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President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the United States has a plan in place to contain the coronavirus outbreak. Speaking on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Trump said: �We do have �
Marsh, one of the world�s largest insurance brokers and risk advisers, has seen a spike in clients� inquiries for political violence cover in the Gulf after attacks on tankers and oil installations rattled the region last year, an executive said. �
U.S. insurers are ramping up cyber-insurance rates by as much as 25% and trying to curb exposure to vulnerable customers after a surge of costly claims, industry sources said. The changes follow a challenging year of hackers using malicious programs, �
Philadelphia Teachers Union Suing District Over Asbestos in Schools
The union representing public school teachers in Philadelphia is suing the district over its handling of asbestos contamination in schools, the union said Monday. The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers suit comes after the city school district was for...
PMA Companies Names Consiglio as Vice President of Northeast Region
PMA Companies has named Jeanne Consiglio as vice president of the Northeast region. In her new role, Consiglio will be responsible for leading the company�s strategic growth objectives in Connecticut, the New York City metropolitan area, Massachusetts,...
Massachusetts� Sayata Labs Hires King Flynn as Head of Insurance
King Flynn has joined Sayata Labs, a Boston, Mass.-based, Axa-backed insurtech startup, as head of Insurance. Sayata helps insurance carriers and brokers accelerate their mid-market cyber business while simultaneously providing insureds with knowledge ...
Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Appointed as NAIC Committee Chair
Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Jessica Altman has been selected for the second consecutive year to serve as chair of the Health Insurance and Managed Care Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the organization re...
Natural Disasters in Past Decade Broke Records for Economic, Insured Losses: Aon
The past decade broke new records in terms of economic damages and insured losses, according to Aon�s latest catastrophe report. The costs to global economies reached US$2.98 trillion between 2010 and 2019, which was US$1.19 trillion higher than 2000-2...
Pandemic Fears Grow as China Steps Up Efforts to Control New Flu-Like Coronavirus
Deaths from China�s new flu-like virus rose to nine on Wednesday with more than 470 confirmed cases, heightening global fears of contagion from an infection suspected to have come from animals. The previously unknown and contagious coronavirus strain e...
Former Iowa Agent Sentenced to Federal Prison for Fraud
A Muscatine, Iowa, insurance agent has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for wire and mail fraud. Federal prosecutors for Iowa said that Ashley Erin Murphy Schneider, 37, was sentenced Thursday in Davenport�s federal courthouse after pleadi...
Ohio State Doctor Abuse Lawsuits, Investigation Have Cost $9.8M, So Far
The investigation and related lawsuits about alleged sexual abuse decades ago by an Ohio State University team doctor have cost nearly $10 million so far, according to the school. The total was about $9.8 million as of December, school spokesman �
North Carolina Awarded $281M for Hurricane Damage by Army Corps
The Army Corps of Engineers will award $281 million to a North Carolina city and county heavily impacted by Hurricanes Matthew and Florence. The Corps will release $237 million to Surf City/ North Topsail Beach and $44.5 million to Carteret �
Earthquake Felt in Eastern Tennessee, Kentucky
A small earthquake hit East Tennessee on Monday, officials said. The U.S. Geological Survey said a magnitude 3.8 earthquake struck near Fincastle, Tennessee in Campbell County. A USGS map showed it was felt around East Tennessee and southern Kentucky. ...
Toyota Motor Corp. said on Tuesday it will recall 3.4 million vehicles worldwide because of an electronic defect that can result in air bags not deploying in crashes. The recall, which includes 2.9 million U.S. vehicles, covers 2011-2019 Corolla, 2011-...
Families of the 176 people killed when Iran shot down a Ukrainian airliner face a complicated legal battle where backing from the victims� governments may be crucial as they seek damages, legal experts said. Lawyers say many relatives will automatically �
IBM called for rules aimed at eliminating bias in artificial intelligence to ease concerns that the technology relies on data that bakes in past discriminatory practices and could harm women, minorities, the disabled, older Americans and others. As it ...
Starr Insurance Companies Appoints Murphy as Southeast Regional VP
Starr Insurance Companies has appointed Kathleen Murphy as regional vice president, Southeast Region, effective January 13. Murphy is responsible for field leadership as well as broker and client relationships. According Robert Cruz, senior vice presid...
Cannasure Names Jenkins Senior Product Development Manager in California
Cannasure Insurance Services has named Summer Jenkins a senior product development manager. Jenkins is based in Sacramento, Calif., and reports to Kieran O�Rourke, director of underwriting. Jenkins has more than 20 years of foreign and domestic underwr...
Topa Insurance in California Names Pavlov Chief Operating Officer
Calabasas, Calif.-based Topa Insurance Group has named Denise Pavlov the group�s senior vice president and chief operating officer. Pavlov joined the company in April 2018 as senior vice president and chief underwriting officer, overseeing Topa�s under...
Washington Commissioner Orders Pet Insurers to Repay $4.7M to Consumers
Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler issued a fine of $950,000 against ACE American Insurance Co. and Indemnity Insurance Co. of North America for reportedly overcharging 18,000 Washington consumers for nearly five years. Kreidler ordered th...
Alabama Agencies Ordered to Pay $540K in Back Wages to Disabled Workers
A recycling center that employs adults with intellectual disabilities in Alabama should have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to its workers, federal labor officials said. The U.S. Department of Labor recently announced that employees were rightfu...
Korean Re Gets Chinese Approval to Open Shanghai Branch
Korean Re has completed the establishment of a branch office in Shanghai as the company received final approval from the authorities of the People�s Republic of China on Dec. 27, 2019. The new office in Shanghai will be Korean Re�s �
Lawsuit: Ex-Volvo Worker in North Carolina Fired Because He Wasn�t Swedish
A Romanian-born former employee at Volvo was left out of business talks, turned down for a promotion and ultimately fired because he wasn�t Swedish, according to a lawsuit. Luke Diventi is suing Volvo Group North America LLC for job discrimination, �
Marsh & McLennan Acquires Ironwood Insurance Services of Georgia
Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), the middle market agency subsidiary of Marsh, has acquired Ironwood Insurance Services, LLC, an independent broker in the Southeast. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2007 and based in Atlanta, I...
Wolf Promoted to President of Big I Advantage, Replacing Departing Buse
Mark Steven Wolf is the new leader of Big I Advantage, replacing Paul Buse who is moving on after more than 21 years with the company. Wolf is now president of Big I Advantage, IIAA Agency Administrative Services, IIAA Membership �
Florida-Based Acentria Insurance Makes Executive Promotions
Acentria Insurance, an insurance agency operating in the Southeastern United States, has made executive leadership promotions in preparation for its plans grown and expand within the marketplace. Effective immediately, Kendall McEachern, co-founder of ...
China�s Mysterious Respiratory Virus Spreads to Health Workers, Different Countries
China�s mysterious respiratory virus has caused six deaths and infected a number of medical workers, a sign the outbreak has entered a new phase with the illness spreading from person to person. Health-care workers contracting the new illness indicates...
