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Diana DeGette Biography, Age, Net worth, Husband, Education, Family
Diana DeGette Biography
Diana DeGette (Diana Louise DeGette) is a Japanese American politician who serves as the U.S. Representative for Colorado's 1st congressional district, since 1997 born on 29th July 1957 in Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan, and a Chief Deputy Whip.
She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is based in Denver. She is currently the dean of the Colorado congressional delegation.
Diana DeGette Age
Diana DeGette was born on July 29, 1957 (she is 61 years old as of 2018).
Diana DeGette Net worth
Diana DeGette has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
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Diana DeGette Family
Diana DeGette was born to Partricia Anne DeGette (mother) and Richard Louis DeGette (father) her father was working in the armed forces. Her parents were Americans.
Diana DeGette Husband
Diana DeGette is married to Lino Lipinsky with she had two daughters with Francesca Lipinsky DeGette and Raphael Lipinsky DeGette.
Diana DeGette Education
Diana DeGette attended South High School. She graduated from Colorado College where she earned her B.A degree in political science and was elected to the Pi Gamma Mu international honor society in 1979. She later jioned New York University School of Law in 1982 where she got her degree in Juris Doctor.
Diana DeGette Colorado Legislature
Diana DeGette was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 1992. She was again re-elected in 1994 and chosen as assistant minority leader. She authored a law that guarantees Colorado women unobstructed access to abortion clinics and other medical care facilities, also known as the "Bubble Bill". The United States Supreme Court found DeGette's "Bubble Bill" constitutional in Hill v. Colorado, 530 U.S. 703 (2000). She also authored the state Voluntary Cleanup and Redevelopment Act, a model for similar cleanup programs.
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Diabetes Caucus (Co-Chair)
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Internet Caucus
LGBT Equality Caucus (Vice-Chair)
National Landscape Conversation
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Natural Gas Caucus
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Diana DeGette serves as the co-chair of both the Congressional Diabetes Caucus and Pro-Choice Caucus, and is Vice Chair of the LGBT Equality Caucus. With the Democrats' victory in the 2006 midterm elections, DeGette briefly considered running for House Majority Whip, but bowed out in favor of Jim Clyburn of South Carolina. She received national attention in 2005, when the House of Representatives passed legislation she cosponsored to lift President George W. Bush's limits on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. She had been working on the measure since 2001, enlisted the support of Representative Michael N. Castle (Republican from Delaware), who became DeGette's principal Republican cosponsor of the legislation. The DeGette-Castle bill passed the Senate on July 18, 2006. President Bush vetoed the bill the next day — his first veto.
In 2007, she served as the House Democrats' designated whip on the bill reauthorizing the State Children's Health Insurance Program (HR 3162). Although President Bush announced his opposition to the legislation, the House passed the bill on August 1, 2007, by a vote of 225 to 204. The Senate adopted a different version of the legislation the next day. She was also the cosponsor for Udall Amendment to the House Energy Bill, which the House approved by a vote of 220 to 190 on August 4, 2007. The Amendment creates a national Renewable Energy Standard that requires electric suppliers to produce 15 percent of their energy from renewable sources, 4 percent of which can come from efficiency, by the year 2020.
On September 12, 2007, she announced that she would introduce the Colorado Wilderness Act of 2007 in Congress. The bill was unsuccessful and did not pass the committee level. She reintroduced the bill in 2009. She is a cosponsor of legislation to provide the District of Columbia voting representation. On January 24, 2007, Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed Representative DeGette to the House Page Board. On November 26, 2007, she announced her endorsement of Senator Hillary Clinton for president, and was named national co-chair of Clinton's Health Care Policy Task Force and adviser on stem-cell research. she was a superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August 2008
she was strongly critical of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment, which places limits on taxpayer-funded abortions (except in the case of rape, incest, or life of the mother) in the context of the November 2009 Affordable Health Care for America Act.
Diana DeGette Political Views
Diana DeGette is the pro-choice and the co-chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus. Diana DeGette and her fellow co-chair, Louise Slaughter, are the sponsors of the Prevention First Act. This act aims to decrease the number of unintended pregnancies, abortions and sexually transmitted diseases through better women's healthcare. The NARAL Pro-Choice America PAC endorsed her 100% approval rating based on her positions. She also received a 100% rating from Planned Parenthood. The National Right to Life Committee gave her a 0% rating due to her strong pro-choice stance.
She has consistently voted in favor of the use of embryonic stem cell research. She has also says "we must pass common-sense embryonic stem cell research legislation, placing these regulations into statute and once and for all, ensuring this critical life-saving research can be conducted for years to come, unimpeded by political whims or naysayers." Her and Charlie Dent introduced the bipartisan Stem Cell Research Act of 2011, which would provide lasting support for stem cell research.
Diana DeGette supports the bans of semi-automatic firearms like those used in the 2012 Aurora shooting which happened in a movie theatre near her district. she has stated that "the sole purpose of these guns and these magazines is to kill people." she and Carolyn McCarthy introduced the Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2012. The Brady Campaign endorsed DeGette's reelection in 2008, 2010, and 2012.
In 2013, she drew national attention after making an erroneous statement at a public forum about firearm magazine restrictions. She stated, "these are ammunition, and they're bullets, so the people who have those now, they're going to shoot them, so if you ban them in the future, the number of these high-capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won't be any more available." (Id.)
The comment, failing to take into account the fact that these magazines are designed to be reloaded, fueled long-running complaints by gun-rights groups that lawmakers trying to regulate firearms do not understand the issue. (Id.) In June 2016, her and other Democratic lawmakers, led by John Lewis (D-GA) took part in a sit-in on the floor of the House of Representatives to protest the Republican leadership's decision to not put several proposed gun control bills up for a vote.
Diana DeGette Campaigns
Diana DeGette ran for the primary elections against her principal opponent who in 1996 was a former City Council member Tim Sandos, whom Denver Mayor Wellington Webb endorsed shortly before the primary. DeGette won the primary with 55 percent of the vote, all but assuring her of election in the heavily Democratic district (the 1st District has been in Democratic hands for all but six years since 1933). Schroeder, who stayed neutral during the primary, endorsed DeGette once DeGette became the Democratic nominee. DeGette won with 57 percent and has been reelected ten times since.
United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado, 2006 at First District
DeGette won against Green Party nominee Tom Kelly.
United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado, 2008 § District 1
DeGette won against Republican nominee George Lilly, Libertarian nominee Martin Buchanan, and Independent Gary Swing.
United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado, 2010 at District 1
DeGette won reelection against Republican nominee Mike Fallon, Green nominee Gary Swing, American Constitutional Party nominee Chris Styskal, and Libertarian nominee Clint Jones.
DeGette won reelection against Republican nominee Danny Stroud, Libertarian nominee Frank Atwood and Green Party nominee Gary Swing. DeGette won with 68.23% of the votes.
DeGette won reelection against Republican nominee Martin Walsh, Libertarian nominee Frank Atwood, UNA nominee Danny Stroud and two write in candidates. DeGette won with 65.81% of the vote.
See also: United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado, 2016 at District 1
DeGette won reelection against Republican nominee Charles "Casper" Stockham, and Libertarian nominee Darrell Dinges. DeGette won with 257,254 votes representing 67.87% of the total.
DeGette won reelection against Republican nominee Charles Stockham, and Libertarian nominee Raymon Doane. she won with 272,886 votes representing 73.8% of the total.
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As police gathered behind yellow crime-scene tape Wednesday night at the scene, the residential street was mostly quiet. In the darkness, officers spoke with clusters of people on the sidewalk and on front lawns near Deodar and C Street. Police lights flashed in the background, illuminating silhouettes of patrol vehicles.
One neighbor who came out to see what was going on said she had not heard any gunfire. The street was blocked off, but there was relatively little traffic Wednesday night. As drizzle turned to stronger rain showers, few nearby residents could be seen outdoors observing the investigation. Officers could be seen going door to door on Deodar talking with neighbors.
Detectives with the department's major crimes unit were still at the site of the shooting Thursday.
The search of the hotel began just after 6 a.m., according to Ventura police, who assisted in the operation.
Some guests were evacuated during the search but were permitted to return to their rooms around 10 a.m. Guest Angela Trejo reported seeing SWAT team members with guns drawn around 8 a.m.
It was Oxnard's second homicide of the year, and the first of two shootings in Ventura County on Wednesday night. The other shooting Wednesday night was reported in Fillmore, and the victim was expected to survive.
Fillmore shooting
Also Wednesday night, authorities got a report of a shooting around 10:18 p.m. in Fillmore.
The shooting took place in the area of La Unica Mexican Food & Bakery, according to Ventura County sheriff's officials. The market is in the 500 block of Old Telegraph Road, near First and B streets.
Rescue crews were told that the victim had been shot in the leg and grazed in the face. The victim walked to someone's home, sheriff's officials said.
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I used to think it happened only to me when on 'leave' between ships. I assumed that the slightly sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach whenever the office called was unique to my metabolism, which asked, "Are they calling me back already!?'. Later on, I was relieved to hear from other mariners that this was normal and so was I, or as normal as a seaman can be anyway.
By the way, 'leave' is actually a euphemistic term for unemployment, don't you think, given that I am not paid when I do not sail? (Begging your pardon, and please ignore this aside, potential employers. My sense of semantics is not appreciated by most anyway.)
Say what you will, but you cannot really blame the poor seaman for getting as jittery as a virgin bride gets as the day of reckoning approaches. With one difference: In his case, experience has reinforced his apprehension; ever since he was a trainee or a junior, a phone call has invariably preceded sudden and overwhelming bedlam.
From a mariner's point of view, a typical pre joining scenario goes something like this:
1. Telephone call from company, (hereinafter called the call of the wild). You are required to be in the Mumbai office 'immediately'. Seaman tries to flim flam and buys as much time as possible.
2. Hullabaloo at home. Wife upset. Kids confused. Seaman trying to simultaneously get his act together to go to work, lend emotional support to the family, handle his own conflicting feelings and complete the inevitable last minute stuff that needs to be done before departure. (Actually, we know that the turmoil is not helped by prolonging the inevitable; that only seems to make things worse. However, we never really learn. I much prefer sudden departures to prolonged ones, as I would a sudden death to one that lingers.)
3. Check in to Mumbai flight. End of Stage One. Switch to business mode even as one tries to come to grips with the wrench of leaving home. Are they safe? Do they have family and friend support if something goes wrong? Will the dog still be alive when I return? You know, stuff like that.
4. Arrival Mumbai. Rush to office or hotel to dump bags. Eventually rush to office anyway.
5. Assembly line process starts. Pre joining briefing (which is usually as scanty as your briefs and half as useful), go for medicals. Auto rickshaw to alleged doctor.
