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El Partido Socialista (Partito Socialista) (PS) fue un pequeño partido político italiano socialdemócrata.

Fue fundado en 1996 por un grupo de exmiembros del Partido Socialista Italiano (PSI) que habían sido aliados cercanos de Bettino Craxi, líder del PSI desde 1976 hasta 1992. Entre ellos Ugo Intini, Enrico Manca, Gianni De Michelis, Fabrizio Cicchitto, Margherita Boniver, Donato Robilotta y Bobo Craxi. Algunos de ellos habían participado activamente en el Partido Socialista Reformista (PSR) entre 1994 a 1996. En las elecciones generales de 1996 el PS, a través de la lista "Socialistas por la Libertad", obtuvo un 0,5% para la Cámara de Diputados y un 0,9% para el Senado (2,8% en Campania, 3,3% en Calabria y 1,5% en Sicilia).

En 1997 Intini fue sustituido como secretario por De Michelis, que representaba al ala derecha del partido y quería formar una alianza con Forza Italia de Silvio Berlusconi. Esto llevó a que en 1998 el partido se dividiera: Intini y sus seguidores se unieron a Socialistas Italianos (SI) y otros ex-socialistas para crear Socialistas Demócratas Italianos (SDI). Bobo Craxi, junto con su Liga Socialista (LS), otra escisión del PS, se unió a la SDI para las elecciones al Parlamento Europeo de 1999. A raíz de esas elecciones, Cicchitto y Boniver se unieron a FI, que se había convertido en la casa principal de muchos ex-socialistas.

En 2001 el PS se fusionó con la Liga Socialista y otros grupos escindidos de la SDI para formar el Nuevo PSI (NPSI). De Michelis fue elegido secretario del nuevo partido desde su fundación, que fue visto por muchos como la continuación directa del PS.

El partido tuvo particular fuerza en Sicilia, con su sección regional, el Partido Socialista Siciliano (PSS), dirigida por Filippo Fiorino. En las elecciones regionales de Sicilia de 1996 el partido obtuvo el 1,9% de los votos y tres diputados regionales.  En las elecciones al Parlamento Europeo de 1999 PSS obtuvo un 1,5% de los votos en Sicilia.

Partidos políticos desaparecidos de Italia
Partidos políticos fundados en 1996
Partidos políticos disueltos  en 2001
Partidos socialistas o socialdemócratas desaparecidos

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I had a great conversation with Mike Bowbeer who is the Vice President of City Service Paving. He's been winning work in his niche for many many decades.
I asked him for three pieces of advice for estimators in the next 90 days to maximize their impact. And he's he said to focus on these three things.
Make sure that the work that you're bidding is in an area where you know that your company will be able to execute productively and safely and profitably.
Don't just send out a bid and hope. Pick up the phone send an email. Follow up, follow up, follow up. You might be surprised a client could say "Hey I was just thinking about you. We're gonna be starting that job…" in a week or a month or something like that.
You're in sales if you're an estimator and sales are cyclical, they go up and they go and they go down. But if you focus on your work effort and your work ethic then you can know that over the long term you'll be success successful. So don't get discouraged when things aren't going your way. So those are three things to focus on in the next 90 days.
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Engineers working in Dubai can now register with Dubai Municipality (DM) on their own, without the need to go through a licensed engineering or contracting company.
Called the 'Madmoon' initiative, Dubai Municipality's newly launched programme allows individual engineers to register with the Dubai Register of Engineering Practitioners and qualify for the test.
The initiative was introduced in support of the municipality's aim to develop engineering work in Dubai and improving the efficiency of engineers, according to UAE state news agency, WAM.
The committee for registering and licensing engineering consultants and contractors in Dubai has been reviewing applications for the registration of engineers in the Register of Engineering Practitioners, WAM added, quoting Layali Abdulrahman Al Mulla, director of the Buildings Department in Dubai Municipality.
According to Al Mulla, this is on top of DM reviewing applications for the qualifying and licensing of engineering consultancy offices from new local contracting companies and branches of foreign companies in the emirate.
Last month, Dubai Municipality unveiled a new system for registering contractors, allowing contractors to design industrial buildings and supervise implementation without needing to appoint a consultancy office. DM's Buildings Department said it launched the system to cut red tape and "simplify procedures for industrial building owners and customers".


When Starbucks (aka Fourbucks) changes their logo, the brand world treats it like celebrity magazines treat Lindsay Lohan's latest court date. Big news. See Makeover for a Mermaid today in the Times. I will tell you that in spite of the expert/guru talk about all the reasons the change (dropping the name Starbucks and "allowing the mermaid to come out of the circle") is brilliant for the brand, it won't sell a single additional cup of coffee. Not one.
The real strategic reason was buried in the comments by their CEO who said: "the company is thinking beyond coffee." There you have it. Howard Schultz has decided that if the company is going to sell frozen turkey dinners, or golf equipment, it can't say "coffee" any more.
