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Riigikogu deliberated protection of cultural heritage as matter of significant national importance
Deliberation of protection of cultural heritage as a matter of significant national importance was held in the Riigikogu. Member of the Cultural Affairs Committee Lauri Vahtre, Chairman of the Riigikogu National Heritage Association Trivimi Velliste and Member of Academy Mart Kalm made reports.
Vahtre gave a thorough overview of the development of heritage conservation in Estonia through the ages. In the conclusion of his report, he summarised the protection of cultural heritage as follows: "Every effort must be made to ensure that culture lives and reproduces itself and integrates within itself also the culture of other nations represented in Estonia, like the fantastic, beautiful Russian villages on the coast of Lake Peipus or like the Old Town of Tallinn which used to be a foreign, German town but which now is part of our culture."
Velliste explained that the question of the protection of cultural heritage or, more narrowly, heritage conservation, had arisen from the initiative of the Riigikogu National Heritage Association to amend the Constitution of Estonia by adding a laconic provision which would emphasise that everybody – the state, local governments as well individual citizens – is obliged to protect cultural heritage. The fact that the initiative to amend the Constitution was supported with 67 signatures is a clear indication that cultural heritage is important for us. Today's deliberation should confirm that cultural heritage is in dare need of much greater public attention as well as clearer and more specific political and legal interpretation.
Velliste noted that natural environment and artificial environment are closely intertwined nowadays and there is no clear line between them. Sacred groves, cemeteries and manor parks can be under heritage conservation and under nature conservation at the same time. "Moreover, it extends even further: we are increasingly speaking about areas of cultural and environmental value, that is, communities where we are protecting not so much a single "exhibit" in the city or village landscape as indeed integral spiritual environment which is to a greater or lesser extent a human creation but which is in any case important from the standpoint of human welfare," underlined Velliste.
Kalm discussed topical issues relating to the protection of cultural heritage and analysed the current situation. In Kalm's words, heritage conservation tends to be seen as an interest of a small group and it is forgotten that it is a national interest. By designating an object as a monument, the state has declared that it is valuable and has assumed an obligation to take care of it and to help preserve it. Unfortunately, an opposite tendency is often seen in practice. We have a considerable number of monuments which are under protection. At the same time, he does not share the position that the number of monuments which are under protection should be smaller. "I think that nothing will happen if we change the attitude that if we cannot protect all monuments that are under protection and some of them are destroyed, then it is not a catastrophe," noted Kalm.
In his words, fundamental research in heritage conservation needs to be increased significantly so that it would provide a basis for preparing more competent and reliable special conditions on a case by case basis. Kalm is not sure whether it is correct to do it within the framework of heritage conservation which is a supervisory body instituted by the state or whether, for example, a separate, additional foundation capital of heritage conservation should be established at the Cultural Endowment of Estonia. However, money for fundamental research must be found in the near future, said Kalm.
Aivar Riisalu, Paul-Eerik Rummo, Mark Soosaar, Liisa-Ly Pakosta, Maret Merisaar, Igor Gräzin and Urmas Reinsalu took the floor during the debate.
The Riigikogu passed with 83 votes in favour the Resolution of the Riigikogu "Appointment of Ivo Pilving to Office of Justice of Supreme Court" (899 OE), submitted by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, by which Ivo Pilving is appointed a justice of the Supreme Court as of 1 February 2011 instead of Julia Laffranque who has been appointed a judge of the European Court of Human Rights.
The sitting ended at 1.32 p.m.


