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Prague is best CEE city for business – survey
by Cat Contiguglia
Annual poll puts capital at top of Central Europe, but still trailing Western Europe
Since becoming a market economy two decades ago, the Czech Republic has progressed rapidly to become the gateway for Western businesses in Central Europe; so much so, experts say, that it has become saturated, and foreign investments may be on the decline.
In Cushman & Wakefield's annual survey of the best European cities in which to do business, Prague remained the best city in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), and out of 500 companies surveyed, 24 said they planned to expand in the city. Prague stayed at No. 21 overall, behind West European locations, and statistics from CzechInvest, a government-operated website that monitors business development, show that foreign investment in the country has actually dropped from 186 projects worth 17 billion Kč last year to 125 projects worth only 7 billion Kč so far in 2010.
Prague's work force is not quite up to Western standards, Radka Novák, head of the Cushman & Wakefield team in Prague, told The Prague Post. "But the cost of labor is higher than in other capitals, so it's a contradiction, and probably the reason why some of the companies are looking at other opportunities like in Budapest and Warsaw and potentially Bucharest."
The bulk of new foreign investments came from expansion plans from companies already established in Prague as opposed to new companies investing here for the first time, she added.
The trends are indicative of the economy's adolescent status, experts said, as the country shifts from being an emerging economy to entering the field as a major player. Martin Michalov, a spokesman for the Association for Foreign Investment, said the investment drop-off caused by wage growth has not yet been compensated for by investors looking for skilled labor. Even if the number of companies looking to expand has remained steady, higher-skilled workers are hired at a fraction of the size of work forces hired for industry and factories. Additionally, the country's infrastructure hasn't been able to keep up with its economy, he said.
"There are still a lot of things left to do to make it equal [with other countries]. The important point is the Czech Republic is really dependent on exports," Michalov said. "I think the Czech Republic should definitely define strategy sectors that are interesting for us or that we are good at, like nanotechnologies… We are very dependent on the automotive industry, and I think we should diversify more."
The picture on the ground is a little less clear, as the fluctuations in the economy currently being felt by those at the receiving end of foreign investment are largely due to the economic crisis, making it difficult to perceive larger development trends.
Tewfik Sabongui, managing director of Jones Lang LaSalle in Prague, a commercial real estate company, said there was a major drop-off in company expansion in Prague, but attributed that to the crisis. He added that as the market bounces back, he's actually expecting an undersupply of office space.
Consulting companies for foreign investors also saw a steep drop-off, according to Boban Stamenkovic, managing director for Ether Consulting, a company that helps foreign investors establish businesses in the country, but agreed that the trend corresponded with the flagging economy.
Nevertheless, experts said regardless of the immediate economic state, there is plenty of legwork left before the Czech Republic will be able to compete with its Western counterparts.
One strategy will be to improve the quality of universities in order to build unique expertise and skill-sets that would entice foreign investors to build partnerships and cooperative programs with the universities, Michalov said.
"None of the Czech universities ranks in the top 200 in Europe, and this is a problem for cooperation with the private sector," Michalov said. "The universities do know a lot about trends and innovations, but they do not have the know-how to sell it on the commercial market, and this is the job of private companies." Encouraging more innovation, he said, would also make the country more appealing to angel investors and venture capitalists.
But the major game changer, according to both Novák and Michalov, will be government policy. Michalov said in addition to transparency issues that still make foreign investors wary, what is really lacking is the money.
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The Civic Holiday Pocket
This sign marks the entrance to the world famous Bear Lake Diggings locality near Bancroft, Ontario
It was 3 p.m. Saturday before my collecting buddy Dave Redfield and I met up to start the long ten hour drive to Bancroft, Ontario (the so-called "Mineral Capital of Canada") for a week of collecting. Dave is a wonderful traveling companion on a collecting trip for several reasons: First, he volunteered the use of his truck, which could carry back a ton of rocks (assuming we found any good enough to keep). Second, he insisted on doing all the driving, so my share of the work was to navigate and keep talking so Dave didn't fall asleep. Third, Dave is a superb raconteur, and supplied a never-ending stream of stories and witty remarks that helped make the trip fly past. We stopped for dinner en route, then pushed on to Bancroft, arriving after 1:00 AM at our campground. Although our reservation didn't start until the next night, we were in luck and found a spot to pitch our tent and crawl into our sleeping bags for some much-needed sleep.
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The Crystal Tunnels of Diamond Ledge
For decades, New England mineral collectors have been drawn to Diamond Ledge in north central Connecticut in search of the excellent quality milky quartz crystal plates and clusters for which it is famous. Those who have worked the site with grit, determination, and back-breaking labor have regularly been rewarded with significant specimens. And, those lucky enough to find pockets have sometimes brought home several 5-gallon buckets filled with these highly aesthetic and desirable plates of large-size milky quartz crystals. This well-known, prolific locality is in Shenipsit State Forest, in West Stafford, Tolland Co., Connecticut. It is a wooded area, giving plenty of shade even on a hot summer day, and at the bottom of the steep slope where collectors dig for crystals is a stream with a waterfall and ample pools of water for rinsing mud off of specimens or taking a quick bath.
The Honeydew Pocket
Ossipee Mountains, Ossipee, New Hampshire, October, 2011
A pristine 3" smoky quartz crystal is removed from the pocket
Fortunately, it cleaned up pretty good!
What a perfect day for collecting! It was early October - the sun was shining, the temperature was in the low 70's, and the bugs had packed up and headed south for the season. Our day started with the long drive up from Western Massachusetts to Ossipee, NH, which is about halfway up the eastern side of the state. The fall foliage was at its peak, which unfortunately was none too glorious due to 6 weeks of heavy rain and the lack of a killing frost. We arrived in Ossipee at about 10:30 AM.
The Positions We Assume: What Kind of Collector Are You?
Out in the field, rock collectors will assume almost any position in hopes of finding a good specimen. That makes for a good show, but only if you're not too engrossed in the hunt yourself! Here are some of my collecting friends who I "caught in the act". I have taken the liberty of naming what kind of collector they are; so, just what kind of collector are you?
The Surprise Pocket
in Gilman Notch, Center Ossipee, Carroll County, New Hampshire
by Jonathon Herndon and Eric S. Greene
All photos by Eric Greene. Click on photos to see enlarged versions.
View of Bayle Mountain reflected in Connor Pond, Ossipee, New Hampshire
This is article was first published in the March-April, 2011 edition of Rocks & Minerals magazine. The only changes that have been made are to add extra photos. This article is reproduced with permission of the publisher. Rocks & Minerals is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g935274222.
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Echo 3 – Season 1 Episode 8 "Family Matters" Recap & Review
13/01/2023 04/01/2023 by Arnav Srivastava
At the start of Echo 3 episode 8, we catch a brief glimpse of Amber tied up with ropes. It is because of her escape antics from the other day. Momo peacefully makes his way back to Caracas to Tariq, surprising the big brother.
The younger one is livid about the incident and blames Tariq for it. He tried to distance himself from Tariq's dealings (like Michael from The Godfather) and invariably got dragged into this mess. The reason why he was let go was that Bambi and Prince decided to make a rescue attempt themselves as they felt dragging this blackmail option would be too late for Amber.
