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Enforcement — The Other Half of Trade Agreements
Eakinomics: Enforcement — The Other Half of Trade Agreements
The U.S. has now witnessed the full toolbox of the Trump Administration's approach to trade agreements — the use of tariffs to precipitate a "crisis," brinkmanship in negotiations, and agreements that are "better" even though they contain non-tariff barriers to trade, quotas, and tariffs (the best example is the re-negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement into the United States-Mexco-Canada Agreement). I will not spill further ink on the flaws of this strategy.
But I remain convinced that enforcing trade agreements is just as important as negotiating good ones. If agreements are not enforced effectively voters will distrust international trade (and they do) and they will not support maintaining and expanding international commerce. The U.S. has used a variety of mechanisms to enforce its agreements (see the AAF paper by Jacqueline Varas and me). As it turns out, the Trump Administration faces a critical test of its willingness to use these enforcement mechanisms in the coming months.
Recall that international air travel — that is, international trade in air transportation services — is governed by Open Skies agreements. These are 120 U.S. bilateral agreements designed to prevent government intervention in commercial airline travel. Under Open Skies, private airlines in all partner nations have the freedom to make their own decisions about airline routes, the number of flights, the types of aircrafts, and pricing. When it became apparent that the governments of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) had given over $52 billion in subsidies to Qatar Airways, Etihad Airways, and Emirates, the State Department entered into negotiations to make sure the Open Skies agreements were effectively enforced. In particular, these subsidies permitted those airlines to run so-called "fifth freedom" flights at rates below their economic costs and to the detriment of fair competition; one goal was to eliminate such market distortions.
One year ago, Qatar Airways committed to greater financial transparency. The logic of this agreement was impeccable. If it was not possible to channel subsidies to the airlines, they would not be able to run unprofitable international routes, and pricing would be on a playing field level with international competitors. Any genuinely non-economic fifth freedom route would simply disappear. It appeared to be a big win for trade enforcement.
With a year of experience in the rear-view mirror, the picture is not quite so rosy. The financial reporting is not transparent enough to erase suspicions that the Qatar government continues to funnel billions in illegal subsidies to Qatar Airways. Instead of simply continuing to expand its fifth freedom transatlantic flights, however, Qatar Airways bought a 49 percent stake in the money-losing Air Italy, which turned around and launched flights to California and Chicago. For all practical purposes, Qatar Airways may simply be laundering its subsidies though control of Air Italy to produce the same end result: anti-competitive, government-subsidized international flights.
Given that the Trump Administration values "fair and reciprocal trade" as a key priority, it will be particularly interesting to observe how it pursues the enforcement of these agreements in early 2019.
If the United States, Canada, and Mexico revert back to World Trade Organization tariff rates, U.S. businesses would be exposed to $15.5 billion in new tariffs, 14 million U.S. jobs would be jeopardized, and nationwide consumer prices could increase by up to $7.1 billion per year.
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Embassy Embassy explores forms of representation and national identity, embodied in the sites and archives of the former Iraq and Australia embassies in East Berlin. The identical architectures and their connecting symbolism lead her to fragments and experiences of a shared and divided history. For the installation at the House of World Cultures in 2014 I continued my investigations into these sites, making my archives accessible and giving them voice through interviews and re-enactments.
Embassy Embassy uses representations of local history to analyse post-unification society in East Berlin. I collected testimonies in interviews and then turned them into scripts. Those texts became the sound track for my performances, which were documented in video and installed during an exhibition at Homebase Berlin. The gallery attendant would lend a set of keys to the visitor-come-performing viewer. They were told that their expedition would take a couple of hours and on returning the keys they would be asked a few questions by me about what they found.
Two versions of Embassy Embassy by Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll.
A map and audio guide was also given to participants and they could listen to the audio as they surveyed the installation. The audio guide was a clue to the kind of museum visit that was associated with exploring the former embassies. It was not the usual piece of museum technology but an Iraqi telephone with a sixties style Bakelite handle attached to a cord and plug that wouldn't fit in any socket today. I had pried open the mouthpiece that had slightly melted in a squatters fire and installed an mp3 and speaker inside, which played my voice responding to an interrogation at the embassy.
Performance lectures have become a genre in contemporary art in the past years. In part they are self-conscious theatrical reading of the genre that has been going since antiquity, with the meta-level of fiction being more pronounced. In the script that follows I am playing the role of a student based on the materials from the Berlin neighbourhood of Pankow's embassies to East Germany found during the research for this project. In the performance I speak from the mid-1980's and answer only from that position the questions I receive from the audience.
Saturday September 4th 2010, or by appointment, 3pm, Homebase Info Center. 20 people assemble. I loosely follow this script from memory, with many interruptions.
Hello, I am Khadija La and I have lived here for just over two years. Well, I have gone home in between, but this has been my new home since 1986. I came from the Middle East to East Germany to study engineering, because that is very good here. Today I will give you a tour of some of the innovations in construction that have been made here in the past 20 years.
These buildings in Thule Street 48-64 have a history that spans the twentieth century. Originally the Engelhart brewery established by Ignatz Nacher, this was a German Jew's property that the Nazis seized in the late 1930's. With the pasteurization technique Nacher invented, beer was brewed here throughout the war, without pause until 1959.
We are standing near to the governmental center of the GDR (German Democratic Republic), this building was renamed after the counter-fascist Hans Baimler. A center for the Free German Youth organization (FDJ), it houses children up into their late twenties who are known to have "the good times of their youth" in the apartment rooms we now inhabit (Herr Mass, 2010). Hans Baimler is a place where the FDJ employees children can stay, and where young guest workers can live. In 1972 it accommodated international guests for the World Games in Berlin that travelled here from allies such as Cuba and Russia (Bau Archiv fuer Bundesvermoegensamt).
The local architectural and political history is marked by transitions. The street's name itself "Thule" has many resonances. Originally Thule was a fantasy, a utopia referred to in Ancient Greece as the most northern place that the Greeks sailed - to Germany. Hellenophilia in Germany seized this reference and in the 1920's the Thule-society turned this Nordic fascination into a proto-fascist party name. Only in the early 1950's however, when the socialist government sought to replace aristocratic titles, the former King Friedrich Street became Thule Street. Goethe's Faust famously includes a poem about the King of Thule holding onto his object of love. I have translated this for you into a history-poem about the Thule Kiez in Berlin Pankow. [While I speak I hand out a booklet I've made including maps annotated with local sites of interest, a photographic essay, and the mis-translation of Goethe's Koenig von Thule].
Der Kiez is a northern German, especially Berliner, word for neighbourhood defined by social relation rather than political borders. It refers to that place where inhabitants have an urban infrastructure that is the self-sustained center of their lives. From the Slavic word chyza meaning hut or home, Kiez were historically the fishermans quarters close to the German castles in the Germania Slavica of the Middle Ages from the 7th to 10th centuries. We are walking along where a wall used to mark the edge of the city until Greater Berlin was included in 1920. The silent film studios that made the famous Dr. Caligari were located here, where rent was cheaper just outside the city.
This FDJ bus depot was designed in the late 1960's using Herbert Mueller's famous Hyperbola shell forms in concrete. The product of long research and development they went into production in the 1960's for large industrial, agricultural, and civic architecture that benefited from needing no columns. Termed HP, an acronym of Hyperbola cross-section, they are prefabricated shells for cheap and statically sound montage as roof or walls. As you see in this building the walls and roof are HP, giving a waved plasticity to both. The sculptural aesthetic was an important aspect for the East German design team, which had established a special division aside from the tower and slab housing designers. This division of architects was to focus on giving certain buildings, such as the embassies, a feature of sculptural design in precast concrete.2 They were able to experiment with industrial building technology and remain within the states demand for low cost building (Martin Pesch, 2006).
The conditions for experimentation are exciting, we have a lot of freedom here - let me show you the embassy buildings as an example - here is Moldova, Cuba, Iraq, and Australia. You see that Moldova and Cuba look the same, and that Iraq and Australia are identical. This is because are two of the type buildings that have been designed for embassies to East Germany, depending on the amount of space needed, and whether the Ambassador will live in the same buildings or require a separate residence. Iraq and Australia have the largest type, IHB3, with 5000 square meters of property.
Now that you have stepped inside the front gate you are in an extraterritorial no-mans land. The land belongs to East Germany and the building that the GDR built for the embassy is on a 99-year lease to the foreign nation.
Please be aware that you are being watched. Especially since the arrest of the Iraq embassy's secretary Khalid Jaber and technician Hay-Ali Mahmoud in West Berlin on 1. August 1980. Allegedly caught handing a suitcase of explosives produced on site in the embassy they were carrying out an assassination "with best wishes from the Iraq President" Sadaam Hussain himself (Giyasettin Sayan, 2009). The same year the president Erich Honecker was invited to Baghdad to negotiate the four chemical specialists of the Nationale Volksarmee (National Army) to supervise an atomic, biologic, and chemical weapons facility outside Baghdad.
Iraq was not surprisingly the first non-socialist country that acknowledged the GDR in 1969 as a sovereign state, engaged in diplomacy, and within 5 years it had an embassy built there. More suspicious to me was why Australia had the largest diplomatic mission of all countries to the GDR? The structure of the GDR's architectural offices explains how it came to have an identical building to that of Iraq, a fact that drove my first responses to the site.
When I later read the accounts that the first Australian ambassador wrote on arrival in the GDR, I could identify with the surprise he expressed at the grand metropolis (Diplomatic Post liaison files East Berlin Embassy A1838, 626/11/90 PART 2, National Archives of Australia). He describes walking down Unter den Linden and being swept up in the bustling promenade. Expecting a depressed Soviet quarter he narrates in detail what he sees and feels on finding himself in a lively and attractive place. As it turns out, Australia was not far behind Iraq, on 15 June 1973, Prime Minster Gough Witlam appointed Mr Francis Stuart to the position of Ambassador to the GDR. Australia did not yet have an embassy in Berlin, and Stuart was Ambassador in Poland at the time. John Tinney remembers this time, he managed Australia's first exhibit at the Leipzig Fair in 1974. He says that "diplomatic relations were very new - the Stasi kept close tabs on us" (Tinney, 2010). Only some of the files on this period in the National Archives in Canberra have been declassified so I am trying to find out who negotiated this embassy in Berlin and why. Was it the Australian policy preference for lip-service to ideology (i.e. nasty communists) but behind the scenes economic pragmatism looking for trade opportunities, or just dynasty politics inside the Canberra bureaucracy? (Michael Pusey, 2010). Tinney confirms that the hope for trade opportunities was a major element in Canberra's approach to the bilateral relationship. At the time companies could not easily do business with GDR organizations without their government having a national stand at Leipzig and a Soviet-style bilateral "mixed commission" of officials and business representatives who met every year or two. Making comparisons to Harry Seidler's embassy architecture and apartments in Paris Tinney explains it as "an era of grand Australian embassies initiated by the Whitlam government and completed well after its demise" (Personal Correspondance with John Tinney, 20/02/2011).
The end of my investigation into the legal status of the former Australian embassy coincided with its building coming onto the market for sale. As I watched employees' faces go blank during interviews with the current Australian Embassy in Berlin and chased archives through Berlin basements and emptied bins, I did not imagine arguing a case to a developer friend to buy the former embassy for just 600,000 Euros. Embassies will go diplomatically blank in passive denial of former policies, archives from East Germany are being destroyed because they are seen as worthless today, and developers are wiser in business than artists and will not buy asbestos riddled ruins.
The level of decay in these buildings and the cities economic depression (i.e. 18% unemployment and no industry to speak of aside from war and art tourism) underlies the fragmentedness of the city, which is also what keeps it open to squatters, artists and other fringe dwellers. That my studio had been empty since the unification of Germany in 1989 when the FDJ youth organization closed is not unusual. What is striking is the contrast of this abandoned space with the architectural structures of the former capital of the socialist government and its international embassies. "Pankow" I find out from my many neighbour-informants, was synonymous with the GDR government.
These neighbours of mine in Pankow that had been there over twenty-five years all ranged from ambivalent to hostile towards the unification with West Germany. What did we really gain, they wondered melancholically. In theory they could now travel wherever they wanted, something they had missed in the GDR. Yet they could not afford to travel now, a symptom of their exclusion from the economic wealth of Germany (Schultz, 2010). Their participation in capitalism has the kind of ambivalence that dooms every half-hearted attempt.
One of my participants, the elderly East German artist Helga Hoehne said, "I am interested in heavy history laden places. I expected to be surprised [by the Australian Embassy], to find something exotic. Afterwards I thought, a privileged place, internationally adapted to higher bureaucracy, even in the East. I had the feeling I didn't discover anything [...]". I heard this dulled feeling of loss often, also from participants like Arzu Bulut (a Turkish-German art producer), who expressed the melancholy associated to the passing of political power that is embodied in the embassies. The collection of discarded objects that I salvaged from the embassies and displayed in their semi-ruined state caused comment about how neglect of these sites evidenced that the whole of East German history was devalued.
On the other hand there was also a romantic decay perceived by many visitors, including the Canadian curator Melanie O'Brian and artist Antonia Hirsch. "It is so perfect, as if an artist made every bit of it," is a comment that adapts the Romantic argument about nature and artifice in artistic representation to the post-apocalyptic landscape of the Iraq embassy. "Yet you could never document or represent this place, not the way it is when you are here," was the conclusion they reached, thinking through the artistic urge to capture this scene that evoked a political history in a three dimensional totality that installation artists aspire to.
In a series of lectures about the abandoned diplomatic missions of the GDR with architectural historians Florian Urban and Martin Petsch I explored why the architecture of East German Modernism has claims of cultural heritage. I took the abandoned diplomatic missions as a case study under the title Botschaften, a term which means both messages and embassies in German. There were vast amounts of bureaucratic documents to read in the Iraq embassy because the staff had apparently left in a hurry and all their archive, library, and paperwork was still in the abandoned building. I collected dissertations by Iraqi engineering students, propaganda leaflets, and what should be classified embassy correspondence. I exhibited these in the gallery and let the audience draw their own conclusions about what events had taken place and why an intimate cross-section of a sensitive archive was accessible. Familiar German politicians names mixed with those of Iraqi diplomats in Berlin, evoking a recent history from the perspective of 2010. For at the same moment WikiLeaks was bringing classified government and corporate documents to public judgement over misconduct. The visitors read these official documents hung out for all to see with keener eyes because of the current WikiLeaks discourse. They thought of Julian Assange before associating the exhibition to the early conceptual artists that displayed documents like Joseph Beuys' public surveys.
The context in which the Embassy Embassy expeditions to the East German governmental center were made in 2010 helps explains the project's impact. When the Middle East Journal published an official statement from the Iraq Embassy in Germany stating that their former mission to the GDR in Pankow was secure, it was responding to the attention that the site received through these visits. There were media reports, neighbour's complaints, and police investigation. Because of the legal status of the property as still belonging to Iraq, because they never gave up the lease, the German police could not legally enter or enforce the law. This is symptomatic of the continuing transition between East Germany and the Federal Republic of Germany.
"War der Sinn meinen inneren Schweinehund ueberwinden zu muessen?" Florian Zappe, a critical theorist, asked me on return from the embassy (was the point of your art work that I had to overcome my innermost fear?) He explained that although he felt he had adopted something of Adorno's authoritarian personality, feeling the right to enter because he had the key, he was also afraid of what was inside.
I did not tell people which door the keys I gave them opened. Tanja Beyer, who works in the German foreign affairs department as an economic watchdog, said "it was an adventure to go all alone to the embassies, to look for the door in, to keep trying the key, that was exciting". The key, a simple object, in relation to a complex building, held a tension between permission and prohibition. The thrill Beyer experienced in seeing "the empty architecture reused" is a feature of how Berlin's political transitions in the twentieth century can now be experienced through the urban environment. Yet the stoic rebuilding and repurposing is also matched with a fear and ultimate identification with the authority of state beaurocracy. "We saw people walking their dogs and were too afraid to enter the Iraq embassy" Zappe admitted when I asked how he compared the experience of the Australian with the Iraqi embassy.
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Description: Khadija giving tour of Embassies, September 4.
It was the Mosaic (2010.500) that drew me in to these embassies to begin with. Together with the decorative features of tile designs and ceramics on the faìade, made by a highly regarded GDR artists (an official position that led to many state commissions annually). In the Iraq embassy the spherical design of the mosaic was representative of the wholeness of Allah. That it was the same circle design in the Australian embassy did not halt the dots from representing meeting places and water holes, the way they do in central dessert painting. Such slippage of a visual sign was significant to an Australian called Khadija (a most Arabic name).
The embassies were another case through which to explore the way nations represent themselves through a monumental image. Negotiated by the new authors that come with every political transition, the sites of Embassy Embassy are comparable with those of the Living Monument in Project 1. The performing viewers in this section delineate the bandwidth of residents in a post-unification German neighbourhood. The East Berliners that have remained in Pankow despite the influx of international people were the kinds of informants that I sought to turn into collaborators.


