Moody's May Downgrade Xerox On Plan To Split In Two
By Ciara Linnane MarketWatch Pulse
Moody's Investors Service on Friday placed Xerox Corp.'s Baa2 senior unsecured debt rating on review for a possible downgrade, and said the decision to split in two will create smaller companies with less business diversity and profitability than the current one. The move comes after Xerox said it will create an $11 billion document technology company and a $7 billion business process outsourcing company by the end of 2016. "Xerox has not announced capitalization plans for DT or the BPO units post-spinoff, nor how much of its $1.4 billion in cash will be allocated between the two companies," Moody's acknowledged in a statement. It said its review will focus on the post-split capital structure, liquidity profile, shareholder return policies, future strategy, competitive positioning and growth prospects for each business. It will also evaluate the impact of the $2.4 billion in cost cuts the company plans over the next three years. Moody's Baa2 rating is just two notches above speculative, or junk status. Xerox shares were up 5.3% in early trade, but have fallen 28% in the last 12 months, while the S&P 500 has lost 5%.
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Tracing the impact of proposals from participatory processes: methodological challenges and substantive lessons
Font, J., Pasadas del Amo, S. and Smith, G. 2016. Tracing the impact of proposals from participatory processes: methodological challenges and substantive lessons. Journal of Public Deliberation. 12 (1), p. Article 3.
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Deliberative democracy and the climate crisis
Willis, R., Curato, N. and Smith, G. 2022. Deliberative democracy and the climate crisis. WIRES Climate Change. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.759
Expertise and Participatory Governance: The Incorporation of Expert Knowledge in Local Participatory Processes
Rico Motos, Carlos, Font, Joan, Bherer, Laurence and Smith, Graham 2021. Expertise and Participatory Governance: The Incorporation of Expert Knowledge in Local Participatory Processes. Journal of Deliberative Democracy. 17 (2). https://doi.org/10.16997/jdd.971
Testing the input-process-output model of public participation
Galais, C., Fernandez Martinez, J., Font, J. and Smith, G. 2021. Testing the input-process-output model of public participation. European Journal of Political Research. 60 (4), pp. 807-828. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12427
European Citizens Assembly: Bring Citizens into EU Decision Making
Smith, G. 2021. European Citizens Assembly: Bring Citizens into EU Decision Making. in: Alemanno, A. and Organ, J. (ed.) Citizen Participation in Democratic Europe: What Next for the EU? ECPR Press.
Can democracy safeguard the future?
Smith, G. 2021. Can democracy safeguard the future? Cambridge Polity Press.
Introducing the Journal of Deliberative Democracy
Curato, N., Bachtiger, A., Strandberg, K and Smith, G. 2020. Introducing the Journal of Deliberative Democracy. Journal of Deliberative Democracy. 16 (1), pp. 1-3. https://doi.org/10.16997/jdd.405
Enhancing the legitimacy of offices for future generations: the case for public participation
Smith, G. 2020. Enhancing the legitimacy of offices for future generations: the case for public participation. Political Studies. 68 (4), pp. 996-1013. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321719885100
Designing Democratic Innovations as Deliberative Systems: The Ambitious Case of NHS Citizen
Dean, R., Boswell, J. and Smith, G. 2020. Designing Democratic Innovations as Deliberative Systems: The Ambitious Case of NHS Citizen . Political Studies. 68 (3), pp. 689-709. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321719866002
Studying Cherrypicking: Substantive and Methodological Reflections
Font, J. and Smith, G. 2019. Studying Cherrypicking: Substantive and Methodological Reflections. Constitution Making and Deliberative Democracy Cost Action.
Reflections on the theory and practice of democratic innovations
Smith, G. 2019. Reflections on the theory and practice of democratic innovations. in: Elstub, S. and Escobar, O. (ed.) Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance Cheltenham Edward Elgar. pp. 572-581
Design Matters : CBNRM and Democratic Innovation
Smith, G. 2019. Design Matters : CBNRM and Democratic Innovation. Washington DC World Bank.
Reflecting on Fifty Years of Democratic Theory: Carole Pateman in Conversation with Graham Smith
Pateman, C. and Smith, G. 2019. Reflecting on Fifty Years of Democratic Theory: Carole Pateman in Conversation with Graham Smith. Democratic Theory. 6 (2), p. 111–120. https://doi.org/10.3167/dt.2019.060210
Collective Interview on the History of Town Meetings
Bryan, F., Keith, W., Kloppenberg, J., Mansbridge, J., Morrell, M and Smith, G. 2019. Collective Interview on the History of Town Meetings. Journal of Public Deliberation. 15 (2), p. Article 8 Article 8.
Domestic thermal upgrades, community action and energy saving: a three-year experimental study of prosperous households
Bardsely, N., Buchs, M., James, P., Papafragkou, A., Rushby, T., Saunders, C., Smith, G., Wallbridge . R. and Woodman, N. 2019. Domestic thermal upgrades, community action and energy saving: a three-year experimental study of prosperous households. Energy Policy. 127, pp. 475-485. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.11.036
The effects of economic crises on participatory democracy
Alarcon, P., Galais, C., Font, J. and Smith, G. 2019. The effects of economic crises on participatory democracy. Policy & Politics. 47 (2), pp. 265-286. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557318X15407316045688
The Lessons for Democratic Innovations
Smith, G. 2019. The Lessons for Democratic Innovations. in: Tam, Henry (ed.) Whose Government Is It? Policy Press. pp. 91-108
Sortition, Rotation and Mandate: Conditions for Political Equality and Deliberative Reasoning
Owen, D. and Smith, G. 2019. Sortition, Rotation and Mandate: Conditions for Political Equality and Deliberative Reasoning. in: Gastil, John and Wright, Erik Olin (ed.) Legislature by Lot: An Alternative Design for Deliberative Governance London Verso.
Challenges of inequality to democracy
Bellamy, R., Merkel, W., Bhargava, R., Bidadanure, J., Christiano, T., Felt, U., Hay, C., Lamboy, L., Pogrebinschi, T., Smith, G., Talshir, G., Urbinati, N. and Verloo, M. 2018. Challenges of inequality to democracy. in: IPSP (ed.) Rethinking society for the 21st Century: report of the international panel on social progress. Vol. II: Political regulation, governance, and societal transformations Cambridge Cambridge University Press. pp. 563-596
What kind of Brexit do voters want? Lessons from the Citizens’ Assembly on Brexit
Renwick, A., Allan, S., Jennings, W., McKee, R., Russell, M. and Smith, G. 2018. What kind of Brexit do voters want? Lessons from the Citizens’ Assembly on Brexit. The Political Quarterly. 89 (4), pp. 649-658. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12523
The institutionalization of deliberative democracy: democratic innovations and the deliberative system
Smith, G. 2018. The institutionalization of deliberative democracy: democratic innovations and the deliberative system. Journal of Zhejiang University (Humanities and Social Sciences). 4 (2), pp. 5-18 5-.
Owen, D. and Smith, G. 2018. Sortition, Rotation and Mandate: Conditions for Political Equality and Deliberative Reasoning. Politics and Society. 46 (3), pp. 419-434. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032329218789892
Mini-publics and deliberative democracy
Setälä, M. and Smith, G. 2018. Mini-publics and deliberative democracy. in: Bächtiger, A., Dryzek, J., Mansbridge, J. and Warren, M.E. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy Oxford Oxford University Press.
Cherry-picking participation: explaining the fate of proposals from participatory processes
Font, J., Smith, G., Galais, C. and Alarcón, P. 2018. Cherry-picking participation: explaining the fate of proposals from participatory processes . European Journal of Political Research. 57 (3), pp. 615-636. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12248
Sustainable Prosperity and Democracy: A Research Agenda
Hammond, M. and Smith, G. 2017. Sustainable Prosperity and Democracy: A Research Agenda. Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity.
A Considered Public Voice on Brexit: The Report of the Citizens' Assembly on Brexit
Renwick, A., Allan, S., Jennings, W., McKee, R, Russell, M. and Smith, G. 2017. A Considered Public Voice on Brexit: The Report of the Citizens' Assembly on Brexit. London The Constitution Unit, University College London.
Procesos participativos y crisis: ¿participación como respuesta a la crisis o participación recortada por la crisis?
Font, J., Alarcón, P., Galais, C. and Smith, G. 2017. Procesos participativos y crisis: ¿participación como respuesta a la crisis o participación recortada por la crisis? Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez.. 47 (2), pp. 151-166.
Concevoir la démocratie pour le long terme: innovation institutionnelle et changement climatique
Smith, G. 2017. Concevoir la démocratie pour le long terme: innovation institutionnelle et changement climatique. lapenseeeecologique.com. 1 (1).
