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After attacking Google, Vestager now turns to Amazon
By Sylvain Rolland | La Tribune | translated by Rob Kirby
Margrethe Vestager suspects the Seattle giant of using the data it collects through retailers on its e-commerce platform to gain a commercial advantage.
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The European Commission suspects the e-commerce giant of using the data it collects from third-party vendors on its marketplace to gain a commercial advantage. EURACTIV's media partner La Tribune reports.
Trouble is brewing for Amazon. Having been the only one of the GAFA companies (Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon) to have not yet been harangued by the European Union, Amazon is now in the sights of Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for competition.
At a press conference in Brussels, the "iron lady" explained that the Commission had launched an investigation to determine whether Amazon was abusing its dominance.
EU copyright war 'a shame', says big tech lobby
Tech giants and open-internet activists, not always natural bedfellows, are fighting a proposed copyright law that returns for approval at the European Parliament on Wednesday (12 September).
Does Amazon gain a commercial advantage by using data of third-party sellers?
Vestager suspects the Seattle giant of using the data it collects through retailers on its e-commerce platform to promote its own products and, therefore, gain a commercial advantage. The European executive wonders whether Amazon then exploits the data collected "to perform its own calculations" and "to see what kind of deals people want and what makes them buy a particular product".
"We are gathering information on the matter and, for this purpose, we have sent questionnaires to market participants in order to understand the problem in its entirety," Vestager added.
Amazon has not commented on this announcement. The investigation, which is at an early stage, could take several years to come to a conclusion either way. Consequently, it could turn into a shot in the dark – as was the case with McDonald's, whose tax optimisation practices were eventually declared legal on Wednesday (19 September), following two years of investigation.
It could also result in a hefty fine – as was the case with Google, which was ordered to pay a record fine of €4.34 billion in July for abusing its dominance via the mobile Android operating system.
Vestager: 'I'd like a Facebook that I pay, with full privacy'
In an exclusive interview, the EU's antitrust chief, Margrethe Vestager, told EURACTIV.com that the US social network Facebook is on her radar screen but not the e-commerce giant Amazon, which is also suspected of abusing its dominant position.
Predictive analysis and customised marketing- central to e-commerce
The European Union is not the only regulator taking an interest in Amazon. US President Donald Trump has persistently denounced its "anti-competitive practices" and promised "problems" for the company led by Jeff Bezos, a prominent opponent and owner of the well-known Washington Post newspaper, which is loathed by Trump.
In any case, the data and the use of this data are to become central to Amazon's economic model, whose benefits are currently held by the cloud but whose core business remains e-commerce.
Amazon also sells products of third-party vendors. These vendors need to be on the website in order to reach a wide audience and they pay a fee for this. This "marketplace" business accounted for as much as half of the company's revenue in 2017.
This is a sign that the firm is placing increasing emphasis on the business of personal data. It has high hopes for its "Echo" intelligent speakers, the world market leader, to further refine its knowledge of its customers and to retain them in its ecosystem of products and services, which also include the streaming platforms Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Music.
Accordingly, the firm has seen its advertising turnover soar over the past year. In the second quarter of 2018 alone, the revenue generated by advertising skyrocketed by 132% to $2.2 billion, with an overall turnover of $52.9 billion (+39%).
As Amazon amasses more data about what people like and buy, it can make more money from advertising and further refine its predictive analysis and customised marketing models, which will be at the heart of future e-commerce.
Germany rocks the European consensus on the 'Google tax'
The "Google tax" will return to the EU finance ministers' agenda on 7 September. However, whereas France and Spain are arguing in favour of the European plan, Germany seems to be hindering its adoption. EURACTIV France reports.
Europeans want to give authors better protection against GAFA companies
Various lobby groups are bringing out the big guns ahead of this week's second vote on copyright reform in the European Parliament. According to a Harris Interactive poll, the overwhelming majority of European citizens want to give authors better protection.
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JD.com Enters into a Green Loan Facility
BEIJING, Dec. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- JD.com, Inc. (the "Company" or "JD.com") (Nasdaq: JD; HKEX: 9618), a leading supply chain-based technology and service provider, today announced that it has entered into a five-year US$2.0 billion unsecured term and revolving loan facility with five lead arrangers. This loan facility is the Company's first green loan facility. The term and revolving loans under this facility are priced at 85 basis points over LIBOR. The Company intends to use the procee
JD.com Upsizes and Extends Authorization Under Existing Share Repurchase Program
BEIJING, Dec. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- JD.com, Inc. (the "Company" or "JD.com") (Nasdaq: JD; HKEX: 9618), a leading supply chain-based technology and service provider, today announced that the Company's Board of Directors has approved modifications to its existing share repurchase program adopted in March 2020, pursuant to which the repurchase authorization has increased from US$2.0 billion to US$3.0 billion and has been extended until March 17, 2024. About JD.comJD.com is a leading supply c
JD.com Announces Board and Shareholder Changes
BEIJING, Dec. 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- JD.com, Inc. (the "Company" or "JD.com") (Nasdaq: JD; HKEX: 9618), a leading supply chain-based technology and service provider, today announced that Martin Chiping Lau, who has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Company and a member of the compensation committee thereof since March 2014, has retired from the Company's Board of Directors, effective immediately. In addition, the Company is aware that Tencent Holdings Limited ("Tencent"),

