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Top emitters Beijing and Washington both say their plans are ambitious. China plans to peak greenhouse gas emissions around 2030 while the United States aims to cut greenhouse emission by 26 to 28 per cent by 2025, from 2005 levels.
On current trends, Monday's report said temperatures were on track to rise by 3 deg C or more above pre-industrial levels by 2100, well above the agreed maximum of 2 deg C.
BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - It has been more than 1,000 days since the deadly ambush on law enforcement in Baton Rouge. Three men lost their lives in July of 2016, while three others were shot and survived. Deputy Nick Tullier is one who continues to fight against all odds.
"Push this arm out to this side. Keep pushing. Keep pushing. Good. Very nice," said a physical therapist to Deputy Nick Tullier.
Tullier continues his physical therapy at TIRR in Houston, Texas. He just made 1,000 days and if you’ve followed his journey, you know that alone is a miracle.
“Doctor came out and met with us and said he won’t live for 24 hours,” said Tullier’s father, James Tullier.
“Then they are saying a week, then they are saying ten days, and now you look at it and it being 1,000 days, and that’s just unbelievable,” said Tullier’s boss, East Baton Rouge Sheriff Sid Gautreaux.
It’s people’s prayers and divine intervention that keep Tullier fighting. He was shot three times on July 17, 2016 while responding to a gunman who had killed three officers.
“It is something that I will never forget. I live with that day every day and I pray every day that it never happens again,” said Sheriff Gautreaux.
Tullier took three bullets: one to the left side of his head, another to his left shoulder, and one that entered just below the right side of his rib cage and exited through his lower back. He was rushed to Our Lady of the Lake in Baton Rouge.
“I think it’s a testament to God and to the power of prayer because that man has had more prayer than I have ever known,” said Sheriff Gautreaux.
One hundred and twenty-two days later, Tullier moved to TIRR in Houston. He’s slowly but surely made improvements, in some cases, surprising many people, like saying the word “hello,” wishing his mom, Mary, a happy birthday by writing it out, playing thumb war, and the list goes on.
But in the past year, Tullier has battled pneumonia at least five times.
Dr. Sunil Kothari is Tullier’s doctor.
“Every time he seems to be gaining some traction from a rehabilitation point of view, he has had an episode of pneumonia, often requiring hospitalization, so I would say we are possibly at about the same place we were a year ago because of the episodes,” said Dr. Kothari.
Dr. Kothari says Tullier has not lost any ground, but hasn’t really made any progress in about a year due to pneumonia. He added that given Tullier’s traumatic brain injury, pneumonia and respiratory issues are the number one problems for patients with similar injuries.
“We do expect Nick to make progress, so we still think and believe Nick has more potential neurologically and functionally,” said Dr. Kothari.
Tullier goes through physical, occupational, and speech therapy. Some of the things he’s been doing include kicking his legs, moving his head from right to left, and he continues to walk with the help of the vector and his therapists.
“If he wants to move his arm, we may not see any movement, but there’s actually muscle activity going on,” said Dr. Kothari.
July will mark the three-year anniversary of the shooting for Tullier, and the man continues to surprise everyone by fighting through it all, be it singing two years ago or beating on a drum now.
"It is a miracle. It is a miracle and it is a testament to all of us that God is in charge. We are not in charge. We don't know what's going to happen," said Sheriff Gautreaux.
This miracle in progress has the prayers of the entire country for Tullier to continue to pull through.
Tullier’s doctor says they’re working closely with his pulmonologist and lung doctors to try to reduce the pneumonia onsets.
The rapper will perform at the annual Freedom Festival.
It's on the cover of his new album, parked next to his plane.
Behold, the mother of all diamond-encrusted, gold Apple Watches.
In a city of bloggers and performers, it’s everyone’s dream: five minutes to pitch an idea.
Fourteen people will take the stage Feb. 5 at the Bagdad Theater for Ignite Portland 2, narrating whirlwind slide shows meant to inspire everything from products to friendships.
One woman will explain how she reinvented herself by tossing out the script for her life. An electronics guru will describe how to build a rocket. An urban explorer will give tips on uncovering abandoned buildings, trains and tunnels.
Seriously, what? Presenters narrate five-minute slide shows, each pitching an original idea.
Where: Bagdad Theater, 3702 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd.
Ignite — a Seattle invention that spread worldwide — came to Portland last fall courtesy of several self-described geeks in their 20s and 30s. They knew each other through the social networking site Twitter and techie workshops called BarCamp. If they thought Ignite was cool, the group figured, so would some other Portlanders.
Boy, did they. Response was so overwhelming, the Ignite crew plans to host quarterly events — starting now.
The Oregonian's Laura Oppenheimer chatted with the organizers: Josh Bancroft, Audrey Eschright, Dawn Foster, Todd Kenefsky and Raven Zachary.
Oregonian: Explain the Ignite concept.
Bancroft: You get 20 slides for 15 seconds each. Present an interesting idea. That's it!
Oregonian: Ignite events have been staged all over. Where did you guys stumble onto the idea?