6. Everything from your heartbeat to your faecal matter is tested in fifteen minutes of controlled, impersonal and crudely systematic assembly line mayhem. This is how cattle must feel at the abattoir, one thinks. No seaman is alarmed by all this, though. He has done this before, and often, and survived. In fact, some of us even manage to pull up our zippers between the urine sample and the ECG.
7. Auto rickshaw back to office. Quick stop for a cold drink somewhere, mouth is too dry. Could be dehydration or distaste.
8. Assembly line almost complete. Ticket, Agents details, Ships name (Please ensure it is the one you had been briefed about). Result: one number mariner processed and ejected.
9. International flight. Time to start thinking about the ship one is joining and start gearing up for taking over. Provided one is not stopping en route for further briefings with the Owners, of course, which often adds to fatigue without adding to useful information.
In the last many years, my reluctance to sail, and therefore a honed instinct that tries its best to delay the inevitable, has created much friction at home. The shortage of officers has not helped: calls from manning agents (or Ship management Companies, as they like to be called) within a week after signing off from one ship have the potential to ruin one's weekend for sure. So much so that I once started avoiding taking such calls. This is when the friction started at home, with a typical conversation with the wife going something like this:
Wife to me, "Capt. Persistent from 'Run of the Mill Ship management' Mumbai is on the phone"
Me to wife, "Tell him I am in the bathroom with diarrhoea."
Wife: "I do not lie; you should know that by now. You talk to him or I will just tell him that you don't want to talk to him."
Me: "Gandhi was a great and honest man, but his wife must have had a tough time with all his experiments with truth."
Wife: "Hmpff!"
This behaviour of mine is unprofessional; I am the first to admit. After all, a Master cannot hide in the toilet forever. However, I maintain that my conduct, unbecoming as it unfortunately is, is nonetheless more becoming than that of a Chief Engineer friend of mine, who simply disappears whenever he is expecting the call of the wild from his employers.
This gives rise to many bewildered managers. I recall one incident that happened many years ago, when the manning guy called me up from Bombay (I was in another city) to enquire about this Chief's whereabouts.
Manning head, post pleasantries: "Where the @#$% is Tripathi?" (Name changed in case Tripathi is still doing this somewhere else)
Me: "How do I know? Ask his wife in Bombay".
MH, annoyed: "I did. She says he left by train for your city yesterday to meet you."
Me, genuinely bemused now: "Well, he may have reached this city, but he sure as hell hasn't reached me."
MH: (unprintable) hangs up.
A month or so later, I joined a ship and there was Tripathi, the Chiefest of all the Engineers, down at the gangway come to say hello.
"What happened, Chief?" I asked him later. "You sparked off a major inter city manhunt."
"Yeah, they asked me a week later where I had been, after I resurfaced" he said, with a twinkle in his eye. "I told them that I had disembarked en route at yet another city to meet some friends."
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Full Tosa: Demanding a systemic response to criminalisation
It is a damning indictment of the warped state of affairs that Ajmal Kasab can be guaranteed a fair trial when Capt. Glen Aroza cannot, but this indictment is not the purpose of this piece.
Capt Aroza, the Second officer Mohammed Rizaul Karim from Bangladesh and Seaman Eduwardo Mallorca have been charged with involuntary manslaughter in Taiwan. In an incident that brings back memories of Capt. Raj Kumar Goel's three year detention in the country in 1996, Capt. Aroza and his colleagues are being blamed for allegedly causing a Taiwanese trawler to capsize and for the death of two fishermen. Quite apart from the fact that the Captain was not on the bridge and that no signs of any collision were found on their VLCC, the 'Tosa', the detention and imminent trial of Capt. Aroza and his crew spotlights, once again, how seamen can be persecuted with brazen impunity.
In another recent incident, Norwegian police have charged the Captain of the COSCO owned "Full City" for not warning coastal authorities that his ship was in danger of stranding. The Full CIty was eventually responsible for one of Norway's largest oil spills that hit a 150 km stretch of coastline in Southern Norway near a bird sanctuary. I am interested to see how Norwegian law is applied here; the Captain faces a maximum two year jail term if convicted.
Close on the heels of the Cosco Busan disaster in the US (Cosco seems to be having a bit of a party leaking oil across the world) and not too long after the Hebei Spirit officers were released by South Korea, the Tosa story underlines to me once again that the maritime justice system as it applies to seafarers has failed. In an atmosphere where marine pollution laws are being tightened in many countries, including across the European Union and Canada, I fear that what we are seeing now is the beginning of a regular persecution of mariners for crimes without intent. The criminal prosecution of seafarers in these circumstances must be stopped, but our present system of so called justice is incapable of doing so: this is, in fact, a system to be feared by all law abiding seafarers. What it tells them is that they can become criminals and go to jail for years for an accident in a foreign country, and there is nothing they can do about it.
Those of us who bring up the Hebei Spirit as an illustration of what the industry can do if it gets together are guilty of over simplification and exaggeration. The entire industry chest thumping in the aftermath of that saga cannot hide the fact that two innocent Indian officers spent a year and a half in detention in a country that manipulated its systems, probably at the behest of powerful business interests, to subvert justice. We ignore the fact that the Hebei Two were, despite international industry outcry, held guilty by the Koreans even as they were released.
It is crystal clear to me, at least, that we can no longer continue to depend on the goodwill of countries when it comes to marine accidents and the inevitable persecution of Masters or crews. Making guidelines for fair treatment of seafarers in a bid to strengthen the present system is absurd when the system itself is corrupt, hostage to special interests and usually looking for scapegoats. The IMO is barking up the wrong tree here.
What is needed, instead, is a systematic protection of seafarer rights. What is needed is for an apex organisation like the IMO or the ILO to automatically launch its own investigation, backed by maritime experts, every time a seafarer is detained in a country after an incident. This investigation must shadow the investigation being conducted by the country in question and publish publicly its findings, making recommendations if required to the State where the detention has occurred.
If this independent investigation thinks that there is no prima facie evidence of any culpability on the part of the seafarer, the seafarer must be allowed to return home, promising to return if required in future. In any case, the international community must ensure that the entire process is fair and speedy. In case the prosecuting country fails to follow the recommendations of the independent investigation, it should be 'blacklisted' and face penalties in trade and shipping businesses.
It is probably too much to expect the Indian Government to show some spine when it comes to seafarer or even industry issues. Nevertheless, Governments of major seafarer supply nations like India and the Philippines must flex some muscle, and private industry players must concertedly push for this muscle to be flexed. India does not seem to tire of tom tomming its emerging superpower status; time to put some money where the mouth is, gentlemen. My recommendation: threaten Taiwan with trade sanctions unless Capt. Aroza gets a free, fair and speedy trial. There is no prima facie case against him, anyway.
Friends of mine tell me that the maritime world is not geared for my suggestions, and that neither private companies, the IMO nor the Indian government has the enthusiasm, people, budget or organisations in place to do what I suggest. I can only say this in response: The entire maritime world descends on the scene of an accident like bees on honey smelling money. There seems to be no shortage of budget, will or manpower then, and no shortage of enthusiasm either. I am sure some of this enthusiasm can be easily diverted to benefit the innocent seafarer, for a change. Lack of will is usually just an excuse.
We will not be able to fight the criminalisation issue by tilting at windmills after each incident. In the absence of a systemic response, we will be firefighting the problem, not solving it, and so we will lose.
One does not go into battle except with the intention of victory.
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I am trying my best not to forget that I am a seaman.
It has been a couple of years now since I sailed last. This is not the first time I have taken a break from sailing: this rolling stone spent close to two years with a software company almost a decade ago that had no connection with the sea. (I would have liked to gather Kate Moss, though, but that is another story.) I have, in addition, taken a year off once or twice to stay out of the rut. I don't know about you, but I find it invigorating to evaluate my life once in a while.
But that isn't my point here. Thing is, I think I am at a stage ashore when I am likely, unless I am careful, to join the multitude of ex seamen who step into shore occupations and forget where they came from. They become businessmen or yuppies, and deluded ones at that, embellishing and resenting their past in equal measure while living a life that is considerably less real than one that they left behind.
The question as to why mariners move ashore and then enthusiastically contribute to a system that is antagonistic to seamen has been oftentimes asked by better men than I, so I will not even try to answer it. A Master Mariner friend of mine fell into a shore job and told me a few months later that the shipping firm he worked for treated Shipmasters with disdain. Including him, obviously, since he said to me in a contemptuous tone, "We Superintendents go to the quayside and we don't even bother going up to meet the Captain." Although I thought at the time that the Captain was better off not having his precious rest disturbed by the likes of my friend, that is quite beside the point, actually. This man (an ex Captain) felt it important to let me (a sailing Captain) know that Master's were nobodies ashore. His blathering revealed his mindset, and I wondered at the time whether the real reason for his working ashore was that he wanted to be in a position where he could pamper his juvenile ego, or at least pretend to. On the other hand, perhaps the neckties he now wore to work had sufficiently choked the blood supply to his brain.
Not just senior seagoing officers exhibit this pathetic arrogance. I say pathetic because it exposes what a wretched existence they must live, torn between a past they now deride and the absurdity of their present behaviour. My moving into a high sounding function ashore in an earlier avatar has meant nothing to me in the past: I remained proud of having been a seaman and lost no opportunity to advertise how the sea shapes men positively. In any case, I cannot understand where the contempt comes from: most shore functions in shipping are meant to support shipboard operations, not control them, a fact that any twopenny MBA graduate will tell all of us for free. Instead of realising the respect a sailor deserves, however, too many of us slip into something more comfortable: arrogance.
This arrogance (or superiority complex, though Freud tells us that this is actually an inferiority complex manifesting itself which is a theory I can easily believe) is displayed by many including the lowest clerks in many shipping company offices. Depending on supply and demand, I hasten to add. As one clerk told me in Hindi, which I loosely translate tongue in cheek here: when times are bad we have to even make a donkey our father.
Such vagaries (and vulgarities) aside, I for one firmly believe that a sailing Chief Engineer or Master deserves far more dignity than he is bestowed by his colleagues, and certainly deserves more respect than many of the senior honchos in his organisation ashore. Moreover, the lowest ranked crewmember is more critical to the profitability of the organisation than many of the clerks who treat him like dirt, market forces notwithstanding.
I am glad to say that after a couple of years ashore I still feel this way. I remain on my guard, though. I know that the moment I start drifting into the usual flatulent arrogance of the pompous will be the moment I will start to lose whatever little sense I have left. I hope that I have the intelligence to recognise this event if it happens. I hope it never does.
However, if it does happen and I find myself drifting into the meaningless blather of the self important, I hope I have enough sense left to go back to sea to get some salt on my lips once again. I did it once a decade or so ago, leaving a comfortable head honcho's shore job. People told me I was crazy, even dumb.
