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Background: Extreme cold weather alert programs have been implemented in some areas to address the significant health impacts of exposure to cold. One such program is the Toronto Cold Weather Program (TCWP) that was implemented in the City of Toronto since 1996 to protect the public from extreme weather conditions. In this paper, we aim to evaluate the effectiveness of the TCWP in reducing mortality and morbidity outcomes related to cold temperatures. Methods: We applied a quasi-experimental study design using the Difference-in-Differences method coupled with propensity-score-matching to determine the effect of the TCMP on daily hospitalizations and deaths due to cardiovascular disease (CVD), coronary heart disease (CHD) or cerebrovascular disease, using two complementary analytical approaches. Results: Overall, the analysis did not detect an impact on reduced mortality/morbidity in the City of Toronto from the TCMP. For example, we obtained a Risk Difference (RD) of -0.88 (per 1,000,000 people) (95% CI: -3.27 to 1.51) and a Risk Ratio (RR) of 0.98 (95% CI: 0.91 to 1.05) people for CVD hospitalizations. Conclusions: The TCWP was not found to be effective in reducing cold related mortality and morbidity which demonstrates the importance of improving existing policies related to cold in Canada and other countries.
Heat waves and high air temperature are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. However, the majority of research conducted on this topic is focused on high income areas of the world. Although heat waves have the most severe impacts on vulnerable populations, relatively few studies have studied their impacts in low and middle income countries (LMICs). The aim of this paper is to review the existing evidence in the literature on the impact of heat on human health in LMICs. We identified peer-reviewed epidemiologic studies published in English between January 1980 and August 2018 investigating potential associations between high ambient temperature or heat waves and mortality or morbidity. We selected studies according to the following criteria: quantitative studies that used primary and/or secondary data and report effect estimates where ambient temperature or heat waves are the main exposure of interest in relation to human morbidity or mortality within LMICs. Of the total 146 studies selected, eighty-two were conducted in China, nine in other countries of East Asia and the Pacific, twelve in South Asia, ten in Sub-Saharan Africa, eight in the Middle East and North Africa, and seven in each of Latin America and Europe. The majority of studies (92.9%) found positive associations between heat and human morbidity/mortality. Additionally, while outcome variables and study design differed greatly, most utilized a time-series study design and examined overall heath related morbidity/mortality impacts in an entire population, although it is notable that the selected studies generally found that the elderly, women, and individuals within the low socioeconomic brackets were the most vulnerable to the effects of high temperature. By highlighting the existing evidence on the impact of extreme heat on health in LMICs, we hope to determine data needs and help direct future studies in addressing this knowledge gap. The focus on LMICs is justified by the lack of studies and data studying the health burden of higher temperatures in these regions even though LMICs have a lower capacity to adapt to high temperatures and thus an increased risk.
Objectives: We propose a novel approach to examine vulnerability in the relationship between heat and years of life lost and apply to neighborhood social disparities in Montreal and Paris. Methods: We used historical data from the summers of 1990 through 2007 for Montreal and from 2004 through 2009 for Paris to estimate daily years of life lost social disparities (DYLLD), summarizing social inequalities across groups. We used Generalized Linear Models to separately estimate relative risks (RR) for DYLLD in association with daily mean temperatures in both cities. We used 30 climate scenarios of daily mean temperature to estimate future temperature distributions (2021-2050). We performed random effect meta-analyses to assess the impact of climate change by climate scenario for each city and compared the impact of climate change for the two cities using a meta-regression analysis. Results: We show that an increase in ambient temperature leads to an increase in social disparities in daily years of life lost. The impact of climate change on DYLLD attributable to temperature was of 2.06 (95% CI: 1.90, 2.25) in Montreal and 1.77 (95% CI: 1.61, 1.94) in Paris. The city explained a difference of 0.31 (95% CI: 0.14, 0.49) on the impact of climate change. Conclusion: We propose a new analytical approach for estimating vulnerability in the relationship between heat and health. Our results suggest that in Paris and Montreal, health disparities related to heat impacts exist today and will increase in the future.
Background: Heat and air pollution are both associated with increases in mortality. However, the interactive effect of temperature and air pollution on mortality remains unsettled. Similarly, the relationship between air pollution, air temperature, and social deprivation has never been explored.Methods: We used daily mortality data from 2004 to 2009, daily mean temperature variables and relative humidity, for Paris, France. Estimates of chronic exposure to air pollution and social deprivation at a small spatial scale were calculated and split into three strata. We developed a stratified Poisson regression models to assess daily temperature and mortality associations, and tested the heterogeneity of the regression coefficients of the different strata. Deaths due to ambient temperature were calculated from attributable fractions and mortality rates were estimated.Results: We found that chronic air pollution exposure and social deprivation are effect modifiers of the association between daily temperature and mortality. We found a potential interactive effect between social deprivation and chronic exposure with regards to air pollution in the mortality-temperature relationship.Conclusion: Our results may have implications in considering chronically polluted areas as vulnerable in heat action plans and in the long-term measures to reduce the burden of heat stress especially in the context of climate change.
Climate Change and Health, Public Health and Epidemiology, Environmental Justice
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Last year Andrew Booth and I were the happy recipients of the LIRG Research Scan Award; I blogged about this here. I am pleased to report that the research has been published as an article in the Library and Information Research Journal.
Our review focused on the recent literature concerning LIS practitioners and their relationship with research. We characterised practitioners' relationship with research in three ways: as consumers of research, conducting their own research and working in collaboration with academics. In order to create a richer picture of this relationship we included more informal types of evidence, identified through sources such as newsletters, discussion lists and conference websites.
The review addressed the key questions from the award brief:
• What kind of research is relevant to LIS practitioners?
• What do practitioners understand by "research" and how do they use it?
• What are the barriers and facilitators to using research in practice?
We were also able to address the additional questions:
• What kind of research do practitioners undertake?
• What is the status of practitioner / academic collaboration in research?
The research scan provided only a snapshot of current activity on the research / practice nexus, but implications at a practitioner, organisational and strategic level are presented.
The full paper is available here

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Ducab has grown to become a global leader in the development, design, manufacture, marketing and distribution and stakes claim to being the only plant in the region to supply copper and aluminium wire and cable products for the energy, general construction, industrial, defence, transport and specialty industry verticals.
Over the past year, the company has recorded steady growth in terms of product diversification and geographical footprint, and supplied projects that have generated approximately $1.5 billion revenue in 2017, Ashish Chaturvedy, Ducab's marketing manager tells Gulf Construction.
The company has also introduced product lines designed for specific sectors, and this innovation in product expansion has contributed significantly to increased market penetration, he adds.
Ducab has long been a pioneer in the region's cable industry, renowned for its variety and quality of cables. Bearing in mind the social and economic transformation being planned in the Middle East, the company has evolved its business model to understand the specific needs of customers and deliver products and services accordingly.
Ducab is now supporting national transformation agendas – particularly in the UAE – and is preparing to deliver even greater value to its international customers in the years ahead, Chaturvedy says.
With six manufacturing facilities in the UAE, Ducab has a manufacturing capability of over 115,000 metal tonnes of high-, medium- and low-voltage cables and 120,000 tonnes of copper rod and wire per annum.
The company is committed to diversifying its product range to meet the energy needs of the future. It currently offers a full range of low-, medium- and high-voltage products - high-voltage cables up to 400 kV, medium-voltage cables up to 33 kV, low-voltage power cables, control and auxiliary, wiring and lead-sheathed cables, low smoke zero halogen cables, fire-performance cables, copper rods and wires, cable components and cable accessories.
High-voltage cables were developed through the Ducab HV venture, which is the first dedicated high voltage (60 kV – 150 kV) and extra-high-voltage (220 kV – 500 kV) power cable manufacturing facility in the Middle East. These cables are particularly praised by public authorities which operate within the electricity sector, Chaturvedy points out.
The company also offers electrical conductive (EC) grade aluminium alloy rods, wires, and bare overhead conductors through its joint venture Ducab Aluminium Company (DAC).
