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The great sporting legends of Lethbridge are being celebrated in a new public art project for ATB Centre. City Council passed a resolution on Monday to approve the commissioning of an integrated public art project, which will see the Lethbridge Sports Hall of Fame permanently installed at ATB Centre. The project, which was designed by University of Lethbridge alumnus Collin Zipp, showcases the inductees on a grand scale.
The two-stage selection process was open to all Canadian artists and involved a selection committee with representatives from several community groups. Mayor Chris Spearman says while the project intent was to create a permanent home for the Lethbridge Sports Hall of Fame, it was also about engaging community and attracting a diverse audience.
"We want this public art project to not only tell the story of sport in Lethbridge, but also to be something that creates pride in our community," says Spearman. "We encourage visitors and residents alike to visit ATB Centre and learn more about our sporting history."
Suzanne Lint, Chair of the City of Lethbridge Public Art Project Commissioning Committee, says the design process will be led by an artist who has met several requirements.
"The artwork had to embrace the project intent and theme while being innovative, safe, durable and completed on time and within budget with minimal ongoing maintenance requirements," says Lint.
The $110,000.00 public art project will be located in the transitional hallways between phases one and two of ATB Centre, on both levels of the facility. Information about inductees and sporting history in Lethbridge will be shared through displays of memorabilia and artifacts as well as video displays. This project is expected to be completed in Spring 2020.
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Martin completed his D.Phil at University of Oxford in 1991. He taught at the University of the West of England, Bristol for eleven years before joining the Exeter History Department in 2003.
His research interests focus on the following broad themes: French colonialism and European decolonization; forms of anti-colonial protest in North Africa; colonial security service, policing, and the nature of state violence; 'Dirty wars' and counter-insurgency, particularly human rights abuses in asymmetric conflicts; and French international politics since World War I.
Martin's ISRF project aims to explore the depth of connection between empire, ideas of good governance, and post-imperial interventionism. In three ways the issue of violence is central to the research:
- By exploring how ideas of legitimate state repression were recast during decolonization;
- Tracing the tensions between imperial sovereignty and forms of anti-colonial expression, the project considers changing conceptualizations of community rights;
- By connecting the first two points to current European responses to civil breakdown and political violence in former dependencies.
Where does the colonial past intersect with the deployment of European military forces and relief missions in the global South? Is the use of 'soft power' to underwrite democratic governance in former colonial dependencies imperialistic? These questions raise unsettling possibilities because the presumption that humanitarian interventionism, whether involving security forces or non-governmental agencies, is driven by compassion and urgent need is belied by its specific geographies. Inter-governmental humanitarian policy priorities, even transnational lobbying for peacekeeping deployments, operate within webs of post-colonial connection; nowhere more so than between Western Europe and Africa. Even the conceptualization of humanitarianism, and associated ideas of relief and rehabilitation, are grounded in European experiences of occupation, population displacement, and peace planning. Numerous humanitarian agencies also began their operations inside empires, often in uncomfortable dialogue with imperial governments. These experiences point to the depth of connection between empire, ideas of good governance, and post-imperial interventionism. It is these connections that this project explores.
Imperialist Humanitarianism brings together historical research on European decolonization with social scientific scholarship on peace theory, post-colonial development and European military, economic and cultural connections in former colonial dependencies in Africa and Asia. In three ways the issue of violence is central to the research:
- By exploring how ideas of legitimate state repression were recast during decolonization;
- Tracing the tensions between imperial sovereignty and forms of anti-colonial expression, the project considers changing conceptualizations of community rights;
- By connecting the first two points to current European responses to civil breakdown and political violence in former dependencies.
The Research Idea
Do empires somehow persist through rich world interventions in developing world crisis zones? The chosen sites, the motivations, and the practices of contemporary European military interventions in Africa and Western Asia are intimately connected to the imperial pasts of Europe's former colonial powers. In particular, understandings of political violence and state legitimacy are embedded in decolonization experiences. British interventions in Sierra Leone (in 2000) and in Afghanistan (since 2001), much like recent French deployments in Ivory Coast, Mali and the Central African Republic (C.A.R.), exemplify these connections in practice. Yet, despite the normative assumption that post-colonial pré-carrés (or zones of influence) owe their existence to the colonial past, scholars of post-colonial interventionism rarely engage with the contested history of decolonization. Instead, the humanitarian imperatives and challenges to sovereignty inherent in peacekeeping deployments are typically explained in relation to changing United Nations doctrine. The innovation promised by this project is to bring these two literatures, and their different methodologies, into dialogue.
The levels of contestation during the final years of imperial rule, the forms of violence involved, and the extent of eventual European political, commercial and military withdrawal affect the scale and scope of humanitarian interventionism. Indeed, humanitarian action is conditioned by problems originating in the late colonial past such as territorial partition or population displacements. So the idea informing its research is that the local dynamics of European decolonization shape the responses of former colonial powers to symptoms of social breakdown and regional destabilization in present-day Africa and Asia.
The Focus
What should we make of France's back-to-back interventions in Mali and the C.A.R.? Why does Germany play a leading role alongside Britain in police training in Afghanistan? What are the political connections and cultural reflexes informing contemporary Portuguese policy in Angola and Mozambique? How strong are Belgium's economic interests in the Congolese Republic and how have they survived the stresses of decolonization, dictatorship, war and civil breakdown in black Africa's largest former colony? Answering any of these contemporary questions about varying forms of European presence in the post-colonial world requires engagement with the costs and consequences of European decolonization.
