The main causes of death during population movements can be prevented by addressing the population's basic needs. In 2013, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a framework for decision making to help prioritize vaccinations in acute humanitarian emergencies. This article describes MSF's experience of applying this framework in addition to addressing key population needs in a displacement setting in Minkaman, South Sudan.
Military clashes broke out in South Sudan in December 2013. By May 2014, Minkaman, a village in the Lakes State, hosted some 85,000 displaced people. MSF arrived in Minkaman on 28 December 2013 and immediately provided interventions to address the key humanitarian needs (health care, access to drinking water, measles vaccination). The WHO framework was used to identify priority vaccines: those preventing outbreaks (measles, polio, oral cholera vaccine, and vaccine against meningococcal meningitis A (MenAfrivac®)) and those reducing childhood morbidity and mortality (pentavalent vaccine that combines diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis B, and Haemophilus influenzae type B; pneumococcal vaccine; and rotavirus vaccine). By mid-March, access to primary and secondary health care was ensured, including community health activities and the provision of safe water. Mass vaccination campaigns against measles, polio, cholera, and meningitis had been organized. Vaccination campaigns against the main deadly childhood diseases, however, were not in place owing to lack of authorization by the Ministry of Health (MoH).
The first field use of the new WHO framework for prioritizing vaccines in acute emergencies is described. Although MSF was unable to implement the full package of priority vaccines because authorization could not be obtained from the MoH, a series of mass vaccination campaigns against key epidemic-prone diseases was successfully implemented within a complex emergency context. Together with covering the population's basic needs, this might have contributed to reducing mortality levels below the emergency threshold and to the absence of epidemics. For the WHO framework to be used to its full potential it must not only be adapted for field use but, most importantly, national decision makers should be briefed on the framework and its practical implementation.
By late 2016, more than 40 million people worldwide had been internally displaced, mainly as a result of conflicts. This is the highest number ever reported . Overcrowding, high population density, rudimentary or inappropriate shelters, poor access to water and sanitation, and poor nutritional status due to food insecurity, combined with limited access to preventive and curative health care, increase the risk of the spread of infectious diseases. This can result in higher morbidity and mortality, especially in camp settings . Improvements in the response to complex emergencies have focused mainly on the prevention and control of malnutrition and diseases with epidemic potential, leading to a decline in morbidity and mortality in camp settings when effective assistance is provided . However, the main causes of death (typically diarrheal diseases, respiratory infections, measles, and malaria where endemic) are still common and can be easily prevented or treated .
Emergency humanitarian responses to situations involving displaced people are focused on preventing excess mortality by addressing essential needs based on the "MSF Top Ten Priorities" (Table 1) framework drawn up by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the late 1990s  or SPHERE standards .
Quantitative and qualitative information on background to the displacement, population, risk factors related to the main diseases and requirements in terms of resources through observation, interviews, sample surveys, mapping.
Usually approximate, results may need to be corroborated later.
Displacement, overcrowding and poor hygiene are factors that encourage emergence of large scale epidemics.
Mass vaccination of children from 6 months to 15 years should be a priority during the first week.
Indicators in regard to water supply and latrines must be monitored.
Feeding programs for specific groups are supplementary feeding for moderately malnourished and therapeutic or intensive feeding for the severely malnourished.
Higher risk of communicable diseases: measles, cholera, shigellosis, meningitis etc.
Daily collection of selected health data – only cover diseases or other health problems that can be controlled by preventive or curative interventions.
In 2013, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a framework for decision making to help prioritize vaccinations in acute humanitarian emergencies . In addition to vaccination against measles (a major cause of death in humanitarian disasters  and part of a standard emergency response [5, 9]), the tool proposes a systematic framework to assess: 1) the risk of vaccine-preventable, outbreak-prone diseases such as polio, cholera, meningococcal meningitis, and hepatitis E; and 2) the main deadly childhood diseases, by including new and underutilized vaccines, notably pentavalent (diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis B, Haemophilus influenzae type B), pneumococcal, and rotavirus vaccines. The decision-making process consists of three steps: 1) epidemiological risk assessment to determine and grade the risk of each vaccine-preventable disease (VPD); 2) assessment of the main characteristics of the vaccines (suitability, availability, affordability, etc.) and their amenability to mass vaccination campaigns; and 3) assessment of contextual considerations.
During the recent large-scale displacement in Minkaman, South Sudan, MSF used the WHO decision-making framework to define priority vaccinations in addition to addressing essential needs of the population. To our knowledge, this is the first utilization of the WHO framework. Here we describe our experience of applying it during an acute emergency and suggest some recommendations for future use.
After decades of civil war, South Sudan is still undergoing a political-military crisis with severe humanitarian consequences. South Sudan has some of the poorest health indicators in the world and is prone to outbreaks of communicable diseases. In addition, the health system has limited capacity to respond to emergencies without external aid; 80% of health care is provided by non-governmental organizations . In 2013, almost half of the population lived below the poverty line, and only 57% of people had access to an improved water source .
In December 2013, armed conflict led to a massive population displacement in South Sudan. Many people fled fighting around the city of Bor in Jonglei State towards Minkaman – a village in South Sudan (Lakes State) located approximately 20 km south of Bor, on the river Nile. Minkaman itself was not directly affected by the violence (Fig. 1, map). Before the crisis, it had an estimated population of 7000 inhabitants. The influx of newly displaced people reached 85,000 in 5 months . The displaced population was widely spread in a swamp-like area along the Nile and had limited access to clean water and sanitation, and the existing infrastructure was unable to meet the needs of the increasing population.
The MSF team arrived in Minkaman on 28 December 2013. After meeting with the local authorities and other humanitarian actors present, the team immediately launched an emergency intervention focused on healthcare provision and access to safe drinking water. MSF did not prioritize food, distribution of non-food items, or delivery of shelter, as these were planned by other partners.
A chronogram of MSF's intervention is shown in Fig. 2. Primary health care was organized as soon as the team arrived, with two outpatient clinics being opened. Curative care was soon expanded, with hospitalization capacity and a nutritional program added. To address the high burden of watery diarrhea, several oral rehydration points were set up in the community and lasted until the end of March 2014, when the number of cases of watery diarrhea declined.
The water treatment station, water trucking, and bucket chlorination were functional within 3 days of MSF's arrival. By 3 January 2014, five liters of treated water/per person/per day was being provided to the displaced population, an acceptable quantity in the initial phase of an emergency . After a pipeline designed for adaptation to population movements was set up, the amount of water distributed doubled. The pipeline also reduced dependence on trucks (a costly solution unable to reach all sites in the rainy season). A community-based surveillance system for mortality was established. The internally displaced population camp was divided into eight sections (Fig. 1, map) covered by 60 community health workers (CHW) who collected weekly information about numbers of deaths from the heads of households and community leaders (without verbal autopsy). CHW also conducted active case finding for malnutrition (based on mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) screening) and directed and referred sick patients to the health facilities.
By July 2014, more than 30 non-governmental organizations and several UN agencies were present in the area. Consequently, MSF decided to hand over its activities and close the Minkaman project on 15 October 2014.
We used the above mentioned WHO framework to define priority vaccinations to address the risk of vaccine-preventable outbreaks and VPD causing the highest morbidity and mortality. We used the three-step approach shown in Fig. 3. We assessed the general risks first and then the risk for each specific VPD. The major general risk factors were overcrowding and extremely precarious access to water and sanitation, in addition to high birth rates in a young population, moderately elevated malnutrition rates (a severe acute malnutrition rate of 0.5% and a moderate acute malnutrition rate of 2.7%, according to screening using MUAC tape (unpublished MSF program data)), and limited access to health care. In terms of specific diseases, we identified four high-risk, epidemic-prone VPD: measles, polio, cholera, and meningococcal meningitis. Measles was already addressed through a vaccination campaign organized within weeks of displacement, in line with existing defined priorities, and combined with polio vaccine (owing to recent outbreak of wild polio in Unity State of South Sudan). Cholera outbreaks were reported in several locations in South Sudan usually associated with the rainy season. Similarly, South Sudan has experienced large-scale epidemics of meningococcal meningitis during the dry winter months, and at the time of this intervention MenAfrivac® had not yet been introduced. In terms of the main childhood deadly diseases, all eight main VPD (measles, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, pneumonia due to Haemophilus influenzae type b (HiB), streptococcal pneumonia, and rotavirus) were considered to be of high risk, owing to low population immunity (HiB, pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV), and rotavirus vaccines had not yet been introduced in the country), overcrowding, a young population, and seasonality.
All vaccines assessed proved to be suitable for vaccination campaigns. Polio and MenAfriVac® were suitable for a one-round vaccination campaign. Measles, cholera, PCV, and rotavirus vaccine required two rounds, while pentavalent and hepatitis E vaccine required three rounds. In order to optimize the campaigns, we combined polio with measles vaccine in the first round, and MenAfriVaq® vaccine was administered together with the second dose of oral cholera vaccine (OCV).
Lastly, we looked at contextual factors that appeared favorable for vaccine use, including the feasibility of accessing the vaccines and implementing sequential campaigns in the closed setting of Minkaman. A proposal was made to the Ministry of Health (MoH) to provide oral cholera, MenAfriVac®, pentavalent, PCV, and rotavirus vaccines to the population in a series of vaccination campaigns combining different vaccines (Table 2).
No major barriers for immunization activities.
Further negotiation required to use antigens not yet included in the EPI.
In addition to mass vaccination campaigns targeting diseases with epidemic potential (measles, polio, meningitis and cholera), we propose a series of campaigns with new and underutilized vaccines (pentavalent, pneumococcal and rotavirus) targeting the most common childhood vaccine preventable diseases AND follow up with routine vaccination activities. We believe such vaccination campaign achieving high coverage in a displaced population can have a very important impact on childhood morbidity and mortality. The 3 rounds of campaigns necessary are feasible in this setting with logistic and human resources available.
From 1 January to 15 October 2014 (the period of MSF's intervention), 52,047 people attended the outpatient clinics and 2032 patients were admitted to the inpatient department. Seven hundred thirty-seven children were included in the nutritional program (with 161 receiving intensive care), and 20,778 antenatal consultations took place. In addition, 48 million liters of safe water were distributed to the displaced population (unpublished MSF program data).
MSF conducted preventive vaccination campaigns against measles, polio, cholera, and meningitis A from January to March 2014. Measles vaccine was administered concomitantly with polio vaccine to 13,256 children aged under 5; 54,415 people were vaccinated against cholera, and 32,681 people aged 1–30 years were vaccinated against meningitis A. To monitor and evaluate the intervention, we conducted a cross-sectional population-based survey between 3 and 9 May 2014 to estimate vaccination coverage and examine mortality rates. Two stage cluster sampling was used.
Measles vaccination coverage was estimated at 73.9% (95%CI: 68.8–78.3%). OCV coverage was 65.5% (95%CI: 61.2–69.6%) for two doses and 84.1% (95%CI: 81.5–86.3%) for at least one dose (before the catch-up round). MenAfrivac® vaccination coverage was estimated at 77.3% (95%CI: 73.5–80.8%).
The overall retrospective crude mortality rate (CMR) during the study period (end December 2013 to end April 2014) was estimated at 0.59 deaths/10,000 people/day (95%CI: 0.43–0.82) and the under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) at 0.50 (95% CI: 0.43–0.82) (unpublished data from Epicentre). Thus, both CMR and U5MR were below the emergency threshold for sub-Saharan Africa (0.80/10,000/day and 2.1/10,000/day, respectively) .
The MSF intervention in Minkaman followed MSF's "Ten Top Priorities", which have been guiding its emergency interventions since the late 1990s. In addition, we used the new WHO framework for prioritizing vaccines in acute emergencies as a complementary tool, with the aim of rapidly reducing the risk of vaccine-preventable outbreaks and reducing the morbidity and mortality due to the main vaccine-preventable diseases during a period of extreme vulnerability.
The use of oral cholera vaccine has already been discussed in South Sudan, and several pre-emptive campaigns were planned in the same period . Similarly, the preventive use of MenAfriVac® was quickly approved, and the vaccine could be delivered at the same time as the second dose of OCV.
We successfully organized a series of vaccination campaigns targeting outbreak-prone diseases (measles, polio, cholera, and meningococcal meningitis) in a complex emergency. This was the first time that the MenAfriVac® vaccine had been used in a pre-emptive mass campaign in a complex emergency, and the first time that it was delivered concomitantly with OCV. Although acceptable, the OCV coverage was lower than in some of the other campaigns taking place at the same time , probably at least partially owing to high mobility of the population; high population mobility can also partially explain the low coverage for other antigens. We demonstrated that, despite logistic constraints, conducting several mass vaccination campaigns in displacement situations is feasible, even within a highly mobile population as is the case in South Sudan. However, we were unable to obtain authorization from the MoH for use of vaccines against the main deadly childhood diseases (pentavalent, pneumococcal, and rotavirus vaccines). None of these vaccines had been introduced in a routine immunization program at the time in South Sudan, although preparations were ongoing for the introduction of pentavalent vaccine into the Expanded Program on Immunization. This might have contributed to the reluctance of health authorities, which prioritized routine activities over emergency mass campaigns. However, pentavalent and pneumococcal vaccines have both been previously used in complex emergency situations n South Sudan, although in a setting of Sudanese refugees in Yida . It is also likely that MSF became less inclined to pursue negotiations once authorization had been obtained for organizing the prevention of outbreak diseases and the situation in Minkaman stabilized.
The use of the framework is complex and was not easy to interpret during our Minkaman intervention. The first part (epidemiological risk assessment) provides some quantitative guidance for decision making (Fig. 3), but step 2 and particularly step 3 are qualitative, which makes summarizing findings into decisions difficult. To be widely used as guidance in emergency situations by response teams, the tool needs to be reviewed and simplified. However, work is underway to improve the framework and provide implementation guidance , which will probably address this point. Currently, national authorities and partners in the field are not necessarily aware that the framework exists, which compromises its wider uptake, particularly during acute emergencies with limited time for introducing new strategies. WHO and other health actors must proactively introduce the framework to national health authorities at local, regional, and national level and conduct real-time practical exercises with the MoH and health partners if it is to be used to its full potential.
Closer collaboration between humanitarian actors such as MSF and WHO will be helpful when lobbying national authorities. Lastly, more flexibility from the MoH is needed when some of the vaccines have not yet been introduced in the EPI, to enable implementation of preventive campaigns in humanitarian emergencies.
We describe the first field use of a new WHO framework for prioritizing vaccines in acute emergencies. Although we were unable to implement the full package of priority vaccines, we successfully implemented a series of mass campaigns against key epidemic-prone diseases in a complex emergency context. Together with covering the population's basic needs, this might have contributed to maintaining mortality levels below the emergency threshold and to the prevention of epidemics. For the WHO framework to be used to its full potential, it has to be adapted for field use, but most importantly its existence must be disseminated to national decision makers.
Marta A. Balinska, PhD MPH provided medical writing services on behalf of MSF (Operational Center Geneva).
FU, AV, SM, and FL were responsible for data collection. SM and FL conducted the data analysis survey. MR and IC wrote the first draft. All authors contributed to the writing of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
The Sphere Project. Humanitarian charter and minimum standards in humanitarian response. Sphere Project, Sphere Handbook: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response; 2011. http://www.spherehandbook.org.
World Health Organization. Vaccination in Acute Humanitarian emergencies: a framework for decision making. http://www.who.int/hac/techguidance/tools/vaccines_in_humanitarian_emergency_2013.pdf. Accessed 16 Nov 2015.
The Sphere Project, 2011 edition page 311 http://www.spherehandbook.org. Accessed 16 Nov 2015.