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Recipe adapted from Guy Fieri's recipe.
I stayed pretty true to Guy's recipe for this, although I used a different cooking method for the pork, and used maybe a little more flavor in the glaze.
Brine - In a gallon-sized resealable plastic bag, dissolve 1/4 cup salt in the warm water.
Add the vinegar, red pepper flakes, brown sugar, ice cubes and the pork.
Brine for exactly 20 minutes. The pork can become mealy if it is brined longer.
Begin preparing the Blackberry Jalapeno Glaze.
Roast the jalapeno and allow to cool.
Seed and mince the jalapeno.
You may choose to wear gloves to do this part.
Melt the butter in a a saucepan over medium-high heat.
To the melted butter, add the jalapenos and garlic and saute for 3-4 minutes.
Stir in the blackberry preserves and 1 cup wine and combine well. Simmer until reduced by half.
While the glaze is simmering, season the meat with salt and pepper.
Sear all sides of the pork in the olive oil.
Add the cornstarch to the remaining 1/4 cup red wine and mix well.
Pour the cornstarch mixture into the pan and cook for 5 - 6 minutes more.
Bake at 375 degrees F until internal temperature reaches 140 degrees on an instant read thermometer.
Remove the pork to a plate and cover to keep warm.
Return the glaze from the pan back to the saucepan and reduce down further until it gets syrupy.
After resting the pork for about 10 minutes, slice and arrange on a serving platter.
Serve with the remaining warm glaze.
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Brine. In a gallon-sized resealable plastic bag, dissolve 1/4 cup salt in the warm water. Add the vinegar, red pepper flakes, brown sugar, ice cubes and the pork. Brine for exactly 20 minutes. The pork can become mealy if it is brined longer. When the 20 minutes brine is up, remove the pork and pat dry.
Blackberry Jalapeno Glaze. Roast the jalapeno and allow to cool. Mince the garlic. Seed and mince the jalapeno. Melt the butter in a a saucepan over medium-high heat. To the melted butter, add the jalapenos and garlic and saute for 3-4 minutes. Stir in the blackberry preserves and 1 cup wine and combine well. Simmer until reduced by half. Add the cornstarch to the remaining 1/4 cup red wine and mix well. Pour the cornstarch mixture into the pan and cook for 5 - 6 minutes more.
While the glaze is simmering, season the meat with salt and pepper. Sear all sides of the pork in the olive oil. Add about half of the glaze over the meat... Bake at 375 degrees F until internal temperature reaches 140 degrees on an instant read thermometer. Remove the pork to a plate and cover to keep warm. Return the glaze from the baking pan back to the saucepan and reduce down further until it gets syrupy. After resting the pork for about 10 minutes, slice and arrange on a serving platter. Serve with the remaining warm glaze.
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SPOTLIGHT ON LUCY CAO, T'18
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018 | BY SABRINA HAO AND COLE ZAHARRIS
Lucy Cao is a Marketing Analyst at Applied Predictive Technologies, a Mastercard company. As a Marketing Analyst, she is responsible for helping develop go-to-market solutions for Mastercard's business software, service, and data solutions. She works to expand the relationships and the value add of Mastercard's solutions through lead generation, industry expertise, and brand building, primarily in the media and travel verticals. Prior to that, during her sophomore and junior summers at Duke, she interned at Ogilvy & Mather and McKinney as an Account Management intern. A young alumna, Lucy graduated from Duke University in 2018 with a Bachelors in Psychology and Economics and a Certificate in Markets & Management Studies (MMS). Interested in consumer psychology, as an undergraduate, she completed research at Fuqua in at the Marketing Behavioral Lab. In addition, Lucy was the CMO of Duke University Union and involved in the MMS Steering Committee, Duke Marketing Club, and the Standard, in addition to many other organizations. She currently serves as the BOW alumni ambassador for Washington D.C.
Why did you decide to join BOW, and how has it influenced your career trajectory?
At Duke, I really wanted to find a community of strong, ambitious women who shared similar interests in business. BOW seemed to be the perfect fit for that, and I really owe a lot of my pre-professional development to BOW. Getting exposure to C-suite level executives from Fortune 500 companies across all industries at BOW functions not only inspired me, but also opened my mind to new opportunities and career paths I never would have learned about otherwise.
We would love to hear about your interest in behavioral economics. How do you apply your research experience/studies at Duke to your current role?
I studied psychology and economics at Duke, but actually gravitated towards consumer psychology more so than behavioral economics. I worked in Fuqua's behavioral research lab for two years, which taught me to ask questions that tie human behavior and choices to revenue and equity. Funnily enough, now I work for a tech firm that specializes in business experimentation, so I still get to think about variations of those ideas very often. Having worked in a behavioral lab, I now approach projects and problems at work with the mindset I would use as an experimenter. It's allowed me to become more analytical in isolating and solving problems.
What drew you to marketing? How did your past internships lead you to your current job?
I was drawn to marketing because it was a field that tied the human experience into business strategy. I previously interned at two different advertising agencies, McKinney and Ogilvy & Mather, before I landed at my current job. Working in advertising helped get me really excited about the strategy behind advertising and marketing, because I saw how a client's strategy manifested itself in a compelling execution, and I wanted to be behind the scenes. I found my current job in B2B marketing because I wanted to see a different side of marketing and learn in an analytical role.
What is the hardest part of transitioning to being a full-time hire?
One of the more difficult parts of transitioning from college to working full-time is figuring out how to budget your time, which feels a lot more precious now that I'm in the office more often than not. A big part of that is finding a routine that prioritizes the things you want to do with the things that need to be done, and I'm still figuring out how to order less Postmates and try new recipes.
What advice do you have for members who are trying to choose their majors/courses of study?
Try everything once--even subjects you don't think you would be interested in. Then, choose a major that interests and engages you. As long as you feel like you're working your brain every day and learning new skills and information, what you study in school does not need to determine your future career.
How has mentorship factored into your career path?
I've been lucky enough to have fantastic mentors, who happen to be amazingly successful, intelligent women. They have guided me not only by inspiring me to work hard and dream big, but also by providing me with honest feedback that allowed me to leverage my strengths and reflect on my weaknesses. I owe so much of who I am--personally and professionally--to wonderful female mentors. I can't wait until the day I can return the favor to my own mentees.
What advice do you have for those searching for internships or full-time jobs?
Don't be afraid to ask for what you want. It always amazed me how willing everyone I met in the intern and job search process was willing to help me, as long as I reached out and asked, especially Duke alumni.
List what you like to do in your free time.
Currently, I spend a lot of time exploring D.C., which is where I live now. I've been taking advantage of the great museums in the area. Other than that, I enjoy kickboxing, yoga, running, and reading.
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Chicago's Lindblom Academy Sends Duo to Winter Games for Snowshoeing
Malik Daniel and Nathaniel Clark have participated in Special Olympics Illinois since they were in elementary school. Nearly 8 years later, Malik, a junior, and Nathaniel, a senior at Lindblom Math and Science Academy in Chicago, will compete in snowshoeing at the 2015 Special Olympics Illinois Winter Games.
This is the first year Lindblom Eagles Head Coach Raymond Baker can remember having a snowshoeing team from the Englewood neighborhood. Baker has been involved with Special Olympics for 10 years and has been head coach at Lindblom for 4 of those.
"My athletes and I were looking to get involved in Special Olympics winter sports and snowshoeing seemed to be the most approachable," Baker said. "We were lucky enough to get a pair of snowshoes donated to use from a fellow teacher/coach and the rest is history."
Lindblom Academy sent 7 athletes, including Malik Daniel and Nathaniel Clark, to the Chicago snowshoeing qualifier in December
This year, seven Lindblom athletes competed in the snowshoe qualifier on Dec. 13 at Mann Park.
Both Malik and Nathaniel had previously found success competing in athletics for Special Olympics, and Baker feels the track events lent themselves to a natural progression into snowshoeing. "They had never seen snowshoeing as a sport before," Baker explained. "I'm very proud of what both they both have accomplished to advance to Winter Games."
The boys also compete on the Lindblom Eagles basketball team that recently qualified for the State Basketball Tournament in Normal in March.
Malik and Nathaniel anxiously awaited Winter Games, where they joined nearly 400 athletes from across the state in Galena for competition, festivities and fun Feb. 3 to 5. Malik received a gold medal and Nathaniel a 6th place ribbon in the 100-meter snowshoe race.
"I am excited for Winter Games," Nathaniel said before heading to Galena. "I am looking forward to seeing all of my friends!"
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import org.apache.jackrabbit.api.security.user.User;
import org.apache.jackrabbit.api.security.user.UserManager;

import javax.jcr.RepositoryException;
import javax.jcr.SimpleCredentials;
import javax.jcr.security.Privilege;

