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Lana Green
First Responders Face Greater Risk as COVID-19 Cases Rise
Disclaimer: Out of fear of retaliation and an impact on her current standing at her place of employment, one source asked to retract her real name. For this purpose, the name Joan Evins was used when referring to the source.
Joan Evins, an x-ray technician at an outpatient center in Los Angeles County, feared for her colleague's life. Her colleague—Charlene—is a technician with Scleroderma, an autoimmune disease that affects the skin and internal organs. Despite her health risks, Charlene was assigned by her supervisor to work with a patient that Evins was confident had COVID-19.
When Evins first evaluated the patient, the patient explained that her doctor had recently tested her for COVID-19 and that she was experiencing multiple symptoms of the virus. After Evins informed her supervisor, the supervisor proceeded to get personal protective equipment (PPE). Charlene, however, could not fit into the regular masks provided on site.
"My supervisor reaches up to grab the N95 mask, and I realize 'crap Charlene can't fit in that, her face is too small' and I said 'Ellie, did Charlene ever get her N95 Masks from the hospital' and she said no. I had to do the patient," said Evins.
Although healthcare workers are usually fitted for an N95 mask once a year, Evins explained that she had not been fitted with a mask for over six years at her outpatient center. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires all N95 masks to be properly fitted initially and annually to the employee's face. According to OSHA, employers must meet the proper Respiratory Protection Standards "whenever N95s are required." However, the administration recently relaxed measures in response to the pandemic and the subsequent shortage of PPE, allowing the reuse of N95s when alternatives are not available.
"When this first all happened, I raised my hand and said 'send me to the hospital man. I'll go work with these patients' I'm not afraid of work. I'll totally get in there and do what needs to be done, but the minute you don't protect me, I'm out," said Evins.
At the beginning of the pandemic, there was a shortage of protective gear. "We weren't allowed to wear any masks. The masks for us were locked up," said Barbara Snolinski, an x-ray technician that works at a hospital in San Bernardino County. When asked why this was the case, Evins responded that the hospital feared people would take the protective gear home and locked the PPE up to prevent theft.
In March, state governors and White House officials struggled to deal with the continuing shortage of PPE, with first responders compelled to reuse essentials as basic as gloves, masks, and gowns. Prior to the pandemic, China made half of the world's face masks. After the outbreak, countries like China and Germany started hoarding masks. Additionally, even when masks are available, their scarcity has caused prices to skyrocket, putting more stress on hospitals. In response to rising cases and shortages of PPE, healthcare workers began protesting their conditions by asking for more PPE and protective measures.
Snolinski confirmed that the protection of first responders was worse towards the beginning of the pandemic. Snolinski gave an example of chaos towards the beginning of the pandemic of workers who had received their flu shot and carried stickers as a badge of confirmation. These workers were written up and reprimanded for wearing masks in the initial stages of the outbreak.
"We didn't know what we were doing with this pandemic, and then they were finding out how contagious it was and how people were dying from it, now everyone is required to wear a mask," said Snolinski.
A slew of new reports confirm that healthcare workers throughout the U.S. are being fired after raising health and safety concerns, which implies that there is likely to be a spike in wrongful termination lawsuits. Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, employers cannot fire or discipline employees for raising health and safety concerns. OSHA, an agency created by this very statute, prevents employer retaliation involving: "firing or laying off, blacklisting, demoting, denying overtime or promotion, denying benefits, intimidation, making threats, reassignment, and reduction in pay or hours." Medical workers are also protected by the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, which makes it unlawful for employers to discriminate against employees for collectively seeking better wages and conditions, whether through a union or without.
As people struggle to pay rent and survive amid rising unemployment, governors have started to reopen their states, some without retaining any social distancing restrictions. Before opening states and specific counties, the federal and state governments must consider the implications of a higher case count on the healthcare infrastructure. Without a proper plan to retain PPE protections and minimize stress on the system, healthcare practitioners will likely continue to be exposed to dangerous conditions and a choice between leaving work, standing up for better protection, or bearing the worst of the pandemic. Despite the legal protections of employment law, healthcare workers are still afraid of retaliation for raising concerns, and hospitals remain unprepared to handle the inevitable surge of coronavirus cases. The Defense Production Act does not alter the fact that the supply of PPE is extremely low, and it will be difficult for the U.S. government to revamp sluggish supply chains. Additionally, as in any market where supply is low and demand is high, N95 masks are now selling at a higher price than before. According to a report published in March by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General, hospitals will likely wait 3-6 months to obtain just one PPE order.
When asked how she would respond to increased cases and shortages, Evins replied, "I'm off now until July… [due to underlying health issues]… and I'm the one that kind of initiated that because I'm thinking these people are making decisions and they're not really protecting the employee. The minute you stop protecting me as an employee, I'm out of there."
Lana Green is a second-year Journalism and Political Science double-major in the School of Communications and the School of Public Affairs. She is a Managing Editor for the Agora.
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For the first time, the U.S. allocates big money for Animal Road Crossings
Published January 31, 2022 at 12:04 AM HST
An estimated 1 million animals are killed on U.S. roads every year. Mostly, that's because of vehicle collisions. But roads can also kill in more subtle ways. NPR's Nathan Rott explains.
NATHAN ROTT, BYLINE: Mountain lion researchers Seth Riley and Audra Huffmeyer started noticing something troubling last year in the cats they were observing in Southern California's Santa Monica Mountains.
AUDRA HUFFMEYER: Over the course of one year, our combined efforts identified nine individuals with reproductive abnormalities or physical abnormalities.
ROTT: Mountain lions were seen with kinked tails; others with something called cryptorchidism.
HUFFMEYER: It is when one or both of your testes fail to drop during puberty.
ROTT: Huffmeyer, a researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, decided to go deeper, looking at five deceased males. All of them had reduced fertility. For Riley, a biologist with the National Park Service, it was like an oh-no moment.
SETH RILEY: We've known that there was low genetic diversity. I mean, we knew even before we started the studies that that was sort of a possibility, right? But we were kind of hoping not to get to the point where we were starting to see these physical manifestations. And it definitely ramps up the urgency of doing something about it.
ROTT: The problems Huffmeyer and Riley observed were related to inbreeding. Mountain lions in this small coastal range were and had been mating with close relatives, not because they wanted to, but because they had no other choice. They had been hemmed in and cut off, trapped by subdivisions, shopping malls and roads like Highway 101.
BETH PRATT: The 101 freeway has become this impenetrable barrier for wildlife.
ROTT: Beth Pratt is with the National Wildlife Federation. A mountain lion is tattooed on her left arm. We're standing just north of the 10-lane freeway in an open patch of ground while a red-tailed hawk circles overhead.
PRATT: This is really deceptive because you're looking at a lot of open space right here, yet the Kardashians live right over there in Calabasas. And, you know, you have 10 million people surrounding us. And then this really busy freeway - 300- to 400,000 cars a day.
ROTT: A report by the United Nations' Convention on Biological Diversity found that human development, not climate change or consumption, is the biggest driver of extinction in the world. Our sprawl is driving species out of their habitats or, in the case of the Southern California mountain lions, constricting them in place.
PRATT: You know, we don't think of how animals need to move.
ROTT: Pratt has spent the last decade working on a solution. And in just over a month, it's going to happen. Construction workers and engineers will break ground on a 200-foot long wildlife crossing, a bridge for wildlife, complete with sound barriers and vegetation.
PRATT: We're putting in the first urban crossing in the world of this scale.
ROTT: The goal is to reconnect a fragmented landscape in one of the most urbanized areas on the planet.
PRATT: You're going to see this ecological transformation and that part of it is going to be over one of the busiest freeways in the world - that, to me, is just such a hopeful statement for what's possible.
ROTT: And there's new hope that many more projects are to come. In the recently passed infrastructure bill, Congress allocated $350 million for wildlife crossings. Renee Callahan, executive director of ARC Solutions - ARC standing for Animal Road Crossings - says it's the first time ever the federal government has allocated big money to the issue.
RENEE CALLAHAN: We know that wildlife vehicle collisions cost Americans close to $10 billion - and that's, you know, billion with a B - every single year.
ROTT: So, she says, it's an investment well worth making. Research from Montana State University has found that wildlife crossings, if used with other infrastructure, like roadside fencing, can reduce animal vehicle collisions by 97%.
CALLAHAN: To my knowledge, there's not a whole lot of infrastructure investments out there that you can make that are going to be that effective in terms of fixing the issue that they're targeted at.
ROTT: Callahan's hope is that eventually, crossings for wildlife will be baked into all infrastructure plans going forward.
Nathan Rott, NPR News, Los Angeles.
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Q: Could not able to trace how Map is working in C++ In this below code, instead of seeing output as
0 -> 1 2
1 -> 2 3
..
..
99 ->100 101

