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ALEC Backs Extreme Climate Denial, Constitutional Rewrite, Corporate Wish List at Nashville Summit
Submitted by David Armiak on December 6, 2017 - 12:14pm
ALEC state politicians, Koch machine groups, and corporate captains will once again huddle together to produce right-wing cookie cutter "model bills" to take back to their respective state houses when the corporate pay-to-play group holds its States & Nation Policy Summit this week in Nashville, Tennessee. The meeting begins today and runs through Friday at the 4-star Omni Nashville hotel, located next door to the Country Music Hall of Fame.
ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Counsel) claims that it will have a record 1,000 people at the summit, which will feature keynote speeches from Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), and former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, as well as a host of supply-side economists and economic analysts.
But the real action of the conference will take place behind closed doors, where lobbyists and elected officials on ALEC's issue task forces will sit side by side and vote on a veritable wish list of corporate causes.
Pushing Pruitt to Abandon EPA Endangerment Findings
One of the most extreme and divisive proposals on ALEC's agenda is a proposed resolution calling on EPA Administrator and ALEC alumnus Scott Pruitt to review, and ultimately repeal, the EPA's 2009 finding that greenhouse gases are endangering the planet and public health.
That finding provides the underpinning for the EPA's climate regulations, so killing it would unravel a host of regulations the fossil fuel industry hates.
The measure is backed by the Heartland Institute and other industry-funded State Policy Network (SPN) groups, but recently drew the opposition of ExxonMobil. Despite Exxon pumping $1.7 million into ALEC in years past to cast doubt on climate science—the focus of an IRS whistleblower complaint filed by Common Cause and CMD last year—the oil giant says it objects to the resolution's language.
Pruitt's position is up in the air. The Koch-fueled Right has been fuming at Scott Pruitt for failing to take action on the endangerment finding earlier this year, and there are signs that he is bending to the pressure. In June, Pruitt told Breitbart that he was considering a sweeping government review to question climate science. And Pruitt continues to participate in conference calls with ALEC.
Upon his appointment to the EPA, ALEC released a statement lauding Pruitt and claiming that Trump had "found just the right person to bring fresh leadership and much-needed reform to an agency currently out of control. Anyone who values striking a balance between sensible environmental regulations and the rule of law should delight in Pruitt's appointment."
The proposed resolution will likely deepen an internal schism in ALEC between dirty-energy corporations, such as Koch Industries, Devon Energy, and Peabody Coal, and more forward-looking corporate backers. ALEC has lost members like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, SAP America, and even Royal Dutch Shell, due to its climate denial. More than 100 corporations have dumped ALEC in recent years over its extreme positions.
The 2009 EPA endangerment findings took into account the public health implications of a warming climate caused by an increase in greenhouse gas emissions, which include more deaths from heat-related illnesses, more serious (and potentially fatal) respiratory illnesses, and more people at risk from catastrophic flooding.
ALEC-Koch Cabal Wants to Rewrite the Constitution
Attendees at the ALEC meeting in Nashville will have multiple opportunities to hear about the right-wing's drive for a constitutional convention to rewrite the U.S. Constitution. CMD reported in July about infighting between ALEC factions over how to proceed with a convention. ALEC's internal documents indicate that some legal experts reject the claim by the Balanced Budget Amendment Task Force that state resolutions with different wording add up to a count of 27 states toward the 34 needed to convene a convention.
ALEC will host a workshop on December 7 entitled "How States Could Preserve America's Future with a Balanced Budget Amendment." Its description states, "Learn how a convention of the states could safely and effectively use the Constitution's amendment process (Article V) to create a sustainable economic future and join the movement to encourage seven final states to pass a resolution to call for an Article V BBA Convention."
In claiming that only seven state applications are needed, ALEC is banking on none of the decades-old applications, or applications with significantly different language, will be thrown out by the courts.
ALEC will also ask attendees in Nashville to consider a resolution from the Convention of States, which is proposing a sweeping rewrite of the Constitution that would allow states to opt out of Supreme Court rulings and federal laws they don't like. The group's Draft Resolution Selecting and Instructing Commissioners to a Convention for Proposing Amendments would give state legislatures—controlled by Republicans in 32 states—the unilateral power to choose delegates for a convention and bind those delegates to the legislature's instructions. For anyone entertaining the notion that a Constitutional Convention would be an exercise in popular democracy, this is not your crowd.
ALEC Promotes Driverless Vehicles
ALEC's Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force will consider two corporate-backed bills this week.
The Model State Automated Vehicle (AV) Policy would legalize self-driving vehicles and preempt the regulation of these vehicles at the local level. While the model bill touts that self-driving vehicles "save lives" and "expand human mobility," critics describe them as a job killer. A 2017 Goldman Sachs Economics Research Report concluded that the U.S. could lose 25,000 jobs a month when they saturate the market.
It is not clear who is backing the proposed bill, as many of the major companies working on self-driving vehicles, including Ford, General Motors, Fiat Chrysler, Tesla, Google, Microsoft, and Apple, are not currently members of ALEC as far as CMD can tell.
The Task Force will also discuss an Act to Establish a Cap on Government Red Tape. The bill represents a corporate attack on important consumer, environmental, and health regulations by establishing an arbitrary limit on the number of regulatory requirements, regardless of their importance, and requiring that two existing regulations be removed for every new regulation enacted.
This draft legislation mirrors the executive order Trump signed in January to eliminate business regulations in his agencies. Congressmen Michael McCaul (TX-10), Phil Roe MD (TN-1), Rick Allen (GA-12), Dave Brat (VA-07), and Louie Gohmert (TX-01) introduced the One In, One Out Act earlier in January with a similar purpose of gutting regulations on businesses.
Public Citizen, a consumer rights group founded by Ralph Nader, is fighting Trump's order. "If implemented, the order would result in lasting damage to our government's ability to save lives, protect our environment, police Wall Street, keep consumers safe and fight discrimination," Public Citizen President Robert Weissman said.
More ALEC Tricks to Privatize Public Schools
ALEC shows again that it thinks of itself as an expert on failing schools with the consideration of the School Turnaround and Leadership Development Act this week. Utah Senate President and future ALEC President, Wayne Niederhauser was the chief sponsor of an identical bill in Utah that was passed and was signed into law in 2015. Niederhauser is likely the sponsor of this one as well.
The model legislation requires the state board of education to determine which schools are "low performing" and to force school districts to work with "independent school turnaround experts" to improve the school. The state board of education will also be required under this law to "impose certain consequences" on schools that fail to improve to the State Board's liking.
The model bill is anti-democratic in nature, as it removes the power parents and communities have over their schools if the state finds that they are among the "lowest performing 3% of schools statewide."
