Payoneer serves millions of corporate payers, most notably Google, Amazon, Airbnb, and Upwork.
Cross border transactions solutions always represent huge opportunities for growing businesses, as well as a tremendous amount of risk.
While companies in the B2C payment sector such as PayPal, Skrill, and other well-known providers get the most media attention, e-commerce has accelerated the trend of cross-border B2B commerce.
Founded in 2005, Payoneer started as a prepaid card company that provided online cross-border payment services, but later it recognized a broader set of trends that were shaping the B2B world and B2B payment needs.
Today, the firm enables millions of businesses and professionals to reach new audiences by facilitating seamless, cross-border payments with an array of flexible payment methods, including local bank transfers and in-network payments, and a wide number of added services, like risk monitoring, regulatory compliance, and tax form automation. Further, the New York City-based company is now able to offer escrow-as-a-service (EaaS) after its latest acquisition of Armor Payments.
In a bid to better make sense of global cross-border e-commerce, Finance Magnates spoke with Payoneer CEO Scott Galit to get his take on the company's launch into the UK market, Brexit impacts on digital payments arena, and what's next for Payoneer and the industry at large.
To get started and give our readers who may not be familiar with the company a little bit of background, how would you explain Payoneer's business?
Payoneer is a cross-border B2B payments platform that empowers business and professionals all over the world to pay and get paid globally, as easily as they do locally. The company was founded in 2005, and since then, we've grown to support customers from over 200 countries and territories, transacting in 150 currencies. Payoneer's customers also benefit from a wide array of complimentary services, including an incredibly robust and developed regulatory compliance and risk monitoring platform, and new functionality like the automated tax form service, online payment management, and more.
Did you choose to get into the B2B side of payments, as opposed to B2C, from the beginning, or was this something that evolved over time? And do you believe that there are attractive advantages for B2C businesses globally that could attract attention and investment away from the B2B side? By the way, we have a similar dilemma here at Finance Magnates.
At the beginning, we were a hybrid between B2B and B2C. We straddled the two worlds to some extent. We were focused on selling payout solutions to marketplaces to help them make global payments, but the vast majority of the payments we were helping them make was to individual sellers and service providers.
There were a number of directions we could have gone as we evolved. Ultimately, we saw that the biggest problems we were solving were the incredible challenges involved in cross-border B2B payments. A new business model had been brought about by online marketplaces and the expansion of the digital universe. For the first time, third-party marketplaces had created global opportunities at a scale that had never existed before. Consumer remittance had been a problem for a long time, but the internet had opened the ability for professionals and small businesses to sell outside of their home markets in ways that weren't possible before. It created a massive problem for B2B payments.
Over time, we focused our resources and continued to invest more on the B2B side. We have never been a B2C company, but there's certainly still part of our business that's for individual professionals.
Payoneer has grabbed B2B startup Armor Payments to create a global B2B money transfer network. Does this signal a larger acquisition strategy for the company, and is your way ahead going to be more as an acquirer than as a developer of new innovations?
We're building a unique global platform at Payoneer. This has necessitated the creation of a significant cross-border infrastructure, which has developed both organically and through acquisitions. We see the opportunity to make strategic acquisitions and form key partnerships as a means to more quickly address new customer segments and needs. That said, we're also investing absolutely massive amounts in growing our organic capabilities. Over the next couple of years, we're more than doubling our technology and product teams.
Who uses Payoneer and how large is the client base? Please mention some of the most notable clients that the company has, and what are your strongest selling points?
As I mentioned, Payoneer has two groups of customers – the companies that we enable to make payments globally, and the small businesses that are using Payoneer services to get paid by their clients. Today, we service millions of small business customers and tens of thousands of corporate payers, most notably Google, Amazon, Airbnb, and Upwork. For our marketplace clients, our biggest selling points are our global reach, incredibly robust compliance and risk capabilities, a simple API integration, tax form automation services, and the ability to tap into our Payoneer ecosystem of small businesses, sellers and service providers all over the world. For our small business customers who are receiving funds, we offer instant payments from our network of corporate payers, and for those sending cross-border B2B payments, our unique global billing service makes it as easy as sending local ones. Every Payoneer offering comes with: fast payment delivery times; flexible payment methods; 24/7 customer support in 35 languages; low prices; and an incredibly powerful Payoneer Account that allows them, among other things, to track the status of their payments and make in-network payments for free.
Do you expect to see a fundamental change in the way payments are made in the next three to five years. What do you think is the next major goal for the industry at large, and where does Payoneer fit in to this?
Consumer payments have been the focus of innovation in the last decade, as the internet, and mobile, and technology in general have created all kinds of platforms aimed at selling to consumers. As a result, we've seen significant evolution in this market. The B2B world, however, was slower to come online than B2C.
In recent years, we've seen B2B businesses of all sizes, all over the world, trading with each other. This type of cross-border activity is happening in very large numbers and at a very fast pace, yet we haven't seen the same type of technology innovation in business payments. So, I think we're in the early days of remaking the B2B infrastructure in a way that will digitize payments and accelerate them, the same way consumer payments have gone digital. Today, the idea of a consumer in one country buying from a business in another country, both using their own currencies, is commonplace. In the coming years, we see B2B transactions, and the accompanying infrastructure, following the same route.
Now everybody talks about a new and different world to come. I'd love to know how do you get your culture to be in the lead of that new world while you are fighting in an incredibly crowded battle ground with many competitors, whether they're traditional banks or successful startups, and lately incredible large companies.
At Payoneer, we believe company culture is our single greatest competitive advantage. In a world of constantly changing customers, technology and competition, culture is the only constant, the only thing that that can remain universal. We hold this idea dear in the face of the evolving world around us. If we cultivate a strong, supportive, and resilient culture, if we have people here who reinforce it, and if we give those people the opportunity to make it a real and living thing every day, then it becomes self-reinforcing. It's not a guarantee that we will succeed. But regardless of what comes, we will have people who feel connected to the rest of their team and to our mission to empower our customers around the world, who feel a sense that they should feel comfortable even as there's change and obstacles. The foundation has to be firm and grounded in something shared with everyone else here.
The main vision for our corporate culture is one that makes people feel comfortable pushing against the status quo, even if it means occasionally making mistakes. We need a culture that's self-questioning. If the culture becomes one of constant self-assurance and praise, then the first time a competitor bests you, you feel embarrassed. Rather than evolve, you turn a blind eye, or regress. For that reason, we believe humility is key. What makes us succeed today, what feels great today, may be irrelevant tomorrow. If we start getting full of ourselves for any reason, that's a sign of danger. If we instead have smart, caring people who are willing to ask the hard questions and take chances, more often than not, we'll succeed.
A Brexit could jeopardise the UK's status as the major financial gateway for Europe even if the impact is ultimately light, as prolonged uncertainty could create a vicious cycle harming the UK's position. In addition, it is certain that the UK will lose its powerful voice in the establishment of European regulations— and this cannot be positive for any financial sector including the cross-payments realm. Did you consider this fact?
Laws and regulations evolve. Sometimes it's because of a vote, or because a regulator wants to introduce new legislation. We see regulations as both necessary and valuable, so we continue to make regulatory investments to offer the services we want to offer in key markets around the world. As part of our business, we change and evolve to meet legal requirements. That's crucial when conducting business in a global and digital world, where regulators are constantly looking for ways to both protect and enable businesses to compete.
For us, the Brexit vote may have some effect on our cost structure…or not, depending on what happens. There's still too much uncertainty to know for sure. But what we do know is that we're committed to compliance, we're committed to both the UK and Europe, and we have the resources and will to work through it. Payoneer serves businesses that are trading internationally. We look around and we see more opportunity and more new channels, not less. We're simplifying access wherever possible. Part of our commitment to our clients is to let them trade wherever they want to trade in a secure and compliant way, regardless of changing laws and regulations.
Finally, could you tell us about some of the upcoming milestones you have for Payoneer? Any plans to introduce new services in 2016?
Here at Payoneer, we've very aware of the challenges businesses have in growing globally. To help ease those burdens, we're making huge investments in product and infrastructure. That's why we made the Armor acquisition, and why we've recently rolled out services for automating supplier tax form management, and a functionality that allows users to easily make a payment within the Payoneer network. There are a number of other financial needs that businesses have that we think can be addresses in new and better ways than they can be today – you'll have to stay tuned to Payoneer to see what we have coming out next!
Your Company is still cheating on me!
They called me to tell me that they would reverse the charges of some payments to my supplier on my credit card and they did not! So they continue to be scammers. They have no shame to defraud people with their nefarious and poor procedures professionally and ethically.
I will initiate a complaint against you in INTERNATIONAL VISA for fraud.
I wish to report fraud on the part of the Company Payoneer that is robbing the users of the credit cards, retaining amounts unduly for long periods, not accrediting the amounts deposited by alleging monetary policies that do not exist. They find themselves using MasterCard or Visa name when what they are doing is a fraud with the money they are given. In my possession all the documentation so that they can initiate the corresponding investigation.


