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This I Believe. Herbert L. Werner is an expert on management problems. He is the head of Werner Textile Consultants, a firm which helps to work out manufacturing processes and labor relations for the textile industries of the United States, Canada, and Europe. In his work, Herbert Werner has found that human relations are a big factor in industry. Here is what he has come to believe about his own life.
when I was only 15 years old. From him, as well as from my mother, who was full of love and understanding, there was instilled in me the belief that to the Ten Commandments there might well be added an eleventh: Thou shalt be kind to thy fellow men. Throughout my business, family, and social life, I have tried to live by it. I believe it pays off in peace of mind, in personal satisfaction, and in a sense of greater contribution to making this a better world to live in.
and antagonisms which are still a part of our life, one's faith in such a principle can easily be shaken. Still, this endeavor to be kind enriches my life and my relationship to other people. It even adds, I am sure, to success in my profession. It makes me believe in the dignity of the individual. It makes me realize how important freedom of action, of belief, and of expression; the feeling of belonging, of being accepted, are to each individual.
give those with whom I come in contact every opportunity to express themselves fully. I try to be kind and considerate of the other person's point of view. I know how important it is for everybody to feel that he is wanted and appreciated, and therefore I welcome ideas from others. Obviously, I know I am not perfect, but these are the principles I try to live by. To be kind, to believe in, and to be granted; the dignity of the individual is in my belief the foundation of all human relations. It applies at all levels: in the home, in business, in industry, and even in public life.
travels and work in many countries in the world, I have come to the conclusion that the greatest strength of the American people--and the one we have feared to communicate to the people of the world--is our underlying faith and conviction in the concept, thou shalt be kind to thy fellow man. It is hardly ever expressed in just those words; yet it is, by and large, lived by.
more freedom to me, and I believe to more people, than any other human trait. With each passing year I realize, more and more, that by trying to be kind to my fellow man, in spite of disappointments I've had, I'm achieving deep, inner satisfaction and greater peace of mind than can come from any other source.
That was Herbert L. Werner of New York. In 1951, he headed an ECA management seminar for top industrialists of western Europe.


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At the place where I had written "XXXXXXXXX", I need to place soemthing like

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So, basically I want to iterate the second list using the index of the first, and I cannot use nested loop.
But whenever I am trying to use the syntax I mentioned above, I get template parse error because the syntax is wrong. Somebody please guide me as to how to achieve this.

A: You have to use the index without the ' ', like this: ${allList.pathList[list1List.index]}
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Q: Как сделать так, чтоб при наведении увеличивался масштаб изображения, НО при этом сам элемент не выходил за назначенные ему границы? Как сделать так, чтоб при наведении увеличивался масштаб изображения, НО при этом сам элемент по прежнему оставался 300рх и не выходил за назначенные ему границы?
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OpenEdition Books > IRD Éditions > Synthèses > Trente ans de lutte contre l'onch... > Foreword
Environmental Impact Assessment of Settlement and Development in th...
Trente ans de lutte contre l'onchocercose en Afrique de l'Ouest. Traitements larvicides et protection de l'environnement
Laurent Yaméogo
Christian Levêque
Jean-Marc Hougard
Environmental Impact Assessment of Settlement and Development in the Upper Léraba Basin
Jean-Louis Sarbib
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1This volume presents the results of an environmental impact assessment of land settlement in one river valley on the Burkina Faso-Côte d'Ivoire border. The methodology used for the assessment is quite simple and inexpensive and grew out of the environmental monitoring conducted by the Onchocerciasis Control Programme (OCP).
2OCP is one of the most successful health projects in Africa. The program was launched by seven West African countries and nine donors, including the World Bank, and has expanded to include eleven countries and twenty-three donors. Thirty million people are now protected from the disease and 25 million hectares of arable land have been made available for settlement.
3What has been less widely publicized than the health benefits of the Programme is the fact that, although the OCP strategy relies on the repeated application of Chemical insecticides and biological control agents to the aquatic breeding sites of the blackfly vectors, there have been no significant disturbances of the aquatic environment throughout the Programme area. The environmental soundness of the OCP strategy has been demonstrated by an extensive environmental monitoring System supervised by an independent group of environmental experts. However, despite the care taken to prevent damage to the OCP rivers, there have recently been indications that other factors might be having a negative impact. To investigate this possibility the Committee of Sponsoring Agencies (CSA: comprised of FAO, UNDP, WHO, the World Bank), the statutory body that oversees OCP, undertook to organize this assessment, with funding from the Government of the Netherlands.
4The findings of the assessment are important in that they indicate that the rapid settlement occurring in many of the areas where riverblindness has been controlled may have negative consequences for the aquatic environment even when there is very little use of Chemical fertilizers and pesticides. There is a need, therefore, for proactive policies by the concerned governments to ensure that when settlement occurs it does so in a manner that will not harm the environment.
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Environmental Impact Assessment of Settlement and Development in the Upper Lé...
Thirty years de onchocerciasis control in West Africa. Blackfly larviciding and environmental protection
Laurent Yaméogo, Christian Levêque et Jean-Marc Hougard (dir.)
SARBIB, Jean-Louis. Foreword In : Trente ans de lutte contre l'onchocercose en Afrique de l'Ouest. Traitements larvicides et protection de l'environnement : Thirty years de onchocerciasis control in West Africa. Blackfly larviciding and environmental protection [en ligne]. Marseille : IRD Éditions, 2003 (généré le 19 janvier 2020). Disponible sur Internet : <http://books.openedition.org/irdeditions/28698>. ISBN : 9782709925280. DOI : 10.4000/books.irdeditions.28698.
Sarbib, J. 2003. Foreword. In Yaméogo, L., Levêque, C., & Hougard, J. (Eds.), Trente ans de lutte contre l'onchocercose en Afrique de l'Ouest. Traitements larvicides et protection de l'environnement : Thirty years de onchocerciasis control in West Africa. Blackfly larviciding and environmental protection. IRD Éditions. doi :10.4000/books.irdeditions.28698
Sarbib, Jean-Louis. "Foreword". Yaméogo, Laurent, et al.. Trente ans de lutte contre l'onchocercose en Afrique de l'Ouest. Traitements larvicides et protection de l'environnement : Thirty years de onchocerciasis control in West Africa. Blackfly larviciding and environmental protection. Marseille : IRD Éditions, 2003. (p. V) Web. <http://books.openedition.org/irdeditions/28698>.
YAMÉOGO, Laurent (dir.) ; LEVÊQUE, Christian (dir.) ; et HOUGARD, Jean-Marc (dir.). Trente ans de lutte contre l'onchocercose en Afrique de l'Ouest. Traitements larvicides et protection de l'environnement : Thirty years de onchocerciasis control in West Africa. Blackfly larviciding and environmental protection. Nouvelle édition [en ligne]. Marseille : IRD Éditions, 2003 (généré le 19 janvier 2020). Disponible sur Internet : <http://books.openedition.org/irdeditions/28581>. ISBN : 9782709925280. DOI : 10.4000/books.irdeditions.28581.
