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Tag: Sen. Cory Gardner
Call your members of Congress about the STATES Act
Jun 13, 2018 Kate Zawidzki
Congress, Sen. Cory Gardner, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, STATES Act
In case you missed it, last week Sens. Cory Gardner and Elizabeth Warren introduced bipartisan legislation to end the federal war on marijuana and protect states that establish their own marijuana laws. There's huge momentum behind this important bill.
Give your senators and representative in Congress a call right now and urge them to back the STATES Act.
Leaving marijuana policy to the states is a popular position among both Republicans and Democrats. But we have to put pressure on Congress to act.
Share this with other supporters of sensible marijuana policy and ask them to call their members of Congress, too.
Passage of the STATES Act would be a game changer. Let's light up those phone lines.
Senators introduce bipartisan bill to protect state marijuana laws
Congress, Federal, Prohibition, Sen. Cory Gardner, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, STATES Act, U.S. Senate
Earlier today, Sens. Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) introduced bipartisan legislation to end the federal government's war on marijuana and protect states' rights to enact their own marijuana policies.
Call your members of Congress RIGHT NOW and urge them to support this landmark bill.
The STATES Act is the most significant piece of marijuana-related legislation ever introduced in Congress. With its bipartisan backing in the Senate, it symbolically signals the eventual end of marijuana prohibition at the federal level.
This legislation reflects the position the president took on marijuana policy during his campaign, and it comes shortly on the heels of the positive comments he made to Sen. Gardner. The president has a unique opportunity to get behind historic legislation that enjoys solid support on both sides of the political spectrum. Read more about the bill.
Members of both parties agree it's time for the federal government to let states set their own policies for marijuana. Please ask your lawmakers to back this important legislation.
The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana in their jeans simply makes no sense - the kindest way to put it. A sterner way to put it is that it is an outrage, an imposition on basic civil liberties and on the reasonable expenditure of social energy.
Author William F. Buckley, Jr., The Albuquerque Journal, June 9, 1993


RALC is looking for area educators willing to share their literacy teaching expertise with colleagues. Presenters will present at one or both of our hour long sessions the morning of February 7th, depending on enrollment, or they may choose to submit and present two separate sessions.
Educators who attend this event will select two different sessions to attend.
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#1392: Skin Tight, Pin Striped, Purple Pedal Pushers by Sheb Wooley
6 weeks on Vancouver's CKWX chart
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Shelby Fredrick "Sheb" Wooley was born in rural southwestern Oklahoma in 1921. His father was a farmer who also owned some horses. During his childhood Sheb learned to ride horses. He became a working cowboy and into his early teens a rodeo rider. When he was 15 Sheb formed a country and western band named the "Plainview Melody Boys." His band occasionally appeared live on radio station KASA in Elk City, Oklahoma. When he was 19 years-old Sheb Wooley married 17-year-old Melva Miller. She was a cousin of Roger Miller. Sheb and Roger became friends and he taught Roger how to play the guitar and bought him his first fiddle while he was still a child. Due to his rodeo injuries, Sheb Wooley was not seen fit to join the United States Army. Instead he worked on the oil patch as a welder. He and his wife moved to Fort Worth, Texas, in 1946. That year he released his first single "Oklahoma Honky-Tonk Gal". He hosted a Fort Worth-based country music radio show called Sheb Wooley and the Calumet Indians. But after three years of touring across the southern USA with a band, the marriage fell apart. Wooley remarried in 1949 and moved to Hollywood in 1950.

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Derwick Associates Looks to Expand by Bringing Unique Experience to Spain
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Caracas, Venezuela (PRWEB) January 09, 2014
Derwick Associates is looking to bring its unique brand of experience to Spain.
The energy company has announced that it will be attempting to further expand their reach by investigating opportunities for investment overseas.
A delegation from Derwick Associates, including directors Leopoldo Alejandro Betancourt López, Pedro Trebbau López, Edgard Romero Lazo and Francisco Convit Guruceaga met with the president of the Spanish Association of the Electrical Industry with the hope that they can bring their successful business to Spain.
According to Leopoldo Alejandro Betancourt Lopez, the meeting with the Spanish Association went well. "We liked what we saw from the electrical association and we are definitely interested in further exploring our opportunities overseas," said Lopez. "We feel like our experience in Venezuela has made us uniquely qualified for this opportunity to expand."
Derwick Associates does indeed have a unique experience record, as the company was awarded numerous power station contracts during the Venezuelan energy crisis. In a compressed amount of time, Derwick was able to complete the contracts, enabling a significant increase in the generating capacity in a number of cities, most notably Caracas.
The energy shortages in Venezuela are also part of the reason for Derwick's rapid growth and development. One of the more intriguing aspects of the company has been its ability to handle the rapid expansion without suffering through the growing pains emerging companies traditionally experience.
"Our situation with our company in Venezuela has been unique," said Pedro Trebbau Lopez. "We were put in a fairly unusual situation that carried a lot of risk, and not only we were able to handle it, we were able to come out very successfully. While we are proud of what we have already accomplished, we are still looking to grow. We feel that Spain can offer us a number of great opportunities, and we certainly intend to explore all of the opportunities presented to us."
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Pedro-Trebbau-Lopez/Derwick-Associates/prweb11477028.htm


Trap god Gucci Mane has announced via his Twitter account that he will be Diplo's next collaborator. The two will release an "EDM" type album according to Gucci, however Diplo thinks otherwise.
Classic tale of a rapper not knowing the difference between electronic music and mainstream "EDM" music. Regardless, this whole ordeal will be interesting to say the least because Gucci is actually locked up right now for possession of a gun. He must have just lived in the studio before he went away and recorded track after track after track. Always leave it up to Diplo to get ratchet on the music industry. Can't wait to see how the hell this plays out.


Actually I do not remeber how much computer have i built my self.
As i have worked 4 - 5 years in a computer shop, and i personally have lot of interest in computers, I am famous among my friends that i am a computer master. even though i have very less knowledge, but they think i am soooooo much genius.
Due to this reason, they all call me for any help in their computer repair or trouble shooting.
Sounds like a great start to a new computer and welcome to Computer Hope and the SBCC.
Personal specifications also requires and how much you can afford to built one. Either its clone or readily built branded/generic PCs.
I agree with you. You need to build one you can afford and of couse you required.
i don't know if i am on the right part of the forum,i am hoping to have a go at building my first computer, i have read pc books, read reviews, watched video's, i have been confused so many times. well these are the components i have choosen. please tell me if they sound ok,also are they all compatable?
mb. gigabyte skt am2+/am3 ga m68m s2p.
processer. amd athlon 11+2 240e 2.8ghz.
hard drive. western digital 500gb caviar blue se16 sata.
coolermaster hyper plus 212 cpu cooler,coolermaster hyper tx3.
I don't think of computers to be hard to put together but since I've seen it enough times, I can remember how to do it so that is why it's easy.


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Q: Checking User's Organization in Liferay So I have a Liferay (6.2) portal setup on my WebLogic 12c server, running just fine.
I've created a navigation bar that I want to display differently, depending on a user's organization.
In the portlet_normal.vm where I have created my navigation bar, it should simple to check the user's organization, using a velocity check such as :
#if($user.organization.name == "Organization_1")
    /** display the navigation item **/
#end

However, I can't seem to find these properties in the init.vm or jsp files
Any ideas?
Follow-up question: Should I be assigning users to different organizations? Or is assigning roles a better idea? No user will have any administrative permissions, the differences will solely be displayed in the views/theme.

A: You have to get user organizations by $user.getOrganizations(). And iterate over it using foreach

A: The first answer is already there, regarding your follow up question,
You have to assign user to organization. Organization role will give the permission to user what he can perform for that organization and content related to that organization.
It is as simple as,
How can I approve vacation of my employees if I am not in the Human Resource Organization? So, I have to be part of Human Resources and then, I must have role like "Leave_Approver" which has permission to perform some actions.

