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CARS24 Raises AED75 Million From Commercial Bank of Dubai
CARS24 has announced that it has raised AED75 million in local debt funding from the Commercial Bank of Dubai (CBD), one of the leading banks in the UAE. This debt facility further strengthens CARS24's commitment to the UAE market and provides significant funding flexibility and room to grow its inventory. In addition, it is a testament to CBDs focus on backing its customer's ambitions and supporting new-age lending in the UAE digital ecosystem.
The agreement was signed between Dr. Bernd van Linder, Chief Executive Officer, CBD, and Vikram Chopra, Co-Founder and Global CEO, CARS24. The company, valued at US$1.8 billion, is one of the most valuable privately held pre-owned car startups globally. This debt funding follows the company's global USD$450 million funding round in September this year.
Dr. Bernd van Linder, Chief Executive Officer of Commercial Bank of Dubai said, "CBD has always been keen to enhance the overall business environment in the UAE and support start-ups as they are a vital contributor to the growth of the country's economy. Since last year, there has been a huge increase in the number of online2offline businesses, partially due to the recent global pandemic, and we see a clear need to back these businesses and provide them with the funds they require to scale up and expand".
After signing this agreement, Vikram stated, "UAE is a very important and strategic market for us. Raising these funds from CBD at this juncture will further consolidate our leadership position and as a brand, we are delighted that the bank has supported our business model."
CARS24 commenced operations in the UAE in May 2021, and since then the company has sold over 2,000 cars and all of these transactions were conducted entirely online. In September this year, CARS24 had announced that it would be investing another AED 367 million in the UAE and other GCC countries to further expand its presence.
CARS24 is currently backed by marquee investors such as Sequoia, SoftBank, Falcon Edge, DST Global, and Kingsway Capital. In addition, CARS24 enjoys the sponsorship of Cricketing great M.S. Dhoni as both an investor and brand ambassador. As a result of the company's growth-oriented business model, it has received funding to the tune of USD1 billion since it launched operations in 2015.
"UAE market has great potential and we want to set the stage for 2022 with a strong 4th quarter this year. The economic indicators have rapidly become encouraging and positive after the World EXPO 2020, and as a result, we have already seen a significant impact on our sales," concluded Vikram.
All vehicles on the CARS24 platform undergo a 150+ points inspection check and are refurbished thoroughly. Furthermore, these cars are put through a stringent RTA test before being listed online. Every car bought from CARS24 comes with a 7 days return policy and 2 years warranty.
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Making Rapid Response Theatre
Acts of Defiance film - ' Escape' goes into production...
A runaway finds shelter outside Waterloo Station.
Doorway of safety - written by Ann Akin and produced by Kay Adshead for Mama Quilla, shot on location in London is currently in production.
Sound - Simon McCabe
DOP - Sarah Akigbogun
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Edinburgh's PEEP 2013
After roaring success way down in the Faraway Forest at the Latitude Festival, Edinburgh's most intimate venue invites you back into your private booth to watch (but not touch) top UK and international writers and performers of all genres. Featuring a season of specially commissioned plays by Kay Adshead, Luke Barnes, Leo Butler, Pamela Carter and Kefi Chadwick, Argentine dance company Diego y Ulises, a changing evening cabaret programme hosted by the legendary Empress Stah and a month-long series of live art installations created bespoke for PEEP and curated by Edinburgh's own ANATOMY.
Reviews for Kay Adshead's I am sad you are dead Mrs T ....
WHAT'S ON ......June 2013
ThatcherWrite at Theatre 503 responds to another former PM's legacy with plays by Dan Reballato, Kay Adshead and Judy Upton and more....THE GUARDIAN
... a poetic mortar-bomb in the form of a double-edged, three-part eulogy. The language is penetrating witty and economical. And the climax - the tragic story of a vulnerable elderly woman whose degrading death contrasts with Thatcher's dignified demise in five-star luxury - is emotionally explosive.......THE TIMES...
Thatcherism gets another interrogation at Theatre503, with ThatcherWrite: seven shorts in response to her death. The best are either even-handed or outrageously satirical. Kay Adshead presents three poems by 17-yearolds, Blair's babies, to examine her legacy......NEW STATESMAN
...But it is Kay Adshead's I Am Sad You Are Dead Mrs T which most cleverly encapsulates aspects of the Tory leader. In three parts, we see her appeal to bigoted extremists and today's smooth right-wing operators before contrasting Thatcher's comfortable, cared-for demise in her bed at the Ritz with that of a warm-hearted cleaning lady who bit by bit slips through the net and is left to rot by the `society' whose existence Thatcher refused or was unable to acknowledge......REVIEWSGATE
... expertly performed and devishily humorous.......ONE STOP ARTS
...Adshead really brings out the fists. ... The final deeply moving piece lands a devastating blow to the guts leaving us in no doubt about just who has suffered and continues to suffer under Thatcher's grim legacy.......EXEUNT MAGAZINE
...Viewing Thatcher from the perspective of someone who didn't live through her reign is a stroke of genius, and though it was utterly hilarious, it resonated on a serious level too.......SO SO GAY MAGAZINE
...A trio of eulogies ... from the wickedly acid pen of Kay Adshead. Three post-Thatcher inheritors of her policies misunderstand, adapt and revile those policies. ... The witty and very funny stereotypification of the first two set the poignant humanitarianism of the last into sharp relief.
Opening Next Week at Theatre503:
Battersea's Theatre503 has announced the full line-up of writers contributing to THATCHERWRITE - a series of short plays in response to the life and death of one the UK's most divisive Prime Ministers - Margaret Thatcher. Literary Manager Steve Harper has invited a diverse range of writers including established playwrights, members of the venues 503Five writers in residence scheme, and a newly discovered first time playwright, to contribute. THATCHERWRITE will run from 11 - 15 June at Theatre503, above the Latchmere pub in Battersea.
Newly announced writers include Jimmy Osborne (Meat - Theatre503), Kay Adshead (Thatcher's Woman -Paines Plough/Tricycle), Jon Brittain (503Five), Brad Birch (503Five), Brian Waters (National Theatre) and newly discovered writer Ben Worth.
Acts of Defiance... ..
Image from Theatre of Protest, Mama Quilla at The Roundhouse
Acts of Defiance launched by MAMA QUILLA in 2013 is a series of short public interactions or interventions, theatre poems, or film essays, recording dignified and peaceful opposition to injustice and oppression.
Mama Quilla will commission, curate, and publish on the web, a filmed portfolio of work. It is hoped the work will span commissioned short pieces, from individuals or community venues, activist organisations protesting, to candid guerrilla filming from citizens witnessing small acts of justices (and big acts if witnessed). Short, site-specific pieces, commissioned, rehearsed and performed in/on community spaces, will be filmed.
It is anticipated contributions will range from experienced artists to emerging artists, to passionate individuals or groups, (who have never created film / live performance before)
Currently commissioned under The First Timers Initiative are Simion Simms, Ann Akin and Bridie Moore.
Open contributions are more than welcome, but not all submissions may be guaranteed inclusion in the online portfolio.
Bridie Moore: Silver Action
From : http://www.thewomensroomblog.com/2013/02/02/suzanne-lacys-silver-action-project-at-tate-modern/
The Tanks, Tate Modern, 3/2/13
As I travelled on the tube from Kings Cross to St Paul's to see Suzanne Lacy's piece Silver Action at newly opened The Tanks at Tate Modern I was naturally thinking about the representation and visibility of older women in our culture. I decided to do a quick scan of the poster images on my journey. Unsurprisingly these were overwhelmingly of youth: sexy, energetic or sardonically youthful figures looked out appealingly from adverts for Singin' in the Rain, The Bodyguard and the film I'll Give it a Year, even adverts for hair loss clinics were peopled by luxuriantly coiffed thirty-somethings. Middle aged Boris Johnson and Jeremy Clarkson were the only images of people aged past youth and there were no middle aged or older women represented anywhere.
It was an unusual sight therefore on entering The Tanks to see about a hundred women over the age of 60 (although sadly only a few were women of colour) who had come together to discuss their own past involvement in political activism and their potential contribution to future action. The large circular space had three main points of focus. In one area were 24 tables at most of which sat 4 women in discussion. On the yellow tablecloths were cards which asked two questions, one about what propelled the women to activism and the other asked what was different with age, what were the challenges of being older and what potential contributions could they make. There was a hum of conversation on this side of the space. Five computer screens were projected on the curving wall opposite, with constantly scrolling, changing text, generated by assistants at laptops who were taking down, verbatim, stories being told to them by women coming and going, one by one. The third point of focus was a long white, highly lit table, at which ten women were discussing topics that seemed related to the cards on the yellow tables opposite.
This act of coming together could be seen as both 'silver action' in itself and a celebration and honouring of action that these now (not exclusively) silver haired women had undertaken as younger people. I was engaged by the stories projected on the walls, about women's propulsion into action: women from varied backgrounds told stories of bigotry in their communities – a white girl being arrested at a Guildford dance hall for the fracas caused when she danced with a young black man; discrimination in education – women, on completing their degrees, refused an actual degree qualification; and stories of those who just saw a need to involve the excluded in their communities and so took action.
These stories were accessed easily by reading the projected text, however the live conversation was very difficult to hear and we were forbidden to interact with the seated women. This meant the audience were excluded from much of the conversation either as listeners or as participants. At the long white table we were able, with some effort, to hear the discussion which covered areas such as the prohibition on exploring elder sexuality and also the point in the 1990s where 'post-feminism' arrived in the universities and pressures from supervisors closed down any radical research or writing. However on the yellow tables discussion was mostly inaudible. At the beginning of the piece one visiting woman pulled up a seat at one of the yellow tables, enthusiastic not only to hear but also to participate, she was told this wasn't permitted due to 'consent issues'. Frustratingly, neither were we allowed to enter the table area to hear the conversations taking place in the centre of this space. I sensed that the meaning of this piece was not being played out here but elsewhere or in another time, either in the future film that was being constructed as a (marketing) document of the event or in cyberspace: younger assistants at each table were tweeting, presumably with comments emerging from the table discussions. This, oddly, made them look like surly youngsters, texting whilst their elders engaged in conversation they weren't interested in. One would have had to be on twitter in that moment and to view the film in the future to feel completely involved. This almost makes redundant the act of travelling to and from Leeds to engage with the Silver Action piece as it happened on the day.
The question of action is central to the problems with this piece. This coming together of such politically engaged women can be considered an action in itself, honouring the activism of those who were so instrumental in challenging the way our culture functioned to constrain individual potential. This was an act of reminiscence, one that is problematic in isolation, in that it honours the older person only as a repository of memory. These women did have passionate conversations with each other and who knows what future action these might inspire, however in restricting the audience's engagement and especially any potential conversation with the women, the piece restricted potential action on the day. This situation is indicative of our early 21st century health & safety and consent-obsessed culture, which here seemed responsible for closing down any possibility o
f the kind of risk-taking that facilitated the way these women forced change in our society in the first place. Are we looking back nostalgically to the time when we could take such action? It is typical of the sort of regulated event that is exemplified now in licensed protest marches and our highly regulated education system, one that disallows the experimental and the risky. The mostly female audience were disgruntled but did not take any sort of action; we should have staged a sit in or forced our way to the tables, but we are now socialised into an acquiescent mode of behaviour and the codes that restrict us are far subtler than perhaps they once were. This is especially true in one of our foremost cultural institutions Tate Modern. In the end Silver Action reinforced the stereotype of the compliant, ineffective and invisible older woman. It was a risk free and curiously hidden piece – the more public Turbine Hall although empty was not used for a piece which claimed to honour the visibility of older women – and more than honouring action this piece closed it down.
Suzanne Lacy can be heard talking about her previous work The Crystal Quilt in a BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour interview at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00vwj1x
This work (quilt, film and audio documentation) is also on display at Tate Modern in the Transformations Gallery.
Tahrir Square sexual assaults reported during anniversary clashes
Campaigners in Egypt say at least 25 women have been assaulted as state of emergency is declared in three provinces.
The Guardian, Monday 28 January 2013
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Gheorghe "Gigel" Bucur (n. Bucarest, Rumania, 8 de abril de 1980) y es un futbolista rumano. Juega de delantero y actualmente milita en el FC Kubán Krasnodar de la Liga Premier de Rusia.