Whatever, I still think it is better to be a dumb sailor than a puffed up ass.
MAFA?
Once upon a time, up until about thirty years ago, more people from Europe went out to sea to make their fortunes. Then things changed: economic prosperity at home resulted in higher salaries ashore; this, coupled with the unique disadvantages of seafaring nullified the advantages of a seagoing career in potential seafarer's eyes. The industry sought alternatives, and found, amongst others, Philippines and India as cheaper and more willing sources of manpower.
India is facing, today, what Europe faced then, which is a slow erosion of seafaring as a preferred option. Listen, for a moment, then, to the sound of history repeating itself, and ask yourself if this is inevitable or inconsequential. Ask yourself, too, if this is desirable, or if we need to address this issue seriously or just plod along hoping for the best, expecting the worst, and not doing much about it all either way.
I believe we in India are at the cusp of a major trend change. For one, there is a difference between these two parallels I have drawn above. Europe, particularly the UK, dominates shipping in other ways even today, decades after its seafarers stopped coming out to sea in large numbers. They have forced a monopoly in shipping as in some other industries; along with the US and some other powerful countries, the centre of gravity of shipping regulation, insurance, consultancy, research, freight indices, reinsurance, classification and a plethora of other specialised services is still in the West. We could argue if the US is more powerful than Europe here, but, in any case, Asia is not where the biggest decisions and regulations are made. The roll call of big maritime corporations may include Japanese and Taiwanese ship owners, but the influence of a relatively smaller European company on international regulation is larger. Indian influence is almost nonexistent compared to even some other Asian countries, anyway.
Which means that if India loses even the six percent or so market share she has of the global seafarer market today, she can kiss the industry goodbye eventually, because shipping expertise will die out in a generation or so. The EU survived this sort of thing by keeping Asians and others away from employment in the shoreside industry in Europe and promoting former East European nationalities there: we in India will not have similar options. Expatriates will not come in unless Mumbai is a magnet the way London or New York are.
We have other inherent disadvantages when we compare ourselves with China, arguably our biggest future threat when it comes to manning market share in maritime expertise: our governments have so far been largely disinterested in our industry, especially in the promotion of seafaring as a career. Additionally, although we in India seem to have accepted that we will have to source people now from non English speaking and semi urban or rural backgrounds, we have no drawn no large scale plans of either recruiting them or improving their language (and sometimes even mathematical) skills once employed. The Chinese can mandate "Fifty thousand English speaking mariners required by 2012" and deliver. We will be slower even if we get our act together, because we will be looking at the private sector to largely fund and manage this kind of exercise: one that has so far not shown much vision when it comes to manning issues. Indian governments, too, continue to be shortsighted on this score year after year.
The Philippines, another huge competitor, has supported private and public initiatives much better, which is why a third of the global seafaring community comes from that country today, and why Filipinos still want to go out to sea. I can easily foresee, a few years down the road, a time when China and the Philippines will, between them, decimate the Indian manning market share. Besides, we will not be able to claim professional, language or other superiority if we continue to recruit people with lower academic scores and language skills compared to earlier, and especially if we do not train them properly to overcome these deficiencies.
So we need to fix the problem. We need to forecast domestic and international requirements reasonably accurately and not just play the hackneyed 'supply and demand' record. We need to aggressively source new recruits, perhaps starting some formal identification of these at Class/Grade 10 level. We need to explain to them the advantages and disadvantages of seafaring realistically. We need to train them appropriately, including additional training in language or other skills if required, probably as part of the Pre Sea training. We need to push the government to extend tax advantages to domestic seafarers, or there will come a time when we will see no Indians on Indian ships.
Existing national and international ship owing and management organisations must be involved in this and other industry/government initiatives; right now they seem to be mere public relations orientated bodies. In addition, as often said in earlier columns (just one, 'Carpe Diem' last September), we need, desperately, an independent national seafarers body for feedback and input to government and industry. Not a Union; we know how that works, but a body that can facilitate this process by giving input into young seafarer expectations from the industry.
What is frustrating is that all these thoughts are nothing new. These measures, and probably better ones, have been put forward by some of us often. Frustratingly, nothing happens. Therefore, this, too, is the sound of history repeating itself.
What is equally frustrating is that nobody who can implement a workable alternative seems to be interested in doing so. Not in industry and not in government, both of whom appear to work in the 'I am all right, Jack" mode with no thought to the responsibilities they have chosen to take upon themselves, and which are critical for the long term survival of the industry.
You know, I am sometimes irritated by the media hype that seems to surround Mr. Narayanamurthy of Infosys. However, one of his comments in an interview not that long ago resonates, when he said, "In India, we mistake articulation for accomplishment".
You haven't seen anything yet, Mr. Narayanamurthy. Peep into the maritime world; our leaders are postmasters at 'MAFA'.
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Romania Joins Allies, Fall Of Falkenhayn
BY Erik Sass
Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 248th installment in the series.
August 27-29, 1916: Romania Joins Allies, Fall Of Falkenhayn
By the late summer of 1916, it looked like the tides of war had shifted decisively in favor of the Allies. The German offensive against Verdun had been thwarted and was now being slowly rolled back; the Allied offensive at the Somme was grinding forward, sucking in more and more German divisions (contributing to the failure at Verdun); the Italians had scored their biggest, or indeed only, victory to date at the Sixth Battle of the Isonzo; and most dramatically, the Russians had achieved a massive breakthrough on the Eastern Front with the Brusilov Offensive, shattering entire Austro-Hungarian armies and forcing the Germans to pull even more troops from the Western Front to shore up their beleaguered ally.
Things were about to get even worse for the Central Powers – or so it seemed – as Romania declared war on Austria-Hungary and launched an invasion of her erstwhile Triple Alliance partner on August 27, 1916. Like Italy and Serbia, Romania's antagonism against the Habsburg realm was fueled by her nationalist aspirations to "redeem" its ethnic Romanian population by breaking up the Dual Monarchy and uniting them with a new, expanded Kingdom of Romania. After months of indecision, with the war apparently turning against the Central Powers Romania's government – fearing they might miss out on the division of spoils – finally threw its lot in with the Allies in a secret military convention signed in July 1916.
On August 28, 1916, Romanian Prime Minister Ion Bratianu delivered a declaration of war to the Austro-Hungarian ambassador, citing the Central Powers' evident ambition to redraw the map of the Balkan Peninsula and Eastern Europe and Austria-Hungary's long mistreatment of its ethnic Romanian population as justifications for this intervention:
Today we are confronted by a situation de facto threatening great territorial transformations and political changes of a nature constituting a grave menace to the future of Rumania… For a period of thirty years the Rumanians of Austria-Hungary not only never saw a reform introduced, but, instead, were treated as an inferior race and condemned to suffer the oppression of a foreign element which constitutes only a minority amid the diverse nationalities constituting the Austro-Hungarian States… Rumania, from a desire to hasten the end of the conflict and to safeguard her racial interests, sees herself forced to enter into line by the side of those who are able to assure her realization of her national unity. For these reasons Rumania considers herself, from this moment, in a state of war with Austria-Hungary.
On paper Romania was a formidable force, with an army of 800,000 men – but there was only enough equipment for about 550,000 of these, and many had received scarcely any training, while their officers had no experience with the grim realities of modern trench warfare. True, the Allies promised to supply Romania with weapons, ammunition and other necessities, but the only route left open to the isolated eastern Balkan nation lay through some of the most primitive parts of Europe, in what is now Moldova. Russia was also supposed to send an army to Romania's aid, but by the time this improvised force made it to the combat zone the situation was already desperate; just as importantly, the Brusilov Offensive had finally ground to a halt, thanks in part to the arrival of German reinforcements.
On the other side, the Habsburg Army was indeed stretched to the breaking point, leaving Hungary's vast Transylvanian hinterland more or less unprotected – but Austria-Hungary's powerful partner Germany was hardly going to sit by and let her only ally be dismembered by a second-tier Balkan state. And Germany wasn't the only one Romania had to worry about: Bulgaria was still nursing a major grudge over Romania's "stab in the back" in the Second Balkan War of 1913, when the Romanians seized the Danube province of Dobruja while Bulgaria was embroiled in a disastrous struggle (admittedly, almost entirely her own fault) with Serbia, Greece, and Turkey.
Despite all this the Romanians made considerable progress at first, benefiting from Austria-Hungary's inability to mount a concerted defense against the three invading Romanian armies (a fourth Romanian army stood guard against the Bulgarians in the south). The invaders received support from sympathetic Romanian peasants as well, and by September 1, 1916 they had occupied a number of key towns along the Hungarian frontier, including Kronstadt, Petroseni, Kezdiasarhely, Brasov, and Sibiu. But the Romanian honeymoon would be short-lived.
The Fall of Falkenhayn
On August 28-29, 1916, the First World War claimed yet another political casualty: this time it was the turn of the cold, imperious chief of the German general staff, Erich von Falkenhayn.
A relatively junior officer when he was promoted to the top spot following Helmuth von Moltke's nervous breakdown at the beginning of the war, Falkenhayn owed his quick ascent to the personal favor of Kaiser Wilhelm II, which also helped protect him from his growing army of critics in the senior echelons of the German Army – for a time.
But by the second half of 1916 multiple mistakes and miscalculations were finally catching up with him. The most glaring was the debacle at Verdun, which Falkenhayn had planned to be a carefully calibrated battle of attrition to bleed France white – but which quickly spun out of control, as German field commanders pressed forward regardless of casualties, resulting in almost as many German losses as French. Falkenhayn also paid the price for failing to anticipate the size and intensity of the British onslaught at the Somme, and for discounting Russia's continued war-making ability, demonstrated in the Brusilov Offensive. Romania's decision to join the Allies was the last straw – the German Army needed new leadership.
Falkenhayn's successor, announced on August 29, 1916, would be none other than Paul von Hindenburg, assisted as always by his brilliant younger aide de camp Erich Ludendorff, who had become national heroes with the victory at Tannenberg in August 1914 and earned more plaudits for the Central Powers' victorious campaign on the Eastern Front in the summer of 1915. As "Easterners," Hindenburg and Ludendorff believed that the Central Powers should try to achieve victory by knocking Russia out of the war, while assuming a defensive posture on the Western Front – foreshadowing another major change in German strategy in 1917.
For his part Falkenhayn would have a successful "second act" as commander of the Central Powers counterattack against Romania, earning praise for his skillful handling of the hybrid force composed of German, Habsburg and Bulgarian armies (along with his subordinate August von Mackensen, who had previously orchestrated the successful assault on Serbia in the fall of 1915).
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La Poste du Bénin is the government organisation responsible for the post in Benin.

