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In Iowa's First Majority Latino Town, Frustrated Obama Backers Stand By Their Man
By Matthew Jaffe January 3, 2012
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From MATTHEW JAFFE of ABC News and JORDAN FABIAN of Univision
WEST LIBERTY, Iowa - Standing on the main red-brick drag downtown, in front of La Paz Market and La Luna Mexican Products, below the lamppost flags wishing passersby a "Feliz Navidad," you might think you were somewhere in Latin America… if it weren't for the year's first snowfall blowing through this sleepy town in eastern Iowa. In a state where only 5 percent of the population is Latino, West Liberty is the first town where the majority of the population belongs to the nation's fastest-growing minority.
Hearing Jose Zacarias tell his story, it's easy to see why. Zacarias left Guanajuato, Mexico 27 years ago to escape tough times south of the border. In his search for a better life, he came to Iowa and settled down close to some relatives in the Quad Cities. He got a job, found a wife, bought a house and had three kids.
"What Latinos really appreciate when they come here is this town - and maybe all of Iowa - suffers from hardly any crime. You can leave the door to your house open. You can leave the keys in your car. Nothing will happen," Zacarias said, sitting in an assembly hall on the grounds of St. Joseph's Catholic Church.
But the easy going ways in Iowa have already been flipped on their head in 2012, a presidential election year. Republican candidates have spent months crisscrossing the state in preparation for Tuesday's GOP caucuses and both President Obama and the Republicans see the Hawkeye State as a crucial battleground that will help determine the outcome of the election.
Four years ago, Obama won the state in the caucuses and general election with the help of a small cadre of Latino voters scattered throughout the state. Just under 2 percent of all eligible voters in Iowa are Latino, a far lower percentage than nationwide, to say nothing of other key early states such as Florida and Nevada. But political observers have begun to doubt if Obama can generate the same enthusiasm among Latinos - in Iowa and elsewhere - because of frustration over his record, especially on immigration and deportation policies.
Zacarias said he only became a citizen a few weeks ago, but he's long been involved in politics. He helped organize for Obama during the 2008 caucuses and he's also on board to support the president this year, even though he shares many of the frustrations about Obama that are common among Latino voters.
"I think it's right. It's there and it has a lot of reality," Zacarias said of the disappointment Latinos have when it comes to Obama. "Mr. Obama made a lot of promises to Hispanics in 2008, immigration reform, to get a chance for more people to become legals."
"The president should have focused more on Latino issues like immigration and the famous DREAM Act," he added. "He spent too much time politically on the issue of universal healthcare and almost no time on Latino issues."
Disappointment over Obama's record and frustration about the 11.4 percent unemployment rate in the Latino community have given Republicans hope they could make gains with Latino voters across the country. But Zacarias said he has not let his Democratic allegiances waver for one simple reason: Republicans, in his opinion, haven't offered Latinos a better option.
"I don't think any Hispanic in his right mind is going to vote for Rick Perry or [Mitt] Romney," he said with a chuckle. "It might be a tough sell [for Obama], but I think the GOP is helping a lot by putting those guys forward. Romney, Rick Perry, Newt [Gingrich] for Christ's sake, you know?"
West Liberty Mayor Chad Thomas, an Obama backer, said that no GOP candidates or their surrogates have visited his town to appeal to the Latino community.
Even Latino Republicans concede that candidates in their party have alienated the community by not engaging directly with its members and their tough rhetoric on illegal immigration.
Two hours away from West Liberty, in the state capital of Des Moines, Enrique Peña Velasco, a Colombian who immigrated to the U.S. 31 years ago and now works in corporate marketing, said that he is leaning strongly toward caucusing for Newt Gingrich, in large part due to Gingrich's immigration policy. Velasco said that the former House Speaker reached out to him and other members of the Latino community last fall, holding a small briefing to explain his policy positions.
"All of the other candidates have not really spent a lot of time in the state trying to work in the Latino community. They have basically ignored the community," Velasco said. "The other candidates have made a mistake in ignoring us completely. They forget that nationally, we are strong in numbers and we play a key role when it comes to the actual general elections."
Velasco, who now resides in Winterset, Iowa, said that he was specifically turned off "in a big way" by other candidates over their positions on immigration.
He said that he was considering backing Michele Bachmann, but was "very turned off" by her pledge to build a double fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. He also said that Mitt Romney's opposition to the DREAM Act and Ron Paul's past statements about minority groups in newsletters and books have not helped.
"Because as a Latino, being an immigrant, it's a very touchy and very important issue to my heart," he said.
Another Republican Latino businessman in Des Moines - Juan Rodriguez - echoed Velasco's dismay with the lack of outreach from Republican candidates not named Gingrich. Rodriguez said the only other candidate to contact him was Ron Paul, but Paul never followed up. Like Velasco, Rodriguez is now set to support Gingrich in the caucuses.
Even though the focus in Iowa this week is on the GOP race, the Obama campaign is planning a major push to win back Iowa in 2008: it's already opened eight field offices in the state, held over 4,000 meetings, and made over 350,000 calls to potential supporters. The campaign brags that they are more active here than any of the Republican candidates, even though it has been the GOP hopefuls who have been invading the state for the past six months.
However, the chairman of the Iowa Republican Party counters with a number of his own: the GOP has now enjoyed 33 consecutive months of voter registration gains in the wake of Obama's 2009 inauguration.
"Iowa is the epitome of the failures not just from a policy standpoint, but politically, of the Obama administration. So I think coming out of Jan. 4, while everybody else goes on to New Hampshire and the other states for Republicans, we start building that organization, unifying here in Iowa and deliver Iowa's six electoral votes to the Republican nominee," Matt Strawn told Univision News in an interview the night before the caucuses. "It's not specific to Latino voters. If we are going to be successful in November in the general election… it isn't enough just to talk about the failures of the Obama administration. Our candidates need to lay out a compelling vision why a conservative Republican governing philosophy is better for meeting the challenges all Americans face, whether they are in the Latino community or other groups."
"Just being the angry guy in the room pointing out problems, a) isn't going to win, but it's not going to solve the problems we have," he said.
But without any direct outreach from Republican candidates, Latinos such as Zacarias are optimistic that Obama will win a second term - and that it will prove better than the first.
"Hopefully, this being the second term for him, he won't have a lot to lose and he'll be able to spend a lot of his political capital on Latino issues and leave a great legacy," Zacarias said.
Matthew Jaffe is covering the 2012 campaign for ABC News and Univision.


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How to Remove Labels From Binders
by Sommer Leigh
When reusing binders, it is often necessary to remove an attached label. Adhesives can make it impossible to remove labels. The longer the label has been on the binder, the more likely it is to have adhered permanently. Fortunately, there are some ways you can force the glue to break down, allowing you to remove the label.
Glue removing solvent
Moisten label with a substance that will break down the glue and release the rest of the label. Some effective substances include vinegar, cooking oil, rubbing alcohol, nail polish remover, peanut butter or a glue removing solvent. Allow to saturate for at least five minutes.
Peel off label, using a razor blade to release one edge and then pulling up.
Repeat step 1 if any residue remains and peel off remaining label pieces.
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Says Barack Obama will likely be her running mate
 Tom DeLay Takes the Blogosphere by Storm
DeLay: 'Hillary Will Be the Next President'
Says Barack Obama will likely be her running mate
Tom DeLay Takes the Blogosphere by Storm
Robert Bluey
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said today that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D.-N.Y.) would be elected president in 2008 and would probably tap Senate colleague Barack Obama (D.-Ill.) as her running mate.
DeLay met with conservative bloggers at a weekly lunch meeting hosted by HUMAN EVENTS and the Heritage Foundation. He is making the rounds in Washington to promote his new blog and activism website, TomDeLay.com.
DeLay said he was motivated to start the blog and create the Grassroots Action and Information Network after observing the success of liberal organizations such as MoveOn.org, the Media Fund and Americans Coming Together. He said he hopes to utilize some of the same tools to help Republicans win elections.
It's this liberal coalition, working in concert with the news media, that will propel Clinton to the White House in 2008, DeLay said. "Hillary will be the next president of the United States because they have built a coalition," he said.
DeLay also implored conservatives to start digging into Obama's past. He said Obama's record in the Illinois Senate was on par with a "Marxist leftist." Citing defeated U.S. Senate candidate Harold Ford of Tennessee, DeLay said Obama was attempting to disguise his liberal views. (Read Amanda Carpenter's report on Obama and his conflicting rhetoric.)
DeLay named Clinton loyalists Harold Ickes, Sidney Blumenthal, James Carville, Paul Begala and Joe Lockhart as the masterminds behind the left-wing coalition. He said that these groups, more than anything else, contributed to the GOP's fall this November. "I have never seen a more powerful coalition," he said.
One such example of the coalition's power played out precisely as planned in California's 11th District. Republican Rep. Richard Pombo was toppled after facing an onslaught of attacks from the left.
DeLay said his goal in creating the new organization is to turn ideas into action. He said he will reach out to the diverse coalition of conservative groups and bring them together to rival the coalition built by liberals. Prior to the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress, DeLay said he employed a similar strategy that the GOP has gradually abandoned.
One day after launching the new website, DeLay said he's had 100 people pay the $52 per year to join the Grassroots Action and Information Network.
Corporate Ally Does Well by Hillary
If Congress Is Serious About Reform, Here's What It Looks Like
Written By Robert Bluey
Mr. Bluey, a contributing editor to Human Events, is director of the Center for Media & Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation. He maintains a blog at RobertBluey.com.