Consequences for schools who do not improve in three years include "contract management," "conversion to a charter school," and state takeover.
This model bill is the latest of many that have pushed for ALEC's goal of privatizing education. It is unclear if this will be as popular as ALEC's 2010 "Parent Trigger Act", which was introduced in various versions in at least 17 states. That bill gave parents more power than this one does, but it included a similar option to convert "failing schools" to charter schools.
ALEC's education bills track more than 30 years of efforts to privatize public education through an ever-expanding network of school vouchers, charter schools, and online schools.
ALEC Urges Trump to Stick with Free Trade
ALEC continues to be a forceful booster of free trade agreements. Two model resolutions that will be discussed at the Nashville meeting address team Trump's negotiations on Korean trade and NAFTA.
A Draft Resolution Urging the Presidential Administration and Congress to Support Continued U.S. Participation in the U.S.–Korea Free Trade Agreement urges the Trump administration to reject the idea of withdrawal and to remain in. This is despite the fact that U.S. citizens were promised a great deal and got instead a larger trade deficit with South Korea, $27.6 billion in 2016, and a net U.S. job loss of 80,000.
ALEC also wants to ensure greater protections for its pharmaceutical company members, including Pfizer, Eli Lilly, and Takeda with its introduction of a Draft Resolution Urging the Presidential Administration and Congress to Support Stronger Intellectual Property Protections in an Updated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Big Pharma has been very active in international trade agreements for decades, imposing monopoly patent protections on their products on underdeveloped countries around the world. This blocks access to essential medicines for poor nations by making it difficult to produce generics at lower prices.
ALEC Abandons the Pensioners
ALEC will also target state and local pension plans that are in financial trouble with its Resolution Opposing Federal Bailouts of State and Local Pension Plans. The resolution asks Congress to write legislation to prohibit the Treasury and Federal Reserve from providing financial assistance to States or localities with insolvent pension plans.
This latest move can be seen in the context of ALEC's decades-long struggle to dramatically change pension rights for public employees from defined benefits to defined contributions, transfer the management of pension funds to private fee generating companies, and cripple the ability of state pension boards to bring lawsuits and hold corporate criminals accountable.
Revisiting the REINS Act and the 17th Amendment
This week, ALEC will reconsider two draft resolutions that were discussed in previous meetings.
The first, a Draft Resolution Calling on Congress to Pass the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, is aimed at U.S. Senators, as the Koch-backed legislation (H.R. 26) passed the U.S. House in January. The REINS Act would limit regulations and the costs associated with them at the expense of public safety, public health, and the environment.
If the REINS Act passes the Senate and Trump signs it into law, it will strip the executive branch of the power to issue rules without congressional approval if they have an annual effect of $100 million or more."
The ALEC faithful are also revisiting another resolution aimed at Congress introduced over the summer, a Draft Resolution Recommending Constitutional Amendment Restoring Election of U.S. Senators to the Legislatures of the Sovereign States.
This anti-democratic resolution asks Congress to overturn the 17th Amendment, thereby stripping voters of their right to elect U.S. Senators and handing that power over to state legislatures.
"One only needs to examine the electoral map to understand why ALEC is pushing for a repeal of the 17th Amendment now. With the majority of states under GOP control, Republicans could snatch some 17 U.S. Senate seats from Democrats if the state legislatures are given the right to pick Senators," CMD wrote back in July, before ALEC first introduced this resolution at its Annual Meeting.
America's Heartland Fights Back Against ALEC
In the meantime, citizens in America's heartland are fighting the ALEC agenda.
In Arizona, the Save Our Schools coalition of parents and public school advocates gathered enough signatures in September to give voters the opportunity to decide in November 2018 whether or not to allow the state to dramatically expand the state's school-voucher program.
Voters in Missouri will also get a chance to decide in November 2018 whether the state's new union-crushing "right-to-work" bill will become law, after union members and citizens gathered more than triple the required number of signatures to put a repeal measure on the ballot.
Stay tuned to Exposed by CMD for more on the 2017 ALEC States & Nation Policy Summit following the meeting.
Mary Bottari and Arn Pearson contributed to this article.
David Armiak is research director with the Center for Media and Democracy. David joined CMD in 2015, has conducted extensive investigations on dark money, corporate corruption, and right-wing networks, and is responsible for filing and analyzing hundreds of public records requests every year. David has a strong research interest in social movements and political power, and has delivered many talks on the subject.
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LINDA RICE replied on December 6, 2017 - 3:30pm Permalink
Globalism and central rule v. individual liberty. Give me liberty. And yes, I am not a global robot in my thinking.
espy replied on December 8, 2017 - 12:48am Permalink
My focus is limited to the discussion regarding the growing call, nationally, to execute a Constitutional right under Article V to call a Convention of States to PROPOSE amendments to the Constitution which require the same standard to be ratified: Three fourths of the States to confirm as usual. You wrote: "...right-wing's drive for a constitutional convention to rewrite the U.S. Constitution." The judiciary does not, and cannot, have any say in the process. Even Congress has no role beyond calling the Convention. You wrote: "ALEC is banking on none of the decades-old applications, or applications with significantly different language, will be thrown out by the courts." A Convention of States to propose amendments is NOT A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION! You wrote: "For anyone entertaining the notion that a Constitutional Convention would be an exercise in popular democracy, this is not your crowd." There's so much more but I am limited to essentially a long tweet.
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The good thing about keeping a computer for so long is that an even relatively inexpensive replacement feels luxurious.
I've transferred all of my files over and managed to load on older versions of WordPerfect and (a stripped-down) Microsoft Office, so I won't have to buy new software. (And yeah, I'd buy the software: renting Microsoft Office for a year is about 70 bucks, which for me with my one computer would be a terrible deal: the stripped down or student version of Office is only 130 bucks.) I'm getting used to the new OS and its insistence that everything that's not hardware or the OS itself is an "app", which. . . whatever.
What nearly killed me, however, was the new router. I got it set up and communicating with my computer with the about expected amount of hassle, but holy mother of Mary the hookup to the printer was an ordeal.
And a failed one at that. Oh, I downloaded the drivers and my computer says, Oh, hey, there's that printer; and after many, many, many false starts, managed to get the router to say, Yep, I see you.
But could I send something from the computer to the printer wirelessly? Why no, I could not.
I printed out the printer settings page, and the encryption mode and wireless link status are A-OK, but what should be a happy ménage à trois most certainly is not.
This is more irritation than crisis—I jacked the printer into the computer and was able to print my class notes just fine—but irritation nonetheless: I know this can work, should work, but it does not.
Yes, the story of life. Still.


