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As of noon yesterday – the first day of school – everything was running smoothly, reported Superintendent Richard D'Agostino.
D'Agostino joined Mayor Scott Avedisian shortly after 7 a.m. to greet freshmen as they arrived at Veterans Memorial High School. The rest of the classes return today. After Vets, D'Agostino looked in at other schools.
"The schools are in beautiful condition," he said, praising the efforts of custodial staff and fire code improvements completed during the summer.
D'Agostino believes Warwick is ahead of most other districts in the state in meeting stricter fire code regulations following The Station Nightclub fire more than 11 years ago. He said the district has completed its three-year fire code improvement plan, with the exception of some work to be done at the Drum Rock Early Childhood Center and Greene School, which is being used for administrative offices. He said code improvements at Gorton and Aldrich Junior High Schools, which were recommended for closure due to declining enrollment, "are in limbo at this point."
The district's response to declining enrollment is likewise in limbo (consultants are to examine the issue this year), but the administration has moved ahead with all-day kindergarten at five elementary schools. Parents, teachers and the mayor enthusiastically greeted that development. The verdict was still out on students' feelings.
D'Agostino said the prospect of all-day kindergarten at as many as eight schools surfaced in March, when kindergarten enrollment projections totaled 343, a decline of 153 from enrollment in the last academic year.
"It looked to be feasible to combine both morning and afternoon classes," he said.
As registrations continued, three of the schools that had been under consideration saw kindergarten enrollments exceed 30, making it impossible for an all-day K. Under the teachers contract, class enrollment is not to exceed 23 students.
D'Agostino credited the union with agreeing to increase that number to 25, thereby assuring all-day K at Warwick Neck, Oakland Beach, John Brown Francis, Robertson and Scott Schools.
The Warwick Neck kindergarten numbers 24. That's more students than teacher Elizabeth Morrissette is accustomed to, but she's excited by what all-day can do.
"Half a day is such a short time. They're here and they're gone," she said yesterday.
She said the added time with students would allow for her to cover the curriculum while giving the students time to socialize and make choices for selecting activities.
"It will give them a big block to socialize…they need that. They need to play and have fun," she said.
Parent Karen DeLuca saw no drawbacks to a longer day.
"She's so eager to learn," she said of her daughter, Catherine, "All she wants to do is to learn to read."
All-day K brought nods of approval from all the parents, although some were still finding it difficult to leave their children. And a few children, often the case on the first day, didn't want to be left.
D'Agostino couldn't say whether additional schools might join the roster of all-day K come next year. Although projects show enrollments continuing to drop, he could not say how many parents might transfer their children from day care or private schools. He noted that generally schools see a "bump" in enrollment in first grade as that is a full-day class.
Regardless of how many more all-day kindergartens they initiate, D'Agostino called the existing classes a "win-win" for parents, students and teachers.
Avedisian saw it as a positive, too. He said schools "are moving in the right direction."
"Hopefully," he said of the School Committee, "they'll talk about the next step and how they can expand."
The mayor said all-day K is a benefit to working parents as well.
"We have great day care centers." Nonetheless, he said, "All-day K is where we want to be."
Mr. D'Agostino's comments that "the schools are in beautiful condition" speaks to how totally detached and out of touch that he is. I would recommend an immediate urinalysis to confirm either his use of hallucinogenic drugs or that he in fact is simply wagging the tail of the dog named Scott. Make no mistake, the schools are in deplorable condition. Compare these 50 year old schools and whatever upgrades that have taken place, with our neighbors in CT and MA. They are laughable at best. To make the statement that they are all up to fire code is an outright lie. Which speaks to the fact as why a letter was sent out by the Winman principal earlier this summer asking why so many parents have decided to remove their children from the Warwick crap hole schools and send them to private schools. The answer is obvious. As an example, the Assabet Valley Regional High School in Marlborough just performed a 58 million dollar renovation for HVAC, electrical and mechanical alone. The town school teaches curriculum in plumbing, auto mechanics, electrical, welding, cosmetology, hair dressing, auto body, computer science, drafting, HVAC, and marine mechanics. What does Warwick offer those kids who cant go to a matriculating college?
Keep up the propaganda to support Scott, even at the cost of our children's safety, education, and future?
One thing that I have always felt is that good teaching can be done in a less than adequate environment; and Warwick has an excellent teaching and support staff. That being said, all that fenceman says about the superintendent is true, and it is a shame that many more don't come forward and express their discontent - which I hear constantly. He just doesn't care and remains unable to face issues head on. He won't even answer emails or phone calls that may cause him to become "involved" leaving others to take the "heat".
"The schools are in beautiful condition," he said, praising the efforts of custodial staff and fire code improvements completed during the summer.
he hopes to last at least until he gets his pension.


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Bright stylish showroom concept
The importer of Škoda cars in Finland, Helkama Auto Oy, has started to renew their Škoda-retailers´ showrooms with a new concept. Their aim is to offer all customers a high-end and homogeneous experience of the Škoda-service.
This first new Škoda-showroom in Finland, Autokeskus Oy Airport, was opened in June 2014. About ten more showrooms have been renewed with the new concept and more is to come.
The new look
New entrances, similar furniture and lighting will be the common denominator at the new showroom concept. Fagerhult started to work with providing the right conceptual lighting in the spring of 2014.
The mission was to create an elegant and energy efficient accent lighting to the showroom in order to highlight the new Škoda car arrivals.
General light
White Zone Evo 4000 K spotlights were chosen for the project. These luminaires are equipped with the latest LED-technology and their stylish conical design make them flexible and gives a pleasant appearance. Zone Evo has also an effective, segmented MIRO-reflector, which gives an excellent visual performance.
A Highlight Wall and special made solutions
Another task was to illuminate a special "Highlight wall" that functions as an eye-catcher in the showroom.
Zone Evo spotlights were chosen to illuminate this wall with two different colour temperatures. Spotlights with 4000 K are illuminating the car in front of the wall and the wall itself is illuminated with Zone Evo 5000 K spotlights, which Fagerhult Retail developed specifically for this project.
When the spotlights were installed, Fagerhult also took care of that every single spotlight was focused on the cars according to plan. 3-phase lightning tracks were also delivered.
As an end result Škoda cars are now seen in a bright, stylish and highlighting light from Fagerhult.

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Rand Paul has come out against the belief in the Trinity! See his quote below. This is a PERFECT example of the religion I have coined as "The Cult of Christ". Its this warm and fuzzy hippy jesus that is removed from the trinity. Cuz if he were part of the trinity, which makes him GOD (in 3 persons) then the OT is a Resume of a War Mongering God that pined for slaughter.
So ole Rand has basically came out and said (without saying) that he is having none of this Trinity Nonsense!
Making the case against excessive American engagement overseas, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) reminded social conservatives Thursday that Jesus was anti-war.
"I can recall no utterance of Jesus in favor of war or any acts of aggression," Paul said at a kickoff luncheon for the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference. "In fact, his message to his disciples was one of non-resistance."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/rand-paul-jesus-anti-war-9273...
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A trinitarian god could conceivably use different persons for different facets of his personality. Or even repent of his previous ways... and evolve? A lot is possible in fiction.
(I read Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy recently, and the god character makes a memorable appearance in the third book. He's nowhere near as unchanging as portrayed in our world's scriptures and liturgies!)
Anyway, the article also highlights Rand Paul's anti-choice beliefs, valuing zygotes and embryos -- potential children -- above actual living breathing people:
The senator also highlighted his anti-abortion bona fides, noting that he authored a bill saying that life begins at conception and urged his church to get more active on this issue as a child.
"As Christians, we know we must always stand with the most defenseless," he said. "I believe that no civilization can long endure that does not respect life from those not yet born to life's last breath."
My posts are generally dripping with Sarcasm! I am a Marxist....Groucho Marxist!!!
I was poking fun at the UBER Fundie Paul and mocking his belief in the trinity, but somehow saying that JC..who WAS there all along...was not a war monger. Guess JC was looking the other way when part 2 and 3 of the trinity were slaughtering their way to the promised land.
Rand Paul is a fool. I cant believe anyone is taking that guy serious, honestly. He is ripe for lampooning. He IS simply an evolved Sarah Palin/Michelle Bachmann. The only difference is he can put a thought and sentence together. He is just as nutty...and this Anti War Jesus POV of his is proof.
He's been playing in the Guano!
"... an evolved Sarah Palin/Michelle Bachmann"?!? Bro, that is as dastardly a slur at evolution as I've ever heard! Wash your mouth out with SOAP!!! [chuckle!]