Thank you for your article highlighting the issues and research around high school schedules. As a high school teacher, this has been a major concern for me.
The reasons for early starts are not easily dismissed — bus schedules, and the expense of providing transportation directly impacts all taxpayers, not just parents. Students' ability to participate in school sports and activities, which promotes student achievement, dictates an early schedule.
I believe an answer might lie in considering staggered start times at the high school level, coupled with a seven, or even an eight-period day, This would allow students, teachers and families to individualize schedules, based on their needs. Student athletes and kids who are working or caring for younger siblings could start earlier. Those who have later family schedules could get more sleep, and more family time. It would also allow kids who are behind in credits to take additional classes within the school day to catch up, and eliminate the need for summer school classes.
This proposal is costly, and would complicate the scheduling of classes and student activities outside of our current school times. It would require a community that is willing to bear those complications, and the costs of increased budgets for transportation and supervision/ staffing required for a longer day. Without community support for more flexibility in scheduling, nothing will change. We will continue to see fractured family schedules, and my colleagues and I will continue to have sleep-deprived students who under-perform/lose credit for non-attendance in their early classes.


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Travelers will enjoy a full-service hotel at the Bellingham International Airport, if a hotel development is approved and moves forward.
"We recognize that a full-service hotel is an important addition to our growing airport," said Port Executive Director Rob Fix. "We carefully studied the proposals we received so that we could feel confident in the hotel developer we are recommending."
The Port of Bellingham's Board of Commissioners will consider a Letter of Intent agreement with the Hotel Services Group, LLC, in the board's meeting next Tuesday (April 2). The Hotel Services Group is proposing construction of a Holiday Inn Hotel that would include: a full service restaurant, about 7,000 square feet of conference/meeting space, an indoor pool, underground and surface parking and approximately 156 guest rooms.
The company estimates the construction cost for the facility would be approximately 18.5 million. It estimates that about 40 full-time-equivalent (FTE) employees would work at the completed hotel and another 40-50 would work in the restaurant.
The proposed development site is approximately 3.77 acres of Port property, just south of the Pacific Cataract Laser Institute on Mitchell Way, across the street from the commercial air terminal. The proposed lease is for 50 years, with a 25- year renewal option.
"We are looking forward to creating a full service hotel that will establish a first class lodging, restaurant, meetings and banquets venue that the Port of Bellingham, the City of Bellingham and all of Whatcom County will be proud of," said Dan Mitzel, Hotel Services Group chairman and managing member. "Establishing this quality of a hotel development at the Bellingham Airport will create, not only a convenient lodging option for travelers using the Port of Bellingham Facilities, but also a great addition to the existing lodging, restaurant and meeting/banquet venues already available in Whatcom County."
The Letter of Intent is a preliminary agreement that serves as an outline of the transaction and sets forth the main deal points with regard to the lease. If the Commission approves this preliminary document, both the Port and the developer would have a 30-day "due diligence" period for the Port to fully review the developer's financial capabilities and for the developer to further analyze the site and complete financing plans. Hotel Services Group would pay the Port $10,000 for the preliminary agreement.
If the final agreement moves forward, the Commission would vote on a lease at its June 4, 2013, meeting.
In the Fall of 2012, the Port sent out a Request for Qualifications and Vision for a Hotel Development Opportunity at the Bellingham International Airport. The Port received four written proposals; all for nationally brand affiliated hotels. The Port Selection Team reviewed all four proposals and interviewed all four respondents in a competitive selection process.
Hotel Services Group is a Washington Limited Liability Company established in 2007 specializing in hotel management and ground-up development, currently operating eight nationally branded hotels in Western Washington. The corporate leadership team includes multiple hotel owners with significant hotel development expertise.
The Bellingham International Airport is operated by the Port of Bellingham, a countywide independent local government charged with pursuing economic development, operating transportation terminals and being a steward of public lands and resources. The airport is served by four commercial airlines: Allegiant Air, Alaska Air, Horizon Air and Frontier Airlines. Together the airlines offer non-stop service to 11 different destinations.
The Port also operates all Whatcom County transportation terminals including the Bellingham Cruise Terminal, the Fairhaven Transportation Station (with Amtrak, Greyhound and Whatcom Transportation bus service) and marinas in Bellingham and Blaine.
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As the creative director for Regis Corporation, Jamie Suarez sets the educational tone for more than 6,000 Regis salons, the majority of which use Matrix color. So when Matrix launched its Color Sync Watercolors line of demipermanent shades, Suarez got inspired.
Although the hair looks soft and flowy, "it's actually hard as a rock," says Suarez, who used polyurethane—a polymer used on hardwood floors—on wigs to create the illusion of movement.
"When we look at color placement direction mimicking the waves on a beach, it's all about the direction on the rounded surface of the head to determine how bold you want that color to appear," Suarez says. In the ponytail, the color is applied horizontally, like waves hitting the shore.


