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Lobbying & Influence
Three fined for covert lobbying in California
Three well-connected partners in the prominent California Strategies public affairs firm have agreed to pay fines to California's political watchdog agency for trying to influence state government decisions without registering as lobbyists.
Democrats Jason Kinney, Rusty Areias and Winston Hickox violated state law when they "crossed over the line which separates policy consultants from lobbyists," says a proposed settlement that the Fair Political Practices Commission released Monday. The settlement requires all three to register as lobbyists and, along with their firm, pay a combined fine of $40,500.
It's just the second time in recent history that the FPPC has prosecuted anyone for failing to register as a lobbyist, the settlement says. But it reveals a practice many Sacramento lobbyists say has become pervasive at the Capitol: "shadow lobbying" by former politicians and high-level staff members who leave government to consult for private industry without disclosing themselves as lobbyists.
The practice creates an unfair playing field that registered lobbyists have complained about in recent years. Lobbyists who register with the state must file quarterly reports stating who's paying them and how much. They must take annual ethics classes, post their pictures on the scretary of state's website and are banned from giving campaign contributions to anyone running for state office. Consultants who don't register as lobbyists operate with virtually no rules.
The FPPC's prosecution of the case has the potential to shake up the lobbying business in Sacramento, said Phillip Ung, an advocate with California Common Cause, which promotes government transparency.
"We hope it sends a message that you can't be in the shadow lobbying business anymore without the threat of being caught," Ung said. "For a long time I think the consultants thought the FPPC enforcement on this issue was rare. This shows the FPPC is taking this issue seriously, and those who wish to break the rules should take this issue seriously, too."
California Strategies released a statement saying the business "has already put stronger internal reporting controls in place."
"The firm takes full responsibility for this matter and all of our principals are committed to ensuring it never happens again," said a prepared statement emailed by managing partner Camden S. McEfee.
The FPPC's review of the firm was already underway when The Sacramento Bee published an investigation in January documenting a severe lack of detail in California's lobbying reports. Interest groups that spend the most money to influence policy in the Capitol spend the bulk of it in secret, The Bee found, including hiring former politicians as consultants and launching ad campaigns to push their agenda with virtually no financial disclosure.
Areias was a state legislator for 12 years who then headed the state Parks Department; Hickox was an adviser during Gov. Jerry Brown's prior administration and secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency under Gov. Gray Davis; Kinney was communications director for Senate leader Don Perata, then Davis' speechwriter and is now a political consultant to Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg.
In settling with the FPPC, the three acknowledge that over the last two years they lobbied the Legislature and Air Resources Board without registering and publicly reporting their clients and income, as state law requires of lobbyists.
"This activity violates one of the (Political Reform) Act's central purposes – the activities of lobbyists should be regulated and their finances disclosed in order that improper influences will not be directed at public officials," the FPPC settlement says.
"The public harm inherent in these violations is that the public is deprived of important and timely information ... such as the identity of the person ultimately seeking to influence legislative or administrative action and the amount of money expended by that person to influence such action."
FPPC investigators said they are recommending a fine at the steeper end of the range because the three men likely knew their work constituted lobbying under California law. The state's Political Reform Act says lobbyists must register with the secretary of state if they spend more than a third of their time or are paid at least $2,000 a month to influence state government decisions.
"Respondents are sophisticated parties who have extensive experience working with appointed and elected officials," the FPPC wrote in its settlement.
"They are a former legislator, Cabinet-level official and senior gubernatorial staffer. Additionally, the firm itself contains numerous former high-ranking government officials. As a result, the firm clearly should have known that such lobbying activity needed to be reported and the firm was required to be registered as a lobbying firm."
California Strategies, founded by former Gov. Pete Wilson's chief of staff, Bob White, is made up of two sister companies – one for lobbying, the other for public affairs. Its lobbying branch reported bringing in $1,099,204 during the first half of this year, making it California's 19th highest-earning lobbying firm.
But most of the former government officials who work for the firm – including former lawmaker Jim Brulte, who now chairs the California Republican Party – are part of its public affairs branch, which doesn't disclose its clients or its income.
Some of that will change with the FPPC settlement. The public affairs branch of the business will have to register as a lobbying firm for 2012 and retroactively file all associated disclosure reports for the three named in the settlement. For this year, the lobbying branch of the company will amend its disclosure reports to include work by Kinney and Hickox. The 2012 and 2013 disclosures are required by Sept. 19, when the proposed settlement is scheduled for a vote by the commission.
The Bee's examination of lobbying disclosures earlier this year found that state law allows lobbying groups to report spending on scores of activities that are related to lobbying – but do not meet the legal definition of lobbying – as a single lump sum. In this category, listed as "other payments to influence" on disclosure forms, groups report how much they are spending, but not what they're spending it on. The "other" category can cover myriad expenditures, from the phone bill in a lobbyist's office to hiring former politicians not formally registered as lobbyists to pull strings inside the Capitol.
The Bee reported in January that former Senate leader Perata as well as former Assembly speakers Willie Brown and Fabian Núñez work as consultants who are not registered lobbyists. Shortly thereafter, Perata registered as a lobbyist and the FPPC formed a working group to examine whether the state should require more detail on payments in the "other" category of lobbying reports. That review is still underway.
Perata said Monday that he decided to register as a lobbyist "so there's no confusion when I'm talking with government officials about the nature of my business with them."
"If my lawyer says register, I register," Perata said by email.
California Strategies did not make its partners available for an interview following the FPPC settlement. In January, Kinney told The Bee that he and his colleagues in the firm's public affairs branch do not engage in lobbying. Their practice involves a big-picture approach to policy issues, Kinney said then, not attempts to sway votes on specific votes on specific bills.
"Our differentiator is that we attempt to offer expertise about how to navigate the entire chess board, not just looking at one piece of it," Kinney said.
The FPPC settlement offers a different view of their work. It says that Kinney, Areias and Hickox were paid at least $2,000 a month by their clients to contact government officials in an attempt to shape their decisions:
• Kinney communicated directly with state lawmakers about bills that affect a real estate client, Focil-MB, which has developed a huge portion of Bay-front property in San Francisco.
• Areias communicated directly with a lawmaker about legislation impacting his client, Kaiser Ventures, a mining company trying to sell its land at Eagle Mountain in Riverside County.
• Hickox attempted to influence administrative action by communicating with members of the Air Resources Board on behalf of his client, CE2 Carbon Capital, which had hired him to advise on projects to reduce carbon emissions.
In total, the three men failed to disclose $84,000 of lobbying payments over the last two years, the FPPC settlement says, "depriving the public of information regarding a significant amount of lobbying activity."
FPPC fines
The FPPC is fining the California Strategies public affairs firm $10,500 for not registering as a lobbying business and also fining three of its partners for working as lobbyists without registering with the state. All have deep connections to Democratic leaders in the Capitol.