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https://www.nhregister.com/connecticut/article/Newtown-businesses-adversely-affected-by-tragedy-11409842.php
Newtown businesses adversely affected by tragedy to share $500,000 from state
Published 12:00 am EST, Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
HARTFORD -- Gov. Dannel P. Malloy today announced a $500,000 Small Town Economic Assistance Program grant to Newtown to assist local businesses that incurred economic losses in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
Many area businesses were adversely impacted by weeks of road closures and having entrances blocked by excessive traffic and parking.
The funding will be administered by Newtown.
"Even as we work toward broader reforms to better protect our communities, these STEAP funds will have an immediate impact on the regional economy and protect area jobs," Malloy said.
"The Town of Newtown is very grateful to our state government, the governor, and the Office of Policy and Management for taking quick action to assist us in support of our Sandy Hook businesses," said E. Patricia Llodra, first selectman. "In the aftermath of the shootings, our businesses were essentially shut down by the volume of traffic and media preventing customers from getting to stores, services and restaurants during the busiest shopping days of the year. On behalf of the town, we are appreciative of this extraordinary kindness and appreciation for our difficulties."
"The tragedy in Newtown has permeated all aspects of our community. In addition to the obvious course we must take to begin our healing, we must not forget about the local businesses that have been adversely affected by this situation," said state Rep. Christopher Lyddy, D-Newtown. "This $500,000 grant reinforces that we value our local businesses and appreciate the contributions they make to our town. I am grateful to Governor Malloy and his administration for their quick action in supporting our efforts."
"In the midst of unimaginable shock and grief, the global response to the Newtown tragedy has been inspiring," said state Sen. John McKinney, R-Fairfield. "This grant will help Newtown's local businesses and the people they employ weather the economic toll this tragedy has taken on their community."
The grant is funded through an October 2012 allocation by the State Bond Commission.


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La Barra de Santiago o Complejo Barra de Santiago se ubica en los departamentos de Ahuachapán y Sonsonate incluyendo cantones de los municipios de San Francisco Menéndez, Jujutla y Acajutla. Fue declarado humedal importante el 23 de julio de 2014  por el Convenio de Ramsar, por tener una extensa zona de manglar dónde habitan, se reproducen y migran diferentes especies en estado de amenaza según la Lista Roja de la UICN.

El Humedal (Sitio Ramsar) tiene una extensión aproximada de 11,519 hectáreas. Siendo una de las áreas representativas de los manglares del Pacífico Norte de Centroamérica.

El principal objetivo del acuerdo Ramsar es: "La conservación y el uso racional de los humedales mediante acciones locales, regionales y nacionales", gracias a la cooperación internacional como contribución al logro de un desarrollo sostenible en todo el mundo.

Biodiversidad
El sitio brinda albergue a diferente fauna y flora tanto marina como terrestre: el pez mera, pez lagarto, caballitos de mar, sapos marinos, caimanes, cocodrilos, tortuga de carey, tortuga baule, tortuga negra, punches, cangrejo azul, curil, conchas, camarones además de coral común y coral verdadero.

También sirve de hábitat de aves como el gavilán cangrejero, gavilán caracolero, golondrina marina, martín pescador collarejo, lora nuca amarilla, pericón garganta roja. Y de mamíferos como nutrias, tepezcuintle, zorrillo de nariz de cerdo y diferentes tipos de murciélagos (alado blanco, de labios verrugosos, elegante.)

Dentro de los servicios ecosistémicos que brinda este humedal son: regulación del clima, incremento de la filtración, producción de agua, protección de suelo, protección contra eventos climáticos extremos (barrera natural) y como medio de vida local para sus habitantes (alimento, comercio turismo y materia prima como madera, cultivos, pesca.)

Vulnerabilidad
Según la Dirección General del Servicio Nacional de Estudios Territoriales y Servicio Oceanográfico Nacional del Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (El Salvador) entre 1857 y 1997 han ocurrido en El Salvador 11 evento de Tsunamis.

Uno los eventos de tsunami que afectó la zona de la Barra de Santiago fue el 26 de febrero de 1902 debido a un terremoto con epicentro frente  a  las  costas  de El Salvador y Guatemala de magnitud 7.0, dejando 100 fallecidos.

Especies
Acá ocurren especies de gran importancia para la conservación en El Salvador y Mesoamérica, como:

 Pez Machorra o Gaspar (Lepisosteus tropicus).
 Caimán de Anteojos (Caiman crocodylus).
 Cocodrilo Americano (Crocodylus acutus).
 Lora Nuca Amarilla (Amazona auropalliata, Yellow-naped Parrot).
 Nutria (Lontra longicaudus).
 Tortugas Carey del Pacífico Oriental (Eritmochelys imbricata).

Clima
Consta de un clima cálido tropical, que varía dependiendo de la época. Puede comprender temperaturas de 23-43 grados, con una fuerte humedad en su temporada lluviosa de hasta un 48%. Esta es una zona de vientos poderosos que pueden comprender fuerzas de hasta 4 km/h en las horas de la tarde, justo antes de que el sol se oculte.

Sitio Arqueológico

La isla El Cajete forma parte de la Barra de Santiago, esta conformada principalmente por manglares, en esta zona posee los restos de un centro ceremonial con aproximadamente 13 montículos y estructuras pertenecientes las Postclásico temprano.

Véase también
Chasca

Referencias

Bibliografía

Enlaces externos

El Diario de Hoy: Barra de Santiago

 Barra de Santiago, Manglares.

Geografía de El Salvador
Turismo en El Salvador
Cantones, caseríos y comunidades de El Salvador
Sitios Ramsar en El Salvador

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Deep Space Nine Now Available on Netflix Streaming
Brian Wilkins
As of Saturday, Netflix began streaming every episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. All seven seasons of the third Star Trek series are now available to Netflix customers who subscribe to their online streaming service.
The addition of DS9 completes the availability of every Star Trek television series on the companies streaming service. Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise were made available back in July and Star Trek: The Animated Series was added last month.
All 176 episodes are presented in their original 4:3 format.
For non-subscribers, Netflix is offering a free one-month trial of the service. Regular plans, which include online streaming to your computer or Netflix-ready device begin at $7.99 per month.
Which DS9 episodes are you most looking forward to watching again or seeing for the first time?
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In this article:Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Written By Brian Wilkins
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Lambaré (Guaraní Ambare, Land der Schatten, spanisch El Ambare, bzw. nach dem Häuptling Avambare) ist eine Stadt im Departamento Central in der Metropolregion der Landeshauptstadt Paraguays Asunción mit über 200.000 Einwohnern (2016) und Hauptstadt des gleichnamigen Distrito Lambaré.