I am getting output as,
0 -> 100 101
1 -> 100 101
...
99 -> 100 101

Please help me how to resolve this problem, where exactly it is going wrong?
While debugging I found, in first iteration it stores
0 -> 1 2

2nd iteration it it updates like,
0 -> 2 3
1 -> 2 3

Why?
class abc{
    public:
        int x, y;
};
std::map<int, abc*> MAP;
int main()
{
    abc *ab;
    ab = new abc();
    int i = 0;
    for(i = 0; i < 100; i++)
    {
        ab->x = i + 1;
        ab->y = i + 2;
        MAP.insert(std::pair<int, abc*>(i, ab));
    }
    map<int, abc*>::iterator it;
    for(it = MAP.begin(); it != MAP.end(); it++)
    {
        cout << it->first << "->" << it->second->x <<" "<< it->second->y << endl;
    }
    system("pause");
    return 0;
}

A: ab = new abc();

You have only one abc allocated. And you keep modifying it in the loop and reinserting the pointer to it. So all the second values of the map are pointing to the same single abc.

abc *ab;
// ab = new abc();

//
//
for(i = 0; i < 100; i++)
{

    ab = new abc();
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    ab->x = i + 1;
    ab->y = i + 2;
    MAP.insert(std::pair<int, abc*>(i, ab));
}

A: You are always refering to the same address with :
abc *ab;
ab = new abc();

A: abc *ab;
ab = new abc();
int i = 0;
for(i = 0; i < 100; i++)
{
    ab->x = i + 1;
    ab->y = i + 2;
    MAP.insert(std::pair<int, abc*>(i, ab));
}

Since you store pointer to class objects into the map. If you do the above, inside your for loop,you keep changing the values of the pointed object, not storing new objects into map.
Try the following:
abc *ab;
int i = 0;
for(i = 0; i < 100; i++)
{

    ab = new abc();
    ab->x = i + 1;
    ab->y = i + 2;
    MAP.insert(std::pair<int, abc*>(i, ab));
}

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Blog: ryanlobo.blogspot.com Website: ryanlobo.net
As a photographer and filmmaker, Ryan Lobo uses his exquisite lens to capture humanity and nature at their most open and vulnerable moments.
Why you should listen
During a recent shoot on the streets and beaches of Chennai, Ryan Lobo turned his lens on men and women in relaxed, after-work poses. His starkly beautiful black-and-white photos, Lobo writes, reveal what it's like "to be young, employed and alive in Chennai today, regardless of one's language, economic class or social skills." This follows the theme of Lobo's career: breaking down stereotypes while reframing the landscape.
Since 2001, Lobo has been taking haunting stills of everything from Yakuza tattoos and the illegal organ trade to the Indian middle class. He's worked as a field producer on many nature-oriented shows for National Geographic and founded Mad Monitor Productions, a production company based in Bangalore and Washington, D.C. There's no scientific, economic or sociopolitical boundary Lobo isn't willing to cross. His intense fieldwork continues to illuminate his traveling (you can read about his journeys and see photographs on his blog) and a forthcoming book project.
"I have attempted to delve beneath clichés and with photographs tell stories about the secrets, trials and ethos of urban Chennai." — Ryan Lobo
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Photographing the hidden story
Posted Dec 2009
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We asked an international group of 12 artists, designers, photographers and activists to provide one image that encapsulates what inequality means to them -- and to explain their selection. The results are stunning and thought-provoking. Warning: some of them might make you cry.
Photographing the hidden story: Ryan Lobo on TED.com
Ryan Lobo has traveled the world, taking photographs that tell stories of unusual human lives. In this haunting talk, he reframes controversial subjects with empathy, so that we see the pain of a Liberian war criminal, the quiet strength of UN women peacekeepers and the perseverance of Delhi's underappreciated firefighters. (Recorded at TEDIndia, November 2009, […]


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Aplidium cottrelli is een zakpijpensoort uit de familie van de Polyclinidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1957 door Brewin.

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Q: golang json serialization/deserialization of recursive data model Lets say I have:
type IObject interface {
}

type Item struct {
    Description string
    Data        []byte
}

type FunctionX1 struct {
    Object IInclusionObject
}

type FunctionX2 struct {
    Object1 IInclusionObject
    Object2 IInclusionObject
}

I would like to be able to serialization/deserialization a model, where Item, FunctionX1 FunctionX2 they all implement IObject and they could be pointing to each other arbitrarily deep.
Note that I do not want: FunctionX1{Item{"foo", []byte("bar")}} to be serialized as:
"object": {
    "Description": "foo"
    "Data": ...
}

but rather:
"FunctionX1": {
    "item": {
        "Description": "foo"
        "Data": ...
    }
}

Do I need to do my own JSON marshaller - it does not seem that I can use the existing one.
Related questions in case I need my own. Is there JSON prettifier where I can stream valid but randomly formatted JSON and it to output pretty version (note the JSON could be significantly large - I do not want to generate, parse generate formatted).

A: With Wrappers (struct or map)
You may use struct tags to map fields of structs to different names in/from JSON. So with this you can change "Object" to "item":
type FunctionX1 struct {
    Object IInclusionObject `json:"item"`
}

But you still need a wrapper struct or map if you want "FunctionX1" to appear in the JSON text. For example:
f := FunctionX1{Item{"foo", []byte("bar")}}

if data, err := json.Marshal(map[string]interface{}{"FunctionX1": f}); err != nil {
    panic(err)
} else {
    fmt.Println(string(data))
}

Output:
{"FunctionX1":{"item":{"Description":"foo","Data":"YmFy"}}}

Or with a wrapper struct:
type Wrapper struct {
    FunctionX1 FunctionX1
}

f := FunctionX1{Item{"foo", []byte("bar")}}

if data, err := json.Marshal(Wrapper{f}); err != nil {
    panic(err)
} else {
    fmt.Println(string(data))
}

Output is the same:
{"FunctionX1":{"item":{"Description":"foo","Data":"YmFy"}}}

If you want pretty formatted JSON, you may use json.MarshalIndent() to do the marshaling:
if data, err := json.MarshalIndent(Wrapper{f}, "", "  "); err != nil {
    panic(err)
} else {
    fmt.Println(string(data))
}

Output:
{
  "FunctionX1": {
    "item": {
      "Description": "foo",
      "Data": "YmFy"
    }
  }
}

Try all the examples on the Go Playground.
With Custom Marshaling
If you don't want to utilize a wrapper struct or map, you need to use custom marshalling, but it's quite simple:
type FunctionX1 struct {
    Object IInclusionObject `json:"item"`
}

func (f FunctionX1) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
    type FunctionX1_ FunctionX1
    return json.Marshal(map[string]interface{}{"FunctionX1": FunctionX1_(f)})
}

Effectively we moved the wrapping into the MarshalJSON() method, so others marshaling values of FunctionX1 don't have to.
Testing it:
f := FunctionX1{Item{"foo", []byte("bar")}}

if data, err := json.Marshal(f); err != nil {
    panic(err)
} else {
    fmt.Println(string(data))
}

if data, err := json.MarshalIndent(f, "", "  "); err != nil {
    panic(err)
} else {
    fmt.Println(string(data))
}

Note that the new FunctionX1_ type inside MarshalJSON() is to avoid infinite "recursion".
Output:
{"FunctionX1":{"item":{"Description":"foo","Data":"YmFy"}}}
{
  "FunctionX1": {
    "item": {
      "Description": "foo",
      "Data": "YmFy"
    }
  }
}

Try this one on the Go Playground.


