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Well, do you have a Atheist/Humanist or Ethical Society in your area? Or maybe a Unitarian Universalist church in your area? (UU's are mostly humanists)
I would go to these organizations and tell then that you want to work and contribute to society. I think they could help you out.
Hi - I am Neil's daughter (above). We are in Leeds, England - so not close enough to offer intimidate physical help. I'm on holiday here seeing my dad, and will be returning to Australia in a few weeks.
I also know a couple of people who have bi polar - it's a tricky situation that you are in. How old are you? I think going through a time of grief would be especially difficult when also dealing with people who aren't in their right mind in more ways than one.
Understanding determinism, we are all on paths that are fully caused from one moment to the next, but due to the complexity none of us can know where we will end up. It's surprising to me that someone like you has ended up in the situation you are in, but I'm sure that it was totally logical series of events. We can all get suggestions and aim to give guidance or support, but where you go next will be determined by many factors - including your preferred direction.
I know what you mean about asking for help and charities being mainly Christian. I think it is challenging dealing with people who are determined to be deluded and believe in what amount to fairy stories.
You may be suffering from depression yourself - due to finding yourself in such hopeless circumstances - the grief of loosing your mum, and then finding yourself needing to take support from people who barely seem to be able to look after themselves - by the sounds of it.
Influence is a huge factor in mental health, self esteem and identity. If you have access to a computer, taking time to watch you tubes of sensible rational people such as Dawkins, Dennitt, Harris, Hitchens and the likes of Laurence Krauss might help you maintain your rational thinking whilst having to endure your current circumstances. Also reading books by such authors - borrowed from the library. If you are able to gain such influence whilst there it might do much for your personal strength and integrity. I image though that these people might seek out such efforts and aim to stomp them out.
I know quite a few Naturalists who live in the eastern states - which is quite a way from you - but they are more likely to know people from your area who might lend a hand.
From my own experience - I wonder if you might do some organic farming - get in touch with the WWOOF - willing workers on organic farms - you live with some people, and they pay for your food and accommodation, and you work for them on their farm for 4 hours per day. I suggest this, as I think that it is a more enriching experience than working at Burger King - both due to the environment physically and socially. I haven't had much experience with WWOOF, but generally they seem like wholesome minded people - who are into nature and often well educated - but you'd need to research individual farms and call them first.
It would though be useful to have a back up fund before you started, so that you have travel money to get away if you needed to and to get from one farm to another if you wanted to move on. But also, when you start on a farm you will find that you meet others and can possible travel together and other opportunities might come up - like some paid work on a farm or with another family friend of the farmers etc.
It's all about putting yourself into another environment, leaving yourself open to other opportunities. Something that you might find challenging, if you haven't done it before.
If you tell me what you think about what I've said so far - I might be able to give you another take on it - if this sort of thing really doesn't suit you - or we might come up with some other creative ideas about how to get out of this situation. Volunteer work for organisations can also be a good way of meeting new people and finding new opportunities. Obviously I'm talking about organisations that NOT religiously based. It's hard for me, not knowing much about what's available to you locally - that is within your reach physically and psychologically.
But I will say that this is not the end and you will find a way out - you can't help but be yourself, and however much you might feel right now that the walls are closing in on you - you will find a way out - because you will naturally be attracted too and seek out things that make sense to you and your nature and beliefs.
Have a look at these links for ideas and inspiration -
It's quite a small joining fee and you get a book full of names and address of farms all over the country.
You could contact these people about getting involved doing some voluntary work, that may lead to other opportunities - when you start to make friends and let them know of your need for work and better living conditions. These people are generally well educated and thinking people - although not always - bu it's a good punt.
You might consider applying to be a housesitter - that way you can get away from living with these people. I'm not sure how you would go with earning money - you may need to think more about how this could work for you.
I'll keep thinking and see if I can come up with anything else - otherwise - let us know how you are going and what you think might suit your needs right now.
Alice :)
i think what you said sounds appealing to me. i am totally willing to devote my life to a cause like one of the ones you mentioned. i have no ties to this area.. no friends here, no family here. id even leave the country in a moments notice.
i am 30 years old.
one of the issues i am running into when people bring up groups tho is that i am in a very rural secluded area of the united states, where there is no public transportation. this area also does not have access to any of the groups you are talking about, nor does it even have an atheist meet up group or something similar.
the closest area that does is baltimore which is about a 3 hour drive from here, so for me to walk there would take several days. not sure if thats something i could do... there are some local buses tho, but walking 7-8 miles to get on a bus to go up to baltimore to go to a atheist meet up one time or something like that, in between working at a soul crushing job.. just doesnt seem like something practical.
but i do appreciate the wealth of information, and your response. and yes, i would go to some farm or any other place that would let me earn my keep if it meant i could open myself up to some new kinds of people.
It sounds as though getting to local meetings and planning outings isn't a possibility - you need an exit strategy plan. For a longer term and more permanent solution - so you can get away from your current living arrangements.
Just looking at the WWOOF site for Maryland - and found these places - are you close to any of these? As you can see there are quite a few. So if you don't get on with one farming community you can move on and try another one.
I wonder if you might do WWOOFing for say 3 months and see how you find it. If you commit to 3 months - it's a short amount of time, but you may find that other opportunities come from it. When we did WWOOFing that the farmers were willing to come and pick us up from places - if you can get as close as you can, and then arrange to get picked up. There will be seasons that are more busy than others - but if you are flexible, you might find that there is lots of different kinds of work to be done on a farm. And it would give you a break from Burger King, Christian Propaganda (I would hope) and dealing with mental health issues. Some of the WWOOFing farmers may be Christian, in that case you could just move on - or make sure to ask when making your selection on where you want to go. After 3 months you'll have a different mindset and things might look a lot more easy or better. You can always go back to the Burger King job and the family you are with now. Leave on easy terms - let them know you appreciate their support, and you would like for them to support you to try something a bit different for 3 months, to see if you can stand on your own feet. Or however you want to put it too them.