Programming skills (PS) refer to coding and debugging that are required for those who write a program in any programming language. Coding can be described as the implementation aspect of programming, whereas debugging can broadly be defined as fixing any incorrect code that is found after running the programming test. Higher-order thinking skills (HOTs) refer to the top three levels of Bloom's taxonomy which are Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation. This study aims to determine the relationship between PS and HOTs among secondary students. Many studies indicate that students who attend programming courses for first time have low levels of performance in PS. Coding and debugging skills reflect higher-order thinking levels. Therefore, an objective of this study was to investigate the effect of coding and debugging skills on their HOTs. The benefits of having PS among learners are that they are able to achieve HOTs. Indeed, these relationships may be explained by programmers need to apply all these HOTs throughout the three phases of the programming process. Students who have low levels of PS are able to achieve the analysis level, while students who have moderate levels of PS able to achieve the synthesis level, and finally, students with high levels of PS are able to achieve the evaluation level.


MFS is a Hungarian ammunition producer that has been around since 1952. They are well regarded for premium ammunition for European markets and have worked with big names like Fiocchi to produced subcontracted ammunition under the MFS brand name. Their history is mostly in production ammunition in European military and law enforcement contract cartridges. Their facilities are well run and they produce good quality ammunition that is suitable for a wide range of uses, but particularly well suited to range and target use for the American market.
This is a 500 round case lot of 9mm ammunition in a zinc plated steel cartridge case with a Berdan primer. The price per round is nearly unheard of for this volume and the ammunition while it shoots a bit dirtier than competitors is not annoyingly smoky or dirty. The full metal jacket 115 grain bullet is good at cycling most mainstream firearms that are made to a market standard (the steel case can be a bit finicky in tight tolerance guns at times). This is a non-reloadable cartridge that represents and incredible value for the money.


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Дезмонд Чайлд (англ. John Charles Barrett, 28 жовтня 1953) — американський автор пісень та продюсер. У 2008 році його було включено до Зали слави піснярів.

Автор слів таких хітів як «I Was Made for Lovin' You» гурту Kiss, «I Hate Myself for Loving You» (Joan Jett & the Blackhearts), «You Give Love a Bad Name», «Livin' on a Prayer»  та «Bad Medicine» (Bon Jovi),  «Dude (Looks Like a Lady)», «Angel», «What It Takes» and «Crazy», що співали Aerosmith, «Poison» Еліса Купера;  «The Cup of Life» and «Livin' la Vida Loca» з репертуару Рікі Мартіна.

Кар'єра
Кар'єра Чайлда почалася, коли він у 1975 році створив поп-рок-гурт «Desmond Child & Rouge», у якому з ним співали Міріам Валле, Марія Відал та Діана Грасселлі, а музику виконували різні наймані музиканти. Гурт став відомим своєї піснею «Last of Ancient Breed», що стала саундтреком до фільму «The Warriors» 1979 року, а також стала хітом їхня «Our Love is Insane». Два альбоми гурту отримали схвальні відгуки, але продавались погано, і у 1980 році гурт перестав існувати.

У 1991 році випустив соло-композицію «Love on a Rooftop», яка потрапила до Top 40 хітів від Billboard.

Він продюсував альбом Міта Лоуфа «Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose», був співавтором шести пісень.

У 2012 році Чайлд написав пісню «Believe in Me» для Бонні Тайлер, яку вона наступного року представила на Євробачення як представниця Сполученого Королівства.

Дискографія

Desmond Child & Rouge

 Desmond Child & Rouge (Capitol Records) (1979)
 Runners in the Night (Capitol Records) (1979)

Соло

 Discipline (Elektra Records) (1991)

Співпраця

Примітки

Посилання

 Інтерв'ю з Чайлдом  NAMM Oral History Library  (2017)

Піснярі штату Флорида
Американці угорського походження
Народились 1953
Натуралізовані громадяни Угорщини

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The study sought to find out how play materials effect pre-school children's performance in science activities in Gaturi Division, Murang'a County. The study employed the quasi experimental design. Data was collected by use of questionnaire; interview schedules and an observation schedule. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics and thereafter presented by use of statistical means. The results were subjected to statistical tests which entailed chisquare tests and two-sample t- test The study established that the pre-schools had access to valid types of play materials and they were geared towards specific skills acquisition. The relationship between the pre-school administrators and the preschool teacher in play materials provision was found to be wanting and similarly parental impact on play materials provision was minimal. The study was of the opinion that enhanced relations between pre-school teachers and the administrators would ensure better play materials provision and match the needs of the learners with the materials. Parental involvement would equally impact positively by way of extending the learning environment to the homes. This will ensure enhanced science activities in children.


