Great read, great fun, great adventure, great lessons, and a great God!
Kyle and Anna suddenly enter the world of Marus while exploring an old house outside of Odyssey...and find they have "powers": Kyle thwarts danger and Anna sees visions. The children aid Darien, a loyal general, as he runs from the mad King Lawrence and faces many other dangers. And through it all, the Unseen One is at work.
Darien is the epitome of friendship and loyalty. Even when he has the chance, he refuses to "lift a hand against" one who considers Darien as his "sworn enemy." Darien's little militia also show their loyalty.
The Unseen One (aka God) is at work throughout the story. When one character hints that he hopes for an easier way, another states that "the Unseen One rarely makes things easy for us." The "powers" that Kyle and Anna have originate from Him and are used to fulfill His purposes. There is also a woman who makes her trade by talking with the dead.
As can be expected for a story with a general as a main character, there are a couple battles. Our first glimpse of Darien is as he is sword-fighting with another man; he ends up hitting the man on the head with a vase (for his own safety) and in an act of self-defense stabs him in the side. Kyle witnesses two battles and Anna envisions others, though they are barely described. Several attempts are made on Darien's life (though none are successful). One of Darien's men is shot. The Royal Guard and the princes are cut down. Another character shoots himself in despair. Some surviving enemies refer to one battle as "Darien's Fury." Anna has a dream in which she is killed; at one point she throws a lamp at someone in self-defense and his clothes catch on fire. An older girl is killed before Anna's eyes.
At one point, King Lawrence "has had too much to drink."
None, unless you count Darien respectfully kissing the hand of his supposed-wife-to-be, Princess Michelle.
The worst it gets would be an exclamation of "Blast!"
This story will be familiar to those who know their Bible narratives. "Darien's Rise" is the retelling of the story of David...but in another world. Paul McCusker follows most of the described events with amazing accuracy though for the sake of story or time, he does occasionally change characters, times, or circumstance. In any case, he keeps the original story vibrantly alive. The lessons the characters teach each other are applicable in our lives as well.


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VIKING's 2018 shaped by renewed growth and a major acquisition
After two years of slightly declining revenue, VIKING Life-Saving Equipment A/S is seeing growth once more. In 2018, VIKING acquired the Norwegian manufacturer of lifeboats Norsafe AS. Adjusting for the costs of integrating this business and the impact on revenue in the last quarter of the year, the results show growth in both revenue and earnings.
"We were able to deliver growth in activities and earnings in the original VIKING business, and we expect that the picture will remain the same for both areas of business in 2019," says CEO Henrik Uhd Christensen.
VIKING Life-Saving Equipment, CEO Henrik, Uhd Christensen
Norsafe's lifeboat sales are included in the figures for the last three months of the year and have helped VIKING surpass DKK 2 billion in revenue for the first time in the company's history. Profit before tax amounted to DKK 155.4 million on revenue of DKK 2,015.6 million, which given the one-off costs of acquisition and integration of Norsafe is considered satisfactory.
Norsafe is a perfect match
In recent years, VIKING has carried out a number of smaller acquisitions to build a more complete range of safety solutions. With Norsafe, which develops and manufactures high-quality lifeboats and cranes for the global market, the company is taking yet another major step in this direction.
"We have long been in the market for potential acquisitions that complement our business model and meet our customers' needs, both in terms of a broad product range and high quality. I am completely certain that we've found just that in Norsafe. The product is a good fit, and our approach to quality, design, core function and global presence are all very similar. Integrating the two businesses is proceeding very well, and the logic we saw in the joining of forces is being confirmed by the response we've seen in the market," says Henrik Uhd Christensen.
In 2018 VIKING acquired the Norwegian manufacturer of lifeboats – Norsafe
Strong products and services
The market for maritime safety equipment remains highly competitive. For several years, VIKING has successfully navigated competitive challenges by bundling the sale of new products with multi-year service concepts, such as VIKING Shipowner Agreement (SOA), which continues to show double-digit growth, excellent customer satisfaction and very high renewal rates.
"The maritime market will continue to be cost-focused in the future. We are in the favorable position of having good solutions to save human lives and to ensure efficient operations. Once again in 2018, our service business was able to win market share in core markets," says Henrik Uhd Christensen.
VIKINGs new groundbreaking evacuation solution for the cruise ship market – dubbed the LifeCraft – passed a critical test in 2018
Personal protective equipment shows growth and potential
The markets in VIKING's biggest segments – Cargo, Passenger and Offshore – have developed in very different directions. As Cargo remains fluctuating due to uncertainties related to global trade agreements, the newbuild market, while still under pressure, is gradually normalizing and general market conditions stable.
Meanwhile, the Offshore segment is recovering after the sharp fall in oil prices in 2014. Parts of the industry are now growing, and we are seeing signs of growing demand. The cruise ship market remains extremely strong, and has been consistently so for many years running, says Henrik Uhd Christensen.
The PPE business, which includes personal protective equipment such as immersion and work suits, has shown extraordinarily strong growth. Military markets, fire departments and other professional users in many countries are being supplied with custom solutions, and the market for renting aviation suits to the offshore industry is also gaining momentum.
The market for renting aviation suits to the offshore industry is also gaining momentum
VIKING LifeCraft™ passed the critical test
The launch of LifeCraft™, the groundbreaking evacuation solution for the cruise ship market, is imminent after years of development and a highly complex approval process. The successful completion of the critical heavy weather sea trial in November 2018 means that the hybrid between a liferaft and a lifeboat will be market-ready as soon as the final regulatory approvals are issued.
"The VIKING LifeCraft™ is a huge project, and we knew all along that the sea trial was a crucial test. So, it's all the more pleasing that we've now passed the heavy weather sea trial and can look forward to a completely new platform, which will have a big impact on our sales and, in the slightly longer term, on equipment service for cruise ships. VIKING is constantly driving innovation and improving the essential function of equipment that saves human lives," says Henrik Uhd Christensen.
VIKING reached yet another milestone in 2018, surpassing DKK 1 billion in equity for the first time in the history of the family-owned company.
VIKING Life-Saving Equipment A/S
DKK million 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014
Revenue 2016 1834 1858 1891 1728
Operating profit 155 183 185 201 191
Profit before tax 155 174 183 201 184
Profit after tax 111 130 139 149 137
Assets 2311 1555 1660 1630 1498
Equity 1013 971 923 805 714
Average no. of employees 2212 1874 2013 1914 1860
Source: Viking
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Giant Food, the Baltimore Ravens, P&G, Dannon, and Marva Maid Dairy support the nation's largest in-school nutrition and physical activity program Fuel Up to Play 60
Landover, Md., 2015-10-12 — /EPR Retail News/ — Giant Food, the Baltimore Ravens, P&G, Dannon, and Marva Maid Dairy, are teaming for a third year to support the National Dairy Council and the NFL's Fuel Up to Play 60 program. Fuel Up to Play 60, the nation's largest in-school nutrition and physical activity program, was founded under the leadership of America's dairy farmers through a relationship with the National Football League. The program is in more than 73,000 schools nationwide and helps over 38 million students make better food choices by selecting nutritious options such as low-fat and fat-free dairy products, fruits, vegetables and whole grains.
