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A. The Corporation was originally formed on February 7, 2001, as a Delaware corporation under the name "CoolServlets Inc." and changed its name to "Jive Software, Inc." on August 8, 2007. B. This Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation was duly adopted in accordance with Sections 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the "DGCL"), and restates, integrates and further amends the provisions of the Corporation's Certificate of Incorporation, and has been duly approved by the written consent of the stockholders of the Corporation in accordance with Section 228 of the DGCL. The name of the Corporation is Jive Software, Inc. The address of the Corporation's registered office in the State of Delaware, county of New Castle, is 108 West 13th Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801. The name of its registered agent at such address is Business Filings Incorporated. The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted by the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which Corporation's may be organized under the DGCL. 4.1 Authorized Capital Stock. The total number of shares of all classes of capital stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is 300,000,000 shares, consisting of 290,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the "Common Stock"), and 10,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the "Preferred Stock"). 4.2 Increase or Decrease in Authorized Capital Stock. The number of authorized shares of Preferred Stock or Common Stock may be increased or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding) by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority in voting power of the stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, irrespective of the provisions of Section 242(b)(2) of the DGCL (or any successor provision thereto), voting together as a single class, without a separate vote of the holders of the class or classes the number of authorized shares of which are being increased or decreased, unless a vote by any holders of one or more series of Preferred Stock is required by the express terms of any series of Preferred Stock as provided for or fixed pursuant to the provisions of Section 4.4 of this Article IV. (a) The holders of shares of Common Stock shall be entitled to one vote for each such share on each matter properly submitted to the stockholders on which the holders of shares of Common Stock are entitled to vote. Except as otherwise required by law or this certificate of incorporation (this "Certificate of Incorporation" which term, as used herein, shall mean the certificate of incorporation of the Corporation , as amended from time to time, including the terms of any certificate of designations of any series of Preferred Stock), and subject to the rights of the holders of Preferred Stock, at any annual or special meeting of the stockholders the holders of shares of Common Stock shall have the right to vote for the election of directors and on all other matters properly submitted to a vote of the stockholders; provided, however, that, except as otherwise required by law, holders of Common Stock shall not be entitled to vote on any amendment to this Certificate of Incorporation that relates solely to the terms, number of shares, powers, designations, preferences, or relative participating, optional or other special rights (including, without limitation, voting rights), or to qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereon, of one or more outstanding series of Preferred Stock if the holders of such affected series are entitled, either separately or together with the holders of one more other such series, to vote thereon pursuant to this Certificate of Incorporation (including, without limitation, by any certificate of designations relating to any series of Preferred Stock) or pursuant to the DGCL. (b) Subject to the rights of the holders of Preferred Stock, the holders of shares of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive such dividends and other distributions (payable in cash, property or capital stock of the Corporation ) when, as and if declared thereon by the Board of Directors from time to time out of any assets or funds of the Corporation legally available therefor and shall share equally on a per share basis in such dividends and distributions. (c) In the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Corporation , after payment or provision for payment of the debts and other liabilities of the Corporation , and subject to the rights of the holders of Preferred Stock in respect thereof, the holders of shares of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive all the remaining assets of the Corporation available for distribution to its stockholders, ratably in proportion to the number of shares of Common Stock held by them. (a) The Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series pursuant to a resolution or resolutions providing for such issue duly adopted by the Board of Directors (authority to do so being hereby expressly vested in the Board of Directors). The Board of Directors is further authorized, subject to limitations prescribed by law, to fix by resolution or resolutions and to set forth in a certification of designations filed pursuant to the DGCL the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participation, optional or other rights, if any, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, if any, of any wholly unissued series of Preferred Stock, including without limitation authority to fix by resolution or resolutions that dividend rights, dividend rate, conversion rights, voting rights, rights and terms of redemption (including sinking fund provisions), redemption price or prices, and liquidation preferences of any such series, and the number of shares constituting any such series and the designation thereof, or any of the foregoing. (b) The Board of Directors is further authorized to increase (but not above the total number of authorized shares of the class) or decrease (but not below the number of shares of any such series then outstanding) the number of shares of any series, the number of which was fixed by it, subsequent to the issuance of shares of such series then outstanding, subject to the powers, preferences and rights, and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof stated in the Certificate of Incorporation or the resolution of the Board of Directors originally fixing the number of shares of such series. If the number of shares of any series is so decreased, then the shares constituting such decrease shall resume the status which they had prior to the adoption of the resolution originally fixing the number of shares of such series. 5.1 General Powers. The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors. 5.2 Number of Directors; Election; Term. (a) Subject to the rights of holders of any series of Preferred Stock with respect to the election of directors, the number of directors that constitutes the entire Board of Directors of the Corporation shall be fixed solely by resolution of the Board of Directors. Effective Date. At each annual meeting of stockholders, commencing with the first regularly-scheduled annual meeting of stockholders following the Effective Date, each of the successors elected to replace the directors of a Class whose term shall have expired at such annual meeting shall be elected to hold office until the third annual meeting next succeeding his or her election and until his or her respective successor shall have been duly elected and qualified. Subject to the rights of holders of any series of Preferred Stock with respect to the election of directors, if the number of directors that constitutes the Board of Directors is changed, any newly created directorships or decrease in directorships shall be so apportioned by the Board of Directors among the classes as to make all classes as nearly equal in number as is practicable, provided that no decrease in the number of directors constituting the Board of Directors shall shorten the term of any incumbent director. (c) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 5.2, and subject to the rights of holders of any series of Preferred Stock with respect to the election of directors, each director shall serve until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified or until his or her earlier death, resignation, or removal. (d) Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the Bylaws of the Corporation shall so provide. 5.3 Removal. Subject to the rights of holders of any series of Preferred Stock with respect to the election of directors, a director may be removed from office by the stockholders of the Corporation only for cause. 5.4 Vacancies and Newly Created Directorships. Subject to the rights of holders of any series of Preferred Stock with respect to the election of directors, and except as otherwise provided in the DGCL, vacancies occurring on the Board of Directors for any reason and newly created directorships resulting from an increase in the authorized number of directors may be filled only by vote of a majority of the remaining members of the Board of Directors, although less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director, at any meeting of the Board of Directors. A person so elected by the Board of Directors to fill a vacancy or newly created directorship shall hold office until the next election of the class for which such director shall have been assigned by the Board of Directors and until his or her successor shall be duly elected and qualified. In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, the Board of Directors of the Corporation is expressly authorized to adopt, amend or repeal the Bylaws of the Corporation. 7.1 No Action by Written Consent of Stockholders. Except as otherwise expressly provided by the terms of any series of Preferred Stock permitting the holders of such series of Preferred Stock to act by written consent, any action required or permitted to be taken by stockholders of the Corporation must be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of the stockholders and may not be effected by written consent in lieu of a meeting. 7.2 Special Meetings. Except as otherwise expressly provided by the terms of any series of Preferred Stock permitting the holders of such series of Preferred Stock to call a special meeting of the holders of such series, special meetings of stockholders of the Corporation may be called only by the Board of Directors, the chairperson of the Board of Directors, the chief executive officer or the president (in the absence of a chief executive officer), and the ability of the stockholders to call a special meeting is hereby specifically denied. The Board of Directors may cancel, postpone or reschedule any previously scheduled special meeting at any time, before or after the notice for such meeting has been sent to the stockholders. 7.3 Advance Notice. Advance notice of stockholder nominations for the election of directors and of business to be brought by stockholders before any meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation shall be given in the manner provided in the Bylaws of the Corporation. 8.1 Limitation of Personal Liability. To the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, as it presently exists or may hereafter be amended from time to time, a director of the Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director. If the DGCL is amended to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors, then the liability of a director of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, as so amended. The Corporation shall indemnify, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any director or officer of the Corporation who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a "Proceeding") by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another Corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, against expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with any such Proceeding. The Corporation shall be required to indemnify a person in connection with a Proceeding initiated by such person only if the Proceeding was authorized by the Board. Any repeal or amendment of this Article VIII by the stockholders of the Corporation or by changes in law, or the adoption of any other provision of this Certificate of Incorporation inconsistent with this Article VIII will, unless otherwise required by law, be prospective only (except to the extent such amendment or change in law permits the Corporation to further limit or eliminate the liability of directors) and shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of the Corporation existing at the time of such repeal or amendment or adoption of such inconsistent provision with respect to acts or omissions occurring prior to such repeal or amendment or adoption of such inconsistent provision. The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this Certificate of Incorporation (including any rights, preferences or other designations of Preferred Stock), in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by this Certificate of Incorporation and the DGCL; and all rights, preferences and privileges herein conferred upon stockholders by and pursuant to this Certificate of Incorporation in its present form or as hereafter amended are granted subject to the right reserved in this Article IX. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Certificate of Incorporation, and in addition to any other vote that may be required by law or the terms of any series of Preferred Stock, the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 66 2/3% of the voting power of all then outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class, shall be required to amend, alter or repeal, or adopt any provision as part of this Certificate of Incorporation inconsistent with the purpose and intent of, Article V, Article VI, Article VII or this Article IX (including, without limitation, any such Article as renumbered as a result of any amendment, alteration, change, repeal or adoption of any other Article). IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Jive Software, Inc. has caused this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be signed by a duly authorized officer of the Corporation on this day of , 2011.
Since 2003, Single Digits has provided unique, comprehensive solutions to guest internet access that has remained on the cutting edge of the industry. Through flexible solutions custom-fit to the individual needs of customers and a relentless, single-minded pursuit of success, Single Digits continues to serve a global market and be a leader in the New Hampshire high-tech ecosystem. Prior to founding Single Digits in 2003, Bob Goldstein and Steve Singlar both worked as salesmen for Cabletron Systems. While making cold calls was anything but his ideal occupation, Goldstein says that it was there that he first learned the fundamentals of business. His initial experience in sales oriented him around interaction with customers and their satisfaction, which has been a driving focus of Single Digits. After a few years, Goldstein left Cabletron Systems for a startup, RGS Communications Inc., where he installed cable and learned the technical side of the business. They realized that "if we want to move the market, we have to control all of these components," drawing from their previous work in and knowledge of the industry to develop a comprehensive product. Goldstein states that they were "two really hungry sales guys who understood the technology and… focused on what our customers were saying to us." In this way, they "were able to deliver not just a software service but… a turn-key package, which is really how the product is sold." Initially attracted to New Hampshire for an array of reasons, ranging from its business climate and low taxes to its natural beauty, Goldstein and Singlar found the addition of service components to their product—a driving factor of their success—to be made possible by the economic landscape of New Hampshire. This focus on innovation and customer service in the development of its business model has fueled the explosive growth and success that Single Digits has experienced in the past decade. Goldstein's time at RGS Communications during the post-9/11 recession prompted him to begin considering the difference between recurring revenue, which is far easier to secure through providing maintenance services to customers, and product revenue—which Single Digits could likely have been confined to had they remained exclusively focused on software development. The addition of service elements to their software products ultimately fueled a more sustainable revenue model. The development of this successful business model took a "few years of tinkering" during which "the inertia that started to drive revenue took a long time to develop." They invested almost every dollar they made back into Single Digits, sometimes even at the expense of their own paychecks. In the beginning, they resolved that every customer would be profitable. This, according to Goldstein, is "a more thoughtful and conservative approach" that built a sturdy foundation for the growth and success of Single Digits. Looking back, Goldstein says that his biggest resource was having Singlar as a business partner, who functioned as everything from a sanity check to motivation to keep working in the most difficult times the company has seen. "It took two of us," he says, "to convince each other that we were committed [to Single Digits]" in those early years. When asked what words of advice he'd give to young entrepreneurs who stand now where he once stood, Goldstein emphasizes, the need for complete and unwavering commitment to the success of the business. "If you have a backup plan," Goldstein says, "that means you have a plan to fail." Without a certain belief that Single Digits was going to succeed, Goldstein does not believe that it would have. In the future, "my hope and belief," Goldstein says, "is that Single Digits is going to be the predominant provider of enabling access to disparate WiFi networks and making them feel like a cohesive whole." Looking ahead, Goldstein believes that while acquisition by a larger company could be a logical future stage for Single Digits, it could also remain vibrant as a stand-alone enterprise. Regardless of what direction Single Digits goes, the thoughtful approach to business that has fueled and sustained the company's growth will continue to guide its operation and bolster the New Hampshire high-tech scene on the national and global stage.
Every year, Prague attracts almost 15 millions of tourists, according to the data given by CzechTourism. Prague is a really historical city with its ancient buildings. However, all these ancient buildings and hotels have been transformed into fine restaurants and stylish hotels thanks to tourism in the Czech Republic. Located in the centre of Prague, you can just walk to Old Town part of Prague. Only 18 km far to Václav Havel Airport. With first class service for your comfort. Also they provide you not only delicious Czech Cuisine, but also different tastes of world cuisine. You can spend the best time in casino, hair and beauty salon, souvenir shop, massage salon and etc. Also possible for big conferences or meetings. This hotel is located in Vyšehrad, one of the most central places in Prague. The city's oldest castle, the 10th century Vyšehrad, is within a ten minute walk of their hotel. The hotel offers breathtaking panoramic view across the city. Especially, there are extensive executive accommodations and spacious meeting facilities for your business, making this a great opportunity for corporate events. It also includes beauty parlour, hairdressing salon, gift shop, cafe, bar, an array of award-winning restaurants. You can throw away the fatigue of the day when relaxing spa, modern-equipped gym, indoor swimming-pool with panoramic city views, sauna, steam room, solarium, massage and beauty parlour. Situated in the heart of the city, the hotel is within walking distance of all tourist attractions and is a 2-minute walk from Staromesteska metro and tram stops. With its comfortable and elegant rooms, you blend the modern world with the magical historic atmosphere of Prague. The hotel's restaurant serves local and traditional Czech dishes and tastes. The hotel is located in the Old Town Square, only a few steps away from the famous "Astronomical Clock". You can also walk to Prague's cobbled streets of Prague to visit the hotel! The surroundings are surrounded by Prague's most important historical icons such as Charles Bridge, Prague Castle, Wenceslas Square, National Theater and Powder Tower. For those who prefer to stay in the city, we definitely recommend this hotel. Especially with its romantic interior design and unique building built in the 17th century, you can enjoy more of your holiday in Prague; you will feel yourself in a historic scene at your hotel! It is highly preferred by those who enjoy high quality service in a clean environment, mostly romantic city enthusiasts and those staying in a small romantic hotel. It is located in the heart of the city and features state-of-the-art conference and meeting facilities, fine restaurants and a fully equipped health and spa. Florenc Metro Station is just three minutes away and Václav Havel Airport is reached less than half an hour. It has 791 rooms rooms, 37 meeting rooms, congress Hall for up to 1500 people, grand ballroom. You can relax indoor pool, sauna, spa and Fitness Centre. Also here, you can find many different kind of restaurant and bar. This Czech boutique hotel owned by Turkish people– located in the middle of the natural beauty of the Czech Republic — is in the Chodský Újezd regionclose to the German border. As well as, this Czech boutique hotel is close to all many touristic spots. All details are organized organically from the materials used in the rooms of it, up to the food menus of it. *It is possible to swim in Konstantinovy Lázně, which is only 15 minutes far away from this boutique hotel. The hotel is only 2 hours to Prague by car, around 160 km and also, close to Moser Museum which is filled with interesting examples of glass art in Karlovy Vary, Mariánské Lázně which has known as a beautiful spa town, Konstantinovy Lázně which is hidden paradise in the Czech Republic, and many more the tourist area must be seen. In this hotel — located where history and nature meet — Turkish bath, meditation, therapy massages, traditional and healthy menus, daily nature walks among bird sounds, exercise programs is managing by Turkish doctor might be your daily routine!
← Introducing…Blast from the Past! Stay tuned this week as we start posting interviews with famous authors conducted by Artful Dodge editors and staff. First author? Tess Gallagher! If you know me well, or at all, or even from the title of this blog, you can tell that I'm a logophile. What's a logophile, you ask? Why, it's a very rarely used word for a person who loves words! I'm also a bibliophile, an ailurophile, and occasional Anglophile, but that's not important at the moment. This blog post is simply here to serve as a brief (if anything I write is ever brief) introduction to 'A World of Words.' So…here goes!
These wheels have a polished copper custom finish with clear coat. I had the wheels on my 2005 Audi S4 for the spring and summer season putting 5,000 miles or less on them. They are in great condition still with a few minor flaws which I have posted pictures of. One wheel has a small nick on the outer lip from the tires being mounted. Then the two wheels I had on the rear have some scraping to the inner lip of the wheels from rubbing my strut guards. My car is lowered to the ground and with this aggressive fitment I added 5mm spacers to keep this from happening more. The last 2 pictures I posted show both of these flaws. I can provide more pictures upon request. The current tires on the wheels are Nankang NS-20 225/35/19. They are rather worn on the inside because of my excessive camber and bad alignment. I will be removing the tires for sale unless someone close by buys the wheels and can pick them up. Leaving the tires on will inflate shipping costs. With the condition the tires are in, it's not worth the extra money. Plus they are cheap tires to begin with. I would recommend getting the wheels balanced after tires are mounted. I am going to cross list these wheels on vwvortex, audizine, stance works and instagram. These wheels cost me $1900 plus shipping brand new on year ago. I am willing to include the 66.5 to 57.1 hub rings I used for free. Because they are used and have a couple flaws, I will start the price off at $1500 with or without the tires. I have no real wiggle room in the price through ebay. Together eBay and PayPal charge 10% in fees. So I loose $150 just to fees and another $150-$200 to shipping costs. If someone is interested in going straight through PayPal, I may be able to drop the price down to $1400. They will ship UPS or FedEx depending on the location of the buyer and whether the buyer wishes to keep the tires on or take them off. If you would like more information, pictures of fitment questions just let me know and I'd be glad to assist you to the best of my ability.
'We've buried many like Trump': Iranian general warns Tehran knows how to 'fight against US' Members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Navy march during a parade to commemorate the anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88), in Tehran September 22, 2011 © Reuters The senior commander of Iran's Quds Force has reportedly warned that any action against his country will be "regretted," stressing that Tehran has "buried many...like Trump" and knows how to "fight against America," according to Tasnim news agency, as cited by Reuters. Iran: 'All options are on table' if US blacklists Revolutionary Guards "We are not a war-mongering country. But any military action against Iran will be regretted...Trump's threats against Iran will damage America...we have buried many...like Trump and know how to fight against America," Esmail Ghaani, deputy head of the Quds Force, an overseas arm of the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), said, Reuters reported, citing Tasnim news agency. The IRGC is Iran's most powerful security entity and holds control over large portions of the country's economy and has significant influence within its political system. It comes just two days after Iran's foreign minister warned of a tough response if US President Donald Trump goes ahead with threats to scrap a landmark nuclear deal signed under the Obama administration. Speaking during a closed session of parliament on Wednesday, Mohammad Javad Zarif told lawmakers that Iran "will never renegotiate" the deal brokered between Tehran and six world powers, Fars news agency reported. Meanwhile, world leaders and other officials have urged Trump to stick with the deal, with German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel stating on Thursday that "a termination of the Iran agreement would turn the Middle East into a region of hot crises." British Prime Minister Theresa May has also urged Washington to re-certify the deal, calling it "vitally important for regional security." 'Immediate danger of war' if US quits Iran nuclear deal – German FM France has also urged Trump to stick with the deal, with President Emmanuel Macron previously saying it would be a "big mistake" for the US to withdraw, and would risk Iran entering into a "situation very similar to the North Korean situation." The US president has long criticized the agreement, calling it the "worst deal ever negotiated." He reiterated those thoughts on Wednesday, telling Fox News host Sean Hannity that it was "one of the most incompetently drawn deals I've ever seen." Trump's deadline for re-certification of the Iran deal is October 15. Re-certification is part of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (INARA), passed by Congress in May 2015, which requires the president to certify every 90 days that Iran is complying. If Trump chooses to decertify the agreement, it would still remain intact. However, he would essentially place the decision about what to do in the hands of Congress. Lawmakers would then have the option to consider further measures such as sanctions.
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On Tuesday June 19th 2018 (Night before Grand Mark Communications) the well known private investigator "Perry the Mason" will undertake a "not so serious" in-depth look at the Occupational Health and Safety issues reported to have occurred at a recent Advancement Ceremony held in Salisbury Mark Lodge No. 52. Serious charges have been laid against the CEO, Personnel Manager, Paymaster and Union Organiser with the Quality Controller, Security Officer, General Manager and Board Members also being taken to task for their roles in the event. The Lodge welcomes visitors to attend and be part of the evening which not only challenges everyone's knowledge of the Mark Degree but brings it into the 21st Century in a fun way. Brethren are encouraged to have their Ritual Books ready to challenge "Perry" on particular issues that are raised. Visitors may be asked to fill some of the Officers' Chairs as well to add to the enjoyment. The Lodge tyles at 7:30 PM and will leave everyone going to the Festive Board with lots of smiles and unanswered questions to explore further. Hopefully the Festive Board will conclude by 10:15 PM.
PHUKET: The crackdown on bars and clubs along Bangla Rd in Patong was eased this week with provincial officials revealing they will formally request that the government issue special dispensation to allow entertainment venues on Phuket's prime tourist party street to stay open until 4am. The crackdown began last Monday (Jan 30), with all bars along Bangla Rd forced to close at midnight and nightclubs to kick patrons out into the street at 1am. "We have prepared a formal request to be sent to the Permanent Secretary of the Interior Ministry asking for consideration to allow entertainment businesses along Bangla Rd only to stay open – and sell alcohol – until 4am," Phuket Provincial Chief Administrative Officer (Palad) Thawornwat Khongkaew, told The Phuket News on Wednesday (Feb 8). The request is for Bangla Rd only, Mr Thawornwat confirmed. "This because Bangla Rd is a very special tourist area," he said. Mr Thawornwat was part of the joint law-enforcement team with Patong Police Chief Col Chaiwat Uikum and Kathu District Chief Chief Sayan Chanachaiwong who raided the bars and clubs on Jan 30. "The petition submitted by the Patong nightlife venue operators will be attached with our official letter, which must be signed by Phuket Governor," Mr Thawornwat said. The Governor, Chockchai Dejamornthan, however, is away in South Korean until Saturday (Feb 11), Mr Thawornwat said on Wednesday. "I will follow up on this with the Governor as soon as practicably possible and follow this up with the Interior Ministry. We are hoping for a formal response before the end of this month," Mr Thawornwat said. Phuket Vice Governor Siwaporn Chuasawad told The Phuket News that Gov Chockchai rated the issue a top priority. "Governor Chockchai wants to defuse the stress from this situation," she said. "The feedback from this is that the crackdown also had a direct effect on many people who in the Patong nightlife industry," she added. Mr Thawornwat added, "This is an uncomfortable situation in a tourism area. I think it is a good idea if there is special zone set up. If the nightlife venues are able to stay open legally, then tourists can enjoy themselves in a safe area. "Most tourists go out on Bangla Rd at about 11pm. If the entertainment area closes at midnight, where they will go? They might just keep drinking beside the road or on the beach, which risks their safety and only encourages criminals," he said. "If this special zone is approved to stay open until 4 am, tourists will remain in an area where the police and officials are able to look after them. They will be safe," he added. Eagle, you are being pedantic, grow up son. Kurt... You contradict yourself in points 1 & 2, so no-one seems to fathom what you are saying. If you want to know where the Governor goes and why... just ring and ask. Rorii...perhaps you haven't heard, but we under Military rule. Just pay your taxes, the Military doesn't want to hear you, unless you "overstep the mark". Eagle, you not play fair in your comment to Rorii. You know very well, that is not a 'arrival short stay matter', as you like to play it. You try to downplay it to that. Stop discussing this in a 'holiday frame work'. So, the solution is quite simple. If there is a valid reason to change opening times entertainment places, ok, do that by law! Now, on Phuket we see daily that due to police corruption opening times don't need to be respected. But to make just a exemption for the 'Bangla Road Enclave' will not work. Swerv: Any citizen/resident of Phuket, thai and foreigner, have the democratic right to know what State Officials who serve the people (!), are doing work wise. We read regular about the Governor local doings in Phuket press. Why not a press bulletin about the reason of his overseas trip? Yes, we have the right to know and we can ask, swerv. As Kurt is saying (and to the other commenter, theres plenty of farangs paying taxes here). The law is what should be followed, a clear and consistent law country wide. Dont like the law, lobby to have it changed, let all sides weigh in and debate, and then if it is changed, change it legally and properly for everyone. How is everything this moment about the environmental Phuket incinerator problems? Is this having Phuket Governor attention? Has he been briefed about it by his officials? Are all the incinerators now working full capacity to handle the daily about 600 Tons of Phuket rubbish? Kurt: What right have you to question what the Governor does? You are not Thai and you don't pay tax, so in other words you have no right to question his reasons and it is none of your business what he does and where he goes. Maybe Eagle is the Phuket Governor??? Very childish. Same old story, new boss comes in, " hmm ? i think i will start by cleaning up the Phuket image, let me close the bars in Bangla to a respectful time!". Old outcome, the corrupt who have their fingers in a diminishing pie complain and put the squeeze on. Outcome...same old story, bars, clubs etc back to as they were. With the large decline in western tourists these past 3 years, it's good to see a Phuket governor wants to turn things around. 1: My complains are not about enforcing good thai laws, Eagle. 2: I appeal on enforcing thai laws, if not, than change them. 3: Don't give us all that thai nonsense of " we need illegally to feed families". 4: Yes, the citizens of Phuket, thai + foreigner, have the right to know why the Phuket Governor, a peoples servant paid by the thai people, travels to South Korea. For what? It's all a facade and all about the money. Just like many other 'issues' in Phuket. That counts for Bangla Rd as well, so enforce the closing time at 01:00 AM a few months and you will see that the tourists will adjust their Bangla time. Justification that Police and officials are better able to look after tourist safety is a non reason. Normally Patong police doing her best to stay away from Bangla Road. And who are the other 'officials'?
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Iconic long-lost Wind in the Willows puppets brought home to Manchester Puppets from an animated adaptation of The Wind in the Willows have been returned to their home city of Manchester, some three decades after they were thought to have been lost. The Waterside arts centre in Sale has acquired the 25 original puppets from the 1983 Cosgrove Hall film for its archive dedicated to the now-defunct animation studio. Indeed, it only came to light that the figures still existed when they were put up for auction in Dorchester in April. Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall founded Cosgrove Hall Films – also known as Cosgrove Hall Productions – in 1976. The company went on to produce a variety of celebrated series and films, including Danger Mouse, Count Duckula and The BFG, before being absorbed into ITV plc in 2009. Now, the beautiful hand puppets from The Wind in the Willows – which range in height from five inches to 14 inches in the case of the tallest, Badger – are back in the company of fellow childhood icons as part of the Cosgrove Hall Films dynasty. A seemingly unlikely discovery The hand-made puppets, which consist of cast resin with metal jointed skeletons inside to allow for slight movement, were owned by animatronics and set designer Andrew Dunning, who acquired them after the production of the 1983 film and the subsequent 1980s TV show of the same name. It turned out that the figures had been kept safely in dark storage for over 26 years, at both Andrew's workplace and later his home, prior to his decision to take them to Duke's Auctioneers. Waterside only became aware of the figures' survival when it was reported earlier this year that they would go to auction. Now, thanks to what the arts centre has described as "the generosity and kindness" of both Mr Dunning and Duke's Auctioneers MD Lee Young, Waterside has been gifted the beautiful hand puppets for posterity and its archives. "Amazing turn of events" Peter Saunders, who headed the team that created the puppets, hailed the "amazing turn of events", adding: "The puppets disappeared after they were displayed in an exhibition many years ago and everyone thought they were gone for good. "It's great that they've turned up and have been donated to the Cosgrove Hall archive." Waterside also confirmed that the puppets would go on display at the arts centre as part of an exhibition called Cosgrove Hall: Frame By Frame, set to run from 14th November until 28th December 2019. We were certainly delighted here at Puppets By Post to learn of the re-emergence of these truly beautiful hand puppets, which also have such a key role in TV and movie history here in the UK. So why not make plans to see them later this year, and in the meantime, take your pick from your favourite puppets that make up our own generous range in our online store?
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The Web CNN.com CNNtoGO Web CNN.com LIVE FROM THE HEADLINES Tape of Saddam Hussein Released; Cezanne Self-Portrait Sells for $17 Million Aired May 8, 2003 - 19:00 ET ANNOUNCER: The White House is urging Congress to make it a federal crime to kill an unborn infant. Are Republicans exploiting the memory of Laci Peterson for political advantage? SUVs: it seems like everybody's driving them. And everybody else seems to hate them. Tonight why won't Detroit make fuel efficient vehicles? A painting, unseen for 65 years, is set to go on the auction block. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It does represent the once in a lifetime opportunity for today's collectors. ANNOUNCER: Will the masterpiece be put back on public display or will it disappear again. LIVE FROM THE HEADLINES with Paula Zahn in New York. PAULA ZAHN, HOST: Good evening and welcome on this beautiful evening in New York City tonight. It is May 7. Coming up in this hour, the oil giant once run by vice president Dick Cheney, will it play a larger role in post-war Iraq than previously thought? According to a Democrat congressman, Halliburton has a deal not only to operate Iraq's oil field, but to distribute the oil it produces, as well. Also ahead, as one of the biggest cult movies in recent memory "The Matrix" is almost reloaded and ready to go at your local theater. We'll have a preview a little bit later on. But first, is it a hoax or is it proof that Saddam Hussein is still alive? That is the debate tonight after the release of an audiotape said to have been made by the ousted Iraqi president. According to an Australian newspaper, the tape was delivered to its reporters in Baghdad by two unidentified men. Senior international correspondent Nic Robertson joins us now from Baghdad with the very latest on that. Good evening, Nic. NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good evening, Paula. Well, if it is genuine, it certainly is the first time that Saddam Hussein would have been heard speaking out since the end of the war since he was ousted from power. Now on this tape recording, he makes a reference to his birthday on April the 28, where incidentally he says that he was well supported on his birthday in Iraq. And that wasn't that something we witnessed here, that's for sure. He also talks about the looting on the national museum. Now both of these events occurred after U.S. forces arrived in Baghdad and after he was forced out of power. So this was an indication that this recording may, indeed, have been made quite recently. The people that have listened to the tape for us here in Baghdad feel reasonably confident it could be Saddam Hussein. The quality of the tape, they say, is poor, but it is his phraseology, does sound -- does, indeed, sound like his voice. What this tape appears to be is the first organized call for an organized resistance against the United States forces inside Iraq, calling for Iraqi people to shoot at U.S. troops, calling for them not to do business with U.S. troops, indeed, saying anyone doing business with a foreigner was essentially -- was essentially going against the Iraqi people. Also calling on the Iraqi people to write anti-American slogans on the wall around Baghdad. But the message, and if it was from Saddam Hussein, Saddam Hussein saying that he was still inside Iraq. SADDAM HUSSEIN, FORMER PRESIDENT OF IRAQ (through translator): Through this secret means I am talking to you from inside great Iraq and I say to you, the main task for you, Arab and Kurd, Shiite and Sunni, Muslim and Christian and the whole Iraqi people of all religions, you main task is to kick the enemy out from our country. ROBERTSON: Now when we talked to people around Baghdad today, they said to them, it didn't matter whether or not this was Saddam Hussein or not Saddam Hussein. They weren't going to follow this call to arms. They say they have no interest in the former Iraqi leader and therefore they wouldn't fight for him. And indeed we went to one neighborhood in Baghdad where people used to support Saddam Hussein quite strongly. Absolutely no evidence of support there today. People say we're not going to fight the U.S. troops for one reason. They're protecting us here now so we're not going to do it -- Paula. ZAHN: Is there a belief that there is still enough opposition out there where this message would be taken seriously and where there would be a serious attempt made to sabotage the American effort here? ROBERTSON: That's really a very critical question at this time, and it's no doubt something that U.S. officials here will be wanting to pay a huge amount of attention to. The reason being this could be the beginnings of a serious and sustained threat to U.S. troops here. Now there's no indication that we've seen, from talking to people here today, that there is that level of support, but it doesn't mean that that support cannot be found in some areas of the country, some areas of Baghdad -- Paula. ZAHN: Nic Robertson, thanks so much. While the fate of Saddam Hussein remains uncertain at this hour, more and more of his former associates are now in U.S. custody. The latest name on the list of prisoners is Ghazi Hammud al-Ubaydi, an official of Hussein's Ba'ath Party. He was number 32 on the U.S.'s most wanted list and the two of hearts on those U.S. issued playing cards. Now as U.S. troops continue for their search for former Iraqi leaders, they're also searching for evidence Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Officials say a trailer seized in northern Iraq appears to have been used as a mobile biological weapons laboratory. It is now being examined in Baghdad. The Bush administration is lifting some of the sanctions imposed against Iraq when Saddam Hussein was in charge. The administration also announced some new rules to make it easier to send humanitarian aid into Iraq. These rules will also allow individuals to send up to $500 a month to friends and family members in Iraq. Of course, efforts to end the suffering of Iraqis are taking many forms and Tim Rogers, of International Television News, has the story of a wounded Iraqi teenager who has come to a Michigan hospital for help. TIM ROGERS, ITV CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): She is the first in America, and now with a chance of recovery, Hanan has found her safe welcome. DR. PAUL TAHERI, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HOSPITAL: Welcome, Hanan. I'm Dr. Taheri, I'm going to say hi. Welcome to America. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you. ROGERS: She is here with her mother because of the extraordinary determination of those who made it happen, eventually persuading the Pentagon, the American government and General Tommy Franks, the commander in chief of the coalition forces to let her come. I met Hanan at Frankfurt Airport as she prepared for the second stage of her journey. By now she'd been traveling for 24 hours. She'd been given an Army escort out of Baghdad, accompanying her here from Kuwait. But exhaustion was offset by relief and the ultimate goal ahead. Without passports or any means of getting out, Hanan and her mother were given humanitarian parole, special permission to enter the United States. Since she was burned, her condition has stabilized, but without the treatment she needs, she lives in constant pain. Arriving in Detroit, this was almost the end of her journey and from where she was taken to one of the finest burns units in the country. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's find out how the tube is. Is it bothering the back of her throat? ROGERS: Dr. Paul Taheri at the University of Michigan was one of those determined to bring Hanan in. TAHERI: This is certainly an instinctual response, not only for myself, but other members of the team. And when I discussed this with the leadership of the hospital and the health system, they were all supportive and nobody even thought about saying no. Everybody said yes instantaneously. ROGERS: From the moment she arrived, the treatment began. Watching all this, Hanan's mother, grateful to America, despite the fact that it was the blast from an American bomb that caused her daughter's injuries. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): We appreciate -- Yes, that is true, but at the same time they're the people that are helping us at the same time not only that it was the bombing from the United States, but they helped us also. They brought us here to treat my daughter. ROGERS: The days ahead will change her life. (on camera) What Hanan has found is an opportunity that simply would not exist in Iraq, where it would be impossible to find the sterile conditions that she needs. (voice-over) Ahead is a course of treatment that will be long, difficult and sometimes painful, but now at least she has hope. Tim Rogers, ITV News at the University of Michigan. ZAHN: Now it's time for some of the headlines across America tonight. A federal judge in New York is holding Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein financially responsible for the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. The judge ruled that families of the victims are entitled to more than $100 million from bin Laden, his al Qaeda organization, and the former leaders of Afghanistan and Iraq. The families are hoping to collect frozen assets, but more court hearings will be required before any payouts take place. Officials think a single arsonist may be responsible for a series of fires at religious buildings in the L.A. area. In the past week and a half alone, there have been fires at a Presbyterian church, a Bahai community center and two synagogues. There were court proceedings today in a case alleged FBI double agent Katrina Leung. Leung was accused of giving the Chinese government information she got from her long time lover, retired FBI counterintelligence agent James Smith. A grand jury in Los Angeles today began hearing evidence against Smith, who is accused of gross negligence. Folks in southern Missouri spent another day keeping an eye on the sky after getting more bad weather overnight. Although it hit some of the same areas devastated by Sunday's killer tornadoes, the storm, fortunately, caused no deaths or injuries this time. With every building damaged or destroyed on Pierce City's main street. Some residents are saying the weather was the nail in the town's coffin. Others say it strengthens their resolve. David Mattingly reports. David, good evening. DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Paula, for a time today it seemed that this little town here was coming apart brick by brick. Bulldozers were lining this street, along with dump trucks. They were picking up, scooping up the piles of debris that was in the street, left behind by Sunday's tornado and they were putting it in bulldozers, being taken away, hauled away from here. And some pieces of this town will never be coming back. The town council, ultimately will have the final decision on which of these old buildings stay and which of them go and that is a decision, Paula, that none of them want to make here. These buildings are cherished here, not only because they are an economic draw for tourism, but because they mean so much to the people who have moved here to become a part of this town. There's so much charm in these, in fact, just look on the inside wall of this store up here. You can see some of the old writing. "Arabian powder." "The world's best poultry food." This used to be a very viable railroad town back in the day, and over a hundred years of history, the people just cherish here and they're not willing to let that go. There was a meeting of business leaders today. They are very much committed to keeping every single one of these buildings standing if they can possibly do it. They are arguing, with some of the reports we've heard from structural engineers here in town who have looked at these buildings and say they could fall at any moment. In fact, last night when the storm front was coming through and there was some severe weather here, there was some concern that the winds with that storm might actually push some of these damaged buildings over. But again, the business leaders, the people who want to keep these buildings up and vital are saying that they're going to do everything they possibly can to make sure this town stays alive -- Paula. ZAHN: Tell us a little bit more about those who were emboldened to go on. MATTINGLY: Some of the business leaders here have made quite a bit of a personal investment. Each one of these buildings is a shop full of antiques, things that they would sell to tourists. We are 22 miles off of the expressway here, and this town had become quite a draw to pull a large number of tourists in here in the summertime and they were just beginning to get into their big season. Unfortunately, the tornado has hit and turned this town into quite a different kind of attraction. One other thing we want to show you. We're going to turn around this way. Something we haven't been talking about too much today. It's the other side of the street here. The residential section. There was a great deal of activity on this side of the intersection today with all the bulldozers, all of the FEMA-funded activity that was taking away the debris here. A lot of the individual property owners are still struggling on their own and you can see there's a great deal of debris over where the people still live. We talked to one family, a couple of brothers over there today. Their mother was in her house at the time. It was just by luck that she got up out of the living room to go to the kitchen to get something to eat, because at that time, the tornado hit, drove a tree right through the living room. She would have surely been killed. But now the shock is also falling in for the family. Even though she survived, she has no insurance and they have no idea where she's going to live in the future or what the family's going to do next. So a lot of decisions to be made here and a let of people confused right now in the aftermath of what to do next -- Paula. ZAHN: We wish the community well. It's heartbreaking to see all that damage suffered there. David Mattingly, thanks. Coming up, the criticism continues to mount from the hill, particularly the Democratic side, about the president's trip to the USS Abraham Lincoln. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is not some made for TV backdrop for a campaign commercial. This is real life. And real lives have been lost. (END VIDEO CLIP) ZAHN: Also tonight, the bill that would allow violent crime against a pregnant woman to be treated as a crime against two separate people. The family of Laci Peterson endorsed that bill today. Tonight why some people don't want it to be passed by the U.S. Senate. And then a little bit later on, they are one of the most popular vehicles on the road and yet they get some of the worst gas mileage. SUVs. Is anything being done about their fuel efficiency? (AUDIO/VIDEO GAP) ZAHN: Now we'll take a quick look at some of the other stories making news in the world tonight. In Hong Kong, 11 more people have died from SARS, and health officials say eight more people have become infected. The new case has raised the SARS total in Hong Kong to 1,654, 204 fatalities. A formal caution from British police to Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famer Pete Townshend today. The Who guitarist admitted breaking the law when he logged onto a web site containing images of child abuse in 1999. Townshend says he was doing research in Internet pornography. And much of the rock 'n' roll hardware of another member of The Who, John Entwistle, went on display today. It will be auctioned next week at Sotheby's in London. Included are more than 150 guitars owned by the bass player who died just last summer before the band went on tour. And the art world is hoping for big news tonight with the auction of a self-portrait of the artist Paul Cezanne, the semi-annual art sale of the major New York auction houses started this week. And the pre-sale estimate of the Cezanne, sell between 15 and 20 million dollars. Maria Hinojosa is standing by. The auction is underway. Maria, what's going on right now? MARIA HINOJOSA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A very exciting night, Paula. In about two and a half minutes, the painting sold for $15.5 million. That was the auction price. The actual price of the seller, who did this on the phone, would actually be $17,367,000. So a lot of money. Now, it's an extraordinary painting. The Degas -- I'm sorry, the Cezanne portrait of 1895. It's his second-to-last self-portrait, and what's extraordinary about it is that this painting has not been seen publicly for 65 years. This is only the third owner of this painting, so pretty extraordinary. Now the most expensive Cezanne painting sold in 1999 for $60 million. They had been expecting this to sell from anywhere between $15-20 million. So the fact that it sold for $15.5 million in two and a half minutes -- who knows? A lot of people who watch these -- these auctions say that what happens here rally determines the state of the art market. And what's being sold tonight is the Impressionists and the modern art of around the world. Important because this is, again, the self-portrait, his second- to-last. They say that in this portrait he looks skeptical, questioning. He's got this raised eyebrow. Perhaps questioning, looking, though, directly at his public. But the people here at Christie's are saying that they are pleased with this sale. So again, Paula, the self-portrait of Paul Cezanne from 1895 sold for a mere $17.3 million just about three minutes ago -- Paula. ZAHN: Oh, a mere bargain there. Let me ask you this: do you have any idea who bought it? Did we know if it was a dealer or a private collector or whom? HINOJOSA: We don't know yet, Paula. What's extraordinary, though, is what happened in this room. I mean, you have a room full of bidders that, yes, they are actually raising their hands and bidding. But you've got on either side of the -- of the room, you've got people on phones all over the world. And these are some of the major biddings are coming in from the phones. I guess these are people who just can't take the time to get off of their yachts to come down to Christie's here in New York. But a very intense, very stressful atmosphere, as well. Because as I said, what happens here tonight determines the state of the art market. Again, they had been expecting a high bid of $20 million, so we will see what they say about the fact that it sold for $15.5 million. Again, the real price from the -- from the buyer will be $17.367 million -- Paula. ZAHN: Pretty stressful during the cold season. You don't want to sneeze holding a paddle in your hand unless you mean to buy, right? HINOJOSA: I didn't want to risk any movement, because you know, they really watch everything that you do. You go like this and that's it. I was just watching very carefully. Very stressful, very... ZAHN: No sneezing aloud. Enjoy the rest of the auction. Maria Hinojosa. Still to come tonight, the deaths of Laci Peterson and her unborn son are reigniting efforts to push a bill through Congress. That bill would allow violent crimes against a pregnant woman to be treated as crimes against two people. Coming up, find out why some people don't want that to pass. Also tonight, they have some of the highest sticker prices and the lowest miles per gallon. We're talking SUVs. So is Detroit doing everything it can to make these vehicles more fuel efficient? That story straight ahead, but first a look at some of the closing numbers from Wall Street. We're back in a moment. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) ZAHN: One crime, two victims, or is that two crimes, two victims? That's the gist of a bill getting renewed attention in the nation's capital, a bill aimed at crimes against pregnant women. It is known as the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. It's been around for awhile, but supporters are hoping a big endorsement will finally get it through and give it some new momentum. Congressional correspondent Kate Snow explains. SHARON ROCHA, MOTHER OF LACI PETERSON: In my mind, I keep hearing Laci say to me: Mom, please find me and Connor and bring us home. KATE SNOW, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It is such an emotional story. And, sometimes, emotion translates into political opportunity. SEN. MIKE DEWINE (R), OHIO: Baby Connor was found near his mother with his umbilical chord still attached. SNOW: A graphic story, the murder of pregnant mother Laci Peterson becomes the easiest way to push for a new law that's never made it past the Senate. Laci Peterson's family knows the power of their story, too. They want a bill named in her memory to make killing or hurting a pregnant woman a crime against two people, not just one. "Knowing that perpetrators who murder pregnant women will pay the price not only for the loss of the mother, but the baby as well, will help bring justice for these victims," they wrote to the sponsors. About half the states already have laws treating the fetus as a separate victim of violate crime. California is one of them. Scott Peterson is charged with two murders. The bill Republicans are pushing in Congress wouldn't change state law, but would apply to federal crimes, like the murder of a pregnant woman on a military base. SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), SOUTH CAROLINA: That if an individual attacks a pregnant woman who has chosen to have the child, you ought to throw the book at them. SNOW: But opponents of this bill accuse the supporters of the bill of taking advantage of Laci Peterson's case, of exploiting the Peterson tragedy. They see the bill as a backdoor way to get at abortion and to knock down abortion rights because you're defining a fetus as a human life. The bill is expected, Paula, to once again sail through the House up here. And as for the Senate, now controlled by Republicans, they're going to try to push it straight to the Senate floor, no public hearings, don't even go through committee so it can't get bogged down. The key thing here, Paula, is to try to get this through as fast as they can. Supporters know that once Laci Peterson's case becomes a distant memory, it might be a little harder. ZAHN: Kate Snow, thanks so much for the update. I want to bring in now two people -- two very different views of this bill. Congresswoman Melissa Hart of Pennsylvania is the leading sponsor of the bill. She joins us now from Washington. Also in Washington tonight, Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York. Good to see both of you. REP. MELISSA HART (R), PENNSYLVANIA: Evening. ZAHN: Congressman.... REP. JERROLD NADLER (D), NEW YORK: Good evening. ZAHN: ...I'm going to start with you first. Congressman Nadler, if some one is found guilty of murdering a pregnant woman, why shouldn't that person be charged with two crimes? NADLER: Well, I mean, prior history -- well, first of all let me say that whoever's found guilty of murdering Laci Peterson and the unborn child should -- the book should be thrown at him. He should be in jail for the rest of his or her life. But the fact is, if you assault a pregnant woman and you injure the fetus, that should enhance the gravity of the crime. It should be a much more serious crime and a much bigger penalty. But it should be a much bigger crime against the mother. Unless you -- if you define the fetus as a person to make it two separate crimes, then that's a revolution in law and it has certain implications. Number one, if the fetus is a person, then you're giving the Supreme Court the grounds to say that abortion is murder and states can't even allow it. That's the real reason. The practical application of whether it's two crimes or a heavier, single crime, doesn't make a difference. You can put the person in jail for life, whatever you think the appropriate penalty is. The difference is, as a matter of law, do you define the fetus as a person, which would lead to saying that abortion is murder, which would lead further down the line to placing restrictions on the freedom of pregnant women, because if they're carrying a full born person, then they have certain responsibilities, and you can say pregnant women can go to jail for endangering the fetus by doing things like drinking or other things. And that's something we've never done in law. Even in the Bible, it says if you assault a woman and you kill her, you -- or any person you kill, but it's a death penalty. But if you assault a woman and she has a miscarriage as a result of that, you pay monetary compensation. In the book of Exodus... ZAHN: All right. NADLER: ...we have defined a fetus as a person, as a separate crime and the entire purpose for this bill, as opposed to simply enhancing the gravity of the crime is to undermine a woman's right to choose. ZAHN: All right. Let's let Representative Hart weigh in on a couple of the points you made. What about the point Representative Nadler raised about why not just introduce a bill that would create a much stiffer penalty for some one who is found guilty of murdering a pregnant woman? What's wrong with that idea? HART: If you ask Laci Peterson's family, and you ask any one who has lost a family member, and if even it wasn't the mother, they see this as two victims. The reality is there are two victims here. The family had planned for and probably had the nursery painted and ready to go. They lost a child. They lost their sister, their daughter as well in this case. There's two crimes and that's why it's very important for us to acknowledge that. If the woman had not died in this kind of a crime and a child dies, and that child was eight months along, that family lost a child. I think it's really awful for us not to understand that as human beings. It's a terrible loss that a family faces. And that person who committed that crime would not be charged with a murder. That person would be charged with assaulting the woman. But that's as far as it could go. And that's wrong. We need to make sure that -- to acknowledge the loss of the two lives here. NADLER: You can -- you can... ZAHN: Are you saying, Congressman Nadler, that this baby -- I mean, Melissa's saying and your being opposed to this bill, you're essentially saying that this embryo was not a victim. Is that what you're saying? NADLER: No, what we're saying is that the embryo does not have separate standing as a victim. That's the way the law's always looked at it. HART: Well, actually... NADLER: And that's exactly right. And if you -- if you say that the embryo is a separate -- and by the way, this law -- this bill that Melissa and others are pushing does not define an embryo at eight months old. It could be at six weeks pregnant. But the fact is, you could -- people certainly think and the emotions are real here that they've lost a -- they've lost a potential life. They've lost a child. And I understand that. But there's no reason you can't amend the law, if the law doesn't already say that, to punish that. If the mother survives but there's a miscarriage, the baby doesn't survive -- the fetus doesn't survive, you can punish that by life imprisonment without defining it as a separate person. ZAHN: OK. Representative Hart, your reaction to that. HART: Yes. There's a precedent in federal law already. Several years ago, they passed the Innocent Child Protection Act. And that was to prevent capital punishment from being carried out against a woman in prison who was carrying a child. And they defined the child as a child in utero. We're not making the child equal with the adult mother. It is a separate status. It is a child in utero, but acknowledged by us that this is what it is. HART: A little boy or a little girl that the family is expecting. ZAHN: I want to give you both a chance to answer and we just got really, literally, 20 seconds a piece. First of all, Representative Hart, what about the point Representative Nadler was making that this is all about an effort to ultimately overturn Roe v. Wade? HART: Well, actually, specifically in this legislation, abortion is exempted. We do not talk about abortion. He's trying to cloud it for some reason I don't understand. Our purpose in this is to make sure that people are aware that the largest reason for the death of pregnant women in several states -- we have statistics -- is murder. That means that often that child is the motive. So if that child is killed along with the mother or without, we should certainly acknowledge that as a separate crime. ZAHN: Representative Nadler, you get the last 20 seconds. NADLER: We should acknowledge it. We should put the person in jail for life. If you believe in the death penalty, even give capital punishment. But defining it as a separate person has one purpose and one purpose only and that is to undermine abortion rights and that is why this bill and the bills like it in all the states are being pushed by the right-to-life committees and by the anti-choice people. It is a pure anti-choice move and it has.... HART: With pro-life and pro-choice votes. NADLER: The fact of the matter is, it is pushed by the anti- choice people and that's the only purpose for it, because every other purpose could be accomplished simply by increasing the gravity of the crime and punishing it by life in prison. HART: There are two victims here and if you only increase the gravity of the crime, you're only acknowledging one. NADLER: ...and only matters for abortion purposes. ZAHN: Representatives Hart and Nadler, thank you both for joining us this evening. HART: Thank you. NADLER: Thank you. ZAHN: And we will stay in touch with you as this debate rages on. Still to come tonight, the same group that said buying SUVs helps support terrorism has a new claim -- that your national security might be at risk. ARIANA HUFFINGTON, COLUMNIST: You must think that this is public policy made in an insane asylum. In fact, it is not. It has been bought and paid for by Detroit. ZAHN: Coming up, the attack on SUVs and what the manufacturers are saying about that. Also tonight, the true story of the comic book comeback. Last weekend's hottest movie making money for Marvel Comics. Andy Serwer will be joining as LIVE FROM THE HEADLINES continues on this Wednesday night. ZAHN: Welcome back. A former FBI agent is charged with U.S. counter intelligence on China was indited by a federal grand jury today on charges of wire fraud and allowing removal of national defense information. Charles Feldman, who's been following the story from L.A. all day long. He joins us live with this breaking news -- Charles. CHARLES FELDMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Paula. Yes. There are two people involved in this story. One James Smith, he is the retired FBI agent. He was indicted, as you pointed out, on six counts, wire fraud and gross negligence for allowing the removal of his home and other places of documents. Documents believed to be documents relating to national security. The other person in this story is the person in this picture right next to him. She is Katrina Leung, and she was his mistress for some 20 years and is accused of being a double agent. He was being handled by him as somebody who was supposed to be spying on China for the U.S. Instead the government says she was spying on the U.S. for China. She was arrested. She is being held without bound. Action on her, possibly, possibly later this week. Right now the action centers on James Smith. As said indicted not on espionage charges, it wasn't expect that he would be by the way, Paul, but on charges of wire fraud. What that means is he was transmitting allegedly (UNINTELLIGIBLE) reports back to headquarters in Washington about his relation with her. And also indicted on charges of gross negligence -- Paula. ZAHN: Charles Feldman, thanks so much for that update, appreciate it. Now we are going to moving to other information for you know. To the critics who once said SUV drivers are supporting terrorist. An new ad campaign in shaming car makers into building cars that guzzle less gas. Patty Davis has the details. PATTY DAVIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: They are one of the fastest growing vehicles on the road. Sport utility vehicles average just 17.8 miles per gallon. This new ad by the Detroit Project, chastises automakers for not doing better. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is 40 miles to every gallon, and thousands of dollars saved at the pump. The only problem is Detroit won't build it. DAVIS: Syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington, founded the Detroit Project. ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, DETROIT PROJECT: I used to drive a Lincoln Navigator so it took me awhile to connect the dots. So I don't demonize people who drive Lincoln Navigators. I am just asking them to connect the dots between our consumer choices and the impact that we are having on oil dependence and national security. DAVIS: Earlier this year, Huffington's group released ads equating buying an SUV to aiding terrorist. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I gave money to a terrorist training camp in a foreign country. DAVIS: For their part Detroit automakers say they are working to improve fuel efficiency. Not only for SUVs but trucks and cars as well. GM showed off it's Hydrogen fuel cell cars on Capitol Hill. They are expect to be on the market by the end of the decade. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Bring this technology forward very, very quickly. DAVIS: General Motors is plans to unveil a gas and electric hybrid version of it's Saturn (UNINTELLIGIBLE) in 2005. It will get 40 miles per gallon. While consumers are gobbling up 13 miles per gallon Ford Excursions and the 11 miles per gallon Hummer HII. Many say they would buy more fuel efficient SUVs if they were available. In fact, a survey by J.D. Power and Associates find that gas guzzlers are the consumers second most common complaint. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It could be better, much better, because you get that big car and spend a lot of gas. DAVIS (on camera): Although the Detroit Project had some trouble getting stations to run it's previous ad. It's making a $300,000 ad buy this time. The group says it's latest add may not be it's last. Patty Davis, CNN, Washington. ZAHN: No matter what size your car is big, small or somewhere in between, with gasoline prices are as high as they are you have to be concerned about fuel efficiency. Lets ask someone who knows what's good, what's not so good Jack Gillis, author of the "Car Book" joins now from Washington. Good to see you, Jack, Welcome. JACK GILLIS, AUTHOR: Good to see you, Paula. ZAHN: Is your view that it would -- won't be until gas goes to five dollars a gallon if that ever happens, if people won't demand car manufactures to produce a SUV that is more fuel efficient? GILLIS: Well, that's a good point. In fact, we are used to paying a $1.80, $1.90 of gasoline. And it doesn't seem to be (UNINTELLIGIBLE) our demand for larger SUVs. I do think however some of these political motivations as well as concerns about the environment is having an impact. Good news today is that SUVs today are downsizing. They are becoming more fuel efficient. The bad news is you are still making huge trade off's when buy the larger SUVs. You are buying a car that, obviously, eats a lot of gas, and also maybe less safe than smaller cars on the market. ZAHN: So, besides downsizing SUVs, what other efforts are underway to make them more fuel efficient? GILLIS: I think the most important effort is the new innovative engine technology, the hybrid engines. Ford has introduced it into one of it's smaller SUVs, as well as Honda shortly. I think that what we are hoping is that the technology will be there so we can put more powerful hybrid engines which are more fuel efficient in these larger vehicles. And that still is a very huge challenge from pure physics. It takes a lot more fuel to power a bigger vehicle. ZAHN: And talking about these hybrid engines if they ultimately become the norm what will be their impact on the sticker price. GILLIS: Like we heard from carmakers when we wanted airbags, and they said they would be very, very expensive. With mass production and new technology there really shouldn't be a major impact on sticker price. The key is consumer demand. If consumers start demanding more and more of these vehicles. The manufacture will figure out how to put the technology into the new vehicles that are out there. The bottom line is, it's all about the dollars. And more and more consumers are voting with their dollars for more fuel efficient SUVs. ZAHN: I wanted to close of this interview now with a new survey that came out by J.D. Power Associates, it sort of ranks by the problems owners have with them. Go through this list with us and what the significance of it is. The top three performers, Lexus, Cadillac and Infinity. ZAHN: You want me to -- I'll move on to the next then you can talk. The worst ranked brands were Kia, Land Rover, and Hummer. GILLIS: Sorry for interrupting. I think one of the significant aspect is that we are seeing a lot of domestic cars showing up on the tops of these list, that's good news. In terms of using this information to buy a new car it's more difficult. The true benefit for consumers however is that it's getting the manufactures to compete on something other than moonroofs and color keyed interiors, but customer satisfaction and quality. And we are all going to benefit when that competition heats up. ZAHN: Well, you were a big help tonight. We all should have you standing buy when we purchase a new car or trucks or whatever it is we are driving around. Thank you so much for thoughts tonight. GILLS: My pleasure, Paula. ZAHN: Still to come tonight the next installment of the box office hit the "Matrix," a preview of what promises to be a summer block buster right out of the break. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP -- "X2") UNIDENTIFIED MALE: On the ground, now. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know all those dangerous mutants you hear about on the news? I'm the worst one. ZAHN: They're called "The Characters." And they dynamite at the box office. The X-Men sequel which came out last Friday is pulling people into the theaters as did "Daredevil" earlier this year, "Spider-Man" last year, and then, of course, "The Hulk" is due out in June. These film characters are straight out of the pages of Marvel Comics. So the parent company Marvel Enterprises is obviously doing quite well. And Andy Serwer is here to talk a little bit about how've done it. How did they do it, Andy? ANDY SERWER, "FORTUNE": Well, a couple things going on with Marvel. First of all they had the great characters, Paula. I mean when you have Spider-Man and Hulk sitting there in your pool of assets, that's just a huge advantage, a bog leg-up at the box office. But actually, this company's benefiting from its own misfortune because it was so badly managed for years that now they've abled to be unfettered and unshackled and they're releasing these thing, all these movies coming out this decade. Where as with "Superman," that came out in the 1980s, "Batman" came out in the 1990s. They finally got rid of all the litigation hanging over this company, and now they're just exploiting, as they say in this business, all these characters. ZAHN: And there any other companies that have paralleled this kind of turnaround? Or is this one unique when you look at just how much its stock price has jumped? SERWER: Yes, well there are all kind of unique. And this one, you know of course comic books, that's a pretty singular business. But, you know, it sort of speaks to this problem that so many companies are going through right now. So many companies down and out, in the dumps. Shareholders worried, employees worried, customers worried. But if the company has real assets, real tangible things that people want to buy, they have a much better chance of coming back. So that's something really to look for. And if you take a look at some of these companies here, and we've identified, there's Marvel. Over the past three years stock up 250 percent. But look there. Mattel, that stock is almost double. ZAHN: Home of Barbie. SERWER: That's right. And that's exactly why they came back like that. The company also... ZAHN: But I don't get that. There was a point where Barbie was controversial and the sales went down. SERWER: Yes, but it's such and icon, Paula. I mean in everyday, no matter how badly that company's run, how incompetent the people are, how close to bankruptcy they are, some little girl's going to tug at their mommy's sleeve and say, I want a Barbie today. I mean you can't kill something like that. The last one on that list, IHOP, International House of Pancakes. ZAHN: Sure. SERWER: I mean they had a tough time there too. But I mean how classic is pancakes? And so they've managed to turn things around too. You can see while the market's been swooning, that's the number at the bottom, these guys are doing well. And so it's not that atypical. I mean Harley Davidson, they almost went bankrupt in 1985. Now incredibly successful. Kmart, they're in big trouble right now. That's a more questionable situation because what does Kmart really have compared to Wal-Mart or Target? So you really have to look at these things on a case-by-case basis. ZAHN: Have you been to the theaters lately? SERWER: I have. ZAHN: Have you seen "X2"? SERWER: I haven't seen that one yet. But I'm really looking forward to "The Matrix Reloaded". ZAHN: Yes, the preview's look pretty... SERWER: Compelling. ZAHN: ... compelling, strong. Thanks, Andy. SERWER: OK. ZAHN: Movie fans are awaiting anxiously, including Andy... SERWER: Yes. ZAHN: ... for another sequel. This one is a more graphic novel than a comic book story. "The Matrix Reloaded" opens around the nation this week. The premiere of this special effects-loaded story of the battle of man against machine is in Los Angeles tonight. And that's where Eric Horng is standing by -- Eric. ERIC HORNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Paula, "The Matrix" media blitz certainly in full-swing. If you haven't seen "TIME" magazine the week, stars of the film on the front cover. And at the L.A. premiere tonight, we were told some 70 media outlets applied for credentials. Certainly a lot attention being paid to what is one of the year's biggest films. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) KEANU REEVES, ACTOR: We've done things that I don't believe have ever been attempted in Western action cinema before. LAURENCE FISHBURNE, ACTOR: With regard to the stunts, it was much more involved and much more intense. JADA PINKETT-SMITH, ACTRESS: You see representation of humanity in its fullest. HORNG (voice-over): Man and machine square off once again in "The Matrix Reloaded." Directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski, the second installment in the franchise features familiar characters as well as some fresh faces. GREGG KILDAY, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: With the new movie, they've introduced enough new elements to extend the mythology. HORNG: To prepare for the intricate fight sequences, stars underwent four months of martial arts instructions, training so intense that Carrie-Anne Moss, who plays Trinity, suffered a broken leg. CARRIE-ANNE MOSS, ACTRESS: I came into the process really gung ho and excited and then I was taken down within seven days of training. HORNG: The first "Matrix" grossed more than $450 million worldwide, became the first film ever to sell one million DVDs and spawned a visual style copied and parodied in other films, like "Shrek." With a budget of nearly $130 million, about twice that of the first film, there's pressure for "The Matrix Reloaded" to raise the bar. FISHBURNE: That pressure, you know, started at the top and we all just tried to give all that we had to the project. HORNG: And in case you're wondering, filming on the third movie -- yes, there is a third movie -- "The Matrix Revolutions" has already been completed and it's scheduled for release in before the end of the year -- Paula. ZAHN: Well we hope you get to see the movie before the crowds start heading to theater. Eric, thanks so much. Have fun. Andy and I have decided that we are going to wait two weekends. We're not going to deal with three-hour lines. SERWER: I'm not going to do the lines, no. ZAHN: You're just not going to do that. SERWER: No, no. ZAHN: Thank you for joining us tonight. We're going to take a short break and LIVE FROM THE HEADLINES will continue at the top of the hour. We'll be right back. ANNOUNCER: Saddam Hussein rises again? A new audiotape turns up in Baghdad. Is he alive? And will this tape prove it? He's been called a genius and a rogue. Karl Rove, the so-called brain behind the strategy of George Bush, makes a rare public appearance. What will his next strategy be? After a week of devastating tornadoes, weather experts say the worst may be yet to come. Where will nature's fury strike next and how can you prepare? PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: And good evening. Glad to have you with us tonight. Appreciate your joining us. We've got lots of ground to cover in this half hour. We're going to be talking about all that nasty weather that has been pounding the Midwest and the South. And over the next 30 minutes we're going to take a look at those headlines, as well, some of the day's other big stories in the order they happened. First up, in the 2:00 a.m. Eastern time, the tale of the tape. A new audiotape tied to Saddam Hussein surfaces. It is purportedly made as recently as this past Monday. What it does show or portrays is a man who is tired, but still defiant. National security correspondent David Ensor reports. DAVID ENSOR, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Intelligence officials at the CIA are now analyzing the audiotape, trying to assess whether the voice is really Saddam Hussein or not. They tell me it may take a while this time and that they may never be able to say definitively whether the voice is Saddam because the quality of the recording is quite poor. (BEGIN AUDIO CLIP FROM TAPE, IN ARABIC) ENSOR: In the past, U.S. intelligence was quick to say the last audiotape made public was, indeed, the voice of Saddam Hussein, and, of course, a videotape of that same address was recently made public, too. ENSOR: If this one is Saddam, clearly he's alive and seeking to rally his supporters. But not much more can be said. Audiotapes don't tend to reveal as much as videotapes sometimes do. For example, if you remember the first tape made public of Saddam Hussein walking about on the streets of Baghdad, U.S. officials satisfied themselves that it was, indeed, him, and they also looked at it frame by frame, at things in the background. And if you'll recall, the claim was that that recording had been made in early April, on April 4th. But U.S. intelligence officials said that was not true, that certain clues in the background, things that had changed by then, told them that the tape had been recorded a month earlier in early March, when the regime was still in control of the whole city. U.S. officials say their working assumption is and has to be that Saddam Hussein is probably still alive until something proves otherwise. So this latest audiotape, if genuine, will just reinforce that working assumption. David Ensor, CNN, Washington. ZAHN: So, U.S. officials may not know the status of Saddam Hussein, but that hasn't stopped them from taking another of Iraq's most wanted into custody. In the 2:00 a.m. hour, U.S. Central Command announced it had its hands on former regional Baath Party commander Ghazi Hamud al-Adib. He is number 42 on CENTCOM's list of the 55 most wanted Iraqis. Speaking of card decks, Greenpeace says it has to print its own deck, what it calls suits and nukes. It focuses on the dangers of nuclear arsenals. The cards were being handed out to delegates at a meeting on the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in Geneva, Switzerland. President Bush filled in for Saddam Hussein as the ace of spades. In the nine o'clock hour, another matter for environmentalists, gas guzzling SUVs. But this time the focus isn't on what SUVs do to the environment, but rather their effect on national security. Here's our report. JULIE VALLESE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): National security, that's what two advocacy groups say auto makers and government are compromising for not building more fuel efficient cars. ADRIANNA HUFFINGTON, THE DETROIT PROJECT: You might think that this is public policy made in an insane asylum. In fact, it is not. It has been bought and paid for by Detroit. VALLESE: In a $300,000 ad campaign, the National Resources Defense Council and The Detroit Project are targeting and challenging auto makers to build vehicles that get at least 40 miles per gallon. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Our dependence on foreign oil... VALLESE: But auto makers say they are producing vehicles with the future in mind. LARRY BURNS, GENERAL MOTORS: We've improved the efficiency of our vehicles model by model, engine by engine, year by year. VALLESE: Honda and Toyota have already put two hybrid vehicles on the road and two U.S. makers, Ford and Saturn, will both introduce hybrid SUVs. (on camera): The EPA estimates in 2002, the average fuel economy in the United States hit a 22 year low. The combined average for all classes of vehicles was 20.4 miles per gallon. (voice-over): While owners of SUVs do want more fuel efficient vehicles, they say there's a more important issue advocacy groups should spend their time and money on. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Anyone who really wants to help this country, get on a campaign, use your celebrity status to get on a campaign to get people to buckle their safety belts. VALLESE: Ultimately, it's up to consumers to decide what they are willing to drive and at what cost. Julie Vallese, CNN, Washington. ZAHN: And looking overseas now, in the 10:00 a.m. hour, the child pornography investigation of legendary guitarist Pete Townsend comes to an end without any charges. Scotland Yard investigated him for four months after learning he had logged onto a Web site containing images of child abuse in 1999. He claims to have been a victim of child abuse earlier on. But Townsend contends he looked at the site because he was actually doing research on Internet pornography. Authorities apparently agreed and formally cautioned Townsend. He is expected to be placed on Britain's national sex offenders registry for five years. After a short break, we're going to pick up our time line at noon. Also coming up... (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ARI FLEISCHER, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Congressman Waxman has never met a Republican he didn't want to investigate. ZAHN: The White House responds to charges it's in bed with one of the vice president's old businesses. Plus, the man said by many to be pulling the strings in the White House makes a rare appearance. Well, not such a rare appearance, but he did answer some questions posed to him in a very public forum. Those stories, when we come back. ZAHN: And we'll pick up our time line now in the 11:00 a.m. hour. That's when we got word that Laci Peterson's family is endorsing a controversial piece of legislation on Capitol Hill. It is known as the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. It would allow violent crimes against a pregnant woman to be treated as crimes against two people. Twenty-six states, including Peterson's home state of California, have similar laws. This congressional measure, if passed, would cover federal cases. Some opponents describe it as a way to influence the abortion debate because it would define a fetus as a separate life. The bill's supporters say that's simply not so. SEN. MIKE DEWINE (R), OHIO: No one should make this into an abortion issue. That's not what this is about. No one looks at this tragedy in California and says this is an abortion issue. There are two victims and there should be two prosecutions. That's all we're saying. ZAHN: And we're going to move from Capitol Hill to the White House now. In the noon hour, the Bush administration responds to the so-called Halliburton firestorm. Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman has questioned whether the Bush administration's deep ties with the company helped it secure a contract that basically lets it run all phases of the Iraq oil industry. Vice President Dick Cheney was once the head of that company. But his office repeated again today that he has severed all corporate ties with that company. The White House says it is a non-issue. FLEISCHER: Congressman Waxman has never met a Republican he didn't want to investigate. You can ask all, address all questions to the contracting agencies and, of course, the oil of Iraq belongs to the Iraqi people. All resources of Iraq belong to the Iraqi people. And the United States, through the Agency for International Development and through other entities, is going to be there to help the Iraqi people. And that is exactly what we're doing. ZAHN: Moving ahead to the one o'clock hour, political junkies and some very lucky college students got a close-up look at the man behind President Bush's political plan. We're talking, of course, about presidential adviser Karl Rove, who made a rare appearance in that he took questions from an audience and tried very hard, we are told, not to make news. Our senior political correspondent Candy Crowley explains why. CANDY CROWLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Karl Rove doesn't get out much. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: First off, thanks for coming to the school. It's great. You know, you don't make too many public appearances, so it's good that you've come to say... KARL ROVE, SENIOR WHITE HOUSE ADVISER: I'm not allowed to. CROWLEY: You think he's kidding? The truth is, the foundation of the president's reelection strategy is to act as though there is no campaign, to be as presidential as possible as long as possible. Which means when Rove, the embodiment of politics in the Bush world, arrived in New Hampshire, the most political of states, to talk to a forum known as Politics and Eggs, he didn't talk politics, not so you'd notice, anyway. ROVE: The president understands we have two great necessities, to win the war on terror and to strengthen the American economy. CROWLEY: Which pretty much defines the staples of reelection strategy. Rove also hinted at the early defensive line. Conceding six percent unemployment is a problem, Rove said the best cure is the biggest possible tax cut. But he later told an interviewer voters understand the president inherited a weakened economy that was further buffeted by 9/11, corporate deception and the uncertainty of war. ROVE: I think people look at it and say, you know, we're doing OK, were not doing great. We can do better. But we're not going to, you know, we're not going to blame the president for what the economy is because these problems are deeper, bigger and longer in being caused then just simply the action, you know, one man walking into the presidency. CROWLEY: He's been called a political guru, boy genius, more harshly, Bush's brain. But Rove downplays sound mikes and staging. At the end of the parade, he says, voters see the candidate for who he is and how he leads. ROVE: You can either capture the moment and express what the American people want to hear and know from their president, or you can't. CROWLEY: New Hampshire, as a primary state, has never been kind to candidates named Bush. And Rove probably didn't help matters much when he questioned New Hampshire's first in the nation primary status. But in the larger world, Rove served his boss well. ROVE: And with that, I conclude and I'd be happy to answer or duck your questions. CROWLEY: Candy Crowley, CNN, Goffstown, New Hampshire. ZAHN: U.S. forces say they have made a big find in Iraq. When we pick up our time line, senior Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre looks at whether this find is, indeed, the elusive smoking gun. Now, let's check in with Jacqui Jeras, who's going to tell us the concern all across the country about some pretty nasty weather -- Jacqui. JACQUI JERAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Paula, right now we've got about 12 tornado warnings in effect for four different states. We'll tell you who's getting hit the hardest and what's to come tomorrow. It's all coming up when the time line continues. ZAHN: A little bit earlier tonight, we told you about an audiotape that has surfaced that might -- and we emphasize might -- have been made by Saddam Hussein, raising questions again whether he is alive. During the two o'clock hour this afternoon, the Pentagon addresses another item of unfinished business from the Iraq war, the hunt for Saddam's suspected weapons of mass destruction. As senior Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre reports, the U.S. has found a trailer that officials are convinced is a mobile biological lab. JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Pentagon says this truck trailer, stopped by Kurds at a checkpoint in northern Iraq last month, is almost certainly a mobile biological laboratory. COLIN POWELL, SECRETARY OF STATE: What we've seen so far of the labs is that it matches very closely, as was said in the Pentagon today. MCINTYRE: Officials say the size of the vehicle and the equipment inside, including a fermenter and air cleaning system, match the description given to the U.S. by an Iraqi defector before the war and used to produce these drawings shown to the U.N. STEPHEN A. CAMRONE, UNDERSECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR INTELLIGENCE: The experts have been through it and they have not found another plausible use for it. MCINTYRE: But burned by previous premature suggestions of WMD finds, the Pentagon is withholding a final verdict until the suspected germ factory, which appears to have been cleaned with strong ammonia, can be dismantled to search for trace amounts of bioagents. CAMRONE: On the smoking gun, I mean the, I don't know. MCINTYRE: So far, the search for Iraq's banned weapons has been fruitless. Of the 576 suspected WMD sites the U.S. identified before the war, teams have now inspected 70. No banned weapons were found there, nor at 40 additional sites discovered since the war began. Could the intelligence have been faulty? VICE ADMIRAL LOWELL JACORY: It's too early to tell. It really is. That will come more clear as there's more access to the people that are making the decisions. MCINTYRE: The commander of U.S. ground forces has his own theory. Appearing by teleconference from Iraq, Lieutenant General William Wallace told a Pentagon briefing that the time between when the U.N. inspectors left and the U.S. troops arrived was so short the Iraqis didn't have time to retrieve any weapons from their hiding places. LT. GEN. WILLIAM WALLACE: Because they were so clever in disguising that and burying it so deep that they themself had a problem getting to it. MCINTYRE (on camera): Now, the Pentagon hopes to prove that deadly anthrax and/or botulinin toxin were made in these mobile labs. But even if the tests come back positive, it will only show that Iraq once had biological agents, not that they still had them when the war began -- Paula. ZAHN: Jamie McIntyre, thanks so much. We're going to move on to the two o'clock hour. A newly introduced bill to help paralyzed Americans got some attention on Capitol Hill thanks to the presence of actor Christopher Reeve, who helped members of Congress announce the introduction of a bill to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on research into paralysis and rehabilitation. Reeve, who has been paralyzed from the neck down in a 1995 horse riding accident, talked our Judy Woodruff. JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We're told that some in the brain injury advocacy community say yes, it's good to spend money on research for a cure down the road, but what about the people today who don't have resources, who need help, who need support? How do you make that very difficult choice between what's, which is more important? CHRISTOPHER REEVE, ACTOR: Well, all are equally important and this bill addresses all three phases of need. One is research towards a cure. The other is rehabilitation research. And the third, and probably the most important right now, is quality of life, and that's today. That's about jobs, recreation, transportation, the opportunities to be included in society. And this bill would blanket the 50 states then make sure that people who are denied access to things that they should have, for a better quality of life today get what they need. And it also would send a signal if it passes -- I don't know if it will -- and it's appropriated, which is the other part of it -- it would send a signal that the federal government cares about two million Americans who have been left in the margins for far too long. ZAHN: You can see more of that interview with Christopher Reeve tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. Eastern on "Live From Washington With Judy Woodruff." As the afternoon wore on, the weather continued to be a big story, as it is tonight. Severe weather confronting a lot of folks. Let's turn to Jacqui Jeras, who's standing by in Atlanta right now to tell us what folks in the nation's mid section and places not too far from there are up against tonight -- Jacqui, good evening. JACQUI JERAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Paula, good evening. It's been unbelievable across the state of Alabama and into Georgia. Since about five o'clock Eastern time, we've had tornado warnings in effect for many of the same areas. We had what we call a training situation going on, where some of these super cell thunderstorms have been redeveloping behind the initial storm and so the same areas have been getting hit over and over and over again. And we do have a report of a tornado on the ground earlier in Roanoke, Alabama. And so we've got a tornado warning for Truth County (ph) in West Central Georgia. So that's right across the state line right here. So if you live in Truth County, you want to be taking cover right now, as a tornado has been associated with this particular thunderstorm. So, we also have some tornado warnings across parts of Maryland and also into Texas. I want to show you what's been going on across the Atlanta metro area. We have tornado warnings in effect for Clayton County. You can see they're pushing on down to the south. Here's Hartsfield Airport along I-20. It's been getting hit throughout much of the evening and now we're starting to see a little bit more of a dip, these pushing a little more southwards and moving away from more populated areas. This loop I want to show you has started out from about three o'clock this morning and watch these thunderstorms develop and move across Arkansas. Then you see it move through Mississippi, then into Alabama. Watch that line continuing to go into West Central Georgia. So we've been seeing this same cluster of thunderstorms moving through the same area over and over and over. It's just been a very unbelievable situation. Tornado watches remain in effect across Central Alabama and Central Georgia until nine o'clock local time for both of these, and this is our primary area of concern for tonight. We do have one tornado warning just to the north of Abilene right along I-20 here, and that's going to be in effect for about another 20 minutes or so. And this one is pushing off to the southeast. This tornado watch will continue throughout your evening. And this is the beginning of our next outbreak, we think, of severe weather by tomorrow. And then we have that one other warning. St. Mary's County down here south of Washington, D.C. and these thunderstorm (UNINTELLIGIBLE) are going to go on to the south and the east, by the way, as well. Now, tonight the southeast, that's what we're going to be keeping our eye on. That, we saw that watch box across parts of Texas. What's going to be next? Well, today overall we're slow comparatively speaking, with the number of tornadoes. We've had 22 reports so far. Tomorrow we're going to be seeing a higher number. We've just had a slight risk of severe weather today across parts of the Southeast. Well, as we head into tonight and into Thursday, it's this dark red area that we're going to be primarily concerned with. And does this look familiar to you? These are the same areas that got hit so very, very hard on Sunday. Southeastern parts of Nebraska over towards Omaha, into Kansas City, right along the Missouri River there, down towards Choplin (ph) and then into Fayetteville. So these areas could get hit very hard once again tomorrow. We're expecting more significant tornadoes tomorrow than what we saw today -- Paula. ZAHN: Jacqui Jeras, thanks so much. We're going to take a short break here. When we come back, we're going to share a couple of different stories with you that caught our attention because they happened to be caught on videotape. And some of them might surprise you. ANNOUNCER: A new audiotape purported to be of Saddam Hussein surfaces in Baghdad. Is it really him and do Iraqis really want him back? A high school tradition turns ugly. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Suddenly everything changed. Buckets were flying. Hands were flying. People were bleeding. ANNOUNCER: An annual off campus initiation sends five girls to the hospital. What are school authorities doing to put an end to the tradition of brutality? A chilling audiotape reveals a bus driver allegedly abusing a disabled boy on the way to school. Tonight on LIVE FROM THE HEADLINES, caught on tape. ZAHN: Stories powerfully recorded on videotape. We start with Whitney Casey's report on the high school hazing incident in the suburbs of Chicago. And you can decide yourself whether what you see on tape is actually worse. That's what some of our upcoming guests will say. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Buckets were flying. Hands were flying. People were bleeding. Girls were unconscious. A girl got a bucket put on her head. WHITNEY CASEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Students at this suburban Chicago high school described the weekend's melee. Caught on tape, the aftermath of a powder-puff football game, a tradition, junior girls versus senior girls. Except this year, the hazing got way out of hand, sending five girls to the hospital and injuring many more. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, there was this sort of paint can thing thrown at me and Tabasco sauce and vinegar and stuff like that in my eyes and spam on my face and I just got taken, there was pig intestine wrapped around my neck. CASEY: Dr. Michael Riggle, the school principal, says with the help of school deans, authorities have identified 50 of the girls on the tape. Criminal charges are pending. Dr. Riggle says alcohol was an escalating factor in the fracas. And another factor? DR. MICHAEL RIGGLE, GLENBROOK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL: And there were some similar actions that happened the year before, but nothing that we really were knowledgeable of. And I think that the girls had that done to them that year and now this year they've looked at that and said, you know, this is something that I've got anger about and I want to do the same thing to someone else. CASEY: Some 200 people attended the off campus game. Witnesses say buckets of animal and human waste were used in the hazing, along with paint thinner, blood and spoiled food. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Obviously I'm angry that this happened. I'm disgusted. I'm appalled a hundred percent. I'm embarrassed to say that I go to Glenbrook North High School because of this. It's disgusting. CASEY: Now, while some remain outraged, others underscore that this incident should not sully the school's academic achievements, achievements that 97 percent of the student body that will be graduating will go on to college. And out of the 2,100 here in this student body, only 250 actually attended the powder-puff game. However, the principal did point out to us that many of those seniors he saw there in the hazing were also A, accomplished students here, Paula, A students that may face criminal charges as late as Friday -- Paula. ZAHN: Whitney Casey, thanks for that update. We now go to two young men who were actually witnesses to this hazing incident, Nich Babb and Kevin House. They are both standing outside Glenbrook North High School. Good of you to join us. Thanks so much for dropping by tonight. Nich, I want to start with you. Describe to us what you saw when the violence started. NICH BABB, GLENBROOK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR: Well, it all began with just a bunch of, you know, stuff like paint being thrown onto the girls. But then the violence started and I kind of walked away because I didn't really want to be a part of it. And I mean it was all part of the whole powder-puff tradition. So I didn't really think much of it. But then when I realized that people were actually getting hurt and people were getting injured and I saw the girl who had the 15 stitches or the 10 stitches in her head, I saw her walking out, I knew that this was becoming something that was wrong. And I don't know, it's just -- it was shocking pretty much. I was surprised. ZAHN: Kevin, if you would elaborate for us at what point you became concerned. You talked, you know, Brad just talked about this -- excuse me, Nich just talked about this being an annual rite. But something was very different this year. KEVIN HOUSE, GLENBROOK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR: Yes, when I went to it I didn't think that it was going to escalate into the, you know, violent brawl that it did. You know, this is something that happens every year and it's this humiliation thing. It's a hazing thing. But it's never really been a violent thing. And, you know, at first it was sort of fun and it was sort of expected and it was sort of a consensual thing between the juniors and seniors. The juniors are doing it so they can do it next year. But the second that, you know, fists started getting thrown, buckets, kicking, you know, I just walked away. I just, you know, I couldn't stand watching it any further. BABB: Yes. ZAHN: Kevin, there are a lot of people saying that they saw some of these senior students drinking before this all happened. What role do you think alcohol played in all of this? HOUSE: Well, I think alcohol did play a fairly big role in what happened. But it would have happened if there was drinking there or not. I don't know if you could say it would have escalated to the point it did if there was not drinking there. But, you know, it did play a role in probably, you know, some of the judgment the, some of the girls made. You know, it might have clouded that, I believe. ZAHN: Nich, why didn't someone call 911 earlier than they did? BABB: Well, because the whole point of powder-puff wasn't to get anyone in trouble or it wasn't to -- and the injuries at the time didn't really seem so serious that a 911 call needed to be called. And I think a lot of the people there didn't want anyone to get in trouble. But I guess when things got way too out of hand and people started going to the hospital, that's when, that's when the proof hit the fan, I'd like to say. And one thing I just wanted to, want people to keep in mind, that it wasn't all the seniors who were punching and kicking. It was just a few, and like a few people who had personal grudges against the junior girls that had to, took it personally and had to beat them up, so to speak. ZAHN: Well, Kevin, let me ask you this. There was a disturbing report that came out of your school today that some of these young women actually paid to be hazed. What's that all about? And is that true? HOUSE: Yes, it's true. They paid -- I mean each junior girl pitched in for jerseys and for beer for the event. They buy the seniors it. So, I mean they paid to -- they know what they're getting into to an extent. HOUSE: But I mean when it got, they didn't pay for stitches. They didn't pay for, you know, broken bones. They paid for humiliation so they could humiliate next year. That's the whole idea of it. ZAHN: Nich, how embarrassing is this, do you think, to your school? BABB: I think, I really think that people are just blowing it all out of proportion and people are just, I don't know, they're acting way too embarrassed. I mean it's really not a school issue. Like it is, but it shouldn't be because these girls and these -- everyone who was there, including us two, even though we go to this school, we were there to have like a good time. And it was just, I mean the school is embarrassed, but it shouldn't be because I mean like people are just over reacting. And I don't know what else to say. I mean people should know that this kind of thing isn't the school's problem, you know? But it is kind of, I don't know... ZAHN: Well, I guess it is now. Well, Nich Babb and Kevin House, thank you very much for both joining us tonight. And we wish your school some luck as it tries to clean up this mess. And when we come back, an audiotape reportedly to have been made by Saddam Hussein turns up today, handed over to some Australian reporters. What does it mean? ZAHN: Yet another tape surfaced today, this one reportedly made by Saddam Hussein. An Australian newspaper says it got the audiotape from two unidentified men in Baghdad. That's where senior international correspondent Nic Robertson is tracking down exactly what we know about this tape -- Nic, what can you tell us? NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Seemingly in contrast with the writing on Baghdad's walls, Saddam Hussein's first reported verbal message since his fall from power is a call to arms. Reportedly recorded this week, it was delivered in a tired voice. VOICE OF SADDAM HUSSEIN (through translator): You, the Iraqi people, men and women stand together against the invasion and show your stances much as you can by writing on walls or making positive demonstrations or not selling them anything or buying anything from them, or by shooting them with your rifles and trying to destroy their cannons and tanks. ROBERTSON: Hussein's message finding little support in Baghdad's Adamia (ph) neighborhood, traditionally pro-Saddam. "We don't have the ability to fight the U.S. Army" says Abu Katab (ph) an agricultural engineer. "We don't even want to fight the American troops. They're preserving our security." The streets of Adamia were the last place Hussein is thought to have appeared publicly. His new message refers to his birthday and the looting of the Iraqi National Museum, both events occurring since that appearance and his removal from power. According to the new audiotape, resistance will be a secret struggle, reminiscent of Hussein's Ba'ath Party underground movement from the 1960s. VOICE OF SADDAM HUSSEIN (through translator): Through the secret means I am talking to you from inside great Iraq and I say to you the main task for you, Arab and Kurd, Shia and Sunni, Muslim and Christian, and the whole Iraqi people of all religions, your main task is to kick the enemy out from our country. You have to believe that he who is working with the foreigners is working against you. ROBERTSON: For Iraq's former Foreign Minister Adnan Pechachi (ph), returning from several decades in exile, the specter of the speech troubling. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I fully understand the apprehension that some people feel that, you know, he may suddenly be among us. ROBERTSON: Among anti-Western protesters to whom CNN played the speech, Hussein's words falling flat. "Whether Saddam is dead or alive, he's finished as far as we Iraqis are concerned" he says. "Saddam is over and we don't want him back." A group of looters we also played the tape to, undecided whether it was Hussein. "Saddam had seven doubles" he says, "and we say it's not him." "Whether it is his voice or not we're against him anyway" says this looter. (on camera): Even if the authenticity of the tapes isn't important to people here, the question for the U.S. is will this call to arms result in a serious and sustained threat against U.S. troops or will it simply fade like so many of Saddam's posters and likely be forgotten. Nic Robertson, CNN, Baghdad. ZAHN: And this is what the White House had to say about the so- called authenticity of this tape. FLEISCHER: As for Saddam Hussein and as for the latest, this tape that is in the news, we don't know if the tape is genuine or not. It's being studied. We don't know if he's alive or not. ZAHN: And joining us now from Washington is Judith Yaphe. She is a former Iraq analyst for the CIA. She's now at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. JUDITH YAPHE, FORMER CIA IRAQ ANALYST: Hi, Paula. ZAHN: Good to have you with us tonight. YAPHE: Nice to be back with you. ZAHN: What do you make of this tape? YAPHE: Well, it's, you know, it's not great news. We'd like to think that he's dead. But I think it does, it will probably be confirmed that yes, he is alive. So that's not so good. On the other hand, it's hard for me to see him posing a major threat. And he could encourage isolated acts of violence. He may think that his Saddam Fedayeen, who've disappeared back into the woodwork, so to speak, and into the desert, will come out and mount guerrilla operations. But I don't see Iraqis rising up in any great number to do the kind of things he wants. So I guess I don't see it as a major trip, but an annoying one, yes. ZAHN: So what do you think, if he is alive, he would be capable of pulling off in some strongholds? You talked about the Fedayeen. What about places like Falluja, where you've seen a tremendous amount of anti-American sentiment? YAPHE: Look, you're going to see anti-American sentiment with or without Saddam being alive and encouraging it. There are going to be Iraqis who just are not going to like a lot of the things that we're going to do. They won't like the imposition of an interim government or this leader or that policy or what we're doing with whatever. Add to the mix that Saddam is encouraging it, it's easy to say. But it's hard to see that he will have widespread influence. So will he contribute to it? Will he encourage more? That's a possibility. But you're going to see some of this here anyway. You can't say that anything which happens in the coming weeks and months which is an anti-American act, violence or rudeness or whatever, and just say well, that's because of Saddam, he did that. That would be over stating the case. ZAHN: So, Judith, as this tape is analyzed, are you hopeful that there will be some clues that will allow investigators to once and for all figure out whether he's alive or not? YAPHE: Well, they're pretty good with audiotapes, voice matches. Maybe they can do that. They'll probably come up with something which is rather inconclusive. But if I think like an Iraqi, which I do on rare occasions, I would say that it's probably increased the chances that he is alive. What else they can learn from the tape, you have background noises. Will they tell them anything? Probably not. So that until we can conclusively show here's a hand, here's a DNA, here's a real body part, we're going to live with this for -- until one way or the other we can confirm he is dead or we can find him. But this is going to be a really tough search. Maybe not as touch as going throughout the case of Afghanistan, but not easy. ZAHN: So, Judith, let's close tonight with some of the analysis that's being done on this find that's being billed as the finding of a mobile biological weapons lab. YAPHE: Very interesting. One would hope that through residue tests -- usually there's residue of something which survives, at least it does on the TV programs -- they will be able to say what was done there. If the equipment they�ve found in there is correct -- and I'm no scientist, I don't really know technology well -- but some of the components they were describing in there, it very well could have been a biological lab. I don't want to make any judgment. You need to see the equipment. You need to have people who know what they're talking about look at it. If so, this is the first confirmation that one of these actual trucks, this kind of equipment existed. Although, I think the information was fairly good that they did anyway. ZAHN: Well, Judith Yaphe, thanks. Thanks for coming in and talking with us this evening. YAPHE: You're welcome. ZAHN: Always appreciate your insights. YAPHE: Thank you very much. ZAHN: We're going to take a short break. When we come back, we're going to share a heartbreaking story for you, once again, a story involving videotape that maybe someone didn't know was being shot. A little boy with Down's Syndrome is allegedly slapped around by his school bus driver. We're going to meet his parents right after this short break. A school bus driver in Milwaukee is facing charges for allegedly harming a 9-year-old boy on his bus with Down's Syndrome. Brian Duchow is accused of threatening and striking Jacob Mutulo while he was strapped into his seat. These charges stem from a piece of videotape his parents, the parents of this little boy had actually put a tape recorder in Jacob's backpack and it caught the attack on tape. Now Vince and Rosemary want cameras in every special ed bus. And the Mutulos join us now from Milwaukee. Thank you very much for being with us tonight. VINCE MUTULO, JACOB'S FATHER: Thank you. ROSEMARY MUTULO, JACOB'S MOTHER: Thank you. ZAHN: I know this is going to be difficult for you all to talk about, but to put it all in perspective, I'm going to share with the audience now exactly what happened on the bus, and we'll all listen together. BRIAN DUCHOW: No more of your crap, Jacob. Put that seat belt down. Now! JACOB MUTULO: No! DUCHOW: Now! DUCHOW: I'm going to slap the hell out of you. ZAHN: So, Rosemary, when you actually listened to that tape for the first time, tell us what you thought. ROSEMARY MUTULO: Well, the first time I heard it I couldn't listen to it all the way through. It made me sick to my stomach. And then I thought about it, that Jacob had gone through it, so I could go through it and listen to it. And I cried through all the rest of it. And I was just in shock. I couldn't believe that this was happening to my child. You never ever think of that possibility of something happening to your child. ZAHN: Vince, obviously you all had some concern about the safety of Jacob on this bus. Explain to everybody why you put a tape recorder in his backpack in the first place. VINCE MUTULO: The main reason, we were trying to focus on trying to figure out why Jacob's behavior had changed so drastically over the past months. This was a kid who loved to ride the bus, it was a kid who loved to go to school. And all of a sudden he didn't want to do some of those things, to the point that he'd even throw a tantrum on the way coming home from school. His behavior in school has drastically changed, to the point where he's hitting other kids that are smaller than him and it's really affected him academically, too. I mean he's already got a delay because of his condition and he didn't need any more help. So it was the day following Easter break, the first day he was back, the bus driver wrote him up again for his misbehavior on the bus. And my son took him off that day and he told me what had happened. But that's when we talked about it and said we've got to do something. We've got to find out why Jacob's behavior is the way it is. So that's when we decided to put the recorder on the bus, to find out Jacob's behavior so we could help him. ZAHN: And Rosemary, I guess what you all are pushing for is for videotape cameras to be put in all buses transporting children with special needs. ROSEMARY MUTULO: At the very least for children who have special needs and who cannot speak for themselves, who have been up to this point mostly silent victims, unable to verbalize what's happened to them. At the very least, we should put videotape cameras on their school buses so that it can speak for them. Video cameras are impartial witnesses that at least the children would have a voice and some protection. ZAHN: Vince, what happened when you came forward with this audiotape and you shared it with school officials? VINCE MUTULO: Actually we didn't share it with the school officials. The first thing we did was we called the police, the local police department. And then from there we were called by local alderman and a school administrator who is a school board member that is our supervisor for our area. Then from there this all escalated. And the police originally then kept asking questions, you know, because they weren't really sure the proper area to have this go to get this done correctly. And they found the sensitive crimes unit is a unit that takes care of only crimes of this nature. And the gentleman, another police officer came on, it was Saturday evening, and he asked us some questions, listened to the tape and after the first statement he heard he had plenty. He took a copy of the tape back to the department. He and his supervisor listened to it and Mr. Duchow was arrested that night. ZAHN: Tonight, Rosemary, an official from an organization called ARC, and that's an organization that helps children with special needs, says that this type of -- I don't think you can hear me. Vince, can you still hear me? VINCE MUTULO: Yes. ZAHN: Yes, unfortunately this ARC organization is saying that what we just heard on tape, as disturbing as it is, is not uncommon. Are you aware of other situations like we just witnessed along with you tonight? VINCE MUTULO: Well, actually, locally we are. But I had heard about this organization and it actually kind of shocked me that, of the number of percentage that of children like Jacob or any other handicapped person of any nature, 80 percent or some number like that, are being abused in some way or another. But people have called us since this has come out and talked to us about their children and other issues or instances where this has happened. ZAHN: Well, we won't keep you any longer. I know Jacob would love your attention right now. Rosemary and Vince Mutulo, we really appreciate your time. We know how troubling this is for you to share your story and know how important it is for you to get the information out there that this shouldn't happen to any other child again. Again, thank you for joining us tonight. VINCE MUTULO: Thank you. ROSEMARY MUTULO: Thank you for having us. ZAHN: And we should mention that we did call the bus driver who is being accused of this kind of mistreatment. We called his home. We got no answer. And the bus company would not provide us with any statement, the bus company that employs him. We need to end it there. Thanks so much for being with us tonight. Larry King is up next after a quick check of the headlines. Hope you'll join us again tomorrow night. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com Sells for $17 Million> Languages --------- Arabic German Japanese Korean Turkish CNN TV CNN International Headline News Transcripts Advertise With Us About Us © 2005 Cable News Network LP, LLLP. A Time Warner Company. All Rights Reserved. Terms under which this service is provided to you. Read our privacy guidelines. Contact us. 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CLEMSON, S.C. – The Tigers will play host to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets on Oct. 23 at Jervey Gym. First serve is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. and admission is free. Tuesday night is also "Jam Jervey Night", sponsored by Bi-Lo and Gatorade. The first 200 youngsters age 13 and younger who attend the match will receive a free t-shirt. Georgia Tech enters Tuesday's match with a 12-5 overall record and a 7-3 mark in ACC play. Maja Pachale leads the Yellow Jackets with 287 kills and a 4.63 kills per game average. Kele Eveland has handed out 748 assists (12.06), and leads the team in digs with 176 (2.84 dpg). Lynnette Moster has a team-best 33 service aces, and Alexandra Preiss has 68 blocks (five solo). Clemson (6-12, 2-8 ACC) is led by senior Jodi Steffes. Steffes has a team-best 259 kills and 3.92 kills per game average, and also leads the Tigers in service aces (29) and digs (179). Jessi Betcher has handed out a team-high 694 assists and is second on the team in digs with 171 and service aces (23). Freshman Lori Ashton leads the team in hitting percentage (.292) and is second in blocks (54 total). Sophomore Marija Zoric is the Tiger leader in blocks with 55 total (10 solo). Clemson is 27-10 all-time against Georgia Tech, and the Tigers hold a 13-3 advantage over the Yellow Jackets in Jervey Gym. Under Jolene Jordan Hoover, the Tigers are 10-8 against Georgia Tech, and have only lost twice to the Yellow Jackets on their home court (1996, 2000). In their most recent meeting in Atlanta, Georgia Tech defeated Clemson 3-0 (30-15, 30-26, 30-16).