Tort Reformers Proclaim Top 10 �Judicial Hellholes� for 2020
It�s out: the annual report by tort reform advocates of what they say are the nation�s worst local courts and states that are abusing the civil justice system. The report also warns of state courts that did not make the �
Feds Charge 2 Florida Women with Hurricane Irma Disaster Assistance Fraud
Two Florida women have been accused of lying about damage caused by Hurricane Irma in separate cases, federal prosecutors announced last week. Indictments were returned charging Bernita Willette Carswell, 36, of Jacksonville, and Deannajo White, 39, Su...
Texas Mutual: Massachusetts Firm Pleads Guilty to Workers� Comp Fraud
A Massachusetts company has pleaded guilty in a Travis County, Texas, district court to workers� compensation fraud, according to Texas Mutual Insurance Co. Texas Mutual says EME International Inc. (EME) of Marblehead, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to ...
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namespace Discussion\Factory;

use Authentication\Factory\AuthenticationServiceFactoryTrait;
use ClassResolver\ClassResolverFactoryTrait;
use Common\Factory\AuthorizationServiceFactoryTrait;
use Common\Factory\EntityManagerFactoryTrait;
use Discussion\DiscussionManager;
use Taxonomy\Factory\TaxonomyManagerFactoryTrait;
use Zend\ServiceManager\FactoryInterface;
use Zend\ServiceManager\ServiceLocatorInterface;

class DiscussionManagerFactory implements FactoryInterface
{
    use AuthorizationServiceFactoryTrait, ClassResolverFactoryTrait, TaxonomyManagerFactoryTrait,
        EntityManagerFactoryTrait;

    /**
     * Create service
     *
     * @param ServiceLocatorInterface $serviceLocator
     * @return DiscussionManager
     */
    public function createService(ServiceLocatorInterface $serviceLocator)
    {
        $authorizationService = $this->getAuthorizationService($serviceLocator);
        $classResolver        = $this->getClassResolver($serviceLocator);
        $objectManager        = $this->getEntityManager($serviceLocator);
        $discussionManager    = new DiscussionManager($authorizationService, $classResolver, $objectManager);
        return $discussionManager;
    }
}

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On the Indian subcontinent, the widespread burning of firewood, coal, agricultural waste, and biomass for energy disperses black carbon particulates into the atmosphere. These manmade aerosols not only pollute the air, but also form an "atmospheric brown cloud" that's disrupting the local climate.
"Aerosols can influence the supply of moisture, and a small perturbation can play a big role," says study co-author Chien Wang, a senior research scientist at MIT's Center for Global Change Science and in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. "Pre-monsoonal aerosols push rainfall to the northwest, drying out central India. Aerosols emitted during the monsoon season send the moisture supply in a different direction, and dry out most of the subcontinent."
The study produced its findings by running a global climate model to simulate the impacts of aerosols emitted before and during the monsoon season in all but the northeast region of India, which is not well-represented in the model. The effects of pre-monsoonal aerosols—increased rainfall in the northwest and decreased rainfall elsewhere, particularly in central India—persist during the monsoon, further reducing soil moisture in central India. Aerosols emitted during the monsoon lower rainfall totals not only in central India, but across the country. When aerosol emissions are simulated throughout both periods, impacts during the monsoonal period are similar to those resulting from monsoonal aerosols only.


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Formica® Compact®Grade Laminates
FENIX® INNOVATIVE MATERIALS FOR INTERIOR DESIGN OPEN NEW DOORS TO THE MALAYSIA INTERIORS MARKET
Starting January 1, 2021, Formica Malaysia will act as official exclusive distributor of the FENIX range in Malaysia presenting the Italian design smart materials.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1 January 2021— Following a significant and well-established presence in the Malaysian market for interiors, a new player is announced to strengthen the positioning of FENIX®: Formica (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. will act as official exclusive distributor of these smart materials starting from January 1, 2021.
The new relationship between Arpa Industriale and Formica Group dates back to June 2019 with the acquisition of Formica Group by Broadview Holding B.V.. Since then, Formica Group has joined Arpa Industriale S.p.A., Trespa International B.V. and Westag & Getalit AG as part of Broadview's family of businesses in the field of material technology. The main focus, which connotes the sister companies, is on coordinated strategy and synergies, with the main goal to offer customers world-class surface materials.
As a main result of this new partnership, Formica Asia expands its product portfolio in Malaysia to include the award-winning FENIX® range through its distribution network. In the Malaysian market, Formica (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. will be official exclusive distributor of FENIX starting January 1, 2021.
FENIX are the innovative materials created for interior design by Arpa Industriale in 2013. They arise from the Italian design tradition, reflected in the project stylistic choices: from the colours selection to the overall aesthetic result of the interiors applications. Applying proprietary technologies, the external surface of FENIX is characterised by the use of next generation acrylic resins, hardened and fixed through an Electronic Beam Curing process. With low light reflectivity, the FENIX surface is extremely opaque, soft touch and anti-fingerprint. Thermal healing of superficial micro-scratches is also possible. They are suitable for both vertical and horizontal applications in the following sectors: kitchens, bathrooms, design furniture, retail, offices, and contract.
The FENIX family includes:
FENIX NTM®: the first to be introduced in 2013 to meet the market request for smart materials and matt surfaces: it is available in 20 refined and timeless colours. Colours have been selected to highlight and match the latest trends in interior design: a collection of silent elegant colours, enriched by the very recent addition of Bianco Dover to complete the palette of whites. All its innovative features – a matt, soft touch, and anti-fingerprint surface, as well as the possible thermal healing of superficial micro-scratches – make FENIX NTM the smart material.
FENIX NTA®: its empowered metallic surface features the same characteristics of FENIX. Hence, it is extremely matt with visual comfort and a very pleasant soft touch, as well as anti-fingerprint. Thermal healing of superficial micro-scratches is also possible. The metallic colour range includes Acciaio Hamilton, Argento Dukat and Oro Cortez. Among its pluses, FENIX NTA is suitable both for vertical and horizontal application, and is easy to work with standard carpenters tools, such as regular cutting, milling, polishing and drilling tools; it is also customisable with laser engraving techniques and CNC machining.
A new system concept consolidates the role of FENIX as an ingredient brand aimed at offering aesthetic solutions and simplifications for the interiors, with the result to engage our customers as true partners in exploiting the value-creation opportunities offered by our innovative 'ingredients', as well as in the launching of newly co-developed projects. This system is called "FENIX INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS. Kitchen Sinks", a collection of sinks designed to be integrated with kitchen worktops made of FENIX NTM. Products are made from acrylic resin with an extremely matt finish, allowing for perfect integration between the FENIX NTM worktop and the sink in kitchen designs. Two models and fourteen FENIX NTM colours are available in the catalogue.
Innovation and sustainability are two core values for the whole Group, whose objective is to foresee and create cutting-edge aesthetic and technical solutions designed with sustainability in mind. These values are perfectly summed up in FENIX materials: the smart surface of FENIX with its innovative features made with proprietary technology has struck the world of interiors; its more natural core, thanks to the use of lignin in the formulation of thermosetting resins, represents not only a more sustainable choice, but at the same time a significant technical innovation. This is possible thanks to Arpa's constant investment in research and development.