Director Matthew Heineman and journalist Abdul-Aziz Alhamza on their vital documentary, which tackles Syria and ISIS propaganda.
Matthew Heineman and Abdul-Aziz al-Hamza pose for a photo during the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival's premiere of City of Ghosts.
"Aziz, put the phone away," director Matthew Heineman whispers to Abdul-Aziz Alhamza, the primary subject of the award-winning documentary City of Ghosts. He doesn't listen. And it's O.K.
City of Ghosts, in theaters July 7 before coming to Amazon, has been hitting the festival circuit hard, and opening eyes along the way. The film works on a number of levels. It's not just about what's happening in Syria; it's the story about getting the story. It contains brutal footage of ISIS terrorizing the citizens of Raqqa but also, and perhaps even more repellant, the quite slick, Hollywood-style propaganda videos that ISIS produces to lure new recruits. A sequence I'll never forget: watching Aziz's colleague Hamoud watch the execution video of his father, which is shot, edited, and scored in the manner of an action-thriller.
Heineman, whose previous film Cartel Land was nominated for an Academy Award, embedded his crew with Aziz's group, who were first exiled to Turkey and are now in Germany. That intimacy is the movie's primary selling point. "We didn't want talking heads; this is showing, not telling," Heineman says. That meant putting a small crew in safe houses, bunkering with people who clearly need sleep as they wait for calls from their sources still in Raqqa, hitting refresh on their laptops, and updating Facebook from their phones.
Aziz, whose "not terrible English" granted him the role of spokesperson, was a student when the Arab Spring spread to Syria. As democratic sentiment pushed against the Assad regime, a power vacuum was created just in time for ISIS to plant their black flag in Aziz's hometown of Raqqa. Among ISIS's primary weapons was propaganda, so it fell to brave individual citizens to leak the truth.
Before any change can come, we need facts. That's where this group, and this movie, comes in.