Bancroft: Seattle was the first one I saw. It was really, really great how they just compressed the energy and information and fun of a presentation into five minutes. The ones that were great moved along really quickly. And even the ones that weren't so great, you only had to sit through five minutes of it.
Oregonian: The Web site describes you guys as "cool, smart Portland geeks." Is that fair? What else should people know?
Foster: I think that's it in a nutshell. Honestly, we just do this stuff for fun. We look at events we would like to go to and organize those for the Portland tech community.
Oregonian: What kind of people and ideas did you expect? Foster: A lot more software.
Eschright: We got a lot of really fun, bizarre concepts. You know, unicycling. Numa Numa dance. Keeping chickens. We just mixed them right in with the technology presentations.
Bancroft: We wanted a mantra. What values are we really after here? It basically came down to, "Share burning ideas." We intentionally didn't limit it to just technology. That's good, because it's taken us in directions we never would have imagined.
Oregonian: Talk about the first Ignite Portland.
Bancroft: We thought maybe 100, 150 people. As it got closer and closer to the night of, we realized we were going to have a problem with the fire code at the venue, which was (a maximum) 300 people. We hit that number exactly. We had to pick a bigger venue for the second one ... and we're wondering if that's not going to be a problem as well. We might fill the Bagdad.
Kenefsky: I had someone in the bathroom at the Lucky Lab approach me and say they saw me at Ignite. And this morning, I had an old co-worker e-mail me and say, "Hey, you should really come to this thing called Ignite Portland." I said, "Yeah, yeah, I'm going."
Eschright: Well, it reached beyond our immediate social circle. The idea has a huge reach and huge appeal.
Kenefsky: I kind of think of it like the Burning Man crowd. Very smart people. Half of them spend their days in cubicles, writing software. But that's the kind of person that, in their other life, is very creative. They've got some zany hobbies and interests.
Foster: At the last Ignite we had Sarah Gilbert, who did the chicken presentation. In her other life, she's this high-powered financial adviser who was quoted in The New York Times last week. She didn't come to talk about that; she came to talk about chickens.
Kenefsky: Or the next one — it happens that Feb. 5 is Super Tuesday. Jon Perr, who worked on Gary Hart's campaign in 1984, is giving a talk on politics as theater. It's apropos for the night.
Eschright: We try to make it very Portland and very local.
Bancroft: So there's not a half-dozen presentations on how to get your Silicon Valley start-up funded.
Oregonian: After the first Ignite, were any companies started, friendships formed? What came of it?
Eschright: I talk to a lot of people I didn't before ... especially through Twitter. A lot of people added me right after Ignite, and then I had to figure out who they were. It's expanded my own social awareness of who else is in our community.
Foster: There were a number of people I knew online. I had talked to them, or we had read each other's blogs or whatever — but not actually met in person. To get to meet them face to face was kind of nice.
Zachary: A lot of people brought their spouses and significant others. For my wife, it was like, "Wow, this is really cool, this network you have in your day life. I want to be part of this." She's become more involved: She's on Twitter, she goes to meetings.
Oregonian: You got 54 submissions this time. How did you narrow the field to 14?
Bancroft: We set up a selection committee, which was basically us and a couple of other people. We made a spreadsheet where you could vote yes, no, maybe.
Zachary: There were at least 10 on there I was disappointed didn't get in. But you can't have 24 speakers. We had to cut it somewhere.
Kenefsky: We tried to go for a good mix, a variety of topics. Some may be a little more technical, some more socially inclined. We tried to get a good gender balance.
Oregonian: Tell me about one presentation you're super-excited to hear, and why.
Zachary: Brian Jamison, one of the local authorities on biodiesel, is going to be talking about it in five minutes. How it works, how you can get involved, why it matters. That cuts across all social spheres, and it's not a technology-oriented talk.
Bancroft: There's "Why Does Germany Love David Hasselhoff?"
Zachary: Is there a definitive answer to that?
Oregonian: As you said, the event coincides with Super Tuesday. What could presidential candidates learn from Ignite Portland?
Oregonian: What advice do you have for the audience?
Zachary: This is your personal presentation. Get into it. Clap. Give feedback. We have people yelling things occasionally at the speakers. The big thing is, the presenters really need to make this entertaining. It's like a cross between Cirque du Soleil and the Toastmasters club.
Bancroft: Come with the mentality that you're not going to a boring presentation or a boring conference. This is fun; it's engaging.
Kenefsky: Bring a date! We'll give a prize to anybody on a first date at Ignite Portland.
It’s often been said that a boss can make or break your career, but it’s not as common to hear about a boss being the inspiration for a philanthropic gift.
But such was the case for Jo Anne Boorkman. The retired former head of the Carlson Health Sciences Library at UC Davis made a donation to create a professional development fund for the library’s health sciences staff because she was inspired by the leadership philosophy of her first boss at UCLA.
This supervisor’s efforts to provide Boorkman and all of the staff at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library with professional development and training not only set their careers off on the right foot, according to Boorkman, the training also helped ensure that they could better serve visitors of the library. Eventually Boorkman and other staff became experts in their field and started teaching other library professionals throughout their region.
