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President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama released a statement Sunday mourning former First Lady Nancy Reagan. Earlier, Reagan's spokeswoman confirmed Reagan had died at age 94.
"Nancy Reagan once wrote that nothing could prepare you for living in the White House," the statement read. "She was right, of course. But we had a head start, because we were fortunate to benefit from her proud example, and her warm and generous advice."
Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush and a host of other political figures also released statements Sunday mourning Reagan. Read the Obamas' full statement below. Julie Kliegman
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An estimated 14 people were killed and another 30 wounded by a car bomb in the Somali capital city of Mogadishu on Sunday. The explosion happened in a crowded intersection, with shrapnel hitting nearby food stalls and shops.
"I was staying in my shop when a car came into the market and exploded. I saw more than 20 people lying on the ground," said an eyewitness named Abdulle Omar. "Most of them were dead and the market was totally destroyed." Most of those killed are believed to be civilians, though Somali security forces were also in the area.
No terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far, though it was likely perpetrated by al Shabaab, an al Qaeda-linked Islamic extremist group that seeks to overthrow the Somali government. On Sunday, al Shabaab in a radio message denounced Somalia's new president, who holds dual U.S. and Somali citizenship, as an "evil-minded" "apostate" whom Somalis should not support. Bonnie Kristian
A bipartisan group of lawmakers — Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), Jared Polis (D-Colo.), Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), and Don Young (R-Alaska) — this week announced the Congressional Cannabis Caucus. The group is the first of its kind, devoted to prodding the federal government to catch up with the move toward legalization and decriminalization of marijuana at the state and local level. Notably, all four representatives hail from states that have already made pot legal for recreational use.
"The federal government's decades-long approach to marijuana is a colossal, cruel joke, and most Americans know it," Rohrabacher said in a press release introducing the caucus. "Not only have incalculable amounts of taxpayers' dollars been wasted, but countless lives have been unnecessarily disrupted and even ruined by misguided law enforcement."
Though the caucus did not spell out particular policy goals, its members indicated a willingness to fight any Trump team moves toward a more aggressive drug war. "I'm very happy with the idea that if we have to we'll bump heads with the attorney general," Young said of new Attorney General Jess Sessions, a die-hard drug warrior. Rohrabacher was more blunt: "The Trump administration should and will get the word that things have changed in the countryside, and they better not just be stuck in the '50s and '60s," he said. Bonnie Kristian
Rand Paul rejects John Bolton to replace Michael Flynn: 'He still believes regime change was a good idea'
In an interview on ABC's This Week Sunday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) strongly opposed former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton as a potential replacement for Michael Flynn, who recently resigned from his post as national security adviser.
"I think the problem with John Bolton is he disagrees with President Trump's foreign policy," Paul said. "He would be closer to John McCain's foreign policy. John Bolton still believes the Iraq War was a good idea. He still believes regime change was a good idea. He still believes that nation building is a good idea," the senator continued. "My fear is that secret wars would be developing around the globe, and so I think he'd be a bad choice." McCain, Paul said in the same interview, was likewise wrong on Iraq and would lead the U.S. into "perpetual war" were he in charge.
Bolton's name was previously floated for secretary of state or deputy secretary of state, possibilities Paul rejected in equally vehement terms, casting a Bolton hire as a regressive betrayal of Trump voters. One of Trump's best attributes is "his opposition to the Iraq war and regime change," Paul wrote in a November op-ed, while "Bolton was one of the loudest advocates of overthrowing Saddam Hussein and still stupefyingly insists it was the right call 13 years later." Watch his comments on ABC below. Bonnie Kristian
.@RandPaul calls John Bolton "a bad choice" for National Security Adviser: "My fear is secret wars would be developing around the globe." pic.twitter.com/MOeDPn10Pt
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) February 19, 2017
Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus clashed Sunday over President Trump's tweet labeling the media an "enemy of the American people."
"I don't have any problem with you complaining about an individual story" or bias, Wallace said. "But you went a lot further than that — or the president went a lot further than that. He said that the 'fake media' — not certain stories — the 'fake media' are an 'enemy to the country.'"
Priebus pushed back, arguing that the issue is "not just two stories" that may be marred by bias or error but "24 hours a day, seven days a week" of cable news programming that focuses not on the Trump administration's policy accomplishments but "total garbage, unsourced stuff" about personal dynamics between White House staff and alleged unsavory ties between the Trump campaign and Russian spies (a charge Priebus categorically denied in the same conversation).
Wallace disagreed with Priebus' assessment, noting that every Trump action Priebus mentioned had received widespread cable news coverage. "You're right, some of these things were covered," Priebus conceded, "but you get about 10 percent coverage [of Trump's accomplishments] but then as soon as it was over the next 20 hours is all about Russian spies…"
Wallace cut him off: "But you don't get to tell us what to do, Reince, any more than that Barack Obama did. Barack Obama whined about Fox News all the time, but I gotta say, he never said that we were an enemy of the people." Watch an excerpt of their exchange below. Bonnie Kristian
WATCH Chris Wallace push @Reince45 to defend Trump's claims of fake news https://t.co/Mzt17ozB5S
— Sabrina Singh (@sabrinasingh24) February 19, 2017
President Trump's tweet declaring the media an "enemy of the people" — and his antagonism to the press more broadly — are characteristic of a would-be dictator, Republican Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff (Calif.) independently charged in interviews airing this weekend.
McCain's allegation came first in a Saturday conversation with NBC's Chuck Todd on Meet the Press. "The fact is we need you, we need a free press. It's vital," McCain said. "That's how dictators get started," he continued a few moments later. "They get started by suppressing free press, in other words, a consolidation of power. I am not saying that President Trump is trying to be a dictator. I am just saying we need to learn the lessons of history."
Schiff appeared on ABC's This Week in an interview scheduled to air Sunday. "This is something that you hear tin-pot dictators say when they want to control all of the information," he said of Trump's media tweet. "It's not something you have ever heard a president of the United States say." Watch an excerpt of each man's remarks below. Bonnie Kristian
'That's how dictators get started': @SenJohnMcCain defends the free press in exclusive @MeetThePress interview pic.twitter.com/yUINj0plIU
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) February 18, 2017
Rep. Adam Schiff blasts Pres. Trump for attack on the media: "This is something that you hear tin-pot dictators say" https://t.co/tJyMaXBKmk pic.twitter.com/kElkZhDqhX
— ABC News (@ABC) February 19, 2017
After it was delayed for repairs Saturday, the first joint SpaceX-NASA rocket launch had a successful liftoff Sunday morning. The Falcon 9 rocket launched at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and it will deliver a load of cargo to the International Space Station.
LIFTOFF! The @SpaceX #Dragon spacecraft leaves Earth to deliver cargo and supplies to @Space_Station: https://t.co/mzKW5uDsTi pic.twitter.com/290v3yjvYu
— NASA (@NASA) February 19, 2017
The rocket took off from Launch Pad 39A, the same pad Apollo 11 used in 1969 on the way to the moon. SpaceX has a 20-year lease on the pad and hopes to use it to send manned flights into space as early as 2018. Bonnie Kristian
The USS Carl Vinson, accompanied by the guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer, was deployed to the disputed waters of the South China Sea on Saturday to make what the U.S. Navy says are routine patrols. The Vinson carries a fleet of 60 aircraft and will be "demonstrating [the strike group's] capabilities while building upon existing strong relationships with our allies, partners, and friends in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region," said Rear Admiral James Kilby.