Lambaré liegt im Süden Asuncións am Río Paraguay und damit nur 3 km von der argentinischen Grenze entfernt.

Eine der Sehenswürdigkeiten ist der Cerro Lambaré: Die höchste Erhebung der Region Asunción liegt an der Stadtgrenze zwischen Asunción und Lambaré, 12 km vom Zentrum Asuncións entfernt. Man hat einen Blick über die Stadt. Auf der Spitze des Cerro Lambaré steht eine Stele. Um diese Stele herum waren der Cacique Lambaré und auch Präsident Alfredo Stroessner überlebensgroß verewigt. 1989, mit dem Sturz Stroessners, wurde auch seine Statue entfernt. Der Cerro Lambaré ist leicht über die Zufahrtsstraße zu erreichen.

Weblinks
 Homepage der Stadt (im Bau)
 Lambaré auf fallingrain.com
 Lambaré – Ein Urlaubsort in der Nähe von Asunción

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Sadly, shootings have become an all-too-common occurrence, not just around the country, but in our community, too.
Ten years ago, my friend Pam Waechter was killed and five others critically injured in a hate crime shooting at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. At the time, I served as a Jewish Federation board member and helped in the immediate aftermath and with the long-term recovery. I saw firsthand the toll gun violence takes on the victims, their families and friends… and society at large.
Gun violence doesn't just affect one person, one body. Its effects ripple out like water, a single droplet becomes a wave.
Next year in Olympia, I will push my colleagues to take up meaningful legislation to further reduce gun deaths in our state.
But you don't have to be a legislator to change our state laws to prevent senseless gun violence. You can make a huge difference by joining with me and voting for I-1491 in November.
July 28 is the 10-year anniversary of the Jewish Federation shooting. It is also my daughter's birthday. I fight for stronger gun laws for the memory of my friend Pam and for a brighter—and less violent—future for my daughter and all the children in our community.


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use Zend\Code\NameInformation;

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				continue;
			} elseif ($type == T_DOC_COMMENT) {
				$this->docComment = $value;

				return $this->docComment;
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	}

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	}

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		$this->scan ();
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		$this->scan ();

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				throw new Exception\InvalidArgumentException ( 'Index of info offset is not about a class' );
			}
		} elseif (is_string ( $name )) {
			$classFound = false;
			foreach ( $this->infos as $info ) {
				if ($info ['type'] === 'class' && $info ['name'] === $name) {
					$classFound = true;
					break;
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			}

			if (! $classFound) {
				return false;
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		$infoIndex = 0;

		/*
		 * MACRO creation
		 */
		$MACRO_TOKEN_ADVANCE = function () use(&$tokens, &$tokenIndex, &$token, &$tokenType, &$tokenContent, &$tokenLine) {
			$tokenIndex = ($tokenIndex === null) ? 0 : $tokenIndex + 1;
			if (! isset ( $tokens [$tokenIndex] )) {
				$token = false;
				$tokenContent = false;
				$tokenType = false;
				$tokenLine = false;

				return false;
			}
			if (is_string ( $tokens [$tokenIndex] ) && $tokens [$tokenIndex] === '"') {
				do {
					$tokenIndex ++;
				} while ( ! (is_string ( $tokens [$tokenIndex] ) && $tokens [$tokenIndex] === '"') );
			}
			$token = $tokens [$tokenIndex];
			if (is_array ( $token )) {
				list ( $tokenType, $tokenContent, $tokenLine ) = $token;
			} else {
				$tokenType = null;
				$tokenContent = $token;
			}

			return $tokenIndex;
		};
		$MACRO_TOKEN_LOGICAL_START_INDEX = function () use(&$tokenIndex, &$docCommentIndex) {
			return ($docCommentIndex === false) ? $tokenIndex : $docCommentIndex;
		};
		$MACRO_DOC_COMMENT_START = function () use(&$tokenIndex, &$docCommentIndex) {
			$docCommentIndex = $tokenIndex;

			return $docCommentIndex;
		};
		$MACRO_DOC_COMMENT_VALIDATE = function () use(&$tokenType, &$docCommentIndex) {
			static $validTrailingTokens = null;
			if ($validTrailingTokens === null) {
				$validTrailingTokens = array (
						T_WHITESPACE,
						T_FINAL,
						T_ABSTRACT,
						T_INTERFACE,
						T_CLASS,
						T_FUNCTION
				);
			}
			if ($docCommentIndex !== false && ! in_array ( $tokenType, $validTrailingTokens )) {
				$docCommentIndex = false;
			}

			return $docCommentIndex;
		};
		$MACRO_INFO_ADVANCE = function () use(&$infoIndex, &$infos, &$tokenIndex, &$tokenLine) {
			$infos [$infoIndex] ['tokenEnd'] = $tokenIndex;
			$infos [$infoIndex] ['lineEnd'] = $tokenLine;
			$infoIndex ++;

			return $infoIndex;
		};

		/**
		 * START FINITE STATE MACHINE FOR SCANNING TOKENS
		 */

		// Initialize token
		$MACRO_TOKEN_ADVANCE ();

		SCANNER_TOP:

		if ($token === false) {
			goto SCANNER_END;
		}

		// Validate current doc comment index
		$MACRO_DOC_COMMENT_VALIDATE ();

		switch ($tokenType) {

			case T_DOC_COMMENT :

				$MACRO_DOC_COMMENT_START ();
				goto SCANNER_CONTINUE;

			case T_NAMESPACE :

				$infos [$infoIndex] = array (
						'type' => 'namespace',
						'tokenStart' => $MACRO_TOKEN_LOGICAL_START_INDEX (),
						'tokenEnd' => null,
						'lineStart' => $token [2],
						'lineEnd' => null,
						'namespace' => null
				);

				// start processing with next token
				if ($MACRO_TOKEN_ADVANCE () === false) {
					goto SCANNER_END;
				}

				SCANNER_NAMESPACE_TOP:

				if ($tokenType === null && $tokenContent === ';' || $tokenContent === '{') {
					goto SCANNER_NAMESPACE_END;
				}

				if ($tokenType === T_WHITESPACE) {
					goto SCANNER_NAMESPACE_CONTINUE;
				}

				if ($tokenType === T_NS_SEPARATOR || $tokenType === T_STRING) {
					$infos [$infoIndex] ['namespace'] .= $tokenContent;
				}

				SCANNER_NAMESPACE_CONTINUE:

				if ($MACRO_TOKEN_ADVANCE () === false) {
					goto SCANNER_END;
				}
				goto SCANNER_NAMESPACE_TOP;

				SCANNER_NAMESPACE_END:

				$namespace = $infos [$infoIndex] ['namespace'];

				$MACRO_INFO_ADVANCE ();
				goto SCANNER_CONTINUE;

			case T_USE :

				$infos [$infoIndex] = array (
						'type' => 'use',
						'tokenStart' => $MACRO_TOKEN_LOGICAL_START_INDEX (),
						'tokenEnd' => null,
						'lineStart' => $tokens [$tokenIndex] [2],
						'lineEnd' => null,
						'namespace' => $namespace,
						'statements' => array (
								0 => array (
										'use' => null,
										'as' => null
								)
						)
				);

				$useStatementIndex = 0;
				$useAsContext = false;

				// start processing with next token
				if ($MACRO_TOKEN_ADVANCE () === false) {
					goto SCANNER_END;
				}

				SCANNER_USE_TOP:

				if ($tokenType === null) {
					if ($tokenContent === ';') {
						goto SCANNER_USE_END;
					} elseif ($tokenContent === ',') {
						$useAsContext = false;
						$useStatementIndex ++;
						$infos [$infoIndex] ['statements'] [$useStatementIndex] = array (
								'use' => null,
								'as' => null
						);
					}
				}

				// ANALYZE
				if ($tokenType !== null) {

					if ($tokenType == T_AS) {
						$useAsContext = true;
						goto SCANNER_USE_CONTINUE;
					}

					if ($tokenType == T_NS_SEPARATOR || $tokenType == T_STRING) {
						if ($useAsContext == false) {
							$infos [$infoIndex] ['statements'] [$useStatementIndex] ['use'] .= $tokenContent;
						} else {
							$infos [$infoIndex] ['statements'] [$useStatementIndex] ['as'] = $tokenContent;
						}
					}
				}