Tariq is brought under the scanner once again by Momo. The Minister's arrogance and contempt for the Americans are brought out in his tirade when Momo says he must release Amber. The biologist is exhausted and her mental state reverts to hallucinations about her childhood, the time she spent with Prince, and her limited days working with the agency. Her mind wanders back and forth, sifting through those uncomfortable, vividly alive memories in her head.
Amber's focus is then locked on the time when she comforted a sobbing Bambi when he killed the abusive man. That is how the bond was forged – through tough times and testing adversities. Bambi introduces Javi to some of his colleagues who will be with him in the operation. The fisherman is visibly unsettled and unsure about the whole thing. Javi informs the Americans that Amber is being prepared for execution. Tariq is now convinced that he wants revenge for Momo.
Tommy frees her and prepares her for another video. She is disoriented and under the effects of the drugs they gave her, she has been having these daydreams. In their conversation, Tommy reveals that he is the one who is supposed to kill her. Even though he does not want to, he still will – on Saturday. Maggie goes to see Prince's father at the Haas Expo in Albuquerque. She is eventually connected with him through a video call. But all her attempts are rebuffed. Like most of the employees, she too is disposable for the big man. She has a one-on-one with Reese who mentions her affair with Prince by does not confirm the details of the arrangement.
The next few visuals are all happening in Amber's mind. One of them is that of Bambi arriving at the facility, killing Tommy, and rescuing her. The series of hallucinations continue throughout the entire episode. The next memory that follows for Amber is that of Prince and her. Their first meeting, how they fell in love and changed their lives. Bambi was the one who was instrumental in making their relationship happen. She speaks to Bambi about his experiences in the military. But suddenly, she realizes that all of her daydreams are getting too unrealistic.
We then learn about the plan for them to ambush the facility and rescue Amber. Mitch and the others will pose as the Colombian army and make their way inside. It is time for the operation to take place and the Americans assemble their weaponry and the cavalry prepares to go in. They show them an elaborate plan on how to enter based on their separate teams and get information from them about local activities. They ask how they can find her amidst the crowd, and since they have drones, it will be easier for them to find her.
As all of this is happening in that part of the country, another deal is going down in the halls of the Venezuelan political lobby. The usual conspirators agree to keep their plan intact for the promise of money. We see a brief altercation between Tariq and Tommy. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, the Americans shoot him down as he is coming out of the office. Before their big operation, our two main men have a tender conversation about things that we saw in episode one.
The respect that Prince has for Bambi shows in the way he talks about him being Prince's inspiration for joining the army. He lauds Bambi's practical decision-making ability and how quickly he has to act in certain situations. Bambi's mind goes back to the first operation we saw in the opening episode where their boss Drifter was killed. He tears up and confesses to Prince that if he had not come to save him, Bambi would have been able to save Drifter. The reason for doing so otherwise was only because of what Amber told him in private about keeping Prince safe. The final moments of the episode give way to the Americans making their way through the water tunnels and into the facility according to the devised plan.
Just like the title suggested, this episode of Echo 3 was about remembering the past. Not in a confrontational way but perhaps seeing it for the time it represented. All main characters went through the works and it was a refreshing change from the common theme of action and violence.
We have gradually built up to the rescue plan and Amber's fate rests delicately as we approach the finale. It is a tough possibility to imagine all protagonists coming unscathed, as is the nature of such operations. But the journey up to this point has been full of adventure.
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Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau Retains Its DMAI Accreditation
Pocono Mountains, PA – The Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau (PMVB) has retained its accreditation from the Destination Marketing Accreditation Program (DMAP*) through June 2016. Developed by Destination Marketing Association International (DMAI), the industry-wide accreditation program distinguishes official destination marketing organizations committed to industry excellence.
"Congratulations to the Pocono Mountains on renewing their accreditation," commented Shelly Green, Chair of DMAP and President & CEO of the Durham CVB. "The DMAP process is rigorous and challenges Destination Marketing Organizations (DMOs) to the highest standards and best practices in community marketing. Their commitment to securing accreditation demonstrates a level of accountability and excellence for which their four counties and various communities can be proud."
Earning the accreditation is no small feat. It is an involved process which requires the cooperation and involvement of every PMVB department in its execution. The rigorous standards cover a wide variety of topics including governance, finance, human resources, technology, marketing, visitor services, group services, sales, communications, membership, management, brand management, destination development, research/market intelligence, innovation and stakeholder relationships.
"This accreditation reflects the serious commitment the PMVB makes to providing outstanding services in accordance with international standards and benchmarks in this field," said Carl Wilgus, President and CEO of the PMVB. "We were proud to be one of the first 60 organizations to be certified in 2008 and certainly are excited to have that accreditation renewed. There are many objectives behind the accreditation program, but it all comes back to increased credibility with customers and stakeholders."
Earning DMAP accreditation tells the Pocono Mountains community and potential visitors that the PMVB has attained a measure of excellence assuring that their trust is well placed and their business in good hands. The PMVB encourages fans to share their favorite Pocono Mountains experience and congratulations by posting to the Pocono Tourism Facebook page.
*DMAP is an independent international accreditation body and a leader in defining quality and performance issues in destination marketing. For additional information on DMAP visit destinationmarketing.org.
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BP GIVEN RECORD FINE AFTER REFINERY BLAST
BELEAGUERED oil giant BP has agreed to pay a record £32.5m fine for safety failings at its Texas City oil refinery – after a 2005 explosion killed 15 workers.
The fine is the largest penalty ever issued by the US Occupational Safety & Health Administration.
US Secretary of Labour Hilda L Solis said the size of the penalty reflected BP's "disregard for workplace safety".
She said: "This agreement achieves our goal of protecting workers at the refinery and ensuring that critical safety upgrades are made as quickly as possible.
"The size of the penalty rightly reflects BP's disregard for workplace safety and shows that we will enforce the law so workers can return home safe at the end of their day."
BP – shouldering massive costs over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill – denied it ignored safety concerns, insisting it significantly improved the safety of its operations at Texas City over the last five years.
In addition to paying the fine, BP Products North America Inc agreed to take immediate steps to protect those now working at the refinery, allocating a minimum of £321m to this end.
In September 2005, Osha cited BP for a then record £13.5m as a result of the fatal explosion.
The parties then entered into an agreement that required the company to correct deficiencies.
In 2009, Osha said it found that although the company made many changes related to safety, it failed to fulfil several important terms of the agreement and cited BP for "failure to abate" violations with penalties totalling the 50.6m US dollars that BP has now agreed to pay.
The company said earlier this week that it had reached a settlement to resolve 270 of 709 citations that Osha issued to it.
BP contested the citations, but both parties agreed to settle the matter.
A spokesman said: "BP is hopeful that this agreement will provide a platform to resolve the remaining citations."
Iain Conn, BP's global head of refining and marketing, said: "BP and Osha are jointly committed to workplace safety and a strong relationship with Osha is of great importance to BP.
"We respect Osha's concerns and have addressed them in this agreement."
About 170 people were injured in the explosion in Texas City, south of Houston, on March 23, 2005.
Last week, BP disclosed that the Gulf of Mexico disaster had cost it £20.2bn so far – sending the firm to its first quarterly loss in 18 years.