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Get to Know the Successful History of the Chicago Fire in the MLS!
The Chicago Fire is a professional soccer team that belongs to the Major League Soccer in the United States. It has its beginnings since 1997 when in a ceremony at the Navy Pier they began their performances in the highest category of American football. Nowadays, it is one of the main teams in the MLS, having many fans not only in the US but also around the world.
Also, they are one of the teams people enjoy betting on. If you like betting sites ireland on football, take a look at mightytips. There you will find a great list of bookmakers to choose from and even football predictions for the most interesting leagues around the world. Don't forget to always take advantage of the welcome bonuses offered by betting sites so you can make the most of your bets.
With the help of Kate Richardson (profile here,), a football expert at the website above, let's learn a little more about the history of this club and how it became one of the top teams in the American League.
The Name "Chicago Fire"
The origin of the name is due to the Great Fire that hit the city of Illinois in 1871, when on October 8 a barn belonging to the O'Leary family caught fire from the shed to the entire property. The flames ran to buildings that were adjoining the farm and such was the disaster that even the central area of the city was affected.
Many do not know how the great Chicago fire started, but the truth is that 300 people died as a result of this disaster. As Chicago saw that and it is popularly called the windy city, they decided to relate their name to this event.
That was the reason why it was decided to create a soccer team that will play at home in Chicago until the days that run in this 2021 have modified the shield with the acronym F.C. to give it universality with the king sport and a crown of fire was formed as a way to highlight the logo that identifies its colors. Before, a fire patrol stood out in the official logo of the club.
Chicago Fire Stadium
In its early years it played its home games at Soldier Field but in 2006 the Chicago fire soccer team started playing its games at SeatGeek Stadium, which was formerly known as Toyota Park.
They stayed at the new venue for more than 10 years, until they decided to go back to where they started. In 2019 they returned to Soldier Field, which has an overall capacity of 61,500.
Titles Conquered So Far
During its history, the Chicago Fire has won a total of 6 titles. They were:
one MLS title
one Supporters Shield title
four US Open Cup titles
In addition, the team was also the runner-up in the MLS in two seasons. Their most recent title came in 2006, when they won their fourth US Cup.
Chicago Fire's Owner
In recent times the management of the club has changed with respect to the past. Now, there are new people in charge of deciding who is leaving Chicago fire and who is staying.
Joe Mansueto took over from Andrew Hauptmann as team owner, Georg Heitz was appointed as the new sporting director and Raphael Wicky became the new coach.
Nelson Rodriguez resigned as president of the Chicago Fire team.In a statement released by the club, Rodriguez said, "I started talking about my future with owner Joe Mansueto last month. In this time of transformation for the organization, and after five years with the Fire, I am ready for a change and I am looking forward to taking on new [challenges]."
Rodriguez also thanked Andrew Hauptman, the team's former owner, for giving him a chance. Andrew Hauptmann had been the owner since 2008.
Notorious Players
Since its inception in 1997, the Chicago Fire has had many players at its disposal. Some are not remembered, while others will be forever in the memory of those passionate about the team.
Among the top athletes who have already been part of this club, we highlight five:
Pitor Nowak
Chris Armas
Carlos Bocanegra
Lubos Kubik
Zach Thornton
For many, Novak is still the best player to wear the Fire jersey, whether for his incredible leadership or his skills with the ball. The Pole was one of the main pillars of the team in winning its first and only MLS.
Currently, a name that has been pleasing Fire fans a lot is Argentine Federico Navarro, who was chosen as the team's MVP in the 2021 season. In addition, Slovenian Robert Beric is also one of the highlights of Chicago's current team, being one of the top scorers that the club has at the moment.
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We may, as TechPresident editorial director Micah Sifry wryly put it on Friday, finally have hit "peak open."
While open government still hasn't quite entered mainstream media discourse, for well over one thousand government officials and members of civil society who gathered in London for the second annual Open Government Partnership (OGP) Summit last week, it was top of mind for days on end. If you're a devotee of buzzword bingo, you would have walked away a winner many times over: engagement, co-creation, crowdsourcing, innovation, disruption, big data, and, of course, "transparency," an "idea whose time has come."
What did it all mean? Scrolling back through thousands of #OGP13 tweets, watching conference pictures, or reading the summit agenda or fact sheets doesn't capture the mix of excitment, optimism, skepticism and anger that attendees could feel on every floor of the conference.
Swirling underneath the professional glitz of an international summit were strong undercurrents of concern about its impact upon governments reluctant to cede power, reveal corruption or risk embarrassment upon disclosure of simple incompetence. The OGP summit took place at a moment where 21st century technology-fueled optimism has splashed up against the foundations of institutions created in the previous century. While the use of the Internet as a platform for collective action has grown, so too have attendent concerns about privacy and surveillance, in the wake of disclosures by NSA contractor Edward Snowden, where the same technologies that accelerated revolutions across the Middle East and North Africa are being used to capture and track the people advocating for change.
Afterward the hurly burly of the summit, I found myself left with many unanswered questions about what OGP will mean to the billions of people who live in its 62 constituent countries. Rakesh Rajani, founder of Tanzanian-based Twaweza and the incoming civil society co-chair of the OGP, made the need for substantive change clear in his closing remarks to the summit and subsequent interview with Sarita Ranchod.
The metric that "matters most" for open government is the impact it has on people's lives, he said. "Everything the Open Government Partnership has done to-date will go up in smoke if we can't point to change in people's lives."
On one hand, there are many credible open government case studies to consider for those looking for evidence of substantive progress around the world in fighting corruption and improving accounability and public engagement. The growth and endurance of the partnership since its launch in 2011 as an effort to give civil society more of a voice in governance is itself a story.
On the other, there is a significant and perhaps even growing risk, however, that not everything on the "open" agenda means a given country is shifting towards empowering citizens or making public officials more accountable. Panthea Lee, cofounder of The Reboot, explored how "open government" may not be leading to much-needed actual openness here at TechPresident last week. She's not alone: Jonathan Gray, director of policy and ideas at the Open Knowledge Foundation, expressed similar concerns in the Guardian this week, pushing for the Open Government Partnership to foster accountability and social justice, extending into political reforms, not just digital initiatives.