This type of literal corporate thinking is classic brand extension foolishness and will cause Jack Trout and Al Ries to roll over in their graves–and they're not even dead yet! When the Starbucks brand thinks it no longer ought to stand for coffee–look out.
KFC is one of your more famous examples. They wanted their customers to suddenly forget what the FC meant, and think they might someday get garden salads, pizza and god knows what else at their favorite chicken joint. But rarely can happen that way. By the time your brand is that big, famous and beloved, it belongs to your customers and resides in their heads, not yours. And they don't like change. KFC has retreated to some extent to its brand reality–THE CHICKEN PLACE–the brand they created and gave to the world. They're not going to spend another billion dollars changing their signage back from KFC. But it says "Kentucky Fried Chicken" on every associate's cap and uniform shirt.
Anyway– for years, if you went to any marketing conference, 50% of the speakers talked about two golden brands ad nauseum: Starbucks and Nike. They stopped fawning over Starbucks when their star faded quite suddenly in the last few years. Turns out they weren't the all knowing brand geniuses after all. What they mainly did was create a great, distinctive product at the right time, then they just showed up–on every other street corner in America. Didn't need to advertise or even have a tagline in those days. Now they do. So what brand strategy have they unveiled? Now that they have competition from everyone from McDonalds to 7-11, it seems like "coffee" no longer needs to be on the logo. We can all wonder where the Starbucks wunderkinds will guide the brand now.
In terms of the public look of the company, it marks a visual change. But what does it really signify? Click here to check out why we think it's a good thing.


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Quick Thought About the Confederate Flag Controversy in Lexington
Published: September 2, 2011 34 comments
Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia
I've taken a little time this morning to check out the responses surrounding the Confederate flag in Lexington, Virginia. I am struck by the over-the-top/vitriolic nature of much of what is being posted around the Internet. Blanket generalizations are being issued about what motivated the city council as well as emotional statements promising never to return to the city. It seems to boil down to the belief that Southern heritage has been violated or the rights of southerners have somehow been cruelly violated. What are we to make of this?
These people seem to forget that Lexington is a southern town and its residents, who I assume we must include within that same category, arrived at a decision as to how they wish their community to be represented or how they wish their tax dollars to be used. Southerners have spoken loud and clear through their councilmen. Even more interesting is the fact that this is the clearest example of local government in action. No despotic power from the outside forced this decision on the good folks of Lexington. For a group of people who consistently go into fits and seizures about the dangers of federal power and the tyrant Lincoln you would think that they would celebrate democracy in action on the most local level.
It comes down to the question of who is and who is not a Southerner. I see Civil War memory at work here on a number of levels.
Andy Hall Sep 2, 2011 @ 7:46
It's pretty simple, really. Being a Southerner is a matter of birth, residence or (perhaps) lineage. Being a Southron is a matter of ideology.
Rob Baker Sep 2, 2011 @ 7:58
The irrational responses are seemingly an indicator of two things:
one, that the radical ideology people share of being 'southern' and allegiance to all its symbols is simply idiotic; and two, that way we remember the civil war, and memorialize it, is very much alive. Which is good news for us I guess.
Personally I do not see nor understand the out cry of 'rights being trampled' or the need to preserve the idea of those who fought and died under the battle flag. For one, I am pretty sure the city ordinance states, no flags, with the exception of these. That in my mind limits and unifies all flag poles in the city. Personal displays are still open to interpretation if I am not mistaken. So what is the serious nature of this ordinance and its attack on "heritage?"
Kevin Levin Sep 2, 2011 @ 8:06
If I remember correctly flags from both VMI and W&L are also banned. This is just another example of the victim mentality that certain folks assume when they feel as if their heritage rights are being trampled upon. This is much ado about nothing, but it does highlight the fact that southerners have never operated under one cultural/political perspective. This is a modern example of "The South v. The South."
I would definitely agree with that aspect. I was in Lexington about a month ago, and I really don't remember Confederate flags flow in the first place, minus around Lee's sculpture inside the church. This ideology of things being trampled on is absolutely ridiculous.
Andy Hall Sep 2, 2011 @ 10:19
I believe the Confederate flags were only displayed on the lampposts on Lexington's Lee-Jackson celebration every January to begin with. It was not, AFAIK, an ongoing thing to begin with.
Kevin Levin Sep 2, 2011 @ 10:23
Sherree Sep 3, 2011 @ 3:12
"This is a modern example of 'The South v. The South.'""
It has been that way for a very long time–the South v the South–and probably will be that way for a still even longer time, the "v" part of the equation involving white southerner v white southerner; black southerner v black southerner; white southerner v black southerner, etc. And then, of course, there is white southerner v "transplanted Yankee". I don't know. The future looks dismal. 🙂
On a brighter note–what a marriage made in heaven: the SCV and the ACLU.
Enjoying the blog.