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In the spring of 2009, Columbia University opened two foreign outposts. There wasn't much fanfare at the time—the ribbon-cutting ceremonies garnered less coverage than, say, each of the university's expansions into Manhattanville.
Last year, just as quietly, Columbia opened two more centers, in Mumbai and Paris. And later this year, Columbia will open a center in Istanbul, with a center in Santiago hot on its heels.
By 2012, according to Kenneth Prewitt, Columbia's recently minted vice president for global centers, the university intends to have centers operational in Rio de Janeiro and Nairobi. This, all of this, is only Phase One.
Columbia's effort occurs at the same time as a more aggressively publicized campaign by New York University to establish outposts around the world, starting with a portal campus in Abu Dhabi, to be followed in 2013 by a second portal campus in Shanghai and then a collection of 16 global sites (of varying sizes) by 2014.
What these two New York-based universities are attempting—essentially to slip the constraints of Manhattan by actually, physically expanding across the Earth—is not in any way normal.
Most American universities with reputations worth worrying about have avoided branch-campus expansion altogether.
"The higher the level of prestige of the home university the more risk of loss to the brand, hence the more conservative the decision as to overseas campuses," said Stephen Heyneman, a professor of international educational policy at Vanderbilt's Peabody College of Education and Human Development. "Coupled with financial restrictions, the demands of partners in the region, and local restrictions and regulations, branch campuses stay small and simple."
N.Y.U. Abu Dhabi, which school spokesman Josh Taylor says has received 15,000 for its 400 available spots across a number of diverse disciplines, appears all the more bold in that light. The same can be said, in terms of willingness to embark on something new, of Columbia's global centers, which buck the foreign satellite-campus trend entirely.
In terms of the actual financial investment required on the part of the universities to get these centers up and running, costs vary, but it appears the universities have found ways to mitigate whatever risk is involved with new ventures.
N.Y.U.'s Abu Dhabi campus is an ostentatious development set on a man-made island, whereas Columbia's centers are spare and unassuming, costing between $250,000 and $1 million to start up.
But both universities have defrayed the costs by finding local backers. The government of Abu Dhabi is covering N.Y.U.'s costs, and also giving a $50 million gift to N.Y.U. Queen Rania is defraying Columbia's costs in Jordan, and local businessmen are doing the same in Santiago.
So why is it that these two New York institutions are being so much more aggressive about pursuing their global ambitions than any other universities in America, or anywhere?
Perhaps it's simply that New York's academic institutions, pressed for physical space in the world's most globalized city, see international expansion as a much more natural means of growth than other colleges would. Here is a way, perhaps, to tap into new academic resources, through partnerships with institutions in other countries, previously available only in piecemeal, one-off partnerships due to distance. And here is a way, not incidentally, to create capacity to enable more students of modest backgrounds to attain hotly sought-after Western educations. And, maybe, to admit a greater number of tuition-paying students without bumping up against the physical space limitations that come with existing in New York.
Perhaps fittingly, given the vagueness of the ultimate goal of going "global," there is a fair amount of confusion, if not outright dissent, within the institutions themselves about what's happening.
The Columbia Daily Spectator, in what one suspects is a reflection of broadly held student opinion, has called the global university concept ill-defined and superficial.
And it is not a problem of communications: Columbia, by its own admission, doesn't have anything like a fully formed game-plan for the expansion and use of of global centers.
"Part of my whole theory here is, 'Do not plan this, do not over-plan this,'" Columbia president Lee Bollinger told the Spectator.
In late April of this year, the university held a conference, "Columbia Goes Global: The Next 50 Years," to discuss just what the purpose of its new centers should be. But in panel after panel, between students, administrators, and academics, no consensus could be reached. There were only more questions and new proposals.
This level of uncertainty shouldn't be surprising, given that universities with much more modest global-expansion programs don't have much of idea what they're doing, either. Ben Wildavsky, author of the book The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World, says that since no university has ever been through this globalization process before, there is no map and as of yet no clear explanation yet of why these projects succeed or fail.
Michigan State University's campus in Dubai was forced to shut down most of its operations in 2010 just as NYU-AD took off, while one Scottish University in Dubai has managed to reap significant financial gains (a completely foreign concept in this foreign academic territory) from its branch campus.
As a result, Wildavsky believes, "We're going to see lots of experimentation. We're letting a thousand flowers bloom."
The differences between the N.Y.U. and Columbia expansion models, even at this early stage, underscore the experimental nature of the whole enterprise.
While the N.Y.U. press office was quick to assert that they don't view their campuses as satellites or branches, "but rather as portal campuses, each of which leads into N.Y.U.'s global network," the focus remains on the physical establishment of a series of foreign locations, with an ever-growing flagship in New York. Students and faculty will be able to transfer easily from one center to another, picking and choosing among campuses on every continent according to their academic and cultural interests, perhaps eventually completing an entire degree program abroad, or spending one year at each center, with no sacrifice to the quality of their education.
They are placing the stress, in other words, on the novelty of this arrangement, whereby strongly interconnected campuses feed into each other with collaborative projects and equitable education to offer more foreigners a chance to attend N.Y.U. while at the same time broadening the horizons of its students. It serves as a correction to existing loose, uneven, and severely limited branch-and-satellite-university structures in which non-flagship locations are relegated to a second-tier existence.
Columbia, too, stresses the innovative aspects of its international efforts, by which they are essential creating global centers that live in the ether. The goal can be hard to summarize, leading Prewitt and his staff to issue nebulous mission statements with each center's opening, in terms of how they will eventually function within the larger framework of the home institution.
The centers are clearer, for now, in articulating their mission in terms of the opportunities they present to locals.
The centers thus offer tangible gain to the local nation in return for aid in operating in the region (often financial) and expanding research of importance to the university.
"It is also a way for the local community to have an impact on the intellectual agenda of Columbia by bringing to its attention particular issues and problems that could benefit from the concentrated application of knowledge that a place like Columbia can from time to time assemble," Trebat said.
Trebat said that the Chileans have welcomed and supported the development of a center in Santiago as a means not to export a desirable western model of education, but to strengthen the weaker universities in Latin America.
This ostensibly noninvasive strategy has enabled Columbia to establish a foothold in India, which Wildavsky characterizes as academically protectionist—historically hostile to the development of a foreign university presence as it attempts to build up its own colleges.
Hostile parochialism from local government entities may be the least of the challenges to both Columbia's and N.Y.U.'s expansion plans.
By finding local sponsors, both schools have minimized their financial exposure. But this means, for example, that NYU-AD's existence depends completely upon cooperation and funding from the Emeratis, and that Columbia's Center in Amman depends heavily upon the patronage of Jordanian Queen Rania Al Abdullah, whose interests in social work and teacher development have determined the stated mission of that center and may in the future turn it into a school whose primary focus is on education training.
This fact, that the local campuses will necessarily adapt their mandates to suit the people who are situated there, rather than back in New York, is explicitly part of the bargain.
"The global centers are not identical but rather organic in nature, and will evolve depending on faculty interests, as well as interests from within the region in which it is positioned," said Safwan Masri, a professor who is the director of the Amman Center.
The universities' expansion has also been cause for skepticism from others for the somewhat more foreboding reason that they might be constrained for political reasons.
The answer to this last problem, in theory, is that in a network university—whether it is N.Y.U.'s version or Columbia's—the system of centers and campuses can compensate for the shortcomings of one region with the strength of another. If Queen Rania only wishes to pursue educational research, so be it—relevant research at the Amman center would be picked up at the Beijing center and developed according to the strengths of that center. And if India fears allowing a foreign university's presence to grow too strong, then research would be continued at a larger center.
The campus-networks could conduct "mega research projects" relating to global financial systems and global press freedoms.
The ideal extreme fluidity, Prewitt cautions, remains more an aspiration than a reality as of yet. It's the networked nature of both N.Y.U. and Columbia's expansion, and the acceptance of local limitations within that network, which has allowed Columbia and N.Y.U. to expand so rapidly as well. NYU-AD costs N.Y.U.'s board of trustees next to nothing, and the skill of grafting centers onto existing projects on Columbia's end means that starting a center, with a full staff and functional program, costs just between $250,000 to $1,000,000, most of which can be raised through local sources, and this is easier to sustain, notes Masri, than one-off branch or satellite campuses.
The more centers that open, the harder it is for the system to shrivel and die completely. And the more quietly they open, and the more independent they are within the network, the easier it is to limit damage to the parent university if they do fail.
It is still possible that both N.Y.U. and Columbia's ambitious and innovative forays into globalized education will flop miserably. But the proportion of risk to reward suggests that they won't.
From Accra to Florence to Almaty to Singapore, for better or worse, it will become increasingly hard to avoid somewhere in the mix a student who is sending tuition money to New York.


