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Peninsular India may get locusts after 46 years. Blame the wind

The pests are being carried into the region by the southern branch of winds entering India north of the Western Ghats

By Akshit Sangomla
Published: Wednesday 27 May 2020
The winds blowing over India to the north of the Western Ghats have carried locusts to Madhya Pradesh. Photo: Ishan Kukreti / CSE
The winds blowing over India to the north of the Western Ghats have carried locusts to Madhya Pradesh. Photo: Ishan Kukreti / CSE The winds blowing over India to the north of the Western Ghats have carried locusts to Madhya Pradesh. Photo: Ishan Kukreti / CSE

Winds are the major carrier of desert locusts that are currently devastating crops and green areas in India’s northwest and central regions, experts have said.

“The winds that enter India to the north of the Western Ghats split into north-westerlies continuing towards central and northeastern India in one branch and towards the southeast in another branch,” Raghu Murtugudde, a climate scientist at the University of Maryland in the United States, told Down To Earth.

“This split is caused by a relative higher pressure ridge extending from Andhra and Tamil Nadu to Gujarat. So, the winds are going to the north and south of this pressure ridge. The locusts must have taken the southern branch of this split,” he added.

These winds are taking the locusts more towards Madhya Pradesh, that lies south east of Rajasthan, rather than Uttar Pradesh or Bihar, that are further east.

The surface pressure contours or isobars tend to align from southeast to northwest so winds follow those contours once they enter India north of the Western Ghats.

That is due to the large-scale contrast of land-ocean heating that is getting ready for the monsoon, according to Murtugudde.

But it is very difficult to pin down exact localised wind patterns over India because of a lack of data.

For instance, out of the 16 districts affected in Madhya Pradesh, the India Meteorological Department’s Automatic Weather Stations in 12 districts are displaying no data available for wind, temperature or any other weather parameters.

Apart from general wind patterns, these localised winds are crucial in understanding where the locust swarms will move next.

There are two other reasons apart from wind for their spread to areas that have not been affected by locusts in a long time. The first is their early arrival that was facilitated by favouarble conditions in Iran, Pakistan and the western border areas of India.

The first swarms were seen along the India-Pakistan border in Rajasthan as early as April 11, 2020. The second reason is the excessive rainfall in the affected regions that helped them sustain and multiply.

“They have never before been seen in such large numbers. This season, everything was favourable to them. Hence, all the eggs that were laid in the soil, hatched together,” Dhaneesh Bhaskar, a researcher at the Kerala Forest Research Institute, said.

He is also a representative of India at the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Grasshopper Specialist Group and coordinates the Red List assessment of India’s grasshoppers.

“Quick summer showers favour their phase transformation, which means they can get together to form huge swarms. As the numbers increase, they are bound to explore new areas,” he added.

The locusts entered three districts of Maharashtra on May 26, after affecting Rajasthan, parts of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, according to recent media reports.

Maharashtra is witnessing locust swarms for the first time in 46 years. The pests have been reported in as many as 16 districts of Madhya Pradesh.

An alert was generated for Delhi as well but direction of winds in and around the city is currently not favourable for the locusts to arrive there. Even then, Delhi stays on alert as do other cities in Uttar Pradesh like Agra and Mathura.

Authorities are taking the strictest measures to control the spread of the pests in Rajasthan, especially close to Jaipur, that saw an invasion of locusts in the past few days that might have come from the west.

A swarm was located in Aluda, south east of Jaipur, according to officials on the ground. This can still pose a threat to Agra and Mathura in the next few days. The locusts can travel around 150-200 kilometres during the day, resting at night in trees and bushes.

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42 comments to Odds and Ends

  • darkcycle

    Okay. It just started snowing in hell. Tom Tancredo has come out FOR Amendment 64. Yes. That’s exactly what I said. Allan, close yer mouth, sumthin’ might fly in…

    • darkcycle

      Guys, I think I’m blocked. Sabet doesn’t like me very much. I’ve tried four times to get my comment to come up. Maybe the rest of you folks are cleared. Light ‘im up.

      • claygooding

        Only one post of mine is showing on my page and it is awaiting moderation.