This year, Giant, Marva Maid, P&G, and Dannon will provide $50,000 in grants to qualifying local schools as a part of the Fuel Up to Play 60 promotion. Portions of the grants will be distributed to schools throughout the Mid-Atlantic region that are making positive changes through their participation in Fuel Up to Play 60.
In addition to supporting the Fuel Up to Play 60 program with a grant donation, Giant stores in the Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Washington, D.C. markets will offer consumers the chance to win a set of 4 tickets to a local NFL game via a "text to win" sweepstakes. This promotion will run from October 1 – November 30, 2015 and winners will be selected December 1, 2015.
This program began in 2013, when Giant Food and the Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative provided $25,000 in grants to local schools through Fuel Up to Play 60, providing funds for students to make healthy and meaningful changes in their communities. To learn more about the Fuel Up to Play 60 program or to join the movement, please visit www.FuelUpToPlay60.com.
About Giant Food
Giant Food LLC, headquartered in Landover, Md., operates 168 supermarkets in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia, and employs approximately 20,000 associates. Included within the 168 stores are 159 full-service pharmacies. Giant opened the first supermarket in the nation's capital on February 6, 1936. Giving back to the community is a cornerstone that was instilled by the founders more than 78 years ago. The company's core areas of giving include hunger, education, health and wellness, and supporting service members and military families. In 2014, Giant's monetary and in-kind contributions exceeded $14.9 million, and the nation's capital grocer helped partners provide 88 million meals. For more information on Giant, visit giantfood.com
About Maryland & Virginia Cooperative Association
Owned and operated by 1,500 dairy farm families from Pennsylvania to Florida, Maryland & Virginia is a milk marketing and processing cooperative providing consumers throughout the Mid- Atlantic and Southeastern U.S. with fresh milk and dairy products. Maryland & Virginia owns and operates two fluid processing plants; Marva Maid of Newport News, Va. and Marva Maid of Landover, Md.; two manufacturing plants, one in Laurel, Md. and Valley Milk in Strasburg, Va.; and an equipment warehouse business in Frederick, Md.
About Dannon
Headquartered in White Plains, New York, Dannon has plants in Minster, OH, Fort Worth, TX, West Jordan, UT, and Portland, OR, which make more than 200 different flavors, styles and sizes of cultured refrigerated and frozen dairy products to serve the diverse needs of its retail and foodservice customers. Dannon strives to bring health through food to as many people as possible via its wide offering of delicious and wholesome refrigerated and frozen yogurts. Dannon is a subsidiary of Danone, and Dannon is the top-selling brand of yogurt worldwide, sold under the names Dannon and Danone. For more information, visit dannon.com
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About Fuel Up to Play 60
Fuel Up to Play 60 is an in-school nutrition and physical activity program launched by National Football League (NFL) and National Dairy Council (NDC), which was founded by America's dairy farmers, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The program encourages youth to consume nutrient-rich foods (low- fat and fat-free dairy, fruits, vegetables and whole grains) and achieve at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day. Fuel Up to Play 60 is designed to engage and empower youth to take action for their own health by implementing long-term, positive changes for themselves and their schools. Customizable and non-prescriptive program components are grounded in research with youth, including tools and resources, in-school promotional materials, a website and student contests. Fuel Up to Play 60 is further supported by several health and nutrition organizations: Action for Healthy Kids, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Association/Foundation, National Hispanic Medical Association, National Medical Association and School Nutrition Association. Visit FuelUpToPlay60.com to learn more.
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Sepsis an exaggerated systemic inflammatory response continues to be a major
Sepsis an exaggerated systemic inflammatory response continues to be a major medical challenge. by elevated inflammatory cytokine production hypothermia and mortality. Neutralizing anti-IL-12 antibodies prevented hypothermia and death demonstrating that endogenous GC-mediated suppression of IL-12 is usually protective. In LPS-challenged GRCD11c-cre mice CD8+ DCs were identified as the major source of prolonged IL-12 production which correlated with elevations of NK cell-derived IFN-γ. In addition the loss of GR in CD11c+ cells rescued LPS-induced loss of CD8+ DCs but not other DC subsets. Unlike wild-type animals exposure of GRCD11c-cre mice to KL-1 low-dose LPS did not induce CD8+ DC loss or tolerance to subsequent challenge with high dose but neutralization of IL-12 restored the ability of low-dose LPS to tolerize. Therefore endogenous glucocorticoids blunt LPS-induced inflammation and promote tolerance by suppressing DC IL-12 production. Author Summary Sepsis refers to life-threatening systemic inflammation often caused by contamination with bacteria that produce lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Glucocorticoids immunosuppressive hormones produced by the adrenals have been used to treat sepsis for over 50 y but little is known about the role of endogenous (naturally occurring) glucocorticoids in systemic inflammation. Macrophages have been considered the primary source of inflammatory mediators (cytokines) and a focus on for glucocorticoid-mediated suppression. The feasible function of another immune system cell people dendritic cells is not explored at length. We made a mouse model where the glucocorticoid receptor is normally selectively removed in dendritic cells (DCs). We discovered that the elevation of glucocorticoids that accompanies sepsis protects mice from LPS-induced septic surprise by suppressing DC creation of IL-12 a cytokine that triggers the secretion of various other inflammatory mediators. Furthermore LPS-induced glucocorticoids triggered the death of the subset of DCs that will be the principal companies of IL-12. Glucocorticoids had been also discovered to make a difference for the sensation of "LPS tolerance" where inoculation with low-dose LPS makes mice resistant to rechallenge with a higher dose. This unforeseen function of DC-produced IL-12 and its own suppression by Briciclib endogenous glucocorticoids may accounts at least partly for the known association of adrenal insufficiency and extended sepsis. Launch Sepsis is normally a complex scientific disorder due to dysregulated systemic inflammatory replies. Serious sepsis and septic surprise are a main reason behind mortality among the critically sick. Early stage sepsis is normally seen as a exaggerated inflammatory cytokine creation also known as cytokine storm that Briciclib may cause multiple body organ dysfunction and loss of life [1]. If the heightened inflammatory response is normally survived compensatory mechanisms that attempt to control it eventually lead to serious immunosuppression which Briciclib can in turn result in lethal secondary infections [2]. The lack of understanding of the dynamic and heterogeneous mechanisms of this transition has hindered the development of effective immunoregulatory therapies for septic individuals [3]. In sepsis caused by gram-negative bacteria many of the life-threatening complications such as hypercoagulation hypothermia and systemic swelling are ascribed to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) also called endotoxin a constituent of the bacterial cell wall [4]. Activation of innate immune cells by LPS via Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) initiates production of proinflammatory cytokines such as TNF-α IL-1β IL-6 IL-12 and IFN-γ. Although playing important functions in mounting effective immune responses to obvious pathogens Briciclib overproduction of these cytokines prospects to lethality mimicking the hyperinflammation of sepsis [5]. On the other hand sublethal doses of LPS induce endotoxin tolerance a temporary state of hyporesponsiveness of the innate immune system which renders mice resistant to a subsequent lethal LPS challenge [6]. Originally recognized as a mechanism to limit the inflammatory response to prolonged infections endotoxin tolerance is now considered as a model for the study of postseptic immunosuppression since a similar loss of LPS reactivity has been reported in circulating leukocytes of septic individuals with elevated risk of succumbing to illness [7]. Glucocorticoids (GC) are Briciclib steroid hormones that control a variety of essential metabolic cardiovascular and homeostatic functions [8]. GC are highly immunosuppressive and anti-inflammatory when given at pharmacologic.