Yaméogo, L., Levêque, C., & Hougard, J. (Eds.) 2003. Trente ans de lutte contre l'onchocercose en Afrique de l'Ouest. Traitements larvicides et protection de l'environnement : Thirty years de onchocerciasis control in West Africa. Blackfly larviciding and environmental protection. IRD Éditions. doi :10.4000/books.irdeditions.28581
Yaméogo, Laurent, et al., ed. Trente ans de lutte contre l'onchocercose en Afrique de l'Ouest. Traitements larvicides et protection de l'environnement : Thirty years de onchocerciasis control in West Africa. Blackfly larviciding and environmental protection. Marseille : IRD Éditions, 2003. Web. <http://books.openedition.org/irdeditions/28581>.
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By International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC)
The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) opened its 125th session on 6 May 2019 in Vienna.
On May 8th, 2019, the Board held elections for officers for the coming year, which were as follows:
Cornelis P. de Joncheere, President
Wei Hao, First Vice-President
David T. Johnson, Second Vice-President and Chair of the Standing Committee on Estimates
H. H. Sevil Atasoy, Rapporteur
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Jagjit Pavadia, Chair of the Committee on Finance and Administration.
IDPC sends its congratulations to the new INCB President. Mr. Cornelis P. de Joncheere.
Mr de Joncheere is a Dutch citizen and has expertise in pharmacy and health sciences. He was previously Director of the Department of Essential Medicines and Health Products at the World Health Organization (2012-2016), where his work included access to controlled medicines and the Expert Committee on Drug Dependence. He has been a member of the INCB since 2017.
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21: Belgian Makers: Brepols and Biermans
Brepols started making playing cards in 1826, although he had been in the printing trade since 1800. In 1833 the firm was called Brepols & Dierckx (the former's son-in-law). Biermans (1875-1970) was a relatively late arrival on the Turnhout playing card scene.
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Belgian Playing Cards
Belgian cardmakers have been actively designing and exporting playing cards since the 14th century. The earliest documentary evidence about playing cards emanates from Belgium: accounts for money spent on playing cards; money lost whilst playing at cards, etc.
Biermans Genoese pattern
Biermans Genoese pattern for Clayson agricultural machinery, late 1960s
Bongoût
One of the outstanding and most popular packs made by the Turnhout cardmakers was the Bongoût type. Special scenic Aces could be added to packs according to the client's preferences.
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"Cartes Françaises" and Genoese pattern by Brepols.
Cerveza 'El Gallo'
Advertising pack for Cerveza 'El Gallo' made in Belgium, c.1880
Genoese pattern
The design is purely 'Parisian' but the colouring is green, red, yellow and black. Belgium has taken this pattern for general use.
Léonard Biermans, Turnhout
Léonard Biermans had been employed by Brepols from 1871-1874 before opening his own playing card factory in 1875.
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Standard English pattern manuf'd for L.N. Mann by Van Genechten, c.1890
Naypes Finos made in Belgium
Belgian manufacturers were competing against Spanish makers. Features of the traditional Spanish designs, including many well-known brands, were imitated or plagiarised. Often they were anonymous so as to avoid importation duties in the destination country.
Standard Genoese
Van Genechten manufactured playing cards in various styles, including specially customised versions for commercial clients wishing to advertise their own brands on the cards.
Advertising decks made in Belgium by A. Van Genechten, 1960s.
Van Genechten
A. Van Genechten ran a flourishing business, supplying various kinds of cards both inside the country and abroad including England, Spain, France, Denmark, South-East Asia, China and Japan


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Remedy Partners With 505 Games For A Multiplayer Spin-Off Of Control
Control was released back in 2019 and all things considered, it was a success for the team over at Remedy. It looks like the world of Control has more to offer and this time it won't be for singleplayer.
Remedy has signed a co-publishing and development deal with 505 Games for a multiplayer spin-off of Control. The game is codenamed Condor and will a 4 player co-op PvE experience. The spin-off will release on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
In a press release, more info was given on the budget for Condor and small details on another Control-game coming in the future.
Condor's initial development budget amounts to EUR 25 million. The development and marketing investments will be equally split between 505 Games and Remedy Entertainment as well as the future net revenues generated by the game.
In addition, 505 Games and Remedy Entertainment have outlined high-level collaboration terms to further expand the Control franchise with a bigger-budget Control-game, to be agreed in more detail in the future.
There is no official release window or date for Condor at this time.
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The Ticking Time Bomb: India's Water Crisis About to Blow Up in Our Face
Source: News18.com | March 22nd, 2018 | By Jaideep Hardikar
It's not yet March-end, but water woes are already un-ravelling in many parts of India.
Bengaluru, by all accounts, sits on acute water shortages akin to the ones witnessed by Cape Town. According to a statement issued by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) ahead of World Water Day, water table there shrunk from 10-12 metres to 76-91 metres in two decades, while the number of extraction wells went up from 5,000 to 0.45 million in 30 years.
In Vidarbha's farm-suicide-torn Yavatmal, the government medical college has sent home its outstation students, following impending water scarcity. Much of western Vidarbha faces water shortages.
A three-hour drive from there, in coal city Chandrapur, the administration has told the super thermal power project managers to be judicious through the summer in their freshwater usage, as citizens stare at massive water shortages. It's a city that lives off a small river, now turned into small puddles.
While three units of the 3340-MW power station are likely to be shut down soon, citizens would get water once in two or three days starting from the first week of April. Chandrapur is not the only city to be facing cuts. Across the country, growing number of cities will soon cut water supplies.
Nagpur, the orange city, is witnessing unprecedented water scarcity and lopsided distribution. Yet the city's water utility, a private company called the Orange City Water Distribution Company Limited, gets a national award for being the most progressive water utility in India. The joke is on Nagpurians.
In drought-prone Marathwada, poignant stories abound of rural women spending hours in search for water.
Coastal Andhra is reeling under water scarcity. In parts of south-western Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Odisha and north India, next three months seem to throw a gigantic water crisis.
The Cauvery Delta region in Tamil Nadu is facing extreme water stress. The Godavari — the Ganges of the South — is sans water. The Krishna too, in many stretches, is but a stream of dry pebbles.
Tens of thousands of people from the arid Bundelkhand region are already boarding trains to migrate to the cities, or wherever they could, and escape both, hunger and water scarcity.
What is more, the usually ebullient Narmada that horizontally dissects the country has fallen silent in Bharuch, thanks to a mindless political decision that prompted authorities to quietly empty upstream dams into the Sardar Sarovar Project at a time when the rains were below normal.
Hundreds of sub-rivers across India have fallen permanently silent. The masses along their beds are up and marching towards the cities in steady streams, rocked by sagging agriculture and water scarcity.
Much to worry
On the World Water Day 2018, there is much to worry about. India sits on a freshwater time bomb that promises to alter her demographic and economic character, as many studies warn us.
While drought and water scarcity could be topical and usually grip several regions during the summers, our water crisis is turning more structural and stems from mostly the man-made factors.
It's also the reason why water conflicts between urban and rural masses, regions and states, districts and blocks, and sectors — from industrial to agriculture to domestic and commercial — are getting fiercer.
