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Baylor Snaps UConn's 98-Game Home Winning Streak
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HARTFORD, Conn. — Teá Cooper scored 27 points and No. 6 Baylor used a dominant fourth quarter to beat top-ranked UConn 74-58 on Thursday night, ending the Huskies' 98-game home winning streak.
UConn fell one victory short of tying its own NCAA record of 99 in a row at home. The Huskies previous loss at home came in the Big East final against Notre Dame on March 12, 2013.
Baylor (12-1) led by three going into the fourth quarter and neither team could get much going on offense in the first few minutes of the final period. The Huskies cut the deficit to one on Christyn Williams' jumper with 6:36 left. Then the defending national champions took over.
The Lady Bears responded with the next 15 points to put the game away. The run started on a layup by Lauren Cox and two baskets by Nalyssa Smith. Smith finished with 20 points and 12 rebounds.
UConn (12-1) didn't score a basket after Williams' jumper until Crystal Dangerfield hit a 3-pointer in the final minute and the game decided.
Christyn Williams scored 21 points to lead the Huskies.
This was UConn's first real test of the season. Since 2007, the Huskies (12-1) have played at least one team ranked in the top five before the New Year. This season the only ranked opponent before Thursday that UConn has faced was then-No. 16 DePaul.
While UConn hadn't been tested this season until this game, Baylor suffered its only loss of the season in the Paradise Jam Tournament over Thanksgiving to then-No. 5 South Carolina.
Baylor was up 33-25 late in the second quarter when UConn coach Geno Auriemma called a timeout. The Huskies responded by scoring the next nine points before Baylor hit the last basket before the half to take a 35-34 lead into the break.
The Lady Bears extended that lead to 55-52 after three quarters. The Huskies had a chance to make it a one-point game, but Walker missed a layup with a few seconds left. Auriemma slammed the scorers table with both hands in disgust after she missed it.
STREAK BUSTERS: This wasn't the first time that Baylor ended one of UConn's streaks. The Lady Bears topped UConn last season, ending the Huskies' 126-game regular season wining streak.
BUSY MONTH: UConn has three more games against ranked teams coming up over the next few weeks with No. 23 Tennessee coming to Connecticut on Jan. 23 in the first matchup of the former rivals since 2007. The Huskies then face No. 2 Oregon on Feb. 3 and fourth-ranked South Carolina on Feb. 10.
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The Lady Bears also beat UConn last season when the Huskies were ranked No. 1. The two victories are Baylor's only wins over a No. 1 team. ... These two teams are 1-2 in victories since 2010-11, with UConn going 339-18 and Baylor 324-24. ... UConn will be ranked in the poll this upcoming Monday for the 500th consecutive week. ... A host of WNBA coaches and GMs were in attendance checking out Cox, Crystal Dangerfield, Cooper and Juicy Landrum.. ... Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont sat behind the UConn bench. ... Caitlin Bickle played her first action for Baylor in over a month after she had surgery to repair a partial tear in her right meniscus. ... UConn's 99-game home winning streak ended against St. John's on Feb. 19, 2012.
Baylor: Hosts Oklahoma State on Sunday
UConn: Hosts Houston on Saturday.
No. 6 Stanford ends No. 1 UConn women's 47-game win streak
By SI Staff
UConn women's basketball wins 100th straight game
The Huskies made history on Monday night when they won their 100th consecutive game in a victory over South Carolina.
Former UConn HC Jim Calhoun Earns 900th Win
Jim Calhoun joined Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Boeheim and Bob Knight as the only coaches in men's college basketball to coach at least 10 seasons in Division I and reach 900 victories.
Northeastern snaps Hofstra's win streak
Vasa Pusica had 24 points and Donnell Gresham Jr. added 18 in the Huskies' victory.
Baylor's Landrum Hits NCAA-Record 14 Threes
Senior guard Juicy Landrum set an NCAA record by making 14 three-pointers for all of her career-high 42 points.
Baylor defeats top-ranked UConn women
The Huskies hadn't lost a regular-season game since Nov. 14, 2014.
Walker leads No. 2 UConn to 75-33 rout of Tulane
Walker single-handedly outscored Tulane by a point in No. 2 UConn's 75-33 rout. Walker scored a career-best 34 points in the easy victory.
UConn snaps Texas' six-game winning streak 71-66


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News Release: New Car and Truck Sales Continue Double-digit Growth in June
New Car and Truck Sales Continue Double-Digit Growth in June
Cleveland, OH (July 8, 2011) –Retail sales of new cars and light trucks showed strong double digit growth when comparing June of this year with June of 2010, according to figures released today by the Greater Cleveland Automobile Dealers' Association (GCADA). In June of this year, dealerships in Northern Ohio sold 18,312 vehicles compared with 16,049 vehicles in the same month last year, an increase of more than 14 percent. For the year to date, sales of new cars and light trucks are up more than 27 percent when figures from the discontinued Pontiac and Saturn brands are removed.
"Despite registering double digit growth in June, the growth in sales of new cars and trucks slowed slightly due to tighter inventories of many popular vehicles," said Louis A. Vitantonio, president of the GCADA. "Sales are expected to pick back up in July, as dealer inventories return to normal. We expect this trend to continue through August. Credit is more available, and if fuel prices continue to fall, it will only help consumer confidence.
"In addition, the average vehicle on the road today is 10.2 years old, compared with an average of 8.9 years in 2000. That means many people will soon consider replacing older vehicles. This would obviously help new vehicle sales, but will also increase the value of late model, low mileage used vehicles, which means trade-ins are worth a lot more today than in years past."
A total of 23 brands registered sales increases for the month, when comparing sales to the same period a year prior. For the year to date, 25 brands are up from January through June when comparing sales to the same period in 2010.
In terms of total units sold for the month, Ford retained its number one spot over Chevrolet, selling 3,306 units compared to 2,816 for Chevy. Honda maintained its third place position with 1,544 units, while Kia broke into the top four with sales of 1,474 units, besting Toyota for the first time. However, for the year-to-date, Toyota still maintains a strong lead over the Korean manufacturer, at least locally.
23 Brands Up in June ('11 v. '10)
The following 23 brands posted sales increases in June 2011 versus June 2010: Acura, BMW, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Ford, GMC, Hyundai, Infiniti, Jeep, Kia, Lotus, Mercedes-Benz, Mini, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Porsche, Saab, Volkswagen and Volvo.
25 Brands Up Year to Date through June ('11 v. '10)
The following 25 brand posted sales increases for the year to date through June of this year versus the same period in 2010: Acura, BMW, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Ford, GMC, Honda, Hyundai, Infiniti, Jeep, Kia, Lincoln, Mercedes-Benz, Mini, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Porsche, Saab, Subaru, Volkswagen and Volvo.
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The demand for Buju Banton is high as he looks forward to getting released from prison later this year.
With less than 11 months before he is released from US prison, Buju Banton's former manager looks foward to a rebirth for the Grammy-winning artist.
The demand for Buju Banton is high, according to Donovan Germain, who produced some of the singer's biggest hit songs.
"Buju Banton is one of Jamaic''s most popular entertainers ever," said Germain.
"People calling me left, right and centre for Buju to do shows. Wi talking 'bout the Caribbean, Europe," he added.
Banton, who was arrested in December 2009 and found guilty in February 2011, is due for release on December 8, 2018, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website.
Germain produced most of Banton's early hit songs including "Browning," the entertainer's breakthrough hit, in 1992.
He expects the Jamaican singer to return to what he knows best once he gets out.
"Him jus' need to come out with another good album and introduce himself to a new generation of fans. Once him do a good album, things should get back to normal," said Germain.
Buju, while in prison, also received his Master's degree in Music Business Management from New York University (NYU).
"I can do anything I put my mind to; you know that. People who know me know that I am very determined and will achieve my goals despite hardships. I will not allow the system to conquer me," Buju told media reporters.
Buju Banton's 1995 album, 'Til Shiloh, is regarded by critics as one of Reggae's finest projects. It contains the songs such as "Shiloh," "Untold Stories," "Murderer" and "Not An Easy Road." The album heard the Reggae artist taking a more spiritual direction and finding Rastafari.
The 1997 follow-up, Inna Heights, followed a similar route. Germain, who has also produced hits by Buju compatriots, Beres Hammond, Marcia Griffiths and Wayne Wonder, notes that because Buju has an "excellent catalog", his music is still fresh.
"Yuh still hear his songs at every stage show an' dance. The people love him an' that doesn't hurt." Germain expressed.
Buju Banton, who turned 44 on last July, won a Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 2011 with Before The Dawn.


