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Israeli Military Occupation is not a Bar to EU Partnership
On 1 September 2008, the EU decided that meetings with Russia about a new partnership agreement would be postponed "until [Russian] troops have withdrawn to the positions held prior to 7 August" [1], that is, until no Russian troops are present in Georgia outside South Ossetia.
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On <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />1 September 2008, the EU decided that meetings with Russia about a new partnership agreement would be postponed "until [Russian] troops have withdrawn to the positions held prior to 7 August" [1], that is, until no Russian troops are present in Georgia outside South Ossetia.
On 28 November 1995, the EU allowed Israel to become a partner, under Euro-Mediterranean Partnership arrangements with states bordering on the Mediterranean. At the time, Israeli troops were occupying parts of Lebanon and Syria and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (the West Bank and Gaza) and had been for many years – Lebanon since 1978, the rest since 1967.
Had the conditions applied to Russia in September 2008 been applied to Israel in November 1995, the EU would have refused to enter into negotiation with Israel about becoming a partner until all Israeli troops had been withdrawn from Lebanon, Syria and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Clearly, the EU has applied very different standards in its relations with Israel and Russia.
On the one hand, Israel was allowed to become an EU partner in 1995, even though large swathes of territory not its own had been under Israeli military occupation for many years, and is allowed to remain a partner even though most of this territory remains under Israeli military occupation today. What is more, on 16 June 2008 the EU agreed to "upgrade" its relations with Israel, despite this ongoing military occupation of territory not its own.
By contrast, Russia is not allowed to enter into negotiation about a partnership with the EU without ending its month long occupation of parts of Georgia.
It would be interesting to hear the EU justify those extraordinary double standards.
Respecting territorial integrity
There is another extraordinary aspect to the EU's relations with Israel – the EU has been happy to sign agreements with Israel even though, at the time of signing, Israel has been contravening obligations contained in the agreements themselves.
For example, the Barcelona Declaration, which established the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, obliges its signatories to "respect the territorial integrity and unity of each of the other partners" [2] and a series of other norms of international law.
Lebanon, Syria and Israel signed the Barcelona Declaration and became EU partners in November 1995. At that time, parts of Lebanon and Syria were under Israeli military occupation and the Golan Heights had been annexed by Israel. Clearly, Israel was failing to "respect the territorial integrity and unity" of its Lebanese and Syrian partners in 1995, when it signed the Barcelona Declaration containing this obligation. But the EU turned a blind eye to Israel's breach of the partnership agreement at the time it signed the partnership agreement – and allowed it to become an EU partner.
And the EU has continued to turn a blind eye ever since and allowed Israel to remain an EU partner, even though today Syrian and Lebanese territory remains under Israeli military occupation and Israeli military aircraft frequently invade Lebanese air space.
Carrying out Security Council resolutions
The Barcelona Declaration also obliges its signatories to "act in accordance with the United Nations Charter", Article 25 of which obliges UN member states "to accept and carry out the decisions of the Security Council" [3]. In 1995, Israel was violating around 25 Security Council resolutions requiring action by it and it alone, including:-
resolutions 252, 267, 271 and 298 require Israel to reverse its annexation of East Jerusalem,
resolutions 446, 452 and 465 demand that Israel cease building Jewish settlements in the territories it has occupied since 1967, including in Jerusalem
resolution 487 calls upon Israel to place its nuclear facilities under IAEA supervision
resolution 497 demands that Israel reverse its annexation of the Golan Heights, which were captured from Syria in June 1967
In 1995, Israel was in contravention of these, and other, Security Council resolutions. In 1995, the EU turned a blind eye to this breach of the UN Charter and of the Barcelona Declaration – and allowed it to sign the Barcelona Declaration and become an EU partner. Israel is in contravention of these, and even more, Security Council resolutions today – and it is still an EU partner.
Middle East Zone free of weapons of mass destruction
In the Barcelona Declaration, Israel also signed up to the following:
"The parties shall pursue a mutually and effectively verifiable Middle East Zone free of weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical and biological, and their delivery systems.
"Furthermore the parties will consider practical steps to prevent the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons as well as excessive accumulation of conventional arms." [2]
Israel is the only state in the Middle East that possesses nuclear weapons (and probably the only one that possesses chemical and biological weapons). So, its disarmament of these weapons is a necessary, and probably a sufficient, condition for bringing about a "Middle East Zone free of weapons of mass destruction", as required by the Barcelona Declaration. However, progress in bringing this about has been noticeable by its absence since Israel signed up to "pursue" this objective in 1995.
There has been no progress either on the Security Council's demand in resolution 487, passed on 19 June 1981, that "Israel urgently … place its nuclear facilities under IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] safeguards" [4]. 27 years later, Israel still hasn't opened its nuclear facilities to IAEA inspection, nor is there any noticeable pressure from the EU to make it do so, let alone disarm in order to produce a nuclear free zone in the Middle East, which parties to the Barcelona Declaration are supposed to "pursue".
By contrast, Iran's nuclear facilities, including its uranium enrichment facilities, are open to IAEA inspection. It is worth noting that, after extensive inspection in Iran, the IAEA has found no evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons programme, or ever had one. By contrast, Israel has possessed nuclear weapons and the means of delivering them for around 40 years. It is estimated that today Israel has around 200 nuclear warheads and various delivery systems, including by submarine-launched missiles. It is capable of wiping Iran, and every Arab state, off the map at the touch of a button.
Strange that the EU is actively pressuring Iran about its nuclear activities, but not Israel, despite the requirement in its partnership agreement with Israel to "pursue a mutually and effectively verifiable Middle East Zone free of weapons of mass destruction".