Boorkman created the Health Sciences Staff Development Fund to help health sciences staff at the UC Davis Library have the money needed to attend conferences and trainings for librarian professional development. Boorkman said it was important to her to ensure there was a permanent source of funding for this type of activity because it is often one of the first things to be cut from budgets during tough economic times.
“I felt like I wanted to leave something to the library that could go on, something that could be given in perpetuity. An endowment gives some stability for ongoing support and that’s very satisfying,” she said.
Boorkman, who is currently president of the UC Davis Emeriti Association, committed her entire career to working in health sciences libraries. She started at UCLA, then worked at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and finally came to UC Davis in 1985. She worked up the ranks, teaching health sciences library research courses along the way, and eventually became head of the health sciences library, which was a full-service library at the time. She served in that role until she retired in 2008.
Asian trading floors were a sea of red once again on Friday as the global rout returned with a vengeance on intensifying fears about tighter US interest rates.
Tokyo, Hong Kong and Shanghai were among the worst hit as they each plunged more than three percent, while investors piled into safe haven assets such as gold and the yen.
The sell-off followed another battering for Wall Street, where the Dow suffered its second-heaviest daily points fall on record -- the worst coming on Monday -- after key US Treasury bond yields spiked fuelling the prospect of higher borrowing costs.
After a blistering 2017 and January, markets worldwide have gone into a spasm in the past two weeks on fears that the booming global economy and rising inflation will lead to higher interest rates.
"There?s some big-money players that have really leveraged to the low rates forever, and they have to unwind those trades," Doug Cote, chief market strategist at Voya Investment Management, told Bloomberg News. "They could be in full panic mode right now."
Japan's Nikkei is now at levels not seen since mid-October, Hong Kong is on course to wipe out its 2018 gains and Shanghai is around a seven-month trough.
Elsewhere Sydney fell 1.3 percent, Singapore shed 1.6 percent and Seoul was more than two percent off. Wellington, Manila and Taipei were also being battered.
A key trigger of the recent pullback was last Friday's strong US jobs report that also showed rising US wage growth, fuelling speculation the Federal Reserve will lift rates more than the three times already expected this year.
However, many analysts are upbeat about the future owing to healthy economic conditions in the US and global economies as well as the positive outlook for corporate earnings after Donald Trump's massive tax cuts in December.
Proposed law presents a conflict of interests and does not provide adequate marine protection, critics say.
The Justice Ministry has been developing a law for regulating the designation of marine regions, in order to determine legal status of areas that lie outside Israel’s sovereign waters and in which opportunities exist for exploitation of natural resources.
The Society for Protection of Nature in Israel and the Environmental Protection Ministry claim that the proposed law does not afford sufficient protection to the environment against development projects, including oil and gas drilling, and fishing.
The bill, whose final version is being prepared, states that Israeli law will apply beyond its territorial waters and as such the area will be covered by national labor laws and laws pertaining to environmental protection and the extraction of natural resources.
With regard to environmental protection, the new law states that the National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Ministry will be authorized to demand documents ensuring that the environmental impact of drilling is monitored, as well as advising on rehabilitation of areas that are damaged by such activities. The interior minister will be authorized to demarcate special areas in which nature will be protected, similar to protected areas on land. These areas will be regulated by the Finance Ministry's planning authority.
SPNI director Iris Hahn sent a letter last week to Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked sharply criticizing the bill. Hahn argues that the Energy Ministry will have almost total authority over decisions relating to environmental impact whereas the Environmental Protection Ministry will be relegated to an advisory role. This will in practice will give an advantage to a ministry that has an interest in encouraging developers.
Hahn added that, unlike to regulations that exist for shoreline environments and which apply to territorial waters, the bill does not determine what constitutes environmental damage at sea. The bill also revokes many of the responsibilities that are under the jurisdiction of the Nature and Parks Authority. The authority’s power is subjugated to documents which have not yet been produced and are thus unclear.
The Justice Ministry stated that it was examining Hahn’s letter. The Environmental Protection Ministry that while there were positive aspects to the bill, such as its regulation of environmental laws in drilling areas, the new provisions give insufficient protection and present the Energy Ministry with a possible conflict of interests.
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Top emitters Beijing and Washington both say their plans are ambitious. China plans to peak greenhouse gas emissions around 2030 while the United States aims to cut greenhouse emission by 26 to 28 per cent by 2025, from 2005 levels.

