Editorial: Montreal transit authority's fining skier was heavy-handed The STM should not fine Verdun resident who took his skis on the métro. For 10 years, Verdun resident Mathieu Simard has been skiing to work on snowy mornings and taking the métro back home without incident. According to a spokesperson for the Société de transport de Montréal, skis, snowboards, sleds and other winter equipment are prohibited between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. and then again between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on weekdays. The reason is the STM believes these are a risk to other passengers in case the métro brakes suddenly. By that logic, backpacks, canes, strollers, crutches, musical instruments, large packages even small children should be banned because they could also become projectiles in the case of a sudden stop. But the STM wouldn’t do that because people need to be able to transport those things — or those small people – in order to live their daily lives without having to rely on a car. But in a winter city like Montreal, people also need sports equipment like cross country skis, sleds or snowshoes to go about their business. These are not just for recreation. These are active forms of transport, which like cycling, are good for people’s health as well as the environment. And on a morning like Monday, when snowplows were way behind schedule, using a toboggan to get kids to school or daycare was actually much easier than pushing a stroller in 10 centimetres of snow. Snowshoes also would have come in handy, given the pitiful state of sidewalks. And skis were probably the most efficient way to travel, given the roads weren’t plowed. But as Simard noted, by late afternoon, the sidewalks and streets had mostly been cleared of snow, salt and abrasives had turned what was left to mush, and puddles had formed at intersections. Skiing home wasn’t an option. Public transit should accommodate winter equipment that people use to get around, just as it would make way for a wheelchair or stroller. There is no reason a pair of skis, secured in a carrier and held vertically, is any more dangerous to fellow passengers than someone’s bulky backpack. Simard’s skis had never been a problem anytime before. Attitudes at the STM need to change in order to give passengers better options when it comes to combining public transit with active forms of transportation. Some cities, like Vancouver, have bike racks on the front of their buses, while those in Norway are outfitted with racks for cross-country skis. Salt Lake City has holders for downhill skis and snowboards. There may not be enough skiers in Montreal to justify such expense, but at the very least, they shouldn’t be turned away for trying to climb aboard with their equipment. The STM needs to relax its rules and reconsider its view of how winter sports fit into the transportation mix. In the meantime, it should cancel Simard’s ridiculous ticket.

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Editorial: So much for equal pay for Quebec political aides How is it that even in 2016, male chiefs of staff in Quebec are earning more than women? Quebec politicians have taken many strides when it comes to gender equality. Jean Charest was the first Quebec premier to name an equal number of men and women to his cabinet between 2007 and 2009, although he didn’t repeat that laudable move in subsequent efforts. Pauline Marois was the first woman to serve as premier of Quebec. Today Premier Philippe Couillard’s cabinet is about 40 per cent female. This is partly a result of the momentum that built across Canada after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau achieved gender parity among his ministers at the federal level, famously quipping: “Because it’s 2015.” Quebec politicians are the first to preach the virtues of equality to new immigrants with different cultural practices. But it’s a different story when it comes to paying ministers’ female chiefs of staff equal pay for equal work. This raises some serious questions about Quebec politicians putting their money where their mouth is. Is this deliberate, or is it happening unwittingly? Are the female chiefs of staff selling themselves short in negotiating their pay, or are they being undervalued? Given the nearly even split of men and women serving as the top aides to Quebec cabinet ministers, there’s clearly no shortage of competent female candidates for the job and no problem recognizing their talents. But for some reason, their contributions are not being compensated at the same level. Even in 2016. In the ongoing quest for gender equality, Quebec cabinet ministers need to get their own affairs in order and lead by example.

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Egypt's FM hopes talks with Lavrov to remove obstacles in bilateral ties Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry expressed hope that the ongoing round of talks between his country and Russia held in Moscow would allow the two states to remove the obstacles existing in bilateral ties. "I hope that the current round of talks will help us expand our bilateral cooperation, as well as resolve issues that impede the development of relations," Shoukry said at the meeting with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The Egyptian official underlined the importance of regular contacts between the two nations both at the level of the foreign ministries, the heads of state as well as at the level of experts, Sputnik reported. On Sunday, Shoukry started his two-day state visit to Moscow.

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Egypt's FM hopes talks with Lavrov to remove obstacles in bilateral ties Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry expressed hope that the ongoing round of talks between his country and Russia held in Moscow would allow the two states to remove the obstacles existing in bilateral …

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Europe the only region with rise in COVID-19 last week: WHO The World Health Organization said there was a 7% rise in new coronavirus cases across Europe last week, the only region in the world where cases increased. In its weekly assessment of the pandemic released late Tuesday, the UN health agency said there were about 2.7 million new COVID-19 cases and more than 46,000 deaths last week worldwide, similar to the numbers reported the previous week. WHO said the two regions with the highest rates of COVID-19 incidence were Europe and the Americas. Globally, the U.S. reported the biggest number of new cases, more than 580,000, which still represented a 11% decline. Britain, Russia and Turkey accounted for the most cases in Europe. The biggest drop in COVID-19 cases were seen in Africa and the Western Pacific, where infections fell by about 18% and 16%, respectively. The number of deaths in Africa also declined by about a quarter, despite the dire shortage of vaccines on the continent. 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Evelyn Elizabeth Dwyer She was employed in the litigation section at Bailey Perrin Bailey LLP, where she enjoyed writing briefs and the comradery of her colleagues, until 2015 when her illness motivated her to focus exclusively on family and serving others. Real estate transactions Leases OFFICE: Bailey Perrin Bailey has renewed a lease for 32,000 square feet in Lyric Centre at 440 Louisiana. Houston lawyer defends Pa. contract called 'pay to play' Now the head of his own firm - Bailey Perrin Bailey - he received a contract from the office of Rendell's general counsel at the same time he was giving more than $90,000 in cash and airfare donations to ... UH looks to build on Maggard's work The other is former UH quarterback Ken Bailey, a founding partner in the law firm of Bailey Perrin Bailey. From HoustonChronicle.com Get All Digital Access to Houston's top stories and in-depth investigative journalism Perrin brings trust, goodwill to UT athletics, colleagues say When he walks into the room, everybody wants to talk to Big Perrin, old number 81," Bailey said. ... From the firm Fisher, Gallagher, Perrin and Lewis, Perrin moved on to help start a local office of the firm ...