Nice to hear from you, Sherree and nice to know you are still reading. 🙂
Brooks Simpson Sep 2, 2011 @ 9:33
I am amused that many of the very same people who complain about outside interference in community affairs are outsiders attempting to influence community affairs.
Dick Dienstag Sep 2, 2011 @ 11:19
There is irony in defending the Confederati, given their persistently rude and inconsiderate misbehavior toward many of their fellow citizens, to say nothing of the fantastic and absurd (per)versions of history they spew, but freedom of expression is either for all of us or else for none of us. Whether or not this new law will stand up in the courts remains to be seen, but the concept of censorship scares me more than anything any of those people could possibly say.
Well, the ACLU apparently believes that there is a case here so we shall see. For now what is important to remember is that no one is being prevented from displaying the Confederate flag in Lexington.
Ray O'Hara Sep 2, 2011 @ 19:36
seeing how as has been pointed out it only applies to publicly owned flagstaffs/poles I can't see what grounds ACLU has to dispute the ordinance.
ACLU has in the past taken an anti-Stars and Bars -CBF stance as this link shows
http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice/aclu-argues-louisiana-supreme-court-confederate-flag-outside-courthouse-taints-capita
Billy Bearden Sep 3, 2011 @ 12:23
I have been quite involved in this whole affair for many months, and then traveled from Georgia to Lexington to participate with the Save the Flags crowd, ending up speaking before the city council.
Here are a few facts FYI
The flags in question under attack were specifically the 2nd National Stainless Banner, Robert E Lee's HQ Flag, and the 1861 Va state flag. These flags were chosen and flown only once – Lee/Jackson week 2011
Lexington is under a Federal Order not to ban or bar Confederate Flags from public locations since 1993. This being the case, it was decided that other flags – VMI, WLU, and even Triads flags would be sacrificed so as not to 'appear' discriminatory.
Lexington City Manager Jon Ellistad said in the media there were no complaints on the flags.. Later a dear sweet old woman had a TV microphone placed before her on January 10th and she complained her "feelings were embarrassed" but invoked her position as a Professor at Washington and Lee by saying she was "embarrassed before her students" because of what the town was allowing. Her name is Anna Brodsky.
Professor Brodsky then drew up a "ban the flag" petition, in which she got 350 signators of WLU staff and students to join her. She presented this petition to the city council and THAT is the sole impetus behind the final events of September 1st.
FOIA to examine the Brodsky petition shows that more than 70% of the students who signed are not of Lexington, but itenerant students from across the country.
Professor Brodsky herself is a teacher of German and Russian, has written extensively on Russian homosexuality, and neither she, her husband WLU Professor Kevin Crotty or thier daughter is from Lexington nor Virginia.
Between Prof Brodsky and Lexington Mayor Elrod, various groups like SPLC, ActBlue, Obama, and Progressive Party show up next to thier names when a cursory internet search is done.
The hearing on the vote because of said petition was extended twice, finally settling on Sept 1st, so as to allow the student-signers to return from summer break. Prof Brodsky herself decided to avoid the Sept 1st hearing.
There was a counter petition signed, offered but of course ignored to oppose the flag ban. It contained 1,670 names NEARLY 5 times the amount to ban the flags. Surprisingly (not!) more than 350 signers were from either Lexington, Buena Vista, or Rockbridge County, or were in fact Lex business owners.
Roanoke news stated there were 300 flag rally participants, there were only approx 50 pro-ban students in the audience of the city council.
The fix was in from the get go. Everything y'all were reading in the media was window dressing at the slaughter house.
Now comes the lawsuit…
I fail to see what this has to do with the way the vote went in the council. Most of the articles indicated that the majority of residents who showed up to the meeting voiced their concerns about the flag's display on city property. Are you suggesting that W&L students were allowed to speak at the meeting? That is the first I've heard of this.
There were 3 clipboards for speakers to sign up , 1 for 'locals' 1 for surrounding areas like Buena Vista and Rockbridge Co, and the last one for 'outsiders' like me. They drew from those lists in that order.
While I cannot say exactly who was from where, the first couple of rows looked exactly like college types. Perhaps WLU journalism and other pro-ban supporting students (young early20's and while warped on any facts of history, were well read grammatically)
Kevin – don't believe everything you read in the media.
I certainly don't, but you have yet to make the case that W&L students were allowed to speak. If you are going to make the claim than it is up to you to make the case.
I don't recall saying they spoke, just that it was moved to Sept 1st to allow them convenience to sit in on the meeting since most signers were not of Lexington.
And lest we get all lost in the "Southrons" (R) vs yankee carpetbagging interlopers, this entire affair was at the behest of a 350 name petition resulting from 'Embarrassed feelings'
It seemed to be implied in your comment. Thank you for the clarification. It still comes down to the fact that the residents of Lexington spoke out on this issue. I think that is called local self-government.
My prepared remarks given to Lexington City Council:
Mayor, City Council members, thank you for allowing me to address you this evening.
My name is Billy Bearden. I reside in Carrollton Georgia.
