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REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS SET VALUE OF ALL PUBLIC LANDS AND BUILDINGS TO $0 FOR EASY SELL OFF AT TAXPAYERS' EXPENSE
Jan 23, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson
by Brody Levesque THE NEW CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.COM
Change Could Ultimately Benefit Energy Companies, Forever Destroying America's Vast Wilderness
The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passed a rules change this past week by a vote of 234 to 193, that would allow Congress the ability to essentially give away federal lands and buildings for free. The new rule, authored by GOP Rep. Robert Bishop of Utah, Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, codifies that any legislation to dispose of federal land and natural resources would have a net sum zero cost to taxpayers. As the rule applies only to the House legislative rules, it is not subject to approval by the Senate or a presidential signature and is effective immediately.
All Democrats in the House voted against the measure, while only three Republicans joined them in opposing it, USA TODAY reports. The Wilderness Society said "this move paves the way for a wholesale giveaway of our American hunting, fishing and camping lands that belong to us all. Make no mistake, the giveaway is for the benefit of the drilling and mining interests that have a lock-grip on Congress and the rest of Washington."
Since the House is required to account for any cost associated with any legislation it considers under Congressional Budget Office accounting rules and guidelines, legislation put forward now shall skip several steps in the normal legislative process, coming up for a vote without any discussion of the costs and benefits. This means that the House does not need to render an assessment or cost analysis of estimated financial losses resulting in legislation giving away public lands or buildings.A Democratic Congressional source on Capitol Hill told NCRM Friday that this procedural rules shortcut will apply equally to all types of public land.
"For example, the national parks like Yosemite – even federal buildings and facilities in Washington like the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover headquarters building, could all be given away without consideration of the cost to American taxpayers."
'Plan to Give Away America's Public Lands for Free Is Outrageous and Absurd' Says Democratic Congressman
In an statement to NCRM via email Arizona Democratic Congressman Raul Grijalva of Arizona castigated House GOP leadership over the rules change.
"The House Republican plan to give away America's public lands for free is outrageous and absurd. This proposed rule change would make it easier to implement this plan by allowing the Congress to give away every single piece of property we own, for free, and pretend we have lost nothing of any value. Not only is this fiscally irresponsible, but it is also a flagrant attack on places and resources valued and beloved by the American people," Grijalva said.
Federal stewardship over public lands has long been a contentious issue with Congressional Republicans and particularly with Tea Party and House Freedom Caucus members from the Western states. But in the case of Rep. Bishop, he has waged an incessant campaign to divest federal ownership of Western lands, in particular urging President-elect Donald Trump to abolish national monuments designated by President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton. More than 270 million acres of American land and waters are potentially at risk—an area two and a half times the size of California.
This latest maneuver by Bishop with the House rules change was met with sharp criticism from conservation and watchdog groups. One group told NCRM that the impetus for Bishop's zeal to unload federal property could be traced to his contributors.
According to the advocacy and activist group Oil Change International which tracks campaign contribution monies from fossil fuel corporations and the coal industry via the group's Dirty Energy Money web project, since 1999 Congressman Bishop has accepted campaign funds and contributions of more than $452,610 dollars from oil, gas and coal interests. Figures collected by Oil Change International show that greater than ten percent of that figure has come from the coal-friendly National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, which has led the fight against the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. Oil giants Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, and Tesoro are also listed among Bishop's top campaign contributors.
Recent polling by the Denver, Colorado, based Center for Western Priorities showed that over seventy-five percent of registered voters in the states of Nevada, Colorado, and Montana believe public lands are an essential part of their respective state's economies. Additionally, the Congressional watchdog agency, the Government Accountability Office, which is responsible for monitoring of the federal budget, found that leases for oil and gas drilling on public lands are one of the U.S. government's largest sources of non-tax based revenues.
Congressional Republicans Accused of 'Greasing the Skids' and 'Using Smoke and Mirrors to Hide the Cost of Stealing Away Our Public Lands'
In a statement released Tuesday after the House rules change vote by the Center for Western Priorities, which calls itself a "nonpartisan conservation and advocacy organization," the organisation's Executive Director Jennifer Rokala noted:
"Less than one day in and Congressional Republicans are already greasing the skids to give away or sell off America's public lands, forests, and wildlife refuges. What's worse, politicians are using smoke and mirrors to hide the cost of stealing away our public lands, while ripping off American taxpayers in the process."
She added, "President-elect Donald Trump and his nominee to run the Interior Department, Montana Representative Ryan Zinke, have disavowed attempts to seize our public lands. This is their first chance to show how serious they are by standing up to attacks on our parks and public lands in the U.S. House of Representatives."
During his presidential campaign, Trump was a vocal opponent of selling off federal lands. His Interior Secretary nominee, GOP Congressman Ryan Zinke, who serves as U.S. Representative for Montana's at-large congressional district, has also publicly stated his opposition to efforts to dispose of public lands. During the GOP platform writing committee sessions last summer he resigned after the Republican Party platform included language that would support disposal of federal lands. He did however vote in favor of House Resolution 5 for the Rules Change on Tuesday. A spokesperson for Zinke told NCRM Friday that any statement regarding a change in his position regarding Bishop's rule would be premature until further review and after his confirmation process as Interior Secretary.
Randi Spivak, public lands director with the Center for Biological Diversity remarked, "In Rob Bishop's world, land owned by all Americans should be taken over by those who see them as nothing but a source of profit for drilling, mining and logging. Fortunately there are laws that protect places like national monuments—Rep. Bishop apparently doesn't understand them or doesn't think they should apply to his ideology."
"If Rob Bishop has his way, where would it stop? Taking Yellowstone and Yosemite off the list of national parks?," asked Spivak.
To contact your Congressman visit the House website or call the Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121.
Rep. Bishop is on Facebook.
Brody Levesque is the Chief Political Correspondent for The New Civil Rights Movement.