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Ever since the pandemic emerged, experts have attempted to hash out a roadmap to herd immunity against COVID-19. But with a fourth wave surging amid the more infectious Delta variant and other variables shifting the goalposts, several virologists and immunologists are discouraging the urge to fixate on specific vaccine targets. With a sizable number of the population still unvaccinated, the priority remains to get more shots in arms, period. "We have to get away from this idea that there is a core number we need to reach," says Jason Kindrachuk, a virologist at the University of Manitoba. "The easiest way for us to look at this right now is we need to get as many people vaccinated as possible." Herd immunity refers to having enough people within a community protected from a virus or pathogen, either through natural infection or vaccination, that transmission becomes unlikely. With COVID-19, experts estimated early on that could be possible if 75 per cent of the population was fully inoculated. The arrival of the more transmissible Delta variant moved that target higher, with some including Public Health Ontario pegging it at 90 per cent of the population -- more than are currently eligible for shots. Clinical vaccine trials are still ongoing for children younger than 12 -- nearly 13 per cent of the population -- with Pfizer saying it could have data later this year. Canada had more than 76 per cent of its eligible population fully vaccinated as of Wednesday, with more than 84 per cent receiving one dose. But several provinces are seeing case counts rise, mostly among the unvaccinated. B.C. is reporting a seven-day average of 685 cases per day, its highest since May 6, while Ontario's seven-day average of new cases reached 702 on Tuesday, up from 189 at the beginning of August. While cases are rising, vaccines are still proving exceptionally effective against Delta, especially in preventing severe disease and death, Kindrachuk said. But the variant's heightened transmissibility makes herd immunity more difficult to attain. "When you talk about herd immunity, you're looking at not only the immunity you have in your population, but also the transmissibility of the current circulating strain," Kindrachuk said. "You have different variables you have to take into account. "And Delta has pushed that transmissibility quotient up quite a bit from what we were looking at in early 2020." Dawn Bowdish, an immunologist at McMaster University, doesn't like the term herd immunity for the COVID-19 virus. She said some vaccine hesitant individuals can use herd immunity as justification for putting off their jabs, giving them a false sense of security that they're not at risk if those around them are immunized. But because the current COVID-19 vaccines don't offer "sterilizing immunity" -- which means vaccinated people at much lower risk of infection can still spread the virus -- Bowdish said it's unlikely we'll ever truly reach that threshold. "All those people who have decided (not to get vaccinated) ... are hoping for low rates in the community because their friends and family and colleagues are all vaccinated, but they're still at risk," she said. "So it changes the metrics. "It means there will never be a time when we have enough of the population vaccinated to keep everybody safe." Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious disease physician with the University of Toronto, said jurisdictions should aim to reach a more realistic "community level protection," where enough people are vaccinated that a potential outbreak won't overload the health-care system or disrupt society "like we've seen this virus do time and time again." Bogoch said true herd immunity will likely remain "elusive" for a while, especially while children aren't eligible to receive a jab. "You can't just draw an artificial line in the sand and say we'll vaccinate as many people as we can over this age group and expect to achieve herd immunity," he said. While Kindrachuk is hopeful Canada will quickly rein in the current wave of COVID-19 infections, he said threats to building significant levels of community protection arise if new variants start poking through. And getting close to herd immunity in one area means little, he added, if potentially more dangerous variants start travelling between regions. "We've got large sections of the planet that have no appreciable access to vaccines," Kindrachuk said. "So if we want to talk about reducing the risk of seeing further variants emerge, we need to get things under control everywhere." This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 1, 2021.

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Everyone is important for Russia! The All-Russian population census 2010 starts under this slogan in the country. On May, 26th in the city administration of the city district «Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City» the session of the commission on carrying out of this significant event took place with heads of the city departments and departments supervising questions of forthcoming census. The department chief of gathering and processing of statistical information of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Sakhalinstatistics Irina Shokina told about a course and features census campaign. As she said, preparation began in 2008. «The most important thing, is we should notify the population in order they open their doors of houses and apartments», - she noted. According to the chief of statistics department of the population and inspection of the Sakhalinstatistics house economy Nadezhda Soldatkina, a serious stage of preparation to census is making up of lists of houses: every entrance should have number. «There is a difficult situation with a private sector. There is no concrete account. We addressed to the city water canal and we got the list. If someone from urban services can give this data, we will be very grateful», - she emphasized. Information source: Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Yulia Krapivina.