DAC, a joint venture between Ducab and Senaat, was set up to cater for the growing market for aluminium. It was officially inaugurated in January 2018 in the Khalifa Industrial Zone of Abu Dhabi (Kizad) following an investment of $60 million for buildings, machinery and infrastructure. DAC will manufacture 50,000 tonnes of high-quality electrical grade aluminium rod and overhead conductor per annum once it reaches its full capacity, supplying to both local and international customers.
Ducab has achieved a number of local, regional and world firsts on its path to success. Chaturvedy elaborates: "Ducab Copper Rod Factory opened in 2008, as the first copper casting plant in the UAE. In fact, Ducab was the first in the region to have both aluminium and copper rods.
"Ducab was also the first cable manufacturer in the world to introduce and qualify 60-year, sustainable halogen-free nuclear cables that meet the most stringent cable testing standards – such as IEEE prevalent in North America. Called Ducab NuBICC, these cables have been customised and adapted in the UAE's first four nuclear power plants. Their high level of qualification assures reliable performance over the lifetime of the nuclear plant and during fire emergencies, where the cables will not emit smoke or toxic fumes, and will restrict the fire from spreading."
In 1997, Ducab was the first cable manufacturing company in the world to become ISO 14001 certified, to receive ISO 9001 quality management standard certification and to be awarded the Emirates Quality Mark Award, he says.
Quality focus
Ducab takes pride in providing a quality-assured product range that adheres to strict global standards and believes that, apart from ensuring its products meet these standards, the company also has a responsibility to educate others on the importance of using standards-compliant electrical wiring and cables, Chaturvedy continues.
"All of Ducab's factories are ISO 9001 certified. Since 1979, Ducab has been recognised for its environmental, health and safety standards, the quality of its products and its commitment to excellence, with numerous certifications: Ducab's quality management system has been certified to ISO 9000 since 1993; Ducab environmental management system is certified by Basec (British Approvals Service for Cables) to ISO 14001, and Ducab achieves extraordinary results in the industry without compromising the safety of its employees, with its health and safety system certified to Ohsas 18001," he adds.
Ducab recently announced a state-of-the-art fire testing laboratory specifically built for the Ducab FlamBICC range of fire-performance cables, according to BS EN/IEC standard and Ducab NuBICC nuclear cables tested in accordance with IEEE International standards.
It is equipped with the latest laboratory, operated by highly qualified and trained manpower and offers various fire and smoke tests in accordance with BS8519 Code of Practice.
'Made in the UAE' success
"Labelling Ducab as 'just another cable manufacturer' would be to sell the company short," Chaturvedy comments. "Ducab today produces an array of cables and cabling accessories across a variety of specialisations that are used in projects around the world, making it a strong contributor to the national economy and a home-grown UAE success story."
As one of the largest industries in the UAE and the region, Ducab's impact in public life and the UAE economy is multi-dimensional. "Ducab products touch millions of lives every day through use in residences, public spaces, and infrastructure across the UAE and far beyond. Ducab operations reduce the UAE's dependence on imported cables, while also helping the country earn foreign currency by exporting overseas, to customers in more than 40 countries across the globe," he says.
Not only does Ducab contribute to the economy through its products, but it does so by providing employment opportunities for talented Emirati nationals, too. Committed to the Emiratisation vision of the UAE, Ducab has achieved several impressive milestones with UAE nationals representing 67 per cent of senior management. Its mission remains to provide customers with total quality excellence, in both product and service.
Ducab has also made significant inroads into the Far East, the Subcontinent, Africa, and Europe. In the last 38 years, Ducab has been part of major projects domestically, regionally and globally, positioning it as one of the key players in the cabling industry.
Over the past years, the company has supplied electrical cables to a number of landmark projects in the UAE, including the Burj Khalifa, Dubai Metro, Emirates Palace, Burj Al Arab, Atlantis the Palm and Yas Marina Circuit. Ducab has also built a global presence by supplying power cables to projects such as the Ras Gas Project and Dasman Hypermarket in Qatar, Central Bank of Oman, and Dilmunia health island in Bahrain, among others.
Chaturvedy sees major growth opportunities in the region, given that the cabling industry ultimately is a key enabler of development in industry and society.
"In the Gulf, development is underpinned by economic diversification as well as new directives for infrastructure investment and the construction industry is playing a pivotal role in bringing these ambitions to life. And it is the cabling sector – which has embraced a renewed emphasis on reliability, innovation, and sustainability – that ultimately powers stronger connections between industry and society," he concludes.
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World Contraception Day is For Women's Rights, But It's For the Environment, Too
The connection between increased access to family planning and greenhouse gas emissions has been covered here before, but since World Contraception Day was this week and we're still so far from where we need to be on both issues, it's worth another look. At an Aspen Institute event last week, the Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health reminded the audience that if women around the world had access to family planning, up to 15 percent of the carbon emissions reductions necessary to avoid catastrophic climate change would be achieved.
A 2009 study found that every $7 spent on basic family planning would reduce global CO2 emissions by more than a ton.
More than 200 million women who currently want to avoid pregnancy are unable to access family planning methods. It's estimated that more than 40 percent of pregnancies worldwide are unintended, and UN data suggests that meeting worldwide demand for family planning would reduce unintended births by 72 percent—and projected world population by 2050 by half a billion. Plus, according to the Council, when women and men have access to voluntary family planning, poverty rates go down and education rates go up.
Last week's event was opened by the ever-inspiring Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland who founded the council, and featured leaders ranging from the vice president of Zambia to the former president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation to the U.S. Surgeon General.
An issue like this shouldn't need these distinguished voices to lead the call for improved access to family planning, but now that they are taking that lead—for the well-being of women and for the planet—isn't it time for the world to listen?
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More on reproductive health and the environment:
Family Planning Helps Women, Slows Climate Change. What's the Problem?
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Is Birth Control the Cheapest Answer to Climate Change?
Offset Your CO2: Buy the Pill for the Poor


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Sirius Petroleum | Remote Login | Mail Login | Contact Us
Sirius Petroleum plc, the Nigeria focused oil and gas development and production company, has adopted the Quoted Companies Alliance ('QCA') Corporate Governance Guidelines wherever applicable. As the Company grows in line with its stated strategy it will continue to develop additional practices and evolve existing ones in accordance with the QCA Corporate Governance Guidelines.
Sirius has a 40% economic interest under a Financial & Technical Service Agreement has entered into a Joint Operating Agreement ("JOA") in August 2017 with its indigenous partners Owena Oil & Gas (100% state owned entity) and Guarantee Petroleum, who own 27% and 33% respectively. The mid-case gross recoverable 2C contingent resources are 24mmboe.
Sirius has agreed innovative funding and operating partnerships with global industry leaders to execute the drilling campaign to first oil. The initial Ororo-2 well programme, once drilled, aims at delivering an initial production of 2,700 boepd.
Relations with shareholder – always looking to improve engagement, mindful of the balance with regulatory and commercial environments
The vast majority of our shareholders are retail investors and we seek to engage with them at our Annual General Meetings, where the Directors' are available to answer questions. The company is also available to discuss any issues shareholders may have between AGMs.
Shareholder enquiries should be directed in the first instance to email@example.com.
The Board continually evaluates the most effective ways of engaging with its shareholders, whilst at the early stages, and particularly during times of little or no newsflow, shareholder engagement has been challenging given the ingerent commercial sensitivities of the Company's commercial discussions and the disclosure requirements under both the AIM Rules for Companies and . As the company grows it will consider creating shareholders' forums to meet on a regular basis.
Our Stakeholders
Major stakeholders and Corporate Social Responsibility
The company has identified its major stakeholders as being:
Internal – Employees and consultants in both UK & Nigeria
External - Partners/co-owners
- Key Suppliers
- Customers
- Financial advisors and backers
- Regulators
The Board has regular contact with all of its stakeholders, and feedback is considered on a continuous basis by management. Due to the fast-moving operational phase minor changes to our planned work streams are implemented on a daily basis.
