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Cold Spring has identified we in fact do have Neanderthal DNA. They didn't go extinct as previously thought, we made love instead. Northern Italy is the epicenter of the most Neanderthal DNA within our present species.
I have been wondering about this for a good while. You know, that makes sense.
Yep, the Neanderthals weren't stupid at all, just different.
Actually that is the one premise of scientology that holds a plausible explanation for this so called missing link in man's evolution that scientist speak. It would invalidate evolution theories as we understand them now. I mean we are approaching the ability to craft designer babies, Not so far fetched??
Not even a lobster one ?
We had a dentist in the SF Bay area who was a Scientologist. He sent his two young daughters, 12 & 14, to live in the Sea Org in LA in the mid 90's. They could still be there (?).
He would hire temporary dentists to handle his office while he was at "Flag" in Clearwater for months at a time getting plumbed up with the program - believe they called it being "audited".
He recruited a number of his office staff into becoming Scientologists.
I read Leah Rimini's book called "Troublemaker" about her lifelong experience with Scientology. Very eye-opening.


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The Coins Honoring Our Founding Father
"Before there was a nation, before there was a symbol of this young nation — a flag, a constitution, a national seal — there was Washington. Even when in the course of revolutionary events a flag did appear and a Constitution, they did not have a long tradition behind them. But Washington was there, steadying the symbols, lending strength to them instead of drawing from them." -Garry Wills
After a long, hard-fought Revolutionary war, the United States and Great Britain signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783. British troops finally left New York City in November, 1783 and in December George Washington resigned as Commander of the Revolutionary Army. America was free to chart its own course as an independent nation, no longer subject to the British monarchy.
Americans and many British sympathizers adored George Washington and wanted to pay homage to the man who wrested control of American away from the British and won freedom for his nation.
Born on February 22, 1732 in the state of Virginia, Washington was a Founding Father of the United States of America, a distinguished military commander who helped win the war by leading troops to significant victories against the British, and our nation's first President.
"The ultimate significance of George Washington's life lies in the fact that he singlehandedly redefined our traditional idea of greatness. To his everlasting credit, George Washington was ambiguous about power. The man who could have been king insisted that sovereignty lay with the people, however imperfect their judgment. At the end of the war and again at the end of his presidency, he calmly walked away from power." - Richard Norton Smith
The Washington pieces were coined from 1783 through 1795 and quickly became popular with both British collectors and Americans. This category includes a variety of coins, tokens and medals, some were even produced in Britain, denominated with a half-penny or cent value.
Most of the high grade examples of each type that have survived were carefully preserved by British collectors. Meanwhile, the many well-worn surviving coins actually circulated in America.
Today, these colonial coins are all very rare and highly sought after by numismatics. Many included patriotic slogans and designs like eagles, shields, and stars, features that eventually were used on coins minted by the U.S. Mint.
Some, like the 1783 UNITY STATES and the 1793 Ship Halfpennies are fairly common. While others such as the Roman Head, dated 1783 and feature a left-facing bust of Washington wearing alternately a Roman toga or a military jacket are extremely rare and highlight sought after.
Collectors still actively seek out the 1791-dated copper tokens denominated ONE CENT. These tokens reveal a flattering and fairly accurate portrait of Washington facing left, dressed in a military jacket. There are two major types of the ONE CENT 1791 token, each display an eagle with a shield upon its breast. The first features the eagle with inverted wings, while the second and rarer type highlights a smaller eagle with its wings raised. Both show the eagle carrying an olive branch in its right claw and a bundle of arrows in its left.
Another popular item are brass tokens featuring the words "SUCCESS TO THE UNITED STATES" on their reverse. The tokens feature a right-facing bust of Washington, in military dress, and they are known in two sizes. Even today, they are generally discovered with little, if any wear, which implies these tokens were sold as souvenirs.
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Jim Rodford with his honorary degree. Picture: Pete Stevens.
More of the district's great and good have been commended with honorary degrees by the University of Hertfordshire.
Honorary doctorates were presented in St Albans Cathedral alongside 4,000 students who successfully completed their degrees.
Bass player Jim Rodford, a musician for The Kinks, The Bluetones, The Zombies, and Argent, said he was honoured to be chosen.
Jim started out his career in the 1950s with a local band called The Bluetones and their success was documented by this newspaper at the time.
The band began as an acoustic group playing American style folk and blues, with Jim on an double bass fashioned from a tea chest, but evolved to perform rock 'n' roll.
Jim and his cousin Rod later enjoyed hits in the UK and the US as part of the band Argent, while also supporting The Beatles at Hammersmith Apollo, and backing Dusty Springfield, Gene Pitney, Elkie Brooks and P J Proby.
While playing with The Kinks, Jim was awarded a Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Services to British Music.
At the age of 76, Jim is still recording and touring internationally with The Zombies, and plays locally with The Rodford Files.
The Countess of Verulam, the first woman to become Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire, was also among the lucky few receiving an honorary degree.
Dione Grimston was the Lord Lieutenant from 2007 to 2017, but has always played an active role in St Albans life, and is also a successful artist. Her creative career started in 1980 when she co-founded Verona Stencilling.
Her paintings have since been exhibited in the Fleming Gallery, the Sladmore Gallery, and the Rebecca Hossack Gallery in London.
illustrating the Gorhambury Gardens guide.
She is the patron of both Youth Talk and Home-Start St Albans, and supports numerous local and national charities and organisations, including the Fraternity of the Friends of St Albans Abbey, the St Francis Hospice in Berkhamsted, the St Albans and Hertsmere Domestic Violence Forum, The Counselling Foundation, the National Trust Regional Committee, and The British Polio Foundation.
delighted to be awarding honorary doctorates and fellowships to fifteen inspirational individuals.
Last week the Herts Ad highlighted others receiving an honorary degree - St Albans artist Diane Maclean, Harpenden businessman Philip Waters, and Elaine Paige.
This paper was told critically acclaimed St Albans playwright, film director, and screenwriter Jez Butterworth still received his honorary degree despite being ill - but in fact it cannot be awarded if he does not attend the ceremony.


