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Oficina de la Propiedad Intelectual de la UE (EUIPO): el nuevo nombre de la OAMI
The Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM), instructed to manage the so called "Community trade mark (CTM)" and the "registered Community design (RCD)," will change its name as from March 23, 2016. OHIM will be known from them on as the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), according to the Regulation (EU) No 2015/2424 of the European Parliament and the Council amending the Community trade mark regulation. In consequence, the "Community trade mark" will be renamed the European Union trade mark.
The Amending Regulation was published on 24 December 2015 and is part of the EU trade mark reform legislative package that also includes the replacement of the existing EU Trade Mark Directive (Directive 2008/95/EC of the European Parliament and the Council).
The Regulation not only affects the name of the Office, but it also affects once entered into force to the CTMs and CTM applications that will automatically become European Union trade marks and European Union trade mark applications, respectively, as published in a OHIM press release.
The amending Regulation also revises the fees payable to the Office for all the procedures (register, trade mark oppositions, renewal of a trademark…), including an overall reduction in their amounts, particularly in the case of trade mark renewal fees. With this new scenario, on March 23, 2016, the Office's online application forms and fee calculator will be automatically updated to reflect the new system, according to the this new regulation.
Written by: UAIPIT Team
https://oami.europa.eu/tunnel-web/secure/webdav/guest/document_library/contentPdfs/about_ohim/press_releases/LR/opt_1/OHIM_trade_mark_reform_pr_es.pdf
https://oami.europa.eu/ohimportal/es/work-with-ohim
http://www.laverdad.es/alicante/201512/26/oami-pasara-denominarse-euipo-20151226003150-v.html
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Q: the Construction of and passing of parameters of a method that searches a 2-d array filled with random numbers I am having problems with the last method of my program.  I can't seem to figure out the right way to pass the parameters or maybe perhaps the way I have the method coded is wwrong.  Please help!  The stipulations of the method is below:
The SearchArray() method will return a bool to indicate if the number searched for was found or not. Its parameter is supposed to have:  An integer that is the number to be searched for, a two-dimensional array to search, an out reference integer parameter that will represent the row index and an out reference integer parameter that will represent the column index
This method will use the first parameter and the two-dimensional array and will search the array for the number chosen by the GetNumber() method. I must Initialize the row and column parameters to -1. As the program goes through the array, if the number is found, assign the row and column parameters to the row and column index numbers where it is found and stop searching the array right away. The method is supposed to return a Boolean value to indicate whether or not the number was found.
Any help on this is greatly appreciated I have been on here for awhile trying to get this figured out completely right now if I run it it gets to the point where it asks for a number then runs into an error stating the index is outside the boundaries.   Here is my code so far:
static void Main(string[] args)
    {

        int [,] randomNumArray = new int[3, 5];

        FillArray(randomNumArray);
        PrintArray(randomNumArray);
        SumRows(randomNumArray);
        SumCols(randomNumArray);
        SumArray(randomNumArray);
        int rows, cols;
        int search = GetNumber();

        SearchArray(search, randomNumArray, out rows, out cols);

    }

    public static void FillArray(int[,] randomNumbersArray)
    {
        Random num = new Random();
        for (int r = 0; r < randomNumbersArray.GetLength(0); r++)
        {
            for (int c = 0; c < randomNumbersArray.GetLength(1); c++)
            {
                randomNumbersArray[r, c] = num.Next(15, 97);
            }
        }
    }

    public static void PrintArray(int[,] randomPrintArray)
    {
        for (int r = 0; r < randomPrintArray.GetLength(0); r++)
        {
            for (int c = 0; c < randomPrintArray.GetLength(1); c++)
            {
                Console.Write("{0,3:F0}", randomPrintArray[r, c]);
            }
            Console.WriteLine("");
        }
        Console.WriteLine("");
    }

    public static void SumRows(int[,] sumOfRowsArray)
    {
        int rowSum;
        for (int r = 0; r < sumOfRowsArray.GetLength(0); r++)
        {
            rowSum = 0;
            for (int c = 0; c < sumOfRowsArray.GetLength(1); c++)
            {
                rowSum += sumOfRowsArray[r, c];
            }
            Console.WriteLine("The total sum for row "+ (r + 1) + " is:  " + rowSum + ".");
        }
        Console.WriteLine("");
    }

    public static void SumCols(int[,] sumOfColsArray)
    {
        int colsSum;
        for (int c = 0; c < sumOfColsArray.GetLength(1); c++)
        {
            colsSum = 0;
            for (int r = 0; r < sumOfColsArray.GetLength(0); r++)
            {
                colsSum += sumOfColsArray[r, c];
            }
            Console.WriteLine("The total sum for column " + (c + 1) + " is:  " + colsSum + ".");
        }
        Console.WriteLine("");
    }

    public static void SumArray(int[,] sumOfAllArray)
    {
        int sumOfAll = 0;
        for (int r = 0; r < sumOfAllArray.GetLength(0); r++)
        {

            for (int c = 0; c < sumOfAllArray.GetLength(1); c++)
            {
                sumOfAll += sumOfAllArray[r, c];
            }
        }
        Console.WriteLine("Total for sum of the Array is:  "  + sumOfAll + "\n");
    }