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Written by Colby Hochmuth
Feb 14, 2014 | FEDSCOOP
Two of the world's most prominent women put data in the spotlight this week, arguing the numerous benefits data will have in understanding and advancing women's equality around the world.
The Clinton Foundation and the Gates Foundation announced their new partnership to collect and analyze data about the status of women worldwide. The report will collect data from 1995 to present day, and is expected to be released in 2015.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Melinda Gates made the announcement in a panel moderated by Chelsea Clinton, at New York University on Thursday.
The initiative, No Ceilings: "The Full Participation Project," launched this past November by Clinton, is meant to evaluate the progress women are making worldwide, generate awareness about issues, and mobilize the private sector, governments and people worldwide.
"We've seen progress, but we've also seen that there is not an adequate base of information and evidence that we can draw conclusions from about how much progress has been made and what the gaps for the action and decision making still are," Clinton said during the panel.
Gates and Clinton stressed the importance of gathering data evidence in the fight for women's equality, agreeing that without data it's impossible to know what's left to be done.The partnership intends for the data to be easily accessible, usable and searchable, but also that it is understandable to people around the world.
The data once made available, will be accessible on web platforms and also possibly available via SMS technology, so regions of the world with limited smartphone and Internet capabilities can access the information.
The data will be collected through traditional sources, including the World Bank, the United Nations system and World Economic Forum but also through less traditional methods such as Google, according to Chelsea Clinton.
Linda Rosa, digital strategist and director of government solutions at IdeaScale, told FedScoop the way the data is presented and organized will be crucial.
"People collect data all the time, but the problem lies in not knowing what to do with it," Rosa said. "A focus on releasing the data in different formats can really make all the difference."
Stephanie Grosser, senior adviser for data technology and communications at the U.S. Agency for International Development, Development Credit Authority, deals exclusively with data in her role at USAID and in projects she and her team work on. She said the Clinton Foundation's latest announcement does a great service for everyone working in the data space.
"The more data that is released publicly translates into more analysis anyone can do," Grosser told FedScoop. "This enables people with new perspectives to mash up different data to draw new conclusions with the same information."
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The Age EG Awards took place in Melbourne on Friday November 30th, and Augie March took out the coveted Best Band award ahead of a field that included Powderfinger and Silverchair. The band has sent big heart sandwiches to readers who voted for them, and The Age EG staff and writers. An acoustic version of 'One Crowded Hour' was struck up on the night.
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Researchers to develop smart packaging that can power itself
Gregory Batt, director of Clemson Package Testing Laboratory. Photo: Clemson University Public Service and Agriculture.
Two researchers from Clemson Transport Package Testing Laboratory have received a $500k grant from the US National Science Foundation to study triboelectric generators in smart packaging.
As part of the project, Gregory Batt and James Gibert, will use the technology to power sensors and monitor products in transit.
Batt & Gibert
Packaging is transforming
Batt is assistant professor, food, nutrition and packaging sciences department and director, Clemson Transport Package Testing Laboratory, part of Clemson University, South Carolina, US, and Gibert, a Clemson alumnus, is assistant professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, Indiana, US.
"The packaging industry is transforming," said Batt.
"The demand for and application of smart packaging devices used during the transport and storage of products continues to increase. Most of these devices require power.
"Development of an energy harvesting device that can harvest power from forces naturally occurring in the distribution environment, while possibly mitigating those forces experienced by the product, just makes sense."
The way the smart device would work is creating smart packaging that converts the bumps and friction packages encounter during distribution into energy that can power sensors to monitor the products in transit.
The triboelectric energy harvester consists of two corrugated boards, one with a metalized film and the other with a Teflon polymer film. When in contact with each other, the boards generate a voltage difference that can be harvested.
'Smart' or 'intelligent' packaging includeS printed electronics, smart labels, time-temperature indicators and Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) tags.
Vibration response
"We will build on our previous work with modeling the vibration response of complex foam materials so we can determine how to create a means to reduce the vibration transmitted to products while still generating adequate power," added Batt.
"Triboelectric devices have received little study in published research, making for an ideal opportunity for impactful work."
Triboelectric energy harvesters convert mechanical energy to electrical energy, which is collected and used to charge rechargeable energy cells to power small electronic devices.
Gibert said the study has far-reaching implications in powering devices in the hyper-connected world known as the 'internet of things,' where devices communicate with each other autonomously.
The study also focuses on creating economical packaging designs that can protect instruments from potential hazards.
"Sensors and devices used in smart packaging need to be self-sustaining as it will be difficult to change the power source during transportation," said Gibert.
"Triboelectricity offers a way to directly charge or power these devices."
Jeffery Rhodehamel, department chair, National Science Foundation, said the grant is one of the largest ever awarded to a packaging science faculty.
"This study is indicative of the type of research that is done by the faculty in the Food, Nutrition and Packaging Sciences Department. It is a testament to Dr. Batt's efforts, the quality of his work and his reputation in the field," he said.
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Japan, China and South Korea discuss three-way meeting in Lima
Japan's Finance Minister Taro Aso. PHOTO: REUTERS
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TOKYO (REUTERS) - Japan, China and South Korea are discussing a possible trilateral meeting of their finance ministers in Peru this week, Finance Minister Taro Aso said, which could pave the way for a summit among the countries to soothe strained relations.
Mr Aso also said he would hold talks with his Chinese counterpart Lou Jiwei on the sidelines of a meeting of Group of 20 (G-20) finance leaders to be held in Lima this week.
"(The two countries) will discuss macro-finance, the economy and financial cooperation," he told a news conference on Tuesday (Oct 6).
Mr Aso on Friday (Oct 2) called for China to make its economic management more transparent in order to help the yuan become a global currency.
Mr Aso said he will tell his G-20 counterparts that Japan's economy continues to recover moderately, despite growing signs it may have slipped into recession again.
"Japan's economic fundamentals are not bad at all," said Mr Aso, who will travel to Lima for the G-20 and IMF meetings.
Japan's economy contracted in April-June and is expected to have barely grown or even shrunk again in July-September as slumping demand in China weighs on already sluggish exports and factory output.
The BOJ is under pressure to deploy further stimulus to spur growth, though it is seen holding off on action at its rate review this week on hope that a tightening job market will gradually lift wages and consumption.
Asked whether the BOJ ought to ease policy at its rate review this week, Mr Aso said: "Answering that will be tantamount to intervening in monetary policy affairs, which I won't do."
If a trilateral finance ministerial meeting were to be held, it will be the first such talks since May, when financial leaders from the three countries gathered in the sidelines of an Asian Development Bank annual meeting.
While discussions will likely focus on financial cooperation and economic developments, the meeting could lay the grounds for a possible trilateral summit later this year.
Japanese media have reported that China, Japan and South Korea are considering holding their first summit in three years, sometime around November.