Benin has been a member of the Universal Postal Union since 27 April 1961 and is also a member of the West African Postal Conference.

See also
Postage stamps and postal history of Benin

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I can finally say we are 99% moved into our new home. Everything for the most part is where it belongs. Were getting settled and adjusted to the new area. We missed the Cherry Blossoms unfortunately but patches of beautiful flowers have been popping out so I took full advantage & hauled the littlest out for some photos.


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package bled.navalny.com.helpers;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.SharedPreferences;

import bled.navalny.com.ApplicationWrapper;

/**
 * Created by svyatozar on 13.08.17.
 */

public class SharedPreferenceHelper {
	private final static String PREF_FILE = "PREF";
	private final static String TOKEN_KEY = "TOKEN_KEY";

	public static void setToken(String token) {
		setSharedPreferenceString(ApplicationWrapper.context, TOKEN_KEY, token);
	}

	public static String getToken() {
		return getSharedPreferenceString(ApplicationWrapper.context, TOKEN_KEY, "");
	}

	/**
	 * Set a string shared preference
	 * @param key - Key to set shared preference
	 * @param value - Value for the key
	 */
	public static void setSharedPreferenceString(Context context, String key, String value){
		SharedPreferences settings = context.getSharedPreferences(PREF_FILE, 0);
		SharedPreferences.Editor editor = settings.edit();
		editor.putString(key, value);
		editor.apply();
	}

	/**
	 * Set a integer shared preference
	 * @param key - Key to set shared preference
	 * @param value - Value for the key
	 */
	public static void setSharedPreferenceInt(Context context, String key, int value){
		SharedPreferences settings = context.getSharedPreferences(PREF_FILE, 0);
		SharedPreferences.Editor editor = settings.edit();
		editor.putInt(key, value);
		editor.apply();
	}

	/**
	 * Set a Boolean shared preference
	 * @param key - Key to set shared preference
	 * @param value - Value for the key
	 */
	public static void setSharedPreferenceBoolean(Context context, String key, boolean value){
		SharedPreferences settings = context.getSharedPreferences(PREF_FILE, 0);
		SharedPreferences.Editor editor = settings.edit();
		editor.putBoolean(key, value);
		editor.apply();
	}

	/**
	 * Get a string shared preference
	 * @param key - Key to look up in shared preferences.
	 * @param defValue - Default value to be returned if shared preference isn't found.
	 * @return value - String containing value of the shared preference if found.
	 */
	public static String getSharedPreferenceString(Context context, String key, String defValue){
		SharedPreferences settings = context.getSharedPreferences(PREF_FILE, 0);
		return settings.getString(key, defValue);
	}

	/**
	 * Get a integer shared preference
	 * @param key - Key to look up in shared preferences.
	 * @param defValue - Default value to be returned if shared preference isn't found.
	 * @return value - String containing value of the shared preference if found.
	 */
	public static int getSharedPreferenceInt(Context context, String key, int defValue){
		SharedPreferences settings = context.getSharedPreferences(PREF_FILE, 0);
		return settings.getInt(key, defValue);
	}

	/**
	 * Get a boolean shared preference
	 * @param key - Key to look up in shared preferences.
	 * @param defValue - Default value to be returned if shared preference isn't found.
	 * @return value - String containing value of the shared preference if found.
	 */
	public static boolean getSharedPreferenceBoolean(Context context, String key, boolean defValue){
		SharedPreferences settings = context.getSharedPreferences(PREF_FILE, 0);
		return settings.getBoolean(key, defValue);
	}
}

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On Saturday the 11th of february at 18 o'clock we'll be hosting a Board game evening.
Wether you are planning on building houses , hotels or villages , claiming your territory or conquering your opponent by sinking his ships .
Your presence will be appreciated !


