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I Made Her From Clay: Broken Places & Outer Spaces by Nnedi Okorafor
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Following her compelling talk, "Scifi stories that imagine a future Africa" (2017), the TED Books series now presents Nnedi Okorafor's Broken Places & Outer Spaces. Part memoir, part craft text, the book is a personal narrative of the route Okorafor took to arrive at her career as a writer of science fiction. In the TED talk, she discusses the roots and influences of her science fiction as an Africanfuturist and reads selections from Binti and Lagoon; in this companion book her approach is more personal, focusing primarily on the life-changing experience of a scoliosis surgery that left her—a college athlete and track star—paralyzed.
Confined to her hospital room and laboring under the emotional and physical pain of her recovery, Okorafor first experiences her creative awakening—a process that comes in fits and starts, as does her rehabilitation. As she reflects on this experience in intense, intimate detail over the course of the book, she also explores what it means to be broken and rebuilt, to be made into something greater than the original form: a cyborg, a futurist, an artist.
As Okorafor says in the introduction, regarding kintsugi as an artform that repairs "the total object":
…you transform what you have fixed into something more beautiful than it previously was. This is the philosophy that I came to understand was central to my life. Because in order to really live life, you must live life. And that is rarely achieved without cracks along the way. There is often a sentiment that we must remain new, unscathed, unscarred, but in order to do this, you must never leave home, never experience, never risk or be harmed, and thus never grow.
This emphasis on repair and transformation after a breakage is the central conceit of Okorafor's argument in Broken Places & Outer Spaces. Her path to the writing career that has brought us, her audience, such amazing novels as Who Fears Death involved a great Breaking—the spinal surgery that left her temporarily paralyzed and with permanent damage to her proprioception—and a period of recovery. As she narrates her own story for the reader she also brings in examples of other artists and their traumas, how embracing the whole self, pain and all, was important to their creative processes.
However, on that note, I do have reservations about the approach the text sometimes begins to lean toward regarding the relationship between pain and art. In discussions of Frida Kahlo and Mary Shelley, as well as her own journey through trauma to become a writer, Okorafor occasionally shifts the conversational frame to center pain as the progenitor and source of art (as opposed to art as the process that ameliorates and communicates through pain toward survival, for example). The implication that makes me uneasy is that suffering is a requirement for artists to produce their finest work—a concept that has, historically, done more harm than good particularly in the realm of mental health.
But even within the discomfort I'm expressing there exists a delicate balance, since the statement that a person would not exist in their current state as their current self without their trauma is also accurate. The art that they've made as a result of their breaking would not exist without it. However: what about the art that might've been made in the absence of trauma? We'll never know what that might've been, either. Pain does not always equal growth—sometimes it's just pain, just breaking, and sometimes it's unfixable. Sometimes pain kills art. I'm thinking, in this particular moment, of folks like Joanna Russ whose careers did suffer as a result of physical ailment.
On the level of memoir, though, that hint of discomfort is moot because Okorafor is speaking to her own lived experiences. This book is her personal story, and that's also important to the context. As a regular reader it's certainly meaningful to be gifted insight into her artistic development and her theories of creativity. Furthermore, the thesis statement of the book—offering "a philosophy that positions our toughest experiences not as barriers, but as doorways […] to us becoming our truest selves"—has a hopeful ring that I do appreciate, suggesting that our existence in this moment is a collection of opportunities we should do our best to embrace. Life experience, even or especially if it is painful, is indeed unique to each person.
Centering the strength of healing over the valorization of pain—which is, by and large, what the book does do—also allows for that sense of fracture that lets the light in and so forth. That approach is in fact one of significant optimism. Okorafor experienced a terrible ordeal and, as she argues, without it would not have written her work as it stands. However, she also closes the book by emphasizing that her art is made of more than pain—it's also shaped and created by familial trips to Nigeria, her experiences there, and her shifting understanding of her family's stories as she became an adult. The final chapters create a more holistic sense of her argument regarding finding the creative catalyst in one's experiences, not just of pain but also family, time, magic, travel, and more.