Testing Assumptions in Deliberative Democratic Design: A Preliminary Assessment of the Efficacy of the Participedia Data Archive as an Analytic Tool
Gastil J., Richards Jr, R.C., Ryan, M. and Smith, G. 2017. Testing Assumptions in Deliberative Democratic Design: A Preliminary Assessment of the Efficacy of the Participedia Data Archive as an Analytic Tool. Journal of Public Deliberation. 13 (2), p. Article 1 Article 1.
Citizen participation and changing governance: cases of devolution in England
Prosser, B., Renwick, A., Giovanni, A., Sandford, M., Flinders, M., Jennings, W., Spada, G., Smith, G., Stoker, G. and Ghose, K. 2017. Citizen participation and changing governance: cases of devolution in England. Politics and Policy. 45 (2), pp. 251-269. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557317X14895974141213
Qu’apporte l’étude des town meetings à la quête d’une démocratie plus participative et délibérative?
Bryan, F.W., Keith, W.W., Kloppenberg, J.T., Mansbridge, J.J., Morrell, M.E. and Smith, G. 2016. Qu’apporte l’étude des town meetings à la quête d’une démocratie plus participative et délibérative? Participations. Revue de sciences sociales sur la démocratie et la citoyenneté. 15 (2), pp. 203-220. https://doi.org/10.3917/parti.015.0203
Democracy Matters: Lessons from the 2015 Citizens' Assemblies on English Devolution
Flinders, M., Ghose, K., Jennings, W., Molloy, E., Prosser, B., Renwick, A., Smith, G. and Spada, P. 2016. Democracy Matters: Lessons from the 2015 Citizens' Assemblies on English Devolution. Democracy Matters.
Identifying and explaining framing strategies of low carbon lifestyle movement organisations
Buchs, M., Wallbridge, R., Saunders, C., Smith, G. and Bardsley, N. 2015. Identifying and explaining framing strategies of low carbon lifestyle movement organisations. Global Environmental Change. 35 (Nov), p. 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.09.009
The Potential of Participedia as a Crowdsourcing Tool for Comparative Analysis of Democratic Innovations
Smith, G., Gastil, John and Richards Jr, R.C. 2015. The Potential of Participedia as a Crowdsourcing Tool for Comparative Analysis of Democratic Innovations. Policy and Internet. 7 (2), p. 243–262. https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.93
Survey Article: Deliberation, Democracy, and the Systemic Turn
Owen, D. and Smith, G. 2015. Survey Article: Deliberation, Democracy, and the Systemic Turn. Journal of Political Philosophy. 23 (2), p. 213–234. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopp.12054
‘It helped me sort of face the end of the world’: the role of emotions for third sector climate change engagement initiatives
Buchs, M., Hinton, E. and Smith, G. 2015. ‘It helped me sort of face the end of the world’: the role of emotions for third sector climate change engagement initiatives. Environmental Values. 24 (5), pp. 621-640. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327115X14384223590177
Defining Mini-Publics
Ryan, M. and Smith, G. 2014. Defining Mini-Publics. in: Kimmo Grönlund André Bächtiger Maija Setälä (ed.) Deliberative Mini-Publics: Involving Citizens in the Democratic Process Colchester ECPR Press. pp. 9-26
Beyond the activist ghetto: a deductive blockmodelling approach to understanding the relationship between contact with environmental organisations and public attitudes and behaviour
Saunders, C., Buchs, M., Papafragkou, A., Wallbridge, R. and Smith, G. 2014. Beyond the activist ghetto: a deductive blockmodelling approach to understanding the relationship between contact with environmental organisations and public attitudes and behaviour. Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest. 13 (1), pp. 158-177. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2013.832623
Ends, means, beginnings: environmental technocracy, ecological deliberation or embodied disagreement
Machin, A. and Smith, G. 2014. Ends, means, beginnings: environmental technocracy, ecological deliberation or embodied disagreement. Ethical Perspectives. 21 (1), pp. 47 -72. https://doi.org/10.2143/EP.21.1.3017286
Taking political engagement online: an experimental analysis of asynchronous discussion forums
Smith, G., John, P. and Sturgis, P. 2013. Taking political engagement online: an experimental analysis of asynchronous discussion forums. Political Studies. 61 (4), pp. 709-730. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2012.00989.x
Mapping the environmental third sector in England: a distinctive field of activity?
Clifford, D., Geyne-Rajme, F., Smith, G., Edwards, R., Buchs, M. and Saunders, C. 2013. Mapping the environmental third sector in England: a distinctive field of activity? Voluntary Sector Review. 4 (2), pp. 241-264. https://doi.org/10.1332/204080513X668584
Designing democratic innovations at the European level: lessons from the experiments
Smith, G. 2013. Designing democratic innovations at the European level: lessons from the experiments. in: Kies, R. and Nanz, P. (ed.) Is Europe listening to us? Successes and failures of EU citizen consultations Ashgate. pp. 201-216
Environmental management systems and the third sector: exploring weak adoption in the UK
Edwards, R., Smith, G. and Buchs, M. 2013. Environmental management systems and the third sector: exploring weak adoption in the UK. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy. 31 (1), pp. 119-133. https://doi.org/10.1068/c11123
Towards a comparative analysis of democratic innovations: lessons from a small-n fsQCA of participatory budgeting
Ryan, M. and Smith, G. 2012. Towards a comparative analysis of democratic innovations: lessons from a small-n fsQCA of participatory budgeting. Revista Internacional de Sociología (RiS). 70 (Extra2), pp. 89-120.
Associative democracy and the social economy: exploring the regulatory challenge
Smith, G. and Teasdale, S. 2012. Associative democracy and the social economy: exploring the regulatory challenge. Economy and Society. 41 (2), pp. 151-176. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2012.661627
Legislating for a big society? The case of the public services (social enterprise and social value) bill in England
Teasdale, S., Alcock, P. and Smith, G. 2012. Legislating for a big society? The case of the public services (social enterprise and social value) bill in England. Public Money and Management. 32 (3), pp. 201-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2012.676277
Machiavellian democratic innovations: McCormick’s people’s tribunate
Smith, G. and Owen, D. 2012. Machiavellian democratic innovations: McCormick’s people’s tribunate. The Good Society. 20 (2), pp. 203-215. https://doi.org/10.1353/gso.2011.0015
The European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI): a new institution for empowering Europe’s citizens?
Smith, G. 2012. The European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI): a new institution for empowering Europe’s citizens? in: Dougan, M., Shuibhne, N.N. and Spaventa, E. (ed.) Empowerment and disempowerment of the European citizen Oxford Hart.
Deliberative democracy and mini-publics
Smith, G. 2012. Deliberative democracy and mini-publics. in: Geissel, B. and Newton, K. (ed.) Evaluating democratic innovations: curing the democratic malaise? London Routledge. pp. 90-111
Navigating the perfect storm: research stategies for socialecological systems in a rapidly evolving world
Dearing, J.A., Bullock, S., Contanza, R., Dawson, T.P., Edwards, M.E., Poppy, G.M. and Smith, G. 2012. Navigating the perfect storm: research stategies for socialecological systems in a rapidly evolving world. Environmental Management. 49 (4), pp. 767-775. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-012-9833-6
Organizing deliberation: the perspectives of professional participation practitioners in Britain and Germany
Cooper, E. and Smith, G. 2012. Organizing deliberation: the perspectives of professional participation practitioners in Britain and Germany. Journal of Public Deliberation. 8 (1), p. Article 3.
Politics and the environment: from theory to practice. 3rd edition
Connelly, J., Smith, G., Benson, D. and Saunders, C. 2012. Politics and the environment: from theory to practice. 3rd edition. London Routledge.
Survey article: Democratic innovations: bringing theory and practice into dialogue
Smith, G. 2011. Survey article: Democratic innovations: bringing theory and practice into dialogue. Philosophy Compass. 6 (12), pp. 895-901. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-9991.2011.00448.x
Ekonomia społeczna, przedsiębiorstwospołeczne i teoria d emokracji stowarzyszeniowej
Smith, G. and Teasdale, S. 2011. Ekonomia społeczna, przedsiębiorstwospołeczne i teoria d emokracji stowarzyszeniowej. Ekonomia Spoteczna. 2 (3), pp. 121-137.
Putting democracy into welfare provision
Smith, G. 2011. Putting democracy into welfare provision. in: Westall, A. (ed.) Revisiting associative democracy London Lawrence & Wishart.
Nudge nudge, think think: experimenting with ways to change civic behaviour
John, P., Cotterill, S., Richardson, L., Moseley, A., Smith, G., Stoker, G. and Wales, C. 2011. Nudge nudge, think think: experimenting with ways to change civic behaviour. London Bloomsbury Academic.
Prospects for citizenship
Stoker, G., Armstrong, C., Banya, M., Mason, A., McGee, D., McGrew, T., Owen, D., Saunders, C. and Smith, G. 2010. Prospects for citizenship. London Bloomsbury Academic.
Revitalising politics through democratic innovation?
