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#Adoption911 | Stop the "Children in Families First Act"
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#Adoption911 | Stop the "Children in Families First Act".
Now New Evidence of Arson Whiskey au go go
Part one of this topic.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/today-tonight/video/watch/19127265/whiskey-au-go-go-arson-part-one/
Australian Legal System, bloody_minded, government, Sham
Au Go Go Whiskey
THE WHISKEY AU GO GO FILE
POSTED ON 30 DEC 2010| BY JOL ADMIN|MORE SHARING SERVICESSHARE
Online newspaper databases have been around for quite a while now providing users with an historic treasure trove of press articles from a wide variety of titles and from different periods in time.
The State Library of Queensland enables access to these subscription only newspaper databases via its website for e-service card holders. They include the Times Digital Archive 1785-1985 searchable by key word and including all articles, advertisements and illustrations and photos, Newsbank providing acces to full text articles from more than 230 Queensland, Australian, and international titles from 1998 onwards, Library Press Display which provides a full-colour, full page collection of today's newspapers from over 70 countries around the world in 37 languages, and National Library's wonderful Historic Australian Papers, 1803 to 1954 which includes The Courier Mail and The Queenslander.
Before the advent of online databases librarians in the John Oxley Library clipped articles of interest on a daily basis from Queensland newspapers placing these in folders with various subject headings. We still add to these files although the need to exhaustively cut from hardcopy papers is not as pressing as it was prior to the existence of the above mentioned digital resources.
On December 18, 2010 in the Sydney Morning Herald's Good Weekend Magazine, journalist Frank Robson contributed an intriguing feature article "Family Secrets" on the subject of the 1973 firebombing of Brisbane's Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub in Fortitude Valley. This firebombing resulted in the deaths of 15 patrons and staff making it one of the worst mass murders in modern Australia until the Port Arthur massacre in 1996.
James Finch and John Stewart "Whiskey Au Go Go Warning" "Stuart feared he would be set up" "Finch: confession a lie"
"Pistol threat, then death in nightclub" Oxley Reference Librarian, Trudy Bennett, looks through the Whiskey Au Go Go File.
John Stewart and James Finch were tried and convicted for the Whiskey Au Go Go murders and sent down to Brisbane's Boggo Road Gaol were they continued to proclaim their innocence. Stuart died in prison in 1979.
In the article Robson interviews Danny Stewart, nephew of John Stewart, who claims that his uncle was innocent of the crime.
I've added this to the substantial clippings file we have on the "Whiskey Au Go Go Fire, 1973″ as the latest instalment on this horrific event and its aftermath. The pictures in the article do not appear in Newsbank, although the text does. If you see the pictures they certainly contibute to the story and this is one of the reasons I've added this article to our clippings file. It also complements the other articles in the file from titles like The Sun, The Bulletin, The Toowoomba Chronicle, The Courier Mail, and many others. Most of these articles are from the 70s and 80s and are not available online.
Newspaper clippings are of great value to researchers as they bring together articles on the same subject from different periods in time resulting in a greater variety of perspectives. The John Oxley Library collection also includes newspaper cuttings books and all Queensland newspapers. You can find out more about the State Library's newspaper collections here."
http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/jol/2010/12/30/the-whiskey-au-go-go-file/
http://au.news.yahoo.com/today-tonight/latest/article/-/19121730/whiskey-au-go-go-arson/
FORTY years after the deaths of 15 revellers at Brisbane's Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub, there are fresh calls for an investigation into the notorious crime.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/fresh-calls-for-whiskey-au-go-go-inquiry/story-e6frg6nf-1226592656723
HeraldSun – Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub fire in 1973 once …
Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub fire in 1973 once Australia's worst mass murder in 1970s trials … The first related to key evidence: … Upon hearing the news, …
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/two-jailed-15-murdered-in-a-fire-that-engulfed-the-whiskey-au-go-go-club-in-1973/story-fnat7jnn-1226532179006
New lead in Whiskey Au Go Go firebombing case – Breakfast …
Forty years ago today, 15 people died in the Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub firebombing in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/new-lead-in-whiskey-au-go-go-firebombing-case/4560182
Whiskey Au Go Go fire – Silobreaker
Overview page of events, news, people, companies, organizations related to Whiskey Au Go Go fire
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OPENING A CAN OF WORMS..
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Elder Care from Germany
Is it care or just don't care in the quest to be the Top Dog Richest in the European Union? I gleaned this piece from Japanese Media.(extract from)
Exporting Parents Becomes Cost Saving for Germans' Elderly Care
Bartek Sadowski/Bloomberg
Pensioners sit at tables at the Polish care home for the elderly in Szklarska Poreba, Poland, on Aug. 24, 2013. Germany's migrating seniors are an early warning sign of a challenge of global proportions.
Grandma export' exposes Germany's struggle with care
BY NAOMI KRESGE
SEP 24, 2013 ARTICLE HISTORY PRINT SHARE
BERLIN – Sonja Miskulin has forgotten her beloved cat, Pooki. She can't remember whether she has grandchildren and has no memory of her nine-hour journey one recent Sunday to forever leave behind her home in Germany.
Suffering from dementia, the wheelchair-bound former translator celebrated her 94th birthday in a Polish nursing home in August. Her daughter sent her there in a bid for a better life and more affordable care.
Miskulin has joined the vanguard of a controversial movement: emigrant nursing home residents. The "Grandma export" trend has set hands wringing in Germany, where Munich's leading newspaper denounced it as "gerontologic colonialism" and compared it to nations exporting their trash. Yet more families like Miskulin's say it's their best option to provide a dignified old age for elderly parents — and save money — amid a lack of affordable quality care at home. One in five Germans would now consider going abroad for a nursing home, according to a March survey by TNS Emnid, one of Germany's biggest pollsters.
"I can only say, children, when your parents get older, send them to Poland," said Miskulin's 66-year-old daughter, Ilona von Haldenwang.
Germany's migrating seniors are an early warning sign of a challenge of global proportions. As birth rates drop, life expectancies increase and the baby boomer generation heads into old age, the United Nations estimates the world's population of people older than 60 will more than triple to almost 2 billion by 2050. Meanwhile, even for seniors cushioned by government aid in countries like Germany, the cost of nursing home care is rapidly becoming prohibitive. German spending on long-term care for seniors is expected to increase from 1.4 percent of gross domestic product to 3.3 percent of GDP by 2060, the European Commission said in a report last year.
Miskulin's new home is in a picturesque Polish ski resort called Szklarska Poreba, which roughly translates to Glassmaking Clearing, named for the many glassworks that once defined the area. Her daughter chose the nursing home sight unseen after studying its website and meeting with a nursing-home placement broker. What began as an act of desperation — exporting her own mother — quickly began to make sense.
For four years, Von Haldenwang watched with increasing despair as her mother's health deteriorated in what she says was a poorly run German facility, even as it strained the women's finances. Now, at about a third the price for the care she received in Germany, Sonja lives in a restored century-old luxury villa where she enjoys fine meals, around-the-clock nursing and extensive physical therapy.
Miskulin is adjusting to her new surroundings. Still, the trade-off for both mother and daughter is the 560 km separating them. The two women used to live only a two-minute walk apart. Von Haldenwang recalls the friend who helped move her mother protesting in disbelief as they climbed into the fir-covered Karkonosze Mountains that mark Poland's border with the Czech Republic.
