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Jean Luc-Godard's First Death: Letter to Jane and Tout Va Bien 50 Years Later
By Alex Lei | October 26, 2022 | 12:40pm
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On June 7, 1971, Jean-Luc Godard was riding on the back of a motorcycle that lost control and slid under a bus. After barely over a decade working as an already legendary director, the 40-year-old was lying on the pavement with a fractured skull and broken pelvis. His injuries would leave him in a week-long, life-or-death coma (and ultimately cost him a testicle). Godard was kept alive with insurance from the largest production he had worked on since his abandonment of so-called "commercial cinema," if his '60s works can be called that in the first place. Now that his life was in jeopardy so was the production, and therefore again his life. Godard's wife, Anne Wiazemsky, was able to arrange for doctors to keep his condition a secret, leaving his collaborator—the other half of his mind during his radical era—Jean-Pierre Gorin, to maintain a ruse that the film was still going to be made.
Tout va bien was not a return to commercial cinema, but it was a return to the larger stage of the international festival world. After 1967's Weekend, Godard told his usual bunch of collaborators that they would need to look for work elsewhere, as he was leaving the industry that they'd so revolutionized. Not the medium, but the industry, and soon he would try to apply his increasingly radical left-wing politics to his modes of filmmaking. After the failed revolution, the political flash-in-the-pan, or whatever you want to call the events of May '68 in France, Godard and Gorin started work on a collaborative film project that would reject any bourgeois notions of filmmaking like story or character, and instead serve as tools of revolutionary provocation.
They started calling themselves the Dziga Vertov Group, after the futurist agitprop-maker from the Soviet Montage school they thought best represented a filmmaker whose personality dissolved away in favor of revolutionary representation. They survived off of college and lecture tours, where the duo would screen their films as openings to dialogues between themselves and the audiences. The works weren't meant to just be seen on their own, but as beginnings to conversations. After four features as the collective (which would also ignite the collapse of another failed marriage for Godard, as Wiazemsky was also an essential collaborator), they were ready to apply their format to a larger stage, and to get the attention of big festivals and wider audiences, they needed stars for their film about the role of artists in the coming revolution.
Yves Montand, a sort of progressive-liberal French Sinatra, and Jane Fonda, that Old Hollywood star's daughter who had wholeheartedly embraced the left-wing, feminist counterculture of the time, were chosen by Godard and Gorin both for their political affiliations and their immediate recognition as stars, their off-screen personas being reflected back on screen. They were much easier to get on board initially than to keep on call when Godard was in the hospital. Fonda, who was hesitant to take on a project with two male directors when, at the time, she was advocating for more collaboration between women, looked like she was going to drop out of the project. Gorin, infuriated, trying to keep both his project and collaborator on life support, drove to her house in the south of France and told her, "At least have the guts to tell him face to face."
Even when the film was shooting and Godard was out of the hospital, he still needed intensive physical recovery, and although he was his ever-playful self, he didn't have the energy to maintain a usual level of work. As recounted by Richard Brody in his biography Everything is Cinema, Godard's contributions were "largely of a theoretical nature," while Gorin worked to mimic the filmmaker's famous visual stylings. Gorin was perhaps too good at this, as contemporary critics—who weren't aware of the production woes—questioned what Gorin's purpose was on a film that seemed to bear only the signatures of Godard.
It is an easy critique to make: Gorin, who debuted as a filmmaker with Tout va bien, was a co-author with Godard, one of the most visually recognizable filmmakers of his generation. But to only latch onto the immediately recognizable is to ignore the content of the texts, in which Gorin's Marxist analysis is essential (it should also be noted that Gorin's left-wing journalism was instrumental in Godard's political development earlier in the '60s). Godard commented in an interview in 1972 that "the only aim of the self is to be two," and as the Dziga Vertov Group sought to dissolve personality, both of the filmmakers—their ideas, aesthetics, inclinations—became fused. In fact, if anything truly revolutionary did happen in their time together, it was the triumph of collaboration—something the broader French left completely failed at. Their next and final project together would add clarity to this, and offer a culmination of the dialogue the two had been working through the last five years.
Letter to Jane was originally designed as a companion to Tout va bien, an opener to be screened before that film's North American premiere at the New York Film Festival 50 years ago. Speaking to the audience in English, they explain that the companion does not exist to distract from Tout va bien—as if the film was some kind of failure or needed an explanation—but instead as a "detour" along a journey, one which can add clarity to many of the same questions in the main feature. Primarily: "What part should intellectuals play in the Revolution?"
We're shown a frame capturing Fonda in a solemn look as she listens to a Vietnamese man, presumably a soldier from his helmet. In the center background, out-of-focus, we see an anonymous Vietnamese man, with whom Godard and Gorin find the primary tension inherent in the image. Foregrounded is the actress-militant in crystal-clear focus. In reality, they say "It is the American left that is blurry and out of focus, and the Vietnamese left that is exceptionally sharp and clear." But of course, they go on to explain that, "The photograph was taken in a certain way… to be published." The photo, so expertly and intentionally taken by American photographer and columnist Joseph Kraft, feels more composed than it does vérité. Fonda's face takes up most of the left third of the image, with an eyeline that the filmmakers point out implies a reverse shot, but one we never see. It is almost like a film still of a movie that was never made, the Hollywood star catching our eye and drawing our attention like a piece of advertising, towards that which those creating and republishing the photo think is of grave importance: The war in Vietnam. Yet, they can only understand a topic as important as this if filtered through that pop-celebrity lens.
However this evocation of star power, the inherent performance of Fonda being the militant and the "facial expression of the militant in the photograph is in fact that of a tragic actress." But as the filmmakers go on to say, "For Revolutionaries, there are no obvious truths… Imperialists use obvious truths to oppress those who are small." In other words, the direct nature of foregrounding Fonda opens itself up to something that is obvious, rather than forcing provocation (and if there is a single word to describe the works of Godard and Gorin in this era, it is "provocation"). While the photo serves as a means of propaganda towards a cause, its entanglements make it open to easy attack from the other side. That is not to say that Godard and Gorin have found a magic formula around this—they're all too aware of the issue and have been working to get around it through their collaborations, trying to make works which cannot be anything but revolutionary, and in their pursuit have been stuck in the world of criticism.
Most contemporary critics weren't too interested in Letter to Jane. Kent Jones called it "unsatisfactory and incomplete" in a 1975 review, which could be true if considered as a work that stands completely alone (which he acknowledges it is not meant to). James Roy Macbean, in his book on Godard Film and Revolution from the same year, argues that, "The main problem with Godard's and Gorin's revolutionary line in Letter to Jane is that it is divorced from any concrete situation. It is an abstract line, all the more dangerous for its impressive militancy." Macbean claims the two are stricken with a "disturbingly fastidious…rejection of immediacy," something which would be a substantial problem for filmmakers interested in the current moment. However, Godard had seemed to be straying away from the immediate since '68, and all of his work with Gorin had been headed more towards the abstract, even though, contradictorily, they were more concerned with the present moment than ever.
It would have been clear to Godard and Gorin while making Tout va bien that the film would likely take on a long-term life of its own, more so than their other collaborations, if only because it would be an artifact of two celebrities at a politically interesting moment. Perhaps, more than anything, that is why Letter to Jane exists: As a document of the dialogue that the two had been bouncing off of each other over the last five years. And as they were moving on to new work away from each other, it acted as a kind of final statement, an end to a certain line of questioning. Jones, in his video essay "Revolutions per Second," points out that Godard's post-Gorin work has his concentration shifting "from the immediate now to poetic time." All of his films from this point forward exist in an atemporal state of past, present and future flowing in and out of each other. And as his body of work grew over the decades, sometimes even the films themselves moved in and out of each other. If Letter to Jane is the bookend of one collaboration and one question (the role of the artist in the "capital R" Revolution), it is the preamble to his longest and most fruitful collaboration, that with Anne-Marie Miéville, the filmmaker who would explore with him the role of an artist in a world where the revolution never came, and who would be his partner until his death this September.
It would be hard to say the last 50 years of Godard's career since his near-death accident have been taken for granted, as they have hardly been taken at all. For many, the man has been a living monument to his seven-year run in the '60s. Martin Scorsese, in his eulogy for Godard written for the Cahiers du Cinéma, which once fostered the New Wave, talked about how, of the filmmakers in that generation, none were more exciting and liberating than Godard. He concludes by referencing a foreword Godard wrote for a collection of Truffaut's letters, saying that "Godard… is perhaps dead…But the work is absolutely and indisputably alive."
While ever the champion of world cinema, Scorsese is only explicitly referencing that first step into Godard's work, an era whose imaginative power has thoroughly overtaken the popular imagination of the man. But it was just the first step. Scout Tafoya put it best in his video essay on Godard's Hail, Mary: "He outlived nearly every one of his peers. Every maverick of the French New Wave, gone. But he'll never die. Because he's been stitched into the fabric of cinema now. He brought it back to life. And then he spent the rest of his existence wrestling with what he'd done. The only thing he never knew how to do was stop." For many, Godard could have died in that motorcycle accident in 1971 and his reputation would be all the same, if a bit more of an artist who never had the chance to grow old and keep innovating until his last breath. But that is precisely what he did, and it is worth paying attention to.
Alex Lei is a writer and filmmaker. Born in Portland, OR, he got a BA in film from Montana State University, and after working in politics for a time relocated to Baltimore. He spends his days working behind bar, endlessly editing old projects, researching new ones, and occasionally putting out writing. Words can usually be found at Frameland, Splice Today, his newsletter CompCin for longer-form writing, and Twitter for things that are barely written at all.
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On 14 June 2015 the "Immigration ONLINE" service went live to employers or advisers submitting applications on behalf of their employees or clients respectively.
Also, some applicants will now be issued e-visas instead of a stamp or endorsement in their passport.
Immigration ONLINE is the new service first launched in August 2014, to allow visa applicants to apply online.
What type of visas can be applied for online?
Only student visa, visitor visa and work visa applications can be made online. All other visa types, as well as any application where a family member is included, must still be submitted physically.
Immigration New Zealand (INZ) will allow additional types of online applications later this year.
Is there any advantage to using Immigration ONLINE?
Yes. Applications are being assessed in less than half the time of standard paper applications.
Can I or my employee still submit a paper application?
Yes. This is completely up to you and/or your employee.
How do I or my employee submit an application via Immigration ONLINE?
First, you need to go to the immigration website (www.immigration.govt.nz) and create a RealMe account.
After you have a RealMe account you can complete an online form, upload the required documents, pay the application fee and submit. The application fee must be paid by credit card.
Can Cavell Leitch use Immigration ONLINE to submit my or my employee's application for me?
Yes, we can. We can also make the entire process much more user-friendly and easy to follow.
Do the requirements for the visa change if the application is submitted using Immigration ONLINE?
No. All requirements remain the same.
Do I or my employee still need to include evidence of my employment and qualifications?
Yes. Any evidence that is normally required will need to be scanned, in colour, and uploaded to Immigration ONLINE.
How will my or my employee's passport be endorsed if the application is online?
If you are in New Zealand and use Immigration ONLINE to apply for either a work visa (if you are from a visa-waiver country) or visitor visa (excluding Chinese nationals) then you will be issued an e-visa.
If you are not in either of those categories, you must send your passport to INZ, after you have submitted the application. Immigration ONLINE will tell you the address.
An e-visa is an electronic visa. The visa details are on a PDF document that INZ sends by email. You/your employee must keep a copy to show when departing and re-entering New Zealand.
Is the e-visa any different to a normal visa?
No. An e-visa has the same validity and conditions as a visa that has been endorsed in your passport.
Can I get some help or advice in using the new Immigration ONLINE system and to understand e-visas?
Yes. Please feel free to telephone us or to come to one of our regular seminars. Our next seminar will discuss the online visa application process, which is on 11 August 2015. Please do not hesitate to contact Emma Morgan - emma.morgan@cavell.co.nz, or the head of the Immigration Team, Nicola Appleton - nicola.appleton@cavell.co.nz, if we can help in any way.