People think I dominated the 2014 CrossFit Masters Games – easily. But the reality is, nothing I did during the Games, and nothing I've done in the four years since I started CrossFit has been anything close to easy. Not for a single day.
Whatever I have achieved in CrossFit has been through painstaking discipline, sacrifice, a massive workload, and a total committment to living my priorities.
I always talk about managing the one-percenters and controlling the controllables. That's what I do better than anyone else. That's what wins Games! That's what gives me supreme confidence when I turn up to compete against the best in the world.
10 years ago I was chronically sick, had high blood pressure, I was fat, suicidally depressed, abusing alcohol, sugar, food, and myself. And this had been going on most of my adult life, between bouts of becoming supremely fit and winning state, national and world titles (in a variety of sports). One day I finally became desperately sick, and soon I became tired of being desperately sick and tired. That was the day everything began to change.
I will never forget how bad my life and health were, and this is what motivates me to pursue the highest expression of my physical mental and emotional potential today! I was delivering a seminar to a group of high level CrossFit athletes at a training camp in the USA recently. I opened my seminar by asking everyone who had even the vaguest dream of ever making it to the CrossFit Games to stand up. Then I asked those who believed they were not the best prepared athlete in the room to sit down. Everyone sat. Everyone! Half of them didn't even know each other but they sat anyway. I remained standing… I will always be the last person standing.
I do not understand how you can hold a dream fiercely in your heart, firmly in your hands, train with dedication for it and not give it everything you have, in every area of your life! If you and I are equal physically, and we turn up to the CrossFit Games for 3-4 days of competition, I know I will beat you. How do I know this? Because I am better prepared in every area of my life, because I know I will out-recover you over the course of competition. This knowledge will give me a confidence that I believe you will not have, you cannot have.
Controlling the controllables and managing all the one-percenters, every moment of everyday, year in year out, gives me a mental edge and un-rivalled confidence in the fiercest of competitions, irrespective of my age and yours!
So enough with the chest pounding… I wanted to make my point crystal clear, not to sound egocentric and arrogant. So what do I actually do to achieve a competitive advantage?
Ieat the cleanest greenest organic foods every day, I drink organic fair trade coffee only at certain times of the morning, I drink about two litres of fresh green veggie juice per day, I take a truck load of high quality vitamins daily, I eat only grassfed lean meats and lots of them, I specifically structure my training and recovery each day to achieve optimal benefit from both, I don't go out socialising at night – ever (nup!).
I'm always in bed by 9pm (or earlier), I always get 8-9 hours sleep in a cool room with no electronic devices, I never miss a training session (99%), I see a naturopath every 4-6 weeks, I see my physio weekly, I never see people on a Sunday, in fact if I have my way I won't even speak to another living soul on a Sunday. I have 2-3 massages and 2-3 floats per week, you could set your clock to my routines and appointments, I do not spend time with people who drain my energy, I do one long yoga session per week, I spend massive amounts of time warming up and cooling down every day, I've downsized my living situation from me (alone with my dog Pepper) in a six-bedroom house with a pool, to one bedroom in a shared house.
I've moved from a 30 minute drive to a two minute drive from my gym, I don't drink alcohol ever, I stay supremely hydrated, I practice mental games during training, I listen to positive podcasts and audio books in my car every time I drive, I do a daily journal (morning and night) and call it my 'positivity project', I train massive volume always, I do a breathing meditation before bed, I use only the highest quality purest sports supplements (Professional Whey) and skin care products (Skin Nourishment) and I recover like a beast about 1:3 (1 hour recovery for every 3 hours of training).
I seek out positive sayings and mottos everyday to get me through the low patches. I'm willing to fail over and over again. I've slowly shifted my work so that it's all CrossFit, health and nutrition related and so it's all online so I can work from anywhere in the world with a worldwide audience. I don't eat things with chemicals, numbers, food colourings or neurotoxins, I keep my food simple and fresh, and organic as much as possible! I know what works for me and I do it.
I never stop learning and improving myself. I'm willing to put it all on the line, to do whatever it takes, to risk looking like a fool, to risk being different and not fitting in. Why? Because it works for me. Because I cherish the feelings of supreme health and vitality that my habits and priorities give me today and because I will never forget what it feels like to be out of control and wishing to die from depression and alcohol abuse.
I try to live with the utmost integrity today and in keeping with my priorities. These are the things that help me win.
I remind myself of these three statements everyday: Don't die wondering. Freedom through discipline. The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.


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Wang Chao (, ) is a district (amphoe) of Tak province, western Thailand.

History
The minor district (king amphoe) Wang Chao was created by splitting off some parts of Mueang Tak district. It was announced on 26 June 1996 and became effective on 15 July.

On 15 May 2007, all 81 minor districts were upgraded to full districts. With publication in the Royal Gazette on 24 August the upgrade became official.

Geography
Neighboring districts are (west from clockwise): Phop Phra, Mueang Tak of Tak Province, Kosamphi Nakhon, Mueang Kamphaeng Phet, Phran Kratai of Kamphaeng Phet province.

The important water resources of the district are the Ping River and Khlong Wang Chao. Part of the Khlong Wang Chao National Park is in the southern part of the district.

Symbols
The district slogan is "Gateway to Tak, many different cultures, main economy is corn and longan, many beautiful waterfalls, Khlong Wang Chao national park, beautiful weaving".

Administration
The district is divided into three sub-districts (tambons), which are further subdivided into 28 villages (mubans). The township (thesaban tambon) Wang Chao covers parts of tambon Chiang Thong. There are a further three tambon administrative organizations (TAO).

References

External links
amphoe.com

Wang Chao

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I love collecting vintage household items. They're a really fun way to add surprising and unique flourishes to home decor. Several months back, I acquired a small set of card catalog drawers. They're something I want to keep in good condition, so I hemmed and hawed for a long time before finally selecting and adding the hairpin table legs. With the help of my dad (a seasoned home DIY'er and son of a woodworker) on a recent visit, we attached the table legs in no time. Read on for the best tips for modifying your own potentially fragile vintage items.
The first step is deciding how tall you want the table to be, and measure the height of your set of drawers. Subtract the height of your drawers from how tall you want your table to be to determine how tall your table legs should be*. I found the best prices and selection of the hairpin style legs I used here.
Determine as best you can how thick the wood is that you're drilling the screws into.
Don't use screws that are too long (this is where knowing how thick the wood is comes in).
Don't try to drill your screws in too close to the edge of the card catalog. If you accidentally screw them in at a slight angle, your screw could come out the outside of your card catalog, ruining its look.
Also avoid drilling a screw directly into where two pieces of wood come together. You could end up accidentally damaging your card catalog by wedging it apart. We ended up placing my table legs slightly in from the front and back edges but flush with the sides, as you can see somewhat below.
Set the legs aside. Using a drill bit that's smaller than the wood screws you'll attach the legs with, drill pilot holes for each screw you'll be using to attach the legs. This helps avoid slippage when you're putting in a screw, and it helps avoid damaging the wood.
Place a leg over the pilot holes. (The hairpin legs are nice because you can see what you're doing the whole time.) You can use a drill or handheld screwdriver to screw the legs to the card catalog. My dad preferred switching between the drill for the pilot holes and the handheld screwdriver since he opted not to drill all 12 pilot holes at once. He worked one leg at a time, so having to switch back and forth from a drill bit for the pilot holes to a screwdriver head for attaching the legs would have been impractical.
PS: If you find your legs getting loose down the road, carefully unscrew them a little bit, put a small dot of wood glue under the head of the screw, and screw it back in.
This tutorial was for a fairly straightforward project that many could figure out on their own. I hope sharing some tips from someone who knows their stuff, even on an easy project, is useful for you!
I love this Heidi, thanks for sharing!!
This is the second time I've come back to this in two days because it's so cool. Yesterday I wasted about 20 minutes googling inexpensive table legs. (Did you know there aren't any?) So now I'm into making tables all of a sudden thanks to you. So thanks! To you!
Great job with the presentation.
How charming! As a book lover, this is just too much. You've given me something to hunt for this summer: card catalog drawers.
What type and length of screw did you use? I'll be doing the exact same thing soon, but can't figure out what screws will be short and strong enough.
The wood of the card catalog I used is pretty thick, so we were able to use fairly long ones. I have no idea what type in particular they were, though. I'm sorry!