I come before you tonight to speak against the proposed city ordinance designed to ban the use
of all flags being flown from pole standards except the current United States and Virginia State flags, due to a single complaint of 'embarrassed feelings' arising from the Lee – Jackson Day this past January.
I understand thru various media articles and via conversations with those most intimately involved with this important issue
it boils down to the old adage "To cut off one's nose to spite one's face". It seems to me to be short sighted, discriminatory, and goes against common decency of mutual respect for diversity.
What got my attention on this matter is the following January 10th quote from a Mrs Anna Brodsky, who invoked her position as a Professor at Washington and Lee University :
"I understand the flags are to hang there for a whole week. It is certainly too much and frankly it's causing me an embarrassment, I teach young people at Washington and Lee and I'm embarrassed before my students that our town allows such a thing to happen for so long,"
No, I am not from Lexington, but it appears that the originator of the flags complaint, Professor Anna Brodsky, isn't either. I am a 'military brat' born in Newport News, raised in Hampton and married in Williamsburg. My Father was career US Army, and between active and civil service, gave 48 years of his life for his Country.
My father joined the fight in World War 2, served in Korea and Viet Nam, then retired and went back to teach young soldiers logistics. Both my parents passed away in 2003 and are buried together in Arlington National Cemetery.
I have found that I too, have some dogs in this Flag Fight here in Lexington. My parents now rest in what used to be Robert E Lee's yard, now the most sacred of US Military burial grounds in the world. I can trace lineage between my family and that of Thomas Jonathan Jackson that makes he and I cousins. My Dad, as Robert E. Lee and Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson were Veterans who served their country with distinction and honor, and all 3 were dedicated teachers for the betterment of American youth.
In my humble opinion, this effort to assuage the "embarrassed feelings" of Professor Brodsky is a deliberate slap in the face to intentionally disrespect all American Veterans. The flags in question – General Lee's Headquarter's Flag and the Stainless Banner (aka Jackson Flag) are just as solid and meaningful to the military service of the men who made them famous – Robert E. Lee and Thomas Stonewall Jackson on Lee/Jackson Day in the home of thier final resting place as is the granite marker my parents rest under in Arlington.
The United States Congress bestowed equal rights and recognition enjoyed by Union Veterans to Confederate Veterans in 1958. The United States also bestowed a Congressional Gold Medal on the last 2 surviving Confederate Veterans. The United States Army has named many military bases for Confederate leaders, including Fort Lee. The United States Navy named 2 submarines for Confederate heroes – USS Robert E Lee and USS Stonewall Jackson.
The woman with 'embarrassed feelings' seeks to bite the hand that feeds her. She works at an institution made famous by the same man whose symbols she seeks to ban. Her field of expertise is apparently all things Russian. We would all do well to remember that the Russian Communists perfected the banning of symbols, the eradication of opposing ideas, and the censorship of thoughts not compatible with the Red Party Line. I am not making assertions she is in any way a Communist, however I am saying her statements and actions will result in the same outcome if her personal demand is met.
Robert Edward Lee, Thomas Stonewall Jackson, and my father were American Veterans. This attack on the symbols of Lee and Jackson is for me the same as if Mrs Brodsky went to my parents marker in Arlington and smashed it with a sledgehammer. I would never sit still for such a hateful bigotted attack, which has lead me to this place in this hour.
I pray you on the Lexington City Council will help us stop her bigotted attack and defend the sacred honor of ALL American Veterans.
Thank you for sharing this with all of us.
Rob Sep 3, 2011 @ 13:42
I am also trying to understand the issue though. You can still have Flag Day and everything else. What is so specifically detrimental to warrant a reaction of this magnitude?
The dominoes – they be a tumblin'
Just from a Virginia standpoint Rob, can you not sense a planned organized attack ?
Amherst County BOS Chair Leon Parrish meets behind closed doors and mandates without council approval of the council the seal of said be stripped of it's nearly 50 year old picture of the CBF of ANV. No public notice nor hearings all0wed.
Boy Scouts change name of Robert E Lee council
NCAA "Dixie Division" name dropped
State song removed
State flag salute attacked
ANVCBF removed from pole next to chair where Lee took command of ANV in old Chambers
Va National Guard forced to remove CBF from logo
and on and on and on…..
Rob Sep 4, 2011 @ 6:24
No I can't. I think it is an irrational action, followed an irrational reaction.
That's OK Rob, I figured as much, but hey – I'll leave the lights on for you if you ever want to come home to truth from the dark
That's cute. Instead of response, it's insult. The basic fact is the structures you are wishing to 'publicly display your heritage on' are city owned. Meaning that if the community is paying the taxes that maintain said pole, then they should not have to pay for your display. So again I take back my statement, rational action, followed by irrational reaction is more appropriate. If I was the descendant of a slave, I do not think I would want the symbol of your heritage to be flown in my face either.