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Selección nacional

Ha sido internacional con la Selección de fútbol de Rumania; donde hasta ahora, ha jugado 24 partidos internacionales y ha anotado 4 goles por dicho seleccionado.

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HRInfo.in: What would you do if a fellow executive on your own corporate level wasn't pulling his/her weight…and this was hurting your department?
TRAPS: This question and other hypothetical ones test your sense of human relations and how you might handle office politics.
BEST ANSWER: Try to gauge the political style of the firm and be guided accordingly. In general, fall back on universal principles of effective human relations – which in the end, embody the way you would like to be treated in a similar circumstance.
POSSIBLE FOLLOW-UP QUESTION: And what would you do if he still did not change his ways?


He also said that BJP's divisive tactics had invited a backlash.
In an exclusive interview to news agency IANS, Sikkim's sole MP and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ally P.D. Rai said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's charisma had weakened and that it would be very difficult for the BJP to come to power in 2019 general elections, if it had to face a united opposition.
Rai's party, the Sikkim Democratic Front, is a part of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA). He said that the divisive politics of the BJP is also inviting a 'backlash. "We, as a regional party, will surely win the next election. But on the national scene, I think the charisma of Modiji has come down. The divisiveness with which the BJP has acted is something whose backlash is already coming," he told IANS.
He also spoke about the Congress president Rahul Gandhi's leadership, saying that he had managed to keep both the young leaders and the old guard happy. "He has also understood that he has not only to back young people but also to look at the senior people as they are very valuable within the party. This (appointment of Kamal Nath and Ashok Gehlot as chief ministers) has sent out a good message to the senior cadre of the Congress. This is something which, I believe, is a very positive development for the Congress," said Rai, reported IANS.


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Yahia Beni-Guecha (formerly Lucet) is a town and commune in Mila Province, Algeria. At the 1998 census it had a population of 10681.

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Since I can remember I've felt the drive to explore day-to-day life through creativity. When choosing my career I couldn't overlook my passion to create, to make new things, to reflect back upon that curiosity that captured me since childhood. Subsequently, I studied Industrial Design at UIA Mexico, where I learnt to approach each project in careful and well-founded manner. I gained an outstanding distinction for some projects I developed, such as the Motorola Project and the Braun Prize, where I came out elected. Since 2008 my professional experience has also involved Interior Design, where I've enjoyed creating spaces that respond to the real needs of those who move within or inhabit them. I began working for Vitra and Herman Miller, to then start NUBA - my own studio, driven from the idea that each project should be unique and portray its own personality and character, accomplishing that perfect-match with the user and what he wishes to transmit. The projects range from furniture and product design; to residential, commercial, office, medical practice and restaurant spaces among other interior design projects. When a new task motivates my curiosity it is with enthusiasm and passion that I get the job done. For me each project is an opportunity to ask 'Why not?'.