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Within May survey CVVM focused on the environment people were questioned about their satisfaction with environmental conditions in the Czech Republic as well as at the place they live in general and in some concrete ways.
In May 2008 Centre for Public Opinion Research asked questions about environment. More than a half of population (59 %) is interested in information about the environment and 36 % of people say they have enough this kind of information. The second issue was how to behave environmentally friendly. About two thirds (68 %) of Czechs are interested in information how to behave environmentally friendly and more than a half (55 %) have enough of these information.
In May 2008 Centre for Public Opinion Research investigated how are particular precautions concerning environment protection popular among czech public. 74 % of informants claimed that environmental protection is a task for government and they shouldnt participate financially on it. On the other hand the majority agree that it's sensible to protect environment even it costs more time or some additional money.
In May 2007 the Centre for Public Opinion Research investigated how are Czechs and their households active in protection of environment. 81% of informants said that they are used to sort waste ("always + often"). Approximately half of informants (48 %) makes an effort to save water and energy. On the other hand almost nobody tries to reduce car driving for ecological reasons (11 %).
Within May survey CVVM focused on the environment. The survey also investigated how Czech citizens evaluate gravity of some problems related to global environment. As a most important problemes were marked polution of drinking water (95 % "very + fairly important problem"), cumulation of garbage (94 %), lack of drinking water (91 %) and disappearance of rain forests (89 %). Public opinion is divided on question of genetically modified food (46 % "very + fairly important problem" vs.
In May 2008 CVVM probed, how do Czech citizens evaluate activity of Czech Republic in area of environment and also how do they view the working of some state institutions and ecological organizations in these questions. Concretely we were interested in opinions of Czechs on activity of Government, Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic, Parliament, Regional Offices, Municipal Offices and Ecological organizations.
In May survey 2008 CVVM focused on evaluation of environmental situation in Czech Republic by our citizens. Battery concerning this topic contained 11 items and respondents had to evaluate, whether in concrete case see the situation as "very good", "rather good", "rather bad" or "very bad". The worst situation is according to obtained answers in charge of environment by road transport, when 91 % of Czechs view this problem as bad.
Within May survey CVVM focused on the environment. People were asked whether they are interested in information concerning environmental situation in Czech Republic, if they have sufficiency or insufficiency of these information and how Czech Republic cares about protection of the environment in general. The survey also investigated how Czech citizens evaluate gravity of some problems related to global environment.
In May 2007 Centre for Public Opinion Research investigated how Czechs and their households are active in environment protection and what possible precautions concerning environment protection they would agree with. The results are filled in with comments concerning sorting of answers according to sociodemographic indicators.
Within May survey CVVM focused on the environment. People were questioned about their satisfaction with environmental conditions in the Czech Republic as well as at the place they live in general and in some concrete ways and they were also asked to evaluate activity of some institutions and organizations in connection with care and protection of the environment.


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Designed by Glenn Howells Architects for Ecoworld Ballymore. It provides two new public venues; Trinity Art Gallery and Arebyte Gallery. An exhibition of locally sourced artworks will be exhibited here over Open House Weekend.
Java House offers visitors an inside view into the build and aesthetic of this new London City Island development. Trinity Art Gallery is the second gallery to open within Java House and will be open to show part of the building's raw interior as well as an exhibition of paintings and sculpture from the surrounding area.


