WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States reimposes oil and financial sanctions against Iran on Monday, significantly turning up the pressure on Tehran in order to curb its missile and nuclear programs and counter its growing military and political influence in the Middle East.

FILE PHOTO: Iranian rials, U.S. dollars and Iraqi dinars are seen at a currency exchange shopÊin Basra, Iraq November 3, 2018. REUTERS/Essam al-Sudani

The move will restore U.S. sanctions that were lifted under a 2015 nuclear deal negotiated by the administration of President Barack Obama, and add 300 new designations in Iran’s oil, shipping, insurance and banking sectors.

President Donald Trump announced in May that his administration was withdrawing from what he called the “worst ever” agreement negotiated by the United States. Other parties to the deal, includingQ:

Return multiple rows grouped by a column and named by other column value

Not sure if title is formulated correctly, so there is better explanation:
Table: users_data
uid | key    | value
1   | "age"  | "23"
1   | "city" | "London"
1   | "name" | "John"
2   | "age"  | "19"
2   | "city" | "Tokio"
2   | "name" | "Aiko"

Query: Select data of users aged 23.
Result should look like this:
uid | age  | city     | name
1   | "23" | "London" | "John"

Don't even have current code since I have no idea if it is possible to name columns by value of field, sorry.

A:

You absolutely can do this easily in SQL... unfortunately,


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Born and raised in New York, Anthony Baldino is an LA-based composer and sound designer whose work spans an enormous range of production avenues.

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The menu undergoes minimal tinkering from day to day but always offers the breadth of selections common to diners and coffee shops: soups, salads, starters, sandwiches, pizzas, and entréesone exception to the staff's agreeable nature: We had trouble getting a spoon for soup, and after finally snaring the attention of our waiter, he told us to "wait a second" while he and a co-worker fawned over a journalist dining nearby. He eventually got the maitre d' to bring us a teaspoon. Service was otherwise swell from the beginning — with waiters promptly bringing a carafe of ice water and a basket of warm ciabatta bread to the table — to the end, when the check was delivered in an equally timely fashion. The emphasis on making customers feel comfortable has as much to do with Allen's success as the fare.

Banana cream pie really can't be bad, but this version, bereft of banana, came pretty close. It


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Monday, August 27, 2018

Indian Attempt to Merge Indian Held Kashmir into India!

Although Hindu Party Congress had been befooling people in United India as being a secular party, its reality being Hindu extremist party was disclosed right after the partition of sub-continent from October to November 1947 when unrecorded numbers of Muslim were martyred in the Jammu Kashmir with the help of Maharaja Hari Singh. Jawaher Lal Nehru blamed the RSS for the genocide of Muslim saving face of his party but the bitter reality is that even British govt. was equally involved in the genocide of Muslims. This was the British govt. who practically denied any protection to Muslims of Jammu and Kashmir and created technical problems in the inclusion of Jammu and Kashmir into Pakistan.


In this Muslim genocide, more than 200,000 Muslim were martyred and hundreds of thousands were forced to migrate. The worst affected Muslim belonged to Jammu where Hindus were in majority. The majority of Hindus was pre-planned. Before the partition, the Hindus and Sikhs from Rawalpindi and Sialkot had migrated to Jammu. Although, the Sikhs and Hindus had no threat in Western Punjab. After partition, if any violence was witnessed in Western Punjab was a reaction of the genocide of Muslim in Eastern Punjab when the trains full of mutilated corpses of Muslim arrived Lahore.

Before the partition, the extreme of the inhuman massacre was witnessed in the two Muslim majority areas of Muhallah Ustad and Muhallah Talab Khateeqaan of Jammu, where it was difficult to enter into the Muslimareas due to narrow streets, these areas were blockaded, water and eatables were not allowed to enter into the area. Due to the shortage of food, patients, elderly and children died. Those who tried to leave the area due to hunger and thirst were killed by Hindus and Sikhs, women were abducted. Similar extremist crimes were witnessed in Odhampura, Chenani, District Doda, Bhdarwah, Riyasi, and Akhnor. In order to participate in the massacre of Muslims in Kashmir that continued for more than 2 months, Sikhs and Hindus from Indian states came to Jammu and Kashmir and returned back with loot and Muslim women.

In his speech of 25 December 1947, Gandhi acknowledged in his speech that Hindu and Sikh soldiers were involved in the massacre of the Muslims of


Kashmir. Hindu intellectual Wed Bhushan has written that Indian soldiers went on leave, stating their purpose of leave and visit to Kashmir.

The Times in its 10 August 1948, post wrote stated the number of Muslims massacred to be more than 237,000. Stephens the Editor of The Statesman claimed that more than 500,000 Muslim were killed, Muslim majority was converted into the minority through planning. More than 300,000 Muslim were forced to migrate. According to Indian Department of the census, the Muslim was 68% (1172950) of the population of Jammu in 1941, while 2011 results show Muslims as 27.9%. District Jammu has 39.6% Muslim population which 7.1% in 2011 census. Kathwar District has 25.3% of Muslims in 1941 while in 2011 it was only 10.4%. these are the factsby non-Kahsmiris and the children of Kashmiri women out of non-Kashmiri spouse to be accepted as Kashmiri children. In the election of 2014, BJP contested on this goal as well in Kashmir, they were expecting to win 50 out of 87 seats in IHK however, they succeeded to secure only25 seats. The party of Mehbuba Mufti won 28 seats. In this way the dreams of terrorist Modi were shattered, so he put the puppet Chief Minister Mehbuba Mufti and started a new wave of killings and violence in IHK so that Kashmiris can be forced to accept the end of 35/A.

Kashmiris are protesting against these acts of New Delhi. Whether these are pellet guns mutilating face, blinding pellets of shotgun cartridges or live bullets, Kashmiris are not afraid


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This precise mixture of Fourteenth Amendment concerns creating an Eighth Amendment violation fueled a trilogy of cases in the United States Supreme Court pertinent to our current inquiry. Jurisprudence in that court regarding the introduction of victim impact testimony in a capital sentencing proceeding changed dramatically in a very short period of time. With a vote of five to four, the U.S. Supreme Court initially declared the introduction of a victimconsciousness. He regained full consciousness after several seconds. No seizure-like movements or urinary incontinence occurred during that episode. Subsequently, he has experienced four more episodes of syncope.

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This invention is further directed to diesel engines, and more particularly to improvements in the compression stroke and power stroke of a four stroke diesel engine, and to improved performance by reducing frictional losses by utilizing ball or needle bearings at every rotational part of the diesel engine.
Turbochargers are known to rotate athe use of a compressed air tank to supply compressed air for immediate acceleration.
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The law went into effect on February 4 last year, allowing patients to sign up to forgo a "meaningless extension of life" by stopping or postponing four life-sustaining treatments, the Yonhap news agency reported.

It took nearly two decades of national debate before the South Korean National Assembly passed the so-called "dying-well" law. The issue drew public attention after two doctors were convicted of assisted murder and given suspended prison terms in 1997 for ending the life of a brain-damaged patient at the request of his wife.

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The League launches a rebuilt, event-centric dating app

Founder and CEO Amanda Bradford said The League has already rolled out the updated app to users in its existing markets, New York and San Francisco, without much fanfare. Today, however, marks the official launch, as well as the addition of its first city in nearly a year.

The League is best-known for the fact that users are screened before they can join (Bradford told me there are currently 100,000 people on the waitlist), leading to the aforementioned charges of elitism.

The screening process is still part of the app, but what’s new is a focus on events. Members will now be able to create interest groups with group chat and also organize events — for example, Bradford suggested they could create runningthe polarized state of the light in the arrangement direction of the molecules of the liquid due to the optical anisotropy.
The liquid crystal display device as describe above has a liquid crystal panel that displays an image, and a drive unit operating the liquid panel. The liquid crystal panel has a liquid crystal layer formed between the two substrates. One of the substrates has pixel electrodes in each of the pixel regions divided by a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines crossing each other. A liquid crystal cell includes a pixel electrode, a common electrode formed on one of the two substrates, and a portion of the liquid crystal layer. Further, each crossing of the gate lines and the data lines includes a thin


while entering a special Commons committee meeting on the Trudeau government’s response to the influx of asylum seekers entering Canada from the U.S., Goodale referred to a request from members of a Quebec City Mosque who were attacked by a lone gunman on Jan. 29, 2017.