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Der Höhere Kommandeur der Flakartillerie im Luftkreis II war ein Kommandostab der Luftwaffe vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.

Seine Aufstellung erfolgte am 1. Oktober 1935 für den Luftkreis II in Berlin. Später erhielt der Kommandeur Brigadestatus und wurde 1937 in Höherer Flak-Kommandeur II umbenannt. Am 30. Juni 1938 wurde der Stab infolge einer Umorganisation aufgelöst.

Einziger Kommandeur war dabei Oberst/Generalmajor Hubert Weise.

Gliederung
Folgende Einheiten waren unterstellt:

Flak-Regiment 12 in Berlin-Lankwitz
 I. Abteilung des Flak-Regiments 32 in Berlin-Heiligensee
Regiment General Göring
 Flak-Regiment 22 in Brandenburg an der Havel
Lehr-Regiment

Bekannte Personen

 Paul Conrath: von Oktober 1936 bis September 1937 Batteriechef im Flak-Regiment 12
 Gustav Ewald: 1938 Referent für den Flugmeldedienst beim Höherer Flak-Kommandeur II
 Johannes Hintz: ab der Aufstellung des Höherer Kommandeur der Flakartillerie im Luftkreis II bis November 1936 und erneut ab Juli 1937 bis zur Auflösung des Höherer Flak-Kommandeur II beim Flak-Regiment 12
 Gerhard Hoffmann: von September 1936 bis Oktober 1936 beim Flak-Regiment 22, ab Juli 1937 beim Flak-Regiment 12
 Hans-Jürgen von Witzendorff: ab der Aufstellung des Höherer Kommandeur der Flakartillerie im Luftkreis II bis Oktober 1936 beim Flak-Regiment 12

Einzelnachweise

Flak-Verband der Luftwaffe (Wehrmacht)
Gegründet 1935
Aufgelöst 1938

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Rivlin says antisemitism an old phenomenon, neo-Fascists cant be pro-Israel
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said that antisemitism is not a new phenomenon and that neo-Fascist movements could not be pro-Israel in an Interview with CNN.
"I have lived here long enough to know that antisemitism did not begin with Hitler or even with Dreyfus," the President said. "Antisemitism is a journey of 2,000 years that has different origins, racism, hatred of minorities, and other religious issues."
Reacting to a recent poll conducted by CNN according to which 20% of Europeans believed that Jews had an excessive influence on wars and conflict and other Jewish stereotypes, Rivlin said that he meets with world leaders who say "that they are required to form a coalition and they tell us, these are neo-Fascist movements, but they admire the State of Israel and I tell them, gentlemen This is impossible."
Rivlin said that it is no less important to teach about the Holocaust than to fight antisemitism as they are connected. "Holocaust denial requires our struggle no less than antisemitism, and today there are neo-Fascist movements that have a large and very dangerous influence that hold such positions and those movements very often," he said.


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MCQ Questions for Class 11 Maths Chapter 4 Principle of Mathematical Induction with answers
Provide me latest MCQ Questions for Class 11 Maths Chapter 4 Principle of Mathematical Induction Free PDF Download so I can prepare for exams. Kindly give Chapter 4 Principle of Mathematical Induction Class 11 Maths MCQs Questions with Answers quickly as it is very essential.
Below you will find MCQ Questions of Chapter 4 Principle of Mathematical Induction Class 11 Maths Free PDF Download that will help you in gaining good marks in the examinations and also cracking competitive exams. These Class 11 MCQ Questions with answers will widen your skills and understand concepts in a better manner.
1. 2.42n + 1 + 33n + 1 for all n is divisible by λ for all n ∈ N" is true, then the value of λ is ____
► (b) 11
2. A set S in which x S implies x+1 S is known as a _______ .
(a) Inductive Set
(b) Deductive Set
(c) Subset
(d) All of the above
► (a) Inductive Set
3. If P(n) : (2n + 7) < (n + 3)2 then P(3) is
(a) (2 x 3 + 7 x 3) < (3 + 3)2
(b) (23 + 7) < (n + 3)2
(c) (2 x 3 + 7) < (3 + 3)2
(d) (32 + 7) < (2 + 7)2
► (c) (2 x 3 + 7) < (3 + 3)2
4. If n is a +ve integer, then 72n−4 is divisible by
► (d) None of these
5. Let P(n) b e a statement 2n<n! where n is a natural number, then P(n) is true for
(a) all n
(b) all n > 3
(c) all n < 3
(d) all n > 2
► (b) all n > 3
6. If a statement is to be proved by mathematical induction, then the different steps necessary to prove it are
(a) Prove Basic step and Inductive step
(b) Inductive step to be proved
(c) Prove P(1), P(2), P(3)
(d) Basic step to be proved
► (a) Prove Basic step and Inductive step
7. Let P(n) : n2−n+41 is a prime number . then :
(a) P (3) is not true
(b) P (5) is not true
(c) P (41) is not true
(d) P (1) is not true
► (c) P (41) is not true
8. For each n ∈ N, 23n−1 is divisible by :
9. For all n ∈ N , 49n+16n−1 is divisible by
10. The greatest positive integer, which divides n (n + 1) (n + 2) (n + 3) for all n ∈ N, is
11. Consider the statement P (n) : "n2 ≥ 100 ". Here P(n) ⇒ P(n+1) for all natural numbers n. Does it mean
(a) P (n) is true for all n ≥ 2
(b) P (n) is true for all n ≥ 3
(c) P (n) is true for all n.
12. A student was asked to prove a statement P (n) by method of induction. He proved that P (3) is true and that P(n) ⇒ P(n+1) for all natural numbers n. On the basis of this he could conclude that P (n) is true
(a) for no n
(b) for all n ≥ 3
(c) for all n ∈ N
► (b) for all n ≥ 3
13. If 10n+3×4n+1+k is divisible by 9 for all n ∈ N, then the least positive integral value of k is
14. The statement P (n) : "(n+3)2 > 2n+3 " is true for :
(a) all n ≥ 3
(b) all n ≥ 2
(c) all n
(d) no n ∈ N
► (d) no n ∈ N
15. The sum of cubes of three consecutive natural numbers is divisible by:
16. 2n > n2 when n ∈ N such that
(a) n > 2
(b) n < 5
(c) n > 3
(d) n ≥ 5
► (d) n ≥ 5
17. If n is a positive integer , then 2.7n+3.5n−5 is divisible by
18. If n is a +ve integer, then 23n−7n−1 is divisible by
► (c) 49
19. The smallest positive integer for which The statement 3n+1<4n is true for
20. The inequality n!>2n−1 is true
(a) for all n > 2
(b) for all n > 1
(d) for no n ∈ N
► (a) for all n > 2
21. 1.2.3 + 2.3.4 + 3.4.5 + ………..up to n terms is equal to :
(a) 1/4 (n + 1) (n -1) (n + 2) (n + 3)
(b) 1/4 (n + 1) (n + 2) (n + 3)
(c) 1/4 n (n + 1) (n + 2) (n + 3)
► (c) 1/4 n (n + 1) (n + 2) (n + 3)
22. The principle of mathematical induction is for the set of:
(a) Rational numbers
(b) Positive integers
(c) Whole number
(d) Integers
► (b) Positive integers
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World EU's Barnier Still Hopes Trade Deal With Britain Possible
EU's Barnier Still Hopes Trade Deal With Britain Possible
Thursday, September 17, 2020 at 5:27 am | כ"ח אלול תש"פ
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -
European Commission's Head of Task Force for Relations with the U.K. Michel Barnier gestures in the hemicycle ahead of EC President Ursula von der Leyen's first State of the Union speech, during a plenary session of the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday. (Olivier Hoslet/Pool via Reuters)
The European Union's Brexit negotiator told the bloc's 27 national envoys to Brussels that he still hoped a trade deal with Britain was possible, stressing that the coming days would be decisive, three diplomatic sources told Reuters.
Michel Barnier addressed the gathering on Wednesday and the three sources either participated in the discussion behind closed doors or were briefed on its content.
"Barnier still believes a deal is possible, though the next days are key," said one of the EU diplomatic sources.
A second diplomat, asked what Barnier said on Wednesday and whether there was still a chance for a new agreement with the U.K., said, "The hope is still there."
EU and Britain Resume Talks, Deal Still Weeks Away at the Earliest
Britain's EU 'No Deal' Threat Is Genuine, Says Brexit Minister Davis
EU's Brexit Top Negotiator Barnier Has Coronavirus
Britain's Davis 'Pretty Sure' He'll Get Good Deal to Leave EU
EU Tells Britain: Time Has Come to Make a Brexit Choice