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The Political Crisis of
the American Family
Marlene Resnick, MA
©dwij 2001
Article 9 in our series on Ethics
Marlene Resnick, MA is President of Parenting U International, an organization providing service and consultation to parents and professionals who work with families.
Marlene is an adjunct professor at the University of South Florida in Sarasota and is presently creating a film called Death by Discipline, a documentary on fatal child abuse in America.
For information eMail: resnick@dwij.org
The Political Crisis of the American Family
"Too often, Americans blame all society's ills on the breakdown of the traditional family. Poverty, crime, violence, teenage aimlessness—all are blamed on the purported breakdown of the family. We fear that parents are too selfish and preoccupied with their own gratification to raise children properly, that we are becoming a fatherless society, and that our children are becoming aliens, deeply disconnected from the adult world."
—Steven Mintz, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History, University of Houston, The Contemporary Crisis of the Family, 2001.
Very often, we hear politicians harking back to the nostalgic, golden age of the families of the past. However, alcohol and poverty were major problems at the turn of the last century. In addition, there were many children raised in fatherless families after both world wars. In reality, the family responds to the social and economic environment that demands a change of culture and family relations. For instance, industrialization at the turn of the nineteenth century influenced the family by enticing people off the farms and into the cities. People were attracted by jobs and greater economic opportunity.
As a result, cities grew and we changed from a population where 90% of families lived in rural areas, working on agriculture, to a population where 90% of families lived in the cities, and worked primarily in factories and other commercial enterprises. Another major influence on the family has been the automobile. It has created substantially more mobility, the development of the suburbs, and the rearranging of the family environment once again.
We tend to think of the family as a static arrangement of related individuals: the nuclear family. That, however, is not the case. "Family" is a constantly changing entity that responds to the challenges that the social environment presents.
For example, fifty years ago, young children and elderly family members were cared for at home. This is no longer the case. Women, who provided this support in the past, have had to enter the workplace in greater and greater numbers. Perhaps, if we truly wanted to return to that type of environment, we could offer women a salary to stay home and care for children and elderly relatives. I suspect, however, that this would not be a popular political position. Many women would no longer choose to play this role, and most politicians would not consider this to be a fundable agenda.
In recent years, we have witnessed a massive political movement to get poor women into the workforce. This has taken place with little or no regard for the young children of these women. Some child care funds have been made available, but the quality of care, and the availability of hours often do not match the required work schedule of the mother. Consequently, many children are left in poor quality care centers, with siblings, and/or with neighbors or relatives, creating a patchwork of care that fails to meet the needs of the children, as well as ignoring the long-term ramifications of such arrangements.
It must be noted that women who don't have reliable childcare are often not reliable workers. Also, children receiving poor quality care are found to be unready for school at a far greater rate than children who are cared for at home or in a quality setting. This means that we are creating a second generation of citizens who are unprepared to become productive members of society. Short-term, bottom-line thinking leads to massive, long-term expense in both financial and social costs down the road. A few of the studies that provide a startling glimpse of this reality are: The Carolina Abecedarian Project, The Perry Preschool Project, and The Yale Child Welfare Research Program.
Maybe what we really need to do is to take a closer look at the elements within families and the larger community that help to create good outcomes for children, rather than to stay so focused on the family structure itself.
The structure of the family is not the most critical issue if you are looking at what produces good outcomes for children. The quality of the relationships within the family is a far better determiner of success or failure than the family structure. For instance, the number of evenings that a parent and child share dinner together, and the involvement of a parent in a child's academic career are much stronger indicators of a child's success in school and social life than whether the parents are married, whether they are gay, or whether the child is being raised by a single parent.
Politicians decry the dissolution of the nuclear family and hold that institution responsible for all of our social ills, yet it seems that we must look beyond this superficial answer to a complex situation. Although some studies have shown that children of divorced or never-married parents are more at risk for a number of social ills than children who are a part of a stable nuclear family, it is also true that a number of studies have found that many children of single fathers and also of a gay parent score as well, or better, than children in intact families when looking at child outcomes.
These studies point to the necessity of looking beyond the structure and into the substance of life quality. Poverty, drug and alcohol addiction, malnutrition, deprivation, unemployment, and dangerous neighborhoods create high risk for any child. What we do know is that a high level of conflict within the home is the strongest indicator for creating a troubled childhood. Where children are subject to parents who scream and yell, hit and hurt on a regular basis, they are far more at risk for failure than a child raised by a single parent who is attentive and caring.
So maybe we really need to look at solving those problems rather than trying to legislate a particular type of family structure. If we truly care about the best interests of children we must ask: What are the real answers to the problems of today? In reality, poverty and conflict are the two most powerful negative influences on outcomes for children.
Have we made a commitment to end childhood poverty? Statistics would indicate that we have decided, in fact, to invest in poverty. The number of children raised in poverty in America has dramatically increased since the War on Poverty. One in five children in America, the richest country in the world, grows up in poverty. Quality childcare is one proven resource that is capable of improving outcomes for preschool children. Government has been slow to recognize this fact, and has not committed the necessary funding required to begin to address this issue. We have chosen to invest, instead, in prisons, in high technology weapons, and in non-renewable energy sources. These have been responses that do not address the challenges that we face.
We have moved at lightning speed into the privatization of many public services without truly examining the reality that many of these services are not profitable. For example, health care is only profitable when providing care for relatively healthy people. We have watched this situation grow into a national disaster.
We have seen the dissolution of institutions that cared for people who were unable to care for themselves. This was a Reagan initiative that resulted in the ballooning problem of homelessness; a perfect example of bottom-line decision making. One of the first states, to de-institutionalize long-term mental health patients, Massachusetts, found that this short-sighted attempt to save government dollars by letting the private sector compete in this arena was largely responsible for creating the growing problem of homelessness.
In addition, the cost of mental health services to these same individuals has skyrocketed. Mental health service costs, which had been contained because the government ran the mental hospitals, are now much higher. This is the same problem that exists in all for-profit human services. Those individuals whose maladies are easier to treat are more likely to receive the required care. This process of preferential treatment is called creaming. Those individuals who have long-term intractable mental health problems may be relegated to the streets without treatment or care. This is an inappropriate and irresponsible response. The end result has been that Massachusetts is paying more for mental health services, but fewer people are being cared for. An added "benefit": the development of a large homeless population in many cities. There are some services that simply cannot be profitable. Trying to make them profitable increases the cost, because a profit must be added on to that cost. It doesn't make sense.
Children and families are caught in the same narrow view. The institution of the family, while being heralded as the solution to all our problems, is not getting the social and institutional support necessary to fulfill its most important job: raising children.
The fifty richest people in Los Angeles have a combined annual income that exceeds the combined incomes of the poorest two million people in that city. We continue to move in the direction of extreme polarization in regard to income. This polarization is a true threat to a strong democracy. It encourages crime, drug abuse, violence, and supports poverty. It inspires alienation and anger in young people because, when they are poor, they see no hope.
Moralistic, superficial, short-term answers to deep, long-term problems only create bigger problems. You can be assured that the fifty richest people in the city of Los Angeles have a lot more influence on who gets elected and what laws are passed than the poorest two million in that city.
I believe that among our government's many roles is to identify and understand society's needs, determine how to meet those needs, and provide the education and support needed to allow everyone the opportunity of achieving their dreams and becoming self-sufficient and self-supporting individuals. Economic development is a critical part of that equation, but it must be viewed from a long-term perspective.
For our children, this means that we need to invest in quality childcare. It means that we need to ensure access to health care for everyone. It means that we support parental leave with pay, and ensure that people who work full time get a decent, livable wage. This is the work of government. "Of the people, by the people and for the people," is included in the tenets of our country's constitution. It is obvious that we have all but forgotten the basic principles on which our country was founded, and urgent that, for our children's future, we identify the ways of rectifying this.
President of Parenting U International
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Team Nemeziz came back to beat Team X in the opening encounter of the second day of game action at the 2018 adidas MLS Player Combine.
Andre Morrison (Hartford) opened the scoring just minutes into the game with a rifled shot after Nemeziz failed to clear a set piece. However, X would give up a penalty following a Video Review determination that they had committed a foul inside the box, and Brian White (Duke) – who had an assist in the opening game – dispatched the spot kick.
Youth international Issaka Nyemewero (Ghana) found the game-winner with a close-range header just before the break, and Marcelo Acuna (Virginia Tech) dispatched another close-range finish for an insurance goal after some smooth setup work from Generation adidas signing Mason Toye (Indiana).
In the day's second match, Team Predator took out Team Tango, 1-0.
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Yellow River Game Ranch Hit With Federal Animal Welfare Violations
by editor | Feb 24, 2016 | Animals Used for Entertainment, Cruelty to Animals, Fight, In The News, PETA
U.S. Department of Agriculture Report Documents Severe Neglect, Animals Suffering Without Veterinary Care
Lilburn, Ga. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has just released a new inspection report documenting a slew of fresh violations of the Animal Welfare Act at notorious roadside zoo Yellow River Game Ranch. According to the report, obviously ailing animals were allowed to suffer without any veterinary care, including a lame goat and sheep, a pig who could barely stand and one who had difficulty walking, a bobcat so underweight that his hipbones and spine were visible, and goats with hair loss and flaking skin.
Rabbits at the facility were found confined to stacked steel cages with very little bedding and scant protection from the elements, potentially placing their lives at risk. The bears' antiquated concrete enclosure had not been cleaned for a long time and contained a buildup of hair, feces, and debris. Seventeen goats were inadequately provided with only two dog igloos for shelter, while pigs were found sinking in the deep mud in their enclosure and were also denied bedding despite winter conditions. Inspectors reported finding hazardous sharp edges of fencing and dangerous gaps in rusty enclosures.
"Yellow River Game Ranch's latest citations for neglect and failure to provide basic veterinary care—and the description of such ramshackle enclosures—prove that it either can't or won't provide animals with even the most minimal care," says PETA Foundation Deputy Director Brittany Peet. "PETA is calling on this facility to allow these animals to be retired to the safety of a reputable sanctuary immediately."
This inspection report confirmed many of the ongoing veterinary issues that PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that "animals are not ours to use for entertainment"—has repeatedly reported to the USDA. In 2012, a whistleblower came forward with reports of rampant cruelty and neglect that closely mirror the USDA's recent findings. In 2014, the roadside zoo was fined by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for allowing its employees to risk their lives by entering enclosures with bears.
Laura Vandervoort: Boycott SeaWorld
by editor | Feb 14, 2016 | Animal Rights, Animals Used for Entertainment, Earth, Living
Laura Vandervoort is confined to a tank—but only for a few moments. Captive orcas are denied their freedom for their entire lives.
U.S. Imported More than 1.2 Million Wildlife Trophies in Last Ten Years, Having Dire Impact on World's Wildlife
by editor | Feb 14, 2016 | Activism, Animals Used for Entertainment, HSUS, In The News
More than 1,200 different kinds of animals imported to the U.S. between 2005 and 2014
In the last ten years, American hunters have imported more than 1.2 million animals, more than 126,000 a year, as hunting trophies from across the world, according to a new report by Humane Society International and The Humane Society of the United States.
The report, Trophy Hunting by the Numbers: the United States' Role in Global Trophy Hunting, uses original analysis of hunting trophy import data obtained from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Among its findings include:
Trophies are primarily imported from Canada and South Africa. They are followed by Namibia, Mexico, Zimbabwe, New Zealand, Tanzania, Argentina, Zambia and Botswana.
The species most favored by trophy hunters include: American black bears, impalas, common wildebeests, greater kudus, gemsboks, springboks and bonteboks.
Trophy hunters highly covet the African big five, importing them to the U.S. in staggering numbers between 2005 and 2014: 5,600 African lions, 4,600 African elephants, 4,500 African leopards, 330 southern white rhinos, and 17,200 African buffalo. All of these species, except the African buffalo, are near threatened or vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
The U.S. ports of entry importing the most wildlife trophies during the decade were: New York, New York; Pembina, North Dakota; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas; and Portal, North Dakota.
Teresa M. Telecky, director of the wildlife department at HSI, said: "This report clearly shows the dire impact American trophy hunters are having on wildlife in other countries. It's outrageous that every year hunters take the lives of thousands of animals, many threatened with extinction, just to win a prize and show off. These animals need protection, not to be mounted on a wall. The fact that rare, majestic species are entering the U.S. in large and small ports of entry should alarm lawmakers and the public concerned about trophy hunting."
Competitive hunting groups promote these hunts, offering accolades and awards to its members. The largest such group, Safari Club International, just wrapped up its convention in Las Vegas where more than 300 mammal hunts for more than 600 animals were auctioned off, and countless other hunts arranged privately on the exhibit floor. SCI often uses these proceeds to fight wildlife protection measures. For certain species, including lions, elephants, leopards and rhinos, the U.S. is the largest trophy importing country.
As one way of preventing disastrous consequences of trophy hunting, HSI and The HSUS will continue to seek new protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act for species that meet the criteria for listing. The African lion is the latest species to receive ESA protection after a multi-year effort by animal protection organizations, including HSI and The HSUS. The groups are also seeking increased ESA protections for species currently listed in a lower category of protection, as was recently done for the African elephant. HSI and The HSUS are also urging corporations – such as Swarovski Optik[1] – to end sponsorship of trophy hunting advocacy organizations, as well as reaching out to more airlines and other transport companies to ban the transport of trophies.
Minneapolis City Council Votes to Ban Elephant Bullhooks
by editor | Feb 14, 2016 | Activism, Animals Used for Entertainment, HSUS
The Humane Society of the United States applauds the Minneapolis City Council for voting unanimously to pass a measure prohibiting the use of bullhooks on elephants in circuses and traveling shows.
Christine Coughlin, Minnesota state director for The HSUS said: "For too long, elephants in traveling shows have suffered trauma and abuse from handlers wielding the sharp end of a bullhook. We commend the city council and Councilmember Cam Gordon, the amendment's author, for taking action to protect these highly intelligent and social animals from inhumane and outdated training methods."
Bullhooks, which resemble fireplace pokers, are used by trainers to strike, jab, prod, pull and hook sensitive spots on an elephant's body. Elephants are hooked and hit with bullhooks when being trained and prior to performances to instill fear and, in turn, ensure that tricks or other desired behaviors will be performed on command. Bullhooks are also used to punish the animals when they fail to perform as instructed and to control elephants during routine handling. The measure was offered as an amendment by Council Member Cam Gordon (Ward 2) to the revision of the city's animal ordinance and will go into effect January 1, 2019.
Council Member Gordon said: "Today Minneapolis joined nearly 50 other American cities that have passed laws protecting captive elephants. Bullhooks are cruel, and the public is clearly no longer willing to tolerate abuse or mistreatment of elephants, whether it happens in sight or behind the scenes. I hope other cities in Minnesota and beyond adopt similar protections for these intelligent and sensitive animals."
What do you get when you combine one of the most talked-about Super Bowl ads with this weekend's Westminster Kennel Club dog show?
by editor | Feb 14, 2016 | Activism, Animal Rights, Animals Used for Entertainment, PETA
What do you get when you combine one of the most talked-about Super Bowl ads with this weekend's Westminster Kennel Club dog show? The answer is PETA's "PuppyMonkeyBaby" parody video, in which the made-up PuggyMonkeyBaby's breeder explains, Best in Show–style, how the commercial star was born. "It's just lots of inbred pugs," he says. "Because that's the name of the game with dog breeding, you know. It's really just inbreeding. Keepin' it in the family."
On its website, PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that "animals are not ours to abuse in any way"—points to the many health dangers associated with inbreeding dogs, including bulldogs, who often have to be artificially inseminated and give birth via cesarean section because their heads are too large and their hips are too small to give birth naturally. And Cavalier King Charles spaniels have been bred to have unnaturally shaped skulls, which can cause a condition called syringomyelia, in which brain tissue protrudes through the base of the too-small skull and causes intense pain for the dogs.
"PETA's PuppyMonkeyBaby parody video points out that inbreeding dogs for exaggerated physical traits is just as grotesque as popping a monkey's torso onto a baby's legs," says PETA Vice President Joel Bartlett. "While PuppyMonkeyBaby is a brilliant computer-generated creation for which no animals were harmed, real-life inbred pugs suffer from skin conditions, bone disease, and seizures just to satisfy purebred fanatics."
Video of PETA supporters rushing the floor to protest the Westminster dog show in years past can be seen here.
More information about PETA's opposition to the Westminster Kennel Club dog show is available here. PETA will be protesting again this year.
Zoo is cruelty
by editor | Feb 12, 2016 | Activism, Animals Used for Entertainment, Cruelty to Animals, ISPCA, Wildlife
Zoos claim to educate people and preserve species, but they usually fall short on both counts.
Most zoo enclosures are very small, and rather than promoting respect or understanding of animals, signs often provide little more information than an animal's species, diet, and natural range.
Animals' normal behavior is seldom discussed, much less observed, because their natural needs are rarely met. Birds' wings may be clipped so that they cannot fly, aquatic animals are often without adequate water, and many animals who live in large herds or family groups in nature are kept alone or, at most, in pairs. Natural hunting and mating behaviors are virtually eliminated by regulated feeding and breeding regimens. Animals are closely confined, lack privacy, and have little opportunity for mental stimulation or physical exercise. These conditions often result in abnormal and self-destructive behaviors or "zoochosis."