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Destruction comes in twos with 'The Devil's Cartel'
Joe Llorin, Features Editor
Trans World Operations (T.W.O.) is back and badassier than ever in "The Devil's Cartel," the third installment in the "Army of Two" series, which was released on March 26.
The player assumes control over either Alpha or Bravo, two new T.W.O. recruits who lead under Tyson Rios and Elliot Salem, the main protagonists of the past two games. The T.W.O. are sent to La Puerta, Mexico to serve as bodyguards for Cordova, a politician who aims to bring down La Guadana ("scythe" in English), a local gang terrorizing the city. When the operation becomes personal, Alpha and Bravo, with the help of fellow T.W.O. operatives, take it upon themselves to restore La Puerta back to its former glory.
Unlike the majority of today's shooters, "The Devil's Cartel," like its predecessors, forces players to abandon the run n' gun play-style and rely on good old-fashioned teamwork. The game revives "Overkill mode" from the first game, which allows players a limited time in which they are invincible and overly powerful. Equipped with infinite ammo and exploding bullets, "Overkill mode" gives players the occasional stress relief that they will need after dealing with hoards of enemies.
Furthermore, although the campaign features breath-taking cinematics full of explosions and gunfire, it is overly repetitive to say the least. It seems that once you enter a room, you eliminate a hoard of enemies to enter another room and once again get rid of a seemingly never-ending amount of enemies, making the game feel like nothing but a circle. This wouldn't be so bad if you had allies, but remember- it's called "Army of Two" for a reason. Facing wave after wave of the Cartel, you'll soon realize that your AI partner is anything but competent, so make sure you bring a friend for this long and aggravating ride.
Adding onto this pain is the clunky gameplay mechanics. Although the characters you play as are supposedly expert soldiers in top-tier physical condition, the speed at which they "sprint" is sorry to say the least and in combination with multiple enemies firing upon you at once, gameplay can get hectic fast.
Competitive multiplayer was also removed from the game in order to "focus on a richer co-op experience," which can turn off any new fans of the series and any gamer in general, considering multiplayer is the blood that drives the video gaming industry these days. Only the hardcore fans of the series should be willing to shell out the full $60 for the game.
On the contrary, the game's customization features are what drives the series. From customizing your own character's mask to taking your average assault rifle and "pimping" it out, it's the portrayal of one's persona through their character that helps keep the headache that the campaign will cause at bay. There aren't many things in life that feel better than shooting someone with a shiny pink AK-47.
Although the game decimates itself in multiple ways, "The Devil's Cartel" serves as an overall acceptable staple in the thin packet of third-person shooters. The game's clunky and unpolished gameplay mechanics paired with the lack of multiplayer and how fast the game can feel stale may be too much to pay for with a $60 price tag. Although the customization options are wonderful and the cinematics are appealing and exciting, even longtime fans of the series might want to consider renting this game.
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Aadhaar Watch: Running report of Aadhaar-related questions in Parliament Winter Session 2019
Soumyarendra Barik
By Soumyarendra Barik (	@imsoumyarendra soumyarendra@medianama.com ) November 27, 2019
This running report will document all Aadhaar related questions asked during the Parliament Winter Session 2019. We will keep updating this on a daily basis.
Direct benefit transfers
MeitY doesn't know the impact of Aadhaar-ration card linkage
On November 22, Minister of State for Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Danve Raosaheb Dadarao, acknowledged in Rajya Sabha, that "a few" media reports said that beneficiaries faced "difficulties" in receiving their entitled quota of food grains because their ration card was not linked to Aadhaar. But, he added, these "allegations" of deaths between 2017-2019 due to starvation have not been substantiated. He had been asked about the number of starvation deaths that have been reported between 2017-2019, ever since Aadhaar became mandatory to avail subsidised food grains and cash transfer of food subsidies.
Dadarao added that MeitY has directed states and UTs to not delete eligible people only on the ground of not possessing an Aadhaar number. If Aadhaar/biometric authentication fails due to technical reasons (such as network/connectivity/linking issues/poor biometric of the beneficiary), people cannot be denied benefits under NFSA (National Food Security Act). However, people will still have to produce a physical copy of their Aadhaar number.
More than 10 million children in elementary schools don't have an Aadhaar
As of March 31, 2019, 12,822,322 students at the elementary level (class I-VIII) do not possess an Aadhaar number. In 2018-19, 119,827,939 children had enrolled in the government's mid-day meal scheme, and 113,906,555 of those are elementary school students. 101,084,233 students in elementary schools have an Aadhaar number.
This information was provided by Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal in the Lok Sabha on November 18. He had been asked about the number of children who had linked their Aadhaar to avail benefits of the mid-day meal scheme, but he only provided numbers for children in elementary schools. Also, these numbers don't include children from Jammu and Kashmir, Assam and Meghalaya.
Responding to questions raised by BJP's Shobha Karandlaje, Pokhriyal further informed the lower house that 670,818 proxy/duplicate names had been deleted from the scheme after Aadhaar authentication. He added that "no eligible child" has been deprived of mid-day meal but did not specify how that was ensured.
Mid-Day Meal Scheme (MDMS) is covered under the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016, and beneficiaries are required to furnish proof of possession of Aadhaar number or undergo Aadhaar authentication.
Aadhaar linkage
No Aadhaar-social media linkage on the cards
The government is not considering any proposal to link Aadhaar to social media accounts of individuals, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a written response to Lok Sabha MP S. Jothimani. In September, MeitY had sought UIDAI's opinion on linking social media accounts to Aadhaar to know what is legally possible.
He also highlighted some steps taken by UIDAI to protect the biometric data that it stores. Read more about it here.
More than 290 million PAN cards linked to Aadhaar, deadline Dec 31
As of November 11, 293,074,520 PAN cards had been linked to Aadhaar number, Anurag Thakur, Minister of State for Finance, said in the Lok Sabha on November 18. He also informed the house that linking PAN and Aadhaar is mandatory, and has to be done by December 31.
"The objective behind this move is to ensure unique identity of the PAN card holders and to weed out undetected duplicate PANs. This is also essential to prevent misuse of PANs and potential tax frauds. It will ensure uniqueness of PAN and prevent applicants/entities from obtaining multiple PANs." — Thakur
Thakur did not answer how the government would ensure that the safety of such sensitive data. Instead, he just said that the Information Technology Act, 2000 and Income Tax Act, 1961 and other applicable laws ensure confidentiality of data.
Thakur also said that the "security assurance" of Aadhaar was "strengthened" by the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016, and that the Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Act, 2019 has stringent penalties/punishments for offenders. He clarified that senior citizens who are 80 years old or more and don't posses an Aadhaar number or Enrolment ID are exempt from this mandatory linkage of PAN and Aadhaar.
The requirement to link Aadhaar with PAN was first introduced by the Finance Act, 2017.
Aadhaar data is not shared with private companies doing govt e-projects
Aadhaar data is not shared with private companies doing government e-projects in "certain states", MoS in MeitY, Sanjay Dhotre, said. The question was ambiguous about which states were being talked about, and the answer provided no clarity. He was responding to questions raised by Congress's K. V.P. Ramachandra Rao in the Rajya Sabha.
Rao also asked for particular references of cases of Aadhaar data theft in Telangana, and if the government had examined the issue of how Aadhaar data was captured by private agencies and stored on foreign servers.
"Based on the Report of Inspector General of Police, West Zone, Hyderabad and I/c SIT, a complaint was lodged by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) which has been registered vide FIR No.278/2019 on 12.04.2019 at Madhapur Gutalla PS, Cyberabad against Management of M/s IT Grids India Pvt. Ltd and others," was Dhotre's remark.
Context: In April 2019, 78 million Aadhaar records from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana were found on the hard disks of IT Grids Pvt. Ltd, the firm which operates the Telugu Desam Party's Sevamitra app. IT Grids' possession of extensive Aadhaar data likely meant that the data was sourced from either the Central Identities Data Repository (CIDR) or the State Resident Data Hub (SRDH). Further, forensic investigation by the Telangana State Forensic Science Laboratory (TSFSL) found that IT Grids' stored Aadhaar data of crores of people on the AWS cloud.
Aadhaar metrics
2,800 Aadhaar numbers generated for NRIs
As of November 14, more than 2,800 Aadhaar cards had been generated for Non Resident Indians (NRIs), IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad informed Lok Sabha on November 20, in a written response to questions raised by BJP MPs Ram Shankar Katheria and Ravi Kishan. Aadhaar enrolment for NRIs has been active since September 20 and they can obtain Aadhaar number after arriving in India, Prasad further said.
To get an Aadhaar, NRIs need to have an Indian passport to establish their identity, which is also acceptable as proof of address and date of birth. However, other valid PoA and DoB documents as mentioned in Schedule-II of Aadhaar (Enrolment & Update) Regulations, 2016 and further amendments, will be accepted from NRIs, Prasad said.
Soumyarendra Barik	Correspondent
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UIDAI earned over Rs 27 crore for providing Aadhaar authentication and e-KYC services: Prasad