				SCANNER_USE_CONTINUE:

				if ($MACRO_TOKEN_ADVANCE () === false) {
					goto SCANNER_END;
				}
				goto SCANNER_USE_TOP;

				SCANNER_USE_END:

				$MACRO_INFO_ADVANCE ();
				goto SCANNER_CONTINUE;

			case T_INCLUDE :
			case T_INCLUDE_ONCE :
			case T_REQUIRE :
			case T_REQUIRE_ONCE :

				// Static for performance
				static $includeTypes = array (
						T_INCLUDE => 'include',
						T_INCLUDE_ONCE => 'include_once',
						T_REQUIRE => 'require',
						T_REQUIRE_ONCE => 'require_once'
				);

				$infos [$infoIndex] = array (
						'type' => 'include',
						'tokenStart' => $MACRO_TOKEN_LOGICAL_START_INDEX (),
						'tokenEnd' => null,
						'lineStart' => $tokens [$tokenIndex] [2],
						'lineEnd' => null,
						'includeType' => $includeTypes [$tokens [$tokenIndex] [0]],
						'path' => ''
				);

				// start processing with next token
				if ($MACRO_TOKEN_ADVANCE () === false) {
					goto SCANNER_END;
				}

				SCANNER_INCLUDE_TOP:

				if ($tokenType === null && $tokenContent === ';') {
					goto SCANNER_INCLUDE_END;
				}

				$infos [$infoIndex] ['path'] .= $tokenContent;

				SCANNER_INCLUDE_CONTINUE:

				if ($MACRO_TOKEN_ADVANCE () === false) {
					goto SCANNER_END;
				}
				goto SCANNER_INCLUDE_TOP;

				SCANNER_INCLUDE_END:

				$MACRO_INFO_ADVANCE ();
				goto SCANNER_CONTINUE;

			case T_FUNCTION :
			case T_FINAL :
			case T_ABSTRACT :
			case T_CLASS :
			case T_INTERFACE :

				$infos [$infoIndex] = array (
						'type' => ($tokenType === T_FUNCTION) ? 'function' : 'class',
						'tokenStart' => $MACRO_TOKEN_LOGICAL_START_INDEX (),
						'tokenEnd' => null,
						'lineStart' => $tokens [$tokenIndex] [2],
						'lineEnd' => null,
						'namespace' => $namespace,
						'uses' => $this->getUsesNoScan ( $namespace ),
						'name' => null,
						'shortName' => null
				);

				$classBraceCount = 0;

				// start processing with current token

				SCANNER_CLASS_TOP:

				// process the name
				if ($infos [$infoIndex] ['shortName'] == '' && (($tokenType === T_CLASS || $tokenType === T_INTERFACE) && $infos [$infoIndex] ['type'] === 'class' || ($tokenType === T_FUNCTION && $infos [$infoIndex] ['type'] === 'function'))) {
					$infos [$infoIndex] ['shortName'] = $tokens [$tokenIndex + 2] [1];
					$infos [$infoIndex] ['name'] = (($namespace != null) ? $namespace . '\\' : '') . $infos [$infoIndex] ['shortName'];
				}

				if ($tokenType === null) {
					if ($tokenContent == '{') {
						$classBraceCount ++;
					}
					if ($tokenContent == '}') {
						$classBraceCount --;
						if ($classBraceCount === 0) {
							goto SCANNER_CLASS_END;
						}
					}
				}

				SCANNER_CLASS_CONTINUE:

				if ($MACRO_TOKEN_ADVANCE () === false) {
					goto SCANNER_END;
				}
				goto SCANNER_CLASS_TOP;

				SCANNER_CLASS_END:

				$MACRO_INFO_ADVANCE ();
				goto SCANNER_CONTINUE;
		}

		SCANNER_CONTINUE:

		if ($MACRO_TOKEN_ADVANCE () === false) {
			goto SCANNER_END;
		}
		goto SCANNER_TOP;

		SCANNER_END:

		/**
		 * END FINITE STATE MACHINE FOR SCANNING TOKENS
		 */

		$this->isScanned = true;
	}

	/**
	 * Check for namespace
	 *
	 * @param string $namespace
	 * @return bool
	 */
	public function hasNamespace($namespace) {
		$this->scan ();

		foreach ( $this->infos as $info ) {
			if ($info ['type'] == 'namespace' && $info ['namespace'] == $namespace) {
				return true;
			}
		}
		return false;
	}

	/**
	 *
	 * @param string $namespace
	 * @return null|array
	 * @throws Exception\InvalidArgumentException
	 */
	protected function getUsesNoScan($namespace) {
		$namespaces = array ();
		foreach ( $this->infos as $info ) {
			if ($info ['type'] == 'namespace') {
				$namespaces [] = $info ['namespace'];
			}
		}

		if ($namespace === null) {
			$namespace = array_shift ( $namespaces );
		} elseif (! is_string ( $namespace )) {
			throw new Exception\InvalidArgumentException ( 'Invalid namespace provided' );
		} elseif (! in_array ( $namespace, $namespaces )) {
			return null;
		}

		$uses = array ();
		foreach ( $this->infos as $info ) {
			if ($info ['type'] !== 'use') {
				continue;
			}
			foreach ( $info ['statements'] as $statement ) {
				if ($info ['namespace'] == $namespace) {
					$uses [] = $statement;
				}
			}
		}

