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Knorr-Bremse responds flexibly to economic downturn
Knorr-Bremse AG Moosacher Straße 80 80809 München, Germany http://www.knorr-bremse.de
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Knorr-Bremse AG 04/08/2020
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The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is also leading to far-reaching adaptation measures at Knorr-Bremse. Substantial proportions of customers and suppliers in Europe have temporarily shut down their production plants. Many customers have also reduced capacities in their administration and development departments. Against this backdrop, Knorr-Bremse has reached agreements with employee representatives across Germany with the aim of safeguarding jobs and being able to ramp up production again at any time in close coordination with customers. All parts of Knorr-Bremse are taking a proactive approach and adapting their activities flexibly to the current situation.
"Keeping our customers supplied takes top priority," says Knorr-Bremse CEO, Bernd Eulitz. "Many of our customers have shut down operations for several weeks and we now have to adapt accordingly. At all our sites we are reconciling the interests of the company, our customers and our employees and together we will overcome the crisis."
Most of the company's sites in Germany are working short-time from this week onwards. This mainly affects the Munich and Schwieberdingen sites and the Truck division plants in Aldersbach and Berlin, as well as the Rail division plant in Düsseldorf. In the context of short-time working, between 20 and 60% of production and administrative activities will initially be cut back for around three months, including administration at the parent company Knorr-Bremse AG. The level of short-time working and the agreed duration varies from one site to the next. The largest Truck division plants in Germany - Aldersbach and Berlin - had already begun cutting back working hours in March. An additional contribution by the company will increase employees' short-time working allowance to around 85%.
"Our joint aim is to safeguard all jobs," says the Chairman of the Knorr-Bremse Group Works Council, Michael Jell. "At the same time we have to respond flexibly to the market situation, because we still want to have a stable and dependable employer when the crisis is over. And we are all making a decisive contribution to this."
Where necessary and possible, Knorr-Bremse sites in other European countries, such as Italy, Spain and France, and in the USA are also making use of similar programs to help protect employees and ensure job security.
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Knorr-Bremse (ISIN: DE000KBX1006, Ticker symbol: KBX) is the global market leader for braking systems and a leading supplier of other safety-critical rail and commercial vehicle systems. Knorr-Bremse's products make a decisive contribution to greater safety and energy efficiency on rail tracks and roads around the world. About 29,000 employees at over 100 sites in more than 30 countries use their competence and motivation to satisfy customers worldwide with products and services. In 2019, Knorr-Bremse's two divisions together generated revenues of EUR 6.9 billion. For more than 115 years the company has been the industry innovator, driving innovation in mobility and transportation technologies with an edge in connected system solutions. Knorr-Bremse is one of Germany's most successful industrial companies and profits from the key global megatrends: urbanization, sustainability, digitization and mobility.
Knorr-Bremse rewards its suppliers for more sustainable business practices
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Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) gewinnt eine immer größere Bedeutung und wird im Jahr 2030 einen Wirtschaftswert von 13 bis 15 Billionen US-Dollar erreichen, sagt McKinsey voraus. Doch es gibt viele Hürden auf dem Weg zu erfolgreichen KI-Projekten zu überwinden, v. a. in Europa und Deutschland. Ein Roundtable von Experten und Praktikern hat sich über Erfahrungen und Ansichten über diese wichtige Entwicklung in der Technologie ausgetauscht.
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Founded in 1965, Telecare is a rapidly growing mental health care company dedicated to making a difference for our clients, the community, and our employees. We offer an array of mental health services to adults with serious mental illness. We partner with public sector entities and behavioral health organizations and have over 155 programs and over 4,300 employees across the country. And we're growing all the time! When you work at Telecare, you help to empower thousands of individuals every day in their journeys of recovery.
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This is not another cautionary tale about crowdfunding, exactly, because Plastc didn't use a platform like Kickstarter or Indiegogo to gather publicity and pre-orders. Like another still-unshipped gadget from 2014, the Mellow sous vide device, the company spread the word through social media, posts on technology blogs, and probably some online advertising.
In its shutdown announcement, which was also emailed to pre-order customers, the company explained that it was ending its operations on April 20, considering Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and that the pre-orders would not ship.
"Capital? What about that $9 million?" the pre-order customers asked. That's not quite clear, but the company claims to be broke. It was counting on money from outside investors to actually produce and ship the cards, but claims to have had a working prototype. Both investment deals fell through, and the company is shutting down. Its patents and prototypes will presumably be sold as part of its bankruptcy proceedings.
The universal credit card idea is still around, but it's a troubled industry. There was Coin, and Engadget reminds us of Swyp, which appears to have shipped some cards and says that more will ship this summer. Stratos also managed to ship cards, and was bought out by another company that may not keep the service going.


