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__label__wiki	0.59657	0.59657	Media advisory: U.S. military equipment to arrive in Germany By 21st Theater Sustainment CommandJanuary 4, 2017 BREMERHAVEN, Germany -- Tanks, trucks and other equipment are scheduled to arrive in Europe Jan. 6 through 9, beginning a nine-month rotation of U.S. Army forces supporting Atlantic Resolve. The arrival of troops and equipment from 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, out of Fort Carson, Colorado, marks the beginning of the continuous presence of an ABCT and back-to-back rotations of U.S. troops and equipment in Europe. After the equipment arrives at Bremerhaven, Germany, it will move by rail, commercial line haul and military convoy to Poland consolidating near Drawsko Pomorskie and Zagan training areas. The personnel and equipment will later be relocated throughout the region for training and exercises with European allies. Media are invited to attend the offload and movement of equipment on Jan. 8 at 2:30 p.m. which will include a question and answer period with U.S. military leaders. Because of time considerations, we will be unable to conduct one-on-one interviews. Media with questions or who are interested in covering this event must RSVP by 5 p.m. on Jan. 6 to the 21st Theater Sustainment Command Public Affairs Office by email to donald.e.peters.mil@mail.mil. When responding, please provide full name, organization, citizenship, place of birth, date of birth and passport number in order to coordinate gate access. You must RSVP and bring passport and press credentials to gain access to the port facility. Note: Times are subject to change. In the event that offload times change, you will be provided an updated meeting time via email. The 21st Theater Sustainment Command is US Army in Europe's lead organization for all sustainment activities including logistics support, transportation, combat sustainment, human resources, medical, finance, contracting and other areas in the field of sustainment. The 21st TSC also serves as the responsible headquarters for USAREUR's Military Police and Engineer brigades, providing combat engineers and military police to partnership training and other operations in support of USAREUR, US Africa Command and US Central Command. Headquartered in Kaiserslautern, Germany, with units throughout the USAREUR Area of Operations, the 21st TSC is truly positioned to be USAREUR's key enabler, where it is needed, when it is needed. "First in Support." Visit our web page at: http://www.eur.army.mil/21TSC or visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/21stTSC Factsheet: Atlantic Resolve Atlantic Resolve microsite July 16, 2019The ACFT with Senior Leader Sustainment section at the NCOL CoE July 16, 2019Automatic identification technology improves speed and accuracy July 16, 2019AMC operations officer promoted, prepares to take on command assignment July 16, 2019How to prepare for, respond to severe weather in Germany July 15, 201921st TSC inducts 7 into Sergeant Morales Club July 12, 2019Medics Increase Readiness With Blood Screening Drives July 11, 2019U.S. Army and Kuwait Naval Force Sustainment Planning July 8, 2019Dedicated sustainers, III Corps Soldiers recommit service to the nation July 8, 2019Sustaining data delivery on the future Army network July 3, 201921st TSC connects with communities during Rheinland-Pfalz Tag July 2, 20191st Theater Sustainment Command's Army Housing Crisis Response - Forward June 28, 201977th Sustainment Brigade Arrives in Camp Arifjan June 24, 2019Aviation, Missile Center partners with Germany to advance rotorcraft efforts June 24, 2019The 18th CSSB bids farewell to one commander and welcomes another June 24, 2019Teaming up to 'bee' good neighbors: German-American project helps protect environment June 18, 2019Out-of-the-Blue Solution Makes Sustainment Easier	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4748
__label__wiki	0.533319	0.533319	MINUTES FOR THE REGULAR MEETING Mayor Morrison called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. in the Civic Center Council Chambers. Councilor Hardesty, Amarotico, Hartzell, Jackson, Silbiger and Chapman were present. The minutes of the Executive Session of October 4, 2005 were approved as presented. The minutes of the Regular Council Meeting of October 4, 2005 were amended to reflect the actual discussion order of agenda items; and amended to include that during the Fire Station #2 Update, Council commented on the level and types of activities projected to occur at Fire Station #2, and that they might not all be able to be done there or be desirable to be done there. Mayor's Proclamation of October 24 as United Nations Day was read aloud. 1. Minutes of Boards, Commissions, and Committees. 2. Mayor's appointment of Steve Siewert to the Tree Commission. 3. Mayor's appointment of Selene Aitken to the Bike and Pedestrian Commission. 4. Mayor's appointment of Nathan Meyerson as the Youth Liaison to the Bike and Pedestrian Commission. 5. Request to Waive Permit Fees at 2001 Siskiyou. 6. Liquor License Application for Creekside Pizza Bistro. 7. Liquor License Application for Yuan-Yuan Restaurant. 8. Liquor License Application for Lela's Cafe. Councilor Jackson/Amarotico m/s to approve Consent Agenda. Voice Vote: all AYES. Motion passed. Mayor Morrison requested that the Public Forum and the Resolution regarding the AFN surcharge be moved forward on the Agenda. 1. Reading by Title only of Resolution to Repeal Resolution 2005-36 Amending the Implementation Date for the Ashland Fiber Network Surcharge on Electric Accounts. Finance Director Lee Tuneberg presented the staff report on the proposed amendment to the AFN surcharge. He explained that the Council adopted the surcharge in September with implementation scheduled for October. Mr. Tuneberg stated that this surcharge could have a significant impact on senior citizens and low income families in Ashland and recommended that Council delay the implementation of the surcharge to January, which would provide time for staff to develop a methodology that would provide relief to low income citizens. Mr. Tuneberg commented on the two existing programs that provide relief to low income citizens and noted that customers who had already paid the surcharge would be credited that amount back to their account. Lisa Byrne/51 Garfield Street/Expressed her concern regarding the fee; explained how she had researched the legality of the surcharge; and expressed her discomfort with the Council's decision to charge people for a service they are not receiving. Ms. Byrne commented on the definition of "utility" and stated that high-speed digital internet and cable television does not meet this definition. She stated that the Energy Assistance Program was helpful, but only covers a portion of the user's electricity bill and would not cover the added surcharge. She requested that the surcharge only be applied to the customers who utilize the service. James Rowland/165 ½ Van Ness/Stated that the AFN surcharge was an unjust charge to the citizens of Ashland. Mr. Rowland stated that he supports his family on a fixed income and that this surcharge was having a direct effect on his family, even though they do not utilize the service. He stated that it was not right for the City to charge the citizens for this service and noted his attempt to file a claim with the Public Utilities Commission. He requested that the City look at other avenues for funding AFN and questioned why the electric utility users were not notified and given the opportunity to discuss this. Ann Marie Hutson/550 Oak Knoll/Expressed her support for postponing the surcharge and noted her numerous conversations with citizens who are angry over the issues concerning AFN. Ms. Huston stated that the City was not up to the task of running a telecommunications service and suggested that the Council stand back and view the situation from afar. She asked that Council put themselves in the position of the citizens and do what is best for all of the citizens of Ashland. Ambuja Rosen/511 Wightman/Spoke on behalf of the low income residents of Ashland and stated that the $7.50 surcharge should not be on the back's of low income residents. Ms. Rosen stated that low income residents should not have to subsidize luxury services for others and stated that if the City needs to pay for AFN through taxes, they should tax luxury items. She stated that the City should not be taxing the essential services that low income people need and requested an exemption from the surcharge for low income citizens. Carla Price/78 Lincoln Street/Stated that City's are not set up in the capacity as a business. Ms. Price stated that she is low income, but will not qualify for the Energy Assistance Program. She expressed her support for delaying the implementation and questioned if the surcharge was their only option or if AFN could file for bankruptcy. Councilor Jackson/Silbiger m/s to approve Resolution #2005-40. DISCUSSION: It was clarified that anyone who had already paid the surcharge would receive a credit. Support was voiced for the Resolution and it was noted that this would provide the City more time to explore the whole issue and develop options that are more satisfactory. It was also noted that the alternatives from the AFN Options Committee would be presented prior to the new implementation date. Roll Call Vote: Councilor Amarotico, Hartzell, Hardesty, Chapman, Silbiger and Jackson, YES. Motion passed. Robin Rose/2300 Siskiyou Blvd/Shared her experience in southern Louisiana following the recent hurricanes. Ms. Rose suggested that the City create a "Sister City" or "Bridge City" with a city from this area that is in need. She stated that she had been working with Councilor Hartzell and would be providing a proposal for the Council to consider. 1. Appeal of Planning Action 2005-01050 - regarding Liberty Street. Mayor Morrison read aloud the procedure for a land use public hearing and called the public hearing to order at 7:37 p.m. ABSTENTIONS, CONFLICTS, EXPARTE CONTACTS Councilor Chapman stated he performed a site visit, spoke to Dean Shostrom regarding the location of the proposed driveway, and spoke briefly with Jan Craigie only to tell her that he could not discuss this application. Councilor Silbiger stated he performed a site visit and had a similar conversation with Mr. Shostrom. Councilor Amarotico declared a potential conflict of interest with his past business dealings with Mr. Shostrom, but stated that this would not affect his decision. Councilor Hartzell noted that she was present at the Tree Commission meeting when this application was discussed and requested that the minutes from that meeting be entered into the record. Councilor Hardesty noted that he was present at the Planning Commission meeting when this application was discussed. City Attorney Mike Franell clarified that it is best to not engage in conversation when conducting a site review. He added that engaging in conversation is not illegal; however any conversations need to be declared on the record. Councilor Silbiger further clarified that Mr. Shostrom informed him of where the road would be located and that this was the extent of their conversation. City Planner Maria Harris presented the staff report on the Planning Action. She stated that the property was located at 720 and 730 Liberty Street and provided an overhead drawing of the vicinity map. The proposal is to create a third lot from two existing lots and the total site is .82 acres. Ms. Harris explained that there is an existing loop driveway system that connects to the end of the existing alley, and there is a drainage that runs from the southwest corner to the northeast side. She stated that the property slopes downhill and is heavily treed. The residence's vehicular traffic is proposed to come off the alley and emergency access is proposed to come off the loop system and exit through the alley onto Ashland Street. Ms. Harris noted that a Tree Protection Plan was submitted with the application. The plan identified 95 trees on the property that are 6" or greater in diameter; and the proposal is to remove six of those trees. Ms. Harris explained that the three main issues discussed by the Planning Commission were: 1) the use of the alley as the sole resident's vehicular access, 2) the emergency access route, and 3) the drainage swale crossing. She stated that the Planning Commission approved the application by a 5-3 vote, with 25 Conditions of Approval assigned. Ms. Harris stated that should the Council approve the application, there are some corrections that need to be made to the Findings. Condition #14 should read "...not limited to an all weather surface, weight, width and grade requirements ...", and suggested the addition of Condition #26 which would state that a conservation easement be added to the drainage area. Interim Community Development Director Bill Molnar clarified that this was one of the applicant's self-imposed restrictions, which are discussed on page 79 of the record. He stated that the additional condition would make it clear that all areas outside the footprint or the driveway route would need to be retained in their natural state. Ms. Harris noted the time sensitivity regarding this issue. Mr. Molnar commented on previous flooding on Beach Street and noted that the applicant's design is required accommodate a 100-year flood. He explained that under the current standards, crossings are permitted as long as they meet certain design standards. He also noted the possibility of an "Arizona Crossing" and commented on some of the draft changes to the Riparian Ordinance. Mr. Molnar noted the Hillside Ordinance and the slope of the lot. He clarified that there was no information presented that did not support the grade percentages indicated in the application. Comment was made questioning whether alleys were intended to be used as a primary access. Mr. Molnar provided a brief history of this issue and noted that a provision was added to the Ashland Municipal Code after dealing with these issues in the Historic District. The provision states, "Where an alley exists adjacent to the partition, access may be required to be provided from the alley and prohibited from the street". He explained that since the adoption of this standard, most of the partitions off alleys have been relatively straightforward; however in this case they are dealing with an alley that is fairly long and dead-ends at a private driveway system. He noted that this issue was one of the major points discussed at the Planning Commission meeting. Mr. Molnar commented on the difference between physical capacity and environmental capacity in terms of the alley. Mr. Harris noted that the partition standards require that all streets, including alleys, meet the current street standards; however the standards are silent on the issue of pedestrian access. City Attorney Mike Franell reminded the Council of the time constraints for the public hearing. Dale Shostrom/1240 Tolman Creek Rd/Representing the applicant Dean Shostrom, who is his brother and the owner of the property. Mr. Shostrom stated that this project was not "infill to the extreme" as stated by the appellant's attorney, but rather the lot is spacious, has reasonable access, is well suited for a small residence, and is three times the size of the City's minimum lot size requirement. He explained that the portion of land adjacent to Liberty Street is too steep for the home site or driveway, and explained that the alley, which terminates at the proposed lot, provides easy and direct access to the buildable area of the parcel. He stated that this ½-acre parcel is a beautiful, wooded viewshed and that it was understandable that Mr. Jones, who is the neighboring property owner, would want to prevent this application from proceeding. Mr. Shostrom commented on the crossing and stated that their geotechnical engineer has designing a crossing that would withstand a 100-year flood. He explained that the City's Fire Department staff had stated that the presence of this home would actually improve the fire safety of this area and stated that this application would provide the Fire Department access to enter and exit the alley from Liberty Street, thereby improving the fire safety of all of the surrounding parcels. Mr. Shostrom stated that the Planning Commission concluded that the alley would be sufficient to serve the proposed home once the conditions were met and commented on the self-imposed restrictions. Mr. Shostrom clarified for Council that they would be open to using the Arizona Crossing but would like to further research this to determine if this would be the right approach. OPPONENTS AND THEIR REPRESENTATIVES Chris Hearn/515 E. Main Street/Representing the appellant Eric Jones, who is one of the immediate neighbors. Mr. Hearn addressed the issue of infill and stated that in some cases, infrastructure such as alleys were not build to accommodate traffic levels beyond a certain threshold. Mr. Hearn referenced Ashland Municipal Code sections 18.76.050(G), 18.76.050(G)(1), 18.76.050(H), 18.76.060(A), and 18.76.060(K). He stated that this alley may not meet the definition of an alley because it does not go all the way through and noted that this alley already serves as the access for at least twelve residences. Mr. Hearn stated that the alley is very narrow and cannot accommodate two vehicles meeting on the roadway. He noted that a simple flag drive serving two lots would require much more than what is being required for this alley. He commented on the physical constraints review permit and the construction of a driveway across the riparian drainage. He stated that disruption of the drainage could have adverse impacts on adjacent downhill properties. In regards to the Hillside Development Standards, Mr. Hearn stated that the slope of the proposed new parcel exceeds 25% and impacts on adjacent parcels have not been minimized. Mr. Hearn provided several photos of the site. Mr. Hearn stated that there is no clear upper limit or lower limit of what an alley can accommodate, and stated that the Council has the authority to decide whether this access is appropriate. He noted that three of the Planning Commissioners felt that the alley could not accommodate this development, and questioned the threshold of this alley. THOSE WISHING TO PROVIDE TESTIMONY G. Vaatreit/908 Ashland Street/Requested that his statement be read into the record. Statement is included in the record as an exhibit. Councilor Jackson left the meeting at 8:47 p.m. Sue Grossman/880 Ashland Street/Noted the location of her property and commented on the issue of the increased use of the alley. Ms. Grossman stated that this application would increase the use of the alley, which has already reached capacity level. Peter Finkle/785 Beach Street/Commented on the safety concerns in regards to pedestrian access and the width of the alley. Mr. Finkle stated that the Council should take the access of safety vehicles into consideration. Karen Bates/711 Beach Street/Noted the location of her property to the proposed development and stated that the riparian stream runs along the side of her house. Ms. Bates stated that there is a lot of water running through the applicant's property and questioned what the proposed culverting would do to the stream. She noted that she has a lot of wildlife on her property and does want them to be adversely affected by this project. STAFF RESPONSE Ms. Harris noted that questions regarding access to the property from Liberty Street should be addressed by the applicant. Mr. Molnar clarified that there is no requirement that there be direct vehicular access to the house and cited an example of a home whose vehicular access stopped short and only had a pedestrian access directly to the house. Assistant City Attorney Mike Reeder commented on the definition of an alley found in the Street Standards, and stated that this definition was an expansion of the general definition found in the Land Use Ordinance. Ms. Harris added that the Street Standards were designed to be more user friendly. Councilor Hartzell/Amarotico m/s to extend the Public Hearing until 9:30 p.m. Voice Vote: all AYES. Motion passed. Mr. Molnar continued to comment on the alley issue. Mr. Reeder clarified that in the Street Design Standards, each type of street has a description and stated that there does not seem to be a conflict between the two definitions presented. He stated that one is a succinct definition and the other explains why there are fewer standards for an alley than there are for other streets. He added that it is up to the Council to determine whether this alley meets the definition of an alley and noted that the definition in the Street Standards does not contemplate whether an alley has through access. City Attorney Mike Franell explained that there is some ambiguity in the definition of alley. He stated that the key question for the Council to determine is what the language "through a block" means. He explained that this will require an interpretation on the part of the Council and stated that the Council has not made an interpretation on this definition in the past. Comment was made questioning if Condition #25 was feasible. Ms. Harris stated that at the hearing the applicant indicated that they were in agreement with this condition, but that the Council should ask the applicant for details. Fire Prevention Officer Margueritte Hickman was called forward to address the fire safety issues. Ms. Hickman addressed how emergency vehicles would gain access to this property and explained that they could park approximately 200 feet from the furthest point of the structure. She stated that the Fire Code specifies that they should be within 150 feet of the furthest point of the structure; however there is an exception when this is impractical due to slope or vegetation that allows the Fire Department to provide an allowance, with the condition that the structure install a fire sprinkler system. Ms. Hickman stated that the Fire Department reviewed this application and granted them an exception. Mr. Shostrom read a prepared statement into the record. Statement was submitted into the public record as an exhibit. Council asked Mr. Shostrom to address the question of access off Liberty Street. Mr. Shostrom explained that it was not typographically possible to access the property from Liberty Street and noted the slope change and the turn radius. PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED at 9:21 p.m. COUNCIL DELIBERATION Mr. Franell reminded the Council that their interpretation of the planning code would be binding on the Planning Commission and Planning staff on all future actions. He added that it would also be binding on the Council, unless they reinterpret or amend the ordinance. Mr. Franell clarified that the Council needs to make an interpretation on what "through a block" means. He also noted that Council has the ability to place additional conditions on the granting of approval and stated that if they do not feel the alley is adequate for the number of residences it serves than they could add a condition that it be brought up to a certain standard. Councilor Hartzell motioned to deny the application on the basis of fire and access limitations. Motion died for lack of second. Councilor Chapman/Silbiger m/s to approve the application with the 25 conditions for approval from the Planning Commission and the 26th condition proposed by staff. DISCUSSION: It was clarified that the 26th condition addresses the conservation easement. Councilor Hartzell noted that Condition #1 covers the applicant's self-imposed restrictions and suggested the following amendments to the other conditions: Condition #8, add the language from the Planning Commission noted on page 29 of the record and amend condition to read "...cover such improvements and costs of Liberty Street and the alley at the rear of the property...". Condition 15, add the language "That the public alley must be cleared of overgrown vegetation to create and maintain a clear vertical space...". Councilor Hartzell noted the option listed in the staff memo which states "...Council could consider requiring the driving surface of the proposed culverted crossing to be pavers, rock or grasscrete rather than pavement" and suggested that they include a condition to this effect with language that encourages the applicant to consider an Arizona Crossing. Councilor Hartzell also suggested a condition that states that every three or five years, neighbors or citizens could request a review by the Planning Commission to assess the adequacy of, or need for additional conditions. Mr. Franell clarified that they do not have the authority to impose this condition. Councilor Hartzell/Hardesty m/s to amend the original motion to include the following: Condition #8, add the words to the last line "cover such improvement costs of Liberty Street and the alley at the rear of the property"; Condition #14, add the language "..but not limited to an all weather surface, weight..."; add Condition #27, which would state "That applicants strongly consider use of an Arizona Crossing and the driving surface of the proposed culverted crossing to be pavers, rock or grasscrete rather than pavement". Voice Vote: all AYES. Voice Vote on original motion as amended: Councilor Hardesty, Amarotico, Silbiger and Chapman, YES. Councilor Hartzell, NO. Motion passed 4-1. UNFINISHED BUSINESS None NEW AND MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS None 1. Contract for Police Review Study Police Chief Mike Bianca explained that when the City advertised for a police chief two years ago, this action was outlined in the advertisement. He stated that within the department over the past several months there has been relentless questioning of many aspects of their basic operations and listed some of the concerns of the department. He stated that the department needs this study and recommended that the Council approve this project. Mr. Bianca noted that a breakdown of the cost proposal was submitted to the Council. Mayor Morrison expressed his support for this study and noted that staff had reviewed the applicants for this project and that this applicant was very qualified to perform this type of work. Councilor Chapman/Hartzell m/s to approve contract for $51, 035. Roll Call Vote: Councilor Hardesty, Hartzell, Amarotico, Silbiger and Chapman, YES. Motion passed. OTHER BUSINESS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS None John W. Morrison, Mayor End of Document - Back to Top	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4749
__label__wiki	0.59081	0.59081	- The Strategist - https://www.aspistrategist.org.au - Surface ships and the ‘National Fleet’ concept Posted By James Goldrick on March 10, 2015 @ 12:15 This post is a contribution to a series leading to ASPI’s Future Surface Fleet Conference [2] at the end of March. Sam Bateman’s recent post [3] identified problems with our national commitment to the Antarctic and the Southern Ocean. He was particularly concerned with our lack of seagoing capability for the region and the apparent absence of a coherent approach to Australia’s maritime security requirements. In particular, he emphasised the need for a ‘national fleet’. The concept of a National Fleet can work at several levels. At its most comprehensive, it means that the capabilities, acquisition, life-cycle management and operations of all national government ships are managed in such a way as to minimise the total costs and allow the most effective use of a country’s shipbuilding and maintenance resources. That’s an inviting ideal, but not one without complications—as the Canadians [4] have discovered [5]. Many of the elements of a National Fleet are so specialised in design and construction that it’s extremely inefficient to produce them in small numbers. And Australia has, in any case, ‘missed the boat’ on achievement of a National Fleet concept for shipbuilding on this scale. Recent purchases of civilian support craft for the Navy and the construction of a new research vessel for the CSIRO and the replacement Antarctic support ship in overseas yards have accounted for a good part of the nation’s civil requirement for the immediate future. But applying a National Fleet approach to the allocation of capability between departments is worthwhile and that was Sam’s focus. He identified a key problem with two components. The first is a question of the total national effort in civil maritime security and the second concerns the division of deep-water capabilities between civil and military agencies. Neither’s right at the moment, particularly in relation to offshore patrols. Australia’s contemporary deep-water maritime security threats and challenges have two widely separated focal areas. They’re to the north-west of the continent in the vicinity of Christmas Island and in our Southern Ocean and Antarctic waters. Both tasks need big ships, by reason of the environment—and distances involved—and because of their likely employment. There’s currently only one major civil security ship in service that can operate in both regions, the Ocean Protector. A second unit, the trimaran Triton, has some utility for the north-west, but her lease is coming to an end. There’s no planned replacement. Ocean Protector’s sister ship, Ocean Shield, is being transferred to the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) from Defence in a sleight of hand devised when the last Labor government was desperate to save money, needed to acquire a temporary disaster-relief capability in the form of Ocean Shield and didn’t wish to have to renew Ocean Protector’s lease. Meanwhile, Navy has been forced to provide additional support in the north-west with amphibious vessels, survey ships and surface combatants. Even that commitment hasn’t been enough in recent years to allow DIBP to resume on any regular basis the Southern Ocean deployments for which the first big vessel (Oceanic Viking) was leased by then-Customs in 2004. Excessive employment of major naval units on maritime security tasks can have serious long-term effects. If they’re survey vessels, then inevitably the national task of hydrographic survey of Australia’s coasts and key shipping routes will be affected. For the amphibious forces and surface combatants, there are effects on training and readiness. Ships deployed on solitary patrol work can’t be exercised in complex warfare scenarios—or even many of the lower-level operations which require interaction with other units. Many of those skills degrade over time and become progressively more difficult to reconstitute as personnel move through the system and hard-won experience leaches out. There’s also the reduction in availability for alternative operational employment. In peacetime, that mightn’t overly concern governments, since many of the missed opportunities for defence engagement and higher-level training don’t have direct political results, even if their cumulative effects can be profound. But the chickens can come home to roost quickly in an emergency. That’s not an argument for completely removing the civil maritime security task from Navy. The civil–military combination which operates in Border Protection Command provides great flexibility, particularly because of its ability to call on the ADF for additional resources when situations demand. The RAN’s patrol boat force complements the increasingly capable but smaller DIBP’ force. Maritime security calls out for the right balance. Additional ships are required in the Australian inventory capable of dealing with large numbers of would-be immigrants and of operating in the harsh conditions of the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic. Most of all, for the demands of the north-west patrol, Australia needs at least another large vessel on strength and sooner rather than later. That would relieve pressure on the Navy, while allowing DIBP to increase its southern patrols. In the longer term, a second, fully ice-capable ship, in addition to the vessel being built to replace Aurora Australis, should be acquired to allow Australia to sustain a much more effective presence in Antarctic waters. To which agency should the government allocate these big ships? Clearly, they should go where they provide the best value for money. For me the dividing line doesn’t relate to as much to size, speed or endurance, as to the sensor and weapon fit. Anything fitted with more than simple electronic intercept gear and search radars, together with light weapons and their associated aiming gear really belongs to the Navy. Sophisticated systems of that nature are expensive and involve substantial overheads in training and support. Most importantly, they also provide significant military capability which the government should be able to utilise in higher-intensity conflicts. Still, size does matter and there are usually advantages to keeping the bigger vessels under naval control, since they have military potential in other ways. In the case of reinforcement for the north-west in the short term, the additional ship would best be allocated to DIBP. Who takes on the Antarctic will need separate and careful consideration, as an element in developing a comprehensive and long term approach to the division of capability between DIBP and the Navy. This should be central to the considerations for replacement of the Armidale class. James Goldrick is a fellow of the RAN’s Sea Power Centre and an adjunct professor at UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy. Image courtesy of Wikipedia [6]. Article printed from The Strategist: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au URL to article: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/surface-ships-and-the-national-fleet-concept/ [1] Image: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/640px-ACV_Ocean_Protector-1.jpg [2] ASPI’s Future Surface Fleet Conference: https://www.aspi.org.au/events/australias-future-surface-fleet-conference [3] Sam Bateman’s recent post: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-not-pulling-its-weight-in-antarctica/ [4] Canadians: http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=886119 [5] discovered: http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Canadas-National-Shipbuilding-Strategy-07164/ [6] Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACV_Ocean_Protector#mediaviewer/File:ACV_Ocean_Protector.jpg Copyright © 2016 The Strategist. All rights reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4751
__label__cc	0.660231	0.339769	You are here: HomeArticlesThe Qur'ān - A Clear Proof The Qur'ān - A Clear Proof Indeed, We have sent down the Dhikr [the Qur'ān], and indeed We are its guardians. (15:9) In this verse Allāh ta'ālā proclaims that it is He, and He alone, who has revealed the Glorious Qur'ān to mankind, which means it is His Word. This claim is followed by a proof to validate it: that Allāh ta'ālā Himself is its guardian and protector. When Allāh ta'ālā protects something, nothing and no one can ever interfere with it, so the continual preservation of the Qur'ān is a proof that it is the Word of Allāh ta'ālā. There are many other proofs of the Divine origin of the Qur'ān, including its i'jāz (inimitability) – the challenge to mankind to invent even a single verse to match the Qur'ān in its perfection. However, the preservation of the Qur'ān is a proof that even a child can understand. Over 1,400 years have passed and it is still plain for everyone to see that not a single change has occurred in the Qur'ān. To fulfil the promise of protecting the Qur'ān, Allāh ta'ālā has created a comprehensive system consisting of scribes who accurately copy the text; huffāz who accurately memorise its words; qurrā who preserve its mode of recitation; and mufassirūn, muhaddithūn, fuqahā and 'ulamā who protect its meaning and message. Non-Muslim experts, while arguing over the authorship of the Qur'ān, nevertheless acknowledge that despite the passage of over fourteen centuries it has not undergone even the slightest alteration – not of a single letter or diacritical mark. It is obvious that a very powerful being must be safeguarding the Qur'ān for it to have been preserved over so many centuries. The Protected Book 'Allāmah Al-Qurtubī rahimahullāh narrates an interesting story about the preservation of the Qur'ān. Once a stranger attended one of the debates that the 'Abbāsid Khalīfah Ma'mūn Ar-Rashīd used to hold at his court. The man spoke eloquently during the debate, and afterwards Ma'mūn summoned him. Sensing that he was not a Muslim he asked him whether he was a Jew. The man replied that he was. Ma'mūn then invited him to embrace Islām and, as a test, offered him incentives for doing so. However, the man preferred to keep his religion, the religion of his forefathers. A year later the same man attended the court of Ma'mūn as a Muslim and spoke learnedly on Islamic jurisprudence. Afterwards, Ma'mūn called him and asked him if he was the same man who had come the year before. He replied in the affirmative, and upon being asked how he had come to become a Muslim he told his story. After he had left the debate the previous year he had decided to examine the different religions. Being a good calligrapher he made three copies of the Tawrāt, making some additions and omissions in the process. He took the copies to the Jews and they bought them from him. He then made three copies of the Injīl, again making some additions and omissions, and took them to the Christians, who bought them. Then he did exactly the same with the Qur'ān and took the copies to the Muslims. They checked them and when they noticed the additions and omissions they discarded the copies and refused to buy them. "I realised then that this was a Protected Book, and that was how I came to embrace Islām," concluded the man. Enthusiasm for Memorising the Qur'ān The preservation of the Qur'ān is a great miracle, and the means Allāh ta'ālā employs in its preservation are also amazing. Parents who encourage their children to memorise the entire Qur'ān are aware of the rewards they and their children will receive for doing so, but the children themselves are not. If you were to ask the students of a typical tahfīz-al-Qur'ān class what the rewards for memorising the Qur'ān are, majority would not be able to reply. Despite this, the desire Allāh ta'ālā places in their hearts to memorise the Qur'ān is such that very few if any would dream of giving it up. Wherever you go you will see that there are never enough tahfīz-al-Qur'ān classes and that they are always oversubscribed! Just think, what power is there besides Allāh ta'ālā that is keeping our children committed to memorising the Qur'ān? There are countless other well-known good deeds that promise great rewards, yet people do not adhere to them with such commitment and dedication as to memorising the Qur'ān. Allāh ta'ālā Himself puts the love of memorising His Word into the hearts of young people! Nowhere in the whole world will you see classes full of children memorising a book that they do not understand. It is a miracle of the Qur'ān that people are able to learn a whole foreign alphabet and how to read in the foreign language, without learning to understand the language; furthermore, then they memorise a whole book in that language, and then keep it memorised for the rest of their lives. Remarkable Huffāz Throughout history there are examples of people who memorised the Qur'ān at a very young age and also in a very short time. Ibn Labbān rahimahullāh memorised the entire Qur'ān in just one year, remarkable in itself, but even more amazing is that he completed his memorisation at the age of five! Hāfiz Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalānī rahimahullāh became a hāfiz by the age of nine, and at the age of eleven led the Tarāwīh Salāh in Al-Masjid Al-Harām. Imām Ash-Shāfi'ī rahimahullāh memorised the Qur'ān in just one month. When Imām Muhammad rahimahullāh went to study under Imām Abū Hanīfah rahimahullāh he was asked whether he had memorised the entire Qur'ān or not, for admission to his classes was conditional on being a hāfiz. He replied that he had not, but his desire to acquire knowledge was so great that he returned after just one week and told Imām Abū Hanīfah rahimahullāh that he was now a hāfiz! Connect Yourself to the Qur'ān After learning something of the miraculous nature of the Glorious Qur'ān, we need to take some practical steps to connect ourselves with it: 1. Reciting the Qur'ān regularly. Recite one juz daily, or if that is not possible then half a juz or a quarter, but recite daily. If the remembrance of Allāh ta'ālā in its various forms such as tasbīh, tahmīd, salāt 'alan-Nabī, du'ā etc. are compared to individual 'vitamins' beneficial to a person's spiritual health, the Qur'ān can be likened to a multivitamin, for it contains them all. 2. Attend tajwīd classes in your locality in order to learn how to recite the Qur'ān properly, which is one of the rights of the Qur'ān. 3. Attend the Durūs (lessons) of the Qur'ān delivered by the 'ulamā in your locality in order to understand the message of the Qur'ān. 4. Practise upon the teachings of the Qur'ān. 5. Propagate the teachings of the Qur'ān. 6. Respect the people of the Qur'ān, i.e. the huffāz and 'ulamā. Refrain from disrespecting them and talking ill of them at all costs. 'Umar ibn 'Abd-al-'Azīz rahimahullāh used to say, "Become an 'ālim if you can. If you cannot then become a student of 'ilm. And if you cannot then have love for them [the 'ulamā and students]. And if you cannot then do not have hatred for them." May Allāh ta'ālā grant us love for and affinity with the Qur'ān, the ability to memorise it, recite it in the proper manner, understand it and act according to it. Āmīn. 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__label__wiki	0.644609	0.644609	Interview for Marxism Today’s “Left Alive” © Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos Angela Carter has been described as ‘the most consistently interesting and original writer of British fiction today’. Among her most recent books are The Passion of New Eve and The Bloody Chamber. The film The Company of Wolves is based on one of her short stories, and she also co-wrote the screenplay. This interview is taken from a session at Marxism Today’s Left Alive. Are you conscious of directing the reader to think in a certain way when you write? It’s very tricky because people are different and people have different responses to fiction. But it’s impossible to direct and I think it wouldn’t be a good thing if you could do it. Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. And I think that all fiction should be open-ended. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. And therefore it’s impossible to quantify what the reaction should be. I went for a long time thinking that perhaps really I should write agitprop, but I couldn’t see how I could. It would come out very odd, it would come out most peculiar. It would come out in such a way that I couldn’t imagine anybody enjoying reading it. And this seemed to cut away, to pull the carpet out from under myself. If you are writing propaganda you are using the conscious part of your mind to work out what you want to say. Do you do this with fiction? For example, could Countess P in Nights at the Circus be Mrs Thatcher as well as other people – other villains? Well, of course, she’s not really a character. She’s a proposition. In that story there are two characters. There’s the main character, the woman – Olga. And she’s a proper rounded, three- dimensional character with a history and with a personality, with a lot of low peasant cunning. We know a lot about her. We know a little bit less about the person that she makes contact with. But it’s obvious that it’s a real person even though she’s just hinted at. But the countess – she’s the law, she’s a certain kind of authority. And therefore she doesn’t have to have a character. She doesn’t have to have all this naturalistic apparatus, because all she has to do is sit in the chair and go round and round and round, and be authority. And therefore you can project upon her Mrs Thatcher or the Pope. She can be any authoritarian figure. One of the difficulties of writing fiction that’s supposed to have a lot of meaning and can be read as allegory, is the tension between what people expect from the fiction, which is rounded three-dimensional characters that they can believe in, have empathy with, and the fact that that kind of character doesn’t carry all that much meaning. They can’t carry all that much freight of meaning. They can’t be all that, unless you can try very hard and make them move out of character a lot. It’s a problem that Brecht grappled with, quite successfully. Do you think fiction that doesn’t have that sort of credibility is also valid? I’m not sure. I quite enjoy relaxing and writing about people with pimples and ticks because the way that you make a character in ‘straight’ fiction is actually quite simple. You make a sort of checklist of peculiarities. The first editor I ever had said ‘well, say what kind of trousers he’s wearing’. In fact, creating a believable character is something that is quite schematic. There used to be a thriller writer called Peter Cheyney and all the characters in his thrillers were chain-smokers. It took me about three years to work out why this was. It was because ‘he lit a cigarette’, ‘he inhaled thoughtfully’, ‘he stubbed a cigarette out’ – that’s 25 words already and we’re working towards a strict 60,000 words. There’s all kinds of functionalism about mainstream fiction. Can I ask you a question about your personal life, because I know you’ve just had a baby? How do you organise, how do you make time for work and have you had to redefine yourself as a mother? It was a year ago. He falls over now. I can’t answer the question because I haven’t actually done very much work since he was born. I keep remembering J G Ballard, who is a single parent, saying how terrific it was that he’s a writer because it meant that he could look after the children as well as earning a living. I keep holding on to that. I keep saying well surely if he can do it, dammit. But in fact really neither me nor my son’s father have done very much work for the last year. I really don’t know how I would have managed if I’d had children when I was young, before I’d established a body of work. I don’t know what kind of a person I would have been, I might have been a much better writer. You can’t guess these things. But certainly organising your life is almost impossible, especially when you’re used to having a certain kind of rhythm of work which has to be completely changed. You only have so much time before it’s necessary to go and pick a small person up. I was forced after 43 years of evasion, to come to terms with my own incompetence. There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you’re faced with somebody whose needs won’t be put off. You can’t actually tell them to go away and come back in five minutes. I realised that I’m actually an extremely incompetent person and I idle a lot. I’ve got to learn to live with that. But I think I was too old to redefine myself. I couldn’t redefine myself as a mother. I’m proud of my child but I’m not proud of myself as a mother. Surely you’re wrong. Women much older than you are still redefining themselves everyday of their lives, as women and as people? I know what you mean. Obviously you change. One changes all the time but I can’t get into the habit of thinking that my being has changed completely just because I’ve done what most women do. Do you make an effort to write differently when you are bringing male characters into your work? One of the things that people always say about women writers is that the male characters lack credibility. So when I was a girl I made a conscious effort to make the male characters as credible as I possibly could and to write sometimes in the first person, male. It still didn’t stop people criticising the writing. I suppose I do what I tell writing students: I occasionally get a young man sidling up to me and saying that he was very nervous about writing even the character of a woman, about making female characters, these days, because he thinks that we’re all going to stand around hitting him with our handbags. And I say, this is perfectly correct, ‘yes indeed. This is what will happen to you.’ But what you must do if you want to create a really credible woman is just imagine what you yourself would do in a particular set of circumstances and that’s what she’ll do. Except things like pissing against walls. We tend not to put that in nowadays. One of my students wanted to write about a pregnant woman and I said ‘have you ever felt seasick?’ and he said ‘well, yes’. And I said ‘well, there you go.’ If you start off everyday, except when you were lying down, seasick, you’d start realising what it’s like. Obviously I try and exercise empathy with every person I’m writing about. It’s part of the task to understand things. I teach on an MA course at the University of East Anglia. The students on it are very highly selected, are extremely highly motivated. Many of them have published quite a lot of work before they come. I see my function to do exactly as a copy editor in a publishing company does: to go through a piece of fiction and say, ‘look he’s wearing odd socks here, what do you precisely mean, here, would so-and-so say such a thing. What are you really trying to get at?’ You have to start out with people who know what they’re doing from the outset. What about the people who can’t get on a MA course in creative writing, who’ve had a minimal education? It’s going to be a bleak future, isn’t it? Well, it didn’t matter too much 100 years ago. We were producing very, very much better writers in this country when people were leaving school between twelve and fourteen. I don’t mean to be intemperate but I think this is very important. Reading and living are the real training for writing fiction. This may sound smug but it’s true. What usually happens is that people who actually need to do it will find the time. Often it doesn’t work out. People can put themselves through the most extraordinary privations to write a novel. And then it turns out it’s no good. I’m afraid that’s life. It has happened to me and it was very embarrassing and painful. What I used to do before I wrote a movie and became successful was to organise my life so that I would save up in order to write a novel. I’d put aside money. I’d squirrel it away in building societies. I wrote my first novel in the evenings and at weekends. It was when I was still a student and I did the typing in the summer holiday. As I got better at it, as I became more and more absorbed in the actual work and craft, then it did take me more and more time and I had to do it more and more intensively. It wasn’t possible to do it in a part-time dilettantish, hobbyish sort of way. Then I really did have to start thinking about organising my life in such a way that there would be time to write fiction. I used to do a great deal of journalism to regulate the cash flow. And I’d actually have to clear a lot of that away. The Company of Wolves and The Bloody Chamber both reveal an extraordinary empathy between human beings and animals. Well, we are animals, after all. I said this once to somebody after I’d read The Company of Wolves story. She was terribly upset. She said you mean we’re nasty, hairy, dirty slavering beasts. No, no, no, it’s all right. We’re mammals. Bipeds, mammals, carnivorous bipeds, primates and everything. ‘It’s all right’, I said. But she would not be comforted. It was as though a door had opened into hell. I realise I’m sentimental about furred and feathered beings but they’re never dull. I have a minor but quite passionate interest in natural history, I’m a Darwinian. I like animals and I’m interested in animals. I’m also interested in human beings’ projections upon animals of negative qualities, which very often the animals don’t have. Take wolves – the film is a bit less ofa libel on wolves than the story. But the story is an absolute libel on wolves. Wolves in the wild are really quite safe, they don’t mess with human beings unless they’re bothered by them. Their social organisation is somewhat fascistic but who in Britain is to complain about them. I’m interested in the division that Judo- Christianity has made between human nature and animal nature. None of the other great faiths in the world have got quite that division between us and them. None of the others has made this enormous division between birds and beasts who, as Darwin said, would have developed consciences if they’d had the chance, and us. I think it’s one of the scars in Western Europe. I think it’s one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates. Could we change track a bit and ask where you see yourself in the current debates in the contemporary women’s movement on myths and metaphysics? I’m quite old-fashioned about this. If you don’t believe in metaphysics, and indeed you don’t approve of metaphysics, then that puts you in a certain position anyway. I’m interested in justice, really. And I think you can do an awful lot more with legislation than people will permit themselves to believe. We seem to be going through a period when the idea that the situation is hopeless has got a certain kind of dark glamour. The idea that one can do nothing seems to be attractive. A lot of people said before the last election that it doesn’t matter whether you vote Labour or Tory. They were capable of saying there’s no difference between them but as far as the details of everyday life are concerned there’s all the difference in the world. I suppose I regard myself as just a rank and file socialist feminist really. That’s all. I worry a lot, obviously. The idea of the soul is a very attractive proposition but nobody has ever been able to prove it to me. I’m very pleased I don’t have religion because all the great religions of the world concur in denying women’s souls and that is such a relief. That is so wonderful. In The Bloody Chamber you are dealing with fairy tales. Folklore seems to be central to much of your writing? I’m a great admirer of folklore. Truly, I think the degree to which the bourgeoisie has appropriated the culture of the poor is very interesting, it’s very shocking. Fairy tales are part of the oral tradition of Europe. They were simply the fiction of the poor, the fiction of the illiterate. And they’re very precisely located. If you mention folklore in Britain, people’s eyes glaze over with boredom. They associate it with people wearing white suits with bells round their legs. It is associated with the embarrassing, with the quaint. Therefore people are genuinely shocked when they look at Grimms’ stories, which the Grimm brothers collected from the German peasants, to see them full of the most ghastly events. One of the stories that I don’t deal with in The Bloody Chamber is about children who are left out in a wood because their parents would rather they starve out of their sight than under their eyes. This, of course, was an everyday fact of most people’s lives in Europe until the industrial revolution. The imagery is perpetually enchanting because a lot of the imagery is the imagery of the unconscious; beautiful and refreshing, it refreshes the imagination. But the circumstances of the stories are simply transformed accounts of ordinary people’s lives. It’s something to do with Western Europe that these stories have gone into the bourgeois nursery and have been dissociated from the mainstream of culture. Do you think there is anything escapist in your more recent work, especially say The Company of Wolves? Does the success of the film have anything to do with the fact that we are living in a recession? I would hotly deny that the movie was a piece of escapism. If you gave me five minutes I would be able to construct an absolutely foolproof argument that would convince you that it was about the deep roots of our sexual beings. The Thatcherite censorship certainly found it subtly offensive. They couldn’t put their finger on it but they knew something was wrong. Obviously, depression and recession are great for the entertainment industry and a certain kind of escapist movie is obviously going to be very big at this point in time. I don’t think The Company of Wolves is that kind of film. Do you feel that in the current political climate it is important that writers are more overt in their politics? Yes, I suppose I do. There’s a line in a poem of my youth, a poem by Alan Ginsberg called Howl in which he issues this dreadful warning: ‘America, I am putting my queer shoulder to the wheel’. But that sense of weighty responsibility with which some writers approach this fills me with a kind of wild terror. I don’t think art is as important as all that and I don’t think you can do all that much with fiction. It does seem to me that artists, far from being the unconscious legislators of mankind, tend to be parasitic upon those in productive labour. And therefore we really have a big responsibility to deliver the goods. I mean most people would prefer to be artists than to work for Ford in Dagenham after all. Therefore there is a responsibility to deliver the goods, to cheer people up by suggesting that possibly there is hope. I feel that if we all put our queer shoulders to the wheel together, it may be possible to move it an inch, a quarter of an inch, a centimetre, shake it. But it’s very difficult knowing where to start because a certain kind of bland quietism seems to have taken over the intelligentsia. Posted in Interviews ← Angela Carter interviewed by Rosemary Carroll Marina Warner on Angela Carter →	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4754
__label__cc	0.607874	0.392126	Graphic novels: superheroes & super-villains The Shield, Vol. 1 by Chuck Wendig, Adam Christopher and Drew Johnson Drew Johnson Over the centuries, in our nation's times of need, a supernatural force appears to battle back the enemies of the United States: THE SHIELD. Today, the country--the whole world--is on the edge of chaos. The middle class is dying as the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Global warming's effects on the environment are drastic and dramatic, with superstorms and deadly droughts a common occurrence. The government increases its grip on the lives of ordinary people, controlling information and curtailing freedoms and privacy. For some, the government itself has become an enemy of the people, and revolution is on the minds of Americans all across the country. The Shield returns--but what happens when she's not sure who the enemy is? A modern action and conspiracy thriller by bestselling novelists Adam Christopher and Chuck Wendig featuring the dynamic artwork of David Williams, THE SHIELD: DAUGHTER OF THE REVOLUTION gives readers a topical, relevant and jarring new take on the classic hero. THE SHIELD, VOL. 1: DAUGHTER OF THE REVOLUTION collects the first story arc of the ongoing THE SHIELD comic book series. Chuck Wendig is a novelist, screenwriter and game designer. He's the author of many published novels, including but not limited to: Blackbirds, The Blue Blazes, and the YA Heartland series. He is co-writer of the short film Pandemic and the Emmy-nominated digital narrative Collapsus. Wendig has contributed over two million words to the game industry. He is also well known for his profane-yet-practical advice to writers, which he dispenses at his blog, terribleminds.com, and through several popular e-books, including The Kick-Ass Writer, published by Writers Digest. He currently lives in the forests of Pennsyltucky with wife, tiny human, and red dog. Adam Christopher is a novelist, comic writer, and award-winning editor. Adam is the author of The Burning Dark and the LA Trilogy, as well as co-writer of The Shield for Dark Circle Comics. His debut novel, Empire State, was SciFiNow's Book of the Year and a Financial Times Book of the Year for 2012. Born in New Zealand, he has lived in Great Britain since 2006. Be the first to review The Shield.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4756
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__label__wiki	0.524384	0.524384	posted by Answer Coalition \| 273pt (Photo: AFP) The ANSWER Coalition stands in full solidarity with the people of Okinawa in their heroic struggle to end the construction of a military base in Henoko / Oura Bay, and elsewhere. All U.S. bases in Japan and around the world must be closed and U.S. troops must be returned home. The construction of the Henoko base is moving ahead despite overwhelming opposition from Okinawans. The base was first proposed over 20 years ago, and since then Okinawans have staged sit-ins, roadblocks, massive protests, and continuously voted against the construction of the base. In August 2018, over 70,000 Okinawans joined a protest against the Henoko base despite severe weather. The current Governor of Okinawa, Denny Tamaki, was elected on a platform of stopping the Henoko base. His final appeal to stop the stop the construction was denied on December 13, spurring further protests and international calls to action. A growing solidarity movement has emerged with a petition to the White House demanding ‘Stop the landfill of Henoko / Oura Bay until a referendum can be held in Okinawa.’ The petition was launched on December 8 and has gathered over 160,000 signatures in two weeks. The petition will be open until January 7, and additional solidarity actions will be announced. ANSWER encourages all its supporters to join this movement and help circulate the petition. The construction on the Henoko base could take decades, but the construction itself is already a disaster, and has now entered its most destructive phase. As of December 14, in order to create land for runways at the Henoko base, truckloads of rock and sand are being dumped into Oura Bay, a global marine biodiversity “hotspot” second only to the Great Barrier Reef. Oura Bay is home to over 5,800 species, 262 of which are endangered. Construction in Oura Bay will destroy critical habitats. The U.S. Military is the world’s biggest polluter, but new bases bring more than environmental destruction. U.S. bases also cause noise pollution, aircraft crashes, and violent crime. Between 1972 and 2015 Okinawan police have reported 741 serious crimes involving U.S. soldiers, civilian base workers, and their relatives, resulting in local convictions for 129 rapes, 394 burglaries, and 26 murders. The Henoko base is connected directly with this history of abuse. It was first proposed to replace the Futenma base in the aftermath of nationwide outrage that exploded following the kidnap and rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl by three U.S. Marines in 1995. Okinawa has been occupied since the Battle of Okinawa at the end of World War II, during which U.S. forces killed almost half of the 300,000 residents of the island. Instead of returning home afterwards, U.S. forces turned neighborhoods into bases that remain to this day. Today there are more than 30 U.S. military installations across the island of Okinawa, more that 70 percent of all those in Japan. Rent for the bases and wages are charged to the Japanese taxpayer, while those in the United States foot an additional bill of over $1 billion annually as part of the U.S. military's massive nearly $900 billion budget (including indirect costs). The continued construction of the Henoko base is a criminal act by U.S. militarists, and displays their total lack of regard for the democracy they claim to “protect”. Yet history has shown that united struggle and mass movements can overcome even the mightiest of powers. No to the Military Base Construction In Henoko / Oura Bay!	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4758