Fine: $6,000 for two violations of California's Political Reform Act for lobbying the Legislature on behalf of steel mining company Kaiser Ventures and its land at Eagle Mountain in Riverside County.
Background: Democratic Assemblyman from Los Banos, 1982-1994; director of the state Department of Parks and Recreation, 1998-2001; served four years on the California Coastal Commission.
Noteworthy: Married to professional fundraiser Julie Sandino. A friend and financial supporter of Gov. Jerry Brown. Traveled to China with Brown earlier this year.
Fine: $12,000 for four violations of California's Political Reform Act for lobbying the Legislature on behalf of real estate developer Focil-MB, which is managed by the Mission Bay Development Group in San Francisco.
Background: Communications director for Senate leader Don Perata; speechwriter for Gov. Gray Davis.
Noteworthy: California Strategies clients include the National Football League, the California Medical Association and AT&T. Also paid by the state Democratic Party to be a political communications consultant to Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg.
Fine: $12,000 for four violations of California's Political Reform Act for lobbying the Air Resources Board on behalf of investment company CE2 Carbon Capital.
Background: Adviser to Gov. Jerry Brown during his prior administration; secretary of the Environmental Protection Agency under Gov. Gray Davis, 1999-2003; chairman of the Market Advisory Committee that advises the Air Resources Board on implementing California's greenhouse gas reduction law.
Noteworthy: Has served on the boards of the California League of Conservation Voters, Audubon California and Sustainable Conservation.
Call Laurel Rosenhall, Bee Capitol Bureau, (916) 321-1083. Follow her on Twitter @LaurelRosenhall.


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Try to take a few minutes just to yourself and see the wonder it creates. When one of my friend used to go on a short drive all by her own, I used to ponder what makes her wander alone without her husband and children. Mused by her action, when questioned her , she just told me to take time off and see the difference in my moods and spirits. And indeed, it worked. This need not be a weekend or a few days out from the family, only a few hours will do the wonder. One need not always think of spending this leisure time outside but can be qualitatively spent elsewhere too.
My version of 'lazy day' is, when I finish my daily chores much ahead of the schedule and have the rest of the day only to myself. I love to browse, laze around with a hot cup of masala chai. How about you???? I thoroughly enjoy my 'gym' hours too.
Please enjoy 'few lazy hours' in your daily life and rejuvenate yourself.
'The real problem of leisure time is how to keep away others from using yours' - Arthur Lacey


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Graphic designer and independent software developer Chris O'Connell has announced his largely one-man project, "SACHI'S QUEST", a 3D game for Windows 2000 and Windows XP is now available.
"SACHI'S QUEST" is a first-person adventure that allows a player to take on the roll of "Sachi", a female agent who fights oppressive aliens in a very dark future. Players will experience several interactive chapters, each taking place on different worlds, leading to a final battle on an alien-conquered Earth. Along the way, the player discovers and uses various weapons and equipment to help aid in surviving the adventures on each world.
"SACHI'S QUEST" also includes a mission editor for creating custom content. "Imaginative players are highly encouraged to use the mission editor to create and share their own adventures for Sachi to survive." says Chris O'Connell, the creator of the game. "Several game companies don't allow this sort of thing with their products. I hope that, people will like Sachi and her adventures so much; they'll take pleasure and put her through whatever kinds of adventures they want to create." The mission editor includes several options that allow users to invent and change whole environments to play in, including mountains, fields, lakes, hills, plant life, buildings and various items, as well as weather effects such as rain, snow, lightning, and sunshine. The mission editor can even be used to affect the behavior, or artificial intelligence, of certain characters in the game.
"SACHI'S QUEST" is available for $19.95 and can be purchased online via CD or download. A free demo version of the game, featuring only the first three chapters without the mission editor can be downloaded at www.sachisquest.com.
About Chris O'Connell:
Christopher O'Connell is an independent software developer and freelance artist who designs his own computer games. He currently serves as chief operating officer and lead designer for NinjaGirl Productions LLC, a Massachusetts-based website and multimedia development firm.


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Skopelos traditional pies
- Published: Thursday, 25 April 2013 07:50
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You can taste our traditional pies, which you can find only in our beautiful island!
Tiropita or tyropita (τυρóπιτα, literally cheese-pie) is a Greek layered pastry food in the burek family, made with layers of buttered phyllo and filled with a cheese-egg mixture. Another variety is the spiral Skopelos Cheese Pie in which long strips of cheese stuffed phyllo are formed into a spiral and deep fried.
Tiropita can also be made in a large pan and cut into individual portions after baking. The individual form is sold in bakeries throughout Greece, where it is a popular breakfast and snack food. Alternatives to tiropita are spanakopita, a pie with spinach, as well as bougatsa.
In Greece, one can find many varieties of Tyropita:
Kourou: Surrounded by a thick pastry.
Sfoliata: Surrounded by puff-pastry.
Horiatiki: Made in a Tapsi pan.
Tyropitakia: Bite-sized.
Skopelitiki: Made in the shape of a twirl.
Regular tiropita fillings usually consist of feta cheese, egg, butter and yogurt. However, "kasseropita" contains kasseri instead of feta cheese and, unlike regular tiropita, does not contain yogurt.
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By Madeline Dierauf
Missing football season? Need something to do on a Friday night? On February 24 the BHS Spirit Club will be hosting a volleyball tournament. This tournament will be a fundraiser for the club, the proceeds of which will be used to put money into spirit club. The club plans to use this for future events like pep rallies.
The event will take place at 5:30 pm in the new gym. There are 8 teams signed up to play including teachers and students. Each team consists of 6-8 players and a clever team name.
Varsity volleyball players Ashley McBee, Hannah Gordon, Hannah Jenkins, Blaze Betts, Kinsey Wright, Makiyah Duckett, and Danielle Troyer will be acting as coaches in the weeks leading up to the tournament.
Tickets will be sold for $5 beforehand at lunch and at the door. There will also be concessions available at the tournament. Make sure to come out and support the spirit club!