Six worshipers died in a fusillade of bullets from a handgun the shooter used after a semi-automatic rifle he first pointed at the crowd leaving the mosque jammed after the first shot.

Members of the mosque, led by the president of the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec, wrote Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to plead for a federal ban on assault rifles.

The cultural centre president, Boufeldja Benabdallah, was later invited to testify at a Commons committee study of Bill C-71, the government’s new firearms legislationof Bill C-71, including lifetime background checks before qualification for a firearm acquisition licence, but criticized the legislation for not going far enough.

Goodale, who has served as the MP for Regina—Wascana since 1993, was put in charge of delivering the Liberal party’s headline gun promise from the 2015 election – getting handguns and assault rifles off Canadian streets.

As he steered Bill C-71 through the Commons, Goodale has had to reinstate controls eliminated by the previous Conservative government, while making good on a promise not to bring back a registry for hunting rifles and shotguns.


taking an elbow to the throat from Odjidja and play is brought to a halt as he needs a moment to collect himself on the turf.

Umtiti is crashes down after taking an elbow to the throat from Odidja and play is brought to a halt as he needs a moment to collect himself on the turf.

Scoreless at the break in Piraeus, but not for a lack of trying. Silvio Proto has been excellent for Olympiacos, producing a few fine saves to deny Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, while the hosts have threatened as well at the other end.

An injury has forced Sergi Roberto off right at the end of this first half, replaced by Gerard Deulofeu. Olympiacos are in the ascendency as we approach half-time here, pushing thepace as they look to shock Barcelona with the opening goal right before the break.

Olympiakos come into this encounter having only ever lost once in 10 previous home matches versus Spanish opposition in the Champions League W4 D5.

Great stuff from the hosts to break forward and carve out a chance, but the end product needs to be better! Some terrific passing leads to a shooting chance for Fortounis, but he can only poke the ball straight at Ter Stegen on the end of a lovely throughball!

A squirmish ensues following a foul near the halfway line, and Tachtsidis is booked for his role in the altercation.

Cooler heads prevail in the end. Yellow card Panagiotis Tachtsidis. A skirmish ensues following a foul near the halfway line, and Tachtsidis is booked


for his role in the altercation.

A chance to break for the hosts following a Barcelona corner, stemming from another Proto save, this time from a Messi free-kick, but Barcelona do well to snuff out the chance.

Frustration setting in here for the hosts. Well it certainly has been a dominating display from Barcelona as far as possession is concerned, but the hosts have had their chances as well.

Silvio Proto made nine saves in the last outing against Barcelona; no goalkeeper has managed more in a Champions League game this season.

Dazzling footwork from Messi! The Belgian keeper has been excellent tonight for the hosts - but how long can he keep Barca out on his own?

Ter Stegen and Umtiti provide a Halloween fright at the back for Barcelona, as theircorners in quick succession and Messi takes both of them, but Olympiacos are able to survive, with goalkeeper Proto comfortably claiming the second to end the immediate danger.

Engels puts an end to a weaving run from Semedo on the right with a perfectly timed sliding tackle inside the area. Get that wrong, however, and it was going to be a penalty to Barcelona.

Barcelona are in possession and continuing to dictate the early proceedings, probing inside the Olympiacos half.

Barcelona have avoided defeat in four of their last five visits to Greek clubs in European competition W3 D1 ; letting in only one goal during that time.

Watch the best of the action from Group F. Six more sides booked their places in the round of 32, with Dynamo, Salzburg and


awaiting their first group point or goal as they take on Olympiacos, who also need a lift.

Watch the goals from San Siro where substitute Patrick Cutrone scored twice in a win for the hosts. Milan are the early leaders in Group F as they look to build on an opening win when Olympiacos come to San Siro.

Watch the best of the action from the matchday one clash in Piraeus. Arsenal and Chelsea kicked off with wins, Sevilla made an explosive start and AC Milan scraped a victory in Luxembourg.

Olympiacos safely negotiated two qualifying rounds and kick off Group F against Betis, back after four years away. What time is the draw?

What are the pots? How can I follow it? Early goals, red cards, salmon-inspired strikes and super-subs: Watchgoals by Esteban Cambiasso and Vincent Aboubakar as the sides shared the first-leg spoils in Greece.

Krasnodar squandered a lead as they exited the Russian Cup on penalties, after a weekend when Manchester United won a trophy and Lyon kept up their prolific form.

Had Olympiacos and Juventus finished with the same points, Olympiacos would have qualified due to best aggregate score away goals of their two games 1—0 Olympiacos win in Piraeus, 3—2 Juventus win in Turin.

Domestically, the team had a very successful season, winning the 17th double in their history. They won their 42nd Greek Championship with 12 points difference from the second Panathinaikos and their 27th Greek Cup , beating Skoda Xanthi 3—1 in the final.

Last matchday saw the team face Arsenal at the Karaiskakis stadium, needing


a 1—0 or 2—1 defeat to the Gunners, as the worst-case scenario, to advance to the knockout phase of the competition based on the away goals rule ; the Red-Whites eventually lost 3—0 and continued their European journey in the UEFA Europa League , where they were eliminated by Anderlecht in the first knockout stage.

Firstly, Olympiacos failed to qualify for the Greek Cup final after being ousted by AEK , who advanced on the away goals rule after a 2—2 aggregate draw.

Secondly, despite the fact that the Reds clinched their 44th Greek Championship , and 7th consecutive for the second time in Greek football history, they only managed to do so with a six-point difference 67 to 61 over PAOK.

Despite their one-point group stage exit, the worst Europeanrecords by a Greek team in the history of European competitions both belong to AEK Athens: When, in , the merger of the two clubs of Piraeus, Athlitikos Podosfairikos Syllogos Pireos and Omilos Filathlon Pireos, gave birth to the new football club, the latter was unanimously baptized Olympiacos Club of Fans of Piraeus , a name inspired from the Ancient Olympic Games , the morality, the vying, the splendor, the sportsmanship and the fair play ideal that were represented in Ancient Greece.

Red and white were chosen as the colours of the crest; red for the passion and victory and white for the virtue and purity. The typical kit of the team is that of a shirt with red and white vertical stripes, and red or white shorts and


socks.

The shirt has taken different forms during the history of the club, for example with thin or wider stripes. The second most common kit is the all-red one and next the all-white one.

Olympiacos has used several other colours during its history as an away or third kit, with the most notable of them being the monotint black or silver one.

The most common kits of Olympiacos during their history are these below the year of each one is indicant:. Since , when football became professional in Greece, Olympiacos had a specific kit manufacturer and since a specific shirt sponsor as well.

The following table shows in detail Olympiacos kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors by year:. The Karaiskakis Stadium , situated at Neo Faliro in Piraeus , is the current sinceand traditional home of Olympiacos.

With a capacity of 32,, [1] [2] it is the largest football-only stadium and the second largest football stadium overall in Greece.

It was built in as Neo Phaliron Velodrome , to host the cycling events for the Summer Olympics in Athens , and the pitch was covered with curm.

Olympiacos started using it since its foundation in In , the stadium was renovated and was given its current name after Georgios Karaiskakis , a military commander of the Greek War of Independence , with an athletics track around the pitch.

Olympiacos left the Karaiskakis Stadium temporarily to play home matches at the newly built Athens Olympic Stadium in After a five-year use — of the biggest stadium in Greece, the team returned to their traditional home,


where they played until It was then that Olympiacos got back to the Athens Olympic Stadium, where they stayed for another period of five years — In , the Olympic Stadium was closed for renovation works due to the Summer Olympics and Olympiacos moved to the Georgios Kamaras Stadium in Rizoupoli , home of Apollon Smyrnis , for the following two seasons — Meanwhile, the Karaiskakis Stadium had fallen in disrepair and was not anymore suitable for football matches.

In , its use passed to Olympiacos in order to build a football-only ground, to be used for the football tournament of the Olympics.

Traditionally, Olympiacos used to represent the working class, but the club has always attracted fans from all the social classes and their fanbase is not associated withany specific social group anymore.

In , Olympiacos was placed in the top ten of the clubs with the most paying members in the world, holding ninth place, just ahead of Real Madrid.

More recently, the Orthodox Brothers have started to include fans of Spartak Moscow in their club. Olympiacos fans are renowned for their passionate and fervent support to the team, with the atmosphere at home matches regarded as intimidating.