      • divadab

        Done – I got through but “awaiting moderation” which means they have not yet identified me as someone with unacceptable views to be suppressed, but are keeping me out just in case. Fascist bastards. I bet they burn books too – oh ya – they just confiscate books that contain information on how to grow cannabis for yourself as “paraphernalia”.

        And suppress free speech. Is Sabet a Communist name? Was he East German Stasi in a prior life? He sure acts like one.

      • Duncan20903

        Don’t feel singled out DC. It appears my comment isn’t going to post. I really doubt that it’s a blacklist though. I believe my post was sent to the moderator where it will sit very patiently awaiting for that blog to hire one. I’ve really got to hit the thesaurus and come up with a more socially acceptable way to say “bald faced lie” and “bald faced liar”.

  • darkcycle

    Okay, here’s the comment that is being blocked. I tried it at least four times, and Mike Parent tried it once. Bastards may have shut off comments completely.
    “”If there is a thriving black market for tobacco, where is the associated VIOLENCE? Where are the tobacco cartels? Why aren’t the employees of R.J. Reynolds killing the employees of American Tobacco?
    Alcohol’s association with aggression and abuse is well documented. Marijuana use is not associated with those things. A pothead is only dangerous to a bag of Oreo’s.
    As to the medicalization of pot, I thought the subject was LEGALIZATION FOR ADULT RECREATIONAL USE. But okay, if you must go there… There are a wide variety of extracts and tinctures to choose from in your local Medical Marijuana Dispensary. However, many doctors (and patients) find that the WHOLE PLANT is far more effective. If this is the case, then they should have the right to prescribe the form of the medication that they find to be appropriate. No one should smoke. It’s bad for you. There are vaporizers and other methods of ingesting that are recommended in place of smoking.
    Oh, and one in SEVEN people who drink will become dependent. And alcohol dependence has well documented health costs that marijuana doesn’t. Yet we don’t prohibit alcohol. Why? because we tried that and found the SOCIAL COSTS OF PROHIBITING ALCOHOL GREATLY OUTWEIGHED THE COSTS OF REGULATING IT.
    Sorry, no winner. Thank you. Please play again”

    • stlgonzo

      I tried to copy that and post it up there. It is not published…..

    • Francis

      That is a brilliant response, darkcycle! Very nicely stated. I do have one quibble. Kevin, please DON’T play again. You lose every time, and frankly it’s getting tiresome. I’d say it’s time for you to hang up your cleats — or I guess in your case, jackboots.

  • HotGirl

    Why do no women comment here?
    Limp dicked potheads who can’t get dates do not a decent conversation make

    • claygooding

      I think we are being Sabetized from this poster,,he looks as if he would drag queen right out.

    • Liam

      Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made for kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

      William Shakespeare

    • thelbert

      excellent observation. yet, you couldn’t refrain from commenting. you are losing the war. stop whining and get used to reality.

    • darkcycle

      Baiting? With this? HERE? *laughter* You know, I HAVEN’T had a date in years! Now that I think about it….. Pardon me while I ask my hot, PhD wife why I can’t get a date.

    • Maria

      Is all I’m going to say to that one.

      • no doubt Maria, no doubt…

        I’d really have to stretch my mind to think if I’ve ever dated a woman that didn’t smoke herb… and I KNOW I’ve never dated a woman that thought less of me for being a cannabist.

        I’d even go so far as to say that pot in the bedroom is darn near as natural as sex itself…

        besides… anyone taking on the moniker of “hot girl” prolly ain’t. A friend pointed out that as a former limbaugh-listening type Republican, he’ll vouch that Electile Dysfunction drugs are heavily advertised on that side’s media outlets.

        I personally like Margaret Cho’s line on that topic…

      • Windy

        Right there with you Maria. Meh!

    • mr Ikesheeny

      Are you Ann Romney.

  • nick

    You should start your own TV series called “Kevin & Pete, Best Friends” After his logic fails, Kevin can bury his head in the sand and you can repeatedly kick his ass. I’d watch that.

  • divadab

    Here’s my “comment awaiting moderation”:

    Of course Sabet is in favor of maintaining cannabis prohibition – he makes his living as a spokesman for cannabis prohibition. We citizens have to fight this government-funded careerist (who advocates putting us in jail for non-crimes) on our own dime and in our own time while he collects a fat paycheck funded with OUR MONEY!