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Photo Diary | Bloom |
Monday, March 10, 2014
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I love cherry blossoms!...and I love spring. Finally :-)ReplyDelete
Wow! Stumps are notoriously difficult, so good on you. You're clearly several weeks ahead of us on this spring business. Our weeping cherry *might* have buds on it. I'll have to go check. We have two warm days ahead, so I expect things to start popping really soon. Allergies too! ;)ReplyDeleteReplies
they are. that's why i had waited. but who knows maybe if i hadn't have waited it wouldn't have rotten enough for me to be able to do. so glad that's done. spring is starting here and i couldn't be happier. every season change is lovely in it's own way, and though summer is my favorite season, spring is always the most magical season change to me. xo ps. i outgrew my hay-fever! isn't that crazy? i had so terribly throughout my childhood. xoDelete
too pretty! i love these picturesReplyDelete
How was my weekend? http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/11902711.jpg ;)ReplyDelete
It was just lovely here, clear blue skies, warmer weather (high 40s!) with just the slightest chill, perfect for throwing the windows open. I ran a few errands, had lunch for one at a tiny French cafe (had an Orangina!) and did some laundry/cleaning. Mostly, though, I watched Veronica Mars or practiced French on my Duolingo app on the sofa with Fitz. It. Ruled. Your weekend sounds productive to say the least!! xoReplies
haha, that meme, a triumphant weekend indeed :) xoDelete
You know, my other friend Iluska in Portland said the same thing about the cherry blossoms so spring must really be there! And good on you for tackling that tree stump by yourselfReplyDeleteReplies
it's still rainy but having little spots of color break up all the grey, and i think the freezing temps are finally behind us! xoDelete
Yay Spring!!! its supposed to hit the 60's week did you hear?ReplyDeleteReplies
i saw that it is suppose to be 67 degrees on wednesday. my first thought was woo hoo! my second thought was "oh no, what will i wear?" i have been wearing layers for months now!Delete
I love cherry blossoms! You're so lucky to have them all around your house! I know what you mean about putting off a garden chore and then having it being so easy you can't believe it. For 4 years my neighbor's gardeners have clipped my bougainvillea hedge so it doesn't grow high enough for privacy even though it cascades around the rest of the house. I finally put up a giant trellis on that fence this weekend and it took me less than 15 mins. Definitely a wow I could've had a V8 moment :) Hope all is well with you!ReplyDelete
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i don't have much of a yard, just a couple little garden spaces, so i can't do a lot - well, hopefully now i can do more. but yes, i still put it off. but once i get out there i remember how meditative it is. i forget that i actually like it sometimes! i owe you an email. i am going to get on that stat! xoDelete
That is so funny about the stump!! I wish we had better trees in our neighborhood, all we've got are the small landscaping trees that these newer neighborhoods have. I miss the smell of apple blossoms in the spring. I'm glad you got out in yard this weekend though. Our back yard is such a mess right now, we ripped up the grass and are going to be planting some new soon. And in the meantime I am just chompin at the bit to get out there and start cultivating the back yard and garden of my dreams (in miniature of course, our yard is tiny).ReplyDeleteReplies
mine is vey miniature too. at least you have a fence! but you know my fence dreams? they are coming true. finally. i can't wait to make it pretty in my back garden :)Delete
oh my goodness how gorgeous! around here we have the star jasmine bushes lining all of the fences so with this past weekends first little bloom, i took started to get excited with the thought of spring. i adore winter, but spring is really quite a beautiful time.ReplyDeleteReplies
mmm i want to get some of that. i bought star jasmine in my last place and it did really well. i moved shortly thereafter though and haven't had anyplace to put it to get more. but now that i have dug out my stump, i am getting a little fence and i think that is going to be my first outdoor plant purchase. it smells so heavenly!Delete
It seems that spring has arrived everywhere in the Northern hemisphere but here. We did see the sun today, finally. Beautiful photos, Christine!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 14, 2014 at 10:56 AM
lovely pics. spring is such a fantastic time, isn't it :)ReplyDelete
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I Never Knew
I am back friends, with few good and a few not so good incidences to share. As the 2011 was ending and the 2012 peeing in for an entry, I started to list down my new year resolutions. Ofcourse, I wasn't sure of achieving all, but had sorted out the most important ones. I am verry happy that I have achieved the one closest to my heart. I have enrollled myself into a dance academy to get a training in Bharatnatyam and Katthak. They are suppose to be two important dance forms of Indian classical types. It was my childhood dream to do this but never had an opportunity. My happiness gets doubled when I see myself doing this after my marriage. Often what indian women are deprived of in middle class families is something I have got as blessings. I am proud of my famuily and my husband for supporting this. I wish every women has such a beautiful and supportive family. This was the good incidence I wanted to share; and now comes the next... complete article


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"It would be like Goofus and Gallant from the Highlights magazine."
I don't even know if that magazine is still in circulation, but I remember reading it as a kid while sitting in the waiting room for my dental and doctor appointments. That magazine was always there!
Well, according to a Chicago Tribune article, Highlights magazine celebrated it's 60th year back in 2006.
Getting back to Gutfeld's point.
In today's world, individuals like the very troubled Lindsey Lohan are a far cry from anything that Goofus (the "bad" guy) ever did in those magazine stories. And, as the author of the Chicago Tribune article points out:
"We couldn't have Gallant without Goofus," said Highlights Editor Kent Brown, a grandson of the founders and, he proudly claims, the inspiration for Goofus. "Without Goofus, Gallant would be bland and no one would pay attention. But kids see parts of themselves in both characters. No one is as good as Gallant, and no one is as bad as Goofus. But being more like Gallant is something to strive for."Dana Perino represents one of the best of her generation. She is more like the "Gallant" character and should be commended for living a life of integrity, honesty, civility, wisdom, knowledge and unapologetic conservatism; even though some have mocked her for being on Fox News and others have verbally attacked her relentlessly when she worked for the Bush Administration.
Someone else who recently made headlines after his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast also fits in with the Gallant character quite well - Dr. Benjamin Carson. If you are one of ten people here in America who hasn't heard about him yet or witnessed and listened to his great speech, here is a link to a previous post where you can enjoy what he shared. The video has gone viral!
Talk Wisdom: Dr. Benjamin Carson's Amazing Speech at National Prayer Breakfast [VIDEO]
"Something to strive for."
That's great advice for today's youth. BE SOMEONE who shows that he or she has the demeanor, goals, aspiration and capabilities necessary in order to have something to strive for. Be the kind of good person that others will look up to and be that "someone" that others should strive to emulate.
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From January 4th, 2014 we are joined by guests Rick Olson, Greg Moore (AFP), Betsy McCaughey, and Alexandria Lainez the N. FL University student who just won a critical gun rights case in Florida. We talk climate, Medicaid Expansion, ObamaCare, self-defense, Blue Hampshire's swan song, and more.
Listen to "Flashback – January 4th, 2014" on Spreaker.


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Meiningen and surroundings
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Schmalkalden and surroundings
Meiningen is located in the "Thuringian Forest" in the valley of the "Werra". It is well know as a theater town with many attractions.
The first time I arrived on a cold winter morning. I did not have any problems to find a parking space. Obviously, most people stayed at home. This was completely different when we came back a year later in June.
The mighty Lutheran "Stadtkirche" caught immediately my attention and I knew that I was in the town center.
It was the first time that I saw a church which had a bridge between the towers. Visit the church (closed on Mondays) and find out more!
Meiningen in winter
Meiningen - the Lutheran "Stadtkirche"
Downtown Meiningen during January, Thuringia
A street musician in the pedestrian zone of Meiningen
It was not market day when we visited Meiningen again. But that did not hinder Elizabeth, my wife, in window shopping. Normally, she is a very poor eater but the baked goods from Thuringia changed that habit. Her favorite became "Stachelbeerkuchen" which is a gooseberry pie. She tried all the different variants. Also other cakes prepared with fresh fruits and covered in real whip cream were consumed by her. I never experienced her eating so much and loosing two pounds during this period of two weeks.