And as for being a Groucho Marxist ... "Say da secret woid, the duck comes down, ya win a hundred dallahs! The secret woid is a common household item, found in any home!"
I hearby offer a humble apology to Evolution. I did not mean to offend evolution or natural selection by comparing it to Bachman / Palin.
It's merely further proof that evolution was/is not "guided" towards the ultimate goal of producing Homo sapiens sapiens!
"I can recall no utterance of Jesus in favor of war or any acts of aggression," Paul said at a kickoff luncheon for the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference. "In fact, his message to his disciples was one of non-resistance."
I can recall one from Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Good call Dr Allan! I was so caught up with the trinity nonsense that I forgot to mention that gem of NON RESISTANCE (coughs as he types).
Lets forget about the NON resistant act of overturning the money changer tables...which got his ass nailed to a tree.
Flipping Tables, Bringing Swords and Setting Sons against fathers, daughters against moms...what a swell guy!
There have been many anti-Trinitarians, including of course, the Unitarians. There is little justification in scripture for the concept, the main one being the so-called Comma Johanneum (1 John 5:7), and that verse is considered a corruption by most modern scholars. There is a long and complex history of this verse as a corruption—it does not occur in the earliest Greek manuscripts—and the most common theory is that it was inserted to provide evidence for the Trinity.
Incidentally Isaac Newton wrote about this—An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture—but did not publish his comments in his lifetime since disbelief in the Trinity was a crime in his day.
The concept of the Trinity is not easily explained without falling into one of the many possible heresies surrounding it. (There are at least a dozen possible heresies and some are subtle.) I would bet that a majority of Christians are Trinitarian heretics.
Yes, yes, yes. This is what I keep saying and no one listens. These so called "Christians" band together to oppose progress (what I choose to call liberals--progressives) and think they all believe exactly the same thing. This is nowhere near the truth which Rand Paul (a bipolar/narcissist) so clearly points out. They voted for Romney because he is a "good Christian boy." Not. Catholics are "good Christian boys" although they don't make a place in Heaven for the Rand Pauls of the world. (Well, maybe the new pope is going to let a few heathens in.) And of course Catholics are definitely "the boys," no girls allowed. If it was not so destructive to the welfare of all mankind it would be Groucho Marxism.
he's anti choice no? or.. did that die too?
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The Web is a primary channel for interacting with customers and driving customer loyalty. To engage today's consumers—as both customers and potential brand representatives—organizations must deliver a highly relevant and interactive online experience that is personalized to visitors' needs and interests, and provides the platform and tools visitors need to become advocates for the organization's products and services. Web Experience Management (WEM) solutions are the critical set of capabilities required to address these needs.
What Is Web Experience Management?
Web content management (WCM) tools are used to manage, edit, and publish Web content, and these tools are also the foundation for WEM. However, WEM goes well beyond these capabilities, providing solutions to manage the entire experience customers have online with targeted content and campaigns; rich media; analytics around Web content; and social computing capabilities that enable site visitors to interact with one another and with the organization. It provides marketing and line-of-business staff with capabilities they can use in their daily jobs to effectively and efficiently manage Web-based communications and campaigns.
WEM enables organizations to take full advantage of the Web as a primary communications channel and a primary business channel for driving sales, customer loyalty, and business efficiencies, through empowering them to:
Conceptualize: Creative collaboration is essential to creating compelling Web campaigns and content that will keep site visitors coming back. With the right tools, organizations can enable team members from across the company and the globe to collaborate and share content in a team-based online space. With easy-to-use tools such as wikis and blogs, and powerful capabilities for managing digital assets, teams can improve their productivity and content reuse in support of the Web. Content from collaborative spaces must be easily accessible by the WCM system when it is final, for use on the organization's Websites.
Author: Robust WCM tools make it easy for marketers and business users to effectively and efficiently manage their content and campaigns online, so they can provide site visitors with a fresh and interesting experience on the site. These tools shouldmake marketers' jobs as easy and efficient as possible by offering the ability to manage multiple sites in multiple languages and by easily accessing and using a high volume of content assets.
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Target: Customizing content for specific audience segments is essential to engaging, converting, and retaining today's consumers. Business users should be able to create user segments that are identified either explicitly (via login or self-identification) or implicitly (via the user's online behavior and navigation). Simple interfaces then should allow them to quickly set up rules to define what recommendations or promotions will be delivered to each customer segment online.
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Analyze: Feedback is essential to optimizing any online campaign or communication. To support sites with dynamic or targeted content, WCM systems must deliver tracking and reporting on individual assets, promotions, and visitor segments. Marketers then can optimize content and campaigns to maximize site visits and drive customer engagement and loyalty.
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The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) affords eligible students certain rights with respect to their education records. (An "eligible student" under FERPA is a student who is 18 years of age or older, or who attends a postsecondary institution. At Trine, "attendance" begins on the first day of the term in which a student is enrolled.) These rights include:
- The right to provide written consent before the University discloses personally identifiable information (PII) from the student's education records, except to the extent that FERPA authorizes disclosure without consent. In general, the University will not disclose PII from a student's education records to any third party without written consent. However, the University may disclose education records without a student's prior written consent under several FERPA exceptions including:
- The right to request the amendment of the student's education records that the student believes are inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise in violation of the student's privacy rights under FERPA. A student who wishes to ask the University to amend a record should write the University official responsible for the record, clearly identify the part of the record the student wants changed, and specify why it should be changed. If the University decides not to amend the record as requested, the University will notify the student in writing of the decision and the student's right to a hearing regarding the request for amendment. Additional information regarding the hearing procedures will be provided to the student when notified of the right to a hearing.
- The right to inspect and review the student's education records within 45 days after the day the University receives a request for access. A student should submit to the registrar, dean, head of the academic department, or other appropriate official, a written request that identifies the record(s) the student wishes to inspect. The University official will make arrangements for access and notify the student of the time and place where the records may be inspected. If the records are not maintained by the University official to whom the request was submitted, that official shall advise the student of the correct official to whom the request should be addressed.
- Disclosure to school officials with legitimate educational interests
- A school official is a person employed by the University in an administrative, supervisory, academic or research, or support staff position (including law enforcement unit personnel and health staff); a person or company with whom the University has contracted as its agent to provide a service instead of using University employees or officials (such as an attorney, auditor, or collection agent); a person serving on the Board of Trustees; or a student serving on an official committee, such as a disciplinary or grievance committee, or assisting another school official in performing his or her tasks.
- A school official has a legitimate educational interest if the official needs to review an education record in order to fulfill his or her professional responsibilities for the University.
- The student's application for financial aid
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- Information requested by other schools in which the student seeks or intends to enroll
- FERPA designates certain information related to a student as "Directory Information." FERPA gives the University the right to disclose such information to anyone inquiring without having to ask a student for permission, unless the student specifically requests in writing that all such information not be made public without written consent, except by the National Student Clearinghouse to loan guarantors. Trine University has designated the following as "student directory information: Name, local address and telephone number, permanent address, email address, date and place of birth, photograph or likeness, college, curriculum, enrollment status (full/part-time), classification, dates of attendance at Trine University, awards and academic honors, degrees and dates awarded, most recent previous educational institution attended, participation in officially recognized activities and athletic teams, and height and weight of student athletes.
- The right to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education concerning alleged failures by the University to comply with the requirements of FERPA.
The name and address of the Office that administers FERPA is:
Family Policy Compliance Office
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
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Cruising in Style on Crystal Serenityby Paul Motter, CruiseMates Editor | July 13, 2009
It's hardly your typical luxury line -- not that there's anything wrong with that.
It isn't often one can revise an old perception for the better, but we just left the Crystal flagship, Serenity, and that is exactly what I must do. My last cruise on Crystal was more than 10 years ago, and that has been my only frame of reference for far too long. Serenity changed my entire view of Crystal Cruises, and I am now convinced it is one of the best lines in the world.
Because its onboard style of operations are more consistent with those of a mainstream cruise line, early and late dinner seating with assigned tables, for example, it is easy to mistake Crystal for something more ordinary until you actually experience it. You are in for a surprise. Crystal is all luxury in everything that counts; accommodations, cuisine and service. And because of the quality of Crystal Serenity, I have even revised my personal definition of luxury cruising.