The humanitarian concerns – persecution, ethnic cleansing, famine or threat to life – defined under the United Nations' Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine as pretexts for foreign intervention have defined clearer determinants for international action, potentially in violation of individual state sovereignty. Even so, the modalities and regional priorities for interventions across the global South by Europe's former colonial powers are primarily reflective of their networks of connection with former dependencies. Furthermore, the regional commitments made by European states in support of R2P mirror the geographies of lasting post-imperial relationships. Equally striking is that the bulk of peacekeeping forces are drawn from former colonial dependencies in the Indian sub-Continent, Africa and South East Asia. It is this factoring of imperial legacies into patterns of peacekeeping that merits deeper investigation, not least because humanitarian interventionism is fast becoming a normative standard for the deployment of European security forces in the global South.
There are four main research strands that this project will bring into dialogue:
- Comparative approaches to European decolonization and post-colonial state-building;
- Social scientific work on democratic peace theory;
- Political scientific research into civil wars and their internationalization;
- Inter-disciplinary research in imperial history, histories of development, and international law on the reconceptualization of human rights from the founding of the United Nations to that organization's adoption of R2P doctrine in 2005.
Much of this work is of outstanding quality. The limitations therefore lie in the lack of comparative, inter-disciplinary engagement between them. Again, this may be expressed in four ways:
- The dearth of comparative, transnational analysis of European decolonization and its legacies (the bulk of work in this field confines itself to single empire investigation).
- The quantitative analysis approach that predominates in democratic peace theory in which empirical analysis of civil breakdown and foreign interventionism remains rare.
- The lack of micro-historical analysis in political science discussion of civil wars in which ontological definition predominates over historical connection.
- The tendency in research on human rights under international law to treat the global South in both the late colonial and post-colonial periods as a field of practice rather than an active agent of change.
Because it is inherently inter-disciplinary, the project proposal does not sit neatly within the parameters of discrete research funding calls in the Humanities or the Social Sciences. Its hybrid nature is what makes application to the ISRF appropriate.
Theory & Evidence Base
Incumbent theoretical approaches to European military interventionism and associated infrastructural support in conflict-ridden African and Asian states draw on three discrete literatures. The first is primarily an International Relations approach. Two preoccupations are evident here: the relationship between peace building and authority-projection on the one hand, and the question of whether humanitarian interventionism is a product of a liberal international community or constitutive of it.
The second approach, prevalent in political science writing on conflict resolution/peace theory and civil wars, attempts the quantitative measurement of political violence, regime overthrows, and interventionism in civil wars. The resultant correlation of civil disorder and mass killing with forms of governance can be narrowly deterministic.
Empirically researched histories of contested decolonization have addressed questions of why violence erupts, what forms it takes, and what long-term consequences it leaves. But few stray beyond a single empire analysis. Fewer still consider linkages between late colonial disorder, legacies of social instability, and patterns of contemporary European intervention in the former colonial world. Much is to be derived from all three incumbent approaches described above. More still may be gained by bringing each into dialogue with the other by combining the inductive analysis of IR with the quantitative data drawn from conflict resolution/civil wars analysis, and the archival research of decolonization history.
My background is that of a historian of empire and decolonization. My aim is to combine comparative empirical research of Western Europe's overseas empires with investigation of insights from the social scientific literature described above.
Archival research will be conducted in relation to former colonial regions where European humanitarian interventionism has featured prominently:
- Algeria – former hub of France's North African empire and site of France's closest security ties in the Maghreb.
- Sierra Leone – centre of British colonial mining and site of Britain's most recent decisive intervention in an African civil war (Operation Palliser in 2000).
- Former Belgian Congo/DRC in which networks of connection between mining interests in Eastern Congo (Katanga and the Kivu provinces), separatist movements and gendarmerie forces before and after independence will be explored.
- Lusophone Southern Africa, especially Angola, in which the transition from contested decolonization to civil war was almost immediate and in which multilateral foreign interventionism predominated before and after Portuguese withdrawal in 1975.
Alongside this African regional focus, the research will investigate the colonial roots of the practices and policy priorities evident in humanitarian interventionism more widely. This will be done by focusing on security force development and intelligence collaborations, police training and peace building.
Combining this empirical research with social scientific insights and quantitative evidence in relation to civil war violence and conflict resolution should open comparative, transnational, and inter-disciplinary perspectives on the colonial – post-colonial ties intrinsic to humanitarian interventionism. Fundamental to the success of this work will be the comparative examination of political violence and sovereign rights. Both were fundamentally reshaped by contested European decolonization. And both transformed European conceptions of political legitimacy, individual rights, and humanitarian imperatives.
Dissemination of the project findings will be assured in three ways: through publication; through a workshop network; through an online digital resource.
The project's principal outcome will be a book on European decolonization and Imperialist Humanitarianism. It will be informed by discursive engagement with social scientific theory and empirically researched case studies. To maximize dissemination, the book will be previewed by an article surveying themes of colonial connection, political violence recast through decolonization, and the emergence of imperialist humanitarianism. The article will be targeted at internationally recognized journals such as Comparative Studies in Society and History or International Security.
A research workshop will be held at the University of Exeter in the project's penultimate month. Hosted by the Centre for War, State and Society, of which I am Director, and mounted with Exeter's Strategy and Security Institute, the workshop will bring together invited academics from imperial history, political science and development studies with diplomats and military practitioners with experience in peace planning. The workshop will test the concept of imperialist humanitarianism against real world cases of colonial practice and contemporary European intervention.
Two affiliated Exeter research centres, the Centre for War, State and Society and the Centre for Imperial and Global History will serve as platforms for an online digital record of three regional cases explored in the project. The resultant web resource will combine short write-ups of research findings with archival materials. Each will be discussed in Exeter's Imperial & Global History blog.