Published October 26, 2016 By biotech2012
Categorized as 5-HT Transporters Tagged Briciclib, KL-1
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Abstract: The work intends to reflect on the ways and possibilities of the inclusion of the deaf in the listening community, using the theater, in a multireferential perspective pointed out by Barbosa and using the action research proposed by Barbier, who recognizes the heterogeneity and the linguistic, socio- cultural and educational aspects of the subjects involved. It also reflects on how this theater, made up of students-deaf actors and listeners, reaches the audience that is composed of the same clientele. It deals with the hypothesis that with theater, in a work in which everyone is involved in a single goal, reflecting and conducting negotiations, inclusion becomes effective. Going through elaborations and constructions of new practices, the subjects cease to be only agents and actors of a system, to assume the role of author of a process of personal and social life, based on the thought of Ardoino. It concludes that from the theatrical games proposed by Reverbel and Spolin and the theater of Boal, which proposes the reflection of the oppressions in search of actions, it is possible the participation of the deaf as a subject, with their differences in culture, identity and language, as pointed out by Skliar, Sá and Carvalho, rescuing the participation not only of them, but of the whole group involved, proposing possible paths for social problems and making possible the exercise of citizenship.
Citation: Oliveira, Mirian Martins de. Surdos e ouvintes : dos bastidores aos aplausos...a busca de autoria em um processo de inclusão pelo teatro. 2006. 170 folhas. Dissertação( Educacao) - Universidade Metodista de Sao Paulo, Sao Bernardo do Campo .


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News > Technology > Cutting spend waste using AI
Cutting spend waste using AI
In the next generation of spend analytics technology, artificial intelligence will help to solve a number of very tangible problems
By Stefan Foryszewski, Executive Vice-President at Tungsten
With an increase in tuition fees, UK universities have found themselves under constant scrutiny as to how they spend their money. On top of this, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has announced further funding cuts to be made, with an extra £450 million pulled from universities. These two factors have led to increased pressure on universities to not only watch what they spend but also look at ways to further cut costs.
With students paying a premium to attend university, the expectation to get 'bang for their buck' has intensified, with some universities finding themselves in the firing line. Social media provides the perfect outlet for disgruntled students to voice their opinion and vice-chancellors are becoming increasingly aware of this.
While £9,000 is a significant sum for students to pay, for most universities the student fees only make up a small contribution towards overall overheads like funding research, investing in up to date facilities and general running costs of multiple buildings. In most cases staff salaries make the largest dent in university outgoings, with staff to student ratios being a top priority for most education-focused establishments.
'In recent years software has become available to help procurement departments identify where cost savings can be made and the technology is now coming of age and reaching new levels of sophistication.'
With this in mind, running a university is no different to running a very large business and vice-chancellors will be looking at ways to cut costs and reduce their overheads without compromising resources dedicated to student learning. In recent years software has become available to help procurement departments identify where cost savings can be made and the technology is now coming of age and reaching new levels of sophistication.
As an electronic invoicing provider, we recognised the opportunity to provide detailed analysis for our customers by using existing data collated through our platform and have since developed complimentary, and indeed revolutionary, technology, such as our spend analytics function.
Analysing spend means we can provide our customers with a wealth of data and insight into their spending and invoicing habits by highlighting opportunities to save them time and money. For universities this could be anything from whiteboards, to computers to temporary staff costs.
Intelligent computing and data analysis has uses across the business world and major global firms are taking notice. Google and Facebook are investing heavily in research and development in these areas, while Amazon Web Services has set up a dedicated Machine Learning team.
In addition, Tungsten Network has partnered with Goldsmiths University to develop its spend analytics capabilities further, through which it has set up the Tungsten Centre for Intelligent Data Analytics ("TCIDA"). TCIDA is to undertake research and development into advanced Artificial Intelligent ("AI") techniques for undertaking "Big Data" analysis.
The term artificial intelligence brings to mind science fiction, but in the next generation of spend analytics technology it will help to solve a number of very tangible problems.
AI helps computers understand and interpret written text. Machines can't read so they need a way to identify semantics. For example, if two product descriptions are written in slightly different ways, say '25 notebooks' versus 'notebooks 25', artificial intelligence helps a computer to interpret these as being the same thing.
Next, spend analytics will be further developed to learn functional equivalence. For example, a person would know that a Ford and a Nissan are both car brands, but a computer wouldn't know that unless it was told. The next generation of spend analytics will see computers programmed to learn these subtle differences to improve the analysis. Finally, we can expect the technology to evolve to achieve greater levels of trend analysis, using financial modelling to predict future pricing patterns and assess supply chain risks.
In vital public sectors like education, cutting costs while maintaining the expected level of services can often seem impossible. This is where spend analytics comes into its own. By analysing spend and looking at ways to save on smaller expenses like pens, stationery or laptops, we can ensure that our public education organisations are run as efficiently as possible, leaving more money in the pot for developing new courses and attracting the highest quality teachers.
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U.S. Senate Passes Big Cat Public Safety Act, Legislation Now Awaits President Biden's Signature
Animal Wellness Action
Animal Wellness Action lobbied the Congress to close out abuse of dangerous big cats in our communities
Sen. Cruz with advocates
Left to right: Sen. Ted Cruz, Carole Baskin, Wayne Pacelle, Shelby Bobosky, and Marty Irby following a meeting on the Big Cat Public Safety Act
WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tonight, Animal Wellness Action announced the U.S. Senate passage of the Big Cat Public Safety Act, H.R. 263, today by Unanimous Consent, completing Congressional work on the subject four months after the House passed the measure. The measure next heads to the President's desk to be inked into law – a likely outcome given that White House has already provided public support for the bill.