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"But I'm Not Racist!"
October 29, 2018 Racial EqualityKentucky Kroger shooting, Nationalism, racism, Ryanair, TrumpSheila
Many of you probably saw the news reports–or the video–of the man on a Ryanair flight who engaged in a rant during which he called a black woman seated next to him an "ugly black bastard."
You may have missed reports of his subsequent apology, which included his assertion that he "is not a racist."
A man who subjected a fellow passenger on a Ryanair flight to a racist tirade has apologised publicly for the first time a week after the incident, claiming that he is not a racist and lost his temper "a bit".
Then there was the fine fellow who tried to enter a black church in Kentucky, was unable to gain access, and settled for shooting two African-Americans he'd never met who were shopping in a nearby Kroger store.
A white man with a history of violence fatally shot two African American customers at a grocery store in Kentucky and was swiftly arrested as he tried to flee, police said Thursday. They said it was too soon to say what prompted Wednesday's shooting, responding to an earlier account from a witness that when confronted with another white man during the incident, the suspect said: "Whites don't shoot whites."
It's always comforting to attribute these senseless, horrific acts to "disturbed" individuals, and obviously, these are people with significant mental/emotional problems. But if we ignore the impetus for these acts, we risk even more civil disorder and tragedy. In the wake of the recent rash of pipe-bomb deliveries to people that Trump has identified as "enemies,"and the horrific shooting attack on Jews in a Pittsburgh synagogue, we need to heed the recent warning by a columnist for the Guardian:
Political violence in the United States has tended to come in two forms. The first consists of simply unhinged acts, like John Hinckley Jr shooting Ronald Reagan in the hope of impressing the actress Jodie Foster, or Timothy McVeigh hoping to bring down the government with a bomb. The second is more systematic and sinister: the violence used to keep down groups who threaten the social and political order. This is the violence of strike breakers and the KKK. It is the violence that killed Emmett Till, an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after allegedly wolf-whistling at a white woman.
A key feature of the second type of violence is that it has often been perpetrated by private individuals while serving the interests of public authorities. This is why the authorities encourage it. Till's killers walked free because Mississippi's court system would not convict them, understanding that their act reinforced white supremacy at a time when it was under threat from desegregation. This was violence of the people, by the people, for the government.
As the writer noted, America currently has a president who "frequently and vividly" talks to enthusiastic supporters about the desirability of a violent response to those who oppose him.
As Paul Krugman recently reminded us, this use of invective and demonization didn't start with Trump. It's a strategy the right has been using for decades. By promoting culture war issues, and religious and (especially) racial antagonisms, they've been able to distract working-class voters from policies that hurt them. Trump is simply the blunt instrument of a strategy that has been cynically pursued for many years.
That doesn't make him any less dangerous, however. Nor does it excuse the shameful efforts currently being made to excuse his proud embrace of Nationalism–to pretend that the omission of the word "White" somehow modified the clear meaning of that embrace.
Former GOP strategist Steve Schmidt cut through the lame efforts to soften and dismiss Trump's message:
While discussing the racial politics of the Florida gubernatorial election, ex-Republican strategist Steve Schmidt argued Thursday that the whole party has been dragged down into a dangerous association with racists because of President Donald Trump's rhetoric and policies.
Schmidt asserted during an appearance on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" that Trump's recent declaration of himself as a "nationalist" was a direct message to some of the most pernicious parts of the far right.
"When Donald Trump declares himself a 'nationalist,' the nationalists understand exactly what he means," said Schmidt. "By the way, let's stop calling them 'white nationalists' and call them by their names, which are 'neo-Nazis' and 'Klansmen.'"
Whatever the motives of people who voted for Donald Trump in 2016, I agree with my youngest son that there are two, and only two, categories of people who continue to support him: those in full agreement with his overt and virulent racism, misogyny and anti-Semitism, and those for whom his bigotry–and his incitement of violence against the targets of that bigotry –doesn't matter.
Those in the second category may deny being racist. Those denials are about as persuasive as the protestations of the bigot who demeaned his seat mate on Ryanair.
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Marie Ippolito says:
Sheila, thanks for this brilliant piece that is SO on target! For me, this behavior of motivating his avid and fanatical supporters to into a frenzy (much like Hitler with his Brown shirts) is truly frightening. Our nation is founded on the basis of acceptance and tolerance for different political and religious views. As President, I believe you should be working to unite America and bring factions together. Instead this administration has polarized our nation. Screaming statements at his rallies like "Like her up." and "Get him out of here." (when someone was recording what he was saying) is a clear indication to me that this administration views tolerance of alternate views as a threat and weakness.
Sorry Steve Schmidt, you're close but no cigar.
The Republican Party is not "being dragged down into a dangerous association with racists because of Donald Trumps rhetoric and policies", it already has been in that relationship and for decades. The Nixon Republican Party with its "southern strategy" opened the door to that relationship in the 1970s, and they have courted those voters ever since with code words and dog whistles. With Trump there are no code words and dog whistles, just hatred, intolerance, and violence. Country club Republicans may feign shock and voice a "tisk tisk", but the truth is that they will continue to quietly support and vote for the party that keeps them in the gravy.
What Theresa said.
All true with no end in sight. Written soft words (by others) followed by hard actions and hard words emanating from the broken mind of our fake president.
Of course, Trump supporters will place themselves in a third nonexistent category of so-called patriots who put America first. I'm guessing they mean during the days of the Confederacy.
Farmers voted him along with rural America because Trump's goal was to make foreign countries pay for our trade imbalances. His only act the first two years was enacting tariffs which were not only reciprocated, but countries like China went to other countries and bought their soybeans. Now we have a glut of soybeans, and the federal government (we the people) had to bail out the farmers.
So, will they vote for those who support his policies?
As I watched this coming to fruition as the Koch brothers took over the GOP and transitioned from the blatant racists of the Tea Party to the repackaged racism of Trump and #MAGA, I wondered how they would handle the racism once again. Now we know…they hugged and kissed it.
The problem is none of the GOP's policies are benefiting his supporters. He's using racism and America's ancient character defect to win elections without crafting a single plan to help those who reward the GOP with a vote.
However, I have witnessed a few efforts on Twitter of Trump trying to depict hordes of people of color rallying for the GOP. Why?
I call it the Italian WW2 flip-flop. The Democratic National Party has done nothing for people of color. Their national support of drug wars and private prisons has crippled many black communities, especially in the South.
Once again, they are being tricked into believing that Trump is for the little guy. Trump has done nothing except talk like a fifth-grade graduate to make them think this. He's not a polished politician, but he and Congress have done nothing for the little guys and gals.
Hood-winked is the word.
But the Democratic Party's reaction to Trump is, "But we're polished politicians who aren't racists."
#Resistance
It's embarrassing to watch.
A great example of their strategy backfiring was Trump telling supporters at one of his rallies that he supported a 10% tax for low to middle-income folks (we little guys/gals didn't feel the "excellent" tax giveaway this year). The media and the GOP have quickly tuned that out. It was played for less than a day on Twitter and disappeared.
Both Donor-centered parties have slogans. #MAGA and #Resistance
Neither of them has clear-cut platforms to address income and wealth inequality, our current health, education, and global climate crises.
Slogans are symbols of propaganda. 😉
#Losing, Not #Winning
I'm curious about one thing regarding the white man in Kentucky who shot two black men in the back of the head as they shopped at a Kroger store. It was reported he had been denied entry to a black church but WHY was he trying to enter that church? I believe his intention was the same as Bowers' who unfortunately was allowed to enter the Synagogue in Pittsburgh; and neither of them wanted to pray with congregants. I am also curious as to why he was (LUCKILY) denied entry to the black church; we seem to be getting only part of this story, or did I miss something?
We all have some level of racism, however small it may be, instilled in our thought processes from childhood…and I do include ALL because racism is a 2-way street. Having been married to black men and living in primarily black neighborhoods I saw and heard it first-hand. Have also experienced the bigotry from Catholics who refused to allow their children to play with "us" believing "our" evil would somehow rub off on their sainted sons and daughters.
We have experienced atrocities that boggle the minds of thinking Americans during the past two weeks ; all of which has escalated the downfall of the United States of American as a world leader…we are no longer considered acceptable as a leader in anything but hatred, bigotry and violence. We all, pro and con, understood what Trump means when declaring himself to be a "Nationalist" and we don't care what his hair looks like. His complaints that the "bomb stuff" distracted attention from the election actually means it distracted from his appearance at the rallies. This all fits with those supporters in full agreement with "his overt and virulent racism, misogyny and anti-Semitism" and to those to whom it doesn't matter.
Another question; can a person be racist against members of their own race? Because to tell the truth; I sure as hell am sick of looking at those white people who are tearing our country apart.
Thank you Sheila,
We're clearly off the rails and the person in the position, the unique position, to put us back on track is clearly out to lunch and the main instigator of the train wreck we are experiencing. We currently lack a lever in any constitutional position to read in a positive way and stand up for what is right in this country. Theodore Roosevelt's beloved "bully pulpit" is now being used as a mechanism to spread the most vile messaging that is so corrosively divisive that it is crippling this country war and more every day.
We have a maniac in the Oval Office pure and simple, served by other maniacs that reinforce his vile and divisive messaging that infest both the White House but also the Congress. This all amounts to a meltdown both of our governmental leadership at the national level but also of our society as a whole. Personally, I don't see a change in this even if the democrats do have their blue wave next week since the man at the top, and I use that term very loosely, is incapable of changing his ways and being a national leader that anyone that thinks of the safety and security of the country as a whole could never look up to.
Meanwhile, as the old expression from the 1960s and a Vietnam War period goes – the whole world is watching while we have a national reckoning with what we are becoming in spite of all the good intentions and good people that are not white nationalists, racists and anti-Semites. Those people are being drowned out by the efforts of an American President that through his rhetoric and his actions is ripping the social fabric of this country to pieces.