"Oh God, oh God, where are we going? It's the end of the Earth," she remembered her friend saying. "Then we drove up the hill and she said, 'Oh! It's a palace!' And I said, 'See, I told you, everything will be good.' "
The owners say half the residents will soon be Germans, who have state-mandated long-term care insurance through a nearly 20-year-old program, a benefit out of the reach of most people beyond Europe, including the United States.
Spare cash
The insurance pays out €1,550 ($2,060) a month to German citizens who, like Miskulin, need the highest level of care. That's less than half of the €3,250 average monthly bill for such care inside Germany. Nursing homes in Poland are marketing care that in some cases may be similar or better for about €1,200 per month. The German government will pay as much as €700 toward nursing care outside the country. Though less than half the amount provided for in-country homes, it's enough, together with most retirees' pensions, to pay for monthly care costs — with cash to spare.
The arithmetic is compelling for older Germans and their grown children. And costs in Germany are only likely to go higher: The country's population is expected to be among the world's oldest by 2050, on par with Japan, South Korea and Italy, with about 15 percent of residents over the age of 80, according to an Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development report.
Ingrid Fetz, 74, did the math after four back operations got her thinking about her financial vulnerability.
"I worked so hard for what I have," said Fetz.
She fears her savings won't last if she has to pay for a nursing home near her 52-year-old daughter's Munich home, Fetz said. And she worries she'll eventually have to sell the apartment she had hoped to leave to her family. In Poland, Fetz said she figures she would have money left over each month after paying for her care costs.
She began her search at a German-language website that promises affordable homes in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and the country that piqued her interest most of all: Poland. Like many of the German seniors searching there, Fetz has roots in the country: her mother grew up speaking a Polish dialect in an ethnic German family near Warsaw, and she spent her own childhood in what is now Poland before the end of World War II.
"It would break my heart to give my apartment to a nursing home someday," she said. "I thought to myself, why would I have to stay in Germany at all?"
Little Germany
The lure of elderly Germans with money in the bank has caught the attention of Polish entrepreneurs and owners of resorts that have seen better days.
One new facility has sought to transplant a piece of Germany into the Polish town of Zabelkow. Like Szklarska Poreba, Zabelkow is in Silesia, a region that had long been part of the German-speaking world. It was once ruled by Austria's Habsburg Empire and by Prussia, eventually becoming part of Poland after World War II.
At the Zabelkow home, nurses speak German, the elevator announcement is in German and the kitchen comes from Robert Bosch GmbH. Residents dine on classic German meals, such as a cold supper of bread, cured meats and cheese, while German Bundesliga soccer stalwarts like Wolfsburg and Mönchengladbach face off on the large flat-screen television. The linens, the emergency-call system and the hospital gloves all come from Germany. Even the teaspoons are made by German brand BSF.
Since its Easter opening, the home has filled its 34 beds and is finishing six more single rooms in the attic, which are already reserved for this November, said Fabrice Gerdes, who managed it at its opening. A management consultant, German-born Gerdes built the home together with his Polish father-in-law across the street from the farmhouse where his mother-in-law was born.
"We have significantly beaten the goals we set for ourselves," Gerdes said in September.
Not every Polish nursing home advertising in German on the Web is necessarily what it seems. One, Pensjonat Ania, a small residence in Tomislaw near the German border, promises rooms that sleep four for an unusually low price of €400 per month, complete with an on-site nurse and excursions including mushroom hunting. The only sign of life during a visit in April, however, was a skinny dog barking behind a metal fence.
Owner Lidia Straszak said she decided to convert her bed-and-breakfast in part because, unlike tourists, seniors will stay through the winter. The first Polish residents were due to arrive that weekend, and Germans had also expressed interest, she said.
On two subsequent visits, Straszak would not allow access to the home's interior. Straszak declined to comment by phone on Sept. 9.
Another ad on the website Fetz promises a "very well-equipped senior home in a delightfully scenic setting," in a renovated three-star spa hotel called Piastow Grod. The website features photos of happy seniors at play and uniformed young nurses and doctors looking on. That nursing home, in Duszniki-Zdroj about 120 km along the hilly Czech border from Szklarska Poreba, has yet to open.
Though the would-be senior home found some interested customers, there weren't enough to cover the cost of opening. Only a faded set of brochures tacked under the glass of the defunct hotel's old sign remind passers-by that inside there's a "spa grotto for harmony of mind and body."
"This is a tough business," owner Andrzej Pietrucha said.
The home Von Haldenwang eventually chose for her mother had initially been conceived as a nursing residence for wealthy Poles. After it opened in September 2012, the owners, who also run a medical center in nearby Karpacz, found most of their customers were Germans as well as Polish people living abroad.
Von Haldenwang said her mother pays €1,200 a month for 24-hour care, physical therapy, a double room, board and medical care. The interior decorating is in natural wood and stone; the care philosophy is to avoid sedatives and help residents regain mobility using physical therapy. Like Miskulin, most of the other residents have dementia.
"For Polish people, this is expensive, but for German people, this is an attractive price," said director Helena Grab, who also headed the facility in its previous incarnation as a children's respiratory clinic.
Von Haldenwang said the decision to send her mother to Poland was not an easy one. She lay awake at night weighing practical considerations and a sense of duty colored by a lifetime of strained and sometimes distant relations with her mother. As a young mother, Miskulin left her daughter behind to pursue a career as a theater translator in the tumultuous post-World War II Soviet Union where they then lived.
Miskulin shuttled between Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, and Moscow, leaving her daughter with her mother in Riga, more than 480 km away. The two saw each other about four times a year until they were able to emigrate to West Germany in 1962.
"She was a woman I barely knew," Von Haldenwang said. She remembered her mother's fear during their first night in a German holding facility for Soviet bloc immigrants, waiting for U.S. officials who were due to question the new arrivals from Russia the next morning.
"My mother was crying the night before, and I — who was sad to leave my beloved grandma, my friends, my school — I had to comfort her," Von Haldenwang said. "The camp was a real barracks. In Riga, I lived in a beautiful Art Nouveau apartment. I thought, 'My god, where has this woman brought me?'"
She soon moved out on her own, gaining a scholarship at age 16 to a residential arts school and eventually making a modest living performing Russian folk music.
In 2007, Miskulin's husband of 38 years, a Croatian man 16 years her junior, became ill. Von Haldenwang moved her mother, already suffering from dementia, to her own home in the Bavarian spa town of Bad Brueckenau.
"When she got sick I thought, it doesn't matter if she didn't raise me, I have to take care of her," Von Haldenwang said. "No question about it."
The pitfalls of caring for an aging parent in a fourth-floor apartment with no elevator quickly became apparent. The home health aides Von Haldenwang hired often quit. Miskulin would wake up at night and call her cat, Pooki, from the balcony at 3 a.m. — forgetting that she had let the pet in before she went to bed.
Von Haldenwang moved Miskulin into a shared assisted-living apartment a few doors down from her own home, and then, when the assisted-living project closed in 2009, into the nursing home next door.
Miskulin was lucky. She had spent part of her life in public service and thus had a relatively generous pension of €1,500 a month. That was almost enough to cover her share of the bill for the nursing home next door to her daughter. Even so, bills flowed in for such extras as haircuts, manicures and pedicures, sometimes as much as €250 a month, "just to make money," Von Haldenwang said.
Von Haldenwang said she also became dissatisfied with the nursing care. She disliked the sedatives the staff used to manage her mother's sometimes imperious behavior, believing they made Miskulin more confused and lethargic. Her mother had lost weight, and Von Haldenwang suspected it was because the staff failed to ensure her mother ate properly. She began supplementing Miskulin's diet with powdered nutritional drinks.
