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International Standards for Intellectual Property Rights Protection: A Reflection on Climate-friendly Technology Transfer
Jiang Jiani, Guihong Zhang, Can Wang
An unsettled debate exists with regard to the role of intellectual property (IP) rights in international climate negotiation. This debate is based on premise that the international TRIPS Agreement set out minimum standards of protection, which presumably allow for unlimited extra protection. This study aims to address the question of whether a premise for minimum protection standards exists in the international IP system combined with climate-friendly technology transfer. First, the basic question of why international IP standards generate an impact on climate-friendly technology transfer is clarified. Second, three levels of arguments are applied to question this premise and examine the rationality of minimum protection standards. The three arguments are as follows: (1) Has TRIPS Agreement 1.1 provided unlimited minimal standards for IPR protection? (2) Is there no conflict between TRIPS Agreement-PLUS and the TRIPS Agreement? (3) How about the WTO dispute settlement panel report about this problem? The finding is that the dominant default policy, the IP protection standard, is the only minimum requirement in the case of uncertainty in legal provisions and practices. Therefore, the negative effects on the transfer of climate-friendly technology increase in terms of using flexible provision to promote import technologies. Third, this paper introduces China's current Patent Law and its practice in response to climate-friendly technology transfer. Lastly, this paper provides suggestions with regard to the need for comprehensive and explicit protection standards in the context of climate-friendly technology transfer.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5102/rdi.v11i2.3070
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Poggio Landi is part of a promising network of wineries, all belonging to the Alejandro Bulgheroni Family Vineyards (ABFV) Italy group, located in the most promising wine regions of Tuscany, some of the world's best-loved terroirs: Chianti Classico, Montalcino and Bolgheri.
In the Bolgheri DOC, on the hilltop that dominates the surrounding scenery, Tenuta Meraviglia, meaning "marvel" in English, says it all with its name: marvelous views embracing a long stretch of the Tuscan coastline punctuated with gentle hills that appear to plunge into the blueness of the sea. The estate's wines surpass these expectations, communicating the quality of an internationally-acclaimed terroir.
Dievole, nestled in the beautiful Tuscan hills, is known since 1090 as a little piece of heaven: here wine and extra virgin olive oil have been produced for nearly a thousand years in a harmonious environment of carefully preserved values in which quality is found in every gesture and every product.
Tenuta Le Colonne: Tuscany that looks to the sea and beyond. Situated in the œnological heaven which is Bolgheri, our winery benefits from a strategic location, the closest to the sea in the entire appellation zone. Its vineyards, caressed by the sea breeze and enriched by volcanic and sandy soils, produce fine wines in which balance blends with character.
Beautiful vineyards that rise around an ancient, fascinating monastic complex of 1300: this is the peculiarity that characterizes the Certosa di Pontignano, a magical place that brings you back in time when the monks carefully took care of the local viticultural production. A modus operandi handed down over the centuries, from which we get wide, intense and intriguing wines.
Podere Brizio is a pearl amongst the hills of Montalcino. The charming hill on which it rests, looking south/west, towards the sea, is surrounded by olive groves and vineyards. Its living, healthy soil, rich in microbiological interactions, gives the wine a fresh and unmistakable flavor.
Nestled in the Montalcino hills, in one of the world's most important terroirs, Poggio Landi produces expansive, melodious and complex wine. The grapes come from vineyards lying between 175 and 500 meters above sea level, whose exposition and soil composition vary. A treasure trove of biodiversity goes hand in hand with the magic of this land and its wines.


The only other odd thing here is that Delaware had about 28,000 people sign up for exchange-based QHPs this year. I'm not sure how that's possible when Aetna & Highmark only have 15.2K among them including off-exchange enrollees...but perhaps a carrier or two is dropping off the exchange?. Meanwhile, their entire indy marke was 32K in 2014, likely around 40K today. Where are the other 25K or so? Some are via Golden Rule; others are grandfathered (not transitional), but that's a huge discrepancy nonetheless.


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Q: Create new column in Python within a group I need to create the new variable illustrated as Needed in the snap given below in Spyder. I am getting error. please give the solutions.
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Thanks in advance!!!!

A: you could do something like this:
def f(row):
  if (row['id'] == 1):
      return "Both"
  elif (row['id'] == 2):
      return "N"
  elif (row['id'] == 3):
      return "Y"

df["needed"] = df.apply(f,axis=1)

