In light of the horrific events that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia where racial tensions once again boiled over into violence and tragedy, Pastor Ellery reminded us that racial and socioeconomic difficulties have been transpiring ever since humans have been interacting with each other. Because of our fallen nature, there have always been comparative problems such as belief in God or non-belief, differences in skin color, social and economic divisions, and on and on. Even the newly born church in the New Testament had to deal with this. Paul touched on this while instructing Timothy as seen in the passage shared today from 1 Timothy 2:1-7. The gospel once again provides the answer to this issue as it does for every other issue mankind has to deal with.
The early church was a mixture of races, cultures, social and economic diversity.
Jew, Gentile, rich, poor, slave, free; people from every walk of life were coming together with one common bond - they had been drawn back to God through the gift of the death and resurrection of Jesus that paid the price for sin. Most of the time we tend to re-group with people of similar looks, wealth, and social status, so we sometimes become sterile and impersonally detached to the needs of those different from us. That is why Paul encouraged Timothy to have believers pray for all people, especially for those in authority.
We are fighting battles with evil and injustice – yet, as Martin Luther King Jr. used to say, we fight with different weapons, the weapons of grace. As he said, you can pass laws to force a white man to serve a black man in a restaurant, but you can't pass a law requiring the white man to love the black man. We have higher goals than politics, and you'll never attain those goals through politics alone.
I get concerned when Christians see politics as the answer. Politics is an adversary sport in which you win by slandering your opponent. Jesus showed a different way: Love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you.
The early Christians faced a far more hostile environment in the Roman Empire than we do in the United States today. They set in motion a new community, pioneer settlements of the kingdom of God that could show the world a better way to be human. Tend to the sick, rescue the abandoned babies, free the slaves, love the oppressors, care for the poor – they lived in a new way, and the world took notice.
Laws and politics have never been successful in changing our hearts. We need to remember that regardless of how bad people are to one another, the gospel - the good news of what Jesus did for us - is for all of us. Jesus loves and He died for the white supremacist, even when they burn crosses and harm people just because of the amount of melanin in their skin; He loves and He died for those in the violent fringes of the black lives matter movement, even when they are rioting and looting; He loves and He died for the radical Islamic terrorist, even when they kill in the name of their god.
The truth is that we are all broken and sinful and are in desperate need of the saving grace of Jesus. The world needs to see the example of true Christian community where people of multiple cultural, ethnic, and economic backgrounds can come together in love and unity. That is how we live in a new way, and and that's how the world will take notice.


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 Anatoli Lasarewitsch Kolodkin (1928–2011), russischer Richter

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Casey Morell is an award-winning journalist with work appearing on NPR, the BBC World Service, Orlando Weekly, BBC Radio 4 and elsewhere.
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A winner of the SPJ's prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award and of multiple regional RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Awards, Casey is associate producer & director of NPR's All Things Considered, based in Washington, D.C.
Before joining NPR, he served as coordinating producer and newscast anchor at Nevada Public Radio in Las Vegas, where he worked on the station's daily newsmagazine State of Nevada.
Additionally, he also served as executive producer of Global Journalist, a weekly public television and radio program based in Columbia, Mo., focusing on free press issues and international affairs.
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Last year, 47% of Americans thought companies were heading in the wrong direction, whereas this year, only 38% shared this view. However, while fewer Americans see business heading in the wrong direction, they're still not sure it's heading in the right direction.
More and more, CEOs are taking a stand on issues like gender pay, discrimination, immigration, climate change, gun control, and more. We asked the public what they think about CEOs acting on important social issues.
If given a choice, the majority of working Americans say they would opt to work for a more just company – even if it meant earning less pay (and in some cases, 20% less pay). Even though a question like this is susceptible to social desirability bias, it's a remarkable finding.
We also heard from an overwhelming majority that companies aren't doing enough today, especially when it comes to workers. In particular, the results clearly signaled that Americans felt companies were prioritizing shareholder interests above all.
This year, we also asked Americans: "If you could send one message to the CEOs of America's largest companies on any topic, what would your message be?" We had over 3,000 responses to this question and in over one-third Americans indicated workers should be put first.