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I climbed aboard the USS Enterprise as a child living in Singapore, when the ship and its crew refueled in the newly-independent nation's outer harbor before heading back to support the conflict in Vietnam. I had 'a clue' about the conflict because my parents insisted on making sure my older siblings and I were aware of our surroundings, and, well, Southeast Asia was a theater of warfare.
Now, this region – the ASEAN region – is locked in a tug-of-war between China and the United States, both nations seeking to win the hearts and pocketbooks of its 625 million inhabitants, the majority of whom are under the age of 30 years old.
And, more than 90% of my 200-plus LinkedIn and Facebook contacts in this region are also under the age of 30. They are a part of a rising generation of the Young Southeast Asia Leadership Initiative (YSEALI) initiated by the U.S. Department of State in November 2013.
Members of the YSEALI Generation: Oceans Regional Exchange from Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam were selected to participate in a U.S. study tour focused on ocean conservation in September of 2016.
To apply an overused exclamation, these young people are awesome. That is, if you consider people under the age of 25 whose second jobs are to establish nonprofits to educate kids on deforestation, or to help bring together a cross-section of people to create a think-tank whose purpose is to identify solutions to community-wide social problems awesome.
Or, those who take a year of their life off to explore the roots of their culture and transform the lessons learned into lesson plans for primary school students. Or, those who have chosen to put their energy into assisting fishermen transform into ocean stewards, and educate farmers on a 21st century scheme of multi-cropping with fields of solar panels.
.@YSEALI is.. empowering. ?#YSEALIGoNGO pic.twitter.com/uX51mkCzuY
— YSEALI Seeds (@YSEALISeeds) November 21, 2016
The success of YSEALI is that it has engaged this energetic and educated group of young people, and has plugged them into a network of their peers, and a network of peers from the United States. Cultural Vistas has been privileged to be selected to implement four YSEALI projects – Generation EARTH Workshop in Cambodia, Generation Oceans Workshop in Indonesia, the Generation Go NGO! Workshop in Philippines, and implementation of the YSEALI Seeds for the Future small grants program.
We take seriously not only the effort to address YSEALI's four themes (civic engagement, environment and natural resources, entrepreneurship and economic development, and education), and to create learning opportunities for the members, but also to facilitate the development of an "ASEAN identity" among these future leaders of the 10 member nations.
Want to meet a couple of them?
YSEALI alumnus Nashrudin Kusain of the Philippines discusses issues pertinent to NGO management at a November 2016 workshop in Cebu.
How about Nashrudin Kusain, whose passion for environmental justice plays out in his work with ADAT-BETAD, Inc. in Mindanao, Philippines. In a nation under increasing attack by powerful typhoons growing out of warmer Pacific Ocean waters, Nash lives and works in a conflict zone and cares to train young people in sustainable development practices, organic farming, and basic renewable energy technologies. He is helping to create an Eco-Army to mitigate the effects of rising seas his local community is battling.
On the other side of the ASEAN region, Aung Mon Myat is working to raise awareness about unsustainable environmental practices involving waste disposal in Yangon, Myanmar. Not only is he organizing clean-up projects in the capital city, his activities asks these volunteers to conjure up innovative ways to build a sustained personal responsible approach to managing trash and waste.
.@YSEALI has engaged a generation of energetic + educated youth, plugging them into a network of their peers.
His example is indicative of the plight of many cities in the ASEAN region – concern for quick economic growth before development of infrastructure that could manage that growth in a sustainable way. Like many in his generation – in the YSEALI generation – he understands it is the people who must work together to foster a better physical environment for themselves.
These activities build upon Cultural Vistas' involvement in the region, which also began in earnest in 2013, with the implementation of the first of two 'classes' of the American Youth Leadership Program, programs sponsored by the U.S. State Department. And, where are some of these young people now?
Meet Jamie Withorne, a sophomore in political science and government at Columbia University in New York. Following up on working with refugees at Lutheran Social Services in her home state of South Dakota, Jamie has already completed internships with the International Refugee Assistance Project and the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C., and studied for a semester in Copenhagen. In summer 2017, Cultural Vistas has arranged an internship in Vietnam for Jamie.
Jamie (center) traveled to Singapore and Malaysia as a high schooler through the American Youth Leadership Program. Before heading off to a summer internship in Vietnam, she recently spoke about the impact of her international experience at an event Cultural Vistas hosted in New York this past May.
And, meet Kirsten Brodeen, currently studying international business and management at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. Kirsten doesn't follow trends, she helps to create them. After graduating high school in Colorado, she organized her own gap year in Germany.
She was selected to be an intern for the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, but could not accept it because she wasn't an enrolled student. Oh well, she was able to arrange an internship for herself at Commerzbank AG in Berlin. Not bad for a 19-year old high school graduate. Kirsten is offering volunteer support to a winner of the 2016 YSEALI Seeds for the Future small grants program.
In our short 2 weeks, these 21 kids have become some of the best friends I've ever had. #weremalaysing pic.twitter.com/ZKrLFd2iiH
— Telyse Masaoay (@masasoysauce) July 14, 2014
Or, follow Yousef Rahman, a Levine Scholar studying civil engineering at the University of North Carolina – Charlotte. He has completed internships at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport and the U.S. Green Building Council, but it was his activist bent that helped lead Cultural Vistas to select Yousef to be a youth mentor at the YSEALI Oceans Workshop in Indonesia.
Why should the United States care about Southeast Asia? If you believe the 21st century is to be Asia's century, the United States needs to carefully foster good relations in the region sandwiched between China and India.
#DYK: Four of the world's fastest growing economies are in ASEAN ???????? http://bit.ly/2tx6RIq
Or, if you believe the United States is more than capable of maintaining its cultural and economic influence worldwide, it cannot ignore this region of 625 million consumers.
Why does Cultural Vistas care about this region?
Exchanges are means to grow strong, mutually-beneficial relationships between peoples in different regions. Each region has expertise, passion, innovation, insight, and hospitality to share with other.
We want to make this happen for as many as possible!
Learn more about the impact of our work to strengthen the ties that unite people and communities around the world in our 2016 Annual Report.
Dan Ewert
Dan has 25-plus years of experience with work-based learning, and teaching experience. He lived in Singapore as a child, and concentrated his academics on international studies in Southeast Asia.
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Hi guys! I'm back again with another series to recap. This time it's EXO Showtime! You can't not say the title without going EXOOOO Showtime! If you've watched the preview or the first episode, you know what I'm talking about. For this series, I'm not quite sure how I'll format it, but for today I'll just tell ya'll my fave moments (members) in each episode.
Now, we shall let out beast! You guys see what I did, corny I know.
Kris has been blessed by the variety gods. Not only is he extremely good looking, he's really funny. What's great about his humor is that it's the accidental kind. He tries so hard to be the cold, chic man but the show wouldn't let him. And thank goodness they didn't. He's a variety show gem. From the hilarious orange juice wink relay to eating chicken to the very beginning where he finished their wave perfectly, Kris showed a totally different side of him. Now, he's starting to completely ruin my bias list. Thanks.
Did anybody else find themselves winking back at EXO? Because somehow I started to involuntarily wink back at them.
Let's call them the F4 of the episode. These four decided to go on a bike ride to answer the question: What do you do when you don't have a schedule? They were so cute during their ride, complaining how cold it was. I mean that's what happens when you ride your bike at night in November honey buns. Lol at Chen wearing shorts; poor baby must have been really cold.
After their bike ride, they decided to eat some street food where they talked. Xiumin gets embarrassed when they call him the trends of trends in EXO. Chen feels burdened when people tells him he sings well, but feels great when they tell him he dances well. CHENcing Machine FTW! And that Lay and Xiumin moment, can we please have more of that? Is anybody else extremely impressed with Luhan's Korean skills. Teach me, I'm in need of a boyfriend to help me learn the language,haha! Then Luhan suggests a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors to decide to cleans up. He loses, thanks to the help of Xiumin.
In episode 3, members went out shopping to buy Chanyeol a birthday gift. Chanyeol doesn't know this and thinks they have to buy a present for one member. At first Chanyeol decides to stick with Kai and Sehun. They go into a hat shop where they ditch Chanyeol so that they can find a gift for him. Let me tell you this now, you should never put these two together when they have to look for a gift and they have no money. Their gift ideas are my level of gift giving, maybe even better. Just ask T, lol. Just watch the clip below and you'll know what I mean.
The first 3 episodes of EXO Showtime was pretty good. I'm excited to see what questions they ask EXO for the upcoming episodes. What would guys like to see from them? Let me know in the comments below!
Big Bang Trivia x Egg Roulette Challenge!
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Ireland says given no forewarning about triggering of Brexit clause
A 'No Hard Border' poster is seen below a road sign on the Irish side of the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland near Bridgend, Ireland
Ireland was not consulted by the European Commission before it briefly sought to restrict some exports of COVID-19 vaccines by invoking an emergency Brexit clause related to Northern Ireland, Ireland's European Affairs Minister said on Saturday.
The EU abruptly reversed the plan to use the Article 16 clause to restrict exports of COVID-19 vaccines from crossing the Irish border into the United Kingdom within a matter of hours on Friday after it sent shockwaves through Northern Ireland, London and Dublin.
The initial decision to use the Brexit clause – part of wider EU plans to control the exports of vaccines – illustrated how the carefully tuned Northern Ireland Brexit protocol can go awry, as well as showing the panic over vaccine availability.
"This type of provision is standard in trade agreements but in the Northern Ireland situation, it obviously has a different political resonance and it's perhaps the case that this wasn't fully appreciated by the drafters," Ireland's Europe Minister Thomas Byrne told Newstalk radio.
"Clearly a mistake was made," Byrne said. "It's too early for me to say (how it happened) … It's clear the implications of Article 16 weren't fully thought through, that's a pity, but it's a lesson to us all at this point."
Asked if Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin was given any forewarning of the planned triggering of the provision, devised as a last resort to alleviate serious disruption to trade in Northern Ireland after Brexit, Byrne said he was not.
Three senior EU diplomats said member states were neither consulted on, or informed of, the Commission's decision.
"It seems the Commission took this decision unilaterally," an EU official said.
The official said it appeared the Commission's intention was to include Northern Ireland in the vaccines export control regime, but that this effectively created a land border on the island of Ireland, and it had to row back when it realised the implications.
Preserving the 1998 peace deal that ended three decades of sectarian bloodshed in Northern Ireland, without allowing the UK to become a back door into the EU's markets through the UK-Irish land border, led to the inclusion of the protocol in Britain's divorce deal.
The protocol achieved this by keeping Northern Ireland both in the EU's single market for goods, and the UK's customs territory, and "is not something to be tampered with lightly," Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney warned on Friday.
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Brighton & Hove Mental Health Supported Housing Services
Are you a resident of mental health supported housing in Brighton & Hove, or have you been a resident in the past 3 years, at any of these services:
Shore House
Sanctuary Star
Route One
If yes, we want to hear from you. Please share your experiences and views to help shape and improve mental health supported housing services in Brighton & Hove in our short survey for current and former residents.
If you are a member of staff supporting residents within these services, we also want to hear from you in this staff, referrer & practitioner survey
The surveys will be open until 5pm on Monday 8 March 2021.
Brighton & Hove City Council and the local NHS (Brighton & Hove Clinical Commissioning Group) are currently reviewing the way we provide accommodation and support services at Shore House, Sanctuary Star and Route One, to help shape and improve these services for the future.
We want to hear from former and current residents, as well as staff, of mental health supported housing about how they have found these services, including what has worked well, and what we can change and improve on in the future. The feedback, experiences and views that are shared will help to inform and shape future mental health supported housing services for the city.
What are mental health supported housing services?
The mental health supported housing services offer a range of accommodation with different levels of support for people with mental health needs; from high, complex support needs to low support. Higher levels of support are provided to those who need it with the aim of supporting people to decrease support and move into lower support when they are able to do so. The aim of these services is to support independence while providing a safe and protected environment. The services are not permanent, instead they provide support to individuals to move on to more independent living opportunities within approximately two years.
Why do we want to hear from residents and staff about these services?
Three of these service contracts are due to come to an end and we therefore need to think about how we would like these services or similar services to be funded going forward. Brighton & Hove City Council and NHS Brighton & Hove Clinical Commissioning Group are currently reviewing these services to support with these decisions.
The current Brighton & Hove mental health supported housing services that are being reviewed are:
Shore House; accommodation with high level, intensive support
Sanctuary Star; accommodation with medium level support
Route One; accommodation with low level support
How can you help shape these services in the future?
We want to hear from former and current residents of these services, and staff and carers too, on how you found using these services, what has worked well, and what we can improve on in the future. Please share your experiences and views through our residents survey and our staff survey too.
Check out the tabs to the right of this page for our contact details or visit our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for further information.
Your data and privacy
All responses are handled anonymously and confidentially. We are committed to protecting your privacy, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and will not use any information we may hold about you for any purpose other than that for which it was collected. Under no circumstances is your data used for anything other than the purpose for which it has been collected.
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Share your experiences through our survey here
We want to hear from former and current residents of mental health supported housing services, and staff and carers too, on how you found using these services, what has worked well, and what we can improve on in the future. Please share your experiences through our survey links below:
Residents Survey Link - https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/N5R8CZS
Staff & Stakeholders survey link - https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/FD8Q38S
The feedback, experiences and views you share will help to inform and shape future mental health supported housing services for Brighton & Hove. Thank-you for your time and support.
Talk to Mind Brighton & Hove to share your experiences
Are you a former or current resident of mental health supported housing services?
If so, Mind Brighton & Hove would love to speak to you by phone to hear more about your experiences and views on how to improve local services for the future.
Every current / former resident who is interviewed by Mind Brighton & Hove about their experiences will receive a £20 shopping voucher as a thank-you.
You can get in touch directly by emailing Mind Brighton & Hove at info@mindcharity.co.uk and a staff member will be in contact to arrange a time to speak with you to hear your feedback and experiences.
You can also complete the survey as well as an interview. All feedback is handled confidentially and anonymously.
Click here to play video Mental Health Supported Housing engagement video
Documents and printable surveys
Mental Health Supported Housing FAQs FINAL.pdf (411 KB) (pdf)
Mental Health Supported Housing RESIDENTS Survey FINAL.pdf (535 KB) (pdf)
Mental Health Supported Housing STAFF STAKEHOLDERS Survey FINAL.pdf (510 KB) (pdf)
Mental Health Supported Housing POSTER.pdf (387 KB) (pdf)
If you would like to request the surveys in an alternative format, or have any queries regarding the mental health supported housing engagement work, please contact the team using the details below:
Email: sxccg.involvement@nhs.net
Freepost (no stamp needed): FREEPOST - RTUZ-ECYG-ERRK, Attn: Public Involvement Team, NHS Brighton and Hove CCG, Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Brighton, BN3 4AH
Deaf British Sign Language (BSL) users can contact us between 9am – 5pm Monday- Friday through the Video Relay Service (VRS) 'SignLive'. Simply download the SignLive app at https://signlive.co.uk/login/, register your details, and search for NHS Brighton and Hove in the Community Directory. If the call goes to answerphone please leave a message, with your name and SignLive ID code and we will call you back as soon as possible.
https://www.brightonandhoveccg.nhs.uk/
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COVID-19 Updates: Protecting Albertans from the Omicron variant.
Public health restrictions to reduce transmission remain in effect.
Book your vaccine: Albertans 5+ can get vaccinated now. Get booster when eligible.
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Drugged driving is impaired driving
Last year in Alberta, nearly half of all 24-hour licence suspensions were due to drug impairment.
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This release was issued under a previous government.
Few drivers are aware of the penalties for drugged driving and may believe alcohol-impaired drivers are more likely to be stopped by police than drug-impaired drivers.
"It comes as a surprise to many people that drunk driving and drugged driving carry the same criminal charges. This is because both substances impair a driver's ability and increase the likelihood of being involved in a collision."
Brian Mason, Minister of Transportation
"Impaired driving is Canada's leading cause of criminal death in Canada. The number of drugs present in motor vehicle fatalities in Canada continues to grow. It is absolutely essential that when you are using drugs that you not drive and create that risk of death or injury to yourself or others."
Andrew Murie, CEO MADD Canada
Impaired Driving Facts
The Traffic Injury Research Foundation determined that in Canada during 2012, drugs were detected in 40 per cent of fatally injured drivers.
Alberta is slightly above the national average at 41 per cent. This represents 82 drivers who were killed in collisions during 2012 who tested positive for drugs. For perspective, 71 fatally injured drivers tested positive for alcohol during that same year. Of those, 34 had both alcohol and drugs in their system.
Anything that impairs your ability to drive – alcohol or drugs, whether legal or illegal – may result in an impaired driving charge.
Mixing alcohol and drugs of any sort is also a concern. Combining impairing substances has major risks. Always use substances responsibly.
According to a study done by the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, cannabis creates performance deficits in many skills required to drive safely, such as tracking, reaction time, visual function, concentration, short-term memory and divided attention.
Studies of driving performance (both simulated and on-road) show increased likelihood to swerve, following distance, and speed as a function of cannabis use.
In the 2014 driver attitude survey, seven in 10 Albertans agreed that too many people are driving under the influence of legal or illegal drugs.
The 2014 Driver Attitude Survey also noted only 55 per cent of Albertans make other driving arrangements when they have taken drugs which can affect their ability to drive.
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October 2, 2018, Atlanta – eVestment, a global leader in institutional investor data and analytics, has acquired RedQuarry. RedQuarry offers an easy-to-use, cloud-based investment research management solution that seamlessly retains notes, ranking assessments and documents while offering consistency in the way information is stored, retrieved and shared.
RedQuarry was founded in 2014 by Chris Tinsley and Jared Potter. Tinsley, Potter, co-CEO Patrick Adrian and the rest of the firm's staff will join eVestment operating out of their current Tacoma office. The team's unique blend of investment consulting and software development experience positions it to continue building innovative solutions specifically tailored for the institutional investment community.
the ability to integrate data sources that are critical to the manager research process.
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Q: Android PopupMenu отображение при старте Есть элемент AutoCompleteTextView при нажатии на который появляется PopupMenu.
Как мне при старте приложения отобразить этот список автоматически?
Приложение реализует MVP поэтому запуск должен быть из Presenter;
Варианты с OnChangeFocus - не подходят, потому что нужно сделать так, чтобы при смене ориентации сохранялось состояние (если было открыто - открыть, если было закрыто - закрыть);
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Варианты с android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden" тоже не подходят, потому что нужно чтобы Activity полноценно пересоздавалась
Когда я пытаюсь открыть меню в onCreate(), onStart(), onResume() - получаю android.view.WindowManager$BadTokenException
я могу открыть его только в onAttachedToWindow(), но из presenter'а этот метод не вызывается