David Morrison - www.david-morrison.org.uk
[1] www.consilium.europa.eu/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressData/en/ec/102545.pdf
[2] trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2005/july/tradoc_124236.pdf
[3] www.un.org/aboutun/charter/
[4] www.david-morrison.org.uk/scrs/1981-0487.htm
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1. University of Alabama (8-0)
The University of Alabama has dominated in recent years and continues to do so. The Crimson Tide head home for the holidays undefeated despite playing the most games in the league. All their wins have been by 18 points or more, including impressive performances against Arizona, UT Arlington, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (UWW), and Illinois. Bama's box scores have been merry and bright. They consistently post multiple players in double digit scoring, often led by impressive freshman Ixhelt Gonzalez who put up 25 points against UWW. Other key players who have had 20-point games include juniors Mary Silberman and Bailey Moody. Their line-up of productive scorers, paired with their lockdown defense, puts Alabama comfortably in the #1 slot.
2. University of Texas-Arlington (3-2)
UTA started the season going 2-2 in a tourney on October 28th and 29th of this year. UTA beat Arizona twice and lost to Alabama twice. Zoe Voris leads the Lady Movin' Mavs in scoring and rebounding, including a 19 point and 12 rebound double-double in their first game against Alabama. UTA didn't see the floor again until Dec 3rd, when they had an impressive shooting day against UWW, winning that contest 70-22. The Lady Movin' Mavs will be back in action on January 21st at the Hollister Winter Bash, where they'll get another shot at the Crimson Tide.
3. University of Illinois (2-2)
Illinois' only outing so far this season was a tournament at UWW on December 2nd and 3rd. They posted a 2-2 record including losses to Alabama and UTA. They ended the tourney on a high note, picking up their first win of the season with a 30-point game from Ali Ibanez in a 57-32 win against Arizona. Illinois finished the tourney with a dominate 59-31 win over UWW. The Fighting Illini's next game is also against Alabama in the late January tourney.
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Photo Credit: Stephen Warren Researchers explore the Mount Howe area in the Transantarctic Mountains during a previous field season. The blue ice area is similar to an ice type that likely existed during Snowball Earth events, a time of severe glaciation in the distant past.
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That something else concerns the ice conditions that may have existed during a time dubbed Snowball Earth, when ice and snow blanketed the planet so completely that even the ocean surface at the equator froze.
It's an intriguing and controversial hypothesis, said Warren, whose own research on the subject dates back some 30 years, even before the term Snowball Earth entered the lexicon. A term coined, incidentally, by Joe Kirschvink , a principal investigator on a current, unrelated National Science Foundation -funded project to study whether the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago began before an asteroid smacked into planet. [See related story: What killed the dinosaurs?]
"It was a curiosity in climate models," Warren explained of the Snowball Earth hypothesis that first intrigued him long ago. "It would appear in the climate models, and once you got in, it was so difficult to get out, we were sure it had never happened, because if it had happened we were sure the ice would still now be [here]."
In other words, once locked into a frozen ball of ice, no one could figure out how to hit the defrost button. It was Jim Kasting , now at Pennsylvania State University , who found the escape route, according to Warren.
Kasting pointed out in 1992 that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from volcanoes would build up a greenhouse effect after several million years sufficient to melt the ice. Kirschvink proposed in the same year that the snowball events actually had occurred, and Paul Hoffman of Harvard University later strengthened the hypothesis with geological and isotopic evidence.
There are other troubles with Snowball Earth. For example, it should have been traumatic for life — not only because of the extreme cold but the ice would have blocked photosynthesis — yet there's no evidence of mass extinction. That has led some to argue that Snowball Earth is more like Slushball Earth, where severe glaciation occurred but not all the way to the equator. And certainly not with ice hundreds of meters thick on the tropical ocean.
Warren said climate models dictate otherwise when one factors the effects of low latitude glaciers that today sit thousands of meters above sea level. "If you cool the climate enough to get those glaciers to come all the way down to sea level, in a climate model, then the ocean freezes."
It's difficult, he added, to reconcile large areas of open ocean with sea-level glaciers. "The easiest conclusion is that the ocean was frozen," he said.
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Snowball Earth actually refers to a series of such extreme glaciations, the first dating back 2.2 billion years or so, about half the age of the Earth. Another series of snowball events occurred beginning about 700 million years ago, with the final event dated somewhere in the neighborhood of 570 million years ago, according to Warren.
The Earth was a much different place more than half a billion years in the past. A much-younger sun emitted about 6 percent less light than today. The supercontinent Rodinia had only recently broken up, leaving a jumble of landmasses concentrated at the equator. But what appears to have sent the planet into a deep freeze was a culprit most people are familiar with in a different context.
"It would have been a failure of the greenhouse effect," Warren said. Just as today the pumping of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is causing the Earth to warm up, the wholesale removal of the potent greenhouse gas drove temperatures downward.
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However, the weathering process can pick up speed during hot and wet periods, whether the cause of the heat is CO2 or some other greenhouse gas. Dan Schrag of Harvard University has found evidence that massive amounts of methane, an even stronger greenhouse gas, entered into the atmosphere prior to at least one snowball event, probably when plate tectonic movements depressurized a reservoir of methane locked in the sea.
The planet heated up, accelerating the weathering process and the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere. Remember, most of the land sat near the equator, so it would have been susceptible to additional weathering.
Meanwhile, methane has a relatively short lifespan in the atmosphere compared to carbon dioxide. Extreme cold and glaciation followed after the methane reservoir was finally exhausted and dissipated, with much of the CO2 removed from the atmosphere. And when the ice edge reached about 30 degrees latitude where solar radiation hits the tropics fairly uniformly, Warren said, "[the ice] jumps to the equator catastrophically."1 2 Next


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The Sonoma County Water Agency provides water to 570,000 residents in Sonoma and northern Marin counties.