With this new distribution partnership in Malaysia with its sister company Formica Asia, a new core value is likewise highlighted: the sharing of a common vision to support a mutual profitable long-term growth and, above all, to offer Malaysian designers and customers innovative surface solutions for new neverending design stories.
Arpa Industriale
Since 1954, Arpa has been designing and manufacturing high-quality panels with HPL technology for a vast array of intended uses, including architecture, interior design, healthcare, shipyards, transportation, hospitality, retail, and kitchen industries. A wide range of extremely diversified products, both in terms of structure and aesthetics. Arpa high-pressure decorative laminates are made in the 150,000 sq.m plant in Bra, Piedmont, and are the expression of the vivid and original Italian creativity. Over 65 years of investments in research, advanced technology, and personnel training have allowed Arpa to win over international markets and gain its consolidated reputation as a highly reliable player in the industry that stands out for the expertise of its personnel, excellence and variety of its offering, flexibility, and rapid service. Arpa is well aware of its social responsibility towards its stakeholders, but also society and the environment. This is why, in 2008, it adopted a Code of Ethics that regulates its shared practices and focuses on values, such as integrity, transparency, and sustainability. In 2013, Arpa obtained the FSC® chain of custody certification. In 2015, it added the OHSAS 18001 certification, complying with the international standard for occupational health and safety management. Arpa Industriale won "Best of the Best" Interzum Award 2011 for "Naturalia" HPL, "High Product Quality" Interzum Award 2017 for "Losa" finish and "High Product Quality" Interzum Award 2019 for "Kér" finish.
For further information, please visit: arpaindustriale.com
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FENIX are the innovative materials created for interior design by Arpa Industriale. Launched in 2013 with FENIX NTM, they are suitable for both vertical and horizontal applications (kitchens, bathrooms, design furniture, retail, offices, and contract). Applying proprietary technologies, FENIX materials were developed by an international multidisciplinary team of 15 researchers. The external surface of FENIX involves the use of nanotechnology and it is characterised by the use of next generation acrylic resins, hardened and fixed through an Electronic Beam Curing process. With low light reflectivity, FENIX surface is extremely opaque, anti-fingerprint and features a very pleasant soft touch. Thermal healing of superficial micro-scratches is also possible. In May 2017, Arpa Industriale enriched the FENIX brand with a new material: FENIX NTA, an empowered metal surface with FENIX features. A new FENIX factory opened in 2018 within the Arpa Industriale's plant site following an Industry 4.0 approach. FENIX is distributed in over 70 countries and has obtained numerous awards and recognitions, including: MaterialPREIS 2014, "Best Design Material" Dwell On Design 2014, ADI Design Index 2014, "Best of the Best" Interzum Award 2015, "New Product Award" Archidex 2015, 2016 ADI Compasso d'Oro Award Honourable Mention, "Best of Best" Iconic Awards 2016, Red Dot Product Design 2019, and "High Product Quality" Interzum Award 2019.
For further information, please visit: fenixforinteriors.com
Follow us on: Twitter (a_arpa), Facebook (@fenixforinteriors), Instagram (@fenixforinteriors), YouTube (fenixforinteriors), Pinterest (arpaindustriale)
Formica Group is a leading provider of branded, designed surfacing solutions for commercial and residential customers worldwide. As one of the world's largest manufacturer of High Pressure Laminate (HPL), its international network of design, manufacturing, distribution and sales operations maintains the recognition of Formica® as a global brand.
For further information, please visit: formica.com
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About Formica Group
Formica Group globally leads the industry in the design, manufacture and distribution of innovative surfacing products for commercial and residential applications. Formica®laminate is the 'original' and contains more than one hundred years of invention, innovation and design leadership. For more information about Formica Group, its products, special programs and promotions, visit www.formica.com.
Formica Group is a global group of companies consisting of Formica Canada, Inc., Formica Corporation, Formica de Mexico S.A. de C.V., Formica IKI Oy, Formica Limited, Formica S.A., Formica S.A.S., Formica Taiwan Corporation, Formica (Thailand) Co., Ltd., Formica (Asia) Ltd., and Formica Decorative Materials (China) Co., Ltd. among others.
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Two years ago, Brenna did the unthinkable. She witnessed the aftermath of a murder and accused her only true friend--the first boy she ever loved--of being a killer.
Now sixteen, Brenna returns to Oklahoma only to discover that Isaac "White Bird" Henry isn't in juvie. The half-breed outcast is in a mental hospital, frozen in time, locked in his mind at the worst moment of his life. And when Brenna touches him, she's pulled into his hellish vision quest, seeing terrifying demons and illusions she doesn't understand.
Feeling isolated and alone, she's up against the whole town, targeted by bullying former classmates, a bigoted small town sheriff, and a tribe who refuses to help one of their own. But when Brenna realizes she's as trapped by the past as White Bird is, this time she won't turn her back on him. She's the only one who can free them both.
Even if she has to expose her secret--a "gift" she's kept hidden her whole life.
What an intense, engaging story. In The Arms of Stone Angels by Jordan Dane had me from the beginning of the story till the end.
What worked for me within the story was the deep intensity and the serious issues brought up from the beginning.
Besides the engaging story were the characters that had to navigate the crazy world they live in.
Brenna was an interesting character to get to know and explore with the adventures she had to go through. She was very strong in dealing with the things that happened to her. If it were me I know it would have driven me crazy. I understood the choices she had to make even though they were hard ones.
The story took unpredictable turns that lead me on a crazy journey with Brenna and White Bird.
There wasn't much romance between the two but the adventure and drama made up for it. The writing was smooth and lyrical and didn't leave me confused with what was happening. The use of Native American myths was well done, flowing well with adventure and drama. I really enjoyed In the Arms of Stone Angels by Jordan Dane and feel that readers will too.


In August 2013 I posted 'Is it time for law firms to break with the RULES when looking at profitability?' on my old blog platform Australian law firm business development. It is without doubt the most read post I've ever written. And, as the recent publicity around DLA Piper's decision to make equity partners clock 7.5 hours a day of time (not necessarily billed) shows, it remains one of the least followed and understood.
So what is the "R.U.L.E.S" system – and, three years after I last posted on this: do we, once again, need to promote its demise?
Speed – of the firm's billings and collections.
which clients are more profitable than others.
Realization is generally accepted as being the amount collected (ie, in the bank) against the effort to produce (ie productivity); or, as Altman Weil defines it: "realization is fees collected divided by the standard value of the time worked".
On an individual fee earner basis, what this means is that if you set your fee earner a standard billable hourly rack-rate of [say] $100, and they charge the client $90 per hour (after write-offs etc) for work done, and for which the client pays $85 per hour (after asking for a discount etc) for the work, then the realization rate is 85% [I note that some firms adopt the practice of looking at realization as being the amount paid against the amount billed (94.44% in this example) but this is not the methodology used in RULES].
On the other hand, if the same fee earner does a fixed fee job for $1,000 and it only takes them 5 hours to do the job (cost of $500), then the realized rate is $200%.
While this may have been a good indicator of individual lawyers' profitability in the past, increasingly it isn't – not least because clients see through this BS and will not pay for their lawyers on a fully rack-rated hourly basis.