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November 24 in History
Historical Events on November 24
Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
In the first live, televised murder, Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby, a nightclub operator, in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. Oswald was being led by two detectives to an armoured car to take him to the nearby county jail.
Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon.
During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months.
Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.
All Births
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Famous Deaths on November 24
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Horticulture trainer wins second PCA award
Leigh Taig is a Horticulture trainer at William Orr, who facilitates GOTAFE's Greenhouse Technical Management Course. According to Leigh, "The course is essentially a masterclass in Protected Cropping and is derived from Certificate IV in Production Horticulture (AHC40416)."
Leigh attended the Protected Cropping Australia (PCA) National Conference recently in Adelaide, where he was presented with the Industry Training Award for Greenhouse Technical Management Course. The PCA is the industries national peak body, of which it's members include hydroponic farmers and allied trades dealing specifically with the hydroponic and greenhouse industry throughout Australia.
This is the second award Leigh has won, his first award was presented in 2009 for his early involvement in promoting training pathways within the industry.
Leigh's award relates specifically to the GOTAFE short accredited course, Greenhouse Technical Management, a technical training course in greenhouse and hydroponic production. Since its inception in 2008, the Masterclass has been delivered in conjunction with industry to over 300 participants, in more than 15 locations throughout Australia.
GOTAFE is often invited by companies to deliver the course on-farm or the course is scheduled in regions of intensive horticulture such as Coffs Harbour, Bundaberg and Perth. The model of bringing the training to the regions, enables growers and allied trades the opportunity to easily participate in the course and also provides the opportunity to customise the course to meet local needs.
Recently the Masterclass was delivered to a cohort of 15 in Devonport Tasmania, with the next course scheduled at the Hawkesbury Campus at Western Sydney University (WSU). WSU have a recently completed training and research greenhouse and GOTAFE were invited by the University to deliver the course on site. This will mean access to a high tech facility for practical and instructional activities during the course.
Leigh says, "It's through personal involvement with the industry, and creating essential contacts that has enabled this course to be driven by industry, delivered to industry, facilitated by GOTAFE and remain relevant."
He continues, "There is a lot of new technology and information emerging, and one of the things we do is explore these changes in the growing environment and help participants to upgrade their thinking."
The next Greenhouse Technical Management Course is being run at Western University Sydney (WSU) Hawkesbury campus 31 July to 4 August. GOTAFE is excited to be accessing the WSU's brand new training and research greenhouse and to present one of the largest cohorts to date, with several participants travelling from South Africa and New Zealand.
See our website for more information about GOTAFE Horticulture or contact 1300 GOTAFE.
So much to celebrate
Art & Design, Conservation & Land Management, Horticulture, Koorie Education, News
Join us to celebrate 20 years as Goulburn Ovens Institute of TAFE in Shepparton
To mark this special milestone, we have developed a wall display timelining the provision of education on our Fryers Street Campus since the 1800's.
We are also taking this opportunity to celebrate the achievements of our Horticultural students in developing stage two of our garden upgrade plus showcase the work produced by our Cultural Arts students this year and work developed by our students at the recent World Skills Competition in Melbourne.
You might have noticed a hive of activity at GOTAFE's Fryers Street Campus as stage two of the garden facelift transforms our Campus thanks to Horticulture and Conversation Land Management students.
The works are being completed under the watchful eye of GOTAFE Horticulture Trainer Robyn Saunders. "The students have designed a concept which offers a more open and welcoming space in front of the campus and Restaurant," said Ms Saunders. Each stage of the facelift relates to a required unit of competency the students must complete, including 'Set out site for construction works', 'Operate machinery', 'Install irrigation systems' and 'Implement a plant establishment program'. "As a Trainer it is hugely satisfying to see our students develop such a wide range of skills and knowledge while building this new landscape. It is great to be working on a site which is highly visible, as it gives our students an opportunity to demonstrate what they are capable of firstly designing, then constructing."
Indigenous students from the GOTAFE Shepparton Campus have been involved in a number of programs throughout the year, many of which are a contemporary twist on the traditional. "Indigenous art is evolving and this year's cultural arts group wanted to reflect that in their pieces. While they displayed a deep respect for traditional forms of indigenous art, they were happy to explore new ways in which to express their cultural heritage and used items such as skateboards and mannequins to create works of art," said Trainer Robyn Thompson.
The public exhibition will run from 21 November to 25 November at GOTAFE Shepparton Campus, Fryers Street, with a range of student work available for sale.
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She snorted and pulled out a bazooka. "I'm nothing like joker's old Harley. I'm new and improved, so why don't you back off my friend and nobody gets hurt."
One of them pulled a gun on her. "and a whore willing to get down on her knees for us." he said.
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She got on her motorcycle and rode to where he was.
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Studying Black Holes in a Bathtub
Mysterious black holes, thought to reside in the center of every galaxy, are difficult to study because even the closest one, in the center of our own Milky Way, is still some 27,000 light years away. But researchers at the University of Nottingham's Quantum Gravity Laboratory have found that some of the physical phenomena linked to black holes can be studied in an ordinary bathtub. VOA's George Putic has more.
Trump's Immigrant Crackdown Could Slow Houston Rebuilding
In the coming weeks, as Houston turns its attention to rebuilding areas devastated by Tropical Storm Harvey, people like Jay De Leon are likely to play an outsized role — if they stay around.
De Leon, 47, owns a small construction business in Houston, and he and his 10 employees do exactly the kind of demolition and refurbishing the city will need. But like a large number of construction workers in Texas, De Leon and most of his workers live in the United States illegally, and that could make things complicated.
The Pew Research Center estimated last year that 28 percent of Texas's construction workforce is undocumented, while other studies have put the number as high as 50 percent. Construction employed 23 percent of working undocumented adults in Texas at the end of 2014, higher than any other sector, according to the Migration Policy Institute.
Undocumented immigrants nervous
However, undocumented immigrants are growing increasingly nervous in Texas because of an immigration crackdown by the Trump administration that has cast a wide net.
In addition, a new Texas law that would have taken effect later this week bars cities from embracing so-called sanctuary policies, where they offer safe harbor to illegal immigrants, and allows local police to inquire about a person's immigration status. A federal judge Wednesday temporarily blocked most of the law from taking effect.
De Leon, who has lived in the country for 20 years and has two citizen children, says the changes have spooked the city's migrant workforce. In recent weeks, he said, one of his employees left the state and another returned to Mexico. Both feared that if they stayed they risked arrest.
Departing workers, he says, pose a problem for Houston in the wake of Harvey, which has caused flood damage to commercial buildings, houses, roads and bridges expected to run into tens of billions of dollars.
"The situation that Houston is going through now with the hurricane is going to be the trial by fire for the Republicans and the governor that approved these radical laws," De Leon said. "They will need our migrant labor to rebuild the city. I believe that without us it will be impossible."
Undocumented workers perform a wide range of construction jobs, from framing and dry-walling to plumbing and wiring.
Shortage of U.S. trained workers
Stan Marek, chief executive of Marek Construction in Texas, said his company doesn't hire undocumented immigrants and has long had difficulty finding enough trained U.S. workers.
"It's a crisis," Marek said. "We are looking at several thousand homes that have flood damage. There is no way the existing (legal) workforce can make a dent in it."
Marek would like to see the federal government grant emergency work authorization for undocumented workers in the rebuilding effort, he said. Otherwise, those immigrants are likely to be hired by firms that do not pay payroll taxes or provide benefits like workers' compensation and legally mandated overtime.
It isn't yet possible to estimate how many construction jobs will be added in Texas as it rebuilds, but in the 12 months after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, Louisiana added 14,800 jobs in the sector, U.S. government data shows.
About 25 percent of the construction workers involved in the cleanup of New Orleans were undocumented, according to a study by researchers at Tulane and UC Berkeley universities. Those without papers were "especially at risk of exploitation," the study found.
Worker exodus
The labor shortages are likely to grow worse, many builders warn. Earlier this year, a group of Hispanic contractors sent a letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott warning that the pending ban on sanctuary city policies would make it "difficult to find and retain experienced workers."
Javier Arrias, chairman of the Hispanic Contractors Association de Tejas and one of the letter's signers, told Reuters that "many construction workers are already moving to other states."
Abbott's office did not respond to a request for comment about the role undocumented workers might play in the recovery.
Elizabeth Theiss, president of Houston-based anti-immigration group Stop the Magnet, sees another option besides looking to workers in the country illegally. She says the rebuilding effort should be used to help train U.S. veterans and other citizens who need jobs.
Theiss acknowledged that reconstruction might proceed more slowly, at least initially, if immigrants without work documents are not part of the effort, but she noted that rebuilding would be slow under any scenario.
Personal hardships
Whatever role undocumented people play in rebuilding Houston, they could face hardships rebuilding their own lives.
While the Federal Emergency Management Agency provides emergency food, water and medicine to anyone, regardless of immigration status, cash assistance and other longer term aid is only available to citizens and immigrants in households where at least one family member has legal status.
Immigrant advocates are launching private fundraising drives to help fill the void.
"It is deeply tragic and un-American that so many of those working men and women who will be rebuilding Houston and the rest of the state will be doing so while facing tragedy in their own lives," said Jose Garza, executive director of the Workers Defense Project.
De Leon said his family was lucky and did not suffer flood damage. He is now busy rounding up supplies for immigrant families stuck at shelters who are afraid to seek out more help from authorities.
In the end, he says, President Donald Trump has to know "it's going to be impossible to rebuild Houston without the labor force of immigrants. It is illogical, what he says with his words and what really has to happen."
Record-setting NASA Astronaut Ready to Come Home
Records are made for breaking, and NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is breaking them in droves. When she returns to Earth on Sept, 2, she'll have earned a place among the nation's greatest space explorers. VOA's Kevin Enochs reports.
Michigan, North Dakota Among States Likely to be Hurt by NAFTA Changes
Michigan is likely to be the state most hurt by changes to the NAFTA trade agreement, according to a Fitch Ratings report released Wednesday, as U.S. President Donald Trump renewed threats to scrap the deal.
Trump has threatened three times in the past week to abandon the North American Free Trade Agreement, revisiting his view that the United States would probably have to start the process of exiting the accord to reach a fair deal for his country.
A second round of talks starts Friday in Mexico City to renegotiate the 1994 accord binding the United States, Mexico and Canada.
Business groups have largely praised NAFTA and hope to persuade all three governments to make minimal changes to the pact. U.S.-Canada-Mexico trade has quadrupled since NAFTA took effect in 1994, surpassing $1 trillion in 2015.
Michigan's auto sector
While several other states export a significant amount of products to Canada and Mexico, Michigan is an outlier in Fitch's analysis because of the state's global role in the automotive sector and proximity to Canada, the report said.
Sixty-five percent of the Michigan's exports went to Canada and Mexico in 2016, totaling 7.4 percent of its gross state product, it said.
"Any state that is particularly export dependent or exposed to trade, if there's a falloff in trade it's going to hit income and sales taxes and that's going to weaken state revenues," said Michael D'Arcy, a director of U.S. public finance at Fitch. "Cuts would have to be made."
Anna Heaton, a spokeswoman for Republican Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, said in a statement to Reuters that Canada, Michigan's No.1 trading partner, has been important to the state's economic recovery but he understands that sometimes policies need to change.
11 states trade heavily with Canada
According to the report, 11 U.S. states send at least 30 percent of their exports to Canada. By merchandise value, 82 percent of North Dakota's exports went to Canada in 2016. Forty-three percent of New Mexico's exports were sent to Mexico.
Several states also import a substantial amount of Canadian goods.
"A unilateral U.S. withdrawal from NAFTA would sharply increase import tariffs overnight, entailing potentially substantial costs for U.S. importers and consumers," the report said.
Major metropolitan areas could also be affected by U.S. trade policy changes, with Texas's El Paso MSA, or metropolitan statistical area, left vulnerable to NAFTA changes, the report said. Exports to Canada and Mexico accounted for 91 percent of the MSA's exports.
US-funded Ethiopian Abattoir Hopes to Help Herders During Drought
An abattoir located among herding communities in Ethiopia's eastern Somali region, known more for droughts and famine than business opportunities, is an unusual stop for a U.S. aid administrator.
But USAID chief Mark Green stopped at the Jijiga Export Slaughter House (JESH) during a visit to the town of Jijiga on Wednesday to see the effects of a crippling drought that has pushed some areas to the south to the brink of famine.
The abattoir buys goats, sheep, cows and camels for slaughter from herders for export to the Middle East, giving families cash to buy food during the drought.
A $1.5-million loan from Feed the Future, a $1 billion-a-year agricultural program launched during U.S. President Barack Obama's presidency in 2010, helped purchase refrigerators and trucks for the facility, which employs 100 people from local villages.
To Green, the slaughterhouse represents what USAID can do to help attract private-sector money into investments that boost the productivity of small farmers in developing countries.