__label__wiki	0.994377	0.994377	Justin Timberlake delivers inspiring acceptance speech at the Teen Choice Awards Chelsea Huang, AOL.com Jul 31st 2016 9:04PM When Justin Timberlake gives you life advice, you listen. The superstar accepted the prestigious Decade Award at the Teen Choice Awards on Sunday night -- and his inspiring acceptance speech totally rang like a commencement speech packed with meaningful advice for teens and adults alike. SEE ALSO: Stars impersonate Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump at the Teen Choice Awards After a montage reel showing the highlights of his storied career, Timberlake took to the stage with themes of acceptance. "I try to live my life working most closely with, making music with, and spending so much of my time with an amazing group of people — male, female, gay, straight, every walk of life," he said. "I was drawn to all these people not because they look like me but because they think and feel like me. "We are all different, but that does not mean we all do not want the same thing," he added. RELATED: Justin Timberlake through the years Justin Timberlake through the years Justin Timberlake during N'Sync London show case 1997 at L'Equipe Anglaise in London in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Fred Duval/FilmMagic) Justin Timberlake (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic) LOS ANGELES - JANUARY 11: Singer Justin Timberlake of NSYNC attends the 26th Annual American Music Awards on January 11, 1999 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage) LOS ANGELES - AUGUST 1999: Justin Timberlake from pop group NSYNC, poses for an August 1999 portrait in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Bob Berg/Getty Images) NETHERLANDS - CIRCA 2000: Photo of Justin TIMBERLAKE and N' SYNC; Justin Timberlake posed in The Netherlands circa 2000. (Photo by Michel Linssen/Redferns) Justin Timberlake during NSYNC Visits Disney World - Candids and On Stage at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, United States. (Photo by James Devaney/WireImage) Justin Timberlake (Photo by Jim Smeal/WireImage) 07/25/00 New York City 'NSYNC' unveils their new look-alike marionette dolls at FAO Schwarz toy store. Justin Timberlake with his doll. Photo by Evan Agostini/ImageDirect NEW YORK CITY - JULY 31: Singers Justin Timberlake, Joey Fatone and Lance Bass of NSYNC attend the 'Coyote Ugly' New York City Premiere on July 31, 2000 at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage) Justin Timberlake (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage) BEVERLY HILLS, CA - FEBRUARY 20: Singer Justin Timberlake of NSYNC attends the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards Pre-Party Hosted by Clive Davis on February 20, 2001 at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage) Justin Timberlake (left) and Chris Kirkpatrick of 'NSYNC on the 'mtv ICON: Janet Jackson' show taping at Sony Pictures Studios in Los Angeles, CA., March 10, 2001. (FrankMicelotta/ImageDirect) (EXCLUSIVE, Premium Rates Apply) Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage) Justin Timberlake during The 7th Annual Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Arrivals at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, United States. (Photo by SGranitz/WireImage) Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake (Photo by KMazur/WireImage) Lance Bass & Justin Timberlake during Top stars join NSYNC for the 3rd annual Challenge for the Children basketball charity event, featuring celebrity team challenges and half-time performances. All proceeds go to children's programs and charities. in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. (Photo by KMazur/WireImage) Justin Timberlake at the The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in New York City, New York (Photo by Kevin Kane/WireImage) UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 06: Britney Spears and boyfriend, 'N Sync's Justin Timberlake, arrive at Centro-Fly for a party marking the release of her new album, 'Britney.' (Photo by Richard Corkery/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images) Justin Timberlake arriving at the 2001 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. (Photo by SGranitz/WireImage) (NO TABLOIDS) Justin Timberlake & Britney Spears during Super Bowl XXXVI - Britney Spears & Justin Timberlake Host Super Bowl Fundraiser at Planet Hollywood Times Square at the Planet Hollywood Times Square in New York City, NY. (Photo by Denise Trusc Justin Timberlake during NBA Hoop It Up Celebrity Tournament at First Union Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc) Justin Timberlake of 'N Sync and Busta Rhymes during The 44th Annual GRAMMY Awards - Clive Davis Pre-GRAMMY Party at Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, United States. (Photo by L. Cohen/WireImage) Justin Timberlake, Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes and Chris Kirkpatrick, photographed during Nsync 'No String Attached' album release party in New York. Lopes was killed in a car crash in the Honduras April 25, 2002. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage) Justin Timberlake and Nelly during NSYNC Challenge for the Children IV - Celebrity Basketball Game at TD Waterhouse Centre in Orlando, Florida, United States. *Exclusive* (Photo by James Devaney/WireImage) Justin Timberlake during The 2002 Teen Choice Awards - Arrivals at The Universal Amphitheatre in Universal City, California, United States. (Photo by SGranitz/WireImage) Justin Timberlake of NYSNC with mom in the audience attending the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, August 29, 2002. Photo by Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect. HOLLYWOOD - SEPTEMBER 18: NSYNC singer Justin Timberlake attends the 3rd Annual Latin Grammy Awards at the Kodak Theatre on September 18, 2002 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Robert Mora/Getty Images) Justin Timberlake on 44th street in Times Square on MTV's Spankin New Music Week on TRL in New York City, November 5, 2002. Photo by Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect Justin Timberlake during 2002 Billboard Music Awards - Arrivals at MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. (Photo by L. Cohen/WireImage) Justin Timberlake at the Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage) Host Sharon Osbourne, Justin Timberlake and her dog Minnie present the Pop/Rock Favorite Band, Duo or Group at the 30th Annual American Music Awards (Photo by M. Caulfield/WireImage) Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs and Justin Timberlake (Photo by Larry Busacca/WireImage) Justin Timberlake during Nickelodeon's 16th Annual Kids' Choice Awards 2003 - Arrivals at Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, California, United States. (Photo by Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage) DUBLIN, IRELAND - MAY 22: Singer Justin Timberlake performs at The Point Theatre May 22, 2003 in Dublin, Ireland. (Photo by Getty Images) Leno questions an embarrassed Timberlake about rumors that he's dating actress Cameron Diaz (Photo by Paul Drinkwater/WireImage) Justin Timberlake during Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto - Press Room at Downsview Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Theo Wargo/WireImage) Eva Mendes Presents Showman of the Year to Justin Timberlake (Photo by KMazur/WireImage) Justin Timberlake during Justin Timberlake and Mandy Moore Visit MTV's 'TRL' - October 21, 2003 at MTV Studios, Times Square in New York City, New York, United States. (Photo by Theo Wargo/WireImage) HOUSTON, TX - FEBRUARY 1: Justin Timberlake (right) and Janet Jackson perform during the halftime show at Super Bowl XXXVIII between the New England Patriots and the Carolina Panthers at Reliant Stadium on February 1, 2004 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images) LOS ANGELES - FEBRUARY 8: Singer Justin Timberlake poses with his Grammys poses backstage in the Pressroom at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards held on February 8, 2004 at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images) SUNRISE, FL - JULY 25: Justin Timberlake at NSYNC Challenge For The Children Celebrity Basketball Game at Office Depot Center in Sunrise, Florida on July 25, 2004. (Photo by Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images) Justin Timberlake, presenter during 20th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony - Show at Waldorf Astoria in New York City, New York, United States. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage) Morgan Freeman and Justin Timberlake during 2005 Toronto Film Festival - 'Edison' Press Conference at Sutton Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Photo by George Pimentel/WireImage) Justin Timberlake during Justin Timberlake and Ludacris Visit MTV's 'TRL' - November 2, 2005 at MTV Studios - Times Square in New York City, New York. (Photo by Theo Wargo/WireImage) PARK CITY - JANUARY 26: Actor Emile Hirsch and singer Justin Timberlake appear on AOL Unscripted at the Meyer Gallery during the Sundance Film Festival January 24, 2006 in Park City, Utah. Their film, 'Alpha Dog' premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2006. (Photo by Matthew Peyton/Getty Images) Justin Timberlake at the Sony Pictures in Culver City, California (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage) Justin Timberlake during 2006 MTV Video Music Awards - Arrivals at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, New York, United States. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage) Justin Timberlake (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage) Hollywood, UNITED STATES: Singer Justin Timberlake performs during the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in Hollywood, 16 November 2006. AFP PHOTO GABRIEL BOUYS (Photo credit should read GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images) Justin Timberlake during 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Arrivals at Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA, United States. (Photo by SGranitz/WireImage) Los Angeles, UNITED STATES: Singer Justin Timberlake and 'My GRAMMY Moment' winner Robyn Troup perform during the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles 11 February 2007. AFP PHOTO/Robyn BECK (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images) Justin Timberlake, host (Photo by Chris Polk/FilmMagic) Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz (Photo by Jon Furniss/WireImage) NETHERLANDS - JUNE 16: Photo of Justin TIMBERLAKE; performing live onstage (Photo by Rob Verhorst/Redferns) ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - DECEMBER 06: Justin Timberlake performs on stage at the closing night of his FutureSex/LoveShow World Tour in the grounds of Emirates Palace Hotel on December 6, 2007 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Dave Hogan/Getty Images) SANTA MONICA, CA - JUNE 08: Actor/singer Justin Timberlake presents the Lucille Ball Legacy of Laughter Award onstage during the 6th annual 'TV Land Awards' held at Barker Hangar on June 8, 2008 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for TV Land) (EXCLUSIVE, Premium Rates Apply) NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 13: Exclusive* (NO ITALY SALES) Justin Timberlake performs inside Keep A Child Alive's 5th annual Black Ball at Hammerstein Ballroom on November 13, 2008 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage) Singer Justin Timberlake poses in the press room at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Nokia Theatre on September 20, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage) NEW YORK - MAY 03: Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake attends the Costume Institute Gala Benefit to celebrate the opening of the 'American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity' exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 3, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage) THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO -- Episode 3897 -- Pictured: Actor/musician Justin Timberlake during an interview on September 20, 2010 -- Photo by: Paul Drinkwater/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 27: (EXCLUSIVE ACCESS SPECIAL RATES APPLY; NO NORTH AMERICAN ON-AIR BROADCAST UNTIL MARCH 3, 2011) Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake attend the 2011 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted by Graydon Carter at the Sunset Tower Hotel on February 27, 2011 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/VF11/WireImage) WESTWOOD, CA - OCTOBER 20: Actor/Singer Justin Timberlake arrives at the Premiere of Regency Enterprises' 'In Time' at the Regency Village Theater on October 20, 2011 in Westwood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) NEW YORK, NY - MAY 07: Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake attend the 'Schiaparelli And Prada: Impossible Conversations' Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage) NEW ORLEANS, LA - FEBRUARY 02: Justin Timberlake performs at DIRECTV Super Saturday Night Featuring Special Guest Justin Timberlake & Co-Hosted By Mark Cuban's AXS TV on February 2, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images for DirecTV) LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 10: Singer Justin Timberlake attends the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center on February 10, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage) LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 20: Justin Timberlake performs on stage during the Brit Awards 2013 at the 02 Arena on February 20, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Matt Kent/Getty Images) CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 19: Actor Justin Timberlake attends the 'Inside Llewyn Davis' photocall during the 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 19, 2013 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images) US actor and singer Justin Timberlake smiles on May 20, 2013 as he takes part in the show 'Le Grand Journal' on the set of the French TV Canal+, on the sidelines the 66th Cannes film festival in Cannes. Cannes, one of the world's top film festivals, opened on May 15 and will climax on May 26 with awards selected by a jury headed this year by Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg. AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENANCE (Photo credit should read LOIC VENANCE/AFP/Getty Images) NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 25: Musician Justin Timberlake performs onstage during the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards at the Barclays Center on August 25, 2013 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for MTV) RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - SEPTEMBER 15: Justin Timberlake performs on stage during a concert in the Rock in Rio Festival on September 15, 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images) LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 24: Recording artist Justin Timberlake, winner of Favorite Male Artist - Pop/Rock, Favorite Male Artist - Soul/R&B, and Favorite Album - Soul/R&B for 'The 20/20 Experience,' poses in the press room at the 2013 American Music Awards at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on November 24, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Gregg DeGuire/WireImage) LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 01: Justin Timberlake performs on his 20/20 Experience World Tour at The O2 Arena on April 1, 2014 in London, England. (Photo by Dave J Hogan/Getty Images) THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON -- Episode 0325 -- Pictured: (l-r) Singer Justin Timberlake during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on September 9, 2015 -- (Photo by: Douglas Gorenstein/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) BEVERLY HILLS, CA - OCTOBER 23: Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake arrives at the 2015 GLSEN Respect Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on October 23, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage) BEVERLY HILLS, CA - FEBRUARY 28: Recording artist Justin Timberlake attends the 2016 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 28, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images) INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: Recording artists Justin Timberlake (L) and Taylor Swift attends the iHeartRadio Music Awards which broadcasted live on TBS, TNT, AND TRUTV from The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner) JT then gave shout-outs to his biggest inspirations, including Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks, Elton John, Al Green and the late, great Muhammad Ali, who grew up down the street from him in Louisville, Kentucky. The new dad and total class act followed up with his own pieces of advice. In addition to being nice to your parents, Timberlake also urged viewers to "be generous, be kind, be fair." "Go on and become the greatest generation yet," he concluded. i am forever living by Justin Timberlake's speech omg — bec (@signofthe28) August 1, 2016 OMG @jtimberlake you truly are the best speech giver!! I have tears and as a mom of a teen I am showing her your speech!! #TeenChoiceAwards — ❤️Stacey❤️ (@skophotogirl) August 1, 2016 More on AOL.com 2016 Teen Choice Awards red carpet arrivals 'The Simpsons' takes a hard stance against Donald Trump Teen Choice Awards 2016: Complete winners list (updating) acceptance speech	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4759
__label__wiki	0.959644	0.959644	AP in the News Vineeta Deepak to lead AP's coverage of South Asia region BANGKOK (AP) — The Associated Press on Wednesday named Vineeta Deepak, an experienced video journalist and bedrock member of its Indian staff, as its South Asia news director to lead coverage of a region stretching from the heights of the Himalayas to the tropics of the Indian Ocean. Vineeta Deepak (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) From her base in the Indian capital, New Delhi, she will drive AP's multiformat reporting on the world's largest democracy as it exerts its influence abroad while grappling with rising nationalism and growing inequality despite an economic boom at home. She will lead a large team of videojournalists, photographers and reporters stationed across India and in AP bureaus in Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. She will also oversee AP's coverage of Bhutan and the atoll archipelago of the Maldives. "Vineeta has covered the biggest stories in South Asia for more than two decades, and knows the region inside and out," said Asia-Pacific News Director Adam Schreck. "She is an ambitious journalist who knows how to connect with people and tell stories in fresh, creative ways." The 56-year-old has led AP's South Asia video operations as senior producer since 2002, editing and coordinating coverage of major stories including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2008 Mumbai attacks, the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya from Myanmar and the ongoing conflict in the disputed region of Kashmir. She began her journalism career in New Delhi in 1988 and helped launch AP Television News video operations in New Delhi in 1995. She briefly held other positions in the broadcast industry before returning to AP as a video producer in 1998. She was a member of AP's Future Leaders program in 2013 and routinely helps coordinate cross-format planning efforts for the wider Asia-Pacific region. She holds a bachelor's degree in economics from St. Stephen's College in the Indian capital and a master's degree in the subject from the Delhi School of Economics. She has received training at the Film and Television Institute of India. "Our journalists in India and across South Asia are talented, committed to AP's mission and innovative in their storytelling, and we are thrilled that Vineeta will work collaboratively with her colleagues to raise our journalism to new heights," said AP's executive editor, Sally Buzbee.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4760
__label__wiki	0.997689	0.997689	Nissan boss warns UK over possible EU exit Media captionNissan boss Carlos Ghosn warned the carmaker would have "to reconsider its strategy" if the UK exited the EU Nissan will reconsider its investment in the UK if Britain leaves the European Union, chief executive Carlos Ghosn has told the BBC. Prime Minister David Cameron has promised a public vote on EU membership in 2017 if the Conservatives win the next general election in 2015. But Mr Ghosn also added that he considered the exit scenario to be unlikely. Nissan's new model will be built in Sunderland, where it employs 6,500. By John MoylanIndustry correspondent, BBC News Carlos Ghosn may be the most important global industrialist yet to have weighed into the row around the UK's membership of the EU. In a brief interview with the global boss of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, he was upbeat about the new Qashqai and the fact that it would secure jobs in Sunderland. He's also more positive than most about the prospects for the European auto market and for electric vehicles. But it's his comments on the UK's membership of the EU that are making the headlines. The good news is that almost three decades after starting production in Sunderland, the plant remains a cornerstone of Nissan's operations. It was built to serve the European market. But Mr Ghosn emphasised that it is a European plant, based in the UK. Then came the bombshell - if the UK were to leave the EU, the Nissan would have to "reconsider our strategy and investments for the future". Mr Ghosn's empire stretches around the globe. He understands trading blocks, the merits of free trade, the consequences of trade barriers and tariffs. So his comments are pragmatic. Would the Sunderland plant close if the UK were to leave the EU? No. But in years to come, would it remain the focus of its European operations, continually winning new models and investment? That is now far from clear. @JohnMoylanBBC When asked how Nissan would react if the UK were to leave the EU, Mr Ghosn said: "If anything has to change, we [would] need to reconsider our strategy and our investments for the future." Nissan 'blessed' Praising the Sunderland plant, Mr Ghosn told the BBC it was one of the most productive in Europe and said Nissan was "blessed" to own it. With sales of more than 240,000 last year, the Qashqai, to be built in Sunderland, is Nissan's best-selling car in Europe. The car accounts for more than half the output of the Sunderland plant and Mr Ghosn says the new model "ensures" a lot of jobs in the city. This is not the first time that Mr Ghosn has linked Nissan's UK investment to the country's role within the EU. In October 2002, he told the BBC News website that the Sunderland plant's future would depend on whether the UK adopted the euro. However, the UK has continued to use the pound and Nissan is still making cars in Sunderland. Mr Ghosn, who is also chief executive of Nissan's sister company Renault, says that after five years of decline the European car market is arriving at "the end of the tunnel". He says that next year, the European market should be stable with possibly a little growth. Action by the European Central Bank, including Thursday's cut in interest rates, could help that recovery according to Mr Ghosn. New UK car sales in September at highest level in five years BMW sees car division profits stall as Europe weighs Peugeot shares plunge on report of fund raising	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4762
__label__wiki	0.598194	0.598194	Barbara Rusinko Elected to Bechtel Group Inc. Board of Directors Corey Dade O: + 571 262 7067 M: + 571 283 9363 01 May 2018 RESTON, Va. Bechtel, a global engineering, procurement, and construction leader, today announced that Barbara Rusinko, president of the Nuclear, Security & Environmental global business unit, has been appointed to the Bechtel Group, Inc (BGI) board of directors. Rusinko has been with the company for 33 years, serving in a variety of leadership and operations roles. “Barbara exemplifies excellence in project execution, inclusive leadership, collaborative customer partnerships, and keen business acumen needed to build our company for the long term,” said Brendan Bechtel, chairman and chief executive officer. “As a member of the board, Barbara will continue to have a positive and lasting impact on our company, our customer relationships, and our culture.” Barbara joined Bechtel in 1985, initially responsible for construction piping supports on field assignments at three U.S. nuclear power plants. Later, she held engineering management roles at the Savannah River Remediation project in South Carolina. In 2000, Barbara served as chief engineer for Bechtel’s government services company overseeing the performance of more than 700 engineers and designers. She also held senior engineering management roles on projects, including Yucca Mountain, the national nuclear waste repository, and the Waste Treatment Plant in Washington state. In 2011, Barbara transitioned to Bechtel’s Oil, Gas and Chemicals global business unit where she managed a refinery project in Thailand and then the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) business line. She also served as project manager on the Queensland Curtis LNG project, where she partnered with our customer to build and lead a high-performing team which delivered one of the most successful projects in Bechtel history. In 2016, Barbara became president of Bechtel’s Nuclear, Security and Environmental global business unit, leading a multibillion dollar portfolio of engineering, construction, project management, and facility operations projects for government and private sector customers in national security, environmental cleanup, and commercial nuclear power generation. A proven leader, Barbara has pioneered enterprise-wide diversity and inclusion efforts. Recently, Barbara was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Barbara also serves on the board of directors of the Nuclear Energy Institute and on the corporate partnership council of the Society of Women Engineers. She was honored with a 2016 Global Leadership Award by the Society of Women Engineers for her service as a role model for the next generation of engineers and builders. About Bechtel Bechtel is a trusted engineering, construction and project management partner to industry and government. Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers’ objectives to create a lasting positive impact. Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place. Bechtel serves the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Oil, Gas & Chemicals; and Mining & Metals markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations. www.bechtel.com Add the Bechtel News Feed to my RSS reader. Carroll County Energy Facility Daunia Coal Mine Wheatstone LNG Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station Bechtel Continues LNG Leadership With First Cargo Delivered at Corpus Christi’s Train 2 Bechtel and customer Cheniere Energy announced the completion of the first commissioning cargo with liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Train 2 at the... Bechtel-Enka JV completes Kosovan motorway US-based contractor Bechtel has completed the construction of a 65 km Route 6 motorway in Kosovo. NASA Chooses Bechtel Team for Design/Build of Second Mobile Launcher for Next US Heavy-Lift Rocket Bechtel returning to the Space Coast in Florida to design, build, test, and commission Mobile Launcher 2. Bechtel Signs Memorandum of Agreement to Support Safe Disposal of Used Nuclear Fuel Bechtel National Inc. and Deep Isolation Inc. today announced a cooperative agreement to accelerate deployment of a new technology developed by... Market Expertise -- Market Expertise (All) -- Infrastructure Mining & Metals Nuclear, Security & Environmental Oil, Gas & Chemicals Tanks Telecommunications Tunneling Water Region -- Region (All) -- Americas Asia Pacific Europe, Middle East & Africa Year -- Year (All) -- 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4764
__label__wiki	0.512807	0.512807	Curriculum: Key Stage 4 KS4 Curriculum Guide - Year 10 Geography Physical Landscapes In The UK This unit is concerned with the dynamic nature of physical processes and systems, and human interaction with them in a variety of places and at a range of scales. The aims of this unit are to develop an understanding of the tectonic, geomorphological, biological and meteorological processes and features in different environments, and the need for management strategies governed by sustainability and consideration of the direct and indirect effects of human interaction with the Earth and the atmosphere. Assessment: Students will complete an end-of-unit test using GCSE exam-style questions along with exam-style questions at the end of each lesson. Key Words and Terms Urban Issues & Challenges This unit is concerned with human processes, systems and outcomes and how these change both spatially and temporally. They are studied in a variety of places and at a range of scales and must include places in various states of development, such as higher income countries (HICs), lower income countries (LICs) and newly emerging economies (NEEs). The aims of this unit are to develop an understanding of the factors that produce a diverse variety of human environments; the dynamic nature of these environments that change over time and place; the need for sustainable management; and the areas of current and future challenge and opportunity for these environments Assessment: AQA GCSE examination questions to measure students’ understanding of topic and progress throughout. Exam-style questions will also feature throughout all lessons. Key Words and Terms The Living World Assessment: AQA GCSE examination questions to measure students’ understanding of topic and progress throughout. Exam-style questions will feature throughout all lessons. Key Words and Terms The Challenges Of Resource Management This unit is concerned with human processes, systems and outcomes and how these change both spatially and temporally. They are studied in a variety of places and at a range of scales and must include places in various states of development, such as higher income countries (HICs), lower income countries (LICs) and newly emerging economies (NEEs). Assessment: End of unit assessment - AQA GCSE examination questions to measure students’ understanding of topic and progress throughout. Exam-style questions will also be completed throughout lessons. Key Words and Terms	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4765
__label__cc	0.560688	0.439312	Back to browse1,144 related documents Division 3 - Deductions Div 3 heading inserted by No 172 of 1978. Subdivision D - Losses and outgoings incurred under certain tax avoidance schemes SECTION 82KL TAX BENEFIT NOT ALLOWABLE IN RESPECT OF CERTAIN RECOUPED EXPENDITURE 82KL(1) Where the sum of the amount or value of the additional benefit in relation to an amount of eligible relevant expenditure incurred by a taxpayer and the expected tax saving in relation to that amount of eligible relevant expenditure is equal to or greater than the amount of the eligible relevant expenditure, notwithstanding any other provision of this Act but subject to this section, a tax benefit is not and shall be deemed never to have been, allowable in respect of any part of that amount of eligible relevant expenditure. S 82KL(1) amended by No 76 of 1982. Where, at any time, the Commissioner is of the opinion that, apart from this subsection, subsection (1) might reasonably be expected, at a later time, to operate to deem a tax benefit not to be allowable and never to have been allowable in respect of expenditure or a loss or outgoing incurred by a taxpayer then, notwithstanding any other provision of this Act but subject to this section, a tax benefit is not allowable and shall be deemed never to have been allowable in respect of that expenditure or that loss or outgoing, as the case may be. Where, in the making of an assessment, subsection (2) has been applied by reason that the Commissioner was of the opinion that a particular circumstance would exist and the Commissioner later becomes satisfied that that circumstance will not exist, then, notwithstanding anything contained in section 170 , the Commissioner may amend the assessment at any time for the purposes of ensuring that this Subdivision shall be taken always to have applied on the basis that that circumstance did not, and would not, exist. (a) an amount of eligible relevant expenditure is incurred by a partnership; (b) apart from this subsection, this section would not operate to deem a tax benefit not to be allowable and never to have been allowable in respect of any part of that amount of eligible relevant expenditure; and (c) the Commissioner is satisfied that any partner in the partnership became a partner in the partnership by reason of or as a result of an agreement (whether or not that agreement was the agreement by virtue of which the partner became a partner in the partnership) that was entered into by any of the parties to the agreement for the purpose, or primarily for the purpose, of ensuring that this section would not operate to deem a tax benefit not to be allowable and never to have been allowable in respect of any part of the amount of the eligible relevant expenditure; then, notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, a tax benefit is not allowable and shall be deemed never to have been allowable in respect of any part of that amount of eligible relevant expenditure. (a) in the making of an assessment, this section has been applied on the basis that a taxpayer was to be taken to have obtained a benefit by reason that it was reasonable to expect that a person to whom a debt was owed by the taxpayer or an associate of the taxpayer would release, abandon or fail to demand repayment of the debt or of a part of the debt; and (b) the whole or a part of that debt or of that part of the debt is repaid; then, notwithstanding anything contained in section 170 , the Commissioner may amend the assessment at any time for the purposes of ensuring that this Subdivision shall be taken never to have applied on the basis that it was reasonable to expect that the person to whom the debt was owed would release, abandon or fail to demand repayment of the amount that was repaid. Where subsection (1), (2) or (4) deems a tax benefit not to be and never to have been allowable in respect of a loss or outgoing incurred by a taxpayer in the purchase of property that, for the purposes of the application of this Act and the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 in relation to the taxpayer is or was trading stock, then, notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or that Act, the cost or cost price of that property, for the purposes of the application of Subdivision B of Division 2 of Part III of this Act or Division 70 (Trading stock) or 385 (Primary production) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 in relation to that property in relation to the taxpayer, shall be taken to be, and at all times to have been, nil. S 82KL(6) amended by No 121 of 1997 and No 76 of 1982. Where, at any time after the making of an assessment in relation to a taxpayer, the taxpayer considers that the Commissioner ought to amend the assessment in accordance with subsection (3) or (5), the taxpayer may post to or lodge with the Commissioner a request in writing for an amendment of the assessment in accordance with subsection (3) or (5) or in accordance with subsections (3) and (5). The Commissioner shall consider the request and shall serve on the taxpayer, by post or otherwise, a written notice of the Commissioner's decision on the request. S 82KL(8) amended by No 41 of 2011, s 3 and Sch 5 Pt 27, by removing gender-specific language, effective 27 June 2011. If the taxpayer is dissatisfied with the Commissioner ' s decision on the request, the taxpayer may object against it in the manner set out in Part IVC of the Taxation Administration Act 1953 . S 82KL(9) substituted for s 82KL(9) and (10) by No 216 of 1991. Former s 82KL(9) amended by No 48 of 1986. 82KL(10) (Omitted by No 216 of 1991) S 82KL(9) substituted for s 82KL(9) and (10) by No 216 of 1991. S 82KL inserted by No 146 of 1979. Archived: Subdivs F to G repealed as inoperative by No 101 of 2006 , s 3 and Sch 1 item 93, effective 14 September 2006. For application and savings provisions and for former wording see the CCH Australian Income Tax Legislation archive . Subdiv E was repealed in 1989 and has also been archived.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4768
__label__wiki	0.915519	0.915519	Gould Hummingbirds, Pl. 208, De Lalande's Plover-Crest https://www.audubonart.com/shop/product/gou-208-gould-hummingbirds-pl-208-de-lalande-s-plover-crest-13649 Hand-colored lithograph with gold leaf, 1849-1861 Hand-colored lithograph with gold leaf Monograph of the Trochilidae or Family of Humming Birds Considered John Gould’s masterpiece in both breadth and beauty, Monograph of the Trochilidae or Family of Humming Birds comprises 418 plates. It was originally published in London in five volumes in 25 parts (1849—61), plus volume six, a five-part supplement, (1880—87). Depicted and lithographed on stone by artists John Gould, Henry Constantine Richter and William Matthew Hart, each plate exquisitely portrays these delicate, evocatively colored birds with the flowers indigenous to their area. Strong botanical elements add a dimension not found in other bird folios. Family of Humming Birds also displays a tour de force of the hand-colored lithograph as a medium. Gold leaf, transparent oil colors, watercolors, lacquers and gum arabic are combined to capture the iridescent quality of these most colorful of birds. John Gould (1804—1881) was a prolific publisher of ornithological subjects. In 19th-century Europe, his name was as well known as John James Audubon’s was in North America. Unlike John James Audubon, whose life’s work focused on one region, Gould traveled widely and employed other artists to help create his lavish, hand-colored lithographic folios. John Gould’s love of natural history was fostered in the gardens of King George III where his father was chief gardener at Windsor Castle. Although trained as a gardener, John Gould’s interests quickly evolved, and at the age of 20, he was appointed taxidermist to the Zoological Society of London. After three years, he progressed to the position of curator of birds and chief taxidermist. In 1830, newly married, Gould and his artist wife, Elizabeth Gould (née Coxen, 1804—1841), began their publishing career. During a career spanning over half a century, John Gould oversaw the publication of more than a dozen folios on birds of the world. Among John Gould’s best known folios are the monumental Birds of Europe, originally published in 22 parts from 1832 to 1837, A Monograph of the Ramphastidae or Family of Toucans, 1834 and 1854, The Birds of New Guinea and the Adjacent Papuan Islands, Including Many New Species Recently Discovered in Australia, published in London and issued in 25 parts from 1875 to 1888. Works from these Gould folios may also be found on our website. Click here for more Gould prints from the Family of Humming Birds Specifications for Gould Hummingbirds, Pl. 208, De Lalande's Plover-Crest	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4770
__label__wiki	0.887497	0.887497	Festival Announces New Play Program, Words3 The Utah Shakespeare Festival has announced a new name, an increased commitment, and an enhanced mission, for its new plays program. Formerly known as the New American Playwrights Project (NAPP), the Festival’s primary vehicle for exploring new works will now be a new program, Words Cubed at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. The new name comes from a line in Hamlet, “Words, words, words,” and focuses the new program firmly on the text and the work of playwrights. “The program aims to not only replace, but improve upon the foundation of NAPP by providing a platform to move plays from the developmental/reading stage to fully funded productions,” says David Ivers, Festival Artistic Director. “As part of our efforts to expand and diversify our audience, we must also expand and diversify the voices who make our work. Ushering in new plays, new playwrights and new context for engagement is paramount to the success of our new studio theatre. Expect to see commissioned playwrights, workshops, and reading series throughout the coming seasons.” According to the Festival, the mission of Words Cubed is to nurture and develop “openly-submitted and commissioned-based new plays by providing a professionally supported platform for readings, workshops, and fully realized productions as part of an ongoing commitment to create a diverse body of work." Charles Metten, director of NAPP, had this to say: “I am thrilled that the Festival is continuing to grow its commitment to new works. We have worked many years to nurture playwrights, and I am excited to continue to mentor, advocate for, and develop these new works.” The new name also reflects a commitment to staging new works as part of the Festival’s mainstage repertory season. For instance, How to Fight Loneliness, by Neil LaBute, is receiving a staged reading in 2016 and will have a fully realized production as part of the Festival’s regular 2017 season. “The Utah Shakespeare Festival has committed its resources and vision to support new work,” continues Ivers. “The ideas of these works should inspire audiences to engage about the importance of fostering the ‘Shakespeares of tomorrow.’ Artistic Director Brian Vaughn added: “Just as Shakespeare was writing for contemporary audiences, our vision is to unfold stories that relate to our current collective humanity. Words Cubed will help usher in new voices with a platform of development and performance that will fulfill our mission of presenting classical and contemporary theatre.” The new name, as well as a new logo, was unveiled today to the audience attending the NAPP reading of Debora Threedy’s script One Big Union. Submission dates and guidelines will be similar to NAPP. Scripts for consideration for 2018 can be submitted via email starting January 5. The deadline for unrepresented playwrights is February 15, and the deadline for playwrights with representation is April 5. Submissions can be sent to words3@bard.org. Submission criteria and details can be found at bard.org/words-cubed, and that page will eventually transition to bard.org/words3.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4773
__label__wiki	0.586688	0.586688	Academics > Catalog > 2010-2011 > The Trustees All information on this page represents a snapshot taken at the start of academic year 2010-2011. For up-to-date information, please contact the Office of the President. Elaine Tuttle Hansen, Ph.D., President; ex officio Lewiston, Maine Michael W. Bonney, B.A.; Chair Alison R. Bernstein, Ph.D.; Vice Chair David Winfield Parmelee, M.B.A.; Secretary West Hartford, Connecticut Stuart Bradley Abelson, M.B.A. Gloucester, Massachusetts David Steven Barlow, M.B.A. H. Scott Bierman, Ph.D. Steven A. Brown, M.B.A. Andrea Conklin Bueschel, Ph.D. Ann Elizabeth Bushmiller, J.D. J. Michael Chu, B.A. George W. Cole, Ph.D. Brookhaven, New York Darrell William Crate, M.B.A. Beverly Farms, Massachusetts Geraldine M. FitzGerald, B.A. Richard H. Forde, M.B.A. Simsbury, Connecticut Scott D. Freeman, M.B.A. Marjorie Northrop Friedman, J.D. Stephen M. Fuller M.B.A. Freeport, Maine John Davies Gillespie, M.B.A. Guilford, Connecticut Christopher Joseph Gorayeb, J.D. William Steven Holt, M.D. Cape Elizabeth, Maine Susan Schulze Kozik, B.A. William Eldred Little Jr., B.A. James J. McNulty, M.A. Winnetka, Illinois Jamie Peter Merisotis, B.A. Karl Olof Mills, M.A. Lafayette, California Dana Petersen Moore, J.D. James Francis O'Brien Jr., B.A. Sarah Risley Pearson, M.F.A. Jennifer Guckel Porter, M.B.A. Mary Henderson Pressman, B.A. Carol L. Rattray, M.A. Jeremy M. Sclar, B.A. Lena Sene, B.A. Valerie Ann Smith, Ph.D. Bruce Edward Stangle, Ph.D. Quoc Kinh Tran, M.B.A. Kentfield, California Kathleen M. Whelan, J.D. Victoria Aghababian Wicks, M.B.A. Westfield, New Jersey Edmund James Wilson, M.B.A. Glenview, Illinois Laura Lee Young Connelly, B.A. Weston Leonard Bonney, M.B.A. David Oliver Boone, B.A. Westlake, Ohio Robert E. Burke, B.S. James Francis Callahan Jr., M.B.A. Lynnfield, Massachusetts Richard Francis Coughlin, M.B.A. Ernest Henry Ern, Ph.D. David Leigh Foster, M.A. Barry Allan Greenfield, M.B.A. Clark Alton Griffith, B.S. South Carver, Massachusetts Burton Michael Harris, LL.B. Swampscott, Massachusetts Karen Ann Harris, M.B.A. Irving Isaacson, LL.B. Auburn, Maine Henry John Keigwin, M.B.A. Amelia Island, Florida Earl Robert Kinney, B.A., LL.D. Wayzata, Minnesota Lincoln Filene Ladd, M.A. Wayne, Maine Paul Ross Libbey, B.A. David John MacNaughton, J.D. Bronxville, New York Vincent Lee McKusick, M.S., LL.B., LL.D., L.H.D. James Leander Moody Jr., B.A., L.H.D. M. Patricia Morse, Ph.D., D.Sc. Jane Parsons Norris, B.A. James Finley Orr III, M.B.A., D.S.B.A. Helen Antonette Papaioanou, M.D., D.Sc. Cromwell, Connecticut Donald Paul Richter, LL.B. Manchester, Connecticut Carole Browe Segal, B.A. E. Ward Smith, M.B.A. Jeannette Packard Stewart, B.A. East Hartford, Connecticut Catharine Roslyn Stimpson, Ph.D., LL.D. Robert George Wade Jr., B.A. Frank Paul Wendt, B.S. Southport, Connecticut Joseph Timothy Willett, M.B.A. Ridgewood, New Jersey Lynn Willcox Willsey, B.A. Glastonbury, Connecticut *By Nomination of the Alumni Association	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4774
__label__cc	0.732244	0.267756	Billy Keane Music Check my instagram for regular shows and updates Born in Ireland, based in London, Billy is a musician who has just released his first major EP. Inspired by his father, a working guitarist and bass player, he began playing music at age 13. Upon leaving school he moved to Co. Cork to study music. During his final year he was struggling to find music he could truly connect to until he stumbled upon acts such as Damien Rice, Ray LaMontagne and John Mayer. This was the turning point. Soon after he began singing and writing his own material. He made a last minute decision to enrol in London’s prestigious BIMM on a one year diploma course. While there he spent every second discovering his own sound. He practiced incessantly and had countless notebooks filled with scribbled thoughts and lyrics. After years of being a typical struggling musician, working in bars, and even doing door to door sales to pay the bills, he is now performing every night across London in different venues to new, exciting and growing audiences, making his living as a professional musician. His first major EP entitled “The Nearness Of You” was released in April 2017. It consists of 4 tracks he wrote and co-produced over the space of a year and half. He has been inspired by the people he’s loved, lost and left behind, in a world that is changing faster than ever before. doors ep Lesson 1 "John Mayer - Queen of California - Live lick" PDF Lesson 2 "Steely Dan - Reelin in the Years - Intro Solo" Lesson 3 "Paramore - 26 - Intro and Prechorus" Lesson 4 "Steely Dan - Reelin in the years - Verse and CHORUS RHYTHM Lesson 5 "THE LA'S - tHERE SHE GOES - INTRO Lesson 6 "Ed Sheeran - Shape of you - Lead and rhythm" Lesson 7 "John mayer - STOP THIS TRAIN - fINGERPICKING" Lesson 8 "Paramore - 26 - Chorus" Lesson 9 - "Paramore - 26 - Bridge" Lesson 9 - "paramore - 26 - Half Chorus" Lesson 9 - "paramore - 26 - final chorus and outro" Lesson 10 - "PARAMORE - FORGIVENESS - INTRO" Lesson 11 - "John Mayer - Neon - Correct technique"	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4775
__label__wiki	0.843615	0.843615	New Member Elected to Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Board of Trustees College of Medicine alumnus, U.S. Navy veteran W. Melvin Brown, III, M.D. serving 6th district W. Melvin Brown, the newest member of the MUSC Board of Trustees Charleston, SC — The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is pleased to welcome W. Melvin Brown, III, M.D., to the MUSC Board of Trustees, effective May 2. Brown represents the 6th Congressional district of South Carolina, which includes all of Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Clarendon, Colleton, Hampton and Williamsburg counties and parts of Beaufort, Berkeley, Calhoun, Charleston, Dorchester, Georgetown, Orangeburg, Richland and Sumter counties. “I served my country for 20 years in the naval service. Now I look forward to the opportunity to serve my home state,” Brown said. Brown currently works as an emergency room physician in urban, rural, retirement and federal hospital settings, including the four hospitals under Trident Medical Center and as a part-time staff member at the Ralph A. Johnson V.A. Medical Center in the Charleston area, Lexington Medical Center in Columbia, and Waccamaw Community Hospital in Murrell’s Inlet. He also serves as an instructor for the oral board preparation course sponsored by the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. He earned his bachelor’s degree in engineering from the United States Naval Academy in 1991, a master’s degree in education with a concentration in biology from The Citadel College of Graduate Studies in 1999, and his doctorate in medicine from MUSC in 2002. He completed an emergency medicine residency while serving as an active duty naval officer at the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, VA. While on active duty from 1991 through 2015, Brown served as engineering division officer at the Naval Education and Training center in Newport, Rhode Island, and on the USS Sierra (Charleston) and the USS Hawes (Norfolk, Virginia). He was medical officer on the USS Carter Hall (Little Creek, Virginia) in 2008, and served as medical director of a shock trauma unit with the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force, Hemland province, Afghanistan. He was also director of emergency medicine at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan. His final tour was as a staff physician at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida in 2010. For most of 2014, Brown was stationed as a trauma team leader at a military base in Kumar Province, Afghanistan with Joint Special Operations. He retired from active duty in 2015. “The Medical University of South Carolina Board of Trustees welcomes Dr. Brown and looks forward to the knowledge and expertise he will bring MUSC as an alumnus, physician, and veteran,” said Mark Sweatman, Board of Trustees secretary. Brown received 10 medals for various commendations and achievements while serving in the U.S. Navy. He is a fellow of the Academy of Academic Emergency Medicine, a member of the South Carolina Medical Association, and has served on the board of directors for the Star Gospel Mission as well as Porter-Gaud School. About MUSC Founded in 1824 in Charleston, The Medical University of South Carolina is the oldest medical school in the South. Today, MUSC continues the tradition of excellence in education, research, and patient care. MUSC educates and trains more than 3,000 students and 700 residents in six colleges (Dental Medicine, Graduate Studies, Health Professions, Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy), and has nearly 14,000 employees, including approximately 1,500 faculty members. As the largest non-federal employer in Charleston, the university and its affiliates have collective annual budgets in excess of $2.4 billion, with an annual economic impact of more than $3.8 billion and annual research funding in excess of $250 million. MUSC operates a 700-bed medical center, which includes a nationally recognized children’s hospital, the Ashley River Tower (cardiovascular, digestive disease, and surgical oncology), Hollings Cancer Center (a National Cancer Institute-designated center), Level I trauma center, Institute of Psychiatry, and the state’s only transplant center. In 2017, for the third consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report named MUSC Health the number one hospital in South Carolina. For more information on academic programs or clinical services, visit www.musc.edu. For more information on hospital patient services, visit www.muschealth.org. Heather Woolwine woolwinh@musc.edu	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4777
__label__wiki	0.50541	0.50541	KBS Embarks on a $20 Million Repositioning Project for Union Bank Plaza in Downtown Los Angeles July 11, 2019— KBS, one of the largest owners of commercial real estate, has announced the start of a $20 million renovation that will give Downtown Los Angeles’ iconic Union Bank Plaza (UBP) multiple competitive community features including an entirely reimagined two-story retail level, high-level finishes in the property’s... KBS’ 500 West Madison to be Rebranded as Accenture Tower July 11, 2019— KBS, one of the largest owners of commercial real estate, announced today that 500 West Madison in Chicago will become Accenture Tower. Today, alongside Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Accenture (NYSE: ACN) a leading global professional services company that provides a broad... KBS Hires Cushman & Wakefield for Multi-Services for New Premier Orange County Asset, ‘City Tower’ March 19, 2018 – Cushman & Wakefield proudly announced today the firm has been hired by owner KBS, on behalf of its Strategic Opportunity REIT, to perform a breadth of services including Leasing, Property Management and Project Management for City Tower, a premier 435,177-square-foot (sf) office high rise in... KBS Strategic Opportunity REIT II Acquires Lincoln Court in Silicon Valley for $51.5 million May 25, 2016— KBS Strategic Opportunity REIT II, a non-traded real estate investment trust based in Newport Beach, announced today the acquisition of Lincoln Court, a 123,529-square-foot, Class A, three-story office building, for $51.5 million. The property is located at 2105 South Bascom Avenue in Campbell, a suburb of... KBS REIT I Signs 175,088-Square-Foot Lease at Rivertech in Billerica (May 9, 2016) – KBS Real Estate Investment Trust (KBS REIT I), a non-traded real estate investment trust based in Newport Beach, California, announced today the signing of a 175,088-square-foot lease at Rivertech, a Class A property located at 129 Concord Road in Billerica. Entegris, a provider of products... C&W Represents KBS Reit II on State of California’s Board of Equalization’s @ Gateway Corporate Center May 10, 2015— The Board of Equalization, the state of California’s elected tax commission, will maintain offices within the Gateway Corporate Center after renewing its 66,593-square-foot lease at 160 Promenade Circle near downtown Sacramento. With a combined 235,193 square feet of rentable office space, Gateway Corporate Center includes two,... 300 North LaSalle Wins BOMA TOBY Earth Award February 12, 2014— KBS REIT II, the building owner, along with Hines, the international real estate firm, announced today that 300 North LaSalle has won the TOBY Earth Award from the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of Chicago. The TOBY (The Outstanding Building of the Year) Awards recognize...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4778
__label__cc	0.655167	0.344833	Excel Physical Therapy Our Cresskill office is centered between the towns of Tenafly, Alpine, Demarest and Dumont. Conveniently located on Piermont Road near its shopping district, this office is approximately 3,700 square feet in size with ample parking both in front and back of the building. MEET OUR PHYSICAL THERAPY STAFF Panayiotis Hios Panayiotis graduated with his Doctorate in Physical Therapy from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Prior to UMDNJ, he received his Bachelor of Science in Biology with a minor in Psychology from Ramapo College of New Jersey. His personal experiences with orthopedic injuries, interest in the body, and passion for helping people led him to pursue a career in physical therapy. Upon graduation from UMDNJ, he continued his physical therapy education by completing a Manual Therapist Certification (MTC) through Evidence in Motion. While at EIM, he learned the most up to date research and hands-on techniques in patient care with many physical therapy residents and fellows across the country. Panayiotis then went on to become Board Certified by the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties as an Orthopedic Clinical Specialist (OCS). Panayiotis enjoys treating patients across all age groups with a variety of injuries. However, he has particular interests in the application of manual therapy techniques and therapeutic interventions in helping patients achieve their personal goals. He was born and raised in Bergen County, and feels fortunate to have the opportunity to help people with functional limitations in his community. When not working with our clients, he enjoys spending time with his wife, family and friends. Panayiotis and his wife enjoy traveling, especially when they travel to Greece to visit family. In addition, Panayiotis continues to maintain an active lifestyle by running, working out, and playing in a local open men’s soccer league for Vikings FC. He has experience in playing highly competitive soccer at the high school and college level. Matt Choman Matt grew up in Northern New Jersey playing baseball. During high school, he made a transition from baseball player to lacrosse player. Being that baseball was his first love, and he is an undying New York Yankee fan, he has proclaimed himself a baseball nerd even though he no longer plays. After graduating from Pascack Valley High School, he studied Biology at the University of Maryland. He continued his studies honing in on physical therapy at Columbia University Medical Center’s doctoral program, where he specialized in orthopedics. Matt has always been intrigued by the human body’s ability to heal, especially the ankles, knees and lower back. As a PT, he relishes in his ability to help the body heal through therapy, while establishing a personal connection with patients. His interest in pain science has him working towards receiving a certification as a Therapeutic Pain Specialist. This piqued interest gives Matt the means and confidence to treat patients with chronic pain. Matt has not only been a PT, but he was a patient in high school. While playing a pick-up football game, he fell on outstretched hands and fractured both of his arms. This lead to a few tough months of recovery, but he credits the physical therapy treatment and the team behind it that got him through it all. Matt considers himself a budding connoisseur of whiskies —single-malt scotches and bourbons— as well as craft beer. When he has time, he enjoys slow cook barbecuing ribs, brisket and pulled pork in his smoker. His favorite pizza is from Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza. As a baseball nerd, one of Matt’s goals is to make a visit to each of the MLB stadiums. Nick Daniels Nicholas Daniels has a sincere passion for the craft of physical therapy, especially as it relates to orthopedics and sports. Nick is also particularly interested in patients with unique or challenging cases -- those who have tried other treatments with little success and walk into the clinic as skeptics. He thoroughly enjoys creating outside-the-box therapy plans for such patients, cheering them on as they reach their goals and graduate from his care, all while turning them into believers in the healing power of physical therapy. Nick received a BS in Athletic Training from Montclair State University and certification from the National Athletic Trainers Association in 2008. He treated high school and college athletes across North Jersey, focusing on injury prevention, assessment and rehabilitation. He then went on to the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, where he graduated summa cum laude with a Doctorate of Physical Therapy in 2013. In 2017, Nick was recognized by the American Physical Therapy Association as a board certified Orthopedic Clinical Specialist (OCS). Although Nick's preparing for the board exam while working full-time and renovating a new home almost caused a coffee shortage in Bergen County, he plans to jump back into a pile of textbooks and tests in 2018. This time he will be earning the title of board certified Sports Clinical Specialist (SCS). Nick loves to learn about the human body, how to handle its weaknesses, and the amazing feats it can accomplish when at its best. Nick is an avid weightlifter, skier and golfer, and spent many years playing baseball on school teams and adult leagues. As a result of his baseball "career," the doctor was once a patient himself. Nick has undergone shoulder surgery and rehabilitation from a sports-induced injury. He is subsequently very sensitive to both the physical and emotional roads his patients must travel, and especially empathizes with the sidelined athletes who are eager to back onto the field, horse, dance floor, and everything in between. When he isn’t in the clinic or pursuing athletics, Nick enjoys playing with the power tools in his home workshop and spending time with his wife, family and friends. He loves cheeseburgers and pecan pie, and appreciates patients' suggestions for a good place to get either one. Vincent Luppino PT, DPT, CSCS Vincent is a Bergen County native, born and raised in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. At an early age, Vincent had a passion for playing baseball. As a four-year varsity letterman at Bergen Tech, his goal was to pitch at the college level. Vincent went on to receive an athletic scholarship to pitch for Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, New York. While in college, Vincent discovered a passion for strength and conditioning, which he’d use both to improve his game on the field and to proactively prevent injuries. While pursuing his B.S. in Health Sciences, he worked as a strength and conditioning coach, helping athletes and non-athletes achieve their fitness goals. Searching for a way to combine his passion for sports, strength training, and orthopedic rehabilitation, Vincent decided to pursue a career in physical therapy. Vincent earned a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Touro College in Manhattan. While in graduate school, he did a rotation in California working with professional NFL players and high-level college athletes at EXOS Sports Performance, in addition to working with post-surgical cases at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. While earning his doctorate, Vincent took post-graduate classes through North American Institute of Orthopedic Manual Therapy (NAIOMT), where he is currently working toward becoming credentialed as a Certified Manual Physical Therapy credentials. Vincent is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) through the NSCA and an EXOS Performance Specialist. Vincent enjoys treating a variety of orthopedic injuries, especially neck, shoulder, and lower back. He is particularly experienced in rehabilitating sports-related injuries in order to get his patients back on the field. Vincent draws upon background in strength and conditioning for optimal movement and loading strategies. In his down time, Vincent enjoys spending time with friends and family. He stays active with strength training, as well as training for and competing in half-marathons. A New York Yankees, Knicks, and Giants fan, Vincent tries to attend games when he can. Nick Jovic A longtime familiar face at EXCEL, Nick started as an aide working side-by-side therapists and patients during his studies at Ithaca College. After graduating with a Doctorate in Physical Therapy and obtaining his license, Nick joined EXCEL’s team as a physical therapist. As a clinician, Nick has extensive experience working with a diverse patient population, from pediatric to geriatric. His clinical interests include post-operative rehabilitation and sports medicine orthopedics. Nick is a Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) Certified Golf Expert. He has taken course work in hip preservation and rehabilitation. In addition, he is pursuing continued course work regarding post-concussion rehabilitation. Nick utilizes an evidence-based approach emphasizing patient education, which results in maximized outcomes. By developing a personalized plan of care and utilizing his manual therapy skills along with therapeutic exercise, he hopes to help his patients maintain a healthy and active lifestyle. Nick grew up in Northern New Jersey. His down time is spent playing tennis, racquetball, basketball, and exploring hiking trails around the county with his dog, Parker. His favorite summer-time spot is at the shore with family and friends. Nick continues to work on minimizing his level of frustration in his slowly improving golf game. 32 Piermont Road, cresskill@exceltherapy.com	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4780
__label__wiki	0.985777	0.985777	MP Conway ordered to repay cash PUBLISHED: 14:59 29 January 2009 \| UPDATED: 16:06 25 August 2010 PAYBACK: Derek Conway DEREK Conway was ordered to repay nearly £4,000 today (January 29) after being found guilty of overpaying his eldest son. The MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup was criticised by the Commons Standards watchdog for overpaying his eldest son Henry for work of which there was 'no documentary or hard evidence of'. Mr Conway, a father-of-three, was ordered to pay back the £3,757.83 of overpayments made to Henry for his employment as a research assistant between 2001 and 2004. A report from the Standards and Privileges Committee read: "Mr Conway sent the commissioner a photograph of Henry Conway with a foreign ambassador taken on the Parliamentary estate; we do not regard this as hard evidence of work carried out. "However, Henry Conway was a student at the Courtauld Institute of Art near Westminster; he lived at his parents' flat in Westminster; and he was seen about the Palace of Westminster on several occasions. "The commissioner concludes, on the basis of the evidence he has seen, that Henry Conway did undertake work for Mr Conway during the period of his employment. "The commissioner does not consider that there is sufficient evidence to substantiate the allegation that Henry Conway failed to work the 18 hours a week for which he was contracted and paid." Henry's employment overlapped by a month with that of his younger brother, Freddie. Both were full-time students at the time they were employed. The report comes exactly a year after the MP was suspended from Parliament and sacked from the Conservative party. He later vowed to stand down at the next general election. Last year, the same committee said they found 'little' or 'no evidence' of work carried out by Freddie, who was employed by his father for three years and was paid nearly £50,000. Now, the cross-party committee have stated it would not be appropriate for the MP to be suspended again, but recommended that he apologised to the House of Commons by writing to their chairman. But the committee concluded that the MP was again in breach of paying a son too much money. The report concluded: "This case has demonstrated a serious lapse of judgment by an experienced Member of the House. Nevertheless, considering it on its own merits, we conclude that a further period of suspension from the House would be a disproportionate sanction to impose. "As he himself recognises, Mr Conway's political career is over." Mr Conway said: "The Standards and Privileges Committee report has cleared me on three of the four complaints alleging breach of the Rules of the House. "They accepted the commissioner's findings that there was a job for my son Henry to do; that he was able and qualified to do it and that he had (with independent and photographic evidence) been doing it. "The complaint is upheld with regard to the salary level paid to my son Henry over a period of 39 months from July 2001 and requires me to make a gross repayment of £3,757.83 to the House authorities, which I shall. "The committee has applied a judgement on the guidance to Members which requires costs to have been 'necessarily incurred' and from the outset I have maintained that this is a subjective opinion, made with hindsight and that I had complied with the rules which existed at the time. "The committee has within its power to reach such an opinion, therefore I have complied with its requirement to write to its chairman, Sir George Young Bt. MP apologising for the breach of the 'necessarily incurred' rule." *What do you think? Contact the newsroom on 0208 269 7012 or email marina.soteriou@archant.co.uk. Brinks Mat – the heist of the century Latest from the Bexley Times Watch this weekend’s weather forecast: Warm and muggy Teresa Pearce MP won’t stand at next election Business boost as Peabody gifts Chamber of Commerce memberships Kent claim third victory as they beat Surrey	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4782
__label__cc	0.744183	0.255817	The Return of Jesus Christ - Lesson 9 Introduction to Bible Basics - Free Online Bible Course Introduction / Lesson 1 / Lesson 2 / Lesson 3 / Lesson 4 / Lesson 5 / Lesson 6 / Lesson 7 / Lesson 8 / Lesson 9 / Lesson 10 / Lesson 11 / Lesson 12 The resurrection of Jesus Christ is an historical fact on which the hope of all mankind depends. As certain as the fact of the resurrection, is God's promise that His Son will return to the earth. After Christ was raised from the dead he ascended to heaven and angels gave his disciples this assurance: "This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven" (Acts 1 v 11). THE PURPOSE OF CHRIST'S RETURN In the Lord's prayer Jesus taught his followers to pray for the establishment of God's kingdom, on earth: "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven" (Matthew 6 v 10). At this time the words of David will be fulfilled: "The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever" (Psalm 37 v 29). Christ is to return to the earth to establish God's kingdom by overthrowing the present human systems of government. He will rid the world of wickedness and fill the earth with God's glory as the divine solution to all its present problems. For this reason the apostle Paul, in the first century AD, encouraged Titus to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and rather to "Live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ" (Titus 2 vs. 12-13). WHEN WILL CHRIST RETURN? God, from the beginning, appointed a particular day when Christ would return to judge the earth. Paul spoke of this: "Because he (God) hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead" (Acts 17 v 31). Christ, in his preaching, made it quite clear that, although God's plan was made, and events would follow a set pattern, not even he knew the exact time of his return. In Mark chapter 13 Christ told his hearers of his return and gave them some indications as to the events which must precede it, after which he said, "Then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds, with great power and glory" (Mark 13 v 26). "But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father" (Mark 13 v 32). CHRIST TO RETURN UNEXPECTEDLY LIKE A THIEF Most people today find the idea of Christ's returning to the earth amusing, not to be considered seriously in view of the apparent permanence of our existence. The apostle Peter warned that men would think like this: "There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation" (2 Peter 3 vs. 3-4). So we are given the assurance that God is not slow in fulfilling His promises, but that this world-shattering event will take place at the time that He has appointed for it: "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night" (2 Peter 3 v 10). Read the first 10 verses of 2 Peter chapter 3 to follow the full argument put forward by the apostle. As Christ pointed out, the precise hour of his coming is not known to anyone except God, and cannot be worked out from the scriptures. "For in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh" (Matthew 24 v 44). This teaches us that faith is required by believers in Christ's return, for only God knows the specific day when this will happen. To those who are not looking for this event, his appearance will be as unexpected as that of a thief in the night. IS THERE NO INDICATION WHEN CHRIST WILL RETURN? The disciples were interested in this question and asked Christ privately whilst they sat on the Mount of Olives, "Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?" (Matthew 24 v 3). Christ's reply to this question, and many other passages of Bible prophecy, clearly show the likely time period when this return will be fulfilled. These signs of the times have been given to encourage Christ's followers, that they may be ready for him. SIGNS OF CHRIST'S RETURN 1. THE SIGN OF NOAH In his answer, Jesus reminded his disciples of the Bible account of the days before the flood, as similar circumstances would be seen in the days just before his return: "As things were in Noah's days, so will they be when the Son of Man comes. In the days before the flood they ate and drank and married, until the day that Noah went into the ark, and they knew nothing until the flood came and swept them all away. That is how it will be when the Son of Man comes" (Matthew 24 vs. 37-39 [NEB]). For the background to the times of Noah, read Genesis chapter 6 where it shows plainly why God destroyed mankind, and saved only eight people. Such wickedness was evident in the thoughts and deeds of men and God saw that "the earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence" (Genesis 6 v 11). The press, internet, radio and television daily reflect the similarity between the violent, Godless world of Noah and the violent, Godless world of our times. They reflect in many instances the apostle Paul's description of men in the last days prior to Christ's return: "The final age of this world is to be a time of troubles. Men will love nothing but money and self; they will be arrogant, boastful, and abusive; with no respect for parents, no gratitude, no piety, no natural affection; they will be implacable in their hatreds, scandalmongers, intemperate and fierce, strangers to all goodness, traitors, adventurers, swollen with self-importance. They will be men who put pleasure in the place of God" (2 Timothy 3 vs. 1-5 [NEB]). A careful consideration of each descriptive word of the Bible prophecy will show that these descriptions fit our age more than any before. 2. THE JEWISH SIGN Jesus also spoke a short parable as an additional sign to tell his disciples when he would return; "Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:" Matthew 24 vs. 32. The prophet Jeremiah gives us a clue to the identification of the fig tree as he uses the same symbol in chapter 24 when he refers to the people of Israel (read also Joel chapter 1v7). We must look, then, for the symbolic fig tree, Israel, "tender and putting forth leaves". This refers to the regathering of the Jews from all parts of the earth where they were scattered by God (Luke 21 v 24; Deuteronomy 28 vs. 25,32-34,37,64-66). Many people today are witnessing the Jewish people in Israel "putting forth leaves" as they continue to build their country since its establishment as a State in 1948 and the capture of Jerusalem in 1967. The same event was prophesied by Ezekiel in the first 14 verses of chapter 37. This time the Jewish nation is likened to a collection of bones. The prophet saw a valley of dry bones: "These bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost" (Ezekiel 37 v 11). Then the bones come together, are covered with flesh; breath is put into Israel and they live, "And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land." "I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land" (Ezekiel 37 vs. 14 & 21). So we see in figurative language Israel being brought into the land as promised by God, a young nation sprouting forth as a budding tree. What follows this regathering? "I will make a covenant of peace with them...and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore" (Ezekiel 37 v 26). The Jewish sign heralds the establishment of God's kingdom. The exciting aspect of this prophecy is that we can see God's hand at work as the Jews return and build up their land, and we are warned, "When ye shall see all these things, know that it (margin 'he') is near, even at the doors" (Matthew 24 v 33). JESUS' PROPHECY CONCERNING ISRAEL Jesus made very clear predictions both as to the immediate future of his nation, and as to its long-term destiny. The leaders of the nation failed to see the hand of their God stretched out to them. He had sent them His only son as their Messiah, and they demanded his death. Just prior to his arrest and crucifixion, Jesus and his disciples stood on the mount overlooking Jerusalem, and the beauty of the temple caused the disciples to exclaim in wonder; but Jesus saw only the punishment to be meted out to his people: "As for these things which ye behold...there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down." "And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled" (Luke 21 vs. 6 and 24). This prophecy received fulfilment in AD 70 when the Roman Empire sent an army, under Titus, to put down a rebellion. The city of Jerusalem was destroyed and the ground was actually ploughed over. Deuteronomy chapter 28 was further fulfilled, and the scattering of the nation was complete. No Jew was permitted to remain in the land. In AD 135 a decree was issued expelling the surviving Jews from Judaea. The name of Jerusalem was changed to Aelia Capitolina. There followed centuries of downtreading for the land and its people. The 'Diaspora', or dispersion, became fact. The Jewish prisoners captured in innumerable wars were scattered about the world as slaves. Those fortunate enough to escape this fate became merchants and traders. The Jew was everywhere except in Israel - so thoroughly did God fulfil His word. Settlements were to be found throughout the world, but God had decreed no comfort for them - and persecution and anti-Semitism became their way of life. For 2,000 years the land and its people were very effectively crushed and a miracle would be needed to revive them. But that miracle had been promised by God through many of His prophets. In 1967 the Israelis captured Jerusalem, and for the first time in 2,000 years Jerusalem came under Israeli control ISRAEL REBORN Nothing could be clearer than the prophecy spoken through Jeremiah: "...Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mind anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely" (Jeremiah 32 v 37). God had said He would give them a new heart and spirit to bring about the revival, and the amazing truth is the way the nation seemed to gather inspired strength and courage. For 2,000 years of captivity the Jews had been weak and unresisting. God had taken away their will and their ability to fight. But when the time came for the prophecies concerning their restoration to their land to be fulfilled, then this new spirit came into the nation. They waged a war to ensure they took possession of their land - and Britain, the occupying power, was only too pleased to hand over. Then, against all odds, the nation became a fighting machine to defeat the combined strength of the Arabs and Egyptians. 650,000 Jews faced 40,000,000 Arabs and, as of old, God led His people to victory. So what the prophets had declared would happen, came to pass. Ezekiel chapters 36 and 37 contain a most remarkable prophecy which establishes beyond all doubt the overriding control of God in the affairs of nations. The prophet was given a vision in which God foretold the regathering of the nation back to their land, there to become a great army: "For I will take you from among the heathen (nations), and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land...A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you...and ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers" (Ezekiel 36 vs. 24,26,28). Then, in the vision of the valley full of dry bones that became a valley filled with a mighty army, God gave further reassurance: "They stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army...I shall place you in your own land...I will take the children of Israel...and bring them into their own land" (Ezekiel 37 vs. 10,14,21). Since 1948 nearly six million Jews have returned to Israel - the next major event will be Christ's return to establish his Kingdom in Israel and thence throughout the whole world. 3. THE SIGN OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S DREAM Study 3 dealt fully with this dream. The interpretation by Daniel showed the course of world history. After the break-up of the Roman Empire we find ourselves today represented by the feet of the image, with nations some strong (iron) and some weak (clay), not able to join firmly together. Daniel continued: "In the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom" (Daniel 2 v 44). This shows that there will be no further world empire, until the final event which will complete the fulfilment of Daniel's prophecy. Paul, the apostle, confident in the absolute fulfilment of the prophecy up to his time, was able to encourage the believers at Colosse because he knew of the certainty of Christ's return: "When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory" (Colossians 3 v 4). 4. THE SIGN OF GENERAL WORLD UNREST Christ also told the disciples of the time just before his return when there would be general unrest and fear among people because of the trouble facing all nations: "There shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken" (Luke 21 vs. 25-26). Christ is speaking in figurative language of ruling powers, with the sea and waves representing people (e.g. Isaiah 57 v 20). This sign gives a picture of the peoples of the earth roaring, using their collective voice to exert power over events and situations, and to shake the security of rulers. The prevailing mood is of distress among the nations, which makes thoughtful people fearful of the outcome of all the world's disturbances and problems. Surely the picture presented could be the caption for a survey of the current world situation! Once again, Christ tells us that when world events are like those described by him, we must expect his return: "then shall they see the Son of man coming" (Luke 21 v 27). The establishment of the Kingdom of God upon earth lies at the centre of His purpose, as we have seen. It requires the return of Jesus Christ to the earth to fulfil all the promises of God. Jesus himself spoke - in prophecy - about the events which would precede his return to earth. 