The following month the group debuted the video for their single "Fifth Helena Drive" featuring local Toronto venue Sneaky Dee's, the same day the restaurant announced their collaborative dish "Fifth Helena Homefries".

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# Watch Toronto Post-Hardcore Unit Sparrows' New Video for "Fifth Helena Drive"

Toronto post-hardcore act Sparrows are preparing for the release of their upcoming record, Failed Gods, but first, they're dropping a video for their latest single "Fifth Helena Drive."

The song's hard-hitting tones are coupled with some haunting melodies reminiscent of influences such as Deftones or Norma Jean.

Lead vocalist and guitarist Dan Thomson explains in a statement they intended to write a song heavy enough to pick up the pace of their live shows.

"'Fifth Helena Drive' was made for the stage.

We had every intention when working on the song, of being able to drop it into any set and bring the ruckus," Thomson said.

"It's strange because this song came out kind of in the middle of the writing of the record, but really felt like a transitional song for us.

But at the end of the day, it's a really darkly themed song that we were able to make into a tone-setter."

Thomson further said the video — shot at Toronto's Sneaky Dee's — should feel all too familiar for any regularly touring bands as they give their all to an empty room.

"Sparrows has always been a live band, but we wanted to try and bring a little dark humour to the usual live video," he explained.

"Anyone who has been on the road in the last few years with any regularity will likely relate to the vibe of this video.

It's sadly a little too real, nowadays."

The band are also headed out on a North American tour starting next month which you can see the dates to below.

Watch the video below and pre-order their album here.

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After releasing their first EP "Goliath" in May 2011 (with the addition of bassist Richard Hill and touring guitarist Krys Blaney) the group shifted into a complete lineup change the following January in which Devlin Morton, Brandon Dejardins, and Rembrandt MacLeod would replace Hill, Blaney, and Cellucci. The band released their LP "Cold Ground" in July 2013 through Broken Heart/Kat Kat Records before moving to Toronto and continuing to tour extensively performing across Canada and the United States including festivals; SXSW, NXNE, Canadian Music Week, and the Ottawa Bluesfest.
 In April 2014 Jon Busby, and Justin Sears would replace Morton, and MacLeod with Matthew Sears taking over from Brandon Dejardins during the fall of that same year. In 2015 the group was signed to Toronto-based aggressive rock label New Damage Records and shortly after released their second EP "Dragging Hell" in August of that year. Following the release of their EP bassist Matthew left the band (citing personal reasons) and was replaced by Kevin Dennison and after another series of North American tours the band released their debut LP "Let the Silence Stay Where It Was" in October 2016 on New Damage Records. In March of the following year bassist Kevin Dennison ended his tenure with the group with replacement Jaret Maillet stepping in until October 2017. Prior to the departure of Maillet the band supported Grammy Award winning American metalcore group Norma Jean during their "Polar Summer Tour".
 In May 2019 the group announced their third studio album "Failed Gods" via Sound Anxiety Records with the addition of bassist Jack Panic.


He competed in the men's eight event at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

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The facility is also extensively used to launch stratospheric research balloons; the runways used for a balloon launch are closed for aircraft traffic during the balloon launch process.

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# Stratospheric balloon launch bases and sites

Althought civilian air activity was common in Alice Springs since 1920, the military buildup in the north of Australia in the late 1930s saw the need for the establishment of an airport that could receive larger and heavier aircraft.

Thus, the Australian Department of Defence decided to built in 1940 the Seven Mile Aerodrome shifting the operations from the already established Town Site Drome.

Altought civilian aircraft were allowed to use the airport, due to his strategic location, during World War II its primary purpose was military, being used primarily by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and the United States Air Force, as the main transit base for transport planes bringing troops and supplies into the Pacific Theater of Operations and as a refuelling and staging facility.

At the end of the war, the military left the aerodrome and it returned to civilian use.

By 1946 several improvements were made including the installation of the first underground fuel tanks, a VHF radio range and meteorological facilities.

In 1958 the aerodrome became officially known as Alice Springs Airport and in 1961 a major improvement was made with the reconstruction of part of the existing Runway 12/30 and its extension to 2,4 km of longitude.

In 1965, the construction of a new passenger terminal and a fire station near the old installation marked the complete transfer of all activity to the current building area.

The only facilities that remained active then at the original airfield site (referred even today as the "Seven Mile Area") were those devoted to maintenance tasks.

# First uses of the airport to launch balloons

In 1960 was established on behalf the Departament of Supply (DOS) the first Australian Balloon Launch Station (ABLS) which was located at the Mildura airport in Victoria.

The main activity there was to support an atmospheric sampling program carried out by the United States Atomic Comission under a first intergovernment agreement which lasted almost seven years and that allowed the launch of near 600 balloons from the station.

Once finished a new document was signed reducing sharply the amount of missions devoted to the sampling effort but at the same time diversifying the research aims of the flights to other branches of Science as well to other users.

Scientific groups from around the world, realizing the potential of Australia as an excellent site for ballooning, became increasingly interested in performing flights from various locations within the continent.

The southerly latitude, combined with the large land mass in the east-west direction could yield extended observation times for astrophysical sources not easily visible from the northern hemisphere.

One of those locations was precisally the airport of Alice Springs from which were carried out many experiments in the field of Gamma Ray and X-Ray astronomy on those years.

Obviously in that times, the airport lacked of dedicated facilities so the balloon launches were performed under Mildura ABLS managment: generally all the necessary equipment and staff was transported by road and rail to Alice Springs during each campaign.

There were three main reasons to make such an effort each year: Population, Winds and Location.

The very low population density over Central Australia allowed to use heavy payloads and big balloons with less security restrictions and with very safe termination process margins, though the prevalence of semi-desertic landscapes over most of this region difficulted somewhat the recovery operations.

On regard the wind pattern, Alice Springs has two features worth noting: a low wind velocity regime that dominates the altitude range of 90,000 ft. to 110,000 ft. between March and November, giving a long period when flights with payloads that not need extreme altitudes (i.e. infrared) can be carried out and two turnaround periods, one in the October-November window with a duration of three to five weeks of slow moving winds above 120,000 ft and the other in March-April with somewhat short duration.

With careful preparation and timing, turnaround flights of over 60 hr duration can be achieved.

Finally, the site offered too better observing conditions than Mildura specially due to its latitude located nearer the declination of the Galactic Centre region along with a higher vertical cut-off rigidity.

All these factors led to the first era of scientific ballooning in Alice Spring, which would extend during the entire 70's decade.

The launch of the balloons is carried out from two runways which are closed to air traffic during the operations.

For inflation, Helium gas is used instead of Hydrogen as the extremely dry air of the zone can generate dangerous estatic discharges during balloon inflation.

As mentioned, the launch equipment available at the station is the same used for balloon operations at Mildura ABLS and allowed to launch balloons with a volume of up to 46.000.000 cubic feet, and payloads weighting up to 2 tons.

On regard telemetry, the LOS (Line of Sight) hardware is composed of receivers for downlink telemetry channels operating on 234.4, 253.8 and 255.1 MHz, with standard IRIG channels up to F, and transmitters with a power of 2 Watts feeding a quarter-wave ground plane antenna together with a quad-helical receiving antenna system with a gain of 21 dB.

