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RMS Estimates that Total Onshore U.S. Insured Losses from Hurricane Delta Will Be Between US$2bn – US$3.5bn
Additionally, insured losses to offshore platforms expected to be less than US$1.0bn
NEWARK, CA – October 15, 2020 – RMS®, the world's leading catastrophe risk solutions company, estimates total onshore U.S. insured losses from Hurricane Delta to be between US$2.0bn and US$3.5bn. The estimate includes losses to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) of between US$200m and US$400m.
U.S. insured loss estimates for Hurricane Delta (US$ billions):
Wind & Surge
Inland Flood
1.7 - 2.8 0.1 - 0.3 0.2 - 0.4 2.0 - 3.5
This estimate includes wind, storm surge, and inland flood losses across the impacted states, including Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi, based on analysis of RMS ensemble footprints in Version 18.1 of the RMS North Atlantic Hurricane Models and estimates from the RMS U.S. Inland Flood HD Model. RMS ensemble footprints are reconstructions of Delta's hazards that capture the uncertainties surrounding observed winds and storm surge.
The RMS estimate includes a 15% reduction in insured onshore losses due to the cumulative impacts of Hurricane Laura, which damaged much of the same region six weeks earlier.
"The overlapping nature of Delta and Laura will create a complicated claims management and loss attribution process for the industry. Using an innovative combination of high-resolution aerial imagery and machine-learning techniques, the modeling teams at RMS assessed the competing impacts of Hurricane Laura on Hurricane Delta losses. We determined that more than half of the impacted postal codes were also impacted by Laura, representing more than 90% of loss in this event. While Delta caused higher than expected damage to many structures due to pre-existing damage from Laura, reduced overall exposure-at-risk in the overlapping region after Laura means losses attributed to Delta will end up being lower than if Laura had never happened," said Jeff Waters, senior product manager, RMS North Atlantic Hurricane Models.
Losses reflect property damage and business interruption to residential, commercial, industrial, and automobile lines of business, along with post-event loss amplification (PLA) and non-modeled sources of loss. RMS expects most insured losses will be from residential lines.
The estimate also includes losses to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in the range of US$200 million to US$400 million. NFIP losses were derived using the RMS view of NFIP exposure based on 2019 policy-in-force data published by FEMA, the Version 18.1 North Atlantic Hurricane Models, and the U.S. Inland Flood HD Model.
In Mexico, RMS estimates insured losses from Delta to be less than US$500 million. The estimate reflects wind losses based on analysis of RMS post-landfall stochastic event tracks in Version 18.1 of the RMS North Atlantic Hurricane Models. The estimate for Mexico includes property damage and business interruption to residential, commercial, and industrial lines of business.
Additionally, RMS estimates insured losses to offshore platforms, rigs, and pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico to not exceed US$1.0bn from wind and wave-driven damages. Offshore losses are based on the October 2020 vintage of the RMS Offshore Platform Industry Exposure Database.
"Unlike Laura, which impacted several deepwater oil and gas platforms earlier in the season, we expect offshore losses from Delta to be driven mainly by shallow water platforms. The storm shut in oil and gas production in the region up to levels not seen since Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Ike. However, Delta's lower intensity and size while in the Gulf limited the wave heights and consequently, offshore losses are expected to be notably lower than those experienced in the 2005 and 2008 events," said Rajkiran Vojjala, Vice President, Model Development.
Delta made landfall near Creole, Louisiana on Friday, October 9, 2020 as a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. At landfall, Delta produced sustained winds of 100 mph (160 km/h), according to the National Hurricane Center. Informed by a suite of real-time observational data sources, RMS HWind products estimated comparable winds at landfall. Delta's landfall location and intensity were well-represented by the HWind forecasting products more than 72 hours before the storm crossed into Louisiana.
"As expected, Delta weakened from major hurricane status to a weaker Category 2 storm just before landfall due to a combination of conditions, including high wind shear and cooler sea surface temperatures, both of which restrain a hurricane's intensity. However, winds strong enough to cause damage expanded in width, increasing the number of coastal properties at risk. Fortunately, Delta rapidly weakened after landfall, which reduced the material wind and water-driven impacts across interior portions of the Gulf states," said Pete Dailey, Vice President, Model Development.
Hurricane Delta was the twenty-fifth named storm of the 2020 North Atlantic hurricane season, the ninth hurricane, and the fifth U.S. landfalling hurricane of this very active season. Delta was a record-breaking tenth named storm to make landfall in the contiguous U.S. so far in 2020, and a record-tying fourth named storm of 2020 to make landfall in Louisiana. Over six weeks remain in the Atlantic hurricane season, officially ending on November 30.
RMS industry loss estimates for landfalling U.S. hurricanes are comprehensive, reflecting modelled and non-modelled impacts from all major drivers of damage, including wind, storm surge, and inland flooding.
The technology and data used in providing the information contained in this press release are based on the scientific data, mathematical and empirical models, and encoded experience of scientists and specialists. As with any model of physical systems, particularly those with low frequencies of occurrence and potentially high severity outcomes, the actual losses from catastrophic events may differ from the results of simulation analyses.
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Moody's RMS Estimates US$5-7 Billion in Total U.S. Economic Losses from California Flooding
NEWARK, CA – January 25, 2023 – Moody's RMS®, the leading global catastrophe risk modeling and solutions company, estimates total U.S. economic losses from the recent California flooding at US$5-7 billion. This estimate reflects inland flood impacts for the U.S. and includes damage to infrastructure. The insured losses are anticipated to be between US$0.5-1.5 billion, including losses to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and the private flood market. The overall economic loss estimate is based on an event reconstruction using the Moody's RMS U.S. Inland Flood HD Model and reflects property damage, contents, and business interruption, across residential, commercial, industrial, automobile and infrastructure assets. A series of extratropical cyclones starting December 26, 2022, impacted the West Coast of the U.S, which resulted in heavy rainfall, overtopped rivers, flash floods, levee breaches, mudslides, fallen trees, debris flow, and heavy snow at high altitudes, together with some wind damage. The rainfall associated with these extratropical cyclones was exacerbated by a band of high atmospheric water vapor, also known as an 'atmospheric river'. The rainfall intensity in California was so extreme that several locations in central California set new three-week rainfall records and certain locations received their annual average rainfall totals in less than one month. This led to widespread flash floods and river overtopping, for example, water depths in the San Lorenzo River upstream of Santa Cruz rose by more than 16 feet (4.87 meters) in less than eight hours. This was the highest recorded water depth for the San Lorenzo River since records began some 85 years ago. Infrastructure damage, which is accounted for within the economic loss estimates, was extensive. State highways and local roads bore the brunt of the damage due to a combination of flooding and mudslides. Trees previously stressed by dry conditions were uprooted due to high water velocities, saturated soils and heavy winds, which also caused damage to power networks, as well as to cars and properties. The continuous rainfall and compound impacts from riverine-groundwater-coastal interactions also resulted in prolonged flooding for certain urban coastal areas of California. Furthermore, the continuous drought preceding these extratropical cyclones events adds an extra dimension of complexity for reservoir operators and residents. It is important to highlight that 2022 was the second driest year in over 128 years for certain areas (e.g., Santa Cruz) and was categorized under 'extreme drought' according to the National Integrated Drought Information System. Although there has been a significant increase in the water levels of major reservoirs and snowpack, it remains unlikely that California is out of the drought, especially when it comes to aquifer replenishment, given the last three years of extreme drought and excessive groundwater withdrawals. These storms generated high-intensity rainfall resulting in a high proportion of rainfall running off into the ocean, whereas aquifers generally recharge gradually from less intense rainfall systems and snow melt. "To put this event in historical perspective with the 1862 ARkStorm, although some impacted areas are similar, the ARkStorm produced much more severe precipitation, for example, 35 inches (88.9 centimeters) of precipitation in San Francisco compared to ~ 15 inches (38 centimeters) from this event. Another important mitigating factor for this event is the presence of flood defenses, which were mostly absent in 1862," said Mohsen Rahnama, Chief Risk Modeling Officer, Moody's RMS. A relatively small proportion of the economic damage is expected to be covered by insurance. The number of households in California with flood insurance stands at less than two percent – a figure that has been steadily declining. As of August 2022, there were only 193,281 residential National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policies in place, representing a decline of around five percent as compared to 2021. These low flood insurance take-up rates are attributed to the fact that only homeowners holding a government-backed loan who live in Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHAs) are mandated to obtain a flood insurance policy. But these SFHA boundary 'flood zones' do not always reflect the current flood risk, are backward-looking, and are infrequently revised. Other factors impacting flood insurance take-up rates include, but are not limited to, affordability, the misconception that flood is covered under a standard homeowners' policy, and a lack of understanding of the associated incurred cost from flooding. Firas Saleh, Director, Product Management, Moody's RMS, concluded: "Extreme drought leads to soil compaction which means less infiltration and more runoff, hence less aquifer recharge and higher risk of flooding. Nowhere is safe from flooding in California today. If we've learned anything from this extreme rainfall and subsequent damage, it's that even perceived low-risk flood zones are still flood zones. If it rains, it can overflow."
Intelligent Risk Platform Adoption Across Insurance and Finance Markets Passes 100 Clients Landmark
NEWARK, CA – 18 January 2023 – Moody's RMS®, the leading global catastrophe risk modeling and solutions company, is pleased to announce that, as of the end of 2022, over 100 active clients have adopted and/or are utilizing applications and services on the Moody's RMS Intelligent Risk Platform™ (IRP). Designed for unified risk analytics, the IRP is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform offering applications and services such as Risk Modeler, which enables all risk exposures to be prepared and managed in one place, ready for risk modeling, accumulation, and loss analysis using RMS High Definition™, Detailed Loss, and Aggregate Loss Models. The platform comes with application programming interfaces (APIs) available to deliver global hazard data, risk scores, and loss costs for touchless underwriting as well as real-time event response information, with applications such as ExposureIQ™ – which proved highly valuable during Hurricane Ian in 2022 – to establish the potential impact of an event on a client's portfolio. The platform has gained significant traction among brokers, insurers, reinsurers, managing general agents (MGAs), and Lloyd's syndicates across the globe, including Apollo, Tokio Marine, and Gallagher Re, and has also proved popular with banks and real estate asset managers keen to utilize the insights across their portfolios. The IRP removes the need to procure and maintain extensive, high-cost IT infrastructure environments required to support various risk modeling and analytics applications. Insurance and financial services clients also benefit from a quick onboarding process offering access to applications and associated models within days of subscribing. RMS risk models are available on the IRP from the latest High-Definition models, to Detailed Loss Models (DLM) and Aggregate Loss Models (ALM), using established RiskLink® and RiskBrowser® workflows familiar to the market. IRP applications are also designed to integrate with third-party and in-house systems used by insurance and financial firms to provide enhanced data insights. Clients using the cloud-based IRP have availability to the latest model data, with risk model updates integrated automatically with minimal downtime, without the requirement for maintenance and additional IT support. Cihan Biyikoglu, Executive Vice President, Moody's RMS, said: "I am thrilled to see the great enthusiasm from our customers to the Intelligent Risk Platform. In this short period since its birth, we have customers across all major geographies, including Europe, the Americas, and Asia, and across insurers, reinsurers, and brokers modeling their accounts, portfolios, and underwriting on our platform every day. As one measure of engagement, we are already seeing hundreds of millions of commercial and residential locations analyzed daily on our platform, from earthquakes to hurricanes, and windstorms to climate change models." "By Moody's RMS successfully delivering a true SaaS application, clients have genuinely benefited from highly scalable automation and integration to create far more efficient end-to-end risk modeling workflows across business applications. And by clients adopting the IRP, we are also seeing an increasing number of businesses turning off their on-premises RiskLink or legacy analytics applications altogether. We look to further develop and enhance the IRP experience as the client base continues to grow and expand."
Ardonagh Specialty Reinforces Its U.S. Flood and Wildfire Capabilities in New Agreement With RMS
LONDON – December 12, 2022 – Ardonagh Specialty, part of the Ardonagh Group, has signed a new agreement with RMS®, a Moody's Analytics company and world-leading risk modeling and solutions company, to broaden their adoption of the RMS Intelligent Risk Platform™ and advance Ardonagh Specialty's risk modeling and advisory capabilities using the RMS U.S. Flood HD Model and the RMS U.S. Wildfire HD Model. The partnership spans Ardonagh Specialty's brands including Besso, Bishopsgate, Compass London Markets, Ed Broking, Inver Re, Piiq, and Price Forbes. Antony Erotocritou, CEO of Ardonagh Specialty said: "It has always been important to us that Ardonagh Specialty strives to offer increased value to our clients. Investment in differentiating data and analytics capabilities is a core part of our value proposition. We're excited to partner with clients and markets, creating new value, and unlocking new opportunities for the industry. By extending our long-term partnership with RMS we are confident that all our clients will continue to benefit from the high levels of service and solutions we always aim to deliver." Michael Steel, General Manager, RMS added: "We are delighted to extend and strengthen our work with Ardonagh. Advanced implementation of RMS Risk Modeler™ can only enhance the speed, precision, and consistency across all risk decisions across the portfolio. As the increased impact of major catastrophic events such as floods and wildfires continues to evolve, brokers and insurers are keen to embrace the latest science and technology to help them better understand the risks and opportunities they face. We're delighted to help Ardonagh service their clients with distinction." About Ardonagh Specialty Ardonagh Specialty is the holding company and growth platform for leading independent brokers Besso Insurance, Bishopsgate, Compass London Markets, Ed Broking, Inver Re, Piiq Risk Partners, and Price Forbes. Combined, Ardonagh Specialty has 1,400 colleagues globally and manages US$6 billion in gross written premium. With a strong presence and deep relationships worldwide, and a steadfast commitment to investing in the best people, markets, and technology, together the businesses offer open market programs, reinsurance, and international solutions designed to empower clients to achieve their strategic ambition.