My old definition said specific amenities must be included in the cruise fare -- e.g. all alcoholic beverages and gratuities for room stewards, butler and waiters. It was also required that luxury ships be relatively small -- less than 35,000 tons and never more than a 500 passenger capacity. The final aspect of my definition included single-seating, open dining, not the traditional pre-assigned dining times and tables with two seatings per night.
|Celebrating the chefs
|Officers up on the bridge
That very specific set of standards applies to Silversea, Seabourn and Regent Seven Seas, each fully qualified as a luxury cruise lines. But I now realize that it is not the size or operational procedures of the ship that matter the most: It is the quality of the cruise that counts, regardless of what is included in the fare. Crystal breaks the mold for luxury cruising in a neat and unexpected manner; my recent cruise on Serenity proved that the most important aspects of luxury cruises are incredible service, extremely comfortable staterooms and perfectly prepared cuisine.
Cruising in Crystal Style Crystal Serenity is the larger of the two ships in the Crystal fleet. At 68,000-tons and a passenger capacity of 1,080, she is far bigger than average luxury cruise ships, which generally carry no more than 450 passengers. This gives it a passenger-to-space ratio of 62/1. If you look at Seabourn's luxury yacht, the Seabourn Legend -- 10,000-tons for 208 passengers -- the passenger-to-space ratio is a less generous 48/1. So even though Serenity is larger, it offers more space per passenger than some luxury ships. More importantly that size has its advantages.
Crystal Serenity has a state-of-the-art theater, a separate movie theater, two alternative dining venues, beautiful public rooms, all the kitchen facilities necessary to prepare the most sumptuous meals and deliver and serve them in your suite, and enough passengers to justify a full fitness center and complete spa services.
While giving a ship greater passenger capacity changes some normally expected aspects of luxury cruising, change is not necessarily a bad thing.
Both of Crystal's ships have just one main dining room, large enough to feed half of the ship in one seating. This means both ships adhere to a pre-set dining schedule, the traditional cruise ship dining schedule almost all cruise lines used for years. Ironically, the new trend in mainstream cruising is toward open seating and anytime dining, which had always been an exclusive hallmark of luxury cruise ships. Ironically, many people and especially experienced cruisers, still prefer tradional dining practices and Crystal will remains committed to pre-set dining times and assigned tables just as the concept is disappearing from the mainstream market.
There are reasons why many people enjoy the old style of cruise ship dining. One is the regular presence of the same waiters, who can anticipate your needs, offering your favorite dining flourishes before you ask for them. You get to know your waiter and busboy on Crystal, and more importantly, they get to know you. The same is true for your Maitre' D, headwaiter and sommellier.
Having more guests also means Crystal can provide better entertainment and enrichment, especially the onboard lecturers who add so much to every cruise. During our two-week cruise on Serenity we had so many lecturers I lost count -- everything from a former CIA spy's tales to a lecture on cycling through Iowa. Football buffs were delighted by four luminaries from the NFL, Coach Don Shula of the Miami Dolphins, referee Jim Tunney, NFL coach Marty Shottenheimer (San Diego Chargers) and former quarterback Earl Morrall -- all on our cruise.
|NFL Lecturers all together
|Extensive Daily Computer Education
|Piano Lessons twice each day
Crystal also excels in other aspects of onboard enrichment. The Crystal Cruises Creative Learning Institute offers continuing classes in a number of topics througout the cruise. On our trip, we had a bridge instructor for card players, lessons in Spanish using the Berlitz method and dance classes in all the classic forms (tango, rumba, waltz and more). Speaking of dance, the ship carried a number of Ambassador Hosts, who could be seen nightly in their bright blue tuxedos taxiing single ladies around the dance floor.
The Arts at Sea program provided budding artists with lessons in perspective and form -- paper and charcoal provided. There was a tennis instructor who stretched himself with ping pong lessons. Of course there is a golf instructor. Crystal has named TaylorMade as the official golf club of the cruise line; clubs are available for use at the driving nets on board and during classes and golf clinics. In addition, Crystal will rent clubs to guests who want to play golf at local courses ashore for only $30 per day.
Wine tasting is another popular Crystal pastime. Serenity's wine list boasts more than 200 selections, with an inventory of 20,000 bottles from every wine producing region in the world.
The most comprehensive programs are the computer classes and music lessons. Both Crystal ships have extensive computer learning centers with onboard instructors giving classes in everything from "introduction to personal computing" to "creating spreadsheets in Excel," "organizing your contacts with Outlook," and almost everything you ever need to know about using digital cameras and photo software.
The Passport to Music program is sponsored by Yamaha Corp. The instructor on our cruise was Debbie Skinner, a professional musician working for Yamaha who designed the original onboard program. The music lab provides 25 individual keyboards so each student can learn how to read music and play by ear. Classes are given twice daily and almost every day of the cruise. In the course of two weeks, there were several budding Mozarts onboard. Class titles include "Introduction to Reading Music," "Exploring Chords" and "Playing by Ear."
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Letter to the Editor: Watts
Winter Park Highlands
To the Editor:
In Ms. Muftic's otherwise considered article on the use of drones, two important points were ignored.
First is the disgusting hypocrisy from the president and the political left. They seem to think that water-boarding done to a handful of terrorist is a horrible thing while killing many (including bystanders) with drones is just fine.
Second, the fact that snatching the Muslim terrorist leadership and water-boarding them would yield tons of information about their plans, save lives and avoid some criticism from those who don't believe that we are at war.
The fact that the president has simply sanctioned a list of those to kill without recognizing the hypocrisy or the intelligence missed tells us volumes about the arrogant leadership we have.
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Devastating storms and lives lost, houses destroyed, sweltering heat waves, menacing bushfires, plunging winter temperatures, droughts, floods and even snowstorms in the desert: this is the reality of our weather – it's not a forecast. And it's going to get worse if we prolong our addiction to fossil fuels.
A new Greenpeace International report, Point of No Return, identifies 14 major coal, oil and gas projects that will add an extra 6.34 gigatonnes of global Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions annually by 2020. That's a 20% increase on current levels and more than the annual emissions from the US.
This comes on top of the record high CO2 in 2011, as we jointly pumped out 31.6 gigatonnes of the greenhouse gas responsible for global warming into the atmosphere, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Such a massive jump in CO2 emissions would set the world on a path of 5 to 6 degrees Celsius of warming, locking the planet into catastrophic climate change. To avoid the worst impacts of climate change the UN says we must keep the rise in global temperatures as far below the UN target of 2 degrees as possible.
The projects that are threatening our future range from massive coal expansion in Australia, China, the US and Indonesia, to oil expansion in the tar sands of Canada, the Arctic and Brazil to new gas production in the Caspian Sea and the US.
Companies such as Shell, BHP Billion, Arch Coal, Ambre, Peabody, Xstrata, Enbridge, Gazprom, Cairn Energy, Petrobras or BP are profiting from climate change.
There is an alternative, as American President Obama championed in his inauguration speech on Monday:
"The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult … We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries – we must claim its promise. That is how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure – our forests and waterways; our croplands and snowcapped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet …"
Ecofys, a clean energy consultancy that carried out the research and calculations for the report, shows us that there is a 75 percent chance of avoiding climate chaos if emissions peak by 2015 and then drop by 5% a year.
The new CO2 emissions avoided by canceling these 14 dirty energy projects would cover about one-third of the total reductions needed to avert future catastrophic climate shocks.
Coupled with that Greenpeace's Energy [R]evolution shows that renewable energy and energy savings can deliver the energy our economies need to survive and grow: that renewable energy and energy saving can deliver the "promise" that President Obama spoke of.
In 2011, renewable energy accounted for 30% of new electricity production, up from less than 5% in 2005. This explosive growth can and must continue.
Increased investment in renewable energy will not only pay off in jobs and economic growth, it will also pull the world back from the brink.
The governments approving these projects have all talked with grandiloquence of tackling climate change and of preserving the environment for future generations. Their hypocrisy is placing our future at risk.
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The issue of climate change is more pertinent than ever. Though it's a latecomer to industrialization, China's rapid economic development has made it the world's number one emitter of greenhouse gases. The booming economy has lifted millions out of poverty, but at huge environmental cost.