Smith, G. 2009. Revitalising politics through democratic innovation? Representation. 45 (3), pp. 259-264. https://doi.org/10.1080/00344890903129475
Democratic innovations: designing institutions for citizen participation
Smith, G. 2009. Democratic innovations: designing institutions for citizen participation. Cambridge Cambridge University Press.
Deliberativna demokracija i javnosti u malom (deliberative democracy and mini-publics)
Smith, G. 2009. Deliberativna demokracija i javnosti u malom (deliberative democracy and mini-publics). Croatian Political Science Review. 3/4, pp. 27-58.
Empowering communities to influence local decision making: systematic review of the evidence
Pratchett, L., Durose, C., Lowndes, V., Smith, G., Stoker, G. and Wales, C. 2009. Empowering communities to influence local decision making: systematic review of the evidence. London Department for Communities and Local Government.
Nudge nudge, think think: two strategies for changing civic behaviour
John, P., Smith, G. and Stoker, G. 2009. Nudge nudge, think think: two strategies for changing civic behaviour. Political Quarterly. 80 (3), pp. 361-370. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2009.02001.x
Teaching citizenship in higher education
Smith, G., Ottewill, R., Jubb, E., Sperling, E. and Wyman, M. 2008. Teaching citizenship in higher education. European Political Science. 7, pp. 135-143. https://doi.org/10.1057/eps.2008.8
The theory and practice of group representation: reflections on the governance of race equality in Birmingham
Smith, G. and Stephenson, S. 2005. The theory and practice of group representation: reflections on the governance of race equality in Birmingham. Public Administration. 83 (2), pp. 323-343. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0033-3298.2005.00452.x
Green citizenship and the social economy
Smith, G. 2005. Green citizenship and the social economy. Environmental Politics. 14 (2), pp. 273-289. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644010500055175
Democratic deliberation and environmental policy: opportunities and barriers in Britain
Smith, G. 2005. Democratic deliberation and environmental policy: opportunities and barriers in Britain. in: Paehlke, R. and Torgerson, D. (ed.) Managing leviathan: environmental politics and the administrative state Ontario Broadview.
Beyond the ballot: 57 democratic innovations from around the world
Smith, G. 2005. Beyond the ballot: 57 democratic innovations from around the world. The Power Inquiry.
Building social capital in city politics: scope and limitations at the inter-organisational level
Smith, G., Maloney, W. and Stoker, G. 2004. Building social capital in city politics: scope and limitations at the inter-organisational level. Political Studies. 52 (3), pp. 508-530. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2004.00493.x
Voluntary organisations and the generation of social capital
Stoker, G., Smith, G., Maloney, W. and Young, S. 2004. Voluntary organisations and the generation of social capital. in: Boddy, M. and Parkinson, M. (ed.) City matters: competitiveness, cohesion and urban governance Bristol Policy Press. pp. 389-406
Liberal democracy and the shaping of environmentally enlightened citizens
Smith, G. 2004. Liberal democracy and the shaping of environmentally enlightened citizens. in: Levy, Y. and Wissenburg, M. (ed.) Liberal democracy and environmentalism: the end of environmentalism? London Routledge. pp. 139-152
How can the weaknesses of deliberative decision making be overcome?
Smith, G. 2004. How can the weaknesses of deliberative decision making be overcome? in: Blowers, A. (ed.) Deliberative democracy and decision making for radioactive waste: a report for the HM Government-sponsored Commission on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) Commission on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM).
Deliberative democracy and the environment
Smith, G. 2003. Deliberative democracy and the environment. London Routledge.
Politics and the environment: from theory to practice. 2nd edition
Smith, G. and Connelly, J. 2002. Politics and the environment: from theory to practice. 2nd edition. London Routledge.
Taking deliberation seriously: institutional design and green politics
Smith, G. 2001. Taking deliberation seriously: institutional design and green politics. Environmental Politics. 10 (3), pp. 72-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/714000562
Social capital and the city
Maloney, W., Smith, G. and Stoker, G. 2001. Social capital and the city. in: Edwards, B., Foley, M.W. and Diani, M. (ed.) Beyond Tocqueville: civil society and the social capital debate in comparative perspective University of New England Press. pp. 83-98
Social capital and urban governance: adding a more contextualized ‘top-down’ perspective
Maloney, W., Smith, G. and Stoker, G. 2000. Social capital and urban governance: adding a more contextualized ‘top-down’ perspective. Political Studies. 48 (4), pp. 802-820. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9248.00284
Citizens' juries and deliberative democracy
Smith, G. and Wales, C. 2000. Citizens' juries and deliberative democracy. Political Studies. 48 (1), pp. 51-65. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9248.00250
Toward deliberative institutions
Smith, G. 2000. Toward deliberative institutions. in: Saward, M. (ed.) Democratic innovation: deliberation, representation and association London Routledge. pp. 29-39
The theory and practice of citizens’ juries
Smith, G. and Wales, C. 1999. The theory and practice of citizens’ juries. Policy and Politics. 27 (3), pp. 295-308. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557399782453118
Politics and the envronment: from theory to practice
Smith, G. and Connelly, J. 1999. Politics and the envronment: from theory to practice. London Routledge.
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Trump spends MLK Jr. Day golfing
Jeff J Mitchell

AYR, SCOTLAND - JULY 30: Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump drives a golf buggy during his visits to his Scottish golf course Turnberry on July 30, 2015 in Ayr, Scotland. Donald Trump answered questions from the media at a press conference held in his hotel. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

President Donald Trump appears poised to ignore his own calls for Americans to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day with "acts of civic work and community service."
Trump is not scheduled to partake in any service projects on the federal holiday he and every other US president have designated as a "day of service" since 1994. Instead, he arrived Monday morning at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida. The only event on the public schedule released daily by the White House is the flight that will take him back to Washington in the afternoon.
Trump's noticeably blank public schedule Monday comes as he continued to beat back accusations of racism for referring to countries in Africa as "s---hole countries" and rejecting immigration from the African continent and Haiti in favor of immigrants from Norway during a meeting with lawmakers. His reported comments were confirmed by both a Republican senator and Democratic senator present, but Trump has denied making the disparaging remarks.
Trump rejected the criticism on Sunday night, telling reporters that he is the "least racist person you have ever interviewed."
Trump's proclamation
Trump marked the holiday celebrating the civil rights icon at the White House Friday where he signed the federal holiday proclamation in a ceremony alongside King's nephew, a dozen of his black political supporters and staffers, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, the most-senior black member of his Cabinet. Carson was scheduled to attend a reception at a historic fire station in Atlanta alongside King's niece, Alveda King.
Trump praised King's role in the civil rights movement before encouraging "all Americans to observe this day with acts of civic work and community service in honor of Dr. King's extraordinary life -- and it was extraordinary indeed -- and his great legacy."
There was no indication Monday morning that Trump would heed that call. A White House spokeswoman did not return a request for comment on whether Trump had any impromptu plans to take part in a community service project. The first lady's office also did not return a request for comment asking whether Melania Trump had any such plans.
The White House on Monday did release a video message in which Trump marked the federal holiday and extolled King's legacy and Trump retweeted the video.
The first lady marked the day in a tweet Monday morning: "Today we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & his service to this great country. I am honored to be First Lady of a nation that continually strives for equality & justice for all."
President Ronald Reagan signed a bill into law in 1983 making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a federal holiday and the holiday was first observed in 1986.
US presidents have typically observed the holiday publicly, making remarks or attending events honoring the day. Each president since Reagan has signed a proclamation declaring Martin Luther King Jr. day a federal holiday, and in 1994 the holiday was rededicated in an act of Congress as a "day of service."
The last three presidents have often taken part in service projects to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In 2001, President Bill Clinton joined AmeriCorps members to help repair and paint a senior center in Washington. In 2007, President George W. Bush joined volunteers at a local high school who were sending postcards to victims of Hurricane Katrina. For the last Martin Luther King Jr. Day of his presidency, President Barack Obama helped students at a local elementary school build planters and plant vegetables for an "MLK Garden" at the school.
The projects were just some that the three presidents took part in to mark the holiday during their times in office.


Health First Europe welcomes Elisabeth Morin-Chartier as a new MEP Supporter
New MEP Supporter, / 19 December 2013
Health First Europe is happy to welcome Elisabeth Morin-Chartier as a new MEP Supporter. Mrs Elisabeth Morin-Chartier serves as the Vice-Chair of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality and is a Member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. She is also a Member of the Delegation for Relations with United States.
Prior to joining the European Parliament in 2007, she was a founder of the branch of the National Centre for Distance Learning (CNED) at the Parc du Futuroscope, where she was Head and Director of the CNED (1988) and Director-General of the CNED (1988). She served as Inspector-General in the National Education and Research Administration for the South-Eastern France Group – the regional education authorities of Lyons, Grenoble, Aix-Marseilles, Nice and Corsica (2001-2010). She has been awarded the titles of Knight of the Legion of Honour (2000), Officer of the National Order of Merit (2007) and Commander of the Order of Academic Palms (2005).