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KAZAKHSTAN International Business Magazine �1, 2012
Mission Is Possible
Since 2010 the state program of accelerated industrial innovative development has become the major document, defining the economic policy of Kazakhstan for the next five years. It aims to neutralize the problems of previous similar initiatives and ensure a systematic base for accelerated modernization and diversification of economy. Let us consider the major results of the first two years of SPAIID and plans of the government on its implementation for 2012.
Based on the reports of the Ministry of Industry and new technologies the implementation of the program, which is in fact a major national economic idea, is going quite successfully. Thus, in 2011 we totally finished the update of the entire legal base of domestic industry's functioning. Three new laws were adopted: On state support to industrial innovative activities, On Special economic zones and On energy efficiency and energy saving. Amendments into 30 current legislative acts were introduced. Within two years 13 industrial and 9 functional development programs were adopted. The Plan of rational placement of production capacities and Industrialization Map were approved. The government prepared over 100 instruments in support of business that were arranged under such programs as Productivity 2020 and Business Road map 2020 as well as programs, supporting investors, innovators and exporters. Last year just over thousand Kazakhstani enterprises received support from the state.
The certain optimism is produced by economic figures, described as major target indicators for measuring SPAIID effectiveness. Thus, in 2011 the GDP of Kazakhstan grew by 7.5 % and exceeded 27 trillion tenge (according to program goals, the amount of 23 trillion tenge should have been reached by 2015). Last year the industrial sector of the republic produced output in the amount of 15.7 trillion tenge; at the same time, the quantum index reached 103.5 % by 2010.
It has to be mentioned that the growth rates of the processing industry is significantly ahead of the mining sector dynamics – 6.2% versus 1.3 %. Specifically, the production volume in metallurgy reached 1.9 trillion tenge (+6.5 %), machine building – about 500 billion tenge (+16.8 %), chemical industry – 143 billion tenge (+21.5 %). As a result, the share of the processing industry in GDP structure increased from 10.5% in 2009 to 12.8 % in 2011 (the target indicator of the program – 12.5 %). Meanwhile, we observe a certain decrease of figures in the pharmaceutical and light industries.
Speaking of the labor productivity in the processing sector that must grow by 1.5 times by 2015, according to last year results, its growth reached 32 % (at current prices), compared to 2008.
In 2011 the highest figure for processed goods export in the history of independent Kazakhstan was reported – over $22 billion. This is 1.5 times more than in pre-crisis year of 2007.
The key mechanism and, perhaps, major know-how, distinguishing SPAIID from previous programs, is the Industrialization Map of Kazakhstan, showing a list of certain projects, whose implementation is pursued by the state and to which it is ready to provide targeted support. At the moment, the Map includes 609 projects with a total value of 9.6 trillion tenge, the implementation of which will create over 205 thousand jobs during the construction period and 180 thousand during the exploitation period.
Within two years under the Industrialization Map 389 new plants and factories were launched in the republic: 152 in 2010 and 237 in 2011. Overall, 1.8 trillion tenge were invested in their construction and over 90 thousand permanent jobs were created. According to MINT the biggest effect was reached in the mining sector – 36 projects (9 % of total amount) with an investment volume of 369 billion tenge (20 %) and the creation of 22 thousand (24 %) jobs. It is followed by transport infrastructure – 8 projects (2 %), 471 billion tenge (26 %) and 18 thousand people (20 %), as well as energy – 15 (4 %), 173 billion tenge (10 %), 3.5 thousand people (4 %).
According to the Agency for statistics last year only enterprises, started under SPAIID, produced goods and services for over 510.5 billion tenge. Within this period 106 types of products, previously never produced in Kazakhstan, were developed. These are offshore steel structures, turbine overpasses, composite metal-reinforced plastic pipes, energy saving LED lighting, tableted pharmaceuticals, feed-stuff with added minerals and many other.
Hence, the positive effect from SPAIID implementation is evident, as we say it. However, not everything goes as smooth as it looks in the official statistics. On January 27, 2012 during an expanded session, attended by the members of governments, akims, the management of central state agencies, NDP Nur Otan and SWF Samruk-Kazyna, the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev paid attention to the number of systematic sideways in the process of new industrialization.
Responsible for everything
First of all, the head of the state was discontent with the quality of selection of projects, listed in the Industrialization Map. "Of all implemented projects almost 60 % account for agricultural and construction industries. This is the result of "big" reports. Of 31 big projects, which is nearly 90 % of the total volume of investment in the industrialization Map, only 5 projects are linked to manufacturing finished goods. 11 projects assume of the production of downstream operations outputs. Of 220 implemented projects – 80 % of investment is directed to the oil and gas and mining sectors and infrastructure". In this concern, Nursultan Nazarbayev instructed Prime-Minister Karim Massimov, first deputy Prime-Minister Serik Akhmetov as well as the managers of MINT and JSC Samruk-Kazyna to run an analysis and identify how much each of these projects facilitates the diversification of Kazakhstans economy. The research and development of new projects, targeted at high added value outputs, must be continued.
Asset Issekeshev, the Minister of Industry and new technologies, announced the first conclusions in response to President's critical comments. During the governmental session on February 14 he admitted that the Ministry "unfortunately, has no methodology in statistics by the level of projects quality". In this concern, the Ministry conducted an analysis of Industrialization Map projects by level, so-called conditional technological complexity, including conversion rate, added value, incurred costs, energy ratio, organizational maturity and other parameters. It turned out that of 389 projects, introduced in the first two years of SPAIID, 70 % are classified to 1–3 levels of technological complexity. At the same time, only little over half of the 220 objects, currently being constructed, are classified to 4–5 levels of technological complexity and target manufacturing finished goods. Meanwhile, highly technological projects are mainly initiated by the center while the projects with downstream operations, as a rule, are offered to for implementation by akimats and regional businesses.
The second aspect, raised by the head of the state, having its subordinates on the mat, is insufficient demand for the output of new plants. It has to be mentioned here that out of 389 projects, launched in 2010–2011 only 130 have reached the projected capacity. "I will directly say that positive price structure for our export goods, availability of funds and powerful strengthening of state support to economy significantly undermined the activity of the government and ministries, akimats and national companies at identification of additional sources for growth. It is irresponsible to be satisfied with just the knowledge that another industrial project is finished in the industry and region. Of course the new plant will not develop on its own".
In this sense, the President reminded that according to his instruction ArcelorMittal Company diversified its production, building a rolling plant, while in 2010 it launched a pipe producing plant in the west of Kazakhstan. The President's following phrase characterizes the current situation with sales of ArceloMittal products: "Its products are highly demanded in the international markets, but not procured by national companies. It produces rolls but our builders do not buy rolls and get them abroad. The railroad plant will be constructed, but KTZ will buy railroad externally not domestically".
Another example is KamAZ-engineering car assembly plant in the Akmola Oblast that, in the opinion of Nursultan Nazarbayev, could increase vehicle production by 3–4 times only thanks to the demand by the state sector and national companies. Continuing the topic of developing the domestic automobile industry he said: "The passenger cars are produced in Eastern Kazakhstan while our officials buy foreign brand vehicles. Why would do they not drive our cars? Why do we develop the industry if we do not use it ourselves".
In the light of the last words the figures, presented in the report of the Agency for statistics and related to SPAIID indicators in the part of Kazakhstan content, look very pointed. Thus, its share on goods, procured by the state institutions, dropped from 51.8 % in 2009 to 42.1 % in 2011. The same indicator of the Samruk-Kazyna group of companies dropped from 63 % to 33.6 %, the backbone enterprises – from 43.2 % to 14.2 %, while the subsoil users – from 10.7 % to 9.7 %.
One more reason of no demand for the output of new enterprises is the formal approach at selection of the projects, not considering the needs of real sector. Back in April of last year vice-president of Kazakhstan's Chamber of Commerce Bekzat Kaliyev noted that the issue of limited sales markets for the goods of domestic producers is the second important problem for industrialization Map implementation after lack of financing. "There were cases when in one oblast there were several similar enterprises, producing same type of output. In one oblast there could be either three chipping producing plants or three brick producing plants. Why do we need to support similar enterprises in one oblast? Yes, the competition is needed. But you need to consider that in the post-crisis period the construction boom is over. Tomorrow we will go back to these enterprises and face the problem of selling the goods again".
This way or another, the AIID program operators promised to correct all mistakes, articulated by the head of the state. At the same time, the key role in "correction of mistakes" will be played by local authorities. First of all, they must define competitive advantages and priorities of regional development. Secondly, they need to ensure comprehensive connection of local projects with the national socio-economic programs. Thirdly, in cooperation with the government they need to develop measures on strengthening interregional cooperation, both domestically and under SEP.
Therefore, beginning of 2012 the major accent in SPAIID implementation will be addressed in the regions. According to the instruction of Nursultan Nazarbayev from now on the issues of industrialization and investment will be managed by special deputy akims that will be sent by MINT from the pull of the Bolashak program graduates. They will closely cooperate with the ministry and manage the industrialization process development in the fields. We can only hope that such measures will let us overcome the lobbying of projects by local authorities that are not always linked to industrial and territorial priorities.
Megaprojects from the Center
According to Asset Issekeshev, the government level work under the framework of SPAIID will be continued mainly in two directions.
First of all, the further formation and implementation of the systematic industrial policy considering establishment of SEP, entrance of Kazakhstan into WTO and the risk of facing a financial crisis. The major goal of this policy remains strengthening the competitiveness of national business, modernization and reconstruction of current industrial base, activation of processes, targeted at raising the labor productivity, energy efficiency and, in general, sustainable economic development.
Secondly, general coordination of investment projects implementation under the Industrialization Map. The government promises to strengthen work on 220 currently constructed projects, for each of which there will be a personal responsibility of the first manager of the agency or national company. As a result, until the end of 2012 MINT is planning to ensure the launch of 130 new enterprises. The program operators have started an update of the industrialization Map. At the same time, the project selection will be tightened, while the initiating private companies are expected to have appropriate competence, understandable business strategy as well as sustainable and competitive business models.
A special control is put over implementation of 11 industrial and infrastructure megaprojects, whose launch was assigned by the head of the state in his message to the people of Kazakhstan in January of 2012. Overall, it is expected to invest over 4.5 billion tenge and create over 150 thousand jobs there.
The first project is the construction of a chemical plant, producing compound fertilizers in the Zhambyl oblast, whose investor is OJSC MHK Eurochim – the biggest Russian producer of mineral fertilizers. The facilities of JSC Sary-Tas phosphoric pellet producing plant that was stagnant for over 15 years were sleeted for project implementation. This will allow to establish the production of enrichment of phosphates from the Karatau basin field and start the production of phosphoric, complex and azotic mineral fertilizers with the volume of over 1.4 million tons per year. This will let not only cover the needs of domestic agricultural producers, but also supply finished goods to neighboring countries and beyond. Overall, Eurochim will invest $2.4 billion in the project; at the same time, during the active construction phase up to 4 thousand experts for building and assembly will be attracted. The launch of the enterprise is scheduled to 2017. Asset Issekeshev notes that today they resolved the issue of supplying the production capacities with natural gas, signed the contract with French TECHNIP MINES Company for development of best schemes for ore pretreatment, concentrating and processing of mined ore, have started preliminary work on preparation of a detailed feasibility study of the project. This year it is necessary to prepare the fields to stripping works, rebuild the infrastructure, including automobile and rail ways, build 11 kilometers of power transmission lines, run technical observation of buildings and facilities of the plant as well as to get the terms of references for design.
The second "old new" megaproject is the construction of the Atyrau integrated gas chemical plant with the cost of $6.3 billion that was announced in 2005 and moved to SPAIID from previous program documents. The plant will produce 500 thousand tons of propylene and 800 thousand tons of polyethylene – an output that has never previously been produced in our republic. According to Dauren Erdebay, the CEO of United Chemical company LLC, the project is split into two phases: 2010–2014 and 2011–2016. The contract for the first phase is the turnkey construction project and it was signed with Chinese Sinopec Engineering Company. Korean LG Chemicals experts will be attracted to the implementation of the second phase. A Gas chemical plant is the core project of the Atyrau Oblast FEZ that creates the foundation for other projects implementation: construction of an ammonium-carbamide plant as well as cyclohexane and polyutherane production.
National Company KazMunayGas is involved in implementation of three megaprojects, specified by the President. First is the construction of a deep oil conversion plant at the Atyrau OPP that will allow expanding the balanced capacity of the crude oil processing plant to 5.5 million tons per year by 2016, increase the output of light oil products to 77 % and improve the quality of fuel to the level of Euro-4 and Euro-5 standards. The cost of construction is estimated at $1.68 billion. According to NC KMG head Lyazzat Kiinov all the issues of attracting debt financing will be resolved by the company in May of this year. As the state support measures KMG counts on inclusion of expenses on resettling the residents in sanitary protection territory zone of the Atyrau oil refinery, expanded under this project implementation, in the budget of the Atyrau oblast for 2012–2014.
Other two projects of KMG are closely linked with each other and cover the gasification of Astana and central regions of Kazakhstan. In 2012 it is planned to resolve the financing issues and start the construction of the Kartaly – Tobol Kokshetau – Astana gas pipeline (with outlets to the cities of Karaganda and Petropavlovsk) with a capacity to 6 billion cubic meters per year. The total cost of the first line gasification project will reach 328.7 billion tenge. Mr. Kiinov said that the gasification of the northern regions makes sense only in the case of financing from state budget since the project implementation, based exclusively on market mechanisms, will not allow to ensure acceptable gas price level for final customers.
The Karachaganak gas processing plant, whose capacity will reach 5 billion cubic meters, will be the source of natural gas for the future gas pipeline. The construction of this plant is estimated by KMG at $3.736 billion. This year the company is planning to get feedback on the feasibility study from state agencies, define the project documentation with the developer as well as finish the design. As Mr. Kiinov specified there are two options for implementation of the first line of the project that were proposed by ENI and Petrofac companies. "According to ENI, the implementation term and cost – 2015–2019 and $4.9 billion; according to Petrofac – 2013–2016 and $2.5 billion". It is necessary to start negotiations on ensuring the raw material supply for the gas processing plant from the Karachaganak field that, in the opinion of KMG head, is "one of key issues".
The infrastructure block of the projects, mentioned by the head of the state in his message, includes the construction of two new railway spurs and the Kazakhstani part of the Western Europe – Western China automobile corridor. The implementation of the last one started three years ago. Nursultan Nazarbayev informed that works on construction of the automobile highway with the cost of 875 billion tenge need to be accomplished next year. However, later on the Minister of transport and communications Askar Zhumagaliyev said that the last 465 kilometers of the road will be finished only in 2015.
The construction of the Zhezkazgan – Beyneu and the Arkalyk – Shubarkol railways is managed by JSC NC Kazakhstan Temir Zholy. According to the company President Askar Mamin, these projects have strategic importance and will significantly raise the export and transit potential of Kazakhstan. The total length of the Zhezkazgan – Beyneu line will reach 988 kilometers. The standard duration of the construction is 45 months at a cost of 591 billion tenge. The project implementation will involve over 10 thousand people while the operational staff will reach about 3 thousand employees. The length of the Arkalyk – Shubarkol line is 214 kilometers while its cost is 135 billion tenge. The construction will involve over 2 thousand people while the exploitation period will need 600 people. The start of both projects is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2012. Mr. Mamin emphasized that, considering total absence of the infrastructure, significant farness and underdeveloped state of the regions, first of all, it is necessary to build the facilities of external power supply, run the mobilization of equipment, organize rotation camps and prepare the territory. Both projects must be completed in 2016.
JSC Samruk-Energo is responsible for the construction of the Balkhash steam power plant with a capacity of 1320 megawatt and cost of $2.3 billion. According to Almasadam Satkaliyev, the Chairman of its board of directors, the negotiations with the consortium of KEPCO and Samsung companies are already completed on major project agreements. At the moment, the construction and assembly operations on the preparatory phase facilities are in progress: the expansion of the Karaotkol railway station, modernization of the road approach and construction of the technical water conduit. Meanwhile, the President of Kazakhstan assigned to start the construction of the first module of the Balkhash steam power plant this year that will ensure additional production of over 9 billion kWh of electricity and resolve the problem of an energy deficit in the southern regions of the republic.
Two projects, directly supervised by the Ministry of industry and new technologies, target at the development of world class ski resorts. The first one – near Almaty, another one – in the Burabay recreational area.
Asset Issekeshev informed that the Burabay project targets at 12 years and 7 consecutive phases. At the moment, the first of the phases is being implemented – Burabay Lakes Resort Hotel that assumes the construction of the hotel with 402 rooms, SPA and healthcare center. These facilities will be launched in the fall of this year. The preliminary cost of this phase is about $90 million.
The Kok Zhaylau project plans the construction of a ski resort in the Zaili Alatau with the length of the ski slopes to 500 kilometers as well as building the utility systems in the major facilities of the resort. The cost of building the infrastructure will reach about 112 billion tenge. Another over $2 billion will be attracted as commercial investment in the construction of the hotels. The ministry is planning to complete the feasibility study and systematic development plan in the fourth quarter of this year while next year the works on design and construction of the external networks will be initiated.
Concluding, it would be useful to emphasize that the fact of including the above-mentioned megaprojects in the message of the President shows that despite the number of current problems this year all of them, this way or another, will enter their active phase. Moreover, the President already insisted on revising the state budget and allocation of additional money from the National Fund for their implementation. Considering the scale and capital intensity of these constructions as well as the needs in goods, works and service for their implementation, one can confidently say that AIID program in fact received new powerful growth points that, in their turn, will launch other (although not such big) projects of new industrialization.
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Industrial-Innovation Activity: the Legal Mechanism of State Support Madina Sypataeva, Aygerim Seyfulina
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Space Altitudes of a Titanic Giant
Financial Market: Healthy or Sick? Editorial
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A turquoise blue glazed 6 tile/teapot stand designed by CFA Voysey of a demon portrait (in reality a caricature self portrait) and manufactured by JC Edwards of Ruabon, North Wales, c1900.
Voysey utilised this demon/devil caricature also as bookends, stone carved architectural pieces and his Demon wallpaper. Also compare with the standard lamp we have with similar devilish piercings.
For reference see: Fired Earth 1000 Years of Tiles in Europe published by Richard Dennis, page 129.
An example exist in the Ironbridge Gorge Museum collection.