I caught her at 3 am in the kitchen of my son trying to indulge secretly two pieces of pie.
Elizabeth's favorites
Strolling through the pedestrian zones is relaxing and even for me much more fun than visiting a large shopping center. Elizabeth, my wife was very impressed by all the different stores and was surprised that certain things are much cheaper than in Canada - even when the shown prices include the value added tax.
Stop at the tourist information center to receive printed English information about the main attractions of this town. There are so many!
Because of my lost luggage with the rest of our photo equipment it was not possible that I and Elizabeth could split to visit certain attractions individually, what we did in Newfoundland-Labrador.
However, I came back a year later and was able to add certain things as you can see.
Unfortunately, time was again short and I missed a castle, called "Elisabethenburg". But we had a good time at nearby "Schloss Landsberg" which was built on the ruins of an old castle at the beginning of the 19 th century.
You will find some more information about "Schloss Landsberg" in our page about the Schmalkalden-Meiningen Region.
Certainly, you have read fairy tales or sagas without knowing that they have been written by Ludwig Bechstein who spent most of his life in Meiningen.
Please visit the "Pummpälzweg" a hiking trail where and you can learn more about this famous writer and also about Christian Ludwig Wucke. More information in our web site which we dedicated to this interesting hiking trail.
Another must for us is the visit of the "Theatre Museum" where the main attraction is a unique collection of stage decorations from the past.
The English Garden (Englische Garten)
Close to the theater in downtown you will find a beautiful park, called the "English Garden". The best known "English Garden" of Germany is in Munich. However, we enjoyed it to relax their for a while, similar to the cute little kindergarten kids with their nannies.
Great outdoor fun for the little ones
The garden borders to the theater section and metered parking is close.
Another attraction is the "Goetz-Höhle" a cave which is not a part of a closed mine. Don't miss a visit and enjoy the sights. Be prepared to climb steps.
Also ducks and other birds enjoy the great environment in the English Garden
My son who lives in Suhl loves Meiningen. He goes to concerts there, he enjoys the theater and all the other amenities which this clean town with a population of about 22 000 offers.
I miss some of that in the part of Ontario where we live.
Meiningen is certainly a nice town to live or to stay during a visit
During our visit in 2006 we unfortunately did not spend too much time in Meiningen, but we explored the surroundings. I wanted to go to the theater but naturally everything was only in German and Elizabeth would become bored as I would be in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, trying to understand a play in the English of Shakespeare. Whenever they have some musical when we are in Thuringia we would be happy to go.
The theater of Meiningen
The Toy Museum in Sonneberg, Thuringia
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Thuringia, wining and dining - a guide
Watch the video "Impressions of Suhl"
Watch the slide show "Heinrichser Maifest in Suhl, Thuringia, Thüringen "
Watch the slideshow: Visit the Marine Aquarium in Zella-Mehlis, Thuringia, Germany Ein früherer Besuch des Aquariums.
The Bertholdsburg in Schleusingen host an interesting museum, Thuringia
Ringberg Hotel in Suhl
Erfurt Thuringia (Thüringen) some impressions- einige Impressionen
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Neo: The Matrix?
Morpheus: Do you want to know what IT is? The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us, even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
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Some Powerful People Have Challenged the Matrix – And Failed
Similarly, when Congressman Peter DeFazio and the entire Homeland Security Committee of Congress were denied access by the White House to Continuity of Government Plans (the Committee had all necessary security clearances), DeFazio made a public speech to Congress, and stated "Maybe the people who think there's a conspiracy out there are right". In his own way, DeFazio was challenging the matrix.
Similarly, former high-level intelligence officials, military officers and others have pointed out that the government's story about 9/11 is hogwash. This was their way of challenging the matrix.
Each of these people were, in their own way, trying to wake people up to the fact that the U.S. is no longer a constitutional government. They have helped wake up some people. But they didn't succeed in waking up enough people to make things change.
Why not?
Because its a numbers game. And a handful of even the bravest, most dedicated and powerful people are not enough to reach the masses.
Its Up to Us
Its a numbers game.
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Preprint typeset in JHEP style - HYPER VERSION
An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
A. Garrett Lisi
SLRI, 722 Tyner Way, Incline Village, NV 89451 E-mail: email@example.com
Abstract: All fields of the standard model and gravity are unified as an E8 principal bundle connection. A non-compact real form of the E8 Lie algebra has G2 and F4 subalgebras which break down to strong su(3), electroweak su(2) x u(1), gravitational so(3,1), the frame-Higgs, and three generations of fermions related by triality. The interactions and dynamics of these 1-form and Grassmann valued parts of an E8 superconnection are described by the curvature and action over a four dimensional base manifold.
Keywords: ToE.
arXiv:0711.0770v1 [hep-th] 6 Nov 2007
1. Introduction 1 1.1 A connection with everything 2
1. Introduction
We exist in a universe described by mathematics. But which math? Although it is interesting to consider that the universe may be the physical instantiation of all mathematics,[1] there is a classic principle for restricting the possibilities: The mathematics of the universe should be beautiful. A successful description of nature should be a concise, elegant, unified mathematical structure consistent with experience.
Hundreds of years of theoretical and experimental work have produced an extremely successful pair of mathematical theories describing our world. The standard model of particles and interactions described by quantum field theory is a paragon of predictive excellence.
General relativity, a theory of gravity built from pure geometry, is exceedingly elegant and effective in its domain of applicability. Any attempt to describe nature at the foundational level must reproduce these successful theories, and the most sensible course towards unification is to extend them with as little new mathematical machinery as necessary. The further we drift from these experimentally verified foundations, the less likely our mathematics is to correspond with reality. In the absence of new experimental data, we should be very careful, accepting sophisticated mathematical constructions only when they provide a clear simplification. And we should pare and unite existing structures whenever possible.
The standard model and general relativity are the best mathematical descriptions we have of our universe. By considering these two theories and following our guiding principles, we will be led to a beautiful unification.
1.1 A connection with everything The building blocks of the standard
Figure 1: A periodic table of the standard model.
model and gravity are fields over a four dimensional base manifold. The electroweak and strong gauge fields are described by Lie algebra valued connection 1-forms, while the gravitational fields are described by the spin connection, a Clifford bivector valued 1-form, and the frame, e ∈ Cl1(3,1), a Clifford vector valued 1-form. The frame may be combined with a multiplet of Higgs scalar fields, φ, to interact with the electroweak gauge fields and fermions to give them masses. The fermions are represented as Grass- mann valued spinor fields, {.νe, .e, .u,...}, with the spin connection and gauge fields acting on them in fundamental representations. The electroweak W acts on doublets of left chi- quarks, {[.ur, .ug, .ub],...}; and the electroweak B acts on all with an interesting pattern of hypercharges. The left and right chiral parts of the gravitational spin connection, ω, act on the frame and on the left and right chiral fermions. This structure, depicted in Figure 1, is repeated over three generations of fermions with different masses.