You may contact Brody at Brody.Levesque@thenewcivilrightsmovement.com
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Final Season of "Clone Wars" Coming 2014
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After Disney bought LucasFilm, it abruptly cancelled the popular Cartoon Network series "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" - leaving fans stuck with a cliffhanger fifth season ending.
At the time of the cancellation, the show itself was in the midst of production of its sixth season - leaving many to wonder if the episodes that had been produced so far would ever see the light of day.
Today, the show's supervising director Dave Filoni revealed in a Facebook posting that fans will be ...
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Sean Bean, Eva Longoria, Kate Walsh Join "Any Day"
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Sean Bean, Eva Longoria and Kate Walsh have joined Rustam Branaman's new indie drama "Any Day" at Jaguar Entertainment.
Bean plays ex-fighter Vian, who is transformed by the love and forgiveness he experiences through his 11-year-old nephew Jimmy.
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Reese Witherspoon Gets Her "Happily Ever After"
Reese Witherspoon is attached to produce and star in the comedic fairy-tale feature "Happily Ever After" at Disney Pictures.
Nahnatchka Khan ("Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23") created the pitch which follows a prince and princess ten years after they got their "happily ever after."
Even in fairy-tale land, they realize they have to work to keep their relationship and lives together.
Bruna Papandrea and John Jacobs will also produce.

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March 24, 2015 – This is the second blog about an opportunity that Michigan's Children had this month to strategize action around some very important services that touch the lives of families with babies and toddlers. In partnership with the Early Childhood Investment Corporation and the Early On Michigan Foundation, Michigan's Children organized a session to bring together allies and stakeholders to begin to build improvements to the Early On system. Early On is our state's Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) – Part C program that provides early intervention services to families with young children from birth to age three who have developmental delays or disabilities. Currently in Michigan, the main source of funding for Early On comes from the federal government, which is sorely inadequate to provide appropriate services. The intent of the session earlier this month was for participants to gain a shared understanding of IDEA Part C and those federal requirements, Early On in Michigan and its ability to appropriately serve eligible children and their families, and to begin identifying opportunities to bolster the system.
The Early On session was one of the first times in recent years that a room of state-level early childhood advocates, staff from the Michigan Departments of Education and Community Health, and local Early On providers had the opportunity to talk about how to advance that system. It was clear that folks were glad to be having the conversation because it's not often that you get a room of 45 busy individuals staying to the last minute of a 3-hour long meeting and even sticking around afterwards to continue some conversations in smaller groups. It was clear from that session that ensuring young children and their families can access appropriate early intervention services across the state was a high priority for those from inside and outside the Early On system. It was also clear that adequate and equitable services are currently not available and that this must be remedied with additional state investment. While the group heard from one local community about their fairly robust early intervention services being supported by a sizeable local mileage, local support for Early On varies widely across the state with many communities having no local investment to support early intervention. And given that there is no state investment for the majority of Early On eligible children and their families, the significant disparities in the adequacy of services available continues to persist.
One of the action steps identified by this group was for the state to look into maximizing federal Medicaid funds to support aspects of the Early On system – much like many other states do but not in Michigan. While all kids who receive Early On services aren't Medicaid recipients, a good portion of them are, making this resource a viable option to support some intervention services such as physical or occupational therapy. Michigan's Children is leading efforts to explore this option. However, drawing down Medicaid funds isn't possible without a match, reinforcing the need for a state appropriation for Early On. Michigan's Children in partnership with the Early On Michigan Foundation and others will continue to pursue this route in the FY2016 budget being debated and into the future.
Learn more about Early On by reading our Issues for Michigan's Children publication.
September 10, 2014 – I try to play the social media game but I honestly feel like I can't keep up. I'm just beginning to dabble in the use of #hashtags and still struggle to get my message across in 140 characters or less. What can I say? I'm a policy person… trying to get something down to one-page is hard enough! But, I do recognize that social media can be an effective strategy to move public policy priorities. And to that end, I urge you to fight any possible social media hesitations – or embrace your love for social media – and participate in today's #InvestinKids Strong Start Coalition Twitter Campaign from 2-3pm or anytime today if you're unavailable during that hour. The purpose of the Twitter storm is to let members of Congress – and I would add our state legislators and candidates for public office – know that investing in young children is a top priority.
The Strong Start Coalition is focusing on expanding access to early childhood opportunities – an issue that Michigan's Children is prioritizing this election season via the Sandbox Party. With our state's significant focus on preschool over the past two years, it's now time to focus on our littlest Michigan residents. We must expand funding for programs that serve young children prenatally through age three through a variety of evidence-based services including home visiting, early intervention for developmental delays, and high quality child care. These are all parts of Michigan's early childhood system – particularly Early On Early intervention – that have received significantly less attention than preschool.
Michigan's Children is glad that the importance of home visiting has expanded over the past several years in Michigan, with some increases in state and federal funding for evidence-based home visiting services and through the Governor's Partners for Success opportunity. And, we're glad that the need to increase access to high quality child care is being worked on by the Administration through Michigan's Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge grant. But I would argue that both of these parts of the early childhood system still have quite a ways to go to ensure access to all families who are eligible for these services. At the same time, Early On continues to be left behind. An Auditor General's report that came out last year highlighted some significant challenges with the Early On system – many which are the result of historic underfunding of the Early On system for decades. In a nutshell, opportunities for our youngest Michigan residents continue to fall far behind.
I hope you will join many other early childhood advocates across the nation today by participating in the #InvestinKids Twitter action. In addition to targeting our members of Congress, please consider tailoring your message to candidates running for public office.
To learn more about Michigan's Children's election efforts, visit www.michigansandboxparty.org.