5. THE COMING WORLD CONFLICT We saw in what has become known as the 'Mount Olivet Prophecy', Jesus first warned of the overthrow of the Jewish state. In fulfilment of prophecy, the Romans ruled over the land of promise, and the Jews were a vassal state. Jesus knew that before long the Romans would execute the plan of God and disperse the people of God throughout all the world: "They shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. And there shall be signs..." (Luke 21 v 24). The disciples of Jesus had asked about the signs of his coming and of the end of the world, or age. Jesus set out very clearly the signs which would prevail and which would lead up to his return in "power and great glory": "And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming with power and great glory" (Luke 21 vs. 25-27). The Jews' return to their own land and the restoration of Israel as a home for the Jewish people in 1948 is a fulfilment of prophecy already remarked upon earlier in this Study. In the decades that have followed there have indeed been signs in "the heavens" and among those symbols of the ruling powers of the nations, the sun, moon and stars. There is perplexity as to how the problems of the world can be solved by human government. Wars are continuous - they never cease and there seems no way out. This, said Jesus, would be another sign of his impending return. The prophets of Israel have long spoken of the circumstances affecting Israel and ALL nations, just prior to the coming of Christ, in times known as "the last days" or "the latter days". Consider the following example: "Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD..." (Ezekiel 38 vs. 2,3). Careful reading of this chapter leaves us in no doubt that this group of nations - including Persia (Iran), Ethiopia and Libya (Ezekiel 38 v 5) - are to be compelled by God to attack the land of Israel. For example, in verse 8 we read this: "...in the LATTER YEARS thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations..." (Ezekiel 38 v 8). This federation of nations is centred upon a power which is situated to the north of the Holy Land, and it is interesting to note that Israel, both in the past and at the present time, has needed to look carefully to the security of her NORTHERN borders. The Syrians, of course, are a current threat in that direction, just as the Assyrians were some 2,500 years ago. At that time God, speaking through the prophet Ezekiel concerning this 'northern' aggressor, said: "And thou shalt come from thy place out of the NORTH parts, thou and many people with thee...And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be IN THE LATTER DAYS" (Ezekiel 38 vs. 15,16). The identity of this federation to be gathered against Israel in the very near future is not difficult to assess. Gog, Magog, Meshech and Tubal are acknowledged by students of ancient history to be descendants of one of the sons of Noah, namely Japheth. Persia (Iran), Ethiopia and Libya, for the most part antagonistic to Israel, are well known to us today, and the prophet Ezekiel, speaking with the authority of the Most High God, tells us they will be joined with the descendants of Japheth, the 'LATTER DAY' occupiers of the "north parts". Directly to the north of Israel is Syria, one of Israel's many Arab enemies. Further north, through Armenia, we come to the troubled, now largely independent, states of the former USSR. We note with interest the high Islamic following that there is among this group of nations. Now it would be foolish for students of prophecy to dogmatize on the outcome of Bible prophecy. God alone has the right to determine the outcome of His plan for the world, a plan, remember, which will be consummated in the establishment of God's Kingdom upon earth - the Millennium, or thousand year reign of Christ upon earth. If we are true students of God's Word, then we are also watchmen. Christ's warning to his followers was that they should watch! - "Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come" (Matthew 24 v 42). As we survey the world scene, what do we see? We see Israel, returned to their land in fulfilment of such prophecies as Ezekiel chapter 37. We see hostility towards Israel on every border. The Arab (Islamic) nations are truly confederate against God's people, and have tried to push them into the sea: "They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance" (Psalm 83 v 4). A more detailed study of Psalm 83 will repay the earnest student of Biblical prophecy, particularly the modern identity of the nations mentioned in this intriguing Psalm. They are the old enemies of Israel's early history and they find a territorial identity with the current enemies of God's people The northern aggressor of Ezekiel chapter 38, in association with the clearly identified nations who currently have no time for "the land brought back from the sword", are amongst those whom GOD will bring in a final conflict against Jerusalem: "For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle" (Zechariah 14 v 2). "For behold in those days and at that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat..." (Joel 3 vs. 1,2). We are left in no doubt that this is the day when God will intervene in man's affairs once again and will cause HIS will to be done on earth: "Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near..." (Joel 3 v 14). "The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more" (Joel 3:16-7) These, then, are the times which will see the return of Christ, the future ruler of the earth. These prophecies, and particularly those of Joel and Zechariah, together with the great prophecies of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, present to us GOD'S PLAN. As watchmen, we seek to analyse every step forward in this plan. For every step FORWARD brings even closer that day of final conflict, known in the Bible as ARMAGEDDON, resulting, in the words of Zechariah: "...the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one" (Zechariah 14 v 9). CHRIST'S RETURN A FACT The Signs of the Times make up an unmistakable pattern of the shape of things to come. The preliminaries for God's intervention are almost complete and Jesus Christ is at the door, ready to take the world by surprise. Seeing the signs and knowing their meaning, can we afford to remain unmoved by them? We can be like those who foolishly close their minds to these things and do nothing. The return of Christ will come to such like a thief in the night. Alternatively, we can regard the signs and heed the warning before it is too late. Jesus said, "when these things BEGIN TO COME TO PASS, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh" (Luke 21 v 28). Instead of being downcast by present conditions, we can look up and see the need for redemption, through Christ our Redeemer. We can be wise and seek sanctuary in the Christ-Ark, before the "great day of God Almighty" engulfs the wicked. It is in our power to treat this subject as of great importance, remembering that it involves our life and destiny. The Bible offers us the hope of eternal life and a place in God's Kingdom - a Kingdom where Christ will reign in righteousness and peace; not a 'reign of grace in the heart', but a literal kingdom upon earth. The wise will reach this conclusion: that the coming of Christ is a vital matter that the warning from God's Word should not be ignored that our present life gives no lasting satisfaction that belief of the Gospel (good news) of the Kingdom of God and baptism into the saving name of Christ are imperative. It is for us, individually, to decide if we desire to "abide the day of his (Christ's) coming", when he shall "discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not" (Malachi 3:18). The return of Jesus Christ is a fact. This return was promised by the angels at his ascension. Jesus is to return to establish God's kingdom on earth. Only God knows the exact day appointed for Christ's return. Clear signs indicate Christ's return is imminent. The days of Noah are comparable to our own. The restoration of the Jews in Israel is a living sign. We live in the final phase of Nebuchadnezzar's vision. World unrest precedes Christ's return. The hostility of Israel's neighbours. PASSAGES FOR BIBLE READING Ezekiel 37; Ezekiel 38; Acts 3; Acts 1 vs. 1-12; Luke 21; 1 Thessalonians; 2 Thessalonians 1 Lesson 9: Questions Choose the correct answer to each question, then click on the SUBMIT button. Occasionally a question may require more than one correct answer. A personal tutor will respond. Please select your region * Australia/NZ UK/Europe USA/Canada Other 1. Why is Jesus going to return to this earth? * He is not going to return To stop war To establish God's Kingdom To cure disease 2. Who knew the exact date when Jesus would return? * The angels Jesus God Paul 3. Where can we find indications that Jesus will return soon? * In the Bible In the newspaper In the stars In the Jewish Law 4. What conditions in the world did Jesus compare with the times of Noah? * The return of Israel to their land The uprise of a northern aggressor A time of violence and pleasure seeking Some nations strong and some nations weak 5. Which figure is used to indicate Israel in the parable contained in Matthew 24 vs. 32-33? * A valley of dry bones A fig tree A candlestick The ark 6. What part of Nebuchadnezzar's vision portrayed the time before Jesus' return? * The head of gold The feet part iron and part clay The legs of iron The belly and thighs of brass 7. Which class of people are referred to in the phrase "the sea and the waves roaring" in Luke 21 v 25? * A holy people People of the nations The rulers The missionaries 8. Which nation is situated directly north of Israel? * America Syria Egypt Russia 9. What does Jesus say we should do in preparation for his coming? * Sleep Watch Take no thought Eat and drink 10. Which of the following signs that herald Jesus' return are to be seen today? * The restoration of the Jews in Israel World unrest The attitude of Israel's neighbours A time of violence Some nations strong and some nations weak Any further questions you may have: * Proceed to Lesson 10 >	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4784
__label__wiki	0.71274	0.71274	Predictably Irrational: Book summary and reviews of Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely Summary \| Reviews \| More Information \| More Books The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely Readers' rating: Published in USA Feb 2008 Genre: History, Science & Current Affairs When it comes to making decisions in our lives, we think we're in control. We think we're making smart, rational choices. But are we? In a series of illuminating, often surprising experiments, MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways. Blending everyday experience with groundbreaking research, Ariely explains how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities. Not only do we make astonishingly simple mistakes every day, but we make the same types of mistakes, Ariely discovers. We consistently overpay, underestimate, and procrastinate. We fail to understand the profound effects of our emotions on what we want, and we overvalue what we already own. Yet these misguided behaviors are neither random nor senseless. They're systematic and predictablemaking us predictably irrational. From drinking coffee to losing weight, from buying a car to choosing a romantic partner, Ariely explains how to break through these systematic patterns of thought to make better decisions. Predictably Irrational will change the way we interact with the worldone small decision at a time. Click to the right or left of the sample to turn the page. (If no book jacket appears in a few seconds, then we don't have an excerpt of this book or your browser is unable to display it) "Ariely's intelligent, exuberant style and thought-provoking arguments make for a fascinating, eye-opening read." - Publishers Weekly. "Surprisingly entertaining. . . . Easy to read. . . . Arielys book makes economics and the strange happenings of the human mind fun." - USA Today. "The most difficult part of investing is managing your emotions. Dan explains why that is so challenging for all of us, and how recognizing your built-in biases can help you avoid common mistakes." - Charles Schwab, Chairman and CEO, The Charles Schwab Corporation "A marvelous book that is both thought provoking and highly entertaining, ranging from the power of placebos to the pleasures of Pepsi. Ariely unmasks the subtle but powerful tricks that our minds play on us, and shows us how we can prevent being fooled." - Jerome Groopman, New York Times bestselling author of How Doctors Think. "Make a point of seeing this book. That way you'll know you want it, and you will." - Kirkus Reviews. The information about Predictably Irrational shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's online-magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high-profile books publishing in the coming weeks. In most cases, the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. If you are the publisher or author of this book and feel that the reviews shown do not properly reflect the range of media opinion now available, please send us a message with the mainstream media reviews that you would like to see added. Click here and be the first to review this book! Dan Ariely is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT, where he holds a joint appointment between MIT's Media Laboratory and the Sloan School of Management. He is also a researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and a visiting professor at Duke University. Readers Also Browsed . . . Fly Girls by Keith O'Brien Bad Blood by John Carreyrou Heartland by Sarah Smarsh The Inflamed Mind by Edward Bullmore A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell Greek to Me by Mary Norris Babel by Gaston Dorren The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre Endeavour by Peter Moore The Dinosaur Artist by Paige Williams more history, science & current affairs...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4786
__label__wiki	0.95038	0.95038	George Davis Snell American geneticist George Davis Snell, (born Dec. 19, 1903, Bradford, Mass., U.S.—died June 6, 1996, Bar Harbor, Maine), American immunogeneticist who, with Jean Dausset and Baruj Benacerraf, was awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his studies of histocompatibility (a compatibility between the genetic makeup of donor and host that allows a tissue graft from the former to be accepted by the latter). Snell graduated from Dartmouth College in 1926 and received a Ph.D. in genetics from Harvard University in 1930. During 1931–33 he studied under the geneticist Hermann J. Muller at the University of Texas. In 1935 he joined the staff of the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, where he remained, becoming senior staff scientist in 1957, until his retirement in 1969. At Bar Harbor, Snell, who was already immersed in mouse genetics, began to focus on the genetics of transplantation. His collaboration with British geneticist Peter Gorer led to the identification of a group of genes in the mouse called the H-2 gene complex, a term Snell coined to indicate whether a tissue graft would be accepted (the H stands for histocompatibility). Those histocompatibility genes encode cell surface proteins that allow the body to distinguish its own cells from those that are foreign—e.g., cells of a tissue graft or an infectious microorganism. The work resulted in the discovery of the major histocompatibility complex, a genetic complex found in all vertebrates that is analogous to the H-2 complex. Recognition of those genes paved the way for tissue and organ transplantation to become successful. Snell was the author of a number of books, including Histocompatibility (1976), which he wrote with Jean Dausset and Stanley G. Natheson. Facts Matter. Support the truth and unlock all of Britannica’s content. Start Your Free Trial Today Jean Dausset Jean Dausset, French hematologist and immunologist whose studies of the genetic basis of the immunological reaction earned him a share (with George Snell and Baruj Benacerraf) of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physiology or… Baruj Benacerraf Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born American pathologist and immunologist who shared (with George Snell and Jean Dausset) the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of genes that regulate immune responses and of the role that some… Nobel Prize, any of the prizes (five in number until 1969, when a sixth was added) that are awarded annually from a fund bequeathed for that purpose by the Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel. The Nobel Prizes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards given for intellectual achievement… Genetics, study of heredity in general and of genes in particular. Genetics forms one of the central pillars of biology and overlaps with many other areas, such as agriculture, medicine, and biotechnology.… Hermann Joseph Muller Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist best remembered for his demonstration that mutations and hereditary changes can be caused by X rays striking the genes and chromosomes of living cells. His discovery of artificially induced mutations in genes… Bradford, Massachusetts June 6, 1996 (aged 92) subjects of study major histocompatibility complex gene complex Thomas Hunt Morgan Jack W. Szostak Craig C. Mello Jeffrey C. Hall Barbara McClintock Michael W. Young Michael Rosbash Michael S. Brown Nobel Prize (all) Nobel Prize - Medicine Nobelprize.org - Biography of George D. Snell How Stuff Works - Science - Biography of George Davis Snell Friedrich Nietzsche, German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of… Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis. Freud’s article on psychoanalysis appeared… Ben Carson, American politician and neurosurgeon who performed the first successful separation of conjoined…	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4788
__label__cc	0.699375	0.300625	Some 60,000 celebrate Belgium in the streets of Brussels Close to 60,000 people participated in the different activities organized Thursday in Brussels for the national day celebration, according to a first estimate by police in the Brussels Capital-Ixelles area. Although at mid-afternoon the public was sparse at rue de la Loi, where King Philippe reviewed the troops in preparation for the 21st of July parade, the public was definitely greater in number at Place des Palais for admiring the different elements of the Belgian Armed Forces which are celebrating this year the 70th anniversary of the Air Force and Navy. The parade, for the fourth consecutive year under the command of General Major Jean-Paul Deconinck, began at 16:00 under observation of the royal couple, their children and several members of the spheres of politics and the judiciary. Prince Laurent was also present. His wife, Princess Claire, did not participate at the parade, nor did Princess Astrid and her husband Prince Lorenz, nor did Albert and Paola, the former royal couple. At Place des Palais, veterans initiated the march, followed by detachments of Air Force and Navy cadets, as well as representatives of parachutists and junior commandos. About thirty Air Force planes then invaded the sky of the capital, with six Alpha jets, six Marchetti, 15 F-16 fighter planes, three C-130s, one E3-A and one Spitfire. Seven helicopters: three Caiman and one Alouette III, also participated in the festivities. Oscar Schneider (Source: Belga)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4790
__label__wiki	0.589296	0.589296	'Difficult times ahead' for South Northants community transport service if more volunteer drivers aren't found Towcester Area Door to Door has seen an increase in demand for the service and now has a substantial waiting list as a result Tim Redigolo A volunteer service offering transport to medical and wellbeing appointments in the South Northants area is in desperate need of new recruits. Towcester Area Door to Door (TADD) has for the last two years found it difficult to find volunteer drivers. Geoff is one of TADD's volunteer drivers Furthermore, the group has seen an increase in demand for the service and now has a substantial waiting list as a result. "With an ageing pool of existing volunteers, TADD are facing difficult times ahead unless the number of volunteers increases significantly," said Brenda Woolf, a volunteer and spokeswoman for TADD. "Given the recent trend for the reduction or closure of bus services to some villages and communities, the future looks bleak for the elderly and vulnerable in South Northants. "Given the evidence that enabling people to continue to live at home contributes significantly to physical and medical well-being, the continuance of the TADD service is vital." TADD is aimed at people who have difficulties making health-related appointments because they can't drive, can't rely on public transport, or can't move freely. The charity, which has been operating for more than 30 years, aims to fight isolation and loneliness and help people remain independent in their own homes. "TADD provides a crucial lifeline to elderly and disabled people in our village communities," said volunteer driver Geoff, from Tiffield. "Without TADD, they could not attend medical appointments or would have to rely on family or friends, who are not always available." He added: "I like driving, and enjoy chatting to people, so this is the best of both worlds. It’s great fun, and it definitely rewards you with a sense of giving something back to society.” More information on becoming a volunteer can be found on TADD's website.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4791
__label__cc	0.731924	0.268076	Andrew Yang Gives $1,000 Per Month To Florida Woman, Promotes “Freedom... An early entry into the race, Yang has been able to raise nearly $5million for his campaign, with nearly every donation considered... The mostly moderate State Representative for Florida's 50th district is facing his first leftist (Alt-Left) Democrat challenger since being elected in... Cate advised Andrew Gillum's campaign for Governor, taking the Democrat from being an obscure Mayor of Florida's capitol city to less than... Roger Stone’s Lawyers Defend His Social Media Usage Jacob Engels - July 1, 2019 By Jason Devaney Lawyers for former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone said their client has the right to... Despite what they may say on TV, we had tens of thousands of people out in the heat and rain supporting our president, while... Watch Out For These Radical Left-Wing “Journalists” At Trump’s Orlando Rally The following list of activists posing as journalists is to be used as a guide-of-sorts for Trump supporters converging on Orlando for the President’s... Trump Rally Will Feature Tailgate, Outside Gathering During Speech According to an article from Florida Today, the Trump campaign is taking several steps to accommodate thousands upon thousands of Trump supporters expected to... The gay bar right outside of Orlando City Stadium is a few blocks West of Amway Center on Church Street. By Jacob Engels Alt-left activists who...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4795
__label__wiki	0.928982	0.928982	Kelly Oubre retaliated for being ‘hit in the head multiple times’ By Adam Himmelsbach Globe Staff,May 5, 2017, 2:26 p.m. Washington’s Kelly Oubre goes at it with Kelly Olynyk in Game 3 Thursday.(michael reynolds/EPA) WASHINGTON — Wizards forward Kelly Oubre said Friday that when he charged at Celtics forward Kelly Olynyk and struck him with a forearm in Game 3, it was in retaliation for Olynyk hitting him in the head several times earlier. “It was just recurring events,” Oubre said. “I’d been hit in the head multiple times by the same person. I’ve confronted him about it. But the last time it happened, I felt pain in my head and my jaw, and I got up and I ran to him and I bumped him, and that’s all that happened.” The incident occurred with 9 minutes, 12 seconds left in the second quarter of Washington’s dominant 116-89 win in the Eastern Conference semifinals Thursday night. Olynyk was whistled for a foul after setting an illegal screen on Oubre that sent Oubre to the ground in the backcourt. Oubre immediately jumped up and stormed toward Olynyk, leveling him with his left forearm. He received a flagrant-2 foul and was ejected. As of Friday afternoon, the league had not announced a suspension for Oubre. Wizards' Kelly Oubre blasts Celtics' Kelly Olynyk after getting hit with pick (all angles) pic.twitter.com/Q9byNAFt0a — Ben Golliver (@BenGolliver) May 5, 2017 Oubre suffered a concussion in December, and he said he was aware of being hit in the head by Olynyk several times in this series. “Whenever my head hurts or I get hit in the face, my initial reaction isn’t going to be pleasant,” he said. “I’m pretty mindful — I take my inner peace pretty seriously. So when that happened, it’s something that’s very rare and it only happens in a situation like that.” Oubre said it was the first time he’d been ejected from a basketball game. He remains hopeful that he will be able to play in Game 4 Sunday. “I’m not going out there on the court and looking to maliciously hurt anybody,” he said. “I’m just going out there and playing hard, and I’m sure [Olynyk] is doing the same thing. “What happened last night is definitely in the past. We’re focused on basketball. And I’ve learned my lesson. Don’t beeline anybody anymore on the court.” The incident involving Oubre and Olynyk was the most intense of several altercations that took place in a physical, emotional, and sometimes uncomfortable game. Celtics forward Jonas Jerebko and Wizards big man Ian Mahinmi both received technical fouls for a minor altercation when both fell beneath one of the baskets. And Celtics guard Terry Rozier and Wizards guard Brandon Jennings were both ejected after receiving consecutive technical fouls after they locked horns in the fourth quarter. Oubre said he took a shower after he was ejected, and when he went back into the locker room in the second half, he was stunned to see Jennings sitting there scrolling through his cellphone. “I was like, ‘Oh, you too, bro?’ ” Oubre said. Jennings took responsibility for the first set of technical fouls he and Rozier received, but he said Rozier could be blamed for the second because “he just kept going.” “He’s a young boy, so I did some vet moves and just tried to get into him a little bit,” Jennings said, “and it actually worked. “If I can get you to not think about basketball and you want to do other things, I feel like I’ve won. And that’s what I did.” Jennings said he thought Oubre “sent a message” to the Celtics when he charged Olynyk, but he also believes that Olynyk intentionally flopped when Oubre struck him with his forearm, making the incident look worse than it was. Oubre’s act looked fearsome in real time, and Celtics coach Brad Stevens on Friday expressed relief that the situation did not escalate. There were no other technical or flagrant fouls called during the ensuing skirmish. “To be honest, in that moment I thought both sides’ cooler heads prevailed, because that probably could have been worse than it was,” Stevens said. Wizards coach Scott Brooks said he wished Oubre hadn’t reacted to Olynyk’s illegal screen the way he did, but he reiterated Friday that he understood why he did. “We have to keep our composure in situations you don’t feel comfortable in and don’t want to keep your composure,” Brooks said. “But you have to. It’s just part of sport, and you have to be able to do that. But also I told him, time to move on.” Adam Himmelsbach can be reached at adam.himmelsbach@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @adamhimmelsbach.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4799
__label__wiki	0.844032	0.844032	Thiessen: Bernie Sanders seeks voters among Fox… Bernie Sanders turns to Fox viewers in bid for voters Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., takes part in a Fox News town-hall style event, Monday April 15, 2019 in Bethlehem, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) By Marc A. Thiessen \| The Washington Post WASHINGTON — That Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) went on Fox News for a town hall Monday night was controversial among Democrats. As Sanders told hosts Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, “Not everybody thought I should come on this show. Your network does not necessarily have great respect in my world, but I thought it was important for me to be here and have a serious discussion about serious issues.” What Sanders painted as a magnanimous gesture was really a calculated move to boost his presidential prospects: He needs Fox viewers to win the White House. According to the massive Cooperative Congressional Election Study, about 12 percent of Sanders primary voters cast their ballots for Donald Trump in the 2016 general election. These Sanders voters appear to have given Trump the margin of victory in the three states that handed Trump the White House. The Fox News town hall was held in Bethlehem, Pa., in a state where some 16 percent of Sanders supporters — about 117,100 people — voted for Trump; Trump won Pennsylvania by 44,292 votes. It was a similar story in Wisconsin, where about 9 percent of Sanders supporters — about 51,317 people — voted for Trump; Trump won Wisconsin by 22,748 votes. And in Michigan, about 8 percent of Sanders voters — or about 47,915 people — cast their general election ballots for Trump; Trump won Michigan by 10,704 votes. If Sanders wants to win the Democratic nomination, he needs these Trump voters to support him in the primaries. And if he does win the nomination, he needs them to stay in his column and vote for him instead of Trump in 2020. Can Sanders separate his former supporters from Trump? Going on Fox News and making his pitch that Trump has failed them is a smart way to do it. Indeed, Sanders not only participated in the Fox town hall, he published an op-ed on the Fox News website, in which he declared, “When Donald Trump ran for president he made a lot of promises to working families. He told them that he would protect their interests while standing up to the Establishment. Unfortunately, he did not tell the truth.” During his town hall, Sanders criticized Trump for proposing an $845 billion cut to Medicare and made an impassioned pitch for his Medicare-for-all plan. Selling a government takeover of the U.S. health-care system on Fox may seem counterintuitive, but many of those who defected to Trump in 2016 are nontraditional Republican voters who were attracted to Trump precisely because he promised not to touch Social Security and Medicare. So, Medicare-for-all is not anathema to them the way it is to conservatives. Indeed, when Baier asked the town-hall audience whether, with a show of hands, they would be willing to transition from their employer-provided insurance to the government-run system Sanders is proposing, the pro-Bernie crowd cheered and many hands went up. The biggest challenge for Sanders in winning back Trump-Sanders voters is that Trump is delivering for these forgotten Americans. Since Trump took office, the United States has added 491,000 manufacturing jobs, the fastest pace of U.S. manufacturing growth in almost a quarter-century. As MacCallum pointed out to Sanders, unemployment in Pennsylvania is down and wages in the state are up by 6.6 percent. “How,” she asked, “do you convince those people in this area who you’d like to win over this time around that they should change horses and go with you when things are going well?” It’s a pivotal question. Sanders told her that Trump is not responsible for that progress — it began under President Obama — and that most of the benefits of the global economic recovery and Trump’s tax cuts have gone to the very wealthy, while Republicans refuse to give working families access to health care and a “livable wage.” He is telling his former voters, in essence, Trump has failed you, and I can do better; Trump claims to be an outsider, but I am the real deal. Will it work? Will these former Sanders voters, having helped put Trump in the White House, stick with the president, or will they switch back to their first love, Bernie Sanders? The answer may well determine who wins the Democratic nomination — and the presidency in 2020. Marc A. Thiessen is a syndicated columnist. Marc E. Thiessen Marc A. Thiessen Marc Thiessen writes a twice-weekly column for The Post on foreign and domestic policy. He is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush. Follow Marc A. Thiessen @marcthiessen More in Op-Ed President Trump’s crime – having fun at his job Nike stumbled in Betsy Ross flag sneaker flap Parker: American dream is alive and well Neither Biden nor Harris a winner on the big stage	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4800
__label__wiki	0.716104	0.716104	Review: Funny or Die Unleashes 50-Minute Johnny Depp-Starring Anti-Trump Screed On Wednesday, the leftist humor site Funny or Die unleashed an interminably unfunny 50-minute fake biopic of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, The Art of The Deal. The cast is star-studded: introduced by Ron Howard, with Trump played by a not-very-good Johnny Depp, Merv Griffin by the execrable Patton Oswalt, and Ivana Trump by Michaela Watkins (the only thing worth watching in the piece). Variety praised the “sheer gall” of The Art of The Deal, but even they had to admit that it’s a “slim construct” and that “mocking him in this fashion amounts to preaching to the liberal choir.” The Art of The Deal plays like an inside joke among a bunch of drunken Hollywoodites who spent the evening digging rejected Saturday Night Live sketches from a flaming dumpster. I’m no Trump fan – I think he’s vulgar, empty and egomaniacal, with a significant authoritarian streak. But the fact that an Oscar-nominated director convinced Johnny Depp to spend four days imitating Trump circa 1986 – and doing it badly, by the way – demonstrates just where Hollywood puts its heart. ABC can refuse to release The Path to 9/11 at the behest of the Clintons, but top-billing stars will waste their off-hours on drek like this. They’ll leap at the chance to call Trump a racist, sexist, bigoted Nazi sympathizer. The Art of The Deal opens with Ron Howard introducing the film. “Tonight, this classic portrait of a New York real estate mogul at the height of his reign, made by the man himself, will be shown in its entirety for the very first time,” he says. This, as they say, is the hook. The entire discombobulated effort is built around a series of flashbacks revolving around Trump attempting to buy the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City from Merv Griffin. Trump, we learn, has always lusted after the Taj Mahal ever since he saw a picture of the original building: “easily the classiest thing ever built by a Muslim.” Then, in true 1980s fashion, the filmmakers set up the narrative by having a kid accidentally stumble into Trump’s office, where he receives a 50-minute long life lecture from The Donald, complete with lessons on placards. Meanwhile, Trump negotiates with enraged dwarf Oswalt (Merv Griffin) over buying the building, even as everyone ignores his birthday. “This is a place I dreamt about owning since before I had orange pubic hair,” Trump tells the kid. Yes, it’s that kind of humor. After Griffin tells Trump that he won’t sell him the Taj Mahal – that he’d rather sell it to an A-rab, shouting “Allahu Akhbar!” — Trump yells like a child and pounds his desk. He then tells the kid, whose father died in Vietnam, “It’s more heroic not to get killed.” He brags about intimidating rent-controlled tenants, flashes back to being sued by Ed Koch (complete with requisite anti-Semitic references by Trump), and then flashes back again to meeting lawyer Roy Cohn at Le Club, a place where “powerful white men meet to do business.” Back in 1986, we meet Trump’s new lawyer, Jerry Schrager (Alfred Molina), and Trump makes some more anti-Semitic jokes, calling Schrager an “absolute Jewish animal…he will bite off your pecker…Show the kid your cock-chompers.” He forces Schrager to re-enact biting off a penis. Highbrow humor at its finest. And we’re still only 20 minutes in. By this point, I was desperately hoping for an EMP to fry my electronics just to save myself half an hour. But no – the idiocy continued. Trump goes to the bathroom, where he frets over not buying the Taj Mahal (“I think I just had an Oscar moment,” Trump says). When he emerges, the kid in his office says, “It just seems like whoever has the most money and the most Jewish lawyers has an unfair advantage.” Trump says, “You got it, kid.” Trump calls for the Fat Boys. The Fat Boys then rap about suing people. If all of this sounds like Will Ferrell’s fever dream, you’ve hit it on the head. Trump flashes back to 1983 and his lawsuit against the NFL. When he comes back to reality in 1986, he realizes the kid is named Jose, and has him replaced on the set. The new kid is Asian. Next, we meet Ivana Trump, whom Trump brutalizes physically and emotionally, while commenting on her breasts and her vagina (“she kept things relatively tight downstairs”). The comedic masterpiece then flashes back to Trump’s wedding day with best man Alf. Yes, the doll Alf. Director McKay really pulls out all the stops. Merv Griffin calls again for the 1,465th time. Trump tells him he doesn’t need the Taj Mahal in order to negotiate with him. Now we meet Trump’s architect, Der Scutt (Jack McBrayer); Trump calls him a Nazi, then tells him not to rip Hitler, forcing Scutt to give a Nazi salute. For good measure, Trump dumps the Asian kid, gets a black kid, and then dumps him for a white kid. McKay and company have apparently never met a Trump joke they wouldn’t give the full Rodney King treatment. Trump flashes back to building the Trump Tower, and recalls the process of knocking down the original art deco building. In the process, he makes a joke about shooting people on 5th Avenue and how Mexicans degrade buildings. Don’t worry – we’re nearing the end. Stick with me. Back in his office, Trump tells the kid, “I’ve ruined lives, destroyed careers, blown up landmarks to get what I want, and yet I’m always left feeling empty.” The kid says, “Maybe there’s a hole inside that can’t be filled with buildings, maybe it can only be filled with humility and love.” Trump says “Nah, I just need the Taj Mahal.” At this point, Griffin shows up and gives him the Taj Mahal. Just before Trump is about to blow out the candles, however, Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) shows up from the future to tell Trump that if he blows out the candles, he’ll set off a catastrophic chain of events in which he becomes president. At this point, President Trump shows up and says he killed Christopher Lloyd to stop him from making Back to the Future. Trump blows out the candles, and in true 1980s fashion, switches bodies with the kid. The kid says “I think this is the beginning of a beautiful movie franchise.” Roll credits. Over the credits, Trump explains his theme: “You just have to f-ck the other party in the stupid pig face as hard as you can, because the only thing that matters is you. And by you, I mean me. So, f-ck you, f-ck foreigners, f-ck dogs, f-ck cats…And let me pre-emptively give another finger to the critics….I really, really don’t want to die. And I won’t. Ever.” What a work of staggering comedic genius. It wouldn’t be offensive for Hollywood to spend time on bashing Trump – that’s their prerogative, although they would never do the same to the just-as-mockable Clinton family. It’s that Hollywood churned out this toilet-bowlful of artistic diarrhea proudly. A solid rip on Trump would be funny. But this isn’t even good. And it’s that lack of quality that’s so insulting. Hollywood simply assumes that everyone watching will laugh at Trump because he’s Trump, so there’s no reason to even try. As John Nolte often says, the folks in Hollywood are Bubble Dumb. Ironically, their failed smear of Trump will actually force people into sympathy for Trump because it’s so bad. If you’re going to take a shot at a major figure, you have to hit him. Hollywood didn’t. Trump is still standing. It’s the Hollywood comedy clique that fell on its face. Ben Shapiro is Senior Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News, Editor-in-Chief of DailyWire.com, and The New York Times bestselling author, most recently, of the book, The People vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against The Obama Administration (Threshold Editions, June 10, 2014). Follow Ben Shapiro on Twitter @benshapiro. EntertainmentPoliticsDonald Trump	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4801
__label__wiki	0.816136	0.816136	WALLACE 'JUST SAID NO'; NOW, CEO MUST DELIVER "Just say no" worked. For now. In one of 1995's longest-running takeover battles, Hillside-based Wallace Computer Services Inc. was able to fend off a $1.38-billion takeover bid from rival Moore Corp. by simply refusing to negotiate with its hostile suitor. (Wallace's defense was aided by two of America's most popular anti-takeover defenses: a poison pill "shareholder rights" plan and a staggered board of directors.) Wallace may have won the battle, but it is unclear whether it will win the war. Its shareholders saw the price of their stock soar on the news of Moore's initial $56-a-share offer (later increased to $60 a share). In the days following the news that Moore had withdrawn its bid, Wallace shares traded at about $54.63. Wallace CEO Ted Dimitriou convinced his board of directors that shareholders would be better served by allowing the company to remain independent-and in his hands. Now, he must deliver on that promise. What Mr. Dimitriou has effectively said is that he can bring shareholders a price of more than $60 in the near future. He should be held responsible for that implicit promise. One cannot help but look back at a cocky Kemper Corp. board, which believed shareholders would be best served by rejecting a 1994 bid from General Electric Corp. of $60 a share. After floundering for months, Kemper ultimately accepted a buyout from Zurich Insurance Corp.-for $49.80 a share. Mr. Dimitriou may have bought some time. But not much. If he has any hope of keeping Wallace independent, he must articulate a clear strategy for boosting the company's stock-quickly. Otherwise, he will only prolong an inevitable and distracting fight for control of the business forms maker. Just last month, 56% of Wallace shareholders voted to replace three of Wallace's directors (including Mr. Dimitriou) with a board slate nominated by Moore. In less than a year, they will have a chance to slate three more directors. Mr. Dimitriou and his board may have been right when they rejected Moore's $60-a-share sweetened offer. But the bar has been set. Either Wallace's CEO pushes the stock to a price that tops Moore's last offer, or he'll have to explain why he gave up silver to pan for gold.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4804
__label__wiki	0.745154	0.745154	NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden worked as a "security specialist" at a building on UMD's campus thought to be a covert NSA facility. According to documents obtained through a public records request, Snowden worked from January 28, 2005 through November 11, 2005, as a “security specialist” in the Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL) building on campus – a building thought to be a covert NSA facility. From January 28, through August 8, it appears Snowden was a “non-paid employee” with an hourly rate of $0.00. A “new change” in appointment occurred during the month of July, however, resulting in Snowden being paid a salary of $29,330.00 with a retirement plan of “7% state employees alternate pension.” This appears to have been his pay until he left UMD later in the year. The documents, turned over to Campus Reform on Thursday, lists “resignation” as Snowden’s “separation reason.” CLICK HERE to see the document obtained by Campus Reform In June, Snowden told The Guardian that his first job out of the Army was working “as a security guard for one of the agency’s covert facilities at the University of Maryland.” Campus Reform filed a request under the Maryland Public Information Act (MPIA) last month asking for all documentation pertaining to Snowden’s employment including salary, duration of employment, supervisor names, job discrimination and any reports of disciplinary action. UMD, however, only released a single payroll document titled “employment history” to Campus Reform citing a lack of records and confidentiality laws. “Very few documents remain from Mr. Snowden’s brief employment at the University,” reads a letter from Jack Roach, UMD’s Executive Assistant to the President and Chief Counsel. “With one exception, the surviving documents consist of confidential personnel records.” “The MPIA does not permit the University to allow you access to these,” he added.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4806
__label__cc	0.574704	0.425296	Jackson Township man pleads guilty in child porn case Repository staff report Richard P. Snyder, 72, of Jackson Township, has pleaded guilty to federal child pornography charges. AKRON A 72-year-old Jackson Township man has pleaded guilty to federal child pornography charges. Richard P. Snyder, of 1365 Stuart St. NW, admitted to counts of enticement and distribution of child pornography in U.S. District Court on Monday before Magistrate Judge Kathleen B. Burke. He is scheduled to be sentenced on June 6 before Judge Benita Y. Pearson in federal court in Youngstown. In October, Snyder had been indicted by a federal grand jury on the charges. Federal prosecutors say that Snyder used his computer to have sexually explicit conversations with an undercover police officer who was posing as a 13-year-old girl between May and August. Snyder also shared child pornography with the individual, according to court records. The federal probation department will conduct a presentencing investigation in the case to aid the judge in determining a prison term. Snyder will remain in federal custody.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4807
__label__cc	0.649467	0.350533	Current RFPs: Week of October 10, 2016 If you are interested in pursuing business opportunities pertaining to procurement, please contact Mark Thompson or Tunisha W. Walker. Capalino+Company’s Latest Business Opportunities: EDC: Consulting Services+Small Business Funding – On Call Hazmat Consulting Retainer Perform site investigation, Remedial Action Plans, resident engineer services, environmental monitoring and asbestos abatement monitoring. – Contract Financing Loan Fund, Consultant Services Providing small businesses & M/WBE subcontractors on city-funded contracts w/ capital to finance their contractual obligations through loans or managed lines of credit. – Futureworks NYC Growth Initiative Providing early-state advanced manufacturing companies funding of up to $30,000 over a two year period. M/WBE are Strongly Encouraged to Apply: DDC: Reconstruction of Zion Plaza in Brooklyn Bounded by Legion Street, Pitkin and East NY Avenues, Brooklyn. Please contact Tunisha W. Walker. NYC Parks: Trees+Construction – Planting of New and Replacement Street Trees Planting of new and replacement street trees in Queens CB 12, 13 and 14 and Bronx CB 1-8. Cost Range: $1M – $3M. – Installing a Prefabricated Lifeguard & Comfort Station Located at 149th Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard. Cost Range: $500k – $1M. DOE: Background Check Screening Services Provide investigative and business intelligence services for potential vendors to the NYCDOE. Please see the full list of Request for Proposals recently issued by City government below: School Based Dental Sealant Program October 14, 2016- The New York State Department of Health (Department), Division of Family Health (Division), Bureau of Child Health (BCH), announces the availability of funding to increase the utilization of dental sealants in underserved second and third grade children. The purpose of this RFA is to award funding to implement School-Based Sealant Programs (SBSPs) targeting second and third graders, delivered through School-Based Health Center Dental (SBHC-D) clinics. Reducing the prevalence of dental caries among New York State’s children is an objective of New York’s Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant State Action Plan for 2016 – 2020. The Division is seeking applications from not-for-profit Article 28 facilities that are approved to operate SBHC-D clinics. It is anticipated that approximately $1.5 million will be available annually to fund SBSPs for the period July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2022. To be eligible to apply for funding under this RFA, an applicant must be a not-for-profit Article 28 facility (hospital, diagnostic and treatment center, school of dentistry or local health department) that is approved to operate SBHC-D clinics by the release date of this RFA listed on the front cover. The Article 28 operating certificate should show the provision of dental outpatient services (Dental O/P or School Based Dental Program). A limit of one application may be submitted per Article 28. The applicant must target 2nd and 3rd grade children who are less likely to receive private dental care. The applicant must be able to utilize electronic data systems to capture information regarding program performance and child level data, and provide that data to the Department. Minority Owned Sub-Contracting Goal: 15% Women Owned Sub-Contracting Goal: 15% Cartpet Cleaning Services at the Javits Center October 17, 2016- Three year agreement for maintenance of 3 types of carpets: 100% wool, Brintons-Axminster, Tandus Power Bond and Tandus 100% Nylon. Total MWBE Participation Goals: 30% Repair/Maintenance of Public Address Systems October 18, 2016- Contractor shall provide all labor, material and supervision required and necessary to test, maintain, repair, modify, make addition to or install Public Address Systems, local sound systems and associated equipment in auditoriums, gymnasiums, cafeterias, classrooms, offices, multi-purpose rooms (e.g., gymatoriums), and other spaces and locations, including but not limited to hallways, stairwells and outdoor areas. Pin number: B2929040 Purchase of 1,025 Subway Cars October 18, 2016- The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, acting by the New York City Transit Authority (NYCT), is issuing a Request For Proposals (RFP) for Solicitation Number R34211 for the purchase of 1025 Subway cars as follows: A base order of 285 cars comprised of 10 open gangway cars (R211T) for the NYCT “B” Division, 75 cars for the Staten Island Railway (R211S) and 200 cars for the NYCT “B” Division (R211A). In addition there will be an option for 740 R211T or R211A cars for the NYCT “B” Division. There will also be an additional option for up to 520 Cars for the NYCT “B” Division. The Contractor will provide all design, engineering, testing, manufacturing, delivery, warranty, training, spare parts, tools, diagnostics test equipment and other services necessary. This contract will contain Federal funds. A Pre-Proposal Conference will take place on September 8, 2016 at 10:00 AM at a location to be determined. Proposals from responsible proposers will be evaluated with respect to the evaluation criteria set forth in the RFP, which are summarized below. Please consult the RFP for a complete description of the evaluation criteria. Evaluation Criteria: 1) Technical Proposal and Overall Technical Qualifications: Technical features of the Proposal; experience of the Proposer/Suppliers/Subcontractors; demonstrated capability to make or improve on delivery of cars based on Contract delivery schedule; evaluation of major subsystems; systems integration experience; management approach; system support; quality assurance; and a U.S. Employment Plan. 2) Overall Project Cost and Financial Benefit to the Authority 3) Other Relevant Matters. Playground Swings and Accessories October 19, 2016- All swings must meet the latest requirements as published in the Handbook for Public Playground Safety – Volumes I and II. Pin number: 8571700047 Reconstruction of Comfort Stations October 19, 2016- The Reconstruction of Three Comfort Stations at various locations, Borough of Staten Island. Contract RG-216MA. This procurement is subject to participation goals for MBEs and/or WBEs as required by Local Law 1 of 2013. Contract under Project Labor Agreement. Bidders are hereby advised that this contract is subject to the Project Labor Agreement (PLA) Covering Specified Renovation and Rehabilitation of City Owned Buildings and Structures entered into between the City and the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York (“BCTC”) affiliated local unions. Please refer to the bid documents for further information. To Request the Plan Holder’s List, please call the Blue Print Room at (718) 760-6576. The Cost Estimate Range is $3,000,000.00 to $5,000,000.00 Pin number: 84617B0033 NYC Health and Hospitals CDBG-DR & FEMA Funded Construction Management, Resident Engineer and Related Consultant Services for Metropolitan Hospital RFP October 19, 2016- New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) for the benefit of NYC Health and Hospitals is seeking a consultant or consultant team to provide construction management, resident engineering, and related services for a new Flood Mitigation System and pre-connections at Metropolitan Hospital in Manhattan. In October 2012, Metropolitan Hospital suffered extensive flood damage as a result of Hurricane Sandy. Since then, Metropolitan Hospital has temporarily restored its damaged areas. The Flood Mitigation System is envisioned to consist of perimeter flood protection with increased storm water capacity and additional flood protection measures. Respondents may submit questions and/or request clarifications from NYCEDC no later than 5:00pm on Tuesday, October 4, 2016. Questions regarding the subject matter of this RFP should be directed toHHMetCM@edc.nyc For all questions that do not pertain to the subject matter of this RFP, please contact NYCEDC’s Contracts Hotline at (212) 312-3969. Answers to all questions will be posted by Wednesday, October 12, 2016 Repair/Maintenance of Gas Leak Detection Systems October 19, 2016 – Contractor shall provide all labor, material, consumables and small items, transportation, equipment and any other necessary appurtenances which may be required and necessary to test, reset, calibrate, adjust and/or repair components of the specified combustible gas leak detection systems CO detectors connected to the Gas leak Detection System, and standalone Carbon Monoxide Detection systems which are not monitored by an FD approved Central Station monitoring company. Bridge Inspection & Design of Structural Repairs October 21, 2016- The Consultant(s) shall perform Biennial Bridge Inspection as per NYSDOT’s requirements, at the Throgs Neck, Bronx-Whitestone, Marine Parkway, Cross Bay, Henry Hudson Bridges and Queens-Midtown Tunnel. The services also include auxiliary design work to prepare design documents for structural repairs of inspected elements requiring immediate repair, auxiliary testing work to determine the extent of deterioration, interim or special inspections, and scoping studies to define the scope of future projects related to the facility. The Authority intends to award multiple contracts that will commence in Spring 2017. The Contract range is $5M – $15M to be shared by multiple Consultants. Interested firms must submit one (1) original, five (5) copies and a pdf copy on CD of a letter of interest, Standard Form 330 and the Authority Forms C-021 and RFQ-4 (Rev 8/22/12). Submittals must be no more than thirty-five (35) pages in length, double sided (the C-21 and the RFQ-4 forms will not be included in the 35 page total). One RFQ-4 and C-21 Form must be submitted for each firm of a joint venture. You may obtain these forms from our website, www.mta.info/bandt/procure/conrfp.html or by calling (646) 252-7092. The Authority will then evaluate these submittals and develop a shortlist of firms who will receive a Request for Proposal that must be obtained for one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00). We accept Visa, MasterCard and American Express for the purchase of solicitations. All purchases are non-refundable. International firms must provide checks in US funds. (Company checks and money orders only, no personal checks or cash). All vendors interested in purchasing these documents must follow instructions for SAM and FedBizOpps athttp://www.mta.info/bandt/procure/preactcon.html. RFI for Innovative Renewable Energy Technologies October 26, 2016- Technologies that are new to the market or not widely deployed in NYC municipal facilities. Pin number: 85617RFI001 Lifeguard and Comfort Station October 27, 2016- The Furnishing and Installing of a Prefabricated Lifeguard and Comfort Station Trailer located at Beach 149th Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard on Rockaway Beach, Borough of Queens. The Cost Estimate Range is $500,000.00 to $1,000,000.00 Building Security System October 27, 2016- Replace current security system and ensure effective perimeter control in BXDA’s three buildings at 198, 215 and 265 East 161 Street, Bronx NY Pin number: 282828 Planting of New and Replacement Trees (Queens) October 25, 2016- Planting of new and replacement street trees in Queens CB 7, 8 and 11. Cost Range: $1M – $3M. October 27, 2016- The Planting of New and Replacement Street Trees in Community Boards 12, 13 and 14, Borough of Queens. The Cost Estimate Range is $1,000,000.00 to $3,000,000.00 Planting of New and Replacement Trees (Bronx) October 28, 2016- In Community Boards 1-8, Borough of the Bronx. The Cost Estimate Range is $1,000,000.00 to $3,000,000.00 On Call Hazmat Consulting Retainer October 31, 2016- New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) is seeking a consultant or consultant team to provide environmental services to perform site investigation, Phase I and II, Remedial Action Plans, resident engineer services, environmental monitoring and asbestos abatement monitoring. Services will include preparation of health and safety plans, site management plans, cost estimates, underground storage tank removal plans and final reports, and asbestos and environmental investigation work plans and draft and final reports. NYCEDC plans to select a consultant on the basis of factors stated in the RFP which include, but are not limited to: the quality of the proposal, experience of key staff identified in the proposal, experience and quality of any subcontractors proposed, demonstrated successful experience in performing services similar to those encompassed in the RFP, and the proposed fee. It is the policy of NYCEDC to comply with all federal, state and City laws and regulations which prohibit unlawful discrimination because of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status and other protected category and to take affirmative action in working with contracting parties to ensure certified Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprises (MWBEs) share in the economic opportunities generated by NYCEDC’s projects and initiatives. Please refer to the Equal Employment and Affirmative Compliance for Non-Construction Contracts Addendum in the RFP. This project has Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprise (“M/WBE”) participation goals, and all respondents will be required to submit a M/WBE Narrative Form with their response. Advertising Program Using Hunter College Assets October 31, 2016- Generate revenue using indoor & outdoor assets as advertising platforms, traditional & digital billboards, kiosks and digital displays using existing or new technology. Operation and Maintenance of the Roosevelt Island Aerial Tramway October 31, 2016- The Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation (RIOC) is seeking Proposals from qualified and responsible companies to operate the Roosevelt Island Aerial Tramway for a term of five (5) years pursuant to an Operating Agreement. A Proposal must include proposed terms for performance of the Operating Agreement Work (“Work”). The Roosevelt Island Aerial Tramway is a component of the New York City mass transit system. It connects Manhattan and Roosevelt Island via cable suspended tramway cars that traverse the skyline adjacent to the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge. It consists of two stations (one located in Manhattan and the other on Roosevelt Island), three support towers (two located in Manhattan and one on Roosevelt Island), as well as the Tramway components (i.e., the tramway cabins), For more information on this project and to access a complete copy of the RFP please visit us at: https://rioc.ny.gov/rfp/15-30748.pdf Installation of Pedestrian Ramps at Designated Locations-Borough of Manhattan November 1, 2016- This procurement is subject to Minority-Owned and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (MWBE) participation goals as required by Local Law 1 of 2013. All respondents will be required to submit an M/WBE Participation Plan with their response. Reconstruction of Zion Plaza November 2, 2016- Companies certified by the New York City Department of Small Business Services as Minority- or Women- Owned Business Enterprises (”M/WBE”) are strongly encouraged to submit a bid. Environmental Consulting Services for the Brooklyn Navy Yard November 4, 2016 – Please contact Mark Thompson. Background Check Screening Service November 9, 2016- The NYCDOE’s Division of Contracts and Purchasing (DCP) is seeking proposals from organizations experienced in providing investigative and business intelligence services to provide background check screening services for potential vendors to the NYCDOE. These services involve screening potential vendors primarily for the Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) program as well as some potential vendors not related to the UPK program. The selected vendor will not be making responsibility determinations for the NYCDOE. Instead, the vendor will be running the required databases and providing a summary of what was completed and any adverse information found. The NYCDOE will utilize these summaries and the documentation of searches to conduct the required responsibility determinations. Contract Financing Revolving Loan Fund, Consultant Services November 10, 2016- New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), on behalf of the New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS), is seeking one or more lenders to deploy capital to facilitate the mobilization efforts of New York City certified Minority and Women-Owned Enterprises and small businesses from funding provided by NYCEDC. The Program intends to provide small businesses and M/W/BEs that hold or are subcontractors on City-funded contracts with capital to finance their contractual obligations through Program-sponsored loans or managed lines of credit NYCEDC plans to select Lender(s) on the basis of factors stated in the RFP which include, but are not limited to: the quality of the proposal, respondent’s experience and demonstrated successful experience in performing services similar to those encompassed in the RFP. Companies who have been certified with the New York City Small Business Services as Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprises (“M/WBE”) are strongly encouraged to apply. Construction of a Comfort Station, Pathway and Overlook November 10, 2016- Bounded by Dean Avenue, West Shore Expressway, Fresh Kills Park in Staten Island. Cost Range: Over $10M. Futureworks NYC Growth Inititative November 14, 2016- Providing early-state advanced manufacturing companies funding of up to $30,000 over a two year period. Federal Rules of Evidence Mobile Game November 18, 2016- Design and development of mobile app/game that tests Law School students understanding of the Federal Rules of Evidence. Pin number: C201602 Industrial or Commercial Use of “The Teleport” in Staten Island November 18, 2016- The New York City Economic Development Corporation (“NYCEDC”) and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (the “Port Authority”) are seeking proposals to develop for industrial or commercial use an approximately 7.5-acre site (the “Site”) located within Staten Island’s industrial “Working West Shore.” The Site (Block 2165, Lot 75, Staten Island, New York) is part of the industrial park named The Teleport. The successful response to this Request for Proposals (“RFP”) will be for a project that generates quality jobs in a dynamic industry. Depending on the project, certain forms of tax relief and other financial assistance may be available to the successful respondent. All uses permitted in an M1-1 zone will be considered, though proposed uses which generate quality manufacturing and industrial jobs are encouraged. NYCEDC and the Port Authority plan to select a proposal on the basis of factors stated in the open RFP, which include: the quality of the proposal, program and design, experience of key staff, experience and quality of any subcontractors, demonstrated successful experience in performing services similar to those proposed. NYCEDC and Port Authority comply with all federal, state and city laws and regulations which prohibit unlawful discrimination because of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status and other protected categories and to take affirmative action in working with contracting parties to ensure certified Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprises (M/WBEs) share in the economic opportunities generated by NYCEDC’s projects and initiatives. Respondents will be required to submit an M/WBE Participation Proposal with their response. To learn more about NYCEDC’s M/WBE program, visit http://www.nycedc.com/opportunitymwdbe. For the list of companies who have been certified with the New York City Department of Small Business Services as M/WBE, please go to the www.nyc.gov/buycertified. RFI for Innovative Solar Photovoltaic Applications December 12, 2016 – PV systems to supply clean renewable electricity to City owned wastewater treatment plants. Non-Profit Industrial Developers for the New York City Industrial Developer Fund Submission Deadlines: December 29, 2016 – New York City Economic Development Corporation (“NYCEDC”), on behalf of the City of New York (the “City”), is seeking submission of proposals from qualified not-for-profit organizations that plan to acquire, construct, and/or renovate industrial real estate in the City. The primary goal for the use of the New York City Industrial Developer Fund is to create, modernize and preserve industrial real estate. Additionally, the aim of the Industrial Developer Fund is to increase the capacity of the not-for-profit organizations to develop industrial real estate and support the growth of a more robust mission-driven industrial development ecosystem. Between Fiscal Year 2016 and Fiscal Year 2019, NYCEDC in cooperation with The New York City Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) can allocate up to $41 million of City capital through the Industrial Developer Fund for acquisition, construction, and/or renovation costs for eligible industrial development projects, which support the City’s goals of promoting and growing a more robust not-for-profit industrial development ecosystem in the City. Not-for-profit organizations are uniquely positioned to increase the supply of affordable industrial real estate; the Industrial Developer Fund aims to support this sector by creating a new financing tool. NYCEDC plans to select respondents on the basis of factors stated in the RFP which include, but are not limited to: the quality of the proposal, experience of key staff identified in the proposal, experience and quality of any subcontractors proposed, demonstrated successful experience in performing services similar to those encompassed in the RFP. It is the policy of NYCEDC to comply with all federal, state and City laws and regulations which prohibit unlawful discrimination because of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status and other protected category and to take affirmative action in working with contracting parties to ensure certified Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprises (“M/WBEs”) share in the economic opportunities generated by NYCEDC’s projects and initiatives. Please refer to the Equal Employment and Affirmative Compliance for Construction Contracts Addendum in the RFP. Notice of Funding Availability for the Preservation of Affordable Housing South of Houston Street December 31, 2019– The City of New York Department of Housing Preservation and Development announces the availability of $11,800,000 in funding for the acquisition and preservation of affordable housing south of, and including properties on, East/West Houston Streets, bounded by the Hudson and East Rivers in Lower Manhattan to applicants who are funded pursuant to a Request for Qualifications issued by HPD (“RFQ”). The purpose of the Lower Manhattan Acquisition Program is to preserve residential housing with apartments affordable to low-income households. Not-for-profit organizations qualified under the RFQ may identify privately-owned residential properties for purchase and long-term ownership in the Lower Manhattan area. Eligible buildings are multi-family buildings in the program’s target area, where at least one unit is or will be rented to and affordable to a household earning no more than 80% of the Area Median Income (AMI). Up to $125,000 per dwelling unit in acquisition funding may be available to fill the gap between private debt supportable by the acquired property or properties and the acquisition cost. The program funding will be based only on those units that are rented to and affordable to households earning no more than 80% of AMI. The program’s target area is Manhattan south of, and including properties on, East/West Houston Streets. (Boundary map is available at the website listed below). The program will run until the earlier of the time at which all funding has been exhausted or December 31, 2019. Request for Qualifications (RFQ): In order to become qualified for participation in the program, not-for-profit organizations must respond to the RFQ and be found qualified by HPD. Applicants may respond to the RFQ available at the website below. To be considered for qualification, applicants must demonstrate ownership, management and rehabilitation experience, as well as financial strength and stability. Please refer to the RFQ for more information on qualification. Proposals: Qualified not-for-profit organizations may submit proposals to request acquisition funding for eligible residential buildings. Proposals will be assessed on both the viability of the project and strength of the applicant’s experience. Proposals will be evaluated and funded on a “first-come, first-served basis” for the duration of the program. The City reserves the right to accept or reject any or all applications received as a result of this advertisement. Notice Requirements: All not-for-profit organizations entering into negotiations with building owners must comply with tenant and owner notification procedures in accordance with the federal Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970. Information about these notification requirements will be provided to pre-qualified non-profits. The Request for Qualifications (RFQ), map of the program area, and additional information about the program are available on HPD’s website: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/developers/rfp-rfq-rfo.page. Interested parties should forward all requested documentation to the Department of Housing Preservation and Development; Attention of Lower Manhattan Acquisition Program RFQ Coordinator, 100 Gold Street—Room 9-O3, New York, NY 10038; or electronically to HPDPres@hpd.nyc.gov. This program is made possible by a grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which is funded through Community Development Block Grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Andrew Cuomo, Governor Bill de Blasio, Mayor Alicia Glen, Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development Vicki Been, HPD Commissioner David Emil, LMDC President Avi Schick, LMDC Chairman NYC Industrial Developer “Fund” for Qualified Projects Seeking Fund Support The NYC Industrial Developer Fund is a $150 million public/private fund to provide project financing for industrial real estate development projects in New York City. The Fund is designed to catalyze investment in 400,000 sf of new or renovated industrial real estate workspace across New York City, supporting the creation of as many as 1,200 quality and accessible industrial jobs by 2020.The Industrial Developer Fund supports industrial job-creation in New York City by providing public/private financing for industrial real estate development projects. Total size of the Fund is $150 million, which includes approximately $60 million in public funds leveraging $90 million in private financing. The Industrial Developer Fund provides qualified real estate developers with partial public gap-financing assistance in the form of grants, low-interest subordinate loans, and guarantees on senior private loans. These public funds are intended to leverage owner equity so that the transaction merits traditional bank/senior lender financing provided under the Fund structure. Qualified projects seeking fund support will be considered when high impact projects are unable to move forward due to funding gaps. The Fund will consider both non-profit and for-profit entities. New York City’s industrial and manufacturing sector employs 530,000 people, or 15.4 percent of the city’s private sector workforce. The sector is a vital pathway to the middle class for many families, with median wages of $50,400 a year. In addition, more than 328,000 jobs in the sector (61.5 percent) are located outside Manhattan, 62 percent of the workforce comes from culturally diverse backgrounds, and nearly half are foreign-born. Finally, approximately 63 percent of jobs are available to individuals who do not have a college degree. Land/Building Acquisition, Construction and/or Renovation Project Size: Minimum of 25,000 square feet Geography: New York City’s 5 boroughs Use/Purpose: Projects must create long-term industrial real estate property and demonstrate creation of quality, permanent industrial jobs For additional information, please contact the NYCEDC Strategic Investments Group at 212.618.5737 or SIG@nycedc.com, with “Industrial Developer Fund Inquiry” in the subject line. Prospective applicants are encouraged to contact NYCEDC to determine eligibility and review in-depth financing criteria prior to submitting materials. Creating a Culture of Success through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at NYC’s Inaugural Meadows Festival	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4808
__label__wiki	0.759079	0.759079	Global Ethics Forum TV Show JOANNE MYERS: I'm Joanne Myers, director of Public Affairs Programs, and on behalf of the Carnegie Council I'd like to thank you all for joining us. Our speaker is a well-known journalist, a New York Times best-selling author of The Perfect Storm, and the director of the award-winning documentary Restrepo. We are delighted that Sebastian Junger is our guest today. This morning he will be telling us what it is like to serve in a platoon of combat infantry in the U.S. Army. Since time immemorial, war has been the subject of many books, songs, movies, and conversations. Still, the enduring question is: What is it about war that is so compelling—so many young men, some still in their teens, who are willing to risk everything to go off into battle and be killed or wounded for life? What does it mean to fight, to serve, and to face down mortal danger on a daily basis? Sebastian Junger has been traveling to and writing about Afghanistan since 1996. Yet, in going there in 2007 and 2008 as a correspondent for Vanity Fair, his purpose was not to report on the Afghans or to write about why we are fighting this war, but to find out about the soldier who has been sent there to fight. He wanted to know what a soldier feels, what he can do, what he is capable of doing, and what he is afraid of. Accordingly, on five separate occasions he followed the 2nd Platoon, part of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, to one of the U.S. military's most remote and dangerous outposts in the Korengal Valley, a rugged and inhospitable terrain which is located in eastern Afghanistan about 25 miles from the border with Pakistan. The soldiers were there to intercept Taliban fighters who were passing through to fight in other parts of Afghanistan and, if there was any time left, to persuade the people of the valley that Americans were their friends. Under the most difficult of conditions, these soldiers were crammed together inside a tiny mountain outpost surrounded by enemies who were determined to kill them. Sebastian experienced everything these soldiers did, which included stultifying weeks in camps while waiting, nerve-racking patrols, terrifying roadside bombs and ambushes, and the loss of friends. If you've seen the documentary Restrepo, or maybe even read WAR before coming here this morning, you know that this book is more