Sirius has a corporate responsibility to operate as safely as possible and to support the local community and landscape. Through employing locally and working to provide benefits to the local community, Sirius aims to become an asset to the local area. Sirius adheres to a Community Relations Policy which aims to benefit the local community. We believe that good community relations will aid Sirius to deliver shareholder value. Corporate Social Responsibility can; create consumer trust and increase sales; create employee morale and attract employees. Our CSR policy is available in full (link).
Risk management – embedded thinking across the Company
We take risk management, and the process of risk management very seriously indeed, as any company should. In our sector, the process is always treated with great respect from the simplest of 'on-the-ground' tasks, to in-country analysis and engineering and geophysical analysis.
The Company has recognised the following to be the risks the business faces. Further details of these risks are set out in the admission document dated 30 November 2017(part 3 page 38), which can be found on the following link. The company also sets out how it manages what it considers to be the most relevant of these risks in its Annual Report each year. The Board reviews and revises its risk list and the specific risks regularly and has appointed a dedicated QHSS&E manager.
The Company has fully documented the keys areas of risk (in detail as per the above link to the admission document) and can be assessed in 4 key areas as follows:
1. Risks specific to the Group including operational, commercial and financial
2. Risks common to the oil and gas industry
3. Risks specific to emerging or developing regions of operation
4. Risks relation to AIM and the Company's Ordinary Shares.
Once again, the Company refers the reader to the admission document dated 30 November 2017(part 3 page 38), which can be found on the following link:
The Sirius Petroleum plc Board is there to lead and assist development of the business and deliver the strategy to grow the business.
The Company supports the concept of an effective board leading and controlling the Company. The Board is responsible for approving Company policy and strategy. It meets on a regular basis and has a schedule of matters specifically reserved to it for decision. Management supply the Board with appropriate and timely information and the Directors are free to seek any further information they consider necessary. All Directors have access to advice from the Company Secretary and independent professional advice at the Company's expense.
The Board consists of three executive and three non-executive Directors, who bring a breadth of experience and knowledge. This provides a balance whereby the Board's decision making cannot be dominated by an individual. The Chairman of the Board is Mr Jack Pryde.
Board disclosures
The executive-directors each work in excess of 35 hours per week for the company, and the non-executive directors are expected to work 8 hours per month on average. The three non-executive directors are considered to be independent. Their minor interests in shareholdings and the company's share option scheme are not considered to be an impediment to their independent status.
The Board of Directors holds scheduled Board meetings approximately six times per year plus such other ad hoc meetings as are deemed necessary to deal with urgent business matters. All the necessary information is supplied to the Directors on a timely basis to enable them to discharge their duties effectively. At Board meetings, there is a formal schedule of matters reserved for consideration by the Board and other matters are delegated are delegated to Board committees.
The Board is responsible for leading and controlling the Company and in particular for formulating, reviewing and approving the Company's strategy, budget, major items of capital expenditure, acquisitions and senior personnel appointments.
The Board has established subcommittees of the Board, comprising an Audit Committee, a
Remuneration Committee and a Nominations Committee.
Audit Committee
The Audit Committee comprises Simon Hawkins (Chairman), Toby Hayward. The Audit Committee meets at least half yearly and will be responsible for ensuring that the financial performance of the Group is properly monitored and reported on, as well as meeting the auditors and reviewing any reports from the auditors regarding accounts and internal control systems.
Remuneration Committee
The Remuneration Committee comprises Toby Hayward (Chairman), Simon Hawkins. The Remuneration Committee meets at least twice a year and has as its remit the determination and review of, amongst other matters, the remuneration of Executive Directors and any share incentive plans adopted, or be adopted, by the Company. The remuneration committee has engaged MM&K to advise it.
Nominations Committee
The Nomination Committee, chaired by Jack Pryde, and is joined by Toby Hayward and Simon Hawkins, non-executive directors, deals with succession planning, and additions to the Board. Due to the current size of operations it meets on an ad hoc basis when necessary.
The annual report will include the number of board and committee meetings held each year, together with the attendance records.
Internal control
The Board is responsible for maintaining a strong system of internal control to safeguard shareholders' investment and the Group's assets and for reviewing its effectiveness. The system of internal financial control is designed to provide reasonable, but not absolute, assurance against material misstatement or loss.
The Board has considered the need for an internal audit function but has decided the size of the Group does not justify it at present. However, it will keep the decision under annual review.
Members of the Board
Jack Pryde, Chairman
Mr Pryde, aged 72, is a Chartered Certified Accountant and has held various senior management positions in the investment banking industry. He is a former director and head of corporate finance at Henry Ansbacher & Co. and a former Vice President of corporate finance at Canaccord Capital. He left Jefferies International as director of equity capital markets in May 2010. He has extensive experience of advising companies in the resources and energy sectors. He has been the Chairman of Sirius since March 2011.
Jack encourages ideas and opinions from all Board members and maintains a very open dialogue with senior management, always encouraging open-mindedness across all employees. He keeps abreast of regulatory changes affecting AIM listed companies as well as changes to disclosure regulations and IFRS with regard to the Company's financial statements. He also brings excellent personal skills and experience when working and liaising with employees and the Company's broad range of other stakeholders.
Olukayode Olufemi Kuti, Chief Executive Officer
Mr Kuti, aged 32, obtained a BA from Duke University, USA. He studied Economics & Psychology and also received a Markets and Management Certificate. Since University he has worked as an Investment Advisor for a South African investment fund, Huxton Capital. He was instrumental in the formation and structuring of the Company's contact base in Nigeria and has responsibility for maintenance of those relations. He has been the CEO of Sirius since September 2013.
Mark Henderson, Chief Financial Officer
Mr Henderson, aged 48, is a Chartered Accountant and has focused on analysis of the global energy sector for over 20 years. He is a Director and Head of Oil & Gas at Stockdale Securities and a former Director CoHead of European Oil & Gas Equity Research at Credit Suisse Securities. Mr Henderson also held a number of senior roles at a number of oil and gas and investment companies and firms, including serving as an Investor Relations Consultant at Eurasia Drilling Company, conducting project management at Enersol Corporation and serving as a Branch Manager at Wolfgang Steubing AG, as a Senior Equity Analyst at Commerzbank Securities and as an Equity Analyst at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell. In addition, between 1999 and 2003, Mr Henderson served as a Sector Portfolio Manager at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.
Mark has developed a thorough understanding of oil and gas markets from his time as an equity research analyst and built a comprehensive network of relationships within the investment community, particularly those with a focus on oil and gas. Mark's analytical skills and corporate finance experience are important attributes in ensuring that Sirius is successful in taking advantage of the substantial business development opportunities that exist in Nigeria.
Toby Jonathan Hayward, Non-Executive Director and Senior Independent Director
Mr Hayward, aged 59, is a chartered accountant and has been an investment banker since 1984. He was a director of corporate finance at Singer & Friedlander Limited and Henry Ansbacher & Co. Limited before becoming Head of Oil and Gas Equity Capital Markets at Canaccord Adams. He joined Jefferies International Limited as a managing director in 2005 with responsibility for the UK Equity Capital Markets and listed clients in the exploration and production sectors. He also undertook nominated adviser responsibilities. He left Jefferies in June 2008 to concentrate on a number of private initiatives. He has also previously held the positions of chairman and non-executive director at Severfield plc and Non-executive director and interim CEO at Afren plc.
Toby has experience of running UK-listed company boards and is a senior independent member of the Sirius Petroleum plc Board. He is also Chairman of the Remunerations Committee. He is very experienced in the UK market regulatory environment both AIM Rules for Companies, UKLA and the latest disclosure obligations under the European Market Abuse Regulations (MAR) designed to provide a uniform and transparent legal framework of investor protection across EU capital markets.
Simon John Lindsay Hawkins, Non-Executive Director and Company Secretary
Mr Hawkins, aged 57, has over 30 years of experience in oil and gas finance, having worked in both the industry and in investment banking. Having had nine years international experience with the Royal Dutch Shell group of companies in London, The Netherlands and Nigeria, he became a director and equity analyst at UBS, Dresdner Kleinwort, Ambrian Partners, MF Global and N+1 Singer. After two years at Afren plc, where he was the global head of investor relations, Mr Hawkins served for a year on the board at Sirius. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy, holds a BSc Econ (Hons) in Economics from the University of Wales and a postgraduate certificate in Oil and Gas Financial Management from the University of North Texas. Mr Hawkins was ranked number one by Thomson Extel for his coverage of European Gas while at UBS.
