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The government is scheduled to release 2004 gross domestic product data on Jan. 31. Last week, Economic Planning Secretary Romulo Neri said the country’s GDP growth rate likely reached 6.1 percent, outpacing government’s target of 4.9-5.8 percent.
Liboro said the only negative factor looming in the near term is an anticipated one-notch credit rating downgrade by Moody’s. But even that would be better than the two-notch downgrade earlier anticipated by financial markets, he said.
Total volume of shares traded expanded to 7.03 billion shares valued at P1.98 billion from Friday’s 5.29 billion shares valued at P1.67 billion.
Gainers led decliners 78 to 33, while 36 stocks were unchanged.
Foreign investors purchased P961.2 million and sold P574.4 million worth of shares.
The Department of Defense Information Enterprise Architecture (DoD IEA) version 2.0 was approved by the DoD CIO on August 10, 2012 for immediate use and supersedes the previous DoD IEA v1.2 that was released on May 10, 2010. It improves upon v1.2’s description of priority areas, principles and rules, and activities by describing a manageable set of discrete capabilities that are critical to the evolution of the Information Enterprise (IE). It provides the common vocabulary for describing the capabilities, activities, and services to achieve the Joint Information Environment (JIE).
Version 2.0 consists of two Volumes and an emerging set of Reference Architectures. Volume I is a managerial and key decision-maker overview of the lEA v2.0. Volume II is an architect's compendium with detailed architecture guidance on using and complying with lEA v2.0. The enterprise-wide Reference Architectures (RAs) play a key role in extending the lEA and providing more detailed information to guide and constrain solutions and implementations for a specific focus area.
Click to download DoD IEA v2.0 Approval Memo.
Operational Requirements Basis: Describes the Operational Context and requirements that drive the IE. Primarily focuses on the incorporation of the GIG 2.0 ORA into the DoD IEA.
Required IE Capabilities: Provides Capability Taxonomy (CV-2) for the IE. Describes the capabilities the IE must provide for end-users and the enabling capabilities needed to deliver these end-user capabilities.
Operational Activity Description: Provides an expanded and enhanced Operational Activity Node Tree Decomposition (OV-5a). Describes the activities that are performed to develop, manage, operate and use the IE.
Services View: Provides and discusses the services context description showing the relationship of the IE enterprise services and sub-services to capabilities and service implementation programs (SvcV-1). It also provides and discusses the enterprise services and sub-services for the IE (SvcV-4).
Linkage of Activities, Services, and Rules to Capabilities: Provides an excel worksheet showing the activities, services and rules that are needed to provide a given capability.
Compliance Criteria: Provides enhanced guidance and criteria for complying with the DoD IEA and the DoD Enterprise Architecture (EA).
Illustrative Use Cases: Provides example use cases describing potential actions and DoD IEA content involved in supporting key stakeholders in the performance of their tasks and responsibilities.
After the liberation of the Mukden POW Camp in Manchuria in August 1945, a group of Chinese chefs came in to cook for the surviving 1,300 Allied prisoners.
The torture and travail endured on the Bataan Death March is well known. What isn’t is the torture and travail those prisoners of war were put through when they reached their end destination in China.
This remembrance is the mission of “Forgotten Camp: Allied POWs of Shenyang,” a North American premiere at the World War II Pacific War Memorial Hall, inside a Chinatown storefront. The display of 200 enlarged images, along with wall text and illustrations smuggled out by the POWs themselves, comes from China’s Site Museum of Shenyang POW Camp of World War II Allied Forces, and this is its North American premiere.
The exhibition details the three years of incarceration forced upon troops captured during the Pacific War. Most famous were the 75,000 American and Filipino troops who surrendered on April 9, 1942, on the island of Luzon. Broken into groups of 100, they walked in the heat, without food or water, in what became known as the Bataan Death March. After five days, those who survived were dispersed to various POW camps, including those under Japanese control in Manchuria.
Twelve hundred American POWS arrived packed into the holds of cargo ships from Manila, via Korea, to enter the Mukden POW Camp in Manchuria in November 1942, according to online sources. Additional troops from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand, brought the population to 2,000.
They lived in barracks partly underground and were put to work as slave labor. An estimated 200 of them did not survive the first winter in the camp. The 1,300 surviving prisoners at Mukden were rescued by Red Army troops in August 1945.