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Although you are saving resources to have online access only, it is nice to hold a printed version while traveling. Many find it beneficial and more accessible. You can also take notes, read by flashlight in your tent, and collect host autographs in your own copy of the host farm directory!
so it's $30 for on-line access only
and $40 for a book and on-line access - I would go for the $40 so you get the book - because then you have it with you and don't need to rely on Internet access to find addresses and phone numbers.
I see you've got a national park in Mary land - you could hook up with the Daniel Quinn lot... they like living in nature off the land - doing their own hunting and gathering....
But that's a long shot! If you can find anyone close - they may be much more willing to take you on as part of their tribe and work together to get your shared needs met... the whole philosophy is about sharing resources... you be inspired by the book - Ishmael - by Daniel Quinn.
I agree by the way that generally people are quite mean with their charity..... :)
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Al and Cordelia Faber opened The Book Trader in 1980. Both veterans, Al was active in the downtown revitalization movement. The couple lived in an apartment above their used and rare books.
Al passed away in 2007 and Cordelia passed earlier this year. Their children are selling the property (now worth more than 10 times the 1978 purchase price) and called in an estate sale company to clear it out. Everything must go! from shelving to kitchen wares, tools to typewriters.
I arrived early, pleased to find many more and better books than I had seen in that gloomy window. After the chilly morning walk, I shed layers and gloves as I went through the antiquarian books.
When I spotted old ledger books on the bottom shelf, I sat on the floor and went through each one. They were account books for a store and a furniture company, with lists of local names and payments made. I selected two that had older dates and provenance markings.
Back downstairs in the books, I found the North Carolina section and fell over the edge — that line between bookseller and bibliophile, where I start picking up anything that looks good and start forgetting about how much I can sell it for. Time to check out, even though I hadn't looked at everything.
I wasn't too bad. Aside from the ledgers, my finds included an 1884 Dickens, 1904 Naval ships, 1899 biographies of authors, a Buffalo Bill bio by Zane Grey, a 1930 biography of Mata Hari with photos (added to the "to read" pile), and a scrapbook (more about that later).
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The Cedar Falls and Waterloo Public Libraries and the UNI Rod Library join together once again to offer a fun introduction to campus, combined with a take on the best-selling books and movies. Teens can compete in this daring (but non-lethal) version of The Hunger Games on Saturday, September 21 from 2-10 p.m. at the UNI Rod Library. Registration is required, and competitors must be 6th grade or older. Registration forms will be available at the Cedar Falls Public Library in late August.
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Deposed Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has asked an appellate court to block the $2 billion sale of the team to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
Lawyers for Sterling asked the Second District Court of Appeals on Friday to stay a probate judge's ruling that cleared the way for the sale.
They say the judge prematurely finalized his ruling so the sale can be completed without a chance to appeal.
It was unclear if the appeal would have any effect since the judge barred any delays pending appeal. The sale could conceivably go forward while the appeal makes its way through the courts.
Sterling's estranged wife, Shelly Sterling, negotiated the record sale after the NBA banned the 80-year-old billionaire for making offensive remarks about blacks.


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On the wing this species is most likely to be confused with species of Pyrausta, although the black hindwing of the Small Yellow Underwing is traversed by a broad yellow band. Often rests with its hindwings exposed. Flies actively in sunshine visiting flowers such as dandelion and buttercup.
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- Family – Clovers, Straws and allies (Heliothines)
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Particular Caterpillar Food Plants
Seed capsules of Common Mouse-ear and Field Mouse-ear.
- Countries – England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland
- Thinly distributed but found widely over much of England, Wales, south-east Scotland and south-west Ireland. Easily overlooked because of its small size.
Flower-rich grassland, including meadows, downland, sea-cliffs, roadside verges and grassy embankments.


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A Conversation with WhyHunger's Executive Director Bill Ayres
By Graydon Gordian
Bill Ayres is the executive director of WhyHunger, an anti-hunger organization he co-founded in 1975. Summer is an important time of year to focus on child hunger, which Sesame Workshop's Food For Thought outreach initiative is committed to battling. Ayres sat down with the Workshop to explain how his organization fights child hunger, why it is such an important issue during the summer months and why his organization utilizes the anti-hunger materials Sesame Workshop makes available.
To put it simply, Why hunger? Why, as Americans, is hunger an issue that we should be concerned about?
Well, that is our name: WhyHunger. We have that name because we are asking the question, why is there hunger in the richest country in the world? Why is there hunger in a world that can feed itself? Hunger is an obscenity. Hunger in America is the ultimate obscenity. There are about 17 million children and 49 million people all together that are food insecure. That means they aren't starving but they miss meals and they eat less. They don't get the right kinds of food. That is devastating for kids especially.


text: This program outlines the Revelation Baptist Church Sunday Worship Service on September 27, 1964. The booklet lists Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth, co-founder of the SCLC, as the church's presiding minister. On this occasion, Dr. King addressed the congregation from the pulpit with the sermon "A Knock at Midnight," which had been published the year before. Dr. King's handwritten notes seem to outline another talk on the back cover.


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It appears one of the top rumored contenders to replace Steve Ballmer as Microsoft's CEO may be out of the running... or is he? Ford CEO Alan Mulally said on Tuesday that he plans to continue working at the car manufacturer, but he didn't flat out deny a move to Microsoft.
"I love serving Ford and have nothing new to add to (my) plans to continue serving Ford," Mulally told USA Today in an exclusive interview.
While the Ford CEO did make clear he is happy with his current position, he didn't rule out working at Microsoft in the future. Mulally has said he intends to stay at Ford through 2014, but the car company's board of directors won't stop him if he decides to leave earlier, according to USA Today.
Ballmer announced in August that he would be stepping down as CEO within the next 12 months -- once a replacement is found who will carry out Microsoft's new vision of offering devices and services, not just software. The company's board has formed a special committee to seek out potential candidates and has been narrowing down its list of possible successors.