When they played Newcastle United at home in the —05 UEFA Cup , the match was televised in the United Kingdom on Channel 5 and the guest commentator was former England international Tony Cottee , who was constantly mentioning how great the atmosphere was.

During the game he was asked whether it was the most atmospheric stadium he had been to


and replied: But this place is the real deal. Their supporters really can help their team.

Olympiacos supporters were amazing. My friend Olof Mellberg played here and he talked to me about the supporters. I never saw it live, but now I understand.

Red Star Belgrade [] []. The history of the Karaiskakis Stadium and Olympiacos was marked by the worst tragedy that ever hit Greek sports , known as the Karaiskakis Stadium disaster.

On 8 February , Olympiacos hosted AEK Athens for a league match, which ended 6—0, in an unprecedented triumph for the host team of Piraeus.

In memory of this event, every year on 8 February, there is a memorial service at the stadium in honour of the supporters that died in that incident.

At the tribune part of thestadium where Gate 7 is now, some seats are colored black instead of red, shaping the number "7", whereas there is also a monument on the eastern side of the stadium, bearing the names of all 21 supporters killed on that day in the stadium.

Even though this incident affected almost solely the fanbase of Olympiacos, other teams occasionally pay their respects to the people killed as well, as they consider the incident to be a tragedy not only for one team, but for the whole country.

The rivalry also encompasses social, cultural and regional differences; Olympiacos, coming from the Athens port of Piraeus, used to be very popular in the working to middle classes, while Panathinaikos, of downtown Athens, was considered the representative of middle to higher social classes,


although this differentiation has weakened nowadays and the two clubs have similar fanbases.

Olympiacos also shares a traditional rivalry with AEK Athens , in one more local derby of the Greek capital with the other member of the so called Big three , [] but also with PAOK , in the fiercest inter-city rivalry in Greece between the most popular clubs of the two largest Greek cities, Athens and Thessaloniki , a rivalry that erupted in the s for the sake of footballer Giorgos Koudas.

Olympiacos has a long presence in the UEFA competitions , debuting on 13 September , against Milan for the —60 European Cup , the first ever Greek club to compete in a European competition.

Olympiacos is by far the highest ranked Greek team in the UEFArankings , occupying the 29th place in Europe at the end of season — Olympiacos also holds the all-time record attendance for a Greek club of 75, in a —83 European Cup match against Hamburg at the Athens Olympic Stadium.

Olympiacos is known for being a strong home side, having run some long-standing sequences, such as the 15 straight UEFA Champions League unbeaten home matches since their debut in the tournament under its new format, when Manchester United stopped their record in their fifth consecutive participation, and their 15 wins in 19 UEFA Champions League home matches between —10 and — From to Olympiacos participated seven times in the UEFA Champions League Group Stage, and gathered at least 9 points in every one of those seven groups, qualifying three


Retrieved 4 February Archived from the original on 29 October Retrieved 21 November Olympiakos vs Panathinaikos Derby of the Eternal Enemies".

Do or die derbies". They are looking comfortable and composed at the back, dealing with everything coming their way.

Barcelona need more of a presence in the area. Barcelona have won 16 of their last 19 Champions League group games D2 L1. They have also scored in 46 of their last 47 group games in the competition, the only exception coming against Benfica in December when Barca were already guaranteed of topping their group.

Possession dominated here by the visitors to start the second half, but no end product to speak of yet. Jordi Alba makes strides down the left and gets into a good position to whip in aend of this first half, replaced by Gerard Deulofeu. Olympiacos are in the ascendency as we approach half-time here, pushing the pace as they look to shock Barcelona with the opening goal right before the break.

Olympiakos come into this encounter having only ever lost once in 10 previous home matches versus Spanish opposition in the Champions League W4 D5.

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Some terrific passing leads to a shooting chance for Fortounis, but he can only poke the ball straight at Ter Stegen on the end of a lovely throughball!

A squirmish ensues following a foul near the halfway line, and Tachtsidis is booked for his role in the altercation.

Cooler heads prevail in


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The FA might have used their voice and power more effectively had they encouraged Sunderland to engage with the supporters responsible so as to educate them as to why their actions were inappropriate, offensive, unjustified and ultimately embarrassing for their club.

Considering the antipathy reserved for McClean is relatively popular and widespread in Britain, it would be reassuring to know that those running the Premier League had the courage and initiative to protect all their players and to stand up to all forms of bigotry within the game rather than wait for a


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The Imperialist Epoch

V.I. Lenin, leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution, described how capitalism in the late 19th century reached its highest stage—imperialism. He described how the means of production came to be monopolized by fewer and bigger conglomerates with ever-growing needs for investment funds and other financing, leading to the dominance of finance capital, centrally the giant banks. As the capitalists in the advanced industrial countries strove for newer markets to exploit, they carried outwars to redivide the world and secure spheres of exploitation in less-developed countries. In their competition for world domination, the imperialist powers engulfed people around the world in the barbarism of World Wars I and II and waged countless bloody wars in colonial and semicolonial countries.

The way out of the endless cycle of capitalist economic crises and imperialist wars was shown by the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, when workers took power in their own hands, expropriating the bourgeoisie and establishing the Soviet workers state. It is high time that working people, who create the wealth in this society, run this society! We need an all new ruling class—the workers! Fight, don’t starve! Labor must rule!

In a climate conditioned by the imperialists’ proclamations that the destruction of the Soviet


future this indestructible fact, that thanks solely to a proletarian revolution a backward country has achieved in less than ten years successes unexampled in history.”

Now, two decades after counterrevolution destroyed the Soviet degenerated workers state, many in Russia long for the days when they were guaranteed a job, education, housing, health care and vacations, regretting that they were taken in by the myth of capitalist “democracy.” What undermined the collectivized economy, and ultimately laid the basis for the destruction of the Soviet Union itself, was the parasitic Stalinist bureaucracy, which robbed the workers of their political power and vainly sought to appease the imperialists by selling out workers struggles in other countries.

Today, the deep economic crisis in the capitalist countries contrasts sharply with the situation in China, wherestruggle. It’s about pressuring the Democratic Party to go a little easier on their membership during a period of union-busting austerity.

One of the more vocal unions in support of the protests has been the New York City Transport Workers Union (TWU). Like other unions, the TWU is under heavy attack by the bosses. TWU members showed real social power when they went on strike in December 2005, defying the state Taylor Law banning public workers strikes. But the workers were stabbed in the back by the leaders of other NYC unions and the TWU International, and in the end were sold out by their own local union misleaders.

TWU bureaucrats and the rest of the AFL-CIO officialdom are pushing impotent “tax the rich” schemes along with reformist left groups


using labor’s strike weapon. Instead they channeled the anger of the ranks into support for the Democratic Party with a petition to recall Walker and a number of Republican state legislators, which failed miserably. Wisconsin public employee unions have been dealt a real defeat.

Within the labor movement, the proletariat is saddled with a pro-capitalist union bureaucracy that promotes the lie that the interests of labor and capital are compatible. They tie working people and the oppressed to the capitalist system, especially through support to the Democratic Party. The trade-union misleaders poured a whopping $450 million into the 2008 elections, backing capitalist politicians like Obama as “friends of labor.”

It is absolutely necessary to forge a new leadership of the unions to mobilize labor in struggle for its class interests,away with this entire system of wage slavery. Join us in the fight for a socialist future for humanity!

Click on the headline to link to a BBC online report of the events surrounding the two-day General Strike in Greece.

Markin comment:

The international working class movement and its allies, including in the Occupy movement, needs to support the Greek workers in their General Strike. The line is drawn in the sand. Make the bosses (in Greece, and internationally) pay. The bosses created the mess, let them pay. If not, move aside and let the workers rule. As for the Greek workers, who today stand as the vanguard of the international working class offensive against the bosses austerity drive-Build workers councils in order to prepare to take power and create a


workers government. The time is now. Labor must rule

Sunday, October 19, 2025

Click on the headline to link to a BBC online report of the events surrounding the two-day General Strike in Greece.