Northbrook Community Synagogue was founded in 2011 following the merger of three storied and successful synagogues in the north shore Chicago area. Formed from Adas Yehuda v'Shoshana (or AYSH) of Northbrook, Northbrook Congregation Ezra Habonim and Maine Township Jewish Congregation of Des Plaines, Northbrook Community Synagogue was founded with strength in numbers and in spirit. In 2012, Northbrook Community Synagogue hired its first Rabbi to lead the congregation and Rabbi Braun has been with the congregation to this day. Our building, originally home to AYSH, was completed in 1997. Our building is dedicated in honor of Rabbi Julius and Rose Weisbach and Milt and Gladys Goldstein. Thanks to the tireless work of our small but dedicated staff, the building has never looked better. It is a flexible space that lends itself both to the holy endeavors of worship and Jewish practice, and to community and private events. Our ability to host amazing events both large and small continues to grow and become more streamlined. We are a congregation today of approximately two hundred and fifty member families and still growing.
Thanks to all those who came out for the Opening Event for the JYC Sunday/Hebrew School we had a blast exploring our local apiary!
Northbrook Community Synagogue (NCS) is an open and traditionally observant synagogue. NCS warmly embraces all Jews regardless of affiliation, commitment, or background. We are a caring community. NCS is dedicated to the emotional, physical, and spiritual health and comfort of our entire community. NCS is committed to our youth and teen programming, education for all ages, and is dedicated to enriching the lives of the elderly, home-bound, and those with physical and developmental challenges. We stand with Israel.
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Chuck Lorre's new sitcom The Kominsky Method, starring Alan Arkin and Michael Douglas, will premiere on Netflix on Friday, November 16th.
This is just a reminder that Chuck's new series will premiere on Netflix tomorrow.
With three SAG Award noms adding to the momentum of kudos recognition for Netflix's "The Kominsky Method," the show has quickly become the most well-received series in Chuck Lorre's long career in television. It's also among the most personal.
"Kominsky" revolves around the close friendship of an aging acting teacher, played by Michael Douglas, and his longtime friend and agent, played by Alan Arkin. In the past two weeks, the Warner Bros. TV series, which bowed Nov. 21, has racked up Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award nominations as well as an AFI mention.
"Gratifying doesn't even begin to cover how extraordinary this has been," Lorre said of the kudos recognition.


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With 148 people dead and over 70 being wounded by the attack by four gunmen at Garissa University College in Kenya on Thursday 2 April, St John Ambulance Kenya called for an emergency blood donation to help the victims.
Working with the Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service and Bloodlink Foundation, St John Kenya set up the facility for volunteers to donate blood at a major bus terminal in the centre of Nairobi.
Already hundreds including St John Ambulance staff and volunteers have donated their blood since Monday 6 April in the hope to save some of the casualties' lives.
Sir Paul Lambert, Secretary General of St John International said:
St John Ambulance Kenya has done a lot of good work supporting the community in times of emergencies. Once again we applaud them for continuing to help those in need during the most difficult of times.
Kenyan politician Hon. Najib Balala showing full support
Updated: 15th April, 2016
Hundreds of Johanniter members and volunteers have been involved in helping over 33,000 refugees.


WASHINGTON - Marines and other U.S. forces in Europe are on a heightened state of alert in response to a deteriorating security situation in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, two U.S. officials said Friday.
The alert order applies to a U.S. special operations team based in Stuttgart, Germany, as well as a Marine group of air and ground forces based in Moron, Spain, according to the officials, who were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The forces alerted in Europe are under U.S. Africa Command, which acquired the special operations team in the fall. The command did not have a similar team - or the Marines in Spain - available last September for possible use in response to the deadly attack on the US diplomatic facilities in the Libyan city of Benghazi.
The U.S. has a contingent of dozens of Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli.
The officials said there is no plan to use any of the forces under current circumstances, but a portion of the approximately 500 Marines in Spain have been notified they might be repositioned for a quicker potential response to trouble in Tripoli.
One of the missions for which Marines train is the emergency evacuation of U.S. embassy compounds.
No extra U.S. naval or air forces are being moved into the region in response to the unrest in Libya, the official said.
Hundreds of Libyan activists protested Friday in Tripoli, Benghazi and Tobrouk. They denounced the use of force by the country's unruly militias.
The protesters accuse the Muslim Brotherhood of trying to seize power by pushing through a contentious law that would prevent officials who had served under former dictator Moammar Gadhafi from working in government.
Britain's Foreign Office said it temporarily withdrew some staff from its embassy in Tripoli in light of recent political unrest. Heavily armed militias have surrounded government buildings in Tripoli over the past month, blocking access to ministries to push the parliament to pass the Brotherhood-supported law.
On Thursday the State Department said it was advising U.S. citizens against all but essential travel to Tripoli and all travel to Benghazi and other locations in Libya. It cited "ongoing instability and violence" and said the State Department's ability to provide consular services to U.S. citizens there was "extremely limited."
"The security situation in Libya remains unpredictable," the State Department travel warning said. "Sporadic episodes of civil unrest have occurred throughout the country."