Soon after Ballmer's announcement, Microsoft bought Nokia for $7.2 billion, which made that company's chief executive, Stephen Elop, another top contender for CEO of the software giant. Other rumored candidates include Microsoft Executive VP Tony Bates, who had previously been CEO of Skype, Computer Sciences CEO Mike Lawrie, former Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky, and former Juniper Networks CEO Kevin Johnson.
Mulally has been Ford's CEO for seven years and has earned kudos for a restructuring plan that helped return the carmaker to profitability. When his name was first floated as a potential candidate, it seemed like the executive wasn't too interested in the post. But, recent reports have indicated that Mulally could be having a change of heart.


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Some epidemiological and laboratory studies have suggested that hormonal contraception can increase HIV transmission risk in women. There has been little research into the risk of transmission from women to men. To date findings have been inconsistent and WHO has called for high quality studies to look at potential interactions between hormonal contraception and HIV transmission.
Investigators from The Partners in Prevention HSV/HIV Transmission Study compared HIV incidence among women using hormonal contraception to those who were not. This analysis evaluated both HIV acquisition among women and transmission from women to men. Renee Heffron presented findings from this study in an oral presentation at IAS 2011.1
This was a prospective cohort study of 3790 serodiscordant couples from seven countries in East and southern Africa. The couples were enrolled from two studies conducted between 2004 and 2010, a randomised trial of acyclovir to reduce HIV transmission (n=3321) and a prospective cohort study of immune correlates of HIV protection (n=469).
They compared rates of HIV acquisition in women and HIV transmission from women to men using multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression and marginal structural modeling. The analyses were limited to infections acquired from the study partner (evaluated by viral genetic sequencing).
The negative partners were women in about a third (n=1314) of the couples evaluated, and two thirds (n=2476) were men.
Among the negative women, 21.2% overall used hormonal contraception at least once during follow up, of which 16% used injectable contraception at least once and 6.7% oral contraception. The HIV acquisition rates were 6.61 and 3.78 per 100 person-years in women currently using and not using hormonal contraception [AHR 1.98; 95%CI 1.06-3.68. p=0.03]. For injectable contraception the incidence rate was 6.85 per 100 person-years [AHR 2.05; 95%CI 1.06-3.68, p=0.04] and for oral contraception it was 5.94 per 100 person-years, [AHR 1.8 95%CI 0.55-5.82, p=0.33].
Overall, 33.3% of HIV-positive partners of negative men used hormonal contraception, 26.8% injectable and 8.9% oral. In these couples, HIV transmission rates from women to men were 2.61 and 1.51 per 100 person-years in those whose partners used and did not use hormonal contraception [AHR 1.91, 95%CI 1.12-3.45, p=0.02]. For injectable contraception the incidence rate was 2.64 per 100 patient years [AHR 1.95; 95%CI 1.06-3.58, p=0.03]. The incidence also increased in the group using oral contraception, 2.50 per 100 patient years, but as with HIV acquisition in negative women this did not reach statistical significance in this subgroup [AHR 2.09; 95%CI 0.75-5.84, p=0.16].
Results from marginal structural model analyses were consistent with those shown from the Cox proportional hazards regression.
When the investigators looked at this a possible explanation, there were significantly higher genital viral load concentrations overall in women using hormonal contraception [OR 1.51; 95%CI 1.13-2.01, p=0.01]. For injectable contraception these were significantly higher [OR 1.67; 95%CI 1.21-2.31, p=0.02]. But not for oral contraception [OR 1.06; 95%CI 0.62-1.84, p=0.49].
Dr Heffron noted that this was the first study to demonstrate that hormonal contraception increased an HIV-positive woman's risk of transmitting HIV to her partner.
She added that the benefits of effective hormonal contraception are unequivocal and must be balanced with the increase in risk of HIV infection. These possible risks should be discussed with women and couples alongside the importance of HIV prevention.
Strategies to improve access to and usage of lower dose and non-hormonal methods -- IUDs, implants, patches or combination injectables are warranted -- she concluded.
These findings understandably caused quite a stir and urgently need more investigation. This was followed by the report from Partners in Prevention that pregnancy doubles the risk of transmission from HIV-positive women to her male partner (to be reviewed in the next issue of HTB).2
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Vanessa, Selena, & Ashley: 'Spring Breakers' Head to TIFF!
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'The dash is frequently employed in a very capricious and arbitrary manner, as a substitute for all sorts of points, by writers whose thoughts, although, it may be, sometimes striking and profound, are thrown together without order or dependence; also by some others, who think that they thereby give prominence and emphasis to expressions which in themselves are very commonplace, and would, without this fictitious assistance, escape the observation of the reader, or be deemed by him hardly worthy of notice.'
Observe, I determine nothing upon this.My way is ever to point out to the curious, different tracts of investigation, to come at the first springs of the events I tell;not with a pedantic fescue,or in the decisive manner of Tacitus, who outwits himself and his reader;but with the officious humility of a heart devoted to the assistance merely of the inquisitive;to them I write,and by them I shall be read,if any such reading as this could be supposed to hold out so long,to the very end of the world.Sterne.
There are also a great number of peoplemany of them not in the least tainted by militarismwho go further and who feel that a man in order to be a complete manthat is, one capable of protecting his life, his country, and his civil and political rightsshould acquire as a boy and youth the elements of military training,that is, should be given a physical training of a military character, including...Spectator.
1. Nicholas Copernicus was instructed in that seminary where it is always happy when any one can be well taught,the family circle.B. (Omit the comma)
2. Anybody might be an accuser,a personal enemy, an infamous person, a child, parent, brother, or sister.Lowell. (Omit the comma)
3. That the girls were really possessed seemed to Stoughton and his colleagues the most rational theory,a theory in harmony with the rest of their creed.Lowell. (Omit the comma)
4. To write imaginatively a man should haveimagination.Lowell.
5. Misfortune in various forms had overtaken the county families, from high farming to a taste for the junior stage, andthe proprietors lived anywhere else except on their own proper estates.Crockett.
6. As soon as the queen shall come to London, and the houses of Parliament shall be opened, and the speech from the throne be delivered,then will begin the great struggle of the contending factions.B.