This diverse collection of fields in various algebras and representations is, inarguably, a mess. It is difficult at first to believe they can be unified as aspects of a unique mathematical structure — but they can. The gauge fields are known to combine naturally as the connection of a grand unified theory with a larger Lie group, and we continue with unification in this spirit. The spin connection, frame, and Higgs may be viewed as Lie algebra elements and included as parts of a "graviweak" connection. Relying on the algebraic structure of the exceptional Lie groups, the fermions may also be recast as Lie algebra elements and included naturally as parts of a BRST extended connection.[2, 3] The result of this program is a single principal bundle connection with everything,
In this connection the bosonic fields, such as the strong g = dxig Ai TA, are Lie algebra valued 1- forms, and the fermionic fields, such as .u = .uATA, are Lie algebra valued Grassmann numbers. (These Grassmann fields may be considered ghosts of former gauge fields, or accepted a priori as parts of this superconnection.)
The dynamics are described by the curvature, with interactions between particles given by their Lie bracket. For example, the interaction between two quarks and a gluon is specified by the Lie bracket between their generators, with a corresponding Feynman vertex, grg ur
It is a remarkable property of the exceptional Lie groups that some of their Lie brackets are equivalent to the action of a subgroup on vectors in fundamental representation spaces, just as they occur in the standard model.[4] For example, the bracket between the gluons and a set of colored quarks in .A can give the su(3) action on the defining 3,
When all standard model particles and interactions are identified this way, the entire ensemble corresponds to a uniquely beautiful Lie group — the largest simple exceptional group, E8.
2. The Standard Model Polytope
The structure of a simple Lie algebra is described by its root system. An N dimensional Lie algebra, considered as a vector space, contains an R dimensional subspace, a Cartan subalgebra, spanned by a maximal set of R inter-commuting generators, Ta,
(R is the rank of the Lie algebra) Every element of the Cartan subalgebra, C = CaTa, acts linearly on the rest of the Lie algebra via the Lie bracket (the adjoint action). The Lie algebra is spanned by the eigenvectors of this action, the root vectors, Vβ, with each corresponding to an eigenvalue,
a iCaαaβVβ
Each of the (N−R) non-zero eigenvalues, αβ, (imaginary for real compact groups) is linearly dependent on the coefficients of C and corresponds to a point, a root, αaβ, in the space dual to the Cartan subalgebra. The pattern of roots in R dimensions uniquely characterizes the algebra and is independent of the choice of Cartan subalgebra and rotations of the constituent generators.
Since the root vectors, Vβ, and Cartan subalgebra generators, Ta, span the Lie algebra, they may be used as convenient generators — the Cartan-Weyl basis of the Lie algebra,
The Lie bracket between root vectors corresponds to vector addition between their roots, and to interactions between particles,
Elements of the Lie algebra and Cartan subalgebra can also act on vectors in the various representation spaces of the group. In these cases the eigenvectors of the Cartan subalgebra (called weight vectors) have eigenvalues corresponding to the generalized roots (called weights) describing the representation. From this more general point of view, the roots are the weights of the Lie algebra elements in the adjoint representation space.
Each weight vector, Vβ, corresponds to a type of elementary particle. The R coordinates of each weight are the quantum numbers of the relevant particle with respect to the chosen
Cartan subalgebra generators.
Table 1: The su(3) weight vectors and weight coordinates of the gluon, quark, and anti-quark weights form the G2 root system.
The gluons, g ∈ su(3), in the special unitary group of degree three may be represented using the eight Gell-Mann matrices as generators, g = gATA = gAi2λA = C +gβVβ = g8 grg grb
The Cartan subalgebra, C = g3T3 + g8T8, is identified with the diagonal. This gives root vectors — particle types — corresponding to the six non-zero roots, such as
Vggb for the green anti-blue gluon. (By an abuse of notation, the coefficient, such as ggb, has the same label as the particle eigenvector containing the coefficient, and as the root — the usage is clear from context.) Since the Cartan subalgebra matrix in the standard representation acting on 3, and its dual acting on 3, are diagonal, the weight vectors, Vβ and V β, satisfying
a igaαaβVβ and C V β = −CT V β = a igaαaβ V β are the canonical unit vectors of the 3 and 3. The weights for these — the su(3) quantum numbers of the quarks and anti-quarks — can be read off the diagonals of C and C = −CT = −C.
The set of weights for su(3), the defining 3, and its dual 3, are shown in Table 1. These weights are precisely the 12 roots of the rank two simple exceptional Lie group, G2. The weight vectors and weights of the 3 and 3 are identified as root vectors and roots of G2. The G2 Lie algebra breaks up as g2 = su(3) + 3 + 3 allowing a connection to be separated into the su(3) gluons, g, and the 3 and 3 quarks and anti-quarks, . q and .
q, related by Lie algebra duality. All interactions (2.1) between gluons and quarks correspond to vector addition of the roots of G2, such as grg
We are including these quarks in a simple exceptional Lie algebra, g2, and not merely acting on them with su(3) in some representation. The necessity of specifying a representation for the quarks has been removed — a significant simplification of mathematical structure. And we will see that this simplification does not occur only for the quarks in g2, but for all fermions of the standard model.
Just as we represented the gluons in the (3 × 3) matrix representation (2.2) of su(3), we may choose to represent the gluons and quarks using the smallest irreducible, (7×7), matrix representation of g2,[6]
qb grg
Squaring this matrix gives all interactions between gluons and quarks, equivalent to su(3) acting on quarks and anti-quarks in the fundamental representation spaces. The G2 root system may also be described in three dimensions as the 12 midpoints of the edges of a cube — the vertices of a cuboctahedron. These roots are labeled g and qIII in
Table 2, with their (x,y,z) coordinates shown. These points may be rotated and scaled, B2 g3
NM qrI
HO qgI
HO qbI
Table 2: Weights of gluons, three series of quarks and anti-quarks, and leptons, in three dimensions, projecting down to the G2 root system in the last two coordinates.
so that dropping the first, B2, coordinate gives the projection to the roots in two dimensions. In general, we can find subalgebras by starting with the root system of a Lie algebra, rotating it until multiple roots match up on parallel lines, and collapsing the root system along these lines to an embedded space of lower dimension — a projection. Since the cuboctahedron is the root system of so(6), we have obtained g2 by projecting along a u(1) in the Cartan subalgebra of so(6),
This particular rotation and projection (2.4) generalizes to give the su(n) subalgebra of any so(2n). We can also obtain g2 as a projected subalgebra of so(7) — the root system is the so(6) root system plus 6 shorter roots, labeled qII, at the centers of the faces of the cube in the figure of Table 1. The eight weights at the corners of a half-cube, labeled qI and l, also project down to the roots of G2 and the origin, giving leptons and anti-leptons in addition
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You wake up as usual to go to work.