		return $uses;
	}
}

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What are the environmental humanities?
Among the most pot ent recent academic buzzwords must figure "The Environmental Humanities". This bandwagon is clearly attractive: an ever-growing bouquet of new journals, positions, institutes, books, and networks carries this label.[*]
In this blog, I'd like to propose an alternative definition for what the environmental humanities constitute, one that goes a little bit against the standard definition. In short, instead of emphasising meta-discipline, interdisciplinarity, and knowledge domains, my definition emphasises modes of knowledge creation and communication. Let me explain.
The environmental humanities emerged in particular out of history and literature departments (environmental history, eco-criticism), with a number of other contributors from across a diverse spectrum of academia (Nye et al. 2013). Well-known figures like Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold are claimed as predecessors. Definitions of the environmental humanities, in my (perhaps naïve) reading, seem to coalesce around three points:
Meta-discipline. Each definition inevitably includes a list of disciplines, sub-disciplines, or fields of study which are said to constitute environmental humanities, or to contribute to them, and for which environmental humanities appears as a unifying umbrella. Combining Nye et al. (2013) and Forêt et al. (2014), we have eco-criticism, environmental history, digital humanities, geography, gender studies, anthropology, history of technology, political and cultural scientists, philosophers, writers, artists, and educators…
Interdisciplinarity. Each definition mentions the benefits of breaking down disciplinary boundaries, for new and more synthetic insights on today's environmental issues. Sometimes, this includes a corollary of how the inclusion of nature and materiality lead to reconsiderations of the epistemologies of fields more traditionally concerned just with cultural matters (Blanc et al., 2017).
Knowledge domains. Each definition emphasises a domain of interest or competence centred on cultural, historical, and ethical dimensions. For instance, the UNSW environmental humanities site states that environmental humanities "addresses contemporary environmental challenges in a way that is historically, philosophically and culturally informed…", in other words, "explores the many ways in which environmental problems are irreducibly entangled with social and cultural practices and questions of politics, knowledge, meaning, value and ethics."
Without necessarily contradicting these, I'd like to put forward a different definition. What if we define the environmental humanities instead as approaches to understanding and thinking about the environment that rely on non-cartesian, non-reductionist epistemologies, that choose a different path than hypothesis testing or theoretical development for knowledge creation, and that instead use narrative, argumentation, or other means to communicate human ideas, feelings, and experiences? So, to challenge the bullet-points above, I might propose the two below:
Modes of knowledge creation. The environmental humanities favour epistemologies that accord importance to human experiences, emotions, and interpretations, acquired not primarily through 'scientific' methodologies but instead through interpretive, humanistic, constructivist, and other allied approaches.
Modes of knowledge communication. The environmental humanities value scholarly outputs of diverse forms not restricted to impact-factor peer-reviewed journals, including for instance books, exhibits, or multimedia performances. Beauty of language, creativity, quality of narrative, and aesthetics (of websites, book covers) are celebrated almost as much as the message within.
In proposing this I'm relying on a certain understanding of what "the humanities" are. For me it is not necessarily a list of disciplines (though there are obvious overlaps), it is more about the culture of knowledge creation and communication. Building on C.P. Snow's (1959) famous work on the differences between the cultures of scientists and literary scholars, Jerome Kagan (2009) contrasts the "three cultures" of natural science, social science, and humanities. Humanists, as he calls practitioners of the latter culture, seek to understand human reactions and meanings, base their work on texts and sayings and observations "gathered under conditions of minimal control" (e.g. not experiments or surveys), and ascribe importance or beauty to "semantically coherent arguments described in elegant prose" (see his table below).
Table 1 from Kagan (2009), describing the differences between the three cultures
Several traditional fields like geography or anthropology stretch across these three cultures, with some practitioners following the classic scientific method, others addressing social theory, and yet others expressing more interpretive epistemologies. Recognition of humanistic approaches in geography was, most obviously, the reason behind the founding of the new AAG journal GeoHumanities the year before last. Obviously these distinctions have many gray areas, and are not clear blacks-and-whites.
To return to the subject, what are the advantages of my definition of environmental humanities – which emphasises a particular "culture" of approaches to the environment – as opposed to using the standard definition focused on discipline lists, interdisciplinarity, and types of knowledges? For one, it avoids limiting the environmental humanities to certain disciplinary boxes, whether history, literature, or philosophy. Second, it clarifies that the interdisciplinarity sought in many environmental humanities programs is among different practitioners of humanities-style approaches, as well as (in many cases) across the nature-society interface. Any good program in environmental studies will seek to involve people of all three cultures – as was my experience at Dartmouth College nearly three decades ago, with environmental chemists, geoscientists, and political scientists joined by ethicists and environmental writers and poets, like Noel Perrin. Third, with respect to knowledge domains, my definition is quite compatible with this aspect (the third bullet point) of the standard definition.
A final point: the inspiration, timing, and lead photo of this blog came from the very recent publication of a new book from the Publications de la Sorbonne, titled Humanités environnementales (detailed flyer here), edited by Guillaume Blanc, Élise Demeulenaere, and Wolf Feuerhahn. Instead of proposing to introduce the new umbrella field or meta-discipline, it sets itself a different task. It reviews the people and politics behind the environmental turn in nine traditional disciplines, specifically anthropology, history, philosophy, geography, sociology, literature, political science, economics, and law. The chapters are fantastically detailed and deep social and cultural histories of environmental approaches in the different disciplines, all of which contribute to today's dynamic discussions of the environmental humanities. Sub-fields considered include cultural ecology, anthropology of nature, environmental history, environmental ethics, political ecology, ecocriticism, green political theory, ecological economics, environmental law. (Simon Batterbury and I contributed the chapter on geography, tracing in particular the emergence of academic political ecology in France, a subject upon which I have blogged previously – preprint here). It also includes a useful chapter on the intertwined yet separate histories of the terms milieu, environment, environnement, Umwelt, and nature across academia and across languages; and a chapter highlighting the genealogy of the environmental humanities internationally and in France.
In the introduction, the editors identify five common themes across the nine disparate disciplinary examples. First, of course, there is always a call on interdisciplinarity, particularly with ecology, though this appears more often wished-for than real. Second, materiality is again on the agenda, after several decades of post-structuralist turns across humanities. Third, there are ways in which looking across the nature-culture divide challenges the established epistemologies of the disciplines concerned. Fourth, environmental approaches across the nine disciplines emphasise the importance of the social and cultural perspectives of non-scientific actors like farmers or indigenous peoples. Finally, fifth, there is a common link to environmental activism across the disciplinary cases (Blanc et al. 2017, pp. 15-16).
Interestingly, the book explicitly addresses both the social sciences and humanities. These are known as les sciences humaines et sociales in France, often treated together – so much so that the acronym SHS is well known (Anthropology and philosophy have much more overlap in France than in the anglophone world, for example; Elise Demeulenaere reminds me that Maurice Godelier in the 1980s played a big role in keeping the humanités and the sciences sociales together through an institutional reform in the CNRS). Les humanités has a more restrictive meaning in French (traditionally limited to languages and literature) than in English. By being so oriented towards disciplines, sub-fields within the disciplines, and interdisciplinarity as represented by the environmental humanities, I feel the book (otherwise fascinating and excellent) misses a chance to engage with the epistemological and communication aspects I raise above. Except, perhaps, that the cover image of a lonesome crowd-control bar at Monument Valley is indeed a beautiful, expressive piece of environmental humanities artwork.
Blanc, G, E Demeulenaere & W Feuerhahn (2017) Les sciences humaines et sociales aux prises avec l'environnement. Pp. 7-18 in Humanités environnementales: enquêtes et contre-enquêtes. Paris: Sorbonne.
Forêt, P, M Hall & C Kueffer (2014) Developing the environmental humanities: a Swiss perspective. GAIA 23 (1):67-69.
Kagan, J (2009) The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century. Cambridge University Press.
Nye, D. et al. (2013) The emergence of the environmental humanities. Mistra background paper.
Snow, CP (1959) The Two Cultures. Cambridge University Press.
[*]A very non-exhaustive list of environmental humanities (EH) journals, positions, institutes, and networks that I've bumped into:
Journals: Environmental Humanities (2012); Resilience: a Journal of the Environmental Humanities (2014); GeoHumanities (2015)
Positions: first Australian professorship in EH, Kate Rigby at Monash University (2013-2015), now same at Bath Spa University, at UK's first centre for EH.
Institutes: EH discipline, UNSW School of Languages and Humanities; EH Laboratory, KTU Stockholm (2011); the EH research group in my own institute, IGD, University of Lausanne (2014); Research Centre for EH, Bath Spa University (2015),
Networks: Portail des humanités environnementales (France, 2013), EH Switzerland (2014), Australian EH Hub (2014),
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4 Responses to What are the environmental humanities?
simon batterbury says:
Cheers. Materialist comment. "instead use narrative, argumentation, or other means to communicate human ideas, feelings, and experiences?" "epistemologies that accord importance to human experiences, emotions, and interpretations, acquired not primarily through 'scientific' methodologies but instead through interpretive, humanistic, constructivist, and other allied approaches." I suddenly thought of Trump, here-interpretations and argumentation are his key tools too, but they are used to manipulate for egotisitcal and poltiical ends! In sum, all good to go 'beyond' Cartesian knowledge, but I think the EH need some anchors to scientific 'truths'? SB
christiankull says:
Indeed! Guess I wasn't about to throw the baby out with the bathwater, but it could be read that way!
Jenia Mukherjee says:
Thought provoking..does the book has an English version?
Sorry, no!