    The prohibitionist gravy train will soon end due to its evil unaffordability but in the mean time keep fighting! Soon Sabet and his lying ilk will have to do some real useful work instead of providing sophistry in support of unjust dominion.

  • Peter

    sembler adelson romney natanyahu. this is ahuge story

    • cy Klebs

      Won’t curry much favor with the Larouch people I reckon. Seems like a very compelling case for keeping straight incorporated out of the white house!

  • Duncan20903

    The last time I checked the Native Americans lands are considered sovereign nations. Sales of tobacco on the soil of these sovereign nations aren’t subject to State and local taxes imposed by jurisdictions in the United States. The Native American countries that are in or near New York State can legally sell tobacco products without paying the taxes. How many of Mr. Sabet’s 76 cigarette packs had tax stamps from other States vs no tax stamp at all? Just the absence of tax stamps does not in and of itself prove that the cigarettes were sold in the grey market. Tax stamps from Virginia or other low tax States would be more compelling, but it’s still laughably absurd to claim that a guy who buys cartons of cigarettes in Virginia and resells them outside of New York City bodegas is the same stripe of dangerous as are those who participate in the wholesale distribution chain of substances on the naughty lists.

    Once again we have a lame prohibitionist claiming that because we can’t completely eliminate any black market activity that we may as well continue to support ceding the market to criminal sociopaths. It’s really sad to see people like Mr. Sabet taken seriously rather than treated as the laughing stock as he should rightfully be. We need not achieve perfection to make serious improvements in our lives.

  • darkcycle

    Kevin Sabet has gone down hill. Seems it used to be I had to actually think in order to counter his formerly finely-spun bullshit. Now, I just have to trot out the same old responses I use for everyday, pedestrian sorts of prohibitionists. Sad. Does it seem to anybody else his efforts of the recent month or two have deteriorated? Could it be his heart is no longer in it? Even his trolls are “just phoning it in”. Maybe time for a little vacation, Eh, Kevvie? Get yourself rested and come back when you’re back on your game.

  • Maria

    I wonder what Mr. Sabet thinks of the Kinder Egg black market?

    • claygooding

      It just tickles the shit out of me that Marinol or any other synthetic marijuana pill has ever developed a black market,,and it must really disappoint the companies making them.

  • WatchinItCrumble

    I thought drug warriors always published over the top street value numbers as some sort of “looky here” metric. And the street value of those 76 packs of cigs were?

  • claygooding

    Looks like they hired a moderator,,seeing our posts now,,and still no support for Kevin Goebbels Sabet.

  • Byddaf yn egluro:

    Mr Sabet, the existential despair you’re feeling is very common among people who finally realize the utter futility and destructiveness of their entire life’s work. But even in your deepest moments of anguish and utter hopelessness, it is still possible for you to emerge to find a sense of peace and a painless conclusion to your suffering. In this day and age we have great means to alleviate mental or physical pain, even compared to just five years ago —Kevin, we mildly implore you to consider a less permanent and devastating solution than the one you must now be surely considering.

  • darkcycle

    Incredible. Fearsome. Epic.
    You folks are all of that and more. I posted one name and a link. And the fur ball started.
    Kevin Sabet has got to be hating us right now. Even Vivian McPeak showed up to throw a punch or two (thanks, Viv, and if you’re out there, sorry about our last exchange, my bad).
    We are a juggernaut. This is our web. We own this shit.

    • and ditto to that – a hearty Aaarrr! to all ye.

      darkcycle, your descriptive salute makes all these years of LTE slinging and wwweb jousting seem a whole lot more worthwhile.

      Slowly, methodically, factually and mostly compassionately (sorry Kev-Kev), all our efforts have reached a point where we’ve managed to rise above the Prohihibitionist Harpies’ wailings. People out there are realizing we haven’t just been making this shit up.

  • kaptinemo

    Gonna need a lot of sawdust to mop up the rhetorical blood “Doctor” Sabet has lost from crossing swords with supposedly ‘stupid stoners’.

    Rule One of a propagandist is that they shouldn’t believe their own BS.

    Rule Two is that when confronted with people who know it’s BS, a rapid retreat is in order.

