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Schools Are Likely More Dangerous If Teachers Are Armed
Elizabeth MacBride Contributor
It's a sign of how unreal the idea of militarizing schools still seems that Fox News producers led a segment on the bulletproof backpacks with the La Roux song, Bulletproof
The likelihood of any particular teacher in any given year preventing a school killing (that they could not have prevented without a gun) seems close to zero."
A nation desperate to avoid another school shooting is spinning out idea after idea for how to keep kids safe. The ideas are costly for schools, parents and teachers, potentially lucrative for businesses and startups, and there's little evidence that any of them will work.
I've reported on a frangible bullet maker and a drone company from Israel that hope they can be seen as a solution. There's even a company selling bulletproof backpacks, MC Armor. Carolina Ballesteros, the marketing director, said some parents feel safer sending the kids with the backpacks, and others worry about how they will explain to their children why they're needed.
It's a sign of how unreal the idea of militarizing schools still seems that Fox News producers led a segment on the bulletproof backpacks with the La Roux song, Bulletproof , which caused La Roux to protest. She told Billboard: "Using 'Bulletproof,' a song I wrote about relationships, for a piece like this is abhorrent. I have never, and would never approve my music to be used in this way."
Media Matters accused Maria Bartiromo of glamorizing the whole issue.
Bartiromo herself looked pretty uncomfortable, vaguely muttering: "Oh my goodness. It's incredible that this has come to this though, that we need bulletproof clothing," and then rapidly changed the subject. "Some of these things are quite fashion-forward."
One of the most controversial ideas, arming teachers, keeps cropping up, probably because people are so uncertain what to do. It would cost more than $100 million, based on my calculations and a preliminary study done by the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives But the evidence actually suggests that arming teachers would make schools less safe.
Last week, The New York Times reported that education secretary Betsy DeVos was considering making federal funds available to help teachers arm themselves, or school districts arm teachers. The report hasn't been confirmed, and there is still lots of opposition to the idea.
But "I think that would be a very bad idea," said Clarence Cox, president of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives. At a meeting of the Federal Commission on School Safety, chaired by Betsy DeVos, he and two other experts testified about school safety measures. "In many cases, law enforcement, we don't shoot that well. So I'm really concerned about a teacher carrying a gun and then trying to secure that gun during a normal workday."
He estimated at the panel discussion that basic firearms training for teachers would cost $71.8 million. If even just 20% of the nation's 3.1 million teachers were given guns or bought their own, at an average of $400, it would generate more than $27 million in revenue for gun makers.
Public health studies suggest that more guns in schools – if there were significantly more -- mean the number of gun accidents, suicides and deaths by violent crimes in schools would all rise. (That's the effect of more guns in the population at large).
It's possible that a gun in a teacher's hands, or more likely, in the hands of a trained resource officer, could stop a shooting. But, "even in the US, there are still very few homicides in schools. The rarer the event when the gun could be used for good, almost by definition, the less likely when a gun is actually used that it will be for good purposes," Harvard Public Health Policy Professor David Hemenway told me by email. "If one is thinking about teachers stopping shootings where currently two or more people are killed in schools, there are so few compared to the number of schools, and the chance is so low in most of those situations that a teacher would be right on the scene AND be able to access the gun AND be able to use it effectively in the short window of opportunity. The likelihood of any particular teacher in any given year preventing a school killing (that they could not have prevented without a gun) seems close to zero."
There are typically fewer than five school shootings a year.
Every statistic in the world doesn't change the feeling that you would want the power to do something if there were a shooter, and the knowledge that feeling helpless in that situation would be the worst feeling of all. In fact, arming teachers is just one of dozens of ideas being floated, and in some cases bought, right now to make school safer.
The security market for schools is growing slowly, with sales expected to hit $2.8 billion by 2021, according to IHS Markit. Sales are likely to increase slowly because most schools already have security infrastructure, like metal detectors, in place, analyst Jim Dearing wrote.
Indeed, at the expert panel convened by DeVos, the ideas offered were mostly in the category of more communication -- like apps the would help teachers, the mental health system, police and school resource officers share -- and ways to bypass federal privacy laws that keep information from being shared. The idea that has the most evidence behind it? Drills. Fire drills have been shown to help in cases of fire, so it's reasonable to think they might help in the case of a school shooting, too.
Chad Winkler, general manager at a gun range and training facility in Mississippi, Boondocks Training Academy, said it has had about 30 inquiries from public and private school administrators for training. One of the programs Boondocks offers is called ALICE for school administrators. At about $75 per person, it drills teachers and administrators on what to do if there is a shooter in the school, he said. "It's a matter of practice, very similar to fire drills."
"This program was in place in the Noblesville Indiana School shooting and because of that, not a single person in the school was killed," Winkler said.
Drills, of course, don't negate the risks that come along with guns, especially not one of the largest, that suicides would be easier and more common. But drills could help teachers in a school shooting -- and help them manage the fear permeating schools now.
Elizabeth MacBride
A business journalist for 20 years and a freelancer for more than 10 of that, I write about turning points in the lives of entrepreneurs and their companies.


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Rachel Mundy Explores the Animanities
Rachel Mundy is one of three new Assistant Professors this year in the Department of Music. As a musicologist, she adds to the interdisciplinary richness of the Department with expertise in an area of research that is so new it was up to her to give it a name: animanities.
"I do a lot of work that looks at the history of recordings and transcriptions of animal songs and animal music in biology and compares the way that biologists talk about animal sounds—particularly examples they think of as musical like birdsong or whale song—to the way that people in music have traditionally talked about song in a human context."
If Mundy's research focus seems surprising, that may have to do with the fact that is was a surprise—or perhaps an epiphany—to Mundy herself. As a doctoral student, she traveled to France to study government support for contemporary music during the 50s and 60s. It's the kind of careful, sometimes mind-numbing sifting of primary sources that often forms the foundation for new musicological research. Mundy spent many long sessions in the basement of the Bibliothèque Nationale poring over government paperwork, but when she needed a break, she found herself reading French ornithology journals. Already a lover of bird-lore, she had been in the habit of making field recordings of birdsong in the neighborhood where she lived near Manhattan's East River. As she perused the ornithology journals, she grew more and more interested in the intersection between music scholarship and the history of science, and in particular, the application of evolutionary theory to those fields. With the help of a supportive advisor (the noted feminist scholar Suzanne Cusick), Mundy made what she would later term "animanities" the focus of her dissertation.
"If you look at the first half of the 20th century, up through around 1950, people who studied animal vocalizations were using the same tool kit as people who studied western music and folk song. There are books and collections of transcribed birdsong in music notation, just like there are books and collections of transcribed folk song."
The study of human music and animal sound diverged by the 1950s, motivated largely by a backlash after World War II against comparisons between human races and animal species. Redefining the appropriate application of evolutionary theory was an important project of the post-war era, but in the process, some valuable areas of inquiry (such as studying structure in birdsong) were neglected. Other connections receded from memory but still exert a significant pedagogical influence. Describing her latest research, Mundy says,
"Right now I'm working on an article that looks at musicology —as a field—as a kind of bird-watching. I basically argue that style criticism, which is a technique we teach to undergraduates, grew out of evolutionary discourse at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th."
Mundy is enthusiastic about the students she works with at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Having taught in an Ivy League school as a postdoctoral fellow, she has been impressed with the curiosity and maturity of undergraduate students at Pitt.
"A lot of them in some ways have a much more adult life. They have jobs, they're taking more classes than I can believe, and yet they're really invested and they're really interested, which I love!"
She is equally enthusiastic about her interaction with students in the Department's graduate program.
"I've been thrilled to work with them. They're interesting, they're smart, they're diverse, and they're such good readers."
The energy and interdisciplinary insight that Mundy brings to her research and teaching are sure to be invaluable resources as the Department of Music moves into a new era. Perhaps in a few years Pitt may even become a hotbed for study of the animanities, with Rachel Mundy leading the way.