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Some of the state's most important recreation areas rely on water from, or are otherwise associated with, the North Platte River and Platte River; including Lake McConaughy, Lake Ogallala, Sutherland Reservoir, Johnson Lake, Two Rivers State Recreation Area, Platte River State Park, and Eugene T. Mahoney State Park. The Platte River has been identified by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and several environmental organizations as being important to certain threatened or endangered species; including the whooping crane, the interior least tern, the northern Great Plains piping plover, and the pallid sturgeon. Platte River water users in one location often rely on a water supply that originates in another part of the basin. Frequently, the source and the use are so far removed that they may not occur within a single NRD, or even within adjacent NRDs. Similarly, new water uses in one part of the basin can impact other users far from where the new use occurs, including across NRD boundaries. In Nebraska, integrated management plans are the statutory scheme developed for resolving conflicts between ground water users and surface water appropriators. Where a fully appropriated or overappropriated basin is contained within a single NRD, or where conflicts between groundwater users and surface water appropriators are contained within a single NRD, an individual IMP for the NRD in question may be all that is required. However, where a fully appropriated or overappropriated basin encompasses multiple NRDs, or where conflicts exist between groundwater uses in one NRD and surface water appropriators in another NRD, a basin-wide IMP is needed in addition to the individual NRD IMPs. Unfortunately, in cases where groundwater uses within an NRD are interfering with the water supplies of surface water users outside of that NRD, it is virtually impossible for the injured surface water users to obtain proper relief by bringing their complaint to the NRD where the groundwater use is occurring. It should not be a surprise to anyone to find that the NRD in question always seems to view the local groundwater uses as more reasonable or more important as compared to the injured surface water use that takes place somewhere far removed from their local area. In these cases where water uses within an NRD are causing harm outside the NRD, integrated water management decisions are a basin-wide concern, and should be made at a basin-wide level. Consider the case of ground water uses in the North Platte NRD depleting the water supply of the North Platte River to the detriment of The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District and related downstream uses. Central's facilities consist of Lake McConaughy, Supply Canal, and Irrigation System, located along the North Platte River and Platte River downstream from the North Platte NRD. Central's system and water supply provides numerous benefits, including: deliveries to over 100,000 acres of land that irrigate directly from Central's system, located primarily in Gosper, Phelps, and Kearney Counties; irrigation storage water for an additional 100,000 acres on 11 other canal systems in Lincoln, Dawson, Keith, Garden, and Morrill Counties; hydropower generation at Central's Kingsley, Jeffrey, Johnson No. 1 and Johnson No. 2 hydropower plants; hydropower generation or cooling water for Nebraska Public Power District's North Platte Hydro, Gerald Gentleman Station, and Canaday Steam Plant; recreation at numerous reservoirs, including Lake McConaughy, Lake Ogallala, Jeffrey Lake, Midway Lake, Gallagher Canyon Reservoir, Plum Creek Canyon Reservoir, Johnson Lake, and Elwood Reservoir; aquifer recharge in accordance with underground storage appropriations to more than 1,000,000 acres in Gosper, Phelps, Kearney, Lincoln, Dawson, and Frontier Counties; return flows to the Platte River; an Environmental Account for use for threatened and endangered species on the Platte River; flow contributions to the Republican River that provide a credit for Nebraska under the Republican River Compact; and wintertime open water for bald eagle feeding. Central operates in accordance with appropriations granted by the State of Nebraska, contracts with customers, and a hydropower license from the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Lake McConaughy, which stores North Platte River streamflow, is critical to Central's operations and the many benefits listed above. Pumping from wells in the North Platte NRD is depleting the North Platte River streamflow at a current rate of over 125,000 acre-feet per year, and the amount continues to grow. As a matter of comparison, this is equal to 14 percent of the normal inflow into Lake McConaughy, 23 percent of the inflow into Lake McConaughy during the current drought, 139 percent of Central's normal average irrigation deliveries, and 287 percent of Central's average irrigation deliveries during the current drought. As a result of the depletions caused by pumping in the North Platte NRD, Lake McConaughy contents, irrigation deliveries, hydropower generation, cooling water availability, water levels for recreation, aquifer recharge, Platte River return flows, Environmental Account contributions, flows to the Republican River basin, and open water for eagles have all been reduced. It is addressing these streamflow depletions and the resultant adverse impacts which should be the focus of the integrated management plan for the North Platte NRD. When Central has brought these concerns to the North Platte NRD, the results have been disappointing. Of course, this is exactly what might be expected. Ultimately, Central is asking the locally elected directors of the North Platte NRD to accept painful reductions in water use for their constituents, their communities, and in some cases themselves, for the protection of uses that take place outside of their local area, and in some cases hundreds of miles away. Instead of determining an amount of use that would be likely to protect water supplies for existing downstream users, they question the value of those downstream uses as compared to their own local uses. The many beneficial downstream uses; such as instream flows, aquifer recharge, or Republican River contributions; are looked on by them as unimportant, unnecessary, or even wasteful. Whereas proper management of limited resources dictates that water use should be reduced where the supply is least able to support the use; they instead argue that the lower rates of precipitation in their area are justification for greater amounts of use. Notwithstanding significant amounts of information given to them regarding the adverse impacts of pumping within their NRD, they claim that there is no evidence of any harm to downstream users. One of the purposes of the basin-wide IMP, then, should be this: to identify those NRDs within the overappropriated basin in which ground water uses are significantly interfering with water uses outside of those NRDs, and to determine an amount of use or depletions that may be made within those NRDs that would reasonably be expected to significantly reduce or eliminate the adverse impacts outside those NRDs. The amount of allowed use or depletions having been determined by the basin-wide IMP, it would then be left to the individual NRD IMP, and the decisions of the local NRD, to determine by what means those use or depletion objectives might be achieved; whether it be by allocation, retirements, interference agreements, or any other means. In the case of the Platte River, Central believes the area where ground water uses are significantly adversely impacting basin-wide surface water uses is the North Platte NRD. This is not to say that ground water uses in other parts of the designated overappropriated area do not have any adverse impacts on surface water uses, but those impacts pale in comparison to the consequences of overuse in the North Platte NRD. Indeed, the adverse impacts caused by ground water uses in the North Platte NRD alone are so great that, had they never occurred, it is conceivable that other portions of the basin could perhaps only be fully appropriated rather than overappropriated. Central believes that the basin-wide plan should be used to set basin-wide or state-wide policy regarding the balancing of competing water uses and make an effort to resolve conflicts already known to exist, as was part of the intent of the legislature in passing the Nebraska Ground Water Management and Protection Act. Central believes that the basin-wide plan should identify an amount of allowable ground water use or an amount of allowable depletions to streamflow for the North Platte NRD, and that the allowable use or depletions should vary with variations in river flow (with greater uses or depletions allowed when river flows are at or above normal, and significantly reduced uses or depletions allowed when river flows are below normal), and that any remaining impacts to appropriators be otherwise mitigated or compensated. Central also believes that the rights of senior appropriators should be respected; ideally by preventing or reducing interference to those appropriations; or ultimately, to the extent that the State of Nebraska and the NRDs conclude that as a matter of policy it is best that water resources be reallocated from senior appropriators to junior ground water users, then those impacted appropriators should be appropriately compensated. Unfortunately, this is not the approach that has been taken by the DNR and the NRDs. The basin-wide IMP as proposed does little more than restate existing statutes related to returning to 1997 conditions, to the point that one wonders what value the basin-wide IMP has at all. The plan does not give basin-wide or state-wide guidance on appropriate amounts of water use or depletions. There is nothing in the basin-wide IMP that attempts to resolve those conflicts between ground water users and surface water appropriators that are already known to exist. The basin-wide plan fails to respect the rights of senior appropriators. Testimony of The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District Regarding the Draft Integrated Management Plan for the North Platte Natural Resources District The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District's facilities consist of Lake McConaughy, Supply Canal, and Irrigation System, along the North Platte and Platte Rivers downstream from the North Platte Natural Resources District. Central's system and water supply provides numerous benefits, including: deliveries to over 100,000 acres of land that irrigate directly from Central's system, located primarily in Gosper, Phelps, and Kearney Counties; irrigation storage water for an additional 100,000 acres on 11 other canal systems in Lincoln, Dawson, Keith, Garden, and Morrill Counties; hydropower generation at Central's Kingsley, Jeffrey, Johnson No. 1 and Johnson No. 2 hydropower plants; hydropower generation or cooling water for Nebraska Public Power District's North Platte Hydro, Gerald Gentleman Station, and Canaday Steam Plant; recreation at numerous reservoirs, including Lake McConaughy, Lake Ogallala, Jeffrey Lake, Midway Lake, Gallagher Canyon Reservoir, Plum Creek Canyon Reservoir, Johnson Lake, and Elwood Reservoir; aquifer recharge in accordance with underground storage appropriations to more than 1,000,000 acres in Gosper, Phelps, Kearney, Lincoln, Dawson, and Frontier Counties; return flows to the Platte River; an Environmental Account for use for threatened and endangered species on the Platte River; flow contributions to the Republican River that provide a credit for Nebraska under the Republican River Compact; and wintertime open water for bald eagle feeding. Central operates in accordance with appropriations granted by the State of Nebraska, contracts with customers, and a hydropower license from the United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Though Central has a number of direct-flow appropriations for irrigation and hydropower production, because of the very junior priority dates of those appropriations, storage water in Lake McConaughy is critical to Central's operations and the many benefits just listed. Lake McConaughy relies almost exclusively on the marginal flows of the North Platte River; particularly that streamflow originating within the North Platte NRD as a result of the movement of water from the aquifer to the river and its tributaries. In the original case of Nebraska vs. Wyoming, consideration had been given to the question of whether or not a part of the water supply then in question should be assigned to downstream interests; with the Special Master ultimately determining that it would not be necessary for the specific reason that it was expected that downstream interests would be able to rely on these marginal flows of the North Platte River, and be able to store such flows in Lake McConaughy. The proposed IMP fails to respect the rights of prior appropriators. With rare exception, hydrologically connected wells in the North Platte NRD, and their depletions to streamflow, are junior in time to most appropriations within and downstream from the North Platte NRD. The IMP should include goals, objectives, or actions that would protect the rights of senior appropriators. Through the IMP, the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources and the North Platte NRD should quantify impacts to senior appropriations, quantify amounts of use reasonably expected to avoid impacts to senior appropriations, manage well uses in a way that avoid or reduces impacts to senior appropriators, provide replacement water for impacts that are not avoided, enter into interference agreements with senior appropriations, or compensate senior appropriators for impacts to their water supply. The proposed IMP fails to resolve conflicts between ground water uses and surface water appropriators. According to § 46-703 of the Nebraska Ground Water Management and Protection Act, it is the intent of the legislature that the DNR and NRDs identify and implement management solutions to such conflicts. In no other NRD in the Platte River basin is conflict between ground water and surface water uses more apparent than in the North Platte NRD. Surface water users on Pumpkin Creek are currently in litigation against well owners in that watershed for drying up that stream, and Central has raised similar complaints about the impacts of those wells as part of those proceedings. Central has previously brought a complaint against hydrologically connected wells located upstream from Lake McConaughy. Streams, ponds, and wetlands within the North Platte NRD are drying up. The many downstream uses that are being hurt by North Platte NRD streamflow depletions have been described earlier in this testimony. Notwithstanding all of this, the draft IMP does not identify any management activities that would resolve these conflicts. The draft IMP does contain some reference near the end to a process in the Basin-Wide IMP whereby aggrieved parties can supposedly bring a complaint and have the conflict addressed through changes to the IMP; but since the conflicts within the North Platte NRD are already well known and yet are not addressed, it seems questionable to expect that those same conflicts raised again in the future will be given any different treatment, which is no treatment at all. The proposed IMP significantly underestimates streamflow depletions caused by wells in the North Platte NRD. The IMP uses results from certain Cooperative Hydrology Study models for estimates of streamflow depletions. COHYST is a major, collaborative, multi-year effort to improve our understanding of Platte River basin hydrology in Nebraska. Central supports this effort, and is one of the many COHYST Sponsors. However, the current COHYST models are known to have a number of limitations or other problems that make it inappropriate for them to be used for estimating streamflow depletions at this time. Problems with these models include such things as not including any impacts associated with supplemental or co-mingled wells, projecting depletions based only on average rather than variable water supplies and uses, reliance on a so-called "recharge bump" that artificially adds water to the system and masks the impacts of well development, and lacking a proper streamflow calibration. These problems are not new; they have been known to the COHYST members, including the North Platte NRD and the DNR, for quite some time. And the consequences of these model deficiencies are not insignificant. Indeed, when Central hired an outside modeling expert to incorporate changes into the models to address these same identified issues, the results were quite dramatic. The result was an estimate of depletions now at a rate in excess of 125,000 acre-feet per year, approximately four times greater than the approximately 32,000 acre-foot estimate reported by the Nebraska Association of Resources Districts in 2007 based on the COHYST models in their current flawed form. The obligation to use the best available science is not satisfied simply by using the newest models available, but requires also that deficiencies and limitations in those models be acknowledged and accommodated. The DNR and NRD should modify the COHYST models to address these issues before using the depletion estimates in the IMP; should adjust the model results to account for the known model deficiencies; or should adopt some other methodology instead of, or in addition to, the models for estimating depletions. The proposed IMP overestimates offsets resulting from surface water retirements in the North Platte NRD. Under the draft IMP, there is a total and immediate offset credit given for discontinued use of surface water or co-mingled irrigation, such as may occur through the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program, the Environmental Quality Incentive Program, the Agricultural Water Resources Enhancement Program, or the Platt Basin Habitat Enhancement Program. Such a crediting for these reduced surface water uses is completely inappropriate. First of all, it is improper to assume that all retired surface water uses would have had a full supply of water to begin with, because many surface water users could have a limited available supply from natural flow or storage water from time to time. Indeed, water-short irrigators are among those most likely to sign up for such irrigation-idling programs, and there certainly is no logic at all in assuming a one-hundred percent surface water use for those lands that have seen the need to install a supplemental or co-mingled well. Additionally, it is simply not true that the forgone surface water use, whatever amount it may be, will just remain in the river to serve as an offset for some other depletion. More likely, the unused water will instead be used by remaining irrigators of the same irrigation canal, be diverted by the next water-short appropriator in order of priority, or retained in upstream storage for use at some future date. Any offset credits for surface water retirements should be limited to those appropriations that actually go through a transfer in accordance with surface water statutes, or that amount of water that the DNR can actually determine to be in the river at the appropriate time and location after adjusting for actual available supply and ultimate disposition of the unused water. The IMP improperly focuses on averages in the estimation of depletions and offsets; failing to take into consideration hydrologic variations from season-to-season and year-to-year. Timing of water availability is critically important in the Platte River. Water supplies in the Platte River system are highly variable. The amount of water used by wells, and consequently depleted from the stream, goes up and down in relation to supply. In other words, as growing-season precipitation or surface water supplies available for North Platte NRD water users decrease, the amount of well pumping and depletions to streamflow increase. Likewise, as precipitation or surface water supplies decrease, the harm caused to other users by streamflow depletions is increased. Unfortunately, the IMP only estimates depletions, and therefore only identifies a need for offsets, in terms of annual averages. The consequence is that in times of shortage, such as the current drought, the estimated average streamflow depletion is greatly understating the amount of depletion that is actually occuring, and if only the average offset is provided, there would exist in reality a significant actual depletion that is not being offset. Conversely, when there is plenty of water available in the system, the actual depletion and the need for offset may be less than the average estimate. However, providing the additional offset during this time of plenty very likely does not make up for under-offsetting during the drier times, as the users injured during the dry times may be different from, or have little need for, the additional offset at that time. Another problem with the use of the depletion and offset estimates is that they are annual. Just as water supplies and demands vary from year to year, so it is also true that they vary from season to season. Streamflow in the irrigation season most often goes first to satisfy irrigation before other demands, whereas streamflow in the non-irrigation season most often goes first to satisfy demands for storage and power generation. Depletions and offsets in the irrigation season and non-irrigation season have different consequences to different appropriations, and a contribution of flow in one season does not necessarily suffice to offset for a depletion in another. Nontheless, the IMP contains no seasonal breakdown of the depletion and offset estimates. The IMP should provide variable estimates for depletions and offsets, according to variations in hydrologic conditions and time of year, instead of just estimates based on annual averages. The proposed IMP fails to recognize and appropriately manage for variability in the water supply. When water supplies run short, most water uses are curtailed. As mentioned previously, water supplies in the Platte River system are highly variable, with times of plenty and times of shortage. In times of shortage, surface water uses are reduced in conjunction with reductions in supply. For example, in the current drought, Central's total hydropower production has been reduced by 57 percent, with discretionary releases of storage water for hydropower production having been eliminated altogether; Central's irrigators have had their delivery allocation cut by at least 53 percent for the last 5 years, and by 63 percent in 3 of the last 5 years; Central has ceased use of Elwood Reservoir; and Central has reduced the amount of water made available to other irrigation districts. Also during this time, recreational users have had to endure lower water levels at Lake McConaughy and several other reservoirs, contributions to the Environmental Account have been reduced, and recharge in the Tri-Basin NRD and flow contributions to the Republican River basin have been diminished. By contrast, during times of shortage, such as the current drought, the amount of water used by wells in the North Platte NRD increases substantially; right at the time when the water supply, and other users are dependent on that same water supply, can least afford for that increase to occur. It may be that a 14-inch allocation, such as that contained in the draft IMP, is suitable when there is ample water in the Platte River system; but this use should be significantly curtailed, perhaps by as much as fifty percent, when North Platte River flows are below normal. And it should not be assumed that the system would not respond in time for such a reduction to provide substantive streamflow benefits. Modeling results using the modified models, as described earlier, show that a substantial reduction in streamflow depletions occurs in as little as five years from the onset of reduced pumping. Because most droughts often continue for several years; and because Lake McConaughy and other reservoirs have the ability to sustain downstream users for the first several years of a drought; restrictions on well pumping within the North Platte NRD at the onset of a drought will reduce streamflow depletions within time to be of benefit to the water-short system. The IMP should contain mechanisms designed to reduce well water use during times of shortage, such as reducing by half the allocation or that number of irrigated acres at times when North Platte River flows drop below 800,000 acre-feet per year. Along with this testimony, Central also submits the following items: Exhibit 1; "Analysis of Depletions to the North Platte River", 2009, by Lytle Water Solutions, LLC; giving results of water budget and groundwater modeling analyses; describing adjustments made to the COHYST models to address previously identified issues with those models; estimating streamflow depletions caused by wells in the North Platte NRD; and also estimating reductions in streamflow depletions that can be achieved through reductions in pumping. Exhibit 2; "Water Rights Audit", 2008, by The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District; summarizing Central's appropriations for storage, irrigation, power production, underground storage, and the Environmental Account. Exhibit 3; "A Report of Preliminary Findings from A Study of Hydrologically Connected Ground and Surface Water and its Contribution to Conflicts between Ground Water Users and Surface Water Appropriators in the North Platte Natural Resources District", 2004, by the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources. Exhibit 4; "Ground Water and Surface Water A Single Resource", 1998, by the United State Geological Survey. Exhibit 5; "An Analysis of the 14-Inch Ground Water Allocation in the Pumpkin Creek Basin", 2008, by Lytle Water Solutions, LLC. Exhibit 6; "Evaluation of the Pumpkin Creek Ground Water Allocation by the North Platte NRD", 2008, by Lytle Water Solutions, LLC. Exhibit 7; "Adverse Effects of Pumpkin Creek Groundwater Pumping on Central District Water Uses", 2009, by Michael Drain; report prepared for use in the case of Spear T Ranch, Inc. versus Melvin G. Knaub, et. al.; the adverse effects described in the report as caused by pumping in the Pumpkin Creek basin are likewise caused by stream depletions throughout the North Platte NRD. Exhibit 8; "Expert Disclosures in Spear T Ranch, Inc. Versus Melvin G. Knaub, Et. Al. Case No. CI03-16", 2009, by Lytle Water Solutions, LLC. Exhibit 9; "Streamflow Declines Caused by Groundwater Development in Pumpkin Creek Basin", 2002, by Michael Drain. Exhibit 10; A 2009 letter from Lytle Water Solutions, LLC describing known issues regarding the COHYST models and evaluating the assumption in the draft IMP that surface-water and co-mingled retirements result in a 100 percent and instantaneous offset to streamflow depletions. Exhibit 11; Various documents referenced by the 2009 letter from Lytle Water Solutions, LLC Analysis of Depletions to the North Platte River prepared by Lytle Water Solutions, LLC Click Here to Open Report (pdf) Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) Note: The following information was provided to The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District by the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources FACT SHEET from the United States Department of Agriculture and the Farm Service Agency Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Nebraska Platte-Republican Resources Area The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) and the State of Nebraska launched a $158 million Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) agreement for the Platte-Republican Resources Area. The Platte-Republican CREP will reduce irrigation water use, improve water quality, and enhance wildlife habitat through establishment of vegetative cover. Saving water will also replenish streams, rivers and reservoirs, and enhance wildlife. CREP uses federal and state resources to safeguard environmentally sensitive land through the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). Land enrolled in CRP is planted primarily to grasses and trees to improve water and soil quality and wildlife habitat. CRP was authorized by the Food Security Act of 1985, as amended. CREP provides rental payments and other financial incentives to encourage producers to enroll voluntarily in 10- to 15-year CRP contracts. The Platte-Republican Resources Area CREP will significantly reduce the consumptive use of water for irrigation and the amount of agricultural chemicals and sediment entering waters of the state from agricultural lands and transportation corridors. The reduction of ground and surface water use and of non-point source contaminants, through establishment of permanent vegetative cover, will also enhance associated wildlife habitat, both terrestrial and aquatic. The goals of the Platte-Republican CREP are to: • Reduce the application of water for cropland irrigation in the priority area by 125,000 acre-feet annually from current irrigated usage levels. • Increase surface and ground-water retention by a target amount of 85,000 acre-feet of water annually within priority area reservoirs, groundwater tables and streams. • Provide up to 15,000 additional acres of conservation buffers and restored wetlands. • Reduce the application of commonly used triazine products on crops by approximately 93,000 pounds annually. • Reduce leaching of nitrate compounds into project area streams and groundwater by 5,900,000 pounds annually. • Reduce the agricultural application of phosphate products by farmers by approximately 2,440,000 pounds annually, when fully enrolled, from existing application rates in the priority area. • Assist community public water supplies (surface and groundwater) by reducing nitrogen and phosphorus levels from agricultural activities. • Provide educational assistance to project priority area irrigators to develop a more efficient use of applied water, nutrients, and herbicides. • Provide up to 85,000 additional acres of native grassland habitat for wildlife in the priority area, increasing the populations of pheasants and other ground nesting birds by 25 percent in the area. • Reduce the total consumption of fossil fuels for irrigation by 350,000 gallons and electricity use by 10 million kilowatt hours. The expected combined federal and state obligation is approximately $158 million for optional 10- to 15-year contracts with $122 million coming from FSA and $36 million from Nebraska. This does not include any costs that may be borne by producers. Eligible Areas and Eligibility Requirements The project area includes the Platte and Republican Rivers and their tributaries in southern and western Nebraska. Producers who are located in the project area and meet the eligibility requirements identified for the Nebraska CREP may be eligible. To find out if your operation is located within the project area, contact your local FSA office. To be eligible for CREP, the applicant must also satisfy the basic eligibility criteria for CRP. Irrigated and non-irrigated cropland may be eligible for enrollment. For irrigated cropland to be eligible it must meet land eligibility requirements: • Cropland that has been cropped 4 out of the 6 years, in 1996-2001. • Cropland that is physically and legally capable of being planted in a normal manner to an agricultural commodity and capable of being irrigated when offered for enrollment. • A Nebraska State Water Use Contract is entered into between the producer and the State of Nebraska covering the irrigated cropland acres. For non-irrigated (dryland) cropland to be eligible for enrollment, the land must meet the above eligibility requirements and be a center-pivot corner enrolled with the adjacent irrigated center-pivot cropland area. Approved Conservation Practices The following conservation practices may be eligible for land enrolled into the Nebraska Platte-Republican CREP: • CP2 – Establishment of Permanent Native Grasses; • CP4D – Permanent Wildlife Habitat; • CP21 – Filter Strips; • CP22 – Riparian Buffer; • CP23 – Wetland Restoration; • CP23A – Wetland Restoration, Non-Floodplain; • CP25 – Rare and Declining Habitat. Acreage Limitations For the Platte-Republican CREP, enrollment is permitted for up to 100,000 acres of eligible cropland. Cropland and conservation practice limitations are: • CP2, CP4D, and CP25: up to 85,000 acres; • CP21 and CP22: up to 10,000 acres; • CP23 and CP23A: up to 5,000 acres. For the Republican River Basin Area, up to 50,000 acres may be enrolled. For the Platte River Basin Area, up to 50,000 acres may be enrolled as follows: • Up to 40,000 acres may be enrolled in the designated area below lake McConaughy. • Up to 10,000 acres may be enrolled in the designated area above Lake McConaughy. For the Platte River Basin Area, the 10,000 acres are further divided as: • Up to 5,000 acres, served solely by groundwater wells, may be enrolled. • Up to 5,000 acres, served by either groundwater wells and/or surface water allocation, may be enrolled. Sign-up and Contract Duration Sign-up for the CREP will be announced later by the state and will continue until enrollment goals are attained, or through Dec. 31, 2007, whichever comes first. Land enrolled in the program remains under contract for a period of 10 to 15 years, as specified in the contract. Applicants must generally have owned or operated the land for at least 12 months prior to enrollment. Persons with an existing CRP contract or an approved offer with a contract pending are ineligible for CREP until that contract expires. CREP Payments Nebraska CREP participants may be eligible for the following payments from USDA: • Annual rental payments based on irrigated rental rates for each eligible enrolled irrigated acre in which a State Water Use Contract has already been secured. • Annual rental payments based on dryland cropland rental rates for each eligible enrolled dryland crop acre. • Cost-share payments for 50 percent of the eligible reimbursable costs for establishment of approved conservation practices. • A one-time Signing Incentive Payment of $10 for each eligible acre enrolled for each full year of the contract for practices CP21 and CP22. For example, 10-year CRP contract would receive $100/ acre payment. • A one-time Practice Incentive Payment equal to 40 percent of the total eligible cost of practice installation for practices CP21 and CP22. • A one-time incentive payment equal to 25 percent of the cost of restoring the hydrology of the site for practices CP23 and CP23A. CREP and CRP CREP is not the only option that farmers may select to enhance their land; applicants may still enroll in the general CRP or continuous CRP. However, CREP provides additional benefits not available through the general and/or continuous CRP. For more information on the Nebraska CREP, contact your local FSA office. Additional information is also available on FSA's Web site at: www.fsa.usda.gov. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS from the United States Department of Agriculture and the Farm Service Agency 1. What is the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program? The Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) is a Federal-State natural resource conservation program that addresses State and nationally significant agricultural-related environmental problems. Under CREP, program participants receive financial incentives from USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) to voluntarily enroll in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in contracts of 10 to 15 years. Participants remove cropland and marginal pastureland from agricultural production and convert the land to native grasses, trees and other vegetation. CRP is authorized by the Food Security Act of 1985, as amended. 2. What is the Nebraska Platte-Republican Resources Area CREP? The Platte-Republican Resources Area CREP will help farmers conserve water quantity of the designated rivers and streams, reduce the consumptive use of surface and subsurface irrigation water, and enhance water quality and wildlife habitat by establishing permanent vegetative cover to reduce agricultural chemical and sediment runoff. 3. What are the potential benefits of the Nebraska Platte-Republican Resources Area CREP? The Platte-Republican Resources Area CREP will significantly reduce the amount of consumptive water use for irrigation and the amount of agricultural chemicals and sediment entering the state's waters. The reduction of ground and surface water use and of non-point source contaminants, through establishment of permanent vegetative cover, will also enhance associated wildlife habitat, both terrestrial and aquatic. 4. What are the goals? The goals of the Nebraska Platte- Republican Resources Area CREP are to: • Increase surface and ground- water retention by a target amount of 85,000 acre-feet of water annually within priority area reservoirs, groundwater tables and streams. • Provide up to 85,000 additional acres of native grassland habitat for wildlife in the priority area, increasing the populations of pheasants and other ground-nesting birds by 25 percent in the area. • Reduce the application of triazine products by approximately 93,000 pounds annually. • Reduce the application of phosphate products by approximately 2,440,000 pounds annually. • Protect community public water supplies (surface and groundwater) by reducing nitrogen and phosphorus levels from agricultural activities. 5. What are eligible areas and land eligibility requirements? Landowners can offer for enrollment in CREP eligible cropland adjacent to waterways within the Platte-Republican Resources Area. To be eligible, cropland must meet cropping history criteria and be physically and legally capable of being cropped in a normal manner. Persons who have acreage under an existing CRP contract or an approved offer with a contract pending are ineligible for CREP on that acreage until that contract expires. Other requirements will also apply. Interested producers should contact their local FSA county office for specific information regarding their eligibility for CREP. With regard to the Platte-Republican Resources Area CREP, irrigated and non-irrigated land may be eligible for enrollment. For irrigated land to be eligible, it must be: • Irrigated cropland that has been cropped (a minimum of ½ acre foot/year) 4 out of the 6 years, 1996-2001; • Irrigated cropland that is physically and legally capable of being irrigated in a normal manner when offered for enrollment; and • A Nebraska State Water Use Contract is entered into between the producer and the State of Nebraska covering the irrigated cropland acres. USDA does not control, regulate or impact water rights. For non-irrigated (dryland) cropland to be eligible for enrollment, the land must be a center-pivot corner enrolled with the adjacent irrigated center-pivot cropland area. To find out if your operation is located within the project area, contact your local FSA office. 6. When is the sign-up and how long does land remain under contract? Sign-up for the CREP will begin April 4, 2005, and will continue until enrollment goals are met, or through December 31, 2007, whichever comes first. Land enrolled in the program remains under contract for a period of 10 to 15 years, as specified in the contract. 7. What conservation measures are approved for the CREP? To better serve program goals, the following CRP conservation practices are approved for the Nebraska Platte-Republican Resources Area CREP: • CP2 – Establishment of Permanent Native Grasses • CP4D – Permanent Wildlife Habitat • CP21 – Filter Strips • CP22 – Riparian Buffer • CP23 – Wetland Restoration • CP23A – Wetland Restoration, Non-Floodplain • CP25 – Rare and Declining Habitat 8. What payments is FSA offering? Subject to contract terms and certain limitations, Platte-Republican Resources Area CREP participants will be eligible for the following types of FSA payments: • Annual rental payments based on irrigated rental rates for each eligible enrolled irrigated acre in which a State Water Use Contract has been secured. • A one-time Signing Incentive Payment of $10 for each eligible acre enrolled for each full year of the contract for practices CP21 and CP22. A 10-year contract would receive $100 per acre. 9. What is the cost of the program? The total cost over a 15-year period is estimated at $158 million, with FSA contributing $122 million and the Nebraska and local partners funding $36 million. The $158 million does not include any costs that may be assumed by producers. 10. Can I still enroll in general CRP and continuous sign-up CRP? Yes. CREP is another option under CRP that farmers may select to enhance their land; applicants may still enroll eligible land in the general CRP or continuous sign-up CRP. However, CREP provides additional benefits not available through the general and/or continuous sign-up. For instance, CREP payments are at a higher effective rate. 11. Can I hay or graze my CREP land? Haying and grazing are not permitted during the CRP contract period unless FSA allows them for emergency or managed haying and grazing purposes, if applicable, under normal CRP rules. 12. The Nebraska Platte-Republican CREP encompasses what areas? Seven Natural Resource Districts and portions of two river basins with a portion of the following 22 counties: Buffalo, Franklin, Gosper, Kearney, Nuckolls, Sioux, Chase, Frontier, Harlan, Keith, Phelps, Webster, Dawson, Furnas, Hayes, Lincoln, Red Willow, Dundy, Garden, Hitchcock, Morrill, and Scotts Bluff. More information on the Nebraska Platte-Republican Resources Area CREP is available at local USDA Service Centers and on FSA's Web site at: www.fsa.usda.gov.[/toggle_item] [toggle_item title="Cooperative Programs for Water Management" active="true"]Man can do little to alter the water cycle — that endless process of precipitation, evaporation, and condensation — so our primary supply of available water is firmly more or less fixed. But we can manage and conserve water as it becomes available. Water's value is well understood in Nebraska, as are the consequences of inadequate supplies. Since agriculture in Nebraska requires a large amount of water, several Chlorophyll meteragencies with water management responsibilities have developed programs and services to help improve the efficiency with which our water resources are utilized. The following are some of the programs and services available to agricultural water users in the Central District's area designed to help protect and extend our water supply. • The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District • Tri-Basin Natural Resources District • University of Nebraska-Lincoln Cooperative Extension • U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service On-Farm Demonstrations: • Irrigation management – When and how much water to apply; determining the amount of water stored in the soil. • Nutrient management – Use of chlorophyll meters, fertigation, and split applications of nutrients. • Quality of runoff water – Analysis of runoff water for the presence of pesticides and nutrients. Irrigation Scheduling: • Weather stations gathering data on water use by agricultural crops and lawns.Low-pressure sprinkler • Water use broadcasts on area television stations and crop water use hotline (308) 995-8581. Irrigation Well and Gated Pipe Measurements with Ultrasonic Flow Meters: • Determine flow rates through gated pipe and system losses from leaky gates and gaskets. Irrigation System Evaluations: • Delivery systems. • Center pivot evaluations. Educational Services: • Nitrogen certification program.Ultrasonic flow meter • Pesticide certification program. • Demonstration site field days. • "Water Jamboree" for school children. • "Conservation Days" for area 7th and 8th grade students. Center Pivot Chemigation Inspections: Agency Support — • Irrigation inventory of irrigated acres, types of systems, number of pivots, surge valves, reuse pits, wells, etc., in Kearney, Phelps and Gosper Counties. • Area agronomists/crop consultants serve as a source of information for local agencies to develop and analyze trends, budgets, and cost-share needs. Financial Assistance for Irrigation Conservation Practices provided through: • Tri-Basin Natural Resources District's Nebraska Soil & Water Conservation Program.Pivot pump site • Farm Service Agency's Agricultural Conservation Program. • Natural Resources Conservation Service's Great Plains Conservation Program. • The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District's Conservation Policies. Partial funding for these services provided by: • Clean Water Act — Environmental Protection Agency 319 Grant. • Nebraska Environmental Trust Fund Grant. • U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Challenge Grant. For more information about Cooperative Water Management Programs in the Central District's area, contact any of the above agencies or CNPPID Conservation Director Marcia Trompke at (308) 995-8601. Notice to Central District Employees The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District's Group Health Plan, Flexible Spending Plan and Medicare Supplement Plan THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW PROTECTED MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT EMPLOYEES MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW EMPLOYEES CAN GAIN ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY. 1. The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District's Group Health Plan, Flexible Spending Plan and Medicare Supplement Plan (Central District's Group Health Plans) is permitted to make uses and disclosures of protected health information for treatment, payment and health care operations, as described in the following examples: a. For treatment – Authorization for treatments not specifically covered in the Hospital/Medical and Dental Benefit Plan. b. For payment – Claim status assistance. c. For health care operations – Eligibility or Enrollment/Termination Purposes. 2. The Central District's Group Health Plans are permitted or required, under specific circumstances, to use or disclose protected health information without the individual's written authorization. If a use or disclosure for any purpose prescribed in the Privacy Regulation is prohibited or materially limited by other applicable State law, the description of such use or disclosure must reflect the more stringent law. 3. Other uses and disclosures will be made only with the Individual's written authorization, and the individual may revoke such authorization. 4. The Central District's Group Health Plans may disclose protected health information to the sponsor of the Plan. 5. The Individual has the following rights regarding protected health information: a. The right to request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures of protected health information. The Central District's Group Health Plans are not required to agree to a requested restriction, however. b. The right to receive confidential communications of protected health information, as applicable. c. The right to inspect and copy protected health information, as provided in the Privacy Regulation. d. The right to amend protected health information, as provided in the Privacy Regulation. e. The right to receive an accounting of disclosures of protected health information. f. The right to obtain a paper copy of the Notice from the covered entity upon request. This right extends to an individual who has agreed to receive the Notice electronically. 6. The Central District's Group Health Plans are required by law to maintain the privacy of protected health information and to provide individuals with notice of its legal duties and Privacy practices with respect to protected health information. 7. The Central District's Group Health Plans are required to abide by the terms of the Notice currently in effect. 8. The Central District's Group Health Plans reserve the right to change the terms of this Notice. The new Notice provisions will be effective for all protected health information that it maintains. 9. The Central District's Group Health Plans will provide individuals with a revised Notice by posting it on the Web site and making copies available via interoffice mail. 10. Individuals may complain to the Central District's Group Health Plans and to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, without fear of retaliation by the organization, if they believe their privacy rights have been violated. A brief description of how the individual may file a complaint follows: When a privacy violation is discovered, an individual must file a written report with the Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District's complaint officer. A report form can be obtained by contacting the complaint officer. The report, and any action taken, will be documented and appropriately filed with the privacy manual. 11. The Central District's Group Health Plans' contact person for matters relating to complaints is: Assistant Controller 415 Lincoln Street 12. This Notice is first in effect on April 14, 2004.
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A torrential downpour greeted guests, award winners, students, parents, friends and staff to our annual Secondary Awards Evening. Spirits were not dampened, however, and students currently in Years 8 to 13 were presented with certificates and prizes for their achievements in the previous academic year. The awards were for progress and attainment in academics with a number of special awards for contributions to school life, music, drama and sports. His Excellency, Mr John Rankin, the British Ambassador, gave an inspiring speech and a range of students demonstrated their talents through music and the spoken word.
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We hope you enjoy this month's NetEqualizer Newsletter. Highlights include a preview of 8.6 Release features, details on our leasing program, and more! In this month's newsletter, we start discussing our ideas for the 8.6 Release. Release planning is underway, and we are targeting mid-2018 at this point. Read on to learn more. And it is not too late to contribute your suggestions – see how to add your suggestions below. In this month's newsletter we also discuss our NetEqualizer Leasing program, along with our ever-popular Best of Blog article. We are working on exciting new features! Starting in early 2018, we'll begin development on the 8.6 Release for NetEqualizer. The 8.5 Release has been a big success, and with 8.6 we hope to expand on some of the major 8.5 changes to make them even better. 1) Create and provide a GUI for a list of standard DNS domains that you can click on to automatically track in our reports. 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If you have always wanted to try the NetEqualizer in your environment, but have had trouble figuring out how to budget for it upfront, our popular NetEqualizer Leasing Program may be right for you! Under the NetEqualizer Leasing Program, you can get a NetEqualizer sized for your network installed today, for a 1st month and last month deposit, along with a $200 set-up fee. Then going forward, just pay a simple monthly lease fee, which covers support, software upgrades, and hardware warranty. If this sounds like a good fit for you, contact us to discuss further or read more about our Lease Program here. With the holiday season in full swing, we want to pause for a moment to thank you, our valued customers, for your loyalty in 2017 and beyond. THANK YOU! We here at APconnections truly appreciate your business. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to help you succeed, by keeping your networks running smoothly. With your support, we look forward to continued success in 2018! All across the United States, old abandoned railroad beds are being turned into recreational trails, typically used for hiking, biking, and cross-country skiing. On a recent visit to western New York, I was lucky to spend a sunny day in late autumn hiking on one of the converted trails. We hope you enjoy this month's NetEqualizer Newsletter. Highlights include details on more 8.5 Release features, as well as a preview of our Product Demonstration Site and Demo Guide! Last month we announced that our 8.5 Release was officially Generally Available. Now that the dust has settled, and many of you have started updating your NetEqualizer(s) to 8.5, we are taking time this month to talk more about how to best use the new 8.5 features. Read on to learn more about how you can use wildcarding to optimize your implementation of our new Host Names feature, and how to use our new Pool-specific Ratio & Hogmin to make your Pools even better. If you would like to further explore 8.5, you can now see it live by viewing our Product Demonstration Site, which is updated to 8.5, and following along the 8.5 Product Demonstration Guide. In this month's newsletter we offer you Tips for Optimizing your 8.5 Installation, our 8.5 Product Demonstration Guide, and our updated Product Demonstration Site. Using Wildcarding with Hostnames & Making Pools Even Better! We are very happy to announce that our 8.5 Release is now Generally Available. For those of you that are experimenting with the new 8.5 Release, we encourage you to try our reporting by DNS Host Name feature. One tip that will come in handy when using this feature is our wild card () prefix feature. For example, on a system here in our home office we use multiple security cameras, which all register their cloud DNS name as "tag".amazonaws.com. The "tag" prefix is different for each camera, hence if we want to see the total upload traffic we set up our host name as ".amazonaws.com." which causes the NetEqualizer reporting chart to show us the aggregate traffic of all cameras. In this first picture, you can see that we have set up .amazonaws.com. as a Tracked Host, by adding it to RTR -> Traffic History -> Manage Tracked Hosts. In our second picture, you can see the Download traffic has been aggregated for amazonaws.com for the last week. This is a great tool to help us see the total usage on our network for our security cameras. When the download traffic is 0, our cameras were down. Pools are a very powerful tool within the NetEqualizer that essentially allow you to take a segment of your network and apply a virtual NetEqualizer to a group of users. Up until the 8.5 Release, the virtual NetEqualizer within a Pool was forced to use the global parameter of HOGMIN or RATIO to trigger when Equalizing would kick in. For large networks with small pools this often created a dilemma. Do you tune your HOGMIN and RATIO for the entire Network or for the smaller pool segment? The good news is in 8.5 you no longer have to choose. When you define or edit your Pool configuration you can set a local RATIO and HOGMIN specific for each pool you define. This is a great way to offer difference levels of service to groups of users. For example, you may want Equalizing to kick in sooner for one Pool, but allow larger traffic to go through without being equalized. You would do this by setting a lower RATIO and are larger HOGMIN than your global parameters. This is shown in our example below, where Pool 102 "Tier 2" has a RATIO = 80% and HOGMIN of 3Mbps. This is compared to the global RATIO of 85% and HOGMIN of 2Mbps. Pool 103 "Tier 3" is using the global default parameters, which is shown using brackets [ ]. If you are interested in exploring the 8.5 Release, and how you might use pool-specific RATIO and HOGMIN or DNS Host Names, please contact us. The 8.5 Release is free to customers with valid NSS (NetEqualizer Software and Support) subscriptions. We have now updated updated our Product Demonstration Guide to reflect the 8.5 Release! In particular, the NetEqualizer Monitoring & Reporting section now shows the new Active Connections table with the penalties column, our updated NetEqualizer Log showing color-coded penalty information, and our new Traffic Graph by Host Name. This guide is a great resource for anyone on your team that you would like to acquaint with the key features & functions of the NetEqualizer. Use it standalone, or as a guide to walkthrough the Product Demonstration Site. You can view the 8.5 Product Demonstration Guide here. Take a look at our new 8.5 Product Demo Site! We've updated our Product Demonstration (Demo) Site to the 8.5 Release. 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This month we are happy to announce that we have finished our testing phase (thanks test team!), and 8.5 is officially Generally Available! In this month's newsletter we offer you detailed 8.5 Release Notes, preview some of the favorite 8.5 screens, and also provide the updated Quick Start Guide. :: The 8.5 Release is Ready! The 8.5 Release also has more security features added – including login/logout, session management, and HTTPS. These markings will show new penalties, increased penalties, decreased penalties, and removed penalties, as well as informational entries about traffic that is going through your NetEqualizer (see above). One of the most requested features we've heard from our users, the 8.5 Release has the ability to fine tune your Pool settings even further with pool-specific HOGMIN and RATIO parameters. There are many more changes that we are know you will be excited to see. If you are interested in the 8.5 Release, please contact us. The 8.5 Release is free to customers with valid NSS (NetEqualizer Software and Support) subscriptions. You have read about some of our 8.5 features & screens above. If you are interested in learning more about 8.5, you can read our official 8.5 Release Notes, which as always, are posted on our NetEqualizer Blog site (www.netequalizernews.com). Take a look at our new Quick Start Guide! We are happy to share a preview of our updated Quick Start Guide, which now reflects our 8.5 Release! 1) our new Login/Log Out capability, highlighted on Page 4. 2) our enhanced Active Connections Table on Page 11, which now shows penalty status for each data flow. 3) our "visual" NetEqualizer Log on Page 12, which contains detailed color-coded information about penalty statuses. As this is the Demo Version, it does not contain passwords. As always, we ship the full Quick Start Guide with each NetEqualizer unit, so that you will receive an updated version with passwords each time you purchase a NetEqualizer. Click here or on the image at right to view the full Quick Start Guide. NetEqualizer works so well you won't even notice it! The best compliment you can give an umpire or referee in a sporting event is that you did not notice them, and with that example in mind we can safely say our configuration checking is doing its job. It is rare for us to get Support calls regarding configuration mistakes. This invisibility and smoothness of operation is due to ongoing work behind the scenes to make sure that configuration changes make sense and guide the user away from common mistakes. With every release we improve in this area! I'm sure our long-time customers from the very early days (circa 2005) would not recognize the GUI and ease of use if they made a jump all in one step. As part of our 8.5 offering, our Support Team has enhanced their configuration validation capabilities. When you send in your diagnostic file, they can now automatically check your Traffic Limits and P2P Limits against a more complex set of validity rules, including unintended overlapping IP ranges. If you are interested in taking advantage of this 8.5 feature, contact our Support Team to learn more. One of our staff members just returned from a lake vacation, which in my opinion is the best kind of vacation in summer. This shot was taken right after a rainstorm on the lake. The sun peaking through the clouds really highlighted the landscape and made the rainbow stunning.
The Google Now (Google Search) app for Android 4.1 devices or later has been updated to include a number of handy features. As you've guessed by the headline, you can now track shipped packages in real-time across select partners. Also included are quick feedback and settings on cards as well as faster Google search results.