Animal Wellness Action commends Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Reps. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., for introducing the legislation in the 117th Congress.
"The Congress recognizes that chaos and cruelty result when people breed big cats for use as pets or for commercial petting operations," said Wayne Pacelle, president of the Center for a Humane Economy. "We applaud the Senate and House for establishing a national policy to stop the trade and breeding of endangered lions and tigers as pets in homes and props at roadside zoos."
"We applaud Sens. Blumenthal and Collins for their tireless work to secure the passage of the Big Cat Public Safety Act, which will keep families in suburbia safe from dangerous tigers and lions," said Marty Irby, executive director at Animal Wellness Action. "After a decade of legislative work on the bill and tremendous publicity for the issue, cub petting will soon become a thing of the past in the U.S."
"For me, this fight for the big cats was never personal," said Carole Baskin, president and founder of Big Cat Rescue. "This was always about developing a national policy to shut down the trade in these animals as props in commercial cub handling operations and as pets in people's backyards and basements."
"The Big Cat Public Safety Act will end the horrific exploitation of big cats and bolster public safety," said Senator Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. "These beautiful but powerful predators deserve to live in the wild, not be kept in captivity for people's entertainment—even as cubs. I'm thrilled that, after a groundswell of public and bipartisan support, this bill I've long advocated for will become law."
"Big cats like lions, tigers, and cheetahs belong in their natural habitats, not in the hands of private owners where they are too often subject to cruelty or improper care," said Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine. "Our legislation will prohibit the private ownership of big cats, which threatens the safety of the animals and the public and harms conservation efforts. I am pleased that our colleagues supported our bipartisan effort to improve the welfare of animals."
The bill builds on the Captive Wildlife Safety Act, passed unanimously in 2003, which sought to ban the trade in big cats as pets. That original measure had a drafting flaw, and the Big Cat Public Safety Act seeks to correct that problem and to ban breeding big cats for the pet trade and for commercial cub petting.
The bill had been introduced long before the salacious reality television series "Tiger King," but that blockbuster Netflix program put the issue of private ownership of tigers and lions on the American radar screen. NBC's streaming platform, Peacock TV, also featured the bill in its series "Joe vs. Carole," released in March.
Down from nearly 60 cub-petting operations just 10 or 15 years ago, there are now maybe two or three commercial such outfits in the United States. Nearly all cub-petters featured in "Tiger King" are incarcerated, have had their animals seized, or are facing prosecution.
· Joe Exotic is serving 21 years in federal prison for 17 wildlife-related charges as well as murder-for-hire charges
· Jeff Lowe, who took charge of Joe Exotic's GW Zoo and intended to open a cub-petting operation in far eastern Oklahoma, had his operation raided by federal authorities, who brought civil charges against him. Lowe's animals have been confiscated and placed at sanctuaries.
· Tim Stark, another prominent Tiger King "star," had his animals confiscated by the State of Indiana for multiple animal-related and nonprofit-operation violations. He fled the state after a criminal charge was filed and was arrested in New York.
· Bhagavan "Doc" Antle was arrested on charges of money laundering. He's also facing charges by the State of Virginia with 15 counts of wildlife trafficking and animal cruelty.
The tigers and lions bred for the pet trade or roadside attractions never lead good lives. They typically live in substandard conditions, and in almost every case, their lives end tragically. We reduce these remarkable beasts to shadows of themselves in dilapidated roadside menageries or in backyards or basements. The people who acquire the animals on impulse or for profit almost always give them up because they cannot be safely managed by individuals without sufficient resources or professional staff.
The Big Cat Public Safety Act is backed by the National Sheriffs' Association, state sheriffs' associations throughout the nation, the Fraternal Order of Police, the National Animal Care and Control Association, and countless other agencies and organizations.
Animal Wellness Action is a Washington, D.C.-based 501(c)(4) organization with a mission of helping animals by promoting legal standards forbidding cruelty. We champion causes that alleviate the suffering of companion animals, farm animals, and wildlife. We advocate for policies to stop dogfighting and cockfighting and other forms of malicious cruelty and to confront factory farming and other systemic forms of animal exploitation. To prevent cruelty, we promote enacting good public policies, and we work to enforce those policies. To enact good laws, we must elect good lawmakers, and that's why we remind voters which candidates care about our issues and which ones don't. We believe helping animals helps us all.
The Animal Wellness Foundation (Foundation) is a Los Angeles-based private charitable organization with a mission of helping animals by making veterinary care available to everyone with a pet, regardless of economic ability. We organize rescue efforts and medical services for dogs and cats in need and help homeless pets find a loving caregiver. We are advocates for getting veterinarians to the front lines of the animal welfare movement; promoting responsible pet ownership; and vaccinating animals against infectious diseases such as distemper. We also support policies that prevent animal cruelty and that alleviate suffering. We believe helping animals helps us all.
The Center for a Humane Economy is a non-profit organization that focuses on influencing the conduct of corporations to forge a humane economic order. The first organization of its kind in the animal protection movement, the Center encourages businesses to honor their social responsibilities in a culture where consumers, investors, and other key stakeholders abhor cruelty and the degradation of the environment and embrace innovation as a means of eliminating both.
CONTACT: Marty Irby Animal Wellness Action 202-821-5686 marty@animalwellnessaction.org
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Mr Rittenhouse argued that he fired in self-defense, and in such cases, the burden of proof often rests heavily on the prosecution.
"When people look at this, and they're feeling frustrated, they're not recognizing just how high the prosecutors' burden is here," the New York Times quoted Cecelia Klingele, a University of Wisconsin law professor, as saying. "It was a real uphill battle to get out from under self-defense."
Kenosha Unified School District converted a few schools near the courthouse to virtual learning as of Wednesday and for the rest of the week, anticipating the jury's verdict and the possibility of protests that might erupt near the schools, the Kenosha News reported:
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The United States is the new destination for Nicaraguans urgently fleeing Ortega's repression
By Divergentes
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Affliction, anguish, boldness, fear. That mix of all those feelings left their mark on Ramon Blandon when he crossed the border between Mexico and the United States in May of 2021. Although now that he thinks about it, he said, there was also a lot of stupidity. Not for having crossed, but for doing it with a group of friends without the guidance of a "coyote," a human trafficker, on land where "the owners are drug traffickers," said Blandon, a 37-year-old Nicaraguan. "I don't know what would have happened to us if, by looking for the [American] dream, we had run into the 'owners' of the road," he added.
