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__label__wiki	0.884055	0.884055	Victoria County History - Berkshire A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3 The borough of Reading: Introduction A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1923. This free content was digitised by double rekeying. All rights reserved. THE BOROUGH OF READING Rading, Reding, Redynges. Reading is not on a Roman road, but it stands in a favourable position for water-borne traffic, being on the Kennet near to its junction with the Thames. The origin of Reading was probably commercial, but its growth was no doubt fostered by the presence of a religious house which was founded there at an uncertain date, and which was destroyed probably by the Danes in 1006. (fn. 1) Reading is a Parliamentary borough and the capital of Berkshire, and it is rapidly growing. In 1911 the borough boundaries were enlarged to take in the urban district of Caversham. The town despite its antiquity is neither handsome nor interesting. Some of the ancient streets, such as Minster Street, have recently been widened, and most of the picturesque old houses have disappeared within the last few years, while the newer buildings are undistinguished; the artisan districts, which are at the extreme east and west of the town, are clean and healthy but featureless. The plan of the older portion of the town of Reading roughly resembles a triangle, with Friar Street for its base on the north. Of the two converging thoroughfares running southwards, which form its sides, the eastern, starting from the Market Place at the east end of Friar Street, is known successively as Duke Street, London Street, and Silver Street; the western as West Street, St. Mary's Butts, Bridge Street, and Southampton Street. At the junction of Friar Street with the Market Place is St. Lawrence's Church, and to the east of it the Forbury Gardens, occupying part of the site of the former abbey. Greyfriars Church stands at the west end of Friar Street, and of the remaining two mediæval churches, St. Mary's stands on the east side of St. Mary's Butts, and St. Giles on the east side of Southampton Street. The triangle of streets thus formed is intersected from east to west by Broad Street, starting from the south end of the Market Place, Minster Street, which is connected by Gun Street with St. Mary's Butts, Mill Lane, Church Street, so named from St. Giles's Church, and Crown Street. Bridges cross the River Kennet, which flows through the town a little to the south of Minster Street, off which, near the river, is the old Yeld or Gild Hall, now inclosed within the engineering works of Messrs. John Wilder and used as a residence. It is a small L-shaped brick building of the early 17th century, much modernized and altered, two stories in height with an attic in the roof. The south wing at one time projected further eastwards, but this projection has been pulled down. A wooden entrance porch is formed in the angle at the meeting of the two arms. The original staircase, a good example of the period, still remains, while entering a room off the landing is a fine Jacobean doorway of the Ionic order. The older windows have oak mullions and transoms, but sash windows have been substituted in many instances. The house has been through many vicissitudes and appears at one time to have been used as a gaol; some fetters found during an alteration are still preserved. The present town hall, which occupies part of the site of the abbey hospitium, was first erected there in 1786, since which time it has been enlarged and extended; the building then put up, a plain brick structure, still survives, though surrounded by the later additions, and is known as the 'small town hall.' On the west side of the Market Place is an interesting half-timber house of the early 17th century, now occupied by the Phœnix Assurance Company. It is of three stories with an attic, the floors being marked externally by moulded cornices. The elevation to the street is symmetrically designed with small attached Doric columns standing on plinths arranged along the ground floor, while the upper floors have two bay windows stopped under the projecting main cornice which runs along the building at the eaves level. The roof is tiled, and the two dormers have hipped roofs of the same material. The mullions to the windows are moulded, and the filling of the timber framing is plastered. Little of architectural interest remains either in Friar Street or Broad Street, the latter of which crosses St. Mary's Butts and joins the main road to Oxford. In King Street, as the continuation of Broad Street south of the Market Place is called, is the 'George,' a refronted half-timber building. On the south side of Hosier Street, which leads out of the west side of St. Mary's Butts, are the remains of Lady Vachell's house, which was erected in the late 16th century, and is now cut up into tenements. On plan the house is a long rectangle, two stories in height, with one in the roof. The walls of the ground stage are of stone and flint, relieved with bands of narrow brick, but they have been much renewed with modern brickwork. The walls of the upper floor are entirely of brick with a string-course at the first floor level, and a crowning cornice, both of the same material. With the exception of a few narrow openings in the north wall, which overlooks the street and has modern buttresses against its lower stage, the fenestration is almost entirely confined to the south wall. On the east is a good chimney stack, and internally some 18th-century fireplaces and panelling remain. The whole structure is, however, in a very bad state of repair and is of no great architectural distinction. In St. Mary's Butts are some refronted houses of the 17th and 18th centuries. On the north side of a small whitewashed cellar under St. Mary's Vicarage, a building of no great age, is a curious piece of irregularly shaped walling built of flat tiles, perhaps Roman, and flint rubble. The surrounding work is of ordinary rubble and common brickwork. The Bath road, known here as Castle Street, leads westward from the south end of the Butts, opposite the point where this thoroughfare is joined by Gun Street. On the south side of Castle Street is an interesting early 17th-century house, now the residence of Mr. Percy W. M. Howse and known as Lynford. It is three stories high, each story slightly overhanging the one below; the top story is partly in the roof. At the east end of the ground floor a cartway runs under the house to a yard at the back. The walls are of half-timber covered externally with rough-cast, and the roof is tiled. The interior has been modernized, but original chimneypieces and panelling remain in several of the rooms, and the staircase, with its turned balusters, ball finials, and moulded strings and handrails, still survives. The window frames are of oak, mullioned and transomed, those to the first floor having projecting sills supported by small carved console brackets. In the centre of the front is a wooden entrance porch. Adjoining Lynford on the east is a gabled three-storied house of the same type and date. On the north side of the road, next to the modern church of St. Mary, is the Sun Inn, a refronted gabled building, probably of the early 17th century. Holy Brook House, on the opposite side of the road a little distance to the westward, is a good brick three-storied house of the 18th century, with a well-designed Doric doorcase. Here also are the modern almshouses erected in 1864 to replace the various older almshouses of the town. The brick and stone bridge carrying Southampton Street over the mill stream by Mill Lane appears to be of the 17th century, though the parapet has been replaced by an elaborate cast-iron railing of the early 19th century. Immediately to the south of the bridge, its north wall facing on the stream, is a good 18thcentury brick house with a moulded cornice of the same material between the first and second floors. On an oval tablet is the date 1734 and the initials W. S. J. On the east side of Southampton Street, adjoining St. Giles's Vicarage, are some brick-faced half-timber outbuildings, now used as independent tenements. On the same side of the road, a little to the south of Crown Street, are the former Harrison almshouses, now known as Almshouse Court. They are contained in a plain brick building with a stone tablet on the wall towards the street, inscribed: 'Founded by Bernard Harrison \| 1617 for Eight Women \| Rebuilt by the corporation 1816.' Under the date 1816 can be deciphered the figures of the date 1797. Church Street contains some excellent 18th-century brickwork. At the west end, on the north side, is a row of half-timber cottages covered externally with rough-cast, and dating probably from the early years of the 17th century. The western half has been refaced with brick. Some half-timber work also remains in Crown Street. London Street crosses the Kennet by High Bridge, a handsome stone bridge, rebuilt, as recorded by the inscription on the parapet, by the corporation in 1788. The roadway rises considerably, and the stream is spanned by a single elliptical arch with vermiculated vous soirs. On the west side of London Street are two half-timber houses, one at each corner of Church Street, both refronted with brick towards the more important thoroughfare. The London road joins London Street opposite Crown Street. Yeld Hall, Reading 'Lynford,' Castle Street, Reading Of the buildings of Reading Abbey founded in 1121 the principal remains above ground are portions of the north and south transepts of the church, with fragments of the lower parts of the piers of the crossing; the greater part of the shell of the chapter-house, which forms, with the south transept, the east range of the cloister and is separated from it by a narrow passage, originally vaulted, perhaps the rearvestry; a fragment of the wall of a large rectangular building, probably the frater, on the south of the original cloister; the west and south walls of the dorter block, adjoining the chapter-house on the south, and separated from it by a small passage; and the four walls of the rere-dorter immediately to the south of the dorter. The inner gatehouse, a little distance to the west of the church, still remains in a comparatively perfect, though much restored, state, and there are considerable remains of the abbey mill, while the dormitory of the hospitium of St. John Baptist yet survives. With these exceptions, only the core of the walls of the buildings above enumerated is left, the facing having been almost entirely torn away. Reading Abbey. Azure three scallops or. The precincts must have originally inclosed an area of about 30 acres, the boundary wall extending northwards from the hospitium nearly to the North Forbury Road, thence following the line of the present Forbury Road eastwards and southwards to Blake's Bridge; the River Kennet and the Holy Brook formed the southern boundary of the site as far as the west end of the present Abbey Square, where a wall running northwards completed the circuit of the precincts at a point a little to the east of St. Lawrence's Church, and, turning due westwards for a short distance, met the gateway subsequently known as the Compter, the north wall of which abutted upon the south wall of the nave of St. Lawrence's Church. Of this wall, and of the gate-houses on the north, east and south, nothing is now left above ground; the north wall, however, which was long known as the 'plummery' wall, survived till comparatively recent times; it is shown in a view of the then new county gaol, made in 1844. (fn. 2) In the course of excavations made for building and drainage operations foundations have been found in a line with Blake's Bridge, and along the north side of the Holy Brook, (fn. 3) which sufficiently establish the position of the wall on this side, apart from the evidence of Speed's plan of Reading, where the continuation of the 'plummery' wall southwards to Blake's Bridge, then known as 'Orte's Bridge,' is shown as still existing. The space within the walls was divided into an inner and an outer court by a wall running due west from the north walk of the cloister, the inner or southern court including the secular buildings of the abbey, and communicating with the outer northern court by means of the gate-house still standing. The plan of the ruins made by Sir Henry Englefield in 1779 (fn. 4) shows the foundations of the Lady chapel, east of the quire of the church, the north wall of the refectory, and the west wall of the cloister as still existing in his time. The outlines of the apse, quire, and south transpet, with the bases of pillars could be traced in 1823. (fn. 5) These, with the foundations of the Lady chapel, were destroyed in 1843, when the new gaol was erected. The foundations of a large building were dug out in excavating for the foundations of the new Assize Court; their dimensions were then taken and found to measure 110 ft. by 50 ft., the largest apartment being about 60 ft. by 45 ft. The foundations of the bake-house were discovered in 1860, when additions were being made to the abbey mill, and those of the stables at the south-west of the precincts were partly uncovered about the same time in the course of building operations on the site. Further light is thrown on the original arrangements by the survey made by order of Parliament at the close of the Civil War in 1650. Mention is there made of 'all that capital messuage, mansion-house, et abbeyhouse, called Reading Abbey, consisting of two cellars, two butteries, a hall, a parlour, a dining room, ten chambers, a garret with a large gallery, and other small rooms, with two courtyards and a large gate-house with several rooms adjoining the said house and a small gardine… There is on the east side of the said mansion house, a great old hall, with a very large cellar under the said hall, arched, with some other decayed rooms between the sayd hall and the mansion-house, with the ruins of an old large chappell, a kitchen, and several other rooms.' This statement suggest that the abbot's lodging adjoined the still existing gate-house on the east; the buildings between it and the frater, the 'great old hall' of the survey, forming the west range of the cloister, probably contained the offices and the cellarer's establishment. The site of the present gaol is referred to in the following terms: 'The Fermary garden, a messuage, tenement, malt-house, garden and orchard, so-called; bounded with the River Kennett South, and butting upon the way leading to Forbury from Orte Bridge.' This statement points to the former existence of the infirmary upon the site. The following clauses sufficiently establish the relative positions of the stable and great garden: 'A large barn, formerly a stable, in length 135 ft., in breadth 30 ft., with a great yard and small garden, bounded by the hollow brook (now called the holy brook) South, and the said great garden, North… All that garden or orchard called by the name of the great gardine, one acre … bounded by the said Forbury, North, and said great yard south.' The church must have originally consisted of an apsidal quire with aisles, an eastern chapel beyond the apse, a central tower, north and south transepts with small eastern chapels, and an aisled nave. So far as can be ascertained from the remains which have from time to time been uncovered, the entire length, inclusive of the eastern or Lady chapel, was 450 ft., and the width with the aisles 95 ft. Each transept was 75 ft. in depth, and from the north wall of the north transept to the south wall of the south transept measured 200 ft. (fn. 6) The whole building, with the exception of the Lady chapel, which was added in 1314, appears to have been of the 12th century, and the secular buildings seem to have been erected at the same period. A fragment of the base of the west pier of the south arcade remains in situ, with the core of the lower portion of the piers of the crossing. At the east end of the former south aisle of the nave is a doorway which originally opened into the east walk of the cloister. From the stones of the west jamb which still remain in position it appears to have been internally of two shafted orders. Both north and south transepts had twin apsidal chapels. The buildings attached to the modern Roman Catholic church of St. James occupy the greater part of the site of the north transept, of which only fragments of the foundations remain, but the south transept walls remain to a considerable height. With the exception of a fragment of fine-jointed ashlar-work at the south end of the west wall, the whole of the facing, as elsewhere, has been torn away, leaving only the flint rubble core. In the apse of the northern chapel two rough openings show the position of former windows, beneath which is a recess formed by the four-centred head and fragments of the panelled jambs of a fireplace, or more probably a tomb, of the early 16th century, found on the site of the gaol. Within it is placed a 13th-century stone coffin. There appear to have been two windows in the west wall, while at the south-east are traces of a stone stair, which must have given access to a room over the vestry, probably the treasury. A 12th-century stone found on the site in 1835, and known as the 'Reading Abbey stone,' is used as the font in the adjoining church of St. James. It consists of a square table or abacus, the sides of which are richly carved with interlacing ornament, supported by the capitals of a central and four angle shafts similarly ornamented and formed out of the same block of stone. The original supporting shafts have disappeared, and have been replaced by modern ones. Its original use is uncertain; it may possibly have been a lectern, in which case a movable desk of wood or metal would probably have been placed upon it. (fn. 7) The vestry itself, which opened out of the transept on the south, was evidently barrel-vaulted, the springers of the vault being clearly visible on the south wall. A round-headed doorway, apparently of three orders, communicated with the cloister. Adjoining the vestry on the south, and completing the east range of the former cloister, was the chapter-house, a large building with an eastern apse measuring 79 ft. by 40 ft. The apse seems to have had five windows, while in the west wall was apparently a central round-headed doorway of three orders, flanked by two slightly smaller openings, with three windows above. A barrel vault appears to have roofed the building, while the position of the stone benches surrounding the walls internally can be distinctly seen. A passage, entered from the cloister by a round-arched doorway, perhaps of three orders, separated the chapterhouse from the dorter block on the south. Here are traces of wall-arcading, with some flint herring-bone facing still in position. Of the dorter block, a large building measuring about 145 ft. by 40 ft., only portions of the west and south walls remain. At the south-west is part of the ashlar jamb and the springing of the segmental ribbed rear arch of an inserted window, probably of the 14th century. In the still standing west wall are several window openings with their dressings torn away. At the south end of the dorter, and separated from it by a narrow passage, are the four walls of the rere-dorter, placed near the River Kennet in a convenient position for drainage. Only a fragment of the south wall of the frater, which formed the south range of the cloister, remains, with a row of cottages built against it. The kitchen, mentioned in the survey of 1650, was apparently at its west end. Reading Abbey: Remains of Arcading in Passage between Chapter-house and Dorter Block The inner gate-house dates from the latter half of the 13th century, but the greater part of the external detail was renewed at its restoration by Scott in 1869. There is a central gateway with a large room above, occupying the whole length of the building, with two smaller rooms beneath, one above the other, on each side of the gateway. A stone internal stair at the north-east, largely modern, but apparently occupying its original position, passing partly over the northern entrance arch of the gateway, communicates with the large upper room and with the intermediate floor on this side. On the west a stone external stair on the west side of the gateway is the only means of access to the intermediate floor. The gateway itself measures internally about 21 ft. 8 in. by 19 ft. 3 in., and is entered on the north by a two-centred arch of two moulded orders, with jambs of the same section, an impost being formed by the sill string of the windows of the intermediate floors, which runs round the building at this level. The arch is inclosed by a label with head-stops, above which is a plain gabled canopy. Set back about 4 ft. 10 in. from the north face is an inner semicircular arch, also of two moulded orders, the soffit between the two arches being barrelvaulted. The entrance arch on the south, which has a label and canopy like that on the north, is also semicircular. At the southern angles of the gateway are the springers of vaulting ribs. There is no trace of answering ribs in the opposite angles, and it would appear that the idea of vaulting the space was abandoned soon after the works were begun. The label of the southern arch has grotesque dragon stops, the eastern original, the western restored from fragments. Generally, the stones of the archway are original, though much restored. The ground stage on either side is entered from the interior of the gateway by small original doorways at the south-east and southwest, with plain chamfered two-centred heads, and by restored doorways of similar form, though on a larger and more elaborate scale, in the side bays of the south front. The intermediate floor on the west side is entered from the external stair above referred to by a plain chamfered square-headed doorway. Internally throughout the building the walls are plastered, and no original detail remains, with the exception of the broken jamb of a fireplace in the western apartment of the ground stage. The gatehouse is divided externally into three stages, where not interrupted by the canopied arches of the entrance, by the sill strings of the windows of the upper and intermediate floors, and there are octagonal turrets at the four corners. The north and south elevations are each divided into three bays, and the west elevation into two bays, by intermediate and angle buttresses; the latter carry the two projecting cardinal faces of each corner turret, their other sides being supported by small squinches thrown from buttress to buttress and to the walls. The squinches are repeated on the intermediate buttresses, where, however, they only support large broach-like slopes, the buttress being left free to rise in its original form. The soffits of the squinches are groined, the groins springing from small head corbels, nearly all of which have been renewed. There is no central buttress on the east wall; that on the west is carried above the parapet and serves as a chimney stack. The intermediate floors are lighted by large lancets with elaborately shafted jambs in the side bays of the north and south elevations, and by two smaller and plainer lancets in each end wall. The labels inclosing their heads are formed by the string-course which runs round the building at the squinch level. Light is also obtained from the interior of the gateway by small plain lights. The large lancets on the south side are almost entirely modern; those on the north, however, are mainly original. Up to this level the facing, which has been renewed throughout, is of ashlar; the upper portion of the walls is faced with flint. The large room over the gateway is lighted by cinquefoiled lancets, all restored, four in the north wall, four in the south, and four in each end wall. Their labels are continued as a string-course. A vice in the north-east turret leads from this floor to the leads, which have plain modern parapets carried on corbel tables. Similar parapets crown the turrets, which rise above the roof. The surviving dormitory of the hospitium of St. John Baptist was entirely remodelled in 1486, when it was transformed into a school. No detail earlier than that period remains, though the walls are probably those of the original building of 1196. In its present state it is a two-storied structure of stone, placed east and west, measuring internally about 83 ft. by 23 ft. 8 in. The interior has been almost entirely modernized, a mezzanine floor having been inserted in the centre of the building. On the north side is an octagonal stair turret of the late 15th century, constructed of brick with stone quoins and dressings, and on the south, nearly opposite, is a square projection containing wood newel stairs of the 17th century, which evidently replace a 15th-century stair, the blocked entrance to which still survives on the upper floor. To the east of this a modern entrance corridor has been added on the ground floor, and openings have been formed in the south wall of the main structure at this end, communicating with it. The present partitions divide this floor into three main divisions. It is lighted on the south by small late 15th-century square-headed windows, much restored, each of two four-centred lights, and placed at some distance above the floor level. In the east wall, communicating with the adjoining house, formerly the vicarage of St. Lawrence's Church, is an original doorway, much renewed, and to the south of it, internally, a small square-headed niche. At the north-east is a small niche with a four-centred head. All these details appear to be of the late 15th century. On the north side all the windows to the west of the stair turret have been enlarged, and there is a modern entrance porch at the north-east. Beneath the sill of the second window from the west are the jambs of a recess broken into by the lowering of the sill. In the east face of the octagonal stair turret is an external entrance doorway with a four-centred head; the stairs, which are of stone and almost entirely renewed, are now entered from the interior. The upper floor, which is open to the roof, appears to have been originally one long apartment, and is lighted on the north and south by windows similar to those lighting the ground floor, and, like them, much restored. At the south-east is a fireplace of original late 15th-century date, with moulded brick jambs and a massive chamfered lintel of oak. In the western angle of the fireplace opening is a small cupboard or pocket with a four-centred head, and immediately above the fire place, on the same side, is a second small cupboard with a rebated door frame of wood still in position. The adjoining vicarage-house to the east of the dormitory appears to have been entirely rebuilt above the foundations in the 17th and 18th centuries. Panelling of both dates remains internally. Incorporated in the present structure of the Abbey Mills are considerable remains of the east and west walls of the original mill of the abbey. Two fine late 12th-century arches span the Holy Brook. The western arch is two-centred and segmental, and is richly moulded with the cheveron on the east face. The eastern arch is also two-centred, but has only plain chamfers. On the north and south of the main arches are smaller and plainer arched openings with semicircular heads. Reading has grown very rapidly of late years; a great increase of population took place at the end of the 19th century, when the nearer western suburbs were laid out, but in 1850 it was still a small and pretty town, whose wide streets and open green spaces counteracted many of the evils of defective sanitation. There is now a large artisan population employed by the Great Western Railway and South Eastern and Chatham Railway Companies, by Messrs. Huntley & Palmer, by Messrs. Sutton and by other firms. The picturesque but insanitary courts behind the main streets, which were long the home of the Reading poor, are now gradually disappearing. 1. V.C.H. Berks. ii, 62. 2. Engraved in the Illus. London News, iv, 108. 3. Berks. Arch. and Archit. Soc. Journ. 1880–1, p. 65 et seq. 4. Arch. vi, 61. 5. C. A. Buckler, Notes on Reading Abley (Add. MSS. 36,400). 7. a A late 12th-century lectern of marble, supported in precisely the same manner, but with the desk itself formed out of the upper portion of the stone, exists at Crowle in Worcestershire. See V.C.H. Worcs. iii, 333.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693534
__label__wiki	0.963284	0.963284	Morning Sentinel July 15 police log Waterville area police reports for July 15, 2019. By Molly ShellyMorning Sentinel IN ALBION, Sunday at 7:19 a.m., harassment was reported on Quaker Hill Road. 10:47 a.m., a past burglary involving breaking and entering was reported on Unity Road. IN BELGRADE, Friday at 9:19 p.m., harassment was reported on Warren Hill Road. IN CANAAN, Sunday at 1:27 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Mud Run. 2:44 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Mud Run. IN CHINA, Sunday at 7:16 a.m., theft was reported on Dirigo Drive. IN CLINTON, Sunday at 9:42 a.m., theft was reported on Bellsqueeze Road. IN EMBDEN, Sunday at 10:57 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Perkins Road. IN FAIRFIELD, Sunday at 9:46 p.m., a domestic disturbance was reported on High Street. IN FARMINGTON, Friday at 5:14 p.m., harassment was reported on Hill Street. Saturday, 5:57 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Skunk Hollow Road. 9:30 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Osborne Road. 10:27 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Fairbanks Road. 10:48 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Main Street. Sunday, 10:53 a.m., theft or fraud was reported on Fairbanks Road. 12:07 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on New Vineyard Drive. IN MADISON, Sunday at 9:02 a.m., vandalism was reported on Preble Avenue. 4:31 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Pine Street 8:14 p.m., a domestic disturbance was reported on Pinewood Drive. 10:08 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Madison Avenue. Monday, 3 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Main Street. IN NEW PORTLAND, Sunday at 5:28 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Moosehead Trail. IN NORRIDGEWOCK, Sunday at 3:16 p.m., theft was reported on Oak Hill Road. IN OAKLAND, Sunday at 11:24 a.m., theft was reported on Kennedy Memorial Drive. 3:06 p.m., harassment was reported on Lakeview Drive. 7:08 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Town Farm Road. Monday, 3:33 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Deer Run. IN PITTSFIELD, Sunday at 11:05 p.m., a complaint of shots fired was reported on Main Street. IN RANGELEY, Sunday at 5:57 p.m., juvenile offenses were reported at Town Park. IN SKOWHEGAN, Sunday at 3:33 p.m., assault was reported on Cross Street. 6:01 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Waterville Road. Monday, 12:27 a.m., a disturbance was reported on Madison Avenue. IN VASSALBORO, Sunday at 1:28 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Main Street. IN WATERVILLE, Sunday at 8:21 a.m., assault was reported on Chaplin Street. 8:57 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Elm Street. 12:25 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Trafton Road. 3:01 p.m., criminal mischief was reported on Main Street. 7:11 p.m., a drug offense was reported on Main Street. 7:15 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Pleasant Hill Drive. 8:45 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Vigue Street. 9:56 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Main Street. 11 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Louise Avenue. IN WILTON, Saturday at 6:50 p.m., harassment was reported on Main Street. 10:40 p.m., a domestic disturbance was reported on U.S. Route 2 East. Sunday, 2:44 a.m., a crash involving injury was reported at Route 133 and Melcher Road. IN WINSLOW, Sunday at 10:31 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Veteran Drive. 1:21 p.m., harassment was reported on Clinton Avenue. IN FRANKLIN COUNTY, Saturday at 1:25 a.m., Matthew J. Davis, 34, of Windham, was arrested on a charge of operating under the influence. 8:05 p.m., Eugene Douglas Wolfe, 68, of Farmington, was arrested on a probation hold. 11:10 p.m., Neil William Smith, 22, of Lisbon Falls, was arrested on charges of operating under the influence and refusing to submit to arrest. Sunday, 8:25 p.m., Martin Allen Farrington, 44, of Jay, was arrested on a charge of violating conditions of release. 11:13 p.m., Philip Earl Ledoux, 37, of Dallas Plantation, was arrested on two charges of domestic violence with priors. 11:45 p.m., Dylan P. McNamara, 39, of North Anson, was arrested on a charge of operating under the influence. IN SOMERSET COUNTY, Sunday at 11:12 a.m., Christopher James Warren, 34, of Windham, was arrested on a writ of habeas corpus. Monday, 9 a.m., Garret Blair, 30, of Newport, was arrested on charges of eluding an officer, operating under the influence, and driving to endanger. IN WATERVILLE, Sunday at 12:32 a.m., Carl Hunter, 25, was arrested on charges of domestic violence, criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, and a probation hold. 10:56 p.m., Michaela Pilsbury, 23, of Waterville, was arrested on a charge of domestic violence. Sagadahoc County sheriff’s deputy arrested, charged with aggravated assault Franklin County, kennebec county, maine crime, police logs, somerset county	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693538
__label__cc	0.60222	0.39778	Acting Chairman Rostin Behnam Commissioner Brian D. Quintenz Commissioner Dawn DeBerry Stump Commissioner Dan M. Berkovitz Commissioner Heath P. Tarbert Written Testimony of Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo before the U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, Washington, D.C. Thank you, Chairman Roberts, Ranking Member Stabenow, and distinguished members of the Committee for this opportunity to discuss the work of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). When I appeared before this Committee last summer, we discussed the importance of derivatives for the American farmer, rancher, and manufacturer. I outlined for you my priorities for the CFTC: to carry out the CFTC’s mission to foster open, transparent, competitive and financially sound markets, free from fraud and manipulation, in a way that best fosters broad-based economic growth and prosperity while respecting the American taxpayer through careful management of our agency resources. I pledged that, if confirmed, I would focus on these priorities, avoid partisanship at the agency and work with each of you, with candor and promptness, in our common purpose of serving the American people and the agricultural producers upon which we all rely. Summer has gone. We are now amidst a world changing in front of us. There have been regulatory developments in Europe and elsewhere that demand our attention. And there is much work and activity at the Commission on which to report, including the new phenomenon of virtual currencies. I, therefore, thank you again for this opportunity to testify. CROSS BORDER AGREEMENTS I am grateful to you, Chairman Roberts and Ranking Member Stabenow, for your recent letter expressing strong support of the CFTC, both in its approach to the cross-border supervision of major clearinghouses and its current discussions with regulatory counterparts in the European Union (EU). Your letter confirms the critical importance of keeping in place the 2016 equivalence agreement for derivatives clearinghouse supervision by the CFTC and the EU authorities. Regulatory and supervisory deference needs to remain the key principle underpinning cross border supervision of Central Counterparties (CCPs). Deference continues to be the right approach to ensure that oversight over these global markets is effective and robust without fragmenting markets and trading activity. CFTC-regulated CCPs are among the most robust and resilient in the world. Even in the face of extreme volatility, as we saw both recently and following the 2017 Brexit decision, CFTC-regulated CCPs have been able to successfully take on and manage risk, enabling valuable price risk transfer to support and stabilize the broader financial market. On the CFTC’s watch not a single CFTC-regulated CCP has ever defaulted or even come close to using its mutualized default resources to cover market losses. This is a testament to the strength of the CFTC’s existing regulatory and supervisory framework. In fact, since the financial crisis of 2008, the total initial margin for cleared futures and swaps held by CFTC-regulated CCPs has more than tripled to over $300 billion. Of course, today’s markets are global. As 21st Century market regulators, we must work cooperatively across jurisdictions in order to promote growth and innovation while supporting the financial stability of our global markets. It was in this spirit that the CFTC carefully negotiated a cross border agreement in 2016 with the European Union to defer to each other on CCP oversight. The 2016 equivalence agreement was no small accomplishment. Former Chairman Tim Massad deserves considerable credit for his fortitude and determination. The agreement was hard negotiated and took three years to accomplish. The CFTC made considerable concessions. The final agreement was approved by the European Commission and reviewed by all 28 EU member states. The 2016 equivalence agreement is built upon the principle of regulatory and supervisory deference. It is straightforward: on one hand, through substituted compliance, the CFTC allows European CCPs to follow most of the EU CCP regime to demonstrate compliance with U.S. law; and, on the other hand, through equivalence and recognition, European authorities allow U.S. CCPs to follow most of the CFTC CCP regime to demonstrate compliance with EU law. I supported the 2016 equivalence agreement then,1 and I support it today. It is an important signal to the markets and the international regulatory community that the United States and Europe can work together to successfully resolve critical cross-border issues. The agreement has contributed to stronger and more productive relations between the CFTC and its European and other overseas regulatory counterparts. Today, the CFTC and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) are developing a close relationship based on the understanding that we must cooperate in order to tackle regulatory and supervisory challenges that may lie ahead. Right now, the EU bodies are debating new legislation proposed by the European Commission that would create a new European framework to regulate and supervise CCPs. It goes without saying that, as a sovereign political entity, the European Union has every right to revisit, without foreign interference, how it regulates and supervises CCPs that operate in its jurisdiction. We understand that there is an ongoing political debate in the EU right now about shifting additional power away from member states to pan-European institutions. We take no sides in that debate. Moreover, we welcome any and all efforts in the EU to enhance the regulation and supervision of its domestic CCPs. The CFTC is committed to honoring its obligations under the 2016 equivalence agreement. Yet, there are some indications that the European Commission views the UK’s decision to exit the EU as a basis to vitiate the agreement. It appears that some EU policymakers want to go back to the negotiating table. There appears to be an expectation that the CFTC should be prepared to renegotiate many of the same issues covered by the existing agreement, but with new people and new authorities. The United States will not be put into this position. We honor our commitments and expect others to do the same. The CFTC negotiated the 2016 equivalence agreement in good faith. A deal is a deal. While we appreciate the EU’s need to address the ramifications of Brexit, the U.S. and its markets must not be its collateral damage. Other than Brexit, little has changed to justify changing the current approach to cross border CCP supervision. It remains true today, as it did two years ago, that with respect to our systemically important clearinghouses, the majority of their members are U.S. domiciled and the majority of their business comes from the U.S. In fact, for one of these clearinghouses, their European-based clearing business accounts for less than fifteen percent of their overall business. This has been true since 2016. There has been no significant change in the European risk profile of U.S. CCPs to justify increasing their regulatory and supervisory burdens. When it comes to U.S. CCPs, we insist that the parties stay true to the terms of the 2016 equivalence agreement, give proper assurances that U.S. CCPs will not be treated differently than they are now, and pledge support for deference as the governing principle for how we regulate and supervise each other’s CCPs today and in the future. In fact, deference is the cornerstone for how the CFTC approaches the cross-border supervision of European CCPs. It is deference that supports strong cross-border markets, recognizes our commonalities, and builds upon the strengths of our respective jurisdictions. To this end, I continue to press upon my European counterparts that the proposed legislation must preserve the tenants of our 2016 equivalence agreement. Since its execution, the agreement has been effective in allowing market participants in both jurisdictions – the U.S. and the EU – to hedge their risks in efficient and resilient markets. The agreement is very much in accord with the mutual pledges of the U.S. and Europe in the G-20 accords to cooperate actively to avoid market fragmentation, regulatory arbitrage, and market protection in these global derivatives markets. Cross-border supervision of systemically important CCPs is far too important for piecemeal and contradictory rule-making. The proposed new EU approach would subject U.S. CCPs to new regulation and duplicative supervision. It would require the wholesale adoption by U.S. CCPs of many new and unproven European regulations. These burdens will increase the cost of clearing for American businesses that depend on well-regulated futures markets to manage risk in their business operations. This is not acceptable. American markets must continue to be regulated under American law by U.S. regulators overseen by the U.S. Congress. Notwithstanding these concerns, there is also hope. Since becoming Chairman of the CFTC, I have made it one of my top priorities to strengthen the CFTC’s relations with our European counterparts. I have had numerous meetings with key regulatory counterparts and policymakers from the European Union, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom to discuss how to ensure effective regulatory cooperation and coordination between the CFTC and Europe. I have extended my hand in friendship and respect to each and every one of them. I will continue that approach. I am proud of the fact that the CFTC has successfully negotiated with EU authorities in the past four months: (i) EU equivalence and CFTC exemptions for certain CFTC – and EU – authorized derivative trading venues; (ii) and, equivalence and substituted compliance decisions on margin requirements. Just like the CCP equivalence agreement of 2016, these decisions should be enduring achievements, as they are essential to ensuring a strong and stable trans-Atlantic derivatives market that supports economic growth both in the European Union and the United States. Following this hearing, I have scheduled more meetings next week with European regulatory counterparts in London, Brussels, Frankfurt and Madrid. I will make clear that regulatory and supervisory deference is the right course for supervision of CCPs by U.S. and EU regulators. It has the support of the Administration. Thank you for making clear that it also has the bipartisan support of this Committee. We must construct a stronger and more successful trans-Atlantic relationship to ensure that our markets can continue to flourish. Together with our European colleagues, we must strive for a comprehensive and universal approach that supports strong cross-border markets, recognizes and builds upon the strengths of our respective supervisory programs, and preserves the basic tenets of the 2016 equivalence agreement. I trust my European colleagues will do the right thing, preserve our good work of 2016 and embrace, not reject regulatory and supervisory deference. Let’s turn to virtual currencies. Emerging financial technologies are taking us into a new chapter of economic history. They are impacting trading, markets and the entire financial landscape with far ranging implications for capital formation and risk transfer. These emerging technologies include machine learning and artificial intelligence, algorithm-based trading, data analytics, “smart” contracts, and distributed ledger technologies. Over time, these technologies may come to challenge traditional market infrastructure. They are transforming the world around us, and it is no surprise that these technologies are having an equally transformative impact on U.S. capital and derivatives markets. Supporters of virtual currencies see a technological solution to the age-old “double spend” problem – that has always driven the need for a trusted, central authority to ensure that an entity is capable of, and does, engage in a valid transaction. Traditionally, there has been a need for a trusted intermediary – for example a bank or other financial institution – to serve as a gatekeeper for transactions and many economic activities. Virtual currencies seek to replace the need for a central authority or intermediary with a decentralized, rules-based and open consensus mechanism.2 An array of thoughtful business, technology, academic, and policy leaders have extrapolated some of the possible impacts that derive from such an innovation, including how market participants conduct transactions, transfer ownership, and power peer-to-peer applications and economic systems.3 Others, however, argue that this is all hype or technological alchemy and that the current interest in virtual currencies is overblown and resembles wishful thinking, a fever, even a mania. They have declared the 2017 heightened valuation of Bitcoin to be a bubble similar to the famous “Tulip Bubble” of the seventeenth century. They say that virtual currencies perform no socially useful function and, worse, can be used to evade laws or support illicit activity.4Indeed, history has demonstrated to us time-and-again that bad actors will try to invoke the concept of innovation in order to perpetrate age-old fraudulent schemes on the public. Accordingly, some assert that virtual currencies should be banned, as some nations have done.5 There is clearly no shortage of opinions on virtual currencies such as Bitcoin. In fact, virtual currencies may be all things to all people: for some, potential riches, the next big thing, a technological revolution, and an exorable value proposition; for others, a fraud, a new form of temptation and allure, and a way to separate the unsuspecting from their money. Perspective is critically important. As of the morning of February 12, the total value of all outstanding Bitcoin was about $149 billion based on a Bitcoin price of $8,800. The Bitcoin “market capitalization” is less than the stock market capitalization of a single “large cap” business, such as Disney around $156 billion. The total value of all outstanding virtual currencies was about $430 billion. Because virtual currencies like Bitcoin are sometimes considered to be comparable to gold as an investment vehicle, it is important to recognize that the total value of all the gold in the world is estimated by the World Gold Council to be about $8 trillion, which continues to dwarf the virtual currency market size. Clearly, the column inches of press attention to virtual currency far surpass its size and magnitude in today’s global economy. Yet, despite being a relatively small asset class, virtual currency presents complex challenges for regulators. Chairman Jay Clayton of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and I recently wrote: The CFTC and SEC, along with other federal and state regulators and criminal authorities, will continue to work together to bring transparency and integrity to these markets and, importantly, to deter and prosecute fraud and abuse. These markets are new, evolving and international. As such they require us to be nimble and forward-looking; coordinated with our state, federal and international colleagues; and engaged with important stakeholders, including Congress6. It is this perspective that has guided our work at the CFTC on virtual currencies. Our work has six broad elements: (1) staff competency; (2) consumer education; (3) interagency cooperation; (4) exercise of authority; (5) strong enforcement; and, (6) heightened review of virtual currency product self-certifications. Staff Competency: LabCFTC Last year, our agency was pleased to announce the launch of LabCFTC. In creating LabCFTC, we outlined an agenda designed to ensure that the CFTC would have the tools and understanding to keep pace with technological innovation in the algorithmic, digital world of the 21st century. LabCFTC is the focal point of the CFTC’s efforts to engage with innovators, facilitate market-enhancing technology and fair competition, and manage the interface between technological innovation, regulatory modernization, and existing rules and regulations. LabCFTC accomplishes its mission in three ways: (1) meeting with innovators, whether they are a startup or an established entity; (2) supporting or incorporating new technologies with the potential to improve our markets or enable the Commission to carry out its mission more effectively and efficiently; and (3) collaborating with external organizations, including domestic and international regulators, focused on sharing information and best practices related to fintech innovation. Since its launch, LabCFTC has met with over 150 firms and organizations, including through ‘office hour’ sessions in New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., and earlier this year, the San Francisco Bay Area. Late last year, LabCFTC published a fintech primer on the topic of virtual currencies, and will soon be releasing a request for public feedback regarding a series of planned innovation competitions beginning in 2018. LabCFTC continues to work closely with domestic and international regulators on fintech engagement models, and is building out internal educational resources to help inform our staff and policy. Finally, through its engagement with – and study of – innovative technologies, LabCFTC was recently able to recommend new virtual currency surveillance tools to our Enforcement division. I am pleased to report that our Enforcement team has in fact been able to avail itself of this new technology, and is now able to enhance certain surveillance and enforcement activities. This important development helps underscore the value of LabCFTC, and its effort to ensure that we are prepared to be a 21st century digital regulator. The CFTC believes that the responsible regulatory response to virtual currencies must start with consumer education. Amidst the wild assertions, bold headlines, and shocking hyperbole about virtual currencies, there is a need for much greater understanding and clarity. Over the past five months, the CFTC has produced an unprecedented amount of public educational materials on virtual currencies, all of which are located on the Commission’s dedicated “Bitcoin” web page. Launched on December 15, 2017, www.cftc.gov/bitcoin features both consumer and industry-facing materials which include a backgrounder on the CFTC’s oversight and approach to virtual currency markets, a “primer” on virtual currencies, several customer advisories on risks associated with speculating or investing in Bitcoin and other virtual currencies, a fact sheet outlining the self-certification process, and a CFTC Talks podcast on Bitcoin. The CFTC will be publishing two print brochures on Bitcoin and virtual currencies that will be available soon for widespread dissemination. Along with the resources available on www.cftc.gov/bitcoin, the CFTC has produced several other podcasts on blockchain and virtual currencies, all of which are available on the Commission’s website or from various streaming services. For market participants, the CFTC also issues a weekly publication of Bitcoin futures “Commitment of Traders” data and an analysis of Bitcoin spot market data. The CFTC’s Office of Customer Education and Outreach (OCEO), which was established in 2011 to administer the CFTC’s consumer education initiatives, has played an integral role in both authoring educational materials for consumers and working with partners to spread the word about the CFTC’s Bitcoin and virtual currency resources. OCEO is conducting outreach to various audiences such as retail investors, industry professionals, seniors, and vulnerable populations who may be targeted by unscrupulous individuals with the intent to defraud them of their savings. Some examples of outreach include coordinating with national non-profits, federal regulators and state agencies to conduct webinars, educational campaigns and in-person events. OCEO also provides partners with content to use for their constituent outreach and communications, in order to amplify the CFTC’s customer education efforts. OCEO is also reaching intermediaries through trainings which educate participants on the CFTC’s fraud prevention resources to protect and assist their constituencies. The CFTC’s enforcement jurisdiction over virtual currencies is not exclusive. As a result, the U.S. approach to oversight of virtual currencies has evolved into a multifaceted, multi-regulatory approach that includes: The SEC’s increasingly strong action against unregistered securities offerings, whether they are called a virtual currency or initial coin offering in name; State Banking regulators overseeing certain U.S. and foreign virtual currency spot exchanges largely through state money transfer laws; The Internal Revenue Service treating virtual currencies as property subject to capital gains tax; The Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) monitoring Bitcoin and other virtual currency transfers for anti-money laundering purposes. The CFTC actively communicates its approach to virtual currencies with other Federal regulators, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) and through the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), chaired by the Treasury Department. The CFTC has also been in close communication with the SEC with respect to policy and jurisdictional considerations, especially in connection with recent virtual currency enforcement cases. In addition, we have been in communication with overseas regulatory counterparts through bilateral discussions and in meetings of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). CFTC Authority and Oversight In 2015, the CFTC determined that virtual currencies, such as Bitcoin, met the definition of “commodity” under the CEA. Nevertheless, to be clear, the CFTC does not have regulatory jurisdiction over markets or platforms conducting cash or “spot” transactions in virtual currencies or other commodities or over participants on such platforms. More specifically, the CFTC does not have authority to conduct regulatory oversight over spot virtual currency platforms or other cash commodities, including imposing registration requirements, surveillance and monitoring, transaction reporting, compliance with personnel conduct standards, customer education, capital adequacy, trading system safeguards, cyber security examinations or other requirements. In fact, current law does not provide any U.S. Federal regulator with such regulatory oversight authority over spot virtual currency platforms operating in the United States or abroad. However, the CFTC does have enforcement jurisdiction to investigate through subpoena and other investigative powers and, as appropriate, conduct civil enforcement action against fraud and manipulation in virtual currency derivatives markets and in underlying virtual currency spot markets just like other commodities. In contrast to its lack of regulatory authority over virtual currency spot markets, the CFTC does have both regulatory and enforcement jurisdiction under the CEA over derivatives on virtual currencies traded in the United States. This means that for derivatives on virtual currencies traded in U.S. markets, the CFTC conducts comprehensive regulatory oversight, including imposing registration requirements and compliance with a full range of requirements for trade practice and market surveillance, reporting and monitoring and standards for conduct, capital requirements and platform and system safeguards. The CFTC has been straightforward in asserting its area of statutory jurisdiction concerning virtual currency derivatives. As early as 2014, former CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad discussed virtual currencies and potential CFTC oversight under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA).7 And as noted above, in 2015, the CFTC found virtual currencies to be a commodity.8 In that year, the agency took enforcement action to prohibit wash trading and prearranged trades on a virtual currency derivatives platform.9 In 2016, the CFTC took action against a Bitcoin futures exchange operating in the U.S. that failed to register with the agency.10 Last year, the CFTC issued proposed guidance on what is a derivative market and what is a spot market in the virtual currency context.11 The agency also issued warnings about valuations and volatility in spot virtual currency markets12 and launched an unprecedented consumer education effort described earlier herein. The CFTC Division of Enforcement is a premier Federal civil enforcement agency dedicated to deterring and preventing manipulation and other disruptions of market integrity, ensuring the financial integrity of all transactions subject to the CEA, and protecting market participants from fraudulent or other abusive sales practices and misuse of customer assets. The CFTC has been particularly assertive of its enforcement jurisdiction over virtual currencies. It has formed an internal virtual currency enforcement task force to garner and deploy relevant expertise in this evolving asset class. The task force shares information and works cooperatively with counterparts at the SEC with similar virtual currency expertise. Over the past several months, the CFTC filed a series of civil enforcement actions against perpetrators of fraud, market manipulation and disruptive trading involving virtual currency. These include: Gelfman Blueprint, Inc., which charged defendants with operating a Bitcoin Ponzi scheme that fraudulently solicited approximately 80 persons supposedly for algorithmic trading in virtual currency that was fake, the purported performance reports of which were false, and – as in all Ponzi schemes – payouts of supposed profits to customers actuality consisted of other customers’ misappropriated funds. My Big Coin Pay Inc., which charged the defendants with commodity fraud and misappropriation related to the ongoing solicitation of customers for a virtual currency known as My Big Coin; The Entrepreneurs Headquarters Limited, which charged the defendants with a fraudulent scheme to solicit Bitcoin from members of the public, misrepresenting that customers’ funds would be pooled and invested in products including binary options, and instead misappropriated the funds and failed to register as a Commodity Pool Operator; and Coin Drop Markets, which charged the defendants with fraud and misappropriation in connection with purchases and trading of Bitcoin and Litecoin. These recent enforcement actions confirm that the CFTC, working closely with the SEC and other fellow financial enforcement agencies, will aggressively prosecute bad actors that engage in fraud and manipulation regarding virtual currencies. New Product Self-Certification Under CEA and Commission regulations and related guidance, futures exchanges may self-certify new products on twenty-four hour notice prior to trading. In the past decade and a half, over 12,000 new futures products have been self-certified.13 It is clear that Congress and prior Commissions deliberately designed the product self-certification framework to give futures exchanges, in their role as self-regulatory organizations, the ability to quickly bring new products to the marketplace. The CFTC’s current product self-certification framework has long been considered to function well and be consistent with public policy that encourages market-driven innovation that has made America’s listed futures markets the envy of the world. Practically, both the CME Group (CME) and CBOE Futures Exchange (CBOE) had numerous discussions and exchanged numerous draft product terms and conditions with CFTC staff over a course of months prior to their certifying and launching Bitcoin futures in December 2017. CME launched a Bitcoin Reference Rate in November 2016. CBOE first proposed to CFTC staff a Bitcoin futures product in July 2017. This type of lengthy engagement is not unusual during the self-certification process for products that may raise more complex issues. The CFTC staff undertook its review of CME’s and CBOE’s Bitcoin futures products with considered attention. Given the emerging nature and heightened attention of these products, staff conducted a “heightened review” of CME’s and CBOE’s responsibilities under the CEA and Commission regulations to ensure that their Bitcoin futures products and their cash-settlement processes were not readily susceptible to manipulation,14 and the risk management of the associated Derivatives Clearing Organizations (DCOs) to ensure that the products were sufficiently margined.15 Over the course of its review, CFTC staff obtained the voluntary cooperation of CME and CBOE with a set of enhanced monitoring and risk management steps. Designated contract markets (DCMs) setting exchange large trader reporting thresholds at five bitcoins or less; DCMs entering direct or indirect information sharing agreements with spot market platforms to allow access to trade and trader data making up the underlying index that the futures contracts settle to; DCMs agreeing to engage in monitoring of underlying index data from cash markets and identifying anomalies and disproportionate moves; DCMs agreeing to conduct inquiries, as appropriate, including at the trade settlement and trader level when anomalies or disproportionate moves are identified; DCMs agreeing to regular communication with CFTC surveillance staff on trade activities, including providing trade settlement and trader data upon request; DCMs agreeing to coordinate product launches to enable the CFTC’s market surveillance branch to monitor developments; and DCOs setting substantially high initial16 and maintenance margin. The first six of these elements were used to ensure that the new product offerings complied with the DCM’s obligations under the CEA core principles and CFTC regulations and related guidance. The seventh element, setting high initial and maintenance margins, was designed to ensure adequate collateral coverage in reaction to the underlying volatility of Bitcoin. In crafting its process of “heightened review” for compliance, CFTC staff prioritized visibility, data, and monitoring of markets for Bitcoin derivatives and underlying settlement reference rates. CFTC staff felt that in gaining such visibility, the CFTC could best look out for Bitcoin market participants and consumers, as well as the public interest in Federal surveillance and enforcement. This visibility greatly enhances the agency’s ability to prosecute fraud and manipulation in both the new Bitcoin futures markets and in its related underlying cash markets. As for the interests of clearing members, the CFTC recognized that large global banks and brokerages that are DCO clearing members are able to look after their own commercial interests by choosing not to trade Bitcoin futures, as some have done, requiring substantially higher initial margins from their customers, as many have done, and through their active participation in DCO risk committees. After the launch of Bitcoin futures, some criticism was directed at the self-certification process from a few market participants. Some questioned why the Commission did not hold public hearings prior to launch. However, under the CEA and CFTC regulations, it is the function of the exchanges and clearinghouses - and not CFTC staff17 - to solicit and address stakeholder concerns in deciding to list or clear new products. The CFTC staff’s focus is on how the futures contracts and cash settlement indices are designed to reduce threats of manipulation and the appropriate level of contract margining to meet CEA and Commission regulations. I feel strongly that interested parties, especially clearing members, should indeed have an opportunity to raise appropriate concerns for consideration by regulated platforms proposing virtual currency derivatives as well as by DCOs considering clearing new virtual currency products. That is why I have asked CFTC staff to add an additional element to the Review and Compliance Checklist for virtual currency product self-certifications. That is, requesting DCMs and Swap Execution Facilities (SEFs) to disclose to CFTC staff what affirmative steps they have taken in their capacity as self-regulatory organizations to gather and accommodate appropriate input from concerned parties, including trading firms and FCMs. Further, CFTC staff will take a close look at DCO governance around the clearing of new products and formulate recommendations for possible further action. Although there is ready legal support in statute and CFTC regulation for many of the elements of the virtual currency review checklist, the staff will continue to work with exchanges on a voluntary basis at present. Nevertheless, it is worth considering if specific rule changes are appropriate to accommodate the virtual currency review checklist in its own right. I have asked the CFTC’s General Counsel to discuss with my fellow Commissioners the statutory basis for the various elements of the review checklist. I have also asked him to propose for Commission consideration possible regulatory and/or statutory steps to underpin the staff’s review process for virtual currency products. Commissioner Behnam has asked some important questions on the self-certification process that merit thoughtful consideration as we go forward.18 I believe that the CFTC’s response to the self-certification of Bitcoin futures has been a balanced one. It has resulted in the world’s first federally regulated Bitcoin futures market. Had it even been possible, blocking self-certification would not have stopped the rise of Bitcoin or other virtual currencies. Instead, it would have ensured that virtual currency spot markets continue to operate without effective and data-enabled federal regulatory surveillance for fraud and manipulation. Potential Benefits I have spoken publicly about the potential benefits of the technology underlying Bitcoin, namely Blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT).19 Distributed ledgers – in various open system or private network applications – have the potential to enhance economic efficiency, mitigate centralized systemic risk, defend against fraudulent activity and improve data quality and governance.20 DLT is likely to have a broad and lasting impact on global financial markets in payments, banking, securities settlement, title recording, cyber security and trade reporting and analysis.21 When tied to virtual currencies, this technology aims to serve as a new store of value, facilitate secure payments, enable asset transfers, and power new applications. Additionally, DLT will likely develop hand-in-hand with new “smart” contracts that can value themselves in real-time, report themselves to data repositories, automatically calculate and perform margin payments and even terminate themselves in the event of counterparty default.22 DLT may enable financial market participants to manage the significant operational, transactional and capital complexities brought about by the many mandates, regulations and capital requirements promulgated by regulators here and abroad in the wake of the financial crisis.23 In fact, one study estimates that DLT could eventually allow financial institutions to save as much as $20 billion in infrastructure and operational costs each year.24 Another study reportedly estimates that blockchain could cut trading settlement costs by a third, or $16 billion a year, and cut capital requirements by $120 billion.25Moving from systems-of-record at the level of a firm to an authoritative system-of-record at the level of a market is an enormous opportunity to improve existing market infrastructure.26 Outside of the financial services industry, many use cases for DLT are being posited from international trade to charitable endeavors and social services. BNSF Railway Co, a unit of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. recently announced that it became the first major U.S. railroad to join the Blockchain in Transport Alliance, a group of more than 200 companies considering transportation and logistics applications of digital ledger technology. 27 Other DLT use cases include: legal records management, inventory control and logistics; charitable donation tracking and confirmation; voting security and human refugee identification and relocation.28 Yet, while DLT promises enormous benefits to commercial firms and charities, it also promises assistance to financial market regulators in meeting their mission to oversee healthy markets and mitigate financial risk. What a difference it would have made on the eve of the financial crisis in 2008 if regulators had access to the real-time trading ledgers of large Wall Street banks, rather than trying to assemble piecemeal data to recreate complex, individual trading portfolios. I have previously speculated29 that, if regulators in 2008 could have viewed a real-time distributed ledger (or a series of aggregated ledgers across asset classes) and, perhaps, been able to utilize modern cognitive computing capabilities, they may have been able to recognize anomalies in market-wide trading activity and diverging counterparty exposures indicating heightened risk of bank failure. Such transparency may not, by itself, have saved Lehman Brothers from bankruptcy, but it certainly would have allowed for far prompter, better informed, and more calibrated regulatory intervention instead of the disorganized response that unfortunately ensued. Policy Considerations Virtual currencies require attentive regulatory oversight in key areas, especially to the extent that retail investors are attracted to this space. SEC Chairman Clayton and I stated in our joint op-ed, that: “Our task, as market regulators, is to set and enforce rules that foster innovation while promoting market integrity and confidence. In recent months, we have seen a wide range of market participants, including retail investors, seeking to invest in DLT initiatives, including through cryptocurrencies and so-called ICOs—initial coin offerings. Experience tells us that while some market participants may make fortunes, the risks to all investors are high. Caution is merited. “A key issue before market regulators is whether our historic approach to the regulation of currency transactions is appropriate for the cryptocurrency markets. Check-cashing and money-transmission services that operate in the U.S. are primarily state-regulated. Many of the internet-based cryptocurrency trading platforms have registered as payment services and are not subject to direct oversight by the SEC or the CFTC. We would support policy efforts to revisit these frameworks and ensure they are effective and efficient for the digital era.”30 As the Senate Agriculture Committee and other Congressional policy makers consider the current state of regulatory oversight of cash or “spot” transactions in virtual currencies and trading platforms, consideration should be given to shortcomings of the current approach of state-by-state money transmitter licensure that leaves gaps in protection for virtual currency traders and investors. Any proposed Federal regulation of virtual currency platforms should be carefully tailored to the risks posed by relevant trading activity and enhancing efforts to prosecute fraud and manipulation. Appropriate Federal oversight may include: data reporting, capital requirements, cyber security standards, measures to prevent fraud and price manipulation and anti-money laundering and “know your customer” protections. Overall, a rationalized federal framework may be more effective and efficient in ensuring the integrity of the underlying market. CFTC ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY The day after the White House announced its intention to nominate me as CFTC Chairman, I spoke to hundreds of industry executives at the annual Futures Industry Conference.31 I issued a warning to those who may seek to cheat or manipulate America’s derivatives markets. I said, “There will be no pause, no let up and no reduction in our duty to enforce the law and punish wrongdoing in our derivatives markets. The American people are counting on us.” I am committed to punishing bad actors in the marketplace and to do so with swift justice to stop their bad actions. Through robust enforcement of our laws and regulation, we will continue to send a clear signal to the marketplace about our seriousness in punishing bad behavior and compensating victims. The following is a summary of recent CFTC enforcement activity. Overview of FY 2017 In the fiscal year that ended September 30, 2017, the CFTC brought 49 enforcement-related actions, which included significant actions to root out manipulation and spoofing and to protect retail investors from fraud. The CFTC also pursued significant and complex litigation, including cases charging manipulation, spoofing, and unlawful use of customer funds. The CFTC obtained orders totaling $412,726,307 in restitution, disgorgement and penalties. Specifically, in the fiscal year, the CFTC obtained $333,830,145 in civil monetary penalties and $78,896,162 in restitution and disgorgement orders. Of the civil monetary penalties imposed, the CFTC collected and deposited at the U.S. Treasury more than $265 million. Retail Fraud The CFTC brought a significant number of retail fraud actions in FY 2017 (20 out of the 49). For example, in February 2017, the CFTC filed and settled charges against Forex Capital Markets LLC for $7 million for defrauding retail foreign exchange customers over a five year time period by concealing its relationship with its most important market maker and misrepresenting that its platform had no conflicts of interests with its customers. That month the CFTC also brought an action charging Carlos Javier Ramirez, Gold Chasers, Inc., and Royal Leisure International, Inc. with misappropriating millions in customer funds and engaging in fraudulent sales solicitations in connection with a Ponzi scheme involving the purported purchase of physical gold. In May 2017, the CFTC filed charges against an individual and his company with defrauding 40 investors out of at least $13 million in connection with a commodity pool they operated; investors included family members and members of his church. In June 2017, the CFTC filed charges against two individuals and their company with fraudulently soliciting customers, including at a church gathering, and defrauding them out of more than $11 million. The pair was also arrested by the FBI on related criminal charges. In September 2017, the CFTC filed one of the largest precious metals fraud cases in the history of the Commission. As alleged, the Defendants defrauded thousands of retail customers—many of whom are elderly—out of hundreds of millions of dollars as part of a multi-year scheme in connection with illegal, off-exchange leveraged precious metal transactions. Market Manipulation In February 2017, the CFTC settled with RBS for $85 million for attempted manipulation of ISDAFIX, a leading global benchmark for interest rate swaps and related derivatives. The CFTC also brought actions against The Royal Bank of Scotland plc and Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and Goldman, Sachs & Co. for attempted manipulation of the ISDAFIX, resulting in $85 million and $120 million in penalties, respectively. In February 2018, the CFTC settled with Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. for $70 million for attempted manipulation of ISDAFIX. Since 2012, the CFTC has imposed over $5 billion in penalties against banks and brokers with respect to benchmark manipulation settlements. Disruptive Trading In November 2016, the CFTC entered into a consent order with Navinder Singh Sarao and Nav Sarao Futures Limited PLC to settle allegations related to the 2010 flash crash for $25.7 million in monetary sanctions, $12.9 million in disgorgement, and a permanent trading and registration ban. In December 2016, the CFTC settled with trading company 3Red and trader Igor Oystacher imposing a $2.5 million penalty, a monitor for three years, and requiring the use of certain trading compliance tools for intentionally and repeatedly engaging in a manipulative and deceptive spoofing scheme while placing orders for and trading futures contracts on multiple registered entities. In January 2018, the CFTC fined Citigroup $25 million for failing to diligently supervise the activities of its employees and agents in conjunction with spoofing orders in the U.S. Treasury futures markets. Later that year, in July 2017, the CFTC entered into its first non-prosecution agreements (NPA) with three former Citigroup traders who admitted to spoofing in the U.S. Treasury futures markets in 2011 and 2012. The NPAs emphasize the traders’ timely and substantial cooperation, immediate willingness to accept responsibility for their misconduct, material assistance provided to the CFTC’s investigation of Citigroup, and the absence of a history of prior misconduct. In January 2018, in conjunction with the DOJ and FBI, the CFTC announced criminal and civil enforcement actions against three banks and six individuals involved in commodities fraud and spoofing schemes. The banks were fined $46.6 million in penalties. Appendix A summarizes CFTC enforcement activities in the areas of manipulation, attempted manipulation, false reporting, spoofing, and/or manipulative or deceptive device since FY 2011. Swaps Data Reporting As part of the Commission’s Roadmap to Achieve High Quality Swaps Data issued on July 10, 2017 and the CPMI-IOSCO harmonization process, we will be proposing several changes to swap data reporting rules. These efforts seek to eliminate redundancy, streamline reporting, and harmonize internationally. At the heart of the 2008 financial crisis was the inability of regulators to assess and quantify the counterparty credit risk of large banks and swap dealers. The legislative solution was to establish swap data repositories (SDRs) under the Dodd-Frank Act. Although much hard work and effort has gone into establishing SDRs and supplying them with swaps data, nine years after the financial crisis the SDRs still cannot provide regulators with a complete and accurate picture of bank counterparty credit risk in global markets. In part, that is because international regulators have not yet harmonized global reporting protocols and data fields across international jurisdictions. Of all the many mandates to emerge from the financial crisis, visibility into counterparty credit risk of major financial institutions was perhaps the most pressing. The failure to accomplish it is certainly the most disappointing. The CFTC is committed to success in the global reform efforts towards swaps data reporting. That is why we are actively engaged in global swaps data harmonization efforts while simultaneously looking to improve upon the current processes for swaps reporting that were put in place back in 2012 and 2013. On the international front, the CFTC is co-leading several global initiatives to harmonize derivatives reporting along with fellow overseas regulators via Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures-International Organization of Securities Commission (CPMI-IOSCO) and the Financial Stability Board (FSB): Unique transaction identifiers (or UTIs) to track the lifecycle of a derivative transaction from creation until final termination; Unique product identifiers (or UPIs) to identify the instrument type and elements of the product referenced in a derivative; and Critical data elements (or CDEs) to provide basic information about the terms of the transaction, such as notional amount, price, and collateral movements. CPMI-IOSCO published final technical guidance on UTIs in early 2017 and final guidance on UPIs is expected soon. We expect that guidance on CDE fields to be published by Q1 of 2018. An FSB sponsored group, the Group on UPI and UTI Governance, continues to work on governance issues for these identifiers, such as implementation. This important international work is ongoing with the CFTC’s full support and involvement. Meanwhile, here at home, the CFTC issued for comment in July a swaps data reporting “Roadmap.” The CFTC received 22 comment letters on the Roadmap that were overwhelmingly well informed and supportive. Division of Market Oversight (DMO) staff carefully considered them and is working to implement many of the recommendations. A major focus of implementing the Roadmap will be incorporating harmonized UTI, UPI, and CDE guidance into our reporting regime. Wherever possible, we want to harmonize CFTC reporting elements with international CDE guidance. Still, it is possible that the CFTC will require some additional fields for CFTC specific use cases that are not addressed at the international level. The Roadmap has carefully calibrated the release of CFTC rules to follow the release of international technical guidance on CDEs in order to avoid conflict. Furthermore, the Roadmap attempts to incorporate a realistic implementation timeline to allow for the appropriate building and testing by all relevant parties. We are sensitive to the complexity of changes to rules with multiple interconnected parts like swaps reporting. We will work with market participants to set realistic compliance dates. To be clear, the international CPMI-IOSCO process is aimed at harmonizing what must be reported on a derivative, not when and how to report. We need to make sure that the when and how are also covered. In the end, CFTC when and how rules for swaps reporting may be different than those adopted by overseas regulators. In some areas, where we believe we have the better approach, such as single-sided reporting, we intend to pursue the CFTC’s current approach. Yet, in other areas where, in light of experience, it appears that overseas regulators have adopted a better way, such as T+1 regulatory reporting, we will consider making changes. Swaps data reporting is new for all of us. No regulator has yet found the optimal approach to success. Yet, we are all determined to get there. None are more determined than the CFTC. That is why we published the swaps data Roadmap. There is an old saying, “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll never get there.” The Roadmap shows where the CFTC is going. We are determined to get there. Entity Netted Notionals The CFTC recently proposed a more accurate measurement of the size of the interest rate swap (IRS) markets, specifically focused on its risk transfer function. Under the methodology proposed in a paper by CFTC Chief Economist Bruce Tuckman the size of the IRS markets would be determined by the calculation of "Entity-Netted Notionals" (ENNs) instead of the current gross notional measure used today that broadly overstates risk transfer in the markets.32 ENNs are calculated by: (1) converting the long and short notional amounts of each counterparty to five-year risk equivalents; (2) netting longs against shorts in a given currency within pairs of legal entities; and (3) summing the resulting net longs or shorts across counterparties. Under the ENNs calculation, the value of the current IRS markets would be approximately $15 trillion, which represents roughly 8% of the current $179 trillion market valuation using the conventional notional calculation methodology. Measured with ENNs, the $15 trillion size of the interest rate swap market is of the same order of magnitude as other fixed income markets, such as: the US Treasury market at $16 trillion, the corporate bond market at $12 trillion, the mortgage market at $15 trillion, and the municipal securities market at $4 trillion. At $15 trillion, the IRS market is more normalized and intelligible as part of the US economy. However, ENNs are not intended to measure counterparty or operational risk. I have not asked the CFTC staff to use the calculation to rethink regulatory thresholds, such as the swap dealer de minimis registration threshold. De Minimis and Position Limits The CFTC has been ahead of most of the world’s market regulators in implementing G-20 market reforms. It has also completed most mandates set out in the Dodd-Frank Act. Nevertheless, there are still some Dodd-Frank rulemakings that remain incomplete or still have outstanding questions that need addressing: calculation of the de minimis exception to the swap dealer registration requirement and position limits on derivative transactions. The CFTC will continue to move forward on these in 2018. Swap Dealer De Minimis. The level of the de minimis threshold is a critically important issue. It must be addressed with sound data and thorough analysis. It must be addressed this year. Last October, I called for a one-year delay in implementation of the threshold. I noted that the Commission had recently sworn in two new commissioners and appointed a new Director of the Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (DSIO). I felt the delay was necessary for them and the staff to understand and analyze complete and current trade data. I said, that, “It is hard to get something as complicated as this right when we are under a time crunch.” I am pleased to say that DSIO has now compiled and analyzed swap dealer trading data through the end of 2017. DSIO staff is in the process of scheduling meetings over the next few weeks to present this data and analysis to my staff and that of my fellow Commissioners. That data and analysis will provide the basis for thorough consideration of the de minimis threshold by the full Commission in the months to come. I have previously pledged to complete this rulemaking in 2018. I intend to keep that pledge. Position Limits. As you know, in December 2016, the CFTC put forth a position limits proposal for public consideration and input. I voted in favor. The proposal generated dozens of detailed comments and concerns in the first half of 2017. During the course of 2017, staff of the CFTC’s Division of Market Oversight (DMO) analyzed those comments and provided written summaries for all of the Commissioners’ staffs. More recently, DMO staff began work on revisions to the proposal that are responsive to the public comments. I look forward to sitting down with the Division in the near future to discuss their suggestions. When I testified before this Committee last June, I committed to moving forward with a final position limits rule. It is an enormously important undertaking that will impact America’s farmers, ranchers, and manufacturers and their ability to hedge legitimate production costs. This rulemaking has been underway for some time. There are thousands of comment letters on the topic and there are opinions on all sides of the issue, including by American agriculture producers. Based on public comments, it is clear that the Commission has not yet got it right. That is why I believe that a final position limits rulemaking should be done properly by a full Commission of five commissioners. It will ensure that any final position limits rule is indeed final and stands the test of time and changes in future administrations. We must ensure regulatory barriers do not stand in the way of long standing hedging practices of American farmers and ranchers, who depend on our markets. Fiscal Year 2019 Budget Request If fulfilled, the CFTC’s FY 2019 budget request submitted to Congress would maximize the Commission’s ability to oversee our nation’s swaps, futures and options markets. The FY 2019 budget reflects the true needs of a policy setting and civil law enforcement agency that has the duty to ensure the derivatives markets operate effectively. At a time in history when the nature of our financial markets are rapidly transforming, as digital technologies are having an increasing impact on everything in the early Twenty-First Century from information transfer to retail shopping to personal communications, this budget will give the Commission the resources it needs to put in place and oversee responsible regulations that allow for innovation and enable our markets to remain competitive and safe at home and abroad. In order for the CFTC to fulfill its duty to oversee these vital derivatives markets in FY 2019, I am requesting $281.5 million. This is an increase of $31.5 million over the enacted FY 2017 appropriation and is the same level of funding that I requested in FY 2018. I believed then and still believe that this is the level of funding necessary to fulfill our statutory mission. The Commission will invest in its capacity to develop economic modeling and econometric capabilities aimed at boosting the CFTC’s analytical expertise and monitoring of systemic risk in the derivatives markets, in particular with regard to central counterparty clearinghouses. These investments include the expansion of sophisticated econometric and quantitative analysis devoted to risk modeling, stress tests, and other stability-related evaluations necessary for market oversight. Furthermore, such analysis conducted by the CFTC will aid in rulemaking, policy development, and enhance the Commission’s ability to provide high-quality cost benefit considerations for decision-making. The Commission expects the number of designated clearing organizations (DCOs) to continue to increase in FY 2019, with many expanding their business to other jurisdictions around the world. As the number of DCOs increase, the complexity of the oversight program will increase. It is imperative that the Commission ‎strengthen its examinations capability to enable it to keep pace with the growth in the amount and value of swaps cleared by DCOs pursuant to global regulatory reform implementation. As the size and scope of DCOs increase, so too has the complexity of the counterparty risk management oversight programs and liquidity risk management procedures of the DCOs under CFTC regulation here and abroad. In addition, the Commission will also need to enhance its financial analysis tools to aggregate and evaluate risk across all DCOs. As part of this request, the Commission will also address market enhancing innovation through financial technology (fintech). Fintech comprises a range of technology in the financial services sector and includes innovations in retail banking, investment and virtual currencies like bitcoin. In FY 2018, the exchanges self-certified several new contracts for futures products for virtual currencies. These innovations impact the regulatory landscape and with this budget request, the Commission will invest more in new technologies and tools that support these surveillance and enforcement efforts. CFTC / Kansas State University Conference on Agricultural Commodities Futures Markets The CFTC has teamed up with the Center for Risk Management Education and Research at Kansas State University to host a conference titled, “Protecting America’s Agricultural Markets: An Agricultural Commodity Futures Conference,” on April 5 – 6, 2018, in Overland Park, Kansas. This first-of-its-kind conference will include robust presentations and discussions on current macro-economic trends and issues affecting American agricultural futures markets and the importance of these markets for managing risk and protecting participants from manipulation, fraud, and other unlawful activities. This is our first, and hopefully not last, conference focused on derivatives-markets issues impacting the agricultural community in America’s Heartland. With the proper balance of sound policy, regulatory oversight and private sector innovation, new technologies and global trading will allow American markets to evolve in responsible ways, and continue to grow our economy and increase prosperity. This hearing is an important part of finding that balance. The CFTC remains grateful for the consistently thoughtful and bipartisan support of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Thank you for inviting me to participate and I look forward to your questions. Appendix A is available under Related Links. 