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Coding bootcamps as a response to the shortage of digital talent in Latin America
Monday, August 5, 2019 - 18:00
A new publication of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) entitled "Disrupting Talent: The Emergence of Coding Bootcamps and the Future of Digital Skills", explores the potential of bootcamps as a fast and effective alternative to solve the shortage of digital talent in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Study analyzes challenges faced by Central America as it seeks sustainable development
Friday, July 19, 2019 - 09:40
A new publication uses analysis of trade, investment, migration, the financial sector, raw materials, and natural resources to propose policy options The Inter-American Development Bank and the Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development (CLACDS) of INCAE Business School have presented in San Jose, Costa Rica, a book entitled "The Future of Central America: Challenges for Sustainable Development", w
IDB Annual Meeting Concludes with Institutional Strategy Update
Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - 17:54
• IDB estimates annual gap in development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean is US$650 billion. • Region's private sector, crisis in Venezuela and macroeconomic challenges among topics of discussion. GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador – The 60th Annual Meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and IDB Invest concluded today in Guayaquil, Ecuador, with the approval of an updated institutional strategy for 2020-2023 that is intended to increase resource mobilization.
Members of international community discuss collaboration in support of Venezuela
Monday, July 8, 2019 - 16:13
Representatives of cooperation agencies, along with directors and counselors of the Inter-American Development Bank's (IDB) member countries, met this morning with the Bank's administration at the institution's headquarters to discuss possible areas of collaboration in support of Venezuela. During the meeting, IDB specialists presented an analysis of the macroeconomic outlook and the main development challenges facing Venezuela.
IDB announces selected proposals of its "Bootcamps for Tech Fans" challenge
Thursday, June 6, 2019 - 16:48
Fifty-seven proposals were submitted, and the entities selected will benefit people in Central America, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela. IDB Lab, the IDB's innovation laboratory, has announced the two proposals selected to implement the best and most innovative Ready-to-Work Bootcamp models aimed at closing the skills gap of our future workforce in Latin America and the Caribbean, especially of people in vulnerable circumstances.
60th Annual Meeting of IDB Group to Convene Economic Leaders
Tuesday, June 4, 2019 - 14:58
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group will hold its Annual Meeting in Guayaquil, Ecuador from July 16 to 17. The economic and financial leaders of its 48 member countries will discuss current challenges and opportunities for development in the region. The Annual Meeting is the 60th annual gathering of the Board of Governors of the IDB Group, the institution's main decision-making body. The Board is primarily composed of finance ministers, economics ministers, and central bank presidents.
IDB launches innovative territorial approach to address development challenges
Thursday, May 9, 2019 - 14:38
A study entitled "Honduras: a territorial approach to development" presents for the first time a spatial economic strategy that redefines the traditional national model so as to achieve greater and more inclusive economic growth. As it marks its 60th anniversary, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has presented the study "Honduras: a territorial approach to development", which makes an innovative proposal to confront the country's development challenges and fu
IDB approves grant funds for countries receiving migrants in Latin America and Caribbean
Tuesday, May 7, 2019 - 13:22
Grant resources will support inclusive national development investments, regional projects, research, training on critical issues, and innovative solutions impacting development in region The Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank has approved the use of its special grant facility to support operations that help countries integrate migrants into local communities and contribute to their development.
SDG, urban and housing issues highlighted in IDB 2018 Sustainability Report
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 17:11
The IDB launches its new sustainability report with a focus on housing and urban issues The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) launched its 2018 Sustainability Report, featuring projects, initiatives, and research, with a focus on housing and urban issues in the context of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
Spain makes contribution to IDB's migration initiative
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 - 16:02
Event on migration analyzes impact on Latin America MADRID - Spain has made a $5 million contribution to help the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) tackle urgent development challenges posed by the rise of transborder migrations in Latin America and the Caribbean. The contribution was announced at the conference Migration and Cities: The Road to Inclusive Integration held March 20, 2019 in Madrid.


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Discuss older Jim Carrey movies.
RE: Monkey scene.
I have a smaller version of that monkey and also one without the symbols.
yours sincerly, Countess Olafina equalor
You know this thread has turned to the point where it has no point. at first it was a good topic to disscuss grinch at. now it seems like ts sorta derailing i guess. just my opinion. not saying it has to be true.
RE: Jim.
Are you a newbie, sir?
yours sincerly, Countess Olafina equalor
No, and i'm so sorry. I thought when you were taLking about that monkey it was off topic. I haven't seen the grinch for a long time. Next time I will go through the whole topic before I say somthing. Once again sorry.
ya, cat in the hat was nothing compared to the grinch. the first time i saw it i was like shit, the cat in the hat is so dumb, but my nefuw(sp) got obsest woth it and i watched it everyday for 2 weeks and now i like it more cause it reminds me of him! i miss him so much. he lives in newfoundland!
re: Grinch.
Mike Myers maybe Austin Powers, but Jim Carrey is...THE Grinch! and I saw that film too, and i didn't really like the CAT IN THE HAT that much.
yours sincerly, Countess Olafina equalor
RE: Grinch.
Cat in the hat was a good film, but it just doesn't compare to the grinch.
yours sincerly, Countess Olafina equalor
RE: The grinch.
after i saw it i said to myself i wish that i would glowing yellow eyes to see in the dark with and green fur to keep me warm.
yours sincerly, Countess Olafina equalor
RE: Grinch wins.
I had a dream in which i became a weregrinch crime fighter. it was set in a victorian london type setting. and i was sort of like Batman in it. by day, i was ordinary journalist Olafina Squalor but by night, i was known as Green Envy.
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The New Deal began the long process of reclamation and reforestation. Throughout the country the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built public recreation areas on damaged land like that in the Catoctin Mountains. These areas, called Recreational Demonstration Areas (RDAs), provided organized camps that enabled urban dwellers to escape the city and enjoy the benefits of nature. The section of the Catoctin Mountains near Thurmont, Maryland, was one of the sites selected to be developed into an RDA. Although most of the 46 RDAs established across the country were eventually turned over to their respective states for management, much of the Catoctin RDA was retained by the Federal Government as part of the National Park System. Today, Camp Misty Mount, one of the camps within the Catoctin RDA (now called Catoctin Mountain Park), is significant for several reasons. Not only is it a prime example of National Park Service rustic architecture, but it also represents a successful WPA project that continues to meet the recreational needs of individuals and organized groups from Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. Perhaps most important, Camp Misty Mount has helped the forest to regrow.


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305 West 50th Street has a Walk Score of 99 out of 100. This location is a Walker's Paradise so daily errands do not require a car.
305 West 50th Street is a one minute walk from the A 8 Avenue Express, the C 8 Avenue Local and the E 8 Avenue Local at the 50 St stop.
This location is in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood in New York. Nearby parks include Ramone Aponte Park, Gutenberg Playground and Duffy Square.
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Ninety-six historic places that bring the 200-year history of the city to life are presented in this National Register travel itinerary. Visitors will learn not only about the famous national landmarks and monuments of Washington, such as the White House, the Capitol Building, and the Mall, but will also learn about the historic neighborhoods and local landmarks that make the city so unique. The Octagon House, one of the city's oldest buildings, was built by Colonel John Tayloe, who offered the use of his home to President and Mrs. Madison for a temporary "Executive Mansion" after the burning of the White House by the British. Madison, who used the tower room above the entrance as a study, signed the Treaty of Ghent there, which ended the War of 1812.
Washington, DC: A Guide to the Historic Neighborhoods and Monuments of Our Nation's Capital offers a variety of ways to discover the city's historic places. Each property features a brief description of the site's significance, color and historic photographs, and public accessibility information. At the bottom of each page, the visitor will also find a navigation bar containing links to essays on the Federal Presence, the L'Enfant and McMillan Plans, and Washington's Neighborhoods. These essays provide historical background, or "contexts," for many of the sites included in the itinerary. The itinerary can be viewed online, or printed out for use by visitors to Washington, DC.
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The USA 10km Championships for Men and Women are both hosted this year by the AJC Peachtree Road Race, conducted by Atlanta Track Club. A total prize purse of $100,000 will be awarded, with the winning male and female each earning $15,000. The 45th running of the AJC Peachtree Road Race will take place on Friday, July 4, 2014. Capped at 60,000 entrants, the AJC Peachtree Road Race the world's largest 10K, and the largest road race in the United States.


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As we age, the lens of the eye can become clouded, impairing vision. These opacities in the normally transparent lens are called cataracts, and represent the most common cause of blindness (MedlinePlus 2012). Almost 25 million people worldwide have vision loss as a result of cataracts, which accounts for over 47% of blindness globally (Resnikoff 2004; West 2010; Allen 2011; Hashim 2012). More than 50% of people in the United States over age 80 either have cataracts or have undergone surgery due to this condition (MedlinePlus 2012).