    Rule Three is that the speed of the rapid retreat is usually in direct proportion with the degree of anger that has been aroused in the intended targets with such a p*ss-poor attempt at insulting their (considerable!) intelligence. Especially when it becomes known that the propagandist has consorted with child-torturing freaks in need of a jail cell, if not worse.

    Goebbels committed suicide (after murdering his own children) rather than have to ‘face the music’ for his support of the equally murderous regime that paid his bills. I doubt Kevin has the stones to ‘fall on his sword’ when the time comes…and it is coming friends, it is coming. Re-legalization is only the beginning. Policies, like elections, have consequences.

    Any Babylon 5 fans out there? Recall what Vir told the unctuous, slimy Shadow mouthpiece Mr. Morden what he’d like to see? A reminder for fans, and a taste of why I liked that show so much. Somehow, I doubt that will happen, here…but given all the people whose lives “Doctor” Sabet helped destroy with his support of prohibition, well, I’d settle for tar baths and feather rinses…and do note the plurals…

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Nowadays, SMM and SEO both are known as digital marketing techniques. As an expert digital marketer who has experience working for a worldwide B2B marketplace, I’d like you to have a closer look at each of them to find out which strategy new businesses should invest in.

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SMM refers to how you promote and advertise your business through social platforms. With a business page on some of the top platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn, you can boost your social presence and generate many followers. As astonishing as it sounds, the management of various networks at the same time can be tricky. Therefore, we advise that you stick to the basic ones while going through the initial stage of your business.

It is estimated that in 2019, over 2.77 billion people will use at least one social platform. That’s around one-third of the global population. That clearly signifies that if you wish to generate traffic and gain an online presence, you can ignore SMM.

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Having considered both strategies, I’m pretty sure that you are aware of the importance each will play in helping you grow your business. Therefore, according to my experience, I can emphatically state that one without the other is pointless. As you notice that I listed SMM as a part of SEO, which means, that if your goal of using SEO is lead and traffic generation, then SMM can’t be ignored. Similarity, while using SMM, without adequate keyword research, you’ll never know which topic or phrase to focus on while promoting your content.

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A quick trip to Dubrovnik

Most people go from Croatia to Montenegro for a day trip, but we did the opposite. We were staying in Kotor and wanted a quick trip to Dubrovnik. This day-long excursion was a splurge, but it’s one we accepted in order to see the historic fortification around the old city.

The bus from Kotor to Dubrovnik cost $40 for two people, one way. Expensive for a day trip. We don’t normally spend that kind of money on a day trip, but my breast cancer surgery recovery altered our plans. We were supposed to have stayed in Dubrovnik, but we never made it.

The ride from Kotor to Dubrovnik took just under three hours, and about 2.5 hours on the way back into Montenegro that night. En route to Dubrovnik, the bus went by the airport in Tivat, and then on the car ferry across the bay, and then north to the Croatian border.

Once in Dubrovnik, we immediately bought our return tickets (another $40). Then it cost the equivalent of $5 for the two of us to grab a city bus from the station to the old town.

We only had about 4.5 hours to play tourist. The main thing to do in Dubrovnik is to walk the walls around the old city – and so that’s what we did. And that cost $48 for two people.

Why we wanted a quick trip to Dubrovnik

The Walls of Dubrovnik are considered to be among the greatest fortifications in the Middle Ages. We wanted to see them. The walls were changed and updated many times throughout history. During the breakup of Yugoslavia, Serbia shelled Croatia from the sea and damaged some of the walls.

We met a former Croatian soldier on our travels who was stationed in Dubrovnik during the war. He recounted moving through the old town while under fire. That’s pretty wild stuff — and it’s happened again and again throughout Balkan history.

The walls you see today are a darn good representation of what this fortification looked like ages ago. Forts, gates, towers, moats – this system was incredibly complex. Today, tourists “walk the walls.”

Tips for a quick trip to Dubrovnik

We were on the walls in the late afternoon in early September, so the sunlight was just right.

Tip: bring water – it’s hot. Before we started we spent $2 on a liter bottle of water.

Tip: go when there is no cruise ship at port. We passed thousands of tourists, but there would have been thousands more if boats had been docked.