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SDSN Highlights Youth-Led SDG Innovation Projects in New Solutions Report
The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) has released its first edition of the Youth Solutions Report, which identifies 50 youth-led projects that aim to solve the world's toughest issues, during the UN ECOSOC Youth Forum at the United Nations Headquarters.
The report, produced by the youth initiative of SDSN (SDSN Youth) identifies and celebrates youth-led projects and groundbreaking ideas to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It reflects a growing interest in supporting and scaling innovative solutions as part of a strategy to address problems such as poverty, inequality, clean and affordable energy, access to healthcare and education, e-participation and waste.
"SDSN Youth and its Youth Solutions Report are excellent examples of initiatives crucial for helping young people realize the full potential of their abilities, innovations and solutions," said Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever. "Today we have the largest generation of youth in history — a powerful force for change. Eight-four percent of millennials are through socially aware businesses and youth-led campaigns in support of the Sustainable Development Goals**."**
The report highlights the work of youth-led organizations across 57 countries, such as Liter of Light who bring over 750,000 affordable solar lights to 15 countries; BenBen who operate a Blockchain-based land registry that facilitates secure land transactions to encourage investments and transparent land resource management; FinFighters who run a citizen shark science program to collect genetic data and information from Moroccan fishing ports and market; and the group running the SHAPE project using mobile technology to promote citizens' e-participation in their city's public life.
"The UN Youth Solutions Report will help us scale and mobilize the generation of leaders to not only meet the UN 2030 SDG agenda goals but surpass expectations through this global movement," said Daniela Fernandez, founder of the Sustainable Oceans Alliance. "Our oceans are dying and it will take education, grassroots organizing, and innovative start-ups to protect our natural resources and advocate for our environment."
According to Siamak Sam Loni, Global coordinator of DSN Youth, young people must be seen as key stakeholders in the sustainable development debate and that there is a pressing need to acknowledge their essential role in achieving the SDGs.
"Young people are already contributing to the implementation of the SDGs," said Loni "but they face common challenges that prevent them from realizing the full potential of their ideas and solutions, including the lack of visibility, limited access to finance and the lack of training and technical support. The Youth Solutions Report will help investors, donors and supporters better understand the multi-faceted role of young people in sustainable development and give them additional opportunities to showcase and scale their work."
Published Feb 14, 2017 12pm EST / 9am PST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET


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Ohio label maker Multi-Color Corp. has informed state of Wisconsin officials that it will permanently close its plant in Watertown on or around Jan. 2, resulting in the loss of 58 jobs.
The company said in a mass layoff notice filed with the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development that curtailment of operations will begin immediately, although some employees may have to stay after the planned closing date to assist in the transition. None of the employees are represented by a union.
Despite the inane rhetoric, something tells me that Wisconsin isn't going to be moving forward for a long, long time.
Forward to the bottom! The voters have spoken.
Our county is selling off their snow plows and buying shovels, greener technology and job creation you know. Work will set you free.


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Posted by Miha Škerlavaj in CERINNO, individualism - collectivism, innovation, national culture.
This study aims to resolve the contradictory previous research findings on the relationship between individualism–collectivism and innovation. We draw on innovation theory and relate to the difference between non-technological (management) and technological innovation types as well as to the distinction between exploration and exploitation (invention and commercialization of technological innovations). Using Community Innovation Survey (CIS) 2006 micro data for innovation at the organizational level in 13 countries – along with, GLOBE (2005), and scores for individualism–collectivism – we apply Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM). The results indicate that individualism is positively related to the invention phase, whereas collectivism is beneficial for the commercialization of innovative ideas. Furthermore, in collectivistic cultures, management innovation plays a more important stimulating role in enhancing technological innovation than it does in individualistic ones. This provides the managers with an idea of when innovation processes in their companies would be more favorable versus detrimental.
Comments, ideas, suggestions, most welcome!
This study examines the moderating effects of national culture dimensions (Hofstede 1980) on three key elements in the development of organisational learning culture: information acquisition, information interpretation and behavioral and cognitive changes. Data were collected from 1333 companies in three CEE countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia) and other regions. The results showed that four national cultural dimensions (power distance, individualism, masculinity, and uncertainty avoidance) had no significant moderating effects on the relationship between information acquisition and information interpretation. However, the relationship between information interpretation and behavioral and cognitive changes was positively moderated by power distance, and negatively moderated by individualism, masculinity and uncertainty avoidance.