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Devil in the hole
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"Identification of SNPs Associated with Variola Virus Virulence" by Anne Gatewood Hoen, Shea N. Gardner et al.
Background: Decades after the eradication of smallpox, its etiological agent, variola virus (VARV), remains a threat as a potential bioweapon. Outbreaks of smallpox around the time of the global eradication effort exhibited variable case fatality rates (CFRs), likely attributable in part to complex viral genetic determinants of smallpox virulence. We aimed to identify genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with CFR. We evaluated unadjusted and outbreak geographic location-adjusted models of single SNPs and two- and three-way interactions between SNPs. Findings: Using the data mining approach multifactor dimensionality reduction (MDR), we identified five VARV SNPs in models significantly associated with CFR. The topper forming unadjusted model and adjusted models both revealed the same two-way gene-gene interaction. We discuss the biological plausibility of the influence of the SNPs identified these and other significant models on the strain-specific virulence of VARV. Conclusions: We have identified genetic loci in the VARV genome that are statistically associated with VARV virulence as measured by CFR. While our ability to infer a causal relationship between the specific SNPs identified in our analysis and VARV virulence is limited, our results suggest that smallpox severity is in part associated with VARV strain variation and that VARV virulence may be determined by multiple genetic loci. This study represents the first application of MDR to the identification of pathogen gene-gene interactions for predicting infectious disease outbreak severity.
Hoen, Anne Gatewood; Gardner, Shea N.; and Moore, Jason H., "Identification of SNPs Associated with Variola Virus Virulence" (2013). Open Dartmouth: Faculty Open Access Articles. 2764.


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Ebersdorf bei Coburg is a municipality in the district of Coburg in Bavaria in Germany.

Geography

Location
Ebersdorf lies on the upper course of the river Füllbach, a tributary of the Itz, and at the northern edge of the Lichtenfels Forest (Lichtenfelser Forst).

Subdivisions
Ebersdorf is divided into 6 Ortsteile:
 Ebersdorf
 Friesendorf
 Frohnlach
 Großgarnstadt
 Kleingarnstadt
 Oberfüllbach

Transport
Ebersdorf can be reached by car via motorway A 73 Suhl-Coburg-Nuremberg. Ebersdorf has a station at Eisenach–Lichtenfels railway. The Steinach Valley Railway from Ebersdorf to Neustadt bei Coburg has first been disrupted by the Inner German Border and was later lifted in 2000.

