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Vice President and Senior Counsel, Global Government Affairs & Policy, General Electric
Ambassador Karan Bhatia serves as vice president and senior counsel, global government affairs & policy, for General Electric. In this role, he oversees GE's engagement on public policy issues with governments around the world and works to expand the company's presence in global markets.
Before joining GE, Bhatia served as deputy U.S. trade representative, a Presidential appointment with the rank of Ambassador, overseeing U.S. trade policy with respect to Asia and Africa. Specific achievements include negotiating the landmark U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, concluding the U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral WTO Accession Agreement, founding the U.S.-India Trade Policy Forum and supervising the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade. Additionally, Bhatia oversaw USTR's engagement in the areas of trade capacity building and international environmental and labor policy, and served on the boards of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the Millennium Challenge Corporation.
Prior to joining the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Bhatia was assistant secretary for aviation and international affairs at the U.S. Department of Transportation from 2003-2005. In this role, he crafted U.S. international and domestic aviation policy and supervised the negotiation of international air services agreements with more than 20 countries, including significant market liberalizing agreements with China and India. Bhatia previously served in the Department of Commerce as deputy under secretary and chief counsel for the Bureau of Industry and Security, the U.S. Government agency that administers U.S. export controls. Prior to his government service, he was a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, where he was a member of the firm's international and corporate groups.
Bhatia has written and spoken widely on international trade and transportation policy and has testified on many occasions before Congress. He currently serves as chairman of the board of the National Center for APEC, and is a member of the Boards of the National Foreign Trade Council, the U.S.-ASEAN Business Council, and the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. Bhatia holds a bachelor's degree from Princeton University, a master's from the London School of Economics and a law degree from Columbia University. He is married to Sara Levine Bhatia and has two children.
Stephen E. Biegun
Vice President, International Governmental Affairs, Ford Motor Company
Stephen E. Biegun is a corporate officer and vice president of International Governmental Affairs for Ford Motor Company. In this role, Biegun oversees all aspects of Ford's international governmental relations, including trade strategy and political risk assessment.
Prior to joining Ford, Biegun served as national security advisor to Senate Majority Leader, Senator Bill Frist, MD. In this capacity, he provided analysis and strategic planning for the United States Senate's consideration of foreign policy, defense and intelligence matters, and international trade agreements.
Before joining the staff of the Majority Leader, Biegun worked in the White House from 2001-03 as executive secretary of the National Security Council. He served as a senior staff member to the National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice, and performed the function of chief operating officer for the National Security Council.
Prior to joining the White House staff, Biegun served for 14 years as a foreign policy advisor to members of both the House of Representatives and the United States Senate. During this time, he held the position of chief of staff of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1999-2000 and was the Committee's senior professional staff member for European affairs from 1994-98.
In addition, Biegun served as a staff member of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs for six years. In this role, he was responsible for the foreign assistance budget, trade policy, and European affairs.
From 1992-94, Biegun served in Moscow, Russia, as the resident director in the Russian Federation for the International Republican Institute, a democracy-building organization established under the National Endowment for Democracy.
Biegun graduated from the University of Michigan where he studied Political Science and Russian Language. He is a third-generation Ford Motor Company employee. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group, and is a member of the boards of the U.S.-Russia Foundation for Economic Development and the Rule of Law, the Moscow School of Politics, Freedom House, the U.S.-Russia Business Council, the US-ASEAN Business Council and FordSollers, Ford Motor Company's joint venture operating in the Russia Federation.
Anil Chandramani
Chief Investment Officer and Global Client Service Executive, Chemicals & Fertilizers, International Finance Corporation
Anil Chandramani is chief investment officer & global client service executive, Chemicals & Fertilizers at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, based in Washington D.C. IFC commits between $600 million to $1.5 billion in new equity and debt investments each year in the chemicals, petrochemicals and fertilizers industry in emerging markets around the world. Among others, he was the team leader for the Meghani Finechem investment in India, which won IFC CEO's Annual Gender Award for 2013. Prior to joining IFC, he was vice president in Fuji Bank's Project Finance Division in Singapore, and before that, financial economist in the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C., where he advised governments on policy issues focusing on private sector and financial sector development and investment promotion. Before joining the World Bank's Young Professionals Program, he was vice president and regional corporate bank head for eastern India at Citibank, based in Calcutta, India. He started his career in the Tata Administrative Service of the Tata Group of Companies in India after completing his undergraduate studies in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, and earned his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.
Sadanand Dhume
Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Sadanand Dhume is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he writes on South Asian political economy, foreign policy, business and society, with a focus on India and Pakistan. Dhume has served as India bureau chief of the Far Eastern Economic Review and as Indonesia correspondent of FEER and the Wall Street Journal–Asia and is currently a South Asia columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Previously, he was Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society in Washington, D.C. He has written articles and op-eds for Foreign Policy, Forbes, Commentary, YaleGlobal, the Washington Post and other publications. His television appearances include CNN, PBS, BBC World, Al Jazeera International, CNBC Asia and ABC Television. His political travelogue about the rise of radical Islam in Indonesia, My Friend the Fanatic: Travels with a Radical Islamist, has been published in four countries. He has twice been selected by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the world's top 100 Twitterati. Follow him on Twitter @dhume.