To put it another way, a theme in the first round of national action plans brought by countries in the first two years of the partnership were goals related to digital government or e-government, not open government. This is also related to governments embracing "open data" for economic growth, as UK prime minister David Cameron explored in his remarks to summit.
As he has in the past, Cameron focused upon prosperity as an outcome from adopting open governance, as opposed to, say, more accountable legislatures, fair elections or press freedom. That's not to say that opening up data on beneficial ownership of corporations isn't important or that reducing corruption doesn't have a salutary effect upon both foreign investment and quality or quantity of services received by the poor. If the United Kingdom follows through on that commitment to make corporate data public and the OGP leads to effective pressure on civil service quality and the enactment of democratic reforms in other countries, that's a net positive.
The fact that Russia withdrew its commitment to join the OGP was another good sign that the partnership mattered. If even the limited pressures of membership were more than the Kremlin wanted to expose itself to on the world stage, OGP means something. Speaking on a panel in London, Mort Halperin, a senior advisor to the Open Society Foundations, highlighted OGP's influence on countries adopting standards on extractive industry transparency, freedom of information laws and beneficial ownership as evidence of the partnership's impact.
Where the civil society organizations in the partnership find themselves after two years, however, is fighting to get more deep, fundamental goals enshrined the national action plans for open government and then holding their governments accountable for implementing them effectively. That's a dynamic we'll be able to watch in the United States after the Obama administration committed (again) to modernizing administration of the Freedom of Information Act.
In theory, the OGP's "Independent Reporting Mechanism" will help people decide whether governments met their commitments.
As the summit began, press freedom in Kenya came under new pressure from a bill in its parliament.
The United Kingdom, the host country for the OGP summit, is facing backlash from civil society regarding its policies on freedom of information and press freedoms, including equating the carriage of leaked documents by the family member of a journalist engaged by a media organization with terrorism.
As Katrin Verclas noted here at TechPresident, there was a crackdown on non-governmental organizations and media outlets in Azerbaijan during the summit. Azerbaijan is a member of the OGP.
What consequences should any of these countries face?
Warren Krafchik, the departing civil society chair of OGP, warned the conference that participating members and the OGP secretariat will have to decide what these consequences will be for countries whose actions sharply diverge from their "open" rhetoric, and soon.
"In an alarming range of countries, activists increasingly can't organize, speak openly, and receive funding," he said.
can OGP respond? One option is to adjust the partnership's eligibility criteria to better capture civil society space. A second is to enable OGP to suspend countries that violate the basic conditions for civil society to operate. We can debate the option. We cannot delay this discussion."
It's also not clear yet what impact Indonesia taking over as government chair of the Open Government Partnership will have on that determination nor its manner, although the focus on improving services in its national action plan might suggest a preference on delivery over democratic accountability.
Beyond these essentially bureaucratic questions of membership and evaluation, how OGP and its member countries grapple with more fundamental issues of money in politics, mass surveillance, inequality, or threats to human rights, civil liberties, freedom of expression or assembly stand to define its success or failure on the world stage. Now that the talking in London has ended, much still remains to do.
These "thorny issues came up as tensions throughout the week. The partnership's hybrid structure, which consists of representatives of national governments and a broad swath of representatives of "civil society" non-governmental organizations, virtually guarantees that this dynamic will continue.
In one of the high points of the summit, a representative of Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathana, an Indian social movement that has pressed for the public's right to information, posed United States Secretary of State John Kerry a kind but pointed question spying. In response to Aruna Roy's question, Kerry, who had just extolled the "impact that civil society has had on our structure of government and who we are and what we do" in the United States, said that NSA spying had gone too far.
Away from the headlines created by that admission, UN special rapporteur Frank La Rue, said that sacrificing civil liberties in the name of security leads to building authoritarian regimes. La Rue has been extremely critical of the effect of mass surveillance on privacy and human rights.
A packed room on the "civil society day" of the summit held an open dialogue (that included yours truly) that considered open data usage, privacy, press freedom, human rights, access to the Internet, censorship and the limits of "openness."
To make progress on improving those conditions, members of civil society will need to become smarter about power and consider whether desired reforms are directed towards greater accountability and social justice or just improved services and economic growth.
These agendas aren't fundamentally at odds, though the addition of "civic entrepreneurs" with profit motives into an ecosystem previously populated by big contractors, media, NGOs and advocates has clearly made some observers of the expanded open government space deeply uneasy about greater exposure of public services to market forces and privatization pressures.
As governments reform how they approach engaging constituents in new media, adding to existing print, radio and television, they now have new opportunities to rethink how they use technology to deliver services, empower democratic governance and build accountability into those systems.
Focusing on the economic growth potential in open data also has the potential to obfuscate lack of movement on other areas of concern to civil society, from free and fair elections to access to the courts to press freedom, and take attention away from governments being slow to release data relevant to democratic accountability.
So is Tim Berners-Lee, perhaps the world's most prominent supporter of open data. He has grown more outspoken over the years about online privacy and security concerns, where governments aren't "respecting the infrastructure."
At OGP, Berners-Lee both introduced an "Open Data Barometer" and warned of chilling effects from surveillance.
"The word censorship horrifies a lot of people, but in many cases spying can be worse," said Berners-Lee, during his keynote. "It is democracy as a whole that depends upon what we're now starting to call 'Internet rights.'"
As this new young century progresses, the digital systems governments build for services and public engagement can extend far beyond being "ephemera" to a fundamental renegotiation of the relationship and power dynamic between the governed and those elected to govern them.
In that context, the carrot of economic growth and improved service delivery may prove useful to bring other governments into the partnership or as levers to encourage them to embrace reform or affirmative freedoms for their citizens.
Alexander B. Howard is currently a fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, at Columbia University ow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University and a fellow at the Networked Transparency Policy Project at the Ash Center at Harvard University. The Secretariat for the Open Government Partnership provided him a travel bursary for airfare and lodging in London.