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Cambodia Marks 2020 International Vulture Awareness Day with Warning Message of Vulture Extinction
Cambodia marks today the 2020 International Vulture Awareness Day with the message that vultures need all our help if they are to survive in the country.
"Vultures play an important role in maintaining the environment by stripping the carcasses of dead animals, which helps to reduce the spread of disease. They are nature's 'clean-up crew'. But it is this that puts them in danger. Illegal use of carbofuran-based poisons can exterminate vulture populations. These dangerous chemicals should be restricted as they are dangerous to human health too. As a result, all three resident species of vulture in the dry forest landscape of the country are threatened with extinction," underlined a joint press release AKP received this morning
"Cambodia represents the last hope for these species in the region, but the numbers have halved over the past ten years. Just one significant population remains, straddling the Mekong in Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary in Stung Treng province and Chhep Wildlife Sanctuary in PreahVihear province," it added.
According to the same source, vultures are masters of the air! Recent satellite tagging of vultures in Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary has revealed vultures fly at heights of 6 km, and by flying at up to 100 km/hour can commute between the vulture feeding stations in Chhep and Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuaries with ease.
"All Cambodians can be proud to still have vultures in the country but everyone needs to support their conservation efforts by protecting their habitats and especially by stopping wildlife poisoning. Otherwise Cambodia's vultures will go extinct, as in the neighbouring countries of Thailand and Vietnam," says Mr. Michael Meyerhoff, Country Director of ACCB.
The Cambodia Vulture Working Group (CVWG) is formed of NGOs, government and academic institute, with the aim of preventing the extinction of vultures in Cambodia. The core member of CVWG comprises Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Angkor Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity, BirdLife International, Wildlife Conservation Society, WWF, Centre for Biodiversity Conservation and the ordinary members comprise Cambodian Bird Guide Association, Nature Life Cambodia, Sam Veasna Conservation Tour and Centre for Biodiversity Conservation of Royal University of Phnom Penh.
"The conservation status of the three critically endangered vultures in Cambodia is highly concerning, carbamate pesticides pose a key risk to the survival of vultures but also to human health and livestock. WWF is advocating a 'One Health' approach linking the health of people, animals and our shared environment and urges this to be included in decision making on wildlife and land use change," said Mr. Teak Seng, Country Director of WWF-Cambodia.
According to the 2020 census, a total of 119 vultures of three species have been recorded in four natural protected areas in Preah Vihear, Stung Treng, Mondulkiri, and Kratie provinces of Cambodia, a decrease by 18 individuals compared to the 2019 census.
Of them, there are 11 red-headed vultures (Sarcogyps calvus), 71 white-rumped vultures (Gyps bengalensis), and 37 slender-billed vultures (Gyps tenuirostris).
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Business-related amenities at this 5-star property consist of a 24-hour business center and limo/town car service. Event facilities measuring 9203 square feet (855 square meters) include a conference center. This luxury hotel also offers spa services, a complimentary children's club, and tour/ticket assistance. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) is offered to guests.
Four Seasons Hotel Lion Palace St. Petersburg is a smoke-free property.
This family-friendly St. Petersburg hotel is located in the historical district, within a 5-minute walk of Alexander Garden, Russian Admiralty, and Monument to Nicholas I. Manege Central Exhibition Hall and State Museum and Exhibition Centre for Photography are also within 10 minutes. Admiralteyskaya Station is 7 minutes by foot and Sadovaya Station is 15 minutes.
This smoke-free hotel features 4 restaurants, a full-service spa, and a 24-hour fitness center. WiFi in public areas is free. Additionally, a bar/lounge, a sauna, and a 24-hour business center are onsite.
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Four Seasons Hotel Lion Palace St. Petersburg offers 183 air-conditioned accommodations with iPod docking stations and DVD players. Beds feature premium bedding. Plasma televisions come with premium satellite channels and pay movies. Coffee/tea makers and minibars are provided. Bathrooms include separate bathtubs and showers with rainfall showerheads, bathrobes, slippers, and designer toiletries. This St. Petersburg hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks, complimentary newspapers, and phones. Additionally, rooms include laptop-compatible safes and complimentary bottled water. In-room massages and hypo-allergenic bedding can be requested. A nightly turndown service is provided and housekeeping is offered daily.
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The Osbournes Facing $1.7 Million Tax Bill
By Eric Alt	• Published at 9:10 am on April 11, 2011
Six years ago, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne were listed as one of the UK's richest couples. Unfortunately, their financial situation across the pond isn't quite so sunny these days.
MSNBC reports that the rock and roll family owes $1.7 million in back taxes, and that the government has put a lien on their Hidden Hills mansion in Los Angeles.
The unpaid taxes date back to 2008 - The Osbournes failed to pay over $700,000 that year and an additional million dollars in 2009.
Democrats 2 hours ago
An angry Sharon vented through her Twitter account, claiming: "You can't rely on anyone but yourself. But you have to be on top of your own business affairs. My fault...lesson learned."
During the height of their reality show fame, the family was believed to be worth in the ballpark of $135 million - but that was in 2003.
Selected Reading: MSNBC, Daily Mail, New York Daily News


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Yachting News » Fleet » Storm Force Winds Punish Fleet in Transatlantic Race
Storm Force Winds Punish Fleet in Transatlantic Race
Posted: 9th Jul 2015 | Written By: Media Pro Newport
Severe conditions in the mid-north Atlantic have continued to punish the bulk of the fleet in the Transatlantic Race 2015.
Yesterday Daniel and Gretchen Biemesderfer made the decision to retire from the race after their Mason 43 Shearwater suffered mainsail and rigging damage. She is heading for the Azores.
Similarly, just before midnight UTC, Carter Bacon's Nielsen 50 Solution sustained damage to her rudder and was taking on water. She becomes the sixth boat in the Transatlantic Race to retire and is now diverting to the Azores, albeit without electronics, which went down in a previous deluge.
Last night the mid-fleet took a pounding as a depression passed to their north and they were blasted by its associated cold front. During this one of the most northerly boats, Earl St Aldwyn's Shipman 50 Zephyr saw sustained winds in the low 40s and one gust of 59 knots (i.e. Force 11/violent storm on the Beaufort scale)
"It was a little bit more than we anticipated, but we knew it was going to blow so we hunkered down," recounted Zephyr skipper David Sharples. "It was just the front of the squalls which were a bit hefty." During this time, while running under triple-reefed main and working jib, Zephyr scored a new personal high speed of 22 knots down one surf.
This morning, conditions had abated and the wind was 'merely' in the low 30s from the southwest. "We have been remarkably lucky with breakage, so far—touch wood that continues," continued Sharples. "We are still chasing Dorade and Carina and hoping we can catch one of them before the line."
113 miles ahead of Zephyr, the mostly German crew on the Class 40 leader Stella Nova also had a lively night. However, rather than being a fast cruiser, their Mach 40 is a pure ocean racer.
"It is a great team on board, all working together," said skipper Burkard Keese, pleased to be rolling past 60-footers. "A Class 40 is designed for conditions like we've got, and the Mach 40 from JPS Production is just a dream, amazing." No doubt contributing to boat speed in the crew is leading Class 40 sailor Jörg Riechers, who earlier this year sailed an IMOCA 60 around the world doublehanded in the Barcelona World Race.
According to Keese, last night they 'only' saw 40 knots and were able to eat up the miles under two reefs and spinnaker. Today the wind had dropped and they were awaiting the arrival of the next front. Generally all is well except the sails have taken a hammering and they destroyed their Code 0 during one particularly violent squall.
Meanwhile the depression and cold front that pummeled the mid-fleet is now catching up with the front-runners, who are benefitting from not being so close to its center. The lead trio currently resembles three sprinters gunning for the line. At 0800 EDT (1200 UTC), the mighty 138' gaff-rigged schooner Mariette of 1915 was still a nose in front with 643 miles to go compared to Lucky and Nomad IV, on 655 and 683 miles, respectively. However Mariette's younger carbon-fiber rivals will certainly pass her, with Bryon Ehrhart's Reichel/Pugh 63 Lucky hunting 'the double'— overall victory under IRC and bragging rights of being first home — if she can stay ahead of Clarke Murphy's well-appointed 100-foot performance maxi Nomad IV. At present, a Friday-night finish is likely, but will ultimately depend on whether or not conditions go light approaching the Scilly Isles.
Meanwhile, there is the faint noise of V8 engines revving in the western Atlantic, where the world's two fastest monohulls and two of the world's fastest trimarans have been wallowing for the last 24 hours. Here the wrong sort of records are being set: this morning Lloyd Thornburg's MOD 70 trimaran Phaedo3, usually capable of average speeds of 30-plus knots and peak speeds of more than 40, had covered just 91 miles over the previous 24 hours, or an average speed of 3.7 knots.
Over the course of this morning Jim and Kristy Clark's 100-foot Comanche managed to find some pressure to the north and has rolled even Phaedo3, opening up a lead of almost 50 miles over her direct competition, George David's Rambler 88.
"It is lovely out here!" said Rambler 88's Australian navigator Andrew Cape with the tone of a man who spent the last hours pulling his hair out. "We had a really bad patch, but it was always in the plan, and we've had to live with it."
This morning the wind was slowly filling in and Rambler 88 was recording eight knots and Cape, who has barely drawn breath after finishing the Volvo Ocean Race as navigator on Team Brunel, was expecting the breeze to fill in later today. "Tomorrow we should be smoking along, happily on our way."
Thanks to the park up, George David's monohull race record of 6 days 22 hours, set on Rambler 100 in 2011, looks set to stand. However, Cape warns that the two maxis may be in for a fast run over Friday-Saturday as they scream towards the UK. Record breaking? "We could give it a real good nudge," he advises.