Von Haldenwang asked that the German nursing home not be identified. Its director said his staff only use sedatives when doctors prescribe them. Von Haldenwang and the nursing home both say they are disputing a bill.
In the meantime, she had started looking for a new nursing home, first close by, and then, put off by the price of top-quality care, farther afield.
She heard about Germans sending elderly relatives to Poland. For Von Haldenwang, the prospect of care in Poland was more blessing than parental exile. The state's €700 stipend plus her mother's pension would be more than enough to pay for a Polish nursing home. The rest she sets aside for future medical bills. And she said she believed that Polish people, who put their own relatives into nursing homes at rates lower than much of the rest of Europe, would be respectful caregivers for her mother.
To find a Polish home, Von Haldenwang turned to a fixer: businessman Günter Stobrawe. A retired traveling salesman, Stobrawe started a placement service for Germans in Polish nursing homes last year with his wife, who is Polish and a former nursing home administrator in Germany, and a friend.
Business has picked up in the past few months, Stobrawe said. The company has advised more than 100 families, placed eight seniors and signed contracts for seven more to move to Poland in coming months. It has partnerships with eight nursing homes in Poland.
"Our clients aren't on welfare," Stobrawe said over cappuccino and mineral water at the train station in Wiesbaden, an upscale city outside Frankfurt famous for its baths. "They're people who have saved something."
Some have come to regret sending relatives so far away. Joerg-Christian Henningsen, 67, brought his 63-year-old wife, Annegret, to the Zabelkow home for a month's trial in late March, saying that he needed help after Alzheimer's disease had left her unrecognizable from her former self. He soon discovered one of the biggest drawbacks of distant nursing homes: it's difficult to bring a spouse or parent back home when things go wrong.
A late night phone call about a sudden turn for the worse four weeks after his wife moved into the home led him to make a panicked eight-hour drive from their home near Hamburg to Zabelkow the next day. He arrived, his 93-year-old mother in tow, to find his wife could no longer communicate.
Henningsen said he desperately wanted to bring her home. In order to do so, he had to get a letter attesting to her condition from her Polish doctor.
He spoke to the doctor over a mobile phone set on loudspeaker while one of the Polish nurses helped translate. It was 9 p.m. on a Saturday; he wanted the letter that evening so he could take his wife back to Germany the following day.
Believing they could return to Germany by air, Henningsen argued that the trip would be quick. The doctor was skeptical his wife could travel at all.
"It'll only take an hour and a half," Henningsen argued. "That's nothing. I want to have her in a hospital in Germany."
The nursing home instead proposed sending her to a Polish hospital, but Henningsen refused, said Gerdes, the Zabelkow home's founder.
CONTINUED @ http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/24/world/grandma-export-exposes-germanys-struggle-with-care/#.UkIByNtXv_8
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LiveLeak.com – Israeli Jewish Cult leader convicted of raping, torturing his six wives
"A Jerusalem resident who established a private cult and married six wives was convicted on Tuesday of a long list of crimes, including rape, sodomy and physical abuse including electric shock and whipping."
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Much of the story is found at
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http://womantowomancbe.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/what-you-dont-know-can-hurt-you/.
This was also given to single mothers who were cohursed into adopting their babies, usually their first born.
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Are New Zealand's new COVID-19 laws and powers really a step towards a police state?
Written by Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato
Reaction to the New Zealand government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant lockdown has ranged from high praise to criticism that its actions were illegal and its management chaotic.
Partly in response to the concerns, and to put the continued containment of the disease on a firmer legal footing, the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act was passed under urgency on May 14. It was quickly met with another wave of discontent.
National MP Michael Woodhouse likened Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to "Muldoon with slogans". Others recalled past abuses of police power such as the "dawn raids" of the 1970s.
Such commentary played on fears the new law was a lurch towards authoritarianism under cover of the pandemic – but how seriously should we take it?
Making the law fit for purpose
Although New Zealand's response to the emergency has been praised at home and abroad, the government was working with a multi-generational legislative framework that needed adapting as the crisis evolved.
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At the core of that framework were the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act, the Epidemic Preparedness Act and the Health Act. Despite the relative success of the response, there were clearly ambiguities and weaknesses that could be improved once the emergency was over.
Laws covering public hygiene, vaccination, quarantine and greater integration of local communities (including Maori) in emergency planning will need refining. Longer term, this will be considered by select committees and may result in amendments to existing laws.
The move to lockdown level 2 required better laws to manage containment or future outbreaks. NZ Parliamentary Services
In the short term, however, the government decided as a matter of urgency to fast-track a new law to improve containment of the coronavirus. While the Epidemic Response Committee could have been expected to provide strong oversight, the bill became law without wider scrutiny.
Parliament later agreed to send the law to a select committee, but too late to stop the accusations of authoritarianism by stealth.
One COVID-19 law to rule them all
So what does this new law really do? Essentially, it will govern the country as we deal with all levels of the response to COVID-19. It supports "a public health response to COVID-19" that prevents and limits "the risk of, the outbreak or spread of COVID-19" in a way that is "co-ordinated, orderly, and proportionate" as well as "enforceable".
Although the government has issued an alert level 2 order, it could equally issue new orders for level 3 or 4 under the new law if outbreaks return. Parliament has to approve all such orders within a short time, or they lapse.
Such orders can come from either the minister of health or the director-general of health. In some areas, the same orders could be given under the current Health Act. But the new law sets this out in easier language specifically tailored to the COVID-19 crisis.
Some provisions (such as those to do with contact tracing) are simplified from existing rules. Others, such as the power to direct businesses to close if they are operating in contravention of an order (such as not taking social distancing seriously), have a very contemporary feel.
The new law is particularly good at clearing up uncertainty. For example, it makes clear that orders can be applied "generally to all people in New Zealand or to any specified class of people in New Zealand". This removes an earlier assumption that the law could only be applied piecemeal.
Read more: Will New Zealand's $50 billion budget boost Jacinda Ardern's chance of being re-elected?
Another improvement settles the rules on community checkpoints, one of the most controversial aspects of the recent lockdown. Without reiterating the existing power officials possess to close roads, public places and stop vehicles, the new law emphasises such actions can only be done by "a constable or an enforcement officer acting under the authority of the constable".
Concerns about enforcement powers still valid
The new law has also trimmed the powers of a constable (i.e. police) during the COVID-19 period (but these remain very wide under the Health Act). Anyone entering a place to ensure disease control rules are being followed must now report the entry and why it was necessary.
This reporting requirement did not exist before but it would have been better to limit this emergency power to the police alone, or only allow its operation when police are present.
There is a further questionable area: while it makes sense that orders can be issued when the existing Epidemic Preparedness Act or Civil Defence Emergency Management Act are in play, it is less clear why the prime minister can also make such orders. Those powers should only exist when an emergency is actually declared or in operation.
These concerns aside, perhaps the best feature of the new law is that it is destined to have a short life. It must be renewed every 90 days or it lapses, and it lapses for good after two years. By the time it gets a retrospective grilling from a select committee it will – hopefully like the disease itself – be due to disappear.
Given its context, and the improvements and safeguards the act provides, it's hard to see it as evidence of the rise of authoritarian government.
Authors: Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato
Read more https://theconversation.com/are-new-zealands-new-covid-19-laws-and-powers-really-a-step-towards-a-police-state-138114
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Moanalua welcomes three new teachers
Lacie Arb
One of Moanalua High School's brand new teachers lives quite an active lifestyle. From her years in college of participating in volleyball to now wanting to explore more of the world, Lacie Arb has no plans of slowing down.