From their first and to date only use in the context of armed conflict in Japan in 1945, it was clear that nuclear weapons raised serious questions about States' responsibilities under IHL. In particular, key IHL principles which require parties to conflict to distinguish military targets from civilians, and which prohibit the use of weapons which cause superfluous injury and unnecessary suffering, are challenged by the inherently destructive nature of nuclear weapons.
In 1954 the ICRC convened a Conference of Experts to examine the legal question of the protection of the civilian population against the use of weapons of mass destruction, resulting in draft rules for the limitation of the dangers incurred by the civilian population in times of war. At the 20th International Conference of the Red Cross in 1965, a resolution was adopted which called on the ICRC to continue in its efforts to ensure parties to conflict uphold the basic IHL principle of sparing the civilian population as much as possible, and declared that the general principles of the law of war apply to nuclear weapons. The creation of the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions in 1977 reaffirmed and strengthened the IHL principles of distinction and prohibition of superfluous suffering. It would be impossible to imagine circumstances in which nuclear weapons would abide by these principles.
Recent years have seen a growing interest among the global community in the vision of a nuclear weapon free world. The Model Nuclear Weapons Convention submitted to the United Nations General Assembly in 2007, the Five Point Proposal on Nuclear Disarmament put forward by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the first-ever Security Council Summit on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament in September 2009, and the joint reaffirmation by the United States, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom in May 2010 of their ‗responsibility to take concrete and credible steps towards irreversible [nuclear] disarmament' are encouraging signs.
Inspired by the Movement's initiatives articulated by both the President of the ICRC and the President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, as well as the increasing significance of the issue within the international community, Australian Red Cross has taken a leading role within the Movement towards the goal of a nuclear free world. In May 2011 Australian Red Cross, together with Japanese Red Cross and Norwegian Red Cross, co-hosted a meeting in Oslo of around thirty Red Cross and Red Crescent societies from every corner of the globe. The meeting brought together many prominent academics and practitioners in the fields of nuclear medicine and nuclear arms. Discussion focused on the human and societal costs of nuclear weapons, the international legal political context of nuclear weapons and the potential role of Red Cross national societies in this space. Development of a Movement position on nuclear weapons was also discussed, as was the inclusion of a proposed resolution on this topic on the agenda of the Council of Delegates, which is to meet in November this year.
In 2011, Australian Red Cross is raising public awareness about the horrific humanitarian and environmental consequences of using nuclear weapons and the real dangers inherent in their continued existence through an innovative and engaging public national campaign. By highlighting the uniquely destructive threats to humanity that these arms pose, Australian Red Cross is saying ―Make Nuclear Weapons the Target,‖ and calls for the prohibition of their use once and for all. The voice of this campaign will be carried by Australian Red Cross' volunteers and staff nationwide across various media. Several online forums such as a nuclear referendum5Available at http://www.redcross.org.au/make-nucelarweapons-the-target.aspx and an online vigil will seek to harness as much participation as possible. Australian Red Cross is also hosting many public events in all States and Territories, where experts in, and survivors of, nuclear weapons share their concerns about these weapons of mass destruction.
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Rob van Riet is Coordinator of the Disarmament Programme at the World Future Council. In addition, he has been U.K. Coordinator of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament (PNND) since 2011 and has served as the Director of the Nuclear Abolition Forum since its founding in 2011. He was a co-author of the InterParliamentary Union/PNND Parliamentary Handbook Supporting Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, released during the 127th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly in Quebec City, Canada, in October 2012.
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Mark E. Tuckerman
Professor of Chemistry And Mathematics; Chemistry Department Chair
B.S. in Physics, University of California at Berkeley
Ph.D. in Physics, Columbia University
Postdoctoral Fellow, IBM Forschungs-laboratorium, Zürich, Switzerland
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Areas of Research/Interest
Theoretical chemistry: molecular dynamics and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations; enhanced sampling algorithms; crystal structure prediction; statistical mechanics.
External Affiliations
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (CIMS)
NYU-EDNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai
Associate Editor, SIAM Journal on Multiscale Modeling
Advisory Editor, Theoretical Chemistry Accounts
Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Physical Chemistry
Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Chemical Physics
Fellowships/Honors
NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship for Advanced Scientific Computing (1995-1996)
NSF Career Award (1999)
Golden Dozen Award for Excellence in Teaching (2000)
Whitehead Fellowship in biomedical and biological sciences (2000-2001)
Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Research Award (Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award) (2005)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, (June, 2014)
Sentinels of Science Award in Physics and Astronomy from Publons, (October, 2016)
"Ab initio molecular dynamics study of hydroxide diffusion mechanisms in nanoconfined structural mimics of anion exchange membranes." T. Zelovich, Z. Long, M. A. Hickner, S. J. Paddison, C. Bae, and M. E. Tuckerman J. Phys. Chem. C 123, 4683 (2019).
"Finding free-energy landmarks of chemical reactions." M. Shiga and M. E. Tuckerman J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9, 6207 (2018).
"Endpoint-restricted adiabatic free energy dynamics approach for the exploration of biomolecular conformational equilibria." M. A. Cuendet, D. T. Margul, E. Schneider, L. Vogt-Maranto, and M. E. Tuckerman J. Chem. Phys. 149, 072316 (2018).
"Unusual proton transfer kinetics in water at the temperature of maximum density." E. Silletta, M. E.Tuckerman, and A. Jerschow Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 076001 (2018).
"An open-chain imaginary-time path-integral sampling approach to the calculation of approximate symmetrized quantum time correlation functions". J. Chem. Phys. 148, 102341 (2018).
"Molecular dynamics based enhanced sampling of collective variables with very large time steps". P.-Y. Chen and M. E. Tuckerman J. Chem. Phys. 148, 024106 (2018).
"From classical to quantum and back: Hamiltonian adaptive resolution path integral, ring polymer, and centroid molecular dynamics". K. Kreis, K. Kremer, R. Potestio, and M. E. Tuckerman J. Chem. Phys. 147, 244104 (2017).
"Stochastic artificial neural networks for the representation of high-dimensional free energy surfaces".L. Dai, E. Schneider, R. Q. Topper, C. Drechsel-Grau, and M. E. Tuckerman Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 150601 (2017).
"Bypassing the Kohn-Sham equations with machine learning". F. Brockherde, L. Vogt, L. Li, M. E. Tuckerman, K. Burke, K. -R. M¨uller, Nature Comm. 8, 872 (2017).
"Powder Diffraction and Crystal Structure Prediction Identify Four New Coumarin Polymorphs". A.G. Shtukenberg, Q. Zhu, D. J. Carter, L. Vogt, J. Hoja, E. Schneider, H. Song, B. Pokroy, I. Polischuk,A. Tkatchenko, A. R. Oganov, A. L. Rohl, M. E. Tuckerman, and B. Kahr, Chem. Sci. 8, 4926 (2017).
"Importance of a fully anharmonic treatment of equilibrium isotopic fractionation of dissolved ions and the case of Li+(aq)". R. Dupuis, M. Benoit, M. E. Tuckerman, and M. Meheut, Acc. Chem. Res.50, 1597 (2017).
"Mesoscale simulations of anion exchange membranes based on quaternary ammonium tethered triblock copolymers". S. Fatemeh, L. Hongjun, L. Xubo, C. S. Bae, M. E. Tuckerman, M. A. Hickner, and S.J. Paddison, Macromolecules 50, 4397 (2017).
"Competing quantum effects in the free energy profiles and diffusion rates of hydrogen and deuterium molecules through clathrate hydrates". J. R. Cendagorta, A. Powers, T. J. H. Hele, O. Marsalek, Z.Bacic, and M. E.Tuckerman Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18, 32169 (2016).
"Advanced potential energy surfaces for molecular simulation". A. Albaugh, H. A. Boateng, R. T. Bradshaw, O. N. Demerdash, J. Dziedzic, Y. Mao, D. T. Margul, J. Swails, Q. Zeng, D. A. Case, P. Eastman, J. W. Essex, M. Head-Gorgon, V.S. Pande, J. W. Ponder, Y. Shao, C.-K. Skylaris, I. T.Todorov, M. E. Tuckerman, and T. Head-Gordon J. Phys. Chem. B 120, 9811 (2016).
"Isostructural Cocrystals of 1,3,5-Trinitrobenzene Assembled by Halogen Bonding." J. C. Bennion, L. Vogt, M. E. Tuckerman, A. J. Matzger Cryst. Growth & Design 16, 4688 (2016).
"Report on the sixth blind test of organic crystal structure prediction methods." A. M. Reilly, R. I. Copper, C. S. Adjiman, S. Bhattacharya, A. D. Boese, J. G. Brandenburg, P. J. Bygrave, R. Bylsma, J. Campbell, R. Car, D. H. Case, R. Chadha, J. C. Cole, K. Cosburn, H. M. Cuppen, F. Curtis, G. M. Day, R. A. DiStasio, Jr., A. Dzyabchenko, B. P. van Eijck, D. Elking, J. A. van den Ende, J. C. Facelli, M. B. Ferraro, L. Fusti-Molnar, L. M. Ghiringhelli, H. Goto, S. Grimme, R. Guo, D. W. M. Hofmann, J. Hoja, R. K. Hylton, J. Iuzzolino, W. Jankiewicz, D. T. de Jong, J. Kendrick, N. J. J. de Klerk, H. -Y. Ko, L. N. Kuleshova, X. Li, S. Lohani, F. J. J. Leusen, A. M. Lund, J. Lv, Y. Ma, N. Marom, A. Masunov, P. McCabe, D. P. McMahon, H. Meekes, M. P. Metz, A. J. Misquitta, S. Mohamed, B. Monserrat, R. J. Needs, M. A. Neumann, J. Nyman, S. Obata, H. Oberhofer, A. Oganov, A. M. Orendt, G. I. Pagola, C. C. Pantelides, C. J. Pickard, R. Podeszwa, L. S. Price, S. L. Price, A. Pulido, M. Read, K. Reuter, E. Schneider, C. Schober, G. P. Shields, P. Singh, I.J. Sugden, K. Szalewicz, C. R. Taylor, A. Tkatchenko, M. E. Tuckerman, F. Vacarro, M. Vasileiadis,A. Vazquez-Mayagoitia, L. Vogt, Y. Wang, R. E. Watson, G. A. de Wlis, J. Yang, Q. Zhu, C. R. Groom Acta Cryst. B72, 439 (2016).
"Exploring polymorphism of benzene and naphthalene with free energy based enhanced molecular dynamics." E. Schneider, L. Vogt, and M. E. Tuckerman, Acta Cryst. B72, 542 (2016).
"From classical to quantum and back: Hamiltonian adaptive coupling of classical and path integral models of atoms." K. Kreis, M. E. Tuckerman, D. Donadio, K. Kremer, and R. Potestio J. Chem.Theor. Comput. 12, 3030 (2016).
"A stochastic, resonance-free multiple time-step algorithm for polarizable models that permits very large time steps" D. Margul and M. E. Tuckerman, J. Chem. Theor. Comput. 12, 2170 (2016).
"Resorcinol crystallization from the melt: A new ambient phase and new "riddles"." Q. Zhu, A. Shtukenberg, D. Carter, T. -Q. Yu, J. Yang, M. Chen. P. Raiteri, A. R. Oganov, B. Pokroy, I. Polishchuk, P. J. Bygrave, G. M. Day, A. L. Rohl, M. E. Tuckerman, B. Kahr, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138, 4881 (2016).
"Impact of the condensed-phase environment on the translation-rotation eigenstates and spectra of a hydrogen molecule in clathrate hydrates." A. Powers, O. Marsalek, M. Xu, L. Ulivi, D. Colognesi, M.E. Tuckerman, and Z. Bacic, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 7, 308 (2016).
"Locating landmarks on high-dimensional free energy surfaces". M. Chen, T. -Q. Yu, and M. E. Tuckerman, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 112:3235 (2015).
"Microscopic mechanisms of equilibrium melting of a solid". A. Samanta, M. E. Tuckerman, T. -Q. Yu, and W. E, Science 346:729 (2014).
"How accurately do current force fields predict experimental peptide conformations? An adiabatic free energy dynamics study". A. T. Tzanov, M. A. Cuendet, and M. E. Tuckerman, J. Phys. Chem. B 118:6539 (2014).
"Ab initio molecular dynamics study of the aqueous HOO- ion". Z. Ma, D. Anick, and M. E. Tuckerman, J. Phys. Chem. B 118:7937 (2014).
"Order-parameter-aided temperature-accelerated sampling for the exploration of crystal polymorphism and solid-liquid phase transitions". T. -Q. Yu, P. -Y. Chen, M. Chen, A. Samanta, E. Vanden-Eijnden, and M. E. Tuckerman, J. Chem. Phys. 140:214109 (2014).
"Efficient calculation of free energy differences associated with isotopic substitution using path integral molecular dynamics". O. Marsalek, P. -Y. Chen, R. Dupuis, M. Benoit, M. Meheut, Z. Bacic, and M. E. Tuckerman, J. Chem. Theor. Comput. 10:1440 (2013).
"Stochastic, resonance-free multiple time step algorithm for molecular dynamics with very large time steps". B. Leimkuhler, D. T. Margul, and M. E. Tuckerman, Mol. Phys. 111:3579 (2013).
"Ab initio molecular dynamics study of water at constant pressure using converged basis sets and empirical dispersion corrections". Z. Ma and M. E. Tuckerman, J. Chem. Phys. 137:044506 (2012).
"Heating and flooding: A unified approach for rapid generation of free energy surfaces". M. Chen, M. A. Cuendet, and M. E. Tuckerman, J. Chem. Phys. 137:024102 (2012).
"The mechanism of proton conduction in phosphoric acid". L. Vilciauskas, M. E. Tuckerman, G. Bester, S. J. Paddison, and K. -D. Kreuer, Nature Chemistry 4:461 (2012).
"Improving the convergence of closed and open path integral molecular dynamics via higher order Trotter factorization schemes". A. Perez and M. E. Tuckerman, J. Chem. Phys. 135:064104 (2011).
"On the connection between proton transport, structural diffusion, and reorientation of the hydrated hydroxide ion as a function of temperature", Z. Ma and M. E. Tuckerman , Chem. Phys. Lett. 511:117 (2011).
"On the Use of the SiC(100)-c(2 x 2) Surface as a Substrate for the Creation of Ordered Organic-Semiconductor Interfaces", Y. L. Zhang and M. E. Tuckerman, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2:1814 (2011).
"Temperature-Accelerated Method for Exploring Polymorphism in Molecular Crystals Based on Free Energy", T. Q. Yu and M. E. Tuckerman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107:015701 (2011).
Books Authored
Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Molecular Simulation, M. E. Tuckerman, Oxford University Press (2010)
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EDMONTON, Alberta — The Calgary Flames were a team in need of a spark, and they got one at the perfect time on Saturday night.
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Portugal participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with the song "A luta é alegria" written by Vasco Duarte and Jel. The song was performed by the group Homens da Luta. The Portuguese broadcaster Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) organised the national final Festival da Canção 2011 in order to select the Portuguese entry for the 2011 contest in Düsseldorf, Germany. The competition took place on 5 March 2011 where "A luta é alegria" performed by Homens da Luta emerged as the winner after achieving the highest score following the combination of votes from twenty regional juries and a public televote.