Despite going through many ups downs in the past 12 years, Chennai Super Kings has managed to stay one of the top teams in the Indian Premier League. No wonder, so many brands are associated with the franchise. They realize it very well that CSK's success eventually trickles down on them and benefits them on a large scale. On that note, let us straight away take you to the complete list of sponsors of Chennai Super Kings in 2019.
In February 2018, Muthoot Group signed a three-year partnership with Chennai Super Kings and became the franchise' Principal Team Partner.
In 2015, India Cements Limited transferred the IPL franchise rights of CSK to its wholly-owned subsidiary, Chennai Super Kings Cricket Ltd. It continues to sponsor the team though.
Gulf Oil Corporation Ltd. and CSK joined forces in 2009.
CSK and SNJ Group's British Empire Glasses and SNJ 10000 Packaged Drinking Water have joined hands for the 2019 IPL season.
HIL became a partner of Chennai Super Kings in 2018. The team pants carry the HIL company logo and also the logos of its Super brands Birla Aerocon and Charminar.
Nippon Paint began sponsoring team CSK in 2018.
Like 2018, Jio is associated with all IPL franchises this season.
Frooti has been the Official Pouring Partner of CSK since 2018.
Peter England is one of the oldest partners of CSK. They both have been working together since 2008.
Duroflex Mattress has been sponsoring CSK since 2018. The brand is also a partner of Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Footwear brand Khadim has been a partner of Chennai Super Kings since 2018.
Act Fibernet has been providing wi-fi coverage to the entire Chennai stadium since the last IPL season.
Seven is an apparel brand owned by CSK captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
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Reason we didn't approve herbs for treatment of Covid-19- NAFDAC
Angela Mbaocha July 19, 2021 No Comments
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has disclosed why the Agency didn't approve any herbal medicine for the treatment of COVID-19.
NAFDAC Resident Media Consultant, Mr Olusayo Akintola, stated this in a statement on Sunday, in Abuja.
He said that no single drug has been found yet to cure COVID -19, according to Prof Moji Adeyeye, NAFDAC Director- General.
The Agency also warned Nigerians against excessive consumption of onions and garlic with a view to curing COVID-19, adding, ''If you eat too much your breath will be smelling and nobody will want to stay by you."
Stating that medicinal products available now could only help ease symptoms.
The Agency warned Nigerian researchers and other herbal medicine practitioners to desist from parading unverified medicine for the virus.
Noting that any product without NAFDAC approval for the cure of COVID-19 is null and void, and that such an act was a violation of the national regulatory authorities and breach of protocols.
"If it is not documented, it cannot be recognized by NAFDAC for COVID – 19. They work on our cells to keep people healthier, but not to cure COVID – 19. They help our body to function better. There is no cure for COVID -19 yet.
"If you eat garlic and onion and you don't use face mask you will get COVID -19. If you are in a bad environment; If you don't wash your hands, you will get COVID -19.
"Everything has to be put together. University of Jos said that there was an herbal medicine, whether it is tea or whatever, that can cure COVID-19, they linked it with treatment of COVID -19, they did the packaging.
''We did a letter to warn them that they cannot claim something unless it has gone through our listing process. They were trying to sell it to their staff. That is violation of our own regulatory policies.
"Nobody should say that this one can cure this or that without going through NAFDAC listing process, the research into herbal medicine by the academia is normal.
''It is now for the academia to also recognise the national regulatory authority established to safeguard the safety of the Nigerian populace, by ensuring that the product that they are working on has to go through NAFDAC," Adeyeye said.
According to her, there have been one or two cases where the University of Jos product was being encouraged to be used by people without going through NAFDAC.
She said that the university was supposed to go through the national regulatory authority and pave the way for NAFDAC to declare it safe for consumption.
The DG said that NAFDAC set up an herbal medicine product committee in March 2019 before the pandemic broke out, to advance research in herbal medicine.
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Los Angeles public school teacher R. Tolteka Cuauhtin had Googled his discipline, ethnic studies, in March when he discovered he wanted children to honor the Aztec gods of human sacrifice and cannibalism. Should the state of California implement the curriculum that Cuauhtin had helped design, an article in the conservative magazine City Journal reported, students would "chant to the gods Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli, and Xipe Totek, seeking 'healing epistemologies' and 'a revolutionary spirit. Huitzilopochtli, in particular, is the Aztec deity of war and inspired hundreds of thousands of human sacrifices during Aztec rule."
Cuauhtin found himself in crowded company, the latest educator singled out by right-wing activist Christopher Rufo for crimes against public education. Rufo's article was picked up by American Conservative columnist Rod Dreher, who wrote it up in a blog post headlined "The Re-Barbarization of California." The Daily Caller grabbed it. So did Fox News's Laura Ingraham, who interviewed Rufo about his story. He has also captured the attention of liberals. He recently sparred with MSNBC's Joy Ann Reid on her show, visibly sighing as Reid explained the concept of whiteness to him.
Last summer, Rufo seemed to come from nowhere, arriving on the scene after a national uprising against racism to lead the charge against the supposed excesses of anti-racism education, branding it all with a once-obscure academic term: critical race theory. Armed with a prolific Twitter account and the backing of the conservative Establishment, he brandished "scoops" about the widespread infiltration of the theory and eventually caught the attention of the Trump White House. In short order, he had transformed himself from a limited kind of Twitter star to bona fide conservative influencer. The proof lies offline in the new moral panic he helped instigate. Republican operatives, legislators, and commentators, all professing concern for young hearts and minds, claim that children are being taught to hate white people.
A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to City Journal, Rufo didn't just bolt onto Twitter from the void. He is the product of a right-wing movement that has formed countless others from the same mold. A documentary filmmaker who graduated from Georgetown University's school of foreign service, Rufo possesses an impeccable conservative pedigree: Fellowships with unclear purviews litter his resume. A former visiting fellow for domestic-policy studies at the Heritage Foundation, Rufo was also once a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute alongside James O'Keefe of Project Veritas. Later, he worked for a little-known Christian think tank based in Seattle called the Discovery Institute, where he wrote frequently on the subject of homelessness. Before long, Rufo's interests combined in a new cause. After last summer's protests, he wrote a piece for City Journal comparing the diversity training conducted by the city of Seattle to "cult programming" that was picked up by the New York Post. A week later, he promoted a story about the Treasury Department that has since been debunked by the Washington Post. In Rufo's account, Treasury allegedly subjected workers to a radical diversity training that urged them to "accept their white racial superiority." In reality, the document Rufo cites as proof said no such thing.
Despite the flaws in his reporting, Rufo's profile grew, and by last September, he had appeared on Tucker Carlson's show to urge Trump to issue an executive order "abolishing critical race theory trainings from the federal government." Three days later, Trump's budget director sent out a memo relaying Trump's desire that federal agencies "cease and desist" funding diversity programs that allegedly trained "government workers to believe divisive, anti-American propaganda," as Yahoo News reported at the time. Trump would later issue an executive order banning programs that, in the words of the budget director's memo, taught government employees that the "United States is an inherently racist or evil country or that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil."
Though he refers to himself as an investigative journalist, writing dramatically of whistleblowers and documents, Rufo is often responsible for propagating false or misleading accounts like the Treasury Department story and has arguably helped to incite a nationwide panic over the alleged presence of critical race theory in public schools, the federal government, and the workplace.
"There's no question about it that he's quite influential," said Charlie Sykes, a Rufo critic and former conservative talk-show host who broke with the GOP over Donald Trump. "People were looking around for some way to play this card of racial grievance. They were looking for another cause in the cultural war. And this happened to be it, and he happened to be on it."
Rufo's war often targets noncombatants like Cuauhtin. What Rufo published "are classically racist interpretations about indigenous cultures, fabricated lies about mass human sacrifice, lies that continue on a 500-year-plus trajectory," Cuauhtin said. Rufo got a lot wrong, Cuauhtin told me, posting short fragments of a curriculum that spans more than 900 pages and has multiple authors. The conservative writer didn't reach out to him for his side of the story either, Cuauhtin said.
Rufo didn't answer questions sent to him by email, responding instead that "New York Magazine is trash. If it stopped publication tomorrow, the world would be a better place." Nevertheless, it's possible to glean much about his motivations and worldview from his public writing. Rufo isn't interested in denying that racism exists. No, he says, racism is real — but the actual racists are those who are teaching and spreading critical race theory, and they must be deplored in public. What Rufo and his ilk really object to isn't critical race theory at all but the ugliness of history. When an educator exposes the racism that lurks within this nation, they often find themselves at the mercy of an onslaught from the right.