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'Little Women' First Look: Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, Emma Watson, And More Are Radiant In Greta Gerwig's New Adaptation
By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 19, 2019 12:45 pm EST
Christmas has come early for fans of Louisa May Alcott's classic coming-of-age novel that has spawned countless screen adaptations and legions of lifelong fans. But no matter how many times the story of four sisters growing up in post-Civil War America is told, Little Women will always feel undeniably fresh. Even more so with Greta Gerwig's upcoming adaptation, which features Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet leading a stacked cast of rising talents and award-winning stars. As if the cast — and the prospect of a Lady Bird reunion — couldn't get us excited enough, the debut of the first Little Women images look spectacular.
Little Women First Look
Vanity Fair debuted the first images from Greta Gerwig's highly anticipated Little Women adaptation, showing Ronan and Timothée Chalamet as Jo March and Theodore "Laurie" Laurence, respectively, as well as the remaining March sisters played by Sharp Objects breakout Eliza Scanlan (Beth), Emma Watson (Meg), and Midsommar's Florence Pugh (Amy). Laura Dern also makes an appearance as the March matriarch looking rather glum, likely at the prospect of the March sisters' father (Bob Odenkirk) being kept away at war. The supporting cast also includes Meryl Streep as the rich Aunt March.
The first image features Ronan and Chalamet as Jo and Laurie, two childhood friends whose close relationship is the central thread to the story. They will be stepping into the roles last played by Winona Ryder and Christian Bale, who famously broke viewers' hearts in the 1994 Little Women. But based on this image, which shows Ronan and Chalamet looking ridiculously good while both wearing coats and ties, the new Little Women could exceed even the love for the '90s film. That androgynous costuming touch was intentional on Gerwig's part — she explains to Vanity Fair that costume designer Jacqueline Durran made the pair swap clothes throughout the film — and a new modern reading of Jo and Laurie's frequently debated relationship. "Jo is a girl with a boy's name, Laurie is a boy with a girl's name," Gerwig told Vanity Fair. "In some ways they are each other's twins."
She explained, "They find each other before they've committed to a gender. It wouldn't be wrong to call Saoirse handsome and Timothée beautiful. Both have a slightly androgynous quality that makes them perfect for these characters."
It's this kind of interpretation that makes Gerwig's new take on Little Women so exciting, even if the casting of Emma Watson as Meg and Florench Pugh as an older Amy give me pause. Watson looks great in these images, but her acting in recent roles have left much to be desired, while Pugh's casting potentially speeds up the arc of an already divisive character. But qualms aside, these images look fantastic and have left me nothing else but rapturous.
Little Women will open in theaters December 25, 2019.