The project furthers ISRF's goals in three ways above all:
- by pursuing a different and distinct approach to the connections between real life problems and their historical antecedents;
- by offering insights into a new concept of 'imperialist humanitarianism' that helps explain the priorities and practices of peace-building in the former colonial world;
- by extending the focus in the study of European humanitarian interventionism beyond theories of soft power and quantitative analysis to encompass empirical research into the precedents and legacies resulting from European decolonization.
Bringing these three goals together, the project aims to be more than sum of its inter-disciplinary parts. The use of insights from IR into the nature of peace-building and the constitutive elements of international community thinking helps unlock the connection between the increasing prevalence of humanitarian interventionism and the former colonial regions in which such interventions have been concentrated. Using quantitative data and case study analysis from work in political science on civil wars and conflict resolution should deepen our understanding of the extent to which forms of violence refined during the years of contested decolonization are replicated in the contemporary world.
These inter-disciplinary methods should add rigour to the central concept of imperialist humanitarianism, providing a longer and more empirical historical view through which Europe's engagement with the global South may be understood.
A list of project-related outputs will be added here.

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Carla, bettern known as the Sword Master of Mêlée Island, was a master swordsman and one of the pirates Guybrush Threepwood has to defeat to attain his status as a bonafide pirate. She was a fierce warrior and lived deep in the forest of the island in an attempt to avoid people from constantly challenging her title. Only the storekeeper in town knew where she hid, which allowed Guybrush to seek her out.
She was initially trained by Captain Smirk, before her skills surpassed his. Her talent lay with her wit and an uncanny ability to think up original insults that few could ever challenge.
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As part of his Three Trials, she was challenged by Guybrush for her rank as Sword Master. After extensive training, Guybrush soundly defeats her.
When the Governor was kidnapped, she agreed to join Guybrush's crew, along with Otis and Meathook to find the legendary Monkey Island. The trio later mutinied and decided to slack off for the duration of the trip.
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Guybrush would later recruit Carla again on his search for the Ultimate Insult. She was quite unhappy with how she was treated in their last meeting, having been left stranded on Monkey Island after their ship was blown up. He offered her a contract for a cushy goverment job - an offer she couldn't refuse. She sailed The Tri-Island Area with him but like before, she contributed very little to their adventure.
SoMI Alternate EndingsEdit
The Secret of Monkey Island had two endings concerning Carla hinging on one event in the game. In one ending the mutinous crew of Meathook, Carla and Otis would find Threepwood inside the Giant Monkey Head and take him back to Mêlée Island.
In the second ending, gained if the Sea Monkey was sunk, Otis, Carla and Meathook become stranded on the island while Threepwood journeys back with Herman Toothrot. This ending was later accepted as canon.
- She wears a size 3. Threepwood discovers this if he says that he is selling 'fine leather jackets'.
- If Threepwood informs the Pirate Leaders that he had defeated her, they tell him that he can keep the t-shirt and they have enough. This suggests that Carla has been beaten several times and is a common part of the pirate Three Trials.


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I used to buy golf clubs as a complete set. Since I started playing when I was 12, I have owned five sets. My new set of clubs is put together with specific clubs that I like the best. I like one brand of driver, another brand of putter, a different sand wedge and I finally found the best golf chipper to round out my club set. I used to go around the course with a club set and bag that matched. There is no sense in that unless the company is paying you to be a billboard. It is better to get the clubs that help you play the best game you can.
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text: I'm sure you've all seen the social media memes and heard the radio ads reminding you to shop at small businesses during the holiday season, but sometimes that is easier said than done. Big chains can be more convenient, sometimes less expensive, and more reliable for returns and exchanges. But as a jewelry designer and small business owner (and supporter) myself, I have found that there are a number of benefits that you may not have thought about when shopping "small." Here's a few tips and ideas that can help you (and thus your local business owners) when shopping small this holiday and year round. Most of these apply to craft or handmade vendors, but you may be able to apply this to other small businesses like car repair, retail stores, print shops, etc.


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Zhuhai air show: China J-20 fighter jet in public debut
Zhuhai air show: China J-20 fighter jet in public debut
China has showcased its long-awaited J-20 stealth fighter in public for the first time.
Two of the radar-evading jets did a 60-second flypast at the Zhuhai air show in Guangdong province – the country's biggest meeting of plane makers and buyers.
Previously the jets had only been seen by bloggers.
The fighters are being seen as symbol of Beijing's desire to modernise and upgrade its military capabilities.
President Xi Jinping wants to toughen China's armed forces as it takes a more assertive stance in the region, especially in the South China and East China seas.
The J-20 has been developed and made by the Chengdu Aircraft Industries Group, a subsidiary of Aviation Industry Corporation of China.
Some have likened the new fighter to Lockheed Martin's F-22 Raptor jet, with industry analyst Bradley Perret of Aviation Week saying the jet was "clearly a big step forward in Chinese combat capability,"
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China's International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition – also called Airshow China – has become one of the world's biggest events of its kind.
And with China set to become the world's biggest aviation market in the next decade, the show is an opportunity for Beijing to demonstrate its ambitions in civil aviation as well as defence.
Although firms from around the world are exhibiting at the meeting, it is the latest Chinese aircraft and weapons that are getting the most attention on day one of the event.
The Y-20, China's first heavy transporter jet has already been unveiled.
Also hotly anticipated is the AG-600 seaplane, the largest of its kind in the world and likely to be used for search and rescue missions as well as patrolling China's seas.