Having developed considerable experience in both the oil and gas industry and the financial markets, Simon has a calm and measured approach which he brings to the Board. He has a strong sense of creativity, but at the same time he is uncompromising in choosing the right path in difficult circumstances. He keeps up to date with AIM Rule changes and UK Companies law as part of his role as Company Secretary and NED.
Board Composition
The Board is aware that it does not conform to good Corporate Governance recommendations in relation to the diversity of its board. The Board currently comprises six directors all of whom are male and from similar backgrounds. As the company grows and the size of the board increases the Company intends to rectify this. Our senior management team is drawn from diverse backgrounds throughout the world.
The Board and its committees obtain advice from the following external sources:
MM&K Limited (remuneration committee)
Grant Thornton LLP (audit committee)
Fladgate LLP – (legal advice to both Board and committees)
Cantor Fitzgerald Europe - (Nomad providing advice to both Board and committees)
Separate transaction advisors are used as appropriate.
Evaluating board performance against primary objectives
The Board recognises that its primary objective is to ensure it delivers shareholder value in the medium to long term. In addition to this it recognises that individual Board members and committees have various responsibilities and objectives. At this stage of development, the Company has not identified criteria against which the Board, committees and individual Directors are measured although, in line with the Company's corporate culture and its strategy, it makes best efforts to operate in an ethical and honest manor with all of its employees, operational and funding partners, asset co-owners and other stakeholders at all times and continue to strive to be innovation and efficient in delivering value for shareholders and other stakeholders in the business.
The Sirius Corporate Culture – always looking to innovate and improve
The Company's ethos is to provide a working environment which promotes innovation and efficiency whilst also being mindful of the core values of honesty, empathy and commitment, which the Company makes best efforts to support with each member of the Sirius team. In addition, the Company always looks to support the personal and professional progression of each member of the team where it is able to do so.
This ethos is replicated with the Company's operational partners, co-owners and funding partners, where the Company's policy is committed to a working ethos that is both innovative and productive for each stakeholder working in partnership with the Company.
As yet at early stages in its development, the Company's corporate culture will also be translated into the community-based projects that it commits to in the future.
Maintain governance structures and processes that support good decision-making by the Board
As the Company grows the Board will be diligent as to the balance between its Corporate Governance framework and theCompany's strategic growth plans and always aims to maintain a degree of balance so that achieving growth in line with the strategy can sit comfortably alongside the Company's corporate culture and ethos.
There are currently Non-Executive Directors and Executive Directors on the Board. The Non-Executive directors are responsible for preparing the accounts in accordance with applicable law and regulations. Company law requires the directors to prepare accounts for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the accounts in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). The accounts are required by law to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the group and of the company and of the profit or loss of the group for that period.
In preparing the Company's accounts, the directors are required to:
· select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently
· make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent
· state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the accounts
· prepare the accounts on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the group will continue in business
The directors are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the group and to enable them to ensure that the accounts comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the group and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The Directors have implemented such corporate governance procedures and establish such committees of the Board as are required, including audit and remuneration committees, for it to comply with the terms of the QCA code for small and medium businesses, in so far as is appropriate for a company of its size. The Directors have established financial controls and reporting procedures which are considered appropriate given the size and structure of the Company. These controls will be reviewed in light of significant acquisitions and adjusted accordingly.
Takeover code
The UK Takeover Code applies to the Company and governs, inter alia, transactions which may result in a change of control of a company to which the Takeover Code applies.
Sirius Petroleum Plc is incorporated in England and Wales (Company no. 05181462) and its main country of operation is UK with operating subsidiaries in Nigeria.
Copies of the Company's constitutional documents can be downloaded below:
The number of shares in issue is 3,689,299,651 and there are no shares held in treasury. Insofar as the Company is aware, the percentage of AIM securities that is not in public hands is 2.4%
As at 27 March 2019, the Company is aware of the following shareholders holding 3 per cent. or more of the issued share capital of the Company:
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TR1 notices should be sent to email@example.com.
There are no restrictions on the transfer of Sirius Petroleum's shares.
The securities of Sirius are traded on AIM, the market of that name operated by London Stock Exchange plc. Its shares have not been admitted, nor have any applications been made, for any of its shares to be admitted or traded on any other exchanges or trading platforms.
Result of Voting from Proxys received prior to General Meetings during the last 12 months
Annual General Meeting 27 December 2017
In Favour
General Meeting 18 December 2017
In Favour
The most recent published annual reports, interim reports, publications and shareholder circulars can be accessed here in addition to the Company's AIM Admission document. Right click and save as to download:
Sirius Petroleum Annual Report and Financial Statements year ended 31st December 2018
Half Year Report For The Six Month Period Ended 30 June 2018
Annual Report for the Year Ended 31 December 2017
Half Year Report for the six month period ended 30 June 2017
Final Results for the year ended 31 December 2016
Interim results for the 6 month period ended 30 June 2016
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Washington (CNN) — After facing criticism from Republican lawmakers surrounding her characterization of the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice will hold meetings on Capitol Hill about Libya Tuesday morning.
Rice will meet with Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire – three lawmakers who have been sharply critical of Rice's initial comments regarding the Benghazi attack.
Asked Tuesday what he expected to learn from the meeting with Rice, McCain said, "Whatever Ambassador Rice wants to tell me. She's the one that asked for the meeting. I didn't."
Ayotte also said Rice's staff contacted her office about setting up the meeting. As to what she expects out of the meeting, Ayotte said, "I think a big part of it will be about her representations of what happened at Benghazi."
Acting CIA director Mike Morrell will attend meetings later this week.
McCain, Graham, and Ayotte led the criticism of Rice after her television appearances days after the September attack, which killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens. They and other Republicans said they would block the nomination of Rice, should she be advanced by President Barack Obama to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has said she will leave her post when a replacement is ready to be installed.
Asked by CNN Tuesday whether he trusted Rice to be secretary of state, McCain said the issue of Benghazi "needs to be resolved," but that he wasn't going to "make a judgment as to whether she should be secretary of state or not until she's been nominated."
Later this week, Rice will meet with Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the top Republican on the homeland security committee, which is investigating the Benghazi attack. Collins has not been as critical of Rice as McCain, Graham and Ayotte but has said Rice needs to explain what happened.
This weekend, McCain expressed more openness to her potentially filling that post, saying he would "give everyone the benefit of explaining their position and the actions that they took. I'd be glad to have the opportunity to discuss these issues with her."
He denied Tuesday those remarks reflected a "softening" of his position on Rice.
Rice has not been offered the position but is suspected to top the list of possible successors. At a press conference after his re-election, Obama called McCain and Graham's criticism of Rice "outrageous," adding that if they "and others want to go after someone they should go after me."
The ambassador said she was using de-classified talking points that did not reference the attack as a pre-meditated terror attack, and the spokesman for the Director of National Intelligence later said those talking points were prepared by the intelligence community, and not modified by other governmental agencies.
"When discussing the attacks on our facilities in Benghazi, I relied solely and squarely on the information provided to me by the intelligence community. I made clear that the information was preliminary," Rice told reporters last Wednesday.
McCain charged on the floor of the U.S. Senate hours before Obama's post-election press conference that "this president and this administration has either been guilty of colossal incompetence or engaged in a cover up, neither of which are acceptable to the American people."
Republicans have questioned why the administration used Rice as their spokeswoman, rather than an official more closely involved with the investigation, as well as why the U.S. timeline included a protest surrounding a controversial anti-Islam web video, which now appears to have not been a factor.
On Monday, Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, a GOP member of the Foreign Relations Committee who recently said Rice was "not fitting" to be Secretary of State in part because of comments on the attack, appeared to shift his views about Rice.