Mrs.Morin-Chartier is genuinely involved in ensuring patients’ safety at the European level. She actively supports the strengthening of national coordination on healthcare system and she proposed a joint Motion for a Resolution on HIV/AIDS: early diagnosis and early care (2008).
Health First Europe is delighted to welcome MEP Morin-Chartier as a Supporter and looks forward to our future collaboration.


The renewable energy sector has seen strong and fairly consistent FDI since 2007, according to figures from greenfield investment monitor fDi Markets. It says in 2019, investment flows into the sector witnessed an all-time high, however, with renewable energy companies undertaking a total 516 projects abroad – 38% more than the previous year. This spree amounted to $92.1bn of spending, a new record for greenfield FDI in the market.
These figures are not unexpected. Investor appetite for green energy projects has never been higher and far outstrips supply, not least as many new geographies are opening up their markets, says Dario Traum, head of policy for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at BloombergNEF.
“This is because clean energy projects typically offer at least some level of revenue certainty through power purchasing agreements or government support schemes. This makes most clean energy projects a low-risk asset with a yield that is close to, but still higher than, interest rates in OECD countries,” he adds.
Solar flares
The lion’s share of crossborder investment in renewable energy in 2019 went to solar energy, accounting for a little over 50% of all projects, according to fDi Markets. It says foreign investment in the sub-sector has grown almost exponentially since 2004, since solar technology has moved extremely fast in recent decades. Meanwhile, wind energy – the second top destination for foreign investment in 2019 – has seen more stable and linear FDI over the years. Another clear trend relates to biomass and hydroelectric power, both of which have seen decreasing flows of foreign investment over the past two decades.
In terms of the leading destinations for FDI in renewables, 2019 saw some novel results. For the first time, Latin America was the world's second most attractive destination for foreign investment in renewables, behind Europe, both in terms of capital expenditure and number of projects, thereby disrupting what has been for many years a competition between Asia-Pacific and Europe, according to fDi Markets. Within Latin America, Brazil, Chile and Mexico stand out. All three are among the world’s top five destinations for foreign investment in renewables, in terms of project numbers since January 2018, alongside Spain and the US.
“The increased focus on environmental, social and corporate governance-compliant investment of large investors, combined with corporate sustainability pledges and continued cost reduction for clean energy technologies, is supporting activity around the globe, in particular in the secondary market,” says Mr Traum. “From an FDI in emerging markets perspective, Latin America has led the way in this trend. Conducive policies in countries such as Mexico, Brazil or Chile created a large pipeline of projects with regulated revenues paid out in US dollars, backed by a government guarantee.”
Emerging opportunities
As a result, renewable energy infrastructure assets represent a low-risk investment in emerging economies, compared with many other forms of exposure. For example, in 2018 Italy’s Enel Green Power sold 1.8 gigawatts of green energy facilities to Canadian pension fund CDPQ for $1.35bn.
“Energy sector investors are looking to replicate these successes in more geographies, such as sub-Saharan Africa, where cheap solar energy and policy support are opening up new opportunities,” says Mr Traum.
Like Latin America, Africa also saw unprecedented foreign investment in renewables in 2019, according to fDi Markets. The majority of foreign investment to the two regions, and the world for that matter, came from European companies.
Is the party over?
It looks likely, however, that the coronavirus outbreak will halt the FDI boom in renewables, and the global transition to green energy more generally. Though the decline in business, consumer and industrial activity has created a short-term drop in greenhouse gas emissions, Covid-19 seems to bring bad news for the environment.
With much of the world under lockdown, many prospective or half-complete renewable energy projects face logistical and financial challenges, especially if they are foreign investments. BloombergNEF recently downgraded its forecast for the solar and battery markets in 2020, which is set to see the first fall in global solar power growth since the 1980s.
Similarly, Norway’s Rystad Energy recently suggested the global expansion of wind and solar power plants could be “wiped out” for at least a year, as construction time frames feel the impact of government restrictions on movement, and foreign exchange markets contract around the world.
Some projects in the procurement phase will face a huge increase in capital costs, and therefore have to pause, as currencies take a hit from Covid-19. Those most impacted by all of this are emerging markets in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and India, where the bulk of solar growth had been expected this year, according to Rystad Energy.
Cheap carbon
The coronavirus pandemic is also making renewable energy less competitive against fossil fuel alternatives, which are usually more expensive. In most economies that have implemented concerted lockdowns, electricity demand has declined by about 15%, largely as a result of factories and businesses halting operations, said Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Association, in a recent blog post.
Weaker demand has meant cheaper electricity, thereby pushing down the price of traditional energy sources. The EU Emissions Trading System shows that carbon prices have dropped from bout $30 per ton in mid-2019, to about $16 in March 2020. This puts fossil fuels on an increasingly level playing field with renewables, decreasing demand for the latter. The historic and ongoing drop in oil prices is exacerbating this situation.
On top of this, as billions of dollars from the world’s largest energy oil companies are wiped out by the oil collapse, even more of their spending will likely be directed towards the protection of existing oil and gas investments, rather than to renewables.
Some analysts, however, are more concerned about the direction of government policies, since attention risks being diverted away from clean energy to more immediate concerns. In March, Mr Birol publicly urged governments around the world to invest in renewables as part of their coronavirus stimulus plans, thereby bringing “the twin benefits of stimulating economies and accelerating clean energy transitions”.
For example, with oil prices so low, governments have an opportunity to withdraw fossil-fuel subsidies – which account for $5000bn of spending a year, globally – and redirect them into green energy development. Whether countries and companies will consider the long-term health of the environment in their response to a short-term pandemic remains to be seen, however.
This article first appeared in the April-June edition of fDi Magazine. The full digital version of the magazine is available here.
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Danish Water Forum (DWF) Inaugurated its base in Gujarat
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The Danish Water Forum (DWF) Operational Base was inaugurated in the campus of Gujarat Water Supply & Sewerage Board on 22nd March, 2013 to mark the celebration of "World Water Day". The operational base was inaugurated by Honorable Minister (Water Supply), Babubhai Bokhiriya in the presence of Mr. Freddy Svane, Ambassador of Denmark to India. This is significant as one of the major Scandinavian Water Organization has chosen Gujarat as its base for the first time in India.
Minister Babubhai Bokhiriya appreciating the water grid network said, "Government of Gujarat is committed to provide clean and potable drinking water to the entire state. The number of fluoride affected habitations has reduced from 4187 to just 40 during last few years due to establishment of Gujarat State Wide drinking water Grid network".
Mr. Freddy Svane, Ambassador of Denmark to India said that Gujarat was chosen due to the successful creation of unparalleled State Wide Water Grid that is the biggest of its kind in the world and highlighted the water expertise, knowledge, competence and high standard of Danish Water Forum, making it a perfect organization to serve and strengthen the water distribution systems in Gujarat.
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This initiative was in fulfillment of the MoU signed by Government of Gujarat in the recently concluded Vibrant Gujarat Global Investment Summit, in presence of Chief Minister of the state, Mr. Narendra Modi.
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Cal Thomas: Chuck Schumer's hypocrisy
Summary: The Schumer initiative is a power grab. The left, which now controls the Democratic Party, wants to federalize elections, removing from states their right to decide how they wish to conduct their election procedures. Democrats are framing this as a civil rights and "fairness" issue, but it is not difficult to see what their true goal is: the creation of an electoral system that will allow them a permanent majority at the federal level.
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By Cal Thomas
Hypocrisy and lies from politicians are so rampant in Washington that hardly anyone pays them much attention anymore. Perhaps that is why our cynicism about so many things political deepens and distrust of our institutions is pervasive.
A co-conspirator in all of this is Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who has set the middle of the month as his target for changing the filibuster rule that requires 60 votes to pass most legislation. That Schumer has opposed what he now proposes is well-documented for anyone taking the time to do even minimal research, which most of the major media appears unwilling to do.
In 2005, Schumer claimed that eliminating the filibuster would turn the country "into a banana republic, where if you don't get your way, you change the rules. Are we gonna let them (presumably he meant Republicans)? It will be doomsday for Democracy if we do." Well, then, has "doomsday" arrived and is Schumer its captain?
In 2017, Schumer said if you can't get 60 votes "you shouldn't change the rules." Does anyone seriously think that if Democrats were the minority party, which they likely will be after the next election, that he would still favor elimination of the filibuster?
At the same time, during confirmation hearings for Neil Gorsuch to become an associate justice on the Supreme Court, Schumer said of then Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, "He's bound and determined to change the rules and trample on Senate tradition" to get a conservative nominee approved.
As the conservative Federalist Society correctly notes: "Our system leaves the details of the election administration to individual states. Those details include the specifics of election day rules such as the time for opening and closing polling places, absentee ballot procedures (including emergency absentee balloting), early voting, registering to vote, and the regulation and prosecution of election irregularities and election crimes."