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12757 Yangtze este un asteroid din centura principală de asteroizi.

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12757 Yangtze este un asteroid din centura principală de asteroizi. A fost descoperit pe  la Observatorul La Silla de Henri Debehogne și Eric Walter Elst. Asteroidul prezintă o orbită caracterizată de o semiaxă mare de 2,92 ua, o excentricitate de 0,08 și o înclinație de 1,1° în raport cu ecliptica.

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 Lista planetelor minore: 12001-13000
 Centura de asteroizi

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Asteroizi Koronis

Obiecte astronomice descoperite în 1993
Centura de asteroizi
Objet céleste nommé d'après un lieu de Chine
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How to Replace Solar Battery?
If it has been a long time since you first bought your solar lights, then you might be noticing that the lights are getting dimmer and not recharging like they used to. If this is the case then you might need to change out the batteries. Fortunately, learning how to replace solar battery is easy to do.
Before you start, you need to locate the battery cover. Usually the battery cover is located on the side or the bottom of the light. Now you can look and see what type of screws it has. Once you do that, locate the correct tool and you are ready to begin.
Use the screwdriver to carefully remove the battery cover. Now all you need to do is remove the old batteries and replace those with new ones. It is important to make sure that you are using the right kind of batteries for the solar lights. Solar lights use special rechargeable batteries. Once you are done putting in the new batteries, you can replace the cover and put the screws back in.
Now that you have changed the batteries, your solar light should be good as new and ready to be used again.