Inhofe said Rice may have been "thrown under the bus" because she wasn't given the full details of what happened before going on television.
"I assumed she had full knowledge of everything that went on," Inhofe said about his initial criticism of Rice. "I'm not at all convinced of that now. I think she very well could have been thrown under the bus."
Inhofe said Monday he has had no request to meet with Rice at this point but that he would be glad to meet with her.
By Dan Lothian, Ted Barrett, Eric Fiegel, and Gregory Wallace contributed to this report.
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I got an email from a reader last night that totally blew my mind. This guy was contemplating selling his house and trying to put together enough cash for 70,000 shares of MVIS. Then he'd live 'on the cheap' for the next 4-6 years, and wait for 'MVIS-inside' (MVIS technology being OEMed by major consumer electronics companies) to happen and make him filthy rich.
I just think it's amazing. There's something so powerful about Microvision's technology that otherwise normal people would be willing to change their entire lives, for years, to own as much of the company as they possibly can for what may turn out to be the greatest 4-6 year run in the history of the stock market.
I can relate to this thought process -- I've sunk every dime I could get my hands on over the last 4 years into shares of this stock. At this moment, that's not looking too hot. But it's always been 2010 that I've had my eye on. I figure a little price volatility is the cost of having truly unlimited upside.
Now, of course it is kind of comforting to know there's somebody else out in the world who is willing to bet everything they've got on the chances that MVIS will become a global technology juggernaut.
But it got me thinking. How come it's me, and this guy and a couple dozen other guys who see the real vision for the future of this company and make every effort to acquire MVIS shares -- and not Washington Mutual and Fidelity and all the others?
What does Microvision have to do to really demonstrate what their future potential is to the financial community at large? How can a company with this much promise and partnerships with first-class companies like JNJ, BMW, VW/Audi, Bosch, et al, be just totally written off by these guys?
I do not believe the financial community is very smart or very forward looking (apologies to institutional readers -- I don't mean you, but those other guys down the hall). They are only thinking about interest rates, the price of oil, capital gains offsetting, blah blah. They see out to the next 3 months and have no conception or idea about the next 3 years.
Generally speaking, these institutions do not understand the significance of exponential progress or have a way to understand that Microvision will make many times more progress miniaturizing and improving their technology in the next 3 years than they did in the first ten years of their existence. This is the nature of technology. It elevates itself and reaches a plateau which in turn allows it to reach ever higher. It spirals upwards, faster and faster.
We need to boil it down to its essence for these guys. Spoon feed it to them. We. Will. Dominate. The. Future. Get it?
We need to have some deep pocketed folks come on board who share the passion and the vision for the future of this company that I've got, that this guy who wrote me has got, and that a whole bunch of readers of MVIS Blog have got. We need to figure out a way to spread this excitement from guys like me who work regular jobs and don't just have piles of money laying around and find more guys who can afford to jockey for position on the leader board of the institutional holdings list for MVIS.
MVIS stock seems to be in a vortex. There may be only one way to illustrate to the world that MVIS is going to be a good investment: By proving it to the people who believed all along.
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- AnonymousDecember 14, 2005 at 7:29 AM
Great post . Talk to your friends at Microsoft . X -Box vision etc .ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2005 at 10:12 AM
My wife and I have invested all our savings on MVIS. We believe that this is a good investment. The future however is uncertain. There's no such thing as a sure thing. Invest only what you can afford to lose. Please do not mortgage your house. My opinion for what it is worth.ReplyDelete
- luderellaDecember 15, 2005 at 4:24 AM
i wouldn`t bet the farm. it is still not clear whether the company will survive or not. i wait until the doom and gloom dust settles. i will jump in big - technology seems to be compelling - when this little puppy has a more stable outlook. i don`t mind whether i have then to pay 5$ or 10$ or even 20$. there is enough upside potential to make me filthy rich. lolReplyDelete
- mvis2010December 15, 2005 at 7:48 AM
The person that wrote to BJ saying he'd sell his house to buy 70,000 shares of mvis is either, a) an insider (and knows something); b)a genius, in which case I'd like to see the math or the fundamental research analysis; or c) a compulsive high-stakes gambler. My guess is c) simply because there's no way of "knowing" the future.ReplyDelete
well, I can't speak for this guy, and maybe he'll post a comment. but what I can say is that I've put myself out on a similar limb to accumulate MVIS shares and am neither a genius, nor an insider, nor a compulsive gambler.ReplyDelete
I think it's just about taking the information that's available to you and making the decision most likely to result in the biggest payoff. If MVIS glasses are everywhere in 5 years, it makes the most sense to accumulate as many shares as possible...well, right now.
But the premise has to hold up. The technology has to develop and the business acumen has to get much tighter. So we'll see...!
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2005 at 1:21 PM
The thing with MVIS is they have so many enticing 'irons in the fire' that makes technology buffs drool at the possibilities (hence the blogger and the person who wants to sell his house and even a small shareholder like me) yet they don't have the expertise to really take one of these irons and make it lucrative for a business and have the full business plan to make the big investment houses plunk down the big bucks.ReplyDelete
My gut feeling is that MVIS either has to just get "lucky" and have a company go nuts about one of its products (which is what they keep trying.. "here if we make enough cool shit someone will pay big bucks for one of them and we are set"). Investors don't like relying on luck.
MVIS's other option is overhauling the business side of things and getting some expertise in. Tokeman was supposed to be the shining star in this direction but we haven't seen any large scale changes in this direction since the Tokeman hire.
What MVIS needs is to make one of these really work (the auto HUD seems like a winner all around but I will not pretend to know the products enough to choose a particular one) and get enough profit from that to pay the bills and THEN you can have a million cool little projects. Think Google here - they worked and worked on the search side for years till it was a hit and NOW they are trying to take over everything internet related with an army of R&D people... but first they got that one big solid hit to propel all their other projects (so they never had to torture their investors with using dilution to make the payroll).
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I think that option 2, led by Tokman is the one that has been chosen. Although you have not seen any large scale changes yet, it has only been 5 months since he joined the company.
I'm looking forward to seeing what steps he takes to create shareholder value.
I'm so glad I found this site.ReplyDelete
I've been checking VRD progress every week ever since I saw Tom Furness demonstrate it on Tomorrows World in 1997.
I've been waiting 8 years and I still can't by a Virtual reality headset from you. Come on you guys! What's going on?
The potential consumer market is huge. If you made a high quality 3D Virtual Reality headset, people would be buying it in droves.
It could redefine the gaming industry. Microsoft are losing millions trying to beat Sony in the console market, they're throwing money around like confetti. I'm sure they would love to have a 3D edge over Sony. Perhaps you could get some investment from them.
And also consider that mobile video players like the PSP and Archos are caching on in a big way. Instead of a tiny low-res screen eating up the batteries, we could be enjoying high-res VRD glasses. Mitsubishi has already made their move in this direction with the scopo http://www.engadget.com/entry/8547656110143977/ .
Lightweight 3D headsets for video and gaming are going to happen sooner or later. Things are quickly moving in that direction. The question is, are you going to be there?
we'll be there. welcome to MVIS Blog, Steve!ReplyDelete


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Mike Huckabee is the former Governor of Arkansas, where he served 1996-2007 before seeking the 2008 Republican nomination for President. Notably, Huckabee won the 2008 Iowa Caucus with 34% of the vote, barely defeating Mitt Romney who eventually won the Republican nomination. After leaving office, Mike Huckabee went on to host the Fox News Channel talk show Huckabee and author a number of books. He announced his campaign for the 2016 Republican nomination in May 2015 in his home town of Hope, Arkansas.
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- Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Campaign Manager. Sarah is Mike Huckabee's daughter and has been an integral member on multiple campaigns, serving as the Campaign Manager on Sen. John Boozman's (R-AR) 2010 Senate campaign, and as a Senior Adviser to Tom Cotton's (R-AR) campaign for Senate last fall.
- Hogan Gidley: Senior Communications Adviser. He is the former Executive Director of the South Carolina Republican Party. He worked on Huckabee's 2008 presidential bid and then on Rick Santorum's 2012 presidential bid.