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afraid of his own shadow.
He then spoke gently to the horse, and patted him with his hand. When
he had qui-et-ed him a little, he made a quick spring, and leaped upon
the horse's back.
Everybody expected to see the boy killed outright. But he kept his
place, and let the horse run as fast as he would. By and by, when
Bucephalus had become tired, Alexander reined him in, and rode back to
the place where his father was standing.
All the men who were there shouted when they saw that the boy had
proved himself to be the master of the horse.
He leaped to the ground, and his father ran and kissed him.
"My son," said the king, "Macedon is too small a place for you. You
must seek a larger kingdom that will be worthy of you."
After that, Alexander and Bucephalus were the best of friends. They
were said to be always together, for when one of them was seen, the
other was sure to be not far away. But the horse would never allow any
one to mount him but his master.
Alexander became the most famous king and warrior that was ever known;
and for that reason he is always called Alexander the Great.
Bucephalus carried him through many countries and in many fierce
battles, and more than once did he save his master's life.
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Technology|How the Promise of a $120 Billion Uber I.P.O. Evaporated
How the Promise of a $120 Billion Uber I.P.O. Evaporated
Uber's top executives, including the chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, and the chief financial officer, Nelson Chai, middle, gathered at the New York Stock Exchange last week for the company's I.P.O.CreditCreditMichael Nagle/Bloomberg
By Mike Isaac, Michael J. de la Merced and Andrew Ross Sorkin
Last September, Uber's top executives were pitched by some of Wall Street's biggest banks, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
The bankers' presentations calculated Uber's valuation almost identically, hovering around one particular number: $120 billion.
That was the figure the bankers said they could convince investors Uber was worth when it listed its shares on the stock market, according to three people with knowledge of the talks. Uber's chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, and chief financial officer, Nelson Chai, listened and discussed the presentations, these people said. Then they hired Morgan Stanley as lead underwriter, along with Goldman Sachs and others, to take the company public — and to effectively make the $120 billion valuation a reality.
Nine months later, Uber is worth about half that figure. The ride-hailing firm went public last week at $45 a share and has since dropped to around $41, pegging Uber's market capitalization at $69 billion — and officially crowning it as the stock market debut that lost more in dollar terms than any other American initial public offering since 1975.
How Uber's offering turned into what some are now openly calling a "train wreck" began with the $120 billion number that the bankers floated. The figure leaked last year, whipping up a frenzy over how Uber could soon become the biggest American company to list on an American stock exchange — larger even than Facebook, which went public in 2012 at a whopping $104 billion valuation.
But for Mr. Khosrowshahi and Mr. Chai, the $120 billion number turned Uber's I.P.O. process into an exercise in managing expectations. Some large investors who already owned Uber shares at cheaper prices pushed back against buying more of the stock at such a lofty number, said people familiar with the matter. Their appetite for Uber was dampened further by the company's deep losses and slowing growth in regions like Latin America. And Uber had to contend with unforeseen factors, including fraying trade talks with China that spooked the stock market in the same week that the company decided to go public.
Uber signage decorated the exterior of the New York Stock Market last week.CreditJeenah Moon for The New York Times
The result has created a host of pointed questions for all involved in Uber's I.P.O., from Mr. Khosrowshahi and Mr. Chai to the underwriters at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America. While Uber raised $8.1 billion from its offering and reaped billions of dollars in returns for its early investors and founders, what should have been a climactic moment for a transportation colossus instead became an embarrassment.
The extent of the fallout may not be clear for a while, and it is too early to judge how Uber will ultimately fare in the public markets. But as many other tech-related companies aim to go public this year, including the food-delivery company Postmates and the real-estate firm WeWork, they will have to contend with whether Uber has squelched what had been a red-hot I.P.O. market.
"The $69 billion market cap Uber had when the market closed today is a new reality," said Shawn Carolan, partner at Menlo Ventures, which invested early in the company. But he added that Uber's executives now had "the opportunity to show us what they can do."
This account of Uber's I.P.O. was based on interviews with a dozen people involved in or briefed on the process. Many asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Representatives from Uber, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs declined to comment.
For years, Uber was an investor darling. As a privately held company, it gorged on capital from venture capital firms like Benchmark and GV, mutual fund firms like Fidelity Investments, and companies like SoftBank. Its private valuation shot up from $60 million in 2011 to $76 billion by August.
Mr. Khosrowshahi, who became chief executive in late 2017, was recruited partly to steer Uber through a successful I.P.O. Uber's board agreed to pay him $45 million in cash and restricted stock — and set an unusually specific valuation target for an additional bonus. In a provision in Mr. Khosrowshahi's compensation agreement, which was revealed in the company's I.P.O. prospectus, the board said that if Uber was valued in the public market at $120 billion or more for at least three months in the next five years, he would receive a payout of $80 million to $100 million.
SoftBank, the Japanese company run by Masayoshi Son, helped fund Uber's competitors in Latin America.CreditKiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg
That provision set something of a goal for Uber, which the investment bankers who were hired to take the company public also gravitated toward. Within weeks of the banks' presentations on the $120 billion, that number leaked, leading to giddy speculation in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street that Uber's offering could usher in a golden era of wealth.
By December, Uber's I.P.O. team was set. At the company, Mr. Chai, a former chief financial officer at Merrill Lynch, was charged with leading the public offering. At Morgan Stanley, Michael Grimes, the firm's star tech banker, was the point person, assisted by Kate Claassen, head of internet banking. Goldman Sachs's team was led by Gregg Lemkau, Kim Posnett and David Ludwig. Bank of America's was headed by Neil Kell and Ric Spencer.
Almost immediately, the setbacks began, starting with Uber's business. Its once-meteoric growth rate was slowing as its geographic expansion appeared to be running out of room and as competitors continued springing up across the world.
One growth headache was connected to Uber's biggest investor, SoftBank. The Japanese company, which has a $100 billion Vision Fund that it uses to invest in all manner of companies, has poured capital into technology start-ups including Didi Chuxing, China's biggest ride-hailing company, and 99, a transportation start-up in Latin America.
In January 2018, Didi agreed to acquire 99. Both SoftBank and Didi also started directing funds toward pushing deeper into Latin America; SoftBank eventually created a $5 billion fund earmarked specifically for investing in Latin American companies.
For Uber, the timing was terrible. The region was one of its most promising growth areas, and its competition had ramped up. By this February, the damage in Latin America had begun showing up in Uber's results in the form of slowing growth.
In March, Lyft, the ride-hailing rival run by John Zimmer, left, and Logan Green, went public and dropped below its offering price on its second day of trading.CreditAlex Welsh for The New York Times
Uber's food delivery business, UberEats, was under attack as well. SoftBank had sunk hundreds of millions of dollars into DoorDash, a food delivery company in the United States. More recently, SoftBank invested $1 billion into Rappi, a food delivery company in Latin America. Uber had to spend more to battle those rivals.
SoftBank and Didi declined to comment. (Uber and Didi own shares in each other as well.)
The slowing growth led to lukewarm investor demand for Uber's shares, according to two of the people involved in the matter. Some investors argued that Uber needed to price its offering lower, these people said.
Some investors were also resisting because they had earlier invested in Uber at cheaper prices. Since its founding in 2009, Uber has taken in more than $10 billion from mutual fund firms, private equity investors and others, meaning that its stock was already widely held among those institutions that traditionally buy shares in an I.P.O. So the I.P.O. essentially became an exercise in getting existing investors to purchase more shares — a tough sell, especially at a higher price.
In March, another problem cropped up. Uber's rival in North America, Lyft, went public and promptly fell below its offering price on its second day of trading. Investors appeared skeptical about whether Lyft could make money, setting a troublesome precedent for Uber.
By the time Uber made its I.P.O. prospectus available in April, it had already told some existing investors that its offering could value it at up to $100 billion — down from the initial $120 billion.
Inside Uber, two people familiar with the deliberations said the company's board was also not fully briefed on how Mr. Khosrowshahi and other executives planned to pitch the firm to investors in what is known as a "roadshow." Only a smaller group of board members, who were part of a pricing committee — including Mr. Khosrowshahi, Ronald Sugar, who is also Uber's chairman, and David Trujillo of TPG — focused on the I.P.O., these people said.
A screen at the New York Stock Exchange displayed Uber's logo and price after the closing bell on the first day of trading.CreditBrendan McDermid/Reuters
Another person close to the board said that all board members were invited to attend pricing discussions and I.P.O. event planning, and that all materials from the pricing committee were made available. Some members were more active than others, the person said.
In late April, Uber proposed a price range of $44 to $50 a share for its offering, putting its valuation at $80 billion to $91 billion, below the $100 billion it had floated just a few weeks earlier.
The company soon hit other obstacles. President Trump tweeted this month that he wanted to raise tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods, unsettling global stock markets. The day before Uber priced its I.P.O., Lyft reported a $1.14 billion loss for its first quarter, renewing questions about the health of ride-hailing businesses.
Uber's executives, board and bankers discussed the final pricing of the stock sale on May 9. Several board members pushed for a price at the higher end of the $44- to $50-a-share range, said the people briefed on the situation.
But Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and others agreed that it needed to be lower, they said. The list of orders from potential investors, known in Wall Street jargon as the "book," showed that the most desirable investors — the big asset managers who were most likely to hold on to the shares, even in tough times — were interested only in the lower price.
The final price: $45 a share.
That evening, Mr. Khosrowshahi and his management team gathered in Manhattan at Daniel, a Michelin-star restaurant a few blocks east of Central Park, at a "pricing dinner" hosted by Morgan Stanley. The mood was upbeat, according to two people familiar with the evening.
But the next morning, that mood had changed. Uber executives arrived at the New York Stock Exchange, where the company was listing its shares. Before the first trade, monitors that lined the exchange floor displayed how Uber's stock was likely to fall — flashing up $45, $44, before finally opening at $42. The chatter quieted.
The rest of the day was little better. Uber's stock never rose close to its $45 offering price. As the so-called stabilization agent, charged with helping trading in Uber stock, Morgan Stanley made some moves to support the shares, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Yet by the end of the day, while the S&P 500 index closed up, Uber's stock remained down.
On Wednesday, Uber closed at $41.29, more than 8 percent below its offering price.
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A 5-Point Plan for Improving Vaccination Efforts in Communities of Color
By Jennifer Chesak
Jennifer Chesak
Jennifer Chesak is a medical journalist, editor, and fact-checker with bylines in several national publications. She earned her Master of Science in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in the United States.
A new report provides a blueprint for fair and equitable COVID-19 vaccine distribution in BIPOC communities. It includes a five-point plan to help elected and appointed officials build trust and lay groundwork for rectifying health disparities.
Experts say that the pandemic should be a catalyst for creating meaningful social change going forward.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), longstanding disparities have resulted in the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affecting Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in the United States.
In a joint effort by Johns Hopkins and Texas State universities, a new report is advocating for fair and equitable COVID-19 vaccine distribution to ease the burden on BIPOC communities. The report also expresses the urgency of addressing the inequalities these communities face.
What Are Health Disparities?
"This is an opportunity, especially now, with the federal government and states to start putting their money where their mouth is," Emily Brunson, MPH, PhD, associate professor of anthropology at Texas State University, tells Verywell. "They want COVID fixed. We're telling them this is the only way to fix it with these communities who aren't going to trust anything less than this."
Emily Brunson, MPH, PhD
We feel that as vaccination is rolling out, that issues of equity are not being paid attention to in the way that they need to be or the way that they could be.
— Emily Brunson, MPH, PhD