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Port of Spain In West Indies (PTI) : Team India skipper Virat Kohli praised centurion Ajinkya Rahane, saying his presence brings a balance to the side and allows him to play an extra bowler, which will come handy during the 2019 World Cup.
Rahane blasted a 104-ball 103 — studded with two sixes and 10 boundaries — to power India to 310-5 against the West Indies in the rain-truncated second one-dayer here.
"Jinx (Rahane) has been a part of the ODI set-up for a while and we all felt he had a great potential at the top of the order. He is always there as the third opening batsman," Kohli told reporters after India notched up a 105-run win.
"In this series, he has batted really well in both the games. He paced his innings well today. He is such an established Test batsman. He wants to make it count in the shorter format.
"I think he has started taking a lot less pressure on himself and has begun enjoying his game more. He can only go up from here and improve in this format," he added.
Kohli said the role which Rahane plays lends balance to the side.
"He can be that floater for us in the middle order. He might allow you to play an extra bowler in a big tournament like the 2019 World Cup. There are very few people who can perform two roles for the team. He can open and he can play in the middle-order.
"So, I see him providing more balance to us as a side, in terms of allowing us to taking an extra bowling option when he is there," he explained.
The young Kuldeep Yadav scalped three wickets in his second ODI to help India restrict West Indies to 205-6 and Kohli described the spinner as a lethal bowler.
"His cross seam deliveries turn both ways. I have faced him in the IPL. He's quite amazing with what he does with the bowl and especially on dry wickets like it was today, he becomes even more lethal. Credit to him for putting up such a performance," he said.
India will play the third ODI on June 30 at Antigua's Sir Vivian Richards stadium.
Rahane blasted a 104-ball 103 -- studded with two sixes and 10 boundaries -- to power India to 310-5 against the West Indies in the rain-truncated second one-dayer here.
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Jackal (vehicle)
Armoured Wheeled Vehicle
MWMIK (Jackal)
A Jackal armoured vehicle at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan.
Supacat
6,650 kg (14,660 lb)
5.39 m (17 ft 8 in)
1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) (not including weapon system)
Additional composite armour kit
12.7 mm heavy machine gun, or
Heckler & Koch GMG
7.62 mm general purpose machine gun
5.9 litre Cummins ISBe Euro3
185 bhp (138 kW)
Independent double wishbone, air operated springs and external bypass shock absorbers (2 per wheel station) with variable ride height
130 km/h (81 mph)
The Jackal or MWMIK (pronounced EmWimmick) or Mobility Weapon-Mounted Installation Kit is a family of vehicles designed and developed by Supacat Ltd at their factory in Honiton, Devon (UK) for use by the British Army and Royal Air Force Regiment.[1] Supacat re-branded to SC Group in September 2015, the Supacat brand retained for the group's core defence business.[2]
The primary role of the vehicle in the British Army is deep battlespace reconnaissance, rapid assault and fire support - roles where mobility, endurance and manoeuvrability are important - and it has also been used for convoy protection.
Small production runs are manufactured at the Honiton factory but larger batches are manufactured by Plymouth company DML (part of Babcock Marine Services, owned by Babcock International Group). The initial order was for up to 100[3] and it was announced on 27 June 2008 that the MOD would be ordering a further 72.[4] On 23 Jun 2010 it was announced by the Ministry of Defence that 140 additional Jackal 2 vehicles were being ordered, and according to the same source this would bring the number of Jackals in service up to 500.[5]
The MWMIK can carry increased payload and fuel compared to its predecessor, allowing it to carry greater amounts of additional equipment and protection over longer distances, and it is able to support itself and its crew for distances of over 497 mi (800 km).[6]
3.1 Jackal 2
3.2 Coyote
Design and development[edit]
The vehicle was procured to provide British forces in Afghanistan with an off-road patrol and fire-support vehicle with increased performance, supplementing the Land Rover Wolf WMIK and the Snatch Land Rover which previously fulfilled the role.[7] In particular the Snatch Land Rover, although able to withstand small arms fire, is vulnerable to improvised explosive devices and was labelled by some a "mobile coffin".[6][8]
According to the Ministry of Defence, the Jackal "was built to meet the British Army's specific requirements for an agile, well-armed, light patrol vehicle."[6] The vehicle's height-adjustable air suspension system can be lowered onto the bump-stops to provide a stable firing platform when stationary or raised to a maximum 380 mm ground clearance allowing it to clear large obstacles. The high levels of off-road mobility enable troops to avoid more conventional routes which may be subject to ambush or enemy reconnaissance.[6]
The vehicle is based on the HMT (High Mobility Transporter) 400 high-mobility 4×4 design developed by a former subsidiary of Supacat, now built under licence from Lockheed Martin.[9][10] The chassis is built by Universal Engineering Ltd, the engine by Cummins, the transmission by Allison, the suspension shock absorbers by Fox Racing Shox[11] and the electronics package by Fujitsu and Smartgauge Electronics. The blast and ballistic armour packages, and the blast mitigating seating were designed and built by Jankel Armouring Ltd. The vehicles can be fitted with a range of weapons, such as a 12.7 mm Heavy Machine Gun, 7.62 mm General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) and 40 mm Automatic Grenade Launcher.
The Jackal is capable of maintaining off-road speeds of up to 49 mph (79 km/h) and can reach a top speed of 80 mph (130 km/h).
The Ministry of Defence has stated that the design of the vehicle hull incorporates the latest armour protection and that it is considered to be among the best in the world. The HMT 400 mine blast and ballistic protection system was developed for Supacat by Jankel Armouring Ltd. It features armour plating beneath the crew compartment and on the vehicle sides, as well as attenuating seats that absorb shock from any mine blast. The top of the cabin is left open for visibility, which affords the vehicle protection through its manoeuvrability and main armament stand-off distance. These enable it to avoid exposure to riskier IED prone routes. Despite this Jackal crews have suffered a number of IED attacks, some fatal.[12][13][14]
Operational history[edit]
On 8 April 2008, it was announced that the MWMIK had been deployed to Helmand Province, Afghanistan, as the Jackal 4×4 Patrol Vehicle.[15]
In 2020, the Ministry of Defence loaned four Jackal 2 vehicles to the Estonian Defence Forces for their special forces to use in Mali until March 2021 or until they receive their order of Coyote vehicles.[16][17]
Other versions[edit]
Coyote TSV with British, Australian and American personnel aboard in Afghanistan, 2011.
Jackal 2[edit]
An updated version of the Jackal has been ordered as Jackal 2. The crew has been increased to four and the main armament gun ring moved forward to give it an all round arc of fire. The chassis has been upgraded, allowing the vehicle to carry a greater payload and armour, and providing more strength for protection against roadside bombs. It also has a larger 6.7 l engine, although this does not increase the speed of the vehicle. An initial order for "around 110" vehicles was made in 2009, with final deliveries in February 2010. A further order for 140 of the Jackal 2A was announced on 23 June 2010, which is based on the Jackal 2 platform with a blast protection upgrade.[18][19]
Coyote[edit]
Coyote Tactical Support Vehicles are a larger 6x6 design with more than 70 ordered as medium load carriers, artillery tractors[citation needed] and a range of other platform variants.[20][21][unreliable source?]
The Coyote tactical support vehicle (TSV light) is based on the HMT 600 6×6 chassis from Supacat[22] and is a larger derivative of the Jackal 2, the two vehicles are designed to be complementary. The extra two wheels give a heavier vehicle approaching 10,500 kg (10.3 long tons) which will act in support of the Jackal 2 and allow transportation of supplies and equipment over similar terrain (the payload for supplies and equipment will be 3,900 kg (3.8 long tons)). The Coyote has been designed to fulfil the role of a light tactical service vehicle.
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^ "SC Rebrand takes Supacat into new era". SC Group. 10 September 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
^ "Awesome firepower and agility puts Jackal in class of its own". Ministry of Defence. Archived from the original on 17 August 2012.
^ "Range of new Defence Equipment unveiled at giant event". Ministry of Defence. Archived from the original on 17 August 2012.
^ "defencenews.com". Archived from the original on 31 July 2012.
^ a b c d Q&A: Jackal armoured vehicles, BBC News, 13 December 2008
^ British to Field 130 Supacat MWMIK Patrol Vehicles
^ Snatch Land Rovers: the 'mobile coffins' of the British army, The Guardian, 1 November 2008
^ Supacat HMT 400 Archived 2008-09-23 at the Wayback Machine
^ Day of the Jackal
^ Fox Racing Shox Archived 2008-10-22 at the Portuguese Web Archive
^ "Soldiers Cheated Death in Open Top Vehicle=People News". 23 January 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2010.
^ "Corporals killed in vehicle blast". BBC News. 17 March 2009. Retrieved 17 March 2009.
^ "Four UK soldiers killed in one day in Helmand province". London: Times Online. 8 May 2009. Retrieved 8 May 2009.
^ Awesome firepower and agility puts Jackal in class of its own
^ "UK loans Estonia four Jackal vehicles to support counter-terror mission in Mali". GOV.UK (Press release). Ministry of Defence. 9 July 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
^ Whyte, Andrew (10 July 2020). "UK loans four Jackal 2 armored vehicles to Estonian special forces". news.err.ee. ERR.
^ "MoD in £45m Jackal 2a order". Defence Management Online. 24 June 2010. Archived from the original on 21 January 2013. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
^ "Days of the Jackal: Supacat's HMT Vehicles". Defense Industry Daily. 2010. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
^ Ministry of Defence (22 April 2009). "200 new armoured vehicles for front line operations". Archived from the original on 13 May 2009.
^ "Coyote / Jackal 2 Tactical Support Vehicles, United Kingdom". army-technology.com. 2009.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 December 2010. Retrieved 3 January 2011. CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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Manufacturer's website (Supacat, part of SC Group)
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"Reconnaissance Vehicles". British Army.
Jackal 1 and Jackal 2
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Saharan dust Q&A: Densest plume in decades bringing hazy, colorful skies to Gulf coast
by: Amanda Holly
Posted: Jun 25, 2020 / 11:04 AM MDT / Updated: Jun 26, 2020 / 05:53 AM MDT
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The densest cloud of Saharan dust we've seen in decades has made its way to the Gulf of Mexico after a 5,000-mile trek across the Atlantic Ocean.
But with the arrival of the dust, we've also seen an arrival of misinformation swirling online about what it is and what it means. Our Tracking the Tropics team decided to clear up confusion and answer questions about the dust on Thursday.
What is Saharan dust?
The Saharan dust is something we see every year when plumes are generated from strong winds over the Sahara Desert. Winds and updrafts kick up the dry top layer of soil and raise it high into the atmosphere. Easterly trade winds can then carry the dust into the Atlantic. Sometimes, when the dust plume is large enough and the easterly winds are strong enough, the plume travels all the way to the Caribbean and even the United States.
Dust plumes coming off the coast of Africa are quite normal this time of year. The plumes typically begin in mid-June and run through mid-August, peaking somewhere in the middle. According to NOAA, the plumes of dust seem to rapidly subside after mid-August, which is also why we see an uptick in tropical activity in August and September.
Not a dust storm
To avoid confusion and clear up one of the most common misconceptions, this is not a typical dust storm. The dust is suspended high up in the atmosphere, between 5,000 feet and 20,000 feet – or about one to four miles.
What's different about the plume we're seeing now?
The dust plume that was visible in several states along the Gulf Coast is the densest we've seen in decades. It was visible in several states along the Gulf Coast on Thursday morning.
"It's much, much denser this time around," WGNO Chief Meteorologist Hank Allen explained. "It's probably the biggest we've seen in about 50 years or so."
WFLA Meteorologist Amanda Holly pointed out the plume we're seeing now is also denser than what we usually see this time of year.
"We typically see the dust coming over from June, July and through mid-August. That's when the dust is lifted up over the Saharan Desert and it's brought over
Will I see colorful sunrises and sunsets?
Hazier skies from the plume will lead to exceptionally colorful sunrises and sunsets as the light bends around and through the particulate.
"Sometimes we see get colorful sunrises and sunsets depending on the denseness of the plume," Holly explained. "If it's too dense, we actually see the sun turn into kind of a dot, like a little pinhole as it rises and sets."
Allen says that's probably what will end up happening in much of the Gulf Coast area because this specific plume is so dense.
"At this point, certainly what we've seen this morning, this is so dense you're ending up with more of a gray, sort of milky shading in the sky which is a lot less attractive than the pretty oranges and pinks," he said.
Allergy sufferers, beware
Allergy sufferers may notice an increase in irritation from the dust as some of it does mix in closer to the surface.
"We do get some of that dust settling down and it has been known to be a possible irritant to those of you guys who have allergies," Holly said. "Obviously not something we want to deal with right now…but something to be mindful of as this dust is near."
Does the dust cause red tide?
NASA is currently studying a link between the dust plumes and red tide. Studies have shown after large plumes arrive, there is an increase in the harmful algae.
So why is that? Mixed in with the dust is iron from the topsoil in Africa. When the iron ends up in the Gulf, it actually fertilizes the water which can begin the process of the toxic algae bloom.
NASA also explained that the "dust helps build beaches in the Caribbean and fertilizes soils in the Amazon."
What does it mean for hurricane season?
Dust plumes seem to inhibit tropical development thanks to the embedded dry air and strong 25-55 mph mid-level winds along with a few other factors. However, it is important to note that research is ongoing on this topic.
Dust plumes typically begin in mid-June and run through mid-August, peaking somewhere in the middle. According to NOAA, the plumes of dust seem to rapidly subside after mid-August, which is also why we see an uptick in tropical activity in August and September.
How far north will the dust go?
"Some of the modeling actually has this circling all the way back through, riding up the eastern part of the country and, believe it or not, making it all the way over toward the United Kingdom through the next week," Allen said.
That could happen because of how dense the plume is right now and how nothing is really standing in its way to break it up.
Can the dust produce thunderstorms?
This is something meteorologists have been discussing recently because the dust has 50% drier air than the typical tropical air seen in the Gulf of Mexico.
"You would think that would limit the thunderstorms in the area where the dust is at," Holly said. "But we've got dust right now in most of the Gulf of Mexico and we see plenty of thunderstorms over Houston and we've still got rain chances in the forecast."
The bottom line is thunderstorms can happen where dust is present, but that doesn't necessarily mean the dust is producing those storms.
How does the dust interact with humidity?
There's a minimal impact with humidity because the dust layer is so high up.
"The humidity you feel is more at ground level," Allen said. "So I would say not an interaction but the flow rounding up into the Gulf that is bringing this dust layer is also partly responsible for bringing the flow up in the moisture out of the Gulf."
How long will the dust last?
We're expecting the current dust to stick around for at least a week or so. But keep in mind, this is just the first plume we're tracking.
"There are several others, one still making its way across the Atlantic right now and it looks like another one trying to bubble up again over the Sahara," Holly said. "So I'm expecting this dust to last until next week. And if it does linger this long, that's when we maybe start to see some of the dust on our cars."
Will it affect airline flights?
Our Tracking the Tropics team says probably not because pilots have instrumentation to work around it.
"But it certainly impact airline visibility," Allen said. "So as opposed to visual flight rules, it'll be more instrument-based."
"Planes might actually be above it," Holly added. "It could make for some interestign photographs."
Is it safe to swim in the Gulf?
Yes, as it relates to dust. The dust will not have any impacts – at this point – on water quality.
What is the effect of rain on the dust?
While the thunderstorm is happening, some of the dust can be brought down to the surface. After the thunderstorm goes away, there could be a short period of time with cleaner air in the area before more dust starts to move in.
Tracking the Tropics is keeping you informed throughout the hurricane season. Watch live every Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET for an update.
by Mark Ronchetti / Jan 21, 2021
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – A storm system will exit the state leaving behind wet air at the surface. This could lead to some early morning freezing fog in the Four Corners. Otherwise, skies should be partly sunny through the day with mild temps. The next storm system will roll in this weekend with snow for the northern mountains and showers possible in the metro area by Sunday.
by Erica Meyer / Jan 21, 2021
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) - While much of northern New Mexico is seeing mostly and partly sunny skies, it is a rainy afternoon in the lower Rio Grande Valley. Rain will continue through the evening, staying scattered and spreading east to Texas and north to I-40. There is a chance for an isolated rain shower in Bernalillo and Valencia counties during the evening. Wind will stay gusty, up to around 35 mph, for eastern New Mexico this afternoon. The rain will clear out tonight, leaving New Mexico dry Friday morning. There is a chance for some patchy dense fog for the Friday morning commute, especially in areas that have seen rain today.
Friday will be mostly sunny for many, with mild temperatures. Clouds, scattered rain, and snow will start moving into western New Mexico during the afternoon and evening. Snow will start to accumulate in the San Juans Friday night, and it will be all downhill from there with continuous snowfall through the weekend. Over a foot of snow is possible in the San Juans by Sunday night. Snow will be possible in New Mexico mountains on Saturday, with light accumulation, but heavier, widespread snow is expected Sunday.
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) - Scattered rain and snow showers are moving through southern New Mexico this morning. Temperatures are above freezing for the low elevations of the Rio Grande Valley, so precipitation is falling as rain, but you'll find snow in the higher terrain.
Freezing fog is limiting visibility and potentially creating icy spots around Farmington and Alamosa. The fog will dissipate by mid-morning, but rain is expected to stay scattered in southern New Mexico all day. Areas north of I-40 will stay mostly dry and even sunny. There is a slight chance for a shower today in Albuquerque. Wind will stay breezy in the east mountains and plains, gusting to around 35 mph this afternoon.
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        static void Main()
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            firstNumber = Math.Abs(int.Parse(Console.ReadLine()));
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            while (firstNumber!=0 && secondNumber!=0 && firstNumber!=secondNumber)
            {
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serving in the Philippines
Free Methodist World Missions
© 2016 Sauder Family
#sauderfamily
Set Free Movement
International Child Care Ministries
VISA Ministries
, we're Matt, Christine, Chloe and Libby Sauder. We're on a mission: to love God and to love others.
Matt has felt a call to be a missionary since college. He had known he
was going to be in ministry for a long time. Both Matt and Christine met each other
while attending Spring Arbor University. We met and got to know each other on a
college mission trip to the Navajo Nation, in New Mexico. We soon fell in love and,
after college, were married. We lived in Jackson, Michigan, where Matt was a youth
pastor at a multicultural Latino church.