Markin comment:

The international working class movement and its allies, including in the Occupy movement, needs to support the Greek workers in their General Strike. The line is drawn in the sand. Make the bosses (in Greece, and internationally) pay. The bosses created the mess, let them pay. If not, move aside and let the workers rule. As for the Greek workers, who today stand as the vanguard of the international working class offensive against the bosses austerity drive-Build workers councils in order to prepare to take power and create a workers government. The time is now. Labormust rule

Friday, July 18, 2025

As always in such general strike and possiblly pre-revolutitonary situations a call by communist propagandists for independent working class organizations to take power is in order. For A Greek Communist Party-Greek Trade Union Federations (and whoever else of the up-against-the-wall middle class and student elements they can bring in) government!
*********Workers Vanguard No. 983
8 July 2011

European Crisis and the Bankruptcy of Capitalism

Greece: Mass Anger Over Savage Austerity-Workers Must Rule!-
For a Socialist United States of Europe!

On June 29, as a two-day general strike virtually shut down the country and tens of thousands protested outside, the Greek parliament approved a new round of brutal austerity measures demanded by the Greek bourgeoisie and its imperialist overlords. The demonstrators—who included, in addition to workers, a broad range of the


population from students and other youth to professionals and retirees—were viciously attacked by club-wielding riot police. More than a year of unrelenting attacks on the living standards of the Greek population has resulted in seething unrest across broad layers of society. In the last year alone, there have been at least a dozen one-day general strikes and massive protests. Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost, homelessness has skyrocketed and many people, especially pensioners, are reliant on soup kitchens for their survival.

Video footage of the wanton violence meted out by the cops has provoked widespread indignation, as has another video documenting collusion between the police and hooded provocateurs who infiltrated the protesters. Police fired endless volleys of tear gas and stun grenades and pummeled protesters with chunksA proletarian upheaval in Greece could trigger a wave of class struggle throughout Europe against the ever more brutal and incessant attacks of the capitalists against the jobs, benefits and living standards of all workers on the continent. A workers government in Greece would immediately repudiate the imperialist debt. Such an act would require a direct appeal to the proletariat, from Germany and France to Spain and Portugal, to come to the defense of their Greek class brothers and sisters against the combined forces of the European bourgeoisies.

As long as Greek workers are mobilized primarily against the foreign diktats of the IMF and EU, they will be unable to see that opposing the imperialists is intertwined with overthrowing the Greek bourgeoisie. The Greek government is not simply a


a “pro-democracy” movement of all classes. As in Spain, all leftist political parties and trade unions, as well as red flags and banners, were banned from the Greek protests at first. Not surprisingly, given the nationalist fervor whipped up by the Indignados, Golden Dawn and other fascist outfits have been seen at the protests.

There has been an ominous rise in racist attacks, as desperately impoverished immigrants are used as scapegoats for the economic devastation. Earlier this year, fascist thugs rampaged through a heavily immigrant area of Athens, killing one person and wounding many more. Golden Dawn got over 5 percent of the vote in municipal elections in Athens late last year. According to the London-based Institute of Race Relations, Golden Dawn’s Nikos Michaloliakos, accompanied by eight apparently armedon the Resistance against the Nazi occupation and the subsequent Greek Civil War of 1946-49. In pursuit of its program of class collaboration with the Greek bourgeoisie, the KKE handed power back to the bourgeoisie following World War II. The working class, backed by the peasantry, was the decisive force in the anti-Nazi Resistance, mounting massive strikes and demonstrations from late 1942 until the withdrawal of German troops in 1944. The working class, arms in hand, had state power in its grasp. But its leaders, the treacherous KKE, actually welcomed the arrival of British troops into Greece, enabling the imperialists to stabilize the situation, bring back the hated monarchy and massacre the workers.

The Greek Stalinists lived up to the terms of the secret Tehran agreement, whereby Stalin granted


the imperialists the “right” to preserve capitalist rule in West Europe and Greece. Politically disarming the proletariat, the Stalinists went so far as to join a “national” government of the bourgeoisie. In February 1945, they signed the Varkiza agreement, which physically disarmed the KKE-led Resistance forces as British troops and the Greek National Guard were preparing to unleash a full-scale wave of terror against the masses. Only in February 1946 did the KKE finally abandon its suicidal policy and take up the “armed struggle” again. In October 1949, after ferocious repression, the Civil War was ended. The KKE ranks had fought heroically. But needless to say, the KKE learned nothing from the tragic consequences of its treachery and continues to pursue its bankrupt program of subordination to theGreek bourgeoisie.

What the Trotskyists wrote at the end of World War II holds true for the role of the Stalinists throughout the Civil War:

“The Greek masses were burning with revolutionary determination and wished to prepare the overthrow of all their oppressors—Nazi and Greek. Instead of providing the mass movement with a revolutionary program, similar to the Bolshevik program of 1917, and preparing the masses for the seizure of power, the Stalinists steered the movement into the blind alley of People’s Frontism. The Stalinists, who enjoyed virtual hegemony of the mass movement, joined with a lot of petty bourgeois politicians, lawyers, professors, who had neither mass following nor influence, and artificially worked to limit the struggle to the fight for capitalist democracy.”

—“Civil War in Greece,” Fourth International, February 1945

The


and Germany. German chancellor Angela Merkel, unpopular at home and with a shrinking majority in the Bundestag (parliament), has clashed with French officials and with the ECB over whether the bankers have to accept some losses. Following pressure from the IMF, Merkel agreed to a new bailout package while the French banks have offered to roll over Greek debts for 30 years. Whatever divisions there may be within bourgeois circles over how to deal with the catastrophic financial situation, in Germany, France, Britain and Europe as a whole, each government is determined to make the working masses pay for a crisis that is caused by the capitalist system itself.

The EU is an imperialist trade bloc, centered on a pact between the French and German capitalist rulers to ratchetup the exploitation of the working classes at home while trying to gain advantage over their imperialist rivals as well as the smaller European states. At the same time, the EU is an unstable formation that intensifies national antagonisms and fuels chauvinism.

We Marxists oppose the EU from the perspective of proletarian internationalism. The comrades of our German section, the Spartakist Workers Party, last year published an article titled “Solidarity with the Greek Workers! For Class Struggle Against the German Capitalists!” (Spartakist No. 183, May 2010), which noted:

“The chauvinist campaign against Greece is being set in motion so as to prevent the German working class from hitting on the idea of placing blame for the crisis at the feet of the capitalist system and its own rulers. The workers


Workers Revolution to Expropriate the Bourgeoisie!

OCTOBER 25—An amorphous group of protesters, ranging from student youth and jobless workers to veteran liberal activists, has now been camping out in Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park under the banner of “Occupy Wall Street” (OWS) for over a month. With its rallies and marches in New York City drawing from a few hundred to over 10,000 people, OWS has tapped into widespread anger over corporate profit-gouging, mass unemployment and stark economic inequalities.

Similar occupations have spread to Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and many other cities and towns across the country, even as police have repeatedly attacked and arrested large numbers of protesters. On October 15, hundreds of thousands turned out across Europe and elsewhere for solidarity demonstrations with OWS, which itself has drawn inspirationmade to swallow lower wages, with their benefits shredded and their pensions looted by the bosses and bankers. With the trade unions taking it on the chin, many workers have greeted the OWS protests as an outlet for their own anger. Meanwhile, the bulk of the capitalist ruling class has made out like bandits, with the Obama White House, following George W. Bush, showering hundreds of billions in bailouts onto the banks and auto companies. Fed up with government lies, foreign wars, the ban on marijuana and worsening unemployment, one protester in Phoenix said, “All the world’s problems run downhill, and I’m at the bottom.”

Many young occupiers are participating in their first political protest, and most enthusiastically embrace its democratic pretensions and “grassroots” origins, seeing the potential to


movement reached the peak of its influence in 1896, when the Democrats ostensibly adopted its aims and Populist leader William Jennings Bryan won the Democratic presidential nomination, losing in November to Republican William McKinley.

The Populists were initially a multiracial movement, encompassing poor white and black farmers as well as small businessmen. But the heroic efforts of its organizers in the South were defeated when the local ruling class launched a wave of racist demagogy and violence. Many Populist leaders, such as Tom Watson in Georgia, turned against impoverished blacks and openly embraced racism. Many did this to carve out a niche in the Southern Democratic Party, which ruled over the Jim Crow system of entrenched racial segregation through police-state terror supplemented by the KKK’s extralegal violence. On theother hand, the Populist movement also included people who would become key figures in the labor and socialist movements.