That's what happened to officials in Oregon's Tigard-Tualatin School District. In an article for City Journal's spring issue, Rufo said he'd received "a blueprint" from a whistleblower. It purportedly showed that the district's new director of equity and inclusion, Zinnia Un, planned to transform "the pedagogy and curriculum" by adopting the theories of Paulo Freire, a Brazilian educator whose best-known work, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, encourages teachers to work with their students as partners and frames education as an act of liberation and mutual humanization. This is a problem, Rufo said, because Freire was a Marxist. "Following Freire's categorizations, Un writes that the Tigard-Tualatin school district must move from a state of 'reading the world' to the phase of 'denunciation' against the revolution's enemies and, finally, to the state of 'annunciation' of the liberated masses, who will begin 'rewriting the world,'" Rufo wrote.
The school-district document Rufo cites does not say this. It references Freire's work but not, for example, revolution, its enemies, or the liberated masses. A spokesperson for the district said the presentation was used internally for an opt-in professional-development session and school-board discussions about implementing an anti-racist resolution; a revolutionary vanguard has yet to form.
Of an additional staff resource, Rufo wrote that it "assumes" whites are born racist, which he called "textbook cult indoctrination." The truth is a bit tamer: The guide urges white educators to move beyond the "belief that you aren't racist if you don't purposely or consciously act in racist ways," and according to the spokesperson, it has not been used in any formal settings, such as for staff training. Still, this hysterical interpretation appealed to right-wing commentators like Andy Ngo, and Rufo later went on Newsmax to promote the misleading story further.
Professor Cheryl Harris, a leading scholar in the field of critical race theory and the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at UCLA Law, began to receive hostile emails so "distorted" that, at first, "I didn't know what they were talking about," she said. The emails came after Rufo referenced her in a March article for Hillsdale College's Imprimis magazine, claiming she had called for "suspending private property rights, seizing land and wealth and redistributing them along racial lines." He later included cherry-picked quotes from her seminal article "Whiteness as Property," in an online "briefing book" on critical race theory.
"I was getting emails saying, 'Well, why don't you redistribute your property?'" she said. She realized then that it was because of Rufo's pamphlet, where he "explicitly says, I'm calling for the suspension of private property, seizing land and wealth and distributing them along racial lines." She added, "I've never said such a thing." Though the emails didn't contain any direct threats, she described them as "disturbing" and said, "Maybe I'm reading this in a particular way, but I know that when people believe that something like their property is threatened, or their children are threatened, they feel justified in doing whatever they need to do to protect them."
The curriculums and programs targeted by the right have little to do with critical race theory itself, according to Harris. "One of the challenges is there is what critical race theory is, and there's what it's being portrayed to be in the context of this disinformation campaign. So it's difficult to start out a discussion about what it is when what is being projected really bears no resemblance to it and has no intention of bearing any resemblance to it," Haris said. The theory started as a school of thought in law to examine how racial inequality persisted in society despite policies adopted to eliminate it, she explained.
In this context, Rufo's role is clear. He takes critical-race theory as a concept, strips it of all meaning, and repurposes it as a catchall for white grievances. "The goal," he tweeted, "is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think 'critical race theory.' We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans." In an interview with the Post, he said the tweet described an "obvious" approach: "If you want to see public policy outcomes you have to run a public persuasion campaign."
That campaign might be working. InsideHigherEd reported in early June that lawmakers in sixteen states "have introduced or passed legislation this year seeking to limit the teaching of critical race theory within public institutions." The head of the Nevada Family Alliance recently suggested that schools outfit teachers with body cameras to make sure they aren't teaching critical race theory. Online, Rufo often cheerleads these anti-critical-race-theory developments to his nearly 200,000 Twitter followers, proof of a war going well. The militaristic overtones are hard to miss. Rufo's Twitter handle includes an emoji of crossed swords, which he has said means "swords up."
In form, the fight over critical race theory in schools resembles earlier panics over the teaching of intelligent design and its cousin creationism, over the teaching of LGBT themes, and over prayer and the Bible — remove God from school, and young people will tumble down the highway to hell. Mike Pompeo recently couched things in more secular terms, with the nation taking the place of the divine. "If we teach that the founding of the United States of America was somehow flawed. It was corrupt. It was racist. That's really dangerous," he tweeted. "It strikes at the very foundations of our country."
Rufo isn't the first to treat schools like battlegrounds. At both the K-12 and college levels, education represented a challenge for the Christian right to which Rufo's former employer, the Discovery Institute, belongs. Like many a young Evangelical, I encountered the think tank in the 1990s, when they battled the forces of Darwinism. They argued schools should teach intelligent design, if not as the sole truth of the world, then as a credible scientific theory. Rufo was surrounded by people long accustomed to classroom culture wars. "Teach the controversy," they urged. Decades later, with Rufo, they appeared to have changed their minds. When did it conclude that some controversies matter more than others?
I called up my old boss Rob Boston of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which has repeatedly challenged the Discovery Institute and its allies over the teaching of intelligent design in schools. "It's really interesting, this question of public schools, because I've followed this for a long time, and there's this theory among Christian nationalist groups that the public schools are almost like laboratories for whatever social-engineering project liberals have come up with," he said.
That theory boasts many adherents, as my own experiences can testify. I was homeschooled until the mysteries of algebra defeated my mother. My textbooks told me that God had created the Earth in seven days, that abortion was murder, and that America was founded on Biblical principles. Against reality, each claim runs aground. But the last, about the origins of America, still consumes Rufo and conservatives in his orbit.
The teaching of evolution, sex, and LGBT themes to America's impressionable youth inflamed the Christian right, though, like Rufo, the movement never acted alone. It found common cause with its more secular conservative counterparts on issues of race. Years before anyone had ever heard of Rufo, the Texas board of education fought over where, exactly, to fit slavery among the causes of the Civil War. More recently, the 1619 Project has presented a direct challenge to the right's popular version of history and incited widespread conservative fury in turn. Republican legislators in multiple states filed bills to cut funding to public schools that teach it.
Rufo's punches don't always land. The California State Board of Education adopted the model ethnic-studies curriculum in March despite backlash from Rufo and others. But the battle he's fighting will likely persist. School segregation is not a matter of the past. Neither is white supremacy. Probably no one is teaching Harris's "Whiteness as Property" to elementary school students, but that doesn't matter to Rufo, Harris says. He isn't interested in facts but myths, and myths can be dangerous. "We have the experience now of witnessing how isolated incidents of voter irregularities have been marshaled now into a myth about voter fraud," she said. "What happens when that kind of myth is said? What it can actually engender is quite violent. It's not just voter-suppression laws. It's January 6th."
Rufo, meanwhile, is pursuing his new cause with his customary militaristic vengefulness. In April, he announced on Twitter that he had formed a new "center for narrative, legal and policy warfare," called Battlefront. "The time is now," he added. "Swords up."
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We will determine whether an error occurred within ten business days (5 business days for Debit Card point-of-sale transactions processed by Visa and 20 business days if the transfer involved a new account) after we hear from you and will correct any error promptly. If we need more time, however, we may take up to 45 days (90 days if the transfer involved a new account, a point-of-sale transaction, or a foreign-initiated transfer) to investigate your complaint or question. If we decide to do this, we will credit your account within 10 business days (5 business days for Debit Card point-of-sale transactions processed by Visa and 20 business days if the transfer involved a new account) for the amount you think is in error, so that you will have the use of the money during the time it takes us to complete our investigation. If we ask you to put your complaint or question in writing and we do not receive it within 10 business days, we may not credit your account. Your account is considered a new account for the first 30 days after the first deposit is made, unless each of you already has an established account with us before this account is opened.