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Pontiac General Hospital in Detroit Selects OpenVista Healthcare IT Platform
Edmund Billings, MD
A seasoned healthcare information technology (IT) entrepreneur, Dr. Edmund Billings helped pioneer the development of electronic medical records (EMR).
In 2007 Edmund co-founded Open Health Data, an open source company formed to leverage the transition of healthcare data from creation and sharing to use and reuse. Several years prior he co-founded Billings Brand Development, a firm focused on improving physician practices through information technology and practice automation solutions. During this period, he developed the Voice of the Physician™ methodology, which drives the definition, validation and adoption of products by networks of physician practices.
In 1988 he co-founded Oceania, a company that collaborated with Kaiser Permanente to pioneer EMR design and technology. He has also served as chief medical officer for both adam.com and Precurrence, two San Francisco-based development partners focused on the syndication of multimedia health content.
Edmund trained in general surgery at the University of California, San Diego, and practiced emergency medicine for several years at Kaiser Permanente. A graduate of the University of Vermont College of Medicine, Edmund completed post-doctoral fellowships at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Shriners Burn Institute. He earned his bachelors degree focused on premedical training from Tufts University.
A key contributor to Medsphere's Healthcare Open Source Ecosystem, Edmund is also a member of other communities, including Open Health Tools, an open-source community with a vision of enabling a ubiquitous ecosystem where members of the Health and IT professions can collaborate to build interoperable systems that enable patients and their care providers to have access to vital and reliable medical information at the time and place it is needed. Currently he is the Associate Chief Medical Officer of athenahealth and VP of Acute Care Account Management.
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Toy Libraries
Philippine Toy Libraries
We've all been children once. For many of us, books and toys were constant companions as we were growing up. We also had crayons to paint pretty pictures with and musical instruments with which to create beautiful melodies. Many of us have been fortunate enough to live in neighborhoods that had playgrounds and parks with swings, seesaws and monkey bars. During that time, play was a wonderful source of joy, of exercise, of learning, and of creative expression.
Children everywhere need play in their lives. However, in poor and congested communities where resources are scarce, children play in streets and alleys, near sewers and esteros. These places, however, are not always safe for them. In far-flung rural communities, children do not always have access to toys that they can play with.
A group of friends saw this situation as a pressing need that must be addressed. Thus, together with like-minded people who responded to the call for donations of old toys, children's books, as well as materials for building toy libraries, the Philippine Toy Library (PTL) was formally launched in 2012, with its first site built in Brgy. Loyola Heights, Quezon City. To date, as of August 2017, there are already 190 toy libraries built all over the country.
But the job is far from over. There are still many children in the Philippines who have yet to be reached by PTL. We therefore hope that you can join us as we continue to dream of building more toy centers all over the country. With this comes the hope that more and more Filipino children may truly enjoy the benefits of play and thus, create fond memories they could go back to long after they have left their childhood days.
Philippine Toy Library (PTL) is a non-profit organization, that creates safe play spaces where children from marginalized communities can play for free. With the vision of 'happiness through play', PTL advocates for the right of every child to play regardless of personal and socio-economic circumstances. PTL carries out its mission through the support of private persons, organizations, and corporations who share cash, toys, renovation materials, toy library equipment and other resources. From its inception in 2012, PTL has put up 190 toy libraries across the Philippines.
We invite you to help make a dent in the poverty of play, one toy library at a time.
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KKD's case transferred to High Court, calls for dismissal
The Kaneshie District Court has committed KKD to trial in the high court in Accra.
His first hearing will be on Wednesday March 18, 2015.
The prosecution insists they have enough evidence to successfully prosecute the case per the content of the bill of indictment
The defence lawyer Anthony Forson in a rebuttal prayed the court to refuse to commit his client saying the prosecution did not hold any credible evidence to go ahead with the trial.
Forson cited the letter written by the victim to the AG as enough grounds for dismissal.
In her ruling Justice Adjoa Akyamaa Ofosu said her court has no power to determine evidence of a prima facie hence her decision to transfer it to the high court.