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A new design oil spill recovery vessel from MARCO Pollution Control, one of the world's largest builders and designers of these type vessels, was recently commissioned by a Canadian owner.
Called the Burrard Cleaner No.
9, she is the largest oil recovery vessel serving Canada. The vessel was built at the West Coat Manly Shipyard in Vancouver under MARCO supervision for Burrard Clean Operations Limited, a Vancouver, B.C., cooperative. The vessel will be used to protect the often difficult waters of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
The second MARCO design for Burrard, the steel-hull vessel is 75 feet long, with a beam of 22 feet 6 inches and a depth of 9 feet 7 inches.
She is powered by a Caterpillar 3412TA diesel engine driving an Ulstein 370H 360-degree-rotatable Z-drive. The vessel also has a MARCO T-80 stern thruster to assist in maneuvering in confined areas.
Recovered oil is held on board in a 500-barrel-capacity sump, from which a screw pump can discharge it to other vessels or storage units.
The Burrard Cleaner No. 9 features MARCO's Filterbelt recovery technology, the heart of all MARCO recovery systems. The Filterbelt is a unique oleophilic belt that recovers all types of oil and debris under a wide variety of conditions. The OSRV features MARCO's new 4000 Series technology, which incorporates a larger 4-foot-wide Filterbelt and a 40-hp MARCO T-52 induction pump. This new unit can process and remove oil from seawater at a rate of up to 10,000 gallons of encountered seawater per minute.