than a boots-on-the-ground narrative. It is first and foremost a story about the emotional terrain of combat. Sebastian reveals how war can not only replace the mundane occurrences in everyday life, but how it also creates an intense bond among soldiers that can only be broken by death. WAR is an account about the reality of combat, what it means to serve and to trust your fellow soldier in an extreme situation. This book could only have been written by someone who had the empathy to identify with these soldiers and the skills necessary to tell a remarkable story. That person is our guest this morning. Please join me in giving a very warm welcome to Sebastian Junger. Thank you for coming. SEBASTIAN JUNGER: Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to be awake at this hour and speaking with you. [Laughter] I'm going to talk a little bit about my experience out in the Korengal and more broadly about my career and about war. I've been covering wars since 1993, when I went to Bosnia as a completely inexperienced freelancer. Like a lot of freelancers in Bosnia, I just went there and thought that I'd figure it out when I arrived, which most of us did. But when I went over there, I thought that it was going to be exciting and glamorous and intense, being a reporter in a war zone—and it was all those things. It was a lot of other things too, but it was definitely those things. One of the things I became interested in in my book WAR is this weird—I mean war is a terrible thing. It kills people, it ruins societies—it's just very obviously bad. We're all in agreement on that. So why is it also to some people sometimes attractive? What is it about humans, about men in particular, and about war which is—it's a complicated relationship we have with it. A few years ago, I was reading a biography of Daniel Boone. I'm paraphrasing here, but at one point the author was quoting the journal of a young woman who is in one of these very rough settlements that the early white settlers created in the Ohio River Valley. These are small, small settlements. There were a lot of Indian attacks and a lot of killing. The Indian wars in the Ohio River Valley in that time were just brutal, absolutely savage, on both sides. It was a horror show. I can't imagine anything more terrifying than being part of a party of 23 Anglo settlers in the Ohio River valley surrounded by Indian tribes who wanted to kill you. What a terrifying thing! You can't call in air support. You can't take a flight out of there. You're stuck. This woman wrote about the Indian wars out there. She said the men and the dogs have a fine time; it's always the women who suffer. It was such an amazing insight. What is it about men—and dogs, I suppose—what is it about men that—there is a difference; we can go into that later. [Laughter] What is it about men that responds with excitement to something so awful? You kind of have to answer the question. All politically correct thought aside, if we don't answer that question, it's going to be awfully hard to stop war. I remember when I was a young man, I was in a bar in Pamplona, Spain during the San Fermin Festival. Everyone was doing a lot of drinking. It was a very highly charged atmosphere. I made some friends with these two young Spanish guys, really great guys, cross-eyed drunk. One of them was wearing a plastic Viking helmet for some reason, which I didn't question for some reason. At one point in the night, these three really tough Moroccan kids came in. One of them wanted the helmet and grabbed it. My new Spanish friend grabbed the helmet to keep hold of it. Suddenly, there were five guys pulling at this $3.00 plastic Viking helmet. They almost got into a really serious fight about it. Clearly, that wasn't about the helmet; it was about some kind of territoriality and some kind of rivalry. What was very interesting is all of that energy that could have gone into seriously hurting each other—these are five strong guys who are ready to go at it and all of them were very drunk—and no one, including myself, was interested in intervening. Like this was just going to happen. It was really quite brilliant the way it was avoided. One of the two Spanish guys asked me—I sort of stood back, and I speak both languages, so I was translating for them. I was basically the UN for a moment. He said to me, "Will you take my place at this helmet and do you promise to defend it upon your ancestors?" There was this sort of elegant Spanish formulation. I was like, "Yeah, okay." So I took hold of the helmet. He went to the bar and he bought a big bottle of cheap red wine and he came back. They had stopped pulling at it because it was tearing, first of all. So here's an interesting lesson: When men are destroying the thing that they want, they might be able to collaborate. It's an interesting insight. He went and got the wine and he filled the helmet up with red wine. The other thing is don't spill the wine. Don't tear the helmet, don't spill the wine, and maybe we can have peace. Essentially that's how it worked. He put his hand under the helmet and he said, "Okay, now everyone let go." It really was an interesting thing. He made everyone, at least symbolically, invested in the integrity, the safety, of this thing they all wanted. Once you do that, then people cooperate rather than fight. It was an interesting lesson in diplomacy. He put his hand under the helmet and everyone let go, because they didn't want to be the one who spilled the sacred red wine, which was $1.99 a gallon. He presented it to the lead guy, the biggest, toughest-looking Moroccan, and said, "You're a guest in our country so you drink first." The guy drank. Then he passed it to his left. The helmet went around the circle, then it went around another time, and it got filled up, and it kept going around. Eventually, the helmet was forgotten on the floor and the bottle was going around the circle. Within an hour, they were even drunker and all best friends. It was such an amazing insight into whatever it is in the young male brain which is eager to confront and contest and fight others, basically rival tribes essentially. But that same energy can turn into an incredible bonding force. That bond is intoxicating. Civilians look at war and wonder why soldiers miss it. They're only looking at the part of the equation which is antagonistic and bloody and deadly, which is the conflict. What they're not getting is the other side of that same energy, which is the intense bond that has to happen in those environments, which is probably what the young woman in Kentucky was referring to—the men and the dogs have a fine time. Like yeah, this is the most intense experience you will ever have if you survive it. I was in the Korengal Valley in eastern Afghanistan and achieved some renown after I left because there was just so much combat there and it was so tiny and arguably so unimportant. It was six miles long. When I was there, a fifth of all the combat in all of Afghanistan was happening in those six miles. So 150 men, a battle company, the 173rd Airborne, were for a while absorbing a fifth of the combat for 70,000 NATO troops in the country at the time. I was in a small outpost called Restrepo. It was named after the platoon medic, Juan Sebastian Restrepo, who was killed in action early on. I'm just going to note this because it's important and interesting. In the current debate about immigration, it's important to remember people like Restrepo. He was born in the country of Colombia. His mother immigrated to this country. He died fighting for America at the bottom of a hill in Afghanistan. In our debate about immigration, we have to remember guys like Restrepo, at least in terms of our tone of voice when we talk about immigration. It's a very important thing to keep in mind, that this country is made up of young people like Restrepo and many of them have died for us. At any rate, the outpost was called Restrepo in his honor. It was a 20-man position on a knife-edge ridge. None of the modern conveniences you associate with the modern U.S. military were there. There was no phone, there was no Internet. There was no running water. You basically didn't bathe for however long they were out there. I don't know if any of you who haven't bathed for a month understand that if you don't bathe for a month, you really don't change your clothes for a month. There's no reason to. So that means you really sleep in your clothes. You basically just walk around in your clothes until they fall off. There was no cooked food, there were no women out there, there was no alcohol out there—none of the things that young men like. And it was all men out there also; there were no women in uniform in the Korengal. None of the things that young men like were out at Restrepo. I did five one-month trips out there. As one of the guys said, "Some of the scariest things out there never happened." The attacks that we were braced for that didn't materialize. The anticipation of fear in some ways is worse than the fear itself—dread. There's all different kinds of fear, there's a whole taxonomy of fear. What I found to be the worst was dread—sitting there at night, at 10 o'clock at night. You know a patrol is going out at 2:00 in the morning. I walked every patrol with those guys. I lived identically to the soldiers, except I didn't carry a weapon, and I had a video camera. That was really the only difference. A patrol is going out at 2:00 in the morning. You have a few hours to get some sleep because you're going to be walking for 24 hours, and you can't because of the dread in your stomach. That feeling in your bunk waiting was way worse than the actual crisis of combat. Combat is weird. It's a blur. You're so hyper-functional and tunnel-visioned that it's actually not that unpleasant. It's hard to describe. There were bad things going on all around us. Chosen Company kept getting into these disastrous fire fights. They sent out a 28-man patrol in November 2007 and they got ambushed, and within a few minutes every man in the patrol had a bullet in him. They had 100 percent casualties in a few minutes, killed and wounded. I think it was six guys got killed. The wounded fought off the enemy until air power got there, something like three hours later. They had an outpost almost overrun, two of them—Wanat, which you may have heard of, and Ranch House. At Ranch House, the enemy was inside the wire, in American bunkers, shooting at other American bunkers. The guys were tumbling out of the hooches in their underwear throwing hand grenades. It was a bad scene. That kept happening. We all knew at Restrepo that if the enemy wanted to take Restrepo, they could. It would have cost them a lot, but they could have overrun a 20-man position on that ridge if they had wanted to. You'd go to sleep at night thinking, wow, they always attack at 4:00 in the morning. The next thing I know, the next moment of consciousness, might be in the middle of a massive firefight, and the guys on sentry duty can't keep it at bay, and we're in it. So you could go to sleep and have a terrifying night simply because of what could happen. Every time we rode in the Humvees—it was mostly on foot. The Korengal Valley is very steep. Just about everything we did was on foot, but once in a while we'd be in Humvees. I got blown up at one point. The Humvee I was in got blown up. So after that every Humvee ride was psychologically a nightmare even if it didn't happen. It takes a toll to do something that you know could kill you. It really takes a toll. It doesn't have to happen. It doesn't matter. You're already paying the price. After all of this hardship and difficulty, only one guy got out of the Army. Everyone else decided to stay. Everyone who had the choice decided to stay in, except one guy got out, Brendan O'Byrne, who was the subject of my book. We were very good friends out there. We remain good friends. He lived near New York. I invited him to a dinner party right after I'd finished the manuscript. I had sent the manuscript to a few friends who wanted to read it. One of them, this woman in her forties, a good friend of mine, really wanted to meet Brendan. She was at the dinner party. She had read the manuscript. She said to Brendan, "It's so good to meet you. Is there anything at all that you miss about being at Restrepo, any part of it?" Without any irony at all, he looked at her and he said, "Ma'am, I miss almost all of it." I feel that we, as society, have to understand Brendan's answer. We are choosing to send these young people out there—and I'm not saying we shouldn't. There are good wars, there are wars that have to be fought, and we're all going to argue about which ones those are. I understand that. But there are wars that have to be fought, and we, as a society, are sending our young people out there. We owe it to them to try to understand their emotional response to that experience, because they don't even understand it. They're young. What do you understand at 19 or 20? A girl breaks up with you and you don't understand it. You know what I mean? That happens in your forties and you can wrap your mind around it. At 19, it's a catastrophe that you can't even begin to process. Well, the same thing with war. They come back and it's very confusing to them. Their feelings are very confusing. They feel incredibly guilty, they are filled with rage, and they miss this thing that was obviously so terrible. It's confusing to them. It's confusing to their wives. Imagine having your boyfriend come home after a year or so and he gets home, and then you start to realize after a few weeks that he misses it. As a girlfriend or a wife, what do you do with that? It's really confusing. We need to understand their reaction to combat because that's the only way we are going to be able to make a place in society for them that works for them and for us. Soldiers don't see war usually through a political or a moral lens. They have an emotional experience out there. Civilians look at war strategically, politically, morally. They look at war in every way except the emotional experience of being in it. It's easy to understand the trauma, that's obvious. You have a car accident, it's traumatic, but no one misses car accidents. You go to war, it's traumatic; no one misses the traumatic parts, but what about the parts that were kind of weirdly fulfilling? The thing that they miss—and it's easy to pathologize this; it's easy to say, "Okay, you just miss the adrenaline, you're an adrenaline junkie, you're addicted to combat. You've been exposed to this drug." I hear this language all the time: "You've been exposed to this drug called combat and now you've sort of been ruined for everything else." There is a component of adrenaline to this, of course. If you look at the mortality statistics for young men in accidents and in violence, they're astronomical. A young man 18-24 is in more danger just walking around doing the stupid stuff that young men do, than if he were in the police department or the fire department or probably in most units in the U.S. military. Three percent of the units in the U.S. military take 80 percent of the casualties. So if you just take a random 19-year-old statistically and put him in an average unit in the U.S. military, he's probably safer, with all the strictures and guidelines that come with that enlistment. There is definitely in young men a kind of response, a thrill-seeking reflex, that goes away with time, that is far in excess of young women their age, and it goes away pretty quickly. At the end of their twenties, into their thirties, men mellow out and, just statistically, they stop dying in car accidents, dying from jumping off things they shouldn't jump off of, swimming across things they shouldn't swim across—all that stuff, that's something that young men do in their early twenties, and clearly that plays a role in their response to combat. But there's something more profound. What it is is brotherhood. There is a brotherhood in combat that is a function of necessity out there. It's not friendship. Brotherhood and friendship are very different. They're both important but they're different. Friendship is a function of how you feel about another person, and it exists everywhere in our society, and it exists in combat too. The more you like someone, the more you care about them, the more you will do for them, the more you are willing to sacrifice for them. What's interesting about brotherhood is it has nothing to do with your feelings. Brotherhood is not about how you feel about the other person. As Brendan said to me at one point—we were sitting on this hillside and American mortars were going over our head, and we were on an ambush outside this enemy village, and we were sitting there. They were our mortars but you'd jump anyway because they're terrifying. So we're sitting there twitching and trying to have a conversation. He said, "You know what's really weird? There are guys in the platoon who straight up hate each other, but we'd all die for each other." That's what's so powerful and comforting about brotherhood. It doesn't matter how much you piss someone off. It doesn't matter how they're feeling about you that day. You know that their commitment doesn't change because you're brothers. That's important in combat. Combat is this really weird chess game/football game. Everyone is dependent on everyone else. Whatever you're doing, it won't work if the other people in your squad aren't doing what they're supposed to be doing. As soon as they stop doing what they're supposed to be doing, you're screwed, and vice versa. In combat you don't want to wonder if, as you run out of ammo in an exposed position, is Joe, who's behind a rock over there with another box of ammo, going to actually run through gunfire to bring it to you. You don't want to wonder that because you upset him yesterday. That whole emotional part of human relations has to disappear in combat. It's replaced by this pretty profound decision to put your welfare, your safety, below that of everyone else in the group. You're not important compared to everyone else. If everyone in the group does that, you're all better off, you're all safer. But just think about how comforting that would be to a young person, to a young man. You're in combat. You have complete utility—you know what your job is, you have a clear purpose. Your relationship with others is determined purely by your conduct. Back in society, if you're good-looking, if your dad's rich, or if you're not good-looking—all of these things that you have no control over at 18 determine how you're seen by people. In combat it really doesn't matter. You can be ugly, you can be a Harvard grad, you can be gay, you can be whatever. If you're a good soldier, you get the respect of your peers. You're totally self-determining. No teenager has that luxury in high school, being completely self-determined in how they're perceived. In combat you have that experience. You're in this brotherhood, where you know 20 or 30 other guys will risk their lives for you, and vice versa. Then you bring someone like that back to society, and all of a sudden they don't have utility. An American infantryman in combat is the top of the food chain. They're well-trained, they're well-armed, they have a very clear sense of their role, their duty. Then you take that same 19-year-old, take away his gun, take away his uniform, you put him in street clothes in society—a 19-year-old male in society is at the bottom of the food chain. All of a sudden, you're expendable, you're overlooked. Older, higher-status males are getting all the attention. I've been a 19-year-old male. It's not a lot of fun. Maybe if you're Justin Bieber it's all right. But for most of us mortals it's miserable in a way that I don't think 19-year-old women quite understand. There's a different relationship between a 19-year-old man and society and a 19-year-old woman and society. But then you take these guys and put them in combat, and suddenly it's like: "Okay, this is it. This I have control over. In this environment I can determine who I am, how I'm seen." That's a very powerful thing. When these young people come back into society, what will go a long way—I'm not going to prescribe how to fix the VA or anything; I have no idea—but just in terms of us as citizens dealing with veterans, I think— I'm always getting this question: "How can we help? What should we say to veterans?" I don't exactly know the answer. But what I can say is that if in your mind you understand that there might be a very important and in some ways psychologically healthy thing that they're missing from that experience, if you can wrap your mind around that and not judge it and just take it for what it is, that will go a long way towards their understanding that confusing reaction of their own. I've got a few minutes left before I take questions. I just want to break out of the Korengal valley and talk about war in a more general sense. One of the really confusing things about war is that it's so awful and it's so violent and sometimes it's necessary. That right there is a conversation that society has an awfully hard time with. I'm just coming at it from my personal experience. I wasn't in World War II. I wasn't in World War I. I get that those were awful, awful events in human history. My experience with war started in Bosnia. That war, which went on for four years and culminated in the massacre at Srebrenica—8,000 men and boys machine-gunned into pits and bulldozed over, and that finally helped trigger real NATO intervention, which stopped the war. My experience in Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, I kept having these—and I grew up in New England, in a totally liberal family, post-Vietnam, antiwar, anti-military, the works—that's how I grew up. I went to a Montessori school in Cambridge in the 1950s. I mean imagine. My experience was in war after war, I'm thinking, "When is the world going to do something?" Finally, the world does it and the war stops. So I have a very complicated relationship with the use of force. I remember I was in Liberia—what a bloodbath—in 2003, probably the most terrifying experience of my life. There's an American warship anchored offshore, off Monrovia. At one point, I am in this street crowd. The Liberians during wartime were pretty volatile in crowds. It was a very charged energy in the street. It was terrifying. A lot of that energy started to be focused on me because I was an American. There's this crowd that gathers in front of me. People are accusing me of things—"You're American." Oh God, here it goes. That's way scarier than combat, because you're totally alone with a crowd. I mean a crowd is a monster. You know what they were upset about? They were upset that there was an American warship offshore and that they were staying there. They were like: "Invade us. What are you doing offshore? You have an army for a reason. Come help us. What are you doing? Come. We need you. Stop this war. Three American soldiers could stop this war. What are you doing in the safety of your warship?" I had no answer. I left, I had to get out of there. I had some real issues with the Taylor government that got pretty ugly and I got out of there. But what happened after I left was the American forces did come ashore. I don't know how many, but it wasn't a lot. And they never fired a shot, and it ended the war. I got back to the United States. I was on the subway. I saw some kind of radical newspaper. The headline was "Imperialist U.S. Forces Out of Liberia." I'm like, Are you kidding? Is this where the pacifist movement is at right now, that a squad of Marines shows up in Monrovia and ends a war and that's a bad thing? To me it just captured the very confusing ethical territory of use of force, and that we have not figured it out yet. The far right hasn't; the far left hasn't. It's a very confused conversation. The far right thinks that the U.S. military in an endeavor can do no wrong; and the far left thinks in any endeavor they will always do wrong, they shouldn't exist. Neither is true. In order to minimize harm and maximize good in the world, we're going to have to have a real conversation about when do you use force; when is the amoral choice not using force? When is that? I don't know when it is. But we need to have that conversation. I was in Afghanistan in the 1990s, in 1996 specifically, and then again in 2000. It was a horror show. That ended on 9/11. I'm citing someone else's statistics so I can't vouch for them, but the numbers that I heard was that in the 1990s—forget about the 1980s when the Soviets were in there; that was a whole other level of horror—but in the 1990s, during the warlordism and the civil war in Afghanistan, something like 400,000 Afghan civilians died. That ended on 9/11, with U.S. forces and international forces in Afghanistan, and in the decade that NATO has been in Afghanistan it's something like 30,000 civilians have died. You go from 400,000 to 30,000. I completely understand calls for "We need to leave Afghanistan." But what I would love to ask your society as a whole, and particularly the antiwar component of it—who have such an excellent point but I'm not sure they've completely thought it through—I would like to ask them: If leaving Afghanistan means that civilian casualties will go up, which it very well could, would you still be a proponent of leaving? In other words, is pacifism a stronger ethic than a kind of utilitarian whatever produces the least amount of suffering? I don't know which it is. Is pacifism an inherent good, even if it increases civilian suffering, or do we really try to figure out a completely utilitarian ethic where we do whatever preserves the most human life? Frankly, Plan B is sort of where I'm at. But we do need to talk about it, because otherwise the right wing and the left wing and everyone in between is going to be throwing empty truisms at each other and we won't act as humanely and effectively as we could in the world, as a very powerful and great nation. I've overrun my time by four minutes. I don't want to deprive you of a chance for questions. Thank you. JOANNE MYERS: You may not have been able to answer the questions, but you certainly raised the right ones. QUESTION: James Starkman. Thank you very much. I just would like your comment on two examples of the adrenaline and brotherhood themes that you touched on. One was the award-winning film The Hurt Locker—certainly, the protagonist in The Hurt Locker seemed to be quite loaded with adrenaline—and also Steven Spielberg's Band of Brothers, in terms of the brotherhood theme. And just another comment. There are probably 25 civil wars or potential civil wars going on in the world right now. With the limited resources that the United States and NATO and others have, how would one possibly choose or allocate resources among them to prevent suffering? SEBASTIAN JUNGER: Thank you for the questions. I'll start with the second one. First of all, just because we can't do everything doesn't mean we're allowed to do nothing. I understand we can't deal with every civil war in the world with military force. It's not going to happen. There should be some understanding in the international community about what level of atrocity, what level of aggression, internal or external, triggers an international response. What happened in Libya is a really good example of it. Here you had a leader with a track record of barbarous actions who vowed a bloodbath in one of his own cities. If that doesn't trigger NATO reaction, why do we have NATO? It's not to guard against the Soviet Union anymore. What's it for? If we hadn't intervened in Libya, we should just have disbanded NATO, practically. I'm speaking rhetorically now. But it really needs to serve a purpose. A situation like Gaddafi threatening a bloodbath in Benghazi, that to me is a proper use of international power. I think it saved thousands of people. My good friend, Tim Hetherington, my colleague on Restrepo, lost his life in Libya. His last Tweet was—he didn't Tweet much, but he did a little bit—his last Tweet from Misrata was something like, "I'm in Misrata; heavy shelling by Gaddafi forces; NATO nowhere to be seen." One of the shells of the shelling that he was commenting on, an 85-mm mortar, killed him a few hours later. So we do need to have a conversation among the world powers about where is that line where not acting becomes the immoral course of action; just sitting back and watching becomes immoral. We're used to the idea that war is immoral, of course. But there are situations where inaction is also immoral. Where is that line? As far as The Hurt Locker goes, they got half the equation. They definitely got the adrenaline part down. They completely ignored brotherhood. The central ethos of a solider as I experienced combat was you don't get your brothers killed. That's what that guy was doing in his cavalier, kind of cowboy way, was putting the lives of his brothers in jeopardy. I saw it out there. I don't know how conscious it was, but the sense I got was that the guys out there were thinking I would definitely rather risk getting killed, I would possibly rather die, than to allow a friend to get killed and not do anything. That's how strong that ethos is. Throwing yourself on a hand grenade is not an empty cliché. People have literally done that. If a soldier is going to do that, they're not going to act like a cowboy and get everyone killed. Even if one of them did—and I'm sure it happens—it wouldn't last very long. Either the commanding officer would deal with it or, frankly, the guys would deal with it, and it wouldn't feel very good, I promise. So The Hurt Locker got half of that equation. In some ways they got the more obvious half. But the really profound thing going on is brotherhood, and they really didn't talk about that much, or that guy wouldn't have acted that way. QUESTION: Susan Gitelson. Thank you for all your insights. But there's another part of the story that you haven't had a chance to discuss very much, and that is here we have young men primed for war. But what about the enemy? Is there any consideration of the enemy? For example, Afghanistan, the Taliban, there are so many different groups, and sometimes they're allies and sometimes they're not, and that changes over time. Meanwhile a lot of civilians get killed. In our own country, the Civil War, people who were neighbors or who lived in Kentucky, across the border from each other, suddenly are the enemy, and they look alike and they speak the same language and yet they're the enemy. So what happens? How do you deal with brothers who suddenly become "others"? SEBASTIAN JUNGER: I don't think that transition was made in Afghanistan. I don't think in any cultural or genetic sense the Taliban were brothers to our soldiers, except in a very broad human sense. But that's a pretty abstract idea—like "we're all brothers on the planet." You can argue that, and there's a certain beauty to that way of thinking. But the reality out in Afghanistan was that the Taliban did not feel like our brothers, and vice versa. But you've just described the tragedy of war. It's exactly that. People that you otherwise wouldn't have any problem with, suddenly you want to kill them because they want to kill you. It's a self-perpetuating thing. The Moroccans and the Spanish guys in my bar, they were not brothers, but they figured out how to be. But they didn't start out as brothers; they started out instantly as enemies. That describes a lot of combat. The American Civil War, I can't even comment on it. I don't know enough about it. But that is the tragedy of civil war. Just as an example of the logic of war and how quickly it takes hold, I was in Kosovo. My sympathies were not entirely, but considerably, with the Albanian population. I had friends in the Albanian population who had had a very rough time with the Serb forces. It was an ugly time. The Serbs hated the press. Every checkpoint we went through was a nightmare. We came up to this Serb checkpoint and we were getting the full treatment. The guy I was with, Harold, got hit pretty hard in the face by one of the policemen. It was just shaping up to be a bad experience. All of a sudden, an Albanian sniper on a nearby hilltop opened up on us. Me, Harold my friend, the Serb cops, Serb military police, whatever they were, all dove behind some sandbags. I'm like, "Shoot back. What are you doing? Come on. We're getting shot at." It took three gunshots and all of my political convictions were gone. Now I'm on the same side as the Serbs, right? It's amazing how the logic of violence just takes over. So you talk about a possible brotherhood with the enemy—well, yeah, until they're shooting at you, and then that just disappears. That's why war works in a way, because the imperatives of survival, to go back very far in our human evolution, completely transcend the loftier notions of political correctness and brotherhood. Beautiful things to aspire to, but I promise you, if you're getting shot at, any one of you in this room, you're getting shot at by somebody, you hate the person who is doing that because they're trying to take you away from your family and your kids and your loved ones and they're trying to end your life. You hate them, and it doesn't matter what they are, who they are. That's how you get something like the American Civil War. QUESTION: Richard Valcourt, International Journal of Intelligence. I have two questions for you. You keep talking about "the guys," the guys and the brotherhood and the bonding and so on. Increasingly, women have been moving in to the combat areas as support personnel and the like, and not necessarily as they used to be, as nurses. So, number one, what is the impact on this concept of brotherhood with the infusion of women into near-combat roles? The second thing is, according to yourself, people like you, why would you and others put yourselves in the middle of combat areas where you could get killed? What is it for you that gets there? I mean soldiers are there to do a job. Journalists are there to do a job, but that's a voluntary exposure of oneself to that kind of danger. SEBASTIAN JUNGER: The soldiers all volunteered too, and they volunteered for some of the same reasons that journalists volunteer. They are curious about how they'll do in combat. The guys I was with were all young men. Combat is seen as a very primal kind of way to test yourself as a man. When I was 30 years old and Bosnia was going on, and I had sort of muddled my way through my twenties by waiting tables and trying to be a writer, when I saw Bosnia, among other things I wanted to know how I would fare, how I would test out there. That was true for a lot of soldiers. Also, I had a real belief in the idea that communicating information about the world's tragedies will help end the world's tragedies. The reporting on Srebrenica by David Rohde, the very brave cameramen in Sarajevo in 1992-93 where they were capturing these horrible mortar attacks that were killing people—all of those things went into a decision by the UN and by NATO to do something. It took years, but eventually it worked. So for me I had a feeling of utility, like I'm serving a purpose that brings some kind of good to us all. And it's a form of a test. I'm sorry—it's exciting out there, it is. It's scary and it's dangerous and it's traumatic, and I've had all kinds of post-traumatic stress disorder, but it's also exciting. If I were to bashfully pretend, "No, no, no, it's all just horrible, but I'm just doing my duty," I'd be lying. As for women in combat, it's such a politically charged question—thank you for asking it. In some ways it's very complicated; in some ways it's very simple. The question isn't, "Are women capable of being in combat?"—obviously, they are capable of it, that's clear. The physical requirements of combat are so extreme that most men fail at it. Women, who are generally smaller, even fewer of them will be able to pass those tests. But obviously some could. Just to give you an idea, on the multi-day operations in the Korengal, the guys carried around 150-160 pounds. If you can't do that, you're not going to be combat infantry. Whatever society wants to do with gender equality and all that, that is the physical reality of the Korengal and places like that. But the question isn't really, "Can women do it?" Yes, they can, of course. But that's not the question. The question is, "Would having women in a combat unit make the combat unit more effective at fighting?" The U.S. military is charged with protecting a society which strives towards equality. But the U.S. military itself, its goal isn't necessarily that equality. Its goal is to be effective in protecting us. Any general would say, "Will a platoon be better with three women in it, yes or no?" If the answer is "no" or "we're not sure," they're not going to try very hard to make it happen. That may feel unjust, but in the ruthless efficiency of decisions in combat, that's how things get worked out. Ultimately, could you do it as an experiment? Absolutely. I watched it happen with Tim and myself. We're civilians; we're not soldiers. I'm in my forties. If you go to a combat environment, you become a soldier in terms of how you act, how you think. A woman in that environment would effectively become the same thing. You could be, as I said, a Harvard grad; you could be wealthy, you could be poor; you could be gay, you could be straight—it doesn't matter—you could be a journalist, you could be anything. If you don't conform yourself to the group norm, you're out. That's true whether you're a woman, a journalist, or anything. Are there women who could conform to that group norm? Yes, they could. But then what happens? There's a huge privacy issue. In other words, there was no privacy at all at OP Restrepo. Just as a society, we're very sensitized to that. What do you do with that? Then there's the final issue, which I had never thought of until I gave a talk last summer on book tour, and someone asked the women-in-combat question, and I stumbled around like I just did with all the appropriate answers. Then this young lady raised her hand. I called on her. She said, "My husband is in an airborne unit and he was at a remote outpost just like Restrepo, and obviously it was all men out there. I can tell you that the idea of women in combat at those outposts, the wives would never allow for it." So what do you do with that as a society? You probably don't touch it. That's probably what will happen. But that said, our U.S. military would be vastly diminished without women in it. We all need to appreciate how crucially important women are in the military. Those 3 percent of units that are taking 80 percent of the casualties, at remote outposts, where they're carrying 150 pounds and not washing for a month and have zero privacy—is that the best use for women in the military? I don't know. I'm not going to answer that. But it's a question to contemplate. QUESTION: Frank Cao, United States-China Exchanges. I'd like to probe a little deeper on part of a previous question on the issue of the thinking of war correspondents in going out and doing that kind of work. You've experienced the mortality of your friend and colleague, Tim. Recently, at the International Center for Photography, three war correspondents were featured, Frank Capra and two others, who served in the Spanish Civil War. Out of those three, the young woman who was his girlfriend, also in her own right an excellent photographer, died in that war. The other gentlemen survived. Frank Capra, some years later in Indochina, toward the end of the French occupation, he too was killed in war. That's not a very good percentage as you think about becoming a war correspondent. So when you think about your own mortality, and have thought about it over these many years and these many wars, how do you think of What I'm doing, what are my chances? SEBASTIAN JUNGER: Another easy question. There's a lot of denial involved. Denial works—seriously, it does. It doesn't necessarily lead to a successful emotional inner life later, but in terms of doing something that's frightening or unpleasant, denial works quite well. We're all to some degree in denial about our mortality. We're not walking around focused on our imminent death in some Zen-like way; we're enjoying the spring morning. It's a little bit more extreme in combat. But most reporters don't get killed. So you just think: Okay, I'm running a risk. But I'm smart; I'm not running stupid risks, and my odds are okay. It certainly feels better than the long, slow death of life in a cubicle in Manhattan doing some other job. That's how most war reporters would consider the dilemma. Just on the subject of Tim, up until five, six weeks ago, my career as a war reporter had never really cost me anything. It gave me some bad dreams, it gave me some weird reactions. I didn't lose anyone. I certainly wasn't wounded or injured myself, although I came close several times. I've experienced great terror a few times and that leaves a bit of a mark. But it never really cost me anything. Then suddenly, six weeks ago, it did, it cost me the life of a dear, dear friend, Tim Hetherington. I met him four years ago, but in the way that people do in war zones, we got extremely close very, very quickly. We essentially became brothers in the sense that I've been using the word today. I got a really interesting email. The day that Tim died, he was in Misrata, on Tripoli Street, with four other journalists. A single mortar came in, exploded in their midst, and by some miracle didn't kill all of them. It killed two people, Chris Hondros and my friend Tim. So word got back very quickly to the United States. I'm just in shock obviously. I'd never lost someone this close to me before. At first I was amazed how little I felt. That was my first—wow, I thought I was a caring person and I'm not feeling anything. It really actually kind of disturbed me. Of course it came some hours, some days, and some weeks later, a profundity of pain that I just didn't even know existed. But that day, in my kind of numb shock, I get an email from this Vietnam guy whom I'd met in Texas a year earlier on book tour. He really liked my book. He saw Restrepo and really liked it. He met Tim also. We were in a touch a little bit. He sent me an email. He said: "I'm so sorry about Tim. I hope this doesn't sound callous, but I do have to tell you this. You guys, with your book and your movie, you got pretty close to understanding war, you really got very, very close. But you did not understand all of it. The central truth about war isn't that you could get killed; it's that you will lose your brothers. That's guaranteed. That is the core reality of war, is that you will lose your brothers. Until today, in some ways you didn't know the first thing about war, and now you know everything you need to know about it." That was such a profound insight. Now it has cost me something and now I have a real comparison to make: the good of this versus the evil of that. I'd make a different decision if I were 28 or 38, but I'm 49 and I'm married. I've thought a lot about it. I am okay with—I'd hate the idea, but I've made some peace in my mind about the idea of myself getting killed in a war zone. I've sort of figured that one out. What never occurred to me is that nobody else is okay with it. My wife's not okay with it, my parents, my friends—no one else has made that deal. That's basically what I'm risking. I'm not risking myself out there, because if I get killed I'm done. I'm risking all of their lives in some ways, the quality of their lives. Stupid, right, but the light bulb finally went on because of Tim. So I really decided there's ways of covering these wars without actually getting shot at. I realize that the guys with the guns, they are very dramatic and compelling, but the guys with the guns in Misrata, they are actually in a weird way not the point of the story. They're a function of the story, they're a byproduct, they're a symptom of the story. The machinery that is putting these young men in blown-up buildings across the street from each other shooting at each other, that machinery is actually arguably a more important focus for journalism, at least at my stage in life and at my capacity of understanding. So I'm going to try to focus on the machine, basically. JOANNE MYERS: On that sober and candid note, I want to thank you so much for being with us today. SEBASTIAN JUNGER: My pleasure. Thank you very much. Sebastian Junger Author, Journalist, DocumentarianView Bio Joanne J. 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__label__cc	0.635013	0.364987	Arrests made in George Gilmore murder investigation George Gilmore Detectives from Serious Crime Branch, investigating the murder of George Gilmore in Carrickfergus on Monday, March 13, have made two arrests. The men, aged 30 and 33 were arrested in the Carrickfergus area earlier today and have been taken to Musgrave Serious Crime Suite for questioning. Detectives continue to appeal to anyone who was in the area at the time of the shooting and who witnessed the attack to contact them in the incident room on 02890 259542, phone police on 101 quoting serial 605 13/03/17 or phone Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 if you would prefer to remain anonymous.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4810
__label__wiki	0.964911	0.964911	Home » News » US Loyola Marymount community objects to dean's links to abortion groups Los Angeles, Calif., May 1, 2014 / 04:33 pm (CNA).- Loyola Marymount University’s appointment of an atheist dean with a record of service to abortion-supporting groups suggests the university may be unable to sustain its Catholic identity, one alumni group has charged. “The current process for attracting, qualifying, and vetting candidates for senior positions, as this appointment demonstrates, is inadequate to preserve the Catholic character of Loyola Marymount University for very much longer,” the group RenewLMU said April 28. On April 16, the Jesuit university announced the appointment of Robbin Crabtree as dean of its Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts. The position oversees bioethics, theological studies, philosophy, and Catholic studies at the university. The dean is also involved in faculty hiring decisions. RenewLMU, a self-described group of students, alumni, faculty, donors and other university supporters concerned about the university’s Catholic mission, questioned whether Crabtree was an appropriate choice to oversee “mission critical” departments. Loyola Marymount University President David W. Burcham, in an April 16 letter to the Board of Regents, said that criticisms of her candidacy have been “exaggerated and inaccurate.” Crabtree is presently dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Fairfield University, a Jesuit institution in Connecticut. Her Curriculum Vitae notes her service on the advisory board and media relations committee for Planned Parenthood of Putnam County in Indiana from 1991-1993. In 2001 and 2002, she was a member of the New Mexico group Las Adelitas Women in Politics. While Crabtree’s Curriculum Vitae describes the group as an organization to promote women’s candidates for public office in New Mexico, the group has been involved in promoting pro-abortion candidates. Burcham said that Crabtree’s involvement with the “budding” political organization was “brief” and the organization “changed significantly” since she left it. He said her involvement with Planned Parenthood consisted of serving as an “outside consultant” to a new Planned Parenthood-sponsored women’s health center. This work was in communications “aimed at engaging underserved women in the community to increase their awareness of the clinic’s basic healthcare services.” Burcham said the university’s only “litmus test” in hiring is that “a candidate must fully support our mission of academic excellence in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions and commit himself/herself to furthering this mission through their professional life at LMU.” The university president’s comments were largely echoed in an April 16 letter from Father Robert V. Caro, S.J., to alumni and parents. He said that concerns being raised about Crabtree’s past associations “do not reflect her recent involvements or reputation and appear to ignore her distinguished record.” RenewLMU objected that there is no indication that Crabtree has disavowed these groups or their philosophical positions. The group noted that the university’s mission includes the “promotion of justice” and the “service of faith.” “If abortion is really a matter of justice and faith, and of our Jesuit and Marymount traditions, then appointing someone who has provided years of service to the largest abortion provider in the United States to oversee Bioethics, Theological Studies, and Philosophy is deeply problematic.” The group said that Burcham would never hire someone who had served an organization that favors racial segregation and racial injustice unless that person had “radically and publicly repudiated this involvement.” It argued that the university president should not ignore the “prenatal injustice” of abortion. Burcham’s letter also acknowledged that Crabtree has described herself as an “atheist / secular Jew.” He said she did this in the context of “saying she had found a home in Jesuit and Catholic higher education.” He said the university does not have faith requirements, an approach he described as being “in the spirit” of the Society of Jesus’ General Congregation statements about partnership between Jesuits and their colleagues of all religious beliefs or no religious belief. “I have no doubt that Dr. Crabtree meets our sole test—being able to support and further LMU’s Jesuit/Marymount/Catholic mission and identity,” he said. RenewLMU charged that the university “selectively withheld” information about Crabtree’s religious beliefs, saying that they were not widely known until her appointment was announced. Fr. Caro’s letter to alumni only said that she “does not share our Catholic faith.” The other dean candidate finalist, Dr. Ramón Gutiérrez, had also sparked controversy. An American history professor at the University of Chicago, he served as a consultant for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America on the topic of Hispanic attitudes toward sexuality. He was also a member of the Organization of American Historians’ Committee of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Historians and Histories, which opposed a California ballot measure defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman. Founded in 1911, Loyola Marymount University is located in Los Angeles. It has about 9,500 students in its undergraduate, graduate, and law school programs. Tags: Catholic Colleges, Catholic Identity Loyola Marymount abortion policy change prompts criticism A Jesuit college in California has sparked controversy by announcing that it will stop... Pro-life groups in Uruguay denounce new attempts to legalize abortion Around twenty pro-life organizations are denouncing what they call “anti-democratic and... Pro-life groups rally against Spain's abortion law Pro-life groups in Spain are urging reform the country’s law on abortion, as 120 associations,...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4814
__label__cc	0.537106	0.462894	Cayman Islands Public Holidays 2019 Cayman Financial Review Cayman Health Hurricane Guide 2019 Key to Cayman View eVersion and Classifieds Physical Paper Delivery Special Features and Publications RSS Feed Information WelcomeLog into your account Cayman Islands,KY Cayman Compass Home Local Cyst research may hold key to preventing pancreatic cancer Cyst research may hold key to preventing pancreatic cancer Ongoing research into pancreatic cysts involving a dozen centres on three continents is showing exciting results that could help early diagnosis and prevention of one of the deadliest forms of cancer. Pancreatic cancer is usually found at a late stage, as it is often has no symptoms until it is quite advanced, and 95 per cent of those with the disease die within five years of being diagnosed. Dr. Anne Marie Lennon, director of the Pancreatic Cyst Clinic and an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, is working with researchers in the United States and worldwide to determine how pancreatic cysts, usually found in incidental scans, can be used to diagnose those patients likely to develop pancreatic cancer and cure the disease. “Pancreatic cysts are precursors to pancreatic cancer,” said Dr. Lennon, who added that many doctors are unaware of that fact and often ignore such cysts. Compared to other cancers, the survival rate of pancreatic cancer sufferers is very low. For example, prostate cancer has a 99 per cent survival rate, while colon cancer has a 64 per cent survival rate. “We used to think pancreatic cancer was such a rapidly growing disease that, following diagnosis, within six to 12 months the patient would be dead,” said Dr. Lennon on a recent visit to the Cayman Islands. However, pathologist and researcher Christine Ann Iacobuzio-Donahue from Johns Hopkins “proved we were all wrong”, Dr. Lennon said. In a paper published in the journal Nature, Dr. Iacobuzio-Donahue described a timeline for pancreatic cancer patients which showed that from the time their cells first began changing, it took 11.7 years for the cells to change enough to invade inside the pancreas, another seven years for the cancer to invade outside the pancreas, and another three years before the patient died. “You have this entire period of 11.7 years and then seven years where you can intervene and cure pancreatic cancer,” Dr. Lennon said. While this sounds promising, the problem comes in identifying that a person has pancreatic cancer or is likely to develop it, as it’s not visible until later stages. “Where pancreatic cysts come in is a number of them are pre-cursors but a lot are benign and have no cancer potential. If you look at people who have surgery for pancreatic cancer, [the benign cysts] account for between 18 to 20 per cent, so you have the opportunity to intervene and prevent 20 per cent of people getting pancreatic cancer, which is, if you get it, almost always a fatal disease,” Dr. Lennon said. She added: “Cancer is difficult to identify, cysts are easy.” The vast majority of pancreatic cysts that are pre-cancerous are found by accident when patients undergo CT scans or MRIs for other issues. In the US every year, 70 million people undergo CT scans. Of those, 2.6 per cent of individuals are incidentally found to have cysts. Of those who undergo the more sensitive MRI scans, 13.5 per cent are found to have incidental cysts. “Unfortunately, an awful lot of doctors, because they don’t understand the cysts can be precursors to cancer, ignore them as they think they’re of no significance. Actually, some can be cancerous and we have an opportunity to intervene and we’ll either remove the cyst if we’re worried about it or if it’s a cyst that is pre-cancerous but has not developed into cancer, we can keep an eye on it,” Dr. Lennon said. She said people with pancreatic cancer often show symptoms of jaundice, abdominal pain, pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas), but “usually by the time they’re causing those, the patient is already in an advanced stage … the vast majority, about 95 per cent of the patients I see at the cyst clinic have no symptoms”. She added that smoking is a huge factor in developing pancreatic cancer and that patients at risk of the disease are likely to get it 10 years earlier than non-smokers. Most pancreatic cysts are benign growths, known as pseudo cysts, which are often found in people with pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas), but those are rarely the ones found in incidental findings. “The difficulty is in differentiating cysts with cancerous potential with those that are benign,” Dr. Lennon said. Another medical scientist working on the project is Dr. Burt Vogelstein, who discovered that colorectal polyps and colorectal cancer develops as a result of genetic mutations or other chemical modifications. Now, for pancreatic cancer, he has identified a number of genetic markers that Dr. Lennon said will “entirely change the field”. “Currently, the way that we differentiate these pre-cancerous cysts from the benign cysts is we look at people, we take their history and we see what we can from imaging with CT, MRI and ultrasound. But, imaging is wrong 30 to 50 per cent of the time, so it’s far from perfect. The next thing you can do is stick a needle into a cyst and take some fluid out for what’s called a cyst fluid carcinoembryonic antigen or CEA, which is currently our best test we have, but that is wrong 20 to 30 per cent of the time. “The reason this is so important, is Burt Vogelstein did the test and took patients who had had operations and different types of cysts and was able to find these genes, which entirely separate out the key ones we have,” Dr. Lennon said. Dr. Vogelstein found mutations in the KRAS and GNAS genes in 96 per cent of patients with the most common kind of pre-malignant cyst, called IPMA. “It’s a huge step forward. We’re now doing a multi-centre trial with 12 other centres in Japan, Korea, Europe and in the United States to confirm that these markers are as good as we think they are and if they are, it will entirely change the way everyone in the world looks after pancreatic cysts and we’ll use these markers instead of the cyst fluid,” Dr. Lennon said. Using these genetic markers to identify cysts that may signal that a person will develop pancreatic cancer would be life-saving, as currently if a cyst is believed to be malignant, the patient is sent to surgery. If the cyst is on the top part of the pancreas, known as a “head”, the entire head is removed in a procedure called a Whipple. “It’s a very big operation, equivalent to a heart bypass or above,” Dr. Lennon said. “The risk of dying from a Whipple procedure in Johns Hopkins is 0.8 to 2 per cent,” she said, though the chances of dying during this operation in other hospitals is 5 per cent and in some places it’s as high as 10 to 12 per cent. “That’s a big risk to take to remove a cyst that might be benign. Hence, the importance of confirming through genetic markers if the cyst is indeed pre-cancerous,” she said. All the genetic markers found in pancreatic cancers have also been found in pre-cancerous pancreatic cysts. Research by another Johns Hopkins doctor, Michael Goggins, shows that those genes can be found in pancreatic juices, so the hope is that a stool or blood test may be able to detect pre-cancerous cysts. However, Dr. Lennon stressed that the work is “still very much in the research stage” and it may be a few years before the research is put into practice. Previous articleWorld’s best here for Open title Next articleAgua upset by Harry’s sharpness JOURNAL: Where next with the EU tax blacklist? Day One is a great resolution to have Health City: 2016 looks like a growth year SUBSCRIBE TO THE COMPASS NEWSLETTER MORE NEWS FROM THIS WEEK No 100m gold, but Cayman’s medal tally rises HSA physicians complete doctorate course A taste of Hawaii at Hedge Funds Care fundraiser Cayman Compass is the Cayman Islands' most trusted news website. We provide you with the latest breaking news from the Cayman Islands, as well as other parts of the Caribbean. Pinnacle Media Group Ltd. 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__label__wiki	0.888726	0.888726	Republicans reveal picks for debt "super committee" By Stephanie Condon August 10, 2011 / 6:39 PM / CBS News top row: Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), [empty space], Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) second row: Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash), Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz), Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass), Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) third row: Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), [empty space], Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Penn), [empty space] Updated at 12:25 p.m. ET Republican leaders in the House and the Senate today announced their appointees to the 12-member, bipartisan congressional "super committee" charged with finding at least $1.2 trillion in budget savings by Thanksgiving. House Speaker John Boehner said he's tapped House Republican Conference Chairman Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, to serve as co-chair of the committee. He's also appointing House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., to the committee, as well as House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said he's appointing Sens. Jon Kyl, Ariz., Pat Toomey, Pa., and Rob Portman, Ohio. In a statement, McConnell said the three senators he's chosen understand the "gravity" of the current economic climate and will bring to the table "the kind of responsibility, creativity, and thoughtfulness that the moment requires." CBSNews.com special report: America's debt battle "The American people know that we cannot dig ourselves out of this situation by nibbling around the edges, and I am confident that each of these nominees can be counted on to propose solutions that put the interests of all Americans ahead of any one political party," McConnell said. Boehner said in a statement he appointed "proven leaders who have earned the trust and confidence of their colleagues and constituents." The 12-member group, called the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, was created as part of the deal to increase the debt ceiling. Along with the three Republican senators and three House Republicans, the group will be comprised of three House Democrats and three Senate Democrats. Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid confirmed he is naming Sen. Patty Murray, Wash., to co-chair the committee. He also appointed Sens. Max Baucus, Mont., and John Kerry, Mass., to the committee. There was some expectation that Boehner would name to the committee House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, author of the controversial House-passed 2012 budget. Ryan released a statement today praising Boehner's appointments and explaining that he asked the speaker to choose others for the job. "I asked the Speaker not to consider me for the Joint Committee, because only the Budget Committee can write legislation to reform the budget process," he said. "The House Budget Committee plans to complement the Joint Committee's work this fall by holding hearings and marking up legislation to put in place common-sense controls that stop the spending spree in Washington." The 12-member group has until Nov. 23 to come up with a deficit reduction plan. If a majority approves the plan, the House and Senate must vote on it by December 23. If the plan is rejected, it will automatically trigger $1.2 trillion in cuts in areas like Medicare and national security. The super committee's goal is to find $1.5 trillion in savings, though it appears it can still meet its mandate if it finds only $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction. The recent downgrade in the U.S. credit rating, however, puts pressure on the committee to seek out greater savings. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi has yet to name her three picks to the committee, but she released a statement last week calling for the committee's work to be open to the press and the public, and webcast on the Internet. "Any acceptance of the committee proposal will be dependent on the ability of the American people to fully view its proceedings," she said. In his statement today, Boehner similarly said, "With all that's at stake, I expect that the joint select committee will conduct its work in the open and transparent manner the American people deserve." From CBS Moneywatch.com: What's Next for The Economy? What the Debt Deal Means for Jobs and the Economy Facts about the debt 9 photos First published on August 10, 2011 / 6:39 PM Stephanie Condon Stephanie Condon is a political reporter for CBSNews.com.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4817
__label__wiki	0.925797	0.925797	Saudi crown prince says Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei is "very much like Hitler" In his first American television interview, the prince tells 60 Minutes his country will get its own nuclear bomb if Iran develops one Saudi crown prince: Ayatollah Khamenei "like Hitler" Saudi Arabia's crown prince tells Norah O'Donnell his country would get its own nuclear bomb as soon as possible if Iran were to develop a nuclear weapon. Prince Mohammed bin Salman spoke to O'Donnell, a 60 Minutes contributing correspondent and co-host of CBS This Morning, for his first American television interview. The interview will be broadcast on 60 Minutes, Sunday, March 18 at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT. An excerpt from the interview, in which the crown prince also compares Iran's foreign policy to that of Hitler's, was broadcast on CBS This Morning, the transcript from it is below. NORAH ODONNELL: You've been rivals for centuries. At its heart, what is this rift about? Is it a battle for Islam? MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN: Iran is not a rival to Saudi Arabia. Its army is not among the top five armies in the Muslim world. The Saudi economy is larger than the Iranian economy. Iran is far from being equal to Saudi Arabia. NORAH ODONNELL: But I've seen that you called the Ayatollah, Khamenei, "the new Hitler" of the Middle East. MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN: Absolutely. NORAH ODONNELL: Why? MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN: Because he wants to expand. He wants to create his own project in the Middle East very much like Hitler who wanted to expand at the time. Many countries around the world and in Europe did not realize how dangerous Hitler was until what happened, happened. I don't want to see the same events happening in the Middle East. NORAH ODONNELL: Does Saudi Arabia need nuclear weapons to counter Iran? MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN: Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but without a doubt, if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit as soon as possible. The television interview is scheduled to be broadcast on 60 Minutes two days before the young Saudi leader is to meet with President Donald Trump. The wide-ranging interview is the crown prince's first for American television, and it is rare for a member of the ruling royal family to sit down for such a conversation. The last time a Saudi leader gave an interview to a U.S. television network was in 2005. O'Donnell spent a week in Saudi Arabia, reporting first-hand on the political, economic, and social reforms unfolding in the Sunni Muslim kingdom, many of them instituted by the crown prince, who is also known as MBS. The 32-year-old heir to the throne has also helped institute sweeping changes for women, including allowing them the right to drive for the first time in the country's history. The crown prince is also the kingdom's deputy prime minister and its defense minister. O'Donnell asked him about the country's controversial role in the civil war in Yemen, and Iran, Saudi Arabia's chief rival in the area, and his relations with the U.S. The crown prince also spoke about what happened during his anti-corruption crackdown that resulted in hundreds of prominent Saudis detained at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Riyadh. Recent Segments Chef Massimo Bottura: The Pavarotti of pasta How advanced is AI today? Author John Green: The "60 Minutes" interview Recreating the Ice Age to fight climate change Spreading capital to Middle America	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4818
__label__wiki	0.847168	0.847168	Gamers try the latest Microsoft Xbox 360 video games at the Microsoft booth Saturday, Jan. 7, 2006, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Xbox 360 is on track to be the fastest-selling video game console ever, forecast to ship between 4.5 million and 5.5 million units worldwide by the end of June 2006. Credit: AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes Hanpus Janzon, left, and Oskar Staf, both of Sweden, walk through the Intel display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2006. Credit: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong Micro Vault Tiny memory cards, Sony's smallest USB flash drives, are compared to the size of a penny at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2006. The capacities are from 256MB to 4GB. The Microsoft Xbox 360 display is seen at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2006. John Oh, President and CEO of Pulsus Technologies plays a MP3 sound file as he demonstrates his company's PSM711, the worlds first high-end true digital 1.4W amplifier for Wireless Handheld applications, shown integrated into a Curitel Real Music Phone during a demonstration Saturday, Jan. 7, 2006, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Images captured on SMPD sensor, left, and regular CCD sensor, right, are seen on the screen at Planet 82 booth at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2006. The sensor can capture images without any flash light in the dark. Ken Hummel with Celestron demonstrates on a SkyScout device at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2006. The device can locate more than 6,000 stars, planets and constellations from a built-in database and identify celestial objects instantly with the click of a button. Robert Wray, co-founder and CEO of StreetDeck.com, from El Segundo, Calif., demonstrates a video played on an unreleased Intel-based computer tablet, next to his company's fully integrated Navigation and Entertainment System, below, for the digital car at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2006. A video clip of singer Christina Aguilera is played on a new Motorola device, the Moto Q, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2006. Motorola representative Nazee Hoglund from Liberty, Ill., holds a new Motorola RAZR V3i Saturday, Jan. 7, 2006, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The RAZR V3i has an updated and streamlined design, offering consumers a large internal color screen, quad-band technology and Bluetooth wireless technology. Nathan Minor demonstrates Powerboxing showcased at the Jackie Chan Studio Fitness booth at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2006. The product sells for $89.99. A Sony Blu-ray Disc is shown at left, next to a new hard drive disk standard iVRD, a removable HDD, that is compliant with copyright protection and can be taken out like a portable DVD or CD, during a demonstration Saturday, Jan. 7, 2006, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Dan Race enjoys the sound of Plantronics Pulsar 590 Bluetooth stereo headset Friday, Jan. 6, 2006 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The headset lets users listen wirelessly to music/movies with excellent audio quality and switch to mobile calls with the touch of a button. It received the prestigious "Innovations 2006 Honoree" award from the Consumer Electronics Assoc. in the Personal Electronics category. The Hitachi Microdrive 3K8, or "Mikey," the industry's smallest one-inch hard drive for use in portable devices, is shown Jan. 6, 2006 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It will be available with 6 and 8 GB of storage capacity and is nearly 20% smaller and consumes 40% less power than its predecessor. The device received the "Innovations 2006 Honoree" award from the Consumer Electronics Association. Nokia's new BH-800 Bluetooth headset is shown Friday, Jan. 6, 2006, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. With talk time of up to 6 hours and up to 160 hours of stand by time, the headset provides a hassle-free and long-lasting communications experience. Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-800 is Nokia's first wireless headset with Bluetooth specification 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate (EDR). CBS CEO Les Moonves, left, and Google CEO Larry Page right, walk together as Google announces a partnership to make CBS video content available online at the Google Video Store during Google's keynote address Friday, Jan. 6, 2006, at the Consumer Electronics Show, CES, in Las Vegas. Google CEO Larry Page introduces Google Talk Beta, a free global online instant messaging and talk software application Friday, Jan. 6, 2006, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Google Talk is not a telephone service and cannot be used for emergency dialing. Google CEO Larry Page stands next the VW Touareg Stanley, a robotic car, Friday, Jan. 6, 2006 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Lemi Lenoir, of Milpitas, Calif., reads the brochure of TiVo's Series 3 HD digital media recorder at the Consumer Electronic Show on Friday, Jan. 6, 2006, in Las Vegas. The iRobot Scooba is seen at the International Consumer Electronics Show Jan. 6, 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The robot washes, scrubs and dries floors. Credit: GETTY IMAGES/Ethan Miller	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4819
__label__wiki	0.896464	0.896464	Comfy Concerts by Hillary Nordwell East Bay Concerts Allan Crossman, Composer Allan Crossman has had the great pleasure of writing for soloists and ensembles worldwide on both concert and theater stages, including many commissions. Compositions have received special awards and commentary, as has his teaching. Music for Human Choir shared Top Honors at the Waging Peace Through Singing Festival in Oregon; Flyer was written in 2003 for the centenary of the famous Wright Brothers flight and recorded by the North/South Chamber Orchestra (NYC) under Max Lifchitz, with cellist Nina Flyer. North/South also produced the GRAMMY-nominated album Millennium Overture, with Crossman’s wind-string quintet of the same name. Canada Council, American Composers Forum, Meet the Composer and others have supported his work. He has composed/music-directed for many theater companies. The Log of the Skipper’s Wife was produced by the Royal Shakespeare Co. at Stratford, England and the Kennedy Center, with Crossman’s music drawn from Irish/Scottish shanties; it also appeared at the Camden Opera House, Maine, where Dorothea Balano, the skipper’s wife, saw many operas in the early 20th century. He was music director of the Anne of Green Gables musical tour of Montreal and Hong Kong, and creator of the soundtrack for the award-winning animated film X MAN, by Christopher Hinton (National Film Board of Canada). He has taught at Concordia University, Montreal (Professor Emeritus), San Francisco Conservatory, Wheaton College, Pacific Conservatory, and the John Adams Young Composers Program. A number of his students are active as concert and film composers. The Eusebius Duo Praised for their “sensitive and ingenious” interpretations, Monika Gruber and Hillary Nordwell formed the Eusebius Duo in 2005, shortly after graduating from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In 2006, they took first prize in the CMFONE International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition in Boston, MA, which resulted in a performance at Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, New York. Based in the Bay Area, they perform regularly at San Francisco’s Noontime Concerts, Old First Concerts, and the Bing Concert Series at Stanford University Hospital. They have also appeared in Berkeley’s Trinity Chamber Concerts and Napa’s Festival del Sole, among others. Concert tours have taken the Eusebius Duo to perform several concerts in Washington State, where they were also featured on KONP Radio’s ‘Art Beat’, and to Germany, where they were invited to perform in Dortmund’s ‘Summer Matinees for Young Artists’ series. The duo’s mutual love of Robert Schumann’s life and music brought them together under the name “Eusebius,” one of the pseudonyms Schumann used in writing for his Neue Zeitschrift für Musik. According to a German reviewer, “It is the split between the lyrical “Eusebius” and the wildly open “Florestan” (both pseudonyms of Schumann), that also characterizes the playing of the Eusebius Duo. Quick-tempered displays of strength pair themselves with irresistibly melting tone… The musical partners seem, even in the smallest nuances, to be in agreement with one another.” Another reviewer comments on Nordwell’s “musical zeal,” and Gruber’s “soft, clear tone, which she can also imbue with gripping fire.” The shared education of the Eusebius Duo at the San Francisco Conservatory includes chamber music study with Mark Sokol, Paul Hersh, and Ian Swensen, and master classes with Gilbert Kalish (SUNY Stony Brook), Menahem Pressler (Beaux Arts Trio) and Martha Katz (Cleveland Quartet). Monika Gruber, Violin A native of Germany, Monika Gruber graduated from the ‘Hochschule fuer Musik’ in Weimar in 2003 with an Artistic Diploma and a Teaching Diploma. She spent the Academic Year 2000/01 as a recipient of the European “Erasmus” Scholarship at the ‘Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique’ in Lyon, France, studying violin with Stephane Tran Ngoc. In 2003 she won the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship Award, which enabled her to come to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Ian Swensen and completed her Masters Degree in May 2005. After having served as 1st violinist of the SF Conservatory’s New Music Ensemble, Monika currently pursues her passion for New Music as concertmaster of the SF Composers Chamber Orchestra. A dedicated teacher, she was a faculty member of the SF Conservatory’s Preparatory Division in 2005/06 and currently teaches at the SF Community Music Center, where she won this year’s Faculty Concerto Competition and will perform the Sibelius Concerto in June of 2007. Catherine Kautsky, Piano Catherine Kautsky, the George and Marjorie Olsen Chandler Professor of Music and Chair of Keyboard Studies at Lawrence University, has been lauded by the New York Times as a pianist whose “music spoke directly to the listener, with neither obfuscation nor pretense.” Her recent recording of the complete Debussy Preludes was said to “bring out all the power, majesty, and mystery of Debussy’s conception,“ and she expects to issue a recording of the Brahms Sonatas for Violin and Piano shortly. Ms. Kautsky, whose teachers have included Rosina Lhevinne, Gyorgy Sebok, Martin Canin, and Gilbert Kalish, has concertized widely, performing in Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Recital Hall, and the Phillips Collection in the United States and appearing abroad in France, England, Italy, Spain, China, Korea, Thailand, Brazil, Australia, Russia, and South Africa. She teaches and performs at the Interharmony International Music Festival in Italy and the Green Lake Chamber Music Camp in Wisconsin during the summers. Prof. Kautsky has taught at Lawrence since 1987, with a 6 -year hiatus as both a faculty member and chair of the Keyboard Dept. at University of Wisconsin-Madison. A devoted teacher, she is the winner of the 2016 Lawrence University Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2013 Faculty Convocation Award. Ms. Kautsky is also known for her cross-disciplinary interests and was awarded the distinguished Arts Institute Creative Arts Award while at UW-Madison for her work on the intersections of literature, music, and social history. She is a frequent presenter at national conferences, and her articles have appeared in Clavier, American Music Teacher, and International Piano. Her book, Debussy’s Paris: Piano Portraits of the Belle-Epoque, will be published by Rowman&Littlefield in Fall, 2017. Emil Miland, Cello A member of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra since 1988, cellist Emil Miland is an acclaimed soloist, chamber and orchestral musician. He made his solo debut with the San Francisco Symphony at age 16, the same year he was selected to perform in the Rostropovich Master Classes at the University of California, Berkeley. A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, he has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Chamber Music America. His many recital collaborations include performances with Jamie Barton, Joyce DiDonato, Susan Graham, Marilyn Horne, Frederica von Stade, the late Zheng Cao and the late Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson. In 2010, Mr. Miland was invited by von Stade to perform with her at Carnegie Hall for her farewell recital. Many composers have written and dedicated new works for him including Ernst Bacon, David Carlson, David Conte, Shinji Eshima, John Grimmett, Lou Harrison, Jake Heggie, Richard Hervig, Andrew Imbrie, James Meredith and Dwight Okamura. His recordings include David Carlson’s Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Utah Symphony on New World Records and his Sonata for Cello and Piano with pianist, David Korevaar on MSR Records. Mr. Miland is featured on David Conte’s recently released CD of chamber music for Albany Records, on which he performs Conte’s Sonata for Violoncello and Piano (written for Mr. Miland) with Miles Graber, as well as Conte’s Piano Trio with violinist Kay Stern and pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi. This recording has been met with critical acclaim, with reviews praising Mr. Miland’s “impeccable playing in terms of both technique and taste” and lauding him for “extracting every ounce of passion from this passionate work”. He is featured on many of Jake Heggie’s recordings beginning with the RCA Red Seal CD, “The Faces of Love: The Songs of Jake Heggie” and most recently, the 2013 release, “Here/After: Songs of Lost Voices” on Pentatone. Mr. Miland is presented in “The Heart of a Bell”, a recent film by Eric Theirmann and Aleksandra Wolska, performing Smirti, a haunting elegy for cello, Tibetan chimes and bells with the Sonos Handbell Ensemble. He also joined Sonos in December 2012 as a soloist on their nine city tour of Japan. He also appears in the 2012 documentary, “Lou Harrison: A World of Music” by Eva Soltes. In 2013, he made his Paris recital debut under the auspices of the European American Musical Alliance. Earlier this year, Mr. Miland toured to Hawaii and Australia performing chamber music and in July, he was presented in recital at the Bear Valley Music Festival. He is featured on Love Life, a 2016 recording featuring soprano Ann Moss and music by Jake Heggie, Liam Wade and Joni Mitchell. He performs regularly as a member of the Lowell Trio with Janet Archibald, oboe and Margaret Fondbertasse, piano. Ann Moss, Soprano Soprano Ann Moss is an ardent and acclaimed champion of contemporary vocal music who performs and collaborates with a dynamic array of American com posers. Her high, silvery, flexible voice has been singled out by Opera News for its “beautifully pure floated high notes” and by San Francisco Classical Voice for its “powerful expression” and “exquisite phrasing.” In addition to working closely with well-known composers such as Jake Heggie, John Harbison, Aaron Jay Kernis and Wayne Peterson, Ann seeks out and performs music by emerging voices at forums and festivals across the USA. A co-founder and Artistic Director of new-music repertory group CMASH, she has been personally responsible for the creation and premiere of over eighty art songs, works of vocal chamber music and operatic roles, from composers such as Vartan Aghababian, Kenneth Froelich, Heather Gilligan, John Grimmett, Sanford Dole, Joshua Fishbein, Kurt Erickson, Jared Redmond, Miriam Miller, Garrett Shatzer, Weslie Brown, Jessica Rugani, Liam Wade, Sarah Wald, Andrew McManus, Allen Shearer, Carlos Gamboa, and Erik Jekabson. Ann has performed new works with Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, SF Contemporary Music Players, Earplay, Eco Ensemble, New Music Works, San Francisco Lyric Opera, the Ives, Alexander, and Hausmann String Quartets, Sanford Dole Ensemble, Composers in Red Sneakers, at FENAM, Other Minds Festival, Fresno New Music, PARMA, Switchboard Music Festival, and SF Song Festival. She has lectured about vocal composition at MIT, UC Davis, Longy School of Music of Bard College, NYU Tisch School For The Arts, UT Pan America, Sacramento State University, and CSU Los Angeles, and served on the 2008 & 2011 faculty at CSU Summer Arts’ Composer/Performer Collaboration Workshop. Her debut album Currents (Angels Share Records, 2013), produced and recorded by multi-GRAMMY® award winner Leslie Ann Jones at Skywalker Sound, features a dream team of collaborators from the chamber, new music, and jazz communities performing some of the extraordinary new and recent American vocal/chamber music Ann has championed over the past decade. Moss returns to Skywalker this summer with pianists Steven Bailey and Jake Heggie, cellist Emil Miland, violinist Isaac Allen, and GRAMMY® award winning ensemble Chanticleer to record songs by Heggie, Wade, Lennon/McCartney, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan for her sophomore album, Love Life, slated for release in February, 2016. Ann Moss has recorded on PARMA, Naxos, Albany, Navona Records and Jaded Ibis Productions labels. Hillary Nordwell, pianist Hillary Nordwell, an active performer on both piano and viola, has performed chamber music throughout the United States, as well as in Italy, Austria, Germany, and Sweden. In 2006, she was invited as pianist of the Eusebius Duo to perform in Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall, New York), following the duo’s success as first prize winners of the CMFONE International Chamber Music Competition. Hillary earned her masters degree in Chamber Music Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory in 2005, and was honored during her studies there for her outstanding accomplishments as a pianist. At the San Francisco Conservatory, she studied with Paul Hersh, Jodi Levitz, Axel Strauss, and Mark Sokol and participated in master classes with renowned artists Menahem Pressler and Paul Katz. In 2003, she completed her bachelors degree in Piano Performance, magna cum laude, at Lawrence Conservatory in Appleton, Wisconsin, where she studied with Catherine Kautsky and was honored for three consecutive years with the Marjory Irvin Prize for “excellence in solo piano and chamber music.” In 2001, she spent a semester abroad in Vienna, studying piano with Christiane Karajeva and developing a love for opera and the German language. As a soloist, Hillary has made concerto appearances with orchestras including the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra, the Port Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the Port Townsend Community Orchestra. She has worked with master pianists and teachers Richard Goode, Robert McDonald, and Gilbert Kalish, and has performed chamber music with Ian Swensen and Paul Hersh of the San Francisco Conservatory, as well as with San Francisco Symphony French Horn player Jonathan Ring. In 2005, Hillary Nordwell founded the Eusebius Duo with Monika Gruber, violin. In the ten years of its existence, the Eusebius Duo has performed numerous concerts, both in America and in Europe. The Eusebius Duo, which derives its name from the more inward of the two characters Robert Schumann used to describe his ego, enjoys programming the work of Robert Schumann, as well as a wide variety of music from many different eras and nationalities. Though much of her performing involves works from the standard chamber music repertoire, Hillary has recently become familiar with the work of CMASH composers Vartan Aghababian and Liam Wade. She has enjoyed exploring their vocal chamber music through her collaboration with soprano Ann Moss and violist Alexa Beattie in the One Art Ensemble. She has worked with prominent American composer Joan Tower leading up to a performance of her “ballet for two pianos,” Stepping Stones, and recently collaborated with Santa Cruz composer Nick Vasallo on his chamber work for mixed ensemble, Explosions in the Sky. Hillary has been featured on many Bay Area concert series including Noontime Concerts, Trinity Chamber Concerts, Old First Concerts, 405 Shrader, and the Bing Concert Series at Stanford University Hospital. Alongside her performing career, she enjoys working with young musicians in both private lessons and chamber music at her home studio in Pacifica, CA, where she is also the mother of a 4 year old daughter. Justin Ouellet, Violist Violist Justin Ouellet attended Temple University and holds a joint BA in Viola Performance from the Longy School of Music of Bard College and Emerson College. His private teachers have included Mimi Denton Bravar, Dimitri Murrath, Laura Bossert, and Che-hung Chen, and he has coached with Colin Carr, Yizhak Schotten, Paul Yarbrough, and members of the Pacifica Quartet, Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Having collaborated with some of the world’s leading players including members of the Seoul Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Ballet and Opera Orchestras, as well as members of the Alexander and Hausmann Quartets, Justin is quickly garnering a reputation as a top performer of chamber, orchestral and contemporary repertoire for his instrument. He has performed under conductors such as David Lawton, Cyrus Ginwala, David Milnes, Jonathan Schiffman, David Amado, Grammy Award winners John McLaughlin Williams and Arnie Roth, and in venues including Carnegie Hall, Symphony Hall, Jordan Hall, The National Opera Center and the Kimmel Center. Residencies include Longy School of Music and Providence College, and festival performances include the Atlantic Music Festival, PARMA New Music Festival, The Philadelphia Music Festival, Fosja, and the St. Marks International Music Festival. He has recorded for film, video game and new music projects with PARMA, WGBH, Fort Apache Studios, and Camp Street Studios. He currently serves on the faculty of the Oakland School for the Arts where he oversees middle and high school chamber and orchestral ensembles and teaches classes in music theory. He is a core member of the new music repertory group CMASH which is committed to establishing and nurturing long-term collaborative relationships between composers and performers. Current collaborations include the commission of a Sonata for viola and piano by Dr. Vartan Aghababian, slated for premiere in 2016, and a new work for viola and piano by Houston-based composer John Grimmett.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4822
__label__cc	0.515049	0.484951	Who We Are What We Do Media Who We AreWhat We DoMedia The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change Four authors – Philip Conkling, Richard Alley, Wallace Broecker, George Denton – are the recipients of the Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science for The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change (The MIT Press, 2011). This award is offered for outstanding contributions by scientists to the literature of science. Its purpose is to encourage literate and scholarly interpretations of the physical and biological sciences and mathematics. The Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards are given each year for outstanding scholarly works published in the United States. These awards support the general mission of the Society to advocate for excellence in the liberal arts and sciences and to promote dialogue about important issues and ideas of our time in an environment of intellectual fellowship. SCIENCE BOOK AWARD Geological evidence suggests that Greenland has already been affected by two dramatic changes in climate: the Medieval Warm Period, when warm temperatures in Northern Europe enabled Norse exploration and settlements in Greenland; and the Little Ice Age that followed and apparently wiped out the settlements. Greenland’s climate past and present could presage our climate future. The planet appears to be in a period of acute climate instability, exacerbated by carbon dioxide we pour into the atmosphere, and the melting of Greenland’s ice shelf would cause sea levels to rise twenty-four feet worldwide. As this book makes clear, it is in all of our interests to pay attention to Greenland. Philip Conkling is Founder and President of the Island Institute in Maine. Richard Alley, a glaciologist, is Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences and Associate of the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State. Wallace Broecker, an oceanographer, is Newberry Professor of Geology at Columbia University and a winner of the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences. George Denton, a geologist, is Professor of Geological Sciences and Quaternary Studies at the University of the Maine. Previous ΦBK book award winners have included Marjorie Garber, Harold Bloom, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, Robert Coles, Richard Hofstadter, Jared Diamond, Edward O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, Stephen Jay Gould, and Linus Pauling, among others. conkling associates April 10, 2013 On the Record: An interview with Philip Conkling The Working Waterfront, videoconkling associates February 28, 2014 Hurricane Island conkling associates January 19, 2013 PHILIP CONKLING & ASSOCIATES Camden, Maine pwc@conklingassociates.com To learn how we can help your business or organization plan for the future, give us a call or send an email. 207-691-5011 pwc@conklingassociates.com	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4824
__label__wiki	0.654668	0.654668	Insights from organizer Myles Horton Publisher: Connexions Information Sharing Services, Toronto, Canada Cx Number: CX3928A Abstract: From Myles Horton, the civil rights organizer who died in January 1990 at the age of 84: I think it is a terrible mistake to assume that people's self-interest and group interests are only economic. When it comes down to it, if you don't have enough to eat to live, then you have a problem. Ultimately there is an economic base. But most problems are not that closely associated with economics. People have real values. I was organizing textile workers in the thirties in South Carolina. They were some of the lowest paid workers in the country. I was talking to them about their families, about the future of their children, about their responsibilities as citizens. Some of the other organizers said, "Talk to them about economics, talk to them about wages. That's all they're interested in." But I found that wasn't true at all. I found that people have a wide range of interests and too often organizers limit the people they are working with to their own value system. I think workers are often way ahead of organizers in terms of the way they think about life. Too many organizers think that groups can't deal with anything other than a tiny, easy problem and so they take adults, poor people who have struggled and survived for years, and treat them like little children, as though they can't deal with tough problems or take on challenges. If people have the information, and it's an outgrowth of their experience, then there's no limit on what people can think about. Don't whittle them down to your size. Looking at the history during my lifetime - the only thing you can say with assurance has made a difference has been civil disobedience. In the early days of the labor movement, we had to defy all the laws because there were laws against organizing and meetings and picket lines. In the civil rights movement, if we hadn't defied the law we would never have gotten anywhere. In the mass demonstrations against the war in Vietnam, where people said, "No, we're not going to be stopped. We're going to go to jail," they were the things that got results. Class Consciousness	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4825
__label__cc	0.695002	0.304998	Comment from Meryl Davies, Contact the Elderly CEO, on the Government’s launch of £20 million fund to combat loneliness: Meryl Davies, CEO of Contact the Elderly, said: “The government’s pledge of £20 million for community groups and charities working with isolated and lonely people is welcomed by everyone at Contact the Elderly. Through our work with thousands of the most isolated older people in the UK, we know how widespread the problem of loneliness is, and how damaging it can be for people's physical and mental wellbeing. We know that the only way to end loneliness will be by working with communities to help us reach the most isolated people in our society. We believe in the power of community, and the power of individuals helping one another. The government’s recognition of the importance of communities in this fight is exciting news. We hope this will be a significant step towards creating a more integrated and more connected society, where no one has to suffer social isolation in silence. We're so excited to continue working with our partners in the field. This issue is so important, and so widespread, that we all need to work together if we are going to make an impact.”	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4826
__label__wiki	0.606645	0.606645	GE shares drop to 9-year low as weak power business stumbles Published Mon, Sep 24 2018 10:02 AM EDT Updated Mon, Sep 24 2018 3:03 PM EDT Michael Sheetz@thesheetztweetz GE shares fell to levels not seen since July 13, 2009. Concern about a recent gas turbine failure in Texas continues to hang over GE. Several Wall Street analysts slashed GE price targets this month due to the struggling power business. General Electric shares hit their lowest level since July 2009 General Electric shares fell to a new 9-year low on Monday, dropping to levels not seen since July 13, 2009, as concern about a recent gas turbine failure in Texas hang over the embattled industrial conglomerate. Shares of GE fell as far as $11.60 a share in trading, breaking past its previous low this year of $11.94 a share. The stock closed at $11.46 a share on July 22, 2009 – a few months after it hits its lowest point during the financial crisis, when it closed $6.66 a share on March 5, 2009. GE's stock has fallen steadily this year, down 32 percent. The conglomerate's stock has set new lows as investors remain unconvinced by CEO John Flannery's turnaround plan and its stagnant power business has hit new roadblocks, such as the Texas turbine failure and no short-term turnaround in sight. Several Wall Street analysts slashed GE price targets this month due to the struggling power business. UBS cut its price target to $13 from $16 for GE shares, saying the business will likely "require even more aggressive cost reductions, force GE into a vicious cycle." J.P. Morgan brought its price target all the way down to $10 a share, saying the firm now assumes "weaker results at power and some franchise value impact" for GE. Flannery said during GE's second-quarter earnings in June that he had "essentially" completed the "target of $20 billion of dispositions" he promised. General Electric price target cut to $10 at JP Morgan GE was worth nearly $600 billion in August 2000 — a time when it was one of the most valuable companies in history. Its valuation slipped over the first decade of Jeff Immelt's tenure as CEO before taking a sharp hit during the 2009 financial crisis. But GE's value recovered to pre-crisis levels nearly as quickly, reaching as much as $300 billion by December 2015. Yet shareholder confidence began eroding sharply in January 2017, at about $31 per share. Immelt's time leading the company was defined by an unwillingness to hear bad news, over a dozen insiders revealed to The Wall Street Journal earlier this year. The overly optimistic CEO's behavior led to a number of consequences: Unrealistic financial goals, poorly timed acquisitions and even mismanagement of the company's cash. Since January 2017, shares have fallen nearly 60 percent as investors discovered a company pulled in multiple directions by its many businesses, under investigation by both the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission and weighed down by a finance arm with about "zero equity value." GE total returns over the last 20 years vs. the S&P 500	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4827
__label__wiki	0.824581	0.824581	Calgary athlete nominated for Sportsperson of Year with a Disability BRANDON McNEIL More from BRANDON McNEIL Published on: February 8, 2019 \| Last Updated: February 8, 2019 5:47 PM EST Canadian cross-country skier and biathlete, Brian McKeever, who became Canada's most decorated Winter Paralympian, gets fitted for a suit at Harry Rosen in Calgary. McKeever will be wearing an Armani suit from Harry Rosen for the upcoming Laureus World Sports Awards in Monaco. Photo by Todd Korol/Special to Postmedia. Todd Korol / CalSunWP He’s an inspiration to the sporting world and, on Feb. 18 in Monaco, Calgary’s own Brian McKeever will be dressed to the nines in a shiny new suit and tie to attend the Laureus World Sports Awards. He will be there, of course, because he has received one of the organization’s prestigious nominations. That nomination is for the 2019 Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability, an honour he shares with five other remarkable talents, with McKeever making the trip because of his cross-country skiing. Joining him in Monaco on the ballot are Henrieta Farkasova (Slovakia, skiing), Diede De Groot (Netherlands, wheelchair tennis), Oksana Masters (USA, cross-country skiing), Grigorios Polychronidis (Greece, boccia), and Markus Rehm (Germany, athletics). “It’s such a foreign concept. I know it’s a big deal and I know people watch it because it’s broadcast in Europe and I start to look at the pictures and go … I don’t think I own a suit. You mean I just can’t show up in jeans? I mean that’s getting dressy for athlete,” joked McKeever — who was joined at Calgary’s downtown Harry Rosen location in TD Square by a buzzing group of press members — while in the process of trying on suits for the big night. “It’s a big deal. It’s intimidating, actually, because it’s so far out of the normal comfort zone for most Canadian amateur athletes. Obviously, it was a huge honour and highlight of my career to be on the bill for that. But it’s a unique opportunity, but important enough to hopefully inspire some of the younger athletes to even miss a couple of the races or world championships for this. The older I get, it’s less about my own athletic performances and more about the other people coming up.” The nomination for McKeever should come as no surprise. The Canmore resident has had a lengthy career that has been a constant ride of success. This year, he finished the 2019 Winter Paralympics with 13 gold medals and 17 in total on his overall resume. After that, you can officially call McKeever the most decorated cross-country skier to ever hit the Olympic slopes. As his career nears its end, however, McKeever has shifted his focus from personal accolades to helping mentor the up-and-coming youth of the spot. “What inspires people, it’s just different things. It isn’t just winning and putting in the work. Sometimes it’s something like this, to be part of an awards gala that I hope, even in a small way, makes people think that one day, if they keep doing this, then that’s cool. It’s opportunity,” said McKeever. “The way my career has gone over the years has always been about balancing different things. So either I was able-body racing or paralympic racing, sometimes there’s conflicts. At that time it was about making decisions for my athletic career. This time it’s about enjoying the end of my career as well and trying to inspire the next generation. We don’t realize the kind of impact that we have on other people.” McKeever, 39, has been skiing competitively since he was 13 years old. It speaks volumes to the calibre of an athlete when they are able to achieve that kind of longevity to go hand in hand with being at the top of their game consistently throughout their run, and it’s something McKeever attributes to his ability to constantly adapt when it comes to the style and technique of the sport itself. “For a lot of different reasons. One, I’ve modernized as the techniques have modernized. Two, it keeps it fresh because you’re always working on something. It’s actually pretty meditative,” explained McKeever. “Training for hours and hours and thinking about the same thing, trying to make it perfect, even though it will never be perfect. That’s all part of the fun is that you’re always searching for this thing that will never happen but you keep working on it and the enjoyment has to be the process and not the potential end result.” McKeever also emphasized the relentlessness of Father Time and its contribution to the years of work and overuse that he has put his body through. It’s a reality that any athlete has to deal with when they achieve that desired longevity. Nobody can escape that reality. “We don’t have the trauma that some of the more extreme sports have but we have the injuries. They always told me to wait until I’m 30 … well, now I’m nearing 40 and it’s crept in. It’s a challenge. “The overused stuff is what I definitely battle and it’s a daily thing now. It’s not occasional. I don’t remember a day where I wasn’t in pain at this point. That’s just part of it. But I do love what I do and that’s why it’s worth it for me to continue on.” So, now, with an awards gala on the horizon and his career slowly coming to a close, McKeever has his sights set on the future of the sport and doing everything in his power to help bring them along. He’s taken an approach that preaches process over outcome, looking at a career in a different way, and looking past chasing the glory of medals. “Watching that, that’s inspiring to me as well. Hopefully, I can have an impact on them as they develop,” McKeever said of the new generation. “If they end up being the next world champion, that’s great, but we never put that on them because it was never put on us either. It’s just about enjoying that process and that was always the lesson to the young guys. Enjoy the process and you’ll never know how high you go.” In the meantime, the clock is ticking before McKeever hangs up the boots for good and eases into the well-deserved retirement that he has worked so hard to achieve throughout the years. He’s got his eyes set on one more large appearance before he rides off into the sunset. “I think at this point it’s three years and that’ll be it. So Beijing, to the next games. It’ll be my seventh, I guess. Sixth Paralympics, one Olympics. I’m getting pretty grey. But that’s part of it. I’m definitely feeling it — the body doesn’t recover the same way and the injuries don’t go away. That’s it. I used to get better and I don’t get better anymore. They just kinda get managed.” If there’s anyone who can safely bow down and take a rest with having no regrets, it’s Brian McKeever. bmcneil@postmedia.com www.twitter.com/BMcNeilDFTC UCP member apologizes for 'unintentionally' comparing pride flag to swastikas	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4829
__label__wiki	0.752076	0.752076	Acquiring a Second Language for School Acquiring a second language for school: A conceptual model Interdependence of the four components Research-based recommendations for educators During the past two decades, rapidly increasing language minority demographics have had a major impact on U.S. schools. Yet even with all the varied instructional approaches that U.S. educators have undertaken to address the concern for providing a "meaningful education" for language minority students (Lau v. Nichols, 1974), we are still struggling to identify the most effective education practices. Given the misinformation that persists about second language acquisition among both educators and the public, this article is written to guide the reader through the substantial research knowledge base that our field has developed over the past 25 years. Much misunderstanding occurs because many U.S. policy makers and educators assume that language learning can be isolated from other issues and that the first thing students must do is to learn English. To understand the reasons why this oversimplistic perception does not work, a conceptual model that explains the process that students are going through when acquiring a second language during the school years was developed. The model has four major components: sociocultural, linguistic, academic, and cognitive processes. To understand the interrelationships among these four components, figure one illustrates the developmental second language acquisition process that occurs in the school context. While this figure looks simple on paper, it is important to imagine that this is a multifaceted prism with many dimensions. The four major components sociocultural, linguistic, academic, and cognitive processes are interdependent and complex. Figure 1: Language acquisition for school (Copyright, Virginia P. Collier, 1994.) Sociocultural processes At the heart of the figure is the individual student going through the process of acquiring a second language in school. Central to that student's acquisition of language are all of the surrounding social and cultural processes occurring through everyday life within the student's past, present, and future, in all contexts home, school, community, and the broader society. Community or regional social patterns such as prejudice and discrimination expressed towards groups or individuals in personal and professional contexts can influence students' achievement in school, as well as societal patterns such as subordinate status of a minority group or acculturation vs. assimilation forces at work. These factors can strongly influence the student's response to the new language, affecting the process positively only when the student is in a socioculturally supportive environment. Linguistic processes, a second component of the model, consist of the subconscious aspects of language development (an innate ability all humans possess for acquisition of oral language), as well as the metalinguistic, conscious, formal teaching of language in school, and acquisition of the written system of language. To assure cognitive and academic success in a second language, a student's first language system, oral and written, must be developed to a high cognitive level at least through the elementary-school years. Academic development A third component of the model, academic development, includes all school work in language arts, mathematics, the sciences, and social studies for each grade level, Grades K-12 and beyond. With each succeeding grade, academic work dramatically expands the vocabulary, sociolinguistic, and discourse dimensions of language to higher cognitive levels. Academic knowledge and conceptual development transfer from the first language to the second language; thus it is most efficient to develop academic work through students' first language, while teaching the second language during other periods of the school day through meaningful academic content. In earlier decades in the United States, we emphasized teaching the second language as the first step, and postponed the teaching of academics. Research has shown us that postponing or interrupting academic development is likely to promote academic failure. In an information driven society that demands more knowledge processing with each succeeding year, students cannot afford the lost time. Cognitive development The fourth component of this model, the cognitive dimension, has been mostly neglected by second language educators in the U.S. until the past decade. In language teaching, we simplified, structured, and sequenced language curricula during the 1970s, and when we added academic content into our language lessons in the 1980s, we watered down academics into cognitively simple tasks. We also too often neglected the crucial role of cognitive development in the first language. Now we know from our growing research base that we must address all of these components equally if we are to succeed in developing deep academic proficiency in a second language. All of these four components — sociocultural, academic, cognitive, and linguistic — are interdependent. If one is developed to the neglect of another, this may be detrimental to a student's overall growth and future success. The academic, cognitive, and linguistic components must be viewed as developmental, and for the child, adolescent, and young adult still going through the process of formal schooling, development of any one of these three components depends critically on simultaneous development of the other two, through both first and second languages. Sociocultural processes strongly influence, in both positive and negative ways, students' access to cognitive, academic, and language development. It is crucial that educators provide a socioculturally supportive school environment that allows natural language, academic, and cognitive development to flourish. In current research (Thomas & Collier, 1995), when examining interactions among student background variables and instructional treatments and their influence on student outcomes, we have found that two-way bilingual education at the elementary school level is the most promising program model for the long-term academic success of language minority students. Program characteristics include: Integrated schooling, with English speakers and language minority students learning academically through each others' languages Perceptions among staff, students, and parents that it is a "gifted and talented" program, leading to high expectations for student performance Equal status of the two languages achieved, to a large extent, creating self-confidence among language minority students Healthy parent involvement among both language minority and language majority parents for closer home-school cooperation Continuous support for staff development, emphasizing whole language approaches, natural language acquisition through all content areas, cooperative learning, interactive and discovery learning, and cognitive complexity of the curriculum for all proficiency levels. ESL pullout in the early grades, when taught traditionally, is the least successful program model for students' long-term academic success. During Grades K-3, there is little difference between programs, but significant differences appear as students continue in the mainstream at the secondary level. When first language instructional support cannot be provided, the following program characteristics can make a significant difference in academic achievement for English language learners entering U.S. schools at the secondary level: Second language taught through academic content Conscious focus on teaching learning strategies needed to develop thinking skills and problem-solving abilities Continuous support for staff development emphasizing activation of students' prior knowledge, respect for students' home language and culture, cooperative learning, interactive and discovery learning, intense and meaningful cognitive/academic development, and ongoing assessment using multiple measures. Our data show that extensive cognitive and academic development in students' first language is crucial to second language academic success. Furthermore, the sociocultural context in which students are schooled is equally important to students' long-term success in second language schooling. Contrary to the popular idea that it takes a motivated student a short time to acquire a second language, our studies examining immigrants and language minority students in many different regions of the U.S. and with many different background characteristics have found that 4-12 years of second language development are needed for the most advantaged students to reach deep academic proficiency and compete successfully with native speakers. Given the extensive length of time, educators must understand the complex variables influencing the second language process and provide a sociocultural context that is supportive while academically and cognitively challenging. Excerpted from: Collier, V. P. (Fall, 1995). Acquiring a Second Language for School. Directions in Language & Education, vol. 1, no. 4. 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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Major support provided by our founding partner, the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO. With generous support provided by the National Education Association. Using Cognates to Develop Comprehension in English Language Objectives: The Key to Effective Content Area Instruction for English Learners Essential Actions: 15 Research-based Practices to Increase ELL Student Achievement Five Things Teachers Can Do to Improve Learning for ELLs in the New Year Tweets by @ColorinColorado	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4830
__label__wiki	0.799109	0.799109	Kansas City to St. Louis Hyperloop Project Kicks Off with Feasibility Study Posted on January 31, 2018 April 18, 2019 KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 30, 2018 — The Missouri Hyperloop Coalition, a public-private partnership dedicated to advancing a hyperloop route linking Kansas City, Columbia, and St. Louis, today announced an agreement to move forward on a groundbreaking, in-depth feasibility study of an ultra-high-speed hyperloop route along I-70 in Missouri. Black and Veatch, a global leader in building critical infrastructure, headquartered in Kansas City, will conduct the study in partnership with Virgin Hyperloop One and the University of Missouri System. Missouri’s proposed hyperloop route would connect a combined five million residents in Kansas City, Columbia, and St. Louis in under 30 minutes. “Led by a coalition that first met through the Governor’s Innovation Task Force last summer, the Missouri Hyperloop Coalition is bringing innovators from across Missouri together to imagine how we can act boldly to compete in the future,” Missouri’s Chief Operating Officer, Drew Erdmann said. “Black & Veatch is pleased to be part of the Missouri Coalition team working to bring the hyperloop to our region,” said Steve Edwards, Chairman and CEO of Black & Veatch. “Working with the team at Virgin Hyperloop One, University of Missouri System and our Coalition partners, we believe our experience in next-generation transportation and large scale infrastructure development will play a key role in moving the project forward.” The feasibility study will analyze the technical alignment as well as the potential economic impact and benefits of integrating hyperloop into the I-70 corridor connecting Kansas City, Columbia, and St. Louis. It will also outline the next steps required for an eventual hyperloop project in the state, including development of a high-level cost estimate and funding model recommendations to enable the project to move forward. “MoDOT is committed to delivering transportation solutions of lasting value and moving passengers and freight across Missouri safely and reliably. The State of Missouri will be a beneficiary of the feasibility study, and we look forward to contributing data and information to the study. We are especially pleased that the private sector is taking the helm and MoDOT will be able to participate without using Missouri taxpayer dollars,” says Michael DeMers, Director of Innovative Partnerships and Alternative Funding at the Missouri Department of Transportation. “We are very excited and supportive of this effort to bring hyperloop to Missouri,” said Mun Choi, president of the University of Missouri System. “This project has enormous economic potential for our state and could improve collaborative efforts of our researchers with colleagues throughout the state in ways we can only imagine right now. Additionally, I believe there are significant benefits to current faculty and students and prospective students with this transformational transportation system.” “By embracing innovations like hyperloop, Missouri can enhance its competitiveness and dramatically alter the way people and goods move,” said Virgin Hyperloop One CEO Rob Lloyd. “A hyperloop connection between the state’s two thriving cities can help provide millions of residents with greater access to jobs and opportunities — giving Missouri an undeniable edge in attracting new business and talent.” “The ability to seamlessly connect the economy in Kansas City with the rest of the state, and beyond, should have every business leader dreaming about the possibilities,” said KC Tech Council president Ryan Weber. “Tech industry leaders, in particular, are thrilled about the opportunity for our transportation and infrastructure to match the innovative spirit and demonstrated growth in Kansas City’s tech community.” “The fact that the broader business community has embraced this opportunity sets Missouri apart,” said Andrew Smith, Vice President of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the St. Louis Regional Chamber. “We have a long history of transportation innovation—from the birth of the interstate highway system to funding the first trans-Atlantic flight. There is no reason why Missouri can’t be the site of the first inter-city hyperloop route.” “It’s exciting to see this project moving forward,” Rob Dixon, Director of the Missouri Department of Economic Development said. “With innovations like hyperloop, we’re demonstrating that Missouri isn’t afraid to take on bold new ideas that make our state a better place to live and do business.” Missouri’s proposed hyperloop route would connect a combined five million residents in Kansas City, Columbia, and St. Louis with a journey time under 30 minutes, enabling residents to access growing business communities, research universities, and a network of world-class technology, plant science and animal health research hubs. A hyperloop connection could help to ease increasing passenger and freight congestion in the 240-mile corridor. Hyperloop is a new ultra-high-speed mode of transportation that moves freight and people quickly, safely, on-demand and direct from origin to destination. In a hyperloop, passengers and cargo are loaded into a pod, and accelerate gradually via electric propulsion through a low-pressure tube. The pod quickly lifts above the track using magnetic levitation and glides at speeds up to 640 miles per hour for long distances due to ultra-low aerodynamic drag. Recently Virgin Hyperloop One opens in a new windowset a historic test speed record of nearly 240 miles per hour (387 kilometers per hour, 107 meters per second) during its third phase of testing at DevLoop, the world’s first full-scale hyperloop test site. Missouri originally proposed the I-70 route to Virgin Hyperloop One two years ago as part of the Missouri Department of Transportation’s “Road to Tomorrow” project to promote innovation along the I-70. The project was also referenced in the summary report issued by the Governor’s Innovation Task Force. To view Missouri’s proposed hyperloop route map as well as hyperloop b-roll click here. Hyperloop media images can be accessed at: opens in a new windowhttps://hyperloop-one.com/media-gallery. About the Missouri Hyperloop Coalition Formed in October 2017, the Missouri Hyperloop Coalition is a public-private partnership to advance the building of a hyperloop route linking Kansas City, Columbia, and St. Louis along the I-70 interstate corridor. The coalition is comprised of the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), the St. Louis Regional Chamber, the KC Tech Council, the University of Missouri System, and the Missouri Innovation Center in Columbia. Coalition organizers include Andrew Smith, Bill Turpin, Ryan Weber, and Thomas Blair as well as other private sector leaders. About Virgin Hyperloop One Virgin Hyperloop One is the only company in the world that has built a fully operational hyperloop system. Our team has the world’s leading experts in engineering, technology, and transport project delivery, working in tandem with global partners and investors to make hyperloop a reality, now. For more information, visit opens in a new windowwww.hyperloop-one.com. About Black & Veatch Black & Veatch is an employee-owned, global leader in building critical human infrastructure in Energy, Water, Telecommunications and Government Services. Since 1915, it has helped clients improve the lives of people in over 100 countries through consulting, engineering, construction, operations and program management. Company revenues in 2016 were $3.2 billion. Follow Black & Veatch at opens in a new windowwww.bv.com and in social media.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4831
__label__wiki	0.789494	0.789494	State targets transfer rule The Citizens' Voice Sports Tweets by SportsCV By Joby Fawcett / Published: June 12, 2019 TIMES-SHAMROCK FILE A Greater Nanticoke Area player takes a shot during a PIAA Class 4A boys playoff game against Bonner-Prendergast in March at Freedom High School in Bethlehem. A plan to separate state high school playoffs for public and private schools was unveiled Tuesday and included a surprising move to eliminate the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association transfer rule. State Rep. Aaron Bernstine, R-Beaver, introduced House Bill 1600, also known as the Parity Interscholastic Athletics Act, during a press conference in Harrisburg. If passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate, the legislation would create separate PIAA tournaments for public and private schools in football, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, girls volleyball, and baseball and softball. Charter schools would be included among public schools. District tournaments and regular seasons would not be affected by the proposed changed. The elimination of the transfer rule, Bernstine said, would address the inequitable enforcement of it at the PIAA and district levels. “The PIAA and the districts have done their best,” Bernstine said. “There are so many mitigating factors and students are being hurt and harmed not only athletically, but academically. Taking that away puts students in the best situation to succeed athletically and academically.” On Tuesday afternoon, the PIAA issued a statement rebuking the legislation, saying that “creating segregated public/private classifications and/or tournaments” is not the answer and is “ill-advised, contrary to the purposes of PIAA, is unfair to our membership and should be rejected.” The PIAA took an even stronger stance in regard to the transfer rule. “The elimination of the transfer rule would expose Pennsylvania athletes and schools to the chaos that has resulted in those states which have done so. It requires little research to see what has happened in states that permit open transfers. AAU teams, shoe companies and other third parties promote consolidation of top athletes at ‘preferred’ schools, which result in powerhouses where schools simply reload each year with high profile athletes,” the release stated. The PIAA has long stood behind Act 219. Adopted in 1972, it provides equality for all schools in the state and brought to an end the Pennsylvania Catholic Interscholastic Championship tournaments. “The proposal, I think, has pitfalls for schools,” PIAA Executive Director Robert Lombardi said. “I don’t think this was very well crafted and it is contrary to what the work we have done with the Pennsylvania Athletic Oversight Committee, which we answer to annually.” The legislation was drafted by a team that included Bernstine, Eric A. Failing, executive director of the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference; Sean McAleer, Pennsylvania Catholic Conference Department on Elementary and Secondary Education director; William Hall, superintendent at Millcreek Township School District, and Leonard Rich, superintendent at Laurel School District, who represented the Pennsylvania Equity Steering Committee. The Pennsylvania Catholic Conference represents all of the state’s Catholic dioceses and its support of the bill is in contrast to its once strong opposition to separation of schools when it comes to athletics. “This is a big change,” Failing said. “Change can be scary. Don’t make any snap judgments. This is about the kids. We just want to make sure all kids are treated fairly. There have been issues in sports. There are issues with the PIAA. When we had the invitation to sit down and work on this issue, it’s exactly what we wanted to do. We don’t close our door to anybody.” Bernstine said the bill came together after almost a year of work following the superintendents’ Playoff Equity Summit in State College last summer, led by Rich and Hall. In addressing the concerns from public school superintendents and administrators at that meeting, the PIAA made adjustments to curtail the perceived inequities in competitive balance that stoke this issue. The PIAA worked with the Pennsylvania Athletic Oversight Committee since September, and advised the Equity Committee to work together in addressing some of the concerns. “(The) PIAA has firmed up its transfer rules and adopted a competition formula to address competitive balance based upon the wishes of the membership. The process of re-classifying schools will begin at the end of the 2019 fall sports season,” according to the PIAA release. The PIAA acknowledged concerns among its membership, and emphasized its effort in working with the PAOC to make a more level playing field, and feels this legislation negatively impacts the progress made by the organization. “While we understand desires to solve perceived problems, this approach is contrary to the PAOC’s direction, which is to have all of the represented constituencies, discuss and address the issues. That is the function of the PIAA Board of Directors, which has all groups represented. “Despite representations that all stakeholders were at the table, PIAA was not part of the development of this legislation. This legislation is a disappointing effort at an end run around the PAOC’s position,” according to the statement. jbfawcett@timesshamrock.com	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4833
__label__cc	0.57885	0.42115	All Star Stand Up Comedy 12/01/18 through 12/30/18 \| Time varies Broadway Comedy Club 318 W 53rd St Map 01-12-2018 12:00:00 30-12-2018 12:00:00 America/New_York All Star Stand Up Comedy \| Time varies Broadway Comedy Club presents a lineup full of our Top Headliners. These are the best comedians from New York City with special guests from all across the country. You've seen them on MTV, HBO, The Tonight Show, Comedy Central, The Daily Show, Last Comic Standing and more! http://www.cityguideny.com/eventinfo.cfm?id=339114 Broadway Comedy Club Broadway Comedy Club Broadway Comedy Club presents a lineup full of our Top Headliners. These are the best comedians from New York City with special guests from all across the country. You've seen them on MTV, HBO, The Tonight Show, Comedy Central, The Daily Show, Last Comic Standing and more! Upcoming Events at Broadway Comedy Club Magic show featuring Randy Masters - 05/04/19 - 05/04/91 Date Me, Do Me, Dump Me - 07/18/19 Magic show - 07/27/19 Kevin Fraser World Tour - 08/10/19	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4834
__label__wiki	0.539466	0.539466	Home More News City Moving Forward on Renewable Energy Aggregation Plan City Moving Forward on Renewable Energy Aggregation Plan The City is moving forward on a plan to bring more renewable energy resources to our community, a plan that will help reduce our carbon footprint and help keep New Brunswick clean, green and sustainable. Earlier this year, the City Council asked the City Administration, following a suggestion from NJ Food & Water Watch, to explore partnering with third-party energy providers to allow for more renewable energy resources to power our community. NJ Food & Water Watch is an organization that has partnered with the City on past initiatives, such as an ordinance that forbids the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” within City limits, and just last month, a resolution declaring New Brunswick’s support for lessened use of fossil fuels for the benefit of our community, state and planet. On July 2, Food & Water Watch delivered a petition to the City of New Brunswick supporting an ordinance that would codify the City’s commitment to renewable energy by partnering with third-party energy providers. While state law requires the City Clerk to certify whether the petition is valid or not, the City intends to move forward with the planned ordinance to implement more renewable energy sources to help keep New Brunswick green, clean and sustainable, regardless of whether the petition is deemed valid. The City of New Brunswick, already a Certified Sustainable Jersey Municipality because of its energy, sustainability and green future initiatives, looks forward to working with the community and NJ Food & Water Watch on this new initiative.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4835
__label__cc	0.631225	0.368775	Archive for month: November, 2018 Home » Archives for November 2018 The Right to Energy Data – An Emerging Environmental Justice Issue November 27, 2018 /in Resilient Power Project, Energy Storage Seth Mullendore /by Clean Energy Group Author: Seth Mullendore, Clean Energy Group \| Projects: Resilient Power Project, Energy Storage The simplest things often stand in the way of progress. A case in point is energy data and battery storage. For utility customers to understand how batteries could lower their electric bills, they need to understand how their building uses energy throughout the day. But in many places across the country, it’s extremely difficult, if not impossible for customers to get access to that basic information. In many cases, utilities don’t even have the data. When the data is available, it can be time consuming or costly to retrieve. This is a growing problem. Utilities are increasingly shifting their customers to more complex rates structures, such as time-of-use (TOU) rates that vary electricity pricing throughout the day and demand charges that bill customers for the highest rate they use electricity. Despite the added complexity of these rates, the only insight many ratepayers have into their energy usage are a few line items on a monthly bill – leaving them with little to no idea how to go about responding to utility pricing signals and reducing their electricity expenses. Customers are forced to pay these charges without any information about how to reduce them – an energy Catch-22. This issue can hit small nonprofit organizations, like affordable housing providers and those providing essential services to disadvantaged communities, the hardest. These organizations face the same electric charges as larger companies but often have less access to their electricity data and fewer resources to obtain and interpret the data if it does exist. It is unfair and inequitable. Smarter policies need to be enacted to correct this injustice. As for battery storage, simply put, utility customers need access to detailed (at least hourly) energy usage data to determine the value of batteries for their home or business. Today, lack of access to this data represents a major barrier to many customers across the country. Without knowing exactly when a building is using electricity and how much electricity it is using at different times throughout a day or billing cycle, customers are left in an information dark alley. Without access to information about their energy use, customers can’t reliably determine the value proposition for advanced energy management tools like energy storage or even the true value of solar –especially under TOU rates or net-metering structures where exported energy is compensated at less than the retail rate. This means that customers can’t maximize savings on their bills. It also undercuts the potential for solar and storage to deliver other benefits, such as providing energy resiliency in a storm. This exact data barrier was cited in arguments against residential demand charges proposed and, despite extreme opposition, approved in Massachusetts in 2018. As argued by the northeastern advocacy group Acadia Center, “Given the lack of sophisticated metering in Massachusetts, there is no way for consumers to know what time this peak [demand] occurred and what actions could be taken to manage these charges. As a result, consumers will be paying the highest possible rate for this [demand] charge without being provided the information needed to understand the cause of these costs.” This data problem is in no way limited to Massachusetts consumers. A 2017 report issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) estimated that, by the end of 2015, only around 40 percent of utility meters were capable of recording detailed electricity usage data, often referred to as “interval data”. Within those numbers, FERC found wide disparities in advanced metering deployment – ranging from less than 10 percent of commercial customers in the greater New England region to more than 80 percent coverage in Texas. Since 2015, the penetration of advanced metering has risen to around two-thirds of customers but access to data has remained a persistent issue. Oddly enough, these advanced utility meters are missing in the most unexpected places. New York raised the bar for state energy storage goals with its 1.5-megawatt target and is often held up as a leader in energy innovation due to its ongoing Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) process. Despite these innovative goals, in New York City, there is a severe lack of advanced meters among affordable housing and community services facilities. That means the owners and operators of these buildings, many of which face some of the highest demand charges in the country, don’t have the most fundamental information to judge whether battery storage technologies could help reduce operating expenses, while potentially adding much needed resilience benefits. Other regions are leading the way on data access. Some utilities, such as California’s three big investor-owned utilities, have made interval data access relatively simple and easy. Each of the utilities allows for customers to access their data through a service called Green Button. (The Green Button standard was initially created with support from the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institute of Standards & Technology to give customers easy access to their energy data in a consumer-friendly format.) Through Green Button, California utility customers can download their data and analyze the economics of storage with free software like the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s REopt Lite optimization tool or share it with a third party for analysis. But California may be more the exception than the rule as far as data access goes. Through our work on the Resilient Power Project, Clean Energy Group has encountered data access issues time and time again when trying to assist affordable housing owners and critical community facilities in figuring out if solar and battery storage makes economic sense for their properties. Many of the groups we work with are initially unaware of whether interval data is even available for their property, much less how to go about accessing it. In Portland, Oregon, a partner of ours spent several months going back and forth with the local utility, Portland General Electric (PGE), to gain access to interval data for several low-income properties being evaluated for solar and battery storage. PGE has the data and knows how to get it, but the process of identifying the right person to talk to and which forms to file was aptly described as an “exercise in persistence”. Data access posed a needless barrier to the work, sucking up time and resources that many organizations cannot afford to spend. Back to Massachusetts. For those customers fortunate enough to already have advanced metering in place at their facility, the process has been simple. Boston-area customers can submit a request to the utility, Eversource, and, for a small fee, data access is allowed for a limited time. Not ideal for folks interested in continually or even periodically monitoring energy usage, but at least functional for a one-time analysis. Those without advanced metering have a difficult choice to make. Despite being subject to very high demand charges, accounting for more than half of electricity expenses for some customers, many Eversource customers don’t have advanced meters installed. We’ve worked with several affordable housing providers in the Boston area struggling with this issue. Their limited options are: Do nothing and potentially miss out on thousands of dollars in savings each year. Switch to a TOU rate that would include free installation of advanced metering but could result in higher energy expenses (which they can’t accurately determine without access to interval data). Pay around $2,000 to have an advanced meter installed by the utility, then wait months to gather enough data to see if storage might make economic sense. Install an energy data logger (which may cost a similar amount as the utility meter) and again wait for the data to come in. Run a generic economic analysis using modeled representative electricity usage data (not the sort of thing recommended as the basis for big investments). It’s not the most promising list of options. Paying for utility meter upgrades or energy data loggers can be prohibitively expensive for many organizations. The solutions to this data problem should be simple. If a utility customer is subject to rates where how and when they use electricity makes a difference, like time-varying rates or demand charges, they should have simple, open access to the data that can help them respond to those rates. Utilities should be required to install meters capable of measuring and recording such data and to provide an intuitive, free platform for consumers to access that data, such as through Green Button. If, for some reason, this is not feasible, government agencies should support funding for implementation of measures such as data loggers that customers would purchase and install to track and record usage information, particularly for public facilities and those serving low-income and vulnerable communities. This should be a fundamental demand of any environmental justice advocacy effort in major cities – to get city or state policies and funding in place to ensure that data is free and accessible. Flat rates are increasingly becoming a relic of the past. As the grid and corresponding utility rate structures evolve, customers should have a right to access to their own electricity usage data to respond to and evolve with them. This should be implemented as a default, standard practice for every electric utility consumer, not a decision left to the whims of utility executives and shareholder interests. Free access to this energy data should be a basic right in today’s changing energy regulatory environment. This blog post was also published in Renewable Energy World. https://www.cleanegroup.org/wp-content/uploads/bigstock-Digital-Background-Secure-dat-188760793.jpg 330 480 Clean Energy Group https://www.cleanegroup.org/wp-content/uploads/Clean-Energy-Group-logo-275x70.png Clean Energy Group2018-11-27 11:29:192018-11-30 14:47:31The Right to Energy Data – An Emerging Environmental Justice Issue Maryland’s New Resiliency Program Could Serve as a Model for Other States November 8, 2018 /in Resilient Power Project, Energy Storage Seth Mullendore /by Clean Energy Group Author: Seth Mullendore, Clean Energy Group \| Project: Resilient Power Project There’s a lot to like about the Maryland Energy Administration’s (MEA) new $5 million program to support community resiliency hubs powered by solar and battery storage. It recognizes the value of providing basic services in an emergency, prioritizes low-income communities, provides adequate levels of funding for solar and batteries as well as related electrical work and components, allows for flexible use cases, and sets realistic goals. MEA’s program has been a long time in the making. Back in 2014, Clean Energy Group (CEG) suggested the City of Baltimore invest in solar and storage to strengthen the resilience of low-income communities in its report, Clean Energy for Resilient Communities: Expanding Solar Generation in Baltimore’s Low-Income Neighborhoods. Since then, both MEA and CEG have been working to support the development of the first resiliency hubs in Baltimore. This new program will help ensure those effort continue and, if properly implemented, the program could serve as a model for accelerating the development of community resilient power systems across the country. Let’s start with the goal of MEA’s program: energy resilience to support basic services for low-income populations when the grid is down. MEA defines a resiliency hub as a facility that is located within short walking distance from economically disadvantaged populations and that can serve as a heating and cooling center, provide refrigeration for medications and milk for nursing mothers, and allow for charging of small devices, like cell phones and computers. Buildings such as schools, religious institutions, community centers, senior centers, and affordable housing buildings with community spaces are recommended examples of suitable facilities. The hubs are meant to be meeting places and information centers for the surrounding community during an outage. They are intended to strengthen the resilience of local communities, not to replace emergency shelters or hospitals. Now on to the funding. Grants are available to provide $1,300 per kilowatt of the system, based on the size of the solar array. So, a 30-kilowatt solar array paired with 40 kilowatt-hours of storage would be eligible for $39,000 in grant funding, which should be enough to cover most, if not all, of the installed cost of the battery. For reference, California’s successful Self-Generation Incentive Program offers a storage incentive of $350 per kilowatt-hour. Additionally, the grant will cover up to $700 per kilowatt to pay for a critical load panel, rewiring critical loads to the panel, disconnect switches, and other equipment and work needed to allow the system to island from the grid and operate independently during an outage. This added level of funding support sets MEA’s program apart from typical solar and storage incentives that don’t account for the added cost of isolating critical loads and making a system resilient. According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), these additional resilience-related expenses can increase the cost of a solar+storage installation by anywhere from 10 to 50 percent. The grant also covers up to $1,000 in fees that a city or county office of emergency management may charge to review the project. Finally, the program is flexible, not restricting use cases or system configurations. The resiliency hub program is designed to incentivize resilient solar+storage systems, but it does not limit functionality to backup power alone. Program guidelines specifically state that the solar+storage systems can also be used to reduce electric bills, both through solar generation offsetting electricity use and through batteries managing demand to reduce utility demand charges. The battery system can also expressly participate in providing grid services, such as frequency regulation. The only stipulation is that the battery must be at least 90 percent charged prior to any known severe weather conditions that could result in a power outage. The program also recognizes that, while traditional generators have a record of failing during emergencies, fossil-fuel backup generators are still often the default technology for resilience. The MEA funding will not pay for a traditional generator or cover the cost of integrating generators into a resilient solar+storage system, but it also does not exclude systems that choose to incorporate fossil-fuel generation. This is important to allow facilities with additional high-power loads or existing backup power strategies to have an opportunity to participate in the program. So, there are a lot of good elements in MEA’s program, but it’s not perfect. To apply for funding, projects need to submit solar+storage system sizing details and a one-line design diagram. This level of detail can be difficult for facilities owned and operated by small non-profit organizations to provide. There are some free tools out there that can help with system sizing – MEA suggests NREL’s online tool, REopt Lite. (For organizations not familiar with REopt Lite, this webinar is good place to start. Clean Energy Group offers free training on the tool for non-profit organizations serving disadvantaged communities.) That still leaves the issue of the one-line diagram. Generating a one-line diagram requires at least some level of engineering support, and that costs money. Few community organizations have the in-house expertise or resources to identify and engage an energy expert to satisfy this requirement. Ideally, MEA’s program would provide upfront support to prospective applicants to offset these costs and identify trusted sources of expertise. This type of predevelopment funding gap has been a consistent problem with programs aiming to reach disadvantaged populations. Through its Resilient Power Technical Assistance Fund grant program, Clean Energy Group has worked to bridge this gap for dozens of projects across the county, but our resources can only go so far in supporting this pivotal stage of the early