The increase in water consumption in April and May triggered warnings that demand could exceed the capacity of the agency's transmission system this summer, when water use traditionally peaks.
"It's what I refer to as a plumbing problem," said Pam Jeane, the agency's deputy chief engineer. "We're not in a drought, but we have transmission system problems."
On Monday, the agency sent a letter to cities and water districts that use its water to immediately implement water-conservation measures and increase use of their own ground water supplies to reduce demand on the agency's water supply, The Press Democrat reported.
If voluntary measures fail, cities and water districts can force residents and businesses to reduce water consumption by imposing restrictions on watering lawns and gardens, filling pools and washing cars.
Currently, the agency can meet a demand of 84 million gallons of water each day. In May, it delivered 75 million gallons per day – 10 percent higher than the previous record for that month of 68 million gallons set in 2001. This month, demand is at 80 million gallons per day.
"We hope we can take voluntary steps to reduce water use and continue our ability to serve people, but there may be requirements this summer if the demand stays on that kind of curve," said Sonoma County Supervisor Mike Reilly, who is also on the water agency board of directors.
The water agency, a wholesale provider selling water to cities and water districts that supply it to homes and businesses, provides water to Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Rohnert Park, Cotati, Sonoma and Novato, and the communities of Larkfield, Kenwood, Forestville and Penngrove. Windsor and southern Marin County also draw water from the agency on occasion.
Mandatory water restrictions are largely a responsibility of cities and water districts under existing contracts, Reilly said. But the water agency is reviewing those contracts to determine if it has any leverage to force sweeping reductions in water use.
"We're looking at all the options, both in terms of public education for voluntary conservation, plus what authority we have for mandatory reductions," Reilly said. "We thought it was important to get the word out to let people know about the problem even if we don't have the whole solution."
A solution to the existing problem entails building more pipelines and storage tanks as well as drawing more water from the Russian River to expand the system's delivery capacity. But water agency officials say it will be at least 10 years before that happens because of concerns about endangered fish in the river and lawsuits from environmentalists opposed to an expansion.
"We're going to be living with the plumbing system in the ground for at least 10 years," Jeane said. "This summer is one thing, but looking out into the future it could get worse."
Jeane said cities and water districts have done a good job in the past five years reducing indoor water use by providing incentives and rebates on low-flush toilets, water-conserving plumbing fixtures and washing machines.
However, outdoor water use on gardens and lawns – which peaks in the hottest months – must be reduced given the transmission capacity problems, she said.
Water agency director Randy Poole said a new facility to pump Russian River water into the system was supposed to be finished this year, but it won't be completed until next year at the earliest. Even when that is completed, pipelines that bring water to Petaluma and the Sonoma Valley are at full capacity or nearing it, he said.
"It's going to be a while before things get easier," Poole said. "People are trying to conserve, but we have to do a lot more."


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Parliament: whiplash announcement by the summer recess
An announcement on whether the regulations governing damages-based agreements (DBAs) are to be changed is expected shortly, a major conference on the first year of the Jackson reforms heard on Friday.
The extension of fixed recoverable costs (FRC) is also on the government's agenda.
The Civil Justice Council event in London, which brought together a wide range of stakeholders, was held under the Chatham House rule, meaning we cannot identify speakers – although exceptions were made for Lord Dyson's closing address and the speech by Lord Justice Jackson (see below).
Delegates unhappy with the reforms were warned not to expect major changes any time soon, given that they had only been in place for a year – and a year that was "not normal" because of the huge spike in actions started in the run-up to 1 April 2013. A full review of part 2 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 will take place between 2016 and 2018.
Positive signs to date included a 10% drop in motor insurance premiums and "steep decline" in the number of claims management companies doing personal injury work.
But the conference heard that the government was aware of the widely held concerns around the DBA regulations – and particularly whether they allow for hybrid agreements; the consensus among delegates was that DBAs were barely being used as a result. They were told that an announcement should be made soon. There was, however, no clear statement that they would actually be amended.
The government was also "sympathetic" to extending FRC, delegates were told, but the indication was that this would not happen quickly, as it had to take its place among the Ministry of Justice's other priorities. Lord Justice Jackson recommended extending FRC across the fast-track, while there is growing momentum to have them at the bottom end of the multi-track, applicable to claims of up to £250,000.
More immediately, the government is looking to fix the costs of medical reports under the new regime for medical evidence in whiplash claims, with an announcement on the whole package planned for before Parliament's summer recess.
In his address to the conference, Lord Justice Jackson strongly supported the calls for the DBA regulations to be amended, as well as the introduction of the 28-day buffer rule and, as he recommended in his report, abolition of the indemnity principle.
He was typically robust in the face of criticisms of his report, observing that reforms which are designed to bring down the costs of litigation and change the way in which lawyers work "are bound to be unpopular with practitioners". But ultimately what mattered was whether they rein in excessive costs and promoted access to justice, the judge argued.
He said that despite the claims of critics, the evidence to date does not indicate any reduction in access to justice, when judged by the number of cases started since April 2013. Jackson LJ added that other factors were also in play – for example, contrary to his recommendation, civil legal aid has been substantially cut back.
In any case, it was too early to reach a "balanced conclusion" about the reforms, he said.
On costs management, for which Jackson LJ said there was "strong demand" from court users and potential litigants, the three reported problems to date were judicial inconsistency, the practice of some courts of severing costs management from case management, and that "many practitioners are not competent at budgeting".