The ocean territory in question is claimed by China, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Beijing said in a statement it "firmly opposes any country's attempt to undermine China's sovereignty and security in the name of the freedom of navigation and overflight." Bonnie Kristian


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AUA Health Policy/ United Healthcare Leadership Discuss United's Narrowing of their Medicare Advantage Network
On December 3, 2013, AUA Health Policy leadership communicated via conference call with United Healthcare officials regarding the narrowing of their Medicare Advantage Network. United Healthcare officials stated the fact that a physician is no longer included in the Network is not necessarily because of a specific quality or affordability issue. Physicians are able to appeal this decision if they feel as though they have different areas of expertise or offer different services than their urology counterparts in the United Medicare Advantage Network.see more>>
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On December 10, the American Urological Association (AUA) named Timothy D. Averch, MD, FACS, the 2014-2015 Gallagher Health Policy Scholar. Dr. Averch joins the prestigious ranks of past Gallagher Health Policy Scholars.
The Gallagher Health Policy Scholar Program, created in honor of former AUA Executive Director G. James Gallagher, is designed to train the next generation of urologists for leadership positions in health policy. Scholars spend a full year engaged in critical seminars, conferences and meetings at the national level, receive mentoring from AUA physicians in senior roles and participate in a week-long health policy seminar for surgeons sponsored by the American College of Surgeons and held at Brandeis University. Scholars also engage in other educational activities that ensure their immersion in and understanding of health policy issues of importance to urology.
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WEDI Issues 2013 Report – "The Right Information, To the Right Place, At the Right Time"
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On Tuesday, December 17, the Senate passed a key procedural vote in order to pass the budget deal that contains the three-month sustainable growth rate (SGR) patch. Known as "invoking couture," this Senate rule sets in place a time limit on debate, effectively removing the threat of filibuster and ensuring the budget deal receives a vote. Twelve Senate Republicans joined the Senate Democrats in passing the cloture vote 67-33, signaling optimism for final passage of the budget deal later this week. A full vote is expected on Wednesday.
This legislation, authored by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA), has overwhelmingly passed the House of Representatives last week. President Obama has indicated that he will sign the bill into law.
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Statement to the General Assembly by Pascal Buffin Deputy Permanent Representative of Belgium to the United Nations on behalf of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Kingdom of Belgium on the issue of "Security Council Reform – Regional representation" New York, 1 April 2014
Mr. Chairman,
I have the pleasure to speak on behalf of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Kingdom of Belgium.
We thank you for convening this third meeting on regional representation in the Security Council. As we all know, article 23 of the UN Charter states, among other things, that for the selection of SC members "due regard should be paid, in the first instance, to the contribution of Members of the United Nations to the maintenance of international peace and security and to the other purposes of the Organization, and also to equitable geographical distribution".
This should be the basis of our debate today. Besides, we strongly believe that an enlarged Council should also better reflect today's geopolitical realities. The issue of regional representation goes to the heart of this concern. We should also make sure that an enlarged Council remains as efficient and effective as possible.
Mr. Chairman,
The Netherlands and Belgium are convinced that the African continent should be better represented in an enlarged Council, not just because a large part of the topics on the agenda of the Council concern Africa, but also, and more importantly, because we believe that the African continent should be fully involved in dealing with peace and security in our world, wherever it is necessary.
In previous debates, the Netherlands and Belgium have expressed full support for an enlargement in both the permanent and the non-permanent category of membership. and for the proposals of the G4, Brazil, Germany, India, Japan, to achieve concrete progress in genuine text-based negotiations .
As said before, we would like to stress that any enlargement of the Security Council has to take into account the concerns of small and medium-sized member states of the UN. In this regard, we would like to ask particular attention for LDC's and middle income countries and for the Small Island Development States.
Mr. Chairman,
As in previous debates, I would like to assure you that Belgium and The Netherlands continue to stand ready to contribute constructively to the discussions. We are willing to consider any proposal that can facilitate reaching a consensus. We support your approach and we would like to encourage you again to formulate your own conclusions at the latest at the end of the current cycle of debates.
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Virgin Blue has announced it will begin direct flights between Newcastle and the Gold Coast from November 24 in response to strong lobbying from the Hunter business and tourism communities.
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July 11 2011 03:05PM
Kevin Cheveldayoff has remained pretty quiet in the offseason. Other than re-signing a few players (including prospective captain Andrew Ladd) and wading into the shallowest of unrestricted free agent depths, the Jets are taking their time in building this roster inherited from Atlanta.
This is fine for now. With the state of NHL alignment, the Jets are, of course, in a pretty strong Southeast Division alongside two teams who could win the East in Washington and Tampa Bay and another who are on the playoff bubble in Carolina. For the first season of any club, of course a team will want to give off a semblance of success by making a playoff run, but Winnipeg fans are slightly more educated in hockey than the ones the team left behind in Atlanta.
That said, the Jets have a number of players that the team can build around. The trick is to fill in the missing bits for a team that went 20th in offense last season and 29th in defense. Ahead are the six key core players of the Winnipeg Jets:
The Forwards
One: Andrew Ladd - It all begins with Andrew Ladd. He's the team's highest-paid forward, and the first guy who visited in June to pretty well say everything would work out fine in Winnipeg. More importantly, Ladd is a prototypical two-way player, a rare specimen who can score you 30 goals (29 last season) and maintain positive scoring chance differential without an extraordinarily high number of offensive zone starts. He was also first on the Thrashers last season in all Quality of Competiton metrics. In short, Ladd is a player cut from a similar cloth as Patrice Bergeron or Ryan Kesler, who is due to break out as one of the game's better two-way players. With a $4.4M cap hit over the next five years, the Jets are prepped to get tremendous value out of the player who will likely be named the "first" captain in Jets 2.0 history.
Two: Alexander Burmistrov - Last year's first round draft pick, Alexander Burmistrov is apparently pretty psyched about moving to Canada. He has just 74 NHL games and 6 goals to his credit, but for a player who put up some good numbers in junior, his percentages never took off in his rookie NHL season. He shot at just 6.5% and his teammate's on-ice at even strength was just 7.18%. He played sheltered shifts (he was a rookie) and his production should have been higher, but he played a strong role as a "low events" player who minimized risk. He has the tools required to be a successful NHL player and a couple of years to develop his talent in Winnipeg.
Three: Evander Kane - Interesting that a player who is only at the start of his young career is already typecast as "that guy who knocked out Matt Cooke". Lost in this is that Evander Kane scored 48 goals as an 17-year old for the Vancouver Giants of the WHL and is developing into a pretty strong scorer in his own right in the NHL, with 14-and-19 goal seasons to start his career and maintaining a sustainable shooting percentage of 9.1% in both those years. Critics might mention Kane's minus-12 statistic from last year, but he played in front of some pretty weak goaltending and his PDO (on-ice shooting percentage plus save percentage, a reliable measure of luck) was the second lowest on the team ahead of only Rob Schremp among regular players. He's the prototypical Good Canadian Kid™ that the old school Winnipeg media and fans will love, and likely in for a big raise after this season.
Honourable mentions to new pickup Eric Fehr, who will hopefully stay healthy, RFA Blake Wheeler, who is on the cusp of becoming a regular 20-goal scorer in the NHL, and Nik Antropov, a veteran forward who may be declining statistically, but still big and serviceable in his own right.