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'We aim to join the 100 best university group of the world'Discloses President Cho of INU to visiting ambassadors, senior diplomats
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By Publisher Lee Kyung-sik with Choe Nam-suk, Ms. Sua Kim
Incheon National University (INS) is obviously in good hands, President Cho Dong-sung in particular, and this was immediately apparent at a meeting with ambassadors and other senior diplomats who visited and toured various facilities of the University on May 28, 2019. The tour was organized by The Korea Post media, established 33 years ago and now owning and operate a total of five media outlets, including a Korean-language Internet and off-line newspaper and their English-language counterparts.
President Cho Dong-sung of Incheon National University (INU), 9th from left at front row, poses with Ambassador Thura Thet Oo Maung of Myanmar (8th from left, front row), Publisher-Chairman Lee Kyung-sik of the Korea Post (5th from right, front row) and other members of Seoul Diplomatic Corps. Other are, from left, Charge d'Affaires (CDA) Luis Pablo Ossio Bustillos of Bolivia, Dean Park Mi-jin of External Affairs and Development of INU, Mrs. Malohat Sadikova (spouse of the third secretary of Uzbekistan), Second Secretary Ms. Kory Del Carpio of Peru, Mrs. Tursunova Kamola (spouse of the First Secretary of Uzbekistan), Mrs. Olga Popkova (spouse of the Ambassador of Belarus), Vice President Choe Nam-suk of The Korea Post, Mrs. Fabiola Yelamo (spouse of the First Secretary of Venezuela), First Secretary Stephen Panyin Danso of Ghana, First Secretary Abdul Halim Qarizada of Afghanistan, Ambassador Herbert Estuardo Meneses Coronado of Guatemala.From left, rear row: Counsellor Political Gert Du Preez of South Africa, Counsellor Luis Molinas of Paraguay, Mrs. Maria Jose Zapata Aliaga (spouse of the CDA of Bolivia), Third Secretary Nurmuhammet Berdiyev of Turkmenistan, First Secretary Olga Pashkevich of Belarus, Assistant Professor Chad David Anderson of Department of Public Administration of INU, Ambassador Peteris Vaivars of Latvia, First Secretary Sergio Leon of Venezuela and his son, Vice President of INU, Counsellor Jason Manuel Castro of El Salvador.
Participating in the tour were Ambassadors Thura Thet Oo Maung of Myanmar of Myanmar, Petris Varivas of Latrvia and Herbert Estuardo Meneses Coronado of Guatemala, and other senior diplomats and their spouses who, in alphabetical order, were from the Embassies Afghanistan, Belarus, Bolivia, El Salvador, Ghana, Paraguay, Peru, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Venezuela.
The state-run INS campus, sprawling on a vast reclaimed land estate of some 460,000 square meters in the fast-growing Incheon Metropolitan City, a major gateway to the Capital City of Seoul, had an ambitious plan, according to President Cho, to join the world's top 100 universities in the foreseeable future.
President Cho Dong-sung of INU (right) is presented with a Plague of Appreciation by Ambassador Thura Thet Oo Maung of Myanmar for the invitation of the envoys to the INU.
At the welcome ceremony, President Cho warmly received the ambassadors and other visiting senior diplomats with their spouses, and introduced the University in impeccable English.
Ambassador Maung of Myanmar, speaking on behalf of the visiting members of the Diplomatic Corps said that cooperation and interaction between the advanced educational institutions of the different countries of the world is becoming increasingly important today.
Then he said, "And in this respect, I would like to express our highest praise for the effort made by President Cho to invite us here today for such cooperation and exchanges." (See excerpts from his speech at the end of this report.)
President Cho Dong-sung gives a speech in English for nearly an hour introducing various aspects of INU. He eyes INU's ranking among top 100 universities of the world in due course of time.
Among the highlights of the tour, was the presentation of scholarship of four years to one student from each participating country in the Diplomat Tour that day. It was a very generous offer and gesuture of goodwill between the Korean government and the children of the ambassadors in Seoul.
The Korean government and government-supported educational and academic circles in Korea are strongly interested in the promotion of cooperation between Korea and the countries diplomatically represented in Korea. President Cho of INU, in particular, had strong personal ambition to link Korea and all the countries of the world and promote understanding and cooperation between Korea and all the countries of the world. It appears that the offer of the attractive scholarship represents his ambition to bring the young peoples of Korea and all the countries of the world closer together.
Visiting members of the Seoul Diplomatic Corps are readying to cult Ingeolmi Korean rice cake.
During the tour, to make it coincide with the aim of the University, a total of 100 students were selected to cut a 100-meter long Injeolmi Korean glutinous rice cake mentioned afore.
President Cho personally introduced the excellent facilities of the campus, including those of Matrix College, which was followed by an introduction by Director Chad Anderson of the International Exchange Institute concerning various programs of the University for the foreign students, including English language lectures for foreign students, scholarship programs and dormitories.
Following the introductory program, the visiting ambassadors and other senior members of the Seoul Diplomatic Corps (SDC) were invited to sign a Memorandum of Understanding concerning the payment of scholarships.
President Cho Dong-sung of INU (left) welcomes Ambassador Thura Thet Oo Maung of Myanmar, dean of the visiting members of the SDC.
Then the visiting members of the SDC were led on a tour of the Observation Tower where English-speaking students of the International Student Supporting Community assisted the visiting diplomat dignitaries. From the top of the Tower, the visiting ambassadors and senior diplomats witnessed a good number of high-rise buildings surrounding the INU campus.
The visiting ambassadors and senior diplomats were visibly surprised when they heard President Cho say, "Not long ago, the entire area here a part of the sea!"
The campus of INU is located in the Songdo District of Incheon, which was selected as the world's safest city by Numbeo's Global Crime and Safety Survey in 2016. Forty percent of Songdo is green space. Residents walk or bike to work and school. Visitors enjoy the city's boutiques, cafés, and lively restaurants. Just minutes from the INU campus, one can take a quiet stroll or glide in a canoe through Central Park's beautiful 101 acres. Jack Nicklaus Country Club, the host of 2015 President's Cup, is INU's affiliated golf course.
A panorama view of the 100-meter long Injeolmi rice cake cutting event in front of the main building of INU.
INU is considered the fastest-growing university in Korea, one of the two flag-ship incorporated national universities, the other being Seoul National University.
Agreement between Kim Jin-pyo, Deputy Prime Minster and Minster of Education, and Hwang Woo-yea, Representative of National Assembly from Yeonsu-gu:
"We witness Cambridge challenging Oxford in the United Kingdom, Yale challenging Harvard in the United States, Kyoto University challenging University of in Japan, Tsinghua University in China challenging Peking University.
"We need to enable Incheon National University as a challenger to Seoul National University."
INU has an ambition development plan.
From left: Ambassadors Peteris Vaivars of Latvia and Thura Thet Oo Maung of Myanmar with Publisher-Chairman Lee Kyung-sik of The Korea Post media, who organized the diplomat tour to INU.
It aims to be a Global Top 100 University and its second target is to win the position of Global 1 (in the eyes of the next generation).
The vision of INU is also impressive. It has a three-stage development plan:
2018: An innovative university into the future
2020: An attractive university in the eyes of the young and the global (the percentage of international students increasing from 2% to 30%).
2026: The focused research university, grooming research excellence (grooming Nobel prize winners)
INU also has four-point strategy:
1. Customer's point of view: Joint research with industry for long-term market performance
2. Future-orientation: No compromise with the present in reaching the dream.
3. Globalization: Going beyond Korea for universal standard, and
4. Effective mechanism: Objective, fair and transparent evaluation
Each ambassador and member of SDC are introduced.
President Cho also has a unique view of the future. He states:
We cannot help believe that 50% of the current jobs will disappear in 10 years when we saw AphaGo soundly beating World Champion Lee Sedol of "Go" with 4:1.
Artificial Intelligence-led Industrial Revolution 4.0 has become a reality.
Universities in Emerging Economies are responsible for transforming their countries to SDC and FDC.
We must focus on grooming entrepreneurs, professional managers, engineers, and designers. And we must team up with companies/industries to realize this mission.
President Cho (standing, right) introduces various aspects of INU.
Excerpts from the congratulatory speech of Ambassador Maung of Myanmar:
On behalf of the members of the Seoul Diplomatic Corps visiting here today, I would like to express my heart-felt appreciation to President Cho Dong-Sung of Incheon National University for inviting us today, to visit and tour various wonderful facilities of your University.
Cooperation and interaction between the advanced educational institutions of the different countries of the world is becoming increasingly important today.
And in this respect, I would like to express our highest praise for the effort made by President Cho to invite us here today for such cooperation and exchanges.
Assistant Professor Chad David Anderson of the Department of Public Administration of INU introduces details concerning student admission and various other aspects of the University.
We understand that President Cho has laid out a bold and ambitious plan for making Incheon National University a top 100 global advanced educational institution.
His plan, we understand, provides a roadmap that sets out their goals for the next five years, which includes recruiting the most creative and brightest students, focusing on five 'peaks' of research excellence, providing students with a truly global education, and fostering innovative partnerships with industry leaders.
We have learned that at this University there is an exciting future ahead for the students and the changes you are making to become a world-class university and that you are providing your students with a future-ready education that equips them to be global change leaders.
Ambassadors and diplomats listen to the Campus Observation Tower, which commands a fine view of the sprawling estate of high-rise buildings on a land reclaimed from the sea.
We also learned that from January 2013, INU was rechartered as one of the Flagship Korean National Universities in Korea, representing the Gyeonggi Province and the Incheon city.
We understand that President Cho has also laid out a bold and ambitious plan for making INU a top 100 global university and that this plan provides a roadmap that sets out their goals for the next five years, which includes recruiting the most creative and brightest students, focusing on five 'peaks' of research excellence, providing students with a truly global education, and fostering innovative partnerships with industry leaders.
President Cho, third from left, poses with Ambassador Maung of Myanmar, second from left, flanked on the right by Publisher-Chairman Lee Kyung-sik and vice-chairman Choe Nam-suk of The Korea Post media on the left.
We also hear that there is an exciting future ahead for INU and that you are providing the students with a future-ready education that equips them to be global change leaders.
It is my sincere wish that all the aims of the University will come tree, those of President Cho, in particular. Gamsa Hamnida, Thank you very much.
About President Cho Dong-Sung of INU:
Dong-Sung Cho is 15th President of Incheon National University (INU), which is one of the two incorporated national universities in Korea along with Seoul National University (SNU). He was Professor of Strategy, International Business, Management Design, and Sustainability Management at SNU during 1978-2014, and Professor of Strategy at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) in Beijing, China during 2014-2016.
President Cho shows a thumbs-up sign with ambassadors and other senior diplomats.
President Cho is going through a major transformation of INU into a global research university. Under his guidance, all of the 64 departments within the 11 colleges are concentrating their respective research capabilities in bio-technology-driven subjects. He has implemented the concept of company-on-campus by inviting 54 companies, research organizations, NGOs, and government-led institutions. He coined the word "Tri-versity" to explain INU's educational philosophy of inviting students in 3 stages of life in the early 20s for college education, in the 40s and the 60s for postgraduate education. He has proposed the "International Teacher's License" which will be conferred to jobless young people.
President Cho (left) serves a piece of Injeolmi rice cake to Ambassador Vaivars of Latvia (second from right). At right is Embassy Staffer Ms. Liga Tarvide of Latvia.
Those with the ITL license will then be dispatched to various parts of the world where developing countries desperately call for teachers. On July 10th, he successfully recruited Professor Sung-Hoe Kim of University of California-Berkeley as INU's Chaired Professor. For his discovery of tRNA in 1973, Professor Kim has been repeatedly recommended for the Nobel Prize.
He received a doctoral degree from Harvard Business School in 1976, and worked at Boston Consulting Group in Boston, Massachusetts and Gulf Oil Corporation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before joining SNU in 1978. He was a visiting professor at Harvard Business School, University of Michigan, Boston University, Duke University, INSEAD, Helsinki School of Economics (now Aalto University), University of Sydney, the University of Tokyo, Hitotsubashi University, Peking University, Zhejiang University, and Nankai University.
Ambassador Vaivars of Latvia (standing) proposes a toast at a luncheon.
Among the 68 books that he authored or coauthored are 17 English titles that include The General Trading Company by Lexington Books (1986), Tiger Technology: the Rise of the Semiconductor Industry in Asia by Cambridge University Press (1999), From Adam Smith to Michael Porter: Evolution of Competitiveness Theory by World Scientific (First edition in 2000, Extended edition in 2012), Design Management, Management Design by SNU Press (2011), IPS National Competitiveness Research by IPS (every year from 2001 through 2016), International Review of National Competitiveness: A Detailed Analysis of Sources and Rankings, by Edward Elgar (2013), and Mechanism-Based View: The Fourth Paradigm in Strategic Management (planned for 2017).
Five of his books have been translated into Chinese language: 南朝鮮企業的國際經營事例 (人民出版社, 1991), SER-M 經營 (南開大學出版社, 2000), 决定女人一生的两种选择 (中国友谊出版公司, 2009), and 技术撬动战略: 21世纪产业升级之路 (北京大学出版社, 2009). The fifth book is being translated under the title 机制基础观点.