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Orissa high court rejects Vedanta refinery expansion
Amnesty International has urged the Indian authorities to order the immediate clean-up of an alumina refinery in the state of Orissa, following a high court decision to reject plans for its expansion by a subsidiary of the UK-based Vedanta Resources.
The High Court of Orissa on Tuesday upheld the Indian government's decision made in August 2010, to reject Vedanta Aluminium's plans for the six-fold expansion of the Lanjigarh refinery, finding that the project violated the country's environmental laws.
Vedanta Aluminium challenged the Ministry of Environment and Forest's decision in the high court on November 2010.
"This decision is of tremendous significance for the local communities, who have been fighting to prevent this expansion going ahead," said Amnesty International's Asia-Pacific Deputy Director, Madhu Malhotra.
"The refinery, which has been in operation for four years, fails to meet accepted national and international standards in relation to its environmental, social and human rights impact. The authorities must order an immediate clean-up of the site and monitor the health status of the local communities.
"The Ministry of Environment and Forests must also carry out an independent audit to ascertain whether the refinery's almost-full 28 hectare red mud pond, from which two breaches have been reported in April and May, is operating in compliance with India's environmental protection laws and international standards."
Residents of 12 villages who live in the shadow of the massive refinery – mostly Majhi Kondh Adivasi (Indigenous) and Dalit communities who rely on agriculture for their livelihoods – have long campaigned against the expansion, arguing it would further pollute their land and water.
The Ministry of Environment and Forests rejected the expansion plan on 24 August 2010. It also rejected plans, by Sterlite India, another Vedanta Resources' subsidiary and the state-owned Orissa Mining Corporation, to mine bauxite at Niyamgiri Hills near Lanjigarh after finding that it would violate forest and environmental laws and the rights of the Dongria Kondh adivasi communities.
Challenges against this by Sterlite India and the Orissa Mining Corporation are pending in India's National Green Tribunal and Supreme Court.
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tv Deadline White House MSNBC April 15, 2019 1:00pm-2:00pm PDT
let's see if one of the outcomes of this might not be a recovery of faith. >> my thanks to all of my guests in this holy week. the symbol of catholicism and so much more in paris on fire. brian williams picks up our coverage. brian? we so begin the breaking coverage that continues our live ongoing breaking coverage of the fire we have been covering in paris. not just any fire. the world has been deprived of one of the most beautiful architectural landmarks of all time. the cathedral of notre dame. a tremendous loss. in no particular order to catholics around the globe during holy week. to the people of the paris, to the people of france and to the fop peop people of this world. it's hard to believe how little
is standing after just these few hours of fire. this was, sadly, one of the iconic, crushingly sad images of the day. the spire of the church, made of oak, was under renovation, more on that later, when the fire at the base just became too much for the supporting timbers, and it went down. on the left-hand side of your screen is the current live picture and there are many things to point out about it. number one, you see one so-called master stream from the paris city fire department trying its best to suppress the flames from inside the carcass of the church. and paris firefighters are going at it steadily from all angles around this building. periodically we see a shoot of new smoke and sparks from inside the structure. and we can only imagine what
that means. at this hour, 10:00 in paris, 4:00 on the east coast, the effort is nothing short of trying to save the remaining structure. that picture right there, they have an exposure fire going on in one of the stone columns. a stone building of this size and of this age doesn't just stand by itself. the flying buttress timbers that were the architectural structures of this building all played a role in keeping this building upright. an interior fire in a building like that is terrible news. especially for people who thought when it's all said and done we would at least have the stone towers that have stood watch over paris since the
1200s. you also see on your screen, the upper right, again the height of the blaze. sadly, at the base of the steeple, or spire, of the church. smoke filling the suburbs of paris. there were tourists and pa r' sheens this afternoon, reporting singed hair from the falling, burning embers. look at the smoke from its height. it looked to the amateur observer as a completely out-of-control, unfought fire. what we couldn't see was the scramble going on -- if you've been there you know notre dame is on a small island on the river sienne, and it was indeed hard to get there, lay down
supply lines. we assume they are drafting water out of the river and the adjacent canal. this was just moments ago in paris, still pockets of flame inside notre dame. the streets are jammed. the bridges over the sienne are jammed. the metro system has been closed down at some stops because of crowding. obviously there is one topic tonight in paris, obviously there is one site in paris and parisiennes are getting used to the what is left of the orange glow of notre dame. we can say with some certainty that the roof of the structure has all come in. again, you have basically an oven surrounded by stone.
firefighters have been unable to fight this as an interior fire. so they're all defensive operations. these are all master streams from the outside of the building pouring into the embers on the inside. they are trying to stop the progress of this. let's talk to carolyn margolies who was in paris, walking out with her son when this happened and tell us what you witnessed. >> hi. yeah. i actually was with my friend, not my son. but my friend and i were walking -- i'm sorry? >> no, i didn't say anything. go ahead. >> okay. so my friend and i were trying to walk to a bookstore and to do that we had to cross the river, we know the area well, so when
we saw smoke coming up from the left-hand side where we were walking, we thought that's close to where notre dame is. as we walked closer we noticed it was notre dame herself that was on fire. we couldn't see the flames at first, so we ended up walking more towards the right-hand side of the church and we could see the flames. it was mostly at the base of the spire at that point, they weren't too big but the smoke was pretty bad. we could feel ash and we were a couple blocks away. so we decided to walk further away. we talked for about seven minutes, looked back, and half of the roof was on fire. the smoke was green, orange and black, and we watched as flames consumed most of the roof and the spire collapsed into the building. it was wild to watch. >> carolyn, i hate to say it, but when you see a fire this big and when one of the first things
you notice is scaffolding, it's just an overwhelming chance that it's going to be related to the huge construction project that was going on. it's been kind of on and off, it has struggled for funding. nothing like the new effort will be to rebuild notre dame, certainly. but did you notice, was the construction all that visible with the naked eye? >> not from the inside. my friend and i went to the church on friday, and we didn't -- we didn't notice anything distinct from the inside. from the outside, if i remember correctly, there were some -- you could see some of the construction but it wasn't something that really seemed to distract at all from the church itself. so it didn't seem to be super overwhelming it wasn't something i looked at the church and noted how much construction was going on. >> describe the streets of paris
and the people of paris as best you can. >> yeah, so when we were first there we were pretty close, we were a couple of blocks away and no one knew what was going on, it was people mostly watching in horror, people recording with their phones. and the problem was because there was so many people so localized, it made it so cell reception wasn't working. so there was nothing on the news, no one knew what was going on. i could hear people asking in english, asking in french, what's happening, is notre dame on fire? is anything being done to stop this? as we got further and further away. we were further away but there were still crowds of people, like 10 minutes away, 5 minutes away just watching in many horror. when the spire collapsed, you could hear echoing gasps. we were close to street performers and the noise from their boom box was the only noise you could hear. everyone was shocked in silence. >> it's just after 10:00 local
time and i imagine people are still streaming outside because of the orange glow and just to take account of what's no longer on the skyline. >> yeah, i mean, it's -- people d dispursed after the flames started to die down and you could see firefighters using water to put out the flames and that didn't happen until about 45 minutes ago. at least it wasn't visible from where we were standing. there were hundreds of people and then it slowly started to disperse. people were going about their daily lives, i saw people riding their bikes, jogging, and still boat cruises going buy. people are still outside, but not the same numbers they were before. >> carolyn, marguiles thank you for joining us and describing what you saw in the streets of paris today.
we appreciate it. we're joined by bishop robert barren of los angeles. i understand you used to lead tours of the notre dame cathedral, and i can't believe we're having this conversation, but i need you to tell us, from the standpoint of a former tour guide, what's been lost? >> i lived in paris for three years, and while i was there, i lived about a 15-minute walk from notre dame. i used to go down every wednesday at noon, give a tour to english-speaking visitors. it was always a giant crowd. you can't calculate what's been lost i haven't seen the most recent pictures. i'm just praying about the windows. the rose window especially. >> i think the rose window visible from the sienne, i'm looking at it right now and what
appears to be sadly, just a skeleton. as you know, the windows are held together by lead one of the softest metals on earth anyway, when they're exposed to heat, they lose their ability to stay together. we're all looking at the same picture that this is not a leaded glass window, rather a skeleton. i know the rose windows were of huge concern to lovers of this cathedral. >> the one you see from the sienne is the south row. the north row is, in my judgment, the most significant of the rose windows. they date back to the earliest days. to me they're the biggest achievement. they were the highlight of the tour when i would give it.
their anticipation of heaven. when i heard about this fire, brian, that was the first thing that came to my mind was please save the roses. i thought the stone would survive, and the interior metal would be destroyed. the windows, not all of them go back to the 13th century but many do. that's a giant loss, if those have been destroyed. there's a gorgeous statue, 14th century virgin and child, i remember a cardinal when i was there, the jewish convert, he spoke of the jewish roots of christianity. he would often point of that gorgeous statue of the madonna with the child.
i think of him preaching in that space. i know it's a bit of cliche perhaps to say but this building which has survived wars and revolution, during the french revolution, they were going to tear it down. it bearly survived. and to see it now, perhaps permanently compromised by this fire is devastating. >> wasn't it hit by a bomb in world war ii? >> yeah, they removed the windows, though. they knew there was danger in both world wars, the windows were spared. but this came on so suddenly, they couldn't save the windows. there's been some discussion i know the crown of thorns which king luis the ninth bought. he went out with his emperor,
went out to meet the crown of thorns. during the revolution it was spirited away for safekeeping to the cathedral. i saw it there a number of times. it was in the treasury of the cathedral. i hope, please god, that was preserved. >> tell us the other relics, the other works of art. i hate the fact that we're taking inventory on what is basically assumed to be lost. >> again, the windows i'd say number one. the relics are of infinitely precious value to us. i think of the statue i referenced. but in the back part of the cathedral these magnificent sku sculptur sculptures. beautifully rendered. i'm sure they're gone.
they were just made of wood. there was the statue of the p shs. and the bells, i remember the deep bell ringing. all of that is associated with notre dame and perhaps all of it at least compromised if not destroyed. anyone that loves art -- set aside the moment for religion, it has power for catholics, but anyone that loves art, it's a jewel that anyone has produced. >> talk about the significance of notre dame for catholics of holy week. >> our lady of paris.
that cathedral is part of that magnificent sort of explosion devotion to the blessed mother that happened in the late 12th, early 13th century that gave rise to so many cathedrals, notre dame, notre dame our lady. so the spirituality which is so powerfully behind the buildings is there for catholics and it's happening in holy week, the most sacred time of year is the most devastating. >> for all the wrong reasons i hope you can get to a television as soon as you can there. we're watching now as they're fighting an interior fire in one of the central stone towers. we're hoping it can get knocked down. they have a snorkel on it now. getting high water on this fire was a big problem, remains a big
problem for paris firefighters. americans not familiar with the scope, the sheer dimensions of this building, probably can't understand why a fire boat can't come around the front and put this out. they discussed fire drops. and that was believed to be -- to perhaps do more damage than hoses in fighting this fire. but the world has suffered a tremendous loss today. bishop robert barren, thank you for joining us, auxiliary bishop of the diocese of los angeles. let's stay on this picture. we have a schematic of notre dame, which can let out viewers know exactly where this is being fought. so on the right-hand side of the picture are the two primary
stone towers. and this fire is in the tower on the upper right of the picture. the roof that is shaped like a cross is believed all gone. what is less obvious in the picture is the entire rising from the center of the building, which is gone. you see the trusses on the side, all of which played a role in suspending that roof. there is notre dame. so any roof structure you see there is gone. that has fallen in. and the fight is now on to maintain, to save, as much as the stone work, as much of the walls as possible. and a fact i know we will repeat several times. ground was broken for this