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New York Times: Professors at San Jose State Criticize Online Courses
Published by the New York Times May 2, 2013.
By Tamar Lewin
San Jose State University has publicly committed to using online courses to bring in more students — and bring down costs — but its philosophy department is balking. Faculty members issued a blistering statement this week about why they will not use materials from an online course called Justice, taught by Michael Sandel of Harvard, an academic superstar.
Mohammad H. Qayoumi, the president of San Jose State, has pushed his university to experiment with new online technologies through pilot projects with both edX, the nonprofit Harvard-M.I.T. online collaboration that offers Dr. Sandel's course, and Udacity, a company producing the massive open online courses, known as MOOCs.
But this week, the philosophy department sent Dr. Sandel an open letter asserting that such courses, designed by elite universities and widely licensed by others, would compromise the quality of education, stifle diverse viewpoints and lead to the dismantling of public universities.
"The thought of the exact same social justice course being taught in various philosophy depts. across the country is downright scary," the letter said.
The letter came as a surprise to the provost, Ellen Junn, because, she said, no one had demanded that the philosophy department use the Sandel course. "All we ever did was let the deans know that these courses were available, and if they were interested in integrating any of the edX materials into their courses, they should let us know," Dr. Junn said. "We're never telling faculty what to use. They control the content of their courses."
Several philosophy professors, however, said that there was administrative pressure to offer the Justice course. Indeed, the department chairman, Peter J. Hadreas, said that administrators had now arranged to offer it through the English department, reinforcing his concerns that it would be taught by professors who are not trained in philosophy and would be especially reliant on the edX materials.
Dr. Junn said she had e-mailed the philosophy department on Wednesday, the day she learned of the letter, to ask whether anyone wanted to discuss it, but was told there was no need, since the letter was mainly meant to raise the level of discussion.
The letter echoed concerns of many university faculties across the nation as MOOCs have spread rapidly. It emphasized the importance of individual interaction with students, and the fear that the courses would widen the gap between the education that elite universities can offer, and what is available to students at most other institutions.
"The move to MOOCs comes at great peril to our university," the letter said, "We regard such courses as a serious compromise of quality of education and, ironically for a social justice course, a case of social injustice."
While expressing respect for Dr. Sandel's scholarship and teaching, it also chided him, saying, "Professors who care about public education should not produce products that will replace professors, dismantle departments and provide a diminished education for student in public universities."
"My goal is simply to make an educational resource freely available — a resource that faculty colleagues should be free to use in whole or in part, or not at all, as they see fit," Dr. Sandel said in a statement responding to the letter. "The worry that the widespread use of online courses will damage departments in public universities facing budgetary pressures is a legitimate concern that deserves serious debate, at edX and throughout higher education. The last thing I want is for my online lectures to be used to undermine faculty colleagues at other institutions."
San Jose State philosophy professors said there were no dissenters from the letter. "We don't have any illusions that we'll change the world," said Prof. Tom Leddy. "But our position needs to be heard. It's been amazing to us how quickly we've moved to MOOCs, without faculty consultation. And now the state government's pushing it. It's great to have Professor Sandel's lectures available free online, to use if we want. But if we buy them from edX as the basis for our classes, we would suddenly be second-class citizens. I would basically be a teaching assistant, and my students, unlike those at Harvard, could not question their professor."
Anant Agarwal, the M.I.T. professor who heads edX, had a different view. "Really, we can think of MOOCs as the next-generation textbook, and just as it doesn't take away from a professor to use a chapter of someone else's textbook," he said, "I don't think it takes away from them to use as much or as little of our materials as they want. I really believe it frees them to interact more with their students."
Faculty backlash against online courses has spread in recent weeks, as the Amherst College faculty voted against joining edX, and the Duke faculty voted down participation in Semester Online, offered by a consortium of universities.
Most faculty objections arise out of concerns about how online courses impinge on the professor-student relationship — and how they may lead to the privatization of public universities, and the loss of faculty jobs. "I started out very enthusiastic about the democratization of higher education through the global MOOCs, but I've gotten more cautious as my colleagues talk about what it might mean for jobs, at public universities," said one professor, who taught a popular MOOC, but asked not to be named because he said he had not decided whether he would continue to teach them.
Many college presidents, too, are MOOC skeptics. In a Gallup poll released Thursday, most of the 889 presidents surveyed said they did not expect online education to solve colleges' financial challenges or improve all students' learning.
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UKRAINE'S ORANGE BLUES - AN UNHAPPY NEW YEAR FOR UKRAINE'S REGIONNAIRES
Expect 2012 to be a wild ride for Viktor Yanukovych and his merry band of Regionnaires. Indeed, they may even fly off the roller coaster.
Consider the following likelihoods.
For starters, the world will squeeze the Regionnaires until they turn blue in the face. The European and American economies will remain weak, while Russia's and China's will continue to stagnate. Foreign direct investment will dry up, Ukrainian exports will decline, and Ukraine's industries, especially in the Donbas, will contract. Worse, Russia may be in for a time of troubles. It's not inconceivable that Vladimir Putin's fascistoid regime could collapse. And even if it doesn't, Russian civil society is unlikely to stand still and watch its liberties be whittled away. Since an embattled Putin is likely to play the only card he has left—appeals to Russian greatness and neo-imperial manifest destiny—Viktor and the Regionnaires aren't going to get any breaks from big brother in the north. Meanwhile, both the United States and Europe will have too many of their own problems to worry about Ukraine. As a result, the Yanukovych regime will be completely isolated.
While the world economy weakens, Ukraine's could go into a tailspin. With export markets withering, with outside credit drying up as Europe's overextended banks stop lending to risky borrowers such as Ukraine, with the price of Russian gas likely to stay high, with taxes remaining regressive and unfair, and with IMF money entailing the kind of conditionality (reforms and honest government) that is anathema to the Regionnaires, real GDP growth will be minimal, unemployment is likely to rise, inflation will go up, and budget deficits will balloon. Ukraine could even default. Since it would never occur to Viktor and the Regionnaires not to exploit the working poor to make ends meet, the only way the regime will be able to pay for its expenses—everything from the UEFA football championship to the toilet seats in Yanukovych's villa outside Kyiv—is by squeezing the population. Naturally, that'll just drive more economic activity into the shadows, increase corruption, and force desperate people into the streets.
Under conditions such as these, Ukrainian politics will become significantly more volatile. The regime and its president are corrupt, unpopular, illegitimate, unstable, weak, incompetent, and thuggish, and everybody knows it. Faced with the daunting challenges described above, the crooks and scoundrels will not embark on bold reforms. Instead, some will jump ship, while the others close ranks, sit tight, and hope that the football games divert popular attention from their misrule. That won't happen, because too many people are too angry at too much thievery by too many thugs, and the UEFA games, rather than distracting people, will only energize and anger them even more. As a million or more tourists descend on Ukraine next summer, Ukrainians will have the opportunity to exchange horror stories with those of them who are Russian and to see from those of them who are European that misery is not a natural state of affairs, that if Poles and Czechs and Slovaks and Estonians can live decently, so too can they.
Passions are likely to boil over during the October elections to the Parliament. The Regionnaires will only be able to win if they falsify the election results. They know that, and the people know that. And, now that the Russians have exposed United Russia's electoral shenanigans, the Regionnaires know they won't get away with falsifying too much. But that raises the possibility that they could actually lose. Ironically, if the Regionnaires just barely win, perhaps more or less fairly, people may be most likely to believe they engaged in fraud and take to the streets in mass protests.
Orange Revolution redux, anyone?
In sum, 2012 could be the Regionnaires' last year in power. While nothing is certain, the odds are high enough for Ukraine's democratic opposition to start getting its act together. It may be taking over the reins of government sooner than anyone expects under crisis conditions that will not permit Ukraine's democrats to do what they do so well: squabble, dawdle, dither, and fight over portfolios. If the democrats screw things up again, there may be no next time—for them or for Ukraine.
The democrats will have to realize that the currently incarcerated Yulia Tymoshenko and Yuri Lutsenko are most likely to become the opposition's leaders, less because of their intrinsic qualities and more because tyrants always endow victims of tyranny with stature. The longer Tymoshenko and Lutsenko stay in jail and the more they hover between life and death, the greater their moral authority will be when they are released—as they inevitably will be if and when the Regionnaire regime begins to crumble. Indeed, it's perfectly possible that Yanukovych will try to save his skin by freeing one or both of them. If and when that happens, you can be pretty certain that the regime is on its last legs.
Tymoshenko and Lutsenko would be wise to model their leadership on that of two other prisoners-turned-prophets, Vaclav Havel and Nelson Mandela, and not on Viktor Yushchenko's or their own during the wasted years of Orange rule. They'll have to restrain their hunger for power and extend a hand to all democrats, enlightened oligarchs, and honest Regionnaires, while practicing ethical, open, and honest government, divesting themselves of their filthy lucre, and embarking on radical reform. Ukraine's impoverished 99 percent will support leaders who walk to work, speak the truth, tighten their own belts, and promote the interests of the people, even if it hurts.
And if, by then, Putin is on a slow boat to China, Germany finally understands that tyranny is too high a price for gas, Europe begins to get its act together again, and America has elected a president, a democratic Ukraine might just be a reality in 2013.
Alexander J. Motyl