He wrote 3 novels, The Rose and the Wild Rose (2007) which brought him the "Literary Award for New Novelist," and Itoh Hirobumi, Shooting Ahn Joong-Geun (2009) that has become the basis of the theatric play under the same title. The third book is Sequel to the Rose and the Wild Rose (2014).
He published 115 academic papers in major journals such as Organization Science, Research Policy, Journal of World Business, Journal of Management & Organization, Journal of Organizational Behavior, International Journal of Advertising, and Long Range Planning.
At SNU, he was Dean of the College of Business Administration, 2001-2003 and Dean of the Graduate School of International and Area Studies, 1999-2001. He also served SNU as the Founding Managing Director of SNU Development Foundation, which has led SNU as the pioneer in fund-raising in Korea. He was President of Korean Academic Society of Business Administration, which is the flagship organization in Korea representing 87 functionally-oriented academic societies in business administration. He also chaired Korean Association of Academic Societies, which is the umbrella organization of 651 academic societies that encompass humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering, and others.
He has pioneered new frontiers in, and conducted extensive research into, management theories on the subjects of the General Trading Company (1978-1985), Korea's Chaebol Group (1985-present), National Competitiveness (1986-present), Design Theory and Management Design (1993-present), the Subject-Environment-Resource-Mechanism (SER-M) Model to categorically identify causes of the effects (1973-present), and most importantly the Mechanism-Based View (MBV) of strategy (1992-present).
He has actively researched into the issues of competitiveness of nations, competitiveness of cities, and nation brand, having published annual reports respectively on rankings of the 3 above-mentioned issues. He had consulted the governments of Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Honduras, and United Arab Emirates to increase the level of national competitiveness of each of these countries. He has actively promoted start-ups of college students since 2000. Since then, approximately 30 students at SNU started start-ups, of which at least 7 have successfully gone through either IPO or sell-out.
He retired from SNU in February 2014 after 36 years of continued service. He then moved his residence to China, and started his new career as a full professor at CKGSB, where he taught a new course on "Creativity." State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) of the Chinese government commissioned him with the 3-stage research project to evaluate corporate and social values of 113 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs). SASAC's contract specifically required him to apply the SER-M Model to the development of the valuation model. His first stage report on the Modeling of the SOEs' Valuation was approved, and the second stage project is under way.
He has been active in industry relations. Among the companies he advised are Samsung Group, LG Group, SK Group, POSCO, Hanjin Group (Korean Air), and Kookmin Bank. He has been on the Board of Directors at 15 multinational companies and research organizations, which include Lotte Hotel, Kia Motors, Dongyang Securities, Hynix, Korea Tire, Korea Electric Power Corporation, Korea Gas Corporation, etc.
He was Commissioner of Korea Trade Commission during 2002-2005, Chair of the Committee for Government Innovation Management during 2005-2007, and Co-Chair of the Committee for Synergistic Cooperation between Big and Small Corporations jointly with Prime Minister of Korea during 2006-2008. During 2008-2013, he was the standing member of the Presidential Council for National Competitiveness of Korea, and chaired the Sub-committee for Regulation Reform within the Council.
He chairs Korea Support Committee for the International Vaccine Institute, the UN-created research lab for vaccines needed for children in developing countries. He is on the Board of Directors at Korea National Opera Company, and also on the Board of Directors at Korea Professional Football League. He was Director General of Ahn Jung Geun Memorial & Museum, Chairman of National Nature Trust, Honorary Consul General of Finland in Korea, and Chairman of the Institute of K-Brand Promotion.
In 2007, President of Korea conferred him the Order of Service Merit-Yellow Stripes, which is the second highest order given to any government officers. He also received Presidential Honor in 2004 and the Order of Industrial Merit in 2000 from the government. The academic society repeatedly recognized him for his scholastic works, such as the Economist Award by Maeil Economic Daily, the Award for Free Economics Publication Culture by the Federation of Korean Industries, and the Best Book of the Year in Economics/Business by Korea Management Association. President of Finland awarded him the"The Knight, First Class of the Order of the White Rose of Finland."
The recent poll of business executives and managers placed him on the top in the list of Representative Management Gurus in Korea.
He received Honorary Doctoral Degrees from Inje University, Busan in 2007 and Aalto University, Helsinki in 2010, respectively.
Details of MOU of the scholarship awarded to the children of visiting diplomats:
In recognition of the general importance of international education and existing ties of mutual cooperation and respect, the Embassy and Incheon National University hereby agree to establish a scholarship program specifically designed to enable consuls to nominate students from the countries they represent for full tuition scholarships. The new partnership agreement will enable the Embassy and INU to work together towards providing support that will ensure that talented international students from represented countries will have the opportunity to study in Korea and share their knowledge and enthusiasm, thereby enriching the learning experience for all students.
The scholarships will fund up to four (4) years of full or partial tuition for qualified students each year from each of the 139 members of the Embassy to complete undergraduate or postgraduate studies in a range of disciplines at INU. The Embassy will nominate students from their representative countries, and INU will guarantee an equivalent of one (1) full scholarship for the students having passed the admission process. INU will not discriminate students on the basis of gender, ethnicity, age, physical disability or religion. All applicants will need to meet all requirements for admissions to INU in order to qualify for a scholarship and all applications will be processed alike.
The above activities shall be carried out through close consultation between the Embassy and INU and shall remain in effect for a period of five (5) years from the dates set forth below.
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The sun-drenched South of France home of vineyards, sunflower fields and the world-famous, historic, Canal du Midi. A wonderful canal to cruise along, including one long section that is entirely lock-free.
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Here are 9 healthy foods that are high in vitamin D.
1.Salmon fish: Salmon is a popular fatty fish and a great source of vitamin D. According to the USDA Food Composition Database, one 3.5-ounce (100-gram) serving of salmon contains between 361 and 685 IU of vitamin D.
Sardines are a good source of vitamin D as well — one serving contains 272 IU or 45% of the RDI.
3.Cod Liver Oil: It's an excellent source of vitamin D — at about 450 IU per teaspoon (4.9 ml), it clocks in at a massive 75% of the RDI. It's been used for many years to prevent and treat deficiency in children.
4.Canned Tuna: Many people enjoy canned tuna because of its flavor and easy storage methods. It's also usually cheaper than buying fresh fish. Canned light tuna packs up to 236 IU of vitamin D in a 3.5-ounce (100-gram) serving, which is nearly half of the RDI.
5.Oysters: Oysters are a type of clam that lives in saltwater. They're delicious, low in calories and full of nutrients.
One 3.5-ounce (100-gram) serving of wild oysters has only 68 calories but contains 320 IU of vitamin D — over half the RDI.
6.Shrimp: Shrimp is a popular type of shellfish. Other sea fish is high in fat but shrimp is low in fat and high in vitamin D. Shrimp provide 152 IU of vitamin D per serving.
7.Egg Yolks: People who don't eat fish should know that seafood is not the only source of vitamin D. Whole eggs are another good source, as well as wonderfully nutritious food. Eggs from commercially raised hens contain only about 30 IU of vitamin D per yolk. However, eggs from hens raised outside or fed vitamin D-enriched feed contain much higher levels.
8.Mushroom: Excluding fortified foods, mushrooms are the only plant source of vitamin D. Mushrooms can synthesize vitamin D2 when exposed to UV light. Only wild mushrooms or mushrooms treated with UV light are good sources of vitamin D.
9.Fortified Foods: Natural sources of vitamin D are limited, especially if you're vegetarian or don't like fish. Fortunately, some food products that don't naturally contain vitamin D are fortified with this nutrient. Such as cow's milk, soy milk, orange juice, cereal or oatmeal etc.
Spending time out in the sun is the best way to get your daily dose of vitamin D. However, sufficient sun exposure is difficult for many people to achieve. Getting enough from your diet alone may be difficult, but not impossible.
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SPECTACULAR SUMMER ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN ARE BACK
Jewel of the Seas Departs from Limassol, Cyprus for the First Time Ever
July 2021 – Jewel of the Seas set sail from Limassol, Cyprus for the first time on July 6, marking the European return of a second ship in Royal Caribbean International's global fleet. On a limited series of 7-night cruises from first-time homeport Limassol, Jewel will spend the summer cruising with guests to the sun-soaked shores of Cyprus and the Greek Isles.
MIAMI, July 6, 2021 – Today, Jewel of the Seas embarked on a 2-night preview sailing from Limassol, Cyprus ahead of an inaugural cruise on Saturday, July 10 that will mark the start of the limited summer series of 7-night itineraries to the sun-soaked shores of the Greek Isles. This is the first time Royal Caribbean International calls Cyprus home, offering vacationers and their families adventure and relaxation as they visit a combination of culture-rich cities and idyllic islands, including Limassol, and Athens, Rhodes, Crete, Mykonos and Santorini, Greece.
Jewel will sail with fully vaccinated crew and guests 18 years of age and older, along with children under 18 who are ineligible for the vaccine. As a requirement of the Cypriot government, non-vaccinated vacationers between 12 and 18 must provide negative PCR test results taken within 72 hours of arrival in Cyprus. All guests over the age of 2 must participate in complimentary testing on the day of boarding.
These measures are specific to sailings from Cyprus aboard Jewel this summer, and they will be continuously evaluated as health circumstances evolve. The many layers of health and safety measures, including the vaccination policy and testing requirements, can be viewed here.
"Jewel of the Seas' first sailing out of Cyprus marks the beginning of an exciting return to cruising in Europe for Royal Caribbean," said Ben Bouldin, vice president, EMEA, Royal Caribbean International. "Cyprus is a beautiful country with a multitude of must-visit regions, and it is an extremely popular destination among our European guests – we know they are ready and waiting to enjoy a Cyprus and Greek Isles getaway this summer."
Jewel is one of two Royal Caribbean ships to return to cruising in Europe this week with Anthem of the Seas setting sail from the UK on Wednesday, July 7. The world's largest cruise line is planning for more award-winning ships to return through August, including Harmony of the Seas from Barcelona, Spain. The complete 2021 lineup to date is available here. In the coming weeks, Royal Caribbean will announce plans to reintroduce its full fleet around the globe by year's end.
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Ahmad Muhammad Al-Tayyeb
Grand Imam of AlAzhar Mosque, Grand Sheikh of the Al-Azhar University
Date of Birth: 6 January 1946
Traditional Sunni
Sheikh Ahmad Muhammad al-Tayyeb was appointed as Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar in March 2010, after the passing of his predecessor, Dr Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi. Tayyeb was formerly the president of al-Azhar for seven years and prior to that, served for two years as the most powerful cleric in Egypt as its Grand Mufti.
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Date of Birth: 17 July 1939
Traditional Shi'a
www.leader.ir/en/biography
Grand Ayatollah Khamenei is the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was born in Mashhad, and studied in the leading Iranian religious seminary in Qom, before becoming involved in the struggle with the Pahlavi Regime in the sixties and seventies. He was a key figure in the revolution in 1979 and served as President between 1981-1989 before succeeding Ayatollah Khomeini as Supreme Leader upon the latter's death. He has vocally supported most of the unrest in the Arab World, likening it to the Iranian Revolution.
Sheikh Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Aal Al-Sheikh
Grand Mufti of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Date of Birth: 10 February 1941
Salafi (Wahabi)
As the Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Aal Al-Sheikh has the highest position of religious authority in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He is an Islamic scholar based in Makkah and has influence as a leading cleric of the expansive global movement of Salafi Muslims.
Mufti Muhammad Akhtar Raza Khan Qaadiri Al-Azhari
Barelwi Leader and Spiritual Guide
Date of Birth: 2 February 1943
Hanafi, Traditional Sunni
www.alahazrat.net
Mufti Muhammad Akhtar Raza Khan is the leader of the Indian Barelwis and considered by his followers as the Grand Mufti of India. He is the great-grandson and successor of one of the most influential sub-continental Islamic scholars in history: Ahmad Raza Khan (d.1921), who founded the Barelwi movement in South Asia.
Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Islamic scholar and founder of Minhaj ul Qur'an International
www.minhaj.org
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri is a Pakistani politician and Islamic scholar of Sufism. He was also a professor of international constitutional law at the University of the Punjab. Qadri is also the founding chairman of Minhaj-ul-Quran International.
Hazrat Allama Syed Hashmi Miyan Ashrafi Jeelani
Sufi Scholar
Date of Birth: 8 July 1947
Sufi, Hanafi, Sunni
Hazrat Allama Syed Hashmi Miyan Ashrafi Jeelani is a Sufi Scholar.
Grand Ayatullah Sayyid Ali Husaini Sistani
Marja of the Hawza, Najaf, Iraq
Date of Birth: 4 August 1930
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hussein Sistani is the prime marja, or spiritual reference for Ithna'Ashari'a (Twelver) Shi'a Muslims. He is the leading sheikh of the Hawza Seminary in Najaf, Iraq and the preeminent Shi'a cleric globally. Sistani is one of the most respected of the marjaiyya–the highest position of authority in the Usuli school of Twelver Shi'a fiqh.
Sheikh Ahmad Al Kubaisi
Founder of the Ulama Organization in Iraq
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Sheikh Dr Ahmed Kubaisi is a very popular Sunni cleric and preacher in Iraq, who preaches for the end of foreign occupation in Iraq and the institution of an Islamic state. To this end he is a spokesperson of the Sunni Ulema Council, an important association of Sunni Muslim scholars in Iraq. Kubaisi leads prayers that are televised worldwide from the state mosque of Abu Dhabi.
Sheikh Hamza Yusuf Hanson
Teacher and Co-founder of Zaytuna College, USA
Ash'ari, Maliki, Traditional Sunni
Sheikh Hamza Yusuf Hanson is one of the most influential Islamic figures in the Western world. He is seen as one of the foremost authorities on Islam outside of the Muslim world. He is a co-founder of the Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, the first accredited Muslim liberal arts college in the USA.
Habib Ali Zain Al Abideen Al-Jifri
Director General of the Tabah Foundation, UAE
Sufi, Shafi'i, Traditional Sunni