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University of Texas at Austin Honors Incoming Freshmen for Academics, Leadership
The College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin has selected seven students for the Dedman Distinguished Scholars, Class of 2011. Dedman scholars are selected based on class rank, Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, exemplary extracurricular activities, community service and interviews. Each student will receive $10,000 per academic year for four years.
AUSTIN, Texas—The College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin has selected seven students for the Dedman Distinguished Scholars, Class of 2011. Dedman scholars are selected based on class rank, Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, exemplary extracurricular activities, community service and interviews. Each student will receive $10,000 per academic year for four years.
Scholarship recipients are:
Holly Day, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas
Elana Estrin, Ladue Horton High School, St. Louis, Mo.
Jennifer Lehmberg, Memorial High School, Houston
Arjun Mukerji, Oak Ridge High School, The Woodlands, Texas
Chané Polo, Chisum High School, Paris, Texas
James Powers, Memorial High School, Houston
Brennwyn Romano, Carroll High School, Southlake, Texas
Finalists were selected from the students who applied to the Plan II Honors Program and to the Liberal Arts Honors Program. In making their decisions, committee members considered academic achievement, personal characteristics, leadership and important accomplishments.
"These students represent the best and brightest of their peers," said Larry Carver, director of the college's honors program. "They will contribute greatly to our community in the next four years and beyond."
The Dedman Distinguished Scholarship honors Robert and Nancy Dedman of Dallas whose $10 million endowment funds these scholarships. To date, their gift has supported about 75 Dedman scholars. After graduating from the university, the students have entered some of the country's best graduate programs, medical and law schools. The scholarships are based on merit rather than need, although most of the applicants are from middle- to low-income families.
For more information contact: Larry Carver, director, Liberal Arts Honors Programs, 512-471-3458; Tracy Mueller, public affairs specialist, College of Liberal Arts, 512-471-2404.


