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Will Jimmy Carter's latest North Korea visit change anything?
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's 48-hour mission to Pyongyang this week leaves analysts wondering whether anyone, however well intentioned, can persuade North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il to relent on his hard-line policies and return to serious talk on giving up the North's nuclear program.Carter, arriving in Seoul on Thursday along with the former leaders of three other countries, repeated the North Korean mantra of eagerness to negotiate "without preconditions" but acknowledged that he had again not succeeded in meeting Kim.
Instead, he and the other three, including Martti Ahtsarri of Finland, Mary Robinson of Ireland, and Gro Brundtland of Norway, had to settle for a written message, said Carter, of willingness to negotiate at any time and without any preconditions.
That statement, similar to many released by North Korean officials in recent months, "is a perfect example of the law of diminishing returns," says L. Gordon Flake, executive director of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation in Washington. It's "bromides that we've all heard before."
The great flaw in the message, say North Korean analysts, is that North Korea couples the message with what amount to conditions, including a demand that the United States must provide security guarantees.
'Deep regret'
Carter reported that Kim Jong-il had said in his message that he would be willing to hold a summit with South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak. But South Korea has insisted on an apology first from North Korea for the sinking of a South Korean navy corvette the Cheonan in March of last year with a loss of 46 lives, and for the shelling of an island in the Yellow Sea last November in which four people were killed.
North Korea expressed "deep regret" over both incidents, according to Carter. But the North has repeatedly denied anything to do with the Cheonan sinking and accuses South Korean gunners of opening fire from the island before the North Koreans fired back.
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"Carter's visit may get some attention," says David Kang, director of the Korean Studies Institute at the University of Southern California, but "it's not really going to change anything." Kang sees "strategic patience" as ""the only game" at this stage. "He may accomplish a little symbolically," he says, but "substantively very little will change in the short term."
The failure of the quartet of former leaders – they call themselves "elders" – to see Kim Jong-il comes as a special disappointment since Carter did meet Kim's father, Kim Il-sung, in an historic visit in June 1994 in the midst of an earlier nuclear crisis. That visit was seen as helpful in leading to the Geneva agreement of October 1994 in which North Korea hut down its nuclear reactor in return for the promise of twin nuclear energy reactors.
The Geneva agreement broke down eight years later with the revelation that North Korea had a separate program for fabricating warheads with highly enriched uranium, and the reactors were never built. Six-party talks, hosted by China, including the U.S., Japan, Russia, and the two Koreas, were last held in December 2008.
North Korea, however, clearly hopes for an infusion of food aid, provided by South Korea for a decade under the South's Sunshine policy of reconciliation before the conservative Lee Myung-bak took over as president in February 2008. South Korea and the US cut off such aid while waiting for the North to live up to agreements for ending its nuclear program.
In Seoul Carter said "one of the most important human rights is to have food to eat." He also decried the cut-off of food aid by the US as "a human rights violation."
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Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Representative Mike Pompeo (R-Kansas) are connecting energy issues to something that is concerning to all Americans: the rampant cronyism in Washington that corrodes entrepreneurialism and distorts markets, profiting the well-connected at the expense of taxpayers. Recognizing that the market in energy has been warped by a web of incentives for politically connected energy companies developing favored sources, their Energy Freedom and Economic Prosperity Act (EFEPA) would eliminate myriad distortionary tax incentives for favored industries, creating a level playing field for energy production.
Representative Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) is taking a more comprehensive approach. His EXPAND Act targets energy tax incentives like EFEPA while also reforming numerous burdensome federal energy regulations. It abolishes the EPA's job-killing greenhouse gas restrictions — the regulations that top Obama aide John Podesta has said Congress has a "zero percent" chance of stopping. Among other things, Duncan also targets the destructive Bush-era ethanol mandate for elimination.
Finally, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Representative Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) have a comprehensive bill of their own, which incorporates some of the best ideas from the aforementioned proposals along with a few of its own to remove various barriers to the sale and production of energy. Among its provisions, the American Energy Renaissance Act would curtail the EPA's plans to regulate coal-fired power plants out of existence, promote broader pipeline development in addition to approving Keystone, create a Congressional check on new EPA regulations resulting in extreme economic burdens, and expedite permitting processes for refinery construction.
These ideas reflect the work that Heritage and other conservative research institutions have done in recent years on these issues. The common themes: More production is a good thing; free markets will find more efficient solutions; overbearing regulation threatens to stifle both innovation and foreign competitiveness. President Obama claims his energy approach is "all of the above," but until our government recognizes those core principles, we'll be missing out on countless opportunities to leverage our abundant energy opportunities.
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Nov 01, 2011, 07:04 ET
ALBANY, New York, November 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --
According to a new report published by Transparency Market Research (http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com), "Global Diabetes Market: Drugs & Devices (2011 - 2016)"The global market for Diabetes Management accounted for USD 41.9 billion in 2010 and is expected to attain a market size of USD 114.3 billion in 2016 following a growth rate of 18.2% CAGR.
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Diabetes is one of the major areas of concern worldwide. The rising number of patients is due to the ever increasing population. Currently, over 275 million people suffer from diabetes across the globe. This population is expected to exceed 350 million by 2030. As per the present scenario, the population within the age bracket of 40-59 years is the most affected. However, this age bracket is expected to shift to the age-group 60-79 years by 2030.
The global market for Diabetes Management accounted for USD 41.9 billion in 2010 and is expected to attain a market size of USD 114.3 billion in 2016 following a growth rate of 18.2% CAGR. Major products in this market consist of glucose meters, test strips, lancets, continuous blood glucose meters, syringes, insulin, insulin pumps and other insulin delivery devices and anti-diabetic drugs. Of these, insulin, test strips, glucose monitors and anti-diabetic drugs are the most revenue generating products.