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Everything coming to PlayStation Now this April PlayStation have announced their April lineup for PlayStation Now, which starts today, April 5. UP NEXT UP NEXT Sonic Origins to release on the birthday of Sonic franchiseBANG Showbiz Jane Foster will have cancer in Thor: Love and ThunderBANG Showbiz Paul Bettany teases his return as VisionBANG Showbiz New ‘Tales from the Borderlands’ coming in 2022BANG Showbiz Dungeons and Dragons movie gets official title: Honor Among ThievesBANG Showbiz LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga had the biggest launch for any LEGO gameBANG Showbiz Jane Foster’s Mighty Thor coming to Marvel's AvengersBANG Showbiz Overwatch 2 developers ‘upset and annoyed’ by delaysBANG Showbiz Digimon Survive finally releasing this July after several delaysBANG Showbiz Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse delayed to 2023BANG Showbiz Returnal director says developers can ‘always do more’ to make games more accessibleBANG Showbiz Moon Knight arrives to FortniteBANG Showbiz Nintendo moves up Xenoblade Chronicles 3 release to 29th JulyBANG Showbiz Sucker Punch no longer ‘actively working on additional patches’ for Ghost of TsushimaBANG Showbiz Jason Momoa 'in talks' to star in Minecraft movie for Warner Bros.BANG Showbiz

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Ex-soldier Ray Tindall can’t wait to see his young daughter after learning he is finally free to come home from India after all charges against him were quashed. Former Army sniper Ray Tindall, 38, from The Crescent, Newton, was one of six British ex-soldiers on board an anti-pirate vessel impounded by the Indian authorities last October after straying into their territorial waters. Ray, a former sergeant with the 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh and The 1st Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, had been held in the city of Chennai's Puzhal jail but was released on bail in March, along with four others, although he had to remain in India and report to the local police station twice a day. Paul Towers, from near York, remained in prison. Now all six can return home to the UK. Ray, who has a four-year-old daughter Lyra, told The Chronicle: “Yes, great news, all charges have been quashed, after all this time! “We are hoping to be home within a week, it depends upon how long the paperwork takes to finalise, which will allow us to leave the country. “I am obviously very happy with the news, but it hasn’t really hit home, I think it will only hit home once we are on that flight back to the UK. “Plans for the future; firstly see my daughter and family as soon as possible, then start to rebuild my life.” Ray thanked supporters including city MP Stephen Mosley and his Labour challenger Chris Matheson as well as the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). He said: “I want to thank all my family and friends, particularly my former wife Faith for her continued support over these many months. “A special thanks must go to Stephen Mosley for his help and support to Faith and myself throughout this ordeal and to Chris Matheson, for his support throughout. “The FCO have been outstanding throughout and a big thanks to all my friends on Facebook for their support and good wishes, truly humbling!” Ray, who was accommodated in a hotel after being released from prison, has used the time to get in tip top condition in readiness for starting his new business Precision Fitness Chester and to take part in various races in aid of Chester Babygrow Appeal to improve neo-natal facilities at the Countess of Chester Hospital. He added: “Whilst in the hotel I have not wasted the time, I have been training hard for races I have planned for this year, in aid of Chester Babygrow Appeal. See www.justgiving.com/Ray-Tindall for further details. “I have also been training, as I plan to become a personal trainer. I have been studying every day online and in the gym, in order to be ready for my first exams and practical assessments, which I will book as soon as I am back. “Once these are passed I will be a level 2 gym instructor, but I am working my way to a level 4 advanced diploma in personal training. “Obviously in the meantime, I am seeking employment within Chester, so I can be close to my daughter. “I will never work abroad again after this experience.”

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Excuse us while we toot our own horn for just a moment, but we have to congratulate the Houston Public Media’s winners of this year’s Lone Star EMMY Awards. The Lone Star chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences oversees the regional EMMY Awards in Texas. Lone Star EMMY awards go to the most experienced and talented television professionals from Texas’ 19 television markets. Fun fact: the Lone Star chapter is one of the largest in the country. The 2016 presentation took place this past Saturday night, October 15th, in Fort Worth. And the awards went to… For Arts & Entertainment Segment “Body Art: The Moving Canvas” (an Arts InSight segment) Tomeka Weatherspoon, Producer Matthew Brawley, Videographer/Editor “I was nominated twice in the same category at the EMMYs this year, which was a fantastic surprise. But I honestly wasn’t sure how the results would play out. You never know. I won for a feature I produced called ‘Body Art: The Moving Canvas.’ It’s about an artist named Vonetta Berry who paints on the human body. Her work is colorful, fun and captivating. I am so thrilled to have had the opportunity to capture and share her story.” – Tomeka Weatherspoon “I believe this was the first time I had ever shot and edited a story for Tomeka, and I guess we did all right. I consider shooting and editing stories for Arts InSight to be ‘my wheelhouse.’ This is the third time in four seasons of AIS I’ve won an EMMY in this category!” – Matt Brawley For Interview/Discussion Program Manor Of Speaking #407 Ernie Manouse, Producer/Host Matthew Brawley, Director Joshua Adams, Director Of Technology “What an honor to again receive the EMMY for best Interview/Discussion series for Manor of Speaking. It was a fun run, and I’m happy to know we ended strong, with the audience still enjoying our (hopefully) witty and warm educational banter. It was great fun each week bringing Downton Abbey to our community – sharing historical facts and interacting with the audience via social media. I happened to be with Al Pacino when we got the news that Manor had won, and I have to say, I think Al was even more excited than I was – hugging me, and even planting a kiss on my cheek! It was truly a memorable moment.” – Ernie Manouse “What can I say about MOS that hasn’t already been said? It was so much fun to work with that production team and to see the way we were connecting with our audiences. I was more creatively invested in that show than anything else I’ve ever worked on. To see it win three EMMYs in a row in that category is incredible validation that the decisions that Ernie and I made in the creation of Manor were the right ones. I’m going to really miss it come this January.” – Matt Brawley “When we were creating Manor of Speaking it was important to make sure it had relevance in the community. We wanted to really engage on the phenomena of Downton Abbey and be the place in Houston where everyone came to have a shared conversation about a common experience… in this case what you just watched on TV. I’m so pleased and proud to be a part of a team that understands the importance of this mission and why Houston Public Media is the only place Manor of Speaking could ever have existed.” – Josh Adams For Direction / Live or Recorded HOU Decide: The 2015 Houston Mayoral Debate Matthew Brawley, Director “It was a real challenge to pull that one off — a lot of moving parts, a lot of candidates, and most importantly a great crew to work with who were all on-point that night. It was also very interesting to lead a team comprised of both HPM personnel, who I work with every day, and KHOU Channel 11 personnel, who in most cases I’d never worked with before.” – Matt Brawley We’re extremely pleased to see our colleagues’ hard work receive this prestigious recognition. Now, back to work, everyone!