While cataracts are a significant impairment, they can be surgically treated by removing the original lens and replacing it with a long-lasting synthetic lens. Though there are no FDA-approved drug treatment options for cataracts (Yanoff 2013), cataract surgery represents one of the most successful interventions in medicine (Lichtinger 2012).
Although conventional surgical treatment is an important consideration in the management of advanced cataracts, the medical establishment often fails to emphasize the need to maintain healthy blood glucose levels to slow progression or prevent onset of cataracts. Most physicians appreciate the association between overt diabetes and cataracts, but many overlook the role of elevated blood sugar in cataract formation among non-diabetics (Aoki 2007; Drexler 2001; Jessani 2009). The lens of the eye is particularly susceptible to glycation reactions, in which high glucose concentrations damage proteins and contribute to tissue dysfunction (Jain 2002; Pereira 1996; Franke 2003). A number of human studies have associated higher-than-normal glucose levels with substantially increased risk of various types of cataract (Weintraub 2002; Kanthan 2011; Saxena 2004; Tan 2008). Sadly, although it may be possible to prevent cataracts or slow their progression simply by controlling blood sugar levels (Taylor 1995; Madar 1993, 1994; Cohen-Melamed 1995), many at-risk individuals remain unaware of the profound impact of elevated glucose levels on the lens of the eye.
In this protocol you will not only learn how cataracts form and what causes them, but also how dietary and lifestyle considerations may help prevent cataracts and slow the progression of lens opacification. Conventional treatment of cataracts will be discussed, as will some novel and emerging therapeutic strategies that may improve treatment outcomes. The role of targeted natural interventions in combating specific disease processes that underlie cataract development, such as oxidative stress and glycation, will be examined as well.


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A cornerstone of Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign was his declaration of war on regulation and the agencies that write it. He has promised repeatedly to get rid of 75 percent of rules now on the books. More recently, Steve Bannon, the chief policy guru in the Trump White House, defined the mission of the war more accurately as "deconstruction of the administrative state."
Ten days after taking office, Trump issued an executive order to accomplish his regulatory pledge by requiring agencies to kill two rules for every new one they propose, and has held a press event to announce further attacks almost every day. Another major tool is the legislative veto of so-called "midnight" rules issued by the Obama administration in its last five months in office and the passage of "regulatory reform" legislation that would make future rulemaking very difficult. All of these changes are a dream come true for corporate lobbyists. The oil and gas industry alone spends $300 million annually to lobby Congress, and fields three lobbyists per member.
Legislative vetoes are permitted under a 1996 law, the Congressional Review Act, enacted by the Gingrich Congress, aimed at thwarting President Bill Clinton's efforts to regulate prior to a presidential election that Republicans hoped to win. The first midnight rules to fall in the Trump era included a Securities and Exchange Commission requirement that oil and gas companies disclose how much they paid foreign governments for drilling rights—a provision of the Dodd-Frank bill enacted to detect illegal bribery; a Department of Interior prohibition on coal companies dumping mountaintop removal debris in streams; and a requirement that the Social Security Administration support gun control enforcement by sending to the attorney general the names of severely disturbed people receiving disability benefits.
As this article goes to press, two more repeals await Trump's signature: a rule that requires states to assess individual school performance and report those results to parents, and a rule developed by the Bureau of Land Management to give the public more say in whether to allow drilling, mining, and logging on 250 million acres of public land. Oil and gas interests, coal and other mining companies, and the gun lobby led the scrum, but electric utilities, federal contractors, bankers, payday lenders, and the chemical industry were not far behind.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speak during a news conference in Philadelphia on January 26, 2017.
The abbreviated Congressional Review Act process applies only to rules issued by the Obama administration after June 13, 2016. Unraveling older rules will be quite time-consuming, presenting deregulators with a fundamental dilemma. The most effective, long-lasting, and (not incidentally) transparent gutting of rules would require legislative revisions of the statutes that created the programs and gave agencies authority to write rules. But this approach would invite far stronger political backlash than obscure procedural changes that can be made to sound relatively innocent.
The House has already passed legislation written in this vein, called the Regulatory Accountability Act. A revised version is likely to be the main vehicle of deregulation used in the Senate. The bill would add several dozen steps to the rulemaking process, including a requirement that agencies call witnesses during rulemaking and allow opponents to cross-examine them. The regulatory process is already glacial. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration managed to complete just two significant rules reducing workplace exposures to hazardous materials in eight years, and one has midnight status.
Much of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act has not yet been implemented because a process intended to be fair-minded invites industry delaying tactics. Additional procedural reforms will force underfunded agencies to abandon rulemaking. The only viable alternatives are case-by-case enforcement or inaction.
The House also passed the REINS Act (Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny), which would prevent any regulation from going into effect unless Congress acted affirmatively to approve it. If enacted, it would accomplish a seismic shift in power from the president to Congress, turning the terms of their relationship back as far as before the New Deal. Another bill would require courts to consider regulators' decisions "de novo," or without any deference to the special expertise available within agencies, further demeaning their stature. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has endorsed this change.
As usual, House Republicans legislated by rolling over Democrats and ignoring public-interest groups. The stream of legislative missiles landed with a crash in the Senate quite early in the current session. How fast the Senate acts depends on an explosive brew of other crises, such as Russian interference in the 2016 election, radical changes in immigration policy, the confirmation process for Gorsuch, appropriating money to keep the government running, various international crises, and, perhaps most important of all, the volatility of the Trump White House.
Since some of this legislation can be filibustered and therefore requires 60 Senate votes to pass, the fate of broad regulatory revision is likely to depend on a core of conservative Democrats, including Senators Heidi Heitkamp (North Dakota), Joe Manchin (West Virginia), Claire McCaskill (Missouri), Bill Nelson (Florida), and Jon Tester (Montana), who face tough challenges in states that went red last November. McCaskill and Heitkamp are already in negotiations with Republican Senators Rob Portman (Ohio) and James Lankford (Oklahoma) to develop bipartisan compromises that might be less damaging, but still potent enough to congeal future rulemaking.
Two powerful categories of interest groups have combined forces to support deregulation. The first is led by the Freedom Caucus, the loose organization of House Tea Party members, which fiercely opposes the regulatory state. Dismantling rulemaking represents low-hanging fruit that, in the immortal words of Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, reduces government "to the size where I can … drown it in the bathtub." The caucus sent Trump a list of 228 rules in need of destruction. The list identified 73 separate rules addressing climate change.
Demonstrators attend a rally against Scott Pruitt as head of the EPA at the Capitol on February 16, 2017.
The second category of participants is the long list of trade associations, exemplified by the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, that represent industries subject to proposed or existing rules. As a whole, this category of participants is both more eclectic and more pragmatic, without any unifying agenda other than saving money by blocking regulation. Bridging the gap between the two categories are conservative think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Midnight Rules
When Congress gave itself authority to kill rules if both the House and the Senate passed a "resolution of disapproval," it exempted such resolutions from filibuster, a significant advantage for the majority party. But consideration of a resolution of disapproval still requires ten hours of debate under Senate rules. The ten hours are equally divided, so Republicans can speed matters along by giving up their five hours and letting Democrats talk to an empty chamber for the remaining five. Still, leaders must pick carefully which rules deserve top billing.
The Congressional Review Act requires agencies and departments to forward each "major" rule (those imposing costs of $100 million or more) to Congress, but only gives the House and Senate 60 subsequent legislative days to pass a resolution. This feature means that the law's power is at its apex when the executive and legislative branches are controlled by the same party, when the incoming president is of a different party than the outgoing one but the same party that dominates Congress, and when the outgoing president waited until the end of his administration to get controversial rules out the door. Until last month, this veto authority was invoked only once, at another notable turning of the political tables, when incoming President George W. Bush signed a resolution killing a rule to prevent ergonomic injuries issued by the Clinton administration's Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Obama's legacy rules, finalized before June 13, 2016, including one to cut greenhouse gas emissions from power plants in order to slow climate change, were issued before this deadline, removing them from the legislative veto threat, although they remain a juicy target for congressional conservatives. But when Hillary Clinton lost the election, Obama decided to fast-track rules that were nearly final, exposing approximately 150 to possible veto. The list includes everything from routine, minor rules to controversial big-ticket targets.
What critics have dubbed "Obama's historic midnight surge" was risky because the law also says that once a resolution of disapproval is enacted, the agency cannot issue a "substantially similar" rule, in effect depriving regulators of some as yet undetermined amount of legal authority to revisit the problems addressed by the vetoed rule. In lobbyist lexicon, legislative vetoes have the potentially enormous advantage of "salting the earth"—destroying future agency efforts to address a problem.