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Fictitious criminal proceedings in exchange for the lecture theatre! 16 February 2018 \| By: The winning team at the EBS Moot Court (left to right): Sophie Hochdörffer, Mariarna Jarju and Maria Bongartz. Students put their knowledge to the test at Wiesbaden's District Court A pub brawl between rival music and sport students, a Hell's Angel who accidentally kills a policeman, and a young woman who suddenly proposes to her boyfriend in the courtroom. Last week's first moot court of the year at the EBS Universität was a stormy affair. In this competition, law students play fictitious cases to test their knowledge of criminal law. The future lawyers had devised these cases together with the Wiesbaden branch of the European Law Students' Association (ELSA). It came to a showdown at Wiesbaden's District Court, in the presence of the Court's President. What seemed fun at first glance is actually daily practice for a criminal lawyer: the cases the EBS students reenacted contained diverse legal issues. Does a broken ring finger already count as grievous bodily harm? When he shot through that door, did the Hell's Angel know there was a policeman standing behind it and did he, therefore, act wilfully and knowingly? What do I do if my only witness suddenly exercises her right to refuse to testify? This is not just about learning from books, but above all by practising legal proceedings. This is why EBS students organise two moot courts each year using construed cases to test their knowledge of criminal law. This time, the two-day competition included several rounds, involving 28 participants and 14 witnesses. "The moot court is intended to give the students comprehensive insight into the various aspects of law", says Luca Manns, the student organiser of the initiative. For the leader of the 30-person team, it is particularly inspiring to experience "the commitment and high-level professionalism with which my fellow students set up this event. We very much grow with it!" Experiencing the atmosphere in court up close Stepping out of the lecture theatre and library into fictitious criminal proceedings makes the course content more intriguing and, at the same time, more comprehensible. "Once you are a prosecutor or defence counsel, suddenly it's no longer about interpreting abstract legal texts but about people. The students realise: I play a part in whether the defendant is acquitted or sentenced to a long term of imprisonment," says Professor Christoph Wolf. He sees himself as a trainer preparing his team for real-life situations. The two winning teams competed against each other in the final at the Wiesbaden District Court. In one of the large courtrooms, there was a lively and voluble exchange of pleas and counter-pleas between the participants. Joachim Blaeschke, President of the District Court, once again assumed the role of Chairman. At the end, the team "Lady Public Prosecutors" with Mariama Jarju, Maria Bongartz and Sophie Hochdörffer were declared winners. They mastered the criminal provisions of the Penal Code to perfection and played their part most convincingly, according to the jury. About the EBS Moot Court The EBS Communicate & Moot Court, a student-led organisation, was founded in 2011 to give law students insight into the practice of legal proceedings. They are given the opportunity to broaden their knowledge of procedural law while at the same time training and further developing their rhetorical skills. To do this, they take on the role of either public prosecutor or defence counsel in fictitious court proceedings. This year the focus was on criminal law. Due to the close cooperation with EBS partner law firms and experienced lawyers, the moot court also offers insight into the practical work of a lawyer, thus making the choice of future career path or an internship easier. For the past year, the student-led organisation has been working together with the European Law Students' Association (ELSA) Wiesbaden, a newly founded local ELSA group. ELSA is the world's largest law student association and organises moot courts in Germany and Europe. Further information about ELSA Wiesbaden: www.elsa-wiesbaden.de
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Introducing a bit of fun into the elements of a web design can go a long way in improving the experience of the users. The website can be more enjoyable as well as memorable. However, it is important to differentiate with what is fun and what is already silly. It is entirely possible to add an interesting element into your design without seeming too childish. There are many ways to achieve a fun but professional website. A good example can be found on the famous Google website. On specific days, we can see eye-catching doodles replacing the standard company logo. On some days, the doodle can be a simple graphical drawing, but on other days, the doodle can be interactive. By doing this, Google is able to introduce a bit of fun into the website without making it obtrusive for the users. This means that the main functions and services of the website is not compromised but these fun elements. By improving the ordinary, you can set your website apart from the others. For example, you can improve an otherwise boring "about us" page by adding personal elements into the design. Instead of simply filling up the web page with large text areas, you can include an interesting photo of the team or even a cartoon representation of each member. Another way is adding something new to other boring fixtures in the website. For example, you can diffuse an otherwise frustrating "404 error" page by adding some humor into the design. You can replace the normal "404 error" message with a more personal text. You may even help out the users by including important links leading to some key web pages that can help them navigate the website and find what they are looking for. Another way to add some fun into a website is telling a story. For example, a simple story directly relevant to your website can be shared as the user scrolls through a web page. This can be a great way to make the mission and vision of the company easily digestible for the users. Probably the biggest challenge when adding some fun into your web design is knowing when to stop. By having too little, the users may not even notice or appreciate it. However, by having too much, you risk driving away some of the users. For example, an "about us" page with a very busy layout, and too many interesting graphics and personalized texts can be confusing to the users who want to quickly learn what the company does. As mentioned previously, it is important to make the elements unobtrusive to those who want to quickly make use of the services offered by the website. One way around this is to add a clear and concise tagline at the very top of the page. With this, the web page is able to readily offer the users the information they need. You can, then, introduce to the rest of the web page a fun and quirky design.
Q: Integrate Vim and Git on Windows I've been using gVim for a while now on my Windows box, and I love it. I'm not using Cygwin, and I'd rather not install it. I'm using the msysgit version of Git for Windows. I'm looking to integrate Git into gVim, so that I don't have to constantly open msysgit and navigate to the correct directory. I feel that integrating the most important commands would really speed up/enhance my code development. Is there a Vim plugin that would that will do this for me? I finally just reinstalled Git For Windows a few times until I got the settings I want. I installed Git using the "Run Git and included Unix tools from the Windows Command Prompt." That seems to take care of getting the !git commands to mostly work from within Vim. This old blog post walked me through a few gotchas: http://devlicio.us/blogs/sergio_pereira/archive/2009/05/06/git-ssh-putty-github-unfuddle-the-kitchen-sink.aspx A: There are many Git frontends I know about: Fugitive and VCSCommand were already mentioned, and there are also vim-addon-git (Git only), vcsi (multi-backend), scmfrontend (multi-backend), mine aurum (multi-backend, but I use almost only Mercurial thus others are not that well tested). From what I know, Fugitive and aurum are the most feature-rich (the main thing I do not have are operations with Git index done by Fugitive), VCSCommand is also good (it is the oldest one and is very popular, thus having lots of bugs fixed), others may have minor advantages, but AFAIK everything what is implemented by one of them is also implemented by fugitive or aurum (of course, I mean only things concerning Git). And yes, I also know nothing about how well any of these integrate with msysgit. Mine should work as far as system('git') works, but under Windows (Wine) only Mercurial was tested. A: You could try Fugitive (Git-only) or VCSCommand (multi-backend) but I don't know how well they integrate with msysgit. It's probably a dumb question but: doesn't :!git commit<CR> work?
Ok I've heard that there's a lot of glitches in the new SimCity. For instance, I really wish their algorithms for ambulance, garbage truck, and fire truck routes were better. I think related to those routes is a bug where the vehicles just seem to stop doing their routes at all. I just noticed my garbage was not being picked up. I only have 4 trucks and over 5000 cans of garbage, so I need to add more. BUT after doing some road remodeling I had noticed a truck stuck off road. I thought it would be removed automatically, but it hasn't in a long time. I just demolished the garbage truck garages but it's still there 🙁 I guess I'll just add the garages back and hope this one is just an extra (and I don't have to pay for it!). Sims Blog now on Blubrry! I just added my blog to Blubrry today. Maybe this will help increase traffic. Let me know if you have any ideas, questions, or problems you'd like to see addressed here. And feel free to add your comments! Posted on March 3, 2008 March 3, 2008 Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Sims Blog now on Blubrry!
NY response to Spa deaths is PR nonsense Posted in: Horse Racing, Political/Social commentary, Saratoga thoughts. Tagged: equine deaths, NYRA, NYS Gaming Commission, Saratoga race meet. Leave a comment Saratoga Race Course has witnessed a disturbing number of equine fatalities this meet. Since racing began on July 21, eight horses have had catastrophic breakdowns while racing, and seven six more died while training in the morning. It has been the cause of considerable consternation on the back stretches, and among fans and the media. On Monday, the New York State Gaming Commission and the New York Racing Association issued a press release announcing they were "implementing additional actions immediately" at the track to address the health and safety concerns. The release was five pages long (single-spaced), apparently in an attempt to convince the public that serious attempts were being made to address a crisis in public confidence. It announced one new action being taken by the bodies responsible for the conduct of racing: an additional veterinarian was going to be assigned to the track during training hours, "doubling" the number of vets who witness the morning training conducted on two tracks. I must admit that I do not know if having a vet present during training is a good idea, but I assume it must be. If that is the case, why has it taken the Gaming Commission and NYRA so long to take this step? If you have been to the main track and the Oklahoma training track in the morning, you know that one person could not cover both facilities. The only other new action being taken is the decision by the National Steeplechase Association — not the Commission or NYRA — to ban apprentice riders from steeplechase events at both Saratoga and Belmont. That decision was announced in a one-sentence policy announcement by that organization with no explanation or rationale. That it applies only in New York indicates that this it is a panicked reaction to create the inaccurate impression that something is being done. All the other "additional measures" are steps that have already been taken, which is not to diminish their significance. The press release was reminiscent of one of my efforts in college to throw together a bunch of unrelated topics for a term paper under the sophomoric view that the professor would not recognize bullshit when he saw it. The cause of fatalities is a complicated one, and there are many possible explanations ranging from track conditions to undetected physical issues to irresponsible use of drugs. New York has implemented a number of steps in recent years to enhance the safety and welfare of horses. Dr. Scott Palmer, New York's Equine Medical Director, chaired a Task Force in 2012 that produced a landmark report identifying a number of steps that should be taken to improve the health and safety of both equine and human athletes. Dr. Palmer also chaired a group that reported on 2014 Saratoga fatalities, recommending additional steps to enhance safety. My memory is that the Gaming Commission reported that he was writing another report of 2016 fatalities, but the Gaming Commission has refused to answer my questions about whether there is such a report. The Monday press release states that another investigation is being conducted on this year's breakdowns, but the Commission refused to answer my questions about whether that would generate a report. There is little secret in why the Gaming Commission and NYRA issued this press release now. The Travers is the signature event of New York's summer racing. Media outlets that care little about digging into a complicated story will relish reporting on the number of fatalities, because that is simple. But putting out a release trumpeting "immediate" and "additional" steps that are neither, undermines the credibility of New York racing, particularly when the claims can be so easily debunked. As Rick Violette, Jr., President of the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association, said: "The litany of programs and initiatives and safety measures are only impressive when they work." ← Time for NYRA to end "Fabulous Fillies" foolishness DACA "solution" is perfect Trump →
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A Catholic bishop urged the youth not to be "mediocre" in their faith that should be shared to others by giving witness through their example. Speaking at this year's "Relentless 2: Singles & Youth Faith on Fire" (SYFOF) at the Araneta Coliseum on June 30, Bishop Honesto Ongtioco of Cubao encouraged the youth not to conform themselves to a mediocre life but instead grow in Christ. "We have no reason to be mediocre in our faith. We should instead show to the world how we live our faith," Ongtioco said. The bishop said he is glad that many young people are active in their faith, which according to him, is a sign that the Church has a bright future. "Because of your presence, I know you care for the faith," he said. Organized by The Lord's Flock (TLF) Catholic Charismatic Ministry for seven years now, the worship conference was aimed at reintroducing the youth to the "relentless love of God" through talks and music. Techie Rodriguez, founder of TLF, reminded the young people that as part of today's church, they have a duty to bring their joy and optimism to the world. "We see in all of you a vibrant and dynamic Church that will face the challenges of the Philippine Church in the present and in the coming generation," said Rodriguez. "A dynamic and vibrant Church will also assure all of us a continuously re-peopling of our Church. We have already seen the Churches in Europe and in other developed countries that have died as the senior citizens like me disappear year after year without youth, replenishing them," she added.
Mexico's growth process in trend and cyclical factors, with implications for policy decisions, is discussed. Mexico's trade integration has been important for growth. But the high export growth experienced has been followed by a more muted performance. Reforms to improve productivity are important to sustain export dynamism. Fiscal credibility, underpinned by prudent fiscal management and a strong fiscal framework, permitted a countercyclical fiscal response during the global crisis. However, Mexico faces significant long-term fiscal challenges, and addressing effectively such fiscal challenge would require early action.
The official website for the Plastic Memories television anime began streaming its third promotional video on Friday. The video previews the anime's opening theme song "Ring of Fortune" by Eri Sasaki. Yasuaki Takumi as Tsukasa Mizugaki, a new employee at SA Corp.'s terminal service who joined after graduating high school. However, he does not know much about his job. Sora Amamiya as Isla, a Giftia who doesn't show much emotion. She starts working in a team with Tsukasa, and supports him, since he does not know much. It is said that Giftias only have approximately nine years to function. Chinatsu Akasaki as Michiru Kinushima, Tsukasa's senior at work. Although they have no age difference, she teaches Tsukasa as his work superior. Sayuri Yahagi as Zack, a Giftia paired with Michiru. His appearance is that of a high-class young boy, but he has the power to complete all work smoothly. Megumi Toyoguchi as Kazuki Kuwanomi, Tsukasa's direct superior at work. Satoshi Hino as Constance, a Giftia modeled as an agreeable young man that works for Kazuki. Has an obviously gentle personality, and performs everything smoothly. Supports Kazuki. Kenjiro Tsuda as Yasutaka Hanada, a veteran employee that has 10 years experience in the terminal service. His ease at conversation, casual attitude, and lack of motivation belie his age and years of employment. Aimi Terakawa as Sherry, a Giftia modeled as a career woman, partnered with Yasutaka. Serious to a fault, and has a rigid rapport with Yasutaka. Nobuo Tobita as Takao Yamanobe, the section manager of Terminal Service 1 and Tsukasa's team. A stereotypical salaryman who is content with peace and quiet, and loathe to go against his superior's orders. Originally worked in sales, so has no actual field experience with the terminal service. Sumire Uesaka as Eru Miru, a novice engineer with two years in the Giftia maintenance team. She is assigned to Isla and Zack, and acts overly familiar and talkative to anyone. An android geek. The anime will premiere on Japanese television on April 4. The official website began streaming its first promotional video last October. Yoshiyuki Fujiwara ( GJ Club, Engaged to the Unidentified ) is directing the project at Dogakobo (Yuruyuri - Happy Go Lily, Laughing Under the Clouds). Chiaki Nakajima ( Yuruyuri - Happy Go Lily, Love Lab ) is adapting the original character designs by okiura (Infinite Stratos). Naotaka Hayashi (Robotics;Notes, Steins;Gate, Chaos;Head) is credited as the project's original creator and he pens the scripts for the "story of meetings and partings." Asami Imai is performing the ending theme "Asayake no Starmine" (Sunrise Starmine).
Q: React Native - State inner json updated but component doesn't re render I have an app wherein dynamic buttons are generated matching the state array count, on pressing any button the color of the button needs to be changed. I tried with setNativeProps but always gave me error of cannot read setNativeProps of undefined. My code for it was - //map function <TouchableWithoutFeedback key={index} ref=`btnAnswer_${id}`> <View style={{ backgroundColor:questions[currentIndex].selectedAnswer[index]["option_"+index] === false ? 'transparent' : 'green', padding:10, width:100, borderRadius:5 }}> <Text> //some text </Text> </View> </TouchableWithoutFeedback> And have tried accessing the button using these methods - => this.refs[`btnAnswer_${id}`].setNativeProps({style:{backgroundColor:'red'}})); => var btnRef = `btnAnswer_${id}` this.btnRef.setNativeProps({style:{backgroundColor:'red'}})); But was unsuccessful using above methods, so I planned to work with state and get it done, my json state object was like this questions= [ { "question_id": 1, "option_1": "true", "option_2": "false", sequence: [ 2, 1 ], selectedAnswer: [ { "option_1": false, "option_2": false } ] }, { "question_id": 2, "option_1": "a", "option_2": "b", "option_3": "c", sequence: [ 3, 2, 1 ], selectedAnswer: [ { "option_1": false, "option_2": false, "option_3":false } ] } ] And have manipulated the state on button press event, like this onButtonPress(questionIndex,answerIndex){ var questionArray = this.state.questions; questionArray[questionIndex].selectedAnswer[answerIndex] ["option_"+answerIndex] = true; this.setState({questions:questionArray}) } Ideally this should update my state and re-render my component and make my button colored as it is set true, but the component doesn't re-renders Please help. A: Your component not re-rendering is highly unlikely. My first tip would be to normalize your data since it is not readable. Assuming that you are on currentIndex = 0, questionIndex = 0 and answer index = 0, you are saying that on the next component render, it will have this.state.questions[0].selectedAnswer[0].option_0 = true. Then when reading the background color you are reading questions[0].selectedAnswer[0].option_0. Well, either the currentIndex or the index are wrong or on the component you are the questions object is not refering to this.state.questions. Re-read your code Anyway, i think you should read directly the backgroundColor from the state, rather than having one boolean and then have to make logic on the render method. A: Full code for the component would help, but there are a couple things that can be said: First of all, I do not recommend calling setNativeProps: this is an advanced functionality that has its downsides and it's extremely likely you don't need to do this. Second, it is indeed possible that your component is not re-rendering because when you're calling setState, you're passing the current state (although mutated) as the argument to setState! What you do is: var questionArray = this.state.questions and then you go on mutating the value and passing it to setState. React may compare the two values and because they are the same instance of array (currentState.questions === nextState.questions) react does not see the need to rerender. It does not see that you changed one boolean nested somewhere deep in the state object. I suggest you read about shouldComponentUpdate, React.PureComponent and immutable data structures (with relation to react). Finally, if you need to handle lots of nested updates to your state, there are libraries that can help you to manage the state. Take a look at immer or mobx. Third, using array index as a key may be wrong! Read more about react's key.
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* I agree with Terms of Service and Privacy Statement. 10.00-11.00Available: 2 groups Best price and satisfaction guaranteed! In all our tours we will include small little tipical Spanish Madrilenian streets like Calle Cuchilleros, Cava de San Miguel, Cava Baja, La Latina and much more. Availability 10.00 - 20.00 DetailItineraryMapPhotosReviews Tour languages Poruguese Departure & Return Location Calle Mayor 46 (Google Map) If you are staying in the center of Madrid, we can pick you up in the hotel free of charge. 5-10 Minutes before event time Driver/Guide Stops to see Monuments Tickets to see Monuments The Market of San Miguel The Market of San Miguel (Spanish: Mercado de San Micuel) is a covered market originally built in 1916, it was purchased by private investors in 2003 who renovated the iron structure and reopened it in 2009. San Miguel Market is the most popular market in Madrid among tourists since it is located in the center of Madrid, within walking distance from Plaza Mayor. The market is not a traditional grocery market but a gourmet tapas market, with over 30 different vendors selling a wide variety of freshly prepared tapas, hams, olives, baked goods and other foods. Beer, wine and champagne are also available. The Puerta del Sol (Spanish for "Gate of the Sun") is a Madrid public square, one of the best known and busiest places in the city. This is the centre (Km 0) of the radial network of Spanish roads. The square also contains the famous clock whose bells mark the traditional eating of the Twelve Grapes and the beginning of a new year. The New Year's celebration has been broadcast live on national television since 31 December 1962. Las Cortes Palace Palacio de las Cortes is a building where the Spanish Congress of Deputies meet. It was built by Narciso Pascual Colomer from 1843 to 1850 in the neoclassic style and is one of the most emblematic buildings of Madrid from the 19th century. The main façade is one of the masterpieces of neoclassicism in Spain. As entrance, a large portico of six columns of Corinthian style. A monumental staircase, flanked by the most characteristic elements of the building: two monumental lions Together with Cibeles Fountain, Neptuno Fountain is one of the most beautiful and majestic fountains in Madrid. Both gods occupy prominent positions within Greek mythological hierarchy and are rivals on the sports field, since the followers of Atlético de Madrid celebrate their victories in the square that plays tribute to the god of the sea, while those of Real Madrid do so in the Plaza de la Cibeles. Alcalá gate Erected in 1778 by Italian architect Francesco Sabatini, this triumphal gate was once the main entrance to the city. It was commissioned by King Charles III – over time nicknamed the Best Mayor of Madrid -, who was unimpressed by the gate that welcomed him when he first arrived in 1759. It is situated next to El Retiro Park in the centre of Plaza de la Independencia, a junction for three of the city's most well-known streets: Calle de Alcalá, the city's longest road, Calle de Alfonso XII, which leads to Atocha train station, and Calle de Serrano, Madrid's most glamorous thoroughfare. The Cibeles Fountains The Cibeles Fountain, built in 1782 is one of the symbols of Madrid. Situated in the center of the Plaza de Cibeles, the square to which it has lent its name, it is surrounded by the buildings of Buenavista Palace (the Army Headquarters), Linares Palace (the Casa de América cultural institution), Palacio de Comunicaciones (which was previously the main Post Office and is now Madrid City Hall), and the Bank of Spain. At over a hundred years old, Gran Vía, in the Sol / Gran Vía area, is one of the city's main arteries and one of its most iconic avenues. Its construction, between 1910 and 1931, marked the beginning of the modernisation of the city, with the appearance of the country's first skyscrapers and the adoption of modern architectural trends originating in the United States. Plaza de Callao The Plaza Callao, famed as much for its role as the heart of cinematic and theatrical Madrid as it is for its eternal bustle and art deco style. Architecture, cinema buffs, and interested visitors will all find much to discover here. Beyond a wide variety of plays and movies, the square itself looks like the embodiment of an 1920s architect's imagined "city of the future". It's a place for gawking as much as exploring. This large Plaza is located in the city centre, at the intersection of Gran Vía and Princesa streets. Here you will find the Cervantes Monument, one of the most popular tourist spots. The Monument was made by Rafael Martínez Zapatero and Lorenzo Cullaut Valera and was inaugurated in 1915. Templo of Debod This is an Egyptian temple dating back to the 2nd century BC, transported to Madrid's Cuartel de la Montaña Park. The temple was donated to Spain by the Egyptian government to save it from floods following the construction of the great Aswan Dam. Home to the Kings of Spain from Charles III to Alfonso XIII, Madrid's Royal Palace takes us on a journey through the history of Spain. Though it is no longer the royal family's home, it continues to be their official residence. Long before Madrid became the capital of Spain, Emir Mohamed I chose Magerit (the city's Arabic name) as the site for a fortress to protect Toledo from the advancing Christians. The building was eventually used by the Kings of Castille until finally becoming what would be known as the Antiguo Alcázar (Old Fortress) in the 14th century. Charles I and his son Philip II turned the building into a permanent residence for the Spanish royal family. However, in 1734 a fire burnt the Palace of Los Austrias to the ground, and Philip V ordered the construction of the palace that stands today. Madrid's opera house, designed by the architect Antonio López Aguado during the reign of Queen Isabella I, was inaugurated in 1850 (although the first stone was laid on 23 April 1818). Located a stone's throw from Puerta del Sol, the building was one of Europe's leading theatres for over 75 years, until it was deemed unsafe in 1925 and closed for 41 years. In 1966 it was reopened as a concert hall with the Spanish National Orchestra as its resident orchestra. In 1977 it was declared a National Monument and in 1997, after 7 years of extensive works, the Teatro Real once again became home to Madrid's opera scene. Ópera is a station on Line 2, Line 5 and Ramal of the Madrid Metro. It is located in fare Zone A, in the Plaza de Isabel II, in the central district of Madrid. The station provides access to an area with tourist landmarks such as Teatro Real, Plaza de Oriente and the Royal Palace. Its name comes from nearby Madrid opera house, the Teatro Real. The street Calle Mayor in Madrid hides a treasure from the Spanish Golden Age, whose existence is not commonly known. It is the ¨ narrow building¨, the house where lived the famous Spanish dramaturge Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Mercado San Miguel Last point of our tour Madrid Christmas lights tour Make your own tour – 120 minutes 6 travellers are considering this tour right now!
A closure is a procedure object, generated as the value of a lambda expression in Scheme. The representation of a closure is straightforward -- it contains a pointer to the code of the lambda expression from which it was created, and a pointer to the environment it closes over. In Guile, each closure also has a property list, allowing the system to store information about the closure. I'm not sure what this is used for at the moment -- the debugger, maybe? Return non-zero iff x is a closure. Return the property list of the closure x. The results are undefined if x is not a closure. Set the property list of the closure x to p. The results are undefined if x is not a closure. Return the code of the closure x. The result is undefined if x is not a closure. This function should probably only be used internally by the interpreter, since the representation of the code is intimately connected with the interpreter's implementation. Return the environment enclosed by x. The result is undefined if x is not a closure. This function should probably only be used internally by the interpreter, since the representation of the environment is intimately connected with the interpreter's implementation.
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Oil\|Weekly News in Review Trading houses get more physical HC Insider Some of the big trading houses have been taking increasing stakes in physical assets – including some far downstream from their traditional spheres of activity74 Trading houses have continued in their pursuit to buy physical assets in oil supply chains in a move to capture greater value far from the algorithm-affected world of propriety derivatives trade. There have been comments from the industry in recent years suggesting that the trading of paper oil has been distorted by the growing presence of increasingly powerful automated trading systems. It should therefore come as no surprise that trading houses are increasing holdings in physical assets. The ownership of – for instance – a storage terminal and retail distribution network gives the operator access to physical trade optionalities, compensating for diminishing returns from pure paper trading. The biggest talking points in the asset space right now are rumours of upcoming capital raisings, the most high-profile of which is the imminent IPO of European refiner and service station operator Varo Energy. Varo, a joint venture formed by Vitol, Carlyle Group and private Dutch investor Reggeborgh in 2012, owns the 68,000 b/d Cressier refinery in Switzerland and 45pc of the Bayernoil plant in Germany. Its storage, distribution and retail network features around 3mn m3 of storage capacity and a fleet of service stations across Germany and the Netherlands. The IPO, which is expected to take place on the Amsterdam stock exchange in the coming weeks, is a big move for the company, which has so far avoided public capital markets. Vitol, which is never a business to do things by halves, has also indicated potential plans for an IPO in excess of $2bn of the Viva Energy business it bought from Royal Dutch Shell in Australia four years ago. Another example of a future liquidity event can be seen in Puma Energy, the midstream and downstream arm of Trafigura. The company, which features Angolan state oil firm Sonangol and Cochan Holdings as junior equity partners, operates in 49 countries and showed record sales of 22.8mn m3 in 2017. Puma, which expanded last year by taking a stake in a fuel retail network in Pakistan and operations at eight new airports including Johannesburg in South Africa, has been discussing an IPO for some time. While an IPO is not expected to take place in the short term, last year Trafigura CEO Christophe Salmon indicated that the company is likely to go public over the next five years. Glencore, which in 2011 was the first of its kind to make an IPO, has signalled its intent to use surplus capital to build its asset portfolio when opportunities arise. Glencore's oil business has recently been involved in several high-profile acquisition bids in Africa. The most notable target has been Chevron's South African and Botswana assets, which boast a 110,000 b/d refinery in Cape Town, a lubricants plant in Durban and more than 800 service stations. It also includes storage facilities and more than 200 convenience stores across South Africa and Botswana. Glencore has also locked horns with Vitol and several other trading houses in bidding for a stake in the 20,000 b/d Indeni Petroleum Refinery, Zambia's only fuel processing plant. Trading houses taking bigger positions in midstream and downstream oil markets makes perfect sense if we consider that in any market one of three factors are needed to make a profit – proprietary information, proprietary clients or proprietary assets. Big trading houses' moves deeper into physical assets can also be seen in Vitol's plans to secure long-term supply arrangements with Middle East crude producers. The company is reportedly in talks to create either joint-venture or term offtake deals with producing countries including Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Kuwait. Ian Taylor, who has stepped aside from his role as Vitol's CEO to become company chairman, recently told reporters that he will soon be traveling in the Middle East and Africa to promote Vitol and to make "structured deals". Taylor has also indicated that Vitol plans to take a physical position in the growing US crude export market. The company has already agreed to explore the development of a crude oil terminal in the Port of Corpus Christi on the US Gulf coast with Harvest Pipeline Company. This growing involvement in US midstream and export infrastructure on the part of the big trading houses is expected to continue. Trafigura was the biggest exporter of US crude and condensate in 2017, and the company will continue to increase its export capacity to take advantage of rising US production. Trading houses taking bigger positions in midstream and downstream oil markets makes perfect sense if we consider that in any market one of three factors are needed to make a profit – proprietary information, proprietary clients or proprietary assets. If proprietary information has all but disappeared with the spread of high-tech analytical data vendors and clients are faced with more choice amid ample supply, the forward-looking company moves into physical assets. This continuing shift will drive demand for specific kinds of talent at the trading houses. When looked at alongside the three proprietary factors mentioned above, we can see how the demand trends are most likely to run. The need for information will drive greater demand for analysts with an understanding of artificial intelligence that makes it possible for them to process the vast amount of data now available to the market. The need for proprietary clients will drive competition for business development/origination professionals, perhaps with specific regional experience. Last but by no means least, the spreading move into physical assets will increase demand for investment talent, notably for those with experience of both trading companies and infrastructure funds. Preserving market integrity
Bangladesh–Canada relations are the foreign relations between Bangladesh and Canada established 1972. Canada is represented through its High Commission in Dhaka and Bangladesh is represented through its High Commission in Ottawa. They are members of the Commonwealth of Nations and the United Nations. Bangladesh currently receives ~$110 million from Canadian official development assistance per year as of January 2014. It is estimated that around 36,000 (2012) Bangladeshi people live in Canada, primarily in cities like Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, and Ottawa. History Bangladesh and Canada have historically enjoyed friendly relations that have grown over the past fifty years. The political relations between the two countries date back to the time of the independence of Bangladesh. In 1971, the Canadian Government, people, and media expressed support and sympathy for Bangladesh's War of Independence. Canada was one of the first few countries to recognize Bangladesh after independence (14 February 1972). Eventually Bangladesh accredited its first High Commissioner to Canada in May 1972, and Canada reciprocated in September 1973. Since then there has been a steady development of relations between the two countries. The political relationship is, therefore, supportive and cooperative drawing upon shared links in the Commonwealth and various UN bodies. Based upon shared values of democracy, freedom, human rights and rule of law, the bilateral relations are focused on trade and investment, regional security, development cooperation, immigration and people to people contact. As a major development partner of Bangladesh, since its independence in 1971, Canada's early development efforts involved reconstruction and rehabilitation, and then gradually moved into governance and rural development, especially in the field of agriculture, water management, primary education and health. Canada has always been appreciative of the firm commitment of Bangladesh to promote democracy and women empowerment. Canadian Government has also been engaged in socio-economic development in Bangladesh through various projects of Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Country comparison Trade and economic cooperation Comparative economic figures (2016) Bangladesh's export-import business with Canada (2005-2015) Canada - Bangladesh Bilateral Product trade (2011-2015) Canada's Merchandise Trade with Bangladesh in 2017 Canada-Bangladesh Product Trade in 2015 Commercial relationship between Canada and Bangladesh grew dramatically from 2003 to 2013. The value of bilateral merchandise trade more than tripled going from $478 million in 2003 to nearly $1.7 billion in 2012. During this period, Canadian merchandise exports to Bangladesh more than quadrupled and Bangladesh became the second largest source of Canadian merchandise imports from South Asia, after India. Canadian merchandise exports to Bangladesh were $525 million in 2012, down slightly from $552 million in 2011, while imports from Bangladesh were $1.1 billion in 2012, equal to 2011. Canada's main exports to Bangladesh include cereals, vegetables, iron and steel, oilseeds, fertilizers, machinery and electronic equipment. Agri-food was the leading export sector from Canada to South Asia in 2012, making Bangladesh the second largest Canadian agri-food buyer in South Asia after India. The Canada-Bangladesh relationship is particularly important for the province of Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan's exports (mainly wheat, fertilizers and pulses) to Bangladesh have grown more than eightfold in the 2000s, from $49 million in 2003 to $412.5 million in 2015. In 2014 deal worth US$40 million was signed between Canadian Commercial Corporation and Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation for the potash export to Bangladesh. Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said "It provides Canpotex with new opportunities and access to a country that really needs our potash to boost its agricultural production and achieve its food security goals," Canada's main imports from Bangladesh include knit apparel, woven apparel, miscellaneous textile articles, headgear, fish and seafood, and footwear. Canada is a bright spot for Bangladeshi apparel, with garments and textile products making-up the bulk of Canada's merchandise imports from Bangladesh. Bangladesh has enjoyed duty-free market access since 2003. Potential trading opportunities to explore include expanding Canadian imports of ready-made garments, porcelain, jute and quality jute good, ceramic tableware and kitchenware. Garments and textile products accounted for approximate 96% of Canada's merchandise imports from Bangladesh in 2012. Bangladesh mainly exports apparel products ($1.1 billion by 2012), frozen fish, plastic items, headwear, footwear, ceramic products, toys, games and sports equipment and furniture to Canada. In 2007, Bangladesh's exports to Canada were $506 million, which rose to $611 million in 2008, $706 million in 2009, $813 million in 2010, $1.078 billion in 2011, and $1.1 billion in 2014. Canada ranks as its sixth largest export destination. Thus, the issue of sustainability of exports to Canada in future years is an important one for Bangladesh. Bangladesh imports mainly red lentils, cereals, edible oil, oil seeds, miscellaneous fruit items, fertilizer, mechanical appliances, wood pulp, paper/paperboard, scraps, and optical, medical, scientific and technical instruments from Canada. Bangladesh is the second largest importer of Canadian food grains and other agricultural products in South Asia. Moreover, potential areas of trade from Bangladesh to Canada are shipbuilding, pharmaceuticals, leather and leather goods and IT. The volume of Bangladesh-Canada bilateral trade stood at US$2 billion in 2016 and aims to reach $5 billion by 2020. Canadian High Commissioner Laramée said the new Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wanted to work with Bangladesh, especially on environment and climate change issues. He also stated Canada's interest in working with Bangladesh on gender equality and in the health sector. There are also opportunities for Canadian companies to invest in the areas of food and agro processing, IT and telecommunications, renewable energy, engineering, automotive, shipbuilding, services and hospitality sectors. Culture In Canada, Bangladesh's culture and traditions are observed and practised by Bangladeshi immigrants and descendants of past generations of immigrants. Education Hundreds of Bangladeshi students immigrate to Canada every year to attend Canadian universities and colleges. Defense cooperation Canada exported $90,018 worth of electronic equipment to Bangladeshi military. Military Training and Cooperation Program (MTCP) operates a number of training programs throughout the Asia-Pacific region, including Bangladesh. References External links High Commission of Canada in Bangladesh High Commission of Bangladesh in Canada Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada Bilateral relations of Canada Canada
Margaret Stapleton Recommend Margaret's obituary to your friends Plant A Tree for Margaret Stapleton Obituary of Margaret Stapleton Our precious wife, mother, and grandmother, Margaret (Samuelsen) Stapleton, 72, passed away on Wednesday, December 15, 2021. She was born on July 28, 1949, in Staten Island, New York to the late Olaf and Muriel (Wiesner) Samuelsen where she later married and began her family. She had a giving heart, choosing a career as an occupational therapist to help others. Her strength and love showed, as she overcame a debilitating health crisis in early motherhood, to return to caring for her family. She loved nature and art, spending many years in the idyllic Catskill mountains as her family home; she would be found painting, scrapbooking, or sending digital photo albums to her friends and family. A conversation with her would often be a mix of caring and a bit of sarcasm, but always love. She is survived by her husband, Robert J. Stapleton Sr., four children, Robert, Samantha, Mark, and Lauren, eleven grandchildren, brother, Richard Samuelsen, several extend family members including cousins, nieces, and nephews, and many dear friends. A funeral service will be held at 12:30pm on Thursday, December 23, 2021, at Faith Chapel, 6 Burgoyne Street, Schuylerville, NY 12871 with Pastor Adam Wiegand officiating. Burial will follow at 2pm in the Gerald BH Solomon, Saratoga National Cemetery, 200 Duell Rd, Schuylerville, NY, 12871. Family and friends may call from 11:30am to 12:30pm prior to the service at Faith Chapel. Online condolences and messages to the family may be made at www.flynnbrosinc.com. Visitation for Margaret Stapleton Faith Chapel Church 6 Burgoyne St. View Map \| Text Directions \| Email Directions Gerald B H Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery 200 Duell Rd.