import org.apache.jackrabbit.commons.JcrUtils;
import org.apache.jackrabbit.commons.jackrabbit.authorization.AccessControlUtils;
import org.apache.sling.jcr.api.SlingRepository;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
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        if (serviceUser == null) {
            serviceUser = userManager.createUser(userName, "123");
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Abbas and Palestinian Authority increase campaign to silence dissent
Ramallah - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (AFP)
Dalal Yassine
Mondoweiss / August 12, 2021
The PA has announced new moves to limit freedom of expression for Palestinians already living under Israel's occupation. Mahmoud Abbas hopes to extinguish criticism, but these repressive policies will only generate even greater hostility.
Late last month, the Palestinian Authority's (PA) Council of Ministers announced a new decision to limit freedom of expression for Palestinians already living under Israel's occupation. The PA eliminated Article 22 of the "Code of Conduct and Ethics for Public Service," which stated that public employees have the right to express their opinion verbally or in writing, including on social media. Article 22's only condition was that employees note it was their personal opinion and not that of the government agency where they worked. This is the latest move by PA President Mahmoud Abbas to further curtail the few freedoms Palestinians have and strengthen his tenuous hold on power.
The PA's decision comes on the heels of the torture and murder of activist Nizar Banat. In response to a wave of protests over the assassination, PA security forces and thugs aligned with Abbas's Fatah movement attacked demonstrators. This was followed by the arrests and intimidation of activists as well as journalists, and the employees of legal assistance and human rights organizations. To prevent protests from spreading, Abbas is hoping to extinguish criticism from inside and outside the PA and Fatah.
Article 22 protected public servants from disciplinary prosecutions by the heads of the PA's departments and governmental institutions. Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh justified abolishing the article by claiming that freedom of expression is guaranteed by the Palestinian Basic Law. The Basic Law was supposed to be a temporary Constitution, but it has become permanent. In addition, the PA's institutions are guided primarily by the Code of Professional Conduct and not the Basic Law. Although Article 19 of the Basic Law prohibits infringing freedom of opinion and the right of expression in all forms, the PA consistently violates these rights.
After abolishing Article 22, actions were taken against internal critics. One of the most prominent was Ehab Bessaiso, President of the Palestinian National Library and former Minister of Culture. Bessaiso criticized the killing of Banat on social media and was dismissed from his position. According to the leading Palestinian human rights organization, Al-Haq, a number of public officials were summoned by their superiors and were questioned about their statements on social media. In addition, the Palestinian Preventive Security Services interrogated Palestinians who expressed opinions about recent events.
The PA is the largest employer on the West Bank and the heads of departments and governmental bodies are largely drawn from Abbas's Fatah movement. Abolishing Article 22 is meant to ensure their compliance and loyalty. It also extends to their family members who are dependent on PA salaries.
Abbas has grown more desperate and authoritarian since splits emerged in the Fatah movement over planned elections. In March, Nasser al-Qudwa, Yasser Arafat's nephew, announced he was running in the scheduled Palestinian Parliamentary elections on his own electoral list. Al-Qudwa's "Freedom" list was endorsed by Marwan al-Barghouti, the imprisoned Fatah popular leader. Abbas retaliated by dismissing al-Qudwa from the board of directors of the Yasser Arafat Foundation and expelling him from Fatah. In early May, Abbas cancelled the Parliamentary elections and they have not been rescheduled. The Freedom list was popular among members of Fatah and there is increasing resentment within the movement over Abbas's actions.
Abbas and the PA have a long and notorious history of human rights abuses and passing laws that undermine Palestinian rights. The Cyber Crime Law has been used to silence online criticism and threaten journalists. Under this law, public prosecutors issued a warrant for Nizar Banat that resulted in his arrest and murder.
An official committee was created to investigate Banat's murder and 14 Palestinian security personnel were arrested. Banat's family has yet to receive the death certificate and is currently working with local and international human rights organizations to prepare a judicial memorandum to be submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC). An ICC investigation would be a major embarrassment for Abbas and the PA. To prevent this from occurring, Abbas is attempting to resolve the issue through tribal intermediaries. However, Banat's family has rejected reconciliation attempts. Meanwhile, they have been monitored and harassed by the PA's security services.
Abbas has relied on U.S. and Israeli support to maintain his rule. But after 16 years, American support may finally be weakening. During a recent UN Security Council session, the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, expressed concern over "recent reports of the Palestinian Authority acting to restrict Palestinian freedom of expression and harass civil society activists and organizations." Washington also expressed concern about Banat's murder and demanded a full investigation into the circumstances of his death and the accountability of those responsible. It remains to be seen what, if anything, the Biden administration will do to ensure accountability. If the United States plans to push Abbas to the side, his replacement is unlikely to be an improvement.
But Abbas is not leaving quietly. Ten years ago, in the midst of the Arab Spring protests, Abbas promised in a television interview that unlike other Arab leaders he would "resign before the first demonstration against me." He added, "Before four, ten, or twenty demonstrators called for Mahmoud Abbas to step down, I would resign." "If the people were against me, I would leave," Abbas said. Yet as thousands demonstrated and demanded his resignation after Banat's murder, Abbas worked behind the scenes to maintain his rule.
Living under Israeli occupation and Abbas's authoritarian regime, Palestinians that criticize the PA are faced with losing their employment, arrest, torture, and even murder. Even though the recent protests demonstrated that the PA has lost its legitimacy, Abbas ensures loyalty through fear. He controls access to public funds and jobs and commands aggressive internal security forces. This guarantees more repressive policies in the future that will generate even greater hostility from Palestinians whose dreams of freedom are being smothered by a corrupt and brutal authority.
Dalal Yassine is a Non-Resident Fellow with the Jerusalem Fund/Palestine Center in Washington, DC