Among the different geographies across the globe, the U.S. forms the main source of revenue for this market contributing in excess of 1/3rdof the overall revenue. However, with the continuous economic growth of the Asia-Pacific region especially that of China, the contribution of the U.S. market is expected to drop by 5% - 7% within a period of 10 years from now.
The global increase in the prevalence of diabetes can be attributed to the fast development of economies of China and India as a major driving force for the diabetes care market. Besides these two countries, other Asian countries are expected to be major revenue generators for this market by 2030. According to our estimates, out of the 10 major countries with high diabetic population, 7 would be from the Asian region itself.
Factors triggering diabetes in Asian countries with high population such as India and China are the rapid urbanization, drastic change in lifestyle of people - most follow a static lifestyle. Such a change in lifestyle is leading to obesity and naturally to an increasing diabetic population. Another contributory factor is the lack in awareness, diagnosis and treatment of diabetes. Countries with high population lead to expansion in the type-2 diabetic population worldwide.
For the past few years, Roche Diagnostics, Johnson & Johnson, Bayer Healthcare and Abbott Laboratories have continuously dominated the market. These four companies globally formed a market share in excess of 9/10th of the overall market in the year 2010 with remaining share is with the other Tier-II companies worldwide. This trend is expected to carry on likewise in the near future. However, the shuffling of some percentage of market shares among these four is expected.
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The report provides extensive analysis and wholesome insights about the current market trends, developments including industry drivers & challenges and future outlook & growth opportunities prevailing in the global diabetes market. The report also covers the strategies followed by "Global Diabetes Market: Drugs and Devices" players.
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Bank of Ireland has moved swiftly to implement assistance for customers in response to the Covid-19 public health emergency, quickly launching a broad range of practical supports for personal and business customers.
Bank bosses have also made necessary changes to its branch network to play its part in curtailing the virus and ensuring services are focussed on the most pressing needs of customers right now.
This also involved diverting colleagues into roles where they can best assist customers and fast-track thousands of applications for support.
Bank of Ireland has already donated €1million in emergency support to charities and community groups nationwide in partnership with the Community Foundation for Ireland.
Its Covid-19 supports for customers include mortgage and loan payment breaks for personal and business customers; emergency working capital and payment flexibility for businesses; waiving contactless fees and increasing contactless limit from €30 to €50, and buying back foreign currency so customers who couldn't travel wouldn't be out of pocket.
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Packed like sardines in Salthill and only 200 allowed gather at a game
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IN a moment of madness, I decided to take a cycle out to Salthill last Saturday. By the time I got to the Blackrock Diving Tower, I thought I had just come through Torremolinos or one of those sun hot spots on the Costa Del Sol. There were cars and people everywhere.
The first inkling that Salthill would be heaving came when there was a traffic-jam halfway back the Lough Atalia Road leading to the Docks. Such were the number of cars, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Pearse Stadium was hosting a Connacht football final that afternoon.
If the people of Offaly, Laois and Kildare – all currently under partial Covid-19 lockdown – could see the carefree holiday mood in one of the West's favourite tourist attractions, they'd be wondering had they stumbled on a parallel universe.
As readers will know from previous columns, I have a jaundiced view of NPHET and the Government's cautious approach to relaxing the coronavirus restrictions. The scaremongering continues at frightening levels and many people are living in a climate of fear – though few of them were in Salthill.
NPHET must be immune to what's really happening on the ground. If it thinks that there is widespread compliance, the group is living in cloud cuckoo land. All over Ireland's favourite tourist attractions, there are thousands of holiday makers with little or no observance of social distancing.
My frustration over this scenario is fuelled by the way sport and its followers have been so badly compromised by the Covid-19 restrictions. My club Lorrha was playing in the Tipperary hurling championship last Friday evening and many of our diehard supporters couldn't get a ticket to the match.
It's the same in every GAA parish. So much unnecessary agitation and frustration. On Sunday evening, reporting duties took me to Ballinasloe for an attractive derby clash between Tommy Larkins and Tynagh/Abbey-Duniry. In a nutshell, there was nearly as many people inside as outside the wire. The 'gathering' limit of 200 annoyingly remains, especially in the context of the throngs in places like Salthill.
NPHET have justified not increasing crowd limits to beyond 200 over fears that people will congregate afterwards and the assumption that individuals from different families are travelling together in the one car. Frankly, it's a load of nonsense and just irrational justification for not being prepared to compromise.
Of course, if the Government had any backbone instead of acting like a lapdog, it would never have come to this. I am fed up of hearing the line, in the interests of 'public health', as if people are dying from nothing else other than the coronavirus. The reality is that there have only been a handful of fatalities from the disease over the past fortnight. In the same period, how many have passed away from cancer and cardiac issues when their standard of care wasn't what it should have been due to the fixation with Covid-19 over the past four months?
There's now a genuine health and safety issue at play as well in relation to sporting fixtures. We have all images of fans hanging off trees and ladders, and others on rust-laden roofs, in their desperation to support their local teams. Furthermore, does NPHET have any idea what their draconian approach is doing to the mental health of some people?
There was no justification for stopping sporting activity in Laois, Offaly and Kildare last Friday. Locking down the affected towns where there was a surge of new infections in local meat processing plants would have made more sense. There have been no clusters spread through sport so why should codes like GAA and soccer be punished?
We all appreciate that the virus hasn't gone away and there is an obligation on all of us to act responsibly, but only making the use of masks compulsory for most indoor settings from last Monday takes the biscuit altogether. Why has it taken so long? The pandemic has been with us since last March and only now is this measure deemed appropriate.