Alaska elections officials are struggling to put methods in place to translate the state's election ballot into an array of diverse Alaska Native languages. The effort to respond to a couple of court settlements has already resulted in materials in seven different Yup'ik dialects and some Athabascan Gwich'in languages. The state, expanding its effort beyond the court order, now includes a couple of Inupiaq languages. The effort is the subject of a conference that is going on this week at the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage. The law requires written ballot materials in minority languages, but one of the big issues is that many Alaska Native speakers never learned to read their Native language.
Full Article: State elections division holds Alaska Native language summit.


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package org.fastcatsearch.ir.common;

public enum IndexingType {
	FULL, ADD, FULL_DOCUMENT_STORE, FULL_INDEX_BUILD;
}

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You may have heard stories of immediate answers to prayer. A destitute family thanks the Lord for a non-existent meal, and someone knocks at the door with food. A man with an empty bank account prays for help, and immediately finds an unexpected check in the mail.
Christ's second utterance from the cross marks the first and immediate, glorious fulfillment of His prayer for His killers' forgiveness. It shows how generously that forgiveness was bestowed, even on the most unlikely of recipients.
From Mockery to Penitence
As the hours of agony passed on the cross, one of the two thieves who had mocked Christ earlier now had a change of heart. What prompted the change is not mentioned. Perhaps the thief heard and was touched by Jesus' prayer for mercy, realizing that it applied to him. Whatever prompted his turnaround, it was a tremendous miracle.
The man was undoubtedly one of the most thoroughly degenerate people on the scene. He and his confederate were career criminals, men whose lives had been devoted to thievery and mayhem. The deep-down bad-to-the-bone wickedness of their character was shown by the fact that they used their dying strength to join in the taunting of Christ. They obviously knew of His innocence because the repentant thief finally rebuked his cohort, saying, "This man has done nothing wrong" (Luke 23:41). Yet until one of them repented, they both were heaping ridicule and scorn on Him anyway.
But there came a point when one thief's taunting turned to silence, and the silence turned to repentance, and the thief's heart was utterly changed. As he studied Jesus, suffering all that abuse so patiently—never reviling or insulting His tormentors—the thief began to see that this Man on the center cross was indeed who He claimed to be. The proof of his repentance is seen in his immediate change of behavior, as his derisive insults turned to words of praise for Christ.
First he rebuked his partner in crime: "Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed are suffering justly, for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong" (Luke 23:40–41). In saying that much, he confessed his own guilt, and he also acknowledged the justice of the penalty he had been given. He affirmed the innocence of Christ as well.
Then he turned to Jesus and confessed Him as Lord: "Jesus, remember me when You come in Your kingdom" (Luke 23:42).
That confession of Jesus as Lord and King was immediately followed by the second of Jesus' seven last sayings: "And He said to him, 'Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise'" (Luke 23:43).
No sinner was ever given more explicit assurance of salvation. This most unlikely of saints was received immediately and unconditionally into the Savior's kingdom. The incident is one of the greatest biblical illustrations of the truth of justification by faith. This man had done nothing to merit salvation. Indeed, he was in no position to do anything meritorious. Already gasping in the throes of his own death agonies, he had no hope of ever earning Christ's favor. But realizing that he was in an utterly hopeless situation, the thief sought only a modest token of mercy from Christ: "Remember me."
His request was a final, desperate, end-of-his-rope plea for a small mercy he knew he did not deserve. It echoes the plaintive cry of the publican, who "was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, the sinner!'" (Luke 18:13). For either man to be granted eternal life and received into the kingdom, it had to be on the merits of another. And yet in both cases, Jesus gave full and immediate assurance of complete forgiveness and eternal life. Those are classic proofs that justification is by faith alone.
Jesus' words to the dying thief conveyed to him an unqualified promise of full forgiveness, covering every evil deed he had ever done. He wasn't expected to atone for his own sins, do penance, or perform any ritual. He wasn't consigned to purgatory—though if there really were such a place, and if the doctrines that invariably accompany belief in purgatory were true, this man would have been assured a long stay there. But instead, his forgiveness was full, and free, and immediate: "Today you shall be with Me in Paradise."
That was all Christ said to him. But it was all the thief needed to hear. He was still suffering unspeakable physical torment, but the misery in his soul was now gone. For the first time in his life, he was free from the burden of his sin. The Savior, at his side, was bearing that sin for him. And the thief was now clothed in Christ's perfect righteousness. Soon they would be in Paradise together. The thief had Christ's own word on it.
(Adapted from The Murder of Jesus.)
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Arkady is back home for the summer with his ideological friend Bazarov sprouting nihilism. Bazarov prompted debates and discussions among the otherwise genial household and also acts as a catalyst for a few relationships within the household. The secondary plot of Bazarov and his parents is the other focus.
The adaptation by Brian Friel is snappy and the philosophical debates are especially exciting. Though the condensation of the plot can feel a bit abrupt especially in the second half but the beautifully moving ending ensures it ends on a high. Importantly, the exploration of the relationships between the fathers and sons is concrete and provides a grounded commentary on the subject. The design by Rob Howell, similar to his previous work in Philadelphia Here I Come at the Donmar, uses angular wooden planks to exaggerated perspective and adds depth of the stage. Though it was effective for the previous production, it is overly fussy and gimmicky here and jars with the period of the piece.
Joshua James as Arkady is brilliantly devotional to his friend and has a charming naivety. Seth Numrich as Bazarov is suitably arrogant but has a believable self assuredness that is also fallible. The rest of the cast are all outstanding especially Tim Mcmullan, Siobhan Mcsweeney, Elaine Cassidy and Susan Engel.