Overall, Broken Places & Outer Spaces contains a quietly effective power in its insistence on flexible strengths and the drive to create, on the mind and the body and the self as inextricably intertwined. Okorafor paints an emotional portrait of her paralysis as well as the slow process of her rehabilitation to a cyborg reality—while also offering intellectual and philosophical explorations of disability that emphasize futurity, not just surviving but thriving. The closing imagery, after all, is of her falling free into the water of the ocean. It's a striking close to a conversational and intimate piece of craft-memoir-oriented nonfiction that encourages the reader to, as the subtitle says, find "creativity in the unexpected" circumstances of their life.
Broken Places & Outer Spaces is available from Simon & Schuster.
Brit Mandelo is a writer, critic, and editor whose primary fields of interest are speculative fiction and queer literature, especially when the two coincide. They have two books out, Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction and We Wuz Pushed: On Joanna Russ and Radical Truth-telling, and in the past have edited for publications like Strange Horizons Magazine. Other work has been featured in magazines such as Stone Telling, Clarkesworld, Apex, and Ideomancer.
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With banks and borrowers alike feeling the prolonged and acute strain on traditional ship finance lending, the quest for any form of finance of shipping assets has been a significant challenge for many. Compounded by increasing financial regulation, reclassifications of shipping loans and stringent capital requirements it is little wonder that any positive reports for the ship finance market are few and far between. The record lows of the Baltic Dry Index are never far from the market's mind and falling rates and overcapacity issues have drained away much of the initial optimism over the tanker sector. Nevertheless, some deals are still being done – both publicly and privately – whether as restructurings or as packaged work-out transactions for new managers/borrowers. So despite the 'perfect storm' in which ship finance has found itself, are there any hidden gems and diamond opportunities for those willing to take on the search?
The rough…
Setting the (bleak) scene for ship finance has not been difficult over the last decade, with historic ship finance banks having exited shipping, others in the process of downsizing and others selling sizeable chunks of their portfolio in the secondary market to the 'highest' bidder. Opportunities to purchase both performing and non-performing loans at a discount are rife (especially in the Greek market). Combined with increased internal auditing, new lending business has taken a back seat in favour of wholesale restructurings – even for those lenders who were relatively new to the market.
The question of how to fill the funding gap has become a common theme. Asian-Pacific banks have attempted to fill the void with those such as China Development Bank, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, China EXIM, China Everbright and KEXIM reported as being amongst the fastest growing in ship finance in 2015 in terms of market exposure. Nevertheless, with European regulators threatening to reclassify whole shipping portfolios as 'high-risk' and financial institutions forced in some cases to recognise bad loans (where there is still value in the associated security) the optimists looking for financing opportunities have not had an easy ride.
To some extent, alternative sources of finance looked set to assist those eager to acquire vessels at rock-bottom prices – with or without debt financing. Whilst collaborative financing and the emergence of the Asian export credit agencies helped weather some elements of the ship finance storm, other forms of alternative funding often fell out of favour as quickly as they emerged. The capital markets window proved short lived as freight rates remained anchored and the few success stories became marred by pricing issues, underwriting concerns and the increasing indifference of investors. Private equity also continued to form part of the mix – both in respect of the secondary market or through direct equity deals with owners/managers with a strong track record.
The increasing numbers of non-performing shipping loans has seen lenders across the board becoming increasingly cautious when selecting their counterparties. However, for those owners/managers with long-standing banking relationships, a reliable and transparent record, strong chartering relationships and some level of equity to invest, opportunities have emerged to cooperate with their banks to the mutual benefit of both.