The recently released spy film A Most Wanted Man tells the story of a small German intelligence group. The group is headed up by Gunther Bachmann (played by Phillip Seymour Hoffman). Bachmann is tasked with tracking and disrupting Islamic terrorist groups operating in Germany. Set in the gloomy city of Hamburg, the film's opening explains that it was here that the 9/11 attacks were planned for years with virtually no interference from German or American intelligence agencies. Although there were many reasons for suspicion and investigation prior to the terrorist attacks, both the German and American organizations did not respond effectively to them due to a lack of coordination and rivalries between and across governmental agencies.
At one point in the movie, Bachmann and his American counterpart discuss why they both work in this stressful and oftentimes brutal espionage environment. Bachmann states that he is committed to the goal of "making the world a safer place." The American says the same. Yet, despite this shared vision, Bachmann becomes increasingly at odds with not only the American intelligence team. He also runs into conflicts with his colleagues working in different departments at the German agency. Despite the common threat hanging over both countries, some of the worst aspects of human nature are powerfully at work hindering a unified response and a team mentality.
Bachmann leads a group of five people. From their interactions with each other, it is obvious that they have been working together for a long time and are extremely close. They trust Bachmann completely and they have great faith in one another because they have a deep knowledge of each other's abilities and motives. Bachmann's team keeps itself socially and professionally closed off from the other intelligence groups, and even physically isolated in their own facility – only rarely do they cross paths with their colleagues in different departments. By becoming so insular, Bachmann's team makes it nearly impossible for other intelligence groups to trust and work with them and vice versa.
Bachmann is a brilliant analyst and spy handler, but he's a terrible salesman. When he's called to a meeting by his superiors to explain why he's waiting to take a terrorist suspect in, he's standoffish, cold and evasive. Present at the meeting are a number of folks that it is clear Bachmann doesn't like, and he lets them know it. He struggles to communicate his methods and motives in a direct way and opts instead for making an analogy about fishing for sharks, which no one but himself seems to find amusing. Instead of winning his superiors and colleagues over to his side during this crucial moment, he mostly just angers and annoys them.
Numerous characters throughout the film make allusions to some operation that Bachmann botched in Beirut years ago, which led to the deaths of several operatives. Ostensibly, this past failure was the result of Bachmann trusting someone too much who later betrayed him. Haunted by this fact and the inability of any of his colleagues to let him forget it and move on, Bachmann is paranoid to the point of trusting no one outside of his innermost circle. His past cripples his ability to coordinate with other departments.
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The world of espionage is very different from the one most of us work in every day, but many of the same factors preventing optimal coordination and teamwork exist in every organization, regardless of the field or industry. Resisting cliquishness, learning to build a broad consensus, freeing people from their past mistakes, and properly incentivizing the attainment of group goals are all ways to break down the divisions that keep our organizations from working together.


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Q: JEDI JclCompression extraction issues with latest 7z.dll I have used JclCompression with the 32-bit version of 7z.dll 9.20 for quite a while and have recently tried to upgrade to a more recent version (16.04).  With the update in 7z.dll versions, I am unable to extract Bzip2 archives or tarballs (.tgz), as well as some other formats.  Is there something that changed with 7z.dll between 9.20 and 16.4 that would cause this?
I also tried 7z.dll from 9.38 and 15.14 but ran into the same issue.
More details:

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*Delphi XE3

*JCL 2.8 Testing Build 5677

*7z.dll from 7z1604.exe (32-bit)

*Any .bz2 file I've tried gives me the following error:

First chance exception at $0040D523. Exception class $C0000094 with
  message 'integer divide by zero at 0x0040d523'.
Debug Output: Exception:Catastrophic failure Process myapp.exe (2400)

I've followed the extraction code on this post.  Here's my thread's procedure for extraction where I see the error:
procedure TExtractThread.Execute();
begin
  if FArchive.ItemCount > 0 then
  begin
    FArchive.OnProgress := ArchiveProgress;
    FExtractionError := False;
    try
      FArchive.ExtractAll(FOutputDir);
    except on E: Exception do
      begin
        FExtractionError := True;
        OutputDebugString(pchar('Exception:'+E.Message));
      end;
    end;
  end;
end;

A: 7zip was in alpha/beta mode for years after v9.20 (2010).  The first subsequent stable release was V15.12 (Nov 2015) which came out several months after the JCL version you are using was released (2.8 Testing Build 5677, Sep 2015).  Support for 7z.dll version 15.14 was added Jan 3, 2016.  There does not seem to be any further updates checked in for newer DLL versions than this.  If you want to use a newer version of 7Zip you should probably update your JCL to a current version.
If you don't want to be testing beta or daily builds then the current stable JCL release (V2.4.1) is distributed with 7z.dll version 9.22 and you should stick with that if you need reliability more than any new features that have been introduced in the meantime.

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Check out our reviews of the latest 18V cordless drill models available today. We like to look at the details of each model.
What should you look for in an 18v cordless drill?
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My people who are called by name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will hear their land.
The 2019 Prayer Breakfast speaker is Michael Franzese, the former "Prince of the Mafia" son of the notorious Underboss of New York's Colombo crime family..
The Dallas Christian Leadership Prayer Breakfast exists to honor our Lord Jesus Christ by annually dedicating one morning to the encouragement of leaders.
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It's Official! We have legally changed our name to: Yogie and Friends FIV+ Cats Sanctuary.
We knew we would be changing our name once we no longer had any exotic cats. We added the Domestic Animal Project (D.A.P.) as a division of our organization back in 2005. We have been Yogie and Friends since 2000. We felt it was a brand many know and wanted to maintain it. So, here we are.
Sam: We took three cats in for physicals the other day and got Sam retested for FIV/FeLV. Whenever we get young cats that have tested positive we always retest them several months later. Many young cats test positive because of their mother's antibodies and come back negative later. Well, this is the case for sweet Sam. We were thrilled that his retest came back a big, fat, NEGATIVE! Yay! We asked our friends at Port City Cat Rescue (PCCR) if they would take Sam for us and place him up for adoption. They have agreed to do so, and they will take him to their rescue in about a week. PCCR has an adoption area in Petco and they also have a large facility within the Shreveport city limits that people go to adopt. They are in a much better place to do this for us. We will miss this sweet little guy, but we hope he gets adopted to a family that will spoil him like crazy!
New Cat Building: The new cat building is so close to completion. We painted a special water sealant on the floor the past two days as an extra added protection prior to putting the vinyl plank flooring in. This was recommended by a friend who is a home builder and we felt it was an excellent idea. The only things remaining to be completed inside the building is the two lofts, window and door trims, and the floor. When the inside is complete we will bring the cats in. We will then look at completing the outdoor enclosure later, but the sooner we get the cats inside, the better.
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11 April | AMA Blog, Powerful Words	| AMA Staff
April POWerful Word – MANNERS – Week 2
Sometimes we can feel like everyone is rushing around and there's no time for manners. People interrupt, talk over, demand or even yell. How can you interrupt someone with manners (i.e. excuse me, wait turn)? Why can it be considered rude to blurt out demands and…
We are taught when we are little that we should say "please" and "thank-you." What makes these words important? Is the WAY you say something just as important as WHAT you say? For example, is there a difference between these 2 sentences: "Sit down here."…
March POWerful Word – HONESTY – Week 4
Have you ever heard the expression "honesty is the best policy?" What do you think that means (i.e. honesty pays off, right thing to do)? Is it true– is honesty always best? While it's very important to be honest, sometimes people don't think honesty is best- do…
There are consequences to our actions– whether we steal, cheat, lie or remain truthful, there are always consequences to our choices. What does it mean to have a "consequence?" Finish this sentence; "When I am truthful, I…" (i.e. feel relaxed, feel worried people might not like…


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I love decorating my food before eating it. It looks appealing to me.
We also ordered Burritos - the cheese and bean one since I don't like the ones with beef or chicken. We left the resto with a full tummy.
At dinner, we had Samgyeopsal. I like their kimchi. It tastes sweet and very spicy. What I like with Korean Restaurants is that they give a free refill when you ask for a kimchi. Paul loves kimchi so much at nahawa lang ako. Their Samgyeopsal is very affordable for only 170 pesos compared with what we had in Quezon City but to be fair, the meat in Quezon City (I forgot the name of the resto) is sliced thinly like bacons unlike here as what you can see on the picture.
P.S. Agave has bottomless margaritas, just a thought, you may want to check it.
Mexican food is one of my favorites! I'm seriously craving for them after reading your post. I wish I could get some right now.