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Die U-19-Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft der Frauen 2002 (offiziell 2002 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship) war die erste Ausspielung dieses Wettbewerbs für Fußballspielerinnen unter 19 Jahren (Stichtag: 1. Januar 1983) und fand  vom 17. August bis 1. September 2002 in Kanada statt. Kanada richtete damit erstmals ein FIFA-Turnier im weiblichen Bereich aus. Gespielt wurde in den Städten Edmonton, Vancouver und Victoria. Es nahmen 12 Mannschaften am Turnier teil. Sieger wurden die USA durch einen 1:0-Sieg nach Verlängerung über Gastgeber Kanada. Deutschland belegte den dritten Platz.

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 Goldener Ball
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 Goldener Schuh
 Die Kanadierin Christine Sinclair gewann auch den Goldenen Schuh für die beste Torschützin des Turniers. Sie konnte in sechs Spielen 10 Tore erzielen. Die US-Amerikanerin Kelly Wilson erhielt den Silbernen Schuh (9 Tore) und der Bronzene Schuh ging an ihre Landsfrau Lindsay Tarpley, die wie die Brasilianerin Marta 6 Tore erzielte, aber mit vier Vorlagen besser platziert war.

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A $50k Decision: Inventing the Snap Shot Flask from Adaptive Measuring
In January 2017, Samuel Foster had an expensive decision to make. An inspiration that started in college led him to pursue inventing a unique creation in order to self-teach the skills he otherwise might have learned by pursuing an expensive M.B.A.—and ProtoCAM was there to help bring his product to life.
The Conception
The Snap Shot Flask
Foster is the inventor of the Snap Shot Flask, and the founder of Adaptive Measuring. He first conceived of the product while pursuing his undergraduate business degree; he was asked to consider a problem relevant to him and how to solve it. "At the time, one of the scary concerns was knowing what you were drinking and how much you were drinking," Foster recalls. He refined the idea further to conceive of a product that was convenient to bring to parties and would be safe from tampering: a plastic flask with snap-on shot glasses.
Developing the idea for the Snap Shot Flask started Foster down the path towards looking into actual product development, patenting, and manufacturing. "I started doing the patent research around the kind of devices that would attach to the bottoms or tops of bottles," Foster says. He realized he had a unique idea on his hands, but as a career-driven individual, Foster also was looking into graduate business degree options at the time.
A Costly Decision
Foster recalls the difficult consideration he faced in choosing between investing his savings in a higher degree, or in pursuing his inspiration. "As I got to looking into the M.B.A. process… it's just so expensive," Foster says. As he reviewed the numbers, he realized that creating and manufacturing the Snap Shot Flask wasn't likely to cost him as much as attending a 2-year business school would.
His final decision was made when Foster recalled how he had developed what he considers his best skill while working in the pharmaceutical wholesale industry: public speaking. "[Public speaking] wasn't something that I formally learned in undergraduate business classes. Speaking to a tired group of employees and getting them to push through a 13-hour shift to get deliveries out to hospitals isn't something you can learn in school," Foster says. Foster ultimately decided that he could acquire the same wide range of knowledge—about marketing, packaging, manufacturing, intellectual property, and more—that he'd expected to learn in business school by bringing his invention to life instead.
The inventor, Samuel Foster
Diving into the Process
As Foster got deeper into the inventing process, he realized there was a lot to learn; in particular, he discovered the full scale of the process of the realization of a product, from beginning as an idea, to determining if the product is actually producible, to mass production and distribution. "I think that's such a big part of what ProtoCAM was able to do for me, and that not all 3d printing companies can do. ProtoCAM has the background in manufacturing, which helped create a product that easily transitioned to the manufacturing stage," Foster says. Because ProtoCAM understands the full manufacturing process—from conception, to design, to prototyping, to production—and can guide our customers through the process with experienced advice and recommendations, we provided a unique service to Foster: a full turnkey solution to product creation.
Ed Graham, ProtoCAM's Vice President of Additive Manufacturing, was impressed by Foster's enthusiasm and eagerness to learn more about the manufacturing process and the undertaking of inventing and developing a product. "Education is a huge part of this process, and our experience in the industry helped to guide [Foster] along the way," Graham says.
As a local Lehigh Valley company, ProtoCAM also provided another important service to Foster's journey: constant and clear communication. "I had reached out and talked to manufacturers in India, I had talked to manufacturers in China, one in Pakistan, and one of the big things, especially when you're relaying ideas, is dealing with a communications gap," Foster says. Foster's conceptual idea needed to be communicated clearly between both parties in order to fully create his vision. "Me being able to explain and [the team at ProtoCAM] being able to tell me what's a good idea, what's not possible, what's not likely in terms of manufacturing, etcetera, was really helpful to get those first iterations right," Foster emphasizes.
Expanding and Adapting
ProtoCAM was able to fully guide Foster through the manufacturing process, connecting him with various resources, working with his design and logistics, and producing proof-of-concept and presentation models for his use before full production.
Now, with his product fully realized, Foster is focused on marketing and promotion, but new inventions aren't far on the horizon. "I'm hoping to continue to network and meet people to find what application of this product I want to do next," Foster says. He's considering branching into the medical industry, or the fitness industry, or perhaps further developing for the wine and spirits space. Regardless of his next pursuit, Foster knows that ProtoCAM can help him realize his goals. With our commitment to clear communication and experts with 20+ of experience in manufacturing, we're here to help bring ideas to life.
To learn more about Adaptive Measuring and all its future products, visit https://www.adaptivemeasuring.com/.
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Overall revenues up, but Md. casinos underperforming
Is the luck starting to run out on Maryland's casinos? New numbers out show five casinos brought in a record $91 million in March, but monthly revenue at the casinos is dropping except for one -- the Horseshoe Casino in Baltimore.
Horseshoe will tell you they are happy the business they have done since they opened their doors in August. But while as a group, earnings from the state's five casinos are up on a year-to-year basis. However, they are only up because the Horseshoe's gains pulled the other four casinos up.
The question now is when it comes to casinos in the state, did Maryland go too big, too soon?
After years as an executive in the Caesars Entertainment organization, Horseshoe Casino Vice President of Marketing Noah Hirsch says the casino wins or loses on one thing: customer loyalty.
"We're continuing to see new guests every single week, every single month," he told us.
New data from Maryland's Lottery and Gaming Control Agency show that year-to-year total revenue from state's five casinos is up $12.2 million -- 16.9 percent from March 2014.
But that is only because Horseshoe is making up ground the other four are losing.
"Well, there are five casinos and it's a pretty competitive market," said Hirsch.
Without Horseshoe, which only opened in August, Maryland's four other casinos saw revenue decline by $11.5 million or 14.8 percent down.
Why did Horseshoe do pretty well?
"We've seen continuous demand for the offers, the products that we have," Hirsch said.
But casino gambling in Maryland wasn't supposed to see just one casino grow -- they all were. Now there are concerns Maryland may have grown gambling too fast.
Sarah Meehan has covered the casino industry for the Baltimore Business Journal and she says even the top earner itself, Horseshoe, has fallen behind earning projections.
"If you look at this month, they notched just over $24 million, but that property was supposed to bringing in $31 million on average," she said.
Meanwhile, the operators of the Horseshoe in Baltimore say they expect their luck will continue even after the MGM National Harbor opens its doors in Prince George's County in 2016.
MGM National Harbor, which is still being built, will be a Vegas-style mega hotel and casino. Even with the new competition, Horseshoe officials are brushing aside talk about them not meeting projections and say they are on a hot streak.
"Right now, where we're at, we're extremely happy with the revenues, we're extremely happy with our growth," said Hirsch.
Just two weeks ago, we asked Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan if he felt the state had maximized the number of casinos that Maryland could support. The governor said he is not so sure about that, but when we pressed and asked if he foresaw more than six casinos in the state, he said, "that's probably enough."