Add to that, the climatic aberrations, changing rainfall patterns, alarmingly overexploited ground-water, and we have a perfect recipe for disaster.
Yet, water, and related crises don't draw the political and economic attention they must, year after every year. Look at how our political-administrative regime has quietly pushed under the carpet, for a silent burial, a crucial July 2016 report on the reforms of water management institutions: it called for a comprehensive restructuring of India's Central Ground Water Board and Central Water Commission in order to create a new 21st Century management authority equipped to tackle the impending crises.
We continue to flounder with the management of rivers and under-stress aquifers. In Maharashtra, the machines and not humans are a focus of a much-trumpeted programme called Jal-Yukta Shivar, where a rush to clear bills for the deployment of earthmoving vehicles outweighs the wise calls for holistic water management approach, including a re-look at our aquifers, cropping patterns, distributaries and demand.
We have a situation where some parts of India are about to see a biting water scarcity and in the same landscapes, bumper yields of water-guzzling sugarcane with record production of sugar.
India's water crisis
As the 2016 report submitted by the committee on restructuring the CWC and CGWB observed: "While big dams played a big role in creating a huge irrigation potential, today the challenge is to effectively utilise this potential, as the water that lies stored in our dams is not reaching the farmers for whom it is meant. At the same time, groundwater, which truly powered the Green Revolution, faces a crisis of sustainability."
"Water levels and water quality have both fallen creating a new kind of crisis, where the solution to a problem has become part of the problem itself. The new challenge is to manage our aquifers sustainably so that we make sure we do not kill the goose that lays the golden eggs," it said.
This and many other ground reports indicate what we call drought is actually a full blown water crisis, accentuated by our poor planning, as a recent Water Resources Institute (WRI) report indicated.
It said "water shortages are hurting India's ability to produce power" and that "40 percent of the country's thermal power plants are located in areas facing high water stress, a problem since these plants use water for cooling."
"Scarce water is already hampering electricity generation in these regions — 14 of India's 20 largest thermal utilities experienced at least one shutdown due to water shortages between 2013 and 2016, costing the companies $1.4 billion. It's an issue that's only poised to worsen unless the country takes action — 70 percent of India's thermal power plants will face high water stress by 2030 thanks to climate change and increased demands from other sectors."
We are putting our water-guzzling industries in water-stressed areas. What do we expect then?
The 2016 report on the CWC-CWGB restructuring says, if the current pattern continues, about half of India's water demand will be unmet by 2030. Our water tables are falling in most parts; there is fluoride, arsenic, mercury, even uranium in our groundwater. Climate change poses fresh challenges as more extreme rates of precipitation and evapo-transpiration exacerbate impacts of floods and droughts. Our cities produce nearly 40,000 million litres of sewage every day and barely 20 percent of it gets treated; only 2% of our urban areas have both sewerage systems and sewage treatment plants.
The observations underscore that ticking time bomb.
Water stress is driving people to migrate out of their native places. I saw and reported this during the 2016-17 water crisis that hit the once-prosperous Cauvery Delta in Tamil Nadu; or in 2015 and 2016 in Marathwada, in Maharashtra, when the state government deployed a water-train from Miraj to supply drinking water to the citizens of Latur, daily.
In a discussion paper released last month by the FAO titled 'Water stress and human migration: a global, georeferenced review of empirical research', its authors from the Oregon State University note that the "linkages between water stress and migration are understudied in India, Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Central Sahel."
The body of work reviewed by the authors finds a strong consensus among researchers that increased water stress can cause people to decide to migrate.
Come April, and some of India's poorest would take that decision — driven by water stress, in distress.
(The author is a Nagpur-based journalist and a volunteer for the People's Archive of Rural India. Views are personal)
*Original article online at https://www.news18.com/news/opinion/opinion-the-ticking-time-bomb-indias-water-crisis-about-to-blow-up-in-our-face-1696839.html


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Nailing the Michael Brown smear
by Stephen Tall on November 28, 2007
Iain Dale has, yet again, raised the issue of the £2.4m donation to the Lib Dems from Michael Brown. According to Iain this shows the party hasn't a leg to stand on when we demand that Labour and the Tories clean up their act. So it's interesting to compare the arch-Tory blogger's take with the impartial Electoral Commission's verdict:
"The Electoral Commission has previously made clear its view that it was reasonable for the Liberal Democrats – based on the information available to them at the time – to regard the donations they received from 5th Avenue Partners Ltd in 2005, totalling just over £2.4m, as permissible.
"It remains the Commission's view that the Liberal Democrats acted in good faith at that time, and the Commission is not re-opening the question of whether the party or its officers failed to carry out sufficient checks into the permissibility of the donations."
There is, of course, a separate issue which is still under investigation: was the money that Michael Brown gave to the Lib Dems his to give away. But that has nothing to do with Iain's repeated smears that the party was somehow dishonest in its handling of the Michael Brown donation.
Accused by Iain Dale. Cleared by the Electoral Commission. I know who I find more credible.
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Whatever happened to Michael Brown? Is he back in jail or sunning it in Spain?
by Jack Monroe on November 28, 2007 at 2:57 pm. Reply #
Based on the information available … there's the rub. Why did they not get more information given what they knew round the edges.
Clearly you're right about Dale but the Michael Brown donation reeks to high heaven and there are smaller donations and promised donations and so on that still need some answers.
When Dale was interviewing the Electoral Commission for Doughty I suggested a whole load of questions and policy changes. One of these concerned personal donations and ensuring written contracts, cooling off periods and independent legal and/or financial advice for donors.
That would protect everyone. It's tagged "protecting vulnerable donors" here. But it would also protect vulnerable recipients and their officers and volunteers.
by Chris Paul on November 28, 2007 at 3:25 pm. Reply #
Before Labour Party apologists start throwing mud at the Liberal Democrats in a pathetic attempt to deflect attention from Mr Abrahams, they should have their eyes directed to the 1980s when the party was almost in the pocket of the gangster capitalist, bully, serial liar and friend of Leonid Brezhnev known as Mr Robert Maxwell.
Did anyone in the Labour Party even question Maxwell's probity?
Well yes, one or two brave souls in Buckingham did, because, armed with the Board of Trade report, they deselected him and prevented him standing in the February, 1974, General Election.
But when Maxwell bought the Mirror, Labour politicians from Neil Kinnock downwards trooped off to Headington to lick Maxwell's boots.
Remember the Private Eye cartoon, "His Master's Voice"? Kinnock was the dog.
by Angus J Huck on November 28, 2007 at 3:41 pm. Reply #
You know full well that is not the whole story. The Electoral Commission said this at the time on the information open to them. Subsequently, it became clear that 5th Avenue Partners were apparently not trading in the Uk. If that proves to be the case – and we await the outcome of the Police inquiry – it is clear it was an impermissible donation. If so, the money will have to be returned. What part of that do you disagree with?
by Iain Dale on November 28, 2007 at 3:50 pm. Reply #
I hate to have to agree with Iain, but he has a point. The fact is the party was outrageously incautious in accepting that money and if the police end up ruling that he didn't have a right to give away that money, we will pay the price.