The uplink system is composed of a transmiter of 50 w operating on 148.46 MHz coupled to two vertical and horizontal plane multi-element yagis antennas, allowing a reliable control of the payload in flight.

Two downrange stations were used, one located in Newman (West) and the other in Longreach (East) each one with a coverage of 700 kms in all directions.

Good telephone links were available between the two stations and Alice Spring with the possibility of data transfer at up to 9.6 kbs.

Althought the tracking of the balloons was performed visually using locally hired aircrafts, almost real time positional information was also available by the use of on-board Omega receivers or Argos transmitters.

Termination was also performed from aircrafts with the balloon in sight.

Due to the desertic and rough terrain, in addition to the 4-wheel drive vehicles owned by the station, recovery operations often requires the use of helicopters which are also hired.

Scientific ballooning in Australia would suffer two major changes during the 80's decade.

The first one was a direct consequence of severe funding troubles started at the end of the 70's decade: the closure of the Mildura ABLS in December 1980.

The station equipment was then moved to Alice Springs and the responsability for running the facility was transferred to the Physics Department at the University of Melbourne under direction of Prof. Ravi K. Sood.

The second change would occur in late 1981, with the entrance in the scene of NASA.

Between November and December that year the National Scientific Balloon Facility (now Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility) in charge of the managment of the NASA balloon program, succesfully launched the first six balloons from Alice Spring under a campaign fully managed and supported by NSBF.

This marked the start of some sort of dual mode balloon campaigns, some of them managed by the Australians launching their own payloads as well third part experiments offered by international collaborations and the others carried out by the Americans, launching mainly US scientific payloads and in some occasions Australian payloads as well.

Since the change of management in 1980 all flight operations at the station under Australian managment have been carried out by amateurs, mainly academics, researchers, technicians and students of the University.

Great part of the activity at the site took place in the 80's decade being launched dozens of missions in the field of Infrared, X-Ray and Gamma Ray astronomy as well were performed several others to measure high energy particles of galactic and cosmic origin.

This activity was focused mainly in campaigns performed in the summer that lasted several months.

Notably, a few missions on that decade were performed using a concept known as radiation controlled balloon or RACOON.

This development allowed to flight large, low-cost polyethylene balloons for several weeks without the need of use great amounts of ballast.

Those balloons made at the time crossings of the Pacific Ocean to Southamerica where the payload was recovered and even a few succeded in performing circumglobal flights with diverse results.

By the end of the decade a flood of scientists were looking to perform balloon missions in Australia to perform observations in all the high energy domain.

The reason was that after the discovery in 1987 of the SN1987A supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, soon was realized that Alice Spring offered a first class seat to analyze the event, only visible in the southern hemisphere.

Thus several missions were performed with this objective in the remainder of the 80's decade and the first years of the next, when the amount of launches started again to decrease.

In the first years of the XXI century, Alice Spring was choosen as the site to perform the first global flights of the NASA Ultra Long Duration Balloon (ULDB), a superpressure craft devoted to perform circumglobal flights of up to 100 days carrying a payload weighting a ton.

Nevertheless, none global flight was achieved due to several design flaws of the model used at that time.

Since those launches in 2003 an "impasse" took place in the activity of the station.

On one hand the intergovernmental agreement between Australia and the US for the accomplishment of these activities ended.

In the other, the NASA's balloon program decided to cancel the missions from Australia initially until 2007, to balance its accounts after extraordinary expenses that demanded the works of improvement of the Antarctic balloon facilities at the McMurdo base.

After the renewal of the agreement, NASA's balloon program started in 2008 an important upgrading to the launching facilities in the Seven Miles Area of the airport by constructing an additional Integration and Staging Building adjacent to the existing one as can be seen in the image at right (click to enlarge).

The new construction is a 60-foot by 60-foot building with enough space to allocate four integration bays for big payloads.

The older building will be used for the Electronics Shop and Ground Telemetry Station as well as integration building for up to two small payloads.

Much of the existing structures were also improved.

The main construction ended in October 2009, and during the rest of the year and the first two months of 2010 was carried out the internal outfitting of the buildings.

In early Febraury started to arrive the three scientific teams to launch their payloads.

The first flight was performed on middle April with a float duration of 50 hours and a succesful performance, but during the launch of the second mission, the payload was released and was dragged for a few meters before impacting violently a car parked near the launch spot.

A TV crew was present during launch and recorded the incident which was reproduced worldwide that same day.

As sensitive to bad publicity as NASA is, an investigation comitee was formed and sent to Australia to investigate the incident.

The immediate result of the mishap was that the campaign was concluded and all the scientific teams sitll in the field returned to United States.

After analyzing the preliminary data from the event, the comitee issued an order forbidding further flights of the NASA balloon program, even in United States, until a full report come out and corrections would be made to assure not to got again such a situation.

4/5/1972 27 hCONTROLLABLE X-RAY TELESCOPE--- No Data ---

4/19/1972 ---CONTROLLABLE X-RAY TELESCOPE--- No Data ---

11/7/1975 11 hGAMMA RAY DETECTOR--- No Data ---

11/21/1975 60 hGAMMA RAY DETECTOR--- No Data ---

10/26/1977 F 8 h 15 mX-RAY OBSERVATIONS--- No Data ---

11/11/1977 F 55 h 45 mGAMMA RAY EXPERIMENT--- No Data ---

11/16/1977 30 hGAMMA RAY DETECTOR--- No Data ---

11/21/1977 F 9 h 30 mX-RAY OBSERVATIONS--- No Data ---

11/22/1977 F 47 h 45 mGAMMA RAY EXPERIMENT--- No Data ---

11/13/1978 58 hGAMMA RAY DETECTOR--- No Data ---

11/22/1978 ~ 55 hrX-RAY EXPERIMENT--- No Data ---

4/4/1979 2 hGAMMA RAY EXPERIMENT--- No Data ---

4/15/1979 F 16 h 10 mGERMANIUM GAMMA RAY TELESCOPE--- No Data ---

4/18/1979 F 13 h 10 mDOUBLE SCATTER GAMMA RAY TELESCOPE--- No Data ---

11/12/1980 30 hAGLAEIn an aborigin reserve 600 km from Alice Spring

11/10/1981 24 h 30 mGAMMA RAY EXPERIMENT--- No Data ---

11/20/19814:20 local19 hGAMMA RAY EXPERIMENT300 miles W of Alice Springs, Australia

11/21/19815:10 local30 h 5 mGAMMA RAY EXPERIMENT311 miles WNW of Alice Springs, Australia

11/25/1981 14 h 15 mCOSMIC RAY EXPERIMENTBalloon failure

12/1/198121:03 localF 10 h 10 mX-RAY EXPERIMENT--- No Data ---

12/1/198118:24 localF 12 hCOSMIC RAY EXPERIMENT--- No Data ---

1/19/198320:4122 dEOSCOR III (Extended Observation of Solar COsmic Radiation)Lost over the Indian Ocean

5/4/1983 34 hCOSMIC RAY HEAVIES--- No Data ---

5/8/1983 11 hINFRARED ASTRONOMY--- No Data ---

5/10/1983 29 hCOSMIC RAY HEAVIES--- No Data ---

5/13/1983 25 hATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY--- No Data ---