The Commission for Gender Equality of the City of Belgrade joined the FemCities network in summer 2011. In March 2012 the Commission and the Belgrade City Administration organised a conference on the "Development of Local Mechanisms for Gender Equality in the City of Belgrade" and invited representatives of the City of Vienna to share their experiences and best practices. At the conference, Ursula Bauer, Head of Section Gender Mainstreaming of the City of Vienna, and Martina K. Sommer, FemCities Coordinator and Officer at the Vienna Women's Department, held presentations on successful Gender Mainstreaming initiatives in the City of Vienna, as well as on the development and main activities of the City of Vienna Women's Department.


Lucinda Wells has an MA in Photography and a BA (Hons) Fine Art. She is an artist, educator and facilitator. For the past five years she has been Subject Leader developing an HND in Photography at Sussex Coast College Hastings with her team (Alex Brattell and Nigel Green, PhD). Before SCCH she spent seven years as Senior Lecturer in Photography and Video at De Montfort University, Leicester.
Winner of the Oxford Brookes Memorial Prize, shortlisted for the Jerwood Photography Award and selected for the East Sussex Open 2014 at Towner Art Gallery. Her work has been screened at APT Gallery, Lux Gallery, Candid Projection Room, Harley Gallery, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Broadway Cinema, Electric Palace Cinema, Brighton Cinematheque, OX1 Festival and Wirksworth Festival and she has exhibited widely, receiving commissions for numerous projects and residencies in the UK with a broad variety of communities of all ages and abilities.