1 See, Statement of Commissioner J. Christopher Giancarlo on European Union Determination of U.S. Central Counterparty Clearinghouse Equivalence, February 10, 2016 http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/SpeechesTestimony/giancarlostatement021016 2 See generally, CFTC Talks, Episode 24, Dec. 29, 2017, Interview with Coincenter.org Director of Research, Peter Van Valkenburgh, at http://www.cftc.gov/Media/Podcast/index.htm. 3 See Marc Andreessen, Why Bitcoin Matters, New York Times DealBook (Jan. 21, 2014), https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/why-bitcoin-matters/; Jerry Brito and Andrea O’Sullivan, Bitcoin: A Primer for Policymakers, George Mason University Mercatus Center (May 3, 2016),https://www.mercatus.org/publication/bitcoin-primer-policymakers; Christian Catalini and Joshua S. Gans, Some Simple Economics of the Blockchain, Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2874598, MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5191-16 (last updated Sept. 21, 2017),https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2874598; Arjun Kharpal, People are 'underestimating' the 'great potential' of bitcoin, billionaire Peter Thiel says, CNBC (Oct. 26, 2017), https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/26/bitcoin-underestimated-peter-thiel-says.html; Hugh Son, Bitcoin ‘More Than Just a Fad,’ Morgan Stanley CEO Says, Bloomberg (Sept. 27, 2017), https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-27/bitcoin-more-than-just-a-fad-morgan-stanley-ceo-gorman-says; Chris Brummer and Daniel Gorfine, Fintech: Building a 21st-Century Regulator’s Toolkit, Milken Institute (Oct. 21, 2014), available at http://www.milkeninstitute.org/publications/view/665. 4 Virtual currencies are not unique in their utility in illicit activity. National currencies, like the US Dollar, and commodities, like gold and diamonds, have long been used to support criminal enterprises. 5 Countries that have banned Bitcoin include Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ecuador, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Nepal, and Vietnam. China has banned Bitcoin for banking institutions. 6 Jay Clayton and J. Christopher Giancarlo, Regulators Are Looking at Cryptocurrency: At the SEC and CFTC We Take Our Responsibility Seriously,Wall Street Journal, Jan. 24, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/regulators-are-looking-at-cryptocurrency-1516836363. 7 Testimony of CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad before the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry (Dec. 10, 2014), http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/SpeechesTestimony/opamassad-6. 8 In re Coinflip, Inc., Dkt. No. 15-29 (CFTC Sept. 17, 2015), http://www.cftc.gov/idc/groups/public/@lrenforcementactions/documents/legalpleading/enfcoinfliprorder09172015.pdf. 9 In re TeraExchange LLC, Dkt. No. 15-33 (CFTC Sept. 24, 2015), http://www.cftc.gov/idc/groups/public/@lrenforcementactions/documents/legalpleading/enfteraexchangeorder92415.pdf. 10 In re BXFNA Inc. d/b/a Bitfinex, Dkt. No. 16-19 (CFTC June 2, 2016), http://www.cftc.gov/idc/groups/public/@lrenforcementactions/documents/legalpleading/enfbfxnaorder060216.pdf. 11 CFTC, Retail Commodity Transactions Involving Virtual Currency, 82 Fed. Reg. 60335 (Dec. 20, 2017), www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2017-12-20/pdf/2017-27421.pdf. 12 CFTC, A CFTC Primer on Virtual Currencies (Oct. 17, 2017),http://www.cftc.gov/idc/groups/public/documents/file/labcftc_primercurrencies100417.pdf. 13 Prior to the changes made in the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA) and the Commission’s subsequent addition of Part 40, exchanges submitted products to the CFTC for approval. From 1922 until the CFMA was signed into law, less than 800 products were approved. Since then, exchanges have certified over 12,000 products. For financial instrument products specifically, the numbers are 494 products approved and 1,938 self-certified.See http://www.cftc.gov/IndustryOversight/ContractsProducts/index.htm. 14 See CEA Section 5(d)(3), 7 U.S.C. 7(d)(3); Section 5(d)4), 7 U.S.C. 7(d)(4); 17 C.F.R. 38.253 and 38.254(a), and Appendices B and C to Part 38 of the CFTC’s regulations. 15 CEA Section 5b(c)(2)(D)(iv), 7 U.S.C. 7a-1(c)(2)(D)(iv) (“The margin from each member and participant of a derivatives clearing organization shall be sufficient to cover potential exposures in normal market conditions.”). 16 In the case of CME and CBOE Bitcoin futures, the initial margins were ultimately set at 47% and 44% by the respective DCOs. By way of comparison that is more than ten times the margin required for CME corn futures products. 17 Unlike provisions in the CEA and Commission regulations that provide for public comment on rule self-certifications, there is no provision in statute or regulation for public input into CFTC staff review of product self-certifications. It is hard to believe that Congress was not deliberate in making that distinction. 18 Statement of Commissioner Behnam before the Market Risk Advisory Committee (January 21, 2018), http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/SpeechesTestimony/behnamstatement013118 19 J. Christopher Giancarlo, Keynote Address of Commissioner J. Christopher Giancarlo before the Markit Group, 2016 Annual Customer Conference New York, May 10, 2016, http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/SpeechesTestimony/opagiancarlo-15. 20 Id. 21 See, e.g., Larry Greenemeier, Can't Touch This: New Encryption Scheme Targets Transaction Tampering, Scientific American, May 22, 2015, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-t-touch-this-new-encryption-scheme-targets-transaction-tampering/. 22 See Massimo Morini & Robert Sams, Smart Derivatives Can Cure XVA Headaches, Risk Magazine, Aug. 27, 2015, http://www.risk.net/risk-magazine/opinion/2422606/-smart-derivatives-can-cure-xva-headaches; see also Jeffrey Maxim, UBS Bank Is Experimenting with “Smart-Bonds” Using the Bitcoin Blockchain, Bitcoin Magazine, June 12, 2015, https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/ubs-bank-experimenting-smart-bonds-using-bitcoin-blockchain-1434140571; see also Pete Harris, UBS Exploring Smart Bonds on Block Chain, Block Chain Inside Out, June 15, 2015, http://harris-on.typepad.com/block_chain_io/2015/06/ubs-exploring-smart-bonds-on-block-chain.html; See generally Galen Stops, Blockchain: Getting Beyond the Buzz, Profit & Loss, Aug.–Sept. 2015, at 20, http://www.profit-loss.com/articles/analysis/technology-analysis/blockchain-getting-beyond-the-buzz. 23 See, e.g., Oversight of Dodd-Frank Act Implementation, U.S. House Financial Services Committee, http://financialservices.house.gov/dodd-frank/(last visited Mar. 2, 2016). 24 Santander InnoVentures, Oliver Wyman & Anthemis Group, The Fintech Paper 2.0: Rebooting Financial Services 15 (2015), http://santanderinnoventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/The-Fintech-2-0-Paper.pdf. 25 Telis Demos, Bitcoin’s Blockchain Technology Proves Itself in Wall Street Test, Apr. 7, 2016, The Wall Street Journal, http://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoins-blockchain-technology-proves-itself-in-wall-street-test-1460021421. 26 Based on conversations with R3 CEV, http://r3cev.com/. 27 Ryan Henriksen, Buffett’s BNSF railroad eyes blockchain for shipping freight, Reuters, February 5, 2018, https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/companies/buffetts-bnsf-railroad-eyes-blockchain-for-shipping-freight/ar-BBIJTUr. 28 Frisco d’Anconia, IOTA Blockchain to Help Trace Families of Refugees During and After Conflicts, Cointelegraph.com, Aug. 8, 2017, https://cointelegraph.com/news/iota-blockchain-to-help-trace-families-of-refugees-during-and-after-conflicts. 29 See supra note 22. 30 See supra note 5. 31 Remarks of Acting Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo before the 42ndAnnual International Futures Industry Conference, Mar. 15, 2017, at: http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/SpeechesTestimony/opagiancarlo-20 32 Richard Haynes, John Roberts, Rajiv Sharma, and Bruce Tuckman, January 2018, Introducing ENNs: A Measure of the Size of Interest Rate Swap Markets,http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/pr7691-18	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693539
__label__wiki	0.899533	0.899533	'We're losing our kids': Black youth suicide rate rising far faster than for whites; coronavirus, police violence deepen trauma Jayne O'Donnell / USA TODAY WASHINGTON – A decade after she tried to take her life as a college freshman, Victoria Waltz, a gifted child who played the harp, is only beginning to understand how things got so bad. "It's been a journey and a process from then to now," said Waltz, now 28. "It was a slow build up over time, starting in middle school. I had a lot of challenges trying to fit in and not knowing to talk about how I was really feeling." Girls started to bully the too tall, too smart girl with acne and glasses, who grew up middle class in Prince George's County, Maryland, one of the wealthiest black counties in the U.S. Aabrielle Spear remembers the first time she felt truly hopeless. She was in kindergarten and also bullied by classmates. Spear had suicidal thoughts by third grade, compounded by her parents’ separation, strict teachers and her mother's career and graduate studies, which sometimes kept her from home until late at night. Now 14 and more than a year from her last suicide attempt, Spear joins Waltz among black teen suicide survivors. Both are speaking out to dispel misconceptions about treatment and to raise awareness. The African American teen suicide rate was already rising far faster than for white teens. Now these "quaranteens" of color have to deal with the disproportionate COVID-19 death toll in black communities, social isolation and what Washington psychologist Charlayne Hayling-Williams calls the "vicarious trauma" of police violence, which is "particularly deleterious in our weakened conditions" from the pandemic. A recent 16-year-old black client at Hayling-Willliams' core service agency Community Wellness Ventures threatened to kill himself at home with a knife. He "didn't want to be here anymore," and the compounding stress of the pandemic made it all too much, she said. Fewer than five clients have been hospitalized since the start of the pandemic because of suicidality, but she said "people are underreporting and avoiding hospitals" because of COVID-19. "Suicide is sort of the tip of an iceberg," said Hayling-Williams. "There are so many challenging conditions leading up to that. Take extreme depression, anxiety and grief and add the increased reports of child abuse, neglect and domestic violence the child is likely witnessing because they would have been at school." Calling black youth suicide a "crisis," the Congressional Black Caucus issued a report in December showing suicide attempts by black adolescents of both sexes rose 73% from 1991 to 2017. Injuries from attempted suicides increased 122% for black boys during the same period. White youth still die by suicide at a higher rate,but the rate of black youth suicide is increasing faster than any other racial or ethnic group. Black youth under 13 were twice as likely to die by suicide than their white counterparts. "We must get at the bottom of why,” said Michael Lindsey, executive director of New York University's McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research, who worked on the black caucus' report. "With COVID and the continuous loop of news cycles we've seen in recent weeks around law enforcement and blacks, we not only have to be concerned about vicarious trauma, but the fears it incites for kids." Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., introduced the Pursuing Mental Health Equity Act of 2020 when the Congressional Black Caucus' report came out in December. There was little movement once coronavirus hit. Now the House Appropriations Committee member is citing the dual traumas of coronavirus and urban violence to argue for similar boosts in research and access to mental health treatment for minorities in COVID-19 funding measures. The numbers and the stories challenge public perception black youth don't die by suicide, a misconception that helped prompt actor Taraji P. Henson to start the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation. It's named after her father, who had mental health struggles after his Vietnam service. "We've got to do something; we're losing our kids," said Henson. "Believe a friend when they say they are not in a good head space, believe your friends when they post about suicide. It is very real." 'Amazing they survive' Spear began chronicling her mental health journey in the fall of 2018 for a class assignment. She wound up with a 7,000-word essay that became testament to the power of treatment. In it, she shared the time her mother found her self-inflicted cuts and took her to the emergency room. “'No, Mama! Please! I’m begging you! I’ll be fine, Mama!' I started to yell as she grabbed my arm and dragged me downstairs," she wrote. "I fought with all I had inside me, but she kept pulling me as if I were a rag doll. 'I’ll get better, I promise! Don’t take me!'” Dr. Joycelyn Elders, a pediatrician who was surgeon general under President Bill Clinton, said the life stressors for African American youth, particularly those in low income households, makes it even more “amazing that they survive." In 2018, Joe Massa, 24, decided to produce a Web "docuseries," My Suicide Story, after he learned childhood friend Kenny Serrano attempted suicide a decade earlier. Massa had no idea and knew little about depression or suicide. He wanted to tell others' stories so searched Instagram for the hashtag #suicideattemptsurvivor. "I wasn't considering race as a factor in relation to suicide," said Massa, who lives in West Haven, Connecticut. "I opened it up to anyone willing to share their story." But other than Serrano, who is Hispanic, everyone was white and straight. He decided he needed diversity, and found Philip Galbert, who is gay. It took more than a year to find Waltz, who will be featured in an upcoming episode. "Many of the few African American survivors that I could find were either not interested or did not answer," he said. Melanie Warner, who is African American, also is talking. Early last year, she joined the Facebook group for the nonprofit Suicide Prevention Rocks, started by friends Bill and Dawn York after their son Josh died by suicide. She wanted to support others and promote awareness around suicide prevention. Members of the group paint colorful rocks with inspiring messages to commemorate loved ones who died by suicide. It wasn’t until her teen daughter was facing depression, anxiety and thoughts of suicide, that Warner turned to the group. Members gave her advice and encouragement on how to connect with her child. "Hearing words of affirmation" and knowing resources were available helped her and her daughter find treatment that worked. The social isolation has actually helped some and with medication and therapy, her daughter is thriving. "Never feel like you're alone because there is always someone willing to listen," said Warner. "That's what I got from the group." Stuck, lost and scared Waltz, who always was "the smart kid," got a nearly full scholarship at 17 to attend Howard University, where she was to study mechanical engineering. Everyone always expected her to go to college and "major in something great," so engineering seemed logical. Except she did terribly her first semester and was placed on academic suspension. Home over the year-end holidays, she overheard her parents discussing how they couldn't afford Howard without the scholarship. She knew she was in jeopardy of losing it. "I felt really stuck, really lost and really scared," said Waltz. "I didn’t think I wanted to hurt myself. I wanted to go to sleep and not wake up." Her mother found her after she attempted suicide with prescription pills in the bathroom. She was rushed to the hospital. Waltz doesn't remember if she was officially diagnosed there with depression, but she was referred to a counselor at Howard – a service she had no idea existed. She went for about two months and then stopped. She wasn't encouraged to go back. Because of lapses in insurance coverage in the years since, Waltz said she hasn't been able to stay in therapy for more than a four-month stretch. Now with a new job and new insurance, she's been back in therapy for a month. "We all need therapy," she said. "Why aren’t we talking about it?" Many African Americans, especially men, may be hesitant to get treatment or take prescription antidepressants, said Dr. Sidney Hankerson, a New York City psychiatrist and researcher. Not only are men resistant to talking about their feelings, there are "racial norms tied to the distrust piece." Black men have historically been far more likely to be involuntarily hospitalized for mental illness, said Hankerson. The thinking becomes, "Why engage in mental health treatment if I'm going to be brought to the police. It's very, very stigmatizing," he added. Hankerson, a assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, works with black churches on mental health outreach. Many churches offer their clergy the option to become certified in Mental Health First Aid, a program that certifies people to be "first responders" when they detect mental illness symptoms in others. When parents fail to talk openly about emotions, as was the case in Waltz's home, teens are more likely internalize their feelings. That's especially common in black families. "It’s an unfortunate cultural trait," said Waltz. "That's why I wanted to talk." Even African American therapists can hit walls of mistrust when treating black patients. Medication isn't the only way to address mental health issues, but Washington psychiatrist Dr. Terry Jarrett said she has to work hard to convince both parents and teens that it's often needed in combination with therapy. She keeps a model of a brain handy to illustrate how it's a part of the body that, like any other, may need treatment. Washington psychologist Bruce Purnell, who runs the Love More Movement, uses "transformative life coaches" to help young people think positively. By helping young people feel good about themselves and their futures, it “builds a resilience that can be a filter against all of their problems," he said. Jarrett said she will ask, "Is there a chance for you to create a scenario where you break the cycle so you and your future generations don't have this as a cultural norm?" A new bully every year When it came to bullies, Spear said she "would have a new one every year" until fifth grade. Toward the end of sixth grade, Spear said she "started to cut and burn myself.” In October 2018, when Myrna Spear first noticed the cutting, she took her daughter to the emergency room. Aabrielle was placed on a 72-hour hold and then sent by ambulance to inpatient treatment at the Loma Linda Behavioral Medical Center. That was followed by months of outpatient treatment through the Behavioral Medical Institute's “Shield Program." It provides teens with coping mechanisms to prevent self-injury and promote open communication with parents, who are part of the therapy with other parents and their children. “Shield was developed by our hospital in response to the number of people coming for in-patient care,” said Glen Scott Jr., director of Loma Linda’s Youth Partial Hospital Program. The 15-year-old program started after an "epidemic of young people engaging in self-harm,” said Scott. It uses "dialectical behavioral therapy" approach, which uses mindfulness, emotion regulation and other tools. “Eighty percent of our patients are one and done and there is a very small percentage that need to come back,” Scott said. “Family involvement is a huge success.” While in treatment for the cutting, Myrna Spear and doctors learned Aabrielle had tried to take her own life. Then, in January 2019, Aabrielle tried a second time to die by suicide despite her mother’s attempts to hide everything sharp. After more in- and out-patient treatment through the Loma Linda behavioral health programs, Spear has been relying upon virtual therapy and Prozac. After initially dreading the start of high school last fall, Spear has hit her stride. She remains on the honor roll, has consistent friend groups, was in the black student union and played junior varsity basketball but lost her track season to coronavirus. “I had social anxiety before I got into high school really bad,” said Spear. “I was by myself a lot, but now I want to go out more than just stay home. I want to be around people my age.” For Myrna Spear, the change in her daughter is remarkable. “There is really good communication between she and I now; we talk very openly,” she said. “She’s really upbeat and happy. She actually often helps her friends cope with stressful situations based on the strategies she has learned.” Aabrielle Spear’s advice for those resistant to help: “Accept treatment and let yourself be happier.” Contributing: Sierra Lewter, Rhea Warren and Davon Harris of the Urban Health Media Project The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is available for you any time you need it: 1-800-273-8255 Join USA TODAY's I Survived It Facebook group if you are experiencing any of the Reach O'Donnell on social media as @JayneODonnell or email jodonnell@usatoday.com.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693542
__label__wiki	0.617441	0.617441	Evangelicals, Catholics United by Christian Persecution, Pope Francis Says CP Current Page: World \| Friday, November 06, 2015 \| Coronavirus → By Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post Reporter Follow \| Friday, November 06, 2015 (Photo: Reuters/Arben Celi)Pope Francis blesses a child during his visit to Albania, in Tirana, September 21, 2014. Pope Francis is on a one-day trip to Albania, his first to a European country, to pay tribute to followers of all religions who suffered some of the worst persecution in the 20th century, and to hold up the impoverished nation as a model of inter-religious harmony. The global persecution of Christians is uniting denominations, including Evangelicals and Roman Catholics, Pope Francis said in a message earlier this week. "In various parts of the world, the witness to Christ, even to the shedding of blood, has become a shared experience of Catholics, Orthodox, Anglicans, Protestants, Evangelicals and Pentecostals, which is deeper and stronger than the differences which still separate our churches and ecclesial communities," Francis said in a message to Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Participants at the Global Christian Forum, which was held this week in Albania, reflected on the discrimination, persecution and martyrdom that believers around the world face, especially with the rise of the Islamic State terror group in Iraq and Syria. Francis insisted that the communion of martyrs "is the greatest sign of our journeying together," expressing hopes that the meeting will highlight the stories of Christians around the world who face injustice and violence. "Let us see this profound truth as a call to persevere on our ecumenical journey toward full and visible communion, growing more and more in love and mutual understanding," the pope said. This past Sunday Christians around the world joined together for the International Day of Prayer, praying for both the victims of violence and the perpetrators of terrorism. Persecution watchdog Open Doors, which hosted a webcast on stories of persecution this past Friday, noted that violence against Christians has increased in 2015, focusing on the crisis in the Middle East; in Nigeria; in North Korea, and other places. One Kenyan woman featured in the webcast recalled the attacks by Islamic radicals at a college in Garissa back in April, where close to 150 Christian students were killed. The woman said that her husband was killed in a separate attack by extremists, and she had to find a way to forgive the attackers. "But one thing I had to allow myself to do, I had to allow God to deal with me in pain. The thing that I felt reaching out to me was love. And love these people who had done this. I tried very hard to think about this in my mind, but my heart was leading totally toward love," she said. Pope Francis has said that groups like IS and Boko Haram, who are targeting Christians, do not know God. Back in May, Francis quoted from John 16:2-3 where Jesus says: "The hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think he is offering worship to God. They will do this because they have not known either the Father or Me." The pontiff encouraged Christians to take Jesus' words to heart. "But do not be scandalized," he added. "The Holy Spirit will guide us and help us understand." Coptic Christians Fight to Save Church From Being Destroyed in Egypt ISIS Can Only Be Defeated by War, Says Vicar of Baghdad 'Unimaginable Horrors' Detailed in US Report on ISIS' Persecution of Christians Hindu Extremism Rising 7 Years After Mass Slaughter of Christians	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693544
__label__cc	0.635444	0.364556	Nötsch and the Museum of the Nötscher Kreis/Nötsch Circle Birgit Stegbauer The municipality of Nötsch is situated at the foot of mount Dobratsch, right at the entrance to the Gailtal valley. Its small but fine museum of the Nötsch Circle with an annual exhibition is open to the public from Spring to Autumn. Visit the nearby church too called St. Kanzian at Saak, where, in addition to a fresco by the Nötsch artist Anton Kolig, there is another fresco worth seeing: a rare depiction of a Gothic so-called "Sunday Christ". Why not make this a bike trip? It is only 27 km from Villach to Nötsch along the R3 bike trail (Gailtal-Radweg), with an option to go back by train (check the schedules!). The "Nötsch Circle" is the name given to a group of artist friends from the first half of the 20th century who either originate from Nötsch, like Sebastian Isepp (1884-1954) and Franz Wiegele (1887-1944), or made Nötsch their second home like Anton Kolig (1886-1950) and his student Anton Mahringer (1902-1974). In 1998 a museum was established in the house where Franz Wiegele was born and it is dedicated to this "Nötsch Circle", showing different works every year. The exhibition features all four Nötsch artists, entitled "Im Blickpunkt/In the focus. Isepp, Kolig, Wiegele, Mahringer". There is one room allocated to each of the four artists, with paintings on the walls and photos and documents in a showcase. The exhibition starts with a series of male nudes by Anton Kolig and then continues with lyric winter landscapes by Sebastian Isepp, including an embroidered one. Franz Wiegele's oeuvre is covered with numerous portraits of girls and women, while views of mount Dobratsch represent Anton Mahringer's work. The visitor can thus compare the individual artists of the Nötsch Circle. Actually, the active, artistic years of the four painters may span quite different periods - Isepp's canvases date back to the 1910s, while Mahringer's paintings originate from the 1930's to the 1970's. Most evident, however, is the parallel stylistic evolution of Wiegele and Kolig towards expressionism in the 1920's. Of all the Nötsch artists, Anton Kolig was certainly the most influential. He was Professor at the Württemberg Academy of Fine Arts at Stuttgart, but during the Third Reich his expressionistic style did not comply with fascist art ideals. When he was deprived of his title as a professor in 1943, he withdrew to Nötsch. Of all Nötsch artists, Kolig's oeuvre is the most multifaceted - he also created Gobelin tapestries for the Salzburg Festspielhaus and frescoes, e.g. for the Klagenfurt Landhaus (House of the Carinthian Estates), which were removed in 1938/1939, shortly after the "Anschluss". One of his few preserved frescos can be seen near the museum, on the exterior wall of the parish church St. Kanzian at Saak, a district of Nötsch, where Kolig designed the burial place of the Michor family in 1927-29. The fresco depicts a monumental Madonna with child surrounded by four musician angels. Also, this cemetery is the resting place of Anton Kolig, Franz Wiegele and members of the Isepp family. There is another fresco worth seeing on the exterior of this church, which shows a so-called "Sunday-Christ", framed by all kinds of tools one might think of. The depiction ought to exhort all Christians not to work on Sundays and holidays, because every tool, used on a holy day, would cause pain and suffering to Christ, equal to the tools from the Passion, like the crown of thorns or the nails of the cross. Museum des Nötscher Kreises - Haus Wiegele 39 9611 Nötsch im Gailtal: information on opening hours, ticket prices and the current exhibition is available here (in German only). Pfarrkirche Saak (St. Kanzian) Saak 56, 9611 Nötsch	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693546
__label__cc	0.586475	0.413525	Consumer Discrimination in goods and services Identifying discrimination in the provision of goods and services Who's treating you unfairly? Discrimination in the provision of goods and services - who's treating you unfairly? If you’ve been treated unfairly by a trader or service provider, like a shop, bank, restaurant, bus company or an energy provider and it’s because of who you are, you may have been discriminated against. The law which says you mustn’t be discriminated against is called the Equality Act 2010. Discrimination which is against the Equality Act is unlawful. If you’ve experienced unlawful discrimination, you may be able to do something about it. Read this page to find out more about who mustn’t discriminate against you, when you buy or receive goods and services. If you want to know if unlawful discrimination has taken place you need to check: why you're being treated unfairly who's treating you unfairly what's the unfair treatment how is the treatment unfair, or what type of discrimination it is. What’s meant by goods and services? The Equality Act 2010 protects you against discrimination by businesses and other organisations, when they provide you with goods or services. It doesn't matter whether you pay for the goods or services, or if they're free - the trader or service provider still mustn't discriminate against you. The law also covers advertising. A trader or service provider can’t advertise that they only serve customers of a certain gender or sexual orientation. A business can advertise that they are ‘gay friendly’, for example, but can’t exclude heterosexual people. What’s meant by goods? Goods cover all kinds of things like cars, clothes, electrical items, groceries, beauty products and furniture. The Equality Act says you mustn’t be discriminated against when you buy or receive goods, in many different places including: shops, supermarkets, market stalls or charity shops at an auction by telephone or online by catalogue or through doorstep sales. What’s meant by services? Services are provided by lots of different businesses and organisations including: banks and insurance companies builders, decorators and painters hairdressing and beauty salons libraries, children’s centres and nurseries hotels, B&Bs and holiday lettings restaurants, cafes and pubs cinemas, concerts and theatres solicitors and accountants transport services like buses, trains and taxis phone companies and public utilities like gas, water and electricity. Who’s providing the goods or services? Under the Equality Act anyone who provides goods or services to the public has a duty not to discriminate against you. It doesn’t matter if the services are provided by a private or public organisation. Organisations covered by the Act include: businesses like commercial firms and sole traders voluntary organisations and charities public authorities like local authorities and government departments. Your child goes to a council run nursery. The provision of nursery education is a service under the Equality Act, so the council would have a duty not to discriminate against you under the Act. What if there are several service providers? Sometimes it can be difficult to know who’s providing the service you’re complaining about. In some situations, there may be more than one service provider who's responsible under the Act. Your local supermarket has a cash machine on its premises. You find it difficult to use the cash machine as you’re in a wheelchair and it’s located too high for you to see the screen properly. This could be disability discrimination. The cash machine is a service provided by the bank but as it's located within the supermarket, they're also likely to be responsible here. You could complain to the supermarket and the bank about disability discrimination. Services provided by a public authority When a public sector organisation or public authority, like the police or a local authority, provides services to the public they’re covered by the Equality Act. For example, a local authority mustn’t discriminate against you when they provide you with social care services. But some of the things public authorities do are called public functions rather than services by the Equality Act - for example, when a police officer carries out a search or decisions about your entitlement to benefits. Does it matter whether something is a service or public function? It doesn’t generally matter whether something is a service or a public function, as the Equality Act applies to both. A public authority mustn’t discriminate against you when they provide you with services as well as when they carry out public functions. More about discrimination by a public authority Why are you treated unfairly? What's the unfair treatment? What are the different types of discrimination? Taking action about discrimination in goods and services Equality Advisory Support Service (EASS) If you have experienced discrimination, you can get help from the EASS discrimination helpline. More about the EASS helpline Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) You can find useful information about discrimination on the EHRC website at www.equalityhumanrights.com. For more information about discrimination by service providers and traders, see the EHRC Service users' guidance at Discrimination in goods and services Identifying discrimination in the provision of goods and services Who's treating you unfairly?	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693550
__label__wiki	0.634198	0.634198	Keyless Car Ignition Lawsuits July 22, 2019 Last Updated on April 13, 2020 Case Update April 13, 2020 – Investigation Closed Thank you to everyone who helped contribute to this investigation. At this point, attorneys working with ClassAction.org no longer need to speak to those with keyless car ignitions who accidentally left their cars running. For our up-to-date list of investigations, please visit this page. The information below is for reference only and was posted when the investigation began. Anyone who owns or leases a car with a keyless ignition and accidentally left it running. Attorneys are looking into whether they can file a class action lawsuit alleging that keyless car ignitions are unreasonably dangerous and can lead to problems such as carbon monoxide poisoning when cars are accidentally left running. How Can a Lawsuit Help? A class action lawsuit could force car manufacturers to come up with a solution and compensate people who have been injured. Attorneys working with ClassAction.org are investigating whether class action lawsuits can be filed alleging that keyless ignition cars are unreasonably dangerous and can cause problems such as carbon monoxide poisoning and even death when they’re unknowingly left running in owners’ and lessees’ garages. Reports of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Attorneys began investigating lawsuits involving keyless car ignitions after reports surfaced that drivers accidentally left their cars on in their garages and suffered carbon monoxide poisoning, which in some cases led to their deaths. One driver reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that his father had been found dead in his home after accidentally leaving a Toyota RAV4 running in the garage for 14 hours. From the report: At no time during the sale or upon delivery, was it impressed upon my father that the keyless cars presented a carbon monoxide safety concern. At no time was my father offered an option for a ‘keyed’ car. There were no warning systems on the car to suggest the engine was still running. It seems incomprehensible that Toyota has failed to address this problem with additional warning devices for drivers, automatic shut-off after a set time, or at the very least, be required to employ a policy that suggests a key ignition would be more appropriate for senior drivers.” Attorneys are looking into whether the design of keyless ignitions is too dangerous and too easily allows drivers—especially senior citizens—to easily leave their cars running without realizing it. How Can a Class Action Lawsuit Help? A class action lawsuit could help repay people for injuries they’ve suffered, including overpaying for a potentially dangerous car. It could also force car manufacturers to come up with a solution to fix the problem. What If I Left My Car On But Wasn’t Injured? Even if you didn’t get carbon monoxide poisoning after leaving your keyless ignition running, the attorneys we work with still want to hear from you. Anyone who purchased or leased a car with a keyless ignition may have overpaid for a vehicle that was more dangerous than they expected. “Deadly Convenience: Keyless Cars and Their Carbon Monoxide Toll" Read a New York Times article about the potential dangers of keyless cars.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693552
__label__wiki	0.861437	0.861437	Sylvie Corbet Published: May 26, 2020, 5:53 am Updated: May 26, 2020, 4:00 pm Tags: Renault, Business, Carlos Ghosn, Emmanuel Macron, Automotive, France, Auto, Auto News, Cars, Automotive News, French France deploys $8.8 billion to rescue ailing car industry The logo of French carmaker Renault is pictured at the Flins plant of French carmaker Renault in Aubergenville, west of Paris, Monday, May 25, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron is set to unveil sweeping new measures to rescue France's car industry, hammered by virus lockdown and the resulting recession. The issue is politically sensitive, since France is proud of its auto industry, which employs 400,000 people and is an important part of the country's remaining manufacturing sector. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) PARIS – France’s government is injecting more than 8 billion euros ($8.8 billion) to save the country’s car industry from huge losses wrought by virus lockdowns, and wants to use the crisis to make France the No. 1 producer of electric vehicles in Europe. Starting next week, consumers can get up to 12,000 euros from the government for buying an electric car under the “historic” plan unveiled Tuesday by French President Emmanuel Macron. “Our country wouldn’t be the same without its great brands – Renault, Peugeot, Citroen,” Macron said, decrying an “unprecedented crisis” for the industry that has seen production plunge more than 90% in France alone. Carmakers and governments around the world are grappling with similar losses. Politicians are divided over whether and how to bail out an industry that already won billions in government support a decade ago after the 2008 financial crisis — and that was already facing major new costs and disruption with growing demand for autonomous and cleaner cars. Macron's 8-billion-euro plan includes a 5-billion-euro French government loan guarantee under discussion for struggling French automaker Renault, but not the millions the government has already spent on temporary unemployment payments to auto workers told to stay home for weeks to keep the virus at bay. The new plan includes government subsidies to encourage consumers to scrap their old cars and buy lower-emissions models, and longer-term investment in innovative technology. Macron set a goal of producing 1 million electric cars in France by 2025. “Our country should embody this avant-garde,” he said. "We need not only to save (the industry) but transform it." Macron’s plan appears ambitious. Battery-powered cars are still only a fraction of auto sales in Europe, though manufacturers are focusing on them to meet the European Union’s carbon emissions targets. The biggest European maker of battery-powered and plug-in hybrid cars is Germany’s BMW, followed closely by Renault, but U.S.-based Tesla sells more than either, according to trade magazine EV Volumes. Germany is also the biggest European market for electric cars, and the country’s manufacturers are ramping up their offerings. French unions blockaded a Renault plant in western France on Tuesday, fearing fallout from the virus could lead to widespread job losses and factory closures. Bailouts a decade ago included a government bonus plan that encouraged consumers to buy newer cars, though that didn’t prevent thousands of job cuts. Renault is expected to announce a $2.2 billion cost-cutting plan to unions this week, and Macron said that the Renault loan guarantee is contingent on keeping open two key French factories. France's auto industry employs 400,000 people and is a big part of its manufacturing sector, but shuttered showrooms and suspended production as the virus swept across the country in March. The country started easing restrictions on May 11. The plan to support the industry comes at a crucial time for carmaker Renault, which came into the virus crisis in bad shape after the 2018 arrest of its star CEO Carlos Ghosn. The French finance minister warned that the company's survival is at stake, and Renault and Nissan have scheduled an announcement Wednesday that is expected to address the future of their alliance. PSA Group, which makes Peugeot and Citroen cars, is in better shape after years of cost-cutting under CEO Carlos Tavares. PSA reported record profits last year, but has also seen sales plunge amid virus lockdowns. It is in the process of merging with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to create the world’s fourth-largest auto maker. U.S. automakers haven’t received direct government help yet but car dealers and auto suppliers can apply for low-interest loans. Some U.S. some politicians don’t want to bail out carmakers again after they got huge bailouts after the 2008 financial crisis. In Germany, automakers are pressing for car purchase incentives to support major employers and prevent layoffs. The idea is opposed by some legislators in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party and by an expert council of economists, who advised tax breaks and lower energy costs for all companies instead of singling out one industry for help. A decision on the issue could come as early as next week. Italian-American Fiat Chrysler, which has its corporate headquarters in the Netherlands and its financial base in Britain, confirmed this month a request for an Italian state-backed loan worth 6.3 billion euros ($6.9 billion). The move set off debate in Italy over whether such money should be made available to companies with legal headquarters overseas. Britain's government is considering bailing out companies whose demise would disproportionately affect the economy, on a “last resort basis.” The Financial Times reported Sunday that Jaguar Land Rover was among those approaching the government to acquire stakes as part of a broader manufacturing bailout. And supercar maker McLaren Group on Tuesday said it would cut 1,200 jobs - a quarter of its workforce. This story has been corrected to show that a loan to Renault is part of the rescue package. Angela Charlton in Paris, Colleen Barry in Milan, Italy, David McHugh in Frankfurt, Germany, and Danica Kirka in London contributed to this report.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693554
__label__cc	0.531473	0.468527	Mega Moolah review Online Real Money Games in India Produced by Microgaming, Mega Moolah Slots is one of their best-known slots on the market. It boasts huge progressive jackpots, which has successfully made a number of winners quite a bit of money. There are 4 jackpots total to play for, and you can also play for multipliers, wilds, and free spins. With real money on the line, this is a hugely popular slot game available online to players everywhere. If it sounds appealing, give it a try! Here is some more information about this wildly popular online slots game. Mega Moolah: How to Play The overall theme of Mega Moolah Slots is an African vibe, safari themed and exciting. The symbols and characters are all cartoon-like animals, much like Disney’s The Lion King, with various animals like lions, monkeys, giraffes, zebras, and more. 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These variations also feature slight differences from the original game, including the number of free spins that can be won, how high the multipliers are, and some even have a gamble feature, which the original game does not. Conclusion: The Risk is Worth the Reward The game has been around for a while, and it still remains an entertaining and overall rewarding experience for players. Though the odds of hitting the jackpot wheel may seem slim, you still have the potential for frequent smaller pay outs to give yourself a boost. Give Mega Moolah a try and see if you can beat the bonus round and change your life! © 2019 Click Online Casinos, Inc. All rights reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693555
__label__wiki	0.899315	0.899315	Apple's iPhone X to bring company a very merry holiday Apple's results and forecast also suggest iPhone 8 sales weren't as bad as expected. Shara Tibken Nov. 2, 2017 1:45 p.m. PT Apple's iPhone X hits stores Friday. OK, so how well did those new iPhones really do? That's mostly what we're obsessed with as Apple posted its fiscal fourth-quarter results Thursday. Despite fears that iPhone 8 sales were off to a bumpy start, Apple reported a better-than-expected fourth quarter, with earnings and revenue topping analysts' forecasts. Apple also said overall revenue for the next quarter likely would be stronger than analysts' projections, indicating healthy demand for the iPhone X, which comes out Friday. "As we approach the holiday season, we expect it to be our biggest quarter ever," Apple CEO Tim Cook said during a call with analysts. Shares rose 3.5 percent, to $171.59, in after-hours trading. Apple sold 46.7 million iPhones in the period, up 2.6 percent from the previous year. Overall, analysts expected Apple to sell 46.5 million iPhones in the quarter, according to the firm Bernstein. iPhone X review: Camera tricks, swiping up -- and that OLED Want to reserve an iPhone X for in-store pickup? Here's how iPhone X widens the gap between tech haves and have-nots The hiccup here is that the numbers don't show how well all of the new iPhones performed. Typically, the company releases its newest iPhones in September, and the quarter benefits from the first weeks of sales. This year, though, Apple has two separate releases: the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus on Sept. 22 and the iPhone X on Friday. It's the forecast for a strong holiday season that indicates the iPhone X will drive sales then. The device, arriving a decade after the first iPhone, marks the first major smartphone redesign by Apple in years. It ditches the home button in favor of Face ID and sports a more vibrant OLED display that stretches across the entire front of the phone. It also costs more, with the 64GB version starting at $999 versus $699 for the lowest-end iPhone 8 and $799 for the iPhone 8 Plus. The newly designed iPhone can't come soon enough. More than two-thirds of Apple's sales come from its popular smartphone, but iPhone sales dropped for the first time last year. The overall smartphone market also has been slowing down. iPhone X demand The iPhone X may be the hottest device Apple has ever sold. Customers scooped up 25 percent more units in the first four days of preorders than the previous record holder, the iPhone 6, according to data from Slice Intelligence. But supply is believed to be even lower than in years past, where eager iPhone fans had to wait about a month for a device. Currently, the wait for an online order is five to six weeks. Nov. 3 availability for the iPhone X disappeared almost as soon as preorders began Oct. 27. Now playing: Watch this: Your iPhone X survival guide: New moves, no home button Analysts asked Cook multiple times about how iPhone X preorders compared to the iPhone 8. The CEO brushed off the question each time, saying he was "not going to talk about mix." Still, Cook sought to alleviate some fears that people were seeking out older iPhones during the quarter instead of buying the iPhone 8. Apple's average selling price for iPhones during the quarter was $618 versus analysts' expectations for $638, which indicated it sold a lot of cheaper devices. Cook noted the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus "instantly became our two most popular iPhone models and have been every week since then." He also said he couldn't predict when Apple could make enough iPhone X models to meet demand. "We're really happy that we're able to increase week by week what we're outputting," Cook said. "I can't predict at this point when that balance will happen." To get a sense of how the iPhone X will perform, analysts looked to Apple's forecast for the current first quarter. The period, which includes the key holiday season, is typically Apple's largest. Analysts expect Apple to sell 81 million iPhones in the period, according to Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi. Apple's previous record was 78.3 million in the first quarter of 2017. "Apple's commentary on iPhone X availability and expected timeframe to achieve supply/demand balance, as well as on initial demand/orders will be critical," Sacconaghi noted. Apple said first-quarter revenue would jump to $84 billion to $87 billion, up from $78.4 billion a year earlier. That compared with analyst expectations for $85.31 billion, according to Yahoo Finance. Q4 by the numbers Apple's net income rose to $10.7 billion, or $2.07 a share, from $9 billion, or $1.67 a share. Analysts had expected earnings of $1.87 a share, according to Yahoo Finance. Apple's revenue climbed 12 percent to a record $52.6 billion, compared with analyst expectations for $50.8 billion, according to Yahoo Finance. Notably, Apple now has $268.9 billion in cash, with most of that held overseas. Cook on Wednesday during a TV interview called for tax reform that would let him bring Apple's cash back to the US. iPad sales continued their rebound in the quarter. Apple sold 10.3 million units, up 11 percent from a year ago. The third quarter marked the first time iPad unit sales rose after 13 consecutive quarters of declines. June's Worldwide Developers Conference featured a new 10.5-inch iPad Pro that's sized in between the two existing professional-level tablets. Apple also introduced new iMacs and MacBooks at its developer confab. The company said Thursday that it sold 5.4 million Macs, up 10 percent from the previous year. The services business also continued to grow, with revenue up 34 percent from the previous year to $8.5 billion. Apple likes to tout the strength of that business, which includes its $10-a-month Apple Music subscription, iCloud storage, iTunes music and its cut of revenue from the App Store. Unlike the ups and downs of hardware sales, it tends to grow as more people use more Apple products. And sales of its "other products," which include the Apple Watch, AirPods, Beats headphones and other accessories, rose 36 percent to $3.2 billion. Apple doesn't detail individual sales but noted revenue from all of its wearables jumped 75 percent from the previous year. "The biggest standouts for me were that every single product and service line was up, including iPads, which had been challenged," Moor Insights & Strategy analyst Patrick Moorhead said. Update, 3:15 p.m. PT: Added comments from an analyst and Tim Cook. Correction, Nov. 3 at 12:45 p.m. PT: To revise Slice Intelligence market data on iPhone X preorders. The Smartest Stuff: Innovators are thinking up new ways to make you, and the things around you, smarter. iHate: CNET looks at how intolerance is taking over the internet. Tech Industry Mobile Apple Discuss: Apple's iPhone X to bring company a very merry holiday	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693556
__label__wiki	0.964724	0.964724	A lode of conflict in Kenya Canadian plans to mine titanium have angered farmers who will be displaced, and ecologists. By David Gough Special to The Christian Science Monitor KWALE, KENYA Abdullah Suleiman picks up a handful of soil and sieves the grains of sand through fingers calloused by a lifetime of labor. "This is the same soil that has given me and my family our livelihood for many years," says the farmer. "Now it will be the end of us." Buried within the soil of Mr. Suleiman's farm and others along Kenya's palm-fringed Indian Ocean coastline lies a vast deposit of titanium. As early as next year, a Canadian mining company, Tiomin Resources, will launch a venture to mine millions of dollars worth of the material, used in pigment manufacture, the aerospace industry, and production of items ranging from golf clubs to pacemakers. More than 4,000 people will be moved to make way for the operation, which has provoked protests and allegations of corruption, multinational arrogance, and insensitivity to the ecology of one of Africa's leading tourist areas. "This whole thing is being rushed through without proper care to the rights of the people who live here and without enough thought to what the consequences will be," says Frank Mutua, whose 40-acre farm is one of many that will soon disappear under a bulldozer. While Tiomin has signed compensation agreements with about 20 percent of the residents - those holding title to their land - squatters on the titanium-rich earth worry that they will end up with nothing. "I have lived here since 1959," says Mr. Mutua. "We didn't even know what a title deed was then.... Now we will lose our land and our income so that some Canadians can become rich." "We cannot sign agreements with people who have no documents confirming their ownership of the land," counters Francoise Goutier, Tiomin's resident manager in Kenya. Tiomin president and CEO, J.C. Potvin, says that the company is discussing with the Kenyan government a deal in which the government would expropriate land occupied by the squatters and the company would lease nearby property to which the squatters would be relocated. "We will strive to give them an equivalent parcel," Mr. Potvin says. Those with land deeds are being compensated above market value, Potvin says. "We have made a point that nobody affected by the project will be worse off by the project than they are today." Critics counter that the mineral value does not figure in the compensation. "I wonder how it is possible to compensate people when you don't know what the real consequences of the project will be," says Elphas Ojiambo, policy research coordinator for the British NGO Action Aid. Potvin says that Kenyans are being compensated for Kwale's mineral wealth through the 2.5 percent of gross revenues that will go to the government as royalties, plus income taxes. The project has also drawn fire from environmentalists worried that the mining operation, in a region now suffering from severe drought, will overextend water supplies and make the land unusable once extraction has ceased. But, according to Potvin, "There's more than enough water. We have quantified that." Potvin says that after the 14 to 19 years of mining, the land would be returned to its former residents. He describes the mineral sands extraction process as ecologically friendly, "basically a large-scale, earth-moving operation" which ends with rehabilitation of the land. Potvin says the project will create about 1,000 jobs in the two-year construction phase, 200-300 long-term jobs, and up to 1,000 jobs indirectly. Critics call this scant benefit to Kenya and note that most of the $150 million it will cost Tiomin to get the project going will be spent outside the country. One of the ecological bones of contention is the port Tiomin has chosen for shipping the titanium. Shimoni, selected for its natural deep channel, is located on a quiet fishing bay in the area of some of Kenya's finest coral and marine life. Potvin says there is no coral in the channel and that the marine park is 35 kilometers away. As required under Kenyan law, Tiomin carried out an Environmental Impact Assessment. But, according to The World Conservation Union, the evaluation was not independent and overlooks many environmental concerns. The conservation union's report disputes Tiomin's claim that the risk of a shipping accident at Shimoni is "very unlikely." The project has also drawn accusations of corruption and pay-offs to senior Kenyan government officials. According to a local newspaper report, investigators hired by a group of Islamic leaders on the coast claim that they unearthed evidence of millions of shillings paid to top government officials to ensure that the project goes ahead. Potvin rejects that allegation, saying, "There were no bribes." Some local residents say they are offended by the mining company's manner. "What annoys me most," says Mr. Mutua, "is the arrogant way in which they are dealing with us. This whole project is just an exercise in making other people rich. We call it new colonialism." In sustainability search, Kenya studies the unknown depths of its aquifers Protecting mangroves, Kenya's fishermen net cash – and more fish Kenya joins the great African oil boom with latest discoveries	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693562
__label__wiki	0.960852	0.960852	Beto O’Rourke calls on Texas to decriminalize pot, stop arresting so many students Under fire from GOP incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz, the Democratic challenger stuck by his insistence that the national prohibition on marijuana should end and that fewer students should be arrested. U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke denounced how America has "the largest prison population on the face of the planet" at a rally on criminal justice issues at the Texas Capitol in Austin on Tuesday.(Brianna Stone / Staff) By Brianna Stone 1:45 PM on Aug 29, 2018 CDT Updated, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday: with Beto O'Rourke's rally near the University of Texas at Austin AUSTIN — While U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has aired ads questioning his Democratic opponent’s support for less punitive drug laws, Congressman Beto O’Rourke isn’t backing down. On Tuesday, O’Rourke repeated his call for decriminalizing the possession and sale of small amounts of marijuana. And the three-term U.S. House member linked current pot laws to what he described as too many arrests of students, a trend he said foolishly stunts young lives at a stiff cost to taxpayers. “A school-to-prison pipeline has produced the largest prison population on the face of the planet,” O’Rourke said at a rally at the Texas Capitol. Children as young as kindergartners are being discriminated against because of race, resulting in discipline, suspension and expulsion, he said. Youthful prisoners are “doing time right now for nonviolent drug charges, including possession of marijuana — a substance that is legal in 29 states in this country today,” he said. He said arrest records for people convicted of marijuana possession should be expunged. O’Rourke also called for changes to the cash bail system, saying high bail amounts disproportionately keep poor Texans behind bars before they’re convicted of a crime. More than 100 people endured triple-digit temperatures to attend the afternoon rally. It was organized by Austin-area criminal-justice activists who said in an internet post that they want to end "mass incarceration" and privately run prisons, as well as raise the age for criminal responsibility to 18 from 17. Many attendees wore black and white "Beto" shirts, commemorating the event's biggest-name speaker. During his speech, O’Rourke bemoaned Texas’ low rate of voter participation. He said some people believe "that their vote doesn't count as much as someone else's, that their voice is not intended to be heard, and so they're staying home right now." .@TedCruz also has a new TV ad contrasting his work on unemployment drug testing with @BetoORourke's 2009 comments about the war on drugs (Background: https://t.co/cLxvNdigIs). #txsen pic.twitter.com/leVOnazXaN — Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) August 3, 2018 Earlier this month, Cruz ran a 30-second TV spot that assailed O’Rourke for his views on drugs. Cruz noted he recently helped pass a law that allows drug tests for laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits. “But Beto O’Rourke said we should consider legalizing all narcotics, including heroin,” a narrator in the Cruz ad says. With opioids ravaging so many American communities, Congressman Beto O’Rourke's radical resolution to legalize all narcotics—including heroin and other deadly opioids—is looking worse and worse all the time: https://t.co/VdwaYMccMn #TXSen — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 1, 2018 As an El Paso City Council member in 2009, O’Rourke called for an "honest, open national debate on ending the prohibition on narcotics." He tried to pass a nonbinding resolution calling for such a dialogue, though it failed to pass. O’Rourke didn’t call for legalizing all narcotics, though he later admitted to having been confused in thinking in 2009 that marijuana — his major concern — was a narcotic. O’Rourke hasn’t made pot legalization a major plank of his Senate campaign, though he doesn’t hesitate to say that the federal prohibition should end. He says the money spent on prosecuting and incarcerating people for marijuana offenses would be better spent on higher teacher pay or treating opioid and methamphetamine addiction. After the event Tuesday, O'Rourke held a campaign rally near the University of Texas at Austin that was geared toward encouraging young people to vote. He spoke about how his college years at Columbia University shaped him. "Any important changes will not come from people like me, already in a position of power," he told the crowd of mostly students. "[Change] almost always comes from young people." CORRECTION, 1:54 p.m., Aug. 29, 2018: An earlier version of this story quoted O'Rourke as saying it was irrational for people to conclude that their votes don't count, but a campaign spokesman said O'Rourke said it was rational because the system has led them to believe that. Brianna Stone. Brianna Stone is the Austin bureau fellow reporting on Texas politics and government. She is a journalism graduate of The University of Texas at Austin and has previously interned for USA TODAY College, The Austin American-Statesman and The Daily Dot. brianna.stone@dallasnews.com /DallasNewsBriannaStone @briannasttone Get Political Points Receive the latest political news delivered every Tuesday and Thursday from reporters in Austin, Dallas and Washington.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693567
__label__wiki	0.806043	0.806043	Case Update: Trade Mark Application by Megaport (Services) Pty Ltd and opposition by Singapore Telecommunications Limited [2018] SGIPOS 17 Trade Mark Application by Megaport (Services) Pty Ltd and opposition thereto by Singapore Telecommunications Limited (“Megaport”) [2018] SGIPOS 17 Singtel lost in its objection application against Megaport with regard to its [email protected] / [email protected] trade marks. Megaport (Services) Pty Ltd (“the Applicant”), a telecommunication service provider, applied for registration of a subject mark, “MEGAPORT”. The application mark was accepted and published for opposition purposes. Singapore Telecommunications Limited (“the Opponent”) then opposed the registration. The Opponent argued that their earlier marks (“Opponent’s Earlier Marks”) are similar to the application mark. The Principal Assistant Registrar of Trade Marks (the “Tribunal”) noted that the mark closest to the Application Mark is the Opponent’s Earlier [email protected] Mark: [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected] The Opponent relied on section 8(2)(b) and 8(7)(a) of the Trade Marks Act (Cap 332, 2005 Rev Ed) (“the Act”). Legal Principles The Tribunal adopted the 3-step test in hearing objections under section 8(2)(b) of the Act as set out in Staywell Hospitality Group Pty Ltd v Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc [2014] 1 SLR 911 (“Staywell”). The 3 steps are: Establishing the element of similarity or identity of the marks; Establishing the element of similarity or identity of the goods/services; and After the first two steps are established individually, the court will look into the issue of confusion in the round by considering 3 sub-issues: How similar the marks are; How similar the goods/services are; and How likely the relevant segment of the public will be confused. Firstly, the court will consider distinctiveness in three aspects of similarity of marks, namely visual, aural and conceptual similarities. Secondly, the assessment of marks similarity will be a separate inquiry with no influence from any external matter. Thirdly, the similarity of marks is more of a matter of impression than a quantitative definite exercise. This means that the tribunal will have to decide whether the marks in their totality are dissimilar or similar. Fourthly, technical distinctiveness is an important factor: the greater the technical distinctiveness a mark has, the harder it is for an opponent’s mark to be deemed a similar mark. Lastly, the mark must be assessed as a whole, including its components, whether distinguishing or dominant, to come to an overall impression of the marks. Further, in Hai Tong Co (Pte) Ltd v Ventree Singapore Pte Ltd and another and another appeal [2013] 2 SLR 941 (“Hai Tong”), the Court of Appeal held that the relevant viewpoint is that of an average consumer who would exercise some care and a measure of good sense in purchasing, rather than that of an unthinking person in a hurry. It should also be assumed that an average consumer has “imperfect recollection” which means that the two marks should not be compared side by side and examined in detail. Instead, the court will decide on the general impression left on the consumer by the essential or dominant features the marks. As regards the similarity of services, the Tribunal referred to Staywell, which held “that registration in the same specification within a class establishes a prima facie case for identity”. On likelihood of confusion, several key principles from Staywell for assessing this are as follows: Compare the actual and notional fair uses rights that are enjoyed by incumbent proprietor against the rights of the applicant; Consider the impact of similarities of marks and goods or services on relevant consumers’ ability to understand where the goods or services originate from; External factors which inform the court as to how the similarity of marks and goods/services will likely affect the consumers’ ability to understand where the goods/services originated from can be considered; A non-exhaustive list of factors to be considered: Impact of marks-similarity on consumer perception Degree of marks-similarity Reputation of the marks Impression given by the marks Possibility of imperfect recollection of the marks Impact of goods-similarity on consumer perception Normal circumstances under which consumers would purchase the goods/services The pricing of the goods/services—expensive or not The degree of attention and fastidiousness purchasers command to purchase the goods/services Characteristics of the relevant consumers Whether the summers would apply care or specialist knowledge when purchasing the goods/services. With regard to section 8(7)(a) of the Act, there are three elements which must be established for it to succeed: Goodwill; Misrepresentation; and Referring to The Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Muller & Co’s Margarine Limited [1901] AC 217, the Tribunal noted that goodwill is described as “the benefit and advantage of the good name, reputation, and connection of a business…the attractive force which brings in custom”. However, to establish goodwill, the Opponent must be able to provide evidence that they have obtained goodwill after the date of the application of the Application Mark, 27th December 2013. Goodwill, in the context of passing off, is concerned with goodwill in the business as a whole, and not specifically in its constituent elements. Goodwill can also be established by e.g. evidence of sales and income of the business which acts as a proxy for the attractive force of the business (Singsung Pte Ltd v LG 26 Electronics Pte Ltd (trading as L S Electronical Trading) [2016] 4 SLR 86). As regards the element of misrepresentation, this can be considered in the same analysis as that of the ‘likelihood of confusion’, i.e. whether an average consumer will mistake one mark for the another. If the element of misrepresentation is made out, the tribunal will look into the element of damage. Holding by the tribunal Grounds of opposition under section 8(2)(b) The Tribunal held that the @ symbol is distinctive and stood out among the other letters in the mark, it also splits the mark into two equal portions. The tribunal disagreed with the Opponent’s assertion that “ME-GA” is a distinctive component. However, the Tribunal indicated that the @ symbol does not render the whole mark negligible as the assessment of a mark must be as a whole and not based on a symbol itself. Hence, the tribunal ruled that the Opponent’s Earlier [email protected] Mark is in the middle of the technical distinctiveness spectrum. Visual Similarity The Tribunal regarded the Opponent’s Earlier [email protected] Mark as a composite mark due to the @ symbol while the application mark is a full plain wordmark. Although the Tribunal accepted that the @ symbol can be interpreted in different ways such as “at”, “a” or “at the rate of”, the tribunal disagreed that the Opponent’s Earlier [email protected] Mark has seven letters. Applying Ozone Community Corp v Advance Magazine Publishers Inc [2010] SGHC 16, the High Court held that in the case of word marks, a determination of visual similarity typically involves looking at the length of the marks, structure of the marks and whether the same letters are used in the marks. Hence, the Tribunal opined that the @ symbol will remain as a symbol not a letter no matter how it is construed. Therefore, the Tribunal ruled that the Opponent’s Earlier [email protected] Mark has six letters and one symbol. The Opponent also used the Opponent’s Earlier [email protected] Mark with their housemark SINGTEL or the Opponent’s Earlier Singtel [email protected] Mark in their promotional materials. In light of the above factors, the Opponent’s Earlier [email protected] Mark is clearly visually more dissimilar than similar from the Application Mark. Aural Similarity The Tribunal referred to the case of Apptitude Pte Ltd v MGG Software Pte Ltd 2016 SGIPOS 15 (“Apptitude”) and noted that when a person seeks to pronounce a word, e.g., “SNAC”, they would naturally reach for the closest familiar word to it, which is “SNACK”. The Tribunal also commented on the marks of “SNAC” and “snaapp”, noting that speakers especially in Singapore have a tendency to slur the endings of English words. As both marks starts with similar sound of “SNA”, there would be some aural similarity. In the present case, the Tribunal agreed on the tendency for local speakers to slur the ending of the marks such that the marks would have the same starting sound of “ME-GA”. Therefore, there would be some aural similarity. Conceptual Similarity Applying Carolina Herrera, Ltd v Lacoste [2014] SIPOS 3, the Tribunal noted that the conceptual analysis of two signs is an analysis of the concepts that can be derived from the elements present in the sign at surface value. In the present case, the Tribunal observed that the word “port” has various interpretations and can be interpreted at surface value as e.g., “a harbor” and “POP” in the application mark can be inferred as “POP server” or “a loud sound”. The Tribunal also rejected the Opponent’s arguments on the @ symbol in the Opponent’s Earlier [email protected] Mark being perceived as “at” or “at the rate of” since there was no meaning to “MEG”. Hence, due to all the different interpretations in the marks, the Tribunal held that the marks are conceptually more dissimilar than similar. Similarity of Services As provided in Staywell, registration to the same specification will establish a prima facie case of identity. Hence, the service provided in this case is, namely telecommunication services, as indicated in the Opponent Notice of Opposition and Applicant’s registration of subject mark, T1321153J. Therefore, the element of services similarity is satisfied. The Opponent’s actual clients were/are corporations seeking to purchase expensive and technical products. However, as regards notional uses, the potential customers include the ‘man on the street’. The Tribunal held that the reputation of Opponent would likely reduce the likelihood of confusion. The Tribunal also disagreed with the Opponent’s argument that its corporate customers are managed by employees who are as discerning as average man on the street consumers. The Tribunal opined that the employees are hired due to their expertise and in procurement, they would apply greater care, specialist knowledge and consult their colleagues since the services may affect the company’s baseline and will be used throughout the organisation. Regarding the category of “man on the street” consumers, the Tribunal believes that a consumer will give a higher level of attention and be warier of the services they are buying as it is purchased once in a while and is not considered cheap to many. Also, in promotional materials of the Opponent, the Opponent uses the Opponent’s Earlier [email protected] Mark and accompany it with their housemark SINGTEL or the Opponent’s Earlier SingTel [email protected] Marks. Therefore, with regard to all the factors above, the Tribunal ruled that there is no likelihood of confusion. Grounds of opposition under section 8(7)(a) The Tribunal referred to the revenue from sales of services of the Opponent which was gradually increasing each year. Hence, the Tribunal ruled that the Opponent has goodwill in Singapore. By referring to the promotional material of the Opponent, the Tribunal noted that the Opponent uses their house mark SINGTEL with the Opponent’s Earlier SingTel [email protected] Mark or [email protected] Mark. The Tribunal held that there is no likelihood of misrepresentation that the Applicant and Opponent are the same or linked economically, The element of damage was not considered as there is no misrepresentation in this case. Hence, Section 8(7)(b) fails as the elements are not made out. Case summary written with the help of Ng Jiaxiang. Also found at Ronald JJ Wong’s blog.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693568
__label__wiki	0.960259	0.960259	At the New York State Capitol in Albany, concrete barriers now block the street that encircles the seven-acre statehouse that then-Gov. Theodore Roosevelt opened in 1900. Last week outside the statehouse, on the same day as the U.S. Capitol riot, two people were stabbed in a fight between those who identified themselves as supporters of the anti-fascist group Antifa and backers of the right-wing Proud Boys. Now statehouses across the nation are bracing for the potential of more violence after the FBI on Monday warned of possible armed protests at state capitol buildings beginning Sunday and through the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden on Jan. 20. The concern has put state leaders in the unenviable position of fortifying their statehouses and deploying more officers to guard their historic buildings, even as many of them deploy their National Guard troops to help with security in Washington. "We take all this very, very seriously and we do not want to underprepare for this in any way shape or form,” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday. He urged people not to attend a rally Sunday outside state capitols that has been promoted online by supporters of President Donald Trump. “Even if your heart is 1,000 percent in the right place, stay home. Stay home. There’s just no need to get in the mix,” Murphy said. How U.S. statehouses are preparing for potential violence State officials are hoping to thwart a plot that would resemble anything close to the unprecedented attack on the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday that led to five deaths, including a Capitol Police officer who was a New Jersey native. About 15 officers were injured, and dozens of rioters have been arrested. “Given recent events in Washington and across the country, the New York State Police has, out of an abundance of caution, taken steps to harden security in and around the State Capitol in Albany," New York State Police spokesman Beau Duffy said in a statement. "These restrictions are in place until further notice.” States declined to discuss specifics of their security measures, but there is also heightened sensitivity because state legislatures have returned to session this month, which means more lawmakers and staff are in and around the capitals — although they won't be there Sunday. The heightened security is felt inside the buildings. On Monday, camouflaged-clad Pennsylvania Capitol Police officers were wearing flak vests and carrying long guns in the Capitol Rotunda and at entrances throughout the complex. The state Department of General Services said in a statement the Wolf administration “condemns the senseless acts of violence that occurred last week at our nation’s Capital that resulted in the loss of life.” Since the attack, state Capitol Police “have been working with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies to ensure the safety of those working in the building and the protection of our state Capitol.” “The PA Capitol Police is enhancing its visible presence and will continue to collaborate with other law enforcement entities,” the statement from General Services said. “Due to the pandemic, the Capitol remains closed to all visitors.” More:A fight between pro- and anti-Trump factions at NYS Capitol leads to stabbings Heightened alert ahead of inauguration While it remains unclear how many people will show up for further protests, "people don't have the luxury to downplay it," said Oren Segal, vice president of the Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism told USA TODAY. "People don't have the luxury to ignore it." States have pledged to send National Guard troops to Washington to help with security around the inauguration, but it is uncertain whether they might also be deployed to help at their own state capitols. For example, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf last week deployed 1,000 members to Washington, D.C., where they will assist local authorities through the inauguration. Gov. Larry Hogan said Monday that State Police and Maryland Capitol Police have taken additional security measures at the State House complex. Hogan said he will also receive a briefing from the FBI and was planning to speak with Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser about coordinating a response in the region. After the conversation, the three leaders issued a statement urging people to not come to the D.C. inauguration. "Due to the unique circumstances surrounding the 59th Presidential Inauguration, including last week’s violent insurrection as well as the ongoing and deadly COVID-19 pandemic, we are taking the extraordinary step of encouraging Americans not to come to Washington, D.C. and to instead participate virtually," they said. More:6 top issues Delaware lawmakers will tackle this year: Quick cheat sheet More:Hogan proposes $1 billion economic relief bill, stimulus checks for Marylanders in need Preparing for a potential threat Washington Gov. Jay Inslee activated hundreds of National Guard troops to help state police near its Capitol, and in Michigan, a state commission voted Monday to ban the open carrying of weapons in the Capitol building. The Maryland State Police is "aware of on-line information regarding the possibility of armed demonstrations in state capitals on Jan. 17," spokesman Greg Shipley said in an email. "If such an event is scheduled, the Maryland State Police will work in support of the Maryland Capitol Police, Annapolis Police Department, Anne Arundel County Police and other public safety agencies to ensure adequate law enforcement resources are available to address any violations of law," Shipley said. A contingent of the Maryland National Guard responded to the attack on the U.S. Capitol last week and are set to remain in D.C. through the inauguration, officials said. Delaware Gov. John Carney announced Jan. 7 that he would deploy members of the Delaware National Guard to D.C. to support law enforcement and the “ongoing security efforts” following Wednesday’s breach of the U.S. Capitol. As of Monday, there are currently more than 200 members in D.C., according Carney’s spokesman, Jonathan Starkey. “We’re aware of the protests planned in Dover,” Starkey wrote in a text on Monday. “Law enforcement will monitor conditions on the ground. I don’t have any comment about additional Guard deployments.” New Jersey director of homeland security, Jared Maples, said his agency has not identified specific threats, just “a lot of fliers” and “chatter online” about a protest. “We’re vetting through every single lead that we get, we’re making sure that we follow all those down.” Maples characterized the actions last week an “insurrection” and an “extremist act.” “There’s no question there was a white supremacist angle to this” attack at the Capitol building last week, he said. “We labeled them a top-tier terror threat. Number two is anarchists and anti-government — they’re in the middle-tier threat for us. I think they’re going to be elevated this next year based off of what you’re seeing now," Maples continued. "But that is absolutely part of what you’re seeing both on Capitol Hill and some of the threats we hear about here in New Jersey.” More:As Murphy prepares NJ State of the State address, here's what he's accomplished and what's left More:Trump's incitement of mob at Capitol is 'impeachable offense,' Chris Christie says Includes reporting by Delaware statehouse reporter Sarah Gamard. Joseph Spector is the Government and Politics Editor for the USA TODAY Network's Atlantic Group, overseeing coverage in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware. He can be reached at JSPECTOR@Gannett.com or followed on Twitter: @GannettAlbany	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693575
__label__wiki	0.596758	0.596758	Home»Your Council » News » Council landmarks light up for Cystic Fibrosis Week Council landmarks light up for Cystic Fibrosis Week Derry and Strabane Council area has been showing its support for Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Week running June 18-24, with a number of local landmarks lighting up yellow to raise awareness about the genetic condition. The Guildhall, Council Offices at Strand Road and The Tinney’s sculpture in Strabane have all been illuminated in the Cystic Fibrosis Trust’s trademark yellow to highlight the ongoing campaign to fund research into the condition. Mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council, Councillor John Boyle, said he was delighted to show support for the charities tasked with supporting local families affected Cystic Fibrosis. “By illuminating these key sites in bright yellow we want to highlight the work of the charities who are doing such fantastic work offering support and advice, and to heighten awareness of Cystic Fibrosis (CF) in general,” he stressed. “The condition affects thousands of families across the UK, and we want to aid the campaign to improve the standards of care for those affected and assist those fund raising for further research into the prevention and management of the condition. I would really encourage people to support the campaign if they can.” Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic condition affecting more than 10,400 people in the UK. Living with cystic fibrosis can be extremely challenging, but it doesn't have to stop you from going to school, having a family or getting a job. You can find out more about the condition and the work of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust atwww.cysticfibrosis.org.uk	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693577
__label__cc	0.695308	0.304692	Home/What Is Today/December 18th: Minorities Rights Day of India – Significance What Is Today December 18th: Minorities Rights Day of India – Significance Shreevarshita GuptaDecember 18, 2020 The main objective of the Minorities Rights Day of India is to make the minority groups aware of their fundamental rights. Each country, including India, has its own group of minorities based on ethnicity, language, and religion. Despite this, it is important that harmony prevails in the country. The Constitution of India provides equal rights to all citizens and safeguards their rights of language, ethnicity, culture, and religion. Minorities rights are the fundamental rights of those particular groups of people. History and Significance Since 1992, Minorities Rights Day is celebrated on 18th December every year. On this day, the United Nations adopted the Statement on the individual’s rights belonging to religious, Linguistic, National, or Ethnic Minorities. The aim was to protect the rights and privileges of all the citizens of a country. This is supposed to prevail irrespective of their colour, language, or religion. It is also an opportunity to make minority communities better understand their rights. Minorities of India Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti: Significance and History January 19th: World Quark Day – Significance and Celebrations In India, about 19% of the total population constitutes minorities. Under the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992, a National Commission for Minorities (NCM) also has been established. Some minorities of India are: The minorities in India include mostly Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Zoroastrians or Parsis, and Jains J & K, Punjab, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Lakshadweep are the only states where any notified minority is in majority The Ministry of Minority Affairs, which was established in 2006, is the apex body in the Union government to carry out various welfare, regulatory and developmental programmes for the minority communities Also Read: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women Days of the Year Minorities Rights Day of India Trending today What Is Today Shreevarshita Gupta Kusha Kapila's Maya deserves a gram of her own and we have proof Delhi wakes up to a chilly morning January 18th: Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States January 16th: International Hot and Spicy Food Day – Celebrations January 15th: Indian Army Day – Significance and Celebrations India celebrates Makar Sankranti with passion, devotees celebrate in their own style	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693580
__label__cc	0.569497	0.430503	Come From Away - Review Come From Away is the feel good musical we didn’t know we needed. Every once in a while you see a show and know it is something special. This is that show, an unforgettable incredible true story about human spirit. The show focuses on Newfoundland, an island off the coast of Canada which, after usually having 2 planes a day land at their airport, had 38 planes diverted to them after the New York 9/11 attacks. It goes on to tell the stories of the residents and those from the planes, a group of strangers thrown together by circumstance, in the following days through a period of uncertainty for everyone. It welcomes you immediately, with all the locals telling you about how that day started. Before the first song has finished you feel welcome, involved and like you’ve know them forever which is a perfect metaphor for how those on the planes must have felt. With a cast of just 12 each person has to take on multiple roles of those in the town and those that have come from away. It would have been easy for this to get confusing but some distinctive hats and jackets means is easy to follow and the chameleon cast are superb at moving between roles (and notably accents). As seamlessly as the cast move between characters so does the set which can be a coffee shop one minute and within a split second be a plane. The blocking and direction to make this happen is ingenious. Given the number of people involved and the different stories in different hands this would have become incoherent but the stories are all pulled together beautifully, symbolic for how people pulled together in such a difficult and strained situation. That isn’t to say that everything focuses on the good. The show doesn’t shy away from showing some of the negative side of human nature and displays some of the difficult and horrible situations that arose from the tragedy. It is perhaps this balance that makes the show so engaging. For me it felt like an emotional rollercoaster and I cried a lot! But I challenge anyone not to feel uplifted. I have never seen an entire audience jump to it’s feet in unison as the lights fade at the end of the show which is tribute to the entire cast and crew. The four Olivier’s it won (plus the others it was nominated for) were well deserved. The effort put into this show to make everything right is clear to see. And it’s interesting to see the situation through a different lens that demonstrates what humanity can do for each other when they pull together, even in face of such a tragedy. It’s an easy well deserved 5 Laura Michelle-Kelly production. If you see one show this year, make sure it’s this. And make sure you add a pin to the map they have in the bar – everyone who has Come From Away can say where that away is! Tickets are available here: https://comefromawaylondon.co.uk/	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693583
__label__cc	0.682301	0.317699	Innovative intrusion, video, and access control solutions highlighted during the sessions HEATHROW, UK. 8th May, 2014 – Tyco Security Products, part of Tyco (NYSE: TYC), the world’s largest pure-play fire protection and security company, today announced a series of technology events in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Beginning in May, the one-day sessions will provide educational opportunities on the newest technologies from Tyco Security Products available to dealers, integrators, monitoring stations and their customers in the DACH region. The free events will allow visitors to meet with sales and technical teams from the various Tyco Security Products brands, participate in discussions, and offer feedback on the company’s current technology offerings, integrations and product roadmap. In addition, there will be hands-on demonstrations of security solutions from alarm and intrusion brands DSC, Visonic, and Bentel Security, access control brands CEM Systems and Kantech, American Dynamics and Exacq Technologies for video surveillance to complement the presentations. “While the major trade shows are important venues for Tyco Security Products, we’re pleased to offer our customers the opportunity for education on our newest technologies in these smaller, more intimate settings,” said Eli Williams, Regional Sales Director, Western Europe, Tyco Security Products. “Regional events offer the opportunity for indepth conversations about specific customer concerns and how the unique integrations between our products can help mitigate risks within their organization.” The events will highlight several product introductions, including the PowerSeries Neo from DSC, the industry’s most comprehensive hybrid intrusion detection system, Visonic’s innovative PowerMaster 33 wireless intrusion system, and the ABSOLUTA 3.5 G3 intrusion panel from Bentel. Kantech’s innovative Intevo platform, which offers integrated access control, video and intrusion to the small and medium business market, and emerald, CEM’s revolutionary touch screen intelligent access terminal round out the highlights in access control. American Dynamics will present its growing portfolio of IP HD cameras, including the cost-effective Illustra Flex series, the Illustra Compact series for discrete surveillance and the powerful and accurate Illustra 625 PTZ for active surveillance environments. Exacq Technologies will demonstrate the exacqVision VMS v6.0, which makes searching for video surveillance evidence faster and more intuitive with the new SpeedSearch feature. Each event will also feature a series of presentations where attendees will receive more in depth information from product experts. The sessions will also provide perspective on upcoming developments within the various industry-leading product lines. To register for the free events and for additional information, including a complete event schedule, please visit www.tsproadshow.com. Tyco Security Products is a unified group of the most comprehensive world-leading premium access control, video, location-based tracking and intrusion solutions in the security industry. Tyco Security Products conducts business in over 177 countries around the world, in multiple languages and employs over 2,800 employees globally, including research and development, marketing, manufacturing, sales, service and logistics teams in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. Our products, built by developers from all product disciplines, consistently allow customers to see more, do more, and save more across multiple industries and segments including healthcare, government, transportation, finance, retail, commercial and residential. Worldwide, Tyco Security Products helps protect 42% of Fortune 500 companies, transportation systems on five continents, 37% of the world’s top 100 retailers, over two million commercial enterprises, thousands of students in more than 900 educational facilities, and over five million private residences. About Tyco Tyco (NYSE: TYC) is the world’s largest pure-play fire protection and security company. Tyco provides more than three million customers around the globe with the latest fire protection and security products and services. A $10+ billion company, Tyco has more than 69,000 employees in more than 1,000 locations across 50 countries serving some of the world’s most demanding environments, including banking and financial services, oil and gas, marine, government, healthcare, retail, home security, transportation, and commercial and industrial. For more information, visit the new www.tyco.com.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693585
__label__wiki	0.604474	0.604474	WSO2 Launches New Middleware Services for Creating and Composing SOA Services in the Cloud WSO2 Application Server as a Service, WSO2 Data Services as a Service, and Mashups as a Service are Part of WSO2 Stratos Open Source Cloud Middleware Platform Mountain View, CA – November 15, 2010 – WSO2 today announced the launch of three cloud middleware services for creating and composing enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) services and composite applications. Based on middleware products from the award-winning open source WSO2 Carbon middleware platform, they provide proven technology for delivering enterprise services on a public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud. They include: WSO2 Application Server as a Service, based on the WSO2 Web Services Application Server (WSO2 WSAS), provides a secure, transactional and reliable runtime to create, consume, deploy and manage Web services and Web applications for an SOA. WSO2 Data as a Service, based on the WSO2 Data Services Server (WSO2 DSS), allows enterprise data to be easily exposed and managed as WS-* style Web services and REST-style Web resources. WSO2 Mashups as a Service, based on the WSO2 Mashup Server, lets developers bring the simplicity and richness of mashups to their enterprise-class Web services. The three middleware services can be used on WSO2’s hosted infrastructure, within a private cloud, or in a hosted private cloud such as Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud. “Commercial software as a service solutions (SaaS) offer agility and cost-savings, but enterprises compete on the proprietary knowledge and processes managed by their in-house applications,” said Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, WSO2 founder and CEO. “Our WSO2 Application Server as a Service, WSO2 Data as a Service, and WSO2 Mashups as a Service, offer businesses the best of both worlds through the ability to deliver customized in-house SaaS applications.” Services Bring Benefits of WSO2 Stratos 1.0 Platform WSO2 Application Server as a Service, WSO2 Data as a Service, and WSO2 Mashups as a Service are part of the WSO2 Stratos 1.0 platform as a service (PaaS), which also launched today. The open source WSO2 Stratos is the industry’s first complete cloud middleware platform for implementing an enterprise SOA. WSO2 Stratos extends WSO2 Carbon, the award-winning, OSGi-compliant enterprise middleware platform. [For more detail, see WSO2 Stratos 1.0 press release also dated November 15, 2010.] The three WSO2 middleware services offer all the benefits of the cloud without the complexity or fear of vendor lock-in. First, the automated, integrated and highly scalable infrastructure translates into shorter project times. Second, multi-tenancy means applications managed by different business units or regional offices can be delivered cost-effectively from a single location. Third, multi-tenancy, metering and auto-scaling reduce costs by optimizing data center utilization and letting tenants pay only for what they use.Fourth, built-in automated governance facilities control over applications and services across different tenants. Finally, because they are based on WSO2 Carbon middleware products and WSO2 Stratos, the three services allow applications to be migrated smoothly and safely—on premise, to a private cloud, to the public cloud, or to a hybrid environment—for unprecedented deployment flexibility. All three WSO2 middleware services also take advantage of WSO2 Carbon Studio, the fully open source Eclipse-based integrated developer environment (IDE). Launched in October 2010, WSO2 Carbon Studio provides a new level of ease in building SOA and composite applications based on WSO2 Carbon and WSO2 Stratos. WSO2 Application Server as a Service WSO2 Application Server as a Service, based on WSO2 WSAS, supports the full XML-based WS-* stack and REST in a simple, lightweight model that makes it easier to develop,deploy, manage and monitor Web services. The completely open source, enterprise-ready service is based on Apache Axis2, one of the world’s fastest Java Web services engines, and it offers features to enable clustering and high availability. The WSO2 Application Server as a Service also runs Web applications build on Apache Tomcat. WSO2 Data as a Service WSO2 Data as a Service, based on WSO2 DSS, enables anyone with a knowledge of the industry.-standard SQL language to quickly create powerful data services that can be shared and accessed across the network. It supports access to data stored in relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL and IBM DB2 (virtually any database accessible via JDBC), as well as the comma-separated values (CSV) file format, and Excel and Google Docs spreadsheets. WSO2 Mashups as a Service WSO2 Mashups as a Service, based on WSO2 Mashup Server, provides a platform for rapidly deploying Web service Mashups using JavaScript. Oriented toward developers, it combines the simplicity and richness of mashups with the reusability, security, reliability and governance required for an SOA. It also connects Web Services to humans through such resources as Web pages, gadgets, feeds, instant messages and email. WSO2 Application Server as a Service, WSO2 Data as a Service, and WSO2 Mashups as a Service are available today as supported production-ready deployments for private clouds. They also can be accessed as beta versions in the public cloud by going to http://appserver.cloud.wso2.com, http://dss.cloud.wso2.com, and http://mashup.cloud.wso2.com,respectively. As fully open source solutions, these WSO2 cloud middleware services do not require any licensing fees. WSO2 offers a range of service and support options,including evaluation support, the CloudStartSM consulting program, development support,and production support. WSO2 is the lean enterprise middleware company. It delivers the only complete open source enterprise SOA middleware stack purpose-built as an integrated platform to support today’s heterogeneous enterprise environments—internally and in the cloud. WSO2’s service and support team is led by technical experts who have proven success in deploying enterprise SOAs and contribute to the technology standards that enable them. For more information,visit https://wso2.com and the WSO2 OxygenTank developer portal at https://wso2.com, or check out WSO2 on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Planet WSO2and FriendFeed.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693586
__label__cc	0.661052	0.338948	Distance RBD → New York Distance from RBD to New York #1 RBD 32.680900,-96.868200Dallas Executive Airport Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, United States of America #2 New York 40.714268,-74.005974Manhattan Community Board 1, New York County, New York, United States of America Manhattan Community Board 1, New York County, New York, United States of America #1 Dallas Executive AirportDallas, Dallas County, Texas, United States of America Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, United States of America Latitude: 32.6809 32° 40' 51.240'' NLongitude: -96.8682 -96° 52' 5.520'' EAltitude: 201.17 mLocal time: 22:12 (21.01.2021) : (America/Chicago) Flight route: 1,377.89 mi (2,217.50 km) (3h 6min) The flight distance between airports Dallas Executive Airport (RBD) and New York (TEB) is 1,377.89 mi (2,217.50 km). This corresponds to an approximate flight time of 3h 6min. Similar flight routes: RBD → TEB , RBD → LGA , RBD → TEB , RBD → TEB , RBD → LGA Bearing: 59.73° (ENE) The initial bearing on the course from RBD to New York is 59.73° and the compass direction is ENE. Midpoint: 37.24763,-86.04338 The geographic midpoint between RBD and New York is in 688.97 mi (1,108.79 km) distance between both points in a bearing of 59.73°. It is located in United States of America, Kentucky, Hart County. The shortest distance (air line) between RBD and New York is 1,377.94 mi (2,217.58 km). The shortest route between RBD and New York is according to the route planner. The driving time is approx. . Half of the trip is reached in . The time difference between RBD (America/Chicago) and New York (America/New_York) is 1 hours. This means that it is now 22:12 (21.01.2021) in RBD and 23:12 (21.01.2021) in New York. #2 New York Manhattan Community Board 1, New York County, New York City, New York, United States of America Manhattan Community Board 1, New York County, New York City, New York, United States of America Latitude: 40.714268 40° 42' 51.365'' NLongitude: -74.005974 -74° 0' 21.506'' ELocal time: 23:12 (21.01.2021) : (America/New_York) To calculate the distance between RBD and New York, the place names are converted into coordinates (latitude and longitude). The respective geographic centre is used for cities, regions and countries. To calculate the distance the Haversine formula is applied. New York is just as far away from RBD as RBD from Brooklyn (2,220 km), Queens (2,230 km), Manhattan (2,223 km), The Bronx (2,233 km), Tegucigalpa (2,289 km), Ottawa (2,301 km), San Salvador (2,252 km), Fresno (2,137 km). RBD to New York, RBD to Los Angeles, RBD to Chicago, RBD to Houston, RBD to Philadelphia, RBD to Phoenix, RBD to San Antonio, RBD to San Diego, RBD to Dallas, RBD to San Jose, RBD to Austin, RBD to Jacksonville, RBD to Indianapolis, New York to Los Angeles, New York to Chicago, New York to Houston, New York to Philadelphia, New York to Phoenix, New York to San Antonio, New York to San Diego, New York to Dallas, New York to San Jose, New York to Austin, New York to Jacksonville, New York to Indianapolis,	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693588
__label__cc	0.705352	0.294648	658 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Link: 1 Reads 5.3 Comments 7.1 This Treatment for Early Alzheimer’s is Changing the Face of Medicine. Robert Keith Wallace (278,136) 658 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Link: It’s official: there is a cure for early-onset Alzheimer’s—but it’s not a pill. Thanks to Dale Bredesen, M.D., author of the bestselling book, The End of Alzheimer’s: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline, there is a scientifically-tested procedure that effectively stops this terrible epidemic. Using brain imaging and neuropsychological testing, Dr. Bredesen’s published research clearly shows the unprecedented effectiveness of his program for reducing cognitive decline in early-Alzheimer’s patients. The book explains that many billions of dollars have been spent by government agencies, pharmaceutical companies, and biotechnology to halt the disease, yet out of 244 experimental Alzheimer’s drugs tested from 2000 to 2010, only one (memantine) was approved, and its results are modest at best. One out of three seniors still dies with either Alzheimer’s or some other form of dementia, at a cost of $259 billion every year. How does this approach work? The science is complex, but at a certain age it appears there is a constant competition between two processes in our brain: one that breaks down synaptic connections (synaptoclastic) and another that rebuilds them (synaptoblastic). Poor diet and lifestyle choices, plus genetic predisposition, result in “turning on” certain genes in the brain which cause increased inflammation, the destruction of neural pathways (synaptoclastic), and the build-up of a tangled web of a protein known as beta-amyloid plaque. Most scientists assume that the amyloid plaque is the cause of Alzheimer’s and drugs have been developed to destroy it. Dr. Bredesen explains that the presence of the plaque is the result of the brain trying to adapt to a poor lifestyle. Leaky gut, he says, contributes to the deleterious process. The ancients knew that all disease begins in the gut, but this knowledge was lost over time. The advent of drugs gives us a quick fix, which reduces symptoms but does not cure disease. Alzheimer’s is a game changer because there are no pills to cure it. No quick solutions. The right diet and lifestyle, however, can turn the destructive genes off and turn on genes that are good for our health. But we have to change our lives, and we have to do it now. These are the steps we can take now to turn off the genes leading to Alzheimer’s: 1. Find a sympathetic doctor or health expert who has been trained in the Bredesen protocol and can coach you to effectively alter your diet and lifestyle. With 36 different tests to monitor, this is not a trivial program, but doctors trained in functional or integrative medicine will be familiar with the basic concepts. 2. Begin with simple changes, such as improving your gut health and learning to meditate. I suggest the Transcendental Meditation technique since it’s a basic practice, especially if there are early signs of Alzheimer’s. 3. A ketogenic diet is central to the program, but you don’t have to understand the science for it to work. Dr. Joseph Mercola proposes the same diet as a cure for cancer in his book, Fat for Fuel. 4. Regular exercise and yoga. 5. Take Ayurvedic herbs, like Ashwagandha and Brahmi. How is this going to change the face of medicine? Doctors who have never been trained in basic nutrition or lifestyle medicine are going to have to learn this knowledge in order to administer the Bredesen protocol. Finally, they are going to learn why diet, yoga, meditation, herbs, and supplements are important for our health. With both patient and doctor demanding change, the pharmaceutical and food industries will be forced to respond. There is no turning back. We can either get healthy, or we can forget who we are. Author: Robert Keith Wallace Image: Wikimedia Commons Editor: Danielle Beutell Copy Editor: Callie Rushton Read 1 Comment and Reply Robert Keith Wallace Enlightened Society,Health & Wellness,Z ADMIN Wellness Featured Today alternative,alzheimers,cure,diet,Discovery,disease,doctors,Early Alzheimer’s,gut health,healing,medicine,pills,therapy elephant journal	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693590
__label__wiki	0.911412	0.911412	Picture gallery: Great Easton Primary School pupils raised over £1,000 for Sport Relief Emma Hardwick Great Easton Sport Relief 2014 - Credit: Archant Children skipped, danced or ran a three-legged race to help raise more than £1,000 for Sport Relief. As part of the nation-wide charity event, pupils arrived at Great Easton Primary School on Friday dressed in their best sporting clothes and armed with freshly baked cakes. At playtime a cake sale was held with all proceeds going to the cause, and after play they ran their mile. Overall, with the help of the bake sale, non-uniform day and the run, the school raised more than £1,000 – an incredible effort for 147 pupils. An extra £400 of sponsorship was raised when four pupils swam the Sport Relief Mile at Great Dunmow Leisure Centre swimming pool. Holly Miles, PE coordinator, said: “Well done to everyone who took part and a big thank you to parents for baking so many yummy cakes. Our money will make a real difference to the children and families in the UK and Africa.” More than £51m was raised on Friday’s live BBC Sport Relief show, beating the record £50.4m raised during the last show two years ago.The fundraising continued across the country over the weekend in a bid to break the 2012 overall total of £67.9m. Money raised will go towards helping people living tough lives both in the UK and around the world.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693594
__label__cc	0.739988	0.260012	Browse Previous \| Browse Next §668.42 Financial assistance information. (a)(1) Information on financial assistance that the institution must publish and make readily available to current and prospective students under this subpart includes, but is not limited to, a description of all the Federal, State, local, private and institutional student financial assistance programs available to students who enroll at that institution. (2) These programs include both need-based and non-need-based programs. (3) The institution may describe its own financial assistance programs by listing them in general categories. (4) The institution must describe the terms and conditions of the loans students receive under the Federal Family Education Loan Program, the William D. Ford Federal Direct Student Loan Program, and the Federal Perkins Loan Program. (b) For each program referred to in paragraph (a) of this section, the information provided by the institution must describe— (1) The procedures and forms by which students apply for assistance; (2) The student eligibility requirements; (3) The criteria for selecting recipients from the group of eligible applicants; and (4) The criteria for determining the amount of a student's award. (c) The institution must describe the rights and responsibilities of students receiving financial assistance and, specifically, assistance under the title IV, HEA programs. This description must include specific information regarding— (1) Criteria for continued student eligibility under each program; (2)(i) Standards which the student must maintain in order to be considered to be making satisfactory progress in his or her course of study for the purpose of receiving financial assistance; and (ii) Criteria by which the student who has failed to maintain satisfactory progress may re-establish his or her eligibility for financial assistance; (3) The method by which financial assistance disbursements will be made to the students and the frequency of those disbursements; (4) The terms of any loan received by a student as part of the student's financial assistance package, a sample loan repayment schedule for sample loans and the necessity for repaying loans; (5) The general conditions and terms applicable to any employment provided to a student as part of the student's financial assistance package; and (6) The exit counseling information the institution provides and collects as required by 34 CFR 674.42 for borrowers under the Federal Perkins Loan Program, by 34 CFR 685.304 for borrowers under the William D. Ford Federal Direct Student Loan Program, and by 34 CFR 682.604 for borrowers under the Federal Stafford Loan Program. (Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1092) [51 FR 43323, Dec. 1, 1986. Redesignated and amended at 64 FR 59067, Nov. 1, 1999; 74 FR 55649, Oct. 29, 2009]	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693596
__label__wiki	0.846284	0.846284	Enter your email address to receive notifications about new posts & articles in your inbox. Berkeley Law Symposia Waste & Pollution Practitioner Tips For Berkeley Law Students Alumni & Events Home \| Currents \| Exploring Prospects for Environmental Justice as the EPA Reaches the Half-Century Mark Exploring Prospects for Environmental Justice as the EPA Reaches the Half-Century Mark Dr. Joshua Ozymy and Dr. Melissa L. Jarrell By Dr. Joshua Ozymy* and Dr. Melissa L. Jarrell** As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency turns 50, the federal government remains a laggard on environmental justice. We offer three forward-facing remedies to provide more just outcomes for environmental justice communities through the legal system: refocusing criminal enforcement efforts to prioritize environmental justice communities, further conceptualizing environmental justice communities as victims of crime in the legal system, and expanding the use of crime victim compensation targeted at environmental justice communities. These remedies will ensure that environmental justice communities are better protected from harm and will provide opportunities to better compensate victims. As the environmental justice movement argued some four decades ago, across the United States, industrial facilities that emit toxic pollution were and remain disproportionally located in low income communities and in communities of color.[1] As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) turns 50, it is important to reflect on the agency’s work to remedy these disproportionate environmental burdens and achieve environmental justice for these communities. Not long after the EPA’s founding in 1970, Dr. Robert Bullard began some of the earliest academic and legal research into why people in these communities are more likely to live near toxic sources of pollution and disproportionately face toxic burdens.[2] Around the same time, the environmental justice (EJ) movement emerged, which sought to force government to address the environmental racism inherent in the historical siting of incinerators, power plants, petroleum refineries, and other toxic facilities throughout the country, and to substantially lessen or remove the resulting harms faced by nearby communities.[3] Environmental justice was not institutionalized as a policy issue at the EPA until almost a quarter century later. In 1994, President Clinton signed Executive Order 12898, which charged the agency with addressing EJ concerns throughout the country.[4] As a result, the EPA consolidated agency-wide EJ efforts by establishing the Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ).[5] OEJ has made progress in including EJ communities in the stakeholder participation process, issuing grants to communities and researchers, and engaging in research of environmental justice problems.[6] The agency has been much less successful in reducing or removing the harms faced by environmental justice communities that are near stationary sources that produce chronic and toxic emissions.[7] To fill this gap, environmental justice communities have tried to bring attention to environmental injustice, force regulators to pay attention, and sometimes reduce harm to their communities as the result of prompting regulatory activity on their behalf.[8] In some cases, through buyouts or litigation, these communities may receive compensation for these harms.[9] Yet, regardless of these efforts, the regulatory regime does not sufficiently reduce or compensate these communities for the harms inflicted on them by living in close proximity to heavy industry.[10] In this article, we propose that EPA could more effectively serve environmental justice communities by making changes to its criminal enforcement program. While recognizing that our recommendations will not remove structural racism or justly compensate all communities, we offer three paths forward for reaching more just outcomes in the current system: refocusing criminal enforcement efforts, treating environmental justice communities as victims under the law, and expanding crime victim restitution. A. Refocusing Criminal Enforcement Since environmental justice communities are innumerable and face disproportionate amounts of harm, we propose refocusing the investigative efforts of both the EPA and environmental prosecutors on reducing harm in environmental justice communities. Our own analysis of EPA investigations that led to criminal prosecution since 1983 reveals that about 2,588 prosecutions took place over the last 37 years. Investigations and prosecutions are predominately focused on narrower issues within the Clean Air Act (CAA), Clean Water Act (CWA), and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) that generally have little to do with harm reduction for environmental justice communities.[11] Criminal penalties under the CWA and CAA have reached billions of dollars, but these numbers are skewed on outlier cases such as the Volkswagen AG prosecution for emissions rigging or Transocean and BP’s role in Deepwater Horizon, labor violations and environmental training violations against Wal Mart, or refinery explosions as in the BP Texas City Case.[12] None of these high-profile prosecutions involve penalizing industrial facilities near environmental justice communities. Very little is mentioned in prosecution summaries about environmental justice being a primary consideration or consequence of these enforcement actions.[13] Criminal enforcement priorities must change to focus more systematically on what can be done within the regulatory system to deter malfeasance for both individual companies and to set an example for industries as a whole. A few examples can be given with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), CWA, and CAA to demonstrate how criminal provisions within these statutes are often not used on behalf of environmental justice communities as much as they could be in practice.[14] We find that CERCLA prosecutions rely almost exclusively on failure-to-notify of a hazardous release provisions or are done in conjunction with RCRA, CAA, or CWA. Prioritizing criminal investigation and prosecution of companies for failing to notify of hazardous releases near environmental justice communities would be a fruitful avenue for focusing criminal enforcement tools towards harm reduction in these communities. Engaging in more on-the-ground monitoring, real time data collection, and criminal investigation moves harm reduction in the right direction in this regard.[15] Polluted water poses a significant harm to environmental justice communities.[16] From 1983 through the end of 2019, there have been over 828 criminal prosecutions of CWA violations that stemmed from EPA investigations, representing about a third of total environmental prosecutions.[17] Creating a taskforce or environmental initiative to protect environmental justice communities seems feasible.[18] Many of these CWA prosecutions could be refocused on policing illegal discharges at facilities that pollute near environmental justice communities as a matter of regulatory priority to reduce harm.[19] Polluted air also causes significant health problems in environmental justice communities.[20] CAA criminal prosecutions stemming from EPA criminal investigations center on asbestos crimes, such as illegal removal and disposal, lack of a permit, sale of fraudulent asbestos certifications, failure to obtain proper accreditation, and failure to notify of the removal of asbestos containing materials (ACM); these crimes have very little to do with policing and prosecuting air pollution crimes at industrial facilities near environmental justice communities. We find that 59 percent of all CAA prosecutions since 1983 focus on asbestos crimes.[21] While important, asbestos enforcement seems to unduly dominate prosecutions over time, and resources could be put toward the criminal enforcement of air emissions at stationary sources, which affect environmental justice communities directly. Instead of focusing on asbestos crimes, EPA could make reducing air emissions at stationary sources near environmental justice communities a key part of their National Compliance Initiative. This could spill over in enforcement resources, both civil and criminal, moving towards harm reduction in these communities. The Petroleum Refinery Initiative focused enforcement resources to gain compliance across the industry and reduce hazardous air emissions at refineries. This took the form of a Storage Tank Emission Reduction Partnership Program to incentivize installation of slotted guidepoles on storage tanks containing volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and to reduce emissions from other sources. EPA settled 37 cases with companies across 32 states over a series of years that covered 112 refineries, agreements to invest some $7 billion in pollution control technologies, and for companies to pay $116 million in civil penalties. Any community living near these refineries benefitted from harm reduction via reduced air emissions. EPA could create such a long-term initiative for environmental justice communities as a national priority in the coming decades to reduce harm via emissions reductions, where better health for these communities would be the cause of the initiative, rather than a consequence. [22] B. Conceptualizing Communities as Crime Victims Another approach to harm reduction and compensation for environmental justice communities is to properly view environmental justice communities as victims of environmental crime under the law, rather than considering their harms as an inevitable consequence of industrialization to be managed through a regulatory system. Environmental crime is more prevalent than street crime, but the public and legal systems often do not perceive them as such, as they are chronic and slow to manifest, and it can be difficult to find the guilty party.[23] However, considering individuals injured by environmental crimes as crime victims under the law has precedent in federal law.[24] EPA criminal investigators could work with DOJ prosecutors to conceptualize environmental justice communities in this manner and to prioritize criminal investigations in these communities. Traditionally, crime victims played a passive role in the U.S. legal system.[25] However, in the 1980s and 1990s a conservative offshoot to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, the Victim’s Rights Movement, sought increasing representation of victims within the legal system.[26] The Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA) was one response to this political pressure.[27] Signed into federal law in 2004, CVRA expands the role of victims in federal criminal prosecutions and provides guidance for better defining the role of victims in court proceedings.[28] Additionally, CVRA extends rights to victims under Rule 32 of the Federal Rules for Criminal Procedure.[29] The CVRA changes the nature of the role of victims from passive to one with enforceable rights.[30] Some legal critics, prosecutors, and judges have been wary of an expanded role for victims in court proceedings. They have argued at various points that procedural rights for victims can hinder the ability of prosecutors to negotiate plea bargains or can be prejudicial to the rights of defendants to allow victims to testify at trial, sentencing, or enter victim impact statements as evidence or read them at trial. However, the application of the CVRA has thus far not borne these criticisms out.[31] Three major corporate environmental crime cases have tested the application of the CVRA to environmental crime victims. In United States vs. BP Products, the trial court recognized environmental crime victims in the case of a refinery explosion, and the appellate court weighed in on the rights of crime victims to receive proper notification of a plea bargain prior to the public release of a plea agreement with British Petroleum. In United States v. W.R. Grace & Co. the appellate court granted the petition by environmental crime victims to testify and be heard at trial of a company that poisoned a nearby town for decades. In United States v. CITGO, the appellate court granted victim status to individuals living in an environmental justice community who had been poisoned by toxic benzene emissions emanating from an open tank at a petroleum refinery. In United States v. BP Products, an explosion at the company’s Texas City refinery killed 15 workers and injured 180 others.[32] After British Petroleum agreed to plead guilty, the court agreed with prosecutors to notify victims after the press release, despite many victims petitioning the court prior to reject the plea as too lenient.[33] The 5th Circuit Court agreed the victims’ rights were violated but stated a CVRA petition was subject only to discretionary mandamus review by the court.[34] The appellate court found the victims had the right to be notified of the agreement but the court did not reverse the decision of the lower court to allow the plea agreement.[35] Second, United States v. W.R. Grace & Co. centered on the company’s mining and processing of vermiculite ore near Libby, Montana.[36] Burdened by some 270,000 asbestos-related lawsuits, the company filed bankruptcy in 2001,[37] DOJ prosecutors indicted the company and several officials for knowingly releasing asbestos, improper disposal, fraud, conspiracy and other crimes.[38] The district court denied the government’s motion to allow thirty-four victims to testify, arguing there were no identifiable victims based on the charges indicated in the indictment.[39] The victims successfully filed a writ of mandamus under the CVRA, which allowed them to be recognized as victims and attend the trial, although the company was found not guilty and EPA declared the first state of emergency for a public health crisis under CERCLA.[40] Third, United States v. CITGO focused on the company operating oil-water separator tanks without proper emissions controls in Corpus Christi, Texas and allowing VOCs including benzene, a known carcinogen, to be emitted for about nine years.[41] Prosecutors gathered victim impact statements from 300 alleged victims living in a nearby environmental justice community, arguing the illegal emissions were the direct and proximate cause of their negative health effects and that they should be acknowledged as victims under the CVRA.[42] The judge issued an order excluding the victims. The victims’ attorneys filed a writ of mandamus with the Fifth Circuit Court a week prior to sentencing in 2012, and the Fifth Circuit ruled that the judge had to re-examine the victims’ filings.[43] The district judge reversed his previous order and declared that the petitioners were victims under the CVRA and allowed oral testimony from 90 victims at sentencing. The judge noted the victims’ negative experiences could be at least partially attributed to their proximity to the group of refineries bordering their community, but the judge did not award restitution.[44] These three cases acknowledge the legal right of environmental crime victims to appeal to the circuit courts, be heard in court, confer with prosecution, receive timely notice of court proceedings, and fundamentally to exist under the law.[45] The role of the EPA here would be to focus National Compliance Initiatives on stationary sources of pollution near environmental justice communities. The role of the EPA would be to enhance monitoring and investigations of emissions that harm environmental justice communities and to work with federal prosecutors to reduce harm via emissions reductions either through civil and civil-judicial compliance initiatives or through concerted criminal enforcement actions targeted at facilities that engage in serious or chronic violations.[46] Acknowledging toxic emissions and discharges as the proximate cause of harm for those living in close distance over time would open up many avenues for addressing environmental justice in appropriate ways through harm reduction. As the government noted in W.R. Grace & Co., facing an increased risk of disease should qualify one as a crime victim.[47] C. Expanding Environmental Crime Victim Restitution EPA can play an expanded role in affording compensation to environmental justice communities, as evidenced by their actions surrounding the W.R. Grace case in Libby, Montana where the agency declared a public health emergency under CERCLA.[48] This action allowed the agency to spend significant resources remediating contaminated areas. Libby was also declared a Superfund Site and placed on the National Priorities List to prioritize remediation in 2002 that continued until 2014 with ongoing maintenance activities.[49] In both instances EPA put forth substantial funding and effort to help a community of victims impacted by industrial pollution. Within the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a provision to use Medicare funding to extend coverage to individuals in areas undergoing a public health emergency. [50] This provision was likely targeted at Libby. The same precedent could be applied to many environmental justice communities throughout the country. From these aforementioned cases, prosecutors can begin to expand precedents on what qualifies as harm and how to go about receiving compensation for environmental justice communities as victims of environmental crime. The Crime Victims Fund (CVF) was established in 1984 and is funded through penalties levied on convicted federal offenders.[51] The Office of Victims of Crime was established in DOJ in 1988 to administer the fund. The CVF’s balance of $6 billion is used to fund formula grants for state crime victim compensation programs and victim assistance programs. Funds are allocated by statute to victims of crimes for resulting medical, funeral or burial costs, mental health counseling, or lost wages.[52] The courts have historically collected such fees and assessments from offenders in certain environmental crime cases and prosecutors could build on this precedent.[53] Removing environmental justice communities from harm requires a buyout through voluntary means or via eminent domain. For members of environmental justice communities that do not wish to be relocated, harm reduction can be achieved through better regulation and enforcement actions that reduce harmful emissions. The CVF could be expanded and used to help fund medical costs for those that remain, or EPA could step in, as with Libby, Montana, to provide medical care and monitoring on a more systematic basis. The CVF should be altered to include property damage and loss, and be expanded to include environmental justice communities and environmental crimes. If these remedies were sufficiently considered, then restitution for damages would currently function to cover medical and mental health costs or lost wages via the CVF. In the alternative, the courts could order restitution as they have in the past with other environmental crime victims in a series of cases ranging from asbestos exposure to illegal taking.[54] At the half-century mark the EPA has mostly failed to prioritize environmental justice through direct and systematic programs geared towards harm reduction and compensation. The government should go beyond stakeholder inclusion to prioritize criminal enforcement and compliance efforts towards harm reduction for environmental justice communities, should allow for the continued representation of these communities as victims under the law, and should expand the use of compensation programs to provide restitution. These are necessary steps towards a more just outcome for environmental justice communities. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38F18SG08 . Director of The Honors Program and Strategic Initiatives and Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi (United States) *. Dean, University College and Professor of Criminal Justice at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi (United States) [1]. Clair Bullock, Kerry Ard, & Grace Saalman, Measuring the Relationship between State Environmental Justice Action and Air Pollution Inequality, 1990-2009, 35 Rev. Pol’y Rsch. 466, 466-67 (2018). [2]. Bullard’s early work came from a lawsuit, where his research showed that all of the landfills owned by the City of Houston, Texas were in Black neighborhoods, along with three quarters of private landfills and incinerators. Robert D. Bullard, Solid Waste Sites and the Houston Black Community, 53 Soc. Inquiry 273, 273–274 (1983). [3]. The genesis of the environmental justice movement is often traced to the siting of a polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs) landfill in Warren County, North Carolina in 1982. The grassroots group the Warren County Citizens Concerned (WCCC) organized to oppose the toxic dump. Later, the United Church of Christ Commission on Racial Justice issued an extensive report on hazardous waste dumps throughout the United States. United Church of Christ, Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States (1987). [4]. See Environmental Justice Timeline, EPA, https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice/environmental-justice-timeline (last updated June 2, 2017). [5]. Learn About Environmental Justice, EPA, https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice/learn-about-environmental-justice (last updated Sept. 24, 2020). [6]. Suzie Canales, Joshua Ozymy, & Melissa Lee Jarrell, Risk Assessment or Risk Acceptance: Why the EPA’s Attempts to Achieve Environmental Justice Have Failed and What They Can Do About It, 5 Envtl. Just. 59, 60 (2012). [7]. Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, & Angel O. Torres, Addressing Global Poverty, Pollution, and Human Rights, in The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution, 279, 286–89, (Robert D. Bullard ed., 2005); Paul B. Stretesky & Michael J. Lynch, Corporate Environmental Violence and Racism, 30 Crime L. & Soc. Change 163, 165 (1998). [8]. Jennifer A. Horney et al., Comparing Residential Contamination in a Houston Environmental Justice Neighborhood Before and After Hurricane Harvey, 13 PLoS ONE (Feb. 8 2018), at 1; Garrett T. Sansom et al., Domestic Exposures to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in a Houston, Texas Environmental Justice Neighborhood, 11 Envtl. Just. 183, 183–185 (2018). [9]. Jacob Dick, West PA Residents Discuss Proposed Valero Buyout, Beaumont Enter. (Sep. 11, 2020), https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/insider/article/West-PA-residents-discuss-proposed-Valero-buyout-15558845.php. [10]. A simple review of the annual accomplishments of the OEJ shows that most governmental efforts focus on stakeholder inclusion, grant opportunities, and community outreach and training, but not significant efforts towards direct harm reduction for affected communities. See EPA, EPA Annual Environmental Justice Progress Report FY 2019, https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2019-11/documents/11.19.19_ej_report-final-web-v2s.pdf. [11]. Clean Water Act 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251–1387 (2018); Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6901–6992k (2018); Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 7401–7671q (2018). Data came from EPA, Summary of Criminal Prosecutions Database, U.S. EPA, https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/summary-criminal-prosecutions (last updated Nov. 11, 2020). Investigations and prosecutions are predominately focused on narrower issues within the CAA, CWA, and RCRA (about 60 percent of historical prosecutions) that generally have little to do with harm reduction for environmental justice communities specifically. While pollution from air, water, and waste generated for industrial facilities causes great harm to environmental justice communities, prosecutions under these big three federal statutes almost exclusively focus on illegal or unpermitted discharges under the CWA, Asbestos National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Pollutants (NESHAP) violations, or one or more storage, transport, or disposal violations under RCRA. See Joshua Ozymy, Bryan Menard, & Melissa L. Jarrell, Persistence or Partisanship: Exploring the Relationship Between Presidential Administrations and Criminal Enforcement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1983-2019, Pub. Admin. Rev., 1–15 (forthcoming 2021). [12]. Ozymy, Menard, & Jarrell, supra note 11, at 7–8; see Deepwater Horizon, U.S. Dep’t Just., https://www.justice.gov/enrd/deepwater-horizon (last visited Nov. 20, 2020); Transocean Pleads Guilty, Is Sentenced to Pay $400 Million Criminal Penalties for Criminal Conduct Leading to Deepwater Horizon Disaster, U.S. Dep’t Just. (Feb. 14, 2013), https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/transocean-pleads-guilty-sentenced-pay-400-millionin-criminal-penalties-criminal; Volkswagen AG Agrees to Plead Guilty and Pay $4.3 Billion in Criminal and Civil Penalties; Six Volkswagen Executives and Employees are Indicted in Connection with Conspiracy to Cheat U.S. Emissions Tests, U.S. Dep’t Just. (Jan. 11, 2017), https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/volkswagen-ag-agrees-plead-guilty-and-pay-43-billion-criminal-and-civil-penalties-six; Wal-Mart Pleads Guilty to Federal Environmental Crimes, Admits Civil Violations and Will Pay More than $81 Million, U.S. Dep’t Just. (May 28, 2013), https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wal-mart-pleads-guilty-federal-environmental-crimes-admits-civil-violations-and-will-pay-more. Marian Wang, BP Agrees to Pay $50 Million for Earlier Texas City Problems, ProPublica (Aug. 12, 2010, 3:32 PM), https://www.propublica.org/article/bp-agrees-to-pay-50-million-for-earlier-texas-city-problems. [13]. In analyzing environmental criminal prosecutions, including those with identifiable victims, we see little evidence of EJ playing a primary role. See Joshua Ozymy & Melissa L. Jarrell, EPA’s Criminal Prosecution and Punishment of Environmental Crimes, 50 Envtl. L.Rep. 10452,10455–10456 (2020). [14]. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601–9675 (2018). [15]. While official monitoring of air, water, and hazardous waste emissions does occur at large stationary sources of pollution near environmental justice communities, much of the data generated is self-reported by industry and on-the-ground sampling in real time and/or analysis of self-reported data often reveals a much bleaker picture of the amount of pollution environmental justice communities are exposed to than official estimates admit. See Envtl. Integrity Project, Accidents Will Happen 27–28 (2002), http://environmentalintegrity.org/pdf/publications/Report_Accidents_Will_Happen.pdf; Joshua Ozymy & Melissa Jarrell, Upset Events, Regulatory Drift, and the Regulation of Air Emissions at Industrial Facilities in the United States, 21 Envtl. Pol. 451, 451–460 (2012); Joshua Ozymy & Melissa Jarrell, Upset over Air Pollution: Analyzing Upset Event Emissions at Petroleum Refineries, 28 Rev. Pol’y Res. 365, 372–374 (2011). [16]. Yolanda J. McDonald & Nicole E. Jones, Drinking Water Violations and Environmental Justice in the United States, 2011-2015, 108 Am. J. Pub. Health 1401 (2018); Carolina L. Balazs et al., Environmental Justice Implications of Arsenic Contamination in California’s San Joaquin Valley: A Cross-Sectional , Cluster-Design, Examining Exposure and Compliance in Community Drinking Water Systems, 11 Env’l Health, 84 (2012). [17]. Ozymy, Menard, & Jarrell, supra note 11, at 4. [18]. As part of the EPA’s National Compliance Initiatives, reducing significant non-compliance with NPDES permits and management of contaminated stormwater is a priority under the CWA. National Compliance Initiatives, EPA, https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/national-compliance-initiative-reducing-significant-non-compliance-national-pollutant, (last updated Sept. 10, 2020). EPA could make non-compliance with water emissions at stationary sources near environmental justice communities their top priority or one of the top priorities in a National Compliance Initiative and make this ongoing for many years; the same could occur for an ongoing basis with air emissions. This approach would give more force and resources towards policing facilities that arguably do the most direct harm. [19]. Joshua Ozymy & Melissa L. Jarrell, Exploring the History of Charging and Sentencing Patterns in U.S. Clean Air Act Criminal Prosecutions, 60 Nat. Resources J., (forthcoming 2021). [20]. Susan A. Perlin, Ken Sexton, & David W. S. Wong, An Examination of Race and Poverty for Populations Living Near Industrial Sources of Air Pollution, 9 J. Exposure Analysis & Env’l Epidemiology 29, 29-32 (1999). [22]. Petroleum Refinery National Case Results, EPA, https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/petroleum-refinery-national-case-results, (last updated Apr. 11, 2019). [23]. Robert Adler & Charles Lord, Environmental Crimes: Raising the Stakes, 59 Geo. Wash. L.Rev. 781, 781–861 (2010); Ronald G. Burns & Michael J. Lynch, Environmental Crime: A Sourcebook (2004). [24]. Melissa L. Jarrell & Joshua Ozymy, Real Crime, Real Victims: Environmental Crime Victims and the Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA), 58 Crime, Law and Social Change 373, 376-378 (2012). [25]. See, e.g., Kenna v. U.S. District Court, 435 F.3d 1011 (9th Cir. 2006). Victims of financial fraud were not allowed to speak at sentencing. The appellate court granted a writ of mandamus holding the district court erred in refusing to allow victims to speak at sentencing and supported their argument that they had the right to be “reasonably heard” under the CVRA. [26]. The idea of giving crime victims procedural rights in the court system harkens back to colonial America, where it was not uncommon for victims to play a central role in court proceedings. Private prosecutions were often common in the United States through the early 1800s. See generally Douglas E. Beloof, Weighing Crime Victims’ Interests in Judicially Crafted Criminal Procedure, 56 Cath. U. L.Rev. 1135, 1135 (2007); Mario M. Cuomo, The Crime Victim in a System of Criminal Justice, 8 J.Civ. Rts. & Econ. Dev. 1, 3 (1992); William F. McDonald, Towards a Bicentennial Revolution in Criminal Justice: The Return of the Victim, 13 Am. Crim. L.Rev. 649, 649 (1976). [27]. See History of Victims’ Rights, Nat’l Crime Victim Law Inst. (2011), https://law.lclark.edu/centers/national_crime_victim_law_institute/about_ncvli/history_of_victims_rights/. In Linda R.S. v. Richard D. the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a private citizen cannot compel a prosecutor to act. Linda R.S. v. Richard D., 410 U.S. 614 (1972). This is a key case followed by Leeke v. Timmerman that affirmed the sole right of the prosecutor to bring charges and that such an act cannot be compelled by a private citizen. Leeke v. Timmerman, 454 U.S. 83 (1981). These cases may be considered pivot decisions that later resulted in the organization of groups to find an expanded role of victims in judicial processes leading up to state action and then federal action on the CVRA. [28]. Court cases in the late 1980s and early 1990s show how the courts were starting to view the push to include victims in court proceedings. Booth v. Maryland ruled it unconstitutional for Juries to hear how a murder affected a victim’s family at trial. Booth v. Maryland, 482 U.S. 496 (1987). Payne v. Tennessee amended a previous ruling in South Carolina v. Gather that held victim impact statements are admissible only in the case that they relate directly circumstances of a crime. Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U.S. 808 (1991); South Carolina v. Gathers, 490 U.S. 805 (1989). [29]. Crime Victims’ Rights Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3771 (2011). Other federal laws, such as the 2019 Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act protect victims. Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act, Pub. L. No. 115-299 (2018). This case changes the way that the courts award restitution in child pornography cases. We focus on the CVRA as it is a more expansive and general law meant to enhance the role of victims in federal court proceedings. Moreover, we see the potential of the CVRA to be further applied to EJ communities directly. See Paul G. Cassell & James R. Marsh, The New Amy, Vicky, and Andy Act: A Positive Step Towards Full Restitution for Child Pornography Victims, 31 Fed. Sent’g Rep., 9 (2019). The lead up to the victims’ rights movement gaining prominence can be traced to Ronald Reagan Declaring April 19, 1982 to be “Victims’ Rights Week” and then the issuance of the President’s Task Force’s Final Report on Victims of Crime in December of that year. The Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) was passed in 1984 that created the Office of Victims of Crime in the Department of Justice and the Crime Victims’ Fund. 42 U.S.C. § 10601 (2018). This was further institutionalized in 1990 with the passage of the Victims’ Rights and Restitution Act. 34 U.S.C. § 20141 (2018). See Victims of Crime Act, RAINN (2020), https://www.rainn.org/articles/victims-crime-act; Office for Victims of Crime, Final Report of the President’s Task Force on Victims of Crime (2020) https://ovc.ojp.gov/library/publications/final-report-presidents-task-force-victims-crime. While most states have constitutional or statutory provisions that protect the rights of crime victims in court proceedings, the modern social movement to codify a consistent set of rights in state constitutions is known as the Marsy’s Law Movement. This movement can be traced to the passage of Proposition 9, known as the California Victims’ Bill of Rights Act passed in 2008. See State Efforts, Marsy’s Law (2020), https://www.marsyslaw.us/states. [30]. The CVRA provides rights to be protected, given timely notice, inclusion in court proceedings, heard at public proceedings, confer with an attorney of the Government, proceedings that are free from delay, to be treated with fairness and with respect to dignity and privacy, and full and timely restitution as provided in law. The Act thus provides a set of procedural rights during court proceedings. These have not always been enforced without legal action. For example, in Kenna v. U.S. District Court, the court construed a statutory right to be heard that applied to crime victims to make oral statements at sentencing. The right to be heard was granted under the CVRA, but making this an enforceable right at sentencing, during trial, or in pre-trial activities required court interpretation. See the following articles for rights conferred under the CVRA and subsequent court rulings that clarified those rights in judicial procedures: Paul G. Cassell, Recognizing Victims in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure: Amendments in Light of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, 2005 BYU L.Rev. 835, 835; Paul G. Cassell, Treating Crime Victims Fairly: Integrating Victims into the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, 2007 Utah L.Rev. 861, 861; Douglas E. Beloof, Dignity, Equity, and Public Interest for Defendants and Crime Victims in Plea Bargains: A Response to Professor Michael O’Hear, 91 Marq. L.R. 349 (2007); Kenna v. U.S. District Court, 435 F.3d 1011 (9th Cir. 2006). [31]. The following provide support and criticism for a larger role of victims under the CVRA in court proceedings: Paul G. Cassell and Steven Joffee, The Crime Victims’ Expanding Role in a System of Public Prosecution: A Response to the Critics of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act. 105 Nw. U. L.Rev. 164 (2011); Douglas E. Beloof, Weighing Crime Victims’ Interests in Judicially Crafted Criminal Procedure, 56 Cath. U. L. Rev. 1135 (2007); Kenna, 435 F.3d 1011; Danielle Levine, Public Wrongs and Private Rights: Limiting the Victim’s Role in a System of Public Prosecution, 104 Nw. U. L.Rev. 335 (2010); Tresa Baldas, Is Crime Victims’ Rights Law Being Misused in Environmental Cases?, Nat’l L.J. (2009); Andrew Atkins, A Complicated Environment: The Problem with Extending Victims’ Rights to Victims of Environmental Crimes, 67 Wash. & Lee L.Rev 1623, 1624-1647 (2010). [32]. United States v. BP Products North America Inc., No. 4:07-CR-434, 2008 WL 501321 (S.D. Tex. 2009); BP America Refinery Explosion, CSB, https://www.csb.gov/bp-america-refinery-explosion/. [33]. Jarrell & Ozymy, supra note 24, at 376. [34]. The victims filed a writ of mandamus with the 5th Circuit Court, arguing their rights under the CVRA to timely notification had been violated. The victims had been recognized by the court, but prosecutors reached a plea deal with BP to pay a $50 million fine for the CAA violations and the judge agreed that prosecutors were not required to notify the victims prior to negotiating the plea deal and notifying the public via a public press release. The Circuit Court ruled that mandamus review was discretionary. In re Dean, 527 F.3d 391 (5th Cir. 2008). [35]. For a discussion of mandamus review under the CVRA see Paul G. Cassell, Protecting Crime Victims in Federal Appellate Courts: The Need to Broadly Construe the Crime Victims’ Rights Act’s Mandamus Provision, 87 U. Denv. L.Rev. 599 (2010); Jerry F. Davis, Mandamus-Compelling an Official to Perform Discretionary Duty, 29 Louisiana Law Review 570, 570-573 (1969). [36]. United States v. W.R. Grace, 401 F. Supp. 2d 1065 (D.Mont. 2005). [37]. Beth Swantek, Libby, Montana Asbestos Disaster: 20 Years Later, Mesothelioma Cancer Network (Dec. 18, 2019), https://www.asbestos.net/blog/libby-montana-asbestos/. [38]. W.R. Grace and Executives Charged with Fraud, Obstruction of Justice, and Endangering Libby, Montana Community, Dep’t of Justice, (Feb. 7, 2005), https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2005/February/05_enrd_048.html. [39]. Petition for Writ of Mandamus, In re Melvin, No. 1:10-cr-00219-WMS-HKS (9th Cir. 2013), available at https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-wdny/legacy/2014/01/10/supp1.pdf. [40]. EPA Announces Public Health Emergency in Libby, Montana, EPA (June 17, 2009), https://archive.epa.gov/epapages/newsroom_archive/newsreleases/0d16234d252c98f9852575d8005e63ac.html; Kirk Johnson, Chemical Company Is Acquitted in Asbestos Case, N.Y. Times (May 8, 2009), https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/us/09grace.html. [41]. United States v. CITGO Petroleum Corp., 801 F.3d 477, 479-480 (5th Cir. 2015). [42]. Jarrell & Ozymy, supra note 24, at 377-378. [44]. Memorandum Opinion and Order Granting Motion to Exclude Witnesses, United States v. CITGO Petroleum Corp., No. 2:06-cr-00563 (S.D. Tex. 2014); Memorandum Opinion and Order Denying Request for Restitution, CITGO, No. 2:06-cr-00563. [45]. Jarrell and Ozymy, supra note 24, at 375-379. [46]. Memorandum Opinion and Order Denying Request for Restitution, supra note 44. As in CITGO, the legal principle that living near major sources of stationary pollution is in itself hazardous has been recognized by the courts, but naming corporations as the direct and proximate cause due to chronic emissions is something they are more reticent to support. [47]. The government petition for Writ of Mandamus in Grace argued that physical symptoms of injury are not always necessary for a person to be recognized as a crime victim. Prosecutors argued that, “[e]ach of the 34 victim-witnesses suffered harm as a result of their asbestos exposure directly and proximately caused by the conspiracy, knowing endangerment, and the obstruction of justice offenses alleged in the Superseding Indictment.” The CVRA allows for the recognition of crime victims that suffer proximate harm (physical, emotional, or financial). See Government Petition for Writ of Mandamus at 18, United States v. W.R. Grace, 401 F. Supp. 2d 1065 (D.Mont. 2005), available at http://www.volokh.com/files/governmentpetition.pdf; Rights of Victims, U.S. Dep’t Just., https://www.justice.gov/enrd/rights-victims (last updated May 28, 2020). [48]. EPA Declares Public Health Emergency in Libby, Montana, Environmental News Service (June 17, 2009), http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jun2009/2009-06-17-093.asp. [49]. EPA deletes portion of Libby, Montana Superfund site from National Priorities List, EPA (May 26, 2020), https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-deletes-portion-libby-montana-superfund-site-national-priorities-list-0. [50]. Robert Pear, Deep in Health Bill, Very Specific Beneficiaries, N.Y. Times (Dec. 20, 2009), https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/health/policy/21healthcare.html. [51]. For a timeline see Crime Victims’ Rights in America: A Historical Overview, OVC, https://www.ncjrs.gov/ovc_archives/ncvrw/2005/pg4b.html [52]. The OVC and CVF were established following the passage of the federal Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) in 1984. Victims of Crime Act of 1984, 42 U.S.C. § 10601 (2018); Victims of Crime Act, RAINN (2020), https://www.rainn.org/articles/victims-crime-act; Crime Victims Fund, Office for Victims of Crime, https://ovc.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh226/files/pubs/crimevictimsfundfs/intro.html. [53]. A few examples of fees for victims collected during environmental crime prosecutions include Kevin Deiter, who was convicted of unlawful taking and off-label use of a pesticide for killing bald eagles and other wildlife. Faulkton Man Charged and Sentenced for Wildlife Violations Involving Bald Eagle Deaths, U.S. Dep’t Just. (May 15, 2020), https://www.justice.gov/usao-sd/pr/faulkton-man-charged-and-sentenced-wildlife-violations-involving-bald-eagle-deaths. He was ordered to pay $29,400 in restitution and $40 to the Fund. Id. Alan Elias was prosecuted for knowing endangerment for directing his employees to clean out a 25,000-gallon tank filled with cyanide sludge. Summary of Criminal Prosecutions, EPA, https://cfpub.epa.gov/compliance/criminal_prosecution/index.cfm? (search defendants field for “Elias”; follow “VIEW” hyperlink). One worker was overcome from the fumes and suffered permanent brain damage and disability. Id. When investigators arrived on the scene Elias lied to them to cover up the crime. Idaho Man Given Longest-Ever Sentence for Environmental Crime, EHS Today (May 2, 2000), https://www.ehstoday.com/archive/article/21908293/idaho-man-given-longestever-sentence-for-environmental-crime. At sentencing, Elias was sentenced to 17 years incarceration, one of the most severe sentences for a federal environmental crime in the U.S. history. Id. He was ordered to pay roughly $6.3 million in restitution to the victim, but the legality of the restitution was later challenged in court. Summary of Criminal Prosecutions supra; see United States v. Elias, 269 F.3d 1003 (9th Cir. 2001). [54]. Marvin and Isaac Rubenstein injured workers by having them improperly remove ACM from a building thus exposing them to environmental harm. Summary of Criminal Prosecutions, EPA, https://cfpub.epa.gov/compliance/criminal_prosecution/index.cfm? (search defendants field for “Isaac Rubenstein”; follow “VIEW” hyperlink). Marvin was ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution to each known victim. Id. The Rubensteins appealed the ruling. United States v. Marvin and Isaac Rubenstein, 403 F.3d 93 (2d Cir. 2005). In 2015, Joseph Cuellar and his co-defendants were sentenced for unlawful asbestos abatement of a building. Summary of Criminal Prosecutions, EPA, https://cfpub.epa.gov/compliance/criminal_prosecution/index.cfm? (search defendants field for “Cuellar”; follow “VIEW” hyperlink). Sixty-five victims who were exposed to ACM petitioned for medical monitoring costs and restitution related to potential health costs of exposure. Id. The court ordered Cuellar to pay $1,801,833 in restitution. Id. The case was appealed. United States v. Cuellar, 646 F. Appx 574 (9th Cir. 2016). 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__label__cc	0.579238	0.420762	Ecumenical Patriarchate Permanent Delegation to the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Celebrated His Name’s Day “The Phanar is always a source of light and hope. And it does not blow out, nor with the winds blowing from East and West, nor with the winds blowing ice today from the steppes of the North” said the Ecumenical Patriarch at Vespers while celebrated his name’s day at the Monastery of Baloukli, in the presence of the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece and the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Ukraine. “The truth for Ukraine, for her Church, for all that happen for her, will shine through and prevail,” underlined the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who on Monday afternoon presided from the throne the Great Vespers for the feast the Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas. The service was held in the Monastery of Life-bearing Spring of Baloukli, in the presence of His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Metropolitan Epiphanios of Kyiv and all Ukraine, a multitude of hierarchs, clergymen, archons, headed by their President Gerasimos Fokas, the General Consul of Greece in the City Mrs. Georgia Sultanopoulou accompanied by the Consul George Gaitani, the General Consul of Ukraine Mr. Oleksandr Gaman, and the faithful from the City and abroad. Mr. Hasan Baltaci and Mr. Ismet Tokdemir, members of the Republican People’s Party, were also present. In his speech, His All-Holiness thanked God for the celebration of his name’s day for the 28th time as Archbishop of the Queen of the Cities and Ecumenical Patriarch, in the historic and ancient Monastery of Life-bearing Spring. He addressed a special greeting to the present Archbishop of Athens and all of Greece, Ieronymos, and then to the Metropolitan of Kiev and to all Ukraine, Epiphanios. “And we have the joy and honor of the presence of His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and all Greece, who wanted to add another link to the chain linking our two Churches and to enrich the jubilation of our celebrations. Your Beatitude, I thank you and your suite gratefully for the honor, that despite the high duties that you have at the same time which impose upon you to return to your see, we address you with most honor and fraternal love, wishing that we meet quickly again. You have allowed us to greet you and to say goodbye to you with the epigraphic words of Maximus of the Confessor: “Seize which is becoming old and bloom which is new”. “And in turn, we address You, Your Beatitude of Kyiv and all Ukraine, Metropolitan Epiphanios, who likewise wanted to honor in person the celebration of our name’s day. We are grateful to you. Lastly, you and us are at the center of processes, decisions, changes, of a new order in Orthodoxy, but also of disputes, attacks, slanders, great distortions of truth and reality. We answer: ‘Know the truth, and the truth will make you free.’ ‘Lie do not crawl to old age’, so do not be afraid, Your Beatitude and brother. “False is insignificant and truth is much stronger”, as Chrysostomos would say in this case. The truth about Ukraine, for her Church, for all that happen for her, will shine through and prevail. To those who unjustly defame us and our other predecessors, we respond with the words of Gregory the Theologian: ‘These are of the things below, we are of the angels; these are of anger, we are of faith; these are threatening us, we are praying for them; these are of gold and silver, we are purified’. So, ‘do not trouble your heart, never be tempted’.” “You have received autocephaly and freedom of self-government from your Mother Church, the Ecumenical Patriarchate, which, according to Professor Phidas, is the time-honored guarantor of the canonical order in the Orthodox Church, and according to Professor Tarnanidis, the continuator, the spokesman and the interpreter of the pure Orthodox tradition. Therefore, you know what you have been asking for, that which you have wished for centuries, and this Church which is the first throne of Orthodoxy knows what she gave you and why she gave it to you: that which was your right to acquire and which was her right, and indeed her exclusive right, to grant; and they all sought it and received it from her, and nowadays all of them are refusing to recognize it and act against their benefactor.” “Thank you for your presence and your participation in our joy and we congratulate you for your steadiness and gratitude to your benefactor, the Mother Church, from whom you have received previously baptism.” The Ecumenical Patriarch also welcomed all those who traveled from abroad to honor him on his onomastic feast. “Yes, brothers and friends, children and co-workers! The Phanar is always a source of light and hope. And it does not blow out, nor with the winds blowing from East and West, nor with the winds blowing ice today from the steppes of the North, but it remains bright, solid and immovable! It is tempered on the stone of faith. Its power is accomplished through suffering. Christ is interceding. And ‘now redeemed from all outside privilege and secular power’, it pours forth through the story, ‘being a benefactor and imminent’.” Subsequently, the Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine took the floor to greet His All-Holiness, and pointed out that his visit to the City “encloses the willingness to express once again the gratitude of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and myself personally for all the beneficial actions of Your All-Holiness to the pious Ukrainian people”. “Without your actions, your loving care, your great love,” continued the Head of the Autocephalous Church of Ukraine, “we would still live in division. And yet! Today we all enjoy the common worship of the One and Only God glorified in the Trinity, the God of our Fathers.” Then, turning to the Archbishop of Athens and all of Greece, the Metropolitan of Kyiv, speaking in Greek, said: “Your Beatitude, I was delighted to learn that you will be here tonight and I expected to come to Istanbul tonight to meet your venerable person. The person of the Pastor of Athens, the Hierarch who loves and respects the institution of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and who is the pillar of his righteousness. Through your person I greet all the Hierarchy of the Orthodox Church of Greece and I look forward to the honor and joy of our concelebration in the future.” At the end of the Vespers, the Ecumenical Patriarch celebrated a memorial service for the monk Bartholomew of Koutloumous from Imbros (1772-1851), whose name he bears, and then, in the courtyard of the Monastery, a reception took place during which the Patriarch received the respect and congratulations from the clergy and the people. It is worth noting that the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece was accompanied by the Metropolitans Nikolaos of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki, and David of Grevena, his Chancellor Bishop Symeon of Thespia, and by the Chief Secretary of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece Archimandrite Philotheos Theocharis, while the Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine was accompanied by Archbishop Eustratios and his ordained and lay collaborators. 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__label__wiki	0.605759	0.605759	Fulham caretaker boss Kit Symons eager to take on role full time Fulham's caretaker manager Kit Symons believes the manner of his side's point at Rotherham will further enhance his chances of getting the job on a permanent basis. Symons has been at the helm since Felix Magath's sacking in September and has led the Cottagers on a resurgent run, taking 10 points from the last five Sky Bet Championship matches, including the 3-3 draw at New York Stadium on Tuesday evening. It was no regular point for Symons' men, though, as they had to come from behind on three occasions, with Ross McCormack's penalty, Cauley Woodrow's curler and Dan Burn's header earning the draw. They cancelled out their hosts' lead within five minutes on each occasion and Symons believes the result will stand him in good stead of getting the job on a permanent basis. "I am just having to keep going. I want the job, that's not going to change, hopefully I will get it soon," he said. "Until I am told otherwise I will keep my head down and keep working hard. I am loving every minute of it and long may it last. "There have been good discussions, I am trying to get my views across to the owner and he has been asking pertinent questions. Hopefully I can get across the way I want the football club to be run and be organised. "I think picking up points is always going to help. A point away at Rotherham is a good point. I am pleased, when I took over we had one point so to get a point here is good. I am sure it won't do me any harm. "I don't think it will be judged solely on results. The right person needs to get the job, it needs to be a longer term appointment. If I continmually get good results it won't do me any harm." Symons made five changes to his side with a game at Charlton on Friday night in mind and he was proud of his young team. "We showed good character, it was a typical Championship game, it was end to end, both teams had good chances and it could have gone either way," he added. "The character was excellent and I am very pleased. "We had a little bit of illness, injuries and fatigue after the Norwich result. These are young players but I know them very well. Rotherham on a Tuesday night is a tough place to come but I was more than happy with them. "We are more than happy with the point, we will go away and be ready to play Friday night. "The boys that stepped in have put in a shift. These are young players and it could have been too much for them tonight but I know them well, I knew I could trust them."	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693600
__label__wiki	0.919516	0.919516	Tevez will find new club this month: Mancini Manchester City Manager Roberto Mancini reacts during the FA Cup Third Round match between Manchester City and Manchester United at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, England. (Getty Images) Published Tuesday, January 10, 2012 Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini was confident on Tuesday that outcast striker Carlos Tevez would find a new club in the January transfer window. The Argentine, who has not played for the Premier League leaders since refusing to warm up in a Champions League match at Bayern Munich in September, has been linked with Italian clubs AC Milan and Inter Milan. Milan's pursuit appears to have hit a brick wall as City have ruled out a loan deal which is favoured by the Serie A club, while Inter president Massimo Moratti confirmed his club's interest in the player on Monday. "I think maybe we can find a good solution in January...also because it is important for Carlos. Now it is three or four months that he hasn't played," Mancini told a news conference. "I know that there is Inter maybe that is interested because I read the newspapers, and Milan the same but I don't know the last news." Tevez was fined by City and suspended during an internal investigation, with Mancini subsequently offering him an olive branch if he apologised. He instead missed training and returned to his homeland without permission to shut the door on a return. AC Milan have been vocal in their bid to acquire the striker, who was signed by City from Manchester United for 25 million pounds ($38.61 million) in July 2009, but they could be pipped at the post by rivals Inter. "We don't do anything just for fun; if we do something it's because we think it could be a good deal," Moratti said on Inter's website (www.inter.it). "It all seems normal to me: we were interested in finding out how things stood (with Tevez), if there was any room for manoeuvre. We'll see if we're successful, if we can bring him here or not."	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693601
__label__cc	0.54048	0.45952	Barrier technology Business concept ColdZyme studies ColdZyme® against common cold Mouth Spray - cosmetic product Enzyme formulation Corporate governance structure Remuneration guidelines Enzymatica on First North Growth Market Prospectus / Issues Enzymatica in the media Notice of annual general meeting in Enzymatica AB (publ) The English text is an unofficial translation. In case of any discrepancies between the Swedish text and the English translation, the Swedish text shall prevail. The English text is an unofficial translation. In case of any discrepancies between the Swedish text and the English translation, the Swedish text shall prevail. The shareholders in Enzymatica AB (publ), reg. no 556719-9244 (the "Company") are hereby invited to attend the Annual General Meeting ("AGM") to be held on Wednesday 25 May 2016 at 1.00 p.m. at Elite Hotel Ideon, Scheelevägen 27 in Lund. 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The notice should specify the shareholder's name, personal identity or Company registration number, address, work-hour telephone number and shareholding, and names of any advisors. Trustee-registered shares In order to be entitled to participate in the meeting, shareholders whose shares are trustee-registered must temporarily register their shares in their own names. Such registration should be requested from the trustee, and must be executed with Euroclear Sweden AB on 19 May 2016. Shareholders that wish to execute such registration must, well in advance before the said date, notify its trustee thereof. If a shareholder intends to participate by proxy, the proxy must bring a written and dated proxy signed by the shareholder in original to the meeting. The proxy may not be older than five years. Proxy forms can be downloaded from the Company's website, www.enzymatica.com. If the proxy is issued by a legal entity, the proxy must also bring current registration certificate (Sw. registreringsbevis) of the legal entity or similar document of authorisation for the legal entity. In order to facilitate registration, proxies and documents on authorisation should be the Company to hand at the above-mentioned address well in advance before the meeting, and at the latest on 20 May 2016. Opening of the meeting Election of chairman of the meeting Preparation and approval of the register of voters Election of one or two persons to confirm the minutes Determination as to whether the meeting has been duly convened Approval of the agenda Presentation of the Annual Report and Audit Report and the Consolidated Annual Report and Consolidated Audit Report Resolution on adoption of the profit and loss statement and balance sheet, as well as the consolidated profit and loss statement and the consolidated balance sheet distribution of the Company's profit or loss according to the adopted balance sheet discharge from liability of the members of the board of directors and the CEO Determination of the number of members of the board of directors Determination of remuneration for the members of the board of directors and the auditors Election of members of the board of directors and eventual deputy board of directors auditors and eventual deputy auditors, when applicable Resolution on principles for the Nomination Committee Resolution on guidelines for remuneration for senior executives Resolution regarding authorisation of the board of directors to issue shares Closing of the meeting Resolution proposals Election of chairman of the meeting (item 2) The Nomination Committee proposes that advokat Jonas Frii from Setterwalls Advokatbyrå shall be elected as chairman of the meeting. Resolution on distribution of the Company's loss (item 8 b) The board of directors proposes that the unappropriated funds of SEK 21,371,496, including the year's loss of SEK 40,313,655, are carried forward to a new account, and thus no dividends shall be paid for the business year of 2015. Election of members of the board of directors and remuneration (items 9-11) As resolved on the AGM of 2015 the Nomination Committee shall consist of the chairman of the board of directors together with a representative of each of the three largest shareholders by votes at the end of October 2015. Consequently, the Nomination Committee consists of Ulf Blom, representing Medzyme Invest Öresund AB, Jörgen Rexö, representing Humea AB, and Åke Larsson, representing his own holdings. Following the acquisition of Zymetech, the Nomination Committee has been supplemented by Guðmundur Palmason, in accordance with the resolution at the extraordinary shareholders' meeting of 15 February 2016. Proposal pursuant to item 9: The Nomination Committee proposes that the board of directors shall consist of 7 ordinary members without deputies until the end of the next AGM. Further, the Nomination Committee proposes that a registered public auditor is appointed as auditor until the end of the next AGM. Proposal pursuant to 10: The Nomination Committee proposes that remuneration for the board of directors, excluding remuneration for committee work, shall be paid with a total of SEK 900,000, of which SEK 180,000 is remuneration for the chairman of the board of directors and SEK 120,000 to every other member of the board of directors. In addition, the Nomination Committee proposes that remuneration for work in the Audit Committee shall be paid with SEK 50,000 to the chairman of the Audit Committee and no remuneration shall be paid to other members of the Audit Committee. Further, it is proposed that no remuneration shall be paid for work in the Remuneration Committee. The Nomination Committee proposes that the remuneration for the auditor shall be paid in accordance with customary norms and approved invoice. Proposal pursuant to item 11: The Nomination Committee's proposes re-election of Lennart Nilsson, Marianne Dicander Alexandersson, Hans Pihl, Nils Siegbahn, Monica Wallter, Guðmundur Pálmason och Sigurgeir Guðlaugsson as ordinary members. Jonas E Forsberg and Anders Jungbeck have declined re-election. It is furthermore proposed that Lennart Nilsson is elected as chairman of the board. The Nomination Committee proposes that the registered public auditor Ernst & Young AB is re-appointed as auditor. Resolution on principles for the Nomination Committee (item 12) The board of directors proposes that a Nomination Committee shall be appointed before the coming election and remuneration, and that an instruction and charter for the Nomination Committee shall be adopted in accordance with the following substantial terms. The Nomination Committee shall before AGM be comprised of members representing the four largest shareholders by votes registered in the share ledger kept by Euroclear Sweden AB as of 31 October each year, together with the chairman of the board of directors who also shall convene the Nomination Committee for its first meeting. The chairman of the Nomination Committee shall be appointed by the member who represents the largest shareholder by votes, unless the Nomination Committee unanimously decides otherwise. If earlier than three months before the AGM, one or more shareholders who have appointed members of the Nomination Committee no longer are among the ten largest shareholders by votes, the members who are appointed by these shareholders shall leave their positions available and the shareholder, or shareholders, who becomes one of the three largest shareholders by votes shall have the right to appoint their representatives. If any of the members of the Nomination Committee resigns or relinquishes before completion of the assignment, and the Nomination Committee finds it desirable to substitute the member, a new member shall be appointed by the same shareholder or, if the shareholder is now longer among the three largest shareholders by votes, by the next shareholder in size. The Nomination Committee's term shall run until such time as a new Nomination Committee has been elected and announced. The Nomination Committee shall submit proposals in reference of the chairman of the shareholders' meeting, board of directors, chairman of the board of directors, auditor, remuneration for the board of directors, divided between the chairman of the board of directors and other members of the board of directors, as well as remuneration for committee work and remuneration for the auditor. These principles shall apply until further notice. No remuneration shall be paid to the members of the Nomination Committee. Any necessary expenses for the work of the Nomination Committee shall be paid by the Company. Resolution on guidelines for remuneration for senior executives (item 13) The board of directors proposes that guidelines regarding determination of remuneration and other benefits for the CEO and other senior executives in the Company shall be adopted with the following substantial terms. Senior executives include the individuals that together with the CEO constitute the Company's executive management. Enzymatica's principle is that the Company shall offer remuneration levels and employment conditions needed to enable recruitment and retention of senior executives with the required competence and capacity in order to achieve the business objective. The remuneration shall be decided on market-based terms. The fixed salary for the senior executives shall be market-based and based on the individual's work duties, responsibilities, expertise and performance. To the extent a member of the board of directors performs work for the Company alongside the work as a member of the board of directors, a market-based consultancy fee should be payable. Enzymatica offers other customary benefits to senior executives, such as company car, and occupational health services, equivalent to what is considered as reasonable in reference to market practice and the benefit for the Company. In addition to fixed salary, variable remuneration may be offered for rewarding target-related performance. The variable remuneration shall not exceed 30 per cent of fixed annual salary. Currently, no senior executive is entitled to variable remuneration. Pension benefits shall be contribution based occupational pension insurances, which shall be marked-based in relation to what generally applies for equivalent senior executives on the market. Notice period and eventual severance payment shall not exceed salary and other benefits of twelve months. The board of directors shall be entitled to deviate from these guidelines in individual cases if there are special reasons for doing so, for example additional variable remuneration in case of exceptional performance. If such deviation occurs, the board of directors shall report the reasons for the deviation at the closest following AGM. Resolution regarding authorisation of the board of directors to issue new shares (item 14) The board of directors proposes that the meeting authorises the board of directors until the next annual shareholders' meeting to, on one or more occasions, resolve to increase the Company's share capital by issue of no more than 17,500,000 new shares, provided that the board of directors has not exercised the authorisation which was resolved upon the extraordinary shareholders' meeting of 15 February 2016, at the latest before the time of the AGM. However, such issues may not cause the share capital in the Company to exceed the Company's highest allowed share capital according to the articles of association. The board of directors may deviate from the shareholders' preferential rights. The reason for the board of directors' authorisation to deviate from the shareholders' preferential rights is to enable the company's possibilities to raise new capital and to take advantage of future opportunities to attract new long-term owners of strategic importance to the company, as well as to finance the Company's growth strategy. The authorization also includes the right to decide on payment for the issued shares in kind, set-off or other conditions as referred in Chap. 13 Sec. 5 item 6 of the Swedish Companies Act (Sw. Aktiebolagslagen (2005:551)). At a deviation from the shareholders' preferential rights, the issue rate shall be determined in accordance with market conditions. Particular majority requirements For a valid resolution on the proposal pursuant to item 14, the proposal has to be supported by shareholders representing at least two-thirds of the votes cast as well as shares represented at the meeting. Total number of shares and votes The total number of shares and votes in the Company amounts as per the date of this notice to 45,867,380. The Company does not hold any own shares. The shareholders are reminded of their right to request information from the board of directors and the CEO at the meeting in accordance with Chap. 7 Sec. 32 of the Swedish Companies Act (Sw. Aktiebolagslagen (2005:551)). The board of directors' complete proposal for a resolution pursuant to items 9-14 are available for the shareholders at the Company's website and at the Company at its above mentioned address at the latest from 4 May 2016 and will free of charge be sent to the shareholders upon their request to the Company, provided that such shareholders state their current address. Lund in April 2016 Fredrik Lindberg, CEO Enzymatica AB Phone: 0708-86 53 70 \| E-mail: fredrik.lindberg@enzymatica.com About Enzymatica AB Enzymatica is a life science company and its business concept is to offer effective help against some of our most common diseases where viruses or bacteria play a decisive role. In a short amount of time, the company has developed ColdZyme® , a unique mount spray for colds, and launched the product on six markets and established itself as the top selling product for colds (calculated in SEK) in Swedish pharmacies. The development work includes medical devices relating to upper respiratory tract infections and oral health, as well as veterinary products. The company is headquartered in Lund, Sweden, and is listed on Nasdaq First North. For more information, please visit: www.enzymatica.se. Press Release (PDF).pdf Enzymatica cares about your privacy and processes your personal data in accordance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. For more information about how we handle your personal information, and what rights you have, please refer to our personal data processing document here.