“Compared with (atrocities in) the European theater of World War II, I doubt the American public has heard as much about the atrocities the Japanese Imperial Army committed in China and other Asian countries,” said Chinese Consul General Luo Linquan, in an interview with China Daily USA, one of the exhibition sponsors.
“The prisoners suffered a lot, and it helps the American people to know this history,” said the curator, Lihong Fan, who came from Shenyang (formerly named Mukden), the capital of the northeastern Liaoning province in China, for the opening Tuesday, Nov. 21.
Since 1,200 of Mukden’s 2,000 prisoners were American, operators of the museum would like to see more American visitors and San Francisco is the likeliest place to find them.
“This (exhibition) is about their experiences in the camp and the fight against fascism,” Fan said through an interpreter.
The Mukden POW Camp is called “the forgotten camp,” because its location and history were mostly unknown until 2003. Said to be the best preserved of the 200 POW camps in the Pacific theater, Mukden opened as a free historic site and museum two years ago.
If the Mukden POW Camp is unknown, so is the World War II Pacific War Memorial Hall. It opened two years ago in a narrow hillside storefront that did its part during the war. It was headquarters for for a war drive called “Save One Bowl of Rice.” In lieu of that one bowl, Chinatown residents were asked to donate $1 to be sent to China for the war effort against the Japanese.
More than 100 members of the Chinese community came to the opening of the exhibition. Among those attending the event was Simplicio Yoma, who served in the Philippine army and was captured during the war. He says he was on the Death March, but that he was not held at the Mukden POW Camp.
Forgotten Camp: Allied POWs of Shenyang: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday- Sunday. Through Dec. 30. World War II Pacific War Memorial Hall, 809 Sacramento St., San Francisco.
Buckle up, it is going to be a long ride.
Spare, if you will, a moment’s pity for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). They are not exactly enjoying the government shutdown as they might have hoped.
Pelosi had already packed her bags and boarded the Air Force bus Thursday, along with a sizable delegation of House Democratic leaders, for her overseas junket.
She and her comrades were, no doubt, looking forward to touring NATO’s billion-dollar-plus new headquarters in Brussels; posing for selfies on camelback by the pyramids in Egypt; grinning for photo-ops with the troops in Afghanistan.
Then the order came from President Donald Trump to prohibit her use of government aircraft.
Fly commercial, he suggested. There is a government shutdown going on, after all.
And, as Trump noted, 800,000 federal workers will continue to go unpaid — unless Democrats stay in town to negotiate.
The bus went ’round the block and back.
Pelosi’s shock must have been quite something to observe.
She is not used to being treated like this, you see. She apparently expected she could cancel (ahem, “postpone”) the State of the Union address due to the shutdown — and then disappear abroad.
Trump’s response — blocking Pelosi’s use of the aircraft — was gutsy. It was a “drain the swamp” moment.
In a statement, Pelosi’s spokesman protested that the purpose of the trip had been “to affirm the United States’ ironclad commitment to the NATO alliance,” something the president had already done earlier that day.
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A BONKERS conspiracy theory has emerged, claiming that the Beatles never really existed.
The crazy claims argue that rock stars John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, who stormed the British music scene in the 1960s and 70s, were actually "clones" or "body doubles".
The crazy conspiracy theorists claim that The Beatles were not real and were in fact "body doubles"
The theorists claim to have visible proof that the stars differ throughout the years, so there is no way they can be the same people.
Website Beatles Never Existed (TBNE) is home to the wacky theory, and it includes numerous images supposedly showing the proof.
Sceptics questioned whether the differences seen in photos are simply due to editing or surgery.
However, Dorie, the founder of the website, stated to the Daily Star: "Even if one or two [photos] are doctored here or there, and someone had surgery, why don't they all match?
"They look different instead of identical."
If all that isn't crazy enough, there is a further side to the theory.
Dorie claims there were actually THREE John Lennons.
Photos supposedly taken in 1963 and around the time of the White Album in 1968 show different people, according to the strange theory.
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Dorie said: "[The] biggest discrepancies I see are his lips [they are] curved and then straight."
In fact, the theory takes into account every minute detail of the icon's faces.
"The space between his eyes, [there is a] big difference," Dorie insists.