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Explorers' Piar sets state-tourney record with 65 at Red Tail Run "I love Red Tail Run," the Marquette Catholic senior said of the layout in Decatur before her postseason began. And Friday, Red Tail Run loved her back. ... Red Tail Run has four par 5 holes and Piar birdied all four. Wildlife Wednesday: Red-tailed hawk Those skills were recently put to the test when Kursinsky rescued a red-tailed hawk in need. ... "Adult red-tailed hawks have a red-brown tail, often with one black line through the tip of the tail." ... OPINION: Dangerous animals need vigilance, caution Photo taken Monday, May 11, 2020 Kim Brent/The Enterprise COVID GATOR COUNTRY_41.JPG Columbian red-tailed boa Josie explores outside at Gator Country in Fannett, which reopened the first weekend in May after ... RedTail Flight Academy takes off at Stewart to train minority pilots with Tuskegee help So, the RedTail Flight Academy will try to do its part to chip away at those obstacles by offering scholarships to students with financial need. ... All graduates of the RedTail Flight Academy also will have ... Gator Country reopens Mitchell then took them to the reptile house, where the girls got to meet Josie, a Colombian red-tailed boa. ... Photo taken Monday, May 11, 2020 Kim Brent/The Enterprise COVID GATOR COUNTRY_08.jpg Intern Blake ... Photos: Beaulympics extravaganza draws thousands to downtown Beaumont Photo made Saturday, July 17, 2021 Kim Brent/The Enterprise Andrea O'Daniel strikes a tree pose while wearing Roxanne, a Columbian red-tailed boa, around her waist during reptile yoga at Beaulympics Saturday. Houston Zoo welcomes baby red-tailed monkey named 'Peter Rabbit' Marcy de Luna, Houston Chronicle Houston Zoo announced on Monday that a baby Schmidt's red-tailed monkey was born on April 10. ... Houston Zoo is home to six Schmidt's red-tailed monkeys, including the new baby. ... 5-foot long snake found on Beaumont road The cat ran off and a neighbor trapped the red tailed boa in a garbage can until authorities were able to pick the snake up, BAC said. ... The 5-foot Red Tailed Boa. ... Newborns have the same coloring as adults, but with a bright yellow tail. Red-tailed hawk set free after serious head injury Michelle Esteban, KOMOnews.com It was an emotional reunion for a red-tailed hawk and an officer who helped rescue him. ... "His overall personality is that of a red-tail, which is 'I'm big, I'm scary, fear me,' ... Photos show rat snake and red-tailed hawk go head-to-head in 'life-or-death' battle They stumbled upon a western rat snake coiled tightly around the feet and body of a red-tailed hawk at the Northwest Independent School District's Outdoor Learning Center, according to a social media post by ... Heart-wrenching vid captures red tailed hawk using scrap of plastic as blanket protecting her eggs The phenomenon was underscored this week by footage of a mother red-tailed hawk using a scrap of plastic as a blanket for her eggs. ... "A piece of plastic became an umbrella for the Red Tailed Hawk mom to ... Photos show rat snake and red-tailed hawk go head-to-head in 'life-or-death' battle They stumbled upon a western rat snake coiled tightly around the feet and body of a red-tailed hawk at the Northwest Independent School District's Outdoor Learning Center, according to a social media post by ... Red-tailed hawk hatches live on webcam in San Francisco's Presidio The webcam was installed by the Presidio in February and has been recording the daily activities of a pair of red-tailed hawks. ... Screen Shot 2018-04-12 at 10.20.43 AM.png A red-tailed hawk feeds a hatchling ... Caught on camera: Red-tailed hawk lays egg in SF's Presidio A pair of nesting red-tailed hawks have been under watch via a live webcam since February, and on Monday the female laid her first egg. ... Red-tailed hawks are loyal lovers, and this is the fifth year the ... Crowds of red-tailed hawks are coming to the region Crowds of red-tailed hawks are coming By Gary Clark You can't miss the red-tailed hawks. ... Red-tailed hawk Red-tailed hawks are named for their brick-red tails. ... Red-tailed hawk Red-tailed hawks use utility ... Missing 6-foot boa constrictor, Theo, found safe near owner's home By Elizabeth Robinson and Michelle Heath Theo, a 6-foot-long, red-tailed boa constrictor that escaped a West End home on Sunday, was found Thursday in a neighbor's tree. ... While searching for Theo under and ... EDITORIAL: Snake saga serves as reminder on exotic pets For most of this week, however, the 6-foot red-tailed boa constrictor was on the loose. Tuskegee Airmen 'Red-tail Angels' brothers to be memorialized at Alton Cemetery From there, the Red-tail Angels transferred to the all-black Fifth Air Force base in Ramitelli, Italy. 12-foot python among animals seized in Beaumont home They recovered five large snakes - a 12-foot, 160-pound Burmese python and red-tail boa constrictors - and rats and rabbits. These San Francisco red-tailed hawks are live-cam stars, could lay eggs on Valentine's Day A pair of red-tailed hawks in the Presidio are the leads in a web cam bringing live updates from their nest. 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F-18 bombing a group of american military men During exercises in Kuwait, an American F-18, which took off from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, mistakenly dropped a bomb on a group of military men. During the incident, the US President George Bush was in Florida where he was making a speech about his plan of reducing taxes. He suggested that those gathered honour the memory of the killed by a minute of silence. "Today I have been reminded how dangerous a military service can be. We have lost people in an incident during exercises", Bush said. It has already been established that among the killed there are five Americans and one New Zealander, informs NTV. The government of New Zealand demanded that Washington immediately account for the death of its serviceman. As the New Zealand Prime-Minister Helen Clark stated, "this tragedy reminds us that our country's military personnel staying abroad risk their lives". In response, the USA has already said that a thorough investigation of the occurrence would be carried out. According to AFP, the name of the killed New Zealand officer is John Macnutt. He was watching the exercises in the north-west of Kuwait when an aircraft conducting a manoeuvre dropped a bomb close to him.. The US military leaders have already started discussing the relevant issues with New Zealand. Today, General Tom Franks and Admiral William Fallon, who are in charge of the investigation, have offered their condolences to the families of the killed. The group, which will conduct investigation, will begin its work on Thursday. A New Zealand colonel will also take part in the investigation. This is the second serious incident over the last month with the American navy involved into it. In February, an American nuclear submarine destroyed a Japanese fishing boat, killing nine men.