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Home / Treatments / Stem Cell Therapy
New treatments for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) are rare (with the exception of hypothermia therapy in the first six hours of life), but one proposed new therapy is called 'stem cell therapy.' In stem cell therapy, stem cells (cells that can divide into many different kinds of cells) are injected into injured tissues in the hopes of replacing damaged tissue and preserving existing tissues.
This type of treatment is still in clinical trials, and is therefore not widely available in the United States, but some individuals choose to go to unregulated clinics. Because stem cell therapy is still in clinical trials, parents should think twice before going down this untested path, as no formal guidelines about administration protocol, dosages, safety, or treatment timeline have yet been established. Clinical trials are important for ensuring that treatments are safe and effective – unregulated treatments bear significant risk.
Clinical trials are testing the efficacy of different types of stem cells (including induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), and umbilical cord stem cells). Researchers have stated that umbilical cord stem cells and MSCs show great potential for treating neonatal brain injury, but more research is needed to definitively provide a conclusion regarding relative effectiveness.
It is important to note that there is thus far no cure for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) and resulting motor, cognitive, and/or intellectual disorders. Stem cell therapy seeks to limit the damage caused by HIE and reduce the severity of disabilities caused by HIE, but it is not a cure.
Researchers predict that future treatments will aim to protect and repair brain cells impacted by hypoxia/ischemia before they are no longer functional; this means that it is very likely that new treatments will likely have to be applied within a short timeframe between the brain damage-causing injury and the beginning of permanent cell loss. Children undergoing this treatment will still need other kinds of therapy (such as physical and occupational therapy) to reap the full potential benefits of stem cell therapy.
To learn more about stem cell therapy trials for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, please visit the National Institute of Health's (NIH) Clinical Trial Recruitment Center.
Pimentel-Coelho, PM, et al. Cell Therapy for Neonatal Hypoxic–Ischemic Encephalopathy. Stem Cells and Development. March 2010, 19(3): 299-310. doi:10.1089/scd.2009.0403.
Ma, J, et al. Treatment of hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy in mouse by transplantation of embryonic stem cell-derived cells. Neurochemistry International, Volume 51, Issue 1, July 2007, Pages 57–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuint.2007.04.012.
Cotten, CM, et al. Feasibility of Autologous Cord Blood Cells for Infants with Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy. The Journal of Pediatrics
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June 15, 2009 June 18, 2011 ~ AndreaJWenger
"And now, a story we feel passionately about…" Kyra Phillips said today on CNN as she introduced a story on veterans' benefits. I'm glad CNN is passionate about protecting the rights of our war heroes, but that use of "feel passionately" made me cringe. I don't expect the average American to know that feel is usually a linking verb, and therefore takes a complement. But I do expect journalists to know it.
I learned that lesson back in fourth grade (yes, I was a grammar geek even then). In addition to the verb be, my teacher explained, ten other verbs are commonly used as linking verbs: appear, become, continue, feel, grow, look, seem, smell, sound, and taste. These verbs join the subject to another word in the sentence—a predicate noun, a predicate pronoun, or a predicate adjective. Never an adverb.
"We feel passionately" should have been "we feel passionate." Why? Because "passionate" describes "we," not "feel." If it described "feel," it would refer to the quality of the sense of touch. And I don't think it's appropriate for the people at CNN to comment during a news broadcast on the passionate nature of their feels.
This error is probably seen most frequently in the sentence, "I feel badly." Unless the speaker's tactile sense is impaired due to injury, degenerative condition, or genetic defect, that sentence should read, "I feel bad." People seem to have less trouble with the other linking verbs, happily crying, "That sounds good!" or "That cheese smells bad!" But feel seems a troublemaker. So if you're ever confused about whether to use an adjective or an adverb after the verb feel, remember Maria in West Side Story. She got it right.
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Hi Andrea, you may like to read this:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1360, it explores the origins of "I feel badly".
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Thanks, Elaine. Good article, and good website!
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Late Sunday night, Troy Brown and his team scrambled to put the finishing touches on Timberland Co.'s Web site. Mr. Brown, a senior director who runs the site, wanted to highlight a special 25% online discount that the apparel company offered yesterday -- one of the biggest Internet shopping days of the year.
By 3 p.m. Eastern time yesterday, the last-minute maneuvering was paying off big. Lured by the one-day promotion and a mention on NBC's "The Today Show," traffic at Timberland's Web site jumped 87% from the same day a year ago and revenue from the site soared nearly 137% from then.
"The traffic spikes and revenue spikes are unlike anything we've ever seen before," said Mr. Brown. "It's crazy." He declined to give the underlying figures.
Timberland's experience is just one snapshot in what appears to be the start of a robust online shopping season. The Monday after Thanksgiving, nicknamed "Cyber Monday," is the unofficial kickoff of the Internet holiday shopping period. It has become a huge online shopping day in part because after a long Thanksgiving weekend of comparing prices and exchanging gift ideas, many shoppers return to the high-speed Internet connections in their offices ready to buy electronically.
Online Christmas sales already had jumped over the four-day Thanksgiving weekend. Americans spent $305 million online Friday, up 22% from the same day a year ago, according to research firm comScore Networks. Research firm Nielsen/NetRatings said its Holiday eShopping Index, which tracks traffic to 100 Web sites, jumped 29% Friday from a year earlier. While complete data on Cyber Monday sales won't be available until later this week, the experience of Timberland and of other online retailers suggests that yesterday was a very strong Internet shopping day.
Indeed, yesterday was "the biggest day in our history," said Patrick Byrne, president of Overstock.com Inc., an outlet-shopping site that sells everything from jewelry to clothing to cameras at clearance prices. Lured by a flat-rate shipping fee of $1, buyers scooped up accessories such as leather handbags, luggage and shoes, as well as boxed DVD sets of popular television shows. The average size of orders was $109, Overstock said.
The number of visitors to Overstock's Web site yesterday through noon, the latest figure the company could make available, was up 80% from three months ago, while sales were up 20% from Friday, Mr. Byrne calculates. "We are very happy," he said.
One group not so enamored with all the online shopping is employers. While many companies don't seem to have a problem with occasional online shopping expeditions by their workers, others frown on the practice. Some employers even monitor how their employees use the Internet at work.
According to a January report on the Internet and workplace privacy by the Society of Human Resource Management, which surveyed more than 300 human-resource executives, 29% said their organizations frequently monitored employee Internet use, while 43% said their organizations occasionally scrutinized workers' online activity.
"Many of the largest employers block this kind of [shopping] activity, and those that don't block it are likely to be monitoring it," said Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum, a research group in San Diego that studies workplace and privacy issues. "That makes such shopping very ill-advised."
Such warnings didn't stop consumers such as Frannie Cooley. The San Francisco mother of two says she bought three dolls from J.C. Penney Co.'s Web site and a toy karaoke machine from Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s site, prompted by special prices and shipping promotions the retailers offered online. Ms. Cooley, an investment portfolio manager, received free shipping from J.C. Penney and paid just 97 cents for shipping on her Walmart.com purchase. "I'm probably going to do everything online" this holiday season, she says.
Ms. Cooley, who is expecting her third child, says she shopped online from work during her lunch hour and after the stock market closed, which marks the end of her workday. The convenience of shopping on the Web and her long hours make shopping online from her job a no-brainer.
"I'm in front of my computer a lot. I hate having to deal with driving downtown, parking, scrambling around looking for what I need," she says. On the Web, "it's just easier."
Meanwhile, online bag seller eBags.com saw significant traffic and sales spikes yesterday, the first day it launched a three-day promotion of 10% off sale items and free shipping on purchases exceeding $35. By around 4 p.m. Eastern, the company's sales had climbed 67% from the same day a year ago, says Peter Cobb, eBags.com's co-founder.
Sales were up 55% on the Web site that the company manages for luxury luggage retailer Tumi, and sales rose 89% by late afternoon on the company's site for shoes, called 6pm.com. Overall, visits to the company's main eBags site rose about 80%, exceeding the company's forecast of a 40% increase.
Joann.com, the online arm of the arts-and-crafts retailer Jo-Ann Stores Inc., says sales rose 80% by midday compared to the same day last year. Linsly Donnelly, chief operating officer of IdeaForest, the company that owns and operates the Joann.com Web site, credited higher traffic, shopping-cart basket size and the number of shoppers actually making purchases as drivers for the higher sales. Hot items selling on Joann.com included Christmas trees, scrapbook kits and knitting supplies.
Another site reporting strong orders was online seller of books, music and movies, Alibris. Its sales appeared likely to end up at least 50% higher than the same day last year, says Brian Elliott, the company's chief operating officer. The site also saw "great" order volume over Thanksgiving weekend, up 60% compared to last year, he says.