Schumer reminds me of a quote from the late Groucho Marx: "Those are my principles and if you don't like them, well I have others."
The Schumer initiative is a power grab. The left, which now controls the Democratic Party, wants to federalize elections, removing from states their right to decide how they wish to conduct their election procedures. Democrats are framing this as a civil rights and "fairness" issue, but it is not difficult to see what their true goal is: the creation of an electoral system that will allow them a permanent majority at the federal level.
Already Democrats have succeeded in a number of areas, including extended voting hours and ballot drop boxes. The bill backed by Schumer would eliminate the voter identification requirement and allow ballots that arrive after Election Day to be counted, among other changes. This can only deepen the public's distrust of election outcomes. If we think it's bad now with the large number of people who continue to believe, without evidence, that the 2020 election was "stolen" from Donald Trump, wait until this monster is passed. It will only divide us further if that's possible.
Fortunately, there are some Democrats, such as Senators Joe Manchin (WV) and Krysten Sinema (AZ) who have stated their support for continuing the 60-vote requirement. One hopes, as with their opposition to President Biden's massive social spending bill, that they will stick to their principles.
A Wall Street Journal editorial got to the heart of Schumer's hypocrisy and his attempt to link the disingenuously labeled "Voting Rights Act" to last year's Capitol riot. The editorial concluded that "is like comparing criminal justice progressives to those who attacked police and property at Black Lives Matter protests last year. His aim is not to protect democracy, but to blow up Senate rules for partisan gain."
Cal Thomas can be reached at cthomas@wctrib.com.
It is not simply an era of COVID-19 that is troubling, but the era of distrust of authority that it has brought, not only among the "crazies" who reject science but also among the rest of us, who can't figure out exactly what we are supposed to do when there is a faint pink line on an unreliable test.
By Susan Estrich
Froma Harrop commentary: Not getting vaccinated can be child abuse
Summary: The vaccinated majority is rapidly losing interest in the fate of the unvaccinated -- and that's putting it diplomatically. The latter may be irresponsible, ignorant, selfish, mentally unbalanced or any combination of the above. We just feel sorry for the innocents around them.
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Froma Harrop: Smart progressives should love Elon Musk
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Scots scientists make stem cell breakthrough
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The Edinburgh University team discovered the bacteria, which cause leprosy, convert cells in the nerve system so they become like stem cells.
These cells are known as the building blocks of life and are seen as the key to finding cures for a range of conditions from motor neurone disease to spinal cord injuries, which are currently irreversible.
It is hoped scientists will be able to use leprosy bacteria to grow stem cells, which have the ability to turn into any other type of cell needed by the body. These could then be transplanted into patients to repair damage.
Dr Rob Buckle, head of regenerative medicine at the Medical Research Council, has described the research as "groundbreaking".
He said: "This discovery is important not just for our understanding and treatment of bacterial disease but for the rapidly progressing field of regenerative medicine.
"In future, this knowledge may help scientists to improve the safety and utility of lab-produced pluripotent stem cells and help drive the development of new regenerative therapies for a range of human diseases, which are currently impossible to treat."
Longer-term he is hopeful the insight will lead to a new way of creating stem cell therapies. The cells can be harvested from embryos but this raises ethical issues and Mr Rambukkana said there was also a danger of embryonic stem cells developing into tumours. The leprosy cells do not carry this risk.
Mr Rambukkana said: "This (research) is very intriguing as it is the first time we have seen that functional adult tissue cells can be reprogrammed into stem cells by natural bacterial infection, which also does not carry the risk of creating tumorous cells.
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Planning for the $434 million Shoalhaven District Hospital redevelopment continues but there is no actual time frame on when the work will start. Premier Gladys Berejiklian, South Coast MP Shelley Hancock and Kiama MP Gareth Ward announced the redevelopment in November last year but according to Health Infrastructure, the project is still in the planning stage. When asked about a time frame for work to start, Health Infrastructure would only say it will be in "this term of government". "It is still in the planning stage and will start in this term of government," the spokesperson said. "There will be clearer timeframes once the planning is further progressed. "A clinical services plan is being developed to confirm the range of health care services the new hospital will provide and the size of the facility." But the government has already announced the redevelopment will include expanded elective surgery; more surgical, acute medical and aged care beds; expanded maternity services; more operating theatres; increased capacity in the Emergency Department; and expansion of outpatient and ambulatory care zones. Read more: "Detailed analysis will be undertaken and site options developed to inform the optimal solution for the redevelopment to best service the needs of the broader community," the spokesperson said. "Valuable community and stakeholder engagement will be undertaken during this period to ensure that the analysis is comprehensive. "Planning such a large development takes a long time to ensure we have opportunities to comprehensively consult with staff and the community." But at this stage no concept drawings or design ideas are available. Strange as masterplan concepts for the site were released in June-July last year and showed possible layouts for the precinct. Meanwhile, parking at Shoalhaven Hospital is also set to be enhanced with a new $11.8 million multi car park project, including a new ground level car park, nearing completion. Earlier this year longtime Nowra resident Bill Hancock called on the government to scrap the upgrade plans and build a totally new facility on a greenfield site south of Nowra, closer to the city's major growth and older population areas. In response to South Coast MP Shelley Hancock's survey into the Future of Shoalhaven District Hospital Mr Hancock, who lives adjacent to the ever growing facility, produced a 20-page document proposing a greenfield site on the corner of the Princes Highway/Forest and BTU roads south of Nowra. Mr Hancock said his plan backs up research in the Emergency Medicine Journal that 80 per cent of population should live within a 20-minute drive or a 20 kilometre radius of a hospital. "Research shows that mortality rates for people living less than 10km away from a hospital is decidedly lower than those between 10-20km and further than 20km," he said. "A 20km radius around the current hospital does not take in the growing areas of Vincentia and the Bay and Basin and only parts of Huskisson. "A relocation to South of Nowra would certainly achieve that goal." As for the cost, he says when you consider the proposed Shoalhaven Hospital upgrade is worth $434 million, add in the almost $12 million for the new multi-level car park, it wasn't far short of the estimated $500 million to build the new Tweed Hospital on a greenfield site.
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No start date for proposed $434m Shoalhaven Hospital redevelopment
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Planning is still underway for the $434 million upgrade of the Shoalhaven District Hospital.
Planning for the $434 million Shoalhaven District Hospital redevelopment continues but there is no actual time frame on when the work will start.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian, South Coast MP Shelley Hancock and Kiama MP Gareth Ward announced the redevelopment in November last year but according to Health Infrastructure, the project is still in the planning stage.
When asked about a time frame for work to start, Health Infrastructure would only say it will be in "this term of government".
"It is still in the planning stage and will start in this term of government," the spokesperson said.
"There will be clearer timeframes once the planning is further progressed.
"A clinical services plan is being developed to confirm the range of health care services the new hospital will provide and the size of the facility."
But the government has already announced the redevelopment will include expanded elective surgery; more surgical, acute medical and aged care beds; expanded maternity services; more operating theatres; increased capacity in the Emergency Department; and expansion of outpatient and ambulatory care zones.
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Health Infrastructure's explainer on how to build a hospital.
"Detailed analysis will be undertaken and site options developed to inform the optimal solution for the redevelopment to best service the needs of the broader community," the spokesperson said.
An artists impression of what Shoalhaven District Hospital might look like under the proposed master plan relaesed in June 2018.
The Shoalhaven District Hospital proposed master plan relaesed in June 2018.
"Valuable community and stakeholder engagement will be undertaken during this period to ensure that the analysis is comprehensive.
"Planning such a large development takes a long time to ensure we have opportunities to comprehensively consult with staff and the community."
But at this stage no concept drawings or design ideas are available.
Strange as masterplan concepts for the site were released in June-July last year and showed possible layouts for the precinct.
Meanwhile, parking at Shoalhaven Hospital is also set to be enhanced with a new $11.8 million multi car park project, including a new ground level car park, nearing completion.
The $11.8m multi-level car park at Shoalhaven Hospital is nearing completion.
Earlier this year longtime Nowra resident Bill Hancock called on the government to scrap the upgrade plans and build a totally new facility on a greenfield site south of Nowra, closer to the city's major growth and older population areas.
In response to South Coast MP Shelley Hancock's survey into the Future of Shoalhaven District Hospital Mr Hancock, who lives adjacent to the ever growing facility, produced a 20-page document proposing a greenfield site on the corner of the Princes Highway/Forest and BTU roads south of Nowra.
Mr Hancock said his plan backs up research in the Emergency Medicine Journal that 80 per cent of population should live within a 20-minute drive or a 20 kilometre radius of a hospital.
"Research shows that mortality rates for people living less than 10km away from a hospital is decidedly lower than those between 10-20km and further than 20km," he said.