P. K. Kannan
Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Marketing Science and Chair, Department of Marketing, Robert H. Smith School of Business
P. K. Kannan is the Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Marketing Science at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, and the chair of the Department of Marketing. His main research focus is on marketing modeling and applying statistical and econometric methods to marketing data. His current research stream focuses on attribution modeling, media mix modeling, new product/service development and customer relationship management.
He has received several grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Mellon Foundation, SAIC and PricewaterhouseCoopers for his work in this area. His research papers have been published in Marketing Science, Management Science, the Journal of Marketing Research and the Journal of Marketing. His research was selected as a finalist for the Paul Green Award (2008, 2014) and won the prestigious John Little Best Paper Award (2008) and the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science Practice Prize Award (2007). He also won the AMA/MSI Paul Root Award (2014).
Kannan is an associate editor for the Journal of Marketing Research, a senior editor for the International Journal of Research in Marketing and serves on the editorial boards of Marketing Science, the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Service Research, and the International Journal of Electronic Commerce. Kannan has served as the chair for the American Marketing Association SIG on Marketing Research and is chairing the INFORMS Service Science section.
His teaching interests include marketing modeling, pricing, customer relationship management, new product development and digital retailing. He has taught these courses in executive programs for Black & Decker, Home Depot, ARINC, McCormick and Northrup Grumman. He has corporate experience with Tata Engineering and Ingersoll-Rand and has consulted for companies such as Frito-Lay, PepsiCo, Giant Food, Black and Decker, SAIC, Fannie Mae and IBM.
Ambassador Pradeep Kumar Kapur
Visiting Clinical Professor, International Trade, Sustainable Development and Security Issues, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
Ambassador Pradeep Kumar Kapur is a transformational leader and practitioner of Developmental Diplomacy for enhancing the scope and content of business across continents. He is currently working as visiting clinical professor, international trade, sustainable development and security issues at the School of Public Policy, at the University of Maryland, and as faculty mentor for the student body, DESI (Develop, Empower, Synergize India).
Kapur obtained a Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical engineering and a Master of Technology in Management and Systems from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, India. He then attended Oxford University and carried out research on "Technology Transfer, Public Policy and Development Diplomacy." In 1991, Ambassador Kapur was selected as UN Fellow with a Third World Diplomat Award, under which he taught at Georgetown University. He co-authored the book "Ta Prohm: A Glorious Era in Angkor Civilisation" and co-edited the book "India of My Dreams." His other publications include "Connecting World Heritage Sites and Civilizations," "India ASEAN Relations," and compiling "Profiles of Partnership: 50 Years of India Nepal Cooperation."
He began his career as a diplomat in 1981 in Spain. He went on to have postings as a career diplomat in Tanzania, Paris and Nepal. In 2001, Kapur was appointed as India's Ambassador to Cambodia, and then served as India's Ambassador to Chile (2009-13). In between his overseas postings, he served in various positions in New Delhi, including under secretary (West Europe), deputy secretary (Americas), director (South and ASEAN), Joint Secretary (SAARC), under secretary (Textiles), under secretary (Export Promotion for Chemicals and Allied Products) and deputy chief controller of Imports and Exports. As acting director general for the Indian Council of World Affairs, and as joint secretary for the Foreign Service Institute, Kapur promoted the image of India in global affairs and offered lectures and courses on diplomacy and international relations.
Sandeep Kapur
Professor of Economics, Birkbeck University of London
Sandeep Kapur is a professor of economics at Birkbeck University of London. He has previously taught at the University of Cambridge and held visiting appointments at the University of Pennsylvania and George Washington University. His research interests span financial regulation, technology transfer and foreign direct investment, especially outward FDI from developing countries such as China and India.
Sunil Mithas
Associate Professor, Decision, Operations & Information Technologies, Robert H. Smith School of Business
Sunil Mithas is a professor at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, and the author of the books Dancing Elephants and Leaping Jaguars and Digital Intelligence: What Every Smart Manager Must Have for Success in an Information Age. He earned his PhD from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and an engineering degree from IIT, Roorkee. Before pursuing his PhD, he worked for nearly ten years in engineering, marketing and general management positions with the Tata Group.
He was identified as a 2011 MSI Young Scholar by the Marketing Science Institute. The MSI Young Scholar Program selects about 20 of "the most promising 'younger' (i.e., doctorate received 36 years ago) academics" and a "likely leader of the next generation of marketing academics" every two years.
Mithas is a frequent speaker at industry events for senior leaders. He has worked on research or consulting assignments with organizations such as Johnson & Johnson, Lear, A.T. Kearney, the Tata Group, the Social Security Administration and the U.S. Census Bureau.
Mithas's research focuses on strategies for managing innovation and excellence for corporate transformation, focusing on the role of technology and other intangibles, such as customer satisfaction, human capital and organizational capabilities. His research has appeared in premier journals, including Management Science, Marketing Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Marketing, and MIT Sloan Management Review. Some of this work has been featured in business publications such as Bloomberg, CIO, Computerworld and InformationWeek. His papers have won best paper awards and have received several best paper nominations. He has also won the best reviewer award at an INFORMS conference.