But you feel something is not right, you can't tell what but something is just not right.
You are tired. You check the time you went to sleep yesternight: all normal, same time you sleep everyday, so it's not sleep deprivation.
You attempt to get up, one foot off the bed, but the other just won't follow.
You try to think of just one thing to look forward to in the day, some motivation to pull the other foot out. Nothing comes.
Begrudgingly you go to work.
You can hardly get anything done. You feel you are putting in the hours, and working hard, but you are not getting even the mundane tasks done.
Lunchtime is here.
Your colleagues leave for lunch but you think of the trek to the restaurant and decide against it, feeling too lazy. Or too tired. You grab a coke or a cup of coffee for lunch.
You've lost all passion for work, for love, for friendship.
You hate the company you started. Or you hate your boss.
You feel worthless. Undeserved.
What you used to love so much becomes a bore. You can't concentrate in church, in a meeting or even in a discussion with friends. You feel abandoned. You feel alone, yet surrounded by too much world.
Too much world that cannot understand what you are going through.
You talk to a thousand people but nothing seems to stick.
Well, almost nothing – you listen to, you want to hear, the negative advice. It feels like the best advice.
You consider any advice along the lines of "quit", "shut down", "do something dramatic" but want nothing to do with advice along the lines of "persevere", "delegate", "take some time off".
You want to reach out but a small voice tells you: "nobody fucking cares, stay in."
You get irritable. You have a fight ever so often with your friends, your colleagues, anyone around you.
Or you just withdraw and avoid all conflict.
The only bearable thing is a dark room, all alone.
Bearable yet you've lost the ability to want to sleep.
And the ability to enjoy anything.
And this becomes a cycle.
You've lost all motivation to live.
Nothing seems to excite you anymore.
Even suicide doesn't look like too bad an option.
You are not alone.
Thousands of people suffer from work related burnout and/or depression every year. And a big part of those are in the startup community.
And the line between Burnout and depression is too thin, even different psychologists have different perceptions of both.
I am just recovering from that. The fact that I am even able to write this is a testament to that.
Depression is a hated word in our culture. Many associate it with weakness and too much emotion, especially if you are a man.
But this is not the case.
There are a myriad of causes of the same: from too much exhaustion for too long to trauma.
And left unhandled, it can lead to losing of friends/ relationships, jobs, opportunities.
Take a break.
Turn off your phone.
Think this, and internalize it: life is bigger than your current situation. Never forget that.
Seek professional help. Any doctor will point you to a psychologist who can help.
Talk to people. Take time to form new relationships.
Remember, we can't solve all our work problems by throwing more work at them.
And again never forget: life is bigger than your current situation.


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PRESS RELEASE: Towards a Smart Puglia thanks to the INGRID project
Description: Bari hosted the final international conference of the INGRID research project, where the first results of the experimentation underway in Troia (FG) have been presented. The project investigated the potential of the hydrogen-based technologies in the balance of the electricity grid.
Making Puglia the first smart region of the world, where energy coming from renewable sources exceeds 80%, the electricity networks are integrated with the gas distribution infrastructure and hydrogen and the final users are also energy prosumers, able to re-enter it in the grid. This is not a future too far, but a close perspective close in time and partially already real. This is the picture arised from the international final conference of the INGRID project held in Bari. The research project has been considered strategic by the European Commission and financed within the 7th Framework Programme. INGRID offers a technological solution to the problem of discontinuity and overproduction peaks of renewable energies: the storage through magnesium disks of the renewable energy surplus in solid state hydrogen.
The results of the project have been illustrated in the final conference, thanks to the participation of 8 partners from 4 Countries: Engineering Ingegneria Informatica (coordinator), ARTI Puglia, e-distribuzione, RSE – Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico and Studio Tecnico BFP (Italy); McPhy Energy (France); Hydrogenics (Belgium) and Tecnalia (Spain).
In order to demonstrate the feasibility of the INGRID model, a pilot plant has been built in Troia (near Foggia, in the nothern part of Puglia, Italy), an area characterized by a large number of wind and photovoltaic plants: energy coming from renewable sources cannot be used directly on-site or transported, due to both production peaks and the current insufficient transport capacity of the electricity grid.
The opportunities offered by the energy storage to achieve a smarter electricity grid and a more efficient energy distribution system have been fully analyzed by the project partners and the experts taking part to the event.
"In a few years, renewables have become the first energy source, surpassing fossils - claimed Massimo Bertoncini, Director of Smart Energy R&I projects, Engineering-Ingegneria Informatica Spa, and INGRID project coordinator. This change in the technological paradigm, not expected or not planned in these proportions, requires the search for solutions to the typical discontinuity of the production of renewable energy sources, which can be traced in the integration of energy systems: within the Ingrid project we experienced the possible integration between the networks of electricity, gas and hydrogen".
INGRID project is demonstrating how and to what extent the combination of solid-state high-density hydrogen energy storage and advanced ict technologies for real time monitoring and control of smart distgribution grids will be able to balance highly variable power supply and demand, in a scenario of large penetration of intermittent distributed renewable energy sources.
Despite the difficulties, the INGRID project can be considered successful, thanks to the contribution and the efforts of all the partners involved in the project. The technologies employed (Hydrogenics electrolyser and fuel cell, McPhy's patented magnesium discs, Engineering Energy Management Stystem), as well as the whole INGRID project, are really innovative. Thanks to the INGRID project, the combination of the most advanced ICT technologies for real-time monitoring of smart distribution networks and storage of solid hydrogen solutions will enable the integration of renewable sources in the balance of energy supply and demand, with benefits from both environmental and economic point of view.
Puglia decided to accept the challenge offered by the INGRID project, thus proving to be an avant-garde region on technology development and innovation. The INGRID project represents a meaningful step towards the Smart Puglia and the pilot plant will contribute to consolidate the image of the region as a leader in energy production from renewable sources and constantly committed to the protection of the environment and its territory.
Renewable energies in Puglia, in Italy and in the world
In 2014, in Puglia renewables covered about half of the regional electricity consumption. Ten years ego renewables were almost non-existent, being Puglia the only Italian region without hydropower. From 2000 to 2014, the production of renewable in Puglia has increased by 29 times compared to the Italian doubling.
Puglia is the first Italian region for export of electricity: about half of its energy production is exported (compared to a gross production of electricity equal to 38,102 GWh for 2014, the fuel consumption is only amounted to 17,050 GWh). In other words: Puglia has become a leading region in Italy for the production of electricity from solar and wind. This situation is unique nationwide and has a major impact on regional power grids.