5/18/1983 13 hINFRARED ASTRONOMY--- No Data ---

11/7/1983 34 hCOSMIC RAY IRON NUCLEI--- No Data ---

11/20/198419:44 utcF 9 h 29 mGAMMA RAY TELESCOPE320 miles W of Alice Springs, Australia

12/5/198412:36 utcF 4 h 2 mX-RAY & GAMMA RAY EXPERIMENT290 miles W of Alice Springs, Australia

12/7/198419:40 utcF 5 h 10 mGAMMA RAY TELESCOPE315 miles W of Alice Springs, Australia

2/21/1985 12 hBIRT (Balloon-borne InfraRed Telescope)--- No Data ---

2/27/1985 2 hBIRT (Balloon-borne InfraRed Telescope)--- No Data ---

3/8/1985 8 hBIRT (Balloon-borne InfraRed Telescope)--- No Data ---

8/27/1986 11 hBIRT (Balloon-borne InfraRed Telescope)--- No Data ---

9/4/1986 2 hBIRT (Balloon-borne InfraRed Telescope)--- No Data ---

9/13/1986 6 hBIRT (Balloon-borne InfraRed Telescope)--- No Data ---

11/20/1986 12 hPULSAR EMISSION SPECTRA OBSERVATION.--- No Data ---

2/9/1987~ 21:0012 dOBSERVATION OF THE SUN CORONAOver Brazil.

2/19/1987 ---GAMMA RAY TELESCOPE--- No Data ---

4/13/1987 2 hX-RAY / GAMMA RAY ASTRONOMY--- No Data ---

4/19/1987 9 hGAMMA RAY TELESCOPE--- No Data ---

5/20/198720:21 utcF 8 h 24 mGRIP (GAMMA-RAY IMAGING PAYLOAD)15 miles S of Middleton, Australia

5/30/198719:19 utcF 9 h 40 mSUPERNOVA OBSERVATION15 miles NNE of Clermount, Australia

6/2/198720:38 utc20 mGAMMA RAY STUDIESBalloon failure at 10.000 ft.

Landed 3 miles S of Alice Springs, Australia

6/8/198721:11 utcF 9 h 57 mSUPERNOVA OBSERVATION40 miles N of Longreach, Australia

10/29/19879:20 utc40 hGAMMA RAY SPECTROMETER10 miles S of Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia

11/8/198718:55 utc---GRIP (GAMMA-RAY IMAGING PAYLOAD)Aborted launch

11/10/1987 15 mX-RAY ASTRONOMY--- No Data ---

11/18/198710:45 utc---GRIP (GAMMA-RAY IMAGING PAYLOAD)400 miles W of Alice Springs, Australia

11/19/1987 20 hX-RAY ASTRONOMY--- No Data ---

12/6/19879:47 utc10 h 50 mGAMMA RAY STUDIES550 miles W of Alice Springs, Australia

1/5/1988 ---GAMMA RAY TELESCOPE--- No Data ---

2/8/198821:06 utc6 dCOSMIC RAY EXPERIMENT3 miles NW of Pratinha, Minas Gerais, Brazil

2/16/198820:52 utc9 dGAMMA RAY EXPERIMENTMogi Mirim, Sao Paulo, Brazil

4/5/198820:43 utc---GAMMA RAY TELESCOPE100 miles SSW of Mongrel Downs, Northern Territory, Australia

4/8/198822:00 utcF 31 hHARD X-RAY TELESCOPE11 miles WNW of Murray Downs, Australia

4/11/198821:50 utc---GRIP (GAMMA-RAY IMAGING PAYLOAD)16 miles W of Ti Tree, Northern Territory, Australia

4/15/198821:00 utc10 hDOUBLE COMPTON TELESCOPE30 miles N of Erldunda, Northern Territory, Australia

---INFRARED EXPERIMENT61 miles SW of Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, Australia

4/30/198819:59 utc24 hGRIS (Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometer)174 miles NW of Longbeach, New South Wales, Australia

5/6/1988 ---GAMMA RAY EXPERIMENTAborted flight

5/16/198820:51 utc---GAMMA RAY EXPERIMENT98 miles SE of Longbeach, New South Wales, Australia

5/17/198821:05 utc---EXITE (Energetic X-ray Imaging Telescope Experiment)121 miles WNW of Longbeach, New South Wales, Australia

10/28/19889:24 utc44 hGRIS (Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometer)61 miles NW of Warrabri, Northern Territory, Australia

11/2/19889:04 utc---GAMMA RAY EXPERIMENT34 miles WNW of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia

11/17/19888:43 utc---COSMIC RAY EXPERIMENT3 miles N of Stirling, Australia

4/3/19899:02 utc28 hGRIP (GAMMA-RAY IMAGING PAYLOAD)20 miles NE of Fregon, South Australia

4/15/1989 ---EXITE (Energetic X-ray Imaging Telescope Experiment)Aborted flight

5/9/198921:52 utc6 hEXITE (Energetic X-ray Imaging Telescope Experiment)160 miles NE of Longreach, Queensland, Australia

5/17/19898:27 utc10 hSN1987A SUPERNOVA OBSERVATION31 miles SSE of Tambo, Queensland, Australia

5/22/198920:45 utc5 hHEXAGONE130 miles WSW of Mackay, Queensland, Australia

5/29/198922:01 utc20 hLAPEX (Large-Area Phoswich Balloon Experiment for Hard-X-Ray Astronomy)5 miles E of Muttatura, Australia

4/10/1992 ---GRIS (Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometer)Aborted launch

4/26/19928:17 utc14 hGRIS (Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometer)20 miles NNE of Clermont, Queensland, Australia

4/27/19927:32 utc---BICE / BIRTRuby Gorge, Northwestern Territories, Australia

5/7/19927:37 utc24 hGRIS (Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometer)35 miles N of Evremunga, Australia

5/8/19927:09 utc11 hINFRARED EXPERIMENTMt.H.Witt Station, Australia

5/24/19927:44 utc10 hBICE (Balloon-borne Infrared Carbon Explorer)13 miles NW of Tambo, Queensland, Australia

6/1/19927:47 utc10 hHIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICSMantuan Downs, Queensland, Australia

9/26/199522:12 utc24 hAXEL (Astrophysical X-Ray Experimental Laboratory)17 miles NE Giles Weather Station, Western Australia

10/4/19957:30 utc24 hGRIS (Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometer)13.5 miles N of Alice Springs, Australia

10/6/199522:24 utc34 hGRIP-2 (Gamma-Ray Imaging Payload)140 miles NW of Boulia, Queensland, Australia

10/17/199522:09 utc32 hGRATIS (Gamma Ray Arcminute Telescope Imaging System)30 miles W of Ti Tree, Northern Territory, Australia

10/25/199521:43 utc35 hGRIS (Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometer)30 miles E of Alice Springs, Australia

11/14/199522:00 utc9 h 30 mGRIS (Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometer)10 miles N of Alice Springs, Australia

2/25/200123:15 utc4 h 17 mNIGHTGLOW + ULDB (Ultra Long Duration Balloon)115 miles SSW of Alice Springs, Australia

3/10/200123:26 utc24 h 42 mULDB (Ultra Long Duration Balloon)90 millas al N de Carnarvon, Australia

3/17/20038:38 local12 h 13 mNIGHTGLOW + ULDB (Ultra Long Duration Balloon)130 miles WSW of Ayers Rock, Australia

4/16/2010 57 hTIGRE (Tracking and Imaging Gamma Ray Experiment)70 km SW of Longreach, Australia

4/28/20108:00 local time---NCT (Nuclear Compton Telescope)Ground abort.