I am a child and adolescent psychiatrist and my work focuses on rapid stabilization of children in acute distress due to various mental health disorders. The goal of my research is to identify predictors of mental health crises in at risk youth in order to prevent relapse as well as detecting early signs of departure from stable baseline. We use descriptive, comparative, and inferential statistical models as well as statistical and machine learning technologies and methods to understand patterns of crisis development in children and adolescents with chronic psychiatric disorders.
Our study identifies specific vulnerability periods for individuals with Internalizing and externalizing disorders. This can help to develop preventative measures to decrease psychiatric crises and consequently emergency admissions during these periods. It could potentially help mental health policymakers as well as community care providers including outpatient psychiatrists to plan for adequate supportive measures to mitigate the impact of mounted stress during the academic year, as well as lack of school structure for these two specifically vulnerable cohorts of patients.
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Neurocognitive Deficits, Along with Negative and Disorganized, Symptoms, Predict Impaired Social Functioning in Subjects At Risk for Psychosis. The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience (Sep 2011), (Ali Eslami, C. Jahshan, K. Shafer, I. Marks, K.S. Cadenhead).
Alcohol Administration to Volunteers Taking Tamoxifen. RSA 2005 (Feb 2005), (Ali Eslami, George Kenna, Robert Swift).
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Dave Anderson • October 23, 2018
Former New Hampshire governor John H. Sununu defended the views of climate skeptic Bjorn Lomborg last week during the Portsmouth Conference, a controversial event held in a coastal region of the state that faces risks from climate change impacts like sea level rise.
Lomborg, a Danish political scientist, is an outspoken skeptic of the International Panel on Climate Change and an opponent of the Paris Agreement. Citizens Count, which organized the Portsmouth Conference, hyped Lomborg's appearance in a press release before the event.
"According to conference panelist Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, President of Copenhagen Consensus Center and visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School, current policies that address climate change cost more than the actual problem," the press release said.
Lomborg headlined the opening evening of the conference, where he deployed this same misleading line of attack against the Paris Agreement, carbon pricing, and renewable energy sources like solar and wind power that are increasingly cost competitive with fossil fuels.
During the Q&A session that followed his opening presentation, Lomborg faced tough questions from an audience that paid $250 to attend a "civil and open dialogue" on climate change solutions.
Photo of Bjorn Lomborg and moderator Kevin Fay at the Portsmouth Conference by the Energy & Policy Institute.
One member of the audience pointed to a recent report by the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate that found, "Low-carbon growth could deliver economic benefits of US$26 trillion to 2030 – and this is a conservative estimate."
Moderator Kevin Fay, who was involved in negotiating the successful Montreal Protocol that phased out the use of ozone-depleting substances, also cautioned against ignoring the benefits of climate action.
Fay said that "the statistics can be very misleading" and pointed to people like "the Bangladesh residents who are about to get wiped out by storms" who would benefit from efforts to address climate change.
"I think we've got to be careful in terms of letting the data lose the effort to build momentum," Fay said.
Sununu rose in defense of Lomborg.
"I think what Bjorn has offered here is a pathway to try to get a consensus," Sununu said.
The former governor went on to say:
I think what we need to do is to take the kind of recommendations that Bjorn has put on the table, and understand it may not deal with the calamity perspective that everybody that is so eager to see a solution to climate change, whatever it be, and recognize that there are rational approaches to do this that don't require you to accept the end of the world scenario that people have put forward.
Photo of John H. Sununu at the Portsmouth Conference by EPI
In reality, opposing the Paris Agreement imperils decades of work to build an international consensus on how to address climate change. The U.S. is now the only nation in the world that does not support the agreement.
The Portsmouth Conference itself sparked considerable controversy when it became clear its lineup would be dominated by skeptics of climate change and renewable energy like Lomborg, leading the City of Portsmouth and researchers at the University of New Hampshire to withdraw their support for the event.
Sununu also joined Lomborg in attacking the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate report:
And I think this as an opening comment, an opening presentation on the kind of sessions we're supposed to have here, is right on target, and frankly I think the points he made right at the very end here, relative to the game people like to play like throwing 26 trillion dollars on the table and getting a headline at an appropriate time is exactly the kind of stuff that is going to prevent good to come, and somebody ought to be telling those folks that if they think they are helping their cause they're out of their mind.
Sununu's remarks at the event add another page to his long legacy of climate denial, which dates at least as far back as his time serving in the administration of George H.W. Bush, a history recently revisited by the New York Times.
Among the sponsors of the Portsmouth Conference was Optima Bank, which received a start-up investment from Sununu in 2007. Sununu's sons James and Michael, who is also a climate skeptic, currently serve on Optima Bank's board of directors. Daniel Morrison, the bank's CEO, has contributed money to the campaigns of Chris Sununu, the current Republican governor of New Hampshire and son of the former governor.
Claude Roessiger was one of the organizers of the Portsmouth Conference. Roessiger is a maker of high-end packaging products who has done battle with environmentalists. He has also written a book and a number of opinion pieces skeptical of climate change and renewable energy.
Another chief organizer of the event was Renee Plummer, a local Republican activist who has contributed money to Chris Sununu's campaigns.
Climate change and the race for governor in New Hampshire
Last year, after President Trump announced his plan to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, the White House published an excerpt from a New York Post editorial supporting Trump's decision that cited Bjorn Lomborg's work.
The Republican governors of Massachusetts and Vermont were among the leaders who had called on Trump to maintain the nation's commitment to the Paris Agreement. But Governor Chris Sununu refused to join with other states that pledged to do their part to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement after Trump's announcement.
"I don't know for sure," Governor Sununu said last summer when asked by NHPR if he believed that carbon dioxide emissions are the leading cause of climate change.
Since then, Governor Sununu has released an energy plan that made little mention of climate change and was applauded by the Koch-backed group Americans for Prosperity for its opposition to "subsidies" for renewable energy. He also vetoed a pro-renewable energy bill to expand net metering that was opposed by the utility Eversource, another contributor to his campaigns.
"We can't ignore the threat of climate change," Molly Kelly, the Democratic candidate for governor, Tweeted earlier this month in response to a new report from the IPCC that underscored the need for urgent action to meet the Paris Agreement's target of limiting global warming to under 2℃.
"As #nhgov, I will move away from fossil fuels and promote clean, renewable energy that creates jobs, lowers rates and protects our environment," Kelly's Tweet continued. "Following Eversource's agenda will not get us where we need to go."
Kelly, who has refused to accept campaign contributions from corporations, has also made her support for the net metering bill vetoed by Governor Sununu a centerpiece of her campaign.
While energy issues have been the subject of some debate in the campaign, climate change has received relatively little attention heading into Wednesday's live NHPR forum with Sununu and Kelly.
A report released earlier this year by the Union of Concerned Scientists warned that by 2045, rising seas could put $645 million worth of residential property in the seacoast region of New Hampshire at risk of chronic flooding.
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Dave Anderson is the policy and communications manager for the Energy and Policy Institute. Dave has been working at the nexus of clean energy and public policy since 2008. Prior to joining the Energy and Policy Institute, he was an outreach coordinator for the climate and energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. He is also an alumnus of the Sierra Club and the Alliance for Climate Protection (now the Climate Reality Project). Dave's research has helped to spur public scrutiny of political attacks on clean energy and climate science by powerful special interests, such as ExxonMobil and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). His work has been cited by major media outlets, such as CBS News and the Wall Street Journal, and he has served as a speaker on panels at national solar industry conferences. Dave holds a MA in Political Science from the University of New Hampshire, where he also received a BA in Humanities.
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So one Saturday I was emptying the book drop and Claire North's The End of the Day was on the top of the pile of books. I looked at the dust jacket and thought it sounded intriguing. There was work to be done though so I checked it in and put it on the shelving cart. A couple weeks ago I was walking through the New Books Room looking for a miss-shelved book when I saw it again. At this point I decided it was some kind of sign so I grabbed it and took it home.
Charlie, the main character, has a new job. He's the Harbinger of Death. He checks the calendar on his phone and it tells him who he has to see and when. He might have to bring a bottle of whisky to the last know speaker of a native language or bring a first edition picture book to a dying child in a hospital. He never knows from one day to the next where he's going or what his going means. Because he's the Harbinger of Death you don't know if he's there as a courtesy to let you know the end is neigh or a warning to change your ways in the hope Death will pass you by.
Then there's Death and all of his friends. He or She or it (depends on who you expect to see) is a Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Death. He believes in giving credit where credit is due thus the need for a Harbinger of Death. There are also Harbingers of Pestilence, War, and Famine who go out and do the work for their respective horsemen.
The book is almost a character study. We follow Charlie as he encounters all of these people and situations. The stories that surround his work are alternately sweet, sad, touching and even horrifying. There is also his struggle to have a normal social life. How do you have a relationship when you never know when you'll be home? Also as he travels he indulges his hobbies of collecting music and obscure soccer team shirts. There is not much of a plot but that doesn't really bother me since I don't read for plot so much a place and character. There are loads of that.


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FINAL PLENARY SESSION September 25, 2015
FINAL PLENARY SESSION September 25, 2015.
Topics for discussion:
Improving the legislation on high-rise construction: milestones.
Construction as a trigger of economic development and industrial growth of Russian regions and cities.
Approval of the updated edition of "Roadmap for High-rise and Unique Construction Development in the Russian Federation."
MODERATOR'S OPENING REMARKS
Aleksandr Gubskiy, "Vedomosti" business daily
Welcome remarks
Denis V.Pasler, Chairman of the Sverdlovsk Oblast Government
Welcome speech
Elena O. Sierra, Deputy Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation
Expert remark
Arkady M. Chernetsky, Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Aleksander E. Yakob, Head of Administration of the City of Ekaterinburg
SPEECHES AND COMMENTS OF EXPERTS AND MODERATORS OF KEY SESSIONS
Aleksander V. Kuzmin,President of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences, General Director of "Stroitelstvo" Scientific Research Center
Svetlana G.Loginova, General Director of CNIIEP of the RF Ministry of Construction
Dmitriy V.Mikheev, director of the Federal Center for regulation, standardization and technical conformity assessment in construction
Vladimir I. Travush, Deputy General Director in charge of science of CJSC "Urban Planning Institute of Residential and Public Buildings", Vice-President of Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences
Oleg A. Shuliatyev, Deputy Director in charge of Research at the Gersevanov R&D Institute for Underground Structures and Facilities
Dmitriy V.Klimov, Executive Director of CNIIEP of the RF Ministry of Construction
Anatoliy A. Magay, Director in charge of Science at Central Research and Engineering Institute for Residential and Public Buildings
Alexander N. Kolubkov, Vice-president of ABOK Association
Yuri M.Glukhovenko, President of NP National Firefighting Society
ANNOUNCEMENT OF RESULTS/ FINAL REMARKS