At the beginning of 2008 we moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, where Matt started
working at International Child Care Ministries, the child sponsorship program of the Free Methodist Church, and also was a youth pastor in an inner-city church in Indy. Christine taught math at a middle school in Indy as well. When we moved to Indy we started looking into areas of the world where we could serve as missionaries. Each place we looked into didn't work out so we decided to let the Lord open the door in His time. Chloe arrived in 2011 and brought so much joy to our family. Matt was ordained in the Free Methodist Church in 2013.
Right around that time the Lord started stirring in our hearts. We knew He wanted to tell us something. Around that same time the Free Methodist Asia Area Director came to us and felt that the Lord wanted us to go to the Philippines. He asked us to pray. Almost immediately we felt that this is what God wanted us to do. So that started the process of making our way to the Philippines.
We arrived in the Philippines in October 2014. We lived in
Butuan City where Matt served as English Pastor at the
Butuan City Free Methodist "Mother" Church as well as
taught at Light & Life Bible College. Christine taught Chloe
at home. We thoroughly enjoyed our time in Butuan. A
week after we arrived in the Philippines we found out that
Christine was pregnant and in May 2015 Libby was born in Butuan City. We strive
to seek and obey the Lord and we're so excited for what He has in store for us
yet. As they say...the best is yet to come.
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Ayanna Pressley Has A Challenger — Meet Rayla Campbell
By Tom Joyce | April 30, 2020, 21:23 EDT
Printed from: https://newbostonpost.com/2020/04/30/ayanna-pressley-has-a-challenger-meet-rayla-campbell/
Rayla Campbell of Randolph, Massachusetts is running as a Republican against U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Dorchester). Pressley was first elected in 2018. Photo courtesy of Rayla Campbell.
When elected to represent Massachusetts's Seventh Congressional District last year, Ayanna Pressley became the state's first black Congresswoman.
Now, Rayla Campbell, a 37-year-old Randolph resident, hopes to be the second — by defeating Pressley in the general election this November.
A D+34 district, according to the Cook Partisan Voting Index, the district is one of the most Democratic-leaning in the nation. In general elections, the seat has been uncontested since 2010. After unseating Michael Capuano in the Democratic primary in September 2018, Pressley ran unopposed in the general election.
In fact, Democrats ran unopposed in four of the state's nine congressional districts in 2018 (in the First, Fourth, Seventh, and Eighth).
Campbell told New Boston Post that's unacceptable, especially when she sees many in her community who are not happy with Pressley.
"She's not very well-liked around here — at all," Campbell said in a recent telephone interview. "We see the way she is trying to implement changes in a fly, sneaky way, and people don't like it. It's not the way Randolph wants to be. She just constantly pushes her identity politics. It's anti-American and militant. It's not the way Randolph wants to be seen."
Pressley is a member of a group of four first-term left-wing women of color who quickly made a splash in Washington D.C. shortly after the 2018 election, known together as The Squad. The most prominent member is U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
Pressley's notoriety doesn't bother Campbell.
"I'm not afraid to stand up to the left," Campbell said. "More Republicans need to get on these ballots to give people a choice. If you don't have another voice to challenge, people will stick to the status quo — and the status quo is not working."
The lifelong Republican told New Boston Post she is pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, and pro-school choice; that she opposes the Green New Deal and does not want to lower the voting age to 16; and that she would like to see more manufacturing jobs brought back to the United States, wants to expand Opportunity Zones, and wants states to reform occupational licensing to provide people with more opportunities to work.
Of expanding Opportunity Zones in Massachusetts's Seventh Congressional District, she said, "We really need that. I want to lift everybody up. Instead of giving people handouts, I want to give people hand-ups."
The Seventh Congressional District has a weird, mostly vertical shape on a map, with a bend in the middle — like a boomerang that shattered at one end and sprayed paint with its shards. It runs as far north as Somerville, Chelsea, and Everett north of Boston, as far south as Randolph south of Boston, and large sections of Boston in between.
The Massachusetts Legislature, which created it, calls it the "Minority-Majority District," meaning most of the people who live in it are members of a racial minority — although whites are a larger group in it than any of the individual minority groups.
Campbell said she wants to stress the opportunity available in a free-enterprise system. She said she would like to provide an alternative to Pressley's faction of the Democratic Party where the proposed solution presented to most problems is bigger government.
"All of these women in my district, I know that if they could just get the opportunity to do something more, they would run with it," she said. "But they are constantly told that 'you can't do it without our help.' But sure you can. The library offers many free classes for anyone to get an education for free. That whole theory of them saying 'you can't do it' is out the window."
A Catholic and mother of three children, who works from home processing claims for geriatric long-term care insurance clients, Campbell said her background should help her be able to connect with a wide range of people in Massachusetts's most ethnically diverse Congressional district.
"A lot of us are working women, working moms," she said. "We're hard workers in this community. It's more unaffiliated with either party, so people vote with their heart. Being a Republican in Randolph, I feel good about it. We're a Catholic community. Everyone wants to help each other out. I know that my community will be behind me."
The Committee to Elect Ayanna Pressley and Pressley's Congressional office could not be reached for comment.
More information on Campbell's campaign can be found at www.facebook.com/RaylaForCongress.
Massachusetts Seventh Congressional District, courtesy of Wikipedia.
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What Made Them Do Their Duty?
5 Comments	/ September 12, 2021 September 12, 2021
From the very first moments of the World Trade Center horror, the valor and élan of New York's firemen, together with that of the city's police and emergency forces, have transfixed the whole nation—especially us in rural America who rarely see the real Gotham. Danger was nothing to them, courage and honor everything. They responded instantly to the explosion and fire, all drawn to, rather than repelled by, the inferno—and without regard to their own safety or the consequences of their possible incineration upon their loved ones at home. We now know their last radio cries: "Move away from the towers! Everyone move away from the towers!" Silence. . . .
As the ghastly rubble gets turned over, we find their remains in clusters—four incinerated here, ten buried there, 14 caught en masse in a stairwell, where they had guided the panicked down as they themselves ascended to their deaths: "All nonessential personnel move away from that building!" The antithesis, left unsaid, is obvious: "All necessary rescuers get into that building!"
So many of them disappeared—at least 388 firefighters—because in a heartbeat they chose to race into the flames and smoke rather than to hesitate and accept the obvious: that the towers were already death traps. In the tradition of all great American armies in battle, officers—47 lieutenants, 20 captains, and 21 chiefs—died alongside the rank and file, heroic death requiring no prerequisite of class or color. Indeed, the magnitude of the terrorist-inflicted disaster rivaled that of a fierce battle, where the enemy overruns and annihilates an entire military unit—paramedics, a fire marshal, even the fire department's chaplain were engulfed. Remarkably, moments after the buildings collapsed, there were even more rescue workers on the scene than before. It is human to flee from a place of death; the firemen and the police were almost inhuman in mounting so quickly the rubble that buried their brethren.
As terrible as their loss was, however, we must never forget how successful the rescuers actually were. Nearly 30,000 people escaped before the towers fell, in large part because the omnipresent cops and firefighters made sure that their own sense of calm and order guided the evacuation. Some of the saved made it out just seconds before thousands of tons buried their saviors on stairs and in hallways.
Now, for these past few weeks, the nation has watched these brave men and women, joined by construction and sanitation workers, as they search for the victims, always overturning the debris and moving beams with care to avoid harming potential survivors or further violating the deceased. Finding one of their own dead, they carry him out on flag-draped stretchers, with ceremony and protocol. Then they return to the rubble, paying less attention to collapsing concrete, unexpected bursts of flame, and razor-sharp twisted steel than to their powerful sense of fraternal obligation.
It is impossible not to admire their selflessness. Inhaling what was once the World Trade Center, both human and inanimate, they do not bother to debate—as many fearful people have done in the wake of the attacks—what might be the best brand of gas mask to don. They are not calibrating their chances of survival in threatened future gas attacks, because they're already breathing a sort of awful gas in the here and now.
The rescuers' selflessness is always evident in their interactions with the press and media. As television crews shove cameras in their faces and microphones under their blackened chins, they respond with tact, worrying mostly that their Herculean efforts are not enough—that they won't bring the dead back to life. We catch an occasional "Good work, brother," or a "Don't worry, we are going to get everybody out," or a polite "We can't talk now, just work until it's over and we've brought them out."
Sometimes the contrast between the brave rescue workers and their occasionally hysterical observers among the chattering classes is glaring. Nightline's Ted Koppel listens to the last radio transmissions of those caught in the collapse and asks: "Why were they so confused, why were the radios so bad?" We wince and sigh: "Because a million tons of concrete and steel were showering down on their heads!"
The rescuers' simple patriotism offers another favorable contrast with some of their elite observers. We do not hear from New York's heroic firemen and police any sophisticated nonsense that we brought the two towers crashing down upon ourselves because of our arrogance or imperial political ambitions. They do not tell us that we must change our sinful ways and abandon our friends. I don't think most of them give a damn what a Frenchman or a Palestinian says about our ordeal. Most seem to accept that a magnificent city such as theirs, in a nation as free and humane as their own, naturally invites the envy of lesser people and thus must be defended from those who hate what we are rather than anything we have done. Seeing the rescuers display their patriotism at Ground Zero, where they have carefully displayed American flags and patriotic slogans, swells one's own national pride.
These selfless, patriotic men and women project a physical presence that harks back to an earlier age—one largely unseen on the national scene for the last half-century. Muscular, tireless despite constant movement, a quiet confidence in corporeal strength—it is as if they stepped out of depression-era post-office murals or faded watercolors in long-defunct magazines.
Their robust physicality seems less the product of the health club or plastic surgeon's office than of hard and dirty work. The younger workers look like—no, look better than—athletes, their biceps built not for play but for carrying hoses and scaling ladders. Their ongoing labor seems to magnify their physical presence; in comparison, the ripples and contours of professional athletes now look oddly artificial. Some working in the rubble—overweight, smoking, sweating profusely—hardly look fit, of course. But using ample bellies as wedges and levers against the stones and steel, they remind America that you can be tough as nails and still be deemed out of shape.
Even their unit names seem to belong to a different, older era—"Ladder 28," "Squad 41," "Rescue 1." They remind one of the first wave of torpedo bombers, wiped out nearly to the man at the Battle of Midway, whose planes, bearing names like "Torpedo 6" and "Scouting 8," drew fire from Japanese Zeros, so that U.S. dive bombers, flying above them, could attack unmolested the now vulnerable enemy carriers below. These days, we might have expected the nomenclature of the rescue units to be something like "Integrated Systems Protection" or "Specialized Reaction and Control." That the unit names are so old-fashioned suggests that the rescue workers remain in some profound sense faithful to custom and tradition.
There is a lesson that the heroic dead and their courageous brethren at Ground Zero can offer to the elites and intellectuals who often look down on, or simply ignore, the concrete, physical world that forms the rescuers' daily milieu. What strikes many of us from outside New York who visit the city, after all, is how it all works. How do tons of water, food, and fuel enter the city every day, along with millions of commuters? Where do the sewage, trash, and litter all go? And in such cramped confines, how do people not kill and maim one another by the hour?
Now we have proof of what we've suspected all along: that "regular" New Yorkers like these, showing enormous versatility, make it all work. The concrete canyons of the city have not enervated their audacity, strength, and cunning, but have sharpened them in ways we could scarcely imagine. Any of us on America's farms or in its factories or mines who thought New Yorkers soft now realize how mistaken we were. The rescuers, it turns out, could easily drive tractors, ride horses, or dig in mines, if their duty was not to brave flames and catch criminals.
Indeed, many of the rescuers exemplify a Hellenic balance. These firemen and cops, like the Greeks, innately understand that muscles matched with mind are essential to our collective flourishing and safety. This balance, I think, underlies the steady confidence that the surviving rescuers show when they speak of responding to the September 11 attack. Their voices remain calm, never frightened; they are not crying out blindly for revenge for their brothers. They talk—often incisively—of a slow, growing, and enduring response that accords with their own very American sense of fairness, righteous indignation, and humanity: "They will pay for this, you'll see."
I would not wish to meet people such as these in battle. Yet I think the Taliban and their henchmen face in our military forces just such people. Everywhere, we hear warnings to be cautious and afraid; but I think it is our enemies, not us, who have real cause for worry, for until now they have only struck at the innocent and unaware. Now they must confront the spiritual kin of the rescuers.
Brave, selfless, patriotic, strong, and versatile—no wonder these public servants seem to bring out the best in those who cross their paths. Where do such marvelous people come from? Doubtless part of the answer has to do with the clannish ties of many of the rescuers, who, like farmers and miners, often feel more comfortable living among their own (frequently near their parents) and working alongside siblings and cousins. A striking number of them were Catholic. One Staten Island Catholic high school lost 23 alumni on September 11—about half of them cops or firemen. Such benevolent tribalism—that one should not be a walking and transient résumé but find worth instead among family, community, and a grandfather's profession—can be a powerful force for good, whatever its potential limitations. Military historians tell us, for example, that the key to group cohesiveness and fighting spirit in any good army is the regimental system, based on the idea that soldiers—and these firefighters and cops are surely that—battle better together when arrayed alongside neighbors and friends in a common purpose.
The existence of these virtuous men and women, however, also owes much to the universal genius of American—Western—civilization. We are seeing in this tragedy and in these firemen and police, alive and dead, the flesh and bones of our entire culture laid bare: what it means to be both American and Western at the moment of our peril and need.
Consider the ease with which the workers operate the huge cranes and bulldozers that remove the World Trade Center rubble—and consider the machines themselves. Only a civilization like that of the West, steeped in the rationalist tradition and protected by freedom of inquiry, could invent and use such remarkable equipment. The busy activity at Ground Zero reminds us how the Hoover Dam arose so speedily, how in World War II the wrecked Yorktown was made as good as new in mere hours, and why both earthquake and hurricane fail to level our cities permanently.
The rescuers are also free men and women, exhibiting all the associational skills that have made civil society so vibrant in Western history. The rescue workers do not first look to central government authority before plunging into their daily toil. Ingenuity, improvisation, and spontaneity are everywhere—the wonderful fruits of a free society. In addition, the police who ring the site owe allegiance to civilians and elected officials, not self-proclaimed authorities who hang and hector as they see fit. Our enemies brag of the brutal order of the chopped hand and stoned face: let them come to New York and see how much better and more humane are free guardians than thugs obeying the ravings of a mendicant fanatic.
Could New York's free rescuers be any more different from the city's attackers? New York's suicidal enemies demand adherence to their religious creed and are more likely to be of a regimented mind and even hue. The firemen and cops, conversely, are of all colors and faiths. The names of the dead—Michael Weinberg, Manuel Mojica, Paddy Brown, Joseph Angelini, Gerald Schrang, Tarel Coleman—sound scripted from corny World War II movies. Yet the diversity is not corny but real—far more real than Hollywood fantasies or the resentful multiculturalism of the politicized campus. By all accounts, these men worked in relative harmony alongside one another even as they expressed pride in their ethnic heritage—a fertile, and particularly American, tension of the universal and the particular.
We are discovering, ultimately, the West's powerful advantage of having three, rather than two, classes—the critical presence in society of men and women who are neither terribly rich nor abjectly poor, who own property yet struggle mightily to acquire and keep it.
This middle class is not the norm of the world, either today or in the past, which was and is likely to remain pyramidal: a small elite tottering at the peak, dictating to an impoverished and restless mass below, as one now finds in Afghanistan and Iraq. The independent and resourceful of New York are what we would expect of a hallowed tradition that goes back to the Greeks, whose civilization arose on the backs of the mesoi—the "middle ones," who were neither rich nor poor, neither dispossessed nor royalty. As property-owning, voting citizens, the mesoi created and sustained our culture, which explains why their descendants, on their own initiative, rushed into the flames and now find and care for our dead—and will quickly rebuild what the terrorists destroyed.
Make no mistake: a horrific catastrophe has struck New York. A trillion dollars has vanished from its markets, and repairing damage to the city's structures will cost at least $40 billion. The loss of human treasure is incalculable. And like it or not, we are in a real war. But the firefighters, police, and other rescue workers have proven an invaluable asset. Their heroic conduct in the present crisis will change the nature of New York, teaching many in the city's vast offices that hefty salaries don't mean much if one does not help one's kin and do so with honor and courage. What has gone on in the rubble should be as reassuring a sight for our friends as it is ominous for our foes.
5 thoughts on "What Made Them Do Their Duty?"
Josh Clark
How it has been warped and changed twenty years later. . .
Thank you. It meant a lot to read this.
Ron Nixon
The courage and selflessness of the NYFD on 9/11 is truly astounding. I'm reminded of Tennyson's poem, the Charge of the Light Brigade. Not because of any blunder on the part of their leadership, there was none, but by their unwavering commitment to duty and to help their fellow citizens.
There's not to make reply,
There's not to reason why,
There's but to do and die:
Into the Valley of Death
When can their glory fade?
O, the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honor the charge they made!
Honor the Light Brigade,
Noble Six Hundred!
BobPierce
No one ever sad it better.
Myra Oleynik
Such a poignant reminder of the strength and bravery found "in the middle" of America. I love listening to and reading your words. Please keep writing and teaching!