I note that there is a difference between racism and prejudice. We all have the latter and many of us have the former. I speak with racists every day who believe that they are not racists. They tell me they have friends who are black, so they could not possibly be racists. Just like alcoholics, they can't begin to resolve this issue until they admit that it is an issue.
Now we are presented with a "leader" who uses their fears against us all. What can we do about it? We have been given one tool by our founding fathers. We must use it now, before it is too late. We must repudiate hate with a blue tsunami. We have eight more days to get family and friends and ourselves out to vote. Dems may not be perfect, but they are a lot better than what we have.
Marie Ippolito began, "Our nation is founded on the basis of acceptance and tolerance for different political and religious views." Would it was so. Puritans burned witches. Indigenous practices, political and religious, were deemed inferior, were neither accepted or tolerated. Our history has been an ongoing battle between acceptance and confrontation, tolerance and intolerance. What we are experiencing is just another chapter of racism and intolerance. It must be purged. May acceptance and tolerance regain power for a generation or two. Yes, vote blue, and if blue wins hold those winners feet to the cleansing fire of acceptance and toleration.
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"Those who have only empty space above them are almost inevitably lost in it, if no force restrains them."
~Emile Durkheim, Suicide
Intellectualizing about a sociopath like Trump is a terrible waste of valuable time. The problem was outlined as far back as 1956, in "THE NINTH WAVE" by Eugene Burdick, co-author of "The Ugly American" and "Fail Safe." You have to understand the formula:
FEAR + HATE = POWER. That was the, protagonist,Mike Freesmith's formula for success, just like it is for Donald Trump.
Rev. Manuel Colunga-Hernandez says:
There is not one person I know of or know personally that if you drill deep enough – you will find a form of 'racist'. That is just human nature as it exists today. NOT ONE. Myself included. I try to dig out such things in myself, because I am aware of things that were ingrained in me by my parents and others when I was very very young. Children don't lose those words you speak in their memories you know! But it is the personal drive and awareness that makes the difference. You either stay that way or you change. I used to really piss my parents off – because I wasn't one who wanted to live the way they did – I wanted to live away from people. I was entirely happy not to be around other people – I never knew why other people treated me different. I never wanted to believe it was due to bigotry – what did I do to them? At the age of 22 I gave up denying that it was them being bigots. However, I determined – I didn't want to react back to them the way they acted to me. People cannot hide their bigotry – most just do not know it. To me bigotry, fear and Hate are forms of ignorance. And I cannot stand ignorance – especially in my self! So can you imagine how it bothers me now as an adult of 66 years to see such ignorance flaunting itself in front of our faces every day? It is so pervasive as to make one ask if it is even worth trying to change that tide. However: I do not tire so easily – I have been worked on by experts! The sad part is having to quite literally 'arm' oneself against it. (and for any that say, 'Well you are a person of faith, why do you carry a pistol?' To that I can only say, 'Yes, I am. BUT I was given a brain – I do try to use it.') Such is the condition of the world. Only we who claim to want better – can make it better! VOTE dammit!!! And vote for a restoration of Sanity.
Robin Riebsomer says:
I hope and pray that the democrats win the majority in the house. We need a strong check on this president.
Vernon Turner says:
Yes, all of us have a phobia of "the other", because that's how humans evolved. It took a major intellectual leap to go from overt hostile tribalism to something resembling a society, or as Desmond Morris once labeled it, a super tribe. O.K. Now, we have to make yet another major intellectual leap as a species to overcome the use of those ancient instincts as weapons, political weapons.
In Donald Trump we have a true madman who is projecting and transferring his pathology to everyone who opposes him. He cares not a whit about anyone or anything but himself and is clearly displaying a textbook of psychological diseases in order to enflame the fools and the ignorant…as mentioned by others above.
I hope it is just a temporary condition and will motivate enough rational people to make the leap, and vote the Republican party into extinction. Republicans are no longer patriots or really citizens. They are the mostly the product of the reversal of civilization into a primitive, neolithic cult.
JoAnn > "I am also curious as to why he was (LUCKILY) denied entry to the black church; we seem to be getting only part of this story, or did I miss something?" Church doors were locked per a report a read. "To think that an hour and a half earlier, we had 70 people in the church," church administrator Billy Williams told the affiliate. "But by the time he came through, all doors were locked, and there were probably eight or 10 still in the building."
We have to face the facts, there are many racists, etc., in our society and a few will "hear the call" and resort to violence. We can try to change their thought process, but that effort has failed. Many excuses are offered.
The one big variable in all these mass shootings is the availability of firearms in the USA vs countries in Western Europe, Japan and Australia. The NRA here in USA is the tail that wags the dog.
Mass shootings in schools, churches, malls, concerts, movie theaters, etc., are subject to the analysis paralysis of motive. Motive, means and opportunity are key ingredients of any crime. The "Means" of the mass shootings and the horrific gun violence in our cities are firearms.
What the Republicans and some cowardly Democrats have decided is rather than oppose the NRA types – We are expendable – Collateral Damage.
I do not agree that all is lost, but I do agree that it could be unless we rise to the task and defeat this Trump contagion of what was once a creeping fascism but is now, having little resistance, a raging river on an international scale giving us the likes of Pittsburgh, Istanbul, and now Brazil.
Our ace in the hole is winning the House (and thus the purse strings) where we can impede or even end Trump's open-wallet tariff and wall games, among others, and lest we forget, it is the House that has the impeachment (legislative indictment) powers. So the Senate will not convict on the House's finding of guilt? So? Let them (finally) be called upon to publicly explain why they have done nothing (even though they now have their tax cuts and judges) to prevent this budding dictator from pulling his Bannon-inspired fascist coup here which, if successful, would remove both Democrats and Republicans from their Madisonian tri-partite positions of constitutional power, inasmuch as there will be no Constitution in the new order of things.
What to do? Elect a Democratic House next week and if at all possible a Democratic Senate as well. Personal note > I have resisted Marv's description of fascism as having already arrived with the argument that we are only en route. Pittsburgh has persuaded me that I was wrong and he is right. It's here, so now what are we going to do about it? Bunker Hill or Munich?
Monotonous; thank you so much for that information.
Regarding Trump's foolish remark about having armed guards in the Synagogue; to paraphrase a post on Facebook this morning, "If you need armed guards to protect your freedom of religion, you don't have freedom of religion." This bit of wisdom is something he and the evangelicals will never understand due to their religious support of the 2nd Amendment.
Larry Kaiser says:
I've said it before and find this a good time to say it again: I do not like dogs. I am biased against dogs. I don't want to be around dogs. I am certain that dogs are inferior to cats. I am afraid of dogs. You might think that I am prejudiced against dogs. The fact that I like my son's two dogs, am good buddies with both of them, and know how to say good things about dogs does not nullify the fact that I am prejudiced against dogs. So much for those who say they are not prejudiced against blacks because they say they have a friend who is black and can say something nice about a black person once in a while.
Rev. Hernandaz, I asked you a question on Saturday about your promise that you posted on Sarurday. Did you not seethe question? Irvin
We must abandon and stamp out Republican style racism and replace it with Democratic Party sanctioned racism!
Stan Lightner says:
McVeigh's terrorist attack in OKC was not simply an "unhinged act" as you suggest, but a well planned attack by at minimum a group of three conspirators against the US government. I followed the news reports very closely for at 9:01 AM Central Time April 19, 1995 I looked out my classroom window to see the column of smoke rising from downtown OKC. Please correct this column accordingly.
When I think back over my 76 years, and my travels around, I would have to say there is less overt racism here now then used to be. Also considering another flavor of prejudice, men treated women with maybe even too much respectful difference then compared to now.
So culture changes due to many forces and that what's dysfunctional today. There have always been jerks like Agent Orange and racists and misogynists but as I recall my earlier years none would have ever stood even the smallest chance of being elected for President.
People who play with statistics find the concept of a "normal distribution" as close enough to being accurate to be useful. Of course what one looks like is the back of a one hump camel and what it implies is that for many traits of humans there are extremes among a few but most are near the mean or average of the trait. Take height for instance. There are the unnaturally short, and the unnaturally tall but most are near average. However if one looks closer women on the average are shorter than men are on the average so the distribution curve for height for all humans is not a "normal curve" but a "dipolar curve". A two hump camel.
My observation is that our society has gone politically from a normal distribution of beliefs to a dipolar distribution of beliefs and that fact alone put us into a cliff hanger position. We are no longer one, united, all for each other. We are two widely diverse tribes warring with each other. Remember "united we stand, divided we fall"?
Everyone who knows me knows that my personal opinion is that the cause of our collective dementia is pervasive entertainment media and the business behind it driven by one motivation: make more money regardless of the impact on any others. Loyal audiences are the source of making money in entertainment and creating tribes leads to loyal audiences if done right.
Given that observation the path forward can take two possible directions. One is to continue down to completely dysfunctional while the other is that a cultural force more powerful than entertainment will restore our unity.
While it's easy to come up with a list of possibilities comparing them to the power of entertainment media in our lives reveals that it would be an uphill battle for any of them to overcome the combination of how pervasive in our lives entertainment media is, and how fundamental make more money regardless of the impact on any others is to who we are.
Deference not difference spell checker.
Welcome back! I value your comments. You keep them short and on point. We've really needed you, especially now.
I'm not back. But I am available only if needed, especially, if things don't turn out the way most of you on this blog are counting on. I hope it's a "Blue Victory," but I'm coming from a much different direction from most all of you, since I don't put any of my "chips" on partisan politics to protect my future.
Hey Marv. Good to "see" you.
AgingLGrl,
Likewise!
Thanks Marv! Sometimes my anger over all this gets to me. Thanks for the good advice and mid-course correction!
jack smith says:
Trumps new t.v. show, hate America! sponsored by FOX news,and brietbart.. with rob mercer directing.,all commercials by companies who support the demise of the constotution for self profit. tonight, the MAGAbomber….
now a word from reality t.v. keep watching to see who gets it next!
trump wants to visit pittsburg for his so called condolences,(campaign)
35,000 people petitioned,to stay away..NPR…
Jack Smith; thank you, and the Mayor of Pittsburgh would rather the Trumps stay away till the end of this week and let them get through all of these funerals. They will be adding confusion and need added security and traffic control which is necessary for ELEVEN funerals. Another rally and photo-op for Trump, distraction and confusion for thousands of mourners.