Tracing his lineage to the family of 'Ali, the fourth Caliph of Islam and cousin of the Prophet Muhammad, Habib 'Ali Zain al Abideen Al-Jifri is a leading Islamic scholar and prominent speaker in the Muslim world. Al-Jifri is Director General of the Tabah Foundation in the UAE, member of the board of Dar al Mustafa in Yemen, member of the Royal Aal Al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought in Jordan, and affiliated with various other international Islamic organizations.
Sheikh Dr Yusuf Al Qaradawi
Head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars
Muslim Brotherhood, Salafi, Sunni
Yusuf al-Qaradawi is an Egyptian Islamic theologian based in Doha, Qatar, and chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars.
Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah
President of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies
Maliki, Traditional Sunni
Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayyah's influence is derived from his scholarship, piety and preaching. Uniquely, all of the different sects and schools of Muslims respect him as a scholar. A testament to this is the notable fact that whilst he is not a Salafi, the Saudi government promulgates his fatwas as authoritative. He is an instructor at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah and was the deputy head of the Union of Muslim Scholars having previously been a Judge at the High Court of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and the Head of Shariah Affairs at the Ministry of Justice.
Habib Luthfi bin Yahya
Date of Birth: 10 November 1947
Habib bin Luthfi is currently the Ra'is 'Amm of the Jam'iyyah Ahli Thariqah al-Mu'tabarah al-Nahdliyah, Head of MUI Middle Java, and the spiritual leader of the Ba Alawi tariqah in Indonesia. The Ba Alawi are descendants of the Prophet (PBUH) who migrated to Hadramaut in Yemen early on in Islamic history. They played the major role in bringing Islam to the Far East, including Indonesia and Malaysia, and they hold high prominence to this day.
Sheikh Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun
Grand Mufti of Syria
Shafi'i, Sunni
Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun is Grand Mufti of Syria.
Mohammad bin Mohammad Al-Mansour
Imam of the Zaidi Sect of Shi'a Muslims
Traditional Zaidi Shia
Mohammad bin Mohammad Al-Mansour is the Imam of the Zaidi branch of the Shia sect of Muslims, one of the three main branches of Shia Islam. With approximately ten million followers, Zaidis constitute almost half the entire population of Yemen and around 3 percent in Saudi Arabia.
Habib Umar bin Hafiz
Director of Dar Al Mustafa, Tarim, Yemen
Shafi'i, Traditional Sunni
Habib Umar bin Hafiz is well known for his Prophetic lineage and status as one of the most influential Sufi scholars alive today. His influence through scholarship and preaching is vast in the Middle East, Indonesia and East Africa especially. He is also incredibly influential through his leadership of the Ba' Alawi movement. He has been touring Europe and the US regularly in the past few years in response to his growing following there.
Sheikh Usama al-Sayyid Al-Azhari
Sunni Scholar
Sheikh Usama Al-Sayed Al-Azhari is an Azhari scholar, preacher, an academic and a Senior Fellow of Kalam Research & Media. He teaches Hadith, Logic, and Islamic Creed at the renowned Al-Azhar Mosque's Riwaq al-Atrak in Cairo, Egypt. He also holds a teaching post in the Faculty of Usul al-Din and Da`wah at Al-Azhar University, Egypt.
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How Sharon Tate's Murder Began a Victims' Rights Movement
Rachel Monroe's Savage Appetites explores the role of women in true crime, from detective to perpetrator and all the fans in between.
Promoted by Scribner | By Catherine Phelan | Published Aug 28, 2020
Photo Credit: Farida Davletshina / Unsplash
If you've spent any time in the true crime world at all, it quickly becomes clear that much of the modern fascination is driven primarily by women. From true crime conventions to podcasts, women's voices and interests shape the world of murder.
In Savage Appetites, Rachel Monroe, herself a true crime fiend, explores the many roles women have in crime—not just as fans and consumers, but as detectives, victims, "defenders", and as perpetrators. We're thrilled to be including this fascinating look into the fears, empathy, and search for meaning that exemplifies the true crime community as one of the books in the August/September Creepy Crate.
Below, you'll meet Doris Tate, mother of Sharon Tate. The Manson murders were not only a key moment in American history, with their intersection of race, Hollywood, and a sociopathic cult leader, but were also a major factor in the growth of the victims' rights movements. Doris leaned on the notoriety of her daughter's murder to attempt to bring broader change to the methods of justice.
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Savage Appetites
By Rachel Monroe
Doris Tate, a folksy, charming grandmother who baked cookies for people she liked and cursed out the ones she didn't, was a perfect figurehead for the nascent victims' rights movement. Her daughter was famous and beautiful, the victim of one of the most high-profile crimes of the century. Doris knew how to turn up her Texas accent, to sprinkle her conversation with down-home sayings: "Sometimes you just have to turn shit into ice cream." She called politicians "darlin'," and they found it difficult to say no to her. "Doris just steamrolled into a room," a fellow victims' rights activist told me. "There was no one else. You did what she told you to do." In the 1980s, as the victims' rights movement gained momentum, she became the first member of a victim's family to speak at a parole hearing in California; she was also the first person in the state to make a victim-impact statement: "What about my family?" she asked Tex Watson at his 1984 parole hearing. "When will [Sharon] come up for parole? When will I come up for parole? Can you tell me that?"
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As society turned its attention to victims, victimhood became an increasingly contested space, with right and wrong ways to inhabit the role. In 1990, Suzan LaBerge used her victim-impact statement to argue for leniency on behalf of Watson, who had killed her mother, Rosemary LaBianca, the night after the murders at Cielo Drive. Watson had spent twenty years in prison, and LaBerge, a devout Christian, believed that he was sincerely repentant and deserved another chance. The whole thing made Doris Tate furious. Victim-impact statements were not supposed to be used to advocate for criminals, particularly not serial murderers such as Watson, she believed. Doris confronted LaBerge in the parking lot following the parole board hearing: You know, your mother is probably rolling in her grave because of what you did today, she told the younger woman. Then Doris went on TV to make sure everyone else understood. "If Suzan LaBerge were here in this room, what would you say?" an interviewer asked. "You dumb shit," Doris snapped. "That's what I'd probably say to her."
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Now that she had a cause, Doris was inexhaustible. She appeared on talk shows and radio shows and lobbied politicians. By 1985, she was a board member of Citizens for Truth, Justice for Homicide Victims, the California Justice Committee, and Believe the Children. She founded the Coalition for Victims' Equal Rights and volunteered with the Victim Offender Reconciliation Group. She developed a strong distaste for Rose Bird, the first female chief justice of the California Supreme Court, who consistently overturned death penalty verdicts. In 1986, Doris went on The Phil Donahue Show to lobby against Bird. "One thing is certain," Doris told Donahue, working her drawl. "[The death penalty] will cut down on recidivism because the guy that goes to the gas chamber, well, my dear, he's one less we have to worry about." That November, voters overwhelmingly elected to oust Bird; it was the first time a sitting chief justice had ever been removed in California. Over the next several years, California's Supreme Court upheld death sentences at one of the highest rates in the country.
Though Doris's activism gave her life new meaning, it also caused trouble at home. When she appeared on Geraldo, she offered up the family's address in Palos Verdes, encouraging grieving parents to write to her. She freely gave out their phone number, too, and victims called at all hours, interrupting family dinners and birthday parties. "Everyone in the world could call that house, and they did," Robin Olson, a friend of Patti Tate's, told me. The more engaged and active that Doris Tate became, the more disengaged her husband grew. When TV crews lugged their equipment into the house for yet another interview with Doris, P.J. would disappear upstairs, shutting the bedroom door firmly behind him. He didn't participate in Parents of Murdered Children meetings. "I love my dad," Debra told me, then heaved a sigh. "To a man like my father, a military man with a stiff backbone who's been trained by the military regime to not have feelings—he didn't want to have anything to do with it. He'd kind of make fun of it." His drinking intensified, and he was fine, or fine-ish, when he stuck to beer, but he grew volatile when he drank hard liquor. (Debra also told me that P.J. was physically abusive to both Sharon and Doris, which adds another dimension to Doris's activism on behalf of victimized women, and P.J.'s dismissal of it.)
Doris Tate in her interview with Bill Nelson.
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Around this time Doris met Bill Nelson, the radio host and self-appointed Manson researcher who would later befriend Lisa Statman. Like Doris, Nelson was deeply disturbed at the idea of Tex Watson—a man he called "more dangerous than Manson"—getting out of prison, and he and Doris made common cause in preventing this from happening. When Doris Tate went to Stockholm as the US representative for the International Victims' Rights Conference in 1990, she brought Nelson along with her. Doris's daughters found Nelson off-putting, but their mother tolerated him. Sure, he could be bombastic and arrogant, a smooth-voiced bully in the Rush Limbaugh mold, but he was also usefully tenacious. To build a case against Watson getting parole, Nelson tracked down Watson's high school classmates in Texas and probed the finances of his prison ministry, sniffing for fraud.
Related: 50 Years Later: The Manson Family and the Gruesome Murder of Sharon Tate
Nelson was particularly incensed that Watson had fathered four children in prison through conjugal visits, and that their mother received public assistance. Every time Watson's wife and kids moved, Nelson found out their new address. He lurked outside the prison with his telephoto lens and took photographs of the children on their way to visit their father. He sent endless letters to public officials: "If this is the year of family values and welfare reform, how can we let this go?" he demanded of the California attorney general. "That is unspeakable!" he wrote the governor. "It is financial!" (Nelson had no such problem with Manson Family member Susan Atkins, aka Sexy Sadie, with whom he exchanged friendly letters. Nelson visited Atkins in prison a few times and declared her to be "a very attractive mature forty-three-year-old women [sic] and still quite sexy.")
In 1990, Doris Tate agreed to an on-camera interview with Bill Nelson. They sat facing each other in a formal living room, surrounded by brocaded furniture and gilt-edged frames. In the video of the interview that Nelson later released on VHS, Doris is poised in neutral tones, her hair upswept; Nelson has traded his typical polo shirt for a suit and tie. It's impossible to watch this interview without becoming transfixed by Nelson's face as he talks to Doris about her dead daughter. His eyes are bright and eager; a persistent, inappropriate grin twitches the corners of his mouth. He looks—there's no other word for it—excited.
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During the interview, Nelson corrects Doris about a minor fact related to the case. He has always had a pedant's fixation on details, been careful to get the proper nouns right—that Tex Watson drove a white-and-yellow 1959 Ford that night, that the firearm he had with him was a nine-shot .22-caliber Hi Standard Ned Buntline revolver. Doris reminds him that she hasn't read any of the books about Sharon's murder. Nelson smiles and says that he's read nineteen or twenty. He likes that she hasn't read them, he tells her. That way he can get her fresh reaction to things. "Let me read you something you've not read," he says.
"I haven't read any of it," Doris says again.
Related: 15 Riveting True Crime Books Written by Women
Nelson peers down his nose at a sheaf of papers and begins, " 'As Sharon pleaded for her life, sitting on the couch, Susan [Atkins] says, "It felt so good the first time I stabbed her. When she screamed at me, it did something to me, sent a rush through me. I stabbed her again. I just kept stabbing her until she stopped screaming. It was just like going into nothing."' " He goes on and on; the recitation feels interminable. Doris sits quietly, her back straight; she must have realized that she wasn't there as an interviewee, but as a player in some perverse psychodrama concocted by Nelson. He goes on and on, talking about Sharon's innocence, talking about how it was violated. He describes Susan Atkins saying that seeing Sharon's blood spurting out felt like a sexual release. He finally looks up at Doris. "That's your daughter," he says unnecessarily.
Doris does what she can to steer the conversation back to policy issues. She talks about parole, about conjugal visits. But Nelson isn't finished: "Sharon was so delicate. She had sixteen stab wounds ... Are you aware that they intended to dismember the bodies? Did you know that?"
It's remarkable how stoic Doris remains during this onslaught, as Nelson obsessively circles back to those last twenty minutes Sharon was alive, as if her death were the central fact of her life, the thing that makes her worth thinking about. Or perhaps Doris's composure is not remarkable at all; the worst has already happened, and the whole tawdry aftermath—including this man's lingering fascination with her daughter's body and what was done to it—is just the long shadow cast by the original crime. Talking about stabbing is not as bad as stabbing. Even so, this conversation feels like a violation.
Related: The Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America
The word victim is rooted in the Latin victima, which means "sacrificial animal." This feels apt, but in an awful way. Because she's dead, the victim can become whatever people need her to be. Because she's dead, we can say anything we want about her, and she can't talk back. For some people, she is more valuable this way: holy, symbolic, silent.
Not long after this interview, Doris Tate severed her relationship with Bill Nelson. One of his many antagonists had let Doris know that Nelson had once been charged with felony counts of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child; the two girls in question had been twelve years old. He pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge, spent two years on probation, and registered as a sex offender.
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Lady Gaga announced on Twitter that she has been hiding an injury and is going to have to cancel her shows in Chicago, Detroit and Hamilton.
"There's an unfortunate announcement coming out right now, concerning myself and the Born This Ball.
Im so sorry. I barely know what to say. I've been hiding a show injury and chronic pain for sometime now,over the past month it has worsened. I've been praying it would heal.
I hid it from my staff, I didn't want to disappoint my amazing fans. However after last nights performance I could not walk and still can't.
To the fans in Chicago Detroit and Hamilton I hope you can forgive me, as it is nearly impossible for me to forgive myself. Im devasted [sic] and sad. It will hopefully heal as soon as possible, I hate this. I hate this so much. I love you and I'm sorry."
UPDATE: Lady Gaga has canceled the remaining shows in hour Born this Way Ball Tour due to her hip injury. It has been reported that she will have to go in for surgery. Keep it real Gags!