He said: "Each can, must and will be overcome. They present a challenge to the Judicial College, practitioners and the deliverers of CPD. We simply have to get a grip on costs budgeting."
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Faye, I love to walk and meditate. I never had a word for this form of conscious exercise – soul tracking! In the hustle and bustle of modern everyday life, it's important to reconnect with nature and one's internal state. Thanks for sharing this great post!
Heather, thanks for your enthusiastic response. I learned so much from the experience with my clients and am grateful every time I slow down and pay attention to the gifts of our natural world.
Mindfulness… love the way in which your client could get in touch with a part of herself!
Pat, it was quite remarkable! She was one of my first clients who was willing to step outside and try. The experience taught me so much about how the nature world can evoke parts of the self that are hidden.
Thank you Faye for educating me on this useful skill!
Will let you know how it works for me.
Carol, welcome to the site! Please let me know how soul tracking works for you!
What lovely feedback. I write hoping to make a difference. Thanks for the affirmation.
Beautifully written! The cycle of life goes on!
Thanks, Liza! Fun to see your comment on my blog.
Thank you Faye for this reminder to slow down and take notice.
Kathi, I so appreciate your comment!
Thanks, Sheila. I've adopted it as a regular practice.
Thank you for this post. I love the notion of making my soul out by walking. I will start taking a little notebook for walks… Perfect for fall and our still lovely colors! Soul tracking really resonates with me.
Nessa, So glad for your comment. When I am more intentional in my soul-tracking, I often take a notebook and settle into a space that resonates and write. It's enriches the practice and sometimes, offers a surprise. Keep me posted!!


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MMS is marketed as water purification drops and may be offered under different names, including Miracle Mineral Supplement. It contains 28% sodium chlorite, which is a chemical used as a textile bleaching agent and disinfectant.
MMS was previously known as Miracle Mineral Solution and Miracle Mineral Supplement. More than 20,000,000 have used MMS and hundreds of thousands of lives have been saved. More than 20,000,000 have used MMS and hundreds of thousands of lives have been saved.
Miracle Mineral Supplement (MMS) Marketers Stephen Barrett, M.D. MMS contains a 28% solution of sodium chlorite. which, when mixed with an acid such as citrus juice, produces chlorine dioxide (ClO 2 ), a potent bleach used for stripping textiles and industrial water treatment.
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The MMS Supplement, also known as the Master Mineral Solution, MMS1 MMS2, has been available to the puplic for quite some time, in fact has been used in our municipal water supplies for going on 6 decades.Only recently has this product become known to the alternative health arena, but in this short period of time it has become amazingly popular.


Jazz Pyebwa is a musical experiment to fuse Haitian traditional music with its descendant Creole music of New Orleans. Pyebwa means tree in Haitian Creole and Jazz means "band." So, In Haiti the meaning of the word "band" is people playing music and dancing in the streets as in "bande Mardigras" or "bande rara."
From the above we can deduce that the word "jazz" is of Haitian origin and such has been honored by the likes of the great Sydney Bechet in his 1962 release titled "Haitian Moods" and "Haitian Orchestra" dated 1939. Bechet was in the company of Willy the Lion Smith and Art Tatum in those recordings. Interestingly, the musical genre known all over the world as jazz has not evolved in Haiti even though the music is credited to Haitian descendants known as New Orleans Creole. Jazz finally entered mainstream Haiti in the last decade with an annual jazz festival.
Jazz Pyebwa's fusion is primarily Haitian traditional music arranged to reflect the many genres that evolved among the Creole Haitian descendants i.e. funk, zydeco, blues, and rock. Jazz Pyebwa's focus is to explore the rich rhythm landscape of Haiti from which the Creole music of New Orleans germinated while maintaining full Haitian "3 drum battery" authenticity.
In the first release titled "Legba Suite" Jazz Pyebwa explores the traditional rhythms of Haitian music in latent form. This is the first such recording; and it is difficult to assign a genre to this fusion other than World Beat.


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Home » Table of Contents » Social Marketing and Sustainability of the Initiative » Chapter 46. Planning for Sustainability » Section 4. Attracting Support for Specific Programs » Checklist
Section 4. Attracting Support for Specific Programs
Chapter 46 Sections
Section 1. Strategies for the Long-Term Sustainability of an Initiative: An Overview
Section 2. Strategies for Sustaining the Initiative
Section 3. Promoting Adoption of the Initiative's Mission and Objectives
Section 5. Marketing the Initiative to Secure Financial Support
Section 6. Sharing Positions and Other Resources
Section 7. Becoming a Line Item in an Existing Budget
Section 8. Incorporating Activities/Services in Organizations with a Similar Mission
Section 9. Obtaining Corporate Resources
Section 10. Tapping into Existing Personnel Resources
Section 11. Soliciting Contributions and In-kind Support
Section 12. Designing and Implementing a Fundraiser
Section 13. Pursuing Third Party Funding
Section 14. Developing a Fee-for-Services Structure
Section 15. Acquiring Public Funding
Section 16. Securing Endowments and Planned Giving Arrangements
Section 17. Establishing and Maintaining a Membership Program
Section 18. Developing and Marketing Products
___You understand that attracting support for a specific program can mean having someone else run the program.
___You understand that attracting support for a specific program can mean having someone else provide funding or resources for the program.
___You understand that attracting support for a specific program can mean having someone else house the program.
___You understand that attracting support for a specific program can make your program permanent.
___You understand that attracting support for a specific program can get support from people who might not normally support your overall initiative.
___You understand that attracting support for a specific program can make a limited -time program go on for a longer period of time.