cathedral 600 years before there was a united states. 600 years before there was an idea of a united states. as you just heard the bishop say, the famous rose windows, the stain glassed windows were viewed by thomas e kwie thus and st. bon venture in real time as living, breathing humans walking the earth. and for catholics and non-catholics, that gives you some idea of the enormity of this loss. they are still pouring waters inside the confines of the stone walls of notre dame. early on i think it's safe to say that it was made clear that it's believed all humans who were inside were evacuated. this happened around the time tours end for the day.
but note the scaffolding immediately over the flames. that put a lump in the throat certainly of all the firefighters watching these pictures because it just indicated ongoing construction, which exponentially increases the chance of accidental spark and fire. geraldine is with us by telephone, the paris bureau chief for bloomberg. can you describe the streets of paris and the orange glow that pa r parisians are looking up at. >> the streets around notre dame are filled. so all you can see are blue lights from the police cars and
we see flames coming out from the building and people just staying here, absolutely petrified and police sort of pushing, pushing, pushing the ground back. you can hear people behind me -- you might not hear people behind me, but they're singing prayers, holy mary, mother of god, hoping somehow this iconic building can be saved. right now you can see on the side of the building firemen at work trying to save the north tower where a bell was installed recently. and actually wooden beams would crumble down and take the towers away. so this is what they're doing right now and what i can see right now. >> yes, they're worried about the structural walls because, of course, the wooden jousts of the roof played a role in keeping
them up. >> yes, you saw this fire crumble down. it crumbled down nearly after hour after the fire started, maybe before. and it threw drops of fire in the sky of paris. sort of extremely dangerous. so now they're trying to reign in the fire. >> every so often we see kind of a new burst of smoke and embers rising. and yes, in deed, we have heard reports of people having their hair singed, clothing burned. people out in paris because of the extraordinary amount of embers and debris that are airborne. >> absolutely. that happened to me, actually. which was when the crowd was pushed, forcefully, by the police saying it was extremely
dangerous. right now there's a huge corden around notre dame, no one can get near, not even police. only firemen are allowed. even the helicopter flying over it. they're using drones right now to try and inspect and see how threatened the north tower can be. but i think i still see flames coming out and water being hosed constantly, never stopping. and everyone here in the crowd just wondering if notre dame can be saved. >> what is it like tonight in paris? >> it's very bizarre feeling. paris has weathered a lot over the past few years, terror attacks, riots with violent protesters, protests, and this
is actually the heart of paris. notre dame is an iconic building. notre dame was here way before -- more than 700 years old. and the crowd here is, at the same time, petrified and crushed and nervous. and kind of -- actually not going away. i've heard people -- people told me they heard about it and they had to come and see it because they wanted to pray for it. so there you go. it's beyond sadness. for now it's -- and we'll see what comes out of it at the end of the day -- at the end of the night. a student that was just passing by was telling me i hope when i'm waking up tomorrow notre dame will still be there.
i dread going away because i don't want to see it crumbling down. thinking that because he will stay around it will keep notre dame standing. >> indeed a lot of people are going to sleep with that same feeling tonight in paris and around the world. >> thank you so much, so much for joining us and describing just how sad a scene it is in paris tonight. to our viewers, in that large box on the left, nighttime having fallen in paris, you see the local time 10:25 p.m. so many things to point out about this picture. number one, the stained glass window, which appear -- it appears to be gone. we don't have enough detail, even in hd, in this picture, to tell for certain. but it looks like the glass elements are missing. and, of course, that's one of
the most famous stained glass windows in the world. the other distinguishing feature of this live picture is the scaffolding. it is -- it's become almost a cliche in life. if there is a bad or tragic substantial fire that it was set off by a worker with a torch. we have absolutely zero evidence. it is way too early. for the equivalent of the paris fire marshal to have looked into the cause unless there's direct testimony from someone, it is way too early to know. there's more detail on the stained glass window, at least portions of the former stained glass window. and look at the top reach of the firefighters' aerials.
it is such a large structure and the city's streets in paris are so twisty, turny, and tiny that it is hard to keep on hand the size hardware you would need to fight a medium high-rise fire, to fight a fire of this size. we're happy to be joined by tom von ness, former fdny commissioner. thank you for being with us. fill in the gaps what i've been saying about fighting this as an exterior fire and the role of the ceiling joists and keeping up the walls. >> you kind of hit it on the head, brian. it's too early to say how it started, but you and i -- you've been around new york city long enough to know that if you had to make a bet, you'd bet it was the construction going on.
they may not have had a fire watch, enough water ready to put a small fire out immediately. you don't know that for sure yet, but it really makes everybody aware of how important it is to put a fire out quickly. because once something like this gets going with an inability to get enough water on it, everything they were putting on it looked like it was a garden hose. and we know it's not the case. they put a lot of water on it, and probably put it on from six or seven different places but it wasn't enough. i've been up in the eves of st. patrick's when they did that construction, they did a phenomenal job. but when you get up there you see these places are like lumberyards in the eves and the outside roof is misleading because it's stone or copper. the inside ceiling you think it's plaster, but in between is
a tremendous amount of lumber that if it gets going you're going to have a tough time putting it out. that's what they ran into today, didn't get it put out fast enough. >> i heard this described earlier today as basically a stone oven that was fuel of fuel. what we're seeing now is the remaining fuel, lumber, getting burned off. >> sure. the roof collapses, drops onto the stone floor, now you have the artifacts and art that the bishop was talking about before. if they knew they had two hours to get everything out, they would have gotten it out. but i bet the chiefs in the interest of the safety of the firefighters didn't want to put anybody in there because they didn't want to risk somebody's life for a statue or piece of art. but when the roof collapses, now you have a roaring inferno in there. i guess they're coming in from every door, that's why the chief said we'll know in 90 minutes.
he'll know how much of the structure and art they could save. statues might survive, maybe. who knows. who knows what's going to be left in the morning. >> help our viewers in the difference in hardware between fire fighting, let's limit it to the fdny and paris. obviously the streets there dictate they cannot use the hardware, the tower ladders we have in new york city. enormous vehicles. they have more, i guess i call it, articulated skirt truck with a bunch of elbow joints. i don't know that it's any less high than a new york city aerial when extended all the way. >> some of them are actually higher. i looked at getting some of those for new york city just to have some of them for a place
you could really use it in extreme situation. so some of them really get high. but you're right, they don't have the capability to pump the amount of water that we have, though. and our trucks are -- we are situated very differently. there is room around notre dame and you've got the river there, you could be shooting it in from fire boats. but like you mentioned before, the angle is like shooting it up in the air and it's dropping down. it's not like you can get the volume of water that you need when the fire gets going to that degree. early on, yes, but not once it's roaring like that. >> the water on the fire is reduced to steam almost instantly before it ever reaches the seat of the fire, correct? >> yeah. especially when they're shooting it from so far away. the amount of heat coming off that roof earlier and i guess still now. it looks like it's less now, but you don't know how long it is.
it could be the length of a football field, you know. >> yeah, i was waiting this afternoon to see if they were going to concentrate on exposures. and it looks like now they are. i'm seeing a few more water curtains being extended to some of the stone walls and structures. and it looks like they're trying to pro few lakt cli wet down some of the other structures around it. they didn't have the luxury of time earlier, they were doing primary fire fighting. we just lost the photo, the picture broke up, but one of their aerial ladders, which is manned. people may also not understand as we're looking at snaked supply lines through the city streets. the firefighters up on the aerials controlling the nozzle are breathing off air tanks because they're in the thick of the smoke and they need to often
come down and change tanks, correct? >> yeah. the tanks don't last very long at all. >> we're just looking, the scaffolding is such a sad reminder that one of the -- the focal point of one of the repair projects was the spire. made almost entirely of oak and as you mentioned, commissioner, didn't take long for that to go down. >> it's amazing how long the scaffolding has stayed up. i would have thought by now it would have crumbled, with the amount of heat. >> it's incredible the amount of radiant heat coming off that building. and parisians are looking up at that glow. thank you, tom, for lending your expertise to our coverage. really appreciate it. an anna lees borg has been standing
by for us. i'm told you're as close as one is allowed to get there? >> that's correct. i'm at a bridge right behind notre dame. and as we speak some 400 firefighters continue working to try and fight these flames. but their efforts seem absolutely powerless in the face of a magnitude of this fire. we understand that a french interior ministry official has said that the firefighters might not be able to save the notre dame cathedral and, of course, this is a devastating news for people here in paris. but also over the country and around the world. this is a momentum that has survived virtually everything. the nazi's couldn't destroy notre dame. and today, residents and tourists alike just stood by this church in shock. absolutely terrified, but also
bewildered by how this fire has completely ravaged the roof and now continues to wage inside as we speak. eyewitness described to me earlier today scenes of shock. they were terrified. they described moments of fear when they were evacuated from the church. an american tourist told me he stood by the sidewalk just watching that spire collapse before his eyes. now the paris prosecutor has opened an investigation into what may have caused the fire. and as i speak, there are thousands of people still out, still standing and watching this fire. the feeling is that of extreme sadness with a loss of such an important, iconic monument. >> i just can't imagine, knowing a little bit about paris, having
visited there many times, what this has done to the street life tonight, the cafe life tonight, to the city's heart and soul and whether people are opting to stay inside and watch television coverage of the sadness or go out and try to sample some of it for themselves? >> everywhere i look, literally everywhere i look right now, i'm standing right next to the church, everywhere i look, people are gathered. there are thousands of people right now gathered by the river seine. there are thousands standing at their windows. and i don't think anyone is going to be able to get any sleep tonight. i think people will be staying out and just watching to see what happens next. of course, this information from the french interior ministry that firefighters aren't sure they'll be able to salvage this
structure is just heartbreaking. i have seen so many people in tears. strangers hugging each other, saying they could just not believe that something like this could happen. and it is something horrific. >> i want to thank you, with all of your other responsibilities, for bringing the coverage to us -- >> can i interrupt you for one second? >> yes. >> thousands of people are applauding. the church -- some of them have been praying earlier but just now, the admiration for the work of the firefighters. and people started clapping. it's been really, really moving to see how people have come out
together in, of course, this moment of extreme sadness just to be by each other's side and try to find some comfort in what's happening tonight. >> thank you for adding that. it's a bit of flavor and color from that city tonight. thank you so much for being with us. again, just focussing the attention of our viewers on the live -- even though we're getting some break up, the screen pixalates a little bit on occasion. you see the limits of fire fighting there. you see the master streams at the end of aerial ladders that are just really nozzles on poles, and it's a reminder of the scale of the cathedral. these are the stone walls that are still standing. so local fire commanders have to be mindful, walls can fall either way. they have lost their timber
supports that connect them to the roof and to each other. so a wall can fall out, it can collapse inward. i don't imagine the local at th of those walls. so a lot of that equipment auto appears to be an articulated arm with a nozzle at the end. i just want to read you from the associated press. this was about 10 minutes before the hour. the fire chief in paris says it's unclear if city firefighters will be able to keep a fire at notre dame from spreading and causing more destruction, quote, we are not sure we are capable of stopping the spreading. if it collapses, you can imagine how important the damage will be. this is an ongoing crisis in the city of paris. and we're tempted to say that
they're getting the last of it. but there you see, this is still a kind of stone box that is full of fuel. wood, as old as any of the wood in construction in this world, dating back to 11 and 1200. the ground breaking for this building i believe was in 1160. not to mention some of the great art work in the world. david ignatius is with us. he's normally one of our guests when discussing politics and news coverage of this administration. he joins us today in the context of having spent three years as executive editor of the international herald trib in paris. put in words the loss we're
witnessing in real time. >> watching the images i'm sure every one of us feels a vitrol sense of loss. this is a place where history has emerged over so many centuries back to medieval times. i remember the first time i went to notre dame when i was a teenager, lightian saying a prayer. i think the one piece of hope i take as i look at these images is that the whole world is watching with the same sense of shock. there are these moments that the world comes together as one with the same sense of tragedy. and maybe the images of the fire and the tower collapsing will