The Hoya de Cadenas Estate is an eco-paradise just 100 Km from the city of Valencia. The estate boasts over 200 hectares of the finest local and international vine varieties. Its situation on the slopes of the Sierra de la Bicuerca affords a particular micro-climate with temperature variations from day to night, which give the grapes their own special characteristics and encourages the accumulation of highly valued polyphenols.
The Estate is equipped with all the technology for getting the most out of the land without damaging it; respecting its natural cycles, making best use of water, seeing each vine stock as something able to produce the multiple facets which, like a gemstone, some wines offer to delight all the senses.
All the vine stocks are supported on trellises and have a local irrigation system, entirely computerized, which is only used when rainfall is scarce. Pruning, pre-pruning and harvesting are all carried out using environmentally friendly techniques to prevent soil erosion and exhaustion.
The Art on Barrel Museum houses the collection of casks decorated by renowned artists from the Community of Valencia, which up until now has only been on view to the public at the ARCO Art Fair and in the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM).
The Hoya de Cadenas Estate is the first enotourism complex in Spain to have an exhibition gallery in one of its cellars; proof of our commitment to promoting a new concept of enotourism combined with culture. Guided tours around the Estate now include the opportunity to view the Art on Barrel collection.
Housed inside a 19th century building and with an area of 400 m2, the Vicente Gandía Winery cultural space is divided into three areas: the Museum Gallery, the Crypt and the Tasting Rooms, where 21 different casks are on display, the work of artists such as Mariscal, Miquel Navarro, Carmen Calvo, Uiso Alemany, Morea, Cari Roig and José Sanleón.
Since the 2001 harvest, Vicente Gandía has had new wine production facilities on the vineyards of the Hoya de Cadenas Estate. Located on the vineyards, the underground cask cellar today holds 15,000 selected oak casks and, with an area of 4000 m2, is the largest wine cellar in the Community of Valencia. All the casks are of 225 litre capacity and come from Missouri (USA) or the forests of Allier (France).
The blending of varieties is an art in itself, so we use oak from different countries and with different types of toasting to produce highly expressive, complex wines.


It's been nearly three weeks since the Parkland Student Massacre and while much of the initial wave of change has begun to die down, it is still the longest that gun control measures have been on the table in recent memory. Of course there's been a billion think piece articles describing why this issue is finally gaining traction, ranging from social media and a wave from "Me Too" to the ages of the teens and their being able to speak out in a way that the Sandy Hook children were. What it all boils down to though is that children are being killed regularly and sitting on our hands and saying "that's how it is" is not enough.
Part of the problem as well stems from a belief in a larger conspiracy to destroy all guns. Many of the parents of Sandy Hook (who have to live with the horrific knowledge that their children's bodies were SHREDDED by high-speed metal projectiles) still regularly receive death threats for "perpetuating a conspiracy" about a fake shooting, the same way that the Parkland kids are being discredited. "His father is in the FBI, he's a crisis actor, they're all being coached," WHO CARES???? 17 children are dead in this incident alone. That's likely over a thousand birthdays that never get to be celebrated when you consider their predicted lifespan before it was cut short. Over a thousand Christmas's and an untold number of dinners with their families gone in a matter of minutes. The correct response to this is not to drag one's feet to fight with others over petty partisan politics, but to do something. Anything. Background checks, age limits, store limits, limit on amount of ammo that can be bought, etc. etc. Each of these is something that affects maybe a handful of people and doesn't limit the average person from getting a gun, and yet can save lives every year.
The United States is one of the only developed countries in the world to not even attempt basic regulations on guns and gun control. Australia banned guns with high success after a shooting in '96. Japan heavily regulates where ammo and guns are stored and all information is provided to law enforcement among other measures. We are the anomaly, not the leaders. It's not surprising when you consider that there is a broader and well planned out resistance to limiting gun restrictions. The Dickey Amendment of 1996 essentially places a gag order on gun research through the CDC and as thus there are no studies to discuss if background checks would work or if raising the age for gun purchases is a viable option to prevent more mass shootings.
If you aren't calling for Congress to do something, then you are condemning children to die and it is absolutely your fault. Small measures are better than no measures. Maybe a bump stock wouldn't have saved the 17 Parkland Kids, but it might save 15 at the local high school down the street from you 5 years from now. Nothing at all is not working. The Parkland kids are changing laws on a small level (Dicks Sporting Goods and other carriers raising purchase ages, Oregon closing loopholes letting abusers purchase guns, etc.) but it is time for a change at the congressional level. Too long the American public has listened to cries that "It's too soon after the tragedy! Can't we let the family grieve before we politicize this?" Well it's been 3 weeks, the kids are buried and the rage is still fresh and the wound too deep for many in the country, let alone the kids affected. Is it time to have that discussion now? Or will we let another tragedy get swept under the rug until it's your family member not coming home tomorrow.


Canada's lagging intellectual property (IP) protections for pharmaceutical innovators are a key issue to be settled in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) negotiations with the European Union. They may also play a role in upcoming negotiations for the multi-country Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Two new essays on the cost and benefits of stronger protection suggest Canadians would be far better off, in both economic and health terms, with an IP protection regime for pharmaceutical innovators that was more closely aligned with international standards.
There are three key areas where Canada's protection of pharmaceutical innovator intellectual property falls short of protections offered in Europe, the US, and a number of other nations. The first is patent term restoration, or restoring patent time lost to mandatory regulatory delays. The second is on a right of appeal for patent holders (allowing patent holders in Canada the right to appeal court rulings that invalidate their patent). The third is extended data exclusivity, the time during which generic manufacturers are not permitted to use innovator data for drug approvals.
Critiques of stronger IP correctly point out that weaker IP protection allows for less spending on pharmaceuticals. Government estimates suggest the costs of aligning Canada's protections with international standards could be between $367 million and $2 billion annually. These figures have been a strong motivator for those calling for Canada to defend relatively weaker IP protections in trade negotiations.
But let's put those numbers in perspective. According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, total drug expenditures in Canada in 2012 were forecast to be a little more than $33 billion dollars, roughly 16 per cent of total health spending ($207 billion). That means the estimated cost increase falls somewhere between 1.1 and 6.1 per cent of drug spending, and between a 0.2 and 1.0 per cent increase in total health spending.
The impact on provincial budgets is smaller. Some 37 per cent of Canadian drug expenditures were covered by public sources in 2012. That means the increase in total government health spending (assuming the distribution of the increase matches that of spending generally) would be between 0.1 and 0.5 per cent.
While these costs are not insignificant, they must be balanced against the many and multifaceted benefits of stronger IP protection.
First, consider the benefits that would accrue to Canadians in the absence of enhanced trade. Enhanced IP protection for pharmaceuticals in Canada would increase incentives for activity in this knowledge based industry that pays relatively high wages for both highly-skilled and low-skilled employees. The resulting benefits include reduced legal ambiguity and litigation in Canada, greater research and development (R&D) expenditures, additional job creation in the pharmaceutical industry, greater pharmaceutical self-sufficiency, improved access to medical innovations, and additional innovation in medicines.
The benefits from trade, resulting from increased access to international trading agreements, would be more impressive.
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) offers access to the world's largest single common market (the EU), with a population of over 500 million and a gross domestic product of $17.4 trillion. CETA has been estimated to offer a 20 per cent boost to Canada's exports to the EU and to add $12 billion to the economy annually. CETA offers reduced tariffs (particularly for fish and seafood, footwear, and textiles), access to the EU's $3 trillion government procurement market, and some $2.3 billion in non-tariff barrier reductions (including regulatory duplication, packaging, and labeling requirements).
TPP offers a similarly large economic benefit, where TPP countries (Australia, Brunei-Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the US, and Vietnam) represent a prospective free trade zone of over 785 million people with a GDP in excess of $26.4 trillion. One study estimates TPP may yield annual income gains of $9.9 billion for Canada and increase exports by nearly $16 billion. The major attraction of TPP is the size and dynamism of the Asian market, including China's potential future inclusion.
Equally important is Canada's bargaining position in current and future trade agreement negotiations, where stronger IP protection may not only improve our bargaining position in TPP but also improve access to future agreements in other regions including Asia and Latin America (where the EU and U.S. are aggressively pursuing free trade agreements).
Of course, enhanced IP protection is not the only matter to be resolved in these trade negotiations, and other criteria need to be met before Canadians can reap the benefits of these trade agreements. However, this policy area is of significant importance to Canada's counterparts in these discussions and has the potential to become a sticking point.
The benefits of more closely aligning Canada's protection for pharmaceutical IP with international standards are considerable, and likely overwhelm the cost increase in pharmaceutical expenditures. It makes little sense for Canada to continue to provide less protection to pharmaceutical innovators than other nations.