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Collaboration and coordination with research partners continue to expand Airport Technology Research & Development (ATR)'s research capabilities for the advancement of aviation technologies. Working with others enables us, and our partners, to maximize resources while also leveraging subject matter expertise and capabilities gained through technical interchanges, joint research projects, and committee participation.
ATR partners with airports nationwide to deploy test sets and conduct research activities in real world environments. ATR collaborates with airports across the nation, representing diversity in size and geographic location. The following list represents a collection of airport partners.
Boston Logan International Airport (BOS)
Casa Grande Municipal Airport (CGZ)
Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW)
Fort Lauderdale International Airport (FLL)
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)
LaGuardia International Airport (LGA)
Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR)
Penn Yan Airport (PEO)
Phoenix Skyharbor International Airport(PHX)
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEATAC)
The FAA's COE Program is a long-term, cost-sharing partnership between academia, industry, and government. ATR works with center members and affiliates to conduct research in airspace and airport planning and design, environment, and aviation safety
Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE)
Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment (ASCENT)
National Center of Excellence for Aviation Operators (NEXTOR)
Partnership to Enhance General Aviation Safety, Accessibility and Sustainability (PEGASAS)
ATR collaborates with other Federal agencies to facilitate information exchange and maximize use of federal resources to meet research goals as outlined in the National Aviation Research Plan and the RD&T Annual Modal Research Plan. The following list is a sample of our Federal partners.
Edwards Air Force Base
Tyndall Air Force Base & the Air Force Civil Engineering Center
Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate
Naval Air Station Whidbey Island
Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)
USACE Philadelphia District
U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center (ERDC)
Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP)
FAA Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center
FAA Office of Airport Safety and Standards
FAA Aviation Research Division
U.S. Department of Transportation Volpe Center
National Institute of Standards and Testing (NIST)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
ATR works with industry to identify the operational drivers and challenges that will prioritize research, as well as support U.S.-based innovation and the safe and reliable implementation of technologies. The following is a representative list of industry partners.
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA)
Airports Consultants Council (ACC)
American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE)
American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA)
ARFF Working Group
Asphalt Institute
Auburn University/Airfield Asphalt Pavement Technology Program (AAPTP)
DFW Fire Training Research Center
Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESALC)
Iowa State/Airport Concrete Pavement Technology Program (ACPTP)
National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA)
National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO)
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
ASTM Committee E17 on Vehicle-Pavement Systems
ATR is a global leader, informing International Civil Aviation (ICAO) guidance and the safe and sustainable growth of the global aviation system. ATR researchers collaborate with international experts and organizations by presenting research findings and sharing research techniques.
Airports Council International (ACI)
Directorate General for Civil Aviation (DGAC)
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
Korea Airports Corporation (KAC)
L'ente Nazionale Per L'Aviazaione Civile (ENAC)
FAA collaborates with academia on exploratory research to support research goals. The following is a representative list of our academic partners.


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Q: Hibernate @OneToOne gives error I have two entities Item.
They are linked with entity Link
Each item can have many links, but link is a connection between two items.
The problem is that the order of items is important. One is always the first item and other is second item.
So my entities are like this:
Item
   private Collection<Link> links = new ArrayList<Link>();
    @OneToOne(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, mappedBy = ????)
    public Collection<Link> getLinks() {
       return links;
   }

Link
private Item firstItem;
private Item secondItem;

@OneToOne(mappedBy = ???)
public Item getFirstItem() {
    return firstItem;
}

@OneToOne(mappedBy = ???)
public Item getSecondItem() {
    return secondItem;
}

What should i put to mappedBy?? Because pseudomapping for Item should me smthin like this:
mappedBy = { "firstItem", "secondItem") }
At first I had no mapping and this gives error:
 @OneToOne or @ManyToOne on foo.bar.Item.links references an unknown entity: java.util.Collection

A: You have to create two different collections with mappedBy pointing to firstItem and secondItem, respectively.
If you need to view them as a single collection, do it in code.
Also as already noted you need to use @OneToMany/@ManyToOne instead of @OneToOne. @ManyToOne doesn't need mappedBy.


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Transfer credits from other regionally accredited institutions will be granted in full, provided that the courses taken correspond to work offered at St. Andrews. Courses passed with grades of C- or above are accepted in transfer. A maximum of 65 credits may be transferred from a two-year and/or technical college; a maximum of 90 credits may be transferred from a four-year institution or from a combination of the two. Final authority for transcript evaluation rests with the Office of the Registrar. It is the prerogative of individual departments to decide what previously taken courses will count towards a major or licensure program. Students are responsible for conferring with their academic advisors to determine the most appropriate means of satisfying major/licensure requirements.
St. Andrews and the North Carolina Community College System have an articulation agreement. An incoming transfer student who has earned an Associate in Arts or Science from a member of the North Carolina Community College System may expect to be a junior (up to 65 credits) upon admission if the student's overall grade point average is 2.0 and grades of "C" or better in all ICAA courses have been earned. New transfers coming from the NC Community College System with an Associate in Arts or Science will be considered to have fulfilled our lower-division, institution-wide general education requirements. Students must have an overall grade point average of 2.0 and have earned a grade of C or better on all general education courses.
Students that do not complete a degree at a North Carolina Community College but who have fulfilled the General Education requirements will be considered to have fulfilled our lower division, institution-wide general education requirements, provided the student's overall G.P.A. is 2.0 and all coursework has earned a grade of C or better. Those students will be awarded credit for any general education course.
St. Andrews is under no obligation, legal or otherwise, to accept academic credits of any institution except under reciprocal agreements.
Students seeking a second undergraduate degree are welcome at St. Andrews. If a student has a Bachelor's degree from another college, he or she may earn a second Bachelor's from St. Andrews. St. Andrews graduates may come back as special non-degree seeking students and take additional courses.
A student may earn a Bachelor's degree from St. Andrews if he or she has received a Bachelor's degree from another accredited college within the previous five years, by completing the following: all graduation requirements for a major, SAGE 381, SAGE 450, and complete a minimum of 30 credits at St. Andrews. If it has been longer than five years since a student received a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college other than St. Andrews, the student may be required to complete additional St. Andrews General Education Courses in addition to the requirements listed above.
Contact the Office of the Registrar at 910-277-5220.


Coppery tresses of birch streaming in the wind. The heavy frost which had built up over several days was thawing as a warmer breeze came in, making the birch glisten in the sun. I love how the tresses adorn this most graceful of trees, and her wintry silver and copper colours.
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It is very heartening to note that we are creating a magazine for the KMIT students. I hope that this initiative will continue forever.
At the outset , I would like to wish all the students a Happy Deepavali. In a few months we will wish farewell to the 2014-2015 batch and welcome a new batch in our midst.It is perhaps a good time to think about the 4 years we spend in an engineering college. What does one want at the end of four years? Is it a good percentage , a good job or simply a good time? I am sure all of you will agree when I say that we want all the three. But is that all we want from the 4 years at KMIT ? I would say the most important accomplishment I would seek from these four years is the building up of character , a confident person should emerge from within you, ready to take up the challenges of the new digital economy ; a person who is committed to honesty and integrity and powered by passion and zeal.
India is a nation which is having a rebirth . There is new government, a new ideology and of course a new set of challenges.
You as students must see in this new rebirth a new opportunity and strive to become substantial contributors to this new awakening.We need many of you to become entrepreneurs and lead this country toward its destiny. A destiny in which India will be a nation where unemployment , hunger, violence will be removed from the center stage of social discourse and we can become a truly developed economy.
We all love music! It was always a fantasy to see how piano and musical keyboards work.That's how we set out to do a basic music instrument using IC 555 timer chip.