development process. It may be that these issues will be worked out before the program is fully up and running. In any case, MEA’s $5 million program is an excellent start to address the need for resilient power hubs in Maryland, but the funding will likely only be enough to reach a limited number of communities. With a cap of about $500,000 per project, as few as ten hubs could exhaust this initial round of program funding. By comparison, Puerto Rico recently proposed devoting $500 million in Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Relief funds toward advancing resilient solar+storage and resiliency hubs for its about 3.5 million residents. Maryland has a population of more than 6 million. Despite these limitations, MEA’s new resiliency hub program represents a great step in the right direction. This type of proactive measure, designed to prepare disadvantaged communities for the next wave of extreme weather events instead of just responding in the wake of another climate-induced humanitarian crisis, is encouraging. Hopefully, the success of MEA’s program will serve as a model for other states to follow and implement. https://www.cleanegroup.org/wp-content/uploads/bigstock-Flag-State-Of-Maryland-On-A-Fl-264510622.jpg 330 480 Clean Energy Group https://www.cleanegroup.org/wp-content/uploads/Clean-Energy-Group-logo-275x70.png Clean Energy Group2018-11-08 12:23:202018-11-08 15:26:41Maryland’s New Resiliency Program Could Serve as a Model for Other States	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4839
__label__wiki	0.873129	0.873129	Business Observer Friday, Mar. 19, 2004 15 years ago Coffee Talk (Tampa edition) This week' items: Gov. Jeb Bush hasn't budged on his budget proposal to fund the state trial courts.Court becomes hazardous waste siteHenry Andringa will be interviewed today by the 6th Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission for the seat No give Gov. Jeb Bush hasn't budged on his budget proposal to fund the state trial courts under Revision 7 to Article V of the state Constitution - the voter mandate to shift funding to the state from county governments. A Bush spokesperson told Coffee Talk the governor made no new recommendations for courts funding under his recently released supplemental budget. He issued the supplemental budget in response to estimates that show the availability of about $1.1 billion in new state revenue. There is some good news, however. The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Article V Implementation and Judiciary just released its Revision 7 funding projections. It budgeted about $14.6 million more than the governor's budget for trial courts funding. Although it's difficult to follow the spreadsheet, Elizabeth "Lisa" Goodner, the state courts' administrator, says her staff estimates the subcommittee allocated about $113.5 million in start up funds for just the state trial courts. The governor originally recommended about $98.8 million. But the subcommittee recommendation is still far less than the $167 million recommended by the Florida Supreme Court's Trial Court Budget Commission (TCBC). Judges will be happy to know the subcommittee recognized their concerns about judicial assistants. The TCBC sought $8 million to cover that expense, while Bush recommended only $2.3 million. The subcommittee instead recommended $9.5 million. On the other hand, the subcommittee's budget fell in line with Bush's recommendations for masters and hearing officers - only 105.5 full-time equivalent positions. The TCBC sought 198. One piece of the fiduciary puzzle is still missing. The state House Subcommittee of Judicial Appropriations was expected to release its budget recommendations on March 18 after GCBR's deadline for this issue. Then the politics begin as the House and Senate compare their recommendations for final allocations. Court becomes hazardous waste site The 2nd District Court of Appeal has an unexpected problem: The older half of the Lakeland building that houses the court has been declared an EPA hazardous waste site. No kidding. Workers remodeling the older part of the building recently discovered asbestos tiles (from the early '60s) above the ceiling, which means that area is now sealed off from the rest of the building where Chief Judge Chris Altenbernd and others now work. "It could cost upwards to a million dollars to get that part of the building back in operation," Altenbernd says. "Even if we bulldoze it, it will cost half a million because we have to abate - remove all the asbestos material." Not only is money for the unanticipated repairs a problem, the server for Altenbernd's computer is in that part of the building, as are large records for several pending big appeals, he says. But there is some good news, maybe. "I was very concerned where I'd find the money," Altenbernd recently told the St. Petersburg Bar Association. "But then like manna from heaven I received a pleading from a prisoner, General Michael Manuel Brown. At the very bottom it says, 'enclosed is $3,999,999.' Unfortunately the clerk won't cough up this money. But I'm going to track this down." The chief judge might have an easier time getting the money from the inmate than getting it out of the Legislature this year. At long last In Henry Andringa's 16 years on the bench, he has not once applied to be a circuit judge. That has now changed. Andringa, 60, will be interviewed today by the 6th Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission for the seat previously held by Charles Cope. Three other county judges, Walter Fullerton, Sonny Im and Amy Williams, are vying for the spot, as are 25 lawyers. Andringa has spent most of his years as Pinellas County's administrative judge or as a judge in the "People's Court," as he likes to call it. He was clearly reticent to talk publicly about his decision to become a circuit judge prior to talking to the JNC. But he says he stayed a county judge for so many years because "it was an important position." "Now I'm ready to try something else," Andringa says. If the governor promotes Andringa, he'll join his former sidekick at the Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney's Office on the circuit bench, Judge Frank Quesada. The two, in their younger days, were known as "Hank and Frank." Builders face skyrocketing steel costs Recent steel price increases and supply shortages are starting to mean big bucks for construction companies and their clients. "It's a mixture of the tariffs, a lack of supply and a decline in (steel ore)," says Jack Cox, president of Sarasota-based Halfacre Construction Co. "Everyone is facing pretty stiff increases. The price increases started Feb. 1. I think so far they have gone up a total of 66%. So far a lot of companies have been absorbing it, but there is only so much cost we can absorb. We are scheduled for another 25% increase April 1." Cox estimates that the construction cost of a $1 million, 25,000-square-foot commercial building will jump by at least $60,000 because of increasing steel prices. Trident Building Systems Inc. of Sarasota, which designs, manufacturers, and constructs metal buildings, is one of the companies that has been hardest hit. "We should be building out of gold; it would be cheaper," Lee Moss, director of sales and product development for Trident, says jokingly. "Everything we do is steel. We've seen product increases of 100%. How can we absorb that? Steel used to be 20 cents to 25 cents a pound; now, it is 45 cents to 50 cents a pound. This is pretty unbelievable. The only times I can remember when we have seen prices go up this much is in 1974 and the Korean War." Moss says that another possible cause of the price increase is that China has increased its purchase of steel from 22% of the total world market to around 35%. "Steel is one of the most recyclable commodities," Moss says. "The U.S. gets almost all of its product from scrap. (But) the price of scrap has gone from $60 to more than $400 a ton." Coffee Talk (Sara/Mana edition)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4840
__label__wiki	0.909601	0.909601	Fashion-Tech Can Jet.com Take a Bite Out of Amazon Fashion? By Chantal Fernandez March 24, 2017 05:20 Jet.com is snapping up fashion businesses. Can the Walmart-owned e-commerce marketplace threaten Amazon’s online apparel supremacy? NEW YORK, United States — “The first order of business and priority is to make sure we win in the US,” said Marc Lore, co-founder of Jet.com, at a recent conference. “It’s not going to happen in 12 months, but win means win.” The current Walmart e-commerce chief executive spoke about his ambitions and Jet.com’s much-hyped rivalry with Amazon at technology news website Recode’s Code Commerce event on Monday. Lore, who assumed his role when the big box retailer acquired Jet.com in August 2016, is on an acquisition spree. Last week Jet.com bought ModCloth, an online women’s retailer known for vintage-inspired clothing, its diverse range of sizes and loyal consumer base. The financial terms were not disclosed, but sources estimate the purchase price was a bargain at around $40 to $60 million — far less than the over $75 million ModCloth raised from investors since it was founded 15 years ago. “There’s a lot we can learn from that brand, and there is an opportunity to acquire brands like Modcloth that are sort of vertically integrated, [and have] great margins and unique product that is not found anywhere else,” said Lore. Lore has been working at a feverish pace to dominate the e-commerce market since Walmart acquired Jet.com in August 2016 for $3.3 billion — the largest-ever acquisition of an e-commerce company. Walmart’s online sales grew 29 percent year-over-year in the most recent quarter ending January 27. (Walmart does not release dollar figures for e-commerce sales.) In a January earnings call, chief executive Doug McMillon said Walmart is now the second-largest US online retailer by revenue, and has more than quadrupled the number of items available to over 35 million since the acquisition. Jet.com is focused on price efficiency, while Amazon is focused on speed efficiency. To accelerate its growth, Jet.com has snapped up several smaller online retailers in addition to ModCloth: ShoeBuy (which sells brands such as Cole Haan, Toms and Diesel) for $70 million in December and outdoor retailer Moosejaw for approximately $51 million in February. Before the Walmart acquisition, Jet.com had already bought Hayneedle, a home goods e-commerce company, for an undisclosed amount. There are no plans to sell ModCloth products through Jet.com at this time, according to Modcloth chief executive Matt Kaness, but vendors from the other acquired sites have made the jump to both Jet.com and Walmart. But can Jet.com still catch up to Amazon’s considerable head start? The juggernaut is set to become the largest apparel retailer in the US this year, according to Cowen and Company. Walmart’s scale and omni-channel approach is Jet.com’s biggest advantage. The company earned $486 billion in revenue in fiscal 2017 — versus nearly $136 billion for Amazon in fiscal 2016 — so Jet.com and its acquisitions are still a drop in the bucket of Walmart’s overall business. Jet.com, which originally launched in 2015 as a membership-based site to rival bulk retailers Costco and Sam’s Club on basic household goods, now attracts customers by lowering prices as more items are purchased in the same basket. Jet.com is focused on price efficiency, while Amazon is focused on speed efficiency. Amazon’s massive, vertically integrated logistics infrastructure is much more developed than Jet.com’s. It also takes on more of its third-party retailer’s fulfillment in addition to its own inventory and private label to better serve its Amazon Prime members, of which there are at least 66 million, according to estimates by Recode. Jet.com has always been a multi-brand retailer, but it now has access to a vastly wider array of products in Walmart’s inventory. ”Walmart is able to buy in truckload quantities and bring them into warehouses [at] over 4,000 points of distribution,” said Lore, adding that “leveraging the power of a centralised fulfillment network, leveraging better buying and being able to move that product in full truckloads” should not be underestimated. It’s especially useful for groceries which, along with apparel, is one of the fastest-growing categories online, and one that Amazon is inching into itself. Jet.com, however, isn't known for fashion or apparel. “I don’t know that you necessarily think of Jet.com as a fashion destination,” said Sucharita Mulpuru, chief retail strategist at Shoptalk. Amazon, on the other hand, captured the most US apparel sales for millennial shoppers in 2016 of any online retailer, according to Slice Intelligence, and has spent years trying to change its fashion perception in the marketplace through advertising, partnerships and sponsorships. Mulpuru sees value in the ModCloth acquisition for its private label offering, customer data, established relationships with suppliers and pricing relevance, “particularly in the contemporary space,” she said. “ModCloth doesn’t have a lot of premium [brands] that, say, a Shopbop [owned by Amazon] has.” Walmart and Jet.com’s audience is more likely to contain new customers. Jet.com has let its acquisitions run independently and plans to do the same with ModCloth, which opened its first permanent store in Austin, Texas, in November. “My role remains the same; I am 100 percent focused on ModCloth and building out the opportunity here,” Kaness told BoF. “I don’t think the size of the opportunity is in question. I think it’s about the journey of getting there and if we are able to be successful in continuing to grow the business without abandoning our mission,” said Kaness. He said ModCloth’s recent expansion into brick-and-mortar “fit shops,” which operate largely on the e-commerce inventory model, aligns with Lore’s strategy to leverage Walmart’s omni-channel network to grow its online business. Under Walmart’s umbrella, ModCloth will have more working capital, be able to open more stores faster, take advantage of back-end efficiencies such as credit card processing rates and have the “opportunity to now smartly expand the assortment in a much more segmented way,” said Kaness. And ModCloth will gain access to Jet.com and Walmart's customer base — the latter of which is already one of the biggest plus-size retailers in the country. Lore said ModCloth’s private label was the "most interesting” portions of the business. The retailer can now take advantage of its parent company's relationships with vendors and supply chain backend integration to find new efficiencies. Over the last two years since Kaness joined, ModCloth has expanded exclusive product from less than ten percent to over 50 percent, launched the branded ModCloth collection and “built out other programs around proprietary product.” Working with vendors still provides an important flexibility to respond to trends, however. “We have opportunities to develop and source and reorder product on both short and long lead,” he said. Modcloth’s “expertise, relationships with manufacturers and great product content,” said Lore, will be useful to Jet.com as it builds out its apparel category offerings. It can use ModCloth’s data to impact future product, too. “I think some of the things that ModCloth has been good at is data analysis — what is trending, what people are responding too,” said Mulpuru. "Maybe those are some of the insights that you introduce to Walmart 10, 12, 24 months later.” You can’t always win the buy box in fashion because you have two day shipping. Lore said Monday that many of the footwear and apparel brands on-boarded through Jet.com’s recent acquisitions are not as interested in Walmart. “Jet.com is geared for a more premium, higher-end customer. The brands feel comfortable there and it's just building relationships. Hopefully over time proving that we can take some of these brands over to Walmart,” he said. The “cool" factor is important for fashion. “You can’t always win the buy box in fashion because you have two day shipping,” said Mulpuru. Meanwhile, Amazon — currently the largest online seller of apparel— is investing in data-driven private labels, including activewear and lingerie. “Amazon collectively will be the sum of so many different parts: Zappos, Shopbop and the fashion that’s on Amazon.com,” said Mulpuru. “They are essentially having to create their version of Gap and Victoria's Secret and Men’s Warehouse all together at the same time. That’s a tall order.” Amazon has the momentum, capital, scale and patience to overcome those challenges. That’s not to mention its massive fulfillment infrastructure, which was built specifically for e-commerce, not retrofitted like Walmart’s. Amazon’s logistics network increased in square footage by 30 percent and by 26 new fulfillment centers in 2016, according to Cowen and Company. It has also already opened several bookstores and announced plans for convenience and grocery stores in December 2016. “This is not just about Amazon," said Mulpuru. “This is about: how do you win in this enormous category of fashion online? And it is not just a single player.” Department stores like Nordstrom and online-only retailers like Asos and Net-a-Porter are important competitors too. Even though Amazon has a serious share of the market and isn’t slowing down, the opportunity for growth in fashion and apparel e-commerce right now is massive — and there is space for more than one leader. The US e-commerce market has nearly doubled in size since 2011 to about $362 billion in 2016, according to Cowen and Company, which estimates it will grow to $737 billion in 2022, accounting for 14 percent of total US retail sales. “I think, long term, the game is won and lost in the long tail for a mass merchant,” said Lore, referring to the theory that the economy is shifting towards a focus on selling many niche, targeted items in relatively small quantities as cost of production and distribution declines. While it is easy to build an assortment in more commoditised items, like toys and electronics, “when it starts to get long tail, like home and shoes and fashion, it’s much harder.” Lore is up for the challenge. On Monday, he announced the formation of Store No. 8, a stand-alone Silicon Valley incubator for that will invest in entrepreneurs, early stage start-ups, VC’s and academics innovating in retail. “We’re behind,” said Lore at Code Commerce. “We need to catch up.” Decoding Amazon's Fashion Ambitions Wal-Mart Completes Jet.com Acquisition for $3 Billion Marc Lore	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4841
__label__wiki	0.989964	0.989964	Nintendo Drops Price of Wii to $129.99, Includes Both Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort Value Package Comes with Black Wii and Two Classic Games on One Disc Box Art (Photo: Business Wire) REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nintendo is dropping the Wii console to a suggested retail price of $129.99 U.S. in advance of the busy holiday shopping season. The new configuration is beginning to arrive in stores now, and will be broadly available in the U.S. by Oct. 28. This high-value configuration includes a black Wii console and both Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort on a single game disc, as well as a Wii Remote Plus and a Nunchuk controller – both black to match the console. This configuration replaces the current black Wii that comes with New Super Mario Bros. Wii. “Nearly six years after it launched, people are still attracted to the pure, inclusive fun of the Wii console,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “A new suggested retail price and the inclusion of two great games make it an easy choice for families looking for a great value this holiday season.” Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort represent two iconic games that helped pioneer the industry move toward motion-controlled video games. The games include a wide variety of sports that use the controllers in unique ways. Players can try their hand at sports like bowling, tennis, baseball, archery, table tennis and basketball, all while simulating real-life motions using the Wii Remote Plus controller. For the first time, both games are included on a single game disc. Remember that Wii features parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about this and other features, visit http://www.nintendo.com/wii. About Nintendo: The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii™ home console, Nintendo 3DS™ and Nintendo DS™ family of portable systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo has sold more than 3.9 billion video games and more than 630 million hardware units globally, including the current-generation Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi™ and Nintendo DSi XL™, as well as the Game Boy™, Game Boy Advance, Super NES™, Nintendo 64™ and Nintendo GameCube™ systems. It has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household names such as Mario™, Donkey Kong™, Metroid™, Zelda™ and Pokémon™. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo’s operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information about Nintendo, please visit the company’s website at http://www.nintendo.com. Note to editors: Nintendo press materials are available at http://press.nintendo.com, a password-protected site. To obtain a login, please contact Deanna Avila at 213-438-8742 or davila@golinharris.com. Users can receive instant Nintendo information by subscribing to the site’s RSS feed. Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=50440278&lang=en GOLIN HARRIS Grace Chang, 213-438-8708 grace.chang@golinharris.com Andrew Kelly, 415-318-4373 ankelly@golinharris.com	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4842
__label__wiki	0.833129	0.833129	How Much Money Did Donald Trump Raise At His Veterans' Event? The Republican Claims It Was Millions By Lauren Holter Christopher Furlong/Getty Images News/Getty Images While the other Republican presidential hopefuls battled on stage in the seventh GOP debate Thursday night, Donald Trump held an event to raise money for veterans. As part of his ongoing feud with Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, Trump decided to sit out the forum and host his own rally instead. Since the GOP front-runner talked up the event so much, many people wanted to know how much money Trump's veterans' fundraiser actually raised. The website created for the cause, DonaldTrumpForVets.com, explained that "100% of your donations will go directly to Veterans needs"; however, the proceeds went directly to the Donald J. Trump Foundation, and the website didn't specify what veterans' charities the foundation would distribute the money to. Even after the event, neither Trump nor his foundation announced which organizations would be gifted with the donations. "The money that's going to be raised will be in bulk and the disbursements will be spread all across the country to veterans organizations. And those who don't want to receive the money, we'll make sure not to send them a check," Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson told CNN's Jim Sciutto Thursday. CNN could only find one veterans group that claimed it was contacted by Trump representatives about possibly receiving donations. Although it's unclear how or by whom the money will be spent, Trump said at the beginning of the rally that his campaign raised $6 million "while the politicians talked." While listing some of the major donors, he revealed that $1 million of the total was money he donated to his own foundation. The website brought in $500,000, according to Trump, with the rest of the money coming from wealthy donors, including investor Carl Icahn, real estate developer Phil Ruffin, and Marvel Comics CEO Ike Perlmutter. It's not too surprising that Trump's event raised millions of dollars (or that he donated to it himself), but hopefully the money makes it to real veterans organizations.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4843
__label__cc	0.70012	0.29988	Item Type: Abstract only Dendrochronological observations on Pinus nigra (Arn.) from the Eastern Alps. Dendrochronological studies were undertaken in order to construct a Pinus nigra chronology for the area and to date the 'stue' (locks for river transport) on the Tralbe river. The analysis made it possible to establish a mean chronology for the Eastern Alps which can be synchronized with master... Monaco, A. lo; Paternesi, P.; Romagnoli, M. IAWA Bulletin, 1990, 11, 2, pp 130 Historical botanical research of the wooden constructions in Israel before the first World War. Investigations of the remains of 19th century buildings showed that there were two main areas from which timber was imported for construction: the Middle East (Cedrus libani, Pinus nigra, P. brutia, Abies spp.) and Western Europe (Abies alba, Cedrus atlantica, Pinus sylvestris, Larix decidua, Picea ... Biger, G. Tree-rings and air pollution in east-central Nevada Five stands of Pinus monophylla (single-needle pinyon pine) from east-central Nevada were sampled and analyzed using dendrochronological methods to detect the effects of climate and copper smelter effluent on ring-width growth. Tree-ring chronologies were developed for two pollution sites near the... Thompson, M. A. Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, Journal, 1980, 15, Proceedings Supplement, pp 26 Tree rings and air pollution in east-central Nevada University of Arizona, Dep. of Geosciences., Tucson, Arizona, USA Geosciences Daze, Student Presentations in the Geosciences, March 5-7, 1980, Tucson, Arizona, 8th Annual., 1980, pp p. 34 Dendrochronology and the distribution of Bristlecone Pine (Pinus aristata Engelm.) in Colorado. Analyses were made of increment cores of P. aristata from four different areas, and a master chronology was prepared for each area, the longest extending for 1568 years. The chronologies had few similarities, and this was attributed to geographical separation and habitat differences. A distribution ... Krebs, P. V. H. Dissertation Abstracts International, B, 1973, 33, 8, pp 3603-3604 Thompson, M. A. (2) Biger, G. (1) Krebs, P. V. H. (1) Lo Monaco, A. (1) Monaco, A. lo (1) Paternesi, P. (1) Romagnoli, M. (1) Western states of USA (2) Pinopsida (2) Pinus monophylla (2) Pinus aristata (1) Pinus sylvestris (1) dendrochronology (4) arid regions (2) arid zones (2) environmental pollution (2) Euro-African Regional Wood Anatomy Symposium (2) IAWA-IUFRO wood anatomy symposium (2) Norway spruce (2) bristlecone pine (1) mountain areas (1) Scotch pine (1) Scots pine (1)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4845
__label__wiki	0.683569	0.683569	Inductive Logic and Inductive Reasoning Studies of Human Inference and its Foundations Chapter references Buy the print book This chapter has been cited by the following publications. This list is generated based on data provided by CrossRef. Simandan, Dragos 2011. Is engaged pluralism the best way ahead for economic geography? Commentary on Barnes and Sheppard (2009). Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 35, Issue. 4, p. 568. Crupi, Vincenzo 2015. Inductive Logic. Journal of Philosophical Logic, Vol. 44, Issue. 6, p. 641. View all Google Scholar citations for this chapter View all citations for this chapter on Scopus Print publication year: 2008 Online publication date: June 2012 15 - Inductive Logic and Inductive Reasoning By Henry E. Kyburg, University of Rochester Edited by Jonathan E. Adler, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Lance J. Rips, Northwestern University, Illinois DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511814273.017 In days of yore, logic was neatly divided into two parts, Deductive Logic and Inductive Logic (Mill 1949/1843). The two parts were often taught as parts of a single course. Inductive logic has faded away, and now the very term has acquired a slightly antiquated patina. It has also acquired a number of quite specific modern meanings. One very narrow and very specific meaning is that inductive inference is the inference from a set of observations or observation sentences (crow #1 is black; crow #2 is black; …; crow #n is black) to their universal generalization (all crows are black). There is not much logic here, but there is a big problem: to determine when, if ever, such an inference is “justified.” A somewhat less ambitious construal of “induction” is as the inference from a statistical sample to a statistical generalization, or an approximate statistical generalization: from “51% of the first 10,000 tosses of this coin yielded heads,” to “Roughly half of the tosses of the coin will, in the long run, yield heads.” So construed (as by Baird 1992), the line between the logic of induction and the mathematics of statistics is a bit vague. This has been of little help to inductive logic, since the logic of statistical inference has itself been controversial. Recommend this book Email your librarian or administrator to recommend adding this book to your organisation's collection. Edited by Jonathan E. Adler, Lance J. Rips Online ISBN: 9780511814273 Book DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511814273 Ernest, W. Adams. The Logic of Conditionals. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1975. 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__label__wiki	0.582509	0.582509	Statistics and Probability (3) Edinburgh Journal of Botany (3) Epidemiology & Infection (3) Zoonotic approach to Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli: integrated analysis of virulence and antimicrobial resistance in ruminants and humans B. Oporto, M. Ocejo, M. Alkorta, J. M. Marimón, M. Montes, A. Hurtado Journal: Epidemiology & Infection / Volume 147 / 2019 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 March 2019, e164 In 2014–2016, we conducted a cross-sectional survey in 115 sheep, 104 beef and 82 dairy cattle herds to estimate Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) prevalence, and collected data on human clinical cases of infection. Isolates were characterised (stx1, stx2, eae, ehxA) and serogroups O157 and O111 identified by PCR, and their antimicrobial resistance (AMR) profiles were determined by broth microdilution. STEC were more frequently isolated from beef cattle herds (63.5%) and sheep flocks (56.5%) than from dairy cattle herds (30.5%) (P < 0.001). A similar but non-significant trend was observed for O157:H7 STEC. In humans, mean annual incidence rate was 1.7 cases/100 000 inhabitants for O157 STEC and 4.7 for non-O157 STEC, but cases concentrated among younger patients. Distribution of virulence genes in STEC strains from ruminants differed from those from human clinical cases. Thus, stx2 was significantly associated with animal STEC isolates (O157 and non-O157), ehxA to ruminant O157 STEC (P = 0.004) and eae to human non-O157 STEC isolates (P < 0.001). Resistance was detected in 21.9% of human and 5.2% of animal O157 STEC isolates, whereas all non-O157 isolates were fully susceptible. In conclusion, STEC were widespread in ruminants, but only some carried virulence genes associated with severe disease in humans; AMR in ruminants was low but profiles were similar to those found in human isolates. Thirty years of human infections caused by Yersinia enterocolitica in northern Spain: 1985–2014 J. M. MARIMON, R. FIGUEROA, P. IDIGORAS, M. GOMARIZ, M. ALKORTA, G. CILLA, E. PÉREZ-TRALLERO Journal: Epidemiology & Infection / Volume 145 / Issue 11 / August 2017 Yersinia enterocolitica infection is a zoonosis with worldwide distribution, gastroenteritis being by far the most common clinical manifestation of human infection. In Gipuzkoa, northern Spain, human Y. enterocolitica infections increased from the mid-1980s to the beginning of the 21st century (from 7·9 to 23·2 annual episodes per 100 000 population) to decrease to 7·2 annual episodes per 100 000 population in the last years of the study. The hospital admission rate due to yersiniosis during the last 15 years of the study was 7·3%. More than 99% of isolates were serotype O:3. Infection affected mainly children under 5 years of age (average rate: 140 episodes per 100 000 population). The incidence in adults was low but hospitalisation increased with age, exceeding 50% in people over 64 years old. Prevalence of hepatitis A antibody among disadvantaged gypsy children in northern Spain G. Cilla, E. Perez-Trallero, J. M. Marimon, S. Erdozain, C. Gutierrez Journal: Epidemiology & Infection / Volume 115 / Issue 1 / August 1995 The prevalence of antibody to hepatitis A virus (HAV) in a group of socially and economically disadvantaged Spanish gypsy children was compared to that of a group of non-gypsy middle-class children. The study included 438 children, 73 gypsies (38 girls and 35 boys, mean age 8·5 years, age range 2–16 years) and 365 non-gypsy controls, randomly selected by age. The presence of anti-HAV was investigated using ELISA. Among the gypsy children, 82% had antibodies to HAV compared with 9·3% of the children in the control group. The unfavourable living conditions of the gypsy population (e.g. homes with poor sanitary conditions, overcrowding) may explain the high prevalence of HAV infection. These findings underline the need for specific action which targets disadvantaged populations. FLORISTICS AND PHYTOSOCIOLOGY OF THE GALLERY FOREST OF THE BACABA STREAM, NOVA XAVANTINA, MATO GROSSO, BRAZIL B. S. MARIMON, J. M. FELFILI, E. S. LIMA Journal: Edinburgh Journal of Botany / Volume 59 / Issue 2 / June 2002 The study was carried out on the gallery forest of the Bacaba stream situated in the Municipal Ecological Reserve ‘Mário Viana’ (14°43′S, 52°21′W) in Nova Xavantina, Eastern Mato Grosso, Brazil. Three sections of the gallery (upper, middle and lower) running downstream and differing in slope were surveyed by stratified sampling. Fortyseven nested 10m × 10m plots were analysed in each section, giving a total sampling area of 1.41ha overall. All trees or lianas ≥ 15cm girth at breast height were recorded and a total of 129 species belonging to 105 genera and 47 families were found. Diversity was high, with the Shannon index ranging from 3.84 nats/individual in the lower section to 4.08 in the middle section. The most important families (IVI) were Caesalpiniaceae (upper and middle sections) and Arecaceae (lower section), and the most important species were Diospyros obovata (upper section), Hymenaea courbaril var. stilbocarpa (middle section) and Mauritia flexuosa (lower section). Morisita and Sørensen indices of similarity were calculated. The floristic composition was complex and included species in common with a number of Brazilian forest types and with cerrado (savanna), as well as many widespread species, but stronger links with Amazonian forests could be detected. This is to be expected since the area lies in the ecotonal zone of the cerrado and Amazonian forest biomes and the Bacaba stream itself is a tributary of the Mortes–Araguaia–Amazon river system. STUDIES IN MONODOMINANT FORESTS IN EASTERN MATO GROSSO, BRAZIL: II. A FOREST IN THE AREÕES XAVANTE INDIAN RESERVE B. S. MARIMON, J. M. FELFILI, M. HARIDASAN Journal: Edinburgh Journal of Botany / Volume 58 / Issue 3 / November 2001 The floristic composition, structure, soil fertility and leaf nutrient concentrations were analysed in a monodominant forest of Brosimum rubescens Taub. located in the Areões Xavante Indigenous Reserve (14°34′S, 51°58′W). The area lies in the ecotone between Amazonian forest and cerrado in the municipality of Água Boa, Mato Grosso State, Brazil. Sixty nested plots (10 × 10m each) were located in a representative portion of the forest, giving a total sampling area of 0.6ha (40 × 150m). A total of 609 trees ≥ 5cm dbh belonging to 57 species, 46 genera and 32 families were present. The most important family was Moraceae, with B. rubescens as the dominant species with a relative dominance of 59%. The diameter distribution of B. rubescens was unbalanced, indicating an episodic recruitment that could lead to future changes in the forest structure. The high basal area per hectare of B. rubescens indicates the possibility of sustainable logging for commercial exploitation. Analysis of composite soil samples collected from the surface layer (0–10cm) of each of the 60 plots did not indicate any significant gradients in fertility within the area sampled. Mean soil pH was 4.6 and the availability of essential nutrients was very low (0.22cmol(+) kg−1 K, 0.048cmol(+) kg−1 Ca, 0.167cmol(+) kg−1 Mg, and 1.5mg kg−1 P). The higher availability of Mg in the soils in comparison with Ca was a feature observed in other monodominant forests in the Amazon region, as well as in other parts of the world. Analysis of foliar samples showed that the dominant species, B. rubescens, maintained higher foliar concentrations of K, Ca and Mg than other species in the forest. This probably indicates a competitive advantage for this species. Also, the higher concentrations of Mg in the soil did not affect its uptake of Ca or K. STUDIES IN MONODOMINANT FORESTS IN EASTERN MATO GROSSO, BRAZIL: I. A FOREST OF BROSIMUM RUBESCENS TAUB Journal: Edinburgh Journal of Botany / Volume 58 / Issue 1 / March 2001 The occurrence of a monodominant tropical forest dominated by the tree species Brosimum rubescens Taub. (Moraceae) in the transition zone between the cerrado region and the Amazonian rain forests along the Araguaia valley in the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil is reported. A 6000m2 (40×150m) area located in the central portion of a forest (14°50′47″S, 52°08′37″W) on the Eldorado Farm in Nova Xavantina was sampled to determine the structure, phytosociology and soil properties. A total of 44 tree species was found in the forest, with a Shannon diversity index (H′) of 2.37 and the Pielou evenness index (J′) of 0.63. These values were similar to those reported by other workers in an Amazonian monodominant forest dominated by Peltogyne gracilipes. Average tree density equal or greater than (≥) 5cm dbh was 1066ha−1 and basal area 37.46m2 ha−1. Dead standing individuals represented 7.03% of the total density and lianas 8.12%. The main families were Moraceae, Rubiaceae, Burseraceae, Hippocrateaceae and Leguminosae–Caesalpinioideae. The species with the highest importance value indices were B. rubescens (124.55), Amaioua intermedia var. brasiliana (32.97), Cheiloclinium cognatum (22.41), Tetragastris balsamifera (19.58) and Protium pilosissimum (16.64). Brosimum rubescens alone accounted for 85.5% of the individuals ≥30cm dbh, 80.35% of those ≥20cm dbh, 57.33% of those ≥10cm dbh, and 35.85% of those ≥5cm dbh. The forest was composed of upper, middle and lower storeys. Diameter distribution was unbalanced for the community and for the main species, suggesting that establishment has been episodic. The surface soil was acid, with high exchangeable Al levels and low fertility, as is the case for most cerrados and Amazonian forests. The availability of K was in the range of adequacy, as compared with most native soils. However, concentrations of available Mg in the soil was higher than that of available Ca, with Mg/Ca ratios above three, unlike most cerrados and Amazonian forests, but similar to the soils of many monodominant tropical forests reported in the literature. Soils were characterized by high concentrations of available Fe. Besides the high Mg/Ca ratios, a high proportion of K as compared with the bivalent cations Ca and Mg, and toxicities of Fe and Mn due to strong acidity could be factors influencing the occurrence of species in this forest.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4847
__label__wiki	0.702814	0.702814	Biological anthropology and primatology The Origins of Native Americans Evidence from Anthropological Genetics Author: Michael H. Crawford, University of Kansas Who are the Native Americans? When and how did they colonize the New World? What proportion of the biological variation in contemporary Amerindian populations was "made in America" and what was brought from Siberia? This book is a unique synthesis of the genetic, archaeological, and demographic evidence concerning the Native peoples of the Americas, using case studies from contemporary Amerindian and Siberian indigenous groups to unravel the mysteries. It culminates in an examination of the devastating collision between European and Native American cultures following Contact, and the legacy of increased incidence of chronic diseases that still accompanies the acculturation of Native peoples today. Up-to-date discussion of the molecular genetic evidence for the origins of North, Central and South Americans Uses case studies of Siberian, Eskimo, Mexican Indian, and Black Carib peoples Contains an extensive bibliography for further reading "It really serves as a comprehensive review of the human biology of native Americans in the broadest sense, with topics ranging from origins to contemporary population structure to demography and epidemiology...Crawford's book is not just of value to researchers interested in native Americans as a geographic region or population genetics as a topical area; rather, it has something for everyone and is destined to be a classic work in human biology." Human Biology "Professor Crawford's book is thoroughly recommended, not only for its factual content and argument, but also for the considered opinions of the author on much of the material he has consulted in writing it. All who are working on biological questions on or about Amerindian peoples will find it essential to read." Human Genetics "...this excellent book...serves as a comprehensive review of the human biology of native Americans in the broadest sense, with topics ranging from origins to contemporary population structure to demography and epidemiology. Crawford's book is not just of value to researchers interested in native Americans as a geographic region or population genetics as a topical area; rather, it has something for everyone and is destined to be a classic work in human biology." John H. Relethford, Human Biology "The book shows what a wide variety of factors it is necessary to consider in attempting to understand the genetic evolution of a population...Professor Crawford's book is thoroughly recommended, not only for its factual content and argument, but also for the considered opinions of the author on much of the material he has consulted in writing it. All who are working on biological questions on or about Amerindian peoples will find it essential to read." Human Genetics "...The origins of Native Americans is an engaging and thoughtful account of the population history of aboriginal groups from Siberia and the Americas based on anthropological genetic data." Theodore G. Schurr, Great Plains Research 1. Origins of New World populations 2. Population size and the effects of European contact 3. Demography of Amerindian populations 4. Genetic variation in contemporary populations of the Americas 5. Population structure of Native Americans 6. Morphological variation 7. The survivors Michael H. 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It… Journal of Nutritional Science Aims and ScopeJournal of Nutritional Science is an international, peer-reviewed, online only, open access journal… Seed Science Research Seed Science Research, the official journal of the International Society for Seed Science, is an international journal… animal attracts the best research in animal biology and animal systems from across the spectrum of the agricultural,… Plant Genetic Resources Plant Genetic Resources is an international journal which provides a forum for describing the application of novel… Journal of Biosocial Science Journal of Biosocial Science is a leading interdisciplinary and international journal in the field of biosocial science,… Genetics Research Genetics Research is a key forum for original research on all aspects of human and animal genetics, reporting key… Polar Record Polar Record is the premier international, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, publishing articles in a wide variety… Twin Research and Human Genetics Twin Research and Human Genetics communicates the results of original research covering the broad spectrum of multiple… Global Health, Epidemiology and Genomics GHEG is a new Open Access journal that aims to publish research that increases our understanding of human health… The Human Biology of Pastoral Populations Biological imaging Biophysics and physiology Botanical reference Cell biology and developmental biology Ecology and conservation Genomics, bioinformatics and systems biology Life science professional development Microbiology and immunology Molecular biology, biochemistry, and structural biology Natural resource management, agriculture, horticulture and forestry Pharmacology and drug discovery Quantitative biology, biostatistics and mathematical modelling	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4848
__label__cc	0.640795	0.359205	STEM leaders work together to address industry issues and pledge to take action with Cambridge LaunchPad Nearly 50 delegates from schools and leading businesses from across Cambridgeshire gathered at Schlumberger Cambridge Research to discuss the issues facing the STEM industry and learn how Cambridge LaunchPad aims to address these in our region. According to the Government, low skills levels are the greatest threat to UK competitiveness in the next five years, with 40,000 STEM-related jobs being left vacant each year. In addition to this, only 14.4 per cent of all people working in the STEM workforce are women and many schools are struggling to recruit teachers in STEM subjects. Cambridge LaunchPad is a pioneering outreach initiative that brings schools and businesses together long-term to ensure young people are inspired and supported throughout their education, equipping them with the necessary skills and knowledge to move into successful careers in STEM. It is managed by Form the Future CIC, the leading provider of careers inspiration in the region, who together with the programme’s Founding Partners, Arm, Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group, Schlumberger and TTP Plc, are inviting new industry partners to join their mission and enrich the variety of STEM sectors represented. Dr Simon Bittleston, Vice President of Research at Schlumberger, welcomed the delegates and set the scene, advising that Cambridge industries are growing faster than the UK average, so that the skills gap in STEM is a bigger issue for our region, with many industrial vacancies going unfilled. He also shared some of the problems he had experienced when trying to engage with schools to arrange an outreach day. By getting involved with LaunchPad, Schlumberger have been able to work with more children whilst minimising the time and effort spent on planning and managing events. David Halliday, Senior Research Scientist at Schlumberger, worked closely with the Cambridge LaunchPad team to deliver an outstanding activity day for over 60 Year 5 students from King’s Hedges Primary School last year. From this, he has developed excellent project management skills and exercised his problem-solving, leadership and stress management skills. Thereby proving that this unique initiative provides so much more than just a fun day out for the children – it can enable employees to develop essential skills and give them the opportunity to share their passion for what they do. The delegates then came together to brainstorm ways that businesses, schools and Cambridge LaunchPad can address the issues in the STEM sector, with some suggesting more should be done to empower parents to guide their children and how we can open up opportunities to young people from different backgrounds. To join Cambridge LaunchPad in our mission, and help us make these ideas a reality, visit cambridge-launchpad.com. Sian Steele, Family Business Leader at PwC, said: "In order for Cambridge to continue to play such a vital role in solving 21st century problems we need to work together as a community of business leaders to ensure vital skills in STEM are developed and PwC is committed to playing its part. Social inclusion and fair access to opportunity are core values for us and the work that LaunchPad does to bring these to life is truly inspiring." Tariq Sadiq, Fundraising & Development Manager at Form the Future CIC, said: “This event brought together far-sighted businesses who are committed to building a future in which every child in Cambridgeshire has the opportunity to access careers in our leading, cutting edge industries. Many children, teachers and parents are unaware of the wealth of fascinating jobs that are on offer on our doorstep and our job at Form the Future is to open their eyes to a whole world of new possibilities.”	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4849
__label__wiki	0.770729	0.770729	Oh What a Feeling: Crowbar at Hamilton's McIntyre Performing Arts Centre (Nov. 17. 2012) Kelly Jay & Roly Greenway (composers of “Oh What a Feeling”) As memorable as “Shoo-doot-n shooby-doo” or “Awopbopaloobopalopbamboom” and every bit as meaningful, “Ba-bada-baaa ba-bada-baaa!” is the war cry of Canadian rock’n’roll. Or, it was for a generation of us, and recent events have shown just how important that simple chorus was. Roly Greenway and Kelly Jay Fordham were inducted into the 2011 Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame for their classic one chord tune “Oh What a Feeling”. And this weekend, their band Crowbar received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Hamilton Music Awards. The award was presented at a long ceremony on Sunday night, but on Saturday night, Crowbar rocked the joint at Mohawk College’s McIntyre Performing Arts Centre. Crowbar was the first band to benefit from Pierre Juneau’s new Canadian Content legislation (a law designating the implementation of 30% mandatory Canadian content by all radio stations) in 1970. Because of this legislation, everyone in Canada could finally hear on the radio just how great our own music was. Their success, mixed with the fact that Margaret Trudeau was a fan, led to photo-ops with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. They achieved huge success in Canada, but because people south of the border thought “Oh What a Feeling” was about some illicit substance or other, they received little airplay in the USA. On Saturday night, they made enough noise to wake our neighbours from their slumber, and keep the rest of us dancing for another 40 years. The ticket said 8pm but the show started late as the technical awards ran overtime, but at 8:30 local bluesman Steve Strongman kicked things into gear with a powerful half-hour set of his own. Supported by Paul Inston on bass, Dave King on drums and keyboardist Jesse O’Brien, Strongman worked hard to get the scattered crowd excited. By the end of his set the auditorium had filled up, and so had the expectation. Sorry Steve, but as good as your band was… this was Crowbar’s crowd. Kelly Jay Fordham in 1971.(Photo by D. Griffin) The headlining musicians had to work with the stage crew to set up, and make the transition from a four piece band to 10 pieces in only 15 minutes. Then Kelly Jay carefully plunked his 300-pound frame on the piano bench, greeted the crowd and jumped into a selection of tunes from the classic Bad Manors album. Bad Manors is one of those amazing first albums that seems perfect and never wears off. The band rocked through “Too True Mama”, “Let the Four Winds Blow” and “Murder in the First Degree”. Guitarist John Gibbard’s slide guitar work echoed the recorded version and sent shivers up and down my spine. But Rheal Lanthier was no slouch either, chicken pickin’ his own lead, and recent addition Terry Branagh showed his own chops in a more controlled guitar solo. “What band has three guitar players?” Kelly Jay asked. Some wag from the back of the crowd yelled “Skynyrd!” “Yeah, well… Skynyrd,” Kelly replied, “But where are THEY?” Kelly announced “Trilby” and Sonny Bernardi exclaimed, “I don’t know ‘Trilby’!” They did it anyway. Then the Bruce Channel hit that Crowbar had covered on their Heavy Duty album. Steve Strongman was invited out for a guitar extravaganza on the blues-based “Tits Up On the Pavement”. It was a fretboard workshop as one after the other of the four guitarists took a turn. Strongman acquitted himself beautifully and seemed to be thrilled to play with this legendary band. Kelly Jay enjoyed Steve’s playing so much that he encouraged him to take another chorus. Lanthier danced in a herky-jerky style that led someone in the audience to say, “I hope he doesn’t break a hip!” The blues continued with a version of “Corrina, Corrina” sung by drummer Bernardi in place of King Biscuit Boy who sang it on the record. Old rock’n’roll was also paid tribute with Crowbar’s rendition of Johnnie & Joe’s 1957 hit “Over the Mountain”. Kelly Jay introduced “Ain’t No Cane on the Brazos” as “a 300-year-old gospel song”. Well…not quite, but it is a traditional prison work song of the American south, previously recorded by Leadbelly, Odetta, and even The Band. You can watch Rick Danko and Janis Joplin sing a sloppy version of it in the film Festival Express. Crowbar had previously recorded it during their live album in 1971. An example of how big they were in 1971: the concert that was recorded for Larger Than Life (and Live’r Than You’ve Ever Been) was broadcast on the radio as it happened, and we stayed home to listen! The band that played at Massey Hall that night in September 40 years ago was essentially the same band on the stage this weekend, except keyboardist Josef Chirowski has been replaced by Ray Harrison (back in ’78). Roly Greenway is still the bassist, and perhaps the most active member of the group. For Saturday's show they added three horn players from Hamilton’s 905 Band who provided admirable support and filled one or two solo spots. Kelly Jay’s bulk has slowed him down, along with his age. He sported a Ti-Cat jersey with the number 70 representing his age. The last three concerts I’ve attended have been by aging musicians. 63 year old Arlo Guthrie played a solo show celebrating the 100th anniversary of his father Woody’s birth. His age added a gravitas to his tales of life with his father. He hadn’t lost a step when it came to memory or guitar playing. Judy Collins turned 73 this year, and showed her age in a recent concert, forgetting a verse of “Chelsea Morning” and being a tad pitchy in the upper register. Her stories tended to wander. The last BB King show I saw found him playing only one verse and a chorus of many tunes and depending on his backing musicians far more than he used to. I well remember The Beatles claiming that no one would be interested in a 70-year-old Beatle but Paul McCartney continues to tour to rave reviews. Bob Dylan tours constantly but his new found (or should I say lost) voice is the target of critical sniping everywhere he goes. Some friends attended Gordon Lightfoot’s Massey Hall concert last the same night I saw Crowbar and they reported that he was “wonderful”. What is the right retirement age for musicians? My wife told me that she thought Crowbar was sad. I know she doesn’t want to see BB King again, preferring to remember him as he was, not as he is now. For me, Crowbar was exactly as I expected, ragged, funny, loose as a goose. They’ve always been that way. In the basement of the Jewish Community Centre back in 1969, on stage at Massey Hall during that live broadcast in 1971, on a bootlegged tape from the Whiskey A-Go-Go, they were a rock’n’roll band and they liked to party. Party they did on Saturday night. It was a blast from the past as they brought up friends and neighbours to sing along with their anthemic hit, and not a soul in the crowd didn’t join in! Ba bada baa, Ba bada baa, Oh what a feelin', what a rush! Well you we got the feelin', makes you come alive. We're gonna boogie woogie, we're gonna rock and roll, we're gonna jive. We're gonna make you loose, go where you have to go Gonna fill your head with music, satisfy your soul. Oh what a feelin', what a rush Come in to my house, you're all invited. Hey, hey I feel alright. (One time now), unh! (Two times, two times now.) Hey, hey I feel alright.(Two times now) Unh, unh. (Three times grab your old lady! ) Hey, hey I feel alright. Unh, unh, unh! (Four times, four for being good now.) Hey, hey I feel alright. Unh, unh, unh, unh! Check out Crowbar performing "On What a Feeling" at Boston Manor in Burlington, Ontario, on Nov. 20, 2011 – David Kidney has reviewed for Green Man Review and Sleeping Hedgehog. He published the Rylander Quarterly (a Ry Cooder-based newsletter) for 8 years before turning it into a blog, at http://rylander-rylander.blogspot.com. He works at McMaster University as Director of Learning Space Development and lives in Dundas, Ontario with his wife. Posted by Critics at Large at 12:00 PM Labels: David Kidney, Music Fake Appelation October 3, 2013 at 12:04 PM I always wondered what became of Crowbar, I loved their records- still listen to them- so it's good to read that they performed as recently as last November. Also made 2 (that I know of) great records with King Biscuit Boy. oldereck May 4, 2014 at 6:28 PM I'm located in Seattle and I remember a Television Broadcast on CBUT out of Vancouver about 1971. The film was about 1/2 hour concert of Crowbar playing at (I think) one of Pierre Trudeau's relection parties. I thought it may have been at Maple Leaf Gardens. A Giant Cake was moved on to the stage and the band with Kelly Jay, Rheal Lanthier, Josef Chirowski, Sonny Bernardi, Roly Greenway and John Gibbard all came out of the the top of the cake and started rockin' the stage. John and Rheal got up on Kellys shoulders and played away as he walked around the stage. I'll never forget the film and have been looking for someone who may have recorded the TV footage. I remember a broadcast on CBUT TV out of Vancouver of a Crowbar Concert that I think was at Maple Leaf Gardens about 1971 and was a celebration of Pierre Trudeau's re-election. A giant Cake was up on the stage and when Crowbar was introduced, one by one they came out the top of the cake and started rockin" out. At one point Rheal Lanthier and John Gibbard climbed up on Kellly's shoulders and played away as he struted around the stage during one of the songs. The film was only about 1/2 hour long, but depicted Crowbar as this high energy group that should have been huge outside of Canada. I'll never forget this show and have been looking for anyone who may have a recording of that broadcast. Contact me direct at oldereck@msn.com. In Fact, It’s a Gas: The Stones on Celluloid Pastiche: Sam Mendes' Skyfall Neglected Gem #29: Judy Berlin (1999) Oh What a Feeling: Crowbar at Hamilton's McIntyre ... “We Interrupt This Commercial To Bring You Your Re... Vestige of the '60s: The Last of the Haussmans Bad Guy Affirmation: Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4851
__label__wiki	0.816303	0.816303	Jenny spent 37 years in the civil service, mostly in legal departments, and including two spells as Principal Private Secretary to two different Lord Chancellors. Her final job was as Chief Executive of the U.K. Supreme Court. She retired in October 2015 and has two small non-executive roles on audit and risk committees. In addition to her role as Honorary Treasurer of the CSRF, Jenny is a Trustee of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity, an independent member of two Royal British Legion committees and a member of the Independent Monitoring Board for Exeter prison. Jenny was appointed to the Board of Directors in 2013 by the Cabinet Office. She also sits as a member of the Communications & Fundraising Working Group.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4852
__label__wiki	0.789924	0.789924	25551 CVE-2009-2608 89 1 Exec Code Sql 2009-07-27 2018-10-10 Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in PHP Address Book 4.0.x allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) id parameter to delete.php or (2) alphabet parameter to index.php. NOTE: the edit.php and view.php vectors are already covered by CVE-2008-2565. None Remote Low Not required Partial Partial Partial SQL injection vulnerability in the com_pinboard component for Joomla! allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the task parameter in a showpic action to index.php. Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in adminquery.php in Traidnt Up 2.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via (1) trupuser and (2) truppassword cookies to uploadcp/index.php. User Remote Low Not required Partial Partial Partial Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in adminlogin.asp in Zen Help Desk 2.1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) userid (aka username) and (2) PassWord parameters to admin.asp. Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in index.php in Escon SupportPortal Pro 3.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) cat and (2) tid parameters. SQL injection vulnerability in the Joomlaequipment (aka JUser or com_juser) component 2.0.4 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the id parameter in a show_profile action to index.php. SQL injection vulnerability in index.php in RadCLASSIFIEDS Gold 2.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the seller parameter in a search action. Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in Online Grades & Attendance 3.2.6 and earlier allow (1) remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the key parameter in a resetpass action to index.php and (2) remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the ADD parameter in a mailto action to parents/parents.php. 25559 CVE-2009-2597 DoS 2009-07-27 2009-07-27 None Remote Low Not required None None Complete The Sun Java System (SJS) Access Manager Policy Agent module 2.2 for SJS Web Proxy Server 4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a GET request. SQL injection vulnerability in censura.php in Censura 1.16.04 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the itemid parameter in a details action. SQL injection vulnerability in guestbook.php in PHPJunkYard GBook 1.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the mes_id parameter. SQL injection vulnerability in the MyAnnonces module for E-Xoopport 3.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the lid parameter in a viewannonces action to index.php. SQL injection vulnerability in showcategory.php in Hutscripts PHP Website Script allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the cid parameter. SQL injection vulnerability in index.php in Mlffat 2.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via a member cookie in an account editprofile action, a different vector than CVE-2009-1731. 25565 CVE-2009-2584 189 Overflow +Priv 2009-07-23 2018-11-16 None Local Low Not required Complete Complete Complete Off-by-one error in the options_write function in drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gruprocfs.c in the SGI GRU driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.30.2 and earlier on ia64 and x86 platforms might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary memory locations and gain privileges via a crafted count argument, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow. 25566 CVE-2009-2583 20 2009-07-23 2009-08-04 Multiple session fixation vulnerabilities in IBM Tivoli Identity Manager (ITIM) 5.0.0.6 allow remote attackers to hijack web sessions via unspecified vectors involving the (1) console and (2) self service interfaces. 25567 CVE-2009-2579 89 Exec Code Sql 2009-08-05 2018-10-10 SQL injection vulnerability in reward_points.post.php in the Reward points addon in CS-Cart before 2.0.6 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the sort_order parameter in a reward_points.userlog action to index.php, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-4429.2. None Remote Medium Not required None None Complete The Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry 8800 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and browser crash) via a large integer value for the length property of a Select object, a related issue to CVE-2009-1692. 25569 CVE-2009-2574 264 1 2009-07-22 2018-10-10 index.php in MiniTwitter 0.2 beta allows remote authenticated users to modify certain options of arbitrary accounts via an opt action. None Remote Medium Single system Partial Partial Partial Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in MiniTwitter 0.2 beta, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) user parameter to (a) index.php and (b) rss.php. 25571 CVE-2009-2572 352 CSRF 2009-07-22 2017-08-16 Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Fivestar module 5.x-1.x before 5.x-1.14 and 6.x-1.x before 6.x-1.14, a module for Drupal, allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that cast votes. SQL injection vulnerability in the Almond Classifieds (com_aclassf) component 5.6.2 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the id parameter to index.php. 25573 CVE-2009-2564 264 1 +Priv 2009-07-21 2018-10-10 Admin Local Low Not required Complete Complete Complete NOS Microsystems getPlus Download Manager, as used in Adobe Reader 1.6.2.36 and possibly other versions, Corel getPlus Download Manager before 1.5.0.48, and possibly other products, installs NOS\bin\getPlus_HelperSvc.exe with insecure permissions (Everyone:Full Control), which allows local users to gain SYSTEM privileges by replacing getPlus_HelperSvc.exe with a Trojan horse program, as demonstrated by use of getPlus Download Manager within Adobe Reader. NOTE: within Adobe Reader, the scope of this issue is limited because the program is deleted and the associated service is not automatically launched after a successful installation and reboot. Unspecified vulnerability in the Infiniband dissector in Wireshark 1.0.6 through 1.2.0, when running on unspecified platforms, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors. system/message.php in Admin News Tools 2.5 does not properly restrict access, which allows remote attackers to post news messages via a direct request. SQL injection vulnerability in the search method in jobline.class.php in Jobline (com_jobline) 1.1.2.2, 1.3.1, and possibly earlier versions, a component for Joomla!, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the search parameter in a results action to index.php, which invokes the search method from the searchJobPostings function in jobline.php. Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in comments.php in Super Simple Blog Script 2.5.4, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the entry parameter. 25578 CVE-2009-2552 22 1 Dir. Trav. 2009-07-20 2017-09-18 Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in comments.php in Super Simple Blog Script 2.5.4 allow remote attackers to overwrite, include, and execute arbitrary local files via the entry parameter. SQL injection vulnerability in Advanced Electron Forum (AEF) 1.x, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the filename in an uploaded attachment. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information. None Remote Low Single system Complete None None Directory traversal vulnerability in the Marcelo Costa FileServer component 1.0 for Microsoft Windows Live Messenger and Messenger Plus! Live (MPL) allows remote authenticated users to list arbitrary directories and read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname. 25581 CVE-2009-2541 399 1 DoS 2009-07-20 2018-10-10 The web browser on the Sony PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and console hang) via a large integer value for the length property of a Select object, a related issue to CVE-2009-1692. The Aigo P8860 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and browser hang) via a large integer value for the length property of a Select object, a related issue to CVE-2009-1692. The Nokia N95 running Symbian OS 9.2, N82, and N810 Internet Tablet allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large integer value for the length property of a Select object, a related issue to CVE-2009-1692. Microsoft Windows Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2 and Server 2008 Gold and SP2 do not properly validate fields in SMBv2 packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and system hang) via a crafted packet to the Server service, aka "SMBv2 Infinite Loop Vulnerability." 25585 CVE-2009-2524 189 DoS Overflow 2009-10-14 2018-10-30 Integer underflow in the NTLM authentication feature in the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2, and Windows 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot) via a malformed packet, aka "Local Security Authority Subsystem Service Integer Overflow Vulnerability." 25586 CVE-2009-2516 20 +Priv 2009-10-14 2018-10-12 None Local Medium Not required Complete Complete Complete The kernel in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista Gold and SP1, and Server 2008 Gold does not properly validate data sent from user mode, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted PE .exe file that triggers a NULL pointer dereference during chain traversal, aka "Windows Kernel NULL Pointer Dereference Vulnerability." 25587 CVE-2009-2515 189 +Priv 2009-10-14 2018-10-30 Integer underflow in the kernel in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, and Server 2008 Gold and SP2 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application that triggers an incorrect truncation of a 64-bit integer to a 32-bit integer, aka "Windows Kernel Integer Underflow Vulnerability." The Graphics Device Interface (GDI) in win32k.sys in the kernel in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, and Server 2008 Gold and SP2 does not properly validate user-mode input, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Win32k Insufficient Data Validation Vulnerability." 25589 CVE-2009-2511 189 Overflow 2009-10-14 2018-10-30 Integer overflow in the CryptoAPI component in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2, and Windows 7 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers and other entities via an X.509 certificate that has a malformed ASN.1 Object Identifier (OID) and was issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, aka "Integer Overflow in X.509 Object Identifiers Vulnerability." 25590 CVE-2009-2510 310 2009-10-14 2018-10-30 The CryptoAPI component in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2, and Windows 7, as used by Internet Explorer and other applications, does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, aka "Null Truncation in X.509 Common Name Vulnerability," a related issue to CVE-2009-2408. The single sign-on implementation in Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Server 2008 Gold and SP2 does not properly remove credentials at the end of a network session, which allows physically proximate attackers to obtain the credentials of a previous user of the same web browser by using data from the browser's cache, aka "Single Sign On Spoofing in ADFS Vulnerability." 25592 CVE-2009-2495 200 +Info 2009-07-29 2018-10-12 None Remote Low Not required Complete None None The Active Template Library (ATL) in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 SP1, Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and 2008 Gold and SP1, and Visual C++ 2005 SP1 and 2008 Gold and SP1 does not properly enforce string termination, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted HTML document with an ATL (1) component or (2) control that triggers a buffer over-read, related to ATL headers and buffer allocation, aka "ATL Null String Vulnerability." Use-after-free vulnerability in the frpr_icmp function in the ipfilter (aka IP Filter) subsystem in Sun Solaris 10, and OpenSolaris snv_45 through snv_110, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via unspecified vectors. Unspecified vulnerability in the SCTP implementation in Sun Solaris 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_120, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via unspecified packets. The pam_unix module in OpenPAM in NetBSD 4.0 before 4.0.2 and 5.0 before 5.0.1 allows local users to change the current root password if it is already known, even when they are not in the wheel group. 25596 CVE-2009-2479 119 1 DoS Overflow 2009-07-16 2018-10-10 Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x, 3.5, and 3.5.1 on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uncaught exception and application crash) via a long Unicode string argument to the write method. NOTE: this was originally reported as a stack-based buffer overflow. NOTE: on Linux and Mac OS X, a crash resulting from this long string reportedly occurs in an operating-system library, not in Firefox. Sun Java SE 5.0 before Update 20 and 6 before Update 15, and OpenJDK, might allow context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors involving static variables that are declared without the final keyword, related to (1) LayoutQueue, (2) Cursor.predefined, (3) AccessibleResourceBundle.getContents, (4) ImageReaderSpi.STANDARD_INPUT_TYPE, (5) ImageWriterSpi.STANDARD_OUTPUT_TYPE, (6) the imageio plugins, (7) DnsContext.debug, (8) RmfFileReader/StandardMidiFileWriter.types, (9) AbstractSaslImpl.logger, (10) Synth.Region.uiToRegionMap/lowerCaseNameMap, (11) the Introspector class and a cache of BeanInfo, and (12) JAX-WS, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2673. neon before 0.28.6, when OpenSSL or GnuTLS is used, does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408. mathtex.cgi in mathTeX, when downloaded before 20090713, does not securely create temporary files, which has unspecified impact and local attack vectors. 25600 CVE-2009-2453 264 Bypass 2009-07-14 2009-07-14 Citrix XenApp (formerly Presentation Server) 4.5 Hotfix Rollup Pack 3 does not apply an access policy when it is defined with the Access Gateway Advanced Edition filters, which allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via unknown vectors. 