February 19, 2014 – This month marked the end of my maternity leave and the start of Lennon's time in child care. As a mom whose day job focuses on early childhood public policy issues, I am familiar with the ins and outs of what a high quality child care provider looks like and subsequently, what that means for costs. As we were shopping around for child care providers; I, of course, was asking about Great Start to Quality ratings, curriculum, whether programs utilized a lower teacher-to-baby ratio than required by state licensing, and other questions that a typical parent searching for child care might not think to ask. Lennon now spends a couple days a week in a NAEYC accredited, five-star rated program that we all love. And our monthly finances have taken a significant hit to reflect that.
I say this because at the same time that Lennon was embarking on his child care experiences, Governor Snyder made some recommendations to strengthen Michigan's public child care subsidy system – the Child Development and Care (CDC) program – in his budget presentation early this month. One of his recommendations is to provide tiered reimbursement rates such that higher quality child care providers would receive a higher rate. In theory, this is a step in the right direction since higher quality care is more expensive. However, if you take a step back and look at the CDC program, you'll see that this is a positive recommendation built upon a very weak structure.
For Lennon's child care, we pay a monthly fee for his spot at the center. In fact, his child care center doesn't even accept payment on an hourly, daily, or weekly rate because they know that they need to rely on a certain amount of revenue each month to maintain the operations of their quality program. For families who rely on the state's child care subsidy, providers are reimbursed on an hourly rate. Clearly this makes it extremely challenging for child care providers to support their businesses if they have to depend on on a less reliable hourly payment based on attendance.
Additionally, Michigan's reimbursement rates are pitifully low, making it impossible for a low-income family who relies on the child care subsidy to afford a high quality program. The current rate for an infant to attend a 5-star rated program in a child care center is $3.75 an hour. Governor Snyder is proposing to increase that rate to $4.00 an hour for 3-star rated programs, $4.25 an hour for 4-star rated programs, and $4.50 an hour for 5-star rated programs. Finding a high quality child care provider willing to accept $4.50 an hour to care for an infant is pretty much impossible. For the very low-income families who are eligible for the CDC program, paying the difference between the subsidy and the true cost of care would be extremely challenging if not impossible.
What does this mean? While tiered reimbursement is a positive step, Michigan must also restructure its payment system to better support parents and providers. Not only do we need to address our hourly reimbursement system, but we also need to take a closer look at the reimbursement rates and what the marketplace demands.
Another one of Governor Snyder's recommended changes to the CDC program is to increase the number of reimbursable hours from 80 to 90 hours in a two-week period. This is a step in the right direction but continues to fall short. At Lennon's child care center – understanding that most full-time individuals work at least 8.5 hours a day once you factor in a lunch break, and that parents need time to travel to and from their workplace to the center – they allow parents to leave their children in care for up to 9.5 hours each day. At that rate, we could access 95 hours of child care in a two-week period. If I had to work multiple jobs to support my family, I would clearly need more hours of child care. So while the Governor's recommendation moves the state towards better supporting full-time working parents, it continues to fall short of the realities of what parents need. Michigan should look to what many states have done and have no cap on the maximum number of subsidized child care hours that our state's lowest-income working families can access.
In a nutshell, I'm glad to see the Governor begin to take a closer look at the CDC program and to move Michigan towards better supporting low income families. These small steps are steps in the right direction. However, to truly support families, we must consider more significant shifts to the structure of the CDC program. While I feel fortunate to be able to send Lennon to a high quality child care program that provides a nurturing environment that promotes healthy development and early learning, I know that the children who could benefit the most from his program are the ones who likely can't access it. Michigan must do more to ensure that our state's most challenged young children can benefit from high quality child care experiences – the quality experiences that can ensure all children have a great start in life.
January 8, 2014 – As gym membership purchases skyrocket and cookie sales take a hit, there's nothing like the start to a new year to have folks think about all the hopes and wishes they have for a new year. While I'm not a new year's resolution kind of gal, I do have some hopes and wishes for young children in Michigan. And 2014 is a year where much progress can be made with the help of your advocacy efforts as well as Michigan's recently awarded Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge grant.
At Michigan's Children, we've long been advocates for the state's young people who face the greatest barriers to opportunities that promote education and life success – children who are disproportionately disadvantaged like children of color and children from low-income families. And we know the greatest avenue to success is to focus on prevention efforts to mitigate the disparities that emerge early and can persist over a lifetime. As a state, we've clearly made great progress in this arena as evidenced by the significant expansion of the Great Start Readiness Program. However, we know we have to start before preschool since disparities in cognitive development – which leads to the achievement gap – can emerge as young as nine months of age. When we provide services for young children prenatally through age three coupled with a high quality preschool program like the Great Start Readiness Program, we can make significant strides towards ensuring all children are prepared for kindergarten while preventing the achievement gap.
As we ramp up preschool services for four-year-olds, Michigan must expand services to families with very young children prenatally through age three. Two key opportunities for bolstering services for this population are to strengthen the subsidized child care system and to expand evidence-based home visiting services. In essence, ensuring that very young children have the best environments for their learning and development in the two places where they spend their days – at home and in child care while their parents work. At the same time that the federal government has improved access to home visiting by increasing available funding, Michigan has bolstered the quality of home visiting services by mandating that publicly funded programs be evidence-based or promising programs. Now, the state must also take responsibility for expanding access to these services since they still reach only a small fraction of the families who are eligible.
Additionally, our subsidized child care system continues to be one of the worst in the nation with woefully low reimbursement rates that are paid on an hourly basis. And, with infant and toddler care being the most expensive, accessing high quality (read: 5-star rated programs in Great Start to Quality) is next to impossible with the current subsidy structure. But opportunities to strengthen the child care system exist – especially with Michigan's Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) Grant award. With our RTT-ELC grant, Michigan will focus on bolstering child care services to the most challenged families. For infants and toddlers, a scholarship will be available to families in high needs communities, which will allow more young children access to the highest quality care that promotes healthy development and eliminates the school readiness gap. While these scholarships are a great model that Michigan can replicate across the state, the RTT-ELC grant will only provide scholarships to a small fraction of the thousands of infants and toddlers who currently receive subsidized care.