A story of redemption, love, hope, and restoration No Longer a Moabite Last time we learned that one kinsman redeemer considered the cost of redemption too great, and therefore, gave up his right of redemption. But thankfully Boaz, the next of kin, did not view marriage to Ruth as an undue burden; rather he takes full responsibility for her and brings about her redemption. "Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, 'You are witnesses this day that I have bought from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chilion and to Mahlon. Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place. You are witnesses this day.'" ~Ruth 4:9-10 This is the pinnacle moment, the climax of the story, the single event towards which all the others were working. This is the redemption of Ruth! But…it doesn't feel that exciting, does it? As I was studying and reflecting upon this section of text, I kept feeling a bit of a let down. Almost like the dramatic ending and exciting moment of redemption that I'd been expecting never came to fruition. Seriously, this moment—the redemption of Ruth, the point of the story—consists of Boaz making two statements. How boring! How simple! Then, as I was prayerfully seeking the Lord for His revelation, it came. The significance, power, and awesomeness of this event finally sunk in. As Boaz stands in the legal court of his day and claims responsibility for Ruth's redemption, he lists the history and social status of all those belonging to Ruth and Naomi's family—Elimelech, Mahlon, and Chilion. He references Ruth as a Moabite and widow, two titles that have brought hardship and grief to her life. But this is the last time those two terms would be used to identify her! In fact the names of Elimelech, Mahlon, and Chilion are never again mentioned in Scripture. From this point forward, Ruth's identity was no longer associated with her past. She was no longer considered the widow of Mahlon or a Moabite, rather she was hereafter called Boaz's wife. This is a beautiful thing and the core essence of redemption! Not only was Ruth and her property under new lordship and ownership, but she was also gaining a new identity. The former realities of her life were being replaced with a new status. Notice, however, that this didn't happen with a lot of fanfare or fuss, but rather in a simple almost rudimentary act of legal work. Boaz was merely claiming the property of the deceased and taking upon himself the responsibility of Ruth. Ruth wasn't even present for this huge shift. She was at home patiently waiting for her redeemer to bring about her redemption. She had no part or responsibility in the matter. Everything came about through Boaz. Similarly, our Redeemer doesn't need our help in the redemption process. Often we try to help God do the "best" thing when we should instead stay home and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. He's the One who accomplishes the work, who stands in our place in the courtroom of God, claiming us as His own. For just as Boaz stood in the city gates to claim Ruth as his and give her a new identity, so also Christ stands in the throne room of God declaring us before the Father as bought, redeemed, and new. We are no longer linked to our past failures, sorrows, and sins, but are co-heirs with Christ and sons and daughters of the living God. No longer is our name foreigner, alienated from God, but loved, cherished, and adored. Praise the Lord! However, all this did not come without cost. While we don't know the monetary price Boaz had to pay for Ruth's redemption, our ransom price was one perfect life. One life lived in perfection, holiness, and absolute righteousness before the Father, and then willingly sacrificed and given for us. It was no ordinary price, no simple act or easily accomplished deed. Nor was it measured in ounces, coins, or currency. The price of our redemption was innocent blood poured out for us. Most would consider it too high a cost and not worth the sacrifice. But our Redeemer didn't. He willingly paid our ransom and brought about our redemption even at the sacrifice of His own life. What a beautiful Savior! So now the question for us is…have we embraced our new identity in Christ? Are we living as God's redeemed children? Or do we take lightly the sacrifice of our Savior? May we never lose sight of the cross and Who took our place and paid our ransom with His blood. And may we never forget that just like Ruth we are no longer a Moabite or foreigner, but now a beloved child of God. So live like it! "But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light." ~I Peter 2:9 Are you now excited and fired up about Ruth's redemption?! Do you see the significance of Boaz's statements? What other thoughts/truths did the Lord bring to your mind and heart when you read Ruth 4:9-10? Ruth Sword Study
NTC News NTC Celebrates Grand Opening of Timberwolf Learning Commons By Kelsi Seubert Sep 05, 2019 (WAUSAU, Wis.) – Northcentral Technical College (NTC) is pleased to open the doors to Timberwolf Learning Commons, a 12,440 square foot collaborative learning space that serves as a one-stop-shop for academic and technology support for students. The Timberwolf Learning Commons features a collaboration room where students can gather to work on group projects or hold study sessions. It also features a large learning lab, quiet study areas and access to the IT Help Desk, Academic Resource Center and Library. "Student success is at the heart of everything that we do at NTC and Timberwolf Learning Commons is designed to support that success," said Brooke Schindler, Dean of NTC's School of General Studies. "We are excited to open this innovative space to increase accessibility to the free support services that are available to NTC students." Timberwolf Learning Commons also features charging stations and several bring-your-own-device stations where students can connect their personal devices to large, dual screen work stations. Support for technology within the Timberwolf Learning Commons was provided through the Edward & Lois Drott Legacy Fund of the Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin. NTC students stand alongside leaders from the Wausau Community Foundation and NTC's mascot inside the Timberwolf Learning Commons during the grand opening event. Northcentral Technical College (www.ntc.edu) is north central Wisconsin's premier two-year college of choice and is a resource for all District residents. It provides individuals, organizations and businesses with quality skills training in a wide range of programs designed to build a competitive, technologically advanced workforce in today's rapidly changing global environment. NTC has seven convenient locations and three Centers of Excellence in Antigo, Medford, Merrill, Phillips, Spencer, Wausau and Wittenberg. Kelsi Seubert Marketing & Public Relations Coordinator Sharing the impact of the College one story at a time. [email protected] 715.803.1509
Tour Guide Hiring & Car Rental Service in China Call Us: (86) 135 7702 4672 — Main Menu —About Service - Tour Guide Hiring - Car Rental - Trip Planning Join-in Group Tours China Introduction - China Destinations - China Attractions - China Visa - China Weather Media - Gallery - Activities FAQ Testimonial Contact Tour Guide Hiring Join-in Group Tours China Introduction China Destinations China Attractions China Weather Tiger Leaping Gorge Black Dragon Pool Location:Lijiang, Yunnan Date:March 31, 2012 Tags:Snow Mountain Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Located between 10004′-10016'east longitude and 2703′-2740′ north latitude, Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (Yulong Mountain) is the southernmost glacier in the Northern Hemisphere. Consisting of 13 peaks, among which Shanzidou is the highest one with an altitude of 5,600 meters (18,360 feet), Jade Dragon Snow Mountain stretches a length of 35 kilometers (22 miles) and a width of 20 kilometers (13 miles). Looking from Lijiang Old Town in the south which is 15 kilometers (nine miles) away, the snow-covered and fog-enlaced mountain resembles a jade dragon lying in the clouds, hence, the name Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. According to the research of geologists, for about 400 million years the area around Jade Dragon Snow Mountain was the ocean and it was during the last 600 thousand years that the different landscapes had come into being because of the uprising of the lithosphere. Archaic legend about this mysterious and beautiful snow mountain goes like this: Once upon a time, Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and Haba Snow Mountain were twins. They had lived on panning in Golden Sand River until one day an evil fiend usurped the river. The brothers were very brave and had a fierce fight with the fiend, Haba died in the fight and Jade Dragon drove off the fiend after wearing out 13 swords. For guarding the people and preventing the return of the fiend, Jade Dragon held the 13 swords in hands day and night. As time passed, the brothers had turned into the two snow mountains, and the 13 swords had become the 13 peaks. Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is a holy mountain for the local Naxi people not only because of the legend, but also because long time ago, it was a place for young lovers to sacrifice their young lives in honor of true love and to escape from the arranged marriages and feudal ethics. Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is a sanctuary for rare animals and wild plants. In fact, one fourth of all plant species in China can be found here and 20 primeval forest communities shelter a big family of 400 types of trees and 30 kinds of animals which are protected by the state. These species live in different temperature levels and create different kinds of views of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. The 13 peaks, which have the altitudes of at least 4,000 meters, are covered by snow all year round; the mountain is called the "Natural Glacier Museum" for it has all types of glacier. Move down from the mountaintop and you can see rivers and pools, which are formed by the thawed snow water running along the valley and through the forests. The plants and the animals are different according to the altitude, so are the views. Every sight brings you a surprise and every step takes you to a new scene. Each of the meadows on Jade Dragon Snow Mountain has its own special character due to their different landscape and height. For instance, Yunshanping (Spruce Plateau) is grassland with gigantic spruces whilst Ganhaizi (Dry Sea) used to be a highland lake as its name tells, the meadow was formed after the water had dried up. Jade Dragon Snow Mountain now is a famous scenic spot for sightseeing, mountaineering, skiing, exploration, scientific research and taking holiday. Besides, widespread legends and myths of the Naxi ethnic minority and the unclimbed Shanzidou are all important attractive spots for those who come to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. Share with your circle call: (86) 135 7702 4672 \| email: [email protected] © Copyright 2012 - 2021, TravelChinaWith.Me \| Linux Web hosting by (mt) Media Temple
Theresa May is clinging to power, but she must know the clock is ticking. Having called a snap election with the aim of boosting her parliamentary support, she's been left trying to scrape a majority with the help of the Democratic Unionist Party — a homophobic, anti-abortion party with a history of support for loyalist paramilitaries. The DUP, for their part, seem to be reveling in their role as kingmaker. They've taken every opportunity available to publicly humiliate May: contradicting her after she prematurely announced a deal, publicly calling on her to show respect and expressing dismay at the "level of negotiating experience" in her government. Tory advisors will spend the coming months working out how to give the party a facelift. Conservative grandee Lord Heseltine has warned that the Tories' older base are dying off at a rate of 2 percent per year. Every week that goes by, demographic changes make a Labour electoral victory more likely. Finding a way to appeal to younger voters will be key if they are to prevent Jeremy Corbyn from becoming prime minister. But this is far from straightforward. Young people have been disproportionately targeted by spending cuts over the past seven years. They're most likely to be in insecure, low-paid employment. Many consider owning a home an unrealistic prospect and are forced to hand over a large chunk of their income to unscrupulous landlords. Younger generations are less likely to consider capitalism a force for good and more inclined to believe radical economic change is necessary. It's hard to see how the party of capital, which has treated young people with contempt for so long, is going to convince them it has to answers to their problems. A Labour win in the next general election is now the more likely outcome. It will only take a few point swing to secure an outright majority, and a minority government propped up by the Scottish National Party and/or Liberal Democrats is more achievable still. A campaign with a left-wing Labour party starting as favorites would look very different to the recent one — but it is now eminently winnable. But the British left can't fall into the trap of waiting for this government to fall. It is weak, but the forces keeping it in place will be determined. The opposition to it must be built — not just in parliament but in every community. A constant campaign footing will be the only way to prevent the Tories restoring solid ground beneath their feet. You can pretend there's a government, delay the Queen's speech, substitute bluster for a coherent Brexit strategy. When all else fails you can simply hide from public view. But you cannot use make-believe when it comes to the government finances. If there is to be a pullback from austerity, as signalled by the chancellor, Philip Hammond, on Sunday, that raises the question: what to? Because for the Tories, the deep cuts in spending over the past seven years were not designed simply to balance the books. They were part of a dream about how Britain's economy would be reshaped: with a smaller state, a more vibrant private sector, more balanced trade, and growth less dependent on families borrowing to consume. That dream has evaporated. Fortunately there is a clear and costed alternative to austerity. Labour's biggest contribution to the national mood-change this spring was not the Corbyn rallies but the enunciation of a clear alternative fiscal doctrine. Large numbers of voters appear to have understood what the Institute for Fiscal Studies did not: that the wealth of rich people and corporations is more taxable than existing models suggest. The best remedy for all the nightmares facing Hammond is growth. Growth above trend and above average; growth stolen from other countries in a process of selfish competition. Those who claim this cannot be achieved under the rules of globalisation are forgetting that China, Germany and Canada are all signatories to the self-same rules. Their elites operate a concept of economic national interest that has become alien to the British ruling caste, moulded as it is around the money of foreign property speculators, yacht owners and hedge fund managers. What must replace austerity is clear: massive investment into the left-behind heartlands; improvements to the creaking transport infrastructure; social housing built on a massive scale; funding for public services and pay for those who work in them sufficient that they no longer operate in crisis mode. But that's only half the story. Industrial strategy must be visionary and expansive; monetary policy innovative and loose. That means loosening the inflation target, delaying interest rate rises and mandating the Bank of England to print more money. These are the classic tools not just of social democracy but of liberal conservatism. The tragedy is that an entire generation of Tories has been groomed to view such tools as "Marxist", and to mistake urgent popular demands for change as "mob rule". Jeremy Corbyn's supporters are seeking to stamp his authority on Labour with a "purge" of the party's HQ and a fresh move to clip the wings of deputy leader Tom Watson, HuffPost UK has been told. In a bid to build on the Labour leader's acclaimed general election campaign, senior figures are determined to oust general secretary Iain McNicol and key officials. Corbyn allies are also set to launch a fresh move to sideline Watson by creating a new post of female deputy leader, to end the 'male duopoly' at the top of the party. Labour MPs and other 'centrists' are dismayed that the leadership is turning to internal party issues just at a time when the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) is more united than ever and Theresa May is under real pressure. But the package of measures is viewed by left-wingers as necessary to entrench his authority after Labour secured 30 extra seats in the general election and deprived Theresa May of her Commons majority. Aides to Corbyn have drafted an "organogram" that involves a restructure of the party's senior staff at its HQ, which is seen by some of his supporters as out of step with members who twice elected him on a landslide. Among those being targeted for criticism are McNicol, Patrick Heneghan, the party's executive director for elections, and Simon Jackson, director of policy and research. If they had any sense of decorum the Blairites in the headquarters would tender their resignations. But since these are the people who by their relentless attacks on the leader put their own partisan centrist politics ahead of the party I suspect they will have to be dragged kicking and screaming away from the gravy train. A week in politics, as they say, is a long time, but it must be a bit cheering for Corbyn to set aside the politics of the moment, and bask in the glow. And if it comes to that, he deserves it. An unbelievable uphill struggle against the right-wing of his own party, the uphill struggle of overcoming a huge deficit in the polls, the uphill struggle of sticking to his guns despite the mud thrown at him. "...Corbyn recognized that introducing real class-based politics would increase voter participation. The vast majority of citizens in the wage and salaried class do not trust the political elites. They see electoral campaigns as empty exercises, financed by and for plutocrats. In the final analysis class rule is not decided via elite elections among oligarchs and their mass media propaganda. Once dismissed as a 'vestige of the past, the revival of class politics is clearly on the horizon." Jeremy Corbyn said he was determined to force another election at an anti-austerity protest attended by thousands of people in central London. After marching through Oxford Circus and Regents Street, the crowd gathered in a packed Parliament Square to hear the Labour leader and other politicians and union leaders speak. ..here again we see the important role movements can play. The grassroots campaign group Momentum is building on Jeremy Corbyn's general election "surge" by taking control of local parties ahead of the annual Labour conference, HuffPost UK can reveal. In a move to entrench Corbyn's vision and direction, the left-wing campaign has scored a string of notable victories in securing the crucial delegate numbers needed to shape conference decisions and votes. It will be quite interesting to see what they actually pass at that Labour conference. Will they create a more democratic party, with some accountability to the members, or will they simply insert themselves in place of the former bosses? ..it will be interesting. i have found that democracy is an ongoing project subject to ebbs and flows. at least now though that discussion can begin. not to mention that it was democracy that got them to this place. Labour's right wing has launched a new plan to rein in Jeremy Corbyn's power despite his growing standing within the party following the general election result, The Independent can reveal. The battle plan, issued to activists just a week after Labour overturned Theresa May's majority, would water down Mr Corbyn's influence on the party's powerful executive by drafting in extra members likely to be hostile to him. Critics of Jeremy Corbyn have won election to the party's parliamentary committee, as the struggle between allies and opponents of the leader continues despite a new eight-point poll lead for Labour. Among those elected to the influential backbench body, which has a weekly meeting with Corbyn, were Neil Coyle, Graham Jones, Angela Smith and Ruth Smeeth. They will now play a role in the committee's work as shop stewards for the party's backbenchers. Clive Lewis, seen as a potential future leader from the left of the party, and Ian Mearns, a staunch supporter of Corbyn, did not have enough support from fellow MPs to make the cut. The elections show that critics of the leadership in the parliamentary party are not ceding power lightly to Corbyn, despite the strengthening of his position after Labour performed beyond expectations in the general election. Labour MPs who have been critical of Jeremy Corbyn have been banned from the official reception of the Durham Miners' Gala for the second year running. Alan Cummings, the secretary of the Durham Miners' Association, said "quite a few" Labour MPs were not welcome on the platform for the annual procession, which he predicted would attract crowds of more than 200,000 people on Saturday. Several Labour MPs from the region were blacklisted from the official reception at last year's gala, which came at the height of a leadership challenge against Corbyn. Cummings said those disinvited this year included Phil Wilson, the Labour MP for Sedgefield; Helen Goodman, the MP for Bishop Auckland; Anna Turley, the Redcar MP; Emma Lewell-Buck, the South Shields MP, and MPs for Sunderland. Cummings said he expected "Corbynmania" to attract crowds of more than 200,000 to celebrate "the great performance by Jeremy leading up to the election and the election result". Last year's gala attracted 150,000 people to the streets of Durham. Corbyn will give a speech at Saturday's "Big Meeting", the 133rd annual celebration of the north-east's mining heritage and one of the biggest trade union gatherings in Europe. The Labour leader will share the platform with the filmmaker Ken Loach, a prominent supporter of the Labour leader, as well as the shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, and union bosses including the Unite chief, Len McCluskey. U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn will meet with the European Union's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier next week as he stands ready for a snap election that could make him prime minister. The "extended meeting" with Barnier on July 13 will give Corbyn the chance to "outline what our issues are," he said in an interview with Bloomberg Television in London on Thursday. An EU official confirmed the meeting and said it was Corbyn who requested it. Good God-Corbyn has Labour eight points ahead(a situation they wouldn't be in right now were the party led by anyone the Labour Right would approve of)and they're STILL on his case? Corbyn has proved the party doesn't have to be rigidly "moderate"(or even rigidly pro-military intervention)to be electable. It seems likely to me that these are shallow careerists, who see their personal fortunes more in alignment with the desires of their big corporate donors, and future employers, than with the desires of the working class. The poll now puts Labour ahead of the SNP in Scotland (36%/31%). Corbyn's party also leads in all areas of the UK except the south. And Labour has managed to gain both Conservative (3%) and Lib Dem (29%) voters from the general election. But the YouGov polling gets even more interesting when you compare it to the last survey before the election. The YouGov results for socioeconomic status also show a Labour surge. There are six socioeconomic grades, which group people together by wealth, employment, education etc. A is the 'highest' and E the 'lowest'. And in groups A, B and C1, Labour has gone from being 6% behind the Tories before the election to now leading them by 12%. It has also drawn level with the Conservative Party in statuses C2, D and E. Finally, Labour has surged in London. Prior to the election, the party was on 41% in the capital; a 4% lead over May's Tories (37%). But now, Corbyn's party is sitting at 57%. And the Tories have collapsed, with YouGov predicting that they'd only pick up 29% of London voters if an election was held. When's the next general election? 9% more 18-24 year olds. 2% more 25-49 year olds. 8% more voters from socioeconomic statutes A, B and C1. There could be myriad of reasons for Labour's polling surge over the Tories: May's £1.5bn 'magic money tree' deal with the DUP; the Grenfell Tower tragedy; continuing chaos around Brexit; and the Tories' unwillingness to move on the public sector pay cap, to name but a few. And while polling should always be taken with a pinch of salt, it would appear that, if a general election were to happen tomorrow, the PM could be in serious difficulty. Because Corbyn is now in his strongest position yet. ..while i highlight this i recommend reading the rest of the piece. it is chock full of tidbits. First, it is clear that the Conservatives will seek to trigger another general election and run on a less laughable platform than the farce we've just seen. Though they make the mistake of adhering to dated assumptions about campaigning on the centre ground of British politics, they will not repeat the mistake of putting forward flagship policies which are categorically unpopular and taking a complacent approach to campaign infrastructure. There is even talk of a Conservative equivalent of Momentum being set-up, though the prospects for such a project are dubious. Momentum has already accepted that there will be fewer open goals when there is another snap election. Last week we launched our general election campaign and we already have our sights set on the constituencies of Tory ministers Boris Johnson, Amber Rudd and Iain Duncan Smith. Momentum is aiming to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for any upcoming election and we've already begun crowdfunding. Local Momentum groups in safe seats are being encouraged to twin with groups in nearby marginals to expand the size of our grassroots election campaigns in previously unwinnable seats. The success of Labour in Canterbury also indicates the huge potential of collaboration between the grassroots left and the student movement. If this kind of collaboration came to full fruition Labour could win almost every university town in the country. Nicky Morgan's seat in Loughborough, for example, could go our way. The government has set itself on a collision course with opposition parties by insisting that it will not bring the EU charter of fundamental rights into domestic law on Brexit day. The shadow Brexit secretary, Keir Starmer, has made the incorporation of the charter – which interprets EU human rights – one of the six tests he will apply when Labour decides whether to vote for the bill when it returns to parliament in the autumn. The Liberal Democrats have also made it a key demand. Labour pitched an alternative vision of Brexit to the EU on Thursday during nearly two-and-half hours of talks with Michel Barnier and his deputy negotiators, which pointed the way for potential compromise on access to the single market. Jeremy Corbyn's private session at the European commission headquarters in Brussels lasted almost half as long as the British government has spent in formal negotiations in total since triggering article 50 in March, but went further by also including discussion of Britain's future relationship. The Intercept's Naomi Klein interviews Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the UK Labour Party. It was ill-advised, swiftly removed, and not representative of Labour policy. Nor was it a position taken by Momentum, the grassroots organization of supporters for party leader Jeremy Corbyn. One of the MPs mentioned by the original post was Luciana Berger, Labour's MP for Liverpool Waverside. According to the Liverpool Echo, in a story that quickly spread across social media, Corbyn supporters had gained control of the local Labour group and demanded an apology from the MP, who had resigned from the shadow cabinet last year during the party's leadership challenge. A response from the new constituency Labour party secretary made clear this one officer's words were not shared by this new Labour executive, who looked forward to working with Berger. But it's clear that democratizing the grassroots should go beyond that, with more engagement, participation and accountability in the relationship with both constituency MPs and the parliamentary party. This is where things rub against the centralizing instincts of Blairism, with, among other things, its practice of parachuting MPs into constituencies, often against the wishes of local activists, and penchant for remote, technocratic candidates on a career trajectory. Jeremy Corbyn has said his party is in "permanent campaign mode" as he heads to Cornwall on a national tour that aims to place Labour on a more offensive footing. The Labour leader has chosen dozens of Conservative-held seats across England and Wales, and SNP ones in Scotland, for a series of campaigning events to prepare for the next election. The move comes after sources said there were tensions within Labour over whether the party was too defensive during the 2017 general election campaign after polls suggested major losses. One Thursday night in the next couple of years we could go to sleep knowing that, by Friday morning, neoliberalism in Britain will be over. If a left-led Labour party comes to power, leading a coalition determined to scrap free market economics, that will be a good day for working people. It will be a bad day for Virgin Care, Portland Communications and Saudi Arabia. If this prospect appals you, there is now a clear course of action. James Chapman, a former Daily Mail journalist and former spin doctor for George Osborne and David Davis, who now works for the PR firm Bell Pottinger, wants to launch a new centrist party called the Democrats, consisting of diehard anti-Brexiters from all parties. He claims that two cabinet ministers, several former Tory frontbenchers and even members of the Labour shadow cabinet have been "in touch". Why don't they just join the Liberal Democrats. In a move that positions it decisively as the party of "soft Brexit", Labour will support full participation in the single market and customs union during a lengthy "transitional period" that it believes could last between two and four years after the day of departure, it is to announce on Sunday. This will mean that under a Labour government the UK would continue to abide by the EU's free movement rules, accept the jurisdiction of the European court of justice on trade and economic issues, and pay into the EU budget for a period of years after Brexit, in the hope of lessening the shock of leaving to the UK economy. In a further move that will delight many pro-EU Labour backers, Jeremy Corbyn's party will also leave open the option of the UK remaining a member of the customs union and single market for good, beyond the end of the transitional period. Permanent long-term membership would only be considered if a Labour government could by then have persuaded the rest of the EU to agree to a special deal on immigration and changes to freedom of movement rules. Further evidence that the direction is towards a US-style system is that the NHS in England is undergoing a complete reorganisation into 44 regions with the aim of each being run as an "accountable care organisation" (Aco). An Aco is a variant of a type of US system called a health maintenance organisation in which all services are provided in a network of hospitals and clinics all run by the HMO company. It is reasonable to expect the powerful US HMO companies such as Kaiser Permanente and UnitedHealth will be bidding for the huge contracts to run these ACOs when they go out to international tender. Hunt referenced Kaiser Permanente as a model for the future budgetary arrangements in the NHS at the Commons health select committee in May 2016. The NHS is political, but not necessarily party political. I am a Labour supporter but acknowledge that privatisation increased under Labour governments in the past. The question is whether democracy can prevail and the public can make its demands for proper funding and public provision undeniable by any government. Disappointing. And this will hurt Labour in the north of England. ..i admit to not fully understanding brexit and the single market but i'm beginning to. this piece instructs and is helpful to me. September 12th, 2017, Brighton, 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Location: to be announced. This year TUC Congress is expected to vote on a Climate Change resolution moved by the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BAFWU) that, if passed, urges the TUC to "Work with the Labour Party and others that advocate for an end to the UK's rigged energy system to bring it back into public ownership and democratic control." Amendments to the resolution have been submitted by the Communication Workers Union, Fire Brigades Union, the train drivers union ASLEF, and the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association. However, last year's Congress resolution on climate change, moved by TSSA, was defeated–a decision that drew attention to the tensions within and between unions over energy sources and options. Can these tensions be effectively addressed within a framework of public ownership of key parts of the energy system? How can unions pull together in support of such an effort? What role can the TUC play to unify unions around public ownership and resolve tensions? The meeting in Brighton will continue the multi-union discussion Reclaiming Power After Brexit that took place on February 28th 2017 at the International Transport Workers Federation in London, and involved a meeting with shadow minister Alan Whitehead the following day. I think it might not be a factor if the next election happens after Brexit. I think the Conservatives will have a new leader next election and they will be judged by the circumstances derived from Brexit. I think Labour is positioning itself well be moderately opposing a hard Brexit now. ..from that piece. agreeing to the single market has negative consequences. i don't know what labour is thinking but maybe they have a way around what is being quoted below. It's very concrete, it's not at all obscure. About 18 months ago, the Conservative Party had to drop provisions in its bill to reduce the power trade unions, had to eliminate some provisions of that, because they violated European Union law. The business community wanted out of that. JOHN WEEKS: The European Union treaties, as part of their evolution into a neo-liberal arrangement, in the last 10 years, there have been two new treaties. In those treaties, it appears that there is a clause, an article, in one of the treaties called the Treaty on the Function of the European Union, that could be interpreted as prohibiting re-nationalization of industries. The Labour Party is committed to the re-nationalization of transport. In the European Union, transport is a special case, but the Labour Party is, quite possibly, would enter into other nationalizations, that is under discussion. Remaining a member of the European Union might result in making it more difficult to bring those nationalizations about. Another issue is the question of the free movement of capital. In general, that is one of the requirements for being in the European Union, that there can be no capital controls, except over illegal movements, money laundering, drug money, such as that. In general, progressives have not been very keen on free movement of capital. That is for several reasons. One is, you need capital controls of various types to limit the power of the financial sector. Also, the financial sector can use short-term capital movements to undermine governments by a run on the pound or a run on British bonds. I would think that a Labor government -- let me say, I have no inside information, and this is a very volatile subject -- would at some point consider the possibility of different types of capital regulations. That would not be allowed in the European Union. Then, the third thing which is problematical, is the European Union, to be a member of the internal market or associated with it on the same terms, you have to accept what they call the four freedoms, which is a rather grotesque use of the term, "four freedoms," because, as you may know and some of the watchers may know, Franklin Roosevelt coined that term to mean freedom from want, freedom of religion and so on, while for the European Union, it's free movement of labor, free movement of capital, free movement of goods and free access to public services. That means if a Labour government were to move to nationalize the railroads, they are now in private hands, under European Union rules, it would probably have to throw that nationalization open to bids to the private sector. For example, if you wanted to put out the, under the National Health Service now, there are many activities which, I regret to say, begun by the Labor Party under Tony Blair, are privatized, or out to private bidders. Whether or not those could be re-nationalized, and whether or not, well, it could be, whether or not that would be in conflict with European law, is open to question. NICK DEARDEN: Well, what we found, we looked at the last six months' of meetings that have been held by both the Brexit Minister and also the Trade Secretary, and what we found is the Brexit Minister has met, for every public interest representative that they meet, they meet six business representatives. Mostly big business representatives. In the trade department it's even worse. For every one public interest representative it's nine big business representatives. What we find is, huge decisions are being taken about the future of this country because Brexit will change everything, effectively change our Constitution. Yet, the overwhelming number of people that are influencing this process are, surprise, surprise, big businesses. In fact, we find especially big finance around the table regularly with government ministers. You've got people like Goldman Sachs, four meetings. HSBC, six meetings. TheCityUK, a big financial lobby group, eight meetings. Meanwhile, the two biggest trade unions in this country had only one meeting each. Overwhelmingly, other voices are being drowned out by the transnational corporations who want this to work in their interests. NICK DEARDEN: This is the biggest piece of legislation that's ever passed through the British Parliament. Essentially what it aims to do is translate all European law into British law. They say, "Well, we need to do this, because of course on the day that we leave the European Union we don't want to have a black hole in our legal system. We want to have all the law as it currently exists." So they're translating it all over. "Fair enough," you may say. The problem is, in translating this law over they need to do more than just replace the initials EU with the initials U.K. They need to make decisions because we're going to be withdrawing from all sorts of institutions that keep this law alive and enforce it and so on. You can't simply say, "We're pulling out of all of the enforcement mechanisms that allow Human Rights Code to actually mean something." You have to replace them with something. Now, the problem is how do you do that because you're having to do that across a massive spectrum of different sorts of law, from workers' rights, to environment, to human rights law, and so forth. Essentially they're going to do that by giving Ministers very, very large amounts of power to make decisions outside of Parliament as to how those laws should be transposed. They're extensively using something we call Henry VIII Laws. Henry VIII, you probably know, was a famous English monarch from the Renaissance period, especially known for executing several of his wives. Quite a tyrannical figure. He invented certain laws to get around having to go to Parliament to get them to sign off all sorts of things that he wanted to do. So Henry VIII Laws are essentially a way of the executive making decisions outside of Parliament's full scrutiny and accountability. This will be used in the Great Repeal Bill as things stand more than it's ever been used in peacetime before. Government ministers will have serious amounts of power to reformulate how laws exist and how they're implemented. That really, really worries us. We're saying, "You need extra scrutiny for this period of time when you're transposing such enormous amounts, such enormous quantities of legislation." We don't want Parliament signing away it's power and allowing ministers to do this behind the scenes, because what it could mean is they're cutting our ability to enforce this law and keep this law up to date for the foreseeable future. Labour is preparing its first attempt to vote down Theresa May's EU withdrawal bill in the next week over concerns that controversial Brexit legislation hands too much power to the executive. The party's shadow cabinet will take a formal decision on Tuesday, but the Guardian understands the party is expected to whip its MPs to vote against the bill at second reading in the Commons. Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, has repeatedly said Labour would not support the bill without significant changes to its contents, and the government has not yet made any concessions. Many writers thinking along similar lines have argued that radical politics can take strength and inspiration from cultural forms that promote feelings of collective joy (festivals, disco, etc), overcoming the alienating individualism of capitalist culture. An interest in this, and all of these other ideas about consciousness-raising and radical social organisation, motivated some of the organisers of The World Transformed, and Labour activist Matthew Phull, to approach me about the possibility of creating a space to discuss them at this year's event. It was Matt who came up with the phrase 'Acid Corbynism', a suggestive term implicitly raising the question of whether it would be possible to link the politics of the current Labour left to this tradition of utopian experimentalism. In fact, there are already historical links between them. A crucial feature of the politics of the New Left was its critique of bureaucratic authoritarianism, in the public sector and the commercial world. The radicals of the New Left called for the democratisation of households, workplaces and public institutions, from schools to the BBC. Labour's general election manifesto made few concessions to this tradition, being almost entirely a list of things that central government would do and rules it would impose. But last year Labour commissioned a study into the feasibility of implementing new co-operative and radically democratic forms of ownership of enterprises and services, reminding us that the call for workers' control of industry was part of the radical tradition associated with Tony Benn and his followers in the 1970s and 80s (the most famous of those followers being Corbyn himself). Although critics of Corbynism see it as a personality cult focused entirely on the leader himself, Corbynite activists have found themselves part of a largely self-organised movement, seeking to raise public consciousness and their own political effectiveness through the use of cutting-edge communications technologies. Perhaps campaigning apps and organising platforms are our new technologies of the self. Whether these radical tendencies can be developed into a full-blown project to democratise British institutions (including the Labour Party) remains to be seen. But history suggests that political and social change on the scale we seek must be accompanied by extensive cultural innovation. Pro-Corbyn memes and football chants are a start. What new forms of expression may emerge in the years ahead, nobody can predict. It seems certain, however, that the struggle against neoliberalism and authoritarian conservatism will still require forms of culture that are collectivist without being conformist, liberating without simply breaking social ties. The grassroots festival will run across nine venues alongside the official Labour conference in Brighton, with ambitions to sell or distribute up to 8,000 tickets for attendees to watch 200 speakers. Headliners will include Naomi Klein, the Canadian author and critic of capitalism, the film director Ken Loach and Soweto Kinch, a Mercury prize-nominated jazz and hip-hop artist. The conference will host a performance of The Enemies Within, a verbatim play about the miners' strike written in 1985, directed by Olivier-winning theatre director David Thacker. Two late-night parties will take place at venues across the seaside town. Digital activism is a key plank of the programme, with one of the venues acting as a hub for activists to meet to "discuss, design and build the digital tools Labour needs for winning the next election". Anastasia Palikeras, one of the conference's organisers, said Momentum's role in the election campaign had been key to winning over more MPs. Party chiefs are planning a slimmed-down speaking programme on the conference main stage, with spots only guaranteed for the most senior shadow cabinet ministers such as McDonnell, Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry. Others will see their speaking times cut and prominent Labour politicians including the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and Manchester metro mayor, Andy Burnham, could face the chop from the programme entirely. Labour's vastly expanded membership has long called for an increased role at conference, with more time for councillors and grassroots activists to speak on the conference floor, a move backed by Corbyn. Labour sources said they expected the trimmed speaking programme would mean action from top politicians would move to the fringe events rather than the main stage, with recognisable names keen for prominent billings elsewhere. The annual conference of the 5.7 million member TUC will take place on September 10-13, 2017 in Brighton. The Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) has submitted a resolution that calls on the TUC to "work with the Labour Party and others that advocate for an end to the UK's rigged energy system to bring it back into public ownership and democratic control." Amendments to the resolution have been submitted by the Communication Workers Union, Fire Brigades Union, the train drivers union ASLEF, and the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association. A composite version of this resolution is scheduled to be debated on Tuesday, September 12, in the afternoon, following Jeremy Corbyn's speech to Congress. Congress notes the irrefutable evidence that dangerous climate change is driving unprecedented changes to our environment such as the devastating flooding witnessed in the UK in 2004. Congress further notes the risk to meeting the challenge of climate change with the announcement of Donald Trump to withdraw the US from the Paris Climate Agreement. Similarly, Brexit negotiations and incoherent UK government policy risk undermining measures to achieve the UK carbon reduction targets. Congress welcomes the report by the Transnational Institute Reclaiming Public Services: how cities and citizens are turning back privatization, which details the global trend to remunicipalise public services including energy. Congress believes that to combat climate change effectively and move towards a low-carbon economy we cannot leave this to the markets and therefore need a strong role for the public sector in driving the measures needed to undertake this transition. The key vote that is set to divide the conference floor will be on the so-called McDonnell amendment, named after the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, who had favoured reducing the number of MPs needed to nominate a leadership candidate to get their name on the ballot. Activists have proposed reducing the threshold from 15% to 5% of MPs and MEPs. Details are yet to be finalised by the party's national executive committee (NEC) but a compromise deal of 10% is to be proposed by the TSSA union. The resignation of the Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale, who will be replaced by her leftwing deputy Alex Rowley on the NEC, will give Corbyn-aligned committee members an advantage in key votes before the conference. Separately on Monday, Corbyn supporters celebrated their first significant victory ahead of Labour conference, with the landslide victory of two leftwing candidates to one of the party's most influential bodies. Momentum-backed candidates are now set to dominate the conference's arrangements committee, which oversees what is debated at Labour conference, taking over immediately after this year's conference in Brighton. Everyone sensed the new energy at Labour Party conference this year. More cynical pundits referred to it as 'giddy optimism' (the Guardian's editorial), or 'near-hysterical support' (Simon Jenkins), conveying the idea of something irrational. Others referred to it as Corbyn's 'evangelical church' (Philip Collins) or even 'the cult of Corbyn' (the Times, Spectator and Observer all used this phrase). The reality of the conference was something not seen in the UK for a long time: thousands of determined and self-confident members of a Labour Party that boldly stands for what they believe in. Their self-confidence stemmed not from some kind of Corbyn cult, but from the fact that they could now stand on the doorstep, or talk to their friends and family, arguing honestly and hence persuasively about why they should support a Labour government. This self-confidence, with the political and personal energy released by working to support a party you believe in, was my experience of both the Labour conference itself and The World Transformed fringe festival (and the two cross-fertilised creatively). It was combined with the steely determination to win that is evident in, for example, the massive support for the constituency-by-constituency Unseat a Tory campaigns initiated by Owen Jones, and attendance at panels such as 'How to win a marginal' being as high as for 'Acid Corbynism'. As if learning the lesson of Greece, Brazil and indeed all other attempts by what were initially radical left parties to implement their programme as a government, McDonnell called on his listeners to organise, to mobilise and to educate – to build a popular movement that would provide both a counter-power to the hostile pressures from private business and the City, and counter-arguments to the hostile press who will exaggerate and urge on all opposing interests, attempting to divide and demoralise Labour's supporters. Here a distinctive aspect of the conference, perhaps symbolic of the reality of the changed Labour Party, is the way it generally overcame the traditional divisions built in to Labour's parliamentarism. Extraparliamentary struggles and campaigns have usually been present at Labour conferences, but pushed to the fringes, while a legislative programme for the parliamentary party took centre stage. All life at conference used to be deadened by endless speeches by lords, ladies and honourable members. This time a large number of ordinary delegates got to speak, and spoke not only about policy but about action: teachers campaigning against the cuts, postal workers preparing to strike, health workers too acting against the relentless moves by private companies to break up and take over the 'profitable' parts of the NHS. When they cheered McDonnell's commitment to take back PFI contracts into the public sector, they did so not only because they supported the actions of the future Labour government but because this commitment vindicates their years of campaigning to stop these PFI deals in the first place. Over the past 18 months the British Labour party has been beset by a moral panic. According to pro-Israel activists in Labour, there has been a surge of anti-semitism in the party since Jeremy Corbyn became leader two years ago. Corbyn has broken with decades of party policy by placing a much stronger emphasis on the need to end Israel's oppression of the Palestinians. "The Labour Party conference was a triumph for Jeremy Corbyn, and the Conservative conference was a disaster for Theresa May. Corbyn's shadow Secretary of State for Justice, Richard Burgon MP, joins Gayteri and George Galloway in the Sputnik studio." Kezia Dugdale's shock departure as party leader has put Scottish Labour at a long overdue crossroads. In recent years, a gradual slide to the centre has trashed its support in even the safest of seats. It is almost unbelievable to think that just a few months ago people mused that a 'progressive alliance' was the only option for a government led by Jeremy Corbyn. The SNP's hold on Scotland was expected to be a long-term feature of UK politics. This could not be further from the reality. As Campaign for Socialism, the left-wing Scottish pressure group I chair, has argued from the beginning, an unashamedly socialist programme for Scotland is the only way to push back against the austerity that is crushing communities here as well as across the rest of the UK. In Scotland, it has been only too obvious that the SNP may talk left at Westminster, but its time in government at Holyrood and locally tells a different story. It has shown support, time and time again, for a big business agenda with tax breaks for the richest and cuts to public services. It has repeatedly refused to use the Scottish Parliament to challenge structural inequality. It is no more than New Labour in a kilt. Only in the past few weeks has the SNP at Holyrood made noises (though no clear commitments) about raising taxes and breaking the pay cap. And make no mistake – these concessions have only come as a result of the threat that Corbyn's Labour now poses. Independence is now a receding prospect. Scottish Labour was suspicious of its radical potential from the outset but it is now clear that any such outcome from the 'Yes movement' has been crushed by the almost wholesale absorption of its base into the SNP. The nationalist party machine has since internally squashed any dissent or leftist policy. As with so much else in UK politics, Jeremy Corbyn and the 'For the Many' manifesto has radically altered the frame of the debate. Labour is winning again in Scotland. In two years, between the 2015 and 2017 elections, we won back five constituencies, and reduced 20 seats to marginals. The mood on the doorsteps changed drastically during the election. A mistrust of Scottish Labour was common, but the manifesto and Corbyn overcame it. Whenever the next election is called we must be united behind these ideas. The left candidate for Labour leader in Scotland, Richard Leonard (see below), has a track record as a trade unionist, socialist, and open supporter of Corbyn and the membership during the attempted coup against his leadership in 2016. If elected leader he may not be able to change everything overnight, but he will certainly put Scottish Labour back where it belongs: as a socialist party rooted in communities, fighting for workers and offering a fairer future. For more information see Richard Leonard's website and the Campaign for Socialism. The numbers represent a stunning reversal in fortune for both the Tories and Labour, and the poll heaps yet more problems on top of Theresa May, whose authority had already been undermined by Boris Johnson even before her catastrophic conference speech. The under-fire PM also faces pressure from the European Union where leaders in France and Germany signalled they would not allow Brexit talks to progress on to trade. The study by BMG Research gives Labour a four point increase to 42 per cent, while the Conservatives fell two to 37 per cent. In a separate question on who would make the better Prime Minister, Theresa May fell two points to 30 per cent, while Jeremy Corbyn rose four points to 32 per cent. Mr Corbyn's own overall net approval ratings are at 0 per cent, meaning as many people said they approved of his performance as leader as those who did not – a huge increase from the most recent poll, which put him at minus 10 per cent. Ms May's approval rating is at minus 19 per cent. Jeremy Corbyn has warned centre-left parties across Europe that they must follow his lead and abandon the neoliberal economics of the imagined "centre ground" if they want to start winning elections again. The Labour leader was given a hero's welcome at the Europe Together conference of centre-left parties in Brussels, where he was introduced as "the new Prime Minister of Britain" and received two standing ovations from a packed auditorium. Continental centre-left leaders are looking to Mr Corbyn's Labour as a model to reinvigorate their movement. Across Europe from France to Germany, Austria to Netherlands and Spain to Greece, once-powerful social democratic parties have been reduced to a shadow of their former selves – with Labour a notable exception. Mr Corbyn said low taxes, deregulation and privatisation had not brought prosperity for Europe's populations and that if social democratic parties continued to endorse them they would continue to lose elections. He berated the longstanding leadership of the centre left, telling delegates from across the EU: "For too long the most prominent voices in our movement have looked out of touch, too willing to defend the status quo and the established order. Where Next for the Labour Right? Following the election, Leslie's first major political intervention was at a fringe meeting of the Labour Party conference in Brighton. At the event, hosted by Labour First — an internal faction hostile to Corbyn — he stated that "Marxism has no place in the modern Labour Party," a claim later tweeted to much amusement and derision. Leslie's opportunist belligerence towards the leadership may glean column inches, but it does not paper over the ideological and institutional frailty of Labour's right wing. Two years devoted to opposing policy and internal reforms which were popular among the membership could be rationalized by the inevitable electoral failure of Corbynism. But, faced with Corbyn's success, it leaves little in its wake. Today, the Labour right is adrift. The scale of its predicament cannot be explained merely by the political blundering or subjective shortsightedness of individuals, but instead requires a deeper investigation into its history. What Was the Labour Right? Labour's traditional right wing was a product of British trade unionism — specifically, the mediation between the party and the unions. Proudly and uniquely "labourist," their analysis and strategy sought to structure a near-homogenous relationship between the political and industrial spheres. Crucial to this was the organization of electoral politics as a means to assert trade union influence in a Labour-administrated state. This manifested itself most clearly in party structures and policymaking. For decades, unions such as the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ISTC), the General and Municipal Workers' Union (GMWU) and the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union (EETPU) could be relied upon not only to deliver votes at conference, but to act as a counterbalance to more militant voices within Labour's membership and defend a backtracking party leadership.
Houston Matters Sports Monday: Texans Exit Early, And Rockets Climb Up The Standings Sportswriter Jeff Balke updates us on the latest Houston sports news. Michael Hagerty \| Posted on January 7, 2019, 2:17 PM Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson rushes against the Colts during Houston's 21-7 playoff loss. Even after a loss Saturday, the Houston Rockets have won six of seven, and 11 of 13 and have climbed from the cellar to 5th in the NBA's Western Conference. The Houston Texans, meanwhile, have some decisions to make, and unfortunately some time to make them, after Saturday's playoff loss to the Colts. And the University of Houston has a new football coach tasked with breaking a string of three consecutive bowl losses. In the audio above, sportswriter Jeff Balke discusses those and other developments in Houston sports. Michael Wyke/AP Houston Matters Sportshouston rockets houston texans Indianapolis Colts james harden Jeff Balke Portland Trailblazers rockets sports texans Senior Producer, Houston Matters Michael Hagerty is the senior producer for Houston Matters. He's spent more than 20 years in public radio and television and dabbled in minor league baseball, spending four seasons as the public address announcer for the Reno Aces, the Triple-A affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks. How inflation affects Houstonians (Jan. 14, 2022) Space City is no longer the home of SpaceCom: The Good, Bad, And Ugly Of The Week Adding more prosecutors, staying in flood-prone areas, and actor Kal Penn (Jan. 13, 2022) The Full Menu: The best appetizers in Houston
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Q: Pass value to an include file in php How do you pass a parameter into an include file? I tried the following but it doesn't work. include "myfile.php?var=123"; and in myfile.php, I try to retrieve the parameter using $_GET["var"]. include "myfile.php?var=123"; will not work. PHP searches for a file with this exact name and does not parse the parameter for that I also did this: include "http://MyGreatSite.com/myfile.php?var=123";but it does not also work. Any hints? Thanks. A: Wrap the contents of the included file in a function (or functions). That way you can just do include "myfile.php"; myFileFunction($var1, $var2); A: quick and dirty $var = 123; include "myfile.php"; in myfile just use "$var" The same but without global variables: function use_my_file($param) { $var = $param; include "myfile.php"; } Hold on, are you trying to include the result of myfile.php, not its php code? Consider the following then $var = 123; readfile("http://MyGreatSite.com/myfile.php?var=$var"); //requires allow_url_fopen=on in php.ini virtual might also work A: Create a function, that's what they are for: included.php <?php function doFoo($param) { // do something with $param } file.php <?php require_once 'included.php'; doFoo('some argument'); A: Code in included files is executed in the same scope as the including file. This: // main.php $var = 'a'; include 'inc.php'; echo $var; // inc.php $var = 'b'; Is for most intents and purposes exactly the same as: // main.php $var = 'a'; $var = 'b'; echo $var;
This is a Nederlog of Sunday, July 9, 2017. Tens of thousands of people swarmed into the streets of Hamburg on Saturday for demonstrations against the Group of 20 summit meeting after two consecutive nights of clashes between the police and protesters. Organizers of the main march said that about 76,000 people were taking part, and tens of thousands of police officers were mobilized to keep watch over the demonstrations. Holding signs that said "No G20," the marchers hoped to show that a peaceful protest was possible after violence erupted on Thursday and Friday, when some protesters burned cars and smashed shop windows. Hours later, 1,500 black-clad anarchists rampaged through the streets of the city's Schanzen district, plundering shops and setting fire to cars and trash cans for several hours, the police said. An elite unit of special forces was called in to quell the violence, but only after extensive damage had been done. The police said on Saturday that they had arrested 43 people in connection with the violence on Friday night. Ninety-six others remained in detention, pending an investigation. The police also said that 213 officers had been injured. Activists reported multiple injuries among the protesters, at least two of whom were hospitalized. I say. There is considerably more in the article. There is considerably more in the article. The United States has joined a small group of global outliers on Friday after a historic United Nations treaty to ban nuclear weapons was adopted by a majority of the world's nations. "The adoption of the nuclear weapons ban treaty marks an historic turning point in the centuries-old battle to eliminate all weapons of mass destruction," said Jeff Carter, executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Ahead of its adoption, Elayne Whyte Gómez, Coasta Rica's ambassador to the U.N. and president of the United Nations Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons, championed the "historic"agreement, calling it "the first multilateral nuclear disarmament treaty to be concluded in more than 20 years." Noting that the landmark moment comes 72 years after the atomic-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, an editorial in Japan's Mainichi said: "The international community's firm determination not to repeat these tragedies is the linchpin of the convention." I say, but I am sorry that I cannot take this very seriously without the USA (and indeed also not with the USA with the current president). Yes indeed, and the file on Trump's very many very gross lies is interesting. 5. "The NSA Is Still Collecting the Full Content Of U.S. Domestic E-Mail, Without a Warrant …" There is more under the last numbered link. The day before yesterday - Friday, July 7 - I told my readers that I have successfully updated my system from Ubuntu 12.04 tot Ubuntu 14.04. Everything worked unproblematically, but yesterday I found that every site I download from somewhere else in my Firefox blacks out (it also turns black-and-white, from colors), blocks all input from my mouse and my keyboard, and then, after a little wait, restores itself again. Well... today the problem stopped after another download of more files from Ubuntu 14.04. So 14.04 works again as it should, although I still have to sort out several things. I will probably keep you updated on 14.04 for a while, simply because changing OS is a fairly major operation. But this is Linux, which is very much better than Windows or indeed any other non-open OS, and I do like to say that my site was maintained since June of 2012 only because I then had switched to Ubuntu, that in 12.04 had the possibility of changing white to black and black to white in system settings, which was extremely helpful with my bad and painful eyes. I am missing this option on 14.04, alas. But my eyes have improved some over the last 1 1/2 years. On the moment I have some problems with my eyes, but so far they are manageable.
The Cranberries publicist confirmed O'Riordan's death in a brief statement, saying "Irish and international singer Dolores O'Riordan has died suddenly in London today. She was 46 years old. The lead singer with the Irish band The Cranberries was in London for a short recording session." As of now, the cause of death remains unknown.
Home » Editors Choice » Fake News: Indian Propaganda against Pakistan Shame on New Delhi! Fake News: Indian Propaganda against Pakistan Shame on New Delhi! It is no secret that India has been waging a propaganda war against Pakistan for years, targeting Pakistan's ideological base and national security agencies. A massive campaign was launched on social media, which also included former Afghan government officials. But unfortunately, some Pakistani political parties and some media persons also became part of the campaign and emerged as the Fifth-Generation war tool against Pakistan. Pakistan has presented to the world irrefutable evidence of the Fifth-Generation warfare against India. In an interview with CNN, National Security Adviser Moeed Yosuf said that India was involved in negative propaganda against Pakistan. The video of the plane is being propagated in the Indian media as a Pakistan Air Force plane, while in fact there was a clip of an American plane in Britain. He said that India's fake news network has already been exposed in the international media. He reiterated that, until recently, the world did not believe us but now all the doors are open because what is happening in India is very cruel. "Today, no one can say that Pakistan's position on India is not vague or based on truth," he said. He said that the interests of the international community paired with India must be broken as this process is necessary not only for Pakistan but also for the international community. Yousuf said that India had recently spread propaganda about Pakistani aircraft in Afghanistan, which Delhi should be ashamed of. Addressing the Military Awards Ceremony at GHQ Rawalpindi on the occasion of Pakistan Defence Day on September 6, 2020, Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa said: "I would like to draw your attention to another challenge and this challenge was imposed on us in the form of fifth generation or hybrid war. Its purpose is to discredit the country and the armed forces of Pakistan and spread chaos. We are well aware of this danger. We will surely succeed in winning this war with the cooperation of the nation, God willing." While pointing out the danger this year as well, he said that our enemies also want to achieve their nefarious aims through unconventional tactics including propaganda and misinformation. "We are aware of all the tactics and tricks of external enemies but some of the elements have to be dealt with severely. We all have a moment of concern that some people are being used by anti-national elements. It is called hybrid or fifth generation war. Its purpose is to hollow out the roots of Pakistan and the country. Integrity is at stake." It may be recalled that the EUD Info Lab, a research institute working on fake news in the European Union, had exposed India's propaganda against Pakistan. It was revealed in the Indian Chronicles that more than 750 websites of the world were used for propaganda against Pakistan in 119 countries. The most worrying feature was that all these websites were being operated from India. And the main purpose of these fake websites was to tarnish Pakistan's image in the world. Federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry revealed in a press conference that during the last two years, anti-Pakistan news and trends on social media were being operated from Afghanistan, India and Israel with the sole aim of promoting Pakistan in the world. Declaring a terrorist state was also a fact that the Indian intelligence agency is currently focusing all its attention on in the ongoing hybrid war against Pakistan so that they can prove Pakistan a failed and terrorist state in the eyes of the world. Surprisingly, it has become the habit of Pakistani politicians to make such irresponsible statements about the institutions responsible for the country's integrity when they are not in power. It is estimated that there are about 114 channels operating in Pakistan, including 31 current affairs and 42 entertainment channels, 258 FM radios, of which 196 are commercial and the rest are non-commercial. Internet TV has about 12 licenses, including NewTel, PTCL and World Call. The number of mobile phone connections is about 180 million, while some users have more than one SIM, about 10. There are 120 million mobile users in the country. The number of 3G and 4G users is 98 million, while there are about 65 million people on WhatsApp, 56 million on YouTube and 37 million on Facebook. These people have access to all kinds of information. There is a need to ideologically strengthen our cyberspace to fight this narrative war, while there is an urgent need to educate the public. 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Once Children By Jessica Freeman-Slade ADULTS WHO WERE ONCE CHILDREN tend to agree: we are who we are because of fairy tales. Once upon a time, they were the clearest — and most just-seeming — of all narratives, even if they weren't entirely real. People got what they deserved. Actions led to results. The wicked were punished; the good were rewarded. The young, beautiful princess was intrinsically good; the old, gnarled crone was irrefutably evil. These stories were more than mere guides to the world as we saw it; they were totemic and prophetic. I remember a beautifully illustrated anthology, its cover embossed and its pages thick and important — remember feeling there could be no more important text in the world. It would tell me everything I needed to know about how I should behave, and what would happen to me if I didn't. When I grew up, my faith in fairy tales was punctured; the tales' true meanings struck me like slaps to the face. "Little Red Riding Hood" was not about the threat of strangers, but an allegory about menstruation; the intimations of class warfare in "Cinderella" shatter the romance of glass slippers; Snow White's tortured relationship with her jealous stepmother could make any child distrust a future step-parent. The world of adult experience begins to cloud our readings of even the loveliest and lightest of fairy tales — until we remember that these stories have always been written by adults who'd come to know the world's shadows, its imperfections, its disappointments. After all, the life stories of Hans Christian Andersen, the Grimms, and Charles Perrault were anything but fairy tales. Adults return to fairy tales again and again, to correct the material, to force new realities into old forms, to try and make an inherently unrealistic art form more realistic, or simply to play with its dark magic. In Kate Bernheimer's anthology My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, forty writers have a go at producing new fairy tales. If, as Bruno Bettelheim wrote in The Uses of Enchantment, stories give children ways to symbolically grapple with their fears, these new versions give adult readers a glimpse of what symbolism can do, how tricks and magic spells are put in place to obscure harsher realities. The stories in the collection play with the well-trod methods of fairy tales — static characters; fantastical elements; displaced and transformed versions of the world we live in — but also situate them in a thoroughly 21st-century context. Fairy tales don't translate well to the digital age, because they are meant to be told face-to-face; emerging from the oldest of oral traditions, they are best when related in the dark, in bed, at the moment before sleep takes over and finishes the tale. Devised as quaint amusements of the European upper-classes, full of courtly love, heroism, and the triumph of good over evil, they were called the précieuses, or precious things. Fairy tales were trifles intended to be read as deathly serious. There's nothing more precious, or more self-serious, than a literary anthology, and so Bernheimer has found the right form for her experiment. Following each story is a brief note from the author explaining their source material and what lead them to develop it. This doesn't mean that every story is predictable, as Geoffrey Maguire explains in his wonderful foreword. (Maguire was the perfect choice, as he took what could've been an exercise in fan fiction and crafted a story with surprising depth and resonance.) Of fairy tales, Maguire says, "We know what we're in for and, of course, we also don't, for fairy tale has more than one method by which to cast a spell." The characters in these fairy tales all pull what they need from the fairy tale's magic trunk, and we can't wait to see each one brought out. And as Maguire notes, the stories come packed with all the requisites: The slipper, the spindle, the seashell, the sword. The coach, the comb, the cauldron, the cape. The apple, the bread, and the porridge. And look, even simpler things in the dusty shadows, from earlier iterations of these tales. The feather, the stone, the bucket of water; the knife, the bone, the bucket of blood. It is also clear that the authors, having internalized the rules of the fairy tale form, have made full use of the instruments at their disposal. As Shelley Jackson says in her version of "The Six Swans," Women are trouble — if it isn't an evil wife, it's an evil stepmother. Or mother-in-law. Mothers are usually all right, unless they're witches — watch out for witches. And their daughters. Men are weak. Sometimes they rescue you, but they always have help — from ants or birds or women. Sometimes you rescue them. This is kind of sweet … You can trust animals. Sometimes they turn into people, but don't hold that against them. Children had better watch out. Not all of the source material will be familiar to readers, and not every writer knows how to manage this experiment. Many American readers will be unfamiliar with the witch prototype of Baba Iaga (best handled in Joy Williams' "Baba Iaga and the Pelican Child," in which the ornithologist John James Audubon cuts a frightening figure). And it is unlikely that everyone will recognize the eerily macabre yet luminous lesser-known stories of the Brothers Grimm. The story of the Six Swans is especially lovely, and gorgeously expanded in Michael Cunningham's version, in which the last of the brother-swans, left with one wing intact because of his unfinished tunic, has to make his way in the world, often frequenting bars that "cater to people who were only partly cured of their spells and hexes, or not at all." Each writer has slightly distorted and warped their inspirations, and familiar characters take new and frightening forms: the Six Swans become dancing pigeon feathers on a city street, and Kevin Brockmeier and Neil LaBute's versions of "Rumpelstiltskin" both feature Rumpelstiltskin as a fractured, damaged man, torn in two and seething with rage. In certain stories, one senses that the authors would rather shake off undue influence than give in to inspiration. Though Timothy Schaffert's "The Mermaid in the Tree" is lovely, spackling macabre modern touches onto "The Little Mermaid" somehow dulls the original story's impact. Similarly, Karen Brennan's version of "The Snow Queen" uses Andersen's tale as embellishment on a rote account of twentysomething listlessness in Brooklyn. Lucy Cohen's deconstruction of "The Tinder Box" turns a story of ingenious heroism into a tale of psychotic comeuppance. Every story in this collection is brushed with an element of danger, either sexual or violent, but making those undertones more blatant and "adult" detracts from a story's success. Such is the case of Joyce Carol Oates' "Blue-bearded Lover," where Bluebeard's abusive ways are reinterpreted as a feminist struggle for sexual power. Even at their most ominous, fairy tales are not meant to be exposés; instead, they should be fables of possibility. Even if you cannot imagine a house made of candy, or slippers made of glass, the very attempt wills these objects into a new kind of reality, a realm of "what if" options, each more bizarre and enticing than the last. And the most frightening are those into which you project yourself, where the protagonists are led into danger by fantasies that would lure you in, too. As children, seeing Hansel and Gretel fall prey to a house of sweets, or seeing Little Red going flower-picking with a friendly wolf, filled us with dread: we could all have made the same mistakes! The colorful enticements and dangers are enough to make any child shiver with fear and delight. Bernheimer's anthology is itself a kind of house of sweets. Kelly Link's "Catskin" is a frightening story of what happens when children disobey their mothers. Francine Prose's version of "Hansel and Gretel" becomes a Rebecca-esque meditation on a young wife's first meeting with her husband's older, witch-like lover; where Gretel might have merely trembled, Prose lets her heroine simmer with doubts, flagellating herself for "simply being young and with every reason not to act like such a quivering blob of Jell-O." The various takes on Charles Perrault's Bluebeard imagine marriage as a strange, dark mansion full of distorting mirrors and secret rooms demanding to be opened. In Rikki Ducornet's "Green Air," the little details of a husband's desk drawer — "his sharp pencils and pens … the small brass instruments with which he navigates the streets … a box of matches she pockets without thinking" — are little markers of impending violence and rage. Jim Shepard's "Pleasure Boating in Lituya Bay," a take on one of Italo Calvino's folktales, is a desperately quiet, aching story of alienation from one's family. But the story that goes the farthest in its exploration of domestic horror is John Updike's "Bluebeard in Ireland." A man takes a road trip with his young, third wife, and somewhere along the way they get hopelessly lost. As the new wife moans by the side of the road, the husband suddenly finds himself flooded with images of her death and decay. He pictured it, her never moving. Her body would weaken and die within a week; her skin and bones would be washed by the weather and blend into the earth like the corpse of a stillborn lamb. Only the sheep would witness it. What Updike narrates, in a few brief pages, is the possibility that this man, quite unwittingly, is just as malevolent and murderous as Bluebeard, his wife just as unsuspecting and innocent as the man's young bride. Whatever distance you might feel as an adult reader melts away in the face of this transformation. The murderous husband has a heart, an imagination; the innocent wife, a cloying vulnerability, an insufferable neediness. Updike finds new relevance in one of the oldest and most deplorable fairy tales; this is what it means to refresh a form. Kudos to all the writers: it is enormously difficult to write a fairy tale, because the very best ones don't seem to have authors at all. Instead, they seem born parentless, out of some kind of primordial storytelling ooze. (The curse of the form's progenitors is that they all seem so small next to their creations.) Fairy tales are powerful because they are removed from normal life; they either transport us entirely, or displace us enough to make us see our world as profoundly different, newly strange and wondrous to jaded eyes. They expose a chasm between the world of possibilities that we never see and the world of impossibilities we learn to accept. Bernheimer notes in her introduction that, to her mind, the "proliferation of magical stories, especially fairy tales, is correlated to a growing awareness of human separation from the wild and natural world. In fairy tales, the human and animal worlds are equal and mutually dependent." We cannot write the same stories as we used to — they would either prove so grotesque that we couldn't stomach them (such as Joyelle McSweeney's "The Warm Mouth," told through the gooey, hybrid body of a beast), or so sugar-coated that their sweetness would prove overpowering. But the best stories in this collection tread softly through their fairy tale context, using what worked for the early storytellers and weaving in what modern literature has taught us. In these, the flickers of fantasy emerge naturally, coaxed out in the act of storytelling. My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me reminds us of the way fairy tales can alarm and delight us in the same breath, of what has kept the form eternally intriguing. As the narrator says in Jim Shepard's new fairy tale, "I've always been interested in the unprecedented. I just never got to experience it that often." My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales YOUNG ADULT & CHILDREN'S LITERATURE Believers: Krys Lee's "Drifting House" By Heather Havrilesky By Natalie Standiford The Cows: A Rumination By Matthew Specktor Nothing to Say?: Jesse Ball's "The Curfew" By Veronica Scott Esposito By Jayna Brown Language and Monsters By Neil Easterbrook
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[0.95.1a] Nexerelin v0.10.3i "SpaceLand Battle" (update 2021-12-17) Author Topic: [0.95.1a] Nexerelin v0.10.3i "SpaceLand Battle" (update 2021-12-17) (Read 1900289 times) SpaceDrake Mio Harcourt: fixin' the Machine. Re: [0.95a] Nexerelin v0.10.2c "Mercenaries and Patriots" (fixes 2021-06-12) « Reply #4050 on: July 24, 2021, 08:10:08 AM » So just to be clear, the "story victory" is as definitive as any other victory, right? Like if I clear the story, conquest for victory et al. won't be tracked anymore? Quote from: SpaceDrake on July 24, 2021, 08:10:08 AM (note that you can remove any existing victory with the ResetVictory console command; conquest/diplomacy victories will be reapplied if their conditions are met, but story one won't) Fuzzatron I have big problems with the Vulture Scavengers (which I believe are added by Nex, if I'm wrong, by bad) I don't have problems with opportunistic scavengers trying to muscle me out of debris fields, etc.; my issues are: 1. Killing them hurts my rep with the independents. This is nonsensical. The independents are, by definition, an unaffiliated, misc. category of peoples. Why would they all care if I blow some random scavenger fleet? Also, they were going to kill me for the scavenge too! Why am I a bad guy for defending my own business and livelihood but when they do the same thing is "lawful." 2. It's "lawful" because neutral pickets will join the fights on the scavengers side. This is also nonsensical. If this isn't making sense, let me tell you a story that happened to me this morning: I'm TT and at war with the Heg. I joined a fight between a couple Sindrian fast pickets and a Heg invasion force and saved all the Sindrians' lives. A vulture scavenger fleet happened to be right there and claimed the debris field (literally the one from the battle I just won) and I had to fight them for it. This is already ridiculous and unfun. But then, the Sindarin pickets (whom I had just saved and were literally involved in the battle that created that debris field) all were willing to join the battle against me. That is absolutely ridiculous, irrational nonsense. Anyway, they're all dead and I glassed Volturn for good measure. * lobsters. Well, you are killing a bunch of independents, they're going to notice that even if they don't become insta-hostile. (It's the same penalty in terms of code and the rep loss amount, as when you kill some random smuggler) I can see how other fleets joining the fight on the scavs' side would be annoying, yeah (though non-Independent fleets should only join the scavs if that faction likes indies more than you for whatever reason). I have a notion to disable fleets from joining either side in a battle with scavengers, the idea being that if two groups of people want to kill each other over some debris that's a "them" problem that the third parties don't want to touch. I mean, the real problem here is that what it should really call for is a certain granularity that the current game engine isn't quite set up to do; if you and some vultures get into a fight over battle salvage in Hege space, for example, the response of the local Heggies should be to warn both combatants to knock it the f* off or they'll be engaged, and then to enter a three-way battle if you and the other guy insist. But the current scripting doesn't support, well, a whole shedload of that, so Histidine has had to make do with what can be done in the current engine. In general I understand the gameplay purpose of the vultures; they're there to make big fleet battles in which you are neutral less loot-pinata-y. Even as it stands it's possible to vulture scavenge your own way to some killer fleets without even having to explore much, and the NPC vultures just help provide some pressure and make you think a bit about how to best get your hands on some hardware (and potentially risk local po-po getting annoyed at you running silent or whatnot). I definitely understand the frustration of being there first and then the NPCs roll up and assert this is THEIR salvage, though, or your indep standing having no relation to how they react to you. Helldiver Quote from: Fuzzatron on July 25, 2021, 05:57:47 AM Indies being mildly unhappy about you killing their buds is sensical, and it's only a reduced loss with no outright hostility. Just because their fellows are being a-holes in how they try to get their salvage doesn't mean they won't stick out for them, same as how people will help a friend in a fight outside a bar without thinking of whether their friend was in the right or the wrong. The writing also shows that many indies are one step removed from pirates and that they can have an "us VS them" mentality towards other groups. Also, people act like it blocks them from salvaging their own battles, but you already salvage from your battle at the battle-end screen. The additional campaign debris is anyone's grab, same as how you can grab it from other factions' fights. In general I understand the gameplay purpose of the vultures; they're there to make big fleet battles in which you are neutral less loot-pinata-y. Besides making free easy loot less of a thing, it also creates emergent opportunities for battle which is good in a game focused on space combat. It also adds the crucially missing aspect of fighting over salvage and AI actually caring about salvage in the base game (vanilla only has this in some scripted events for missions) which contributes to making the game world alive. You can still get plenty loot though, since scavs don't arrive immediately. You need to be quicker however, which sometimes leads to choices (beelining for a wreck that you really want restored for your fleet first over other wrecks even if they're closer). I think that part of the frustration with these features comes from players being used to being able to do whatever they want to the AI unopposed. When the AI is no longer stupid and no longer bends over all the time, they feel threatened. « Last Edit: July 27, 2021, 07:28:52 AM by Helldiver » Nex is life, and my helm is pointier than yours! DownTheDrain Quote from: Helldiver on July 27, 2021, 07:26:13 AM I'd argue that scavengers trying to claim debris from the fleet that literally blew all those ships up in the first place is pretty damn stupid. Admittedly that's a special case, but it's clearly the AI trying to bend the player over here. « Reply #4057 on: July 27, 2021, 10:20:58 PM » Let no one else tell you vulture scavengers are bad they are a major part of immersion. And I'm happy I'm not the only one scavenging *! It's a necessary evil for the player whether they like it or not. idiotekque I think the issue here lies more with the base game than anything, in how it handles Indies and your rep with them. I feel like people (and the game itself) forget their lore blurb: "Not a unified faction as such, the Independents are a loose category of polities and free agents unified more by a lack of association with a major faction than any shared qualities. Independent worlds and the spacers who call them home often share data, trade generously among themselves, and will readily cooperate to perform short-term security and military actions to better protect what freedom they have maintained by working together. Equally likely, trust can break down, and Independents will suspiciously deny each other favors, compete viciously, and turn a blind eye to the misfortune of neighbours." So while they do hold those "loose" bonds, that doesn't mean that they should function as a hive mind that keeps track of every single thing that happens to every single random individual claiming to be "independent". They even outright work against each other, as per the lore, on many occasions. But this feels more like a limitation of how reputation functions in game, more than anything. How it realistically should function, is that if you're doing a lot of black market trades on a certain indie station, picking off their salvagers in the system, etc, that base should develop a negative opinion of you. But if you're on the other side of the sector, fighting scavengers over a debris field that you created, defending that claim absolutely should not have any correlation to what indies elsewhere think of you, at all. But again, that would require the rep system to function on a much more specific basis, sort of like how you have rep with officers you might run into. If something like that could be applied to individual stations/planets, and then the station/planet's rep then applied to their affiliated officers and fleets, Independents would feel much more immersive, and not like just any other faction in the game (which is exactly how they function, outside of immediately hostilities from identified combat). The way I work with it is just using the console to relations to try to emulate that behavior, and then placing limitations upon myself at times in not being chummy with indie stations that realistically wouldn't like me. It isn't really a fix, but it's something. I feel the same way about Independents, but I'd say that's a base Starsector issue and not anything special with Nexerelin. I put a suggestion (which probably won't be implemented), because Independents don't really make sense as being a group, and also not really interacting with the other big factions either. It would be great to have truly Independent planets and groups so the Scavengers group could be * off with your rightly, but the Smugglers, or Miners don't really care. On a separate note I have a Nexerelin question. If I play as a pirate does my actions on killing merchant fleets have any effect on the big powers in their battle over the sector? Like if I lower the accessibility of Kazeron will that stop Persean League sending big invasion fleets to other factions? I know I can intervene more directly by stopping invasion fleets, or killing defending fleets but just wondering if killing traders or mining fleets has any actual benefit to me other than improving colony export rates (if I had a colony)? Quote from: Sharp on July 28, 2021, 02:58:35 PM In regards to invasion fleets it does to some extent. I asked for some information on what impacts factions in what ways some time ago so let me quote the mod author here: Quote from: Histidine on January 05, 2021, 04:46:16 PM Invasion spawning depends on the supply of ship parts, fuel, supplies, marines and heavy armaments [...] It checks all colonies the faction has daily [...] A bunch of things are affected by stability, including invasion spawning Outside of that, destroying merchant fleets can have the usual effects like weakening colony defenses through shortages of commodities consummed by defensive structures and loss of stability from shortages of basic commodities. Sweet, thanks that is great to know! Appreciate the quick response and direct quote as well! Another amusing thing about Indies in game as they are that made me laugh... When you run across decivilized planets that hail you, there's a chance that they'll ask for the supplies they need to re-colonize their planet. What you do then, to this group of random individuals who have been eking out a living on a decivilized world for God knows how long, will affect Indies' opinion of you across the entire sector, or vice versa, even if they don't possess as much as a comm link. Again, obviously just a limitation of their current implementation, but another detail that's a little funny, and a good example of why the current implementation is so flawed. dEVoRaTriX_LuX Any chance that Nex could add 3-way of 4-way battles in the future? Quote from: dEVoRaTriX_LuX on July 28, 2021, 07:39:12 PM Not a chance in hell. That's what I was talking about earlier; there are scenarios where the real ideal would be a three-way fight, but the base engine itself does not support that and making Starsector support a feature of that scale is way more work than is reasonable to ask of Histidine. If Histidine wants to go for it, then super, but implementing battles beyond the two-side-with-allies version we have now would require huge rewrites to nearly every element of the combat code, including the AI. Quote from: idiotekque on July 28, 2021, 07:36:20 PM I mean, I can at least follow this one. They don't have hyperwave comms immediately, maybe, and it'll be a while before their ships get places, but sooner or later word will get around that you helped a new polity get off the ground, and you did it without conquering them or selling them out to one of the big factions. That'll mean a lot to indeps everywhere, and it makes sense that you get karma for that. It's just a bit cleaner to implement it immediately rather than on a delay.