On Tuesday, April 9 between 4:30 pm and 5:30 pm, Bridgeview Montessori School will hold a Tuesday Tea Information Session for families interested in learning about a Montessori education for children ages 2.9 through 6th grade. Located at 885 Sandwich Road in Sagamore, the school will welcome families to explore the three programs that cater to each plane of development that Maria Montessori conceived of when she developed her pedagogy over 100 years ago. As is customary in a Montessori school, Bridgeview has a Children's House serving students ages 2.9 to 6, an Elementary I serving students 6 to 9, and Elementary II serving students 9 to 12.
The Tuesday Tea Information Session held on April 9 will include presentations in each of the three programs, Children's House, Elementary I and Elementary II, to demonstrate how Montessori is unique. Parents and caregiveres who choose to bring their children will be encouraged to observe them as they engage with the work and the environment. Suzanne Lawson, Director of Admissions, explains, "We think it is important for parents to know their school choices. All schools are not created equal and not all Montessori programs are the same. More than ever before, parents are actively invested in finding the just-right-choice school for their children. Our information sessions as well as visits during the school day are key for today's discriminating and careful parents." Additional visit dates as well as more information can be found by visiting www.bridgeviewmontessori.org.


It is with great sadness that we must report that Brian Booth has passed away. His contribution to Oregon culture is difficult to overstate. As one of our founders, he helped create the Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships, a program that has helped over 500 writers thrive over the past 25 years. Brian's contributions were also significant in the legal community, and in our larger cultural life. He will be deeply missed.
Thank you, Brian, for your tremendous love of Oregon and the many ways you showed it to us.