More broadly, Michigan will use its RTT-ELC grant funding to provide incentives for more child care providers to participate in Great Start to Quality so that parents can be better informed about the quality of care they select for their children. And, Michigan will make a concerted effort to support both licensed and unlicensed home-based child care providers to increase the quality of their care. This is a significant step in the right direction since we know that many families – particularly families with very young children – opt for home-based care for many reasons including affordability, trust, cultural alignment, and convenience. These opportunities will support parental choice so that parents can make the best possible decision about the care they purchase for their children.
While we have a ways to go to better serve Michigan's youngest children, I am encouraged by the efforts we have already made and the plans we have laid out in our RTT-ELC grant. While it would be overly optimistic to say that I hope the state's "new year's resolution" is to provide all young children prenatally through age five with the high quality services they need to be prepared for kindergarten, 2014 will prove to be a year where we can make great strides towards this goal. Won't you join us in these efforts? The Governor will be unveiling his state budget proposal for the next fiscal year in February and shortly thereafter, the Legislature will be building the state's budget. Now is the time to talk to your legislators about how we can better support Michigan's struggling children even before they reach preschool – by increasing access to evidence-based home visiting services and expanding and embedding opportunities available through the RTT-ELC into state policy. 2014 must be the year that we make significant strides so that all of Michigan's most challenged young children can have access to opportunities that will help them thrive.
Learn more about Michigan's Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge grant on the Michigan Office of Great Start website.
Ahh Valentine's Day. The day of love. The day when flower shops, candy shops, and restaurants do remarkably well. But I must admit I'm not a big fan of Valentine's Day. Sure, I love reminding my loved ones how much I care about them on this day, but I also find it rather silly to single out one day a year that we express our love and appreciation for our loved ones who stand by us every day. I have similar feelings about singling out four-year-old preschool in budget and program conversations about improving school readiness, and here's why.
In President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday, he called for universal access to preschool, and anticipated details of this plan include expansion to high quality early learning programs that span the birth to five continuum. This comes on the heels of Governor Snyder's state budget presentation for fiscal year 2014 that calls for a substantial expansion for the Great Start Readiness Preschool program (GSRP) – Michigan's preschool program for four-year-olds at-risk of starting school behind. (Learn more about what the Governor's budget means for young children in our Budget Basics report).
We know access to high quality preschool is an evidence-based strategy towards reducing an achievement gap – a gap that begins early and can build over time without the appropriate prevention and intervention strategies. GSRP has proven to reduce disparities in student achievement including reducing the readiness gap at kindergarten, improving reading proficiency for third graders (a critical benchmark for school success), and getting more young people to their high school graduations. And in fact, children of color who participated in GSRP were three times more likely to graduate high school on-time than children of color who did not attend GSRP – proving its effectiveness in reducing disparities.
I am a huge supporter of preschool for four-year-olds, and I also think that focusing significant investment only towards four-year-olds is short-sighted. Just like expressing love should be about more than one-day, we know that early childhood education should be about more than support for a single year. While GSRP is geared towards four-year-olds, we know that disparities in cognitive development emerge in babies as young as nine months of age. And for the babies and toddlers who struggled the most, one year of preschool is a huge help towards preparing them for kindergarten but it may not be quite enough to offset the challenges they faced early in life. Even Governor Snyder acknowledges that education must focus on the entire P-20 continuum – that begins prenatally not at four-years-old – though he does not reflect this in his budget.
To lay the best foundation to build a successful education career and to reduce achievement gaps, we must begin at birth and provide support to the most challenged young families. I applaud President Obama's efforts to expand access to not just four-year-old preschool but also Early Head Start, quality child care, and evidence-based home visiting. Perhaps as we advocate to ensure that the GSPR expansion stays in the final FY2014 state budget, we should also talk about some level of support for Michigan's youngest learners – children from birth through age three – to prevent early disparities. And perhaps as we discuss President Obama's early childhood focus with our Congressional folks, we should discuss how any plan to offset the sequester must safeguard the federal programs that currently support infants and toddlers like the Child Care and Development Block Grant and Early Head Start. Here at Michigan's Children, we love preschool, and we also know that early childhood education begins before four-years of age.


It is named for G. E. Moore, who was the first in the philosophical literature to note the absurdity of these statements.
Moore's paradox is asserting that something is true, yet that at the same time one does not believe it; or believing that something is true, yet at the same time one does not believe that one believes it.
they are in the first person: I believe X but X is false is paradoxical, but you believe X but X is false (second person) and she believes X but X is false (third person) are not.
In the first case, one lacks belief in something which one acknowledges to be true, but one doesn't disbelieve in it either (neither believing nor disbelieving.) In the second case, one is saying that something is true, but that one actively disbelieves in it (believes it to be false).
Maratrean logic accepts that Moore's paradox is indeed paradoxical. This is a basic principle of rationality. It connects logic to personhood (the first person is special) and to time (the present is special). The I, the Here, the Now - these are far more than mere indexicals.
To which let us add the addendum: I ought to believe X, therefore X. This is a principle of inference. It is similar to the principle of inference which Moore's paradox exposes: I believe X, therefore X.


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Hunter were formed during the summer of '79 in the Isle Of Wight. The original line up consisted of Jon Amor on vocals, Ian Hargreaves on bass/backing vocals and brothers Clive and Hugh Kim Lewis on guitar and drums, respectively. They had a different sound to the new wave music of the era, centering mainly around driving bass riffs and choppy guitar. Most of the material they played were their own songs. They rehearsed extensively and made their live debut on 22nd December 1979 supporting the Pumphouse Gang at Lakeside Inn. Not long after Hugh departed the band to join Flirt (later Cassie) and Chris Lines took his place on drums. The new line up did more live gigs and went into Tim Muncaster's 4 track studio in East Cowes to record some songs. A short while after the band split up.