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Invercargill has missed out on being one of Jetstar's new regional destinations.
The airline announced its new destinations as Nelson, Napier, New Plymouth, and Palmerston North on Monday morning.
The low-fare airline announced in June they would consider Invercargill, Hamilton, Rotorua, New Plymouth, Napier, Palmerston North and Nelson as potential destinations.
Some southern leaders said they were disappointed Invercargill was not a new destination.
Southland District Mayor Gary Tong said he was not involved in the consultation with Jetstar, and it was disappointing they had chosen not to come here.
He was hopeful Jetstar would consider Invercargill again.
Venture Southland chief executive Paul Casson said although it was disappointing Jetstar would not be coming to Invercargill right now, other airlines might be interested.
The airline said the move would bring "much-needed" competition and more affordable fares to those outside the country's main centres.
"We'll keep talking with stakeholders in Hamilton, Rotorua, Invercargill and Tauranga because they've all expressed a desire for airline competition and they support Jetstar's model of stimulating market growth through lower fares," Jetstar Australia and New Zealand chief executive David Hall said.
Southlanders took to social media following the announcement to express their excitement at the prospect of cheaper flights.
Southland's mayors also got on board and backed Invercargill as a potential destination.
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Q: Is it possible to search for something specific in the output of an outside executable file using python? I am writing a code that is using an outside executable file and i am trying to see if there is a way I can search through the output for information that only corresponds with a specific date I provide. The executable file is tsk_gettimes and I am needing to scan through all of the information of the provided file given by a user where the user can just input a date they would like to search for and the code only prints out that information rather than all the information of that file.
import os, sys, re

#user file input
filename = input()

if(filename = NULL)
 print(os.system('"C:\\Program Files\\sleuthkit-4.11.1-win32\\bin\\tsk_gettimes.exe"'))

#user date input
keydate = input()

#executable file
os.chdir('C:\\Program Files\\sleuthkit-4.11.1-win32\\bin')
os.system('"C:\\Program Files\\sleuthkit-4.11.1-win32\\bin\\tsk_gettimes.exe %s"', filename).read()

#search for key date
for in
re.search()

#date specifier

this is the code i have so far if this helps.

A: Use subprocess.popen() to run a command and read its output.
import subprocess

with subprocess.Popen(['C:\\Program Files\\sleuthkit-4.11.1-win32\\bin\\tsk_gettimes.exe', filename], stdout=PIPE) as proc:
    output = proc.stdout.read()

if re.search(regexp, output):
    ...

A: You could try something like this... I am not super convinced it will work though without knowing what your executable does.
import subprocess
import os

filename, keydate = input().split(' ')

print(filename)
assert os.path.exists(filename)  #  can't find filename
assert os.path.exists("C:\\Program Files\\sleuthkit-4.11.1-win32\\bin\\tsk_gettimes.exe") # can't find executable

prog = subprocess.run([
    "C:\\Program Files\\sleuthkit-4.11.1-win32\\bin\\tsk_gettimes.exe",
    filename
    ], stdout=subrocess.PIPE)

output = prog.stdout.decode().split('\n')

for i in output:
    if keydate in i:
        print(i)

If you get an encoding error just put latin-1 as an argument to decode.
output = prog.stdout.decode('latin-1').split('\n')

Or try this if you prefer to continue to use os.system:
import os, sys, re
# user file input

# user date input
keydate = input()

filename = input()
temp = "temp"
with open(temp,'wt') as tempfile:
    pass

temp = f'"{os.path.abspath(temp)}"'

filename = f'{filename}'

#executable file
os.system(f'"C:\\Program Files\\sleuthkit-4.11.1-win32\\bin\\tsk_gettimes.exe" {filename} >> {temp_location}')
with open(temp_location,'rt') as temp:
    data = temp.read()

os.remove(temp_location)

#search for key date
for i in data.split('\n'):
    if keydate in i:
        print(i)

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Intermittent excessive humidity can be controlled with ample exhaust ventilation. Intermittent sources of humidity include bathing and showering, cooking and dish washing and clothes washing. These humidity producing activities are generally of short duration and can be controlled using ceiling mounted ventilation fans or a centrally ducted exhaust system. When air is exhausted from a home, an equal amount of outdoor air must replace it. Caution should be exercised with any exhaust-only approach to insure that associated negative pressure will not cause back drafting of combustion appliances and the introduction of uncontrolled outdoor air through building materials.
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Outdoor air is warmed close to room temperature with heat that would otherwise be lost with the exhaust air. The water vapor transfer moderates extremes in humidity levels which helps prevent moisture damage or over-drying of the home. The heat and humidity transfer (sensible and latent energy) gives the ERV a big advantage over other air-to-air exchangers typically recovering 30% more energy in winter.
When you need to cool for comfort? Do you hate the stuffy, musty air quality in your home? The ERV's provide necessary fresh air while pre-cooling and pre-dehumidifying this air with energy that would otherwise be lost with the exhaust air. With summertime humidity control (latent energy) being the largest portion of air conditioning cost, the ERV's humidity transfer is critical. In fact the ERV is typically three times more energy efficient than products that transfer only heat.