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F-35B test schedule snag is unlikely to adversely affect overall program Lockheed Martin is gearing up to start engine tests on the first F-35 short-takeoff-and-vertical landing version but confirms that the tentative first flight has slid from May to June in the wake of engine issues earlier this year. Clearance for engine tests to begin comes after Pratt & Whitney successfully completed qualification work on F135 flight test engine No. 7 for BF-1, the initial F-35B. The engine was closely checked to ensure it will not encounter the cyclic fatigue issues ... THIS CONTENT REQUIRES SUBSCRIPTION ACCESS You must have an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) account or subscribe to this Market Briefing to access "P&W F135 Check Out Clears Way for First F-35B tests". Current Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) enterprise and individual members: please go to http://awin.aviationweek.com for access. Not currently a subscriber? Click on the "Learn More" button below to view subscription offers.

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FATAH: Ethiopia ignored by the G20 Article content As the G20 summit of world leaders met via videoconference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to implement what the host country titled ‘Realizing Opportunities of the 21st Century For All’, across the Red Sea, Africa’s oldest country Ethiopia was unravelling with tens of thousands dead and many more uprooted as refugees. Advertisement 2 Article content Admittedly, the G20’s primary objective is to discuss economic and financial matters. The group has though on many occasions dealt with international conflicts and trouble spots. In 2009, the G20 discussed how to address a covert Iranian nuclear plant, and in 2017 when the forum debated how to administer a partial ceasefire in Syria. tap here to see other videos from our team. FATAH: Ethiopia ignored by the G20 Back to video But it seems the leaders of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and the European Union just couldn’t see the smoke rising from the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia that could very well splinter into a tribal and ethnic war that may also take a religious turn between the Christian majority and the significant Muslim minority. Ethiopia today comprises over 80 ethnic groups, split between Orthodox Christians, Muslims and Protestants. The main ethnic groups are the Oromos (34%), the Amhara (27%) and the Tigray who, despite being only 7% of the population, have dominated power ever since their militias overthrew the dictatorship of Mengistu Haile Mariam in 1991. It is ironic that the country’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed Ali, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 for his work in ending the 20-year post-war territorial stalemate between Ethiopia and Eritrea, is today standing in the way of the African Union’s effort to broker a ceasefire between the rebels on Tigray and his own military. Advertisement 3 Article content In fact, Prime Minister Ali is the first Oromo to head a government in Ethiopia and as the son of a Muslim father and a Protestant mother (he is Christian), was able to intersect crucial ethnic and religious divides in a very complex country of over 100 million people. But it seems Ali has squandered his image as a peace maker and in the words of one Horn of Africa analyst, “PM Abiy has just made the worst strategic blunder of his career.” Rashid Abdi predicted: “The war in Ethiopia is quickly acquiring all the hallmarks of a vicious and dirty inter-ethnic score-settling.” The conflict erupted after months of tension when the Tigray region openly defied Abiy by holding elections in September that had been cancelled in the rest of Ethiopia because of the COVID-19 pandemic. And on the day when the entire world was distracted by the U.S. Presidential elections on Nov. 3, Abiy cut off all internet links between Tigray and the outside world and ordered his troops to destroy the Tigray militia. Members of the Ethiopian diaspora in Toronto told me there seems to be more than meets the eye and that Abiy would not have acted unless backed by outside powers. The New York Times quoted a senior Western official, who spoke anonymously claiming “Mr. Abiy was believed to have coordinated his assault on Tigray with Isaias Afwerki, the autocratic leader of Eritrea and an implacable enemy of Ethiopia for several decades until he signed the 2018 peace deal with Mr. Abiy.” Advertisement 4 Article content Ethiopia today risks exploding like Yugoslavia did in 1992, leading to massacres in the heart of Europe. The question before the rest of us is simple: Will we sit by and shrug our shoulders because Ethiopia does not matter to us? Will ‘Black Lives Matter’ apply to the Blacks of Africa or does it apply only on the urban streets of Toronto and Ottawa? There is a serious danger of humanity sinking back into tribalism, ethnic identities, communities based not on the better angels of our nature, but the hatred of the other. We must overcome this temptation and act to salvage Ethiopia. Else we will not be forgiven as the generation that cared only for ourselves, damn the dejected. Ethiopia is too precious for Africa and the world to be wasted in an ethnic tribal war.