According to Dorie the swaps happened pretty frequently too.
It's claimed there was a John substitute in the mere seven-month gap between albums With the Beatles, out in 1963, and 1964's A Hard Day's Night.
The proof? A difference in his pupil alignment.
This was supposedly due to the band's "gruelling schedules".
John apparently goes from having "shorter, straighter noses" to "longer, more complex noses," and has "noticeably different" ears.
The bizarre theory doesn't stop there.
Dorie is adamant there were a minimum of 12 different Paul McCartney body doubles.
A "chin scar" that periodically re-appears is at the centre of the claim, in addition to alleged changes to his face shape, ears and nose.
It's even suggested his eyes change colour in the We Can Work it Out music video.
One theory is that the "real" Paul died in a car crash in 1966.
George Harrison's eye levels and teeth apparently differ in some images, leading to claims he used a double too.
Ringo Starr didn't get off lightly either - although no one seems to be able to agree on how many body doubles he and George used.
This is not the only recent claim surrounding the Beatles. The Sun recently reported on how John Lennon received a chilling death prophecy before he was shot.
Perhaps this bonkers theory will receive mention in the upcoming new film The Beatles: Eight Days A Week that will no longer star Ed Sheeran.
The matches will also be available to follow online via ussoccer.com's MatchTracker, on Twitter @ussoccer_wnt and highlights will be available on ussoccer.com. For the entire tournament schedule, please go to the Algarve Cup tournament page on ussoccer.com.
The U.S. team, which has been placed into Group B at the annual tournament, will open play on March 6 against Iceland (9 a.m. ET) in Albufeira. The USA will face China on March 8, again in Albufeira (9 a.m. ET), and will finish the first round on March 11 against Sweden in Lagos (10 a.m. ET) in what will be the first meeting between the teams since former U.S. head coach Pia Sundhage returned home to coach her native country. Group A features Germany, Norway, Japan and Denmark. Group C features host Portugal, Hungary, Wales and Mexico.
Since the expansion to 12 teams in 2002, the Algarve Cup format has been as follows: The winners of Groups A and B will compete for the Algarve Cup championship. The two second-place finishers in Groups A and B will play for third place while the third-place finishers in each group will play for fifth. The Group C teams will be competing for a chance to play for spots 7-12 as the winner of Group C will play the best fourth place team from Groups A or B for seventh place. The second place team in Group C will play the worst fourth place team from Groups A or B for ninth place, and the third and fourth place finishers in Group C will play each other for 11th place.
This will be the 18th trip to the Algarve Cup for the U.S. Women, who have won the tournament eight times, including three straight championships from 2003-05 at what has become one of the world's most competitive international women's events. Last year, the USA lost 1-0 to Japan in group play - which turned out to be the USA's only loss of the year - and were forced to the third-place match where the Americans rolled past Sweden 4-0 on Alex Morgan's first career hat trick.
Sixteen players from last year's Algarve Cup roster return, including the core of the U.S. team, many of whom have played in numerous Algarve Cup tournaments. Goalkeeper Hope Solo will not be one of them, however, as the USA's first-choice 'keeper has a long-standing wrist injury that has flared up recently and may require surgery. Solo has damage to ligaments in her right wrist, and although she was playing with the injury, with Women's World Cup qualifying not until the end of 2014, the team medical staff advised that now would be the time to address the situation.
With Solo out, veteran Nicole Barnhart, Jill Loyden and the uncapped Ashlyn Harris will compete for the starting spot.
With one exception, all the players Sermanni is bringing to Portugal were in the U.S. camp for the matches against Scotland in Florida and Tennessee. That would be18-year-old Paris Saint-Germain forward Lindsey Horan, the first American female player to bypass college soccer and sign a professional contract overseas. The 5-foot-9 Horan was the leading scorer for the U.S. U-20 Women's National Team last year, but missed the U-20 Women's World Cup in Japan with a knee injury. She, along with fellow France-based players Tobin Heath (PSG) and Megan Rapinoe (Olympique Lyonnaise), will join the U.S. team on March 3 after their clubs - the two top teams in France -- clash in league play in Lyon on March 2.
Additional Notes:U.S. forward Abby Wambach comes into the tournament with 153 career goals, 18 of which have been scored at the Algarve Cup (in eight tournaments). Wambach is the top Algarve Cup scorer in U.S. history.