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Japanese startup Jeplan is working to extract cotton fibre from used apparel and convert it to fuel.
The startup says that a ton of junked clothing can generate about 700 litres of ethanol.
Jeplan has raised about $13 million since it was founded in 2007 and counts Docomo and venture capital firm Jafco among its investors.


A Turlock man was indicted by a federal grand jury in Fresno on Thursday on two counts of hitting two helicopters with the beam of a laser pointer in October. Both were flying near the Modesto Airport.
According to court documents, Roger Shane John, 31, on the evening of Oct. 22 struck a Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department helicopter, Air 101, five to six times with a powerful green laser, causing visual interference and disrupting an air support response to a domestic violence call.
When a Fresno, Calif. man allegedly shot a high-powered green laser at a police helicopter pilot in October, he successfully hit the pilot's eyes and blinded him — at least momentarily, police said.
That was Michael Alvarez' goal with the laser pointer, authorities said: He "thought it would be funny to point the laser at a helicopter" from the car he was driving with some passengers just after midnight on Oct. 22, according to new federal charging documents reported by Ars Technica.
In United States v. Bowser, No. 1:15-CR-0088-LJO, a Fresno jury on Wednesday found a Bakersfield man guilty of one count of aiming the beam of a laser at a helicopter after a two-day trial before Judge Ishii.
In an unrelated laser strike appeal, United States v. Rodriguez, No. 14-10122, the Ninth Circuit last month reversed an EDCA conviction for attempting to interfere with the safe operation of an aircraft and the 14-year sentence. The Court held there was insufficient evidence that the defendant was willfully attempting to interfere with an aircraft and exhibited a reckless disregard for human life where he was attempting to see how far his laser would go at night and aimed it at a helicopter, but there was no evidence that he was trying to interfere with the pilot. The court remanded for resentencing on the defendant's other conviction for aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft, which carries a maximum 5-year sentence. Congratulations to defense attorney Carolyn Phillips who argued the case on appeal.
The U.S. Attorney's press release on the Bower verdict says that the Federal Aviation Administration received 3,894 reports of incidents involving laser strikes on aircraft in 2014, 150 of which were in the Eastern District of California. Seems like a real problem, but I wonder how many are knuckleheads who have no idea that they may be causing a real risk of harm to aircraft by aiming their laser pointers at planes in the sky.
It may seem like a silly thing, but laser strikes against planes, helicopters, and other aerial vehicles have become an increasing epidemic nationwide. Since the FBI began keeping track in 2005, there have been more than 17,000 laser strikes in total—more than a fifth (3,960) in 2013 alone. During the first three months of 2014, the FBI reported an average of 9.5 documented incidents every single day.
Typically federal prosecutors, like Fresno's Karen Escobar, the local Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) for the Eastern District of California, would spend the bulk of their time bringing drug cases. Here, that's not necessarily the case.
"I prosecute primarily drug cases and have quite a few of those, but for some reason our district—34 counties, including Fresno [in Fresno County] and Bakersfield [in Kern County]—has the highest rate of laser strikes that are reported," Escobar said.
There's no single reason for this uptick, but it has thrust Fresno into the national discussion around the trend. In March 2014, local law enforcement agencies—California Highway Patrol (CHP), the Fresno Police Department, and the Fresno County Sheriff's Department—had a "round table" laser strike symposium with the US Attorney's office and the FBI among others. And these local groups continue to keep regular contact with other federal authorities (like the Federal Aviation Administration) in Washington, DC.
Escobar said since that first case, "incidents just increased tremendously and I kept getting more and more referrals." It's even attracted the attention of her superiors in Washington, DC.
Escobar's colleague, Michael Tierney, another AUSA in the Eastern District of California, attributed Fresno's push to litigate to her. As a former judge advocate general in the military, he says the increased prosecution of laser strikes is justified as well. "It's too high of a risk to take [to not prosecute]."
In one of Escobar's most recent cases (from April 2014), she brought fresh charges against three more alleged laser strike suspects in Bakersfield and Fresno.
Rodriguez and Coleman have both become two of eight laser strike convictions (with three more cases ongoing) from the Eastern District of California centered in Fresno County since 2007. Combined with an additional 20 state convictions from this same region, this federal district alone constitutes 35 percent of the only 80 total laser strike convictions nationwide—state and federal—since the FBI began keeping track a decade ago.