Over the past few weeks, I have observed individuals wearing masks travelling alone in cars, while cycling, and outdoors where there's hardly a sinner in sight. What's that all about? It's not as if you can pass on the virus to yourself! Horse racing is going to extremes altogether. Now everybody at a meeting has to wear a mask outdoors. Suffice to say, they all look ridiculous walking around in what is the equivalent of big open fields.
I have absolutely no issue with our civil liberties being compromised in the ongoing quest to supress the virus, but logic is being repeatedly thrown out the window. NPHET's 'one size fits all' approach must be urgently reviewed and the Government needs to stand back and make up its own mind about what activity constitutes genuine risk.
Though I believe the horse has long since bolted when it comes to wearing masks in indoor centres, I am willingly obeying the rule while as team manager of Lorrha, all our players have their temperatures checked before each training session; there are hand santisers supplied; and the training props are disinfected.
The primary focus should be on sorting out meat processing plants and the direct provision centres, while travel in and out of the country ought to be restricted to emergencies or on compassionate grounds. House parties also need to be clamped down on. Everything else is hardly worth a hill of beans in tackling this pandemic.
Keeping gatherings at 200 and not allowing pubs to reopen are soft targets. I am not proposing anarchy or anything like that, but the powers that be need to wise up and concentrate their efforts on the places where outbreaks of the virus are occurring. Everything else is just window dressing.
Connacht Tribune
Old mills set for new life as distillery
An old corn mill in East Galway is set to be transformed into a €6 million whiskey and gin manufacturing distillery – once planning permission has been granted for the development.
And if approved, the distillery has the potential to create more than 15 new jobs directly in the village of Ahascragh, providing a huge economic boost to the area – and rescuing the old corn mill which ceased operation in the 1950s.
A planning application for the new brewery has just been submitted by Gareth and Michelle McAllister of McAllister Distillers in North Dublin, with a decision due before the end of the year.
Gareth McAllister told The Connacht Tribune that he intended to renovate the old building while retaining some of the old features such as a mill wheel, and utilise the stream that runs through the property.
The complex, as well as producing various styles of Irish whiskey and gin, will also include a visitor centre, rooms for hospitality events, a retail shop and cafe.
Read the full story in this week's Connacht Tribune, on sale in shops now. You can also purchase a digital edition here.
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Wait is over for frontman's first solo venture
Multi-instrumentalist John Martin Tierney has been a recognisable face on Galway's music scene for several years – but up to now, largely as the focal point in a band setting. Comfortable operating as both energetic frontman and rhythm-setting guitarist, he has featured in an array of impressive local outfits; most notably, his work with Dead Horse Jive has seen the five-piece develop into one of the city's top live acts.
But with all of that experience in a collaborative setting, John's solo work has sometimes been put to the side.
That's about to change – if just temporarily – as John releases his debut single, I Will Wait, this Friday; a three-and-a-half-minute ballad, the song incorporates piano and acoustic guitar more than much of his band work has done.
Though the track has existed in some form for a long time, its subject matter was particularly pertinent over lockdown.
"Around the start of June, I started properly putting energy into something that would have an end product," John recalls.
"I wanted something I could be proud of, even if I wasn't going to release it while lockd I Will Waitown was going on. I had an earlier version of it but I was never happy with it. I started rewriting it in about May or June.
"It kind of talks about missing people that you love. It's from the point of view of not being able to see someone physically because of whatever restrictions are in place. That's where it came from anyway and I think it translates well… I hope it does."
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Based on my experience, the pros and cons of the three missile type are:
Twin Missiles
+ High Power per missile
+ Good Tracking
+ Knock down the opponent so it is good for Long Range sniping or use the chance to rush her
- Big and easy to spot and dodge
- Launch angle makes tracking very close opponent (around 20 range) poor
- Due to knock down, not very efficient for combo
= Speed is so-so
Swarm Missiles
+ Large number of missiles
+ Usually if one hit, then the rest of them will hit
+ Don't knock down, it is a good choice for combo (usually with a launcher)
+ High damage potential
- Missiles have poor tracking
- Due to angle launch, perform very poorly against close opponent
- in cramped space or lots of obstacles, most of the time some, or even most will hit an object lowering damage potential
- Very easy to spot and dodge
= Speed is so-so
HM (High maneuver) missiles
+ Improved Tracking performance
+ High speed
+ Small and slim, very hard to spot and dodge
+ Don't knock down, it is a good choice for combo (usually with a launcher)
+ Low angle launch makes it capable of hitting on short range (around 20, just make sure not too close)
- Lower damage potential compared to twin or swarm
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The EU bailout in Cyprus seems, on the surface to have taken on board some good ideas such as burning bondholders, capital flight controls, and much more limited small depositors state bank guarantee scheme, but does this stand up to closer inspection or have they just used these good ideas in a rather twisted way to further the same old financial terrorist agendas?
External Related Links: The European Unions looting of Cyprus | Cyprus faces deep recession, high unemployment after bank bailout | Global Deposit Confiscation Called For By Bilderberg Member and CEO Of Italys Largest Bank | Canada Includes Depositor Haircut Bail-In Provision For Systemically Important Banks in 2013 Budget! | Laiki Bank: Some Depositors Are More Equal Than Others | The Lesson From Cyprus: Europe Is Politically Bankrupt | Cyprus Wealth Grab: The BIG TELL! | Jim Willies Most Important Article Ever- USDollar: Ring-Fenced & Checkmate -this is a newsletter from financial investor Jim Willie who is following events very closely for many years and suggests that Cyprus is the trigger for much larger events and thus is an important piece of a much larger jigsaw. It is intriguing to say the least.