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Peacebuilding and the Arts
Jolyon Mitchell and Others
This volume explores the relationship between peacebuilding and the arts. Through a series of original essays the authors break new ground, setting out fresh ways of analysing how different art forms can contribute to the processes and practices of building peace. The book is divided into five sections (on Visual Arts, Music, Literature, Film and Theatre/Dance), with over 20 authors offering overviews of each art form, case studies from around the globe and critical reflections on how the arts can contribute to peacebuilding. By bringing together the insights of scholars and practitioners working at the intersection of these two broad fields, this book presents a series of unique, critical perspectives on the interaction of diverse art forms with a range of peacebuilding endeavours.
Jolyon Mitchell is Professor and Director of CTPI at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where he specialises in Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding with special reference to the Arts.
Giselle Vincett is a sociologist of religion. Her work concentrates primarily on everyday performances of belief and on everyday and spatial experiences of deprivation in the West.
Theodora Hawksley is a Roman Catholic theologian specialising in the area of peacebuilding and Catholic social teaching. She writes regularly on Ignatian spirituality.
Hal Culberston is Associate Dean for Operations at the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs. He specializes in NGO management, particularly in the peacebuilding context.
More Books by Jolyon Mitchell, Giselle Vincett, Theodora Hawksley & Hal Culbertson
Promoting Peace, Inciting Violence
Religion and the News
Martyrdom: A Very Short Introduction
Rising Powers and Peacebuilding
Contesting Peace in the Postwar City
Non-Nuclear Peace
Securitization and Desecuritization Processes in Protracted Conflicts
Visions of Peace of Professional Peace Workers