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January 14, 2017 by whmacken2013	- 0 comments
Creating A New Blue Bubble
One week after Donald Trump's inauguration, editors from CNN, Slate, Univision, The New Yorker, and The Huffington Post plan to huddle for a discussion on how to cover the Trump presidency.
The collusion has begun.
"Join Slate for a conversation with top editors in New York about how the news media can and should proceed to cover the Trump presidency," says an e-mail making its way around the major media universe. "The panel will discuss strategies they are implementing at their outlets, and how journalists and media companies at large can play a bigger role in making sure that fact prevails over fiction in the coming months and years."
The e-mail, reported by Mediaite, says proceeds from the Jan. 25 event at the NYU Skirball Center will go to the Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonprofit dedicated to the global defense of press freedom. This is the same committee actress Meryl Streep urged people to support in her controversial Golden Globe remarks.
Slate is bringing the media together to advance a liberal post-election agenda, just as the Democratic Party is using the confirmation process for Trump's cabinet nominees as a first step in a rebuilding effort.
"That effort includes getting opposition research and outside messaging groups into high gear, fundraising off of certain confirmation hearing highlights or controversies regarding some nominees, and coming up with a way to paint the administration they will run against in four years in an unflattering light," said Caitlin Huey-Burns in Real Clear Politics.
The gathering is consistent with a call by New York Times media columnist Jim Rutenberg for reporters to present "a united front".
A united front for press freedom is an admirable goal. A united front to attack a presidency is not.
But if you regularly follow Slate, Univision, The New Yorker, and The Huffington Post, they are already consistent in their disparagement of Trump and his coterie of advisers and supporters.
The current New Yorker, for example, has a cover portraying Trump as a child taking off in the family car with the hope he'll be apprehended before he can do too much damage.
The magazine itself features multiple stories denigrating Trump and his allies. One accuses Trump of being "a clumsy bigfoot" with his comments on contributions to his campaign from an L.L. Bean family member. Other stories lambaste Trump's inaugural festivities, liken Trump to Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonalds, in an upcoming movie that "conspires to smooth any wrinkles of villainy", and take on Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist and Trump supporter, in an odd piece about his views on Star Trek vs. Star Wars,
This all reminds me of the much-maligned JournoList, a private Google Groups forum for discussing politics and the media with membership consisting of 400 left-leaning journalists, pundits, academics and others. The forum, active during 2007-10, was accused of encouraging and facilitating coordinated messaging supporting liberal views, though many critics asserted any conspiracy theory was overblown.
JournoList did display, however, the inclination for the progressive community to bond over common political and personal biases. The new Slate-driven consortium of progressive publications is likely to head in the same direction, reinforcing their blue bubble as they battle Trump and his policies.
As Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan wrote shortly after the election:
"Much of the mainstream, legacy media continues its self-disgrace. Having failed to kill Donald Trump 's candidacy they will now aim at his transition. Soon they will try to kill his presidency."
April 12, 2014 by whmacken2013	- 0 comments
I just can't keep up; who am I supposed to deplore now?
It's just getting hard to keep up.
So many people with so many different points of view is proving to be a real conundrum.
Brandeis University recently invited Ayaan Hirsi Ali,
a visiting fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute , a campaigner for women's rights and a critic of intolerance, to receive an honorary degree at the school's commencement on May 18.
Some of her comments allege a link between Islam and mistreatment of women. "The connection between violence, particularly violence against women, and Islam is too clear to be ignored," she said in a Wall Street Journal piece. "We do no favors to students, faculty, nonbelievers and people of faith when we shut our eyes to this link, when we excuse rather than reflect."
An outcry of opposition to her appearance arose from some Brandeis students and The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil rights and advocacy group. "She is one of the worst of the worst of the Islam haters in America, not only in America, but worldwide," Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council, told the New York Times.
Unwilling to face the heat, Brandeis cancelled its invitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali. "We cannot overlook that certain of her past statements are inconsistent with Brandeis University's core values," the university, that bastion of free speech and academic inquiry, said in a statement explaining its decision.
So, if Ayaan Hirsi Ali comes to Portland to speak, should I go and listen or publicly deplore her, start a social media campaign against her and urge that everybody boycott her appearance?
I've also been reading about how upset some people are with Chauncy Childs, the owner of a planned Moreland Farmers Pantry in Sellwood. When it was discovered that she'd posted comments on Facebook about her opposition to same-sex marriage, some folks went ballistic.
Chauncy Childs
According to The Oregonian, the outrage even extended to people who came to Childs' defense. "The idea of blacklisting and boycotting people for their thoughts and beliefs, as opposed to their actions leads to a world that is less tolerant, less caring and more segregated," Nick Zukin, co-founder of Kenny and Zuke's delis, told The Oregonian. Gay rights activist Byron Beck lambasted Zukin and urged people to boycott his businesses, too.
"They're choosing to open a business in a very open-minded neighborhood," Tom Brown, president of the Sellwood Westmoreland Business Alliance, said without apparent irony to The Oregonian. "I think their personal views are going to hurt."
Given this situation, should I stop by the Moreland Farmers Pantry if I'm in the neighborhood or deplore its owner's views and pass it by?
And, by the way, I'm debating whether to install the Firefox browser on my laptop, but I'm conflicted.
Not long ago it was discovered that Brendan Eich, the newly appointed CEO of Mozilla, developer of the open source browser, Firefox, donated $1,000 in 2008 to support the campaign for Proposition 8, a California ballot proposition that aimed to ban gay marriage in California.
The donation was uncovered in 2012 when Eich was Mozilla's Chief Technology Officer, but it didn't become a huge controversial public issue until he was appointed CEO in late March 2014.
At that point Eich came under heavy fire from some Mozilla employees, gay-rights activists, executives of companies active in the Firefox marketplace and others.
Will Oremus, senior technology writer at Slate, said Eich's departure was a sign of the times.
"There was a time when supporting gay marriage made you a radical," Oremus wrote. "Then there was a time when it made you a progressive. Now we've reached a point where not (emphasis in the original) supporting gay marriage makes you unfit to lead a major Silicon Valley organization."
The National Organization for Marriage, initially created to support Proposition 8, has jumped into the fray, too. It has called for a boycott of Firefox "to protest the company forcing out its CEO over his support of Proposition 8." A conservative website, TruthRevolt.org, has urged people to uninstall the Firefox browser in protest of "Mozilla's decision to fire Eich." (Note: Eich resigned)
Others took the anti-Eich crowd to task for attempting to quell free speech and silence those who hold dissenting views.
So, what do I do? Should I deplore Mozilla for giving in to the pressure of the crowd and intentionally get a Firefox browser or should I bond with the critics of Eich's donation and boycott Mozilla products?
And while I'm thinking about it, what should I do about all the other companies whose employees, including some executives, made donations in support of Proposition 8?
FiveThirtyEight put together a table of thousands of dollars of Prop. 8 donations by major Silicon Valley companies that showed money coming from employees of firms such as Google, Apple, Intel, Oracle and Yahoo.
A further analysis of the data showed that 83 percent of the donations by Californians were in opposition to Proposition 8, but there was a lot of variation between companies. At one big tech company based in California 60 percent of employee donations were in support of Proposition 8.
Should I deplore that company, maybe boycott its products?
Oh, I almost forgot Chick-fil-A. You may remember how, in 2012, the chain's president, Dan Cathy, was reported to have said, ""We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit…We want to do anything we possibly can to strengthen families." His comments spawned outrage among some gay rights activists and politicians and calls for a boycott of Chick-fil-A.
Dan Cathy
I know there aren't any Chik-fil-A's in Oregon, but if I come across one out of state can I stop for a bite to support free speech or am I still supposed to be deploring them?
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While hybrid and electric cars have become a common sight on our roads, there's another alternative that's much harder to spot: the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (FCV).
While several automakers are working on them, only a few have made it to the North American market. Hyundai's Tucson FCV is available to lease in limited quantities in British Columbia, while Californians can drive Toyota's Mirai, and will be getting the Honda Clarity later this year.
The biggest issue is the chicken-and-egg situation of refuelling infrastructure. It's tough to build hydrogen stations when there aren't enough cars that need them, and people won't buy the cars because there aren't enough places to fill them up. But they're still a fascinating technology, and have the potential to become as popular as electrics or hybrids, at the very least, once the fuel is widely available.
The Tucson FCEV gets refueled at Metro Vancouver's only public hydrogen station, located at Powertech Labs in Surrey
FCVs are electric vehicles, but unlike those that need to be plugged in, they generate their own power using on-board fuel cell stacks. Like electrics and hybrids, they contain storage batteries and use regenerative braking to capture the kinetic energy otherwise lost during deceleration, then store it as electricity. However, the storage battery is generally only used to provide extra power during starting or hard acceleration.
A fuel cell consists of an anode and a cathode, separated by a thin membrane that looks like a piece of cellophane. Hydrogen from the vehicle's tank is pumped into the anode side, while air, which contains the oxygen necessary to the process, is sent into the cathode side.
The electricity is created through a chemical process. The hydrogen reacts with a catalyst at the anode, splitting into positively charged ions and negatively charged electrons. Only the positively charged ions can get through the membrane, and they pass through unimpeded to the cathode. But the electrons have to make their way over via an external circuit, creating an electrical current.
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Once the electrons and ions make their way to the cathode, they combine with the oxygen to create water, which is channelled away. Along with heat, water is the only byproduct of the process, and the only emission that comes out of the tailpipe is water vapour.
An average fuel cell only creates about one volt of electricity, and so multiple ones are packed together to make a fuel cell stack capable of providing enough power for a vehicle. The stack includes modules that control the flow of hydrogen and water, along with the coolant needed to regulate the temperature in the fuel cells, but there are no moving parts.
Rather than a gas tank, a fuel cell vehicle has a hydrogen tank. Refuelling takes less than five minutes — comparable to filling a conventional gasoline vehicle — and while mileage depends on how you drive, Hyundai says its Tucson FCV gets more than 400 kilometres to a tank. But for those who don't get subsidies, FCVs are not cheap to fill. According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), hydrogen is currently $13 to $16 (US) per kilogram. Further research is underway to bring it down to less than $4 per kilogram by 2020.
A kilo of hydrogen has roughly the same energy density as a gallon of gasoline, but the DOE says it'll take you almost twice as far, because a fuel cell is twice as efficient as a gas engine. Hydrogen can be burned in an internal combustion engine, a process BMW tested several years ago in its experimental Hydrogen 7 sedan, but it's far more efficient when used in a fuel cell.
The cars themselves aren't cheap, either, primarily because their systems don't have the benefit of volume production as gasoline engines do. The starting MSRP on a Toyota Mirai is $57,500 (US), almost $33,000 more than a base Prius.
And while nothing more than water comes out the tailpipe, there's still a question of how environmentally friendly the hydrogen itself is. It occurs naturally, but to obtain enough at reasonable cost, it has to be separated from other elements. There are several ways of doing this, but currently, most hydrogen is made from natural gas, which uses a fossil fuel and generates carbon dioxide. Some companies also make it from wood, in a process called charcoal gasification, which creates hydrogen and carbon monoxide.
Of course, it can also be made by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, but right now, that process can be four times pricier than using natural gas. It also requires electricity, and in the United States, about 33 per cent of power generation uses coal. Along with hydrogen cars themselves, the process for making their fuel has to evolve as well.
Many years ago, I asked an auto executive why his company, which was experimenting with several types of alternative fuels, was spreading itself over so many. "We don't know what's going to be the one, and we want to be ready when we find out," was his reply. Whether hydrogen will be the fuel that takes us to the next level remains to be seen, but the fact that these vehicles are actually on the road means it's at least a viable challenger.
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Anolis beckeri est une espèce de sauriens de la famille des Dactyloidae.