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by T Thu Apr 04, 2013 00:29
Some good analysis in that article.
by T Thu Apr 04, 2013 21:42
There is further information on what is being planned over at the Golem XIV blog where in a piece titled "Plunderball The new Euro banking game", the author explains how New Zealand is working on the Open Bank Resolution Policy (OBR) which is something being worked on by the govt and which they intend to pass.
by T Sat Apr 06, 2013 22:15
BitCoin is the new digital currency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin invented in 2009 and it is unlike other currencies because it is based on public key encryption and there is no central bank overseeing it. It is peer to peer. And it is certainly a novel idea. Already many websites accept BitCoins for their donations and it's popularity is rapidly increasing.
by fred Sat Apr 06, 2013 23:05
Yes, it looks like this "banksterless" currency will actually take off now. People are just so fed up of banks. This could be a real revolution.
by fred Sun Apr 07, 2013 01:15
It's clear that some well connected people are threatened by the emergence of bitcoin
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"(United States) Vice President Joe Biden threw caution to the wind Friday as he shockingly declared, The affirmative task we have now is to actually create a new world order, adding yet another admission to an already long list of documented globalist bragging of plans for a centralized, one-world global government."
by fred Mon Apr 08, 2013 00:38
Apparently Cyprus presidents family transferred tens of millions to London days before deposit haircuts:
by fred Sat Apr 13, 2013 00:44
The true cost of Cyprus's fiat printed money bank bailout has risen steeply from an initial 17 billion euro to the current figure of 23 billion euro.
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Reply to fred at Sat Apr 13, 2013 00:44 ...
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Michel Chossudovsky reckons that "bail ins" as happened in Cyprus will become part of the banksters toolkit to remove struggling credit unions from the competitive landscape.
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"All structures both formal and informal which existed for communication between those two branches of government have ceased." (Note: the "two branches of government" referred to here by the AJI are the "Judicial" and the "Executive".)
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"The President of the High Court, Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns, said Master Honohan had no authority to speak on behalf of the court or its judges."


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CWS hero Roth gets chance to pitch for Great Britain
Over the past couple years, Michael Roth turned in one of the most dominant collegiate pitching careers of all-time, won two College World Series titles and signed a contract with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
Yet this week, Roth will have an opportunity to do something that he didn't even know was possible until recently -- pitch for Great Britain in the 2013 World Baseball Classic qualifiers in Regensburg, Germany.
Roth, whose mother was born in Kettering, England, technically has dual citizenship that allows him to represent his mother's native country in the Classic. The thought of pitching for Great Britain hadn't even crossed Roth's mind until last year, when he stumbled across the possibility while doing research for his international business degree.
"I honestly had no idea it was possible. I literally found out about a year ago that I was eligible for dual citizenship because of my English mother," Roth said. "I'm not really sure how [Great Britain] found out, but a coach contacted me in the middle of summer and asked if he could pass my information along to the Great Britain coach and asked if I was interested in playing, and I said, 'Yeah, sure, that'd be awesome.'"
However, even after the British Baseball Federation later extended an official offer to Roth, there was no guarantee he would be able to accept.
It certainly wasn't a matter of desire on Roth's part. The international business graduate always welcomes the opportunity to travel, so combining that with a chance to pitch on a stage as big as the Classic seemed like the opportunity of a lifetime to Roth.
"He's excited about new opportunities, new adventures," said Ray Tanner, Roth's college coach at the University of South Carolina. "When he found out he had a chance to represent Great Britain, he was off and running. That's just the way he is, he's really excited about this opportunity."
There still remained one major obstacle -- gaining permission from the Angels.
After drafting Roth in the ninth round of this past June's First-Year Player Draft, the Angels sent the southpaw to the Orem Owlz, the club's Rookie-level affiliate.
Though Roth logged 159 combined innings this year between Orem and South Carolina, the Angels allowed him to participate in this week's qualifiers on the condition of a 65-pitch limit.
"One of the things that I was worried about initially was -- because of the number of innings I'd thrown in college this year -- I was already on a limited pitch count when I reported to [Orem]," Roth said. "So I really didn't know if they'd let me go at all, but I just pitched it to them as a great opportunity to travel overseas and play some baseball and gain international experience. Luckily, the front-office guys were more than willing to let me go play, and here I am, ready to suit up Thursday for Great Britain."
Roth said the plan for now is to use him immediately following starter Chris Reed (a Los Angeles Dodgers prospect, also on a limited pitch count) in Thursday's opener against Canada. The other two teams in Great Britain's pool, Germany and the Czech Republic, will square off on Friday. The winner of this four-team, modified double-elimination qualifying pool will earn a spot in the field of 16 for the World Baseball Classic next March.
For now, Roth is simply focused on pitching in yet another big game Thursday.
The 22-year-old helped South Carolina to the 2010 College World Series title, and was then the winning pitcher in the '11 CWS-clinching game in Omaha, Neb. Overall, he finished 26-6 with a 1.91 ERA in 94 career appearances (44 starts) at South Carolina, including a 4-0 mark with a 1.49 ERA in his career at the College World Series.
"I've been blessed with some great opportunities, great coaches and great teammates," Roth said. "To be able to go and pitch on that stage at Omaha and be successful, then realize your dream of playing professional baseball has all been amazing.
"And now it continues here with Great Britain this week, so I really can't thank the people enough that have supported me through the successes and failures I've had."


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Marilyn Manson – Born Villain: As a relatively new Manson fan, all I had to listen to were their older works, so the release of this album was exactly what I needed. Any fans of the band's other works would love Born Villain, and many may even consider it to be one of his best.
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July 01, 2011
By Kevin Hart
It's been said that a quilt is a piece of history, stitched together one square at a time. And once again this year, retired educators are telling the history of the National Education Association through a beautiful quilt that will be won by a lucky delegate.