4/18/201122:10 utc---HERO (High Energy Replicated Optics)N of Balcardine, Queensland, Australia

 Alice Springs Airport (IATA: ASP, ICAO: YBAS) is an Australian regional airport 7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi) south of Alice Springs, Northern Territory.  The airport was notably involved in Australia's first domestic airline hijacking, and later a suicide attack by a former airline employee which claimed the lives of four others.
 The airport has two runways, the larger of which can accommodate a Boeing 747 or 777 landing (but not a fully laden takeoff due to high temperatures and the runway length).   The only scheduled flights using the airport are domestic, although international charters do use the airport on occasions.  The airport is not subject to a curfew and operates 24 hours a day.
 During 2010–11 a total of 640,519 domestic passengers passed through Alice Springs Airport making it the 18th busiest airport in Australia.


Japanese diplomat and academic, Sadako Ogata, was eventually appointed to the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

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"Protecting refugees is – by its nature – controversial.

Carrying out this dynamic and action-oriented function requires us to challenge the sovereign preserve of States to deal with non-citizens and, in some instances, their own people."

Before becoming High Commissioner, Sadako Ogata held positions in the United Nations, chairing the UNICEF Executive Board and serving on the UN Commission on Human Rights as its independent expert on the human rights situation in Burma (now Myanmar).

At UNHCR, she oversaw large-scale emergency operations in northern Iraq, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and the Great Lakes region of Africa.

Our budget and staff more than doubled during her time in office, and we became increasingly involved in assisting internally displaced people and other vulnerable civilians in conflict situations.

By emphasising the link between refugees and international security, she also strengthened UNHCR's relations with the UN Security Council.

In 1979, he was appointed as the director of the Office of Special Political Affairs, and three years later, he became Chef de Cabinet to Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations.
 As Chef de Cabinet, Dayal was given the rank of an under-secretary-general and he attended several diplomatic conferences including the 8th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Harare in 1988. He continued at the post during the tenure of the next secretary-general, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, until his retirement from UN service in 1993. It was during Boutros-Ghali's incumbency that Dayal assisted the secretary-general in preparing "An Agenda for Peace: Preventive diplomacy, peacemaking and peace-keeping", which was presented at the Summit Meeting of the Security Council on 31 January 1992. He was also involved in two diplomatic missions to South Africa, accompanying Cyrus Vance, former United States Secretary of State in July 1992 and then visiting the country as Special Envoy of the Secretary-General in September 1992. On these diplomatic missions, he met F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela a number of times as a part of the negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa which were reported to have helped in arranging a meeting of the two leaders and in the eventual transition of power through the South African general elections of 1994.
 In 1990, Dayal was proposed to become United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees by the UN secretary-general, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, but, Dayal's nomination was blocked by the United States due to opposition from Ronald Reagan, the country's president. On this Dayal commented:


Harding was born in Sunderland, which was then in County Durham.

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LCFC Debut : 10/03/1973, Chester (h) 1-0, FL Division 4

Last Match : 07/03/1979, Chester (a) 1-5, FL Division 3

A skilful left-sided midfield player, Alan Harding was one of Graham

Taylor's early signings and proved to be an excellent acquisition

After scoring 37 goals in 129 League outings for Darlington, Alan

joined the Imps from the Quakers in March 1973 for £7,000 whilst

Frank McMahon moved in the opposite direction.

Scoring the only goal of the game against Chester at Sincil Bank on

his Lincoln debut, Alan went on to give City seven years of excellent

and performed a vital role in the 1975/76 Division Four

championship winning campaign, which saw the Imps clinch the title in

One of the most talented players in that memorable squad, Alan netted

some important goals along the way, including one against Stoke City

and Peter Shilton in the League Cup and one in the Championship

He was a virtual ever-present the following season but, after the

Imps were relegated from Division Three in 1979, he moved on,

returning to his native North East and Hartlepool United for a fee of £4,000.

His 84 League games for Hartlepool took his career tally to 422

whilst he netted 83 goals during his professional career.

On leaving the professional game, Alan spent time on the North East

local scene, turning out for Newcastle Blue Star and Ryhope Colliery Welfare.


In November, resistance was increasing and opponents of the project filed petition to intervene in a hearing of the Louisiana State Board of Private Security Examiners regarding the application of private security firm TigerSwan, hired by Energy Transfer Partners.

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NEW ORLEANS (CN) — Louisiana groups say they are fed up with environmental destruction wreaked by the oil industry and that in the very least the state should allow a third-party assessment of what's at stake before a proposed pipeline is allowed to be built.

They also want Louisiana to move to renewable energy, which is far safer and less toxic.

The groups cite the most recent oil spills – two in October in a three-day span, including a platform explosion that injured seven men and a pipeline leak that dumped 672,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

Given the wretched history of the oil and gas industry in the state, they say it's impossible for Gov. John Bel Edwards to promise the Bayou Bridge pipeline will be built right.

"We don't for a second believe that the state of Louisiana is able to oversee the safe construction and operation of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline," said Anne Rolfes of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, an environmental advocacy group."

There are accidents every single week in the oil industry in this state, and there is no sign of that ending."

Pointing to a record of repeated, continuing accidents and pipeline spills, Rolfes said: "We cannot properly manage our current pipelines and current infrastructure, and we have no business building more."

The Bucket Brigade and four other nonprofits asked Gov. Edwards in an Oct. 17 letter to disclose the results of an environmental assessment of the proposed Bayou Bridge pipeline, which would stretch 162.5 miles through 11 parishes, from Lake Charles to St. James, and cut through the Atchafalaya Basin, a national heritage area with vast cypress-tupelo swamps and the largest remaining contiguous tract of coastal cypress trees in the country.

At least 6.6 miles of the pipeline would crisscross its forested wetlands.

In total, the pipeline would cross 700 waterways.

Energy Transfer Partners, in a joint venture with subsidiaries of Phillips 66 and Sunoco Logistics, is seeking federal and state approval to build the $670 million pipeline.

Supporters say it will generate tax revenue and will help the oil and gas industry and is the safest and most reliable way to transport crude oil.

Opponents say it would cause significant harm to the region's crawfish industry, harm the wetlands it crosses, and threaten the drinking water supply.

They call Energy Transfer Partner's accident record proof that the company is "the worst ever."

The groups have rallied at the governor's mansion for the past five Tuesdays to urge Edwards to call for a more thorough environmental study of how the pipeline would affect water quality, flood risks and the environment along its path.

Rolfes said the responses to these concerns so far have been "cut-and-paste" answers that do not address the issues.

Plus, she said, Edwards appears to be using the oil industry's rationale that pipelines are safer than truck or rail, "line for line."

Neither Edwards nor Lt. Gov. Billy Nungessor replied to multiple emails seeking comment.

Edwards' office did submit a comment to KATC3 TV: "There is no way to move significant quantities of crude that doesn't involve some risks, but the governor believes that ultimately it's much safer to use a pipeline to move the crude rather than trains or trucks, which are prone to having more accidents."

Edwards announced his support for the pipeline on a radio show this summer.