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Zamalek building evacuated due to land subsidence related to Cairo metro construction
Residents of the building, who were evacuated, said they feared it might collapse
Zeinab El-Gundy , Sunday 26 Jul 2020
Egypt's National Authority for Tunnels said on Sunday that slight land subsidence had occurred around a landmark building in the affluent Zamalek district, but denied that the nearby construction of a Cairo metro extension had caused the building to partially collapse.
"Slight ground subsidence occurred at one of the corners of building number 17 in Brazil Street in Zamalek as well as at the front yard and fence of the [adjacent] Bahraini embassy," read the statement.
The building, which was once home to a number of Egypt's golden age stars, is located near ongoing excavation work to extend Cairo's underground metro to run through Zamalek.
Residents of the 12-storey building, who have been evacuated, said they feared it might collapse.
Photos and videos were shared online showing deep cracks in the building's walls and slight subsidence outside the building and the adjacent Bahraini embassy, amid anger from the residents.
The tunnels authority said that engineering teams had taken the necessary measures to secure the building, adding that it was conducting studies to ensure the safety of the building.
The residents were given EGP 30,000 each in order to find a temporary residence until they are able to return to the building, Transport Minister Kamel El-Wazir said in TV comments late on Sunday.
Cairo Governor Khaled Abdel-Aal ordered the formation of an engineering committee to assess the building's condition.
According to the governor's statement, preliminary inspections showed that the building had suffered some damage and vertical cracks, as well as subsidence in its garage; the neighbouring Bahraini embassy building also suffered subsidence.
The governor said the building is made of two sections: one overlooking Brazil Street with 37 residential units, including 16 currently occupied, and a second section overlooking Aziz Abaza Street, with 33 flats, 28 of which are inhabited.
The health ministry sent three ambulances to the area as a precautionary measure, but no injuries have been reported.
Since the announcement that the extension of the third metro line would pass through Zamalek, many residents of the upscale district have expressed concerns, including about the impact of the construction on the island's older buildings.
The incident on Sunday revived those concerns. "The Zamalek Association reminds all Zamalek residents that, back in 2016, we had a meeting with the head of the Tunnel Authority and we presented a list of nine technical queries...requesting an answer to the fears and concerns of Zamalek residents," said the Zamalek Association, a local civil society group, in a statement in English.
"Their technical team promised to reply and three weeks later we were sent a CD of six hundred pages of the technical data of the whole project, irrelevant to our queries."
The association said it had replied in a formal letter saying that the tunnels authority's cooperation was insufficient and that "it never heard from them again."
The metro's extended third line will run from Heliopolis to the Attaba district in Downtown Cairo and then through a Maspero stop to a new Zamalek stop, on to the densely populated district of Imbaba on the Giza side of the Nile.
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Arab world regards US and Israel as threat to world – Noam Chomsky
by johansen.jorgen • 27. desember 2013 • 0 Comments
Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky of MIT believes that Israel has shown no indication in Syrian conflict that it wants the Syrian rebels to win, nor incidentally does the US, and that they are pretty happy just seeing Syrians kill each other. In regards to Iran's nuclear program, the West, the US, and its allies (in particular Israel) describe Iran as the gravest threat to world peace, but the Arab world does not regard Iran as a threat, instead the US and Israel are regarded as the threat. The main problem in the nuclear proliferation is to implement the treaty by the world powers, in the Middle East the problem could be solved only by establishing a nuclear weapon free zone in the region, Dr. Chomsky told the Voice of Russia in an exclusive interview on the eve of the important round of negotiations on Iran and Syria in Geneva, Switzerland.
We are sitting here with Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky at MIT. He is famous the world over for his working linguistics but more so his political beliefs. He is a self-described anarchist, more specifically an «anarcho- syndicalist.» Dr. Chomsky, thanks for having us.
Pleased to be with you.
Anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism
I kind of want to start up by asking you to briefly describe what is anarchism and more specifically anarcho-syndicalism?
Well, I think the best characterization that I know is given by one of the leading thinkers and activists in the modern anarcho-syndicalist world, Rudolf Rocker, who described anarchism in general as not a specific set of beliefs that provides particular answers to all the questions that can arise, but rather what he called 'a general tendency in the history of humanity' which aims to inquire into the nature of social, economic, political structures to detect structures of hierarchy and domination and to challenge them to demonstrate their legitimacy. They are not self-justified and if they cannot defend their legitimacy on some plausible grounds then to dismantle them and reconstruct then from below. And to do this in the context of the existing society, developing alternative institutions that are more free and more just in the hope of moving on to a world of free associations of workers' communities controlling their own institutions, their own fate in association with one another of various kinds of federal arrangements and so on. That is the basic thrust of anarchism. Altogether it is myview and of anarcho-syndicalism in particular which is designed for complex industrial societies.
So, you are talking about workers controlling their own work and controlling the enterprises that work in expanding out to the community?
It's one of crucial aspect of it. In fact, anarcho-syndicalism kind of shades off into left anti-Bolshevik Marxism. People like Anton Pannekoek, Paul Mattick, Karl Korsch and others have sympathetic relationships and ideas and the great anarchist achievement like the 1936 Spanish Revolution before it was crushed, did have the strong and sympathetic support of left Marxists who felt a community of interests and commitments.
I'm kind of wondering how workers are controlling their own work. How is this organized? And how does it arise?
Well, it's all over the place. First of all it is a constant development takes place all over. There were efforts in Eastern Europe, for example, in self-management in Yugoslavia. Right now in the US, in the old decaying Rust Belt, where industries are collapsing, they're being replaced, to a certain extent, by worker owned and partially worker-managed enterprises. There is one huge institution that's undergone great conglomerate in Spain which is worker ownedand the manager is selected by workers but not actually worker-managed which is a collection of heavy industries, banks, hospitals, community living and so on.
So, did they rise spontaneously or is there a system that regulates how the workers organize themselves like maybe in the US, like they do it one way and then over Spain Mondragon they'll do it a different way. Is there any kind of vision?
There is no leadership or Bible, things develop on the basis of the circumstances that exist. So the conditions in Rust Belt in Northern Ohio and in Catalonia and in Oregon in 1936 are quite different and the backgrounds are quite different. But there were similarities in the way the take-over by working people, peasants of their own lives proceded.
Let's say that Mondragon wants to have an association with somebody in the Rust Belt…
That is what is happening in fact. I don't know how far it will go, but one of the major US unions, the steel workers, has now entered into some kinds of interactions with Mondragon. They try to work out ways to develop Mondragon-type system in the old industrial sections of the US and revive them on the basis of worker-ownership and community-ownership in control.
«Norman Ornstein, who was referring to the Republican Party, described them as a radical insurgency opposed to rationality, to political compromise, to participation in a parliamentary system, in fact with no positive goals in themselves.»
Could you comment on the Tea Party and their tactics? They are almost anarchistic, like 'government is bad and everything that destroys it is good,' and in some ways they are also thinking about what people on the left would like, myself and yourself and other individuals. In some ways they are most revolutionary group on the US, they are able to stop the government for 16 days.
I wouldn't call them «revolutionary.» I think one of the best description of them is by one of the leading conservative political analysts, Norman Ornstein, who was referring to the Republican Party altogether, the modern Republican Party, but Tea Party is an extreme example. He described them as a radical insurgency opposed to rationality, to political compromise, to participation in a parliamentary system, in fact with no positive goals in themselves. They do oppose too much state power, but that is a bit of a joke, they also support state power. They support the powerful systems that sustain private power and put their concentration of power as opposed to the traditional anarchists were opposed to the relation of dominance between masters and servants, between owners and workers. That is one of the major, one of the most elemental types of dominance that have always been opposed by any anarchist but not by them, they are in favor of it. They want, they're in favor of having the population subordinated to concentrated private power, which should have no limits. When they call themselves «anti- government,» that means they don't want government to limit the capacity of concentrated private power to dominate the society. That is very far from any anarchism. The reason that they are successful is that they have enormous amount of private capital supporting them. They are very heavily funded, they have media-outlets I meanthey're a genuine, popular movement, they have a base and they kind of mostly almost entirely white, mostly petty bourgeois, small store-keepers and so on, many of them…. There's elements that are highly nationalist as racist elements. They basically just … their power and significance doesn't come from their numbers, but by the backing that they have. They do serve the interests of significant elements of private capital.
I was thinking more in a sense that the power of the government is not able to legitimize themselves so they actually challenge the government very directly and they are able to be voted into power.
They have popular support and they have plenty of financial support and a lot of their power comes from the radical gerrymandering, redesigning of electoral districts. You can see it, for example, they are powerful now and so are representatives when in fact the Republicans have a majority of the representatives but with the minority of the vote. So in the last election, the Democrats actually won a significant majority of the popular vote for the House but virtue of rearranging electoral districts and a vast amount of money, the right wing was able to take over the representation. In fact, there is a good study by the main political scientist who has been working on campaign funding for many years, Thomas Ferguson, University of Massachusetts, came out with a study which saidthat there was almost linear relationship between the amount of money put into a campaign and electoral victory; it's basically bought.
Syrian crisis and Geneva-2 peace conference
OK, Can we move into the Middle East now and talk about – how should we think about Geneva-2 and the Syrian crises considering that Saudi Arabia is opposed to any kind of deal and the US and Russia have made out a plan where the Assad government would stay intact and also that the Deputy Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia has reported to have visited Israel recently, and we can only think that their agenda is the Iran crises.
I think the Saudi-Israeli relationship is developing on the basis ofopposition to Iran that doesn't really have to do with Syria. Israel has shown no indication that it wants the rebels to win in Syria and nor incidentally does the US.
«They are pretty happy just to see Syrians kill each other and there is no indication that they want a change that with the Syrian crises looks like a..I mean Syria is plunging into total suicide, it's an utter disaster.»
I mean if the US and Israel were committed to the overthrow of the Assad government, there are things they could do far short of sending arms or bombing, nothing controversial, for example, it would suffice for Israel to mobilize forces on these Golan Heightswhich Israel occupies and annexed in violation of Security Counsel orders, is Syrian territory, very close to Damascus. So if Israel mobilized forces there, the Syrian government would be compelled to move forces to the South, relieving pressure against the rebels. That is one very simple thing that could be done but there is no talk of it because there is no interest in having the Assad government fall as far as Israel is concerned. They are pretty happy just to see Syrians kill each other and there is no indication that they want a change that with the Syrian crises looks like a..I mean Syria is plunging into total suicide, it's an utter disaster.
And the only small hope and it is very small is for some negotiated settlement of the Geneva type. It's hard to imagine that any settlement would not allow some position for the Assad government in a transitional stage that is kind of a minimum condition under which they would even participate. But it is very hard to see if the rebels can even find representation that would appear in Geneva if they want to. It is a very shaky possibility, but it is actually the only one that I can see that has any hope of saving Syria from a plunge to even worse catastrophe than today.
I mean, what is happening in Syria is that the country is just being partitioned. The Kurdish areas have formally declared autonomy, they have been battling with the rebels in fact and possibly they might seek some kind of link to Iraqi Kurdistan. That is tenuous as well. The rest of the country is basically divided between government and rebel forces and while the lines shift that doesn't look that either is going to defeat the other.
Iran and Iranian nuclear program
Do you think that we are kind of witnessing a transformation in the US political aspiration in the Middle East with these deals with Russia? And could you also comment on Russia's role in the world right now? Also what is going with Iran? They've made an interim deal, like what we've just talked about is Geneva and there is a deal that they might keep intact..
Well, the Iran's question is actually somewhat separate, although of course in the background is a growing split which was very much exacerbated by the Iraq invasion, a Sunni-Shia split which is now spread over the region and is consuming and that is happening in Syria as well.
With Iran kind of on one side and Saudi Arabia on the other and Iraq is just being torn to shreds. I mean just today there were another dozens of people murdered, Shiah pilgrims on their way to Karbala but every day has more atrocities.
In fact there was just now the first fatwa by a leading Shiah cleric, he is actually based in Iran but is Iraqi and is connected toIraqi Sadrist forces. A fatwa authorizing Shiites in Iraq and Iran to fight in Syria. That is another escalation of the war and of the Sunni-Shiah split. With regard to Iran, there is a separate issue I mean, Iran in the West, in the US, its allies (in particular Israel) Iran is described as the gravest threat to world peace, because of its nuclear programs. But it is worth bearing in mind that it's a western obsession. It is not true of the world.
«A very small percentage regards Iran as a threat. The threat that they see, the population, is the US and Israel. And it raises a real question; what the threat is supposed to be, what makes Iran the gravest threat to world peace?»
The nonaligned countries, which is most of the world have vigorously supported Iran's right to enrich uranium as a sign on Proliferation Treaty that just did so again recently at nonaligned conference in Tehran. If you go to the Arab world nearby, while the Arab dictators are very much opposed to Iran and its policies, the population has a different view. There have been many western polls, there is recent book that just came out summarizing them by Shibley Telhami, the leading western specialist on public opinions and he concludes, as other polls have shown, that while at the Arab world, the population doesn't like Iran, there is a hostility that goes back centuries, they don't regard Iran as a threat. A very small percentage regards Iran as a threat. The threat that they see, the population, is the US and Israel. That is quite different from the western image that is presented in the West, that the Arabs support the US in opposition to Iran's programs. But that is a referent to Arab dictators, not to the population which doesn't like Iran, but doesn't agree with this.
And it raises a real question; what the threat is supposed to be, what makes Iran the gravest threat to world peace? Actually we have an authoritative answer to that from US intelligence and Pentagon, which regularly briefs Congress on the global security. And it is all public, you can find the documents and what they say is that Iran is not a military threat, it has a very low military spending even by the standards of the region that has almost no capacity to deploy force and it has not been engaged aggressive acts. But it us a potential deterred and that is the threat.
Nuclear weapons and the Non-Proliferation Treaty
We line in a world of immense violence in unrated materialism/capitalism and we have global issues like nuclear proliferation; we have to restructure an education system which is defunct, we have environmental degradation, the huge gap between rich and poor. I'm just wondering how do we approach these issues on a global level? You know, it is not just like it's affecting here, it is not just affecting South Korea, it is not just affecting India. Is anarcho-syndicalism viable somehow? How do you approach the world?
I think the basic thrust of anarcho-syndicalism, anarchism generally, applies everywhere, wherever there are structures of domination and control, hierarchy and oppression, they are not self-justifying, should be challenged and if they cannot demonstrate their legitimacy, overthrown.
I think that applies to every case you've mentioned. It is not a formula how to deal with, let's say, environmental destruction, but it lies in the background. Each of the cases you've mentioned requires its own type of action. With regard to nuclear proliferation actually we have an answer, the problem is to implement it. The Non-Proliferation Treaty that obligates the nuclear powers to carry out good faith measures to eliminate nuclear weapons. That is actually a legal obligation determined by the International Court of Justice back in the mid-90s and it also requires other countries not to develop nuclear weapons. There are, at the moment, several that have outside the NPT – Israel, Pakistan and North Korea but there are ways to overcome this. For example, in the case of the Middle East one serious way to approach it would be to try to establish a nuclear weapon free zone in the Middle East.
Saudi Arabia is advocating this.
That is originally mostly an Egyptian proposal but the Arab world has proposed it for a long time. It's been formally accepted by the West but only formally. Just last December, there was to be conference in Helsinki to move forward on this proposal. Israel announced they wouldn't attend. Iran announced that they would attend with no preconditions and a couple of days later president Obama cancelled the conference. So it didn't take place. There is pressure to renew it from the EU, from Russia and mainly the Arab states. Unless the US is willing to significantly participate it is not going to go anywhere. But there are mechanisms, we can think of ways of overcoming this problem. When you turned to environmental degradation – it is a little butt different. It is a horrible problem, we are moving towards precipices which is of extreme danger, racing towards it and the longer we wait to eliminate reliance on foil fuels, the worse it's gonna be. But it is not so clear how to do that. It is different from the nuclear threat which in fact at least in principal we know how to get rid of.
Dr. Chomsky, thank you so much for speaking with us, we really appreciate your time.
Sean Nevins
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Па́вел Влади́мирович Виногра́дов (род. 31 августа 1953, Магадан) — российский космонавт. Совершил 7 выходов в открытый космос. Общая продолжительность его работы в открытом космосе на 2014 год — 38 часов 25 минут.
Является самым возрастным человеком, который когда-либо работал в открытом космосе, совершив выход в околоземное космическое пространство в возрасте 59 лет.