With increased investment, Brunson says that "you can really turn around and change things so that the health of the country is literally better moving forward."
Brunson is co-chair for the Working Group on Equity in COVID-19 Vaccination, which released the report. It's the first of several that the group has planned.
"We feel that as vaccination is rolling out, that issues of equity are not being paid attention to in the way that they need to be or the way that they could be," Brunson says.
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The report offers a five-point plan to help elected and appointed officials create and carry out vaccination efforts in BIPOC communities to prevent further adversity brought on by the pandemic.
The five key principles are:
For the first principle of iteration, Brunson says that building trust is crucial. Trust can be forged through listening first, rather than just telling people in marginalized communities to get vaccinated.
"Their healthcare needs have been for decades overlooked," Brunson says, "but they've been asking for help with certain things and have been told that there's no funding for that, or just dismissed and not paid attention to. That has to change. There needs to be some active listening and then figuring out ways that they can work together moving forward."
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For the involvement principle, Brunson says that trust can also be forged when community advocates become active collaborators, allowing communities to own the vaccination process.
To achieve these, Brunson says that "public health needs to engage with these representatives" in BIPOC communities.
Advocates are effective ways to convey vaccine information, the third key principle of the report. Verywell spoke to an advocate on the national level, Sandra Lindsay, MS, MBA, RN, CCRN-K, NE-BC, director of nursing for critical care at Northwell Health's Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, New York.
Lindsay, who was born in Jamaica and has been a nurse in the U.S. for 26 years, volunteered to be the first person in the states to receive the vaccine once rollout began.
Sandra Lindsay, MSN, MBA, RN, CCRN, NE-BC
I know that just me taking the vaccine—just one woman, a Black woman taking the vaccine is not going to erase the centuries of pain and harm that have been done. But I've also seen the other side of it—what this virus can do to our community, what it has disproportionately done to our community.
— Sandra Lindsay, MSN, MBA, RN, CCRN, NE-BC
"I know that just me taking the vaccine—just one woman, a Black woman taking the vaccine is not going to erase the centuries of pain and harm that have been done," Lindsay says. "But I've also seen the other side of it—what this virus can do to our community, what it has disproportionately done to our community. And I am willing to trust the science."
What Is Health Equity and How Do We Get There?
The report's fourth principle, investment, involves making the vaccine rollout more equitable and addressing health disparities. "Public health has been something that has largely been underfunded for decades in the U.S.," Brunson says. "This isn't a new thing. This has been an ongoing issue. And the impacts, especially for people of color, have been particularly bad."
The final key principle in the report is integration. The plan cautions that an effective vaccination rollout should not be the end goal. Instead, it should be viewed as a catalyst for "meaningful social change."
"The pandemic itself is an opportunity to change," Brunson says. "But we're at a cultural moment that also will facilitate the type of change that really does need to happen."
The report also offers opportunities to lay the groundwork for remedying many of the longstanding disparities experienced by BIPOC—especially in health care.
Health Disparities and Barriers to Vaccination
Vaccine equity involves the intricacies of access beyond eligibility in terms of age or underlying conditions. Brunson says that because the federal government did not provide clear guidance to states on the rollout, people in different social situations have been left out.
Brunson mentions the southern part of Texas as an area of concern. "They have vaccination sites, but in order to get to the vaccination sites, you'll have to cross a checkpoint. And when you have people who are not here legally, or maybe part of their family is not here legally, that can be prohibitive and not feel safe. And so that is a huge barrier."
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A barrier to an individual is also a barrier for the whole population. "The fact of the matter is, that in terms of vaccination for this disease, it doesn't matter if someone's here legally or not," Brunson says. "We need everybody that can be vaccinated to be vaccinated."
In terms of vaccination for this disease, it doesn't matter if someone's here legally or not. We need everybody that can be vaccinated to be vaccinated.
Manuel Pastor, PhD, head of the University of Southern California's Equity Research Institute, tells Verywell that California has 2.2 to 2.3 million undocumented immigrants. In Los Angeles County, 18% of the population is undocumented or living with an undocumented family member.
"When you create an atmosphere where undocumented folks fear tapping into a system that might serve them, that creates a chilling effect, not just for them, but for their families," Pastor says. "Don't you want that entire family protected to protect your family?"
There are many jobs that undocumented immigrants in California and other states that support the nation's workforce as a whole. Pastor notes industries such as childcare, agriculture, food service, and eldercare, as examples.
Pastor, who is a member of Govenor Newsom's COVID-19 Recovery Task Force, says that California has initiatives to promote healthcare equity during the pandemic, including COVID-19 vaccine distribution.
"When the state unveiled its contract with Blue Cross Blue Shield to become the third party administrator for the distribution of vaccines, there are metrics in there that require that the vaccination profiles look similar in the most economically and socially disadvantaged neighborhoods to those in the county as a whole," Pastor says. "Those are things which coupled with a commitment to not freeze out the undocumented are likely to ensure that they are protected."
Another concern with vaccine access involves site location and hours. Brunson mentions centralized hubs as a potential barrier. "When you have people where there's no public transportation, and you have people who are too poor to even put gas in the car that they do own, or they are working three different jobs and there's no way they can take time off to sit in the line—all these things are related to equity."
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Repairing Broken Trust and Moving Forward
Even when the barriers to vaccine access are removed, centuries of inequality lead to a persisting lack of trust in government and health care in many communities.
Lindsay believes in a path forward to healing and rectifying these disparities. "The first thing we have to do is acknowledge that this happened, and not pretend that it didn't happen and [make sure] it doesn't continue to happen in terms of disparities in health care," she says. "Apologize when an apology is necessary and alleviate any harm and suffering moving forward."
Diversifying Healthcare Providers
Part of the solution lies in addressing the disparities that exist in the administration of health care. Lindsay hopes that more people of color will have the opportunity to go to medical or nursing school, then come back and serve their communities.
For those who are in the healthcare profession and working with communities that face disparities, Lindsay points out what is not helpful. For one, people who do not have information about a community should not lecture its members about exercise or healthy food. For example, a person in a marginalized community might not feel safe going out for a run because they are worried about getting shot.
The Role of Minority Stress in Health Disparities
Open, Real Conversations
What is helpful, and critically important, is having open and real conversations about the COVID-19 vaccine—especially for those who are facing healthcare disparities. "People look at this and say, 'OK, you don't address our needs normally, and now a vaccine comes and you want us to take it?" Lindsay says. "'Well, what about after COVID is gone, then what will happen?'"
Lindsay has been working on the front lines of the pandemic and wants to speak out about the vaccine. She hopes that she can ease people's fears and be a trusted and forthright advocate.
"I had no fear going and taking the vaccine," she says. "My fear was every day I had to come to work without the protection. I've never feared my profession, and I'm proud to be a nurse. I hope I never have that feeling again. But since I've gotten the vaccine, I am hopeful."
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Hospitalization and death by race/ethnicity.
Schoch-Spana M, Brunson E, Hosangadi D, Long R, Ravi S, Taylor M, Trotochaud M, Veenema TG on behalf of the Working Group on Equity in COVID-19 Vaccination. Equity in vaccination: a plan to work with communities of color toward COVID-19 recovery and beyond. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
Jennifer Chesak is a medical journalist, editor, and fact-checker with bylines in several national publications. She earned her Master of Science in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School. Her coverage focuses on COVID-19, chronic health issues, women's medical rights, and the scientific evidence around health and wellness trends.
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Serial killer continues to kill in uMthwalume in the KwaZulu-Natal province.
By @Morgirl (self media writer) | 1 year ago
The body that was recently found in Mthwalume was not linked to the other killings.
KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt-Gen khombinkosi Jula says that there is no indication that the sixth body found in uMthwalume was linked to other five bodies that were found in that area.
The body that was found is believed to be a female body. It was found on the side of the road burned. The body was found by people who were walking to work in the morning. There is no indication that these murderes might be connected.
The uMthwalume commuters are afraid that they might be dealing with different serial killers. The commuters feel like the police are not doing enough to protect them from this tragedies to happening. People are now afraid to even send their children to the shops as it seems as if nothing is safe.
The police are planted in the area patrolling day and knight but this still happens. This is really a serious issue that Ned's agent attention. What could be the cause of this situation and why is it happening?
Zikalala also visited some of the homes of the victims homes. Khomo who was arrested as a suspect killed himself in the cells. That killed the hope of the family who lost their loved ones on his hands. The families feel that they will never find closure as he was the only one who can answer them about why he killed their families members.
The commuters feel that the Police failed them. How can a person kill himself inside the cells?. The suspect was supposed to be watched 24/7 because he is linked to so many crimes and the people need answers.
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You should be cautious about the lenders promising quality service with very low cost than predicted. Some Large Dumpster For Rent in Marshfield corporations fallow marketing tactics and appear low estimate price within their display. The actual pricing these Large Dumpster For Rent in Marshfield companies entails hidden charges and you will be amazed on getting the final expenses. Always choose to go for a firm that is transparent in its prices.
Understanding the fast requirement, many Large Dumpster For Rent in Marshfield, VT companies give instant services to the problem zones in line with the availability. The actual delivery will be done about first appear first offer basis. Such companies place social obligation to their targets hence cares for you more intended for providing a top quality service to individuals on need to have at an reasonably priced cost as an alternative to adding another buck within their account.
A different topic to handle when making some sort of rental is identifying the space where the container will reside. Commonly at a home the dumpsters will be set on the driveway and the street. A vital fact to recall is that in many areas some sort of permit is required if a jar is placed at work. Calling town and purchasing some sort of permit can certainly resolve this kind of, or sometimes a permit can be secured through the rental firm. The area the dumpster will be dropped off should be eliminated of any risks, which include: minimal lying power lines, tree branches, fences or even unleveled ground.
Acquire associated with the Large Dumpster For Rent in Marshfield, VT service provider, who notifies the customer straight up about the items that can be disposed into a dumpster, costs of the Large Dumpster For Rent in Marshfield, VT and terms and conditions of the disposal. When you invest in associated with a firm that can give quality services at reasonably priced cost, you might realize that junk removal about completion of your hard work was never this kind of easy and this kind of affordable.
So if you want your rental dumpster supplied and grasped time, complete a bit of research to locate a quality firm. You'll also reap the benefits of friendlier services, better costs and more flexibility to meet your current demands. As long as you're busy repairing your renovation venture, do you really wish to add additional stress? 4th, once you get your current dumpster, make sure that the materials you are throwing out are authorized by the municipality your home is in. You cannot dispose of combustible or hazardous materials or even tires and appliances within your dumpster. You can get hit with a okay if you set illegal materials in your dumpster. Therefore, find out what the guidelines are about what you can and should not throw away prior to starting your project.
Lastly, the use of a reverse phone lookup would additionally allow you to prevent having a front-yard loaded with trash, through remodeling. As well as seen leading yard associated with someone's residence filled with sofa sets, dry wall, roof tiles and outdated carpet, among other things? Maybe, you may have experienced this kind of yourself. While you wait for the garbage pickup to arrive, you are hoping there is no nasty conditions that will appear through and move the debris to leading yards associated with some of others like you as well as into the street. This could be aggravating in addition to embarrassing.
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