About one cup Wawa egg nog.
Feeling okay so far today.. a little odd. Am guessing that's because of the change in diet.. I'm just feeling sort of 'different'. Gosh, is my back tense.. I really have too much tension. Some days my back just feels sort of squish.. I'm not sure what that's about, but it seems like a response to the tension or something. Dunno..
edit: Ooh! Mustn't forget.. two handfuls of dry-roasted peanuts. Needed to get some protein from somewhere..


The Association of Plumbing & Heating Contractors' sister company APHC Training Ltd, is offering a new and improved training grant scheme for 2013, open to all bona fide plumbing and heating companies.
APHC Training are now offering £100 training grants to members and non members who want to keep an existing qualified employee up to date on their training.
Any interested companies, both members and non-members, must email info@aphc.co.uk, adding 'Training Grant' in the subject line. They will then be emailed a form to complete and return for initial grant approval, which also details the scheme's operating conditions. The relevant forms can also be downloaded from the APHC website (http://www.aphc.co.uk/training_information.asp). After they have completed a course (which must be done by the end of 2013), applicants must send a copy of their invoice from the training provider along with their certificate of successful completion of the course, and APHC will pay the £100 straight into their business bank account. The £100 offer is available to anyone who claimed a grant during previous years.
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Ente es una banda ecuatoriana de death metal, formada en 1991.

Inicios
La agrupación fue fundada por el baterista Igor Icaza y el cantante Fabián Paocarima,  quienes tras haber formado una primera banda conocida como Bestia Negra en la ciudad de Latacunga, capital de la provincia de Cotopaxi, en septiembre de 1991 consolidan su nueva alineación junto a los guitarristas Nelson Rodríguez, Niel Pacheco y el bajista Omar Ortiz, presentándose bajo el nombre de Obertura hasta 1995.

Trayectoria
A mediados de 1995, un año después de publicar su primer demotape Mortaja Social y tras la incorporación de Pablo Morales como nuevo bajista y la posterior inclusión de Gabriel Tapia como nuevo cantante, la banda adopta el nombre definitivo de Ente, participando en 1997 del disco compilatorio Ecuador Subterráneo, junto a las agrupaciones locales Mortal Decision, Basca, Total Death y Chancro Duro.

Tras diversos shows en el circuito underground ecuatoriano, en 2003 la banda lanza un larga duración homónimo, con Neil Pacheco y Nelson Rodríguez en las guitarras e Igor Icaza en la batería. En 2005 le sigue el EP Pseudo Cadaver Beings, en esta ocasión con temas en inglés interpretados por un nuevo cantante, Juan Arévalo y otro bajista, James Sloan, quién colaborara con Wizard y Blaze. El 4 de diciembre de ese año debutan en el festival internacional Quito Fest, junto a las bandas locales SIQ, Descomunal y Muscaria.

En julio de 2012, Ente lanza Trastornado instrumento de sangre, álbum con el que emprenden una gira por Europa, esta vez con Daniel Cisneros como vocalista.

En 2019 edita su última producción discográfica, Nacido muerto, con temas como "The Punishment Sanctuary", "Transgresión" y "Remanentes".

Alineación
Igor Icaza (batería)  Daniel Cisneros (voces)  Germán Mora (bajo)  Nelson Rodríguez (guitarra) Javier Enríquez (guitarra)

Discografía
Obertura
Mortaja Social (demo, 1994)

Ente
Morada de Dioses (demo, 2002)
Ente (2003)
Pseudo Cadáver Beings (EP, 2005)
Trastornado instrumento de Sangre (2012)
Brutal Compilación (2017)
Nacido Muerto (2019)
Nacido Muerto En Vivo (2021)