In 2015, worldwide, the installed capacity from RES (renewable energy sources) has exceeded 600 GW, 6 times the value predicted by the IEA (International Energy Agency) in 2000. In 2016, in Italy, photovoltaic covered about 8% of the national energy demand. In Puglia, the installed capacity of photovoltaic has reached 2,490 MW, 16 times the target set by the Regional Energy Plan (150 MW for 2016).
INGRID Project
Energy storage is becoming a crucial issue to balance and integrate larger shares of renewable energy and improve the grid reliability and efficiency. Hydrogen storage represents a viable option to increase the carbon-neutral energy supply due to its high energy density and reversibility.
The INGRID R&D European project aims at demonstrateing how and to what exent the most advanced ITCs for real time monitoring of smart distribution networks and the storage of solid hydrogen solutions,will enable the integration of renewable sources in the balance of energy supply and demand.
The project is developed by a consortium composed by eight partners from four countries (Italy, France, Belgium and Spain): Engineering Ingegneria Informatica (Lead Partner); McPhy Energy; Hydrogenics; Tecnalia; RSE – Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico; E-Distribuzione; ARTI – Apulia Regional Agency for Technology and Innovation; Studio tecnico BFP. Within the INGRID project, 39MWh demonstrator pilot plant of solid hydrogen storage has been built in Troia, near Foggia The demonstrator consists of a 1.2MW water electrolyzer, a solid hydrogen storage system, a fuel cell and ICT systems for real time monitoring and control. Using solar and wind energy, hydrogen produced by electrolysis in gas form is absorbed by magnesium discs, which form stable compounds with hydrogen called magnesium hydride and enable it to be kept in solid form. Therefore, the hydrogen can be transported safely and made available to industrial users or be extracted from the magnesium discs and used as zero emission fuel to support electric mobility. Moreover, through the fuel cell, the hydrogen stored in magnesium discs can be also re-converted into electricity and re-directed into the grid when needed.


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Sunday on ABC's "This Week," host George Stephanopoulos grilled Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on his plan to deport the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants.
Exchange as follows:
STEPHANOPOULOS: From the American action conservative group they say the federal government would have to spend roughly $400 billion to $600 billion to address the 11.2 million undocumented immigrants. Each immigrant would have to be apprehended, detained, legally processed and transported to his or her home country, in turn this would shrink the labor force by 11 million and reduce the real GDP by 1.6 trillion dollars. Are you willing to pay that price and where are you going to get the money?
TRUMP: First of all they're wrong and Jeb Bush is a low energy person and wouldn't be able to do it. He says they come as an act of love. People coming and many of them you look at what's happening with the crime, many of them are really causing tremendous problems and they would be out really fast. Immediately.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Mr. Trump. they're saying $406 billion and would require big government apparatus to take everybody down. If you don't think those numbers are right how much will it cost and where will you get the money."
TRUMP: It's costing us $130 billion a year and that's peanuts compared to what the real cost is, George. The way we have it now. You have so many illegals. We don't even know how many. I hear 11 million. I hear 30 million. The government has no idea. We have lost control of our country. We've lost control of our borders. The government has no idea how many illegals are here. I've been hearing 11 billion for five years then I heard 30. nobody has any idea."
STEPHANOPOULOS: So if there's no idea how are you going to round them all up, where are you going to get the money and the forces? Exactly how are you going to do it? What are the specifics?
TRUMP: George, it's called management. The first thing we have to do is secure the border but it's called management. And we'll get people back in, the really good ones and expedite it so they get back in. So they can at least come in legally.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You keep declaring how you're going to do it but you don't say how.
TRUMP: Excuse me, George. I'm telling you, it's called management. You can do this and why can expedite the good ones to come back in and everybody wants that. But they have to come in legally. We have a country, we have to have — we're a country of laws. We're a country of borders. How can you have a country without a border. How can you have a country without laws? We have to do it and by the way what you said in your piece initially is the gang members. You look at the gang members in Baltimore, Chicago, in Ferguson, these people, a lot of them are illegals. These are rough dudes and we're going to get them
STEPHANOPOULOS: I understand you think it's a huge problem but I don't hear specifics.
TRUMP: My specifics are very simple. I'm going to get great people that know what they're doing. not a bunch of political hacks that have no idea what they're doing appointed by President Obama that doesn't have a clue. I mean the man doesn't have a clue. People are walking across the border right now right in front of these great people we have. We have wonderful border patrol people. they can do their job but they're not allowed to do the job. People are walking right into our country totally — nobody even knows where they come from and walk past guards and are told not to do anything.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you expect neighbors to start turning in neighbors?
TRUMP: I don't know what's going to happen. I can tell you this, we have to have a country where a country of laws and we have to do it that way. George. there's nothing we can do about it if we're going to stand as a country. There's no choice. We have no choice. We have to do it properly. Now, the candidates that are running against me like Jeb Bush, he has no clue. He's never going to be able to do anything. Just look at what's happened with him over the years and what's happened with the last thing we need is another Bush. But Scott Walker changed his mind now because he keeps going back to his pollster and his pollster says Trump has a good idea, Trump has a bad idea. Wait a minute. These people don't know what they're doing. They're politicians. They don't know management. I get the best people and we will do it properly and humanely and get the good ones back in.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I still haven't heard the specifics.
TRUMP: It's called good management. It's called great people.
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Isolating an area affected by a highly infectious disease may make intuitive sense. But according to the senior U.N. officials who spoke at a press conference here in D.C. this morning, the decision by dozens of airlines to suspend flights to countries fighting the Ebola virus may actually be hindering the efforts to bring the disease under control.
"We understand that there are certain countries in Africa that have reduced the extent to which planes may fly through their airports to move on to the countries that are affected," said David Nabarro, the senior U.N. coordinator for Ebola. "This has had operational implications for ourselves at the United Nations and also for our colleagues at Médecins Sans Frontières who have not been able to move their staff dependably between locations or to move equipment." He praised the Ghanaian government's recent decision to set up an air corridor into the affected countries through Accra.
The officials also argued that flights bans unfairly stigmatize people from the affected countries. It seems like it would be a tough sell to get airlines (which are worried about the health of their flight crews) or countries (which are worried about their own outbreaks) to lift restrictions. After all, travelers from the affected countries have already introduced the disease to Nigeria and Senegal. But Nabarro argued that "it is possible to reduce the risk [the risk of transmission] greatly through the imposition of proper public health measures."
According to the WHO, there have been 3,052 confirmed or suspected cases of Ebola so far in this outbreak, with 1,526 deaths. So far, the outbreak has been primarily in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
Given the scale of the problem, it seems a bit strange that public health authorities are still relying on volunteers and commercial airlines to contain the disease rather than coordinated international military efforts involving U.N. peacekeepers or others. But Nabarro insisted that the Ebola response should remain under the coordination of the affected governments and that the current structures were up to the challenge.
"This is doable with the institutions and resources that we have but the scale-up that is needed to actually achieve it in the time that is available before it really does get out of control is on the order of three to four times what is currently in place," he said.