"A 20km radius around the current hospital does not take in the growing areas of Vincentia and the Bay and Basin and only parts of Huskisson.
"A relocation to South of Nowra would certainly achieve that goal."
As for the cost, he says when you consider the proposed Shoalhaven Hospital upgrade is worth $434 million, add in the almost $12 million for the new multi-level car park, it wasn't far short of the estimated $500 million to build the new Tweed Hospital on a greenfield site.
Discuss "$434m Shoalhaven Hospital redevelopment still in early planning stages"


Los Lobos announces live shows in Big Sur, Santa Cruz
Updated: 4:22 PM PDT Apr 28, 2021
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FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2015, file photo, the group Los Lobos, from left, David Hidalgo, Louie Perez, Steve Berlin, Conrad Lozano and Cesar Rosas arrive at the Americana Music Honors and Awards show in Nashville, Tenn. The band is being considered for induction next year in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski, File)
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The rock band Los Lobos will be performing three live shows on the Central Coast at the end of May. As the state continues to open back up, bands are starting to tour again with outdoor shows in California. Los Lobos, known for their cover of the song La Bamba, will play in Santa Cruz on May 27 and in Big Sur on May 29. The Santa Cruz show will be held on the pool deck at the Dream Inn and in Big Sur they will play outdoors at Loma Vista Gardens. To see more tour dates, click here.
PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. —
The rock band Los Lobos will be performing three live shows on the Central Coast at the end of May.
As the state continues to open back up, bands are starting to tour again with outdoor shows in California.
Los Lobos, known for their cover of the song La Bamba, will play in Santa Cruz on May 27 and in Big Sur on May 29.
The Santa Cruz show will be held on the pool deck at the Dream Inn and in Big Sur they will play outdoors at Loma Vista Gardens.
To see more tour dates, click here.


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The Chemical Brothers unveiled a breathless new dance track, “Free Yourself,” marking their first new song since 2016.
“Free Yourself” is centered around a vocal refrain that’s chopped in various ways, but always conveys a clear message: “Free yourself, free me, dance.” The production supports the command, as the Chemical Brothers craft a euphoric, multi-faceted odyssey of blistering synths and deep grooves.
The Chemical Brothers started performing “Free Yourself” during festival appearances this summer, and the track marks their first piece of new music since their 2016 single, “C-h-e-m-i-c-a-l.” In June, the group shared a cover of Tim Buckley’s “I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain,” which featured regular collaborator Beth Orton.
The Chemical Brothers’ last album, Born In the Echoes, arrived in 2015. The record features collaborations with Beck, St. Vincent, Q-Tip, Cate Le Bon, Colin Stetson and more. Last year, the group shared a virtual reality video for their track with St. Vincent, “Under Neon Lights.”
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Wondermondo 🢖 World 🢖 Wonders of Africa 🢖 Wonders of Ethiopia
Wonders of Ethiopia
The unique Harenna Forest. / Roberto Marchegiani, Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Ethiopia is a very interesting country with rich cultural and natural heritage. The most amazing wonders of Ethiopia are:
Rock-cut churches. Christianity was established in Ethiopia in the 4th century and since then it has inspired a distinct cultural tradition. Monolithic churches, hewn in live rock and adorned with garish frescoes, form a part of this unique cultural tradition. By far the best known monolithic churches are located in Lalibela, but there many more rock-cut churches in the mountains of Ethiopia.
Ancient stelae and megalithic standing stones. True wonders of the world are stelae of Axum – these monolithic stone obelisks were up to 33 meters high and 520 tonnes heavy. Obelisks were erected in the first centuries AD, but the tradition of the erection of stones goes further in the past. There are thousands of standing stones in diverse locations of Ethiopia, including the southern jungle. The best known are Tiya Stelae – standing stones adorned with mysterious signs and figures and erected in unknown times by unknown people.
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Dallol hot springs and geysers
One of the visually most outstanding places on Earth, the hot springs have a high salt concentration that has shaped terraces and other formations of very bright, unusual colors. Among the hot springs, there is also a salt geyser – possibly the only one in the world.
Erta Ale
One of the most active volcanos in the world, with a constant lava lake (sometimes two lakes) in the crater, known since 1906. None of the other known lava lakes in the world have such a long lifetime.
Blue Nile Falls – Tis Abay
Enormous waterfall, 37 – 45 m high, up to 400 m wide. Now part of the water is used by hydropower plant.
Sof Omar Caves
Oromiya
The longest known cave in Ethiopia, 15.1 km long. A sacred site. The cave can be walked through.
Jinbar Falls
Jin Bahir stream falls into a giant, 800 m deep abyss in Simien Mountains. Falls are starting from deep canyon – thus their height is less than the depth of abyss but nevertheless – more than 500 m.
Lake Afrera
Unusual, slightly acidic, hypersaline lake 102 m below the sea level. Two endemic species of fish live in the lake. Parts of the lake are covered with a salt layer, there are observed “attacks” of the lake when the salt layer is suddenly raised like a big wave.
Allalobed geysers and hot springs
Group of beautiful hot springs and up to 6 m high (sometimes even 30 m), very active geyser.
Biological wonders
Harenna Forest
Unique montane forest, little-explored but as far is it known – one of the most biodiverse areas in the region. Receives more rain than most areas around as it is located on an enormous southwest-facing slope. Contains natural groves of high-quality coffee.
Gara Muleta cloud forest
Mountain cloud forest island amidst deserts and semi-deserts. One of the most biodiverse places in Ethiopia with 361 species of plants. 45 plants are endemic to Ethiopia. Rich fauna with numerous species of monkeys and other animals. Especially species-rich is the southern side of the mountain.
Archaeological wonders
Tiya Stelae
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A row of 36 standing stones – megaliths. 32 stones are adorned with enigmatic symbols. Most likely here is located burial complex. Age of this ancient Ethiopian culture is not known. There are known some 160 more megalithic sites in Soddo region.
Axum Northern Stelae Park
Hundreds of enormous steles. These monuments were made of single stones and were made around the 4th century AD. Stelae mark the burials of emperors and nobles. The tallest – Obelisk of Axum – is 24 m high. The tallest stele in the past was 33 m tall.
Tutu Fela megalithic stelae
Enormous megalithic monument with more than 1200 upright stones, marking ancient burials. Many standing stones are formed in phallic forms and adorned with stone carvings.
Tomb of King Bazen
Purported tomb of legendary emperor Zäbe’esi Bazén who reigned at the time of Christ. An amazing monolithic structure that has been hewn in solid rock. 16 steps lead down into a hall with four burial chambers.
Nefas Mawcha
One of the largest megalithic structures in the world – a dolmen that is 17 x 7 x 1.5 m large and weighs some 360 tons. It served as a roof to an underground complex of tombs.
Architecture wonders of Ethiopia
Lalibela churches
11 monolithic Christian churches hewn underground from the cliff in the 13th century.
Debre Damo
This monastery from the 6th century is accessible only by rope up a vertical cliff. Here is located the oldest Christian church in Ethiopia (around the 6th century AD), where as construction materials are used obelisks of Axum state.
Abuna Yemata Guh
This small and beautiful rock-cut church was made in the 13th century. The church is adorned with beautiful frescoes. One should ascend over a 200 m abyss to enter the church.
Adadi Maryam
A complex of approximately 600 – 700 years old, rock-hewn churches. These are the southernmost ancient Christian rock-cut churches. If compared with churches in Lalibela, these churches are roughly made.
Fortress – town of the emperor of Ethiopia, built in the 17th century. Now it is in ruins but nevertheless looks very impressive. The architecture of the complex is a unique fusion of Nubian, Arab and Baroque styles. Includes Fasilides Castle and other buildings.
Amba Geshen
Isolated, flat-topped mountain surrounded by vertical, high man-made walls. This mountain was used as a prison in the past – here were exiled and left male heirs of Ethiopian Emperors.
Harar Jugol
A historical center of the once important commercial city, enclosed in a fortification wall. Harar Jugol contains a huge amount of historical architecture including 110 mosques. The city flourished in the 16th century.
Axum Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion
The most important church of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, a site where Ethiopian emperors were crowned. The first church was built here around the 4th century AD, the current one – in 1665. According to Ethiopian tradition, this church holds the original Ark of the Covenant.
Debre Tsion Church
Mountaintop church, built in the 13th century. Church is hewn in the rock, adorned with beautiful frescoes.
Tana Qirqos
Legendary island – there are stories that Ark of the Covenant was hidden on this island for a while – from 400 BC to 400 AD. Then it was moved to Axum.
Ura Kidane Mehret
This beautiful church was constructed in the 16th century. Decorated with numerous murals from the 18th – 19th century.