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#Namdaemun Market cluster infections
Cluster infections break out at Seoul's Namdaemun Market
All News 09:59 August 10, 2020
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Yonhap) -- Eight merchants working at Namdaemun Market in central Seoul and at least one family member have tested positive for the new coronavirus, officials said Monday, raising concern about a fresh cluster of pandemic infections at the nation's largest traditional market.
According to municipal officials, eight merchants who belong to the sprawling market's women's fashion shopping mall, called Kennedy Complex, had been found to be infected with COVID-19 as of Sunday afternoon.
The latest cluster of infections appears to be traced to a female Kennedy Complex employee, a resident of Goyang, just northwest of Seoul, who tested positive last Friday, the officials speculated.
Soon after, quarantine authorities conducted coronavirus tests on 20 merchants who were working on the same floor as the Goyang resident, and seven of them produced positive results, they said.
The Goyang woman's child was additionally found to be infected, they added.
The authorities are planning to conduct more COVID-19 tests after examining if there were others who came into contact with the Goyang woman and the infected merchants.
All the infected merchants were working on the ground floor of Kennedy Complex, and there were around five other merchants who work on other floors of the shopping mall, the officials said.
The Seoul metropolitan government has sent out public text massages asking all shoppers who may have recently come into contact with Kennedy Complex merchants to take the coronavirus test.
Kennedy Complex is located between Exit 5 and Exit 6 of Hoehyeon Station on Seoul Subway Line 4. Namdaemun Market is the largest traditional market in Korea with shops selling all kinds of consumer goods, including clothes, glasses, kitchenware, toys, stationery, accessories, ginseng and imported goods.
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Oduah has brought change to aviation, by Yakubu Dati
Segun Adebowale
Yakubu Dati
Since assuming duties as Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah has left no one in doubt that she is on a mission. She inherited an industry poorly developed, steeped in crises with threat of imminent collapse. The absence of a consistent and well articulated national aviation policy, excessive bureaucracy and bad management was its waterloo. Attempts to formulate a national policy dates back to 1986 when a 10-man committee's recommendation constituted the National Policy on Civil Aviation. African ministers responsible for civil aviation met in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast in October 1988 to fine-tune common positions.
This heralded the historic Yamoussoukro Declaration of 1988. It became imperative to harmonise the National Aviation Policy of 1989 with the Regional Aviation Policy contained in the Yamoussoukro Declaration of 1988 which was reaffirmed in 1994. Princess Stella Oduah therefore navigated through the cacophony of policies and came up with the Aviation Road map. The Road-map provided the institutional framework for the provision of infrastructure, monitoring and control of the industry. The involvement of aviation stakeholders in producing the policy predictably resulted in unanimous adoption. One year down the road, critics who doubted government's commitment to implementing the road-map are forced to swallow their words as the implementation is on course.
Princess Oduah sent shock waves into the system when shortly on resumption, she stopped the exploitative collection of N2, 500 passenger service charge introduced unilaterally by the operators.
Her mission to restore the aviation sector to its rightful place as a harbinger of economic progress was not open to negotiation. In the words of Henry Longfellow, "In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer". Those who dared to stand on her way have confessed that beneath her soft spoken mien is plenty of hammer and anvil.
When she engaged the British authorities on the airfare disparity saga, she stood eyeball to eyeball with our erstwhile colonial masters, to the admiration of fellow Nigerians. At the heat of heighted suspicion between the Executive and Legislative arm of government, the National Assembly endorsed and supported her crusade, with resounding success.
Known for daring uncharted terrain, Princess Oduah inherited a sector that had virtually negotiated away its soul to powerful forces in the guise of public private partnerships, concessionaires and other drain pipes. At least, four ministers of aviation have fought the 'aviation cabal' to no success. For a woman who has conquered the private sector and successfully established a business conglomerate with interest spanning oil and gas, agriculture, engineering, logistics, trading and philanthropy, fate had prepared her for a time such as these. She rose to the occasion. Though Aviation stakeholders have applauded this Princess of Akili, the ranks of her powerful enemies increased.
Worried by the decay in Nigerian airports and terminals that were built more than thirty years ago, the minister embarked on massive reconstruction and remodelling. The Kaduna and Kano Hajj terminals were remodelled and commissioned in record time by no other than the Sultan of Sokoto himself who was so impressed with the quality of work that he made a case for Sokoto. Work is on-going at the Sokoto terminal. Within 3 months of mounting the saddle of leadership, she commenced work on 11 airports in the first instance, out of the 22 earmarked. From Lagos to Yola, Port Harcourt to Enugu, the quality and pace of work took the aviation sector by storm. For once, the national pride of Nigerians was restored and the nation's standing in the comity of nations was sustained. Some 'aviation stakeholders' were however slighted that the minister deviated from the normal practice where monies where shared amongst 'stakeholders'. They vowed to teach her a lesson. They petitioned that the minister was remodelling the airports without approval, contracts were awarded without due process and that the BASA funds were being spent without regard for laid down procedures. Like a pack of cards, the accusations fell one after the other as their accusations lacked merit. Due process was followed and relevant approvals were received from the applicable bodies as required by law. In total bewilderment of her traducers, it was discovered that the contractors were using their money to fund the projects as not a kobo had been spent from the BASA funds!
Being one not to be bedridden by setbacks, the minister rolled up her sleeves and returned to the drawing board with energy and invincible determination. She embarked on the Aerotropolis project. This concept which has been embraced internationally is about building cities with complete infrastructure around airports. Similar to Schipol in Germany, Amsterdam in Netherland and Heathrow in the United Kingdom, this new business module is yet another window to attract foreign investment and grow the local economy.
To harness the benefits of the critical infrastructure being put in place, Princess Oduah has embarked on an international investment road show to attract global players. The investment road show being a key element of the road map for transformation of the country's air transport industry is already yielding bountiful harvests in fits and bounds!