The Defensemen
Four: Dustin Byfuglien - Forget the Byfuglien dollars for a minute: Byfuglien is signed for five more years top-pairing money. It's tough to get a read on a player who has jumped between forward and defense considerably over the last few seasons, but he'll need to remain on the blueline where the Jets have a pretty limited group. Last year, he was signed to a long deal after putting up some outrageous percentages in the first half of the season, before they came back down to earth (along with the fortunes of the team). He has high Fenwick number (a detailed +/- statistic taking into account goals, shots and misses, which is correlative with scoring chance differential) even when you adjust for the fact he starts more shifts in the offensive than defensive zone. Byfuglien can be used as a primarily defensive option at even-strength and bring out his offensive talents on the powerplay where he has scored 25 of his career 76 goals, and 8 of the 20 he scored last season. Given the lack of finish up front, Byfuglien may be coaxed into taking bigger risks, which may leave him defensively vulnerable.
Five: Zach Bogosian - This is another long-term option on defense for the Jets, and also a textbook example of why giving your draft picks time in the NHL right after their drafted can prove to be a risky maneuver. Bogosian has soaked up the tough minutes since his draft year, going from 5th to 3rd to 1st in quality of opponents faced, and he will be paid for it, money that may be tighter for the Jets in a few years. Certain players in that situation, your Stephane Robidas' and Alex Pietrangelo's, manage to maintain positive possession statistics. For all the good Bogosian has done in the NHL thus far, Winnipeg need him to play like a #1 defenseman well beyond his years and control the flow of play.
An honourable mention to Tobias Enstrom, however those three may be the options for the Jets looking ahead. Mark Stuart has been hampered by injury issues and may be better suited to a playoff team when he's healthy. Ron Hainsey is still around for a couple of more seasons but will be a big money free agent and due for a big payout that may not be worth the Jets' trouble.
That leaves...
Six: Ondrej Pavelec - Ondrej Pavelec is a fantastic goalie when he is in the lineup. Pavelec's .923 save percentage was identical to Jonas Hiller's, and higher than those of Cam Ward, Ryan Miller, Marc-André Fleury, Miikka Kiprusoff and Martin Brodeur. There may be issues with his conditioning, as he has never played over 60 games in a season, which has become a benchmark number for the starting goaltender. Him and Chris Mason are under contract for another season, but if Pavelec is healthy, this is his job. Mason has fallen off the map after a strong .925 save percentage year with Nashville back in 2007 and is little more than an above-average backup goaltender.
July 11 2011, 03:15PM
I'm skeptical about Pavelec until he does it more than once. His save rate was well outside some career norms for him last year - I mean his highest SV% in the AHL stands as .914.
Goalies are weird so sometimes they just take big step forward for one reason or another. On the other hand, sometimes fortune favors them for a season a la Andrew Raycroft, Jim Carry, etc.
July 11 2011, 03:53PM
Welcome to the nation.....Dont bother searching for an avatar like mine but Jets version, they is no such thing as a jets player with the cup. BLAM.....MY JUNK!!!
July 11 2011, 04:08PM
Welcome to the nation family Jets fans. Though I do not know much about your team, except that it has a bright future, I am already starting to loathe you and hope it continues to Canuck like proportions.
Cheers to an ongoing rivalry. Maybe one day we can compare cups... well maybe not.
There are definitely some good players to build around in that bunch. It doesn't look like a playoff team to me yet, but if you add a few pieces (some Farm-boys from the Brandon/Dauphin/Flin Flon areas of the world), then you have a young backbone to play them with. Your D is big and tough, but I suspect a goalie is something you should look for.
You guys should get Khabibulin back from Edmonton. Just trade them Kane and I am sure you could pry him out of Tambo's grasp. :-)
I am excited for the Jets! I really like Evander Kane I hope he has a breakout season this year and lights it up!
Any word on one Robbie Schremp? He mentioned to me via Twitter that he is an RFA. I wonder how he feels coming back to Western Canada..
July 11 2011, 05:51PM
Any word on one Robbie Schremp? He mentioned to me via Twitter that he is an RFA. I wonder how he feels coming back to Western Canada..
Not offered contract
Hope he saved his big paychecks
Nobody wants him
At least you guys got a team with some skill and youth. Imagine you waited all this time for a team and you got the flames. You thought vancouver looked rough after game 7. You would have burnt the peg to the ground.haha. Thanks for the 2 points in advance.
Could you guys sign drew doughty to an offer sheet? We would forever be in your debt
Signed ,your favourite used car salesman Lowe and Tambo
July 11 2011, 06:35PM
While I enjoy watching the Oilers rebuild and dream about the Stanley cup playoffs I would love for the Jets to make the playoffs this year...... I guarantee the whole country would jump on the Jets band wagon.... if only for a year! Welcome back Jets!!!
While I enjoy watching the Oilers rebuild and dream about the Stanley cup playoffs I would love for the Jets to make the playoffs this year...... I guarantee the whole country would jump on the Jets band wagon.... if only for a year! Welcome back Jets!!!
Indeed...It would be the exact opposite of what happened to Vancouver....except, there would be riots in Vancouver again, with Vancouverites "whining what did we ever do to you?"
Meanwhile, every other city would be experiencing a rapturous orgy of hockey, booze and betties as they celebrate the cup back in Canada, as Wanye said, Edmonton wins the series in 4 vs Winnipeg outscoring them 93-2. But hey, all of Canada will behind you up to the finals*.
*Excluding Vancouver
July 11 2011, 07:05PM
Welcome back Jets fans! We missed you!
July 11 2011, 07:37PM
Greetings from Oil Country, good to have the Jets back.
Welcome back Jets fans! We missed you!
It's good to be back!
July 11 2011, 09:07PM
Welcome back Jets fans! Good luck from your friends in Oil country! You have a good team of young players. Now trade us Bogosian!
July 11 2011, 10:08PM
Not offered contract
Hope he saved his big paychecks
Nobody wants him
I hear they pay you with cash in paper bags in the KHL! Have fun Robbie!
*Remembers back when people were losing their minds because MacT wasn't using Schremp "correctly"*
@Jodes Are you THE Jodes? Like JHB Jodes?
@Jodes Are you THE Jodes? Like JHB Jodes?
I'm Jodes on the Official Oilers Board, OilersNation and Hockeybuzz site, Jodes97 on Twitter..
You mean to tell me there's more then one?
July 12 2011, 08:59AM
I think Kane is going to have a breakout year this season especially if Burmistrov can play the way he did at the end of last season. They have the makings of a real solid 1-2 punch and I think they will be the future number 1 line some day hopefully next year
I'm Jodes on the Official Oilers Board, OilersNation and Hockeybuzz site, Jodes97 on Twitter..
You mean to tell me there's more then one?
JHB = Junior Hockey Bible. Someone who posted on there alot about 10 years ago had the handle Jodes. Just wondering if that was you.
JHB = Junior Hockey Bible. Someone who posted on there alot about 10 years ago had the handle Jodes. Just wondering if that was you.
That I can say was not me..
Sorry to disappoint lol..
July 12 2011, 11:26PM
Winnipeg looks pretty stacked up front..and Bogosian might turn into a franchise defenceman one day..looking forward watching them..just wondering which channel will cover their games..
July 13 2011, 01:31AM
Enstrom only gets a HM? Sorry, that guy is by far the best Dman on the Jets. He was covering Buff's ass when he was roaming outside of the defensive zone.


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Allentown School District battles with budget while learning it's only going to get harder
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Considering the swirling vortex of the Allentown School District's massive budget shortfall, Thursday night's board of directors meeting raised more questions about its future than it answered.