Rob Baker Sep 4, 2011 @ 20:41
Kevin, I thought you would like to know that in the shadows of the Lexington event, there have also been developments with the Confederate Battle Flag's display along the Interstate system in Georgia. I wrote about here with links to the Atlanta Journal's original post. http://www.historicstruggle.com/2011/09/unfurl-flag-boys.html
I have heard about it, but I only have so much patience for Confederate flag disputes. Thanks for passing along the link.
Rudy York Jan 20, 2012 @ 5:04
FYI… There are NO southerners on Lexington City Council.
What does that mean? Are we suggesting that only certain people who live in Lexington count as "southerners"? Let me guess, they have to have lived there for a certain amount of time. If so, what arbitrary date would you like to attach to it?
Ray O'Hara Jan 20, 2012 @ 6:34
Not being accepted as 'one of us" is a common trait shared by much of the country.
You can move to Maine and after 25 years you'll still be referred to as "from away".
On the Massachusetts islands, the locals will never accept you. not that they will be rude or shunning, you'll just always be an outsider.
You are new to Boston, but you are called a Bostonian, you're here, that's enough to be one of us. We are used to people from all over moving in in more rural areas they aren't used to a more mobile population.
I live in a neighborhood with many long time residents, but also immigrants from Ireland, Italy and Brazil and many young couples starting families. all are accepted as being one of us.
Judith McParland Jul 11, 2014 @ 8:13
Obviously none of the contributors so far have ever taken part in the activities in Lexington on Lee Jackson day. Banning the flags from Lee Chapel is silly. They are pieces of cloth, no more, no less, and anyone who honors Robert E. Lee for the man he was knows that. No one MARCHES on the grounds of W & L. The parade leaves Stonewall Jackson's grave and ends at VMI where the participants walk the short distance to Lee Chapel. Prayers are said, hymns are sung, and a speaker solidifies the opinions of the attendees as to the integrity, decency and the upstanding moral conduct of R. E. Lee. A short verse of Dixie is sung. No plots to secede from the union, nor march into Pennsylvania and take over. No treason is plotted, and no one is urged to do or say anything to offend anyone.
But this action by the University seems to indicate that even though they exist only because R. E. Lee agreed to become their President after the war and saved the school from total ruin by raising funds and urging young men to seek an education, they are quite willing to throw that aside because 9 students are "offended" by some pieces of cloth. How long will it be before this 9, or another 9 are offended by Lee and his family being interred beneath the chapel? Will they bring in a crew to tear down the horrible concrete crypt and toss the bodies out onto the road? What happens when these 9 or another 9 think Lee's name should be abandoned and all things concerning him destroyed? Actually, abandoning the Lee name might be a good thing since the powers that be don't deserve it, And perhaps they might suggest that these 9 take some history lessons, since their views on R. E. Lee and slavery are not even close to fact.
I hate to break the news to Lexington but without Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, why in the world would anyone want to do more than ride through on their way to somewhere interesting? Lousy restaurants and overpriced boutiques can be found anywhere. And lest some or any who read this think I am a disgruntled southern supporter of the late Confederacy just seething with resentment at the treatment of those who honor their forebearers, sorry. I am a Northern gal, born and bred, although I do come from the South Shore of Long Island and had a Federal soldier in the family.
Kevin Levin Jul 11, 2014 @ 8:17
Banning the flags from Lee Chapel is silly.
Confederate flags are not being banned on campus. In fact, the university is going to display original Confederate flags inside Lee Chapel. You are unnecessarily going off the deep end with this comment. I suggest reading the list of student demands and the president's response. Thanks for your comment.
I have read the statement and I do not think I am going off the deep end. The 9 students demanded and the 9 students got. Their history is skewed. They are offended. So am I.
The 9 students demanded and the 9 students got.
That is as simplistic a reading as I've seen, but you are entitled to it. Thanks for the comments.
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NUCLEAR PLANT The Energy Commission's secretary-general says he stands firm on supporting the plant's construction, but is willing to talk with residents of Kungliao
By Chiu Yu-Tzu / STAFF REPORTER
Officials from the Ministry of Economic Affairs' Energy Com-mission said yesterday they would be willing to communicate with the residents of Kungliao township (貢寮鄉), Taipei County, where the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant is located, in order to convey their support for the plant.
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Chen said that his stance in favor of the project would not change, although some alternatives to nuclear energy might be workable.
Chen said he told Control Yuan members during questioning that it was the Executive Yuan, rather than the Ministry of Economic Affairs, which had issued the official document halting the project.
Chen said that he supported the project because adopting nuclear energy was not dangerous. Last year, Chen said, he tried to persuade Minister of Economic Affairs Lin Hsin-yi (林信義) to continue the project, but failed. Due to his differences with Lin, Chen said, he hoped to be transferred to another post.
"My decision has been made. It will not be influenced by the explanation given by the grand justices," Chen said.
Chen presented a letter to Lin on Nov. 21 last year asking for a transfer, citing "eye problems" as his main reason for the request.