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FATAH: Who will utter the words 'Islamist terrorism?' Article content While the whole world unites in the struggle to put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic, another scourge continues to spread unabated, morphing itself into death and destruction with few willing to even name it, let alone confront its lethal message of devastation. Advertisement 2 Article content I am referring to ‘Islamist terrorism,’ a form of deadly violence practiced by a segment of the Muslim community that views non-Muslims or ‘kuffar’ as their adversaries if not enemies. This they believe has been ordained by Islamic Sharia and finds justification in passages of the Quran and the practice of Prophet Muhammad himself. tap here to see other videos from our team. FATAH: Who will utter the words 'Islamist terrorism?' Back to video Just last week Islamist terrorists belonging to the Nigerian jihadi group Boko Haram attacked and beheaded transitory farm labourers in a slaughter that shocked the nation. AFP quoted locals as saying, “We have recovered 43 dead bodies, all of them slaughtered, along with six others with serious injuries.” Earlier reports by the UN had given the figure of 110 dead. Elsewhere in Africa, radical jihadis associated with ISIS beheaded 50 people in Mozambique, while last year the entire government of Mali, including the prime minister had to resign as Islamist terrorists linked to al-Qaeda reneged on a 2015 agreement leading to new havoc in the country. And if you thought terrorists and militants inspired by Islamist ideology have been restricted to Africa, think again. On Nov. 28 in Indonesia, the world’s largest Islamic country, ‘suspected militants’ killed four Christian villagers, beheading one and burning their home. The country’s national police spokesman Awi Setiyono quoted a witness as saying, “10 militants linked to a “terrorist” group beheaded one victim and slit the throats of the others on the island of Sulawesi.” Advertisement 3 Article content Not to be left out, Afghanistan that has witnessed three decades of Taliban, ISIS and Pakistan-based terror, on Sunday witnessed twin suicide bombings that killed 34 people with scores injured. The beheadings in Paris and Vienna do not merit a mention when compared to scores who have died and been maimed by my fellow co-religionists, including those who have me on a 14-member list of Muslims deserving death. Yet, other than President Emmanuel Macron of France, no other national leader in the west has had the courage to call a spade a spade and utter the phrase “Islamist terrorism.” In Canada, I cannot recall any politicians other than former Prime Minister Harper warning about the threat posed by “Islamicism” and Conservative MP Candice Bergen who tweeted: “I spoke about the horrifying Islamic terrorist attack on Easter Sunday against Christians in Sri Lanka. Christians around the world need leaders in the West to protect them, not mock and ridicule them.” Macron, Harper and Bergen are up against an apologist left in the West who feign intellectual sophistry as they disguise their cowardice as wisdom, pretending to have a better understanding of the roots of Muslim indulgence in terrorism which allows these criminals scrutiny as they invoke victimhood even as they murder in the name of Prophet Muhammad. In 2016, President Barack Obama told a town hall audience that he won’t use the phrase ‘Islamic terrorism.’ He told a Goldstar mother, “These are people who’ve killed children, killed Muslims, take sex slaves, there’s no religious rationale that would justify in any way any of the things that they do.” Advertisement 4 Article content Then there are the Karen Armstrongs of the world, who in 2005 defended not referring to Islam-inspired violence as “Islamist terrorism” because, in her opinion, “The label of Catholic terror was never used about the IRA.” Allow me to explain the difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is a religion that requires its followers to be in a ‘state of Islam’ as their moral compass. On the other hand, Islamism is the use of Islam as a political tool with the aim of creating an ‘Islamic State’, be it in Mosul or Medina, built over the edifice of defeated Armenians, Jews, Hindus and, of course, the West. If we cannot agree to name Muslims prone to terror in their devotion to Islam as “Islamist terrorism” then we have already lost the game. The best people equipped to fight the Islamist ideology are fellow Muslims — and trust me, there are plenty of us.