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Metallica - Hardwired... To Self-Destruct (180 Gram Vinyl, Digital Download Card) (2LP)
Metallica began their long journey back home some time after nearly imploding during the recording of 2003's St. Anger. Hardwired...To Self-Destruct arrives 13 years after that album but it, almost more than its 2008 predecessor Death Magnetic, feels like a repudiation of the band's '90s, the years when Metallica shined up, slowed down, and got a lot weirder. Sprawling over two discs when it could've fit onto one (an aesthetic choice certainly meant to evoke memories of 1988's double LP ...And Justice for All), Hardwired...To Self-Destruct does indeed rage, roaring out the gate with a title track where James Hetfield bellows "We're so f***ed/S*** out of luck." That palpable desperation recalls the free-floating angst that fueled Metallica's '80s, but Hardwired...To Self-Destruct doesn't find the quartet scrambling to sound as ferocious as they did during their heyday. Often, they do unleash the fury -- "Moth into Flame" gallops forward in a manner reminiscent of "Battery" -- but there's no denying that Metallica are an older band now, either incapable or uninterested in maintaining that intensity over the course of a full double album. When they slow down, it's not exclusively to churn and brood. "Murder One," a salute to departed Mot?rhead leader Lemmy, may belong in that category, but "Am I Savage?" teeters between ominous dirge and intricate transitions, while "Dream No More" has a backbeat that nearly swings. "ManUNKind" also has a bit of buried funk in its rhythms and that, along with the preponderance of complicated suites, is a clue that Hardwired...To Self-Destruct is primarily the work of Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. Kirk Hammett doesn't have a single songwriting credit -- allegedly, this is due to the guitarist losing an iPhone filled with riffs just prior to recording -- and he's also diminished in terms of solos, leaving Hardwired as a showcase for Metallica's musical constructions. If the riffs don't always sink in deeply -- and if the entire production feels slightly monochromatic -- what impresses here is the thought and musicality within the compositions and the performances, elements that have always been at the band's core and shine brightly on Hardwired...To Self-Destruct. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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New for 2017: Capelli Sport Stadium
By Soccer Stadium Digest Editors on January 25, 2017 in USL Championship
The home of the Rochester Rhinos has a new name, as it is becoming Capelli Sport Stadium for 2017 and beyond.
As part of the agreement, Capelli Sport will also become the uniform supplier of the Rhinos. Prior to this announcement, the USL franchise's home had been through several name changes, and it was most recently known as Rochester Rhinos Stadium.
Rochester Rhinos Stadium, which has a capacity of more than 13,700, will become Capelli Sport Stadium through an agreement of the venue's naming rights. In addition, all official club uniforms, training gear, merchandise, and fan wear will be provided by Capelli Sport. The agreement also calls for Capelli Sport to become the official uniform supplier for the Rochester Junior Rhinos, the club's youth academy, beginning in August 2017.
"I am honored to welcome Capelli Sport to the city of Rochester as the official uniform supplier and stadium naming rights partner of the Rochester Rhinos," said Rochester Mayor Lovely A. Warren. "This partnership will greatly enhance Rochester's position as a regional destination for the growing legion of professional soccer fans, which will advance our goals of creating more jobs, safer more vibrant neighborhoods and better educational opportunities for our citizens."
"This partnership demonstrates the commitment of Capelli Sport to both the Rhinos and our region," said Rochester Rhinos Owner David Dworkin. "Wendy and I along with the entire Rhinos organization look forward to welcoming Capelli Sport and their brand to our community."
Founded in 1996, the Rochester Rhinos are one of the most storied professional soccer clubs in North America. Entering their 22nd season, the Rhinos have won four league championships, the most recent coming in the 2015 USL season, and were the last non-MLS side to claim the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup in 1999.
Capelli Sport was founded in 2011 by President George Altirs with the mission to provide quality, functionality and design for high-level performance on the field. More than 25 years in the apparel, fashion and accessory business with parent company GMA Accessories, led to the creation of Capelli Sport and many global recreational, club, semi-professional and professional sports partnerships through the brand's innovative, world-class training gear, equipment and uniforms.
Altirs said the agreement will provide the Rochester Rhinos with sport-specific products that correspond with their club-wide objectives.
"We are excited to bring our high-level performance uniforms and training gear, which continue to support professional organizations around the world, to such an established and accomplished club as the Rochester Rhinos," Altirs said.
"It's a great fit for both Capelli Sport and the Rochester Rhinos," added Capelli Sport's Sporting Director, Jason Arnold. "We appreciate the history of the Rochester Rhinos and their ability to continuously provide a quality product, both on and off the field. We strive to adhere to the same initiatives with our existing partners and look forward to joining the capabilities of the Capelli Sport brand with this talented and proven organization."
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Honest PSVR Developers Ask Gamers Not to Buy Their Game Until They Add More Content
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In a bold move, PSVR developers Toast ask the VR community to reconsider buying their game Richie's Plank Experience until more features are added.
While the gaming industry at large sweats due to anti-consumer practices like bad microtransactions and not letting consumers cancel pre-orders, it's easy to get cynical about the state of gaming. So imagine our surprise when we catch a glimmer of the opposite: an honest developer approaching the community to make sure people aren't getting duped into purchasing their game. That's exactly what we saw with developer Toast and their PSVR game Richie's Plank Experience earlier this week.
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In a post titled "Note from a Developer: Don't buy our title." Toast approached the bustling PSVR subreddit letting them know the situation. Hoping to have their game Richie's Plank Experience out for the Christmas rush, they shipped the game with less experiences than the original PC version of the game.
For those out of the loop, Richie's Plank Experience is one of those "experience" VR titles that lets you experience walking across a board or a blank from up high. The PC version of the game (available on Steam) has a ton of features and modes, but to get an idea of what the game is like check out the brief trailer below:
Now here's the thing — while the PC version of the game has a ton of these features, the small five-person team wasn't able to get everything in by the Christmas deadline. In short, you can only play The Plank and Fire Deck so far. And this isn't something the team is trying to hide:
The PC version currently has more features and we plan to add similar features to PSVR in the future. However, In order for us to release Richie's Plank Experience in time for Christmas we had to focus on the 2 most requested features; The Plank and Fire Deck.
But more importantly, they want to make sure everyone knows what this game is — even if it means that less people are buying their game:
We designed Richie's Plank Experience specifically to be used to entertain your friends and family. It's a go-to experience to bring out when you have visitors or parties. So if you don't plan on using it for this, it's probably not for you. Please don't buy it! It is not a game that can be played for hours by yourself.
More importantly, the developers at Toast had a final message: a giant thank you for the community for supporting them so far and being understanding about the situation:
Lastly, a BIG thanks to the PSVR community who have supported us and followed our journey.
As you would imagine, the PSVR dedicated community did exactly the opposite as a show of support for the indie VR developer, with more than a few people mentioning they are picking up a 2×4 plank to play the game this holiday season.
Sure… the cynic in me may believe this is just really clever marketing. But I want to earnestly believe that this is a bunch of indie developers trying to do the right thing.
Richie's Plank Experience is available now on PC and PSVR (via PS4); if you want to support the developer, you can grab the game on the PlayStation Store for $14.99. Otherwise, you can read the full Reddit post below:
Note from a Developer: Don't buy our title. from r/PSVR
Overwatch and Apex Legends Communities Unite to Push Developers to Help Australia
Overwatch and Apex Legends' communities are asking Blizzard and EA to create special skins to support Australian wildlife relief efforts.
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Papucei Garbo from Romania are all handmade, fabricated from high quality leather and lined with soft leather for both a wonderful feeling and a beautiful appearance. A perfect balance between comfort and style.
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Today, we live in a fast moving world and people these days are not very impatient. We want everything in an instant. We want fast service and, we want everything to do in the least of time. We even go for instant food. This trend affects the business world. To keep up with the pace, merchants to have to look into ways to meet the demands of their customers.
The merchants of the small-scale industry and the big businesses should invest into a high tech point of sale system, to stay competitive with their business rivals. Merchants have no choice but to follow the latest trend so as not to lose their sales. Those who are more open-minded have accepted and accommodated to the cashless mode of payment for the convenience of their clients.
Initially, the transition from the old method to the modern method such as the Clover pos system has not been without resistance from the older generation of business owners. After a while, many have no choice but to accept and move along with the modern mode of a transaction to enjoy better benefits and boosting up their sales.
Clover merchant is ready to cater to the convenience of their clients by making available their point of sale system for better business management and easy paying method for their customers. People are not more prone to carry less cash with them, and they prefer cashless payments. The pos system enables merchants to accept payment by credit cards, debit cards, chip cards, and many others from people who are always in a hurry. The system possesses the transaction quickly and safely.
Merchant Account Solution provides a point of sale system with the advanced software that enables merchants to manage their business by tracking stock inventories, payments, printing of reports, documents, and many others. The system also helps merchant cut cost on wages by needing fewer workers to do the running of their business. One or two workers will receive orders from customers through their handheld devices. Then, sends it to the kitchen. While the cashier processes the transaction with all the details.


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Q: How do I set initialValues of useFormik to data returned from an API request I have an update ProfilePage component and I want to preload the form values with the data received from an Axios API request using useQuery, but it seems the useFormik initialValues render before the request is completed therefore having the initial values to be undefined, can anyone help me ?
  const { isSuccess, data } = useQuery("author", async () => {
    const endPoint = `${baseURL}/auth/author`;
    return Axios.get(endPoint, {
      headers: {
        "x-auth-token": token,
      },
    })
      .then(({ data }) => {
        return data.author;
      })
      .catch((err) => {
        setErrors(err.response.data.errors[0].msg);
        console.log(errors);
      });
  });

  const formik = useFormik({
    initialValues: {
      firstname: data.firstname,
      lastname: data.lastname,
      gender: data.gender,
      dob: data.dob,
      email: data.email,
      oldPassword: "",
      newPassword: "",
      confirmNewPassword: "",
      profilePic: "",
    },
    validationSchema: Yup.object({
      firstname: Yup.string()
        .max(20, "First Name must not be more that 20 characters")
        .required("Required*"),
      lastname: Yup.string()
        .max(20, "Last Name must not be more that 20 characters")
        .required("Required*"),
      gender: Yup.string().required("Required*"),
      dob: Yup.string().required("Required*"),
      email: Yup.string()
        .email("Must be a Valid Email Address")
        .required("Required*"),
      oldPassword: Yup.string().min(
        6,
        "Your password must be more than 6 characters"
      ),
      newPassword: Yup.string().min(
        6,
        "Your password must be more than 6 characters"
      ),
      confirmNewPassword: Yup.string(),
    }),
    onSubmit: (values) => {
      console.log(values);
    },
  });

The error I get is Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'firstname')
if I could get a way make useFormik render just after the API request it'd help

A: To overcome the issues of state initialization in Formik, you might want to use try enableReinitialize={true}.
For example:
const formik = useFormik({
    initialValues: ...,
    enableReinitialize: true,
    validationSchema: ...,
    onSubmit: (values) => {
        console.log(values);
    },
});

enableReinitialize default is false. It controls whether Formik should reset the form if initialValues changes (using deep equality).
https://formik.org/docs/api/formik

A: what you can do after api call in useEffect set values
below sample code for further understanding
isEmpty is from lodash you can use some alternate if you want for checking if data is not empty
useEffect(() => {
    if (!isEmpty(data)) {
      formik.setValues({
        ...data
      });
    }
  }, [data]);

A: You can overcome this issue by using a loading component. Display a loading spinner while the initial values are being fetched from the server and when the payload arrives, send it as a prop to your form component. In this way, you will also avoid showing an empty form which is prefilled after a random amount of time to the user.


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Spend at least 30 minutes practicing baseball skills.
Participate in a baseball game.
Participate in a pack or community baseball tournament.
Demonstrate skill in two of the following throwing techniques: overhand, sidearm, underhand, and the relay throw.
Demonstrate skill in two of the following catching techniques: fielding a ground ball, fielding a pop-up, catching a line drive.
Demonstrate correct hitting techniques, including bunting.
Explain the rules of base running. Explain base coaching signals.
Demonstrate skill in the following sliding techniques: the straight-in slide, the hook slide, and the headfirst slide.
Play five games of baseball using standard baseball rules.
Draw a baseball field to scale or set one up for play.
Attend a high school, college, or professional baseball game.
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Can you make an Ipod Touch?
Is there a way to make an IPod Touch It would be amazing there was!
As an electronics engineer my answer would be yes given the necessary parts - obviously someone already did so it could be done again. However the cost wouldn't be worth it and the difficulty of getting the same as bought quality would be huge. Not an easy task.
this guys looking for a link people.
there is a way to make anything.
and when in doubt, the answer is 42.