On current trends, Monday's report said temperatures were on track to rise by 3 deg C or more above pre-industrial levels by 2100, well above the agreed maximum of 2 deg C.

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - It has been more than 1,000 days since the deadly ambush on law enforcement in Baton Rouge. Three men lost their lives in July of 2016, while three others were shot and survived. Deputy Nick Tullier is one who continues to fight against all odds.

"Push this arm out to this side. Keep pushing. Keep pushing. Good. Very nice," said a physical therapist to Deputy Nick Tullier.

Tullier continues his physical therapy at TIRR in Houston, Texas. He just made 1,000 days and if you’ve followed his journey, you know that alone is a miracle.

“Doctor came out and met with us and said he won’t live for 24 hours,” said Tullier’s father, James Tullier.

“Then they are saying a week, then they are saying ten days, and now you look at it and it being 1,000 days, and that’s just unbelievable,” said Tullier’s boss, East Baton Rouge Sheriff Sid Gautreaux.

It’s people’s prayers and divine intervention that keep Tullier fighting. He was shot three times on July 17, 2016 while responding to a gunman who had killed three officers.

“It is something that I will never forget. I live with that day every day and I pray every day that it never happens again,” said Sheriff Gautreaux.

Tullier took three bullets: one to the left side of his head, another to his left shoulder, and one that entered just below the right side of his rib cage and exited through his lower back. He was rushed to Our Lady of the Lake in Baton Rouge.

“I think it’s a testament to God and to the power of prayer because that man has had more prayer than I have ever known,” said Sheriff Gautreaux.

One hundred and twenty-two days later, Tullier moved to TIRR in Houston. He’s slowly but surely made improvements, in some cases, surprising many people, like saying the word “hello,” wishing his mom, Mary, a happy birthday by writing it out, playing thumb war, and the list goes on.

But in the past year, Tullier has battled pneumonia at least five times.

Dr. Sunil Kothari is Tullier’s doctor.

“Every time he seems to be gaining some traction from a rehabilitation point of view, he has had an episode of pneumonia, often requiring hospitalization, so I would say we are possibly at about the same place we were a year ago because of the episodes,” said Dr. Kothari.