Répartition
Cette espèce se rencontre au Nicaragua, au Honduras, au Guatemala, au Belize et au Mexique au Quintana Roo, au Yucatán, au Campeche, au Tabasco, au Chiapas et au Veracruz.

Description
L'holotype de Norops beckeri mesure  dont  pour la queue. Cette espèce a le dos gris tacheté de petites points blanc pur et présentant un réseau brun foncé. Sa queue est cerclée par des anneaux entiers de couleur brun foncé. Sa face ventrale est blanche avec quelques taches sombres.

Étymologie
Cette espèce est nommée en l'honneur de Léon Becker, arachnologiste belge.

Publication originale
 Boulenger, 1881 : Description of a new species of Anolis from Yucatan. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, ,  (texte intégral).

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Rep. Waters Announces $15 Million Federal Grant for Inglewood Transit Connector (ITC)
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chair of the House Committee on Financial Services, announced that the Department of Transportation (DOT) has awarded a $15 million RAISE grant to the City of Inglewood to support the Inglewood Transit Connector (ITC) Project.
A rendering of the proposed Inglewood People Mover's Downtown station. (Photo Credit: LA Metro)
"I am proud to announce that the Department of Transportation (DOT) has awarded a $15 million grant to the City of Inglewood to support the groundbreaking Inglewood Transit Connector Project," said Congresswoman Maxine Waters. "This innovative project will improve access to the City of Inglewood and provide my constituents a world-class transit connection from the Metro Crenshaw/LAX Line to downtown Inglewood and the City's major sports, entertainment and employment centers."
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chair of the House Committee on Finance
Congresswoman Maxine Waters requested $20 million in funding for the ITC in April of 2021, during House consideration of transportation infrastructure legislation. While the House-passed infrastructure bill included $9 million for the ITC in response to the Congresswoman's request, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which was signed into law, did not designate funding for specific projects, but instead included $1.5 billion in funding through the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) program, which resulted in the $15 million grant award for the ITC.
"I am proud that my efforts to secure funding for the Inglewood Transit Connector made this $15 million RAISE grant possible," said Congresswoman Maxine Waters. "I will continue to work with my colleagues in Congress and the Biden administration to secure funding for leading-edge transportation projects in Inglewood and throughout my congressional district and invest in the 21st Century infrastructure that my constituents deserve."
The ITC Project will complete an approximately 1.6-mile fully elevated, automated transit system with three stations on segments along Market Street, Manchester Boulevard, and Prairie Avenue in the City of Inglewood. It includes construction of three center platform stations located at Market Street/Florence Avenue, Prairie Avenue/Manchester Boulevard, and Prairie Avenue/Hardy Street.
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Dream Catcher is committed to establishing, maintaining and delivering professional programs designed to enhance the lives of those individuals with physical, social, educational, or psychological challenges. We provide the highest quality services to the individuals who can benefit from the programs we offer. Our staff members have degrees in areas of Special Education, Physical Therapy, and Psychology, with additional specialized training and certification in Therapeutic Riding and Hippotherapy.
Our goal is to help individuals succeed and miracles to happen!
We have many individuals of all ages that have "special challenges" ranging from those with physical, intellectual, emotional, and social needs, along with those who have suffered from a trauma or are recovering from injury.
We work with individuals and their families to provide the best services possible.
 Your help is greatly appreciated in enriching the lives of others through horses and humans.
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In 2013, the HKW is offering new cultural education formats for adults. Anyone interested in the latest questions in art and science will be right at home with the HKW.Wissensclub (HKW Knowledge Club). Discussions with artists and academics will address the topics that emerge from exhibitions, music projects and discourse events.
In HKW.Wissensclub # 1, the natural scientists Reinhold Leinfelder and Christian Schwägerl will give an introduction to the thought model of the Anthropocene. The core of the Anthropocene theory is that our understanding of nature is outdated: it is the human being who forms nature and not vice versa. Why have geologists declared the Holocene over? And where is the scientific evidence to back up their conviction?
A discussion with the literary expert Ursula K. Heise will address the question of what the Anthropocene means for our image of humankind. To what extent must today's human being reassess himself as a biological species? What does this mean for our understanding of society? What political issues does this reassessment throw up?
Ursula K. Heise (Los Angeles) is professor of English at uClA and a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow. Her research and teaching focus on contemporary literature, environmental culture in the Americas, Western Europe and Japan, the environmental humanities, and on theories of modernization and globalization in their cultural dimensions. Her books include Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global (2008), and Nach der Natur: Das Artensterben und die moderne Kultur (2010).
Reinhold Leinfelder (Berlin) is a geologist and professor at Freie Universität Berlin (head of the study group Geobiologie und Anthropozänforschung) and at Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He ia a memberof the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen and of the Sachverständigenbeirat für Naturschutz und Landschaftspflege des Landes Berlin.