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Six-Issue Miniseries Features the DC Debut of Writer Katana Collins
Issue One Arrives at Comic Book Stores and Participating Digital Retailers October 20
The popular maxiseries Batman: White Knight and Batman: Curse of the White Knight thrilled comic book fans everywhere with their unique takes on Batman, The Joker, Gotham City, and the history of the Wayne dynasty. On October 20, the White Knight mythos takes another step forward with the launch of Batman: White Knight Presents Harley Quinn, a six-issue miniseries that expands and deepens the alternate universe created by writer/artist Sean Murphy.
Writing this new-reader friendly addition to the Batman: White Knight world is international bestselling author (and Murphy's wife) Katana Collins. As co-plotters, this miniseries represents the first time the duo have worked together on a DC title. Collins, the writer of novels such as Callback and the Top 100 Amazon bestseller Capturing You, was also an associate producer for Nick News with Linda Ellerbee. During her tenure, the show won two Emmy Awards for the episodes "Kids and Autism" and "The Untouchable Kids of India."
"Working with Sean has allowed us to leverage our creative partnership's best advantages," said Collins. "Living and working together lets us be constant sounding boards for each other and that back and forth feedback has been a huge help and inspiration in crafting my vision of Harley Quinn for this story."
Batman: White Knight Presents Harley Quinn takes place two years after Curse of the White Knight. Azrael has wiped out criminals in Gotham, Jack Napier (formerly The Joker) is dead, Bruce Wayne (Batman) is in prison, and Harley Quinn is adjusting to life as a single mother, raising the twins she had with Jack. But as new villains arise, Harley is forced to dance with madness once again and confront her own past with The Joker and Batman while helping the Gotham City police and an eager young FBI agent uncover the truth behind a series of gruesome murders.
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With breathtaking art by Matteo Scalera and Dave Stewart, stunning covers by Sean Murphy and Matt Hollingsworth, and beautiful variant covers by Scalera and Hollingsworth, Batman: White Knight Presents Harley Quinn is ready to take its place as the next great story in the rich universe created by Sean Murphy.
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Q: Android Activity as library I'm stating a android project which I would like to structure into plugins.
To test the plugin structure I created a new project in android studio with a empty activity. I changed the displayed text to "Hello plugin" just to be able to identify the activity. I also added a log output to the on create method.
This project was then exported as a android library (.aar)
I created a second project (also default empty activity project), which would then represent the actual app. I imported the library and launched the libraries activity using a intent. nothing more and nothing less!
My problem now is if I launch the app the "Hello world" text from the actual app is displayed and not the "Hello plugin" from the activity that is being launched. The strange thing is tat I don't get any error and the log output from the libraries activity onCreate method appears in the LogCat!
Is there something special I have to do in order to be able to call a activity from a library, am I not allowed to do it at all or am I just missing something essential?
Thanks,
FallenRiteMonk