The Populist movement emerged in the period when the U.S. was preparing to enter the world stage as an imperialist power, one of a handful of advanced capitalist countries whose competition for spheres of exploitation around the world would lead to the devastation of two world wars and countless colonial wars. As Lenin described, imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism: the economy is dominated by monopolies, with the capital of the large banks combining with the capital of industrial corporations.

This crucial understanding is completely blurred by populist ideology. As we wrote in our 1997-98 series “Wall Street and the War Against Labor”:

“Central to the liberal populist outlook is a


heterogeneous and highly stratified social layer comprising, among others, students, professionals and small businessmen. Lacking social power and its own class perspective, the petty bourgeoisie is incapable of offering an alternative to capitalism. As the Trotskyist James Burnham wrote in the 1930s, during an earlier period of economic crisis and mass discontent, “The middle classes are seeking a way out of their impasse. But they have no possible way out of their own. And at last they must, in whole or in a division, face the ultimate choice: to line up behind one of the two basic classes and its program, to swing to the side of the bourgeoisie or the proletariat” (The People’s Front: The New Betrayal, 1937).

A case in point is Adbusters, the Canadian magazine thatplants in Flint, Michigan, in 1936-37, winning recognition of the United Auto Workers, they were part of a militant wave of labor struggle that gave rise to the CIO industrial unions. Those struggles were pitched battles between the workers on one side and the cops, company thugs and capitalist courts and government on the other.

After decades of defeats for labor, most young activists view the working class as irrelevant to struggles for economic justice. Setting the stage for those defeats, the bureaucratic misleaders of the labor movement by and large abandoned the class-struggle methods that built the unions. In their role as the capitalists’ labor lieutenants, they tie workers to their class enemy by promoting the interests of U.S. imperialism and supporting the Democratic Party.

The occupation of the


Wisconsin State Capitol earlier this year ended in defeat precisely because the union leadership refused to use labor’s strike weapon, instead diverting protest into a (failed) campaign to recall Republican politicians. The result is that the state’s public sector unions have been decimated. Facing a great deal of disillusion with President Obama, who is a Wall Street Democrat, a good section of the trade-union officialdom has endorsed the OWS protests, seeing in them a means of re-energizing liberal support for Obama in the 2012 elections. The same purpose drives pseudo-socialists like the International Socialist Organization and Workers World Party, whose hailing of the OWS protests is but the latest chapter in their history of reformist pressure politics.

The Fraud of Bourgeois Democracy

No protest movement will convince the capitalist rulingdefine the OWS protests is the invitation offered by one organizer to former Polish president Lech Walesa to speak at Zuccotti Park. Walesa was the principal leader of Solidarność, which originated in 1980 out of workers strikes in the Polish deformed workers state but rapidly adopted an openly counterrevolutionary program for the restoration of capitalist rule. This was the only “union” beloved by the likes of right-wing U.S. president Ronald Reagan and his British counterpart, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. With the backing of the U.S. and European imperialists, the pro-capitalist labor bureaucracies and the Catholic church, Solidarność became the principal force for capitalist counterrevolution in Poland. We denounced Solidarność at the time as a company union for the CIA, bankers and the Vatican.

The government led by Walesa that


but my recent escapade with one reader takes the cake as they used to say in the old days. As the headline above indicates I have been doing a serious of reviews of B-grade film noirs by the English Hammer Production Company from the early 1950s. A B-grade film noir is one that is rather thin on plotline and maybe film quality usually made on the cheap although some of the classics with B-film noir queen Gloria Grahame have withstood the test of time despite that quality. I contrasted those with the classics like The Maltese Falcon, Out Of The Past, The Big Sleep, and The Last Man Standing to give the knowledgeable reader an idea of the different. In the current series the well-known Hollywood producer Robertwas that the next review was a stripped down version of the previous reviews which I assumed would satisfy her complaint. Not so. Using the name Nora Charles, the well-known distaff side of the Dashiell Hammett-inspired film series The Thin Man from the 1930s and early 1940s starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, she still taunted me with that odious expression of hers. (By the way one of the pitfalls of citizen journalism, citizen commentary on-line is that one can use whatever moniker one wants to say the most unsavory things and not fame any blow-back.

Here is the “skinny” on the film under review The Unholy Four (released in England and on the continent as A Stranger Came Home which as usual in this series is closer to


the nub since in fact a stranger does come home to face all kinds of hell) in any case as is my wont and let dear sweet Nora suffer through another review-if she dares. Four guys, four rich guys not of the nobility in England anyway, took a trip not shown trip to Portugal and only three came back. One guy vanished for four years and as the film opens up he shows up unannounced one party night. The guy, a guy named Phil, had this dishy wife, Angie, played by fading American screen star Paulette Goddard the first female fading star in the series which as mentioned before jacks up the film more than if there were only English nobodies playing the roles, who the other threehim in the slammer and throw away the key. That second problem is that Phil is not altogether sure that good-looking if faded whorish Angie wasn’t playing footsie with one or more of the guys while Phil was lost in the rain out in Lisbon waiting with Victor Lazlo for some airfare to the States. She has a hell of a time trying to persuade Phil and the coppers for a bit that she did rub the dead man out. With only two guys left though Phil honed in on the killer and his lamester reasons for bopping Phil and killing the other dude. Phil lays the dude down and he and Angie head off into the sunset or something like that. For a while the film took


think about it before you dismiss the idea
out of hand if only because the whole scheme is very much in the conditional.
Rosa and Karl, among others made almost every mistake in the book before and
during the Spartacist uprising in some of the main German cities in late 1918
after the German defeat in the war. Their biggest mistake before the uprising
was sticking with the Social Democrats, as a left wing, when that party had
turned at best reformist and eminently not a vehicle for the socialist
revolution, or even a half-assed democratic “revolution” which is what they got
with the overthrow of the Kaiser. They broke too late, and subsequently too
late from a slightly more left-wing Independent Socialist Party which had split
from the S-D when that party became the leading war partyLenin and Trotsky. We work to mobilize youth in struggle as partisans of the working class, championing the liberation of black people, women and all the oppressed. The SYCs fight to win youth to the perspective of building the Leninist vanguard party that will lead the working class in socialist revolution, laying the basis for a world free of capitalist exploitation and imperialist slaughter."

This seems to me be somewhere in the right direction for what a Bolshevik youth group should be doing these days; a proving ground to become professional revolutionaries with enough wiggle room to learn from their mistakes, and successes. More later.
********Karl Liebknecht
Revolutionary Socialism in Germany

Note: Karl Liebknecht was sent to prison by the government of the Kaiser for four and one-half years because of propaganda


against the war. Released from prison by the Revolution, Liebknecht is now the dynamic individual expression of the Revolution.

On August 4, 1914, the representatives of the Social-Democratic Party in the Reichstag, speaking through their official spokesman, Hugo Haase, approved and voted for the first war credit. On the second credit, Karl Liebknecht voted "No!" On December 21, 1915, eighteen Social Democratic representatives, the Haase-Ledebour Group, voted against the fifth war credit, and on March 21, 1916, they voted against a special credit. This created a storm, the eighteen were expelled from the Social Democratic Party.

Many Socialists considered that these eighteen represented revolutionary Socialism, that they voted against the war because of revolutionary convictions. This was not the fact, as Karl Liebknecht makes amply clear in this article tothe comrades, written after March 21, almost two years ago.

The eighteen of the Haase-Ledebour group subsequently organized the Independent Socialist Party. This party was neither one thing nor the other; it was against the war, but not on definite Socialist issues; it wanted to go back to the days before August 4, instead of forward to the new tactics and the new International. Liebknecht and other revolutionary Socialists in Germany attacked this party; and today the Independent Socialist Party, by its wavering and essentially counter-revolutionary policy, is confirming the analysis Liebknecht makes in this article of their tendency. The intellectual expression of this party is Karl Kautsky, the moderate and compromiser, the man who manufactured one theoretical justification after another for the Social Democratic Party's abandonment of Socialist


principles, the man who declared four years ago that all Socialists were justified in supporting their governments since all nations were on the defensive.

This article of Liebknecht's is an historic document and deserves the serious study of every Socialist.