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El  fue una política de relaciones exteriores del shogunato Tokugawa, donde nadie, fuera extranjero o japonés, podía entrar al país ni salir de él, bajo pena de muerte. Estuvo en vigencia desde 1639, cuando se expulsó de Japón a todos los extranjeros europeos, particularmente los comerciantes y misioneros católicos provenientes de España y de Portugal que habían llegado a las islas japonesas en gran número durante la segunda mitad del .

La instauración del sakoku no implicaba el aislamiento completo de Japón, sino que todas las relaciones comerciales o culturales de Japón con el resto del mundo se mantendrían en un nivel muy reducido, y siempre bajo el control directo del bakufu, impidiendo así que cualquier súbdito japonés intentase mantener contacto con extranjeros de modo particular. De hecho, este último supuesto estaba severamente prohibido. El bakufu pretendía con ello eliminar la posible amenaza de ataques extranjeros que implicaba la presencia de misioneros católicos españoles o portugueses, considerando que ambas potencias mantenían importantes colonias en Asia Oriental (como Filipinas o Macao); en esos años aún persistía la unión política de España y Portugal, y el shogunato Tokugawa temía un ataque militar español o portugués y consideró que prohibir el libre contacto con los extranjeros era una manera de impedirlo.

Asimismo, el bakufu veía con gran desconfianza al catolicismo al cual se habían adherido los daimyo locales de Kyūshū, y que introducía una ideología extranjera potencialmente peligrosa para el centralismo de los Tokugawa. Tras las guerras de Toyotomi Hideyoshi, su sucesor Tokugawa Ieyasu ansiaba establecer un gobierno absoluto y unificado en Japón, luchando así por suprimir, por la persuasión o la violencia, todo desafío a sus planes. Precisamente el sakoku era una herramienta útil para este fin.