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Shares of COCA COLA AMATI/ADR (OTCMKTS:CCLAY) have received a consensus recommendation of "Hold" from the seven ratings firms that are presently covering the firm, MarketBeat reports. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating and four have assigned a hold rating to the company.
A number of research firms have issued reports on CCLAY. Zacks Investment Research upgraded COCA COLA AMATI/ADR from a "sell" rating to a "hold" rating in a report on Friday, February 1st. Citigroup downgraded COCA COLA AMATI/ADR from a "neutral" rating to a "sell" rating in a report on Wednesday, November 28th. Deutsche Bank upgraded COCA COLA AMATI/ADR from a "sell" rating to a "hold" rating in a report on Friday, November 30th. Finally, Macquarie upgraded COCA COLA AMATI/ADR from an "underperform" rating to a "neutral" rating in a report on Tuesday, January 22nd.
CCLAY traded down $0.08 during trading on Monday, reaching $5.93. The stock had a trading volume of 1,897 shares, compared to its average volume of 53,618. The company has a market cap of $4.46 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.46 and a beta of 0.80. COCA COLA AMATI/ADR has a one year low of $5.54 and a one year high of $7.58.
The business also recently declared a Semi-Annual dividend, which will be paid on Monday, April 22nd. Stockholders of record on Monday, March 4th will be issued a dividend of $0.173 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, March 1st. COCA COLA AMATI/ADR's payout ratio is presently 85.37%.
Coca-Cola Amatil Limited, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, distributes, and markets ready-to-drink beverages in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Samoa. It provides ready-to-drink alcohol and non-alcohol sparkling beverages, spring waters, sports and energy drinks, fruit juices, iced tea, flavored milk, coffee, tea, beer, cider, and spirits, as well as ready-to-eat fruit and vegetable snacks and products.


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LIvdel (en ) est une rivière de Russie qui coule dans l'oblast de Sverdlovsk, en Sibérie occidentale. C'est un affluent de la rivière Lozva en rive droite, donc un sous-affluent de l'Ob, par la Lozva, la Tavda, la Tobol et enfin l'Irtych.

Géographie
L'Ivdel prend naissance sur le versant oriental de l'Oural septentrional. Elle coule en direction du sud-est et pénètre ainsi dans la plaine de Sibérie occidentale. Après avoir baigné la ville d'Ivdel, elle se jette dans la Lozva en rive droite.

Histoire
Le bassin de l'Ivdel fut historiquement la première portion de la Sibérie à être conquise par la Russie. C'est en effet en 1589 que fut construite une citadelle, la première forteresse russe à l'est de l'Oural, construite (en bois) sur la rivière Ivdel, sous le nom de Lozvinsky gorodok (Лозьвинский городок). Une ville se développa peu après sur le site, d'abord sous le nom de Nikito-Ivdel (Никито-Ивдель), qui devint Ivdel, en 1831.

Villes traversées
 La ville d'Ivdel est située à une quinzaine de kilomètres du confluent avec la Lozva.

Hydrométrie - Les débits mensuels à Ivdel
Le débit de l'Ivdel a été observé pendant 43 ans (entre 1947-1989) à Ivdel, ville située à quelque 17 kilomètres en amont de son confluent avec la Lozva.

Le débit inter annuel moyen ou module observé à Ivdel durant cette période était de  pour une surface de drainage de , soit 99 % de la totalité du bassin versant de la rivière.
La lame d'eau écoulée dans ce bassin versant se monte ainsi à 305 millimètres par an, ce qui peut être qualifié d'élevé dans le contexte sibérien.

Rivière alimentée en partie par les pluies d'été et en partie par la fonte des neiges, l'Ivdel est un cours d'eau de régime nivo-pluvial qui présente deux saisons.

Les hautes eaux se déroulent du mois de mai au mois d'octobre, avec un pic en mai-juin correspondant au dégel et à la fonte des neiges de son bassin. De juillet à septembre le débit reste très soutenu grâce aux précipitations, maximales en été dans la région. Au mois d'octobre, le débit de la rivière baisse rapidement, ce qui mène à la période des basses eaux. Celle-ci a lieu de novembre à mars inclus et correspond à la longue période d'hiver et de fortes gelées qui s'étend sur l'ensemble de la Sibérie.

Le débit moyen mensuel observé en février (minimum d'étiage) est de , soit plus ou moins 6,5 % du débit moyen du mois de mai (), ce qui témoigne de l'amplitude assez importante des variations saisonnières. Sur la durée d'observation de 43 ans, le débit mensuel minimal a été de  en , tandis que le débit mensuel maximal s'élevait à  en .

En considérant uniquement la période estivale, libre de glaces (mai à septembre inclus), le debit mensuel minimal observé a été de  en .

Voir aussi

 La liste des cours d'eau de Russie
 La Lozva
 La Tavda
 Les monts Oural
 L'Ob

Notes et références

Cours d'eau dans l'oblast de Sverdlovsk
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Q: Regarding the setting of the url of the datasource db in the schema.prisma file I want to set the URL in the schema.prisma setting by concatenating the strings as follows, but an error occurs.
My desire is to set it without adding the DATABASE_URL environment variable.
Is such a configuration possible?
I would be happy if I could simply use schema.prisma to concatenate the strings, but...
datasource db {
  provider = "postgresql"
  url      = "postgresql://" + env("PG_USER") + ":" + env("PG_PASS") + "@" + env("PG_HOST") + ":" + env("PG_PORT") + "/" + env("PG_DATABASE") + "?schema=public"
}

A: schema.prisma file does not understand how to concatenate the environment variables as it is not a javascript or typescript file.
Prisma expects that you specify your environment variable in .env file
// .env file
DATABASE_URL_WITH_SCHEMA=${DATABASE_URL}?schema=foo

and in your schema.prisma file, you load it as shown
// schema.prisma
datasource db {
  provider = "postgresql"
  url      = env("DATABASE_URL")
}

To learn more about using environment variables with Prisma, check out the docs

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Cities are usually well known with one or a couple of silhouettes taken from their most famous touristic districts. One might see these silhouettes and understand which city they belong to. However an inhabitant of the city is confronted with a lot of other silhouettes rather than those most typical ones. One might consider each of them saying something about the current identity of the city. In the past couple of years Istanbul was being discussed about the changes that are being made on its silhouette. City Skyline Map keeps the record of the city's physical presence in the year of 2013 by making an interactive documentation of the silhouettes collected from different so-called developing locations within the city. The project is a combination of the real map and interactive visuals created in the computer environment based on technology called Augmented Reality (AR). The user is able to carry the map anywhere but the silhouettes of the city could be seen through a website and a webcam.


The Clover Mini is designed to stay "in place" on your countertop. However, you can easily add a swivel-stand for additional functionality! With the swivel included, your Clover Mini instantly becomes "customer facing" so that you can quickly spin the unit towards the customer for PIN-debit entry, or to request email/phone number information. Sales become even quicker with the swivel stand.
Be warned: This printer has only ONE function, which is to send short messages back to a kitchen like "cook well done" or "alergic to pepper", it is completely useless for anything else. Since the T4240 does not have any way of calling up or changing clerk errors after the sale is completed I wanted to use this to keep a duplicate of all transactions. It won't do it, and is designed to prevent any adaptation. It even uses a different, special cord than the regular printer uses so you can't pig-tail a register patch cord.
A cash drawer is an important part of any Point-of-Sale system! If you purchase a Clover Station, the cash drawer is already included, so you don't need to purchase separately. However, if you're using the Clover Mini or Mobile solution, a cash-drawer is an optional accessory. It includes a standard bill tray, coin tray, and 2 keys for the lock.
KaBOOOM. I would not recommend Square to anyone at this point. As of right now Square made my account jacked up my account in fees that I did not tell them to Bill to this account. They do not have managers or supervision in place to assist you over the phone when admin is needed. The Phone reps are unable to assist this type of transactions and no one called me back or resolved my issue. This issue is 100% the fault of SQUARE DONT DO BUSINESS WITH THEM THATS MY EXPERIENCE!
The P550 Printer is a customer-facing device that allows Clover to communicate with your customers without swiveling the screen. Customers are prompted for the total amount on a display that's built-in to the back of the high-speed printer. In addition, NFC (contactless) payments are built right in, so you can accept Apple-Pay, Samsung-Pay, or Google Wallet without any additional devices.
Register is a bit hard to get to know but other than that its very useful because of the different discounts and Reports.. I give it 3.5 out of 5.. it should be more customizable but oh well… ohh and by the way Royal does not have any knowledgable representatives..
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The Environmental Research Group and the Department of Geography at King's College London are leading a consortium of universities in a £2.8m research project investigating traffic-related health issues in London.
The 'ClearfLo' (Clean Air for London) project will analyse the distribution, transport and transformation of potentially hazardous air pollutants in urban areas and will establish the infrastructure needed to monitor air pollutants moving in and out of the capital.
Air pollution is a major environmental risk to health and is estimated by the World Health Organisation to cause approximately two million premature deaths worldwide each year.
King's experts recently warned that pollution could reduce the lifespan of some Londoners by up to 10 years.
Understanding how pollutants relevant to human health are dispersed in the urban environment is a challenge, as traditional methods to measure dispersion are not applicable in all urban environments.
As a result, the distribution and concentration of some pollutants in urban areas are not well characterised.
ClearfLo will address this lack of understanding by creating four 'super' air-quality monitoring sites from Harwell to the west of London and from Detling to the east of London.
In addition to the data that will be collected from the sites over the next three years, meteorological and air-quality monitors will be placed at the top of the BT Tower.
Furthermore, a number of short but extensive monitoring campaigns will be undertaken in central London using equipment brought in by the consortium partner universities.
What KCL doesn't admit is that traffic pollution is but a tiny fraction of what it was – even from 15 years ago. Modern cars and buses emit far less pollution than their predecessors. The WHO report has no bearing on the UK experience.
While i agree with Marcus Gibsons comments, i would also look at the failure to upgrade the road infrastructure generally, and the deliberate deployment of congestion causing obstacles. Is this another smokescreen to attract more Government (sorry taxpayer) funding for another sceptical environmental project.
It is no surprise to many who have studied traffic flow who know many vehicles are forced to travel through town centres, while only 6% of the traffic is actually travelling there. The rest are merely being funnelled through to reach other destinations because there is no reasonable alternative.
Instead of money being constantly being spent on useless surveys and the like it should be spent on upgrading the delapidated road infrastructure and allowing the 94% of commuters to bypass city centres.
Why London? All major conurbations have the same problem.
Thankfully those in control in the 50s got on with the job and brought in the clean air act which had a profound affect on the health of Londoners. Why are we so protracted now?


