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Trade Summit USTR-Mexico 2021
On March 23, Tatiana Clouthier, head of the Ministry of Economy, met virtually with U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Katherine Tai, to discuss the importance of the bilateral trade relationship and the full implementation of the USMCA.
Both sides committed to future engagement on shared priorities such as economic recovery in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and the full implementation of Mexico's labor reform. Both sides also agreed on the mutual benefit derived from strong bilateral agricultural trade.
US Associations Trade Express Concerns Before and After USTR-Mexico Trade Summit
One day before this meeting, a group of 27 U.S. agricultural associations sent a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and the USTR that is available on the National Potato Council's website. In addition, the Alliance for Trade Enforcement also issued a letter to the USTR this Wednesday.
Both associations have expressed their concerns about certain measures issued by the Mexican government that has already or will negatively impact a portion of U.S. agricultural exports and other sectors.
What are the main trade concerns?
Glyphosate /GM Corn Barn
Increasing Obstacles to Dairy Trade
Organic Export Certification Requirements
Corn Product Disparagement
Biotechnology Approvals
Meat Industry Market Access and Geographical Indications
Potato Import Ban
Front-of-Pack Labeling (NOM-051)
Telecommunications, Broadcasting, and Audiovisual Services
Energy and Power Generation
Customs and Trade Facilitation
Electronic Payment Services
Will one of these issues spark a trade dispute?
VTZ has addressed some of these issues in our previous newsletters and /or digital content. If you have any questions, please let us know.
International Reactions to the Electrical Industry Law Reform
Prior to the Electrical Industry Law reform publication in the Official Gazette on March 9, 2021, some of Mexico's trading partners expressed their concerns about the impact of said reform on energy investments. If you wish to know more about this controversial reform, we consider this content relevant: Wilson Center
US Reactions
The Vice President for the Americas of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Neil Herrington, expressed that the reform was deeply troubling because it would reestablish a monopoly in the sector and affect Mexico's commitments to the U.S. under the USMCA.
Canadian Reactions
Mary Ng, Canadian Trade Minister, expressed through a letter sent to the Mexican Ministry of Economy, emphasizing Mexico's obligation to maintain a stable and predictable business environment for Canadian companies.
European Union Reactions
In the same vein, EU's representatives in Mexico recognized Mexico's sovereign right to define its energy policy. However, they pointed out that this could lead to international arbitration, as well as a loss of confidence on behalf of investors.
Mexican Judges Grant Injunctions Against the Reform
Meanwhile, some companies in Mexico filed a constitutional remedy (amparo) against the electrical reform requesting the suspension of the reforms effects. A couple of Judges have granted suspensions (injunctions) and with general effects. In other words, the suspensions protect all companies that may be affected by the electrical reform in order to avoid market distortions.
VTZ Comment
At VTZ, we certainly believe that this reform could eventually trigger Investor-State disputes per FTAs and/or BIT. Furthermore, we consider it possible that the U.S. and Canada could initiate a USMCA (State-State) dispute, so there trade retaliation is possible in the event that an international panel rules against Mexico.
Investment in Mexico: 200 Projects
During the inauguration of the 104th General Assembly of the American Chamber of Commerce (Amcham), the Minister of Economy, Tatiana Cloutier, mentioned that the Mexican Government has a list of 200 studies and projects in which U.S. companies will be invited to invest. These projects have been worked in coordination with international organizations and focus on nine states in the southeast of Mexico.
In this regard, the incoming president of Amcham, Vladimiro de la Mora, added that Amcham members are committed to Mexico; however, to continue being a reliable, attractive, and safe partner for investment, Mexico needs to ensure an essential level of security, respect for the law and legal certainty.
Eventually, the projects will be announced, and we deem that such projects will be open to all companies, regardless of their nationality or origin. We expect that some projects will be related to the Isthmus Corridor project.
Sources: El Universal, La Jornada, El Informador
Changes in the Ministry of Economy
Last week, the Ministry of Finance issued a statement to inform that as of April 1, Ernesto Acevedo Fernández will be appointed as Alternate Executive Director of the World Bank.
As of the 1st of April Ernesto Acevedo Fernández will represent Mexico before the World Bank (@BancoMundial) as Alternate Executive Director of that institution.
— Hacienda 🇲🇽 (@Hacienda_Mexico) March 18, 2021
A partir del 1 de abril Ernesto Acevedo Fernández representará a México ante el @BancoMundial como director ejecutivo alterno de esa institución. pic.twitter.com/lQhIWIT9rP
Ernesto Acevedo is currently acting as undersecretary of Industry, Trade and Competitiveness at the Ministry of Economy. Mr. Acevedo is going to be substituted by Héctor Guerrero. According to the declarations of the Ministry of Economy, Tatiana Clouthier, Mr. Guerrero has worked in the private sector for a long time and joined the public sector when Andrés Manuel López Obrador became president.
La secretaria @tatclouthier felicita al subsecretario de Industria, Comercio y Competitividad, Ernesto Acevedo, por su nueva encomienda como representante de México en el Banco Mundial, y da la bienvenida a Héctor Guerrero, quien asumirá el cargo de subsecretario el 1 de abril. pic.twitter.com/zzsyXa93AK
— Economía México (@SE_mx) March 18, 2021
At this time, Mr. Guerrero is the Coordinator of the National Council for Investment, Employment and Economic Growth (COFINECE, acronym in Spanish), which is chaired by the Head of the Presidential Office. During the announcement, the Ministry also mentioned Alfonso Romo, who used to be in charge of the Presidential Office and is currently a sort of liaison between the private and public sectors.
What are the responsibilities of the Undersecretary of Industry?
Coordinate trade remedy investigations.
Design industrial development and innovation policies.
Design policies to promote domestic trade, business growth, and production chains
Design actions, plans, and programs for the industry and trade sectors, and also for the services and productive chains sectors.
Policies to promote international trade competitiveness.
Trade regulations, standardization, and conformity assessment.
National content requirements in the energy sector.
Cannabis Law Regulation
Last week, the Chamber of Deputies approved the Federal Law for the Cannabis Regulation project. This law will allow the recreational use of marijuana (up to 28 grams), and the possibility of self-cultivation, including importation, through permits.
The project-law will return to the Chamber of Senators for the approval of the changes made by the Chamber of Deputies in order to conclude the legislative process.
Source: El Economista
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A cave known for its bats inhabitants.
The net is strung that will help catch bats for study.
An endangered gray bat.
Zeb Weese sits quietly as he works to tag and release.
An eastern red bat naps.
By Zeb Weese
Kentucky Department for Natural Resources and
Zack Couch
Kentucky Division of Water
The Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund (KHLCF) conserves 90,000 acres statewide, from the banks of the Mississippi River to Cumberland Mountain on the Virginia state line. One of its most significant partners in conservation is the Kentucky Division of Water's Wild Rivers Program (DOW), which owns nearly 6,000 acres of public land thanks to KHLCF funding. While these sites provide opportunities for people to hike, paddle, and hunt, they also protect the habitat for many species of wildlife, including some that are rare or endangered. Because the focus of the Wild Rivers Program is to protect forested land along the nine officially designated wild rivers, forest-dwelling bat species particularly benefit from this habitat conservation. Unfortunately, due to overall habitat loss and the impact of "White Nose Syndrome", a disease that is devastating hibernating bats throughout the Eastern United States, bat populations in America are declining at an alarming rate. Several Kentucky bat species have been on the federal endangered species list for decades, but another (Myotis septentrionalis, the Northern long-eared bat) was just added in 2015 with the possibility of more species added in the years to come.
Not only does the KHLCF help agencies like DOW purchase and conserve natural land for future generations, it also helps them manage the land to improve habitat. However, before land management begins, it is necessary to determine what species live there, or could live there with the right management. Biologists from the KHLCF and DOW regularly conduct zoological inventories to monitor the use of these natural areas by wildlife, including special bat surveys to determine the presence of rare bat species and guide habitat management strategy. These surveys often involve physically capturing bats using mist-nets, which are fine-meshed nylon nets specifically designed to catch bats. These nets are strung between two poles typically 30 feet apart, set above a creek or other water source at dusk, and then checked every 10 minutes for several hours during the night. The particular species of any bat captured is identified, measured, evaluated for damage, and the released unharmed. Sometimes, other animals moving through the forests during the evenings are caught in the mist nets. From prothonotary warblers to flying squirrels, even to the occasional coon dog – a bat biologist never knows what to expect when the nets are up and the survey begins! In 2014, Western Kentucky University's PBS station filmed a KHLCF bat inventory on the Green River for their Main Street program, which may be viewed on YouTube (https://youtu.be/cXdmXm1bM1A).
Not all bats are federally endangered, of course, but because of the potential to capture endangered species by using this method, biologists must first obtain a federal permit from the US Fish and Wildlife Service before attempting to capture bats. Over the last few years, species identified at KHLCF sites include the federally endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) and the gray bat (Myotis grisescens), and the federally threatened Northern long-eared bat, as well as the more common Eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis) and the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) among others.
In addition to netting bats, acoustic monitoring is also conducted. While searching for insects, bats call at an ultrasonic frequency to detect prey by using sonar. Special bat monitors are deployed in suitable habitat to record these bat calls. Each bat species calls at a slightly different frequency. These calls are then downloaded onto computers and analyzed by special software which can indicate which species made each calls. This technology is not quite advanced enough to guarantee accurate identification, but it is getting better all the time and very useful when used in conjunction with netting.
Kentucky is home to approximately 15 species of bat. Some species, like the Eastern red bat and big brown bat, occur statewide in a variety of forested (and even urban) habitats. Other species occupy more restricted habitats; the Virginia big-eared bat, for example is only found in nine eastern Kentucky counties where it inhabits caves in oak/hickory or beech/hemlock forests. Regardless of your location in the state, your local bat population provides an important value to your community. From preying on mosquitos that can ruin your family picnic, to controlling populations of crop pests that cause significant economic loss to farmers, the bats you see flying along the tree line at dusk benefit humans everywhere.
While bats are very important to have around, sometimes they can get a little too close. From swooping down to get a drink out of a swimming pool while you're taking a midnight swim, to roosting in your attic, bats may utilize a variety of human structures. Bridges, houses, chicken coops, and barns are used quite frequently as 'roosts' for several bat species. While some of these roosts sites can be a nuisance, and quite often require relocating the bats, it is important to contact a professional nuisance wildlife control operator to conduct any activity involving removal or exclusion of bats from a structure.
It is important to know what species call these areas home for a couple of reasons. First, it helps managers determine the best locations for trails and other infrastructure without disturbing habitat. Next, it opens up partnerships with other organizations such as the Imperiled Bat Conservation Fund and the Kentucky Natural Lands Trust that focus on the conservation of these rare species. Finally, it is gratifying to just know that that your "Nature's Finest" license plates not only get you places to hike, but also provide homes to unique critters that make Kentucky's forests special.
For more information on these programs, visit the Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund website at http://heritageland.ky.gov and the Kentucky Wild Rivers Program website at http://water.ky.gov/waterquality/pages/wildrivers.aspx.
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STOCKHOLM –18 November 2021.Karolinska Development AB (Nasdaq Stockholm: KDEV) today publishes itsInterim Report - January-September 2021. The full report is available on the Company's website.
"The portfolio companies' progress and the positive value development of our holdings increases the potential for securing additional financial resources to support Karolinska Development's development going forward. The latest example of our ability to contribute to value creation is the divestment of Forendo Pharma to the global pharmaceutical company Organon in a deal that could result in up to USD 945 million in proceeds for Forendo Pharma's shareholders.", says Viktor Drvota, CEO, Karolinska Development.
Significant events during thethird quarter
Karolinska Development announced that the company has sold its entire holding in the listed portfolio company Lipidor AB. In total, the transaction covers 0.95 percent of all outstanding shares in Lipidor and brings in net approximately SEK 4 million in cash to Karolinska Development (July 2021).
The portfolio company Promimic has received a shared 501(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with the orthopedic company Oncos Surgical. The market clearance concerns the implant product BioGrip® Modular Porous Collars, developed by Onkos Surgical, which has been coated with HAnano Surface in order to treat implant loosening in orthopedic oncology and complex revision surgery (July 2021).