Blandon and his group planned a path to avoid the footprints that migrants leave with their steps. It wasn't easy at all. In fact, the only way he could explain how he and his friends survived it was by "pure luck or God's blessing." To give an idea, he traveled the entire route with his body full of thorns, enduring low temperatures in arid mountains where he spent the night on dry branches, as shown in several photographs he has of the journey, in which he appears with a sorrowful face while trying to mitigate the cold with a shirt wrapped around his head like a hood. Of course, they were situations that he had imagined he would experience, but that didn't make it any less terrible when he experienced them in the flesh. "You just get up the desire for the family," he added. "It was the only thing I thought about."
Ramon Blandon thought about his daughter that he left behind in Nicaragua, about his wife, and that he had to cross over to the United States "to get ahead for them." But he also thought about how he couldn't go back to his country because he was being persecuted by military-style groups from the Sandinista Front and the National Police after he joined the protests in April of 2018, when the political crisis broke out.
And not only that. Blandon had become unemployed. The pandemic ended up bankrupting the electric power company where he worked as a supervisor. So, in early 2021, when he learned that the borders had returned to normal, he set out for the United States. He did it alone, and when he arrived in Mexico, he thought about staying to work and asking for asylum. He stayed there for a few months, until his immigration application was denied. Feeling unprotected legally and hearing that the immigration policies of the new president of the United States, Joe Biden, "had become more flexible" with citizens of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, the countries with dictatorships, Blandon decided to cross the border in May of 2021. Before leaving, he called his wife and told her that he was going to attempt it and not to tell anyone else. "If I can, I'll get in touch, and if I can't, I won't… You'll find out I've arrived if you get a call," Blandon told his wife in a brief communication.
In recent months Ramón Blandón has worked as a bricklayer and engineer. Photo: Courtesy.
The United States, Blandon's destination, is the one that's having the greatest surge among Nicaraguans. Between January and November 2021, the United States Border Patrol recorded that 71,667 Nicaraguans tried to enter along the southern border without documents.
According to Manuel Orozco, director of the immigration, remittance and development program at the Inter-American Dialogue center for political analysis and exchange, this phenomenon can only be compared to the crisis of the 1980s caused by Ortega's abuse of power during the first Sandinista term. At that time, more than 120,000 people left for the United States, tripling the immigrant population.
In July of 2021, 13,391 Nicaraguans were registered at the border, almost double the number registered in June (7,441) and more than triple the number in May (4,451). In 2017, a year before the political crisis of 2018, barely 1,000 Nicaraguans were apprehended, according to the United States Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP). The increase coincides with the crisis that Nicaragua has been experiencing since April of 2018, which worsened in 2021 with the arrests of opposition leaders in the context of the election.
Inter-American Dialogue estimates that some 95,000 Nicaraguans fled the country in 2021 due to shutting down public liberties, unemployment and citizen insecurity. Of these, according to those calculations, 60,000 migrated to the United States and 35,000 to Costa Rica, the country that was the main migration destination for Nicaraguans for years.
"An unprecedented figure that reveals the seriousness of the situation in Nicaragua," said Wendy Flores, defender and lawyer for the human rights organization Nicaragua Nunca Más (Nicaragua Never Again). "The change in destination of the migratory flow is now heading north, a route marked by violence and insecurity," added Flores.
Blandon explained that he chose the United States because of "the bad economic situation I had," which didn't allow him to make a longer and more expensive trip to Spain. He had no relatives to support him in Costa Rica or in Panama. "I just knew that I couldn't continue in the country," said Blandon, referring to Nicaragua.
Historical Migration to Costa Rica
Nicaraguans began going into exile about 45 years ago, starting with the first clashes between the Anastasio Somoza Debayle dictatorship and the Sandinista Front guerrillas. However, the destination historically has been Costa Rica, according to an article in the magazine Envío, written by Alberto Cortes Ramos, associate professor at the University of Costa Rica in the School of Political Science. Since before the overthrow of the Somocista dynasty, in the 1970s, it is estimated that 280,000 people left Nicaragua, and at least 80,000 went to Costa Rica. Years later, during the revolutionary project that became a dictatorship in the 1980s and that led to an armed confrontation between the Sandinista Army and the Counterrevolution, some 123,000 Nicaraguans—documented and undocumented— took refuge in Costa Rica.
That's why the recent increase in migration to the United States is attracting media attention. More and more Nicaraguans are being seen among the Central American caravans. In July of last year, a month after the way out of the sociopolitical crisis was closed with the end of the elections by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, Nicaragua surpassed El Salvador as the Central American country with the third highest record of undocumented immigrants, after Honduras and Guatemala. The current exodus of Nicaraguans is even greater than the one caused by the brutal repression of the massive movements against the government in 2018, which caused more than 300 deaths, hundreds of political prisoners, as well as people tortured and missing.
According to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse of Syracuse University, during the 2020 fiscal year, 36% of asylum applications from Nicaraguan citizens were approved, a figure that is above the average for other nationalities. As of October of 2021, more than 34,000 Nicaraguans were waiting to have their cases heard by judges.
During his election campaign, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, promised an in-depth review of the immigration policies of former President Donald Trump, which limited the right to asylum, cut off financing to foreign countries and toughened the requirements to obtain residency and citizenship, which caused immigration arrivals to the country to slow down a bit.
In his first days in office, Biden suspended the construction of the border wall with Mexico, ordered the creation of a work group to reunite minors who were separated from their parents after crossing the border, and gave instructions to review the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program, also known as "Stay in Mexico," under which more than 60,000 asylum seekers were returned to that country to wait for the resolution of their case. However, an analysis done in August of 2021 by the Latin American Strategic Center for Geopolitics (CELAG for the Spanish acronym) noted that Biden's changes "are few and express more continuities than break aways." According to the study, Biden "is not attacking immigration deeply and at the root."
Unlike Central American immigrants from the Northern Triangle (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador) who mainly flee due to gang violence, in Nicaragua they're escaping state violence. However, the United States began deporting a record number of Nicaraguans last year, according to data reviewed by Reuters news agency.
In mid-November, Just The News reported that Nicaraguans who enter the United States with an illegal immigration status wouldn't be deported. However, a few days later, a spokeswoman for the U.S. embassy in Nicaragua stated that the Biden administration "has made it clear that our borders are not open and that individuals and families are subject to border restrictions, including expulsion and deportation." The United States embassy in Nicaragua has been carrying out a campaign against illegal immigration to that North American country for several months, asking people not to make "A Trip in Vain."
An Ordeal that Took a Month and a Half
After his work, Jacksell Herrera dedicates himself to updating the web page he created to share political news from Nicaragua. Courtesy.
Jacksell Herrera, 22, fled from Nicaragua because he was triple persecuted. First, because he worked in the Communications department of the mayor's office in Pantasma, one of the few municipalities opposed to the regime. Second, because he was a human rights defender for the Permanent Commission of Human Rights (CPDH for the Spanish acronym). And third, because he created a web page to publish political news, which is persecuted by the Ortega and Murillo regime.