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Start Allgemein Interviews Interview with Kakeru Takamine, the author of How to Melt the Ice...
Interview with Kakeru Takamine, the author of How to Melt the Ice Queen's Heart
To celebrate the international release of the light novel How to Melt the Ice Queen's Heart, I had the pleasure of speaking with Kakeru Takamine and asking him a few interesting questions about them and their work.
Kakeru Takamine's debut work will be released in English in early June via Spanish publisher Tentai Books. Takamine-sensei is not only active on Twitter besides being an author. They also inspires fans as a Virtual Ytuber by the same name.
Hello Takamine-sensei and thank you for taking the time to do this interview with me to celebrate the international release of How to Melt the Ice Queen's Heart in early June. How to Melt the Ice Queen's Heart is being released in English for the first time outside of Japan. How does it feel to know that light novel enthusiasts from all over the world are going to read your work soon?
I am very happy that my work will be read all over the world, but it doesn't feel real to me at all. It feels more like a dream.
Everything began seemingly in September 2019, when you published I Want to Live Together with You on Syosetu, a platform for novelists. Just a month later, the first two chapters of How to Melt the Ice Queen's Heart appeared. Had you had the basic idea in mind for a while?
When I decided to write a novel, I just wrote whatever came to mind. So it's not that I had the idea for a long time.
Why did you decide to write a novel and not a manga? What is the appeal of writing a book?
Manga and novels are two completely different media. A manga tells the story with pictures, a novel with words. I can't draw, but I can write. That's all there is to it.
The attraction of writing a book is something I don't know myself. (Laughs)
Where did you get the inspiration from? Do you have any favorite manga or novels? Or have you experienced a similar situation?
I love manga, so they have had a great influence on me. I never had similar experiences. Reality is reality and fiction is fiction.
You made it through 10,000 applicants and received an award at the Syosetsu Net Award. How did you feel when you received the award?
To be honest, I was very convinced of my work, so I was not surprised at all. But when I received the notification about the award, I was still incredibly happy. Since this was my debut work, it was a very special moment.
How much does the light novel differ from the web novel? Was the editor in charge of Futabasha able to give you any valuable tips for the story?
There are, of course, differences between the Web Novel and the printed edition. When I revise the manuscript, I try to get more out of the good parts. There's also a bonus chapter and additional scenes. My editor has given me some good tips, but I can't give any specific ones here.
It's difficult for outsiders to get a sense of how mangaka or writers work with their assigned editor. Can you provide some insights on that?
A writer is usually assigned a single editor. When the writer is ready with the manuscript, he sends it to his editor. The editor then reads it and gives some hints. This is repeated until the best possible work has emerged.
While you are the creative mind behind How to Melt the Ice Queen's Heart, Kagawa Ichigo drew the illustrations. Did you have specific requests for the cover or the images in the book?
The author describes the appearance and personality of the characters to the illustrator in great detail. On this basis, the illustrator makes the character design.
You've been very active on social media lately (Twitter, Reddit). How important is the interaction with fans to you?
The exchange with my fans is very important to me. An author is nothing without his fans. Thanks to social media, nowadays you can get in touch with fans from all over the world. I don't want to miss out on this opportunity.
In early April, you shared the news on Twitter that Futabasha decided to discontinue How to Melt the Ice Queen's Heart after Volume 2. How did you take the news, and why did Futabasha make that decision?
I was so heartbroken that I cannot put it into words. Because although the story is still going on, I can't tell it to my readers now. There's usually only one reason for abandoning a title: it didn't sell well enough. It's as simple as that.
Are there any tips you could give to other novelists? What should you pay particular attention to?
There is nothing specific. I think everyone should write the way they want. That's just the creative process. Above all, I'm not yet such an experienced writer that I could give others tips.
There are currently many successful anime based on light novels. Which voice actors could you imagine for the two main characters in a future anime project?
I don't know much about voice actors, so I don't have any specific ones in mind, but I would like them to fit the characters perfectly.
Do you already have plans for a new story?
I already have a lot of ideas! More than a hundred. But it's complicated to put them into a work. It takes an incredible amount of energy to write novels. At the moment, I'm focused on How to Melt the Ice Queen's Heart.
Is there anything you would like to say to readers in and outside Japan?
I'm in daily contact with my fans in Japan, so it's probably not necessary to say anything to them here.
I would like to ask my fans overseas not to miss reading the English edition. I've heard that fantasy is very popular abroad. How about RomCom for a change? I really hope you enjoy my work.
Thank you for the interview, Takamine-sensei!
How to melt the Ice Queen's Heart will be released in English in June 8th with an MSRP of 9,99$. Extras include a bookmark and Polaroid-like picture of the main protagonist, Fuyuka. You can order it via Amazon or the Online Shop of Tentai Books.
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Florida sets aside $15 million to settle Best and Brightest bonus lawsuit
Thousands of black and Hispanic teachers could benefit from the agreement.
The Florida Department of Education, which is based in Tallahassee, is being sued by the Florida Education Association and seven South Florida teachers over the Best and Brightest teacher bonus program, first enacted by lawmakers in 2015. The suit is near a settlement. [Scott Keeler / Tampa Bay Times]
By Jeffrey S. Solochek
Published May 13
Click here to read this story in Spanish.
When Gov. Ron DeSantis talked after the 2019 legislative session about putting $300 million into teacher bonuses for next year, it seemed like a bit of extreme rounding.
The education budget that Florida lawmakers approved showed only $284.5 million for the Best and Brightest program, after all.
But tucked into another part of the budget — line 142A, to be precise — the Legislature had placed $15.5 million for settling a federal lawsuit referred to as "Educ. Ass'n v. Dep't of Educ., Case No. 4-17-cv-414-RH/CAS."
That case, it turns out, is a nearly two-year-old challenge to the bonus that now appears to be over. And thousands of Florida's black and Hispanic teachers stand to benefit.
To reach the deal, the money had to be included in the budget. The test-score requirements also had to be removed from the bonus eligibility.
Lawmakers did both.
They, along with DeSantis, agreed that granting bonuses based on a teacher's SAT or ACT college entrance exam scores "didn't make sense" and deleted that criterion.
It was the main complaint that the Florida Education Association and select teachers made in taking the state and school districts to court in 2017.
The FEA's lawyers alleged that the Legislature discriminated against black, Hispanic and older teachers by requiring the scores. Many teachers in Florida never took the exams, they noted, particularly if they began their degree programs in community college.
Many "highly effective" teachers were denied added pay simply because of a missing test result, the lawyers claimed.
As the class-action case progressed, the age discrimination portion fell to the side as the state claimed immunity under the 11th Amendment on that group of teachers. But the racial bias complaint continued.
The sides entered mediation to try to resolve their differences. And that's where the agreement began to form.
Under the terms, those black and Hispanic teachers who did not receive a bonus because they lacked test scores would be eligible to get one for any of the four years in which they otherwise would have qualified.
The award amounts were $8,248 in the first year, $6,816 in the second, and $6,000 in the third and fourth years.
Whether or not they applied for a bonus should not matter, federal Judge Robert Hinkle of the Northern District of Florida wrote in a December 2018 order.
"The defendants say a teacher cannot assert a claim if the teacher did not apply for a bonus, but that is not correct," Hinkle wrote. "A teacher who did not apply because the teacher could not meet the SAT or ACT condition may assert a claim."
He noted that some teachers might not have applied because they expected to be discriminatorily denied.
The number of teachers who might get a payment through the settlement, therefore, remains uncertain. The FEA stated that 59,528 teachers received "highly effective" evaluations in 2015 and, among them, 8 percent were black and 13 percent were Hispanic.
In 2015, 5,334 teachers received bonuses, among whom 1 percent were black and 5 percent were Hispanic. Extrapolating out, the FEA estimated about 12,000 teachers could be eligible for the awards for that year.
The state Department of Education is to be compiling a complete list for the four years.
No one from the department responded to a request for information about the deal.
Rep. Chris Latvala, the Clearwater Republican who leads the House PreK-12 Appropriations committee, said legislative leaders agreed to putting the money into the budget for when a settlement can be reached.
He said he did not know the details, which had not been spelled out to lawmakers, but wanted to support ending the lawsuit and getting money into teachers' pockets.
Before the agreement can go to Judge Hinkle for his consideration, it still has one more step. DeSantis, who already has signed the bill ending the test requirement, must sign the 2019-20 budget without vetoing the $15.5 million.
FEA president Fed Ingram said he did not foresee any obstacles to completing the settlement.
"I'm happy to be moving forward," Ingram said, criticizing the state's reliance of bonus programs rather than pay increases for teachers.
He said the union would be shifting its attention to combating some of the provisions in new laws DeSantis already has signed. It is actively discouraging members from volunteering to serve as armed school guards, he said.
The union also is asking the Department of Education to work with teachers whose temporary certifications are set to expire June 30, so they might benefit from extensions created in law that take effect July 1.
"They've given us a lot to work with, unfortunately," Ingram said.
Related: Changes to Best and Brightest bonus will leave good teachers behind, critics say
Jeffrey S. Solochek
Pasco schools, State Education and Higher Education Reporter
Highlands County citrus grower becomes Florida Board of Education chairman
Andy Tuck has served as vice chairman for four years.
Florida education news: Teacher pay, turnaround schools, student schedules and more
A roundup of stories from around the state.
Proposed Pasco policy clarifies school guardian rule
School Board members have opposed allowing teachers to participate by carrying guns in classrooms.
State orders new operator for four Hillsborough schools
Oak Park and Foster Elementary can remain with Phalen Leadership Academies, the current operator.
Florida to focus on improving teacher pay, commissioner Richard Corcoran says
Bonuses alone aren't enough, State Board member Michael Olenick suggests.