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Women of Substance raise awareness
Prue Meehan is a local health advocate who has launched a website to talk about alcoholism in affluent female populations.
Maddi Brantley and Maddi Brantley
BY Caroline Hudson
Chapel Hill resident Prue Meehan is taking to the Internet to take a stand against alcoholism.
About two weeks ago, Meehan launched the web site, Women of Substance, to help raise awareness about alcoholism among affluent women.
She said preparations for the website have been under way for more than a year.
Meehan decided to start Women of Substance after several of her friends died of alcohol-related illnesses in the last 10 to 15 years, she said.
"It's a silent problem," she said. "People don't talk about it."
In the past, Meehan, formerly president of the Mental Health Association in Orange County, helped sponsor a study of alcoholism in retirement communities and created a scholarship for the UNC School of Social Work.
Libbie Hough, client strategist and business development leader for the Orange County marketing company Comma, helped Meehan create her website.
Hough said her background in social work and mental health issues has led her to select marketing projects that are meaningful to her.
"We tend to think of these women having everything they need," she said. "But it's that very construct that keeps them from getting the help they need."
Meehan said that she hopes families will benefit from the information on the website, which includes alcoholism symptoms and true stories of women who have struggled with the disease.
According to a 2005 report from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, half of all children in the United States live in a household where a parent or other adult uses tobacco, drinks heavily or uses illicit drugs.
Children of parents who suffer from substance abuse problems often bear the burden of family responsibilities, and they are more likely to abuse alcohol or drugs themselves.
The report states that substance abusers are also at a greater risk for job instability, work injuries or accidents and long-term unemployment.
Meehan said it is important to find the right treatment for alcoholism.
"The drinker has to take ownership of the problems," she said.
Meehan said she wants to help the women help themselves by providing information that many women don't have or know how to find.
She has also thought about creating a chat room that would allow those struggling with alcoholism to share their concerns, she said.
Many self-help groups are coed, she said, and many women don't feel comfortable in that kind of environment.
"It's such a difficult subject," she said.
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Home News Students learn about Canada's missteps in Afghanistan
Students learn about Canada's missteps in Afghanistan
Elizabeth Bate
Noted former peacekeepers Ambassador Stephen Hallihan and Brig.-Gen. Serge Labbé spoke to UW political science students about Canada's role in the Afghan conflict March 19.
Speaking to PSCI 282, foreign policy, the former advisors and combatants to the 12-year conflict noted numerous mistakes that had been made by the Canadian government just days after withdrawal from what Hallihan called "the highest profile conflict [for Canada] since the Korean War."
Hallihan told students that early problems with Canada's role in the war resulted from differing visions between the government, the Department of National Defence, and Canadian Forces on the ground. Lack of communication between these "silos of information" created an environment where key stakeholders weren't working together and were not focused on a common goal throughout the first five years of the war.
"If you had a group of ministers and deputy ministers in the room in 2006 and early 2007 and asked them what their vision was for their program in Afghanistan, you would have gotten a range of different things," Hallihan said. "There were no clearly elaborated or shared strategic objectives."
Labbé agreed with the assessment, calling Canada's lack of leadership and human capacity a "bungling through the first few years."
Hallihan said that while combatants in the field worked well together, tensions in deputy minister's offices in Ottawa made the communication and planning difficult.
"It's all about personalities. It's all about ego," Labbé said.
Hallihan said the drifting mission objectives and the lack of support from the Canadian public eventually caused the government to strike the Manley Panel in 2007, lending more focus and institutional sharing to the mission.
Doug Turner, a student who attended the two-hour lecture, said it was reassuring to hear the high-ranking officials speak candidly about their experiences during the war and the problems faced both at home and abroad.
"It gave us all a feeling that 'hmm, there are people out there who are trying to fix these problems,'" he said.
Turner said the class structure has been unique in that it has focused on the viewpoints of real world practitioners and situations, instead of just academics.
Although both speakers focused on the missteps Canada made at the beginning of the war, Labbé said the mission could be considered neither a success nor a failure, and pointed out the good being done.
"I see huge successes by the international community. We've accomplished a great deal," he said. "We've started to engage in nation-building, in setting up the conditions for elections, in reconstruction — there have been some incredible successes."
He pointed to advances in rural development, public health, and education over the course of Canada's time in Afghanistan, as examples of the good work being done by the international community.
The withdrawal of Canadian Forces from Afghanistan took place March 12, but neither Hallihan or Labbé believe the lessons learned from the mistakes made during the conflict will go to waste. Labbé said clear leadership and communication will be what's needed in future struggles.
"Honestly, there is going to be a next time around, possibly in the near future, and I think we are going to have to start from scratch," Hallihan said.
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Melissa "Mel" A. (Cottrell) Dean
March 28, 1970 - September 10, 2021
Melissa "Mel" A. (Cottrell) Dean, of Red Lion, accepted the hand of her Lord and Savior on Friday, September 10, 2021, at 8:29 pm, surrounded by her loving family at the age of 51. She was the wife of Richard "Rick" L. Dean, Jr. of Red Lion to whom she married on April 23, 1990, celebrating 31 years together. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland on March 28, 1970 and was the daughter of John P., Cottrell, II and step mother, Laurie (Burke) of Norfolk, VA, and Judy A. (Behlert) Cox and step father, Fred, of Seaford, DE. Mel graduated from Kenwood High School Class of 1988. She enjoyed going camping, shopping, horseback riding, decorating, going to FL and to the beach, especially Assateaque Island, traveling and had a love for animals. But nothing was more precious to her than to spend time with her daughter and husband and family. Melissa and Rick have a daughter, Samantha A. Dean of Red Lion and her two dogs, Max, and Apollo. She has six siblings, John P. Cottrell, III of Baltimore, MD, Justin P. Cottrell of Norfolk, VA, Courtney A. Hamill (Seth) of Hellam, Lindsey Buchardt (Zachary) of Virginia Beach, VA., Logan Corvello of Virginia Beach, VA, and Ryan Corvello (Katie) of Alexandria, VA. She is also survived by numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, and nephews. Melissa leaves her mother-in-law, Sharon (Porter) Dean of Red Lion, and her seven brother and sister-in-laws, Barbara Dean of Red Lion, George Dean of Red Lion, Charles Dean (Lucy) of Gettysburg, David Dean of Boston, MA., Cheryl Thomas (Chris) of Hanover, Beverly Uhlman (Gary) of MD and Rosemary Lancaster (Billy) of MD. She was preceded in death by her father-in-law, Richard L. Dean, Sr. Viewings for Mel will be on Wednesday, September 15th from 3 to 5 pm and 7 to 9 pm, and on Thursday, September 16th, from 10-11 am at Burg Funeral Home, Inc., 134 W. Broadway, Red Lion. A Service of Honor and Praise for Melissa will begin at 11 am at the funeral home with Rev. David D. Tietje, pastor of St. John's United Church of Christ, officiating. Burial will be private at Winterstown EV Cemetery at the convenience of the family. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be offered in memory of Mel to: Cancer Patient Help Fund, payable to: Wellspan York Health Foundation, 2500 S. George St., York, PA 17403. Online condolences may be offered at: www.BurgFuneralHome.com.
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Taiwan reopens office in Guam, to donate more medical equipment
TAIPEI, 12 OCTOBER 2020 (CNA) — Taiwan reopened its representative office in Guam on Saturday after a three-year closure, vowing to donate more medical equipment to the United States territory to help it fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is hoped that the office will not only increase bilateral exchanges between Taiwan and the U.S. but also help Taiwan leverage the strategic location of Guam in the Western Pacific to increase multilateral exchanges within the region, said Foreign Minister Joseph Wu in a congratulatory video.
To celebrate the reestablishment of the office, which took place on the Double Ten National Day of the Republic of China (Taiwan), Wu said, the country will donate four Taiwan-made body temperature scanners to Guam.
The equipment will be sent to the Guam government, its parliament and medical facilities to help better control the spread of COVID-19, Wu said.
Before the pandemic, 30,000 people from Taiwan traveled to Guam each year, making Taiwan Guam's third largest source of tourists, according to Wu.
Governor of Guam Lourdes Leon Guerrero also said that she hopes the office will help the two sides engage in cultural and economic exchanges and improve services.
"The reopening of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Guam is a testament of the strong ties between our governments," she said.
The office was closed in August 2017 due to budget constraints and manpower considerations, with its functions temporarily taken over by Taiwan's embassy in Palau.
But due to the growing partnership between Taiwan and the U.S., the strategic importance of the Pacific region to Taiwan and increases in the Foreign Ministry's budget since 2018, the ministry decided to reopen the office.
The Guam office will be headed by Paul Chen, a career foreign service officer. It will be Taiwan's 13th representative office in the U.S., aside from those in Washington D.C., New York, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Seattle, Houston, Chicago, Honolulu, Denver, and Miami…. PACNEWS