    public static int GetNumber()
    {
        Console.Write("Please enter a number between 15 and 96:  ");
        int chosenNumber = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());

        while (chosenNumber > 96 || chosenNumber < 15)
        {
            Console.Write("Number not between 15 and 96.  Try again:  ");
            chosenNumber = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
        }

        return chosenNumber;
    }

    public static bool SearchArray(int soughtOutNum, int [,] searchableArray, out int rowIndex, out int colsIndex)
    {
        rowIndex = -1;
        colsIndex = -1;

        for (int c = 0; c < searchableArray.GetLength(0); c++)
        {
            for (int r = 0; r < searchableArray.GetLength(1); r++)
            {
                if (searchableArray[r, c] == soughtOutNum)
                {
                    rowIndex = r;
                    colsIndex = c;
                    return true;
                    break;
                }
            }

        }
        return false;
    }

A: You can use LINQ for your SearchArray.
public static bool SearchArray(int soughtOutNum, int [,] searchableArray, out int rowIndex, out int colsIndex)
{
    if(searchableArray.Any(x => soughtOutNum))
    {
        colsIndex = searchableArray.FirstOrDefault(x => x == soughtOutNum).GetLength(0);
        rowIndex= searchableArray.FirstOrDefault(x => x == soughtOutNum).GetLength(1);
    }
    else
    {
        return false;
    }
}

This returns your first hit's column and row.

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I shakily uttered the words that we would like help making the down payment for the property. The investor committed to us $25,000 that day and the realtor agreed to match that. God had provided $50,000 as a startup fund for Bit of Hope! About an hour after that meeting, I received a phone call from realtor. Not only was the investor making a down payment, he was purchasing the property for the sole purpose of providing a location for this mission! God's resources are always bigger than we can imagine. That seed started to grow its roots that day and had the courage to peek its head out of the soil.
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Consolidating drug data on a global scale using Linked Data
Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Biomedical Semantics, January 2017
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Journal of Biomedical Semantics, January 2017
10.1186/s13326-016-0111-z
Milos Jovanovik, Dimitar Trajanov
Drug product data is available on the Web in a distributed fashion. The reasons lie within the regulatory domains, which exist on a national level. As a consequence, the drug data available on the Web are independently curated by national institutions from each country, leaving the data in varying languages, with a varying structure, granularity level and format, on different locations on the Web. Therefore, one of the main challenges in the realm of drug data is the consolidation and integration of large amounts of heterogeneous data into a comprehensive dataspace, for the purpose of developing data-driven applications. In recent years, the adoption of the Linked Data principles has enabled data publishers to provide structured data on the Web and contextually interlink them with other public datasets, effectively de-siloing them. Defining methodological guidelines and specialized tools for generating Linked Data in the drug domain, applicable on a global scale, is a crucial step to achieving the necessary levels of data consolidation and alignment needed for the development of a global dataset of drug product data. This dataset would then enable a myriad of new usage scenarios, which can, for instance, provide insight into the global availability of different drug categories in different parts of the world. We developed a methodology and a set of tools which support the process of generating Linked Data in the drug domain. Using them, we generated the LinkedDrugs dataset by seamlessly transforming, consolidating and publishing high-quality, 5-star Linked Drug Data from twenty-three countries, containing over 248,000 drug products, over 99,000,000 RDF triples and over 278,000 links to generic drugs from the LOD Cloud. Using the linked nature of the dataset, we demonstrate its ability to support advanced usage scenarios in the drug domain. The process of generating the LinkedDrugs dataset demonstrates the applicability of the methodological guidelines and the supporting tools in transforming drug product data from various, independent and distributed sources, into a comprehensive Linked Drug Data dataset. The presented user-centric and analytical usage scenarios over the dataset show the advantages of having a de-siloed, consolidated and comprehensive dataspace of drug data available via the existing infrastructure of the Web.
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Squatter Pigeon (southern) |
Geophaps scripta scripta
The Squatter Pigeon (southern) is a medium-sized, ground-dwelling pigeon that measures approximately 30 cm in length and weighs about 190-250 g. Adults are predominantly grey-brown, but have black and white stripes on the face and throat, blue-grey skin around the eyes, dark-brown (and some patches of iridescent green or violet) on the upper surfaces of the wings, blue-grey on the lower breast and belly, white on the lower region, flanks of the belly and extending onto the under surfaces of the wings, and a blackish-brown band along the trailing edge of the tail. They have black bills, dark-brown irises, and dull-purple legs and feet. The sexes are similar in appearance. Juvenile Squatter Pigeons (southern) can be distinguished from the adults by their duller colouring, the patchy, less distinctive appearance of their black and white facial stripes, and the paler colouring (buff to pale-yellow) of the facial skin. The southern and northern subspecies of the Squatter Pigeon are virtually identical except the southern subspecies tends to be slightly larger in the body, and the skin around the eyes is predominantly blue-grey compared to yellowy-orange to orange-red in the northern subspecies. Hybridisation. Evidence suggests that the southern and northern subspecies of the Squatter Pigeon cross-breed where their distributions overlap. However, the physical trait that was used to identify the hybrid forms (a combination of blue and red facial skin) has subsequently been found to be very common (but less conspicuous) among the southern subspecies. Further investigation is required before facial colouration can be accepted as an accurate indicator of hybrid forms.
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Current threats include ongoing vegetation clearance and fragmentation; overgrazing of habitat by livestock and feral herbivores such as rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus); introduction of weeds; inappropriate fire regimes; thickening of understorey vegetation; predation by feral cats (Felis catus) and foxes (Vulpes vulpes); trampling of nests by domestic stock and illegal shooting (Garnett Crowley; 2000 Stewart; pers. comm. 2015).