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Anderson Cooper anchored the Ottawa segment of The Situation Room during the 6PM ET hour.
Anchored a two hour edition of AC360. Half way through the first hour the news broke of a man testing positive for Ebola and that news along with a press conference from NYC filled the rest of the extended edition of AC360.
Anderson wrapped up coverage of the press conference, talked to Dr. Sanjay Gupta on the phone and stayed on to talk to Don Lemon after tossing to him for CNN Tonight.
I knew when I heard on the evening news that a NYC man was being tested for Ebola, that the story would be the focus of AC360. I had no idea it would be the only news for over 3/4 of the program with Anderson in Ottawa. It looks like Anderson was out and about in Ottawa gathering stories for tonight's program and he mentioned talking about the victim of the shooting at the opening. Unfortunately, that was not to be. Here's hoping his reports get posted to the AC360 blog because I have a feeling tomorrow's AC360 will be all Ebola since it's happening in NYC. I'm not sure how many ways they can find to say the same thing, but I'm sure CNN/AC360 will find a way. If that's the case, I'll reaching for my remote.
I was happy to see the photos of Anderson out gathering reports rather than just seeming to stand on the street and waiting for them to come to him. Just wish those reports could have made it to air.
Ebola is back on 360's front burner and the heat is turned on high.
@Anon 11:21 PM - Totally agree about Anderson getting other reports from Ottawa. I said something like this yesterday. They don't have to be completely different but tangent reports like maybe a daytime walk around the War Memorial and a look at the Canadian capitol grounds (as if he were in Washington DC and explained the Mall in front of our capitol building).
- Miguel Marquez outside Dr. Spencer's NYC apartment reporting on how it was/will be sealed off and sanitzed.
I've complained before about the new on-screen graphics and I"m going to do it again. The main title is okay but the space and font for other information, like who the non-anchor person currentlly speaking is, is not shown well enough. Or long enough, often it flashes on the screen for a nanosecond or maybe two seconds at the most. John Baird, appearing with Feyerick in a segment, is the Canadian official of *something* Affairs. It was not on screen long enough to read it all. Why not show the names of reporters and experts in the big screen title space?
My favorite extra ATA photo today is from Aranka Golphy showing her copy of 'Dispatches from the Edge' after Anderson signed it. First, I'll have to bring my copy with me whenever I next get to NYC and carry it with me everywhere just on the chance I'll meet Anderson. Second, no one will believe that's Andeson's signature, it's as illegible as a doctor's.
Wow, tons of pics, great job ATA.
I can't believe I actually sat through a press conference but it was interesting and woman on the panel seemed like a real New York character (not to dismiss the serious work she does).
Why is everyone complaining about the Ebola coverage? After Dallas, it has now reached New York (a city which I have no doubt will do a much better dealing with this situation than those idiots in TX did). This is a major story, of course AC360 should cover it! And they've been doing a great job doing so.
@Anon 7:57 IMO, the complaints are because it's too much coverage. Much of the 90 minutes last night and the time spent on the topic tonight was redundant and filler. I wouldn't mind a report or two, but IMO repeating the same information over and over at the expense of airing other news makes the program boring. Anderson was in Canada gathering reports and interviews on what was happening there yesterday. Some of last night's 90 minutes of Ebola coverage could have been spent airing those reports/interviews instead of filling time with "speculation" while waiting for a press conference.
Tonight's segment on people's unfounded fear and the political reaction out of NY and NJ politicians reaffirms my belief that the press is hyping the fear with overkill.


The 2019 Salmonfest (Aug. 2-4) announces another dynamic lineup. Two powerful and renowned national acts, including for the first time, two Grammy winners Jason Mraz and Ani DiFranco, top the bill with the returning festival favorites, The California Honeydrops, WookieFoot and over 20 other prominent acts from all over the country will bring an electric mix that promises to provide something special for everyone. Dozens of the top Alaska bands will fill out the lineup and provide a strong element to the artistic extravaganza that awaits us all.
Salmonfest 2019 will take place on the Kenai Peninsula Fairgrounds at 16200 Sterling Highway in Ninilchik. Tickets are on sale now.
Lori Lightfoot has won Chicago's mayoral election, which capped a historic campaign between two African-American women who branded themselves as progressive and independent in a city known for its political machine.
Lightfoot – a former federal prosecutor who has worked in police oversight – easily defeated Cook County Board President and county Democratic Party leader Toni Preckwinkle. With more than 70 percent of precincts reporting, Lightfoot had won 74 percent of the vote, according to the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners.
Regardless of who won, the nation's third-largest city would get its first black woman mayor. Lightfoot also becomes the city's first openly gay mayor.
The federal government climate report also warns that changes are already evident in many parts of the country and are projected to intensify. Canada's Arctic has seen the deepest impact and will continue to warm at more than double the global rate. The report suggests that many of the effects already seen are probably irreversible.
Canada's annual average temperature has increased by an estimated 1.7C (3F) since 1948, when nationwide temperatures were first recorded. The largest temperature increases have been seen in the North, the Prairies, and in northern British Columbia. Annual average temperature in northern Canada increased by approximately 2.3C.
April brings many spectacular astronomical events.
During the early morning of the 3rd, three planets: Mercury, Venus and Neptune rise and will be visible in the sky with the thin crescent moon. Mercury can be seen again on the 11th, where the planet reaches its greatest western elongation of 27.7 degrees from the Sun. The 19th will present the full moon known as the 'pink moon.' The Lyrids Meteor Shower will occur between the 22nd & 23rd, displaying 20+ meteors per hour, and 2019 proves to be good year for Saturn occultations, for its third will happen on the night of the 25th — but will only be visible in parts of Australia, New Zealand and South America.