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Testicular self-examination (TSE) can help in the timely diagnosis of the disease at an early stage.
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It is an interesting process to go through in getting your house painted. It is the equivalent of giving your home a face-lift. It will leave you and your house sensation refreshed, clean and like new. Although it can often be a problem to have your home feeling like a work site, completion item is always fulfilling.
The most vital part of a paint job is how you take care of the paint finish after completion. The maintenance of the interior and exterior of a structure post paint works is important to keeping your home or business looking like brand-new for longer.
Advised time to clean after a paint job is 2 weeks after application of the last top coat– this is to get rid of any dust which has actually been collected.
This indicates they can be periodically cleaned up with a milk soap water service. Utilizing a sponge and mild soap service lightly scrub the locations that have any light discolorations or marks. Note that older and persistent discolorations are challenging to get rid of and ought to not be constantly scrubbed hard as this might result in permanent damage to the paint work.
To prevent persistent spots make sure any stains are tidied up immediately to prevent drying up and becoming long-term.
For areas prone to dirt and marks, e.g. Children's spaces, it is advised to get a single coat of paint done every two years approximately.
It is important that you regularly examine your walls for any indications of peeling paint as this can be the first sign of more serious problems such as water damage or seepage problems. As quickly as you observe any problem locations it is important to get the expert advice from a painting professional and address and damage right away to prevent more severe problems.
Any areas exposed to sunshine, specifically windows and door frames, will lose shine with time. It is recommended to apply a single coat every 2 years to keep them looking fresh.
Ensure you frequently examine the exterior of your property to guarantee you are on top of any modifications or abnormalities. Whilst gardening or pottering around the yard make sure to do a visual examination of your exterior. If you observe any concerns such as peeling paint or other issues that are calling out for repair make sure to have an expert specialist take a look at the problem and recommend ways to move on without having to wait up until the problem gets any even worse.
All window sills and door frames have to be looked for bubbles and fading. These features may need to be sanded back and re-painted with one coat to keep that brand name brand-new appearance every 2 years.
After you have looked for any issue locations or repairs it is necessary to note how dirty the outside is. It is important to sometimes wash down your exterior as dirt begins to gather. The more regularly you do this, the less the build up. Yearly washing is typically specified as a condition of service warranties provided by paint manufacturers and painting applicators.
Please note that high-pressure washing can in fact damage your paint finish. It is advised to perform regular pressure cleaning with your garden hose and a soft brush to loosen dirt. This will brighten your paint surface considerably.
Be proactive in your exterior upkeep. This will guarantee your paint job lasts more years and will reduce the requirement for frequent re-painting.
Failure to carry out proactive upkeep, especially the failure to annually wash outside surfaces might void the warranty supplied by the paint manufacturer and painting applicators.


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Camilla Cavendish leaves Sunday Times to work for David Cameron at Number 10
Cabinet Office phone records search reveals Lib Dem MP Alistair Carmichael as source of Sturgeon memo leak
Sun's Anthony France guilty of misconduct in public office offence after paper paid policeman £22k for stories
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A Sun journalist has been found guilty of paying a police officer for stories.
Sun crime reporter Anthony France, 41, from Watford, cultivated a "corrupt relationship" with PC Timothy Edwards over four years, his trial at the Old Bailey heard.
While working at Heathrow Airport in SO15 counter-terrorism command, PC Edwards, 49, sold 38 stories and titbits of information to the journalist in exchange for more than £22,000.
France's mother burst into tears as he left the dock after being found guilty of aiding and abetting Pc Edwards to commit misconduct in a public office between March 2008 and July 2011.
He will be sentenced on 29 May at 10am.
Before adjourning for sentencing, Judge Timothy Pontius said: "I emphasise very firmly that the fact I'm releasing you on bail should not serve as any sort of indication of what the sentence will be."
The judge said he would "keep an open mind" until he heard representations from his lawyer.
The court heard that Edwards passed on details ranging from airline pilots being breathalysed to a drunken model flying into a rage after "catching her boyfriend romping with a woman next to him".
But France denied wrongdoing, telling jurors he had never been advised by anyone at the Sun that paying a police officer – or any public official – might be against the law.
Asked what he would have done if he thought what he was doing might be illegal, he said: "I would never have got involved with it. I would have told him to get lost. I'm a man of good character not involved in crime."
The court heard that Edwards was "given" to France as a source. After they met at a pub in 2008, he was told by a colleague "I've spoken to a lawyer and it's fine," he said.
France also told jurors of his difficulties working for a "homophobic bully" in the office who stripped him of his crime reporter title in 2010.
The jury in France's trial was not told that Edwards pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office and was jailed for two years in 2014.
France was the first journalist to stand trial for paying a public official since the Director of Public Prosecutions carried out a root-and-branch review of the controversial Operation Elveden cases.
He is the first of three journalists left to stand trial after DPP Alison Saunders announced in April that the Crown Prosecution Service was ditching nine out of 12 outstanding cases.
The move came after the Court of Appeal quashed the conviction of ex-News of the World crime reporter Lucy Panton and gave fellow NoW reporter Ryan Sabey leave to appeal – the only others to be found guilty following a trial.
France's legal team indicated it was too soon to say whether he would launch an appeal.
The jury deliberated for about four hours before convicting him.
France is now the only conviction after trial of a journalist for the crime misconduct in public office prosecuted under Operation Elveden which stands.
Former Sunday Mirror journalist Dan Evans was convicted after admitting the offence.
Some 13 journalists have been found not guilty by juries.
The Crown Prosecution Service indicated after its review that it was treated cases involving police officers more seriously than those involving other public officials.
France's friends and colleagues who supported him throughout the trial fell silent as the guilty verdict was delivered by the jury foreman.
Afterwards, detective chief superintendent Gordon Briggs, who leads Operation Elveden, said: "France and Edwards were in a long-term corrupt relationship.
"Edwards was not a whistleblower. He obtained confidential information in the course of his duties and leaked it for financial gain.
"Corrupt relationships of this kind undermine confidence in the police service and harm the public interest. Officers found guilty of acting in this way merit criminal sanction.
"Journalists who encourage or aid and abet their corrupt actions and do so without reasonable excuse or justification are equally culpable."
Anthony France's Operation Elveden acquittal ends a shameful episode in the history of UK criminal justice system
Elveden unravels: After four years and 34 arrested/charged journalists, one conviction stands
Sun six trial jury starts deliberations after nearly three months of evidence
The accused: At least 64 UK journalists arrested and/or charged since April 2011


Pencoed Primary School is an exciting place to be at the moment. To support with the development of IT throughout the school we have appointed some Year 6 pupils to be iLeaders. The pupils were given an explanation of the roles and then invited to apply. After a rigorous selection procedure, our first 10 iLeaders have been appointed and are looking forward to getting stuck into their new role!
For more information and to meet the new iLeaders go to the "Children" tab on the website.


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19/08/2007 · How do I Fix my white clothes that turned pink? We are experiencing some problems, please try again. You can only upload files of type PNG, JPG, or JPEG. You can only upload files of type 3GP, 3GPP, MP4, MOV, AVI, MPG, MPEG, or RM. You can only upload photos smaller than 5 MB. You can only upload videos smaller than 600MB. You can only upload a photo (png, jpg, jpeg) or a video …... 21/08/2006 · Put the shirt in bleach leave it for at least 24 hours and it will be brilliant white again! Honestly!! Alternatively, tell him that the latest fashion for men is pink shirt! Recently I have seen many men with pink shirts and they are not gay at all.
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export default {
	name: "mk-app-forgot-password",
	version: "1.0.3",
	description: "mk-app-forgot-password",
	meta: data.getMeta(),
	components: [],
	config: config,
	load: (cb) => {
		require.ensure([], require => {
			cb(require('./component'), require('./action'), require('./reducer'))
		}, "mk-app-forgot-password")
	}
}