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Meanwhile, melt half the butter in a pan, add the apples, 1 tbsp sugar and a pinch of cinnamon and cook gently, stirring frequently, until soft. Keep warm..
Melt the remaining butter in a non-stick pan then drop in a spoonful of the batter. When little bubbles appear on the surface, turn over and cook until golden on both sides.
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NATE Announces Results of 2014 Board of Directors Election
Cipov and Lee reelected; Jones, Miller and Train added to board
The National Association of Tower Erectors has released the results of its 2014 Board of Directors election.
NATE says candidates Pat Cipov, president of Cipov Enterprises Inc. in Sumter, S.C., and Bryan Lee, president of Lee Antenna & Line Service Inc. in Hellertown, Pa., were reelected and will retain their seats.
Candidates John Paul Jones, president of Tower & Turbine Technologies LLC in Austin, Texas; Jimmy Miller, president of MillerCo Inc. in Gulfport, Miss.; and Don Train, President of Train's Towers Inc. in Haddon Heights, N.J., also will be serving as new members of the association's board.
The candidates will officially begin their two-year terms Feb. 23, 2014 at the NATE UNITE 2014 conference in San Diego, Calif.
"NATE extends our congratulations to the candidates who emerged successful in the 2014 Board of Directors election," said Executive Director Todd Schlekeway. "Serving on the NATE Board of Directors is a tremendous commitment and we appreciate their willingness to contribute their time and talents to continue to help the association fulfill its mission of raising the bar on industry safety, standards and education."


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MARVEL TALES CAPTAIN BRITAIN #1
A legendary hero flies the flag for the United Kingdom as we celebrate the legacy of the House of Ideas with the era-spanning MARVEL TALES! In Chris Claremont and Herb Trimpe's incredible CAPTAIN BRITAIN (1976) #1-2, Brian Braddock must choose between the Sword of Might and the Amulet of Right. Only one will transform him into Captain Britain, champion of Albion! Then, Brian takes a trip across the pond and ends up in Spider-Man's neighborhood - but their first meeting turns downright murderous, courtesy of Arcade, in MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #65-66 - by the fan-favorite team of Claremont and John Byrne! Then, the sword is drawn in EXCALIBUR (1988) #1 as Claremont joins artist Alan Davis to team Captain Britain and his girlfriend Meggan with a trio of ex-X-Men - Nightcrawler, Shadowcat and Phoenix - to form the UK's most offbeat super team! Collecting CAPTAIN BRITAIN (1976) #1-2, MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #65-66 and EXCALIBUR (1988) #1.
Rated T+ 88 page full colour comic published by MARVEL COMICS (W) Chris Claremont (A) Herb Trimpe & Various (CA) Inhyuk Lee


The School of Medicine sets goals and assesses student achievement in several ways, including, retention/on-time graduation, passing national board examinations, and job placement after graduation.
Retention/On-time Graduation: Most students who enroll in the School of Medicine complete the program. Of the 2010 cohort of 105 entering students, 72 percent graduated in four years (2014).
National Board Examinations: The School of Medicine requires students to pass Step 1, Step 2 (CK) and Step 2 (CS) of the U.S. Medical Licensure Examinations (USMLE) to receive the MD degree. The first-time taker pass rate on Step 1 in 2013 was 87 percent. The first-time taker pass rate on Step 2 CK for 2013 was 85 percent. The first time taker pass rate on Step 2 CS for 2013 was 88 percent.
Job Placements: Students who graduate from the School of Medicine participate in the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP). Of the 98 participants in the 2014 Match, 88 percent earned placements in residency programs as of March 2014.


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PUBLISHED March 2, 2017 IN Arts, Medicine
For Alzheimer's Patients and Caregivers, a Tour of the Nasher Museum Opens Doors
Reflections program uses art to keep patients active, thinking
This short documentary film follows two families who are regulars on the monthly "Look and Lunch" tours through Duke Family Support Services. Video by Kati Henderson.
Nasher Museum of Art @NasherMuseum
Reflections: The Nasher Museum Alzheimer's Program provides engaging and interactive museum tours to visitors with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia, their families, and their care partners.
Reflections tours include guided discussions through the galleries, as well as live musical performances or hands-on art experiences.
Between November 2014 and December 2016, 1020 individuals with dementia and their care partners toured the Nasher Museum with the Reflections Program. Eighty-five tours were led by eleven Gallery Guides (five community members and six Duke undergraduate, graduate, or medical students).
By 2016, the Nasher established close partnerships with Duke Family Support Services and Eno Pointe Assisted Living.
In April of 2017, the Reflections Program will hit a new milestone as tours are opened to the general public, not only visitors with organized groups.
These special tours offer people who live with memory loss and their families the opportunity to enjoy art in the moment and to engage with the current exhibitions using multiple senses. Tours are inspired by the Meet Me at MoMA model.
It can be difficult for individuals with Alzheimer's to find welcoming communities where they can engage and socialize without the fear of judgement or the stress of a strange situation. Programs like Reflections offer spaces where individuals with dementia can comfortably discuss new ideas and enjoy spending time with others.
The Reflections Program began in 2014, with Nasher Museum educators offering tours in partnership with the Duke Family Support Program.
GROUP TOURS: Group Reflections tours are available on the third Tuesday of the month at 10:30 AM and 1:30 PM. There is no fee for these tours. Reservations must be made in advance. Please contact Brittany Halberstadt at reflections@duke.edu or call 919-684-8816 to book a tour
PUBLIC TOURS: Beginning April 25th, Reflections tours will be available to the general public on the fourth Tuesday of every month. There is no fee for these tours. Reservations must be made at least a week in advance. Please contact Brittany Halberstadt at reflections@duke.edu or call 919-684-8816 to book a tour.
Please see our tour page for more information.
Tours were specifically designed for individuals in the early stages of Alzheimer's. Reflections tours expanded in the summer of 2015 to include individuals with mid- and late-stage Alzheimer's disease. Beginning in April of 2017, Reflections tours will be offered to the general public on the fourth Tuesday of each month. Individuals in early- and mid- stages of Alzheimer's disease are invited to join these tours.
Reflections: The Nasher Museum Alzheimer's Program is made possible by Stefanie and Doug Kahn in honor of their fathers, Donald Schneider and Mike Kahn; the Carlyle Adams Foundation; and Chrissey Hunt.


When it comes to staying healthy, there are many doctors, nurses, dentists and medical professionals that work around the clock to ensure that Gwinnett patients receive the highest level of care. Take a look at our annual Health Wire for news about how those in the healthcare profession are working to keep Gwinnettians at their healthiest.
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(Jayson Veley) Imagine lying on a hospital bed, closing your eyes, and then being able to hear the doctors announce your own time of death. If this sounds strangely familiar to you, perhaps you're thinking of the recently released remake of the 90s horror film Flatliners, which is about a group of young doctors who intentionally poison their hearts to find out what life is like after death. But in an eerie twist, it turns out that the movie may not be entirely fictional after all.
Scientists have discovered that even after a person's body stops showing signs of life, their consciousness continues to work, meaning that in theory, hospital patients are able to hear the doctors announce their time of death.
A team of researchers from New York University Langone School of Medicine recently observed people who suffered cardiac arrest and then came back to life in order to find out more about what happens after we die. The studies author, Dr. Sam Parnia, explained the team's findings to Live Science: "They'll describe watching doctors and nurses working and they'll describe having awareness of full conversations, of visual things that were going on, that would otherwise not be known to them." Dr. Parnia added that the recollections were all verified by medical and nursing staff.
The idea that you remain conscious in the moments after death really is like something out of a horror movie, and it becomes even more terrifying when you put yourself in that situation. Imagine what it would be like to hear doctors talking about your death, but not being able to move or respond in any way; no longer living, but thinking as if you were. For these reasons, the revelation that consciousness continues after death is both unsettling and also a significant discovery for the scientific community that will no doubt have a large impact on future research.
This new study, along with all of these accounts of people who have experienced life after death, will no doubt change the way research on the issue is conducted in the future, and it could even change the way in which we define death itself.