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Un caño es un curso de agua marina que se interna en terrenos fangosos de marismas y cuya profundidad y apariencia cambia en función de las mareas. Puede estar comunicado directamente con el mar o no.

 En el primer caso, se denomina caño principal o caño madre, y a su vez puede estar abierto al mar por un extremo o por varios.
 Cuando está comunicado indirectamente al mar por medio de un caño principal, o es un ramal de este, se le denomina caño secundario y terciario. Cuando un caño secundario es estrecho, de corto recorrido y tiene difícil comunicación con canales mayores, se le denomina Zumajo.

Los caños suministran agua marina tanto a los ríos  marismas transformadas en salinas, como a salinas transformadas en piscifactorías, además de a molino de mareas. Son un hábitat de frágil equilibrio que sostiene una gran diversidad de animales y plantas marinas, siendo los representantes más vistosos las aves marinas y limícolas.

También se conoce como caño a los conductos que sirven para conducir fluidos, es decir, agua potable, gas, líquidos cloacales, agua de calefacción y refrigeración, etc.

Véase también
 Caño de Sancti Petri
 Los Caños de Meca

Accidentes fluviales y lacustres
Accidentes costeros y oceánicos


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hope the folks at telltale dont mind.
I just thought I'd give you a heads up, this game was released before the Telltale Games release was even announced. Telltale merely carries it because of the obvious connection to one of the franchises they acquired. Looney Labs which makes some very solid games, made this and this is a shining example of their proven track record. Also, you might want to pick up the promo card for this game, the pizza hydrator.


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Lyric Bae teams up with Tolu & J Lomah in the inspirational single, "E Go Beta"
By Nikki Laoye
January 6, 2021 | 1:18 am
American Singer/Actress, Lyric Bae teams up with US based Nigerian Artists, Tolu & J Lomah in the inspirational single, "E Go Beta"
J Lomah, Tolu & Lyric Bae
October 20, 2020 was a day that the world stood still. Lyric Bae, like many people, watched in horror as news reports came in of the shooting of peaceful protesters on that fateful night.
How much is too much?
Lyric made a decision to be impactful. She reached out to Tolu & J Lomah to make a song.
The artists agreed to donate 40% of the streaming to benefit people struggling against injustice in Nigeria and other parts of Africa.
This is their heartfelt collaboration.
Watch the Official Video
MORE ABOUT THE ARTISTS
LYRIC BAE
Lyric Bae is a singer, songwriter, actress and film producer from Texas, U.S.A. She effortlessly bridges the gaps between hip-hop and soul music with Afrobeat vibes
Tolu is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, recording artist, music producer, and actor. He was a finalist at the 2010 MTN Project Fame. He has worked with Don Jazzy & Tiwa Savage
J LOMAH
JLomah is a Nigerian singer and songwriter based in Dallas, TX. He combines both hustle and .talent to take the industry by storm.
Carolyne Naomi & Tolu - Bamijo
VIDEO: Tolu - This Love
Afro-Inspirational Artist, TOLU collaborates with BET Sunday Best Winner, Crystal Aikin & Keke Boyd in "Need You"


If you haven't heard yet, Dan and I went to the Powell Street Festival last Saturday. This is our second time visiting the festival, and our first time since returning from Japan.
We nearly forgot about this festival happening until we were both bored out of our mind Saturday morning and decided what's something that's fun and cheap to do for the day and the internet suggested this festival.
Our sole purpose was to eat some takoyaki and catch some performances. So, of course, by the time we arrived at the festival (only an hour or so after opening and it was JAMMED PACKED!), we beelined to the famous takoyaki stand. The line-up and wait for the food wasn't too bad.
So, I personally think that Japan has ruined takoyakis for me… not because Vancouver doesn't have authentic and yummy takoyaki, but because I think I overdid it when I was in Japan. I've never eaten so much takoyaki in my life than during that two weeks in Japan! I mentioned this to Dan as well after I couldn't finish the remaining three balls and he agreed as well.
After the food, we walked around a bit more to check out the booths and attractions. We skipped the merchandise area in an attempt to save our money because I had a feeling I'd be tempted to buy something. The booths were more or less the same as last year.
We walked across the field and found ourselves watching some performs set up Japanese drums on the stage. Dan and I decided to wait around to catch the performance.
So, I can't recall the group that was performing the drums but it's a famous Canadian drumming group made up of women. They were the first all-women drumming group in Canada, formed in 1990.
My favourite performer was this little old lady! She was so adorable, and really rocking the show. I mean… when I'm at her age, I only wish I would be half as fit as her.
After about 3-4 songs, we decided to call it and check out other things. Saturday was blazing hot and I was sweating like mad just sitting on the grass and watching a performance. Dan didn't do too well – his shirt was just soaked in sweat from sitting.
We stopped by a gyoza place but didn't feel like grabbing anything so we ended up driving back home and stopped by a Booster Juice.
Later that evening, we went over to Stephen's place to catch some UFC. It was a great Saturday, but waaaay too hot. If you haven't visited the Powell Street Festival yet, I suggest doing it next year (as it's over now). The food is good and cheap, and the performances and attractions make it fun. Best of all, it's free!
Thanks for reading! I'm trying to find more festivals around town but I totally agree that they're fun to attend!
This festival looks so fun! I love going to festivals that celebrate different types of cultures.
Me too! We have a few throughout summer and I regret the ones I ended up missing this year 😦 I'd love to see other cultures celebrated around town.


Local residents are starting to assess the damage left behind in Hurricane Michael's wake.
A day after Hurricane Michael made its historic landfall on the Florida Panhandle, local residents are starting to assess the damage left behind in the storm's wake.
St. George Island, a popular vacation destination, was among the areas hit by Hurricane Michael, which neared Category 5 intensity at landfall.
Franklin County Sheriff A.J. Smith said there were no reports of serious injuries, deaths or any missing persons. Residents, homeowners and business owners are being allowed onto the island, but other visitors are asked to stay away.
Our search & rescue teams have already moved into Panama City, Mexico Beach, Tyndall, Alligator Point, and Carrabelle. Air assets have made contact with Apalachicola and St. George Island.
I live in Eastpoint. That's where we road out the storm. I'm currently on St George Island assessing some damage.


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The accommodation along with the 3 bedrooms consists of a bathroom, a separate wc, lounge, dining room and kitchen. There is ample parking to the front of the property.
window to rear, bath, wash basin, radiator.
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Approximately 57 ft frontage max, flower beds, parking for several vehicles.