President Trump signs bills on March 27, 2017, nullifying measures put in place during the Obama administration.
For a courageous agency, writing a new rule that is not substantially similar to the vetoed version but still advances the public interest should be possible. But few agencies are courageous these days. OSHA, for example, has never taken another run at the severe problems of ergonomic injury in the workplace, even as researchers have continued to document the severity of such hazards, especially in industries, like poultry processing, that depend on the Hispanic and African American working poor. Obama must have calculated that getting the rules on the books and making it harder to roll them back was worth the risk that some would be vetoed, potentially barring future action on the problem.
As this article goes to press, in addition to the five resolutions of disapproval already adopted, 53 resolutions to disapprove 32 rules are pending—34 in the House and 19 in the Senate. Among the more blatant are resolutions killing the following:
- A Bureau of Land Management rule compelling reductions of methane leaks from oil and gas wells drilled on public lands. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that causes climate change. Despite improved technology, the standards had not been updated in 30 years.
- A rule issued jointly by the Department of Defense, the General Services Administration, and NASA, designed to improve federal contractors' compliance with labor laws by requiring firms to disclose past violations. A federal district court judge in Texas has stayed implementation of this requirement, which contractors have helpfully nicknamed the "blacklisting rule," but Congress stands ready if the courts do not take care of this nasty business.
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau controls on exploitative terms of prepaid credit cards.
- A Department of Labor rule requiring financial advisers to put their individual clients first when giving investment advice.
- An Environmental Protection Agency rule requiring consideration of renewable fuel sources. This rule was targeted by Freedom Partners, which was organized by the Koch brothers, in a document entitled "A Roadmap to Repeal: Removing Regulatory Barriers to Opportunity."
Others that may end up on the chopping block include an EPA standard to reduce greenhouse gases from heavy-duty trucks and tractor trailers, which would cut 1.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide over the life of the covered vehicles; another EPA rule requiring chemical companies to implement controls to prevent and respond to leaks; and Department of Energy rules to increase the efficiency of furnaces, commercial boilers, and portable air conditioners, which over the lifetime of the appliances would save as much energy as one-fifth of the total amount consumed in the United States in a single year.
Special interests are gleeful about the speed and ruthlessness of these victories. Robert Murray, owner of one of the largest U.S. independent mining companies, gloated over the veto of the stream-protection rule, telling a Politico reporter: "It's gone. Hillary's gone. It's gone. Obama, the greatest destroyer in America, will soon be gone." It remains to be seen if Murray's assumption that rules designed to end the Obama administration's so-called "war on coal" will increase the use of the heavily polluting fuel. Analysts have pointed out that the reason coal production has waned has far more to do with market pressures such as the availability of less-expensive natural gas and renewable energy and declining demand in Asia.
Attacks on environmental protections may play well in coal and oil country, but public opinion is trending in the opposite direction. A Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 60 percent of Americans supported maintaining and even strengthening the EPA's authority. A Gallup poll reporting on historical trends in public attitudes toward the threat of climate change found that in 2016, 40 percent of respondents thought that the seriousness of climate change was "generally underestimated," while 25 percent thought the warnings were "generally correct."
The White House Piece of the Action
A coalition of labor and environmental groups led by Public Citizen has challenged Trump's proposed two-for-one executive order in court, arguing that if Trump wants to take down rules, he cannot do so by decree.
A 2013 crude-oil train derailment in Lac-Mégantic, Canada, killed 47 people and spurred a Federal Railroad Administration rule requiring two engineers on duty in trains pulled by large locomotives.
In an ironic twist that demonstrates the difficulties involved in implementing two-for-one, the Trump administration exempted its first significant regulation—an effort to stabilize health insurance markets—and continues to publish new rules in the Federal Register. Of course, most agencies will not enjoy this favored treatment. Those assigned to protect public health, worker and consumer safety, and the environment will internalize the president's order and table new rules unless they are specifically required by the authorizing statute.
An as-yet poorly defined universe of rules has simply disappeared into the bowels of bureaucracy, raising the possibility that the administration plans to abandon them without saying another word, an approach that legal experts say may be vulnerable to legal challenge. They include a final rule from the Federal Railroad Administration that would have required two engineers on duty in trains pulled by large locomotives. The rule is in response to a horrific accident in the Canadian town of Lac-Mégantic, where a train slid down a hill because the sole engineer could not secure it effectively, derailed, and burst into flames, killing 47 people.
The Trump administration, through budget cuts and the appointment of agency heads who are hostile to agency missions, is likely to accomplish at least as many lasting changes, if not substantially more than Congress will accomplish anytime soon. It's much easier for a president to deny an agency funds and thereby cripple its mission than to shut it down.
The EPA is the most prominent poster child for "hollow government," the vivid term used to signify the yawning gap between mandates and money. In constant dollars, its $8.1 billion budget for 2016 is less than half what the agency received in 1978, before many environmental laws were enacted. Now, Trump has proposed a budget that would cut EPA funding by 31 percent, bringing it to its lowest level since its creation in 1970.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission, responsible for the safety of all consumer goods except motor vehicles, food, drugs, and cosmetics, had 786 employees when it was first created in 1982, but had only 567 in 2016—a cut that is especially disturbing because the nation is increasingly dependent on imports from Asian countries where regulation is nonexistent or erratic. Other agencies have undergone comparable downsizing. Further cuts could push them beyond the boundary between viability and dysfunction.
What budget-cutting cannot accomplish, officials hostile to an agency's mission can. Take, for example, former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, the new administrator of the EPA. Not only is he a climate change denier, he was a proud participant on the side of regulated industries in 14 lawsuits challenging the agency's authority over everything from the cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay to the relative safety of mercury and arsenic emissions from coal-fired power plants. The EPA's career staff had two reactions to his imminent arrival: dread and resistance. Pruitt is expected to cooperate with regulated industries' requests that major rules be rescinded or drastically trimmed back.
Similar problems exist at the Federal Communications Commission, where new Chairman Ajit Pai is reconsidering net neutrality; the Department of Health and Human Services, where Secretary Tom Price will lead the charge on rolling back the Affordable Care Act; and the Securities and Exchange Commission, where new Chairman Jay Clayton is expected to lead the effort to repeal major provisions of Dodd-Frank.
The president has not advanced any coherent theory for the rollbacks other than the litany that deregulators have advanced for decades: Regulations are bad. They take away jobs and destroy the economy. To make America great again, we need to kill them. When Trump is on a roll, he seems able to convince voters that the issue is not their health and welfare but rather the frustrations of dealing with the Department of Motor Vehicles in our most dysfunctional state.
Yet at some point, President Trump will be held responsible for the inevitable regulatory failure that will follow from his policies, especially if his pledge to grow the economy by an unattainable 4 percent falls flat and his supporters realize that deregulating is not the silver bullet he promised. The occurrence of catastrophes like the Deepwater Horizon blowout, the collapse of the Upper Big Branch coal mine, the sale of eggs contaminated by salmonella, or the marketing of compounded drugs tainted by fungal meningitis will be laid at the White House doorstep, and no amount of deregulatory bluster will distract from the bad publicity.


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Dominique Strauss-Khan goes to court but protesting New York City hotel maids steal the show, as the former IMF boss pleads not guilty. François Picard's panel explains how attorneys on both sides are playing their cards close to their chests.
Attorney Jennifer DOWNING, Lawyer, Member of New York and Paris bars
Journalist Natacha HENRY, Author of Frapper n'est pas aimer, (To Hit Is Not To Love), an investigation into domestic violence in France (2010, Denoël)
Nathan KING, France 24 New York correspondent
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McDonald's comparable store sales fell 0.3% in February, which was worse than the 0.1% decline expected.
U.S. comparable store sales fell 1.4% (-0.6% estimated); Europe sales fell 0.6% (-0.1% estimated); and Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa fell 2.6% (-1.1% estimated).
"We are diligently focused on strengthening our performance, however our relatively flat year-to-date global comparable sales will pressure margins in the first quarter," said CFO Pete Bensen. "Looking ahead, we believe that we are taking the right actions to more clearly align with our customers' needs and build momentum to drive long-term profitable growth."
McDonald's Mighty Wings has been among the company's biggest product flops. Bloomberg Businessweek has reported that the company is selling the wings at a sharp discount to clear out the inventory.


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Burbank punk rock trio the Peeks have it all: a strong set of original songs loaded with attitude and appeal, a drastically tight, propulsive sound and an energy level that, in performance, threatens to not just raise the roof but send the entire thing into orbit. And they still haven't even graduated high school.