In Booth #826 in the RA exhibit hall, NEA-Retired is raffling a handmade quilt to raise funds for the NEA Fund for Children & Public Education, NEA's political action committee. Delegates will receive entry cards in their PAC envelopes – although no donation is required to enter, a contribution of at least $5 is recommended.
The quilt is made from T-shirts from past NEA Representative Assemblies, and serves as a patchwork history of the Association. T-shirts celebrating the Kentucky Education Association Student Program; the 2010 Outreach to Teach at Belle Chasse High School in Louisiana; the career of retired NEA General Counsel Bob Chanin, and more adorn the colorful quilt.
And what you can't learn about NEA history from the quilt, you certainly can learn by talking to the retired members staffing the booth.
One of the NEA-Retired members volunteering for booth duty at this year's RA is Al Beamish, who taught French for 32 years in Michigan and is attending his 42nd consecutive RA.
"You always remember the first one," Beamish said. For him, that first RA was in 1970 in San Francisco.
Fellow volunteer Sharon White has had a career as colorful as the quilt she is helping to promote. She taught 36 years in Washington, ending her career teaching reading to incarcerated young men between the ages of 15 and 21.
"It was fascinating, especially since I started out teaching kindergarten," she said.
Delegates can begin dropping off their entry forms for the quilt raffle tomorrow, and the drawing will be held July 5. NEA-Retired is also selling various promotional items in its booth to help raise money for the NEA Fund. So far this year, NEA-Retired has raised more than $25,000 for the NEA Fund.


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There's no denying Olympic athletes work hard while competing. And according to gold medalist Jamie Anderson, they like to play just as hard in their downtime.
Anderson, who won gold in the Women's Slopestyle on Sunday Feb. 9, chatted with Us Weekly and spilled the beans on how she and her fellow female athletes like to play matchmaker during their off-duty time at the Olympic Village.
"Tinder!" Anderson told Us Weekly, singling out the dating app. "Tinder in the Olympic Village is next level. It's all athletes! In the mountain village it's all athletes," she said, adding, "It's hilarious. There are some cuties on there."
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Anderson goes on to admit that the app can be all too distracting, and that she had to refocus on what she's really there for. "There was a point where I had to be like OK, this is way too distracting," she said of the temptations of Tinder. She even went so far as deleting her account.
Anderson went on to reveal how excited she is to get back home to Lake Tahoe, Calif. and celebrate "with all my girlfriends and dance."
Chances are when she does return home, she may not need Tinder to meet prospective dates now that she's a household name thanks to her gold medal-winning turn.
Anderson is also prolific on another app: Twitter, posting pictures, thoughts and day-to-day revelations about life in the Olympic Village. Check out a few of her tweets below:
Words can't describe. @ennirukajarvi @jennyjonessnow ❄��❄ pic.twitter.com/b2usOoVpSD — Jamie Anderson (@Jme_Anderson) February 9, 2014
Handling some business here in sochi. @sagekotsenburg #Olympics2014 #goldmedals #sochi let the good times roll! pic.twitter.com/HUy1ver0ed — Jamie Anderson (@Jme_Anderson) February 10, 2014
Just waking up... Yesterday felt like a dream! So thankful it's actually reality! #livingthedream #blessed #timeforyoga #beautifulday — Jamie Anderson (@Jme_Anderson) February 10, 2014
The most precious letter from a little girl named Leanne.. pic.twitter.com/iWLJkITQJg — Jamie Anderson (@Jme_Anderson) February 11, 2014
Time to celebrate @keriherman... Where is @KaitlynFarr ??? #usa #gold #celebrate #onelife #themoment pic.twitter.com/Nd9gNU3cdz — Jamie Anderson (@Jme_Anderson) February 12, 2014


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BAE Systems Land & Armaments, LP. Ground Systems Division, York, Pa., is being awarded a $23,960,073 firm-fixed-priced modification to previously awarded delivery order #0003 under contract (M67854-07-D-5025) for integrated logistic support sustainment to support Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles. Work will be performed in York, Pa., and work is expected to be completed by Jan. 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.
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UN CC:Learn Fourth Steering Group Meeting Endorses the Work of the Partnership and Recommends a Future Implementation Phase
Representatives from 12 UN organizations and 5 UN CC:Learn pilot countries (Benin, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Malawi and Uganda) participated in the 4th Steering Group Meeting of UN CC:Learn Partners, 2-3 October 2013, Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting reviewed progress made and lessons learned from the 2011-2013 pilot implementation phase of UN CC:Learn and recommended an up-scaling of support to countries in line with guidance provided under Article 6 of the UNFCCC. Participating agencies included IFAD, ILO, ITU, UNDP, UNECA, UNESCO, UNFCCC Secretariat, UNICEF, UNISDR, UNITAR, World Bank Institute, and WMO.
In her welcome remarks, Ms. Sally Fegan-Wyles, the Executive Director of UNITAR, thanked the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) for its generous support to UN CC:Learn, also stating that "this initiative is a great example of the added value of the UN working as One". Ms. Elena Manaenkova, Chair of the High-level Committee on Programmes (HLCP) Working Group on Climate Change said that "UN CC:Learn is there to help people understand the complex issue of climate change and let them know where the best resources are to learn more."
The discussions covered three areas of work: (1) Knowledge-Sharing and Management, (2) One UN Training on Climate Change, and (3) National Projects. Highlights from the discussions included:
- Finance and planning authorities should be engaged in the development of national climate change learning strategies, by making clear what the added value would be to the work of these authorities (e.g. expenditure reviews, climate budgeting);
- The education sector has a central role to play in helping countries to address the medium and long term challenges of climate change. National curriculum reviews are underway in Dominican Republic, Malawi and Uganda;
- UN Country Teams (UNCTs) play a critical role in national climate change learning strategy development and should be engaged at an early stage in the process to ensure joined up approaches which are compliant with the Paris Declaration;
- There are challenges in mobilizing national and international resources to ensure strategy implementation, as well as in defining indicators to evaluate progress. Countries need more support, in particular, in understanding the climate change financing architecture.