Portugal was drawn to compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 10 May 2011. Performing during the show in position 16, A luta é alegria" was not announced among the top 10 entries of the first semi-final and therefore did not qualify to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Portugal placed eighteenth out of the 19 participating countries in the semi-final with 22 points.

Background

Prior to the 2011 contest, Portugal had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest forty-four times since its first entry in 1964. The nation's highest placing in the contest was sixth, which they achieved in 1996 with the song "O meu coração não tem cor" performed by Lúcia Moniz. Following the introduction of semi-finals for the 2004, Portugal had featured in only three finals. Portugal's least successful result has been last place, which they have achieved on three occasions, most recently in 1997 with the song "Antes do adeus" performed by Célia Lawson. Portugal has also received nul points on two occasions; in 1964 and 1997. The nation qualified to the final in 2010 and placed eighteenth with the song "Há dias assim" performed by Filipa Azevedo.

The Portuguese national broadcaster, Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP), broadcasts the event within Portugal and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. RTP confirmed Portugal's participation in the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest on 5 November 2010. The broadcaster has traditionally selected the Portuguese entry for the Eurovision Song Contest via the music competition Festival da Canção, with exceptions in 1988 and 2005 when the Portuguese entries were internally selected. Along with their participation confirmation, the broadcaster revealed details regarding their selection procedure and announced the organization of Festival da Canção 2011 in order to select the 2011 Portuguese entry.

Before Eurovision

Festival da Canção 2011
Festival da Canção 2011 was the 47th edition of Festival da Canção that selected Portugal's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. Twelve entries competed in the competition which took place on 5 March 2011 at the Teatro Camões in Lisbon. The show was hosted by Sílvia Alberto with Joana Teles hosting from the green room and broadcast on RTP1, RTP1 HD, RTP África and RTP Internacional as well as online via the broadcaster's official website rtp.pt.

Competing entries
Artists and composers were able to submit their entries for the competition between 19 November 2010 and 16 January 2011. Composers of any nationality were allowed to submit entries, however artists were required to possess Portuguese citizenship and songs were required to be submitted in Portuguese. A jury panel consisting of Head of Delegation for Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest José Poiares, and music producers Fernando Martins and Ramón Galarza selected twenty-four entries for an online vote from 407 submissions received, which were revealed on 19 January 2011. On 22 January 2011, "Por ti", written and to have been performed by António José Silva, "Um sinal", written by Bettershell and Isaías Ricardo de Oliveira and to have been performed by Bettershell, and "Amor cruzado", written and to have been performed by Miguel Gizzas, were disqualified from the competition due to the songs having been released or performed prior to 1 October 2010.