The Baja Flora website offers many ways to use the data and information from the Baja collections maintained here. On the home page, the drop-down menu items provide access to all features. The Introduction menu presents links to this website description as well as some general introductory material. The Maps menu links to a number of maps including historical map overlays that are geographically fitted to Microsoft Bing Maps. The Photos menu includes links to the pages of plant photos and Baja regional photos.
The Checklist menu links to tools for searching the new Baja checklist as well as some checklists of islands. The Documents menu will serve up the searchable historical notebooks of Dr. Reid Moran and other documents that users may find useful. The Searches menu provides tools to search the collection by plant names and by specific geographical criteria. The Mapping menu presents tools for mapping collections by various criteria.
Baja Checklist by Family The Checklist by Family presents the complete checklist with all species listed by family. Use the drop-down list to select a family. (To find a family, use the Search Genera and Species Name page described below. Or use the Search by Common Name page also described below.) When a family name is selected, a complete list of all the species in that family will be shown. The list includes the plant name and an English and Spanish common name. The Voucher column has a link to the scanned image of the voucher(s) for that species. The SD Photos column has a link to the photos in the SDNHM collection. The Baja Collections column has a link to the specimen collections for the SDNHM and contributing herbaria. The Map Species column has a link that will present a map of the collected specimens of the species.
Checklist The new Baja checklist includes nearly 4,000 species, over 1,000 more plants than were covered in the previous checklist, Wiggins 1980. The website includes two tools to help navigate the checklist and find names and synonyms. The Plant Names and Synonyms page provides a tool to search any plant name or genus to determine the status of the name or to find all current names and synonyms that include the specified genus. In addition, the Plant Name Finder can be used to find a plant name by searching with any part of the scientific or common name (English or Spanish).
Searches Database text-based searches are very flexible. Users can specify any one or more of: multiple plant names, collector's last name, part of a locality description, mnimum and/or maximum latitude, To and/or From dates, one or both states, and a specific herbarium or all herbaria. Results are presented in a paged display or can be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet.
Place Names We maintain a database of historic Baja place names to assist in searching the collections. There are nearly 3,200 place names, each with a geographic position. The Historic Place Names page, found under the Maps menu can be used in two ways. A user can click on any location on the map and all place names in that area will be marked and the information about the place will appear when the marker is clicked. Alternatively, a user can enter a name or part of a name in the search text box and all the places that match that critera will be marked on the map in the same way.
Searches menu presents a number of tools to search by geography. The simplest of these is the rectangular box query. When this page is opened a small box appears on the map. Using the mouse, the box can be dragged to any location. The box can then be resized with the mouse using the handles on the corners of the box. Size limitations apply. When the box is located and sized as the user wishes, clicking the search button results in a listing of all the collections found from any of the herbaria from locations within the box. The list of results is presented in a box below the map. Clicking in that box selects the complete set of records which can then be copied (right click, Ctrl c) and pasted into an Excel spreadsheet.
For more control over the area to be searched, users can select Polygon searching. The user can draw a polygon on the map and execute the search for collections inside the polygon.
Custom GIS searching provides a powerful search tool for users who are registered in Baja Flora. These users have the ability to draw shapes — polygons and polylines — and save them by name for repetitive use. They may also call up, for GIS searches, shapes created and useable by anyone, such as the ecological regions. A shape saved by a user is available only to that user unless the user specifies it can be used by others.
When in the search mode, the user can call up any shape formerly created and saved, or a public shape, and search using a "within" criteria or a "distance from" criteria. The "distance from" can also be used with a latitude/longitude point as a reference. The search results can be collections or a checklist.
Over 84,000 collections are mappable, and this feature provides a facility for users to map any species on Google® Maps. Multiple species can be mapped in sequence. Each result set is listed at the bottom of the map frame, and each collection marker is clickable to reveal specific data for that individual collection.
Users also have the option of using the Berkeley Mapper.
The plant photo collection, in September 2016, included over 29,000 photogrpahs of 2800 distinct taxa. This collection continues to grow as Dr. Rebman and others bring more photos back from expeditions to the Baja peninsula. Web site users can search by plant name and get a list or a number of pages of thumbnails. Thumbnails or list items can be clicked to see a full size image. Users can be assured that each photo has been accurately identified.
For each taxon in the collection, one specimen is selected as the voucher for that taxa. If the species is found in both BC and BCS, a voucher for each state is selected.
As new vouchers are selected, or names are changed, the scans are done in high resolution.
Scanned images of these vouchers are available. Users can search by species names or by genus only. In any case, the search results in a number of thumbnail images of vouchers with a summary of the data for the specimen. Users may then click on the image to then see a full page image of the specimen.
use to download the high resolution image.
Many regions of BC and BCS are documented in regional photographs. The Regional Photos page provides a drop-down list of the regions of which photos are available. Selecting one of those regions from the list places a marker on that region.
Clicking the marker brings up a page or number of pages with sets of thumbnails of the images from the selected region.
on any photo will open a page with a full size view of the photo.
Reid Moran, the curator of botany at the San Diego Natural History Museum from 1957 to 1982, was a prolific collector of Baja plants. His collections in the SDNHM herbarium number 25,552, of which 21,589 are from Baja. As an explorer of Baja California, he spent much of his time traveling by truck, mule, and boat to the most remote and obscure mountains, canyons, and rocks of the peninsula and its waters. He kept meticulous and often entertaining field notebooks documenting his travels and his botanical collections. He shares renown for the floristics of the region in the last half of the 20th century with Ira Wiggins of Stanford, Robert Thorne of Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, George Lindsay of the California Academy of Sciences, and Annetta Carter of UC Berkeley.
Moran kept meticulous notebooks, and museum volunteers have scanned and indexed these books. The page here provides users access to those notes, with the ability to search by dates, specimen numbers, persons, or places.