"I will tell you that I support the pipeline," he said, "but it's because I know that the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources is going to make absolutely sure they abide by all the permit requirements, regulations and state laws.

We're not going to allow them to build this pipeline as they were built in decades previously.

We're going to move forward in a smart way, but I understand the controversy."

Many scientific studies have documented the havoc that pipelines have wrought on the environment.

A 1972 study conducted by the pipeline industry itself concluded that every mile of pipeline causes the loss of 54 acres of land.

Southeastern Louisiana University reported that 40 percent of U.S. wetlands are in Louisiana, and have suffered 90 percent of the nation's total loss of coastal marshes.

And it's not getting any better, the university reported: "As wetlands and barrier islands disappear, the wells, pipelines, ports and roads that make the energy industry possible will be more exposed to open water, wave action, storm surges and water traffic."

It continues: "This includes thousands of miles of pipeline that will be increasingly vulnerable to rupture, resulting in oil spills and gas leaks.

Over $103 billion in assets will be at risk and the transfer of petroleum products within the state and to the rest of the nation will be disrupted."

The wetlands provide natural protection from storms, within the marshes and on both sides of them.

Numerous species of fish, including crawfish, depend on coastal wetlands for survival.

When the wetlands go, the fish go with them.

Energy Transfer Partners also owns the Dakota Access Pipeline, the site of long-term protests last winter.

Before that pipeline even opened, it already had leaked three times.

Energy Transfer Partners is under investigation by the Federal Energy Regulation Commission for its construction of the Rover pipeline in Ohio and West Virginia.

Numerous spills, false statements in permit applications and improper erosion protocols have been alleged.

In one instance, 2 million gallons of drilling fluid were spilled in Ohio wetlands, blanketing more than 9 acres under a slurry of diesel fuel-contaminated bentonite, water and clay.

Vicki Granado, a spokeswoman for Energy Transfer Partners, said in an email: "Energy Transfer has always followed all federal, state and local rules and regulations governing our pipelines and related facilities, and will continue to do so."

She said that 99.96 percent of the petroleum products transported through ETP pipelines have been delivered to their end destination.

Assuming all that 0.04 of oil was spilled, that amounts to 400 gallons spilled for every 1 million gallons delivered.

Energy Transfer Partners says on its website, checked Wednesday morning, that "When completed, the Bayou Bridge Pipeline will be capable of transporting up to 480,000 barrels per day of light and heavy crude oil from different sources to the St. James crude oil hub, which is home to important refineries located in the Gulf Coast region."

With 42 gallons per barrel of oil, that translates to 20 million gallons of oil pumped through the Bayou Bridge Pipeline.

According to Energy Transfer's own calculations, then, 8,000 gallons of oil can be expected to be spilled each day from that pipeline, at 0.04 percent spill ratio.

Supporters say the pipeline will generate tax revenue and will help the struggling oil and gas sector and that it is the safest and most reliable way to transport crude oil.

But environmentalists and crawfishers say the thousands of canals and pipelines built statewide for mineral extraction have altered the course of rivers and drainage, accelerating erosion, increasing flooding, and hastening the threat to Louisiana's vanishing coastline and fishing industry.

They say Louisiana should be looking instead toward renewable energy.

Already Texas, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas and the Dakotas generate the largest portion of their power from renewable sources, according to a CBS News Moneywatch report this summer.

The report called renewables practically free, once the infrastructure is set up, and offer the best solution to energy production.

Louisiana's oil and gas industry brings in more than $16 billion a year, and one-quarter of the nation's energy supply depends on support facilities in southern Louisiana.

The oil and gas industry acknowledges that drilling contributes to at least 36 percent of Louisiana's coastal erosion.

Costly plans to save what's left of the coast are in the works, though underfunded, and no one knows where the insufficient funding will come from.

All plans to save the coast involve improving drainage.

Scott Eustis, a wetlands specialist with the Gulf Restoration Network, said in October that the pipeline and Louisiana's plans to save what's left of its fragile coast are at cross purposes.

"To all of the politicians, the plan for the coast is in drainage, drainage, drainage," Eustis said.

"This pipeline project crosses 700 water bodies.

That's … a lot of places where [the Bayou Bridge] is going to trench right through a stream.

How are we trying to spend money to try and increase culverts and then we are going to block 60 of them?"

Pipeline opponents, including Eustis, say the least Louisiana should demand is an environmental impact statement for the pipeline.

"It wasn't until an environmental impact study was done by geologists at Port Fourchon in the 1970s that they realized, 'Hey we're losing our coast,'" Eustis said.

Port Fourchon lies just east of the mouth of the Mississippi.

Cherri Foytin of the nonprofit BOLD Louisiana at the rally at the governor's office Tuesday cited a Des Moines Register article, "Dakota Access Pipeline Wrecking Soil, Farmers Complain."

The Register reported that Energy Transfer Partners promised to put the soil back on farmers' lots the way they found it after building the pipeline, but it has not, ruining crops and hurting the land.

"It shouldn't be that one industry gets to kill another one," Foytin said, "especially when one of them is where we get our food."

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In June 2017, the pastor of St. James led a lawsuit opposing the pipeline to protect the community. A prayer and resistance camp was set up. and indigenous leaders had joined the resistance by August.
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Posey has also been a longtime supporter of a balanced budget amendment or (BBA).

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Ronald Reagan said it best when he said that "government doesn't have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem."

The federal government will take in about $3 trillion in revenue this year but it will spend more than $3.5 trillion.

In fact, in just the last 5 years, the national debt has spiked, rising from $10.6 trillion the day President Obama took office to more than $17.5 trillion.

That's about $55,000 for every person in the United States.

The amount of debt accumulated in just this short period of time is equivalent to the amount of debt incurred from George Washington to the second year of the Presidency of George W. Bush (March 2003).

This is the wrong legacy to leave our children, and that is why I have voted against most of the spending legislation during my service in the Congress.

I've been a strong supporter of fiscal restraint and I believe that Congress has a Constitutional duty to set the government's spending priorities rather than simply impose an across the board cut like was done in 2013 through the sequestration process, which let's unelected bureaucrats decide our spending priorities.

That is why I voted against sequestration, because the cut does not distinguish between critical programs and wasteful spending.

We need spending cuts that are more targeted and focus on waste, fraud, abuse and duplicative programs.

President Reagan was right, Washington has a spending problem and we must restrain spending.

We need a Constitutional Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA).

In 1997 when the BBA fell just one vote short of passage in the U.S. Senate the national debt was about $5.4 trillion.

Those who voted NO in 1997 said that Washington as capable of getting its own budget in order and did not need the BBA.

Today our national debt is over $17 trillion.

That one vote could have put America on a more stable fiscal pathway.

Posey voted in favor of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.


Juszczyszyn is also a runner-up on the Euro Tour, reaching the final of the 2015 German Open, losing in the final to Petri Makkonen 3-9.

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She has gone through efforts to get Congress to lift its ban on head coverings during House sessions, which dates back to 1837.

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The U.S. House rule barring members from wearing hats while in session dates back to the 1800s and can be waived by the speaker.

— Frederica Wilson on Wednesday, November 17th, 2010 in an interview for a Miami Herald blog

# Congresswoman-elect Frederica Wilson says hat ban started in 1800s but can be waived

on Friday, November 19th, 2010 at 6:26 p.m.