The portfolio company Umecrine Cognition has carried out a directed new share issue of SEK 35.1 million to broaden the ownership base ahead of a planned IPO and to finance the continued clinical development of the company's drug candidate golexanolone. At the same time, Karolinska Development has chosen to convert loans totalling SEK 66.9 million into shares in Umecrine Cognition at the same subscription price as in the new share issue (July 2021).
The portfolio company Modus Therapeutics has completed an oversubscribed issue (113% subscription rate), providing the company SEK 30 million after transaction costs. The newly raised capital will primarily be used to finance the continued clinical development of the company's drug candidate sevuparin for sepsis and septic shock. As the next step in the company's development, a successful listing of the company's share on Nasdaq First North in Stockholm has been completed with the 22nd of July as the first day of trading (July 2021).
The portfolio company Aprea Therapeutics has reported positive results from a Phase 2 trial evaluating its drug candidate eprenetapopt with azacitidine for post-transplant maintenance therapy in patients with TP53 mutant myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The relapse free survival at 1-year post-transplant was 58% and overall survival was 79% (July 2021).
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a clinical hold for Aprea Therapeutics clinical program evaluating eprenetapopt with acalabrutinib or venetoclax and rituximab in lymphoid malignancies. The issue means there will be a pause in the patient enrollment until the agency reverses the decision. Aprea Therapeutics intends to work in close dialogue with the FDA to clarify and address the agency's concerns in order to resume activity in the clinical trial program as soon as possible (August 2021).
The portfolio company OssDsign AB has launched OssDsign Catalyst in the U.S. The product is a synthetic bone graft that stimulates the formation of healthy bone tissue in spinal fusion surgeries. The launch constitutes an important step in the company's strategy to establish itself on the bone graft market in the largest geographic market for medical device innovations (August 2021).
Significant post-period events
The portfolio company OssDsign has included the first patient to the clinical trial TOP FUSION which aims to evaluate the long-term safety and efficacy of the synthetic bone graft OssDsign Catalyst in patients undergoing spinal fusion surgery (September 2021).
The portfolio company OssDsign has received an expanded marketing authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the company's patient-specific cranial implant product OssDsign Cranial PSI. The approval underlines that OssDsign's patented calcium phosphate composition has osteoconductive properties inducing resorption and formation of new bone tissue (October 2021).
The portfolio company Umecrine Cognition has entered a collaboration with Professor Trevor G Smart and his research group at University College London. The collaboration will involve molecular analysis and behavioral studies of Umecrine Cognition's most advanced drug candidate, golexanolone (October 2021).
The portfolio company AnaCardio has strengthened its organization in preparation for the initiation of a phase 1b/2a study of its drug candidate AC01 in patients with heart failure. Anacardio has recently recruited Patrik Strömberg as its new CEO. He holds a PhD in biochemistry from Karolinska Institutet, an MBA from the Department of Business Administration at Stockholm University and has many years of experience in drug development and business development from leading positions within AstraZeneca and Sobi (October 2021).
The portfolio company Dilafor, a drug development company focusing on the development of tafoxiparin for obstetric indications, has enrolled the first patient in a clinical Phase 2a study with tafoxiparin in pregnant women diagnosed with preeclampsia (October 2021).
The portfolio company Umecrine Cognition has presented new scientific results showing that the innate neurosteroid allopregnanolone plays an important role in the development of cognitive symptoms observed in patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC). Since Umecrine Cognition's drug candidate golexanolone could potentially impact allopregnanolone the company has, based on the novel clinical results and other supportive data, initiated preparations for a Phase 2 clinical study in PBC (November 2021).
The portfolio company Modus Therapeutics has received approval from the regulatory authorities in the Netherlands to carry out a clinical Phase 1b-study with sevuparin, a potential new treatment of sepsis/septic shock (November 2021).
Karolinska Development announces that the global pharmaceutical company Organon is acquiring its portfolio company Forendo Pharma. Forendo Pharma's shareholders will receive an initial payment of USD 75 million (approximate SEK 652 million) and are entitled to additional future payments totalling USD 870 million (approximate SEK 7,560 million) upon the achievement of certain development, registration and commercial milestones pertaining to Forendo Pharma's drug candidates. The total purchase price, if all milestones are met, amounts to USD 945 million. Karolinska Development estimates the risk-adjusted net present value (rNPV) of future cash flows, including the initial payment, from the transaction at SEK 114 million, with a positive effect on net profit of SEK 70 million and a consequential increase in the portfolio company's fair value of SEK 70 million in the third quarter 2021. The completion of the transaction is subject to review by competition authorities and other customary conditions. The transaction is expected to close in December 2021 (November 2021).
The net profit/loss for the third quarter was SEK -1.2 million (SEK -169.4 million in the third quarter of 2020). Earnings per share totalled SEK -0.01 (SEK -1.0 in the third quarter of 2020). Net profit for the period January – September 2021 amounted to SEK 190.3 (-293.4) million.
The result of the Change in fair value of shares in portfolio companies for the third quarter amounted to SEK 27.5 million (SEK -173.9 in the third quarter of 2020). The result is largely due to a combination of increased fair value of Forendo Pharma with SEK 70 million and a downturn in share price of in aggregate SEK 15 million in the listed holdings Modus Therapeutics and OssDsign. The fair value was also affected negatively by a decrease of the value of the holding in Umecrine Cognition because of the effect from the directed new share issue conducted in July 2021. The result of the Change in fair value of shares in portfolio companies for the period January – September 2021 amounted to SEK 240.0 (-289.2) million.
The total fair value of the portfolio was SEK 1,440.6 million at the end of September 2021, corresponding to a increase of SEK 43.1 million from SEK 1,397.5 million at the end of the previous quarter. The net portfolio fair value at that time was SEK 1,075.5 million, corresponding to a increase of SEK 44.7 million from SEK 1,030.8 million at the end of the previous quarter.
Net sales totalled SEK 0.5 million during the third quarter of 2021 (SEK 0.4 million during the third quarter of 2020). Net sales for the period January – September 2021 totalled SEK 1.7 (2.1) million.
Karolinska Development invested a total of SEK 21.1 million in portfolio companies during the third quarter. Third quarter investments in portfolio companies by Karolinska Development and other specialised life sciences investors totalled SEK 106.1 million.
Cash and cash equivalents increased by SEK 24.5 million during the third quarter, totalling SEK 45.3 million on 30 September 2021. During the third quarter, Karolinska Development utilized a credit facility of SEK 42.5 million.
The Parent Company equity totalled SEK 990.6 (714.4) million on 30 September 2021
TheInterim Report for Karolinska Development AB for the periodJanuary-September 2021 is available as a PDF at www.karolinskadevelopment.com.
Viktor Drvota, CEO, Karolinska Development AB
Phone: +46 73 982 52 02, e-mail: viktor.drvota@karolinskadevelopment.com
Per Aniansson, CFO, Karolinska Development AB
Phone: +46 70 866 04 29, e-mail: per.aniansson@karolinskadevelopment.com
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About Karolinska Development AB
Karolinska Development AB (Nasdaq Stockholm: KDEV) is a Nordic life sciences investment company. The company focuses on identifying breakthrough medical innovations in the Nordic region that are developed by entrepreneurs and leadership teams. The Company invests in the creation and growth of companies that advance these assets into commercial products that are designed to make a difference to patients' lives while providing an attractive return on investment to shareholders.
Karolinska Development has access to world-class medical innovations at the Karolinska Institutet and other leading universities and research institutes in the Nordic region. The Company aims to build companies around scientists who are leaders in their fields, supported by experienced management teams and advisers, and co-funded by specialist international investors, to provide the greatest chance of success.
Karolinska Development has established a portfolio of ten companies targeting opportunities in innovative treatment for life-threatening or serious debilitating diseases.
The Company is led by an entrepreneurial team of investment professionals with a proven track record as company builders and with access to a strong global network.
For more information, please visit www.karolinskadevelopment.com
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The City of New Brighton's election processes and verification methods ensure votes are counted accurately and no voting equipment is tampered with.
Every city in Ramsey County uses the same processes, verification methods and equipment. This effort is led by Ramsey County Elections and includes:
Paper ballots
Extensive pre-election system testing
Physical security, such as tamper-evident seals
Strict records of every time equipment and ballots are moved and who has access to them
Multiple layers of security best practices so everyone has the exact amount of access they need to do their jobs — no more, no less
Random post-election auditing
The voting equipment used in the City of New Brighton and in the rest of Minnesota has been certified for use by the Federal Election Commission and by the Minnesota Office of the Secretary of State as meeting all required security protocols.
Pre-Election Machine Testing
The City of New Brighton works with Ramsey County Elections to perform a pre-election test and verification on every piece of voting equipment to ensure it tabulates correctly and is in working order. Then, a second public test and verification is performed on the equipment. Anyone can observe the machines tabulating correctly during this public viewing. After testing, elections staff seal each piece of equipment with tamper-evident serial-numbered seals, which are then place in secure storage.
Ramsey County completes the public test on the mail absentee ballot counters, and counts all mailed absentee ballots for the county.
Each piece of equipment has the same hardware and software so election officials can identify a problem faster. Functioning equipment all perform the same way across the county.
For more information, click here to email City Clerk Terri Spangrud.
Election Day at the Polls
Before the polls open on Election Day, ballot counters are delivered to each polling place, and the counters are stored securely before use.
Before voting begins, election judges check the tamper-evident, serial-numbered seals to ensure they are intact and have the same number, as certified by the City Clerk. Election judges are also required to print a report showing the tabulator begins the day with zero votes tabulated.
When the polls are open, voters complete paper ballots, which are the permanent paper records of all votes. Voters feed their own ballots directly into a ballot counter, and the ballots drop into the locked ballot box. As the locked ballot box fills up throughout the day, two election judges of different major political parties empty the box, placing the voted ballots into ballot transfer cases which they seal with a tamper-evident serial numbered seal.
After polls close, election judges print a report showing the vote totals tabulated by the machine. Election judges are required to verify the number of votes tabulated by the voting equipment equals the number of voters who signed in to vote. The City of New Brighton physically transports the encrypted and secured results to Ramsey County.
Compiling Election Results
Ramsey County Elections follows a set of standard procedures for collecting, compiling and reporting election results to ensure the security and accuracy of each election.
Votes are cast and compiled from two different sources:
Votes cast prior to Election Day at the Ramsey County Elections Office, the New Brighton Community Center, at other absentee and early voting locations and through the mail.
Votes cast at polling places on Election Day.
The voting system used to count ballots in Ramsey County is completely non-networked. Unlike other counties in Minnesota, Ramsey County does not electronically transmit election results from the polling place on election night. We consider this activity to be a security risk and vulnerable to interference. Our voting system has no communications capability and no access – wired or wireless – to the internet or telecommunications system.
Election results in Ramsey County are physically transferred from the polling places to the Elections Office after polls close. All ballots and election materials are sealed, audited and locked for security before leaving the polling places.
Once the Ramsey County Elections Office receives the Election Day results for a precinct, the results are added together with votes cast prior to Election Day and they are reported to the secretary of state's website.
Ramsey County historically begins to post results around 9:30 p.m. The complete final results will not be available until all polling places in the county have successfully and securely returned their materials to the Elections Office. This timeline varies depending on Election Day turnout.
COVID-19: As mailed absentee ballots that are postmarked on or before Election Day will be accepted and counted in each of the seven (7) days after Election Day, this year this process will occurred nightly from Election Day through November 10, 2020. As these absentee ballots were returned and processed, voters saw vote totals for the various candidates and offices change.
If you have any questions, please email Ramsey County Elections (click here) directly or call 651-266-2171.
After Election Day: Auditing and canvassing results
Following the election, the Ramsey County Elections Office audits the vote totals reported on election night with the official paper documents certified by election judges on Election Day. The audited results are then canvassed by the appropriate canvassing boards: state, county, city and school district.
All voted ballots and other election materials are securely maintained for 22 months following each election, as required by state and federal law.
Are you wondering about the security of another jurisdiction's election? The Federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has some answers. Click here to visit .the Rumor Control Page of the CISA website.