What was the meaning of March 24, 1916? The eighteen delegates who finally decided on December 21, 1915, to vote against the first war credit, voted on March 24th openly against the proposed special war budget. While in December they issued a "declaration," they now gave the motives for their vote in a speech. The content of this speech, however, did not go beyond the declaration of December. Even the excuse that Germany was safe against invasion was again brought forward. What was it then that caused a sensation onMarch 24th? It was the wild uproar of the Socialist majority, together with the bourgeois parties, the infamous attitude of the president, the expulsion of the eighteen from the official party parliamentary group. But in this action, the eighteen were "object" and not "subject"; this action was forced upon them and they disliked a rupture so much, that they tried their best to avoid, still in January, 1916, an open break with the treacherous majority, as well as tumultuous scenes against bourgeois parties. And even now on March 24, 1916, they play the part of offended innocence rather than that of showing the clenched fist of rebellion.

What, then, is the meaning of March 24th? A true opinion can only be formed in connection with the general situation. The


by the ultimate aim of the war, as the result of a struggle of groups of capitalists for the control of the war-policy according to the sharpening of the war political situation, and a fight for political power in home policy, in which the scene was carefully prepared to stage Bethman-Wollweg as a liberal and moderate Imperialist, in order to facilitate the treacherous policy of the leaders of the party and labor unions. The delegate of the eighteen even went so far as to advocate again the abolition of the right of confiscation, to attack the English capitalists instead of the German Government at a moment in which this latter Government capitulated before the most unscrupulous war fanatics and needed the most energetic opposition. This policy means atries to move around between warring armies will be shot from both sides, unless he saves his life in time by joining one party or the other, where, however, he will be received not as a hero, but as a fugitive. The way of the eighteen was a round about way, and not a pleasant one either. Not one advantage worth while to a serious man in this serious period has been gained by this delay.

The masses were ripe for the test already at the beginning of the war. They would not have failed. The only result of the hesitation and doubt has been the strengthening of poisonous opportunism.

Uncompromising Socialist action against the war, against those who caused it, who profit by it, who want to continue to


support the war! Also against the supporters of those who slander the name of Social Democrats. Against the policy of the majority, against the National Committee and the Executive Committee of the party, against the Central Committee of the labor unions and all instances of the party and the unions that carry this treacherous policy. To counteract this policy with all means is now the main issue of the war against war. A struggle to gain the majority against the party, misrepresented by the demagogues of the majority. A struggle for democracy in the party, for the rights of the masses of the comrades, against the failing and treacherous leaders, who form the main supporters of the war. Against all of those who in peace time have playedinto the hands of militarism by opposing mass action in favor of law and order, and who now hang around in the waiting rooms of the army headquarters and the imperial ministers.

Now is the moment to throw away all formal considerations. The party machinery is used ever more and more without scruple by the bureaucrats to enforce their policy. Autocratic decisions are standard features in the party. After the methods of von Puttkamer, power is used to force the opposition, the meanest methods of Prussian-Russian policy brutality are used by the party leaders against the minority. The independence of the party press is disregarded with growing brutality by the so-called party majority. Even the censorship of martial law is beaten by the docile scholars of the military terror


of the official Socialist party. War against this party all along the line, to conquer the party for the party! War against the traitors and usurpers, who must be driven from their jobs by mandates laden with the disgust of the workers!

Reconquering of the party from the bottom up through revolt of the masses, who will have to take their organization into their own hands! Not only words, but deeds! Away with all doubt and cowardice! Away with half friends, feeble lily of the swamp! Away with half friends, feeble mindedness and sentimentalists! Those are out of place where the fight is heart against heart. The struggle for a decision in the party is on! It must be fought without and consideration for the sacrilegists, the traitors, thespace formed at the other end of the air tank and the driving mechanism.
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and submission, preserve and organize the archives.- To manage the use of Institute and Office seals and copy documents exactly issued by the Institute in accordance with the law.- To receive and transfer documents, keep the documents confidential in accordance with the law, and ensure information smoothly inside and outside the Institute.- To perform assigned reception and festivities, serve meeting, living rooms and workrooms of Institute leadership daily, and arrange the use of meeting rooms by the target unit, greet and instruct guests about jobs in the Institute.

3. Staff organization:- To assist the Director of Institute in staff organization of the Institute based on present regulations of the Governnment and the Ministry of Science and Technology.- To coordinate with related units, construct, adjust and supplement regulations of organizationand activities of the Institute and units according to leaders’ request.- To advise and assist the Director of Institute in planning, training, recruitmnet, appointment and reappointment, dismissal, transfer, evaluation and discipline with officers.- To manage and update personnel records, statistics and reports based on regulations, certify papers for officials, employees and workers according to recorded papers of the Institute.- To coordinate with relevant units in planning and organizing the training activities for officials, employees and workers.- To coordinate with relevant units in protection of internal politics, verification and identification of personnel records.- To implement, disseminate and instruct units of the Institute in policies on salary, allowance and social security and other policies with officials, employees and workers in the Institute under present regulations.- To be permanent in recruitment,


sports activities for officials, officers and employees.- To develop and manage tradition room, retain and preserve gifts, mementos, pictures, videos and medal of the Institute.

7. Management of facilities, assets, internal management and others:- To manage allocated assets and facilities, propose solutions and procedures of transferring assets based on current regulations,manage and guarantee facilities and working conditions of the Director of Institute and units.- To implement governance and repair allocated facilities, and purchase assets for operation and activities of the Institute assigned by the Director and based on present regulations.- Tocoordinate with related units, to develop, organize and instruct regulations about the use of facilities in the Institute.- To coordinate with Finance – Planning Department to inventory and evaluate the quality and value of assets, caculate depreciation and liquidateMiles from the glitz of the 85 Academy Awards, a group of university students will be waiting, with crossed fingers, to learn if multiple Oscar-nominee "Beasts of the Southern Wild" wins.

Not just because of an Oscar pool. Thirty-three students from San Francisco's Academy of Art University worked for months to craft most of the post-production visual-effects for the independent feature.

Staged in a poverty-stricken Louisiana bayou, "Beasts" is up for four Oscars, including Best Picture - a coup for a film made on a shoestring $1.5 million budget, "without name actors and relying on baby pigs to be our monsters," said the film's producer Josh Penn.

The fantasy drama, narrated by an imaginative 6-year-old called Hushpuppy (played by Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis), was no easy visual feat, encompassing explosions, relentless


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We have characterized the morphology of the yeast endocytic pathway leading from the plasma membrane to the vacuole by following the trafficking of positively charged nanogold in combination with compartment identification using immunolocalization of t-SNARE proteins. The first endocytic compartment, termed the early/recycling endosome, contains the t-SNARE, Tlg1p. The next compartment, the prevacuolar compartment, contains Pep12p. After transport to the prevacuolar compartment, where vacuolar enzymes are seen on their way to the vacuole, endocytic content is delivered to the late endosome and on to the vacuole, both of which are devoid of Pep12p immunolabel. Traffic to the prevacuolar compartment is reduced in strains mutant for the Rab5 homologs, Vps21p, Ypt52p, and Ypt53p and in vps27 mutant cells. On the other hand,


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was packed and the over/under on neck tattoos was set low at 3. Plenty of silver and black in the crowd and they cheered Oakland's wholesale dismantling of Jon Kitna's Lions (pause for reflection on that state of affairs), which was probably just as well. If Bobby had anything to cheer about, the likelyhood of us getting shivved would have risen exponentially with each whoop. Yet, even in a crowd of multiple-silver-chain-wearing Beer Hunters, a certain refinement expressed itself in curious ways, like the run-down slob in the ratty jeans and tattered tee who, after washing his hands in the restroom, used a towel to open the door. Whether he was keeping himself safe from germs or doing the rest of us the favor of not passing themthe problem, he has found a job near to his apartment and avoids trains whenever possible. On occasions when rail travel is unavoidable, he steers clear of express trains, as there are fewer opportunities to “escape” should panic set in, he explains. Medication, too, has sometimes helped.

One likely cause of this continuing condition, he believes, is guilt — guilt that in the aftermath of the March 11, 2011, disasters that struck northeastern Japan and claimed 18,455 lives (including 2,561 still listed as missing), he was powerless to prevent the accident that occurred at his place of work, the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

“At the beginning I wasn’t even aware of my condition, or I felt somehow separate from it and from what was happening,” says Idogawa, a


stress responses (PTSR), including flashbacks and avoidance of reminders of the terrifying events they went through.