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The 2005 Russian Figure Skating Championships () took place in Saint Petersburg from January 5 to 8, 2005. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The results were one of the criteria used to pick the Russian teams to the 2005 World Championships and the 2005 European Championships.

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FOT Gives Camp Scholarships
By Coastal Breeze News Staff | on June 03, 2014
Friends of Tigertail member Ken Kubat (left) and Dick Stone present Colton Wood with his scholarship for the 'Wet-N-Wild' camp this summer at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida. Not shown is Isabella Angelis, who also won a camp scholarship. PHOTO BY NOELLE H. LOWERY
By Noelle H. Lowery
noelle@coastalbreezenews.com
Fourth graders Colton Wood and Isabella Angelis are headed to summer camp at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida thanks to the generosity of the Friends of Tigertail.
For the third year, FOT presented two Tommie Barfield Elementary fourth graders with scholarships to one of the Conservancy summer camps. Woods and Angelis will attend "Wet-N-Wild," a camp that explores the underwater world of Southwest Florida. From swamps to the salty sea, campers will investigate our local aquatic environments and discover the best methods of protecting them.
In order to be eligible for the scholarship, students had to write a poem or essay about the natural environment, as well as a short paragraph detailing why they should be chosen. Wood wrote a poem titled "The Poem of Life," in which he depicted the life of Tigertail Beach — birds, turtles, bees, plants — and how humans can impact that life positively or negatively. He closed the poem with a plea for all to help the animals and the beach survive.
Angelis composed an essay. "How to Protect Our Ecosystem and Why We Should Do It" discusses the beauty of Tigertail's mangroves and the surrounding ecosystem. Angelis asks, "What is a mangrove island with no mangroves?", and she leaves her readers believing "we can save the world!"
FOT members Ken Kubat and Dick Stone visited TBE recently to award the scholarships during the school's morning news show. Kubat developed the idea for the scholarships, noting he and his wife are docents at the Conservancy and knew about the camp.
"We wanted to do something for the kids," he says. "It is our way to give back."


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Netanyahu Slams White House on Settlements Criticism
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit back at the White House after Washington criticized Israeli plans to build thousands more settler homes in occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli media reported on Thursday.
Public radio quoted Netanyahu as telling US President Barack Obama in talks in Washington Wednesday to "study the facts and details before making statements" about the settlement plan.
The approval of 2,610 new housing units in East Jerusalem drew condemnation from Washington, with White House spokesman Josh Earnest warning that the move would "distance Israel from even its closest allies."
Netanyahu told Israeli journalists after the meeting that the plans had been in the pipeline for two years.
Housing Minister Uri Ariel told Israeli army radio that 1,000 of the units would "go to Arabs," but did not elaborate.
Peace Now, an Israeli group that monitors the building of settlements, said it was extremely unlikely that any Palestinians would be allowed to live in the new settler homes in the neighborhood of Givat Hamatos.
The lands included in the plan are owned by the state, which will also publish the tenders, it said.
"Previous experience shows that the tenders in East Jerusalem are for Israelis," the group said in a statement, referring to Jewish Israelis.
"Out of approximately 55,000 units built by the government in East Jerusalem neighborhoods … virtually none were sold to Palestinians," it added.
Israel's settlement building in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, which is illegal under international law, has caused the breakdown of several rounds of peace talks.
The settlements are built on land the Palestinians want for their future state, whose capital would be in East Jerusalem.
Some 200,000 Jews live in East Jerusalem settlements, as well as some 306,000 Palestinians in neighborhoods annexed by Israel in a move never recognized by the international community, according to Jerusalem's municipality.
(Agencies and Ma'an – www.maannews.net)
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Google to give placements a miss at most IITs this year: At the point when the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) begin grounds enlistments in a couple of weeks, Google will just go to those at Delhi and Bombay and give the rest a miss without precedent for about 10 years.
Training NewsNot on the grounds that it wouldn't like to contract moves on from the others however the organization is sure that its notoriety for being one of the world's top innovation organizations will be sufficient to draw candidates from India's head building schools.
The move by Google to sidestep the position procedure at IITs in Kharagpur, Kanpur, Chennai, Guwahati and somewhere else unmistakably denote a break with convention. It will specifically enlist any hopefuls it discovers commendable without including the schools. Such off-grounds contracting is demoralized by the IITs yet they didn't have a lot of an alternative when it came to Google, with the exception of Delhi and Bombay.
"There was an inside choice taken by the organization to go the off-grounds course. The vast majority of the IITs consented to this. In any case, Delhi and Bombay have diverse procedures set up," said an IIT Delhi official.
An IIT Bombay official said, "We don't empower off-grounds positions."
The schools aren't excessively enthusiastic about organizations procuring specifically in light of the fact that it disturbs the procedure for others. "Understudies can't cruise on two water crafts amid situations," said the IIT Delhi official refered to above.
Individuals connected with IIT situation boards of trustees affirmed that Google had tried to be prohibited from the grounds position prepare. Google declined to remark. "I am anxious our approaches don't permit us to remark on grounds/enlisting effort program," a representative said by email.