Is it that outrageous to suggest that we should have looked before we leapt? If it sounds too good to be true that's usually because it is.
by James Graham on November 28, 2007 at 4:02 pm. Reply #
Iain:- you keep on claiming that the Liberal Democrats didn't investigate the donation properly before accepting it. The Electoral Commission decided the party had investigated properly. Why aren't you willing to admit that this was the case?
by Mark Pack on November 28, 2007 at 4:09 pm. Reply #
Er, but Iain, the Electoral Commission hasn't said the donation was impermissible. The last statement from them said that there had been no breach of the rules – but that if new evidence came to light it might reconsider. It hasn't yet, and the investigative work of the banks and authorities has taken months if not years to unravel Mr Brown's affairs. Clearly the party could not have have carried out the same level of investigation as these authorities within the time limits, and even the authorities can't work it out!!
Iain is only raising this again as he wants to try to smear the Lib Dems as accepting dodgy money, trying to link the whole Brown issue in people's minds with Labour's deliberate attempts to avoid the rules on fundraising. Iain did the same around the time of the loans for honours scandal. He tries to come across as a reasonable and unbiased commentator – but he's just another Tory politician trying to put the boot in and promote the Tory cause. Let us never forget that!!
by Grammar Police on November 28, 2007 at 4:12 pm. Reply #
I find two things to disagree with in your comment. Firstly, it contains a self-evident inconsistency. You write that "it became clear" that Brown's company was "apparently" not trading in the UK. If it's clear, it doesn't need to be qualified by the term "apparently", which implies doubt.
Secondly, the element of doubt you allude to defeats the point you're trying to make. Both Labour and the Tories have accepted donations despite them immediately appearing to be dubious; Brown's donation was cleared by the Electoral Commission based on the information which was available at the time. If they change their mind, fair enough, but to imply the Lib Dems were wrong to accept it in the first place is out of order.
by Derek Young on November 28, 2007 at 4:17 pm. Reply #
"The Electoral Commission said this at the time on the information open to them. Subsequently, it became clear that 5th Avenue Partners were apparently not trading in the Uk."
But that's the point – subsequent to the event. You can't make a decision based on information that only becomes available in the future!
The checks that the parties have to undertake are quite minimal – there is no comparision for example with the duties with regard to money laundering. In particular they need to be done within a much shorter timeframe.
In any case there would be huge implications for political parties were liabilities in donations, which had been investigated and cleared by the EC – could then, years later be declared impermissible.
Basically that would mean the parties could never be certain that they wouldn't be called upon to repay any donation!
by Hywel Morgan on November 28, 2007 at 4:45 pm. Reply #
Let's just accept that we agree to differ with Iain '10-6-06′ Dale.
by Martin Land on November 28, 2007 at 5:33 pm. Reply #
The key element in the EC statement above seems to me to be the word "available". They said the LDs had acted properly on the information available to them at the time – not the information they had at the time, but the information which which the Liberal Democrats could have had at that point.
Clearly it subsequently transpired that there were things the party did not know about – but these were obvious lacunae in their knowledge, that they should have mad an effort to fill, but information they could not reasonably have known existed – "unknown unknowns", in Rumfeld-speak.
While people may disagree with the actual wisdom of taking this money, the EC seem pretty clear that on the basis of the information which was available to the party at the time, it was legal and not procedurally improper to accept it.
by Jeremy Hargreaves on November 28, 2007 at 7:22 pm. Reply #
The policy of the Liberal Democrats is to support the state funding of political parties. That way, the news will no longer be dominated by stories like this that discredit party politics. In Germany there is nothing like the same level of scandal affecting party donations.
It is not a perfect solution, but compared to the shambles we have at the moment it is the best policy option available.
by Geoffrey Payne on November 28, 2007 at 7:40 pm. Reply #
Tax payer funding does not preclude sleaze and Germany is not immune from party funding scandals – witness the rather sad end to Kohl's time in office. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Kohl#Scandal
A much lower limit on total spending would be much more effective – so long as we can all raise the same amount voluntarily, there is no need for tax payers to fork out.
by tim leunig on November 28, 2007 at 7:54 pm. Reply #
The problem with that is that the rich will continue to have more influence than the poor – something that is not supposed to happen in a democracy.
I am not against voluntary donations, but they should not have a disproportionate influence.
Also I do not think democracy can or should come cheap. Political parties should have enough funds to pay for a viable organisation and for policy research.
The example I gave of Germany is not perfect, but after Kohl things have become a lot better, as far as I know anyway.
Simple solution limit donations AND spending (and not just during elections either)
by Peter1919 on November 28, 2007 at 11:19 pm. Reply #
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The only album released in Arthur Russell's lifetime, 1986's "World of Echo", is a staggering, ethereal masterpiece. It's a look at a wildly underrated artist, almost unknown during the time he lived, creating something so overwhelmingly breathtaking that it is hard to believe it is real.
It's a record that relies heavily on effected cello and Russell's paper-thin voice. The result is something that cannot accurately be described by words – you really have to hear it to capture it's breadth. The results feel nearly elemental – somehow lighter than air but dealing with emotions so much deeper – almost dense. You cannot help but feel totally devastated by the listening experience.
Russell died in 1992 of AIDS. There's not much footage of him performing outside of these clips. In the intervening years, material has trickled out in one way or another through compliations of his recordings or songs he produced. Lots of it is fractious, with occasional highlights coming to the surface. None of it quite feels like "World of Echo", a work that for some reason feels strangely spiritual.
Perhaps it is the fact that there's so little about Arthur Russell available that clips like these are so tremendous. It's like a fresh blanket of snow. You know what will happen eventually – it'll melt and evaporate into the air, but damn if it didn't look pretty for a minute.
"World of Echo" is that last little bit that refuses to melt – a reminder of what happened before the seasons change and it just becomes another memory.


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Wang Yi highlights 10-point consensus between China, EU
Updated 22:14, 18-Mar-2019
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China and the European Union (EU) share a 10-point consensus including their support for multilateralism and an open world economy, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in Brussels on Monday, calling cooperation the "mainstream" in China-EU relations.
"Between China and Europe, competition is inevitable, but cooperation remains the mainstream and win-win outcomes are the goals," he said.
Wang made the remarks during a joint press conference with EU's foreign and security policy chief Federica Mogherini after attending the ninth round of the China-EU high-level strategic dialogue.
The dialogue kicked off a series of high-level exchanges. Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay state visits to three European countries – Italy, Monaco and France – from March 21 to 26 and Premier Li Keqiang will travel to Brussels in April to attend the China-EU leaders' meeting.
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks during a joint press conference with EU's foreign and security policy chief Federica Mogherini (not seen) in Brussels, Belgium, March 18, 2019. /VCG Photo
Cooperation and competition
Wang summarized a 10-point consensus between China and the EU after the dialogue:
1. Both sides support multilateralism and oppose unilateral practices.
2. Both sides support the UN's leading role in international affairs and safeguarding basic norms in international relations based on the purposes of the UN Charter.