- There are benefits in engaging local training institutions in implementing national climate change learning strategies through training delivery but also through downstream evaluation of how learners are using newly acquired skills.
- The concept for an e-tool for advanced learning on climate change to be implemented as part of a future phase of UN CC:Learn was welcomed by the Steering Group.
- Participants endorsed the main themes presented for a possible future implementation phase of UN CC:Learn, including an expansion of the national projects to an additional 5 countries. Participants also underlined their continued commitment to collaborate through the partnership.
About UN CC:Learn
UN CC:Learn is a partnership of 33 multilateral organizations which supports Member States in designing and implementing results-oriented and sustainable learning to address climate change. The Secretariat for UN CC:Learn is provided by UNITAR. An important aspect of UN CC:Learn is to support countries develop a National Strategy to Strengthen Human Resources and Skills to Advance Green, Low Emission and Climate Resilient Development through a multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder process. During the course of 2012-2013, Benin, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Malawi, and Uganda are participating as UN CC:Learn pilot countries. Core funding for the 2011-2013 implementation phase of UN CC:Learn is provided by the Swiss Government.


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The CERT Concept
The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) concept was developed and implemented by the Los Angeles City Fire Department (LAFD) in 1985. The Whittier Narrows earthquake in 1987 underscored the area-wide threat of a major disaster in California. Further, it confirmed the need for training civilians to meet their immediate needs. As a result, the LAFD created the disaster preparedness division with the purpose of training citizens and private and government employees.
The training program that LAFD initiated makes good sense and furthers the process of citizens understanding their responsibility in preparing for a disaster. It also increases their ability to safely help themselves, their family, and their neighbors. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recognizes the importance of preparing citizens. The Emergency Management Institute (EMI) and the National Fire Academy (NFA) adopted and expanded the CERT materials believing them applicable to all hazards.
Course Benefits
The CERT course will benefit any citizen who takes it. This individual will be better prepared to respond to, and cope with, the aftermath of a disaster. Additionally, if a community wants to supplement its response capability after a disaster, civilians can be recruited and trained as neighborhood, business, and government teams that, in essence, will be auxiliary responders. These groups can provide immediate assistance to victims in their area, organize spontaneous volunteers who have not had the training, and collect disaster intelligence that will assist professional responders with prioritization and allocation of resources following a disaster. Since 1993 when this training was made available nationally by FEMA, communities in 28 states and Puerto Rico have conducted CERT training.
FEMA supports CERT by conducting or sponsoring Train-The-Trainer (TTT) classes for members of the fire, medical, and emergency management community. The objectives of the TTT are to prepare attendees to promote this training in their community, conduct TTT's at their location, conduct training sessions for neighborhood, business and industry, and government groups, and organize teams with which first responders can interface following a major disaster.


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Harriet Tubman has long inspired a deep sense of pride among Marylanders, especially in the rural communities of the Eastern Shore, where the former slave was born and led dozens to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
While her story is taught to schoolchildren across the country and a small storefront museum here pays homage to Tubman, descendants and historians have been waiting to see her memorialized in a grander fashion. The state announced Tuesday that it had secured enough money for a state park and visitor center bearing Tubman's name, cheering advocates for the long-planned project. It is slated for completion in 2013 — the 100th anniversary of Tubman's death.
"It is awesome," said Valerie Manokey, 75, Tubman's oldest-living descendant in Maryland and a retired teacher's aide from Cambridge. "It's like something inside you that was growing, and you knew someone would see the significance and it would blossom and now you see the buds on the tree. I pray that I'll be here to see it."
Lawmakers praised Tubman's legacy during this year's General Assembly session, when some proposed sending a statue of her to the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol. Legislation proposed in the House and Senate would have swapped Tubman in for John Hanson, a Southern Maryland merchant and early president of the Continental Congress who himself owned slaves. It failed to gain majority support.
Already in downtown Cambridge, the Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center tells the story of her life on the Brodess Farm in Bucktown. Artifacts and paintings illustrate how she eventually ran away to Pennsylvania and helped free others. But Tubman supporters have pushed for more than two decades for the state park and visitor center, lobbying for a large-scale, state-sanctioned commemoration that highlights Tubman's relationship with nature and the rural Maryland landscape that she navigated on freedom missions.
In 2007, the state acquired 17.3 acres of land for the state park, located about 10 miles south of Cambridge and adjacent to the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. But without federal funding — a prospect that grew dimmer as the economy worsened — it stalled.
The state ultimately used $8.5 million in funding from the Federal Transportation Enhancement Program, a discretionary fund awarded to states from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The rest of the $21 million project will be paid for with other federal grants and state money.
"It's a large amount of money in a very tough fiscal time," said Kristin Saunders Evans, assistant secretary for land resources at the state Department of Natural Resources. "It's been piecemeal putting this together over several years."
The 15,000-square-foot visitor center will house an exhibit hall and interactive displays, with walking trails and a spiritual reflection garden on the grounds.
"It's been a long time coming," said Clara Small, a history professor at Salisbury University who has studied Tubman and African-American history on the Eastern Shore. "We're cognizant of the fact that the state has no money. The federal government has no money. So it's just relief and joy to know that it's finally happening."