While at the abattoir, Green announced 12 countries that will benefit from Feed The Future investments in 2017, signaling that the program will survive proposed deep cuts to USAID's budget this year.
The 12 countries are Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Kenya, Mali, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Uganda.
Green said investments like the Jijinga slaughterhouse not only created markets for American businesses but helped communities out of poverty. Herders can earn as much as $80 per goat when they sell to the slaughterhouse.
"I'm under no illusions; the development journey in many places in the world is a long one, but I want us to always be thinking what we can do that nudges something towards a day when people get to take care of themselves," he said.
"This is a place where we see some of the benefits and the potential for Feed the Future," Green added.
JESH Chief Executive Faisal Guhad said the abattoir had been open for a year but was forced to close for three months last year because of the drought.
The facility currently processes about 10,000 animals a month. Guhad said he hoped to quadruple that in the second year of operation.
Demand for Ethiopian goat meat was currently high because of the annual haj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca, said Guhad.
"We opened at the wrong time. El Nino happened to us and we started again after it rained," said Guhad. "We're now in the second month of starting again."
The facility employs about 108 people from the community and plans to increase hiring to 200, said Guhad.
In the Jijinga area, planting for the March to May rains, known as the belg, is already delayed, and aid workers say they have seen a growing number of women and children at food distribution centers. The hunger crisis is predicted to worsen until the harvest begins in September.
Many parts of the Ethiopian highlands are still recovering from the 2016 drought, which was attributed to the El Niño weather phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean.
Growing Commerce With India Gives Vietnam New Defense Against China
A flood of Indian business in fast-growing Vietnam has solidified commercial ties to help Hanoi upgrade an alliance with a powerful Asian neighbor and offset dependence on its historic rival, the more massive China.
Indian investment in Vietnam has reached $2 billion and bilateral trade hit $10 billion over the year ending in March on its way to $15 billion by 2020, said Radha Krishnan, vice chairman of the Indian Business Chamber of Vietnam.
"As of now that is very easily achievable," Krishnan said. "The last three … years exports from Vietnam to India have picked up momentum."
Vietnam has many trade partners
Last year the two countries agreed to upgrade a "strategic partnership," giving Vietnam more Indian market access, and they will drop import tariffs in 2022 as part of a trade deal with a bloc of Southeast Asian countries.
Those totals hardly match those of Vietnam's long-time investment sources such as Taiwan, South Korea and China. But their growth offers Vietnam a line to the world's second-largest country, helping to reduce dependence on China, which is the world's second-largest economy and Vietnam's biggest trading partner.
China-Vietnam set a trade target of $100 billion in 2016, but the pair disputes a swathe of the South China Sea. Their dispute sparked clashes in 1974, 1988 and 2014.
"The Vietnamese government, they don't want to get an unbalanced investment portfolio where any particular country or region is dominant, because then it just unbalances everything else — foreign policy, domestic politics and everything," said Frederick Burke, partner with the international law firm Baker McKenzie in Ho Chi Minh City.
"As far as people who think about strategic issues are concerned, they would like the Indians to be probably more present in the market, because they're probably behind mainland China in particular," he said. "Everybody wants to balance the two out, be friends with both. That's the ideal situation."
Robust trade but also continuing disputes with China
Vietnam depends on China for cheap mass market goods, as well as raw materials for export manufacturing. The two Communist countries fought a border war in the 1970s shortly after what was then South Vietnam lost the Paracel Islands to China. That archipelago is part of the South China Sea.
In 2014, the placement of a Chinese oil rig in the South China Sea east of Vietnam touched off a boat-ramming incident and deadly anti-China riots on land. In June, a Chinese military official cut short his Vietnam visit as the host drilled for oil offshore.
Over the past two decades, Indian farming, garment and pharmaceutical investment have reached Vietnam because of its eager partners, Krishnan said. Low-cost but advanced Indian technology has helped Vietnam farm in dry weather, produce sugar and process cashews, he said. Tata Power of India runs a $1.8 billion thermal power plant in Vietnam.
For the past three years, the overseas subsidiary of India's government-run ONGC has worked with PetroVietnam Exploration Production Corporation to search for oil and gas in the South China Sea.
About 80,000 Indians visit Vietnam every year, often as tourists looking for business opportunities, and 20,000 go the other way, sometimes as travelers to Buddhist landmarks, Krishnan said.
India has its own reasons for strengthening trade with Vietnam
India, for its part, is keen to resist China's expansion in Asia. The two Asian powers are easing just this week a more than two-month-old military standoff in Bhutan. China claims the area in question, and Bhutan called on India to help when the Chinese came to work on a highway project.
Countries that build trade, investment and economic ties do not always become political allies, but in the India-Vietnam case, that fate is "natural," said Alexander Huang, strategic studies professor at Tamkang University in Taiwan. China, he added, is unlikely to flinch at India because Vietnam is chasing stronger ties with other powerful countries, as well.
"You don't need to be a grand strategist to think of diversifying your market," Huang said. "Of course it will have some kind of impact, but so far I do not see one to the degree that will fundamentally change the Chinese perception over Vietnam, because the United States is improving relationships with Vietnam, Japan is improving relationships with Vietnam."
A need to resist continued Chinese expansion
Beijing's "belligerence" and escalation of territorial disputes in the seas to the Bhutan border have "served to bring a coalition of China-wary states closer," said Mohan Malik,professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu.
Elsewhere in Asia, Indonesia, Myanmar and the Philippines have also tried to balance foreign policies between China and the West, often through trade and investment.
China is expected to keep a special eye out for India's maritime ties with Vietnam. The Indian oil company could work again in the waters off Vietnam, Krishnan said. Officials in Hanoi, he said, would try to protect that investment and others.
"I don't think it's going to be a big problem per se," said Krishnan. "We are very, very positive that both governments will be able to handle that very, very positively. I don't think investments made in Vietnam by a foreign country or company will be at risk."
'Reprogrammed' Stem Cells Fight Parkinson's Disease in Monkeys
Scientists have successfully used "reprogrammed" stem cells to restore functioning brain cells in monkeys, raising hopes the technique could be used in the future to help patients with Parkinson's disease.
Since Parkinson's is caused by a lack of dopamine made by brain cells, researchers have long hoped to use stem cells to restore normal production of the neurotransmitter chemical.
Now, for the first time, Japanese researchers have shown that human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) can be administered safely and effectively to treat primates with symptoms of the debilitating disease.
So-called iPS cells are made by removing mature cells from an individual — often from the skin — and reprogramming them to behave like embryonic stem cells. They can then be coaxed into dopamine-producing brain cells.
The scientists from Kyoto University, a world-leader in iPS technology, said their experiment indicated that this approach could potentially be used for the clinical treatment of human patients with Parkinson's.
In addition to boosting dopamine production, the tests showed improved movement in affected monkeys and no tumors in their brains for at least two years.
The human iPS cells used in the experiment worked whether they came from healthy individuals or Parkinson's disease patients, the Japanese team reported in the journal Nature on Wednesday.
"This is extremely promising research demonstrating that a safe and highly effective cell therapy for Parkinson's can be produced in the lab," said Tilo Kunath of the MRC Center for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, who was not involved in the research.
The next step will be to test the treatment in a first-in-human clinical trial, which Jun Takahashi of Kyoto University told Reuters he hoped to start by the end of 2018.
Any widespread use of the new therapy is still many years away, but the research has significantly reduced previous uncertainties about iPS-derived cell grafts.
The fact that this research uses iPS cells rather human embryonic stem cells means the treatment would be acceptable in countries such as Ireland and much of Latin America, where embryonic cells are banned.
Excitement about the promise of stem cells has led to hundreds of medical centers springing up around the world claiming to be able to repair damaged tissue in conditions such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's.
While some treatments for cancer and skin grafts have been approved by regulators, many other potential therapies are only in early-stage development, prompting a warning last month by health experts about the dangers of "stem-cell tourism."
Change in US Policy Makes It Harder to Rebuild for Future Floods
Two weeks before Harvey's floodwaters engulfed much of Houston, President Donald Trump quietly rolled back an order by his predecessor that would have made it easier for storm-ravaged communities to use federal emergency aid to rebuild bridges, roads and other structures so they can better withstand future disasters.
Now, with much of the nation's fourth-largest city under water, Trump's move has new resonance. Critics note the president's order could force Houston and other cities to rebuild hospitals and highways in the same way and in the same flood-prone areas.
"Rebuilding while ignoring future flood events is like treating someone for lung cancer and then giving him a carton of cigarettes on the way out the door," said Michael Gerrard, a professor of environmental and climate change law at Columbia University. "If you're going to rebuild after a bad event, you don't want to expose yourself to the same thing all over again."
Trump's action is one of several ways the president, who has called climate change a hoax, has tried to wipe away former President Barack Obama's efforts to make the United States more resilient to threats posed by the changing climate.
Consideration of climate predictions
The order Trump revoked would have permitted the rebuilding to take into account climate scientists' predictions of stronger storms and more frequent flooding.
Bridges and highways, for example, could be rebuilt higher, or with better drainage. The foundation of a new fire station or hospital might be elevated an extra 3 feet (1 meter).
While scientists caution against blaming specific weather events like Harvey on climate change, warmer air and warmer water linked to global warming have long been projected to make such storms wetter and more intense. Houston, for example, has experienced three floods in three years that statistically were once considered 1-in-500-year events.
The government was still in the process of implementing Obama's 2015 order when it was rescinded. That means the old standard — rebuilding storm-ravaged facilities in the same way they had been built before — is still in place.
Trump revoked Obama's order as part of an executive order of his own that he touted at an August 15 news conference at Trump Tower. That news conference was supposed to focus on infrastructure, but it was dominated by Trump's comments on the previous weekend's violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Trump didn't specifically mention the revocation, but he said he was making the federal permitting process for the construction of transportation and other infrastructure projects faster and more cost-efficient without harming the environment.
"It's going to be quick, it's going to be a very streamlined process," Trump said.
Asked about the revocation, the White House said in a statement that Obama's order didn't consider potential impacts on the economy and was "applied broadly to the whole country, leaving little room or flexibility for designers to exercise professional judgment or incorporate the particular context" of a project's location.
Construction curbs
Obama's now-defunct order also revamped Federal Flood Risk Management Standards, calling for tighter restrictions on new construction in flood-prone areas. Republicans, including Senator John Cornyn of Texas, opposed the measure, saying it would impede land development and economic growth.
Revoking that order was only the latest step by Trump to undo Obama's actions on climate change.
In March, Trump rescinded a 2013 order that directed federal agencies to encourage states and local communities to build new infrastructure and facilities "smarter and stronger" in anticipation of more frequent extreme weather.
Trump revoked a 2015 Obama memo directing agencies developing national security policies to consider the potential impact of climate change.
The president also disbanded two advisory groups created by Obama: the interagency Council on Climate Preparedness and Resilience and the State, Local and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience.
Obama's 2015 order was prompted in part by concerns raised by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper after severe flooding in his state two years earlier. Hickenlooper was dismayed to learn that federal disaster aid rules were preventing state officials from rebuilding "better and smarter than what we had built before."
The "requirements essentially said you had to build it back exactly the way it was, that you couldn't take into consideration improvements in resiliency," Hickenlooper, a Democrat, said Tuesday. "We want to be more prepared for the next event, not less prepared."
Bud Wright, the Federal Highway Administration's executive director during George W. Bush's administration, said this has long been a concern of federal officials.
He recalled a South Dakota road that was "almost perpetually flooded" but was repeatedly rebuilt to the same standard using federal aid because the state didn't have the extra money to pay for enhancements.
"It seemed a little ridiculous that we kept doing that," said Wright, now the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' executive director.
Big federal 'checkbook'
But Kirk Steudle, director of Michigan's Department of Transportation, said states can build more resilient infrastructure than what they had before a disaster by using state or nonemergency federal funds to make up the cost difference.
"That makes sense, otherwise FEMA would be the big checkbook," he said, referring to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "Everybody would be hoping for some disaster so FEMA could come in and build them a brand-new road to the 2020 standard instead of the 1970 standard."
Even though Obama's order has been revoked, federal officials have some wiggle room that might allow them to rebuild to higher standards, said Jessica Grannis, who manages the adaptation program at the Georgetown Climate Center.
If local building codes in place before the storm call for new construction to be more resilient to flooding, then federal money can still be used to pay the additional costs.
For example, in Houston regulations require structures to be rebuilt 1 foot (30 centimeters) above the level designated for a 1-in-100-year storm. And in the wake of prior disasters, FEMA has moved to remap floodplains, setting the line for the 1-in-100-year flood higher than it was before.