An independent audit report prepared by Barbacane, Thornton and Company for Fiscal Year 2012 revealed that the district did indeed have a balanced budget.
As of June 30th of last year the district reported a fund balance of just under $25 million or 11.25 percent of the district's general fund operating budget for 2011-2012, up from 11.14 percent from the year previous.
The district's total entity-wide revenues at year's end nudged just above $236 million, with about $170 million coming from taxes, subsidies and other general revenues, while the remaining amount originated from program-specific revenues in the form of charges for services and grants.
The myriad of accounting terms and numbers during the presentation were secondary in fact to the accounting firm's analysis of the factors impacting the district's precarious fiscal future.
During Thursday night's report, the Barbacane, Thornton and Company report indicated that the "continued escalation of employee health benefits, increases in PSERS, collective bargaining with the district's professionals…and continued declining support from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the federal government" were cited as concerns.
But the district's future concerns must be secondary at the moment as the 2013-2014 proposed budget includes laying off teachers, raising taxes by a staggering 8.53 percent that would cost the average homeowner $150.37 additional per year and drawing about $9 million from their fund balance just to make ends meet.
The proposed budget also includes full-day kindergarten, elementary art school classes and elementary school principals at each school after those items were added back to the budget during a May 16th meeting.
On Thursday night Board President Robert Smith noted a familiar refrain when he said that the budget is not finalized and that there would be much more work to do on it before final adoption is required by law no later than June 30th.
Whatever will be included in the final budget will be without Susan Lozada, the executive director of community and student services, and Kelly Rosario, director of professional development, who both tendered their resignations prior to the meeting.
Exactly why Lozada in particular resigned remains a mystery at this point, with much innuendo surrounding discussions on the matter Thursday night.
Director Joanne Jackson, who later walked out of the meeting before it concluded, said the issues that caused Lozada to quit "had been a long time in coming" and "need to come to light."
Jackson in her first statement of the evening noted that she was shaken after "being verbally abused by a fellow board member" just prior to the start of the public meeting.
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Skip to comments.House committee to probe Sebelius soliciting money for ObamaCare signups
Posted on 05/14/2013 12:29:08 PM PDT by topher
House Republicans are starting a probe into Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius soliciting donations from companies her agency might regulate, to help sign up uninsured Americans for ObamaCare.
Sebelius in recent weeks has asked various charitable foundations, businesses executives, churches and doctors to donate money to nonprofit organizations, such as Enroll America, that are helping to implement President Obama's health care overhaul.
The agency said Friday there is a special section within the Public Health Services Act that allows the secretary to solicit financial support for nonprofit organizations conducting public health work
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
This is not another shoe dropping, but apparently a sideshow...
I have more respect for a two bit hooker than ANYONE in the 0bama regime!
Prima facie violation of The Hatch Act.
Circumventing the appropriations process is what got Congress all in a tizzy during Iran-Contra. I wonder if they'll go as apoplectic now over this? /rhetorical
There. Fixed it.
It's all legal. It was in the bill, and became law when the bill was passed.
One of those things we only got to see after we "passed the bill," as Natzi Pelosi so memorably put it.
Thank you I need to google both as a refresher, Love the screen name, loved his humor....
You know U.M., I wonder after the last 3 or 4 days how many old fart Democrat Senators are looking at these messes and saying Aw Crap I am out of here, I've had a enough of this, this ain't gonna go good...
She does look like a 'has been', washed-up hooker from the '70's. LOL
I heard the term "Sebelius soliciting" and lost my lunch...
Impeaching Sebelius could be a warmup and practice for impeaching other Obama officials...
Maybe we need to pace theses things out, so we have time and resources to get to the bottom of each of theses problems.
That is probably the Obama strategy to get them all out now so that they don't have to deal with them come election time.
OMG too funny I got the wrong uncle Miltie! LOL !!!
She took lots of money in Kansas when she ran for Gov from Tiller the Killer. She is the Abortion Gov from KS.
Did I just wake up and the GOP decided to grow a set? All of a sudden the invincible Obama could be a target. Eh, call me slightly optimistic that the GOP may actually try to put up a fight, maybe they don't want to give the "Messiah" free reign.
Send her back to Topeka.
There may be some in the GOP that realize they will not stay if office... ...unless they act...
Leavenworth or Lansing would be more fitting for her.
Why do we tolerate this?
This abortion loving bitch had already been slapped down hard once for abusing her power but she goes and does it again.
Jail time is the only solution. Keep putting them in jail until government official finally start fearing us like the Founders intended.
Any crime committed by ANY government official must be punished by at minimum twice the prison term for the same crime from the private sector. The reason is that they are not only committing criminal acts but using the power of government force to commit the crime.
Ah, yes...Lansing.
Resting place of Dick & Perry.
"Did I just wake up and the GOP decided to grow a set?"
The GOPe reminds me of how vultures operate. Hang around and wait to see if their next "meal" actually dies. Then if it does, swoop in for the "kill."
Earlier someone opined on a different thread that "The Gobbler (aka Mr, No Chin) McConnell didn't have any balls because he had "loaned them" to Boner, who in turn, had given the little peas to Obama. No wonder there's a rush after a session to the House and Senate Ladie's Rooms.
Sebelius is a two-bit hooker. The more I learn about her, the more I recognize a truly evil person.
Fits right in with the Obama Chicago crowd of commies, crooks, cronies and crazies.
Welcome back to Kansas, my pretty!
May a house fall on you, Kathleen, and a bucket of water finish you off.
Calling Glenda, Calling Glenda, we have a job for you in Kansas!
Re Sebelius and fundraising. Her theme is "I'm following the crooked Green road".
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The win32text extension can cause trouble with hunk selection. This has been resolved in Mercurial 1.3 and TortoiseHg 0.8, but requires proper configuration. See issue #82.
The commit tool is one of the main two applications of TortoiseHg. Together with the Repository Explorer (aka, the changelog tool) these two tools can perform or access nearly every function that TortoiseHg supports.
Not only can the commit tool commit your changes, but it can examine the state of your working directory and perform most routine maintenance tasks (add new files, record renames, manage the ignore filter, etc).
At the top of the commit tool is a menu bar, newly introduced in version 0.9.
- Tools
- Launch common TortoiseHg tools in separate processes
- View
- Toggle the display of optional features, or refresh the working directory contents.
- Operations
- These menu items correspond to the toolbar buttons.
- Help
- Open a web browser to this web page, or launch TortoiseHg About dialog.
Enumerating the toolbar buttons:
- Commit
- Commit selected diffs in checked files.
- Undo
- Undo (rollback) last immediate commit. Your commit message will be available in the message history, so you can easily repeat the commit if necessary.
- Diff
- Visual diff checked files.
- Revert
- Revert checked files to last revisioned state. If merging, it allows you to select the revert parent.
- Add
- Add checked files that were in unknown '?' or ignored 'I' state.
- Move
- Move checked files to specified target directory in versioned manner.
- Remove
- Delete checked unversioned files and/or remove (mark as deleted) any versioned files.
- Forget
- Forget checked versioned files.
- Refresh
- Reload the state of the working directory. It tries to retain check and selection state across refresh.
Below the toolbar are useful widgets:
- Branch dialog
- Shows the current branch name of the working directory. Normally this is informational only, but pressing this button opens up a branch maintenance dialog. Do not use this feature unless you understand Mercurial's named branches.