The Foundation Pant by Vimmia is a full-length legging in signature high-tech compression fabric with ribbed slit pockets at hips and contrast seaming. Moisture-wicking, quick-drying and ventilated, these leggings provide shape and stretch through any activity.
Perfect compression tights. Nice thick fabric, high-quality, accurate fit. Just what I need for the winter and outdoor ice hockey practice. Looking forward to wearing these leggings for snowboarding, too. Also have managed to dress them up to wear to the office. Get a pair. If there was a navy blue option, I'd get that, too.


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About HLC |
HLC Initiatives |
EVOLVE 2025 Strategic Plan |
EVOLVE 2025: Equity Goals and Action Steps
The role of equity in accreditation and quality assurance is critical;the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the inequities existing in and endemic to higher education. To that end, an equity framework should permeate not only all levels of institutions (e.g., students, staff, faculty and governing boards) but also their accreditors (e.g., the Peer Corps and review process). These goals focus on HLC's commitment to modeling fairness, quality and access for all learners and institutions; they also emphasize the importance of all students having equitable access to higher education.
Goal 1: Demonstrate Equity in HLC's Mission
HLC will ensure that concepts of equity, diversity, access and inclusion are demonstrated in its mission and other foundational statements.
2021–2025, and then ongoing
Develop HLC definitions of equity, diversity, access and inclusion.
Test the definitions against HLC's mission, vision and values. Assure consistency of interpretation by all staff and peer reviewers.
Review HLC's Principles of Operation to assure they address equity, diversity, access and inclusion.
Work to assure that the open access agenda in higher education is not compromised.
Goal 2: Promote Equity Principles
HLC will actively promote an understanding of and sensitivity to equity principles in its interactions with institutions and other stakeholders.
Regularly identify potential trends regarding inequities relative to accreditation policies and processes by disaggregating and analyzing evaluation data (e.g., identification of institutional types that flag consistently on particular Core Components, sanctions or Show-Cause Orders).
Explore various approaches to differential accreditation.
Work with the Peer Corps Diversity Committee to provide additional training to peer reviewers on promising practices for evaluating equity, diversity, access and inclusion at institutions.
Strengthen evaluations and training to improve interactions among peer review team members in order to reduce micro-aggressions and other forms of unconsciously discriminatory behaviors.
Review (and, if necessary, revise) the Criteria for Accreditation to include equity principles. Hold a focus group and a symposium.
Goal 3: Assess Policies and Procedures
HLC will assess and address equity in relation to its operational policies and related procedures.
Develop a process and schedule to review alignment to equity of current internal operating policies and related procedures.
Evaluate the developed processes one year after implementation and then bi-annually.
Collect, review, and share Equal Employment Opportunity information with HLC employees.
Provide "just-in-time" training regarding implicit bias when seeking new employees.
Focus on building the diversity of HLC's Board of Trustees and employees.
Provide annual training to all internal stakeholders, including the HLC Board of Trustees, regarding understanding of and sensitivity to equity and access.
Goal 4: Inform the Public
HLC will provide information to the public regarding issues that are impacted by equity considerations, for example educational attainment and high-quality credentials.
Determine specific external events or organizations with which to partner in order to provide information on quality credentials to fit student needs and expectations.
Work as a convener to develop resources for the public, thereby expanding HLC's Student Resources.
Host events for state and local officials, education administrators, and advocates to discuss the landscape in which education intersects with governmental policies and social/economic dynamics related to equity.
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NJ Supreme Court Denies Prosecutor's Appeal in Newark School Yard Slaying Case
UncategorizedBy jgerfosky November 15, 2010
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that the New Jersey Supreme Court denied the prosecutor's motion for leave to appeal the ruling suppressing the statement given by Gerardo Gomez in connection with the August 2007 Newark school yard slaying case. Earlier this year a three-judge panel of the Appellate Division of Superior…
Nutley Teen Arrested for Child Porn
UncategorizedBy jgerfosky November 4, 2010
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that a 17-year-old Nutley youth was charged with possession of child pornography today, a felony. The juvenile, whose name is not being released because of his age, was charged following an investigation by the Essex County Prosecutor's Office Cyber Crime Unit. Investigators from the Essex County…
Triggerman in School Yard Slaying Gets Three Life Sentences
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that Melvin Jovel, 21, of Elizabeth, who admitted murdering three Delaware State University students and attempting to murder a fourth, was sentenced to 245 years in state prison today by the Honorable Michael L. Ravin, Judge of the Superior Court. Judge Ravin sentenced Jovel to three…
Three Men Are Indicted for the Murder of Newark Man
UncategorizedBy jgerfosky October 29, 2010
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino today announced that an Essex County Grand Jury has returned a four-count indictment today charging three men with the murder of Edgardo Ruiz, 42, of Newark. Rafael M Velez, 26, of Newark, Anthony Ruiz, 31, of Newark and Adrian Torres, 35, Elizabeth were all charged with the murder…
Arrest Made in Murder of Orange Grandmother
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that a 17-year-old juvenile was arrested in Norfolk, Virginia and charged with the murder of 69-year-old Luz Hernandez of Orange. The juvenile, whose name will not be released at this time because of his age, remains in custody in Norfolk, Va. Ms. Hernandez was killed during…
Official Scorer for Major League Baseball Dies in West Caldwell Fire
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that William Shannon, 69, an official scorer for Major League Baseball, died in a house fire in West Caldwell this morning. Shannon lived in the home with his mother, Mildred Shannon, 92. Ms. Shannon sustained what are believed to be non-life threatening injuries. She was taken…
Christmas 2007 Killer Convicted
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that an Essex County jury convicted David Fernandez, 29, of Newark of murder and attempted murder for killing Jose A. Rivera, 39, and attempting to kill Uriel Ocasio, who was 36 at the time. Both victims are longtime Newark residents. Following a five-week trial, the jury…
Second Suspect in Murder of Transgender Woman Surrenders
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that the second suspect in the Maplewood homicide of Victoria Carmen White turned himself in to the 4th Precinct of the Newark Police Department. Alrashim Chambers, 23, of Newark walked into a police station and surrendered to Newark Police late Sunday night. He was taken into…
DNA Used to Identify Homeless Man Found Dead in River
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that Bartholomew Bradley, 53, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Newark, has been charged with the murder of a homeless Guatemalan immigrant. Back in May a decomposed body of a Hispanic male washed up at the Passaic River Sewage treatment facility on Wilson Avenue in Newark. The body…
Suspects Identified in Maplewood Murder of Transgendered Woman
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that suspects have been identified in two Maplewood homicides and warrants have been issued for their arrests. A manhunt is underway for Marquise L. Foster, 25, of North Plainfield and Alrashim N. Chambers, 23, of Newark. Foster and Chambers are wanted for the murder of Victoria…