"I really enjoy traveling, I've been to about 15 different countries. I'm always looking forward to that, because I want to see as many different countries as I can." Arb said.
Arb is a new addition to the Special Education department. She helps with Individual Education Plans (IEPs) and other teachers with their subjects.
Arb has been teaching for ten years; recently, she was stationed in Korea, teaching there for five years, before moving to Hawaii last summer. This hasn't been Arb's only career path; her longtime love for sports originally made her an athletic trainer.
"I became a teacher in the long way round," Arb said. "I actually was a sports athletic trainer first, that's what I went to school for. That's why I have a physical education background too. But doing that in a short time I got burned out, because it's a lot of long hours, and I started substituting teaching, and I fell in love with it. From there, I went back to school and got my teaching degree and went into other areas of teaching."
Arb continues to challenge herself in her interests (working on her weightlifting skills) and in her career as a teacher. The job opening at MoHS was a calling.
"I really enjoy working with high school students. I also coached many athletic events, so I like to work with students who are getting ready for their next phase of life. It's exciting to me. So when this position became available, and with so many students, this is the biggest school I've ever been to, I was really excited for the challenge."
This all-around teacher is ready to make her mark at one of the largest schools on Oahu.
"I am very outgoing and I love to talk to everybody and anybody. I love ideas, and to hear about other people's lives. And so, if anybody wants to come up and talk to me, I am all for it, and I will always make time for it," Arb said.
Karla Montemayor
Fresh out of college, Karla Montemayor joins the Moanalua staff as a new history teacher. Located in P-11, Montemayor is now teaching special education U.S. History and Sociology in grades 10-12.
Before arriving in the islands, Montemayor taught in South Carolina for a semester. She also held several teaching internships while in college at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, from where she graduated last year.
Having a cousin with autism who wasn't able to receive proper educational support was a major factor as to why Montemayor began teaching.
"I wanted to be able to understand more about the disability aspect in education, so that people don't have to go through the same things [my cousin] did," Montemayor said.
By coming to Moanalua, Montemayor hopes to connect with her students. Having graduated from college only last year, she feels that she can easily relate to high school students.
"I feel like I can help [this generation's] learning by also intertwining what's in style or in trend, to relate to what they're into," Montemayor said.
Montemayor specialized in elementary education before teaching high school students, but ultimately decided to continue teaching at secondary schools after having taught at one for a semester. In her short time at Moanalua, Montemayor is glad to see the maturity in her students especially after coming from a full school year of online-learning.
Brandon Santos
Brandon Santos begins his journey at Moanalua High School, teaching Participation in Democracy and World History.
Santos is Los Angeles born and raised, but has led an adventurous life, previously teaching at a university in Southern China and for eight years prior he taught in South Korea at an international school.
Santos speaks very basic Korean and is working on improving with the help of the Korean Club.
This will be his first time teaching at the high school level. He replaces Margaret Travers, who moved to the librarian's position after the retirement last December of Susan Yokota.
With the support of Travers, he said he's "figuring out [his] jam."
In his free time, Santos enjoys exploring the outdoors. He spent three months backpacking around Hawaii and loves meeting wildlife. He also enjoys reading and writing science fiction and horror novels.
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Many innovations today are gradually working towards closing the gender gap in different sectors. In this series of innovations for her, we bring you 37Angels; a women-focused network, seeking to close the gender gap in through profitable investments.
37Angels is a network of 50-plus women investors with a twofold goal which includes: helping startups succeed and helping more women learn how to become investors in startup businesses. The network was founded by Angela Lee, an assistant dean at Columbia Business School and a serial entrepreneur, who is passionate about helping women.
Her top priority is getting more women to invest. She says "There are a lot of resources right now focused on helping the female entrepreneur, and there are very few folks that help the female investor."
Angela is known for demystifying complex topics, curating opportunities, and empowering others, most especially women who intend to invest into businesses.
According to a report from the University of New Hampshire, statistics show that less than 10% of venture capitalists are women, and less than 20% of angel investors are women. This partly explains why less than 5% of Venture Capital funding goes to women-led companies.
Armed with these statistics, 37Angels was founded as network of women investors on a mission to educate early stage investors. They would not be satisfied until startup investment groups can boast as many women among their ranks as men. Closing the gender gap in investing, the women focused investment group has invested $50,000 to $200,000 in startups since 2012.
To that end, 37Angels has also introduced a programme for female investors who want to join the network. The program teaches a wide range of things including: what to look for in a pitch; how valuation works and what to do after writing a startup a check.
"For me, it's really important to remove the asterisks of investing in women," Angela says. "When a woman gets funded, everyone knows it's because she's awesome. It wasn't because it was 'the right thing to do.'" Besides, Lee adds, with more women investors, "I do think that more women and a more diverse type of startup will get funded." —Michelle Goodman
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Q: BPMN 2.0 confused about execute process Im a little confused about BPMN 2.0 Engines
if you have modeled a process on the BPMN 2.0 standard in a BPM engine like activiti, activeVOS or JBOSS and you want to execute that process, the engine converts that BPMN "code" into another kind of code (like BPEL, XPDL, etc) or there is a way to "execute BPMN 2.0"?
There are some engines like IBM BPM that offers you only BPMN in their "basic" product, so, that product "executes" BPMN directly? or converts its in some way?
the same ocurred with JBOSS, if u model a BMPN process u can execute it?
Kind regards

A: BPMN 2.0 is an OMG specification that you can find here
The specification describes several level of comprehension. In your case, what you are interested in are ;"Process Modeling Conformance" and "Process Execution Performance".
The specification also provide rules for serialization which is based on XML.
Some editors are using this serialization internally, some others not. In the second case, most of the time they provide import/export in bpmn 2 format.
What you have to be aware is that, even if a lot of  execution behaviors has been defined, there is still a lot of points where it is missing or at least not all vendors interprets the specification exactly the same.
The BPMN Model Interchange Working Group is working to file the gap and provide guidelines for a proper serialization and exchange of BPMN files between vendors.
To sum up, the short answer is: it doesn't really matters if they execute it directly of if they convert it internally. The only important thing is that the behavior respects the "Process Execution Conformance".
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2017 Guest Lecture - Prof Susan Sharfstein
Location: Seminar Room, Biomedical Sciences Building, Newcastle Road, NUI Galway
Susan Sharfstein is a Professor of Nanobioscience at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany, New York. Professor Sharfstein received her B.S. in chemical engineering with honors from Caltech in 1987 and her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from UC Berkeley in 1993, receiving graduate fellowships from the university and the National Science Foundation. She received a National Institutes of Health Individual Research Service Award to pursue postdoctoral studies, initially at UC Berkeley and subsequently at the UCLA Medical School. Dr. Sharfstein joined the faculty at the University of Toledo in Bioengineering in 1996. In 2000, she received a National Science Foundation POWRE award to study glycobiology at the New York State Department of Health Wadsworth Laboratories.
The title of Prof. Sharfstein's talk is "Novel culture systems for trabecular meshwork and Schlemm's canal cells: An in vitro model for screening glaucoma therapeutics"
Hosted by: Dr Sharon Glynn and Prof. Abhay Pandit
From 11:00am Wednesday, 22 November 2017 to Wednesday, 22 November 2017


MacScripter / Automator + Portable VLC?
» Automator + Portable VLC?
I have a video file on a USB flash drive, I want to set it up so that you can click the Automator Application and have it open immediately in the Portable VLC also on the flash drive. So the viewer doesn't need to install VLC or do any other messing around.