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Malicious web scraping is a growing problem with no simple solution
LinkedIn is the latest high-profile victim of a technique which can be legally deployed but is also popular with hackers looking to launch cyberattacks.
By Claudia Glover
LinkedIn became the latest victim of malicious web scraping this week, when 700m user records were lifted from the professional social networking site and posted on the dark web. It reflects a growing trend for scraping information from social networks and ecommerce sites to use or sell, which has been enabled by the rise of advanced artificial intelligence. But web scraping has legitimate uses too, meaning it is difficult for regulators to combat.
LinkedIn became the latest victim of malicious web scraping this week. (Photo by Stanislau Palaukou/Shutterstock)
The incident is the second time LinkedIn has been targeted this year – in April, scraped data from 500m LinkedIn users was offered for sale online. Elsewhere, Facebook deemed its recent data breach, which resulted in 530 million user records appearing on the dark web, to be a result of web scraping rather than a leak, and earlier this year Alibaba had more than a billion records scraped by a rival e-commerce company from its Chinese shopping portal, Taobao.
LinkedIn maintains its innocence, and said that following analysis it was confident the incident was "was not a LinkedIn data breach", instead concluding that "the dataset includes information scraped from LinkedIn and other sources." It could be in line for further problems, as it was reported on Wednesday that another 88,000 user records, comprising information about business holders taken from their profiles, had been posted on the dark web.
What is web scraping and why is it a problem?
Web scraping, or web crawling, is a process of lifting data that may be of some value. Its legitimate uses include for price comparison websites, which utilise scraping techniques to glean price alternatives for the same deal. "Data is really valuable, but for the same reason that it's valuable in the legitimate economy, it's also valuable for criminals," says David Emm, lead researcher at security company Kaspersky.
Indeed, the technique has caught the attention of hackers, with social networking sites and e-commerce platforms proving particularly attractive targets, as much of their user information is in the public domain. The process of scraping can include anything from manual measures such as taking a picture of the screen on a phone to using an army of bots to find and duplicate millions of records.
The latter technique is more problematic for businesses. "Somebody taking a screenshot of a website is hard to scale," says Han Veldwijk, CEO of security company Skopos.ai. "The moment you can apply that to millions of users it's a different problem." Though the data available for scraping may not be valuable in isolation, it can cause potentially big problems for businesses, as threat groups can use it to mount phishing or ransomware cyberattacks based on employee information they've received.
Why isn't it being legislated against?
Eradicating web scraping altogether would eliminate its legitimate use, explains Emm. "It's hard to see how you could abolish it without seriously harming certain parts of the economy," he says. This, coupled with the fact that much of the data being lifted is already in the public domain makes it very difficult to regulate properly. "It's difficult to say 'we could put a stop to [web scraping] completely' any more than you could say 'let's abandon the sale of sharp knives because we know they're used for criminal behaviour'," Emm adds
This is not to say that regulating it is impossible, but this responsibility lies with the web platforms, which do not appear to be under any pressure to instigate such regulation. "It's not in [the platforms'] interest to regulate themselves," says Bart Willemsen, privacy and AI analyst at Gartner. "The moment you process data, whether it's on the dark web or in the open, if it concerns a person then that person is probably going to be impacted."
In its statement, LinkedIn said: "Scraping data from LinkedIn is a violation of our terms of service and we are constantly working to ensure our members' privacy is protected."
Why is this risk increasing?
Emm says there has "definitely been a spike" in malicious scraping, and credits this to the fact that tools used to implement this sort of activity are becoming widely available and dropping in price. "Machine learning capabilities are improving all the time, and this is giving people the ability to grab data and organise it in a constructive way," he says.
The only way to avoid such issues is to keep as little data as possible in the public domain, says Emms. But without wider changes to online behaviours, the problem is likely to persist. "We all get used to having free email and free web browsers and don't think about the fact that actually, the price that we're paying is the data we're handling," he says. "We would need to be comfortable with the fact that maybe we need to give up some of the advantages that are involved in [free] networking with people online."
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Q: How to call two consecutive rest api in typescript? I am new to typescript. I am facing the below mentioned problem. My scenario is, I have to call two consecutive REST APIs. If get success message from first one, then only I will call the second API. If both are successful, I will return success message, or required to return error message.
My two rest response structure are same. That is :-
{
  "timestamp" : "0654848"
  "status" : 200,
  "error" : "Error/Success"
  "message" : "Failure/Success",
  "path" : "api/v1/..",
  "data" : "{}"
}

Call is initiating in the below mentioned way in account-form.component.ts file.
verifyAccount(){

    this.service.validate(this.accountModel).subscribe((resp: any) => {
      if (resp.status = 200) {
        this._router.navigate(['/home/accountPanel']);
        this.toastr.success(resp.message);
      }
      else{
        this.toastr.error(resp.message);
      }
    },
        );
  }

Service.ts file :-
validate(account: Account): Observable<any> {
   return this.http.post<any>(`${config.apiUrl}/api/account/validate`, JSON.stringify(user))
            .pipe(
                **---Help Required in this portion---**
                catchError(error => {
                    console.log(error);
                    return response;
                }));
}

Other URL is /api/account/balance, which is a get call.
I expect : -
1> If response from 1st api gets error -> Return error message of first
2> If response from 1st is correct, but from second gets some error -> Return error message of second
3> If response from both are success -> Return success message of the second

A: I have resolver the scenario in the below mentioned way.
verifyAccount(){
    this.service.validate(this.accountModel).subscribe((res : any) => {

      if (res.status == 200) {

        this.service.getBalance(res).subscribe((resp : any) => {

          if (resp.status == 200) {

          }
          else{
            this.toastr.error(resp.error);
          }
        });
      }
      else{
        this.toastr.error(res.error);
      }
    },
        );

  }

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It is widely acknowledged that the field of global health has benefited greatly from the battle against HIV/AIDS and leave us with many reasons to be optimistic.
During a January 2017 lecture hosted by the Joep Lange Institute, Mark Dybul, HIV expert and former Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, spoke in detail about his own experiences working on the frontline of one of the world's largest health crises.
Here are four ways he believes the fight against HIV/AIDS has shaped the future of healthcare provision for the better.
There was, says Dybul, a distinct lack of focus on achieving predetermined objectives or reporting the results of any activity. But the scale of the HIV/AIDS crisis changed the world's thinking. In exchange for billions of dollars of funding, data systems were created and results were demanded.
Dybul remembers the criticism he faced from the global health and development community when the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), produced specific prevention, care, and treatment goals.
The West's changing approach to development has also been triggered by decades of efforts against HIV/AIDS, says Dybul. Instead of providing instructions and orders, the West now takes a much more collaborative view.
But by adopting a partnership approach, rather than the traditional paternalistic method, development projects were able to generate the accountability and responsibility needed to support national systems. These national projects were crucial.
He points to gay men, the LGBT community, drug users, the urban poor, and adolescent girls and young women as those at highest risk of contracting HIV.
Dybul lived in San Francisco when HIV/AIDS was at its height, but that experience still left him unprepared for the feeling of hopelessness spreading across parts of Africa.
But global progress – and success – in the fight against HIV/AIDS has transformed that outlook over the last 15 years.
Now, he believes the world can draw strength from the achievements made in the battle against HIV/AIDS – whatever challenges may arise in the future.
"We can remind ourselves that we've already achieved the impossible. And so, we can achieve the impossible again," says Dybul.


How to apply the new Miss Signature Glitter to get the perfect look!
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Start by applying the GLITTER PRIMER to the areas you want the Glitter to stick.
Apply glitter using a brush and dab it onto the primed areas.


The world is in transition. The Business Booster Programme 2019 is all about creating value in the circular economy.
On the second day of the business booster, we are going to kick off the whole programme with a special event. In series of short lectures from inspiring business pioneers and change makers, COM/ GMS will offer you a unique learning experience: learn from business practitioners, meet them and get important insights into making your business booster assignment successful.
We expect you to be present at this special event on February 12th starting at 17:00 hours at Kralingse Zoom 91.
Making money by going green. The business case of sustainable real estate.
How to win clients by selling less. The client relationship in the circular economy.
What on earth is a circular beer? How a brewery start -up is going circular.