pull us together and remind us of what's common and shared by people. >> there is that tragic emptiness that you reference. there's nothing we can do about this. >> there's nothing we can do. we need to watch, and i think just watching is to pay respect. in my years living in paris, i can remember taking my children almost every weekend down to that old quarter -- it's a place where people would come to roller skate and skate board and dance and play music. and this ancient building would draw the youngest residents of paris around it. it was part of what made it so marvelous. you just believe with the french authorities, that this will be somehow, overtime, rebuilt. >> we're sitting here in rockefell rockefeller plaza in new york.
the rockefeller family was among those that came forward after the bomb damage to notre dame in world war ii to help do the repairs. notre dame has had an up and down existence. the latest repair project was strangled for funding at one point. and it's kind of a miracle that after witnessing two world wars the place was standing today. but it's also a reminder, and i mentioned the rockefeller family because people of means came forward around the world to help make notre dame what it was start of business today. >> i hope the dollars and the euros start flowing today. this is a place that the world cherishes. paris has burned before and come back. revolutions have swept the streets around notre dame over the centuries.
this is a place where there were public executions, some horrible moments in french and human history. and yet notre dame always came back as the center. as you say, there is something about tragedies like this that call forth something in the human spirit that wants to rebuild, save, cherish. >> just an incredible loss. let me just access your knowledge of history. talk about the items, the iconography in notre dame, on the list of things we're fearing for tonight. >> i couldn't give you a list of the specific items. i know as you walk into notre dame there's this eerie, haunting half light with a wonderful shimmering light
through the stained glass windows, the candles people come to light and remember loved ones, the stalls where priests could come to hear confessions. the statuary. the statues of ancient kings, princes, figures of the church. we often walk through places that are museums, but this was -- this was a living, breathing, walk into the past. i can't -- i hope viewers can think of places like it. that -- those objects, those beautiful things can't be recovered, but the spirit -- the spirit remains. >> david ignatius, thank you so very much for joining us. i almost feel like offering condolences as someone who loved that building so much and had so much family experience in and around it. what a beautiful, beautiful place. and what a tragic story we are
covering. david also reminds us, this is a local church, this is a c congregation, there are weddings, confession, there's sunday mass, there's confirmations, there's christenings all things that take place in a catholic church. and now we're seeing that life snuffed out. the water supply now established between those north and south towers and what remains of the structure. again, this entire area was covered by roof. it's almost perverse that the scaffolding survives in some places where the roof has given way. and now with night fall we get the eerie views of vacant
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noble, what's most uplifting, what's most inoperational abo about -- inspirational about the human project and to see that reduced to ashes, my, oh, my, i remember our song "from the ashes we rise up." we had ash wednesday, we want to rise up with jesus at easter, and i believe that there will be some rising. >> that was a kind of impromptu press conference. i would suppose no more than 500 yards from the studio, where we are right now, st. patrick's cathedral across fifth avenue from rockefeller plaza. timothy dolan, the cardinal, here in new york, and i was told by at least two co-workers that people are streaming in to st. patrick's in new york, as a way of, i don't know, touching something connected to notre dame. i want to show you the latest live pictures of this firefight, and again, you see now on the right-hand side of your screen a
master stream that is an occupied aerial ladder, so that is manned by the paris fire department. on the left-hand side of your screen, what you see there i am guessing is more of an effort to put up water curtain for exposure, that is a more diffuse water stream. does not look like it's involved in fire fighting efforts per se as much as it's probably being used to cool down exposed structures. the saddest part of this picture is the ongoing orange glow. firefighters around the world will have postmortem discussions and breakdowns of what happened in this incident today, but civilians looking on know there's sheer physics involved.
it is very hard to have a piece of apparatus as big as notre dame cathedral. it is impossible for a fire boat in front of the structure to have the reach, the pumping and drafting power to send a stream from a body of water inside that structure. you see the very height of the aerial ladder, and you heard former new york city fire commissioner tom van nessen say some of the european equipment is indeed taller than what most of our major city departments use in this country, but at a certain point, and there's a five inch supply line, that in the united states gets attached to the familiar fire hydrants in our towns and cities. they'll also use -- there you go, that is a gated valve that brings water from a central location and feeds several
hoses. you're up against physics, you're lobbing water inside a burning structure, and a certain percentage of the water you're putting on the fire is converted instantly to steam, and never gets on the target. a fire this big and this hot, that no doubt is the equivalent of tom van nessen's former job, the fire chief, battalion chief and commissioner at the paris command post, familiar white board where they lay out what units they have working this fire. obviously city of paris firefighters very experienced. they are a respected bunch. there is the drone operator, the woman on the left. modern fire departments have utilized drones since they came on the scene, as an easy, inexpensive way of giving you eyes on the fire. in this case, very frustrating to know just what you're up
against. this is a traditional canvas hose coming off the back. here is part of the drafting operation. they simply stick a hose with a sump screen around the bottom into a body of water, and start drafting out of there, as much volume as their pumps will permit. on the left there, a very typical fire pumper in europe, but again, look at that. the extent of the aerial ladder and still, look at the tiny percentage of water that is getting on the target. at some point with such low water pressure, such demands on the water pressure in that entire half of the city. you're just protecting the exposures from heat and flame. back to the loss of this building, this icon, the meaning behind this, the meaning especially for the world's catholics during holy week. we're joined by one of our
best-known veterans on this topic, george weigle, our nbc news senior vatican analyst. i can't say this often in life but it's quite possible the last time i saw you was indeed in rome. it's good to talk to you, my friend, and i hate the reason that brings ux togethes togethe. >> yes, brian, so do i. i feel so much like bishop barron who you were talking to moments ago, it's devastating. like him, i'm thinking first of all of the glass, not simply as a beautiful art object, but we should remember that these great gothic cathedrals were basically catechism books, the stonework, the glass, all total e told the biblical story, the christian story, to educate a pre-literate population, which itself was deeply involved in the building
of these great gothic structures. so if we feel a special wound here at the loss of this glass, i think it's not just about the aesthetics. i think there's some almost preternatural sense that something sacred has been destroyed here. hopefully will rise again. >> i'm no fire investigator, but the shot of the front of the archway that we keep showing where they're staying, one of the rose windows once stood, we've been speculating here that the glass is indeed gone, because it appears see-through. another clue is, there is a visible flame and smoke damage coming out through the window that would not have happened, had the glass not been breached, so it appears that our worst fears, and that is that soft
lead that holds the panes together that makes it a work of art gave way probably early on, with the intense heat on the other side. >> yes, and of course, one of those portals you were talking about is a rendition in stone of the last judgment, which gives you know, a rather apocalyptic quality to this whole business. i actually have in my office here, where i'm sitting, a picture of sandbags being put up in front of notre dame in the summer of 1918 as the last great german offenses of the german war came within some 40 miles of paris. this is a structure which has seen an awful, awful lot of history. it somehow survived because of that history including the bloody awfulness of the french revolution, and i was saying earlier to chris jansing, and i'll repeat the thought here, i
have to wonder if the shock of this, and the sense that people have that they have wounded in a way that, say the claollapse of the eiffel tower would not wound them, might remind an increasingly secular french society what its deepest historical and cultural roots are, which are biblical and christian. so we don't know what comes out of catastrophes like this, but there may be some strange pro providential dimension to this but we'll only learn 100, 150 years out. >> this survived world war i, this survived the nazis in world war ii. this survived by the skin of its teeth the french revolution,
when few people or structures in the immediate neighborhood did. i'm going to put your formidable intellect and memory on front and center, and ask you, what are the icons inside notre dame that are the most notable that you are worried about the most? >> well, as our friend, liz lev, said in the previous hour, brian, there is a pious tradition that notre dame includes a relic of the crown of thorns from the passion of jesus christ. were that to be lost in holy week, of all weeks, that would be a devastating loss to the christian world.
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GFOA Advisories identify specific policies and procedures necessary to minimize a government's exposure to potential loss in connection with its financial management activities. It is not to be interpreted as GFOA sanctioning the underlying activity that gives rise to the exposure.
Reverse repurchase agreements (reverse repos) are the mirror image of a repo. In a reverse repo, an investor (governmental entity) owns securities, such as a Treasury note, U.S. government agency bond or other security, that a bank or dealer purchases under an agreement and sells back to an investor on a specified date, at an agreed-upon interest rate.
Reverse repos may be one way to avoid liquidating a portfolio to meet unexpected or immediate cash flow requirements. Most public finance officers accept this straightforward use of the instrument as a legitimate cash management practice.
A potentially more controversial use of the reverse repo is to enhance portfolio returns through the purchase of securities financed through repurchase transactions. The cash obtained can be invested in another higher-yielding instrument.
The government entity uses the dollars from the reverse repo to leverage the investments in the portfolio.
Settle the transaction on a delivery-versus-payment (DVP) basis at the entity's custodian or trustee for thirdparty safekeeping.
Reverse repo agreements require the same essential basic components as a repo. A Master Repurchase Agreement should be entered into with a bank or counterparty. A form of the agreement may be obtained from the website of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) formerly known as The Bond Market Association (TBMA). The agreement should detail the nature of the deal and conform to suit the specifics of the governmental entity's transaction. Proper securitization practices should be utilized to protect the securities in reverse repo transaction as well as safekeeping duties should be performed by a third-party custodian in accordance with an executed agreement.
The conservative and prudent approach to the use of reverse repos involves short-term contracts in which the term of the reverse repo is matched with the maturity of the reinvestment. Losses of state and local government funds (e.g., losses amounted in the billions in the 1980s and 1990s when governmental entities were borrowing short to lend long in adverse markets) have occurred as the result of unsound investment practices and the inappropriate use of reverse repos in leveraging portfolios to increase investment returns.
GFOA recommends that state and local government finance officers develop policies and procedures to ensure the safety of reverse repos.
Government entities and investment officers should exercise special caution in selecting and evaluating the creditworthiness of counterparties with whom they will conduct repurchase transactions and be able to identify the parties acting as principals to the transaction.
Reverse repo proceeds generally should be invested in securities whose maturity matches or is no longer than the term of the reverse repo. For example, borrowing short to lend long can produce losses in adverse markets. Further, the possibility exists that other factors can go wrong, such as default by the dealer or adverse market changes that erode the value of the underlying securities.
Master repurchase agreements for reverse repos should be employed, subject to appropriate legal and technical review. Governments using the prototype agreement developed by SIFMA should include appropriate supplemental provisions regarding the types of securities, delivery, substitution, margin maintenance, margin amounts, seller representations, and governing law as contained in the GFOA-developed Considerations for Governments in Developing a Master Repurchase Agreement.
Governmental entities should only engage in reverse repos if they possess the necessary expertise and resources required to enter into this type of investment. Government officials should verify whether the use of such financial instrument is legal in their respective jurisdictions. Governmental officials should not engage in any investment practices for speculative purposes.
An Introduction to Broker-Dealers for State and Local Governments, Second Edition, Sofia Anastopoulos, GFOA, 2008.
An Introduction to Collateralizing Public Deposits for State and Local Governments, Second Edition, M. Corinne Larson, GFOA, 2006.
Investing Public Funds, Second Edition, Girard Miller with M. Corinne Larson and W. Paul Zorn, GFOA, 1998.
GFOA Best Practice, Frequency of Purchased Securities Valuation in Repurchase Agreements (1999, 2003, 2006, 2008).
Considerations for Governments in Developing a Master Repurchase Agreement, Third Edition, 2001.
"Do You Know Your Repurchase Agreements as Well as You Think?" GFOA's Treasury Management Newsletter, October 3, 2009, Volume 27, Number 10.
Sample Custodial Trust Agreement, GFOA.