I've tried several recipes in various orders; VLC opens but the video will not auto play or show up in VLC.
The video will play in the Portable VLC by more standard methods.
Re: Automator + Portable VLC?
set my_Movie to alias "Untitled:Русские фильмы:1990:Заложница (1990.DVDRip-AVC).mkv"
set my_Application to alias "Untitled:VLC.app:"
NOTE 1: Here Заложница (1990.DVDRip-AVC).mkv is my movie name. Is stored in subfolder 1990 of subfolder Русские фильмы of USB disk Untitled. Put your paths in lines of code 1 and 2, and you can use this script.
NOTE 2: You can play VLC of startup disk and VLC of USB disk at the same time!!!
NOTE 3: Code line 1 is better to replace with set my_Movie to choose file. Then you can choose other movies from USB and from startup disks.
set my_Application to alias \"Untitled:VLC.app:\"
run script "tell application \"Finder\"
" & uiScript & "
2) In the window that pops up, highlight Service and then hit Choose.
3) Now in the Library section on the left, click on Utilities and then find Set Value of Variable. Drag it to the main window on the right.
7) Still in the Utilities section of the Library on the left, find Run AppleScript. Drag it to the main window under our last step.
10}: Go to File > Save and give your new service a name. I'll call mine USB_VLC_Player.
You have just created a Service. This means that if you right-click anybody movie, you can see service USB_VLC_Player, choose it and choose anybody other movie for playing with VLC on USB .
Of course, whenever the USB currently isn't mounted, subroutine doWithTimeout will throw error with message and stop execution.
Open workflow and edit only рath to your own USB device VLC player (replace only Untitled:VLC.app: with your own path). Then move workflow to folder ~Library/Services.
As you can see, I had copy only bold here text. This is so as not to confuse you with escaping quotes nested in other quotes. That's all.


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Enriching - or proliferating?
The discussion on the future of uranium enrichment has now been resolved, for now at least, in favour of gas centrifuge technology, as already used on a commercial scale by Urenco and Russia. Laser enrichment is retained as a possibility for the future, but achieving substantial capacity at low operating costs has so far proved difficult.
More recently, however, some new issues have come up which are relevant to the enrichment sector. Firstly, the recent rise in the uranium price (see article in April issue) means that there should be an increased demand for enrichment. This is because utilities have flexibility in choosing the relative amounts of uranium and enrichment to commit to produce enriched uranium – if one component becomes more expensive, it is logical to use more of the other. Secondly, much recent attention has focused on the quality of nuclear industry supply infrastructure, with the sudden realisation that it is perhaps rather more fragile than we thought. In the enrichment sector, however, there are huge sums being committed to new facilities in the USA and France, in addition to the continuing programme of investment at the existing gas centrifuge plants. Finally, there are all the nuclear technology proliferation concerns which have cropped up in recent months. Many of these are focused on uranium enrichment and have led to popular media interest in what was formerly regarded as a rather obscure subject. The proposals to deal with these concerns are highly controversial and will undoubtedly have some effect on the commercial nuclear sector.
It's clear that the increased uranium price, assuming it is sustained, will push up world enrichment demand. This is because, in seeking a quantity of enriched uranium to fabricate as fuel, utilities can choose an optimum contractual tails assay. The U-235 assay of the tails (depleted uranium) depends on the amount of enrichment applied to the natural uranium supplied as feedstock for enrichment. In recent years, there has been a significant difference between the tails assays typical for Western and Russian enrichment plants. In the West, low uranium prices have pushed the optimum tails assay up to around 0.35%, but in Russia, substantial spare enrichment capacity and an increasing shortage of natural uranium has pushed tails assays down as low as 0.10%, as stockpiles of depleted uranium (including material from the West) have been sent through the enrichment plants again.
With the substantial increase in world uranium prices, the optimum tails assay for Western utilities will now move down from 0.35% U-235 to around 0.30% and potentially head towards 0.25%. This will have a major influence on enrichment demand – in the USA alone, a movement from 0.35% to 0.30% will increase enrichment requirements by about 1 million separative work units (SWUs) per annum, but reduce uranium demand by around 2000tU per annum. With the uranium price rise so recent, it is maybe a little early to make such assessments, but we can at least now say that enrichment demand over the next few years is set to be substantially greater than was thought.
This has clear implications for commercial enrichment facilities. It's clear that a major investment programme in these is long overdue. The large gas diffusion plants in the USA and France are now very old and inefficient in their use of electricity, and gas centrifuges are the clearly preferred replacement technology.
Indeed, it has only been the arrival on the world market of a substantial number of SWUs from downblended Russian HEU which has allowed the heavy investment programme to be delayed. It can be argued that this, plus surplus enrichment capacity in Russia, has prevented the supply problems apparent in other areas of the fuel cycle. For example, disruptions at McArthur River, Olympic Dam and Ranger mines and the realisation that the primary uranium sector has been severely battered by financial pressures for many years, have been partial causes of the sharp increase in uranium prices since early 2003. Also, the suspension of production at the Metropolis uranium conversion plant has highlighted that there is very limited spare Western capacity in this area (a position which will worsen with the closure of BNFL's Springfields facility in 2006).
In the enrichment sector, nevertheless, about $6 billion is being invested in three new facilities, two in the USA and one in France. In the former, with the American Centrifuge plant, USEC has revitalised the old DoE technology and aims to open a new 3.5 million SWUs per annum plant by 2010. Urenco and its partners in the National Enrichment Facility plan to open a centrifuge plant of 3 million SWUs per annum in 2008 in New Mexico. Finally, Eurodif in France will replace its old Georges Besse gas diffusion plant, starting in 2007, with a new centrifuge plant of 7.5 million SWUs per annum capacity, based on technology-sharing with Urenco.
These new facilities are a mixture of replacement and incremental capacity. The new investment is very welcome, but getting the new plants running well and on time will be very challenging. For the two US plants, in addition to the technical challenges, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has a very heavy workload for licensing, with Yucca Mountain, plant uprates, relicensing and possible new capacity applications all coming along at the same time as two new enrichment facilities.
It's clear that a major investment programme is long overdue
Any shortfall in Western capacity can be made up by the surplus in Russia. It is believed that the Russian gas centrifuge capacity is around 20 million SWUs per annum but it is expected that this will rise slowly as old centrifuges are replaced by new improved models. It is clear that Russia now wishes to sell higher value nuclear services, rather than being seen as a cheap fuel supplier, and its enrichment capacity is a key to this. The strategy is sometimes referred to as 'SWU for U' in the sense that a large amount of the capacity is already being used to enrich tails material, both sent to Russia from Western enrichment plants but also domestically sourced. However, the Russians would eventually like to supply their enrichment services directly to all Western utilities, something which is presently not possible owing to trade restrictions.
Finally, turning to the renewed proliferation concerns, these essentially started with the North Korean claim that they have an operating centrifuge enrichment programme. There remain substantial doubts about the status of this but it has been followed by further revelations from Iran and Libya, showing that they have had similar programmes. Centrifuge enrichment technology is very difficult to master but, in each case, substantial progress has been made towards enriching uranium to weapons-level assays.
The common link in each of these countries has been technology transfer from the enrichment programme in Pakistan, which uses old Urenco-derived centrifuge technology. This has clearly worried those concerned with weapons proliferation, although the quantities of enriched material produced and its assays remain unknown. Now Brazil has added to the worries by refusing to accept full IAEA inspections at its enrichment facility at Resende. The reason given for this is advanced knowledge-protection (the Brazilian programme is essentially independent) but suspicions persist that there are hidden weapons intentions.