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I'm going camping next weekend in Shulz, IN.
Stoked to the MAX! !! !
Reading is good and great at the same time.
It is for you to know that I feel as though I might die soon.
I'm being followed by a winged ghost insect.
It can not be stopped.


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Recently, there have been rumours regarding a Type-R version of Honda's CR-Z hybrid sports coupe, rumours which can be true. However, there is a rendering image of what the car may look like if the Japanese car manufacter ever decides to develop such a model, an image released by Daniel Youn from "PS-Garage". The base of the rendered vision is represented by the Honda Performance Development CR-Z Hybrid R Concept presented at last year's SEMA aftermarket show. The CR-Z iCF by Mugen is a British product and the only hot version of the hybrid model officially confirmed by Honda. The car model is powered by the sporty 1.5-liter supercharged engine which raises an output of 175 HP. The CR-Z iCF by Mugen is planned to hit the car markets next spring as a limited production model featuring a starting price of 24,000 Euros.


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National Geographic's (Nat Geo) magazine, linear and digital properties are often seen as standalone properties with different goals. With the launch of Nat Geo's highly anticipated 'Mars' event (premiering on linear on November 14th, first episode currently available online), that is changing.
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Of all the planets in our solar system, none has captured our collective imagination like Mars. Follow the first human mission to Mars, set in 2033, as the crew struggles to safely land on and colonize the planet. Tracing the thrilling quest to make Mars home, National Geographic presents a new breed of programming, blending cinema-quality scripted drama set in the future with documentary sequences that features current space-technology pioneers.
At their launch event in New York City, Found Remote interviewed Global Creative Director Andy Baker about the multi-platform launch.
To understand how important this is for the Nat Geo rebrand and multiplatform approach, Christopher Albert, the EVP of Global Communications & Talent at National Geographic answered the following questions.
Found Remote: How Mars fits into the Nat Geo rebrand?
Christopher Albert: We have been talking about MARS for more than a year now. When we first announced the show in July of 2015, it marked a shift in our programming strategy to bigger budget, more brand-definitional programming events. And now that we are on the eve of the premiere, it marks a huge turning point for our network in realizing our vision to become the world's leading destination for premium science, adventure and exploration. And since MARS marks our realization of our new vision, we also thought it was a perfect opportunity to refresh everything about our network to represent the shift. And the great thing about it is that once we started down the path of the rebrand, and settled on the idea of "Further" (which by the way for us is more than a tagline, it is a state of mind), the entire company – both Partners and the Society – joined the effort. So with this rebrand we will truly be ONE National Geographic in the minds of consumers.
FR: Why a unified multi-platform approach is important, why it's happening now and what the details are?
CA: It's really a result of what the formation of National Geographic Partners makes possible. When all of the media businesses were consolidated last year under one umbrella, it afforded us an opportunity to all work together on large tentpole projects like MARS. It won't happen for everything we do, but when it makes sense, we can galvanize a media arsenal that is really unrivaled in the media landscape.
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"Fundamentally, there is a huge difference between the treatment of childhood and adult cancers and any novel treatment developed for pediatric oncology needs to recognize that," starts Timothy Triche, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Director of the Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) Center for Personalized Medicine Program, in an edited interview for The Onco'Zine Brief, which will air later in 2021.
"Cancer therapies are largely not developed for children and those developed for adult cancers impact children very differently, especially with respect to both short- and long-term toxicity. New approaches are long overdue and urgently needed. Yet, by developing cancer therapy optimized for children, adults will surely benefit too, as they did at the dawn of cancer chemotherapy itself, where some of the first cures reported in childhood leukemia later translated to adults."
Image: Timothy Triche, MD, Ph.D., is the Co-Director of the Center for Personalized Medicine Program at CHLA and Attending Physician, Professor of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.
The issues in pediatric oncology – a still overlooked sector?
According to Triche, pediatric tumors often result from inherited genetic 'errors' or sporadic acquired single cancer-causing events, rather than from a multitude of mutations associated with lifelong exposure to environmental factors like smoke, carcinogens, radiation, and other known cancer-causing exposures.
Childhood cancers, such as neuroblastoma, Wilms tumor or nephroblastoma, medulloblastomas, rhabdomyosarcomas, and retinoblastoma, are rarely seen in adult patients. Other common types of pediatric cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma, and brain tumors occur in adults as well.
"The cause [of cancer in adults] is very different," Triche says "due to factors including a lifetime of exposure to alcohol, tobacco, radiation, asbestos…and other environmental factors… or simply as a result of genetic 'bad luck' like defects in genes that repair damaged DNA like BRCA1 and 2. This difference between the development of childhood cancer and cancer in adults necessitates a different approach to designing and optimizing novel treatment options for pediatric cancer."
Over the last 50 years, Triche explains, major advances in the understanding of the biology of certain childhood cancers coupled with nationwide clinical trials sponsored by the National Cancer Institute has led to improved treatments and better overall survival, but a number of specific, more aggressive, cancers have not benefited from these advances. As a result, cancer remains the leading cause of disease-related death in children and adolescents.
Childhood cancers originate differently than adult cancers, with fewer actionable targets, where mutated genes induce dysregulated growth. This dysregulated growth and invasive cell behavior can now be targeted with agents developed in the past few decades. "We can now define specific genetic defects and identify [actionable] targets in childhood cancer, and yet, approved therapeutics have not been developed, Triche explained.
Triche argues that the development of 'personalized' therapies in challenging adult cancers like breast and colon cancer has advanced far more than in pediatric oncology. "The lack of targeted treatment agents in pediatric cancer means that precision or personalized medicine approach in children is not yet feasible and therefore, oncologists continue to mostly rely on standard chemotherapy often developed over 50 years ago. While chemotherapy has resulted in dramatically increased survival, the treatment often leads to both acute and long-term adverse effects, including cardiovascular events, chronic illness, and secondary malignancies, with an overall diminished health-related quality of life".
Pointing to the relatively small number of children diagnosed with cancer, Triche says: "Childhood cancers represent approximately 1% of all new cancers diagnosed in the United States, and maybe another 2% of patients over 15 years of age, the Adolescent and Young Adult, or AYA, population who develop 'pediatric' cancers," Triche added.
"That's only 3% of the total cancer patient pool, but with so few patients suffering from a variety of rare cancers, it gets little attention. "Conducting clinical trials in children is also still much more complex", Triche observed. "Therefore, sadly, for both economic and practical reasons we generally only see new cancer drugs for the treatment of children that have been developed for adults and adventitiously are effective in children, like the new class of NTRK inhibitors, developed for adult cancer but also very effective in selected pediatric cancers."
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This is despite a number of very helpful federal initiatives to develop drugs for childhood cancers. The Federal Government has led the way with several support programs and some of these, like the recently renewed RACE act, are designed to FastTrack pediatric drug innovation and reward the companies who develop such treatments," Triche says.