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Environmental Protection & Sustainability Forms
BC Parks Living Lab for Climate Change & Conservation Program
Funding Application – 2021
The BC Parks Living Lab for Climate Change and Conservation Program promotes B.C.'s protected areas as places to learn about the effects of climate change, how to mitigate and manage for these effects, and how to share this information among and between academics and practitioners. B.C.'s protected areas are less developed than much of the rest of the province, so parks serve as a "living lab," and can help us understand the impact of climate change on the natural world. Climate-informed conservation research in protected areas can also reveal areas that are critical to connectivity within and adjacent to the protected areas system which in turn can inform management decisions.
Applicants are encouraged to consider the Living Lab Program's goals and priority projects and research themes in their application.
Each application will be considered on the basis of:
Contribution to understanding climate change impacts and how to mitigate or adapt to these impacts in BC's provincial parks;
Objectives, methodology and approach;
Qualifications and experience;
Budget including other sources of funding (e.g., how Living Lab funding assistance contributes to other research or if there is an opportunity to leverage additional funds).
Successful applications will be chosen to ensure that the Living Lab research projects:
Are endorsed by regional BC Parks staff;
Acknowledge and include Indigenous stewardship in the project proposal, its results and/or application of results; and
Support improved management of the conservation, cultural and/or recreational values within B.C.'s provincial park system.
Applications are due October 25, 2020. Preliminary decisions on priority projects for Living Labs funding will be announced in January 2021. Funding will be awarded in spring, subject to confirmation of its availability in the provincial budget.
Successful projects commence in the spring of 2021 and end in March 2022. All deliverables for 2021 projects are due March 22, 2022.
Lead applicants must be professors who hold a current teaching or research position with a public post-secondary institution in BC. Adjunct professors are not eligible for Living Lab funding.
Organizations or individuals working in partnership with a professor as described above are also encouraged to apply. All successful applicants must be available to share the preliminary results of their project at the annual Living Lab Research Colloquium in December 2021 (location to be confirmed and event may be virtual).
Note: applicants are expected to engage relevant BC Parks staff (e.g., Conservation Specialists, Area Supervisors or Protected Areas Section Heads) prior to submitting their application. Please reference any input from regional staff and explain how the research will be made accessible to BCP staff and relevant partners. For help identifying the appropriate staff, email Jennifer Grant.
University name:*
Lead investigator name:*
Title of research project:*
Project duration:*
Multi-year
First year funding request:*
(minimum $10k; maximum $35k)
Location of research:*
(name of protected area(s))
Ideal project start and end dates:
Description of project
Is there a field component to your project?
Methodology:*
Expected performance targets and milestones:*
Relevance of project to protected area management and decision making:*
Name(s) of regional staff engaged:*
(please attach any correspondence here)
Does the research involve Indigenous peoples or their interests/priorities? Have they been involved in the research design?*
(150 words max)
How is BC Parks' understanding or management approach likely to be affected by this research?*
Short summary of qualifications and experience of lead investigator and any supporting team members:*
(250 word max)
Please indicate if this application is a component of a larger project and include budgetary context here. Recipients of Living Lab funding are required to present results and attend Research Colloquium in December 2021 (virtually or in person). Travel and accommodation to attend Colloquium are acceptable expenses. BC Parks pays 5% overhead for university funding transfers as per the Living Lab Overhead policy (Nov 2017). Download the budget template [XLSX] and attach it below.
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	public static final int MAY = 5;
	public static final int JUNI = 6;
	public static final int JULY = 7;
	public static final int AUGUST = 8;
	public static final int SEPTEMBER = 9;
	public static final int OCTOBER = 10;
	public static final int NOVEMBER = 11;
	public static final int DECEMBER = 12;

	public int day;
	public int month;
	public int year;

	private boolean invariant(){
		return isValidDate(day,month,year)
				&& DAYS_IN_MONTH.length == 12;
	}
	/*------------------------------------------------------------
	-------------------- C O N S T R U C T O R S -----------------
	------------------------------------------------------------*/
	/**
	 * Constucts with current date
	 */
	public Date(){
		this(Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH),
				Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.MONTH)+1,
				Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.YEAR));
	}
	/**
	 * Date(int day, int month, int year)
	 * @param day
	 * @param month
	 * @param year
	 */
	public Date(int day,int month,int year){
		this.day = day;
		this.month = month;
		this.year = year;
		assert invariant();
	}
	public Date(String date){
		int[] tmp = Utils.split(date,'-',3);
		this.day = tmp[2];
		this.month = tmp[1];
		this.year = tmp[0];
		assert invariant();
	}

	public Date(int inttime){
		this.year = inttime/10000;
		this.month = (inttime - this.year * 10000) / 100;
		this.day = (inttime - this.year * 10000 - this.month * 100);
		assert invariant();
	}

	public static Date today() {
		return new Date();
	}

	/*------------------------------------------------------------
	-------------------------- G E T T E R S ---------------------
	------------------------------------------------------------*/
	public int getDay(){
		assert invariant();
		return this.day;
	}
	public int getMonth(){
		assert invariant();
		return this.month;
	}
	public int getYear(){
		assert invariant();
		return this.year;
	}
	public int getDaysInMonth(){
		return DAYS_IN_MONTH[month-1] + ((this.month == FEBRUARY) && isLeapYear(year) ? 1 : 0);
	}

	public String getMonthText(){
		return Config.INST.STRINGS.MONTHS_OF_YEAR[month-1];
	}
	/*------------------------------------------------------------
	-------------------------- S E T T E R S ---------------------
	------------------------------------------------------------*/
	public Date setDay(int day){
		assert day >= 1 && day <= 31;
		this.day = day;
		assert invariant();
		return this;
	}

	public Date setMonth(int month){
		assert month >= 1 && month <= 12;
		this.month = month;
		assert invariant();
		return this;
	}
	/*------------------------------------------------------------
	------------------------- A C T I O N S ----------------------
	------------------------------------------------------------*/
	/** Compares {@code Date} object with anotherDate and
	 *  returns:

	 * -1 (when anotherDate > this Date),

	 *  0 (when anotherDate = this Date),

	 * +1 (when anotherDate < this Date)
	 */
	public int compareTo(Date anotherDate){
		assert anotherDate != null;
		assert invariant();
		if (this.year > anotherDate.year) return 1;
		else if (this.year < anotherDate.year) return -1;
		else if (this.month > anotherDate.month) return 1;
		else if (this.month < anotherDate.month) return -1;
		else if (this.day > anotherDate.day) return 1;
		else if(this.day < anotherDate.day)	return -1;
		else return 0;
	}
	/**
	 * Returns number of days between this date and another date.

	 * If this date is bigger then another, then number will be negative.