___You understand that attracting support for a specific program can make you less dependent on any one source of support.
___You understand that attracting support for a specific program can raise support for your organization as a whole.
___You understand that you should try to attract support for specific programs throughout the life of the program.
___You understand that you can also try to attract support for a specific program when the program isn't something your group plans to continue doing, but it is something you'd like to see go on.
___You understand that you can also try to attract support for a specific program when the program was the result of a "one-time" grant and you don't have the resources to continue it.
___You understand that you should try to attract support for specific programs from civic organizations, governmental officials or bodies, other social service or public health agencies, key community influentials, and foundations and other grant-makers.
___You understand that t hose who aren't supportive can be broken down into three distinct groups: those who are resistant to supporting you, those who are indifferent to your cause, or those who are under-informed about your cause.
___You have decided what program you want to attract support for.
___You have decided what kind of support you want to look for.
___You have decided who is most likely to provide that support.
___You have come up with a written request for the support that includes exactly what sort of support you're requesting, or at least an invitation to meet and discuss these details, when you want the support to begin, and why the potential supporter should go for it.
___You have followed up by making yourself available for any questions or concerns the potential supporter might have, contacting the potential supporter to find out their decision, and being ready to help them begin.
___You understand the general tips for attracting and keeping support.


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Q: Is it possible to create unlimited billing plans into paypal? I'm using the PayPal subscription feature I read in the documentation of PayPal. I've created multiple plans for which users can subscribe.
In my application flow, I provide the ability for a user to create their own plans but I'm a little confused about PayPal's limitations.
Does PayPal allow me to create unlimited billing plans on a single Developer Account?

A: If by billing plans you mean the setup of cycles and frequency of charging for a product: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/subscriptions/integrate/#3-create-a-plan
Then yes that is correct. There is no set limit to how many different plans you can create.
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Our society is in front of numerous challenges, trying to meet world's increasing water needs, as plastic waste from bottled water, massive water demand, pollution of superficial waters, scarcity, sanitation or climate change. The main existing drinking water solutions, intending to overcome the low quality/scarcity of superficial fresh water sources, are bottled water, desalination plants, water tanks or aquifers. However, they all present significant gaps, as they are unsustainable, polluting or they require high CAPEX/OPEX. On the other hand, atmospheric water generators have a reduced cost/l and although, they constitute a promising, though yet unknown solution for the domestic sector, they currently lack energy efficiency, manufacturing capacity and solid sales network. These gaps generate significant market opportunities in the drinking water industry (expected to reach €1.2 trillion by 2025) for our innovation. With GENAQ we aim to provide a drinking water generation solution wherever needed with zero environmental impact. Our AWGs are drinking water production units harvesting the humidity in the air to produce condensed drinking water of high purity anywhere in the world. We produce water with excellent properties, which fully complies with WHO standards/EU laws and is certified by EU health authorities. Our system decreases the use of plastic bottles, and achieves 50% more water production with 150% reduced energy consumption (0.19 kWh/l), compared to existing AWG solutions under the same conditions. Our AWGs can be autonomous, using sustainable power sources, resulting in almost zero OPEX. The successful commercialization of this project, based on the distributed production of water will reach a cumulative turnover of €135.6M by 2025. Based on our initial business plan, we estimate to sell over 17,000 units/year, create €21.61M cumulative profit, generate ROI of 3.68 and create in total 356 new jobs after five years of commercialization.


at fair value, in accordance with AASB 16 paragraph Aus25.1 (as proposed in this Exposure Draft to be amended).
The existing requirement is for not-for-profit entities to measure right-of-use assets at initial recognition at fair value for peppercorn leases when AASB 1058 Income of Not-for-Profit Entities and AASB 16 become effective in reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2019. The proposed temporary option would allow not-for-profit entities to continue their work on fair valuing right-of-use assets under peppercorn leases if they intend to measure the right-of-use assets at initial recognition at fair value.
The Exposure Draft also proposes additional disclosures to AASB 16 for not for profit entities that elect to measure the right-of-use assets at initial recognition at cost rather than at fair value. The additional disclosures would provide users of financial statements with further information about the peppercorn leases and the right-of-use assets in the absence of fair value information.
The proposed optional measurement approach will be reassessed by the AASB when further guidance has been developed to assist not for profit entities in fair valuing right-of-use assets and the financial reporting requirements for private sector not for profit entities have been finalised.
The Exposure Draft is open for comment until 7 December 2018. The final amending Standard is expected to be released before the end of 2018.


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It starts a game and plays.
Cabinet is very very nice.
Playfield only has wear around the bonus inserts.
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The left side drop targets aren't working. I replaced the coil but still no luck.
Located in Johnstown Pa 15902.
Willing to ship at buyers expense via fastenal.
These are Herk's all time market stats.


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According to a chaplain, Friday's massacre of 29 Coptic Christians who were on their way to a monastery in Egypt occurred after Islamic radicals marched them off the bus one by one and asked them to deny their faith in Jesus Christ. A priest identified as Father Rashed, a chaplain for one of the groups comforting the survivors of the attack, said in an article in Breitbart News on Sunday that 10 masked Islamic State militants did not simply open fire on the bus on its way to the Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor.
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THE ISSUE IS THIS Just because someone say they believe in Jesus does not make them a Biblical born again christian .Coptics are much the works base false gospel as catholic church .The whole doing some church required sacraments to earn their way to heaven .But never ever sure they been good enough .Again if a Mormon or anyone in a cult claimed Jesus we'd say they have a false Jesus .Please cannot anyone discern truth anymore ? Satan believes in Jesus does not mean he saved . Not denying JESUS well which Jesus .They holding to a false Jesus even unto death .Islam cannot tell the different between a true biblcial christian or a false Christian .