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I own www.quizquestions.me.uk which isn't too dissimilar to yours. The only difference is that I offer large lists of pub quiz questions with answers instead of breaking them down into individual quizzes like you do.
Any way, I was wondering if you would be willing to link to my site in return for a link fom my site back to back to yours?


India's Home Season 2016-17: On What Sort of Pitches Should India Play?
2016-17 Long Indian Home Season: What Type of Pitches Should India Play the 13 Tests on?
For India's home season 2016-17 to be exciting, the pitches at the 13 Test venues—Kanpur (Green Park), Kolkata (Eden Gardens), Indore (Holkar Cricket Stadium), Rajkot (SCA Stadium), Visakhapatnam (ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium), Mohali (PCA Stadium), Mumbai (Wankhede Stadium), Chennai (MA Chidambaram Stadium), Hyderabad (Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium), Bangalore (M Chinnaswamy Stadium), Dharamsala (HPCA Stadium), Ranchi (JSCA International Stadium), and Pune (MCA Stadium)—have to be prepared in such a way that we get an even contest between bat and ball.
In no other cricketing nation, does the talk of pitches surface at the start of every Test series or a home season as much as the Indian pitches make us preview them, caustically. Over the last three-four seasons especially, Indian pitches have been shoddily prepared and other than England in 2012, the hosts have not really come up against a side with a quality spin attack and subsequently not been adversely affected.
In simple terms, Indian pitches' shoddy nature has not boomeranged for the home side since England's 1-2 Test series victory on Indian soil in 2012.
But, ahead of India's home season 2016-17, spanning six months, we can say that at least New Zealand and England have spinners capable of causing problems for the Indian batsmen if the pitches are not 'prepared properly'. So, how should the Indian pitches be prepared?
What Does Anil Kumble Have to Say about Pitch Preparation?
Continue reading… because we are going to be looking at ideal Test pitches for Indian conditions.
'Good weather and optimal watering and rolling' are the cornerstones of a proper cricket pitch, which should allow batsmen and bowlers to thrive and in turn, treat the spectators to a good contest. Yes, the soil used has a major bearing on how a cricket pitch plays—whether it facilitates pace and bounce or if it is conducive to spinners and slow bowlers, in general—but if the curator does not get enough time to prepare a pitch, mostly due to prevalent weather conditions, or does not water the pitch enough, then pitches are bound to misbehave.
Clay pitches need plenty of watering and even then have the tendency to slow down quickly, but the red soil furnishes good pace and bounce and red soil pitches tend to remain good for longer periods too, with the Wankhede pitch—arguably the fastest in the country—providing solid proof of how red soil pitches can behave.
Coming back to India's home season 2016-17, the pitches at the aforementioned 13 venues need not have a green tinge on them, no, but the curators have to ensure that the pitches are adequately watered. Water too much and the bowlers will rule the roost, water less and you will witness the ball turning square on day one of a Test match, which is exactly what the curators and groundsmen have to guard against.
Why India Shouldn't Be Playing on Pitches as the One on Offer at Mohali?
I surmise that the curators, over the last three-four seasons, have not found the right amount of watering needed for Indian pitches, depending on the overhead conditions during different months of the year. The reason I can think of is a possible apprehension on the curators' part about excessively watering the pitches and handing over an advantage to touring teams with great pace attacks such as England's (2012), Australia's (2013) and most recently, South Africa's (2015).
Either that or they were instructed to not water at all, thereby contriving the Indian pitches to provide massive assistance for spinners and from the batsmen's vantage point, misbehave, with the top-most surface becoming powdery and breaking up very early on in the Test match.
Because India's home season 2016-17 begins in September, even before the Ranji Trophy season does (on October 6th), I think we will at least be getting well-prepared pitches for the eight Tests against New Zealand (three) and England (five), though the pitches may well slow down by the time Bangladesh (one) and Australia (four) arrive in India in February 2017.
In recent years, Test series in India have tended to begin in the months of November and December or in February and March and the groundsmen might well have been impeded by the weather, which in November and December months can be wet and in February and March be extremely hot. As a result, a curator will either not have had enough time to prepare a pitch because it had to be under the covers for long periods or have been unable to retain the enviable moisture level because of extremely high temperatures.
A good Indian Test pitch is one which the batsmen can play their shots on, on days one and two at least, before the spinners naturally come to the fore on days three, four and five. If you want Test matches played in India to be well contested, then the only way forward is this. Surely, Indian pitches and weather are not going to assist swing and seam bowling and neither are the Indian pitches going to be fast and bouncy, so the main battle is between batsmen and spinners. I am saying, prepare a pitch that the spinners have to work hard to pick wickets on and if so, the curators have to adequately water the pitches, roll them well and consequently make them good to bat on at the start of a Test match.
Do you agree? Tell us your opinion in the comments below.


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Remote Accessible Vote by Mail
Allows any voter to download, mark, and print their ballot at home. Voters may use their own assistive technology to read and mark the ballot. Remote Accessible Vote by Mail (RAVBM) is not "internet voting," you must print and return your marked ballot.
Any voter may use this service by requesting a RAVBM when they review their information on My Voter Status. Once you sign in you'll need to scroll down to the bottom of the screen.
Service is available starting 29 days before the election. All ballots must be printed and returned in an envelope signed by the voter.
Return the voted ballot in signed envelope using one of these methods:
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Q: Can't load node from .jdf file in Vbscript I'm trying to get a value from a node in a .jdf file.
It gives us an error
object required: 'curNode'
in line no. 13 - inputFolder = curNode.getAttribute("Amount")
We don't really know what to do... any help please?
Thank you
'creates the msxml object
Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0")
Dim xmlDataPath,retVal
xmlDataPath = "C:\Users\liatte\Desktop\Aviv Omer Neta\JDFs to Txt\a.jdf"

'load the xml data of the script
retVal=xmlDoc.load(xmlDataPath)

'get input folder
Set curNode = xmlDoc.selectSingleNode("//JDF/ResourceLinkPool/ComponentLink")
Dim inputFolder
inputFolder = curNode.getAttribute("Amount")

A: To deal with the error, check
If curNode Is Nothing Then
   ...
Else
   Dim inputFolder
   ...
End If

Obviously your assumptions (XPath expression) about the source file are wrong, when selectSingleNode() fails.

A: If an XPath expression like //JDF/ResourceLinkPool/ComponentLink does not select elements in your input document then it is likely that you are processing a document which uses namespaces, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_namespaces.
With XPath 1.0 a path like /foo/bar selects bar child elements of foo elements in no namespace while with an XML document of the form
<foo xmlns="http://example.com/ns1">
  <bar>baz</bar>
</foo>

the elements are in the namespace http://example.com/ns1.
With your sample there is probably a default namespace declaration (e.g. xmlns="http://www.CIP4.org/JDFSchema_1_1") which requires you to change your XPath expressions by defining a prefix for the namespace e.g.
xmlDoc.setProperty "SelectionNamespaces", "xmlns:jdf='http://www.CIP4.org/JDFSchema_1_1'"

and using it:
Set curNode = xmlDoc.selectSingleNode("//jdf:JDF/jdf:ResourceLinkPool/jdf:ComponentLink")

Documentation for MSXML is at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms756048%28v=vs.85%29.aspx.


Biomass and related waste contribute several percent of the nation's current annual fuel resource mix. While commonly used as feedstock for production of biogasses, as discussed previously, biomass is commonly used as a solid fuel, often in the proximity of its production. Wood waste is the primary component of biomass fuel, though peat and other agriculture by-products are also common components.
• Wood contributes more than three-quarters of the total biomass energy. Where there is ample wood in supply, home heating and some large central steam generation (utility, industrial, and institutional) plants use wood or wood waste as a primary fuel source. Wood waste provides about half of the energy consumed by the forest products industry, as the conversion of logs to lumber results in about 50% waste in the form of bark, shavings, and sawdust. Fresh timber typically contains 30 to 50% moisture or more, mostly in the cell structure of the wood. This may be reduced by half after a year of air drying. When moisture content is high, it may be necessary to mix the wood with low-moisture fuel to ensure that there is enough energy density, on an LHV basis, entering the boiler to support proper combustion. Dry wood has an energy density range of 8,500 to 9,100 Btu/lbm (19,800 to 21,200 kJ/kg). This is reduced to about 4,375 Btu/lbm (10,170 kJ/kg) at 50% moisture and 1,750 Btu/lbm (4,070 kJ/kg) at 80% moisture content. In addition to biogasses, wood can be transformed into several other fuel products. Wood charcoal, for example, is made by heating wood to a high temperature in the absence of air. Weight and volume are reduced by 75 and 50%, respectively, producing a product that has a higher energy density and is easier to transport.
• Peat is another major biomass type fuel source. Discussed above as an early stage in the metamorphosis of vegetable matter into coal, peat is a complex mixture of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in a ratio similar to that of cellulose and lignin. It is generally low in sulfur, nitrogen, and ash from the parent vegetation. Dry, ash-free ultimate analysis ranges from 50 to 65% carbon, 5.5 to 7% hydrogen, 30 to 40% oxygen, 1 to 2% nitrogen and less than 1% sulfur. While used largely in the United States for soil improvement, mulch, filler for fertilizers, and litter for domestic animals, it is also a viable fuel source. Its energy density, depending on the source and method of processing, may range from 3,700 to 8,000 Btu/lbm (8,600 to 18,600 kJ/kg), with an average of about 6,000 Btu/lbm (14,950 kJ/kg) with standard air-dried processed material.
• There are a number of other biomass type fuels used for generation of industrial steam and power. Aside from their value as fuel, the burning of wastes minimizes disposal requirements. These benefits, however, are often limited by environmental regulations, which vary by region. Typically, these by-products are cellu-losic in character and offer energy densities of 7,000 to 9,500 Btu/lbm (16,300 to 22,100 kJ/kg), depending on the level of resinous material present. These may include bagasse (which is a fibrous by-product of sugarcane processing), corncobs, rice straw or hulls, wheat straw, and pine bark. Cattle manure is another useful by-product type fuel. Other related materials are discussed below under refuse-derived fuels.