No that isn't Robert De Niro getting ready to accept a film award, present a movie or host the Daytime Emmys. It's the enigmatic first look at the actor in the upcoming thriller "Red Lights" from "Buried" director Rodrigo Cortes.
Starring De Niro, Sigourney Weaver, Cillian Murphy and with Elizabeth Olsen attached to star, the film follows the story of a psychologist and her assistant whose study of paranormal activity leads them to investigate a world-renowned psychic who is stepping back into the limelight after 30 years. De Niro will play the psychic, Weaver the psychologist with Olsen taking up the role of the assistant and Murphy portraying her love interest.


White willow bark can reduce arthritis and osteoarthritis pain through decreasing swelling. It reduces inflammation, and thus, lessens the excruciating pain. When we experience sore knees or any kind of body pain, aspirin is always our go-to pain reliever. Little did we know, there is a natural equivalent that basically has the same benefits as an aspirin.
This herb has been used for thousands of years for pain relief and reducing inflammation. White willow bark comes from the willow tree, and its bark contains a chemical compound called salicin, which works very similar to aspirin. Aside from its ability to relieve pain, this supplement also eliminates headaches, eases menstrual cramps, and reduces fever. Most white willow trees are in temperate zones and grow in places all over the world, except Antarctica and Australia. Willows include small trees, shrubs, and groundcovers. Medicinal willow bark is collected from young white willow branches, and its impressive antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities have been recorded in numerous clinical trials.
Because of its rich antioxidants, the white willow bark acts an effective analgesic. Although it was cited in texts dating back to the time of the ancient Egyptians, the earliest known usage of the white willow bark was in traditional Chinese medicine. It's been traditionally used to alleviate pain ever since.
White willow bark is not only effective in reducing arthritis pain, but also chronic headaches and migraines. It works to get rid of migraines by decreasing blood pressure in the small capillaries of your head and relieving those distressing and crippling symptoms.
Taking white willow bark capsules can do wonders for many women who are suffering from intolerable menstrual symptoms like period pains and cramps, unnecessary stress hormones, and mood swings. White willow bark can aid in rebalancing the hormones in a woman's body through its relaxing, helpful properties and providing relief.
If you use an all-natural joint supplement with white willow bark whenever you feel any discomfort, you will not have to bear the excruciating pain every time it happens. Include Revivify's Joint Renew in your healthy diet, and you will say goodbye to sore knees and shoulders. This natural joint supplement is packed with white willow bark and other organic ingredients that promote pain relief. Joint Renew provides definite joint relief and will improve your overall joint health.


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Miguel Cabrera Net Worth: José Miguel Cabrera Torres commonly known as Miguel Cabrera and nicknamed "Miggy", is a Venezuelan professional baseball player. He is currently the first baseman for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Since his debut in 2003 he has been a two-time American League (AL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) award winner, a four-time AL batting champion, and an 11-time MLB All-Star. He has a net worth of $110 million.
Check out the complete information regarding Miguel Cabrera Networth, His Salary Per Day, Per Month, Per Year, Per Match, Earnings, Houses, Cars, Biography and her other Investments details from the below.
Miguel Cabrera Net Worth 2019 @ $110 Million
How much is Miguel Cabrera Worth?
Miguel Cabrera is a Venezuelan professional baseball player who has a net worth of $110 million.
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Miguel Cabrera Salary:
In 2008 Miguel Cabrera signed a contract which will pay him $150 million over 8 years. He will earn an average annual salary of $21 million. He resigned an extension that will pay him $248 million over 8 years.
Earnings 2015 – $25.1 Million
Estimated winnings and salary from 2014 through 2015 according to Forbes.
Sponsorship 2015
Estimated earnings from numerous endorsements.
Contract 2014
In 2014, Detroit Tiger announced that Cabrera signed an eight-year extension contract worth $248 million.
Miguel Cabrera Mansion (House) and Cars Collection
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The house and car collection of Miguel Cabrera is still unknown. We will update those details on this below space. So, stay tuned to this page…
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Born José Miguel Cabrera Torres on April 18, 1983, in Maracay, Aragua State, Venezuela, he is baseball third baseman with the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Batting and throwing right-handedly, he can also play first base, left field and right field. One of the best pure hitters in baseball, Cabrera first started his professional career in 2000 as a shortstop in the Gulf Coast League (GCL). However, his big breakthrough came a little bit later, at 20 years old , when he made his major league debut in June of 2003. Ever since, Cabrera has become a seven-time All-Star, and he has posted at least 30 home runs in eight different seasons with a career batting average of .321. It was his excellent play that earned him a $152.3 million contract with the Detroit Tigers in 2008. He went on to win the Triple Crown in 2012, and thus became the first player since Carl Yastrzemski in 1967 to pull off the feat. The same year, Cabrera was voted the 2012 AL MVP.
Overall, he led the American League with a .330 batting average, 44 home runs, and 139 RBIs. He might have achieved even greater results if it weren't for his off-field, booze-related problems. Still, in the summer of 2017 he managed to achieve a baseball career milestone that only 36 Major League Baseball players have ever accomplished, by recording his 1600th career RBI, and earlier in the year he joined just 39 other MLB players with his 1000th career extra base hit. In 2012 he established The Miguel Cabrera Foundation to raise money for a multitude of children's charities.
Quick Facts about Miguel Cabrera:
Full Name Miguel Cabrera
Salary $28 Million
Date Of Birth April 18, 1983
Place Of Birth Maracay, Aragua State, Venezuela
Height 6′ 4″
Profession Baseball player
Nationality Venezuelan
Spouse Rosangel Cabrera (m. 2002)
Children Christopher Alexander Cabrera, Isabella Cabrera, Rosengal Cabrera
Parents Gregoria Cabrera, Miguel Cabrera
Siblings Ruth Cabrera Torres
Awards Silver Slugger Awards
Nominations Best Male Athlete ESPY Award
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Marketers, What's Your Value Without Social Media?
If you have anything to do with marketing, you've at least played around with social media. Even if you are a retired marketing vet, you've at least opened up a Facebook or Twitter account or even read a blog or two (I say this in confidence because my grandmother is on Facebook and my grandfather is going to be rolling out a new blog himself this year). To be worth anything in marketing right now, especially if you're trying to gain employment, you have to have some expertise in the digital world. Everything is shifting online and anyone with quality skills in using social media tools has a leg up on a lot of competition. Legitimate or not, it's true most of the time. Several people with the tech know-how on social media are breaking into the marketing scene marketing scene with little to no marketing background, not even an online marketing degree. They are "specialists," teaching people how to use social media tools...but without any value beyond adoption.
However, the day is rapidly approaching where social media will become the norm. It will no longer be new and trying to find its place in the world. Instead it'll become part of a normal marketing job description. Marketers will be expected to be able to leverage social media with the same degrees of success as print and TV back in the day. Social media will no longer be a prized, specialized skill.
It will be an expectation.
When that day comes, we will be able to weed out who is truly good at their craft. The time of experimentation will be over. Companies will expect results from social media campaigns in the same way they expect results from other marketing efforts. Though the marketing rules have changed significantly over the last few years, the same strategic thinking skills like knowing how to reach your customer will still be necessary. The end game is still about influencing behavior, even if the methods and mediums change. Those who are legitimately great marketers and learn practical approaches to using digital tools will prosper in the long run as social media matures.
Those marketers who would still have value to a company without the aid of fan pages or Klout scores are the ones you need down the road. A lot of people drink the Kool-Aid. Genuine marketing pros can tell you if the Kool-Aid is worth tasting.
Social media is putting on its big kid pants this year. Are you ready?