These revelations have led to proposals for strengthening the non-proliferation regime. In addition to the need to accelerate adherence to the IAEA Additional Protocol, the USA has proposed that enrichment facilities should be confined to the small number of countries already involved in the business. These will then offer full and fair trade to only those who accept full scope safeguards. A similar regime is proposed for spent fuel reprocessing, which also carries proliferation risks.
The idea of limiting enrichment, reprocessing and perhaps also spent fuel (international repositories?) facilities to a small number of countries has a good and bad side. Such facilities need economies of scale and having them spread over many countries must imply higher costs. The downside is that such proposals could also potentially serve to limit competition and push up prices for buyers. Some commentators certainly see the US proposals as having a commercial slant – memories are long in the industry, going back to when the USA had a stranglehold over fuel supply through its monopoly supply of enrichment services.
The other important point is that the civil nuclear fuel cycle has never been a significant contributor to weapons proliferation, so constraining it in various ways will not get to the root of the problem. Nations seeking nuclear weapons have taken more direct routes without any civil justification.
It must therefore be hoped that whatever arrangements are brought in to meet proliferation objectives do not diminish competition in this important sector and allow nuclear utilities around the world to secure regular and timely supplies of enrichment services at keen prices.
Steve Kidd is Head of Strategy & Research at the World Nuclear Association, where he has worked since 1995 (when it was the Uranium Institute). Any views expressed are not necessarily those of the World Nuclear Association and/or its members.
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Rams quarterback Jared Goff was hanging his head after his performance against the previously winless New York Jets. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
The situation is not new for Jared Goff.
Since being chosen with the No. 1 pick in the 2016 NFL draft, the Rams' quarterback has led his team into games with a playoff berth on the line several times.
In 2017 and 2018, Goff came through.
Last season, after receiving a $134-million extension, Goff and the Rams fell short.
On Sunday, Goff gets another opportunity when the Rams (9-5) play the first-place Seattle Seahawks (10-4) in an NFC West game at Seattle.
A victory would put the Rams in the playoffs for the third time in four seasons under coach Sean McVay and keep alive their chances for a division title. The Seahawks can clinch the division championship with a victory, and possibly force the Rams to win their finale against the Arizona Cardinals to make the playoffs.
Goff said Wednesday that he approaches all games the same.
"I don't try to make it any more than it is," he said.
He acknowledged that there are implications Sunday.
"But it's all the same," he said.
Goff has passed for 20 touchdowns, with 12 interceptions. In the 23-20 loss to the previously winless New York Jets, Goff completed 22 of 34 passes for 209 yards and two touchdowns, with an interception, as the Rams blew a chance to clinch a playoff berth.
McVay said this week that the Rams' failure to execute in critical situations, "have kind of caught up with us."
The Rams will need an efficient, if not spectacular, performance by Goff to defeat a Seahawks team that has won four of its last five games and has fortified its offense and defense since a 23-16 loss to the Rams on Nov. 15.
In that game, Goff completed 27 of 37 passes for 302 yards, and lost a fumble, in a victory that improved the Rams' record to 6-3.
They won three of their next four games before losing to the Jets. That puts added pressure on Goff in the showdown against the Seahawks, who are coming off a 20-15 victory over Washington.
The Jets had Rams quarterback Jared Goff on the run last week. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
"Our group has just played better," Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said of his team's defense. "We were banged up quite a bit in the middle and we just didn't have the continuity that we needed to get going. Now, we feel it and we got a chance to play some pretty good ball."
Goff is 5-3 as a starter against the Seahawks. He has passed for eight touchdowns, with eight interceptions, and has been sacked 14 times.
Last season in an October game in Seattle, Goff passed for 395 yards and a touchdown, with an interception, in a 30-29 defeat. Goff had engineered a fourth-quarter drive to set up a potential game-winning field goal, but former Rams kicker Greg Zuerlein missed, sending the Rams to a loss that ultimately helped doom their playoff chances.
On Sunday, they return for another game with a postseason berth in play.
Tight end Tyler Higbee has played with Goff for five seasons. He said he did not "notice anything too much different" in the way Goff approaches games with playoff implications.
"I don't think he approaches a certain game any less, any more than he does the previous," Higbee said, "but it's the next one, so it's the most important and I think he's going to attack it well."
After going 0-7 as a starter during his rookie season under former coach Jeff Fisher's staff, Goff in 2017 got his first taste of playing with a postseason berth on the line.
In the second-to-last game of the season, Goff completed 22 of 38 passes for 307 yards and four touchdowns in a 27-23 victory over the Tennessee Titans in Nashville. His fourth-quarter touchdown pass to receiver Cooper Kupp put the Rams ahead to stay in a win that clinched the Rams' first NFC West title since the 2003 season, and put them in the playoffs for the first time since 2004.
The next season against the Detroit Lions, Goff completed 17 of 33 passes for 207 yards and a touchdown, with an interception, as the Rams clinched their second division title with a 30-16 victory at Detroit.
The win, in the 12th game of the season, provided the Rams plenty of time to gear up for what became a run to the Super Bowl, which included a clutch performance by Goff in the NFC championship game victory over the New Orleans Saints at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
But last season, Goff struggled in games with playoff implications. And both were on the road.
The Rams were 8-5 when they traveled to play the Dallas Cowboys at AT&T Stadium. Goff completed 33 of 51 passes for 284 yards and two touchdowns, with an interception, in a 44-21 loss that put the Rams on the brink of elimination from playoff contention. Much of the yardage Goff posted, and one of the touchdowns, came after that outcome was decided.
Six days later, the Rams played the San Francisco 49ers at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. Goff completed 27 of 46 passes for 323 yards and two touchdowns, but one of his passes was intercepted and returned for a touchdown. The 49ers kicked a field goal as time expired to win, 34-31, and ensure that the Rams would miss the playoffs for the first time under McVay.
"He's done really well," McVay said of Goff's performances in playoff-clinching situations. "Last year was a little bit different because we were kind of behind the 8-ball with the way that season went.
"He gave us a chance. I thought he did a lot of really good things in the Saturday night game [against the 49ers] where we just came up short."
Goff welcomes the opportunity to complete the task this season.
"I enjoy playing in meaningful games in December," he said. "That's always the goal, is to be playing games that matter, and right now we are."
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
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Former U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati described as key to bringing World Cup 2026 to North America
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Sunil Gulati, president of the US Soccer Federation, watches the team practicing. (Photo courtesy Sunil Gulati)
A leading sports columnist and writer says Indian-American Sunil Gulati, former president of the U.S. Soccer Federation was "crucial" in bringing the 2026 World Cup to North America.
Writing in the Los Angeles Times June 23, Kevin Baxter says the U.S. should credit Gulati with the early hard work involved in swinging the vote in favor of the U.S., Canada and Mexico earlier this month.
Though Gulati quit the presidency of USSF in February and was replaced by another Indian-American, Carlos Cordiero, "… if he is the forgotten man behind the bid, his contributions cannot be as easily dismissed," Baxter notes.
Gulati gave an exclusive interview to News India Times February 4, just days before he stepped down on Feb. 10, dwelling on his 50-plus years of passion for soccer since childhood. He is, possibly, the single most important man in making this little-played sport in the U.S., into a national phenomenon played in almost all high schools in the U.S. and Canada, by both boys and girls, not just in Mexico. Even as he was stepping down, Gulati told News India Times, "I am focusing right now heavily to bring the World Cup here in 2026."