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Nearly 18 months after falling under a shower of bullets outside his parliamentary residence in Dodoma, Tundu Lissu, the most persistent thorn in the side of Tanzanian President John Magufuli, plans to return home and re-enter the political fray.
An MP and chief whip for the opposition Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) party, Lissu intends to contest the presidential election in 2020.
Though he walks with crutches and still has one bullet lodged near his spine, he told EURACTIV.com that he plans to return to Tanzania as soon as his Belgian doctors give him a clean bill of health, though they are "tight-lipped" about when this might be.
After receiving emergency treatment in Dodoma, Lissu was quickly airlifted to a hospital in Kenyan capital Nairobi. He has been receiving surgery in Leuven for the past year and has one more round of surgery later this month.
Lissu and foreign diplomats are convinced that the attempted hit was ordered by President Magufuli, whose security forces had already arrested him six times.
But Lissu expects that the Magufuli regime's next act will be to ensure that he has no constituency to return to. He says that the National Assembly Speaker will likely strip him of his parliamentary seat on the grounds that he has been absent since the assassination attempt, and failed to notify the Speaker that he would be out of Tanzania.
"If they wanted to kill me, stripping me of my parliamentary seat is only a small step for them," he said.
Lissu is lobbying EU officials and European capitals to intensify their pressure on Magufuli, nicknamed 'the bulldozer' since his time as Roads minister, and his regime.
Relations between the EU and Tanzania have rapidly deteriorated in recent months.
The EU's ambassador in Dar, Roeland van der Geer, was declared persona non grata and returned to Brussels the same month.
"Magufuli has managed to completely destroy relations between the EU and Tanzania. The mood upstairs (in the Commission) is very ugly," said an EU diplomat.
The EU currently pumps in more than $100 million per year in aid and budget support to Tanzania, where losing foreign aid would increase an already widening current account deficit. The economy is suffering from a political crackdown on local businesses and foreign investors, which has prompted a capital flight to neighbouring Kenya and Dubai.
"In September 2016, we came to visit our friends in Brussels and Berlin and we warned them that things were getting very bad," says Lissu.
The EU is now "finished with him (Magufuli)," said Lissu. The bloc is close to suspending all financial support for and political relations with the Tanzanian government under Article 96 of the EU-ACP Cotonou Agreement, a seldom used instrument which was most recently used with Burundi in 2016.
He adds that individual member states are following the European Commission's lead. Belgium is reviewing its relations and has withheld aid, as have Sweden and Denmark. However, neither the UK nor Germany have decided to freeze support.
The crackdown by donors extends to the World Bank, which in December cancelled a $300 million education loan for girls' education in response to a policy of expelling pregnant girls and not allowing them to resume their studies after giving birth.
Meanwhile, a joint letter by senior members of the foreign relations committee in the United States Senate to Secretary of State Mike Pompei in December called on the Trump administration to halt financing for Tanzania.
Lissu hopes that the international pressure on Magufuli, who was elected in 2015, will ramp up in the coming months and urged the EU and other foreign powers to act before it is too late.
"There was some feeling that the 2020 election would be the litmus test and I put my feeling across that you don't want to act after he rigs his way back into office," he said.
In his absence, the Magufuli government's crackdown on opposition parties and civil society has continued. Amendments to a law on political parties will give the government sweeping powers to intervene in the nomination of candidates for local and national elections. The organisation of political meetings has already been banned.
As his recovery continues, Lissu plans to step up the opposition's diplomatic offensive, with a planned visit to State Department officials in Washington in the coming days.
But will the EU really put its money where its mouth is? It has been largely silent following recent elections in Congo-Brazzaville, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, and Rwanda, which were marked by violent intimidation or the jailing of opposition leaders, and vote rigging.
"I'm not naïve. I am not blind to the national interests of the individual member states," said Lissu.
It is hard to gauge how popular Magufuli actually is. The last surveys of public opinion were done by a company called Twaweza over a year ago. In 2016, Magufuli's approval rating according to Towesa was in the high 80s but shrank to 55% by the end of 2017.
The boss of Twaweza had since had his passport confiscated, while a law has made the independent gathering of statistics or disputing the accuracy of official statistics a criminal offence.
But Lissu is confident that despite the legal crackdown on polling and political campaigning, there will be an election campaign worthy of the name.