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__label__wiki	0.880443	0.880443	Ocala Walmart shooter dies of self-inflicted gunshot wound Gatehouse Media Florida report OCALA — A man who police say shot and killed a woman Saturday afternoon at the Walmart on East Silver Springs Boulevard was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. Monday. Ocala police say David Johnson, 54, shot himself Saturday shortly after the domestic attack at the store. He has been hospitalized since Saturday night. Police identified the victim as Carli Cronin, 30. Johnson and Cronin were a former couple. They were arguing in the garden section about 2:30 p.m. Saturday when the dispute turned deadly. Johnson has an extensive criminal record, according to the state Department of Corrections and local court records. In November 1987 he was sentenced to a three-year prison term for multiple burglaries. Johnson later explained that those cases all involved stealing bikes from yards — crimes that he attributed to his drug addiction. “I need help and I keep trying to tell them that,” Johnson said during a 1996 court hearing in another case. A transcript of that hearing is on file with the court clerk’s office. Johnson was released from prison in July 1988 but wound up in and out of prison a few more times, the records show. In 1996 a jury found him guilty of carjacking and attempted strong-arm robbery in what prosecutors described as a drug deal gone bad. A judge sentenced Johnson to a 20-year prison term for the carjacking, plus a concurrent 10-year term for the attempted robbery. He was released from state prison in December 2013. The trial on those charges was held in July 1996. In January of that year, Johnson wrote the judge a letter explaining how he grew up poor and fell into drug use. In that letter, which is on file with the court clerk’s office, Johnson said he had turned his life around and found religion. “I now realize I was wrong about all the important things in life that mean so much to me,” he wrote.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4857
__label__wiki	0.614432	0.614432	How stylish American clothes chain Banana Republic charges huge mark-ups in first UK store By SEAN POULTER Last updated at 09:12 21 March 2008 This outfit and bag costs £299.50 - £100 more than in the U.S. Its blend of stylish casual clothes and chic officewear has made Banana Republic a magnet for British tourists visiting the U.S. Now shoppers can save on the air fare and pick up the same designs here with the opening of its first British store, in London's Regent Street yesterday. But they might not be pleased to learn that the chain - the upmarket end of the Gap clothing empire - has imposed huge price mark-ups on some items. In some cases, it is charging 100 per cent more for items here than in its American stores. It is another example of the trend among international brands to treat Britain as a "treasure island", delivering higher prices and profit margins on everything from clothes to computer games consoles. A snapshot survey of Banana Republic's UK prices by the Daily Mail shows a printed silk halterneck dress sells for £95 in this country - 58 per cent more than in the U.S. It can be teamed with a £125 Flatsunglasses-iron baby satchel, which is 40 per cent more, and a pair of espadrille wedge shoes that are 62 per cent more expensive here. The entire outfit would cost £299.50 in the UK, £100 more expensive than the same items in the U.S. An orange, textured coat appears on the firm's U.S. website at a price of just £60, while the figure in the official UK catalogue is £140 - a mark-up of 133 per cent. A cap sleeve silk dress in pale gold is £55 on the other side of the Atlantic but £95 here. A pair of black peep-toe wedge shoes is £79.50 in this country, a mark-up of 62 per cent on the U.S. price. There is a similar mark-up on some accessories. A pair of Doris sunglasses is £75, which is 27 per cent more, while a Kensington shoulder bag is £95, double the price charged in the U.S. Someone buying the dress, coat, shoes, bag and sunglasses would have to pay £484.50 but the U.S. web price for the same items would total £270.50 - a saving of more than £200. Industry insiders suggested the average increase in prices imposed in Banana Republic in Britain is around 20 per cent, considerably less than shown by our survey. The firm suggested the price differences the Mail found were exceptional and said they could be partly explained by the fact that the U.S. price does not include sales tax. However, this is usually less than 5 per cent. It also said price differences had been amplified by the fact that some the items have been reduced in the U.S. as part of a sale. A spokesman said: "One factor will be the relative strength of the pound against the dollar. Beyond that, yes, there is a premium on products, which is relatively small. "The prices of pieces in the UK reflect the cost of doing business here. "Taxes, property prices, rates and labour are all much higher than in the States."	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4858
__label__wiki	0.993525	0.993525	After Music Row rejection, Walker Hayes made a DIY studio Published: 11:17 EDT, 19 December 2017 \| Updated: 11:17 EDT, 19 December 2017 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Several years ago, producer and songwriter Shane McAnally met Walker Hayes, a country singer from Alabama who was struggling to find a hit while signed to Capitol Records Nashville. "He had a song or two that hadn't worked and they were like, 'We just need a hit,'" said McAnally, who has written No. 1 songs with Sam Hunt, Miranda Lambert and Kenny Chesney. "There's nothing organic or honest about telling someone that you just need a hit." Hayes, who had a wife and six kids, left Capitol after his record fizzled with no radio success and took a side job at Costco to pay the bills. He kept returning to a 160-square-foot storage shed behind his publisher's Music Row office, where he set up a DIY studio with an old version of Pro Tools, a keyboard and a guitar. In this Dec. 11, 2017 photo, country singer Walker Hayes poses for a portrait in New York to promote his latest album, "boom." (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP) "You find yourself writing the truth, because it's like, 'Well, I ain't writing for anyone but myself anyway,'" said Hayes, 37, as he sat in the storage shed known as The Shack. "The delivery, the style, the beats, I am going to make it all. I couldn't hire a band. So I was making a lot of this stuff here in this shack. Beating on this table, shaking that shaker, whistling. And really just having fun making music 'cause I just loved it." Hayes went back to McAnally two years ago with a batch of new songs that were conversational, highly personal and sung like an Ed Sheeran track. McAnally said no other country artist felt comfortable singing Hayes' songs, which immediately raised a flag in his mind. "What I am always drawn to is an artist that has songs that nobody else can perform," McAnally said. Now Hayes is signed to Monument Records, a historic country label dating back to the '50s that was relaunched by Sony this year and led by McAnally and Jason Owen. His first single, "You Broke Up with Me," has pushed into the Top 15 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, fueled by strong digital song sales. His new album "boom." was released Dec. 8. The single isn't too much different from the demo version he made in The Shack, complete with his co-writers chattering to each other in the background as he recorded a guitar riff and beatboxed the rhythm. Hayes doesn't write with much bravado, preferring the humor and striking honesty of a dad of six kids who has another baby on the way. He sings about taking his children to shop at the dollar store and the time a man from his church gave his family a minivan. He writes about quitting drinking but keeping that one last beer bottle in the fridge. Country artists like Sam Hunt and Thomas Rhett have opened the door to Hayes, who finds more inspiration in loops and beats than twangy guitars. "Growing up all I cared about in a song, before I really listened to lyrics, was that beat," Hayes said. "I didn't want a pickup with mud tires. I wanted an old blazer with as many speakers in the back as I could afford. I would even steal them out of my brother's car and pack them in there. I remember sitting in a parking lot and turning my radio up and walking down the street to see how far you could feel it." http://walkerhayes.com/home/ Follow Kristin M. Hall at twitter.com/kmhall	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4859
__label__wiki	0.88407	0.88407	DRC Crisis Conflict has left more than 4 million people internally displaced and 7 million severely food insecure, in one of the world's most complex and long-standing humanitarian crises. With 13.1 million people in dire need of assistance, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to witness one of the world's most complex and long-standing humanitarian crises. The humanitarian situation has deteriorated dramatically over the past year. The crisis has deepened and spread, affecting people in areas previously considered stable and stretching the coping mechanisms of people in areas already impacted. A surge in violent conflict and intercommunal violence forced more than 2.1 million people to flee their homes in 2017 – an average of 50 families of every hour every day. Today, the total number of internally displaced people in the DRC has reached 4.4 million, which is the highest number of any country on the African continent. North Kivu Province remains the most affected, accounting for over 1.1 million displaced persons. Insecurity has had a devastating impact on people’s capacity to access food, and 7.7 million people across the DRC are facing severe food insecurity – a 30% increase from the same time last year. The situation is further complicated by political uncertainty and economic downturn. Across the DRC, more than 2 million children under five are affected by severe acute malnutrition – 12% of the world’s caseload – and outbreaks of diseases, including cholera, affect tens of thousands of people every year. On 1 August 2018, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a new outbreak of Ebola virus disease in North Kivu Province. In January 2018, Humanitarian Coordinator Kim Bolduc launched the Humanitarian Response Plan valued at USD 1.68 billion to respond to humanitarian needs this year, an amount double the 2017 financial requirement. Support DEC member agencies working in DRC by following these links: CARE International Nepal Earthquake Appeal Nepal Earthquake Fundraising Ends Nepal one year on, more than 1.6 million helped Visiting Nepal, one year on	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4862
__label__wiki	0.833693	0.833693	British Public donates £41 million to DEC Nepal Earthquake Appeal The British public has donated more than £41 million to the DEC Nepal Earthquake appeal helping aid agencies reach more than 310,000 people, including those in remote villages in Gorkha and Sindhupalchok districts. Hundreds of thousands of people – many living in hard-to-reach villages – had their homes damaged or destroyed and are in urgent need of food, water, shelter and medical care following the devastating earthquake which struck on April 25. Rain, avalanches and the mountainous terrain is making aid deliveries challenging but DEC member agencies are getting vital supplies to people across 15 districts including Sindhupalchok where most deaths have been reported and over 80% of houses are thought to have been destroyed. DEC Chief Executive Saleh Saeed said: “We are overwhelmed by the generosity of the British public. The funds mean that despite enormous logistical challenges, aid is getting through to hard-to-reach areas. “Member agencies are working around the clock to get vital aid including food, water and shelter to villages which have been cut off since the devastating quake. “From some of the worst-hit villages in Gorkha such as Deurali and Paulungtar to Helambu and Ichowk in Sindhupalchok, aid is reaching those who need it. But there is still so much more to do and many more people to reach. “Member agencies will be supporting the people of Nepal for the weeks, months and years to come and we urge the British public to do the same and continue to give generously.” An estimated eight million people have been affected by the earthquake which hit west of the capital Kathmandu. The death toll has now increased to more than 7,500, with more than 14,400 people injured, according to the Government of Nepal. Latest updates from DEC member agencies on the ground include: Action Aid has delivered food such as rice, lentils, salt and oil to 20,000 people in Lalitpur. The British Red Cross has distributed 94,250 oral rehydration sachets. Tents have been delivered to more than 15,600 people in Dhading, Kavre, Okhaldunga and Nuwakot by CAFOD and its partners in the Caritas network. Care has provided 1800 people in Gorkha with family kits. Christian Aid has distributed water purification tablets and 10,000 hygiene kits for 50,000 people in Gorkha, Dhading and Sindhupalchok. Islamic Relief distributed food for 2,500 people in Sindhupalchowk district. Oxfam has installed an 11,000-litre tank and distributed 58,000 litres of drinking water in Kathmandu camps providing water to more than 4,400 people. Plan has distributed more than 1350 tarpaulins for 6780 people in Makwanpur. Save the Children has distributed 198 shelter kits, 400 tarpaulins and 200 baby blankets in Sindhupalchok. Tearfund has reached 2,750 people with food, blankets, sleeping mats and tents in Dhading. World Vision has provided 2,500 people with tarpaulins for shelter in Sindhuli. The vast majority of DEC funds came from individual donations from members of the public but the British government also contributed £5m through UK Aid Match. To make a donation to the DEC Nepal Earthquake Appeal visit: http://www.dec.org.uk, call the 24 hour hotline on 0370 60 60 900, donate over the counter at any high street bank or post office, or send a cheque. You can also donate £5 by texting the word SUPPORT to 70000. £25 can provide clean water for four families for one month £50 can feed a family for two weeks £100 can provide emergency shelter for five families The DEC brings 13 leading UK aid charities together in times of crisis: ActionAid UK, Age International, British Red Cross, CAFOD, Care International, Christian Aid, Concern Worldwide, Islamic Relief, Oxfam, Plan UK, Save the Children, Tearfund and World Vision; all collectively raising money to reach those in need quickly. All DEC agencies will support the appeal and are responding in Nepal. To make a postal donation make cheques payable to ‘DEC’ and mail to ‘PO Box 999, London, EC3A 3AA’. Donations can be made at any high street bank and at post office counters. To donate £5 by text, send the word SUPPORT to 70000. The full £5 will go to the DEC Nepal Earthquake Appeal. Donors must be 16 years or over and have bill payers permission. Texts are free and donations will be added to the bill. Aid delivered by DEC members and their partners has been paid for with DEC funds and money from other sources. Some people will have received different kinds of help from more than one DEC agency. For example it is likely that separate schemes - one providing shelter assistance and another providing food packages - will have reached some of the same people. According to ECHO (the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department) most of the deaths are in the district of Sindhupalchok (2,911), where over 80% of houses are reported to have been destroyed.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4863
__label__cc	0.520317	0.479683	Home Break-In at Taylor Swift’s NYC Brownstone by Deep Sentinel \| Apr. 25, 2018 \| Crime Watch Taylor Swift (Editorial credit: a katz / Shutterstock.com) Swift Not Home During Home Break-In Stars are just like us, Us Weekly magazine likes to say. They go to the grocery store, play with their kids etc. And like us, they apparently have to worry about home break-ins. Perhaps more so than the rest of us because of their high profile and high incomes. And perhaps no one more so than 28-year-old mega music star Taylor Swift. On April 20, a burglar successfully broke into Swift’s recently purchased brownstone in New York City’s fashionable Tribeca neighborhood. Surprisingly, Swift’s NYC abode for the past three months seems not to have been equipped with a security system to alert her or her staff of home break-ins. Or perhaps her home security system wasn’t turned on, a common problem with home break-ins. Police were alerted to the home break-in only by a neighbor awakened by the sound of breaking glass in the early morning hours. The intruder climbed up a fire escape ladder, according to media reports. He then used his hand to break a window and enter the home. Police found 22-year-old Roger Alvarado of Homestead, FL, asleep Goldie Locks-style in a bed in Swift’s home. He reportedly also has showered there. Police charged Alvarado with stalking, burglary, criminal mischief and trespassing. It is not clear whether he was attempting to steal any of Swift’s items during the home break-in. Not only was Swift not home at the time of the home break-in but, according to TMZ, she has not yet even lived at the home. Alvarado previously was arrested for trying to break into the building’s front door by hitting it with a shovel. Security Breached at Several of Swift’s Homes Unfortunately, this is not the first home intruder to stalk the mega pop star, Teen Vogue reports. In 2017, another man was arrested for repeatedly ringing Swift’s doorbell at a New York City penthouse where she lived at the time. The man also spent hours on the roof of the building. Meanwhile across the continent, police this month arrested two would-be intruders at Swift’s Beverly Hills mansion. A Colorado man arrested April 14 outside the Beverly Hills home owned by Swift was carrying a knife, a rope and ammunition. On April 10, another man was arrested for trying to climb over the mansion’s wall while screaming Swift’s name. “The old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now…she’s filing another homeowner’s insurance claim form,” Spin magazine stated playing on the lyrics of a 2017 Swift song, “Look What You Made Me Do.” A Peek at Swift’s Real Estate Portfolio Swift owns seven multi-million-dollar homes. The first two homes she bought were in in Nashville – a four-bedroom home in a quiet suburb and a 3,240 square-foot condo in the heart of the city’s lively Music Row. In 2011, she moved to Los Angeles with her $3.55 million purchase of a 3-bedroom cottage on an acre and a half of land in Beverly Hills. In 2015, she upped her Beverly Hills ante by obtaining a $25 million landmark 10,982 square-foot Spanish revival mansion. In 2013, Swift bought herself a swanky ocean-front 12,000 square-foot Rhode Island mansion for $17.75 million. Swift picked up her first New York City home, an 8,309 condo of two combined penthouses with a total of ten bedrooms, in 2014 for nearly $20 million. Towards the end of 2017, she plunked down an additional $18 million for the four-story brownstone next door. This is where last week’s home break-in occurred. You can see photos of Swift’s homes in Architectural Digest.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4864
__label__cc	0.616512	0.383488	Delaware ERA Now Equal Rights Amendment for Women About Our Mission ERANow News Facts & Media “Have We Forgotten the ERA?” – Suzanne Moore Whatever happened to the Equal Rights Amendment? Despite its vital importance to women seeking equal protection under the law, nobody talks about the ERA anymore. The intense commitment and energy dedicated to securing its passage by Congress in 1972 dissipated quickly after ratification failed in 1982 by only three states. So close, yet so far. Originally introduced in 1923, the ERA was meant to be companion legislation to the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote in 1920. Both of these constitutional amendments were, and still are, considered necessary to achieve basic human rights for women in this country. The ERA states, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” People sometimes ask, “Why do we need the ERA when women’s rights are already protected by the 14th Amendment?” The answer, backed by decades of legal opinion and rulings, is that women’s rights are not protected by the 14th Amendment since it was never intended to cover sex discrimination. Beyond the right to vote, women are mentioned nowhere else in the constitution. Some legal commentators have even gone so far as to suggest that the constitution does not address, let alone promise, equality between the sexes. Therefore, the ERA is essential to guaranteeing that women are afforded the same protections promised by the U.S. Constitution to all of its citizens. The lack of an ERA has implications beyond our shores and is an embarrassing absence that affects our position in the world. After World War II, the United States demanded that each new nation that was formed must include women in its constitution. Yet, we still have not done so. Compounding this hypocrisy, our country refuses to ratify the United Nation’s Convention for the Elimination of All Discrimination Against Women. We are one of only seven nations in this hall of shame, the others being countries such as Iran, Somalia and Sudan. Today, it is disingenuous to call ourselves the world’s leader in human rights while 52 percent of our population are second class citizens. Fortunately, times have changed since ratification failed in 1982. In a 2001 Opinion Research poll, 96 percent of Americans believed women should be equal to men; and 72 percent incorrectly thought that the ERA had already passed. Changes have also occurred in our culture: The number of women in the workplace has increased from 44 percent in 1972 to 57 percent in 2013 (Bureau of Labor Statistics); if part-time workers were included, the percentage of working women would be even higher. Increasingly, women are the primary or sole source of income for their families. Nonetheless, crucial issues remain unresolved, unequal pay for comparable work is still a problem for women, as are sexual harassment and discrimination on the job, pregnancy discrimination, insufficient protections against violence, and a host of other issues that reflect systemic social and economic barriers for women. To be fair, Congress has passed legislation to address some of these issues, but in the implementation phase, almost none are working as envisioned due to the narrow interpretation of existing laws by federal courts and the U.S. Supreme Court. The ERA is essential because it would change the standard by which sex discrimination is judged. Congress is now taking another look at the ERA; and national and state advocacy organizations are gearing up to focus the spotlight on what will undoubtedly be another contentious process. In Delaware, ERANow: Delaware’s Coalition for Passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, a nonpartisan group of women and men, is beginning the task of building awareness among Delawareans about the amendment. We realize that almost all current state and federal elected officials were not holding office when Delaware was the second state to ratify the ERA in 1972, so they will need education on this issue as well. ERANow invites individuals and groups in Delaware to join us and commit to persuading our elected state and federal legislators to do the right thing for Delaware women, mothers, wives and daughters. If anyone is reluctant to join the effort, ask a simple question: In this day and age, why are we still debating legislation that will grant half our population the same protections under the law that the other half has enjoyed for over 200 years? The time for the ERA is now. Suzanne C. Moore is a member of Delaware ERANow. This entry was posted in Updates on March 4, 2016 by admin. ← ERANow Meetings with Senators Carper and Coons Equal Protection Amendment Proposed for Delaware Constitution → News Posts by Month News Posts History Support/Join Us © Delaware ERANow - Delawareans working for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment Website by Attraction Web Design	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4865
__label__wiki	0.502583	0.502583	Tigers Teammates Adams, Austin D. (RP) Alcantara, Sergio (SS) Alcantara, Victor (RP) Baez, Sandy (RP) Beckham, Gordon (SS) Boyd, Matthew (SP) Burrows, Beau (SP) Cabrera, Miguel (DH) Cameron, Daz (CF) Candelario, Jeimer (3B) Carpenter, Ryan (SP) Castellanos, Nicholas (RF) Castro, Harold (2B) Castro, Willi (SS) Cisnero, Jose (RP) Coleman, Louis (RP) Dixon, Brandon (1B) Eaves, Kody (3B) Faedo, Alex (SP) Farmer, Buck (RP) Fernandez, Jose (RP) Fulmer, Michael (SP) Garrett, Reed (RP) Goodrum, Niko (2B) Greene, Shane (RP) Greiner, Grayson (C) Hall, Matt (SP) Hardy, Blaine (RP) Harrison, Josh (2B) Hicks, John (C) Jimenez, Eduardo (RP) Jimenez, Joe (RP) Jones, JaCoby (CF) King, Jose (SS) Kozma, Pete (3B) Krizan, Jason (OF) Lugo, Dawel (3B) Mahtook, Mikie (CF) Manning, Matt (SP) Mercer, Jordy (SS) Mize, Casey (SP) Montgomery, Troy (CF) Moore, Matt (SP) Norris, Daniel (SP) Paredes, Eduardo (RP) Paredes, Isaac (SS) Perez, Franklin (SP) Peterson, Dustin (LF) Ramirez, Nick (P) Reininger, Zac (RP) Reyes, Victor (RF) Rodriguez, Elvin (SP) Rodriguez, Ronny (SS) Rogers, Jake (C) Ross, Tyson (SP) Sanchez, Hector (C) Scivicque, Kade (C) Soto, Gregory (SP) Stewart, Christin (LF) Stumpf, Daniel (RP) Thielbar, Caleb (RP) Turnbull, Spencer (SP) VerHagen, Drew (RP) Wilson, Bobby (C) Zimmermann, Jordan (SP) RP, Detroit Tigers Bats R Throws R Height 6'1" Weight 180 DOB 1982-10-22 Age 36 Hometown Santa Cruz, CA Gamelog Stats 2019 Season, Updated Mar 21 BLSV ZiPS -$6 51 0 59.7 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 55 26 58 7 0 0 27 3.96 1.37 ZiPS projections by Dan Szymborski. NFBC 15-Team 5X5 Roto Values Switch NFBC 15-Team 5X5 2010 CWS - 5 1 13.2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 9 23 2 0 13 13 8.56 2.34 2012 COL - 31 0 53.0 5 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 42 26 49 2 4 31 31 5.26 1.42 2013 NYM $0 33 9 86.1 4 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 75 17 79 15 4 34 33 3.44 1.11 2015 NYM -$5 59 0 57.2 5 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 48 18 61 5 0 32 27 4.21 1.37 2016 MIL $4 72 0 82.1 3 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 78 30 65 8 4 26 25 2.73 1.15 2017 MIL -$9 67 0 72.2 4 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 56 33 78 10 3 37 34 4.21 1.53 2018 WAS -$5 10 0 9.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 3 9 3 1 7 7 6.52 1.24 2019 DET - 4 0 6.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 1 9 2 1 5 5 7.50 1.67 2019 ZiPS -$6 51 0 59.7 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 55 26 58 7 0 0 27 3.96 1.37 Historic stats obtained free of charge from and are copyrighted by Retrosheet. ZiPS projections by Dan Szymborski. NFBC 15-Team 5X5 Scoring Review · Switch Jun 9 vs MIN L 2-12 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 2 1 3 3 13.50 1.00 Jun 13 at KC L 3-7 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 4 0 0 2 2 9.00 2.00 Jun 14 vs CLE L 4-13 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.00 Jun 16 vs CLE L 0-8 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.00 Apr 21 at LAD L 0-4 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 2 2 18.00 3.00 Apr 23 at SF L 2-4 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 Apr 25 at SF W 15-2 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.00 0.00 Apr 28 vs ARI L 3-4 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 May 1 vs PIT W 12-4 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 2 2 18.00 3.00 May 2 vs PIT W 9-3 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 1.00 May 6 vs PHI W 5-4 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 9.00 1.00 May 7 at SD W 8-5 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 2 2 18.00 3.00 May 19 vs LAD L 1-4 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 May 21 vs SD W 10-2 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 1.00 Member Updates · Facebook · Twitter	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4870
__label__cc	0.541637	0.458363	The Shelbourne Celebrating 195 years of history and tradition The Shelbourne is a timeless landmark in the heart of Dublin. It is one of the largest five star hotels in Ireland overlooking the city’s grandest square, St. Stephen’s Green, which is located within a few minutes’ walk from Dublin’s most famous landmarks as well as the key shopping and cultural areas of the city. For nearly two centuries, the hotel has played a significant role in the literary, social, political, culinary and artistic traditions of Irish society. In 1922 the Irish constitution was drafted here, chaired by Michael Collins, and one of the two original copies are to be found in the hotel's museum. All of The Shelbourne's 265 bedrooms and 20 suites, have been elegantly refurbished to ensure the wonderful heritage and tradition of the hotel has been retained, with design and décor influenced and inspired by the classic grandeur of the historic elements of this famous hotel. The Saddle Room Restaurant is an old favourite serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. Offering a contemporary menu using only the finest local and artisan ingredients, it also features an Oyster Bar, serving the freshest oysters available from West Clare, Carlingford and Galway. No.27 Bar & Lounge offers a relaxed and inviting ambience alongside an informal menu containing classic bar food favourites, complimented by a unique selection of world wines by the glass, premium spirits and their famous signature cocktails. The Lord Mayor’s Lounge, is Ireland’s most historic Drawing Room. For centuries it has been home to one of the most elegant and timeless traditions of Afternoon Tea. Enjoy the affectionately restored luxurious surroundings accompanied by a Classic Afternoon Tea menu. Relax with the gentle music of the lounge's resident pianist, amongst the shimmering Waterford Crystal chandelier lighting. As distinctive as it is revered in Dublin culture, The Horseshoe Bar has seen it all down through the years. With its rich red walls, original artefacts and fascinating memorabilia, it is firmly established as one of Dublin’s finest and most loved bars. The Shelbourne's luxury Spa & Salon and Health Club is set over three floors. The Health Club boasts an impressive swimming pool, sauna, steam room, Georgian style dance studio and gym area furnished with the latest exercise equipment. The Spa; with seven treatment rooms, a relaxation room, and elegantly lit by chandeliers, overlooks St. Stephen’s Green. The Salon extends the beauty offerings of The Spa, offering an array of premium services including hair styling, blow dries, express facials, luxury manicures and pedicures. The Shelbourne offers 12 historic meeting rooms each with their own character, ideal for intimate private dining to business conferences for up to 350 people. Lastly, The Shelbourne also has its very own ‘Genealogy Butler’ providing a range of unique services to guests who wish to explore their own family history research. Local Amenities and Attractions : The hotel is located only 9km from Dublin airport and ideally situated close to Dublin’s cultural and historic buildings. Explore the designer boutiques and famous department stores around Grafton Street. St. Patricks Cathedral, Trinity College, the Guinness Storehouse, museums and galleries nearby PO Code: Dublin 2 ak.dubdt.res@autographhotels.com theshelbourne.ie	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4873
__label__wiki	0.945208	0.945208	Distribution’s Mullinax promoted to colonel By DLA Distribution Public Affairs DOWNLOAD HI-RES / PHOTO DETAILS Air Force Lt. Col. Anthony Mullinax, left, recites the oath of office as his last action before assuming the rank of Colonel. NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa., Nov. 6, 2017 — DLA Distribution Current Operations deputy Air Force Lt. Col. Anthony Mullinax was promoted to the rank of Colonel during a ceremony Oct. 31. The ceremony was officiated by Mullinax’s longtime friend, Air Force Col. Brian “Jethro” Neal. Neal currently serves as vice commander, 482nd Fighter Wing, Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida. Following a reading of the official order announcing Mullinax’s promotion, he was pinned to the rank of Colonel by his wife Cindy, and their daughters, Cameron and Reese. Mullinax received his commission from Troy University in 1996. He has held various logistics positions within the Air Combat Command, Air Education and Training Command, Air Forces Central Command, and Headquarters Air Force. He was selected for the Air Force’s Education with Industry program working for International Business Machines at Fishkill, New York. In 2016, he was selected to attend Senior Developmental Education at the National Defense University, Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, Washington, D.C. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Defense Meritorious Service Medal; Air Force Commendation Medal; Global War on Terrorism Service Medal; NATO Medal; and Headquarters Air Combat Command Major General Warren R. Carter Logistics Effectiveness Daedalian Award. Col Anthony Mullinax DLA DLA Distribution People and Culture promotion US Airforce USAF	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4874
__label__cc	0.502648	0.497352	To legislate or not to legislate? As the year draws to a close, Mark Hatcher reviews events in Parliament Mark Hatcher examines the recent by-elections and the resulting fall-out for the political parties. The next general election is barely 200 days away but in the past few weeks, the village of Westminster has been in the grip of by-election fever. On the eve of the Scottish referendum, Mark Hatcher reflects on politics either side of the border and conference season for all parties. When Tip O’Neill, the former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, died President Bill Clinton remarked that “he loved politics and government because he saw [they] could make a difference in people’s lives and he loved people most of all.” Mark Hatcher reviews the recent government reshuffle and its implications for the Bar. The government reshuffle which took place in mid-July – almost 52 years to the day after Harold Macmillan’s ”night of the long knives”, when seven Cabinet members (a third of the total, including the Lord Chancellor, Lord Kilmuir) were sacked – was much more wide-ranging than expected. In his first column for Counsel, Mark Hatcher examines the newly opened Parliamentary session and the business ahead. As the beginning of the holiday season approaches, MPs face another few weeks at Westminster before the House of Commons rises for the summer recess on 22 July. The Parliamentary session, which opened with The Queen’s Speech on 4 June, will have been running for just seven weeks before the Commons pack up for the summer. Allowing for a two-week interval of business before the party conferences begin in September, MPs can look forward to a 10-week break. Westminster Watch - May 2014 In his last column, Toby Craig reports on an action-packed month in Westminster and the deal with the criminal Bar. If a week is a long time in politics, then four years in Westminster can seem an eternity. Having penned WW for almost that long, this column shall be my 46th and my last. More on that later; but there have been few months as action-packed as this one, so it is as good as any on which to exit. A budget, TV debates, a cabinet resignation and finally, a breakthrough on legal aid and that’s before we get to the House of Lords’ 155-page report on soft power. Never let it be said WW scrimps on the detail. Westminster Watch – April 2014 Toby Craig contemplates the familiar story behind the recent further reductions to the criminal legal budget. And so, on 27 February, after months of consultation, discussion and protest, the Government announced its final intention further to reduce criminal legal aid. This comes on top of the swingeing cuts to civil legal aid, implemented through LASPO last year. Westminster Watch – March 2014 Rain, rain, go away.... Toby Craig reviews a wet, windy and eventful month for those in Westminster. It never rains but it pours... Westminster Watch - February 2014 Toby Craig examines our relationship both with and within Europe and the impact on political debate. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War. That in itself has been the cause of significant argument, with Education Secretary Michael Gove leading the charge against what he sees as left-wing myths about the conflict. He singled out Blackadder’s characterisation of the First World War as a ‘misbegotten shambles’ as particularly offensive to what he views as a ‘just’ if ‘uniquely horrific’ war. Westminster Watch – January 2014 Toby Craig reflects on the life of Nelson Mandela and his contribution to the political landscape. In a pithy sentence, Barack Obama masterfully captured the essence of Nelson Mandela’s influence on global politics. The ability of political leaders in a few short words to capture a mood, to shape and influence thoughts and to change the destiny of nations sometimes seems a lost and forgotten art. In a year that saw the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech and the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of one of the greatest orators of the twentieth century, John F Kennedy, it ended up being a year which will be rightly remembered for the death of another great leader of our times who understood better than most the enormous power of language.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4877
__label__wiki	0.621018	0.621018	AS HEARD IN COURT MARCH 23, 2018 PEOPLE V. CORRAL, DYLAN- Defendant was convicted of a felony violation of Vehicle Code section 23110(b), Throwing a Substance at a Vehicle on a Highway, and a prior Strike conviction. Defendant was sentenced to 6 years in state prison. The case was prosecuted by DA Stewart with assistance from Orland Police Department Officer Carmon, Glenn County Sheriff's Office Deputy Owens, and Glenn County Sheriff's Office Correctional Deputy White. PEOPLE V. GABEL, JACOB- Defendant was convicted of a felony violation of Penal Code section 597(a), Torture of Living Animal. Defendant was sentenced to 8 months in prison consecutive to his Butte County prison sentence of 2 years and 8 months for a total of 3 years and 4 months in state prison. The case was prosecuted by DDA Neumann with assistance from Glenn County Sheriff's Office Deputy Draper. PEOPLE V. DENIZ, CHRISTOPHER- Defendant was convicted of a misdemeanor violation of Penal Code section 459, 2nd Degree Burglary. Defendant was found in violation for the 6th time and 2nd time on two prior misdemeanor cases. Defendant was sentenced to 210 days in county jail and 3 years court probation. The case was prosecuted by DDA Coffey with assistance from Glenn County Sheriff's Office Deputy McIntyre. PEOPLE V. RUEDA, ALLAN- Defendant was convicted of a misdemeanor violations of Vehicle Code section 2800.1, Evasion, and Vehicle Code section 23103/23103.5, Wet Reckless. Defendant was found in violation of probation for the 1st time in 2 misdemeanor cases and reinstated to probation. Defendant was sentenced to 210 days in county jail and 3 years formal probation. The case was prosecuted by DA Stewart with the assistance from Orland Police Department Sgt. Johnson and Officer Carmon. PEOPLE V. BAUSKA, CHAD- Defendant was convicted of a misdemeanor violation of Health and Safety Code section 11550(a), Under the Influence of Methamphetamine. Defendant was sentenced to 120 days in county jail and probation was denied. The case was prosecuted by DDA Coffey with assistance from Orland Police Department Officer Fullmore. PEOPLE V. POINDEXTER, SEAN- Defendant was previously convicted of a felony conviction of Health and Safety code section 11378, Possession of Methamphetamine for Sale. Defendant was found in violation of Post Release Community Supervision for the 1st time. Defendant was sentenced to 120 days in county jail and reinstated to Post Release Community Supervision. The case was prosecuted by DDA Coffey with assistance from Glenn County Probation Department Officer Van Eck.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4879
__label__wiki	0.527153	0.527153	Irregular Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe: Who Cares? Anna Triandafyllidou May 6, 2016 by Routledge With specific attention to irregular migrant workers - that is to say, those without legal permits to stay in the countries in which they work - this volume focuses on domestic work, presenting studies from ten European countries, including Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain. Offering a comparative analysis of irregular migrants engaged in all kinds of domestic work, the authors explore questions relating to employment conditions, health issues and the family lives of migrants. The book examines the living and working conditions of irregular migrant domestic workers, their relations with employers, their access to basic rights such as sick leave, sick pay, and holiday pay, as well as access to health services. Close consideration is also given to the challenges for family life presented by workers' status as irregular migrants, with regard to their lives both in their countries of origin and with their employers. Through analyses of the often blurred distinction between legality and illegality, the notion of a ’career’ in domestic work and the policy responses of European nations to the growth of irregular migrant domestic work, this volume offers various conceptual developments in the study of migration and domestic work. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, political scientists, geographers and anthropologists with interests in migration, gender, the family and domestic work. Anna Triandafyllidou is Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy and Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens, Greece. She is also Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. Author of The Social Psychology of Party Behaviour; Immigrants and National Identity in Europe; and Negotiating Nationhood in a Changing Europe, she co-wrote What is Europe? and Migrant Smuggling. She has edited Irregular Migration in Europe and Muslims in 21st Century Europe; and co-edited European Immigration: A Sourcebook; European Multiculturalism(s); The European Public Sphere and the Media; Europeanisation, National Identities and Migration; Multiculturalism, Muslims and Citizenship; and Transcultural Europe. ’The book draws on in-depth research conducted in eight different European countries to explore the work of irregular migrant domestic workers as well as their family lives and health. In the process the book shows the important role that these workers play - independent of their migration status vis-Ã -vis the individual states - in allowing European welfare states to remain cost-efficient and functional, and European families to better manage the difficult balance of work and family.’ Francesca Degiuli, CUNY College of Staten Island, USA ’This book truly shows the complexities of irregular migration and the challenges that domestic care workers face in a unique way; Anna Triandafyllidou has, once again, coordinated fascinating and comprehensive new research highlighting the political and more importantly the human realities across Europe today. This book impressively integrates policy analysis with theory while offering glimpses into the lives of real people who care, and who, indeed, are rarely cared for.’ Ruby Gropas, College of Europe-Bruges, Belgium ' ... this book is an interesting reference source on the differences and similarities which exist in the experiences of irregular migrant domestic workers in the eight European countries under discussion.' Journal of Contemporary European Studies	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4880
__label__cc	0.713536	0.286464	Taiwan consumer goods How will US-China trade frictions affect Taiwan? May 21st 2018 \| Taiwan \| Non-food products \| ZTE The current trade frictions between the US and China, which have culminated in US proposals for a wide range of tariffs, will have regional repercussions. Given the high level of economic integration with mainland China, Taiwan will see several of its most important industries caught in the crossfire. However, the impact on the island's economy will be mixed: relocation to Taiwan of production and accompanying investment will partially offset the losses from a decline in Taiwanese-invested China-US exports. Overall, however, the trade tensions do not warrant a significant change to our external sector forecast. The introduction of non-country-specific duties on US-imported steel and aluminium products by the US Department of Commerce in early March was a worrying sign that political tensions over trade had culminated in substantive targeted actions by the US administration under the president, Donald Trump. The impact of those specific measures on Taiwan's trade flows will be negligible, however, as Taiwan's total exports of iron, steel and aluminium accounted for only 6.1% of the island's export composition in 2017, and less than 1% of its exports to the US over the same period. Nevertheless, the prospect of more broadly targeted actions by the US is a concern for Taiwan's external sector. The announcement by the US Trade Representative (USTR) in late March that it would propose ad-valorem tariffs of 25% on more than 1,300 imports from China has similarly far-reaching implications for Taiwan's economy. A mixed impact Although the proposed USTR tariff measures do not directly target exports from Taiwan, there is a risk of a significant negative economic impact on the island in the short term owing to the large number of high-value-added supply chains that encompass both Taiwan and the mainland. China is not only Taiwan's largest trade partner, accounting for roughly a quarter of Taiwan's total merchandise exports by destination in 2017 (including Hong Kong), but Taiwanese electrical components, machinery and other intermediate components for electronics manufacturing accounted for roughly 50% of total exports to the mainland in that year. A large share of these items fit into export categories from China which have been targeted by the USTR measures. There is a chance that Taiwan will benefit, to an extent, from the US trade measures. We expect the imposition of tariffs to shift US demand away from Chinese-sourced goods and towards cheaper alternatives, potentially providing space for Taiwanese firms to capture US market share. Trade tensions will also create urgency for export-oriented multinational companies to insulate their regional supply chains from trade tensions; relocating to Taiwan would allow companies to maintain a regional presence, with minimal disruption to business operations, partnerships or consumer segments, while avoiding the brunt of trade tariffs. This would be particularly salient should US and Chinese tariffs come into effect without a clear channel for resolution in the medium term, which is a likely scenario in our view. The USTR tariffs specifically target intermediate components such as liquid crystal displays, semiconductors and light-emitting diodes, all of which are crucial constituents of consumer technology goods, including mobile phones and computers. Although the current USTR measures do not target Chinese exports of those final consumer electronics, the tariffs will have an impact on the export operations of Chinese electronics component manufacturers selling to the US market. Taiwanese companies and Taiwan-based manufacturers are likely to take advantage of a decline in the competitiveness of Chinese goods vis-à-vis their Taiwan equivalents. However, the benefits in this regard will be limited: many of the components subject to tariffs will be not state of the art, and thus countries in the region with sufficient production capabilities but lower production costs suitable to those models—such as Thailand and Vietnam—will offer more competitive sourcing options than what Taiwan may be able to offer. The imposition of retaliatory Chinese tariffs against US-manufactured products—which to date have focused primarily on agricultural and food products, but also in certain segments of the plastics, rubber and automotive industries—could also give a small boost to Taiwanese exporters. However, these benefits will be minor: raw plastic materials, agricultural products (including foodstuffs, tobacco and beverages), rubber articles and vehicles, aircraft and other transport vessels combined made up only around 9.2% of the total value of the island's exports in 2017. Moreover, Taiwan does not readily produce suitable agricultural product alternatives for most of the US goods targeted by Chinese tariffs. The largest disruptions will be in Taiwanese companies' supply chains. Recent trade actions adopted by the US against ZTE, a major Chinese telecommunications and networking equipment company, will have indirect effects on ZTE's major Taiwanese commercial partners, including Nanya Technology and MediaTek. Although both companies have already applied for (and in MediaTek's case, received) an export permit from Taiwan's Bureau of Foreign Trade to maintain their commercial relationship with ZTE in the light of the US sanctions, there is still a high risk that US sanctions could ultimately drive ZTE out of business—forcing Nanya, MediaTek and other companies to reassess their supply-chain models built out of China. Mr Trump has indicated that he may issue a reprieve to ZTE, but we do not expect the US to reverse these sanctions significantly owing to strong domestic opposition in the US against these plans. This will inevitably induce shocks to the supply chains of major Taiwanese companies that count ZTE as an important commercial partner. Taiwanese companies in China Although the effects on Taiwan-originating trade flows will be indirect and relatively minor overall, we expect that the USTR measures will have a greater impact on capital flows owing to the effects on Taiwanese firms with major production bases on the mainland—more specifically, repatriated company profits accounted for in the primary income component of the current account. The offsetting effects of production facility relocation to Taiwan will dampen this impact to some extent, but concerns over escalating trade tensions will delay or disrupt future planned investments by Taiwanese components manufacturing companies in mainland China in the short term. We will incorporate these changes into our balance-of-payments forecast, although we continue to expect that Taiwan will maintain a large current-account surplus in the outlook period (2018‑22). However, the developments overall do not warrant a significant revision of our forecast for Taiwan's external sector. We still believe that Taiwan's export competitiveness will gradually decline over the forecast period regardless, as China, as well as other countries in the region, upgrade their production capabilities.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4882
__label__wiki	0.59698	0.59698	In the ashes of empire: Life in Crimea since the annexation Lev Abalkin The rupture caused by Russian's annexation of Crimea will take decades to mend It has been nearly two years since Russia annexed Crimea, and the period of transition is formally over. There has even been a nominal reshuffle of power through local elections and a law on the establishing of a free economic zone. Most Crimeans have received Russian passports and have re-registered their properties in accordance with Russian legislation. Crimea’s integration into Russia took place with unprecedented speed. The currency, the laws, school curricula, and even trade changed dramatically in the space of a few months. Crimea is unique not so much in the speed of its integration into Russia as in the virtual absence of armed conflict and human casualties, compared to the struggles for the two other unrecognised republics in Donetsk and Luhansk. The Crimean peninsula became de facto part of Russia without a single shot being fired. Perhaps that’s why out of more than two million residents, just 20,000 people have given up Ukrainian citizenship – less than 1 percentof the population (mostly government, military, and security officials, and activists of Russian political organisations). And this is in spite of the wave of primitive Russian propaganda constantly broadcast by the local media. However, Crimea has gone through a period of ideological prejudice and economic blockade, and a rupture in family, friendship, and business ties with the rest of Ukraine. A rupture that will take decades to mend. To understand how much Crimea has changed, you just have to visit Simferopol railway station. Before the annexation, you couldn’t move for the number of people on the station’s front square. Except for a few suburban trains, nothing else runs now. There aren’t even long-distance trains to Kyiv any more, something which divides families even further and complicates people’s ability to move around. However, despite the eerie quiet of this square, you can find a small group of people who come together several times a day to cross the northern “border” in a minibus. Most are destined for big cities such as Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Kherson. Among them are students who want to return to their studies on the mainland and businessmen who are reluctant to close down their operations in Crimea. However, travelling over to mainland Ukraine is expensive and not everyone can afford the fare. A one-way ticket costs up to 1,000 hryvnia ($50) and the average monthly salary is just $150–200. Therefore, people often have to choose the less comfortable but cheaper route, despite the associated risks it entails. Maria is an old friend of mine. She is an elderly woman who is very loyal to the new Crimean authorities, but she has grandchildren in mainland Ukraine. She is one of the people who have no choice but to take the cheaper route, but have to endure a significant amount of humiliation to even get out of Crimea, not to mention getting to their destination in Ukraine and back.Recently, she was forced to return from the mainland to Simferopol by the longer, cheaper route (by taking a train from Kyiv to Novoalekseevka, then a taxi to the border, walking 1.5 kilometres through no man’s land once at the border, and then finally boarding the bus to Simferopol). The trip was half the cost of the direct route, but took twice as long.Her journey included two “border” inspections, and contact with people from Ukraine’s “Right Sector” and the Crimean Tatars, who are leading the food blockade. She had to go through all of this before the 1.5 kilometre walk to the spot where private drivers can take you to the “Russian border”. All this is pretty tiring, even for a healthy young person, let alone a pensioner like Maria.As she voices these complaints, Maria often forgets that just over one year ago, she was telling me with enthusiasm how she had voted to join the Russian Federation in the Crimean referendum, but now it seems that she is paying for her vote. A dictatorship of the majority The hysteria in Crimea around the revolutionary events of Euromaidan in the winter of 2014 was quite understandable. We in Crimea experienced a conflict of values between those who sided with the protesters occupying Maidan, and the majority ethnic Russian residents on the peninsula, who held pro-Russian views. Few of my Crimean friends sympathised with the revolutionary movement underway in Kyiv. In fact, most of them held highly negative views on it. After the start of Euromaidan in 2013, one of my colleagues, Dmitry, who works at a Ukrainian pharmaceutical company in Crimea and who graduated in Zaporizhia, joined “Russian Unity”, an extreme nationalist organisation, and was then active in the “Stop Maidan” movement. Now, Dmitry is 25 and has become an apologist for Russian Crimea. After our company left the region, he moved to Krasnodar, in Russia, where he found another job. The pro-Russian majority, who are convinced of the legitimacy of Crimea’s historical return to Russia, are not interested in the domestic problems caused by such a geopolitical crisis. The sanctions, the blockade, and other problems are perceived as a conspiracy. Their slogan is “Let rocks rain from the sky! We have finally come home”. Nationalism and the feeling of “coming home”, at least for now, conceals the social, economic, and mobility problems people face. There is a certain logic to this otherwise emotionally charged point of view. We should not forget that Crimea was for many years a heavily subsidised and economically depressed region. For many elderly voters, the relatively high Russian pensions (compared to those in Ukraine) represented a big pull factor for those striving to improve their own well-being through integration with Russia. It was quite another matter for Crimean Tatars, pro-Ukrainian activists, and Crimean students, who opted to continue their education in Ukraine at their own risk. For this group, Crimea’s accession to Russia meant either reprisals for their support of the revolutionary movement or huge personal problems from being forced to choose where to live, work, or study. Almost all well-known independent journalists either left Crimea or began to write under a pseudonym for fear of reprisals. Indeed, entire editorial offices left (the largest forced relocation was the Crimean Tatar TV channel ATR, which is now based in Kyiv). All pro-Ukrainian Crimeans (including the Crimean Tatars) were effectively forced to cease all political activity and concentrate on solving their own personal problems. The world of work and the curse of subsidies There are still jobs in Crimea, but wages (outside the public sector) are low. The freefall of the rouble against the dollar has meant that even relatively high government sector wages, at least compared to Ukraine, were no longer particularly attractive. Although local officials like to claim that people are better off, by referring to the growth of nominal salaries, not much has actually changed in practice. The average salary today is 24,500 roubles (about $390). One year ago, it was 15,000 roubles (which was still $390 back then because of the prior strength of the Russian currency). Wages have gone up, but the purchasing power of the individual has fallen due to the crisis. But, beyond the statistics, most people’s real incomes are significantly below average indicators for Russia. One of my contacts, an employee of KEX Consulting, based in Simferopol, said that in early 2015 her salary as a full-time website moderator was 8,000 roubles plus a possible 3,000 rouble bonus. Now the situation has levelled off somewhat: her salary has been increased to 11,000 and the bonus part remains unchanged. In Krasnodar, for example, people would refuse to work for such low salaries, but in Crimea people willingly sign up. Other private companies pay similar wages with about 10,000–12,000 roubles plus bonuses, but pay is rarely more than this. It turns out that the promised Russian paradise is the same $300 a month which people used to get under Ukraine. Because of these low wages, even the Moscow officials whom the Kremlin is so eager to introduce into the Crimean system at the level of deputy minister (to control the flow of funds) refuse to go to Crimea. In fact, a history that is painfully familiar to many subsidised regions is repeating itself in Crimea. Relatively high wages for relatively little work in government bodies (compared to the private sector) puts people off going into business. Now everybody’s goal is to find a cushy job working for the state. Of course, this has not only come about through increases in the salaries of the pro-government electorate, but also through Moscow’s inability to increase wages across the board in a region which is unattractive to investors and large companies. Ivan, one of my former colleagues, who started to work in the air-conditioning business in Crimea, says that in two years of work on the de facto Russian peninsula, sales have fallen, but the price has gone up, so company profits have remained stable. The state of Ivan’s company is not particularly indicative of regional trends, because in most cases companies with some relation to tourism have been suffering losses. And this is normal. If you run a small hotel, part of your profits goes towards buying air-conditioning, plumbing, and electrical equipment for the rooms. The more tourists you have, the more you have to spend on these things. When the flow of tourists slows, sales figures in related areas drop, which leads many companies to go bust. Economic hybrids in a transitioning state Today, the situation is rather strange. Most of the main Ukrainian companies have officially left Crimea, but the big Russian players have not yet appeared on the scene, creating an economic limbo where companies are caught between Russian and Ukrainian legislation and practices. This economic limbo has been productive of various economic hybrids. Many local Ukrainian companies have re-registered under Russian law and pay taxes to Moscow, but remain the subject of their Kyiv offices. Essentially, they are trying to have their cake and eat it – maintaining the status of a legal entity in Ukraine (which exempts them from the need to pay tax according to the law on the free economic zone) while at the same time receiving their registration in Russia. Russian companies, on the other hand, are doing everything possible to hide any relationship with Crimea. They do not want to be seen to be formally present in Crimea for fear of sanctions and reputational damage, and so are ready to deny any links to the peninsula. McDonald’s was the first major international company to announce its closure on the peninsula (in Simferopol, Sevastopol, and Yalta) after the March 2014 referendum. Its empty and abandoned store still sits opposite Simferopol’s deserted station, and is patrolled by a single security guard. In April 2014, Ukrainian banks began to hastily pack up and leave, and by May their activities had ceased completely. PrivatBank, owned by oligarch and former governor of Dnipropetrovsk, Ihor Kolomoisky, was the first to leaveafter his property in Crimea was nationalised. Withdrawals from the bank’s accounts were limited at first and then completely stopped. Over 20 banks followedsuit, packing up their operations on the peninsula, though most of them continue to serve Crimeans from the mainland. There were no Russian banks in the region once the Ukrainian operations had departed. The Russian National Commerce Bank (RNKB) was the first to put down roots and later became the major governmentbank in Crimea. It continued to take deposits and make payments without bank stamps until the end of June 2014 (when the Ukrainian hryvnia went out of circulation and an iron curtain came down over Crimea). The absence of stamps in Crimea at that point could have led to widespread bank fraud and so – in those days of hour-long queues and empty cash machines – all transactions were based on trust between the population and the bank staff. The creation of RNKB is perhaps the most striking example of a hybrid Ukrainian-Russian enterprise. Most of its departments were expropriatedfrom PrivatBank and reformatted under new corporate standards. Many branches retained the same design and only the signs were replaced. PrivatBank cash machines became RNKB cash machines (if not the technical equipment itself, then at least the location). The new state bank even took over the same financial functions as PrivatBank (paying out salaries and benefits, processing invoices for state departments, etc.). Today there is practically no alternative to RNKB. Contrary to the high hopes of Crimeans, it is mostly second-rate regional Russian banks that have come to Crimea: GenBank, Krayinvestbank, Baykalbank, and about ten to 15 other small banking institutions. Many people turn a blind eye to the conflict between Crimea, Ukraine, and Russia, trying to make as much money as they can out of it by whatever means they can, hybrid or otherwise. A striking example is Alexander, a programmer from Odessa who comes to Crimea to sell commercial equipment and software for catering businesses.He has his own team of several local experts in Crimea and the company’s central office is in Moscow. His father took a Russian passport in Simferopol, which allowed the family to register a company with the same name as the one in Odessa, but this time according to Russian law.They do not care about the war, or annexation, or the future of the state. At this point in time, these people are only interested in profit and the possibility of entering the Russian market, even through such an unreliable portal as Crimea.Alexander told me: “Well, nothing depends on us. The authorities just do what they want, but at least we can do some business. In spite of the whole situation, we create jobs, make money and pay our taxes”.“Where do you pay your taxes?”, I ask. “Where we need to pay them”, Alexander smiles. Hostages of power and the price of the blockade Today in Crimea there is a growing sense of isolation, and this is not just due to the months-old food blockade which has put another wedge between Crimeans and the people of Ukraine, but also because of simple everyday things. For example, cable networks air just one news channel in Ukrainian – Euronews. Everything else has to be accessed via satellite or the internet. Some Ukrainian news websites are blocked for being potentially “dangerous” and distributing “extremist” information. Although such limitations can be circumvented by using a simple VPN server, it is still difficult for the average user to obtain unbiased information. The food blockade has only had a minor impact on local prices and has actually served to lift the lid on the level of black-market trade here. In large supermarkets, which for the most part sold Russian products at Russian prices even before the annexation, the price of products has not changed. But, in small shops and markets, prices have risen because local suppliers were suddenly deprived of cheaper Ukrainian goods. The difficult economic situation in Crimea is compounded by the external blockade by the West and tacit Russian isolation, the effects of which are strongly felt. The Russian private sector is not interested in investing in Crimea at all, putting the local authorities in an unenviable position. Since the annexation Crimea has also suffered many corruption scandals that have resulted in the sacking of ministers and heads of major nationalised enterprises such as Chernomorneftegaz. It has also been over a year since rumours began circulating that Crimean banks were being used to launder money and to cash out funds received from financial fraud.After experiencing so much corruption, it is difficult to understand why locals are still mostly loyal to the current leadership of Crimea. It is probably due to the fact that the leader of the Republic, Sergey Aksenov, and the Speaker of Parliament, Vladimir Konstantinov, are integrated into the presidential power-vertical of Vladimir Putin, whose authority here is huge. Therefore, the only thing that can threaten the power of the local authorities is discontent in Moscow. After all, there is no real or imaginary opposition to Aksenov’s team,and when the next corruption scandal erupts here, Crimeans will likely learn about it from Russian media reports because local newspapers and TV channels prefer to ignore this kind of information. One of my sources who is close to the Crimean Ministry for Internal Policy, Information and Communications told me a few months ago that its employees were enthusiastically awaiting the appointment of new ministers from Moscow because the level of competence of the Crimean officials from the Aksenov–Konstantinov team was extremely low. My source argued that the Kremlin is well aware of the lack of professionalism of local managers, so their replacement was only a matter of time. He turned out to be right. However, the Putin administration has not been able to replace the leadership of local ministries entirely and ordinary Crimeans, deprived of access to objective information, know little of these backroom games. After nearly two years spent under the de facto control of Russia, Crimea has become an island, almost completely cut off from mainland Ukraine. To the already reclusive and provincial mentality of Crimeans an insular wistfulness and a real sense of being under siege has been added. Fear for the future has been transformed into military-style patriotism and a desire to retain any form of stability, however deceptive it may be. The sanctions policy against Crimea can only get worse from here on in, and, combined with the food blockade and the electricity supply being cut off, Crimea is becoming a true grey zone, isolated from the international community and destined to continue living under the stifling conditions of Russia’s autarchic ideology. Read more on: More from LIFE IN THE GREY ZONES South Ossetia – living in hope of a peaceful future Transnistria - who to blame? Abkhazia – unrecognised, but still alive "Crimea. Russia. Forever." 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__label__wiki	0.826976	0.826976	Detailed State Data A Decade of Effort Overview & Data How we graded Sources & Notes Vol. 25, Issue 17 For past issues, select from the drop-down menu. --SELECT-- 06/19/2019 06/12/2019 06/05/2019 05/15/2019 05/08/2019 05/01/2019 04/24/2019 04/17/2019 04/10/2019 04/03/2019 03/20/2019 03/13/2019 03/06/2019 02/27/2019 02/20/2019 02/13/2019 02/06/2019 01/23/2019 01/16/2019 01/09/2019 12/12/2018 12/05/2018 11/28/2018 11/14/2018 11/07/2018 10/31/2018 10/24/2018 10/17/2018 10/10/2018 More archived issues Press Conference Slide Presentation WEB EXTRAS STATE OF THE STATES For the first time, the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center has produced detailed individualized state-by-state reports, assembling key findings in an accessible format that allows readers to examine a particular state’s performance on this year’s indicators and its progress over time. Download a State's Full Report: View a State's Summary of Grades: - Select a State - Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming State Report Cards (Requires Macromedia Flash Player.) This interactive map offers a quick way to examine State-by-State grades and summary data. Provides comprehensive data for individual states in the following categories: summary of grades, student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, school climate, resources: equity and spending. Also provides way to compare multiple states' data in all categories. WEB EXTRAS ONLINE CHAT TRANSCRIPTS What's Next for Standards-Based Reform? With guest Marshall S. Smith, program director for education at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. (February 1, 2006) A Decade of Standards-Based Education With guest Christopher Swanson, director of the EPE Research Center. (January 25, 2006) Reconsidering National Standards, Curricula, and Tests With guest Diane Ravitch, a research professor of education at New York University, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and the author of many books about American education. (January 18, 2006) A Second Front in Education Reform With guest Ronald A. Wolk, the chairman of the board for Editorial Projects in Education. (January 5, 2006) State efforts in standards-based education over the past decade have had a positive, but modest, relationship with gains in student achievement. Since 1997, states have picked up the pace of their standards-based reforms, and test scores for minority and low-income students, in particular, have improved. But change hasn't come far or fast enough. • A Decade of Policy Indicators • Making the Connection • Making the Connection: A decade of standards-based reform and achievement (Web only) This special report by the EPE Research Center analyzes the links between state policies related to standards-based reform and gains in student achievement over the past decade. Table PDF \| Excel NAEP Reading Scores and Changes Over Time Table PDF \| Excel NAEP Math Scores and Changes Over Time A Small Wonder Delaware's early commitment to standards-based accountability may have helped push it from the low tier of states to well above average on national tests. Big States, Big Results New York and Texas see a connection between their early decisions to raise expectations for public schools and the progress their students have made toward closing gaps in academic achievement. Iowa appears to have lost some of its academic edge over other states a decade after bucking the trend toward imposing state standards for what students should learn. Staying the Course Massachusetts has not backed away from high standards, even as some needy schools struggle to keep up. North Carolina policymakers say the path to improved test scores and a revamped image of the state's education system has been easy as following the ABCs. Nevada faces the ongoing challenge of a skyrocketing enrollment as it works toward a more cohesive strategy for improving academic achievement and graduation rates. A Second Front Betting everything on standards-based reform is neither wise nor necessary, says Ronald A. Wolk, chairman of the board of Editorial Projects in Education. Standards-based reform proponent and education research professor Diane Ravitch states that the premise of “50 states, 50 standards” is a formula for incoherence and obfuscation. It takes more than tests to prepare the young for success in life, writes Yale University professor James P. Comer. One Language With standards comes a requirement to reduce variability in the equality of instruction, writes Pascal D. Forgione, a former U.S. commissioner of education statistics. Student achievement gains in the United States have been substantial and promising, but more work needs to be done, writes former federal education official Marshall S. Smith. State of the States: Overview The 10th edition of Quality Counts uses more than 100 indicators to track key education information and grade the states on their policy efforts. • Editorial Projects in Education Research Center Annual State Policy Survey Table PDF \| Excel Summary of Grades Table PDF \| Excel Student Achievement Table PDF \| Excel Standards and Accountability Table PDF \| Excel Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality Table PDF \| Excel School Climate Table PDF \| Excel Resources: Equity Table PDF \| Excel Resources: Spending Table PDF \| Excel Grade-by-Grade Testing Policies (Web only) How Education Week Graded the States For Quality Counts 2006, the EPE Research Center compiled data on more than 100 indicators across five categories. We collected much of the data through an annual policy survey conducted during the summer and fall of 2005. • Spending Index and Equity Indicators (Web only) Sources and Notes Join Great Oaks Legacy Charter School for a Virtual Career Fair for Teachers TopSchoolJobs eXPO, Camden, New Jersey Teacher of the Blind / Visually Impaired Detroit Lakes Public Schools, Detroit Lakes, Minnesota	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4886
__label__wiki	0.949003	0.949003	16 January 2019 — City desk Council Briefs: Housing in Rathgar, Free Wifi, the Pendulum Summit, and More by Haseena Manek The Pendulum Summit Dublin City Council gave €35,000 to sponsor the Pendulum Summit this year, a council spokesperson has said. In exchange, the council got “some tickets and brand visibility both during the Summit and in all advance publicity”. Clients of Dublin’s Local Enterprise Office “who are early stage start-ups, business and entrepreneurs” were given these tickets, they said. Part of the council’s role is “to promote the visibility of Dublin as a dynamic, engaged and supportive destination, both domestically and internationally, to live, work visit and invest”, they said. To do that, it supports many projects and events. More than 7,000 people came to the summit in 2019, with 30 percent of them from outside of Ireland, they said. ”Research from the event organisers indicates that these attendees are worth on average €1,600 to the local economy,” they said. “This is particularly welcome to the business of Dublin in the fallow period of trading immediately after Christmas.” Housing in Rathgar Some councillors at Monday’s meeting of Dublin City Council’s South East Area Committee said they were worried about a new application for apartments at the Marianella complex at Orwell Road in Rathgar. The plans from developer Cairn Homes are for 107 homes in two additional blocks – and because that’s more than 100 homes, the application for planning permission scoots straight to An Bord Pleanála, bypassing the council. But councillors can weigh in – and that’s why Executive Planner Neasa Moylan gave the presentation at Monday’s meeting, she said: to get their feedback to send to An Bord Pleanála. It’s a big change to 107 apartments from 22 houses, which is what had previously been approved for the site, said Fine Gael Councillor Anne Feeney. “So I think this is a worrying concern generally in terms of developments. It’s not minor, it’s major, and there is a big impact in terms of the surrounding area in terms of the scale, parking issues, the visual impact, etcetera,” she said. The An Bord Pleanála inspector’s report says the proposed project would include 39 one-bed apartments and 68 two-beds in a six-storey block and a five-storey block. It would have 72 car-parking spaces and and 168 bicycle-parking spaces. “We are concerned that open space is disappearing,” said Labour Party Councillor Mary Freehill. The inspector’s report says there would be 2,585 sqm of “public open space” in the project, and 845 sqm of “communal open space”. But open space in the plans is split up in smaller parcels, rather than kept in one large open space for community use, Freehill Says. Property developers are usually expected to commit to sell 10 percent of the housing they build on large sites to local authorities for use as social housing. Both Councillor Dermot Lacey of the Labour Party and independent Councillor Mannix Flynn said that apartments in the new blocks offered to the council for use as social housing shouldn’t be segregated from the apartments that will remain privately owned. The social housing wouldn’t be all on the ground-floor of a single block, said Moylan. Flynn said he was worried about this proposal from Cairn, given other proposed changes in the area, too. Where is the provision for the influx of cars and of people into the area? he asked. “There’s going to be a lot of activity in this area and it’s in that context that I would caution around this,” he said. The EU announced in November that Dublin city was among the 2,800 municipalities across Europe to win funds to set up wifi hotspots. In fact, it recommended giving four €15,000 “vouchers” for the purpose to Dublin city. At Monday’s meeting, the South East Area Committee agreed a motion from Fine Gael Councillor Anne Feeney that the council consider using EU funding to put a wifi hotspot in at least one of the South East Area’s urban villages. In other words, hubs such as Rathmines, Rathgar, Terenure, Harold’s Cross, Crumlin, Ranelagh, Donnybrook, Ballsbridge, Sandymount, Irishtown or Ringsend. The aim would be to facilitate free wi-fi for shoppers and visitors – and attract more of them. “Dublin City Council are starting to look into how can we better provide facilities to engage with teenagers,” she said, “and this is probably fitting with that strategy.” Swan Leisure ownership At the same meeting, Labour’s Mary Freehill put forward a motion for council managers to clarify the ownership of grounds related to the Swan Leisure development in Rathmines, a motion that was seconded by Fianna Fáil Councillor Claire O’Connor. Both councillors are members of the Swan Leisure centre’s board. The centre was built by John Paul Construction, in a public-private partnership with Dublin City Council. John Paul retained air rights, while the council retained ownership of the land, according to Freehill’s motion. Going forward, ownership regarding any future development is unclear. But that should be clarified, said independent Councillor Mannix Flynn. “It’s very important that the ground is in the hands of Dublin City Council and that the full details of that contract and the public private partnership deal is actually known by this committee particularly to the members of the board of the leisure centre,” he said. Area Manager Brian Hanney committed to arranging a meeting between the council’s Development Department and councillors Freehill and O’Connor to clarify ownership in advance of any future development. It was agreed that this would happen in the next two weeks. Haseena Manek: Haseena Manek is a freelance journalist. You can follow her @haseenamanek. 