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693604
__label__wiki	0.523103	0.523103	You are at:Home»Robotics & AI»What to Consider Before Investing in Autonomous Cars What to Consider Before Investing in Autonomous Cars Iris.xyz December 9, 2018 By Richard Parker via Iris.xyz Ford, GM, Tesla and many other companies are testing self-driving cars. As technology improves, autonomous vehicles will become a mainstream reality. By 2040, experts predict that most cars on the road will be self-driving. If you are interested in investing in autonomous vehicles now, then consider the following information before taking the leap. Technology Background Before making an investment, it is crucial to understand more about the technology involved in creating self-driving cars. Autonomous cars are able to drive with no human intervention. Owners become passengers as the cars navigate streets on their own. Most autonomous vehicles rely on a combination of artificial intelligence (AI), software and machine learning. The cars also require a lot of hardware such as computers, radar, cameras and sensors, so they can monitor their surroundings and collect data. The most important thing to keep in mind is that the technology is constantly evolving. Investing in companies that cannot keep up with the changes can quickly turn into a problem. Ford plans to sell fully self-driving cars by 2021, but you can already buy an almost autonomous Volvo XC60 that has technology to help you avoid collisions with radar and cameras. Not only can it warn you about a potential hazard in the road, but it can also brake for you. The Volvo can help you stay in your lane on the road with steer assist technology. Buying the Tesla Model S gives you access to some of the self-driving tech that future cars may have. Its autopilot features with multiple cameras, radar and sensors help keep you safe on the road. Tesla’s current cars can give you a taste of what is to come with advanced technology. Click here to read more on Iris.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693608
__label__wiki	0.862273	0.862273	Joe Lynch's Fantasy Comedy 'Knights of Badassdom' is in Trouble Source: SlashFilm It's been over a year and half since Comic-Con 2011 gave us our first glimpse of the fantasy action comedy Knights of Badassdom from director Joe Lynch. Taking cues from Three Amigos and Tropic Thunder, the film follows group of LARPers (Live Action Role Players) who inadvertently summon a deadly succubus during the middle of a big fantasy battle and must fight her in the real world. The cast includes Ryan Kwanten, Game of Thrones' Peter Dinklage, Summer Glau, Steve Zahn, Community's Danny Pudi and Margarita Levieva. However, since the tease at Comic-Con and release of the first trailer, there haven't been any official updates on the release. Now we finally have some troubling news on that situation. SlashFilm noticed that the official website for the film, badassdom.com, contained an open letter to “what remains of the Board of Directors of IndieVest, the production company and manager of the film known as Knights of Badassdom.” It sounds like some of the people who worked on Knights of Badassdom are no longer in a position to make any decisions regarding the future of the film. That includes director Joe Lynch, who supposedly hasn't been involved with any aspect of the film's post-production since shortly after Comic-Con in 2011. However, the site has been updated with a bit more information on the issue. As of now, there's a screening of Knights of Badassdom for buyers happening this evening in order to get what is supposedly a 70-minute cut of the film sold and hopefully released. This version reportedly "includes significant changes to the original story and concept.” Well, that doesn't sound good. Other than that, the legal red tape is what's really at the source of this debacle. Aside from the creative differences that apparently exist, what is left of IndieVest is trying to transfer the film over to an entity called Media Society in order to turn the film into a business asset, thus making it difficult for anyone to give them grief. Those who are behind the campaign to save the film in its original form are saying this kind of decision is deceptive and not in the best interest of those who have invested in the film (check out the website for stories about the shady actions of IndieVest and Media Society). The badassdom.com website has since been updated after this debacle became a little more public and says, "IndieVest still has many options for completing Knights of Badassdom in a prudent way that allows it to continue to act with the fiduciary responsibility it owes its investors. It can do so without yielding to bullying and with minimal additional expense." And while director Joe Lynch hasn't made his position extensively know, there is this tweet: @#NotMyCut — Joe Lynch (@TheJoeLynch) March 2, 2013 Producer Wade Bradley, who is behind the new cut, is supposedly the man who removed Lynch from the film and also fired several other producers. Bradley is the man holding the screening tonight which those calling themselves the real Knights of Badassdom tried to prevent. Now they have to sit and wait, hoping their plea to investors and potential buyers is enough to keep it from getting bought or have those buyers demand that Lynch be brought back to finish the film. There's also hopes that they can raise enough money to finish the visual effects and other post-production elements needed. As of now, Bradley is denying all of these claims, though he hasn't offered any evidence to support his side of the story. The producer has said he would make a statement later this week, likely after the screening happens. Sadly, this is the seedy underbelly of Hollywood from time to time. Producers and directors bickering is a staple of behind-the-scenes stuff that you often don't hear about. But since this isn't a big studio film, there's not much of a filter or damage control to keep it under wraps. Hopefully we'll see Joe Lynch's vision of Knights of Badassdom sometime down the road, but for now we have to wait. Find more posts: Movie News WOW. And I thought the Weinstein Co getting sued over messing around with the scrip of Escape from Planet Earth by the original directors was a horrific situation. This almost takes the cake! Steve Kidd on Mar 5, 2013 A project involving Summer Glau, in trouble. Well I never! Richie G on Mar 5, 2013 This would make an interesting documentary... dreckent on Mar 5, 2013 lol - seriously! Would watch! Dinklage could narrate. It would be dramatic. avconsumer2 on Mar 6, 2013 Shame. I was looking forward to this. Carpola on Mar 5, 2013 Always wondered what happened to this. Weak Chad on Mar 5, 2013 Anyhow....the 45 week old torrent is from a DvD rental rip, and in English, in case you can't wait for these kids to stop arguing over the movie. Anonymous on Mar 5, 2013 I worked on this movie. This sucks bad. Farding on Mar 6, 2013 Farding, give us your reading on the film itself, under Lynch. Do you think it would have lived up to the trailer, which was awesome? LordJiggy on May 3, 2013	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693610
__label__wiki	0.92245	0.92245	Pressley: We showed great bravery this afternoon Town drew 0-0 with Chesterfield at the Proact Stadium Fleetwood Town manager Steven Pressley was left frustrated after this afternoon’s goalless draw at the Proact Stadium against Chesterfield. The Cod Army had chances to score in both halves but were thwarted by the Spireites, as they stayed in 19th place in the Sky Bet League One table. Pressley made five changes to his side for the game in Derbyshire, and gave youngster Keano Deacon his Football League debut in the second half when he came on as a substitute. Pressley said: “I’m frustrated because in our situation it’s very easy to become a percentage team and we showed great bravery today and kept playing. “We passed the ball around and kept doing the positive things we wanted to do, and really came here to win the game. “During the performance we created some unbelievable moments but our final shot and final decision let us down. “When you look at our line-up today it wasn’t a line-up to come here and sit in. It was line-up to purely win the game. “At the stage of the season we have to win games and be really, really positive in our play, and we were that but it was just the final moment. “We’ll work on that in training this week but I was really pleased with my players and how they handled the occasion. “Coming away from home in this league, a point in generally a good point but I wanted to come here and win and that was evident.”	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693611
__label__cc	0.714514	0.285486	El Hassana Dome National Park El Hassana Dome National Park Cairo, tours, booking, prices El Hassana Dome National Park is a unique geological formation in Giza, Egypt. In fact, it created 100 million years ago. The park designated a natural protectorate in 1989. It was by Prime Ministerial Decree 946/1989. In fact, the park currently threatened by encroaching urbanization and construction works. The National Park located in the area of Abu Rawash which is 8 Kilometer from Giza Pyramids. Moreover, it features geological importance and richness in fossils. It first discovered in the mid nineteenth century. In fact, El Hassana Dome name owes to its dome shaped hills. It also owes to its location at the end of El Hassana Valley. Furthermore, the dome is 149 meters high. The highest points from its eastern part raises 109 meters. In fact, the park split in two by the Cairo Alexandria Desert Highway. Its western side is rich in chalky sediment-ed hills and seashells. They are along with plant and animal fossils dating back to the Upper Cretaceous Period. Moreover, it is 135 million years old. With an area of just one square kilometer, the park is one of Egypt’s smallest. In fact, it not a well known tourist destination. Moreover, it surrounded by urbanization and the pollution that accompanies that it. Further details about El Hassana Dome National Park Cairo: The upscale New Giza housing project lies at its southern border. A network of pipelines currently installed along its eastern side. Moreover, quarries operate in the vicinity and commercial farms found along its southeast border. El Hassana Dome National Park does not receive many visitors. It is except those interested in geology and paleontology. They are along with students on scientific school field trips. So the protectorate is not disturbed or polluted by visitors. The geological richness of the National Park, first discovered by Gustave Le Febrve. He was a French engineer. He commissioned by Mohamed Ali Pasha in 1839. It was to survey the area around the Pyramids of Giza. To someone who is neither a geologist nor a paleontologist, there may not be much to see here. The park looks like an ordinary plot of desert with hills. But to specialists, the park does resemble an open air prehistoric museum. Nearby attractions Information, tours and Online Booking More of Egypt Nature Exploration More of Egypt attractions 6 day Egypt tour $690.00 per person Cairo Alexandria Islamic Egypt tour $620.00 per person 7 nights Nile cruise tour $910.00 per person 4 night Nile cruise tour $560.00 per person	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693614
__label__cc	0.650884	0.349116	WEEMS, KYLE Strasbourg 34 Forward Height: 1.98 Born: 23 August, 1989 Nationality: United States of America @kjw3434 EuroCup 2015-16 STATISTICS Totals 14 14 407:03 160 41/75 23/73 9/12 12 44 56 23 14 17 7 5 31 8 128 Averages 14 14 29:04 11.4 54.7% 31.5% 75% 0.9 3.1 4 1.6 1 1.2 0.5 0.4 2.2 0.6 9.1 Eighthfinals 23 * vs Galatasaray Odeabank Istanbul 32:33 9 3/8 1/2 5 5 2 2 1 2 4 1 8 24 * at Galatasaray Odeabank Istanbul 29:15 7 2/4 0/1 3/3 2 4 6 1 1 1 1 1 11 2 Totals 61:48 16 5/12 1/3 3/3 2 9 11 3 3 1 1 2 5 2 19 Average 30:54 8 41.7% 33.3% 100% 1 4.5 5.5 1.5 1.5 0.5 0.5 1 2.5 1 9.5 21 * vs Dolomiti Energia Trento 31:51 15 2/6 3/7 2/2 2 5 7 2 1 13 22 * at Dolomiti Energia Trento 30:22 10 3/4 1/6 1/2 1 1 2 3 1 4 2 Totals 62:13 25 5/10 4/13 3/4 2 6 8 2 0 2 0 0 3 2 17 Average 31:06 12.5 50% 30.8% 75% 1 3 4 1 0 1 0 0 1.5 1 8.5 19 * at Nizhny Novgorod 23:30 2 1/3 0/1 2 2 1 1 2 4 -3 20 * vs Nizhny Novgorod 45:54 35 10/13 5/15 2 4 6 3 3 1 3 32 2 Totals 69:24 37 11/16 5/16 0/0 2 6 8 4 4 2 1 0 7 0 29 Average 34:42 18.5 68.8% 31.3% 0% 1 3 4 2 2 1 0.5 0 3.5 0 14.5 17 * vs EWE Baskets Oldenburg 28:08 7 1/2 1/5 2/2 1 3 4 2 1 2 1 6 18 * at EWE Baskets Oldenburg 26:28 14 4/6 2/5 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 2 16 2 Totals 54:36 21 5/8 3/10 2/2 1 6 7 4 1 1 1 1 3 3 22 Average 27:18 10.5 62.5% 30% 100% 0.5 3 3.5 2 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 1.5 1.5 11 11 * at Herbalife Gran Canaria 28:28 6 3/6 0/4 4 4 2 2 3 1 2 3 12 * vs Avtodor Saratov 29:50 13 5/8 1/4 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 3 8 13 * vs Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem 27:28 10 0/2 3/4 1/2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 14 * at Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem 28:21 15 3/5 3/9 0/1 2 5 7 2 2 1 12 15 * vs Herbalife Gran Canaria 23:46 10 2/5 2/5 3 4 7 1 1 1 4 8 16 * at Avtodor Saratov 21:09 7 2/3 1/5 2 2 4 1 3 2 4 6 Totals 159:02 61 15/29 10/31 1/3 5 17 22 10 6 11 4 2 13 1 41 Average 26:30 10.19 51.7% 32.3% 33.3% 0.8 2.8 3.7 1.7 1 1.8 0.7 0.3 2.2 0.2 6.8 EuroCup 2015-16 individual rankings #1 in Blocks against (2) #1 in 2-pointers attempted (8) #1 in Games Played (1) #1 in Games Started (1) #1 in Steals (2) #2 in 3-point % (50%) #3 in Assist-turnover ratio (200%) #3 in Blocks (1) #3 in Field goals made (4) #3 in Fouls Commited (4) #4 in Assists (2) #4 in Defensive Rebounds (5) #4 in Field goals attempted (10) #4 in 3-pointers made (1) #4 in Minutes Played (32:33) #4 in Total Rebounds (5) #7 in Offensive Rebounds (0) #7 in Points (9) #8 in Index Rating (8) #9 in True Shooting % (40.9%) #9 in Field goal % (40%) #10 in 2-point % (37.5%) #11 in Free throws attempted (0) #11 in Free throws made (0) #11 in Free throw % (0%) #12 in Fouls Drawn (1) #14 in Turnovers (0) #1 in 3-pointers attempted (13) #10 in Points (25) #11 in Blocks against (0) #11 in Field goals made (9) #12 in Blocks (0) #12 in 2-pointers made (5) #12 in Free throw % (75%) #12 in Offensive Rebounds (2) #13 in Total Rebounds (8) #14 in 2-pointers attempted (10) #15 in Defensive Rebounds (6) #15 in Index Rating (17) #17 in 2-point % (50%) #20 in Assist-turnover ratio (100%) #21 in Assists (2) #23 in Field goal % (39.1%) #24 in True Shooting % (39.7%) #24 in Fouls Commited (3) #24 in Steals (0) #6 in Turnovers (2) #1 in Free throw % (100%) #17 in Field goals attempted (18) #18 in Minutes Played (54:36) Index rating 32 Strasbourg vs. Nizhny Novgorod 3/23/2016 Points 35 Strasbourg vs. Nizhny Novgorod 3/23/2016 Offensive rebounds 3 Virtus Bologna vs. Darussafaka Istanbul 1/15/2020 Defensive rebounds 8 Maccabi Rishon LeZion vs. Virtus Bologna 11/13/2019 Total rebounds 9 Maccabi Rishon LeZion vs. Virtus Bologna 11/13/2019 Assists 5 Virtus Bologna vs. AS Monaco 10/21/2020 Steals 4 Virtus Bologna vs. Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar 10/7/2020 Blocks 2 Virtus Bologna vs. Telenet Giants Antwerp 12/16/2020 Minutes 45 Strasbourg vs. Nizhny Novgorod 3/23/2016 Played college basketball at Missouri State (2007-12). Moved to Germany for the 2012-13 season, signed by Telekom Baskets Bonn. Signed for the 201314 season by BBC Bayreuth. Moved to France for the 2014-15 season, signed by JSF Nanterre. Signed for the 2015-16 season by Strasbourg IG. Moved to Turkey for the 2016-17 season, signed by Besiktas JK Istanbul. Signed for the 2018-19 season by Tofas Bursa. Moved to Italy for the 2019-20 season, signed by Virtus Bologna. Won the 2015 Euro Challenge with JSF Nanterre. Won the 2015 Semaine d'As with JSF Nanterre. Named the Semaine d'AS Final MVP. Played the 2015 French All Star Game. Named to the 2010-11 and 2011-12 All-MVC 1st Team. 2015-16 Strasbourg 10 79 7.9 18/43 41.9 13/44 29.5 4/8 50 34 12 19 6 Totals 10 79 7.9 18/43 41.9 13/44 29.5 4/8 50 34 12 19 6 Averages 10 79 7.9 18/43 41.9 13/44 29.5 4/8 50 3.4 1.2 1.9 0.6 2015-16 Strasbourg 14 160 11.4 41/75 54.7 23/73 31.5 9/12 75 56 14 23 7 2018-19 Tofas Bursa 10 136 13.6 30/52 57.7 19/39 48.7 19/22 86.4 44 18 11 4 2019-20 Segafredo Virtus Bologna 13 141 10.8 49/75 65.3 11/34 32.4 10/13 76.9 57 14 25 3 2020-21 Virtus Segafredo Bologna 12 132 11 41/63 65.1 14/34 41.2 8/10 80 38 18 28 8 Totals 49 569 11.6 161/265 60.8 67/180 37.2 46/57 80.7 195 64 87 22 Averages 49 569 11.6 161/265 60.8 67/180 37.2 46/57 80.7 4 1.3 1.8 0.4 Other Competition w 2008/09 Missouri State 31 316 10.2 74/157 47.1 41/146 28.1 45/55 81.8 152 30 40 24 2009/10 Missouri State 36 491 13.6 108/202 53.5 72/177 40.7 59/76 77.6 223 49 65 37 2010/11 BMissouri State 35 561 16.0 138/261 52.9 66/167 39.5 87/110 79.1 240 48 149 33 2012/13 Bonn 39 537 13.8 152/295 51.5 50/151 33.1 83/103 80.6 191 26 50 17 2013/14 Bayreuth 34 495 14.6 143/272 52.6 52/155 33.6 53/63 84.1 189 32 55 20 2014/15 Nanterre 36 445 12.4 117/230 50.9 62/152 40.8 25/31 80.6 174 51 86 23 2015/16 Strasbourg 43 520 12.1 123/221 55.7 73/185 39.5 55/69 79.7 164 34 66 8 2016/17 Besiktas 40 277 6.9 68/143 47.6 36/100 36.0 33/40 82.5 140 51 56 13 2017/18 Besiktas 31 273 8.8 81/133 60.9 31/84 36.9 18/26 69.2 103 39 42 12 2018/19 Tofas Bursa 29 331 11.4 67/120 55.8 54/115 47.0 35/39 89.7 124 35 66 19 2019/20 Virtus Bologna 19 211 11.1 66/101 65.3 22/59 37.3 13/15 86.7 90 19 44 2	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693615
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__label__wiki	0.771875	0.771875	Proposed Rule 5 Health & Public Welfare 8 Registration and Reregistration Fees for Controlled Substance and List I Chemical Registrants by the Drug Enforcement Administration on 07/24/2020. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is adjusting the fee schedule for registration and reregistration fees necessary to recover the costs of its Diversion Control Program relating to the registration and control of the manufacture, distribution, dispensing, importation and exportation of controlled substances and list I chemicals as... Implementation of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 The purpose of this interim final rule is to codify in the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) regulations the statutory amendments to the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) made by the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (AIA), regarding the scope of regulatory controls over marihuana, tetrahydrocannabinols, and other marihuana-related... Default Provisions for Hearing Proceedings Relating to the Revocation, Suspension, or Denial of a DEA Registration This proposed rulemaking would add provisions requiring a person served with an order to show cause issued pursuant to the Controlled Substances Act to file a request for a hearing no later than 15 days after the date of receipt of the order. The proposed rulemaking would also add provisions requiring that a person who requests a hearing file an... Registering Emergency Medical Services Agencies Under the Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act of 2017 The ``Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act of 2017,'' (hereafter the ``Act'') which became law on November 17, 2017, amended the Controlled Substances Act to allow for a new registration category for emergency medical services agencies that handle controlled substances. It also established standards for registering emergency... Implementation of the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005; Retail Sales; Notice of Transfers Following Importation or Exportation In March 2006, the President signed the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005 (CMEA). The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) promulgated an Interim Final Rule (IFR) on September 26, 2006 (with a technical correction on October 13, 2006), under Docket Number DEA- 291I, to implement the retail sales provisions of the CMEA. Additionally,... Suspicious Orders of Controlled Substances The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is proposing to revise its regulations relating to suspicious orders of controlled substances, in order to implement the Preventing Drug Diversion Act of 2018 (PDDA) and to clarify the procedures a registrant must follow for orders received under suspicious circumstances (ORUSCs). Upon receipt of an... Designation of 3,4-MDP-2-P Methyl Glycidate (PMK Glycidate), 3,4-MDP-2-P Methyl Glycidic Acid (PMK Glycidic Acid), and Alpha-Phenylacetoacetamide (APAA) as List I Chemicals The Drug Enforcement Administration is proposing to designate 3,4-MDP-2-P methyl glycidate (PMK glycidate), including its optical and geometric isomers; 3,4-MDP-2-P methyl glycidic acid (PMK glycidic acid), including its salts, optical and geometric isomers, and salts of isomers; and alpha-phenylacetoacetamide (APAA), including its optical... Amending Regulations To Require Online Submission of Applications for and Renewals of DEA Registration This rule proposes to amend the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) regulations to require all initial and renewal applications for DEA registration to be submitted online.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693618
__label__cc	0.547365	0.452635	Ferrari toasts to the success of Expo Milan 2015 Expo Milan 2015 came to the end and Ferrari Winery invites you to raise your glasses one more time to toast to its success: a final symbolic tribute to encompass six months and thousands of occasions in which glasses were raised to celebrate the most important institutional meetings of Expo, as well as the special events hosted by all those who chose Ferrari to celebrate their experience at the Universal Exhibition. In Palazzo Italia, 80 national delegations toasted with a glass of Ferrari Trentodoc raised by presidents such as François Hollande and Vladimir Putin, Prime Ministers such as David Cameron, Benjamin Netanyahu and Angela Merkel, Princes such as Albert II of Monaco, and institutional personalities such as Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations. Many of them, as well as sports and entertainment celebrities, received as a gift a bottle of Ferrari Riserva Orgoglio Italia, a 2015 special limited edition produced by Ferrari in honor of Expo. Ferrari Spazio Bollicine, the restaurant and winebar of Ferrari Winery in the Eataly Pavilion, turned immediately into the place to visit for those looking for a high quality aperitif, meal, or dinner. Thanks to the work, smiles and efforts of all the people working in it, this restaurant became the perfect storytelling tool to convey the true meaning of Italian lifestyle. More than 50,000 people visited the restaurant, among which famous VIPs of showbiz, politics and business world, such as Francis Ford Coppola, Sebastião Salgado, Martha Steward, Silvio Berlusconi, the Minister for Agricultural Policies Maurizio Martina and famous chefs like Massimo Bottura, Davide Oldani and Andrea Berton. Over the six months of Expo, more than 25,000 bottles of Ferrari Trentodoc were open in the exhibition site: in addition to the bottles opened in Ferrari Spazio Bollicine, corks popped at the Italian Pavilion, the Wine Pavilion, Identità Expo, Future Food District by Coop, Slowfood, and the stand of Davide Oldani. These figures confirm the protagonist role of Ferrari at Expo Milan 2015 and follow the Gold Medal conquered at the International Exhibition of Milan almost one century ago, in 1906. “Today we can rightfully talk about Orgoglio Italia, the slogan of the Italian Pavilion, where Ferrari was chosen for all official toasts”, says Matteo Lunelli, president of Ferrari Winery. “We are proud that we believed in Expo since the beginning, knowing that it would be an extraordinary opportunity, and that we made a humble contribution to the success of this amazing challenge for our country. We are proud that thousands of people coming from all over the World had the possibility to raise their glasses and make a toast in the name of the Italian Art of Living”. GIULIO FERRARI ROSÉ 2008 TRENTODOC 16 December 2020 Ferrari together with Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team for the first races in the waters off Auckland 16 December 2020 Ferrari Brut is the best sparkling wine in Italy according to The 2020 Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships 11 December 2020 Ferrari Brut Trentodoc in the New York Times 11 December 2020 Ferrari is once again one of the world’s best in the 2020 edition of The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships 3 December 2020 GIULIO FERRARI ROSÉ 2008 TRENTODOC In the last few days, Ferrari Trento has launched the 2008 vintage of Giulio Ferrari Rosé. This is the third vintage to be released of this special reserve wine, already a well-established icon among Italian sparkling rosés. The “pink” version of the legendary Giulio Ferrari Riserva del Fondatore shares that wine’s elegance and finesse, […] Ferrari together with Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team for the first races in the waters off Auckland In just a few hours’ time, the adventure of the 36th America’s Cup will begin: 17th December sees the start of the competitions leading up to the 2021 edition of the America’s Cup, when the AC75 boats of the teams from New Zealand, Italy, U.S.A., and Great Britain will finally begin racing one another in […] Ferrari Brut is the best sparkling wine in Italy according to The 2020 Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships Following its great success in terms of medals – no less than 9 Golds and 4 Silvers – Ferrari Trento is now celebrating a new triumph at The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships. The Company’s most iconic product, Ferrari Brut Trentodoc, has in fact been consecrated as Italian National Champion: in other words, Italy’s […] Ferrari Brut Trentodoc in the New York Times Eric Asimov, the New York Times’ historic and authoritative wine and food critic, has picked out Ferrari Brut Trentodoc among the sparkling wines he mentions in an article for his Wine School column. The article, under the title “Among Sparkling Wines, the Other Half Lives Pretty Well”, is in fact devoted to discovering the […] Ferrari is once again one of the world’s best in the 2020 edition of The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships With 9 Gold Medals and 5 Silvers, the Lunelli Group’s is the most award-winning winery in Italy and second in the world in the most authoritative international competition devoted exclusively to sparkling wines. Ferrari Brut and Maximum Blanc de Blancs are among the Gold Medal winners The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships, the […]	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693621
__label__wiki	0.549138	0.549138	(Derbyshire) by James Pigot (1821) The county and principal town in Derbyshire, occupies a flat tract of land, on the banks of the river Derwent. It is a very ancient town; and many severe conflicts took place here in the early periods of English history. It is also noted for being the place where silk-mills were first established in this country. The town is governed by a mayor, nine alderman, fourteen brethren (out of whom the aldermen are elected), fourteen common council-men, a recorder, a high steward, and a town-clerk. It sends two members to parliament, and the privilege of returning them is possessed by the freemen and sworn burgesses. The present members are T. W. Coke, jun. and H. T. C. Cavendish, Esqrs. . —Derby being situated on the banks of the Derwent, renders it extremely favourable for the process of manufactures which require the aid of water, and various mills have been established in the town, or its immediate vicinity, for the manufacture of silk and cotton, on the most improved construction: besides the manufacture of silk and cotton, the most celebrated are those of porcelain and ornaments of Derbyshire spar and marble. The manufacture of silk is carried on to a considerable extent, and the number of men, women and children employed in it is upwards of 1000. The original mill, erected by Mr. Crochet, called the Silk-mill, by way of pre-eminence, being the first and largest of the kind ever erected in England, stands on an island on the river Derwent. Its history is remarkable, and serves to shew the great influence which the enterprises of an indivi dual have on the commerce of a country. The manufacture of porcelain was originally established here about the year 1750, by the ingenious Mr. Duesbury; but the most con siderable improvements have been effected since his decease by the judicious method of preparing the paste, and increasing the beauty of the decorations. The ware itself is not of equal fineness with the French and Saxon, but its workmanship and ornaments are far superior. The manufacturing of spar and polishing of marble carried on here is very curious. Various other branches of business, besides the manufactures already mentioned, are also carried on to a considerable extent, and several works of magnitude have lately been established. On Nun’s-green a bleaching-ground has been opened, in which the processes are performed by chemistry. A mill for the slitting and rolling of iron ; a large furnace for smelting copper ore, with a machine for battering and rolling the copper into sheets; a red lead manufactory; a mill for making tinned-plates, &c.—Derby is divided into five parishes, each of which has a church, which are, All Saints, St. Alkmund, St. Pater, St. Werburgh, and St. Michael. That of All Saints is a very ancient structure, and is one of the greatest ornaments of the town. The principal public buildings are a very beautiful infirmary, lately built by subscription, replete with every convenience; county hall, a town hall, a county goal, an elegant assembly-room, and a theatre. Among the modern improvements of the place are the lighting and paving of the streets, and the removing those obstructions that prevented a free passage. These purposes were effected by an act passed in the year 1792. Since which time several of the bridges that were built across the Markeaton-brook have been removed, and three new ones, of stone, erected by subscription. An elegant bridge of three arches has likewise been built over the Derwent, and, together with the silk-mills, the weirs, and the broad expanse of the river forms a very pleasing prospect on entering the town from the Nottingham road. The vicinity furnishes a variety of agreeable walks, where the inhabitants may enjoy a salutary exercise, and a succession of prospects, distinguished by the softer features that attend cultivation.—Numerous bequests, for the relief of the poor, have been made at different times by benevolent persons. One of the most considerable is the Devonshire alms house for the support of poor men and women, Science and literature meet with encouragement: this may, in some degree, be ascribed to the Philosophical Society esta blished here about the year 1772. Several book societies have also been instituted; and to the credit of the individuals composing them, the works purchased are chiefly of a scientific and philosophical tendency. - - Derby is 126 miles north-west from London. The population, according to a recent calculation, is about 14.000. The weekly market is on Friday. The fairs are held Jan. 25, March 21 and 22 for cheese; Friday in Easter-week for horned and black cattle ; Friday after May-day, Friday in Whitsun-week, St. James July 25, for horned cattle, &c.; Sept. 27, 28, 29 for cheese; Friday before Old Michaelmas, meeting by custom, for horned NEEDLE MANUFACTURERS by James Pigot 1828-29 01. Church Maria Nottingham Road 02. Taft John Chester Place 03. Wood George 13 Bath Street	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693622
__label__wiki	0.5887	0.5887	USNA recognized for internationalization EOA Staff \| March 30, 2020, 10:12 AM The Naval Academy recently became the first service academy recognized by the NAFSA: Association of International Educators with the 2020 Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization. The NAFSA Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization is named after the late Senator Paul Simon of Illinois and distinguishes excellence in integrating international education through all facets of university and college campuses. NAFSA defines campus internationalization as a conscious effort to integrate and infuse international intercultural and global dimensions into the ethos and outcomes of their students’ education. “Our graduates will be leaders in an unpredictable world,” said Naval Academy Superintendent Vice Adm. Sean Buck. “Strong global relationships and partnerships help mitigate this unpredictability. During the four-year undergraduate experience at the U.S. Naval Academy, our students must develop important leadership skills through the practical experience of working with other cultures.” The Naval Academy International Programs Office serves as the focal point for information and coordination of all international engagements related to faculty, staff and midshipmen with official travel to international locations. The office was created in 2005 to enhance the globalization of midshipman education by seeking and creating opportunities that contribute to midshipman knowledge regarding strategically important geographic regions and proficiency in foreign languages as defined by Navy leadership. In an average year, roughly 350 midshipmen go abroad to participate in an intentional international experience sponsored by the Naval Academy. These experiences include semester-long foreign naval academy exchange and civilian college programs, faculty-led and language immersion programs, and cultural opportunities. The semester study program supports 28 programs in 22 countries, the most recent additions to which include India, South Africa, Poland and Hungary. Since 2006, over 4,200 midshipmen have participated in meaningful experiences abroad. Through these intentional interactions, our Navy has benefitted from the relationships created and the understanding developed between our leaders in their formative stage of development. Faculty and staff developed international program activities integrated across the moral, mental and physical areas of our mission. As of Fall 2019, the resulting faculty and staff engagement is at its highest point in our history. Specifically, they: Led groups of midshipmen abroad in increasing numbers, including for academic major capstone projects Served as forum leaders in the five Center for Regional Studies forums (Africa, Asia, Eurasia, Latin America and the Middle East) Reshaped several core curricular programs to include increased global content in addition to expanding and enriching our elective and majors program curriculum Founded in 1845, the U.S. Naval Academy today is a prestigious four-year service academy that prepares midshipmen morally, mentally and physically to be professional officers in the naval service. More than 4,400 men and women representing every state in the U.S. and several foreign countries make up the student body, known as the Brigade of Midshipmen. U.S. News and World Report has recognized the Naval Academy as a top five undergraduate engineering school and a top 20 best liberal arts college. Midshipmen learn from military and civilian instructors and participate in intercollegiate varsity sports and extracurricular activities. They also study subjects such as leadership, ethics, small arms, drill, seamanship and navigation, tactics, naval engineering and weapons, cyber security, and military law. Upon graduation, midshipmen earn a Bachelor of Science degree in a choice of 25 different subject majors and go on to serve at least five years of exciting and rewarding service as commissioned officers in the U.S. Navy or U.S. Marine Corps. For more information about the Naval Academy, please visit: www.usna.edu or their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/USNavalAcademy. For more information about the International Programs Office, please visit www.usna.edu/InternationalProgram/index.php. « March 30, 2020 \| Daily News Brief \| (COP ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT, STEEP INCREASE IN COVID-19, BLUES FEST NEWS) COVID-19 UPDATE (3/30/20): Hogan issues STAY AT HOME ORDER effective at 8PM tonight! » AMANT-EyeOn-Creative-sn-2	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693623
__label__wiki	0.836921	0.836921	Home » Nestlé loses battle to trademark KitKat shape TECH FLASH Nestlé loses battle to trademark KitKat shape The UK’s High Court rules the shape is not distinctive enough to satisfy trademark requirements. Global Swiss-food manufacturer Nestlé isn’t getting a break from the British legal system. In what was the culmination of a long legal battle, the UK’s High Court ruled last week the food giant cannot trademark in Britain the four-finger shape of its iconic KitKat chocolate bar. Nestlé first tried to register the trademark in 2010, though it was opposed by rival Cadbury UK Ltd. Other courts, including the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), previously dismissed the case. The ruling states the shape of the chocolate bar does not have a “distinctive character” that would satisfy trademark requirements. This decision benefits Cadbury and other companies wishing to sell copycat products. In the written decision, Justice Arnold notes the shape of the product was not used by Nestlé to promote the product. Furthermore, the decision states Nestlé did not demonstrate consumers rely on the four-finger shape, opposed to the logo, to identify the product, a position further supported by the candy being sold in an opaque wrapper. “In these circumstances it seems likely that consumers rely only on the word mark KitKat…in order to identify the trade origin of the products,” Arnold wrote. “They associate the shape with KitKat (and therefore with Nestlé), but no more than that. Therefore, if it is necessary to show that consumers have come to rely on the shape mark in order to distinguish the trade source of the goods at issue, the claim of acquired distinctiveness fails.” A Nestlé spokesman told British newspaper the Guardian that, “KitKat is much loved and the iconic shape of the four-finger bar, which has been used in the UK for more than 80 years, is well known by consumers. We believe the shape deserves to be protected as a trademark in the UK and are disappointed that the court did not agree on this occasion.” Nestlé says it will appeal the decision. New tool to win the food fraud battle Mars banned from selling M&M’s in Sweden Tyson wins fight over Hillshire Brands	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693625
__label__cc	0.723533	0.276467	https://www.foodsforbetterhealth.com/a-breakdown-of-the-gluten-free-diet-3065 A Breakdown of the Gluten-Free Diet Vicky Tobianah Foods 4 Better Health 2013-07-10T02:22:39Z 2017-05-02 10:25:43 Diet & Nutrition,Gluten-free Diet,Weight Loss Essentials https://www.foodsforbetterhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Tobianah_100713-150x100.jpg Home > Diet & Nutrition > Gluten-free Diet > A Breakdown of the Gluten-Free Diet A Breakdown of the Gluten-Free Diet By : Vicky Tobianah Gluten-free diets have been popular for people who are intolerant to, or cannot digest, gluten. Gluten is a type of protein that you would find in many of the grains and breads you eat at any given time. It’s quite the rage to go on a gluten-free diet these days, with even celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and Elizabeth Hasselbeck boasting about the supposed health benefits. But what exactly is a gluten-free diet and how do you know if you should try one? Before it became stylish to try a gluten-free diet, the only people adhering to it would be those with celiac disease. People with celiac disease cannot digest gluten. That means they can’t eat any processed foods that contain the protein derived from wheat, rye, spelt, oats, triticale, kamut, or barley. It’s estimated that one out of every 133 Americans has celiac disease. It’s an autoimmune disease, and, right now, researchers don’t know why some people are affected while others are not. Unfortunately, it’s one of the most common chronic illnesses in the world. The symptoms include the following: diarrhea, anemia, abnormal bloating, constipation, certain vitamin deficiencies (often, people with celiac have difficulty digesting vitamins A, D, E, and K, and calcium), unexplained headaches, and body aches. What You Can Eat Well, basically any unprocessed food is fair game. Things like fruits and vegetables, beans, legumes, and even rice. You’re also able to eat dairy, meat, oils, and poultry products. The problem begins when food producers mix items that are “gluten-free” with other ingredients or if they come into contact with a gluten product. If you’re eating unprocessed foods, you need to read the label carefully, and double-check the “may contain” section, and any notes about possible allergens. Many health-food stores and even your local grocery store often carry gluten-free products. Health Benefits of the Diet Well, it sounds like sticking to a gluten-free diet can be pretty hard to do. So why would some people do it if they don’t have to? Because of stories like Rochelle Hoffman’s, who said she had undiagnosed discomforts her whole life, with doctors never being able to get to the bottom of them. Now in her 60s, she decided to try a gluten-free diet, and she said she immediately noticed that many of her symptoms subsided. Many people believe that a gluten-free diet will help them lose weight. Well, it could, considering you may be eating less carbohydrates and more unprocessed foods like fruits and veggies. But these days you can get gluten-free bread and pastas, so what was true in the past is not true anymore. If you’re going to cut all gluten from your diet, you have to be aware of the potential risks, too. Many gluten-free foods contain less vitamins and minerals than other gluten products. If there’s no gluten in them, that means they mostly contain starches, sugars, and fats—not things you want to gorge on. And, gluten-free diets may be low in fiber—so even if you’re eating less, you won’t feel fuller and you’ll snack more. Should You Jump on the Bandwagon? We believe that eating healthy shouldn’t require prescriptions or constant dieting. So when might a gluten-free diet work well? If you’re someone who has suffered with unexplained dietary symptoms, it may be wise to try eliminating gluten and then see what happens. It could be what works for you. Gastritis Diet: Foods to Eat and Avoid Alkaline Diet: Benefits, Foods to Eat and Avoid Mesomorph Diet: Find out Which Foods Should Be a Part of Your Meals Palmer, S., “Is the gluten-free diet the next ‘it’ diet for health?” Environmental Nutrition February 2010; 2. Warren, R., “Should you try a gluten-free diet? It may be the trend du jour. But it can also hurt your health—and waistline,” Good Housekeeping April 1, 2011; 48. Graham, D., “Should you try the gluten-free diet?” The Toronto Star September 29, 2012; http://www.thestar.com/life/2012/09/29/should_you_try_the_glutenfree_diet.html.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693626
__label__wiki	0.682294	0.682294	Apr 5, 2012, 01:00pm EDT \| Why We Find Hunter Moore And His 'Identity Porn' Site, IsAnyoneUp, So Fascinating Kashmir HillFormer Staff Welcome to The Not-So Private Parts where technology & privacy collide Hunter Moore of Is Anyone Up Hunter Moore has created an apparently thriving business from posting amateurs' nude photos alongside screenshots of their Facebook or Twitter profiles. It’s not the only porn website where those featured get “poked,” but the only one where visitors get to do the poking. Many of those featured on the site are unwilling porn stars, their photos submitted by vengeful exes happy to share once-cherished tokens of intimacy with the world or hackers who broke into email or social networking accounts where the revealing photos were unwisely stored. Some people voluntarily bare all on IsAnyoneUp, seeking to gain Internet fame and a bigger online following. "People will do anything for the extra couple followers on Twitter," says Moore in the Village Voice in the most recent of a growing series of profiles of a man who has come to represent the dark side of radical transparency. In a profile in The New Inquiry, also out this month, Matt Pearce calls the fare on Moore's site "identity porn." "It’s no longer enough of a turn-on to merely see someone naked; late capitalism’s porn industry has taken revealing our bodies as far as it can go," writes Pearce. "In the social-media era, the kinkiest thing you can do is turn a porn site into a phone book." Part of the appeal, with the shots of those there unwillingly at least, is the privacy violation: the fact that you are gazing at a photo meant for someone else, intruding on an intimate moment not meant for you. And the appeal with all of the photos is that a person's identity is exposed along with their body parts. I think of Moore as Mark Zuckerberg's dark alter-ego; both twenty-somethings have figured out how to capitalize on social networking, people exposing themselves online, and photo sharing (though the Zuck is not a fan of Moore's site). Moore is not making Zuck-level money, but he's doing fairly well for himself: When I first interviewed Moore last summer, he was making $8,000 a month from the advertising on his site. In an Awl interview a few months later, he said revenue was up to $13,000 a month, thanks to increased traffic -- likely generated in great part by media attention, as journalist after journalist has flocked to Moore, each equally astounded by his unapologetic attitude toward the unwilling models on the site who complain of humiliation, harassment and lost jobs. In addition to advertising, the Village Voice reports that Moore is now being booked to do paying DJ gigs and party appearances around the country. Moore realizes that his "f*ing people over" brand is sale-able, so he is going to keep trolling the Internet, the media, and those who take nude photos to build his traffic and profit from it. Gawker points out the latest jaw-dropping example of Moore's cutthroat business savvy in the Voice profile. Moore says that, while he'd hate to be the cause of someone's suicide, it would be good for business: "I'm gonna sound like the most evil motherfer-let's be real for a second: If somebody killed themselves over [being on the site]? Do you know how much money I'd make? At the end of the day, I do not want anybody to hurt themselves. But if they do? Thank you for the money." ... "The more traffic I'd have that day, I'm going to get paid for. So if someone f**ing killed themselves? Do you know how much hate I'd get? All the Googling, all the redirects, all, like, the press"—here he sounds like he's stifling a yawn; it is morning—"I'd get paid for, for that day. And whatever." via Hunter Moore Makes a Living Screwing You - Page 5 - News - New York - Village Voice. Moore is as willing to shed pretense and expose his capitalistic motives as the subjects on his site are willing to shed their clothes and expose their bodies. That's why journalists love to interview him and people love to read about him (even as it makes their skin crawl). Moore is making the most of his site and the controversy it inspires. But the legality of his creation has yet to be tested. If the right court case comes along, IsAnyoneUp may well be taken down. Kashmir Hill I'm a privacy pragmatist, writing about the intersection of law, technology, social media and our personal information. If you have story ideas or tips, e-mail me at khil… I'm a privacy pragmatist, writing about the intersection of law, technology, social media and our personal information. If you have story ideas or tips, e-mail me at khill@forbes.com. PGP key here. These days, I'm a senior online editor at Forbes. I was previously an editor at Above the Law, a legal blog, relying on the legal knowledge gained from two years working for corporate law firm Covington & Burling -- a Cliff's Notes version of law school. In the past, I've been found slaving away as an intern in midtown Manhattan at The Week Magazine, in Hong Kong at the International Herald Tribune, and in D.C. at the Washington Examiner. I also spent a few years traveling the world managing educational programs for international journalists for the National Press Foundation. I have few illusions about privacy -- feel free to follow me on Twitter: kashhill, subscribe to me on Facebook, Circle me on Google+, or use Google Maps to figure out where the Forbes San Francisco bureau is, and come a-knockin'.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693627
__label__cc	0.730324	0.269676	Crisis Catalyzes Demand For Digital Infrastructure May 19, 2020, 03:42pm EDT MoneyStamps Of South America - As Investments, They’re Different – Part 1 Apr 28, 2020, 04:45pm EDT Covid-19 Related Municipal Defaults Begin The Dynamics Of Price Discovery In The Stamp Market Apr 21, 2020, 11:21am EDT Armenia – A Study In Dead Country Stamps Defining Moneystamps Brazil Moneystamps Mar 24, 2020, 11:48am EDT Covid-19 Virus Affect On The Stamp Market Mar 4, 2020, 06:00pm EST U.S. MoneyStamps: 50 Best Buys Feb 21, 2020, 02:16pm EST Korea MoneyStamps Jan 29, 2018, 11:39am EST \| Renewables, Energy Storage, Electric Cars Will Likely Grow Strongly In 2018 As Oil Prices Rebound Mike ScottContributor Writer on business, sustainability and environment. the global economic recovery and associated strengthening of oil and coal prices will make clean energy and electric vehicles more competitive against their fossil fuel counterparts. More than 100GW of solar capacity will be installed in 2018, BNEF head of solar Jenny Chase predicts Two offshore floating wind turbines stand on the shoreline during assembly in the Hywind pilot park... [+] in Norway. Photographer: Carina Johansen/Bloomberg Every year, the clean energy experts at Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) predict what will happen in the sector in the year ahead. This year’s predictions have landed. BNEF chief editor Angus McCrone writes that the falling costs in lithium-ion batteries, solar and wind energy that 2017 saw will continue in 2018 thanks to economies of scale and technological improvements, while the global economic recovery and associated strengthening of oil and coal prices will make clean energy and electric vehicles more competitive against their fossil fuel counterparts. However, tightening monetary policies and higher interest rates “could start to affect the cost of capital, and therefore the relative competitiveness, of high-capex, low-opex technologies such as wind and solar”. The research group predicts that 2018 investment in clean energy will be about the same as 2017’s $333.5 billion, but more capacity will be installed because of “the remorseless reductions in solar (and to some extent, wind) project capital costs”. More than 100GW of solar capacity will be installed in 2018, BNEF head of solar Jenny Chase predicts and although China will still dominate with about half the market, new markets will also open up. “This is the year that Latin America, south-east Asia, the Middle East and Africa will make up a measurable slice of the total. For instance, Mexico is likely to be a 3GW-plus market in 2018, and Egypt, the UAE and Jordan between them at 1.7-2.1GW,” she writes. The wind energy market will be steadier, with about 59GW of onshore and offshore capacity added in 2018 before a rush in 2019 as the US Production Tax Credit nears its sell-by date. Onshore, China and Latin America will continue to see growth and while the usual suspects – the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and China – will dominate offshore, there are signs that the US and Taiwan markets are set to take off. Costs continue to fall, with two bidders – Vattenfall and Statoil – already lined up for the Netherlands auction of some 700MW of offshore capacity with zero subsidy. “Competition between a strong selection of developers would be another sign of the much-improved cost-effectiveness of offshore wind,” says Tom Harries, senior wind analyst at BNEF. The increase in renewable energy capacity will be accompanied by a continuing fall in the price of lithium-ion batteries, although the pace of the fall will be slower than in recent years because of an increase in raw material prices, says Logan Goldie-Scot, head of energy storage. “Cobalt and lithium carbonate prices rose 129% and 29% respectively in 2017. This will start to increase average cell prices in 2018, leading to many headlines about how the EV revolution and the rise of energy storage are under threat. Despite this, we expect average pack prices to decline by 10-15%, driven by economies of scale, larger average pack sizes and energy density improvements of 5-7% per year,” he asserts. The increase in energy storage will be driven by price cuts, the growing need for flexibility in the power system and growing confidence in the technology as recently-installed projects continue to prove their robustness and value for money. “Global storage deployments in 2018 will exceed 2GW/4GWh, and South Korea will be the single largest market, for the second consecutive year,” Goldie-Scot says, but he warns that “the market is still fragile, however, and some expectations about the speed of deployment are not realistic. Policies rather than economics alone will determine the rate of uptake [yet] energy storage remains poorly understood by many within the energy sector and by policy-makers.” Electric vehicles will continue their surge into the mainstream with sales growing by about 40% to reach almost 1.5 million in 2018, more than half of them in China. Around 300,000 EVs should be sold in North America, but this figure could be much higher if Tesla can deliver on its production targets. Meanwhile, the number of miles driven by autonomous cars could approach the 10 million mark, almost double the amount achieved by the end of 2017. One result of all this activity is that the decline of coal will continue, in spite of Donald Trump’s efforts to revive it. As Ethan Zindler, BNEF’s head of Americas, puts it, “the Trump administration will continue to pull every policy lever it can find to revitalize US coal-fired power generation – but will not slow coal’s inexorable and inevitable decline”. In addition, 2018 is likely to be the last year that India adds more coal-fired generating capacity than renewables, while much of China’s solar build-out this year will be small-scale, behind the meter or distribution-grid-connected PV rather than larger transmission-grid-connected projects. These smaller schemes are closer to their end-users and less subject to curtailment. I write about the intersection of business and the environment and the vital importance of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues to businesses and the I write about the intersection of business and the environment and the vital importance of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues to businesses and the investors that help to fund them. That means anything from climate change to executive pay, as well as disruptive technologies from renewable energy and energy storage to nanotechnology. These issues can have a profound impact on company performance but are still largely ignored by many investors. I have been a journalist for more than 20 years, including 9 years at the Financial Times. Since 2006, as a freelance journalist I have written for a range of titles including the FT, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph as well as for think tanks such as Friends of Europe and corporate clients including Siemens, Rabobank, PwC, Deloitte and AkzoNobel.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693628
__label__wiki	0.98715	0.98715	FeatureNews Army vice chief of staff: Women vital to ‘strength of our Army’ WEST POINT, N.Y. — Cadet Simone Askew (right) leads her freshman class on a road march at the U.S. Military Academy. (Photo by Cadet Alex Werden) By David Vergun Army News Service WASHINGTON — History is replete with inspiring examples of female Soldiers who served, said the Army’s vice chief of staff. “Today, women are a vital part of the strength of our Army,” said Gen. James C. McConville, who spoke Monday on Capitol Hill as part of the 10th Annual U.S. Army Women’s Summit. The general said a female inspired him very early on in his own career. That woman, Gale O’Sullivan Dwyer, was his classmate during high school in Braintree, Massachusetts. Coincidentally, McConville and Dwyer both entered the same class at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, he said. At the time, McConville acknowledged that he had some challenges going through the academy. It was Dwyer who inspired him to persevere, he said, describing her as a little over five feet tall and about 100 pounds but “tough as nails.” “She had tremendous character and resilience, was extremely smart and super physically fit,” he said. “She motivated me every day by her presence.” Dwyer later wrote a book with the fitting title: “Tough As Nails: One Woman’s Journey Through West Point.” Throughout his career, McConville said he’s seen “hundreds of formations with women, motivating Soldiers left and right.” The vice chief of staff provided another account of a female Soldier who inspired him. When he was a brigade commander in the 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq in April 2004, he said he got a call from the 1st Armored Division, saying that enemy fighters were on the verge of overrunning a small outpost in Najaf. Fortunately, McConville said he had a team of Apache helicopters available, led by Chief Warrant Officer 2 Cindy Rozelle, outside of Baghdad. The helicopter team launched, arrived at Najaf in about 35 minutes, and came in shooting, he related. “I don’t recall any of those Soldiers whose lives were saved talking about her gender,” McConville said. “They were just happy to be alive.” Some recent milestones WASHINGTON — Gen. James C. McConville, vice chief of staff of the Army, spoke about the contributions of women to the Army at the 10th annual U.S. Army Women’s Summit, themed “Army Women: Lead, Network, Grow,” March 12, 2018, on Capitol Hill, in celebration of Women’s History Month. (U.S. Army photo) McConville listed some recent achievements made by women in the Army: • Last year, Simone Askew became the first African-American woman to hold the position of First Captain of the U.S. Military Academy’s Corps of Cadets. Askew was also selected as a Rhodes Scholar. • Last fall, six women earned Expert Infantry Badges during testing at Fort Bragg. • By the end of 2017, more than 600 female Soldiers were in infantry, armor and artillery positions that were only recently opened up to women. • Today, every infantry, armor and artillery battalion in every single active-duty brigade combat team has women assigned — up to hundreds in some BCTs. • 10 women graduated from Ranger School. • 17 percent of the Army or 174,000 Soldiers, consists of women. That number approaches the active-duty end strength of the Marine Corps. Now that all military occupational specialties are open to women, it’s more important than ever that the Army knows how best to identify and use the talent it has in its workforce. McConville said that talent management is about putting the right person in the right job at the right time. Another part of talent management, he said, is “leveraging the strength of diversity.” Women are an important part of that diversity, he said. Unfortunately, the Army’s current personnel management system focuses on just two factors: rank and military occupational specialty. That’s a very incomplete picture of Soldiers, each of whom has a unique set of knowledge, skills, abilities and aspirations, McConville said. He added that the Army wants to manage Soldier talent using as many as 25 variables. Examples of those variables include language skills and foreign experience. The Army is now getting ready to field the Integrated Personnel and Pay System — Army (IPPS-A), which will, among other things, allow the Army to document a much wider array of talent than what it currently does. A pilot program in one of the captain’s career courses used this talent management approach, McConville said. The first phase of IPPS-A will be fielded by the Guard this fall and in the active and Reserve components next year, he said. Getting this done right is important, he emphasized. “The Army is about people, its most important weapon system.” He added that when done right, a talent management system that works will encourage good people to stay in the Army. Hall of fame inductees The 10th Annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony followed. The U.S. Army Women’s Foundation recognized women who distinguished themselves in service to America. Inductees included: • Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Anna Mae Hays (posthumous), served as an Army nurse overseas during World War II and led the Army Nurse Corps at the height of the Vietnam War. In 1970 she became the first woman in the U.S. armed forces to attain the rank of brigadier general. • Maj. Lisa Jaster; Capt. Kristen Griest; and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver, are the first women ever to successfully complete the U.S. Army’s Ranger School. • Sgt. Heather L. Johnsen (1996); Sgt. Danyell E. Wilson (1997); Staff Sgt. Tonya D. Bell (1998); and Sgt. Ruth Hanks (2017), all served as Army Sentinels at the Tomb of Unknowns. • Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Pat Hickerson, who paved the way for women serving in the U.S. Army and in ways that had previously been unheard of. • Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Malinda Dunn, an Army judge advocate. • Command Sgt. Maj. (Ret.) Evelyn Hollis, the first African-American female command sergeant major of a combat arms unit. • Col. (Ret.) Pat Jernigan, an Army women’s advocate who aided in the preservation of the history and stories of Army women. • Chief Warrant Officer 4 (Ret.) Petrice McKey-Reese, who served for 30-year as a parachute rigger, and the first African-American female to ever be designated a rigger warrant. • Barbara Scroggin, the first female All-Army Women’s Boxing champion. • Chief Warrant Officer 5 (Ret.) Mary Cara Smalley (posthumous), a pioneer for women aviation officers, and the first female regular Army warrant officer and aviator to achieve the rank of chief warrant officer 5 in 1995. • Lt. Col. (Ret.) Yvonne Doll and Ruth VanDyke, co-authors of the “Guardians of Peace” series. Some 200 service members, veterans, lawmakers and leading employers attended the day’s events. Previous Post‘Go Further with Food’: Make healthful food choices Next PostDES highlight 10th Annual U.S. Army Women’s Summit, female, female military, mcconville, U.S. Military Academy, Washington, Women’s History Month	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693629
__label__wiki	0.984094	0.984094	Trump attempts to walk back acknowledgement of Russia election help WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is muddying the waters over Russia's involvement in the 2016 election. Trump tweeted early Thursday that "I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected." That was the first time he seemed to acknowledge that Russia worked to see him elected — something that was underscored in Mueller's report. But he later insisted that Russia didn't help him. On the White House South Lawn, Trump told reporters: "Russia did not help me get elected. You know who got me elected? You know who got me elected? I got me elected. Russia didn't help me at all." Trump insisted that he's been tough on Russia and that Moscow would have preferred Clinton as president. That's not what Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. When asked last year in Helsinki whether he wanted Trump to become president, Putin replied: "Yes I did." Trump's 20-minute eruption came the day after Mueller pointedly rejected his claims — repeated nearly every day — that the special counsel's two-year federal investigation exonerated him of criminal activity and was merely a "witch hunt." Mueller said Wednesday that charging Trump with any crime in court was "not an option" because of federal rules, but he used his first public remarks on the Russia investigation to emphasize that he did not exonerate the president. "If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so," Mueller declared. Trump called Mueller "conflicted." He said falsely that Mueller, who served as FBI director under President George W. Bush, wanted his old job back, but that he had told him no. "Robert Mueller should have never been chosen," Trump said. "I think Mueller is a true never Trumper. He's somebody who didn't get a job that he wanted very badly." Trump also said Mueller, who is a Republican, should have investigated law enforcement officials whom the president claims tried to undermine him. He rattled off a series of names of people that he thought Mueller should have been investigating. Trump mentioned Peter Strzok, a former FBI agent who helped lead the investigation and exchanged anti-Trump text messages during the 2016 election with ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page. Strzok was removed from Mueller's investigative team following the discovery of the texts and later was fired from the FBI. Page has since left the bureau. Strzok told Congress that there was "no conspiracy" at the FBI to prevent Trump from becoming president. Trump, asked about impeachment by Congress, called it a "dirty word" and said he couldn't imagine the courts allowing him to be impeached. "I don't think so because there's no crime," he said. Mueller made clear that his team never considered indicting Trump because the Justice Department prohibits the prosecution of a sitting president. He and others have indicated that the next move, if any, is up to Congress, which does have the power of impeachment. Trump has blocked House committees' subpoenas and other efforts to dig into the Trump-Russia issue, insisting Mueller's report has settled everything. Mueller's lengthy report on his investigation found no criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to tip the outcome of the 2016 presidential election in Trump's favor. But it also did not reach a conclusion on whether the president had obstructed justice. The chairman of the House committee that would undertake any impeachment effort, New York's Jerrold Nadler, says it falls to Congress to respond to what he contends are crimes, lies and other wrongdoing by Trump. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says "nothing is off the table" and that congressional committees should investigate whether Trump obstructed the investigation.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693630
__label__cc	0.59009	0.40991	Aye Matey? Review SHOW WarCraft II: The Dark Saga INFO WarCraft II: The Dark Saga Info Aye Matey? If you haven’t heard of WarCraft by now, you should go jump in a small lake. Go on, I’ll wait . . . Finished? Good. WarCraft II is to top down strategy games as Doom II is to first person shooters. While they weren’t the first games of their genre to come out, they were the hits that defined all the games to come. Now, two years after its initial PC release, WarCraft II has finally made it to the console systems. To some this may be a blessing, but to others, a sad and bitter end for such a fantastic Basic plot synopsis: Orcs Good, Humans Bad. (Oops, switch that.) If you’re the Orcs, kill all the Humans you can find. If you’re the Humans, kill all the Orcs you can find. Simple, eh? As with all top down strategy games, you have various units that you control and use to kill the enemy – one of my favorite genres of video games ever created. You’ve got to use tactics to overwhelm your opponent. A video game that requires brains? Surely you jest. Perhaps the best thing about this latest release is that WarCraft II: The Dark Saga contains not only the original missions, but also the missions from the expansion set Beyond the Dark Portal. That’s 52 missions altogether. On top of that, they added the maps that were included with the original game if you want to try your hand at a custom mission. All in all, this one CD is chock full of more wholesome WarCraft goodness than you’re able to eat at one meal. It’ll take a long time to finish all that this CD has to offer. The graphics are poor; not bad, but definitely not good. They look absolutely nothing like the PC version, and that is not a good thing. Very pixelated and small, the graphics are a big letdown for anyone who has played the PC or Mac versions. All the FMV is still there, however, and it looks the same as before. If they were having a problem porting the game graphics over, I’m sure no one would have minded if they simply dropped the FMV. It’s a game, not a movie. If you’re running out of space on a CD, skimp on the movies, not on the gameplay. Speaking of gameplay, here is where the game is the most disappointing. Instead of having the old, tried and true control panel that has been used on top down strategy since Dune II (the granddaddy of them all.), they used individual panels that have to be called up by each unit. At the office, we have a 27″ TV that we play most of the games on. We realize that many people have smaller TV’s. Apparently, the designers didn’t realize this. On our TV at the office, it was hard to see the individual panels. I would hate to see it on any TV smaller than ours. Besides the lack of a control panel, the control is still a little wily. Control of a character is absolute. In order to stop controlling him and start controlling another character, you have to hit the cancel button before you try to select the next unit. This slows down your reaction time greatly and can cost you some serious losses. An added feature that has not been included in any previous version of WarCraft II is the ability to auto-build units. This means that you can purchase more than one unit at a time and simply let the building build it when you have the resources. I’m glad that the designers saw a flaw with the old programming and attempted to fix it. Though it does not make up for the graphics and the control, the auto-build feature is fantastic and should be included in all future top down strategy games. (Did you hear that game designers?). Another feature that is apparently only available on the Saturn version is the ability to change languages. You have the choice of French, German, Italian, Spanish, or English. The units will then respond to you in the language of your choice. Something about a soldier asking “Sus Ordenes?” somehow warms my heart. Me gusta WarCraft. Admittedly, this review has been fairly harsh for a game that I still enjoy playing. Unfortunately, I loved the computer version and am sorely disappointed by what they did with the port to the consoles. After seeing Westwood Studios do an almost identical port of Command & Conquer for the console systems (even improving some of the control), I was saddened at this apparent half-hearted attempt with WarCraft II: The Dark Saga. They have a saying where I come from, “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes to the bone.” The poor gameplay and difficult control have successfully reduced one of the best games of all time to slightly above average. Regrettable, but still playable. - Bad Control. - Pixelated Graphics + Still WarCraft. + Excellent Auto-Build feature. Not as good as Command & Conquer.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693632
__label__wiki	0.968968	0.968968	The Last of Us delayed to June 14 By Connor Sheridan 13 February 2013 Naughty dog says more five weeks needed for polish The Last of Us will release five weeks later than planned, developer Naughty Dog announced today. The PlayStation 3 exclusive from the house of Uncharted will launch worldwide on June 14, rather than May 7 as revealed at the 2012 Spike VGAs. "As we entered the final phase of development for The Last of Us, we came to realise just how massive Joel and Ellie’s journey is," reads a post from lead game designer Neil Druckmann on the PlayStation Blog. "But instead of cutting corners or compromising our vision, we came to the tough decision that the game deserved a few extra weeks to ensure every detail of The Last of Us was up to Naughty Dog’s internal high standards." It's a bit strange that the new release date is on a Friday, rather than on Tuesday like it was before. It's not like anything else is happening that week... Connor Sheridan Connor has been doing news and feature things for GamesRadar+ since 2012, which is suddenly a long time ago. How on earth did that happen?	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693633
__label__wiki	0.933888	0.933888	Raiders closing in on records for penalties Oakland Raiders coach Hue Jackson calls for the referee with tackle Khalif Barnes (69) during the first half of an NFL game with the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., on Saturday. - photo by The Associated Press ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — The fine jar in the defensive meeting room fills up with bills, suggestions pour in from fans and coach Hue Jackson’s voice gets hoarse from yelling. Despite plenty of effort to cure the Oakland Raiders age-old penalty problem, this year’s team is on pace to shatter the NFL record for penalties and yards penalized in a season. “I don’t have the answer, obviously,” Jackson said. “I talk to the team about it all the time. I don’t just talk. I yell, I scream, I threaten. I’ve done everything. I get a bunch of letters of people telling me other things I should try, too. And please don’t send any new ones because those things don’t work.” The Raiders (8-7) head into their must-win season finale against San Diego needing four penalties for 11 yards to break both records held by the 1998 Kansas City Chiefs. Considering the Raiders have committed at least four penalties in 27 straight games and have had at least 11 yards in penalties in all but three games since moving back to Oakland in 1995, it seems like a safe bet those records will fall. Jackson vowed at the start of training camp that he would fix a problem that has plagued the Raiders for most of their history. Oakland has committed at least 100 penalties for 12 straight seasons and have ranked in the top five in total penalties in the NFL for five straight seasons. Jackson has had three officials at most practices in order to curb the problem and said they usually see about three or four infractions a day. That rises to more than 10 a game when it counts. The players have also instituted a $100 fine system for committing penalties with a jar on defensive coordinator Chuck Bresnahan’s desk collecting the loot. “Charity will love us at the end of the year,” Bresnahan said. But the flags keep flying each week. The Raiders have hit double digits in four straight games, including a season-high tying 15 in last week’s overtime win at Kansas City that featured a delay of game that negated a fake field goal for a touchdown. “I wish we knew what it was,” quarterback Carson Palmer said. “It’s not a bunch of false starts. It’s not just holdings. It’s kind of all over the place. In special teams, on a touchdown a delay of game. It’s just been a weird year. There’s been some calls that you can’t find on film when you go back and watch them. It’s not one thing. It’s not a trend. As those flags get going in games I always have guys come up to me on the sideline saying, ‘This is what happens when you play for the Raiders.’” There have been quite a variety of penalties with 58 being pre-snap calls, including 20 offsides calls and 19 false starts. There have also been a league-worst 29 personal fouls, and 39 holding calls. The biggest problem has been on defense where the Raiders have committed a league-worst 78 penalties on defense — more than twice the league average of 35. They have 58 penalties on offense — tied for fourth most — and are tied for sixth with 19 on special teams. “You want the penalties to hold down because they’re going to come back and bite you sooner or later,” said defensive tackle Tommy Kelly, who has been called for seven. “To me, just limit the 15-yarders, the big ones. We can deal with the 5-yarders. But the 15-yarders are the ones keeping the drives alive.” There have been some costly ones as the Raiders have given opponents 54 first downs with penalties, including 20 drives that led to a score. Penalties aided Buffalo’s two fourth-quarter TD drives in a 38-35 Oakland loss in September and Detroit’s two fourth-quarter TD drives in the Raiders 28-27 loss earlier this month. “I stay up late at night trying to figure this out, as much as I can,” Jackson said. “I’ve worked at that as hard as I’ve worked at anything. Sometimes it just doesn’t happen. Sometimes it just doesn’t happen, but we’ll have a long discussion about penalties when this season is over. I promise you that.” In all, 43 players have accounted for the penalties, including Terrelle Pryor, who committed a false start to negate his only play all season. Jackson also has a penalty for challenging a scoring play in Week 2 at Buffalo, which is against the rules. Cornerback Stanford Routt has been the most penalized player in the league with 16 — one more than the entire Green Bay defense. Offensive linemen Khalif Barnes and Jared Veldheer are next with 10 apiece, followed by defensive tackle Richard Seymour with nine. Darnold, Jets preparing for Chiefs' 'game wreckers' on D Best Betts: Dodgers win first World Series title since 1988 Dodgers-Rays rare wild-card era matchup of baseball's best Chiefs, Edwards-Helaire run away with 26-17 win over Bills	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693636
__label__wiki	0.846562	0.846562	HOW THE U.S. BANKROLLS IRAN'S NUCLEAR AMBITIONS Iran wants to purchase 32 tons of heavy water from the U.S. By FPI Senior Policy Analyst Tzvi Kahn The planned U.S. purchase of 32 tons of heavy water from Iran will help the regime preserve a key capability necessary for the development of a plutonium bomb. The Obama administration has presented the $8.6 million transaction as a necessary step to secure Iran’s compliance with the letter of the nuclear agreement. In reality, the sale will strengthen the nuclear program that the deal purports to constrain. Iran’s Heavy Agenda The nuclear agreement, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), requires Tehran to limit its stockpile of heavy water — an integral component of a nuclear weapons program — to 130 tons for the accord’s initial years. “There will be no additional heavy water reactors or accumulation of heavy water in Iran for 15 years,” the agreement states. “All excess heavy water will be made available for export to the international market” (Paragraph 10). At the same time, the deal in no way requires any country to purchase the excess nuclear material. Should Iran prove unable to find a buyer, it would need to dilute its existing stockpile before producing any more heavy water. By allowing Iran to maintain a limited heavy water industry and inviting other nations to purchase its surfeits, the JCPOA created an opportunity for the Islamist regime to seek external subsidization of its nuclear program. The White House — in response to an apparent Iranian threat to abandon the deal if no buyer steps forward — has offered precisely that. Such an outcome allows Tehran both to profit from its nuclear activities and to preserve its ability to produce far more heavy water in the future. The sale may also provide Iran a pathway into the U.S. financial system. To date, the Obama administration has refused to explain how it would transmit the funds to pay for the heavy water — and specifically whether it will conduct the transaction in dollars. Such a move not only would contradict the administration’s insistence last summer that U.S. restrictions on the dollar would endure under the deal, but also amount to a new concession with no basis in the JCPOA’s text. Perhaps more troublingly, it may lay the groundwork for future U.S. steps to provide Iran with more expansive access to the U.S. financial system, further undermining U.S. leverage to punish the Islamist regime for its illicit ballistic missile launches, support for terrorism, and human rights abuses. America’s Heavy Concessions The existence of Tehran’s heavy water reactor, located in the western Iranian city of Arak, first became known to Western governments in 2002 thanks to the efforts of an Iranian opposition group. As Robert Einhorn, a former senior official in the Obama administration, observed in November 2006, Arak constitutes a “plutonium bomb factory,” since a heavy water reactor serves no other plausible purpose. “Could the reactor Iran is constructing at Arak,” he asked, “actually be used to produce isotopes for peaceful purposes? Yes it could. A 12-inch hunting knife also could be used to spread jam on your toast in the morning.” A month later, U.N. Security Council Resolution 1737 required Iran to suspend all heavy water-related activities — a demand the regime spurned. Although the JCPOA ultimately placed limits on Iran’s heavy water stockpile, such controls in fact represented a diminution of America’s prior demand, during the nuclear negotiations, for the wholesale dismantling of the Arak facility. “From our point of view, Arak is unacceptable,” said Secretary of State John Kerry in December 2013 House testimony. “You can’t have a heavy water reactor.” Nevertheless, the final deal not only lifts restrictions on heavy water accumulation after merely 15 years, but allows Iran to continue producing heavy water and sell any excess material on the international market. As a result, notwithstanding the agreement’s requirement to remove Arak’s core and fill it with cement, which Tehran completed in January, the regime can produce excess heavy water without violating the terms of the accord — and collect millions of dollars doing so. As Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies observes, “These U.S. subsidies will help Tehran perfect its heavy water production skills so it will be fully prepared to develop its plutonium bomb-making capabilities when restrictions on the program sunset over the next 10-15 years.” A Lightened Nuclear Deal The Obama administration and its backers have facilitated Iran’s ambitions. Last week, Senate Democrats blocked a vote on a spending bill that included an amendment offered by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) to prohibit the heavy water purchase. The Obama administration, which threatened to veto the bill if it included the measure, argued that it would torpedo the agreement. “Senator Cotton has long made it clear that he will do anything to prevent the effective implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran,” said White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest. In fact, Tehran has made it clear that it will do anything to exploit the terms of the nuclear deal to extract further concessions from the White House. By conceding to Iran’s machinations rather than challenging it for its ongoing violations of international laws and norms, the Obama administration tacitly encourages the regime to continue its misbehavior, ultimately threatening the nuclear deal’s viability in the long term. Published by FPI Bulletin atomic bomb, Iran, US Iran HOW AFGHANS TASTED THE FLAVOR OF FREEDOM 10 REASONS WHY HILLARY CLINTON IS MOVING BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE Saudi-Iranian Rivalry Fuels Potential Nuclear Race Why Lebanon Has No President for Two Years Iran Wastes No Time in Disregarding Trump	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693641
__label__cc	0.534607	0.465393	Daly Suffers Allergic Reaction DARDANELLE, Ark. -- Professional golfer John Daly suffered an allergic reaction to a component in diet pills, his wife said Monday, calling the episode a 'mini-stroke.' Sherry Daly said her 35-year-old husband did not suffer any lasting effects. 'We had MRIs done, and we did find out what was causing it,' she said. 'He's fine, and we're going to England for a golf tournament.' She said Daly, winner of the PGA championship in 1991 and the British Open in 1995, had exhibited allergic symptoms previously. She said the latest incident, which included numbness in one arm, prompted him to seek medical attention.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693642
__label__wiki	0.86638	0.86638	Hurley can't imagine a better place for first win By Nick Menta Sure, there’s the prospect of Ernie Els overcoming the yips to win for the 20th time, or of Jon Rahm taking the title in his pro debut. But with 18 holes to play at Congressional Country Club, it’s tough to find a better story than Billy Hurley III’s. Thanks to a bogey-free 67 Saturday, Hurley leads Els by two and Rahm by three at the Quicken Loans National. This is the second 54-hole lead of Hurley’s career. The first came two years ago at The Greenbrier and ended with him seven shots behind winner Angel Cabrera after a closing 73. A resident of Annapolis, Md., just an hour away, Hurley is facing the added pressure of trying to lock up his first PGA Tour win in front of his friends and family. “I'm probably making it look a little easier than it is, but I'm also probably a little more relaxed than I have been in the past, too,” Hurley said. “I've been here before and so, yeah, hopefully that experience and just the growth and maturity that comes from having been in the position to win golf tournaments before will show tomorrow and we'll be able to get it done.” In his second attempt to close, he’ll be chased by a 19-time Tour winner and a kid who evidently wants to win 19 majors. Els and Rahm are both compelling, but a victory Sunday would likely mean even more to Hurley given his unique relationship to this event. Quicken Loans National: Articles, photos and videos Following a standout amateur career at the Naval Academy, Hurley spent five years in the Navy, rising to the rank of lieutenant. In addition to supporting the Tiger Woods Foundation, the Quicken Loans National also supports the men and women of the U.S. armed forces, with special perks for military members in addition to a tribute wall and a pavilion on site. Asked about the relationship between the tournament and the military, Hurley answered: “I can't think of a better one for me to win to be my first win on Tour. It would be probably the best one of kind of the regular-season Tour events for sure.” The military connection aside, there’s also what this tournament means to Hurley personally. It was during a news conference at the Quicken Loans last year that an emotional Hurley asked for help in finding his missing father, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound two weeks later. Now, one year later, at this same event, Hurley finds himself on top of the leaderboard. “You know, obviously I think about my dad a lot. Today was interesting,” Hurley said. “I was walking from 9 to 10 and I've never really had a whole lot of police officers following my group, you know. I'm not like that cool. But playing in the lead, you know, they have a couple police officers following you around. “It dawned on me like, ‘Hey, this is what my dad did.’ He walked inside the ropes and did this at Presidents Cups and stuff. So that kind of made me think about him for a second there between 9 and 10.” In addition to the hunt for his first win, Hurley is looking to lock down an invite to the Open Championship at Royal Troon and, with a victory, his first trip to Augusta National next year. It's a big deal for a guy who's played just 12 events this year out of the Web.com reshuffle. He and Els, who won the U.S. Open at Congressional in 1997, will go off in the final pairing Sunday afternoon. "Yeah, it should be fun. Ernie's been really nice to me over the last couple years here on Tour," Hurley said. "Obviously he's a great player and he's got great success around this place, too, so it should be a good day." Stenson, McDowell in hunt at Zurich Classic BY Brentley Romine — April 26, 2019 Peter Malnati and Billy Hurley III hold the clubhouse lead at the Zurich Classic, but Henrik Stenson and Graeme McDowell are just two back. Tour player visits troops in Africa before retiring BY Doug Ferguson — December 19, 2018 Right about the time Kyle Thompson was ready to abandon his struggles on the PGA Tour, he jumped at a chance to give back. Hurley: Anti-Spieth spoof video was caddie's idea BY Rex Hoggard — February 14, 2018 In this age of polarizing politics, Billy Hurley III took the contention out of his campaign for chairman of the player advisory council.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693643
__label__wiki	0.703208	0.703208	Fowler gaining confidence for Masters By Randall Mell PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – Rickie Fowler looks like he can’t wait to get to the Masters. Like all those dogwoods and azaleas at Augusta National, he’s aiming to bloom spectacularly there. Is this his time? Is this his spring? With another 4-under-par 66 Friday at the Honda Classic, Fowler is showing more signs he’s getting his game ready for something big. Yes, there’s a long weekend ahead, but he’s got something special working in his game right now. He has a lot of confidence going sitting atop the leaderboard, one shot ahead of Jimmy Walker (66) and two shots ahead of Sergio Garcia (69). Yes, PGA National’s Champion Course is a beast of a regular Tour stop. There’s trouble everywhere here, lots of knee-knocking shots through blustery winds this week, lots of forced carries over water. Nothing is certain here. Fortunes soar and plunge so quickly on this course. “If you can win here, you can win a major,” Padraig Harrington said at week’s start. This place can knock the confidence out of a player in a heartbeat, but if Fowler can win in these conditions, it’s a large statement, a confirmation he’s ready for an even larger test on an even larger stage. It’s another sign he’s ready to win his first major. “It’s not easy,” Fowler said of PGA National. “It takes a lot out of you ... There’s a lot of trouble out there, and it will jump up and bite you quick.” The Honda Classic: Articles, photos and videos Just ask Ian Poulter. He led going into the final round last year and knocked five shots into the water and somehow still nearly won. World No. 3 Rory McIlroy knocked two shots in the water Friday and left appearing poised to miss the cut. How hot is Fowler? He’s bogey-free through 36 holes. He’s the only player in the field who hasn’t made a bogey. “That’s a big accomplishment around here,” Fowler said. Fowler, 27, is looking to win for the fifth time in his last 21 starts, but there were some questions when he left Arizona three weeks ago. He also made a great weekend start at the Waste Management Phoenix Open but ended up squandering a two-shot lead with two holes to go in the final round, then lost a playoff with Hideki Matsuyama. Fowler left in tears, upset he couldn’t win with his grandfather in the gallery. There are always questions about how a player will bounce back from a tough loss. How did Fowler respond? He went out and got in some record-breaking practice. He went to work sharpening up his swing with his coach, Butch Harmon. And then he went out last week and set the course record at the Floridian near his South Florida home, shooting a 60 playing with Harmon and with LPGA pros Suzann Pettersen and Yani Tseng. Fowler actually set course records in back-to-back days. He went out the day before that and put up the new low score on the redesigned Medalist, posting a 66 at another beast of a South Florida course. Medalist measures 7,571 yards from the tips with a slope of 155 and course rating of 77.9. According to Golf Digest’s rankings of the 75 Toughest Courses, Medalist ranks behind only Kiawah Island. “Rickie is playing really, really well,” Garcia said. “So, I'm going to have to play extremely well to keep up with him. We'll see.” Garcia and Fowler are pals. They played together in the first two rounds. “We've always played well together,” Fowler said. “We hang out on and off the golf course, good buddies, and we enjoy playing together. I think we were able to feed off each other a bit and push each other.” Fowler is looking to feed off the company of greatness this spring. He has been spending some special time with some special folks in South Florida. Fowler played 36 holes with former NBA great Michael Jordan on Tuesday and had dinner with Jack Nicklaus on Thursday as part of an American Ryder Cup dinner at the Nicklaus home. If Fowler stays in the hunt this weekend, there’s a possibility Jordan could make an appearance on property. “Maybe Sunday, because it’s his day off,” Fowler said of Jordan’s proclivity for playing 36 holes every day. “We play all the time, whenever we’re both home.” At the Nicklaus gathering, Fowler said he enjoyed listening to Nicklaus talk about how he prepared for majors. “He’s in a position now where he can kind of share that, and he’s not giving away any secrets,” Fowler said. What did Fowler take from that talk? “I think some of it was just learning a little bit more of his prep work, kind of how he went about things, and then the confidence and belief that he had going into a tournament, once he had that preparation done,” Fowler said. “He knew he was ready to play on Thursday. And I feel like I've begun to learn a little bit more about what he's talking about the past couple years, where Thursday I'm ready to go and know what I'm bringing to the golf course, and know what I'm capable of.” Fowler would relish leaving the Honda Classic with more confidence he’s capable of winning the Masters. The search for answers continues in Fowler's 12th year BY Rex Hoggard — January 21, 2021 Rickie Fowler had a dreadful 2020 on the course and as he enters his 12th year on the PGA Tour, he's still looking for a way back up. OWGR: Hovland on high; Fowler worst since '14 BY Golf Channel Digital — December 07, 2020 Viktor Hovland cracked the top 15 in the latest Official World Golf Ranking while Rickie Fowler fell out of the top 50. Fowler among those not a lock for 2021 Masters BY Doug Ferguson — November 18, 2020 Rickie Fowler is in danger of dropping outside the OWGR top 50 by year's end, thus losing an automatic bid into the 2021 Masters.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693644
__label__cc	0.707985	0.292015	The strangest fish found in Alaska waters When you head out on an Alaska fishing charter, you always know what you’re hoping to catch (most likely salmon or halibut). But with more than 500 different species swimming in Alaska waters, there is always a chance that something unexpected will end up on the end of your hook. In recent years, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has seen more and more reports of mystery fish. Biologists attribute these catches to “The Blob,” an area of water that’s up to 10 degrees warmer than average and covers much of the northeastern Pacific Ocean from Mexico to the Bering Sea. “The Blob’s” presence means that fish that usually prefer warmer waters could travel far from home and all the way up to Alaska. Take, for example, the bigmouth sculpin. Although these are usually found in the Gulf of Alaska at depths of 50-150 fathoms of water, the gigantic prehistoric-looking fish can seem like a mystery to unsuspecting fishers. It’s known for its large head and mouth, and it has 13-15 free dorsal fin that spin and grow to be about 30 inches. This is one of the stranger sights in the waters of Alaska. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has also had several reports in recent years involving the ragfish. These are found throughout the Gulf of Alaska and deeper waters in the Bering Sea. Ragfish have been found in Juneau, Sitka, Valdez and Gustavus. The adult fish are purplish-brown in color, have longer bodies and lack pelvic fins. The ragfish gets its name because of the lack of a bone structure that is mostly made up of cartilage. For fish that you are more likely to reel up, but look just as weird, look no further than the Yelloweye Rockfish. The fish are a mix of yellow, orange and red with a bright golden yellow eye. Anglers may notice that the fish have black tips on their fins. These fish can be as long as 36 inches, and can really throw a fisher off their game when they are brought to the surface resembling a large goldfish. Visitors to Alaska will often be going out on a salmon fishing charter for the chance to catch one of the five types of salmon. While Alaskans will tell you only three are worth keeping (king salmon, silver salmon and sockeye salmon), it’s fun to learn all the types. Use this trick with each of the names of the fingers corresponding to a fish type. Chum (also known as dog) rhymes with thumb. Sockeye (also known as red) is the index finger. Just imagine poking someone’s eye out with your pointer finger. King (also known as chinook) is the middle finger. Silver (also known as coho) salmon corresponds to the ring finger as it is often adorned with silver. Pink (also known as humpy) salmon is the pinky finger. There is actually another type of salmon becoming more popular with sport fishers. The salmon shark (pictured) is gray with white markings, a wide tail, long gill slits and large teeth. It can grow to be more than 10 feet long but averages about six to eight feet. Most charters for salmon sharks leave out of Seward, Valdez, Cordova or Kodiak. This type of fishing is for an angler looking for a big fight as the sharks have an aggressive nature. The meat is said to taste like swordfish. While the unusual fish won’t always come to the surface, it’s fun to know what’s out there. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game also has this fish species guide to help you learn the different types and where they can be found in Alaska. Fish on! Photo Credit: Alaska Department of Fish and Game	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693645
__label__wiki	0.931241	0.931241	Sir Augustus S. Frazer.Knight Commander of the Bath. Colonel of the Royal Horse Artillery and Director of the Royal Laboratory. On Stone by C. Hamberger. Printed by C. Hullmandel. [n.d. c.1820.] Scarce lithograph, India proof. Sheet 610 x 507mm (24 x 20"). Mount staining, paper toning, Laid on card. A wonderful heroic portrait of a Gunner next to his cannon. Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer, K.C.B, (1776-1835). A month before his fourteenth birthday he was admitted as a Gentleman Cadet into the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. In 1793 he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery and in December he joined the army in Flanders, then under the command of HRH the Duke of York. He was promoted Lieutenant in January 1794 and saw action in the Flanders campaign, returning to England with the army in May 1795 when he was appointed to the Royal Horse Artillery (RHA). In September 1799, now a Captain-Lieutenant, he again went on active service, to North Holland, returning to England in November. He became a captain in 1803 and was given command of a troop of RHA which, in 1807 he took to South America where he commanded the Artillery of the expedition against Buenos Aires. Promoted Major in June 1811 he went to the Peninsula in November 1812, and it is from this date that the letters begin. In April 1813 Frazer was appointed to command the Horse Artillery of the army and as such saw action at Salamanca, Osma, Vitoria, St Sebastian, the crossings of the Bidassoa, Nive and Adour. He was severely wounded at the siege of Bayonne on 27 February 1814 but was back for the final battle of Toulouse in April which brought hostilities against the French to a close. He then returned to England, receiving the Peninsular Medal with two clasps and KCB, and appointed to command of the Artillery in the eastern district. He was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in December 1814. When war with France broke out again on Napoleon’s escape from Elba Sir Augustus joined the allied army in Flanders, under the Duke of Wellington, in March 1815 and resumed command of the Horse Artillery, the post he held during the battle of Waterloo. On return to England he was appointed Commander HQ RHA, Woolwich until promoted Colonel in January 1825. Subsequently he was Assistant Inspector of the Ordnancer Carriage Department, and finally Director of the Royal Laboratory, a position he held till his death in 1835. Frazer was a prolific letter writer and the letters contained in a book written to his wife, Lady Emma Frazer and to his wife’s sister and her husband, Major and Mrs Moore. They give a fascinating account of the stirring events of the time. 140 of them were written during the Peninsular campaign and a further 41 during the Waterloo campaign. Not in Parker.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693648
__label__cc	0.525042	0.474958	Easterners could freeze in the dark Gordon Laxer The Hill Times At a meeting of the House of Commons’ international trade committee earlier this month, Leon Benoit, the Conservative chairman, ordered me to stop my presentation as an invited witness. My remarks, he ruled, were not relevant. When his decision was successfully challenged by other members of the committee, Mr. Benoit adjourned the meeting and left the room. I was astonished. I had spent several days preparing for my presentation, and two days in transit. Later, I learned that Mr. Benoit’s behaviour may have been prompted by a secret guidebook for Conservative chairmen, designed to interrupt witnesses challenging government positions. If so, it backfired. Suppression intrigues people. They want to know what caused the storm. I was cut off after noting that the United States has a National Energy Policy (a NEP) that emphasizes self-sufficiency, energy independence and domestic ownership. And while Canada, as part of our bilateral Security and Prosperity Partnership initiative, supports U.S. efforts to wean itself off Middle Eastern oil, I noted that we do not have a NEP of our own. Indeed, Canada’s official goal is greater continental co-operation, at the expense of our own security of supply. For example, in researching how Canada’s energy security would be affected by exporting more energy to the United States, I learned that Canada has no plans, or enough pipelines, to get oil to Eastern Canadians in the event of an international supply crisis. Further, I was surprised that the government was not even studying Canadian energy security. The National Energy Board wrote me on April 12: “Unfortunately, the NEB has not undertaken any studies on security of supply.” Yet the board’s mandate is to “promote safety and security ... in the Canadian public interest.” I asked if Canada, as a member of the International Energy Agency, will establish a Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The IEA was created to counter OPEC’s boycotting power; its 24 members are supposed to maintain 90 days of emergency oil reserves. The NEB replied that Canada “was specifically exempted from establishing a reserve, on the grounds that Canada is a net exporting country whereas the other members are net importers.” But that doesn’t make sense. Canada may be a net exporter, but it still imports 40 per cent of its oil - 850,000 barrels per day - to meet 90 per cent of Atlantic Canada’s and Quebec’s needs, and 40 per cent of Ontario’s. A rising share of those imports, 45 per cent, comes from OPEC countries, primarily Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Meanwhile, imports from safer North Sea suppliers have shrunk to 37 per cent. Many Eastern Canadians heat their homes with oil. Western Canada cannot supply all of Eastern Canadian needs, because NAFTA reserves Canadian oil for Americans’ security of supply. Canada now exports 63 per cent of the oil it produces and 56 per cent of its natural gas. Those shares are currently locked in by NAFTA’s proportionality clause, which requires us not to reduce recent export proportions. Mexico refused proportionality. Can Canada get a Mexican exemption? Of course, we don’t even have the pipelines to fully meet Eastern needs and, rather than address that domestic deficiency, five more export pipelines are planned. Strategic reserves help short-term crunches, not long-term ones. Eastern Canadians’ best insurance for a secure energy supply would be to restore the rule that was in place before the Free Trade Agreement ushered in the proportionality clause. This rule required that Canada have 25 years of proven supply before any export permit was approved. Commitments under the Security and Prosperity Partnership, however, call for Canada to quicken environmental approval of tar sands exports, to establish more LNG terminals dedicated to export to the U.S. and to bring in temporary Mexican workers without permanent resident rights. These things will not help our energy security. Instead, Canada needs to realize that security trumps trade interests, and that the tar sands’ production is Canada’s biggest contributor to rising greenhouse gases. All our efforts to cut our fuel use will be for nothing if the tar sands continue to be developed for export to the U.S. It turns out Canada has a NEP, only it stands for No Energy Plan. And this is not helping Albertans and first nations, who are the oil and gas owners. Their governments receive pitifully low resource rents. Alberta and Norway have similar amounts of oil and gas, yet Alberta’s Heritage Fund has $14-billion (U.S.) while Norway’s has $290-billion. Canada must adopt a different national strategy - in partnership with the producing jurisdictions. The infamous 1980 National Energy Program had good goals - energy self-sufficiency, independence, domestic ownership, and security (not unlike the current U.S. program) - but it was imposed unilaterally. A new federal-provincial plan must raise resource rents so that producing regions can use the funds for their transition to a post-carbon economy. Otherwise Alberta will become, not the rust belt, but the fossil belt. Instead of guaranteeing U.S. energy security, how about a Secure Petroleum Plan for Canada? Was this off-topic?	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693656
__label__wiki	0.821326	0.821326	Rebalancing Act The growth in rainy day accounts is not what it seems. Sarah Harney \| November 2005 States are replenishing their reserves. Revenues are coming in over projections in most states and that has allowed them to put more than $20 billion into their rainy day funds. But little of the money will stay there for long. There is too much pressure from other parts of the budget--whether it's funding programs that have been shrunk in recent years or keeping up with the growth of Medicaid and K-12 education costs--to build up a big pile of reserves. The increase in savings, in most states, means money is just being parked, awaiting legislative decisions about where it should be spent. "I don't see a significant increase in the number of states making new deposits into these funds," says Corina Eckl, head of the fiscal affairs program at the National Conference of State Legislatures. Reserve accounts were a great help to states during the economic downturn a few years ago. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, states have drawn down about $30 billion from reserve funds since 2001, accounting for about one-fourth of the money they used to close deficits. Based on that experience, the center is now recommending that states save much more--perhaps three times as much as the 5 percent of general fund revenues that states usually are advised to sock away. That's unlikely to happen. "Politically, 5 percent is probably about as high as you can go before people complain that you're sitting on all this cash," says Scott Pattison of the National Association of State Budget Officers. Parents faced with fast-increasing tuition bills, for instance, would wonder why their state is not putting money into aid to higher education. A few states are being aggressive about restoring depleted reserves. In 2003, Virginia put into statute its priorities for new revenues, with an eye toward making supplemental deposits into its reserve accounts, over and above the normal formula-driven deposits the state can make when times are flush. Minnesota has put away about $1 billion. The governor and legislators, burned by a $5 billion deficit in 2003, made an explicit policy decision to direct any potential surplus into rainy day funds and cash flow accounts. "The decision was made before the revenue showed up," says state economist Thomas Stinson. Minnesota is also using excess cash to move expenses, particularly in education, back into the fiscal year in which they belong. Like many states, Minnesota during the recent recession shifted some of its costs into the next fiscal year. In South Carolina, Governor Mark Sanford has been trying to restore $500 million that had been borrowed from various trust and reserve funds during the downturn. But once that goal is accomplished, says his spokesman Joel Sawyer, the governor doesn't intend to build up rainy day reserves any higher than their pre-downturn days. Alan Greenblatt Senior Staff Writer agreenblatt@governing.com \| @AlanGreenblatt	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693657
__label__wiki	0.767571	0.767571	S. 3636 (116th) S. 3636 (116th): United States Secret Service Mission Improvement and Realignment Act of 2020 (Select) H.R. 7145 United States Secret Service Mission Improvement and Realignment Act of 2020 (IH) The text of the bill below is as of May 6, 2020 (Introduced). The bill was not enacted into law. Summary of this bill Where should the agency tasked with politician security and protection be housed? The Secret Service began in 1865 primarily to combat counterfeit money, which is why it was housed within the Treasury Department. Its protective function began in 1901 after the assassination of President McKinley. Yet it has always investigated financial crimes even to this day, although that remains its less prominent mission in the public consciousness. In 2003, the Secret Service moved to the newly-created Department of Homeland Security. Yet now some are now calling for the agency to return to the Treasury Department once again, for increased prioritization. Within the Treasury it would be the second-largest agency ... Mr. Graham (for himself and Mrs. Feinstein) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary To transfer the United States Secret Service to the Department of the Treasury. This Act may be cited as the United States Secret Service Mission Improvement and Realignment Act of 2020 . Functions transferred In accordance with this Act, there shall be transferred to the Secretary of the Treasury the functions, personnel, assets, and obligations of the United States Secret Service, including the functions of the Secretary of Homeland Security relating thereto. Distinct entity The United States Secret Service shall be maintained as a distinct entity within the Department of the Treasury. Transitional authorities Provision of assistance by officials Until the transfer of the United States Secret Service to the Department of the Treasury, any official having authority over or functions relating to the United States Secret Service immediately before the date of enactment of this Act shall provide to the Secretary of the Treasury such assistance, including the use of personnel and assets, as the Secretary of the Treasury may request in preparing for the transfer and integration of the United States Secret Service into the Department of the Treasury. Services and personnel During the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending on the effective date of this Act, upon the request of the Secretary of the Treasury, the head of any executive agency may, on a reimbursable basis, provide services or detail personnel to assist with the transition. Transfer of personnel, assets, obligations, and functions Upon the transfer of the United States Secret Service to the Department of the Treasury— the personnel, assets, and obligations held by or available in connection with the United States Secret Service shall be transferred to the Secretary of the Treasury for appropriate allocation, subject to the approval of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and in accordance with section 1531(a)(2) of title 31, United States Code; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall have all functions relating to the United States Secret Service that any other official could by law exercise in relation to the United States Secret Service immediately before such transfer, including all such functions vested in the Secretary of Homeland Security by the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101 et seq.) or any other law. Savings provisions Completed administrative actions Any completed administrative action of the United States Secret Service shall not be affected by the enactment of this Act or the transfer of the United States Secret Service to the Department of the Treasury, but shall continue in effect according to the terms of the completed administrative action until the completed administrative action is amended, modified, superseded, terminated, set aside, or revoked in accordance with law by an officer of the United States or a court of competent jurisdiction, or by operation of law. Completed administrative action defined In this subsection, the term completed administrative action includes an order, a determination, a rule, a regulation, a personnel action, a permit, an agreement, a grant, a contract, a certificate, a license, a registration, and a privilege. Pending proceedings Any pending proceeding in the United States Secret Service, including a notice of proposed rulemaking and an application for a license, permit, certificate, grant, or financial assistance, shall continue notwithstanding the enactment of this Act or the transfer of the United States Secret Service to the Department of the Treasury, unless the pending proceeding is discontinued or modified under the same terms and conditions and to the same extent that such discontinuance could have occurred if such enactment or transfer had not occurred. Any order issued in a proceeding described in paragraph (1), or an appeal therefrom, and any payment made pursuant to such an order, shall issue in the same manner and on the same terms as if this Act had not been enacted or the United States Secret Service had not been transferred, and the order shall continue in effect until amended, modified, superseded, terminated, set aside, or revoked by an officer of the United States or a court of competent jurisdiction, or by operation of law. Pending civil actions Any pending civil action shall continue notwithstanding the enactment of this Act or the transfer of the United States Secret Service to the Department of the Treasury, and in the pending civil action, proceedings shall be had, appeals taken, and judgments rendered and enforced in the same manner and with the same effect as if such enactment or transfer had not occurred. Any reference relating to the United States Secret Service in a statute, an executive order, a rule, a regulation, a directive, or a delegation of authority that precedes such transfer or the effective date of this Act shall be deemed to refer, as appropriate, to the Department of the Treasury and the United States Secret Service, to its officers, employees, or agents, or to its corresponding organizational units or functions. Employment provisions The Secretary of the Treasury may, in regulations prescribed jointly with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, adopt the rules, procedures, terms, and conditions established by statute, rule, or regulation before the effective date of this Act relating to employment in the United States Secret Service transferred to the Department of the Treasury by this Act. Effect of transfer on conditions of employment Except as otherwise provided in this Act, or under authority granted by this Act, the transfer pursuant to this Act of personnel shall not alter the terms and conditions of employment, including compensation, of any employee so transferred. Statutory reporting requirements Any statutory reporting requirement that applied to the United States Secret Service transferred to the Department of the Treasury by this Act immediately before the date of enactment of this Act shall continue to apply following that transfer if the statutory requirement refers to the United States Secret Service by name. Incidental transfers The Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, is authorized and directed to make such additional incidental dispositions of personnel, assets, and liabilities held, used, arising from, available, or to be made available, in connection with the functions transferred by this Act, as the Director determines necessary to accomplish the purposes of this Act. With respect to any function transferred by this Act and exercised on or after the effective date of this Act, any reference in any other Federal law to the United States Secret Service or any officer or office the functions of which are so transferred shall be deemed to refer to the Secretary of the Treasury or the official or component of the Department of the Treasury to which such function is so transferred. Report on expenditures for the purpose of providing protection during the course of travel the term covered travel— means any trip by a protected individual with a stop at a location that is not owned or controlled by the Federal Government; and includes any trip described in subparagraph (A) that is outside of the United States; the term immediate family does not include any child under the age of 26; the term incidental expenditure— means a travel expenditure incurred by United States Secret Service personnel and reimbursed by the United States Secret Service; and does not include expenditures described in clauses (i) or (ii) of subsection (b)(1)(E); the term protected individual means the President, the Vice President, and members of the immediate family of the President and Vice President during the period for which a report is submitted under subsection (b); and the term travel expenditure— means any expenditure of funds by the United States Secret Service for the purpose of providing protection to a protected individual during the course of covered travel; includes any expenditure incurred by an Executive department or agency for the purpose of providing protection to a protected individual during the course of covered travel and reimbursed by the United States Secret Service; and does not include any expenditure for— the pay of United States Secret Service personnel; the operation or maintenance of any permanent protective asset; or incidental expenditures. Not later than December 31 of each year, the Director of the United States Secret Service shall submit to the committees listed in section 9 of the Presidential Protection Assistance Act of 1976 (18 U.S.C. 3056 note), an annual report that, with respect to the previous fiscal year, includes, at a minimum— for each instance of covered travel, a statement of— the protected individual or protected individuals, if more than 1 protected individual is traveling; the dates of departure and return; each city and State or, if outside of the United States, city and country, visited; the total amount of travel expenditures; the total amount of expenditures for operational costs, including the cost of using— any asset to transport a protected individual; or any space and facility for operational purposes; and the total amount of expenditures for transportation, lodging, and per diem; and the name of and amount paid to— if the total amount paid is greater than $5,000, any individual who is not an employee of the Federal Government or a foreign government; and if the total amount paid is greater than $5,000, any entity that is not an entity of the Federal Government or a foreign government; and for each protected individual, the total amount of incidental expenditures incurred for the purpose of providing protection to the protected individual during the reporting period. Form of report The report required by subsection (b) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a nonpublic annex for information reported under subsection (b)(1)(F) that the United States Secret Service determines could harm the protective mission if publicly disclosed and classified information. The nonpublic annex and any draft of the annex shall be exempt from disclosure under section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the Freedom of Information Act ). Technical and conforming amendments Homeland Security Act of 2002 The Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101 et seq.) is amended— in section 2(11) (6 U.S.C. 101(11)), by striking except— and all that follows through the Coast Guard, when and inserting except the Coast Guard, when ; in section 103(d) (6 U.S.C. 113(d))— by striking paragraph (1); and by redesignating paragraphs (2) through (5) as paragraphs (1) through (4), respectively; in section 210G (6 U.S.C. 124n)— in subsection (a)— by striking the Secretary and the Attorney General and inserting the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Attorney General ; and by striking the Secretary or and inserting the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of the Treasury, or ; in subsection (b)— in paragraph (2), by striking The Secretary and inserting The Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of the Treasury, ; in paragraph (3), by striking The Secretary and inserting The Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of the Treasury, ; and in subsection (c), by striking the Secretary and inserting the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of the Treasury, ; in subsection (d)— in paragraph (1), by striking The Secretary, and inserting The Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of the Treasury, ; and in paragraph (2)— in subparagraph (A), by striking The Secretary and inserting The Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of the Treasury, ; and in subparagraph (B), by striking The Secretary and inserting The Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of the Treasury, ; in subsection (e)— in paragraph (3), by inserting , the Secretary of the Treasury, after the Secretary of Homeland Security ; in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting , the Department of the Treasury, after Department of Homeland Security ; and in subparagraph (C)— by striking and the Department of Justice and inserting , the Department of the Treasury, and the Department of Justice, or any combination of those agencies, ; and (bb) by striking either agency and inserting any such agencies ; and in paragraph (5), by inserting , the Department of the Treasury, after Department of Homeland Security ; in subsection (f), in the first sentence— by striking The Secretary and inserting The Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of the Treasury, ; by inserting , treasury, after homeland security ; and by inserting , the Department of the Treasury, after Department of Homeland Security ; in subsection (g)— in subparagraph (E), by inserting , the Department of the Treasury, after Department of Justice ; in subparagraph (F), by striking how the Secretary, and inserting how the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of the Treasury, ; and in subparagraph (G), by striking how the Secretary, and inserting how the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of the Treasury, ; and in paragraph (5), in the first sentence, by striking the Secretary and inserting the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of the Treasury, ; in subsection (h)— in paragraph (1), by striking the Secretary or and inserting the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of the Treasury, or ; in paragraph (3), by inserting or the Secretary of the Treasury after Attorney General ; by inserting or the Secretary of the Treasury after the Secretary of Homeland Security ; and by striking ; or and inserting a semicolon; by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (6); by inserting after paragraph (4) the following: vest in the Secretary of the Treasury any authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Attorney General; or ; and in paragraph (6), as so redesignated— by striking the Secretary or and inserting the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of the Treasury, or the ; and by striking the Secretary and and inserting the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the ; in subsection (j), by striking the Secretary and inserting the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of the Treasury, ; in subsection (k)— in subparagraph (A)— by striking the Secretary or and inserting the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of the Treasury, or ; and by striking subparagraph (C)(i)(II) and (C)(iii)(I) and inserting clauses (iii) and (iv)(I) of subparagraph (C) ; and in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking one and inserting 1 ; in clause (i)— in the matter preceding subclause (I), by inserting of Homeland Security after Secretary ; in subclause (I), by inserting or at the end; by striking subclause (II); and (DD) by redesignating subclause (III) as subclause (II); by redesignating clauses (iii) and (iv) as clauses (iv) and (v), respectively; by inserting after clause (ii) the following: missions authorized to be performed by the Department of the Treasury, consistent with governing statutes, regulations, and orders issued by the Secretary of the Treasury pertaining to United States Secret Service protection operations pursuant to sections 3056(a) and 3056A(a) of title 18, United States Code, and the Presidential Protection Assistance Act of 1976 (18 U.S.C. 3056 note); (ee) in clause (iv), as so redesignated, in the matter preceding subclause (I)— by inserting , the Department of the Treasury, after Department of Homeland Security ; and (ff) in clause (v), as so redesignated— by striking clause (iii) and inserting clause (iv) ; and by striking Secretary, and inserting Secretary of Homeland Security, ; by inserting , treasury, after homeland security ; by striking the Secretary and inserting the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of the Treasury, ; and by inserting , respectively, after Attorney General ; in paragraph (6), by inserting , the Department of the Treasury, after Department of Homeland Security ; and in paragraph (8), in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking the Secretary and inserting the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of the Treasury, ; and in subsection (l)(1), in the matter preceding subparagraph (A)— by striking Secretary shall and inserting Secretary of Homeland Security shall ; and by inserting , the Secretary of the Treasury, after Attorney General ; and in section 875(d)(1) (6 U.S.C. 455(d)(1)), in the first sentence, by striking the Secret Service or . Chapter 203 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— in section 3056, in subsections (a), (b), (c), (e)(1), (f), and (g), by striking of Homeland Security each place that term appears and inserting of the Treasury ; and in section 3056A— in subsection (a), in the matter preceding paragraph (1), in the second sentence, by striking of Homeland Security and inserting of the Treasury ; and in subsection (d), in the first and second sentences, by striking of Homeland Security and inserting of the Treasury . Title 5, United States Code, is amended— in section 6324(b)(3), by striking of Homeland Security and inserting of the Treasury ; and in section 10201(2), by striking the Department of Homeland Security and inserting the Treasury . Inspector General Act of 1978 The Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended— in section 8D(b)(1)— in the first sentence, by inserting and by the Office of Professional Responsibility of the United States Secret Service after Trade Bureau ; and in the second sentence, by striking The head of such and inserting The head of each such ; and in section 8I(e), in the first sentence, by striking the Office of Inspections of the United States Secret Service, . Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2007 Section 532 of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2007 (6 U.S.C. 382) is amended— in subsection (d), in the first sentence, by striking of Homeland Security and inserting of the Treasury ; and in paragraph (1), by striking of Homeland Security and inserting of the Treasury ; and in paragraph (2), by striking of Homeland Security and inserting of the Treasury . Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 Section 502 of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–53; 121 Stat. 310) is amended by striking subsection (b) and redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (b). Except as provided in subsection (b), this Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the date that is 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act. Transition period Any action authorized to be taken under subsection (a) or (b) of section 3 may be taken beginning on the date of enactment of this Act. Rule of construction Except as provided in section 8, nothing in this Act or the amendments made by this Act shall be construed to modify or amend section 3056 or 3056A of title 18, United States Code, or the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101 et seq.). Authorization of appropriations There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out this Act and the amendments made by this Act.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693658
__label__wiki	0.987746	0.987746	Cellar Twins sign with Rockshots Records and announces re-release of their debut full-length “Duality” Belgian melodic rockers Cellar Twins unleashed their compelling full-length “Duality”. Not only was it independently released, but also supported by their fans with a crowd funding campaign. Garnering rave reviews and a strong following, the record caught the attention of Rockshots Records for a re-release this coming January 29th, 2021. Read more about Cellar Twins sign with Rockshots Records and announces re-release of their debut full-length “Duality” Averted signs with Wormholedeath and announces re-release of their debut EP “Silenced” UK metal outfit Averted have signed a deal with Wormholedeath for their debut EP “Silenced”, due for re-release on December 18th, 2020. “Silenced” has been produced by Jack Stephens (Bloodshot Dawn, Mask of Judas). Averted paint stories of painful journeys and also of forgiveness. Read more about Averted signs with Wormholedeath and announces re-release of their debut EP “Silenced” High Fighter to release limited tape edition of 2014 debut EP “The Goat Ritual” on December 4th 2020 Hamburg- based Sludge and Stoner Metal act, High Fighter, has announced a limited Tape edition of their critically acclaimed, 2014- debut EP “The Goat Ritual”. Read more about High Fighter to release limited tape edition of 2014 debut EP “The Goat Ritual” on December 4th 2020 Greybeard sign with Wormholedeath and announce re-release of their debut album “Oracle” Canadian heavy metal band, Greybeard, has signed with Wormholedeath for the re-release of their astonishing full-length debut “Oracle”! Hailing from the northern reaches of Canada, Greybeard has honed their sound on “Oracle” with a story that wraps betrayal, cowardice, hatred, and ultimately vengeance into an epic album. Read more about Greybeard sign with Wormholedeath and announce re-release of their debut album “Oracle” Diamond Head to release 40th Anniversary re-recording of “Lightning to the Nations” on November 20th 2020 Vital, venerated, and vintage, when Diamond Head first released “Lightning to the Nations” forty years ago in 1980, few could have predicted the importance it would carry - and establish - with regards to heavy metal's new wave and sound. Stacked and packed with riffs, “Lightning to the Nations” would be one of the prime catalysts for a movement known as the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM). Read more about Diamond Head to release 40th Anniversary re-recording of “Lightning to the Nations” on November 20th 2020 Northlane to release “Alien” deluxe edition on July 31st 2020 Northlane’s fifth album “Alien” is their boldest and most personal yet, as well as their most successful. It had fans and critics raving, racking up over 30 million streams, prompting sold-out shows worldwide and winning the band’s third ARIA Award for Best Hard Rock or Heavy Album. Read more about Northlane to release “Alien” deluxe edition on July 31st 2020 In Mourning to re-release “Monolith” on July 24th 2020 Sweden’s melodic, progressive death/doom metallers In Mourning, will re-release their sophomore studio album, “Monolith”, on July 24th, 2020, via Agonia Records. The album is coming to CD and three different double LP formats. In anticipation of the re-release, the song “The Smoke” has been made available for a free download on Bandcamp, here. Read more about In Mourning to re-release “Monolith” on July 24th 2020 Behemoth release new music video for “Rom 5:8” Having released their most gripping album to date “I Loved You at Your Darkest”, Behemoth return once again spread the word of the unholy. Read more about Behemoth release new music video for “Rom 5:8” Behemoth announce tour edition of “I Loved You at Your Darkest” including BBC Radio 1 session and documentary Read more about Behemoth announce tour edition of “I Loved You at Your Darkest” including BBC Radio 1 session and documentary String Machine sign with Know Hope Records and re-releasing “Death of the Neon” album Soaring ethereal rhythms and melodies, and the doomed tenderness of where hope and hopelessness dance among the faded soon-to-be ruins of ill-maintained state highways tearing through rural and post-industrial landscapes. The soil here isn’t as fertile as it once was, but sometimes a collective of voices breaks through the frostline. For those who see no future, the future is wide open. Read more about String Machine sign with Know Hope Records and re-releasing “Death of the Neon” album Subscribe to re-release	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693659
__label__wiki	0.981508	0.981508	Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 10/18/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations Cablegram Sent Oct 18, 1917 To Opnav Washington Serial No. 355 Via Q 24 Prep. by Roys Appvd. By C of S1 Sent Initials File No. VERY SECRET Copies to: Comdr. Roys 955. Class B Torpedoed and Sunk October seventeenth STARMONT Latitude 49, 56N. Longitude 5, 31W. Name unknown Latitude 48, 57N. Longitude 4, 0W. Latitude 38, 43N. Longitude 22, 17W.—A139 Latitude 49, 56N. Longitude 5, 0W. Submarine sighted September thirtieth Latitude 33, 45N. Longitude 15, 30W. October seventeenth Latitude 57, 36N. Longitude 0, 57W. Latitude 55, 35N. Longitude 7, 16W. Latitude 55, 38N. Longitude 7, 02W. Latitude 57, 42N. Longitude 8, 30W. Latitude 57, 46N. Longitude 8, 51W. Latitude 58 36N. Longitude 7, 9W. Latitude 54, 39N. Longitude 4, 50W. Latitude 49, 53N. Longitude 5, 35W. Latitude 45, 00N. Longitude 11, 26W. Latitude 35, 58N. Longitude 8, 56W. October eighteenth Latitude 51, 30N. Longitude 2, 15E. Latitude 49, 6N. Longitude 3, 50W. Class A Milford reports drifter “ACTIVE III” mined and sunk at 8:50 a.m. on October 15th, 9 mile N.62 W. from St.Anne’s Head (Milford Haven). No survivors. Admiralty, Gibraltar reports armed boarding steamer “City of Belfast” in action with submarine while on patrol off Cape de Gata at 5 a.m. October 15th. “City of Belfast” has 3 killed and 2 wounded by gunfire and ship is holed near waterline. Oil and wreckage were observed in vicinity of action and it is considered submarine was probably sunk or badly damaged. 19318. Source Note: Cy, DNA, RG 45, Entry 517B. “Action Copy” appears in the upper-left corner. Footnote 1: Lt. Cmdr. John H. Roys, served as Sims’ liaison officer with British Naval Intelligence; Capt. Nathan C. Twining served as Sims’ Chief of Staff. Captain John R. Y. Blakely to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 10/1917 Captain Nathan C. Twining, Chief of Staff to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 10/1/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral William B. Fletcher, Force Commander, Patrol Squadrons, French Waters, 10/1/1917 Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander, Atlantic Fleet, to Caroline Wing Mayo, 10/1/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Anne Hitchcock Sims, 10/4/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 10/2/1917 Rear Admiral William B. Fletcher, Force Commander, Patrol Squadrons, French Waters, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 10/2/1917 Diary of Commander Joseph K. Taussig, 10/2/1917 Captain Nathan C. Twining to Vice Admiral William S. Sims and Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 10/3/1917 Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, Second Cable of this day, 10/3/1917 Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 10/3/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to French Minister of Marine Charles Chaumet, 10/3/1917 Captain Nathan C. Twining, Chief of Staff to Commander, United States Naval Forces in European Waters, to Lieutenant Commander Earl O. Coffey, 10/4/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 10/4/1917 Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Lieutenant Commander Charles R. Train, United States Naval Attaché in Rome, 10/4/1917 Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Vice Admiral William S. Sims, and Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves, 10/4/1917 Diary of Commander Joseph K. Taussig, Commander, U.S.S. Wadsworth, 10/5/1917 Admiral William S. Benson. Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 10/5/1917 British Admiralty to Vice Admiral Sir Dudley R. S. de Chair, 10/5/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 10/6/1917 Commodore Guy R. Gaunt, British Naval Attaché in Washington, D.C., to British Admiralty, 10/6/1917 Diary of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 10/6/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, 10/8/1917 List of Confidential Books supplied by the British Admiralty to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, and Lieutenant Commander John R. Roys, Liaison Officer, 10/8/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 10/8/1917 Rear Admiral William F. Fullam, Commander, Division Two, United States Pacific Fleet, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 10/8/1917 First Sea Lord Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 10/9/1917 Rear Admiral William B. Fletcher, Commander, United States Patrol Squadrons Operating in European Waters, to Commander Frank P. Baldwin, United States Naval Port Officer, St. Nazaire, France, 10/9/1917 Captain William V. Pratt, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, to Rear Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 10/10/1917 First Sea Lord Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe, R.N., to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 10/10/1917 Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves, Commander, Cruiser and Transport Force, Order for Ships in Convoy, 10/10/1917 Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander, Atlantic Fleet, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 10/11/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral William B. Fletcher, Commander, Patrol Squadrons Based in France, 10/11/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 10/11/1917 Diary of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 10/12/1917 Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Naval District Commandants, 10/12/1917 Diary of Commander Joseph K. Taussig, 10/12/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain Joel R. Poinsett Pringle, Chief of Staff, Destroyer Flotillas, Queenstown, 10/12/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain Joel R. Poinsett Pringle, Senior Officer Present, Destroyer Flotilla, 10/12/1917 Captain Richard H. Jackson, American Naval Staff Representative in Paris, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 10/12/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, Gibraltar Patrol Squadron, 10/13/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 10/13/1917 Rear Admiral William B. Fletcher, Commander, Patrol Squadrons in France, Order to Commanding Officers, 10/13/1917 Captain Frank H. Schofield, Staff, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations Memorandum, 10/13/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters to Anne Hitchcock Sims, 10/14/1917 Report on Torpedoing of U.S.S. Cassin, 10/15/1917 War Diary of U-61, 10/15/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain William V. Pratt, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, 10/15/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain Richard H. Jackson, American Naval Representative in Paris, 10/16/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 10/16/1917 Captain Joel R. Poinsett Pringle, Senior Officer Present, Destroyer Flotilla, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 10/16/1917 Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 10/16/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Vice Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander, Atlantic Fleet., 10/17/1917 Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Naval Constructor Laurence S. Adams, 10/17/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Vice Admiral Lewis Bayly, R.N., Commander, Naval Forces, Southern Ireland, 10/17/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Anne Hitchcock Sims, 10/19/1917 War Diary of U.S.S. Conyngham, 10/19/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Commander Charles R. Train, United States Naval Attaché in Rome, 10/20/1917 First Sea Lord Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe, R.N., to Commodore Guy R. Gaunt, British Naval Attaché in Washington, D.C., 10/20/1917 Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 10/20/1917 Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Operating Forces in European Waters, 10/20/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral William B. Fletcher, 10/21/1917 First Sea Lord Admiral Sir John R Jellicoe, R.N., to Commodore Guy R. Gaunt, British Naval Attaché in Washington, D.C., 10/22/1917 Winston Churchill to President Woodrow Wilson, 10/22/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Captain Thomas P. Magruder, Commander (pro tempore), Patrol Squadrons, French Waters, 10/23/1917 Third Assistant Secretary of State Breckenridge Long to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 10/23/1917 Vice Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, Commander, Naval Forces, Southern Ireland, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 10/23/1917 Executive Order of President Woodrow Wilson, 10/24/1917 Vice Admiral Lewis Bayly, R.N., Commander, Naval Forces, Southern Ireland, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 10/25/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Commander, Patrol Force in France, 10/26/1917 Rear Admiral Ralph Earle, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 10/26/1917 Lieutenant Commander Charles R. Train, United States Naval Attaché in Rome, to Captain William D. MacDougall, United States Naval Attaché in London, 10/27/1917 Lieutenant Commander Charles R. Train, United States Naval Attaché in Rome, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 10/28/1917 Captain Henry W. Grant, Deputy Director, Operations Division, British Admiralty, to British Admiralty, 10/27/1917 Captain William V. Pratt, Staff, Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 10/28/1917 Captain George H. Rock, Acting Industrial Manager, Bureau of Construction and Repair, to Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 10/29/1917 Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 10/29/1917 Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt to President Woodrow Wilson, 10/29/1917 Captain Joel R. Poinsett Pringle, Senior Officer, Destroyer Flotilla, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, 10/30/1917 Officer of the Chief of Naval Operations, to Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters., 10/30/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Forces Operating in European Waters, to Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations, 10/31/1917 Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Forces Operating in European Waters to Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 10/31/1917 Captain William V. Pratt, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations to Naval Districts Section, 10/31/1917 Circular Letter of Rear Admiral William C. Braisted, Surgeon General and Chief of Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 10/31/1917 William S Sims, John H Roys, William S Benson, Nathan C Twining Additional Resources for October 1917	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693661
__label__wiki	0.893865	0.893865	The Daughters of William the Silent – Emilia of Nassau September 18, 2017 Moniek Elisabeth of Leuchtenberg, Emilia of Nassau, Juliana of Stolberg, Portugal, The Royal Women 0 Emilia of Nassau was the fifth but third surviving child of William the Silent and his second wife, Anna of Saxony. She was born on 10 April 1569 in Cologne. She was named after the Countess of Neuenahr, who was the head of Anna’s household. From the beginning, she was under the care of a wet-nurse and two servants. Shortly after Emilia was born, Anna began an affair with Jan Rubens, a lawyer who later became the father of the famous painter Peter Paul Rubens. This did not go unnoticed, and Anna gave birth to their illegitimate daughter in 1571. She would never see her mother again; Anna died imprisoned by her relatives in 1577. Emilia spent her youth in Dillenburg, but she probably saw very little of her father. He had left Dillenburg in 1572, never to return to his place of birth again. She probably led a relatively simple life due to a lack of money. She lived there with her uncle John, his wife Elisabeth of Leuchtenberg and her grandmother Juliana of Stolberg. Her cousins and siblings also lived with them. She was forced to move to Siegen several times due to the plague in the area of Dillenburg. Her mother’s illegitimate daughter soon joined them at Dillenburg. Emilia received her education in religion, languages and courtly manners. She was raised in the Calvinistic teachings. Her grandmother died in 1580, and so many people came to the funeral that Emilia was forced to share her own room. Even more tragically, Emilia’s father was assassinated on 10 July 1584. Emilia remained at Dillenburg and received a stipend of 100 guilders per month from her father’s legacy. Louise de Coligny, her father’s fourth and final wife, was a kind woman and she once wrote to Emilia’s uncle that she believed that Emilia’s spoke no French and that was the reason they had never written before. However, Emilia had learned the language in her youth. With this assurance and Louise’s promise that she would love Emilia like her own daughter, 17-year-old Emilia decided to travel to the Netherlands. She left Dillenburg on 8 October 1587 and arrived on 1 November. She was present at the wedding of her (full) sister Anna to their first cousin, William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, eldest son of uncle John. Tragically, Anna died after just seven months of marriage. With Anna’s death, Emilia no longer wished to remain in Friesland and travelled to Delft, the place where her father had been assassinated. She lived with her half-sister Maria in the Prinsenhof, but she didn’t enjoy living there. There wasn’t much to do. She attended the wedding of her half-sister Maria to Count Philip of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein in Buren in 1595 and later that same year she attended the wedding of George Everard, Count of Solms and Sabina, Countess of Egmond and Princess of Gaveren in Delft. She met her future husband when he visited Delft. Manuel of Portugal was the illegitimate son of António, Prior of Crato, pretender to the Portuguese throne during the 1580 Portuguese succession crisis. After his father was (briefly) proclaimed King of Portugal, Manuel was created a Prince of Portugal. For the time, Emilia was already well on her way to spinsterhood. She had already seen five of her sisters married, including three that were younger than her. They enjoyed talking to one another, and he came to her court more and more. When they finally spoke of their wish to marry out loud, it was met with some scepticism. Her brother Maurice assumed it was a phase and initially ignored it. When it became clear that it wasn’t a phase, there was trouble. Manuel was a Roman Catholic, a pretender to the Portuguese throne and he was penniless. Although they were forbidden to meet, they continued to meet in secret. She kept attempting to get her brother’s permission to marry, but when it never came, they decided to elope. They married in both a Reformed and a Catholic service on 7 November 1597. Emilia was confined to her rooms after informing the States-General, but Manuel bypassed the guards upon which she declared that he was her lawful husband and that she would not divorce him. The days surrounding their wedding had been so stressful that Emilia fell ill. Manuel was told not to go to her and eventually Emilia refused to eat. Manuel was told to go south to await the decision of Emilia’s brother, but he had nowhere to go. Emilia was told to go to Delft. After several weeks, Manuel was ordered to leave the Netherlands. Emilia promptly followed him. They were soon asking to come back. Emilia was pregnant and wanted to give birth in the Netherlands. By September 1598, they were back in Delft. Their first child, a daughter, was presumably born before they arrived in Delft. Maurice declined to be the child’s godfather. The child probably died in infancy. A second daughter named Maria Belgica was born, and she survived. On 24 February 1600, she gave birth to her first son, named Manuel after his father. A second son was named William. In 1602, they had a daughter who died after suffocating in her crib. Daughters Emilia Louise and Anna Louise followed. In 1606 or 1607, they were joined by another daughter named Juliana Catharina, followed by Eleanora Mauritia in 1609. Their last child was yet another daughter, named Sabina Delphica. By 1609, Emilia and Maurice had reconciled somewhat, and Manuel even joined Maurice in his travels. That same year, they had a new castle built in Wijchen, but they didn’t spend much time there. In 1622, she became acquainted with Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen who was staying The Hague. Once, Emilia went to visit the Queen on foot, but she fell and suffered an injury to her leg. Not much later, the couple decided to live separately due to money issues. Emilia departed with their six daughters to Geneva, while Manuel left for Brussels. She even put their castle in Wijchen up for sale, but it never sold. Around 1628, Emilia became fell ill, and her health quickly deteriorated. She made a will on 22 February 1629, and she died on 16 March at 9 in the morning. She was buried in the Cathedral of Geneva on 18 March. 1 Mr Dr. J.L.J van de Kamp – Emanuel van Portugal en Emilia van Nassau Elisabeth of Leuchtenberg Emila of Nassau juliana of stolberg Manuel of Portugal About Moniek 1858 Articles My name is Moniek and I am from the Netherlands. I began this website in 2013 because I wanted to share these women's amazing stories. 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__label__wiki	0.662154	0.662154	World Hindi Day: How is it different from Hindi Diwas? World Hindi Day is celebrated on January 10 every year, marking the anniversary of first World Hindi Conference which was held in 1975 by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. World Hindi Day is celebrated on January 10 every year, marking the anniversary of first World Hindi Conference which was held in 1975 by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. (Image: Twitter) World Hindi Day is celebrated on January 10 every year, marking the anniversary of first World Hindi Conference which was held in 1975. The first World Hindi Conference was inaugurated by the then prime minister Indira Gandhi. Since 1975, the World Hindi Conference has been organised in different countries like India, Mauritius, United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago, United States. World Hindi Day was first observed on January 10, 2006. Since then, it is celebrated on January 10 every year. World Hindi Day vs National Hindi Diwas World Hindi Day and National Hindi Diwas are completely different. National Hindi Diwas is celebrated every year on September 14. On that day in 1949, the constituent assembly adopted Hindi, written in Devanagari script, as the official language of the Union. While the focus of the World Hindi Day is to promote the language at the global stage, the National Hindi Diwas, which is held across the country at a national level, marks adaptation of Hindi, written in Devanagari script as the official language. World Hindi Day 2019 celebrated at the Consulate. Great recitation and poems by the participants; Fantastic skit in Hindi by the students of @iabbv school. #WorldHindiDay pic.twitter.com/fvNXBBT0O9 India in Sydney (@cgisydney) January 9, 2019 First World Hindi Conference The first World Hindi Conference was held on January 10, 1975. The conference was inaugurated by the then prime minister Indira Gandhi in Nagpur. The first conference had Mauritius prime minister Seewoosagur Ramgoolam as the chief guest and was attended by 122 delegates from 30 countries. Apart from India, countries like United Kingdom, United States, Mauritius, Trinidad and Tobago, have hosted the World Hindi Conference. Also, persons of Indian origin and non-residential Indians in many countries organise events to commemorate the day to spread the greatness of the language. The 11th World Hindi Conference was held from August 18-20, 2018 in Mauritius. A look at the places where 10 previous World Hindi Conference was held: First World Hindi Conference - Nagpur, India - 10-12 January 1975 Second World Hindi Conference - Port Louis, Mauritius - 28-30 August 1976 Third World Hindi Conference - New Delhi, India - 28-30 October 1983 Fourth World Hindi Conference - Port Louis, Mauritius - 02-04 December 1993 Fifth World Hindi Conference- Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago - 04-08 April 1996 Sixth World Hindi Conference - London, U.K. - 14-18 September 1999 Seventh World Hindi Conference - Paramaribo, Suriname - 06-09 June 2003 Eighth World Hindi Conference - New York, America - 13-15 July 2007 Ninth World Hindi Conference - Johannesburg, South Africa - 22-24 September 2012 Tenth World Hindi Conference - Bhopal, India - 10-12 September 2015 Eleventh World Hindi Conference - Port Louis, Mauritius, 2018 Lesser known facts about the Hindi language The word Hindi originated from the Persian word Hind, which means the land of the Indus river. Hindi is the first language of around 430 million people around the world. Apart from India, the language is also spoken in Nepal, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Fiji and Mauritius. Hindi and Nepalese share the same script - Devanagari. The gender aspects of Hindi are very strict. All nouns in Hindi possess genders and the adjectives and verbs change according to gender. Many English words have been derived from Hindi, such as chutney, loot, bungalow, guru, jungle, karma, yoga, thug, avatar and so on. Hindi is a descendant of Sanskrit. Its words and grammar follow that of the ancient language. In linguistic terms, Hindi belongs to the Indo-Iranian sub-family of the Indo-European family of language. Hindi has been influenced and enriched by Turkish, Arabic, Persian, English and Dravidian (ancient South India) languages. The earliest form of Hindi was called 'Apabhramsa', which was an offspring of Sanskrit. In 400 AD, poet Kalidas wrote Vikramorvashiyam in Apabhramsa. The first book believed to be published in Hindi was Prem Sagar. The book was published by Lalloo Lal and depicted tales of Krishna. Hindi is one of the seven Indian languages that can be used to make web URLs. Also read \| Hindi Diwas 2018: 15 Hindi words to up your cool quotient Interested in General Knowledge and Current Affairs? Click here to stay informed and know what is happening around the world with our G.K. and Current Affairs section. To get more updates on Current Affairs, send in your query by mail to education.intoday@gmail.com Follow World Hindi Day Follow World Hindi Conference Follow Hindi Diwas Follow World Hindi Day celebrations	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693669
__label__wiki	0.943826	0.943826	26/11 anniversary: How US missed clues about Pakistani-American LeT spy till too late For all the anti-terrorism measures adopted by the United States in the aftermath of the devastating 9/11 attack, a Pakistani-American was able to go to India and plot an attack that killed his fellow-countrymen, probably operating right under the nose of the security establishment. New York Updated on: November 25, 2020 18:24 IST FILE IMAGE Daood Sayed Gilani, who used the name David Coleman Headley, made five spy missions to India on behalf of the Pakistan government-back terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba to map out its deadly 26/11 raid in 2008 in which ten Pakistanis killed 165 people, including six Americans, and wounded more than 300 people. He has admitted to working for both the LeT and the Pakistani spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). He also likely had links to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic state. The actions of Gilani, who worked for the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) supposedly as an informant, in the US, India, Pakistan and Europe remain a mystery. The US has admitted to intelligence shortcomings in not being able to connect him in time to the Mumbai attacks, although it has asserted that it had provided India with other information about an impending attack on the city in 2008. ProPublica, an independent non-profit investigative journalism organisation that looked into the Gilani/Headley case, has asserted that US officials had bungled several tipoffs they received till it was too late. He was arrested by the US authorities in 2009 only after he became involved in spying for attacks in Denmark against a newspaper that published pictures of Mohammed, the prophet of Islam. READ MORE: ‘Terrorists were planning big attack on 26/11 anniversary’: Modi holds review meet with Shah, Doval He was ultimately tried in a Chicago federal court for his role in the Mumbai massacre and sentenced to 35 years in prison when he was 52 years old in 2013. His whereabouts now are not known. His name did not show up when IANS ran a search of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) database of prisoners. Media reports said that Headley was attacked in a federal prison in 2018 and taken to a Chicago hospital. But according to the European Foundation for South Asian Studies, his lawyer John Theis denied that there was such an attack. It quoted him as saying, "I am in regular communication with Headley. There is no basis for the reportse Although I cannot disclose his location, he is neither in Chicago nor in a hospital." Gilani's associate, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, was found on the BOP database listed as a current prisoner in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Centre with the release date shown as "unknown." The former Pakistani military doctor Rana had recruited Gilani to work for the LeT and he was convicted in 2011 in a Chicago federal court in connection plot against the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. But Rana, who also has Canadian citizenship, was acquitted of the charges regarding his alleged involvement in the Mumbai attacks. He had visited India and stayed at the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower, one of the targets of the Pakistanis. The US has refused to extradite Gilani or Rana to India, although it allowed Indian investigators to interview Gilani. Gilani is the US-born son of a Pakistani diplomat and an American woman with high society links in Philadelphia. He took on his mother's maiden surname of Headley with David, an anglicised version of Daood, to hide his Pakistani origins as he carried out his terrorist missions. After a childhood in Pakistan, he returned to the US and worked for a while with his mother at her restaurant and pub in Philadelphia. His family is well-connected in Pakistan and his half-brother Danyal Gilani is a Pakistani diplomat based now in France and had been the chairman of the Pakistani Film Censor Board. Daood Gilani had reportedly been arrested twice on drug smuggling charges and turned an informant for the DEA. His first arrest was in 1988 and the second one in 1997. It is possible that the second arrest was staged to establish his credibility so he could return the next year to Pakistan on a trip paid for by the DEA to gather intelligence for it. ProPublica reported, "The convicted drug smuggler radicalised and joined Lashkar in Pakistan in the late 1990s while spying on Pakistani heroin traffickers as a paid informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration." After the Mumbai attacks that took place while George W. Bush was president, his successor Barack Obama's Director of National Intelligence James Clapper conducted an "after-action review" of how the Headley case was handled. His office admitted after the in 2010 that the "government did not connect Headley to terrorism until 2009, after the attacks on Mumbai." His office said in a statement, "The review finds that while some information relating to Headley was available to United States government officials prior to the Mumbai attacks, under the policies and procedures that existed at the time, it was not sufficiently established that he was engaged in plotting a terrorist attack in India. Therefore, the United States government did not pass information on Headley to the Indian government prior to the attacks." "Had the United States government sufficiently established he was engaged in plotting a terrorist attack in India, the information would have most assuredly been transferred promptly to the Indian government," it said. But it also asserted, "The review finds the United States government aggressively and promptly provided the Indian government with strategic warnings regarding Lashkar e-Tayyiba's threats to several targets in Mumbai between June and September 2008." G.K. Pillai, who was India's Home Secretary, expressed disappointment that Washington did not give India information about the activities of Gilani, who continued to visit India even after the attacks. Clapper said in 2013 that a US intelligence programme to sweep up vast amounts of communications data had helped stop the plot involving Gilani against the Danish newspaper. But ProPublica questioned the assertion saying, "The government surveillance only caught up with Headley after the US had been tipped by British intelligence. And even that victory came after seven years in which US intelligence failed to stop Headley as he roamed the globe on missions for Islamic terror networks and Pakistan's spy agency." ProPublica reported that there had been early tipoffs from people about Gilani's radicalisation. It said that after the 9/11 attacks in the US 2001, "Investigators questioned him in front of his DEA handlers in New York, and he was cleared." A year later the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) received another tip about his terrorist links and yet again in 2005 when one of his wives, who had him arrested on domestic violence allegations, told counter-terrorism investigators about his radical views and training in Pakistan, ProPublica reported. It repored quoting officials, "Inquiries were conducted, but he was not interviewed or placed on a watch list." Another set of tips came in late 2007 and early 2008, when another wife of Gilani told US embassy officials in Islamabad that "Headley was a terrorist and a spy, describing his frequent trips to Mumbai and his stay at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel," ProPublica reported. It said that according to officials, the lead was not pursued because they did not think it was specific enough. ProPublica said that according to court documents the last tip came from a family friend after the Mumbai massacre and a cousin on Gilani who was questioned by the FBI tipped him off. All the apparent bungling and the Clapper review may have led to some changes in how the US deals with terrorism tipoffs to avoid another 26/11. Clapper's office said, "Since the December 2009 attempted terrorist attacks on the United States, the Obama Administration has focused on information sharing reforms - new watchlisting policies and procedures have been enacted, as well as an increased focus on the pursuit of seemingly disparate and unrelated information regarding reports on individuals and their activities." READ MORE: India rejects Pakistan's list of terrorists involved in 26/11 Mumbai attacks 26/11 anniversary Deeply saddened by the loss of lives, says Adar Poonawala On Serum Institute Fire India's free vaccine supply to foreign countries begin with Bhutan, Maldives Nearly 10 lakh beneficiaries vaccinated so far: Health Ministry Mahagathbandhan to hold 'Kisan Jagruk Saptaah' against farm laws Vaccine diplomacy: Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan & Maldives get India’s anti-COVID-19 doses Lalu Yadav's health update: Infection in lungs, condition stable, says RIMS Director Parliamentary panel members flag concerns over WhatsApp's proposed new privacy policy	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693670
__label__wiki	0.869315	0.869315	Home » World » Asia » South Asia » Britain firm on Lanka probe into war crimes Britain firm on Lanka probe into war crimes Nov 27, 2013 284 Viewed News Editor Comments Off on Britain firm on Lanka probe into war crimes By Anasudhin Azeez London – British Prime Minister David Cameron has reiterated his demand for an independent inquiry into the alleged mass killing of Sri Lankan Tamils during the final days of the civil war in 2009. The Sri Lankan government had earlier rejected the demand and is planning to launch a South African-modelled truth and reconciliation! commission. But the date for such an inquiry has not yet been announce! d. Cameron said if the government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa did not launch the independent inquiry by March 2014, the British government would call for an international inquiry through the UN. In an exclusive column for London-based Asian Lite newspaper, the prime minister said there needed to be greater progress on human rights across the board in Sri Lanka – genuine freedom of expression and a free media, an end to the intimidation of journalists and human rights defenders and action to stamp out torture. A crew from Britain’s Channel 4 TV was forced to abandon its trip to the south Asian island nation’s northern peninsula when its train was blocked by alleged supporters of President Rajapaska. The British prime minister also appealed to both the Tamil and Sinhala communities to work together for a bright future of Sri Lanka. “There needs to be a genuine reconciliation between communities,” Cameron stated. “Sri Lanka is a bea! utiful country with enormous potential in the years ahead. But for too long it has been blighted by conflict. If Sri Lanka takes the opportunity to heal these old wounds then there is the prospect of a much brighter future for all its people,” he wrote. “It’s now over a week since I returned from Jaffna and the images still both haunt and inspire me,” the British prime minister added. “The visit I made to the north of Sri Lanka was fascinating – you can get all the briefings you like but nothing can replace seeing the situation for yourself. There were those who said I should stay away from the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka. They said that by going I was giving legitimacy to what has happened in the north of the country. I couldn’t disagree more. By going we were able to shine a light on what more needs to be done. “The end of the civil war in Sri Lanka is a massive opportunity but the issues now need to grasped. This isn’t about! imposing a Westminster view of the world. It’s about standing up for t! he values that all Commonwealth countries have signed up to. In turn, the rest of the world should recognise political leaders when they get things right. “So what needs to happen? First of all, there should be a transparent, credible investigation into alleged war crimes. No one wants to go back to the days of the Tamil Tigers, a brutal terrorist organisation. But equally, the Sri Lankan government cannot look the other way. When I met President Rajapaska I pressed for an investigation to take place – and I made clear that if those investigations were not begun properly by next March, we would call for an international inquiry through the United Nations. “Second, there needs to be greater progress on human rights across the board in Sri Lanka: genuine freedom of expression and a free media, an end to the intimidation of journalists and human rights defenders and action to stamp out torture. “Finally, there needs to be a genuine reconciliation between ! communities. Sri Lanka is a beautiful country with enormous potential in the years ahead. But for too long it has been blighted by conflict. If Sri Lanka takes the opportunity to heal these old wounds then there is the prospect of a much brighter future for all its people. “I know that for many Asian Lite readers the situation in Sri Lanka is deeply personal. It’s not about faceless diplomacy – it’s about your families, friends and their future. So believe me when I say that we will do everything in our power to help. I’m determined that we play our part in building a brighter future for the people of Sri Lanka and laying the ghosts of the past to rest,” Cameron wrote. Iran, Pak to fast track IP gas pipeline project starting December Prachanda to visit India to meet ailing daughter	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693671
__label__cc	0.711115	0.288885	INGSA-Asia is a Regional Chapter of the International Network for Government Science Advice and exists to enable greater information dissemination and access in Asia and foster science advice capacity in the region by raising awareness, supporting training and encouraging operational research on advisory principles, processes and practices in Asia. Besides building the regional and inter-regional networks of science advice practitioners, the Chapter acts as a support mechanism for policy makers within the region and encourages outreach to help increase the demand for science advice by policy makers. INGSA-Asia will be organising and undertaking workshop, offering awards for regional engagement as well as engaging with opportunities in the region to augment and amplify the development of science advice mechanism. To see what opportunities are available to get involved, see the INGSA-Asia Activities page. Operating out from the office of the International Science Council for Asia and the Pacific in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the Asia Chapter promotes a robust Asian science advice ecosystem and provides regional input into INGSA’s global activities, annual work plan and strategy. INGSA-Asia is guided by a Steering Committee that determines work-plans, regional strategy and implementation. The INGSA-Asia Steering Committee members were appointed by INGSA. The members of the INGSA-Asia Steering Committee are: Abhi Veerakumarasivam (Chair) – Abhi is a Professor of Genetics at the Institute for Healthcare Development, Sunway University, Malaysia. He is also currently the Chairman of the Young Scientists Network – Academy of Sciences Malaysia (YSN – ASM). He sits on many national and regional committees and studies that support the promotion of science. Hammad Mehmood Cheema – Hammad is currently the Head of Department at the Research Institute for Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Studies, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan. He also provides scientific advice to the Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Information Technology and also the Higher Education Commission, Pakistan. Kavita Shah – Kavita is the Professor and Coordinator, Mahamana Centre for Ganga River Development & Water Resource Management, Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University. She has been actively involved with community and has been part of the decision-making bodies of the Government of India for many important projects. Md. Sarwar Jahan – Sarwar is the Chief Scientific Officer and Director of the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR). He assists the Government in adopting initiatives pertaining to science policy and scientists’ “Individual Action Plan” to promote science in Bangladesh. Nguyen Truong Thang – Nguyen is a Chief Consultant for some ICT projects of the Vietnam Government Office and the Prime Minister. He was recently appointed as Head of the Department of ICT at the Graduate University of Science and Technology (GUST), Vietnam. Silap Boupha – Silap is the Advisor to the Ministers at the Ministry of Science and Technology, Lao P. D. R. on matters of science, technology and innovation, including ASEAN Affairs and geo-space Technology and Applications. He obtained his PhD degree in satellite technology systems. Vanny Narita – Vanny is currently attached at the Indonesian Academy of Sciences as a study committee member on Biodiversity. She was previously a government-led Innovation Program Specialist, National Innovation Council of the Republic of Indonesia. Arjun Thanaraju – Arjun is the Regional Programme Officer of the INGSA-Asia Chapter. He is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. For more information on local workshops/awards/opportunities, or to get involved with INGSA-Asia, see the Activities page. For further enquiries regarding INGSA Asia, you may contact Prof. Dr. Abhi Veerakumarasivam : abhiv@sunway.edu.my or Arjun Thanaraju : arjun.thanaraju@council.science	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693672
__label__cc	0.647404	0.352596	ALLENDALE CCSD 17 District Superintendent Mr. Robert Bowser Address PO BOX 130 ALLENDALE IL 62410 (618) 299-3161 Beginning in 2018, each Illinois school is receiving a Summative Designation, a measure of progress in academic performance and student success. This display lists the summative designation received for each school in the district. Learn More All public schools that received a summative designation have that designation listed. If an entity does not have a summative designation listed, it is either an entity that does not receive a summative designation, or the school has insufficient size or data to meet the n-size rules for summative designation calculations. The suppression rule for summative designation calculations is a count of at least 20 students per indicator. This suppression rule differs from the reporting suppression rule because they serve different purposes. Reasons for the Summative Designation are indicated on the following screen. Multiple measures determine which one of four Summative Designations is appropriate for each school. Exemplary – Schools performing in the top 10 percent of schools statewide with no underperforming student groups. Commendable – A school that has no underperforming student groups, a graduation rate greater than 67 percent, and whose performance is not in the top 10 percent of schools statewide. Targeted – A school in which one or more student groups is performing at or below the level of the “all students” group in the lowest performing 5 percent of schools. Comprehensive – A school that is in the lowest-performing 5 percent of schools in Illinois and any high school with a graduation rate of 67 percent or less. Student groups used in the calculations include major racial and ethnic identities, students with Individual Education Plans (special education), English language learners, and students from low-income families. In order to protect students’ privacy, a group must include at least 10 students in order to be counted in the calculation of Summative Designations.