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A former Time Lord might be headed far, far away, as Variety reports that Doctor Who and The Crown's Matt Smith has been cast in a "key role" in Star Wars: Episode IX.
Smith joins recently reported Star Wars newcomers like Dominic Monaghan and Keri Russell among the cast of Episode IX. J.J. Abrams will return to close out the franchise's sequel trilogy that began with his The Force Awakens in 2015, replacing Colin Trevorrow.
Details are still unconfirmed about the exact nature of Smith's role, including which side of the Galactic Empire/Resistance divide he'll fall on.
Science fiction fans might best know Smith for playing the bow-tied eleventh incarnation of the Doctor on BBC's Doctor Who, but he's currently up for an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his darker portrayal of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in the second season of Netflix's The Crown. He will be replaced by Tobias Menzies in the series' forthcoming third season, as it explores a later period in Prince Philip and the future Queen Elizabeth II's lives.
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{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts         #-}

module Language.Haskell.Liquid.Bare.Env (
    BareM
  , Warn
  , TCEnv

  , BareEnv(..)

  , TInline(..), InlnEnv

  , inModule
  , withVArgs

  , setRTAlias
  , setRPAlias
  , setREAlias

  , execBare

  , insertLogicEnv
  , insertAxiom
  ) where

import HscTypes
import TyCon
import Var

import Control.Monad.Error hiding (Error)
import Control.Monad.State
import Control.Monad.Writer

import qualified Control.Exception   as Ex
import qualified Data.HashMap.Strict as M

import Language.Fixpoint.Types (Expr(..), Symbol, symbol, Pred)

import Language.Haskell.Liquid.UX.Errors ()
import Language.Haskell.Liquid.Types
import Language.Haskell.Liquid.Types.Bounds

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- | Error-Reader-IO For Bare Transformation --------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-- FIXME: don't use WriterT [], very slow
type BareM = WriterT [Warn] (ErrorT Error (StateT BareEnv IO))

type Warn  = String

type TCEnv = M.HashMap TyCon RTyCon

type InlnEnv = M.HashMap Symbol TInline

data TInline = TI { tiargs :: [Symbol]
                  , tibody :: Either Pred Expr
                  } deriving (Show)

data BareEnv = BE { modName  :: !ModName
                  , tcEnv    :: !TCEnv
                  , rtEnv    :: !RTEnv
                  , varEnv   :: ![(Symbol,Var)]
                  , hscEnv   :: HscEnv
                  , logicEnv :: LogicMap
                  , inlines  :: InlnEnv
                  , bounds   :: RBEnv
                  }

insertLogicEnv x ys e
  = modify $ \be -> be {logicEnv = (logicEnv be) {logic_map = M.insert x (LMap x ys e) $ logic_map $ logicEnv be}}

insertAxiom x s
  = modify $ \be -> be {logicEnv = (logicEnv be){axiom_map = M.insert x s $ axiom_map $ logicEnv be}}

setModule m b = b { modName = m }

inModule m act = do
  old <- gets modName
  modify $ setModule m
  res <- act
  modify $ setModule old
  return res

withVArgs l l' vs act = do
  old <- gets rtEnv
  mapM_ (mkExprAlias l l' . symbol . showpp) vs
  res <- act
  modify $ \be -> be { rtEnv = old }
  return res

mkExprAlias l l' v
  = setRTAlias v (RTA v [] [] (RExprArg (Loc l l' $ EVar $ symbol v)) l l')

setRTAlias s a =
  modify $ \b -> b { rtEnv = mapRT (M.insert s a) $ rtEnv b }

setRPAlias s a =
  modify $ \b -> b { rtEnv = mapRP (M.insert s a) $ rtEnv b }

setREAlias s a =
  modify $ \b -> b { rtEnv = mapRE (M.insert s a) $ rtEnv b }

------------------------------------------------------------------
execBare :: BareM a -> BareEnv -> IO (Either Error a)
------------------------------------------------------------------
execBare act benv =
   do z <- evalStateT (runErrorT (runWriterT act)) benv `Ex.catch` (return . Left)
      case z of
        Left s        -> return $ Left s
        Right (x, ws) -> do forM_ ws $ putStrLn . ("WARNING: " ++)
                            return $ Right x