3. Both sides support an open world economy and oppose protectionism.
4. Both sides support the rules-based multilateral trading system and the efforts to reform and enhance the World Trade Organization (WTO).
5. Both sides support the peaceful settlement of hotspot issues and regional disputes through dialogue and consultation.
6. Both sides support stronger international cooperation against climate change and other global challenges.
7. Both sides support the commitment to the international non-proliferation regime and to maintaining strategic stability.
8. Both sides support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and commit to reducing inequalities and the North-South gap.
9. Both sides support the campaign against all forms of terrorism and taking holistic measures to contain the spread of extremism.
10. Both sides support the post-WWII international system and order and will not construct another system anew.
A cargo container of China Railway Express is loaded on to a truck at Eurokombi terminal in Hamburg, Germany, May 29, 2018. /Xinhua Photo
China firmly supports the integration of Europe and looks forward to strengthening cooperation with Europe on cybersecurity and jointly building the Belt and Road, Wang told reporters.
On the other hand, he acknowledged there are differences between China and Europe as well as competition in areas such as economy and trade, but stressed that "this is normal."
"Healthy market competition can spur our respective development and invigorate China-Europe cooperation, making it more resilient," he said.
Europe stands to gain more from China's new round of reform and opening-up as the country aims for "higher-quality opening-up and development," he added.
Meanwhile, the diplomat urged Europe to give "fair, unbiased and non-discriminatory treatment" to Chinese companies operating on the continent.
Wang Yi: Meng Wanzhou case 'deliberate political move'
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (C), European Council President Donald Tusk (R) and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker co-chair the 20th China-EU leaders' meeting in Beijing, July 16, 2018. /Xinhua Photo
'Competition is normal'
Describing Wang as her "good friend," Mogherini hailed cooperation between the EU and China in maintaining multilateralism, fighting climate change and supporting the Iran nuclear deal.
"The European Union is committed to strengthening cooperation with China," she said. "China is a leading global power, economically, politically – and for the European Union, is a comprehensive strategic partner."
Brussels and Beijing are trying to identify areas for bilateral cooperation as "global powers" on the international stage, she noted, adding that "competition is only normal" between the two giant economies.
Opinion: The EU needs to remain calm and objective about China
EU's foreign and security policy chief Federica Mogherini (R) speaks during a joint press conference with Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Brussels, Belgium, March 18, 2019. /VCG Photo
On March 12, the European Commission set out a 10-point plan on its relations with China, which will be discussed at the next EU summit this Thursday and Friday.
"China is simultaneously a cooperation partner with whom the EU has closely aligned objectives, a negotiating partner, with whom the EU needs to find a balance of interests, an economic competitor in pursuit of technological leadership, and a systemic rival promoting alternative models of governance," it stated.
During a press conference last Friday, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang admitted there has been cooperation as well as frictions in the China-EU relationship, but said he believed the past experience of resolving differences and conflicts can continue to be used to enhance mutual trust.
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I am a Muslim. But Trump's views appall me because I am an American.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally Dec. 5 in Davenport, Iowa. (Charlie Neibergall/Associated Press)
By Fareed Zakaria
Columnist focusing on foreign affairs
I think of myself first and foremost as an American. I'm proud of that identity because as an immigrant, it came to me through deep conviction and hard work, not the accident of birth. I also think of myself as a husband, father, guy from India, journalist, New Yorker and (on my good days) an intellectual. But in today's political climate, I must embrace another identity. I am a Muslim.
I am not a practicing Muslim. The last time I was in a mosque, except as a tourist, was decades ago. My wife is Christian, and we have not raised our children as Muslims. My views on faith are complicated — somewhere between deism and agnosticism. I am completely secular in my outlook. But as I watch the way in which Republican candidates are dividing Americans, I realize that it's important to acknowledge the religion into which I was born.
And yet, that identity doesn't fully represent me or my views. I am appalled by Donald Trump's bigotry and demagoguery not because I am a Muslim but because I am an American.
In his diaries from the 1930s, Victor Klemperer describes how he, a secular, thoroughly assimilated German Jew, despised Hitler. But he tried to convince people that he did so as a German; that it was his German identity that made him see Nazism as a travesty. In the end, alas, he was seen solely as a Jew.
This is the real danger of Trump's rhetoric: It forces people who want to assimilate, who see themselves as having multiple identities, into a single box. The effects of his rhetoric have already poisoned the atmosphere. Muslim Americans are more fearful and will isolate themselves more. The broader community will know them less and trust them less. A downward spiral of segregation will set in.
Condemnation came quickly to Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump's call to ban Muslims from entering the United States. Here are some notable comments. (Gillian Brockell/The Washington Post)
[Krauthammer: Why take the Trump stunt seriously?]
The tragedy is that, unlike in Europe, Muslims in the United States are by and large well-assimilated. I remember talking to a Moroccan immigrant in Norway last year who had a brother in New York. I asked him how their experiences differed. He said, "Over here, I'll always be a Muslim, or a Moroccan, but my brother is already an American."
In an essay in Foreign Affairs, British writer Kenan Malik points out that in France, in the 1960s and '70s, immigrants from North Africa were not seen as or called Muslims. They were described as North Africans or Arabs. But that changed in recent decades. He quotes a filmmaker who says, "What, in today's France, unites the pious Algerian retired worker, the atheist French-Mauritanian director that I am, the Fulani Sufi bank employee from Mantes-la-Jolie, the social worker from Burgundy who has converted to Islam, and the agnostic male nurse who has never set foot in his grandparents' home in Oujda?" His answer: "We live within a society which thinks of us as Muslims."
Once you start labeling an entire people by characteristics such as race and religion, and then see the whole group as suspect, tensions will build. In a poignant article on Muslim American soldiers, The Post interviewed Marine Gunnery Sgt. Emir Hadzic, a refugee from Bosnia, who explained how the brutal civil war between religious communities began in the Balkans in the 1990s. "That's what's scary with [the] things that [Donald Trump is] saying," Hadzic said. "I know how things work when you start whipping up mistrust between your neighbors and friends . . . I've seen them turn on each other."
[Ignatius: Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric will live in infamy in U.S. history]
I remain an optimist. Trump has taken the country by surprise. People don't quite know how to respond to the vague, unworkable proposals ("We have to do something!"), the phony statistics, the dark insinuations of conspiracies ("There's something we don't know," he says, about President Obama) and the naked appeals to peoples' prejudices.
But this is not the 1930s. People from all sides of the spectrum are condemning Trump — though there are several Trump-Lites among the Republican candidates. The country will not stay terrified. Even after San Bernardino, the number of Americans killed by Islamist terrorists on U.S. soil in the 14 years since 9/11 is 45 — an average of about three people a year. The number killed in gun homicides this year alone will be about 11,000.
People and groups Donald Trump has denounced
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is not one to back down readily from controversial statements, and the list of those he dislikes continues to grow.
Not one to back down easily from controversial statements, the Republican presidential candidate continues to add to the list of people he condemns.