Dave Ryan
Executive Vice President and Americas Regional Head, Tata Communications
Dave Ryan is the executive vice president & Americas regional head for Tata Communications, one of the major companies of the $100.9 billion Tata group. Ryan manages Tata Communications' regional operating strategy, business development initiatives and helps lead growth strategies for the Americas region.
Ryan plays a key strategic role in driving Tata Communications' short- and long-term global strategy initiatives. He is also focused on expanding customer engagement and partnerships in the U.S. and throughout the greater Americas region.
Ryan has led Tata Communications' regional growth since being hired as the first American employee in 2004. He has subsequently established the company's significant presence in the
U.S. market, and helped grow a customer base that includes large U.S.-based multinationals and
global telecommunications carriers. He is a member of the leadership team that has also developed operations to assist these customers extend their operations globally across EMEA and Asia, and into emerging markets including India, China and South Africa.
Prior to joining Tata Communications, he was the executive vice president and chief operating officer at NTT America, a subsidiary of NTT Communications, the international and long-distance arm of NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation). He also worked in various global account and senior sales leadership roles at Sprint and Global One between 1983 and 1999.
Ryan has over 25 years of international telecommunications sales management experience, and an extensive background in developing U.S. markets for global carriers, enabling U.S.-based companies to connect globally, and working in a multi-cultural globally connected industry.
Kapil Sharma
Vice President, Government and Public Affairs, North America, Wipro
Kapil Sharma currently serves as vice president for government and public affairs, North America for Wipro. He also serves as a board member of the Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Prior to joining Wipro, Sharma worked in the Tata Sons North America office. Based in Washington, D.C., the office served as the chief representative for the Tata Group of companies in North America. It supports activities such as assisting Group companies with representation before the federal, state and local governments, media relations, business development, corporate social responsibility activities and brand development.
Sharma previously served as the general manager for Tata Services. Based in Mumbai, India, he primarily focused on global branding and communications. He also assisted the Tata Group of companies on various issues such as innovation, climate change and business excellence/quality management.
Before joining Tata Sons, Sharma was the vice president for Madison Government Affairs – a boutique government relations firm – representing non-U.S. clients and U.S. public entities before the U.S. Congress, Administration and federal agencies.
From 2000 to 2001, Sharma served as senior counsel and legislative director to U.S. Senator Robert Torricelli (NJ) where he managed Senator Torricelli's legislative, policy, and correspondence staff. From 1998 to 2000, he was a legislative consultant to the law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, where he assisted in the management and representation of non-U.S. clients before Congress and the Administration. From 1996 to 1998, Sharma served as a legislative assistant to Congressman Frank Pallone (NJ). While working for Congressman Pallone, among other duties, he assisted in the management of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans.
Sharma also has extensive political and grassroots experience having consulted on numerous federal, state and local campaigns. He managed an e-newsletter that provided daily coverage of U.S. media on South Asia and South Asian Americans. Prior to leaving for India, Sharma served on several community advocacy and civil rights organizations, as well as student mentoring programs.
Sharma received his JD from the Rutgers School of Law and his BA from Rutgers College, Rutgers University. He is also a member of the Maryland Bar Association.
Annaswamy Vaidheesh
Vice President, South Asia, and Managing Director, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Annaswamy Vaidheesh is vice president, South Asia, and managing director at GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Vaidheesh is a successful senior business leader with over 28 years of diverse experience in healthcare and the FMCG domain. He has a strong track record of leadership development, as well as building leading brands and franchises across various categories and multi-cultural locations in the Asia-pacific region.
Prior to his current role he was vice president, corporate government affairs, Asia- Pacific for Johnson & Johnson based out of Singapore, and a member of their Global Leadership team for health care advocacy and policy. Before that he was managing director of Johnson & Johnson Medical India (JJMI) and vice president, Asia-Pacific- Diabetes franchise for five years.
Vaidheesh is widely recognized for chairing various initiatives with industry bodies in India and in the Asia Pacific Region. Noteworthy initiatives are Strategic MOU with China Communist Party School, India Health Insurance development and leading the health care agenda in APEC summits.
Vaidheesh holds a Bachelor of Physics degree from Madras University and a Master's in Marketing Management from Bombay University. He is an honorary fellow of The Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India and is a certified Process Excellence Black Belt. Vaidheesh is married and has a daughter.


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GE Lighting confirms Platinum Sponsorship for the Arab Future Cities Summit in Qatar
In the Middle East, GE Lighting been associated with several landmark projects & has been at the forefront in the region in offering energy efficient lighting solutions
The Summit will attract over 200 senior level executives from the private and public sectors. Across the Middle East and North Africa, looking at a more holistic approach for creating cities that are smarter, healthier, greener and sustainable. Smart cities are seen as a solution to the growing challenges of urbanization and rapid economic expansion. In order to support future growth, it is imperative that both the Government and private sector work together to improve living and working conditions and reduce the carbon footprints through use of sustainable resources.