Tip: resign yourself to accept things cost more in this tourist town. Tedly bought a beer on the walls, for a hefty $7. A soda off the walls, down in old town, cost me $2.

After sunset, we had a snack with an amazing view. A cheese plate for two with a beer for Tedly cost about $28, including the tip.

And then we blew another $10 for a taxi ride back to the bus station across town.

Expensive day trip, but…

Even though $182 was a steep tab for us retired budget travelers, at least we got to experience walking the Walls of Dubrovnik. Despite my breast cancer setback.

This is why we travel: to experience the world. Can you really put a price on that?

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A quick trip to Dubrovnik

7 thoughts on “A quick trip to Dubrovnik

  1. A nice report of this beautiful place, visited about 30 years ago. But prices were very very different, ok it is a tourist destination but they are extremely high. Kisses Ellie

  2. We have seen it and won’t go back. Maybe higher prices will be how they keep the number of tourists at a somewhat reasonable level. Kisses and hugs back to you, my friend.

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Epstein Becker Green Firm NewsNashville, TN (June 1, 2017)Epstein Becker Green (EBG) is pleased to announce that it has established a presence in Nashville with the addition of health care compliance and government enforcement defense lawyer Richard W. Westling, who will divide his time between the firm’s Nashville and Washington, DC, offices.

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ECNL Alums Reunite with Former Teammates and Coaches Over the Holiday Break

RICHMOND, VA (January 25, 2018) – The ECNL takes great pride in highlighting the Amazing Young Women that have helped shape the league into the top female youth development platform in the country both on and off the field. Over the holiday break, ECNL Alums across the country headed home from college to enjoy some down time with their families and reunite with their former teammates and coaches.

The league caught up with a few member clubs to learn about the ECNL Alum events and gatherings that took place over the holiday season.

St. Louis Scott Gallagher – Missouri (SLSG-MO)

On Wednesday, January 10, the SLSG-MO ECNL U18/U19 team played against former club players at WWT Soccer Park. The ECNL Alumni team was made up of players from 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014 graduating ECNL classes. The game was used as a final preparation game for the final Midwest Conference game against Elite Girls Academy ECNL on Sunday, January 14.

Alabama FC

On December 21, Alabama FC hosted a reunion game between the combined ECNL U16 and ECNL U17 teams against members from the 2013-2017 ECNL graduating classes. It was a great night of fellowship and an opportunity for current ECNL players to connect with those that came before them. Alabama FC had alums from the following universities: Alabama, Mercer, Clemson, Auburn, Furman, North Texas, Samford, Wofford, Air Force, West Georgia, BSC, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, South Alabama, Troy, Mobile and Tennessee. In addition to the match, other Alabama FC ECNL alums gathered and reconnected with their respective teams.

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Santa Rosa United

The weekend before Christmas, Santa Rosa United (SRU) hosted the 3rd Annual Santa Rosa United Alumni Game. While only a few female players showed up this year, former ECNL player and current University of Virginia forward, Taylor Zeimer, scored twice for her team! The club looks forward to building on this tradition and welcoming former players back home to reunite with teammates and connect with the next generation of SRU players.

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Over the holiday break, teams from the Heat FC ECNL Class of 2012-2017 teams gathered at Coach Tom Amick’s home for their annual alumni holiday party. The teams enjoyed reminiscing all night long as they connected with fellow Heat teammates, coaches and players.

We continue to celebrate ECNL players both past and present. As the ECNL approaches a decade of existence the ECNL Sisterhood grows across the country both in the college game and the work force.  We encourage you to share stories of ECNL Alums that have come back to their roots. The #proudECNLalums across the league continue to leave their mark as they tackle the next chapter of life.

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The Iranian authorities must urgently clarify the fate and whereabouts of Hedayat Abdollahpour, a Kurdish prisoner, after local authorities told his family that he had recently been secretly executed, Amnesty International said today.

Hedayat Abdollahpour was sentenced to death in 2017 after a grossly unfair trial. On 9 May 2020, he was transferred from the central prison in Urumieh, in West Azerbaijan Province, to an undisclosed location. His family and lawyers have been desperately trying to obtain information on his fate since then.