Los únicos contactos de Japón con los extranjeros durante la vigencia del sakoku se mantuvieron con el reino de Chosen (en la actual Corea) en la isla de Tsushima, con la Dinastía Ming de China mediante las islas Ryukyu dependientes del clan Shimazu, y con las Provincias Unidas de los Países Bajos mediante el islote artificial de Dejima (situado en la bahía de Nagasaki), siendo que ya en 1613 los comerciantes de Inglaterra habían abandonado Japón sin esperar al sakoku ante la silenciosa hostilidad de los Tokugawa. Cabe destacar que en estos tres casos las operaciones de intercambio comercial se realizaban en pequeñas islas, zonas específicamente alejadas del territorio japonés propiamente dicho, siendo que el bakufu en realidad apreciaba mantener un contacto reducido con el mundo exterior, lo suficiente para conocer avances tecnológicos y la situación político-económica externa (especialmente apreciada al contactar con la dinastía Ming de China y con los neerlandeses) pero lo bastante restringido para evitar influencias foráneas sobre el pueblo nipón.

Asimismo debe tenerse en cuenta que a los extranjeros participantes en el intercambio del sakoku se les prohibía estrictamente salir de dichas zonas para entrar en territorio japonés (salvo para visitas de homenaje a la corte del shōgun), ni se permitía a los comerciantes japoneses la libre entrada a dichas islas, debiendo tener un previo permiso del bakufu para estas operaciones.