Биография
Родился 31 августа 1953 года в Магадане (отец – инженер, мать – бухгалтер), вырос на Чукотке, где в 1970 году окончил Анадырскую среднюю школу № 1.
С сентября 1970 года – ученик токаря, с октября 1970 по апрель 1971 года – токарь 2-го разряда Московского машиностроительного завода «Красный октябрь».
С 1971 года учился в Московском авиационном институте по специальности «Производство ЛА», получил специальность «инженер-механик по производству ЛА» в 1977 году. В 1980 году окончил заочное отделение МАИ, факультет «Системы автоматизированного проектирования ЛА» по специальности «Системный анализ, большие компьютерные системы». После окончания института работал в нём же инженером, старшим инженером (с мая 1978 года) отраслевой лаборатории «Систем автоматизированного проектирования ЛА», одновременно был нештатным испытателем в ИМБП, где участвовал в различных испытаниях по программе «Буран».

С августа 1983 года по 1992 год — инженер, старший инженер, ведущий инженер, начальник группы, начальник сектора НПО «Энергия» им. С. П. Королева.
Занимался отработкой действий экипажей космического корабля «Союз ТМ» и орбитального корабля «Буран», разработкой автоматизированных систем подготовки космонавтов. Участвовал в подготовке пусков космических кораблей «Союз ТМ», «Буран», многоразового ракетно-космического комплекса «Энергия». Занимался стыковочным узлом для орбитального корабля «Буран». В 1985 году принимал участие в подготовке группы бортинженеров по программе «Буран».

С марта 1999 года – вице-президент Федерации космонавтики РФ.

С 6 февраля 2003 года начальник 291-го отдела РККЭ (командир отряда космонавтов). 30 октября 2007 года освобожден от этой должности и назначен заместителем начальника Лётно-космического центра ОАО РККЭ.

В 2017 оставил должность инструктора-космонавта-испытателя. В 2022 занимал должность заместителя руководителя 11-го Центра (ГОГУ), руководителя 29-го отделения РККЭ.

Космическая подготовка
Отобран в отряд космонавтов НПО «Энергия» в марте 1992 года. С 1 октября 1992 года по февраль 1994 года проходил курс общекосмической подготовки в центре подготовки космонавтов им. Ю. А. Гагарина.