	 * In case of the same dates 0 will be returned.
	 * @param anotherDate
	 * @return int - number of days between this and another date
	 */
	public int daysUntil(Date anotherDate){
		assert invariant();
		assert anotherDate != null;
		int compare = this.compareTo(anotherDate);
		if (compare == 0) return 0;
		boolean reverse = (compare == -1) ? false : true;
		int diff = 0;
		for (int year = (reverse) ? anotherDate.year : this.year; year <= ((reverse) ? this.year : anotherDate.year); year++){
			for (int month = (year == ((reverse) ? anotherDate.year : this.year)) ? ((reverse) ? anotherDate.month : this.month) : 1; month <= (year == ((reverse) ? this.year : anotherDate.year) ? ((reverse) ? this.month : anotherDate.month) : 12); month++){
				for (int day = (month == ((reverse) ? anotherDate.month : this.month) && year == ((reverse) ? anotherDate.year : this.year)) ? ((reverse) ? anotherDate.day : this.day): 1; day <= ((month == ((reverse) ? this.month : anotherDate.month) && year == ((reverse) ? this.year : anotherDate.year)) ? ((reverse) ? this.day : anotherDate.day) : DAYS_IN_MONTH[month-1] + (((month == FEBRUARY) && isLeapYear(year)) ? 1 : 0)); day++){
					diff++;
				}
			}
		}
		return (reverse) ? -diff+1 : diff-1;
	}
	/**
	 * Returns number of month between this date and another date.

	 * If another date is bigger then this, then number will be negative.

	 * In case of the same dates 0 will be returned.
	 * @param anotherDate
	 * @return int - number of month between this and another date
	 */
	public int monthsUntil(Date anotherDate){
		assert invariant();
		assert anotherDate != null;
		int compare = this.compareTo(anotherDate);
		if (compare == 0) return 0;
		boolean reverse = (compare == -1) ? false : true;
		int diff = 0;
		for (int year = (reverse) ? anotherDate.year : this.year; year <= ((reverse) ? this.year : anotherDate.year); year++){
			for (int month = (year == ((reverse) ? anotherDate.year : this.year)) ? ((reverse) ? anotherDate.month : this.month) : 1; month <= (year == ((reverse) ? this.year : anotherDate.year) ? ((reverse) ? this.month : anotherDate.month) : 12); month++){
				diff++;
			}
		}
		return (reverse) ? -diff+1 : diff-1;
	}
	/**
	 * Returns date that was of will be {@code dayOffset} days ago.
	 * @param dayOffset - number of days
	 * @return {@code Date} with dayOffset offset
	 */
	public Date findDate(int dayOffset){
		assert invariant();
		Date date = new Date(day,month,year);
		if (dayOffset == 0) return date;
		for (int i = 0; i < Math.abs(dayOffset); i++){
			if (dayOffset < 0) date.prev();
			else date.next();
		}
		return date;
	}
	/**
	 * Returns next to this date and changes date to next day;
	 * @return {@code Date} - next date
	 */
	public Date next(){
		assert invariant();
		day++;
		if (day > DAYS_IN_MONTH[month-1] + ((this.month == FEBRUARY) && isLeapYear(year) ? 1 : 0)) {
			day = 1;
			month++;
			if (month > 12){
				month = 1;
				year++;
			}
		}
		assert invariant();
		return this;
	}
	/**
	 * Returns previous to this date and changes date to previous day;
	 * @return {@code Date} - previous date
	 */
	public Date prev(){
		assert invariant();
		day--;
		if (day < 1){
			month--;
			if (month < 1){
				month = 12;
				year--;
			}
			day = DAYS_IN_MONTH[month-1] + ((month == FEBRUARY) && isLeapYear(year) ? 1 : 0);
		}
		assert invariant();
		return this;
	}

	/**
	 * Changes month to delta amount
	 * @param delta - number of months to be jumped.
	 * @return
	 */
	public Date jumpMonth(int delta){
		assert invariant();
		if (delta == 0) return this;
		boolean lastDay = false;
		if (this.day == this.getDaysInMonth()){
			lastDay = true;
		}
		boolean reverse = (delta < 0);
		for (int i = 0; i < Math.abs(delta); i++){
			month += (reverse) ? -1 : 1;
			if (reverse){
				if (month < 1){
					month = 12;
					year--;
				}
			}
			else {
				if (month > 12){
					month = 1;
					year++;
				}
			}
		}
		if (lastDay || this.day > this.getDaysInMonth()){
			this.day = this.getDaysInMonth();
		}
		assert invariant();
		return this;
	}

	public Date copy(){
		return new Date(day,month,year);
	}

	/*------------------------------------------------------------
	-------------------------- C H E C K S -----------------------
	------------------------------------------------------------*/
	/**
	 * Returns {@code True} if this Date's day is previous for input Date,
	 * otherwise returns {@code False}
	 * @return {@code True} if day is previuos for input, otherwise {@code False}
	 */
	public boolean isPrev(Date date){
		int d = day;
		int m = month;
		int y = year;
		d++;
		if (d > Date.DAYS_IN_MONTH[m-1] + ((m == Date.FEBRUARY) && Date.isLeapYear(y) ? 1 : 0)){
			d = 1;
			m++;
			if (m > 12){
				m = 1;
				y++;
			}
		}
		if (d == date.day && m == date.month && y == date.year){
			return true;
		}
		else {
			return false;
		}
}
	/**
	 * Returns {@code True} if this Date's day is next for input Date,
	 * otherwise returns {@code False}
	 * @return {@code True} if day is next for input, otherwise {@code False}
	 */
	public boolean isNext(Date date){
		return (this.compareTo(date.findDate(1)) == 0);
	}
	/**
	 * Returns {@code True} if this Date's day is equal for input Date,
	 * otherwise returns {@code False}
	 * @return {@code True} if day is equal for input, otherwise {@code False}
	 */
	public boolean isEqual(Date date){
		return (this.compareTo(date) == 0);
	}
	/**
	 * Returns {@code True} if this Date's month is equal to input's Date month,
	 * otherwise returns {@code False}
	 * @return {@code True} if month is equal for input, otherwise {@code False}
	 */
	public boolean isEqualMonth(Date date){
		return (this.month == date.month) && (this.year == date.year);
	}
	/**
	 * Returns {@code True} if this Date's day is last day in the month,
	 * otherwise returns {@code False}
	 * @return {@code True} if day is last in the month, otherwise {@code False}
	 */
	public boolean isLastDayInMonth(){
		assert invariant();
		return (this.day == DAYS_IN_MONTH[month-1] + ((month == FEBRUARY) && isLeapYear(year) ? 1 : 0)) ? true : false;
	}
	/**
	 * Returns {@code True} if this Date's day is first day in the month,
	 * otherwise returns {@code False}
	 * @return {@code True} if day is first in the month, otherwise {@code False}
	 */
	public boolean isFirstDayInMonth(){
		assert invariant();
		return (this.day == 1);
	}
	/**
	 * Returns {@code True} if {@code year} is leap year,
	 * otherwise returns {@code False}
	 * @return {@code True} if {@code year} is leap year, otherwise {@code False}
	 */
	public static boolean isLeapYear(int year){
		assert year > 0;
		return (((year%4 == 0) && (year%100 != 0)) || (year%400 == 0));
	}

	public static boolean isValidDate(int day,int month,int year){
		return (isValidMonth(month) && isValidYear(year) && isValidDay(day) && (day <= DAYS_IN_MONTH[month-1] + ((month == FEBRUARY) && isLeapYear(year) ? 1 : 0)));
	}

	private static boolean isValidDay(int day){
		return day >= 1 && day <= 31;
	}

	/**
	 * Day of week should be between [1..7]
	 * @param month
	 * @return
	 */
	public static boolean isValidDayOfWeek(int day){
		return day >= 1 && day <= 7;
	}
	/**
	 * Month should be between [1..12]
	 * @param month
	 * @return
	 */
	private static boolean isValidMonth(int month){
		return month >= 1 &&  month <= 12;
	}
	private static boolean isValidYear(int year){
		return true;
	}
	/*------------------------------------------------------------
	------------------------- D E F A U L T ----------------------
	------------------------------------------------------------*/
	/**
	 * Converts this {@code Date} object to the FlatDB date representation.
	 * @return {@code String} object holding string representation of {@code Date}.
	 */
	public String toString(){
		StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder().append(year).append('-');
		if (month < 10) str.append('0');
		str.append(month).append('-');
		if (day < 10) str.append('0');
		str.append(day);
		return str.toString();
	}

	public int toInt(){
		assert invariant();
		return this.year*10000+this.month*100+this.day;
	}

	public boolean equals(Object obj){
		if (obj == null)
			return false;
		if (obj == this)
			return true;
		if (!(obj instanceof Date))
		      return false;
		Date date = (Date) obj;
		return (date.day == this.day && date.month == this.month
				&& date.year == this.year);
	}
	public int hashCode() {
		final int prime = 31;
		int hash = 1;
		hash = hash * prime + day;
		hash = hash * prime + month;
		hash = hash * prime + year;
		return hash;
	}

}

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Theory Seminar: Transnational Power Elites: How to Study the Entrepreneurs of the Global
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Theory seminar with Mikael Rask Madsen: Transnational Power Elites: How to Study the Entrepreneurs of the Global
The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) has the pleasure of inviting you to a theory seminar:
Mikael Rask Madsen:
Transnational Power Elites: How to Study the Entrepreneurs of the Global
Mikael Rask Madsen is Director of Courts – Centre of Excellence for International Courts and a professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. He is originally trained in law, but turned to sociology for his doctoral studies and spent eight years in Paris at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, working at the research centre of Pierre Bourdieu. His research concerns the globalisation of law and legal professionals. Recent publications include The European Court of Human Rights between Law and Politics
 (co-edited with J. Christoffersen), Oxford University Press, 2011, and 'Reflexivity and the Construction of the International Object', International Political Sociology
 (2011), 5/3: pp. 259-275.