Around 1 in 5 Tepco workers at neighboring Fukushima No. 2 plant also showed similarly high levels of PSTR, even though there was no serious damage to the four reactors there.

Jun Shigemura, an associate professor at the National Defense Medical College’s department of psychiatry, sits at his office in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, on Aug. 15. | ROB GILHOOLY

Continued surveys of the workers by Shigemura, an associate professor at the National Defense Medical University’s Department of Psychiatry, and other experts say that while the overall influence of disaster-related experiences on PTSR of workers had decreased since 2011, it remains high.

“For some workers, this is going to continue for a long time, probably years andthe control room into complete darkness and disarray.

With monitoring apparatus also dependent on power, there was no way of knowing for certain if coolants were still reaching the reactor cores. Believing that this was unlikely, by midnight Idogawa calculated that the first reactor, and probably the second, were already in meltdown.

This was supported by readings on portable monitoring devices that showed radiation levels inside the control room were climbing. Idogawa joined all the other operators on the reactor 2 side of the windowless room, only venturing over toward the opposite first reactor side, where radiation levels were considerably higher, to make occasional, but futile, checks of the lifeless instruments.

Over the next two days, he remained inside the control room, still in the dark about the safety of his


and early respondents to the disasters will not display similar long-term mental health problems. This includes personnel from Tepco’s various subcontracting companies and members of Tokyo Fire Department’s Hyper Rescue brigade, who entered the plant on March 17, 2011, in an attempt to pump water onto the overheating reactor 3.

Yukio Takayama, former deputy superintendent and chief of the 8th district Hyper Rescue battalion, revisits his former workplace in Tachikawa on July 13. | ROB GILHOOLY

One of the leaders of that Tokyo Fire Department team, Yukio Takayama, who was at the time deputy superintendent of the 8th district Hyper Rescue battalion based in the city of Tachikawa, says a number of firefighters had been deeply affected by the thought of entering such a highly irradiated part of the plant,places strong caveats on a causal interpretation. Further experimental investigation into this controversial field is thus warranted.

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The authors thank the following individuals: Steve Batson, Tim Bonicci, Jonathon Cooper, Nicola Cooper, Charles Crichton, Jim Davies, Ben Glampson, James Hetherington, Finola Higgins, Shaun Hyett, Leonardo de Jongh, Hasmita Maisuria, Abdul Mulla, Theresa Noble, Dimitri Papadimitriou, David Perez-Suarez, Angela Poland, Luis Romao, Sinan Shi, Andrew Tsui, Kinga Varnai, James Welch, Ray Wells, Danny Wong, and Kerrie Woods.

Supported by the Biomedical Research Centres based at the University College Hospitals National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust and University College London, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Imperial College London, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Cambridge, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Oxford, and Guy's


of the receiver panel to cover and protect the headers. The shields may extend along a side edge of the receiver panel to prevent overheating by solar radiation of edge zones of the receiver panel. The prior art shields are made of a ceramic material to withstand the occurring high temperatures caused by concentrated radiation. The application of ceramic shields has not been proved satisfying. First, the ceramic shields reflect a part of the solar radiation that was focussed by the Heliostats on the solar receiver back to the environment and thereby reducing the conversion from solar energy to thermal energy in the solar receiver. Secondly, the ceramic shields have proven to be very vulnerable for damage due to brittleness of the material and the daily warm upVirginia Gov. Ralph Northam was clinging to his job Tuesday amid indications that he might not be forced out if he refuses to quit amid the firestorm over racist yearbook photos from more than three decades ago.

Northam, a Democrat, has emerged from staff and Cabinet meetings in recent days without addressing the calls for his resignation from both sides of the aisle. If he doesn't walk away, it would take a bipartisan effort to remove him.

Republican State House Speaker Kirk Cox said he has no plans to try to force Northam out. Cox called for Northam to resign, saying he no longer has the authority to lead the state, but he said Northam might not meet the constitutional provisions for impeachment, including misbehavior while in office or mental


Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000.

"I think there's a rush to judgment that is unfair to him," Lieberman told CNN. "He ought to be judged in the context of his whole life."

Northam was bathed in the national spotlight Friday when a photo from his page in his 1984 medical school yearbook was published by the conservative website Big League Politics and went viral. The photo showed one person in blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan robe.

More:Northam photo scandal and race relations

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Dutton refuses to budge on Dusty's dad

by Matt Coughlan

18th Feb 2020 9:25 AM

HOME Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has slammed the door shut on the exiled father of AFL superstar Dustin Martin returning to Australia from New Zealand.

Shane Martin failed in his bid to return to Australia last weekend after claiming he had Aboriginal heritage, following a landmark High Court ruling that indigenous people could not be deported.

"Part of the reason that we kick out people with severe criminal histories, like Mr Martin, is that we want to make sure that people don't commit crimes again in our country," Mr Dutton told the Nine Network on Tuesday.

Mr Martin says he has an Aboriginal grandmother from Tasmania.

But Mr Dutton


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Months after ending his brief vanity run at the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump is still striving to inject himself into the presidential election.
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Months after ending his brief vanity run at the Republican presidential nomination, business mogul Donald Trump is still striving to inject himself into the presidential election.

The real estate titan's latest bid for attention came with his declaration on Monday on Fox News, when Trump ominously referenced a bombshell he is set to drop later in the week -- a piece of information, he implied, that will reflect poorly on President Barack Obama.

"I have something very, very big concerning the president of the United States," Trump said. "It's very big, bigger than anyone would know."

We've been here before. Earlier


this year, conservative provocateur Andrew Breitbart, who has since died, breathlessly built up the expectation for an incriminating video that turned out to be a much younger Obama, then a student at Harvard Law School, speaking at a rally in favor of greater faculty diversity.

So don't count on Trump changing the course of the election. Then again, such things have happened before: last-minute developments that help sway the outcome. Here is a list of some of the more famous ones:

Nixon's secret plan: In 1968, Richard Nixon said he had a blueprint to extricate the United States from its increasingly unpopular war in Vietnam. Nixon's so-called "secret plan" to end the war -- a phrase coined by a reporter but never disavowed by Nixon -- helped him win thepresidency, but his supposed route out of Vietnam did not materialize. In fact, he prolonged and expanded the conflict.

Iran hostages: The 1980 election was dominated by the 52 Americans being held in captivity in Iran after the Islamic revolution that overthrew the U.S-backed regime of the Shah. President Jimmy Carter's attempts to free the hostages prior to the election foundered, helping Ronald Reagan win in November. Critics charged afterward that Reagan and his running mate, George H.W. Bush, had struck a deal to delay the hostages' release until after the presidential contest, allegations that have never been confirmed.

Iran-Contra: Shortly before the 1992 presidential election, Caspar Weinberger, who served as Reagan's secretary of defense, was indicted for his alleged involvement in the Iran-Contra affair, a scandal in which officials


sold weapons to Iran, despite an arms embargo, to help fund anti-government rebels in Nicaragua. President George H.W. Bush pardoned Weinberger after losing the election.

Bush drunk driving: Just days before the 2000 election, a reporter confirmed that George W. Bush had been arrested in 1976 for driving under the influence in Maine. The episode came during Bush's wilder days, before he found religion and gave up drinking, and the Texas governor ended up winning the presidency in a contentious, razor-thin election.

Osama bin Laden video: It may seem hard to remember given how little foreign policy has played a role in this election, but the Bush administration's "War on Terror" -- particularly the decision to invade Iraq -- was the pivot on which the 2004 election swung. Bush arguedWATCH: Anthony Joshua trains in world's highest boxing ring

The 28-year-old from Watford holds the IBF, WBA and IBO belts and has been called out by fellow world champions Deontay Wilder and Joseph Parker after beating Carlos Takam at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff last month.


was mentioned consistently–it also became clear that each city battles very specific problems. In post-Katrina New Orleans, for example, the slow rebuilding of supermarkets and a growing reliance on corner stores stocked with junk food posed a unique predicament. Over the years Oklahoma City has become a prime breeding ground for fast food franchises when developers capitalized on cheap land and minimal traffic congestion.

Though the debate over how to solve this nationwide crisis is still under way, experts talk of “reshaping the environment” to foster increased physical activity while cities experiment with new approaches to promoting public health. The end goal is to shrink waistlines, decrease chronic health diseases caused by obesity and inactivity, and encourage a fitter populace.