16 January 2019 issue Hundreds of Council Homes are Overcrowded, While Others Are Underused, Figures Show Purple Yam or Screwpine Cakes, Anyone? Cellar Door, Reviewed by Luke Maxwell Some Want Toilets in Toiletless Public Libraries, Fast	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4890
__label__wiki	0.585243	0.585243	Monographs X Agents, Assumptions and Motivations Behind REDD+ Simone Lovera-Bilderbeek It was hoped that by paying forest dependent peoples and countries for their “service” of conserving their forests, REDD+ would lead to a reduction in deforestation greenhouse gases. The complexities have, however, left some ambiguities. It was never agreed who would pay for the program, and it has been criticized as ignoring the root causes of forest loss. Considering the motivations of those who promoted REDD+ this book proposes remedies to its shortfalls and recommends more efficient, equitable and effective conservation policies. Learn More CSR and Climate Change Implications for Multinational Enterprises Edited by John R. McIntyre, Silvester Ivanaj, Vera Ivanaj Multinational economic actors, particularly corporations, play a defining role in the response to the climate change or warming debate and the emerging scientific consensus. 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Combining ethics and human need theory with political economy and climate science, it offers a long-term, interdisciplinary analysis of the prospects for sustainable development and social justice. Beyond ‘green growth’ (which assumes an unprecedented rise in the emissions efficiency of production) it envisages two further policy stages vital for rich countries: a progressive ‘recomposition’ of consumption, and a post-growth ceiling on demand. An essential resource for scholars and policymakers. Learn More Global Climate Justice Olivier Godard In this thoughtful and original book, social scientist Olivier Godard considers the ways in which arguments of justice cling to international efforts to address global climate change. Proposals made by governments, experts and NGOs as well as concepts and arguments born of moral and political philosophy are introduced and critically examined. 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Learn More The Concept of Climate Migration Benoît Mayer This timely book offers a unique interdisciplinary inquiry into the prospects of different political narratives on climate migration. It identifies the essential angles on climate migration – the humanitarian narrative, the migration narrative and the climate change narrative – and assesses their prospects. The author contends that although such arguments will influence global governance, they will not necessarily achieve what advocates hope for. He discusses how the weaknesses of the concept of ‘climate migration’ are likely to be utilized in favour of repressive policies against migration or for the defence of industrial nations against perceived threats from the Third World. Learn More The Economics of Climate-Resilient Development Edited by Sam Fankhauser, Thomas K.J. McDermott Some climate change is now inevitable and strategies to adapt to these changes are quickly developing. The question is particularly paramount for low-income countries, which are likely to be most affected. This timely and unique book takes an integrated look at the twin challenges of climate change and development. The book treats adaptation to climate change as an issue of climate-resilient development, rather than as a bespoke set of activities (flood defences, drought plans, and so on), combining climate and development challenges into a single strategy. It asks how the standard approaches to development need to change, and what socio-economic trends and urbanisation mean for the vulnerability of developing countries to climate risks. Combining conceptual thinking with practical policy prescriptions and experience the contributors argue that, to address these questions, climate risk has to be embedded fully into wider development strategies Learn More Linking EU Climate and Energy Policies Jon Birger Skjærseth, Per Ove Eikeland, Lars H. 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This book contributes to the debate about how to conserve tropical forests by implementing mechanisms for reducing deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). With Indonesia as a case study, the authors adopt an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on political science, economics, and public policy. They consider the theoretical justification, as well as the wider political and administrative context for developing the design of IFTs for conservation. Learn More The Domestic Politics of Global Climate Change Edited by Guri Bang, Arild Underdal, Steinar Andresen Why are some countries more willing and able than others to engage in climate change mitigation? The Domestic Politics of Global Climate Change compiles insights from experts in comparative politics and international relations to describe and explain climate policy trajectories of seven key actors: Brazil, China, the European Union, India, Japan, Russia, and the United States. Using a common conceptual framework, the authors find that ambitious climate policy change is limited by stable material parameters and that governmental supply of mitigation policies meet (or even exceed) societal demand in most cases. Given the important roles that the seven actors play in addressing global climate change, the book’s in-depth comparative analysis will help readers assess the prospects for a new and more effective international climate agreement for 2020 and beyond. Learn More Innovation under Uncertainty Edited by Valentina Bosetti, Michela Catenacci Innovation under Uncertainty presents original research and insights on innovation in carbon-free energy technologies. Valentina Bosetti and Michela Catenacci provide a complete and informative assessment of the current potentials and limits and offer a detailed analysis of what could, or should, be the drivers to support their success and large-scale diffusion. 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__label__cc	0.626777	0.373223	Home » Automotive » Looking ahead in embedded platforms: The trends and products to look out for Looking ahead in embedded platforms: The trends and products to look out for July 14, 2017 Rudy Ramos, Mouser Electronics Ever since the launch of the Pulsar digital watch in 1972, the world of embedded systems has progressed exceptionally rapidly, to the point where this type of electronics is now all around us and continuing to spread. It’s an exciting area to be involved in: over the coming months, platforms will continue to evolve, making it easier and cheaper for designers to deliver products to consumers. [The Pulsar Digital Watch] Embedded platforms are, of course, driven in part by wider market trends that demand new hardware. If you look at the adoption graphs for many of the new product categories that have emerged in the last few years, you’ll typically see an early spike, followed by a drop-off when the first generation of products didn’t live up to its (often over-hyped) expectations. But as newer, more refined products come to market and costs drop, there’s typically a long and steady period of more widespread adoption. With this in mind, let’s look at what’s driving the embedded systems market, how things are likely to evolve over the coming months and how various product manufacturers are responding. The popularity of smart devices that we control over the Internet is on the rise, with home heating and lighting being two key areas. The number of connected devices in use in 2016 was 17 billion; some foresee it breaking the 20 billion mark this year. The big players are upping the ante when it comes to voice-activated digital assistants and associated products, such as smart speakers. Others, from car makers to consumer electronics manufacturers, are rushing to deliver products that integrate with these virtual assistants. This compatibility could become a key decision-making point for consumers when buying electronics to form part of their growing connected ecosystems. After a slow start in terms of consumer take-up, we expect adoption of artificial-intelligence-powered interaction to gather pace, as people become more used to working with their electronic assistants and understand better how to unleash their full potential. Manufacturers of embedded platforms are responding to these demands, with new hardware that makes it easy for designers to integrate two-way conversation into their products. One example is the Arduino Star-Otto. Alongside its STM32F469 processor, the board includes Wi-Fi and a stereo mic, great for voice control. Are we about to see an open-source digital assistant? A shift in focus from wearable to drivable While forecasts suggest the wearable market will grow at an annualized rate of 18% for the next three years, other indicators suggest things aren’t so rosy. The electronic giant, Best Buy, just this year reported a decline in sales hurt by weak demand for wearable devices. A feasible explanation is that the wearable market will stagnate until we see an improvement in battery life, or until a sufficient number of compelling features can be compressed into wearable form. Conversely, public interest and engineering efforts in the smart and autonomous vehicle space are booming. Market forces aren’t the only things driving the need for automotive-specific embedded hardware. Regulatory and legislative changes will also be a factor. The United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), for example, proposed that all vehicles should include vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) technology as soon as 2023. If this goes through, manufacturers will have to start phasing in the technology within the next few years, which will drive up demand for related technologies. [Self-driving cars are on the horizon.] Embedded hardware manufacturers are responding to these needs. Intel’s Atom E3900 processors, for example, are built with the IoT in mind and there’s a version specifically for automotive use, the A3900. According to Intel, this will enable auto makers to transform in-vehicle experiences by creating completely software-defined cockpits, covering everything from advanced driver assistance systems to entertainment kit. Drones, AR, and VR Augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and prosumer-grade drones all have embedded electronics at their heart. Both AR/VR and drones are growing in popularity, with the latter helped by U.S. regulatory changes. The rise of Google’s Android Things OS Google’s embedded offerings have evolved into what’s now called the Android Things operating system, with a number of products based on it launching during 2017. Among the hardware platforms that Android Things will run on are Raspberry Pi 3 and the NXP Pico. We’ve known about the powerful BeagleBoard X15 single-board computer (SBC) since 2014, and by the end of the year, developers will actually be able to get their hands on one. It opens up some exciting possibilities. [BeagleBoard X15] Created for heavy-duty use, the X15 packs in more processing power than most industrial SBCs and still comes in at under $300. It also boasts an impressive list of ports and interfaces, including USB 3.0, USB 2.0, Micro USB, eSATA, Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI and audio. Moreover, there are four 60-pin dual-row headers to serve as expansion ports, 157 GPIO pins, an SPI bus, I2C, CAN, and seven UARTs. Early prototypes have been used to create home-made media centers, custom 3D printers, robotics and security testing devices. [BeagleBone Black Wireless] Processing power isn’t the be-all and end-all, of course. Many IoT applications demand more lightweight solutions with wireless connectivity, as found in the BeagleBone Black Wireless. With the Ethernet port replaced by Wi-Fi b/g/n and Bluetooth Low Energy, the wireless version is aimed at IoT applications. Asus launches its Tinker Board While slightly pricier than a Raspberry Pi 3, the Asus Tinker Board delivers improved performance, underpinned by an ARM-based SoC. This includes an Cortex-A17 processor, Mali-T764 GPU (which claims to be capable of 4K video), 2 Gbytes of LPDDR memory, wired and wireless connectivity, a microSD slot, and a 40-pin breakout header exposing the GPIO pins. Arduino is trying to shake off the perception held by many designers that the platform is little more than an educational or artistic tool. The Arduino Industrial 101—an eval board for the Arduino 101 LGA module—is a key part of the drive to establish Arduino as a professional-grade embedded platform. This product could coax professional users to replace programmable logic controllers in industrial applications. It’ll be complemented by other components aimed at the IoT and machine-to-machine (M2M) markets. This includes a shield that will enable the Arduino platform to link up to Long-Range Radio Wide Area Networks (LoRaWAN, or LoRa). This Industrial IoT connectivity board enables the battery-powered kit to link to a communications gateway that’s several kilometers away, a significant improvement over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, where range is measured in meters. The energy efficiency and range that LoRa and other low-power networks (LPNs) offer means that they’re likely to play an increasing role in delivering next-generation IoT and M2M kits. Consequences of recent mergers While we can predict a lot of what’s likely to happen over the coming months, one area that’s a somewhat uncertain is the fallout from all the recent acquisitions. ARM, Atmel, Fairchild, and Linear Tech were all acquired. What this means for their existing products and development roadmaps remains to be seen: newly acquired intellectual property will probably be supported in the short term, but after that, we could see some embedded platforms phased out as vendors streamline their portfolios. For product developers, this could raise big engineering challenges, requiring them to alter their designs to use different components. Despite this potential challenge, it’s a good time to be a design engineer. Demand for products with embedded electronics is already high and will continue to increase, driven by markets and regulation/legislation. Rudy Ramos is the project manager for the Technical Content team at Mouser Electronics and holds an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management. He has over 30 years of professional, technical, and managerial experience managing complex, time-critical projects and programs in various industries including semiconductor, manufacturing, and military. eletter-07-15-2017, eletter-07-14-2017 How to counter frozen images in automotive displays High-resolution displays are the new norm for infotainment, navigation, and instrument clusters, and chips ... 3D printing car parts is a potential boon to auto industry Car manufacturers and designers are already familiar with 3D printing because they've been using it for pro...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4894
__label__wiki	0.641755	0.641755	news Tax and legislation Bank of England and FCA respond to remuneration report By Jennifer Paterson 9th October 2013 12:13 pm 3rd November 2015 5:13 pm The Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have both published their responses to a report on a revised remuneration code for the banking industry. The Changing banking for good report, which was published by the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards (PCBS) in June 2013, made a series of recommendations to the government, to regulators and to the industry itself, aimed at transforming the culture of the UK banking sector. The report’s recommendations included: Ensuring that a greater proportion of senior employees’ remuneration is deferred, generally for a period of up to 10 years. Prohibiting variable, performance-related remuneration of non-executive directors of banks. Bank remuneration committees should disclose, in an annual report, the range of measures used to determine remuneration, including an explanation of how measures of risk have been taken into account and how these affected remuneration. With regards to the first recommendation, the Bank of England has opted to give further consideration before reaching a view. It also stated it has already met the second and third recommendation or intends to do so. In its response, it said: “The code already requires firms to have appropriate terms in relation to deferral in their employment contracts, and the [Prudential Regulation Authority] (PRA) assesses firms’ overall approaches. “It will not require a new statutory framework for the revised code to take account of the PCBS recommendations, which included: more and longer deferral of variable remuneration, including up to 10 years; strengthening and broadening the application of malus to unvested awards and of clawback to vested awards; and tackling the practice of compensating recruits upon change of employment. “It also included greater and more granular disclosure by remuneration committees in banks’ annual reports.” The response from the Financial Conduct Authority added: “We do not believe that a new statutory code is required. “We support the government’s view that the commission’s proposals can be achieved through our existing rule-making powers and changes to the 2009 code. “We support the commission’s recommendation that deferred remuneration should be contingent on various factors, so that it can be recouped in a wider range of circumstances. “The current remuneration code already gives regulators the power to require that a substantial proportion of remuneration be deferred for longer than the three-to-five year minimum required.” The Prudential Regulation Authority will consult on a new code in 2014. Analysis news Company cars Key components of a 2013 travel policy 23rd September 2013 12:00 am 6th April 2017 10:54 am Top luxury company car models with low carbon dioxide emissions news Healthcare and wellbeing 2 Sisters Food Group to launch voluntary perks 11th October 2013 12:30 pm 3rd November 2015 5:12 pm Sodexo recognises long-serving staff 8th October 2013 11:58 am 3rd November 2015 5:13 pm Demonstrating ROI is top priority for HR 1st October 2013 12:00 am 5th April 2017 9:21 am	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4896
__label__wiki	0.50799	0.50799	TRANSLATION OF TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS We are an agency specialising in the translation of technical, scientific, academic, legal, financial and literary documents. By working with a minimum of two translators, we guarantee the editorial quality of our projects. INTERPRETERS FOR CONFERENCES & EVENTS Our network of experienced interpreters extends across the whole Iberian Peninsula, covering numerous languages and disciplines and offering consecutive, liaison and simultaneous interpretation services. NATIVE REVIEW OF STYLE AND GRAMMAR We collaborate with over forty universities and approximately 200 research groups by reviewing the style and grammar of research works written by non-native researchers, for their subsequent publication in international journals. Since 2010, facilitating oral and written communication from English into all Iberian languages and from all Iberian languages into English. 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Therefore, we only collaborate with translators who have had a minimum number of books published, both translations and originals. For this type of translation, at least two reviewers are necessary to ensure editorial quality of the work. Over 300 authors have entrusted us with these services. To guarantee publication of the original work in a foreign-language outlet, a thorough review of both grammar and style, carried out by a native reviewer, is necessary. This task is even more complex than the translation itself and the translator-reviewer will have at least ten years’ experience. The interpreter translates a speech in real time, allowing the speaker’s words to reach the audience in the target language almost at the same time as the original message is delivered in the source language. To do so, it is necessary to use specific technical equipment (booths, interpreter consoles, receivers, etc.), which may also be provided by englishpanish. 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__label__wiki	0.513147	0.513147	Filipinos Top the World in Barkada Trips, No. 2 in Family Vacations According to a survey by travel site Agoda By Esquire Philippines \| Sep 1, 2018 IMAGE T-Rex Productions If there's anything the rest of the world should learn about us from movie-of-the-moment Crazy Rich Asians, it's that family means everything. According to new research from online travel agent Agoda, this trait carries over to our travel habits: seven out of 10 families globally take at least two family vacations a year, with Asian travelers taking more than twice as many family trips as their Western peers—five trips a year versus two. We love going on trips with our families, no matter what the circumstances (if pop culture is any indication, think Patay na si Hesus vs. National Lampoon's Vacation). The Agoda Family Travel Trends 2018 survey, conducted by YouGov, found that 34 percent of travelers have taken more than five family trips in the past year. Asia dominates this multi-holiday trend with an incredible 77 percent of travelers from Thailand and 62 percent from the Philippines claiming to have taken five or more family vacations in the past year. Compare that to the seven percent of British travelers took more than five family trips, or 20 percent of Americans. IMAGE: Agoda Filipino families rank #2 in the survey, with 62 percent of travelers saying they have taken five or more family vacations in the year Unsurprisingly, it wasn't just immediate family that we took on vacations. For Asians, extended and multi-generational families (i.e., including grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles, etc.) are also more of a thing than for Westerners. Thais (66 percent) and Indonesians (54 percent) were most likely to have included grandparents and other family members in their holiday plans, while travelers from the UK (13 percent) and Australia (20 perent) are the least likely to have done so. Filipinos are #1 in Barkada Trips Here's something we all know: Filipinos think there's nothing more natural than traveling with friends., with almost half (48 percent) of travelers from the Philippines saying that they've gone on trips with group of friends. In comparison, only 22 percent of Americans, 23% percent of Brits, 26 perent of Australians and 27 percent of Chinese traveled with friends in the past year. Other things the survey reveals about Filipino family travelers: - 75 percent of Filipino travelers have traveled with their core family in the past year, 37 percent with their extended family and 53 percent with their grandparents and/or grandchildren - On average, Filipinos went on seven family trips in the past year - four to seven nights is the most popular duration of Filipino family trips - Filipino travelers look forward to quality time with family (78 percent), relaxing (69 percent) and trying new things (52 percent) the most while on family trips - The top three concerns Filipinos have during family trips are falling sick (34 percent), the standard of accommodation (28 percent) and having disagreements with the family (17 percent) trends Agoda barkada trips Esquire Philippines family trips syndicated travel travel survey Shopee Launches 11-Day Sale to Ramp Up Growth as It Attracts 1 Million New Users a Month	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4901
__label__wiki	0.939332	0.939332	Oman Region Etihad continue codeshare flights with airberlin Etihad Airways, the National Airline of the United Arab Emirates, today welcomed the ruling by the Administrative Court of Braunschweig allowing it to continue operating all its codeshare flights with airberlin to destinations in Europe, the US and the UAE. The injunction, which is valid until 8 November, provides an opportunity for the parties to resolve outstanding differences through ongoing consultation between the Governments of the United Arab Emirates and the Federal Republic of Germany. Etihad Airways as well as airberlin will continue to honour all flights and passenger travel arrangements will remain entirely unaffected. Etihad Airways applied for the injunction to help protect the German carrier’s 8,000 employees and provide the passengers who have booked more than 82,000 journeys with clarity and confidence. The airline was forced to launch this legal action as Germany’s Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure had still not approved Etihad Airways codesharing on the airberlin services during the IATA Winter 2015/2016 schedule, which begins in just two days’ time on 25 October 2015. Etihad Airways President and Chief Executive Officer, James Hogan, said: “The failure by the German Government to approve the codeshares in time, would severely, and possibly terminally, damage airberlin, Germany’s second-largest airline, of which Etihad Airways owns 29.2 per cent. The codeshare routes in question, including flights to our hub in Abu Dhabi, were among 65 previously approved by Germany’s civil aviation authority, the LBA, and a key reason that we invested in airberlin. “Since 2012, our codeshare partnership has enabled more than two million passengers to connect between the networks of both airlines, and contributed 252 million euros to airberlin’s earnings. Etihad Airways has delivered 1,365,487 passengers to airberlin, while airberlin connected 645,157 passengers onto flights operated by Etihad Airways.” Since 2012, the LBA and the Ministry of Transport have approved seven Etihad Airways schedules, including all of the codeshares with airberlin, on the basis of the Air Services Agreement signed by the UAE and Germany in March 1994 and the Agreed Minutes and Revised Route Schedule signed in June 2000. A dispute arose in August 2014 because of a unilateral change of opinion by the Ministry of Transport, concerning the codeshare provisions of those bilateral agreements. Mr Hogan said: “In addition to the damage it would cause to airberlin, the withdrawal of approval for codeshare services on 29 routes would critically reduce consumer choice within and beyond Germany, and cause massive inconvenience to passengers, including during the peak Christmas and New Year travel periods. More than 82,000 journeys have been booked on these flights during the next six months. “The social and economic damage to Germany by this decision would be even greater. By suddenly disallowing established and legitimate codeshare flights, the Government will endanger the jobs of 8,000 people directly employed by airberlin, and many more jobs provided by the airline’s suppliers and business partners in affected destinations.” Mr Hogan said Germany’s economic links to many countries would also be seriously damaged if Etihad Airways was forced to end the codeshare agreements with airberlin. “Connectivity will be lost or diminished to a range of destinations throughout the Middle East, Indian sub-continent, Asia and Australia, as these codeshare flights are directly linked to Etihad Airways’ services beyond Abu Dhabi,” Mr Hogan said. “Business people, tourists and families travelling between these destinations and Germany will be faced with less choice and higher costs,” he said. https://www.etihad.com/en/deals/newsletter/	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4905
__label__cc	0.699801	0.300199	Gordon Trick was born, raised and educated on the Canadian prairies, a range of landscapes, horizons, spaces and colours which I still consider to be visually and spiritually fundamental to my work, even though I’ve been working and teaching on the west coast for the past 25 years. Having spent approximately both halves of my working life more or less equally on either side of the Continental Divide, my work tends to contain allusions to the divisions, isolations, boundaries and edges that underlie not just our country and continent, but similar elements within geographical and cultural sources elsewhere that have contributed to the unlikely creation that John Ralston Saul calls “A Fair Country”. In an age of instant and overwhelming amounts of information, I prefer to explore my particular moment in the human experiment at a walking pace. The multiple layers of observation, collection and organization of imagery that result are ideally suited to printmaking and drawing processes. I was born, raised and educated on the Canadian prairies, a range of landscapes, horizons, spaces and colours which I still consider to be visually and spiritually fundamental to my work, even though I’ve been working and teaching on the west coast for the past 25 years. Having spent approximately both halves of my working life more or less equally on either side of the Continental Divide, my work tends to contain allusions to the divisions, isolations, boundaries and edges that underlie not just our country and continent, but similar elements within geographical and cultural sources elsewhere that have contributed to the unlikely creation that John Ralston Saul calls “A Fair Country”. In an age of instant and overwhelming amounts of information, I prefer to explore my particular moment in the human experiment at a walking pace. The multiple layers of observation, collection and organization of imagery that result are ideally suited to printmaking and drawing processes. Additional information about my working methods and about individual pieces can be found at http://coconutmonkeypress2.blogspot.ca/ idir dhá dhánta, 2013 glass glas, 2012 Mine Mine, 2012	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4906
__label__wiki	0.903355	0.903355	Home> Regulation & Examinations> Laws & Regulations> FDIC Law, Regulations, Related Acts FDIC Law, Regulations, Related Acts [Table of Contents] [Previous Page] [Next Page] [Search] 1000 - Federal Deposit Insurance Act SEC. 4 INSURED DEPOSITORY INSTITUTIONS. (a) CONTINUTATION OF INSURANCE.-- (1) BANKS.--Each bank which is an insured depository institution on [September 21, 1950] the effective date of this amendment* , shall be and continue to be, without application or approval, an insured depository institution and shall be subject to the provisions of this Act. (2) SAVINGS ASSOCIATIONS.--Each savings association the accounts of which were insured by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation [August 9, 1989], on the day before the date of the enactment of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989, shall be, without application or approval, an insured depository institution. [Codified to 12 U.S.C. 1814(a)] [Source: Section 2[4(a)] of the Act of September 21, 1950 (Pub. L. No. 797; 64 Stat. 875), effective September 21, 1950, as amended by sections 201(a) and 205(1) of title II of the Act of August 9, 1989 (Pub. L. No. 101--73; 103 Stat. 194), effective August 9, 1989] (b) CONTINUATION OF INSURANCE UPON BECOMING A MEMBER BANK.--In the case of an insured bank which is admitted to membership in the Federal Reserve System or an insured State bank which is converted into a national member bank, the bank shall continue as an insured bank. [Codified to 12 U.S.C. 1814(b)] [Source: Section 2[4(b)] of the Act of September 21, 1950 (Pub. L. No. 797; 64 Stat. 875), effective September 21, 1950, as amended by sections 201(a) and 205(2) of title II of the Act of August 9, 1989 (Pub. L. No. 101-73; 103 Stat. 194), effective August 9, 1989; section 115(b) of title I of the Act of December 19, 1991 (Pub. L. No. 102--242; 105 Stat. 2249), effective December 19, 1991] (c) CONTINUATION OF INSURANCE AFTER CONVERSION.-- Subject to section 5(d) of this Act and section 5(i)(5) of the Home Owners' Loan Act-- (1) any State depository institution which results from the conversion of any insured Federal depository institution; and (2) any Federal depository institution which results from the conversion of any insured State or Federal depository institution, shall continue as an insured depository institution. [Codified to 12 U.S.C. 1814(c)] [Source: Section 2[4(c)] of the Act of September 21, 1950 (Pub. L. No. 797), effective September 21, 1950, as added by section 113(c) of title I of the Act of October 15, 1982 (Pub. L. No. 97--320; 96 Stat. 1473), effective October 15, 1982, as amended by section 205(3) of title II of the Act of August 9, 1989 (Pub. L. No. 101--73; 103 Stat. 195), effective August 9, 1989] (d) CONTINUATION OF INSURANCE AFTER MERGER OR CONSOLIDATION.--Any State depository institution or any Federal depository institution which results from the merger or consolidation of insured depository institutions, or from the merger or consolidation of a noninsured depository institution with an insured depository institution, shall continue as an insured depository institution. [Codified to 12 U.S.C. 1814(d)] [Source: Section 2[4(d)] of the Act of September 21, 1950 (Pub. L. No. 797), effective September 21, 1950, as added by section 205(3) of title II of the Act of August 9, 1989 (Pub. L. No. 101--73; 103 Stat. 195), effective August 9, 1989] Federal Deposit Insurance Act> Derivation. Sections 4(a) and (b) derive from section 12B(e) and (f)(1) of the Federal Reserve Act, as added by section 101[12B(e) and (f)(1)] of title I of the Act of August 23, 1935 (Pub. L. No. 305; 49 Stat. 687), effective August 23, 1935. Section12B(e) of the Federal Reserve Act was amended by section 6 of the Act of August 17, 1950 (Pub. L. No. 706; 64 Stat. 457), effective August 17, 1950. By section 1 of the Act of September 21, 1950 (Pub. L. No. 797; 64 Stat. 873), effective September 21, 1950, section 12B of the Federal Reserve Act was withdrawn as a part of that Act and was made a separate act known as the "Federal Deposit Insurance Act." Section 4(c) was added by section 113(c) of title I of the Act of October 15, 1982 (Pub. L. No. 97--320; 96 Stat. 1473), effective October 15, 1982. Section 4(d) was enacted by section 205(3) of the Act of August 9, 1989, known as the "FIRRE Act", (Pub. L. No. 101--73; 103 Stat. 195), effective August 9, 1989. *September 21, 1950. Go back to Text regs@fdic.gov	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4908
__label__cc	0.749056	0.250944	23.03.16 - Working with our members to increase awareness of oral health Working with our members to increase awareness for oral health issues FDI President Dr Patrick Hescot Since my last letter, the work schedule has been packed, with World Oral Health Day 2016 and my own celebrations at two events in Indonesia and Vietnam. It also included an earlier trip to Chicago for executive meetings and our traditional get-together with our friends from the American Dental Association (ADA). Furthermore, I had the opportunity to address health policy makers in Warsaw at the senate of the Polish Republic and participated in the launch of the Spanish edition of the Oral Health Atlas with the Spanish Dental Association, in Madrid. World Oral Health Day 2016 World Oral Health Day (WOHD) was celebrated on March 20 and the initial results are very promising, showing that the campaign is having an increasing impact globally. A full campaign evaluation is underway and I will share the results with you in due course. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all FDI member associations who organized activities, as well as our industry partners and other stakeholders who helped raise awareness around the theme of 'Healthy Mouth, Healthy Body' and bought us one step closer to our vision of 'Leading the World to Optimal Oral Health'. This year, we used a slightly different campaign approach from what we are used to: in fact, we unveiled key campaign assets — I am speaking in particular about the excellent video and entertaining smartphone game available on Apple and Android devices — only a few days in advance. The aim was to ensure maximum impact, especially over social media and learn from last year's campaign which showed a peak of activity at this time that could be leveraged to have a higher level of engagement overall. As for the local events, first reports show how diverse and original they were and I look forward to seeing all the activities once they have been collated. Special thanks go to our international sponsors Philips Sonicare, the Wrigley Oral Healthcare Programme, Henry Schein Inc. and Unilever. It is through their support that we can match our actions with our ambition to raise awareness worldwide about oral health and its impact on general health. 'Healthy Mouth. Healthy Body.' Celebrating WOHD in Southeast Asia I addressed two World Oral Health Day events, one in Jakarta on 18 March and one in Vietnam on 20 March, both organized by our national dental associations in collaboration with Unilever/P/S. These now traditional events in South East Asia target families and are extremely important in the FDI calendar. This is because they generally take place in the presence of representatives from the Ministry of Health and other Ministries and are thus unique occasions to raise the profile of oral health within the highest levels of government. A big thank you to my hosts, Persatuan Guru Diniyah Indonesia (PDGI - Indonesian Dental Association) and the Vietnam Odonto-Stomatology Association (VOSA): it was a real pleasure and a privilege to join in your WOHD celebrations. I was also happy to be working once again with our international sponsor Unilever and their local team at Pepsodent (Indonesia) and P/S (Vietnam). They have been instrumental in supporting FDI goals in oral health promotion and oral disease prevention for over a decade. Our friends in Chicago In late February, it was a pleasure to be in a position to present an upbeat assessment of FDI’s work and performance over the previous twelve months to our friends at the American Dental Association (ADA). This year I was able to report a healthy financial surplus and comfortable reserves, as well as exemplary progress in two areas of the three-point FDI 2014-2017 strategy: membership and leadership. In addition, I reported major steps forward in FDI partnerships—the Caries Prevention Partnership (Colgate), Smiles Around the World (Ivoclar-Vivadent), Brush Day & Night (Unilever) and 'Oral Health for an Ageing Population' (GC Corporation)—the great success of the 2016 Strategy for Africa workshop as well as headway in other fields such as Quality in Dentistry. I was also able to inform my ADA audience that FDI is now addressing the third area of its strategy, which focuses on communication, with the creation of an integrated advocacy and communications department. This will position it well to meet the increasing demand for well-structured communications to members and the general public as well as the challenges of full-scale participation in the international health agenda. There were also meetings of FDI Executive Committee, Governance Task Team and the Finance Committee in Chicago. The positive evaluation for 2016 by the Finance Committee means that FDI can go ahead in accordance with the activities and budget adopted by the General Assembly in Bangkok. Addressing policy makers It is rare to be in a position to make a direct address to an audience of policy makers and medical practitioners so I was happy to seize the chance offered in early March to present FDI's perspective at a conference at the Polish senate. The subject was 'The level of public trust for the professions of physician and dentist'. I stressed the major socio-economic role of the dentist and outlined a number of areas of cooperation between the dental profession and government as a means of cementing the public's trust. These included oral health and ageing populations, public health campaigns such as WOHD and in policy measures for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases. Spanish launch of the Oral Health Atlas In an exciting development in March, FDI released the Oral Health Atlas in Spanish during a press event organized in Madrid by our colleagues at the Consejo General de Dentistas de España (CGDE - Spanish Dental Association). In my address to members of the media, I provided an international perspective. CGDE President Oscar Castro and Secretary General Juan Carlos Llodra presented and compared global oral-health findings taken from the Atlas within the current context of oral health and dentistry in Spain. Both the Spanish and French versions are now available for download from the FDI website. I would like to thank all those in Spain and France who participated in the translation and review of the two versions. For more FDI News, visit www.fdiworldental.org FDI WORLD FEDERATION - AVENUE LOUIS CASAI 51 - CH - 1216 COINTRIN - GENEVA - SWITZERLAND © FDI World Dental Federation - All rights reserved www.fdiworldental.org	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4909
__label__wiki	0.708609	0.708609	In the Belgian media, after the elimination at the WC in the semi-finals against France, disappointment predominates, but also pride. An overview of the reactions in the newspapers of our southern neighbors. "In the semi-finals of the World Cup, for a small football player like Belgium that is no reason to be ashamed, on the contrary," writes Het Nieuwsblad, who takes the opportunity to thank the players one by one. "The whole country is proud of this fantastic generation of 'Red Devils', who showed the whole world how talented it is, and Belgium made an excellent turn thanks to you." De Standaard also has a positive feeling about the World Cup. "The dream is over, but the summer of 2018 will always remain a benchmark, those long, dry weeks when nothing seemed impossible, and the tradition will only make the exploits even greater," the newspaper says. "Even after last night nobody can claim that it is not worth trying to be the best, even though that goal seems far away." It is a message that has been heard, even in streets and on squares where that story is often suffocated We must hope that she does not just disappear, and then we will see where it brings us. " Het Laatste Nieuws hoped fervently that the best result of Belgium at a World Cup so far - a fourth place in 1986 - would be surpassed and sad of the way the adventure ended against France. "The 1986 class was not surpassed, it was particularly bad, especially because France was certainly not the better team, but the more efficient and most fortunate road golden dream, but it looked beautiful, after great victories against Japan and Brazil. Land did dance of happiness, singing out of pure joy and glimmers of pride ", according to the daily newspaper. "What is left is a big hangover: our chance for the supreme football glory Frustrations everywhere, thanks for such a great month, guys, we do not sing anymore, we stay proud, then in two years' time we'll be European champion, right? " The French newspapers are obviously euphoric and take their front pages. "With the head in the stars", headlines L'Équipe. Also Le Parisien ("The finale is inside") and Le Télégramme ("Magnifiek!") Open lyrical. The other semi-final of the World Cup wiSaturday at 16.00, followed by the final at 17.00 on Sunday.ll be played by the teams from Croatia and England on Wednesday-evening from 20.00. The battle for third place is TO RECEIVE FIFA COINS, COME VISIT US! FIFA 19 COINS WILL ALSO BE SOLD WHEN THE GAME IS RELEASED. FIFACOINS.COM	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4910
__label__wiki	0.588874	0.588874	Romania Announces Grants - October 2018 These grants were announced by the Romanian Film Centre at its first session for 2018 on 19 October 2018. Romanian Production and Development Grants - May 2018 The following grants were announced on 11 May 2018 and are the only grants allotted by the Romanian Film Center for 2018. New Romanian Grants - December 2016 The following grants were announced at the second session in 2016, on 12 December 2016. Romania Announces 2016 Grants The first grants for 2016 were announced by the National Film Center (CNC) on 31 May 2016. Production and Development Grants Announced on 9 March 2015 The following production and development grants were announced by the National Film Centre on 9 March 2015 as the results of the second grant contest of 2014. Romanian Grants, October 2014 The results of the first session of the production and development grants was announced by the Romanian Film Center on 1 October 2014. Romanian grants 2014 The production and development grants announced by the National Centre for Cinema on 9 April 2014 are, in fact, allotted for 2013. Romanian grants April 2013 The following grants announced on 3 April 2013 are, in fact, the results of the 2012 contest, opened in December 2012.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4912
__label__wiki	0.875975	0.875975	Why Bollywood makes sequels to undeserving films & a lot more… November 25, 2016 April 27, 2017 Fenil John Abraham during Rocky Handsome promotions had said jokingly that he would love a sequel to his debacle, No Smoking. He said, “I told Anurag Kashyap to make No Smoking 2. I added that everybody makes sequels out of hit films. Why don’t we make one of a flop film?” Well, John made an error out here. Sequels of not just hit films are made. We do make sequels of not exactly flops, but underperforming flicks or those films that didn’t really have a reach beyond a few metros. In fact, this month, November 2016, has been significant since 3 sequels released – Rock On 2, Force 2 (that stars John himself) and Tum Bin 2 – and all 3 have been unsuccessful. Except for Tum Bin 2, one shouldn’t have made a sequel to the other 2 films since their first parts were hardly successful. In order to understand it fully, let us understand which films deserve sequels and which ones don’t. Firstly and obviously, if the film was highly successful, was appreciated pan-India and had some highly interesting characters, then a sequel can be made. Hence, Krrish and Krrish 3 (sequels to Koi Mil Gaya), Lage Raho Munna Bhai (part 2 of Munnabhai franchise), Golmaal Returns and Golmaal 3 (Golmaal series), Dhoom 2 and Dhoom 3 (Dhoom series), Don 2 (sequel to Don), Housefull 2 and Housefull 3 (Housefull series), Dabangg 2 (sequel to Dabangg), Singham Returns (sequel to Singham) etc were well-deserved sequels and as expected, were hits as well. All these were also well-made films and that also helped. On the other hand, Yamla Pagla Deewana 2, Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara, Bheja Fry 2 were hardly impressive and as a result, these films bombed. Secondly, if your first film was a moderate success but was a super-hit on television, then making a sequel is a good decision. Hera Pheri was an average grosser but became a huge hit on television, which is where many viewers who missed it in theatres saw the comic caper. Hence, its sequel, Phir Hera Pheri emerged as a huge hit despite the first one being not so huge. The TV run in fact makes a big impact since the film remains memorable and alive with viewers even after the first part is out of theatres. This is the reason why Welcome Back opened so well, despite having a weaker cast then Welcome, since the predecessor is a super-hit whenever it’s aired on television. Then there can be sequels to erotic or horror flicks, but the cost should be low since these films don’t get television screenings. And yes, the elements that made the first part successful should be very much there and it should be even better or as good as the first. Murder 2 was a huge hit as it had intimate scenes and also the thrill element, the latter being better than the first. Hence, the second part set the box office on fire. Sadly, Murder 3 failed on both the aspects and also didn’t have the face of the franchise, Emraan Hashmi. Hence, it bombed. Raaz – The Mystery Continues and Raaz 3 also were big hits for the same reason but Raaz Reboot flopped as it was hardly scary and failed when it came to intimacy quotient. Other examples of successful part 2 films are Ragini MMS 2 (sequel to not-so-huge success Ragini MMS but looked hotter than the first part) and Jism 2. T-Series on the other hand is doing a great job with the Hate Story series. The part 1 fared well at the box office due to the hot scenes. Obviously, it didn’t have a great run on TV. But the second part came in just 2 years and it promised loads of intimate scenes. No wonder it opened well and in no time, it recovered it’s low cost. The same happened with Hate Story 3 too. Now the makers are trying for Hate Story 4 and if it’s also laced with steamy scenes and made on low costs, nothing can stop it from becoming a hit like the first 3 parts. Some films were not great successes but a sequel can still be made if the casting is exciting. Pyaar Ke Side Effects was not an all-India hit but the makers were right in casting the more popular actors like Farhan Akhtar and Vidya Balan in Shaadi Ke Side Effects. The second part was still a flop but the star cast ensured that the film got a good opening at least which shows that the audience was curious to see the film. Even Jolly LLB 2 has high changes of working as it stars Akshay Kumar. Last year’s ABCD 2 benefited a lot due to Varun Dhawan and Shraddha Kapoor’s presence whereas the first part had all new faces. There are films that boast of the same or more or less similar kind of casting. But these films worked as they retained the essence of the first part but at the same time, not repeating it entirely. Aashiqui 2 is a great example of it. The first part had new-exciting faces, sweet-n-simple story and super hit music. Aashiqui 2 was laced with all these things and as a result, it was a huge grosser. Making a sequel to Tanu Weds Manu wasn’t a good idea as such. But the risk paid off and Tanu Weds Manu Returns emerged as a 150-crore grosser. What also helped is that in the interim, Kangana Ranaut emerged as an actress to watch out for. Pyaar Ka Punchnama was 2011’s sleeper hit but Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2 was even bigger. The pattern followed was similar and the relatable problems clicked with audiences big time. Same goes for Jannat 2, the sequel to Jannat. Unfortunately, there are films that were not great hits and yet we see the makers making their sequels. Sarkar for instance was a semi-hit and mostly successful in Maharashtra. Yet, the makers made Sarkar Raj which was below average grosser. And that’s not all – they are also coming up with Sarkar 3! Sahib Biwi Aur Gangster was a surprise success but that doesn’t mean a sequel should be made out of it. But the makers did, calling it Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns. And as expected, it was hardly a huge success. Same with Ishqiya (first part was semi-hit and that too in limited areas), whose sequel Dedh Ishqiya flopped. This year, we had Tere Bin Laden’s sequel called Tere Bin Laden: Dead Or Alive. The first part was no doubt funny but its reach was limited. On top of it, the sequel was hardly funny and it was a disaster at the box office. Aap Ka Surroor was touted as a huge success but we all know that was far from the truth. That didn’t stop Himesh Reshammiya from coming up with Tera Surroor. That it flopped was something that almost everyone had predicted. Ek Chaalis Ki Last Local was another disaster and its second part Kismet Love Paisa Dilli met with a similar fate. Ab Tak Chhappan 2, Rakht Charitra 2 and Satya 2 were also bad decisions. Arguably, even Gangs Of Wasseypur 2 wasn’t a good idea since part 1 was an average grosser across the country overall. Talking of the November releases, Rock On 2 was a hit only in few cities and it flopped when it came on television. To make its sequel and that too at double the cost and with bad music (the first part had great music and it was one of the big reasons why it worked) was a BIG mistake. Even Force wasn’t a huge hit and it was okay on television. Tum Bin 2 on the other hand wasn’t really a bad idea as Tum Bin had worked and its hit music is still remembered. But that super hit album was lacking in Tum Bin 2. The madness however continues. 2017 will also see sequels of many underperforming films. Aksar had great songs and that’s about it. The film was hardly exciting. It also lacked in erotic quotient, which Emraan Hashmi is known for. Hence, it’s easy to guess the fate of Aksar 2 that arrives that too sans Emraan. Sarkar 3, as mentioned above, is already in danger. Tom Dick And Harry was a senseless film that was hardly funny and hence, one can expect the sequel that releases next year to bomb at the ticket window. Then there’s Commando 2, the part 2 in the Commando series that’s hardly memorable or worth remembering. Fukrey was a great entertainer but had limited reach. Whether its sequel will work or suffer a fate like Excel’s Rock On 2 remains to be seen. Thankfully, we have sequels of some well-deserving films to balance it out. The sequels that can work big time are Tiger Zinda Hai (sequel to Ek Tha Tiger), Jolly LLB 2 (first part was moderate success but part 2 has Akshay Kumar, a big star), Badrinath Ki Dulhania (Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania was a huge all-India hit), Golmaal Again (a very successful series), Judwaa 2 (first part was successful; though Salman isn’t there in part 2, Varun Dhawan is also quite successful), Munnabhai 3 (no words needed!), Baaghi 2 (first part was a craze in hinterland and on television), 2.0 (first part did well on television; part 2 has Akshay Kumar), Baahubali 2 (we all know the impact of the first part). Aankhen 2 is a wait-and-watch situation since the part 1 wasn’t a huge success and the second part doesn’t boast of an exciting cast. But before these films, we have the final sequel of the year – Kahaani 2 – that’s all set to release on December 2. The trailers are extremely lackluster and the hopes are limited. God forbid, if it flops, it will be a huge blow to the industry and also the lovers of the first film. Even if it’s a huge hit, Bollywood surely needs to wake up and understand which film deserves a sequel and which one doesn’t! ABCD 2 Aksar 2 Bheja Fry 2 Commando 2 Dabangg 2 Dedh Ishqiya Dhoom 2 Dhoom 3 Don 2 Force 2 Fukrey Returns Golmaal 3 Golmaal Returns Hate Story 3 Hera Pheri Housefull 2 Housefull 3 Jannat 2 Jism 2 Jolly LLB 2 Kismet Love Paisa Dilli Krrish Krrish 3 Lage Raho Munna Bhai Murder 2 Murder 3 Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara Phir Hera Pheri Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2 Raaz – The Mystery Continues Raaz 3 Raaz Reboot Ragini MMS 2 Rock On 2 Sarkar 3 Shaadi Ke Side Effects Singham Returns Tanu Weds Manu Returns Tera Surroor Tere Bin Laden: Dead Or Alive Tum Bin 2 Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 Movie Review: DEAR ZINDAGI by FENIL SETA	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4913
__label__wiki	0.888299	0.888299	New genetic form of obesity and diabetes discovered Scientists have discovered a new inherited form of obesity and type 2 diabetes in humans. A large number of genes are involved in regulating body weight, and there are now over 30 genes known in which people with harmful changes in DNA sequence become extremely overweight. Similarly, there are a number of genes that can, when altered, cause type 2 diabetes. These conditions are inherited through families in exactly the same way as disorders such as cystic fibrosis or Huntington's disease. It is unclear what proportion of severe obesity and type 2 diabetes is caused by genetic disease. Researchers at Imperial College London discovered the new defect by sequencing the DNA of an extremely obese young woman and members of her family. In addition to an increased appetite leading to severe weight problems from childhood, she had type 2 diabetes, learning difficulties, and reproductive problems. They found that she had inherited two copies of a harmful genetic change that meant she could not make a protein called carboxypeptidase-E (CPE). This is an enzyme that is important in the proper processing of a number of hormones and brain transmitters controlling appetite, insulin and other hormones important in the reproductive system. Studies have previously shown that CPE deficiency causes obesity, diabetes, and impaired memory in mice, but no humans with the condition have been found before. CPE deficiency is a recessive condition, so a person would need to inherit the altered genetic sequence from both parents to be affected. The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, was funded by the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre and Diabetes UK. Professor Alex Blakemore from the Department of Medicine at Imperial College London, who led the study, said: "There are now an increasing number of single-gene causes of obesity and diabetes known. We don't know how many more have yet to be discovered, or what proportion of the severely obese people in our population have these diseases - it is not possible to tell just by looking. "These are serious disorders that affect the body's ability to regulate hunger and fullness signals. They are inherited in the just same way as other genetic diseases and the sufferers should not be stigmatised for their condition. They should be offered genetic counselling and specialised lifelong support to allow them as healthy a life as possible." The patient was clinically evaluated by consultant endocrinologist Dr Tony Goldstone, who runs a specialist genetics obesity clinic at Hammersmith Hospital. The patient's parents are cousins, giving her a relatively high likelihood of inheriting the same genetic change from both parents. She had an older brother with similar symptoms who died aged 21. The first author Dr Sanne Alsters, also in the Department of Medicine, who carried out the genetic tests, said: "Finding a genetic cause for the patient's problems has helped her and her family to understand and manage her condition better. We can also look at members of her family with one abnormal copy of the gene, to see they are affected in more subtle ways that could increase their risk of obesity." Professor Blakemore said genetic tests should be widely available for patients with severe obesity. "If people are diagnosed with a genetic condition like this one, we can look for other possible symptoms, and offer genetic advice to other family members if they want this. Diagnosis is very valuable to the patient. It helps to set realistic expectations, and can help them get the best possible treatment," she said. Sam Wong Research Media Officer Email: sam.wong@imperial.ac.uk Out of hours duty press officer: +44(0)7803 886 248 1. Suzanne I.M. Alsters et al. 'Truncating homozygous mutation of carboxypeptidase E (CPE) in a morbidly obese female with type 2 diabetes mellitus, intellectual disability and hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism.' PLOS ONE, 29 June 2015. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131417 Open access article: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0131417 2. About Imperial College London Imperial College London is one of the world's leading universities. The College's 14,000 students and 7,500 staff are expanding the frontiers of knowledge in science, medicine, engineering and business, and translating their discoveries into benefits for society. Founded in 1907, Imperial builds on a distinguished past - having pioneered penicillin, holography and fibre optics - to shape the future. Imperial researchers work across disciplines to improve global health, tackle climate change, develop sustainable energy technology and address security challenges. This blend of academic excellence and its real-world application feeds into Imperial's exceptional learning environment, where students participate in research to push the limits of their degrees. Imperial nurtures a dynamic enterprise culture, where collaborations with industrial, healthcare and international partners are the norm. In 2007, Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust formed the UK's first Academic Health Science Centre. This unique partnership aims to improve the quality of life of patients and populations by taking new discoveries and translating them into new therapies as quickly as possible. Imperial has nine London campuses, including Imperial West: a new 25 acre research and innovation centre in White City, west London. At Imperial West, researchers, businesses and higher education partners will co-locate to create value from ideas on a global scale. http://www.imperial.ac.uk 3. About the National Institute for Health Research The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is funded by the Department of Health to improve the health and wealth of the nation through research. Since its establishment in April 2006, the NIHR has transformed research in the NHS. It has increased the volume of applied health research for the benefit of patients and the public, driven faster translation of basic science discoveries into tangible benefits for patients and the economy, and developed and supported the people who conduct and contribute to applied health research. The NIHR plays a key role in the Government's strategy for economic growth, attracting investment by the life-sciences industries through its world-class infrastructure for health research. Together, the NIHR people, programmes, centres of excellence and systems represent the most integrated health research system in the world. For further information, visit the NIHR website (http://www.nihr.ac.uk). sam.wong@imperial.ac.uk @imperialspark http://www.imperial.ac.uk/press NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, Diabetes UK EATING DISORDERS/OBESITY http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_30-6-2015-9-50-53	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4914
__label__wiki	0.966346	0.966346	2018-19 All-EuroLeague Second Team presented by 7DAYS The 2018-19 All-EuroLeague Second Team highlights some of the best performers of the current season, with one of the most consistent honorees of recent years being joined this time by four players receiving the distinction for the first time. Included on the second team, which was voted for by fans and accredited media members, are this season's Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy winner, Mike James of AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan, and the EuroLeague Best Defender, Walter Tavares of Real Madrid. They are joined by two more newcomers to the All-EuroLeague team, Vasilije Micic of Anadolu Efes Istanbul and Victor Poirier of KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz, and by CSKA Moscow's Nando De Colo, whose fifth All-EuroLeague selection ties him for the fourth-most such honors in competition history. Media voting counted for 75% and fan voting 25% of the totals used to determine the All-EuroLeague selections. The All-EuroLeague Second Team is the last among a series of honors announced this week. The EuroLeague MVP award will be named at the 2019 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Final Four in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. The Alexander Gomelskiy Coach of the Year Trophy and the Gianluigi Porelli EuroLeague Executive of the Year are post-season awards. Nando De Colo – CSKA Moscow Nando De Colo has earned his fifth consecutive All-EuroLeague team nomination. The French guard, who ranked fourth in the league in scoring with 14.5 points per game, tied for a competition-best three MVP of the Round honors. De Colo was a single shot away from his fourth straight 50-40-90 season (50% shooting on field goals, 40% on three-pointers and 90% on free throws) and also contributed 3.4 assists and 1.0 steals for a performance index rating of 16.0, which was eighth in the league. De Colo's five games with a PIR in the 30s was second-best this season, and two of them came on the road in the playoffs to lift CSKA back to the Final Four at the expense of KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz. He ranked second in the playoffs in scoring (18.0) and third in PIR (20.8). Mike James – AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan Mike James was this season's Alphonso Ford Trophy winner with 19.8 points per game. He also led the league in performance index rating (20.2) while ranking second in assists (6.4) and fifth in steals (1.3). James topped the charts in free throws made (147) and attempted (178), too. Moreover, if there were a table for most exciting plays, James would feature prominently there as well. The EuroLeague MVP for February, James carried the weight for the league's top-scoring team by netting at least a dozen points in all but one game this season. He dished at least 5 assists in 25 games and made multiple three-pointers 21 times. James scored a career-high 35 points but could not lead Milan to a win and fell 92-89 at defending champion Real Madrid in Round 27. Vasilije Micic – Anadolu Efes Istanbul Vasilije Micic turned his first season with Efes into a memorable one by posting career-high numbers while leading the team to its best season in years and its first Final Four appearance in nearly two decades. The EuroLeague MVP for November, Micic was second on his team in scoring (12.1) and steals (1.1) and ranked third in the EuroLeague in assists (5.7). All three numbers represented career bests in his fifth EuroLeague campaign. Micic raised his game even higher in the playoffs; he was Game 1 MVP after dropping 21 points and 7 assists on FC Barcelona Lassa. He followed that with his second career double-double (10 points, 10 assists, 3 steals) in Game 5. Micic ranked second in the playoffs in assists (6.6) and fifth in steals (1.6). Vincent Poirier – KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria – Gasteiz Vincent Poirier was a tower of power for Baskonia this season as he led the league in rebounds (8.3) and offensive rebounds (3.4). In fact, Poirier set a single-season EuroLeague record with 117 offensive rebounds. He also led Baskonia in scoring (11.9) and blocks (0.8) to rank fifth in the league in performance index rating (17.7). Of the seven occasions on which players collected at least 15 rebounds this season, three were Poirier's. His 10 double-doubles were second-most in the league, too. Poirier gave his best in the playoffs and earned Game 2 MVP honors with 14 points on perfect shooting and 15 rebounds for a PIR of 34 to help Baskonia to its first win over CSKA in Moscow in 14 years. He finished as the playoff leader in average PIR (27.8) and rebounds (10.0). Walter Tavares – Real Madrid The EuroLeague Best Defender for the 2018-19 season, Walter Tavares led the league in blocks per game (1.7) and total blocks (53) and caused countless more shots to be badly missed or simply not taken out of fear of the long arms of "Sergeant Swat". He recorded multiple blocks in half of his 32 games played, including four games of 4 blocks each. Only one other player in the league had as many as two such games. His 78.7% two-point shooting set a competition record for any player with more than 50 shot attempts in a season. Tavares was the season's MVP for October while helping Los Blancos to a perfect 8-0 start. He ranked fifth among all EuroLeague rebounders with 6.2 per game. Tavares finished the regular season strong, with a career-best 16 rebounds at Panathinaikos OPAP Athens in Round 29 and a career-high 22 points against Zalgiris Kaunas a week later. Club profile: KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz After falling one step short of the Final Four in its own building, expect KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz to be hungrier than ever with its trademark character on display... Milan puts Moraschini in the backcourt AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan has added depth in its backcourt by signing guard Riccardo Moraschini to a three-year deal. Moraschini (1.94 meters, 28 years old) arrives... Coach of the Year: Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA Moscow For the second time in his five seasons on CSKA Moscow's bench, Dimitris Itoudis has been voted by his peers as the winner of the Alexander Gomelskiy Coach of the Year award.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4915
__label__wiki	0.533698	0.533698	Surge in UK sales CURRYS and PC World owner Dixons Retail bucked the gloom in UK retailing by revealing a bigger-than-expected surge in sales. The group said improved ranges and service helped lift like-for-like sales by 8% in the UK and Ireland in the 16 weeks to April 28. Dixons, which has about 640 stores in the UK and Ireland as well as outlets across Europe, is forecasting annual profits to be near the top end of City expectations at £65m to £70m.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0009.json.gz/line4916

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