90-second excerpts of the twenty-one competing entries were released online via rtp.pt on 20 January 2011 and users were able to vote by distributing three votes to their favourite songs until 27 January 2011. 222,764 valid votes were received at the conclusion of the voting period and the top twelve entries that advanced to the final were revealed on 28 January 2011.

Final
The final took place on 5 March 2011. Twelve entries competed and the winner, "A luta é alegria" performed by Homens da Luta, was selected based on the 50/50 combination of votes of twenty regional juries and a public televote. In addition to the performances of the competing entries, Portuguese Eurovision 1967 entrant Eduardo Nascimento, Portuguese Eurovision 2010 entrant Filipa Azevedo and Maltese Eurovision 2011 entrant Glen Vella performed as the interval act.

Controversy
The outcome of Festival da Canção 2011 caused much controversy as most of the audience had left the venue in protest after the victory of Homens da Luta was announced. Criticism was also received from runner-up Nuno Norte who raised concerns of whether the winner was "what the public wants to see at Eurovision" (despite "A luta é alegria" winning the televote). The group, who claimed to be "the struggling people of Portugal", attended a previously scheduled concert following the competition with lead singer Jel stating: "People are joining the struggle, every time you hear someone singing the song in the streets, it is someone else that is joining the struggle".

At Eurovision
According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into six different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot. On 17 January 2011, a special allocation draw was held which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of the show they would perform in. Portugal was placed into the first semi-final, to be held on 10 May 2011, and was scheduled to perform in the second half of the show. The running order for the semi-finals was decided through another draw on 15 March 2011 and Portugal was set to perform in position 16, following the entry from Hungary and before the entry from Lithuania.

In Portugal, the three shows were broadcast on RTP1, RTP1 HD and RTP Internacional with commentary by Sílvia Alberto. The first semi-final and the final were broadcast live, while the second semi-final was broadcast on delay. The Portuguese spokesperson, who announced the Portuguese votes during the final, was Joana Teles.

Semi-final
Homens da Luta took part in technical rehearsals on 2 and 6 May, followed by dress rehearsals on 9 and 10 May. This included the jury final where professional juries of each country watched and voted on the competing entries.

The Portuguese performance featured six of the members of Homens da Luta dressed in outfits representing various communities in Portugal, four of them which performed with signs displaying the title of the song, "A luta é alegria", in several European languages and one of them which performed with a megaphone. The LED screens displayed red and green flowers which symbolise the Carnation Revolution in 1974.

At the end of the show, Portugal was not announced among the top 10 entries in the first semi-final and therefore failed to qualify to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Portugal placed eighteenth in the semi-final, receiving a total of 22 points.

Voting
Voting during the three shows involved each country awarding points from 1-8, 10 and 12 as determined by a combination of 50% national jury and 50% televoting. Each nation's jury consisted of five music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent. This jury judged each entry based on: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act. In addition, no member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently.

Following the release of the full split voting by the EBU after the conclusion of the competition, it was revealed that Portugal had placed fifteenth with both the public televote and nineteenth (last) in the jury vote in the first semi-final. In the public vote, Portugal scored 39 points, while with the jury vote, Portugal scored 6 points.

Below is a breakdown of points awarded to Portugal and awarded by Portugal in the first semi-final and grand final of the contest. The nation awarded its 12 points to Greece in the semi-final and to Spain in the final of the contest.

Points awarded to Portugal

Points awarded by Portugal

References

External links
  RTP - Festival da Canção 2011

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Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011
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Międzynarodowe Centrum Rozstrzygania Sporów Inwestycyjnych (ang.: International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, ICSID) jest członkiem Grupy Banku Światowego oraz jednym z podmiotów międzynarodowej polityki gospodarczej. Organizacja została utworzona w roku 1966. W jej skład wchodzi 144 członków. Jest to niezależna międzynarodowa instytucja stworzona w celu prowadzenia negocjacji i dyskusji między inwestorami a importerami kapitału i rozstrzyganie sporów między nimi. Warunkiem członkostwa w ICSID jest przynależność do Banku Światowego.

Zadania
 rozstrzyganie sporów między inwestorami a krajami, w których inwestycje są realizowane, poprzez arbitraż i postępowanie ugodowe (ICSID nie przeprowadza postępowań arbitrażowych i pojednawczych jako takich, lecz oferuje proceduralne i instytucjonalne wsparcie dla trybunałów i komisji ustanowionych przez strony)
 zarządzanie postępowaniami między rezydentami a cudzoziemcami poprzez zawieranie ugód między stronami, postępowanie ugodowe i ustalanie stanu faktycznego
 prowadzenie badań
 świadczenie usług doradczych

Organizacja ta wydaje różnego typu publikacje, które są cenione jako źródło międzynarodowego prawa inwestycyjnego.

Linki zewnętrzne
 Oficjalna witryna internetowa ICSID

Bank Światowy


For one week each year the streets of San Francisco are filled with security professionals from around the world, attending the largest security conference: RSA. I had the pleasure of supporting our security clients as this year's event. Following are a few pointers and lessons learned for PR pros planning for next year.
Last month I attended the Marketo Marketing Nation Summit for the second time. My previous attendance was in 2014, which now seems like an eon ago—changes in the so-called "marketing nation" and in marketing tech have been dramatic in the past three years.
As a PR professional for many years, I have time and again watched clients make plans for the big yearly trade shows—SXSW, CES, Money2020—with all of the excitement of kids off to summer camp. They leave with big hopes for new leads, grand dreams of media coverage and plenty of sunscreen. Without fail, they return exhausted and somewhat disillusioned, if not sunburned.


Lille is now a university of excellence, with the official I-SITE label awarded in February 2017.
The I-sITE University Lille Nord-Europe aims to create a major university of a new type, bringing together the University of Lille, top French schools, the university hospital and the Pasteur Lille, with the increased support of the CNRS, Inserm and Inria.
The aim is to effect a complete transformation of the entire research and higher education landscape throughout the region in order to facilitate interaction between disciplines, between teaching innovation and research, and between the academic and socio-economic worlds. The goal is also to reinforce the university's partnerships with major international, (particularly European) universities, and become a major player in Europe based on knowledge.
Research excellence will be structured and reinforced around three major interdisciplinary and interconnected themes: health, the planet and intelligence. The construction of a European campus will help boost the attractivity of the region and international cooperation in academics and research, via a special partnership with the KU Leuven and closer collaboration with a number of universities (particularly the University of ghent, the Catholic University of Louvain and the University of Wageningen).