С 20 мая 1994 года по 20 февраля 1995 года прошёл лётную и парашютную подготовку, выполнил тренировки в гидролаборатории, полёты на невесомость и тренировки на выживание, полностью завершил курс общекосмической подготовки, сдал все экзамены и зачёты и получил квалификацию «космонавт-испытатель».

10 мая 1995 года переведён на должность космонавта-испытателя в отряде космонавтов РКК «Энергия».

14 февраля 1995 года введён во второй экипаж 20-й основной экспедиции «Евромир-95». С 20 февраля по август 1995 года проходил подготовку в качестве бортинженера, вместе с Геннадием Манаковым, а с 1 апреля с Кристером Фуглесангом (ЕКА, Швеция).

3 сентября 1995 года был дублёром бортинженера ТК «Союз ТМ-22» Сергея Авдеева.

С октября 1995 по июль 1996 года проходил непосредственную подготовку в качестве бортинженера первого экипажа космического корабля «Союз ТМ-24» по программе 22-й основной экспедиции (ЭО-22), российско-американской экспедиции NASA-3 и «Кассиопея» вместе с Геннадием Манаковым, Джоном Блаха (США) и Клоди Андре-Деэ (Франция).

9 августа 1996 года, в связи с заболеванием командира Геннадия Манакова, основной экипаж (кроме Клоди Андре-Деэ) ЭО-22 был заменён дублёрами (Валерием Корзуном и Александром Калери).

С августа 1996 по июль 1997 года проходил подготовку в качестве бортинженера основного экипажа по программе 24-й основной экспедиции, вместе с Юрием Гидзенко, а с октября 1996 года с Анатолием Соловьёвым.

28 июля 1997 года решением Государственной межведомственной комиссии назначен бортинженером дублирующего экипажа МКС-3, вместе с Валерием Корзуном.

Космические полёты

Первый космический полёт совершил в качестве бортинженера корабля «Союз ТМ-26» и 24-й основной экспедиции на космической станции «Мир», командиром экипажа был Анатолий Соловьёв. Корабль «Союз ТМ-26» стартовал с космодрома Байконур 5 августа 1997 года и 7 августа состыковался со станцией «Мир». В это время на станции «Мир» находился экипаж 23-й основной экспедиции Василий Циблиев, Александр Лазуткин и американский астронавт Майкл Фоул. Космонавты Циблиев и Лазуткин покинули станцию 14 августа 1997 года. 29 сентября 1997 года к станции «Мир» прибыл американский шаттл «Атлантис» STS-86. Произошла замена американских членов экипажа станции: Майкл Фоул отправился на Землю, а Дейвид Вулф остался на станции. 24 января 1998 года к станции «Мир» прибыл американский шаттл «Индевор» STS-89. Произошла очередная смена американского члена экипажа станции: вместо Дэвида Вульфа на станции остался Эндрю Томас. 31 января 1998 года к станции пристыковался корабль «Союз ТМ-27», на котором прибыли космонавты 25-й основной экспедиции «Мир»: Талгат Мусабаев и Николай Бударин, а также, с кратким посещением станции, французский космонавт Леопольд Эйартц. Виноградов, Соловьёв и Эйартц вернулись на Землю 19 февраля 1998 года.

Во время этой экспедиции Павел Виноградов провёл 197 суток 17 часов и 34 минуты в космосе. Во время полёта Павел Виноградов и командир экспедиции Анатолий Соловьёв выполнили пять выходов в открытый космос общей продолжительностью 25 часов 16 минут.

Впоследствии прошёл подготовку в качестве командира корабля «Союз ТМА-8» и 13-го долговременного экипажа Международной космической станции. Старт корабля «Союз ТМА-8» произошёл 30 марта 2006 года с космодрома Байконур.

28 марта (29 марта по московскому времени) 2013 года стартовал на космическом корабле «Союз ТМА-08М» в качестве командира корабля и основной экспедиции МКС-35. Совершив этот старт в возрасте 59 лет, стал самым пожилым космонавтом в России (до этого отечественный рекорд — 58 лет — почти 15 лет принадлежал Валерию Рюмину). Уже через 6 часов (впервые по т. н. «быстрой схеме») корабль осуществил стыковку с Международной космической станцией.

24 апреля 2008 года награждён орденом «За заслуги перед отечеством» IV степени за второй космический полёт, а 22 октября 2015 года – орденом Мужества за третий.

Статистика

Награды
 Герой Российской Федерации (10 апреля 1998 года) — за мужество и героизм, проявленные во время длительного космического полёта двадцать четвёртой основной экспедиции на орбитальном научно-исследовательском комплексе «Мир»;
 Почётное звание «Лётчик-космонавт Российской Федерации» (10 апреля 1998 года);
 Орден «За заслуги перед Отечеством» IV степени (24 апреля 2008 года) — за второй космический полёт, совершённый по программе МКС-13;
 Орден Мужества (22 октября 2015 года) — за мужество и высокий профессионализм, проявленные при осуществлении длительного космического полёта на Международной космической станции;
 Медаль «За заслуги в освоении космоса» (12 апреля 2011 года) — за большие заслуги в области исследования, освоения и использования космического пространства, многолетнюю добросовестную работу, активную общественную деятельность;
 Медаль Алексея Леонова (Кемеровская область, 2015) — за семь совершённых выходов в открытый космос;
 Две медали «За космический полёт» (NASA, 1998 и 2007);
 Почётный гражданин Магаданской области (18 октября 2013 года) — за высокие достижения в области освоения космического пространства, ставшие предметом особой гордости и глубокого уважения земляков-колымчан;
 Почётный гражданин города Анадырь (26 декабря 2006 год) — за личный вклад в патриотическое воспитание молодежи.

Семья
П. В. Виноградов женат, имеет сына и дочь от первого брака и дочь во втором браке.

Будучи активным радиолюбителем (позывной RV3BS), стал первым в мире человеком, передавшим с борта МКС изображения по любительским каналам связи.

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки

 Виноградов, Павел Владимирович
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 Космонавт Павел Виноградов. Видеоэнциклопедия «Космонавты». Телестудия Роскосмоса
Знамя Мира в Космосе