Responding to Chen's remarks yesterday, anti-nuclear residents in Kungliao told the Taipei Times that they would refuse to communicate with Chen.
"We won't talk to a nuclear energy fanatic like Chen. We prefer to debate with him in public to counterbalance what energy officials always say," said Wu Wen-tung (吳文通), an anti-nuclear activist in Kungliao.
Wu said that he was disappointed at Chen's reluctance to cooperate with Lin in order to develop new strategies in the energy sectors.
Wu said that political figures involved in the controversy, including Premier Chang Chun-hsiung (張俊雄) and Legislative Yuan Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平), should visit Kungliao to listen to the true voice of the residents.
"Why did Lin decide to scrap the plant? Because he visited Kungliao, listened to us, and considered the issue in accordance with his conscience," Wu said, adding that political figures of opposition parties should give Lin a chance to try out new energy strategies.


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According to the latest startup news, Raleigh startup has created an AI-based system to fight against the early stage of Alzheimer's disease. This system will be used for collecting data and offering advice on the treatment of this disease.
The company developed the MEND—metabolic enhancement for neuro-degeneration—protocol, which is used in partnership with other mental health care providers at Carolina Partners throughout their 27 locations in the state.
Cofounders of uMethod Health, CEO Vik Chandra, and chief technology officer John Walker are making use of AI system that combines the latest research in this field with information about a patient's medical history, lifestyle, genetics, demographics, and bloodwork for helping doctors figure out factors contributing to the patient's cognitive decline.
This system could also be used for helping doctors find a suitable treatment plan. Personalized action plans can include brain training video games, lifestyle changes, and proven medications.
Then, after three months, the outcomes are measured. Adjustments are made, and the process repeats.
This startup has previously worked with various doctors from the Cleveland Clinic, the Mount Sinai of Medicine, Cornell University and Duke University for developing its current artificial intelligence system. The startup has been successful in attracting crowd-funding investments from the Pink Ceiling which is an investment group in pharmaceutical for backing startups that are launched for helping women.
Rather than waiting for some miracle cure, the company aims to utilize all scientific information for creating a comprehensive personalized treatment for curing this cognitive disease.
The main vision of this company is to find solutions for complex, chronic diseases that need a new path of treatment.
Although the progress is slow and the AI startup has seen various developments with slowing or reversing Alzheimer's disease, having a positive plan of action also makes a big difference.
So far, the protocol has shown minor improvements in Alzheimer's patients which could be a great step towards finding a cure. "We have seen evidence that Alzheimer's patients actually can get better using this kind of treatment, like MEND Protocol," said Carolina Partners CEO Stan Monroe said.
Only time can tell whether Raleigh startup is headed towards one of the biggest discoveries, however, many believe that the first step towards finding a cure has definitely been taken.
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600 Cases of Violence Against Women in Three Months: Ministry of Women Affairs
"The majority of the cases are physical assault and family violence"
By Nabeela Ashrafi
Up to 600 cases of violence against the women have been reported in the country over the last three months, the Ministry of Women Affairs (MoWa) announced on Sunday.
The Ministry called on president Ashraf Ghani and his CEO Abdullah Abdullah to take action against the growing trend.
MoWa also insisted on the implementation of justice after Aziz Gul was brutally murdered by armed men after being accused of escaping from home.
The incident occured in Ghor province in northern Afghanistan. Human rights groups slammed the atrocity as a public trial.
MoWA has also asked the Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs to ban institutions that are engaged in promoting extremism and hatred against the women.
"Up to 600 cases of violence against women have been registered across the country. The majority of the cases are physical assault and family violence," Minister of Women Affairs Dilbar Nazari said.
"To eliminate violence, we need to expand cooperation between the ministries of Women Affairs, Hajj and Religious Affairs and of Education. The ministries need to outline comprehensive programs to this end," women rights activist Humaira Saqib said.
"Children at schools must be taught lessons about the fundamental rights of the girls and women," deputy minister of women, technical affairs and planning, Spozghmai Wardak said.
"The Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs is considering a number of programs to eliminate violence and extremism in the country. The start of training programs for mosque Imams demonstrates that commitment," deputy minister of Hajj and Religious Affaris DaiulHaq Abid said.
The ministry of women affairs has also launched nationwide lawsuits on behalf of victims of violence.
Women rights activist have asked the Afghan government, particularly judicial institutions, to ensure the arrest of a man who has rapped a 23 year-old woman named Suhaila.
Suhaila was allegedly raped in Yangi Qala village of Takhar province by an armed man, Rahimullah, a former police security guard of Takhar province Malik Tatar. Takhar women affairs department has said the man still serves as a local policeman.
"An individual apparently associated to powerful commanders has raped Suhaila, a 23 year-old girl, but the rapist is now living freely. I asked the security organs to arrest Rahimullah and refer him to the judicial institutions," Razm Ara Hawash, head of Takhar women affairs department said.
Takhar provincial council has, however, said that local government is unable to arrest the man.