The smart city concept is gaining momentum in the Middle East with major projects under development. Qatar has 10 smart city projects under development - Qatar Energy City, Doha International Airport, U City, Doha and Barwa city being some of the major projects. Qatar has over US$16 trillion in proven hydrocarbon reserves to be monetized over the next 100 years, enabling the government (?) to offer a uniquely sustainable platform for long term growth and development.
The Qatari government driven by its Vision 2030 plan, has committed over US$140 billion for investment, infrastructure and expansion in a wide range of sectors, including energy, health, education, transport, infrastructure and tourism.
"Lighting plays a crucial role in modern construction, building and architectural design. Not only for the energy consumption and CO2 emission, but also for safety, security and aesthetic reasons. Therefore it is really important to make an educated decision right at the beginning of a new investment project.
Reflecting to this, GE Lighting developed a complete portfolio of LED and CMH outdoor white light solutions. Creating safe environments, roadways and public places and illuminate architectural land without increasing light pollution." says Phil Marshall, President & CEO, GE Lighting EMEA
GE Lighting, will lead a discussion on this, in more details, at the Arab Future Cities Summit and also showcasing its energy efficient portfolio for future sustainable cities.
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Speaking in an interview with state channel Rossiya, Medvedev said Ukraine's failure to repay its debt or a decision to freeze payments could prompt Russia to oppose new IMF loans to the country.
The conflict with pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine's industrial east -- which Kiev blames on Moscow -- has greatly exacerbated economic difficulties in the former Soviet republic.
Medvedev said recent steps by Kiev toward freezing debt payments are "looking like the denial by Bolsheviks to pay the debt of the tsarist government."
"If indeed it will be done this way, that is undoubtedly a default by Ukraine," Medvedev said of the potential debt freeze.
"That will influence the process of their negotiations with the International Monetary Fund. We will take a maximally tough stance in this case and will defend our national interests."
Ukraine's parliament this week voted to give the government the right to delay repaying international creditors if necessary, leading to a furious reaction by Moscow, which is waiting for Kiev to repay a $3 billion loan by the end of the year.
Moscow issued the loan in December 2013, just months before the collapse of the regime of ex-president Viktor Yanukovych, who fled to Russia in the wake of mass protests.
Kiev's current pro-Western government is racing to agree a debt restructuring deal with its creditors before the next IMF board meeting in June.
It is aiming to reach 15 billion euros ($16.5 billion) in savings in order to qualify for the next part of the IMF's $17.5 billion loan programme.
But the talks have proven difficult, and Kiev last week criticised its creditors over what it said was a "lack of willingness to engage in negotiations."
Medvedev reiterated that Russia "is not planning to restructure anything" and would oppose new IMF loans if Ukraine defaults.
"We cannot block anything on our own... but naturally we will talk about it," Medvedev said, adding that the recent parliament vote in Ukraine "influences the position of other creditors and other members of the IMF."
Ukraine received the first $5 billion under the IMF rescue programme in March and is under pressure from Western countries to reform its economy after years of mismanagement and corruption.
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Daniel Henry
Robert "Bobby" Picou Jr.
TGMC board appoints board chairman, vice chairman
The Terrebonne General Medical Center Board of Commissioners appointed Daniel Henry as chairman and Robert "Bobby" Picou Jr. as vice chairman for the 2014-15 term.
Henry was appointed to the TGMC Board of Commissioners in 2009 and served as vice chairman from 2012-14.
Henry is the owner/manager of Henry Enterprises DBA as well as Klondyke Hardware. He has been a member of Terrebonne Parish Council where he served as chairman for two years, vice chairman for two years and chairman of all committees. He has also been a member of Terrebonne Parish Charter Committee where he served as chairman, Terrebonne Parish Council on Aging where he served as chairman and Terrebonne Chamber of Commerce where he served on the board of directors.
Picou was a member of the TGMC Board of Commissioners from 1999-2007. During 2000-02 he served as board chairman. In 2008, Picou rejoined the Board of Commissioners and served as vice chairman from 2009-10 in addition to his present term.
Picou is the co-owner of Trinity Catering, Inc., an offshore catering company that provides food and services to the offshore industry. He formerly practiced law for 33 years, focusing on maritime defense. He also served as a deputy for the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office Water Patrol from 1992-2000, as the secretary and treasurer of Hope Services Inc. from 1989-2002, and was vice president and general counsel for Offshore Specialty Fabricators Inc. from 1999-2004.
Pine log business returns to Port Allen docks
PORT ALLEN (AP) — Pine logs are rolling onto ocean-going vessels at Port Allen again.
Amite-based Ralph Stewart Logging LLC this month loaded 48,055 metric tons of Louisiana and Mississippi logs into the Marouli, a 623-foot-long, Panamanian-flagged vessel.
Port of Greater Baton Rouge executive director Jay Hardman said the ship was bound for China.
The cargo was valued at more than $2.5 million, according to an LSU forest economist.
While such shipments were common in the 1960s, Hardman said it had been more than a decade since a significant load of logs left the port.
"I think the timber producers are excited about this," Hardman said. "It's been a good project. Ralph Stewart has brought in a lot of Louisiana timber and some from Mississippi."
Stewart said he is a third-generation logger with more than 25 years in the business before becoming an exporter.