I wrote that in June of last year, urging our campus community to be prepared as another hurricane season began. It proved to be grimly prophetic. Two months later, Hurricane Harvey was inundating our area with unending torrents of rain. People all across the world watched in shock as our city seemed to sink beneath the waves while makeshift boats rescued desperate people stranded on rooftops. It was a tremendous trial for the city of Houston—and by extension, our university.
A year later, I'm enormously thankful to say that Houston—and UH—not only survived, but also gained some valuable insights. I'm still reminded of the length of time recovery takes, the need to center emergency preparation and response around people, and the need to relentlessly communicate. These lessons are top of mind as we wade into another hurricane season.
Looking back, communication was the current that guided us through the storm. As Harvey wreaked havoc for three days, I joined my communications team in using social media and email to reach out to our students, faculty, and staff.
After creating a special Harvey email account, we received more than 1,100 inquiries and personally responded to each one. Understanding concerns and providing information and assurance helped ease anxieties during a time of great uncertainty. Although it seems obvious, the importance of effective emergency communication can't be overstated.
So, too, is the necessity of emergency planning. Our board of regents set the expectation of a viable emergency management plan. We have worked hard to meet that expectation, assessing and updating the plan on a regular basis. UH has been battered before—by Tropical Storm Allison and Hurricane Ike in particular—but we were far better prepared this time because we had routinely tested our plans.
Still, I was reminded that it is relatively easy to shut down a university of 45,000 students and 10,000 faculty and staff. The hard part is reopening. Once the storm passed, our crews worked almost nonstop, meticulously inspecting every building for damage, initiating repairs, relocating classrooms, and restoring essential services. Even though the campus infrastructure weathered the storm relatively well, I delayed officially reopening the university to allow others to begin their own individual recovery efforts. UH itself may have been "fine," but much of the city was not. Listening to members of our community, it was evident that they could benefit from more time to recoup.
When we did reopen, we were faced with a returning student body—and employees— still beset by personal problems. Reestablishing our educational routines while not jeopardizing overall academic progress was crucial, but I insisted we do so with three core principles as our guide: support, flexibility, and compassion. Professors were charged with using their best judgment in balancing the needs of their students and the demands of the curriculum. Special financial assistance was extended. Temporary housing was arranged. Compromises were suggested. Adjustments were made.
Nevertheless, we were understandably concerned about another kind of flood— withdrawals. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of UH students whose lives were still in post-Harvey turmoil might have to drop out to help their families rebuild their lives. The impact on tuition, not to mention the students' academic advancement, could be devastating.
Facing great uncertainty, we extended numerous deadlines, including dates for course drops, withdrawals, residency applications, health insurance coverage, and payment plans. Every student who applied to withdraw was personally contacted to help troubleshoot challenges and continue enrollment.
For the first few days after we reopened, we anxiously watched the official numbers from the registrar's office. Finally, we breathed a sigh of relief. Despite the disaster and our disrupted academic schedule, original enrollment numbers for the semester remained constant. In other words, virtually all students who started attending classes in August found a way to return. That is an amazing tribute to our students' commitment and, I believe, to the support "Houston's university" provided them.


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The Plight of Myanmar's Rohingyas Shows the Downside of Democratic Transition
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, 2015. Credit: EU/ECHO/Pierre Prakash, CC 2.0
By James T. Davies & Tridivesh Singh Maini
As it moves towards democracy, the country is facing questions over who belongs to the national community, and which groups it is willing to include
The ongoing democratic transition in Myanmar has had devastating consequences for the Muslim Rohingya of western Myanmar. They have suffered communal violence, exclusion and disenfranchisement. This process is not unique to Myanmar. Political transition in ethnically diverse societies can often involve communal violence.
During the period of parliamentary democracy in Myanmar from independence in 1948 to the military coup of 1962, the Rohingya were generally treated well. The national government recognised the minority as an ethnic group of the country, and committed itself to an autonomous Rohingya area, the Mayu Frontier. Under military rule, the status of the Rohingya deteriorated. They were no longer recognised as a legitimate "national race" of Myanmar. The government refused even to recognise the term "Rohingya", instead referring to the group as Bengalis. The Mayu Frontier was taken off the table, and replaced by violent military incursions which sent hundreds of thousands of refugees over the border. Military propaganda emphasised Buddhism. The government encouraged the idea that the country's ethnic and religious minorities were loyal to outside powers. Muslim communities in particular were scapegoated to divert discontent with governance.
Fast-forward to the current democratic transition, beginning in 2011, when communal violence between Rohingya and Rakhine Buddhists broke out. The first instances occurred a year after the inauguration of President Thein Sein's government, and just nine weeks after the transition's first free and fair by-elections, in which Aung San Suu Kyi was elected to parliament. IDP camps housed about 140,000 desperate Rohingyas, while an estimated 100,000 persons fled by boat. After pressure from increasingly vocal nationalistic Buddhist organisations, Naypyidaw revoked voting rights for the Rohingya in early 2015.
Credit: Human Rights Watch, 2013
In a departure from past instances of conflict in Rakhine state, the military in 2012 was praised for its role in quelling the conflict. While the police were implicated in facilitating and even committing abuses against the Rohingya, Human Rights Watch noted the positive role played by the military. The European Union praised the President's "measured response". The military has also been appreciated for ensuring the violence did not spread on an even larger scale, although its methods of segregation and its failure to resettle the displaced have been questioned.
Whatever the other failings of autocratic governments, it is commonly believed that democratic transition can "lift the lid" on communal tensions, with devastating violence as a result. This phenomenon is explained as elites manipulating identities for electoral gains, or as the result of increased freedom of communication and expression degenerating into hate speech, and incitement to violence. In Myanmar, the root of this issue goes beyond the inherent tension in democracy between majority rule and minority rights. The country is facing questions over who belongs to the national community, and which groups it is willing to include. The oft-proposed solution is more democracy—in the form of elections, minority rights, and deeper civil society. Yet democracy is no magic bullet for communal violence.
Indeed, it is the early processes of democracy under transition that are often said to have contributed to this problem. There is little appetite across Myanmar for minority rights for the stateless Rohingya, and even less in Rakhine state. As Aung San Suu Kyi has made clear through her silence on the issue, there are few votes to be won by standing up for the Rohingya. Decentralisation of power from Naypyidaw to Rakhine may well compound problems for the disenfranchised group. A more powerful state government would inevitably be dominated by Rakhine Buddhists. Democracy alone cannot solve this problem. Deadly communal pogroms have taken place in the context of an institutionalised democracy and civil society as well as a vibrant media, the best instance being India.
This is not to say that minority rights are better protected under an authoritarian government. Naypyidaw's relations with the Rohingya and other minorities were characterised by civil war and repression under military rule. The future of the Rohingya in Myanmar will be one of the many complex issues the government formed after the elections in November this year will face. Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy are yet to outline their policy on the issue. Leadership will be required to bring the Rohingya into an inclusive Myanmar. All stakeholders must remember that democracy does not just end at casting a ballot—the treatment of religious and cultural minorities is an essential attribute. While it is for Myanmar to decide what sort of democracy it wants, it would do well to realise that religious schisms will come in the way of the country's growth.
James T. Davies is a PhD Candidate in International and Political Studies at the University of New South Wales, Canberra.
Tridivesh Singh Maini is a Senior Research Associate with The Jindal School of International Affairs, Sonepat.


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Greece: Mytilineos Group's future gas-fired projects
Published on 21. May 2021. , SEE Energy News
After wide spread announcement of closures of coal-fired facilities in the region, Greek Mytilineos Group is considering the development of natural gas-fired power plants in Bulgaria and North Macedonia. EU members Bulgaria and Romania, as well as non-EU members in the Balkan region, such as Albania, North Macedonia and Serbia, have announced closures of old coal-fired power plants. This creates investment opportunities as older units being withdrawn will, over the next few years, need to be replaced by new facilities, including natural gas-fired power plants.
Last month, Mytilineos said that it is examining the possibility of building a new plant in Bulgaria, similar to its gas-fired unit in Agios Nikolaus, currently under development. Bulgaria, like Greece, is withdrawing its coal-fired power plants and aims to have completed the country's decarbonization effort by 2030. The country will need to replace lost capacity through the introduction of natural gas-fired and RES facilities. Extremely higher carbon emission right costs have made the withdrawal of coal-fired power stations a priority for Bulgaria and the wider region, one of Europe's most lignite-dependent areas. Greece, Bulgaria and Romania, combined, represent nearly ten 10 % of the EU's total lignite electricity generation capacity.
During his last week's visit to Greece, Prime Minister of North Macedonia Zoran Zaev said that the Government is discussing the possibility of building a new gas-fired power plant in the country, in cooperation with Mytilineos.
On the other hand, Romania turns to renewable energy and estimates new 5.2 GW in wind and 5 GW in solar energy by 2030. Serbia also aims to replace 4.4 GW of its coal-fired capacities with renewable energy by 2050.
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La Cruz del Bajío es una localidad del municipio de Centro ubicado en la subregión centro del estado mexicano de Tabasco.