The Domain Name Commission says there is no clear consensus among the large number of submissions it received over the proposal to extend the .nz domain space.
The Domain Name Commission (DNC) received 115 submissions during the public consultation period, which closed on 27 September. The DNC has said the submissions represented a wide range of opinion, and there was no clear consensus either for or against the proposal. The submissions are all available on the DNC website.
While there were a number of submissions in favour of the proposed change, the majority of these were very brief responses to the questions in the online submission form. Interestingly, almost all of the more detailed responses that discussed the issues in more depth were against the proposal. No one has had an opportunity to respond to those detailed criticisms of the proposal yet.
DNC has said that it will undertake further research into the impact of its proposal over the next few months, and says some contributors will likely to be asked to expand on some of the points raised in their submissions.
Extending the .nz domain space would allow registrations at the second-level, for example yourname.nz instead of yourname.co.nz, and this has a variety of implications for trade mark owners and owners of existing domain names.
As well as this additional information gathering, DNC says it plans a second round of consultation in early 2013 before any decision is made. This suggests that it has not been swayed by the criticism of the proposals to date.


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737 U.S. Military Bases = Global Empire
By Chalmers Johnson
Japan Focus 21 March 2009
https://www.globalresearch.ca/737-u-s-military-bases-global-empire/12824
With more than 2,500,000 U.S. personnel serving across the planet and military bases spread across each continent, it's time to face up to the fact that our American democracy has spawned a global empire.
The following is excerpted from Chalmers Johnson's new book, "Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic" (Metropolitan Books).
Once upon a time, you could trace the spread of imperialism by counting up colonies. America's version of the colony is the military base; and by following the changing politics of global basing, one can learn much about our ever more all-encompassing imperial "footprint" and the militarism that grows with it.
It is not easy, however, to assess the size or exact value of our empire of bases. Official records available to the public on these subjects are misleading, although instructive. According to the Defense Department's annual inventories from 2002 to 2005 of real property it owns around the world, the Base Structure Report, there has been an immense churning in the numbers of installations.
The total of America's military bases in other people's countries in 2005, according to official sources, was 737. Reflecting massive deployments to Iraq and the pursuit of President Bush's strategy of preemptive war, the trend line for numbers of overseas bases continues to go up.
Interestingly enough, the thirty-eight large and medium-sized American facilities spread around the globe in 2005 – mostly air and naval bases for our bombers and fleets – almost exactly equals Britain's thirty-six naval bases and army garrisons at its imperial zenith in 1898. The Roman Empire at its height in 117 AD required thirty-seven major bases to police its realm from Britannia to Egypt, from Hispania to Armenia. Perhaps the optimum number of major citadels and fortresses for an imperialist aspiring to dominate the world is somewhere between thirty-five and forty.
Using data from fiscal year 2005, the Pentagon bureaucrats calculated that its overseas bases were worth at least $127 billion — surely far too low a figure but still larger than the gross domestic products of most countries — and an estimated $658.1 billion for all of them, foreign and domestic (a base's "worth" is based on a Department of Defense estimate of what it would cost to replace it). During fiscal 2005, the military high command deployed to our overseas bases some 196,975 uniformed personnel as well as an equal number of dependents and Department of Defense civilian officials, and employed an additional 81,425 locally hired foreigners.
The worldwide total of U.S. military personnel in 2005, including those based domestically, was 1,840,062 supported by an additional 473,306 Defense Department civil service employees and 203,328 local hires. Its overseas bases, according to the Pentagon, contained 32,327 barracks, hangars, hospitals, and other buildings, which it owns, and 16,527 more that it leased. The size of these holdings was recorded in the inventory as covering 687,347 acres overseas and 29,819,492 acres worldwide, making the Pentagon easily one of the world's largest landlords.
These numbers, although staggeringly big, do not begin to cover all the actual bases we occupy globally. The 2005 Base Structure Report fails, for instance, to mention any garrisons in Kosovo (or Serbia, of which Kosovo is still officially a province) — even though it is the site of the huge Camp Bondsteel built in 1999 and maintained ever since by the KBR corporation (formerly known as Kellogg Brown & Root), a subsidiary of the Halliburton Corporation of Houston.
The report similarly omits bases in Afghanistan, Iraq (106 garrisons as of May 2005), Israel, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar, and Uzbekistan, even though the U.S. military has established colossal base structures in the Persian Gulf and Central Asian areas since 9/11. By way of excuse, a note in the preface says that "facilities provided by other nations at foreign locations" are not included, although this is not strictly true. The report does include twenty sites in Turkey, all owned by the Turkish government and used jointly with the Americans. The Pentagon continues to omit from its accounts most of the $5 billion worth of military and espionage installations in Britain, which have long been conveniently disguised as Royal Air Force bases. If there were an honest count, the actual size of our military empire would probably top 1,000 different bases overseas, but no one — possibly not even the Pentagon — knows the exact number for sure.
In some cases, foreign countries themselves have tried to keep their U.S. bases secret, fearing embarrassment if their collusion with American imperialism were revealed. In other instances, the Pentagon seems to want to play down the building of facilities aimed at dominating energy sources, or, in a related situation, retaining a network of bases that would keep Iraq under our hegemony regardless of the wishes of any future Iraqi government. The U.S. government tries not to divulge any information about the bases we use to eavesdrop on global communications, or our nuclear deployments, which, as William Arkin, an authority on the subject, writes, "[have] violated its treaty obligations. The U.S. was lying to many of its closest allies, even in NATO, about its nuclear designs. Tens of thousands of nuclear weapons, hundreds of bases, and dozens of ships and submarines existed in a special secret world of their own with no rational military or even
'deterrence' justification."
In Jordan, to take but one example, we have secretly deployed up to five thousand troops in bases on the Iraqi and Syrian borders. (Jordan has also cooperated with the CIA in torturing prisoners we deliver to them for "interrogation.") Nonetheless, Jordan continues to stress that it has no special arrangements with the United States, no bases, and no American military presence.
The country is formally sovereign but actually a satellite of the United States and has been so for at least the past ten years. Similarly, before our withdrawal from Saudi Arabia in 2003, we habitually denied that we maintained a fleet of enormous and easily observed B-52 bombers in Jeddah because that was what the Saudi government demanded. So long as military bureaucrats can continue to enforce a culture of secrecy to protect themselves, no one will know the true size of our baseworld, least of all the elected representatives of the American people.
In 2005, deployments at home and abroad were in a state of considerable flux. This was said to be caused both by a long overdue change in the strategy for maintaining our global dominance and by the closing of surplus bases at home. In reality, many of the changes seemed to be determined largely by the Bush administration's urge to punish nations and domestic states that had not supported its efforts in Iraq and to reward those that had. Thus, within the United States, bases were being relocated to the South, to states with cultures, as the Christian Science Monitor put it, "more tied to martial traditions" than the Northeast, the northern Middle West, or the Pacific Coast. According to a North Carolina businessman gloating over his new customers, "The military is going where it is wanted and valued most."