Triche added "while the 'blockbuster model' has served the pharmaceutical industry well for adult disease, that approach does not work in the development of effective precision medicine approaches that involve novel, often expensive, technology for small patient cohorts." Triche believes that this ongoing focus on targeted therapies will ultimately benefit pediatric drug development as well if only because some of the "new" markets for the treatment of adult cancers target smaller adult cancer patient populations than those for some childhood cancers, thus encouraging drug development for pediatric cancers as well.
Can we target and treat better now?
Chemotherapeutic approaches have nonetheless dramatically improved the survival of children with leukemia, lymphoma, neuroblastoma, Wilms tumor, some brain tumors, retinoblastoma, and most sarcomas. However, despite this success, the development of treatment-related dose-limiting toxicities (DLT) in normal, healthy tissues, even at sub-curative therapeutic doses, limits the clinical utility and efficacy of most cytotoxic therapy.
Triche and his collaborators are trying to solve this problem.
"It's not that chemotherapy does not work…" he explained, "But we often can't give enough to cure the patient without unacceptable damage to essential normal tissues like bone marrow, heart, kidney, and liver in the process. So how do we give more drugs to the tumor cells and less to 'everything else', thereby averting DLT? We have been exploring the use of nanotechnology, where we package drugs in a nanoparticle that targets or preferentially binds to and is taken up by tumor cells, thereby delivering the drug where it is intended while limiting off-target toxicity. The basic approach has been explored and tried before in many liposomal formulations, but there have always been challenges, like finding a tumor-specific target, or stability limitations, or toxicity related to specific formulations."
Targeted Nanospheres
However, a promising and flexible approach is being developed with Targeted Nanospheres (TNS), a proprietary nanoparticle formulation designed to obviate these issues. Triche is the Chief Medical Officer and co-founder of NanoValent Pharmaceuticals (Bozeman, Montana), a small and privately held company born out of a collaboration between Triche, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and a veteran lipid chemist, Jon Nagy, Ph.D. [1] They have created a range of TNS based products that incorporate existing cancer drugs as a 'payload' into patented, highly optimized Hybrid Polymerized Liposomal Nanoparticles (HPLN), that are targeted by monoclonal antibodies affixed to the outside of the HPLN, thus forming the TNS.[2]
"As each HPLN is able to be loaded with significant quantities of drug payload we have in effect enabled a safe and 'super ADC' (antibody-drug conjugate)," Triche suggests, "designed specifically for pediatric cancers, but also applicable to adult cancer as well". How then does the TNS work? "We already have untargeted nanoparticles that show enhanced permeability and retention in the tumor, referred to as passive targeting, as we see with successful untargeted larger nanoparticles like Abraxane and Doxil. But by using antibodies bound to the outside of the nanoparticle we create a targeted nanoparticle that binds to tumor cells expressing that antigen, enabling active targeting of the TNS to specific tumors. For leukemia, CD19 antibody is effective. For Ewing sarcoma and glioblastoma multiforme, CD99 is particularly effective. For a broad variety of cancers, B7H3 appears to be a useful and widespread tumor antigen. If nanoparticles bind to tumor cells more than any normal tissue, you get enhanced drug delivery to tumors while limiting exposure of normal tissue resulting in reduced toxicity."
Triche continues "NanoValent's TNS achieve significantly greater drug delivery to tumor than untargeted nanoparticles or conventional liposomal nanoparticles. However, in addition to targeting, TNS therapeutics have apparently favorable pharmacokinetic properties as the patented HPLN lipid formulation stabilizes the nanoparticle while enabling prolonged biodistribution, tumor retention, and controlled drug release".
Preclinical development
The company's lead and proof of concept investigational compound, NV103, targets CD99, a cell surface glycoprotein involved in cell migration, T-cell adhesion, and transmembrane protein transport, expressed in selected tumors. "CD99 is overexpressed on Ewing sarcoma (ES) cells and is considered to be a reliable target for binding of our targeted nanoparticles. It is also present on glioblastoma cells and over 40 other tumors, making it an attractive target for our targeted drug development program," Triche explains.
Scientists at Nanovalent have developed Hybrid Polymerized Liposomal Nanoparticles (HPLN), a proprietary technology, designed to provides a unique new nanoparticle encapsulating platform to harness and enable vastly superior targeting to the tumor and other specific cell surface antigens. Unlike other targeted technologies, the 'payload' incorporated into HPLN enables powerful targeted nanospheres (TNS) which can be more easily user selected, including proven cytotoxics, nucleic acid-based entities, or small molecules, or even any mixture thereof.
NV103 uses 'encapsulated' irinotecan, a camptothecin analogue that has, over the last decade, also become an important therapeutic agent for the treatment of pediatric sarcomas such as ES. However, dose-limiting toxicity has limited the effective use of the drug. "Using our platform technology," Triche explains, "we can 'package' irinotecan in a CD99-TNS and deliver as much as 100-fold more drug-to-tumor than normal tissue, thereby reducing or eliminating dose-limiting toxicity and increasing efficacy." [3]
Preclinical studies confirm the safety and efficacy of NanoValent's TNS drug-candidates. Results from xenograft murine models of human ES treated with NV103 demonstrated the agent effectively eliminated the tumor xenografts with no detectable off-target toxicity. Further, the ED50 of NV103 was 10 to 40-fold less than free irinotecan or untargeted nanoparticles. These studies are consistent with earlier findings from several in vitro studies demonstrating that NV103 was a potent anti-tumor formulation.[3]
"We have also demonstrated that "rescue" dose intensification with NV103 can overcome relative chemoresistance, something that is never seen with free irinotecan, due to DLT," added Triche.
Customized delivery and targeting for still emerging drugs?
Triche notes that while the company's platform technology may sound like 'just another nanoparticle', it is actually an advanced and innovative nanoparticle technology with unique properties, notably dramatically enhanced drug delivery to tumor cells with limited exposure of normal tissues to the drug, a property that is not seen with other, untargeted formulations. "While the technology may borrow from earlier developments, concepts, and principles, we have significantly advanced this technology by focusing on a unique combination of factors leading to a novel nanosphere technology. By doing so, we find that TNS effectively compete with or surpass existing formulations, including antibody-drug conjugates, liposomal drug formulations, and other nanoparticle technologies," Triche concludes. And he notes, TNS technology is very flexible. "Not only can we encapsulate and deliver a variety of small molecule therapeutic agents, including other cytotoxics like doxorubicin, we can also deliver nucleic acids including silencing RNAs, anti-sense oligonucleotides, and CRISPR/Cas9 RNP therapies, and we can target them with a variety of affinity agents, from antibodies to aptamers. We also discovered that TNS effectively cross the blood-brain barrier. As a result, we are conducting a very promising pilot program in glioblastoma that could potentially lead to the treatment of neurological diseases beyond cancer."
[1] Garcia D. NanoValent Receives Patent for Novel Targeted Polymerized Nanoparticles. August 20, 2019, Onco'Zine. Last accessed on August 17, 2021
[2] Hyung Gyoo Kang, Jon Nagy, Sheetal Mitra, Triche Triche. Targeted therapy of Ewing's sarcoma by human anti CD99 targeted hybrid polymerized liposomal nanoparticles (HPLNs) encapsulating anticancer agents. 2875 / 11; AACR (2019); Session PO.TB08.01 – Targets and Therapies in Pediatric Cancer
[3] Hyung Gyoo Kang, Jon Nagy and Timothy Triche. Targeted NanoSpheres (TNS): An effective, non-toxic nano-formulated therapeutic platform for broad use in cancer treatment Vol 80(16) Proceedings: AACR Annual Meeting 2020. DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.AM2020-1717.(2020)
[4] Hyung Gyoo Kang, Jon O. Nagy, Timothy J. Triche, Bryon Upton, Falguni Dasgupta. Targeted NanoSpheres (TNS): A Novel Therapeutic Platform for Cancer Treatment. Gordon Research Conference. Bridging the Translational Gap in Cancer Nanotechnology. June (2019)
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Q: Convert a context.xml from Tomcat to Jetty i have the following context.xml in webapp/META-INF/.
This one is used by tomcat to define value that will be understand by Spring with a Property
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context>
<Parameter name="si.host" value="super.com"  override="false"/>
</Context>