You are currently on the UK version of this site. To see content specific to your location, please choose your country or region. Select your country or region United States Australia Ireland Other (global site) GPnotebook Pro Resource centre Asthma Referral Identifier Jobs TV Podcast Patient Information Zone Study Groups Shortcuts Last edited 10/2021 and last reviewed 04/2022 Epilepsy is not a single condition but a large group of highly heterogeneous disorders, which in common has an abnormally increased predisposition to seizures (1). it is defined as a neurological condition characterised by recurrent epileptic seizures unprovoked by any immediately identifiable cause (2) the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) defines epilepsy as a "a disorder of the brain characterised by an enduring predisposition to generate epileptic seizures and by the neurobiological, cognitive, psychological and social consequences of this condition". The definition of epilepsy requires the occurrence of at least one epileptic seizure (1). Epilepsy should be considered as a symptom caused by an underlying neurological disorder and not as a single disease entity (2). It is a diagnosis which sadly and unnecessarily carries physical, psychosocial and economic implications for the patient. As such, it ought to not be applied without thorough consideration. epilepsy has been estimated to affect between 362,000 and 415,000 people in England (3) also, there will be further individuals, estimated to be 5-30%, so amounting to up to another 124,500 people, who have been diagnosed with epilepsy, but in whom the diagnosis is incorrect incidence is estimated to be 50 per 100,000 per year and the prevalence of active epilepsy in the UK is estimated to be 5-10 cases per 1000 two-thirds of people with active epilepsy have their epilepsy controlled satisfactorily with anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) (3) other approaches may include surgery. Optimal management improves health outcomes and can also help to minimise other, often detrimental, impacts on social, educational and employment activity a large multicentre trial (the SANAD trial) evaluating newer drugs in newly diagnosed epilepsy (accepting some limitations) suggested that sodium valproate should be the drug of choice in generalised and unclassifiable epilepsies, and lamotrigine in focal epilepsies (3) Note that there is confusion between the terms epilepsy and seizure, and they are often used interchangeably. The confusion is not helped by the term status epilepticus, which need not have anything to do with epilepsy. The two are separated here. People with epilepsy (PWE) have a higher mortality rate than the general population (4) In a UK based study (4) number of deaths within the database increased by 69% between the first and last year of the study (2014 compared with 2004) (1) Fisher RS et al. Epileptic seizures and epilepsy: definitions proposed by the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE). Epilepsia. 2005;46(4):470-2. (2) National Clinical Guideline Centre (NCGC) 2012. The epilepsies: the diagnosis and management of the epilepsies in adults and children in primary and secondary care. (3) NICE (April 2018). Epilepsies: diagnosis and management (4) Wojewodka G, Gulliford MC, Ashworth M, et al. Epilepsy and mortality: a retrospective cohort analysis with a nested case-control study identifying causes and risk factors from primary care and linkage-derived data.BMJ Open 2021;11:e052841. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052841 classification of the epilepsies and epilepsy syndromes types of seizure patterns management of epilepsy genetic advice antidepressant treatment in epilepsy -epilepsy
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Clients of Bob Dreizler, a Chartered Financial Consultant with Sacramento, Calif.-based Protected Investors, probably suspect that he is an extrovert. It's not that he sends his clients birthday cards; lots of advisors do that. It's how Dreizler injects himself into the birthday card. A hobbyist photographer, Dreizler puts his image on the front and adds a handwritten message on the otherwise blank page inside. Most of his clients find the practice charming, but more introverted clients probably don't have the same reaction. No one is a pure introvert or extrovert. All successful people can function in both camps, but most people are more comfortable communicating, interacting and making decisions in a certain way. The smarter you can be in recognizing how to make introverted and extroverted clients comfortable, the more successful you will be in serving those clients and getting referrals. When it comes to meeting clients or prospects for the first time, Dreizler has a strategy to assess whether they are introverts of extroverts. The first question he asks is, "Why did you come to see me today?" And then he waits. This type of open-ended question usually reveals the client's preferred communication style, a good clue about their comfort zone. You're an Extrovert, Aren't You? If you're reading this article, chances are you're an extrovert. Upwards of 65 percent of registered financial advisors working on the retail level are extroverts, according to estimates by a number of social scientists. A 2005 study conducted by Professor Adam Grant, who teaches management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, of 4,000 managers at U.S. companies found that 96 percent of people in supervisory positions exhibited extroverted personalities. That makes sense because as relationship management becomes more important than asset management, extroverted reps have a certain advantage in promoting themselves in a crowded, noisy world. The study relied on self-reporting based on well-accepted qualities of introverts and extroverts. On the other hand, introverts probably perform a little better than extroverts in actually managing assets. Researchers have found that introverted investors register better overall investment returns. Investors who exhibit extroverted tendencies tend to be impulsive, overconfident in their investing abilities, overoptimistic about market conditions and more likely to gravitate towards short-term investing. Yet, the actual performance returns of extroverts are significantly lower than that of introverted investors. These patterns implicate advisors and money managers, too. "There is an inverse correlation between extroversion and investment returns," says Richard Peterson, a psychiatrist and financial advisor at MarketPsych in Westport, Conn. "Advisors who score higher on extroversion tend to score lower on performance." The correlation is not beyond dispute, but it is significant, Peterson says. This disconnect between extroverts and introverts is most significant in relation to risk tolerance. Extroverts have more difficulty resisting the temptation of the "sure thing." When extroverts actually buy something that takes off, they are more likely to sell out too early. Research shows that introverts take 28 percent less financial risk than extroverts. No one should be surprised that Warren Buffett, the poster child for prudent investing, is a confirmed introvert, often retreating to his study to plot his next investment move. An advisor almost needs two different pitchbooks. The key to success is to know who you're dealing with. For extroverted clients, the pitch should be less on the numbers than the advisor's enthusiasm and energy. For introverts, the presentation should emphasize the numbers, analytics and models. Eric Howie, managing director of Beacon Pointe Wealth Advisors in San Jose, Calif., notices that the referrals of his more introverted clients, while fewer in quantity, tend to be higher in quality than the referrals from extroverts. Howie speculates that referrals from introverted clients pack more credibility precisely because they are more circumspect and often have real consideration behind them. Howie also notices that introverted clients are much less likely to attend the client appreciation events he organizes. These events by their very nature tend to push introverts outside their comfort zone. He has found good results by making a few adjustments. First, he reaches out personally via telephone instead of email. Second, he makes sure that staff is assigned to cover all clients, especially the introverts. He has also learned that giving introverted clients a small task makes them feel much more comfortable because introverts tend to welcome structure. The task can be as simple as handing out nametags. How often do you think, "The more the merrier?" Extroverts get energy from a lot of people. For introverts, big groups tend to be draining. What are your hobbies? Do you run alone or in a running group? If you prefer reading or collecting stamps, chances are you are introverted. Being alone is an activity for introverts. If you spend recreational time in a theater group, ballroom dancing or a basketball league, chances are, you're an extrovert. Do you prefer watching or participating? Introverts tend to be happier watching; for extroverts the reverse is true. Do you seek out facts contrary to your opinion? Extroverts tend to be overconfident in their beliefs and resist inconvenient facts. Introverts tend to be more analytical and reflective. Contrary facts are just more grist for the mill and do not threaten. Do you prefer to let ringing telephones go to voice mail? Introverts often resist answering telephone calls, finding them intrusive. Extroverts often welcome the interruption. If you want to get a more accurate reading of where you are on the continuum, here are two more options. You can take a free MarketPsych Trader Personality Test at www.marketpsych.com. (Registration is required.) The 74-item assessment is fun, fast, and reveals your position on the extroversion scale (very-low, low, below-average, average, above-average, high or very-high). Or, even more simply, you can take the I/E Temperament Assessment.
Avast 5 is here. But wait, what about ADNM and the other stuff? Two weeks ago, we released the new avast 5. Although there were some minor hiccups in the beginning, I'd say it was a fairly successful launch, and the number of avast 5 users is now quickly growing - even though we haven't really started the official upgrade campaign yet. As most of you already know, we released 3 new products: avast 5 Free AV, avast 5 Pro AV, and avast 5 Internet Security. However, there seems to be some confusion about what will happen with the other editions of avast. This article would like to explain the situation in a bit more detail.The three products we have released are all meant for consumer/SOHO market. In v4.8, we also have a bunch of other products. Let me explain what will happen to those, one by one. avast! Server Edition (including the plug-ins) - this product will be released in v5 (or 5.1) in Summer 2010. It will be based on the new engine, and will also feature (among other things) a server-side antispam. ADNM - this is a bit trickier. As our primary focus (as a company) is consumer and SME, we decided that for v5, we will build a brand-new management system specifically designed for small/medium business. It will be much easier to use and will have some other great improvements. There will be a separate blog post on it shortly. It is scheduled to ship sometime this summer. For large accounts, this will not be a good solutions though. We're still looking into ways on how to make the current ADNM work with avast v5. avast! WHS Edition - the v5 clients will be updated to talk to the WHS Edition shortly. On the flip side, the WHS Edition itself is expected to be also ported to the v5 engine eventually. avast! Professional Family Pack wasn't really a product but just a bundle of 10x Professional Edition + WHS Edition. The Pack is going to be discontinued, but obviously, you can still build the same functionality with the other products. avast! Mac Edition - this will get the v5 engine sometime during this year (no specific dates yet, sorry). Although the malware situation on the Mac platform is still quite calm, we are a bit worried about Apple's (and Adobe's) general attitude toward security and expect the situation to become worse. avast! Linux Edition - similar to Mac. Even though it also have considerably lower priority than Windows, Linux is an important platform and we don't want to ignore it. BTW did you know that avast just got another VB100 award -- and this time, the test was done on Linux? avast! PDA Edition - this is a very old product which currently lacks support for major mobile platforms (Symbian, iPhone, Android, ...). Its future in uncertain. Net.purum - the product will be discontinued. Beside these, we're planning a few new products for 2010 but it's probably too early to talk about these for now. Stay tuned!
Taylor Conroy is the co-founder & CEO of two social enterprise startups: Change Heroes and Journey333. Before diving into social enterprise, Taylor was running a successful real estate business. After a life changing trip to Uganda in 2009, Taylor came back to Canada, sold his business and launched Change Heroes, a SaaS company serving the world's most innovative and dedicated nonprofits to engage people in giving through personal video. Change Heroes has since helped thousands of people to bring friends together from over 80 countries to fund projects including schools, libraries, girls scholarships, anti-trafficking work, and more in 14 countries for over 200,000 people. Seeing the growing desire millennials have for wanting to affect change and travel, Taylor saw a huge need and recently launched Journey333, an experiential impact travel company that exists to shift humanity by systematically shifting 1% of the North American millennial generation to become truly empathetic, altruistic, and connected by 2025, while providing adventure, purpose, and community to their community of millennial participants. Taylor is also a sought after speaker who has presented around the world to over 100,000 people. He regularly presents at the United Nations in NY, and has lectured on social entrepreneurship at Harvard, Princeton, NYU, Cornell, and Stanford. He has studied meditation with Zen monks in Japan, surfed the longest wave in the world in Peru, filmed documentaries in Cambodia, Uganda, and Ecuador, become a yoga teacher in Costa Rica, run with the bulls in Spain, travelled to 35 countries, and explored every continent on earth. Taylor joins us to share his story, what motivated him to launch socially minded startups, some of the impact his organizations have had so far, some of the challenges he's had to overcome in the social enterprise space, how he's worked with corporate partners like Disney and DHL, and much more! Learn more about how Taylor got into social enterprise & startups. Learn more about how Taylor approaches building effective partnerships. Learn more about how Journey333 is changing the way Millennials travel & affect change in the world. Taylor Conroy is the co-founder & CEO of two social enterprise startups: Change Heroes and Journey333. Before diving into social enterprise, Taylor was running a successful real estate business. After a life changing trip to Uganda in 2009, Taylor came back to Canada, sold his business and launched Change Heroes, a SaaS company serving the world's most innovative and dedicated nonprofits to engage people in giving through personal video. Change Heroes has since helped thousands of people to bring friends together from over 80 countries to fund projects including schools, libraries, girls scholarships, anti-trafficking work, and more in 14 countries for over 200,000 people. Seeing the growing desire millennials have for wanting to affect change and travel, Taylor saw a huge need and recently launched Journey333, an experiential impact travel company that exists to shift humanity by systematically shifting 1% of the North American millennial generation to become truly empathetic, altruistic, and connected by 2025, while providing adventure, purpose, and community to their community of millennial participants. Taylor is also a sought after speaker who has presented around the world to over 100,000 people. He regularly presents at the United Nations in NY, and has lectured on social entrepreneurship at Harvard, Princeton, NYU, Cornell, and Stanford. He has studied meditation with Zen monks in Japan, surfed the longest wave in the world in Peru, filmed documentaries in Cambodia, Uganda, and Ecuador, become a yoga teacher in Costa Rica, run with the bulls in Spain, travelled to 35 countries, and explored every continent on earth. Taylor joins us to share his story, what motivated him to launch socially minded startups, some of the impact his organizations have had so far, some of the challenges he's had to overcome in the social enterprise space, how he's worked with corporate partners like Disney and DHL, and much more! How Taylor got into social enterprise & startups. How to approach scaling your idea to the point that it can have massive impact. The challenges Taylor & his team had to overcome in the social enterprise space. So you started your career in real estate - how did that transition into your passion for social entrepreneurship? You left real estate in 2009, after a trip to Uganda. Can you start off by telling us a bit more about this trip. What prompted you to go and what happened over the course of that adventure? This experience motivated you to sell your real estate business and start Change Heroes. What's this organization all about? How did you approach building an organization that could achieve that type of scale? How did you create these opportunities and how do you approach these kinds of partnerships? What were some of the biggest challenges you've had to overcome launching this type of organization? What is Journey333 and what motivated you to start it? What are some of the journeys you've already completed and what have been the biggest impacts for all parties involved? How did you begin public speaking and what advice would you have to share on the subject with others who are looking to start? Do you have a story about travelling or living abroad that has impacted you the most?
In Western Australia, it is illegal to possess, use, manufacture, cultivate or supply an illicit drug. Any person convicted of a drug offence will receive a criminal record and this can lead to difficulties in getting a job, credit or visas for overseas travel. Police can issue a Cannabis Intervention Requirement (CIR) or a Drug Diversion Notice when small quantities of a drug are detected. The police officer may issue a Cannabis Intervention Requirement (CIR) to that person. The CIR can be resolved by completing a Cannabis Intervention Session (CIS) within 28 days of being given the CIR by a police officer. Approved drug counselors conduct the session that aims to increase awareness of the laws and health effects relating to cannabis and enhance motivation to change by providing a non-judgemental environment in which open discussion will be encouraged. If a person fails to attend the CIS then the alleged offence will be prosecuted by the officer who issued the CIR. The Cannabis Intervention Requirement scheme applies to anyone aged 14 years and over. The Cannabis Intervention Requirement scheme is legislated under the Misuse of Drugs Act and the Young Offender's Act. The Mental Health Commission provides a range of alcohol and other drug and mental health diversion programs. These programs provide support opportunities for people apprehended by Police, appearing in courts, or who have an alcohol interlock condition on their driver's licence. Information about alcohol-related health issues and Australian Government policy. One of Australia's leading bodies committed to preventing alcohol and other drug problems in communities around the nation. Information on alcohol, other drugs and mental health, with links to treatment services, research, statistics, guidelines and more. Responsible for regulating and maintaining the integrity of lawful racing, gambling and liquor activities for Western Australians to participate in. The Mental Health Commission and the Drug and Alcohol Office amalgamated on 1 July, 2015. The joined organisation is called the Mental Health Commission. Drug Aware is a program that targets young people with messages about drug use that focus on the prevention of use and associated harm. Leavers is an opportunity for Year 12 students from 2015 to celebrate the end of their schooling with their friends. Promotes quality evidence-based practice in drug law enforcement to prevent and reduce the harmful effects of licit and illicit drug use in Australian society. A premier research institution in Sydney, Australia and is recognised internationally as a Research Centre of Excellence. Conducts and disseminates high quality research that contributes to the primary prevention of harmful drug use and the reduction of drug related harm in Australia. SDERA helps children and young people make smarter choices by providing a resilience approach to alcohol and other drugs education.
Here at PDRater, I like to impart a little bit of medical knowledge when I can. I've shown you how swearing can reduce pain, blue M&M's can heal spinal injuries and now… sugar is much better for you than previously thought. Scientists are discovering that placebos are becoming more and more effective. In order to determine a particular drug is efficacious, they need to perform controlled tests using the real drug in one group and another group taking fake (usually just sugar) pills. There is no logical reason placebos should have any effect, let alone an effect similar to the real drug being dispensed to the non-control group. The only explanation I can think of is that people are putting so much faith in the healing power of modern medicine and drugs that they are literally thinking themselves better. Researchers at University of Rochester Medical Center have apparently found that the dye in blue M&M's can lessen the secondary effects of spinal injuries.2 Those mice that received the injections of this blue dye recovered the ability to walk, and those without the injections did not. The only side effect reported was, I kid you not, that the mice turned blue. Not to be outdone, Skittles researchers report their candies allow you to pee unicorns. The WCAB has now issued another en banc opinion that the office candy jar constitutes the rendering of first aid. *Disclaimer: This study was funded by The Great Pumpkin, the Easter Bunny, and the Mars Corporation. It has now been discovered that the members of the Blue Man Group are impervious to spinal injuries. …and that's why the Smurfs have the lowest workers' compensation premiums on the Cartoon Network. Researchers also found that it was the blue dye in Viagra, not sildenafil citrate, that helped with erectile dysfunction. The legislature has amended Labor Code 4604.5(d)(1) to allow a maximum of 24 ounces of M&M's per industrial injury. The Governor has added a new ballot measure that would replace the California MPN system with a new M&M based system.
I agree to receive a weekly email from Canadaland. Opt out at any time. We don't share your email address or any other information. Read our Privacy Policy to learn more. You Must Be This Conservative To Ride: The Inside Story of Postmedia's Right Turn New CEO Andrew MacLeod has a plan to muffle moderate voices at Canada's largest newspaper company. It's created confusion and uncertainty in newsrooms across the country. By Sean Craig It was not out of the ordinary at Postmedia, Canada's largest newspaper chain, for editors to have their knuckles rapped for failing to meet the political expectations of the company's conservative management. In 2015, after the federal election that brought Justin Trudeau's Liberals to power, Andrew Potter, then editor-in-chief of the Ottawa Citizen, was called to the company's head offices in Toronto. There, Lou Clancy — then Postmedia's senior vice president of content — told Potter that his paper was too "anti-conservative," according to three sources. When Potter asked for specific examples of coverage that could be improved upon, Clancy could only cite a single editorial cartoon. Nor was it out of the ordinary for management to use its papers to make election endorsements without the input of editors. During the 2015 federal election, for example, the Citizen was ordered by Postmedia bosses to endorse the Conservative Party of Canada. This despite its reporting in the years before having led to three Conservatives being put on trial; two of them ultimately went to jail. Still, the paper argued, the party remained the best choice for Canadians. (A month after the election, the members of the Citizen's editorial board resigned). In the 2015 Alberta election, the Edmonton Journal — another of the chain's metropolitan daily broadsheets — was ordered to endorse Alberta's Progressive Conservatives, after the paper had unearthed a run of embarrassing stories for the ruling party, and in a campaign where it was universally held that the PCs had underperformed. At Postmedia, this was all par for the course. But October 2018 was different. October 2018 was the start of something unprecedented. Several editors at the National Post — Postmedia's flagship newspaper with an explicitly conservative political mandate, where I reported on media from 2016 to 2017 — were summoned to a meeting on the 12th floor of the company's headquarters. There, according to three sources familiar with the meeting, company president Andrew MacLeod told them that their paper — which launched in 1998 to serve as the voice of thoughtful, modern Canadian conservatism, and which many would argue remains so — was insufficiently conservative. Some of the Post's marquee columnists, albeit right-leaning, have tended to take a variety of positions on subjects ranging from carbon pricing to socio-cultural issues, and so editors were told the paper had to become more reliable in its conservative politics. "But really!?" one editorial employee remembers thinking when they were briefed on the meeting. "The National Post not conservative enough?!" Some influential figures directly or indirectly connected to Postmedia, (left-right): psychologist Jordan Peterson, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, and BlackBerry co-founder Jim Balisillie. "Everyone is afraid to talk" Postmedia has declined to comment on most of the details in this story. Phyllise Gelfand, the company's vice president of communications, said she would not address "rumours you may have heard" or "details of internal meetings that did or did not happen and what was said or not said." What has happened, according to interviews with over 30 current employees and more than a dozen former employees — ranging from reporters to editors to corporate staff — is that Postmedia has given a directive for all of its papers to shift to the political right, in an unprecedented, centralized fashion. Many said that the changes have thus far been poorly executed and communicated inside the company, resulting in a cloud of uncertainty and confusion among reporters and editors across the chain. Not one staffer would speak on the record, almost universally due to fear of reprisal from management. "Write that in your story," said a former senior employee. "That says it all, everyone is afraid to talk." The October 2018 meeting may have been a harbinger, but the first full-blown change actually happened earlier this year. In June, MacLeod — who assumed the role of CEO in January and did not respond to requests for an interview — tapped veteran National Post journalist and commentator Kevin Libin, considered by some at the chain to be among its most conservative editorial voices, to oversee federal and provincial political reporting and certain commentary published across Postmedia's newspapers. His mandate is straightforward: to make the papers more "reliably" conservative. Fifteen current employees confirmed this was their understanding of his new role, and that it had been communicated to them by management or a superior. One prominent writer expressed concerns that Libin's views on climate change could pose a threat to objective coverage of issues such as carbon pricing across the chain "This appointment means that Postmedia is placing greater emphasis on political coverage in general and Kevin will work with all of our newsrooms on our political coverage," said Gelfand. One perspective is that the strategy is simply a business decision: MacLeod has put forward what some said is a practical vision of reasserting the mandate of the National Post, which was founded to be a conservative alternative to Ottawa's federal Liberal establishment. It is planned that the rest of the chain's broadsheets will follow suit, adopting a more consistent conservative outlook and a punchier political voice under Libin's guidance. (He declined to comment for this story.) "The National Post was founded as a unique small-C conservative voice, filling a gap in the Canadian media landscape," Gelfand said. "Our strategy involves delivering high-quality journalism to audiences who are looking for it." The hope, sources said, is that Postmedia can firmly assert itself as a publisher of prestige conservative news brands, bringing the company in line with the likes of The Wall Street Journal and London's Daily Telegraph. "Postmedia sees its market niche as being the only mainstream conservative media outlet in the country, and I think the feeling is some papers don't have many conservative voices anymore," said one current editorial employee. But the chain-wide consolidation of political coverage required for this gambit is unprecedented. Jordan Peterson has been working on a secret project out of the fifth floor of Postmedia's offices Many employees fear current plans to double down on what management calls "reliable conservative voices" will eradicate the local perspectives and political independence of some of Canada's oldest and most important newspapers. These include the Citizen, Journal, Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Sun, Windsor Star, Saskatoon StarPhoenix, and Calgary Herald. In some large Canadian cities, Postmedia runs the only local daily newspaper (or in the case of Montreal, the only English-language daily). Justification for such concerns has already emerged, according to several sources. Since Libin's appointment was announced, one editor-in-chief was removed from his newspaper and reassigned to a newly created corporate role, after he raised objections that the company was not respecting the editorial independence of his newsroom and after he published an editorial board endorsement of carbon pricing, which upset management. Responsibility for the National Post's political bureau in Ottawa was taken away from the paper's head of news, who also had to be informed by one of his own writers that he was no longer in charge of them. Meanwhile, reporters and editors across the chain are perplexed by the seemingly opaque nature of Libin's powers, which has left them uncertain about what kinds of stories they will or won't control going forward. And in a separate development stemming from Postmedia's interest in shoring up a conservative audience base, Jordan Peterson — the prominent psychologist and University of Toronto professor who has become a global celebrity for his critiques of left-wing politics — has been working on a secret project out of the fifth floor of Postmedia's offices. "His new mandate" The announcement came on June 10. In a memo to Postmedia editorial staff, Lucinda Chodan, Postmedia's senior vice president of content, said that Calgary-based Kevin Libin, editor of the National Post and Financial Post comment pages, was being promoted to a new role with the title "executive editor of Postmedia politics." "His new mandate will be to bring his skills and talent to fostering Postmedia's clear and distinctive voice in the Canadian political landscape," wrote Chodan. The company settled on the position, sources said, after it initially floated the idea of having Libin oversee coverage of the 2019 Alberta election. Discussions to that end involved MacLeod and Libin in early 2019, and were the first indication to some that Postmedia's new CEO had taken a detailed interest in the political coverage of his publications. Mark Iype, as seen in a 2015 video introducing a new website for the Edmonton Journal. When Mark Iype, then editor-in-chief of the Edmonton Journal and Edmonton Sun, got word of the proposal to have Libin run coverage that overlapped with the responsibilities of individual newsrooms, multiple sources said, he strongly objected and made his views known. But then-Alberta Premier Rachel Notley called an election in mid-March, earlier than some had predicted, and so discussions to put Libin in charge of Alberta coverage weren't seen through. Iype continued to run his newspapers in the leadup to the April 16 vote, won by Jason Kenney's United Conservative Party (UCP), which Postmedia papers were ordered to endorse. (The Journal's UCP endorsement, unlike its usual editorial board pieces, did not bear the name of the editorial board members.) After the election, on May 24, the Journal's editorial board — of which Iype was a member — endorsed the carbon tax brought in under Notley's previous NDP government, something which Kenney had vociferously campaigned against. Going to get @'s for this one but.. out of all of "Postmedias" outlets, the @edmontonjournal and @mniype do the best in giving Albertans fair journalism (although still slanted to the right). They still hold some integrity and that can not be overlooked. #ShitRollsDownHill https://t.co/2uXzxlGFYd — Dr. MichelleTypoQueen (@MichelletypoQ) May 26, 2019 Postmedia corporate immediately raised the piece as an issue with Iype, arguing it strayed too far from the company's vision for its editorial content, five sources familiar with the discussions said. A week earlier, it was revealed that Postmedia had hired a lobbyist — Kenney's former chief of staff and campaign director, Nick Koolsbergen — to see if the company could produce content for a planned $30 million government "war room" to fight what Kenney alleges are false narratives circulating in the media and among activists about Alberta's energy and oil sector. Former Journal columnist Paula Simons, now an independent senator for Alberta, told the CBC the lobbyist hiring would compromise the editorial credibility of the company's papers in the province. But with the province's election out of the way — and a federal election coming up this fall — it was decided that rather than have Libin run political coverage for just Alberta, he would take the helm of all political coverage across the chain. Iype — who had objected to Libin's earlier proposed role and whose editorial board had come into direct conflict with the government Postmedia was wooing — was removed from his position at the Journal and reassigned to a newly created role. Two sources at Postmedia's corporate headquarters in Toronto, familiar with management's thinking, confirmed that the company was displeased with the political orientation of the paper under his watch, and did not see him as suited to managing a conservative shift. (In an unrelated move, the Journal also lost its deputy managing editor, Sarah O'Donnell, last week — she resigned to take another job.) The way Iype's reassignment was carried out, sources said, is a testament to how poorly organized, and sometimes seemingly improvised, the changes at Postmedia around Libin's promotion have been. On June 12, the shared newsroom of the Edmonton Journal and Sun was visited by Lorne Motley, Postmedia's vice president of editorial for the western region. Motley, in a reflection of deep cuts and consolidation at the heavily indebted company, is also the editor-in-chief of the Calgary Herald and Calgary Sun. According to seven sources at Postmedia's Edmonton offices, he informed employees that Iype had been moved to a "special projects" role; the paper's managing editors then began reporting to Motley on an interim basis. The visit struck several who were there as unusual. Normally, significant personnel changes would be announced via memo, as had happened with Libin two days before. But this one was communicated only verbally. Staff moved on with their jobs, but remained quiet out of respect for Iype, whose circumstances remained a mystery. Meanwhile, Iype's name was removed from the contact page of the newspaper's site sometime on June 14 or 15. He removed his title from his personal Twitter bio around the same time, and by June 19 was no longer listed as a member of the Journal's editorial board. His name, however, was kept on the print mastheads of the Journal and Sun. Contacted on July 8, Gelfand, Postmedia's spokesperson, insisted via email that Iype was still the editor of the newspapers, attaching a pdf of the Journal print masthead that still bore his name. "With respect to special projects people work on, we wouldn't comment on that publicly," she added. An excerpt from the highlighted pdf sent to Canadaland by Postmedia's VP of communications, showing Iype's name on the Edmonton Journal masthead. The seven sources at Postmedia's Edmonton office said this was untrue, and that Iype had stopped working in the newsroom after Motley's announcement. I reached out to Gelfand a week later, on the morning of July 16, with a detailed account of the June 12 meeting. A few hours later, Postmedia sent a memo to the Edmonton newsroom announcing what they had already told staff a month earlier: that Iype was no longer editor of the Journal and Sun. Now, he had accepted a new position as "editor in chief, special projects." "The new role will see Mark continue in the work he has been doing on a temporary basis, including national coordination of newsprint consumption, cross-functional team projects, and marketing liaison," wrote Chodan, in a memo addressed to the Edmonton newsroom. A search for a new Journal and Sun editor-in-chief was to commence immediately. (A job listing was posted this past week). "Mark Iype has accepted a new national role and that was announced today," Gelfand wrote, in a July 16 email (emphasis in original). She declined to comment on the June 12 announcement to the newsroom. Asked multiple times between July 8 and 16, Iype himself declined requests for comment. Allegedly still the editor of two daily newspapers, he could not even answer the question of what his job was. Holy McJesus! Just what in the hell is going on at @edmontonjournal? They printed this? In 2019? Add a yellow star and it would be straight out of Nazi Germany. After the Tim Mikula-debacle I was starting think the office was unmanned. Now I'm convinced. https://t.co/nOeOExJcK7 — Omar Mouallem (@OmarMouallem) August 9, 2019 His removal was a shock to many. Iype was a steward of hope after devastating cuts in 2016. He was well-liked by staff, and responsible for rebuilding the Journal and Sun newsroom — which won several National Newspaper Awards under his leadership — after Postmedia dismissed editor-in-chief Margo Goodhand and 34 other employees in January 2016, merging the two papers' operations into one. "Mark Iype took the helm of the Edmonton Journal and Edmonton Sun when the two papers were reeling from layoffs and from the aftershocks of their merger," Simons said, in a message. "He brought two very different newsrooms together and united them as one team. He restored morale, pushed for excellence, and backed his journalists to the hilt. As a columnist, I often wrote about controversial, difficult topics. I always felt that I had his support." Asked about the current situation in their workplace, one Postmedia employee in Edmonton replied, "¯\_(ツ)_/¯." "What the hell is a political story?" Libin — a longtime National Post employee — has held several senior positions at the paper, including stints as managing editor and as editor of its business section, the Financial Post. As a columnist, he has taken a hard line on climate issues in particular, cheering on U.S. President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and mocking the idea that carbon dioxide (which, Libin notes, is "produced by so many living organisms") should be considered pollution. He has written that the "climate panic" is a kind of "big business" that could be harbouring "vested interests" among its "great slush of shekels." As comment editor, he has given platforms to climate-change deniers ("skeptics"). He criticized the Canadian government's early-2017 decision to pull ads from Breitbart, writing of the far-right outlet that "it certainly is inflammatory, often tacky, extremely alt-right, and flamboyantly politically incorrect, so it's understandable that some in politics would think it needs correcting." Around the same time, he warned that "established news companies like The New York Times, CNN, BBC, and CBC will lobby fiercely to ensure [Facebook's] fake-free news algorithms favour their creaking liberal-legacy media empires over others that might even be more popular, like Breitbart or The Rebel." A still from a 2016 Financial Post video op-ed, in which Kevin Libin explained "Why the carbon tax is a gas." Libin, however, is also informed by his extensive experience as a straight-news editor, having, by many accounts, performed capably in such senior roles at the Post. In addition to his newspaper background, Libin was a founding editor of Ezra Levant's Western Standard in the 2000s, and worked for that publication in its nascent days, when it was a provocative news-and-views conservative-libertarian magazine that played a leading role in western political circles. It could be argued that this experience makes him particularly suited to the current task he has been given, which is to reinvigorate Postmedia's voice and energize its presence on the conservative circuit. (I worked with Libin when we were both employed by the Financial Post in 2016 and 2017, where I was a reporter and he was comment editor. I found him to be an especially kind, friendly, and helpful senior manager, who in several cases offered sound advice or feedback on stories, which included offering his own knowledge and sources.) On July 17, Chodan met with Postmedia's Parliament Hill bureau in Ottawa and assured reporters that, while Libin indeed has a mandate to strengthen the conservative voice of the chain's newspapers, the mission is akin to that of The Economist or The Wall Street Journal — possessing stated political values but reporting in accordance with rigorous journalistic principles. This managed to ease the concerns of some. One current employee said it's not yet clear to what degree Libin might intervene in editorial decision-making but suspects he'll primarily focus on opinion and commentary pieces. They point out that every newspaper has its own internal B.S. and theirs may involve fielding occasional half-baked story ideas from management. "Do I have to pick up the phone and call him if Pamela Anderson goes on another political tirade?" However, two federal government sources and one Postmedia employee said that one prominent writer for the newspaper chain expressed concerns to them in private conversations that Libin's views on climate change could pose a threat to any attempts to objectively cover issues such as carbon pricing, and that the company gave a vague non-answer when the writer asked what would happen to stories that feature favourable views of carbon taxes. A week earlier, Ottawa columnist John Ivison had written a piece attacking the climate plan of Conservative leader Andrew Scheer. Multiple people said they worry there will be fewer articles like that going forward. Meanwhile, the Ottawa bureau has ceased reporting to Jordan Timm, the National Post's head of news and a longtime editor with previous stints at the Ottawa Citizen, The Walrus, and Canadian Business. Timm also discovered, sources at the Post confirmed, that Toronto-based political columnist Chris Selley no longer reported to him, when Selley had to tell him personally. "Jordan hasn't been treated very well throughout this ordeal," said one employee. (I partly reported to Timm in my time at the Post; he declined to comment.) Like the confusion around Iype's dismissal, sources said this was a sign of more poor coordination. Libin and MacLeod have worked closely together on developing a streamlined editorial vision for the company, several sources with knowledge of the discussions said. But some suspect the confusing execution stems from the fact that Chodan — technically the senior-most editorial employee at Postmedia, and the one responsible for making organizational changes — has been cut out of many of their conversations. "Yeah, that sums it up," said one senior employee. "I'm not sure how Lucinda is asked to carry out orders… I think she is often brought up to speed on plans at the last minute. And I don't think she is often part of the planning process itself." Chodan did not respond to requests for comment. "Conrad Black respected the democratic imperative of newspapers. Postmedia's executives have never had those instincts." There is also interest as to how the Post's new editor, Rob Roberts — whose appointment was heralded with a statement praising his familiarity with the paper's "thought-provoking, conservative vision" — will handle running a national newspaper at which he doesn't have final say on the political coverage. Libin himself held a call that included several Alberta employees on July 23, where it is said he emphasized editorial direction being more unified across the chain, and specifically noted the importance of Alberta in hammering the unified message. Sources added that Libin's role is not yet set in stone, and that the way he works with reporters and editors will develop on a somewhat ad hoc basis, in order to respect the different workflows of various papers and markets. (This could also be complicated by papers such as the Vancouver Sun and Ottawa Citizen, where employees are unionized and thus have more formalized roles.) That relative fluidity, in the early days, has come as both a relief and a concern to some editors, who hope that there will be limited interference in their workflow. "The big problem is, what the hell is a political story?" said one editor. "If an MP gets involved in a dispute about a local community centre, do I have to pick up the phone and call Kevin Libin because there's a political dimension now? Do I have to pick up the phone and call him if Pamela Anderson goes on another political tirade? And will I get in shit if I don't?" "It's as if no one at Postmedia ever read the thing" The links between Postmedia and conservative political parties are no secret, but are nevertheless staggering. Executive chair Paul Godfrey, who stepped down as CEO to make room for MacLeod in January, is a longtime Conservative donor active in the provincial and federal parties. Postmedia's previous board chair, Rod Phillips, is now minister of finance in the cabinet of Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Phillips and Godfrey held a $1000-a-head fundraiser for the province's Progressive Conservative party in June. In February, the Ford government appointed MacLeod to the board of Waterfront Toronto, the tripartite agency that is engaged in a development project with Google sister company Sidewalk Labs. (Postmedia has more often than not failed to disclose this in stories it has published about the agency; in response to questions, a spokesperson said it has "sent out a reminder on that point" to staff.) At Sun News, the group of tabloid papers Postmedia acquired in 2015, the two most senior editorial employees are former staffers of Rob Ford, the late conservative Toronto mayor and brother of the current premier: Adrienne Batra edits the Toronto Sun, while Mark Towhey is editor-in-chief across the publications. "I like Postmedia. That's good." (h/t @l_stone) pic.twitter.com/066rhBmr2N — Jonathan Goldsbie (@goldsbie) June 19, 2019 James Wallace, Doug Ford's acting chief of staff, joined the Premier's Office from an executive vice president position at Sun News, where he oversaw editorial operations during the election that Ford won. When Jason Kenney's government hired someone to develop a strategy for its energy war room, where Postmedia is lobbying for a seat at the table, it chose one of the company's most distinguished emeritus voices. On August 1, Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage announced that Claudia Cattaneo — who retired in 2018 as the National Post's western business columnist — had joined "the fight against lies and myths being spread about Alberta's energy industry." But, despite these ties and despite the occasional demands to hew to management's conservative leanings, Postmedia papers have maintained somewhat independent political outlooks based on their own histories, all of which predate the parent company by decades. Several sources with longtime ties to the Edmonton Journal — which has for years been a progressive, civic-minded newspaper — recalled that, following his founding of the National Post in 1998, Conrad Black remarked that its mission to fight the Liberal establishment in Ottawa was not dissimilar from the Journal's mission to counter the Conservative establishment in Alberta. Two years earlier, Black had taken a majority share in the Southam Newspaper chain that included the Journal, and under his watch it remained a downtown, progressive newspaper led by longtime publisher Linda Hughes. Corbella, a frequent champion of Jason Kenney and his UCP, had quietly taken out a party membership "Conrad — love or hate him — loves newspapers, and part of his soul will always reside in a newsroom," said one former National Post employee, who spent time at the paper under all its different parent companies. "He had his views, and he would often let them be known in letters to the editor, but he mostly respected the democratic imperative of newspapers to serve their established audiences and communities over political interests. Postmedia's executives have never had those instincts." (Contacted about this characterization, Black did not dispute it, adding, "Thanks for your kind words.") "The Journal has never been a conservative newspaper," said one current Postmedia employee. "It's as if no one at Postmedia ever read the thing." "[Libin's] new appointment means a single voice — and an ideological one — will now oversee or directly run political coverage in a fleet of papers, many of which are not conservative papers at all, beginning in an election year," noted Sarmishta Subramanian in Maclean's last week. "A very good relationship" Jordan Peterson in a 2018 video interview with the National Post's Christie Blatchford. At the same time as Postmedia is moving its legacy brands to the right, the company is also exploring opportunities with one of the world's most famous critics of liberal politics. Jordan Peterson, the controversial Canadian academic who has achieved rockstar success (and even considered running for the Ontario PC leadership in 2018), is a potential entry point to new business for the company. The University of Toronto professor has, in recent months, begun working out of the fifth floor of Postmedia's Toronto offices, on a project to be announced. He also recently dined with members of its board of directors, and his viral success and ability to mobilize young consumers is of explicit interest to company executives. According to multiple sources, he has a good working relationship with Godfrey and MacLeod. "I've had a very good relationship with the Postmedia folks," said Peterson in a phone interview. "They reached out to me and ended up offering space, and we have come to a mutually productive agreement." Peterson has built an audience of millions through social media channels, and become a bestselling author and jet-setting global lecturer as a result. His audience has also demonstrated a willingness to pay for things, and one could argue he doesn't need a legacy media company to continue in his successes. "I can't say a lot about the project itself, but as for working with the company, it's another avenue and platform to explore for me," Peterson explained. He has stated, in recent months, that he will be launching a social-media platform, the free-speech-absolutist Thinkspot, and has also, in the past, discussed plans to