In December of 2020, Herrera was searched in Managua after he left an interview with Medardo Mairena, one of the presidential candidates who was imprisoned. A month later, the police arrested him and forcefully put him in shackles when he was filming a police attack against opposers. That day, Pantasma's lieutenant, Denis Jarquin, told him, "I'm going to wipe that smile off your face." Herrera felt that it was a death threat. That, in addition to the fact that the Prosecutor's Office opened a judicial proceeding against him and Sandinista military-style groups and police threatened him with assassination every day on Messenger. In addition, one of his sources told him: "They already have your file ready to throw you in jail." All of this caused him to flee the country on August 2, 2021.
Herrera resigned from his job at the mayor's office two weeks before the trip. He got together the $5,000 to pay the coyote who took him to the border with the United States. One of these "guides" for the route to North America told Infobae that they charge $5000 to the border between Mexico and the United States, and $12,000 to be taken to the city of Houston, Texas. To get the full amount of money together, Herrera had to sell some belongings, collect his severance pay and take out a loan.
It took 21 days from the time he left his house in Pantasma until he turned himself in at the U.S. border. Herrera said that 95 percent of the days were full of suffering: hunger, thirst, sleeplessness. Sleeping in moving vehicles, sometimes packed together with people who had to arrange themselves lying on top of each other. On one of those trips, he saw a seven-month-old baby in agony in his mother's arms from dehydration. "They abandoned the trip because they had to go to the hospital in an emergency," he said. Most of the time, the migrant group was transferred to closed warehouses, where they endured heat or cold and tried to sleep on the floor.
Despite all the suffering, Herrera said he was lucky. And he's not far from being right. At the beginning of November 2021, people learned of the stories of Gerleni Jimenez and Maria Teresa Delgadillo, both from Matagalpa, who were kidnapped en route to the United States by a Mexican cartel that asked for $10,000 to free them. The families collected money and finally the girls were released on November 12. DIVERGENTES contacted their relatives, but they didn't want to talk about how the girls were released.
Before crossing the Rio Grande, the coyotes placed this bracelet on Jacksell Herrera and other migrants to identify them as those who were going to surrender to the Border Patrol. Those without armbands went "rodeo," which is, avoiding border authorities. Courtesy.
On January 15, the first caravan of migrants headed mainly by Nicaraguans left Honduras, according to Contracorriente, a news outlet. "Most of this group are Nicaraguan citizens who fled from the Daniel Ortega regime," that news outlet reported. "Nicaragua is going to be empty out like Venezuela," said one of the Nicaraguans who fled in that caravan. According to information in the media and from the governments of Honduras and Guatemala, the caravan was made up of more than 1,000 people and was detained the next day by troops from Guatemala's army and national police force. The Associated Press reported that the agents and soldiers "sprayed tear gas and used their clubs and shields" on the group of migrants who tried to break through a fence along the highway that connects both countries, Honduras and Guatemala, in the Vado Hondo sector.
Several groups of Nicaraguans were in the caravan, composed of up to 16 people, mostly relatives, who said they fled Nicaragua due to the crisis unleashed by the Ortega regime and state violence. This would have been the first large group of foreigners that was going to challenge Joe Biden's Migrant Protection Protocols, eliminated in February of last year but restored in December of 2021.
The region is experiencing a record flow to the United States, whose Customs and Border Protection Office detected more than 1.7 million undocumented immigrants at the border with Mexico by the end of September 2021. Mexico intercepted more than 252,000 undocumented immigrants between January and November of last year and deported more than 100,000 in the same period, according to the Migration Policy Unit of the country's Secretary of State.
"Here I have freedom and security"
Once he turned himself in to the border guard, Jacksell Herrera, the former municipal employee, was sent to different migrant detention centers in Texas. He was confined there for almost a month until he won his case in Immigration and was released on September 17, 2021. Since he had only notified five people about his trip, he wasn't able to say goodbye to his entire family, including his paternal grandfather, who died while he was on his way to the United States. "It was very painful to find out about his death without being able to say goodbye," he said.
Herrera now lives in Indiana, where he works repairing basements. "I decided to come to the United States because I have better opportunities here… Here I do have freedom and security," he said. He still writes news for his web page and collaborates with the Nicaragua Actual platform. "I dream of having my own media outlet," he added.
Hundreds of miles away, in California, Ramon Blandon lives with his aunt and uncle, but not for long, because he hopes to move to another place. "You know: the flower smells [nice] from a distance, but up close, it stinks," he said. He makes a living doing a little of everything: construction, loading and unloading trucks or landscaping. "It's hard to be here, but someone has to make the sacrifice for the family to be well and in this case, it's me," he added. He's not sorry that he went to the United States because "there's nothing more valuable than life" and his was "at risk" in Nicaragua.
This work is part of the special The New Paths of Central American Migration. The following media outlets are part of Otras Miradas: Divergentes, Revista Factum, Contracorriente, Agencia Ocote y La Voz de Guanacaste. It was supported by the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives.
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If, as Wikibon co-founder and CTO David Floyer says, trying to capture and process all the unstructured data flooding enterprises and large government agencies today sometimes makes you feel like "a snake trying to swallow a basketball", the keys to accomplishing that feat are virtualization and collaboration. This is the argument that Richard Snee, marketing VP of EMC's new Enterprise Computing Division, formerly startup Greenplum, made when interviewed by Wikibon CEO and co-founder David Vellante and SiliconAngle founder John Furrier in an interview on Siliconangle.tv from Oracle OpenWorld 2010.
The partnership between the EMC division and CloudEra announced at Oracle OpenWorld is an illustration, Mr. Snee said. CloudEra's Hadoop-based software for capturing, formatting, and managing the tsunami of unstructured data washing over large public and private organizations today is vital to achieving the Greenplum vision of combining data and processing on a massively parallel engine to create the analytic database.
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Hadoop, said Mr. Furrier, grew out of the Yahoo environment, which is characterized by large numbers of small, light apps that generate chunks of data of different kinds – structural, behavioral, etc. By themselves they may not provide much information, but in aggregate they can identify emerging trends, marketing opportunities, highly valuable information, if they can be analyzed quickly to extract that information. Today that kind of environment is becoming generalized in the cloud as users adapt highly mobile platforms such as the iPad, where everything takes the form of small, light apps that users consume as virtual popcorn.
CloudEra and EMC believe they are solving the basic problem of managing unstructured as well as structured data, not just to preserve and search the raw data to meet compliance requirements but to extract useful information to identify business trends and opportunities in real time and support better decision-making. To do that, Mr. Snee says, they have to step back and develop a holistic vision that includes the opportunities as well as the challenges, "and then making thoughtful, incremental steps in providing solutions to your customers."