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Персоналии:Магадан
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Golf Tips | The Players Championship | 12th-15th May 2016
By Louis Ross on	 May 14, 2016 Golf Tips, Other Sports, Tips
LOUIS Ross (@LouisRoss67) can't wait for The Players Championship this week. His best bets are here.
The Players Championship | Thursday – Sunday
Outside of The Masters, this is the tournament I look forward to more than any other. The cliché is that The Players is 'The 5th Major'. It may well be an over used phrase but accurately describes the way that most fans and players think of this brilliantly entertaining week. Everything about Augusta makes it a stand out on the calendar, but as a golfing contest, this is better.
TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Verdre Beach, Florida is a stand out venue. The Stadium Course is one of the most iconic in world golf. Most will know it for the signature hole, the 17th. Just a Par 3 but surrounded on all sides by water. There is no other hole I know of worldwide that provokes tension, joy and pain quite like it.
There will be around 70 players attempting to hit that green on Sunday. Amazingly, somewhere between 20 and 30 will feel that pain as they realize their ball is getting wet.
This Par 72 is somewhat short by modern standards at 7215 yards but with 93 testing bunkers and 23 water hazards in play is very well protected.
Fairways are reasonably narrow and the rough is that sticky Bermudagrass. With the Greens relatively small and as quick as they are at the aforementioned Augusta, finding the short stuff with your drive is essential. Length is not a huge factor. 19 of the last 20 winners have been outside the Top 10 for driving distances.
Sawgrass is all about accuracy. There are some odd stats about the place as well. Course form is nowhere near as important as elsewhere. Rickie Fowler has three missed cuts and a 77th from five starts before his fantastic come from behind win last year. However, all winners had had a few attempts at the place before victory.
As usual we have some very short prices at the top of the market. I cannot find any particular reason to get involved with any of them. Rory still has a bad round in him (his opening 74 was costly at Quail Hollow last week), Jason Day has gone a little cold and Jordan Spieth has been on a three week jolly since his Masters collapse.
The champion, Fowler, is a little short in the market and did not inspire confidence last Sunday blowing a lead when as short as Evens.
Branden Grace was the first name on my list and I am sticking with him. I had bits and pieces of 50/1 earlier in the week, that price has gone but 40/1 is still very much a value bet.
Scrambling is a very important stat at Sawgrass and the South African has improved that side of his game massively in the last 12 months. He is usually a very accurate driver of the ball. 48th and 42nd from his two starts here seems to fit the model of previous winners and he has been in great form in the last six weeks or so.
Henrik Stenson is it seems a serial runner up but look more closely at a lot of his results since his last win in 2014 and he has not really thrown anything away. Like a lot of players, he has just beaten by someone who has been better on Sunday.
Stenson has a cracking record on this track. Six top 20 finishes (including a win and three Top 5s) from just 10 attempts. 33/1 is always going to tempt me to get involved with the big Swede. he loves Bermudagrass Greens and sits 4th in the strokes gained Tee to Green category for 2016 and usually goes well in Florida.
Billy Horschel will do for me as a final pick in the outright markets as the World number 44 has been playing really well of late. Billy has a best of 13th from three starts at The Players. He likes a tough test and is potentially overpriced at 66/1.
I like the 60/1 odds offered by Paddy Power paying seven places this week. The Florida native is a momentum player and if he gets off to a good start, watch out for him.
Finally a dip into the 1st Round Leader markets. I mentioned Roberto Castro here at 175/1 last week at Quail Hollow. He went on to finish 2nd to a 500/1 winner.
Early starters may well have an advantage on Thursday as the wind is due to pick up a little later in the day. Marc Leishmans last four starts at Sawgrass read 45-8-23-24. More than enough for me to get involved at odds of 100/1.
Russell Knox was a big winner for us a few weeks back, finishing 2nd at 60/1. Just two starts here read very well at 34th and 17th. I am very tempted on the outright but as another early starter, I will chuck a little 80/1 into the mix.
The Players Championship – Branden Grace each way (40/1 Bet365)
The Players Championship – Henrik Stenson each way (33/1 Bet365)
The Players Championship – Billy Horschel each way (66/1 Paddy Power)
The Players Championship – Mark Leishman 1st Round Leader each way (100/1 Paddy Power)
The Players Championship – Russell Knox 1st Round Leader each way (80/1 Paddy Power)


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Men's Basketball Stymied in Loss to Washington College at Home
Washington (Md.)
Washington (Md.) (1-1) 47 33 80
Goucher (0-3) 31 27 58
Pts: Josh Porteous - 13
Reb: Austin Allen - 6
Ast: Josh Porteous - 7
Pts: Dwayne Morton - 12
Reb: 2 Players (#22, #24) - 5
TOWSON, Md. - Visiting Washington College jumped out to a double-digit lead in the first eight minutes of action and never looked back against the Goucher College men's basketball team on Sunday afternoon, as the Shoremen upended the Gophers, 80-58, at the Decker Sports and Recreation Center.
With the defeat, the Gophers dropped to 0-3 overall, while Washington evened their record to 1-1 on the young year in the win.
In the contest, the game remained close in the first five minutes of action, with Washington holding a 9-6 lead over the Gophers. The Shoremen, however, went on an 8-1 run over the next few minutes to open a double-digit lead over Goucher at 17-7.
The closest Goucher came to the Washington lead the rest of the half was eight points on two separate occasions, as the Shoremen took an insurmountable 40-19 lead on Goucher with 4:13 to go in the first half. The Gophers, however, ended the half strong, as a 12-7 spurt over the final four minutes of the first half made it a 47-31 game in favor of Washington College at the break.
To start the second half, the Shoremen put the game away, as a 14-0 run to open the frame put them up for good a 61-31. From there, Washington coasted down the stretch, taking the double-digit victory over Goucher on the road.
In the defeat, sophomore Dwayne Morton (Waynesville, Mo./Waynesville) led the Gophers in the scoring column, finishing with 12 points, while dishing out a pair of assists with two steals. It marked the second time in the first three games of the regular season that Morton has both led the Gophers in scoring and hit double-digits for a game, as well.
Elsewhere, first-year Devon Esslinger (Las Cruces, N.M./Las Cruces) had his first double-digit scoring game at Goucher, finishing with 11 points. Fellow first-year Timmy O'Farrell (Davidsonville, Md./Archbishop Spalding) also had 11 points in the defeat off the bench, while matching a team-high in rebounds with five.
The Goucher College men's basketball team returns to action on Tuesday night, as they travel to nearby NCAA Division I member Loyola for an exhibition game. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m.
--GOPHERS--
July 18, 2018 Men's Basketball's Gabe Ceribelli Named to '17-18 NABC Honors Court
March 2, 2018 Six Goucher College Student-Athletes Named to Landmark Conference All-Sportsmanship Team
March 2, 2018 Twenty Goucher Student-Athletes Named To Landmark Conference Winter Academic Honor Roll
February 28, 2018 Jacob Smith Named Landmark Conference's Rookie of the Year for Men's Basketball
February 17, 2018 Wiley Scores 22 on Senior Day, as Men's Basketball Drops Season Finale to Scranton
February 14, 2018 Strong First Half Not Enough, as Men's Basketball Comes Up Short Against Juniata
February 10, 2018 Wiley, Smith Have Big Games for Men's Basketball in Landmark Conference Defeat at Elizabethtown
February 8, 2018 Second Half Run Lifts Moravian Past Men's Basketball in Landmark Conference Play
February 7, 2018 Winter Weather Postpones Women's/Men's Basketball Games with Moravian
February 3, 2018 Comeback Bid Comes Up Just Short, as Men's Basketball Falls to Susquehanna
January 31, 2018 Early Second Half Surge by Catholic Sinks Men's Basketball in 86-58 Defeat at Home
January 27, 2018 Smith Leads Gophers in Points in Loss to the Rangers
January 24, 2018 Moravian Outlasts Men's Basketball, 71-61, in Landmark Conference Action
January 20, 2018 Men's Basketball Unable to Ground Blue Jays in 82-70 Defeat to E-Town
January 17, 2018 Wiley Pours in Career-High 26 Points in Losing Effort at Catholic in Landmark Conference Match-Up
January 13, 2018 Men's Basketball Tallies Season-High Point Total in Loss at Scranton in Landmark Play
January 12, 2018 Men's Basketball Program to Host Shooting Clinic January 19
January 10, 2018 Three Score in Double-Figures, as Men's Basketball Falls Short at Juniata in Landmark Match-up
January 6, 2018 Drew Upends Men's Basketball, 82-59, in Landmark Conference Action
January 3, 2018 Men's Basketball Stymied in Final Non-Conference Game of Year at Johns Hopkins
December 20, 2017 Men's Basketball Falls at Stevenson in Final Game Before Holiday Break
December 17, 2017 Three Score in Double-Digits, as Men's Basketball Falls to Hood at Cregger Invitational
December 16, 2017 Wiley Shines in Return, as Men's Basketball Defeated on the Road at Roanoke
December 9, 2017 Morton Scores 19 Points, as Men's Basketball is Downed at McDaniel
December 6, 2017 Men's Basketball Unable to Cool Hot Shooting Gwynedd Mercy in Home Loss
December 2, 2017 Men's Basketball Drops Heartbreaker in Landmark Conference Opener at Susquehanna, 56-55
November 29, 2017 Kaniut, Morton Lead Men's Basketball in Defeat at Eastern
November 21, 2017 Morton Goes Into Double Figures in Men's Basketball's Exhibition Tilt at Loyola
November 19, 2017 Men's Basketball Stymied in Loss to Washington College at Home
November 18, 2017 Men's Basketball Falls at Home to Salisbury
November 15, 2017 Men's Basketball's Comeback Bid vs. Wilson Falls Short in 67-63 Defeat in Season Opener
November 8, 2017 Men's Basketball Prepares for 3rd Season under Coach Tom Rose