Formed in January of 2011, the band quickly distinguished itself as one of most natural and important forces in that perpetually rebellious musical style. The fact that singer-guitarist Dewey Peek's father is legendary punk rock spearhead Chip Kinman doesn't hurt either. Chip Kinman, whose Class of '77 band the Dils were one of the most important and influential West Coast acts of that incendiary era, has gently, albeit inevitably, exerted a potent influence over not only Dewey but the band as a whole.
"He taught me how to play guitar when I was 5 years old," said the 17-year-old Peek, who attends Providence High in Burbank. "So, of course, the Dils influenced us, and we do a couple of his songs now and then. Always being around him and talking with him influences me. He also gives me advice as to certain shows we should or shouldn't play. There have been times when we thought about doing a particular thing and he'll point why we actually shouldn't and we realized 'Yes, that one would be pretty stupid!' He's always there with support and encouragement."
But the Peeks, who appear on Sept. 14 at the Pasadena "one stop rock shop" MeowMeowz, are no watered-down knockoff of his fabled forebear's insurrectionary feats. Their debut EP, the five-song "Neighborhood Watch," is a brilliant, kicking dose of modern punk expression that holds late 1970s tradition near and dear even as it reaches into communicative 21st century territory.
Considering his age, Peeks' stabbing, bright guitar style demonstrates an almost eerie authority, one that demands a powerful rock 'n' roll response. The high-intensity rhythm section of drummer Pist Pistoffersen and bassist Brian Melendez consistently foster an intoxicating sense of tension and urgency that keeps the trio operating at a very high level of artful technique, one burnished with a singular devil-may-care, full-speed-ahead brand of sheer punk mayhem.
The music has continually sharpened over the last 18 months. Starting as high school chums jamming in the garage, they quickly realized it was time to get serious. "The garage thing wasn't working out," Peek said. "Every other week we had cops at our door. They've all been pretty cool about it, too — the last cop who shut us down was actually into punk rock!"
The band has gained impressive momentum, taking a deliberate, dedicated approach that's guaranteed a potent evolution. "As soon as we got our new bass player Brian in February, we underwent a pretty big change. The sound has changed a little, the writing got a little bit better. We've been playing more and more shows with different bands and we finally all have jobs now, so we started renting a rehearsal studio. And we're heading back into the studio with a whole bunch of new songs. But it's so expensive, we can only have one day in there and hopefully we'll have everything dialed in because we are going to try to get six of them done."
Art and ambition have rarely collided so successfully, and the Peeks make it look so easy. But they have their problems, too. "The whole thing about being minors is either really great or, with age limits, it can make things horrible," Peek said. "Everybody loves teenage punk bands and being under 18 is great. But next year we'll be screwed — we'll need a whole new gimmick!"
JONNY WHITESIDE is a veteran music journalist based in Burbank and author of "Ramblin' Rose: the Life & Career of Rose Maddox" and "Cry: the Johnnie Ray Story."
Who: The Peeks
Where: MeowMeowz, 2423 E. Colorado Blvd. Pasadena
When: Friday, Sept. 14, 7 p.m.
Cost: $4. All ages
Contact: (626) 798-6969; meowmeowzrockshop.com


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Getting your kicks out of peace
Driving along the coast on a recent trip up north, the urban terrain revealed the tell-tale signs of the vicious storm which recently battered the country. The sodden, tatty and dog-eared posters which meekly beckoned us to the ballot box, the roads pock-marked with puddles and the limbless trees all bore testimony to the gloomy ordeal which shrouded the region. But, as we chugged behind the convoy of merry-makers making their way up north to marvel at the lush post-storm scenery, the same urban landscape divulged stories of a different nature- it served as a social travelogue of Budo for Peace and of its mushrooming effect on a medley of communities throughout the country.
Budo for Peace (BFP), an educational non-profit organization, couples professional martial arts training with the educational values and ethos inherent to traditional forms of martial arts. It incorporates these values into an innovative and enriching educational framework which aims to connect and empower children relegated to the social periphery, including Arabs, Jews, Druze, Bedouins, Ethiopians and youth at risk. By instilling the impressionable younger generation with ideals of mutual respect and non-violence, BFP equips them with the skills necessary to confront intolerance widespread in society. As they apply the skills learnt on the mat to everyday situations, these youngsters develop into productive members of their communities and mentors for others.
As we slowly snaked our way along the coastline, I proudly adopted the role of BFP tour guide, animatedly describing the human hues which make up the hills, of the youthful silhouettes behind the road signs which dotted our path. The ever-changing, diverse scenery was reflective of the unique cocktail of commonalities and distinctions which characterize our organization. "Looking to your right, you will see Givat Olga where a Krav Maga club was recently opened in conjunction with the "City Without Violence" initiative. As we wind our way through the Wadi, we will come across Ma'ale Iron, the regional council which partnered with us over the holiday season to host the world-renowned Aikido Master, Fukakosa, in a multi-cultural friendship training. Lighting the 8th night Hannuka candles together with Japanese dignitaries in the middle of an Arab village truly expressed the meaning of social harmony. As we continue further north to Haifa, Kiryat Haim, Usefiya, Yarka, El B'Tuf…." The map is peppered with social landmarks which narrate the story of Budo for Peace.
Passing the turn-off to Katzir, home of the Pisgat Amir High School, a "last chance" school for youth at risk, I envisioned BFP Sensei Ben Rosenblum & the band of boisterous young boys who take part in his Kung-Fu class. "When the kids first heard about the new Kung-Fu group, they thought 'cool, this is a legitimate opportunity to beat each other up!'. Little did they know that we have a completely different agenda in mind." For these boys, who are laden with mountains of emotional baggage and who show contempt for any authority figure who crosses their path, the road to accepted normative behavior is interspersed with stumbling blocks & road bumps. Their successes and milestones in the social process which Budo for Peace advocates are measured in tentative baby steps.
Peeling away the tough layers of bravado and pride which envelop us all, Ben relived the labor pains which characterized his first encounter with his students. "My first class was an eye-opening experience to say the least," he confessed. "Some of my colleagues were shocked that I decided to come back to the following lesson. After the introductory demonstration led to a round of teenage taunting and ridicule, I turned around and saw the giant, 1.9 meter kid I was sparring with, charging towards the ring leader with the willpower of an elephant and the strength of four horses. Everything went downhill from there. Suffice it to say that I never expected the lesson to end in a police squad room!"
The incident, which was viewed by many weathered staff members as an everyday occurrence with no injuries, only reinforced Ben's resolve to implement the Budo for Peace educational program in his dojo (club). He was determined to provide his students with the much needed skills designed to add structure and order to their lives and to encourage them to rekindle their belief not only in those surrounding them but fore-mostly within themselves.
As the school year progresses, their crust of cynicism begins to crumble and the hostile veneer slowly begins to fray. Students, who refused to attend the lesson, now warily stand on the sidelines and observe; others, who would frequently mock and tease for sport, now mimic not their peers, but rather the moves and techniques of their master. These small victories attest to the contribution of Budo for Peace in re-shaping the outlooks and actions of these wayward teens.
Had our travels taken us in the opposite direction and had we decided to venture further south, although the landscape, both vegetative and human, would vary, the narrative would remain the same.
The first stop on our itinerary in the quest of Budo for Peace down south would be the El Razi School, an Arabic primary school in the heart of Lod. In a makeshift dojo, which as the teachers remark is the only classroom on campus which is devotedly swept and tidied before each lesson, Sensei Uri Wolff and his pupils prove that sport really is a mutual language which bridges all divides- verbal, cultural and ethnic.
"To be honest, being a Jewish instructor in an all-Arab school, I didn't know what to expect", Uri admits. "But one thing was for sure, I knew that it was going to be an interesting and unforgettable experience. In my opinion and experience, you don't have to speak the same language in order to have fun together. Within the walls of our dojo, it is the language of instruction which draws us together. Not Hebrew, nor Arabic, but rather the neutral and exotic Japanese. I count in Japanese and the kids echo my call, I perform a technique and in unison they mimic my moves. I explain the meaning of the Budo value of respect, in a mixture of pantomime and smatterings of Arabic, and they seem to absorb and understand. It's quite unbelievable to tell you the truth".