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FOLLOW ON Advertisement BEIJING -- A Chinese real estate developer whose struggle to avoid defaulting on billions of dollars of debt has rattled global markets says it will pay interest due Thursday to bondholders in China but gave no sign of plans to pay on a separate bond abroad. The Chinese government, meanwhile, added to investor anxiety Wednesday by staying silent about whether it might intervene to restructure Evergrande Group's US$310 billion debt. Evergrande's struggle to comply with financial restrictions imposed by regulators to curb rising debt in the Chinese economy has prompted fears a default might cause global shockwaves. Economists say Beijing can prevent a Chinese credit crunch but wants to avoid appearing to arrange a bailout while it tries to force other companies to reduce reliance on debt. Evergrande appears to be trying to buy time for "an orderly default rather than a shocking implosion" by paying bondholders in China on time while skipping payments abroad, said Vishnu Varathan of Mizuho Bank in a report. "Averting a default altogether is highly unlikely," Varathan said. If regulators get involved, they are likely to focus on protecting families that paid for apartments that are yet to be built, economists say. That would cause bigger losses for banks, construction companies and other creditors. Evergrande, which ratings agency S&P Global says is the world's most-indebted real estate developer, said it will make a payment due on a 4 billion yuan ($620 million) bond denominated in Chinese yuan. A company statement said details were "settled in negotiations outside the market" but gave no indication whether that meant any change in the payment. The bond has a 5.8% interest rate, which would make the normal amount due 232 million yuan ($36 million) for one year. Evergrande did not say if it would make a separate payment of $83 million due Thursday to holders of a U.S. dollar-denominated bond that matures in March. Evergrande appears to be favoring Chinese creditors in order to negotiate with a circle of friendly banks and other institutions that hold its debt, said Mizuho's Varathan. He said that "optimizes relief from creditor action" in China. A default on a bond in China would trigger a cross-default on a bond abroad but missing a payment abroad doesn't have the same effect with in China, according Varathan. He said it would be harder to renegotiate with a "diverse and dispersed" investor pool abroad. China's main stock market benchmark, the Shanghai Composite Index, closed 0.4% higher following the announcement. Hong Kong financial markets, which have been jolted by Evergrande's predicament, were closed for a holiday. Some commentators suggest Evergrande might become China's "Lehman moment," referring to the failure of Wall Street bank Lehman Brothers, a forerunner to the 2008 crisis. But economists say the risk of global market contagion is low. Evergrande has sold billions of dollars of assets to pay down debt since regulators tightened limits on borrowing by China's real estate industry last year. The company is one of China's biggest private sector conglomerates, with more than 200,000 employees, 1,300 projects in 280 cities and assets worth 2.3 trillion yuan ($350 billion). Its billionaire founder, Xu Jiayin, expressed confidence in a letter to employees this week that the company will quickly resolve its debt problems. Other major developers such as Vanke Co., state-owned Poly Group and Wanda Group have not reported similar problems. But hundreds of smaller developers have shut down since regulators in 2017 started tightening control over fundraising tactics such as selling apartments before construction begins. The ruling party has declared reducing debt and financial risks a priority since 2018. But total corporate, government and household borrowing rose to nearly 300% of economic output last year from 270% in 2018, unusually high for a middle-income country. As of June 30, Evergrande reported 2 trillion yuan ($310 billion) of outstanding debts to bondholders, banks, construction contractors and other creditors. Of that debt, 240 billion yuan ($37.3 billion) was due within a year, nearly triple Evergrande's 86.8 billion yuan ($13.5 billion) in cash holdings, according to a company financial report. Beijing allowed the first corporate bond default of the communist era in 2014 in an effort to force borrowers and lenders to be more disciplined. Defaults by private sector borrowers have gradually been allowed to increase, but the government has arranged bailouts for state-owned companies.

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FOLLOW ON Advertisement CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. -- Sixty years after Alan Shepard became the first American in space, everyday people are on the verge of following in his cosmic footsteps. Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin used Wednesday's anniversary to kick off an auction for a seat on the company's first crew spaceflight -- a short Shepard-like hop launched by a rocket named New Shepard. The Texas liftoff is targeted for July 20, the date of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic aims to kick off tourist flights next year, just as soon as he straps into his space-skimming, plane-launched rocketship for a test run from the New Mexico base. And Elon Musk's SpaceX will launch a billionaire and his sweepstakes winners in September. That will be followed by a flight by three businessmen to the International Space Station in January. "We've always enjoyed this incredible thing called space, but we always want more people to be able to experience it as well," NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough said from the space station Wednesday. "So I think this is a great step in the right direction." It's all rooted in Shepard's 15-minute flight on May 5, 1961. Shepard was actually the second person in space -- the Soviet Union launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin three weeks earlier, to Shepard's everlasting dismay. The 37-year-old Mercury astronaut and Navy test pilot cut a slick sci-fi figure in his silver spacesuit as he stood in the predawn darkness at Cape Canaveral, looking up at his Redstone rocket. Impatient with all the delays, including another hold in the countdown just minutes before launch, he famously growled into his mic: "Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle?" His capsule, Freedom 7, soared to an altitude of 116 miles (186 kilometres) before parachuting into the Atlantic. Twenty days later, President John F. Kennedy committed to landing a man on the moon and returning him safely by decade's end, a promise made good in July 1969 by Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Shepard, who died in 1998, went on to command Apollo 14 in 1971, becoming the fifth moonwalker -- and lone lunar golfer. Since Gagarin and Shepard's pioneering flights, 579 people have rocketed into space or reached its fringes, according to NASA. Nearly two-thirds are American and just over 20% Soviet or Russian. About 90% are male and most are white, although NASA's crews have been more diverse in recent decades. A Black community college educator from Tempe, Arizona, sees her spot on SpaceX's upcoming private flight as a symbol. Sian Proctor uses the acronym J.E.D.I. for "a just, equitable, diverse and inclusive space." NASA wasn't always on board with space tourism, but is today. "Our goal is one day that everyone's a space person," NASA's human spaceflight chief, Kathy Lueders said following Sunday's splashdown of a SpaceX capsule with four astronauts. "We're very excited to see it starting to take off." Twenty years ago, NASA clashed with Russian space officials over the flight of the world's first space tourist. California businessman Dennis Tito paid $20 million to visit the space station, launching atop a Russian rocket. Virginia-based Space Adventures arranged Tito's weeklong trip, which ended May 6, 2001, as well as seven more tourist flights that followed. "By opening up his checkbook, he kicked off an industry 20 yrs ago," Space Adventures co-founder Eric Anderson tweeted last week. "Space is opening up more than it ever has, and for all." There's already a line. A Russian actress and movie director are supposed to launch from Kazakhstan in the fall. They'll be followed in December by Space Adventures' two newest clients, also launching on a Russian Soyuz rocket. SpaceX will be next up in January with the three businessmen; the flight from Florida's Kennedy Space Center was arranged by Axiom Space, a Houston company run by former NASA employees. And as early as 2023, SpaceX is supposed to take a Japanese entrepreneur and his guests around the moon and back. While no fan of human spaceflight -- he prefers robotic explorers -- Duke University emeritus history professor Alex Roland acknowledges the emergence of spaceflight companies might be "the most significant change in the last 60 years." Yet he wonders whether there will be much interest once the novelty wears off and the inevitable fatalities occur. Then there's the high price of admission. The U.S., Canadian and Israeli entrepreneurs flying SpaceX early next year are paying $55 million -- each -- for their 1 1/2-week mission. Virgin Galactic's tickets cost considerably less for minutes versus days of weightlessness. Initially $250,000, the price is expected to go up once Branson's company starts accepting reservations again. Blue Origin declined Wednesday to give a ticket price for future sales and would not comment on who else -- besides the auction winner -- will be on board the capsule in July. A couple more crew flights, each lasting minutes, would follow by year's end. As for SpaceX's private flight on a fully automated Dragon capsule, tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman won't say what he's paying. He considers his three-day flight a "great responsibility" and is taking no shortcuts in training; he took his crewmates hiking up Mount Rainier last weekend to toughen them up. "If something does go wrong, it will set back every other person's ambition to go and become a commercial astronaut," Isaacman said recently. John Logsdon, professor emeritus at George Washington University, where he founded the Space Policy Institute, has mixed feelings about this shift from space exploration to adventure tourism. "It takes the romance and excitement out of going to space," Logsdon said in an email this week. Instead of the dawn of a new era like so many have proclaimed, it's "more like the end of the era when space flight was special. I guess that is progress." ------ The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