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ForeScout CounterACT improves NAC, endpoint security for Midwest bank
Bremer Bank selected ForeScout CounterACT for network access control and endpoint visibility to improve regulatory compliance and security.
Network access control and endpoint security is critical for many businesses, but highly regulated industries -- such as the financial vertical -- are under even more scrutiny to ensure their networks and endpoints are protected at all times.
That's one reason why Bremer Financial Corp. -- which offers banking, investment and other financial services throughout Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin -- deployed ForeScout Technologies' CounterACT technology. The software provides the bank with real-time network access control (NAC) and visibility across all its endpoints and in the process improves regulatory compliance and security without impacting the user experience.
"ForeScout has given Bremer the ability to dynamically see all the known users, devices and applications on our network with a tremendous amount of detail and the means to perform actions in a single pane of glass," said Joseph Thornell, security technical architect for Bremer Bank. "The insight and granularity of the tool has been an invaluable asset."
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This wasn't Bremer Bank's first time deploying NAC technology. The institution -- which has approximately 1,900 employees throughout its 87 bank branch and corporate locations, and about 4,200 endpoints, -- had a legacy NAC product in place that was very difficult to implement and maintain, Thornell said.
"It actually caused more disruption than value. We experienced a lot of incorrect identification of our devices, and the inability of the prior tool to work properly created downtime and consumed IT's time because they were always troubleshooting and working out the issues," he said. "This led to serious frustration for our users, so we needed to create a more reliable method for corporate identification."
The legacy technology's modest capabilities allowed Thornell to apply access restrictions to known, managed devices. But Bremer Bank needed a more reliable, evolved NAC strategy that would align better with management processes. CounterAct's agentless approach to NAC was especially appealing, Thornell said, because the application reduced management overhead.
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With the help of ForeScout CounterACT, compliance pressures have been reduced, Thornell said. Bremer Bank now has the ability to manage its corporate devices, while providing additional access points for guests -- like vendors and meeting attendees -- as well as for employee-owned mobile devices. The IT team is using CounterACT to block any threatening devices from gaining network access to sensitive IT resources and unapproved applications.
"Due to ForeScout's lightweight, non-intrusive and dissolvable agent, we can set policy to better ensure what we want to allow and respond to what we don't want or allow," Thornell said.
Before ForeScout, the IT team could only see whether a connected device was owned by Bremer. "Now, we can automatically classify devices by vendor type and operating system, and see every installed application on that device -- like Bremer apps or even personal apps [employees] managed to install," he said. "As we've gained insight into what is on [employee] computers or installed programs, we can see how they came to be and are firming up our processes around what they can install and how they can go about installing it," Thornell said.
Thornell and his team can also create rules around antivirus updates and patches to ensure compliance across all locations -- including remote offices-- without having to send an IT staff member to the site. "Bremer is able to install and update applications, and even block software according to policy," he said.
Additionally, ForeScout's ControlFabric technology allowed Bremer to integrate CounterACT with its networking stack and specific tools, like its IBM Security QRadar Security Information Event Management (SIEM) system. "With the CounterACT platform, we are able to put the added operational oversight to work and tie the intelligence we gain from ForeScout into other systems -- such as switches for guest management and blocking rogue devices -- and our SIEM [system], which is invaluable," Thornell said.
Long term, Thornell plans to integrate more of Bremer's network and security tools with ForeScout CounterACT. "Their ControlFabric architecture can facilitate interoperability with other systems, such as our wireless network provider, enterprise mobile management and vulnerability assessment scanning … to extend the scope of our controls," he said.
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After surviving a disastrous battle at prom, Alyssa has embraced her madness and gained perspective. She's determined to rescue her two worlds and the people and netherlings she loves. Even if it means challenging Queen Red to a final battle of wills and wiles . . . and even if the only way to Wonderland, now that the rabbit hole is closed, is through the looking-glass world--a parallel dimension filled with mutated and violent netherling outcasts. In the final installment of the wildly popular Splintered trilogy, Alyssa and her dad journey into the heart of magic and mayhem in search of her mom and to set right all that's gone wrong. Together with Jeb and Morpheus, they must salvage Wonderland from the decay and destruction that has ensnared it. But if they succeed and come out alive, can everyone truly have their happily ever after?
NOTICE: THIS IS THE THIRD INSTALLMENT IN A SERIES. THERE MAY BE SPOILERS FOR THE PREVIOUS BOOKS. Review for book one/ Review for book two.
This is such a wonderful book series! I have been following this book series ever since I picked up Splintered. Even before that I knew how much I would love this series! Now I don't know whether to be happy or sad. I'm happy because I just finished an amazing book, but sad because this series is over with!
This book picks up right when Unhinged left off. Alyssa is taking her dad to get his memories back. Her mom is stuck in Wonderland, as the only entrance has closed. Jeb and Morpheus are trapped in AnyElsewhere with Red. Alyssa has to find a way to fix Wonderland and save both Jeb and Morpheus.
I apologize ahead of time for this mess of a review. I love this book and this series so, so much! It's really hard for me to form complete sentences, that actual make sens, without full-on gushing about this book! First of all, this book is different than the others. This time, Alyssa has to travel to AnyElsewhere which is much darker than Wonderland if you can believe it. I really have to applaud the author's imagination in the whole entire series and it really shows strongly in this book! And the world is created so vividly!
The characters are also amazing, of course. What I really have to think about are the changes these characters go through since the beginning, but in this book alone they change so much!