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"We have been driven by this new community of hard-care data scientists – data rock stars – that are intense about doing deep and powerful analytics, where it's no longer a singular task," he said. "We have a responsibility to provide this framework, whether it is for applications or for people, where there is this connectedness and the ability to leverage one another's work."
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In our newsletter of March 2018 we mentioned the film Adrift, based on a book by Tami Oldham, in which a Trintella 44 named Hazana has an important role. After seeing this film, some of our members have recorded their experiences.
The weather was – as pursuant to previous spring meetings – pleasant: it was sunny and the temperature was lovely, especially on Saturday.
You all remember the story of the Irène, a Trintella Ia, which had been neglected for many years in her home port of Colijnshaven. We have reported on this on many occasions in our Club Magazine, especially on our efforts to track down the owner and get in touch with them to ask them to take better care of the ship. After some time we managed to get in touch with the owners – Alain and Muriël – last March. We, Willem de Graaf, Peter van der Waa and your series coordinator Loet Geldhoff , and the owners, met on the Irène.
All members can be found in the Vriendenboek, together with – where relevant – the names of their partners and boats. It is also possible for members to upload pictures of yourself, your partner and your boat. That makes using Vriendenboek even more effective and attractive.
To stimulate using Vriendenboek, we made it even more attractive!
First TVK Magazine new style is issued.
As succeeder of the old clubmagaziune and together with the digital newsletter a new glossy is now issued. It is for the members as well as for relations in the yachtmarket. The first edition is published this month. Read here the Dutch version. The five articles marked on top with an English and German flag are translated. You can read the English Translation here.
The 49e Springmeeting was this year in the Bataviahaven in Lelystad. For this Ascension Day weekend from 25 until 28 may many members had announced themself. 24 member arrived with their boat and about 75 member shared diner.
Conservation of our sailing Heritage.


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State's top football recruit won't announce his decision today
By Amy Donaldson@adonsports Feb 6, 2019, 10:55am MST
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Orem High School football player Puka Nacua at Orem High School on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018.
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OREM — As thousands of athletes across the country sign contracts accepting scholarships to play collegiate sports, Utah's top football recruit will not be one of them.
Orem High wide receiver and four-star recruit Puka Nacua committed to USC months ago, and just finished back-to-back campus visits to UCLA and Oregon. His signing was among the most anticipated, but fans — and programs, including Utah — will have to wait to see where the 6-foot-2 receiver, ranked No. 22 in the overall class, will play his college football.
His mom, Penina Nacua, sent a text early Wednesday morning saying the family was holding off on announcing the decision because they've been so busy with campus visits, all-star games and life to sit down and thoroughly discuss Puka's options.
"We need more time to break down the information and talk," she said in the text. "We've been too busy and unable to find quality time."
Puka Nacua helped his high school basketball team to a win Tuesday night, but it was his first game with the team since Dec. 8, as he's spent most of the last two months playing in all-star games and taking his official campus visits.
Nacua was the co-MVP of the Polynesian Bowl, as well as the co-Polynesian player of the year, an award he shared with Alabama commit Taulia Tagovailoa. He also played in the Army All-American Bowl, and has been honored with a long list of awards, including Gatorade Player of the Year and the Deseret News' Mr. Football.
He finished his senior season as the top receiver in the country, averaging 166.9 yards per game and 26 total touchdowns.
He also helped the Orem Tigers to their second straight 4A state championship.
Watch: BYU QB signee Jacob Conover throws toe-tapping TD pass to Orem High's Puka Nacua
Mr. Football Puka Nacua has a long list of accolades. The Orem receiver's late father saw it all coming several years ago


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Home> UPMIFA HAWAII ACT 2009
UPMIFA HAWAII ACT 2009
CHAPTER 517E
UNIFORM PRUDENT MANAGEMENT OF INSTITUTIONAL FUNDS ACT
517E-1 Short title
517E-2 Definitions
517E-3 Standard of conduct in managing and investing an
institutional fund
517E-4 Appropriation for expenditure or accumulation of
endowment fund; rules of construction
517E-5 Delegation of management and investment functions
517E-6 Release or modification of restrictions on
management, investment, or purpose
517E-7 Reviewing compliance
517E-8 Application to existing institutional funds
517E-9 Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and
National Commerce Act
[§517E-1] Short title. This chapter may be cited as the Uniform PrudentManagement of Institutional Funds Act. [L 2009, c 135, pt of §1]
[§517E-2] Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwiserequires:
"Charitable purpose" means the relief of poverty, the advancement of education or religion, the promotion of health, the promotion of a governmental purpose, or any otherpurpose the achievement of which is beneficial to the community.
"Community foundation" means a community foundation or community trustrecognized as exempt from federal income tax and referred to in Section 170(c) of theInternal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and which meets the single entity requirements of United States Treasury Regulations Sections 1.170A-9(e)(10-14) adopted thereunder.
"Endowment fund" means an institutional fund or part thereof that, under the terms ofa gift instrument, is not wholly expendable by the institution on a current basis. Theterm does not include assets that an institution designates as an endowment fund for its own use.
"Gift instrument" means a record or records, including an institutional solicitation,under which property is granted to, transferred to, or held by an institution as aninstitutional fund.
"Institution" means:
A person, other than an individual, organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes;
A government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, to theextent that it holds funds exclusively for a charitable purpose; or
A trust that had both charitable and noncharitable interests, after allnoncharitable interests have terminated.
"Institutional fund" means a fund held by an institution exclusively for charitablepurposes. The term does not include:
(1) Program-related assets;
A fund held for an institution by a trustee that is not an institution, unless the fundis held exclusively for the benefit of a community foundation; or
A fund in which a beneficiary that is not an institution has an interest, other thanan interest that could arise upon violation or failure of the purposes of the fund.
"Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership,limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercialentity.
"Program-related asset" means an asset held by an institution primarily toaccomplish a charitable purpose of the institution and not primarily for investment.
"Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is storedin an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. [L 2009, c 135,pt of §1]
[§517E-3] Standard of conduct in managing and investing an institutional fund. (a) Subject to the intent of a donor expressed in a gift instrument, an institution, inmanaging and investing an institutional fund, shall consider the charitable purposes ofthe institution and the purposes of the institutional fund.
In addition to complying with the duty of loyalty imposed by law other than this chapter, each person responsible for managing and investing an institutional fund shallmanage and invest the fund in good faith and with the care an ordinarily prudent personin a like position would exercise under similar circumstances.
(c) In managing and investing an institutional fund, an institution shall:
Incur only costs that are appropriate and reasonable in relation to the assets, thepurposes of the institution, and the skills available to the institution; and
Make a reasonable effort to verify facts relevant to the management andinvestment of the fund.
An institution may pool two or more institutional funds for purposes ofmanagement and investment.