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Q: OpenLayers: Possible to show zoom level? Been researching this for a while and nothing has come to fruition. Best I could find was:
OpenLayers.Control.ZoomStatus = OpenLayers.Class(OpenLayers.Control, {
  autoActivate: true,
  element: null
});

But 'ZoomStatus' isn't even mentioned in the documentation (maybe it is but can't seem to find it). Found it at this link: http://trac.osgeo.org/openlayers/attachment/ticket/3629/OpenLayers.Control.ZoomStatus.js
Can anyone offer some insight as to how to display the zoom level/status in the browser?

A: For OpenLayers3 (v.3.4.0) I will modify @kryger answer:

A:
But 'ZoomStatus' isn't even mentioned in the documentation

According to http://trac.osgeo.org/openlayers/ticket/3629 it's scheduled for 2.13 (but the current dev version still doesn't feature it).

The fact is that it does little more than call map.getZoom() anyway, so you're probably better off implementing a custom handler. Example:
Go to http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.12/examples/osm.html
and execute the following script in Firebug/Chrome dev tools JS console:
map.events.register('zoomend', map, function() {
  var zoomInfo = 'Zoom level=' + map.getZoom() + '/' + (map.numZoomLevels + 1);
  document.getElementById('shortdesc').innerHTML = 'Show a Simple OSM Map --- ' + zoomInfo;
})

And zoom in/out.

A: how about using GeoExt for this:
http://api.geoext.org/1.1/examples/zoom-chooser.html