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Lindsay Lohan Lands Celebrity Big Brother Gig, Filming Has BEGUN, What is the JUDGE Going to Say?!
By Misty Moore
Lindsay Lohan is getting ready for the next big thing in her floundering career. Well, first she's going to appear in the next issue of Playboy in her nude spread, then she's attempting to leave the country to shoot Celebrity Big Brother (UK). Can it happen? Well, the Daily Mail reports that the producers are already shooting her background footage for the show and have had all the meetings with her. The only hold up will be the law. Yeah, Lilo's little probation issue could make this all for nothing.
The producers of the show say,
"Lindsay would be an absolutely amazing signing for us. She's a fiery character too, so there are sure to be a some major clashes with other celebrities if we get her in the house."
I agree! She would be great there! But… yeah, the whole Judge Sautner issue….
"We hope that the courts will make a special allowance in this case. There aren't many more controlled  environments than the Big Brother house."
It's true. The judge would have more access to every move Lindsay makes if she was allowed to shoot the show. What kind of trouble could she get into? It's almost like she'd be in jail! Under surveillance 24/7! Hmmmm, do you think she will get to go?
If her probation officer gives her the permission to go, Lindsay could be out of the country starting in January….
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'This can't be real': NYC Dreamer speaks out on Supreme Court DACA ruling
By Josh Einiger
NEW YORK (WABC) -- A woman from Queens is celebrating Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to prevent President Trump from immediately ending DACA.
Carolina Fung Feng is one of the Dreamers who sued the Trump administration and won.
"This can't be real, but it is," Fung Feng said. "I was expecting a negative decision, it was taking too long to make a decision, the pandemic hit, the protest started, and I was just kind of like, what else can go wrong?"
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court said the Trump administration was arbitrary and capricious when it summarily ended DACA, the Obama Administration program that protects 700,000 young immigrants from deportation.
People who arrived as kids and never knew they needed documents, until, in many cases, it was time for college.
President Trump had vowed to end the program and deport the so-called Dreamers.
"Wow, this decision's amazing," said Sen. Charles Schumer. "I am so happy. These kids, their families, are amazing. I feel for them. And I think all of America does."
It was in fact Chief Justice John Roberts who sided with the liberals on the court and wrote the opinion that the White House has the authority to end DACA, but didn't provide a reasoned explanation for its action for why.
And the president wasn't too happy.
"Do you get the impression the Supreme Court doesn't like me?" he tweeted, calling the decision a "shotgun blast in the face of Republicans.
These horrible & politically charged decisions coming out of the Supreme Court are shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans or Conservatives. We need more Justices or we will lose our 2nd. Amendment & everything else. Vote Trump 2020!
There are an estimated 825,000 Dreamers in the U.S., including 27,000 healthcare workers on the front lines of COVID-19.
They've paid an estimated $4 billion in federal taxes.
Fung Feng's parents sent her to New York from Costa Rica when she was 12 so she could study in American schools. She would become one of several plaintiffs in the case that has saved the Dreamers - at least for now.
"We today stopped him from ending the DACA program, and if he tries again, we're going to stop him again," Fung Feng said.
This is the second time this week the majority conservative court ruled against the Trump Administration. On Monday, they made it illegal to fire someone based on their sexual orientation.
On Thursday night, the president made it a campaign argument, vowing to stack the court with "new justices."
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Rhoger Tyrants are normally seen as some of the more brutal enemies in Lords of the Fallen. Using long poleswords, they are normally assigned to patrolling certain areas making the fight against them almost mandatory. In comparison to normal enemies they cannot simply be killed by sword alone as they have their hearts placed in containers close to their location. In order to kill a Tyrant the player must first locate the jar containing the heart, collect it, and then kill the Tyrant.
General - When fighting the Tyrant it's best to use a clone to distract it, before searching through the area for it's heart. Along with that, keeping towards it's backside when fighting it will keep you from getting hit by most of it's attacks.
Casters - Keep your distance while fighting as it's polesword has a very long range.