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Ural Federal University: The University Sports Festival Awarded Project of the Year
The annual Stars of University Sports Ball took place in Moscow on November 26th. Traditionally, the Russian Student Sports Union honored athletes, educational institutions and sports organizations that have made a significant contribution to the development of physical culture and sports.
Ural Federal University received the main award of the ball – "Project of the Year". Experts celebrated the International University Sports Day, which was held at the university in September. Athletes competed in 14 kinds of sports.
The guests of honor at the ball were Evgeny Shurmanov, director of the Ural Federal University Institute of Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Policy and first vice president of the RSSU, as well as the university's student-athletes who especially distinguished themselves this year.
"It's a great honor for me to be among the best student-athletes of Russia and to be at such an event. I couldn't have imagined something like this. I had a great time and I was charged with the motivation to achieve the best results in my chosen sport of jiu-jitsu", said Alexander Silkin, a student, sharing his impressions.
Oleg Matytsin, Minister of Sport of the Russian Federation, Svetlana Zhurova, the first Deputy Chairperson of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, and Azat Kadyrov, the First Deputy Minister of Sport of the Russian Federation, addressed the audience with welcoming speeches.
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More Cynicism
Posted on May 11, 2010 by Chuck Young
That famous definition of a cynic as someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing has come to define this present moment of American politics.
–Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
I know that I criticize you [Bernie Goldberg] and Fox News a lot, but only because you're truly a terrible, cynical, disingenuous news organization.
To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism–it is a recognition of history, the imperfections of man and the limits of reason.
This is an old argument, one that The Nation's Benjamin DeMott examined in "Seduced by civility," a 1996 essay subtitled, "Political manners and the crisis of democratic values." The line back then, which hasn't changed much in fourteen years, was that progressive politics was caught in a stranglehold of cynicism, meanness and counterproductive finger-pointing.
–Katrina vanden Heuvel
When I was in tenth grade, I had a habit of making disparaging comments about politicians in my world history class. The teacher got exasperated with me one day and said, "Oh Chuck, you're just a cynic." Other kids started calling me a cynic as well. It seemed to make me a little bit dangerous, and for a few weeks I swaggered around with my new identity until it occurred to me that I had no idea what a cynic actually was. So I looked it up in the dictionary and it said, as I recall, "a person who attributes base motives to others."
That described me accurately enough, but there was also a second definition, something to the effect of, "an adherent of the Cynic philosophy."
"Wow," I thought. "There's a whole philosophy of attributing base motives to others? Why have I not heard of this?"
I charged off to the philosophy section of the library, looked for "cynic" in every index, and discovered a man named Diogenes, who lived in Greece from about 404 B.C.E. to 323 B.C.E. All the anecdotes about his life as the most famous Cynic, all the translations of his sayings, all the assumptions about his meaning were wildly contradictory from source to source–and still are–but somehow I knew I had discovered one of the great human beings ever. I now suspect that all the contradictions occurred because so many of the writers were fans of Plato and Socrates, the two patron saints of bad college professors everywhere, and Diogenes made a point of humiliating them in ancient Athens. A good rule of academic thumb: If your teacher is walking up and down the aisle trying to engage you in Socratic dialogue, the next hour is going to suck the mop.
(The best text I have found on Diogenes and his philosophical descendants is The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy, edited by R. Bracht Branham and Marie-Odile Goulet-Caze.)
Anyway, Diogenes came from a town called Sinope. His father was some kind of banker, and Diogenes started his career as a cynic by either defacing or debasing money. That's the first big contradiction in different sources. Debasing money means adding base metal to precious metal for the purpose of creating more coins than you could get just from the precious metal. It is an act of greed. Since Diogenes spent the rest of his life with almost no possessions, did nothing for money except beg and was conceded to be ruthlessly honest even by his enemies, I'm guessing that he wasn't debasing coins.
No, almost certainly, he was defacing coins. There is even archeological evidence for this around Sinope, where coins with the face chiseled off have been discovered. The people of Sinope and, one must assume, Diogenes' father were outraged, and Diogenes went into exile, eventually taking up residence in an old wine jar outside of Athens.
It is worth digressing at this point to consider one of Diogenes' most famous contemporaries, namely Buddha, whose life was following almost the exact same plot line in northern India. A prince, Buddha was living a life of luxury when he had some chance encounters with old age, sickness and death on a hunting trip. He had a sudden realization that he didn't understand anything and had to leave the the big, comfortable, insulating lie that was the royal compound, so he abandoned his wife and child and went to live in the forest and eat dirt. After six years, he decided that extreme asceticism wasn't the way to live either, and he sat under the Bodhi Tree until he had his moment of enlightenment.
Diogenes went to the marketplace in downtown Athens and jerked off.
Prejudice Pervades Arizona's Immigration Crackdown
Posted on May 7, 2010 by Linn Washington
Arizona in 2010 is the new Alabama.
Equating anti-Mexican sentiment in Arizona today with segregationist sentiment in Alabama during 1960s-era civil rights struggles is becoming commonplace in the wake of recently adopted Arizona legislation authorizing police to crack down on illegal immigrants.
However, Dan Pochoda, Legal Director of the ACLU in Arizona, saw this parallel long before the recent uproar over targeting Mexicans for intensified immigration enforcement in that Southwest border state.
Pochoda is one of the lawyers pressing a class action federal lawsuit charging the Sheriff's Department in Maricopa County – the area that includes the state capital of Phoenix – with racial profiling of Mexicans during high-profile immigration sweeps through Latino communities.
"Defendants' pattern and practice of racial profiling goes beyond these sweeps to include widespread, day-to-day targeting and mistreatment of persons who appear to be Latino," states one document in that lawsuit filed in mid-2008.
Joe Arpaio, the controversial and colorful Maricopa County Sheriff – noted for making prisoners wear pink underwear and housing them under tents in searing desert sun – proudly defends using physical appearance alone as the trigger for immigration enforcement.
Initial plaintiffs in that federal lawsuit included persons who are lawful U.S. citizens but who were stopped, detained, interrogated or searched during Arpaio's sweeps.
Those sweeps by Maricopa County deputies, over a dozen since early 2008, include the use of volunteer 'posse' members who are untrained yet carry guns, Pochoda said. Posse members range from elderly retirees to motorcyclists who portray themselves as "patriots" protecting America.
Saving Face in Afghanistan
Posted on May 7, 2010 by John Grant