Are you having trouble making up your mind about which route to choose; about whether to separate or when; about what kinds of options are best for you; for your kids; for your company, community, or workplace? A couple of hours may well clarify the issues and offer a direction. Learn how to respect all the voices in your head and make good choices based on sound information.
Learning to hear and respect all of our inner voices: We all encounter various, differing voices in our minds. When we are under stress, sometimes we need a bit of help making sense of them all. Patricia believes all of our voices are important, but that we can be more secure in our decision making once we are able to identify our core self and put them in charge. What is best for us? Is this good for the kids too? Is there another way to see things? Can we work things out in another way with our business partner? Might there be options we haven't yet thought of? How do we assess them?


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10TH MUSE COMIC BOOK IS BACK AFTER NINETEEN YEAR DEBUT
by First Comics News on November 19, 2019 10TH MUSE COMIC BOOK IS BACK AFTER NINETEEN YEAR DEBUT2019-11-19T07:20:08-08:00 - News
The hit comic book series that started off at Image Comics is coming back to TidalWave Comics nineteen years to this month.
Rated the sixth highest selling comic book in its debut in 2000 by Diamond Distributors. The new issue is being released November 20th in print and online.
Greek mythology has documented the nine Muses, the inspirational daughters of the almighty god Zeus. But history forgot one—the 10th Muse. Emma Sonnet mysteriously disappeared five years ago during a summer trip to Greece celebrating her graduation from law school. Yesterday, she resurfaced just as mysteriously as the newly appointed District Attorney, with a unique take on the law. Battling evil in the courtroom by day, and in the shadows at night, Emma Sonnet is tipping the scales of justice her way, as the 10th Muse. Billionaire industrialist Grayson Bishop, charming and as deadly as a cobra, will as easily kill a rival as bury them in business. Now his sights are set on the 10th Muse, and he wants her dead in the worst way.
"We are excited to bring back this character after so many years. She has been a comic book icon when we launched her. I have been waiting for the right time to bring her back"' said creator Darren G. Davis. "If you loved the old series, you will definitely enjoy the new one".
"10th Muse: Justice #1: There is a line of evil creatures with a vendetta against the 10th Muse. Cronus, Circe and Sonnet have conjured a new villainess to the mix. Meet Justice and she is after the Muse and her friends. All this to try to bring back 10th Muse's classic foe Medusa as well as the frightening Charybdis.
Written by Darren G. Davis and Ryan Burton. Art by Carlos Silva.
The comic book will be on Amazon worldwide in print. Also available on your e-reader from iTunes, Kindle, Nook, ComiXology, DriveThruComics, Google Play, Overdrive, IVerse, Biblioboard, Madefire, Axis360, Blio, Entitle, EPIC!, Smash Words, Kobo and wherever eBooks are sold.
To view on Amazon, click here: https://amzn.to/2OuYl50
A special new hardcover edition of the original 10th Muse comic book that was first published by Image Comics in 2000 will be available as well. "10th Muse #1: Hardcover Anniversary edition" will include a bunch of extras. Created by Darren G. Davis, Written by Marv Wolfman and art by Ken Lashley. In print on Amazon: https://amzn.to/342VwOQ
Back issues graphic novels can be purchased through Arcana Comics.
For a five-page preview of the new comic book as well as the covers click here. Feel free to use the images and credit: TidalWave Productions: http://bit.ly/2CRHC6q
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Jim Press: A Driving Force in the Automotive World Featured
Written by Anthony Al-Jamie
Friday, 11 June 2021 17:11
Published in Feature Story
Jim Press
A Driving Force in the Automotive World
Former Toyota North America and Chrysler President Discusses Working for a Japanese Company, the Automobile Industry, and Former Nissan-Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn
Starting out in the automobile industry at the age of 13, Jim Press has held just about every position the sector has to offer. After college, he began working as an administrator at Ford Motor Company. In 1971, Press took a job at Toyota and stayed with the company for 37 years before leaving to become the executive vice chairman and president of Chrysler. While at Toyota, Press helped expand the company's worldwide reach, served as president and chief operating officer of Toyota North America, and became the first non-Japanese member of its board of directors. He has also worked as a senior advisor to the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance and Hyundai Motor North America. From 2015 to 2019, Press was the president of RML Automotive, and now he is the executive vice president of The McLarty Companies. Tokyo Journal Editor-in-Chief Anthony Al-Jamie talked with Jim Press about his career, the Nissan controversy, cross-cultural differences, and the future of the automotive industry.
TJ: Can you tell us how you first got into the automotive industry?
PRESS: I was born into an automobile family and started working in the business when I was 13. I had summer jobs at a General Motors assembly plant. I studied at a college that was a business school with an automotive curriculum. I was building cars when I was seven years old. One of my jobs was as a mechanic at a gas station. In a freezing December in Kansas City, a guy had his car towed to us — a brand new Ford that wouldn't start. I fixed it. It wasn't hard. The guy, who happened to be a Ford executive in the regional office, gave me his card and said, "If you ever want to go to work for Ford, you let me know." Don Keithley hired me [in 1969]. I then brought him to Toyota nine years later to run our Boston region. He's still a friend. I owe him a lot.
TJ: What did you do at Ford?
PRESS: I was a trainee calling on dealers, and my boss, who was the service and parts director for the region in Los Angeles for Ford, was recruited by Toyota in February of 1970, and he told me I had to go to work for him. I was a young guy. I didn't know. It was the same year that Henry Ford said that the Pinto was going to push Toyota back to the shores of Japan. I stayed at Toyota for 37 years.
TJ: What was your first job at Toyota?
PRESS: It was a small company then. It had just moved from a dealership into a headquarters, and there were about 300 employees nationally. I was in the service department, responsible for developing the service programs: the processes in the dealerships, uniforms, the Toyota service experience for the customers. But I was like an administrator, in charge of things like the vending machines, paper towels. I interviewed with Tatsuro Toyoda, the son of the founder, so it was that kind of a small family organization. I spent a lot of time in advertising and marketing, and dealer development. Then I went into the field and ran regions and even a distributorship. I had time running the airplane division, Lexus, auto operations, and then the company.
TJ: Do you think how you moved around from division to division so much was uniquely Japanese?
PRESS: I don't know about being Japanese. It's probably just more Toyota, but Toyota focuses on the individual functions for success, not the total success. For example, for building cars, the process wasn't designing a car. It was developing alloys and manufacturing processes to make cars. Then they made cars, and the whole company operated that way. Things like personal development, manufacturing processes, quality processes – those are the things that were built and focused upon and as a result, they really got good at building cars.
TJ: How would you contrast Toyota's style to Tesla's?
PRESS: Toyota is a very conservative company. Japanese companies, and culturally in Japan, society cares about other people first. In America, it's the opposite. Tesla is a good example of that. Tesla is about Elon Musk and how rich he's going to be. He's a very smart guy. I've been to his offices. They're very young people there, and they're very creative, very innovative, and move very quickly. Their cars are really technically advanced in software. But Toyota, on the other hand, checks every rock in the bridge before they're going to go across it. They move methodically. They use tried and true technology. They move to new technology very slowly, only when it's safe, sound, and financially prudent. There couldn't be more contrast between approaches. I don't want to detract from their accomplishment — [Tesla's] cars are quite advanced. They have achieved operating processes and systems that are way beyond what normal companies would have done in the same time, but Toyota will stand the test of time. Toyota's foundation has always been rooted in what it can do for the community, for society. The reason [Toyota] got into cars was to help post-war Japan rebuild and bring affluence to the Japanese population. Contrast that with a $2.6 billion payout for Elon Musk. It tells you a lot about the two cultures.
TJ: How about contrasting Toyota and Honda?
PRESS: First off, Honda is a much smaller company and newer. Toyota's foundation was built from the '30s in trucks. Toyota engineers who grew up in Aichi were basically farmers. They built reliable utility. Honda grew up in Tokyo building motorcycles. So, those two companies couldn't be more different. The growth of Honda was all in North America. They've never had a presence in Japan like Toyota does; Toyota controls the market in Japan. So, Honda is small, they have fewer resources, and they really rely on innovative mechanical engineering. Toyota has a balance of innovative mechanical engineering, business, marketing, sales — all of those things. So, I think Honda has never really been a competitor for Toyota. The Accord was for a little while with the Camry, but they don't have the market presence. They have a very nice, well-defined market, and a lot of loyal customers, but it's a different league.
TJ: How was the experience of moving from Toyota to Chrysler?
PRESS: I have more perspective and respect for Toyota because of my experience outside of the company. But now Chrysler is one of the best companies in the world because of [Sergio] Marchionne and Fiat. Chrysler has become arguably the best of the Detroit three companies.
TJ: What did you do after your time at Chrysler?
PRESS: I've been lucky for the past 10 years to be living in the retail car business, which I really enjoy. I have learned so much. I keep wasting all my learning on old people. I wish I was younger, especially right now with the transformation the industry's going through.
TJ: What was your role in working with the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance?
PRESS: I was a senior advisor to the alliance. I worked closely with [former Chairman] Carlos Ghosn and his staff, as well as the key executives in Nissan and Renault, along with country heads. I was able to provide assistance and support for strategic decision-making, and I had a chance to see that company that he built with the Japanese and the French.
TJ: What is your take on Carlos Ghosn and the investigation into possible financial misconduct?
PRESS: Well, I would think that the best place to start is the first 20 years, which is a lot of positivity. The people at Nissan with Mr. Ghosn and the alliance achieved tremendous success building that company into one of the biggest global powerhouses: manufacturing quality, cost, profitability, growth, bringing in Mitsubishi, working with Mercedes — all of those are significant accomplishments. That's not just Mr. Ghosn, but with him the company was very strong. I had the honor of working with him and the company at that time and saw from the inside out that they were in a position to achieve any objective that they wanted. The last year, I've no idea what really happened. However, it's a very unfortunate episode that changed the fate of Mr. Ghosn's legacy and the success that Nissan was enjoying. We'll see over time what happened. It has impacted Nissan's performance substantially. Anytime you have an abrupt change of executive management and direction, you're bound to have a period of difficulty while that abrupt change works its way through the system. It's unfortunate that it happened, but it doesn't really change the great things Mr. Ghosn and the company did over 20 years.
TJ: Do you believe this situation will contribute to any changes in the Japanese legal process?
PRESS: It's hard to generalize and say "the Japanese," especially when it comes to the government and policing. I think it's a situation where the outside world brings its interpretation of culture and society into another culture, and those don't always line up. I have always tried to believe that "when in Rome, do as the Romans do." That doesn't mean the Romans have to change to the way the visitors are either. But that does mean if you're going to get a lot of visitors, they probably both have to have some consideration, adjustment, and change to interact with each other in a positive way. So, I think, hopefully, that will be one of the byproducts of this experience. The other thing I will mention, though, which is more sensitive: the most unfair element is [former Nissan executive] Greg Kelly, who was a bystander. [Kelly] was lured to Japan under false pretenses by a longtime trusted friend and remains basically a hostage, with very little chance of ever seeing the light of day. He can't get a fair trial. He doesn't have all the money, and it appears that he's being held as leverage to try and get something out of Mr. Ghosn. It's an unfortunate byproduct of this terrible episode. The treatment of Mr. Kelly and his family is something that should be considered to see how that could have been handled better, in my mind.
TJ: I understand that you're also senior advisor for Hyundai Motor North America. Has that been a learning curve?
PRESS: Oh, it's wonderful. It's like I'm in grade school again. The contrast is if Japan has a doppelganger kind of society, it's probably Germany. If they fashioned themselves after somebody, having that kind of discipline, planning, correctness, and conservatism, they're like Germany. If there was a doppelganger for Korea, I'd say it's Italy. They're more emotional, they're quick, they're very smart – driven. We used to have a saying back in the 70s that the Americans were in airplanes flying internationally first class and the Japanese were in coach. In the 80s, the Japanese were in business class. In the 2000s, the Koreans are in coach, the Japanese are in first class, and the Americans in business class. Koreans have a view of perfection and achievement. They want to set the world standard on design, quality ... Kia is the number-one-quality car in America along with Dodge. The people are brilliant and work tirelessly because they're building a superior life for their culture and for their society. It's not for the individuals. The Japanese did that, but the generation of Japanese today aren't driven like the Koreans are. We were driven that way after the depression, but you could say America is not there at the table either.
The complete article can be found in Issue #280 of the Tokyo Journal.
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Anthony Al-Jamie lived and worked as an educational administrator and journalist in Tokyo for over 20 years. His in-depth understanding of Japanese language and culture has allowed him to carry out interviews with many of the most renowned individuals in Japan. He first began writing for the Tokyo Journal in the 1990s as Education Editor, later he was promoted to Senior Editor, and eventually International Editor and Executive Editor. He currently works in higher education publishing and serves the Tokyo Journal as Editor-in-Chief.
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Miłosz Bernatajtys (ur. 30 maja 1982 w Słupsku) – polski wioślarz, zawodnik LOTTO-Bydgostia Bydgoszcz.