A lo largo de los años existieron tentativas de diversas potencias extranjeras para forzar el fin de sakoku y exigir una apertura del Japón al mundo exterior de modo irrestricto, siendo que ya en 1647 hubo un fallido intento de galeones hispano-portugueses de penetrar en Nagasaki por la fuerza. Desde fines del siglo XVIII hubo intentos desde Rusia, Francia, Estados Unidos y Gran Bretaña por contactar con Japón, ya fuera enviando embajadas o desembarcando comerciantes (siendo siempre rechazadas ambas clases de intento). Tras la guerra del Opio, el Reino de los Países Bajos consideró prudente enviar una carta oficial al propio bakufu alertando sobre los avances imperialistas de Gran Bretaña en Asia Oriental, pero en Japón se desoyeron tales advertencias, pese a que la élite intelectual estaba bien informada (y preocupada) sobre el creciente poderío de las grandes potencias de Europa, temiendo que Japón quedase rezagado sin remedio si los europeos forzaban la ruptura del sakoku.

El sistema de sakoku duró en la práctica hasta 1853, año en que el Comodoro Matthew Perry se presentó en la misma bahía de Tokio (y no en Nagasaki) con una flota de buques de guerra estadounidenses para exigir la apertura comercial y forzó posteriormente la firma por parte de Japón del tratado de Kanagawa. El término sakoku, sin embargo, no se utilizó sino hasta el . A pesar de la apertura iniciada en 1853, aún era ilegal para los japoneses abandonar el territorio de su país hasta que lo permitió la restauración Meiji.

Véase también
 Seclusión
 Aislacionismo
 Historia del catolicismo en Japón
 Kirishitan
 Comercio Nanban
 Incidente del San Felipe

Referencias

Período Edo
Relaciones internacionales de Japón
Historia económica de Japón
Términos históricos japoneses

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Like it or not, one day the oil will run out, the petrol pumps will run dry and we'll be left looking for a new way to keep the wheels turning.
Thankfully, we're unlikely to be left stranded, as carmakers have been ploughing millions into the development of technologies that'll see us motoring well into the future.
Generally, there are two schools of thought: battery electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cells, with the former being the first to be widely offered, thanks to a well established global electricity infrastructure.
However, battery electric cars don't free cars from their dependence on fossil fuels, but rather just move their consumption further up the energy supply chain. Fuel cell vehicles, however, run on hydrogen, the most abundant element on the planet – though development has been hamstrung largely by a lack of energy efficient way to extract and refine it, as well as there currently being a shortage of hydrogen filling stations.
That hasn't stopped Toyota from sticking by the technology as its bet on the future of sustainable mobility, and has even gone as far as to call out the critics who called BS on hydrogen cars, by fuelling its new fuel cell model, the Mirai, with just that.
Yes, the video below shows just how you can cleanly power a car using nothing but cow manure. It's a clever use of a waste product generated in massive quantities, and just one way of producing hydrogen in quantities large enough to keep the traffic flowing. Still think hydrogen cars are full of s**t? Check out the film below.


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Los Angeles Opera Photo Preview: THE MEDIUM & THE MONKEY'S PAW (Pacific Opera Project)
by Tony Frankel on October 27, 2017
in Theater-Los Angeles
TAKE A PAWS
Pacific Opera Project (POP) is serving up six spooky performances of the world premiere of LA-based composer Brooke deRosa's The Monkey's Paw. This is the company's first presentation of a world premiere opera, and it is paired with Gian Carlo Menotti's The Medium, one of his best works. Performances begin tonight, October 27, at The Highland Park Ebell Club and continue the following weekend at the Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica. To whet your appetite, here are the new production photos.
Both operas feature spooky stories about the paranormal, just in time for Halloween. deRosa's The Monkey's Paw is based on W. W. Jacobs's 1902 supernatural short story, in which three wishes are granted to the holder of a monkey's hand; the wishes come true with a tremendous price for meddling with fate. The Medium is a two-act, one-hour opera about a paranoid alcoholic medium who holds a fake séance and is surprised when she actually feels a phantom hand clutching her throat.
Cast members for The Medium include Maria Lopez (Madame Flora), Chelsea Friedlander (Monica), Marina Harris (Mrs. Gobineau), Ariel Pisturino (Mrs. Nolan), Phil Meyer (Mr. Gobineau), and David Childs (Toby). Cast members for The Monkey's Paw include Marina Harris (Mother), Phil Meyer (Father), William Grundler (Herbert), Ben Lowe (Sgt. Major), and David Childs (Carriage Driver). The operas are sung in English, and are led by Music Director Douglas Sumi and directed by Artistic Director Josh Shaw.
HERE ARE THE MEDIUM PHOTOS
HERE ARE THE MONKEY'S PAW PHOTOS
photos by Martha Benedict
The Medium & The Monkey's Paw
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Q: Sql Server Relation is any scientific reason to create a table with self join and 1 to many  relation in the same table >>>
what i need is explain why we can't do this
thanks for your time .