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Q: Database Naming Convention Tool So, like most places, reach a certain critical mass where you have so many databases, tables, columns that nothing is consistent like it should be.
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Inhale deeply and kakegoe (*) strongly.
Do NOT inhale, do NOT exhale further.
Attack at your fiercest, with a very strong kiai.
Fukuyama-sensei explained that, in this exercise, holding your breath will help you retain focus on your opponent and on seme. This way you are deeply invested in your attack, almost guaranteeing a beautiful strike. He compared it to a story he once heard about olympic sprinters, who would finish their 100m dash without breathing to retain 100% focus.
We practice seme to tame to butsu with different kihon and waza: first with chisai men, kote and dou, then in oji waza where motodachi would attack with chisai men. As usual we were told to do our very best attack, because otherwise the exercise would be useless.
Before moving on to jigeiko, we practiced the various hiki waza: men, kote and dou. These exercises were combined with the previous tame exercises. When it came to hiki dou, Fukuyama-sensei explained that moving backwards can be done in three backwards directions.
To the left is sub-optimal, as it makes it hard to properly strike and follow through.
Straight, where you remain on the center line of your opponent.
To the right, making for an easier strike while also putting you off the opponent's center.
For showing zanshin after hiki dou, Fukuyama-sensei said that you should relax after striking. Your arms should not be tense and your shinai should not be immovable. Instead, follow through downwards in the natural arc of your strike and relax your arms (so you are also ready for a counter attack).
*: For extensive information on kakegoe, what you could call the "kiai in kamae", please refer to chapter 13 of Noma Hisashi-sensei's 'Kendo Reader'.
2013 will be a year of exam preparation for me. Not only at work (ITILv3, RHCSA, maintaining my CISSP), but also in kendo.
Kirikaeshi. I need to make sure my timing is precise and tidy! No sloppiness and I need to take my time! Footwork and striking in unison!
Kata #1 through #3, which I've been practicing intensively the past few months. I need to pay attention to good posture and especially to building tension!
Jitsugi, in which I do two rounds of geiko with a fellow student. This should NOT be shiai (competition) fighting, but more like jigeiko where I try to demonstrate my grasp of the basics (oki and chisai techniques, building tension, footwork, etc).
Gakka, the written exam. In general I know my kendo theory pretty well, but I'll still go over the AUSKF gakka prep guide.
In the first three tests, kiai is highly important at the ikkyu level, so I'll definitely give that my best!
The NKR exam is still a few months away, so I'm very happy that I'll be getting an extra exam in between. A month ago Ton-sensei announced that Renshinjuku Almere would be holding their local kyu-grade shinsa on 25/01, which is next week. I've asked Ton-sensei and Hillen- and Kris-fukushou to keep in mind my aspiration of testing for ikkyu. For our own exams this means that I'm asking them to allow me to skip a grade and to test for nikyu instead of sankyu, while at the same time asking them to judge me at ikkyu level. That's a bit of a leap (I last tested for yonkyu a year ago), but they appear very willing to help me out for which I am very grateful.
Launder and iron my hakama and gi. Make all pleats tidy.
Sew an extra piece of denim at the bottom of my gi, which has shrunk.
Remove my dojo badge from my keikogi.
Remove my zekken from my tare.
Tidy everything about my bogu, uniform and my shinai.
There's not much to say about today's training as it simply was a good, solid training.
1.5 years ago I wrote about a kendo dummy that I would love to build. Lo and behold! Ton-sensei has built two for the dojo: one child-sized and one adult-sized. They look cool and after tweaking them a bit, many of our beginners were very happy to use them in training.
After inspecting the dojo shinai I proceeded to go through kata #1-#4 with Hugo. Since he told me he was pretty rusty (he's often absent because of school) I took a firm lead and escorted him through the first three, correcting where needed. When we got to #4 I'm glad that Ton-sensei corrected a number of things I was doing wrong (most importantly, stab too high and at a wrong angle).
During footwork practice I was reminded yet again that I have trouble combinining okuri ashi with fumikomi: whenever I need to jump while going forward, I always overstep with the left foot before the jump. The timing is completely off: instead of jumping right after pulling the left leg in, my body tries to jump after the right foot has gone forward again. It's crappy.
Hugo wanted more practice with the kaeshi-dou that we learned in class. After giving it fifteen or so runs, I showed it to him in slow motion. That led to a lot better results and we were both happy with the progress he made :) It was also a nice chance for me to practice hayai men.
I'm not entirely sure what happened, but last sunday's Central Training did wonders for my confidence. Last night was the first time I can recall that I went to Amstelveen without feeling nervous. I was aching to practice with my sempai and I'd prepared to answer any questions I might get about what we learned during the CT.
I reckon that attending the CT was a good step in my continued 'exposure', trying to alleviate my anxiety issues. The CT was outside my comfort zone and because it went so well, it seems my boundaries have shifted a bit. Nice!
Class was started, as has become custom, with half an hour of kata training. I again partnered with Nienke and we did many repeats of kata #1 (and a bit of #2 and #3). Why focus so much on kata #1? Because of some contention we ran into! I'd been taught by Ton-sensei and Kris-fukushou that after being struck by shidachi (and after letting the bokken sink to eye level), uchidachi would be "pushed back" by shidachi. Shidachi would "threaten you away". Instead, Kiwa-sempai and Ran-sempai informed us that "uchidachi always moves first", so the new analogy would be that uchidachi attempts to flee, with shidachi preventing this by assuming a threatening pose. Interesting!
After kata a shinai check was performed, which has also become customary. I heard that last Saturday ~70% of the students' shinai were rejected during the check, leading to an impromptu lesson in maintenance. Hence Renshinjuku kendo dojo have instated the rule that, if your shinai is rejected, you will now spend the training repairing the big collection of dojo-shinai. Both of my shinai were in an "okay" state, though not very good. After tightening the tsuru of my second one, I was allowed to join class. So, time for another evening filled with maintenance!
After warming up, we moved to waza practice. A few rounds of kirikaeshi variations, followed by oki-men, oki-kote, hiki-waza from tsubazeriai and men-oji-waza. There wasn't any explanation of techniques, just the chance to practice a lot.
I had jigeiko with Onno-sempai, (I think) Tsuyuguchi-sensei and with Raoul-sempai.
Onno-sempai's feedback matched one of my resolutions for this year: cue-ing. There are at least four different ways in which I 'announce' an attack and all of them need to be eliminated. Sometimes I lift my right foot, often I shuffle my left foot, at times I lower my shinai a bit and often I start leaning forward.
Unfortunately I didn't get part of Tsuyuguchi-sensei's feedback, though one of them was that my hayai-men was lacking ki-ken-tai-ichi. Also, I believe he warns me I was hitting the mengane, instead of the top of his men.
Raoul-sempai's feedback matches what Donatella-sensei told me last sunday: "be hungry!". Or as Raoul put it in the dressing room: "When you're in kamae, I see you lost in thought, thinking thinking thinking.". He reminded me that I need to want to win! And before a jigeiko, decide what it is that you want to focus on, so you can discuss this with your partner.
Today's practice went pretty badly for me, because I'm -already- out of shape! Three weeks of no sports is killer, after a few months of only two kendo practices each week. I really need that third session at home to keep up. I'm sad to say I had to bow out from the bogu-group twenty minutes before the end of class.
I got some very important feedback from Ton-sensei: my hayai-men is still almost as bad as a year ago. I still make the same damn mistakes as before, where I pull back large and only stretch forward when striking instead of stretching forward and then striking with a tiny movement. 1.5 years later I am still making the wrong movements.
Also, whatever progress I had made with my breathing is now gone again. It was crap today and was the biggest cause of my early drop-out.
The second pointer I got from Ton-sensei is that I'm cueing my attacks. We already knew that, but I didn't know -this- particular cue! The Miyaharas and Zicarlo-sempai all told me about my footwork issues, right before launching an attack. But Ton-sensei also pointed out that I dip my shinai before swinging upwards.
So, my training goals for this year: get a decent hayai-men, control my breathing, and less cueing before a strike.