Palo Alto, CA - Foresight Institute has created an academic grant to recognize the most promising student in the rapidly developing field of nanotechnology.
The Foresight Institute Distinguished Student Award will provide a $1,000 award each year to the college undergraduate or graduate student whose work in nanotechnology is deemed most notable. The winning student will be selected by Dr. J. Storrs (Josh) Hall of Rutgers University, moderator of the sci.nanotech newsgroup on the Internet, and the Foresight Institute board of directors.
Nanotechnology is an emerging technology based on the ability to assemble individual molecules and atoms into precise structures. Its realization will allow the construction of supercomputers the size of a sugar cube, pollution-free manufacturing, super-strength materials, and molecular-scale robots capable of repairing damage in individual human cells. More than one billion such nanorobots could fit inside a single drop of blood.
The award, provided for the next four years through the generosity of computer industry entrepreneur Jim Von Ehr of Macromedia Inc., is intended primarily to allow the winning student to attend Foresight Institute's Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology, which is held in odd-numbered years to bring together leaders in nanotechnology research, or the Foresight Senior Associates Gathering, held in even-numbered years for researchers and supporters of nanotechnology research.
The Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology is scheduled for Nov. 5-9, 1997, in Palo Alto, California. Dr. Richard E. Smalley of Rice University, who received the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of complex carbon molecule structures known as fullerenes, will deliver the keynote address. Dr. Smalley is expected to discuss the progress he and his colleagues at Rice have made in developing nanoscale structures.
Persons interested in nominating themselves or others for the award should contact Josh Hall via sci.nanotech, or Foresight Institute by e-mail at foresight@foresight.org, or by calling Foresight Institute at (650) 917-1122. Entries for this year's award must be submitted by September 1, 1997. The winner will be selected in time to allow attendance at the November 1997 Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology.
Foresight Institute is a not-for-profit corporation whose goal is to guide emerging technologies to improve the human condition. Foresight focuses its efforts upon nanotechnology and upon systems that will enhance knowledge exchange and critical discussion, thus improving public and private policy decisions.
The 1997 Foresight Institute Distinguished Student Award was won by Phil Collins of the Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, and the Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. At the Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology he presented a talk entitled "Nanoscale Electronic Devices on Carbon Nanotubes" [Abstract, Full Paper].


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Silver medal at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in 2015!
Wikipedia-Mining Algorithm Reveals World's Most Influential Universities – Charles University: rank 34.
Mathematics programmes included in the Excellence group of top European universities by the CHE Excellence Ranking 2010.
Charles University is consistently ranked as the No. 1 Computer Science school in the Czech Republic.
The education programmes at Charles University are accredited by the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic and the degrees awarded to our graduates are internationally recognized.
Charles University has a long tradition, dating back to the 14th century, of promoting science, knowledge, and education in general. Already in the 14th century foreign students were coming to Prague to study at our university. Today, Charles University's world-class research is the foundation for its high-quality education. It offers bachelor's, master's and PhD programmes. Teaching and research go hand in hand, both in our vision and work. Even undergraduate courses are taught by prominent and distinguished researchers. These include Jaroslav Nešetřil, Jiří Sgall and Jan Kratochvíl, to name a few. You can look up these people at Microsoft Academic Search or Google Scholar. In our curriculum we put a strong emphasis on ideas and concepts that have stood the test of time and that will endure. At the same time, we provide opportunities to become acquainted with modern research and technologies. While providing a high-quality education, we strive to maintain a friendly academic environment with an individual approach to students. The ratio of students to professors is only around 13:1. At Charles University we use the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). The following are a few illustrations of the quality of our education. More than 40% of Internet peering centers worldwide use the BIRD routing server, software that originated as a student project at our university. One of the two main integrated development environments for JAVA is NetBeans, software that originated as a student project at our university. The quality of our study programmes is also seen in the fact that our graduates move on to successful careers with companies such as Google, Facebook, IBM, GoodData, Oracle, SAS, Deloitte, Novartis, Two Sigma and Avast. Have a look at the Alumni section.
The annual tuition fee is 140 000 CZK (around 5100 EUR or 5900 USD) and students from the EU are eligible for a 40 percent discount. Average living costs range from 400 to 600 EUR ($460 – $700) per month, including accommodation, meals, public transport, and leisure activities. For our students we provide convenient and affordable accommodation in student dormitories. To get a better idea about living costs in Prague we recommend the overview on expats.cz. You won't need a car while studying at Charles University: trams, buses and the metro can take you absolutely anywhere you want to go and have very frequent schedules. In fact, using a car in Prague is more of a hindrance than a help.
The Czech Republic is a country in Central Europe, bordering Germany to the west, Poland to the north, Slovakia to the east and Austria to the south. Since time immemorial the Czech lands have been at the crossroads of European culture. The Czech Republic is a member state of the European Union and part of the Schengen Area. Thanks to its central location, a large part of Europe is easily accessible by train, car or bus, and the rest by plane. Since the 1989 Velvet Revolution the Czech Republic has become a highly popular destination. Tens of thousands of foreigners have happily settled here, enjoying the country's combination of high living standards and low costs. The Czech Republic is among the 34 economies in the world classified as "advanced economies" by the International Monetary Fund and also on the list of high-income economies of the World Bank. Many leading IT companies like Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and Hewlett–Packard have branches in the Czech Republic. The antivirus computer programs AVG and Avast originated in the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic is one of the very few countries in the world where Google has a rival: the Czech company Seznam has around 50% market share. You might try to compare the map applications of Google and Seznam. The Czech Republic has a low crime rate and civil disorder is very rare in our country. According to the Australian Institute for Economics and Peace, the Czech Republic is among the 15 most peaceful countries in the world. For more information and a comparison with other European states, you can consult the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics. Natural disasters are extremely rare in the Czech Republic: there are no tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes etc.
Charles University is located right in the historical city centre of Prague. Here you will find stunning architecture, lovely lanes, lofty church spires and cupolas, splendid palaces and town houses, bridges criss-crossing the river Vltava, and extensive green spaces in its gardens, parks and islands. With a more than 1100-year-long history, Prague is a city in which all architectural styles can be found: from Romanesque through Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque to Classical, as well as modern styles such as Cubism, Art Deco, Functionalism and contemporary trends. Since 1992, the historic centre of Prague has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. No wonder that Prague is an attractive tourist destination – more than five million tourists visited it in 2011. Its beauty, location and characteristic elements have earned the city many nicknames: the Golden City, the heart of Europe, the City of a Hundred Spires, the Pearl of Cities … The most remarkable monuments in Prague include Prague Castle, the largest ancient castle complex in the world; Charles Bridge, the oldest bridge in Prague, built by Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV in 1357; the Old Town Hall with its Astronomical Clock, a place associated with the most significant events in the country's history; and this is just to name a few. The Computer Science building of Charles University is a former Jesuit monastery dating from the 17th century and located between Charles Bridge and Prague Castle. If you haven't been to Prague yet, you may get some feel for the city by using the Google and Seznam map applications.
The Bata footwear company was founded in 1894 by Tomáš Baťa, a shoemaker from the Czech town of Zlín.
The car company Škoda was founded as a family business by Laurin and Klement in 1895. The company is one of only four car manufacturers in the world that can boast a tradition exceeding a hundred years.
One of the most prominent physicists, Albert Einstein, was appointed as a full professor of theoretical physics at Charles University in 1911 (the German part of Charles–Ferdinand University as it was then), and worked there until 1912 when he moved to Zurich.
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Brands have come a long way. From their origins in the "brandt" of a farmer's mark on his cattle, to the reassuring symbol of ownership, and even premium value. But today, everything is a brand. So the best ones need to be more. They are a reflection of customers, uniquely shared value, and potentially your most valuable business asset.
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Lawmakers Targeting Spending Bill to Block Estate Tax Rules
Sep 29, 2016 | Blog
BNA Snapshot
* Senate opposition letter possible this week
* Lawmakers upset administration is using regulatory process for estate tax changes
By Allyson Versprille and Aaron E. Lorenzo
Sept. 27 – Senate Republican leaders are joining efforts in the House to block IRS estate tax regulations on valuation discounts.
The proposed regulations (REG-163113-02), introduced in August, would limit the use of valuation discounts by family-owned businesses, which the agency has said have been abused. House Republicans, who argue the proposed rules will increase estate and gift taxes on businesses, have responded by introducing two separate bills aimed at stopping the regulations from being finalized. Senate Republicans are making similar move (184 DTR G-9, 9/22/16).
Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) has introduced legislation (H.R. 6100) that would block funding for IRS work on the proposed rules. The measure goes a step beyond an earlier bill, H.R. 6042, introduced by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), that would only nullify the proposed regulations.
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, said his office is working on a letter to Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew that should be made public this week. It is "basically asking Jack Lew not to go forward with what they're proposing to do," he told Bloomberg BNA Sept. 27. The IRS's proposal "would change the way that death tax valuations have worked and is basically an attempt by regulatory action to go around the will of the Congress and the will of the American people," he said.
At the same time, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) could back companion legislation to the Davidson bill in the Senate. "It's legislation that we're looking at co-signing onto but I'm not sure that we sponsored it yet," he told Bloomberg BNA Sept. 27. Rubio said he's not finished reviewing the details of the bill but will make a final decision on whether to support it once he does.
Plan for Passage
Several supporters of the Davidson bill – of which there are currently 33 co-sponsors – said they are targeting an end-of-the-year spending package as the legislative vehicle for a provision to block the IRS rules.
Ways and Means Committee member Pat Tiberi (R-Ohio), a cosponsor of the Davidson bill, said he would press committee leadership to try to advance the issue this year, but he had yet to speak directly with Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas).
There is growing congressional opposition to the IRS's actions, Tiberi said, criticizing the Obama administration for using the regulatory process to push policy
changes that don't have political support.
Rep. Bill Flores (R-Texas), another co-sponsor of Davidson's bill, said the measure isn't something the House is going to be able to push through between now and the end of the week when Congress is expected to vote on a continuing resolution. But "hopefully we can do it when we get to the next funding point, which is probably Dec. 9," he said.
The Davidson bill would "cut the IRS off at the knees" as it tries to "pursue this non-statutory behavior," Flores said.
Other lawmakers agreed. "We're all hustling, but it comes down to what you can get into the budget at the end of the year," said Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.), who has also sponsored the bill, adding that "the only answer is to try to get it attached" to either a continuing resolution or "mini-buses" in the future. The term mini-buses refers to House Speaker Paul D. Ryan's (R-Wis.) plan to fund the government through several small funding packages as opposed to one large omnibus bill.
Alexei Woltornist, the communications director for Davidson, said the lawmaker is considering passing the bill as both a stand-alone measure and as a provision in a spending package. "We are going for a 'both and' approach," he said in an e-mail.
Davidson's staff is working with the Ways and Means Committee in pursuit of the traditional route, as well as "working on the process of getting on the omnibus," he said. Woltornist said the continuing resolution is less of a target because "everyone knows it is pretty much a done deal."