A: Yes, they are perfectly valid situations that need such relations.
For example when you store a Tree on a table. Each node will have links to its childs (through a ParentId column), so it will have a relation 1 to many with itself.

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As evangelical Christians we uphold the Bible to be the final word on all matters. And yet, can we go to the Bible for guidance in matters of bioethical controversy? How can a book written in pre-scientific times, in a world technologically primitive and predominantly rural give us answers to the questions that modern technological advances has thrown up?


It has just been a year since the Jaguar XJ-R was launched globally and it seems that a facelift is already on its way. A faintly masked test mule of the facelifted Jaguar XJ-R has been spotted undergoing trials near the Nurburgring in Germany. The camouflage was used only at the front and rear which indicates the areas which have been affected by the facelift.
The front of the new XJ-R will get new bumpers with larger intakes. The grille also has been extended outwards and downsized leaving more space for the intake below it. The rear bumpers have also been restyled. All other components on the outside seem to be untouched.
Most of the changes are expected inside the car, with new trim options and the latest version for the infotainment system. The engine is expected to be retained for the XJ-R, which is a 5.0-litre turbocharged unit producing 542bhp and 680Nm of torque. This engine will also be shared with Land Rover in the 2015 Range Rover Sport RS.
The XJ has been one of the most popular cars in Jaguar's lineup with most of its sales coming from China. The company's flagship sedan is available in India only in the XJ-L avatar in four variants with two engine options. Prices range from Rs 1.26 crore for the base 3.0 V6 to Rs 1.84 crore for the 5.0 V8. The car competes with other luxury sedans like the new Mercedes-Benz S500, Audi A8L and the BMW 7 Series.


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Myron MICHAILIDIS
Myron Michailidis is regarded today as one of the most important Greek conductors of his generation. His vivid conducting style is characterized by conviction and authority coupled by outstanding dynamic control and variety of expression. Since 2011 he has been serving as Artistic Director of The Greek National Opera (GNO), following his former position as General Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of The Thessaloniki National Orchestra (TSSO), a post held since 2004. Between 1999 until 2004, Maestro Michailidis was Permanent Conductor at the Opera of Eastern Saxony in Germany.
Born in 1968 in Crete, Maestro Michailidis studied piano in Athens with Dimitris Toufexis and conducting at the Music Academy in Berlin with Hans-Martin Rabenstein, Miltiadis Karydis and Simon Rattle. He also holds a law degree from the Athens University.
His diverse repertoire ranges from classical to contemporary, and his conducting credits span the symphonic and operatic and choral worlds. In addition to the core symphonic and operatic composers, he is a great proponent of the music of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff with recordings of international acclaim, whereas in the operatic field, his interpretations of composers such as Verdi, Gounod, Puccini, are particularly noteworthy, resulting in collaborations with the finest stage directors and set designers of the world.
While with the TSSO, Maestro Michailidis has led concerts at various festivals in Greece and abroad. In December 2007, during the celebration events of the Cultural Year of Greece in China, he took the Orchestra on tour in Beijing China, host of the 2008 Olympic Games. He has conducted several important orchestras in Germany, Israel, Italy, Czech Republic, Mexico, Slovakia, Poland, Rumania, Portugal, Taiwan, such as: Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Roma Symphonic Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Bucharest National Opera, George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Μexico State Orchestra, Οdessa Philharmonic, as well as all major orchestras in Greece.
Maestro Michailidis is also a prolific recording artist. He has recorded for EMI Classics and repeatedly for Naxos, as well as for numerous Greek labels and the Greek Radio. His recent recording of Beethoven's 3rd and 4th piano concertos with Aldo Ciccolini, has already brought him into the international spotlight, whereas his recordings of works byIldebrando Pizzetti with Naxos received in 2009, a Five Diapasons award in "Diapason". In addition, the "Greek Classics" CD featuring works by Greek composers for the same label, was given the "Supersonic Award" by the Pizzicato Classics in Luxembourg and was recommended from NAXOS for two Grammy awards.
Maestro Michailidis has collaborated with distinguished artists such as, Paul Badura-Skoda, Salvatore Accardo, Aldo Ciccolini, Cyprien Katsaris,Ivo Pogorelich, Lars Vogt, Shlomo Mintz, Misha Maisky, Vadim Repin, Martino Tirimo, June Anderson, Cheryl Studer, Paata Burchuladze, Fazil Say, and several others.
In 2009 Maestro Michailidis received the prestigious Honorable Award from the Greek Critics Association for Music and Theater.
In 2013 Maestro Michailidis conducted Otello, Macbeth, Madama Butterfly and Vespri siciliani in Athen.
In 2014/2015 Maestro Michailidis conducts Carmen in Herodes Atticus, Tristan und Isolde in Athen and Lohengrin in Bukarest.
Myron Michailidis dirigiert die Neuproduktion Carmen in Herodes Atticus mit Vorstellungen am 26., 28., 30. und 31. Juli 2015. Änderungen vorbehalten


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Q: How to calculate rows in query PHP MySQL? I have to 2 rows of query of sum_hour(double type) in database
1st row = sum_hour = 2.75
2nd row = sum_hour = 3.00
It belongs inside 2(two) groups which is type_move = 'P' and (start date >= 2016-11-11 AND end_date <= 2016-11-15) group. The code as below :
<?php
    $sql    = "SELECT  sum_hour,
                    SUM(sum_hour)
                    FROM table
                    WHERE type_move = 'P' AND user_id='username' AND (start_date >= '2016-11-11' AND end_date <= '2016-11-15')
                    GROUP BY sum_hour ";

    $result = mysqli_query($connect, $sql);
    if($result && mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0)
    {
        while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result))
        {
            $hour = $row['sum_hour'];
            echo " Hours = " .$hour. "
";
            print_r($row);
        }

        echo "Total hours = " .$hour. "
";

    mysqli_free_result($result);
    }
    else
    {
        echo mysqli_error($connect);
    }
?>

And the output as below :
Hours = 2.75
Hours = 3.00
Total hours = ?
My question is , how to calculate 2 rows (Hours) above ? I tried to run sql statement in phpmyadmin. It work and i can see the value sum up into = 5.75 but i don't know how to echo the total in browser
Thanks.

A: Just update your loop with this:
$totalHours = 0;

while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result))
    {
        $hour = $row['sum_hour'];

        $totalHours += $hour;

        echo " Hours = " .$hour. "
";
        print_r($row);
    }

echo "Total hours = " .$totalHours. "
";

You need to store the first value in a variable then add the second one to the first value. Just make sure that the value can be read outside the loop.


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Q: App showing doing too much work in main thread even if the operations are performed in background thread Hi I am getting this message in log every time when execute query. But query is executing in background thread only and Table has not more 500 rows and also I always apply limit 100.
Please don't simply give some link and say this question already answered.
I have read lots of answers in SO regarding this. But still it did not solved my issue. can anybody give me proper reason or solution to my problem?
Choreographer: Skipped 98 frames!  The application may be doing too much work on its main thread.
Following is my runnable class and I am calling it like  new Thread(new MessageLoaderThread(limit)).start();
private class MessageLoaderThread implements Runnable {

        int limit;
        ArrayList<MESSAGE_HEADER> result;

        public MessageLoaderThread(int limit) {
            this.limit = limit;
        }

        @Override
        public void run() {

            showProgressRing(true);

           result = Helper.getRows("Select * from TABLE_NAME LIMIT "+limit);

                    if (result != null) {
                        int count = result.size();

                        if (count > 0) {
                            firstVisibleMessageSeqId = result.get(0).getsequenceId();
                            lastVisibleMessageSeqId = result.get(count - 1).getsequenceId();
                        }
                    }

            if (result != null && result.size() > 0) {
                updateAdapter(result);
            }
            showProgressRing(false);
        }
    }

Thanks

A: I know that you already read a lot of questions. Have you tried to use AsyncTask? Its the default for multi threading in Android.
Try to not update your adapter inside your thread. Android perform some animations when you change some views. Wait the thread to finish and then update your view.

A: If you are still getting the warning after using AsyncTask it is probably because the operations are still heavy and long running. Try using other apis from java.util.concurrent as suggested in the AsyncTask documentation

AsyncTask is designed to be a helper class around Thread and Handler
  and does not constitute a generic threading framework. AsyncTasks
  should ideally be used for short operations (a few seconds at the
  most.) If you need to keep threads running for long periods of time,
  it is highly recommended you use the various APIs provided by the
  java.util.concurrent package such as Executor, ThreadPoolExecutor and
  FutureTask.


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