A: I figured it out by my self!
It was a resource conflict problem. Adding a prefix to libraries string resources solved the problem!

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Q: WPF: Disable ListBox, but enable scrolling Been banging my head against this all morning.
Basically, I have a listbox, and I want to keep people from changing the selection during a long running process, but allow them to still scroll.
Solution:
All the answers were good, I went with swallowing mouse events since that was the most straight forward. I wired PreviewMouseDown and PreviewMouseUp to a single event, which checked my backgroundWorker.IsBusy, and if it was set the IsHandled property on the event args to true.

A: If you look in to the control template of the ListBox, there is a ScrollBar and ItemsPresenter inside. So Make the ItemsPresenter Disabled and you will get this easily. Use the bellow Style on the ListBox and you are good to go.
    <Style x:Key="disabledListBoxWithScroll" TargetType="{x:Type ListBox}">
        <Setter Property="Template">
            <Setter.Value>
                <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ListBox}">
                    <Border x:Name="Bd" SnapsToDevicePixels="true" Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}" BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}" Padding="1">
                        <ScrollViewer Padding="{TemplateBinding Padding}" Focusable="false">
                            <ItemsPresenter SnapsToDevicePixels="{TemplateBinding SnapsToDevicePixels}" IsEnabled="False" IsHitTestVisible="True"/>
                        </ScrollViewer>
                    </Border>
                    <ControlTemplate.Triggers>
                        <Trigger Property="IsEnabled" Value="false">
                            <Setter Property="Background" TargetName="Bd" Value="{DynamicResource {x:Static SystemColors.ControlBrushKey}}"/>
                        </Trigger>
                        <Trigger Property="IsGrouping" Value="true">
                            <Setter Property="ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll" Value="false"/>
                        </Trigger>
                    </ControlTemplate.Triggers>
                </ControlTemplate>
            </Setter.Value>
        </Setter>
    </Style>

On the ListBox use the Style
<ListBox    Style="{DynamicResource disabledListBoxWithScroll}" ..... />

A: I found that putting a disabled ListBox in a ScrollViewer with auto scrolling enabled gives the desired effect.

A: While it's for Silverlight, maybe this blog post would help you get going in the right direction? Silverlight No Selection ListBox and ViewBox

A: The trick is to not really disable. Disabling will lock out all messages from the scroll box.
During the long operation, gray out the text in the list box using its .ForeColor property and swallow all mouse clicks. This will simulate disabling the control and allow scrolling unimpeded.

A: I used this solution, it's really easy and works perfectly:
For every SurfaceListBoxItem item you put in the Listbox, do this:
item.IsHitTestVisible = false;

A: This worked best for me. It's easy and whole code is in XAML which is IMO very neat.
<ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding MySource}">
  <ListBox.ItemContainerStyle>
    <Style TargetType="ListBoxItem">
      <Style.Triggers>
        <DataTrigger Binding="{Binding IsEditing}" Value="True">
          <Setter Property="IsEnabled" Value="True"/>
        </DataTrigger>
        <DataTrigger Binding="{Binding IsEditing}" Value="False">
          <Setter Property="IsEnabled" Value="False"/>
        </DataTrigger>
      </Style.Triggers>
    </Style>
  </ListBox.ItemContainerStyle>
</ListBox>

A: Another option worth considering is disabling the ListBoxItems.  This can be done by setting the ItemContainerStyle as shown in the following snippet.
<ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding YourCollection}">
    <ListBox.ItemContainerStyle>
        <Style TargetType="ListBoxItem">
            <Setter Property="IsEnabled" Value="False" />
        </Style>
    </ListBox.ItemContainerStyle>
</ListBox>

If you don't want the text to be grey you can specify the disabled color by adding a brush to the style's resources with the following key: {x:Static SystemColors.GrayTextBrushKey}.  The other solution would be to override the ListBoxItem control template.
This question is pretty much the same as this one: There ain't ListBox.SelectionMode="None", is there another way to disable selection in a listbox? and my answer is the same.

A: I found a very simple and straight forward solution working for me, I hope it would do for you as well
<ListBox.ItemContainerStyle>
<Style TargetType="{x:Type ListBoxItem}">
     <Setter Property="Focusable" Value="False"/>
 </Style>

A: A complete answer using http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/60619/Scrollable-Disabled-ListBox-in-WPF
The Style:
<Style TargetType="{x:Type local:CustomListBox}">
    <Setter Property="Template">
        <Setter.Value>
            <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type local:CustomListBox}">
                <Border SnapsToDevicePixels="true" Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}" BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}" Padding="1">
                    <ScrollViewer IsEnabled="True">
                        <ItemsPresenter IsEnabled="{Binding Path=IsEnabledWithScroll,  RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}}"  SnapsToDevicePixels="{TemplateBinding  UIElement.SnapsToDevicePixels}"/>
                    </ScrollViewer>
                </Border>
            </ControlTemplate>
        </Setter.Value>
    </Setter>
</Style>

The class
public class CustomListBox : ListBox
{
    public bool IsEnabledWithScroll
    {
        get { return (bool)GetValue(IsEnabledWithScrollProperty); }
        set { SetValue(IsEnabledWithScrollProperty, value); }
    }

    public static readonly DependencyProperty IsEnabledWithScrollProperty =
        DependencyProperty.Register("IsEnabledWithScroll", typeof(bool), typeof(CustomListBox), new UIPropertyMetadata(true));
}

Then instead of setted IsEnabled on the ListBox, use IsEnabledWithScroll instead. Scrolling will work if the listbox is enabled or disabled.