Dr. Kothari says Tullier has not lost any ground, but hasn’t really made any progress in about a year due to pneumonia. He added that given Tullier’s traumatic brain injury, pneumonia and respiratory issues are the number one problems for patients with similar injuries.

“We do expect Nick to make progress, so we still think and believe Nick has more potential neurologically and functionally,” said Dr. Kothari.

Tullier goes through physical, occupational, and speech therapy. Some of the things he’s been doing include kicking his legs, moving his head from right to left, and he continues to walk with the help of the vector and his therapists.

“If he wants to move his arm, we may not see any movement, but there’s actually muscle activity going on,” said Dr. Kothari.

July will mark the three-year anniversary of the shooting for Tullier, and the man continues to surprise everyone by fighting through it all, be it singing two years ago or beating on a drum now.

"It is a miracle. It is a miracle and it is a testament to all of us that God is in charge. We are not in charge. We don't know what's going to happen," said Sheriff Gautreaux.

This miracle in progress has the prayers of the entire country for Tullier to continue to pull through.

Tullier’s doctor says they’re working closely with his pulmonologist and lung doctors to try to reduce the pneumonia onsets.

The rapper will perform at the annual Freedom Festival.

It's on the cover of his new album, parked next to his plane.

Behold, the mother of all diamond-encrusted, gold Apple Watches.

In a city of bloggers and performers, it’s everyone’s dream: five minutes to pitch an idea.

Fourteen people will take the stage Feb. 5 at the Bagdad Theater for Ignite Portland 2, narrating whirlwind slide shows meant to inspire everything from products to friendships.

One woman will explain how she reinvented herself by tossing out the script for her life. An electronics guru will describe how to build a rocket. An urban explorer will give tips on uncovering abandoned buildings, trains and tunnels.

Seriously, what? Presenters narrate five-minute slide shows, each pitching an original idea.

Where: Bagdad Theater, 3702 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd.

Ignite — a Seattle invention that spread worldwide — came to Portland last fall courtesy of several self-described geeks in their 20s and 30s. They knew each other through the social networking site Twitter and techie workshops called BarCamp. If they thought Ignite was cool, the group figured, so would some other Portlanders.

Boy, did they. Response was so overwhelming, the Ignite crew plans to host quarterly events — starting now.

The Oregonian's Laura Oppenheimer chatted with the organizers: Josh Bancroft, Audrey Eschright, Dawn Foster, Todd Kenefsky and Raven Zachary.

Oregonian: Explain the Ignite concept.

Bancroft: You get 20 slides for 15 seconds each. Present an interesting idea. That's it!

Oregonian: Ignite events have been staged all over. Where did you guys stumble onto the idea?

Bancroft: Seattle was the first one I saw. It was really, really great how they just compressed the energy and information and fun of a presentation into five minutes. The ones that were great moved along really quickly. And even the ones that weren't so great, you only had to sit through five minutes of it.

Oregonian: The Web site describes you guys as "cool, smart Portland geeks." Is that fair? What else should people know?

Foster: I think that's it in a nutshell. Honestly, we just do this stuff for fun. We look at events we would like to go to and organize those for the Portland tech community.

Oregonian: What kind of people and ideas did you expect? Foster: A lot more software.

Eschright: We got a lot of really fun, bizarre concepts. You know, unicycling. Numa Numa dance. Keeping chickens. We just mixed them right in with the technology presentations.

Bancroft: We wanted a mantra. What values are we really after here? It basically came down to, "Share burning ideas." We intentionally didn't limit it to just technology. That's good, because it's taken us in directions we never would have imagined.

Oregonian: Talk about the first Ignite Portland.

Bancroft: We thought maybe 100, 150 people. As it got closer and closer to the night of, we realized we were going to have a problem with the fire code at the venue, which was (a maximum) 300 people. We hit that number exactly. We had to pick a bigger venue for the second one ... and we're wondering if that's not going to be a problem as well. We might fill the Bagdad.

Kenefsky: I had someone in the bathroom at the Lucky Lab approach me and say they saw me at Ignite. And this morning, I had an old co-worker e-mail me and say, "Hey, you should really come to this thing called Ignite Portland." I said, "Yeah, yeah, I'm going."