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Breaking the power of the assassins (Lebanon Daily Star)
Two angry and eloquent pieces from the Beirut Daily Star help to bring home the stakes in some of the ongoing political struggles in the Middle East. The first is by David Ignatius, a columnist who often publishes in the Daily Star and the Washington Post, and the second is by the Lebanese journalist and political analyst Michael Young, Opinion Editor of the Daily Star.
Michael Young wrote, in response to the murder of the prominent Lebanese journalist Gibran Tueni (almost certainly by agents of the Syrian regime):
It seems only yesterday that I watched as a stunned Gibran Tueni looked down at the crumbled body of journalist Samir Kassir, shortly after the latter's assassination in his car on an Achrafieh street. Perhaps it was his own death that Tueni saw foretold; or more likely he was trying to come to grips with what was then the still-novel happening of seeing journalists and politicians butchered at the start of their working day.
An-Nahar has paid too high a price for its criticism of the Syrian regime. Tueni himself only recently returned from a spell in Paris, well aware of the dangers to his life. It is to his considerable credit that he accepted the risk of an uncertain homecoming, though how desirable, in hindsight, it would have been for him to spend his days working out of his home - isolated, but safe from the death squads dispatched to liquidate him. [....]
In killing Tueni, the murderers hoped to strike a mortal blow at Lebanon's most prestigious newspaper. For them, the real danger has always been independent thought - against which they can only muster media that threaten, crowds that threaten, and security services that best them both by implementing the threats. Ideas are absent from their endeavors; human development is absent; amelioration is absent; self-determination, freedom, imagination are all absent, crushed by a regime that can only warn that if it goes down, the region will go down with it.
There are those who cretinously swallow that contention hook, line and sinker; who argue that the gentlemen in Damascus must be left alone, maintained, because their departure might indeed bring disorder. That incredible interpretation somehow assures us that Gibran Tueni was, in the end, a martyr to order. A remarkable order it is, then, the very same that protected Saddam Hussein until 2003, and that today props up the authority of a cornucopia of greater and lesser criminals, from Nouakchott to Sanaa, wardens all of what Ghassan Tueni has called "the great Arab prison." [The rest is below]
I don't always agree with David Ignatius, so I was half-surprised to find his piece so powerfully on-target.
This is the time of the assassins in the Arab world. On Monday, they killed a brave Lebanese journalist who dared to tell the truth about Syria. This week in Iraq, they will try to kill people who want to vote. They kill wives to intimidate their husbands. They kill children to frighten their parents into silence. Their power is the ability to create raw fear.
The shame for America isn't that we have tried to topple the rule of the assassins, but that we have so far been unsuccessful. We thought we were cracking the old web of terror when America invaded Iraq in 2003, but it's still there, in the shadows of the shadows. [....]
What is this struggle about? Listen to some Arab voices. On Tuesday, the front page of the Beirut daily An-Nahar carried an open letter from the Syrian poet known as "Adonis," perhaps the most famous writer in the Arab world. It was written to the paper's celebrated editor, Ghassan Tueni, whose outspoken son
Gebran had been murdered the previous day by a car bomb. "We are witnessing the destruction of the soul and the spirit," wrote the poet, whose real name is Ali Ahmed Said. The people who killed Gebran want to create "a temple of fear." [....]
Amid the mistakes, misjudgments and outright lies made by the Bush administration about Iraq over the past three years, it's easy to lose sight of what is at stake in this battle. But this week brings it back to square one: It's about breaking the power of the assassins.
The Baath Party in Iraq ruled by its sheer brutality. I gathered reports from Iraqi dissidents and human-rights workers in the early 1990s, when I was researching my novel about Iraq, "The Bank of Fear." These stories are sickening to recount, even now: The children of Shiite rebels in southern Iraq, dropped from helicopters to terrify the parents; dissidents who had nails driven into their heads; prisoners beaten with metal cables until they collapsed or died. At Saddam Hussein's trial last week, a woman was speaking about how she had been beaten with those cables. Watching Saddam's arrogant scorn for the testimony of his victims, I remembered what the Iraq war is about.
The Baath Party in Syria has governed much the same way, though it saved its worst brutality for neighboring Lebanon. The Syrians maintained their mandate by demonstrating that they were prepared to kill anyone who got in their way: a president, a prime minister, a religious leader, a journalist. The price of speaking out was death. That was the message: This is the land of death. Enter into this theater of violence and we will swallow you up.
People like the Tuenis who refuse to be intimidated should inspire the rest of us. So should the millions of Iraqis who vote today. They are trying to break the culture of intimidation and death. Americans should feel proud to be on their side.
I even agree with this:
George W. Bush gets a lot of things wrong, but knows that he's fighting the assassins. On days like these, I'm glad he is such a stubborn man.
Read these pieces in full (below).
Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon)
A time for assassins in the Arab world
By David Ignatius
Daily Star staff
The shame for America isn't that we have tried to topple the rule of the assassins, but that we have so far been unsuccessful. We thought we were cracking the old web of terror when America invaded Iraq in 2003, but it's still there, in the shadows of the shadows. George W. Bush gets a lot of things wrong, but knows that he's fighting the assassins. On days like these, I'm glad he is such a stubborn man.
Gebran had been murdered the previous day by a car bomb. "We are witnessing the destruction of the soul and the spirit," wrote the poet, whose real name is Ali Ahmed Said. The people who killed Gebran want to create "a temple of fear."
The headline atop the newspaper's front page said this: "Gebran didn't die and An-Nahar will continue." For a paper that had already lost its fearless columnist Samir Kassir to a car bomb in June, it was a defiant statement to the assassins: Kill us all. We aren't going to stop publishing the truth.
I spoke Tuesday with Hisham Melhem, the paper's Washington bureau chief. His voice was cracking with emotion as he spoke of his colleagues: "I shudder when I think of the courage of Gebran and Samir. They knew they were dead men walking. But they were never intimidated."
The Baath Party in Iraq ruled by its sheer brutality. I gathered reports from Iraqi dissidents and human-rights workers in the early 1990s, when I was researching my novel about Iraq, "The Bank of Fear." These stories are sickening to recount, even now: The children of Shiite rebels in southern Iraq, dropped from helicopters to terrify the parents; dissidents who had nails driven into
their heads; prisoners beaten with metal cables until they collapsed or died. At Saddam Hussein's trial last week, a woman was speaking about how she had been beaten with those cables. Watching Saddam's arrogant scorn for the testimony of his victims, I remembered what the Iraq war is about.
I think of my friend and teacher, Ghassan Tueni, who is grieving for his son. When he received an honorary doctorate from the American University of Beirut last June, Tueni recalled the time he spent in prison in the late 1940s for defying the censors and repressors of the day. He read a copy of Socrates that had been smuggled into his cell and decided he would pursue a kind of Socratic journalism that would dialogue with readers and incite them to discover the truth.