A: There seem to be many ways to skin this particular cat.  I found that by setting IsHitTestVisible on the ItemsContainerStyle in XAML I got exactly what I needed:
<ListBox IsHitTestVisible="true" ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True">
    <ListBox.ItemContainerStyle>
        <Style TargetType="ListBoxItem">
            <Setter Property="IsHitTestVisible" Value="False" />
        </Style>
    </ListBox.ItemContainerStyle>
</ListBox>

A: Well, I found a sweet way to provide this feature. What I did is that in the DataTemplate of the listBox I binded the parent layout enable property with the boolean flag using Page as Source.
Step 1 - Provide the x:Name attribute to the page. If the page you are using is extended with base page than make sure that the base page is not an abstract class and has an default constructor without any arguments.
<Page x:Class="OPMS.Views.Registration"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
    x:Name="MainPage"
    d:DesignWidth="1024"
    Title="Registration"
>

Step 2 - Use the Page as a source for the DataTemplate parent layout items IsEnabled property
<ListBox Grid.Row="2"
    ItemsSource="{Binding TestGroups}"
    AlternationCount="2"
    Padding="0"
    Margin="10,5,10,10"
>
    <ListBox.ItemTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>
            <CheckBox Content="{Binding Name}"
                IsChecked="{Binding IsSelected}"
                IsEnabled="{Binding Source={x:Reference MainPage}, Path=DataContext.BindingVariableHere}"
            />
        </DataTemplate>
    </ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>