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Poll: What do you think of the rumored 'iPhone SE 2' design and specs?
Over the last several weeks, we've learned quite a bit about Apple's plans for a new low-end "iPhone SE 2." Much of the news comes from reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who predicts that the iPhone SE 2 will launch during the first quarter of 2020.
The iPhone SE 2, however, is not the iPhone SE followup that many fans have been wanting. What do you think of the rumored details?
The iPhone SE was a low-cost iPhone positioned at the bottom of the lineup, with a familiar design and a 4-inch display. As Apple pushed towards larger screens with the iPhone 6s and iPhone 7, the iPhone SE was a popular choice among users who wanted a smaller iPhone.
The so-called iPhone SE 2, rumored by Kuo, is a low-cost iPhone – but with a 4.7-inch display and a design similar to the iPhone 8. We detailed everything we know about the iPhone SE 2 in a roundup yesterday, so be sure to check that out for all of the details.
Comparatively, a 4.7-inch display is still smaller than the rest of the iPhone 11 lineup, but it's significantly larger than the 4-inch iPhone SE was. This has been the pain point of the iPhone SE 2 rumors for most people.
9to5Mac's Ben Lovejoy wrote last week that it's time to stop using the iPhone SE 2 name, as it won't be one. Nonetheless, Kuo has since continued to refer to the new budget-focused iPhone as the iPhone SE 2. Ben wrote:
But the iPhone SE 2 will be of zero interest to those who loved the iPhone SE for its form factor, not its price. The only good news for us is that it appears next year's flagship iPhone models will have a new take on the slab-sided design, along the lines of the current iPad Pro models.
Apple's goal is to make a low-cost iPhone that's capable of running iOS 13 and accessing services like Apple Arcade and Apple TV+. The company seemingly isn't interested catering to fans of the original iPhone SE, at least not yet.
What do you think of the rumored iPhone SE 2 details? Are you pleased with the rumors or do you want a "true" iPhone SE 2? Let us know down in the comments.
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Deforestation trends in protected areas in Madagascar
Protected areas in Madagascar colored by forest type. Humid forests (green), dry forests (purple), spiny forests (red).
Today, over 90% of Madagascar's forests are being impacted by deforestation. With deforestation rates accelerating in a biodiversity hotspot region such as Madagascar, issues such as climate change, extinction, and habitat loss can worsen. Madagascar has many protected forested areas in the form of parks and nature reserves, but no studies thus far have examined the success of these protections in terms of reduction of deforestation rates. This project examined deforestation rates in Madagascar from 2000-2016, comparing deforestation rates of protected areas to those of unprotected ones. Protected areas were compared to similarly sized unprotected areas in the same forest type (i.e., dry, humid, or spiny). Data was gathered through satellite imagery and processed with R scripts. In general, protected regions exhibited lower rates of deforestation when compared to unprotected ones (t-test = 0.004). However, this trend differed across forest types. Deforestation rates in dry (t-test = 0.47) and spiny (0.84) forests did not differ between protected and unprotected areas. In humid forests, protected areas significantly reduced the deforestation rate (t-test = 0.001). Differences in deforestation rates could be due to variation in protection level or year protected status was enacted. Overall, protected areas ease deforestation rates somewhat, but more research is needed to understand the role of different attributes between protected areas.
Collaborators: Brandon Wong, April Wu
GIS and raster manipulation
Bioinformatics: R
Mentoring high school students as part of the Student Research Mentoring Program with the American Museum of Natural History
Relatedness in mouse lemur species
Relatedness network for M. murinus. Widest lines correspond to r ~ 0.5, with decreasing relatedness and weight of lines down to the thinnest lines corresponding to r ~ 0.03125.
Within-species genetic studies of primates have typically focused on parentage within groups or phylogeographic relationships among sparsely sampled populations. Most of these studies use a small number of microsatellites, which can only identify close relatives and may give a poor approximation of the overall relatedness in the population. This project compares relatedness within two sympatric species of mouse lemur (Microcebus berthae and M. murinus) in the Central Menabe region of western Madagascar. While M. murinus has a broad range, M. berthae is confined to a single dwindling forest. Samples were collected throughout the entire forest, with 45 samples from M. berthae and 120 samples from M. murinus. Using single polymorphism (SNP) data collected by ddRADseq, relatedness levels could be calculated to degrees unobtainable with microsatellite data. While both species had similar mean values of relatedness (~ 0.0), the patterns of background relatedness varied. Relatedness visualizations demonstrate a background of elevated relatedness or M. murinus, but not M. berthae. This pattern could be caused by the different distribution patterns each species displays within the forest, with M. murinus as more dispersed facilitating larger related networks.
Collaborators: Dr. Peter Kappeler, Dr. Livia Schäffler
Next Generation Sequencing Library Preparation (ddRADseq method)
Python scripts
R
Deforestation in Madagascar's Forests
Percent Forest Cover in 2000
Anthropogenic forest loss is severe, recent, and accelerating. In Madagascar alone, almost 40% of original forested areas have been lost since the 1950s. Deforestation negatively affects many already threatened, endemic species by destroying their habitats and lowering their populations. Deforestation of different forest types results in different climatic outcomes. For example, removal of humid forests leads to drier conditions at local scales. We used satellite imagery to quantify and compare deforestation trends across four different types of forests in Madagascar (humid, dry, spiny, mangrove). Deforestation in almost all forest types (except for mangroves) has been increasing through time. Between 2000 and 2016, approximately 3.7% of spiny forest, 2.3% of dry forest, 11.6% of humid forest, and 1.2% of mangroves have been lost. For a total loss of 38,042 square kilometers of forest over 16 years. Rates of deforestation varied, with the highest in humid forests (correlation coefficient = 0.8) and the lowest in spiny forests (correlation coefficient = 0.05). The slower rate of deforestation in Madagascar's spiny forests may be due to the lack of rosewood, an endangered and highly sought hardwood harvested illegally for international markets.