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May 10, 2008 • from Geneva, Switzerland • 12 comments
So I recently started using Twitter (I'm RickStrahl in case you want to follow me). Late I know - Twitter's been around forever, but when I first heard and thought about Twitter the first thing that popped into my mind was "So what?". The concept of getting blasted with small disconnected messages detailing the minutiae of life of other people didn't sound terribly appealing to me. I'm still not sure that after the initial fad drops off whether that isn't what we all will be left with, but in the meantime I'm finding Twitter interesting to play and experiment with and maybe more importantly - finding it to be useful and helpful in a few situations.
The best description of what Twitter is and why it might be interesting beyond the initial impression of - "Why should I care what YOU do? Let's talk about me, damn it!" is this video:
http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter
which puts Twitter into a non-geek, every day context, which is what it takes to 'sell' the idea of Twitter I think beyond the initial So what? reaction.
The thing that finally made me try out Twitter and get (somewhat) hooked was a couple of weeks back at DevConnections when seemingly everybody around me was using Twitter to communicate. While at the conference with a bunch of other folks around physically, it's a great tool to get people together to do something, or have a general pow pow to find out what you might want to do with others. It's a great way to get motivated and keep up in an environment where the people twittering are actually around you. At the conference there were many moments where Twitter brought people together.
I figured once I get back home I'd probably be done with Twitter. But to my surprise I've been keeping up with it. There are a few folks I keep in contact with through Twitter now and a lot of the professionally related content has actually brought me some valuable links and other items of interest that I would otherwise probably wouldn't have found. Since I'm a single developer shop and live in sort of a bubble on a far away island (or a small town on the mainland when I'm back there) Twitter is providing a little more sense of being a part of greater community to me.
Twitter is also a great way to throw out ideas and get feedback - quickly. In this context Twitter feels more like a micro blog with instant feedback. I've had several instances where I posted a request on some development issue I was stuck on and was inundated with a few suggestions that actually helped solve my problem in a few minutes. It's a great community tool at least for those that have a fair amount of followers. Of course there is a key requirement for that aspect - you actually have to have people in your twitter follower's list that can potentially help you out or even care enough to follow your tweets.
Twitter fits a weird niche between IM and chat and blogs, but the nice thing about it is that its as interactive as you want it to be. Most other forms of communication require either two-way connections (ie. both sides need to commit to talking) or they are delayed communication (blogs with comments or message boards). Twitter is more like a public bulletin board where you subscribe to who you want to listen to and can blast out to whoever bothers to listen to you. In a way it's similar to blogging except that it's much shorter and way more abstract. Perfect for those with limited attention spans and wanting to perpetuate ADD <g>.
Surprisingly that works fairly well. The thing that's maybe enticing about Twitter is precisely that it's impersonal - the poster doesn't explicitly referencing a single person or even group usually. It frequently results in stream of consciousness messages that are out of context and can be intriguing or often spark interesting ideas in a way that no other medium really does.
And while there is a lot of stuff like - at the bus stop - waiting for the bus type messages, cooking dinner, heading to the john etc., once you've used Twitter for more than a few days you probably realize that that sort of thing is tedious - not just for others to read, but even for yourself to post. Instead I find myself spewing out occasional frustrations with what I'm working on, interesting finds I find while browsing around or reading something or some other quote of the day type thing that comes to mind at the moment. I see the same sort of thing from most other folks that I follow as well and as a Twitter consumer that's what I suspect most people are looking for. Not all of it is interesting of course, but there are frequent little gems in posts that make it worthwhile to glance at the tweet list from time to time.
What's not to like?
The problem with tools like this is that you just seem like a freaking ultra geek. Get out the thick glasses and pocket protectors and start poking away at your mobile phone everywhere you go <g>. I'd really hate to be one of those goobers constantly thumbing my cell phone everywhere I go (although it seems that's already happening anyway with CrackBerry email). Worse yet those folks that are doing while in the middle of something and then go - "Hang on while I Twitter". There's such a thing as too much information too... One thing that stuck out to me is we were at a dinner in Orlando with 8 speakers in the room and everybody was poking their phone every 10 minutes checking and entering new tweets. There's something rather lame about that, but yet it's also strangely addictive.
The other issues is that it's also somewhat difficult to have a 'real' conversation. Twitter really is the tool for the decimated attention span as you have to squeeze any thought or reaction into 140 characters (SMS size which is deliberate so you can use Twitter over SMS). This means lots of truncation and maybe even more so a lot of banal and disconnected content that has its head cut off and is then posted. It's also difficult to reply if a response requires more detail. Scattering content over multiple tweets is considered bad form for a reason: it's hard to read and follow in a reader.
Another problem seems to be the Twitter site itself. Twitter seems to be down an awful lot with messages sent simply failing or refreshes locking up. The timeout on the site is also pretty long so that requests can often hang for along time before failing. Not sure why, but logins especially seem to fail frequently and only several retries eventually allow access. Again this is most annoying when you're on your phone or other device when your connection is slow.
Twitter is also an exhibitionist's dream. Folks who love to show off what they're doing and let the world know get to blabber on all the time about minute details of - everything. At first I really was almost revulsed by this idea but in a lot of ways it's actually interesting once you start hitting the right people to follow on Twitter. Once you do, there can be some value to seeing what other like minded people are doing and how they are going through their daily routine along with the occasional inspirational gem.
There's a trade off I suppose between wasting time and getting something useful back. Which end you come out to depends on your particular usage scenario.
I've tried a bunch of Twitter clients and the one that works best for me seems to be twhirl. It's an open source client that looks nice and has a UI that's nice and usable. It's an Adobe Air app, which is an interesting choice, so it's fairly big, but it's a nice and clean app and it has just the right feature set IMHO. There are a number of other clients available including a few .NET clients although they are still pretty rough. The most interesting in that batch is probably Witty, which is a WPF Twitter client. It works well, but for some odd reason on my machine it doesn't show images <shrug>. It's also Open Source and provides Twitter API code which may be a good starting point if you want to use the Twitter API in your own applications.
Another interesting one: TwitterFox which is a small FireFox plugin that sits in your FF statusbar and gives easy access to tweets.
I also use Twinkle on my iPhone. Twinkle is a native iPhone app and it's much faster than the Web clients and looks a lot nicer too, but you need a jailbroken iPhone and use the Installer in order to install it.
Stick with it?
I'm not sure whether Twitter will last with me. For the moment it's interesting and it's been helpful, but it also turns out to be a big time sink and a distraction. I already have enough trouble staying focused on work when I'm not under deadline, so Twitter is yet another distraction although in the grand scheme of things it maybe a helpful and productive distraction. Also, since I'm traveling in Switzerland and Europe most of this summer it's actually been a good tool to find a few folks here to ping on all things touristy. I've turned on a few friends here and now I have a few local folks who can answer my touristy questions for decent restaurants in the neighborhood while I have to fend for myself in the evenings in Geneva <g>. A few good recommendations account for very little sleep in the last week... call that another plus point for Twitter <g>.
I think the one thing that is still missing with Twitter is location awareness. Being able to tell which of your twitter contacts are around you when you're away certainly would provide a lot of extra value. The iPhone Twinkle app tries to do something like this although it doesn't filter the list by contacts and just gives you everybody. BrightKite is another tool that also tries to match location awareness with Twitter, but it's a bit of a manual process at this time. Ultimately universal GPS tracking capabilities are what's needed to make this really work well and well that's a double-sided sword which brings up many 'Enemy of the State' connotations that feel a bit scary, especially if you voluntarily publish yourself (I guess the gov't already has the capability to track us pretty much completely as long as we carry our devices on us).
Anyway, I'd be curious to hear other people's experiences on their continued Twitter usage and 'alternate' use cases that keeps them using at beyond the initial "This is interesting" factor. Let's hear it...
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# re: Twitter this, Twitter that...
You´ve got a new follower jasantana
Steve from Pleasant Hill
My opinion is that it's part of where society is heading -- whether you think it's good or bad, or perhaps just partly bad.
What bothers me is the bigger picture: people who cannot sit and look you in the face and have a discussion without texting or picking up every phone call; those whose attention spans are no greater than 15 seconds; etc.
While getting quick answers to questions, whether it be email, IM, or tweets is very desirable, how does one separate this from a lifestyle that molds itself around being online all the time?
It's hard to remember (but I do) when families had 1 phone, no message recorder, no voicemail, but somehow the world still ran...
Claudio Lassala
huh... funny... I was just about to post my own impressions about it. :)
http://claudiolassala.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E2A4B22308B39CD2!724.entry