Utilization is the yardstick by which we determine how busy fee earners are. To determine this we look at the annual budget of hours the firm has set each relevant fee earner against the amount of billable time they have put on their time-sheets (daily, weekly, monthly or annually).
the first, as shown by the likes of Crowell & Moring and others, is that the annual billable hour figure is a moving goal post.
the second, and more important, reason is that utilization sees an hour billed as "king" – it trumps all.
Today, where clients are looking for, among other things, an understanding of their business (non-billable hours spent attending industry events) and corporate social responsibility, utilization seems an outdated profit related performance metric.
Leverage is the number of fee earners you have to partners.
A reading of Maister's Managing the Professional Service Firm will tell you, leverage is a key component of a law firm's profitability. In order for a law firm to be more profitable, the maximum amount of work possible must be pushed down the chain to the more junior ranking lawyers.
Unfortunately, today this cannot be done so easily. Clients are simply not willing to pay for you to train your junior fee earners!
Expenses are both fixed (ie rent) and variable (ie salaries and bonuses) and are always going to be an important factor in determining a law firm's profitability.
Speed of collection is generally determined as being the time from when you did the work to the time you are paid for that work.
Sometimes known as "lock-up" days, speed of collection will have a massive effect on the firm's profitability.
(a) Do you have a satisfied client, and (b) Do you understand the value you bring to that relationship?


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Ramassà's first trip to Africa. Ethiopia was the chosen destination to start the history-making project. The 9th of March 2014 was a memorable day for A.E Ramassà, as it became the first non-African team to play a friendly game in Ethiopia. No one could have imagined that day would mark a milestone the club's history, a milestone that has helped us transform not only as athletes but as people too.
The trip was worth it: we played a match against Saint George FC, considered by the magazine Africa TOP Sports as the fifth best team in Africa this season, with more than 9 international players. The match took place in the national stadium of Addis Abeba, with a turnout of 20,000 spectators who witnessed this historical moment.
The response was spectacular. The Ethiopian fans were bowled over by our players, they livened up the match and played music with the notorious vuvuzelas. It wasn't just a match; it was a party: the party of sport and solidarity. At the end of the match, many spectators came down from the bleachers to celebrate what had been a day we will never forget.
The aftermath in Catalonia was incredible, for the media wanted to continue the adventure of a humble team, one quarter Catalan, who had played against one of the greatest teams of the African continent. The radio stations Catalunya Ràdio, COPE, RAC1 or Ràdio 7 Vallès, sports newspapers SPORT, El Mundo Deportivo or the general press such as La Vanguardia or El 9 Nou echoed the adventure of Ramassà. We also have to highlight the interview did with Josep Cuni on 8tv when we returned from the trip, the documentary dedicated to us by VOTV.
The solidarity aspect
The solidarity aspect played a more important role on this trip. We did not want to leave the country without having seen or having learnt about its culture, as well as stopping by to help
Inhabitants of this magnificent country. Ramassà called on its fans, sponsors and companies of the county to come and help us take sports and school supplies to Ethiopia. The result: we gave more than 100 kilos of sports and school supplies to lots of children who, thanks to this, will be able to practice sport and continue schooling.
Do you want to see what the football players experienced during their trip to Ethiopia? VOTV has put together an emotional documentary about the adventure. Enjoy!
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Test apsorpcije [13C2] oksalata se izvodi kod pacijenata sa dokazanom hiperoksalurijom, obeleženim izotopom ugljenika, u cilju razlikovanja osnovnog uzroka nastanka poremećaja i pravilnog izbora načina lečenja.

Opšta razmatranja
Hiperoksalurija je važan faktor rizika u nastanku kalcijum oksalatne Kamen u bubregukalkuloze]], koja može nastati kao posledica:
 naslednih poremećaja u metabolizmu oksalne kiseline (endogena ili primarna hiperoksalurija)
 usled povećanog unosa oksalne kiseline hranom,
 zbog povećanog stepena apsorpcije pri različitim patološkim stanjima u intestinalnom traktu (egzogena ili sekundarna hiperoksalurija).

Način izvođenja
Test se izvodi u bolničkim uslovima, nakon unosa 2.400 mL tečnosti na dan i posle dvodnevne standardne dijete, na sledeći način:
I dan
 Od 8 do 20h: sakupljanje urina (+30 mL 2,5 mol/L HCl)
 Od 20 do 8h: sakupljanje urina (+30 mL 2,5 mol/L HCl)
II dan
 U 8h: unos 33,8 mg obeleženog radioizotop ugljenika  [13C2] oksalne kiseline u formi natrijumove soli u kapsuli od 50 mg
 U 9h: doručak
 Od 8 do 14h: sakupljanje urina (+15 mL 2,5 mol/L HCl)
 U 14h: ručak
 Od 14 do 20h: sakupljanje urina (+15 mL 2,5 mol/L HCl)
 Od 20 do 8h: sakupljanje urina (+30 mL 2,5 mol/L HCl)
Nivo ekskretovanog oksalata obeleženog radioizotopom ugljenika u 24h uzorcima urina sakupljanih I i II dana određuje se gasnom hromatografijom. Razlika u nivoima veća od 10% smatra se značajnom.

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Urologija
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What does Lego House mean?
Ed Sheeran: Lego House Meaning
Tagged: Social Commentary [suggest]
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Lego House Lyrics
Play "Lego House"
I'm gonna pick up the pieces,
and build a lego house
when things go wrong we can knock it down
but these three words have two meanings,
there's one thing on my mind
It's all for you
And it's dark in a cold December, but I've got ya to...
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May 24th, 2013 5:53pm report
I don't think this song is about a romantic relationship, friendship, or internal struggle. It's about all of them at once. Sometimes the "weakest" parts of us/the other person are also the most important, and learning how to love those parts is necessary but can take retrospect and time.... they make us who we are. Additionally, IMO this is not one person (or part of a person) singing, but 2 "parts" at once with certain lines relating to 1 or the other, as a struggle by definition is never 1 sided. I've include a personal example of my own below... and could just have easily written similar comments about my own struggle internally. As much as I comment on myself, it is becuase I cannot speak from her side, and the entire song is a testament to her patience and internal beauty, and how much we now care about each other because of this. It's about her.
I met my girlfriend "in a cold December" where she just wanted me to keep her warm after a breakup. Little did she know was I going through a battle inside as well, with heavy drinking being the easiest out, but drinking was not the problem. It was internal pain and anxiety. Fortunately she stuck with me through this, and I think we both love each other more now because of the struggle we both went through and still are.
(ME) After rehab I was not totally myself, and exploring a new world after being "exposed". Being a perfectionist and engineer I always figured there was an "equation" to fix me. The anxiety of not being able to build the lego house perfectly on the first attempt would have been too much. Having a calming person with me to let me know that it was not a quick fix and wouldn't be easy, made it easier to fight through failure
"My three words have two meanings,
There's one thing on my mind, it's all for you"
I love you = you love I (me)
"And it's dark (started) in a cold December, but I've got ya to keep me warm
And if you're broken I'll mend ya
And keep you sheltered from the storm that's raging on now"
The quickened pace refers to a flashback (in this case my GF) she just wanted a warm body after her most recent break up (in a December). It turns out we were more than that, but at the same time I was broken and a burden. I hide at her apartment from the world for 2 months, but she never fed my anxiety and still can't explain why she wanted to help me. She let me take myself to the "bottom" where a stubborn person like me could only be fixed. She calmed the raging anxiety (storm) within.