7. It is now idle to attempt to hide the fact that never was the Russian lack of science, of the modern spirit, or, to speak frankly, of intelligencenever was the absence of training or of enthusiasm which retards the efforts of the whole Empire displayed in a more melancholy fashion than in the Sea of Japan.Times. (Add a comma after intelligence)
8. As they parted, she insisted on his giving the most solemn promises that he would not expose himself to dangerwhich was quite unnecessary.
9. Who created you?God.B.
10. ...And lose the name of action.Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia!
11. Hear Milton:How charming is divine Philosophy!
12. What says Bacon?Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
13. The four greatest names in English literature are almost the first we come to,Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton.B. (Omit the comma before the dash)
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18. Its visions and its delights are too penetrating,too living,for any white-washed object or shallow fountain long to endure or to supply.Ruskin. (Omit both commas; this time the first is as impossible in the principal sentence as the second is meaningless in the parenthesis)
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20. The Moral Nature, that Law of laws, whose revelations introduce greatnessyea, God himself, into the open soul, is not explored.Emerson. (Substitute a dash for the comma after himself. Here, however, Emerson expects us to terminate the authority at the right comma rather than at the first that comes, making things worse)
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24. There may be differences of opinion on the degreesno one takes white for black: most people sometimes take blackish for black, but that is not fatal to my argument.
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27. When I last saw him, (a singular fact) his nose was pea-green.
Then there is also Miss Euphemia, long deposed from her office of governess, but pensioned and so driven to good works and the manufacture of the most wonderful crazy quiltsfor which, to her credit be it said, she shows a remarkable aptitudeas I should have supposed.Crockett.
The English came mainly from the Germans, whom Rome found hard to conquer in 210 yearssay, impossible to conquerwhen one remembers the long sequel.Emerson.
As for Annewell, Anne was Annenever more calm than when others were tempestuous.Crockett.
How much would I give to have my mother(though both my wife and I have of late times lived wholly for her, and had much to endure on her account)how much would I give to have her back to me.Carlyle.
Here she is perhaps at her bestand in the best senseher most feminine, as a woman sympathizing with the sorrows peculiar to women.Times.
The girl he had dreamed aboutthe girl with the smile was therenear him, in his hut.Crockett.
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While I believe that our language had two periods of culmination in poetic beauty,one of nature, simplicity, and truth, in the ballads, which deal only with narrative and feeling,another of Art...Lowell.
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Published Thursday, May 01, 2014
In April, the World Health Organization (WHO) released the world's first international treatment guidelines for hepatitis C virus infection. "There is increasing recognition that hepatitis C is a major global pandemic that has been very poorly addressed," says TREAT Asia's research director, Dr. Nicolas Durier, who was a member of the group that developed the new guidelines. "The previous lack of WHO guidelines implied that it was not an important topic."
The hepatitis C treatment guideline development group, including TREAT Asia's Dr. Nicolas Durier (second row, sixth from the left.) (PHOTO: WHO)
An estimated 150–180 million people are infected with hepatitis C globally, and about five million of them are co-infected with HIV. However, currently available hepatitis C treatments are complex and expensive, and most governments in resource-limited settings do not cover the costs of treatment. Due to low rates of treatment access, an estimated 350,000–500,000 people die as a result of hepatitis C each year.
The WHO's new treatment guidelines provide a blueprint for change. They cover key aspects of hepatitis C care, including who should be tested, how to assess the extent of hepatitis C-related liver disease, which treatment regimens to use, and how to monitor patient progress. Individual governments remain responsible for implementing the recommendations. "Governments need to put in the resources, or secure outside support, so they can roll out testing and treatment for hepatitis C," says Durier.
However, treatment cost is a barrier to putting the guidelines into practice. The most commonly used hepatitis C regimen, the injectable drug pegylated interferon combined with the oral drug ribavirin, has typically ranged between US$18,000 and US$33,000 for a single patient. Two newly approved oral hepatitis C medicines, sofosbuvir (SovaldiTM) and simeprevir (OlysioTM), offer shorter treatment courses, have fewer side effects, and provide higher cure rates. Although the guidelines strongly recommend the use of these new drugs when possible, with an initial price tag of US$66,000–$84,000 per patient per treatment, they remain inaccessible in most countries. "These drugs represent such dramatic progress in our ability to treat hepatitis C that they had to be included," says Durier of the panel's decision to recommend the drugs despite the high price. "Plus, we hope the recommendation will serve to push down the price of these medicines."
Preliminary price negotiations are currently underway. Egypt, which has the world's highest prevalence of hepatitis C, has negotiated a price of $900 for a course of SovaldiTM, and its maker Gilead Sciences is reportedly negotiating a $2,000 generic version that may be licensed to several Indian companies. However, advocates remain concerned that even with these cuts the drugs will remain inaccessible in most countries. "When you're starting from such an exorbitant price in the U.S., the price Gilead will offer middle-income countries like Thailand and Indonesia may seem like a good discount, but it will still be too expensive for many of these countries to scale up treatment," said Rohit Malpani, director of policy and advocacy for the Médecins Sans Frontières Access Campaign.
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Attacks on the Press in 2012 - Tunisia
|Committee to Protect Journalists
|Publication Date
|14 February 2013
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|Committee to Protect Journalists, Attacks on the Press in 2012 - Tunisia, 14 February 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/512b79c6c.html [accessed 19 September 2018]
|This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
Key Developments
Press freedom recedes as government names allies to run news outlets.
Security forces continue to assault and detain journalists.
Two years after the revolution that overthrew Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, press freedom in Tunisia slid backward. Since the newly elected government assumed office in January, the authorities took several worrying steps that included the appointment of government allies as new heads of state television, radio, and print outlets. In April, three journalists were beaten while covering a protest, and in July, police officers attacked two journalists who were filming a collision involving a police cruiser and a train. In August, the authorities issued an arrest warrant for the head of a private television station, a Ben Ali ally who also hosted a satirical show mocking current government figures. In February, the authorities detained and fined three journalists for publishing a nude photo. Journalists said the government was ignoring two media laws adopted in November 2011 that were modeled on international press freedom standards, instead enforcing the previous, repressive laws. Members of the National Authority to Reform Information and Communication, a special commission set up to bring about media reforms, resigned en masse in July citing the government's lack of commitment to press freedom.