Former police chief of Yangi Qala district told TOLOnews that Rahimullah and Suhaila have had telephonic conversations and that they were now legally married. "Rahimullah and Suhaila had friendly relations, their relations led to their marriage. They are happy now," he said.
"Lawbreakers create problems for the people in Takhar. In another recent incident, armed men associated with powerful individuals have raped a girl in Yangi Qala village. The criminals are moving about freely and there is no one to arrest them," a member of Takhar provincial council Mohammad Yaqoub Nazari said.
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The Anaheim Ducks could get 25 more years at the Honda Center, as the arena management company and the City of Anaheim are discussing a long-term renewal.
Honda Center is owned by the City of Anaheim, with the venue's management run by Anaheim Arena Management, LLC–an entity owned by Ducks owner Henry Samueli. The city and Anaheim Arena Management are discussing a 25-year extension of their arena management agreement, which would extend the Ducks' stay at the facility while potentially allowing for other developments to take place.
"We're excited to work with the city of Anaheim as we continue to plan for the future of the Anaheim Ducks and Honda Center. We are always looking to improve the fan experience and bring Anaheim the very best in world-class entertainment," said a statement released from Anaheim Arena Management.
A potential new arena management deal could stretch 25 more years, with five extensions that would total an additional 25 years, [city spokesman Mike] Lyster said. The two sides have discussed a provision that would put Samueli's company in charge of operations at ARTIC, the city-owned transit station that sits between the Honda Center and Angel Stadium.
Anaheim Arena Management already sells advertising on digital displays at ARTIC, Lyster said, and the new deal could allow it to put up a large electronic sign that would have helped shrink the station's operating deficit but was never built.
Finally, Lyster said, a new deal could open the door for the management company to develop some of the acres of parking around the Honda Center with projects that would match the rest of the area – restaurants, shops, offices and apartments or condos.
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Minority patients less interested in hospice care
■ They also are likelier to leave hospice after enrolling. Medicare pay rules are contributing to racial disparities in end-of-life care, experts say.
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» How health disparities prevail at life's end
Racial and ethnic minorities are less likely than white patients to choose palliative care in the last six months of life, says a study of Medicare beneficiaries published in The American Heart Journal.
After adjusting for the characteristics of about 220,000 Medicare heart-failure patients studied, the nonwhite patients were 20% less likely to enter hospice care. The disparities in end-of-life care did not end there. Among patients who opted for hospice, minorities were likelier to visit the emergency department and stay in the intensive care unit. Nonwhites also were about 40% likelier to disenroll — or leave — hospice, the study said.
"A common reason why patients disenroll is that they want more aggressive treatment," said Kathleen T. Unroe, MD, MHA. "What I think explains some of this is that the hospice program was not compatible with what they wanted as they progressed, so they chose to disenroll."
A wide body of previous research has documented that black, Hispanic and other minority patients prefer more aggressive end-of-life care than whites. That disparity appears to hold true even after patients choose hospice care. Under Medicare hospice benefit rules, patients who opt for hospice must forgo curative treatments in favor of palliative care.
"We know these disparities exist, and researchers have shown that different racial and ethnic groups tend to have different preferences," said Dr. Unroe, assistant research professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. "Now you've chosen hospice, you've stated a preference, you've made a decision — yet still there are these differences. That's why we're exploring & is this the best benefit for everyone? Is the way that it's structured meeting people's needs?"
The Affordable Care Act established coverage for "concurrent care" — a combination of curative efforts and hospice care — for children with terminal illnesses covered by Medicaid. The law also calls on the Dept. of Health and Human Services secretary to conduct a three-year demonstration project to test concurrent care at 15 hospice-care sites, but no such project has been announced.
David Casarett, MD, is involved with a University of Pennsylvania project that will test a related idea. In June, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services awarded the university a $4.4 million grant to offer palliative care services to Philadelphia-area cancer patients who are receiving home care but not yet sick enough to be deemed eligible for hospice care.
Medicare rules worsen disparities?
Dr. Casarett and his colleagues surveyed 283 cancer patients receiving oncology care at the University of Pennsylvania for a Feb. 1, 2009, study in the journal Cancer. The study found that black patients had stronger preferences for continuing their treatments compared with white patients and had greater physical, psychological and symptom needs for palliative care.
Treating palliative and curative care as mutually exclusive exacerbates racial and ethnic gaps in end-of-life care, said Dr. Casarett, chief medical officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System's hospice program and associate professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
"The key lesson is that the Medicare hospice benefit that asks patients to give up aggressive, life-sustaining treatment really doesn't make sense and is arguably unfair," he said. "We know African-Americans tend to have more aggressive treatment preferences, enroll later and are more likely to withdraw from hospice. That's clear evidence, to me at least, that the benefit is not designed well and prevents large groups of people from getting the care that they want."
In lieu of policy changes to pay more broadly for concurrent care, doctors should be cognizant of how patient demographics may influence receptivity to hospice care, experts said.