(e) Except as otherwise provided by a gift instrument, the following rules apply:
In managing and investing an institutional fund, the following factors, if relevant,shall be considered:
General economic conditions;
The possible effect of inflation or deflation;
The expected tax consequences, if any, of investment decisions or strategies;
The role that each investment or course of action plays within the overallinvestment portfolio of the fund;
The expected total return from income and the appreciation of investments;
Other resources of the institution;
The needs of the institution and the fund to make distributions and topreserve capital; and
An asset's special relationship or special value, if any, to the charitablepurposes of the institution;
Management and investment decisions about an individual asset shall not bemade in isolation but rather in the context of the institutional fund's portfolio ofinvestments as a whole and an overall investment strategy having risk and returnobjectives reasonably suited to the fund and to the institution;
Except as otherwise provided by law other than this chapter, an institution may invest in any kind of property or type of investment consistent with this section;
An institution shall diversify the investments of an institutional fund unless theinstitution reasonably determines that, because of special circumstances, the purposes of the fund are better served without diversification;
Within a reasonable time after receiving property, an institution shall make andcarry out decisions concerning the retention or disposition of the property or therebalancing of a portfolio, to bring the institutional fund into compliance with thepurposes, terms, and distribution requirements of the institution as necessary to meetother circumstances of the institution and the requirements of this chapter; and
A person who has special skills or expertise, or is selected in reliance upon the person's representation that the person has special skills or expertise, has a duty to usethose skills or that expertise in managing and investing institutional funds. [L 2009, c 135, pt of §1]
[§517E-4] Appropriation for expenditure or accumulation of endowment fund; rules ofconstruction. (a) Subject to the intent of a donor expressed in the gift instrument, aninstitution may appropriate for expenditure or accumulate so much of an endowmentfund as the institution determines is prudent for the uses, benefits, purposes, andduration for which the endowment fund is established. Unless stated otherwise in the gift instrument, the assets in an endowment fund shall be donor-restricted assets untilappropriated for expenditure by the institution. In making a determination to appropriateor accumulate, the institution shall act in good faith, with the care that an ordinarily prudent person in a like position would exercise under similar circumstances, and shallconsider, if relevant, the following factors:
The duration and preservation of the endowment fund;
The purposes of the institution and the endowment fund;
Other resources of the institution; and
The investment policy of the institution.
To limit the authority to appropriate for expenditure or accumulate under subsection (a), a gift instrument shall specifically state the limitation.
Terms in a gift instrument designating a gift as an endowment, or a direction or authorization in the gift instrument to use only "income", "interest", "dividends", or "rents,issues, or profits", or "to preserve the principal intact", or words of similar import:
Create an endowment fund of permanent duration unless other language in thegift instrument limits the duration or purpose of the fund; and
Do not otherwise limit the authority to appropriate for expenditure or accumulateunder subsection (a). [L 2009, c 135, pt of §1]
[§517E-5] Delegation of management and investment functions. (a) Subject to any specific limitation set forth in a gift instrument or otherwise provided by law, an institutionmay delegate to an external agent the management and investment of an institutionalfund to the extent that an institution could prudently delegate under the circumstances.An institution shall act in good faith, with the care that an ordinarily prudent person in alike position would exercise under similar circumstances, in:
(1) Selecting an agent;
Establishing the scope and terms of the delegation consistent with the purposes of the institution and the institutional fund; and
Periodically reviewing the agent's actions to monitor the agent's performance and compliance with the scope and terms of the delegation.
In performing a delegated function, an agent owes a duty to the institution toexercise reasonable care to comply with the scope and terms of the delegation.
An institution that complies with subsection (a) shall not be liable for thedecisions or actions of an agent to which the function was delegated.
By accepting delegation of a management or investment function from aninstitution that is subject to the laws of this State, an agent submits to the jurisdiction ofthe courts of this State in all proceedings arising from or related to the delegation or theperformance of the delegated function.
An institution may delegate management and investment functions to its committees, officers, or employees as authorized by the laws of this State. [L 2009, c 135, pt of §1]
[§517E-6] Release or modification of restrictions on management, investment, or purpose. (a) If the donor consents in a record, an institution may release or modify, inwhole or in part, a restriction on the management, investment, or purpose of aninstitutional fund contained in a gift instrument. A release or modification shall not allow a fund to be used for a purpose other than a charitable purpose of the institution.
The court, upon application of an institution, may modify a restriction containedin a gift instrument regarding the management or investment of an institutional fund ifthe restriction has become impracticable or wasteful, if it impairs the management or investment of the fund, or if, because of circumstances not anticipated by the donor, amodification of a restriction will further the purposes of the fund. The institution shall notify the attorney general of the application, and the attorney general shall be given anopportunity to be heard. To the extent practicable, any modification shall be made inaccordance with the donor's probable intention.
If a particular charitable purpose or a restriction contained in a gift instrument onthe use of an institutional fund becomes unlawful, impracticable, impossible to achieve,or wasteful, the court, upon application of an institution, may modify the purpose of thefund or the restriction on the use of the fund in a manner consistent with the charitable purposes expressed in the gift instrument. The institution shall notify the attorney general of the application, and the attorney general shall be given an opportunity to beheard.
If an institution determines that a restriction contained in a gift instrument on themanagement, investment, or purpose of an institutional fund is unlawful, impracticable,impossible to achieve, or wasteful, the institution, without application to the court, but
with the consent of the attorney general, may modify the purpose of the fund or therestriction on the use of the fund in a manner consistent with the charitable purposes expressed in the gift instrument if the fund subject to the restriction has a total value ofless than $250,000.
If an institution determines that a restriction contained in a gift instrument on themanagement, investment, or purpose of an institutional fund is unlawful, impracticable,impossible to achieve, or wasteful, the institution, sixty days after notification to theattorney general, may release or modify the restriction, in whole or part, if:
The institutional fund subject to the restriction has a total value of less than$50,000;
(2) More than twenty years have elapsed since the fund was established; and
The institution uses the property in a manner consistent with the charitablepurposes expressed in the gift instrument. [L 2009, c 135, pt of §1]
[§517E-7] Reviewing compliance. Compliance with this chapter shall be determinedin light of the facts and circumstances existing at the time a decision is made or action istaken, and not by hindsight. [L 2009, c 135, pt of §1]
[§517E-8] Application to existing institutional funds. This chapter shall apply toinstitutional funds existing on or established after July 1, 2009. As applied toinstitutional funds existing on July 1, 2009, this chapter shall govern only decisions made or actions taken on or after that date. [L 2009, c 135, pt of §1]
[§517E-9] Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.This chapter shall modify, limit, and supersede the Electronic Signatures in Global andNational Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001 et seq., but shall not modify, limit, or supersede Section 101(c) of that Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001(c), or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in Section 103(b) of that Act, 15 U.S.C. Section7003(b). [L 2009, c 135, pt of §1]