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Keynote address of the Ambassador of Russia to Australia Alexey Pavlovsky at the symposium, dedicated to the 90th birthday of Yevgeny Primakov
Let me welcome all those gathered today within the walls of one of the leading universities of Australia and in fact, one of the 25 best in the world. I appreciate your readiness to host such event and allowing me to share my thoughts with you. I think you are the right audience to talk to if Russia and its foreign policy are to be better understood in Australia.
Our symposium is dedicated to the 90th birthday of Y.Primakov. Yevgeny Maksimovich was indeed an outstanding statesman. His long carrier included being journalist, scholar and politician in Soviet epoch, and then head of foreign intelligence service, foreign minister and Prime Minister of the new Russia. His life and activities spanned over many critical moments of my country's modem history. But his talent of a statesman, incredible perseverance and determination, and what they call political wisdom shined most in the 90-s - which was a challenging period for Russia both internally and internationally.
It was at that time, about two decades ago, that Yevgeny Primakov proposed a comprehensive interpretation of the processes that were unfolding in the world after the bi-polar system ceased to exist and formulated the multipolarity concept, reflecting the new reality in the making. He made this conclusion at a time when it seemed that history, according to Francis Fukuyama, «has come to an end», and that from now on there would be but one global decision-making center. It took Primakov's vision and scientific approach to discern trends and transformations, which were still latent at the moment. World developments have proven he was right in his analysis.
It is obvious today that efforts to establish a unipolar model have failed. The transformation of the world order has become irreversible. New major players wielding a sustainable economic base seek to increase their influence on regional and global developments; they are fully entitled to claim a greater role in the decision-making process. There is a growing demand for more just and inclusive system. The overwhelming majority of members of the international community reject arrogant neocolonial policies that are employed all over again to empower certain countries to impose their will on others.
All that is greatly disturbing to those who for centuries have been accustomed to setting the patterns of global development by employing exclusive advantages. While the majority of states aspire to a more just system of international relations and genuine rather than declarative respect for the UN Charter principles, these demands come up against the policies designed to preserve an order allowing a narrow group of countries and transnational corporations to reap from the fruits of globalization.
The West's unwillingness to accept today's realities, when after centuries of economic, political and military domination it is losing the prerogative of being the only one to shape the global agenda, gave rise to the concept of a "rules-based order." These "rules" are being invented and selectively combined depending on the fleeting needs of the people behind it, and the West persistently introduces this language into everyday usage. The purpose of this concept is to replace the universally agreed international legal instruments and mechanisms with narrow formats, where alternative, non-consensual methods for resolving various international problems are developed in circumvention of a legitimate multilateral framework. In other words, the expectation is to usurp the decision-making process on key issues.
Meanwhile, there have been quite a few occasions over the past few years, when solidary and based on international law actions by the international centres helped ease tensions. Among these are the Russian-US agreements on the chemical demilitarisation of Syria and the coordination of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on Iran's nuclear program by Russia, the United States, Europe and China, as well as efforts to promote positive dynamics around the Korean Peninsula
A good example of fruitful international cooperation in resolving acute problems is Syria. When back in 2015 Russia at the request of the Syrian Government decided to undertake a military operation a terrorist quasi-state had all but conquered the country. By now we have defeated the terrorist international, and prevented the uncontrolled infiltration of hundreds and perhaps, thousands of armed cut-throats into Russia and neighboring countries with whom we have a visa- free regime, our borders are transparent. It was also, of course, a contribution to fighting terrorism worldwide.
Being aware of the heated public debate here on whether or not a dozen of captured terrorists and their families should be admitted back to Australia, I hope our policy on Syria will be acknowledged, at least in this expert audience.
In conjunction with our Astana format partners and with the support of the UN, we managed to launch an intra-Syrian political process and to establish close working contacts with Turkey, Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and other countries of the Middle East, as well as the United States (despite sometimes it acting as a spoiler to joint settlement efforts).
What is essential, in Syria, Russia and its partners managed to do a lot while adhering to and following norms of international law, rather than by violating the principle of sovereignty of states. We believe the Syrian settlement can become a model for resolving regional crises where diplomatic mechanisms will be used in the vast majority of cases, with the use of force being an extreme and forced exception.
I am convinced that these approaches can be used to resolve other existing problems in the world, including in Asia, such as the situation on the Korean Peninsula, which has long been in a clinch. In this regard, notably, as soon as the United States decided to have a direct conversation with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, without preliminary formalities and conventions, abandoning the usual, sometimes very rude, even insulting, rhetoric, the hope for a peaceful settlement immediately appeared. Of course, there are still many unresolved problems and a long way to go. But there is a movement in the right direction.
The most complicated conflicts, such as the Palestinian-lsraeli and Afghani or the situation around the Iran nuclear deal, can and must be resolved on the principles of cooperation, respect, recognition of all the parties' interests and rejection of any blinkers or philosophy of blocs.
In this context this was Russia's logic this July, when it presented the concept of providing collective security in the Persian Gulf area. We suggest that the accumulated prejudices and mutual pretences must be pushed aside, and a security and cooperation organization be created in the region almost from scratch. In addition to Western countries, Russia, China, the US, the EU, India and other interested countries could join as observers.
Talking about the formation of the multipolar world means talking first and foremost of Asia.
The new centers of power emerging there are starting to see the benefits in closer cooperation based on pragmatic needs and for the benefit of their peoples and countries. This is how the RIC association (Russia, India and China) started (by the way technically it was Primakov's idea). BRICS also emerged naturally. The SCO was also created in response to demands of the time when, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it was necessary to provide some understanding of border security in Central Asia, Russia and China. Subsequently, the SCO expanded to other forms of cooperation. But again, it was a response to demands of the time. This is also how ASEAN was formed by the countries that realized their mutual interest was in working together and promoting economic and security cooperation.
I believe, we should distinguish between natural processes that integrate countries based on coinciding interests, and artificial ones which try to force countries into some kind of cooperation in the interest of one geopolitically driven power.
Such is an artificially imposed construct of the Indo-Pacific region which is clearly promoted within the far-reaching context of containing China. This concept, in my view undermines the ASEAN-centricity of the formats that have been created in that region. So, we prefer to talk about Asia-Pacific Region (APR).
As a significant Eurasian power with vast Far Eastern territories that boast significant potential, Russia has a stake in the successful future of the Asia-Pacific region, and in promoting sustainable and comprehensive growth throughout its entire area. We believe that effective economic integration based on the principles of openness, mutual benefit and the universal rules of the World Trade Organization is the primary means of achieving this goal.
We support the idea of forming an Asia-Pacific free trade area. We believe this is in our practical interest and represents an opportunity to strengthen our positions in the rapidly growing APR markets. I want to note that over the past five years, the share of APEC economies in Russia's foreign trade has increased from 23 to 31 per cent. And we have no intention of stopping there.
Of course, the large-scale project to create the APEC free trade area should be carried out with due account of the experience gained from implementing key integration formats in the Asia-Pacific region and Eurasia, including the Eurasian Economic Union, in which Russia cooperates with Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Our union is based on equality, pragmatism, respect of each other's interests, and we are eager to build relations with all countries and associations that are interested in doing so.
Free trade agreements were concluded between the Union and Vietnam. We have just signed a similar agreement with Singapore. An interim free trade agreement was signed with Iran. Talks are being held with Israel and Egypt, a first round of negotiations with India is taking place soon. The EAEU has concluded an agreement on trade and economic cooperation with China. The program on cooperation between the Eurasian Economic Commission and the ASEAN in 2019- 2020 has been launched.
All these agreements are important for forming a greater Eurasian partnership with potential of participation of the EAEU, the CIS, the SCO, the ASEAN nations as well as a number of other countries. One of the main pillars of the Greater Eurasia should be convergence of the Eurasian Economic Union and the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative.
This is a flexible modern project open to other participants. The combination of economic potentials will not only boost our citizens' prosperity, but also help us lay the foundations of equal and indivisible security in Asia and the Euro-Atlantic in keeping with the 21st-century realities.
Colleagues,
Because of correctly understanding the essence of the current epoch in international relations Primakov was able to make an exceptional contribution to the creation of the conceptual foundation of Russia's current foreign policy, consolidation of its international positions. His famous "U-turn over the Atlantic" in March 1999 when he cancelled his US visit upon receiving in the flight to Washington the news of NATO bombings of Serbia became a turning point in Russian diplomacy and a symbol of the country's return to national-oriented politics. We all remember Mr Primakov's foreign policy principles - self-sufficiency, independence, multi- vector approach, openness and predictability. All of these are reflected in the current version of the Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation.
It is worth recalling that, while consistently defending national interests, Yevgeny Primakov was never an advocate of isolationism or confrontation. He always supported intergovernmental cooperation to address the pressing problems of our time effectively. He always promoted the idea that existing differences between individual world centres - and they probably will never be fully resolved - should not prevent them from combining efforts to thwart the common challenges. This kind of philosophy of joint constructive work is especially relevant today, when the situation in the world remains tense and the challenges and threats are not subsiding.
Some argue that polycentric world order leads to more chaos and confrontation because the "centers of power" will fail to come to terms among themselves and take responsible decisions. But, firstly, why not try? What if it works? For this, all that is necessary is to start talks on the understanding that the parties should seek a balance of interests. Attempts to invent ones' own "rules" and impose them on all others as the absolute truth should be stopped. All parties should strictly comply with the principles enshrined in the UN Charter, starting with the respect for the sovereign equality of states regardless of their size, system of government or development model. No doubt, life does not stand still. While taking good care of the post-WWII system of international relations that relies on the United Nations, it is also necessary to cautiously though gradually adjust it to the realities of the current geopolitical landscape. This is completely relevant for the UN Security Council, where, judging by today's standards, the West is unfairly overrepresented. We are confident that reforming the Security Council shall take into account interests of the Asian, the African and the Latin American nations whilst any such design must rest upon the principle of the broadest consensus among the UN member states. The same approach should apply to refining the world trade system, with special attention paid to harmonizing the integration projects in various regions.
We should use to the fullest the potential of the G20, an ambitious, all-encompassing global governance body that represents the interests of all key players and takes unanimous decisions. Other associations are playing a growing role as well, alliances projecting the spirit of a true and democratic multipolarity, based on voluntary participation, consensus, values of equality and sound pragmatism, and refraining from confrontation and bloc approaches. These include BRICS and the SCO, which our country is an active member of and which Russia will chair in 2020.
What is being proposed by Russia? First of all, it is necessary to recognize the obvious: the emergence of a polycentric world architecture is an irreversible process, no matter how hard anyone tries to hold it back artificially. Most countries don't want to be held hostage to someone else's geopolitical calculations and are determined to conduct nationally-oriented domestic and foreign policies. It is our common interest to ensure that multipolarity is not based on a stark balance of power like it was at the earlier stages of human history (for example, in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century), but rather bears a just, democratic and unifying nature. Rather takes into account the approaches and concerns of all those taking part in the international relations without exception, and ensures a stable and secure future.
To conclude, I would like to stress this. Russia, as one of the guardians of the existing world order, pursues a positive agenda. We stand for strict compliance with international law and enhancing mutual confidence and respect. We are building interstate relations and communication on fair and democratic foundations with an emphasis on the UN Charter. Our country is focused on stepping up security and stability, on fighting international terrorism and other threats and challenges. We act for the sake of establishing - including in Asia - a system of equal and indivisible security resting on far-ranging and collective work. Russia's continuous efforts to achieve this are very much guided by Yevgeny Primakov's legacy.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your attention.
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Joe Biden meets Xi Jinping as he says US and China have 'responsibility' to 'manage our differences'
US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping hold their first in-person talks - aiming to manage differences between the superpowers.
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US President Joe Biden has met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and said they have a "responsibility" to show the two countries can "manage our differences".
Mr Xi went into the three-and-a-half-hour discussion prepared for a "candid and in-depth exchange of views" with Mr Biden, saying he hoped they would find areas of cooperation.
And afterwards, Mr Biden told reporters they had indeed been "very blunt" with each other. But he said the Chinese leader had been "straight forward and willing to compromise" on certain issues.
"We were very blunt with one another about places we disagreed or where we were uncertain of each other's position, and we agreed we would set up mechanisms where key people in each of our administrations would meet to discuss how we could resolve them," said the US president.
Mr Biden objected to China's "coercive and increasingly aggressive actions" toward Taiwan and raised human rights concerns about Beijing's conduct in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong during the meeting, the White House added.
Mr Xi had acknowledged the current state of China-US relations was not in the interests of both countries, and they needed to "steer the rudder", according to state broadcaster CCTV.
In the first in-person talks between both leaders since Mr Biden took office nearly two years ago, Mr Xi also said they should think about and clarify the direction of development of their own countries, as well as consider the way to get along with others.
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'Very little misunderstanding'
Mr Biden said: "As the leaders of our two nations, we share responsibility, in my view, to show that China and the United States can manage our differences, prevent competition from becoming anything ever near conflict, and to find ways to work together on urgent global issues that require our mutual cooperation."
While attending a gathering of southeast Asian nations at the weekend, Mr Biden said of US relations with China: "We have very little misunderstanding."
He told reporters in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Sunday: "We just got to figure out where the red lines are and... what are the most important things to each of us going into the next two years."
Referring to Mr Xi remaining in power for at least another five years - breaking with a decades-long precedent that limits the terms of Chinese leaders - Mr Biden added: "His circumstance has changed, to state the obvious, at home."
The president said of his own situation that he was "coming in stronger" after successful midterm elections that saw the Democrats retain control of the Senate.