The U.S. Role in the Middle East
"And here is what we have to do: America has to have the most formidable, fierce, military in the history of mankind. So when we have a threat, whether it is ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iranians, whatever it is, we make it very clear that we plan to push back and destroy that threat to us. And we won't take 10 years doing it, we hopefully won't even take 10 months, it will be like a 10 day exercise, because the fierceness of our forces would mean that we can absolutely guarantee the outcome of this film. That's how America needs to operate in the world of foreign affairs, and foreign policy." (July 2015, Buzzfeed)
"I will lead with moral clarity in a dangerous world. There's a difference between right and wrong. There's a difference between good and evil. I'll keep all the options on the table in order to defeat the evil forces of radical Islam." (May 2015, Huffington Post)
Regarding Obama's foreign policy in the Middle East: "Everything he does is against what Christians stand for, and he's against the Jews in Israel. The one group of people that can know they have his undying, unfailing support would be the Muslim community. It doesn't matter whether it's the radical Muslim community or the more moderate Muslim community." (February 2015, Fox and Friends)
"I don't think we've done an adequate job of explaining to younger people that what is happening in the Middle East is not limited to the Middle East. Everything [ISIS] is doing there is the warm-up act to what they plan to do here." (September 2014, Real Clear Politics)
U.S. Response to ISIL
"The way we defeat [ISIL] ideologically is that we remind people that what their intent is is to kill us, and that it is our intent to use every means possible to get to them before they get to us. We are pretending that this is a war that is not that significant… We've got to make it so untenable for somebody to join ISIS. Rather than making it so that teenagers from around the world want to go and be to be a part of this, we need to go after it with significant ground troops, air campaign. And the rules of engagement have got to be loosened, because we have to make sure that we are not just going over and setting off some fireworks. We have to kill some terrorists and kill every one of them we can to make it very clear that to take action or threaten action against the United States, and you've just signed your death warrant. We're coming to get you. And you won't be coming to our shores. You're going to be going to your funeral. That's what we need to do to begin to defeat it ideologically." (December 2015, CNN GOP Debate)
"When you're dealing with Islamic jihad, that has as its goal the annihilation of everyone who does not agree with their absolute religious fanaticism, you're dealing with a rattlesnake…. As a kid growing up in south Arkansas, one thing I learned about rattlesnakes, you don't try to get in their head and figure out why they want to bite you. .. You take their heads off with a .410 shotgun or a hoe before they bite you—because the one thing that you can be sure of is that snake will bite you if he can." (April 2015, Campaign ad)
"[W]e should have been long ago arming the Kurds. They're the most reliable force that we have in the Middle East, especially in the northern part of Iraq, that is willing and ready to fight ISIS and to do it without American blood being spilled." (April 2015, CBS Face the Nation)
"We have not kept our promise to the Kurds. The second thing we should do is make sure that, wherever there's an ISIS target, that we bomb the daylights out of it. We make it unpopular, we make it very, very tenuous for anybody to want to join ISIS, because we need to let them know, they are basically sign on to a death sentence if they want to join this hideous, savage, uncivilized group of people who think it's OK to burn people alive and cut their heads off, and not only to do it...but I think what is most despicable is that they are proud of it." (April 2015, CBS Face the Nation)
"We don't leave anything off the table. But if they're going to be boots, they have to be more than just U.S. boots. There's got to be some boots that come from the Saudi's, the Jordanians and others." (April 2015, CBS Face the Nation)
"Sadly, the President openly admits he doesn't have a strategy to deal with groups like ISIS. Well let me loan him one -- you don't spare not a moment, nor any resources in eradicating these cancers on civilization." (September 2014, Huckabee Show)
"we must immediately ban ALL visas for travelers and tourists from any country with a significant ISIS or al-Qaeda presence. Second, we must reject all Syrian refugees to America." (November 2015, Sunshine Summit)
"It's time to wake up and smell the falafel. Something isn't going right in this open immigration policy. We are importing terrorism... I would not bring refugees into the United States. I think what we should do... is establish a safe haven for refugees - let's do it in Saudi Arabia, in Kuwait, maybe Dubai, maybe somewhere in Jordan. We'll help assist with it, but I'm tired of America having to take care of a whole load. And frankly it's illogical and irrational to take people out of their culture, they're language, they're religion, and even their climate, and put them in a place where they are going to be completely disoriented. It would be much better to do a safe haven in the Middle East, more so than bringing them 8,000 miles to America." (November 2015, Fox News interview)
On the U.S. response to the Syrian refugee crisis, Hucakbee said, "This idea that we have an obligation to receive vast numbers of people ... we have a real obligation to make sure that we protect the sovereignty of the United States. That's not a lack of Christian charity. It's the essence of charity, to provide for needs, but not to put your own children at risk, if what you're importing could be people who have a nefarious purpose for wanting to be here." (September 2015, Eagle Forum in St. Louis, MO)
"...Syria is an Iranian proxy in the Arab world." (September 2007, Huckabee's speech to the CSIS)
"I think it is very important that as Americans we show support for Israelis in their capacity to build their neighborhoods in their own country. It is interesting to me that our government has put more pressure on the Israeli government to stop building bedrooms in their own neighborhoods, than on Iran to stop building bombs." (August 2015, from Shiloh settlement in the West Bank)
"[I]f you're going to visit Israel you should visit all of Israel, and that would include Judea and Samaria," (August 2015, The Guardian)
"[T]he fact is, that they are separating the issue from the election from the existential threat they face from the possibility of the Iranians having a nuclear weapon. And Israel is the canary in the coal mine. Something happens to Israel, and that's not the end of it. That is just the beginning of it. And the ultimate target would be the United States. So we need to recognize the valuable strategic role that Israel plays in our own safety. This isn't just about Israel. This is about the safety of the United States." (March 2015, CBS Face The Nation)
"[The Israeli] military also takes extraordinary measures to prevent civilian casualties. I spent a day with Israeli pilots at their southernmost air base and witnessed the elaborate steps they take to protect noncombatants — even those used as human shields to protect terrorists. No nation, not even the United States, takes greater care to protect civilians." (February 2015, Medium)
"The anniversary of 9/11 this week, well it's a good time to remember that the murdering mad dogs that committed those acts are of the same blood of the ones firing rockets into Israel, kidnapping young girls and raping them, shooting Israeli informants in the head behind a mosque." (September 2014, Huckabee Show)
"[Under Israeli protection], the Arabs make more money than they ever made in their lives, and who have security and sidewalks and schools and hospitals that they've never had before." (June 2014, Israel Day concert)
"If there's a two-state solution, the Palestinian state needs to be outside the boundaries of the nation of Israel. There's plenty of land in the world where we can find a place and say, 'Okay, let's create a Palestinian state.' But not within the confines of a secure Israel." (June 2014, Israel Day concert)
"I know that if [Jerusalem] were divided, I do not trust one moment that the PA would protect for a day the shrines of anyone who are Jewish or Christian…let us be clear: the boundaries of Israel are not given by the United Nations but by Almighty God." (June 2014, Israel Day concert)
"I have to be careful saying this, because people get really upset — there's really no such thing as a Palestinian. That's been a political tool to try to force land away from Israel." (June 2010, New Yorker)
"My point is, if that's the issue, if its real estate, if you look at a map, and say here is how much Israel has and here is how much the Arab states hold, there is plenty of land. Let them take it out of Egypt. Let's take it out of Syria. Let 'em take it out of Jordan." (2008, campaign stop)
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Iran Nuclear Deal
"It has to do with the incredibly dangerous place that this world is gonna be as a result of a deal in which we got nothing. We didn't even get four hostages out. We got nothing, and Iran gets everything they want. We said we would have anywhere, anytime negotiations and inspections, we gave that up. We said that we would make sure that they didn't have any nuclear capacity, we gave that up. The president can't tell you what we got. I'll tell you what the world got. The world has a burgeoning nuclear power that didn't, as the Soviets, say "we might defend ourselves in a war." What the Iranians have said is, "we will wipe Israel off the face of the map, and we will bring death to America." When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously, and we need to take that seriously." (August 2015, Fox GOP Debate)
"It is so naive that he would trust the Iranians. By doing so, he will take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven." (July 2015, Politico)
"'Never again' will be the policy of my administration and I will stand with our ally Israel to prevent the terrorists in Tehran from achieving their own stated goal of another Holocaust." (July 2015, Politico)
"I tell you this, if I'm elected president of the United States, it is not a matter of political rhetoric, it is an absolute reality that the Iranians will not be able to have a bomb, and they will not be able to continue to threaten the peace of Israel." (June 2014, Israel Day concert)
Voting Rights