This past Sunday we were fortunate enough to finally get a day of clear blue skies. I decided to go check out the Spring blossoms from atop some Beijing mountains. After several consecutive days PM2.5 levels above 300, I think the whole city was eager to venture out and take advantage of this breath of fresh air. After two hours of getting stuck in traffic on the outbound highways, I finally arrived at the foot of the mountain.
What a trek it was; there were different routes leading to an assortment of scenic areas, each more interesting than the next. I hopped along rock paths with young children and walked alongside seventy-year-old grannies who amazingly enough were climbing up the steepest hills with no problem. There were a few moments of absolute tranquility, looking out to the sea of warm colors below and hearing the wind lightly rustle through the Spring flowers. Even though I was alone in that foreign environment so far away from the bustling city center, I was able to find a feeling of peace, as if I were at home.
What is home, exactly? These days, it rarely points to a single physical location; it's more a feeling…of familiarity, a place of center. We associate "home" with the existence of safety, comfort, and those we love and trust.
For those of us who are out on our own, trekking, exploring, "fighting the fight," the concept of home is invaluable. It helps us to maintain our inner peace, and always have that center point to return to whenever we become physically or mentally stressed. For me, living alone in Beijing this past year has been really tough. With no relatives here and only a few friends who come and go, I am often adrift with no center. Even my own apartment does not feel like home, because when I am physically there, my spirit can still drift very far.
Therefore, I find it all-the-more important to find ways to let my mind rest. Sometimes that comes in the form of swimming twenty laps in the pool, sometimes in the form of cooking a feast (even if it means eating leftovers for a week), and sometimes in the form of singing a little personal karaoke with my nifty phone app. Funny enough, often times my mind can find respite when my body is engaged in some leisurely activity. Regardless of the action, the key is to focus my intents and energies on that present activity, to immerse myself fully in that experience and through which, find that place of peace, home.
At work I sit in front of the computer, when I go home I sit while having dinner, and then I sit to play video games or watch Anime. So when I take time to relax my mind I don't want to be still, I want to move!
Regardless of my aversion to sitting still, I believe that meditation is important and after I got more and more interested in Buddhist philosophy recently I decided to try again. The first step for me was to make it a habit. I knew that if I wanted this habit to stick, consistency was key. So I decided to start simple, every morning after I woke up I would take a shower first to make sure I am awake and immediately afterwards I would sit for 5 minutes.
After a week I noticed that 5 minutes began to feel too short; every time my alarm would go off I would think, "Hmm… I'd like to sit a while longer." So the next day I tried 8 minutes, and now 2 weeks later I am at 20-25 minutes.
The things I try to focus on are breathing and sound, because to me these are the easiest ones to pay attention to. My mind often wanders off, but I try not to worry about it. Here are some nice stories I read on how to deal with thoughts.
The first one I read in a Dutch Magazine called Happinez: Meditation is like sitting on a bench in a park. When you sit there you will see all kinds of things and people walk by, and in meditation these people are your thoughts. Instead of getting up and shake their hands just keep sitting on the bench and observe them as they pass.
The second one is from Ajahn Brahm, a Buddhist monk in Western Australia: Many people want to still the mind. But their technique is like holding a cup of water and trying to hold it very still and stable so that the water doesn't move. Instead, it is much easier to just LET GO of the cup… set it down and the water inside will naturally be still.
So where am I trying to get with meditation? And what am I trying to achieve? The answer to these two questions is "nowhere" and "nothing". I am not trying to get anywhere, I just want to be here… right here in the present moment.
Writing about this makes me want to meditate again! What are your experiences when you first started meditating? Share them below!
Much of classic Chinese thought holds that human nature is originally good. For example, take the first line from the "Three Character Classic," a text which summarizes the teachings of Confucianism for children: 人之初,性本善 (People at birth are naturally good).
But if we're so good, why are there so many 'bad' people out there? The next line gives us a hint: 性相近,习相远 (Our natures are similar, but our habits make us different). In this post, I want to talk about some of our habitual modes of communication which tend to take us away from our natural state of 'goodness' and bring us ever more pain and suffering.
The following three commonly used forms of communication are highly likely to lead to defensiveness and resistance from anyone (including yourself), making it more difficult to get in touch with our natural state of benevolence described by ancient Chinese wisdom.
"He's such a jerk." "You're not cut out for this." "I'm so stupid!" Labels, criticism, insults are all forms of judgment. On a theoretical level, all labels are inherently inaccurate because they don't take things like relativity and constant change into consideration (this is why our Daily Zen program focuses on observing rather than judging or labeling).
ve, which will make it ever more difficult to come to a mutually beneficial outcome.
Ate age 12, Jet Li won his first National Wushu Championship, where he competed against the best athletes from all over China. How were your martial skills at age 12? Compare them with Jet's.
At age 8, Mozart composed his first symphony, which I've embedded below. Listen to the song and think about your proudest achievement at the same age.
After trying this exercise, how are you feeling? Let that feeling guide your future decisions about making comparisons.
When we speak this way to ourselves or others, whoever we're speaking to only has two choices: to submit or rebel. If that person rebels, they won't do the thing they 'have to' do. If they submit, they'll do it, but with an energy of negativity and resentment.
In summary, if you'd like to be happy, you might be better off leaving moralistic judgments, comparisons, and language that denies responsibility out of your vocabulary.
Admittedly, it's hard to do a don't. I'll write another post soon on some alternatives to these negativity inducing forms of communication.
What has been your experience with communication like this? Do you enjoy being judged, compared, or blamed? Tell us your stories in the comments section.