In part, the realignment revolved around the Pentagon's decision to bring home by 2007 or 2008 two army divisions from Germany — the First Armored Division and the First Infantry Division — and one brigade (3,500 men) of the Second Infantry Division from South Korea (which, in 2005, was officially rehoused at Fort Carson, Colorado). So long as the Iraq insurgency continues, the forces involved are mostly overseas and the facilities at home are not ready for them (nor is there enough money budgeted to get them ready).
Nonetheless, sooner or later, up to 70,000 troops and 100,000 family members will have to be accommodated within the United States. The attendant 2005 "base closings" in the United States are actually a base consolidation and enlargement program with tremendous infusions of money and customers going to a few selected hub areas. At the same time, what sounds like a retrenchment in the empire abroad is really proving to be an exponential growth in new types of bases — without dependents and the amenities they would require — in very remote areas where the U.S. military has never been before.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, it was obvious to anyone who thought about it that the huge concentrations of American military might in Germany, Italy, Japan, and South Korea were no longer needed to meet possible military threats. There were not going to be future wars with the Soviet Union or any country connected to any of those places.
In 1991, the first Bush administration should have begun decommissioning or redeploying redundant forces; and, in fact, the Clinton administration did close some bases in Germany, such as those protecting the Fulda Gap, once envisioned as the likeliest route for a Soviet invasion of Western Europe. But nothing was really done in those years to plan for the strategic repositioning of the American military outside the United States.
By the end of the 1990s, the neoconservatives were developing their grandiose theories to promote overt imperialism by the "lone superpower" — including preventive and preemptive unilateral military action, spreading democracy abroad at the point of a gun, obstructing the rise of any "near-peer" country or bloc of countries that might challenge U.S. military supremacy, and a vision of a "democratic" Middle East that would supply us with all the oil we wanted. A component of their grand design was a redeployment and streamlining of the military. The initial rationale was for a program of transformation that would turn the armed forces into a lighter, more agile, more high-tech military, which, it was imagined, would free up funds that could be invested in imperial policing.
What came to be known as "defense transformation" first began to be publicly bandied about during the 2000 presidential election campaign. Then 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq intervened. In August 2002, when the whole neocon program began to be put into action, it centered above all on a quick, easy war to incorporate Iraq into the empire. By this time, civilian leaders in the Pentagon had become dangerously overconfident because of what they perceived as America's military brilliance and invincibility as demonstrated in its 2001 campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaeda — a strategy that involved reigniting the Afghan civil war through huge payoffs to Afghanistan's Northern Alliance warlords and the massive use of American airpower to support their advance on Kabul.
In August 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld unveiled his "1-4-2-1 defense strategy" to replace the Clinton era's plan for having a military capable of fighting two wars — in the Middle East and Northeast Asia — simultaneously. Now, war planners were to prepare to defend the United States while building and assembling forces capable of "deterring aggression and coercion" in four "critical regions": Europe, Northeast Asia (South Korea and Japan), East Asia (the Taiwan Strait), and the Middle East, be able to defeat aggression in two of these regions simultaneously, and "win decisively" (in the sense of "regime change" and occupation) in one of those conflicts "at a time and place of our choosing."As the military analyst William M. Arkin commented, "[With] American military forces … already stretched to the limit, the new strategy goes far beyond preparing for reactive contingencies and reads more like a plan for picking fights in new parts of
A seemingly easy three-week victory over Saddam Hussein's forces in the spring of 2003 only reconfirmed these plans. The U.S. military was now thought to be so magnificent that it could accomplish any task assigned to it. The collapse of the Baathist regime in Baghdad also emboldened Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld to use "transformation" to penalize nations that had been, at best, lukewarm about America's unilateralism — Germany, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Turkey — and to reward those whose leaders had welcomed Operation Iraqi Freedom, including such old allies as Japan and Italy but also former communist countries such as Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria. The result was the Department of Defense's Integrated Global Presence and Basing Strategy, known informally as the "Global Posture Review."
President Bush first mentioned it in a statement on November 21, 2003, in which he pledged to "realign the global posture" of the United States. He reiterated the phrase and elaborated on it on August 16, 2004, in a speech to the annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Cincinnati. Because Bush's Cincinnati address was part of the 2004 presidential election campaign, his comments were not taken very seriously at the time. While he did say that the United States would reduce its troop strength in Europe and Asia by 60,000 to 70,000, he assured his listeners that this would take a decade to accomplish — well beyond his term in office — and made a series of promises that sounded more like a reenlistment pitch than a statement of strategy.
"Over the coming decade, we'll deploy a more agile and more flexible force, which means that more of our troops will be stationed and deployed from here at home. We'll move some of our troops and capabilities to new locations, so they can surge quickly to deal with unexpected threats. … It will reduce the stress on our troops and our military families. … See, our service members will have more time on the home front, and more predictability and fewer moves over a career. Our military spouses will have fewer job changes, greater stability, more time for their kids and to spend with their families at home."
On September 23, 2004, however, Secretary Rumsfeld disclosed the first concrete details of the plan to the Senate Armed Services Committee. With characteristic grandiosity, he described it as "the biggest re-structuring of America's global forces since 1945." Quoting then undersecretary Douglas Feith, he added, "During the Cold War we had a strong sense that we knew where the major risks and fights were going to be, so we could deploy people right there. We're operating now [with] an entirely different concept. We need to be able to do [the] whole range of military operations, from combat to peacekeeping, anywhere in the world pretty quickly."
Though this may sound plausible enough, in basing terms it opens up a vast landscape of diplomatic and bureaucratic minefields that Rumsfeld's militarists surely underestimated. In order to expand into new areas, the Departments of State and Defense must negotiate with the host countries such things as Status of Forces Agreements, or SOFAs, which are discussed in detail in the next chapter. In addition, they must conclude many other required protocols, such as access rights for our aircraft and ships into foreign territory and airspace, and Article 98 Agreements. The latter refer to article 98 of the International Criminal Court's Rome Statute, which allows countries to exempt U.S. citizens on their territory from the ICC's jurisdiction.
Such immunity agreements were congressionally mandated by the American Service-Members' Protection Act of 2002, even though the European Union holds that they are illegal. Still other necessary accords are acquisitions and cross-servicing agreements or ACSAs, which concern the supply and storage of jet fuel, ammunition, and so forth; terms of leases on real property; levels of bilateral political and economic aid to the United States (so-called host-nation support); training and exercise arrangements (Are night landings allowed? Live firing drills?); and environmental pollution liabilities.
When the United States is not present in a country as its conqueror or military savior, as it was in Germany, Japan, and Italy after World War II and in South Korea after the 1953 Korean War armistice, it is much more difficult to secure the kinds of agreements that allow the Pentagon to do anything it wants and that cause a host nation to pick up a large part of the costs of doing so. When not based on conquest, the structure of the American empire of bases comes to look exceedingly fragile.
From the book NEMESIS: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson.
Copyright © Chalmers Johnson, Global Research, 2009