Frederica Wilson on the floor of the Florida Senate in one of her signature hats.

Frederica Wilson was known as the Florida state legislator who owned a massive collection of fancy hats.

But when the Democrat was elected to the 17th District in Congress on Nov. 2, 2010, to represent portions of Miami-Dade and Broward counties, her fashion statement ran afoul of the rules.

We learned of Wilson's hat woes from a Nov. 17 posting in Naked Politics, a blog by the Miami Herald:

"Wilson is hoping to have a conversation with the likely new speaker, John Boehner.

At issue: whether or not the longtime lawmaker can wear her signature hats on the House floor.

The House bars members from wearing hats while the body is in session, but Wilson said she believes the speaker can waive the rule -- which dates to the 1800s.

"It dates back to when men wore hats and we know that men don't wear hats indoors, but women wear hats indoors.

People get excited when they see the hats.

Once you get accustomed to it, it's just me.

Some people wear wigs, or high heel shoes or big earrings or pins.

The blog post continued: "Wilson had to take her hat off for her official congressional picture, but plans to appeal that ruling as well.

She did wear her hat on the House floor the other day -- but the House wasn't in session."

She managed to show off at least one of her hats in Washington, D.C.: she arrived for freshman orientation wearing a black cowboy hat with sequins, according to the Washington Post.

Roll Call also wrote about Wilson's hat dilemma on Nov. 4: "But while we expect Wilson to become the Hill's newest fashionista -- for better or worse, depending on who you ask -- she likely will have to ditch her trademark headpieces while she's on the House floor.

Although there isn't a specific dress code, hats have been banned on the floor since September 1837.

Even the late Rep. Bella Abzug (D-N.Y.) couldn't sport her trademark broad-brimmed hats when she served during the 1970s."

But the Truth-O-Meter was curiously scratching its head.

Was Wilson correct to say that the rule banning members from wearing hats on the House floor dates back to the 1800s?

First, a little more colorful background about Wilson and her hats that we gleaned from a May 11, 2009, Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times article:

"In a political universe dominated by men in dark suits, Sen. Wilson is the rainbow that cannot be ignored.

She walks the halls of the Capitol flashing her custom-made, bedazzled cowboy hats and perfectly matched suits -- her own runway of eye-popping colors that are more suited to the Miami district she represents than to good ol' boy Tallahassee.

Here in the center of Florida's political universe, the loud wardrobe of the educator-turned-Democratic lawmaker sends a clear if unspoken message to fellow lawmakers: I am here.

We reached Wilson briefly by telephone on the morning of Nov. 19 and asked her how many hats she owns.

"I've never counted, but I've been wearing them almost 30 years," said the former Miami-Dade school board member and state legislator.

Wilson said she brought six hats to D.C. and has been researching the rules about hat wearing and still hopes to speak to Boehner about the ban.

Wilson said she would get back to us regarding her research on the hat ban and who she believes can waive it, but we did not hear back.

Now let's return to our research on the hat ban.

The rules of the 111th Congress -- the current one in session -- state under "Comportment":

"When the Speaker is putting a question or addressing the House, a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not walk out of or across the Hall.

When a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner is speaking, a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not pass between the person speaking and the Chair.

During the session of the House, a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not wear a hat or remain by the Clerk's desk during the call of the roll or the counting of ballots.

A person may not smoke or use a wireless telephone or personal computer on the floor of the House.

The Sergeant-at-Arms is charged with the strict enforcement of this clause."

We consulted Miami Herald reporter Lesley Clark, who wrote the blog item about Wilson and covers Congress.

Clark obtained a copy of historic documents kept by the House and also forwarded to us a 2009 copy of the Constitution Jefferson's Manual and Rules of the House of Representatives.

That document states: "No Member is to come into the House with his head covered, nor to remove from one place to another with his hat on, nor is to put on his hat in coming in or removing, until he be set down in his place.

In 1837 the parliamentary practice of wearing hats during the session was abolished by adoption of current clause 5 of rule XV11."

A document from 1907 in the same link above, sheds more light: we turned to "Hinds' precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States" written by Asher Hinds who was the clerk to the speaker.

That document states that the hat rule was "the fruit of considerable agitation.

In early years, following the custom of Parliament, Members wore their hats during session."

That practice however was challenged when Charles F. Mercer of Virginia proposed a rule "as early as March 13, 1822: 'Nor shall any Member remain in the hall covered during the session of the house.' "

Mercer's proposal wasn't adopted, but other members of Congress also proposed similar bans during the next several years.

A ban proposed in 1833 was rejected because "Members would have no places in which to put their hats if they should not wear them, and also that the custom of wearing hats was a sign of independence of the Commons of England, and therefore a good usage to preserve the American House."

A historical highlights document from the House provides a short summary of the history of the hat ban.

That document states that member John M. Patton of Virginia defended "the really harmless but apparently indecorous practice of wearing our hats ...

Regarding then this usage as merely 'the outward and visible sign of the inward and spiritual' freedom of this body from all executive control or interference, let us preserve it.

And whenever, if ever, our executive magistrates shall attempt to employ any improper influence on this body, let us be found with our hats on."

But on Sept. 14, 1837, the House adopted the rule banning members from wearing hats during the session or by the Clerk's table during the call of the roll.

So far, Wilson is correct: the House ban dates back to the 1800s.

But she also said in the interview that she thought that the House speaker could waive the rule.

She said she wanted to talk about it with Boehner, chosen by his peers to be speaker of the House when the 112th Congress convenes in January.

We contacted Boehner spokesman Michael Steel to ask if he had the power to waive the rule, if any leader could waive it, or if it requires a full vote by the House when it adopts rules in January.

We turned to the House Practice, Assembly of Congress (Chapter 5), which includes a section on Adoption of Rules.

That section states that the House can adopt its own procedural rules -- and "ordinarily the House adopts the rules of the prior Congress but with various amendments."

So it appears that the House in January could adopt a new rule -- say, allowing all hats or dress hats.

But this document doesn't address either way whether any leader can waive a rule.

We asked Vincent Morris, spokesman for the House rules committee.

"Current Rules prohibit hat wearing so anyone showing up with a hat would likely be told to take it off.

For the Rules to change, members would need to approve revisions when the next Congress starts in January."

So for now, it appears that Wilson will need to persuade her peers to change the rule in January.

The good news for Wilson is that if she ever wins a U.S. Senate post, she won't encounter this headache.

Unlike the House, the Senate doesn't have a formal written rule banning members from wearing hats.

"People don't wear hats in the Senate," said Senate historian Donald Ritchie.

"The Senate sort of adheres to an unofficial dress code but it's not specifically in the rules."

The News Service of Florida wrote Nov. 17, 2010, that "Wilson, not known for being shy, plans to tell Boehner she intends to wear hats -- not ask him for permission."

"I'm not going to ask anyone," Wilson was quoted as saying.

This would not be the first time that Wilson ran into roadblocks to her hats.

When she wore Davy Crockett style hats in middle school, the dean called her father to complain, but she and her father didn't give in, the St. Petersburg Times wrote May 11, 2009.

In 2002 after she was elected to the state Senate after serving in the House, a senator -- not identified in the article -- complained about her hats at a Senate retreat.

(The News Service article identified that senator as Republican Anna Cowin.)

"I thought, with all these problems we have, she's worried about me wearing a hat?