Referencias

Grupos de rock de Ecuador

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Home » Columns » Watson: Who do we want to be?
Watson: Who do we want to be?
Jul 30, 2018 by Hillary Watson
Even before President Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, the media buzzed about what might happen to Roe v. Wade. Many legal experts and activists anticipate the 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide will be overturned and the legality of abortion revert to a state-by-state decision within a few years.
Abortion is an emotional issue that immediately puts us on the defensive. It's easy to jump straight to arguments about why the other side is wrong.
There are two questions Anabaptists need to ask: Who are we in the abortion debate? Who do we want to be in the abortion debate?
It is hard to answer the second question because we are afraid to ask the first. For years Anabaptists have avoided public conversation about abortion, sidestepping both the pacifist stance that suggests a pro-life ethic and the tradition of empowering impoverished neighbors that suggests respect for pro-choice views.
While there are Anabaptists active in pro-life ministry and advocacy, we have little recent data about Anabaptist views on abortion. A 2006 survey of Mennonite Church USA, the Church of the Brethren and Brethren in Christ, led by sociologist Conrad Kanagy, lists the percentages of members who find gambling, marijuana, adultery, homosexuality and working as a police officer immoral, but not abortion.
One group for whom we do have recent data is the Conservative Mennonite Conference. In a 2016 study by Kanagy, 95 percent of CMC respondents thought abortion was never morally justifiable. Members of MC USA, though, tend to respond most similarly to mainline Protestants, which would suggest that many MC USA members might support the legality of abortion even if they believe it is immoral. (Different ways of phrasing the question can yield dramatically different results).
For MC USA, the clearest articulation of views on abortion is a statement delegates passed at the 2003 convention in Atlanta. It says that abortion "runs counter to biblical principles," that "the fetus in its earliest stages . . . shares humanity with those who conceived it" and that "we will act with compassion toward those who choose to have an abortion." It speaks with clarity but also with ambivalence, acknowledging that "there are times when deeply held values come in conflict with each other."
One of the document's strengths is that it makes everyone, on all sides, uncomfortable. It expresses honest ambivalence about a deeply personal, deeply contextual moral dilemma. It does not pretend that all abortions are the same — that a teenager raped by a relative is asking the same questions as a married woman approaching menopause, or that a financially secure woman whose parents have the ability to become full-time caregivers has the same concerns as a single mother with three children and no familial support.
Abortion is a hot-button issue precisely because it is a collision of deeply held principles. As the United States faces a polarizing debate that may reshape the law, it is time to create space in Anabaptist congregations for our diverse views — whether morally ambivalent or morally certain — and for lament, trust and affirmation. As the 2003 statement says, "The faith community should be a place for discernment." Instead, we have made it a place of silence. It is time for honest, though probably inconclusive, conversations — in church, as a church.
Hillary Watson pastors at Shalom Community Church in Ann Arbor, Mich. She blogs at gatheringthestones.com.
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Home / Commodities / Freight News / Japan's Fuji Oil considers whether to sign new term contract for Iranian imports
Japan's Fuji Oil considers whether to sign new term contract for Iranian imports
in Freight News 09/11/2018
Japanese refiner Fuji Oil Co is considering whether to sign a new contract for Iranian crude imports after Japan received a waiver from U.S. sanctions on Tehran, its top executive said on Thursday, adding that Iranian oil is competitively priced against rival grades.
The company is one of the heaviest users of Iranian oil in Japan, with Iranian crude accounting for roughly 30 percent of the oil processed at its 143,000 barrels per day (bpd) Sodegaura refinery between April and September, its president, Atsuo Shibota, told reporters.
Company officials did not give the exact volume processed at the firm's sole refinery, but one official said it ran at full capacity during the six months. However, the share accounted for by Iranian oil was down from 36 percent in the business year that ended on March 31.
"We bought during the first six months (of the business year) but we were scheduled to buy throughout the year, so we have suspended it," Shibota said during the company's six-month earnings announcements.
"We are considering whether to resume (purchases) by taking into account the cost and grade quality. It is not clear whether we would go with the original contract or buy via a separate arrangement."
The United States granted exemptions to Iran's biggest oil clients – Japan, China, India, South Korea, Taiwan, Italy, Greece and Turkey – which allow them to import at least some oil for another 180 days.
Shibota said that the Japanese government had not given it any information on the volumes of imports that would be allowed, adding that it would like to retain diverse options for oil purchases even beyond the 180-day exception.
Fuji Oil has previously bought all Iranian crude via term contracts, a second company official said.
Japan joined South Korea in temporarily halting Iranian oil loading around mid-September.
The country imported about 172,000 bpd of Iranian crude in 2017, down 24.2 percent from 2016, and accounting for 5.3 percent of total crude imports, trade ministry data showed.
Meanwhile, Cosmo Energy Holdings has been notified by the government about the waiver and will consider whether to resume imports of Iranian oil, Senior Executive Officer Yasuhiro Suzuki told reporters on Thursday during the six-month earnings announcement.
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Osamu Tsukimori Editing by Joseph Radford and Kirsten Donovan)
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Clinical oncologists are hampered by a lack of access to quantitative imaging analysis tools for measuring or predicting therapeutic response/outcome during clinical trials. The QIN program was initiated to support the development, optimization, and validation of quantitative imaging software tools and imaging methods that will give oncologists the confidence that imaging can provide a valuable clinical decision support for reliable patient care. The cooperative agreement funding mechanism was chosen for this program to create an organized network of research teams under guidance from NCI program staff. The QIN was initiated in 2008 and has had several program announcements during that time in which the network grew from its start to over 30 research teams across the United States. Today, the number of teams has reduced into the mid-20's with two teams from Canada fully supported by the Canadian Government. While the number of research network members has decreased, the number of international Associate Members has increased. Research associates from nine different countries are engaged in network activities. Currently, two separate funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) address the research activities of interest to the NCI in this area. Under PAR-18-248, a UG3/UH3 phased funding mechanism, appropriate projects can include the development and adaptation/implementation of quantitative imaging methods, imaging protocols, and/or software solutions/tools (using existing commercial imaging platforms and instrumentation) and application of these methods in one or more current or planned clinical therapy trials. The projects must be focusing on imaging-derived quantitative measurements of responses to anti-cancer agents and/or radiation therapy, and/or image-guided interventions (IGI). For research teams with fully developed and optimized clinical decision tools ready for clinical validation, a R01 mechanism is available in PAR-18-919.
Quantitative Imaging Network (QIN) is organized to improve the role of quantitative imaging for clinical decision making in oncology by the development and validation of data acquisition, analysis methods, and tools to tailor treatment to individual patients and to predict or monitor the response to drug or radiation therapy.
The goal of the program is to translate quantitative imaging methods and algorithms as clinical decision support tools into clinical utility, creating the condition where all imaging scanners perform as measuring instruments.


As a landlord, you want tenants that pay their rent on time, don't pose a threat to your property, and (hopefully) seek to renew their lease. That's why you use tenant screening as a way to ensure your property gets quality tenants, and avoids potential liabilities. In the case where you receive applicants that aren't the right fit or potentially pose a threat, you legally must send out an adverse action letter to the denied or conditional (modified terms) applicant.
The name, address, telephone, credit score (if used) of the applicant and website of the agency that provided the report.
A statement that the agency did not make the decision to take the adverse action and cannot give the specific reason for it.
A notice of the applicant's right to dispute the accuracy of the information provided by the agency and the applicant's right to receive a free report from the agency upon request within 60 days.
Still confused? The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) provides guidance on how to legally use consumer reports.
It is the landlord's responsibility to provide these notices to each conditional or denied applicant. If you fail to provide the applicant their statutory notices, the applicant has a right to submit a formal complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and/or pursue legal action.
Providing an Adverse Action notice to each denied or conditional applicant is vital in that it enables an applicant (who disagrees with the information on the tenant screening report) to initiate a consumer dispute and correct any inaccuracies. Plus, giving your applicants an opportunity to correct any inaccuracies ultimately improves the tenant screening data you rely on!
By using ApplyConnect®'s automated decision letters, our system sends your applicant(s) the Summary of Rights under the FCRA, a link to the CFPB, and how to initiate a consumer dispute with ApplyConnect®. Take advantage of our Adverse Action Notice template and pre-written consumer State notices. All of these (and more) are available on our Resources page.
Great question! If you deny an applicant based on smoking or pets, you still need to send them the adverse action letter, summary of rights, and your state's notices. It enables the applicant to dispute the decision (for example, the applicant has a service animal vs. a pet). In our adverse action letter template there's a line that lists 'other'. You can simply state that the property has a non-smoking or no-pet policy.


Love Hultén is a Swedish designer, craftsman and all around badass. His imaginative video game cabinets seem to have fallen straight out of the 40s era world of tomorrow, an aesthetic that I personally adore. At €3,699 a pop, they are a little out of my price range but damned if I don't start saving my pennies!