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Please join us on Sunday 12th May for the Mixed Teams followed by the AGM.
and qualifying for the National Pairs Final in Warwick.
Congratulations to Team Mountnessing for representing Essex in the Garden Cities Competition.
The ECBA was formed in 1946. We have around 2,100 members and 26 affiliated clubs.
We now have 3 clubs that are amongst the 50 most active in the country.
Hutton Bridge Club would like to announce that our next 'Beginning Bridge' course will commence with a free taster lesson on Monday 8th April at Hutton Community Centre. On the same date and at the same venue we are also starting our first 'Continuing Bridge' course, both courses start at 10 am.
From 12:30 – 15:30 on Mondays, again at the same venue, we also continue to run a, relaxed, friendly and social Play and Learn Club. Please contact Tony on 07957 406088 or see www.bridgewebs.co/hutton.
This has now been emailed to Club Secretaries. Please note that the Programme may get out of date, so check the website Calendar and onward links for current information.
The annual lists showing Master Points gained in 2018, and ranks at the end of the year, have been published by the EBU.
Barleylands runs Seminars on most Thursdays in Spring.
£8pp which includes the booklet on the subject.
Based on the EBU statistics for 1st April 2017 to 31st March 2018 we have 3 clubs amongst the 50 most active in the country.
Some Website users may be unaware of a wonderful new and updated Bridgewebs feature for reviewing your results. Go to "Results", and click on "Scorecards". Under each hand, there's a "Play It Again" button that's been around for a while. A new feature - the "Results Analysis" button - gives all sorts juicy statistics, including X-IMPs for teams events. It only applies where automated deal files have been uploaded. See the Help File for a full explanation.
The EBU is keen that all members are aware of the services of EBED, its new charity for Bridge Education & Development, Click on this box to find out more and visit their new website!