Mitt Romney After being attacked as a "fraud" by Mitt Romney, Donald Trump slammed him as a "choke artist" and "failed candidate" who begged for Trump's endorsement during his 2012 presidential bid. Tom Smart/EPA
In the end, the United States will reject this fear-mongering and demagoguery, as it has in the past. But we are going through an important test of political and moral character. I hope decades from now, people will look back and ask, "What did you do when Donald Trump proposed religious tests in America?"
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Verge Hack Week
George Lucas blew up the galaxy, but I still remember it
The best of the now-derelict 'Star Wars' expanded universe in one timeline
By Rich McCormick on August 22, 2014 10:08 am 75Comments
Welcome to the first annual Verge Hack Week. We're totally blowing up our site: we've given our reporters and editors the entire week to play with new tools and experiment with new storytelling ideas, while members of our amazing product team have gathered in New York to help build all sorts of interesting new things. Learn more.
I'm not sure why George Lucas hates his own creations. It feels like the director has tried his best to erase goodwill, to go back and manually delete fond memories, to rifle through history and systematically undo all the good things his movies have added to cultural consciousness. Lucas added aliens to Indiana Jones. He shoehorned CGI monsters into every Star Wars scene, he made Greedo shoot first, and he invented Jar Jar Binks. But it's only recently, shortly after the sale of the company he founded to Disney, that Lucas completed his most nefarious work. For George Lucas would stop at nothing short of blowing up the universe.
Specifically the Star Wars expanded universe, the collection of books, comics, video games, and stories that blossomed into the narrative space left by the original Star Wars movie trilogy. In April, Lucasfilm announced that the post-Return of the Jedi expanded universe — a history built over 35 real-world years out of millions of words and thousands of characters — would be destroyed. Not with a bang, like Alderaan or the Death Stars, but with a whimper. The events that the books and games and comics said took place after Star Wars: Episode VI were rebadged as Star Wars Legends: an alternate reality to the new canon to be written in upcoming movies and CGI TV shows.
35 years of books, comics, and video games, wiped out
It was the equivalent of putting the expanded universe in a care home, listening to its misremembered war stories, and patting it on the head. Poor thing, its memory ain't what it used to be. For those like me that grew up mainlining Star Wars novels, comics, and video games, slotting them in alongside repeat watches of the original trilogy, destroying the universe was heartbreaking.
It was worse because Lucas promised he never would. The director had long ago explained that he had little intention of creating Star Wars: Episodes VII, VIII, and IX, and like a timid animal finding a new home, the expanded universe grew to fill the gaps. It moved slowly at first, with early novels such as Splinter of the Mind's Eye, before Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy helped balloon it into an intricate web of repeat characters and vividly imagined worlds. It offered further adventures for Luke, Leia, Han, and Lando, but it also let Luke's wingman fall in love with the repentant scientist who designed the Death Star. It let us meet Chewbacca's dad. It showed how Boba Fett was saved from the Sarlacc pit — not once, but three times.
Star Wars: Episodes IV to VI are great movies, but they're Saturday matinees, painted in large brushstrokes of black and white, good and evil. The expanded universe was big enough to show shades of gray. It showed how a young Jedi responsible for the destruction of a sun, its habitable planets, and billions of people, was slowly rehabilitated back into (fake sci-fi) society. It let Luke go bad, plumbing the depths of the dark side he had previously resisted when his dad tried to turn him. It imagined a newer, less evil Empire, one held in place with honor and duty rather than a cackling pickle-faced maniac in a cape.
At least this means Chewbacca is alive again
It wasn't afraid to kill its darlings. Chewbacca had the most glorious death, with nothing short of an entire moon required to kill the 200-year-old Wookiee. Han and Leia's son was hacked apart by vicious aliens. Luke's wife was killed by his nephew. It was also capable, perhaps when Lucas wasn't looking, of being silly. My favorite running joke in the expanded universe involves a 4-foot cyborg Ewok named Lieutenant Kettch who could supposedly fly TIE fighters.
But now it's gone, relegated to alternate timeline status, a fake history of a fake galaxy. Some of it deserves to be remembered. Here are the best, weirdest, and most memorable bits of the Star Wars expanded universe that took place after Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
All dates in the timeline below are given in years ABY (After the Battle of Yavin, which takes place in Star Wars: A New Hope).


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Fossil Free Pitt presses for divestment by April
By Elise Lavallee and Emily Wolfe • September 30, 2019
About 10 students from the group drove to Johnstown for Friday's Board of Trustees meeting, where they interrupted Chancellor Patrick Gallagher's report to demand the board vote on divesting from fossil fuels at its meeting on Feb. 28, 2020.
Op-ed: University must follow through with divestment
By Hannah Bailey • November 16, 2018
While the creation of a Socially Responsible Investing Committee and its holding of a public forum does show a step in the right direction, whether the University follows through in actually reassessing the ethics of its investments remains to be seen.


Fifteen years ago the Surfrider Foundation staff and activists were schlepping a surfboard through the halls of the U.S. Congress collecting signatures to support the initial passage of the Beach Bill (H.R. 999). The surfboard (and the bill) ended up with over 100 signatures from U.S. Senators and Representatives alike. President Bill Clinton signed the coastal water quality legislation into law on October 20, 2000 creating the Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act (BEACH Act). Today, the Surfrider Foundation continues to fight to keep the BEACH Act funded and to improve the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) oversight of this critical public health program.
Fifteen years ago the Surfrider Foundation staff and activists were schlepping a surfboard through the halls of the U.S. Congress collecting signatures to support the initial passage of the Beach Bill (H.R. 999).
The surfboard (and the bill) ended up with over 100 signatures from U.S. Senators and Representatives alike. President Bill Clinton signed the coastal water quality legislation into law on October 20, 2000 creating the Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act (BEACH Act). Today, the Surfrider Foundation continues to fight to keep the BEACH Act funded and to improve the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) oversight of this critical public health program.
It covers marine coastal waters of all 35 of our coastal states and territories, including the Great Lakes states. Written in part by the Surfrider Foundation's legal issues team, this premier coastal water quality law requires states to adopt minimum, health-based criteria for recreational water quality and to notify the public if beaches exceed these criteria. The BEACH Act also authorizes a grant program, administered by the EPA, to assist states and coastal territories in paying for their beach water quality monitoring and public notification programs.
This bill would not have passed without a strong coalition of environmental groups supporting it and a bi-partisan effort on the Hill to usher it through Congress.
The Natural Resources Defense Council ("NRDC"), Center for Marine Conservation, and American Oceans Campaign helped pass the initial bill. Today, Surfrider has aligned with Clean Ocean Action, Riverkeeper, NRDC, Waterkeeper Alliance, Heal the Bay, and Alliance for the Great Lakes to build the support in Congress needed to keep the bill funded and in force.
Unfortunately, the BEACH Act has fallen victim to the budget wars that have been ongoing on Capitol Hill over the last four years.
Each year the President's Administration has proposed to eliminate all funding for the EPA BEACH Grants program, and with it, the intended motivation for coastal states to comply with EPA's recommended national water quality criteria and public notification procedures. Fortunately, we have been able to count on ocean champions in Congress to restore funding for this critical public health program over the last three years, because they can clearly see the great need for the program and what a wise investment it is.