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Business News›Topic ›cabinet reshuffle
CABINET RESHUFFLE
Vikram Dev Dutt appointed as DGCA director general
In 2022, Dutt was appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Air India Ltd as part of a senior-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre. Dutt is a 1993-batch IAS officer of AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territory) cadre.
Can't decide on my own, whatever party decides, I will do: Shivraj Singh
Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that he is a party worker and cannot decide on his role going forward amid speculations of change within the party and the government. He was replying to a question by ET on whether he sees a role for himself in national politics.
Cabinet reshuffle buzz gains ground
As the BJP is set for its national executive meeting and prepares for upcoming polls, the possibility of a reshuffle in the Union Council of Ministers this month has gained ground with the performance of ministers and the ruling party's political imperatives likely to drive changes
New minister sworn-in in Punjab after Sarari's exit, portfolios reshuffled
In wake of resignation of Punjab Horticulture Minister Fauja Singh Sarari on Saturday, Balbir Singh was sworn-in as a minister and allocated the Health and Family Welfare portfolio.
Mizoram assembly Deputy Speaker Lairinawma quit his post
Beichhua told media persons recently that he was asked by Zoramthanga to resign to pave the way for reshuffling the Cabinet. Zoramthanga is president of ruling Mizo National Front (MNF). He said, "I received a letter from the Chief Minister asking me to resign from my post. He said he wants to reshuffle the Cabinet." He said that he will continue as MLA and will remain in the party for now.
Mizoram Excise and Narcotics Minister Beichhua resigns
The minister submitted his resignation letter to Chief Minister Zoramthanga. Beichhua is MLA from south Mizoram's Siaha constituency.
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai to visit Delhi to meet J P Nadda
The meeting with Nadda, gains significance, as he had recently indicated that the much awaited expansion or reshuffle of his Cabinet is likely after the Gujarat Assembly polls.
New UK PM Rishi Sunak reshuffles Cabinet, retains Hunt, Wallace, Raab; Braverman back
Sunak, Britain's third prime minister in 2 months, re-appointed Jeremy Hunt as the country's finance minister. Sunak's second cabinet appointment was his close ally Dominic Raab as deputy prime minister and justice secretary. He also retained James Cleverly as foreign secretary, and Ben Wallace in the defence brief.
Travelling to Delhi soon, wait and watch whether cabinet expansion or rejig: Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai
Asked whether leaders who had resigned from the Ministry following certain allegations (like K S Eshwarappa, Ramesh Jarkiholi) will be inducted into the Ministry as some of them have reportedly met party leaders, Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai said, "I can't respond to guess questions... all aspirants make attempts, but finally it is the high command which decides."
Straight trees always cut first: Ashok Khemka over appointment of his batchmates as secretaries
"Congratulations to my batchmates newly appointed as Secretaries to GOI! While this is an occasion for merry, it brings an equal measure of despondency for one's own self having been left behind. Straight trees are always cut first. No regrets. With renewed resolve, I shall persist," Khemka tweeted.
Cabinet reshuffle likely in Goa after Cong MLAs join BJP; CM meets governor but says they didn't discuss politics
The chief minister, however, told reporters here that the meeting, which followed Wednesday's dramatic developments, had nothing to do with politics.
BJP reshuffles state in-charges
Two former chief ministers and a cabinet minister have been made in-charges of different states. Former Tripura CM, Biplab Kumar Deb, has been given Haryana replacing Tawde. Similarly, former Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani has been introduced to the national organisation for the first time ahead of the Gujarat assembly polls. Rupani has been given charge of Punjab and Chandigarh. Earlier, these two states were with Dushyant Gautam, who is also holding charge of Uttarakhand.
Babul Supriyo: From singer to BJP's poster boy to Mamata's minister
"It was with great disillusionment that I had announced that I would quit politics. A great opportunity has been extended by Didi (Mamata Banerjee) and Abhishek Banerjee and I am happy to accept that. I was expecting something more after seven years as a Union Minister of State. Then differences started growing with the party," Supriyo had said after joining the TMC last year.
Didi rejigs team Trinamool; cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday
"We have to reshuffle our Cabinet. But (I) do not have any plan to dissolve the Cabinet and come up with a new one," West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee.
West Bengal: Mamata Banerjee's cabinet reshuffle on wednesday after minister's sacking
Cabinet reshuffle on cards, 4-5 new faces likely to get inducted: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee
"I want to clarify that some reshuffling is required in the state Cabinet for the purpose of smooth functioning. We will announce the details of the reshuffle on Wednesday at 4 p.m. In this process, some existing Cabinet members will be relieved of their ministerial responsibilities and their experience will be utilised in party organization. Similarly, four to five new faces will be inducted," CM Mamata Banerjee said.
West Bengal SSC scam jolts Mamata govt, cabinet reshuffle expected soon
Odisha Cabinet reshuffle: 21 ministers, including 5 women, take oath
A total of 21 Ministers, including 13 Cabinet and 8 Minister of State (Independent charge), took oath in the Naveen Patnaik-led state council of ministers. Five women MLAs were inducted in the council of ministers, including three as Cabinet Ministers. In the last cabinet, only two women were part of the council of ministers.
Odisha Cabinet Reshuffle: Naveen Patnaik revamps team, 21 MLAs take oath as ministers
Cabinet reshuffle in Odisha: All ministers resign; new ministers will take oath on June 5
Andhra CM Jagan Mohan Reddy to hold first Cabinet meeting post reshuffle on May 13
Governor Biswa Bhusan Harichandan administered the oath of office and secrecy to 25 members of the Andhra Pradesh Cabinet at a public function near the state Secretariat in Velagapudi on April 12. The cabinet is scheduled to meet at 11 am.
B S Yediyurappa hints at Karnataka cabinet expansion or reshuffle before May 10
With the state cabinet meeting that was scheduled to be held on May 5 getting postponed to May 11, speculation is rife that it may be to accommodate expansion or reshuffle of the ministry, amid reports that the BJP high command is expected to arrive at a decision in this regard before May 10.
Rajasthan Cabinet Reshuffle: The full list of ministers and key highlights
The cabinet ministers included three who had been elevated from minister of state (MoS) to cabinet rank -- Mamta Bhupesh, Bhajan Lal Jatav and Tikaram Jully. While two who were sacked last year have been reinducted as cabinet ministers -- Vishvendra Singh and Ramesh Meena.
Gehlot's new cabinet follows social engineering model
The new Cabinet has four Dalit ministers -- a first in Rajasthan. Gehlot's entire Cabinet resigned on Saturday evening after a meeting of the Council of Ministers and the new ministers were declared late on Saturday
Rajasthan cabinet reshuffle: 15 ministers take oath in CM Gehlot-led Congress govt
Congratulating the MLAs who are going to take oath as ministers, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said that work has to be done with dedication to maintain the trust of the people in the Congress government.
Rajasthan Cabinet reshuffle: Congress' Johari Lal opposes Tika Ram Jully's induction, calls him corrupt
Rajasthan Cabinet Reshuffle: 15 new Ministers take oath as Congress seeks to strike balance
Congress will win 2023 assembly polls and form the government again: Ashok Gehlot
"We will all unite and take the policy, ideology and programmes of Congress to the common people under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and win the 2023 assembly polls on the issue of development and form the government again," said Gehlot in a tweet.
Rajasthan Cabinet reshuffle: Fifteen ministers to take oath at 4 pm
Fifteen new Rajasthan ministers will take oath at 4 pm on Sunday at the Raj Bhavan here as part of the Cabinet reshuffle, officials said. The ministers include 11 Cabinet ministers and four ministers of state (MoS). The new Rajasthan cabinet will see 12 new faces, including five from the Sachin Pilot camp, in the reshuffle on Sunday.


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Lawmakers wrestle over state budget
May 28, 2009 (SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) Several groups of loud demonstrators who favor a tax increase crowded the Capitol, most of them either clients or workers from agencies that depend on state dollars to keep their programs alive.
But two floors up in the soundproof legislative chambers, lawmakers tried to balance the largest deficit in state history and had to deal with another reality.
"We simply, at this stage, at this time, don't have sufficient votes to pass an income tax increase," said State Rep. Lou Lang, (D) Skokie.
Governor Pat Quinn, who recommended the state income tax rate be increased from 3 to 4.5 percent, said he believed lawmakers in both chambers would see things his way by the May 31st deadline.
"We are going to get there. I'm confident that the members of the general assembly will live up to their responsibilities to have a balanced budget," said Quinn.
But Republican leaders refuse to help the controlling Democrats.
"We just think it's bad policy to raise taxes in this environment and drive more businesses and people who are paying taxes out of this state," said State Sen. Christine Radogno, (R) Senate minority leader.
"We have a budget problem because we've had six years of spending where we didn't have the money," said State Rep. Tom Cross, (R) House minority leader.
Many downstate Democrats and those from more affluent suburban districts also could pose a problem, while Democrats who represent lower income areas worry about deep cuts that could happen without new revenue.
"We could be cutting the very safety nets that folks are depending on in this tough economic time if we reduce the state's budget by $7.4 billion," said State Rep. Will Burns, (D) Chicago.
With the deadline only three days away, the governor dismissed the idea of passing a temporary budget and returning next fall to deal with the deficit.
"We are not going to leave here without a balanced budget and that's the way it works," said Quinn.
If there is nothing passed by May 31 and the governor has to call a special session for the summer, then that would mean the legislature would have to have a 3/5 majority to pass a tax increase. People in Springfield say that would be virtually impossible to get.
Charles has more on the political beat in his Precinct 7 Blog.