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Lost momentum is hard to get back, and the loss of forward momentum in the U.S. economy has become entrenched.
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1987 and 2017 share at least one common trait, but remembering Black Monday is not to create fear. It's to encourage watchfulness.
Friday's jobs report will be messy and easily forgotten. Traders will go through the motions of reacting, but the numbers will have no staying power.
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Don't be the first or the last financial institution on the block to raise rates.
The markets react mildly to yesterday's Fed meeting.
Interchange income at credit unions swaps places with punitive fees as a growing driver of industry revenue.
Uncertainties regarding a new Fed chair, the debt ceiling, budget, and tax reform make it unlikely there will be a carefree Christmas.
Total operating revenue has increased 8.8% over the first six months of 2016. This continued the recent trend of accelerating revenue growth for credit unions.
Investment growth at credit unions has been positive for four out of the past six quarters.
With housing trends skewing national in scope, concerns arise that a bubble could blow up.
Stocks, bonds, and the debt ceiling. There's a lot fueling a sense of economic uneasiness.
A snapshot of the bond market reveals bullish speculators are back.
Will The Fed Tighten Again This Year? Or Ever?
Yesterday's FOMC statement has bond traders thinking Fed tightening might be over.
Speculative bond traders see in Europe the opportunity to put the market back on track.
Why some traders are worried about President Trump's visit to Europe for the G-20 summit.
Is The World Going Flat?
Shorter-term rates have moved higher, but the bumps in the overnight rate have had little impact past the two-year note.
Total revenue reached $15.5 billion in the first quarter of 2017. That's up 8.1% year-over-year from the $14.3 billion credit unions posted in the first quarter of 2016.
With rising Federal Reserve rates and increased consumer confidence, the credit union industry posted positive year-over-year investment growth in the first quarter for the first time since 2013.
Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods is not a game-changer for inflation or Fed policy.
Thursday offers a lineup of three possible threats to the markets.
The movement's investment portfolio in the first quarter remains liquid for lending and buffers against rising interest rates.
The Colorado cooperative's mortgage-backed security re-purchase strategy makes more of investments and funds member give-back programs.
Three ways the special investigation into Trump's presidential campaign could impact the economy.
Rates Rise And Heath Care Falls?
What traders learned from yesterday's FOMC statement, and how they'll react to the latest health care vote.
Cash at other financial institutions and Fed agency MBS have increased by 6.4% and 4.2%, respectively, over the past year. What else has happened inside the credit union investment portfolio?
Traders and Wall Street are making a big deal out of the French election. Here's what Americans need to know.
The movement in the bond market this week was not based on real concerns about the geopolitical scene.
ROA increased 2 basis points for credit unions nationally, but where do the high and low performers fall?
Fed officials can no longer deny they consider the markets when deciding monetary policy.
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Does the Fed still matter to bond traders?
Will the health care bill make it to the floor? And how will the market respond to Congressional pressuring?
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Last week's Dow rally fades into memory as the market looks for additional positive reinforcement.
The stock market reacted to Trump's speech on Tuesday with a triple-digit jump on Wednesday.
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The March meeting is the Fed's best shot to start what it claims will be three tightenings this year.
Wall Street has fought the bull market for the past year, always looking for a better buying opportunity.
Will The Tweet Hit The Fan?
The appeals court reviewing the president's travel ban could render a decision before the week's end.
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Trump needs to start working on big issues and stay away from the petty stuff or he will destroy what is left of the goodwill in the markets.
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U.S. employment might be nearing its maximum limit, but there are still pockets of unemployed workers around the country.
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There will most certainly be more liquidation to come unless the market narrative changes dramatically.
News from the European Central Bank is not what traders needed or wanted.
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Oil rallies for a day, and stocks tag along for the ride.
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Both stocks and bonds rallied yesterday on the heels of two central bank meetings.
Continued loan demand draws down investment balances.
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Neither stocks nor bonds have made headway in either direction.
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The markets were quiet for most of August, and traders are eager for September to bring more activity.
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The world is nervously awaiting Janet Yellen's speech tomorrow, but the over-hyped event will not live up to expectations.
Callahan & Associates surveyed 170 credit union executives to gain insight into their current and emerging sources of non-interest income.
The lack of a unified opinion from the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors will leave the Fed in the dust when rates rise.
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The knee-jerk reaction to the Brexit vote is over, but the extent of the fallout is still unknown.
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Pollard, Denise Carlee, Pizzotti and District Judge Jeff White.
Last Thursday, April 26, the Escambia County (Ala.) Children's Policy Council sponsored an educational presentation entitled 'The Truth About Marijuana' at Flomaton High School auditorium as part of the Drugs Erase Dreams (DED) Program. Mollie Pizzotti and guest speaker Anthony Pollard spoke to the students from their own experiences about the dangers of drugs. Above, from left, Pollard, Denise Carlee, Pizzotti and District Judge Jeff White.


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The PA are hosting a chocolate Mufti day on Friday 17th May! Bring in a chocolate donation for the school BBQ to wear your own clothes.
The SATs week takes place on Monday13th May to Friday 17th May.
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Our school choir are taking part in the annual Choral festival on Friday 26th March, 6.30pm at the Holy Trinity CHurch in Rothwell. Tickets are available at the office (limited to 2 ticktes per family).
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Many individuals were observed departing the place in the general assembly of the Kaagapay ng Manileño Foundation when Senator Grace Poe presented her dialog and also rumors are currently roaming around the web particularly in social media how the coordinators intentionally instructed several members of the viewers to go out of the event.
In a youtube video clip published by Rappler, a number of people in the crowd were caught on camera departing the place on last Sunday's event organised at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum.
In the course of the event, the viewers started to be noticeably thinned when it was the moment for Senator Grace Poe and Senator Chiz Escudero to do their respective speeches however based on Manila Vice Mayor Isko Moreno, among the reasons why those individuals got out of from the location was because of the intense temperature inside the coliseum.


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Leeds & West Yorkshire
Clockmaker John Harrison's Nostell Priory honour
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-39379061
Media captionClocks installation opens to celebrate the life of John Harrison
More than 2,000 ticking clocks have gone on display in an art installation as British Summer Time (BST) begins.
Set up at Nostell Priory, near Wakefield, it has been created to celebrate the life of clockmaker John Harrison.
Harrison, the son of a carpenter, was born at the estate in 1693 and went on to invent the marine chronometer.
The Harrison's Garden installation was created by artist Luke Jerram and fills an entire room.
Image copyright Simon Dewhurst
Image caption The installation takes up an entire room at Nostell Priory
He said: "It is a glimpse of a surreal fictional world or perhaps an image from one of John Harrison's dreams.
"Like a garden, the installation is a living and growing collection of different clock 'species'."
Image caption Luke Jerram's installation is made up of clocks each set to a different time enabling visitors to both see and hear the display without being deafened
Harrison and his family moved from Nostell to the Lincolnshire village of Barrow upon Humber in around 1700.
He spent his early years creating clocks entirely from wood and he was producing long-case clocks by the time he reached his 20s.
The mechanism was made entirely out of wood and one of only three to survive, dating from 1717, is also displayed at Nostell.
Image caption The house is home to one of Harrison's three surviving long-case clocks
He spent much of his later life trying to solve the problem of determining longitude at sea.
Sailors of the period had no way of calculating where they were when travelling east to west.
They knew that for every 15 degrees travelled eastward, the local time moves forward one hour.
Harrison realised the solution was creating a reliable clock that could keep the time of a reference place, such as Greenwich, and provide an accurate local time.
Harrison's Garden is on display at Nostell Priory until 9 July. It will then tour other National Trust properties including Castle Drogo in Devon, Gunby Hall in Lincolnshire and Penrhyn Castle in Wales.
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A prospective, multicentre, observational cohort study of analgesia and outcome after pneumonectomy.
An increased incidence of clinically important major post-pneumonectomy complications was associated with thoracic epidural compared with paravertebral blockade analgesia. However, this study is unable to provide robust evidence to change clinical practice for a better clinical outcome. A large multicentre randomized controlled trial is now needed to compare the efficacy, complications, and cost-effectiveness of epidural and paravertebral blockade analgesia after major lung resection with the primary outcome of clinically important major morbidity.