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AFL-CIO Announces Raising Wages Summits in Presidential Primary States Expanded Campaign in Seven Cities
January 7, 2015 April 30, 2015
(Washington, D.C., Jan. 7, 2015)—The first National Summit on Raising Wages definitively set the tone for political and economic action in the New Year. It generated an in-depth, diverse conversation and developed concrete steps for an expanded campaign to raise wages for working people. But above all, the summit proved America is beginning to rise up, come together and reject the idea that nothing can be done about falling wages. The AFL-CIO's national summit is just the beginning of the 2015 Raising Wages campaign. From today's success, the campaign expands with two initial projects: 1) State federations of labor will hold Raising Wages summits in the first four presidential primary states—Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina—beginning in Iowa this spring. These summits will bring together diverse voices to lay out the entire Raising Wages platform and establish state-based standards of accountability. 2) The AFL-CIO will take the Raising Wages campaign to seven cities around the country: Atlanta, Columbus, DC (Metro), St. Louis, Philadelphia, Minneapolis and San Diego. In each city, the labor movement will stand together with those already at work and bring important energy, ideas and resources to critical battles. These cities will be the starting points of a long-term effort to concentrate work where it can have the most impact. In major speeches highlighting the summit, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Secretary of Labor Tom Perez outlined the defining economic fact of the past generation: productivity has gone way up and wages have stayed flat. Concluding the summit, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka highlighted the enormous progress, remaining challenges and real steps the labor movement plans to undertake in order to create an economy based on raising wages. The AFL-CIO also released a series of policy prescriptions that take on many of the challenges discussed. These bold policies provide a comprehensive road map to grow our nation's economy in a way that works for everyone. The core of the summit's success was built on a panel discussion of workers, academics, business owners and progressive and political leaders. Through this conversation, panelists detailed how the raising wages agenda made great strides and confronted great challenges in 2014, including major organizing wins at American Airlines, multiple state legislative victories on the minimum wage and innovative campaigns conducted by carwash workers. The panelists also recognized, however, that right-wing billionaires' extremist politics, a rapacious Wall Street and insufficient advocacy from political leaders thwarted further progress. The AFL-CIO National Summit on Raising Wages was attended by more than 300 progressive activists and union leaders, and was seen by thousands more through online live-stream video. This summit is how the work begins. At its end, the challenges—but more importantly, the opportunities—are clear. Allies united behind the idea of a Raising Wages Agenda have come together in a collective voice, and are ready to go to work. Keri A. Shanks, Senior Secretary AFL-CIO Communications Department (202) 637-5389 kshanks@aflcio.org www.aflcio.org Visit the AFL-CIO for the latest updates, including news, videos and information on how you take action and get involved in your community. AFLCIO.ORG


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Whether everyone that sins through habit, sins through certain malice?
Objection 1: It would seem that not every one who sins through habit, sins through certain malice. Because sin committed through certain malice, seems to be most grievous. Now it happens sometimes that a man commits a slight sin through habit, as when he utters an idle word. Therefore sin committed from habit is not always committed through certain malice.
Objection 2: Further, "Acts proceeding from habits are like the acts by which those habits were formed" (Ethic. ii, 1,2). But the acts which precede a vicious habit are not committed through certain malice. Therefore the sins that arise from habit are not committed through certain malice.
Objection 3: Further, when a man commits a sin through certain malice, he is glad after having done it, according to Prov. 2:14: "Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things": and this, because it is pleasant to obtain what we desire, and to do those actions which are connatural to us by reason of habit. But those who sin through habit, are sorrowful after committing a sin: because "bad men," i.e. those who have a vicious habit, "are full of remorse" (Ethic. ix, 4). Therefore sins that arise from habit are not committed through certain malice.
On the contrary, A sin committed through certain malice is one that is done through choice of evil. Now we make choice of those things to which we are inclined by habit, as stated in Ethic. vi, 2 with regard to virtuous habits. Therefore a sin that arises from habit is committed through certain malice.
I answer that, There is a difference between a sin committed by one who has the habit, and a sin committed by habit: for it is not necessary to use a habit, since it is subject to the will of the person who has that habit. Hence habit is defined as being "something we use when we will," as stated above (Q[50], A[1]). And thus, even as it may happen that one who has a vicious habit may break forth into a virtuous act, because a bad habit does not corrupt reason altogether, something of which remains unimpaired, the result being that a sinner does some works which are generically good; so too it may happen sometimes that one who has a vicious habit, acts, not from that habit, but through the uprising of a passion, or again through ignorance. But whenever he uses the vicious habit he must needs sin through certain malice: because to anyone that has a habit, whatever is befitting to him in respect of that habit, has the aspect of something lovable, since it thereby becomes, in a way, connatural to him, according as custom and habit are a second nature. Now the very thing which befits a man in respect of a vicious habit, is something that excludes a spiritual good: the result being that a man chooses a spiritual evil, that he may obtain possession of what befits him in respect of that habit: and this is to sin through certain malice. Wherefore it is evident that whoever sins through habit, sins through certain malice.
Reply to Objection 1: Venial sin does not exclude spiritual good, consisting in the grace of God or charity. Wherefore it is an evil, not simply, but in a relative sense: and for that reason the habit thereof is not a simple but a relative evil.
Reply to Objection 2: Acts proceeding from habits are of like species as the acts from which those habits were formed: but they differ from them as perfect from imperfect. Such is the difference between sin committed through certain malice and sin committed through passion.
Reply to Objection 3: He that sins through habit is always glad for what he does through habit, as long as he uses the habit. But since he is able not to use the habit, and to think of something else, by means of his reason, which is not altogether corrupted, it may happen that while not using the habit he is sorry for what he has done through the habit. And so it often happens that such a man is sorry for his sin not because sin in itself is displeasing to him, but on account of his reaping some disadvantage from the sin.


Canon PowerShot ELPH 510 HS Manual is aimed to fulfill the needs toward information of both technical or instrumental issue among this digital camera product especially for Canon PowerShot ELPH 510 HS.
When Canon PowerShot ELPH 510 HS was firstly released to the market?
Canon PowerShot ELPH 510 HS was firstly released in August 23, 2011. Even if it's already released quite long time ago, but this product is still relevant for nowadays use, especially for you who likes retro camera kind of style.
Dimensions: 3.9 x 2.3 x 0.9 in.
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How much the price when Canon PowerShot ELPH 510 HS firstly released?
In the first release, It was $350 (old price at launch), and now, if you're interested to own this compact digital camera device, you can get it in several online stores by paying $249.95 (black), $149.99 used (red), $199.98 used (silver) with full HD video and ultra wide angle lens (black). This is the worth price for what's offered by this Canon PowerShot ELPH 510 HS.


Isabel is the Vice President of AAJA Asia's Hong Kong sub-chapter. She is also a multimedia producer based in Hong Kong with more than six years of experience in broadcast and digital journalism. She produces and presents stories related to business and finance, arts, and current affairs. She has worked at Bloomberg TV Asia and Tatler; and her works can also be seen on Travel Channel, That's Shanghai, Equal Times, and Hong Kong Discovery.


We're talking bargains not boats! If you're a savvy shopper like me you know the best time to buy summer stuff is when the sales start in late June, early July. That being said, I combed the city to find the best buys for the money and the following are my picks for a work to weekend wardrobe. All of the stores listed have numerous outposts in Manhattan.
BOLTONS is the place for perfect white cotton blend fly front slacks by Calvin Klein at $39.99 that are a great buy. If you add the matching single- breasted blazer at $69.99 you've got a versatile and chic pantsuit. Each piece can do double duty on its own for weekends in the country.
JOE FRESH is offering cobalt blue skinny jeans with white tuxedo stripes down the side for a whopping $9 bucks. Perfect to pair with the Boltons blazer. Add a pair of Joe's pastel suede flats with metallic cap toes for work at the nicely reduced price of $29.00 and one of his crisp cotton button down shirts in fun colors. Get a couple of these since they're only $9.00 now.
PRIMA DONNA came as a pleasant surprise when I stopped by its Jackson Heights boutique (not to worry, they have others in Queens and Manhattan). A careful search turned up some hidden gems. Number one find- a cute pair of red/white striped cotton lace-up espadrilles on sale for less than $15.oo. They also do a nice version of the Tom's espadrilles for the same price. Moving on I spied a terrific anchor necklace on a 20" chain that comes in white, red, and navy plastic with diagonal contrasting color stripes. It definitely looks twice the price of $12.99 and will give any summer outfit a jaunty nautical appeal.
H&M can be a zoo to navigate during the sales but fear not, your intrepid shopper braved the crowds and found a couple of items worth the aggravation of long check-out lines. My first pick has to be a snazzy east/west zip top tote bag in off white grainy faux leather.
The understated styling belies the nice price of under $40.00 For work or play, this shopper will take you anywhere. Stick in a pair of the brand's white "patent" ballerinas for $12.95 and you're good to go.
UNIQLO at last look see had adorable printed rayon shorts by Celia Birtwell for a measley $10 bucks on sale (by now they're probably even cheaper), and a terrific selection of tees and tanks at low, low prices and many colors. Worth checking out as there's always something great on sale here.
That's all for now. Hope these hints get your summer off to a great start. Happing hunting!