In the documentary film "The Most Dangerous Man In America," Daniel Ellsberg tells about a fellow Rand Corporation war planner circa 1968 who described the US commitment to the war in Vietnam this way:
"We are 10 percent concerned about the Vietnamese; we are 20 percent concerned about the Chinese; and we are 70 percent concerned about saving face."
The United States has now clearly arrived at the same insidious predicament in Afghanistan.
US soldier overlooking the land we have decided to tame
Sure, we are concerned about al Qaeda and other violent elements hostile to the United States. The threat from al Qaeda is real – as is the fact that a history of foreign, and especially US, intervention in Muslim lands is at the root of this hostility. This backstory, of course, is embargoed from mainstream American minds — as our military policies rely on yet more intervention in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Last week an Americanized Pakistani who had lost his job as a financial analyst and whose $285,000 home had been foreclosed failed in a bumbling attempt to bomb Times Square. Already, demagogues like Senator Joe Lieberman are working the incident as a means of emasculating the Constitution, calling among other things for revocation of the man's US citizenship.
Former CIA operative Bob Baer told MSNBC that Americans should not be surprised at attacks like this, given the killing of dozens of Pakistanis by remotely piloted drones each week in the Pashtun areas of northwest Pakistan. Former CIA European station chief Tyler Drumheller added this: "We cannot think that we're going to attack them and they won't attack us."
Sure, the nations of the Middle East and South Asia have problems, and many people there are hostile to the US and its ally Israel. Sure, the Taliban are far from free-market westerners. But none of this justifies a military occupation of Afghanistan. The Taliban, at least up to this Time Square incident, have never attacked us and had shown no interest in doing so; and al Qaeda has reportedly moved on from Afghanistan.
Besides having no impact on the effort to defeat al Qaeda, supporting 100,000 very expensive US troops and a massive military infrastructure in Afghanistan is actually playing into al Qaeda's hands, since the tremendous cost of supporting this military bootprint in such an inaccessible, rugged place furthers Osama bin Laden's clearly expressed desire to drive the US to bankruptcy.
We can quibble about the percentages, but it's clear the US government and the US military are, again, in the costly face-saving business. The face they are saving has to do with US military prestige and the policy, at a time of great domestic economic stress and need at home, of escalating war in Afghanistan and Pakistan instead of doing everything possible to ratchet hostilities down and pull the troops out.
SECRECY AND PUBLIC RELATIONS
Forget the PR. The decision to escalate has to do with the fact that the war is not going well and the hope that if they just keep it going long enough, a combination of our immense power and determination will somehow wear the insurgency down and disprove the old notion of Afghanistan as the "graveyard of empires."
Meanwhile, it is difficult for critics to get at the truth about Afghanistan thanks to the incredible secrecy of our military operations and our wars. This is one side of a two-sided monster. The other side is the military's powerful public relations capacity. There's the secret world of managing the wars, and there's the PR world of explaining them to the tax-paying public. And never the twain shall meet.
Back in 1971, Daniel Ellsberg blew the lid off this monster when he xeroxed and released the so-called Pentagon Papers. Unfortunately, what the government and the military learned was not to let such a thing happen again. The Obama administration is currently going after one New York Times reporter, James Risen, in court and is working in other areas to plug other leaks.
Exxon Mobil's Forked Tongue: Watch What Big Oil Does, Not What It Pays to Have Said
Posted on May 6, 2010 by Dave LIndorff
With British Petroleum spewing more than 200,000 gallons of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico in what could be an ecological cataclysm, it is useful to look at the hypocrisy of the energy companies when it comes to an even worse crisis threatening life itself on the planet–rapid climate change due to increasing carbon in the atmosphere.
For years, the oil industry, and especially its largest company, Exxon Mobil, has been funding foundations and scientists that seek to refute the mounting evidence of global warming. A recent Greenpeace study, released in March, found that Exxon Mobil was second only to Koch Industries in offering financial backing for these climate change deniers. Between 2005 and 2008, Koch Industries, a privately held oil firm based in Texas, gave $24.9 million to anti-global warming scientists and foundations. Exxon Mobil, over the same period, gave $8.9 million.
Shrinking polar cap opens new oil drilling opportunities
Heavily criticized for its climate denial propaganda and lobbying, Exxon Mobil claimed in 2006 that it would no longer fund such activities. It has continued to do so, however, though a stealth campaign of funding foundations like the Atlas Economic Research Foundation and International Policy Network in the UK and the Cato and Heritage Foundations in the US, all of which themselves give money to the climate change deniers.
Other oil companies, like Shell, Chevron and others, do the same thing but at a lower level and with a lower profile than Exxon Mobil.
But here's where the hypocrisy and lying become chutzpah.
Late to the Party: Obama, like Bush, Stays Away from Trouble
Posted on May 4, 2010 by
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The ThisCantBeHappening.net news collective: a history and some info on each of us
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Dave Lindorff kicks off the new ThisCantBeHappening news collective website
Posted on May 3, 2010 by devlindorff
Award-winning investigative reporter Dave Lindorff has been raking the journalistic muck now for 38 years, since he started out reporting the goings-on of three small towns at the mouth of the Connecticut River for the Middletown Press in 1972. A regular columnist for Counterpunch.org, he has also written for such diverse and seemingly mutually exclusive …
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Hurricane Season and the BP Oil Rig Disaster
One thing you don't hear much mention of in all the coverage of the BP oil rig blowout that is now pouring 210,000 gallons of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico, just a few dozen miles off the coast of Louisiana, is the 2010 hurricane season, which officially starts on June 1, but which can start significantly earlier.
This is, after all, an El Nino year, so storms could be more frequent and stronger than usual. In 2007, recall, the first storm of the season was Tropical Storm Andrea, which reached a size strong enough to merit a name on May 7, just a week later than today.
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Posted on April 30, 2010 by devlindorff
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I'm not Shedding Any Tears for Former LAPD Chief Daryl Gates
Posted on April 18, 2010 by Dave LIndorff
The former Los Angeles police chief, Daryl Gates, who died late last month of cancer at his home in California, is being widely credited in mostly laudatory newspaper obituaries as the man who developed the idea of Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT)units–those paramilitary police teams so loved by Hollywood filmmakers–who bring the art and weaponry of modern warfare into communities, breaking into houses with faces covered in ski masks, and carrying assault weapons in order to make arrests for often minor offenses, or blowing away people–often innocent people–in what the modern military c
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