Geografía
La localidad de La Cruz del Bajío se sitúa en las coordenadas geográficas , a una elevación de 20 metros sobre el nivel del mar.

Demografía
Según el Conteo de Población y Vivienda 2020, efectuado por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía, la localidad de La Cruz del Bajío tiene 1,161 habitantes, de los cuales 571 son del sexo masculino y 590 del sexo femenino. Su tasa de fecundidad es de 2.17 hijos por mujer y tiene 294 viviendas particulares habitadas.

Véase también
 Subregión del Centro (Tabasco)
 Villahermosa

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Localidades del municipio de Centro (Tabasco)


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Here's the full NHL 2015 preseason schedule, starting Sept. 20
By James O'BrienAug 21, 2015, 12:15 PM EDT
In just under one month, the 2015 preseason will begin.
The league detailed its 15-day, 104-game slate in this press release.
Before PHT shares the full schedule, here are a few fun facts.
The New York Islanders will really get started in Brooklyn.
There will be neutral site games in North Saanich, B.C. (Canada' Kraft Hockeyville game), Johnstown, Pa. (the first U.S. Kraft Hockeyville match) along with ones in Quebec City, Allentown, Pa., Bakersfield, Calif., Halifax, N.S., Las Vegas, Nev., Providence R.I., St. John's, Nfld. and Saskatoon, Sask.
OK, with that out of the way, here's your full preseason schedule. (In case you're wondering, the regular season begins on Oct. 7.)
2015 NHL PRESEASON SCHEDULE (all times Eastern)
Boston vs. New Jersey, at Providence, R.I. (Dunkin' Donuts Center), 7 p.m.
Florida at Nashville (split-squad doubleheader), 4:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
New Jersey at NY Rangers, 7 p.m.
Carolina at Washington, 7 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Columbus, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia (split squad) at NY Islanders (split squad), 7 p.m.
Philadelphia (split squad) vs. NY Islanders (split squad), at Allentown, Pa. (PPL Center), 7 p.m.
Ottawa (split squad) at Toronto (split squad), 7:30 p.m.
Toronto (split squad) at Ottawa (split squad), 7:30 p.m.
Buffalo at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Calgary (split squad) at Edmonton (split squad), 9 p.m.
Edmonton (split squad) at Calgary (split squad), 9 p.m.
Arizona vs. Los Angeles, at Bakersfield, Calif. (Rabobank Arena), 10 p.m.
San Jose vs. Vancouver, at Victoria, B.C. (The Q Centre), 10:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 22
Washington at Boston, 7 p.m.
NY Rangers at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Carolina at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
St. Louis (split squad) at Columbus (split squad), 7 p.m.
Toronto at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.
Nashville at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.
Dallas at Florida, 7:30 p.m.
Columbus (split squad) at St. Louis (split squad), 8 p.m.
Minnesota at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
Detroit at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
Anaheim at Colorado, 9 p.m.
San Jose at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Arizona at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23
Ottawa at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
New Jersey at NY Islanders, 7 p.m.
Chicago at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Nashville, 8 p.m.
Winnipeg at Edmonton, 9 p.m.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 24
NY Rangers at Boston, 7 p.m.
Minnesota at Columbus, 7 p.m.
Washington at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Dallas at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Calgary at Colorado, 9 p.m.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 25
NY Islanders (split squad) at New Jersey, 7 p.m.
NY Islanders (split squad) at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Buffalo at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.
Florida at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.
Edmonton at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
Vancouver at Calgary, 9 p.m.
Los Angeles at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
Arizona at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
Columbus at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m.
Carolina vs. NY Islanders, at Halifax, N.S. (Scotiabank Centre), 5 p.m.
Edmonton vs. Minnesota, at Saskatoon, Sask. (SaskTel Centre), 6 p.m.
Boston at Detroit, 7 p.m.
Buffalo at Ottawa, 7 p.m.
NY Rangers at New Jersey, 7 p.m.
Montreal at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Dallas, 8 p.m.
St. Louis at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
Anaheim at San Jose, 9 p.m.
Calgary at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Carolina vs. Ottawa, at St. John's, Nfld. (Mile One Centre), 3:30 p.m.
Winnipeg at Minnesota, 6 p.m.
Florida at Dallas, 8 p.m.
Los Angeles at Colorado, 8 p.m.
Philadelphia at NY Rangers, 7 p.m.
Washington at NY Islanders, 7 p.m.
Montreal vs. Pittsburgh, at Quebec City, Que. (Videotron Centre), 7 p.m.
Arizona at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Pittsburgh vs. Tampa Bay, at Johnstown, Pa. (Cambria County War Memorial Arena), 7 p.m.
Toronto at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Columbus at Nashville, 8 p.m.
Ottawa at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
St. Louis at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Colorado at Calgary, 9 p.m.
Arizona at Edmonton, 9 p.m.
Anaheim at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
Vancouver at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
Boston at NY Rangers, 7 p.m.
Washington at Carolina, 7 p.m.
New Jersey at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Detroit at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
THURSDAY, OCT. 1
Ottawa at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.
Dallas at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.
Chicago at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Calgary at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
Vancouver at Edmonton, 9 p.m.
Colorado at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
FRIDAY, OCT. 2
Boston at Washington, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at New Jersey, 7 p.m.
Columbus at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Carolina, 7 p.m.
Toronto at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
San Jose at Arizona, 10 p.m.
SATURDAY, OCT. 3
Montreal at Ottawa, 7 p.m.
Detroit at Toronto, 7 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Florida, 7 p.m.
Nashville at Columbus, 7 p.m.
Dallas at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
Winnipeg at Calgary, 9 p.m.
San Jose at Anaheim, 9 p.m.
Edmonton at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Colorado vs. Los Angeles, at Las Vegas, Nev. (MGM Grand Garden Arena), 10 p.m.
SUNDAY, OCT. 4
NY Islanders at Washington, 5 p.m.
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#Colorado's #snowpack is starting to melt. Warmer temperatures and #drought likely mean another year of struggling #water supplies — Colorado Public Radio
Click the link to read the article on the Colorado Public Radio website (Michael Elizabeth Sakas). Here's an excerpt:
The amount of snow that's collected in Colorado's mountains over the winter is nearly normal for this time of year, according to the Colorado Snow Survey Program. But while statewide snowpack levels are about 91 percent of average, USDA officials say that number is starting to drop as snow in some areas starts to melt early with warmer-than-average spring temperatures…
Federal data has forecasted statewide streamflow to be 86 percent of average for the 2022 season. Despite close-to-average snowfall so far, other factors like dry soil and warmer temperatures are likely to reduce the amount of snowmelt that becomes runoff and enters streams, according to a report from the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service. The report also shows that all of the state's major river basins are forecasted to have below-normal streamflow this coming summer…
Back-to-back years of drought have taken a toll on water stored in Colorado reservoirs, which currently contain about 76 percent of average storage levels, data show. Only reservoirs in the South Platte river basin have reached above-average levels. Abnormally warm temperatures in late March triggered an early start to the snowmelt season in south-central and southwest Colorado, Assistant State Climatologist Becky Bolinger said in a recent climate update. Rapid snowmelt can lead to less reliable water supplies and an increased risk of wildfire in higher elevations, she said…
Colorado Drought Monitor map April 12, 2022.
Soil on the Western Slope isn't likely to be as dry this spring and summer as it was in 2021, which Bolinger said is good news. That means more water will make it into streams and reservoirs because the soil isn't as thirsty. Soils are drier in the eastern part of the state, which Bolinger said will likely cause problems for farmers during the growing season. About 83 percent of Colorado is currently in a moderate drought or worse, data from the U.S. Drought Monitor show.
Colorado snowpack basin-filled map April 17, 2022 via the NRCS.
Click the link to read "Colorado Weather: Mountain Snow Completely Misses Denver Causing Soaring Fire Danger" on the CBS Denver website (Ashton Altieri). Here's an excerpt:
The snow on Thursday and Friday [April 14-15, 2022s] will be minor compared to earlier in the week. Since Tuesday Winter Park has measured 20 inches, Snowmass has had 18 inches, Aspen Mountain has had 16 inches, and Beaver Creek measured 10 inches.
All the snow has helped snowpack to increase across all eight of Colorado's river basins in recent days. On Monday the statewide average snowpack was 88% compared to normal. As of Thursday morning it was 92% compared to normal. Ideally water officials would perfect it to be 100% but it could obviously be much worse.
Westwide SNOTEL basin-filled map April 17, 2022 via the NRCS.
Click the link to read "Runoff into McPhee Reservoir below average from poor snowpack" on The Cortez Journal website (Jim Mimiaga). Here's an excerpt:
Irrigation supply will be better than last year's historic lows, but probably not by much, officials say
As of April 14, snowpack in the basin was at 70% of the average snow-water equivalent, and the runoff has started into the Dolores River and McPhee. It is too early to tell exactly how much will make it to reservoir, said Ken Curtis, general manager for the Dolores Water Conservancy District.
"We think we are better off than last year, we're not sure yet by how much," he said. "The low-elevation snow below 9,000 feet is gone."
A more definitive runoff forecast is expected in the coming weeks. A special meeting will be held May 5 at 7 p.m. at the DWCD office, 60 S. Cactus, St., Cortez, to provide an update on McPhee irrigation supply.
McPhee has 37,300 acre-feet of active supply, and is filling at a rate of 3 inches per day. The reservoir has a capacity of 229,000 acre-feet active supply. Most of the current active supply in McPhee will be used to fill up adjacent Narraguinnep Reservoir, of the Montezuma Valley Irrigation District, which has started delivering water. The Dolores Water Conservancy District has begun delivering water south via the Towaoc Highline Canal to the Ute Mountain Ute Farm and Ranch operation. Water delivery in the Dove Creek Canal to northern farms is expected in early May…DWCD's early predictions are on the conservative side, with a 90% probability of 2.5 inches per acre and a 70% probability of 6 inches per acre, still far below average…
Dust covering snow near the Grand Mesa study plot on April 26, 2014. The Grand Mesa study plot was the third to be added to the network of dust on snow monitoring stations, and began transmitting solar radiation data in 2010.
CREDIT: COURTESY PHOTO BY THE CENTER FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE STUDIES
Dust on snow is also a factor because the darker layer increases absorption of heat, melting and evaporation. It also contributed to runoff happening a week early in the Dolores River. There were five dust-on-snow events this winter in the San Juan Mountains, according to the Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies. Dust layers are in the upper third of the snowpack, and the latest layer was deposited Monday, before Tuesday's snowstorm, said Executive Director Jeff Derry…
One of the two Twin Otter aircraft used by the Airborne Snow Observatory mission to study snowpack in the Western U.S. Credit: NASA
To aid in the forecast prediction, on Friday a flyover of the Dolores Basin was planned by Airborne Snow Observatories Inc. to measure snowpack depth. The plane uses technology that scans the elevation of the snow cover, then compares it with the bare ground elevation to determine snowpack.
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Респонсо́рное пе́ние — хоровое (ансамблевое) пение, в котором попеременно звучат хор (ансамбль) и солист.