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693675
__label__wiki	0.842715	0.842715	CHIP Faculty Fellows Home » CHIP Faculty Fellows Our Center’s home in Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) provides a unique opportunity to engage preeminent scholars and graduate students committed to social justice, social impact, and positive social change. Starting in the Fall of 2017, our inaugural faculty fellows program represents a more structured opportunity for faculty experts to contribute to our work. In addition to ensuring the rigor of CHIP’s guidance, program participation helps expand researchers’ networks and perspectives in a way that strengthens future scholarship, especially by affiliated post docs and other graduate students. Jennifer Prah Ruger Chair, CHIP Faculty Fellows Amartya Sen Professor of Health Equity, Economics, and Policy Associate Dean for Global Studies A global expert in health policy and public health, Dr. Ruger helps CHIP’s research teams identify opportunities to leverage existing research, particularly in the areas of health and economic development. She serves on the research advisory board of The XX Factor, CHIP’s multi-year initiative on how funders can improve the lives of women and girls, and is a contributor to our work on community-based health (CBH), our analysis of one of the most promising approaches to delivering evidence-based care. Full bio→ John L. Jackson Jr. Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication Richard Perry University Professor Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor A global expert in cultural anthropology, race studies, and new media, Dr. Jackson works closely with Katherina Rosqueta, CHIP’s founding executive director and adjunct faculty at SP2, to identify opportunities for CHIP’s team to engage faculty, students and the broader Penn community in service of CHIP’s mission. As Penn’s first Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) professor, his research exemplifies the CHIP multi-disciplinary approach to analyzing opportunities for social impact. In addition, he serves as a key advisor on ways to engage the broader public on social impact solutions, including serving as CHIP’s primary liaison to Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication. Full bio→ Dean, School of Social Policy & Practice A global expert in cultural anthropology, race studies, and new media, Dr. Jackson works closely with Katherina Rosqueta, CHIP’s founding executive director and adjunct faculty at SP2, to identify opportunities for CHIP’s team to engage faculty, students and the broader Penn community in service of CHIP’s mission. As Penn’s first Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) professor, his research exemplifies the CHIP multi-disciplinary approach to analyzing opportunities for social impact. In addition, he serves as a key advisor on ways to engage the broader public on social impact solutions, including serving as CHIP’s primary liaison to the Penn’s Annenberg School of Communications. Full bio→ Dennis Culhane Dana & Andrew Stone Chair in Social Policy Co-Principal Investigator, Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy Director of Research, National Center for Homelessness Among Veterans Dr. Culhane is a highly respected national and international authority on homelessness and assisted housing policy and served as an advisor and faculty for CHIP’s work on those issues as we developed our 2009 High Impact Philanthropy in the Downturn. His recent research includes studies of vulnerable youth and young adults, including those transitioning from foster care, juvenile justice and residential treatment services. This recent work is informing CHIP’s guidance on a variety of issues including, homelessness, substance use disorders, and disconnected/opportunity youth. Dr. Culhane also co-directs the Intelligence for Social Policy Initiative, a MacArthur Foundation-funded project to promote the development of integrated database systems by states and localities for policy analysis and systems reform. Full bio→ Chao Guo Associate Professor of Nonprofit Management Editor-in-Chief, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly Chao Guo is an authority on the intersection between nonprofit and voluntary action and government. More specifically, he conducts research on the contributions of nonprofit organizations to democratic governance, collaboration within and across sectors, social entrepreneurship, and the role and effects of new media on nonprofit organizations. In addition to his academic work, Chao is actively involved in professional and community service activities, including as founding co-director of the Institute for Philanthropy and Social Innovation at Renmin University of China and current Editor-in-Chief of Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly, the premier journal in the field. He has previously collaborated with CHIP on the Franklin Prize and a series of funder education briefs targeted at donors interested in supporting scaling, capacity building, or innovation. with their giving Full bio→ Dana and Andrew Stone Chair in Social Policy Femida Handy Director, PhD in Social Welfare Program Professor Handy’s research and teaching focus on the economics of the nonprofit sector, volunteering, philanthropy, nonprofit management, entrepreneurship, and microfinance. One area of prominence is her scholarship on volunteering and philanthropy, in an international context. She is the author of the Palgrave Handbook of Global Philanthropy and Philanthropy in India: Promise to Practice. She is one of the founders of The Center for Global Generosity, a research group that aims to generate a comprehensive understanding of generosity motivations, behaviors, and it’s societal outcomes. A former Editor-in-Chief of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, the premier journal in the field, she has served on the editorial board of several academic journals. Full bio→ Phyllis Solomon Dean of Research, School of Social Policy & Practice Kenneth L.M. Pray Chair Senior Fellow, Center for Public Health Initiatives Faculty Fellow, Ortner Center Internationally renowned for her research on mental illness services, Dr. Solomon provides guidance to CHIP’s team on social science research methods broadly, as well as the latest research on behavioral health (e.g., mental health issues and addiction) more specifically. In addition, she serves as a mentor and advisor to CHIP’s research staff to ensure responsible interpretation of relevant research findings in the context of practical philanthropic decisions. Full bio→ Susan Sorenson Professor of Social Policy Professor of Health & Societies Senior Fellow in Public Health Director, The Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center on Family Violence A widely published expert on the social context of family and sexual violence, Dr. Sorenson is a member of the research advisory board of The XX Factor, CHIP’s multi-year initiative on how funders can improve the lives of women and girls. She has been an advisor on major US public health priorities such as gun violence and domestic violence and served as guest faculty for the Center’s highly-rated semester-long class on social impact analysis, strategy, and leadership. Full bio→	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693678
__label__wiki	0.60824	0.60824	16 June 2020Real Estate Tomorrow 21 July 2020Africa Tomorrow Episode 2Follow the sun from Asia to America Episode 1One Industry. One Community. One Tomorrow. HTGives Hospitality Tomorrow 21 January 2021, 6:59pm – 6:59pm Filter sessions by topic All Breakout Session Sponsor Session Main Stage Session WELCOME TO HOSPITALITY TOMORROW Jonathan Worsley Chairman & Founder, Bench Events, WiH Global Jonathan is one of the founders and organisers of multiple leading international conferences for the hospitality industry including AHIC (UAE); AHIF (Africa); SHIC (Saudi) and SAHIC (Latin America). Jonathan branched out into aviation and F&B, through AviaDev and GRIF. In 2020, the company pivoted to virtual and hybrid conferences with the launch of the hospitalitytomorrow.com series and the Future Hospitality Summit for the G20 Saudi Secretariat. In 1997, Jonathan co-founded the annual IHIF (Berlin) which today attracts over 2,000 delegates. Earlier in his career, he worked for real estate consultants CBRE & Hotel Partners, hotel advisors PKF and hotel operator Forte & Holiday Inns. Jonathan was a board director and co-founder of STR Global until 2019 and is on the advisory board of inHovate and Hotel Swaps. He also sits on the Advisory Board for RAK TDA, a member of WiH and is a Trustee of Future Talent, a charity that provides financial support to gifted young musicians. Anita Mendiratta Special Advisor to Secretary General, UNWTO A committed Tourism & Development practitioner, Anita is the Founder and President of ANITA MENDIRATTA & Associates (first launched as CACHET CONSULTING), a highly respected and trusted international consulting firm based in London, UK. With over two decades of global professional working and living experience, Anita’s global hands-on, cross-cultural, cross-industry experience in both public and private sectors has created an innate ability to feel the ‘heartbeat’ of societies – the economic, social, political, cultural and environmental dynamics impacting and inspiring nations facing change, including confronting challenge. Importantly, with proven agility and acumen in mobilising impact across diplomatic, governmental and business spheres, her exceptional skills in assisting clients in defining and mobilising critical principles and practices vital to individual and collective impact has earned her the trust needed to work directly with leadership teams to unlock higher levels of performance. For this reason, Anita is highly sought after as both a strategist & advisor in the areas of national growth, development, and often, recovery. She is honoured to be: SPECIAL ADVISOR to the Secretary General of the UNWTO http://www2.unwto.org/ STRATEGIC ADVISOR TO CNN INTERNATIONAL in the area of Tourism & Economic Development, operating as lead Consultant of CNN’s T.A.S.K. GROUP across all regions of the world. http://www.cnnmediainfo.com/task/ STRATEGIC RESOURCE TO THE WORLD BANK, WTTC, IATA and ATAG in Tourism, Aviation and Development Increasingly, Anita is called upon to be the bridge between government and business, assisting leaders to address conflict and find common ground to enable advancement of common agendas, breaking through areas of contrast and/or conflict to realise shared aspirations. Paul Gardiner CEO, Mantis Collection Paul Gardiner is the CEO of Mantis Collection (internationally), a hotel group made up of eco-lodges and hotels located on all seven continents. His career began as a game ranger in South Africa in 1994 on his father’s wildlife reserve called Shamwari. Today his responsibility with his team based out of the UK is to grow the Mantis brand beyond just Africa. They have opportunities in the Middle East, Cuba, China, Montenegro, the Swiss Alps, the South of France and the UK that they’re currently exploring. With the world going crazy for glamping and eco experiences they’re well placed to capitalize on the opportunity considering they already have experience in developing, operating and marketing these products so successfully throughout Africa for over 25 years. In recent years Paul has also struck up a relationship with the television personality and adventurer, Bear Grylls. Mantis Media is the creative arm of Mantis Collection and they’re responsible for taking what Bear does so well on television and bringing it to life for kids, adults, corporates etc. Essentially they’re responsible for all Bear’s location based entertainment. They recently partnered with Merlin Entertainments to develop a $22m Bear Grylls Adventure Park in the UK. Mantis has recently partnered with Accor Hotels, together they have a 50/50 JV. The JV allows Mantis amazing distribution via their new “big brother” and it gives Accor a stronghold in Sub Saharan Africa where Mantis are particularly strong – so it’s a win win for both. Together the JV has already launched the Conservation Community Fund Africa (CCFA) This grant-giving Foundation is registered in South Africa as a non-profit company and has uniquely brought together three internationally admired wildlife conservation organisations as its Founding members: Wilderness Foundation Africa, Tusk Trust and African Parks. The Mantis Accor partnerships intentions are two fold, the one is to further grow and develop the Mantis brand across Africa, and the second is to take the unique Mantis eco lodge DNA model to other amazing parts of the world. Although Paul is UK based he spends a third of the year in South Africa – he and his father are the driving force behind a new pioneering initiative which they’re launching at their game reserve in South Africa which will see the creation of the first ever Eco Lodge Innovation Hub. Paul has also launched his very own media platform to help spread the word of the amazing work that people from all walks of life are involved in, within the world of conservation and eco-tourism. NINE LEADERSHIP HABITS FOR THE NEW WORLD OF WORK 2020 has been a year of seismic and irrevocable change. Instead of sleepwalking back into our old habits post-lockdown, it's a critical time for business leaders to make decisions about the future world of work Dr John Blakey Founder, The Trusted Executive Foundation As the Founder of The Trusted Executive Foundation, John and his team help board leaders across all sectors adapt to the ‘new normal’ of trust-based leadership using the unique models and tools from his acclaimed books, ‘The Trusted Executive’ and ‘Challenging Coaching’. ‘The Trusted Executive' combines prize-winning research to create the Nine Habits of Trust at Aston Business School, together with the learnings from John’s successes (and failures!) as a former FTSE 100 international managing director, serial entrepreneur and executive coach to CEOs and elite sports leaders. John’s work that has been featured in Forbes, BBC News, HuffPost, the FT and The Sunday Times. HOW TO LEAD, MOTIVATE & ENGAGE Cultural & Engagement Essentials for Maximising the Emotional Commitment of your People Mark Robb Founder, Positive Reframe Mark Robb has had a commercially measurable impact on some of the UK’s largest brands over the last twenty years. Specialising in how Leaders create a culture to drive staff engagement to increase customer delight. He designs and delivers whole business cultural evolution programmes. Using arresting and memorable techniques as well as cutting edge research and psychometrics. His no-nonsense practical and commercially focused approach challenges and equips people to harnesses the huge but often dormant power that lies within them. LEADERSHIP IN SPORTS How to lead a high-performance team during difficult times Ashley Giles Managing Director, England Men’s Cricket, former Warwickshire and England first-class cricketer Ashley Giles the current Managing Director of England men’s cricket and former Warwickshire and England first class cricketer will host a masterclass on how to lead a high-performance team during difficult times. Sporting events have been hit very hard in 2020 but England managed to deliver all their games despite audience free venues. Ashley will talk about managing teams in bubbles, dealing with difficult situations and ultimately underline how leadership is dealing with relationships, at its very heart. Marloes Knippenberg CEO, Kerten Hospitality; WiH Global The CEO of Kerten Hospitality, Marloes Knippenberg, has an innovative mindset that has established the organization as a disruptive, dynamic international hospitality group dedicated to the management of mixed-use developments in key global destinations. Her journey in the hospitality field started with Hilton where Marloes held senior operational and commercial management positions for over a decade. At the helm of Kerten Hospitality, which she developed and launched with the backing of Kerten, Ireland-based investment vehicle, Marloes has grown the organization’s operational and pipeline portfolio from one brand in one country to 10 aspirational lifestyle-driven concepts in 35 development projects across 3 continents. Marloes continuously pioneers the role of innovation across the larger ecosystem with the aim to establish an industry platform where technology, hospitality and sustainability coexist and evolve for the benefit of consumers, investors and businesses. She is on the Advisory Boards of flagship events like IHIDC – Vienna, AHIC - UAE, HITEC - Dubai, IHIF - Berlin and is frequently invited to contribute Though Leadership to industry forums: ITHIC - Italy, SHIC - Saudi Arabia, HOST – London and The Retail Summit, Dubai. She has been a mentor for students in hospitality schools and was recently on the jury panel of the GENIO Innovation Summit by Hotelschool The Hague. Marloes has been listed in the Hotelier Middle East Power List 2019 ranking the region’s most influential industry professionals. Most recently, she was listed in Hotelier Middle East 25 'women in hospitality power list' is a result of those women who are making waves in the industry. She is the Winner of CEO Today’s 2020 Business Women of the Year recognition in hospitality. Breakout Session HOW TO SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE PROCUREMENT Dr Zahra Jivraj Co-founder, Toggle Market Muna Khogali VP – Institutional Development, Toggle Market Sponsor Session LEADERSHIP DISCUSSION HOSTED BY WiH GLOBAL WHAT IS THE VIEW OF A YOUNG CEO ON LEADERSHIP TOMORROW? Minhaz Abedin CEO, Future Talent Minhaz lobbied his first MP aged 10, spurring his election aged 13 as a Youth MP. By age 15, he had spoken at the Dispatch Box in the House of Commons. After representing the views of millions of young people through the press and as a Youth MP, he was appointed to represent the UK Youth at the 71st UN General Assembly. While at University, Minhaz founded a marketing agency to amplify brands across the globe through organic conversations. After establishing offices in London and reaching over 400 million people with clients like 'The Times' and 'Reed Smith', he stepped back as CEO, remaining as a Founding Director. In 2020, HRH The Duchess of Kent and Nicholas Robinson appointed him as CEO of the royal charity Future Talent, represented by Ambassadors such as Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Dame Judi Dench and Sting. LEADERSHIP DISCUSSION HOSTED BY LEVERAGING THE POWER OF STORYTELLING Why storytelling is such a powerful tool in the hands of 21st century organisations Claus Raasted Director, College of Extraordinary Experiences Claus Raasted has worked with designing extraordinary experiences for almost a quarter of a century. Today, he serves as the Director for The College of Extraordinary Experiences, is a Coach at McKinsey & Company, and hosts the podcast ”The Business of Extraordinary Experiences”. He is also a prolific author, with 30 books to his name, and has just finished ”The Innovation Cycle”. Raasted also has a past in reality TV, but these days, who hasn't? STORYTELLING DISCUSSION HOSTED BY WiH GLOBAL CEO, QUO, WiH Global An evangelist for the power of experiential branding, David Keen is a successful entrepreneur and leading strategist for the travel and hospitality industries. Over the last 20 years, David has published and been interviewed in dozens of publications and has been a featured speaker at numerous conferences, tradeshows and professional events. David was born in London and educated in New York at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration. After embarking on his career in London and the United States, David ventured to Asia as a writer and editor, travelling widely in the region. In 1996, David settled in Bangkok, where he founded QUO, a brand strategy and integrated communications agency. As CEO, David leads a team of over 90 esteemed professionals from around the globe as they use their extensive experience to craft brands that deeply resonate with today’s consumers. Whether branding nations, luxury hospitality giants, high-flying airlines, funky design hotels, adventurous travel companies or elegant boutique resorts, QUO brings ideas to life. EXPERIENCE, USE, SPACE - THE IMPORTANCE OF A DIGITAL STRATEGY IN HOSPITALITY, NOW MORE THAN EVER. Covering the changing market dynamics, which technological solutions should your strategy focus on and what is a digital twin? Owen Pritchard Executive Director, Hotels Investment Advisory, CBRE Owen is responsible for the daily operations of CBRE Hotels EMEA, as well as leading the EMEA Hotels Advisory team. The multi disciplinary Advisory team provides advice during all stages of hotel ownership. Owen focuses on hotel development and has worked with hotel owners to deliver optimum operating structures on new developments and existing hotels. He has experience of running operator selection processes in prominent mixed use schemes throughout the UK including Crown Place, One Blackfriars and Wood Wharf, part of the Canary Wharf estate. He has also recently been involved in a number of high profile operator selection projects in continental Europe notably the Bauers in Venice and Grand Hotel, Geneva. Owen has international experience in the property industry having spent a number of years working in Canada and the Caribbean. In conversation with: James Effingham Senior Director, Hospitality Building Consultancy, CBRE With over twenty-five years’ professional experience, James is the CBRE Hotels & Hospitality Building Consultancy lead for EMEA. Since joining CBRE Building Consultancy & Planning in 1998, James has been involved in major building survey/due diligence instructions on landmark properties and portfolios of various types, focusing on hotels & resorts, offices, retail and industrial buildings in the UK, Middle East and Europe, as well as a range of professional building surveying work. Michael Grove Managing Director, Hotstats Joe Pettigrew Commerical Strategy, Yotel Nick Wright Head of Digital, CBRE As data and tech continue to drive how businesses operate I advise clients on how to better engage with their customers and how this can be underpinned by new technology and innovation. MAXIMISING IMPACT IN THE VIRTUAL SPACE David Thomas, Guinness memory record breaker and international presentation skills coach, will share tips and strategies on how to improve memory and increase impact when presenting online. Guinness Memory Champion, UK David inspires with his story of how he overcame a seriously abusive childhood to become a hugely successful adult. This is the theme of his #1 bestselling book. He links the lessons he learned to the specific problems that your team are facing in your industry. He shares the strategies he has honed and developed to become one of the best practitioners in history in his chosen field of excellence, memory. He ensures the techniques are transferable so that your can implement them within you team. HACKERS GUIDE TO NEW NORMAL HOSPITALITY TECHNOLOGY Discuss a list of selected new normal technologies available to hospitality that enhance the new normal requirements with a focus on delivering on the requirements and expectations of hotel guests in post covid hotel operations ensuring guest security, health, safety, improving revenue and controlling costs. Frederic van Lennep Business Development Director, IT Hospitality Frederic Van Lennep is the Business Development Director MEA at IT Hospitality with over 15 years of experience in Hospitality operations and technology supply in Africa. He comes from a hospitality background having managed and consulted on multiple hotel projects in Kenya, East Africa. Including some of the most prestigious beach properties from Heritage Hotels’ Voyager Beach Resort in Mombasa, Leisure Lodge Beach & Golf Resort In Diani, The Majlis Resort in Lamu and Nyali International Beach resort in Mombasa. His career path continued as Sales Manager for Assa Abloy Global Solutions distributing VingCard electronic locking solutions and Elsafe in room safe in East, West and Central Africa where he was responsible for the overall sales development, partner contracting and project follow up on over 300 hospitality projects. He joined the team of IT Hospitality in as their Business Development Director for Middle East and Africa. IT Hospitality is the preferred integrator for International Hotel Chains in Middle East & Africa ensuring the proper deployment of their systems, offering end to end turnkey solutions and providing local support, network design & management, WiFi & High Speed Internet Access, IPTV & In-Room Entertainment and IT Management & Support. Graeme Powell Founder, Veridicum Graeme has in excess of 25 years of experience of the provision of technology within the hospitality industry. The majority of this time has been spent leading businesses on the provider side but more recently time has been spent assisting hoteliers with strategy and implementation. He now does a lot of work confirming whether Wi-Fi installations meet hotel brand standards. Graeme is regularly involved with Hospitality Technology Next Generation (HTNG) workgroups having been particularly involved in areas with respect to improving the guest Wi-Fi experience. Graeme has a BSc. (Econ) in Accounting and Finance from LSE and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. Ronald Stilting Founder & Managing Director, Zebra Hospitality Graduate Hotel Management School Maastricht Active in hospitality management & consultancy for more than 35 years / in Africa since 1998 8 hotel pre-opening (6 in Africa) and various rebranding & turn-around projects General Manager of the Year 2019 Nigeria Founder/MD of Zebra Hospitality www.zebrahospitality.com Kees van Donk Senior Director Travel, Hospitality & Leisure, NEC Enterprise Solutions - EMEA Since graduating from the Hotelschool Maastricht, Kees van Donk has held several business development, account- and sales management positions in the field of Hospitality for companies including Accor, Witness, Philips and NEC. At present Kees van Donk is Director Hospitality at NEC Unified Solutions. Operating out of the company’s head-office in Hilversum, the Netherlands, his responsibilities include marketing, sales and account management to the Hospitality sector throughout EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa). In this role his objective is to accelerate the growth of NEC’s activities in the Hospitality sector and increase the company’s installed base in the region from 8,500 to 12,000 hotels over the coming 3 years. His background and experience, including tenures with Fidelio, Hilton Worldwide and Accor as well as his fluency in 4 languages, make Kees the ideal candidate to drive this strategic vertical for NEC in EMEA. In addition to his commercial role and responsibilities, Kees focuses on driving new developments, i.e. Cloud based voice solutions, BYOD for Hospitality and UCC, to address and support the business needs of the international hotel industry for efficient operations (> GOP) and effective guest focus (> REVPAR). HOSPITALITY TOMORROW GIVES We share some of the amazing stories of courage and giving from industry leaders on how they are protecting frontline workers COFFEE BREAK WITH THE TRUSTED EXECUTIVE FOUNDATION Join John, Sharon and Steve from The Trusted Executive Foundation at their exhibition stand for any questions on the new world of work THE DEVELOPING SHAPE OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC RECOVERY Which markets will do best and what are the implications for the Hospitality Sector Wesley Paul Chairman and Founding Partner, Gemin-i Analytics Ltd. Wes Paul has had an extensive career in finance, starting with J.P. Morgan & Co in 1975 where he was a Managing Director and held a variety of senior global positions in Debt, Currency, Research, Emerging Markets and Private Equity. He went on to become the firm’s Global Head of Investments with total oversight and responsibility for the company’s real estate portfolio. Wes has a critical focus on disruptive technologies, macroeconomic and capital markets and catalysing opportunities. Wes is also Chairman and CEO of Tellus Matrix LLP and sits on the advisory boards of a number of start-up companies, charities and institutes. FINANCE DISCUSSION HOSTED BY WiH GLOBAL Lissa Engle Founder and Managing Director, Berkeley Capital Group, WiH Global Lissa Engle is Managing Director of Berkeley Capital Group ['BCG'] an agile, innovative, turnkey partner for global investors on sustainable hospitality investments and developments. BCG is an independent private company which ensures the firm is brand agnostic, working with all niche and global brands across its developments, with currently circa 800 keys in the pipeline across the UK and Europe. Lissa is also Founder and CEO of WiH Global [‘WiH’], a not-for-profit and best-in-class global community who believe that by collaborating, we can have greater impact and raise the game to create a hospitality industry that is more diverse and inclusive. Lissa has advised on circa £5bn of real estate and has 20 years of investment and development experience. She is Chair of GRI’s Hospitality Committee connecting C-Suite real estate and infrastructure leaders from around the world, Chair of the Steering Committee for UK’s landmark Hotel Financing Report and on the Advisory Board of AHC. She is also Member of Forbes Business Council. As knowledge share and collaboration are fundamental to BCG, Lissa is also host to BCG Talks, a podcast series which includes ‘Leadership Series’ interviewing global leaders in hospitality. Lissa received her MBA from INSEAD and BA from Dartmouth College, studying also at Oxford and University of Munich as German-American Federation scholar. She speaks French, German and Italian and previously worked in Strategy Consulting and Private Equity. DIVERSITY OR DOOM? WHY INCLUSION IS CORE COMPETENCE FOR LEADERS TODAY Inclusion today is a personal and professional challenge to leaders Razia Aziz Director, The Equality Academy Razia Aziz is on a lifelong personal and professional journey to ‘crack the code’ of human nature through her work as a performing artist, writer, speaker, coach, facilitator, trainer & consultant, body work practitioner, interfaith minister & spiritual counsellor. The youngest child of a family which, like so many others, crossed continents on the great waves of 20th century history in search of a better life, equality, diversity & social justice were in her DNA. She has expressed that DNA through activism, study, spiritual inquiry and consultancy. Razia co-founded the Equality Academy in 2010. She and her co-Director, Jess Taylor, foster conscious, inclusive leadership in a diverse, and increasingly fractured, world by supporting individuals, relationships, teams and organisations in their search for wise, compassionate and authentic ways to meet today’s challenges. Razia lives in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the South Downs of England with her partner, son and their four leggeds, and is most at home meditating, wandering in nature, cooking and eating with friends and making, or immersed in, music. John Tanzella President, The International LGBTQ+ Travel Association John Tanzella is the President/CEO of the International LGBTQ+ Travel Association (IGLTA), a non-profit tourism association that is the global leader in advancing LGBTQ+ travel. IGLTA is headquartered in Florida, USA, with additional staff located in Washington D.C., Madrid, São Paulo, Bogota, Paris, London and Cape Town. IGLTA's network is made up of more than 5,000 tourism business professionals in approximately 80 countries. In marketing its tourism industry business members, IGLTA reached more than 4 million unique travelers in 2019. The IGLTA Foundation was created five years ago as the philanthropic arm of the association, supporting the tourism industry with research, education and developing future LGBTQ+ tourism leaders. IGLTA is the only LGBTQ+ Affiliate Member of the The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism. Tanzella serves on the Board of Directors for the Stonewall National Museum & Archives (U.S). Born in Boston to Italian immigrant parents, he attended the University of Georgia and resides in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. www.iglta.org DIVERSITY DISCUSSION HOSTED BY Sophie Le Ray Entrepreneur, Author, Business Facilitator, Co Founder, EVE List Sophie Le Ray is an entrepreneur, an author and an experienced business facilitator. In 2003, she co-founded Naseba, a business information company specialised in supporting enterprise development in emerging markets. She was instrumental in its international expansion, and in accompanying the group when it went public in 2006. She was appointed CEO in 2009 and was responsible for its strategic development and overseeing its operations worldwide until 2019. For 15 years, Naseba pioneered in growth markets: Middle East, Africa, South East Asia, China. First European company to host a business summit in Saudi Arabia, in Algeria, Libya, Irak, the Naseba team conceptualised hundreds of summits from Healthcare to Fintech, Real estate to Renewable energy and facilitated $Billions of business transactions. Sophie is the founder and spokesperson for the WIL Economic Forum, the first platform for business women leaders in the Middle East and Asia. Based in Dubai for over a decade, she is the co-author of award winner ‘Game Changers: How Women in the Arab World Are Changing the Rules and Shaping the Future’, published in May 2016. She now lives in Europe where she regularly speaks in global conferences on entrepreneurship and women economic empowerment. She is the co-founder of EVE List, a global Not for Profit organisation dedicated to connect and equip rising professional women and support organisations aiming at reaching gender parity in senior management. THE 5 LEADER SUPERPOWERS How to generate Resilience, Resourcefulness and Results in testing times Marcus Child Marcus Child has had a remarkable and uplifting impact on the people and the results of many of the UK’s best-known businesses during the past twenty years. Marcus' emphasis on people exploiting the workplace as an environment for self-improvement as well as commercial success means that the new habits, he trains are practiced in the minds and relationships of people - within and without work - long after his programmes are complete. He regularly speaks on conference platforms and has advised politicians, sportspeople and CEOs around the world. HOW TO ACHIEVE RADICAL ADAPTABILITY —THE NEXT LEVEL Dr. Paul G. Stoltz Founder & CEO, PEAK Learning, Inc. Harvard Board of Business Mentors, Master US Olympic Coach I Speaker, TEDx “One of the top 100 thinkers of our time” by Executive Excellence magazine • Voted “One of the Top 10 Global Thinkers” by HR Magazine • Selected as “Thought Leader of the Year” in Hong Kong • “Millennial Thought Leader” in Singapore Dr. Paul G. Stoltz is considered the world’s leading authority on the integration and application of grit and resilience. He is author of five international bestselling books on the subject—printed in 17 languages—including the top selling business book in China, and was voted by HR Magazine as “One of the Top 10 most influential global thinkers,” and by Executive Excellence as “One of the 100 Most Influential Thinkers of Our Time.” In newest book, GRIT—The New Science of What it Takes to Persevere, Flourish, Succeed, he pioneers the first validated construct and method in existence for growing both the quantity and quality of one’s GRIT. Dr. Stoltz has served as faculty for MIT’s acclaimed entrepreneurship program and for Carnegie Mellon’s distinguished Global Leaders Program, where his AQ and GRIT-related methods and assessments have been used to equip tomorrow’s leaders and entrepreneurs. He also serves on various boards, including advisory board for DocuSign, Board of Directors for Global Mentors Network, and several companies focused on earth rejuvenating technologies. Harvard Business School has selected and incorporated Dr. Stoltz’s Adversity Quotient® tools and methods into it’s top-rated MBA and Executive Education programs and is featuring Dr. Stoltz’s newest work on GRIT in a new video series for Harvard Business Review. Dr. Stoltz has also been a member of Stanford University’s Distinguished Leaders Lecture Series, was selected as the Millennial Thinker for Singapore, “Thought Leader of the Year” in Hong Kong, 3940 Broad Street Suite 7-385 San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 info@peaklearning.com 805.595.7775 2 and is a top-rated international faculty member for the Young Presidents’ Organization. He has guest lectured for Princeton, INSEAD, and Cornell, and has been a featured blogger and author for both the Harvard Business Review and Psychology Today. Dr. Stoltz has been the founder and CEO of PEAK Learning, Inc., a global research and consulting firm, since 1987, through which he coaches, consults, teaches, and collaborates with top leaders, thinkers, and influencers within a broad range of organizations from start-ups and NGO’s to the Fortune 500 on six continents. He is also the founder and managing director of the GRIT Institute and Global Resilience Institute, both worldwide research collaboratives for exploring and advancing the frontiers of human endeavor. Today, GRIT and AQ are the most widely adopted methods of their kind in the world for measurably enhancing one’s resilience, agility, and GRIT—currently in use by industry-leading companies, top institutions, and many governments in 137 countries across six continents. Dr. Stoltz is frequently featured in the world’s top media. Examples include the major news shows CNN, CNBC, ABC, Sky News, Business News Network, NBC Nightly News, Public Broadcast Service (PBS), as well as the biggest daytime shows such as the Today Show, and multiple appearances on Oprah. You will also find Dr. Stoltz quoted in the major press, worldwide, including Wall Street Journal, Harvard Management Update, Investor’s Business Daily, Yahoo! Finance, Asia 21, Inc., Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Singapore Straits Times, The Australian Financial Review, Success Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, Boss Magazine, The Drucker Foundation’s prestigious Leader to Leader and other publications. Dr. Stoltz coaches the U.S. Olympic Team, has served as faculty for MIT’s acclaimed entrepreneurship program and for Carnegie Mellon’s distinguished Global Leaders Program, where his AQ and GRIT-related methods and assessments have been used to equip tomorrow’s leaders and entrepreneurs. Dr. Stoltz received his bachelor’s degree in Organizational Communication and Economics from the University of California, as well as his business, leadership, and social sciences interdisciplinary master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. PEAK Learning’s international headquarters is situated in the coastal mountains of San Luis Obispo, California, where Dr. Stoltz resides with his family, who were honored by USA Today as “America’s Most Creative Family.” ADAPTABILITY DISCUSSION HOSTED BY Chairman, Sustainable Hospitality Alliance;, Chairman, Hotelschool The Hague Senior hospitality executive with 30+ years of international experience in mature and emerging markets with a diversified portfolio of chairman, non-executive director and strategic advisory roles. Former CEO of Radisson Hotels, CEO Arabella Hospitality Group and President Hilton Europe & Africa. Inspirational leader, mentor and coach - passionate about sustainable and purposeful business practices, driven by making a difference through people. Wolfgang currently serves as: Chairman of the Board, Hotel School The Hague (NL) Chairman of Board, International Tourism Partnership (UK) Non-Executive Director, Brandmark Collective (NL) Non-Executive Director and Strategic Advisor, Guestline Hospitality Software (UK) Senior Advisor to the Board, Radisson Hospitality Group AB (Belgium) INNOVATION IN A LARGE CORPORATION The story of travelocity; the steps taken to build a billion-dollar business inside of American Airlines. Terry Jones Co-Founder, Travelocity and Kayak.com CELEBRATION OF INNOVATION IN OUR INDUSTRY Sharing best practice in innovation Jill Schiefelbein President, The Dynamic Communicator Inc. Michael Levie Chief Operations Officer, CitizenM Fuad Sajdi Co-Founder and CEO, Toggle Market Fuad Sajdi is a seasoned professional and global citizen. Fuad’s dynamic career is what led him to this current and revolutionary path to become Founder and CEO of Toggle Market. His unconventional perspective and non-linear career helped shape his values and ideals, instilling in him a moral obligation to always look at the big picture. Corporate Social Responsibility, environmental and social governance serve as a fundamental pillar in everything that he does. As a Civil Engineer, emergent Technologist and former equities trader, Fuad worked in versatile sectors spanning finance, water and transport infrastructure, public utilities, research and procurement; working across developed and emerging markets including East and Central Africa, Southeast Asia, the Levant, UAE and the UK. His career launched in the United Kingdom where he spent 5 years in London working as Liquidity Risk Analyst and Portfolio Manager within the Finance sector with a particular focus on hedge and pension funds. During his time in Central Africa and the Levant, Fuad managed the Business Development of water and transport infrastructure projects and public utilities in the region. His experience in Finance inspired him to look beyond conventional monetary systems giving a whole new meaning to credit, cross border transactions and the social contract of money. His experience in leading multi-sector businesses to develop and expand their footprint across emerging markets and by paying special attention to the micro and macro aspects of business is what inspired the creation of Toggle Market. Fuad’s has been taking calculated risks throughout his professional journey which has brought him to the forefront of the procurement industry as a thought leader and intellectual analyst. “The world is something we make, and could just as easily be made different” is a motto Fuad lives by. Fuad has a Civil and Environmental Engineering degree from the University of Brighton. 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__label__cc	0.558637	0.441363	Public Service Blast Federal Budget For Targeting Sick Leave The leaders of three federal public sector unions said the government is attacking the collective bargaining process with its federal budget plans to cut sick leave benefits, which are subject to ongoing contract negotiations. "This is a government that is speaking out of both sides of their mouth," said Robyn Benson, head of the Public Service Alliance of Canada. "You can't on one hand say, 'Oh, we want to negotiate fairly,' but on the other hand say, 'We're really, after X amount of time, going to take away your sick leave.'" The government wants to get rid of the system whereby public service employees can bank sick days and instead provide short-term disability benefits through an insurance company. Sick leave has been the subject of contentious contract negotiations for the past year. On Tuesday, the 2015 federal budget said that negotiations held to date "reflect the government's commitment to good faith collective bargaining." But it also added that if negotiations fail, it will "take the steps required to implement the changes within a reasonable timeframe." The government said the overhaul will clear $900 million in future liability to sick leave, which it is applying to the coming fiscal year to help the reach a $1.4-billion surplus. Sahir Khan, economist and visiting fellow at University of Ottawa, said that the government's plan to change the sick leave program is "one of the largest contributors" to achieve the surplus. Debi Daviau, head of the Professional Institute of the Public Service, said members are still feeling the sting of previous budgets. "With an operational budget freeze still in play from last year, and over $14 billion in cuts still going through the system, the cuts have not ceased," she said. "By the end of this year, we expect to have lost 7,500 scientific and research positions." Union leaders plan to return to their members to figure out how to best defend their bargaining rights. Photo gallery Highlights From Federal Budget 2015 See Gallery Highlights From Federal Budget 2015 MORE: business Professional Institute of the Public Service public sector sick leave Public Service Alliance of sick leave sick leave federal government	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693683
__label__wiki	0.966808	0.966808	Victim of abduction and sexual assault sharing his story to help others CP Health and Home WINNIPEG — A 20-year-old man who was just 10 years old when he was sexually assaulted by convicted pedophile Peter Whitmore says he hopes his newfound freedom to share his story will help other survivors. Zachary Miller and his family fought to have a publication ban that protected his identity lifted, something that Saskatchewan Court of Queen's Bench agreed to do in late December. Miller was 10 when he and a 14-year-old boy from Manitoba were kidnapped from near his family farm and sexually assaulted by Whitmore in July 2006. Whitmore, who had been convicted of sexually assaulting several other children before the Saskatchewan abduction, was given a life sentence. He became eligible to apply for parole in 2013, but has turned down two opportunities to make the application. Miller says going public has not been easy, but he hopes it can help other survivors heal. "It did feel like I was being silenced," he explains. "It felt like I was losing my right to my own freedom of speech. I felt a victim under the court." The Canadian Centre for Child Protection helped the Millers in court and with their healing journey. "We used this opportunity with them to be able to tell an important story so we could start raising awareness about what we see as a very, very significant risk to children," says Lianna McDonald. Miller says he hopes to be able to work with other survivors of child sexual assault. "Their voice is powerful, and they can use it and stand up," he says. "They're not alone out there." He and his parents are also petitioning the federal government for tougher sentencing and release rules for people convicted of child sexual assault. (CTV Winnipeg) MORE: canada	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693684
__label__cc	0.717423	0.282577	Part 2: Paying Less for Prescription Drugs? Bad Idea Paying less for drugs sounds like a good idea, right? Well, as with everything else, one needs to look at the whole picture and see what he gets in return. With regards to bulk purchasing, although there might be some savings initially, it is clear that the long-term disadvantages of such a policy outweigh its short-term benefits. Yanick Labrie Senior Fellow, Fraser Institute This is the second article of a three-part series. For the past few years, a proposal has been gaining favour with political decision makers as a way of containing pharmaceutical expenses, that of purchasing prescription drugs in bulk. Last summer, during the meetings of the Council of the Federation, provincial representatives announced their intention to adopt a national drug procurement strategy through competitive tendering for the purchase of six generic drugs. Although the provinces have since rejected the idea to go ahead with such a policy given its multiple flaws, it is still being defended by those who believe a more centralized and regulated prescription drugs market is the model to follow. This strategy, currently used in the hospital sector, rests on a relatively simple principle. The buyers―whether they are hospitals, pharmacies or governments―solicit bids for the purchase of several drugs from interested suppliers. For each drug, a supply contract is signed, often with an exclusive supplier. By implementing this kind of collective process, the buyers hope to enjoy greater bargaining power with pharmaceutical companies, which should generally allow them to obtain better prices. First and foremost, this practice of resorting to a single supplier entails the risk of compromising access to required drugs for many patients, insofar as it would limit their chances of obtaining alternative drugs designed by other manufacturers. It could also restrict doctors' ability to prescribe other drugs that they consider more effective in meeting their patients' needs. By underestimating the fact that patients do not all react the same way to particular medicines, this approach may therefore unnecessarily expose some of them to the risk of worsening health. Furthermore, such a practice is likely to push numerous manufacturers to gradually leave the market. Experience teaches us that bulk purchasing processes generally lead to greater concentration in the production of drugs, with a limited number of manufacturers sharing the market for each type of drug. In Canada, excessive use of this procurement method in the hospital sector is one of the reasons why Sandoz, the company blamed for the severe shortage of injectable drugs experienced in early 2012, became the sole supplier of more than 60% of all injectable drugs dispensed in Canadian hospitals. At the international level, the dangers of purchasing drugs in bulk and of granting sole-supply contracts are increasingly recognized, the practice having been called into question in several countries. Criticisms were raised in New Zealand, where centralized bulk purchasing processes entailed numerous unintended consequences. As a recent study revealed, many hospitals observed a drop in the quality of the products and services obtained and deplored the absence of choices available to them, following the implementation of such a policy. Drug shortages proved to be common, and some of them took over a year to be resolved. The centralized procurement practice coincided with only modest savings (6-8%), some of which "might have occurred regardless of the strategy," the authors admitted. Moreover, there is no guarantee that buying drugs in bulk leads to overall savings in the health system, once total costs are taken into account. By forcing patients to change their medicine for the one offered by the unique supplier, there is a risk that such a policy will lead to adherence problems or more serious side effects and thus generate other expenses elsewhere in the health care system. In Denmark and Germany, for instance, it was observed that compliance fell for patients who were forced to switch to other drug types. In these countries, the tendering system also slowed the development of generic medicines and led to a decrease in pharmaceutical investments in R&D. In Belgium, cost reduction goals were not met, and the sole-supply policy was quickly abandoned. In the end, we find that the presence of a single buyer (monopsony) in a market entails unintended consequences just as harmful as the presence of a single seller (monopoly). When applied to generic drugs, the practice of centralized bulk purchasing clearly increases the risk of drug shortages without generating the anticipated savings. By extending it to cover innovative drugs, decision makers would risk discouraging investment in R&D and inhibiting innovation. Hence, all things considered, we realise that there is no free lunch with bulk purchasing: paying less means... getting less. Photo gallery Health Care Reform Efforts Throughout History See Gallery Health Care Reform Efforts Throughout History MORE: big pharma business denmark Great Britain Health healthcare marc-andre-gagnon medication Montreal Economic Institute New Zealand pharmacare pharmaceutical industry pills Prescription Drug Bulk Purchasing prescription drugs Private Insurance yanick labrie	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693685
__label__wiki	0.635101	0.635101	Anis Shivani, Contributor Short Stories: What Do Writers Love About Them? We continue our series on the short story, asking writers how they compare writing short stories to writing novels, the demands the story makes on the reader compared to the novel, how the writers chart their own development as story writers, and what can be done to strengthen the art of the story in America. Belle Boggs's debut collection, Mattaponi Queen, was published in June by Graywolf Press. Boggs won the 2009 Bakeless Prize in Fiction and is shortlisted for the 2010 Frank O'Connor Short Story Award. Read new fiction by Belle: Belle Boggs - Famous Belle reads from Mattaponi Queen: Listen to Belle read a story at Bread Loaf 2010. Belle: Novel writers and aspiring novel writers often talk about Anne Lamott's concept of "shitty first drafts" as a staple of their process, but I don't like working that way--it doesn't inspire me to keep going. I like working slowly and deliberately, getting the voice right as I go, getting the lines right, and so a short story is just a more practical thing for me to work on sometimes. I like the feeling of completion and fullness that comes from drafting a short story, seeing a story to its end in a couple of weeks or months. I started writing the stories in Mattaponi Queen the summer after my first year of public school teaching in Brooklyn. Every day I'd go to the Rose Reading Room in the New York Public Library and write for the whole day. I was highly conscious of the limited time I had that summer, and every hour in that beautiful, quiet room felt like a luxury. I wanted to write something from beginning to end, and I knew that if I started a novel I would only have the beginning once school started in August. I drafted a few of the stories in the collection that summer, wrote hardly anything during the school year while teaching first grade, then returned to the collection the next summer. I should say that I love working on a novel, the way the characters live in your head, and I think that's why so many of the characters in my stories appear in other stories. Skinny, for example, appears briefly in "Good News for a Hard Time," one of the first stories I wrote, but I wasn't done with him, so I had to give him two more stories. I don't think you can compare the two in that way, but short stories are wonderful for writers and readers who have time constraints. There's something very enduring and mentally portable about a great short story--although as a reader I love to disappear into a novel, I reread my favorite short stories more often than my favorite novels, and this makes me feel closer to them. Some short story writers who are important to me as a reader are Lydia Davis, Joy Williams, William Trevor, Joan Silber, Ha Jin, Sherman Alexie, Annie Proulx, Maile Meloy, Mary Yukari Waters, and Bonnie Jo Campbell. I like subtlety, authority, beauty, humor, and surprise, and these writers all deliver. But my absolute favorite, and a writer I think is universally important, is Edward P. Jones. Take a story like "Old Boys, Old Girls" from All Aunt Hagar's Children. At the end of twenty-six pages, something you could read in an evening, you have the richness of a novel, the profundity of a great collection of poems, the sense of transport and new understanding of a powerful work of nonfiction. Jones's characters don't feel like characters, they feel like people, and that's really difficult to achieve. I think writing short stories has helped me understand more about my characters and what I want for them. The new project I'm working on is a novel about a group of musicians who live in Virginia in the late 1920s. It has a lot of characters who are all living in the same environment, so it feels a little like working on my collection, like working on stories. An issue for me with this book is restraining myself from exploring every character. I'm just interested in all of them, so I find myself writing everyone's stories, at least in my head, and then choosing what to leave out. I'm pretty impressed by the oral storytelling that's being promoted by places like the Moth and the Monti, and by how much people love to hear those true, strange, sometimes funny, sometimes devastating stories. Oral storytelling is where it starts for me, as a Southerner--it's not where my books start but it's how I learned, at a very young age, to love stories. So as a teacher that's where I'm going to begin this fall, with oral storytelling and true stories, with voice. Greg Taylor, a man from North Carolina who was convicted of a murder her didn't commit, then exonerated and released from prison 17 years later, is going to tell his story at The Monti this September, and I can tell you the crowd will be spellbound. People who've experienced things like that should be telling stories, we should be listening, and the telling will make its way into art in one way or another. Lori Ostlund's collection The Bigness of the World received the Flannery O'Connor Award, a California Book Award, and the Edmund White Award. A story was selected for the 2010 Best American Short Stories. Watch Lori read from"Talking Fowl with My Father": Watch Lori read "All Boy" at Vimeo. Listen to Lori read from "Talking Fowl with My Father" on KQED Read "The Bigness of the World" at Bellingham Review. Read "And Down We Went" at Five Chapters Read "Talking Fowl with My Father" at New England Review Lori: There is still a tendency in publishing to want a novel; thus, we have a lot of writers who are being asked to prove themselves by writing and publishing stories in journals, and once they have done this, they are expected to write a novel. This assumes that someone who writes a story can write a novel, and that simply isn't always the case: some people are fundamentally novelists and others are short story writers, and yes, some can do both quite well. Novels are a more forgiving form in some ways. A short story should be perfectly crafted at the word and sentence level. I'm working on a novel now, and I find myself wanting to micromanage every sentence in the same way; as a result, I end up unable to go forward. Also, I find it very difficult to create a bigger narrative arc. In the beginning, I wrote each chapter as though it were a short story--with a climax and resolution--which created an emotional roller coaster for the reader. I like the particular demands that stories make and feel more comfortable meeting them. I would never use my preference to argue that short stories make fewer demands on the writer. In fact, given the fact that many readers find short stories more daunting to read, it may be that they make more demands for the writer also. Over the years, I have loved Carver and Munro as well as numerous other short story writers. I love Paul Bowles, and I do remember feeling that he was asserting a bit too much influence on me at one point. My writing has been heavily influenced by travel, other art forms, and the stories that people tell me, often in odd situations. I did not do an MFA, and for me this has been a good route. I grew up in a town of 400 people, so when I left, I needed to be out in the world, learning about it. Academia was comfortable for me, but it too can be provincial. I wrote off and on during my twenties. My first story appeared in print when I was in my early thirties, and something about seeing it in print, which allowed me to view it more objectively, made me realize that I had not reached the level that I wanted to be at yet, so I stopped sending work out for several years and focused on writing and reading. This was the most important step in my development. Once a person starts publishing, it's very easy to take that outside acknowledgment as an indication that one is good enough, but I was a much different writer at thirty than at forty, and I'm glad I gave myself that time. One of the books that had a tremendous impact on me was Adam Haslett's You Are Not a Stranger Here. I like writers who are not overly prolific. Within the United States, the aesthetic varies widely and is often defined by culture or region. When my book came out, reviewers noted the darkness of the stories, including the dark humor, attributing it to my Minnesota roots. One characteristic of contemporary American writing that is a reflection of our current culture is the push for writers to create characters that readers can 'connect' to--that is someone that the reader likes or could be friends with (which is similar to the criteria that gets applied to politicians also). I would like to see less attention paid to trying to predict new trends or jump on the bandwagon of existing trends. I also worry about the emphasis placed on discovering the next young writer. When a writer is discovered early in his career and praised too much, the writer might stop working at improving his craft with the same degree of commitment. There has been a movement toward flash fiction and short shorts, which are not my favorite forms. Short shorts can be created more quickly and will often find a journal home more easily because they demand less space. I notice a trend among writers to produce work more quickly, which suggests that less time is being spent on craft. I see more published work with sentences that seem rushed or designed for no other purpose than to carry the plot, which is unfortunate because the pleasure in reading happens first at the sentence level. Writing is increasingly viewed as something transitory, in part because of technology, so it follows that not as much attention will be paid to crafting it. This is a self-fulfilling cycle: a story that is less carefully crafted will, in turn, not be remembered for long. I think that we need to slow down and do what is best for our work rather than rushing to meet the demands of the publishing world. Gina Ochsner's The Necessary Grace to Fall won the 2002 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her new book is The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight. Gina: Writing short stories and writing a novel I discovered was and was not at all alike. In both forms a strong sense of narrative propels the larger story forward. But because I had been writing stories first and only, I had become accustomed to thinking in small, tight modular "boxes," in which scenes were like boxes or rooms in a small house and expository or summarized segments acted like little corridors or hallways linking rooms together. It was very difficult for me to force my gaze up and out and think of story pitched across a larger canvass. "Think long, think big," my writer friends encouraged. "You first," I'd counter. A novel, I also discovered, demanded from me a looser grip on the reigns, and I found this very unsettling. What would these people do and what would they say if I allowed them this kind of freedom of movement and thought? Well, it's the best question I could have been asking, I think, because the novel is a more expansive form, insisting upon larger, longer dramatic movements, and, happily the form itself is capacious and roomy enough to accommodate. Having said that, I still think the short story as a form is such fun. It's a completely malleable form, open for endless experimentation. When I'm reading a terrific short story, say something by Millhauser or Munro or maybe Gombrowitz, I'll think to myself: Wow! This writer is having fun. And wow--look how mischievously he or she has infused and amplified energy in the piece via voice, or language, or narratorial design. I'm actively hunting up anything written by someone who is not like me: a North American who writes only in English. I'm afflicted with a niggling sense that the only way I'll learn how to craft distinctive architectures and voices is to study work outside the traditional canon of "Anglo" writing. Anne Sanow's story collection Triple Time won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and the L L. Winship/PEN New England Award for fiction. Read Anne's new work in Prime Number Magazine. Watch Anne's Drue Heinz Lit Prize reading. Listen to Anne's interview with Ellen Placey Wadey for Prosody Anne Sanow: I've noticed, in writing my novel, that I still think in terms of story arcs. In a good short story there is always more than one arc comprising the narrative; in the novel, there are simply more of them. I'm making associations and links in similar ways, but on a broader canvas. And when I take a break from the novel to push around at a story-in-progress, I notice that I'm writing longer. I came of reading age during the glib and minimalist 1980s, and I was hooked by the way writers like Amy Hempel, Mary Robison, Raymond Carver, and Susan Minot could pare back language to some point of pungency. It wasn't the right approach for me; I often sounded coy or pretentious, and sometimes probably just dim. I wasn't inhabiting my stories. What I did learn was how to listen to prose: the pared-back language meant that I absorbed every beat, every syllable, every way one sentence was part of carving paragraphs and sections. To this day, I carry around a mental list of single words, perfect sentences, and punctuation choices made by writers I admire--seemingly small choices that electrify an entire story. After floundering unsuccessfully in the minimalist style, I became exasperated with my inability to convey as much story as I wanted to and by the distance I felt from what I was writing. I started paying closer attention to writers who went long: Alice Munro, Andrea Barrett, John Cheever. Katherine Anne Porter. My own stories expanded. I was trying to figure out how to craft short stories that could be novelistic in scope. And then three writers made an enormous difference to the way I was working: Mary Swan (whose wonderful, 60-plus page story "The Deep" won the O. Henry award in 2001); Marshall Klimasewiski (his long stories are collected in Tyrants, published in 2008); and Carol Azadeh, an Irish writer whose one book, The Marriage at Antibes (1999), is five very long stories that are brilliant. These were writers who were not only going long but incorporating history; experimenting with language and form within longer works, as I'd usually seen in shorter fiction; stinting neither on smarts nor emotion. It's true that with a short story one need not keep as many elements in play, and it can be easier to see towards the end. But if you want a lot of texture, a fuller fictional world, and a longer reach, then there's a great deal for the writer to mull over. And here's where the lessons I take from minimalism come in: in a short story, even a long one, you've still got to practice an economy of a kind that you don't in a novel. So that makes demands on the writer, certainly. Alice Munro and William Trevor are as inspiring as ever. I hope that Lorrie Moore returns to the form--we need the brutally sharp wit she had on display in Birds of America. Anthony Doerr. Yiyun Li. Chris Adrian, whose use of the fantastic (angels, allegory) in his short stories is something I'd normally eschew but can't in his case. Salvatore Scibona's stories (especially his recent one in A Public Space, "The Woman Who Lived in the House") have a way of being both formal and experimental that is thrilling. Bonnie Jo Campbell's American Salvage left me with my jaw dropped. The stories in Dylan Landis's linked collection Normal People Don't Live Like This connect in ways I didn't anticipate. Another first collection I loved this year is Lori Ostlund's The Bigness of the World. Lydia Peelle and Paul Yoon are writing beautiful, serious, lyrical stories And three people who don't yet have books out but publish regularly in literary magazines: Charles McLeod, David Schuman, and Sophie McManus. In writing my collection, which was set in Saudi Arabia, I wanted to be informed about literary traditions in Arabic and read what I could find in translation. Tthese stories recalled for me stories I'd read translated from Chinese or Russian: a good deal of symbolism and parable, standing in for what cannot be written for fear of persecution. Then again, there's a world of difference between reading short fiction published by Saudi authors and, say, Lebanese authors, where the culture is a more open one. Now there's more Arabic writing available in translation, and writers are taking more risks by working in a realist mode. I've also read stories in the original German by Peter Stamm, Judith Hermann, and Ingo Schulze, most of which I find fairly blunt and stark.. We need more global story writers available in translation; smaller publishers are taking on this task. Part of the strength of the short story in America is diversity: our perspectives have broadened with writing that is more global in scope, and it's reshaping the very idea of what an "American" story is or should be. it's getting more and more difficult to throw around terms like "realist" or "experimental" or "transgressive" with any precision. Art and commerce do need to at least be kissing cousins. We could not survive without the independent publishers, indie bookstores, literary bloggers and reviewers, and revolutionary literary magazines like One Story who support and promote the short story. And writers who open up conversations such as this, Anis: thank you. Marisa Silver's previous books include the novels No Direction Home and The God of War, and the story collection Babe in Paradise. Her new book is the story collection Alone With You. Marisa talks about her new collection: Marisa: Ah, the plight of the short story. It's alive! It's dead! It's alive again! It's like the old grandmother who is pronounced a goner on her pallet only to sit up and yell at her family one more time. Honestly, has the short story ever died? I don't think so. Does it have a smaller audience of readers than the novel? Sure. But why do we compare them? The comparison is as useless as comparing watercolor paintings to oils, or a concerto to a symphony. A short story is not a "mini-novel." It's a discrete form that requires the writer to work in different ways than if he or she were writing a novel and requires of the reader a different sort of attention and a different set of expectations. What I like about reading short stories is the thrilling sleight of hand of them. When a story works, an entire universe of characters and emotion and thematic resonance explodes in the space of twenty or so pages. What I like about writing short stories is the attention to compression required in order to pull this off, and how the negative space of the story--what I choose not to write--becomes as much a part of the story as the words that I put on the page. Writing a story requires me to distill issues like character and structure and time to their very essence. I have to figure out, in very few moves, how a character can become so alive to a reader that he or she vibrates on the page. I have to select the two or three bits of action and behavior that are ripe with association so that the reader not only grasps the situation of the characters in the particular moment in time, but that they also grasp how the particular moment of the story reaches across time and beyond character to illuminate something larger about the problem of being alive. I think about what is suggested but not said, how a past can be conjured in a sentence rather than a chapter, how a line of dialogue or a gesture can contain a multitude of meaning. And I have to do all of this without trying to do any of it, because if I try too hard to load up a story with meaning, it will fall flat, burdened with the weight of too much intention. To me, stories have the possibility of exploring states of being rather than large arcs of multi-layered action. When I write a story, I feel like I am taking a particular moment in space and time in the life of a character, bringing a big hammer down and smashing that moment to bits and then looking at every single shard that I can collect off the floor. I don't try to fit them together correctly. I try to find out how the new jagged edges might bump up against one another, how they might scratch, how the unlikely juxtaposition of pieces might allow me to see more deeply and accurately what that person is experiencing at the moment of the story's telling. Most important for me, I want to come to the end of a story with the beginning of understanding. I want the story to end and I want my mind to vault beyond it' plastic limits into the unanswered mysteries the story reveals. The short story pantheon is filled with many Gods--Joyce, Munro, Chekov, Deborah Eisenberg, Peter Taylor....the list is long and varied and inspiring. But the stories I turn to again and again are those of William Trevor. In his hands, the smallest story, the most provincial of characters, the tiniest emotional gestures are deftly orchestrated so that entire worlds of emotional truths are exposed. And he does that most cunningly--he presents stories that seem to be about one thing but that, by their end, are about something different, something deeper, something more disturbingly truthful about human nature. His stories widen the gap between what we think we know and what is yet to be understood, a gap, which embodies the whole reason to read in the first place. Books Realism Publishing Industry Flash Fiction Minimalist Living	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693686
__label__cc	0.716906	0.283094	Hugh's News Newsletter Posts Hugh's News Poster Through the Years with Billy and Ruth Grahm Devotional Prayer Calendar Book Written by Al and Coli Ago, IPHC Missionaries--Story Written by Greg Morgan, Contributing Writer for Hugh's News Al and Coli Argo are two of my favorite IPHC missionaries. I keep in touch with them through occasional emails, but more often through their monthly conference calls, open to everyone. They are missionaries to Cebu, Philippines and are in the process of getting everything together for their coffee house ministry. They have written a devotional calendar prayer book for not only the Philippines, but also the rest of Asia. Here are the links with their information. Please support the Argos prayerfully, or even financially as God directs you. Gregory H. Morgan, Director of World Missions for CLWC Free PDF E-Book: http://www.bit.do/30dayspdf To Order Print Copies: http://www.bit.do/30daysbook For More Info On The Argos: http://www.bit.do/missions Lighten Up With Laughter A loud pounding on the door awakened a man and his wife at 3 a.m. The man got up and went to the door to find a very intoxicated stranger standing in the pouring rain. The stranger asked for a push. "Not a chance," answered the man. "It's three o'clock in the morning!" And he slammed the door and returned to bed. After explaining the situation to his wife, she gently reminded him, "Don't you remember when we broke down on our vacation, and those two guys helped us? I think you should go and help this guy." Begrudgingly, the husband dressed and went outside to help the stranger. "Hello, are you still here?" he called. "Yes," came the answer. "Do you still need a push?' "Yes, thanks." "Where are you?' "Over here---On the swing." 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Your friend in all seasons, Signed Hugh H. Morgan Email: hugh@hughsnews.com Website: www. hughsnews.com A Heart-Felt Thank you for participating in Voting for Hugh's News in September 2016 From the bottom of my heart I want to take this opportunity to thank you for participating in Voting During the Month of September 2016 for Hugh's News. Editor and Founder, Hugh's News, Inc. Email: hugh@hughsnews.com Website: www.hughsnews.com "Finding Grace in Your Season of Transition" by J. Lee Grady J. Lee Grady, author, preacher and teacher Transition can be stressful, but it can also be exciting in anticipation of what new things God has in store for you. This week my wife and I packed our belongings and made the biggest move of our lives. After living in the Orlando area for 24 years we pulled up our roots and relocated to Georgia. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done because I'm a sentimental guy who gets very attached to people and places. Yet I found extra grace for this transition because I knew I was following the Holy Spirit's leading. Counselors say relocation is one of the most stressful things in life—ranking right up there with the death of a loved one. It weighs us down because it's a huge combination of stressors—selling a house, buying or renting a new house, hiring movers, leaving friends and stepping into the dark unknown. Not fun stuff, in my opinion. Yet many people who are reading this are about to step into a transition—or are already in the middle of one. I have taken much comfort from the fact that the Bible is full of people who were called by God to move. Abraham, the father of our faith, began his spiritual odyssey when the Lord said: "Go from your country, your family, and your father's house, to the land that I will show you" (Gen. 12:1). Think about it. When God wanted to do something really important in the Earth, like start a new nation that would serve Him, it began with a relocation. Spiritual blessings often are not realized until someone moves! Moses had to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. David had to move to Jerusalem. And Jesus' last words to His disciples were about moving to foreign countries. If you are in a season of transition, you will want to consider these guidelines: 1. Have courage. When Joshua was preparing to relocate the people of Israel to Canaan, God said three times: "Be strong and courageous" (Josh. 1:6,7,9). Moving requires a leap of faith, and doubters always get cold feet. Has God given you a big promise about the land you are about to possess? Don't be surprised if the devil tries to make you fearful. Take a deep breath, resist fear and forge ahead. 2. Take one step at a time. Moving isn't just one decision, it's a tangled mess of many decisions that can overwhelm you. You don't have to handle everything at once. The Bible says you are not on your own; you don't have to figure out your relocation plan by yourself. You have a Shepherd, and He is good. He leads you "beside quiet waters" and He guides you "in paths of righteousness" (Ps. 23:2-3). Trust your Shepherd's leading. He will make your transition peaceful; and He promises that "the steps of a good man are made firm by the Lord" (Ps. 37:23). 3. Let go of the old. When God wanted to bless Naomi, He told her to leave the forsaken land of Moab and move to Bethlehem. Her Moabite daughter-in-law Ruth pledged to go with her, but her other daughter-in-law, Orpah, stayed behind. Orpah couldn't tear herself away from her culture and her lifestyle, even though God was visiting His people in Bethlehem (Ruth 1:14-16). Sometimes when God calls us to a new place in the Spirit, we discover that we are hindered by many soulish distractions. You must love Jesus more than you love your comfort zone. It's good to have roots in a place, but you must never let those roots become stronger than your willingness to follow God anywhere. 4. Cry if you need to. A few days ago, after we finished loading every piece of furniture on our moving van, I walked through my house in Florida one last time and locked the front door. Then I sobbed in my car as I remembered playing with my young daughters in the back yard, hanging Christmas decorations on the shrubs and burying our family dog in the back yard. It's totally normal to feel sadness when we move. The best way to process your feelings is to let the tears flow. 5. Be open to God's detours. One important lesson I learned in my transition is that we must never lock ourselves into "our" plan. You may sense the Lord leading you to leave where you are, but when you begin moving to your new destination God may redirect you. The apostle Paul was heading to Rome to preach the gospel, but a shipwreck took him to the island of Malta—and thus he led a successful but unscheduled revival. Don't be so headstrong about your destination that God can't gently nudge you 15 degrees to the right, or take you on an unexpected detour. 6. Expect miracles along the way. When I knew for sure God was calling my wife and me to Georgia, we asked our friends to begin praying with us. I shared with them seven specific prayer requests, and the first item on the list was: "Quick sale of our house." Guess what? Our house sold in less than 24 hours—to the first people who walked in the door! Since then, all but the last request on my list has been answered. Moving can seem like a chore, but if you invite God into the process it becomes a thrilling adventure. When the Holy Spirit says go, He goes with you. When He calls you to leave the old and step into the new, He pushes you to a new spiritual level. [J. Lee Grady is the former editor of Charisma. You can follow him on Twitter at leegrady. He is the author of several books including 10 Lies the Church Tells Women, 10 Lies Men Believe, Fearless Daughters of the Bible and The Holy Spirit Is Not for Sale. You can learn more about his ministry, The Mordecai Project, at themordecaiproject.org. In addition, J. Lee Grady is an ordained minister of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church, and is the executive editor of the online Encourage magazine for the IPHC. He writes an article entitled, "Fire in My Bones" for Charisma News from which this article was taken by permission of J. Lee Grady. We, the Members of Christian Life Worship Center in Athens, GA, welcome our new Pastor, the Rev. Mr. Matt Adams and His Family, this Sunday, September 4, 2016 The Rev. Mr. Matt Adams, new Pastor of CLWC There is excitement, joy and expectancy in our congregation as we anticipate the arrival of our new pastor and his family this Sunday, September 4. He is the Rev. Mr. Matt Adams. His wife's name is Rachel. He and Rachel have three outstanding children: Ben, Lydia and Hannah. For the time being, Pastor Matt Adams will be a bi-vocational pastor. He has just recently become the new Assistant Superintendent of the Franklin County School Board with their headquarters in Carnesville, Georgia, the county seat of Franklin County. Bishop Tim Lamb is scheduled to be present with us on Pastor Matt Adams' first Sunday as our new pastor. He will introduce him to our congregation. The following information was sent to me by Bishop Lamb. I now share with you what he has in his files. In the words of Pastor Matt Adams which he prepared for our conference council and I assume for our local church council I share them now with you, my Hugh's News readers: "I’ve felt the call to preach since the age of 16 but didn’t make the decision to prepare for the ministry until the summer of 1990 at the age of 20. At that time, I made the decision to continue attending Emmanuel College for my junior and senior years and major in religion/pastoral studies. Soon after receiving my BS in Religion in 1992, I became ordained in the Georgia Conference IPHC. Throughout my career as a bi-vocational minister and professional educator, I have maintained a high level of integrity, a clear focus and strong leadership skills. I have over 20 years of successful public and private school experience as a principal, assistant principal, athletic director, teacher and coach at all levels P-12. During my administrative tenure, I have experienced tremendous success and served on various school, church, community and school district level teams and boards including but not limited to charter school board of directors, leadership, governance, finance, capital improvement, instruction, safety, discipline, school improvement, AdvancED/SACS, athletics, transportation, teacher certification/recruitment, BOE policy revision, fundraising and strategic planning.” Join us in prayer for Pastor Matt Adams for a special anointing of the Holy Spirit as he becomes our pastor. Christian Life Worship Center is located at 125 Kathwood Drive, Athens, Georgia 30607. Here are the directions to our church: US 129, Exit 14 . . . One mile north of the Athens bypass, at the Prince Avenue/Jefferson Exit. Turn right on Kathwood Drive, and our church is on your immediate left. The worship service begins at 11 a. m. There is plenty of room for you, your family, and friends. We look forward to seeing you at our church. You will be blessed, and we will be blessed by your presence. NCAA Division II Approves Emmanuel College to Enter its third and final Provisional Year--Written by Ashley Westbrook Late last week, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Membership Committee announced the approval of Emmanuel College to enter its third and final year of the Division II membership process. During the third provisional year, the NCAA will send representatives to Emmanuel’s campus to complete what they refer to as the Compliance Blueprint. During this two-day visit they will meet with various departments to review policy and procedures and will meet with students, staff, and administrators. Since entering NCAA DII membership consideration, Emmanuel College has made massive advancements in the athletic department in order to meet the NCAA DII membership requirements. These advancements include new and upgraded facilities, additional administrative and support staff, and increases in scholarships. The number of athletic teams has also grown from eight to twenty-eight in the last five years. Emmanuel Athletic Director, Nate Moorman, was thrilled when he learned the news, knowing that being able to continue in the membership process meant that Emmanuel was one step closer to NCAA membership. “It’s huge! NCAA is the largest brand globally in athletics,” Moorman said. “It gives our student athletes, coaches, alumni, and community members something to be proud of. The Division II philosophy and values align extremely well with the philosophy and core values of Emmanuel College and its athletic department. To be able to be a part of a NCAA competition as well as such a mission-driven association is going to be great.” Will You Receive the Benediction? 6 Seek the LORD while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way And the unrighteous man his thoughts; And let him return to the LORD, And He will have compassion on him, And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon. From a passenger ship one can see a bearded man on a small island. He is shouting and desperately waving his hands. "Who is it?" a passenger asks the captain. "I have no idea. Every year when we pass, he goes mad." "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart," that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: 9 That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. 11 As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in Him will never be put to shame." 