Wambach is just five goals short of tying Mia Hamm (158 career goals) as the top scorer in the history of international soccer.
U.S. defender Rachel Buehler is on 99 caps and in Portugal will likely become the 29th player in U.S. history to play 100 times for her country.
U.S. captain Christie Rampone, who currently is the second most-capped player in U.S. history with 277, will lead the U.S. team that features seven defenders. Rampone will be playing in her 12th Algarve Cup.
Also on the roster are several former tournament MVPs in Shannon Boxx (the 2004 and 2006 Algarve Cup MVP) and Carli Lloyd, who scored three goals in the 2010 tournament and was the MVP of the 2007 Algarve Cup after scoring in all four games that year. Heather O'Reilly will be playing in her 11 th Algarve Cup and Boxx in her 10th.
Three young players who impressed during the USA's first event of the year made the roster in defender Crystal Dunn, a member of the USA's 2012 Under-20 Women's World Cup champions; Kristie Mewis, the third pick in the NWSL College Draft by FC Kansas City; and Christen Press, who was the second leading scorer in the Swedish league last season.
Dunn, the 2012 MAC Hermann Trophy winner for the University of North Carolina, earned her first senior team cap against Scotland on Feb. 13 and Mewis, the 2008 U.S. Soccer Young Female Athlete of the Year, earned her first cap against the Scots on Feb. 9. Press became the first U.S. player to score three goals in her first two games when she tallied twice in her debut on Feb. 9 and once on Feb. 13.
Also making the roster was defender Whitney Engen, who made her full national team debut at last year's Algarve Cup, and midfielder Yael Averbuch, who earned her 17th cap against Scotland on Feb. 9. Averbuch played in all three group matches at the 2010 Algarve Cup.
The management of Daimler AG responsible for Mercedes-Benz cars marketing and sales says the automaker’s CLA Coupe will hit showrooms in a few weeks.
It says, “In the coming months, further highlights of our current model offensive at Mercedes-Benz will be launched; the CLA Coupé, for example, will be available in our showrooms in May.
Meanwhile, Mercedes-Benz says it closed the first quarter of 2019 with 560,873 passenger cars sold worldwide.
It says that for the third year in a row, sales in the first quarter were well over 550,000 units, adding that in March, 227,644 vehicles with the three-pointed star were delivered to customers all over the world while the first three months of the year featured important model changes in the highest-volume SUV and compact-car segments.
According to the automaker, it expects an increasing vehicle availability in the next months and therefore global sales to increase slightly overall in 2019.
It adds that since the beginning of the year, it has maintained its market leadership in the premium segment in Germany, UK, France, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, Portugal, Poland, Denmark, South Korea, Australia, Canada, Brazil and other markets.
“We are delighted with the best quarter ever for Mercedes-Benz in China and the successful market launch of the new B-Class in Europe. The first three months of the year were challenging worldwide due to the ongoing model changes for SUVs and compact cars,” a member of the board of Daimler AG, Britta Seeger, says.
The automaker, however says the discontinuation of the CLA and the GLE due to the model change had an impact on unit sales in many European markets but that in Germany, the region’s core market, sales of 70.542 units were achieved in the first quarter; in the United Kingdom, first quarter sales increased by 1.1 per cent, while the best-ever first-quarter unit sales were achieved in France, Poland and in Denmark.
In the Asia-Pacific region, Mercedes-Benz says it delivered 87,509 cars to customers last month and unit sales reached a new record in China, the region’s core market with 61,913 customers receiving their new Mercedes-Benz cars.
It adds that it sold in total 32,286 vehicles in the NAFTA region in March while in the United States, a core market, a total of 27,004 customers were delighted to receive their new models with the three-pointed star last month.
The Trump administration unveiled the outline for its comprehensive tax overhaul proposal Wednesday, which included a simplification of the tax code, a cut to individual and corporate rates and the elimination of most tax benefits on the personal side.
“[This is the] most significant tax reform legislation since 1986 and one of the biggest tax cuts in American history,” National Economic Director Gary Cohn said during a press conference Wednesday.
The plan calls for a sizable increase to the standard deduction Americans can take when filing taxes, potentially allowing taxpayers to keep more of their income – to the tune of a couple thousand dollars.