- Recent Commit Messages
- A drop-down list of the 10 most recent commit messages. The the drop-down list is filled the first time it is opened.
- QNew
- If you have enabled the MQ extension, there will also be a text entry for a new patch name. Entering a patch name switches the commit tool into 'QNew' mode.
The file list has four columns:
- A checkbox that indicates whether the file is selected for an operation. The toolbar buttons only operate on checked files. "Partially" selected files have a special check state. This column header is checkable, it will toggle the file selection states.
- The st column holds the status of the file, defined by Mercurial's status command, one of 'MARD?IC'.
- The ms column holds the merge state of the file, defined by Mercurial's resolve command, one of ' RU'. See the merge section below.
- The canonical path of the file (relative to the repository root)
If the commit tool was started with a file pattern or selection, a button will appear at the bottom of the file list that can clear the file pattern and give you an unfiltered view of the entire working directory.
Below the file list, inside an expander, are checkboxes that toggle the display of the various classes of files {modified, added, removed, deleted, unknown, clean, ignored}. These check boxes will be disabled if the commit tool was started with a file pattern or selection.
Removed means a revisioned file has been marked as removed. Deleted means a revisioned file is missing but Mercurial has not been told to quit tracking that file. For instance, if you rename a revisioned file in the explorer, the original filename will show up as deleted and the new filename will show up as unknown. By right-clicking on the new filename you can bring up the rename guessing dialog which can discover the rename by comparing file contents and mark the old file as removed and the new file as added while recording the whole operation as a rename.
Unknown files are not tracked by Mercurial, but they also do not match any ignore filters you have configured. Unknown files are shown by default because they are usually files that need to be added to revision control. It is recommended that you keep your ignore filters up to date to ensure that is the case. The context menu of unknown files has an option open the ignore pattern tool.
Clean files are tracked files that have not been modified, while Ignored files are untracked files that match a configured ignore pattern. Neither of those file types are shown by default, unless a the user includes such a file in a selection (explorer) or provides the file name on the command line.
Below both the file list and diff pane is a narrow Parents Bar. This bar shows you the current working directory parent(s), and gives you some warnings if a commit would introduce a new head. The parents bar can be hidden by an option in the View menu.
To the right of the file list is the diff pane. The diff pane is newly tabbed in the 0.9 release.
- Text Diff
- Shows the textual diffs in the currently selected file.
- Hunk Selection
- In releases 0.7 through 0.8, this tab was the only content shown to the user. The diffs in this tab can be toggled per "hunk", allowing the user to cherry pick changes to be included in the commit. As in 0.8, this tab only shows diff hunks for the currently selected file. This tab cannot show binary diffs or renames. That data can only be seen in the Text Diff tab.
- Commit Preview
- This tab previews all of the selected hunks in every checked file, essentially a preview of what will be committed when you press the commit button.
- Patch Contents
- Only visible when the commit tool is in QRefresh mode. It displays the current contents of the patch being refreshed.
If the Advanced Bar is enabled in the View menu, a bar is inserted between the toolbar and the message history bar. The advanced bar contains:
- Committer
- The username to use for this commit. This value is usually read from your Mercurial.ini file, but it can be specified on the hgtk command line or read from a patch file. Lastly, the user could manually specify a different username here.
- Auto-includes
- A text entry that allows the user to modify the comma separated list of files that are always included in the commit list, regardless of whether they have been checked. This is intended for use in repositories that have pre-commit hooks that modify certain files (say a changelog).
- Push after commit
- A toggle button that determines whether TortoiseHg will attempt to push outgoing changes to your default push target after each successful commit.
So what does the phrase 'commit the selected diffs in checked files' mean? Simple, the TortoiseHg commit tool supports change selection intrinsically in the diff browser. This means that all of the changes you make to versioned files can be individually selected to be included in the commit or left out of the commit (but left in the working directory). Fans of darcs or Mercurial's record extension will recognize this feature immediately.
When you have more than a single coherent change in your source code and you would like to commit your changes piecemeal. This can often be accomplished by filtering the list of files in each commit, but there will be times when your changes intermingle in the same set of files and that is when this change selection feature becomes indispensable.
By double-clicking on individual change hunks in the Hunk Selection tab of the diff panel. Technically, any action which activates a change hunk row will toggle it's selection status. The spacebar will also work. When a hunk is unselected, the syntax highlighting of the diff is disabled and the background is turned gray. At the same time, the file's diff header is updated to show the current selection state, the selected hunk count and changed lines will be updated. Toggle the hunk a second time to reselect it for inclusion in your commit.
When a file is partially selected for commit, it's icon is changed from a checkbox to a radio button. At a glance at the file list, you should be able to find which files are entirely included in the commit, partially included, or entirely excluded.
The short answer is that the selected hunks in checked files are committed to the repository and the unselected changes are left in your working directory for the next commit.
The long answer is a little more complicated. What happens behind the scenes is that the files which are partially selected are backed up in a safe location, reverted to their last revisioned state, have their selected change hunks applied back to them, committed, and then finally recovered from backup (thus placing the rejected change hunks back into the working copy). Files which are not partially selected avoid the entire backup, revert, patch, commit, recover round trip and instead are committed in place.
This longer answer is only interesting when something goes wrong, which on Windows unfortunately has a probability greater than 0. If some program (virus checker, compiler) locks your file in the middle of this process you may see an error about a failed patch. These errors are recoverable. Delete any new .rej files left in your repository and retry the commit.
The commit tool has a special mode when it is opened in a repository that is in a merged state (technically, this means the current working directory has two parent revisions). The file list has no checkboxes and the hunk selection tabs are hidden. The commit 'manifest' is essentially immutable, since you must commit the entire working directory after a merge.
The merge state ms column is especially useful in this mode. Files that are marked with R are files where Mercurial and/or the user have successfully merged (resolved) changes from both parents. Files that are marked with U have unresolved changes. You can use the Restart Merge context menu option to restart the merge for those files, or you can use the edit context menu option to resolve the conflict by hand. The Restart Merge menu option allows you to select the merge tool to use to perform the merge, or even to pick one version or the other unconditionally (internal:local, internal:other). After the conflicts have been manually resolved, you must use the mark resolved context menu option to change the file's merge state to R.
Mercurial will not allow you to commit a merge if any files have unresolved U merge states.
For your reference, local is the revision you had checked out when you started the merge and other is the revision you merged with.
To undo a failed merge attempt, you must tell Mercurial to remove the second parent from your working directory. This usually means performing a clean update of the first parent. The merge tool has an Undo button which does exactly that. The recovery tool also has a Clean button that does the same thing.
Once you have your working directory back at one parent revision, you may restart the merge process.
The commit message pane has these special context menu options:
- Paste Filenames:
- Paste checked filenames into the commit message at the cursor.
- Apply Format:
- Apply configured message wrap policy to current message.
- Configure Format:
- Opens the settings dialog to the Commit tab.
If your project has guidelines for the format of commit messages, you can configure them in the settings tool. The commit tool will enforce your policy at commit time, and you can ask the tool to apply the format to the current message. The Commit tab of the settings tool has these two configurables for commit message policy:
- Summary Line Length:
- Maximum length of the commit message summary line. If set, TortoiseHg will issue a warning if the summary line is too long or not separated by a blank line. Default: 0 (unenforced)
- Message Line Length:
- Word wrap length of the commit message. If set, the popup menu can be used to format the message and a warning will be issued if any lines are too long at commit. Default: 0 (unenforced)
Many advanced Mercurial users use the MQ extension to manage a patch queue. The commit tool will recognize when a patch is applied and enter patch refresh mode. The title bar will say "refreshing patch patchname" and the patch comment will appear in the commit message pane.