Collaborators: Catherine Zhou, Pablo De Castro Gomez
Genetic Structure and Gene Flow in Mouse Lemurs
Kirindy Forest, study area of dissertation research
There is a critical need to ensure that the effects of current (and accelerating) habitat fragmentation are identified and differentiated from the genetic signatures of long-past events and environmental circumstances. The long term goals in this research area are to differentiate between the effects of recent habitat fragmentation and long-term evolutionary demographic history and population structure on primate species. Research results in this area will inform our understanding of ecological and evolutionary diversification in fragmented landscapes and offer guidance to conservation programs. The specific objective of this research proposal is to use genome-wide genetic data to compare and contrast genetic diversity, population structure, demographic history, and recent and historical gene flow in two sympatric mouse lemur species in western Madagascar: the endangered Mme. Berthe's mouse lemur (Microcebus berthae) and the non-threatened gray mouse lemur (M. murinus).
Landscape genetic analyses
Morphological Variation in Mouse Lemurs
A major focus of evolutionary primatology is understanding how morphological variation is partitioned relative to ecological gradients and landscape barriers. Many studies of primates examine the distribution of morphological variation relative to neighboring and other closely related species in order to understand the relationship between morphology and environment. There is growing awareness of the diversity found within and between mouse lemurs at a genetic level. This newly described variation in mouse lemurs can also be studied using a morphological approach. I studied morphological variation in two species of mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus and Microcebus griseorufus) that are found in neighboring locations in Madagascar as well as being closely related sister species. Using skins collections from the American Museum of Natural History, I collected measurements on fur coloration differences. Pelage coloration differences between M. murinus and M. griseorufus are limited to facial and ventral locations, with dorsal coloration playing a minor role. Coloration is known to have several purposes, such as concealment, species/kin recognition, and sexual signals. Differences between species can be caused by several factors, such as genetic drift as well as selection by factors listed above. The causes for the differences in these mouse lemurs is unknown, but overall, M. griseorufus is lighter in coloration compared to M. murinus.
Collaborators: Joralyssa Conley, Aryanna Myles
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Mentoring high school students as part of the Student Research Mentoring Program with the American Museum of Natural History
Utilization of the Primate Collections at the American Museum of Natural History
Behavior and Dominance Effects in Blue Monkeys
Many studies of cercopithecine monkeys implicate dominance rank as an important variable influencing fitness, but there is growing awareness of the paucity of data for many species, and variation in rank's effects. We studied how dominance rank affected the exposure of wild adult female Cercopithecus mitis to predators. Dominance hierarchies in blue monkeys have been characterized as stable but shallow. Focusing on adult females in two study groups inhabiting the Kakamega Forest, Kenya, we monitored their location in the canopy and in individual tree crowns over a two month period. Although blue monkeys are generally arboreal, we found that high-ranking females were somewhat more likely than low-rankers to use the ground, which is likely risky. Otherwise, rank did not predict the location of individuals in the trees, and concomitant exposure to aerial predators. Our results confirm a previous report from a third group in our study population. They are also consistent with other findings suggesting that dominance rank has limited effects on behavior in this species, despite being readily detectable. Effects of dominance rank are clearly variable in cercopithecines.
Collaborators: Dr. Marina Cords, Colins Mutai
3 months field experience in Kakamega Forest, Kenya
Collection of behavioral data (focal follows)
Conservation activities with local communities


Argia's, expensive. Don't let the happy young faces at the bar fool you: This is a first-rate restaurant. The dining area is comfortable, the service conscientious. Only one negative–the place can be noisy. If this is a problem, go early in the week when the restaurant is less crowded. Prices are quite reasonable for what the kitchen produces, with all main courses but one under $20. The restaurant does not take reservations.
The menu is northern Italian. For just about any dish, diners can choose a regular portion or the "famiglia" size, which serves two or more but costs only about 60 percent more. Excellent appetizers are the beef carpaccio with julienne apples, walnuts, and Parmesan; the mussels Argia, steamed with white wine in a garlic-and-parsley-flavored broth; and the mixed salad with a fine balsamic vinaigrette. Pastas are very good, ranging from spaghetti and meatballs to linguine with sautéed shrimp. Top-of-the line main courses include the braised lamb shank, the loin of pork wrapped in pancetta, and a special of soft-shell crabs. The wine list is good, though it fails to give vintages.
Argia's, 124 N. Washington St.; 703-534-1033. Open Monday through Friday for lunch, daily for dinner.


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Keith Green
EXCLUSIVE: Hillsborough mansion murder defendant speaks in I-Team interview
By Dan Noyes
HILLSBOROUGH, Calif. (KGO) -- The Hillsborough mansion murder case shocked the Bay Area. A young, wealthy woman from China, living in a mansion with her boyfriend -- both now charged with murder in the death of her former boyfriend, the father of her two children. Tonight, a man also charged in the case has given an exclusive interview to the ABC7 I-Team.
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This case made headlines after murder suspect Tiffany Li and her family posted a record bail -- $65 million in cash and real estate. Now, her former friend and alleged accomplice is talking to Dan Noyes from jail, saying he wants to make a deal with prosecutors.
The I-Team met 42-year-old Olivier Adella at San Mateo County Jail, but had to settle for a phone interview because of the jail's long-standing policy banning cameras.