"I'm out of touch, I'm out of love
I'll pick you up when you're getting down
And out of all these things I've done I think I love you better now"
*after rehab
(HER now) I don't understand this, I'm breaking down too (you're not where I expected)
but I'm still here to calm the storm and comfort the pain.
*2 options; or both
1. I've done so much for you, and aside from whether you appreciate it, I know I'm a good person
2. This has been so hard, but I knew I saw something in the darkness. He makes you who you are and I love both the new and old you.
"I'm out of sight, I'm out of mind
I'll do it all for you in time
And out of all these things I've done I think I love you better now"
Ditto….. I knew this person was there and he was worth the effort…. Ditto also means the other person is saying it now too
"I'm gonna paint you by numbers and color you in
If things go right we can frame it, and put you on a wall"
(HER) Back to the original problem, as much as a perfectionist I know he is, I thought I could change his mind with my "equation" because something was flawed with his. Mine will fix him for sure, and I get both parts of him.
"And it's so hard to say it but I've been "STUCK AT 4"
And I'll surrender up my heart and swap it for yours"
OK, I admit this isn't what I was expecting….my last shot is to put my pride aside…. I need to look from your eyes. "Maybe you entered your darkness because of your light"
Beat picks up here… happiness shows itself.
"I'm out of sight, I'm out of mind, I'll do it all for you in time
"Don't hold me down,
I think my braces are breaking and it's more than I can take"
one word…. FUCK
"And if it's dark in a cold December, but I've got ya to keep me warm
fairly self-explanatory…. peace
Nov 13th, 2011 11:02pm report
the song is about wanting something or someone so badly, that you loose yourself in it all and finally accepting yourself and your own life. you can build a lego house but it is not perminant, not the answer, not what you need. in this same respect, you can be so in love with someone and no matter how much you fight to make it work, it wont. the ending leaves you somber, yet more fulfilled, liked you are more at piece with circumstances.
Nov 21st, 2011 11:06am report
listening to the song before the video, i had images of a struggling relationship, sort of a one sided love. the song can be interpreted in two ways i think, a relationship and an obsession. forget the video and listen to the song, you should see two stories
Feb 19th, 2017 2:37am report
This song is about Ed being in a struggling relationship. "Lego House" is clearly a metaphor stating that not everything is permanent. Relationships end, people die, and bridges burn. Even the Earth, our planet, is not permanent. With these two pieces of information, it can be infered that Ed isn't sure is relationship will last a long time.
well i feel, its about a guy who see's his life in the writers lyrics.. HE feels as if that each and every word of ED's song's ,is like ED is talking to him. He feels that ED is the only one who is understanding his feelings..
personally i don't think this song talks about relationships at all..
in my life ... every time i was broken or wasted and tired of everything .. i would listen to songs and i feel that the song is all about me ... and i feel there is someone out there in this world who actualy knows how i am feeling
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Jun 25th, 2015 6:23pm report
before watching the video i thought it was about a boy who is madly in love with his friend ("my three words have two meanings but there's one thing on my mind" wich means that when he says 'i love you' to this girl she thinks that he means it in a friendly way but what he truly mean is that she is the love of his life) and he's ready to do anything to make her happy and to be the best he can for her but then when i watched the video i understood that ed sheeran was talking about a fan (and he used the first person to give the song more emotion) lego house is the relation ship between the fan and the idol because a fan build the success of the singer through voting for him, buying his albums when ed says "I'm out of sight, I'm out of mind" it shows that it's about a fan because the idols most of the time are ignorant of the existance of a fan and then he says "i'll do it all for you in time" means even though the fan is aware that he doesn't represent anything for his idole he is still going to help him whenever he needs help. but the fan is strugling her/his own life so he surrender up his heart and swap it for ed's and lives the life of his idole to escape his own misery.
Apr 5th, 2015 4:08am report
My cousin, young crush, wanted to be together, so he said he would build me a lego house and he said this to mean he would always be there for me. LOVE is an open door. Lego house represents LOVE that is pure, before we knew what money, fame and even before we knew about sex. Innocence lost and returned.
I feel that he uses the phrase Lego house to represent the miserable fan. The fan tries to recreate himself as ed,his idol. Lego are used to model or recreate things just as the fan did to his own life. Theoretically this means the fan has had a horrible life, such as ed did before he was famous. Because of this he sees how ed was able to rise as a great musician and wanted to be like him. EXACTLY like him. So he surrenders his heart and swaps it for eds so that he can build a model or Lego house of eds own life
When listening the music I think that he want a second chance and not doing the same mistakes again.
Lego House by Ed Sheeran is a actually a lyrics poem but isn't read as a poem since Ed is a singer. This song is metaphorical, it is not really talking about Lego. Lego, in this context,represents the breaking of a relationship. While the whole lego house symbolises a sustained relationship. "I'm gonna pick up the pieces and build a lego house, if things wrong we can knock it down". This verse/stanza simply means I am going to mend our relationship by sustaining the broken pieces of our relationship and if things go wrong we can break our relationship.
Nov 18th, 2013 11:44am report
I think it lego house.. because it reflected himself like a lego house going up when destroyed going down.. its just ups and downs and how he will rebuild it again
Aug 20th, 2013 8:45am report
I actually thought its about a girl and guy in a friends with benefits relationship. The guy has now started to like her but settling for being there to help as a friend
This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
Jun 6th, 2013 6:15am report
http://www.smoothfm.com.au/video/ed-sheeran-interview
May 4th, 2013 5:13am report
This song is about having something beforehand, (ie a relationship/being in love) something that you dont realize the importance of; and losing it. Later on, when you've "been there before", you know what you've lost and you know that it was a mistake. You know how to appreciate it, you've grown up from where you were before; and you realize that what you had with that certain someone was most likely irreplaceable and that if you had just been mature enough to realize what you had; this and any situation pertaining to this would have seemed silly and immature to you at the time. But you've learned from youre mistakes, and even though you cant help yourself or her, when you see someone else about to make a similar mistake, you know what to do to correct and make the situation right for them
Apr 23rd, 2013 4:41pm report
I definitely think there is something to the Ed and Rupert looking alike.
At first I saw it as a joke on us. Like oh hey he got rupert to play him in this video (That's why the look alike) and the song is about some girl. And then you see the framed picture and realize that rupert isn't ed, he is a fan. and in the context of the video it definitely seems to be a stalker fan.
but then I think that them looking alike may be a chance to interpret the song differently than a love song. maybe rupert is a version of ed and that's why they look alike. that this is a song written to himself. then the song becomes being about maybe feeling disconnected with who you are and trying to improve, but in the end no matter what loving yourself.