The diamonds…
The principle of 'extend and pretend' always had to come to an end at some point and innovative solutions to a mass problem had to be found. Even publicly, signs that banks and borrowers were starting to take a more proactive approach became apparent – especially in the absence of any burgeoning market recovery. For publicly listed owners looking to acquire vessels at historically low values, there were signs of attractive (albeit rare) opportunities.
As 2015 drew to an end, HSH Nordbank's "Nautilus" financing model, saw the Navios Group complete its acquisition of fourteen vessels (with a total market value of US$225 million) from struggling debtors on the verge of insolvency1 – the second transaction of this nature with HSH Nordbank. Wolfgang Topp, Head of HSH Nordbank's Restructuring Unit noted the benefits of the transaction for both parties as "self-evident" with HSH Nordbank reducing their risks and Navios broadening its fleet to include complementary ships2. HSH Nordbank's exposure was substantially reduced and the fleet's capital structure strengthened owing to the discounted loan amount being financed by a new creditor. On the other hand, Navios was able to acquire a fleet of vessels with a new pre-packaged banking syndicate when most were struggling to find finance for a single ship. Diamonds of this size will perhaps only ever be available to those in a position to contribute eight-digits' worth of fresh capital and deliver sizeable economies of scale. However, when averaged over fourteen vessels, the level of new equity investment required could become far more attractive to a much wider audience.
Even in the restructuring arena, transactions which primarily sought to address valuation and liquidity issues often showed positive support for actively maximising opportunities. In March 2016, Scorpio Tankers negotiated an increase in its credit facility with ING Bank from US$87 million to US$132.5 million in order to part finance the acquisition of a new product tanker and to refinance other existing indebtedness3. Another example saw Safe Bulkers repeatedly succeed in renegotiating several loan facilities with its lenders throughout the first half of 2016 including RBS, Danish Ship Finance, DVB Bank, ING Bank, Nordea Bank, Unicredit and DNB4.
Again, restructurings and ship finance transactions on this scale might be considered out of reach for those without a public listing to their name. Nevertheless, the nature of these positive transactions and the opportunities which emerged (despite adverse market conditions) were a welcome alternative to the usual pessimistic reports. The slightest sparkle of innovation and ingenuity was certainly something that could be considered more widely and (if needed) on a smaller scale.
The likelihood of new money, plain-vanilla ship finance transactions remains too good to be true in many cases, but positive elements in an otherwise gloomy market have started to emerge as another method of seizing opportunities and finding hidden value. Otherwise standard restructurings, with LTV and minimum liquidity adjustments could, in some circumstances, be tied to pre-packaged financing deals for additional vessels – again from beleaguered borrowers ready to hand assets back to their lenders (replicating some of the attractive attributes from the Nautilus model put forward by HSH Nordbank).
Hovering for the most part below the radar, private financing transactions have started to show a necessity for the 'bells and whistles' historically incorporated as part of larger and more sophisticated financings. Back-end fees, equity kickers and profit sharing could form part of a structure where both banks and borrowers have 'skin in the game'. Increased transparency (or supervision) on the part of the borrower, together with equity support from the borrower if (more likely when) needed could be balanced by the lender (with an acceptance of market constraints and current freight rates)a willingness to move away from the more stressful repayment profile model. Previous attempts to 'kick the can down the road' have forced lenders and borrowers to be more creative, with more experience of large balloon repayments causing greater difficulties at a later date – as market conditions continued to deteriorate. Even the acceptance of financial covenant holidays has become a method for lenders to manage the burden of regular waiver requirements and breaches almost equivalent to the burden faced by borrowers seeking to comply with original covenant requirements.