A new 'Patch Contents' tab will appear in the diff pane with the full contents of the top patch. The Text Diff and Hunk Selection tabs will show the combined diff of the patch and working directory changes so that you can move changes into or out of the patch during the qrefresh.
This is essentially what the qdiff command would show you. There is, in fact, no way to get just the working copy diffs beyond running hg diff on the command line or typing a name into the QNew entry which toggles the dialog into QNew mode (more below).
The Commit button, which has been renamed QRefresh in this context, will refresh the top patch with the changes you have selected, including the patch description. This may be a bit confusing at first because the changes you leave out of the patch are still going to be in the working directory after the refresh, so unless you look at the patch contents it will not seem as if anything changed.
The commit tool can be used to create a new patch for your patch queue. If you have the MQ extension enabled, a text entry will be inserted between the branch maintenance button and the message history drop-down box. If you enter a filename in this entry the commit tool will switch out of commit or qrefresh mode into qnew mode. In qnew mode, the commit tool shows only working directory modifications (the changes that would typically get added to a new patch by hg qnew -f). The Commit button will change into a QNew button as well, to make the mode switch more obvious.
When the QNew button is pressed, the selected change hunks are written into a new patch (given the filename you specified), and the dialog is refreshed. After this refresh, the commit tool will obviously switch to qrefresh mode since there will now be at least one applied patch.
You may give the new patch a commit message at the initial qnew event, or you can do it afterwords while in qrefresh mode.
And three other features for advanced users.
External tool configuration has been removed in 0.9
The commit tool can be started from command line:
hgtk commit [OPTIONS] [FILE]...
aliases: ci
commit tool
-u --user record user as committer
-d --date record datecode as commit date
use "hgtk -v help commit" to show global options
For a quick help on the format of date type:
hg help dates


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Australian painter Arthur Streeton (1867–1943) achieved considerable success in Australia in the 1890s painting lyric views of the area around the Sydney Harbour en plein air and heroic landscapes of the Blue Mountains and the Hawkesbury River. Together with Tom Roberts and Charles Conder (see cat.25), he was a major instigator of the 1889 '9 by 5 impressions' exhibition in Melbourne. In 1897 he moved to London, where he painted English landscapes, while retaining Australia as a principal market.
Lambert depicted Streeton, aged thirty-nine, in profile and looking to the left: a pose similar to that in which fellow Australian artist Tom Roberts had painted Streeton aged twenty-four in 1891. In this drawing Lambert emphasised the profile of Streeton's brow, nose and beard with a sharp outline. He drew this portrait before Streeton left London for a twelve-month visit to Australia on 13 October 1906.
It is not known when Lambert first met Streeton; it could have been in Sydney in the 1890s. They certainly knew each other by 1901, because in January 1901, before they left for Paris, the Lamberts visited Streeton for lunch, when Streeton wrote that Lambert 'seems fresh & lively enough' (Galbally and Gray, p.84). Streeton became a member of the Chelsea Arts Club in January 1903, and Lambert joined the club on 6 March 1905; they would have regularly met up with each other there. Furthermore, that year, at the suggestion of Roberts, Australian artists held a dinner at the Au Petit Riche restaurant in Soho, at which both Lambert and Streeton were present. Streeton became one of Lambert's closest friends among the Australian expatriate artists in London, with Lambert later writing that 'Streeton was a frequent and honoured visitor to the studio' (ML MSS A1811, p.73). Around 1907 Streeton modelled for Lambert for his painting The sonnet (cat.34), and in 1917 Lambert painted a portrait of Streeton in military uniform (Australian War Memorial, Canberra).


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Euro area annual inflation down to -0.6%
Euro area annual inflation is expected to be -0.6% in January 2015, down from -0.2% in December 20143, according to a flash estimate4 from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. This negative rate for euro area annual inflation in January is driven by the fall in energy prices (-8.9%, compared with -6.3% in December). Prices are also expected to fall for food, alcohol & tobacco (-0.1%, compared with 0.0% in December) and non-energy industrial goods (-0.1%, compared with 0.0% in December). Only prices for services are expected to increase (1.0%, compared with 1.2% in December). See full report of EUROSTAT: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/6581740/2-30012015-BP-EN.pdf/d776fbcc-89b2-4bae-beb0-ad30fa709244Citeste despre
On the Road to a New European Real Estate Association
The new European Real Estate Professions Association is at the horizon. More than 200.000 real estate agents and managers will be represented in this new association.
In May 2011 CEI members, delegates from various European countries, the members of the German Association IVD and all the participants of the European Congress in Berlin witnessed the foundation of the new European Platform of CEPI and CEI as a new roof top organization of the two major real estate agents and managers associations. It was a very moving ceremony when the document was signed in presence of more than 800 real estate professionals from around Europe in Berlin.
New Platform is already active
The new platform instantly started its work. It is an active group that makes the first steps in this new European Platform. Together with Jens‐Ulrich Kießling, who is chair of the Executive Board of the new platform, the presidents of the two European associations CEPI and CEI are the leadership team in the new rooftop organization. First Timo Multanen as CEPI President and now Claudine Speltz as new CEPI President, who took over duties in January 2012, together with Manuel Negrao, President of CEI are in the leadership team.
More Power in the representation of real estate professions
"For me the power of the European platform and the efficiency in representing the interest of the real estate agents and managers in Europe is directly connected with a strong presence of our group in Brussels" said Manuel Negrao as President of CEI. "The new political platform will become the new European association for real estate professions in the next 12 months", he added. It is important to achieve a higher importance in political decisions in Brussels for all real estate agents and managers. Until now the political interests of real estate professions are considered insufficiently. This will be changed.
During the next 12 months the two Boards of CEPI and CEI will make all necessary preparations to become one association. The Executive Board is preparing all the documents, the votes and fees and all the paperwork.
All European Associations invited to participate
"The new association will be the stronger the more national associations will be part of the new association and the power of this new association will be more intense the more input we receive from the national associations", said Negrao. "We will create the future of the real estate business and the framework for the estate professions in Europe together" Manuel Negrao is convinced.Citeste despre
Small companies create 85% of new jobs
Have you ever thought about the importance of small companies for job creation and the job market in Europe? 85% of net new jobs in the EU between 2002 and 2010 were created by small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). This figure is considerably higher than the 67%-share of SMEs in total employment. During this period, net employment in the EU's business economy rose substantially, by an average of 1.1 million new jobs each year. These are the main results of a study on the essential contribution of SMEs on job creation presented by the European Commission today.
Annual growth higher than in the averageWith 1% annually, the employment growth for SMEs was higher than for large enterprises with 0.5%. A clear exception is the trade sector, in which employment in SMEs increased by 0.7% annually, compared to 2.2% in large enterprises. This is due to the strong increase of large trade enterprises, in particular in sales, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles.
58 % of jobs in micro-firmsWithin the SME size-class, micro firms (less than 10 employees) are responsible with 58% for the highest proportion of total net employment growth in the business economy. Secondly new firms (younger than five years) are responsible for an overwhelming majority of the new jobs. New enterprises operating in business services create more than a quarter (27%) of the new jobs, while the new firms in transport and communication contribute least (6%).