Apr 1st, 2013 4:41am report
I think its about a guy and a girl. They broke up for some reason and prolly this guy not ready to love. So he back down, or maybe the girl is the one who's not ready when this guy tried too hard for her. (dont hold me down i think my braces are breaking, and its more than i can take) But time passed by, and he realize that he cannot live without her ( and after all these things i've done i will love u better now).
Feb 25th, 2013 2:03pm report
Ok. So i saw this in an interview.
Ed's girlfriend had gifted him lego, he made a lego house (he loves lego). And then when their relationship ended, he was collecting all her gifts, and the lego fell, it broke into pieces. (things go wrong, we can knock it down) and Ed thought 'Over with that'. So lego house is a metaphor, for his relationship.
Dec 18th, 2012 12:28pm report
this song shows the ups and downs in a relationship, that nothing is written in stone and that whatever is done can be fixed for the better.
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PUBLISHED: August 6, 2018 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: August 24, 2018 at 12:00 am
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Showtime will air a new documentary series from award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney examining the history of clashes between U.S. presidents and the FBI.
The four-part series inspired by the book "Enemies: A History of the FBI" by Tim Weiner will debut Nov. 18, Showtime Networks chief David Nevins told TV critics on Monday.
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The Rodney King Riots, "Which Way, LA?" and the Start of A Conversation
Written by Frances Anderton May. 01, 2012 Design
Last week we aired special programming on Which Way, LA? about the the causes and the aftermath of the Rodney King Riots that devastated Los Angeles twenty years ago. The…
Which Way, LA? about the the causes and the aftermath of the Rodney King Riots that devastated Los Angeles twenty years ago. The shows also marked the anniversary of Which Way, LA? itself, begun shortly after the uprising as a temporary program driven by a sense of urgency. But Warren's dialogue with and about Los Angeles, became must-listen radio and a permanent fixture on our air.
The riots were a force of destruction that birthed, to some extent, a sense of renewal and possibility for Los Angeles, expressed in the months and years of Which Way, LA? shows. . . and explored in last week's broadcast about the rebuilding in Los Angeles over the last 20 years. One of the guests on that show, Michael Maltzan, architect of Inner City Arts, talked about how his career and attitude to LA were utterly transformed by that moment in late April, 1992.
And he was not alone. Many were deeply affected – from those devastated by the destruction to those who were galvanized into changing their lives. Carolyn Hull, for example, a guest on the rebuilding show, talked, off-air, of how the experience inspired her to change direction and become an urban planner; Jackie Dupont-Walker, a South LA community developer and member of Rebuild LA, spoke of learning lifelong business lessons from Rebuild LA Czar Peter Ueberroth.
Another guest, Kai Ma, a teenager in LA in 1992 with extended family in Koreatown, was politicized by her community's devastation, into becoming a writer and, more recently, a filmmaker. You can see a short movie that she wrote and starred in here (click on Love Lost on the 405). This film, about LA and traffic congestion as a metaphor for failed love, is not about the riots but about a feature of LA life that can cause tremendous stress: driving on the 405 (see Ma in a still from movie, right). Coincidentally, it was featured in Rethink LA, an optimistic exhibit about ideas for a future Los Angeles, that was discussed last year on this DnA.
I too was changed by that uprising, transformed from a newbie in LA, editing a small architecture publication and possessing a limited understanding of what made LA tick, to someone who determined to better understand and engage with my chosen home. And how did I plan to do that: through becoming involved with a show that I found a total inspiration at the time: Which Way, LA?
On All Things Considered, we'll air an interview Wednesday by KCRW's Avishay Artsy with Warren Olney (seen top left, with Reverend Cecil 'Chip' Murray), together with Ruth Seymour, KCRW's then general manager, and Sarah Spitz, former communications director for the station and one of WWLA's first producers.
We hope you enjoy this moment of reflection for the station and for Los Angeles.


Is That A Belgian Malinois?
ABMR would like to make positive identification of Belgian Malinois in shelter's, throughout the United States, easier for the shelter staff. Frequently ABMR volunteers are called to identify a Belgian Malinois only to find, after driving many miles, that the dog in question is either another breed or mixture of breeds. This results in great disappointment on behalf of the shelter staff in their attempt to save this dog and the volunteer hoping to find a Belgian Malinois.
It is the ABMR Rescue program's hope that, by providing the photos on this website and in particular this page, the volunteer and shelter staff will experience a higher percentage of correct identifications with less wasted time and effort on the part of both. When in doubt a volunteer should always be contacted - however; now we hope there will be fewer dogs held in limbo while waiting for identification.
The Belgian Malinois is a medium sized dog with a short coat. Males are 24-26 inches at the shoulder, weighing 55-80 lbs. Females are 22-24 inches at the shoulder, weighing 40-60 lbs. Normally they are a very energetic dog and many enjoy snapping or clacking their jaws. The Belgian Malinois is a herding breed and when allowed to run free in an open area show a marked tendency to run in a circular pattern.
COLOR and COAT: The Belgian Malinois ranges in color from light fawn with no black overlay to a deep rich red or mahogany, the mahogany having plenty of black overlay. With the richer reds and mahogany colors if individual hairs are examined it can be seen that there are bands of the various colors found in the coat with the darkest, or black, on the tip. Generally the Belgian Malinois has a black mask up to and including the eye area, the ears are black and the tip of the tail is almost always black. Small patches of white may appear on the chest and occasionally one or more toes. There is a tendency for some lines of Malinois to begin to grey around the muzzle at an early age, (i.e. 18-24 months of age) making determining the age somewhat difficult. The coat is comparatively short and straight with a dense undercoat.
BODY: The Belgian Malinois, when viewed from the side, should stand with all four feet solidly under the body and appear to be squarely built not long in body as the German Shepherd is. They are also of a smaller, finer bone type then the German Shepherd and have been compared (appearance wise) to a small wolf or coyote. The tail reaches the hock though in the occasional Malinois is longer. While the tail should be carried in a down position a happy Malinois can and will carry the tail higher.
HEAD: The head is long and relatively narrow but the muzzle is not pointed as the Collie's is. Eyes are of a medium size, almond shaped and medium to very dark brown. The ears are triangular and erect, commonly set high on the head. They are not short and thick as the Siberian Husky's are but not as long and wide-set as a German Shepherd's. Puppies ears can be floppy until 3-4 months of age. Occasionally an adult will have a tipped over ear tip because of injury or an infection.
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By Mark Joyella on Feb. 10, 2016 - 9:22 AM
As the Republican presidential contest heads South, several candidates will need a strong showing in the polls if they hope to qualify for the next GOP debate, set for Saturday night on CBS.
Under CBS News' new debate criteria, candidates who weren't among the leaders in Iowa or New Hampshire will have to perform strongly in polls released by noon on Friday if they hope to make the debate stage.
Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, as the top three finishers in Iowa, had already qualified. With top-five finishes in New Hampshire, John Kasich and Jeb Bush have also locked up their lecterns.
That leaves Chris Christie, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina. To qualify, they will have to place among the top five candidates in averages of national and South Carolina polls by Friday–and receive a minimum of 3 percent in Iowa, New Hampshire or polls in South Carolina or nationwide.