create an online university. "Jordan Peterson is an occasional contributor to the National Post, who also has offices in the newspaper's building," Gelfand said. "I get the sense he wants to be a big fish in the Conservative pond" Paul Godfrey, left, and Andrew MacLeod, as shown in Postmedia's 2017 annual report. At the time, Godfrey served as executive chair and CEO, and MacLeod was president and COO. By January 2019, MacLeod would become president and CEO, while Godfrey remained executive chair. All of these things, of course, are ultimately accountable to Postmedia's new CEO, Andrew MacLeod. Despite now being one of the most important and powerful figures in Canadian media, he is not a household name, nor has he sought the kind of profile that Godfrey has. But several employees at Postmedia headquarters told me that, in just seven months, MacLeod has articulated a more sensible and coherent vision for the company than they have heard in years. "It was like he was building a shadow cabinet" At 48, he is a more dynamic and hands-on leader than the company is used to — in the same month that MacLeod became CEO, Godfrey became an octogenarian. "I think the new guy is invigorated and he's motivated and he wants to be successful and he wants to make money, and I think he will try and do the right things," Leon Cooperman, the billionaire investor who, as of October 2018 owned about 14 per cent of Postmedia, said in a phone interview. (He consented to an interview because, he told me, "I am a gentleman.") Having clashed with ex-CEO Godfrey (they've openly argued on public earnings calls), the 76-year-old Cooperman said he "is a good man, but he's at an age where he probably didn't have the energy that was required." After holding senior posts at BlackBerry for 13 years and spending almost his entire career in the technology sector, MacLeod joined Postmedia as executive vice president and chief commercial officer — ostensibly head of sales — on July 7, 2014. He was promoted to chief operating officer in 2016 and, a year later, anointed heir to the company when his predecessor relinquished the title of president. According to Patrick Spence, a former BlackBerry executive who has been a friend, mentor, and colleague of MacLeod's for over a decade, he joined the media sector because the challenge excited him. "He is up for tough assignments," said Spence, now the CEO of Sonos. "He had to sell [products/services] to Nokia when they were both a customer and a competitor, and managed it well because he's the kind of guy who is engaged in details. Now you're in a similar position with Facebook and Google." From his BlackBerry experience, MacLeod saw the damage that major Silicon Valley firms can mete out in a short time. BlackBerry was nearly run out of business by the one-two punch of Apple and Google entering the smartphone market. There are parallels to the current dilemma facing the news industry, in which the duopoly of Google and Facebook now receive the bulk of the advertising money that used to be spent on newspapers. Andrew MacLeod appeared on TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin last February, as part of a panel on "Digital News Disruption." (Canadaland publisher Jesse Brown also appeared.) "[Postmedia] is a brand that's been disrupted," said Spence. "Andrew can help challenge the disruptors. He grew up fighting the big tech companies that are disrupting media." Another former BlackBerry colleague described MacLeod as a "media nerd," noting he had at least half a dozen subscriptions to outlets and followed industry news when they worked alongside him. When BlackBerry laid off over 2,000 employees in Ontario alone in 2013 and 2014, Spence said MacLeod — then the company's managing director for North America — was deeply affected and went out of his way to meet with as many of those who lost their jobs as he could. He has now inherited a company that is immersed in the same sort of dramatic cost cutting — according to public filings, Postmedia had 4,733 full time employees in 2015 and just over 2,800 as of August of last year. MacLeod did not create these circumstances, nor did he create the massive debt that Postmedia must also contend with as it struggles to survive in a cratering industry, but they are now his to sort out. (On Friday, the company announced a refinancing transaction that gives them until 2023 before any more debt comes due.) "I think the slow path to victory is going to be the sale of nonessential assets, paying down of debt, and improving the cash earnings," said Cooperman. While Postmedia's print revenues — which make up the bulk of the company's earnings— have continued to fall precipitously, digital revenues have grown at double-digit percentages quarter-over-quarter in the last two years, as MacLeod has asserted greater control over operations. Digital growth, however, is not at a pace that would save the company on its own: in the most recent quarterly financial statement, print advertising revenue fell by about $14 million or 17 per cent year-over-year and print circulation revenue fell by about $3 million or 6 per cent, while digital revenues grew by about $3 million or 10 per cent. The growth in digital, several sources at Postmedia's corporate offices said, can largely be attributed to MacLeod, who has pushed the company to add new revenue points. Postmedia, in recent years, has taken on deals where it shares revenue with companies in exchange for ad space, launched podcasts with sponsors, run increasingly more sophisticated content campaigns through its native-advertising division, and is currently exploring bundling content subscriptions the way The New York Times and Wall Street Journal have with other media partners. "For some time, we had this dying, legacy dinosaur perception associated with ourselves," MacLeod told Media in Canada, after taking on the CEO role in January. "We have a lot of data points, we know how to activate on them, and we're really digitally savvy. We're not that legacy dinosaur, and I think that's getting across." "Our challenge is not getting people to consume our product, our challenge is finding new ways to drive monetization," he said in a later interview. To that end, Postmedia is currently finalizing a deal to acquire a minority stake in The Logic, an online, subscription-driven business publication specializing in technology and innovation coverage. (I worked there briefly following its 2018 launch). Three of Postmedia's five most senior employees are alumni of BlackBerry, and MacLeod remains in contact with co-founder Jim Balsillie "The Logic tends to focus on innovation and technology, but can you entice and can you build business models around digital subscriptions about specialized content bundles?" MacLeod said to Media in Canada. "We believe that is an opportunity." The Logic has been among the most prominent outlets offering critical coverage of Sidewalk Labs, the Google sister company whose plans to develop Toronto's eastern waterfront have come under intense scrutiny. After MacLeod introduced editors of the National Post to Jim Balsillie, one of his mentors at BlackBerry, the Financial Post undertook a special project — "Innovation Nation" — in partnership with the Council of Canadian Innovators and Centre for International Governance Innovation. Both are co-founded and chaired by Balsillie, a BlackBerry co-founder and prominent anti-Sidewalk crusader with whom MacLeod remains in close contact. (MacLeod told the Toronto Star in March that although Balsillie is a mentor and someone he "will always listen to," he would "exercise independent judgment" in his role as a director of Waterfront Toronto and that he has "no fundamental bias" against Sidewalk or Google.) BlackBerry's presence, meanwhile, is felt strongly at Postmedia. Three of its five most senior employees — MacLeod, CFO Brian Bidulka, and COO Mary Anne Lavallee — are alums of the Waterloo-based technology firm, and MacLeod has actively recruited from that network, sources said. "It was like he was building a shadow cabinet," said one former Postmedia editor-in-chief, of MacLeod's hiring practises once joining the company's executive ranks in 2014. That remark hints at something many employees at Postmedia gather, which is that MacLeod has ambitions. But just what those ambitions are can only be speculated upon. Some see his directive to unify the political voice of Postmedia's publications as a totally pragmatic audience strategy: capture the mainstream conservative audience segment while competitors fight for other pieces of the pie, and figure out how to monetize it. Others have read the strategy as a sign of different ambitions. "I get the sense that he wants to be a big fish in the capital-C [Conservative] pond," said one senior editorial employee. "And owning the conservative audience would make the CEO of the company an incredibly important person in the Canadian political landscape." The most extreme interpretation, which a handful of employees shared, is the Fox News model The most extreme version of this assessment, which a handful of employees shared, is the Fox News model in the United States — where that network became such a force for conservative audiences that its longtime chairman and CEO, Roger Ailes, was arguably more powerful than most Republican politicians within their political movement. Spence, who knows MacLeod as well as anyone, said that is not the case. He said that from his own perspective as a technology executive, "it appears to me that media executives like Ailes are pushing an agenda." But, he said, MacLeod also comes from a tech background "and he's not pushing an agenda; he finds a market segment and a product, he's pushing a business model." Spence, and several company sources who interact with MacLeod regularly, characterized his personal political convictions as middle-of-the-road. One said he wouldn't stand out in a Canadian focus group, in that he has a combination of progressive social values and business-friendly fiscal views that could align with several political parties. And while MacLeod himself may only be steering a mission to capture an audience, there are risks that come with asserting an ideological editorial viewpoint. Take the case of Licia Corbella, the longtime Calgary Herald columnist and former editor of the paper's opinion pages. Alongside the Post, the Herald is easily the most historically conservative of Postmedia's broadsheets. On August 2, following my inquiries, the paper's editors confirmed that Corbella, a frequent champion of Jason Kenney and his UCP, had quietly taken out a party membership in 2017. Thanks for the kind words, @LiciaCorbella. https://t.co/i8b9UwbcvQ pic.twitter.com/pQsQDGjLjB — Jason Kenney (@jkenney) October 27, 2017 Overwhelming majority for @jkenney UCP. All that fear monger Inc has backfired from @RachelNotley #abvote pic.twitter.com/nOMgPuV1g1 — Licia Corbella (@LiciaCorbella) April 17, 2019 NEW: I learned that Calgary Herald columnist Licia Corbella, who has written in favour of Jason Kenney and his United Conservative Party including during the 2019 Alberta election, was a member of the party and voted in its most recent leadership race. The Herald's response: pic.twitter.com/ywZDEDnz4x — Sean Craig (@sdbcraig) August 2, 2019 The next day, the paper published a "Message to readers" on page A2. "It has come to light that Postmedia columnist Licia Corbella did not disclose that she became a member of the newly formed United Conservative Party in 2017 and voted in the leadership race later that year," it said. While noting that her membership "has been inactive for more than a year," it stated that "the Postmedia Editorial Code of Conduct is clear that journalists should not place themselves in a conflict of interest situation by writing about people or organizations with whom they are involved. The "Message to readers" that appeared on page A2 of the the August 3 Calgary Herald, following inquiries from the author of this piece. "The Calgary newsroom is taking measures to ensure all editorial staff are aware of the importance of avoiding potential conflicts of interest, particularly those involving political party memberships." While the Herald's editors say they had no idea about Corbella's activities, three sources at the Edmonton Journal said that Iype almost always declined to run Corbella's work when it was syndicated through the chain, believing it to be suspiciously one-sided. While Iype, of course, didn't know that Corbella was a party member, the straight-news editor sensed something was off. At the Herald, where there already was a conservative mandate, the writings of an active partisan went undetected; if anything, they were perfectly suited for its pages. A Postmedia spokesperson said the company has now removed from the Herald's website seven columns Corbella wrote about the UCP while holding a party membership. Andrew MacLeod photo in lead image taken from Postmedia's 2018 annual report [pdf]. Updated on August 12, 2019, at 11:49 a.m. EDT: One passage concerning the degree of Kevin Libin's editorial intervention has been revised to include paraphrases from a conversation with a source, where the passage originally included direct quotes. Correction (August 14, 2019, at 10:02 a.m. EDT): Due to an editing error, this piece originally described a John Ivison column critical of the Conservatives' climate policy as having been published "a week earlier" than a July 17 meeting with the Ottawa bureau, "on the day Libin's new role was announced." While the Ivison column was indeed published on July 10, Libin's new role was announced on June 10 (as stated elsewhere in the piece). Clarification (September 23, 2019, at 9:40 p.m. EDT): One passage has been revised to more clearly reflect that Libin was tapped to oversee certain political commentary published in Postmedia newspapers, not all of it. Cool Mules The Backbench Wag the Doug Stories We Broke FAQ for Paid Subscribers Pitch Us CANADALAND Inc is registered as a limited liability corporation with the province of Ontario. All rights reserved. © 2022 By clicking on the button(s), you agree with Terms Of Use, Privacy Policy
W. B. Yeats and Ireland, 1965 By Jessie Wender On life, on death. Horseman, pass by! Alen MacWeeney, "White horse, Donegal" (1965); excerpt from Yeats's "Under Ben Bulben." The Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats was born this day in 1865, in Dublin, Ireland. To honor his hundred and forty-seventh birthday, here's a selection of images from the recently published book "Under the Influence," by the Dublin-born photographer Alen MacWeeney, which pairs excerpts from Yeats's poems with photographs MacWeeney took in Ireland in 1965. "I'd been living in New York for nearly four years, when a friend remarked that it was the centenary of W. B. Yeats's birth," MacWeeney told me. "I wanted desperately to return to photograph in Ireland, and Yeats's centenary became the germ of an idea that evolved into photographs about him and the Ireland of my imagination. This idea suggested to me a way back and a way out of a stifling New York summer. With no thought of interpreting the poetry of Yeats, but rather with the thought that photographing of the kinds of people, places, and subjects that inhabited his verse could well make a book, and myself possibly a living. Yeats was a heroic subject who wrote with unlimited passion and breath about his life and his country. I absorbed and infused his poetry and writing into my perception and way of seeing, deeply enhancing and enlarging my outlook." Yeats died in 1939, the year MacWeeney was born. Yeats excerpts courtesy A P Watt Ltd on behalf of Gráinne Yeats. Jessie Wender, formerly a photo editor at The New Yorker, is a senior photo editor at National Geographic. W. B. Yeats Puzzles Dept. The Weekday Crossword: Monday, July 15, 2019 By Elizabeth C. Gorski Rembrandt wore one in a self-portrait: five letters.
Jindřichov may refer to places in the Czech Republic: Jindřichov (Bruntál District), a municipality and village in the Moravian-Silesian Region Jindřichov (Přerov District), a municipality and village in the Olomouc Region Jindřichov (Šumperk District), a municipality and village in the Olomouc Region Jindřichov, a village and part of Cheb in the Karlovy Vary Region Jindřichov (Lučany nad Nisou), a village and part of Lučany nad Nisou in the Liberec Region Jindřichov, a village and part of Velká Bíteš in the Vysočina Region See also Jindřichovice (disambiguation)
The year: 1983. The place: Williamsburg, Va., where representatives from across the globe — and "some of the biggest and brightest names on the American culinary scene" — gathered. The Times's own Craig Claiborne planned the menus; Paul Prudhomme, Wolfgang Puck and Zarela Martinez cooked; and Maida Heatter provided dessert. Among her offerings were these, chocolate cheesecake brownies, "a formidable new creation" for the time. Here, a layer of pecan-studded brownie meets a sheet of chocolate cheesecake. Make them for a group — or for yourself to eat over time. They freeze well, and can just as well be served frozen. Featured in: All American Menus For The Economic Summit. Adjust a rack one-third up from the bottom of the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a 9-by-9-by-1 3/4-inch pan as follows: Turn the pan upside down. Center a 12-inch square of aluminum foil over the pan and fold down the sides and corners to shape the foil. Then turn the pan right side up. Place the foil in the pan and gently press it into place. Place a piece of butter in the pan, heat it in the oven to melt and then brush it all over with a pastry brush or spread it with crumbled wax paper. Set aside. To prepare the brownie layer, place the chocolate and butter in a 2- to 3-quart heavy saucepan over low heat and stir occasionally until melted. Stir in the salt, sugar and vanilla. Remove from heat and stir in the eggs one at a time. Add the flour and stir well to mix, then stir in the pecans and coconut. Turn the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top. Let stand. To prepare the cheesecake layer, beat the cheese in the small bowl of an electric mixer until it is soft. Add the sugar, two tablespoons cocoa powder, vanilla and almond extracts, eggs and flour, one at a time, beating until incorporated after each addition. Pour the cheesecake mixture in a ribbon over the top of the brownie layer. Smooth the top. Then marbleize the two mixtures slightly as follows: Insert the handle end of a teaspoon almost but not completely to the bottom in one corner of the pan and, with the flat side of the handle, cut through the batter in a wide zigzag pattern. Smooth the top again. Bake for about 40 minutes until a toothpick gently inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cool to room temperature. Then place in the freezer for about one hour until firm. Cover with a piece of wax paper and, on top of that, a cookie sheet. Turn the pan and cookie sheet upside down, remove the pan and peel off the foil. Cover with a cutting board or another cookie sheet and then turn upside down again, leaving the cake right side up. Cut into 16 large squares or 32 bars or triangles, wiping the blade with a damp cloth between cuttings. These may be wrapped individually in clear plastic wrap. But if they are not going to kept cold, using a sieve, sprinkle cocoa over the tops before wrapping to prevent sticking. Store these in the refrigerator or the freezer. They may be served frozen. To toast the pecans, place them in a shallow pan in a 350-degree oven for about 10 to 15 minutes. Cool completely before using.
La Bundesstraße 518 est une Bundesstraße du Land de Bade-Wurtemberg. Géographie La B 518 commence à Schopfheim, au croisement avec la Bundesstraße 317. À l'est, hors de la ville, la route sinueuse atteint l'Eichener Höhe () après , qui marque également le point culminant de la route fédérale. Après environ , la B 518 change de direction d'est en sud et atteint la ville de Wehr après et Wehr-Brennet après , où elle rencontre la Bundesstraße 34. À son point final à Bad Säckingen, on atteint la frontière entre l'Allemagne et la Suisse et traverse le Rhin en direction de la Suisse via le pont Fridolin. Histoire La B 518 est établie au milieu et à la fin des années 1970 pour améliorer le réseau routier fédéral. Source Route en Allemagne Transport en Bade-Wurtemberg
all the way up to G. To the largest club pikes. Realistic sound takes you there. Let the realism be yours with DCC! Let Mr. DCC show you the ABCs of DCC! The DCC University arose out of the questions raised through almost 9 years of operating Litchfield Station. Bruce developed it from a small installation business to the second largest DCC specialty shop in the world. During that time Bruce developed a lot of intellectural property that was on the Litchfield Station page. When he sold the business, he moved much of that information here and he has added to it since. DCC stands for Digital Command Control. It is a way of having power continuiously on the track. This way, rolling stock can have lights and sound even when they are standing still. Data is sent over the track from the base unit to a decoder located inside the locomotive or car, telling it what to do when. Learn more about DCC here in Mr. DCC's Univerity. Check out the Topics pulling down the menu. A site redesign in April 2019 changed names of some pages and the structure of the site. So, your old bookmarks probably will not not work. Sorry. It is a good habit to come to the home page and renavigate, anyway. I've provided a search box to help. What remains here is data about DCC - mostly my opinions. On April 1, 2016 Bruce earned NMRA recognition as Master Model Railroader #574. For more information CLICK HERE to see the article in the June 2016 issue of Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine. It is a FREE (advertiser supported) online magazine with a wide range of topics and columns. In October, 2011, Bruce became their DCC columnist. You can read his DCC Impulses columns on line. CLICK HERE to go to their site or CLICK HERE to go to a list of Bruce's columns on this site. Bruce retired from writing a monthly column. His last column was in the August 2018 issue of MRH Magazine. Scattered throughout this website look for photos that Bruce or his friends took. Enjoy the scavenger hunt. In April 2010, Bruce sold the DCC dealership Litchfield Station, LLC. The DCC University is no longer associated with that commercial enterprise and they are solely responsible for running their business. However, there is still a cooperative relationship between us. Links have been provided from here to the Litchfield Station web site, for the convenience of folks who browse the DCC University! CLICK HERE to go to the Litchfield Station website. Understand, Bruce makes no profit on Litchfield Station sales now that he has sold the business.
End of your arm: The Magnificent Jean Vanier: "We Are All Fragile" The Magnificent Jean Vanier: "We Are All Fragile" Words of warning about "assisted dying" (i.e murder) from the saintly Jean Vanier, one of my favourite living Catholics, and Hollee Card. These are terrifying times for the vulnerable. "Assisted dying" is a licence to murder, a loving pean to the Culture of Death. All those who live for life, need to fight this with every ounce of strength they have. "We are all fragile, and the vulnerability that comes with the passage from birth to death is one which we must each find a way to accept." "Living in a society that values independence over interdependence, we fear becoming a burden or losing the capacities that we think make us valuable or loved. Instead, we must be independent and strong, rather than vulnerable and weak. We dare not ask others to care for us. We feel shame when we imagine ourselves needing others – even when we think of needing our family and kin." "...we have a special obligation to ensure that the care available to each of us throughout our lives, but especially in our final stages of life, affirms both our dignity and humanity. Otherwise, we diminish our range of experience to include only our independence. We diminish the love we can share, and the vulnerability we can show to one another." "Such a spartan culture ultimately devalues life." "In its place we must recommit to honouring and accepting ourselves and others by finding ways to accept our frailties, and the full course of life."
Home » cities » Crime Branch questions former Gurugram DCP on suicide of real estate developer Crime Branch questions former Gurugram DCP on suicide of real estate developer To probe the allegation of abetment of suicide in the death of a city-based real estate developer in July, a four-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the State crime branch, Haryana, on Wednesday recorded the statement of at least four people, including a senior police official, who was posted as a deputy commissioner of police (DCP) in Gurugram at the time of the incident but is no more in the post. A senior police officer privy to the investigation and requesting anonymity, said that the DCP, whose identity has been withheld, was asked to join the probe and recorded his statement at the state crime branch office in Sector 51 on Wednesday afternoon. "The statements of victim's wife Meenu Sharma, witnesses from her side, and the DCP were recorded to probe the allegations of the complainant and corroborate facts," the officer said. "As per the statements, the deceased and the DCP were friends. Police are yet to ascertain whether they were just friends or partners in business dealings," the officer added. The officer said that police will examine the bank account details of the people involved in the case in order to get a better picture. The deceased, 59-year-old Vinod Sharma, was the managing director of Lakshmi Infra Buildcon Private Limited. He had allegedly fired two shots to his chest in his office on July 4. On July 7, he succumbed to injuries at a private hospital. After the incident, Sharma's wife Meenu had alleged that an officer of the rank of DCP was responsible for abetting her husband's suicide.She claimed he had been pressuring him regarding a financial deal. Meenu had alleged that on July 2, two days before the incident, the police official had visited her husband's office in Florence Villa, Sector 57, along with three associates and pressured him to deposit ₹50 lakh to settle a property deal by July 4. Alleging police inaction, the victim's family had taken out a candle light march and approached the commissioner of police Gurugram office, demanding a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) . The case was subsequently transferred to the state crime branch. On Wednesday, Meenu said she narrated the sequence of events when the police officer visited her husband's office and added that all the statements were video-graphed. Police had booked a Delhi-based businessman for abetment to suicide, based on a "dying declaration" in which the victim had said that he was taking the extreme step as he was tired of the legal tussle over the last six years. He blamed the Delhi businessman and his family for his death. "My soul will not be at peace till they do not get the harshest punishment. My request is that my family, friends or any office staff should not be hassled or called for questioning. I also request that no post-mortem examination be conducted on my body," the victim allegedly wrote in a 'suicide note' recovered by the police. First Published: Sep 06, 2018 05:51 IST Tagged Crime Branch, DCP, Gurugram, Real estate developer, suicide, Vinod Sharma DYFI stages demonstration in Salem Western Railway to build 39 bridges by March next year Steps to prevent flooding Kuttanad is all drenched, yet water-starved Woman hurt as object explodes Masood Azhar's listing is one small step in India's fight against terrorism Centre, State blamed for NEET goof-up NASA's InSight Lander places first instrument on Mars to study. Watch Stories in your mother tongue
Just another Freethought Blogs site I am a theoretical physicist and retired Director of UCITE (University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education) at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. My latest book THE GREAT PARADOX OF SCIENCE: Why its conclusions can be relied upon even though they cannot be proven was published by Oxford University Press in December 2019. I am the author of three other books: God vs. Darwin: The War Between Evolution and Creationism in the Classroom (2009), The Achievement Gap in US Education: Canaries in the Mine (2005), and Quest for Truth: Scientific Progress and Religious Beliefs (2000). You can email me at mano'"dot'"singham"'at"'case'"dot'"edu. Football kills and you cannot make it safer Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Elaine Chao What the Speaker holdouts achieved Here we go again with the debt ceiling dance Dave Allen's visual gags Are we living in an Age of Unreason? Ted Baxter is the archetype for TV personalities who pretend to be journalists The skills of a cult leader The Santos lies keep coming billseymour on Greedy, selfish, rich jerks moarscienceplz on Greedy, selfish, rich jerks Marcus Ranum on Greedy, selfish, rich jerks another stewart on Football kills and you cannot make it safer outis on Football kills and you cannot make it safer prl on Football kills and you cannot make it safer Rob Grigjanis on Football kills and you cannot make it safer Denise Loving on Football kills and you cannot make it safer WMDKitty -- Survivor on Football kills and you cannot make it safer Pierce R. Butler on Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Elaine Chao An expandable round table that remains round » « All charges dropped against Trump protestors The US continues to be a jerk, opposes move to encourage breastfeeding Today comes news about how the US has attempted to thwart moves to encourage breastfeeding of children around the world. The benefits of breastfeeding are so obvious and well established that pretty much everyone expected this to be a no-brainer that would pass easily. But they did not anticipate that the US does not behave like a civilized nation. A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly. Based on decades of research, the resolution says that mother's milk is healthiest for children and countries should strive to limit the inaccurate or misleading marketing of breast milk substitutes. Then the United States delegation, embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations. First the US tried to water down the resolution but when that failed, they resorted to outright threats of retaliation against any nation that sponsored the resolution. Those threats resulted in the original sponsor Ecuador withdrawing and at least another dozen countries, most of them developing nations in Africa and Latin America, also declined for fear of retaliation. "We were astonished, appalled and also saddened," said Patti Rundall, the policy director of the British advocacy group Baby Milk Action, who has attended meetings of the assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organization, since the late 1980s. "What happened was tantamount to blackmail, with the U.S. holding the world hostage and trying to overturn nearly 40 years of consensus on best way to protect infant and young child health," she said. The intensity of the administration's opposition to the breast-feeding resolution stunned public health officials and foreign diplomats, who described it as a marked contrast to the Obama administration, which largely supported W.H.O.'s longstanding policy of encouraging breast-feeding. During the deliberations, some American delegates even suggested the United States might cut its contribution the W.H.O., several negotiators said. Washington is the single largest contributor to the health organization, providing $845 million, or roughly 15 percent of its budget, last year. The confrontation was the latest example of the Trump administration siding with corporate interests on numerous public health and environmental issues. Ultimately Russia sponsored the resolution and the US did not threaten it, because the US is a classic bully that only punches down. [A Russian delegate] said the United States did not directly pressure Moscow to back away from the measure. Nevertheless, the American delegation sought to wear down the other participants through procedural maneuvers in a series of meetings that stretched on for two days, an unexpectedly long period. In the end, the United States was largely unsuccessful. The final resolution preserved most of the original wording, though American negotiators did get language removed that called on the W.H.O. to provide technical support to member states seeking to halt "inappropriate promotion of foods for infants and young children." That was not the only jerk move the US made at the meeting. During the same Geneva meeting where the breast-feeding resolution was debated, the United States succeeded in removing statements supporting soda taxes from a document that advises countries grappling with soaring rates of obesity. The Americans also sought, unsuccessfully, to thwart a W.H.O. effort aimed at helping poor countries obtain access to lifesaving medicines. Washington, supporting the pharmaceutical industry, has long resisted calls to modify patent laws as a way of increasing drug availability in the developing world, but health advocates say the Trump administration has ratcheted up its opposition to such efforts. So why does the US act this way? Because US policy is made by business lobbyists who put their profits first and the US government is only happy to oblige them. I am not one who signs on to all boycotts of companies. But I have long tried to avoid any product made by Nestle, which I consider to be one of the most evil companies. This was because of their despicable marketing practices in Africa and Asia where they put on big advertising campaigns that encouraged poor women to use formula instead of breast milk, promoting it as a better and more sophisticated way of feeding children. But since infant formula is expensive, mothers ended up diluting it, leaving their infants malnourished. Furthermore, the lack of access to clean water to make the formula resulted in all manner of diseases being transmitted to children. The amount of misery and the number of deaths caused by Nestle's greed is immeasurable. Nestle is a truly unethical company. It would not surprise me in the least of they were one of the prime forces behind that US's opposition to this proposal. Owlmirror says Because US policy is made by business lobbyists who put their profits first and the US government is only happy to oblige them. Yet Obama was willing to buck the business lobbyists in this matter, as little as that may have been. I suspect that he was at least willing to listen to medical experts on the topic of breastfeeding, and accepted their recommendations. One of the hallmarks of Trumpism is the deep contempt for scientific and medical expertise. Trump himself seems to think that a "good" doctor as being one who will take dictation from Trump about how awesomely healthy Trump is. Matt G says I remember the Nestle boycott from when I was a kid in the early 80s. Business always comes first among those in the "pro-life" camp. jrkrideau says But they did not anticipate that the US does not behave like a civilized nation. I can understand their surprise but the USA seems to have left the ranks of civilized nations some time ago. It is just taking time for everyone to realize it. It is amazing how easy it seems to be to buy the Trump régime. I get the feeling there was a sense of slightly stunned disbelief in the Russian delegation. A sort of "we are happy to do it but why did we have to in the first place?" The weird thing is that apparently the USA thought they really could kill the resolution. They were correct in thinking that they could bully a lot of poorer small nations but did not anyone notice that there was a bloody huge bear in the room whom the USA could not threaten? @ 1 Owlmirror One of the hallmarks of Trumpism is the deep contempt for scientific and medical expertise. We went through 10 years of that in Canada under the Harper Gov't. Gut reations and crazy religious beliefs were more valuable inputs to policy development, scientists muzzled, long term research programs abandoned and so on. At one point Health Canada staff were stealing journals, etc., and hiding them in their basements. It looks like it is going to be far worse in the USA. The last I heard CDC is facing significant funding cuts and the EPA is likely in worse trouble since Pruitt resigned. The thing is that the Trumpites must ignore scientific and medical expertise otherwise they would have to admit that many (all?) of their policies and programs are nonsense. WMDKitty -- Survivor says Never mind that mothers are outright bullied into breastfeeding, and babies DIE because mothers are shamed away from using formula. Dr Sarah says WMDKitty, this is a hugely significant problem in the developed world, and I agree it's appalling. But there are a lot of countries where it's still really dangerous to feed babies anything made with the local water, and where large numbers of people can't afford enough formula to feed babies, not to mention women not having access to proper contraceptives and often having to rely on breastfeeding just to space their children. Obviously it's vital to be addressing all those issues vigorously, but for women having babies in the developing world today, the situation they've got now is the situation they've got now, not the situation we're aiming for them to have ASAP in the future, and in those circumstances it is a terrible idea for formula companies to be pushing formula. deepak shetty says Atleast in the hospital we were (in the US), everyone sang the praises of breast milk and I believe the hospital is not supposed to offer formula unless medically necessary OR the parents ask for it so it looks hypocritical for the US to not agree (though I dont know if this is specific to California or a US policy) @WMDKitty — Survivor You bring up an important and complicated issue . Its undeniable that breast milk is better and its also undeniable that a new baby is hell on the mother and that breast feeding is goddamn hard and thats on top of the hormonal changes and the sleepless nights. I guess the only thing that helps is good support from the family but in many cases the partners are also irritable and short tempered (lack of sleep does that!) . hyphenman says Listening to an NPR interview with Patti Rundall, the policy director of the British advocacy group Baby Milk Action, yesterday, I got more than a little confused with this bit: …it's all about trading and trading goods that really are misleadingly marketed. So they're marketed almost as if they are infant formula for babies, [emphasis mine, JH] which is important and is something good. These are look-alike products that are not correct for babies, and they're fueling the obesity epidemic (ph) and undermining breastfeeding. So, this isn't about baby formula but rather a product "marketed almost as if they are infant formula for babies?" What are these "look-alike" products she's talking about? Also, First Dog On The Moon. Enter your WordPress.com blog URL http:// .wordpress.com
package snaker import ( "regexp" "strings" "unicode" ) const ( // minInitialismLen is the min length of any of the commonInitialisms. minInitialismLen = 2 // maxInitialismLen is the max length of any of the commonInitialisms. maxInitialismLen = 5 ) // min returns the minimum of a, b. func min(a, b int) int { if a < b { return a } return b } // peekInitialism returns the next longest possible initialism in rs. func peekInitialism(rs []rune) string { // do no work if len(rs) < minInitialismLen { return "" } // grab at most next maxInitialismLen uppercase characters l := min(len(rs), maxInitialismLen) var z []rune for i := 0; i < l; i++ { if !unicode.IsUpper(rs[i]) { break } z = append(z, rs[i]) } // bail if next few characters were not uppercase. if len(z) < minInitialismLen { return "" } // determine if common initialism for i := min(maxInitialismLen, len(z)); i >= minInitialismLen; i-- { if r := string(z[:i]); commonInitialisms[r] { return r } } return "" } // isIdentifierChar determines if ch is a valid character for a Go identifier. // // see: go/src/go/scanner/scanner.go func isIdentifierChar(ch rune) bool { return 'a' <= ch && ch <= 'z' \|\| 'A' <= ch && ch <= 'Z' \|\| ch == '_' \|\| ch >= 0x80 && unicode.IsLetter(ch) \|\| '0' <= ch && ch <= '9' \|\| ch >= 0x80 && unicode.IsDigit(ch) } // replaceBadChars strips characters and character sequences that are invalid // characters for Go identifiers. func replaceBadChars(s string) string { // strip bad characters r := []rune{} for _, ch := range s { if isIdentifierChar(ch) { r = append(r, ch) } else { r = append(r, '_') } } return string(r) } // underscoreRE matches underscores. var underscoreRE = regexp.MustCompile(`_+`) // leadingRE matches leading numbers. var leadingRE = regexp.MustCompile(`^[0-9_]+`) // toIdentifier cleans up a string so that it is usable as an identifier. func toIdentifier(s string) string { // replace bad chars with _ s = replaceBadChars(strings.TrimSpace(s)) // fix 2 or more __ and remove leading numbers/underscores s = underscoreRE.ReplaceAllString(s, "_") s = leadingRE.ReplaceAllString(s, "_") // remove leading/trailing underscores s = strings.TrimLeft(s, "_") s = strings.TrimRight(s, "_") return s }
David Beckham and Victoria Beckham's son, Brooklyn, and model Hana Cross are now Instagram official! But aside from congratulatory messages, Brooklyn and his girlfriend are also getting a lot of messages due to Hana's resemble to the young Beckham's mom. What do you guys think, does Hana look like Spice Girls's Posh Spice? Do you also see their similarities?
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Management gurus are good at formulating strategies, but they're not necessarily good at writing books. Too often these authors offer advice that would be quite useful, but bury it beneath reams of impenetrable jargon and unnecessarily detailed explanations. This tendency usually derails the gurus' efforts because their target audience of busy executives won't take the time to slog through the books. Chris Zook is an exception; the points he makes in Beyond the Core: Expand Your Market Without Abandoning Your Roots (Harvard Business School Press, $29.95) are both valuable and readily accessible. Zook has taken years worth of research and distilled it down into a tightly written 200 pages of very important advice for senior executives who are struggling to crack the code on how to grow their companies. The book focuses on how to best manage growth using "adjacency moves," an awkwardly titled but effective (when properly managed) growth strategy to complement, rather than detract from, a company's core business. Zook isn't peddling a panacea for senior managers. His underlying message hasn't changed since he co-authored Profit From the Core in 2001: Successful growth is hard work and the devil is in the details. Successful companies consistently have CEOs who sweat out the strategy and the implementation with his or her troops, and who champion the new growth initiatives and protect them from the entrenched interests that companies of any significant size have. "The management team that applies rigor, not a vague sense of creativity or gut instinct, wins the long-term adjacency game," Zook writes. In the author's view, an "adjacency move" is any attempt by a company to move beyond its core business in search of growth. These moves can take many forms, such as selling current products or services through a new channel or in a new geography, or selling new products or services to current customers. Some firms face bigger challenges than others in moving beyond the core. Zook and other authors say that Intel actually has trouble growing through adjacency moves, not because of poor management but because of the overwhelming managerial demands of its core business. Even when Intel made progress with adjacency moves, they ended up fueling increased demand for the core microprocessor product, again drawing managerial attention back to the core business. As Zook notes, Intel discovered that it was more valuable to "give away technology and quickly disseminate it in the market, rather than try to build a business around it." Most companies don't have such a resource black hole at the center of their businesses, but Zook notes that not enough companies properly assess the effect adjacency moves will have on the core business. Bad news for bad managers: Adjacency moves are not going to save a company from a declining core. You have to fix the core before any other moves will work. In other words, the best adjacency moves will only pan out when based on a firm core foundation. In addition, fixing the core can uncover the most natural sort of growth through adjacencies. Zook presents some nice case studies of AmBev and American Standard to drive this point home. Like other management gurus, Zook reiterates the mantra that customer-focused strategies are the ones that work. Most of the time, successful adjacency formulas are "built around specific and deep insights about customer behavior," he writes. What I like best about Zook's work is that he provides just the right amount of data to support his conclusions, without overwhelming the reader with "interesting" data that is nice to know but superfluous to making his point. He and his associates at Bain and Co. did a nice job of examining and refining a large body of information that is clearly presented and very powerful in its ramifications for business decision-making. Zook's position as a Bain senior partner allowed him access to CEOs that other writers may not have had. As a result, the case studies presented on United Parcel Service , Enterprise Rent-a-Car and Vodaphone offer in-depth descriptions that strongly support the author's thesis, from which readers can pull actionable ideas. Zook also makes good use of corporate stumbles. The efforts of such companies as Advanced Micro Devices and Reebok International are examined for their errors and effectively contrasted to their more successful competitors [ STMicroelectronics and Nike , respectively]. Zook makes it clear that if you want to shift your entire company in a dramatic lunge for growth, forget it. Adjacency moves work best if they are incremental and repeatable and don't drain your core business of resources. Think you can cure the problems of your core by growing away from it? Don't bother. Data supports the conclusion that moves away from the core won't pan out if the fundamental problems of the core are not fixed first. As for trying to merge your way to a rosier future, if you go that route you should plan on cashing a severance check sooner rather than later. Growth by adjacency move is best when it sticks close to the core, building on what you are already good at. Mergers only support growth if they are small in relation to the acquiring company and are "bolt on," where they can be inserted relatively seamlessly into current strategies and operations. The bottom line on Beyond the Core is that it would cost you thousands of dollars to pay Zook and his Bainies to come and deliver this important message personally. Instead you can get the same value right now by investing $29.95 and the two to three hours it would take to read and internalize this book. Your decision, but I think the choice is pretty clear. Kern Lewis of World Savings in Oakland, Calif., reviews books occasionally for Forbes.com.
Q: What does Bower mean when it says "unable to find a suitable version"? What does it mean when it says "unable to find a suitable version for angular"? In my bower.json I have specified 1.2.6 as the angular version. Why am I being given 6 choices here, 5 of which may cause my project to stop working? Unable to find a suitable version for angular, please choose one: 1) angular#1.2.6 which resolved to 1.2.6 and is required by angular-scenario#1.2.6 2) angular#1.2.15 which resolved to 1.2.15 and is required by angled-horizon 3) angular#1.2.16 which resolved to 1.2.16 and is required by angular-animate#1.2.16 4) angular#>= 1.0.2 which resolved to 1.2.16 and is required by angular-ui-utils#0.1.1 5) angular#>=1 which resolved to 1.2.16 and is required by angular-bootstrap#0.10.0 6) angular#~1.2.10 which resolved to 1.2.16 and is required by angular-strap#2.0.1 Also, what happens if I use ! to persist it to bower.json? Here is my bower.json if it helps: { "name": "angled-horizon", "version": "0.0.0", "dependencies": { "angular": "1.2.15", "json3": "3.2.6", "es5-shim": "2.1.0", "jquery": "1.10.2", "sass-bootstrap": "3.0.2", "angular-resource": "1.2.6", "angular-cookies": "1.2.6", "angular-sanitize": "1.2.6", "angular-route": "1.2.6", "angular-ui-utils": "0.1.1", "angular-animate": "1.2.6", "angular-bootstrap": "0.10.0" }, "devDependencies": { "angular-mocks": "1.2.6", "angular-scenario": "1.2.6", "angular-ui-utils": "0.1.1" }, "resolutions": { "angular": "1.2.15" } } A: I found this answer in the internet. You can have a look on it, they are suggesting to add resolution "resolutions": { "angular": "1.2.0-rc.2" }
One of the largest debates about teenage access to technology is the one that surrounds cellphone usage within in the school setting. Fact remains that in today's world children are getting their first cellular phones for the purpose of contact with family and friends and as a learning tool, and their reliance on them has become almost second nature. The problem, however, becomes an issue when school students start paying more attention to their screens than their school studies. How do educators, parents and classmates keep cell phones at par without overstepping the boundaries of constant usage? Some school boards have initiated Yondr pouches for their students – a case that locks the mobile device while in the school and can be unlocked when the student leaves. However a growing number of school boards say they've had more success finding ways to incorporate cellphones into schools instead of banning them out of existence. Even here in Canada one of the largest school boards reversed its 4-year ban on cellphones and now allows teachers to make their own personal rules per classroom – smartphones are permitted but limited on usage. The stats support this type of rule policy too. Researchers say these approaches work best, but they also add that it is essential to have guidelines set in place for the students. I personally come from a time where phones did not exist, let alone were used in a classroom setting – ok, I am old but that is besides the point. I do see the advantages of having them as tools and I do have children who will soon be sporting a piece of tech adhered permanently to their hands as well. For me, it's more of a focus and interaction issue. As adults we sometimes complain that we do not engage in meaningful conversations while at the dinner table, out on a date or even while watching television as slaves to our personal devices, then why in the world would we want our children to have them as a distraction and less sociable interference within the classroom – their main environment of education? In my opinion, the real world is set up of various rules that we must abide by and if a school has the need to ban cell phones then it's up to it's pupils to adjust accordingly. Our proceeded generations seem to be lacking the knowledge that sometimes things just aren't fair. Sometimes we have to do things we are not happy with and put our entitlement aside to move forward. Cell phones are not a necessity and we do not have to be 'connected' 24 hours a day to them. What happened to the good ol'library as a resource? Let's bring back patience, listening and intrigue if not forever than for at least the school time hours. What do you think, should schools ban cell phones?
It's Valentines Day next month, so here's an ideal gift for your geeky girlfriend or wife, the Space Invaders Earrings. These fun Space Invaders Earrings are made from hand woven panels of delica beads, each one measures about 2.5 cm square and they come in a variety of colours. They are available for $25 for a set at pardalote's shop over at Etsy, check out the other stuff for sale which includes a matching Space Invaders necklace.