"I knew the (overseas) demand was there," Stewart said. "I've been dealing with this (export plan) for four years."
"China is in the lead now," Stewart said. "They're buying the most."
He said Chinese buyers believe in the durability and hardiness of southern pine.
Stewart said his company expects to be able to supply sufficient logs for about eight vessel loads annually over the next three years. During that span, he can gauge whether demand is increasing sufficiently to justify expansion.
The price for Louisiana pine logs this year was about $30 per ton, according to the LSU AgCenter. That was about $4 more than the average for other Southern states.
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energy lab at LSU
BATON ROUGE (AP) — CB&I has pledged $750,000 to the LSU College of Engineering to establish the CB&I Energy Innovation Lab, which will promote integrated research and teaching for energy applications.
The Texas-based provider of engineering and construction services to the energy industry will fund the lab to support studies focused on trends in the global energy industry.
LSU engineering dean Rick Koubek says lab will help LSU bring its teachings up to date as it connects with the industry's workforce needs.
CB&I's contribution for the lab will be matched dollar-for-dollar by state funds.
Trial date set for firm's dispute with port
LAKE CHARLES (AP) — A state District Court judge has set an Oct. 27 trial date in lawsuit by Lake Charles Stevedores against the Port of Lake Charles.
Judge Sharon Wilson set the date in the case, which includes allegations the port misappropriated funds.
The claims are just one aspect of a complicated case that addresses multiple contracts over a 50-year period.
Wilson also ruled on technical pleadings filed by the port's attorneys to amend earlier filings. In October 2013, former state District Judge Wilford Carter ruled in favor of Lake Charles Stevedores, granting the company $5.56 million in damages from the Port of Lake Charles.
EPA water task force
to work with universities
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A task force established by the Environmental Protection Agency to curtail farmland pollution that flows into the Mississippi River said Wednesday it has reached an agreement to work with 12 universities on the problem.
The Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Task Force will work with Purdue University in Indiana, University of Illinois, University of Arkansas, University of Kentucky, Mississippi State University and Ohio State University. Others include University of Tennessee, University of Missouri, University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, Iowa State University and Louisiana State University.
States already collaborate with their local universities on local water quality research and agricultural programs, but there hasn't been a formal process for sharing research and ideas across the 12 states in the task force, the EPA said in a statement.
This agreement "will encourage university research into nutrient reduction strategies, will help communicate water quality messages and will encourage more involvement in voluntary science-based nutrient reduction efforts," said Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey, a co-chairman of the task force.
From The Associated Press and staff reports.
The task force is a partnership of five federal agencies, tribes, and environmental quality, agricultural, and conservation agencies from 12 states from which water flows into the Mississippi River. It's working to address nutrient pollution and the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, an area the size of Connecticut that's largely devoid of marine life. High levels of nitrates and phosphorous, largely the result of runoff of fertilizer and livestock manure applied to farmland, lead to excessive plant and algae growth that depletes oxygen to a level inadequate to support aquatic life.
In 2008, the task force set a goal of reducing the dead zone to less than 2,000 square miles — still larger than Rhode Island — by 2015. The EPA said the agreement announced Wednesday brings additional expertise to develop farm runoff reduction strategies.
The agency said nutrient pollution is one of America's most widespread, costly and challenging environmental problems. More than 100,000 miles of rivers and streams, close to 2.5 million acres of lakes, reservoirs and ponds, and more than 800 square miles of bays and estuaries in the United States have poor water quality because of nutrient pollution, the EPA said.
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Did you study black anthropology at Clark college or a high school in Atlanta? I can tell by the vocabulary and profanity in your post you didn't study English communication. Bless your little heart.During slavery, we invented damn near everything but under law, couldnt get it patent so the devil took the credit. but we are everywhere, native, the first, yet no respect by these crakkkers. The HATE that deep ain't it? hate our style, but steal our style. hate our soul, yet steal our music. hate our fried bs, yet love our seasoning. hate our talk, but all white kids dam near wiggers. whites fukkk off. we know u all not from earth like other post say. no personality, tight pants, mismatch wearing asses.
We (blacks) the first on earth why no respect?
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I can only surmise you studied anthropology in Nigeria or a high school in Chicago, right? If what you say is true why didn't they even know what a wheel was until the whites introduced them to it? I refer you to the blacks on the Island of New Guinea who were practicing cannibalism and were ignorant of what a wheel was in 1943. Read the book, "Shangri-La" instead of listening to convoluted biased opinions. Bless your little heart.
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Then who invented the hooptie wheel?
#162 Jan 28, 2013
Because YOU Blacks have proven to be lazy, unintelligent, useless, unproductive, disease ridden, parasitic, addicted to crime, stealing, robbing, violent, burdens to normal civilizations, and ruin every place you take your stench to.
#163 Feb 6, 2013
I have difficulty respecting anyone so hostile. Especially when they speak in an inarticulate manner.