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Israel, Iraq, & US Jews
Submitted by Editor on 6/2/2004
Senator Fritz Hollings & General Anthony Zinni, 6/2/2004
Below you will find two items — a speech by veteran Senator Fritz Hollings, and an article in The Forward, the nearest thing there is in the US to a national Jewish newspaper.
They all explore the relationship between US support for the present Israeli government and the US decision to go to war against Iraq.
They also explore whether certain views on that relationship are anti-Semitic.
My own essay on these questions is also in this section of the Website.
So is The Forward s astonishing editorial on these matters.
Senator Hollings is of that embattled species, the Southern liberal Democrat. After six terms in the Senate, he is retiring. The Forward article discusses his speech and the recent remarks of General Anthony Zinni.
Gneral Zinni had been the President's own special envoy to puit topgether an Israeli-Palestinian detente. He knew the issues first-hand, and he was in the kitchen when the policy was cooked.
As the run-up to the Iraq War began, Zinni was in charge of the the US forces in the Middle East. He said publicly that to secure and govern Iraq, the US would need far more troops on the ground than Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and the President were assigning. He was fired.
He was right.
More recently, both the Senator and the General asserted that the US went to war against Iraq in order to protect Israel.
In both cases, some Jewish groups and others charged that their assertions were anti-Semitic.
The speech and the article follow. In a separate essay, you will find my own views on both issues: (1) Was protecting Israel the key factor, a factor, or no factor at all in the Bush Administration's decision to invade Iraq? (2) Are assertions that it was a key factor anti-Semitic?
Shalom, Arthur
SPEECH: Sen. Hollings:
[Ernest "Fritz" Hollings of South Carolina, 82, soon to retire from the Senate at the end of his sixth term, is a graduate of The Citadel who saw combat in the Army in World War II. In Jan. 1991 he voted against the Gulf War resolution. In Oct. 2002 he was one of the 29 (out of 50)
Democratic senators to vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq — a vote he now regrets. For a southern senator, his voting record has been quite liberal (2002 ratings: ADA 85;
ACLU 60; AFSCME 100; LCV 65). He is known for having "one of the quickest and sharpest tongues in the Senate" (2004 Almanac of American Politics). He came under fire this
month for a May 6 opinion piece in the Charleston Post and Courier that was remarkable for advancing two ideas: that securing the state of Israel was a leading motive for the invasion of Iraq, and that the Global War on Terror is a conceptual absurdity.
The first of these led to a charge from Sen. George Allen of Virginia that the article was an anti-Semitic, conspiracy theory statement. This provoked a remarkable speech on the floor
of the United States Senate on May 20. An article from last Friday's *Forward* related to this controversy follows the speech. Then come my own comments — AW
SEN. HOLLINGS FLOOR STATEMENT SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON HIS MIDEAST NEWSPAPER COLUMN
By Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings of South Carolina
http://hollings.senate.gov/~hollings/statements/2004521A35.html
I thank my distinguished colleagues. I have, this afternoon, the opportunity to respond to being charged as anti-Semitic when I proclaimed the policy of President Bush in the Mideast as not for Iraq or really for democracy in the sense that he is worried about Saddam and democracy. If he were worried about democracy in the Mideast, as we wanted to spread it as a policy, we would have invaded Lebanon, which is half a democracy and has terrorism and terrorists who have been problems to the interests of Israel and the United States.
It is very interesting that on page 231, Richard Clarke, in his book "Against All Enemies," cites the fact that there had not been any terrorism, any evidence or intelligence of Saddam's terrorism against the United States from 1993 to 2003. He says that in the presence of Paul Wolfowitz.. He says that in the presence of John McLaughlin of the CIA. In fact, he says: Isn't that right, John? And John says: That is exactly right.
The reason was when they made the attempt on President Bush, Senior, back in 1993, President Clinton ordered a missile strike on Saddam in downtown Baghdad, the intelligence headquarters, and it went right straight down the middle of the headquarters. It was after hours so not a big kill—but Saddam got the message: You monkey around with the United States, a missile will land on your head.
So, in essence, the equation had changed in the Saddam-Iraq/Mideast concerns whereby Saddam was more worried about any threat of the United States against him than the United States was worried about a threat by Saddam against us.
I want to read an article that appeared in the Post and Courier in Charleston on May 6; thereafter, I think in the State newspaper in Columbia a couple days later; and in the Greenville News—all three major newspapers in South Carolina. You will find that there is no anti-Semitic reference whatsoever in it.
The reason I emphasize that upfront is for the simple reason that you cannot put an op-ed in my hometown paper that is anti-Semitic. We have a very, very proud Jewish community in Charleston. In fact, it is where reform Judaism began. The earliest temple, Kadosh Beth Elohim, is on Hasell Street. I have spoken there several times. I had the pleasure of having that particular temple put on the National Register. This particular Senator, with over 50 years now of public service, has received a strong Jewish vote.
Let me emphasize another thing because the papers are piling on and bringing up again a little difference of opinion I had on the Senate floor with Senator Metzenbaum. It was not really a difference. We were discussing a matter, and we referred to each's religion in order to make sure there would not be any misunderstanding or tempers flaring. The distinguished Senator from North Carolina, Mr. Helms, referred to himself as the Baptist lay leader, Senator Danforth as the Episcopal priest. I referred to myself as the Lutheran Senator. And when Senator Metzenbaum came on the floor, I referred to him as the Senator from B'nai B'rith, and he took exception. He thought it was an aspersion. I told him: Wait a minute, I will gladly identify myself as the Senator from B'nai B'rith. I did not mean to hurt his feelings. I apologized at that time but not for the legitimacy and the circumstances of the particular reference.
Now here we go again, some years later. The Senator from Virginia, Mr. George Allen, and I are good friends. Maybe after this particular thing he might feel different, but I know his role as the chairman of the campaign committee. And so I have an article here where Senator Allen denounces Senator Hollings' latest political attack, Senator Hollings' antisemitic, political conspiracy statement.
Let me read my column here from the May 6 Post and Courier, and you be the judge:
With 760 dead in Iraq, over 3,000 maimed for life—home folks continue to argue why we are in Iraq—and how to get out. Now everyone knows what was not the cause. Even President Bush acknowledges that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11. Listing the 45 countries where al-Qaida was operating on September 11, the State Department did not list Iraq. They listed 45 countries and at that particular date on September 11, 2001, they did not even list Iraq.
Richard Clarke, in "Against All Enemies," tells how the United States had not received any threat of terrorism for 10 years from Saddam at the time of our invasion. On page 231, John McLaughlin of the CIA verifies this to Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. In 1993, President Clinton responded to Saddam's attempt on the life of President George H.W. Bush by putting a missile down on Saddam's intelligence headquarters in Baghdad. Not a big kill, but Saddam got the message—monkey around with the United States and a missile lands on his head. Of course there were no weapons of mass destruction. Israel's intelligence Mossad knows what's going on in Iraq. They are the best. They have to know. Israel's survival depends on knowing. Israel long since would have taken us to the weapons of mass destruction .....
Let me divert for a second there. I was here when Israel attacked the nuclear facility in Baghdad during the 1980s. In all candor, when President Bush, on October 7, 2002, said, after all that buildup by Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and everybody else, that facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait until the smoking gun is a mushroom cloud, I thought we were attacking for Israel. I thought that they knew about some kind of nuclear development there. And rather than getting them in further trouble with the United Nations and the Arab world, that its best friend, the United States, would knock it out for them. That is why I voted for it. I got misled. Our attack on Iraq, the invasion of Iraq is a bad mistake. I will get into that later. But let me read even further:
..... With Iraq no threat, why invade a sovereign country? The answer: President Bush's policy to secure Israel. Led by Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Charles Krauthammer, for years there had been a domino school of thought that the way to guarantee Israel's security is to spread democracy in the area. Wolfowitz wrote: "The United States may not be able to lead countries through the door of democracy, but where that door is locked shut by a totalitarian deadbolt, American power may be the only way to open it up."
Namely, invasion. That is Wolfowitz talking. And on another occasion: Iraq as "the first Arab democracy ..... would cast a very large shadow, starting with Syria and Iran but across the whole Arab world." Three weeks before the invasion, President Bush stated: "A new regime in Iraq would serve as a dramatic and inspiring example for freedom for other nations in the region."
I referred to those three gentlemen because I know them well. They are brilliant. I have been for years associated one way or the other with each of them. I read Charles Krauthammer. I wish I could write like he can. With respect to Richard Perle, he was sort of our authority in the cold war, best friend of Scoop Jackson. That is how I met him 38 years ago almost. I followed him and I followed his advice, and that is in large measure how we prevailed in the cold war. So I have the highest respect for Richard Perle.
And, of course, the other gentleman, Paul Wolfowitz, Paul Wolfowitz, I met him in Indonesia when he was Ambassador. He came back. We were good friends. He was looking around for a position, and I know I offered him one—in fact, we might go to the records and find temporarily he might have been on my payroll for a few weeks. But I have always had the highest regard for Paul Wolfowitz.
That is why I referred to him. I had their sayings and everything else. But let me go, diverting for a minute, right to the Project For The New American Century. I have a letter that was written on May 29, 1998, to Newt Gingrich, the Speaker, Trent Lott, the Senate majority leader. These are the gentlemen who said this: We would use U.S. and allied military power to provide protection for liberating areas in northern and southern Iraq, and we should establish and maintain a strong U.S. military presence in the region and be prepared to use that force to protect our vital interests in the Gulf and, if necessary, to help remove Saddam from power.
And that is signed by—and I want everybody to remember these names—Elliot Abrams, William J. Bennett, Jeffrey Bergner, John R. Bolton, Paula Dobriansky, Francis Fukuyama, Robert Kagan, Zalmay Khalilzad, William Kristol, Richard Perle, Peter Rodman, Donald Rumsfeld, William Schneider, Jr., Vin Weber, Paul Wolfowitz, James Woolsey, Robert B. Zoellick. There is a studied school of thought of the best way to secure Israel. We have been going for years back and forth with every particular administration, you can see where we are now.
But in any event, the better way to do it is go right in and establish our predominance in Iraq and then, as they say, and I have different articles here I could refer to, next is Iran and then Syria. And it is the domino theory, and they genuinely believe it. I differ. I think, frankly, we have caused more terrorism than we have gotten rid of. That is my Israel policy. You can't have an Israel policy other than what AIPAC gives you around here. I have followed them mostly in the main, but I have also resisted signing certain letters from time to time, to give the poor President a chance.
I can tell you no President takes office—I don't care whether it is a Republican or a Democrat—that all of a sudden AIPAC will tell him exactly what the policy is, and Senators and members of Congress ought to sign letters. I read those carefully and I have joined in most of them. On some I have held back. I have my own idea and my own policy. I have stated it categorically.
The way to really get peace is not militarily. You cannot kill an idea militarily. I was delighted the other day when General Myers appeared before our Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense and he said that we will not win militarily in Iraq. He didn't say we are going to get defeated militarily but that you can't win militarily in Iraq.
The papers are the ones that pointed out Wolfowitz, Pearle, and Charles Krauthammer were of the Jewish faith. They are the ones who brought all this Semitism in there. I can tell you that right now, I didn't have that in mind. I had my friends in mind and I followed them. We had this in the late 1990s under President Clinton, when we passed a resolution that we ought to have Saddam removed from power, have a regime change. I was wondering how it went. I had to find my old file on this — Project For The New American Century.