[Refworld note: The sections that follow represent a best effort to transcribe onto a single page information that appears in tabs on the CPJ's own pages, which also include a number of dynamically-generated graphics not readily reproducible here. Refworld researchers are therefore strongly recommended to check against the original report: Attacks on the Press in 2012.]
Papers in turmoil: 2
Dar Assabah, established in 1951, is the oldest media house in the country and owns the Arabic-language daily Assabah and French-language daily Le Temps. In August, the government appointed Lotfi Touati, a former police commissioner and close government ally, as the new head of the media group. Touati's appointment stirred much controversy among Tunisian journalists for his close links to the ruling Ennahda party.
Timeline of tumult:
August 23: Government appoints Touati as head of Dar Assabah.
August 29: Journalists accuse Touati of pulling planned articles in Assabah and Le Temps that would have criticized his appointment.
September 11: Dar Assabah journalists go on strike to protest his appointment.
September 13: A car driven by Touati strikes Khalil Hannachi, a reporter for Assabah, according to news reports. Hannachi was outside the Dar Assabah headquarters, waiting to confront Touati about recent decisions he had made regarding the media group, news reports said.
Arrest warrant issued: 1
Although no journalists were imprisoned when CPJ conducted its annual census on December 1, Tunisia detained three journalists over the course of the year and issued an arrest warrant for Sami Fehri, head of a television station whose programming was seen as critical of the government. A satirical show he hosted was considered particularly sensitive.
Assaulted: 9
CPJ documented attacks against nine journalists over the course of the year, committed both by security forces and unidentified assailants. Six of the nine journalists were covering street protests when they were assaulted.
Assaults during the year:
January: 3 assaults
>> Sofiane Bin Hmida, Nessma TV
>> Sana Farhat, Le Temps
>> Maha Ouelhezi, Web Manager
April: 3 assaults
>> Fatma Riahi, Arabicca and Nessma TV
>> Julie Schneider, Le Point
>> Sofiene Chourabi, Nessma TV
July: 2 assaults
>> Hiba Missaoui, Tunisia World Television
>> Rahma Ghalle, Tunisia World Television
August: 1 assault
>> Slim Trabelsi, Ettounsiya TV
Dinars fine: 1,000
In February, Nasreddine Bin Said, owner and publisher of the daily Attounissia, and two editors for the paper were detained for more than a week on charges of disrespecting public morality for printing a front-page image of German model Lena Gercke posing naked with her boyfriend Sami Khedira, a German-Tunisian soccer player. A local court fined Bin Said 1,000 dinars (US$665) in March for publishing the photo, according to news reports.
Other court-ordered fines:
10,000 dinars: The fine, equivalent to US$6,650, was imposed in February against Abdel Aziz al-Jaridi, director of two local dailies, Al-Hadath and Kul al-Nass, on charges of defaming Mhamed Krichen, Al-Jazeera anchor and program host and CPJ board member, CPJ research shows.
2,400 dinars: The fine, equivalent to US$1,700, was imposed in May against Nessma TV for broadcasting the French animated film, "Persepolis." The authorities said the film "disturbs public order and threatens proper morals," according to news reports.


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Contributed by Cumberland Historical Society
The monument in Cumberland Center, which was dedicated May 30, 1928, bears three commemorative panels. William Merrill's only son, Edwin R. Merrill, erected the memorial a year after his father's death.
The front panel reads: "In commemoration of the men of Cumberland, Maine, who served their country on land and sea in all wars of the nation."
On the right panel is: "The demands for loyalty to a country is as great upon the sons as they are upon the sires. The safety of the country lies in the intelligence, the moral character, the patriotism of its citizens."
On the left panel is: "Cumberland honors her sons and daughters who have shown their loyalty, self-sacrifice, and devotion to preserve and cement the Union in the days of the Civil War, 1861-1865."
About This Item
- Title: Merrill Memorial Monument, Cumberland Center, ca. 1928
- Creation Date: circa 1928
- Subject Date: circa 1928
- Town: Cumberland
- County: Cumberland
- State: ME
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- Dimensions: 12.6 cm x 18.7 cm
- Local Code: 2009.0121
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Dodge City loses fifth straight heading into next week's McPherson tournament
The Dodge City Lady Demons hounded Hays in the first half, but could never find an answer to stop the Lady Indians in the second half in a 44-42 setback Tuesday night in a Western Athletic Conference showdown.
More precisely, the Lady Demons couldn't find an answer to stop Hays senior Katelyn Schumacher, who scored 16 of her career-high 22 points after intermission (including the game-winning shot with less than two seconds left on the clock).
The Lady Demons (2-6, 0-3 WAC) came out as the aggressors in the first half to control the game, but didn't come out with that same intensity after intermission as the Lady Indians (5-5, 2-2) fought back with their defensive 1-3-1 zone and offensive execution.
"Our defense was much better in the first half," said DCHS head coach Kelley Snodgrass. "We were able to get back and pick up some charges. We were able to play well on both ends. Our girls wanted to come out aggressive and we were hoping to capitalize on their turnovers.
"We were more on our heels in the second half and we have to continue to be aggressive. Like I keep telling our girls that if our shots don't fall, we have to get to the free throw line or crash the boards. We just had a few defensive lapses when we got tired."
The Lady Demons have lost five straight as both teams will now wait until Jan. 24 to play in the Mid-American Tournament in McPherson. The Lady Demons will find out later today who they will play in the first round of the tournament.
Ciera Lampe led the Lady Demons in scoring for the second straight game with 18 points (including four 3-pointers) and five rebounds. Lampe kept Dodge City in the game after the Lady Indians made their second half run with a 3-pointer and a short basket late in the final quarter.
Alexis Sanchez added nine and Chandra Sain seven for Dodge City in the loss.
Schumacher also had 11 rebounds to record the double-double with no player other player scoring more than five for Hays in its victory.