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Parachinar: The Silent Massacre
Ali Jawad | 15.04.2009 11:34 | Repression | Terror War | World
Surprisingly, at a time when the “civilized” world is on a so-called offensive against “terror”, coverage of the sorrow-filled plight of Parachinaris within western media has been periodical at best. The reasons for this are unclear. May be it is because Parachinar, fatefully, does not sit over barrels of oil; or perhaps our probing of the historical context behind these massacres will lead us to discover that Parachinar is yet another piece of anecdotal evidence of the much disregarded “blowback” stemming from the Soviet era.
Tucked away between soaring snowy-peaks and deep gorges in the fragile north-western region of Pakistan is the tiny town of Parachinar.
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, one of the more charismatic leaders in the history of this troubled nation, is said to have called it Pakistan’s own “Switzerland”. Humbled by towering snow-tipped mountains and covered by endless fruit orchards, Parachinar’s natural charm is breathtaking. Its narrative for the last two years however, has been anything but reflective of the serene beauty of its surroundings.
Strangled by recurring sieges laid on the town, and a plight concealed from the consciences of the outside world by a silent media, the lives of Parachinaris have been a tale of untold suffering. Since early 2007, violence has gripped the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), which holds Parachinar, and the surrounding North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) leading to the deaths of hundreds. Even more have been left homeless and without means of sustenance with homes and local businesses regularly torched down just because their owners happen to fall under the wrong “sect”. Despite the periodical nature of sectarian violence in these regions, the unrelenting wave of the recent outbreak has been by far the bloodiest in recent memory.
Tensions began in April 2007 when a procession of Shias came under fire from fanatical Wahhabis who view Shia Muslims as heretics. What followed on from that initial attack however, has been a systematic attempt to wipe out Parachinar of its’ Shia presence. Shias represent a majority of the population in Parachinar constituting over fifty-percent (50%) of the population. They also have a considerable presence in neighbouring towns in the north-west of the country with a strong and historic Hazara presence further north of the FATA.
During the rule of General Zia-ul-Haq, the Kurram Agency (which hosts the town of Parachinar) came under increased focus for its strategic location as it provided the shortest route from within Pakistan to the Afghan capital, Kabul. Jutting out into Afghanistan almost like an island peninsula, it was famously nicknamed the “Parrot’s Beak” by US forces during the Soviet-Afghan War and was regularly used as a launching-pad by American-backed "jihadists" to strike out at the Soviets. As a result of this strategic importance, towns in the FATA region were flooded by inflows of Wahhabist and Salafist anti-Soviet “jihadists” well-known for their hatred towards Shias.
Following on from the early and comparably minimal killings unleashed in April, armed Wahhabi groups have since caved in on the local Shias of Parachinar from all sides. The Shia residents of Parachinar have repeatedly claimed that Wahhabi elements from Afghanistan have joined in the attacks against the town’s Shias, but these cries have been met by deaf ears in Islamabad’s Pakistani central government.
An all-out attack against the Shias of Parachinar has been underway for a long time now; even Sunni locals seen to be “friendly” towards Shias have not been spared in this maelstrom of killing. Gruesome images of beheaded and mutilated bodies, with arms and legs chopped off from corpses, have surfaced on the Internet since the outbreak of violence. Such showings of utter barbarity are not altogether unique. The collective massacres of Hazara Shias in next door Afghanistan - more notably in Mazari Sharif in 1998 where during a 48-hour period over 8,000 Hazaras were mercilessly slaughtered - evoke similar images of ruthlessness. By the end of the killing spree then, corpses littered the streets of the city after express orders were given out by the Taliban government for the dead to be left unburied.
Eerily reminiscent of massacres conducted against Afghan Shias in the recent past, Riaz Ali Toori, a villager from Parachinar, protested in a letter to a Pakistani daily:
“Today Parachinar is burning: daily bodies of more than five beheaded persons reach Parachinar. The situation of Parachinar is getting worse day by day and so is the life of all people living there. It’s a matter of great sorrow and shock that Pakistan, in spite of bringing Fata into the mainstream of the country, has been pushed into fighting a continuous war and facing terror.” (Letters to the Editor, The Dawn, April 08 2008)
In July of 2008, the New York Times ran a piece highlighting the rise of “sectarian conflict” in Parachinar. By then, the town had already been subject to a siege that had spanned for months; food and medical supplies had been in severe shortage after the main Thal-Peshawar highway leading to the town was blocked off by armed groups. The New York Times article carried the story of Asif Hussain, a Sunni driver, in a relief convoy headed for Parachinar; the convoy was ambushed, and its drivers taken captive. Asif Hussain was let off after convincing his captors that he was Sunni, the other eight drivers were not as lucky. (Power Rising Taliban Besiege Pakistani Shiites, New York Times, July 26 2008)
Today, the violence has spread out over a larger radius extending all the way through to the southern tips of the NWFP. Attacks on Shias in Hangu, Chakwal and as far south as Deira Ismail Khan have become a thing of the norm. Late in August of last year, a suicide bomber detonated himself inside the DI Khan hospital killing thirty-two Shia followers who had come to claim the remains of one of their leaders slain earlier in the day.
As recently as last week, another suicide bomber struck a Shia mosque in Chakwal instantly killing thirty and leaving hundreds more injured. The systematic targeting of followers of the Shia sect in various regions of Pakistan, more specifically in the north-west of the country, amounts to nothing other than a project of ethnic cleansing. According to a reputed scholar of the phenomenon of ethnic cleansing, Drazen Petrovic, he defines it as such:
“ethnic cleansing is a well-defined policy of a particular group of persons to systematically eliminate another group from a given territory on the basis of religious, ethnic or national origin. Such a policy involves violence and is very often connected with military operations. It is to be achieved by all means, from discrimination to extermination …”
The above definition provides an almost perfect fit to the present situation on the ground in Parachinar. If international silence continues as it has over the last two years, the same story will have repeated across many towns in the FATA and NWFP.
That the Pakistani government holds principal blame for its failure to restrain the killings is indisputable and goes without mention. Wider global apathy to an ongoing project of ethnic cleansing however, is certainly not comprehensible and deserves a great deal of mention.
Parachinar deserves better. And the people of Parachinar certainly deserve better. The least we can do is speak out and urge our leaders to press the Pakistani government to bring an immediate end to these massacres. Then, and only then perhaps, can it be said that we have extended a hand to the forgotten victims of Parachinar.
Ali Jawad
e-mail: jawad.ali313@hotmail.com
Homepage: http://www.aimislam.com
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Tinie reckons it is Tinchy's time to "really shine."
Tinie Tempah has revealed that he thinks it was a good move for Tinchy Stryder to go on 'I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here,' revealing that it is "a chance from him to really shine."
Talking to Kojo and Jade on Capital XTRA In The Morning, Tinie said that people often associate celebrities going into the jungle with meaning that their career is over, but it doesn't need to be that way for Tinchy.
"He's a respectable young man and I just feel like his music has been good but I don't think we've ever been able to see his personality" Tinie said. "As a young man who represents himself well it's nice for us to be able to watch him every day."
"For a lot of young people of his demographic, or who listen to his music, or are in to urban music, they can see somebody in that environment conducting themselves properly, which I know he will do."
As he stopped by the studio Tinie also spoke openly about backing 2014's Anti-Bullying Week, sharing a story or two from his school days.


In Memory of TahiaEdward Said
Vol. 21 No. 21 · 28 October 1999
In Memory of Tahia
The first and only time I saw her dance on the stage was in 1950 at Badia’s Casino, in Giza, just below where the Sheraton stands today. A few days later, I saw her at a vegetable stand in Zamalek, as provocative and beautiful as she had been a few nights before, except this time she was wearing a smart lavender suit and high heels. She looked me straight in the eye but my 14-year-old flustered stare wilted under what seemed to me her brazen scrutiny, and I turned away. I told my older cousin’s wife Aida with shamefaced disappointment about my lacklustre performance with the great woman. ‘You should have winked at her,’ Aida said dismissively, as if such a thing were even imaginable. Tahia Carioca was the most stunning and long-lived of the Arab world’s Eastern dancers (belly-dancers, as they are called today). Her career lasted sixty years, from her first days as a dancer at Badia’s Opera Square Casino in the early Thirties, through the rule of King Farouk, of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar al Sadat and Hosni Mubarak. Each of them, except, I think, Mubarak, imprisoned her at least once for various, mostly political offences. She also acted in hundreds of films and dozens of plays, took part in demonstrations, was a voluble, not to say aggressive member of the actors’ syndicate, and in her last years had become a pious (though outspoken) Muslim known to all her friends and admirers as ‘al-Hagga’. Aged 79, she died of a heart attack in a Cairo hospital on 20 September.
About ten years ago I made a special pilgrimage to Cairo to meet and interview her, having in the meantime seen dozens of her films and one of her plays, the appallingly bad Yohya l’Wafd, written by her then husband and much younger co-star, Fayez Halawa. He was an opportunist, she later told me, who robbed her of all her money, pictures, films and memorabilia. Robed in the black gown and headscarf of a devout Muslim woman, she radiated die verve and wit that had informed all her performances as a dancer, actress, public personality. I wrote about her in the London Review of Books: her extraordinary dancing career, her power as a cultural symbol throughout the Arab world. Egypt was the capital of that world when it came to such matters as pleasure and the arts of desire and sociability, and Tahia was its representative.