The slide in vessel earnings has naturally hit both lenders and borrowers hard. Operating and voyage expenses and G&A costs now frequently exceed a vessel's earning capabilities and the depressed state of the market means that even the most efficient borrowers and managers are forced to dig deeper into their own pockets to meet scheduled principal repayment obligations. As the problem becomes more widespread, the possibility for lenders to take hard and fast enforcement action against non-performing borrowers and loans seems less attractive to all parties. In the latest bid to salvage more from a potential wreck (and in order to avoid the expensive and often counter-productive alternative of judicial enforcement), a recent trend towards lenders offering their more trusted owners increasingly complex, yet flexible, repayment terms typically combined with detailed applications of earnings and/or 'waterfall provisions' could allow certain borrowers to move away from fixed repayment obligations and simply to apply all earnings (surplus or otherwise) periodically and in a manner which would be acceptable to their lenders.
PAYE or DIY?
Ordinarily, 'pay as you earn' forms of restructurings could allow for a reasonable level of operating expenses and a capped management fee to be applied first from the earnings of the vessel, with lender fees, costs, expenses, interest and principal repayments forming part of the waterfall at varying degrees. Potential for 'rolling-up' of interest in the form of PIK interest could also form part of an earnings waterfall in exchange for guaranteed equity support from the borrower. Suddenly a 'repayment buffer' starts to emerge where both banks and borrowers can look to agree the attributes of a repayment structure which suits each party's needs – the borrower commits to funding shortfalls by itself (or through shareholders) and the lender accepts (to some extent) that it might take slightly longer to pay down its debt.
Cash sweeps and methodology to rebuild capital reserves remain relevant, but often become unrealistic or impractical when the fight for survival applies to everyone in the ship finance food chain. However, combining pre-packaged facilities and specific assets (typically from the lender's bad loan portfolio) – with or without 'soft-loan' attributes – could allow for much higher LTV percentages and much lower margins to be made available to borrowers than would otherwise be available in a plain-vanilla, new money scenario. Together with some level of equity injection (or shareholder loan) and a commitment to support the underlying asset, a lender's classification of certain loans could well be improved. A pre-agreed write-off for future sales at a loss could well be balanced against profit sharing of surplus sale proceeds in cases where vessel values do actually rebound.
Potential opportunities will always have to be balanced against the price to be paid by both lenders and borrowers. What is commercially achievable will often depend on the strength of the lending relationship, the ability of the borrower to demonstrate a strong and transparent track record, evidence of prudent vessel management and (no doubt) a willingness to put some level of cash on the table.
Differing goals and the wide variety of lender and borrower profiles will never allow a one size fits all ship finance model, but certainly the current state of the ship finance market has forced all parties to become more creative, to find solutions and seize even the smallest of opportunities that could provide benefits – and maybe even a profit (whether in the short term or the long term).
For more information, please contact Jasel Chauhan, Partner, Piraeus, on +30 210 429 3978, or jasel.chauhan@hfw.com, or Holly Foster, Associate, London, on +44 20 7264 8059, or holly.foster@hfw.com, or your usual contact at HFW.
Navios Maritime Holding 'Press Release- Navios group closes second transaction with HSH Nordbank AG' (6 October 2015)
HSH Nordbank 'Press Release – HSH Nordbank continues collaboration with Navios Group in second Nautilus transaction' (23 April 2015)
Lloyd's List 'Scorpio Tankers secures fresh funding from ING' (14 January 2016)
Safe Bulkers – Press Releases (published: 3 February 2016 and 23 May 2016 (DNB), 3 March 2016 (Unicredit), 19 April 2016 (Nordea), 31 May 2016 (ING), 5 July 2016 (DVB), 18 July 2016 (Danish Ship Finance) and 21 July 2016 (RBS))
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Rolls-Royce announced its 2021 financial statements with record sales. Where, this British manufacturer managed to sell 5,586 units of vehicles, and became the highest during its 117 years of existence.
Sales in 2021 increased 49 percent compared to the previous year, when the Covid-19 pandemic hit.
Although it did not mention in detail, Rolls-Royce called the Cullinan and the latest Ghost the product with the most sales. In addition, the highest sales records also occurred in several regions, such as the China, North America and Asia Pacific markets.