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no the bible says the oldest son of ham was cush and his brother was phut their ancestors are now blacks from africa his youngist brother canaan he was hated by his other siblings. ham saw canaan doing somthing real bad and was powerless to stop him for some reason so he told his brothers who helped their father noah get dressed noah recovers and curse canaan straight away in genesis 9:24 25 canaan had to be the youngest son because there was no word for grandson in the bible so it was yougest son literally. the curse of canaan was complete his african asian and european brothers did enslave the canaanites etiopians eygptians hated the filth of the canaanites and killed and enslaved them along with jews and europeans. if you read the bible you will see that blacks came many generations from adam and eve. ham was not black bible doesnt say that its said cush was black.so why black enslaved ? excuses if they lied and misused the bible along with evolution they could fool people little did they know they enslaved the wrong people. the canaanites were light skinned people who lived east of the mediteranean. how ironic so blacks cant blame all white because we have been fooled its not all of our fault we need to end racism btw its now scientificly proven blacks are not first they are capoids. research capoids.
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#165 Feb 10, 2013
these people scientificly arent black by dna read about them they dont count as a africans
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Exactly....How can the intelligent people among our black population, watch the inordinate amount of violent crime, irresponsibility and acting up, by so many of their own people....then, even wonder why they are often denied respect....CURE THEYSELF, FOLKS.....
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blacks came from monkeys.ADAM AND EVE WERE NOT BLACK.IF they had been black, adam would have killed someone trying to take a rib away from him.Had the decendants of adam and eve been black noah would have DROWN.No black is going to take the time to build a boat to save their own life. They are not going to let 2 chickens live without frying them,and people could not have walked the streets from town to town without being robbed and killed.A negro would not have buried JESUS in a tomb, They would have thrown him in a dumpster and let him be..JESUS would not have been able to talk to the woman at the well because the well would be full of beer cans and dead negros.LOOK at the features you have in a mirror ans hold up a picture of a monkey beside you.SCARY AINT IT?
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Reap what you sow.
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I sewed watermellons and they were all stolen.
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At the end of July, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued two decisions under its controversial Specialty Healthcare standard, approving of one "micro unit" and disavowing another in the retail context. The NLRB's contrary rulings in cases with similar factual situations may muddy the waters of this already volatile area of labor law.
Since it was issued, employers have been concerned that the National Labor Relations Board's controversial Specialty Healthcare decision would allow unions to fracture seemingly similar groups of employees into discrete "micro units." (We previously discussed the ramifications of the Specialty Healthcare decision: NLRB's Controversial Specialty Healthcare Ruling Affirmed and NLRB's One, Two Punch – A Challenging Landscape Ahead for Non-Union Employers.)
NLRB's View of Micro-Units
Specialty Healthcare announced that employers would have to show that "the excluded employees share an overwhelming community of interest with the included employees" before the NLRB would decide that the proposed bargaining unit was too narrow. Over the past several years, the NLRB approved discrete units among similar groups of employees in various industries. For example, in one case, the NLRB approved a unit including a dog breeding employer's canine welfare technicians and instructors, but excluding its breeding, puppy-raising, kennel and veterinary employees. Until late July, however, the NLRB has not indicated whether it would approve of such fractured units in the retail industry where it has traditionally presumed that only "wall-to-wall" units are appropriate.
In its first decision, the NLRB endorsed a "micro unit" consisting of 41 cosmetics and fragrance sales employees working on two separate floors at a Macy's that excluded the store's other 79 sales employees. In doing so, the NLRB rejected Macy's reliance on the strong presumption that only wall-to-wall bargaining units were appropriate in the retail industry, instead concluding that the cosmetics and fragrances employees were a readily identifiable group. The facts that all of these employees had the same manager (who did not manage any other sales employees), were housed in a separate department from the other sales employees, sold the same merchandise, worked in defined areas in the store, and had limited contact with the other sales employees were all keys to the NLRB's conclusion.
In rejecting Macy's argument that the other sales employees shared an "overwhelming community of interest" with the cosmetics and fragrances employees, the NLRB noted that they worked in different departments, that the cosmetics and fragrances department was structured differently than other departments within the store, the employees worked in their own distinctive areas, reported to different supervisors and the other sales employees had minimal contact with the cosmetics and fragrances employees. According to the NLRB, these facts were enough to defeat the presumption of a wall-to-wall unit, even though all of the employees performed similar selling duties in the same store.
Contrarily, in the second decision, the NLRB rejected a fractured unit consisting of 35 "Salon Shoe" employees (in a distinct department with their own manager) and 11 "Contemporary Footwear" employees (who reported to a different manager and were part of a larger "Contemporary Sportswear" department) at a Bergdorf Goodman. The NLRB concluded that the petitioned-for unit was inappropriate because sales associates in Salon shoes and Contemporary shoes lacked a community of interest given that the unit would depart from the employer's organizational structure of the departments.
Key to its decision—and unlike in the Macy's case—the Salon Shoe employees and Contemporary Footwear employees were part of different departments located on separate floors. Despite its reliance on the Bergdorf Goodman's departmental structure in this case, the NLRB noted that had the workers shared common supervisors or the shoe departments interchanged employees, a community of interest could have been found despite the employer's organizational structure.
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As we have noted in the past, one course employers concerned about "micro unit" proliferation may wish to take is a thorough review of their organizational structures. The practicality of such a review is highlighted by the NLRB's divergent decisions in these factually similar cases. It appears that, while not definitive, the NLRB will give significant weight to an employer's organizational decisions when applying Specialty Healthcare.