You can download the letters signed this past week by 25 members of the Senate and 26 House Representatives to request continued funding for the BEACH Act in the FY 2016 budget that Congress is currently working on for next year.
Through the BEACH Act grant program, a small federal investment of less than $10 million ($9.5 million in 2015) is shared between 35 coastal states to protect the health of 100 million US beach-goers.
What's more, beach programs help protect public confidence in clean beaches that drive tourism and recreation economies in coastal counties that are worth nearly $90 billion nation-wide and support more than 69 million jobs.
It just makes sense. This relatively modest $9.5 million appropriation to ensure protection of our health and coastal resources seems like the deal of the century!
It took over six years to pass the BEACH Bill in D.C. in 2000, which was then touted as a top environmental victory of our organization, helping to define and advance our water quality program and organization overall. Now maintaining the strength and funding of the BEACH Act is a federal priority for Surfrider Foundation and a top campaign under our Clean Water Initiative.
President Clinton made clear how important public health protection at U. S. beaches was when he signed the BEACH Act into law on October 10, 2000. His statement is below.


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Astros Player's and Trade Value
With the Astros hovering around 10 games back in the NL Central there has already been quite a bit of talk about the Astros being active sellers at the trade deadline. Therefore I have decided to attempt to use Sky Kalkman's Trade Value Calculator to try to determine how much the Astros could get in return if they chose to move some of their veterans for prospects. All salary information used here came courtesy of Cot's Contracts, and all WAR totals used came courtesy of FanGraphs. The Astros players that I chose to discuss here are Michael Bourn, Hunter Pence, Brett Myers, Wandy Rodriguez, and Clint Barmes since they would have the most trade value. Jeff Keppinger could have probably been included on this list, but since he is just coming back from an injury I decided to leave him off the list for now.
Michael Bourn
Bourn has one more year of team control remaining after this year, so his 2012 salary had to be estimated. I chose to use similar WAR numbers to 2009 and 2010 for Michael Bourn since his production to start this season has been on par with those seasons, and he's not projected to decline before he becomes a free agent. That puts his WAR totals at 4.8 and 4.9. As a rule of thumb Kalkman stated that a player usually makes 80% of there free agent value in their third year of arbitration, but 80% of a 4.9 WAR player would put his salary at 18 million, which is way to high considering Bourn is making 4.4 million this year. Therefore the salary I chose to use for 2012 was 9 million, which is slightly more than double this year's salary. I also figured that if Bourn was traded then it wouldn't be until closer to the deadline, therefore the salary that I used in the calculations for this year was 2.2 million, half of Bourn's 4.4 million total salary.
Using these figures, Michael Bourn would cost approximately 11.2 million for the next season and a half, and his production over that time period would be valued at 32.85 million. That would give him a 21.65 surplus trade value over that time frame.
Hunter Pence
Hunter Pence has two more years of team control remaining after this season, so his 2012 and 2013 salary had to be estimated. There was also a lot more fluctuation in Hunter's previous season's WAR values, as his lowest total was 3.3, and his highest total was 4.1. Since Hunter is easily our best player and would require the most in return for a trade, I decided to be optimistic on Pence's WAR values, and use his 2011 pace for the next three seasons. Pence has currently produced a WAR of 1.6 in 51 games, and if he kept that pace all season he would produce a WAR of 4.9. His salary over that time frame was even harder to estimate, but I estimated that he would make about 12 million in 2012, and 16 million in 2013 if he kept performing at the level he is this season.
By these calculations Pence would cost approximately 31.5 million over the next two and a half seasons, and his production over that time period would be valued at 55.35 million. That would give him a 23.85 surplus trade value.
Myers was a little easier to calculate since his salary is known for the length of his contract. His WAR over that time frame however was harder to predict. I figured that given Brett's peripherals last year, he is probably not a 4 WAR pitcher every year, and instead used an average of 2.8 WAR for all three seasons. I included his option year in 2013 in the calculation since it can become guaranteed based on performance in 2012.
Brett Myers would cost 24.5 million over the next two and a half seasons, and his production over that time period would be valued at 31.5 million. That would give him a 7 million surplus trade value.
Wandy Rodriguez
Like Myers, Wandy also has a known salary, and over the last two seasons his WAR has been close to 4. I chose to use an average WAR of 4 for the length of Wandy's contract. I also included his option year since the option becomes a player's option if he is traded.
Wandy would cost 39.5 million over the next three and a half seasons, and his production over that time period would be valued at 63 million. That would give him a 23.5 million surplus trade value.
Clint Barmes
Barmes will earn 3.925 million this season. Since any trade would probably happen midseason I used half of Barmes 2011 salary (2 million). So far in 24 games Barmes has accumulated a WAR of 0.7, which is largely based on his defense. If he were to keep up that pace his WAR for the season would be approximately 3.94. However I doubt he would get that high since his WAR has never been over 2.0 in his career. I still decided to go optimistic with Barmes and use a WAR of 3 for his season value, using 1.5 here since he would be traded midseason.
Barmes would cost 2 million over the next half season, and his production over that time period would be valued at 6.75 million. That would give him a 4.75 million surplus trade value.
Looking at it this way, Hunter Pence, Wandy Rodriguez, and Michael Bourn hold the most trade value to the Astros. So what kind of package could these players bring in a potential trade?
Using Victor Wang's research the chart below lists an approximate value for prospects based on there rankings.
This is the link to find Baseball America's top 100 prospects for the 2011 season.
What could a potential trade of these players yield for the Astros:
1.) Michael Bourn
Borderline 1 top 26-50 hitting prospect
1 top 11-25 pitching prospect, and a grade B hitter or pitcher
1 top 51-75 hitter, and a grade B hitter or pitcher
2.) Hunter Pence
1 top 11-25 pitching prospect, and a grade B and C hitter or pitcher
3.) Brett Myers
1 grade B pitcher or hitter
4.) Wandy Rodriguez
1 top 26-50 hitting prospect
1 top 11-25 pitching prospect, Grade B hitter or pitcher
5.) Clint Barmes
Borderline grade B pitcher
2 grade C pitcher or hitters
The team that Hunter Pence has been linked to recently has been the Phillies. In a potential trade with the Phillies, Domonic Brown's name has been mentioned frequently as someone the Astros should ask for in return for Pence. However, according to the chart above Brown and Pence's value aren't comparable. A more comparable trade using the above guidelines in a trade with the Phillies would probably have to center around one of the Phillies top pitching prospects. Ed Wade does have the advantage of demanding top value for Hunter in any trade since the Astros are in no hurry to trade Hunter, but may have a hard time receiving a package of players that would force Wade's hand to trade away the potential franchise player in a time when new ownership is about to take over.
Looking at it this way, trading away most of the veteran pieces of our team right now, which is a popular sentiment given the current state of affairs, would not net as much in return as what has been mentioned. Being Astros fans, maybe we think some of our players carry more value than what others perceive them to carry because we watch them on a daily basis, and become more emotionally attached to certain players. What do you think the Astros could get in return for trading any of these players? Was I close on estimating any of these guys value?