Right now im trying to deploy the webapp with the maven jetty plugin :
    <plugin>
    <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>6.1.26</version>
    <configuration>
      <connectors>
        <connector implementation="org.mortbay.jetty.nio.SelectChannelConnector">
          <port>8080</port>
          <maxIdleTime>60000</maxIdleTime>
        </connector>
      </connectors>
      <jettyEnvXml>${basedir}\src\test\resources\server\jetty\jetty-env.xml</jettyEnvXml>
      <jettyConfig>${basedir}\src\test\resources\server\jetty\jetty.xml</jettyConfig >
       <contextPath>/myapp</contextPath>
      <webApp>target/myapp.war</webApp>
      <stopKey>foo</stopKey>
      <stopPort>9999</stopPort>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <id>start-jetty</id>
        <phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
        <goals>
          <goal>run</goal>
        </goals>
        <configuration>
          <scanIntervalSeconds>0</scanIntervalSeconds>
          <daemon>true</daemon>
        </configuration>
      </execution>
      <execution>
        <id>stop-jetty</id>
        <phase>post-integration-test</phase>
        <goals>
          <goal>stop</goal>
        </goals>
      </execution>
    </executions>
  </plugin>

How can i add this parameter in a jetty.xml file ?
I have already dig into their documentation and here and on google but found  nothing clear.
Thanks in advance for your help.

A: This needs to go in your WEB-INF/web.xml which is web-server independent i.e. it will work in both tomcat and jetty:
<context-param>
  <param-name>si.host</param-name>
  <param-value>super.com</param-value>
</context-param>

or you can set it in your jetty xml like this:
<Configure class="org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
  ...
  <Set name="initParams">
    <Map>
      <Entry>
        <Item>si.host</Item>
        <Item>super.com</Item>
      </Entry>
    </Map>
  </Set>
</Configure>

A: First thank you DogBane !!
I have found an other solution without need to modify web.xml
Use the Default web.xml file.
This file is applied to a Web application before it's own WEB_INF/web.xml file
I prefer this than using jetty.xml because it is less verbose.
Just add in the maven plugin configuration section the webDefaultXml with the path to the file below :
<web-app
   xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns   /javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
   metadata-complete="true"
   version="2.5">

  <description>
    Default web.xml file.
    This file is applied to a Web application before it's own WEB_INF/web.xml file
  </description>

   <context-param>
    <param-name>si.host</param-name>
      <param-value>super.com</param-value>
   </context-param>
</web-app>

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Binay, other Cory allies buck Cha-cha
Veep warns of political crisis if PNoy pushes it
posted August 16, 2014 at 12:01 am by Sara Susanne D. Fabunan and Macon Ramos Araneta
FRIENDS and allies of the Aquino family on Friday added their voices to those opposing President Benigno Aquino III's call to amend the Constitution to clip the powers of the judiciary and allow him to run for a second term.
Vice President Jejomar Binay warned of a political and constitutional crisis if Aquino and his allies push through with their plans, saying that amending the Constitution would be destabilizing and divisive.
"Those advising the President to pursue a course that will lead to a frontal confrontation with the Supreme Court are bringing our country to the brink of a political and constitutional crisis," Binay said in a statement released Friday.
He added that advisers who were pushing Aquino toward a second term were putting in peril his chances of leaving behind a positive legacy.
"In doing so, they invoke the name of public interest. To blur the delineation between their selfish interest and public interest is dangerous and despotic," he said.
Binay also contested the President's statement that the Supreme Court was using its power too often, saying checks and balances were the foundations of democracy.
When the Supreme Court ruled against Aquino's Disbursement Acceleration Program, it was in exercise of its duty as enshrined in the Constitution that was ratified during the administration of Aquino's mother, former President Corazon Aquino, Binay said.
"The Constitution is quite explicit when it reposed on the judiciary not only the power but also the duty to determine whether or not there has been grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction on the part of any branch of instrumentality of government," Binay said.
"This was included precisely to prevent a situation where the judiciary bends to the will of one branch, or of one man as was the case during martial law," he added.
Earlier, Aquino's ally rehabilitation czar Panfilo Lacson also objected to amending the Constitution to give the President the opportunity to run for a second term.
Former Senate president Aquilino Pimentel Jr. said Aquino should no longer seek a second term and said the so-called clamor for him to run was coming from his "cheering squad."
"The voices prodding him to lift the term limit on the presidency are those coming from his allies who have personal interests to protect,"" Pimentel told the Manila Standard.
He said Aquino should not ruin the presidency and the trust and confidence of the Filipino people by listening to the "reckless voices from the trees."
"Is he the only one who is able to handle the presidency?" said Pimentel.
Pimentel said six years is more than enough time for one to show that he is a good president, and he advised Aquino to focus his energy on his remaining days in office.
Pimentel said Aquino was being tempted by those around him with political ambitions and selfish interests.
"I believe his allies are more interested here. Retention of power is the name of the game. They know that if there's a new President, they will no longer be around," he added.
Pimentel also said Aquino's recent statement on Charter change might be a message to Binay "to slow down" and not to act as if he is already the next president.
Another administration ally, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said the administration must mute the "Cha-cha music" if it wanted the nation to march to the same beat.
Former Commission on Elections chairman Christian Monsod, who had helped draft the 1987 Constitution, said Aquino should not think he is the only one who can institute reforms.
"We need systemic change. That's more than the capability of one person, even if he's a Superman. And he's (Aquino) not a Superman," Monsod told the ANC news channel.
Monsod said he was disappointed that Aquino was not like his mother who rejected suggestions to run for a second term although no law prevented her from doing so.
"The President didn't sound like Cory. He sounded like Marcos in 1972 on questions of political issues beyond the scope of the Supreme Court... Then he sounded like [former President Fidel] Ramos in 1997 that he is the only one that can continue the reforms," Monsod said.
Monsod said Aquino should trust the people to choose a leader who can continue reforms that they want.
Monsod said Aquino, in his last two years as President, should instead focus on implementing social reforms to sustain inclusive growth.
While six years may be too short for a good President, Monsod said six years is too long for a bad one and extending the constitutional limit will only worsen the country's problems.
He added that lifting term limits could actually make the pork barrel problem worse.
"If the President is allowed reelection, it's an incentive for him, a very strong temptation to use his discretionary funds to assure his reelection. At the same time, he wants to clip the judicial review powers of the Supreme Court, what will happen? He will have his way in misusing people's money," Monsod said.
Monsod said the Supreme Court's decision against the DAP should not be used as an excuse to clip its powers.
Disagrement among the three branches of government are natural and part of the system of checks and balances, he added.