SME confirming their roleCommission Vice-President Antonio Tajani, responsible for Entrepreneurship and Industry said: "In this critical time for European economy, we see small enterprises delivering and confirming their role as main generators of new jobs. Their significant share in job creation highlights the greater than ever economic relevance of SMEs and the need to support them at all levels. The small and new enterprises are clearly the key for restoring economic growth". More information can be found on the webpage of the SME Performance Review: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/facts-figures-analysis/performance-review/index_en.htm Main effects of the crisis: smaller enterprises report negative impacts more often According to the results of the survey, the economic crisis has left its mark on enterprises from all size-classes, with micro firms being particularly vulnerable. As a result of the 2009/2010 economic crisis the number of jobs in the SME-sector has on average decreased by 2.4% annually, as against 0.95% annually in the large enterprises sector. Employment developments are still negative in 2010, but expectations for 2011 were improving at the time the survey was held. The share of firms that expected to lay off employees in 2011 was smaller than the share of firms that actually laid off employees in 2010. Besides the employment effects, by far the most important negative effect of the crisis on firms is the overall decline of total demand for their products and services (mentioned by 62% of companies), followed by the increase in customer payment terms (mentioned by 48% of firms) and finally the shortage of working capital, which affected 31% of the respondents. Innovativeness is a weapon against the crisis Innovation seems to have a positive effect: innovative enterprises, as well as enterprises from more innovative countries, more often report employment growth and have higher employment growth rates. The survey underlines that innovative SMEs or companies operating in more innovative economies suffered less from the economic crisis. For example, while the decline in overall demand is mentioned by 70% of enterprises in countries that are considered modest innovators[1][2], the corresponding figure is 45% for countries which are innovation leaders. Job quality in SMEs The study distinguishes two broad dimensions of the job quality: employment quality and work quality. On average it is true that jobs in small enterprises are less productive, less remunerated, and less unionised than jobs in large enterprises. However, microenterprises report that they have a competitive advantage over their competitors as far as 'soft' aspects of the human resource aspects of an enterprise are concerned: working climate, work-life balance, working-time arrangements. Background The study is part of the SME Performance Review project and based on a survey of enterprises conducted at the end of 2010 and covering the 27 EU member states and 10 other countries participating in the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme, namely Albania, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, and Turkey. See full Press Release of EU unter the following link: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/12/20&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en Pictures: www.fotolia.de; Website EU Commission, http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/tajani/multimedia/photo-gallery/index_en.htm Citeste despre
Business Climate Indicator improves in the euro area
The Business Climate Indicator (BCI) for the euro area increased for the first time in ten months in December 2011. The improvement in the BCI in December was mainly driven by increased optimism about production expectations, as well as by a more positive assessment of production trends observed in recent months and export order books. By contrast, managers were more pessimistic about their overall order books, and their assessments of stocks of finished products marginally increased. See full Press Release under the following link: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/12/5&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=enCiteste despre
EU modernises the Professional Qualifications Directive
The real estate sector is highly involved and interested in the evaluation of the Professional Qualifications Directive. In many countries in europe the real estate professions are unregulated. In other countries the profession is regulated. With the modernisation of the Professional Qualifications Directive the situation for real estate professions shall improve in many countries.
Plans of the EU CommissionAs the working age population in many Member States shrinks, demand for highly skilled people between now and 2020 is projected to rise by over 16 million jobs. If Europe is to meet this demand, gaps in labour shortages need to be filled – for example through mobile and well qualified professionals from other EU Member States. They can be a key source of growth, but only if they can easily go to where jobs are and this requires their qualifications in the EU to be recognised in a fast, simple and reliable way. That is why the Commission has today adopted a proposal for modernising the Professional Qualifications Directive (Directive 2005/36/EC).
Simplyfying rules for more mobilityThe proposal aims at simplifying rules for the mobility of professionals within the EU by offering a European Professional Card to all interested professions which would allow easier and faster recognition of qualifications. It also clarifies the framework for consumers, by inviting Member States to review the scope of their regulated professions and by addressing public concerns about language skills and the lack of effective alerts about professional malpractice, notably in the health sector. Internal Market and Services Commissioner Michel Barnier said: "Europe is facing many challenges today. One of them will be the increase in demand for highly skilled jobs across the EU. Today's proposal on professional qualifications responds to the need to have a smooth system of recognition of qualifications in order to support the mobility of professionals across Europe. It will make it easier for well qualified professionals to go where job vacancies exist. And this will certainly prove beneficial for the growth of the European economy. I am convinced that the idea of a European professional card – an electronic certificate – is the right way forward, as it will simplify and speed up the recognition procedures for mobile professionals."
Key elements of the proposal:1. The introduction of a European professional card will offer to interested professionals the possibility to benefit from easier and quicker recognition of their qualifications. It should also facilitate temporary mobility. The card will be made available according to the needs expressed by the professions (for example, nurses and mountain guides expressed a strong interest in using such a card). The card is associated to an optimised recognition procedure carried out within the existing Internal Market Information System (IMI) and will take the form of an electronic certificate, allowing the professional to provide services or become established in another Member State. 2. Better access to information on the recognition of professional qualifications: all citizens seeking the recognition of their professional qualifications should be able to go to a one-stop shop rather than being passed around between different government bodies. This one-stop shop should be the Points of Single Contact (PSCs), created under the Services Directive, which will allow citizens to obtain information in one place about the documents required to have their qualifications recognised and where they can also complete all online recognition procedures. 3. Updating minimum training requirements for doctors, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, midwives, veterinary surgeons and architects: the minimum training requirements for these professions were harmonised 20 or 30 years ago. They have been updated to reflect the evolution of these professions and of education in these fields. For example, the entry level for nursing and midwifery training has been upgraded from 10 years to 12 years of general education. 4. The introduction of an alert mechanism for health professionals benefiting from automatic recognition: competent authorities of a Member State will be obliged to alert competent authorities of all other Member States about a health professional who has been prohibited from exercising his professional activity by a public authority or a court. This is particularly important because there have been examples of doctors banned from practising in their home Member State, moving abroad to work, and other Member States were not aware of it. 5. The introduction of common training frameworks and common training tests, replacing common platforms, should offer the possibility to extend the mechanism of automatic recognition to new professions. Interested professions could benefit from automatic recognition on the basis of a common set of knowledge, skills and competences or on a common test assessing the ability of professionals to pursue a profession. 6. Mutual evaluation exercise on regulated professions: a new mechanism is introduced in the Directive to ensure greater transparency and justification of the professions they regulate through a specific qualification requirement. Member States will have to provide a list of their regulated professions and justify the need for regulation. This should be followed up by a mutual evaluation exercise facilitated by the European Commission.
Background:The Professional Qualifications Directive is essential to enabling professionals to start a new business or to find a job in another Member State requiring a specific qualification for a specific professional activity. The modernisation is one of the twelve levers for growth set out in the Single Market Act (IP/11/469). The proposal builds on a Green Paper the Commission issued in June (IP/11/767). A summary of the responses to the Green Paper has been published today as well. More information: http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/qualifications/policy_developments/index_en.htm Source: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1562&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en Picture: www.fotolia.de; Website EU Commission, Reference: P-020160/00-04 Location: Brussels - EC/Berlaymont Rapid: IP/12/11 Citeste despre
Energy Roadmap 2050 of European Commission
- Decarbonisation of the energy system is technically and economically feasible. All decarbonisation scenarios allow achieving the emission reduction target and can be less costly than current policies in the long-run.