I've been on the fence about it. I don't want to know about the minutia of someone's day to day existence. It feels funny to follow someone with a well established blog presence, I feel like I'm eavesdropping on private conversations. It's also odd when complete strangers with no previous connection to me start following my twitter presence. And it is a distraction, but I can control the level of distraction. I've been using Digsby to handle my Twitter needs and I can turn off the notifications when I need to concentrate.
On the plus side, I can see where it would invaluable at a large conference like DevConnections. It's a good way to let your friends and colleagues know where you are and where you will be. And if you have enough followers, it's a quick and easy way to toss out a question and get a quick response.
Brett Baggott
I first learned of Twitter at PubCon IV last October. I saw some of what you mention about Twitter bringing people together. However, I didn't stick with it. Coincidentally, last week I got involved in a project that has to do with MySpace (which I also never really got into). Because of that project, I've made a commitment to "get into" all the social medias if for nothing else than to understand the perspective of the user.
I agree with Steve, it's where we're going.
Also, if you want a _huge_ laugh, go google "penny arcade twitter". Gabe and Tyco are TOO funny. :)
_o/
^ - that's me waving at ya Claudio - been a while.
I've been vicariously following your European adventures through Twitter. Since I also work from home, I'm also finding that Twitter is valuable for a feeling of connectedness.
The Witty / no pictures thing is due to a bigger issue with IE8 and WPF. IE8b1 breaks image references in WPF applications, and there's not really anything we can do about it. Hopefully that will change on the next release.
@Steve - yes I think you're right about that that's where we are heading. More and more of our lives seem to be segmented into little sets of impersonal communities that are really far flung.
But that's just it: it's all very impersonal. Even blogs are that way although that requires a much bigger commitment in time and effort for the poster at least, while Twitter is just like the 'American Idol' version thereof: All entertainment, no content or quality. <g>
There are so many distractions in life. Since I'm 'going to the office' these last few days, which is something I don't usually do, it's interesting to see just how far this phenonmen has gone. Looking around on the bus I see perhaps 75% - 80% of people either plugged into their music players or typing away at their phones, or having noisy conversations (on the phone) - all of them nearly completely disconnected from what's going on around them. Prime pick-pocket targets, he he.
Reminds me eerily of the Matrix, but in an even more devious and realistic way...
Not sure if this is helping society as a whole. It seems if anything it makes things even more impersonal and/or cliquey than it already is.
Joe Brinkman
I am another work at home individual who finds Twitter a great tool to stay connected. For me, I keep witty running in the background. I do not check it all the time. Every hur or two I take a mental break from my current task and that is when I find myself checking Twitter.
Andrew MacNeill
Great post Rick - really well worded.
Where I find Twitter particularly useful is from connecting to other things that are of interest.
It really does seem to be a stream of consciousness except these days, we are seeing more self-promoting links (I guess, some people would say that's their conscious as well) and I'm not sure how great that is. One meme at one time was to try and judge something's popularity by the number of tweets about it - but I find that simply creates too much noise.
Yes there are some "doing this" messages but I don't mind those as much since it does offer some real great meat that wouldn't turn up in my regular RSS feed. Examples: I found jquery.com simply on your tweet yesterday and loved it. I wouldn't go out and google "javascript libraries" since it wasn't high on my radar but your tweet of " this is how it should be", got me there.
It's also a great way for companies to track what the word on street is (consider www.tweetscan.com) - rtipton mentioned evernote, a "notes" aggregator, I asked her for some info; the comany started following me based on that tweet and all that was before I was added to the beta.
I've been in and out of twitter for about six months. I only got back in because several of the twitterers I had been following actually made a few useful tweets among the noise of the flock.
But you know what? As a developer, twitter has taught me that I really would like to find the time to build something "like" twitter, but much more focused and useful. Hopefully I'll find some like-minded developer(s) who start something on codeplex.com and I can join in to help.
Josh Stodola
Great thoughts! I am not so sure if I like it though. I've given it a sincere chance to grow on me, and in a sense, it has. But overall, I think it's a huge waste of time that would probably be more popular if the targeted users were teenagers. They've got more time to waste than I do. I also find myself questioning daily events and shallow observations as to whether or not they are "tweetworthy". So instead of progressing my thoughts, I think about whether or not other people will care to read about the experience on Twitter. IMO, that is counter-productive to intuition. Granted, there have been a number of tweets that I benefitted from and were definitely worth my time reading. But in the grand scheme, it's just been a time-passer. Speaking of time, is it May already?!
Pertti Karjalainen
Slightly off topic:
The other day I observed my 12 -year old daughter on the couch with her classmate. They were both sitting in front of the TV, my daughter was tapping away on a laptop, simultaneously IM-ing with what looked like five separate friends (while a YouTube video was running in the background), talking on the cell phone (in one ear) and listening to iPod (in the other). Her friend was text messaging someone and looking over my daughter's shoulder at the IM landscape... On top of that, these busy girls were having a conversation about what happened at school that day.
This reminded me of an old V12 engine where the distributor spins wildly inside the cap, sending periodic jolts to each spark plug and thus keeping the big mighty engine running. And I realized that my little daughter had turned into a V12! Can she keep going and reach a V24 -level in another 12 years? Or will her little brain shut down or melt down under the massively parallel barrage of input?
What does this do to a young person's brain? How about attention span? How about the twittering (real) birds outside, when do they get any input into this busy brain? Is it any wonder kids are consuming more and more ADD/ADHD medication every year? Have I turned into an old grump, or am I onto something?
I think it is about time to push the button on the Massive Electromagnetic Pulse Machine and roll back the clock to the slower pace of tube radios and serial, not parallel conversations.
Won't see me twittering any time soon. You will, however, see me taking my daughter on a week-long backpacking trip to the Sierra Nevada's this summer, maybe kicking and maybe screaming, but more importantly beyond the reach of electricity, WiFi, cell phones, etc.
She can twitter at me all she wants, as long as she does it in person.
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Texas Rep. Slams Republicans Who Oppose Vaccine Mandates As 'Hypocrites'
By Khaleda Rahman On 10/14/21 at 10:46 AM EDT
U.S. Abortion Texas Greg Abbott Coronavirus
Texas State Rep. Jasmine Crockett has slammed Gov. Greg Abbott and Republicans who support the state's restrictive abortion law but oppose vaccine mandates as "hypocrites."
Her comments came after Abbott issued an executive order on Monday to prohibit any entity, including private businesses, from enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on workers.
COVID-19 vaccines "are strongly encouraged for those eligible to receive one, but must always be voluntary for Texans," Abbott wrote in the order.
Meanwhile, the nation's most restrictive abortion law remains in effect in Texas. Since early September, Texas has banned abortions once cardiac activity can be detected, usually at around six weeks of pregnancy and before many women even know they are pregnant.
Texas Abortion Ban Back In Effect As Court Lifts Injunction
Man Confronts Greg Abbott Outside Restaurant Over Texas Abortion Law
White House: Texas, Florida Fighting Vaccine Mandates Because of 'Politics'
Abbott's Vaccine Mandate Ban Comes as Texas Leads in Daily COVID Deaths
Texas Governor Greg Abbott Bans Vaccine Mandates By Any Company or Person
Unlike other bans that have been blocked by courts, the Texas law empowers private citizens to enforce it by suing doctors or anyone who assists someone in getting an abortion past the six-week cutoff. They can collect at least $10,000 in damages if they successfully sue.
In an interview with Newsweek, Crockett condemned "right-wing nuts" who argue that mask and vaccine mandates infringe on their rights, yet support an abortion law that doesn't make exceptions for rape or incest.
"We got hypocrites," she said. "This idea that there's this group that is complaining that they're lacking in freedom over their body... they don't even want to wear masks.
Texas State Rep. Jasmine Crockett is joined by Democratic members of the Texas House and Senate during a news conference at the Washington Plaza Hotel on July 23, 2021 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
"They say it infringes upon their freedom if the government mandates that they wear their masks or if the government mandates they get a vaccine. I don't know what country they come from because the one that I grew up in, I couldn't go to school until I got what I call my shots. We had to have vaccinations to go to school when I was a little girl. So it's always been that way.
"We're talking about saving lives. We're talking about wearing a mask as a minimally invasive measure to save a life, right? But we're going to tell women, women and girls, that no matter what they've got to carry a fetus."
She also noted that six weeks was well before fetal viability could be determined.
"Let's be clear, they call this a heartbeat rule but what they're talking about is not even a heartbeat. Not at six weeks," she said. "So it's them playing on the ignorance of their base and really trying to pull on the heartstrings."
Crockett, a civil rights attorney, added that she believes there are plenty of Republicans who aren't opposed to vaccine mandates. "It's the right-wing nuts," she said.
She noted that Abbott is vaccinated and tested positive for COVID-19 in August. He refused calls to reinstate mask mandates as coronavirus cases in Texas soared over the summer due to the highly contagious Delta variant.
"The governor is vaccinated," Crockett said. "He was running around without a mask, he caught COVID, he locked himself in the mansion."
She added that he received Regeneron's monoclonal antibody treatment despite it not being approved for those without symptoms. "He got it anyway," Crockett said. "It's the haves versus the have-nots."
Crockett added: "The fact is, we're not out of this pandemic. The fact is that Texas refuses to get a hold on the pandemic, and I don't know when we will be out of it."
Abbott's office has been contacted for comment.