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Rise up and stay away: Bears fans should boycott Sunday's game
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One of the most famous stories in the New Testament is the parable of the talents, in which a master goes on a journey and entrusts money (talents) to three of his servants.
The servant who received five talents invests the money and doubles it. So does the servant who received two talents. The third servant takes the one talent he received and buries it. When the master returns, he's furious at the servant's lack of enterprise and throws him into the darkness outside.
I don't know what the McCaskeys do with the landfill of money they have, but I know it doesn't go toward football.
It couldn't, not with the way the Bears played Sunday night in a 55-14 loss to the Packers, the way they played in a 51-23 loss to the Patriots the game before or the way they have played for what feels like forever during the McCaskey family's ownership of the franchise.
People with money and smarts never would have allowed a team to get into the state the Bears are in right now, which both the football and medical communities refer to as "vegetative.''
The only way to send a message to the McCaskey family is for Bears ticketholders not to show up Sunday at Soldier Field for the Vikings game. Would a boycott change anything? Would it make the McCaskeys understand that their general manager doesn't know how to build a team and that their head coach is as passive as a turtle? No, it wouldn't.
But it sure would feel good.
It's the only way for fans to fight back. It's the one thing the McCaskeys seem to understand, if only vaguely. Again, I have no idea what the family does with the millions and millions of dollars it has amassed over the years. None of the family members seems to live ostentatiously. I'd almost feel better if one of them were driving around town in a Maserati. At least the Biblical talent that founder George Halas had entrusted in them would have been used for something tangible.
Fans should respond Sunday with three and a half hours of nonattendance.
The problem with a boycott, of course, is that it doesn't get at the root of the problem, which is that no one at Halas Hall seems to know how to hire the right people. That starts with the McCaskeys, who bring in people with the same bewildered looks on their faces as they have. Coach Marc Trestman said Monday that, despite Sunday's embarrassing display, there would be no staff changes. Of course not.
So I'd like chairman George McCaskey to arrive at Soldier Field on Sunday and experience emptiness. I'd like him to feel a cold wind whipping, unblocked, across his face, to understand how far this franchise has fallen and to see what that descent has meant to fans. The fans who have tolerated bad football and ticket-price increases much too often.
But that's up to the people who have stood by this franchise through too much thin and not enough thick. The disgust is there. Is the will? It's not easy turning away from something so important to so many people. But remember, Cubs fans stopped selling out Wrigley Field, and change came, slowly.
Those fans are giving the Cubs the benefit of the doubt now because the team has spent big money on president of baseball operations Theo Epstein and new manager Joe Maddon. No one knows if it will pay off, but at least there's hope. The Bears haven't given their fans any hope, not even the false kind. They gave their fans general manager Phil Emery and Trestman, both low-budget hires.
That's the reason you fans should speak with your absence Sunday. The McCaskeys already have your money. It's just sitting there, doing nothing, like the Bears' defense against Aaron Rodgers. One of my Facebook friends dreamed of Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban buying the Bears from the McCaskeys. Sorry, but they have the franchise in a death grip. You couldn't pry their cold fingers from it with a blowtorch.
But maybe you can guilt them into cleaning house after the season and, as I suggested last week, hiring a football guru to run the organization. If that doesn't happen, you can show your disgust by not going to the games next season. The only thing these people understand is cash, or at least the collecting of it. They certainly don't understand winning.
Bury them.
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Liverpool Day Surgery is certified to ISO 9001:2008 and is fully licensed by the NSW Department of Health. We are also proud members of the Australian Day Hospital Association and the Australian Private Hospitals Association.
The building that Liverpool Day Surgery (LDS) occupies was originally built as a small shopping Centre comprising of eight shops and four residential units on the first floor.
Throughout 1990/91, extensive consultation with the NSW Health Department and NSW Fire Brigade was undertaken and the internal ground floor shops were opened up and converted to a purpose built Day Surgery Centre. The original fit out consisted of three surgical class operating theatres, a 12 bed 1st stage recovery and 8 chair 2nd stage recovery with appropriate support areas (admissions, staff facilities, store rooms and sterilising department).
The Day Surgery opened in 1991 to very slow beginnings consisting mainly of Endoscopic procedures with one direct vision Gastroscope and Colonoscope and the employment of six casual members of staff.
Interest from other specialists encouraged the management to further invest and expand over time into the areas of; Gynaecology, General Surgery, Dental and Plastics.
A minor external face lift was carried out in 1995 in an attempt to "lose" the shopping centre look of the building.
The Day Surgery was formally accredited with the Australian Council on Health care Standards in 1996 and has maintained it's full accreditation status ever since underpinned by a committed dedication from all staff and management.
Steady progress between 2000-2004 facilitated a $2.5m refurbishment and expansion including an additional operating theatre, purpose built 23 bed first stage recovery, 10 recliner chair 2nd stage recovery, brand new sterilising department and full refurbishment from the "vinyl flooring up" of all other areas to reflect a modern day facility. The end result of that expansion/refurbishment was a superbly laid out and functional day operating facility covering approximately 1000 square meters all at ground floor level with off street parking for 50 cars.
A lift was also installed to facilitate access to the first floor which was completely gutted and expanded to triple its floor space to create a state of the art Specialist Medical Consulting Centre including X-Ray and Pathology.
Further expansion and investment of specialties followed the refurbishment to include; Orthopaedics, Ophthalmology, Pain Management, Hand Surgery and IVF. All four operating theatres now have digital imaging equipment and capture facilities. Recent upgrading of the endoscopy facilities now supports 14 video endoscopes – a far cry from its humble beginnings.
Ongoing education now includes an Education Co-ordinator who actively supports clinical nurse placements for students completing their training.
In 2012, the management decided to move to the Internationally recognised ISO certification system and was formally certified to ISO 9001:2008.
The Day Surgery now employs some 40 nursing positions and has approximately 6000 admissions per year. This privately owned and managed Day Surgery owes it's success to not only the wisdom and foresight of it's owners, but also it's much appreciated, long serving staff, today 50% of whom have been employed in excess of 10 years. The Day Surgery is managed by the Chief Executive Officer (Tony Geftakis) and an effective Director of Nursing (Debbie Hayes) who enjoy the support, respect and trust of both nursing and administration personnel.