Despite the distinct traits which brand the members of Uri's BFP Karate class, the members are all able to shelve their differences of religion, nationality and class and concentrate on the mutual grounding which connects them- their passion for martial arts. "Whoever chooses to be a part of this wonderful project enjoys every minute of it. And I'm convinced that I enjoy it just as much as they do. You know what," he adds with a beaming smile, "maybe even a bit more".
The combination of sports and peace is by no means a novel approach; soccer, surfing, cricket and rugby have all been enlisted to act as outlets for the promotion of peace. However, despite the immense popularity of this duo, Budo for Peace remains distinct in its ability to offer meaningful opportunities for intimate interactions based on mutual interests. The focus of this profound encounter is not confined to an inanimate soccer ball or cricket bat, but rather urges participants to literally and figuratively join hands and unite through touch, eye contact and physical connection.
The travelogue of Budo for Peace is intrinsically intertwined with the stories of the unsung sectors, cities and settlements which comprise the social fabric of Israeli society. It is the story of Abu Kweidar, an unrecognized Bedouin village on the outskirts of bustling Be'er Sheva, of Kiryat Haim & Kiryat Gat where generations of immigrants, from all corners of the globe, enlist to ease the absorption of the newest wave of Ethiopian olim chadshim.
Why not venture off the beaten track, rather than cocooning yourselves in familiar surroundings, which tend to sprout preconceived notions and social stereotypes. We invite you to embrace the spirit of Budo and set off on a path which promises intriguing panoramic views of a more inclusive and accepting society. Join us in the journey of Budo for Peace and help us to make a difference in the lives of youngsters throughout the region. We guarantee you'll enjoy the ride.
To find out more about our organization, activities and volunteer opportunities please contact us at email@example.com or visit our website at www.budoforpeace.org.


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While I was recently selling artwork at the world famous Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood, I was lucky enough to have a booth located very close to Alliance Bakery. True, I had heard mixed reviews about this place--but after one of my awesome boothmates got (and highly praised) their vaguely Napoleon-looking treat called the "Ellen" (made up of pistachio-cinnamon mousseline with pistachio praline and white chocolate mousse--like, whoa), I knew I had to make a stop. Walking up to the entrance, I wasn't sure quite what to expect: the exterior has old-school neon sign and flamboyantly decorated cakes on display in the front window.
But once you step inside, it's immediately evident that this is a very special place. They have huge, wraparound bakery cases full of all manner of cakes, pastries and cookies, which made the visit fun right away for me, because half the fun is ogling everything and choosing, right?
Ultimately I settled on an intriguing bar cookie: the cranberry walnut bar. I know the combination sounds unusual, but here's the deal. The bar cookie, which is made up of a sweet walnut-y, caramel-y mixture set atop a cookie crust, is very sweet. While bars like this are often delicious, sometimes the sweetness can be so overwhelming that the flavor lacks depth. Here's where the cranberries come in. The little bursts of sweet, acidic tartness cut through the extreme sweetness, rounding out the flavor and adding excitement to every bite (yes! excitement!). It worked beautifully, and made what could have been a run-of-the mill bar cookie very memorable.
Not only was I pleased with the bar cookie, but I am so intrigued by the sweet-and-tart combination that I think I might just add a topping of cranberries the next time I make pecan pie.
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Costa Rica captain Verania Willis: "I'd like to say congratulations to the Japan team, and good luck in the next match. Team Japan is very quick, and we're not used to that pace. So it was a difficult match for us. Their serving was strong, and both individually and as a team, they are extremely strong. The reason we lost was because of their speed and their serving. I was also a little nervous because Japan is so strong."
When when asked specifically who served well for Japan: "Saori Kimura and Yoshie Takeshita."
Costa Rica coach Braulio Godinez: "I'd like to wish Japan good luck in the next match. Japan played a perfect game both strategically and technically, and we learned a lot from them today. I had hoped we'd play better. Karen Cope and a few others played well, but we had few opportunities today, and those few chances, we couldn't capitalize. Japan made almost no mistakes and played practically a perfect game."
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Japan player Saori Kimura: "It was a really good game today."
On teammate Kaori Inoue: "She blocks well, and I hope I can continue to receive more balls that tip off her blocking."
Japan player Kaori Inoue: "Everyone's serve was really good today"
On teammate Saori: "Her 'catch-and-spike' is strong, and her back-spike is great. She carries a great load but she handles it well. She is our one irreplaceable team member."
On her blocking: "I could concentrate on blocking because I had team members on both sides for help that I could depend on.""
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Join us every Monday for a yoga practice at your favorite place--the Library! Beginners are welcome. Just bring your mat, a towel and a bottle of water.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) Masters champion Bubba Watson has withdrawn from the Farmers Insurance Open because of an illness.
Watson is a past champion at Torrey Pines, winning two years ago with a birdie putt on the final hole. He tweeted Thursday, ``Pulling out of tourney this morning, don't have energy for golf. Feel the same as Maui.'' Watson had a stomach illness at Kapalua during the Tournament of Champions, where he tied for fourth.
Watson was to play with Phil Mickelson and defending champion Brandt Snedeker. He was replaced in the field by Billy Mayfair.


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A Traveling Author Returns Home: an Afternoon with Jenny Milchman
Milchman's babysitter confessed to her one night that he was planning to kill himself. By telling her parents when they returned, the babysitter was found, and saved.
"That experience was formative," she remembers. "In years to come I felt terrified that the decision had been left in my eight year old hands."
Milchman eventually started a career as a psychotherapist, helping people professionally find a way out of their desperation. And while her expert background influences her writing, so does the work of literary greats such as Stephen King, Gillian Flynn, and Nancy Pickard, who describes Milchman's debut as "absorbing from start to finish."
In Cover of Snow, Nora Hamilton wakes to find her policeman husband missing from their bed. Minutes later, Nora discovers his body, a victim of suicide. He left no note or sign of why he'd take his own life, and the grieving wife wants answers. Her search in an insular, frigid mountain town that is determined to keep its deadly secrets buried proves more and more difficult as she meets resistance from her husband's friends, partner, and his own mother.
Jenny Milchman is a suspense writer from New Jersey. Her debut novel, Cover of Snow, was published by Ballantine in 2013. Her short story The Closet was published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine in November 2012. Another short story, The Very Old Man, has been an Amazon bestseller, and the short work Black Sun on Tupper Lake appears in the anthology Adirondack Mysteries II.
Jenny is the Chair of the International Thriller Writers' Debut Authors Program. She is also the founder of Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day, which was celebrated last year in all 50 states and four foreign countries by 350-and-growing bookstores.
This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Morristown & Morris Township Library.
Refreshments will be served and copies of Cover of Snow will be available for purchase.


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Robert S. McNamara, secretary of defense during both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, turns out to have been a meticulous pack rat. Next month Sotheby's is auctioning off his personal memorabilia, including letters, many of them annotated in McNamara's own hand; photographs; the flag and globe from his office at the Defense Department; a collection of North Vietnamese propaganda; crib notes he made before appearing in "The Fog of War," the Errol Morris documentary; and three albums containing the original drawings of editorial cartoons about him, a great many of them unfavorable.
A lot of McNamara material has already gone to presidential libraries, according to Selby Kiffer, senior vice-president of books and manuscripts at Sotheby's. The 600 or so items which the auction house will sell off in 100 lots are ones he chose to keep with him at his apartment in the Watergate and his house in Virginia.
The sale, timed to the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, will take place on Oct. 23, and the material will be on view beginning Oct. 16. Among the letters is one written to McNamara from Jacqueline Kennedy thanking him for his steadfastness during the crisis. "For a while I felt that I really knew what was going on — but that lovely illusion has evaporated," it says. "A couple of days of your late night and early morning telephone calls to the president — and at the same hours finding [National Security Advisor] Mac Bundy in one's bedroom — have completely unhinged me."


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Sarah MacDonnell played Lisa Neeley in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Rocks and Shoals".
She made her acting debut in 1976, and in 1977 she played the lead role, Margaret "Muggsy" Malloy, in the television series Muggsy.
Her first television guest-starring appearance was in Murder, She Wrote in 1992. That episode, "The Wind Around the Tower", featured many other past and future Star Trek guest stars, including George Hearn, Mark Rolston, Richard Riehle, Dakin Matthews and Shay Duffin.
MacDonnell had a recurring role on Weird Science as Ms. Bouvier and appeared in Friends in the episode "The One with the Monkey". That episode also starred Wayne Péré. She later appeared in television movies such as Fatally Yours, Down, Out & Dangerous (also featuring Bruce Davison), Once You Meet a Stranger (also starring Neil Vipond) and The Areola.