The Lady Indians had two chances to make a basket before Dodge City knocked the ball with six seconds left. Schumacher threw the in-bounds pass to Gagnon, who passed it back to Schumacher under the goal between two Lady Demons for the winning basket.
DODGE CITY (42) — Summer Wilson 1, Rachel Durler 2, Chandra Sain 7, Alexis Sanchez 9, Katrina Roenfeldt 5, Ciera Lampe 18. Totals 15 7-12 42.
HAYS (44) — Janae Gagnon 4, Taylor Herman 5, Morgan Werth 4, Emily Braun 5, Katelyn Schumacher 22, Hannah Hearld 4. Totals 17 10-12 44.
Dodge City 14 11 6 11 — 42
Hays 12 6 13 13 — 44
Three-point baskets — Dodge City 5 (Lampe 4, Sain 1). Records — Dodge City 2-6 (0-3), Hays 5-5 (2-2).


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Miso Soup4 cups water1 1/2 teaspoons instant dashi powder1/2 cup miso paste1 tablespoon dried seaweed (for miso soup), soaked in 1/2 cup water1/2 cup cubed tofu (silken)1 tablespoon chopped green onion1. Boil water. Add dashi. Turn down heat. Stir.2. Add tofu and drained seaweed. Let cook for a minute on low. In meantime, spoon 1/2 cup of the hot stock into bowl with the miso paste. Using chopsticks, mix to melt the miso paste so that it becomes a smooth mixture.3. Turn off heat. Add all of the miso. Stir. Serve. Top with chopped green onion. Serves 4.
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I'm seeing pageiolatch_sh values in the master..sysprocesses table's lastwaittype column. Many sysprocesses rows that have a pageiolatch lastwaittype also have nonzero values for waittime, so I know that the server process IDs (SPIDs) are waiting. What do the pageiolatch values mean?
Searching SQL Server Books Online (BOL) turns up five hits for latches, and none of the hits provides much detail. The most detailed entry says that "latches are very lightweight, short-term synchronization objects protecting actions that need not be locked for the life of a transaction. They are primarily used to protect a row when read for a connection." We're all familiar with SQL Server locks and how they can affect concurrency if they start to block other processes. What most people don't understand is that SPIDs can wait a long time for different types of latches. As you said, latch wait times show up for a SPID in master..sysprocesses, but they don't cause a SPID to appear as blocked in the output of sp_who or similar investigative tools. Let me be clear about the distinction between a latch that's blocked and a latch that's waiting. A blocked connection generally means that another connection is holding a lock that the first connection needs. When processes wait on each other for locks to be released, it's called blocking. A process that's waiting doesn't involve a lock. I'll explain the pageiolatch_sh waittype so you can see what I mean.
Pageiolatch_sh is a shared latch of the generic class pageiolatch. As the BOL entry notes, these shared latches are used as synchronization objects during disk-to-memory buffer transfers. A pageiolatch_sh value identifies a connection that's waiting on SQL Server to read a particular page from disk into memory that's available to the SQL Server buffer pool. If you have many SPIDs with pageiolatch_sh waits, especially with nonzero waittimes, make sure you don't have a disk bottleneck. (Note that memory pressure can cause disk bottlenecks.) You can use the DBCC PAGE command to see what object SQL Server is reading in from disk, which might help you track down and eliminate some of your bottlenecks.
The waitresource column in master..sys-processes will help you decode the object that's involved in the latch wait. You'll see a pageiolatch value in the waitresource column that looks something like '2:1:24.' The first number identifies the database ID, the second number identifies the file ID, and the third number identifies the page number on the file ID. You can then use the DBCC PAGE command to figure out which object owns a particular page. First, run DBCC TRACEON(3604) to direct command output to the Query Analyzer window, then run the following DBCC PAGE command to return the output that Figure 1 shows:
You can find plenty of information about the DBCC PAGE command's output by searching Microsoft's Web site. For now, you simply need to worry about the value listed after m_objId =, which in Figure 1 is 36. That number identifies the object that owns the page you're looking at and that the pageiolatch is waiting on. In the master database, run the following command to find out which table owns the page in question:
USE master SELECT object_name(36)
ObjectId 36 in the master database is associated with the sysmessages table. So you can deduce that a SPID was waiting while SQL Server read a page in master..sysmessages from disk into a SQL Server buffer-pool page. You'll often see pageiolatch_sh associated with tables in various user databases that have large volumes of I/O performed against them.For more in-depth information about latching, see Tom Davidson's article "Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox," January 2004, InstantDoc ID 40925.


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Skippy's: The perfect place to bring your hungry crew – no matter the occasion
Sometimes, there are no words to describe "perfection". But these adjectives come to mind when describing a plate of hot, steaming onion rings straight out of the fryer at "Skippy's" ~ golden brown, crispy on the outside, tender on the inside, slightly salty, addictive. The onion rings at Skippy's are made just like all the other menu selections here -homemade with the freshest ingredients, and often created with owner Mark Hinsley's closely guarded secret recipes. The batter on these rings is made on the premises with the perfect combination of ingredients so that when they are dunked in the hot oil, the batter puffs up and the onion rise to the surface. This makes them light and fluffy too! Served with a special homemade chipotle sauce (even the mayonnaise is homemade) - these onion rings are just simply indescribable.
Skippy's is the creation of Mark Hinsley, a self-professed food lover and cook who doesn't take short cuts when preparing fare for his popular "snack food" bar. Found in the Meadowbrook Bowling Lanes on Warwick Avenue, Skippy's serves up much more than just crispy onion rings. All of the items on the long and extensive menu are made-to-order from hand-cut and hand-prepared ingredients. Nothing is ever canned or frozen here, including all the vegetables which are freshly slices every day - especially NOT the burger patties. And don't even think of interrupting Mark when he is making his sausages; like all of his food, these favorites require his full attention.