- Energy Efficiency and renewable energy are critical. Irrespective of the particular energy mix chosen, higher energy efficiency and important rising shares of renewables are necessary to meet the CO2 targets in 2050. The scenarios also show that electricity will play a greater role than now. Gas, oil, coal and nuclear also figure in all scenarios in different proportions, allowing Member States to keep flexible options in their energy mix provided a well connected internal market is achieved quickly.
- Early Investments cost less. Investment decisions for the necessary infrastructure up to 2030 must be taken now, as infrastructure built 30-40 years ago needs to be replaced. Acting immediately can avoid more costly changes in twenty years. The EU's energy evolution requires anyway modernisation and much more flexible infrastructure such as cross border interconnections, "intelligent" electricity grids and modern low-carbon technologies to produce, transmit and store energy.
- Contain the increase of prices. The investments made now will pave the way for the best prices in the future. Electricity prices are bound to raise until 2030, but can fall thereafter thanks to lower cost of supply, saving policies and improved technologies. The costs will be outweighed by the high level of sustainable investment brought into the European economy, the related local jobs, and the decreased import dependency. All scenarios get to decarbonisation with no major differences in terms of overall costs or security of supply implications.
- Economies of scale are needed. A European approach will result in lower costs and secure supply compared to national parallel schemes. This includes a common energy market which should be completed by 2014.


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text: You Can Get a Scholarship for THAT?! Students Seeking Money for College Should Consider These Non-Traditional Awards Sep 11, 2012 by Lisa Lowdermilk Like many students, you're probably wondering how on Earth you're going to pay for another semester of college, especially if you've either a) missed the deadline for your school's scholarships or b) don't feel like writing an essay, filling out forms, etc. But fear not: There are plenty of less traditional scholarships available throughout the year. And let me tell you, some of the scholarships out there are strange. To illustrate what I mean, take a look at the Eileen J. Garrett Scholarship. This scholarship is specifically for students studying parapsychology, the study of near-death experience, psychic powers, reincarnation and more. I had no idea you could get a scholarship in parapsychology, let alone major in it! Equally bizarre is the Gatling Scholarship at North Carolina State University. This scholarship requires that your last name be Gatling or Gatlin (no other variations will be considered) in honor of North Carolinian entrepreneur John Gatling. And no, you can't legally change your last name to be considered for this scholarship – a copy of your birth certificate is required. And since we've all heard about students who get scholarships based solely on their sports performance, here's one to level the playing field for the less athletically inclined: the Gertrude J. Deppen Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded at Bucknell University in varying amounts each year to students who not only do not participate in strenuous athletic contests but also abstain from tobacco, liquor and narcotics. I don't know about you but this is the first time I've heard of a scholarship which awards you for not doing something! So, while some of the scholarship deadlines may have already passed, remember that there are hundreds, even thousands of other scholarships and grants out there. And if you have your heart set on one scholarship but the application deadline has already passed, at least now you'll have months to prepare for it. Good luck! Lisa Lowdermilk is a published poet, avid video gamer and artist. Her poems have appeared in Celebrate Young Poets: West (Fall 2006) edition and Widener University's The Blue Route. She enjoys watching thrillers, trying different restaurants and attempting to breakdance. Lisa is now majoring in professional writing at the University of Colorado Denver.Going to college doesn't have to break the bank or saddle you with tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt. Check out the Scholarships.com free college scholarship search where you'll discover you qualify for hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarships in just a few minutes, then apply and win! It's that easy!


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Alain Vigneault's Coin isn't Funny, But the Jokes Serve a Purpose
Thomas Drance
February 11 2013 11:14AM
There were many revealing moments during Roberto Luongo's bangarang appearance on CBC's After Hours on Saturday night, immediately following the Canucks' five-one victory over the Flames. Luongo was in fine form cracking several wicked jokes, name dropping Smylosphere staples like the Stanchion and generating thousands of pageviews for indie blogs like this one by calling Scott Oake a "milt" on national television.
But one moment particularly stood out to me. During the interview, while the cameras were rolling live, Canucks headcoach Alain Vigneault approached the Roberto Luongo, Craig Simpson, Scott Oake threesome and made an off camera quip at his "backup" goaltender. According to Luongo, Vigneault told him to sing his coaches praises if he had any interesting in receiving playing time going forward. It was a light moment, and yet another instance of Alain Vigneault having altogether too much fun with his goaltending controversy and the breathless coverage of Vancouver's crowded crease.
Read on past the jump for more.
Over the past few weeks, Alain Vigneault's "coin" that he jokes he uses to select his starting goaltender for any given game, has been given an awful lot of run. The coin even has its own Twitter account, so you know it's a Big Deal. This attention of course is the entire point of the joke, and very probably the reason the Canucks' bench boss has gone to the well again and again, telling his coin joke with the ruthlessness of Javier Bardem's air-pressure assassin in No Country for Old Men.
Obviously when Vigneault decided to start Roberto Luongo (ostensibly the team's backup) for four games in a row last week, it wasn't just an example of Poisson distribution. Vigneault is calling the shots, riding the point thief when he has too, and his double-sided coin is just a ruse or, perhaps, a coping strategy.
Consider that over the past few years the Canucks as a team have exhibited a regular tendency to playfully mess with the media. I'd hypothesize it's partly a way of deflecting pressure in one of the highest pressure markets in hockey. Whether it's Kesler-bombing interviews, sneaking "Milk Hot Dog" into chats with the press, embarrassing reporters by pretending to be other players on the team, or answering questions about what the Canucks need to adjust mid-game to come away with the by quoting LMFAO - having a bit of fun at the media's expense is something of a habit for this club, and has been for a while. Alain Vigneault's coin takes this concept to its furthest extent, but I'd argue it's the culmination of a natural trend.
I'd further suggest to you that the headcoach is taking a page out of @strombone1's book, and using self-deprecating humour as a method of dealing with a difficult situation. Discomfort is often the necessity that preceeds the invention of a joke, after all. It helps that Vigneault's two star goaltenders are joining in too, with Cory Schneider comparing himself to Conan O'Brien after a practice in which Roberto Luongo was named the starter for the next game, and Luongo making coin jokes during the Super Bowl telecast. When it comes to the goaltending controversy, al of the principles are comedians.
The joke accomplishes a couple of things, I think. It allows Alain Vigneault to deflect attention away from his goaltenders, both of whom are professionals and good teammates but would probably rather start nearly every game for two different clubs at this point. It also allows him to avoid the questions altogether. The second part might be important because, when it comes to putting his foot in his mouth while talking to the press, Alain Vigneault is something of a high-event defenseman. Think of Alain Vigneault as Kevin Bieksa, and the coin as Dan Hamhuis - it helps him limit his mistakes.
While the coin joke is already old (and likely to continue to get beaten like a rented mule for as long as the goaltending conundrum in Vancouver's net continues), I have to credit Vigneault and his goaltenders for finding a reasonably healthy and somewhat amusing outlet with which to innocuously handle this awkward circumstance. I'm not laughing at the coin anymore, as a joke it's not all that funny, but I find I have some respect for it. Viewed as a symbolic type of slogan that helps preserve camaraderie while keeping prying questions from the press at a distance, it makes an awful lot of sense.
February 11 2013, 01:29PM
Well, maybe he can bring a real version of the wheel of fortune to the next presser. Has to be careful though the Schneids and Lu are on it in equal numbers or someone would have a statistical advantage at winning the next start. Or he could not do this and see if the press figures it out… Lol, although that would be the foot and mouth analogy I guess.