Now, for the romance. Before I reread the books, again, I was solely on Team Morpheus. Because, come on, it's Morpheus! I still love Morpheus, but I don't like counting out Jeb. Yeah, Jeb isn't as awesome, but he is such a sweet guy and I feel weird admitting this, but I do believe that Jeb belongs with Alyssa and he really does love her! But Morpheus belongs with her too! GAH! No wonder Alyssa has trouble deciding!
The ending is a hit and miss, apparently, to most people, but I thought it was brilliant and emotional! (the whole series is brilliant)
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<highlight to view spoiler>I, honestly, think the book couldn't have ending any better. If Alyssa was unable to be with both Jeb and Morpheus, then it just doesn't seem right. It's odd that she can end up with both, I know, but I thought it was perfect. The whole series focuses on Alyssa's balance between her human and her netherling side, between Jeb and Morpheus. Being able to be with both brings the balance. I also thought that the epilogue was absolutely beautiful, but so very sad. I kind of wish Jeb got more screen time in the epilogue, I think it's a bit unfair to him that Morpheus kind of takes it over, but in the end it makes sense.<end of spoiler>
I love this book series so much! It's imaginative, stunning, a so unique! If you have yet to pick up this series, what in the world are you waiting for?! If you have read the previous books, let me just say that this final book will not disappoint.
It goes without saying that I really look forward to more books by A.G. Howard!


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Thank you Steve Ray and Mark Shea for helping get the word out about No Question Left Behind. Both blogged on the teen blog this week.
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Not sure who to ask about this, but could you ask your teens for prayers for my friend, her family, and her daughter? Her little girl, 8 years old, has had leukemia and is not expected to live more than a few days. Thank you so much.
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Yes, I'll sure ask them to pray. Bless this family!
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Ferran Soriano proved himself again to be a master orator when talking at the Supporters Club Annual Dinner last week (read the full speech here). City's Catalan CEO is known for his eloquent speeches, and his latest is targetted directly at Manchester City's fans. In this, he makes many references to the club's history and to its culture.
It's easy to get misty-eyed reading it, but it's important to stop and think for a second. His words are easy on the ears, but they do not correlate with what's going on off-the-pitch right now. I'm not as taken in as others will be by the speech. Much of it is "CEO-speak": persuasive and appealing language intended to win-over an audience. Just look at the first line:
"Manchester City is not a consumer product – it's something much more important."
This is certainly true for us, the supporters, but is that honestly the case for you, Ferran? Every year, season ticket prices go up. Every year, general sale prices go up. Every year, food and drink prices at the Etihad go up. Every year, merchandise prices go up. Every year, you ask more from a fan base that, according to past surveys, is among the poorest in Britain.
This may not be a problem in future when City, or the City Football Group if you prefer, wins the hearts and minds of the world, leading to a revolving door of fanatical tourists to fill seats – but these masses do not yet exist, and Manchester City is still heavily reliant on its domestic, working class fan base.
Soriano went on to tug at the heartstrings of the 400 supporters at the dinner, referencing St. Mark's and the fans who went to Macclesfield in the dark old days.
"We are a community club. We are club of the community of Manchester."
This has long been an image associated with Manchester City, much like Everton in Liverpool. The (in our case, formerly) poorer neighbours who boast strong community support, particularly among the working class, something the club values highly.
Here's the problem, Ferran – the local fans you value so highly are being asked to pay more and more each year. The recent response to ticket prices to PSG has been overwhelmingly negative with thousands of shares over social media supporting not just our letter, but the statements made by the 1894 Group and the articles on Typical City. People are tired of being treated like bottomless wallets.
If you care about your amazing local support, Mr. Soriano, then show it. Talk is cheap when you're squeezing more and more out of the locals each year. A close friend of mine, in his early 20s and in full-time employment, already can't afford to go to any cup games and fears another season ticket hike will price him out completely. Every price hike means another batch of local fans watching their beloved Blues in the pub or at home with the kids.
@City_Watch Im fuming ive been going 33 years this is a disgrace, my 10 year old is off school, He wants to go to his 1st champo game.
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If you aren't going to listen to us about ticket prices for the PSG game, then show you mean what you say – freeze season ticket prices like most Premier League clubs appear to be doing in response to the massive TV revenues about to fill Premier League coffers even more. Or better yet, reduce them! Everton have, and they're a community club, a club for the people, as you claim Manchester City are. They've backed it up, despite having no apparent need to after selling a record number of season tickets last year.
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Victims 'were making firecrackers'
A Chinese primary school that collapsed in an explosion killing dozens of children was using pupils to manufacture fireworks, according to state media.
At least 37 pupils and four teachers were killed in the blast in eastern Jiangxi province, one of China's poorest regions.
Some witnesses put the death toll at about 60. Nearly all the victims are believed to have been young children.
The school in Fang Lin village was packed with about 200 pupils and teachers when the blast ripped through the two-storey building at 1110 (0310 GMT) on Tuesday, destroying four classrooms.
The official website of the state-run Nanfang Daily said local firework factories had been using primary schools to make firecrackers since 1998.
It said the teachers had received a share of the profits.
The Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights in China said the school was using the fireworks business to boost its income.
Our correspondent in Shanghai says funding shortages have often prompted rural schools to seek alternative ways of generating money.
Jiangxi's governor, Shu Shengyou, has promised severe punishment for those responsible.
Military units were rushed to the scene after the blast to help the rescue operation.
"They suffered terribly - some of the bodies had their heads blown off," said Ding Haigen, a builder who helped dig out bodies.
Mr Ding said teachers had been forcing students to assemble firecrackers during their lunch hour for two or three years, despite complaints by parents.
Some reports suggested the children had been paid pocket money, but Mr Ding said they had not received anything.