This section is a window to the happenings and challenges that Jammu and Kashmir's fragile ecology faces. It tackles water bodies, forests, flora and fauna, wild life, weather and impact of developmental activities on mother nature.
Why Government Does Not Care About Its Own Environment Policy?


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MUNIC [FR0013462231 / ALMUN]
+74% GROWTH IN H1 2022 REVENUE
Continuation of the strong sales momentum initiated in H1 2021
EKKO pilot approved by a European leader in automotive assistance services
Solid revenue visibility: FY 2022 guidance confirmed with a €13.8m sales backlog
MUNIC (Euronext Growth® Paris - FR0013462231 - ALMUN), specialist in embedded and artificial intelligence technologies for automotive data valorization, reports its consolidated revenue for the first half of the 2022 financial year (closing on June 30th).
In €K - French standards - Unaudited data H1 2020 H1 2021 H1 2022 Change
REVENUE 2,543 5,213 9,059 +74%
STRONG BUSINESS MOMENTUM CONTINUES WITH DYNAMIC GROWTH IN H1 2022
After its sharp post-pandemic sales recovery in business noted in 2021, with annual growth of 156%, of which 105% in the first half of the year, MUNIC achieved a further ramp-up in H1 2022, with consolidated revenue of €9.1m, a significant growth of 74%.
Geographically, half-year sales were generated 71% from North America (vs. 75% a year earlier), 26% from Europe (vs. 23%) and 3% from the rest of the world (vs. 2%).
The strong business momentum in H1 2022, which highlights MUNIC's ability to confirm growth, is the result of intense sales efforts led over the past few months, major partnership agreements signed by the company, and the successful launch of the V8+ range of Smart Dongles in early 2022.
The performance also demonstrates MUNIC's capacity to adapt and its agility in sourcing and inventory management. Despite the persistent global electronic components' shortage in 2022, the company managed to deliver all orders to customers. To that end, the company has harnessed its R&D expertise, allowing it to swiftly bring product upgrades to market using alternative component sources in response to shortages. It has also successfully secured supply on international markets, through long-term partnerships both with direct distributors and the main component manufacturers.
APPROVAL OF EKKO PILOT, THE FIRST UNIVERSAL PLATFORM FOR OF VEHICLE DATA MONETIZATION
In late 2021, MUNIC signed a contract with a European leader in motorist services on the roll-out of EKKO, the company's Data as a Service (DaaS) application services and vehicle data access platform through a subscription model. EKKO has since been deployed on several thousands of vehicles with this new client's fleet of motorists.
After several months' use of EKKO's innovative offering, an open and multi-data consumer Smart Dongles solution based on Munic.io technology, this major European client approved the EKKO pilot in July 2022, illustrating its trust in its business model, services maturity, and constituting the final stretch before the effective launch of the solution.
All success factors of EKKO have been adjusted to best respond to the needs of the client and stakeholders, particularly regarding communication with consumers, training and support for distributors, and the various functionalities available to drivers.
This recognition will inspire and persuade a broad range of partners as part of the large-scale commercial launch of EKKO in the coming months, initially in Europe.
On the new business perspectives, MUNIC continues its ambitious prospection, signing new clients wins and reviewing significant business development opportunities. The company has already won new projects from telecom operators, automotive fleet managers, and several other accounts. The common goal of all these projects is to roll out Munic.io technology combining Smart Dongles and an artificial intelligence and Edge Computing platform, offering its customers innovative services.
In 2022, MUNIC is pursuing its R&D investments in the Munic.io technology combining Smart Dongles and an artificial intelligence and Edge Computing platform. The current innovations focus on developing technological services that are prompting significant market interest in terms of access to vehicle data, such as comprehensive remote vehicle diagnostics and health of electric vehicle batteries. The aim of these efforts is to broaden MUNIC's Smart Dongles range with the launch of the C4V8 blackbox and the initial deliveries of the C4V8 blackbox to a renowned fleet manager in the Middle East.
Following on from late 2021, MUNIC's commercial visibility remains excellent, with strong momentum in new orders. At June 30, 2022, the order backlog was worth €13.8m.
Consequently, halfway through 2022, MUNIC is reasserting its ability to deliver sustained sales growth in 2022 despite strong supply tensions. The company would like to remind readers that, given the strong seasonality of its business, the second half of the year usually contributes more revenue than the first semester.
Further out, MUNIC is confirming its target to deliver €100m in sales by 2025, of which €25m driven by the EKKO platform.
About MUNIC
Founded in 2002, MUNIC designs and develops technological solutions combining Smart Dongles, able to collect and decode thousands of data items generated by car sensors with an Edge Computing & artificial intelligence platform, Munic.io, capable of analyzing and processing this data.
The result of 20 years of R&D, MUNIC's patented technology combines (i) cutting-edge electronic expertise (design and industrialization of small-scale on-board equipment, high energy and radio performance, high reliability in an automotive environment, at very competitive costs), (ii) car data decoding capacity and (iii) an Edge Computing artificial intelligence (Munic.io) for data processing.
Based in Villejuif, France, with offices in the United States and China, MUNIC has 60 employees, 77% of whom are engineers. The company achieved revenues of €19.3 million in 2021, up +156%, mainly in the United States and Europe. The company is labeled an Innovative Company by Bpifrance.
MUNIC is listed on Euronext Growth® Paris market (ISIN code: FR0013462231).
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Even worse, PSL repayment was the subject of nearly 65 percent of the more than 4,300 complaints received by CFPB from October 1, 2012 through September 30, 2013. Repayment concerns included fees, billing, deferment, forbearance, fraud and credit reporting. Additionally the inability to repay was found to a pivotal factor in default, debt collection and bankruptcy.
These kinds of financial abuses are among the reasons why the Center for Responsible Lending and other consumer and civil rights allies pushed for and won historic reforms with enactment of the Dodd –Frank Wall Street Reform Act When lenders of varying financial products and servicers operated with scant – if any – financial regulation, untold abuses occurred.


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15 states with the largest data breaches
- Monday, September 15th, 2014 Print	| Email
Breaches of unsecured protected health information come in a variety of forms including hacking, improper disposal, theft, unauthorized access and loss, to name a few. Desktop computers, laptops, email, network servers, EMRs and portable electronic devices are all potential sources of breaches.
Listed below are the top 15 states with data breaches affecting the largest number of individuals so far this year, according to HHS.
Tennessee — 4.5 million individuals
California — 338,700
Maryland — 214,000
New York — 97,000
Indiana — 63,325
Arizona — 55,207
Alabama — 49,714
South Carolina — 38,906
Illinois — 16,446
Massachusetts — 15,265
Colorado — 12,286
North Carolina — 10,993
Utah — 9,800
Kansas — 9,640
Florida — 9,255


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Do you suppose the pathetic young girl below voted for Obama several times in both of his elections.
It's fools like this who would do well to spend their time running on a hamster wheel than getting involved with politics.
Sadly, she and her fellow travelers vote, having no clue about the issues, knowingly or unknowingly are destroying our country.
It's even more of a tragedy that those of us with skin in the game and understand clearly that socialism isn't the answer have our votes negated each time one of them decides to do so.
The left won't ever get it, Hillary still hasn't figured out how she lost to Donal J. Trump.