The Chinese have already signed an MOU with Nigeria to finance the construction of 11 new state-of-the-arts airports across Nigeria, out of which 6 will be for perishables. The conferment of the award of LEADERSHIP Public Officer of the year 2011 to Princess Stella Oduah by Leadership Newspaper group did not come to many as a surprise. This tireless workaholic who is not given to vain glories is a great believer in nation building. In his treatise, James Thomas captures the essence "To be a great thinker and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg'
On Monday, October 22, 2012, the aviation industry in Nigeria stood still for President Goodluck Jonathan and this amazon and trail blaizer, Princess Stella Adaeze Oduah as the first of the 11 remodelled terminals was commissioned by the Secretary to the government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim. The saying that seeing is believing came to the fore at that occasion.
Stakeholders who had doubted the reality of the transformation agenda had a change of heart when they saw the magnificence of the new terminal. The wind has been taken off the sail of the incurable critics of the Honourable Minister, who may be busy now exploiting other means of finding specs in her eyes even when they have moles in their own eyes.
But the Princess Oduah we know cannot be deterred by such distractions! She has placed her hands on the plough and there is no looking back. As the remaining 10 remodelled airports await commissioning in quick succession in the next two months, work is set to commence on the remaining 10 airports in the second phase of the remodelling project. The airport landscape in Nigeria has become one huge construction site and Nigerians are it all to this woman of vision.
And to the man whose responsibility it is to implement the transformation agenda in FAAN, Mr. George Uriesi, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of FAAN.
His appointment as the helmsman in FAAN in October, 2011has literally changed the landscape of the Authority and dramatically changed the attitude of staff to work. His "letter to the staff", on every important development in the Authority has elevated the staff's commitment to duty to a new level. There is no wonder then that the transformation agenda is working in FAAN.
Yakubu Dati is the General Manager, Corporate Communications of FAAN.
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Mailbag: What teams, coaches can the Cavs' offense take examples from?
Miami and Denver make the most sense to copy for Cleveland.
By Evan Dammarell@AmNotEvan Oct 16, 2020, 10:00am CDT
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What other coaches/teams might this offense be comparable to? From Hoov Himself
If you had asked this question a few weeks into the 2019-20 NBA season, I would have told you that there was no definitive answer. John Beilein was rigid and hellbent about forcing his polar bears and other collegiate sets, that found him success prior to joining the NBA, on the Cavs. To no one's surprise, it didn't work out — as Cleveland ranked towards the bottom of the league in terms of offensive efficiency and shooting percentage under Beilein. We all know what happened next.
According to league sources, the Cavs were hoping Beilein would make it until the end of the season. But, Beilein surprised everyone when he announced he was stepping down from coaching the Cavs — citing similar reasons to Larry Drew: he lost his love and passion for the game coaching Cleveland. In Beilein's stead, J.B. Bickerstaff took over coaching responsibilities as the Cavs signed him to a long term deal. Not only did the Cavs become 26 years younger at the head coaching position, but they also found their offensive identity under Bickerstaff as well.
With the support of the Cavs committing long term to him, Bickerstaff was able to get a little funky and a little weird when experiment with the team's offensive lineups and rotations. There was playing Kevin Porter Jr. as a one and featuring his playmaking in sets. There was also the all-big lineup featuring Larry Nance Jr., Kevin Love, and either Tristan Thompson or Andre Drummond. They also made more basic adjustments like running more pick-and-rolls. Bickerstaff quickly found the pulse of an almost flatlined Cleveland offense, and gave it the necessary jolt and posted results that were far more promising than the Cavs performed under Beilein.
So, the Cavs now have substance when it comes to their offense, but how does Bickerstaff mold it to fit the standards of the modern NBA? Thankfully, both Bickerstaff and assistant coach Lindsay Gottlieb provided insight in that they want to take pages from teams under the Orlando bubble that were successful. Mostly the Miami Heat and the Denver Nuggets.
Their reasoning makes a ton of sense, both Miami and Denver have interesting roster constructions where they play to the strength of their big men in Bam Adebayo and Nikola Jokic. Now, I'm not saying Drummond or Love compare to either Adebayo or Jokic, but they are two of Cleveland's best players and the team should play to their strengths. Ditto for the team using Porter Jr. like Jimmy Butler, who acted as a point forward on top of everything else for the Heat in the 2020 NBA Finals. There's also a stable of guards like Jamal Murray, Garry Harris, Goran Dragic, and Tyler Herro for Collin Sexton and Darius Garland to learn from. The same can be said from Larry Nance Jr. studying tape on Jerami Grant.
Denver made it to the Western Conference Finals and Miami took the champion Lakers to six games in the NBA Finals in Orlando. So, mimicking what makes them successful is a good direction to be heading towards for the Cavs.


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Someday Reese Gates will own The Candy Counter at Kenworth's; but someday can't come fast enough when the manager threatens to bring in a national candy provider. Reese secretly takes matters into her own hands hoping to save her parents from additional worry and prove herself capable of running the company. Her deception deepens as she ropes computer guru Andy Edwards into helping her expand the business. Reese wanted to shake things up, but she wasn't planning on her heart getting caught in the mix by Andy's stolen kisses. If she can hold it together until after Christmas, then she can reveal her successful online company and her feelings for Andy.
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'Wonder Woman 1984' Pushed Back to August
The cascade of movie postponements caused by coronavirus continues. Today, Warner Bros. announced that one of its biggest films of the year, Wonder Woman 1984, will not come out as scheduled in June. Instead, the movie will (hopefully) open in theaters in August.
Here's Warner Bros. chairman Toby Emmerich's statement on the news, via Variety:
When we greenlit 'Wonder Woman 1984,' it was with every intention to be viewed on the big screen and are excited to announce that Warner Bros. Pictures will be bringing the film to theatres on Aug. 14. We hope the world will be in a safer and healthier place by then.