The extent of poverty was underlined when phone calls to the local fire brigade were met with a recorded message, saying the number had been disconnected because phone bills had not been paid.
Last year more than 50 people died in two major firework explosions in Jiangxi.
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As part of a major shakeup of financial regulation in the UK, George Osborne will announce tonight that the Bank of England is to be given a new "toolkit" to help it manage risk in the UK economy. This will include the power to restrict bank lending, potentially allowing the Bank to block consumers from borrowing too much.
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EMC rolls out channel-only DD2200 deduplication system
EMC opens its Global Partner Summit by rolling out the DD2200 deduplication system, aimed at the midmarket and available only through the channel.
LAS VEGAS -- Yesterday, on the opening day of its Global Partner Summit and EMC World 2014 here, EMC Corp. introduced a channel-specific product, the Data Domain DD2200 deduplication storage system optimized for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs).
According to EMC, the DD2200 is priced to offer data protection for midmarket customers with enterprise product features such as the ability to back up 36 TB of data in less than eight hours; protect up to 860 TB logical capacity in a 2U format with up to 17.2 TB usable capacity; simultaneously support as many as 60 backup/archive streams; and support 1 billion files in large-archive workloads.
According to Gregg Ambulos, senior vice president of global and Americas Channel sales for the company, EMC's recent midmarket strategy gives distributors the ability to drive its VNXe business and low-end Data Domain business with partners.
Yesterday's Data Domain product announcement comes on the heels of another recent product announcement that targets midmarket customers – the hybrid flash VNXe3200 storage array -- also sold through EMC's global channel partners.
The VNXe3200 is the latest addition to EMC's VNX family of storage solutions. The product is three times more efficient than the previous VNXe systems, according to the company.
Partners can offer SMB customers the DD2200 with the new VNXe3200 for storage and data protection.


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Wire length from Bluetooth module to microphone: Approximately 115cm
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Please note, that on the USB interface, the Bluetooth module uses the same port as the 3.5mm AUX cable. Only one can be connected at any one time.


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What is WHTI?
The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) is a result of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA), requiring all travelers to present a passport or other document that denotes identity and citizenship when entering the United States.
Please Note: WHTI-compliant documents acceptable for entry or re-entry into the United States may not be valid documents for entering other countries. See Country Specific Information for more information on the country you are traveling to.
The stated goal of WHTI is to strengthen U.S. border security while facilitating entry for U.S. citizens and legitimate foreign visitors through standardized documentation that enables the Department of Homeland Security to quickly and reliably identify travelers.
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|Travel Medical Advice for El Salvador
Preparing for Your Trip to El Salvador
Before visiting El Salvador, you may need to get the following vaccinations and medications for vaccine-preventable diseases and other diseases you might be at risk for at your destination: (Note: Your doctor or health-care provider will determine what you will need, depending on factors such as your health and immunization history, areas of the country you will be visiting, and planned activities.)
To have the most benefit, see a health-care provider at least 4–6 weeks before your trip to allow time for your vaccines to take effect and to start taking medicine to prevent malaria, if you need it.
Even if you have less than 4 weeks before you leave, you should still see a health-care provider for needed vaccines, anti-malaria drugs and other medications and information about how to protect yourself from illness and injury while traveling.
CDC recommends that you see a health-care provider who specializes in Travel Medicine. Find a travel medicine clinic near you. If you have a medical condition, you should also share your travel plans with any doctors you are currently seeing for other medical reasons.
If your travel plans will take you to more than one country during a single trip, be sure to let your health-care provider know so that you can receive the appropriate vaccinations and information for all of your destinations. Long-term travelers, such as those who plan to work or study abroad, may also need additional vaccinations as required by their employer or school.
Although yellow fever is not a disease risk in El Salvador, the government requires travelers arriving from countries where yellow fever is present to present proof of yellow fever vaccination. If you will be traveling to one of these countries where yellow fever is present before arriving in El Salvador, this requirement must be taken into consideration.
Be sure your routine vaccinations are up-to-date. Check the links below to see which vaccinations adults and children should get.
Routine vaccines, as they are often called, such as for influenza, chickenpox (or varicella), polio, measles/mumps/rubella (MMR), and diphtheria/pertussis/tetanus (DPT) are given at all stages of life; see the childhood and adolescent immunization schedule and routine adult immunization schedule.
Routine vaccines are recommended even if you do not travel. Although childhood diseases, such as measles, rarely occur in the United States, they are still common in many parts of the world. A traveler who is not vaccinated would be at risk for infection.
Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
Vaccine recommendations are based on the best available risk information. Please note that the level of risk for vaccine-preventable diseases can change at any time.
Vaccination or Disease Recommendations or Requirements for Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
Areas of El Salvador with Malaria: Rural areas of Santa Ana, Ahuachapán, and La Paz, and La Unión departments.
If you will be visiting an area of El Salvador with malaria, you will need to discuss with your doctor the best ways for you to avoid getting sick with malaria. Ways to prevent malaria include the following:
Taking a prescription antimalarial drug
Using insect repellent and wearing long pants and sleeves to prevent mosquito bites
Primaquine is the preferred antimalarial drug (only after G6PD testing) in El Salvador. Atovaquone/proguanil, chloroquine, doxycycline, and mefloquine are alternative choices. For information that can help you and your doctor decide which of these drugs would be best for you, please see Drugs to Prevent Malaria.
To find out more information on malaria throughout the world, you can use the interactive CDC malaria map. You can search or browse countries, cities, and place names for more specific malaria risk information and the recommended prevention medicines for that area.