Eschright: Well, it reached beyond our immediate social circle. The idea has a huge reach and huge appeal.

Kenefsky: I kind of think of it like the Burning Man crowd. Very smart people. Half of them spend their days in cubicles, writing software. But that's the kind of person that, in their other life, is very creative. They've got some zany hobbies and interests.

Foster: At the last Ignite we had Sarah Gilbert, who did the chicken presentation. In her other life, she's this high-powered financial adviser who was quoted in The New York Times last week. She didn't come to talk about that; she came to talk about chickens.

Kenefsky: Or the next one — it happens that Feb. 5 is Super Tuesday. Jon Perr, who worked on Gary Hart's campaign in 1984, is giving a talk on politics as theater. It's apropos for the night.

Eschright: We try to make it very Portland and very local.

Bancroft: So there's not a half-dozen presentations on how to get your Silicon Valley start-up funded.

Oregonian: After the first Ignite, were any companies started, friendships formed? What came of it?

Eschright: I talk to a lot of people I didn't before ... especially through Twitter. A lot of people added me right after Ignite, and then I had to figure out who they were. It's expanded my own social awareness of who else is in our community.

Foster: There were a number of people I knew online. I had talked to them, or we had read each other's blogs or whatever — but not actually met in person. To get to meet them face to face was kind of nice.

Zachary: A lot of people brought their spouses and significant others. For my wife, it was like, "Wow, this is really cool, this network you have in your day life. I want to be part of this." She's become more involved: She's on Twitter, she goes to meetings.

Oregonian: You got 54 submissions this time. How did you narrow the field to 14?

Bancroft: We set up a selection committee, which was basically us and a couple of other people. We made a spreadsheet where you could vote yes, no, maybe.

Zachary: There were at least 10 on there I was disappointed didn't get in. But you can't have 24 speakers. We had to cut it somewhere.

Kenefsky: We tried to go for a good mix, a variety of topics. Some may be a little more technical, some more socially inclined. We tried to get a good gender balance.

Oregonian: Tell me about one presentation you're super-excited to hear, and why.

Zachary: Brian Jamison, one of the local authorities on biodiesel, is going to be talking about it in five minutes. How it works, how you can get involved, why it matters. That cuts across all social spheres, and it's not a technology-oriented talk.

Bancroft: There's "Why Does Germany Love David Hasselhoff?"

Zachary: Is there a definitive answer to that?

Oregonian: As you said, the event coincides with Super Tuesday. What could presidential candidates learn from Ignite Portland?

Oregonian: What advice do you have for the audience?

Zachary: This is your personal presentation. Get into it. Clap. Give feedback. We have people yelling things occasionally at the speakers. The big thing is, the presenters really need to make this entertaining. It's like a cross between Cirque du Soleil and the Toastmasters club.

Bancroft: Come with the mentality that you're not going to a boring presentation or a boring conference. This is fun; it's engaging.

Kenefsky: Bring a date! We'll give a prize to anybody on a first date at Ignite Portland.

It’s often been said that a boss can make or break your career, but it’s not as common to hear about a boss being the inspiration for a philanthropic gift.

But such was the case for Jo Anne Boorkman. The retired former head of the Carlson Health Sciences Library at UC Davis made a donation to create a professional development fund for the library’s health sciences staff because she was inspired by the leadership philosophy of her first boss at UCLA.

This supervisor’s efforts to provide Boorkman and all of the staff at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library with professional development and training not only set their careers off on the right foot, according to Boorkman, the training also helped ensure that they could better serve visitors of the library. Eventually Boorkman and other staff became experts in their field and started teaching other library professionals throughout their region.

Boorkman created the Health Sciences Staff Development Fund to help health sciences staff at the UC Davis Library have the money needed to attend conferences and trainings for librarian professional development. Boorkman said it was important to her to ensure there was a permanent source of funding for this type of activity because it is often one of the first things to be cut from budgets during tough economic times.

“I felt like I wanted to leave something to the library that could go on, something that could be given in perpetuity. An endowment gives some stability for ongoing support and that’s very satisfying,” she said.