Sunil Gulati, left, with former President Bill Clinton, at a June 2010 meeting with Nelson Mandela. (Photo courtesy Sunil Gulati)
The senior lecturer in Economics at Columbia University, put speculation to rest when he announced last December (2017), that he would not be running for re-election. "Let's be honest. Sunil Gulati is the most powerful man" in American soccer, "I don't see Sunil going anywhere," and "If Sunil runs … it's game over," one commentator on ESPN said before Gulati's announcement.
"He has been instrumental in developing the world's biggest game in the United States," Columbia University says about the Allahabad-born Gulati.
Baxter, who interviewed Gulati in Moscow after North America won the 2026 World Cup bid, said the Indian-American began the conversation with officials in Mexico and Canada four years before the bid became a reality.
Furthermore, "It was Gulati who, despite advice to the contrary, insisted on sharing the World Cup with the rest of North America when the bid was launched in April 2017. … And it was Gulati who, after the 2018 and 2022 World Cups were awarded to Russia and Qatar, respectively, in votes that have been investigated for bribery and corruption, insisted that FIFA change its rules before the U.S. would consider bidding for the World Cup again….All those decisions proved prescient," says Baxter.
His view is supported by Scott Le Tellier, the CEO of the 1994 World Cup, the last to be held in the U.S., who told Baxter, "Sunil Gulati was the genius behind the effort."
"As president of U.S. Soccer, he forced FIFA's hand to implement bid reforms that gave us a chance to win. As a member of the FIFA executive committee, he recognized vulnerabilities in a standalone U.S. bid, conceptualized the United bid and struck deals with Mexico and Canada to actively support it," Le Tellier adds. Gulati, Le Tellier, and John Kristick worked on the 70,000-page bid for 2026, Le Tellier told Baxter.
Opposition to joining with Canada and Mexico to present the bid came more from the soccer community in the U.S., on grounds that this affluent country to host the 48 teams and 80 games on its own, a position Gulati countered by arguing that a joint effort of the 3 countries would pre-empt rival bids and also be an example of cross-border friendship, Baxter's article says.
"I'd rather have a 90 percent chance of getting 75 percent of the World Cup than a 75 percent chance of getting 100 percent of it," Gulati told the USSF board, according to Baxter. "The thought (was) that Canada and Mexico would be great partners and it would help the bid. Which I think it did," Gulati is quoted saying.
At the critical moment nearing the final decision, Cordiero rejuvenated the bid by reorganizing the bid committee and made each of the presidents of the three countries' soccer federations split the duties of lobbying FIFA, Baxter says. "In late spring, the three presidents set up shop in London, finishing a sprint that saw them combine to meet with approximately 150 federation presidents or their deputies in the final months before the vote," Baxter notes, clinching the deal for North America.
The U.S. defeat in the qualifying cycle at the World Cup in October 2017, set the ball rolling for Gulati's decision to quit a post he had held for ten years.
Re-elected in 2010 and 2014, Gulati was also elected to the FIFA Executive Committee at the CONCACAF Congress on April 19, 2013, in Panama City, Panama, for a four-year term. The CONCACAF is the continental governing body for association football in North America.
According to his bio on the USSF website, Gulati has more than 30 years of experience at all levels of soccer in the United States and helped the sport rise to new heights.
In his February interview with News India Times, Gulati frankly expressed his disappointed with the October 2017 defeat of the U.S. team. "Well, we're supposed to win … it is such a disappointment." But he was enthusiastic about the future. U.S. soccer today, he noted is "respected around the world," but called the achievement a "great team effort."
According to the U.S. Soccer Federation website, the 'United Bid' is expected to generate more than $14 billion in revenue and $11 billion in profits for FIFA, which will be shared with the 211 FIFA Member Associations, "helping further develop and expand the game of football across the globe."
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A couple of new installments to the Solo Life, my attempt to take advantage of all Chicago has to offer while also pushing myself out of the proverbial comfort zone —
A week or so ago I went to Write Club at the Hideout [with others]. Highly recommended! Time Out's take: Set up like a boxing match with three rounds, the night features dueling writers who are assigned two opposing themes (e.g., Fate versus Free Will or Mind versus Body) and are given exactly seven minutes to expound on the topic. Afterwords, I chatted with the host and he mentioned a few other literary events in bars he thought I might like. And that's how I ended up at Ricochet's this past Saturday afternoon.
What first intrigued me about Paper Machete was the time. 3PM on a Saturday. Odd times and unique venues have become draws for me [which is why I found myself giving a presentation at ING Direct a few weeks ago; a bank with no tellers that's a coffeehouse?!?]. It was different and fun to be heading out to such an event during the day. Unfortunately, Apple Fest, whatever that is, was going on a few blocks away, and a requirement to get in was that you have the ugliest dog dressed in the ugliest dog-sweater and the biggest, most obnoxious baby-stroller and a lack of care for others around you. I had about twenty minutes to kill before the show, so found myself weaving in and out of that minefield. Quickly regretted that decision. Ricochet's had been on my list of bars to check out for awhile. It's small, low-key, comfy, unpretentious. The back area was full when I sidled up to the bar. Billed as a live magazine and parlor show, Paper Machete has guests comment on current events. The host dazzled the audience with a few songs and remarks, and then welcomed up the guests, including a guitarist. The styles and topics were all very different, but all witty and interesting. From Glenn Beck to Apple Fest to abortion in Mexico to being an aspiring playwright to homosexuality. A fun and cheap [it's free!] way to spend an afternoon. I'd definitely go back.
Wednesday I headed the opposite direction, both literally [downtown] and figuratively [expensive], and went to see Ricky Gervais at the Chicago Theater. Of course, as often happens when I'm trying to be by myself, I ran into friends within two seconds of stepping in the lobby. Caught up with them and then excused myself to go be solo. I first became aware of Ricky as the original Michael Scott in the original The Office, across the pond. A Brit, of course I loved him instantly. And then throw in wit, political incorrectness, and a willingness to laugh at oneself – I loved him passionately. I haven't been to a venue like the Chicago Theater in a long time, and never for a comedy show, always for a play or a concert. What a great time! The opening act, Tom Something or Other [sorry Tom], was hilarious. Ricky was a natural, so comfortable on stage in front of a packed house, no um's and ah's. He talked about Noah's Ark, fat people, fear of flying, Africa, telling jokes at dinner parties, gay marriage, and how rich he is and we're not. Used a few props to complement his stories, a huge pointer-stick and a huge TV screen with shots of a book he won for "regular attendance" in elementary school, but other than that, it was just him, dressed in all back and running shoes, with a large can of some kind of drink. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. And it's a weird wonderful feeling to belly-laugh along with hundreds of strangers. What a majestic venue and a majestic entertainer. Fully worth the ticket price. I wish he'd come over and play some Taboo with me.


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Italian Economy Minister Giovanni Tria attends as Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte (unseen) speaks during his first session at the Lower House of the Parliament in Rome, Italy, June 6, 2018. REUTERS/Tony Gentile/File Photo
Italy Dismisses Concern the EU Will Reject Its Budget Plan
October 4, 2018 Updated: October 4, 2018
ROME—The Italian government on Oct. 4 dismissed concerns that the European Commission would reject its plan to raise deficit spending next year and signaled that it would not backtrack, even under market pressure.
After a selloff hit Italian bonds on Oct. 2, the government made up of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and the right-wing League on Oct. 3 watered down its original plan to keep its deficit steady at 2.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2020-21.
But it stuck to its 2.4 percent target for next year, and on Oct. 4 government officials said they had no plans to make further revisions to that goal, which is three times more than one set out by the previous government.