Come in to Skippy's and treat yourself to something fresh off the menu. There are so many options to choose from, including specialty pizzas (made with Mark's homemade, flavor-ripened marinara sauce), prize-winning wieners, hand-pressed Calzones, both hot and cold Subs (served on crusty rolls delivered daily from Crugnale's Bakery), succulent burgers, perfectly seasoned meatballs (better than mom's!), Chicken Parmesan and an endless supply of snacks from the fryer. Try their hand-breaded Chicken Fingers, Spiral cut fries, Mozzarella Sticks (with real mozzarella cheese), jumbo-sized Fried Mushrooms, and even hand-dipped Fried Pickles. All the sauces are also made from scratch. You have to taste them to believe them.
Did you know that April is the month that voters throughout the state can go online and vote for their favorite foods and restaurants? It is not too late to go on to RIMonthly.com and recommend Skippy's to your fellow Rhode Islanders. It wouldn't be fair to keep this great destination a secret from those beyond Warwick, now would it?
Skippy's is located at 2530 Warwick Ave inside Meadowbrook Bowling Lanes. Hours are 11:00am to 9:00pm, daily. There is even FREE delivery, with no hidden costs - ($10.00 minimum). Call 935-7030 or "like" them on facebook. All major credit cards are accepted.


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We see fear in the stock market's eyes. We see investors sucker-punched by a steep and rapid sell-off following the Obama election. It just goes to show you to keep a cool head when investing and trading the markets, and don't get too attached to the mass media hype of whatever is being yelled on the television financial shows that day. Do your own research, know your stops and know your options. That makes for a better informed and more empowered investing and trading experience.
The U.S. E-mini S&P 500 futures continue to slide, hitting new monthly lows this morning at 1342 (DEC12). Budget deficit negotiations still continue to concern investors, as well as disappointing blue chip earnings announcements. For example, Dell is down almost 7% today after announcing less than stellar earnings. This is exactly why we encourage investors to know their options outside of the traditional stock and bond markets.
In commodities news, we see the soybeans and soybean meal down almost 2% as news was released that China may have cancelled 600,000 tonnes of previous purchases from the U.S. due to poor crush margins have sent futures to new lows for the move. Corn is down around 1% as weekly export sales for corn are expected to come in at 8-10 million bushels. Corn seems to be being led down by soybeans with the fundamental news from China rocking the markets this morning.
Silver futures are down fairly big at 1.5% today as the risk off tone spreads to the precious metals markets. The rally in the dollar is also a key factor in the precious metals decline. The only major commodities that we see rallying today are crude oil, natural gas and orange juice futures.
We focus our analysis on the Euro currency futures. Since trying to break through 131.50 in October, the Euro has been in a downtrend since then. We see a "lower-highs" pattern developing, with a resistance line at 128.50. Furthermore, this month, the Euro futures have broken their uptrend support line, and we are looking for a potential further down move to a key level at 126.00. The U.S. Dollar Index seems very strong right now, so if the U.S. dollar keeps rallying, the Euro could touch and extend lower past the first level of 126.00.


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Commercial, Military, Products, Public Service, Regulatory
By By Andrew Parker, Editor-in-Chief | June 1, 2012
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The May 1 panel was part of the annual event from AHS International, with AgustaWestland's James Wang, vice president of R&D, Bell Helicopter President & CEO John Garrison, Boeing Military's Phil Dunford, vice president/general manager, Eurocopter President & CEO Lutz Bertling, Lockheed Martin's Dan Schultz, vice president of ship and aviation systems, and Sikorsky President Jeff Pino. Leading into the CEO Forum was a keynote speech from Jose Gonzalez, director for land warfare and munitions, strategic and tactical systems for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics.
"We've got a train wreck ahead of us, in [that] if we don't do something now, all we see ourselves doing is trying to keep these old dogs running, and that we just can't do that," Gonzalez said. "What the FVL will do for us," he continued, "with the proper investments in technology and understanding now, we will be able to provide our leadership additional options so that we can have new starts, and again—have that joint family of aircraft, obviously they'll be variants to it, but that will be the future. That is the future of vertical lift."
The good news, Gonzalez explained, is that the helicopter industry "has a vision, a strategy, a plan... and this is a team effort. The fact that we have a strategy gives us a leg up on a lot of other communities."
The rotorcraft industry is "actually in a steady and vibrant growth stage," said Wang, showing revenue figures for six major helicopter OEMs in 2009, 2010 and 2011. "The key message is all six OEMs show steady growth, every single year. Despite an economic downturn the last few years, the rotorcraft industry is very resilient." What about the future? "We can see in the next decade the commercial sales will continue to grow, and the military slightly come down," he said. However, Wang said he recently read that by 2018, the demand from the China market is forecasted to consist of around 1,800 helicopters. "So the future for commercial helicopters is quite vibrant," he added.
Wang asked whether there is enough funding to cover all of the capability requirements for FVL. "What we need to do is be more efficient," he said. AgustaWestland currently spends "about 10 percent of our revenue and put it back into R&D." Another area of efficiency can be achieved by designing similar elements into a series of aircraft, taking advantage of similar parts and systems. "We're trying to build a family of helicopters," Wang said, noting that the AW169, AW139, AW149 and AW189 are "all very similar. That's how we try to maximize a limited amount of money to get the best result."
When the commercial industry carries out R&D by itself, "we don't have to throw 900 engineers and approval sequences into the process," Pino said. "And we can do it, I believe, in half the time, and a third of the cost." Pino added that he thinks there is "plenty of runway ahead" for future growth, and that industry can lead government "into a revolutionary future, instead of waiting for them to fund it."
Garrison said that not only is the industry large enough to handle the current helicopter makers, "I think there's going to be new entrants to the market. We've partnered with almost everybody at the table over time, so I think the industry's going to grow, the opportunity is there, and you're going to see new entrants before you see fewer competitors."
Bertling added that finding new markets means not only finding new operators, but also discovering new uses, such as increased short-haul trips including commuting. "There is room for growth, but there will be new entrants. There will not only be six, there will be eight or nine, some of us might disappear, and those who will disappear are those who are not leading innovation."