"I have to say, with much sorrow, that much of what the Arab world suffers from is largely due to the fact that neither our diplomacy nor our press has dared, or even been allowed, to tell the people the truth about our state of being and where we stand in the world," Tueni said at the end of that speech. But that wasn't true. He did dare.
Syndicated columnist David Ignatius is published regularly by THE DAILY STAR.
Defeat them with the truth
By Michael Young
An-Nahar has paid too high a price for its criticism of the Syrian regime. Tueni himself only recently returned from a spell in Paris, well aware of the dangers to his life. It is to his considerable credit that he accepted the risk of an uncertain homecoming, though how desirable, in hindsight, it would have been for him to spend his days working out of his home - isolated, but safe from the death squads dispatched to liquidate him.
That Tueni's death was linked to the Mehlis inquiry, and reports that the German investigator would name Syrian suspects in his latest report, cannot be doubted. At the least this murder must be dealt with in a different way by the international community, because the United Nations investigation will take many more months - time enough to kill many more people. What happened on Monday was a finger in the eye of the Security Council, and few could miss that the road on which Tueni was killed is essentially the same one used on a regular basis by UN investigators descending to Beirut from their Monteverde redoubt.
There are those who cretinously swallow that contention hook, line and sinker; who argue that the gentlemen in Damascus must be left alone, maintained, because their departure might indeed bring disorder. That incredible interpretation somehow assures us that Gibran Tueni was, in the end, a martyr to order. A remarkable order it is, then, the very same that protected Saddam Hussein until 2003, and that today props up the authority of a cornucopia of greater and lesser criminals, from Nouakchott to Sanaa, wardens all of what Ghassan Tueni has called "the great Arab prison."
What does one do now? At the Security Council, the outrage must be used to convince the Russians and Chinese that what they are abetting, by opposing sanctions in the UN investigation, is more death. While an expansion of the investigation to cover all assassinations since that of Rafik Hariri seems unlikely, it's time for the council to make a clear statement on who it believes is responsible. The Lebanese security services have already blamed individuals allegedly linked to the Syrian intelligence services, and there seems no reason why the Siniora government should not once again highlight that evidence.
But isn't that the real problem? There is still little courage in Beirut. It took a lesser-known magistrate to sign the judicial order looking into the mass grave found in Anjar, most of his more senior colleagues not daring to do so. One very much suspects that somewhere in Tueni's investigation, someone will get cold feet and just let the matter slide. That's what happened with Marwan Hamadeh, Samir Kassir and George Hawi, lest we forget. Already, some politicians are mouthing banal generalities. Yesterday, for example, Michel Aoun showed remarkable reluctance in expressing his real hunch of who had killed his onetime devotee.
A rapid sign of daring would be for Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to compel the government to endorse an international tribunal in the Hariri case as soon as possible. If Hizbullah opposes the measure and threatens to withdraw from the session, or from the government, then the ministers must go ahead and vote anyway. The majority will win. A Lebanese consensus should not mean giving a minority the right of veto when it means defending against state-sponsored terrorism. The message on a tribunal will have a strong impact in New York, where the Security Council must know Lebanon is willing to partly internationalize its security, since it has been left with no other choice.
None of this will bring Gibran Tueni back, nor is charm, elegance and perpetual dissent. Nothing will reassure us that the venerable An-Nahar can survive this latest crime. Ghassan Tueni will soon have to bury another child, the most heartbreaking duty of all. But deep down it's another wish we have: that the Tuenis, Ghassan but also Gibran's widow and children, will stick to their guns and demand that the truth come out. At the end of the day, his murderers remain most afraid of one thing: the truth.
Michael Young is opinion editor of THE DAILY STAR.
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"There are witches in the air..."
It is mid-October, and there is a chill in the air. With that chill, comes shorter days, colored leaves, and Halloween! Around the world, Halloween is one of the most marketed holidays. In the U.S., children dress up in costumes and head out to the streets on October 31st to "trick - or - treat" and get scared in haunted houses or haunted walks through the woods. They carve pumpkins and put candles inside to decorate their front steps. Halloween parties and parades are plentiful, for all ages, it is a time of good fun and disguises. In Japan too, and other places around the world, signs of Halloween abound, with paper banners adorning store windows and Halloween candy and costumes for sale. But, do you know the history of Halloween?
According to the History channel, Halloween comes from the Celtic festival of Samhain. For Samhain, people would make big bonfires and wear costumes to scare away ghosts. Later, in the 18th century, Pope Gregory III from Syria chose November 1st as All Saints Day, a day to celebrate saints and martyrs. Some of the rituals from Samhain were used in All Saints Day celebrations. October 31st became "All Hollow's Eve" and then Halloween. Over time, it slowly changed to become what it is today.
While in Japan Halloween is a highly marketed holiday, meaning Halloween "stuff" is sold and displayed everywhere, it is not fully celebrated. However, my birthday falls on October 29th, and so, Halloween has always held a special place in my heart. I miss the hot apple cider, the cool fall walks among the colored leaves, the plentiful pumpkins for carving, and the spooky feeling in the air on Halloween night in Vermont. My students helped me feel that spooky feeling a little bit at the Haunted House at school festival, and now it's time to return the favor. Usually for Halloween at KTC we have parties with our classes or do something special, which the students love. I made a box of Halloween costumes and students raid it and get a good laugh out of trying on various masks, wigs, and outfits. They especially love the free candy. We also tell scary stories. This year, when I was looking for a good Halloween comic to share with my Comics' class, I found a list of "7 Short and Spooky Webcomic Stories to Keep you Awake all Weekend." As I scrolled through a couple of the stories, I felt that Halloween chill. I can envision rolling through the panels on the big screen in the classroom, reading aloud the text to students, with the lights down low, and allowing the "jump factor" to take affect. I can't wait!
Here are some other Halloween stories I've found that are great.
Please leave comments if you have other good suggestions. Also, I created a fun Halloween music playlist on YouTube. Use it if you'd like!
It is funny that although the origins are very similar, the style does differ a lot in Europe. In many European countries the All Saints' Day and the following All Souls' Day are days of peace and reflection, visiting the graves and praying for the passed away.
Concerning the naming - The All Saints's Day is also called All Hallows. And the evening before is the Hallows' Eve which seems to be another way to explain the name Halloween.