Speaking about the multi-year budget targets that must be reviewed by Brussels by mid-month, Deputy Economy Minister Massimo Garavaglia said on Oct. 4: "(Either) it passes or it doesn't, but this isn't the problem. We're more focused on what is happening in the markets."
Garavaglia also said the government's GDP growth forecast for next year would be 1.6 percent, much higher than the 1.2 percent median projection of 51 analysts polled by Reuters last month.
That goal was later confirmed by Economy Minister Giovanni Tria in a letter to the European Commission, which called for "open and constructive dialogue" over the budget plan.
Growth was forecast at 1.6 percent in 2020 and 1.4 percent in 2021, Tria said.
The gap between Italy's benchmark 10-year bond yields and their safer German equivalent on Oct. 2 widened to more than 300 basis points, its widest since May, on concerns about Italy's plans. On Oct. 4, the spread had narrowed to 278 basis points.
League leader Matteo Salvini, speaking on RAI state radio, said that next year's deficit spending was needed to spark growth and create jobs, and added that the government would not back down even if the spread widened to 400 basis points.
"This is a budget that looks to the future, and we will absolutely not go backwards," Salvini said.
The government's confident tone came as la Repubblica newspaper reported that the commission had already sent Italian officials an informal note saying it would reject next year's spending plans.
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Sometimes when an actor finishes a film, he or she retains a prop of some kind, a souvenir or memento they can look to in the future for a conversation piece.
Zachary Levi seems to have come away from his stint on SHAZAM with the coolest and most valuable vestige ever: The Wisdom of Solomon. (The superhero character more commonly known as Captain Marvel gains his powers by shouting out an acronym, which gains him the combined powers of Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury.)
During the trying and tiring time of the last few days, as votes were being tabulated with deliberation and states were switching colors more slowly than leaves in autumn, Levi interected a thought onto Twitter -- a place designed ostensibly just for that purpose but, ironically, in abject opposition to the ideal on most days.
The tweet was in response to jubilant tweets supporting the Biden election while simultaneously dehumanizing the supporters of the outgoing Trump administration.
With all due respect, I disagree. To minimize & trivialize all Conservative concerns into these trite examples shows a great lack of explored empathy, in my humble opinion. Don't just buy the headline or clickbait or funny meme. Dig deeper. You'll find a human. Much like you. https://t.co/y6uGozgZq4
— Zachary Levi (@ZacharyLevi) November 8, 2020
The tweet became a magnet for controversy, which should come as no surprise, social media being the piranha pit that it is. And it would be a sad commentary on the outlook of the citizenry if it weren't already well known that people really love to hate, and enjoy making war on a call for peace.
Never one to shy away from a good pig-pile when they see one, alleged comic book news site The Mary Sue, quickly dove in with accusations and admonitions to "read the room" before spiraling into a histrionic-laden agitprop piece about living in terror for the past four years. They also fall into their typical pedantic condescension of telling him to "listen when people are talking" (physician, heal thyself) before ultimately concluding that Levi was a literal defender of Nazis.
Reading the room is for people who don't have a solid grasp of their own beliefs and convictions. Zachary Levi has made many tweets in the past where he has been critical of Trump administration, making clear that he was anything but friendly to it. But to suggest that people treat each other with dignity? For that he's excoriated and vilified, another crucifixion on the cross of cancel culture.
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A new power is rising…
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People always under-estimate the power of the fossil record. There has always been this stigma surrounding it that it is too poor, or too biased to read 'properly', and is consequently of no use. I still hear this quite a bit, and there are a couple of reasons for it.
Over the last ten years or so, there has been a substantial increase in the methods we can use to interpret the fossil record, based on an increased understanding of the interaction between large fossil data sets, the geological record, and the way in which we as humans have sampled these archives. This has dramatically changed the way in which we think of, and use, the fossil record – we see its imperfections, but we also know how to compensate for them, making the fossil record a new rising power for understanding biological patterns in deep time.
However, this has not really been picked up in the media. Nor has it really been utilised by other related branches of science. Molecular systematists still hail the 'DNA revolution' as making the fossil record obsolete, when in fact the truth couldn't be further away. Molecular systematists need fossils to calibrate their evolutionary trees, and make them, well, useful. DNA tells us little about extinction, and nor does it give is information on what animals of the past were actually like. Without fossils, we would know little about evolutionary rates, or the timing of origins of major groups of animals, such as those around us today.
Feathered dinosaurs are the bane of many a palaeontologist. Nine times out of ten, when asked what we do, the response is either 'like Ross from Friends?', or 'Dinosaurs?' The media are the sole perpetrators of this misconception – every time a new feathered dinosaur is found, it makes the front page headlines, when in fact scientifically, they actually tell us very little individually, and only then about a particular group of animals.
So why do these two points matter? Well, in a time of squeezed research budgets, many other fields of palaeontology that are developing mature applications that can be used in, for example, climate prediction or conservation efforts by telling us how animals respond in time to environment shifts, these are being dismissed in favour of perceived 'news-worthy' headlines. In fact, and scientific reality, things couldn't be further from what we, as a field, would like.
We'd like to show people that we are doing relevant science, that their taxes are going towards something functional, something useful, and something important. Yeah, new dinosaurs are cool, but the representation that we have in popular society and the media is totally misleading. The over-sexifying of aspects of palaeontology is hurtful for our community. What needs to be communicated more are the important aspects of palaeontology, such as macroevolution, biostratigraphy, or palaoeclimatology.
So this new wave of palaeontology is actually more commonly being called palaeobiology – instead of grey-haired men sitting in labs doing taxonomy, much vigour is being pumped into new fields such as functional morphology, mass extinctions, or biomechanics. We now know more than ever thanks to new technologies, new thinking, and new methods to test questions we couldn't even dream of asking 30 years ago.
Bringing this back to biodiversity, and the incomplete nature of the fossil record, we now know that historical trends of biodiversity are closely tracked by the availability of fossils in the geological record – we call these sampling biases. It makes sense to think that if we have more fossil-bearing rocks to sample from, we get more species, or more species' occurrences, and in general this is what we see.
While some see this as a way to dismiss the value of the fossil record, it has, in fact, spurred on a new wave of understanding of fossils. For example, one modelling technique commonly used now creates a measure of biodiversity based on an assumed perfectly sampled record, which if we take away from an observed measure of biodiversity, we get what is called a residual diversity – the component of biodiversity which cannot be explained by sampling biases, and reflects biological patterns. This is but one of a host of methods currently being used to disentangle trends in biodiversity in deep history, and reveal much to us about the shifting dynamics of diversity, and its distinct coupling with the environment. Clearly, such discoveries are of considerable more worth, both to scientists, biologists, zoologists and conservationists in this rapidly changing world of ours.
I guess in some ways this is subjective – some might see the significance that a new dinosaur brings in terms of attention more valuable to the field, but all this does is perpetrate the misconception that palaeontologists just, well, dig dinosaurs.
This has, to a degree, reinvented the fossil wheel, and with this has its dissenters – but dissent is good, it helps us to strengthen our theories, and seek new ways to solve old problems. Palaeobiology has never been more dynamic as a field, and it's time that we cracked out of the dinosaur-chrysalis and showed everyone what a colourful range we've been hiding. Of course, this involves more engagement between scientists and science reporters, which is probably something every field could ask for more of. I just know about palaeontology, and I hope this conveys why I think a paradigm shift is needed for us all.
Now witness the power of this armed and fully-analytical fossil record!