12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile--the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on Him, 13 for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." Help Us Welcome Our New Interim Pastor, the Rev. Mr. Matt Adams, this Sunday Morning, September 4, 2016, at 11 O'clock Christian Life Worship Center in Athens, Georgia has been in transition for several months. Our most recent pastor resigned in May after seven months of ministry to our congregation. This is the church we, Melvine, Greg, and I, faithfully attend every Sunday and where we have our membership. Melvine is the leader of the Tuesday mornings Ladies Bible study and prayer meeting. She sings in the choir and sings solos when asked. Our son, Greg, is one of three pianists, and he has been serving as the director of World Missions. I was asked to preach last Sunday, August 28, and I want to thank all of you who prayed for me that God would anoint me and give me the unction of the Holy Spirit. I enjoyed preaching and I pronounced the benediction at approximately 12:05 p.m. I was not long-winded. We were blessed with several visitors--people who were members of our church when I was the pastor of Tarkenton Memorial Church, 1986-1995. I preached a sermon entitled, "The Prevenient Grace of God, the Grace that precedes Saving Faith." The way in which God dealt with Saul of Tarsus following the martyrdom of Stephen is a great example of this spiritual truth. Finally, our interim pastor will arrive this Sunday, September 4, for a period of six months. He is the Rev. Mr. Matt Adams. As of this date I do not have a copy of his Curriculum Vitae. I do know that he is an educator and has advanced degrees. He has served as a youth pastor and an associate pastor, taught school, coached, been a principal, and currently is the Assistant Superintendent of the Franklin County Board of Education. He comes from a strong Christian family who are members of the Mountain Gap Pentecostal Holiness Church, Rock, Georgia. I do remember him as a youth, and I know and love his parents, Ronald and Sue Adams. We look forward with eager anticipation to Matt Adams coming. He is married and has a son and two daughters. Join us in prayer for his success as he becomes our pastor. Christian Life Worship Center is located at 125 Kathwood Drive, Athens, Georgia 30607. Here are the directions to our church: US 129 . . . One mile north of the Athens bypass, at the Prince Avenue/Jefferson Exit. Turn right on Kathwood Drive, and our church is on your immediate left. A sign in the restaurant window read: "We can fix any dish you ask for. If we don't have it, you will be paid $200." Thinking that was a pretty good deal, the man went in and sat down at a table. The waitress came over to take his order. He said, "I'll have roast elephant on rye bread; hold the mayo." The waitress snapped her gum, stuck her pencil back in her hair, and walked into the kitchen. All of a sudden, the man heard screaming and yelling, pots and pans being thrown and dishes breaking. The kitchen door slammed open as the owner came charging out. He put two one-hundred-dollars on the table and said, "I can't believe it. I've been in business here for ten years, and this is the first time I've run out of rye bread." The Month of September is designated as Vote month for Hugh's News The Rev. Dr. Hugh H. Morgan, Editor of Hugh's News In November Americans will be voting for the President of the United States I am asking that every reader vote in September for Hugh’s News. This is how you are to vote. I want you to write a check for $3 and drop it in the mail. Your vote will say you want Hugh’s News coming regularly to your email in box. If you enjoy reading Hugh’s News we need to know if it has value to you. Every subscriber and reader is vitally important to me. Your vote will help me to determine our readership strength, and I will be able to report accurately how many people read Hugh’s News. You may cast your vote by writing your check for $3 to Hugh’s News, Inc. Please give me your email address so I can immediately respond to you. Then, mail your letter to: Editor, Hugh’s News, Inc. Website: www.hughsnews.com The choice is yours to make. Either you will eagerly receive today's benediction or you can refuse and resist making it yours. Of course, as the editor of Hugh's News and a God-called and ordained preacher of the Gospel, I hope you will gladly receive today's benediction. It is for your benefit to receive it and be blessed. Then Jesus said, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?" In yesterday's devotion by Anne Graham Lotz, a daughter of Billy Graham, she wrote about the difference between faith and trust. She used this Scripture. This is a topic I can discuss with my friends like Leroy Baker, Stacy Hilliard, Wesley Russ, and Frank Tunstall. It is a blessing for me to talk with them because I am always blessed by their understanding of Biblical concepts and issues vital to our faith and conduct in life. Here is what Anne Graham Lotz had to say: "It is time to Simple Trust" Having commanded the stone to be rolled away from the place where Lazarus was buried, Jesus challenged Martha not only to obedience but to expectant faith: “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?” (John 11:40). In essence, He was saying, “It’s time to place all of your small, mustard seed-sized faith in Me and My promise to you.” Martha had said she had faith. She intellectually believed what Jesus had said. But Martha needed to make the transition from faith to trust. Because while belief is the consent of the mind and faith is a choice of the will, trust is a commitment of the heart. The time had come for Martha to put her faith into action by surrendering all of her hopeful expectations and heartfelt longings and practical common sense and simply trust Him. And the time has come for you to simply trust Him. Trust HIM! Anne Graham Lotz Ernest and Vern, now living in Oklahoma, were sitting outside on a bench talking. "Hey Vern," says Ernest, "which do you think is the farthest away...Florida or the moon?" Vern just shakes his head back and forth as Ernest retorts: "Vern Vern Vern Vern Vern Vern Vernnnnn.......!" "Hellooooooooo.....can you see Florida?" An Amazing Story in "Guideposts" that will Bolster Your Faith and encourage You to Keep Holding on with Hope When World II was coming to an end, Guideposts had just started. The first executive editor that the leadership hired was a devout Christian lady by the name of Grace Perkins Oursler. She joined the staff in 1947. She had what I call "moral courage" to insist that the articles must have spiritual content with first-person stories of people from all walks of life and how God brought them through their crises. Guideposts was started by a pastor--Norman Vincent Peale and a businessman, Raymond Thornburg. This new magazine was inspirational and nondenominational. It did not admonish or preach or proselytize. It had stories about ordinary people from all walks of life. Each story was a personal narrative about a spiritual experience with practical examples of faith. In the March 1995 of Guideposts is a story Melvine read to me, as well as to her Tuesday morning Ladies Bible study and prayer meeting at Christian Life Worship Center in Athens, GA. There are not only ladies from our church who attend, but ladies from other churches--Baptist, Charismatic, Christian, and Church of God. Now, let me paraphrase the story from the article that Grace Perkins Oursler wrote. On the way home from school a thirteen-year-old boy fell when running through a briar patch. He skinned his knee. It was a small scratch that did not tear his trouser leg. By bedtime his knee was swollen and was beginning to ache. He didn't think it was much. You see he was the son of a Kansas frontiersman, formerly from Denison, Texas, north of Dallas. He ignored the pain, knelt by his bed and said his prayers. Then, he climbed into bed in a room where he and his five brothers slept. By morning, his ankle was swelling, but he refused to tell anyone. He got up at six o'clock the next morning to do his assigned chores before going to school. He was required to complete his chores as required or he would be sent back to do them all over again. The discipline in his home was fair but stern. In a couple of days his leg ached so badly that he had to drag himself into the barn. That happened to be Sunday. He requested permission to stay at home while his family drove into town to attend Sunday school and worship services. He quickly finished his homework, and sat in the parlor rocker and examined three family Bibles: one in German where the names of all births and deaths were recorded, another in Greek which his father greatly prized, and at last the King James Version shared by his mother and all of the sons. He knew that he was responsible to lead in family devotions one night that week. He could select his own Scripture passages from the Old and New Testaments. He would read them aloud and get a discussion going about the Scriptures he had read. The pain became so severe that he put aside the Bible and went to sleep until his brothers returned from Sunday school. His parents did not come home with the boys because Sunday was "parents' day off." So, it was the responsibility of the boys to clean the house and cook the big meal of the week while their father and mother stayed in the village for the church service. By the time dinner was ready, the boy climbed back into bed. His left foot was turning black; his socks and shoes had to be cut off the swollen foot. Why on earth had he not told somebody? They had to rush to find the doctor and bring him to their country home. His mother tenderly bathed his leg, applied poultices and wiped his sweating forehead with a moist and cool wash cloth. She was confronted with that angry wound of her son, but she remained calm and serene. In crises there was never chatter, only quiet action. This Mon had nursed her boys through accidents and ailments from toothaches to scarlet fever, one son she lost, but that only made her calmer, and determined to fight for others. They finally called the doctor. Old Dr. Conkin came an examined this boy's leg and foot. He pursed his lips in all seriousness and solemn concern. Dr. Conkin said, "It's not likely we can save it!" This thirteen-year-old boy sat up in bed. "What does that mean?" he asked. "It means," explained the doctor as kindly as he knew how, "if things get any worse we'll have to amputate." The boy with all the moral courage he had, boldly exclaimed, "Not me! I won't have it. I had rather die." Dr. Conklin swiftly walked out of the room, with a nod for the mother to follow him. As he explained to his parents, that in all probability he would have to amputate their son's leg and foot. Immediately, they heard the voice of their stricken son calling for his brother. "Ed! Ed! Come here!" Ed was in the front yard and heard his sick brother call for help with his high pitched voice. The sick lad appealed to Ed, "No matter what happens and even if I go out of my head . . . don't your ever let them cut off my leg. Promise me, Ed--promise . . ." Ed came out of the bedroom and strode down into the kitchen. Not a word had been spoken until Ed had returned. "What's your brother asking for?" his mother asked. "A fork! To bite on, to keep from screaming." Edward took the fork to his brother, and immediately came out of the room and stood guard on his brother's room. Ed looked sternly into Dr. Conkln's eyes and boldly stated, "Nobody is going to saw of my brother's leg." "But, Ed it may mean death for your brother," explained Dr. Conklin. "Maybe so, Doc, But I have given my brother my word." This stance of exceptional moral courage was an example of loyalty and trust. Had not Ed stood his ground, his father and mother might have yielded. The adamant attitude of the sick boy, and his brother Ed was almost incredible. Defiance of parental authority was unknown in this family. But there was Ed bravely standing guard no matter what. "Guess we'll just see how he looks by tonight, eh, Doc?" the mother said softly. Day and night Ed maintained a vigilant watch, not even leaving to eat. He slept across the threshold. He only allowed his mother in the room. The fever mounted, and the boy was now babbling in a sweat of torment. This older brother watched the increasing blood poison climb up his leg above the knee as the doctor had predicted. But Ed was unmovable in his resolve to keep his word and stood firm in his resolve. The parents were unable to make up their minds. Edgar's attitude was decisive. The doctor in helpless outrage, uttered the unthinkable word "murder" and stormed out the house with a verdict that "nothing could less than a miracle could save the boy now!" The mother and father, and the brothers shared the same thought as they looked at each other in despair. However, the dying boy's grandfather had been a vigorous and inspiring minister, farmer-leader of a religious community known as the River Brethren Colony in Pennsylvania. He had believed, and with good reason, in faith healings. Without a word the three, father and mother, and Ed went to their knees. They were desperate enough--to turn to God for help. They prayed, taking turns, in leading one another in supplication. During the night, outside the room the four other brothers from time to time would kneel and join in the prayers. At the breaking of day the next morning, the faithful doctor stopped by to check on the boy. To his amazement his experienced eyes saw a sign of hope. Dr. Conklin closed his eyes and made a rusty prayer of thanksgiving to Almighty God. God was performing a miracle in answer to believing faith and trust in what God could and would do. This sick boy dropped off into normal sleep as one member after another kept the vigil. It was nightfall and the lamps were lighted when this sick boy opened his eyes. The swelling was way down and the discoloration had almost vanished. And in three days, although pale and weak, but with eyes clear and a voice that was strong, he was able to crawl out of bed and stand on his own. And Dwight D. Eisenhower was ready to face a life that would be filled with great adventures and achievements. [Editor's comment: It took a lot of mental power and nibble, but strong phalanges--names for four fingers on each hand, plus a thumb per hand. Although I am a fast typist, more than 100 words per minute, actually timed by Miss Mattie Brown a typing teacher at Emmanuel College when I was a student. It takes a lot of brain power to take a story and put it in my own words. That is a gift from God, and I thank Him. I have shared this story with you because it deeply touched me. You see I believe in divine healing. God has healed me many times. One of the most notable is that He healed me of stuttering. He used a speech teacher at Furman University to diagnose may problem and teach me the phonetic alphabet and gave me exercises to say over and over again until I mastered them. My Christian parents instilled me that I should never give up and trust God to help me. Secondly, I pray that God will use this story of the healing of Dwight D. Eisenhower to inspire you to trust God for your healing, whatever that might be. Thirdly, I have two connections with Dwight D. Eisenhower. Both my father and Dwight were born in Denison, TX. My dad was born December 12, 1884. Six years later, Dwight was born in that town. The Eisenhowers and the Morgans were ranchers. The Eisenhowers moved to Kansas, and the Morgans moved to Oklahoma. When I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1953, I joined to be a member of the finest fighting force in the world. I had thought I would fight and may even be killed. As a young man I was willing to lose my life in defense of my country to defend South Korea from Communist North Korea. However, God had it otherwise, I was assigned right out of Boot Camp at Parris Island, South Carolina to be stationed for three years at Quantico, Virginia, to play trombone in the Quantico Marine Band. Guess who was the President of the United States? He was none other than Dwight D. Eisenhower. As you know he was a famous Army general. Our band played for the President on many occasions. I have had to wait patiently many times for the President to show up for an event. Our motto was "Hurry Up and Wait." Patience is a virtue that I have not mastered. What an honor! What a great time to be alive in the 50s and be a Marine. God was with me then, and He is still with me today. I am on His side. I still believe, "Once a Marine, always a Marine." Although we sing it, I don't believe that the streets of heaven are guarded by United States Marines. In heaven we will not need to fear, all enemies, the devil himself and death, will be defeated. In fact, Jesus defeated death. Marines who have placed their trust in Jesus Christ for salvation will be there too. I expect to see some of my fellow Marines in heaven. I like what the Apostle Paul wrote to youth Timothy: "This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, Who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel" (2 Timothy 1:9-11, NIV). If you have benefitted by this story why not take the time to write me a brief note? My email address is: hugh@hughsnews.com. I promise to respond and write you immediately. "Breaking Free From the Spirit of Inferiority" by J. Lee Grady J. Lee Grady Do you live under the spirit of inferiority? I grew up in the South, where football is a religion. Every boy I knew dreamed of becoming a star quarterback. When my relatives gathered for meals, the conversation usually revolved around whether Auburn would beat Alabama this year. I felt like sliding under my chair during those moments. I was not a football player—and there was no chance of me becoming one. I didn't have big enough biceps to throw a 50-yard pass, and I didn't have the frame to tackle a 200-pound guy. I felt like a total wimp. I assumed that when God handed out physical talents, I was stuck at the back of the line. Thankfully my lack of athletic skills didn't cripple me entirely. I had other abilities, like writing—and I ended up being the editor of my high school yearbook. But a cloud of inferiority followed me everywhere. No matter how successful I was in other areas, I branded myself a failure because I didn't measure up as an athlete. It was only though the power of the Holy Spirit that I eventually overcame this painful sense of disqualification. But now I meet people every day who are slaves of inferiority. Some feel intellectually challenged; some struggle with a physical disability; others are terrified of speaking publicly because they are insecure about their appearance or weight. Others were bullied or abused, and the cruel words they heard on a playground or at the dinner table were stamped into their brains with a hot iron. What about you? Do you find it difficult to describe your positive qualities? Are you haunted by labels that were pinned on you by parents, siblings, teachers or classmates? Were you ever called "stupid," "fatso," "dunce," "dork," "lazy," "slut," "queer" or the N-word? Words are like knives, and they can leave permanent scars. If inferiority is hindering you in your relationship with God and others, consider taking this journey toward healing: 1. Let God change your self-image. The Bible is full of stories of insecure people who ended up doing heroic things. God loves to use "powerless" people "to shame those who are powerful" (1 Cor. 1:27, NLT). Sarah was barren, yet God called her a mother of nations. Moses was a stutterer, yet God called him to confront Pharaoh. David was an embarrassment to his father before he became a king. If you feel inferior, you are in good company! 2. Bury the lies you've believed. False beliefs will not collapse without a fight. You must identify the lies you believe about yourself, and then renounce them. This is not something you can do alone; you must be willing to talk about your inferiority with a counselor, a pastor or trusted friends. When I was in my 20s, I asked two friends to pray with me because I felt so inferior. This deep insecurity made me shy and fearful, but I wanted to be confident so that I could grow spiritually and discover my calling. That prayer meeting put me on a path toward full-time ministry that has taken me to 30 nations! I would have stayed in my prison of insecurity if those men had not helped me see that God had something important for me to do with my life. 3. Confess your new identity. Gideon felt like a weakling when the angel of the Lord came to him and announced: "The Lord is with you, O valiant warrior!" (Judges 6:12). At that point, Gideon was looking around and wondering, Who is this guy talking to? He did not believe he was a warrior! Yet God redefined Gideon's identity and eventually changed his name to Jerubbaal, which means (my paraphrase) "The devil is in trouble." But it is not enough to simply believe in your heart that you are God's chosen instrument. You must boldly proclaim who you are now. Joel 3:10 declares: "Let the weak say, 'I am a mighty man.'" You must say it! If you were told you are a failure, say: "I am more than a conqueror." If you were told that you are fat and ugly, say: "I am my Beloved's, and His desire is for me" (Song 7:10). And keep saying it until you believe it! 4. Stop comparing yourself with others. At the core of sinful human nature is the desire to have what isn't ours. That's why one of the commandments God gave Moses was "Do not covet" (Ex. 20:17). We live in a culture that celebrates perfect beauty, athleticism, celebrity and wealth—and our media constantly reminds us of what we don't have by bombarding us with images (actually they are idols) of "perfect" people. Don't let those idols control you! The media doesn't set the standard for us—God does. Instead of focusing on what you aren't, celebrate who God made you to be. If I had spent my life lamenting the fact that I couldn't make the football team, I would have never discovered the other talents God gave me. 5. Be filled with the Holy Spirit. You can never overcome mental strongholds of worthlessness and inferiority in your own strength. It is the Holy Spirit who changes us. Just as He convicts us of sin and purifies our motives, He also strips away the lies we have believed about ourselves and heals us from the words and experiences that crippled us. Ask Him to fill you so full that those lies can't hang around any longer. If inferiority has gripped your soul, you can say this prayer now: "Lord, You are more powerful than any label that has ever been put on me. I renounce the lies that I have believed about myself. I am not weak; I am strong in You. I am not stupid; I have Your wisdom. I am not worthless; You died on the cross to redeem me. Thank You that because I am in Christ, I am a new creation. I am not bound by my old identity—I have a new identity in Jesus. Help me to see myself the way You see me—as Your beloved child and as a powerful, anointed, gifted disciple. Amen. J. Lee Grady is the former editor of Charisma. You can follow him on Twitter at leegrady. He is the author of several books including 10 Lies the Church Tells Women, 10 Lies Men Believe, Fearless Daughters of the Bible and The Holy Spirit Is Not for Sale. You can learn more about his ministry, The Mordecai Project, at themordecaiproject.org. Have You Noticed the Handiwork of God Lately? We have two peach trees that have produced at least a thousand or more peaches this year. Unbelievable, but true. The harvest is so great it bent over the tall limbs to the ground loaded with peaches, some limbs were broken. Why did this happen? I guess it is because I did not properly prune these trees when I was supposed to do it. As a result these ripened peaches that have fallen to the ground have attracted at least a couple of deer families--two large Does with their Bambis. Where the Bucks were, I have no idea. What a sight to behold. They are ever so cautious, heads bobbing up and down, looking here and there, always on alert for danger--an enemy, someone to threaten their very existence. Melvine and I have a modest home out in the rural section of Winder, Georgia, near unto Statham, Bogart, and Athens. When Dr. Jerry B. Walker, a great Pentecostal/Charismatic evangelist was alive and visited us, he would call our home--Hugh and Melvine's Honeymoon Cottage. As we sit in our Florida Room, where Melvine has allowed me to have my office, we are able to see some wonderful things. We have a number of bird feeders and a bird bath. Birds of all sorts frequent our back yard. I have two blue bird houses in our back yard and one in our front yard. On the beauty of the males in their coat of blue. It is awesome to see a flock of yellow finches, and robins, too. I have seen more than a hundred robins in my back yard. Normally, Robins like our front yard that is on the west side. Our Florida Room faces the East. We are blessed to see the most beautiful sunrise scenes you will ever want to see. Truly, the Psalmist described it accurately when he wrote, "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth His handywork" (Psalm 19:1, KJV). Website by Connect2Them	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693687
__label__wiki	0.530195	0.530195	Truth Previews Please "CLICK HERE" or on any of the icons to return to subjects index. "The Truth about. . ." X-MASS - YULETIDE - A PAGAN FESTIVAL (which is actually condemned by Christ) CHRIST'S OPINION of SANTA CLAUS and YULETIDE, as expressed by HIS ANGEL, to HIS APOSTLE JOHN, in THE APOCALYPSE, Chapter 2. by JAH Who is DARTH VADER in REALITY? (Yes Earth's REALITY) What does JEDI mean? Could YOU complete "The Training"? Where, on THIS planet, is ENDOR? It IS on planet Earth. CLICK HERE & YOU WILL FIND THE ANSWERS Was Diana's Extremely Convenient Death an Accident? Princess Diana said in her BBC TV interview that she was a problem for the British royal family because she was a rebel and REFUSED to go quietly. She went "with a bang" (in fact a crash; bang; wallop). . . VATICAN CONFIRMATION that JOSEPH of ARIMATHAEA (the VIRGIN's uncle) went to ENGLAND and continued the Conversion of the BRIT-ISH. (It had already been STARTED by Jesus - Himself). The Catholic priest Polydore Vergil who was so renowned for his literary talents that catholic Henry 7th asked him to write an English History. As an Italian and a Catholic proxy Bishop; Prebendary and Archdeacon who became Chamberlain to Pope Alexander VII, he had no axe to grind on behalf of Britain or the British Church. It would no doubt have suited him much better if he could have written of Rome as being the first Christian church but he could not and did not. He wrote:- "Britain, partly through Joseph of Arimathaea, partly through Fugatus and Damianus, was of all kingdoms FIRST TO RECEIVE THE GOSPEL." (Even before Palestine). Passover Lamb NOT Easter bunny. Easter comes from the word Ishtar, who was a Babylonian pagan fertility goddess of the Babylonian Mystery Religion of Sun-worship on Sundays; which is why it is celebrated with eggs, because eggs are a sign of fertility. Easter is a totally pagan festival that has absolutely nothing to do with Jesus; the Crucifixion, which was the Second-Passover; or serving God. The 'Babylonian Mystery Religion' is the True Origin of Mary Worship (condemned by God - Jeremiah the Prophet) If you pray to Mary you are disobeying and insulting God and because of that He will not answer you and will allow you to punish yourselves and suffer, with-holding His help and Guidance until you stop insulting Him and approach Him in the correct manner. . . The TRUTH about Democracy. Democracy, which has become the Cure-all Mantra, quoted incessantly by all western politicians, is a LIE and a confidence-trick, that they and their puppet-masters are now trying to deceive the rest of the world with. . . The TRUTH about the British Monarchy the "Golden Jubilee" (50 year reign) of the queen who never was and The GOSPEL of The Kingdom. The word British is Hebrew and it means "Covenant Man" or the "People of The Covenant", as it does also in the Welsh language. Elizabeth the Second, who has never officially been crowned, because she was crowned sitting upon a fake Stone of Destiny, is, like all of her predecessors, from the royal line of king David of Israel and the British Throne is the Throne of David that is to be inherited by Christ, during the Second-Coming, very soon according to Nostradamus. . . The GOSPEL TRUTH about Virgin Mary (by JESUS's own APOSTLES) Don't you think that believing lies and gambling your soul on the word of people who tell lies is rather mis-guided and foolish, to put it mildly? Wouldn't it be much safer to reject lies and believe the TRUTH? What do Jesus' apostles say on the subject? Christ's Space-ship - Ark "The New Jerusalem" "Times Of Noah" The Arks of Noah and Jesus. Life or death? Although the Noah's Ark story belongs to the Old Covenant/Testament, frequent references to it, as a very important "Article of Faith", occur in the New Covenant and also in the Koran. In fact, Christ made a "Life or death" (yours) Prophecy, that, at the time when he would return to the Earth, conditions and attitudes on the Earth would be like they were in "the days of Noah". . . The Second of its Three Woes/Phases (the First Woe was the Invasion of Kuwait - Gulf War) The Pen-ultimate WOE - The Time of the Sixth Angel (of The Apocalypse/Revelation) CLICK HERE for Invasion of Kuwait. 6:12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth Seal (using his "Key"), and, lo, there was a great "earthquake"; and the "sun" became black as sackcloth of hair, and the "moon" became as blood; (Please see my "The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse & the Two Witnesses" Booklet for the Bible Prophecy "Code") 6:13 And "the stars of heaven" fell unto the "earth", even as the "fig tree" casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind (Ezekiel 13:13). 9:13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 9:14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound (Please see the Book of Enoch in the "King of kings' Bible") in the great River Euphrates. The Catholic Church's Views on Contraception. In recent years there has been a lot of controversy surrounding the catholic church's views on contraception. To clarify this matter, we should look at on what grounds the church claims that contraception is not permissible. . . WHY PEOPLE REALLY TAKE DRUGS All the "pleasant" effects that drugs provoke are; in essence; things that CANNOT be found in the world we live in today. Some people, at least, desperately need to feel them. No-one goes around loving each other, we all walk around WARY of each other. G.M. "Terminator" Seeds. The real reason for the production of G.M. "Terminator Seeds", nomatter what assurances and "spin-doctoring" they give us, is to cross-pollinate all the crops on Earth, so that the companies who produce these seeds will then have the world at their mercy. . . . . . And what about the genetically manipulated foods we are unwittingly being fed nowadays? We are told that everything that contains genetically modified plant matter is clearly labeled, but studies in Britain reveal that cross-pollination has occurred between G.M. test crops and other natural species and now it is impossible to contain the genetically modified plant strains... Christ and the Gnostic Beliefs. The Gnostics were early followers of "The Way" (Christ) who believed that followers of The One God should not merely revere Christ, but strive to emulate him, in every thought, word and deed. They sought to describe this emulation in philosophical terms, as a method of practice. . . Titles purposely designed to deceive. Have you ever taken the time to analyse just how many things in life are designed to deceive us and how many things we have been taught, that just aren't so? Slaves to "The System." PLANET EARTH, a Garden of Eden full of life and beauty. Everything a human+Being needs to be able to live and co-exist with other human+Beings, in a caring society, in harmony with the natural environment, where everyone puts others before themselves. So what went wrong? Looking at the world today, it is going so drastically wrong and it appears that nobody is doing anything about it. Every day the environment is getting more and more polluted, the climate is becoming more erratic with un-seasonal storms; cyclones; floods and droughts... Paul said, "It is NOT I That Lives" What Paul meant when he said, "I am crucified with Christ and now it is not I that Lives but Christ Lives in me." The "I" that was crucified with Christ was his "Self" - his separated (from God) "Self" with all of its selfishness and "Self-will", rather than God's Will (Islam in Arabic). The TRUTH about the HADITH and its Shariah law . . .The Hadith has become the Talmud of the moslems and was condemned by God, in the Koran which says that God has gone to all the trouble of writing the Koran so that YOU can understand it, yourself if you read it and DO what it says, which is to read the Bible as well as the Koran and to pray IN PRIVATE, which is exactly what Christ said in Matthew 6 v 6, whereupon God will ANSWER YOU, and teach YOU what He wants you to do - "God's Will" (Islam in Arabic) . . . The TRUTH about Rabbis; Priests and Imams Matthew 23:8 But be NOT ye called rabbi; priest; imam (etc.): for ONE is your Teacher, [even] Christ; and all ye are brethren. Are you listening rabbis; pope; priests and imams? Do YOU need MORE proof? There is PLENTY more - don't worry. . . Rome is the new Babylon condemned by God. (Injeel - Revelation/Apocalypse 17:5) . . .The Babylonians and the Romans are the same race with a new name and country - (note well New Covenant / Testament - Revelation 17:5). They destroyed both the First and Second Temples on Mt. Moriah. They destroyed the First Temple as Babylonians and the Second Temple as Romans but the Babylonians and the Romans are the same race of people. Discover The Truth about God's Holy Koran in this special Koran Page which contains all the information to prove that His Holy Koran and His Holy Bible, when interpreted correctly, are in perfect harmony and are in actual fact volumes of The One Book from The One Author, as The LORD our God is One. God's Law on Custody of Children and the Marriage Relationship Deuteronomy - Man-made laws are PROHIBITED by God. Therefore man-made laws giving custody of a man's children to his wife are ILLEGAL. As also are laws giving women equality with men, or a say in their, or public, affairs. CLICK HERE for the proof. The TRUTH about infertility and women's liberation Fertility is a blessing from God for those who keep God's Law. Infertility is a punishment from God for those who will not keep His Law. . . The TRUTH about Darwin and Evolution. Everyone who chooses not to believe God and The Bible, seems to like to quote "Darwin's Theory of Evolution", that all life came out of the sea, as their so-called proof that God doesn't exist, without realising where Darwin got his theory from. God states on the very FIRST page of the Bible that all life EXCEPT MAN - the Adamic race - came out of the sea (Evolution or Creation) - Genesis chapter 1 verse 20. Afterwards God CREATED (Adam) man, SEPARATELY, on the sixth day. . . A Mathematical Bible Prophecy Code Secular Proof that there is indeed an Infinitely Higher Intelligence (God) in The Universe, Who has accurately predicted many significant world events in The Bible. For 3,000 years a secret code in The Bible has remained hidden. Now it has been unlocked by computer - and it may reveal our future. The code foretells events that happened thousands of years after it was incorporated in The Old Testament - from World War 2 to the Gulf War. This article presents what best-selling author Michael Drosnin believes is irrefutable proof of the existence of God. It was one murderous deed that finally convinced him it was for real and now it has all been confirmed by the world's leading mathematicians. This article about the code contains cross-references with the plain text and word-code prophecies in The Bible; explained by JAH... The Truth about Celestine "Synchronicity" Experience. Millions of people have benefited from reading the "Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield and have found a new awareness of synchronicity and spiritual energy, for which he is to be warmly thanked, but James Redfield, in his new book the "Celestine Vision", has, like all gurus, revealed his clay feet. Isaac Newton Isaac Newton was the first modern scientist; he worked out the mechanics of the solar system and discovered the force of gravity. He was certain, too, that there was a hidden code in The Bible that would reveal the future. He learned Hebrew, and spent half his life trying to find it. The Incalculable Damage Being Caused in Modern Society by Sexist and Mis-Leading Advertising. The large amount of sexist and mis-leading advertising currently being shown on television which is derogative and degrading towards men and portrays women as being more intelligent and "worth it" is absolutely evil; extremely arrogant and is the root cause of many of the problems we are all now encountering in modern society. Spanish Propaganda - another Commonly-held Misconception Columbus did NOT discover America Phoenician-Israelites (not Jewish) discovered America at least 2,000 years before Columbus was born. Most of you will have been taught in school, the little rhyme: "In fourteen hundred and ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue." He did, but he did NOT discover America, as Spaniards claim. That claim is one of Spain's propaganda lies that has become a commonly-held misconception by the entire world, even though it is completely untrue and unfounded, JUST LIKE THEIR FALSE CLAIM TO GIBRALTAR... The Illuminati and The Council on Foreign Relations One-World-Government The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion Find-out how and why the United Nations Organisation is the crux of a conspiracy to destroy the sovereignty of the United States, Britain and other nations and the enslavement of these nations' people within a U.N. one-world dictatorship. Learn how the people behind this evil one-world-government conspiracy have been using the mass-communications media, such as television, radio, the press and Hollywood, towards achieving their Satanically-inspired evil aims while arousing little or no suspicion from the general public. All is revealed in this absolutely amazing, informative article, which explains how the Illuminati and The Council on Foreign Relations have been achieving their evil objectives, by massaging public-opinion through deviously stage-managed world affairs, wars and other events. Conspirators Hierarchy The Committee of 300 by Dr. John Coleman edited by JAH In my career as a professional intelligence-officer, I had many occasions to access highly classified documents, but during service as a political science officer in-the-field, in Angola, West Africa, I had the opportunity to view a series of top-secret classified-documents which were unusually explicit. What I saw filled me with anger and resentment and launched me on a course from which I have not deviated, namely to uncover what power it is that controls and manages the British and United States governments... (- quote from forward by John Coleman) [This document occupies approx. 160 pages of A4 printed text] The First Principle of God's Government - Theocracy Jesus said, "I am The Way, the Truth and the Life" and "no man comes to the Father except by me." How does that relate to the Song of Moses (the Mosaic Law in The Covenant)? The Covenant is called "The Way" in The Torah and Jesus was saying that he was a living demonstration of it (The Way) in action, demonstrating how YOU have to be if YOU want to survive and go home to Father... Louis Farrakhan's Speech on May 19th 1999 (given to a mixed audience of Jews; Christians; Moslems and others.) "I greet all of you my dear brothers and sisters with the greeting words of peace: We say it in Hebrew, Shalom aleichem. We say it in Arabic assalaam aleykum. We say it in English, peace be unto you... I don't have a prepared text. God prepares my texts for me. I was told just to go and stand up and speak. I had some thoughts, but I'm going to let God have His Way and 'Im not going to keep you long..." "And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England’s mountains green? And was the Holy Lamb of God On England’s pleasant pastures seen?" William Blake (1757-1827). Why did William Blake ask this; what seems, on the face of it, to many people to be a ridiculous question; in his famous poem? Why would a child who is supposed to have grown up in Nazareth have been in England? Did William Blake know something you don’t? Discover the ONLY Way You Can Defeat the New World Order, Now. Establishing The Kingdom of God on Earth can ONLY be accomplished by destroying all man-made laws and governments, and reinstating, and living as Israelites, under God's "Royal Laws of Liberty", with only God our Father as the only Supreme Ruler and Authority, and His duly appointed Christ as our Earthly King. So the immediate Goal is to destroy all man-made legislation. In this e-book, you will find the specific Plan on how to achieve this goal and set yourself and the entire working-class free... This movie proves that The Ark of The Covenant is neither in Aksum in Ethiopia, nor Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, and it reveals its true location. It is compiled from JAH's research; which can be found throughout this site; and selected and corrected footage from "The Lost Ark" by Bruce Burgess. Stonehenge; the Aubrey Circuit and The Sabbatical Law and Calendar. The Stonehenge observatory, situated on the Salisbury Plains of Southern England, remains to most modern researchers, one of the foremost mysteries of British antiquity. It is far too often hastily concluded by researchers, that we will never truly know what the site was constructed for; but this is a view, far too constrained by the thinking of those who seek to fit the Universe into their ability to comprehend it, rather than seek to expand their comprehension to be able to understand the Universe... This documentary film gives detailed and indisputable proof of the deception; that has been perpetrated on the British peoples and the whole world, for 50 years; and the absolute proof that Elizabeth Mounbatten (also known by the aliases Windsor and QE2) has never really been crowned, and is not the rightful sovereign of England and the British peoples.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693689
__label__cc	0.678593	0.321407	Investors \| Partners \| WebStore Risks of Hazard The Risks of Hazard An Architectural Tour of London's Leading Insurers Posted by Ivan Maddox on Jun 18, 2015 2:40:31 PM Insurance companies have a long history of expressing themselves through architecture. It sounds strange, but it's true: For more than a century, they have used their buildings to portray their strength and prowess to the financial world (and the public in general). This is especially true in the City of London, where many of the world's insurance powerhouses are headquartered. For a bit of fun, let’s take a look at some noteworthy examples of insurance-related architecture in this fine city. (As the Monty Python boys would say: And now for something completely different....) First off, the City of London is not to be confused with Greater London. It is a single square mile containing The Tower of London, St. Paul’s Cathedral, The Monument (to the fire of 1666 – an iconic event in the history of insurance) and several distinctive buildings housing global insurance companies. Most approaches to the City are marked by silver dragons. Now that we've got that straight.... let's begin our tour. The Lloyd's Building Any survey of London insurance needs to start with Lloyd’s, and the topic of architecture is no exception. The Lloyd’s Building (1 Lime Street), designed by Richard Rogers, is an architectural icon and a leading example of Bowellism (where all the services are on the exterior). It remains the youngest building to receive Grade I listing from English Heritage. When it was completed in 1986, there were no other buildings in the City of London remotely resembling it, with its space age, ultra-modern look. The design of the building is inspired by the function within. Lloyd’s is a global marketplace, and having the services located on the exterior creates an open interior that allows the members, agents, and brokers to engage in their daily business in a space reminiscent of an open-air market. All is not space-age and modern bustle, however. The Adam Room occupies the top floor, and offers a meeting space rich in decoration and pomp. And history has not been neglected at Lloyd’s: The Lutine Bell resides in the main Underwriting Room. The bell was cast in 1779 for the French frigate Lutine (later, the HMS Lutine), which was wrecked in 1799. The bell was brought to Lloyd’s upon its salvage in 1858, and was rung upon news from overdue ships until 1989. The Lloyd's Building The Lutine Bell The Gherkin The most famous silhouette of an insurance building in the City is surely The Gherkin (30 St. Mary Axe), designed by Norman Foster. Widely derided by Londoners when it was completed in 2003, it quickly endeared itself with its pickle-shape. The building was commissioned by Swiss Re, and many in London still refer to it as the Swiss Re building. Today, Swiss Re remains in a few offices, along with several other insurers such as Allied World and Standard Life. The Gherkin was an early entry into the imaginative shapes that are now becoming more prominent on the City skyline. The Willis Building Another building by Norman Foster is The Willis Building (51 Lime St.), an elegant skyscraper across from the Lloyd’s Building. The Russian-doll silhouette was added to the London skyline in 2008, and heralded the continuation of modern high-rise architecture in the City. Willis has always been the principle tenant of the building. The Gherkin The Willis Building The Leadenhall Building A recent addition to the insurance-related architecture scene of London is the Leadenhall Building (122 Leadenhall Street), or as it was dubbed from the drawing board, the Cheesegrater. The building was designed by Graham Stirk. Upon completion in 2014 it housed Aon’s global headquarters, along with Amlin. The distinctive slant of the building ensures that the view of St. Paul’s remains clear when seen from Fleet Street — the building is leaning out of one of the most photographed views in London. The Walkie Talkie And the newest inclusion to the collection is Rafael Viñoly’s “Walkie Talkie” Building (20 Fenchurch Street). Completed in 2014, it now houses several insurance companies, including Tokio Marine, Kiln, Ascot Underwriting, RSA, Allied World, CNA Financial, Liberty Mutual, and Harry Townsend Corp. The building offers a public green space on its top floors, with a bar and two restaurants. The building made headlines in 2013 when the south-facing convex façade focused sunlight onto the street below, damaging a few parked cars and a welcome mat. Of course, it was dubbed the “Fryscraper” after that episode. The Leadenhall Building The Walkie Talkie Over the past few years, insurance has proven to be a wonderful guide to the world for me. This business spans all countries, and the companies conducting the business are as global as any others. Perhaps I will explore other cities or countries through the lens of insurance-related architecture in future posts. Topics: Inside Intermap The Risks of Hazard Blog Welcome to The Risks of Hazard, brought to you by Intermap Technologies®. From the latest industry news and trends, to insight from thought leaders around the globe, stay tuned for a variety of content aimed at helping you better understand the role of location-based intelligence in the world of insurance underwriting and risk assessment. To see how Intermap delivers analytics tailored to your underwriting, visit our InsitePro page. Subscribe to the Risks of Hazard blog! 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__label__wiki	0.879608	0.879608	Boeing Might Scalp a Few Tickets to the ISS to NASA Getty Images / Handout Jack Crosbie 1.19.2017 12:03 AM Since 2011, NASA and European Space Agency astronauts have been hitching a ride to the International Space Station on the Roscosmos Soyuz spacecraft. NASA only pays for a certain amount of tickets aboard the Russians’ multi-million taxi into space, but fortunately, U.S. aerospace company Boeing has a few spares it’s willing to scalp. Space News reports that NASA filed a “sources sought” procurement on January 17 floating the idea of buying two seats on the Soyuz from Boeing for trips to the ISS in fall 2017 and spring 2018. A source’s sought procurement is basically saying that a government agency is interested in making a purchase, so nothing’s official yet, but the Boeing-owned seats are the best way to get extra astronauts up to the ISS on a short-term basis. Boeing won the rights to the seats through a complicated legal decision with RSC Energia, the Russian company that makes the Soyuz Capsule. Boeing and Energia were partners on a project called SeaLaunch back in 2013, when the American company filed a lawsuit alleging that Energia didn’t pay it back for some third-party contracts Boeing paid for. In the settlement, Boeing won a $360 million judgment from Energia in May, but then reportedly took a settlement from the Soyuz makers, which included a few tickets to the ISS in the place of cash. The company can now re-sell those Soyuz tickets to the highest bidder (i.e. NASA, it’s going to be NASA). There’s space on the Soyuz in the first place because Russia recently decided to downsize its ISS mission from three astronauts to two, meaning Roscosmos doesn’t need as many places in the ride up for the next few years’ ISS trips. Boeing has until January 27 to respond to NASA’s sources sought filing, after which Elbon expects the two parties will start negotiating on the exact price. NASA was paying Roscosmos about $81.7 million per seat, and John Elbon, VP and general manager of space exploration at Boeing told Space News he didn’t expect Boeing to gouge them much more than that. “It’s a good value for NASA and the taxpayer,” Elbon said. “We wouldn’t ask them to pay more than they would have been paying before.” Boeing’s seats will let NASA put an extra American on the ISS a little earlier than it had planned. Both SpaceX and Boeing have plans for commercial crew vessels that can take astronauts to the station, but neither company will be ready to fly until at least 2019, so both Boeing and NASA are covering their backs in the event that commercial flights hit more delays, which would pretty much put NASA at the mercy of Roscosmos. Right now, both private spaceflight options — Boeing’s Starliner and SpaceX’s Dragon capsule — are on schedule, but Elbon told Space News that “it seemed to us it might make sense to NASA to have some insurance just in case.”	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693699
__label__wiki	0.793024	0.793024	Climate Change, Economy & Trade, Energy, Environment, Featured, Globalisation, Headlines, Integration and Development Brazilian-style, Latin America & the Caribbean, TerraViva United Nations Energy Transition and Post-Covid Recovery, a Challenge for Latin America By Emilio Godoy Reprint \| \| Print \| \|En español Windmills in Calama, in the Atacama Desert, in northern Chile. The projects in Chile to take advantage of its high potential in unconventional renewable energies have managed to reduce the country's dependence on imported fossil fuels and to reach a fall in the general cost of energy. Image: Marianela Jarroud / IPS MEXICO CITY, Oct 2 2020 (IPS) - The way forward for energy transition and its link to an economic recovery after the depression caused by the covid-19 pandemic is focusing attention in Latin America and Europe, according to the 2nd Madrid Energy Conference (MEC), which concluded this Friday 2. The intercontinental forum was held since Monday, September 28, in this case virtually due to the pandemic, organized by the non-governmental Institute of the Americas (IA), which is headquartered in the coastal town of La Jolla, in western United States. Jorge Rivera, Panama’s Secretary of Energy and one of the sector’s leaders in Latin America who participated in the Conference, stressed that the transition is not an automatic process, but depends on a political decision and on the sector’s corporations. “We have a great opportunity. We have an energy transition agenda for the next 10 years, aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which includes a series of national strategies, decarbonization, digitalization, and energy democratization. We have a lot to do in transportation, industry, in the uses of energy,” he said. Rivera insisted that “these measures have the potential to become a tool for post-covid economic recovery. The Conference, which lasted five days and whose first edition took place in 2019 in the Spanish capital, brought together virtually ministers from five American nations, more than 20 companies´ presidents and more than 400 delegates from international organizations and experts from both continents. The agenda addressed issues such as the climate crisis in the context of the pandemic, the situation of renewable energy on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, the financing of post-covid recovery, the energy transition towards lower carbon models, energy storage in batteries and power grids, as well as different aspects of mobility. Topics such as transport, gas, the outlook for oil corporations or the digitalization of the sector were also tackled. An important part of the debates was linked to the climate crisis, such as carbon capture and storage and greenhouse gas emissions generated by human activities responsible for global warming, as well as methane and the prospects of hydrogen, seen as an alternative to fossil fuels, on both continents. For Alfonso Blanco, OLADE – Latin American Energy Organization’s executive secretary, the region has made significant efforts to accelerate the transition, but the impact of Covid-19 has generated an uncertain outlook. One of the debate sessions of the Madrid Energy Conference, dedicated to the energy transition, which held its second virtual edition, between September 28 and October 2, organized by the Institute of the Americas. Image: IA “Sustainability will depend on regional measures, but the region does not have a defined regional action. If we do not analyze the (financial) risk and develop a financing model for renewables, we will see problems of further incorporation of renewables. We have to think of specific strategies, according to the role of each sector,” he said. In recent years, Latin America has advanced in the development of wind and solar sources as clean alternatives, but it faces the challenge of reducing the burning of fossil fuels in industry and transportation and improving energy efficiency. This transition has come to a halt in nations such as Mexico, which prioritize support for hydrocarbons, as pointed out by Joost Samsom, partner and co-founder of the consulting firm Voltiq – Renewable Energy Finance, and Claudio Rodríguez, partner of the law firm Thompson & Knight LLP. Stuart Broadley, executive director of the non-governmental Energy Industries Council (EIC) – based in London and which brings together energy companies – explained that phase I of the energy transition, currently underway, consists of the adoption of technologies such as wind and solar, and during which most countries have not invested much for different reasons. The forthcoming future Phase II, which the world has not yet entered, involves energy variations such as hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS). Broadley said that companies dedicated to promoting renewable sources are not going to invest in hydrocarbons and do not like oil companies jumping into their market, so they are not going to help each other. In view of this, regulations imply or should imply forcing them to work together and, for this, the government’s role is critical. For Fernando Cubillos, head of Energy at IDB Invest, the private investment arm of the Inter-American Development Bank, renewable energies have shown resilience during the pandemic, competitiveness and attractiveness. “The possibilities of reviving the economy may give a chance to introduce more renewable energy, which can help the recovery, and there is an opportunity to deploy more renewables. We see good conditions for renewables today. What is missing in some countries is the regulatory framework,” he said during the discussions. The installation of photovoltaic panels in poor neighborhoods in Brazil, like these in Morro de Santa Marta, in Rio de Janeiro, which often respond to community and distributed generation projects. They also contribute to reducing the energy bill in these populations and moving towards sustainable generation and consumption. Credit: Mario Osava/IPS. In nations such as Brazil, distributed (decentralized) and small-scale solar generation has become important on a commercial scale and has registered growth, which was possible thanks to the regulatory framework. “We have seen that state-of-the-art technology is wind and solar, due to low costs, and it is very difficult to expand hydropower generation. We have seen potential for battery storage, but it’s not attractive yet”, Thiago Barral, executive president of Brazil’s state-owned Energy Research Agency, analyzed during the MEC. Intercontinental energy forum to discuss post-covid challenges Crisis hits oil industry and energy transition alike Although the energy transition is in its first phase, Latin America is beginning to consider emerging technologies, such as CCS and hydrogen, whether from gas or renewables. In the first case, CCS, the intergovernmental International Energy Agency (IEA), which brings together major industrial countries and is based in Paris, said that by 2020, governments and industry have committed around some $4 billion to such initiatives worldwide. In the world, there are at least 15 projects in operation and seven under construction, but during the MEC experts estimated that at least 500 are needed globally. The use of hydrogen is an unknown variant in the Latin American region. At the beginning of this century, Brazil was a pioneer in exploring this path, but abandoned it to develop sugar cane ethanol, renewable sources and hydro energy. Chris Sladen, founder and director of the UK-based consulting firm Reconnoitre Ltd, said CCS “has been a dream for hydrocarbons. But it’s not a simple concept, it involves several joint projects” and the big question is how to take them to a commercial scale. That technology, he proposed, should occur close to where carbon is generated, such as power plants, petrochemicals or cement factories. Some 50 countries, most of them in the developed North, have instituted policies for the use of hydrogen. In Latin America, Chile has the potential to produce this resource at low prices and that can be a mitigation measure for a cleaner electrical matrix, according to its Undersecretary of Energy, Francisco López. Follow @periodistagodoy	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693700
__label__wiki	0.740782	0.740782	Home / News / Hagia Sophia: Full transcript of the sermon delivered at the first jumuah in 86 years Hagia Sophia: Full transcript of the sermon delivered at the first jumuah in 86 years Posted by: News Editor in News, News Politics, News Turkey, News Views 24/07/2020 0 Thousands of people gathered today around the Hagia Sophia Mosque to attend the first Friday Prayer in 86 years following the reconversion of the Istanbul landmark into a mosque earlier this month. A Turkish court ruled that Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia will be converted from a world-famous museum back into a mosque. The change has long been sought after by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who signed a decree opening the building for worship and paving the way for its reconversion to a mosque. This change has also been one of President Erdoğan’s campaign pledges during the Istanbul municipal elections last year. [1] President Erdoğan declared the Hagia Sophia Mosque open to Muslim worship after a top court ruled that the building’s conversion to a museum in 1935 by modern Turkey’s founding statesman, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, was illegal. The iconic monument had been used as a church for 916 years under the Byzantine Empire but was later converted into a mosque in 1453 by Sultan Mehmed II, after the Ottoman Empire conquered Istanbul.[2] The building then underwent necessary restoration work to emulate the characteristic features of mosques, including the addition of minarets for the call to prayer. It was then changed to a museum in 1935 by then-president Atatürk under the Turkish Republic, after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. However, in recent years, Turkish leaders, including President Erdoğan, had called for it to be used as a mosque again, enjoining the recitation of the Qur’ān in its vicinity on special occasions. President Erdoğan, joined thousands of worshippers inside the Hagia Sophia Mosque, alongside cabinet minister and other top officials, as large crowds gathered outside. During the first sermon in the Hagia Sophia Mosque, the Head of Diyanet (the Directorate of Religious Affairs), Ali Erbaş delivered the first sermon holding a sword. The following is the full transcript of the first Friday prayer sermon since the Hagia Sophia’s restoration to a mosque. [3] Honorable Muslims! May the blessings and help of Allah and the peacefulness and divine abundance of Friday be upon you! In this blessed hour, in this sacred place, we are witnessing a historic moment. Hagia Sophia Mosque is meeting with its congregation in the light of Eid al-Adha being casted upon us on this third day of one of the hajj months of Dhu al-Hijjah. The longing of our nation, which has turned into a heartbreak, is coming to an end today. Endless thanks and praise be to Allah the Almighty! Today is the day when the recitations of takbir, tahlil, and salawat echo again under Hagia Sophia’s domes, and the adhan and salat rise from its minarets. Today we are experiencing a day similar to when 16 muazzins echoed the sounds of Allahu Akbar all around from the 16 minaret balconies of the Blue Mosque (Sultan Ahmed Mosque), right across us, 70 years ago, and the reunion of our mosques with adhan after 18-year-long separation. Today is the day when believers stand for prayer in tears, bow down to ruku in peace, and go down for prostration in gratitude. Today is the day of honor and humbleness. Endless thanks and praise be to Allah the Almighty who enabled us to have an honorable day like today, to gather in mosques as the most sacred places on earth, and to appear before Himself (swt) in this Great Hagia Sophia. Salat and salam be to Prophet Muhammad (saw) who gave the good news about the conquest by saying, “One day Constantinople will be conquered. Great is the commander who will conquer it, and great are his soldiers!” Salam be to the spiritual architect of Istanbul, who hit the roads to become the one who attains this glad tiding, Abu Ayyub al-Ansari in particular, the Companions of the Prophet, and those who followed their gracious footsteps. Salam be to Sultan Alparslan, who opened the gates of Anatolia to our nation with the belief that conquest does not mean attacking but rendering prosperous, and means building rather than destroying; to our martyrs and veterans who have made it our homeland and entrusted it to us; and all sultans of the hearts who have remolded our geography with faith. Salam be to Akshamsaddin, the wise scholar who embroidered the love of conquest in Sultan Mehmed’s heart and led the first Friday prayer in Hagia Sophia on June 1, 1453. فَاِذَا عَزَمْتَ فَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى اللّٰهِۜ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ يُحِبُّ الْمُتَوَكِّل۪ينَ Salam be to that young and determined ruler Mehmed the Conqueror (Fatih Sultan Mehmed – May Allah let him in Paradise), who was attached from heart to the verse “And when you have decided, then rely upon Allah. Indeed, Allah loves those who rely [upon Him]”; a genius of history, literature, science, and arts; produced the most advanced technology of his era and had the ships move over land; conquered Istanbul with the permission and help of Allah; and then did not allow anybody to cause even the slightest harm to even a piece of pebble in this honorable city. Salam be to the father of architecture, the great artist, Sinan the Architect, who refurbished Hagia Sophia with minarets and reinforced it so that it has survived for centuries. Salam be to all our brothers and sisters in all corners of the world who have been longing for and celebrating with joy the reopening of Hagia Sophia to worship. Salam be to our prominent people who have worked their hearts and souls out, from past to present, to ensure that Hagia Sophia meets its adhan, iqamat, wa’z, khutbah, prayers, recitations, scholarly activities, and great congregation having their places in the rows. Salam be to our scholarly and intellectual people and prominent leaders full of wisdom and benevolence who describe Hagia Sophia as “our room of spirituality and jewelry in our own home” and instill hope and patience in hearts and minds by saying, “Hagia Sophia will be definitely reopened! Wait on, o young people, wait on! Let some more mercy rain down. A flood comes just after every rain. What more would I want other than be a string of straw in that flood’s flow! Hagia Sophia will be reopened, like a dear old book!” May Allah’s mercy be upon all of them! Dear Believers! Hagia Sophia, with its age being over fifteen centuries, is one of the most valuable places of worship, knowledge and wisdom in the history of humankind. This age-old place of worship is a magnificent expression of servitude and submission to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror endowed and entrusted this outstanding place of worship as the apple of his eye to believers on condition that it should remain a mosque until the last day. Any property that is endowed is inviolable in our belief and burns whoever touches it; the charter of the endower is indispensable and whoever infringes upon it is cursed. Therefore, from that day to the present, Hagia Sophia has been the sanctuary of not only our country but also of Prophet Muhammad’s ummah. Hagia Sophia is the place from which the boundless mercy of Islam is once again declared to the whole world. Mehmed the Conqueror said to the people who took shelter in Hagia Sophia after the conquest and waited worriedly for what was going to happen to them, “From this moment on, do not be afraid for your freedom and life! The property of no person will be looted, no person will be oppressed, and no person will be punished because of their religion.” and acted accordingly. It is for this reason that Hagia Sophia is the symbol of respect to belief and of the morality of coexistence. Dear Muslims! The reopening of Hagia Sophia to worship is a requirement of loyalty to its historical accumulation. It is the return of a sacred place, which had embraced believers for five centuries, to its original function. The reopening of Hagia Sophia to worship is the evidence that the Islamic civilization, the foundation of which is tawhid, the building block of which is knowledge, and the cement of which is virtue, continues to rise in spite of all drawbacks. The reopening of Hagia Sophia to worship means that all sorrowful masjids, first and foremost the Masjid al-Aqsa, and oppressed believers on earth are able to get lifeline support. The reopening of Hagia Sophia to worship is the determination of our noble nation, who holds the faith and love of the homeland above everything, to build a solid future with the spiritual power passed down from the ancestors. Our mosques are the source of our unity, amity, brotherhood, faith and serenity in our civilization. The Almighty Allah (swt) states regarding those who build and maintain mosques and masjids, “The mosques of Allah are only to be maintained by those who believe in Allah and the Last Day and establish prayer and give zakat and do not fear except Allah, for it is expected that those will be of the [rightly] guided.” Dear Brothers and Sisters! What could be more crestfallen than a mosque, the minarets of which are silent, the minbar of which is deserted, the dome of which is mute, and the garden of which is lonely? Due to the hostility to Islam that rises each passing day, there are mosques in various parts of the world today that are attacked, closed by force, and even bombed and destroyed. Hundreds of millions of Muslims are facing oppression. I would like to show Mehmed the Conqueror’s this great attitude regarding Hagia Sophia five centuries ago as an example to the world and call on all humanity to say “Stop!” to such anti-Islamist discourses, actions, and any kind of oppressions. We as believers who regard the meaning of Hagia Sophia as a lofty cause and sacred entrustment need to work to ensure that compassion, tolerance, peace, tranquility, and benevolence prevail all around the world. This is the reason why the Prophet of Islam (saw) and other prophets were sent, which means peace, salvation, and salam. So, what we need to do is to work day and night to ensure that benevolence, rightfulness, and justice dominate the world. We need to be the hope for salvation of humanity that is in the swirl of great problems. We need to maintain justice in geographies surrounded by oppression, injustice, tears, and despair. We need to heed the call, “O Muslims! Understand, live by, and spread Islam so correctly and properly that whoever comes to kill you should spring to life because of you!” We believe that “all people are either brothers and sisters in religion or equal in creation”, as expressed by Ali (ra). We believe that the earth is our shared home. We believe that all members of this home, regardless of religion, ethnicity, skin color, or country, have the right to live freely and humanely in safety within the framework of universal values and moral principles. Under the dome of Hagia Sophia, we call on all humanity to uphold justice, peace, compassion, and rightfulness. We call on to defending universal values and moral principles that protect human dignity and make us the most honorable creature. As a follower of the Final and True religion which declares that the life of each person regardless of gender and age is inviolable, we call on humanity to cooperate and collaborate in protecting the life, religion, reason, property, and generation of all people. This is because today we need more than ever to unite our hearts with our dispositions, our reason with our conscience, humans with humans, and humans with the nature. As I conclude this historic khutbah, I would like to make a call to the entire world from this honorable place: O people! The doors of Hagia Sophia Mosque will be open to all servants of Allah without any discrimination just like the doors of Suleymaniye Mosque, Selimiye Mosque, Sultan Ahmed Mosque, and other mosques of ours. The journey to faith, worship, history, and contemplation in the spiritual atmosphere of Hagia Sophia Mosque will continue uninterruptedly Insha Allah. May Allah the Almighty enable us to duly serve Hagia Sophia Mosque that has a special place in our glorious history and an exceptional value in our hearts. May Allah (swt) bless us with the honor of properly respecting a mosque like Hagia Sophia that is magnificent cap-a-pie. May Allah (swt) regard particularly His Excellency and all authorities who made efforts in the protection of our culture and identity, and all people praying for and sharing our happiness today, as those people whom He (swt) loves and with whom He (swt) is pleased. A Return to the Golden Ages Turkey today has witnessed drastic changes ever since the abolishment of the Ottoman caliphate and the rise of the Zionist-sponsored secularist Mustafa Kemal “Atatürk”. [4] “Atatürk” came to power and imposed decades of secularism on the Turkish people. Turkey endured a staunchly secularised political climate for a number of years but is currently undergoing a remarkable transitional period of removing itself of the tyranny that has suffocated it. In recent years, under the leadership of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), Turkey has reversed the hijab ban, built more than 17,000 new mosques, reinforced family values, clamped down on alcoholism, and formed many other policies in line with Islamic principles. [5] In February 2018, President Erdoğan also said that the Republic of Turkey is a continuation of the Ottoman Empire. During a memorial ceremony to mark the anniversary of the death of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II, President Erdoğan stated: “The Republic of Turkey, just like our previous states that are a continuation of one another, is also a continuation of the Ottomans. Of course, the borders have changed. Forms of government have changed … But the essence is the same, the soul is the same, even many institutions are the same.” [6] The Turkish people have come a very long way since the abolishment of the Ottoman caliphate, an event that certainly marked a turning point in history – one that was so momentous that mankind can feel its aftershocks until the present day. However, even with the vicious decades of secularism that were enforced following the fall of the Ottoman caliphate, the Turkish people have used every means to preserve and uphold their Islamic identity against the toxic secular “Atatürk”-driven assault against the deep-rooted values of the Turkish people. [1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/07/turkey-court-revokes-hagia-sophia-museum-status-200710131419431.html [2] https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkey/turkey-court-strikes-down-hagia-sophia-museum-decree/1906171 [3] TRT World [4] https://www.islam21c.com/islamic-thought/history/the-remarkable-story-of-islamic-turkey/ [5] https://www.islam21c.com/politics/victory-for-turkey-victory-for-islam/ [6] https://www.aa.com.tr/en/todays-headlines/turkish-republic-continuation-of-ottoman-empire/1059924 Previous: Hagia Sophia: What Western news isn’t telling you \| Dr Yakoob Ahmed \| Unscripted #55 Next: Reaction as Hagia Sophia reopens its doors to Muslim worshippers About News Editor American Muslims urged to exercise caution in light of Capitol Hill carnage Syed Qutb devoted himself to authorship and literature. 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__label__cc	0.521509	0.478491	Edgar Allan Poe autograph letter excels at $164,520 An autographed letter sent by Edgar Allan Poe made $164,250 at auction on May 16 An autographed letter from Edgar Allan Poe achieved superb results at an auction in New Hampshire on May 16. A master of the macabre, Edgar Allen Poe The letter was sent by Poe to Sarah Josepha Hale, the author of the nursery rhyme Mary Had a Little Lamb. Hale had previously written to Poe to request a prose article for Godey's Lady's book, which she edited for over 40 years, retiring at age 90. Poe declines the request in his response, stating: "I am grieved to say that it will be impossible for me to make a definite promise just now, as I am unfortunately overwhelmed with business". Although Poe may have turned down this opportunity, he went on to write several works which were published in the magazine, along with an array of early-American literary greats, such as Washington Irvine. Poe was responding as editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, in which he published a number of his poems and short stories as well as excerpts from his only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.From one leading literary figure to another, the letter provided a fantastic opportunity for literary collectors. With a minimum bid of just $2,500, the piece sailed to $164,520. PFC Auctions has an excellent range of letters and manuscripts in its current sale, also offering great value. The current world record for an Edgar Allen Poe work is held by Tamerlane and Other Poems, a collection published in 1827 when Poe was just 13. It was sold through Christie's in 2009 for $662,500. Book collectors should also view our investment portfolios, featuring a diverse selection of rarities that provide the perfect start to a collection.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693706
__label__wiki	0.761003	0.761003	Human champion certain he’ll beat AI at ancient Chinese game The world champion of the ancient board game Go, South Korean Lee Sedol, expects to prevail in a match with Google's computer program AlphaGo next month, but he's not so sure he will be able to do so a year later. For now, Lee is predicting a 5-0 or 4-1 victory in his favor. AlphaGo defeated a professional Go player for the first time in October, something that experts had predicted would take a decade. The match, described in a paper released in the journal Nature last month, marked a significant advance in the development of artificial intelligence. Lee, 32, said AlphaGo's October match showed the program's ability was still slightly lower than his. It has not had enough time to improve its skills. "But if artificial intelligence continues to advance, in a year or two years, it will be really hard to guess the results," Lee said. Computers have long surpassed humans in other games, including chess. But Go, known as weiqi in China and baduk in Korea, is considered the most challenging for artificial intelligence to master because of its intuitive nature and complexity. Before AlphaGo, the Go community thought it would take a few generations for computers to match human players. So the October shut out of the European champion was "truly shocking," said Park Chi-moon, vice president of the Korean Baduk Association. The winner of the five-game match starting March 9 in Seoul will receive a $1 million prize. If AlphaGo wins, the prize will be donated to charities, including UNICEF. Demis Hassabis, CEO of AlphaGo developer Google DeepMind, said the program will enable smartphones to provide smarter help for people in the near future. Eventually, it will enable computers to help scientists solve some of the toughest real-world problems, such as disease analysis and climate modeling, he said. Go originated in China more than 2,500 years ago. It involves two players who take turns putting markers on a checkerboard-like grid. The object is to take over more area on the board with the markers than one's opponent, and to capture the opponent's pieces by surrounding them. Source: Sun Herald admin February 22, 2016 Sports South Korea: North Korea Fired Artillery Near Border Contest Over South China Sea Spurred in Part by Resources	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693709
__label__cc	0.670782	0.329218	Jowdy Kane Funeral Home Send Flowers for Janet Janet Marie Ross August 10, 1942 ~ January 11, 2021 (age 78) Janet Marie Ross, 78, of Newtown, longtime resident of Danbury, passed away on Monday, January 11, 2021. She was the loving wife of Francis “Bob” Ross. Janet was born in Mount Kisco, NY on August 10, 1942; a daughter of the late Mario and Mary (Andrews) Daone. Janet was a 1961 graduate of Danbury High School and received her Masters Degree in Social Work from Fordham University in 1985. Janet lived in Danbury for over 50 years, before relocating to Newtown in 2013. She was a retired Social Worker having worked for Danbury Hospital, Glen Hill Nursing Home the State of CT Social Services Department. In her spare time, she enjoyed cooking traditional Lebanese meals for her family and volunteered with the Salvation Army. Janet was a lifelong member of St. Ann Melkite Catholic Church in Danbury. Upon moving to Newtown, she became a parishioner of St. Joseph Church of Brookfield. Janet is survived by her husband of 57 years, Bob and their 4 sons: Bobby Ross and his wife, Karen; Jeff Ross and his wife, Tina; Steven Ross and Jimmy Ross and his wife, Marissa. Janet is also survived by 7 grandchildren: Anthony, Alison, Cole, Tate, Eme, Olivia and Julianna as well as 2 brothers; Joe and Rich Daone. Due to the COVID 19 restrictions affecting all of us at this time, a private funeral mass will be celebrated on Friday, January 15, 2021 at 11:00 AM at St. Joseph Church, Brookfield. There will be no calling hours and interment will be held privately. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to American Cancer Society at http://cancer.org Funeral Mass Live Stream: https://venue.streamspot.com/c8e4066485 To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Janet Marie Ross, please visit our floral store. Private Funeral Mass St. Joseph Church (Brookfield) 163 Whisconier Road Video is available for this event Click here to access the video Private Interment Saint Peter Cemetery, Danbury P.O. Box 22718, Oklahoma City OK 73123 Web: http://www.cancer.org/ © 2021 Jowdy Kane Funeral Home. All Rights Reserved. Funeral Home website by CFS & TA \| Terms of Use \| Privacy Policy	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693714
__label__wiki	0.523859	0.523859	KDV Alert: Appellate Division Rejects Claim Administrator’s Legal Malpractice Claims Against Assigned Defense Counsel By Brett Scher, Esq. and Jonathan Isaacson, Esq. (February 18, 2014) In Risk Control Associates Ins. Group v. Maloof Lebowitz Connahan & Oleske, P.C., 2014 WL 241741, 2014 N.Y. Slip Op. 00419 (1st Dep’t 2014), New York’s Appellate Division, First Department, continued to broaden the protections afforded by the long-standing requirement that only those parties in privity or in a relationship of “near privity” can assert a legal malpractice claim against an attorney. In doing so, the Court rejected a claim administrator’s efforts to argue that its relationship with defense counsel was “near privity” or that it was entitled to equitable subrogation on a malpractice claim that the insured had against the attorney. Risk Control, a claims administrator for an insurer, commenced an action alleging legal malpractice against defense counsel who was retained to represent an insured in a personal injury action. Risk Control acknowledged that it was not in direct privity with the defendant law firm. In New York, it is well settled that when an insurance company (or claim administrator) retains defense counsel to defend an insured, the paramount interest that defense counsel represents is that of the insured, not the insurer and that an attorney-client relationship only exists between the attorney and the insured. As such, an attorney only owes a duty to the insured, not the insurance carrier/claim administrator that pays the attorney. See Federal Ins. Co. v. North American Specialty Ins. Co., 47 A.D.3d 52, 847 N.Y.S.2d 7 (1st Dep’t 2007). In an effort to salvage its claim, Risk Control argued that its relationship with defense counsel was one of “near privity” and, therefore, its legal malpractice claim was viable. In doing so, the plaintiff appears to have relied upon Allianz Underwriters Ins. Co. v. Landmark Ins. Co., 13 A.D.3d 172, 787 N.Y.S.2d 15 (1st Dep’t 2004). In Allianz Underwriters Ins. Co., in the context of a pre-answer motion to dismiss, the First Department indicated that an excess insurer might be able to maintain a claim for breach of fiduciary duty against defense counsel retained by the primary insurer because the relationship between the excess carrier and defense counsel was “near privity.” Several years after deciding Allianz Underwriters Ins. Co., however, the First Department issued Federal Ins. Co., supra, which explained that the decision in Allianz Underwriters Ins. Co. was based upon a finding that an insurer may be entitled to equitable subrogation to whatever claims the insured had against the attorneys because the insurer had already paid to resolve claims on the insured’s behalf. The First Department noted that its discussion of “near privity” in Allianz Underwriters Ins. Co. was merely dicta and that a non-client’s claims against an attorney could only be maintained on a “near privity” basis when it is alleged that the attorney made negligent misrepresentations to the client, thereby diminishing the relevance of the “near privity” argument for routine malpractice claims. In reaching its decision in Risk Control Associates Ins. Group, the Court engaged in little discussion of Federal Ins. Co. or Allianz Underwriters Ins. Co. Rather, the Court focused on the fact that there was no allegation that Risk Control had a contractual duty to pay on the insured’s loss and that it had not sustained any actual damages as a result of such an obligation. As Risk Control was only a claims administrator it did not issue any policies of insurance and therefore, could not be responsible for any damages or defense costs. Further, since Risk Control was not responsible for making payments on the insured’s behalf, it could not equitably subrogate to any of the rights of the insured. Risk Control Associates Ins. Group confirms that while in certain situations an insurance carrier may be able to assert legal malpractice claims against the defense counsel they retain on their insured’s behalf, a claims administrator, who bears no financial risk for an insured’s potential losses, will not be able to do so.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693716
__label__cc	0.577925	0.422075	K.C.I Certified Doberman puppy for sale in Chennai Breed Sex: black and tan , brown and tan Availability Status: Dear Dog Lovers , Excellent Heavy doberman puppy for sale interested contact me see the pic 1 male ,2 female available Breeders Contact Details Are you interested to contact the owner The Doberman Pinscher (also known as a Dobermann or affectionately called Dober) was bred in Germany in the late nineteenth century, almost exclusively as the work of one manâ€”Louis Dobermann. Dobermann was a tax collector who sought to breed an alert guard dog for personal protection. Within a decade, a breed similar to the modern Doberman Pinscher had been created, popularized, and imported to America. In America, it became a popular guard and police dog, and later a well-admired show dog. By the late 1970â€™s, the Doberman Pinscher was the second most popular breed in America. Today, it serves mostly as a pet. Famous Doberman Pinschers include Zeus and Apollo, â€˜the ladsâ€™ from â€˜Magnum, P.I.