Christie has returned home to New Jersey to evaluate his campaign [UPDATE, 11:00 a.m. ET: Christie is reportedly suspending his campaign], while Carson and Fiorina have vowed to fight on. Fiorina, who failed to qualify for the ABC News debate in New Hampshire, has begun campaigning for a spot on stage Saturday, suggesting CBS should change its criteria:
Looking forward to debate this weekend in South Carolina. Let's use real criteria this time: if you've got a delegate, you've got a podium.
— Carly Fiorina (@CarlyFiorina) February 9, 2016
Update: 3:10 p.m. ET: Fiorina has suspended her campaign.
The CBS News debate will be moderated by Face the Nation host John Dickerson, along with CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett and The Wall Street Journal's Kimberley Strassel.


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(COLLEGE PARK, Ga.) — Grammy-nominated hip-hop artist Gunna grew up outside of Atlanta as one of five sons raised by a single mom, who was a school cafeteria worker.
He spent his middle school years at Ronald E. McNair Middle School, a school of around 900 students in College Park, Georgia, that is designated as a Title 1, or high-poverty, middle school.
Last week Gunna, 28, returned to the middle school to open what he hopes will be a lasting legacy, a free grocery store inside the school.
"It's everything I wanted," Gunna said as he surprised students and attended the store's grand opening. "I'm going to continue to keep giving back."
The store, named Gunna's Drip Closet and Goodr Grocery Store, features not only food but also clothing, toiletries and household supplies, all available to the school's families for free.
It is the result of a partnership between Gunna and Goodr, an Atlanta-based start-up that works to eliminate hunger and food waste.
Goodr's founder, Jasmine Crowe, said Gunna approached the start-up with the desire to build something in his former middle school and the grocery store was born.
"Millions of kids depend on the free breakfast and lunch that they're provided at school, but then they go home and oftentimes they don't have access to the same thing as they're getting in school, until now," Crowe told Good Morning America. "I really want to give these kids a chance to be their full selves and to not have to worry about something as simple, that I think should be human right for everybody, as just being able to eat."
Crowe went viral last week when she shared a first look at the in-school grocery store, the first-of-its-kind from Goodr, which builds pop-up grocery stores in food deserts.
The store at McNair Middle School contains fresh produce and options for different diets, including vegan, as well as packaged foods, canned vegetables and frozen foods that kids can make on their own, which Crowe said was a priority.
"You have to meet kids where they are," she said. "We have children that are going to be preparing the food, so it had to be things that not only children and youth want, but also things that they could easily make."
"A lot of these kids are adults outside of the school. They are taking care of their younger brother and sisters. They're running households. Their parents can be working two jobs," Crowe added. "You have no idea the situations that a lot of these children are facing, and now we are helping them really take control of their lives."
Students, their families and teachers at McNair Middle School can all shop for free. The store is funded through this school year and next, according to Crowe, whose team at Goodr will keep the store restocked.
The variety of options now available for free will be a life-changing opportunity for students and their families, according to John T. Madden Jr., principal of McNair Middle School.
"I'm still on a high about it, and just can't wait for our families to really start taking advantage of the store," he said. "It's like you walk into Walmart, and you just have everything there for you."
All students at the middle school are eligible for free breakfast and lunch, according to Madden, who described the neighborhood surrounding the school as high-poverty and high-crime.
"At 12 or 13, they've seen a lot that we've seen never seen in our lifetimes, and they have adult roles when they're outside of school," said Madden. "That's a battle that we fight."
Madden described trying to reach students as like "peeling an onion," as students face issues of poverty, crime and hunger at home.
"We have to peel all those layers before we can get them to sit down and actually listen to instruction," he said. "I tell our teachers all the time, 'We have to do more than just teach our children.'
When Gunna visited his former middle school last week, he delivered a message to McNair students to "stay focused" on school.
"As a student, you have to stay focused. You've got to stay focused. Stay focused on the books. Stay focused in school," he said. "I'm from the same place you're from. You can overcome everything around you, anything that you feel like is preventing you … reach out. We're here for you."
Crowe — who is publishing a children's book, Everybody Eats, in October with the proceeds doing to fight childhood hunger — said her hope is that the free grocery store at McNair Middle School takes away one distraction from students so that they can keep their focus on school.
Her dream is to open free grocery stores in schools across the country. In the U.S., more than 30 million children participate in the free and reduced-lunch program, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
"There are a lot of people that work on minimum wage, they just can't make ends meet and are always having to make critical decisions [like], 'Am I going to pay for my power bill this month? Or am I going to pay for them to have access to food?'" said Crowe. "Those are the decisions that a lot of families make, and we've got to be able to help meet them."
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BOSTON – A quick start for the Anaheim Ducks finished Boston's run of 18 games with a point.
"We did a good job in the first period. We had some jump going," Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said.
The Ducks became the first team to beat the Bruins in regulation since Washington's 5-3 win Dec. 14 at Boston. Cam Fowler and Rickard Rakell had two assists apiece for Anaheim.
"We're trying to get on a streak of our own. I think we've been trending in the right direction with our hockey," Miller said.
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Henrique scored into an empty net with 6.1 seconds remaining to seal it for the Ducks, who halted Boston's five-game winning streak and a stretch of 18 games with at least one point (14-0-4), which tied for the second longest in franchise history.
The Ducks have won eight in a row against the Bruins, who haven't beaten Anaheim since a 3-2 shootout win on Oct. 21, 2013.
Anaheim took a 1-0 lead when Khudobin couldn't quite hang onto a long backhand by Fowler. The puck fell from Khudobin's glove and slid across the crease, where it appeared to be knocked in by Bruins captain Zdeno Chara as he went crashing into his own net 9:04 into the game. Silfverberg was credited with the goal and assists went to Fowler and Rakell, who set up the Ducks' second goal a few minutes later when Henrique scored.
"He looked like he was kind of having a little trouble. Hopefully it's nothing that's going to affect him too long," Miller said.
NOTES: The Ducks opened a five-game road trip against Atlantic Division teams. … Boston LW Anders Bjork left after the first period with an upper-body injury. … Boston was without leading scorer Brad Marchand, who sat out the second of a five-game suspension for elbowing.


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China Should Not Overreact To New U.S. Military Strategy
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Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
When asked about the Pentagon's newly released and updated National Military Strategy of the United States at a July 3 news conference, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying said that her government was "dissatisfied with and opposed to some contents of the U.S. report which groundlessly exaggerates the China threat," specifically its depiction of recent Chinese island reconstruction efforts in the South China Sea. Hua urged that Washington recognize its interest in insuring that, "The U.S. side should throw away the Cold War mentality, take an unbiased perspective of China's strategic intention, [and] work together with China to advance the building of the new model of major-country relationship [reflecting] the spirit of non-confrontation, non-conflicts, mutual respect and win-win cooperation."
The latest National Military Strategy (NMS) was a comprehensively revised and updated version of the 2011 NMS, which offered a more moderate assessment of China. That document sought "a positive, cooperative, and comprehensive relationship with China" in which Beijing assumes "a responsible leadership role." In contrast, the 2015 text explicitly complains that, "China's actions are adding tension to the Asia-Pacific region." In particular, Beijing's "claims to nearly the entire South China Sea are inconsistent with international law" and its recent "aggressive land reclamation efforts" aim to "position [Chinese] military forces astride vital international sea lanes."