You are here: Home › Psychology › Mental Health › Substance Abuse › Juveniles Build Up Physical But Not Mental Tolerance For Alcohol In Animal Study Juveniles Build Up Physical But Not Mental Tolerance For Alcohol In Animal Study By Christopher Fisher, PhD on June 13, 2012 in Substance Abuse Research into alcohol's effect on juvenile rats shows they have an ability to build up a physical, but not cognitive, tolerance over the short term — a finding that could have implications for adolescent humans, according to Baylor University psychologists. The research findings are significant because they indicate that blood alcohol concentration levels alone may not fully account for impaired orientation and navigation ability, said Jim Diaz-Granados, Ph.D., professor and chair of psychology and neuroscience at Baylor. He co-authored the study, published in the journal Brain Research. "There's been a lot of supposition about the reaction to blood alcohol levels," Diaz-Granados said. "We use the blood alcohol level to decide if someone is going to get arrested because we think that a high level means impairment. But here we see a model where we can separate that out. You may have a tolerance in metabolism, but just because your blood alcohol concentration is less than the legal limit doesn't mean your behavior isn't impaired." "More research is needed to fully understand how adolescents react to alcohol, but this contributes a piece to the puzzle," said study co-author Douglas Matthews, Ph.D., a research scientist at Baylor and an associate professor in Psychology at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The study was conducted in the Baylor Addiction Research Center of Baylor's Department of Psychology and Neuroscience in Baylor's College of Arts & Sciences. More than half of under-age alcohol use is due to binge drinking, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and "when initial alcohol use occurs during adolescence, it increases the chance of developing alcoholism later in life," said lead study author Candice E. Van Skike, a doctoral candidate in psychology at Baylor. Researchers have long been interested in whether adolescents react differently to alcohol than adults and how alcohol use affects their brains when they reach adulthood, but Baylor researchers also wanted to test the short-term effect of alcohol on adolescents' brains in terms of memory about space and dimension. In the study, 96 rats were trained to navigate a water maze to an escape platform. Half were exposed to alcohol vapor in chambers for 16 hours a day over four days (a method to approximate binge-like alcohol intake), while others were exposed only to air. After a 28-hour break, some were injected with alcohol, then both groups tested again in the maze. A comparison found that those who had undergone the chronic intermittent ethanol exposure built up a metabolic tolerance. They were better able to eliminate alcohol from their systems than ones who had been exposed only to air, based on a comparison of the blood ethanol concentrations of the two groups after they had been injected with alcohol later. While the alcohol-injected rats swam as hard and as fast as the others, their ability to find the escape platform was impaired. Previous research at Baylor led by Matthews showed that adolescents are less sensitive than adults to motor impairment during alcohol intake because a particular neuron fires more slowly in adults who are drinking. The lack of sensitivity may be part of the reason adolescents do not realize they have had too much to drink. "It's difficult to compare metabolic and cognitive tolerance in adults with those of juveniles, because many studies that have looked at the cognitive aspect of chronic ethanol exposure didn't measure blood alcohol concentration levels," Van Skike said. "It would be an interesting comparison to make, and it is an avenue for future research." Other research has shown that high levels of alcohol consumption during human adolescence are mirrored in animals. Adolescent rats consume two to three times more ethanol than adults relative to body weight, suggesting that adolescents are who drink are pre-disposed to do so in binges. Another collaborator in the Baylor study was Adelle Novier, a doctoral candidate in psychology at Baylor. Material adapted from Baylor University. About Christopher Fisher, PhD Dr. Christopher Fisher, Managing Editor for The Behavioral Medicine Report, received his PhD in Clinical Health Psychology & Behavioral Medicine from University of North Texas. His clinical training emphasized biopsychosocial approaches to health and wellness, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), neurofeedback, biofeedback, cranial electrical stimulation (CES), and QEEG. He is Board Certified in Neurofeedback (BCN) by BCIA. Dr. Fisher also received a master's degree in Clinical Psychology from Texas A&M - Corpus Christi. Dr. Fisher maintains a private practice in Corpus Christi, Texas, and offers individual therapy, group therapy, peripheral biofeedback, and neurofeedback. You can learn more at http://www.christopherfisherphd.com. He also maintains an informational website for panic attacks (panic disorder) here: http://www.panicintervention.com Dr. Fisher enjoys spending time with family, watching sports and movies, and outdoor activities. 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I made a speech on my wedding day. Partly because I didn't want just the guys to have all the fun but more because I had something really important I wanted to get across to my friends and family. My Mum had a very Victorian upbringing and when I was getting married she spoke about me 'belonging' to Nick now - as if I was some item and possession was being transferred. Needless to say, I didn't buy into that myself! The message I wanted to get across through my speech was that I saw my wedding day as a new chapter in my book. I spoke of how in all stories, some characters remain in the main thread of the story, whilst others come and go, or are dormant for a while and come back into the storyline later. I asked all our guests to continue to be part of my story. I told them that there may be times when I was a minor part in their books, and if they ever decided to write me out, thank you for having let me be a part of it. However, it was my intention to keep them active in my book as they all made my story more exciting. There were more than a few tears shed that speech! And I had pretty much forgotten about that metaphor for life until over 17 years on, I had the wonderful fortune of meeting back up with a friend who had a major role in my 'story' 15 years ago. Due to our respective husbands' work, we ended up living in different countries and lost touch. On our way to a function on Saturday, I asked Nick if there was any chance that Ange and Eldon would be there - and it would appear that in a car, coming from a different direction, there was a similar conversation going on asking if the Cavanaghs were on the list. I could hear her laugh from across the room and as we threw our arms around each other, we both said "I have thought of you so often". We had missed out on a fair few chapters in each others' stories, but not been forgotten. I still love this metaphor of our lives being chapters in a book. Characters in a book can get written out when they have added to the storyline - as do people in our lives. I used to take every dwindled friendship as a personal failure but now accept that they added to my story, hopefully I added to theirs too, and their role in the book was over. 15 years on, Ange and I picked up the conversation as if we had spoken just yesterday and I am really looking forward to seeing what role she is going to have in this next chapter(s) of my life. I know this chapter is going to see some major characters being written out. One of them has been with me since day 1, the other over 20 years. Their books are coming to an end and therefore so will my role in their books. But my book will continue and I can always look back at previous chapters and re-read the story which is permanently etched in my memory. My story will have more chapters without them in it, but this weekend showed me how other people are going to come back into my story, bringing laughter with them and whether they stay just a few pages or the rest of the book, they are going to make the story all the more enjoyable! And all this reminds me on those days when my story is sad, people never truly leave your lives because they are etched into previous chapters of your book; sometimes they are no longer active in it. Reflect back on the good parts of the story and trust that the storyline will take off again soon. What do you want to read into your life's story? Blog > What chapter are you on?
Mission 66: Restore the town's Heartless Restore the Town's Heartless Day(s): 256-258 Ally: None Expert Ordeal Badge Ordeal Blazon Unity Badge 8 Heart factor Munny factor EXP factor x5.40 x16.20 x3.23 Clear Bonuses Random Bonuses Curaga Power Tech+ Silver Blizzara Recipe (15%) Thunder Recipe (10%) Blazing Gem (10%) Gust Gem (10%) Shining Crystal (10%) Shield Tech+ (20%) Silver (10%) None (5%) Mission 66 in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days sends Roxas to solve the mysterious disappearance of the Heartless population in Halloween Town. 1 Mission assignment 2 Story summary 3 Mission walkthrough 4 Challenge Mission 5 Enemies 5.1 Heartless Mission assignment[edit] Summary[edit] The Heartless population in Halloween Town has shown a sudden drop. Find out what is causing this dearth of Heartless and resolve this situation. Objectives[edit] Restore the town's Heartless! Find out what is reducing the Heartless population! Defeat all the mystery enemies! Defeat the Leechgrave! Story summary[edit] Roxas is sent to Halloween Town to find out what happened to the Heartless population, which leads him to an encounter with the Leechgrave Heartless that seems to "eat" other Heartless. Mission walkthrough[edit] Set plenty of Fire panels prior to this mission, along with many Hi-Ethers. Entering the Halloween Town Square, Roxas sees where all the Heartless have gone. The town is now "infested" with Tentaclaws and Roxas must defeat all of them in the square before he can proceed. Quite soon, Roxas will figure out that wiping them out by using aerial combos takes a very long time. Casting Fire spells from a distance takes them down much more quickly, but conserving magic for the upcoming boss fight is more important. Main article: Leechgrave Walkthrough Part One Walkthrough Part Two Challenge Mission[edit] Challenge Mission 66 Finish in record time! Level capped at 35 No recovery magic 5:10:00 or less 5:10:01-6:40:00 Completing this mission may take a few tries, as you not only have to rapidly take out both swarms of Tentaclaws, but also deal with the Leechgrave itself. To take down the Leechgrave, you'll have to largely ignore the Tentaclaws it summons and just go straight for the main boss. Limit Breaks work well here, and Auto-Life is a must. You can still knock down the Leechgrave if you want to make it easier to use a Limit Break, but you should only do this once. Having Zero Gear with four Sight Units and the Critical Sun ring would be a good idea. Dodge the main body's attacks while dealing damage of your own, and you should be able to achieve victory. If you expanded the break in the wall by using another bomb in Mission 52 where you fought Lock, Shock, and Barrel, you can save some time by going straight through it. Challenge Mission 66SP Avoid taking damage! Take 20% more damage Enemy level +50 6 to 20 hits 21 to 35 hits Like the timed mission, this one is a nuisance because you have to deal with three waves of enemies. Survival is key, so you want to have plenty of Fire magic and be proficient with Guard. When you get to the main boss, you have to not only dodge the standard attacks, but also the poison clouds that the main body will create, as getting damaged by them counts as taking a hit. Take your time, and have plenty of Elixirs handy to restore your magic. If you can't use Guard effectively, only attack the coffin after using Dodge Roll to dodge the arms that come out of the coffin. Retreat if it uses it's poison gas or pollen shot, and use the large rocks to help block the pollen shots and head back after the pollen has gone away to avoid accidently taking damage. Using Zero Gear with the Sight Units and the Critical Sun ring is advised and also defeat three of the Tentaclaws first to help make it easier to move around. It will take some time to get used to this sequence, but overall this is not too hard despite the large amount of time required due to Leechgrave having extremely high HP. Another way to do it is to equip the Extreme ring, but you will need the Auto-Life panel. This will give you permanent access to Limit Breaks. Take out the Tentaclaws with Pumpkin bombs or Fire magic from a distance, always keeping an eye on Leechgrave. When Leechgave falls down, hammer it with a Limit Break until either it gets up again or it is defeated. Enemies[edit] Heartless[edit] Tricky Monkey Tentaclaw Leechgrave Treasures[edit] Synthesis Silver Halloween Town Entrance Left of starting point Gust Gem Halloween Town Square Right of entrance Silver Suspension Bridge Left of entrance Blazing Crystal Suspension Bridge Left of bridge; on the wall Frost Gem Suspension Bridge Right of bridge; on the wall Premium Orb Manor Ruins Northeast of entrance Thundaga Recipe Boneyard 1 Left of entrance. Shining Crystal Boneyard 2 Northeast of entrance; on right wall Badges Unity Badge Moonlight Hill Next to Boneyard 2 entrance Ordeal Badge Suspension Bridge Upper right corner from entrance Ordeal Blazon Halloween Town Square Straight across from entrance Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days Missions 01 \| 02 \| 03 \| 04 \| 05 \| 06 \| 07 \| 08 \| 09 \| 10 \| 11 \| 12 \| 13 \| 14 \| 15 \| 16 \| 17 \| 18 \| 19 \| 20 \| 21 \| 22 \| 23 \| 24 \| 25 \| 26 \| 27 \| 28 \| 29 \| 30 \| 31 \| 32 \| 33 \| 34 \| 35 \| 36 \| 37 \| 38 \| 39 \| 40 \| 41 \| 42 \| 43 \| 44 \| 45 \| 46 \| 47 \| 48 \| 49 \| 50 \| 51 \| 52 \| 53 \| 54 \| 55 \| 56 \| 57 \| 58 \| 59 \| 60 \| 61 \| 62 \| 63 \| 64 \| 65 \| 66 \| 67 \| 68 \| 69 \| 70 \| 71 \| 72 \| 73 \| 74 \| 75 \| 76 \| 77 \| 78 \| 79 \| 80 \| 81 \| 82 \| 83 \| 84 \| 85 \| 86 \| 87 \| 88 \| 89 \| 90 \| 91 \| 92 \| 93 — Mission 00: Mission Mode Tutorial — Retrieved from "https://www.khwiki.com/index.php?title=Mission_66:_Restore_the_town%27s_Heartless&oldid=855098" No Ally Missions Halloween Town Missions Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days Challenge Missions
"If you have this plant the chances are that it is T. borealis. The true T. macrochlamys apparently has a pendant inflorescence and violet petals! There is a 'macrochlamys' that Renate Ehlers collected in Oaxaca that is being investigated. In the meantime check out your T. macrochlamys!" aff. borealis L.Colgan/D.Butcher. H.Luther. T. macrochlamys, H.Luther. rosette, the rosette obconic, 35 to 45 cm diam. Sheaths light brown, discoloured compared to blade, opaque, elliptic, 12 to 16 cm long, 8 to 9 cm wide, dense punctulate lepidote on both surfaces. Blade green, narrow triangular-lanceolate, erect at the base, recurved at the apex, 35 to 55 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide at the base, attenuate, entire, filiform toward the apex, densely punctulate lepidote on both surfaces, velvet to the touch. Scape robust, 10 to 20 cm long, 5 to 6 mm diam, inconspicuous but shorter than the leaves, erect. Scape bracts foliaceous, imbricate and totally covering, diminishing in size toward the distal part, 20 to 35 cm long. Rhachis conspicuously ribbed when dry. Primary bracts green to rose, ovate-triangular to ovate-lanceolate, 4.5 to 35 cm long, 1.5 to 3.5 cm wide, the lower ones foliaceous, the blade broad triangular, attenuate, the upper ones bracteose, broad attenuate to acuminate at the apex. Spikes elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 4 to 6 cm long, 1.8 to 2.3 cm wide, strongly flattened, with 4 to 6 flowers, pedunculate, the peduncles short, robust, ebracteate, 1 to 1.6 cm long. Floral bracts green to whitish with a rose apex, triangular to triangular ovate, 2 to 3.5cm long, 0.8 to 1.8 cm wide when flattened, strongly carinate to bicarinate, nerved to smooth when dry, acute to acuminate, glabrous to slightly lepidote at apex. Sepals green to green whitish, free, narrow elliptic to lanceolate, 2 to 2.7 cm long, 5 to 9 mm wide, glabrous, entire, acute to acuminate at the apex, the posterior pair carinate. Petals oblong-spatulate, 5 to 5.9 cm long, 6 to 8 mm wide, reflexed at the apex, pale green in the apical half, white in the basal half. Stamens exserted, unequal, filaments linear, flat in the apical portion, 5.3 to 6.5 cm long, white at the base, pale green at the apex. Anthers yellow, basifixed to subbasifixed, oblong, ca. 3 mm long. Ovary ovoid, 6 to 9 mm long, 2 to 4 mm diameter, green. Style exserted, linear, green-whitish, 5.4 to 6.4 cm long. Stigma white to green, conduplicate-spiral (type II sensu Brown and Gilmartin, 1984). Tillandsia borealis is known up to now only from the states of Durango and Sinaloa ( fig 3), in the municipalities of Pueblo Nuevo and Concordia respectively, where it grows as an epiphyte on Pinus and/or Quercus in pine-oak forests between 1,700 and 2,000 m s.n.m. It flowers from July to August. Part of the herbarium material linked to this new taxon here proposed, was initially identified as Tillandsia prodigiosa Baker (fig lc, 3), due to the green colour of the petals and the long inflorescences. Later on, some specimens were identified as T. macrochlamys Baker (fig lb, 3), may be by the presence of the ample primary bracts that cover the short spikes that are on a robust peduncle. However, we think that the species similar to T. borealis is in fact T. carlos-hankii Matuda (fig 3), an endemic taxon of the state of Oaxaca. In chart 1 some of the characteristic of the taxa afore mentioned, which shows how to distinguish them clearly. The characters that allow recognition of the species here proposed are: the erect inflorescences, the elliptic to elliptic ovate spikes, provided with a short, robust and ebracteate peduncle and the green petals. The epithet makes reference to the northern distribution of the species in Mexico. Tillandsia borealis is in the subgenus Tillandsia of the classification proposed by Mez (1896) and continued by Smith and Downs (1977) in their monograph of the family. Also, it belongs to the subgroup 3 of group 1 proposed by Gardner (1986) in her work on the preliminary classification of the genus Tillandsia. It is necessary to point out, however, recent relative publications to the taxonomy of the subfamily Tillandsioideae (Spencer, 1993; Grant, 1995a, 1995b; Terry et al., 1997; Espejo-Serna, 2002; Barfuss et al., 2004, 2005; Till and Barfuss, 2006), where they have emphasised that this classification is artificial and they have suggested the necessity to carry out a careful revision of the generic and infrageneric delimitation in the subfamily.
"What about this one?" Lorna asked, holding up a pale blue dress. "Why not?" She said, more or less forcing the dress into my hand. "Flimsy? It's no bloody flimsy, it's silk!" Her voice was so loud that the woman next to us drew daggers in Lorna's direction, which had no effect whatsoever. "Try it on," she urged. "Well it might be time to change that," she said, grabbing my hand. "You're impossible," I said, following her to the fitting room. In the mirror, I laughed as I adjusted the dress, turning from side to side to see how it looked. I smoothed down the dress one last time and opened the door. "Aye, it certainly accentuates your eh," she cleared her throat and winked. Instinctively, I put my arm across my chest. "Yes, madam," I groaned, closing the fitting room door.
Q: converting from data frame to data table I get an error with head(..) Below is a reproducible example showing the problem: openSummary <- read.table(textConnection( "Dates dollarA numTotal 7/3/2011 52730.56 1614 7/10/2011 77709.43 1548"), header = TRUE) openSummary$Dates <- strptime(openSummary$Dates,"%m/%d/%Y") str(openSummary) head(openSummary) # No problem openSummaryDT <- data.table(openSummary) str(openSummaryDT) head(openSummaryDT) # An error is produced Here is the error upon executing head(openSummaryDT) Error in `rownames<-`(`tmp`, value = paste(format(rn, right = TRUE), : length of 'dimnames' [1] not equal to array extent please explain the error and how can I avoid it. However, it appears that i can do some operation on both data frame and data table and I get the same results. difftime(Sys.Date(), openSummary[ ,"Dates"]) difftime(Sys.Date(), openSummaryDT[ ,Dates]) Thank you in advance A: This is a fascinating bug caused by the dates being in POSIXlt format. Consider: openSummary$Dates <- as.Date(openSummary$Dates) head(data.table(openSummary)) # Dates dollarA numTotal # 1: 2011-07-03 52730.56 1614 # 2: 2011-07-10 77709.43 1548 If you try to print the original table, you get the same error, but with a traceback, you see this: > openSummaryDT # Error in `rownames<-`(`tmp`, value = paste(format(rn, right = TRUE), : # length of 'dimnames' [1] not equal to array extent # In addition: Warning message: # In cbind... # Enter a frame number, or 0 to exit # 1: print(list(Dates = list(sec = c(0, 0), min = c(0, 0), hour = c(0, 0), m # 2: print.data.table(list(Dates = list(sec = c(0, 0), min = c(0, 0), hour = # 3: `rownames<-`(`tmp`, value = paste(format(rn, right = TRUE), ":", sep > 3 # Called from: print.data.table(list(Dates = list(sec Browse[1]> ls() # [1] "dn" "value" "x" Browse[1]> x # Dates dollarA numTotal # sec "0,0" "52730.56" "1614" # min "0,0" "77709.43" "1548" # hour "0,0" "52730.56" "1614" # mday "3,10" "77709.43" "1548" # mon "6,6" "52730.56" "1614" # year "111,111" "77709.43" "1548" # wday "0,0" "52730.56" "1614" # yday "183,190" "77709.43" "1548" # isdst "1,1" "52730.56" "1614" Basically, for whatever reason, the process of converting data.table into text form for printing / heading exposes the underlying list/vector nature of the POSIXlt object.
Q: Mongodb: how to read value without knowing field name? I have a collection "A" that have documents: {_id:1, a1: "degree"} {_id:2, a2: "score"} ... I need to transform that collection to key-value structure such as: {_id: x, {name: "a1", label: "degree"} } {_id: y, {name: "a2", label: "score"} } Problem is every document can have different field name in collection A. To get the field name, I can use javascript as follows, But still can't find way to get each field value without knowing field name. var arr = new Array() var x = 0 var cur = db."A".find() while( cur.hasNext() ) { var i = 0 for( var field in cur[x] ) { arr[i] = field; // get field name i++;} db."B".save( { "name": arr[1], //fieldname "label": //how to put value without knowing field name? ) x++; } Do you have any idea how to get field value without knowing the name? thank you. A: I'm not sure is this what you really want but hope this help. Try this : var obj = [ {_id: x, {name: "a1", label: "degree"} }, {_id: y, {name: "a2", label: "score"} } ]; for (index in obj) { for (key in obj[index]) { console.log(key); console.log(obj[index][key]); } } A: Thanks for comments and answers! I have completed my javascript code as follows: var arr = new Array() var x = 0 var cur = db.A.find() while( cur.hasNext() ) { var i = 0 for( var field in cur[x] ) { arr[i] = field; // get field name print( "field name="+ field); print( "the value="+cur[x][field] ); i++; } x++; }
Intermediate+ Word of the Day: bluff bluff (verb, noun, adjective) /blʌf/ LISTEN Bluffing is an important element of poker. As a verb, bluff means 'to deceive someone by acting as if you are confident.' A bluff is the act of bluffing or, in US English, a person who bluffs (in UK English, such a person would be called a bluffer). As an adjective, bluff is used to refer to a direct and honest way of speaking. The businessman said he would walk away from the negotiations with nothing if he didn't get exactly what he wanted, but everyone knew he was bluffing. Her new boyfriend is just a bluff! I don't believe a thing he says. Bruno pretends to know it all but I think his behavior is just a bluff. Mr. Mendes has a bluff way of addressing students and they all like him. Words often used with bluff call someone's bluff: challenge someone to do something they said they could do. Example: "Tom said he could beat anyone at arm wrestling, but Sally called his bluff when she challenged him. She beat him easily!" bluff it out: keep up a pretense to deal with a difficult situation. Example: "The boss didn't believe I was really sick, but I managed to bluff it out and I convinced her in the end." Coogan's Bluff is the title of a 1968 movie starring Clint Eastwood. You can see the movie trailer here: Being able to bluff is an important skill in poker, where winning is not so much about the cards you have but your ability to convince your opponents that you can beat them. Bluff, used as a noun, is also 'a steep wide vertical cliff' or 'a high, steep bank over a river or the sea.' As an adjective (though it is rare), bluff means 'having a broad, flat front' or, figuratively, about a person, 'having a direct, gruff manner.' bluffness (noun), bluffer (noun), bluffly (adverb), bluffable (adjective) Bluff, as a verb meaning 'to deceive someone by acting confident,' has an uncertain origin. Some linguists believe it dates back to the mid- to late 17th century, and originally meant 'to blindfold, hoodwink or fool.' In this theory, bluff comes either from the Middle Dutch verb bluffen ('to make something swell,' and figuratively, 'to bluff' or 'to play a trick at cards') or from the Low German verb bluffen (to bluster or frighten). Other linguists think this older sense of bluff is not directly connected to the modern sense, which appeared in US English in the mid-19th century, and probably came from the Dutch verb bluffen, meaning 'to brag or boast' (this Dutch verb is related to the Middle Dutch and Low German sources in the other theory. The modern sense of bluff was originally used in poker, but its use expanded to general language within a decade. As a noun, bluff, originally used as an alternate name for the game of poker, dates back to the early 19th century, and comes from the same source as the verb. The sense 'an act of bluffing' was first used in the mid-19th century. Bluff, as an adjective meaning 'with a broad, flat front,' dates back to the early 17th century. It has been used figuratively, to describe a person's gruff, direct manner, since it came into English from the Dutch blaf (flat or broad), used commonly by sailors, and is unrelated to the prior senses. The noun, meaning 'a broad, vertical cliff' or 'a high bank,' dates back to the late 17th century, and comes from the adjective. Learn more about bluff in our forums Bluff in other languages Intermediate+ Word of the Day: cross Intermediate+ Word of the Day: ram Intermediate+ Word of the Day: clasp
East Central softball softball takes two from Pearl River By FROM PRCC, DECATUR — The Pearl River softball team found its power stroke in the nightcap of Tuesday's doubleheader at No. 12 East Central but was unable to pull the upset, falling 14-5 in five innings in Game 1 and then 10-5 in Game 2. "Tonight just came down to the fact they had some better hits than we did. We hit the ball, we just came up short," Pearl River coach Leigh White said. "What happened today was we just didn't make some plays on defense that we have been making. We just have to clean that up. "We know what we have to do moving forward." Game 1: ECCC 14, PRCC 5 (5 inn.) Pearl River (21-18 overall, 11-13 MACJC) opened the scoring in the first in an RBI single from Elizabeth Taggard (Picayune) that scored Hannah Rasberry (Lucedale; George County). After ECCC (27-11, 20-6) scored five runs in the first two innings PRCC got back on the scoreboard with an RBI double from Taggard that plated Brooke Fagan (Kiln; Hancock). PRCC pulled within two, 5-3, in the fourth on an RBI single from Rasberry that scored Alyssa Pinero (Picayune). Taggard doubled in two more runs later in the inning to tie the game 5-5. The Warriors responded with five runs in the bottom of the fourth to retake the lead 10-5. East Central ended the game in the fifth with a four-run frame. Taggard had a strong showing at the plate for Pearl River, going 3-for-3 with four RBIs and two doubles. Rasberry was the other PRCC hitter with multiple hits, singling twice to go 2-for-3. Grace Stringer (Moselle; South Jones) started the game in the circle, while Dallas Blaker (Bay St. Louis; Our Lady Academy) pitched the final 4 1/3 innings. Game 2: ECCC 10, PRCC 5 Mary Grace Turner (Leakesville; Greene County) started Game 2 off with a jolt, blasting her 13thhome run of the season to give Pearl River an early 2-0 lead. ECCC tied the game up in the second with its own two-run homer. Keeping with the early trend in Game 2, Fagan put the Lady Wildcats back ahead in the third with a two-run homer. The Warriors responded once again in the bottom of the third, plating two runs on a homer and an error. ECCC pushed ahead 7-4 in the fourth courtesy of a sacrifice fly and two-run homer. Taggard got in on the home runs in the fifth, belting a solo shot to pull PRCC within two, 7-5. "Their presence in the box is always evident. They get in there to hit the ball and they're hard outs," White said of Turner, Fagan and Taggard. ECCC broke the game open in the sixth with three runs and PRCC never mustered a final rally. Taggard was PRCC's only batter with multiple hits in Game 2, leading the offense with a 3-for-4 effort. Both Turner and Fagan drove in two runs. Gracie Barnett (Vancleave) started the game for Pearl River. Krista Robles (Destrehan, La.) and Rylee Swilley (Kiln; Hancock) also pitched for the Lady Wildcats. PRCC has two more home series before the end of the regular season. The Lady Wildcats will host Delta at 2 p.m. Friday for Sophomore Day before welcoming Coahoma at 2 p.m. Sunday.
HomeNews'Political Literacy In Youth Key To Better Voter Turn Out' 'Political Literacy In Youth Key To Better Voter Turn Out' The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) which served the recently held Mberengwa and Nyanga council by-elections say youths need to be politically literate for them to be highly motivated to take part know the elections and the voting processes. The election watchdog's report from the weekend's elections indicated that there was a low youth turn out which could be a worrying trend as the country gears up for the 2023 elections. "The participation of youths in the by-elections was noticeably low. There is a need for greater political literacy amongst the youth for them to make use of political and electoral rights afforded them by the Constitution. "This would translate into improved turnout for Local Authority by-elections which in comparison with national assembly by-elections are regarded as less important," ZESN said in its report. Both wards recorded a turnout above 50% with the highest turnout being of Mberengwa Ward 15 which recorded a turnout of 58.24% and Nyanga Ward 27 53.2%, which was relatively high as compared to turnout in the previous by-elections such as Bulilima RDC Wards 1 and 16 which recorded 50.8% and 50.3% respectively. Further, in Chitungwiza Ward 7, Mutare Ward 14 and 16, Rusape Ward 5, Pfura Ward 40, Kariba Ward 3, 4 and 8 local authority by-elections, none of the Wards recorded a turnout above 50%. ALSO ON 263Chat: "CCC Committing Political Suicide' ZESN said there is a need for ZEC and CSOs to provide continuous civic and voter education focusing on polling requirements to reduce instances of turned away and redirected voters. It further stated that there is a need for voters to make use of the voters' rolls displayed outside polling stations to enable them to identify the polling stations where they are supposed to cast their vote to reduce instances of being turned away or redirected to other polling stations. High Court Stops Arbitrary Eviction Of Hwange Villagers The Serial Hit-Maker Offers Us David and Goliath ANALYSIS: Policy issues hampering Zim business climate Harare School Expels Eight Pupils Over Drug Abuse
China has a foreign fighters problem. Like many other states, it is dealing with the complex security and legal implications of its residents leaving the country to join jihadist groups. In Beijing's case, the problem is not limited to Chinese nationals who have joined jihadist organizations in Syria. Some combatants are indeed ethnic Uyghurs of Chinese nationality and a few Han Chinese. But other combatants are ethnic Uyghurs who have never been citizens of the People's Republic but could, in a worst-case scenario, target Chinese interests to retaliate against China's Xinjiang policies or to promote independence for the northwestern province. In addition, non-Uyghur foreign fighters can become sensitive to the cause of Islam in China: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made this clear in his speech announcing the creation of the Islamic State's Caliphate, in which he pointed to China as a country where "Muslim rights are forcibly seized." China's foreign fighters problem thus encompasses risks to the country's domestic security but also to its overseas interests, and highlights the interplay between internal and external risk management. The Syrian war is a central element of China's foreign fighters problem because of the presence of the Turkestan Islamic Party, a Uyghur jihadist organization with a foothold in Idlib province near the border with Turkey, on Syrian soil. Some fighters have traveled to Syria through Afghanistan. However, as strict border controls have made emigration through China's borders with Greater Central Asia extremely difficult, a migration route has developed from China to Syria through Southeast Asia and Turkey. This has put police cooperation and extradition issues high on the agenda in China's relations with Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Turkey. The existence of the migration route was tragically illustrated by the August 2015 attack on the Erawan shrine in Bangkok. Court proceedings are still unfolding, but some of the principal suspects are from Xinjiang. For this reason, China's main response has been to seek deepened cooperation with states that can provide intelligence and law-enforcement assistance, especially those located on the emigration routes between Xinjiang and Syria. The push to structure China's international law-enforcement cooperation has been going on for some time. But now, it takes place in the extraordinary context of the massive internment campaign of Xinjiang's Muslim population, which is increasingly receiving international attention. This context does not serve China's plan to deepen law-enforcement cooperation with key states. In fact, countries other than Russia and the Central Asian states appear likely to continue to refuse to endorse China's "three evils" terminology, which seeks to put terrorism, extremism, and separatism in the same basket to justify various policies including the approach to Xinjiang. Such opposition will likely weaken China's international law-enforcement cooperation. In this way, the interplay between domestic and international counter-terrorism is playing out both inside and outside China — actions taken by China domestically affect the international security environment for Chinese nationals, as well as the international community's willingness to accept China's terms for cooperation. China's need for international partners could lead to some rethinking in Beijing regarding the international consequences of massive internment in Xinjiang, especially if the country suffers additional setbacks on law-enforcement cooperation or if overseas risks continue to rise. Who Are the Chinese Foreign Fighters in Syria? The war in Afghanistan revealed to a broader public the presence of Uyghur individuals in Afghanistan and in Pakistan's tribal areas, especially when the United States jailed 22 in the Guantanamo detention camp. Many died in U.S. and Pakistani operations, including the leader of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (a predecessor of the Turkestan Islamic Party), Hasan Mahsum, who was killed in 2003. The Uyghurs' presence led China to increase security cooperation with Afghanistan and Pakistan, which included paying more attention to border security and exercising caution about investing in the two countries. But the Syrian War and the emergence of Islamic State gave a global dimension to a problem once confined to the Afghan-Pakistan border. The links between the Af-Pak and Syrian theaters are illustrated by the biography of Abu Omar al-Turkistani, a senior Turkestan Islamic Party figure and jihadist born in Xinjiang who fought the Tora Bora battle against U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan before spending a decade in jail in Pakistan. He then returned to Afghanistan, joined a group linked to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and al-Qaeda, and moved to Syria where he fought in Aleppo and Latakia before he was killed in a U.S. drone strike in January 2017. Most Chinese foreign fighters have joined the al-Qaeda network, because of historic ties developed in Afghanistan and Pakistan between the East Turkestan Islamic Movement/Turkestan Islamic Party and Osama bin Laden's organization. According to interviews I've conducted in Beijing, Uyghurs affiliated with al-Qaeda's network are said to be in the thousands, but this includes their wives and children. An independent media resource, The Levant, estimates 2000 to 2500 Uyghurs fighting under the al-Nusra Front. Numbers are lower for the Islamic State. Chinese media usually cites a figure of 300 Uyghurs affiliated with the Islamic State, while a leaked internal list of Islamic State fighters included 200. Other sources have numbers as low as about 100. Overall, they represent a tiny minority of the 40,000 foreigners from more than 100 countries who have fought for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. In addition, some of the Uyghurs fighting in Syria are Turkish or Central Asian, and there are a few Han Chinese as well. The Malhama Tactical Group, a for-profit jihad mercenaries organization known to have sold services to al-Qaeda groups in Syria, has advertised planned expansion in Xinjiang and China and claims to have recruited and trained Uyghur and Han fighters from China. The group's nucleus is composed of fighters from Central Asia and the Caucasus, suggesting the foreign fighters problem goes beyond radicalized Uyghur individuals. Indeed, the Kyrgyz government accuses an Uzbek-dominated group (Katibat al Tawhid wal Jihad) of ordering the 2016 attack against the Chinese Embassy in Bishkek. While the investigation has not resolved all questions, the case points to shared agendas and solidarity between different organizations affiliated with the al-Qaeda network. Altogether on balance, China's problem with foreign fighters can be characterized as Lieutenant General Qin Tian, vice-commander of the People's Armed Police Force, described it: multicentered (多中心) and dispersed (分散化). The core of the issue is radicalized overseas Uyghurs who have fought in Afghanistan and Syria — some of them originally from China but not all — but the problem has expanded to non-Uyghurs. Although China passed a counter-terrorism law in 2015 that authorizes the Central Military Commission to send the People's Liberation Army on counter-terror missions abroad, international law-enforcement cooperation remains the most cost-effective way for China to deal with foreign fighters. Access to intelligence and information-sharing regarding specific individuals is essential for China, but also challenging given China's hard-line three evils concept, which most states do not endorse. The deteriorating security situation in Xinjiang and the increase of risks to Chinese nationals overseas have led China to expand the scope of its international law-enforcement cooperation (Xi Jinping's anti-corruption policy, and in particular the Fox Hunt operation to track international fugitives have also played a role). International law-enforcement cooperation is an essential building block of the global counter-terrorism architecture. U.N. member states are bound by Security Council Resolution 1373 to "ensure that any person who participates in the financing, planning, preparation or perpetration of terrorist acts or in supporting terrorist acts is brought to justice." Extraditions and transfers of suspects are the "front line" of that cooperation and mostly take place through bilateral treaties, as international law does not impose an obligation on states to extradite. When signing extradition treaties, states agree on the principles and the offenses, but a political decision to extradite a criminal can be made without a treaty. Conversely, states can always find justifications to exercise discretion, and cases can easily become political. China has more efficient tools than extradition treaties to pursue law-enforcement cooperation on counter-terrorism. It has signed 10 treaties on the transfer of sentenced persons (移管被判刑人条约), to obtain the repatriation of Chinese citizens condemned for crimes committed overseas, including with Russia, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Iran, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Mongolia. The "gold standard" of international acceptance of China's counter-terrorism terminology is the "Cooperation agreements on fighting terrorism, separatism and extremism" (关于打击恐怖主义、分裂主义、极端主义的合作协定) that China signed with Russia, Pakistan, and the five Central Asian Republics between 2002 and 2010. But if greater Central Asia has emerged as a somewhat reliable partner, this is not the case with countries on the new migration route. The above table illustrates some of the challenges China has faced in developing such institutional cooperation with states on the new emigration route from Southeast Asia to Syria via Turkey: the relatively late signature of a treaty with Turkey despite early attempts, the length it took Indonesia to ratify the agreement, and the absence of an extradition treaty with Malaysia. China has considerably strengthened border security with its Central Asian neighbors, thanks to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, its own investment in infrared cameras and facial recognition, joint patrols with the Afghan National Army on the Wakhan Corridor, and the development of the Quadrilateral Cooperation and Coordination Mechanism with Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan. As a result, around 2014, a new emigration route through Yunnan's more porous borders with Southeast Asia became the rational choice for Uyghurs seeking to flee China. Since then, Malaysia and Indonesia have arrested Uyghur individuals who joined cells of Mujahidin Indonesia Timur and the Islamic State. Some of the individuals arrested were carrying Turkish passports. The emergence of the Southeast Asian emigration route has prompted China to seek a multilateral extradition treaty with ASEAN, among other measures. Chinese analysts generally recommend that the state focus on completing the legal framework for justice and law-enforcement cooperation with Southeast Asia, especially extradition agreements; creating a joint digital database of potential jihadists; increasing exchanges and joint training programs for law enforcement officers; and agreeing on a common road map tackling returnees, the financing of terrorism, and controls over flow of information on the internet. Indeed, law-enforcement cooperation is not proceeding as smoothly as China would hope. My interviews with Chinese experts have revealed complaints that Thailand rejects Chinese demands to deport Uyghurs serving jail terms in the country, despite the longtime existence of an extradition treaty. This comes after Thailand returned 100 Uyghurs accused of illegal immigration in 2015, leading to strong criticism among rights groups. China is also encountering resistance from Indonesia and Malaysia. In 2016, Indonesia rejected a Chinese offer for a four-for-one exchange of prisoners. China agreed to extradite the Indonesian fugitive without obtaining the transfer of four Uyghur prisoners serving terrorism-related sentences in Indonesia, though there is speculation that China gained access to better intelligence cooperation on Uyghur activity in return. Law-enforcement cooperation with Malaysia enabled China to repatriate more than 100 Chinese nationals between 2014 and 2016 without an extradition treaty. In early 2017, Malaysia's deputy prime minister said his country had deported 28 Uyghur militants to China since 2013, not on the basis of an extradition treaty but on an intelligence-sharing agreement. But in 2018, he said Malaysia was under "great pressure" to extradite 11 Uyghurs who had broken free from a Thai prison and entered the country illegally to China and not to Thailand. Malaysia resisted the pressure. The prosecutors dropped the charges and the group was sent to Turkey. These developments highlight Southeast Asian states' reluctance to fully accept Chinese terms of cooperation, and the balancing act they engage in between necessary law-enforcement cooperation with China and their own domestic considerations. This delicate balance is characterized by a refusal to fully cooperate and a choice to turn a blind eye on China's treatment of its Muslim minorities. Seen from Southeast Asia's perspective, this long-term game is the future of non-interference. These countries may suspect that criticizing China for its Xinjiang policy could lead to a more aggressive Chinese approach on extradition issues (the Ministry of Public Security has a recent record of kidnapping individuals critical of President Xi Jinping, such as Swedish citizen Gui Minhai, disappeared in Thailand in October 2015) and on problematic regions, such as Aceh in Indonesia. Turkey is the pivotal country on the migration route from Xinjiag to Southeast Asia to Syria. Since Xinjiang was incorporated into the People's Republic of China, Turkey has facilitated Uyghur immigration, taking refugees from Xinjiang out of solidarity with ethnic Turkish people abroad. To what extent Turkey under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has facilitated a Uyghur presence in the neighboring Idlib region of Syria as part of its support for anti-Assad forces is not well documented in open-source material, but many Chinese experts assume that Uyghur fighters have acted as a Turkish proxy in the conflict. Today, the situation is more complex , given Turkey's new strategic positioning between the United States and China. In recent years, Xinjiang has caused intense tensions in China-Turkey relations. During the 1990s, Erdogan — then the mayor of Istanbul — was a staunch supporter of Uyghur identity as part of his support for the pan-Turkism ideology. After the 2009 riots in Xinjiang, Erdogan accused China of committing "genocide" against the Uyghur population there. Anti-China protests erupted in Turkey in July 2015 after Thailand deported 100 Uyghurs, to which the Turkish government responded with a statement expressing "deep concerns" regarding new restrictions on religious freedom in Xinjiang. Geopolitics play to China's advantage. In part because of the July 2016 failed coup against Erdogan, Turkey has come to see relations with China as a way to rebalance its foreign policy away from the West. Turkey's trade war with the United States is also opening space for China and Turkey to deepen their trade, investment, and financial relations. Ideological opposition to the liberal democratic model also plays a role. However, these shifts have been insufficient to cement trust between the two governments on the issue of the Uyghurs. Three years after the protests, Turkey is clearly seeking to minimize disagreements on Xinjiang to avoid disrupting the "strategic partnership" with China. So far, the government has remained silent on the transformation through education camps in Xinjiang. But the issue remains a "barometer" (晴雨表) for China-Turkey relations. On the one hand, neutrality will never be an option for the Turkish government given the depth of Turkey's cultural links with Xinjiang. On the other hand, Turkey seeks to balance geopolitics and economic interests with its traditional support for pan-Turkism, according to a journal article by scholar Wang Yan, in an article not available online. Turkey has the East Turkestan Islamic Movement on its list of terrorist organizations and signed an extradition treaty in 2017, which still needs to be ratified (though there is no sign that ratification will be problematic). But there are still worries in Beijing that Turkey might continue to play a double game with Syria's Uyghurs, and there is of course solidarity in Turkish society with the Uyghur cause. China's distrust is directly linked to the question of Turkish passports. In 2015, China accused Turkish diplomats in Shanghai and Kuala Lumpur of issuing passports to Uyghurs, helping them to join the war in Syria "under the guise of rescuing them" (营救) while the real aim was to get "cannon fodder" (炮灰) in the words of the People's Daily. 250 blank Turkish passports were found at the home of a suspect in the Erawan shrine bomb attack. In general, Turkish consular officers are said to be flexible and open about issuing documentation to the ethnic Uyghurs who manage to reach the door of Turkish missions overseas. According to my interviews with Chinese officials and experts, despite the ongoing improvement in bilateral ties, there is still doubt in China that Turkey has completely ceased its accommodating and often political practices with regards to passports. Notably, another key actor shares this skepticism: Overseas Uyghurs who deplore the rise of extremism in their communities abroad also accuse Turkey of accommodating Islamist Uyghurs to use them as proxies in Syria. In addition to this lingering mistrust, there is an open question about the future of Turkey's policy vis-à-vis Uyghur foreign fighters, especially after Syrian forces take over Idlib, where most Uyghur fighters are still located. The ongoing collapse of the so-called caliphate and the defeat of other jihadist organizations will force these fighters to decide about their future, and their choice will be shaped by Turkey's calculations. Will a continuous presence of Uyghur fighters in Syria serve Turkish goals? Will Erdogan offer them safe haven for their contribution to the war once the conflict ends, allow them safe passage to other countries, or abandon them altogether? The answer to these questions will be the real test for China-Turkey relations. Foreign fighters are an extreme incarnation of a larger problem: the radicalization of disenfranchised Chinese citizens, the appeal of jihadist ideology, the presence of recruiting networks, and the high tensions in Xinjiang. The end of the Syrian war will disperse the surviving fighters. This is an objective threat that will require international cooperation, but the risk to China's overseas interests may be larger. How can China avoid the radicalization of Muslim individuals against it, particularly given the massive internment in Xinjiang? This is a bigger foreign and security challenge for Beijing than preventing attacks from foreign fighters. The interplay between domestic and international risks to Chinese security interests is not simply about jihad ideology penetrating Chinese borders. The terrorist risk posed by Chinese nationals acting as foreign fighters overseas could, for instance, threaten the ability of the Belt and Road Initiative — Xi's signature foreign policy project — to promote a new wave of globalization of Chinese firms and increase China's global influence. How would China react if a major Belt and Road project was hit by a large-scale terror attack? A military operation is a possibility thanks to the 2015 legislation, but China counts more on law-enforcement cooperation, especially at the bilateral level, to prevent such a scenario. Despite the overall progress of China's recent drive to structure its international law-enforcement cooperation, China's policy in Xinjiang may make states more reluctant to cooperate on China's terms, particularly as the region gets more international attention. In its effort to deepen law-enforcement cooperation, China's main weakness remains the mismatch between its draconian "three evils" terminology and most other states' more restrictive approach to terrorism. This clearly creates distrust in China's relations with liberal democracies, but it also restricts what China can achieve in relations with Turkey, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Can this international environment exert a moderating influence on China's Xinjiang policy? China's recent decision to allow 2,000 Kazakhs to renounce their Chinese citizenship is a small step in that direction. China's need for international partners to address risks overseas could lead to an assessment in Beijing that the repressive policies in Xinjiang should be eased — not as a concession to human rights norms that the Chinese government rejects, but as a matter of security interests. Dr. Mathieu Duchâtel is director of the Asia program at Institut Montaigne. He previously worked for the European Council on Foreign Relations and as a representative of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in Beijing.
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Join a panel of thought leaders and professionals assembled by The Knowledge Group as they bring the audience to a road beyond the basics of appellate litigation. The speakers will provide an in-depth discussion of successfully advancing cases through the higher and appellate courts, in light of the recent appellate law developments and trends. They will also offer best strategies and practical tips in developing and presenting persuasive brief and effective oral argument. One area of particular interest concerns the various doctrines of judicial deference to administrative agency interpretations of governing statutes and regulations. Knowing how to apply these doctrines – which often control the relevant standards of review on appeal – and how they might be challenged under recent lines of thought can greatly assist the appellate practitioner involved in such a case, either in a federal or state appellate court. Strategies for effective brief writing, including the use of plain language and the relevant standards of review (which are often cited and then ignored). Since its landmark decisions in Heller and McDonald, the Supreme Court has denied review in hundreds of appeals raising important questions left unanswered in those two decisions. Why has the Court remained silent on issues involving the contours of the fundamental right of self-defense? Will Justice Kavanaugh's appointment to the Court have any impact on whether the Court agrees to hear a case raising those issues? What level of scrutiny applies to regulations that impact the right of self-defense as articulated in Heller? Does the right extend outside of the home and, if so, to what extend may government regulate that right? The Circuit Courts of Appeals have struggled with these questions, and subsidiary issues, for a decade.Sharp disagreements on some of these questions have arisen among Circuit Court judges.How might the Supreme Court resolve these issues? The # Me Too movement is likely to lead further evolution of the law governing Title IX claims for sexual violence and harassment against educational institutions. In order to maintain a claim for damages under Title IX's private right of action, the Plaintiff must prove the educational institution had "actual knowledge" of the sexual harassment, but responded with "deliberate indifference". The standard of proof for "actual knowledge" has been harassment of a single victim over a period of time, knowledge of the same perpetrator's harassment of different victims or another similarity that would alert the defendant to a substantial risk of sexual harassment or violence. The issues of what would constitute another similarity or a substantial risk may undergo further elaboration at the appellate level as victims seek to expand the scope of Title IX liability. Alleged perpetrators may also seek to expand the liability of educational institutions under Title IX for lack of due process protections in Title IX investigations and disciplinary proceedings. The issue that has been raised in several district courts is whether a "preponderance of the evidence" standard satisfies procedural due process requirements when the discipline may include expulsion from the educational institution or other adverse action that may have lasting effect. The definition of an educational institution that may have liability under Title IX may also undergo further review and expansion. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that a private teaching hospital that does not hold itself out as an educational institution may be considered an educational program under Title IX, exposing the hospital to liability for the sexual harassment of a radiology resident by the director of the residency program. Marc James Ayers is a partner in Bradley's Appellate Litigation Group, and represents individual, corporate and governmental clients before numerous state and federal appellate and trial courts across the country. Marc represents clients on petitions for writs of certiorari and amicus curiae briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court, and has presented oral argument in the Fourth, Eighth, Ninth and D.C. Circuits, and in various state appellate courts in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, New York and Maryland. He has served as the Chair of the Alabama State Bar's Appellate Practice Section, and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® and Mid-South Super Lawyers in the field of Appellate Law. Marc is frequently invited to lecture on appellate practice, and is the author of several articles on that subject and others. He earned his J.D. from the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University and earned a B.A. from Florida State University. Peter demystifies the appeals process. A creative advocate, he analyzes a case from every angle to help litigators position the case most effectively for appeal. Peter represents individuals, businesses, non-profit corporations, and public agencies in appellate courts and trial courts throughout California. He is one of only 135 attorneys admitted to the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers, and one of fewer than 300 attorneys certified as a specialist in appellate law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. Peter has been selected by his peers in California ten times as a Super Lawyer in appellate law. Most recently, Peter was selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2019 edition of Best Lawyers in America. Bradley is a national law firm with a global perspective. With offices in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and the District of Columbia, the firm's over 500 lawyers represent regional, national and international clients in various industries, including financial services, healthcare, life sciences, real estate, construction, technology, energy, insurance, and entertainment, among many others. Bradley attorneys combine legal experience and knowledge with a sophisticated understanding of industries to provide clients with practical, strategic solutions specifically tailored to their business operations. Clients rely on Bradley for innovative solutions, dependable responsiveness and a deep commitment to success. RWG's appellate litigation team prosecutes and defends appeals in state and federal courts throughout California. Representing public agencies, and private clients across a broad array of industries, RWG provides practical advice and solutions to plaintiffs and defendants in trial and appellate courts.
The PGIMER B.Sc Nursing 2019 is a state level entrance test of Chandigarh. PGIMER stands for Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research. Closing date of online registration form In the month of July 2019. End date to generate challan form In the month of July 2019. Date of declaration of result In the month of August 2019. Commencement of counselling In the month of August 2019. The application forms for PGIMER B.Sc Nursing Exam 2019 will be released in the month of June 2019. Registration forms can be filled through online mode. The application process will continue till July 2019. Or click on the link given alongside pgimer.edu.in. Now click on the link 'Apply Online'. You are required to enter the necessary details in the application form. Pay the application fee and you are done. Mode of Payment Challan mode. The application fees can be paid in any branch of SBI. Application fees for General category Rs. 1,000/-. Application fees for SC or ST category Rs. 800/-. Application fees for PWD Not required to pay the application fees. They are exempted to pay the application fees. * Important concepts of chemistry. * Chemical reactions and bonding. * D and F Block compounds. * Important concepts in compounds. * Dual nature of matter. * Origin and evolution of life. * Reproduction in plants and animals. * Mendel's law of inheritance. * Cell structure and function. * Five kingdoms of classification. The PGIMER B.Sc Nursing Exam 2019 Results will be declared in the month of August 2019. The result will be put on view on the notice board of Bhargava Auditorium. The candidate may also check their result on the National Institute of Nursing Education of PGIMER. A merit list will result. To qualify the exam candidate must score minimum 50% of the total for the general. For ST-SC & PWD it is 45% of the total. The qualified candidates must attend the counselling session. The candidates will be allotted seats in counselling round. The counselling round will be held in the month of August. The candidates are suggested to carry all their documents in the counselling round.

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