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Most small businesses don't have the budget, expertise, staff or time to manage security programs on their own. It's a longstanding problem, as pointed out in a survey of small businesses conducted by the Ponemon Institute, which found that 55 percent of respondents experienced a data breach in 2013 and 53 percent of those experienced more than one breach in the same year.
Considering how quickly the threat landscape has evolved and the threat of breaches affecting all types of businesses from startups to financial giants in the last couple of years, many small businesses are still in dire straits.
It's common for small and medium businesses to think they are too small to be the targets of a cyber attack, especially when the term "breach" is often associated with retail, health and financial companies. But, even in those cases, smaller businesses become victims in the exploit process. According to the annual 2015 Security Pressures Report published by Trustwave, many small to medium businesses feel secure in their current security stance, with 68 percent stating they do not feel at risk of a cyber attack or data compromise. This false sense of security is a major mistake that makes smaller companies targets for cybercriminals.
Pressure on IT pros to buy technologies is rising but security solutions for small businesses are only effective if used and updated properly. According to the 2015 Security Pressures Report, 57 percent of small businesses feel pressure to purchase feature-filled technologies, yet 37 percent said they lack the resources to manage them.
The 2014 Trustwave Security on the Shelf report found that organizations spent $115 per user on security software in 2014 but of that $33 worth of this investment was either underutilized or never used at all. Simply having a security appliance or solution is not enough. Without proper management, additional attack vectors created by a growing network could be a company's downfall, as it loses visibility of traffic and activity within its systems.
2. Pressure to push projects out early.
According to the pressures report, 77 percent of respondents felt rushed to push out IT projects that weren't security ready. This is a big reason why vulnerabilities are commonplace in applications and other IT rollouts. The in-house IT team is so focused on completing projects on time that security becomes an afterthought, leaving them open to attack.
Companies need to build products with security in mind from their inception. As security continues to be a major concern for business and consumers alike, it has become a primary differentiator for any product. A secure product will be more coveted than a vulnerable product that was quick to market.
3. Protection efforts in the wrong place.
While many businesses focus their protection efforts on external threats, 48 percent of respondents considered internal threats more pressure-inducing than external threats. Small businesses can have a "family feeling," but internal threats can still exist, no matter how much you trust one another. Vet and educate personnel to avoid both intended and inadvertent threats.
The cloud holds many uncertainties for small businesses. The pressures report reveals that 43 percent of small businesses rated the cloud as the emerging technology that posed the greatest security risk to their organization.
In reality, the cloud is an efficient way to bolster operations for small and medium businesses, if launched correctly. Smaller businesses have to take their time in setting up a successful cloud deployment, with cloud-specific security measures that are distributed and localized. Pervasive encryption of data or third-party management also helps avoid possible issues.
Password education is crucial. Despite the fact that easy-to-crack passwords contributed to nearly one-third of all breaches Trustwave investigated in 2013, only 9 percent of security pros cited weak passwords as the insider activity they felt most pressure to fend off. IT and security pros need to instill the need for strong credentials and even two-factor authentication.
In short, having a security-first mentality can pay dividends to small business and ensure long-term success. Don't assume being smaller exempts companies from being victims. Make security a priority and avoid the costly aftermath of a possible breach.


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