Following the report's release on June 30, the Chinese Ministry of National Defense told the Global Times that the Pentagon was making "groundless accusations" about China's maritime construction activities and that the Ministry opposed U.S. efforts to "hype" the "China threat" thesis. Instead, the Ministry argued that, "The U.S. should stop making irresponsible comments and put more efforts into facilitating the peaceful development of China-U.S. military relations and maintaining regional peace and stability."
But Chinese readers should not overreact to the text. The new NMS does not describe any new U.S. military missions, capabilities, or defense initiatives. U.S. policy makers are not forecasting an inevitable a war with China. They see areas where the two countries' national security interests overlap sufficiently for bilateral collaboration, such as regarding nuclear proliferation, Korea and Iran, and counterterrorism. The latest NMS joins other documents in affirming that the United States will "support China's rise and encourage it to become a partner for greater international security."
The 2015 NMS does not depict a renewed Cold War or permanent state of tension between the United States and China or any other country. Indeed, it argues that China and the other "revisionist" powers such as Russia, Iran, and North Korea are "not believed to be seeking direct military conflict with the United States or our allies."
Given this mixed U.S. relationship with these states, the United States "remain[s] committed to engagement … to communicate our values, promote transparency, and reduce the potential for miscalculation." To this end, the U.S. Defense Department will "continue to invest in a substantial military-to-military relationship with China" while encouraging Beijing to resolve its territorial dispute peacefully in line with international law.
The 2015 report does reaffirm the rebalancing the Asia strategy that remains unpopular in Beijing. The presumption is that, "The presence of U.S. military forces in key locations around the world underpins the international order and provides opportunities to engage with other countries while positioning forces to respond to crises." Accordingly, the Pentagon "will press forward with the rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region, placing our most advanced capabilities and greater capacity in that vital theater."
In operational terms, this orientation means that the U.S. military will "strengthen our alliances with Australia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand" [and] "deepen our security relationship with India and build upon our partnerships with New Zealand, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Bangladesh." In addition to "maintaining regional peace" through deterrence and assurance, these activities will aim to build joint capacities "for missile defense, cyber security, maritime security, and disaster relief."
The 2011 NMS explains that Asia is the geographic region whose relative global importance for the United States is increasing the most. That text affirms that the "the nation's strategic priorities and interests will increasingly emanate from the Asia-Pacific region" due to its having two rising powers (China and India), several especially dangerous states (North Korea and Iran), and some of the world's most dynamic national economies region whose growing wealth is allowing their governments to strengthen their military capabilities. The Asia-Pacific region is also prone to instability due to disruptive demographic trends, the diffusion of military-relevant technologies, and the complexity and fluidity of regional alignments.
Even in 2011, China's rising economic and military strength generated unease among Washington planners. For example, the NMS declares that the United States will closely follow how the PLA's modernization could disrupt the military balance across the Taiwan Strait and China's "assertiveness in space, cyberspace, in the Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and South China Sea." Alluding to China's growing missile arsenal, cyber, and counter-space capabilities, the 2011 NMS expressed alarm about the global increase in "anti-access and area-denial capabilities and strategies to constrain U.S. and international freedom of action."
Yet, Chinese readers of these texts need to bear certain facts in mind. These national security documents have multiple audiences within the United States (government agencies, the Congress, and analysts) as well as abroad (foreign allies, partners, and adversaries). They serve both formal and informal functions. Within the United States, they offer official policy and program guidance as well as unofficial tools for bureaucratic infighting by providing documents from which actors can cite supporting statements in their speeches and other statements in budget battles with other agencies. Overseas, they communicate implicit messages to foreign audiences.
As with most national security documents, the NMS reports are often vague and sometimes internally contradictory because a committee wrote them and the texts reflect the lowest common denominator of what the participants and their constituents would agree to. The vague and common-denominator wording of these texts provide bureaucratic actors considerable leeway in how they pursue their goals and no strict rule for judging whether one office or agency's interpretation is superior to another. Even the term "strategy" is a bit of a misnomer because they typically list a number of priorities and programs but refrain from establishing a clear hierarchy among them. These same observations apply to China's recent White Papers.
For better or worse, Chinese and American analysts will gain a better understanding of our future relationship by reading the articles in China-U.S. Focus than the various strategy documents issued by our governments.
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What China Threat?
Li Ruogu Vice President,China Foundation for Peace and Development
A Review of China-U.S. Military Relations in 2017
Zhao Weibin Researcher, PLA Academy of Military Science
The Small Pacific Country That's Key to U.S. Security
New U.S.-China Military Agreement Won't Be Defusing Any Crises
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"Today, the Israeli governing coalition's chairwoman, Yamina MK Idit Silman, announced that she could no longer remain in a coalition that was, in her words, damaging Israel's Jewish character, and that she was going to work to build a new right-wing government. Silman's defection means that the razor-thin one-seat majority that the coalition enjoyed is now gone, and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has lost his Knesset majority and can now only count on 60 votes. While many assume that this means the imminent return of Binyamin Netanyahu to the premiership that he held uninterrupted for a dozen years before the formation of the Bennett government nine months ago, things are actually a lot more complicated than they seem at first glance."
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Rev. Al Sharpton Claps Back At Donald Trump Jr. For Reminding Him That He Took Pictures With His Racist Daddy
The civil rights leader responded in a video.
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Yesterday, Donald Trump Jr. proved he was as delusional as father is by whining about anyone with a functional brain calling President Trump a racist. Little Donnie's logic? It can't be true because of all the Black people with whom he has taken pictures!
He told The Daily Caller, "It's been terrible to watch, because I know him, I've seen him my whole life, I've seen the things he's done. It's amazing, all the rappers, all the this, all his African-American friends, from Jesse Jackson to Al Sharpton, I have pictures with them . . . it was only till he got into politics that all of a sudden, Oh, he's the most terrible human being ever." See below:
Now, Reverend Al Sharpton is speaking out about the photo op with 45. On MSNBC's The Beat with Ari Melber, Rev. Sharpton recalled meeting Trump while marching against him about the Central Park Five (Trump called for the execution of five Black teenagers with a full page ad in the New York Times in 1989). He said Trump then became a Democrat and "when he was talking right, we took pictures with him and welcomed him to our events." After the birther movement, he no longer stood with him — Sharpton says, "We haven't changed. He changed." See below:
.@TheRevAl response to Trump Jr. on African-American leaders who criticize Trump previously taking photos with Donald Trump:
"We haven't changed, he changed" pic.twitter.com/1j9JMFCNGT
— TheBeat w/Ari Melber (@TheBeatWithAri) February 7, 2018
But has Trump really changed? He was accused of housing discrimination in the 1970s. In a 1991 book by John O'Donnell, Trump was quoted as saying, "Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys wearing yarmulkes." Not to mention, his father Fred Trump was arrested at a KKK rally in 1927. Maybe Sharpton didn't know these facts when they posed for pictures back in the day.
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