Warners made other changes to their release calendar as well. Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical In the Heights is now indefinitely delayed from its June 26 release date. The same goes for Scoob, the new 3D animated movie featuring the characters form Scooby-Doo. That was originally scheduled to open in theaters on May 15.
There's not much Warner Bros. could do about any of this at this point. Movie theaters around the world are closed for the foreseeable future. These are all potentially huge films; they're not going to go straight to VOD like some smaller films have opted to do in recent days. So Warner Bros. will wait for the time to be right to release these films. If it's August, at this point that would be good news.
Here's Patty Jenkins' comment on the news, writing that she made the film "for the big screen" and that she is praying "for better times for all" by August.
Gal Gadot weighed in as well, writing "in these dark and scary times, I am looking forward to a brighter future ahead."
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Another indemnity insurer targets small firms
Three-partner firms: LPI targets market
Smaller law firms are set to have more choice for the professional indemnity insurance this year after Legal & Professional Insurance (LPI) entered into an agreement with broker Marsh to target practices with two and three partners.
The move follows the recent entry of First Title into the market for smaller practices.
LPI was historically the Solicitors Indemnity Fund and is still handling the fund's run-off. Last year it was brought into the Liberty Mutual Group and started offering insurance to firms to a small degree.
It is planning to build its share of the one-to-five partner market, with a particular focus on the 2,000 firms that have two or three partners.
LPI managing director George Raubenheimer said LPI offered a "new model" for the market that drew on its "wealth of statistical information" about claims against solicitors. The information gleaned from the online application produces a risk profile for individual firms and predicts their claims experience, "creating a proper rate based on their circumstances". He said a quote is delivered in two to three days.
He emphasised that it was not about which area of work a firm practises in, although LPI is "much more inclined" to firms that specialise rather than dabble.
"We think we have a model which will enable us to identify good risks. It's not right to tar all small firms with the same brush. We think it is right that every firm, no matter what size, should have an element of choice in their selection of insurer."
Mr Raubenheimer added that LPI had factored its potential exposure to the assigned risks pool into its pricing.
Janine Parker, UK head of solicitors' indemnity insurance at Marsh, said: "Small firms are now able to enjoy a comprehensive insurance provision, rather than enduring the annual scramble for cover that so many face every year."
All firms in this category applying through the Legal & Professional Insurance website will be able to download a Marsh quotation form for completion.


After Washington -- the worst team in the Eastern Conference -- beat the Thunder, coach Scott Brooks talked about the mental toll.
"It's no fun having three wins, but it's important we stay together and we continue to compete for one another," Brooks said. "Not one guy in this locker room is a loser. Unfortunately, we are not getting wins like we feel like we should."
--Shaquille O'Neal's legacy on the game during his long and distinguished career is secure. He'll go down as one of the most devastating low-post forces the NBA has ever seen.
Thunder coach Scott Brooks, though, said O'Neal's dominance in the paint has overshadowed an aspect of his game that the former point guard appreciates.
"He never got a lot of credit for being a good passer, but he is a playmaker at that spot," Brooks said. "Maybe earlier in his career everyone focused on his incredible offensive force, his dunking the basketball. But he's always been a good passer.
"Now, he's even better. He can't jump as high as he once did, but he's still a force down there and he's a great passer. The guys, they really know that, so they cut hard and they expect him to hit them with the drop passes."
QUOTE TO NOTE: "I take each loss hard. I don't accept losing, but if I focus on the process of getting better the wins will come. The big picture is more important right now." -- Interim coach Scott Brooks.


Okay, okay, Beel totally missed this one. The 54th Tunarama Festival wrapped up last weekend in Port Lincoln, South Australia. The festival celebrates the tuna fishery, which is of importance to the Port Lincoln area.
There are a variety of activities, competitions, and foods at the festival. But it appears that the World Tuna Tossing tournament is the main event. A Guardian UK report on this festival includes a short segment of an Australian TV newscast in which the reporter carries on about contestants tossing "a large endangered saltwater fish" as if this was the punch line to a joke.
Local fishers provided the festival with the 8-kg (17.7 lb) bluefin tuna used in the event. The tuna were tossed by contestants rather like the hammer in a track meet.
This year, the women's competition was won with a 12.25 m (40.1 ft) throw, whereas the men's competition was won with a 30.26 m (99.3 ft) throw. For the record, Beel once tossed a tuna sandwich a few hours after eating it (the sandwich had been in the sun way too long).
Everybody knows Beel likes a fish festival. Beel has no problem with people flinging dead fish about. But tossing an fish whose existence is endangered by overfishing is a bit cavalier. Rather like body surfing the honoree at a funeral. Beel says, bad Aussies.
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Poets' Garden Honors College's Founders
December 7, 2016 March 1, 2021
In the woods behind the Rice-Aron Library there is a small clearing and stone foundation, marking the site of a former sugarhouse. The land was part of the parcel purchased by Walter Hendricks and his wife Flora in 1933, before Walter founded Marlboro College here and served as its first president. Although it's been many decades since the Hendricks family lived in Marlboro, Walter and Flora's children, grandchildren, and extended family gathered on September 17 to dedicate a Poets' Garden in this woodland clearing.
"For my grandparents Walter and Flora Hendricks, founding Marlboro College on their farm on Potash Hill was the culmination of a dream," said Tyche Hendricks, who worked with her father, Geoffrey Hendricks, and with Marlboro College faculty and staff to develop the Poets' Garden. "Each of them was the first in their family to attend college, and education was transformative for them both. They wanted to pay it forward."
The site was dedicated in memory of Walter and Flora, who wrote and studied poetry, and Robert Frost, the iconic American poet who served as one of the college's first trustees. The old foundation for the sugarhouse has been partially reconstructed by local stone worker Michael Weitzner, and stones bearing inscriptions of poetry by Walter, Flora, and Robert Frost are interspersed throughout the site. The Hendricks family and the college envision the landscape as a work in progress, with additional poems being added in years to come.