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REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA
THE STATE SUPREME AUDIT INSTITUTION
Report on Implementation of the State Budget
With Civil Society
With Homologues
With Other Institutions
SAI and IDM organize the National Conference "For a well-established national anti-corruption authority in the governance system"
On December 14th, 2018, the Supreme State Audit Institution (SAI) and the Institute for Democracy and Mediation (IDM) organized in the premises of ALSAI, the National Conference "For a well-established national anti-corruption authority in the governance system".
The idea for organizing this joint activity was supported by the products of their common labor, such as the performance audit report on "Anti-corruption Strategy" by AL SAI and IDM's study "Reducing impact of politics on Anti-corruption Agencies".
The greeting speech at the beginning of the event was held by the General Director of ALSAI, Mrs. Lindita Milo (Lati), on behalf of the Chairman, Mr. Bujar Leskaj. She stated that "...Sustainable economic, political and social development is the main goal of every country, becoming even more important in fragile democracies and developing institutions. Among other things, corruption is one of the main obstacles for achieving this goal. Corruption destroys jobs and hampers development, costing the world's economy billions of dollars every year. It chains the poor to poverty, while corrupt governments around the world steal the state budget and prevent hard-working people, to earn the fruits of their work. Corruption steals investments that should go to schools and hospitals, since corrupted people evade taxes that need to be paid."
Referring to the final report of the performance audit on the "Anti-corruption Strategy of the Albanian government", Mrs. Milo concluded that this strategy failed in its greater extent (objective A.11 and generally the Anti-Corruption Strategy / Action Plan to implement it); and in order to ensure the implementation of such a vital initiative for the country and continuously eliminating the risk of transferring the KKK from one institution to another, ALSAI recommends the establishment of a National Anticorruption Agency. This agency is suggested to be under the dependence of the Prime Minister and responsible for the redeployment and further monitoring of the AC Strategy and its implementation plan, initially getting the Assembly's agreement on strategic documents in the form of a special law.
Then Mr. Sotiraq Hroni, Executive Director of IDM took the floor. Mr. Hroni initially thanked Mr. Leskaj for opening the SAI and especially the cooperation with the civil society, leading to this activity. SAI-IDM co-operation is one of the best examples of co-operation between CSOs and state institutions. Mr. Hroni talking about the anti-corruption strategy and the National Anti-Corruption Office, which is part of the Ministry of Justice, stressed that there is an open conflict of interest because the government cannot control itself. This office should be independent in the true sense of the word like all other independent institutions, because only independence provides quality.
Mr. Rinald Muca, Director of the Department of Performance Audit, presented the results of a performance audit on the "Anti-corruption strategy of the Albanian government". Mr. Muça presented the audit objectives, the context in which the audit was conducted, the audit period, the audited entities and especially the audit message, conclusions and recommendations. One of the main recommendations of the SAI was the creation of the National Anti-Corruption Agency, in order to ensure the implementation of the strategy with efficiency and effectiveness.
Mr. Mario Mariani, representative of the EU Delegation in Tirana, at the beginning of his speech highlighted the fact that 80% of Albanians confirm that they face elements of corruption in their daily lives. The EU Delegation in Tirana and the European Commission have paid particular attention to this phenomenon and the judicial reform will significantly contribute to the fight against corruption. The recent adoption by the Albanian Parliament of the High Council of Prosecution and the Council of Appointments in Justice shows that the reform is consolidating. Mr. Mariani also stressed that the implementation of the anti-corruption strategy is being monitored by EU institutions.
The following people also referred at this conference: Mr. Boris Divjak, member of the Board of Directors of Transparency International; Ms. Rovena Sulstarova of IDM, who focused on creating a legitimate and ubiquitous Anti-Corruption Authority; Mr. Genc Pollo, member of the Albanian Parliament, "Challenges of the current system and implications of new alternatives"; Mr. Flori Karaj from the High Inspectorate for the Control and Declaration of Assets and Conflict of Interest.
In the end, there were questions and debates from the participants, particularly on the status of the Anti-Corruption Agency.
In addition to the personalities that led the panel, representatives of ALSAI, IDM, Ministry of Justice, UNDP, USAID, media etc., participated in the meeting.
ALSAI signs a cooperation agreement with Romania's Court of Accounts
Agreement on Cooperation between the State Supreme Audit Institution of Albania and the State Audit Office of the Republic of Macedonia.
ALSAI signs the Agreement on Cooperation with the Office of the Institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina
ALSAI signs the Agreement on Cooperation with the State Audit Institution of Montenegro
ALSAI signs the Agreement on Cooperation with the Austrian Court of Audit.
On July 8, 2013, in Vienna, Mr. Bujar Leskaj, Chairman of the State Supreme Audit institution, signed a Cooperation Agreement with his homologue, President of the Austrian Court of Audit, and also Secretary General of INTOSAI, Dr. Josef Moser
Strengthening the relations between Parliament and Supreme Audit Institution to improve external audit performance in Western Balkan countries
Activity on overall data protection regulation and the impact on audit processes
Dr. Vitor Caldeira, outstanding reformer of EU accountability system
This article is published in "Albanian Daily News", on November 20-th, 2019
ALSAI participates in the XXII-th edition of the Book Fair
ALSAI participates in the first meeting for the reconciliation of the parallel audit with focus on "Immediate marine pollution"
ALSAI signs Cooperation Agreement with the University of Shkodra "Luigj Gurakuqi"
ALSAI attends Young EUROSAI conference in London
ALSAI auditors develop a study visit to Dubrovnik
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package io.quarkus.registry;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