Краткая характеристика
Согласно современной точке зрения (Т.Бейли) респонсорное пение использовалось уже в распевании псалмов у древних евреев. Первое свидетельство о респонсорном пении на Западе традиционно приписывают Исидору Севильскому (VII в.). У католиков респонсорно пелись различные респонсории оффиция (службы часов), прежде всего, большой респонсорий утрени (responsorium prolixum), а также градуал (иначе именуемый responsorium missae, «респонсорием мессы»), офферторий, аллилуйя мессы. Сольные разделы респонсорных жанров в католическом обиходе написаны, как правило, в мелизматическом стиле; их исполнение предполагает специальную (профессиональную) подготовку и техническое мастерство певчего. Респонсорная псалмодия существовала и в древнем византийском обиходе. В русском православном обиходе принципиально нет традиции сольного (пышного, «изобразительного») пения и нет респонсорных жанров / форм. Наследником византийской респонсорной псалмодии можно до известной степени считать прокимен, где хоровой распев стихов псалма чередуется с псалмодией солиста.

Респонсорное пение, таким образом, следует отличать от респонсория как жанра (формы) в католическом оффиции, хотя происхождение этого «респонсория» связано (в том числе и этимологически) с «респонсорным пением». В этномузыковедении термин «респонсорное пение» стал употребляться в типологическом смысле и ныне относится к соответствующему типу хорового исполнения в различных музыкальных культурах — письменных и устных, например, у нигерийского народа йоруба, в индуистских киртанах, в спиричуэл афроамериканцев, в нганасанских обрядовых песнях и у многих других народов.

См. также
 Антифонное пение

Примечания

Литература
 Responsory // The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London, New York, 2001.
 Responsorial singing // Британника

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Q: One kind of ASCII arithmetic gives segmentation fault while another doesn't So if I do this, I get segmentation fault:
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int main(void)
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A: string is not a standard C symbol, and is likely defined in your cs50.h header file as:
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This means that variable word is a reference to constant data, data that cannot be changed.   So when you try to do the line:
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Великий коронный канцлер () — должностное лицо в Польше средневековой и нового времени, руководитель королевской канцелярии и ответственный за проведение внешней политики страны.

Должность Великого коронного канцлера появилась в Польше в начале XII столетия и замещалась обычно духовным лицом. В период феодальной раздробленности страны и наличия в ней одновременно нескольких крупных княжеств — каждый владетель имел своего канцлера. Великий канцлер Краковский считался наипервейшим среди них и мог отклонять решения канцлеров на местах (пока они не исчезли к XV веку).

Позднее исполнявший эту должность назывался канцлером Королевства Польского, затем — Коронным канцлером. После Люблинской унии был введён пост особого канцлера для Литвы. По сложившейся традиции, канцлер коронный руководил отношениями Польши с Западной Европой, а канцлер Великого княжества Литовского — с Россией. Королевский канцлер считался первым должностным лицом страны, он занимался также формированием правительства Польши, следил за соблюдением основного закона — Pacta conventa. Руководил также королевскими судами — асессориями.

Заместитель Великого коронного канцлера носил звание подканцлера. В новое время канцлерами в Речи Посполитой становились как духовные, так и светские особы. Должность Великого коронного канцлера существовала вплоть до распада Речи Посполитой в 1795 году.