Oh my, I am sorry that I missed all the fun down in Atlanta last week, and VERY sad that I still have not seen all your amazing collections. Someday my friend...Have a spooktacular Halloween!
WOW! You know all the cool kids!
That looks like a little BAT :-} by Pat SO sweet!! and I love your cat and the pumpkin kids. All the creations are wonderful.
Thank you so much for the Halloween tour! Wish I loved close by, I would love to go treating at your home!


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New Zealand Literature
Auckland: The City in Literature
Author(s): Edited by Witi Ihimaera
Each book in this groundbreaking series is an anthology of writing featuring one of our major cities. Chosen with care by a well-known editor from each city, the selections are usually from works of fiction (short stories and novels), but extracts from writers' memoirs and some poems are also included. The writers are both contemporary and historical and all have either lived in or visited the city concerned. All the extracts have something significant to say about the character of the city, and together they create a strong picture of what makes the city the unique place it is. Most of New Zealand's great writers are represented in the series. Each book is presented in an attractive cased and jacketed format. They can be dipped into at leisure or given to friends as a splendid memento of the city. The pictures on the jackets were specially commissioned from Christchurch born and Wellington-based artist Jacqueline Henderson, whose work is included in many private and corporate collections. Includes work by Maurice Gee, Paula Morris, C.K. Stead, Diane Brown, Albert Wendt, Tina Shaw, Peter Wells, Allen Curnow and more.
Witi Ihimaera is one of New Zealand's most celebrated novelists and short story writers. The author of prize-winning novels including The Matriarch and Bulibasha is also a screenwriter and opera librettist and the editor of a monumental five-volume anthology of Maori writing, Te Ao Marama. His novel The Whale Rider has been made into one of New Zealand's most successful feature films
Publisher : Exisle Publishing Limited
Imprint : Exisle Publishing (New Zealand)
Publication date : November 2003
Author : Edited by Witi Ihimaera
Pages : 240pp


China is going to spend more billions of dollars in its gaming industry. The country's huge population gives it a spending capacity that will shortly overtop even the consumers in the United States in certain sectors, such as mobile gaming.
According to a new report from Asia market-intelligence firm Niko Partners, smartphone and tablet games are expected to generate more than $5.5 billion towards the end of 2015. Around the globe, people spend around $30 billion on mobile gaming last year, so the gaming sector in China makes up a huge percentage of it. This makes China an even bigger spender on mobile gaming than the US, making China attractive to game developers around the world.
The CEO of Niko, a leading games market intelligence agency, believes that the Chinese culture plays an important part in the market of games in China. She said in a statement that games fill the void within gamers. She then added that it is important evaluate the voids in the Chinese culture and match them with the game development, as well as to the behavior of gamers and characteristics of a good mobile game in popular genre.
Local governments have taken advantage of the central government's attention on the gaming industry, creating jobs by innovation and creative thinking with focus on domestic consumption.
By definition, the creative industry is the overall definition in Chinese policy, and it includes animation. The gaming business is part of animation. Many of the creative industry parks are being developed mostly around big cities.
The China Gaming Industrial Association (CGIA), part of the China Software Industrial Association, is in charge of the overall administration of the gaming industry on mainland China. It coordinates and communicates with the Chinese government. Its regional branches have given CGIA the advantage on regional fact-finding and information gathering.
Free-to-play PC games that sell extra content like characters, tools or capabilities comprise the majority of the Chinese game market. The gaming industry offers outsourcing opportunities of software produced for the local market.
In its 12th Five Year Plan, the Chinese government has included the gaming sector as one of its key sectors, and it also ensured support for the development of the creative industry.
Console gaming and online gaming make up the gaming market. The online gaming is relatively a big market, with speeding expansion. However, legal restrictions for foreign companies tamper their operations. It is especially difficult for foreign companies, such as from the US and France to obtain the right license for expanding their activities.
There are way too many barriers in the Chinese market, so most developers will find more success in the US market. Also, an international title presented to a Chinese publisher for localization is still considered ineffective.
In China, it is almost impossible to find success without a local publishing partner. For instance, Google's Play Store does not have a significant presence in the Chinese market despite the fact that Android is far more popular than iOS. Dozens of companies run their own app-distribution channels, and game developers would need the help of publishing partners to forge deals to get into those stores.
When developers are able to find a publisher, they have to sacrifice a far bigger split of the revenues than is customary in the West. In China, mobile developers will have to give 30 per cent of the revenues to the publisher and another 30 per cent to the distributors. In the US, game developers often give a 30 percent cut to Apple or Google.
Another factor to be considered is the average revenue per player (ARPU). Although the projected $5.5 billion for 2015 is much a bigger number than the $4.5 billion that mobile gamers will spend this year,, this is largely due to the 420 million gamers in China. The number of gamers is 100 million more than the population in the United States.
While western game makers paved the way in terms of technology, production value, polished graphics and data analytics, Chinese game companies are considered more advanced in game monetization, with its understanding of users and their changing tastes and preferences. It is for this reason that people in the game industry often say that Chinese game companies are five years ahead of their western counterparts.
Console and PC games have been popular in the West for decades. The industry has a much longer history in the West than in China. Together with the exponential improvement of hardware specs is the improvement of technology, graphics, and production value of western games at almost the same rate.
On the other hand the gaming industry in China is relatively young, starting at the dawn of the millennium. Previously, consoles were banned in China, but there were already many computers in Chinese homes, so PC became popular.
In order to address the notoriously rampant piracy in China, game developers have gone for online games that required connections to the game companies' servers. Single player and story-driven games were just too easy to copy and sold on a disc. The connection online allows multiplayer games, focusing on the interactions among players.
This entry in Asia was updated on December 1, 2015 by specialist.


This passport is finest American (passport) history!
Robert Robert Livingston (November 27, 1746 (Old Style November 16) – February 26, 1813) was an American lawyer, politician, diplomat from New York, and a Founding Father of the United States. He was known as "The Chancellor", after the high New York state legal office he held for 25 years. He was a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, along with Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Roger Sherman.
During his time as U.S. minister to France, Livingston met Robert Fulton, with whom he developed the first viable steamboat, the North River Steamboat, whose home port was at the Livingston family home of Clermont Manor in the town of Clermont, New York. On her maiden voyage she left New York City with him as a passenger, stopped briefly at Clermont Manor, and continued on to Albany up the Hudson River, completing in just under 60 hours a journey which had previously taken nearly a week by sloop. In 1811 Fulton and Livingston became members of the Erie Canal Commission.
This passport would be a significant travel document of any passport collection. Four visas on the back showing travels to Germany and France. Congratulations to the seller and the buyer who spend $3000 on this beautiful item.
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