import io.quarkus.maven.dependency.ArtifactCoords;
import io.quarkus.registry.catalog.Platform;
import io.quarkus.registry.catalog.PlatformCatalog;
import io.quarkus.registry.catalog.PlatformRelease;
import io.quarkus.registry.catalog.PlatformReleaseVersion;
import io.quarkus.registry.catalog.PlatformStream;

/**
 * Verify package-private functionality to merge extension catalogs
 */
public class CatalogMergeUtilityTest {
    @Test
    void testMergePlatformCatalogs() throws Exception {
        final List<PlatformCatalog> catalogs = new ArrayList<>();
        catalogs.add(PlatformCatalog.builder()
                .addPlatform(Platform.builder()
                        .setPlatformKey("platform")
                        .addStream(PlatformStream.builder()
                                .setId("2.0")
                                .addRelease(PlatformRelease.builder()
                                        .setQuarkusCoreVersion("2.0.0")
                                        .setVersion(PlatformReleaseVersion.fromString("2.2.2"))
                                        .setMemberBoms(Collections.singletonList(
                                                ArtifactCoords.fromString("org.acme:acme-quarkus-bom::pom:2.2.2")))
                                        .build())
                                .build())
                        .addStream(PlatformStream.builder()
                                .setId("1.0")
                                .addRelease(PlatformRelease.builder()
                                        .setQuarkusCoreVersion("1.0.1")
                                        .setVersion(PlatformReleaseVersion.fromString("1.1.2"))
                                        .setMemberBoms(Collections.singletonList(
                                                ArtifactCoords.fromString("org.acme:acme-quarkus-bom::pom:1.1.2")))
                                        .build())
                                .build())
                        .build())
                .build());

        catalogs.add(PlatformCatalog.builder()
                .addPlatform(Platform.builder()
                        .setPlatformKey("platform")
                        .addStream(PlatformStream.builder()
                                .setId("2.0")
                                .addRelease(PlatformRelease.builder()
                                        .setQuarkusCoreVersion("2.0.1")
                                        .setVersion(PlatformReleaseVersion.fromString("2.2.3"))
                                        .setMemberBoms(Collections.singletonList(
                                                ArtifactCoords.fromString("org.acme:acme-quarkus-bom::pom:2.2.3")))
                                        .build())
                                .build())
                        .addStream(PlatformStream.builder()
                                .setId("1.0")
                                .addRelease(PlatformRelease.builder()
                                        .setQuarkusCoreVersion("1.0.0")
                                        .setVersion(PlatformReleaseVersion.fromString("1.1.1"))
                                        .setMemberBoms(Collections.singletonList(
                                                ArtifactCoords.fromString("org.acme:acme-quarkus-bom::pom:1.1.1")))
                                        .build())
                                .build())
                        .build())
                .build());

        final PlatformCatalog merged = CatalogMergeUtility.mergePlatformCatalogs(catalogs);

        Collection<Platform> platforms = merged.getPlatforms();
        assertThat(platforms.size()).isEqualTo(1);

        Platform platform = platforms.iterator().next();
        assertThat(platform.getPlatformKey()).isEqualTo("platform");
        assertThat(platform.getStreams().size()).isEqualTo(2);

        Iterator<PlatformStream> streams = platform.getStreams().iterator();
        PlatformStream stream = streams.next();
        assertThat(stream.getId()).isEqualTo("2.0");
        assertThat(stream.getReleases().size()).isEqualTo(2);
        Iterator<PlatformRelease> releases = stream.getReleases().iterator();
        PlatformRelease release = releases.next();
        assertThat(release.getVersion()).isEqualTo(PlatformReleaseVersion.fromString("2.2.2"));
        assertThat(release.getQuarkusCoreVersion()).isEqualTo("2.0.0");
        release = releases.next();
        assertThat(release.getVersion()).isEqualTo(PlatformReleaseVersion.fromString("2.2.3"));
        assertThat(release.getQuarkusCoreVersion()).isEqualTo("2.0.1");

        stream = streams.next();
        assertThat(stream.getId()).isEqualTo("1.0");
        assertThat(stream.getReleases().size()).isEqualTo(2);
        releases = stream.getReleases().iterator();
        release = releases.next();
        assertThat(release.getVersion()).isEqualTo(PlatformReleaseVersion.fromString("1.1.2"));
        assertThat(release.getQuarkusCoreVersion()).isEqualTo("1.0.1");
        release = releases.next();
        assertThat(release.getVersion()).isEqualTo(PlatformReleaseVersion.fromString("1.1.1"));
        assertThat(release.getQuarkusCoreVersion()).isEqualTo("1.0.0");
    }
}


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