"When I go to the airport, I have to get in the surrender position. People put hands all over me. And I have to provide photo ID in a couple of different forms and prove that I really am not going to terrorize the airplane. But if I want to go vote, I don't need a thing." (April 2014, Americans for Prosperity)
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
"Was there any indication that either one of these shooters were unable to board a plane? No, there was not. In fact, they were fully vetted. They were able to come back into the country. She had a passport, she had a visa. This nonsense, that, well, they wouldn't have been able to buy guns. This is the false argument that this White House has made in an attempt to dodge the real issue." (December 2015, Fox News)
"Because if you equate same-sex marriage to a civil right- First of all, what an insult to African-Americans, who were hosed in the street, who were beaten, who were truly discriminated against, who were truly discriminated against with separate restrooms, separate drinking fountains, separate entrances. That was true discrimination and it was horrible. It's hard to say that the redefinition of marriage is on the same basis as was racial discrimination throughout history." (July 2015, Salon)
"I am deeply concerned about the rate at which young African-American males enter the prison system. As many African-American males have served in prison as have all whites both male and female, despite the significant population disparities between whites and blacks. While disproportionate crime rates are a factor, it is inescapable that we have a system where white kids from upper middle class families get probation and counseling, while young black kids get 108 years behind bars. Our system must have true justice and equality for all." (April 2015, Brennan Center)
After being asked if surveillance of mosques goes against Muslim Americans First Amendment rights, Huckabee replied, "No, it does not violate their First Amendment rights to have someone go and listen to the sermons. You can go to any church in America, it's a public place, you can listen… So, if it's a public place, and people are invited to come, how does it violate anybody's First Amendment rights that somebody shows up because they might want to just listen in and see is there something that is a little nefarious? And, if there is, then you take the second step of getting a search warrant, you do whatever you have to do. That's all protected under the constitution… If Islam is as wonderful, and peaceful as its adherents say, shouldn't they be begging us to all come in and listen to these peaceful sermons? Shouldn't they be begging us all to come, and listen, and bring the FBI so we'd all want to convert to Islam? And, if we can't, if there's something so secretive going on in there that somebody isn't allowed to go and hear it, maybe we do need for sure to send somebody in there and gather the intelligence." (December 2015, CNN GOP Debate)
"If this is so effective, why hasn't it foiled potential terrorists plots?...If you have probable cause to suspect Chris Wallace is going to commit criminal acts you go to a judge and get a warrant. Then you can listen to his phone calls." (May 2015, MSNBC)
"Frankly, there's never been a time in my lifetime where people are more distrustful of government...If this is so effective, why hasn't it foiled potential terrorist plots?...It seems like we're spending billions of dollars on whiz-bang technology and not enough on human resources, which have proven to be the most effective way of stopping terrorism." (May 2015, The Hill)
"There's no doubt that intelligence gathering is vital to the security of all Americans, but there should be a balance between that protection and our privacy. However, Obama's warrantless NSA spying program is more than just illegal, it's an unconstitutional, criminal assault on our freedoms as Americans. As president, I will repeal this program and protect the privacy and civil liberties of all Americans." (May 2015, The Daily Signal)
If you're upset about the NSA accessing your personal phone call data, cheer up: it's perfectly constitutional...A ruling by Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Judge Claire Eagan has just been declassified. That's the secret court that oversees the NSA's snooping, when the NSA bothers to tell them about it. Judge Eagan ruled that the NSA's gathering of Americans' private phone records didn't violate the law or the Constitution's ban on unreasonable searches and seizures because it's authorized under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. Besides, not one of the phone companies that were asked to turn over customer records ever challenged it, so they must accept that it's legal. The ACLU called that ruling "completely unpersuasive." I'd say that it says more about the phone companies than it does the Constitution. But then, I would think it's unconstitutional even to have a secret court that rules on citizens' civil rights without them knowing it. So what do I know?" (September 2013, Facebook)
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"@BarackObama's speeches are like @TSA pat downs, Arab relations & unrelated rashes. Painfully bad. But it will get worse. #SOTU" (January 2016, Twitter)
"Why are Obama & Hillary more interested in protecting the image of Islam than protecting American women from rape by Middle East migrants?" (January 2016, Twitter)
"Obama's new domestic terrorism plan probably requires Americans to memorize Koran verses... Bomb-throwing Baptists, Anglican arsonists, or radicalized Roman Catholics don't commit these atrocities—radical Islamic jihadists do. Yet this administration is so naive, they refuse to speak the truth about Islamic terrorism." (November 2015, Fox News)
"It's clear President Obama is more interested in appeasing America's homosexuals than honoring America's heroes. Veterans suicide is out-of-control and military readiness is dangerously low, yet Obama is so obsessed with pandering to liberal interest groups he's nominated an openly gay civilian to run the Army. Homosexuality is not a job qualification. The U.S. military is designed to keep Americans safe and complete combat missions, not conduct social experiments." (September 2015, Facebook)
"Children in Islamic countries are raised to believe that strapping a bomb to their bodies to kill Jews is a holy mission that brings rewards in the afterlife. And the world asks Israel to give up the land God gave them so their sworn enemies can get closer to their children's schools, playgrounds, and bedrooms?" (February 2015, Medium)
"A lot of people are very naïve about the Middle East. Whether it is ISIS or Egypt or Iran all are tied together by one key fact. [The Islamists' objectives] are not about territory. It's about the annihilation of anyone who doesn't agree with their ideology." (September 2014, Washington Post)
"Can someone explain to me why it is that we tiptoe around a religion that promotes the most murderous mayhem on the planet in their so-called 'holiest days'? You know, if you've kept up with the Middle East, you know that the most likely time to have an uprising of rock throwing and rioting comes on the day of prayer on Friday. So the Muslims will go to the mosque, and they will have their day of prayer, and they come out of there like uncorked animals -- throwing rocks and burning cars."(August 2013, Huffington Post)
"If the purpose of a church is to push forth the gospel of Jesus Christ, and then you have a Muslim group that says that Jesus Christ and all the people that follow him are a bunch of infidels who should be essentially obliterated…" (February 2011, Fox and Friends)
"It is right for us to be on the offense against Islamofascism, and not wait until they attack us on our soil. Unlike any war we have ever fought in this nation, this is not a war for soil. It is a war for our soul. We will either win it or we will lose it. This nation must rally to the point where we recognize there is no compromise. There is no alternative. We must win; they must lose. Islamofascism must disappear from the face of the earth, or we will." (February 2009, CPAC)
Immigration Reform
"It's embarrassing when a left-wing socialist French President shows strength and determination to eradicate animals who are slaughtering innocent civilians while our President lectures us on the moral necessity to open our borders to tens of thousands of un-vetted people from the Middle East. France has closed its borders and all President Obama wants to do is close Gitmo." (November 2015, Sunshine Summit)
"We are creating a low wage situation for Americans and we're doing it artificially by importing labor to drive wages for American workers lower than the dead sea... This notion that we've got to expand H1B is a huge, monumental mistake." (November 2015, Fox News)
"We've got to repeal Obama's unconstitutional executive orders, oppose amnesty and secure the border." (April 2015, Daily Caller)
"By securing the border and protecting American workers and their livelihoods, we'll finally help every American earn his or her maximum wage." (April 2015, Daily Caller)
"What we've got to do is to have a secure border fence, something I have proposed that we do within 18 months of taking office. If we don't have a secure fence and have just this open door that people can come in and out at will, we're never going to deal with this issue effectively and responsibly. And today, many Americans are angry not that people want to come here -- and I'm going to say it again -- people in this country are grateful to God they're in a land that people are trying to break into and not one they're trying to break out of. So it's not that we're building a fence so we can keep our people in or keep people out, but that people who do come here would have to come legally." (January 2008, Republican primary debate)
"There can't be an amnesty policy, because that's an insult to all the people who waited, sometimes, ridiculously, for years, just to be able to make the transition here. If you can get an American Express card in two weeks, it shouldn't take seven years to get a work permit to come to this country in order to work on a farm. So if our government is incapable of making that process in that length of time, then we should do it in a way to outsource it. And here's why: When people come to this country, they shouldn't fear. They shouldn't live in hiding. They ought to have their heads up, because we believe every person ought to have his or her head up and proud." (November 2007, Republican primary debate)


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How does this sound? "Let's help our students fly safely by showing them stories of pilots who didn't fly safely." Sounds a bit crazy, doesn't it? Yet, this what we do when we provide our primary students with NTSB literature for them to read in their leisure time. I have a better suggestion.