Along with understanding how an employer's organizational structure may guide the NLRB's unit decisions, it is also important for employers wishing to remain union-free to understand how to create positive employee relations and stop the organizing process before it starts.
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I still love this tea. I have been noticing some French teas having this baby powder flavor to them, which I am now hyper aware of, which I have attributed to almond flavoring. Revisiting this tea, I'm noticing it here now too. Not nearly as strong and gross as in other teas, but it is there and is distracting all the same. I'm having this with just cream and I think sugar really does a lot for the flavors in here.
I first tried steeping this tea hot and I wasn't impressed. This time I cold steeped it and it is much better! I get a wheatgrass tang from this at times and a really strong flavor that sometimes seems floral and other times seems grape or muscat like. I think I prefer this slightly sweetened which makes the grape part more full or true. I like it, am glad to have tried it, will enjoy the rest of the sample I got, but I don't feel compelled to buy it again.
A while back I soaked a bunch of this in some vodka and made an extract of this tea which I used when I made some marshmallows and they turned out SOOOO GOOD!!! Now when I drink this tea it brings me back to the memory of stuffing my face full of marshmallows! Today I'm having it with cream and sugar and it is super delicious. I steeped it for two minutes just below boiling and it think that is the magic settings for this tea because it is perfect. It has a nice lavender punch to it with an amazing aftertaste. I can't pick out any citrus on it's own, but I suspect it is working with the lavender to perk up and amplify the floral flavor. This tea is pretty amazing and ALMOST makes up for them discontinuing their Kashmiri Chai, which was my all time favorite. If you like lavender, this one is a must try!
Zhi, if you are reading this, job well done on the VF and bring back the KC by any means necessary!!!!
They turned out really good! I also did a batch of raspberry white chocolate coated in matcha. They were super yum too!
It was the description of citrus and smoke that made me curious about this tea. It looks like a black tea with random silver needles sprinkled throughout. Once steeped, it smells like a smokey puer. When I taste it, I get a bunch of different flavors. I get smoke, citrus, leather, puer earthiness… There is a lot going on in this tea! It is a heavier tea overall, similar to the heartiness of breakfast teas. The smoke isn't overpowering here and has a similar intensity as the other flavors making things really well balanced.
With non dessert type teas, it usually isn't love at first sip, but over time I could learn to love this tea and I sure hope I do since I got a whole tin of this!
*Hubby just took a sip and said it tastes like non alcoholic scotch, which I thought was a pretty spot on description!
Cold steeped in the fridge for several days before I remembered to try this. Ooops! I Didn't use much water with the idea that I'd add ice later, but I have been enjoying it concentrated. When I first sip, it's a mouthful of fruit. Peaches at first, apples later and some other flavors I can't name. After the sip when all else fades, I get a green flavor… like wheatgrass tingling the sides of my tongue. The whole thing is very crisp tasting. Adding a little sugar rounds out the fruit taste a bit and also tones down the wheatgrass nip. I like this, it's refreshing, but I don't think I'll be buying it when there are so many other amazing Lupicia teas to explore and love.
Trying this cold steeped now… this is odd. I want to like it. There is a slight tang to it, like someone actually used an appropriate amount of hibiscus for once. It doesn't taste like caramel corn on the sip, but at the very end and definitely in the aftertaste it makes an appearance. There are little chunks of apple floating in the cup, but I really can't pick out any apple taste. They don't really taste like apple either. There is a definitive caramel corn flavor to this and I'm glad to have tried it, but now I can move on. I have conquered the caramel corn tea.
Chocolate macaroon, I'm so sorry I hated on you at first! I take it back!
Steeped hot, yes, this tea is pretty gross. Cold steeped is a different story tho! It's perfect! I taste chocolate, coconut and macadamia nuts. It tastes like the chocolate coconut covered macadamia nuts that you can buy in Hawaii, but in tea form! That weird sweetener taste that I complained about when this is hot is muted and almost undetectable. This is pretty enjoyable and I wish I had tried a cold steep last month when it was still in stock and I was near a store where I wouldn't have had to buy it in 250g increments. Maybe they will bring it back next summer… and I'll be wiser.
This is MUCH better cold! Hot steeped and poured over ice. I added some sugar to amp it up a bit and make it more true to cotton candy. It is almost a little fruity. I get a bit of rooibos at certain points, but it isn't consistent. I'm cold steeping the rest of this sample in the fridge. Sipdown? That's a rare thing for me!
I see that Fauchon has a rose and litchi as well as a rose and apple tea! Alas, all that was at Marshall's was rose. Poor me, right? :)
I was concerned that this tea might have that baby powder flavor that I loathe in some French teas, but I wanted to try it anyways. It is a little powdery, but not overwhelmingly so. It definitely tastes and smells rose like, very floral and I got a smooth cup out of this. I steeped it at 200, a little lower than I normally do blacks at, but I was trying to avoid any bitterness and it worked! It is really nice with a little bit of sugar and tastes lighter and more floral with a little cream. I think I like this one!