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News Roundup and Notes: January 8, 2016
by Nadia O'Mara
Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here's today's news.
Turkish security forces have pushed back an ISIS attack targeting a military base in northern Iraq where Turkish forces are training local militia. [Reuters]
Special-forces have conducted raids on an ISIS stronghold in northern Iraq, ahead of a planned offensive to reclaim Mosul from the militant group, an Iraqi official said. [Reuters]
The Assad regime has agreed to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid into the rebel-controlled Syrian town of Madaya, residents of which are suffering hunger and starvation due to a government siege. [New York Times' Anne Bernard] MSF representatives say that 23 people have died as a result of starvation since Dec. 1. [Washington Post's Liz Sly and Suzan Haidamous] The UN has called for unimpeded access for humanitarian aid to the besieged area. [UN News Centre]
An ISIS militant publicly executed his mother in Raqqa because she had called on him to leave the group, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. [Reuters]
Secretary of State John Kerry has accused the Senate of hurting the fight against ISIS by failing to confirm a host of diplomatic nominees. [Politico's Nahal Toosi]
Two Iraqi refugees were arrested on terrorism-related charges yesterday in Texas and California; both suspects are of Palestinian origin and are accused of links to jihadi organizations in Syria and Iraq, including ISIS. [New York Times' Manny Fernandez and Liam Stack]
US-led airstrikes continue. US and coalition military forces carried out 14 strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria on Jan. 6. Separately, partner forces conducted a further 22 strikes on targets in Iraq. [Central Command]
The Guardian presents an interactive guide to US-led airstrikes against ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
IRAN-SAUDI ARABIA DISPUTE
The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has denied Iran's accusation that coalition airstrikes hit its embassy in Sana'a on Wednesday night. A coalition statement described the accusation as "false and void." [Al Jazeera]
Saudi Arabia's decision to execute Shi'ite cleric Nimr al-Nimr was probably taken for domestic reasons, rather than as a deliberate effort to provoke regional rival Iran, reports Angus McDowall. [Reuters]
The Shi'ite communities of the Arab world are caught in the middle of the Iranian-Saudi conflict, writes Yaroslav Trofimov, reporting that many Shi'ites in fact see little difference between the two states. [Wall Street Journal]
The Economist interviewed Saudi Arabia's deputy crown prince, Muhammad bin Salman, the full transcript is available here. The prince, who is the country's defense minister, defended his country's military operations in Yemen and said he did not predict that Riyadh's dispute with Tehran could escalate into a war.
NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR TEST
Pressure on China is mounting in the wake of North Korea's claim to have conducted a nuclear test, Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday saying that he made clear to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi that Beijing's approach to Pyongyang was failing. [Reuters]
Kerry rejected suggestions that the Obama administration had focused too heavily on Iran, leaving North Korea "unattended to." [Washington Post's Karen DeYoung]
Speaker Paul Ryan has said that the House will vote on fresh sanctions targeting North Korea in the wake of the country's claim to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb for the first time. [Politico]
American and allied officials questioned North Korea's claim of "thermonuclear success," report Jay Solomon et al, with analysis indicating that what Pyongyang tested was not a hydrogen bomb. [Wall Street Journal]
North Korea's nuclear test has sparked a "Washington blame game," reports Nahal Toosi, commenting that while much "finger pointing" has taken place, there has been little sign of an actual solution to the problem. [Politico]
South Korea has resumed anti-North propaganda broadcasts across the border, a move which comes as the international community grapples with how best to penalize Pyongyang. [Al Jazeera]
UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has called on South Korea to "exercise restraint" in its response to the nuclear test, following Seoul's announcement that it had resumed the broadcasts. [The Guardian's Justin McCurry]
The Economist writes that Pyongyang's fourth nuclear test is "a sobering reminder of the progress that three generations of Kims have made" in expanding their nuclear capability, concluding that China must "change its tune towards its outrageous ally."
"Many serious dangers comes with being a nuclear power, and the North Koreans seem to recognize few of them," observe Victor Cha and Robert L. Gallucci, arguing that the country must realise that selling its nuclear technology could result in the US taking steps that would "bring an end" to nearly 70 years of Communist rule. [New York Times]
The Obama administration's national security leadership is traveling to Silicon Valley to seek technology firms' assistance in working out how to tackle terrorists' use of the Internet as a recruitment and radicalization tool. [Washington Post's Ellen Nakashima] The summit comes amid escalated pressure on tech firms to do more to combat online propaganda. [Reuters]
French authorities shot dead a man who tried to storm a Paris police station armed with a knife and wearing a fake suicide vest. The incident is being treated as an act of terrorism. The identity of the man remains unverified. [France 24; Wall Street Journal's Inti Landauro and Noemie Bisserbe]
Belgian authorities discovered explosives thought to have been used in the Paris attacks in a Brussels apartment which was rented under a false name and where a fingerprint of key suspect, Salah Abdeslam was found. [Reuters]
An independent civilian will be appointed to monitor the NYPD's counterterrorism activities, court documents revealed yesterday, part of efforts to settle a set of lawsuits over surveillance of Muslims in the years following 9/11. [New York Times' Matt Apuzzo and Al Baker]
Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood clashed with security forces outside a Cairo hotel yesterday, signaling political tensions ahead of the of 5th anniversary of the country's revolution. [New York Times' Declan Walsh]
Military doctors have criticized the Pentagon for failing to institutionalize many of the medical advances made on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq, calling on Defense Secretary Ash Carter to make certain techniques, drugs and devices mandatory for all military medical staff. [Wall Street Journal's Michael M. Phillips]
A senior UN relief official condemned the demolition by Israeli authorities of the homes of Palestinian Bedouins in the West Bank. [UN News Centre]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has deplored Yemen's decision to declare the head of the country office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights persona non grata. Yemen had reportedly accused the official of lacking impartiality. [Al Jazeera; UN News Centre]
Nadia O'Mara
Nadia O'Mara is Policy and Campaigns Officer at UK-based civil liberties and human rights organization, Liberty. She was previously the Assistant News Editor at Just Security. Follow her on Twitter (@NadiaMay_1)
The Early Edition: January 22, 2020
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The Early Edition: January 9, 2020
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Smithsonian & SVF Biodiversity Preservation Project Launched
Partnership Will Elevate Heritage Rare-breed Conservation
The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the SVF Foundation announced July 23 the launch of the Smithsonian & SVF Biodiversity Preservation Project to strengthen rare and endangered livestock breed conservation through the preservation and study of frozen germplasm (semen and embryos), cell lines and other biomaterials from rare heritage breeds of food and fiber livestock. As part of the collaboration, a bio-repository and cryo-preservation laboratory will be constructed at SCBI in Front Royal, Va., creating a world-class biodiversity preservation program.
The Smithsonian & SVF Foundation Biodiversity Project is a terrific example of how a public and private partnership can address a formidable world challenge, said Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough. By bringing together the cutting-edge scientific expertise of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute with SVF's extensive genetic material, we will gather more information on rare and endangered heritage breeds to make a lasting impact on global biodiversity.
SCBI shares SVF's philosophy about the importance of biological and genetic diversity to secure the long-term preservation of critical genotypes. Heritage breeds of livestock carry valuable and irreplaceable traits such as resistance to disease and parasites, heat tolerance, mothering ability and forage utilization.
We are pleased to be working with the Smithsonian, an institution that is a scientific leader and has done so much to study and conserve other endangered species like the Giant Panda, said Dorrance H. Hamilton, founder of the SVF Foundation.
SVF's project of preserving rare breeds of domestic livestock to help avoid a single breed as a food source started 15 years ago under the direction of Hamilton, and since then, SVF has collected and stored 86,000 samples from 26 breeds. The collection is expected to grow to include a total of 140,000 samples from 35 domestic breeds. Protecting the genetics and traits of breeds will help ensure genetic diversity, which could protect the global food chain.
The Smithsonian & SVF Biodiversity Preservation Project has three components. First, it will continue SVF's work to collect and store genetic material of rare livestock breeds over the next seven years. Second, the partnership will use the Smithsonian's expertise in managing endangered populations to preserve these endangered livestock breeds. Third, SCBI scientists will store and curate the material that SVF has collected over the past decade and apply their scientific expertise to produce data demonstrating the importance of genetic diversity in producing healthy offspring. Transfer of the SVF cryo-collection to SCBI will begin this fall. SCBI is working to endow the Project and raise funds for future research related to this collection.
Headquartered in Front Royal, Va., SCBI facilitates and promotes veterinary and reproductive research as well as conservation ecology programs based at Front Royal, the National Zoo and at field research stations and training sites worldwide. Its scientists are leaders in applying advanced biomedical approaches, including assisted reproductive technologies and germplasm cryopreservation, for enhancing the demographic and genetic diversity of endangered species. The National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute is a part of the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum and research complex.
The SVF Foundation, located in Newport, R.I. was established to help save endangered livestock breeds. The Foundation preserves and manages germplasm (semen, embryos, blood and cells) from rare and endangered breeds of food and fiber livestock, elevating rare-breed conservation through biomaterials cryopreservation. The SVF Foundation will be able to reawaken a breed, with its full genetic diversity, within one generation.
To download photos, visit the Zoo's Flickr page.