Yesterday (10 June), the head of the Centre for the Implementation of Sentences in Urumieh told his family that Hedayat Abdollahpour had been executed three weeks ago in the city of Oshnavieh, also in West Azerbaijan province, but that he could provide no further information. However, around three weeks ago, a prosecution official had told his lawyers he was in a detention facility in Urumieh run by the Revolutionary Guards, and had not indicated that he was scheduled for execution.

“The fact that the Iranian authorities are playing these cruel games with Hedayat Abdollahpour’s family further demonstrates their contempt for human life,” said Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Deputy Director.

“By refusing to reveal the truth, they are deliberately causing untold mental anguish and distress to his loved ones.

“If Hedayat Abdollahpour has been executed in secret, his body must be returned to his family immediately, and an independent investigation must be conducted into the circumstances surrounding his unlawful execution.”

When the family asked why they had not been informed in advance, the official claimed that he was not allowed to provide further information. He added that the execution had been carried out following “an order from above,” in apparent reference to the Revolutionary Guards overseeing the case.

Iranian law requires the authorities to inform lawyers of the scheduled execution of their clients 48 hours in advance, and grant families the right to visit their relatives for the last time. To date, Hedayat Abdollahpour’s lawyers have not been notified of his execution.

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Since Hedayat Abdollahpour was forcibly disappeared last month, Iranian authorities have repeatedly denied to share any information about his safety and wellbeing, passing his family and lawyers from one office to another.

The prison officials and prosecution authorities in Urumieh told his lawyers that they had no information about his case, and that it had been referred to Oshnavieh for processing. However, prosecution authorities in Oshnavieh denied this.

On 12 May, the deputy prosecutor in Urumieh told Hedayat Abdollahpour’s family: “When the Ministry of Intelligence and the Revolutionary Guards do not tell you where your relative is, you better refer to the cemetery.”

On 23 May, his lawyers were told by the same deputy prosecutor in Urumieh that Hedayat Abdollahpour was alive and being held in a detention facility run by the intelligence unit of the Revolutionary Guards in Urumieh, but they were given no further information on his situation.

Authorities are committing the crime of enforced disappearance, a crime under international law, so long as they refuse to disclose the fate or whereabouts of the victim or the remains.

Iranian authorities have a long-standing history of secretly executing members of ethnic minority groups and burying them in unmarked graves, and refusing to reveal their fate and the whereabouts of their remains for months or even years.

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Hedayat Abdollahpour was sentenced to death in 2017 in connection with an armed clash between the Revolutionary Guards and members of Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) which took place on 14 June 2016.

Following his arrest in August 2016, Hedayat Abdollahpour was held in solitary confinement in a detention facility run by the Revolutionary Guards for 78 days. His family has said that he lost hearing in one ear after being subjected to torture during this period.

He was accused of being a member of the KDPI, which he consistently denied. His conviction and death sentence followed a grossly unfair trial, which relied on forced “confessions” that Hedayat Abdollahpour retracted in court, and ignored serious allegations of torture and other ill-treatment.

The verdict of the Supreme Court, which has been reviewed by Amnesty International, conceded that Hedayat Abdollahpour was not in possession of any weapon and that he was not even in the area at the time of the armed clashes.

In late May 2020, Hedayat Abdollahpour’s application for a pardon was rejected for a second time by Iran's Amnesty and Clemency Commission.

Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in all cases without exception regardless of the nature or circumstances of the crime; guilt, innocence or other characteristics of the individual; or the method used by the state to carry out the execution. Amnesty International recorded at least 251 executions in Iran in 2019 in its annual Death Penalty report.


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NEW YORK – It’s about time the rest of the nation learned more about Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s successful collective bargaining reforms, particularly as they pertain to education.

Kyle Olson, publisher of EAGnews, appeared on “Stossel,” a Fox Business Network program hosted by award-winning journalist John Stossel, in an episode that aired Thursday night. Olson talked about the positive effects of Walker’s Act 10, a groundbreaking law which limited collective bargaining privileges for public sector labor unions in Wisconsin.

He told Stossel and his live audience about the freedom public employees now have to leave their unions if they choose and avoid related fees. He talked about declining union membership in the state since the law went into effect.

“When you actually give teachers and public employees a choice, they drop out,” Olson said.