Now, going back to my article, I wrote: "every President since 1947 has made a futile attempt to help Israel negotiate peace. But no leadership has surfaced amongst the Palestinians that can make a binding agreement. President Bush realized his chances at negotiation were no better. He came to office imbued with one thought reelection."
I say that advisedly. I have been up here with eight Presidents. We have had support of all eight Presidents. Yes, I supported the President on this Iraq resolution, but I was misled. There weren't any weapons, or any terrorism, or al-Qaida. This is the reason we went to war. He had one thought in mind, and that was reelection. I say that about President Bush. He is a delightful fella, a wonderful campaigner, but he loves campaigning. You cannot get him in the White House or catch him there, hardly. He doesn't work on these problems at all.
I have worked with all of the Presidents. I know the leadership goes to the White House and tries to work with him. He is interested in one thing, and that is to be out campaigning. So he had one thought in mind, and that was reelection.
Again, let me read: "Bush thought tax cuts would hold his crowd together and that spreading democracy in the Mideast to secure Israel would take the Jewish vote from the Democrats."
Is there anything wrong with referring to the Jewish vote? Good gosh, every one of us of the 100, with pollsters and all, refer to the Jewish vote. That is not anti-Semitic. It is appreciating them. We campaigned for it.
I just read about President Bush's appearance before the AIPAC. He confirmed his support of the Jewish vote, referring to adopting Ariel Sharon's policy, and the dickens with the 1967 borders, the heck with negotiating the return of refugees, the heck with the settlements he had objected to originally. They had those borders, Resolution No. 242—no, no, President Bush said: I am going along with Sharon, and he was going to get that and he got the wonderful reception he got with the Jewish vote. There is nothing like politicizing or a conspiracy, as my friend from Virginia, Senator Allen, says—that it is an anti-Semitic, political, conspiracy statement.
That is not a conspiracy. That is the policy. I didn't like to keep it a secret, maybe; but I can tell you now, I will challenge any one of the other 99 Senators to tell us why we are in Iraq, other than what this policy is here. It is an adopted policy, a domino theory of The Project For The New American Century.
Everybody knows it because we want to secure our friend, Israel. If we can get in there and take it in 7 days, as Paul Wolfowitz says, then we would get rid of Saddam, and when we got rid of Saddam, now all they can do is fall back and say: Aren't you getting rid of Saddam?
Let me get to that point. What happens is, they say he is a monster. We continued to give him aid after he gassed his own people and everything else of that kind. George Herbert Walker Bush said in his book All The Best in 1999, never commit American GIs into an unwinnable urban guerrilla war and lose the support of the Arab world, lose their friendship and support. That is a general rephrasing of it.
The point is, my authority is the President's daddy. I want everybody to know that. I don't apologize for this column. I want them to apologize to me for talking about anti-Semitism. They are not getting by with it. I will come down here every day—I have nothing else to do—and we will talk about it and find out what the policy is.
Let me go back to this particular column: But George Bush, as stated by former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and others, started laying the groundwork to invade Iraq days before the Inauguration.
There is no question, he got a briefing. That was the first thing he wanted out of former Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen. Then the nominee, about to take the oath of office as President of the United States, wanted to be briefed on Iraq. They had this policy in mind coming to town. Mr. President, 9/11 had nothing to do with it, and we all know it now. We have to understand it because that is the only way really to help Israel and get us out of the soup. Everybody is worrying about Iraq. We better worry about Israel because we certainly have put her in terrible jeopardy with this particular initiative.
Without any Iraq connection to 9/11, within weeks President Bush had the Pentagon outlining a plan to invade Iraq. He was determined. President Bush thought taking Iraq would be easy. Wolfowitz said it would take only 7 days. Vice President Cheney believed that we would be greeted as liberators, but Cheney's man, Chalabi, made a mess of de-Baathification of Iraq by dismissing Republican Guard leadership and Sunni leaders who soon joined with the insurgents.
Worst of all, we tried to secure Iraq with too few troops. In 1966 in South Vietnam, with a population of 16 million, General William C. Westmoreland, with 535,000 U.S. troops, was still asking for more troops. In Iraq, with a population of 25 million, General John Abizaid, with only 135,000 troops, can barely secure the troops, much less the country. If the troops are there to fight, there are too few. If they are there to die, there are too many. To secure Iraq we need more troops, at least 100,000 more. The only way to get the United Nations back in Iraq is to make the country secure. Once back, the French, Germans, and others will join with the U.N. to take over.
With President Bush's domino policy in the Mideast gone awry, he can't keep shouting "Terrorism war." Terrorism is a method, not a war. We don't call the Crimean war, with the charge of the light brigade, the cavalry war, or World War II the blitzkrieg war. There is terrorism in Northern Ireland, there is terrorism in India, and in Pakistan. In the Mideast, terrorism is a separate problem, to be defeated by diplomacy and negotiation, not militarily.
Here, might does not make right. Right makes might. Acting militarily we have created more terrorism than we have eliminated.
The title of this article is "Bush's failed Mideast policy is creating more terrorism," and, I could add, jeopardizing the security of Israel.
They say: He talks like a big fan of Israel. I am. I have a 38-year track record. I will never forget some 34 years ago meeting with David Ben-Gurion. He talked about little Israel, less than 3 million at that time in a sea of 100 million.
Let's say Israel has 5 million people there now, but there are 150 million Muslims surrounding it. If you punch the particular buzzer I did with Yitzhak Rabin one day down on the Negev to scramble the air force, I think it was 21 seconds they were up in the air, and in a minute's time, they were outside over Jordan.
Militarily, Israel is a veritable aircraft carrier. You can hardly fly and you are out of the country, and everybody has to understand that. You cannot play the numbers game Sharon plays. He thinks he can do it militarily.
I want to remind you, it was in that 6-day war—the book is "Six Days of War" by Michael Oren. Look on page 151, and Major Ariel Sharon says: Look, we are going to decimate the Egyptian army and you will not hear from Egypt again for several generations. And Levi Eshkol, the Prime Minister, on page 152 says: "Militarily victory decides nothing. The Arabs will still be here."
That is my theme. I have watched it over the years. You have to learn not to kill together, but to live together. The finest piece I ever read was right in this morning's paper. There is still hope. I refer to an article: "Israeli Arabs Exalting in a Rare Triumph." There are a million Israeli Arabs. They won a soccer match in Tel Aviv. The majority of the team was of Israeli heritage, and they held an Israeli flag, if you can imagine that in the political United States of America. They are living together. Every Prime Minister since David Ben-Gurion has realized that fact: that they have to learn to live together. They all moved, and they almost had it under Ehud Barak and President Clinton. Arafat proved he did not want peace. He did not accept it. That was our one chance.
Unfortunately, rather than working on that one chance and continuing, Ariel Sharon went in their face at Temple Mount, the intifada started, and he has been killing 10 to 1. He plays the numbers game, almost like we had in Vietnam. He thinks he can eliminate by moving the ball some, getting some more settlements, bulldozing a house, but he is creating terrorism.
I had a headline the other day. When I saw it, I showed it to my staff. I said: You all come in here, I want to ask you something. "Israel plans to destroy more Gaza dwellings." You see that headline? I asked staff members: Suppose they bulldoze your daddy's home. Wouldn't you want to cut their throat? They said: In a New York minute.
How do you create terrorists? Where is the front line in the so-called war on terrorism? I learned the answer recently on a trip I was on with the distinguished chairman of the Appropriations Committee and the chairman of the Armed Services Committee. We talked for over an hour with the King of Jordan. He finally cautioned at the very end, when we stood up, he said: You have to settle this Israel-Palestine question. That is the only way to get on top of this. We went over to Kuwait to the Prime Minister when he got through, he said: You have to settle the Israel-Palestine situation. I will quote Mr. Musharraf, the President of Pakistan. When we got there, he cautioned if you can settle the Israel-Palestine question, terrorism will disappear around the world.
Then we came in on a Friday evening to make a little courtesy call with the French. The distinguished Senator from Virginia with Lafayette—and I have slept in Lafayette's bed over there in Richmond, VA, and I helped with that particular thing because I believe and remember the French help. I will never forget—everybody is going to the 60th anniversary of D-Day, but I was at the 50th anniversary and we went over to Ste-Mere-Eglise, where a major, who was a Citadel graduate, had broken through the line and saved us from having to leave the beachhead and go back to England. They made a movie of it. A shell burst killed him. They laid him down on their side. He is buried on the side of the chapel.
We went to the services. We had talks there. This little old lady came. She was about 80 years old, walking with a cane. I was listening to the mayor, and she pulled my jacket and she said: Thank you, Yank. If you had not come we would be goose-stepping. I turned to her and I said, thank you, madam, because if you had not come, we would still be a colony.
The majority of the troops on the field at Yorktown with the surrender of Cornwallis were French troops. We had French troops that helped us get this so-called freedom. All this anti-French stuff, do not give me french fries and everything else, is crazy.
I was proud to appear with the Senator from Virginia. But Chirac, he said, look, we have to have western solidarity. We have to work together now and we have to watch this competition from China in the Far East, and we in the western world have to stick together. He said he wanted to help in Iraq, but he needed a U.N. resolution to cover. He said what we have to do is do something about Israel and Palestine. I said, what would you do? He said, I would put in a peacekeeping force. I said, would French troops come? He said, French troops would come immediately. We would be part of it and we would separate them from killing each other every day.
My position is, and I believe in this particular policy as strongly as I know how, might does not make right, but right makes might. We have lost our evenhanded posture and reputation in the Mideast. We are in worse off shape with Israel, our principal interest in the gulf. Sharon has not helped us at all. We see him going back and forth. They say, oh, no, it is negotiation. But we are throwing over the United States-Israel policy of some 35 years insofar as negotiating the settlements and the refugees. We are saying forget about all of that, let Sharon keep bulldozing them. Now in the morning paper on the front page one sees the killing of children, they are saying, we are defending Israel. That is the U.S. policy. That is not just Israel's policy.
They are coming in there with U.S. equipment, U.S. gun helicopters, U.S. tanks that are bulldozing. That is our policy. That is the reason for 9/11, whend Osama said, I do not like American troops in Saudi Arabia, get the infidel out. That is why they went right into that thing. Where do you think we get all this talk about hate America? I do not buy that stuff. I have traveled the world. They love Americans.
Recently we met with the Ambassadors of Germany and France, and Britain in our policy committee and they said the young people are disillusioned. They always look to the United States for the moral position and taking and defending that particular position. They do not look there anymore.
We are losing the terrorism war because we thought we could do it militarily under the domino policy of President Bush, going into Iraq. That is my point. That is not anti-Semite or whatever they say in here about people's faith and ethnicity. I never referred to any faith. I should have added those other names from the Project For The New American Century, but I picked out the names I had quotes for. And for space, I left other things out.
Mr. President, on May 12 of this year, I had printed in the RECORD the article in its entirety.
This particular op-ed piece appeared in the Post and Courier. Never would they have thought, having read it, if it was anti-Semitic, that they would have ever put it in there. Nor would the Knight Ridder newspapers in Columbia, SC. Nor would the Metro Media newspapers in Greenville, SC. But the Anti-Defamation League picked it up and now they have given it to my good friend, Senator Allen of Virginia. I have his particular admonition how I am anti-Semitic and I cannot let that stay there.
My staff knew I was coming over and waiting my turn in order to talk under the Pastore rule. I know I am as vitally interested as anybody can be about this issue. Our distinguished colleague from Washington, Senator Cantwell, knows this subject backward and forward.