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World News of Natural Sciences
Primates Associated with Crop Raiding Around Borgu Sector of Kainji Lake National Park, Nigeria
A. J. Adeola ,	A. O. Ibrahim ,	A. N. Adeola ,	S. A. Alaye ,	O. A. Akande
Crop raiding activities of primates around Kainji Lake National Park (Borgu Sector), Nigeria was investigated with the use of questionnaires, complemented with field survey focus group discussions and in-depth interviews. One hundred (100) questionnaires were administered to representatives of households in four selected support zone villages. Group discussions were then conducted in the villages. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics in the form of percentages, frequencies and charts. We found that crop raiding and animal depredation were sources of conflict in Kainji Lake National Park (Borgu Sector). The primates raiding farmlands identified by the farmers were Olive Baboon (Papio anubis), Patas monkey (Erthrocebus patas), green monkey (Chlorocebus aethiops) and other primates that could not be identified by the farmers. The largest percentage of raiding (40%) was perpetrated by Papio anubis, followed by Patas monkey (35%) and the least by Green Monkey (2%). The result showed that maize was the most commonly ranked crop of seasonal harvest that was lost. Moreover, an estimated 3-5 50 kg bags of seed were being destroyed in the planting season. The most effective strategy the local communities used in preventing crop damage was watch guarding (70%). Other methods were fencing (60%), hunting (45%), scare crow (36%) and toxic chemical (5%). The mitigation measure advocated by nearly all respondents (57%) was the killing of destructive wildlife species, irrespective of conservation significance. Measures must put in place to educate these communities about wildlife conservation and to prevent wanton killing. The communities should also be compensated for their loss, as this will lead to positive attitudes to wildlife conservation.
Borgu sector Chlorocebus aethiops Community and Kainji Lake National Park Erthrocebus patas Papio anubis Primates Raiding
BIOLOGY: BIOLOGY
Scientific Publishing House "DARWIN"
A. J. Adeola
Federal College of Wildlife Management, New-Bussa, Niger State, Nigeria
A. O. Ibrahim
A. N. Adeola
S. A. Alaye
O. A. Akande
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[2]	Archabald, K. and Naughton-Traves, L. (2001). Tourism revenue-sharing around national parks in Western Uganda: Early efforts to identify and reward local communities. Environmental Conservation 28: 135-149.
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Her Mother was Shrodinger's Cat, and her Father was the immortal "Hep Cat". She unfolded into this world like a good hyperbeing would, and then knocked over every glass of water she came across, seemingly just because she thought it was funny. And it was. She was totaly Bee-Bop, black and orange electricity. She had the best sense of humor of anyone I know and had mad skillz, like Cirque du Soleil on crack. She was eight lbs. of pure, un-cut Columbian greatness. I think she could fly. I'm pretty sure she was a Ghostbuster, too.
In short, Debbie was the greatest thing since velcro. She out-classed us all, and in a just world she would have out-lived us all, too. But in this world, it's legal to transport yourself in a 4,000 lb. speeding bullet, and the dent that her body left in the front of the bullet that hit her likely cost more to fix than the driver thought Debbie was worth. But screw what the world thinks, ANY creature is worth more than ANY car.
Apparently, all of Debbie's Kung-Fu skills were no match for speeding metal - though I'm inclined to think that she just had some more pressing matters to attend to in a different dimention. Now I can only look back on the time I spent with her, frozen in the fragile ice of memory. And in looking, I see each of the times I didn't go and play outside with her all standing in a line with every lackluster day of my life: unanswered, regretable, and unchangeable.
My point: Please, be one of the Debbies of the world, dammit. Don't delay - the time to rock has come. That funky cat had living in the momment down cold, and by jove, she was on to something with that tune. How dare any of us be anything less than great!?
Debbie, you were, and are, a super freak and a Goddess, and I'll continue to try and be worthy even though it's too late. You continue to be the most inspiring person I know. Damn it. It's gonna be real lonely without you, Baby.


A ruling by the California Supreme Court makes it easier for employees to get their discrimination claims heard in court. Under the old rules, a lawsuit could be tossed out if the employer proves that the discriminatory comments were "stray remarks." This ruling allows discrimination cases to be heard by a jury even if the comments are made by employees who are not in a position to fire, or if the comments happened long before the decision to fire is made.
In this claim, a 54-year-old employee alleges that he was fired because of his age. He says that executives called him an "old man," said that he wasn't a good "cultural fit," and that his ideas were "too old to matter." The company claims that he was fired due to poor performance.


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The Earth's oceans play a vital role in the health of the planet. Ocean dynamics impact weather patterns, it provides food and recreational opportunities, and industry related to the ocean generates significant revenue. The ocean also serves a critical function in regards to easing global warming, and scientists are now using satellites in order to better understand the impact of carbon dioxide on the acidity of the ocean.
Seawater helps to combat global warming by absorbing some of the carbon dioxide that humans release into the atmosphere, mainly from the burning of fossil fuels. Instead of hovering in the atmosphere, about a quarter of greenhouse gases are soaked up by the ocean. When seawater does this, however, its acidity increases. Upsurges in acidity are causing some concern among scientists because of the potential effects on ocean life as well as the global economy.
According to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the ocean's surface pH has become 30 percent more acidic since the Industrial Revolution. The acidity of the ocean is not easy to measure nor is it evenly distributed. Plus, past attempts to monitor the pH balance of the ocean have involved research vessels and buoys which are expensive and unreliable.
This is where remote sensing comes in. Scientists are now using satellites in order to monitor large areas of the ocean and identify those that are most at risk from acidification. Researchers at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom took it one step further, developing a map of the ocean's acidity that displays which areas are most impacted.
To produce this map, researchers used satellite imagery from NASA's Aquarius satellite as well as the European Space Agency's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite. Thermal mounted cameras on the satellites measure the temperature of the ocean while microwave sensors measure its salinity. Both of these readings can then be employed to evaluate the acidity of the ocean over larger areas in a shorter amount of time than before.
The map created from satellite measurements displays how much the ocean varies in acidity. Areas that are reddish in color are more alkaline or basic, and this means that they have more room to absorb carbon dioxide floating in the atmosphere. It appears that open regions of the ocean are more resilient to becoming excessively acidic while coastal areas are more vulnerable. The northeastern U.S. is particularly susceptible, and this could have important consequences down the road.
Scientists are concerned about the increase in the ocean's acidity because of the potential impacts on marine life. Higher acidity could make it more difficult for marine life to live. Acidification degrades the shells of oysters, mussels, and crabs. Baby oysters are already are disappearing from some areas, and the effects of this could be seen further up the food chain. There are also concerns about non-shelled marine life in that fish kept in acidic water act more skittish than those in normal seawater. Since the ocean is a major supplier of food, the monitoring of its acidity is more important than ever.


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Haas News > News Categories > Rankings
Strong alumni salaries boost Haas in 2018 FT global ranking
January 29, 2018 January 29, 2018 Haas News
The Haas School ranks #10 in the world and #7 among U.S. schools, according to the 2018 Financial Times Global MBA Ranking published today, Jan. 29.
More than 50% of the ranking is based on responses of full-time MBA alumni from the class of 2014 who report on their current salaries, career progression, and satisfaction with their MBA. Haas alumni salaries have been getting stronger, even relative to peer competitors.
For example, Haas alumni report this year that their salaries rose 104% between when they started business school and three years after graduation. In 2016, that growth was 94%. In addition, the Financial Times reported an increase in current annual salaries three years post-MBA to $176,167, making these Haas alumni the 6th highest paid MBAs in the world. These two factors accounted for 40% of the overall ranking.
In other noteworthy categories, Haas ranked:
9th worldwide in the effectiveness of career services
9th worldwide in alumni who say they've achieved their aims
11th worldwide in alumni who would recommend Berkeley Haas
13th in faculty research worldwide
4th highest placement of PhD graduates at top 50 business schools ranked by the FT
Additional rankings factors include the gender and international diversity of the full-time MBA student body, faculty, and board of advisors as well as the international mobility of MBA students. See the full report along with details on the methodology.
In similar rankings, Haas came in #7 in US News and World Report and #7 in the Economist Which MBA ranking. Currently two of the Haas School's six degree programs are ranked #1 in their category (Evening & Weekend MBA and Master of Financial Engineering).
Haas News January 29, 2018 January 29, 2018
Topics: MBA ranking
Prof. Catherine Wolfram: Are we promoting the right kind of energy efficiency?
New case study examines how Haas can sustain its culture
Full-time MBA program ranked #6 globally by América Economia - June 3, 2019
Berkeley Haas rises to #6 in Businessweek's Best B-Schools ranking - November 8, 2018
Two Berkeley MBA programs ranked among the world's best - June 25, 2018
Berkeley Haas ranks #2 in U.S. in Top MBAs for Women, #3 worldwide - March 5, 2018
Businessweek Ranking Shuffles Top FTMBA Programs - November 18, 2017
Berkeley Haas rises in the U.S. News rankings
Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering program ranked #1
January 28, 2019 May 16, 2019
Full-time MBA Program ranked #7 by Financial Times