But most of Olson’s appearance focused on the positive impact Act 10 had on the cost of school health insurance in the state. EAGnews recently released a report on that topic titled, “First Years of Freedom: Wisconsin Schools Saving Millions on Health Insurance in the Act 10 Era.”

Olson told Stossel how WEA Trust, an insurance company established by the state’s largest teachers union, used to dominate the school insurance market in the state. Local unions would demand WEA Trust coverage during collective bargaining, resulting in a lack of competition and skyrocketing insurance rates for schools and the taxpayers who support them.

KyleandStosselBut Act 10 took employee health insurance off the collective bargaining table, allowing school boards to accept bids for coverage without union interference, resulting in combined savings of “hundreds of millions of dollars,” according to Olson.

Sixty-two percent of school districts polled by EAGnews experienced savings in the first year after Act 10 was passed, Olson said.

Stossel, using a statistic from the EAGnews report, noted that the average cost of monthly premiums for family coverage in schools dropped from $1,752 to $1,551 due to Act 10. He also noted that the Appleton school district accepted bids and chose to stay with WEA Trust coverage, but saved $3 million per year in the process.

“They stayed with the union preferred company, but since that company had competition, suddenly they dropped their rates,” Olson said.

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    Resetting/Hacking Sony Car Stereos from Japanese Tuning to
    US...service manuals?

    Hi there...

    I was wondering if someone has any idea if ANY of the Sony "WX" series
    of double-din car stereos (japanese or usa models) can be "hacked" so
    that their tuners can be changed from japanese fm tuning to us/uk or
    world tuning and vice-versa???

    I recently purchased a Sony WX-C88REC double-din cd/md recorder from
    eBay. This is a japanese market deck and is factory set for japanese
    fm tuning. However, the design and physical layout of this deck is
    very similar to other US models (such as the WX-4500X and the WX-
    C5000, as well as the WX-C55 which looks nearly identical). I'm
    nearly convinced that there MUST be some way to hack the japanese
    models so that their tuners can be "switched" to us or world frequency
    range tuning. I find it difficult to believe that Sony would design
    two distinct different tuner hardware modules for japanese and
    american versions. Problem is, I have no clue HOW to "hack" this
    feature. I don't have a service manual for ANY "WX" series stereos,
    but I'm thinking that it may possibly be an option in a service manual
    for ANY of the "WX" decks. Again, I find it difficult to believe that
    this isn't "set-able" some sort of way.

    Does anyone out there have an idea? Does anyone out there have ANY
    service manual for ANY "WX" series Sony stereo? Or, for that matter,
    does anyone have a service manual for ANY Sony car stereo that
    addresses in ANY way setting the tuner for different tuning freqency

    I realize there are adapters available to transpose the FM
    frequencies. I've used them before, always with poor results
    (stations usually overlap and are weak). I mainly record off the
    radio with my MDX-C800REC's in my other cars, but always thought it
    would be cool to be able to dub cd's quickly in-dash digitally without
    having to mess with a cd changer. But, radio recording is my primary
    concern...and the adapters don't provide the quality I want for

    PLEASE help ANYBODY if you can steer me in the right direction or help
    in ANY way. If anyone has ANY Sony service manuals for ANY stereo,
    please let me know...perhaps if setting the tuner IS an option, maybe
    it is a standard procedure to set ANY Sony stereo's tuning in a
    similar fashion.

    Thank you VERY much!
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    In the olden days of PLL, one used to be able to play with option diodes
    that were somehow tied into the keypad scan circuits.

    Newer radios may have a service menu or secet key combo, or a setting on
    an eeprom you have to manually adjust by reading the eeprom to a PC,
    modifying the data, and writing it back. Worst case scenarion, the
    controller is hard coded for the frequency format you do't want, meaning
    you will need to replace the micro with one coded for your locale.

    That is generally though. I can't say specifically for your model.

    And that is for the display. A Japanese tuner front end may not be able
    to tune all of American FM well, or vice versa.
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How to Express Needs without Being “Needy.”

“You’re so needy.”

Every time I heard those dreaded words, I felt more and more confused, disconnected from both friends and partners, and ultimately, unworthy. When I tried to express what I needed, I didn’t feel heard or respected.