DETROIT—November 6, 2017—Compuware, the world's leading mainframe-dedicated software company, today announced it has been named a 2017 Detroit Free Press Top Workplace.
In addition to providing a supportive culture that values ideas and amplifies talents, Compuware provides comprehensive medical and dental plans, company-paid life and disability insurance, flexible work arrangements, a generous 401(k) match and career development and education assistance including tuition reimbursement. The company actively works to support its employees' work/life balance by offering resources such as worldwide wellness programs, dependent care (child/adult) FSA reimbursement accounts, an employee referral program, and much more. Employees who work at or visit Compuware's Detroit headquarters enjoy an onsite gourmet cafeteria; commuter assistance program; state-of-the art wellness and child development centers; a physician and chiropractor office; dry cleaning services as well as access to onsite retailers and restaurants.
Compuware was also recently selected as a "2017 Cool Place to Work in Michigan" by Crain's Detroit Business.
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My parents grew up in Zimbabwe and also lived there for many years before moving to England and ultimately Australia. While they were in Harrare, they worked in the PR department of Harrare United Omnibus Company (HUOC). I am interested to find out about what buses they used, how many/where did the routes go, but after a Google search all I really found out was that HUOC doesn't exist anymore (from what I understand). If there is anyone out there with any info on HUOC or what the PT in Harrare is like today, I would be very greatful.
There some Info's on wiki on the ZUPCO.