Well, I just smiled through it," Wilson was quoted as saying in the 2009 St. Petersburg Times article.

An aside: we wondered if the current hat ban rule would prohibit religious Jews from wearing yarmulke or Muslim women from wearing the hijab or headscarf.

Steel, Boehner's spokesman, said in an e-mail: "The rule regarding hats has never been interpreted to apply to religious headcoverings."

So does the headstrong Wilson have her facts right?

She is correct to state that the ban on House members wearing hats started in the 1800s -- Sept. 14, 1837, to be precise.

But can Boehner or any individual "waive" the rule?

It appears that the House would have to vote on a new rule in January 2011.

At this point, Wilson has not provided any proof that any individual could simply waive the rule.

If she provides us such proof from her research, or if Boehner later responds with evidence that he does have that power, we could revisit this topic.

But for now, we rate this claim Half True.

Published: Friday, November 19th, 2010 at 6:26 p.m.

Researched by: Lesley Clark, Amy Sherman

Naked Politics blog Miami Herald, "Frederica Wilson backs Pelosi -- but not hat ban," Nov. 17, 2010

Miami Herald, "From family politics to the halls of Congress," Nov. 19, 2010

Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times, "Wilson has her hats in ring," May 11, 2009

News Service of Florida, "No hats on Capitol Hill?,"Nov. 17, 2010

Washington Post, "New members of Congress arrive in Washington to be schooled in its ways," Nov. 16, 2010

Roll Call, "Hats off to Rep. Elect Wilson?," Nov. 4, 2010

Historical Highlights Office of the Clerk U.S. House of

Representatives,"The debate over the rule to ban hats on the house floor," accessed Nov. 19, 2010

House Practice Assembly of Congress, "Adoption of the rules," updated September 2003

Various historical documents from Congress: Constitution Jefferson's Manual and Rules of the House of Representatives (2009) and Hinds' precendents of the House of Representatives (1907) and register of debates in Congress (1833 and 1837)

Interview, House Speaker Designate John Boehner's spokesman Michael Steel, Nov. 19, 2010

Interview, spokesman for the house rules committee Vincent Morris, Nov. 19, 2010

Interview, Senate historian Donald Ritchie, Nov. 19, 2010

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Vanquished House Dems were meeting today to consider votes for a new minority leader for the next congress -- and outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has Miami Rep.-elect Frederica Wilson's enthusiastic backing.

(Pelosi wants the job but a number of Democrats blame her for the party's "shellacking" at the ballot.)

Wilson, though, said she admires "the way she stood up, as a woman and as the first female Speaker and advocated for the people, power to the people.

"She accomplished things that Americans need and that have been woefully neglected, like health care," Wilson said.

"It's extremely significant for a lot of the people in my district and she made sure it happened."

Wilson is hoping to have a conversation with the likely new Speaker, John Boehner.

At issue: whether or not the longtime lawmaker can wear her signature hats on the House floor.

People get excited when they see the hats.

Once you get accustomed to it, it's just me.

Some people wear wigs, or high heel shoes or big earrings or pins.

She did wear her hat on the House floor the other day -- but the House wasn't in session.

The new members were given a tour of the floor and shown how to vote.

Wilson -- a veteran of Tallahassee -- said she was struck by the fact that there wasn't assigned seating.

"I think I'm going to sit with the Republicans," she said, laughing.

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 Frederica Smith Wilson (born Frederica Patricia Smith, November 5, 1942) is a politician who has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 2011. Located in South Florida, Wilson's congressional district—numbered the 17th during her first two years in Congress, and the 24th since 2013—is a majority African-American district that includes the southern parts of Broward County and the eastern parts of Miami-Dade County. Included within the district are Opa-locka, Hollywood, Miramar, and North Miami. She gained national attention in early 2012 as a result of her high-profile comments on the death of Trayvon Martin.
 Wilson is a member of the Democratic Party. The seat she was elected to became available when the incumbent Kendrick Meek ran for a seat in the Senate in 2010.
 Wilson is known for her large and colorful hats, of which she owns several hundred.


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# South Korea spy agency admits trying to rig 2012 presidential election

National Intelligence Service says it mobilised cyberwarfare experts to ensure Park Geun-hye beat rival and now president Moon Jae-in

First published on Fri 4 Aug 2017 00.18 EDT

Park Geun-Hye (centre) the day after her slim victory in the 2012 presidential elections.

South Korea's spy agency admits it was behind an aggressive online campaign to sway voters against her rival.

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South Korea's spy agency has admitted it conducted an illicit campaign to influence the country's 2012 presidential election, mobilising teams of experts in psychological warfare to ensure that the conservative candidate, Park Geun-hye, beat her liberal rival.

An internal investigation by the powerful National Intelligence Service also revealed attempts by its former director and other senior officials to influence voters during parliamentary elections under Park's predecessor, the hardline rightwinger Lee Myung-bak.

Claims, now confirmed by the service, that it was behind an aggressive online campaign to sway voters is certain to add to public anger towards South Korea's political system.

Park, who narrowly beat the current president, Moon Jae-in, to become the country's first female president in the 2012 vote, is standing trial on corruption and abuse of power charges, and faces life in prison.

Media coverage of the scandal that led to her impeachment late last year revealed widespread collusion at the highest level of South Korean politics and business, and propelled Moon, a left-leaning liberal, to a landslide victory in May.

Moon, who was the target of a smear campaign by the NIS during his first, failed, run for the presidential Blue House in 2012, has vowed to reform the spy agency to prevent it from influencing future elections.

He has said intelligence officials should focus on foreign affairs, including countering the threat from North Korea.

The NIS's in-house investigation found that its cyberwarfare unit formed as many as 30 "extra-departmental" teams comprising officials and internet-savvy citizens to upload posts in support of conservative politicians for two years in the run-up to the 2012 presidential vote.

"The teams were charged with spreading pro-government opinions and suppressing anti-government views, branding them as attempts by pro-North Korean forces to disrupt state affairs," the NIS report said.

A spokesman for Park claimed the NIS inquiry was politically motivated.

"The NIS says it will dissociate itself from politics but it is meddling in politics again by starting this probe," Kang Hyo-sang, of Park's opposition Liberty Korea party, said in a statement.

The report was released on the final day of the trial of Won Sei-hoon, the NIS's director from 2009-13, who is charged with orchestrating the clandestine campaign to boost support for Park.

According to South Korea's Yonhap news agency, the report said that days before the 2012 election, NIS officials who are usually engaged in psychological warfare against North Korea, posted messages critical of Moon on social networking and news sites.

The NIS taskforce said similar attempts had been made to influence elections for the national assembly in 2011 and 2012, during which it also put prominent opposition politicians under surveillance, Yonhap added.

Transcripts show that Won, who faces a four-year prison sentence, urged senior NIS officials to intervene in elections, telling them that the battle against "anti-government forces" was on a par with the country's clandestine campaign to destabilise North Korea.

"Our psychological operations against North Korea are important, but our psychological operations against the South Korean public are pretty important, too," Won said during a meeting in April 2012 – eight months before the presidential election – according to the Hankyoreh newspaper.

The NIS's new director, Suh Hoon, has vowed to end the agency's involvement in domestic politics.