Tubman was born a slave in Dorchester County circa 1820. She escaped slavery when she was 27, and for more than a decade acted as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, a network of abolitionists who ferried slaves northward toward freedom. Accounts estimate that she made more than 10 trips back to Maryland to rescue other slaves from bondage. Tubman later served as a spy during the Civil War. She died in New York in 1913
"Harriet Tubman was willing to work through the darkness and the cruelty of her time to move her neighbors forward and her country forward," said Gov. Martin O'Malley, a Democrat, in announcing the funding at the museum. "There is no more powerful story."
Donald Pinder, president of the Harriet Tubman Organization, which operates the museum and has pushed for the state park and visitor center, said he hopes the project helps push forward other efforts that have stalled.
In 2009, the National Park Service endorsed a plan to designate sites associated with Tubman in Maryland and New York as part of its system, but the plan has failed to attract the formal consideration of Congress. U.S. Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin, both Democrats, are leading the effort for federal designation of land in Dorchester, Caroline and Talbot counties. The federal government has already named a byway that follows the paths of the Underground Railroad — stretching from Maryland to Canada — after Tubman.
State officials said Tubman's life story will serve not only as a teaching tool, but they hope her legacy will be an economic incubator, drawing an estimated 200,000 annual visitors to the state park and drawing $20 million per year into the local economy. The construction phase of the project will create about 225 jobs, with 10 full-time employees staffing the center.
"The state has always been talking about this — forever," said Pinder. "Finally they put the money up first instead of talking. There's not a more deserving lady."


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The Chicago Transit Authority has removed the smashed Blue Line cars involved in Monday's derailment at O'Hare International Airport.
CTA officials hope to reopen the station by the weekend, but crews must first assess damage to the platform, stairs and escalators before determining if it's safe to reopen.
The eight-car train jumped the tracks and landed on the stairs and escalators leading to the airport terminals just before 3 a.m. Monday. The crash left 32 people injured, and three passengers have since filed lawsuits against the CTA.
The National Transportation Safety Board estimates the crash caused about $6 million in equipment damage.
The NTSB said the operator admitted to dozing off at the controls as the train pulled into the station.
"She did not awake again until the train hit close to the end of the bumper," investigator-in-charge Ted Turpin said.
Shuttle buses remain in place from the Rosemont Blue Line station to O'Hare.
Riders on the shuttles said they think the crash means more eyes on public transportation safety.
"I think they'll be more in tune to potential problems," shuttle passenger Elaine Price said, "and the discovery of what actually happened will be a benefit."
"I believe once they mess up something, they can truly fix it so it doesn't happen again," Wesley Ferguson said.
"My feathers might be a little ruffled, but I still have faith in it," Justin Ickes said.


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Trekkers swarm Mount Fuji on first day of season
By Evie Liu, for CNN • Published 4th July 2013
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The inclusion of
Mount Fuji in the UNESCO World Heritage
list recently has spurred a huge reaction among international travelers and agencies.
This Monday, as normal, hundreds of hikers flocked to Mt Fuji for the beginning of the summer climbing season.
Climbers started to ascend the 3,776-meter peak as early as 3 a.m. to watch the sunrise from the summit. They lit torches and walked in long winding queues along the path that leads up the mountain.
So numerous were the climbers in their colorful outfits it looked a little like a busy morning in a Tokyo subway station.
Worshiped for centuries
The cone-shaped mountain has been worshiped in Japan for centuries. It is considered the symbol of this island country home to a reported 118 volcanoes.
While Mt Fuji was already popular among tourists, the UNESCO World Heritage status will spark a new wave of interest, say local officials.
According to
The Japan Times
, Japan Travel Bureau Corp. announced Monday a series of day trips for foreigners, accompanied by English-speaking tour guides.
East Japan Railway Co. also offered a 50% discount on tickets for people who use the Chuo Line to visit the mountain.
Risk of erosion
Environmentalists warn the extra tourists pose potential environmental problems, such as erosion or littering.
It was reported
that Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures, where Mt Fuji is located, will collect entrance fees to the site on a trial basis this summer to help pay for its preservation.
Mt. Fuji attracts around 300,000 trekkers each year.
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Washington, DC - U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the investment of $28.5 million to 12 states and territories to support energy efficiency projects that will lower energy bills for American families and businesses, boost job growth, and increase investment in companies that deliver energy-saving technologies. The competitively selected states will receive awards through DOE's State Energy Program to help create a sustainable transformation in the market for energy-saving, whole-building improvements in residential and commercial buildings. The awards will also help generate the necessary policy and program frameworks to support private-sector investment in energy efficiency for the long-term. This initiative is part of the Obama Administration's national strategy to promote domestic job creation, while delivering innovative energy efficiency technologies to the residential and commercial building markets and addressing barriers to bringing high-efficiency buildings within reach for all Americans.
"These state initiatives will spur the economy and create jobs across the country by making targeted investments in the growing energy efficiency market and using smarter policies to engage the private sector," said Secretary Chu. "The projects will demonstrate the high rate of return on energy-saving improvements to homes and businesses, achieve significant long-term benefits for local communities, and act as a model for future public-private energy efficiency partnerships."
Existing techniques and technologies in energy efficiency retrofitting - such as air-tight ducts, insulation and caulking , efficient and properly installed heating and cooling systems, and building control systems - can reduce energy use in homes and buildings by up to 40 percent and cut energy bills by $40 billion annually. These awards add to the momentum generated by DOE's ongoing whole-building retrofit initiatives that are making energy efficiency retrofits easily accessible to hundreds of thousands of American homes and businesses.
The Department of Energy's State Energy Program provides financial and technical assistance to states to develop state strategies and goals to address their energy priorities and promote America's energy security through the deployment of reliable, clean and affordable energy. Today's competitive grants are in addition to the formula grants provided to all U.S. states and territories.
