military to suppress the colonies, thereby necessitating a militia, whereas today's military is controlled by the people through their representatives in Congress. According to those who want the Second Amendment repealed, the need for a militia no longer exists, because we control the nation's standing army.
But, is this really the case? Who is in control of our military? Since our government's newest war commenced, the war on terror, Congress has made abdicating its duty to declare war a pastime. A series of legislative acts, beginning with Bush's Authorization for Use of Military Force in 2001 and ending with Obama's recent signing of the National Defense Authorization Act, has left the president holding the whip.
To cite the founders who saw the right to bear arms as the cornerstone of a free society, or the Declaration of Independence, which places the responsibility of overthrowing a despotic government on the people, is of no use. To refer to Federalist Papers 28, 29 and 46, in which Alexander Hamilton and James Madison supported an armed population to resist a federal government that oversteps its authority, is pointless. After all, anyone who suggests the Second Amendment be repealed respects not the founders, our founding documents or the millions who have fought to defend the very bedrock of our country.
Under the guise of protecting us, our federal government has waged war on our Constitution and our way of life. The Second amendment is the fail safe line. Once we cross that, the government will be prying your gun from your cold, dead hands.
Elizabeth Roberts lives in Dover Township.


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Hi all, I have a scenario which I am really having difficulties with. Please do give me any advice where possible.
I have one workflow with 2 tracks split through a decision task. Essentially, what I want is each track will run depending on what a certain flat file content is. If the flat file contains a 'P' it will run track A and if it is 'F' it will run track B.
What I thought of was to use a Decision task and another Session task to do this. The Session will read the flat file containing the 'P' or 'F' and based on that, 'pass' or 'fail' the Session. Depending on this session's status, the decision task will then decide which track to run.
The problem here is I do not know how to 'pass' or 'fail' the session, or is that even possible.
Hi rabbie,
1. create one session which will read flat file and pass data only if contains 'P'. To store this value use a temporary target flat file. If file contains 'P' then targetsuccessrow will be <> 0 and if it contains 'F' then its value will be zero
2. In workflow after this session creata two links for two flows which will have link conditions like
targetsuccessrow will be <> 0 for pass flow
targetsuccessrow will be = 0 for fail flow
Thanks Pratik,
In my session, I have a expression transformation which output has this expression: IIF(CHECKVAR = 'P', 'P'). This port then outputs to the target definition.
With this in place, I did away with the decision task and this session is directly linked to the other 2 sessions. I added the link conditions to links as per your advice. However, regardless of whether the flatfile has 'P' or not, it still goes into the TgtSuccessRows <> 0 flow.
Hello Raabie,
Please remove the existing decision task.Decision task is only requierd to validate multiple conditions based on multiple tasks.Based on the condition you can redirect the control flow.
Here in your case decision task is not required as pratik suggested have two link tasks leading to two branches of the workflow and have the link task conditions as suggested by pratik.
Link task 01--- condition ----$s_CONTROL.SrcSuccessRows <> 0
Link task 02--- condition ----$s_CONTROL.SrcSuccessRows = 0
Link task 01 leads to the success branch and other one leads to the failure branch.
**Note : Here the $s_CONTROL is the name of the session created to read the flat file.
hope this may help you....
thanks and regards...
Hi Reddy,
Just to confirm, is it $s_CONTROL.SrcSuccessRows<>0 or $s_CONTROL.TgtSuccessRows<>0?
Furthermore, I have already removed the decision task. However, it is still not working. Could you confirm that in the session that reads the flat file, I have included an Expression Transformation with the expression IIF(CHECKWAR = 'P', 'P'). I have a feeling the issue is the expression. However, I am unsure as to what the solution might be.
Hi Rabbie,
$s_CONTROL.TgtSuccessRows=0 for fail flow.
Hi Rabbie,
The flow should be similar to this
start--> s1-----s1.status!=succeeded----->track1
------s1.status = succeeded-----> track2
Create a mapping name m1 and source the falt file.In the expression provide the below condition
ABORT( IIF( CHECKWAR = 'F','The source row has F value,hence failed',)
Let me know if you face any issues.
Thanks all, I managed to get it to work already as per Pratik's suggestions