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Warren Clarke, now 24, was driving past the camp when his car was in collision with a BMW speeding away from the site. Two passengers in Mr Clarke's Ford Escort and three men in the other car were killed; Mr Clarke sustained serious injuries and is seeking compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, but it says his case may not be considered until the police investigation has been concluded. The North Wales force yesterday said 'some issues remain which require further investigation'.
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E-retailers stepped up their e-mail marketing as the 2009 holiday season moved into high gear, says one study, but another report suggests a lot of e-mail is not getting through
Retailers flooded the Internet with marketing e-mails on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, and Cyber Monday, the Monday after Thanksgiving, according to a study by e-mail marketing services provider Smith-Harmon. But many of those e-mails may not have made it to customers' in-boxes, another study says.
On the day after Thanksgiving, 69% of major online retailers sent at least one promotional e-mail, up from 59% in 2008, according to Smith-Harmon's Retail Email Blog. On the Sunday after the holiday, 45% of retailers sent at least one promotional e-mail, up from 36% last year, making Nov. 29 the biggest Sunday ever for retail e-mail marketing. And, on Monday, 71% sent at least one promotional e-mail-a slight bump from 70% a year ago-yet the most popular retail e-mail day of all-time.
While e-retailers aren't slowing their sending, a study from e-mail deliverability services provider Pivotal Veracity suggests that many marketing e-mails may not be getting to consumers. The study found that nearly 25% of e-mail marketing messages sent the Monday after Thanksgiving did not reach in-boxes. According to the vendor, 76.2% of marketing e-mails reached in-boxes on the busy online shopping day.
"Cyber Monday has become a veritable trench warfare of offers, specials and hype in consumers' e-mail in-boxes," says Deirdre Baird, president and CEO of Pivotal Veracity. "As delivery queues get packed with messages, ISP spam filters go on high alert and many marketers end up with lower in-box delivery rates." E-mail marketers often refer to e-mail inbox providers as ISPs, or Internet service providers, even though nowadays many providers of e-mail accounts, such as Google and Yahoo, don't provide Internet connectivity.
The Smith-Harmon study outlined additional facts about holiday retail e-mails:
-During the four weeks leading up to Nov. 27, the number of retail e-mails referencing Black Friday rose 96% this year compared to 2008.
-The number of retail e-mails referencing Cyber Monday, the Monday following Thanksgiving weekend, in the four days leading up to the major online shopping day rose 54% compared to a year ago.
-Compared to a typical Sunday, 68% more retailers sent at least one e-mail on Nov. 29, the Sunday after Thanksgiving.
The Smith-Harmon study is based on the activity of 104 of the top 150 online retailers in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide. Those retailers are tracked by Smith-Harmon's Retail Email Blog. The Pivotal Veracity study reflects benchmark averages across all the company's clients from Nov. 23 to Nov. 30. It uses data gathered from thousands of e-mail marketing campaigns.
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The goal of the Center for Reproductive Science and Medicine at UCSD is to develop understanding of the mechanisms that govern normal and disordered function of the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis. This application represents our renewal for years 29-33. Our productivity has been outstanding with 60 papers published and 9 submitted in 3 years of a 4-year award. We will continue to produce novel, significant contributions to the reproductive sciences, integrating multidisciplinary clinical, translational, and basic research to facilitate and accelerate the translation of promising new discoveries into clinical medicine. We are proposing 3 integrated, innovative Research Projects, all with experienced, internationally renowned leaders. Project I (Pamela L. Mellon, PL) will address the hormonal control of the pituitary gonadotrope, focusing on regulation by activin, GnRH, and steroid hormones in vitro and in vivo. The emphasis will be on understanding the synergy and interdependence between these hormones in controlling transcription in model immortalized gonadotrope cells, genetically modified mice, and mouse models of precocious puberty and PCOS. Project II (Jerrold M. Olefsky, PL) will chart new territory in the role of metabolic control in fertility. A dual in vivo/in vitro approach will elucidate the mechanisms of adiponectin, SirT1, and PPARy actions in regulating reproduction, using immortalized hypothalamic GnRH-secreting neurons and gonadotrope cells, novel genetically modified mice, and mouse models of PCOS. Project III (R. Jeffrey Chang, PL) will delineate the relative roles of specific factors implicated in excess production of androgen by the ovarian theca cell in women with PCOS and undertake studies in human ovary culture systems, addressing fundamental mechanisms underlying PCOS. All Project Leaders serve as Co-l's on other components of the Center and all 3 projects include teams of very experienced investigators. The Projects are highly interactive and synergistic, creating a coherent mechanistic and translational Center. The Administrative Core supports the Center, provides the Enrichment Program, and facilitates interactions within the Center and the SCCPIR Program. The SCCPIR Human Ovary Tissue Bank provides tissue to NIH-funded investigators nation-wide.
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common cause of female infertility, occurring in about 1 in 10 women of childbearing age. Hallmarks are disordered pituitary function, metabolic abnormalities (insulin resistance/obesity), androgen excess, and anovulation. Our Center proposes an integrated program of three projects that address each aspect of PCOS: 1) pituitary hormone regulation, 2) metabolic control of fertility and 3) production of androgens. Studies include women and mouse models of human disease.
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