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Kelly Clarkson was the first winner of then-Fox's "American Idol." She has now gone on to become a superstar singer-songwriter, TV host, and coach on NBC's "The Voice."
The first season of "American Idol" premiered on June 11, 2002. The official title at the time was "American Idol: The Search For a Superstar," and the show aired up until September.
At the season finale, Clarkson was announced to be the winner, and she received a recording contract before immediately releasing her first single "A Moment Like This," which was first performed at the finale. The song, according to Billboard, broke a 38-year record held by The Beatles for a song's biggest jump to number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Clarkson later went on to break that record once again with her single "My Life Would Suck Without You." She has won three Grammy awards and two Daytime Emmy Awards for her talk show "The Kelly Clarkson Show."
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Clarkson auditioned for "American Idol" when she was just 20 years old, and she told co-hosts Ryan Seacrest and Brian Dunkleman that she made her own outfit for the audition.
"I'm gonna be a fashion designer if this doesn't work out," she told them before being called into the room with judges Paula Abdul, Randy Jackson and Simon Cowell.
For her audition song, she sang "Express Yourself" by Madonna. Jackson told her that she worked on that song with Madonna, and when the other judges laughed at him he told them he couldn't help that he was famous.
"You should be a star! You should try out!" Clarkson told him before running over to take his place on the judging panel so he could "try out" for the show.
The judges then joked with him, telling him that he was going to Hollywood though Cowell said "not in a trillion, million years!"
When it was time to tell Clarkson if she was going to make it, all three of the judges gave her a "yes" to Hollywood, though Cowell told her she had to tell Seacrest he needed to fix his highlights.
Clarkson Still Performs Covers of Songs
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Now, Clarkson performs covers of songs on her "Kellyoke" segment of "The Kelly Clarkson Show."
She took on teen sensation Olivia Rodrigo's hit song "Drivers License."
She stayed generally faithful to the original version of the song, adding some signature big notes during the bridge and chorus before getting quiet for the line "'cause you said forever/now I drive alone past your street."
As is usually the case with Clarkson's covers, fans took to the comments on the YouTube video to tell her how impressed they were.
"She keeps this up on her show and in a few years she can market a few volumes of covers… I'd buy them… MANY of them are as good or BETTER than the originals.. she's such a strong talent," one person commented.
One person also commented to say that "This is why she won 'American Idol.'"
Clarkson is also a judge on NBC's "The Voice" where she still sings and helps up-and-coming artists find their voice.
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California's population stalls at 39.9M as more flee state
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California's population has stalled at 39.9 million people as expensive housing prices and other factors convince more people to leave the state for other parts of the country.
An estimate released Friday showed California added 141,300 people from July 1, 2018, to July 1, 2019, bringing its total population to 39.96 million on July 1.
Adding births and subtracting deaths, California added more than 180,000 people for the 12 months ending July 1. But more people left the state, resulting in a net migration loss of 39,500 people.
"More people moved out of California than into California this year. That was negative for the first time since 2010," said Eddie Hunsinger, a demographer with the California Department of Finance.
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Ventura County lost 35,000 residents. Where did they move?
More than 35,000 people moved out of Ventura County. Why?
The migration loss has been a boon to other states, particularly Nevada. Last month, Nevada passed the 3 million population mark as the U.S. Census Bureau ranked it as the fastest-growing state in 2018 — mostly because of a steady stream of Californians moving in.
Robert Lang, executive director of Brookings Mountain West at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said there are more adults in Nevada that were born in California than there are native Nevadans.
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California's population nearly tripled in the last half of the 20th century and is now the world's fifth-largest economy. It remains by far the most populous state in the country, with second-place Texas still shy of 30 million people.
Yet the state's growth has leveled off. It's 0.35% growth rate for the 12 months ending July 1 is down from a 0.57% rate for the prior 12 months, the two slowest growth rates in recorded history.
State officials blamed the declining growth rate on an aging population combined with lower migration from foreign countries and more people leaving the state.
Los Angeles County lost 9,698 people, but remains the most populous county in the state — and the nation — at more than 10.2 million people.
Butte County lost 10,388 people, the largest percentage decrease in the state — a testament to the lingering effects of a 2018 fire in the town of Paradise that killed 85 people, destroyed more than 14,600 housing units and displaced an estimated 35,700 people.
Births continued to decline, falling by more than 9,000.
"I'm starting to get a sense that this is a trend," Hunsinger said.
Still, official state estimates predict California will hit 50 million people by 2055, predicting by then the state will join Japan and European countries as having more deaths than births.
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Brazil and Argentina renewed by 2020 the automotive agreement between the two countries, which would win on 30 June. In a statement issued by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Services, on Saturday (25), the government informs that has kept the system flex, which provides that Brazil can sell tax-free, at most, $ 1.5 for every $ 1 imported from the neighboring country.
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This spring we did something I thought was completely in our wheelhouse: We redesigned and rewrote Aha Media Group's website.
Rewriting a website? This is literally our day job. We got this in the bag. We often criticize clients for taking so long with content, but you know what? After we had a 3-month delay getting our own content in on time, I knew it was time to look in the mirror.
We are excited to show you the new Aha Media website!
Ahava should not write it: The person in charge should not write the content. Yes, that person should review and edit, but he or she shouldn't start off with the base content. Give it to a writer who can devote the time to this task—and has the distance to write about it objectively, clearly and succinctly. If all I had to do was edit, I think it would have gone faster.
You will add pages, and the site map will shift: We originally envisioned a clean, simple site with a few pages. But as we were writing the content, we realized that we needed additional pages for SEO purposes and to fully explain our services offerings. Working with our designer on a flexible site map and information architecture (IA) was important.
Content looks different inside of design:Duh! We know that. And yet we still balked when we saw our own content inside of the design. I really wish I knew a way around this problem, but I haven't figured it out yet. If you have, please email me and let me know.
Many editors in the mix is frustrating but necessary: I wanted a lot of people on my executive team to review the content and ensure it was a bullseye. Then I needed line editors for grammar. So sometimes, what I got back didn't sound like what I had intended. Combing through all those comments took time and patience. And to be honest, it was annoying (and made the process take longer). But I knew this feedback was critical to achieving the final product I wanted.
Looking at yourself in the mirror—and then having to write about it!—is hard. But when we came out the other side of this content project, we had a better appreciation of the process (and emotions) our clients go through.
We saw firsthand the importance of being flexible and open to new ideas as they came up. Of building in enough time for lots of back and forth among team members. And of course, of hiring trained, professional writers and editors make the content sound great!
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Adelaide Bank is a leading customer connected business, operating for more than 100 years. Adelaide Bank was established in January 1994, originating from the Co-operative Building Society of South Australia, which was Australia's largest building society at that time. In 2007 Adelaide Bank merged with Bendigo Bank, forming Bendigo and Adelaide Bank… Carlos edit here...
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ANZ's history dates back over 180 years. They are committed to building lasting partnerships with customers, shareholders and communities in 34 countries in Australia, New Zealand, throughout Asia and the Pacific, and in the Middle East, Europe and America. ANZ provide a range of banking and financial products and services to over 9 million customers and employ over…
Bank of Melbourne is Victoria's local bank, with 106 branches spread around Victoria, with headquarters and call centre located in the heart of Melbourne's CBD. All their branches and corporate banking centres are staffed by locals and continue to make considerable investments in the local economy, whilst also supporting and strengthening the local community through initiatives like the…
BankSA has been a part of the fabric of South Australia since its early years, having opened their first branch in 1848. They're the largest financial institution in South Australia and the State's main provider of housing, personal finance and rural banking services. In 2008, BankSA and St.George became part of the Westpac Group. The Bank also plays a key role in the…
Bluestone was established in early 2000 in Sydney, Australia, and quickly expanded from a mortgage origination and securitisation platform to become a multi-national capital management and asset management business with offices in the Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines. Since 2000, Bluestone have originated over $7.8bn worth of loans, helped more than…
Bank of Sydney has been operating in Australia under a full Banking Licence since April 2001. Bank of Sydney, with its various distribution channels across Australia and branches in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, aims to offer its customers true and personal relationship banking as well as competitive products and services to help them reach their financial goals.
Bankwest's history spans 120 years. They have been recognised in the prestigious Financial Review Smart Investor Blue Ribbon Awards and were named Bank of the Year in 2010, 2011, 2012 and Business Bank of the Year in 2013 and 2014. Aged 113, Bankwest joined the Commonwealth Bank Group and in 2008 became part of Australia's largest provider of financial services.
The Commonwealth Bank is Australia's leading provider of integrated financial services including retail banking, premium banking, business banking, institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, insurance, investment and share-broking products and services. The Group is one of the largest listed companies on the Australian Securities Exchange…
Great Southern Bank is a member-owned provider of financial, health and insurance solutions. Great Southern Bank has over 440,000 members in communities across Australia and is the country's largest award winning credit union.
ING DIRECT the trading name of ING Bank (Australia) Limited - is part of the world's leading direct bank, and is wholly owned by ING Group. ING is a global financial institution with a strong European base, offering banking services. ING draw on their experience and expertise, their commitment to excellent service and global scale to meet the needs of a broad customer base…
La Trobe Financial is a Credit Specialist with over 65 years' experience covering $12 billion of institutional and retail investment mandates. Since 1952, La Trobe have continually proven their commitment to innovation, product quality and superior service. Their cause is to make a difference by creating "wealth for our investing and borrowing clients, by improving their…
Liberty provide a wide range of loans for your home, your car and business, as well as investments and products from other financial institutions. Liberty has been recognised with numerous industry awards and accolades. In short, Liberty is an alternative that offers innovative solutions at competitive prices to support customers with greater choice and freedom.
Macquarie on 10 December 1969, Macquarie's predecessor organisation, Hill Samuel Australia, opened its doors with three staff and an ambition to provide advisory and investment banking services of an international standard to the Australian market. Macquarie is now a global business operating across 28 countries and with specialist expertise in areas such as…
National Australia Bank Group (the Group) is a financial services organisation with over 12,700,000 customers and 42,000 people, operating more than 1,700 stores and business banking centres globally. The Group's major financial services franchises in Australia are complemented by businesses in New Zealand, Asia, and the United Kingdom...
Pepper is a leading non-bank lender specialising in flexible home loan solutions and individual credit assessment. Headquartered in Australia, with some of Australia's largest banks as their funding partners. Pepper Australia is a subsidiary of the wider independent, diversified global financial services business, Pepper Group. With a global headcount of over 1,400…
Resimac Group is one of Australia and New Zealand's premier and most established non-bank lenders with a history dating back to 1985. Today, with over 30 years of experience in delivering home finance solutions to a diverse range of customers, Resimac is proud to be servicing over 50,000 current customers. As a pioneer of the Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) industry...
St.George was founded in the southern Sydney suburbs in 1937. Over the next 50 years St.George built a reputation as Australia's foremost building society, before achieving full banking status in July 1992. In December 2008, St.George merged with Westpac Banking Corporation and the retail and business banking distribution businesses are now known as St…
Suncorp Group includes leading general insurance, banking, life insurance and superannuation brands in Australia and New Zealand. The Group has 15,000 employees and relationships with nine million customers. Suncorp are a Top 20 ASX-listed company with $96 billion in assets. Suncorp has five core businesses: Personal Insurance; Commercial Insurance; Vero New…
Westpac has a long and proud history as Australia's first and oldest bank. Westpac has 5 customer facing divisions serving around 13 million customers. The operating structure aligns Westpac's business with key customer segments. Under this structure, the Group retains a unique portfolio of brands including Westpac, St.George, Bank of Melbourne, BankSA and RAMS…
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package muster
package codec
package json4s