The reason I had not known or gotten all fired up is I have been doing some other work and South Carolina has already looked to me for everything at that Savannah River plant. I am on the Energy Appropriations Subcommittee and we have gotten all the money—do not worry about money. This is a policy of nuclear waste disposal, high-level waste, being reclassified under an end-around-end deal of trying to make it low-level waste and, as Senator Cantwell says, pouring in some sand and concrete on top of it. The scientists say, watch out, the remains in these tanks are 50 percent as deadly and dangerous as the entire tank container.
Back to Saddam, everybody is glad we have gotten rid of Saddam, but we can see what has happened. There is an old saying we learned in World War II that no matter how well the gun is aimed, if the recoil is going to kill the gun crew, you do not fire.
Did this White House and administration ever think of the recoil? It severely injured the gun crew. Yes, ordinarily to get rid of Saddam, like they put a missile on the intelligence head, they could have put a missile on him any time they wanted, but they did not want to do that. They wanted the domino policy to ensue.
No, no, getting rid of Saddam was not worth almost 800 dead GIs and over 3,500 maimed for life. Some say every time we want to criticize the policy, we are weakening the GIs. I am strengthening the GIs. I said let's get enough in there so they can secure themselves. We have 135,000 now. A third of those are guarding the other third, and that means leaving a third, 35,000 or 40,000 troops, running out like a fire drill to any particular trouble and coming back in and eating. I have been there. You can see it in Rafah. They are building a big old thing like in Kosovo, where we hunker down and act like we are in charge of Kosovo. The Albanians are in charge of Kosovo.
You can't force-feed democracy. It has to come from within. We helped liberate Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, 60-some years ago, and Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia have not opted for democracy, nor has Libya, nor has Egypt, nor has Lebanon, nor has Syria, nor has Iraq, nor has Iran, nor has Afghanistan, nor has Pakistan, nor has Jordan, nor has Yemen, nor has Aden, nor has Saudi Arabia, nor has the United Arab Emirates.
Come on. So we have to go out and not speak sense with respect to policy, and when you want to talk about policy, they say it is anti-Semitic. Well, come on the floor, let's debate it. Because my friend from Virginia admonishes me. Referring to me he says, "I suggest he should learn from history before making accusations." I didn't make any accusations. I stated facts. That is their policy. That is not my policy.
Mind you me, when we went into Iraq, the only people in the world who favored that policy were the people of the United States and the people of Israel. The people of Jordan, Iraq, Britain, Spain, Poland, Italy, Japan, everywhere around the world said you just don't invade a sovereign country no matter how bad the rascal is. We have Kim Jong of North Korea—he has weapons of mass destruction, but we don't do anything there.
Don't give me this about how we saved this and we did this or did that. We have to sort of learn that the front line now is not the Pentagon but the State Department. We have to work through diplomacy. We live in a global economy and a global world. That is only going to come about economically, politically, diplomatically, and by negotiations.
The United States, until this invasion and this domino policy for Israel—don't tell me it is otherwise, about spreading democracy. They know what they are talking about. They are insisting on it. It is not a Jewish policy or a Semite policy. It is their domino policy. That is exactly what it is. But they know how to make you tuck tail and run. Not the Senator from South Carolina. We don't run, we don't win, we are not right, we are wrong a lot of times, but I have thought this out as thoroughly as I know how, and it worries me that here we are.
I said after we got into that thing in Vietnam with the Gulf of Tonkin—I came there at that particular time, in 1966, went to Vietnam when we were under fire three times—actually over into Cambodia before and that kind of thing. We finally came up with McNamara writing a book saying he was wrong.
I'll never forget, McNamara comes out to Allie Richenberg near Saint Albans to get his tennis lesson at 7 o'clock, and Bob Mcnamara turned to Allie and said, "Allie, what do you think about my book?" He said, "It's as bad as your backhand. You should not have written it."
But we had to wait 20 years for that one, and we killed 58,000 Americans. Now we have killed almost 800, maimed for life thousands of others. Are we going to just continue on?
What would the Senator from South Carolina do if I were king for a day? Yes, I would put the troops in to get security, and I would step up the election. I can tell you right now, I have run for all kind of offices, 20-some statewide offices and campaigns. But don't put me in on that temporary coalition. That fellow, El Baradei, who is running around the United Nations to get a temporary coalition or government to turn power over to on June 30—don't put me in that. I immediately have to repudiate the United States, that I am not a stooge for the United States. We just have our fingers crossed that we can hold law and order so we can have an election. But don't wait until 2005, or December; by September 30, let's get that election going.
Let's realize we are in real trouble. Saudi Arabia is in trouble. Israel is in trouble. The United States is in trouble. I am going to state what I believe to be the fact. In fact, I believe it very strongly. They just are whistling by on account of the pressures that we get politically. Nobody is willing to stand up and say what is going on.
It was a mistake like Vietnam. We got misled with the Gulf of Tonkin, we got misled here, and we are in that quagmire. "Municipal guerrilla war and a quagmire," that says George Herbert Walker Bush. I will end on my authority—President George Herbert Walker Bush said: Never commit U.S. troops into an unwinnable urban guerrilla war and turn off the Arab world. Look in that book of his and you will see exactly what I am talking about. He is not anti-Semitic. He is sensible. He didn't go in.
Yes, Colin Powell, General Powell said if you are going in, let's have enough troops. They tried to do it on the cheap. They were ill advised. My friend Paul Wolfowitz said you will do it in 7 days. Come on. And they let the Republican Guard back into the city of Baghdad and into the Sunni triangle, and the next thing you know, when Chalabi, who has now been demoted or set aside—he did away with their leadership and everything, so they got turned off and they buddied up with the insurgents, and now we have hell on our hands. Everybody knows that.
So it has been ill prepared, ill advised, and ill administered. The entire thing is a mess. Don't give me "support the troops, support the troops." I have been with troops, about 3 years in combat, so don't tell me about troops. I have always supported the troops.
You ask how many Senators have gotten a Woodward Award from the U.S. Army. They don't give that out lightly. I have been with every Secretary of Defense until this one, and I think he is brilliant, but I think he has made a mistake going along with this domino policy. We have it now out on the table, and we will all talk about it, and we will be around and ready to debate it.
I appreciate the colleagues yielding to me. I wish I had all the time to put all these articles in. I want to thank—and I am going to sit here and support my friend from Washington. She has done a magnificent job stating what the issue is.
It is simply under the auspices of an accelerated disposal plan going around end to reclassify—and it is around end. I had not heard anything about it. I have been handling everything at Savannah River for 30 some years. I called up the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control—DHEC—and they were adamantly opposed and gave me the brief they signed a few weeks ago adamantly opposing it, with the assistant attorney general's name on it. They say this is DHEC policy. I talked to two members of DHEC and they said it was never brought up at their meetings. They do not know anything about it.
So, yes, it is a little rider for one special State that is injurious not only to the State itself—I say that advisedly—but also to the United States.
EX-MIDEAST ENVOY ZINNI CHARGES NEOCONS PUSHED IRAQ WAR TO
BENEFIT ISRAEL
By Ori Nir And Ami Eden
** Lowey: Bush's Policies Increasing Danger to Jews Around the World **
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The simmering debate over the role of Jewish neoconservatives in drawing America into war in Iraq erupted with new fury this week. One of America's most respected ex-generals took to the airwaves to charge on CBS News' "60 Minutes" that the war had been fought for Israel's benefit, just days after a similar charge was leveled on the floor of
the U.S. Senate.
The retired general, Anthony Zinni, a past chief of the U.S. Central Command and President Bush's former Middle East special envoy, told "60 Minutes" on Sunday that the neoconservatives' role in pushing the war for Israel's benefit was "the worst-kept secret in Washington." Three days earlier, Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, a South Carolina Democrat, rose on the Senate floor to defend a newspaper essay he had written earlier in the month making the same charge. Both men complained that they had been unfairly labeled antisemitic for speaking out.
Their comments come just weeks after the United Nations' special envoy to Iraq, Lakhdar Brahimi, called Israel a "poison in the region" and said that American support for Israeli policies was making his job more difficult. In the face of these mounting criticisms, a leading Jewish Democrat on Capitol Hill, Rep. Nita Lowey of New York, told the *Forward* that the president's policies were increasing the danger to Jews across the world. "We are very worried about the rise of antisemitism internationally," said Lowey in an interview Monday with the *Forward*. She argued that disdain for the president and his policies has "stirred up" antisemitic feelings worldwide. "It's a real concern for me as a Jewish member
of Congress."
Lowey's comments drew sharp criticisms from officials at the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Congress. "That's absurd," said the ADL's national director, Abraham
Foxman, when informed of Lowey's comments. "It's worse than blaming the victim. It's blaming someone who stands up for the victim." David Twersky, the director of international
programs at the American Jewish Congress, also objected, telling the *Forward*: "Without being partisan about it, I am appalled that anyone should attribute the rise of antisemitism in the Islamic world, and separately in Western Europe, to George Bush's policies in the Middle East."
One Democratic activist, who asked not to be identified, defended Lowey's comments: "There is certainly a strong stream within the party, and particularly among progressives
— and many Jews are progressives — that George Bush's inability to play well with others and his inability to think diplomatically and multinationally ... has increased world hatred of the United States. There are many in the Arab world who believe that America is run by and owned by Jews. So it is not that hard to get from A to B. I tend to think that any independent analyst would tend to say the same thing. So why try to give [Bush] the benefit of the doubt? If he could connect these dots it would modify his behavior and make him think more diplomatically."
The Bush administration also was portrayed as reckless by Gen. Anthony Zinni during his interview with "60 Minutes," in which he said it "was the worst-kept secret in Washington" that neoconservatives had sold Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on a plan to
democratize the Middle East. Those remarks drew criticisms from officials at both the National Jewish Democratic Council and the Republican Jewish Coalition.
Just three days before Zinni's interview was broadcast, Hollings took to the Senate floor to defend his little-noticed claim earlier this month that Bush sent the country to war in order to win Jewish votes and protect Israel, after consulting with Deputy Secretary of Defense
Paul Wolfowitz, Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith and Richard Perle, the former chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. In his May 20 floor speech, Hollings also
blasted the policies of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the lobbying powerhouse in Washington known as Aipac.
"You can't have an Israel policy other than what Aipac gives you around here," Hollings said. "I have followed them mostly in the main, but I have also resisted signing certain letters from time to time, to give the poor president a chance."
Hollings said he was motivated by a concern for Israel, which he insisted has been threatened by the turmoil in Iraq. But the South Carolina senator drew sharp criticism
from Jewish communal leaders, Jewish political activists from both parties, and Democratic and Republican lawmakers, including Senator John Kerry (Please see story on Page 4).
Foxman sent Hollings a letter May 14 arguing that the senator's remarks were "reminiscent of age-old, antisemitic canards about a Jewish conspiracy to control and manipulate the government."
During his floor speech, Hollings spoke angrily about critics who raised such claims. "I won't apologize," Hollings declared during a May 20 speech from the Senate floor. "I want them to apologize to me."
Zinni sounded a similar note in his "60 Minutes" interview, complaining that he was "called antisemitic" for writing an article in which he mentioned Bush's neoconservative
advisers."I mean, you know, unbelievable that that's the kind of personal attacks that are run when you criticize a strategy and those who propose it," Zinni said. "I certainly didn't
criticize who they were. I certainly don't know what their ethnic religious backgrounds are. And I'm not interested."