Na igrzyskach olimpijskich w Pekinie zdobył wraz z Pawłem Rańdą, Bartłomiejem Pawełczakiem i Łukaszem Pawłowskim srebrny medal w konkurencji czwórek bez sternika wagi lekkiej.

Brązowy medalista mistrzostw świata z Poznania w czwórkach bez sternika wagi lekkiej (2009). Miłosz Bernatajtys zdobył dwudziestokrotnie (w latach 1997-2016) tytuł Drużynowego Mistrza Polski w barwach LOTTO-Bydgostia Bydgoszcz.

Postanowieniem Prezydenta RP z dnia 8 października 2008 został odznaczony Złotym Krzyżem Zasługi.

Osiągnięcia

Igrzyska Olimpijskie
 Pekin 2008
 2. miejsce (srebrny medal) – czwórka bez sternika wagi lekkiej

Mistrzostwa świata
 6. miejsce – czwórka bez sternika wagi lekkiej (2005)
 8. miejsce – czwórka bez sternika wagi lekkiej (2006, 2007)
 3. miejsce – czwórka bez sternika wagi lekkiej (2009)

Mistrzostwa Europy
 Mistrzostwa Europy – Montemor-o-Velho 2010 – czwórka bez sternika wagi lekkiej – 2. miejsce.

Puchar Świata
 3. miejsce – czwórka bez sternika wagi lekkiej (Lucerna 2005)
 5. miejsce – czwórka bez sternika wagi lekkiej (Eton 2005)
 6. miejsce – czwórka bez sternika wagi lekkiej (Amsterdam 2007)
 8. miejsce – czwórka bez sternika wagi lekkiej (Monachium 2005)
 9. miejsce – czwórka bez sternika wagi lekkiej (Linz 2007)
 11. miejsce – czwórka bez sternika wagi lekkiej (Poznań 2006, Lucerna 2006)

Młodzieżowe mistrzostwa świata
 1. miejsce – czwórka bez sternika wagi lekkiej (2004)
 3. miejsce – dwójka podwójna wagi lekkiej (2003)

Mistrzostwa Polski
 1. miejsce – dwójka bez sternika wagi lekkiej (2007)
 1. miejsce – ósemka (2006)
 2. miejsce – dwójka podwójne wagi lekkiej (2004)
 2. miejsce – czwórka bez sternika wagi lekkiej (2005, 2006)
 3. miejsce – dwójka podwójna wagi lekkiej (2003)

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Przypisy

Polscy wioślarze na igrzyskach olimpijskich
Polscy medaliści olimpijscy
Polscy olimpijczycy (Pekin 2008)
Wioślarze na Letnich Igrzyskach Olimpijskich 2008
Medaliści Letnich Igrzysk Olimpijskich 2008
Polscy olimpijczycy (Londyn 2012)
Medaliści Mistrzostw Świata w Wioślarstwie 2009
Medaliści Mistrzostw Europy w Wioślarstwie 2010
Odznaczeni Złotym Krzyżem Zasługi (III Rzeczpospolita)
Ludzie sportu związani ze Słupskiem
Urodzeni w 1982
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The Ballad of Songbird and Snakes
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Author: Collins, Suzanne
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Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price.
The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined — every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute . . . and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.
Suzanne Collins is the author of the bestselling Underland Chronicles series, which started with Gregor the Overlander. Her groundbreaking young adult novels, The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay, were New York Times bestsellers, received wide praise, and were the basis for four popular films.
Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage.


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Chicago police officers found the man's body Thursday night surrounded by trash in a bin behind a gas station in the 3100 block of North Milwaukee Avenue, a spokesman for the examiner's office said.
The examiner's office ruled the man, who was in his 40s, died of hypothermia and chronic alcoholism, the spokesman said.
The case is at least the third cold-related death reported since late October in the Chicago area. Mitchell Krajewski, 83, died from exposure to the cold after he wandered away from a Norridge nursing home on Oct. 22. Officials also ruled the death of an unidentified man in his 50s whose body was found by officers in an abandoned warehouse Monday was exposure-related.