"Walter and Flora shared a love of poetry and the written word—and they found a deep sense of connection in nature and this Vermont land," added Tyche. "They raised us on Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson, and on snow peas from the garden and black raspberries from the roadside. So it feels fitting to honor them with a Poets' Garden on the Marlboro campus."
The dedication opened with music played by Helen Pinch '18, followed by a welcome from President Quigley and fond remembrances and poetry readings by son Geoffrey Hendricks and other members of the Hendricks family. Finally, guests helped to plant several native bushes that will adorn the site for years to come.
For those in attendance, it was not hard to imagine this woodland clearing becoming a beloved gathering place. In fact, about a week after the dedication Tyche Hendricks received an email from philosophy professor William Edelglass with a photo of his class sitting on the stonewalls of the Poets' Garden discussing philosophy. "That's just what we had hoped: that people at Marlboro would make the Poets' Garden their own," she said.
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Thieves Take Sick Boy's Special Gift, Then Return It With an Apology
By Wire Service Content	June 30, 2019
WWE Championship Belt presented during the Beyond Sport United 2016 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., on August 9, 2016. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)
An autistic 5-year-old boy with a brain tumor will get back his bejeweled replica wrestling belt after a pair of repentant thieves learned of his plight.
For the Vicks of Seaford, Delaware, professional wrestling is "a family affair," according to Timothy Vick Sr., whose son Timmy was diagnosed with the tumor in October. "It's just a big family thing."
Timmy's parents sought to soften news of the illness by saving money to purchase a special gift for the boy: a replica WWE championship title belt.
To make the belt appear more authentic, the parents connected via Facebook with belt designer Sergio Moreira in Washington.
After Timmy's family found out about his brain tumor, they saved up to gift him something special.
"We are so sorry for taking your stuff," the note read. "Never in a million years would I have stolen from a sick 5-year-old myself."https://t.co/L1G6ZGiF9y
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) June 28, 2019
Moreira said he offered to do work free of charge, replacing the plastic gems with cubic zirconia and thickening the plates.
"It'll be as close to the original belt that he sees on TV every say than any other belt he could buy in the market," Moreira said.
The Vicks shipped the belt across the country, with the package being left on Moreira's porch earlier this week. His door view camera then captured two thieves stealing the package.
But days after police released images of the thieves and local media told Timmy's story, the two women returned to Moreira's home with the belt and a four-page handwritten note of apology.
"They said they were homeless drug addicts and thought they could make a few extra dollars off of whatever was in the boxes," he recalled.
"I could see the look on their faces, that they were very, very sad and they had been crying."
Moreira said he hugged the women and asked them to take care.
He said he would be hesitant to file charges as long as the women seek help.
"I don't see any other way to do it because everybody has something in their lives they're dealing with," he said.
The note from the women said, "We are so sorry for taking your stuff. Never in a million years would I have stolen from a sick five-year-old myself and am ashamed of what I did."
The note from the women said, "We are so sorry for taking your stuff. Never in a million years would I have stolen from a sick five-year-old myself and am ashamed of what I did."https://t.co/0MF57d3Mmr
— CNN (@CNN) June 30, 2019
The Edgewood Police Department in Washington posted a photo of the wrestling belt on Facebook this week with the message, "Talk about restoring your faith in humanity!"


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National Fellowship Program 2020, Jefferson Scholars Foundation, US
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The Jefferson Scholars Foundation encourages applicants from a broad range of disciplines, including, but not limited to, history, political science, policy studies, law, political economy, communications and media, and sociology. Applicants will be judged on the quality of their scholarship and on their potential to shed new light upon contemporary developments in American politics, foreign policy, and America and the World.
An applicant must be a Ph.D. candidate who is expecting to complete his or her dissertation by the conclusion of the Fellowship year. This is not a post-doctoral fellowship. Non-U.S. citizens are eligible to apply.
Each Fellow is required to participate in two conferences, one in the fall and one in the spring. The conferences provide a forum for presenting research and findings to the scholarly community at the Jefferson Scholars Foundation and the University of Virginia. The spring conference in particular provides an opportunity to receive feedback from mentors who are also in attendance. Expenses for both conferences are paid for by the Jefferson Scholars Foundation.
Residence at the Jefferson Scholars Foundation is encouraged but not required for all Fellows, with the exception of the Louis Galambos National Fellowship (which requires residence at the Hagley Library during the academic year). With the exception of the Louis Galambos National Fellow, Fellows who choose to be in residence will receive an additional stipend of $1,500 in lieu of costs associated with Fellows' travel and lodging for the spring and fall conferences.
All Fellows, regardless of residency, are expected to participate in and contribute to the interdisciplinary community of the Jefferson Scholars Foundation.
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Phnom Krom - Weekend escape
Phnom Krom located just 15 km from Siem Reap ( 30 minutes' drive).
Phnom Krom hill is very rocky; local legend has it that the rocks were exposed by the monkey general Hanuman during a hunt for medicine in the Ramayana epic. The area beyond the temple's west gate affords a spectacular view of the Tonle Sap lake.
The Kingdom of Cambodia is a Southeast Asian nation bordered by Vietnam to the east, Laos to the north, Thailand to the northwest, and the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest.
Cambodia has had a pretty bad run of luck for the last half-millennium or so. Ever since the fall of Angkor in 1431, the once mighty Khmer Empire has been plundered by all its neighbors. It was colonized by the French in the 19th century, and during the 1970s suffered heavy carpet bombing by the USA. After a false dawn of independence in 1953, Cambodia promptly plunged back into the horrors of civil war in 1970 to suffer the Khmer Rouge's incredibly brutal reign of terror, and only after UN-sponsored elections in 1993 did the country begin to totter back onto its feet.
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