"We are dropping involvement in politics and strengthening our core intelligence capabilities by focusing on our traditional role in national security [and] handling operations regarding overseas affairs," including North Korea and antiterrorism, Huh told the South Korean parliament's intelligence committee last month, according to the Hankyoreh.

NIS public opinion manipulation scandal (2012).

In the 2012 South Korean presidential election, the National Intelligence Service was accused of wanting to influence public opinion to elect Park Geun-hye. The NIS then employed psychological warfare experts and conducted an aggressive Internet campaign to discredit Liberal opponent Moon Jae-in and convince voters still undecided. After the elections, South Korean police said that a Korean National Intelligence Service official, Kim Ha Young, posted articles on politically sensitive issues on the Todayhumor website. It was later acknowledged that NIS has been involved not only in political advertisements in newspapers by conservative groups, but also in the organization of events and the distribution of brochures.


The series' setting, Beach City, is loosely based on Delaware beaches Rehoboth Beach, Bethany Beach and Dewey Beach, all of which Rebecca Sugar visited as a child.

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(Courtesy of Cartoon Network/ Courtesy of Cartoon Network ) - Rebecca Sugar, the creator of \"Steven Universe,\" and her brother Steven Sugar, the inspiration for the series.

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Rebecca Sugar is about to make a little TV history.

And right now, she is not entirely enjoying it.

"I'm having a hard time feeling good about all this," she says, with a half-laugh, "until the first episode is on."

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Sugar sounds so calm and confident, though, that she belies this case of show-biz nerves.

By following her artistic passion from Silver Spring to Hollywood, Sugar has become something of a trailblazer.

On Monday evening, Cartoon Network will debut its newest program, "Steven Universe," officially making Sugar, at just 26, the first woman to be a solo show creator in the channel's 21 years on the air.

She is thrilled to achieve the breakthrough, but with just days until the debut, she's not focused on being the first female creator — she's too busy simply being a creator, with plenty to still decide and coordinate.

"It's definitely a whirlwind," Sugar, a veteran of Cartoon Network's popular "Adventure Time," says of steering her own show to launch.

"But I feel more ready than if I hadn't made so many independent comics and done so many films."

Everything, in other words, feels as if it's been naturally leading to this opportunity.

From that, the animator draws confidence.

Sugar's creative vision, after all, wasn't just born at Cartoon Network's studios in Burbank, Calif.

Her dream to do precisely what she's now doing was launched many years ago, a coast and an ocean away, back home in Montgomery County.

"You can't wait for someone to give you a show," says Sugar.

She's long been an ambitious artist who regularly attended Baltimore Comic-Con and Maryland's Small Press Expo to listen and learn from luminaries while also getting professional feedback on her portfolio.

"That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character."

Sugar summons inspiration from characters she has created since childhood.

"Steven Universe" may appear to be an action-fantasy cartoon about gem-powered superheroes, but beneath the bright tints and battle scenes, the show plays like an ode to Sugar's artistically supportive upbringing in Sligo Park Hills.

The program is even named for her younger brother, Steven — who is a background artist on the show.

"I realized, while working on the show, that it's not what I thought it was going to be about.

It's about how much I needed emotional support in high school — just with little things, going through tough times, high school teen angst," says Sugar, who simultaneously attended Montgomery Blair High and the Visual Arts Center at Einstein High.

"My brother would just be hanging out with me, not having to say anything.

If I ever felt weird around friends, Steven would always be there.

Sugar stops herself, joking that she should move on to another topic before she gets verklempt.

Steven Sugar, 23, replies to his sister's sentiment.

"We spent a lot of time together as kids watching cartoons, playing video games and drawing.

We'd brainstorm ideas for comics together, run ideas past each other and get critiques — all of which sort of set the groundwork for what [we're] doing now."

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Steven Sugar praised Dart's work and was inspired by him in college years, saying Dart had more ideas for the art than he did.
 In the pilot, only two locations appeared (the Temple and the Big Donut). The Temple was designed by Ian Jones-Quartey, Steven Sugar, Ben Levin, Matt Burnett and Andy Ristaino. The Temple's dual faces were based on Guy Davis' ideas. Steven Sugar designed the rest of Beach City for the series; he was painstaking in his attention to detail. Sugar also designed people, houses, cars, buildings and restaurants. Because of Rebecca Sugar's redesigned drawings, the two original locations had to be redrawn.
 To find inspiration for the show's backgrounds, the Sugars and Jones-Quartey went to their favorite beaches.


In 2017 he was interviewed by Ric Gazarian for the "Counting Countries" podcast.

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## Don Parrish – 193 countries … and is the most traveled person on MTP!

## Don has traveled to 851 places of the 875 places listed on the Most Traveled People list.

He is number one on the list, making him the most traveled person using this benchmark.

Don has been traveling and discovering the world since the 1960s when he worked in a factory in Germany on an exchange program.

He has an incredible passion for history and connecting events and people throughout time.

He has traveled to the Soviet Union in the 1960s as well as traveling to each 83 political subdivisions.

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Parrish was profiled by the "Daily Herald" in 2014.
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Starting in 2003, she began working with WebMD, where she contributes weekly features and columns and develops recipes for WebMD online and  WebMD Magazine, and oversaw WebMD’s Weight Loss Clinic and serves as nutrition expert for the company.

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Zelman received one of the highest honors from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the 2016 Lenna Frances Cooper Memorial Award, in recognition of a distinguished career and remarkable contributions to the dietetics profession.

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The American Society for Nutrition named her the 2011 recipient of their Nutrition Science Media Award for outstanding science and nutrition journalism.

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North Korea has developed a clone of the Kornet known as the Bulsae-3, which was first revealed on February 27, 2016 publicly during a demo test.

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Imagery released by North Korean state media on February 27 shows Kim Jong Un reviewing the testing of an upgraded type of anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) and its effects on a main battle tank as well as a concrete structure.

The new missile is claimed to have increased range, penetrating power and accuracy over its predecessor, and is supposedly the longest-ranged system of its type in the world.

Although media outlets were quick to tie the designator Bulsae-3 to the missile, the system in question is actually still the older Bulsae-2.

However, it appears an upgraded missile has been developed which is compatible with the same launcher, likely developed after Kim Jong Un reviewed the performance of the older missile in February 2014.

As the designation Bulsae-2 is most likely tied to the entire missile complex (as opposed to just the launcher or the missile)

, the Bulsae-3 is presumed to be a wholly novel development.

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Tensions with North Korea have been high for some time and if fighting breaks out there is a high chance ground combat will take place along the DMZ.

Most allied forces along the DMZ operate tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.

North Korea's military has a wide array of weapon systems that pose a threat to allied ground vehicles.

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Most front line US army M-1 Abrams, M-2 Bradley's and Stryker's have been equipped with the system.

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The Mi-24 is the primary attack helicopter operated by North Korea's Army.

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The Hinds rockets can overwhelm modern active protection systems.

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Despite this the Mi-24D is very mobile and can be camouflaged and deployed near the frontlines giving allies a short amount of time to engage and destroy them before they can threaten allied ground troops.

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The Su-25 like the Mi-24D Hind would likely be targeted in in the early stages of operations but the close proximity to the DMZ makes them a threat to allied tanks.

North Korea is believed to have 34 Su-25s.

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Justine Bayigga (born 15 January 1979 in Kayunga) is a female Ugandan sprinter, who specialized in the 400 metres.

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