Abstract This paper suggests practical methods for assessing policy research programs, both ex post and ex ante. Measuring the benefits of policy research is difficult: the path of causation between research and policy change is nearly always uncertain; multiple factors influence any particular policy change; policies are diverse in nature as are their intended and actual effects; and some effects of policy research are not priced in the market. Many of the benefits of changes in policy stem from the reduced cost of welfare-improving institutional change. Economic surplus analysis can be used to assess such changes. In some cases, Bayesian decision theory may be helpful in evaluating policy research, although it is usually difficult to obtain estimates of the probability distributions a decisionmaker has before the research becomes available. Subjective estimates of parameters and some measure of their degree of uncertainty, are likely to be needed for an economic surplus model. The paper suggests a set of steps for policy research evaluation. It is applied to two cases: an evaluation of pesticide policy research in Brazil, and an evaluation of policies affecting deforestation in Indonesia.
Physical description v, 32 pages : ill. ; 28 cm.


Europe's Airbus lost out to Boeing in 2018, breaking a five-year winning streak against its US rival for the number of jet orders, slumping to its lowest share of the $150 billion jet market in six years, data showed on Wednesday.
Airbus posted 747 net 2018 orders, down 33 per cent from the previous year, including 135 for the A220 jetliner which it took over from Canada's Bombardier in July. Boeing beat Airbus for the first time since 2012 with 893 net orders.
Airbus delivered 800 jets, up 11 per cent, including 20 of the small A220 model, leaving Boeing as the world's largest planemaker by manufacturing volume for a seventh straight year.
Although Boeing missed its delivery target and Airbus had previously lowered its target due to strains on the industry's global supply chain, strong demand for passenger jets expanded total deliveries by 8 per cent, the fastest pace in six years.
Planemaking chief Guillaume Faury welcomed the deliveries, which set a company record, and a "healthy order intake," with waiting lists for many new jets stretching for up to 7 years.
Insiders say the quest for new business has, however, been overshadowed in the past year by industrial problems, management changes and morale problems coinciding with a corruption probe.
A resurgent Boeing has been cashing in on greater availability and declining costs for its 787 Dreamliner, while struggling to contain its European rival in the lucrative segment for large narrowbody jets just above 200 seats.
Without that boost, Airbus took just 41 per cent of the core market in which it competes with Boeing, the lowest since 2009, according to Reuters news agency.
Highlighting the pressure Airbus has been facing recently in the market for large, high-margin wide-body jets, the European company was outsold three to one by Boeing for a second year.
However it reached a targeted production rate of 10 aircraft a month for its wide-body A350, which competes with the 787 and larger 777, at the end of the year, company officials said.
Airbus also trimmed the order list for its slow-selling A380 superjumbo, officially cancelling an order for 10 from Hong Kong Airlines four years after Reuters first reported that the airline had axed the deal, triggering financial negotiations.
The world's largest airliner is mostly dependent on Dubai's Emirates as Airbus slows production to a trickle in the hope of a future upturn, though many airlines are for now backing smaller jets.