The awards announced today fall into two categories. "Strengthening Building Retrofit Markets" will invest more than $25.5 million to assist states in developing targeted building retrofit markets in the residential and commercial sectors. "Stimulating Energy Efficiency Action" will invest nearly $3 million to assist states in generating the necessary policy and program frameworks to support short and long-term investments in energy efficiency.
In a complimentary effort, DOE's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability awarded a grant to Hawaii for $180,000 to assist its Public Utilities Commission in meeting the state goal of reducing electricity use by 4,300 gigawatt hours by the year 2030. Hawaii will explore the relationship between its energy efficiency portfolio standard, integrated resource plan and clean energy scenario planning. In addition, Hawaii will identify long-range energy savings goals by utility service territory, methods to measure and verify energy savings, and appropriate funding levels for energy efficiency.
The following projects have been selected for awards:
Strengthening Building Retrofit Markets - $25.5 million
- Multi-state group with individual awards for: Massachusetts: $2,587,976; Alabama: $3,013,751; Virginia: $2,886,500; and Washington: $2,587,500
Residential retrofits: This four-state partnership will retrofit at least 12,150 homes out of a target market of 300,000 homes across the four states by 2013 achieving significant energy savings in each home. The program plans to reach over 75,000 homes in that market by 2021 utilizing DOE's investment. The states will draw on national experts to implement energy modeling and benchmarking, consumer outreach, contractor management, policy development and innovative financing. The objective is to create a sustainable transformation in the market for home energy improvements. The project leverages state-level experience between the awardees to share best practices in an effort to establish a model that can be applied nationally to increase home retrofits by 2013 and beyond.
- Nevada: $5,000,000
Residential retrofits: Nevada will expand its Home Performance with Energy Star Program with the goal of retrofitting at least 5 percent of Nevada's single-family residences by 2021. The project includes an effective outreach and marketing strategy to motivate participation and encourage consumers to adopt energy-saving behavior. The state will also deploy innovative incentive and financing mechanisms to overcome cost barriers, and will use streamlined delivery methods and robust quality assurance. The project will focus on the major Nevada metropolitan areas of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Reno, and Sparks.
- Maine: $4,538,571
Multi-family retrofits: Maine will accelerate comprehensive energy retrofits in small-to-medium multi-family apartment buildings (5-20 units) through a multi-year energy efficiency strategy. Serving a market of more than 53,000 units, the project will seek to: reduce energy consumption by 25 percent or greater in 2 percent of eligible multi-family units per year by 2013; establish a sustainable financial model to ultimately reach 19 percent of such buildings in Maine by 2021; and expand the program model to multi-family buildings in other Northeast states.
- Michigan: $4,994,245
Commercial retrofits: Michigan will create a self-sustaining financing program to achieve energy efficiency retrofits in at least 2 percent of small retail food service businesses such as small grocery stores, convenience stores, and restaurants by 2013, and sustain this level annually thereafter. The program will be part of a portfolio of financing options available through Michigan SAVES, a nonprofit organization with seed funding from the Michigan Public Service Commission to make energy efficiency upgrades and small-scale renewable energy systems more affordable for all types of Michigan energy consumers.
Stimulating Energy Efficiency Action - $3 million
- Puerto Rico: $659,965
Puerto Rico seeks to stimulate energy efficiency by developing mechanisms to better integrate stakeholders into the decision-making process for implementing effective energy efficiency policy in Puerto Rico. The goal of this initiative is to achieve an annual minimum target electricity savings of 1 percent. The proposed Action Plan responds to the ten goals presented in the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency Vision 2025.
- Alaska: $700,000
Alaska will undertake a concerted effort to improve energy efficiency by 15 percent in the state by 2020. This will be accomplished by expanding current energy efficiency and conservation education and outreach efforts, collecting and tracking end-use energy data with a GIS-based database, and analyzing the current regulatory and policy framework as it relates to incentives or barriers to energy efficiency improvements.
- Texas: $500,000
Texas seeks to develop local policy and program delivery frameworks that stimulate investment in cost-effective, long-term energy efficiency improvements. It will focus on areas of the state, such as municipal and electric cooperative utilities, that do not have state-regulated energy efficiency policies and programs in place.
- Multi-state pair with individual awards for: Mississippi: $500,000 and Kentucky: $500,000
This pair of states seeks to create lasting market transformation for energy efficiency in the southeastern United States in partnership with Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance and Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance. Their goal is to make energy efficiency an integral part of the energy resource portfolios within the regions. It will support the development of policies and programs that will lead to utility investment in efficiency in the Southeast and Midwest, thereby reducing air pollution and greenhouse gases through a reduction in energy consumption.
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Got Our Wisdom Teeth Removed Today
The swelling isn't too bad (yet), my Hello Kitty ice pack is definitely helping.
When I woke up I heard the assistant reading my tattoos. "Dont…suffer…fools… huh.." and then to make sure I was waking up she asked, "Is that your dog?" and I groggily said with a mouthful of gauze "uh huh." She continued with, "Is it a terrier? What kind of terrier is it?" With half my mouth still numb all I could manage was, "RR..uh…ah." (French bull dog)
Man oh man. It definitely wasn't as bad as I thought it would be but I'm still numb. I'll be sure to let you know how much I'm suffering when it wears off. 😉
August 5, 2011 3:54 pm
oh you poor thing! I have to get my two bottom wisdom out soon. I think I will wait till after the wedding. My top two are out already.
August 5, 2011 9:01 pm
oh no fun! feel better soon! i am so afraid of getting mine out so they shall stay where they are for now. 🙂


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The first round pick from the 2009 draft of the Chicago White Sox, Jared Mitchell, has been placed on the 7-Day disabled list retroactive to August 28th with a suspected leg injury. …
August 30, 2009
Jared Mitchell goes on the DL
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