Malaria Contact for Health-Care Providers
For assistance with the diagnosis or management of suspected cases of malaria, call the CDC Malaria Hotline: 770-488-7788 (M-F, 9 am-5 pm, Eastern time). For emergency consultation after hours, call 770-488-7100 and ask to speak with a CDC Malaria Branch clinician.
A Special Note about Antimalarial Drugs
You should purchase your antimalarial drugs before travel. Drugs purchased overseas may not be manufactured according to United States standards and may not be effective. They also may be dangerous, contain counterfeit medications or contaminants, or be combinations of drugs that are not safe to use.
Halofantrine (marketed as Halfan) is widely used overseas to treat malaria. CDC recommends that you do NOT use halofantrine because of serious heart-related side effects, including deaths. You should avoid using antimalarial drugs that are not recommended unless you have been diagnosed with life-threatening malaria and no other options are immediately available.
For detailed information about these antimalarial drugs, see Information for the Public: Prescription Drugs for Malaria.
More Information About Malaria
Malaria is always a serious disease and may be a deadly illness. Humans get malaria from the bite of a mosquito infected with the parasite. Prevent this serious disease by seeing your health-care provider for a prescription antimalarial drug and by protecting yourself against mosquito bites (see below).
Travelers to malaria risk-areas in El Salvador, including infants, children, and former residents of El Salvador, should take one of the antimalarial drugs listed above.
Malaria symptoms may include
Malaria may cause anemia and jaundice. Malaria infections with Plasmodium falciparum, if not promptly treated, may cause kidney failure, coma, and death. Despite using the protective measures outlined above, travelers may still develop malaria up to a year after returning from a malarious area. You should see a doctor immediately if you develop a fever anytime during the year following your return and tell the physician of your travel.
Other Diseases Found in Mexico and Central America
Risk can vary between countries within this region and also within a country; the quality of in-country surveillance also varies.
The following are disease risks that might affect travelers; this is not a complete list of diseases that can be present. Environmental conditions may also change, and up to date information about risk by regions within a country may also not always be available.
Dengue epidemics have affected most countries in Central America in the past 5 years. Filariasis, leishmaniasis, onchocerciasis (River blindness), and American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease) are diseases carried by insects that also occur in this region, mostly in rural areas. Risk to the usual traveler is low. Myiasis (botfly) is endemic in Central America. Protecting yourself against insect bites (see below) will help to prevent these diseases.
Gnathostomiasis (roundworms) has increased in Mexico, with many cases being reported from the Acapulco area, infection has been reported in travelers. Humans become infected by eating undercooked fish or poultry, or reportedly by drinking contaminated water.
Foci of active transmission of leishmaniasis (predominantly cutaneous) are present in all countries in Central America. West Nile virus has been found in Mexico and may spread in Central America.
Diarrhea in travelers is common and may be caused by bacteria, viruses, and parasites. Diarrhea caused by enterotoxigenic E. coli predominates, but other bacteria and protozoa (including Giardia, Cryptosporidia, and Entamoeba histolytica) can also cause diarrhea.
Cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome have been reported from Panama.
Outbreaks of leptospirosis have occurred in travelers to the area (including whitewater rafters in Costa Rica and U.S. troops training in Panama). Sporadic cases and outbreaks of coccidioidomycosis and histoplasmosis have occurred in travelers to Central America. Risky activities include disturbing soil and entering caves and abandoned mines. Cutaneous larva migrans occurs in visitors, especially those visiting beaches.
For more information, see the Geographic Distribution of Potential Health Hazards to Travelers and Goals and Limitations in determining actual disease risks by destination
After You Return Home
If you are not feeling well, you should see your doctor and mention that you have recently traveled. Also tell your doctor if you were bitten or scratched by an animal while traveling.
If you have visited a malaria-risk area, continue taking your chloroquine for 4 weeks after leaving the risk area.
Malaria is always a serious disease and may be a deadly illness. If you become ill with a fever or flu-like illness either while traveling in a malaria-risk area or after you return home (for up to 1 year), you should seek immediate medical attention and should tell the physician your travel history.
Important Note: This document is not a complete medical guide for travelers to this region. Consult with your doctor for specific information related to your needs and your medical history; recommendations may differ for pregnant women, young children, and persons who have chronic medical conditions.
Map Disclaimer - The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on maps do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Security Website concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Approximate border lines for which there may not yet be full agreement are generally marked.
Check out the Security Travel Advice for El Salvador HERE.....
The UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office also has information regarding El Salvador HERE....
There is a Malaria warning issued by the Centers for Disease Control for El Salvador HERE....
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Life on the road is all glamour, right? Well, for those rock gods who don't have roadies and "people," traveling with a guitar is a serious pain.
First, the case is an awkward size, always fun when you're balancing other luggage. And you have to check it, which means trusting your precious cargo to unseen hands that likely don't value your axe as much as you do.
Entrepreneur Jonathan Spangler saw the potential for a new travel guitar – one compact enough to fit in a backpack for easy transportation (especially in an airplane), yet professional-level look, feel and sound. There are several travel guitars on the market, but they are still too long to fit in a carry-on bag, don't look, feel or play like a normal guitar, and taking them out of "travel mode" often means messing with the strings and/or a serious retuning.
Delve worked with Spangler and his music-tech start-up, Ciari Travel Guitars, to clearly define the requirements. It had to:
- Be lightweight (less than 7.5 pounds) and fit in a normal backpack
- Look like a normal-sized guitar (3/4 body and full neck) and appear normal from the front
- Have just one action to unlock and lock
- Be easy to string or restring
- Convey a premium guitar experience.