Boorkman, who is currently president of the UC Davis Emeriti Association, committed her entire career to working in health sciences libraries. She started at UCLA, then worked at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and finally came to UC Davis in 1985. She worked up the ranks, teaching health sciences library research courses along the way, and eventually became head of the health sciences library, which was a full-service library at the time. She served in that role until she retired in 2008.

Asian trading floors were a sea of red once again on Friday as the global rout returned with a vengeance on intensifying fears about tighter US interest rates.

Tokyo, Hong Kong and Shanghai were among the worst hit as they each plunged more than three percent, while investors piled into safe haven assets such as gold and the yen.

The sell-off followed another battering for Wall Street, where the Dow suffered its second-heaviest daily points fall on record -- the worst coming on Monday -- after key US Treasury bond yields spiked fuelling the prospect of higher borrowing costs.

After a blistering 2017 and January, markets worldwide have gone into a spasm in the past two weeks on fears that the booming global economy and rising inflation will lead to higher interest rates.

"There?s some big-money players that have really leveraged to the low rates forever, and they have to unwind those trades," Doug Cote, chief market strategist at Voya Investment Management, told Bloomberg News. "They could be in full panic mode right now."

Japan's Nikkei is now at levels not seen since mid-October, Hong Kong is on course to wipe out its 2018 gains and Shanghai is around a seven-month trough.

Elsewhere Sydney fell 1.3 percent, Singapore shed 1.6 percent and Seoul was more than two percent off. Wellington, Manila and Taipei were also being battered.

A key trigger of the recent pullback was last Friday's strong US jobs report that also showed rising US wage growth, fuelling speculation the Federal Reserve will lift rates more than the three times already expected this year.

However, many analysts are upbeat about the future owing to healthy economic conditions in the US and global economies as well as the positive outlook for corporate earnings after Donald Trump's massive tax cuts in December.

Proposed law presents a conflict of interests and does not provide adequate marine protection, critics say.

The Justice Ministry has been developing a law for regulating the designation of marine regions, in order to determine legal status of areas that lie outside Israel’s sovereign waters and in which opportunities exist for exploitation of natural resources.

The Society for Protection of Nature in Israel and the Environmental Protection Ministry claim that the proposed law does not afford sufficient protection to the environment against development projects, including oil and gas drilling, and fishing.

The bill, whose final version is being prepared, states that Israeli law will apply beyond its territorial waters and as such the area will be covered by national labor laws and laws pertaining to environmental protection and the extraction of natural resources.

With regard to environmental protection, the new law states that the National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Ministry will be authorized to demand documents ensuring that the environmental impact of drilling is monitored, as well as advising on rehabilitation of areas that are damaged by such activities. The interior minister will be authorized to demarcate special areas in which nature will be protected, similar to protected areas on land. These areas will be regulated by the Finance Ministry's planning authority.

SPNI director Iris Hahn sent a letter last week to Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked sharply criticizing the bill. Hahn argues that the Energy Ministry will have almost total authority over decisions relating to environmental impact whereas the Environmental Protection Ministry will be relegated to an advisory role. This will in practice will give an advantage to a ministry that has an interest in encouraging developers.

Hahn added that, unlike to regulations that exist for shoreline environments and which apply to territorial waters, the bill does not determine what constitutes environmental damage at sea. The bill also revokes many of the responsibilities that are under the jurisdiction of the Nature and Parks Authority. The authority’s power is subjugated to documents which have not yet been produced and are thus unclear.

The Justice Ministry stated that it was examining Hahn’s letter. The Environmental Protection Ministry that while there were positive aspects to the bill, such as its regulation of environmental laws in drilling areas, the new provisions give insufficient protection and present the Energy Ministry with a possible conflict of interests.

Wilson Commons WednesdayHirst Lounge - 4/10 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Community Weekends incorporate some of our can't-miss events on campus.

Wilson Commons Student Activities will be hosting a Game of Thrones viewing party!

Free food, popcorn, and pool!

Eighty-eight percent of undergraduate students are involved in student organizations.

There are over 270 recognized student organizations on campus.

In the 2017-18 academic year, student organizations held over 1400 events, programs, and activities.

Student organizations completed over 1700 service hours in 2017-2018.