There has been an increase in customer demand for bespoke products, such as the Rolls-Royce Phantom Oribe involving the nam Herms, Phantom Tempus, Black Badge Wraith/Dawn Landspeed. Last year was significant for the Rolls Royce Coachbuild program, with the launch of the $28 million Boat Tail. Finally, Provence's pre-owned program is enjoying its rewards.
Torsten Müller-Ötvös, CEO of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars said that 2021 was a revival for the company, and congratulated the team on their efforts.
"Factors that contributed to this record were the first year of availability of the new generation Ghost, the launch of Black Badge Ghost, and the growing demand for Bespoke personalization. Last year we also announced the Specter's first fully electric model, which is slated to debut in 2023," said Torsten.
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Саях — деревня в Сармановском районе Татарстана. Входит в состав Чукмарлинского сельского поселения.

География
Находится в восточной части Татарстана на расстоянии приблизительно 7 км на запад по прямой от районного центра села Сарманово у речки Иганя.

История
Основана в конце 1920-х годов.

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Постоянных жителей было: в 1938 году — 196, в 1949—152, в 1958—122, в 1970 — 87, в 1979 — 59, в 1989 — 17, 7 в 2002 году (татары 100 %), 7 в 2010.

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Urban Paranoia is a street game intended for play in dense urban environments. It is an attempt to explore activities within the "big games" space which are more game-y and less spectacle-y. It is a test bed and a spur for thinking about the nature of big games in addition to being a really fun game on its own.
Givkwik is a project focused on thinking about and generating systems for charitable micro-giving. It acts as both a sort of inversion of the traditional micro-payment mentality and a way to leverage interaction modes that were literally non-existent a decade ago.
Textonic is the working title for a system designed to allow the design of for-pay semantic crowd-sourcing of information. It leverages Amazon's Mechanical Turk to send data for categorization. The project is still early-stage but the potential applications are staggeringly broad.
OpenAAC is a project intended to produce open source software coupled with low-cost off-the-shelf hardware that allows people with severe communication disorders to access multiple devices to offset their difficulties. The current model used in the production of these devices results in a few high cost generalist devices when what is needed are many low-cost specialty devices.
Watch With Me represents the next major step for streaming video. Watch With Me seeks to allow people spread across the world to duplicate the experience of watching film or television together on a couch. By synchronizing playback controls so that each viewer's stream pauses, plays, rewinds, and skips forward synchronously, and by incorporating a text-based chat system Watch With Me duplicates the time-synchronicity of sharing a single screen.
Tweet Cascade enables topic-focused group discussion using the Twitter platform. Tweet Cascade works entirely in the background in order to integrate seemlessly with a user's established Twitter use patterns. There's (almost) nothing new to learn. Just plug it in and watch the discussions take off.
ITP Telepresence is a project undertaken with Cisco that attempts to understand the impact of high-definition telepresence in public spaces. Creating virtual windows between geographically-distant space generates simultaneously familiar and alien interactions between the people on either side.
We tend to think of Wikipedia as a collection of articles, and while this is accurate, it is incomplete. This project attempts to understand how Wikipedia is also a collection of clusters of knowledgable people. How do users collaborate not just on single articles, but on groups of articles that deal with similar subject matter?
If you have questions about any of these projects, feel free to contact me at thomas@thomas-robertson.com.
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Q: How to require XML element with specific value of attribute? How can I validate that an element has specific attribute and attribute must have specific value.
For example:
<macroField dictTag="referenceNum">a2398</macroField>

I need to validate that my XML contains element name macroField with attribute dictTag="referenceNum" and also the value of this tag is a string.

A: Something like this:
<xs:element name="macroField">
   <xs:complexType>
      <xs:simpleContent>
         <xs:extension base="xs:string">
            <xs:attribute name="dictTag" type="xs:string" fixed="referenceNum"/>
         </xs:extension>
      </xs:simpleContent>
   </xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

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