Ben Power recently wrote about the benefits of a neurodiverse workforce in an article published by the Law Society Gazette. You can read his article here in full.
The word "neurodiversity" is an umbrella term which includes all who may be neurodivergent in some way, including those on the autism spectrum and with conditions such as dyspraxia and dyslexia. Ultimately, it acknowledges that human brains may be wired in many different ways and people will not always think or behave in the same way.
Some estimates suggest 10% of the population are neurodivergent. Employers are potentially missing out on a valuable source of highly skilled talent if they ignore the neurodiverse .
How do I recognise if someone is neurodivergent?
One example of neurodiversity is autism (which includes Asperger syndrome). This is a spectrum condition which means that while autistic people share common symptoms, it will affect them in different ways.
Autistic people struggle with social interaction and communication; many have a very literal understanding of language and think people always mean exactly what they say. They may find it difficult to use or understand facial expressions, tone of voice and jokes and sarcasm. Being part of the social world can be really hard for autistic people who may struggle to make eye contact, form friendships or express their emotions.
How autistic people perceive and experience the world is different from others, processing sensory information such as noise and light can be difficult for them so they may seek out isolation.
Unfortunately, the symptoms of their condition can mean that autistic people are targets for workplace bullying. So while the office "oddball" might be considered fair game for gentle teasing by colleagues, they should pause and consider if this person could be on the autistic spectrum (or neurodivergent in some other way) and be deserving of more understanding and empathy?
Employers who are prepared to tweak how they do things to enable neurodivergent employees to flourish in the workplace will reap the business rewards. For example, people with Asperger syndrome often have above average intelligence and many autistic people have intense and highly-focused interests, their ability to focus on fine detail and collate information is often outstanding, skills that can prove highly valuable in many sectors. Some employers are already starting to recognise this and are actively trying to recruit a more neurodiverse workforce.


Justice League has finally hit theaters, so naturally fans and critics are taking to Twitter to let us know if the movie is worth the $$$.
Patrick Starrr is bringing his beauty secrets to E! on their new makeover show on Snap.
Meghan Rienks and Leo Howard from "Freakish" reveal who they think from the cast would get taken out first in a real life freak apocalypse.


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Dr. Lisa Kratz is the director of the Biochemical Genetics Laboratory at Kennedy Krieger Institute and an assistant professor in Pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Dr. Kratz received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Maryland College in 1985, and her doctorate in human genetics from the University of Maryland at Baltimore in 1989. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in biochemical genetics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 1991, and was the assistant director of the Biochemical Diseases Detection Laboratory at Yale University from 1991 to 1993. Dr. Kratz was certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics in biochemical genetics in 1993 and is a member of the Society For Inherited Metabolic Disorders (SIMD) and the Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism (SSIEM). She has been with the Kennedy Krieger Institute since 1993.
Dr. Kratz's interests focus on the diagnosis of certain inborn errors of metabolism and clinical research related to these disorders. One area of interest involves disorders of cholesterol biosynthesis including Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome, Desmosterolosis, X-Linked Dominant Conradi Hünermann Syndrome, and SC4MOL deficiency. Other areas of interest include disorders of creatine synthesis and transport, Barth syndrome, and Mevalonate Kinase deficiency.
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Wassif CA, Kratz L, Sparks SE, Wheeler C, Bianconi S, Gropman A, Calis KA, Kelley RI, Tierney E, Porter FD (2016). A placebo-controlled trial of simvastatin therapy in Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome. Genet Med. , .
Kratz LE, Albert JS (2016). 2-Ethylhexanoic acid, found in common plasticizers, leads to an artificial increase in C8 acylcarnitine levels in two neonates treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Clin Chim Acta. 461, 59-60.
Driver AM, Kratz LE, Kelley RI, Stottmann RW (2016). Altered cholesterol biosynthesis causes precocious neurogenesis in the developing mouse forebrain. Neurobiol Dis. 91, 69-82.
Gabitova L, Restifo D, Gorin A, Manocha K, Handorf E, Yang DH, Cai KQ, Klein-Szanto AJ, Cunningham D, Kratz LE, Herman GE, Golemis EA, Astsaturov I (2015). Endogenous Sterol Metabolites Regulate Growth of EGFR/KRAS-Dependent Tumors via LXR. Cell Rep. 12(11), 1927-38.
Herman GE, Kratz L (2012). Disorders of sterol synthesis: beyond Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome. Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet. 160C(4), 301-21.