When asked by Tur if the State of the Union was back on, Kildee smugly replied: "It felt like, watching the President from the Rose Garden, that he may have already given it." Before jumping on President Trump, the media might want to take a look in the mirror.
A transcript of the relevant portion of Friday's edition of MSNBC Live With Katy Tur is below. Click "expand" to read more.
KATY TUR: I'm going to co-opt this question from my colleague, Peter Alexander, because I think it's a really good question. He says, the question for the President today is, how can you cast this as anything other than a wasted five weeks of financial pain for Americans that was caused by him?
JONATHAN LEMIRE: It would be a very hard sell for him to do so. I mean, I guess it would be along the lines of he was fighting for his principles, he was fighting for his campaign promise. But no, this is, it's hard to sell. This is anything but an unnecessary bit of pain for, for a lot of…I would say a lot of pain, for nearly a million federal workers and also a political disaster for the President, who has seen his poll numbers slip here in recent weeks, who has even shred some Republican support. You know, even though he does on the whole remain very popular within his own party, you know, we saw his numbers take a hit in the last couple of days. And, you know, he is, now, he is going to have to learn to live with not getting that wall. Yes, a deal could be struck. Jake, Jake is right. There, there's a way here for both sides to come out, I think border security, it won't be a wall, you know, but it…can the President live with that? You know, as Jake also said like, can the White House stay out of these negotiations? Can the President himself sort of take a step back? The best way to get the President involved in something is to tell him not to because of how difficult he is to manage. So that may be something that is tricky. We know how many times have we seen the President seem to have a well-laid plan blow up because early in the morning or late at night he goes on his phone and goes on Twitter and shatters something? And a further point, he did close there with that idea, that sort of veiled threat or not so veiled threat.
TUR: But he's been making that threat for a long time.
LEMIRE: That's right. And that's the issue. Is this the point?
TUR: And Republicans are not behind this.
LEMIRE: Right. Is this the boy who cried wolf?
LEMIRE: Is this, is this…does that, does that threat carry any leverage?
TUR: …and saved himself all of this trouble.
LEMIRE: Sure, our reporting suggests that it was something they certainly did look at and explore and then backed away from it. And as you said, there are many Republicans on the Hill who want no part of that, thinking that first of all, it takes away some of their power but also they're afraid of the precedent it could set for a future Democratic President.
TUR: You know, you talk about the President, not you specifically, we generally sometimes talk about the President in saying that the best way to get him not to do something or to do something is to tell him not to do something. That's how you talk…that's what happens with your four-year-old.
LEMIRE: Yeah, my four-year-old. That's, that is exactly how it works. But that is in some ways how this President works. He doesn't like to be told no. He has surrounded himself on his staff right now, where there are very few people who can ever tell him like, sir, that's a bad idea and we know how impulsive he is and how reactionary he is, particularly to media and, and in the conservative media, which is what got him in the shutdown mess to begin with.
TUR: And the people who were telling him no, he has systemically gotten rid of.
TUR: He no longer has John Kelly as his Chief of Staff, he no longer has Defense Secretary Mattis in charge of the military. All of the people who have pushed back on him have found themselves either resigning or being fired by this President. Hold on a second, we have Democratic Congressman Dan Kildee of Michigan here. Congressman, this announcement from the President that he's going to give you guys three weeks to figure out what you are going to do about border security and funding the wall, will he get any money for his wall in the next three weeks?
REP. DAN KILDEE: Well, I think we will for border security just as we have said all along when we debate these bills, when we debate Homeland Security appropriation bills, of course we deal with border security. But, you know, let's keep in mind, this takes us right back where we were. The position that we took from the very beginning is that we should submit this question to the legislative process and keep the government open. I mean, I have seen a lot of things with this President for the first time. I have seen people give victory laps. This is the first time I have ever seen somebody go to the Rose Garden and take a defeat lap. He basically lost everything and I hope that it's a lesson that this President takes heed of. You can't close the government down. You can't shut the government down as leverage and the unwillingness to submit the question to the legislative process. We could have done this in December. We suggested this in December. A few weeks ago, Lindsey Graham suggested this very same thing. Why the President had to put the country through so much pain, put 800,000 people through so much agony to come back to this very point proves, frankly, he just seems to be unfit to do the, to the job he's elected to do.
TUR: …who are not going to get back pay for these five weeks off. It's the businesses surrounding government buildings that haven't had business since these government buildings have basically been shutdown; these ghost towns that have been created by this government shutdown. There are a whole lot of folks that aren't going to get the money back that they lost from this.
TUR: But I do want to focus on the next three weeks, are you confident that we're not going to be in the very same spot come February 15th that we are today?
KILDEE: Well, I certainly can't predict what the President will do but I have faith in the legislative process that we'll come to some resolution and that we'll come up with legislation. The President may not like it but I think that's okay. I think one of the major failures here is that the legislative process did not get, get a chance to work its way and if Mitch McConnell takes a lesson from this, if, if Republicans in the Senate take a lesson from this, it's that we're going to have to come to some resolution, it may not be what the President wants. But we shouldn't cede the authority of the Congress of the United States to the President. We shouldn't give him the authority to also be the Republican leader of the Senate. We should do our job; if the President doesn't like it, he can veto it. But I don't think we should condition what we do on this end of the building based on the whim or a tweet from the President.
TUR: Is the State of the Union back on?
KILDEE: That's a good question. I do not know. It felt like, watching the President from the Rose Garden, that he may have already given it.


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Sarah Michelle Gellar will not be participating in the upcoming reboot of Joss Whedon's beloved Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series. Gellar starred as the titular character in the original series, which ran for seven seasons from 1997 to 2003, and even spawned a spin-off series, Angel. A reboot of the series was announced last summer, instantly dividing fans who felt that the show's legacy should remain untouched.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer follows a teenage girl named Buffy (Gellar) who discovers that she is the Chosen One in a long line of female warriors whose purpose is to battle supernatural beings. Over the course of the series, Buffy struggles to balance her life-or-death Slayer duties with normal, everyday life. Now, nearly 16 years since the series finale aired, Fox is looking to bring the Slayer back to the small screen. Whedon will return to executive produce the reboot with Monica Owusu-Breen serving as the showrunner; and though no plot details have been revealed yet, the current plan is to introduce an African-American Slayer. Unfortunately, though no official casting has begun, fans shouldn't hold out hope for Gellar returning to dust more vampires.
Though official details have yet to be revealed, Owusu-Breen explicitly stated that her take on the series won't be retelling Whedon's story, but adding to the Slayer mythology. It will take place roughly 20 years since the original series and will focus on a completely brand new Slayer. Owusu-Breen assured fans that Whedon's series will not be tampered with. Several other actors from the original series, like Alyson Hannigan, expressed confidence in the new series, while David Boreanaz, who starred as one of Buffy's many love interests, has given the show his stamp of approval.
While devoted fans of Gellar might have hoped she'd have some part to play in the new show, the series has the opportunity to move forward and develop its own identity without using its source material as a crutch. However, an appearance from Buffy would still be welcomed if Gellar were to become involved, even in a small capacity. With no real concrete direction on the series, fans should expect more news regarding the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot soon rather than later.