Most Eastern Arabs would, I believe, concede that the dour Syrians and Jordanians, the quickwitted Lebanese, the rough-hewn Gulf Arabs and the ever-so-serious Iraqis have never stood a chance beside the I entertainers, clowns, singers and dancers that Egypt and its people have provided for the past several centuries. Palestinians or Iraqis may level damaging political accusations at Egypt’s governments, but they never fail to acknowledge the country’s charm and the pleasures of its clipped, lilting dialect. In all that Tahia stood quite alone, and not altogether despite her flaws and often puzzling waywardness. A leftwing radical in some things, she was a time-server and opportunist in others; she made a late return to Islam but she also admitted to 14 husbands (there may have been a few more) and had a carefully cultivated reputation for debauchery.
The only other entertainer in the Arab world on her level was Um Kulthum, the great Koranic reciter and romantic singer, whose Thursday-evening broadcasts from a Cairo theatre were transmitted everywhere between Morocco and Oman. Having been fed a diet of her music at far too young an age, I found her songs insufferable. But for those who like and believe in such cultural typing, her long, languorous, repetitive lines, slow tempi, strangely dragging rhythms, ponderous monophony and eerily lachrymose or devotional lyrics stood for something quintessentially Arab and Muslim which I never quite came to terms with.
Tahia, by comparison, is barely known – except among belly-dancers, all of whom today seem to be non-Arab, and who regard her as their major inspiration. Belly-dancing is in many ways the opposite of ballet, its Western equivalent. Ballet is all about elevation and lightness; Eastern dancing, as Tahia practised it, shows the dancer planting herself more and more solidly in the earth, digging into it almost, scarcely moving, certainly never expressing anything like the nimble semblance of weightlessness that a great ballet dancer conveys. Tahia’s dancing suggested (vertically) a sequence of horizontal pleasures, but also paradoxically communicated an elusiveness and a kind of grace that cannot be pinned down on a flat surface. She performed within an Arab and Islamic setting but was constantly in tension with it. She belonged to the tradition of the alema, the learned woman who is also a courtesan, an extremely literate woman who is lithe and profligate with her physical charms. One never felt her to be part of an ensemble – as in kathak dancing, say – but always as a solitary, somewhat perilous figure moving to attract and at the same time repel men and women.
Another thing about her that strikes me now that she has died is how untidy and shiftless her life seems to have been. I suppose this is true of performers in general, who really exist before us for the brief time they are on stage and then disappear. Audio-recordings and film have given a kind of permanence to displays of great virtuosity, but mechanical reproduction can never have the edge and excitement of what is intended to happen only once. Glenn Gould spent the last 16 years of his life trying to disprove this, to the extent even of pretending that a listener equipped with a super-refined amplifier could ‘creatively’ participate in the recorded performance. The idea of play-back, on hi-fi or VCR, is supposed to compensate for the rarity and perishability of live artistic energy, and no doubt all of Tahia’s films are available on video. But what about her thousands of other performances, the ones that weren’t recorded – plays, nightclubs, ceremonies; what about her uncountable appearances at soirées, dinners, I all-night sessions with fellow actors and actresses?
It is probably too much to say of her that she was a subversive figure, but I think that her meandering, careless way with her relationships with men, her art, her profligacy as an actress who seemed to have nothing left of her scripts, her contracts (if she had any to begin with), her stills, costumes, and the rest, all suggest how far away she always was from anything that resembled domesticity, or ordinary commercial or bourgeois life, or even comfort of the kind so many of her peers seem to have cared about. A decade ago, when I spent the afternoon at her nondescript apartment, she seemed to me a great Nanaesque figure who had indulged and then dismissed her appetites, and could sit back, enjoy a coffee and smoke with a perfect stranger, reminiscing, making up stories, reciting set-pieces (‘when I danced, I felt I was entering the temple of art,’ she said with a great deal of mock-seriousness), relaxing but still evasive.
Tahia’s life and death – despite the proliferating videos, the retrospectives of her films, the memorial occasions when she will be eulogised – symbolise the enormous amount of life in that part of the world which goes unrecorded and unpreserved. None of the Arab countries I know has proper state archives, public record offices or official libraries any more than any of them has a decent control over their monuments or antiquities, the history of their cities or individual works of architecture – mosques, palaces, schools. What I have is a sense of a sprawling, teeming history off the page, out of sight and hearing, beyond reach, largely unrecoverable. Our history is mostly written by foreigners – visiting scholars, intelligence agents – while we rely on personal and disorganised collective memory, gossip almost, and the embrace of a family or knowable community to carry us forward in time. The great thing about Tahia was that her sensuality, or rather the flicker of it that I recall, was so unneurotic, so attuned to an audience whose gaze in all its raw or, in the case of dance connoisseurs, refined lust, was as transient and unthreatening as she was. Enjoyment for now; then, nothing.
Edward Said, who died in 2003, first contributed to the LRB in 1981.
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Understanding class
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The Duke of York at Longbeach, 1927
During their royal tour of 1927, the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and the Queen Mother), stayed at Longbeach, the South Canterbury home of the Griggs. The homestead was originally built by John Grigg, who purchased land in 1864 and at one time owned 32,000 acres between the Ashburton and Hinds rivers. By 1927 much of the land had been sold, but the genteel way of life continued and pursuits such as horse riding and hunting were still followed. The duke and duchess's daughter, Queen Elizabeth II, also stayed at Longbeach during the royal tour of 1953–54.
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Urban occupational structure, 1926
Jock Phillips, 'Class - A middle-class society? – material differences, 1890 to 1970', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/29726/the-duke-of-york-at-longbeach-1927 (accessed 29 January 2022)
Story by Jock Phillips, published 5 May 2011, reviewed & revised 22 May 2018


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NYPD Proposes Stricter Regulations on Press Credentials
NYPD officers at a Black Lives Matter protest in New York in May 2020 (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)
At a time of increased scrutiny over the actions of police forces across the country, fueled by protests of historic proportions, the New York Police Department (NYPD) has proposed new regulations that would expand the authority of officers to seize the press credentials of journalists and bar them from crossing police lines to cover news stories.
Released on Wednesday last week, July 15, a proposed amendment to the existing rules on press credentials states that “a press credential is subject to a summary suspension or revocation if the credential holder abuses their privileges or engages in conduct that endangers public safety.”
The new regulations list a number of offenses that could strip journalists of police-issued press credentials in New York City: being arrested for a violation or a crime; “failure to comply with a lawful order of a police officer”; “intentional interference or attempt to interfere with the performance of a police officer’s official function”; “misusing or misrepresenting the press credential while not acting in a news gathering capacity”; unauthorized transfer of the credentials to another individual; and “other conduct that endangers public safety or interferes with legitimate law enforcement needs.”
The new set of rules empowers NYPD officers to seize the press credentials on the spot. Journalists who are denied their credentials would be able to appeal the decision and request a hearing in writing within 20 days from the date of the denial.
The new regulations were received with widespread criticism from news organizations and nonprofits that advocate for freedom of the press.
In a statement last week, PEN America called the new rules “an attack on free press.”
“The New York Police Department’s new proposal is a blatant effort to weaken our free press,” PEN America’s director of US free expression programs, Nora Benavidez, said in a statement. She continued:
It would grant extreme latitude for officers to revoke reporters’ credentials if they determine a journalist has interfered with ‘legitimate law enforcement needs.’ This kind of unbridled police discretion begs the question: Whose interests are furthered by restricting the press’s ability to document law enforcement conduct? Certainly not the public.
In an opinion article, the New York Times’s editorial board wrote, “The timing of the changes, in the works for years, sends a message that police officials are trying to hinder an important check on their conduct.”
“The new rules themselves are an affront to both good government and common sense,” the board added. “As proposed, they are too broad and clear the way for the department to act capriciously in retaliation against the press.”
However, there are those who argue that the new regulations are an improvement on the current rules. In an opinion piece for the Gothamist, reporter and photojournalist JB Nicholas, who says he was denied NYPD press credentials in 2015, wrote that critics of the new rules “do not understand is that the current system is far worse, and that these hard-fought-over and carefully crafted rules will act as a meaningful check on the NYPD’s power to censor journalists.”
According to Nicholas, under the current system, journalists who were denied their credentials are not told the reason for the denial and face an opaque repeal process.
“[Journalists] are not told what they need to prove to win at the hearing and obtain the return of the credential,” he wrote. “The law fails to state who has the burden of proof and what the burden of proof is. Journalists are not permitted to see or challenge the evidence against them.”
A public hearing on the proposed regulations will be held on August 18.
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