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EU Alliance for Investing in Children statement on the ESF+ political agreement
A milestone in EU budget talks, Thursday 28 January 2021 also marked a historical day for children's rights in the EU.
The EU's co-legislators reached an agreement on the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) which for the first time, includes a specific objective and earmarking aimed at fighting child poverty.
Even before the COVID-19 outbreak, 1 in 4 children across the EU was growing up at risk of poverty and social exclusion. The pandemic and the socio-economic consequences that it has brought have already affected children and their families significantly. Child poverty levels are now likely to escalate, making it even more urgent to act on, preventing the impact of the crisis from growing further and mitigating its devastating effects on children's lives, today and in the future.
In this significant agreement, the co-legislators acknowledged this crisis and showed their commitment to supporting children growing up in poverty across the EU.
According to the agreement, EU Member States with an average of EU child poverty higher than the 2017-2019 EU average (23,4%) will have to allocate at least 5% of their ESF+ financial resources to tackle child poverty. Importantly, the agreement also urges all EU Member States to allocate ESF+ financial resources to targeted actions to combat child poverty.
The EU Alliance for Investing in Children congratulates the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the European Commission in reaching this agreement and in championing children's rights.
Nonetheless, much remains to be done to fully capitalise on this agreement and tackle child poverty and social exclusion. For this reason, we call on:
1. The EU leaders to swiftly adopt the political agreement reached on 28 January 2021 and ensure that their countries allocate appropriate ESF+ resources to tackle child poverty.
The Eurostat data show that child poverty is a pan-European phenomenon that affects all EU Member States.
On average, between 2017-2019, more than 20 million children were already growing up in poverty across the European Union; from countries with higher GDP per capita and stronger social welfare systems, such as Sweden and Luxembourg, to countries with higher levels of poverty, such as Romania and Bulgaria.
However, this data does not take into account how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted children and their families across the Union.
Considering that child poverty levels are likely to escalate as the full economic impact of the pandemic becomes apparent, the EU Alliance calls on all EU Member States to comply with the ESF+ agreement by allocating an appropriate amount of their ESF+ resources to targeted and multidimensional actions to combat child poverty and for those with higher levels of poverty to earmark at least 5% of their ESF+ resources to invest specifically on this issue. All EU leaders should commit that their countries will direct enough resources in their ESF+ programming towards activities that will support children and families in poverty or at risk of poverty.
2. The co-legislators to ensure a direct and explicit link between the ESF+ and the Child Guarantee and urge the European Commission to launch an ambitious Child Guarantee in the form of a Council Recommendation.
The Child Guarantee is a pivotal opportunity for the EU and its Member States to invest more and better in preventing and reducing child poverty and social exclusion. The ESF+ must adequately support its implementation. Hence, the agreement reached on the ESF+ should explicitly refer to the Child Guarantee, ensuring that all Member States will allocate an appropriate part of the fund to support this crucial initiative.
The co-legislators should also call on the European Commission to launch a rights-based and ambitious Child Guarantee. It should also ensure that this instrument will take a comprehensive approach – acknowledging the links between child and family poverty; the links between monetary poverty and lack of access to quality services for children; and ensuring the meaningful engagement of children – and where needed- parents in decision-making.
Children's access to essential services is crucial for their upbringing, and it can support them in having equal opportunities as their peers for a healthy and prosperous life. Therefore, the Child Guarantee should urge EU Member States to invest in children's equal access to free high quality early childhood education and care, education, healthcare that includes health promotion and prevention, decent housing, adequate and health-promoting nutrition and leisure activities. However, child poverty and social exclusion cannot and will not be solved if Member States only invest in these six areas. As mentioned in the recent Joint Declaration of the EPSCO Council Ministers, the Child Guarantee should recognise the close correlation between parents participating in the labour market – often single parents – and the economic stability of the families. In this sense, the Child Guarantee should be based on the integrated approach of the European Commission�s Recommendation on Investing in Children and ensure that children and their parents are holistically supported to exit poverty and social exclusion.
The Child Guarantee should also have a clear implementation, monitoring and evaluation framework. The EU Alliance for Investing in Children welcomes the European Commission's intention to request EU Member States to develop national multiannual strategies and Child Guarantee Action Plans. These plans should illustrate EU Member States' challenges and priorities when it comes to tackling child poverty and social exclusion. They should identify groups of children in vulnerable situations starting from the target groups identified in the feasibility study such as children living in precarious family situations, children growing up in income-poor and single-parent households, children living in segregated areas, homeless children, Roma children, children in alternative care including those residing in institutions, children in migration, children with disabilities and other support needs. They should also describe what kind of policies and EU and national investments will be put in place to support them. Moreover, EU Member States should ensure that children, their parents, and relevant civil society organisations, will participate in the design, implementation monitoring and evaluation of the Action Plans. The Action Plans should be monitored and evaluated on an annual basis through clear indicators and data. Member States should report to the European Commission on the implementation of the Action Plans, whereas the results should be reflected in the future European Semester cycle and in the monitoring of the Action Plan to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights.
3. EU Member States to ensure that the ESF+ is not seen as the only financial resource for investing in children and that EU funds and national budgets are used strategically and in line with the Child Guarantee Action Plans and multiannual strategies.
The EU Alliance welcomes the European Commission's call towards Member States to use this and other existing funding opportunities to further increase investments in the fight against child poverty.
EU Member States should put children's and their family's needs at the heart of their recovery. Investing in a social and resilient Europe starts from investing in children.
As a first and urgent step, EU Member States should invest the unspent ESF, FEAD, ERDF resources (as part of the CRII, CRII+ programmes) and the REACT-EU financial resources in supporting children and families at risk.
In addition, as per the agreed 6th Pillar of the Recovery and Resilience Facility, EU Member States should use the Recovery and Resilience Facility to tackle child poverty and social exclusion to implement the Child Guarantee. These investments should be outlined in the Member States' Recovery and Resilience Plans.
With regards to EU financial resources from the 2021-2027 EU funding period, EU Member States should also take into consideration other specific objectives of the ESF+ to support their investments in children. For example, the agreed 25% earmarking of ESF+ resources should also be allocated to promote social inclusion and support the most vulnerable groups of individuals and could prioritise actions related to child and family in poverty and/or marginalised. In addition, EU Member States should direct part of the earmarked 3% of the ESF+ resources to provide food and essential material assistance to children and families in deprivation, always together with social inclusion measures.
The child poverty reduction activities funded by ESF+ and the European Regional Development Fund should be outlined in the poverty reduction national strategies that Member States should develop as part of the Common Provisions Regulation enabling condition 4.3.
EU Member States should also use different EU resources to combat child poverty such as the Asylum and Migration Fund, InvestEU, Erasmus Plus, and HorizonEurope. These funds have specific priorities related to poverty reduction and social inclusion, such as the development of social infrastructure and the integration of those children in most vulnerable situations. In addition, EU4Health Programme should provide for Member States and the civil society's work on poverty reduction and social inequalities health-related areas, especially those of direct and indirect impact on children's health and well-being.
Last but not least, EU Member States should also prioritise their national budgets in their fight against child poverty. EU funds can trigger national investments, but they do not suffice to fully implement national social protection reforms.
EU Member States should ensure coordination among national authorities on the allocation and spending of these resources. EU and national budgets should be used strategically in line with the priorities included in the national Child Guarantee Action Plans to support the necessary reforms.
4. EU Member States and the European Commission to ensure that civil society is a key actor in the programming of the ESF+ and that it benefits from ESF+ resources.
EU Member States should ensure that multi-sectoral civil society organisations with experience and competence participate as key-actors in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the ESF+ programming. EU Member States should direct the agreed 0.25% earmarking to build civil society organisations' capacity to participate in the ESF+ Monitoring Committees meaningfully. In addition, child and family rights organisations should also be supported in accessing EU financial resources to run their programmes supporting children and families in poverty or in social exclusion and in implementing the Child Guarantee. Consequently, the reduction of co-financing requirements for civil society should be considered where possible.
The EU Alliance for Investing in Children has been advocating for a multidimensional, rights-based approach to tackling child poverty and promoting child well-being since 2014.
This statement was endorsed by the following partner organisations of the EU Alliance for Investing in Children:
Alliance for Childhood European Network Group
ATD Quart Monde
COFACE Families Europe
Don Bosco International
Dynamo International – Street Workers Network
ERGO Network
Eurochild
Eurodiaconia
EuroHealthNet
European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities – EASPD
European Anti-Poverty Network – EAPN
European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless – FEANTSA
European Parents' Association
European Public Health Alliance – EPHA
European Social Network – ESN
Inclusion Europe
Lifelong Learning Platform
Mental Health Europe
Make Mothers Matter
Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM)
Roma Education Fund
SOS Children's Villages International.
Katerina Nanou, Katerina.nanou@savethechildren.org Senior Advocacy Advisor, Child Poverty and Children in Alternative Care, Save the Children
Enrico Tormen, enrico.tormen@eurochild.org, EU Affairs Officer, Eurochild
Read this statement on the website of the EU Alliance for Investing in Children here.
European Commission, Commission welcomes political agreement on the ESF+, 2021
Eurostat, EU children at risk of poverty or social exclusion, 2020
Joint Declaration by the Ministers of the EPSCO Council, Overcoming poverty and social exclusion – mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on families – working together to develop prospects for strong children, 2020
European Commission, Commission Recommendation of 20 February 2013 Investing in children: breaking the cycle of disadvantage, 2013
European Commission, Basic services for children in need – European Child Guarantee, 2020
Council of the European Union, Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a Recovery and Resilience Facility-Confirmation of the final compromise text with a view to agreement, 2020