First, I'm not at all against NTSB reports. They serve an important function in allowing us to know (OK, it's mostly making educated guesses) how pilots got themselves into trouble. Every student could benefit from this knowledge. But I think the knowledge could be dispensed in a more meaningful and perhaps less harmful way.
That's why I suggest that you read a lesson-appropriate NTSB accident report before or after a lesson, and discuss it with your student. When students read these reports on their own, they're left to draw their own conclusions, many of which might be completely wrong. Why? Because NTSB reports can't and don't offer insight into what was happening in the pilot's mind before the accident.
After all, what does the phrase "failed to maintain sufficient flying speed" tell you about what the pilot was thinking before he stalled? As the CFI, you have enough common sense, insight, and experience to make an inference about what wheels were turning (or in desperate need of grease) in the pilot's mind before he or she bent an airplane.
This presentation-discussion method is sure to make NTSB reports more meaningful to your students. It's also more likely to keep your student's imagination from running wild about why a pilot crashed an airplane. After all, it's best not to scare our students, especially since cockpits don't have blankets under which they can crawl.
By Rod Machado


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Four out of five people agree there's a housing crisis.
Crisis means different things to different people, but a recent survey revealed the root is the same: decent, affordable homes are becoming harder and harder to find.
What is more surprising perhaps is that four out of five people would also accept more development where they live, so maybe we're not a nation of 'not in my back yard' after all. We'll need that local support for housebuilding given we need around 300,000 new homes each year, double the levels we're building right now.
I feel like I'm never going to be able to buy a house and that scares me. What happens when I retire?
Female, 25-34, south east, private rent
And the survey says…
I've worked in housing for many years now, and I've seen how something as simple as a house is intrinsically bundled up with people's emotions, their aspirations and their financial security.
It's not just a castle for an Englishman. It's a bank, a springboard, a safety net, an investment, an inheritance, a pension.
So I decided to carry out a survey. As house prices cannot carry on booming, I particularly wanted to track the trends as the market shifted, but mostly I wanted to hear firsthand what housing meant to people.
I had around 140 responses, mostly through Facebook and Twitter, spread right across England and Wales, from homeowners to renters, from families to singles.
The majority were in the south east and I appreciate it's a small sample size. But what was most eye opening were the individual stories that people shared. Housing, the place we call home, is so vital to our quality of life.
I was homeless for 3 months last year! The b&bs around our area were bursting at the seems. My housing officer said its the worst they've seen since they've worked here.
Female, 35-44, Yorkshire and The Humber, private rent
When is a crisis a crisis?
A third (32%) of respondents said they were worried about keeping up with their mortgage or rental payments.
Given record-low interest rates, this was higher than I was expecting. But, on average, houses cost first time buyers 4.5 times average incomes in the south east – up from 2.6 times in 1996.
Where I live, a 3 bedroom home can cost £500,000.
Getting on the property ladder to be a first time buyer is near on impossible despite good incomes the deposits are astronomical.
Female, 25-34, south east, social/affordable rent
And low rates often benefits those with a home, bought a lower price and with some equity. Those buying at a peak of house prices will take on a larger debt, albeit at low rates. Should rates rise payments will quickly become more difficult to meet.
(Note: the survey was before the EU referendum, so people may feel more secure if rates stay low or fall as they're expected to in the short term.)
As well as house prices, rents have been on the up over the last few years (as the graph shows below), while wages haven't kept up.
What should government do?
Government has always been interested in the housing market. It impacts on jobs and economic growth, consumer confidence and spending, social mobility, health and education – it affects the income government can receive from taxes and it simply makes people feel wealthy. It's importance is not in question, but where government gets involved – or leaves to the market – varies greatly.
The survey question assumed that government would invest in housing, and respondents were split fairly evenly on where they thought they should put the money.
Not surprisingly affordable homes to buy topped the shopping list, but affordable homes to rent was seen as a slightly greater priority than helping first time buyers.
Perhaps, the solution is about combining cheap, long-term finance options for those starting out with building more homes that everyone can afford, from first-time buyers to those looking for the home for life.
It was reassuring to see tackling homeless was a priority given the survey was an exclusively housed group of people. But interestingly private rent was low down the list, as was older person's accommodation.
Perhaps the reason for the latter was because most respondents fell in the 24-45 range, but the issue of decent, affordable housing – with the right level of care and support – will only get more important as our population ages.
What are housing associations for?
I work for a housing association, and have been in this sector for about seven years now.
Since I've been here there's been a concern that the sector doesn't have a unified voice, a single elevator pitch for what it's for.
This is reflected in the words people used to describe housing associations (left). People know we provide affordable homes, they know we're 'social' or charitable and many are positive about the difference they make.
When asked about where their priorities should lie, while being a good landlord was the main focus, they recognised housing associations role in building new homes too.
Interestingly, and probably not surprisingly however, people didn't see helping those on middle-incomes as such a high priority. These housing options, such as shared ownership and private rent, do meet a need (people on middle incomes can also struggle to buy a home while some want the flexibility that comes with renting).
While you can argue whether it is for housing associations to meet these needs, the truth is that to build more affordable housing, housing associations have had to change how they operate. In the past, housing associations would have received government grant to subsidise the construction of a home so it can be rented at sub-market rents. This grant has all but dried up, so housing associations have been adapting, seeking other sources of finance to keep the building going.
Selling properties and providing more homes for private rent is one way to bring in more money to replace the grant. This income then makes it possible for housing associations to build more affordable homes and provide services for those that need them.
Housing associations provide a vital safety net for vulnerable people.
Female, 35-44, London, own – mortgage
Housing associations may not always get it right but they are doing their best and have a hugely important role in helping people who are usually doing their best to get on in difficult circumstances.
Female, 45-54, south east, own – mortgage
How to solve the housing crisis
We're not building enough homes, many are not available at a price – to rent or buy – that people can afford and that meet the needs of our changing and ageing communities.
There is no way the housing crisis will be solved, as no-one is doing enough about it – government, housing associations or councils.
Male, 25-34, South East, private rent
The main levers government has to affect housebuilding are planning, investment and regulation.
But getting the balance right, given financial and political constraints, is the challenge. If you bring one down, you need to dial others up. For example, if you reduce investment you could mitigate the impact by removing planning restrictions and red-tape. But you don't want to reduce it too far or you could impact the quality of the homes or not build the types of homes that meet the broad range of needs in an area.
Government can try to force those who can build but don't (or are not building the type of housing needed, or not quickly enough) while incentivising those that want to build, but can't.
I believe that housing associations have a big role to play. Last year the top 50 housing associations built 40,000 homes (Subscription required). This is a decent effort, but we need to go much further.
I disagree with the respondent that said government, housing associations and councils don't want to solve the housing crisis. They all do, and, in difficult and uncertain circumstances are doing what they can to build more homes.
But what struck me most from this survey, which came through strongly in the individual stories, is how many different types of crisis' there are. Every person, couple and family, at each stage of life need a safe and secure home.
The challenge is knowing which crisis to solve first.


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