import muster.output.{Renderer, OutputFormatter}
import muster.util.State
import org.json4s.JsonAST._

import scala.collection.mutable
import scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer

object JValueRenderer {
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    private[this] val arrStack: mutable.Stack[mutable.ArrayBuffer[JValue]] =
      mutable.Stack[ArrayBuffer[JValue]]()
    private[this] val objStack: mutable.Stack[mutable.ArrayBuffer[JField]] =
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}
class JValueRenderer extends Renderer[JValue] {
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This grant will provide federal funding for the Winchester Regional Airport associated with Winchester, Virginia. The local point of contact is Ms. Serena Manuel, Airport Executive Director. Ms. Serena Manuel may be reached at (540) 662-5786.
This project will fund the relocation of 5,500 feet of Taxiway A to assist the airport in meeting design standards.
This grant will provide funding for the acquisition of 0.52 acres of land adjacent to the existing airport property. This is phase 3 of a 9 phase project.
This project will fund the removal of tree obstructions in the Runway 14 approach surface.
This grant will provide funding for the removal of 6 acres of tree obstructions. This is phase 1 of a 2 phase project.
Winchester Regional Airport is a general aviation airport, designated as regional, as defined in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) report.


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Voter Registration Across the Nation!
We really need to reach out to friends and family in the midwest, the central, and southern states to register to vote. Too many people have sacrificed their lives for us to have this right. Please read this article that was originally published in Vibe Magazine and share these dates with people that you know. Thanks.
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Have You Registered to Vote?
By: JOZEN CUMMINGS
It's the most important thing you need to do, and VIBE will help you Know this: On Election Day, November 4, there is nothing you could do more important than cast a vote for the next President of the United States. The race between Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain has shaped up to be the most historical election in the history of the United States, and because VIBE has never bared witness to an election as important as this one, we are doing our part to help our readers register and vote. Below is a list of all 50 states and their voter registration deadlines. The states bolded and italicized are key battleground states. Find your state, then go to voteforchange.com, or sign up by clicking on our "Rock the Vote" widget (below) and register if you haven't already. It takes 3 minutes, that's shorter than the average hip hop song on the radio. So what are you waiting for? Register to vote (Again: click on voteforchange.com or below) and don't even think about it. Just do it. --------------------------------------------------------- Alabama - 10/24/2008 Alaska - 10/5/2008 Arizona - 10/6/2008 Arkansas - 10/6/2008 California - 10/20/2008 Colorado - 10/6/2008 Connecticut – 10/21/2008 (by mail); 10/28/08 (in-person registration) Delaware - 10/11/2008 Florida - 10/6/2008 Georgia - 10/6/2008 Hawaii - 10/6/2008 Idaho - 10/10/2008 Illinois - 10/7/2008 Indiana - 10/6/2008 Iowa - 10/25/2008 Kansas - 10/20/2008 Kentucky - 10/6/2008 Louisiana - 10/6/2008 Maine - 10/15/2008 (in-person registration continues through Election Day) Maryland - 10/14/2008 Massachusetts - 10/15/2008 Michigan - 10/6/2008 Minnesota - 10/14/2008 (Election Day registration is available) Mississippi - 10/5/2008 Missouri - 10/8/2008 Montana - 10/6/2008 (Late registration is available in-person until polls close on Election Day) Nebraska - 10/17/2008; 10/24/2008 (in-person registration at county election office) Nevada - 10/4/2008 New Hampshire - 10/25/2008 (Election Day registration is available) New Jersey - 10/14/2008 New Mexico - 10/7/2008 New York - 10/10/2008 (must be postmarked by 10/10/2008 and received by 10/15/2008, if mailed) North Carolina - 10/10/2008 North Dakota - 10/20/2008 Ohio - 10/6/2008 Oklahoma - 10/10/2008 Oregon - 10/14/2008 Pennsylvania - 10/6/2008 Rhode Island - 10/4/2008 South Carolina - 10/4/2008 South Dakota - 10/20/2008 Tennessee - 10/6/2008 Texas - 10/6/2008 Utah - 10/6/2008 (by mail); 10/20/2008 (in-person) Virginia - 10/6/2008 Vermont - 10/29/2008 Washington - 10/4/2008 (for mail-in, online voter registration forms, and transfer within county voters); 10/20/2008 (in-person registration for new registrants only) West Virginia - 10/14/2008 Wisconsin - 10/15/2008 (by mail); 11/3/2008 (in-person at Municipal Office); Election Day registration also available Wyoming - 10/6/2008 Article tags: Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John McCain, Politics, Sarah Palin
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Oakland Natives Give Back Fund hosts Back to School Youth Expo
By Kevin L. Nichols
Last Sunday was "Dee-Day" for Nyeisha DeWitt, Delicia "Dee Dee" Adbur-Rahim and Tameka Raymond, based on their philosophy that "the commitment to the community in which you reside should not supersede your contribution to the community in which you were reared."
These women have come together representing various organizations to form the Oakland Natives Give Back Fund.
ONGBF sponsored its first annual Back to School Youth Expo last Sunday as part of the Oakland Unified School District's Attend and Achieve campaign. The expo was sponsored by OUSD, the Office of Mayor Ron Dellums, Effective Teachers for Oakland Task Force, Future Foundation and Usher's New Look Foundation.
The expo took place at City Hall in Oakland and featured workshops, entertainment and a backpack giveaway. Students arrived early to register for wristbands to obtain a backpack at the end of the day, which ensured their attendance at the workshops. The workshops were divided into three sections: pre-teen, teen and parenting. Raymond held a "Fashion Rocks" youth fashion show after the workshops had concluded.
The event also featured special performances, speakers and celebrity guests. R&B artist Jimmie Reign performed, along with spoken word artist Ise Lyfe and dance trio Total Package. Guest speakers included Oakland Chief of Staff Leslie Littleton, Director of Education Kitty Epstein, OUSD State Administrator Vincent Matthews and OUSD Interim Superintendent Roberta Mayor. Keith Brown served as the master of ceremonies.
The focal point of the day was the distribution of 730 backpacks stuffed with free grade-specific school supplies.
More than 900 people attended the Youth Expo.
For more information, visit http://www.oaklandnatives.com/.
Kevin L. Nichols is an author and the president/CEO of KLN Publishing, located in San Francisco. For information, visit http://klnpublishingllc.blogspot.com/.
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La Universidad de Kuvempu (ಖೂಏಂಫೂ ಊಣೀಏರ್ಶೀಟ್ಯ್) es una universidad estatal ubicada en el estado de Karnataka (en la India). Fue fundada el 29 de junio de 1987 por la ley n.º 28/1976 del estado de Karnataka, a través de una enmienda de 29 de enero de 1989 por la Universidad del Estado de Karnataka de 1976. La universidad fue reconocida por UGC en 1994 y también es miembro de la Asociación de Universidades de la India. El Consejo Nacional de Evaluación y Acreditación le confirió un estatus de tres estrellas.

La universidad tiene su sede en el campus Jnana Sahyadri Campus, en la ciudad de Shimoga. Su campus es llamado Jnana Sahyadri, que significa el Sahyadri del conocimiento, muy acertadamente, como la universidad tiene jurisdicción sobre los distritos malnad de Shimoga y Chikmagalur, a través del cual las cadenas montañosas llama el paso Sahyadri. También abarca los distritos de Davangere y Chitradurga. El campus se extiende sobre un área de 230 hectáreas.

Enlaces externos

 Kuvempu.ac.in (página oficial de la Universidad de Kuvempu; en inglés).
 Spanish.Alumni.net (Universidad de Kuvempu).

Universidades de India
Instituciones educativas establecidas en 1987