Operator: "You may start the conversation now."
Olivier Adella: "Hello."
Dan Noyes: "Hey, Olivier."
He told Dan Noyes that Keith Green and Tiffany Li knew each other for years, had two children together, and that problems began when Kaveh Bayat entered the picture.
Noyes: "Kaveh was Keith Green's friend, right?"
Adella: "Yes, he met Tiffany through Keith Green and he went behind Keith Green, end up brainwashing Tiffany, take Tiffany from Keith Green, making Tiffany kick Keith Green out of the mansion, moving in, make Keith Green's daughter call him daddy, and him and Tiffany only together for six months."
Adella told us he worked as a bodyguard and trainer for Kaveh Buyat and Tiffany Li.
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February of last year, he said they invited him to the Hillsborough mansion for a meeting in the basement, the "man cave" as seen in court exhibits obtained by the I-Team ... and that Bayat told him to leave his phone outside, patted him down, and made an offer.
Adella said, "'I want you to get rid of Keith Green.' I say, 'What do you mean rid of Keith Green?' Kaveh's the one was talking, 'We want you to pretty much kill Keith Green.'"
Adella talked to detectives for hours -- his story, a central part of the preliminary hearing earlier this year. The I-Team read the 830-page transcript.
Noyes: "How much did they offer to pay you to kill Keith Green?"
Adella: "50,000."
Adella says he refused.
As the months passed, prosecutors say cell phone records show tensions grew between Tiffany Li and Keith Green over child custody and support.
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One text shows Green, an aspiring chef, wanted the new BMW Tiffany had purchased, $4,000 a month, and $20,000 for furniture. "I do want to create a life that is parallel to yours with the kids," Green texted.
Tiffany forwarded that exchange to Kaveh Bayat, who answered, "He was tyn 2 work u 4 money agin!!! ... That's all he wants. Its not about the kids."
She answers, "I know. ok so nvm. green light..."
Prosecutors allege that meant, green light for murder.
Olivier Adella said, "Kaveh called me when I was getting ready to go to the gym."
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The evening of April 28th, 2016. Adella told the I-Team Bayat asked him to go to the Millbrae Pancake House, where Tiffany was meeting Keith Green in her gray Mercedes G-Wagon.
Adella said, "They were there, so I called him and said, 'Yeah, you were right, they're here, there's nothing going on, they're sitting, they're not kissing, light inside of the car, nothing going on.'"
After about an hour, Tiffany and Keith pull away. The Mercedes, caught on a traffic camera -- Olivier Adella following in his Chrysler 300. He turns off and goes home, but records show the signals from Tiffany Li and Keith Green's cell phones travel from Millbrae south toward her mansion in Hillsborough. Prosecutors say investigators found gun shot residue in the garage on a golf bag, Green's DNA on the floor and on the door sill of the Mercedes.
Cell phone records pick up, showing three signals heading back north from the mansion -- for Tiffany Li, Keith Green and Kaveh Bayat.
Olivier Adella says he was shocked to see them arrive at his apartment.
Adella told the I-Team, "So, they pull up with the car, Kaveh was in the back seat, Tiffany was in the front seat and Keith Green was in the front seat, but Keith Green was dead."
Adella told police, Kaveh Buyat lifted his shirt to reveal a black handgun and, "So, he told me, 'I got, I did what I have to do, it's time to pull up your weight.'"
Adella said Tiffany watched as he and Bayat stripped Keith Green's body, and put him in Adella's trunk.
Noyes: "Why take off his clothes?"
Adella: "No, it's very simple, because I don't think Kaveh was satisfied on killing, it looked like Kaveh wanted to humiliate Keith Green."
Adella told us he worried about his girlfriend and child in the apartment upstairs, so he agreed to dispose of the body. On the way, he tossed Keith Green's cell phone in Golden Gate Park.
Noyes: "As you're heading north in your car with Keith Green's body in your trunk, what's going through your mind?"
Adella: "What's going through my mind, well, you're a black man in America, my friend. You're screwed. You get rid of the body, you're screwed. Don't get rid of the body, you're screwed."
He found a turnout off 101 near Healdsburg and rolled the body out. For two weeks, friends searched for Keith.
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Finally, a sheriff's deputy found his body, badly-decomposed. The coroner determined he died from a gunshot, the weapon placed in his mouth before firing.
A SWAT team raided the Hillsborough mansion arresting Tiffany Li and Kaveh Bayat. They picked up Olivier Adella at his apartment, charged them with murder. They've all pleaded "not guilty". Adella now wants to testify for the prosecution in return for reduced charges, saying, "So, the D.A. offered me the deal, and without me, they can't get Tiffany, they can't get Kaveh."
Time ran out on the phone call from jail.
Noyes: "Are you going to take the deal and agree to testify against Tiffany and Kaveh?"
Adella: "Yes, yes, yes, yes."
But, prosecutors tell the I-Team there is no deal, at this point, and that they are confident they can make a strong case against all three defendants -- even without Adella's testimony. Li and Bayat's attorneys tell us Adella can't be trusted, that he's a liar. One goes so far as to call him the killer.
Kaveh Bayat's criminal defense attorney Chuck Green told Dan Noyes, "We believe that Adella is the killer, we believe that he fired the shot that killed Keith Green."
One other item from the court file: investigators found this picture on Keith Green's phone, him wearing a new pair of pink Nikes. They found what appear to be the same shoes in the man cave, size ten and a half. Bayat's feet are smaller. Adella says Bayat ordered him to strip the clothes off the body before he took it away. Investigators say Keith Green was only wearing socks when a sheriff's deputy discovered his body near Healdsburg.
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