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Russia Gets New Sanctions From U.S. For Chemical Attacks In Syria
Jordan Farley
Russia has now been slapped with more U.S. sanctions following a missile attack on Friday from the U.S. aimed at Syrian based chemical weapons facilities. This has been a hotly debated topic among both sides of the aisle but also the Trump voters, which rarely disagree but have all but found common ground on whether the chemical attacks were proven to be caused by Assad's Syrian Forces or 'Rebel Groups' that have been known to use chemical attacks before.
Zerohedge Reports: The Trump administration will impose new sanctions against Russia on Monday for "enabling the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons in civil war", Nikki Haley revealed earlier on Sunday, and the New York Times confirmed later in the day.
The sanctions, coming shortly after American-led airstrikes against facilities linked to Syria's chemical weapons, are meant to signal that the United States holds responsible not just the Damascus government of President Bashar al-Assad but also his patrons in Russia and Iran. President Trump has vowed that Syria's allies will pay a "big price" for permitting his use of poison gas.
The Sanctions, first announced by UN ambassador Nikki Haley, "will go directly to any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment related to Assad and chemical weapons use," said Haley on CBS's Face the Nation Sunday morning.
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Mass migration is dangerous not only regarding terrorism, public security, culture and social security, but also the whole healthcare system, State Secretary Bence Retvari told Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap.
According to Retvari, European epidemiological organisations have recorded a significant rise of communicable diseases, including those which had already disappeared from Europe thanks to vaccinations. Such cases have been documented in Malta, Italy and even Germany. According to the German Robert Koch Institute, since 2015 there's a 300% rise in Hepatitis B and measles, and a 200% in malaria and syphilis cases. The frequency of diseases of unknown origin has grown from 14 to 26%.
According to Retvari, by supporting the "migrant visa" (humanitarian visa), the European Parliament "gave green light to millions of illegal and economic migrants, bringing even more dangers to Europe."
"If we compare how much would Brussels spend on integrating one immigrant in Europe, – which is clearly a failed attempt based on the experiences of the recent decades -, and how much it costs to restore a home in a crisis zone, it's clear that with the same amount of money we can help a lot more people in their areas than in Europe," Retvari stressed.
He reminded that with the Hungary Helps programme the government was able to help thousands of people to restart their lives in Iraq. "So this solution is better considering effectiveness, social peace and the actually persecuted people too," he added. According to the politician, this is the solution chosen by those who really want to help, unlike the "hypocritical Brussels elite."
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WATCH: Israel Blows Up Hamas TV Station
(Via Zerohedge)
The escalation in violence began when earlier in the day Monday thousands of mourners in the Gaza Strip buried seven militants killed during the Israeli commando raid and accompanying aircraft cover fire that resulted in strikes on the strip, which further led to sporadic rocket fire from Hamas.
One Israeli soldier was reported killed during the high risk operation which reportedly involved the commandos entering Gaza by civilian car in order to take out a gathering of Hamas military leaders.
During the Gaza funeral the crowd chanted "revenge" amidst masked gunmen in camouflage.
Apparently that "revenge" came in the form of a mortar shell fired from Gaza which scored a direct hit on a bus in southern Israel, severely wounding a 19-year-old Israeli. According to multiple regional reports this was followed by a barrage of over 100 rockets fired from Gaza toward Israel within only an hour's time. Israeli sources have reported multiple injuries and extensive damage from the rockets, many of which may have been intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system.
طيران الاحتلال الحربي يقصف ويدمر مقر فضائية الاقصى بغزة. pic.twitter.com/VSnUpYUb2s
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South Africa Testing "Confiscation" Of White Land To Build Affordable Housing
The debate about land redistribution in South Africa has been a passionate one, as many South African cities face a housing crunch that has left hundreds of thousands of people living in informal settlements. Just as this debate is starting to reach a fever pitch, one South African city, Ekurhuleni, is about to embark on what mayor Mzwandile Masina calls "a test case" for the nation: the government is going to seize hundreds of acres of land, from white citizens without paying for it, to build low-cost housing.
Last month, the city voted in favor of pushing forward with "expropriation without compensation". According to ABC News, this was cited by the African National Congress as a legal rule that is necessary in order to distribute land equitably and correct "historic injustices" that took place in the country.
The mayor of Ekurhuleni stated the same thing, saying that landowners in South Africa should not be scared. Mayor Masina told AP: "Our policy is not to take the land by force. Our policy is to make sure the land is shared amongst those that need it." It was unclear what those whom the land is taken from thought about this policy.
The total amount of land that's going to be expropriated amounts to about 865 acres. The land is both private and government owned, and some of it has been vacant for decades. Masina, who heads the local ANC-led coalition, did not specify which landowners will be hit be the measure.
The internationally debated land reform was approved by South Africa's ruling party to address the historic injustices of apartheid, and distribute land among the population more equitably. According to the country's President Cyril Ramaphosa, over 77 percent of South African farms and agricultural holdings are owned by white citizens with only four percent of lands belonging to black South Africans. White citizens make up just nine percent of the country's population, while black citizens account for 76 percent. This, to the ruling regime, is a green light to repossess land that has been owned by white citizens, in many cases for generations.
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Hey, wow, look, WordPress has completely changed its formatting since I was here earlier this year. How about that?
Anyway, I'm back and filled with the usual simmering rage I usually bring to my blog posts. This is because I keep this blog to let out all the things I can't say in real life (if I were a hipster I'd call it IRL) on social media.
You all don't know that I get really into politics and elections. Guess what this post is going to be about? Go on, guess.
Oh! You got it! Primary season! Yes! It's finally over; except for the people who are behaving as though it isn't. But, really, yes. The primary season is over, especially on the Democratic side, because that uppity female candidate WON, guys, in the popular vote and the delegate count and the superdelegate count, and gosh, these are the ONLY THREE MEASURES THAT COUNT in the primary process.
Earlier this year, specifically in February, I broke a self-imposed law. I had vowed, originally, that I would keep a lid on it on social media during the primary season. I am an enthusiastic Democrat, and I thought I would be all high-minded and not come out in support of either candidate during the primaries, because I knew I'd be backing whoever won it in the general election.
Why did I break my silence? Because all those people who support Bernie Sanders would not shut up on social media. Not content with merely one Bernie post per day, they would post about five in a row. Not content with simply being pro-Bernie, they also became very anti-Hillary very loud and very early. Also also, they became condescending and misogynistic about Hillary Clinton supporters and her campaign. Up with which I would not put.
Seriously, guys, we're all Democrats. Fine, okay, get behind Mr. Left-Wing-I'm-Using-The-Democratic-Party-To-Further-My-Political-Ambitions-Because-I-Just-Realized-That-Independents-Don't-Have-The-Infrastructure-To-Take-My-Message-To-The-National-Level.
Oh, dear. Here I meant to be all respectful and everything, even though I'm angry. But, well, venting my spleen is what this blog is all about. Stop reading if you don't like it.
It was also distressing to my feminist feelings how nobody, but nobody, was being very public in social media about supporting Hillary Clinton. It kind of had me worried there, for a while. Until the primary results started revealing the beautiful truth: Bernie supporters yapped away incessantly on social media AND Hillary supporters actually turned out to vote. I knew I was in the right camp!
To me, the key word here is "quietly." When I said the hell with it, I'm posting about how much I adore Hillary Clinton and her policies, back in February, only a couple of people liked my status updates. Last week, when I had the effrontery to be jubilant because, by golly, Hillary Clinton EARNED her victory, I had more than twenty people liking my post. And most of those people didn't post their own "YAY WE MADE HISTORY!!" remarks on their status updates, even though they liked what I said.
I do wonder why Hillary Clinton supporters, at least in my community, haven't been more vocal all along about their support for her. Do they simply choose not to get political on social media, because it's a good way to get some really heated comment threads going and they want to stay the hell out of the kitchen?
Or is it because the level of vitriol against a female candidate for a major party in a Presidential election has a special kind of vile that they were consciously avoiding? There's been an upsetting amount of verbiage around that Hillary Clinton supporters don't really understand the issues, that if they would stop voting with their vaginas and listen to Bernie Sanders, of course they would vote for him instead!
Um, no. I'll be damned before I vote for someone who joined the Democratic Party five minutes before his campaign started so he could use the infrastructure other people have spent decades putting together while at the same time vilifying that very same Democratic Party and the head of the DNC who happens to be a woman. I'll be damned before I vote for yet another white man against a woman candidate who's smart and knowledgeable and has spent part of her career actually working with Republicans to get things done, back when that was still a thing. I am tired of issues like abortion and family leave and equal pay taking a back seat because a male President will never feel the same urgency about these things that a female President will.
So, I think everyone in D.C. who wants to vote for Bernie should totally do it, because I think everyone should vote for whoever she wants, no matter when that primary is.
Everyone else, especially men: Hillary won the primary, fair and square, by every relevant measure, so shut up. I've already heard enough of your nonsense this season.
And I know I'll hear a lot more, during the campaign and during her Presidency.