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International Compost Alliance aims to advance awareness and use...
International Compost Alliance aims to advance awareness and use of compost globally
Recycling Product News Staff
Despite organics recycling being an affordable and proven solution to the climate mitigation and methane emission reduction goals, it remains an underutilized and undervalued technology.
Compost organizations from around the world have established the International Compost Alliance, a voluntary partnership to advance awareness and understanding of the benefits and use of compost on a global scale.
The Alliance looks to offer positive solutions for climate change mitigation, soil health and food security, building on years of working collaboration between organics recycling organizations. By pooling expertise and knowledge, the Alliance seeks to maximize the recycling of organic wastes and advance the manufacturing of certified, high-quality compost.
The founding members of this global alliance include: The Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA); The Australian Organics Recycling Association (AORA); Compost Council of Canada (CCC); European Compost Network (ECN); International Solid Waste Association (ISWA); CRÉ - Composting and Anaerobic Digestion Association of Ireland; WasteMINZ (Waste Management Institute of New Zealand); The United States Composting Council (USCC); and The Compost Research & Education Foundation (CREF). Membership is open to any membership-based organization which aligns with the Alliance's vision and mission of advancing organics recycling and producing high quality compost and digestate products.
In a joint statement, the International Compost Alliance said:
"Compost is a win-win solution to climate change - not only does recycling organic wastes reduce emissions, compost also brings many benefits when used on soils too. This is why we have joined forces to work together to maximize the recycling of organic wastes and advance the manufacturing of certified, high-quality composts to benefit the environment, society and our members.
"We hope the International Compost Alliance helps usher in a new era of global collaboration on this issue, to ensure that compost, and its role in soil health and food security, is central to the efforts in tackling climate change."
International Compost Alliance
internationalcompostalliance.com
Nature and technology unite to turn food waste into odourless, fast compost


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Q: IR2112 give out bad wave I have connected an IR2112 as a low side gate driver in Proteus.
Its output is very bad (blue graph.) It is even worse at higher frequency (given is 7812 Hz.)

Is this how the IR2112 supposed to behave?
Here is the schematic:

SD, COM and VS connected to ground. VC is 19V, LIN in shown in first picture (green graph.)

A: Looks like it's driving a big MOSFET (or several MOSFETs in parallel) with a lot of gate charge (hundreds of nC) and a Vt around 5V.
This kind of gate driver can source/sink a few hundred mA. You can get beefier ones that can source or sink many amperes.

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Since 2003, hundreds of talented kids from across Ontario have had the experience of a lifetime, joining our shows on stage. Imagine working along side professional cast and crew in large productions, touring to some of the most beautiful theatres in Ontario and Quebec, entertaining and delighting thousands of school children with song, dance, humor and wonderful stories. This unique work/study program offers young performers an opportunity to participate in a large scale professional musical — and to make a difference in the lives of our grateful audience members. Many former Kids Troupe performers have gone on to major roles on stage and screen, but ALL performers make incredible memories that will last forever.
Education Arts Canada and its production partner, All Together Now Corporation, work with top dance schools and kids' theatre troupes. All auditions and casting decisions for kids' troupes are made exclusively by the local studios (list below).
Serious performers who want to take it to the next level!
Interested young performers audition through their local performance groups (listed below). Successful candidates must commit to all rehearsals and performance dates. The local performance group charges a fee for lessons and rehearsals (the 'study' side of the work/study experience).
Once a member of the troupe, the young performer will attend classes with the other local performers in preparation for the tour. Again, attendance is mandatory. Unlike casual performance groups, every class will be teaching a critical part of what they need to know for the tour and cannot be missed.
Just before the tour, a dress rehearsal will be arranged with the main professional cast. This could be in your local troupe's studio or at some other location including one of the theatres on the tour. After the dress rehearsal, there will be up to seven days of performances (not in a row), typically of 2-3 shows per day. Each show is approximately 55 minutes long.
Youth performers do not receive payment, but parents are offered a limited number of free tickets to performances. The production also provides all costumes (beyond the performer's basic under-costume / dance blacks), a tour t-shirt and healthy snacks. Parents provide transportation to and from performances, but many arrange for car pools. Some local performance groups also help with transportation.
We perform in beautiful theatres all over Ontario and in Montreal. Occasionally we perform in alternative venues like a local church that is also used for concerts, dance shows, etc. Generally, troupe members will be performing in the venues that are closest to their area of the province. Our current tour and dates can be found here.
Interested? Please contact the performance group closest to you for information about auditions, etc (in alphabetical order of city).


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Google have finally released a beta version of Chrome for Android. It's available for Android 4.0 + devices and in select countries. Market link and list of available countries is past the break.
It is available in 12 countries, including the USA, Canada and UK. The full list of countries can be found here. It supports multiple tabs as well as incognito mode, accelerated page loading, bookmarks sync with desktop Chrome and more... Check it out and let us know what you think!