â€™. Doberman Pinschers are the official combat dog of the U.S. Marines. The Doberman Pinscher is a medium to large sized dog with a shoulder height of 63-72 cm (25-28 in) and a weight of 27-45 kg (60-100 lbs). Some Doberman Pinschers weigh over 100 pounds, usually serving as guard dogs or police dogs. The Doberman Pinscher has a long, wedged shape head, almond-shaped eyes, a flat skull, and erect ears (which may be cropped). They have small, round feet and docked tails. Coat and Color The Doberman Pinscher has a short, stiff, smooth, coat. It can be black, brown, or fawn, all with tan markings. Black and tan is most common. Markings are usually found on the muzzle, legs, feet, and chest. The Doberman Pinscher is an average shedder. Doberman Pinschers have a tendency to become very loyal and devoted to one particular person. They are brave and intelligent, making excellent guard-dogs. Doberman Pinschers are not bullies or violent by nature, but they are highly protective and can be pushy if left unchecked. If properly socialized, Doberman Pinschers get along well with children, other dogs, and other household pets. Doberman Pinschers should be socialized when young. They are uncomfortable with strangers and do not take kindly to unwanted visitors. Dobes require a dominant owner to ensure they do not become overly aggressive. They are honorable, fearless, and devoted, making fine companions. The Doberman Pinscher must have its claws kept short. The teeth should be brushed regularly and checked periodically for tartar. Remove dead hairs from the Doberman Pinscherâ€™s coat with a knobbed rubber glove during shedding. Dobes are susceptible to Von Willebrand disease (a blood disorder), hip dysplasia, and obesity. They are also sensitive to cold, and should not be left to live outdoors in cold climates. The white Doberman Pinscher may be more susceptible to deafness or blindness, but this is disputed. The Doberman Pinscher has a life span of 8-12 years, and has litters of 3-8 pups. The Doberman Pinscher must be trained carefully, thoroughly, and consistently. One should never hit a Doberman Pinscher, and should avoid pressuring the dog during the early stages of training. Females may be more stubborn than males. The speed and tremendous stamina of the Doberman Pinscher make it ideal for a variety of outdoor sports. It requires frequent exercise and will not be satisfied with daily walks around the neighborhood. The Doberman Pinscher is not suited to apartment life. Doberman Puppies for Sale Pet Quality Doberman puppies for sale in Chennai Doberman Puppies (European Type) For Sale in Mumbai Champaion line Doberman Puppies For Sale in Bangalore Karnataka AMERCIAN STANDARD DOBERMANNS AVAILABLE in Tamilnadu Bhavani	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693717
__label__cc	0.503541	0.496459	Lankathilaka temple in Kandy District Lankathilaka Viharaya is a medieval Buddhist temple in the hills to the west of Kandy. The Lankathilaka temple, not to be confused with the image house of the same name in Polonnaruwa, is the most magnificent edifice that has survived from the Sri Lanka’s 14th century Gampola period. It was constructed on order of a chief minister called Senalankadhikara during the reign of King Bhuvanekabahu IV (1341 – 1351). The architect is said to have been from South India. Inscriptions carved in the rock just south of the main edifice have both Sinhala and Tamil sections. The layout is that of a Buddhist image house, which opens to the east, surrounded by a ring of five Hindu chapels, the aisles of which can be entered from the west. This Hindu Devales form an integral part of the mainly Buddhist temple, making Lankathilaka a unique ensemble of shrines of the Buddha and the five major deities also venerated by Sinhalese. The combination of a brick temple inspired by Drawidian stone temples from Tamil Nadu and tiles roofs inspired by the wooden temples of Kerala is unique, too. In the 18th century, the walls and the ceiling of the Buddhist main shrine room have been decorated with Kandy paintings. Indeed, Lankathilaka is the best example of a a temple interior in the Kandyan stye which is not a cave but a constructed image house. We are prowd to present the most comprehensive and detailed description or the Lankathilaka temple which is available online up to this date. Please note, that uploading the page might take a few seconds because of the large number of images sized 900 by 600. Please read more about the Lankhatilaka temple near Kandy here... Nuwan Chinthaka Gajanayaka, Lanka Excursions Holidays, Stupas Buddhism A-Z	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693720
__label__wiki	0.987556	0.987556	Confederate Battle Flag in the Capitol: A ‘Jarring’ First in U.S. History A Muslim American college student said he had fought back tears when he saw the image of a Trump supporter carrying the Confederate battle flag through the halls of the Capitol on Wednesday. A Black Senate aide who for years has walked confidently through the halls of Congress said his feelings of safety had crumbled when he saw the photo. And a Black historian said she had immediately thought of James Byrd, the Black Texas man who was dragged to death by white supremacists in a pickup truck in 1998. The historian, Mary Frances Berry, a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, said she had felt “disgust” and recalled “wanting to scream.” “To see it flaunted right in front of your face, in the United States Capitol, the heart of the government, was simply outrageous,” she said. Amid the images and videos that emerged from Wednesday’s rampage, the sight of a man casually carrying the Confederate battle flag outside the Senate floor was a piercing reminder of the persistence of white supremacism more than 150 years after the end of the Civil War. Months after statues of Confederate leaders and racist figures were removed or torn down around the world, an unidentified man in bluejeans and a black sweatshirt carried the emblem of racism through the Ohio Clock corridor, past a portrait of Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, an abolitionist. The emblem has appeared in the Capitol before. The Mississippi flag, which once featured the Confederate symbol prominently, hung in the Capitol until June 2020, when it was replaced after a vote by the State Legislature to remove the emblem. But Wednesday was the first time that someone had managed to bring the flag into the building as an act of insurrection, according to historians. The man carrying the flag faced less stringent security than that encountered by the Confederate soldiers who failed to penetrate Union forts guarding the Capitol during the Battle of Fort Stevens on July 11 and 12, 1864, said William Blair, professor emeritus of history at Penn State and the former director of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at the university. “The Confederate flag made it deeper into Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, than it did during the Civil War,” he said. The Presidential Transition Jan. 8, 2021, 10:32 p.m. ET The sight, Professor Blair said, was “jarring and disheartening.” “There is so much confusion about people who fly that flag,” he said. “But even if they try to divorce slavery from it — which you can’t — how do you justify waving the flag of a confederacy that tried to tear the country apart, then call yourself a patriot?” Representative Colin Allred, a Black Democrat from Texas, said his wife had been texting him while he was on the House floor to see if he was safe and had sent him an image of the man with the flag. The photo was confirmation, he said, that those who had stormed the Capitol were “tied deeply” to white supremacism. “That is something that will stay with me,” Mr. Allred said. “They set up a noose and scaffolding on the Capitol Hill. This event has to be a wake-up call.” Josh Delaney, a deputy legislative director for Senator Elizabeth Warren, said he had been at home, watching the riot unfold on television, when the photo appeared on the screen. “It was like time stopped,” he said. “My stomach dropped. I don’t know if I stopped breathing, but it was shock. I can only imagine that’s what it must be like to be really in shock.” Mr. Delaney, who wrote in The Boston Globe about seeing the flag, is Black and grew up in Georgia, where the flag was a painful but commonplace reminder of where he was not welcome. He said he had never expected to see the flag in the Capitol, where he has worked for more than six years. “I have always felt like this is the safest place I could ever be if anything ever happens,” Mr. Delaney, 31, said. “To have that illusion shattered, I don’t know that I’ll ever have that same feeling again.” Raheel Tauyyab, a junior at the University of Virginia, said he had learned about the flag from a professor who was monitoring the news about the riot on his computer during a virtual class Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Tauyyab, 20, a Muslim American who said his goal was to one day work at the Capitol, said he could not forget the traumatized look on his professor’s face. “I won’t lie: I did shed a tear,” he said. “It was really stabbing to the heart to see something like that happen.” The Rev. Robert W. Lee IV, a great-great-great-great-nephew of Gen. Robert E. Lee who has supported broad removal of statues of his ancestor, said he had been struggling with what he was planning to tell congregants on Sunday at his nondenominational church, the Unifour Church in Newton, N.C. He said he could not get the sight of the flag “desecrating” the Capitol out of his mind. “It shook me to my core in a way that other images haven’t over the past four years,” he said. Since Wednesday, he said, he has sat at his computer and struggled to come up with the right words. “It struck me as something that, in this moment, as someone who is supposed to know what to say as a clergy person, I have nothing,” he said. “I’ve got nothing on this.” Maria Cramer Previous The G.O.P.’s New Distancing Policy Next Washington, DC riots and Trump presidency news: Live updates What Matters: Executive orders aren’t a solution. They’re a symptom	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693721
__label__wiki	0.854929	0.854929	China is now looking to California – not Trump – to help lead the fight against climate change In a rare diplomatic coup, California Gov. Jerry Brown met with Chinese President Xi Jinping. (June 7, 2017) By Jessica Meyers Reporting from BEIJING — Gov. Jerry Brown met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday in a rare diplomatic coup that catapults California into quasi-national status as a negotiator with China following the decision last week by President Trump to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord. Their encounter underlined the extent to which Trump, as he pursues an “America first” foreign policy, is being sidelined on the world stage. Xi spent nearly an hour talking to Brown, one of the administration’s loudest, most powerful critics on the environment. They discussed global warming and green technology in the Great Hall of the People, a granite-columned building on Tiananmen Square reserved for high-level dignitaries, political gatherings and ceremonial occasions. “It’s highly significant that the governor of California can meet with the president of China and talk about the foremost issue of our time,” Brown said, sounding especially jovial on the third day of his weeklong China tour. “It’s very clear he welcomes an increased role on the part of California.” Xi emphasized the state’s unique economic impact and encouraged California to promote ties on the local level in science, innovation and green development, according to a statement from China’s Foreign Ministry. Brown started his trip with visits to the southern Chinese cities of Chengdu and Nanjing, where he repeated his grim warnings about climate change and signed agreements on clean energy. Xi “has definitely given the green light for more collaboration between China and California and, I would say, other states through this subnational-level arrangement,” Brown said. Energy Secretary Rick Perry is also in Beijing for a forum of global energy ministers. The Energy Department has given no indication he will meet with Xi. The leaders’ discussion appeared as much about symbolism as substance. “He vaults over the parochial sense of governor to governor, and he vaults into the world of state to nation,” said Orville Schell, director of the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations in New York, who wrote a 1978 biography of Brown. The meeting built on a relationship that started when Xi’s father met Brown in California nearly 40 years ago during his first round as governor. Brown greeted Xi when Xi visited Los Angeles in 2012 as China’s vice president. They spoke again in Rancho Mirage during a 2013 summit with President Obama at the Sunnylands estate and in Seattle two years later. California has worked with China on environmental issues for years, including zero-emissions vehicles and air pollution control. Chinese officials recently asked the state for guidance with a carbon emissions trading market they plan to launch this year. “China is making a substantial contribution, as are other places in the world, and we are stepping up the effort,” Brown said. The two met soon after the top U.S. diplomat in China resigned in protest of Trump’s Paris decision. Embassy spokeswoman Mary Beth Polley confirmed the departure of David Rank — a career diplomat since 1990 who was set to be replaced by Trump’s pick for ambassador — but said only that it was a personal decision. China is making a substantial contribution, as are other places in the world, and we are stepping up the effort. California Gov. Jerry Brown Their conversation also took place on the first day of an international clean energy forum in Beijing, where the Paris decision threatened to turn a mundane meeting of global energy ministers into a raucous debate about national sovereignty and renewed ambitions for an ailing planet. This is China’s first time hosting the Clean Energy Ministerial, which began amid the city’s characteristic sheen of haze. The eighth annual event resembles something between a trade show and a leadership conference. Clean tech companies camp out in over-lighted booths. Energy leaders swap ideas at lengthy panels. The U.S. organized the first ministerial in 2010, an attempt to salvage opportunities after the 2009 Copenhagen climate talks fell apart. San Francisco hosted the event last year. The attendance list now clearly illustrates America’s climate divide. On one side is the liberal Brown; on the other, Perry, a big-oil conservative and former Texas governor who supports the fossil fuel industry. The split gives China an opening to portray itself as an alternative global leader on green energy. “Hosting the ministerial is a big statement about where China has pledged its future and a kind of assertion of leadership,” said Isabel Hilton, a founder of Chinadialogue, a website that focuses on environmental issues. Perry arrived at the forum defensive. Trump’s decision lumped the U.S. with Syria and Nicaragua, the only other countries that were eligible to sign the Paris agreement but didn’t do so. China and the Obama administration negotiated the deal, and China has vowed to stay in it. U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry speaks during the carbon capture, utilization and storage event, on the sidelines of a clean energy conference in Beijing on June 6, 2017. (Andy Wong / AP) “We’re not stepping back and we haven’t created a void,” Perry told reporters on Monday in Tokyo en route to the meeting. “I hope China will step in and attempt to take the mantle away. It would be a good challenge for them.” The green push belies another truth: China is the leading emitter of greenhouse gases and the biggest global funder of new coal-powered projects. More than 60% of its energy use is tied to fossil fuels. But the nation has also become the largest investor in renewable energy, and the world’s biggest producer of solar power. It plans to pour $361 billion into clean energy by 2020. “They’ve realized that climate change is not just a burden; it can be turned into an opportunity,” said Xu Yuan, a climate change expert and professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. America’s green tech companies also see opportunity. “China’s economy is huge, their role in the world is huge, and they’re going to be leaders in this space by orders of magnitude,” said Jim Wunderman, chief executive of the Bay Area Council, an advocacy group for the region’s businesses, which helped host the ministerial last year and brought a delegation to Beijing during Brown’s visit. The governor’s presence here helps make meetings possible, Wunderman said. “He carries the flag for the state.” Meyers is a special correspondent. Times staff writer Jon Kaiman and researchers Nicole Liu and Gaochao Zhang in the Times’ Beijing bureau contributed to this report. Twitter: @jessicameyers Brown’s first stops in China are in cities that look a lot like California Gov. Jerry Brown, America’s unofficial climate change ambassador in the Trump era, heads to China Gov. Brown’s China road trip starts on a high note with new allies and pandas 4:19 p.m.: This article has been updated with background information. This article was originally posted at 10:40 a.m.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693722
__label__wiki	0.804593	0.804593	Your search found 49 Charities. By Charties No selections available chevron-single All By Geographical East of England (4) West of England (0) Yorkshire and the Humber (0) (49) results Displaying results 1 to 10 SortSort by A-ZZ-A Established in 1913 we have been championing the science of ecology ever since. Our vision is for nature and people to thrive in a world inspired by ecology. With 6.500 members – many of them world leaders in their field - in 125 countries we bring together ecologists across regional and national boundaries. SwindonUnited Kingdom The National Trust was founded in 1895 by three people committed to preserving our nation's precious heritage and open spaces. More than 120 years later, these values are still at the heart of everything we do. We strive to safeguard special places throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland and open them up for everyone to enjoy. The Natural History Museum welcomes over 4.5 million visitors each year to enjoy our collections and engaging displays, inspiring a love of our natural world. The Museum is also a global centre for scientific research, with 350 scientists running a range of initiatives that aim to solve the challenges facing our planet and humanity. Open Spaces Society Henley-on-ThamesUnited Kingdom At the Open Spaces Society, Britain’s oldest national conservation body, we have campaigned to protect commons, greens and paths for more than 150 years. All these are under threat in various ways including from neglect, illegal obstructions and the pressure of new developments. Any gift, large or small, makes a vital difference and enables us to defend the open spaces and paths which are some of our nation’s finest assets. Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) The SPAB was founded by William Morris in 1877 to campaign against threats to historic buildings. Today, it is the UK’s oldest and most expert building conservation charity. We still work to encourage a practical and sympathetic approach to the repair and maintenance of old buildings. WWF-UK WokingUnited Kingdom WWF is the world’s leading independent conservation organisation - a truly global network, working in more than 100 countries. We tackle the most serious conservation challenges facing the planet and strive to build a future in which people live in harmony with nature. That’s why we’re passionate about sharing the planet’s resources more sustainably, taking action on climate change and protecting endangered wildlife. AshburtonUnited Kingdom The Barn Owl Trust is a small charity working hard to conserve one of the most beautiful birds on earth. Anyone who has ever watched a Barn Owl hunting at dusk has surely been touched by the experience but in recent years these magical birds have become increasingly rare – and the reasons are all man-made. Bumblebee Conservation Trust StirlingUnited Kingdom The Bumblebee Conservation Trust was established because of serious concerns about the ‘plight of the bumblebee’. In the last 80 years our bumblebee populations have crashed. Two species have become nationally extinct and several others have declined dramatically. Bumblebees are familiar and much-loved insects that pollinate our crops and wildflowers, so people are rightly worried. C B Dennis British Beekeepers’ Research Trust St AlbansUnited Kingdom Bees are vital to our future and for a healthy planet, but currently face many threats. The purpose of the Trust is to support research and to encourage young scientists through the provision of grants for projects that benefit bees and beekeeping in Britain. Funding studentships is particularly effective as these not only add to our knowledge of honey bee biology but also enable talented young people to become the bee scientists of the future. CPRE, the countryside charity CPRE is the countryside charity that campaigns to promote, enhance and protect the countryside for everyone’s benefit, wherever they live. We are proud of our past and continue to be inspired by the same principles and passions that motivated our founders almost a century ago. With a local CPRE in every county, we work with communities, businesses and government to find positive and lasting ways to help the countryside thrive - today and for generations to come.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693723
__label__wiki	0.79793	0.79793	2017 Worlds Women’s 800: Can Ajee Wilson Snap Caster Semenya’s Unbeaten Streak? 2017 IAAF World Track and Field Championships London August 4, 2017 to August 13, 2017 Olympic Stadium - London, England Considering she hasn’t lost an 800-meter race in almost two years, a world title for Caster Semenya in 2017 has seemed preordained for some time. And while that still may be the case — the 26-year-old enters Worlds riding an 18-race win streak in the 800 — her most recent race in Monaco showed that she may be vulnerable. In that race, Semenya went wire-to-wire to win in 1:55.27, a new personal best and the fastest time in the world since 2008, but was pushed all the way to the line by Olympic silver medalist Francine Niyonsaba and U.S. champ Ajee Wilson. Can anyone beat Semenya, who will be doubling back from the 1500 earlier in the championships? Or will she add another title to her growing pile of gold medals? Prelims: Thursday, August 10, 2:25 p.m. ET Semis: Friday, August 11, 2:35 p.m. ET Final: Sunday, August 13, 3:10 p.m. ET 2016 Olympic results 1. Caster Semenya, South Africa 1:55.28 2. Francine Niyonsaba, Burundi 1:56.49 3. Margaret Wambui, Kenya 1:56.89 4. Melissa Bishop, Canada 1:57.02 5. Joanna Jozwik, Poland 1:57.37 2017’s fastest performers (among women entered) 3. Ajee Wilson, USA 1:55.61 Ajee Wilson Tries to Make History Two years ago, when the Court of Arbitration for Sport announced it was suspending the IAAF’s hyperandrogenism guidelines, we suggested that the ruling could pave the way for Semenya and the other women believed to be hyperandrogenic to dominate the women’s 800. That is exactly what has happened. Semenya has not lost an 800 since September 2015, while Francine Niyonsaba, who, like Semenya, is believed to be hyperandrogenic, has either won or finished second behind Semenya in every one of her races save one — the 2017 Pre Classic, when she lost to Semenya and Margaret Wambui (another likely hyperandrogenic athlete). The 800 — traditionally one of the most topsy-turvy events in track and field — has become utterly predictable. Clearly the ruling has had a huge effect on the event, and that effect may continue into the future as many experts believe IAAF likely doesn’t have strong enough evidence on the effect of testosterone in women’s athletes to convince CAS to overturn the ruling. To us, that is absurd. All one has to do is look at how Semenya and Niyonsaba were running before the ruling in 2015 (neither could break 2:00) and after the ruling (both have run 1:55 and are utterly dominant) to see how much they benefit from having male levels of testosterone in their bodies due to the fact they are believed to have internal testes and not ovaries. As we head into Worlds, Semenya and Niyonsaba are once again favored to go 1-2, just as they did in Rio one year ago. But unlike last year, when we nailed 1-2-3 in our preview and correctly predicted that Semenya would crush everyone, the outcome is not a foregone conclusion. The reason for that is Ajee Wilson. After missing the spring while her positive test for zeranol was adjudicated (USADA ultimately ruled that Wilson was not at fault and she was not subjected to a ban), Wilson, who is still just 23 years old, has been on fire. The first sign was her 1:58.94 in the semis at USAs, followed two days later by a ridiculous negative-split 1:57.78 in the final. Wilson then won her first European race in Padua in 1:59.19 before heading to Monaco and giving Semenya and Niyonsaba all they can handle. The fact that Wilson was so close to the two women who have dominated the event the past two years was, on its own, a sign that she is capable of gold in London — which would be the first for an American woman at 800 meters since Madeline Manning in 1968. She was just .34 of a second behind Semenya, and while Semenya did gap her late, it doesn’t take much to flip the result — if Semenya runs a little worse, or Wilson runs a little better, the outcome could change. Of course, we should note that Semenya almost never has bad races and she strayed from her usual tactics in Monaco in order to chase a fast time. Normally, Semenya will allow someone else to lead early before making a big move to pull away in the final 200 meters, but in Monaco, she went out in 56.7 and led the entire way. Compare that to last year’s Olympic final in Rio, where Semenya ran a near-identical time to what she ran in Monaco in 2017 (1:55.28 in Rio vs. 1:55.27 in Monaco) but went out almost a second slower (57.59) and won by a much bigger margin (1.21 seconds) as she didn’t start to really push it until she moved into the lead late on the final turn. The good news for Wilson fans is that there’s reason to believe that she could have run faster in Monaco as well (and yes, we realize this sounds crazy considering she ran 1:55.61 and smashed the American record). But if you watch the final 200 meters of that race, you’ll see that Wilson runs the entire final turn in lane 2. Granted, there’s always a risk-reward at play in that scenario (had Wilson not gone wide, she risked Semenya and Niyonsaba running away from her) but if Wilson had been in the lead rather than Semenya, it’s not hard to envision a different outcome. Niyonsaba, obviously, should be able to challenge Semenya too. The one other woman who could be a threat is Margaret Wambui, the Olympic bronze medalist. Wambui has actually come closer than anyone to beating Semenya in an 800 since her win streak began as she finished just .10 behind her in Eugene in May. But Wambui was a well-beaten third in Oslo and she was awful in Monaco, finishing DFL in 2:02.13. Normally when an athlete runs that poorly, something is wrong. The question with Wambui is whether it was an isolated problem or a persistent one. Wambui went out faster than normal (57.3), so our guess is that she just overcooked it on the first lap and packed it in when she realized she wasn’t going to run fast. Expect her to challenge for the medals in London — apart from her Monaco disaster, only Semenya and Niyonsaba have beaten her since the start of the 2016 outdoor season. As well as the other women have been running, defeating Semenya remains a monumental task. Of the five global championships she has entered since bursting onto the scene in 2009, Semenya has won four of them (technically she finished second in 2011 and 2012 but champ Mariya Savinova has been stripped of both titles for doping). Only in 2015 was Semenya beaten, and even that was likely a result of years of medication artificially lowering her testosterone levels. She knows how to get it done at the major championships. But Semenya is also doubling for the first time in a major championship, and the 1500 is before the 800 (1500 is on days 1, 2 and 4; the 800 is on days 7, 8 and 10). The 800 final could potentially be Semenya’s sixth race in 10 days. How will she hold up? It’s certainly bold for Semenya to try the double this year. We get why she would want to consider it coming into the year as we imagine the 800 had almost become a bore for her, but she’s been challenged a lot more in 2017 than 2016. In 2017, she’s won her four DL races by an average of 0.33 of a second (.20, .59, .10. and .42). Last year, she won her four DL 800s before Rio by a lot more — by an average of 1.11 seconds (.91, 1.56, 1.10, .88). Can Anyone Else Medal? Canada’s Melissa Bishop was fourth in Rio last year, missing out on a medal by .13, and she was with Semenya, Niyonsaba and Wilson in Monaco until they began to separate over the final 125 meters. Bishop is the only other woman with a realistic shot at a medal, but her chances still aren’t great. Consider: last year in Rio, Bishop ran a near-perfect race, clocking a Canadian record of 1:57.02, and Wambui still ran her down for the bronze. In Monaco, Bishop was even better (1:57.01) but still got smoked in the final 100. Bishop took silver two years ago in Beijing and has only improved since then. Unfortunately for her, the women’s 800 is an entirely different event than it was in 2015. Even if Bishop knocks it out of the park and runs 1:56 in London, that still may not be enough for a medal. Of course, someone could always fall or trip so you never know. Belarus’ Marina Arzamasova is the defending champion (we don’t blame you if you forgot that) but she’s raced just two 800s this year, with an SB of 2:02.59 at the Pre Classic. She is not expected to be a factor. The only other women under 1:58 this year that we haven’t mentioned are Charlene Lipsey (1:57.38) and Eunice Sum (1:57.78). Sum was the world champ in 2013 and bronze medalist in 2015 and though she’s run a few good DL races (3rd Doha, 3rd Lausanne), she hasn’t shown the potential to threaten for a medal this year. Lipsey’s turnaround under coach Derek Thompson has been remarkable as she’s gone from never breaking 2:00 before this year to the 7th-fastest American ever. We’re not writing off Lipsey after one poor race in Monaco (8th in 2:01) as she’s been brilliant in 2017, but her training partner Wilson is clearly the superior runner and Wilson will have a hard enough time medalling. Lipsey has a good shot to make the final, but anything beyond that is a bonus. Of the three women on Team USA, Brenda Martinez is the only one with a global outdoor medal (bronze in ’13 that is slated to be bumped up to silver) and though she’s been overshadowed by Wilson lately, Martinez has been having her best season since she earned that medal in 2013. She ran 1:58.46 at USAs and followed that up with a 1:58.43 in Monaco, her two fastest times since ’13 and she’s shown great strength as well in running 4:03, 4:03 and 4:02 in her last three 1500s. Four years ago, this kind of stuff was good enough for a medal, but right now Martinez may only be the third-best American. LRC prediction: 1. Semenya 2. Niyonsaba 3. Wilson Yes, we’re running back the results from Monaco. Though Wilson showed in that race that Semenya and Niyonsaba are vulnerable, it should also be noted that she ran the race of her life and still couldn’t beat either of them. Semenya and Niyonsaba (in that order) have been too consistently dominant for us to bet against them in London. Of the “Big Three,” Wambui has looked the most vulnerable and even if she’s back to her normal self at Worlds after a stinker in London, Wilson is still capable of beating her. Against this field, that is likely good enough for a medal. And if Wilson does medal, she deserves a ton of props. After Semenya, Niyonsaba and Wambui started crushing everyone every time out, it would have been easy for an athlete like Wilson to pack it in and lose hope. Instead, she’s responded with the finest year of her career and is now in position to battle for a medal even with the CAS guidelines no longer in effect — something few could have seen coming a year ago. 2017 worlds w800 Who will win the women's 800 at 2017 Worlds? Francine Niyonsaba Ajee Wilson Margaret Wambui Melissa Bishop Where will Ajee Wilson finish in the women's 800 at 2017 Worlds? Does not make final Talk about the 800s on our fan forum / messageboard: MB: Official pre-race men’s and women’s 800 discussion thread – Can Semenya and Rudisha keep winning? LRC2017 IAAF World Track and Field Championships London Related event: 2017 IAAF World Track and Field Championships London Posted in: Previews, Mid-Distance, Women's Running, Professional, Distance, LRC, Events Tags: Caster Semenya, 800, Brenda Martinez, Ajee Wilson, Melissa Bishop, Charlene Lipsey, Margaret Wambui, 2017 World Championships, Francine Niyonsaba Doha DL Preview: A stacked women’s 3k, Bryce Hoppel takes on the world’s best miler, Conseslus Kipruto debuts and Faith Kipyegon drops down Rest of Rome Recap: Jemma Reekie Earns Revenge, & Elaine Thompson Is BACK Rome DL Preview: Jakob Ingebrigtsen Battles Jacob Kiplimo in 3K; Warholm’s Last Shot at WR in 2020? Zagreb Preview: Bryce Hoppel Returns To Action & An Aussie 1500 Showdown Is Set	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693726
__label__cc	0.70657	0.29343	New Jersey adopts mini-WARN Act Locke Lord LLP USA February 8 2008 New Jersey recently enacted a new law that imposes rigorous requirements on certain employers conducting mass layoffs or plant closures at New Jersey worksites. The Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act (the “New Jersey Act”), became effective on December 20, 2007, and requires employers to provide 60 days notice prior to any “mass layoff,” “transfer of operations,” or “termination of operations.” New Jersey joins an increasing number of states that have adopted state laws that are modeled after the federal Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification Act (“WARN”), 29 U.S.C. § 2101 et seq. Like the federal law, the New Jersey Act requires employers to give 60 days notice prior to any “plant closing” or “mass layoff.” Notice must be provided to (i) affected employees, (ii) any collective bargaining units at the establishment, (iii) the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, and (iv) the chief elected official of the municipality where the establishment is located. The notice must include: a statement of the number of employees whose employment will be terminated, the date on which the transfer or termination of operations or mass layoff will occur, and the date on which each termination of employment will occur; a statement of the reasons for the transfer or termination of operations or mass layoff; a statement and certain information regarding employment available to employees at any other establishment operated by the employer; a statement of any employee rights regarding wages, severance pay, benefits, pension, or other terms of employment as they relate to the termination of employment; a disclosure of the amount of severance pay that is payable as a penalty for failure to provide the required 60 days’ notice; a statement of the employees’ right to receive information, referral, and counseling from the Department of Labor and Workforce Development’s response team (discussed in the next section). The employer is required to provide the notice on a form to be developed by the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, which is required to be available by March 19, 2008. The New Jersey Act applies to “terminations” or “transfers” of operations that result in the permanent or temporary shut down of a single establishment, or one or more facilities or operating units within a single establishment, that results in the termination of employment of 50 or more fulltime employees during any 30-day period. The New Jersey Act, however, defines an “establishment” to exclude facilities that have not yet been operated by the employer for at least three years. A “mass layoff” is a reduction in force that is not the result of a transfer or termination of operations, but still results in the termination of employment at an establishment during any 30-day period of 500 or more fulltime employees, or 50 or more fulltime employees representing at least one-third of the fulltime employees at the establishment. Similar to WARN, the New Jersey Act provides a 90-day window for potentially aggregating two or more group terminations. There are some significant differences between the New Jersey Act and the federal WARN Act. The New Jersey Act provides far more significant penalties for failure to comply with the notice provisions. An employer who fails to provide an employee with 60 days notice is required to pay the employee a week’s worth of wages for each year the employee worked for the employer. This payment is in addition to any other severance pay that the employer is obligated to provide the employee. Moreover, the New Jersey Act does not expressly reduce the penalty for partial compliance. Another important difference is that, unlike the federal WARN Act, the New Jersey Act does not have exemptions for faltering or bankrupt businesses. Locke Lord LLP - Sheryl D. Hanley Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act Severance package Internal investigations - the three C’s – confidence. credibility. cost * Privacy and other issues presented by body cameras * Everyone’s nightmare: privacy and data breach risks * New FTC guidelines - “results may vary,” social media marketing and celebrity endorsements * Don’t let the bedbugs bite: what every employer should know * NJ Millville Dallas Act passed into law * New Jersey employers be forewarned: New Jersey mass layoffplant closing law enacted * The state of New Jersey enacts a state WARN Act counterpart * Proposed Regulations May Complicate Reductions in Force in China * - China Turbulent times: managing employee layoffs, terminations * - Canada Turbulent times: managing employee layoffs, terminations, and other cost reduction strategies * - Canada Marion Rich Director of Legal & Contractual Affairs British Constructional Steelwork Assoc Ltd "I have enjoyed receiving the Lexology newsfeeds over the last few months and in general find the articles of good quality and relevant. 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__label__wiki	0.911818	0.911818	September Drum Roll: Robert Shin Robert Shin ( December19, 1989) ,as one third of hard rock/ pop band VARNA, has brought a powerhouse backbone to their latest release, This Time, It's Personal. Aside from the critically acclaimed DIY band appearing on VANS Warped Tour 2014 and recent sponsorship deal with Cold Cocky Whiskey, Rob has always had an intent to be a drummer, beginning with a trip to the principals office after taping out beats on his desk in elementary school. Robert was raised in the Los Angeles suburbs of Simi Valley and survuved a turbulent childhood through the power of music. "I've learned to look at pain and welcome it instead of avoiding it. As pain leaves your body, guess what replaces it: SUCCESS. Lets get something out of it.I fell in love with drumming and the sound of it. I was in love." He continued his musical education in PIT program Musician's Institute in Hollywood. Here he played in various bands until answering an ad to join VARNA(formerly known as Living Eulogy) in October 2012. Rob has carved out a place for himself among rock's newest up and coming drummers. Influences include: Harvey Mason and Joey Jordinson September Drum Roll: Billy Brown Billy Brown (December 17, 1965) ,drummer of Alice Sweet Alice, is described by those that meet him as quiet and laid back. It is only when they see him behind the drums that they realize that this stick twirling madman is anything but quiet. Billy first became obsessed with music at the tender age of five years old and got his first set of drums at age twelve, after his mother grew tired of him beating the family recliner with screwdrivers while playing along with his Queen records. Billy started playing professionally after graduating high school and has been playing ever since. He is also a talented lyricist and has collaborated on several songs over the years. In addition to the drums, he also plays keyboards and guitar. He also wrote the score for an indie movie all in an effort to be a more rounded musician who looks to keep progressing and evolving into His influences include: Roger Taylor of Queen, Phil Collins, Neil Peart, and Jeff Porcaro September Drum Roll: Ken Lloyd Ken Lloyd ( May 13, 1984) from Camden, New Jersey, started playing drums in early grade school. After playing a couple years his parents bought him his first drum kit, at which time it was simply a hobby. When he moved back to North Carolina in 1998 he didn't have many friends in the beginning and spent many hours playing. then he heard the song that changed his life forever, "One" by Metallica. Hearing Lars playing the pounding double bass made him long to be able to do the same. When he entered highschool Ken made friends in bands of their own, and when one of the groups lost their drummer before a show he offered up his abilities. With only three weeks to learn the set, he was unsure of what he was doing, but went for it anyways. He was hooked. He played with the band for the next few years, but they disbanded after highschool. He then joined a thrashband, where he played many years and improved his skill, learning he could play at an impressive speed. After the thrashband broke up he joined a death metal band, which he found was great for his skills and talents, along with a great outlet for his ADHD. Nowadays Ken is part of three bands- Screaming By Me, Valence, and Harrowvex. He loves playing and makes it a regular part of his schedule, with practices most nights of the week and shows on the weekends. His influences include Mike Portnoy, Terry Bozzio, Tony Rowyster Jr. and Gene Krupa. September Drum Roll: Barry Kerch Barry Alan Kerch (August 7, 1976) is a professional musician who plays the drums (and other percussion instruments) in the hard rock band Shinedown. Along with lead vocalist Brent Smith, he is the only remaining original member of the band. Kerch is married (his wife's name is Lori), and he holds a Bachelors degree in anthropology from the University of Central Florida. He was part of the band program at the University of Central Florida where he was on the Marching Knights drum line. He is a member of the Eta Sigma chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi, the Mu Eta Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and was a founder of the local anthropology fraternity at the University of Central Florida. While attending UCF, he worked in the drum department of MARS Music. He also is a 1994 graduate of Rutherford High School in Panama City, Florida, where he was drum major of the band "The Pride". He is also an avid cook, and posts recipes on the Shinedown website. Kerch and Lori had their first child, Stella, in January 2011. Equiptment: Kerch now plays DDrum. Barry is using a Paladin Maple 7 piece kit in Inca Gold Sparkle with Nickel Plated Hardware. He also uses Pearl Hardware, Evans drumheads, Meinl Cymbals and Promark sticks. Kerch's drum sizes are: 22x14 bass drum 13x8 tom 18x16 floor tom 14x14 floor tom (left of hi-hat stand 14x7 Vintone Nickel Over Brass Snare Kerch uses Meinl cymbals, in order from left to right as of 2013: 20" Byzance Traditional Med Crash 20" Soundcaster Fusion Power Crash 15" Byzance Dark Hihats 22" Byzance Stadium Ride 20" Byzance Traditional Med Cras September Drum Roll: Danny Reilly Danny Reilly (December 19, 1976 ) from Fayetteville, North Carolina, is a lover of all kinds of music, but prefers playing thrash and death metal due to the complexity that can accompany these genres. Danny has been playing drums since he was 15, yet did not own a drum kit or play any instruments in school. He simply loved to pound on things and keep a good rhythm. He owned and purchased his first drum kit when he turned 20 years old. It was a vintage kit that eventually fell apart with time, all that is left is a 16” floor tom. From then, he purchased a 5 piece Tama Superstar drum kit, which he uses for practice now that he recently purchased his third kit which is a Gretsch 6 piece Ashwood kit, the kit he now plays on stage. Danny has played in 4 bands, all of which are metal bands, SouthforK, The River City Nightmare (version one which was more of a death and roll band), The River City Nightmare (version two which was more of a groove band). Both of these bands had different members, they only kept the name for both. The current band he plays in is Kurgan, a thrash deathmetal band with a feel of old school metal. Some of Danny's influencese include: Sepultura, Pantera, Slayer, Decapitated (old), Metallica (old), Megadeth, Goatwhore, Evile, Jungle Rot, Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin, Cannibal Corpse, Death, Igor Cavalera (Sepultura), Bill Ward (Black Sabbath), Vitek (Decapitated) and recently Zack Simmons (Goatwhore). Equptment: One vintage red 16” floor tom (which is memorabilia and not played anymore) Tama Superstar – 10” mounted tom, 12” mounted tom, 14” floor tom (which is also a mount tom) 22” kick drum Gretsch Ashwood – 8” mounted tom, 10” mounted tom, 12”mounted tom, 14” floor tom, 20” kick drum. 10” B8 Pro Sabian Splash Cymbal, 14” Zildjian Crash, 16”Sabian O Zone Crash, 18” Sabian B8 Pro Crash, German made 20” Avanti Ride, 20”Sabain AA Chinese and 14” Sabian B8 Pro Chinese. Evans Onyx Tom Heads are on hisTama Kit and though Remo heads are now on his Gretsch kit, they will eventually be switched to Evans coated heads. Danny prefer Evans Resonant heads for the bottom batter head, he finds them very easy to tune and that they hold tuning rather well. September Drum Roll: Derek Vautrinot Derek Vautrinot (March 6th 1989) from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, moved to Massachusetts at the age of 3. He started playing drums at 9 years old, took a year break and returned to teaching himself to play at 11. Derek is a part of two bands, Alyssa Marie and Shot Heard Around The World, and has been touring since the age of 17. Shot Heard Around The World has opened up for many national acts and festivals that have featured big names such as Killswitch Engage, Godsmack, Shadows Fall, We Came As Romans, Four Year Strong, Our Last Night, and more. Alyssa Marie has opened for national acts such as R.A. The Rugged Man, Pappoose, Kill Army, Terminology, and others. He has also developed strong standing relationships (NOT endorsements) with Dicenco's Drum Shop (Weymouth, MA) VATER Drumsticks (Holbrook, MA) and Zildjian Cymbals (Norwell, MA) over the years and has had to opportunity to do 5 photo/video shoots with Zildjian Cymbals. He was also featured on the front/back cover of the 2013/2014 Zildjian ear/accessories catalog and as the Zildjian Facebook cover photo and on the main page of Zildjians September Drum Roll: Holly Fucili Holly Fucili (September 27th, 1982) from Wallace, NC, is a self taught drummer, who, in addition to, plays guitar and bass by ear, as well as writes her own songs. Her influences include Fleetwood Mac, Bush, LIVE, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Cold, 10 Years, and A Perfect Circle. Holly started playing snare at the age of 10 in 6th grade band. She got her first drum kit, a seven piece TAMA, at the age of 12 and continued playing snare in marching and concert band throughout highschool, making it 7 years without anyone noticing she could not read music. Currently the drummer of Clarity For Ransom who formed in November 2011. Holly joined the line up after bassist Nic Martinez found her on a craigslist ad. The band has been playing gigs locally and opening for National Acts such as: Trapt, Saving Abel, Like A Storm, and and anandaand Smile Empty Soul. They just released a 4 song EP in April called "Follow", which was recorded and mixed by the band. You can also find Holly playing cajon drum with her trio group Formerly Jaded that she started early this year with her Clarity For Ransom singer Laura Lee White. Previous bands: I Forgott, RIFT, Loxstep, DownSide, Fall Victim, NeverForever, and Rhodestown. Equiptment: 5 piece Pearl Exports with Zildjian and Sabian cymbols September Drum Roll: Jimmy 'The Rev' Sullivan James Owen Sullivan (February 9, 1981 – December 28, 2009), more commonly known by his stage name The Rev (shortened version of The Reverend Tholomew Plague), was an American musician and songwriter, best known as the drummer and founding member for the American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold. The Rev was critically acclaimed for his work on Avenged Sevenfold albums, and contributed entire songs written by himself, such as Chapter Four, Afterlife and Almost Easy. He was also the lead vocalist/pianist in Pinkly Smooth, a side project where he was known by the name Rathead, with fellow Avenged Sevenfold member and childhood best friend, guitarist Synyster Gates, and he was the drummer for Suburban Legends from 1998 to 1999. Sullivan grew up and lived in Orange County, CA. He received his first pair of drum sticks at the age of five and own drum set at the age of ten. In high school, he started playing in bands. Before leaving to join Avenged Sevenfold as one of the band's founding members, Sullivan was the drummer for the third wave ska band Suburban Legends. At the age of twenty he recorded his first album with Avenged Sevenfold titled Sounding the Seventh Trumpet. His early influences included Frank Zappa and King Crimson. The Rev said in a Modern Drummer Magazine interview that "I was raised on that stuff as much as rock and metal." Later in life he was influenced by drummers Vinnie Paul, Mike Portnoy, Dave Lombardo, Lars Ulrich, Joey Jordison and Terry Bozzio. He even had a "visual influence", Tommy Lee, on which he commented that "I never thought I'd have one of those." Sullivan had a signature ability called 'the double-ride thing' or 'The Double Octopus', as the Rev called it, "just for lack of a better definition". 'The double-ride thing' is a technique that can be heard on tracks such as "Almost Easy", "Critical Acclaim", "Crossroads", and "Dancing Dead" in which Sullivan doubles up at a fast tempo between the double bass and ride cymbals. (Source: Wikipedia)	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693733
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__label__wiki	0.537946	0.537946	Marshall's Funeral Home Send Flowers for Patrick Patrick Joseph Hill May 31, 1954 ~ January 4, 2021 (age 66) Service times are in MST Patrick Joseph Hill passed away suddenly on January 4, 2021 @ 5:15 p.m., leaving behind a lot of loved ones, both family and friends. Patrick was raised by his grandma and grandpa, (late) Joe and Adelaide Hill, whom he called Dad and Mom. Throughout his life he was always fascinated by horses, animals, and the outdoors. He always worked and was committed to his work. He also enjoyed playing guitar and singing. Patrick had a great sense of humour. He married at the age of 18 to Philomene Hill, and they had 6 children, Teena, Cherie, Justin, Patricia, Debra and Crystal, who passed away at an early age. Patrick raised his 2 grandsons, Michael and Mitchell. Katherine, who Patrick was with for almost 30 years, helped him raise them as their own. Patrick remarried 5 years ago to Germaine, whom he loved dearly. They share a four year old son, Jamieson, and nine step-children. Patrick has 1 sister, Isabelle; 1 brother, Howard; and 1 late brother, Christopher Hill; who I am sure was waiting for him at the gates of Heaven. He was also raised with Larry Hill whom he took as a brother. We will always remember Dad as very strict but loving, and protective in all ways. We will forever remember his smile, his laughter, his jokes, will forever miss his presence. Patrick loved traveling, campfires and telling us the ways of life. Though we weren't all there every day of his life, we knew he loved us. He was and is still respected by very many. He loved all his grandchildren and had a nickname for each one: Micheal, Mitchell, Teanna, Peggy Sue, D.J., Tara, Coleton, Cora, Colemon, Lucas, Jaylin, Zach, Rocky, Shakira, Neveah, Justice, Lacy, Ruben, Taylor, Ocean, Taya, Nickita, and Joshua; his great grandchildren, Rosalee, Sophia, Estephania, Kayden, Patrick, and Maria. He also leaves behind with saddened hearts, numerous friends, nieces, nephews, and cousins. He left us so suddenly without a warning, and will be dearly missed. We know he is in heaven already smiling down at all of us. Help us to be strong enough to let you go. Thank you for being in our lives, for giving birth to us, for existing. Rest easy, and know you were loved by all your friends, family and children. So many memories of you, especially of your smile. Losing you is so hard, but we all know you are with all your loved ones in Heaven. You will never be forgotten, you are a real angel now. Love you. To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Patrick Joseph Hill, please visit our floral store. Onion Lake Log Church Onion Lake Onion Lake, SK S0M2E0 © 2021 Marshall's Funeral Home. All Rights Reserved. Funeral Home website by CFS & TA \| Terms of Use \| Privacy Policy	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693740
__label__wiki	0.715197	0.715197	Notable quotes from Harvard CAMBRIDGE — We trekked over to Harvard Stadium Wednesday to talk with some Crimson players as they prepare to open their season against San Diego on Saturday at noon. Here are a few notable quotes from sophomore quarterback Jake Smith, safety and captain Zach Miller, and wide receiver and kick and punt returner Justice Shelton-Mosley to the assembled reporters. Sophomore quarterback Jake Smith Q: Where are you this year as opposed to last in terms of your ownership of your role as a quarterback? JS: I'd say my confidence is at an all-time high right now. Last year I was kind of thrown in the fire, had to learn on the go. I think going through even the winter workouts, stepping into that leadership role up a little bit, spring ball, going through the offense all spring, getting reps there. And even summer, I was out here all summer getting reps. So just getting as many reps over however many months has really made me feel a lot more comfortable. Q: How do you think this offense is going to differ in 2018? JS: I think we just have so many weapons, whether it's on the perimeter or into the backfield. I think this team's just going to be very explosive. I think a lot more explosive than last year's offense, that's for sure. Q: Does anything jump out to you when you watch San Diego play? JS: They're a really physical and fast team. They flow to the ball well, and they're aggressive. I don't know, I'd just say sticking to our philosophy as an offense is what we're going to do. Safety and captain Zach Miller Q: What was it like being named captain? Was that something you expected? ZM: Never expected that I would be voted captain. You come out here, bust your butt every day, grind, work out with your boys, and I suffered a couple injuries, so I wasn't really thinking about it. Then, when they elected me, it was a huge honor, seeing that those guys respect me, look up to me to lead the team. The tradition of captain, there being only being one, is a lot. It's a lot of weight on my shoulders, but I'm happy to think those guys know I can handle it, and can lead them to a great season this year. Q: San Diego has already played a couple games and you still haven't yet. Is it sometimes frustrating to have to wait this long when you have to play a team like this? ZM: Absolutely. It can be very frustrating, just going against each other, but the goal is improving every day, just getting something out of every day, taking steps forward each and every day. And also it also helps, they have two games on us, we've also had three weeks to prep for them. So a little bit more preparation time, so when they come in, they've only had four, five days to prep for us, and we've been focusing on them since the beginning of preseason. Q: Seemed like going 5-5 last year left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths. For some teams, that may be a decent year, but for Harvard football, obviously not the standard you're used to. How much of a motivating factor has that been? ZM: I can't even state how much that has motivated us this season. From the second we left from Thanksgiving break, guys were grinding. I cant say enough about how much that has motivated this team. We've been working at it for nine months because we know the feeling of going 5-5. We know the feeling of seeing Yale walk off the field 9-1, beating us, winning the Ivy League championship. Put a sour taste in my mouth. We've had a sour taste in our mouth since then. So we've been working with that in the back of our mind every day. Wide receiver and kick and punt returner Justice Shelton-Mosley Q: I don't know if you were able to watch the Patriots game this weekend, but there was a big muffed punt . . . JSM: Yeah, I didn't get a chance to watch that. Q: Do you think sometimes people overlook the difficulty of that role on the team, and how much it can actually change the game? JSM: Yeah, I think maybe a little bit. It's just one of those things you've got to be in someone else's shoes to really know what's going on. So fumbling a punt is really, really easy. Just first, it's being back there by yourself. No one else is back there. All eyes are on you. That can be a tough part. And then you get a punt, it's all the way up in the sky, being able to judge it can be really tough, too. So, definitely, it can be overlooked and how tough it is sometimes. Q: You're playing San Diego this week. With the weather around here, do you wish you were in San Diego this week? JSM: Oh, yeah. Even to be back in San Diego, to be close to home. It's an eight-hour drive from home (Shelton-Mosley is from Sacramento). It would be great to have all my family there, but being here is not too bad, too. Q: I know you haven't played anybody yet, but have you seen any progression from how your offense is different from last year? JSM: It's a big difference from last year: a lot more physical, a lot tougher. It starts with the guys up front. We have some seniors, some guys with experience. And then Jake's coming back after a year of experience. You can't just put a price tag on experience. It's made it a huge difference with our offense, from the wideouts, to the line, to the QBs, to the running backs. So it will be a different offense this year.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693742
__label__wiki	0.65562	0.65562	Sectionsfor Persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia) We're welcoming patients at Mayo Clinic See our safety precautions in response to COVID-19. Request an appointment. Persistent depressive disorder, also called dysthymia (dis-THIE-me-uh), is a continuous long-term (chronic) form of depression. You may lose interest in normal daily activities, feel hopeless, lack productivity, and have low self-esteem and an overall feeling of inadequacy. These feelings last for years and may significantly interfere with your relationships, school, work and daily activities. If you have persistent depressive disorder, you may find it hard to be upbeat even on happy occasions — you may be described as having a gloomy personality, constantly complaining or incapable of having fun. Though persistent depressive disorder is not as severe as major depression, your current depressed mood may be mild, moderate or severe. Because of the chronic nature of persistent depressive disorder, coping with depression symptoms can be challenging, but a combination of talk therapy (psychotherapy) and medication can be effective in treating this condition. Persistent depressive disorder symptoms usually come and go over a period of years, and their intensity can change over time. But typically symptoms don't disappear for more than two months at a time. In addition, major depression episodes may occur before or during persistent depressive disorder — this is sometimes called double depression. Symptoms of persistent depressive disorder can cause significant impairment and may include: Loss of interest in daily activities Sadness, emptiness or feeling down Tiredness and lack of energy Low self-esteem, self-criticism or feeling incapable Trouble concentrating and trouble making decisions Irritability or excessive anger Decreased activity, effectiveness and productivity Avoidance of social activities Feelings of guilt and worries over the past Poor appetite or overeating In children, symptoms of persistent depressive disorder may include depressed mood and irritability. Because these feelings have gone on for such a long time, you may think they'll always be part of your life. But if you have any symptoms of persistent depressive disorder, seek medical help. Talk to your primary care doctor about your symptoms. Or seek help directly from a mental health professional. If you're reluctant to see a mental health professional, reach out to someone else who may be able to help guide you to treatment, whether it's a friend or loved one, a teacher, a faith leader, or someone else you trust. If you think you may hurt yourself or attempt suicide, call 911 or your local emergency number immediately. The exact cause of persistent depressive disorder isn't known. As with major depression, it may involve more than one cause, such as: Biological differences. People with persistent depressive disorder may have physical changes in their brains. The significance of these changes is still uncertain, but they may eventually help pinpoint causes. Brain chemistry. Neurotransmitters are naturally occurring brain chemicals that likely play a role in depression. Recent research indicates that changes in the function and effect of these neurotransmitters and how they interact with neurocircuits involved in maintaining mood stability may play a significant role in depression and its treatment. Inherited traits. Persistent depressive disorder appears to be more common in people whose blood relatives also have the condition. Researchers are trying to find genes that may be involved in causing depression. Life events. As with major depression, traumatic events such as the loss of a loved one, financial problems or a high level of stress can trigger persistent depressive disorder in some people Persistent depressive disorder often begins early — in childhood, the teen years or young adult life — and is chronic. Certain factors appear to increase the risk of developing or triggering persistent depressive disorder, including: Having a first-degree relative with major depressive disorder or other depressive disorders Traumatic or stressful life events, such as the loss of a loved one or financial problems Personality traits that include negativity, such as low self-esteem and being too dependent, self-critical or pessimistic History of other mental health disorders, such as a personality disorder Conditions that may be linked with persistent depressive disorder include: Reduced quality of life Major depression, anxiety disorders and other mood disorders Relationship difficulties and family conflicts School and work problems and decreased productivity Chronic pain and general medical illnesses Suicidal thoughts or behavior Personality disorders or other mental health disorders There's no sure way to prevent persistent depressive disorder. Because it often starts in childhood or during the teenage years, identifying children at risk of the condition may help them get early treatment. Strategies that may help ward off symptoms include the following: Take steps to control stress, to increase your resilience and to boost your self-esteem. Reach out to family and friends, especially in times of crisis, to help you weather rough spells. Get treatment at the earliest sign of a problem to help prevent symptoms from worsening. Consider getting long-term maintenance treatment to help prevent a relapse of symptoms. Persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia). In: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-5. 5th ed. Arlington, Va.: American Psychiatric Association; 2013. http://www.psychiatryonline.org. Accessed Oct. 12, 2015. Kriston L, et al. Efficacy and acceptability of acute treatments for persistent depressive disorder: A network meta-analysis. Depression and Anxiety. 2014;31:621. AskMayoExpert. 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__label__cc	0.664732	0.335268	Top Ten To Do For 2016 By Brett Healy - December 30, 2015 MacIver Top Ten, Top 10, Wisconsin, Year in Review MacIver News Service \| December 29, 2015 [Madison, Wisc…] Wisconsin caps off 2015 with a long list of new reforms on the books, including a right-to-work law, partial prevailing wage reform, an ongoing property tax freeze, and long-sought entitlement reform, among others. As we enter 2016, we’re sure to see more proposals and more debate. While by no means a comprehensive list, the MacIver Institute believes these ten items should be priorities for lawmakers in Wisconsin and Washington in the new year. 10. Independent And Comprehensive Audit of UW and All Related Entities Lawmakers discovered in 2013 that in the midst of rapid tuition increases, the UW System had accumulated large cash balances in a variety of accounts. A 2015 report revealed only a slight dip in those balances. Clearly, the UW is charging Wisconsinites more than is needed. And how can we have an honest debate about the mission of the UW System and the proper amount of state aid for the system if we do not have accurate and complete financial information about the UW and all of its assets? The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) and the UW Foundation (UWF) have grown their assets to $6 billion dollars in recent years. A MacIver analysis found, in 2014 alone, UWF’s excess revenue and WARF’s excess revenue was $293.37 million. $293 million is very close to the original budget proposal to reduce aid by $300 million. Yet, this excess revenue of nearly $300 million is not part of the budget discussion. How is that honest budgeting? How is that fair to taxpayers? While system president Ray Cross assured lawmakers recently that the slush fund controversy has been corrected, 2016 should nonetheless bring a comprehensive audit of the UW System by an independent firm. 9. Complete Prevailing Wage Reforms The legislature took a swing at fully repealing prevailing wage in 2015, and missed. But the 2015-2017 budget did eliminate prevailing wage for local projects. However, projects funded at the state level are still subject to the arbitrary but mandatory wage rule. The taxpayer savings would be huge. A six-mile ATV trail in Vilas county was initially going to cost $30,000 per mile to construct, but when the prevailing wage determination was made the price shot up to $55,000 per mile, an 83% increase paid for by taxpayers. In Waukesha County, a road flagger – those people that stand on the side of the road and turn signs to signal traffic – makes $23.55 an hour and collects $20.03 in benefits per hour. In annual salary terms, that’s a combined compensation package of $90,000 a year. 90k for a flagger? C’mon! For comparison, the median annual household income in Wisconsin is $52,413. Another local example was illustrative in 2015: In 2016, lawmakers should take another swing at full repeal so taxpayers can reap the full savings of eliminating this antiquated and unnecessary law once and for all. For taxpayers to reap the full benefits of eliminating such antiquated laws, lawmakers in Washington should consider a full repeal at the federal level, too. 8. Self-Funded Insurance Switch Changing the state’s health insurance to a self-funded model could save taxpayers millions and help the state avert a multimillion-dollar “Cadillac Tax” and Market Share Fee under Obamacare. Thanks, President Obama. However, the Joint Finance Committee recently gave itself oversight of any such proposals. In 2016, the fox should step away from the henhouse. It’s time for the legislature take a serious look at this important cost-saving measure. 7. Tax Reform: Flatter, Fairer Wisconsin has made strides in the past five years flattening its tax code and helping make the state a more attractive place to live and do business, but the work isn’t nearly done. As we’ve reported, a millionaire living just across the border in Illinois actually pays a lower tax rate than most Wisconsinites, even those Wisconsinites who make substantially less than a million dollars. That’s because Illinois has a flat tax. Equally important, an overhaul of the federal tax code is the best way to make America competitive again. While a major tax code overhaul has little chance of surviving President Obama’s veto stamp, it should be a continuing priority for lawmakers in Washington. 6. Get Smart on Crime by Reforming Juvenile Justice A blanket rule shuffling 17-year-old nonviolent offenders into adult court is wasting taxpayer money and leading to increased recidivism rates. In 2015, the governor’s Juvenile Justice Commission recommended ending that practice. In New York and New Jersey, youths tried before an adult court were 85 percent more likely to be re-arrested for violent crimes and 44 percent more likely to be re-arrested for felony property crimes in comparison to those tried before a juvenile court. Clearly, it is time to look for a better way of doing things. In 2016, it’s time to get smart on crime. 5. Eliminate Wisconsin’s Price Police Once and For All Since 1939, Wisconsinites have been over-paying for everything from gasoline to groceries. The Unfair Sales Act, or minimum markup law, is a relic of the Great Depression that no longer has a place in the Internet era. The minimum markup law is rarely enforced, but when it is, it has been used as method of keeping competition from entering markets, and preventing customers from reaping the benefits of lower prices that competition creates. Polling also shows strong support for repeal, especially when Wisconsinites are educated about the law. Despite this, some powerful interests still oppose its repeal. Will 2016 finally be the year we give Wisconsin’s Price Police the pink slip? 4. Cut Wasteful Spending Wisconsin’s fiscal climate has improved considerably in the past several years, but there’s always more work to do. Elected officials committed to fiscal conservatism should continue to focus on finding and cutting unnecessary and abusive spending. But two common-sense reforms in particular should be considered in the upcoming year. In 2016, the state legislature should consider zero-base budgeting reform to end the opportunities for accounting gimmicks and force every agency to justify every dollar it requests from taxpayers in each budget. The referendum reform bill proposed by Sen. Duey Stroebel (R-Saukville) is another important reform to stop abuses of the referendum process by limiting the frequency of referenda and requiring them to be on days with other major elections, when voter turnout is highest. These are just two examples of how the state could target and cut wasteful spending at the state and local levels – which should always be a top priority for those interested in working on behalf of taxpayers. 3. Tell The President: His Costly Power Plan is Bad for America Americans should bemoan any blanket regulations concocted by faceless bureaucrats in Washington, but Wisconsinites in particular will pay a high price if Obama’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) moves forward. Wisconsin joined 25 other states in suing the federal government to combat the scheme. That’s a good start, and important for prosperity in Wisconsin. A MacIver Institute and Beacon Hill study found that the CPP would cost Wisconsinites 21,000 jobs and $1.82 billion in disposable income by 2030. It also found that the CPP would cause the average household electric bill to jump $225 and would cost the average Wisconsin factory an extra $105,094 per month if implemented. The CPP would increase electricity rates in Wisconsin by up to 29 percent, according to modeling studies conducted by Wisconsin’s Public Service Commission. The lawsuit is currently Wisconsin’s best chance to stop the CPP in its tracks – in 2016, lawmakers and attorneys general should keep the heat on in the fight against economic ruin and bureaucratic overreach. 2. Repeal the (Un)Affordable Care Act The continuing failures of Obamacare have kept us busy at the MacIver Institute. In 2016, it will cost Wisconsinites more money, offer fewer choices, and continue to bloat the federal debt. That means repealing Obamacare is a key to achieving the MacIver Institute’s top priority for 2016… 1. Rein in the Federal Debt While the cataclysmic budget deficits of $1.5 trillion a year are a thing of the past, the federal budget was still $439 billion in the hole in fiscal year 2015. Years of runaway spending has put the federal debt at about $18.8 trillion, with about $2.32 billion being added each day. The federal government spent $402,435,356,075.49 on interest alone in 2015, so in effect, the United States is borrowing money to pay the interest on its debt. Imagine how many more useful things there would be to do with an extra $402 billion a year. The top priority for lawmakers at all levels of government in 2016 is to take serious steps to reduce spending and rein in the national debt.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693746
__label__wiki	0.501741	0.501741	California governor rejects student ID bill over fear that schools might refer to pro-life centers By Cassy Fiano-Chesser \| October 16, 2019 , 01:40pm Earlier this year, a new bill was introduced to the California legislature which raised concerns that 7th through 12th-grade students would be given sexual and reproductive health information directly from a Planned Parenthood hotline. The assemblyman who introduced the bill, Jesse Gabriel, had been endorsed by Planned Parenthood, and he received thousands of dollars for his campaign. Surprisingly, the bill has been vetoed by Governor Gavin Newsom — but it’s his reasoning for vetoing it that’s truly shocking. According to Newsom, he rejected the bill because it didn’t promote abortion enough. Explaining in his veto letter that he supported a similar bill requiring domestic violence hotlines to be placed on student ID cards, he said investigating local reproductive health care agencies was too much of a “burden” for schools. Why? Because some of these agencies might not be willing to commit or promote abortion. “There are many agencies across this state that refuse to give women information about all of their reproductive health care options, and I am not persuaded that schools have the appropriate expertise to decide which of these organizations they should direct their students to,” he wrote. READ: California now requires public universities to provide the abortion pill In other words, schools that may decide to choose a health care organization which does not promote abortion would be wrong — and that shouldn’t be allowed. “While we are grateful for Governor Newsom’s veto of AB 624, it is painfully obvious his primary concern was not the safety of girls and the lives of their unborn children,” Jonathan Keller, president of the California Family Council, said in a press release. “Rather, he feared some brave school officials might direct students to pro-life pregnancy resource centers instead of big abortion and their allies. Despite this temporary policy victory, it is shocking to see Governor Newsom so blatantly advocate censoring any voices who dissent from the prevailing abortion-first mentality of Planned Parenthood.” This kind of pro-abortion extremism from Governor Newsom is not unexpected; he recently signed into law a bill that mandates all California state colleges and universities provide medication abortions to students on campus. This is despite the fact that several universities expressed concerns about abortion on campus, including cost and liability. At least 24 women are confirmed to have died because of the abortion pill, and others frequently need surgery afterwards when the abortion fails. These actions by Newsom show that, as is usual for many pro-abortion politicians, promoting abortion is more important to them than women’s health and safety.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693747
__label__wiki	0.916234	0.916234	San Marino City Los Angeles County, California San Marino City Hall is located at 2200 Huntington Drive, San Marino, CA 91108. Phone: 626‑300‑0700. The City of San Marino is located in an area that was once inhabited by the Gabrielifio Indians. Their village was located where Huntington School is today. Principal portions of San Marino were once part of a Mexican Land Grant in 1830 to Sefiora Victoria Reid. Prior to the Grant, the area was part of the San Gabriel Mission. El Molino Viejo, or "the Old Mill," was the gristmill for the Mission. In 1852, Sefiora Reid deeded her ranch to Don Benito Wilson. Later, Wilson deeded the main portion to J. de Barth Shorb. The Shorb Estate, consisting of 600 acres of predominantly citrus trees, was known as the San Marino Ranch. Mr. Shorb named his California ranch after his grandfather's plantation in Maryland, which in tum had been named for the Republic of San Marino in southern Europe. In 1903, Henry E. Huntington purchased the Shorb Estate. Huntington was a noted railroad builder, land developer, and collector of art, rare books and manuscripts, and botanical species. He envisioned the area surrounding his own estate (now The Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanical Gardens) as a fine, single-family community. Residential development evolved from this vision in the decades to follow. The Wilson and Patton ranchos were two other significant ranchos. There were other smaller ranchos including Stoneman, White, and Rose. San Marino was incorporated as a general law city in 1913 taking its name from that of the Shorb, now Huntington, estate. The City Seal represents Mount Titano located in the European Republic of San Marino. The nickname for the high school—the Titans—is also derived from Mount Titano. The first mayor was George S. Patton, father of General George S. Patton, Jr., who gained renown in World War II. The land for City Hall was donated to the City by Huntington in 1913. The building was completed in phases from 1920 to 1923. Additional land was donated by the Huntington Estate in 1928, for a total of two and a half acres. The first school was opened at the corner of Monterey Road, then called Calle de Lopez, and Oak Knoll in 1917. School was held in the Old Mayberry Home at this location. A prominent feature of San Marino during the first part of the twentieth century was the Pacific Electric Railway. Its Sierra Madre line ran seventeen miles from Los Angeles to Sierra Madre, serving San Marino at stops in between. In the early days, development of communities followed the electric railway system, which was heavily subsidized by developers to encourage access to the new communities they promoted. The Sierra Madre Line to San Marino carried about 300,000 revenue passengers annually prior to World War II, reaching a peak in 1944 of 625,000 revenue passengers. Use declined rapidly following the war, as gas and rubber shortages ended and people made more use of their automobiles for transportation. As the popularity of the automobile increased, access was available to developments not adjacent to the electric railways. The resulting increased need for improved streets and roads led to plans in the 1930s for a system of motorways to connect major communities, the first being the Arroyo Seco in 1939, which is now the Pasadena Freeway. Motor coaches, or buses, became increasingly used, replacing streetcars and other fixed rail transit, because of their flexibility in serving more areas. Increased auto use, combined with the withdrawal of developer subsidies for electric railways as development built out, resulted in the continuing decline of the Pacific Electric. Ultimately the railway was sold to the government, which determined it was obsolete and discontinued it in 1961. The development pattern that exists today in San Marino reflects this change in transportation mode, yet is consistent with the pattern that has existed since its inception. Huntington Drive and Sierra Madre Boulevard continue to be principal arterials for movement within and through San Marino, although they are no longer rail routes. Today, landscaped medians have replaced the railroad rights of way along these major automobile corridors. During the 1940s and 1950s, home development continued in the eastern neighborhoods of the City. The City was largely developed by the end of this period. City of San Marino, California, General Plan: History, 2003, www.ci.san-marino.ca.us, accessed August, 2015. Nearby Towns: Alhambra City • San Gabriel City • South Pasadena City •	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693748
__label__wiki	0.932221	0.932221	Favorites Win Long Island Congressional Primaries Most Democratic and Republican party nominees won their spot on November ballots in five primary races Tuesday across four of the five congressional districts representing Long Island, except one race that was too close to call. In the First Congressional District on the East End, New York State Sen. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) beat ex-Securities and Exchange Commission attorney George Demos, who was running for this third try to challenge U.S. Rep. Tim Bishop (D-Southampton), by a margin of 62 to 38 percent, according to the Suffolk elections board’s unofficial results. In the Fourth Congressional District in south/central Nassau County, District Attorney Kathleen Rice beat Legis. Kevan Abrahams (D-Freeport), the county’s legislative minority leader, in the race to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-Mineola), by a margin of 56 to 43 percent, according to the Nassau elections board’s unofficial results.Former legislative presiding officer Bruce Blakeman will face Rice in the general election after topping attorney Frank Scaturro 56 to 44 percent, the initial tally shows. Too close to call after midnight Wednesday were the results of the Third Congressional District Republican primary race, in which financial adviser Stephen Labate–who, like Zeldin, is an Iraq War veteran–challenged GOP nominee attorney Grant Lally. The combined unofficial results between the Nassau, Suffolk and New York City elections boards show Lally ahead by about 100 votes, which could trigger a recount. The winner will go on to face U.S. Rep. Steve Israel (D-Huntington) in the general elections. And in the sliver of the Fifth Congressional District that represents parts of southwestern Nassau, U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-Queens) trounced challenger Joseph Marthone, who sought a rematch. Previous articleYes at NYCB Theatre at Westbury (Preview) Next articleFloral Park Man Arrested for Fatal Hit-and-run	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693749
__label__wiki	0.871826	0.871826	LI Past & Present Perry Como: The Man Who Invented Casual Annie Wilkinson Perry Como during rehearsal in 1961. World-Telegram photo by Walter Albertin. What made him successful? Was it dazzling special effects? Booty-shaking dance routines? Ear-splitting guitar riffs? No, it was the warm, relaxed manner of the man Bing Crosby dubbed “the man who invented casual.” With his soft and inviting baritone, wearing his unassuming cardigan, Perry Como characterized popular music of the 1940s and ’50s on radio and on the upstart medium of television. His easygoing style was the perfect antidote to the chaos of the World War II years, a show so popular that it racked up 15 years of awards. His program pioneered the musical variety format, broadcast live from Manhattan in black and white, with a chorus, full orchestra, and dancers, as well as sought-after guest singers and musicians. After each broadcast, the famous yet low-key crooner would headed back from the studio to Sands Point, his beloved home for 25 years. It was his sanctuary: As he said, “The world that fussed over Perry Como never made it through the front door.” Unlike many, he didn’t hone his craft through lessons and classes. He developed his style while working in an unrelated field — as a singing barber. CROON AND A HAIRCUT He was one of 13 children of Italian immigrants, born in 1912 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. His father was a tin plate factory worker who loved to sing and somehow scraped together enough money to give his son Pierino Ronald Como instruction in organ and baritone horn. Young Perry learned to read music and played with Italian street bands. By the time he was 11, he was working in a barber shop, earning 50 cents an hour and singing as he swept. He’d cut the coal miners’ hair and serenade grooms of wedding parties with romantic songs. He had his own shop by his mid-teens and figured he’d have a career as a barber. But his customers and family persuaded him to become a professional singer. A TREMENDOUS CAREER He quit barbering and hit the road with big bands. His wife Roselle, whom he had married after meeting at a hometown picnic in 1933, was a major supporter. By wartime 1941, Como was performing Copacabana gigs, riding the subway home to their small Long Island City apartment in the wee hours. He recalled that he wasn’t always successful: “…There were some rough times when I thought I’d quit [show] business. Roselle always stood by me.” In 1943, RCA Victor Records signed him to what would become a 50-year contract. His first hit record, “Long Ago and Far Away,” a radio series, and a string of million-selling recordings followed; he even beat Frank Sinatra to be named second in Billboard magazine’s annual poll. Disc jockeys called him “Mr. Jukebox.” He perfected ballads like “Till the End of Time” and “It’s Impossible.” The New York Times’ television critic John J. O’Connor compared his personality “to a marvelous hot toddy on a cold and blustery evening.” But audiences also loved his novelty hits like “Hot Diggity,” and “Papa Loves Mambo.” Como made his television debut in 1948 on The Chesterfield Supper Club, sponsored by the tobacco company. By 1950, the highest-rated shows were variety programs like Ed Sullivan’s Toast of the Town. The Perry Como Show and Perry Como’s Kraft Music Hall cemented Como’s popularity, despite the runaway success of rock ’n’ roll in the 1950s. Yet he remained humble, once saying, “For the amount of talent I had — and I couldn’t dance, act, or tell a joke — I enjoyed a tremendous career.” In 1946, the Comos and their children settled in Sands Point near Port Washington on Long Island’s North Shore. He was active at Our Lady of Fatima Roman Catholic Church, supported St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn, shopped in Port stores, headlined a free high school concert, and drove his gray Caddy, license plate number PC-42, around town. In 1962 his show broadcast live from the Sands Point Golf Club with legends Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, and Gary Player golfing for the cameras. In the 1970s the Comos moved to Florida, but he maintained a Great Neck office and visited LI often. His 1976 Westbury Music Fair concert at age 64 drew high praise from John Wilson, a former New York Times jazz and pop-music critic: “Although his movements consist of little more than an occasional hand gesture or a subtle rhythmic switching of a foot, he conveys a sense of vitality and involvement merely though the glimmer in his eyes and a little lifting quirk in his smile.” The people of Port never forgot their approachable neighbor. After his passing at age 88 in 2001, Main Street was renamed “Perry Como Avenue” during Pride in Port week. Previous articleBank of America Donates $200,000 to Life’s WORC Next articleNew Shop Small Scavenger Hunt Offers Prizes For Small Business Saturday Shoppers Annie Wilkinson is an award-winning associate editor of the Long Island Press. The New York Times and Los Angeles Times have run her features and cover stories. This New Yorker Was The First Woman To Run For U.S. Vice President White Christmas Composer Irving Berlin’s Time at Camp Upton The Story of Long Island’s True First Thanksgiving Long Island Has Highest Covid-19 Positivity Rate in New York	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693750
__label__wiki	0.66032	0.66032	MHTF Blog › Countdown to 2015: New Report Documents Progress Towards MDG4 & 5 in 75 Countries Guest post contributed by our colleagues at the Countdown to 2015 initiative Since 1990, annual maternal deaths have declined by almost one half and the deaths of young children have declined from 12 million to 7.6 million in 2010. Some of the world’s poorest countries have achieved spectacular progress in reducing child deaths. Rates of child mortality in many African countries have been dropping twice as fast in recent years as during the 1990s. In Botswana, Egypt, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda and the United Republic of Tanzania, the rate of decline was on average 5 percent or more a year between 2000 and 2010. Similar progress has been seen in reducing maternal deaths, although in fewer developing countries: Equatorial Guinea, Nepal, and Vietnam have each cut maternal deaths by 75 percent. But all the news is not good. Every two minutes, somewhere in the world, a woman dies from complications of pregnancy and her newborn baby’s chances of survival are very poor. For every woman who dies, an additional 20-30 suffer significant and sometimes lifelong problems, as a result of their pregnancy. In these same two minutes nearly 30 young children die of disease and illness that could have been prevented or effectively treated. Many countries, especially in Africa and South Asia, are not making progress. Of the 75 countries with the highest burden of maternal and child mortality, 25 have made insufficient or no progress in reducing maternal deaths and 13 show no progress in reducing the number of young children who die. Progress on maternal, newborn and child health, in the 75 highest-burden countries, most in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, where more than 95 percent of all maternal and child deaths occur, has been laid out in a new 220-page report, Building a Future for Women and Children, which is published by the Countdown to 2015 initiative. The report is authored by a global collaboration of academics and professionals from Johns Hopkins University, the Aga Khan University, the University of Pelotas in Brazil, Harvard University, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UNICEF, the World Health Organization, UNFPA, Family Care International, and Save the Children. The secretariat of the Countdown to 2015 initiative is based at The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health. “The Countdown report shows the who, what, where — and most importantly the why — of maternal, newborn, and child survival,” says Zulfiqar Bhutta, M.D., PhD, of Aga Khan University, Pakistan, who is the co-chair of Countdown and an author of the report. “It offers a clear, consistent report card that countries, advocates, and donors can use to hold each other — and themselves — accountable for real, measurable progress.” The report assesses the progress that the 75 highest-burden countries are making towards achieving UN Millennium Development Goals 4 & 5 (MDGs). These MDGs call for reducing maternal deaths by three-quarters and the deaths of children under 5 by two-thirds, both by 2015 compared to 1990 levels. Countdown to 2015 reports were first published in 2005 to track the progress in the highest-burden countries, to identify knowledge gaps, and to promote accountability at global and national levels for improving maternal and child survival. Since then, massive global attention and resources have been focused on Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5. In 2010, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon launched a Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, an effort that has generated $40 billion in commitments to meet key goals supporting women’s and children’s health. These goals include more trained midwives, greater access to contraceptives and skilled delivery care, better nutrition, prevention of infectious diseases and stronger community education. Notably, 44 of the world’s poorest countries — among them Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Burundi, and Nepal — have now joined the Every Woman, Every Child effort, which takes forward the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health. This brings the total number of partners in this joint effort to 220, with low-income countries committing nearly $11 billion of their own limited resources. The Countdown reports help to hold governments and donors accountable for fulfilling their commitments to the Global Strategy, and it will be a key input to the first report to the Secretary General in September 2012 from the independent Expert Review Group, set up following the launch of the report of the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health, ‘Keeping Promises, Measuring Results’. The release of the Countdown 2012 Report coincides with a two-day forum to chart a course toward the end of preventable child deaths, taking place June 14-15 in Washington, DC. The governments of the United States, India, and Ethiopia, in collaboration with UNICEF, will convene this Child Survival Call to Action. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will attend. Following in July, the UK government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will hold a summit to emphasize the need for greater attention to family planning. In September, the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, will issue an update on the impact of his Every Woman Every Child effort. Key findings of the new report On reducing maternal deaths: Annual maternal deaths are down by 47 percent over the past two decades. Nine Countdown countries are on track to meet their 2015 MDG 5 goal by reducing the maternal mortality rate by 75 percent. But more than a third of the 75 Countdown countries have made little, if any progress. On reducing deaths of children under age 5: Twenty-three Countdown countries are expected to achieve MDG 4. But 13 countries have made no progress in reducing child deaths. Forty percent of child deaths occur during the first month of life and most of these deaths are preventable through better nutrition and access to health services before, during and immediately after childbirth. Complications due to preterm birth are the leading cause of newborn deaths and the second leading cause of death in children under 5. More than 10 percent of all babies are born too soon. Preterm births are rising, instead of declining. Inadequate nutrition is a crisis in most Countdown countries, contributing to more than one-third of child deaths under 5 and one-fifth of maternal deaths. In most of these countries, more than one-third of the children are stunted, a condition especially common among the poorest populations where children are small because of a lack of good nutrition. Short maternal stature, often a result of stunting in childhood, and micronutrient deficiencies place pregnant women at greater risk for complications and low birth weight babies. Forty Countdown countries allocate less than 10 percent of total government spending to health. Fifty-three of the 75 Countdown countries face a severe shortage of health workers. Countries including Ghana, Malawi, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Tanzania have implemented innovative policies to hire, retain and motivate skilled health workers. Learn more about the new report here. Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInReddit CATEGORIESCATEGORIES: Contributor Posts Maternal Health	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693754
__label__wiki	0.9769	0.9769	Xavien Howard Named 2021 Pro Bowl Starter The NFL Pro Bowl teams were announced Monday night with Dolphins cornerback Xavien Howard earning a starting spot on the AFC squad. It's the second Pro Bowl in Howard's career, who leads the NFL with nine interceptions. He played in the game following the 2018 season after a seven interception season that year. To go along his nine interceptions in 2020, Howard forced a fumble in Sunday's win over the Patriots, making it 10 takeaways that he's played a role in. Howard also has 17 passes defensed, which is tied for second in the NFL. If Howard can pull down one more interception over the final two games of the season, he will tie a franchise record that has stood since 1967 (cornerback Dick Westmoreland). On the season, Howard is allowing a completion rate of just 50.6 percent and an opposing passer rating of just 51.8, ranking third and second among cornerbacks with at least 50 pass targets, respectively. "'X' has had a great year," Dolphins Head Coach Brian Flores said. "He's played well week after week after week, but he doesn't do it alone. He's got teammates – he'll be the first person to say that." The Blitz: Xavien Howard Joins Sam Madison Territory Howard Nabs Sixth Interception, Tied for League Lead Top News: Xavien Howard Headed To The Pro Bowl Howard's latest interception, a one-handed, Odell Beckham-style snag in front of Kansas City's Tyreek Hill, was perhaps his best. Chiefs Head Coach Andy Reid certainly thought so. "He's playing as well as any corner in the National Football League," Reid said. "That catch he made was phenomenal. If you underthrow it an inch … he can go up and do what he did." Howard continues to amaze his teammates with his propensity for taking the football away. "It's funny, you can't see my facial expression in the helmet but I'm like, 'this freaking guy again?'" Dolphins cornerback Byron Jones said with a laugh. "It's really cool to be on the other side … Hopefully we can keep this going and get the wins, but the kid is definitely on a roll." Howard's career interception total is up to 21 with all of those picks coming between 2017 and present day. The two-time Pro Bowler leads the NFL in interceptions over that span, demonstrating a rare ability to find the football. "I don't know if there's a special skill to it," Dolphins defensive tackle Zach Sieler said. "I think it's his hustle. He's always hustling to be around the ball and be where he needs to be." Howard becomes the 43rd player in franchise history with multiple Pro Bowl selections.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0072.json.gz/line693755

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