The solution? A neck that hinges in the middle so it folds exactly in half and backwards, keeping the strings under tension the whole time. This architecture required a complex over-center, spring-loaded mechanism to allow the strings to move as the neck folded and to lock the neck in place.
Initially, we addressed three major technical challenges:
- Design a mechanism that fits in the space and provides an ergonomic user interface for locking and unlocking the guitar. We created a kinematic model of the proposed over-center mechanism to estimate the forces the user would encounter.
- Determine how to correctly design and tolerance the hinges so the guitar played and sounded great. We created a CAD model of the ideal fret board profile that would provide the "action" required on the strings.
- Balance friction and spring force to maintain tension on the strings during transformation while stressing the strings as little as possible to avoid kinking.
We worked with a luthier (guitar fabricator/instrument maker) to help us work on the details from spec, size, look and feel – everything related to the fine art of instrument making. We built test fixtures and ran life cycle testing of the mechanism and tuning checks to see how the strings would hold up to repeated folding and tuning.
Finally, we turned our attention to the tactile experience of the throw lever. Early prototypes felt "grindy" and didn't have the definitive catch when locking or unlocking the guitar. We worked to eliminate friction points in the mechanism and changed the linkage design to make the lever click firmly into place.
The folding mechanism turned into a work of art. The team decided to put a clear back on the guitar to show it off. But the greatest overall service we provided to Ciari Guitars was extending the team to fill gaps in expertise. That allowed Spangler to focus on fundraising, marketing and business creation while we focused on taking his product idea and making it into a real (and really desirable) guitar.
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Pratt & Whitney Statement on F-35 MRO&U Assignments for Asia Pacific Region
Pratt & Whitney would like to congratulate Australia and Japan for being selected to provide regional maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrade (MRO&U) capability for the F135 engine in the Asia Pacific region. We look forward to working with them to establish affordable, world-class F135 depot capability in the Asia Pacific region. We will continue to work with the Joint Program Office and all of our JSF customers as we stand up worldwide global sustainment capability for the F135 engine.


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The BBC has its own election slogan, delivered by its top news and current affairs presenters, emphasising that television is where the election is happening— they're "Making it Clear", they tell viewers, when the reality is usually the opposite.
Audiences must surely be fed up with the constant repetition, the stage management, the never-ending sound-bites and the inability of every party leader to give a straightforward answer to a simple question.
Instead of "Making it Clear" do you not find yourself bewildered when the summation and analysis after the event ends up as a confusing mess?
Presenters hog the cameras and explain how, on the one hand, Mr Miliband says this but how, on the other hand, Mr Cameron says that – while Ms Sturgeon says something else.
Of course, the very nature of public service broadcasting, regulated and controlled to supposedly provide balanced and impartial coverage, is to ensure that the great viewing public can consider the argument then make up its own minds.
But instead we are being suffocated by a torrent of spin which is fast becoming overload and overkill as different channels think up new ways of getting viewers to switch off.
In fact, this election coverage is so overwhelming that dodgy PR people across the country must realise that every day until sometime in the middle of May will be a good day to bury bad news.
The truth of the matter is that broadcasters don't really want to be "Making it Clear" at all.
What they would far prefer is a live incident, a slip-up, an angry reaction, an award moment or, even better, some pathetic politician making a complete fool of themselves after being skewered by some clever-dick interviewer.
Television, after all, is visual and theatrical which is why politicians crave it – but fear it.
Like cocaine addicts who want to kick the habit but still can't get enough, the TV is impossible to resist for a politician who wants to make a mark, despite the high stakes. Saying the wrong thing or giving the wrong perception can mean the end of a career.
It was all so different in 1964 when the UK television election was born.
The town hall public meeting and the speakers' soapbox were replaced by the box in the corner and the amazing swingometer, the state-of-the-art device which illustrated and explained the political battleground in an easy to understand fashion.
Harold Wilson realised that the simplest path to become Prime Minister was to create impactful messages which could be spat out inside ten seconds and delivered to a mass audience in a friendly and popular manner.
He became a master of the art while his opponent, the stiff and frightfully upper-class Sir Alec Douglas Home, appeared as a cardboard caricature unable to connect with the people and therefore unable to sustain support. The poor man was hardly heard off again.
By 1974, special programmes concentrating on political discussion and analysis were turning elections into television events as millions tuned in to watch the spectacle which culminated in the election night special.
By the 1980s live feeds and electronic news gathering brought an immediacy while new broadcasters such as Channel 4 and Sky began to raise the political debate to an entirely new level.
But spin became the name of the game and the spin-doctors were the new barometers of what the public should be thinking instead of what they were thinking.
By the 1990s, the never-ending cycle of 24 hour news had cemented the Punch and Judy politics which we know so well today.
Clarity and understanding were sacrificed for finger-jabbing and pre-prepared insults as producers sought out confrontation and aggression which they believed would led to ratings successes.
Alas, the dusk till dawn loop of interviews and commentary soon saw audiences begin to drop away.
Today, thanks to the televised debates introduced to the UK in 2010, the level of audience interest and understanding has been reduced to new low levels.
The bite-sized slogans, deliberate evasiveness and all-round economy with the truth has produced an apathy resulting in too many voters being fed up with politics and politicians as demonstrated by the low levels of turn out at the polls.
Television should have a hugely important part to play in the whole election process whereby viewers should feel well informed and able to cast a considered vote.
Instead, they are reaching for the DVDs, the pay-for-movie channels and the catch up button.
As Churchill, the original sound-bite politician may have said: "Never in the field of TV elections has so much been owed to so many remote controls."