"Physicians should have earlier discussions with patients about their preferences for care, their goals of care and explore any concerns or barriers they might have to palliative and end-of-life care," Dr. Unroe said. "Even if you do that, there are some people — white or nonwhite — for whom hospice is never an acceptable option the way it's currently structured."
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"Racial differences in hospice use and patterns of care after enrollment in hospice among Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure," American Heart Journal, June (link)
"Resource Use in the Last 6 Months of Life Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Heart Failure, 2000-2007," Archives of Internal Medicine, Feb. 14, 2011 (link)
"Race, treatment preferences, and hospice enrollment: eligibility criteria may exclude patients with the greatest needs for care," Cancer, Feb. 1, 2009 (link)
"Racial/ethnic disparities in hospice care: a systematic review," Journal of Palliative Medicine, June 2008 (link)
"Racial Disparities in Hospice: Moving from Analysis to Intervention," Virtual Mentor, September 2006 (link)


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It creates an engagement and enjoyment of the Honorverse, the stories, characters and ideas through gaining knowledge about the history, science, and leadership that David Weber includes in all of the stories he writes.
It provides leadership courses that require you to do some research and learn more about the qualities of good leadership, management, and most of all, collaborative communication with others.
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Q&A: Dan Jackson, business educator, catalyst for change
"School should be fun but a lot of the fun is schooled out of students."
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Dan Jackson is a business educator at Apex Friendship High School in Apex, NC, where started a unique program known as Applied Synergies Partnership (ASaP) as part of a business curriculum for the school. The ASaP program is implemented along with faculty at Poole College of Management at N.C. State University.
Q: Tell us about the Applied Synergies Partnership – how did it begin and what is its goal?
A: ASaP is an attempting to create synergies across high school education, university education and the RTP entrepreneurial environment. ASaP is the effort of these different entities to instill in these young people skills that they are going to be required to demonstrate in order to achieve success in higher learning and in their careers. …Let's get these skills developed as soon as possible in these young people. The group's acronym, ASaP, is meant to be a double entendre.
The catalyst for this approach was the question, "How do we synergize the positive influences of high quality career and technical education, institutions of higher learning and the vibrant start-up community in the greater Raleigh-Durham area to benefit all stakeholders."
The goal [of ASaP] is the idea of bringing all these folks together and having them work together and learn from one another….It's a partnership with higher learning – in this case, N.C. State.
The second element of it is to engage with the community and ask for mentors to come in and work with high school student teams on the development of business plans.
The third element is internal, healthy competition — these teams end up participating in competitions with their written business plans.
This is a unique approach to delivering entrepreneurial education in the state of North Carolina, as far as I know. …If there are other programs like it, I'd love to find them and work with the instructors so we can all learn.
Q: Why is it important to give young people an entrepreneurial mindset early on in life?
The need for the development of survival skills at an early age was made clear by research such as a Gallup study in 2014 of over 100 universities where they asked the question, 'How well are you preparing young people for their careers?' Ninety-six percent of these universities said 'average or above average.' They then asked the same question of employers – I think it was over 200 employers were asked, and these were managers – the question was, 'How well prepared are your incoming, recent college graduates to excel in their careers?' Only 11 percent of those employers said 'average or above average.'
We have a gap. We have a producer of employees – universities and high schools for that matter – thinking they're doing a good job of preparing their product for the corporate environment, and yet we have the corporate people saying, 'Actually you're doing a pretty crummy job.'
Q: What can schools do differently to instill an entrepreneurial mindset in students?
A: I want kids to look forward to going to school. School should be fun but a lot of the fun is schooled out of students. They get past 4th or 5th grade and they head to middle school and they begin to get pushed through the mill. …They are no longer encouraged to be curious, to ask 'What if?' or 'Why not?' or 'Let's go take a look.' Instead it's 'That's not in the curriculum,' 'That's not in the textbook.' You begin to school out of them imagination, creativity, divergent thinking and you begin to mill cogs that are meant to fit into the system. Students deserve more than that.
Q: What advice would you give to a young entrepreneur?
A: [Mr. Jackson suggests the best advice would be to take comments from students who have gone through ASaP, and referred the questioner to a page on his website with such comments. Below is a sampling]
Don't waste your potential on procrastination
The worst they can say is no. Nothing ventured, nothing gained; but you have to make the ask.
Don't be afraid, what's the worst thing that could go wrong? Great things are not achieved without risk
Don't be afraid to go outside the box; take the unconventional route.
I am capable of far more than I originally thought; when I put forth maximum effort, nothing is out of reach. It's all about ME!
Surround yourself with exceptional people early in the game and then trust those around you.
Q: What are the hot areas for entrepreneurship these days?
Find your passion. Don't pursue a business for the purpose of gaining money — pursue the passion not the profit. Your life will be more fulfilling if you do that
Find a really crying need that the world has then try to find the people who can help you solve it.
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