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FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 Flight No FZ 981 Crash in Rostov-on-Don kills all 62 on Board, Flight FZ981 which was Flying from Dubai International (DXB) to Rostov on Don (ROV).
Flydubai Flight FZ981 has Crashed in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don killing all 62 passengers and crew on board. The Flight was en route from Dubai and Crashed during its second landing approach amid poor weather conditions.
Air-traffic control and local emergency services confirmed that the Boeing 737-800 jet Crashed near the runway during a second approach in conditions of poor visibility.
"According to preliminary data, the Boeing 738 Crashed in poor visibility conditions, some 50-100 meters left of the runway," the source said.
All crew and passengers on board the Plane were killed in the Crash, according to the regional Emergencies Ministry. "During the landing approach a Boeing-737 Crashed. It had 55 passengers on board. All of them died," a regional spokesman told TASS.
"The Plane, according to preliminary data, Crashed during the second approach," the source told Interfax.
Spokesman for the southern bureau of Russia's Investigative Committee, Oksana Kovrizhnaya, has put forward two versions of the Crash: "Pilot error in deteriorating weather conditions or a technical failure," she said.
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The company confirmed that there were 62 people on board.
"Preliminary numbers indicate 55 passengers and seven crew on the Next-Generation Boeing 737-800 Aircraft."
Emergency crews are working at the scene of the Crash and have already put out the fire, according to a TASS source.
A Flight data recorder has been recovered, RIA Novosti reports.
The Airport is to remain closed until at least March 20, 7:00am Moscow time. The inbound Flights are getting rerouted to Krasnodar.
The Emergencies Ministry has opened up a hotline while a team of psychologists has been sent to help the grieving relatives.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed has expressed condolences to the relatives and loved ones of the Crashed Boeing.
"The Russian president feels deeply for all those who lost their loved ones in the Boeing 737 Crash in Rostov-on-Don," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced on Saturday, stressing that the president has made it a priority to provide all possible assistance to the relatives of the victims.
Russia's Investigative Committee has launched a probe into the incident with preliminary data indicating that the Plane disintegrated and caught fire upon touching the ground.
The head of the Emergency Ministry Vladimir Puchkov has held a special meeting, with all the ministry's efforts, and resources of the local response teams and authorities, directed to the Crash site.
There are over 700 response team specialists and about 100 special vehicles operating at the Rostov-on-Don Airport right now.
Relatives of the victims are gathering at the Airport, Vasily Golubev, governor of Rostov region, told media. He stressed that everyone will get sympathetic and personal attention.
Golubev said most of the Russian passengers were tourists.
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Stage Set for New-Vehicle Sales Contraction: Edmunds
July 5, 2018 • Automotive Fleet Staff • Bookmark +
Auto loan interest rates in June likely reached their highest level in nine years, Edmunds reported, a week after saying a strong economy is likely masking market factors bubbling just below the service that could start to slow down sales.
The annual percentage rate on new financed vehicle averaged 5.82% in June, up from 4.96% in June 2017 and 4.10 in June 2013. The firm's analysts point to the most recent rate hike by the Federal Reserve as a contributing factor, noting that June marks a 17% total increase since January 2018, when APRs averaged just below 5%.
"Auto loan interest rates have been steadily on the rise this year and we don't see them going down anytime soon, which could mean trouble for automaker sales through the end of the year," said Jeremy Acevedo, Edmunds' manager of industry analysis. "While some shoppers may take this as a cue to purchase new vehicles now while rates are still somewhat favorable, we're getting dangerously close to a tipping point. Shoppers with average or subprime credit may end up putting off purchases as financing vehicles get increasingly more expensive."
The firm noted that zero percent interest loans reached their lowest level in nine years in June, accounting for just 5.6% of total finance deals, compared to 9.47% in June 2017 and 10.55% in June 2013.
Edmunds revealed another problem in its midyear automotive trend report, which was released last week. It noted that the number of buyers who owe more than their vehicle is worth remains high, with 14.1% of buyers owing more than their car was worth. That's down from 14.2% in 2017 and 14.6% in 2015 — the latter being a 14-year high.
"June typically boasts a substantial amount of zero percent financing offers, so this is a big red flag," added Acevedo. "This might be a sign that access to cheap and easy credit — a post-recession hallmark that we've all grown so accustomed to — could be officially over. But there's hope yet — the true indicator will be whether zero percent deals materialize through the rest of the summer selling season, which automakers typically rely on to clear outgoing model-year inventory."
Edmunds put June sales at 1.52 million new cars and trucks and the month's seasonally adjusted annual rate at 17.1 million, reflecting a 4.1% decline in sales from May but a 3.4% increase from June 2017. Through May, 2018 sales were up 1.1% compared to the same period in 2017. However, the firm noted that the month-to-month fluctuations are enough to give the industry pause.
As for retail sales, Edmunds put June's retail SAAR at 13.9 million units, with fleet transactions accounting for 18.4% of total sales. Additionally, 3.2 million used vehicles were expected to be sold in June, for a SAAR of 39.2 million. That down from 3.3 million used sales in May, which had a SAAR of 39.3 million.
The firm also noted that millennial new-vehicle purchases hit a record high through May, with 21% of millennial car purchase being new.
"The strength of the economy is creating a very thick force field for automakers now, but once that starts to weaken, there are a lot of market factors bubbling just below the surface that could really start to slow down sales," said Jeremy Acevedo, manager of industry analysis at Edmunds. "Even though millennials are finally starting to buy new vehicles, the U.S. market is virtually saturated. Add to that record-high vehicle prices, rising interest rates and historically high numbers of people who owe more than their cars are worth, and the stage is set for a market contraction."
Editor's note: This article first appeared on the website of F&I and Showroom, a companion publication.
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