Commentary: It took 20 years for Kenner to crank out the very first Garindan action figure, and for its day, it was pretty good-- it also signaled the start of a new, bad direction for the toys. With a cloak, a communicator molded into his hand, and a nicely detailed face, fans gobbled this figure up, even though it wasn't colored totally correctly. With the little comm to contact Sandtroopers and a gun of his own, he was a welcome addition to the line and a much-needed new face for the Cantina or the streets of Mos Eisley. Unfortunately, Hasbro gave him a non-removable cloak which prevented him from sitting, or really doing much of anything but standing there. Arm articulated was restricted by this plastic garment, which effectively reduced his number of points of articulation to about two or three, depending on what you consider acceptable. More a statue than a toy, the figure showed signs of good design marred by one bad accessory which can ruin the whole thing. Still, fans as a whole liked it (myself included) so it's hard to complain too much.
Collector's Notes: This figure saw rerelease in 1998 with a Freeze Frame Action Slide bonus, and an entirely new Garindan figure was released in 2007. The 2007 release is arguably superior in almost every way, so if you want Garindan, I suggest you get the new one.


Hoshine Stella append Whisper release!
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It is believed that she is an 'starchild', who travelled among the universe fighting for her dream to come true: to sing.
The starchilds are usually part animal, she is half-cat.
She is a cheerful and kind girl, who likes to help others, but can get mad or angry very easily (this doesn't happen often). She is a bit shy sometimes and likes to sleep a lot.
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AFBI in €80M EU consortium on 'Climate-smart sustainable management of agricultural soils'
The Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) has joined forces with 25 institutions from 24 EU countries to deliver a European Joint Programme focusing on agricultural soils. 'EJP SOIL' (www.ejpsoil.org) will contribute significantly to the key societal challenges of climate change and future food supply. AFBI's Dr Dario Fornara will be a key scientist contributing to the project.
EJP SOIL is 50% funded by the European Commission (under Horizon 2020) to the value of €80M and the remaining 50% will be funded from member states and associated countries.
The overall objective of EJP SOIL is to provide sustainable agricultural soil management solutions that contribute to key societal challenges including climate change and future food supply. EJP SOIL targets climate change adaptation and mitigation, sustainable agricultural production, ecosystem services and restoration and prevention of land and soil degradation.
EJP SOIL aims to develop knowledge, tools and an integrated research community to foster climate-smart sustainable agricultural soil management, i.e. agricultural soil management that allows sustainable food production, sustains soil biodiversity, as well as other soil functions that preserve the ecosystem services that soils deliver.
The EJP project is important for the Northern Ireland (NI) agri-food industry because AFBI's work will contribute to developing state-of-the-art knowledge on soil carbon sequestration and soil health. Also, the involvement and feedback from key stakeholders in NI will allow AFBI to propose solutions to enhance soil sustainability across livestock-based grassland systems in NI as well as improving the communication among scientists, farmers and policy makers.
The implementation of climate smart sustainable soil management differs from region to region, between agricultural practices and obviously between different soil types. As one of its first activities, EJP SOIL has involved European and national stakeholders in identifying knowledge gaps and differences in existing regional and national activities. The stocktaking exercise has established the baseline of available knowledge and tools in partner countries and has helped to identify research priorities. Going forward this will enable the construction of a roadmap that will function as a strategic research agenda to allow strategic decision making in science, policy and implementation issues across Europe.
Under the EJP SOIL initiative, AFBI will soon start work on a number of projects in NI. These projects complement the work commissioned to AFBI from DAERA. They will involve multiple EU partners and will focus on 'Soil organic carbon sequestration potential of agricultural soils in Europe' (CarbpoSeq); 'Sensor data for downscaling digital soil maps to higher resolutions' (SensRes); Stocktaking for Agricultural Soil Quality and Ecosystem Services Indicators and their Reference Values and designing Innovative Soil Management Practices across Europe (i-SoMPE).
EJP SOIL will seek to raise general public awareness and improve understanding of agricultural soil management. A key output for EJP SOIL is that farmers, landowners, land managers and industry will get access to context-specific guidelines for sustainable soil management practices, technology and tools for carbon level accounting. Among other outcomes, this will lead to possibilities for the implementation of agricultural soil management options, accounting for the potential effect on soil organic carbon stocks and GHG emissions.
At the policy level, the aim is to identify data gaps and priority needs for new knowledge and enhance evidence-based recommendations for policy-making at European and regional levels.
The EJP SOIL programme has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 652615
AFBI is an arms-length body of DAERA delivering research and development, diagnostic and analytical testing, emergency response capability and expert scientific advice for DAERA and other government departments, public bodies and commercial companies in Northern Ireland, and further afield.
AFBI's Vision is "Advancing the Local and Global Agri-Food Sectors Through Scientific Excellence".
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Appointment of Board Members to the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute Board (AFBI) 07 January 2021
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The Denver Pioneers hockey team was set to take on Colorado College in another Gold Pan Series game. However, due to winter weather and road conditions, DU was not able to make it to the Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs.
Colorado College made an announcement on social media the game was postponed and would be made up in February or March. According to CC, the Pios bus was stuck on Highway 93 and hadn't moved for 90 minutes due to a jack-knifed semitruck.
Also, make sure to hold onto your tickets as they will be honored for the makeup game later this season.
Game 2 of the Gold Pan series that was scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday at DU's Magness Arena will go on as scheduled.


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Married couple arrested for planning to rob Goodwill store in West Virginia, police say
The man was allegedly overheard inside talking about robbing the store.
By Andrew Colegrove and Andrew McMunn
Published: Feb. 19, 2022 at 2:17 PM CST
WAYNE COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ/Gray News) – A married couple was arrested after police say the husband was overheard talking about plans to rob a Goodwill store in West Virginia.
Andy "AJ" Maynard and Samantha Maynard were arrested at the Lavalette, West Virginia, store around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to WSAZ.
Minutes after an employee reported overhearing the potential threat, members of the Wayne County Sheriff Drug Enforcement Unit arrived.
Thompson said Andy Maynard was a fugitive from Kentucky and his wife was wanted on drug charges in Wayne County, West Virginia. Both are convicted felons, according to Wayne County Sheriff Rick Thompson.
Deputies said they saw a handgun in the driver seat of the couple's vehicle, a sawed-off shotgun in the back seat and a revolver on the console by the passenger seat.
The sheriff says a third person fled from the suspects' vehicle while deputies were inside the Goodwill store.
Thompson said West Virginia State Police troopers assisted deputies and will execute a search warrant on the vehicle. More charges are pending.
Mike Bayless works across the street.
"When it's this close to you, a stone's throw away across the street, it's unnerving," Bayless said. "I definitely don't want anybody at Goodwill to be getting harmed."
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