LIGHTWARP Lens Patent Copyright 2006. by Human Eyes Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Objective: Create Previs with continuity of action that will compare Normal Lens against Next Generation Non-Linear 3D CG lens dubbed LIGHTWARP. This digital lens - initially designed by Superprevis' co-founder Dragan Stiglic - enables unprecended controls of layout - by empowering non-linear optical-based sculpting of Visual Space while preserving all models of the source 3D scene intact.
LIGHTWARP can provide enhanced Depth and Motion (dolby for Eyes), and control over Stereoscopic Vision Space. LightWarp is designed to provide control of depth for Region Of Interest -as well as for any desired section of 3D scene's space - in previs stage.


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Општина Лане-Нигула () рурална је општина у централном делу округа Ланема на западу Естоније.

Општина се налази у централном делу округа и формирана је 2013. након уједињења три општине: Ору, Ристи и Таебла. Заузима територију површине 507 km2. Граничи се са општинама Ноаротси и Нива на северу, Ридала на западу, те са општинама Мартна и Кулама на југу.

Према статистичким подацима из јануара 2016. на територији општине живело је 4.142 становника, или у просеку око 8,17 становника по квадратном километру.

Административни центар општине налази се у селу Таебла у ком живи око 850 становника.

На територији општине налази се 37 села.

Види још
 Ланема
 Таебла
 Општине Естоније

Референце

Спољашње везе

Општине Естоније
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The SSA Library located on the School's first floor is one of SSA's outstanding educational resources. The library's collection covers all aspects of social services and social work, as well as related material from other disciplines. Reserve readings for SSA classes are located here.
The Library provides online access to thousands of ejournals and ebooks as well as hundreds of databases. Computer workstations are available in the Library, which provide access to all of our online resources as well as various software products to assist you with your research.
The staff of the SSA library are available to help researchers locate appropriate materials in the SSA library and elsewhere in the University Library System. The SSA Librarian can also provide research consultations and assistance with citation management tools upon request. The SSA library is a unit of the University of Chicago Library System, incorporating the main Joseph Regenstein Library and several departmental libraries including the John Crerar Science Library and the D'Angelo Law Library.


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SubGenre:Sagas
Series title:Skylar Trilogy
Series Number:1
by Amy D. Crusan-Kramer
In this captivating saga, Samantha Skylar experiences undying passion and endures one horrific act of brutality that sweeps her into the arms of the second most powerful man in the country. Samantha's journey takes her from the poverty and close-minded attitudes of a tiny, coal-mining town in West Virginia, to the estate of one of Atlanta's oldest and wealthiest families. This epic trilogy follows Samantha from the age of 14 to 40.
Book One opens in 1978. Sam is fourteen and living in Boone County, West Virginia, a place that isn't accepting of Roe v. Wade or the Equal Rights Amendment. Sam is different; she knows it and her doting grandmother knows it. Neither of them is content with the idea of her ending up the way her sisters did: married to a coal miner and raising another generation of miners and downtrodden women. As the beneficiary of her grandma's love, Sam absorbed her progressive outlook and beliefs, which caused her to question the status quo. Of course, being different isn't a good thing in a small conservative town, both Sam and her grandmother discover that in the cruelest way possible. Tragedy strikes and we're given a glimpse of the strength that lies within Samantha and how she deals with adversity. The first book follows Sam to Atlanta and chronicles her first four turbulent months in her new city.
Amy was born and raised in Washington State. She was introduced to her love of books by her mother and grandmother. These two strong women played an integral role in Amy's life and making her the woman she has become. In 2000, Amy travelled to the state of Georgia, where she discovered the home of her heart. Since 2000, she has made many cross-country journeys to explore her adopted state. Currently, Amy resides in Western Washington with Beau, a wonderful cocker spaniel.
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Sam's Story by Amy D. Crusan-Kramer