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In December 2018 we launched a little something that's really going to help companies measure and manage employee experience and engagement. It's quite exciting. It's definitely comprehensive. But before we get into it, a bit of background on why it was so necessary.
In engineering terms, a black box is a device defined only by its input and output; you don't need to know what's going on inside it.
This is how the employee survey industry has historically worked. You put in a long list of employee questions, and out of it you get a PowerPoint presentation for key executives.
The industry sells the idea that the employee survey black box is full of secret proprietary knowledge. Employers should only be interested in the input and the output, not in the process that generates one from the other.
We set out to uncover the science of measuring employee experience and engagement. To unlock a more transparent, more productive workplace. And to make that science easy to understand and use – for all leaders, line managers and workers.
This project has been a real labor of love, with research, framework and question set development taking most of 2018. We're already coming up with refinements based on practitioner feedback. This is a living, evolving framework for measuring and understanding all the elements of employee experience, and we'd really like to hear your ideas on it.
So get your copy of the Employee Experience Genome Project and tell us what you think!


Anyhow, we did actually mark one thing off our bucket list this weekend and we went to see a 51's Baseball Game. Las Vegas doesn't have a major league team, but we were ok with the minors. Diego and Jason had gone last year and they had a nice time, so we added it our Summer Bucket List this summer. It'd been years since I'd gone to a baseball game and this was the first game for Elysse. I'll just be honest here and say, it was kinda boring! Sorry to all the baseball fans out there, but I just couldn't get into the game. Maybe because I wasn't too interested in the teams or maybe because I'm just not a big baseball fan, but it felt to go on forever! Don't get me wrong, we had a great time. We went with another family, so there was plenty of playing and laughing! The kids ate popcorn and shaved ice. They got some noise makers and had at it! Don't expect we'll be getting season tickets, but the kids got to experience something different and that was awesome!
Posted in Summer Bucket List 2014, Family Life and tagged with baseball, minor league baseball, las vegas 51s, family time, summer, summer bucket list, summer fun, las vegas summer.
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The classic 4m deep diver WORMING CRANK SHOT TRIPLE FULL SIZE has been fitted with a tungsten weight system and released as the new SHOT OVER 4. Each colour has been strategically matched with either a clear ABS body material or the high buoyancy bone white material, to make the most effective use of the rattle sound when fishing in particular conditions. The tight wobble action works well over a wide range of water conditions. SHOT OVER 4 is also fitted with a casting fin under the lip that provides stability in flight for longer casts. Not only this, it also has the unique "non-stick lip" design that prevents the lure from becoming stuck in soft lake bottoms or weedy areas. SHOT OVER 4 is critically balanced for an easy retrieve that will allow anglers to search out over wide areas for lunker bass!
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Pugh, Lyndon. Change management in information services. 2nd ed. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. vi, 230 p. ISBN 978-0-7546-4665-5. $99.95.
The book on change management by Lyndon Pugh reminded me of the workshop on change management conducted by the author in Lithuania more than a decade ago. At that time change was what we were experiencing, but its management was an entirely new concept. All the participants were greatly interested and participated enthusiatically in all the activities. Therefore, I felt an additional curiosity to find out what has changed since then.
This work is mainly an academic text, though practitioners will also find it useful, especially, because of the case studies included. The case studies are well chosen and illustrate a variety of approaches; failed as well as successful change management initiatives. They also provide a good overview of success factors for the implementation of change.
The book reflects the deep knowledge and interest of the author in the topic, as well as his experience. Though written for information service specialists, it deals with general change management issues and covers a variety of aspects: organizational and change theories, change strategies, processes and models, team-work and leadership role in change management, psychology of change and skills. The work is based on the latest literature, which the author knows well and in most cases uses with competence and creatively. The author uses a number of models that help the reader to get a visual understanding of the processes and phenomena described. The overview of the basic problems of change management and the research into them is exhaustive and could be useful for a wide circle of managers, not only information services leaders. However, one must caution the reader that the reading this text is not easy. Though the style and language of the author is quite accessible, the text in itself requires some prior knowledge of management and organizational concepts. It may be more useful for the lecturers than for students. However, I am going to recommend some chapters and the cases for my Master's students of library management.
However, I am always a little suspicious of any management approaches that claim that only the fundamental involvement and commitment of the whole organization leads to success. And that is one of the main claims of the author. This involvement and commitment is difficult to sustain when we talk of incremental and on-going change as many organizations have experienced. I would have appreciated to find a successful case of this kind, as the successful cases in the book seemed to me to be limited in time (even when they took long time).
On the other hand, Change management in information services outlines especially the role of people in implementing the change and in accepting it. They seem to be the main success factor for the whole process. The author emphasises all the possibilities and methods to enlist support of organization's members and to empower them, to make them responsible for the outcome of the change planning and implementation. After having spent over a decade in constantly changing organizations I can only confirm how important this is and how difficult.
I would recommend the book for the university libraries, especially if their universities run librarianship and information science and/or management programmes, although it will also be useful to the libraries themselves, as these are constantly undergoing change.


Now, I don't have my own studio (no need for it since 99% of my business is weddings, and location sessions) So this Quince Studio Photo was taken in a rented space for the day in Miami.
I simply brought all of my lighting gear, and rocked it all out! (you can see all of this in the video below).
For this shot I wanted to "make lines" with her body. Pretty simple, and flattering. You will notice all of the little "pockets" of space around her arms, legs, and the separation between her shoes. All of this makes a big difference to the final results.
Anyway, the lighting here was a strip box in the rear / right corner of the frame. This is lighting her and the background. The main light was a Mola dish in pretty close on a boom. No sock, and no grid.
Be sure to see all of the images from this session here.


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Charles Dickinson's Reinterment
On 6 August 2010 3 August 2010 By Mark R. CheathemIn Andrew Jackson, Charles Dickinson, Dueling, Rachel Jackson, Southern honor, Tennessee history
I had the pleasure of attending Charles Dickinson's reinterment in late June. Dickinson was the young lawyer who was killed in a duel with Andrew Jackson in 1806. The story of how Dickinson's grave was discovered is a testament to hard work and persistence, by both Charles Miller, Dickinson's great-great-great-grandson, and Fletch Coke, a well-known historic preservationist in Nashville.
Most people who know about the duel don't realize that the evidence that the argument was over an insult to Rachel Jackson's purity originated with Jackson's first biographer, James Parton. The extant private and public correspondence does not support Parton's version of events, however. This is in contrast to Jackson's earlier altercation with John Sevier, when Rachel's name was clearly brought into their quarrel. The Dickinson dispute actually concerned the means of payment for a bet made over a horse race between Jackson and Joseph Erwin, Dickinson's father-in-law. How Dickinson became part of the discussion is unclear; the consequence of his involvement, however, was death.
While he survived being shot by Dickinson, the duel had far-reaching consequences for Jackson beyond the bullet that remained in his body until his death in 1845. His reputation for violence, which had been established in a duel with Waightstill Avery and the Sevier feud, was reinforced by the death of Dickinson. It would continue to plague Jackson, especially during the 1828 presidential election, when his support of the execution of men under his command during the War of 1812 and two British citizens during his questionable invasion of Florida in 1818 were prominent issues.
I must admit that it was exciting to see Miller and Andrew Jackson VI mentioning the need to recognize the tragedy of their ancestors' actions, but I suspect that Jackson and Dickinson would have disagreed that what occurred was a tragedy. For them, it was simply life under the southern code of honor.
Local Nashville reports on the reburial here and here
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