Trees are one of the rudimentary elements to life on earth. In death, we mourn the passing of each other, of animals, even the loss of our soulless possessions, but we treat the felling of timber without an emotional thought or second glance. We step over the hulk of a collapsed tree in woodland without consideration for their demise, little more than we did for their contribution in life – a truly cheap moment. Fallen celebrates the end of life in trees, ensuring the memorial they deserve and the sentiment we ignore.
What an irony it is that these living beings whose shade we sit in, whose fruit we eat, whose limbs we climb, whose roots we water, to whom most of us rarely give a second thought, are so poorly understood. We need to come, as soon as possible, to a profound understanding and appreciation for trees and forests and the vital role they play, for they are among our best allies in the uncertain future that is unfolding.


There's a special kind of frustration that accompanies a dropped Internet connection. In such dire times, try these four troubleshooting tips before hitting the panic button.
If you're working at in office and sharing an Internet connection with others, then the first thing you'll want to do is ask around if others are also without Internet access. This will help you quickly determine if the problem resides with your computer, or if it's a bigger issue involving your building's Internet connection or your ISP.
Generally speaking, it takes a lot of equipment and cables to make your Internet connection possible. All it takes is one weak link in the chain for your Internet connection to fail. Therefore, try finding the weak link by going through your equipment and making sure that everything is plugged in and working properly. Check your router, the Ethernet cables going to and from your router, the cable connecting to your PC, etc.
For the most part, a wired Internet connection is more reliable than a wireless connection. Therefore, if you've lost Internet connection on your mobile device, try moving to a different spot that's closer to the router and a place that's not impeded by physical objects like walls and floors. Also, if you find yourself in a spot where several other devices are tapping into the same wireless signal, then you may want to move away from these other devices for a better connection. If these measures don't work, try restarting your wireless router.
4. Is There Anything Else Eating Your Bandwidth?
There's only so much bandwidth to go around. A dropped Internet connection may mean that something else is eating more of your bandwidth than you expect. Is someone else in your office downloading a large file? Are too many users trying to participate in a video conference? Is your software performing an update during peak business hours? Is everybody streaming media at the same time? If this happens to be the case, and this happens frequently, then you'll want to upgrade to an Internet package that offers more bandwidth.
When it comes to your company's Internet connection, a dropped connection is much more than an annoyance. It equates to expensive downtime and lost productivity. This is especially the case if many of the mission-critical tasks that you're dependent on require a working Internet connection. Therefore, enterprises want to resolve this issue as quickly as possible. This is why it's so important that you set up your network in such a way as to maximize your Internet connection and minimize the amount of downtime experienced.


The Boston Terrier originated in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Terrier is one of the few breeds developed in the United States. The original Boston Terriers were a cross between the English Bulldog and the English White Terrier (which is now extinct). In early 1865, interbreeding of some dogs by the wealthy resulted in cross breeds, one of them being between the English White Terrier and an English Bulldog. This created a dog named "Hooper's Judge". Judge weighed over 30 pounds. He was bred down in size with a smaller female, and one of those male pups was bred to an even smaller female. This offspring interbred with one or more French Bulldogs which provided the foundation for the now known Boston Terrier.
By 1889 the breed had become popular in Boston thus forming the American Bull Terrier Club. This name was not well received by bull terrier lovers so a short time after the breed was named Boston Terrier. The American Kennel Club recognized this breed in 1893 and in Canada in 1898-99.
The Boston Terrier has been nick named "Tuxedo Dog" or "The American Gentleman" because of its desired markings. Boston Terriers were the most popular breed in the United States between 1929 and 1935.
The tuxedo clad little dog has a very captivating expression and a big heart. The Boston Terrier is a compact, well-muscled dog. He is a lively, highly intelligent, smooth coated, short-headed, short-tailed, and a well-balanced dog.
The Boston Terrier has a short, smooth coat that is fine in texture and shiny. Acceptable colouring for the CKC Standard are: black and white; black, brindle and white; seal and white; and brindle and white. Any other colours such as tan, liver, mouse or solid black ARE NOT within the breed standard for both the CKC and AKC. The white muzzle, blaze over the head, collar, breast, all or part of the forelegs and hind legs below the hock all contribute to the look of a dog decked out in a tuxedo, resulting in the early nick name "Tuxedo Dog" and now "The American Gentleman".
Although the Boston Terrier originated from tough pit fighters, through cross breeding and downsizing the Boston Terrier has mellowed to a gentle, alert, very intelligent, well-mannered and enthusiastic companion. Boston Terriers are very sensitive to the tone of one's voice so proper positive, corrective training is what Bostons best respond to.
They like to learn and therefore are not difficult to train using the proper, positive reinforcement. They pick things up quickly and if the humans around the dog do not display the leadership that all dogs need, they are very willful and will begin to believe they are 'running' the show and need to tell YOU what to do. They need a gentle, but firm, confident, and consistent pack leader who displays authority over the dog. Positive reinforcement in setting house rules and expectations of your Boston Terrier in its early life will create a well-balanced and happy Boston Terrier. Without proper leadership from their human companion communicating to the dog what is acceptable behaviour and what is not, they can become dominant and somewhat obnoxious.
Boston Terriers are playful, very affectionate and love to be part of the family, so when considering adopting a Boston Terrier, one should make sure that they have the time, dedication and love to commit to their pet. With the right environment, a Boston Terrier can make a superb pet that will be extremely devoted, loving and loyal to their family. They generally get along well with non-canine pets as well with the proper introduction.
length of the leg should balance with the length of the body to produce a square appearance.
The Boston Terrier is of the brachycephallic breeds and considered to be the healthiest. Because of their short muzzles, they tend to have trouble breathing in hot and cold temperatures or by exertion. Because of the short muzzle and shortened air passage, they do have a endency to snore and have been noted to flatulate (pass gas) as well.
Luxating patellas are a dislocation of the knee. It is not purely a genetic problem and can be the result of environmental situations, development issues, injury to the ligaments or just the way the bone/cartilage is formed. This is one of the more common issues of the breed but does not mean that the Boston Terrier cannot lead a full quality life or that they will require surgery (dependent on the grade level of the luxating patella). A reputable breeder will test their Boston Terrier before they are entered into the breeding program to make sure that this is not an issue.
Eye injuries are another common health concern with Boston Terriers as they have protruding eyes and are susceptible to being struck by foreign objects causing injury, irritation and possible infection if not dealt with promptly. Juvenile cataracts are also noted, which is a genetic condition, and can lead to total blindness in dogs less than a year old. Reputable breeders can have their Boston Terrier puppies under a CERF test to determine if they are free from juvenile cataracts (or have them JHC clear through the parentage). Cataracts can also occur which is a degenerative condition that can lead to blindness if not detected and treated early on. This generally appears as the dog gets older.


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Radiotherapy is given after surgery to the region of the tumor bed and regional lymph nodes, to destroy microscopic tumor cells that may have escaped surgery. Medications often called cytotoxic medicine could also be used to kill cancer cells, if there's a high risk of recurrence or unfold. By no means disregard skilled medical recommendation or delay in search of it because of one thing you may have read by way of the Providers.
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