I found myself asking, Why aren’t my needs acceptable, but other people’s seem to be?

I would see my friends telling their partners clearly what they needed and easily having those needs met. Why weren’t they being called “needy?” I couldn’t understand why it was so easy for them, and what was different about me. The repeated pain and confusion of this experience led me to shut down the reality of my needs. I started to doubt that any needs I had were important, and believe that there was something fundamentally wrong with me.

I was just “too needy”: my needs were unreasonable, and that would never change.

Thankfully, over time, I came to realize I was struggling not because there was anything wrong with me (and I’m confident that’s the case for us all), but because I was not understanding or expressing my needs in a way that could be heard and accepted by others. Having needs was not the issue at all! The issue was around understanding what my real needs were, and how to ask for support for them in a way that could be received by others.

Five Simple Steps to Effectively Express our Needs:

When I began using these steps, I soon found that I was no longer being called “needy.” In turn, I regained my confidence and experience of self-worth. We all have needs that need to be met, and using these steps can help us get there.

Step One: Become aware of your true needs.

Sorting out what we want versus what we truly need is an important first step. Sure we all might want our partners to text us all day while they are at work, but is that an actual need? Probably not. Maybe the need is that our partner checks in with us at some point during the day. But what if it makes us super anxious to only hear from our partner once a day?! Well, it’s okay to feel anxious. That might mean that we have some work to do around our own ability to self-soothe, rather than our partner needing to do it (more of that in Step Two).

Being aware of our true needs is only possible when we are in a calm and stable state. If we are feeling triggered in an angry or sad state because of a conflict that just occurred or because we are realizing a need isn’t being met, it’s always a good idea to wait until we feel calm again to sort out what our actual need. It is often not possible to know our true needs when we are feeling triggered.

Step Two: Tend to your own wants.

Once we’ve sorted out what our actual needs are versus what our wants are, we can now to tend to our own wants without expecting others to do it for us. For example, I need my best friend to be there as a source of support for me during a tough time in my life. What I want is for her to ask me a million times how I’m feeling and to remind me every five minutes that everything will be okay.

It’s important for me to realize the difference, because I can’t expect her to meet that want. What I can do is remind her that I need her support, and I can reach out to her to express how I’m feeling, while reminding myself that things will be okay. Asking a friend to meet all of my wants is a direct road to “neediness”—and just plain unrealistic.

Step Three: Explain the needs by using “I feel” statements.

It is always a good idea to express our needs by starting with how we feel. Using an “I feel” statement to begin allows us to take responsibility for our needs and helps prevent the receiver from feeling attacked and becoming defensive. For example, if I need my coworker to stop talking to me in the office about how much she hates our office and our colleagues, it’s best to start that conversation out by telling her why. It makes me feel anxious and unfocused when I hear negative comments about the office, and I need her to save it for happy hour. This allows for her to understand where I’m coming from, and why this need is important to me.

Step Four: Be clear and precise when expressing your needs, and make sure that they are realistic.

When we are expressing our needs, it is important to know what exactly we are asking for, and to ask clearly for that exact behavior. The more clear and precise we can be, the better chance our loved ones have of being able to step up and meet that need for us. Similarly, the more realistic our requests are, the more likely they are to be met. Setting our partners or friends up for failure never works in our favor.

Step Five: Don’t take it back!

Hopefully by this point, we are feeling confident about the need and request we just expressed because we’ve taken the time to go through the first four steps. However, sometimes we express needs and our receiver doesn’t take hearing them so well. In this case, we might then start to second-guess our request and feel tempted to take it back. Taking back a request to have a need met actually makes us seems more needy, because it validates the other person’s mistaken belief that we were just being silly, and it never really mattered in the first place. It is important to maintain our strength and conviction about our needs, no matter how uncomfortable we feel advocating for ourselves.

Understanding our needs and being able to express them to our loved ones is a way to advocate for ourselves and to engage in self-care. Additionally, knowing that we are capable of and responsible for meeting our own wants is vital for our personal growth and evolution.

Always remember that we are worthy of having our needs met, and it is a lot easier for others to believe it if we believe it, too.

The Key Difference Between Having Needs & Being Needy.

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