Wang remarked that his biggest concern "is talent, people, the younger generation," Wang remarked. "Can we get enough young talented people to replace the ones we lose? We can always find money, however, there's difficulty in finding brilliant young people [to lead] the future, and who like rotorcraft, because we are competing with many, many other industries."
Pino stressed the importance of learning from past mistakes, and getting the timing right. "We all have to understand that the development cycle for aerodynamic step ahead function is very different than for mission system step ahead. And we need to just forget the fact that those are concurrent developments." The fact is, he continued, "it takes longer to get the aircraft flying than Lockheed Martin, or us, or anyone can put a mission system in it, so that figure of 5-6 years versus two years—yet we always start them at the same time."
Pino said that approach led to the Comanche program's downfall. "So that's another real opportunity as we move forward with FVL and the demonstrators—get step-ahead revolutionary air vehicle stuff done first, and when you're two years from thinking you've got an airplane ready, put a mission system in," he said. "When we do it at the same time, by the time we're ready for first flight, everybody's saying, yeah but my iPhone will do more than [the helicopter's] mission system. We need to change that process."
Schultz agreed, recalling a time when the V-22 program spent a long period of time addressing obsolescence. "But I don't agree with Jeff that unmanning helicopters is easy stuff," he said, reacting to an earlier Pino statement that it wouldn't cost much more to develop optionally manned versions of existing variants. "I think the key on all of this unmanning business, is it's here, so the question is how do we manage that process?"
Schultz pointed to the success of the unmanned Kaman K-Max being used to deliver cargo in Afghanistan as an area where collaboration is working. What the military is finding is that when it's nighttime, raining or when potentially facing hostile fire, "pilots are saying 'make that thing do it,' and it does really well. So it really is an amazing innovation," he said.
"I think I've heard a change in tone," observed Pino, who will retire as Sikorsky President on July 1 (see story on page 13). He described Sikorsky's X2 technology demonstrator as the "X, and from the U.S. government side, we're not moving from Xs to Ys, and we're not paying to move from Xs to Ys. Finally I'm hearing [industry leaders] starting to say, maybe we move to Ys on our own dime." Helicopter makers should "invest in the future, instead of waiting for them to fund it," Pino added.
"When you look at our business in the medium-term, we're in a relatively good position," explained Garrison. "With that said, there's some very significant storm clouds brewing on the horizon with the production shutdowns that need to be filled in. But overall, on the military side we see opportunity."
On the commercial side, there are "huge markets that are virtually untapped—the BRIC countries, India and China specifically," Garrison continued. "There's more turbine helicopters within a 100-mile radius of where we're sitting, than there is operating in India and China. That speaks to the opportunities that the future brings in the commercial segment as we move into that."
"What do we need to do as an industry to capture and help drive this growth?" Garrison asked. "The first two are around collaboration. The industry can collaborate—we're intensely competitive, there's no doubt about that, but there's a couple things that we can work on together. The first is around the rules and regulatory framework in the emerging markets that fosters the growth of the helicopter/rotorcraft businesses, and we've done that, and need to continue to do that." The other area, he continued, "is around safety—we need to do more of this. There's more work for us to do, but collectively working as an industry we can drive improvements and a safety focus."
According to Bertling, cooperation "goes beyond the regulatory framework, beyond safety, beyond research and development." There is a "dramatic change in front of us," he said. "For the first time last year, the Asian civil helicopter market was larger than the North American market. Still, Europe and the CIS region combined are the largest market but they are clearly in decline. Asia will be number one. Of course, the U.S. military market is still dominant, with 60 percent of the value, but if you look at the forecasts, the world military market and the world civil market, somewhere in the next decade around 2025/2027, will be of equal size," Bertling said.
"The center of gravity will move, and there will be new entrants," he continued, adding that in five years, the table at the CEO Forum will need to be longer. "There will be someone from Russian Helicopters sitting here, AVIC, there might be Koreans sitting here—Korea has declared the aerospace industry as their next strategic industry. … So global competition will change from new entrants to the helicopter market like Robinson, with the R66 and Marenco [Swisshelicopter with its SKy SH09] and so on, and market drivers will change. In particular the commercial market, where it's not only operators who are seeking higher range and higher speed, but low-noise, low-emission, eco-friendly new technologies with reduced lifecycle costs."
Boeing's Dunford read a quote from U.S. Army Aviation Maj. Gen. Anthony Crutchfield: "Revolutionary change in vertical lift aircraft must happen by 2030 to prevent the current helicopter fleet from becoming technologically obsolete." Describing that concept as "hugely important," Dunford said, "what worries me is that if we don't get paranoid about it, we are all going to think we're doing good and it's going to fall down a crack. So it's really important for all of us as an industry and a government, to really focus on what [we're saying] here collectively." There's a five-to-one ratio between helicopter budget and fixed-wing budget, in favor of fixed-wing, Dunford continued. "Because of the relevance of helicopters and rotary wing aircraft, I think it's time that changes. The S&T budget isn't sufficient right now." He also quoted Maj. Gen. Tim Crosby, who said: "$107 million a year spent on Army Aviation R&D is inadequate. How can you look to the future when you have a $7-billion budget, with just over $100 million spent on S&T? How can you look at the next vertical lift technology with a pittance budget like that?"
Dunford explained the importance of "driving those numbers up to get the sort of attention that the fixed-wing community's got," because of the relevance of helicopters.
"It's about affordability," Garrison said. "We do provide incredible machines, but affordability's vitally important not only to our military customers but also our commercial customers. Those that compete in the commercial sector can tell you just how aggressive that market is, and so as an industry, as a technology group driving affordability and technology … is incredibly important."
Gonzalez praised the work of the Vertical Lift Consortium, which is a joint government-industry group that meets regularly, including with representatives from all the military branches, OSD, joint staff, helicopter manufacturers and others. "In my mind, this is how we move out Future Vertical Lift, we have to collaborate. We've got the structure here, we just need to follow through. Yes there's going to be problems and yes we're going to make dumb mistakes, and yes we're going to have challenges and all that, but we have the foundation in place. We have a plan, and we have a structure in place to carry this out into the future."


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