Reshaping The Environment

Memphis, the most sedentary city on our list,landed at the top for scoring high on every indicator. In terms of BMI, 65% of the population is overweight or obese. Though the city is slightly behind the national rate at 66%, about 30% of its residents neglect to exercise regularly. Combined with the 41 hours of TV watched per week–the national average is 30, assuming that patterns remain relatively constant–the numbers revealed the extent of Memphis’ problem.

“We have heavily invested in a sedentary, sprawling lifestyle,” says Tom Jones, a Memphis-based consultant for Smart City Consulting.

Jones’ former colleague, Carol Coletta, president of the nonprofit organization CEOs for Cities, also points out that the economically bifurcated population, lack of transit options, unwalkable neighborhoods and favored Southern cuisine are a “deadly formula” for the city.

To combat worsening public health,


Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Chennai, Nov 23 (ANI): Father of newly-crowned World Chess Champion praised Viswanathan Anand and said that Magnus Carlsen has learned a lot from him. Magnus Carlsen became the world chess champion as Game 10 of the chess championship ended in a draw in Chennai. Father of Magnus Carlsen, Henrik Carlsen expressed happiness and said everything has come out in the best possible way. While talking to journalists after the match, Henrik Carlsen praised Anand and said Magnus had learnt a lot from him.

Amul, with the tag line, 'The taste of India' is well known for funny and witty ads featuring the famous 'Amul girl'. Their advertisements are a tradition in themselves featuring the most-talked about event of the week in India. Amul is an Indiandairy cooperative, and is sometimes even referred to as Anand (!!!) Milk Union Limited because it is based in Anand, Gujarat.

Monday, November 25, 2013

Newly-crowned World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen on Monday took home a prize money of Rs 9.90 crore after he beat Viswanathan Anand in a keenly-watched contest that spanned over 10 days.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha gave away the prize money and trophies to the Norwegian sensation and the Indian veteran at a short ceremony that lasted about ten minutes.

Carlsen, the second youngest player after Garry Kasparov to win the coveted chess title of World Chess Champion, was awarded a gold-plated trophy, whose design was handpicked by Jayalalithaa, gold medal and an olive garland (wreath) at the private hotel where the two players had vied


for the championship last week.

Anand, a five-time world champion whose title was wrested by the young challenger with a stupendous 6.5-3.5 score, had to settle for the runner-up prize money of Rs 6.03 crore, a silver plaque and silver medal.

FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov presented the respective medals to Carlsen and Anand.

The olive wreath, presented to Carlsen, was made of olive leaves from Nilgiris in the state.

The closing ceremony had no speeches, only background announcements in Tamil and English. National anthems of both Norway and India were also played.

Jayalalithaa gave away the winner's gold trophy to Carlsen, amid loud cheers from supporters. She also honoured the 22-year-old Norwegian with an olive garland from the Nilgiri hills, while World Chess Federation president Kirsan Illyumzhinov presented him a gold medal. MagnusCarlsen earned US $1,582,732/€ 1,169,883 for his efforts. Anand, who lost the crown in his home city, was rewarded with prize money of US $964,028/€ 711,021 and a silver medal.

Carlsen became the new world chess champion after defeating Anand by 6.5-3.5 in 12 game match held between November 7 and 22. The crucial tenth game went in a draw and favoured Carlsen to claim the title.

Former world champion Viswanathan Anand, who had checked out of the Presidential Suite on Saturday morning, came directly from his home and left after the ceremony.

Anand was dressed formally in tie and jacket and Carlsen had his jacket on. The venue was the same hall in which the ten games were played. Over 500 people attended the crowded ceremony which also witnessed huge


security personnel both inside and outside the hotel. -- PTI/Official website

Friday, November 22, 2013

Five-time title-holder Viswanathan Anand's reign as the world chess champion came to an end today with Norway's Magnus Carlsen taking the crown after a hard-fought draw in the 10th game of the World Chess Championship Match.

Carlsen, who will be 23 years on 30th November, closed the championship with two games to spare by taking his tally to required 6.5 points out of a possible ten, winning three and drawing seven games.

In what could be marked as the dawn of a new era in the chess world, Carlsen showed stellar effort yet again by not going for a tame draw when one was enough for him to take the title home.

Instead, the Norwegian made Anand sufferfor a long and gruelling four hours and forty five minutes before the Indian could heave a sigh of relief in what was the most one-sided world championship match in modern history.

Anand had won the world championship title five times -- 2000, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012 -- but ironically was dethroned in his home town of Chennai.

In a dubious first, this was the only time that Anand failed to win a single game in a world chess championship match.

Starting with his journey in 1991, Anand had always scored at least one victory in each of the matches that he played in the last 22 years.

Carlsen was in his elements right through the tenth game getting what he wanted out of the opening and then pursuing on his favourite


for white but Carlsen did not go for the draw. It was on the 21st move that many pundits believed both players will be happy to repeat moves.

Carlsen for obvious reasons and Anand because there was not much hope. However, the Norwegian was the first to deviate from a possible repetition.

Anand found some solace after trading another set of minor pieces but the pressure remained on the Indian. Carlsen went for his final liquidation plan on the 28th move when he pushed his king pawn to fifth rank. Anand temporarily parted with a pawn and recovered it some moves later but this led the game to a pure knight and pawns endgame.

To make matters worse for Anand, Carlsen retained his small advantage as his king quickly walked overto the king side and penetrated the fifth rank. Anand’s knight and king were confined to the defense and to stop further damage.

The players reached the first time control in just three hours when 40 moves were completed but by then it was also clear that either Carlsen will win or it will be a draw. In either case Anand’s campaign was coming to an end and it was a pretty unpleasant task for the five times world champion.

As the game progressed both the players were engrossed in their own ways. Anand showed some signs of nervousness while Carlsen at one point leaned like ‘the Crocodile’ he wants to be if he was an animal. Relaxed but ready to eat the prey when they came its way.

The situation


took another dramatic turn on the 46th move when Carlsen sank in to a long thought. The Norwegian looked at the possibilities of sacrificing his last remaining pieces and this is what he did a couple of moves later. In return, Anand lost all his pawns and the players promoted new queens on the board.

Anand had an extra Knight but Carlsen had Queen and a couple of dangerous looking pawns on the queen side.

Finding just the right moves, Anand forced an exchange pretty soon leading to a forced draw. The epic game lasted 65 moves.

Apart from the winning the title, Carlsen will also take home 60 per cent of around Rs. 14 crore as part of his winner’s purse.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Game 9 Press Conference at Chennai WorldChess Championship Match 2013: His title defense in tatters after suffering another loss, world chess champion Viswanathan Anand today said he was left with little choice and decided to go for the kill in the ninth game as he had to drastically change the course of the World Chess Championship Match.

Going into the ninth game today with a two-game deficit, Anand said he had to give it a shot.

“In general, the match situation did not leave me with much of a choice. I had to give it a shot, I saw a couple of moments where I could exit but I decided to give it a shot. It seemed very dangerous for black,” the defending champion said.

The Indian Grandmaster mentioned it was a moment of excitement that led


from the remaining three games to become the new world chess champion.

It was a Nimzo Indian defense that Carlsen chose as Black and Anand, realising well that this was his last chance for a strike, went for the Saemisch variation.

Anand had used this system before, in the World Chess Championship match against Vladimir Kramnik, and later in a gem of a match against Wang Hao of China.

Carlsen showed some signs of nervousness in the early stages of the middlegame after he went for a line that is not favoured at top level chess. Anand got his chances by way of a Kingside attack while Carlsen had no option, but to push harder on the other flank. The position in the middlegame looked very dangerous for Carlsen, but withprecise calculations, he kept himself in the game.

Even till the end of the game, Carlsen's Queen and one Bishop remained on the initial squares as mere spectators to the proceedings, while he defended his position with all other available resources.

On the 22nd move, Anand had about 25 minutes more than Carlsen and optically dominating position, but the Norwegian World No. 1 had calculated that his King was guarded against any checkmate threats.

On the 23rd move, Anand spent nearly 40 minutes and decided to continue the attack instead of equalising once again. This was more to do with match situation as Anand had things under control but another drawn result would not have improved the match situation.

The 28-move game gave the World No. 1 a three-point lead in the