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Jesus' Teaching on Hell by Samuel G. Dawson I was righteously indignant when, a number of years ago, a caller uttered these words on a call-in radio show I was conducting. Perturbed by his haphazard use of Scripture, I pointed out to him and the audience, that hell couldn't possibly be something invented by Catholic theologians because Jesus talked about it.... Weapons and mobs from TF2 Great mod, but there are a few things I want to point out: Some looped sounds sometimes get stuck and won't stop playing (i.e flamethrower still playing its firing sound even if I stopped attacking.
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A sixth body was found in the ocean last week, but it will take time to identify it, police say.
Along with civil rights lawyer John Burris, the family called for transparency from authorities.
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Toxicology results for a third child killed are still pending, Carpenter said.
In answer to your question about this attitude becoming the default, I'd say that I don't think so, but it is more common than it should be.
She was 18 when she went out with friends, and never came home. In fact, for one period of three or four years, he and his father were the only ones there, so he benefited from doing hands-on work with someone who had the experience. "I just hope somewhere in your heart, and your soul you can find a way to understand what you've done". They'll learn to love and cherish well-trained dogs and to shy away from people who don't have the same level, or indeed any, respect. "He was not nothing, he was something to people".
A Kansas mother is upset after her 4-year-old child came home from daycare with several missing teeth.
Though she kept her hands on the wheel and didn't move from the vehicle after pulling over, Danny Prasad said police later shot a bullet through the windshield, just missing her. There were more than 150 families with CHIPS cases involving about 290 children during the 2015-2016 period, he said. "Let's involve all the families", Champagne said.
But daycare administrators tell a different story.
April 12, 2018- Marcia Downs, 37, a mother of two children, 5 and 8, who was an employee at Channel 5 Belize on Coney Drive, was shot in the middle of the forehead by a gunman who fired twice at her at about 8:30 last night.
Asked if she planned on staying longer in Pakistan, Jacobs said: "Yes, I'm going to stay here, because I want to stay here".
For me, I'm particularly disturbed when I see children interacting with dogs without any guidance and support from the adults who are looking after them.
"He had a lot to look forward to", he said.
An early Jari Litmanen penalty and a second-half header from Emile Heskey were enough to give the English side victory over Roma . And, as you can imagine, fans of the Scouse outfit had the same reaction to the draw - that they're going to go on and win it.
And because of that, Dent doesn't see Ryan's retirement as having any direct effect on GOP candidates' chances this fall. Cohen did say he paid adult film star Stormy Daniels $130,000 not to discuss her claims of an affair with Trump .
On 15 minutes, Mateo Kovacic broke into the box and got a head on goal which produced an excellent save from Roberto Jimenez . Isco got the Los Blancos off to a good start in the 29th minute curling in a free-kick.
In sealing the league at this stage, City matched the record for the earliest title win - held by United since 2001. They were unbeaten in the Premier League until January 14, when Liverpool ended that awesome run at Anfield.
But many city parks and landscapes were filled with people trying to make the most of the first warm days of spring. It'll also be cooler Monday with temps falling back closer to average into the Mid 60s to start the workweek.
With one run required of the last four balls off The Fizz, a victory was looking inevitable for Delhi . Over 3: 40/0 , In this over MI is on fire as they score 15 runs with the help of two 4's and a 6.
US, British and French forces hit Syria with over 100 missiles in retaliation for a chemical attack blamed on Assad's regime. President Donald Trump announced the military action from the White House late Friday, as explosions were rocking Damascus.
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members Germany and the Netherlands have said they will not take part in any military action. French President Emmanuel Macron also said he had "proof" that the Syrian government had attacked Douma with chemical weapons.
Trump also pushed back again against Comey's claims that Trump sought his loyalty, saying it was "Just another of his many lies ". Trump also tweeted that Comey's mishandling of the Clinton email probe deserves "jail" time and called him a " slimeball ".
Some of the early news coverage of Comey's memoir has made a mockery of Trump, including the cover of Friday's Daily News in NY . Among other things, the book claims President Trump is "unethical" and "untethered to truth and institutional values".
But a United defeat against Bournemouth in midweek or a City win over Swansea City next Sunday would wrap up the silverware. Chelsea is still in with a slim chance of making one of the four Champions League places.
According to White House archives , Comey, now 57, graduated from the College of William & Mary in 1982. Interested in James Comey? Comey also wrote that in a post-election briefing for senators, then-Sen.
I'm speaking in entrance of you each three days and also you assume I've the key - the key is the gamers. But the Spaniard believes leading City to the title would rank among his finest moments.
After Liverpool dispatched City , they'll be flying high, but Roma proved they belong with their trouncing of Barcelona . This will be its first Champions League semi-final match since 2008, when it lost to Chelsea.
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