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FOLLOW ON Advertisement Canadian makeup artist and prosthetic designer Donald Mowat touches up Timothee Chalamet's hair on the set of 'Dune.' (Courtesy of Warner Brothers) TORONTO -- Canadian makeup artist and prosthetic designer Donald Mowat says he didn't let previous film and TV adaptions of "Dune" impact his style choices in the latest version of the sci-fi epic, instead opting to make the characters his own. The highly anticipated adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel from Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve had a world exclusive IMAX screening at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. The sprawling interstellar story of warring families stars Timothee Chalamet as the protagonist antihero. Oscar Isaac plays his father, who oversees a dangerous desert planet called Arrakis, which contains the most valuable resource in the universe, a drug nicknamed “spice” that gives its users heightened powers and allows navigators to guide spaceships through the universe. This makes Arrakis the target of violent battles and political treachery. Mowat, who is known for his work on "8 Mile," "Skyfall," "Blade Runner 2049" and "First Man," told CTVNews.ca that he's only worked on films that were either based on a true story, book or play, or are some form of a remake of an original version – making his job more difficult, he says. "I think there's an influence, and it also makes you [feel] like you're not creating your own looks," Mowat explained in an interview over Zoom. Mowat said he decided not to watch the 1984 version of "Dune" so as not to have director David Lynch's depiction of the characters influence how he would create them. "I had the same challenge with 'Blade Runner' because there was this thing, this huge epic thing that people would compare it to inevitably, and I just thought, 'I can't get caught up in that'," Mowat said Mowat said he has since looked at clips of the original film and is "really glad" he didn't beforehand. Swapping out characteristics of red hair and wildly overgrown eyebrows, Mowat opted for subtle yet distinct features to recognize each planet's people, specifically the people that live on the desert planet of Arrakis, known as the Fremen. The Fremen's costumes -- including actor Zendaya's -- were heavily influenced by Bedouin tribes and Moroccan culture, and Mowat said he wanted their hair and makeup to match that aesthetic. Fremen who use spice have distinctive blue eyes. Mowat also opted to make their makeup look natural, using nude hues to create a "very neutral yet kind of beautiful" look. Their hair is unkempt, but not so much to the point where they "look like savages," he said, adding that there is an "attraction" about the Fremen. "They're not uncivilized people," he said. "They look like they live there, so they should look good because that's where they belong. That's where they live and where they thrive." Mowat says the makeup team also covered actors playing Fremen people in sand and dirt to match the desert environment. Bald caps, eyebrow covers and small tattoos were also part of Mowat's looks for the Harkonnen and Mentat people -- features not seen in previous adaptations. In addition, Mowat helped to create the prosthetics for the villainous Baron, played by Stellan Skarsgard. He says the fat suit and prosthetic makeup was a "huge elaborate build," taking the team 16 weeks to conceptualize and create. "My concept was a character that was based loosely using a gorilla -- the size of a gorilla, the power, the viciousness and fierceness," Mowat said. "Then some Marlon Brando in 'Apocalypse Now" and 'The Island of Dr. Moreau' with that very white skin and makeup." Mowat said the transformation required Skarsgard to spent six to eight hours at a time in the makeup chair. With each character's appearance being "meticulously" thought out, Mowat said the film is a testament to the artistry of those who work behind the scenes on major movies. "For me, it celebrates filmmaking on the big screen -- great costumes, great production design, music, every type of makeup imaginable -- it just encompasses every aspect of cinema that we love so much," he said.

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