When I asked for a rough dollar figure for the amount of additional international resources that might be needed, he estimated that "it's going to be at least $600 million and maybe a lot more."
Keiji Fukuda, the assistant director-general for health security at the World Health Organization, estimated that for every 80 patients, 200 to 250 personnel are needed to provide care.
This means that thousands more local health workers and hundreds more international volunteers will be needed. On top of that, more money will be required to provide the equipment necessary to prevent more infections of health workers—a third American doctor was infected this week—and provide the hazard pay necessary to induce doctors into the field.
The toll of Ebola goes beyond those who have the disease. Fears of Ebola may prevent normal health care from being delivered, meaning cases of, for instance, malaria may go untreated. And the economic impact of the business closures and jobs lost due to the disease has only begun to be calculated.
"This Ebola epidemic is the largest and most severe and most complex we've ever seen in the 40-year history of this disease," Margaret Chan, director-general of the WHO, said at today's press conference. "No one, not even outbreak responders with experience dating back to [the outbreaks of] 1976 and 1995, have ever seen anything like it."


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The Coveted Duchess Rose
A tale of Rose the daughter of Lady Blanche and Lord George marries a duke to escape stifling rigidity of her ancestors but her naivety, and her poor unsettled, unloved heart makes her want to renounce her looming fate and seek passion elsewhere...
Portraits Series
Portraits series from the British fragrance housebuilt upon the tale of a majestic country mansion, nestled under a canopy of oaks and as the sun rises gently above the rolling hills, house maids and servants work feverishly to draw baths, light fires and beat carpets in the anticipation of the Lord, the Lady, the duchess and several other members of the family...this gathering is going to be filled with drama!
Official Notes
Top Notes Mandarin
Heart Notes Rose
Base notes Musky wood
Always looking for fun and frivolity (and perhaps love affairs), her fragrance is a not so innocent fresh rose...Duchess Rose is a lush FLORIENTAL that is resplendent with rich and juicy orange, seductively musky, and, in the long and lovely drydown, surprisingly woodsy.
A rather syrupy rose combines with the effervesce of citric notes to create a sort of champagne bubbly effect. Its intoxicating rich boozy and lingering with gentle hints of musk creating a more voluptuous cloud of this dark rose nuance.
The coveted duchess rose is meant to convey the personality of the duchess herself and not her particular dangerous desires to commit adultery or succumb to her basic instincts. So contrary to what one might expect after hearing the back story, the fragrance retains the sort of grace, allure, opulence and purity akin to the duchess who is naive, and powerless. According to the story she is married against her will to a duke who offers no passion as she is left disillusioned and frustrated in an unsatisfactory marriage, and this is the only element I wish perfumer Christof Raynaud might have incorporated in the way the fragrance progressed from something pretty, something innocent and rather pure to something more edgy, slightly dirty and rougher around the edges.
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"Knowledge and Reality" -- spring '07
The Pyrrhonists were a group of skeptics. Their main goal in life was to find tranquility. The way they felt they could get this tranquility was by not believing in anything. This seems like a radical stance to take, but when compared to other skeptics' philosophies it may make more sense.
The aim of both Socrates and the Pyrrhonists seems nearly the same when taken for face value. Neither of them will really say that they know anything and neither are completely sure that there is anything to know. One of the differences between them though is that even though Socrates is unsure if knowledge truly exists, he never stops searching for it. The Pyrrhonists, on the other hand, do not search for knowledge at all. Another difference between Socrates and the Pyrrhonists is that the Pyrrhonists are perfectly fine believing that they know nothing. What they are after is quietude. They take solace in there lack of knowledge. They are not looking for the truth, but what they are looking for is a settled state of mind. Socrates wants to find real knowledge though. He doesn't feel that same comfort in not knowing as the Pyrrhonists do. He is not denying the existence of knowledge to feel comfortable; he is denying the existence of knowledge simply because he has yet to find it.
The closest thing to knowledge that the Pyrrhonists will trust is sense data. If someone says, "To me this feels hot," the Pyrrhonists will, in a sense, believe that. They will trust that to that person that thing that they are touching feels hot. But they won't go as far to say that that thing actually is hot; it just feels hot. St. Augustine seems to take it one step further. In order to convey our pain we can use words, but how do we know that the words we're saying have the same meaning in other people's minds? And not just that, but St. Augustine questions whether or not the feeling is even the same. It is impossible to get into someone elses mind and feel what they feel. When someone says that something is hot it may not feel hot for someone else. And saying that something is hot may not even mean the same thing to someone else. While the Pyrrhonists say that you can trust the senses, St. Augustine doesn't even think you can trust the senses.
When compared to Socrates, the Pyrrhonists almost come off as slackers. They seem like they're not taking a stance just so that they can sit back and relax all their lives. But when compared with St. Augustine, the Pyrrhonists' viewpoint seems almost valid. How can you really believe anything to be true if it's possible that you're the only one who sees it the way that you see it?
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ADVENT Power Converter is an item in XCOM 2. It is obtained from completing the opening Mission.
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A beautiful garden has been recreated for pupils at a Sheffield school to spend time in and enjoy.
Volunteers from Abbeydale Rotary Club spent Saturday mornings over a year working on the overgrown area used by Mossbrook Special School pupils and have just handed over the completed sensory garden to the school.
Initial work involved clearing and tidying the whole area, before painting and planting of bulbs and plants could take place to create the haven.
The garden design represents the sun with its rays against a blue sky background, explained Phil Haywood, chair of Abbeydale Rotary's environmental committee.
Plants introduced to the scheme were chosen for their beauty and strong scents, so included lavender, sage, lemon balm and winter pansies. These were paid for by Innerwheel club members, and paint was provided free of charge by Cromadex AkzoNobel.
Deputy headteacher of Mossbrook Special School Jessica Brooks said: "It's clear the children love to see the flowers coming through from bulbs, which began with daffodils and tulips in the spring.
"The garden is a place to explore for pupils, to touch and to smell, and a really lovely sensory experience with pathways wending their way between the plants.
"It's a quiet and safe environment."
She added: "We're grateful to the Rotary club who have been involved with the school for some time and helped us previously to create a sensory room, which is now our next project for renovation."
A formal handover of the bright new garden took place with the president of Abbeydale Rotary Club, Ray Mellor, and the headteacher of Mossbrook, Dean Linkhorn.
Mossbrook comes under Sheffield Education authority and caters for 84 children between the ages of four to 11, with a range of special educational needs.
Sensory experiences are very important for pupils, some of whom have severe learning difficulties or are visually or hearing impaired.
Numerous studies show how disabled children's interaction with sensory gardens and equipment helps increase their awareness of the world around them.
The positive effects of children visiting gardens regularly and spending time within them is well recorded and studies suggest children with attention deficits concentrate better after being outdoors.
Sensory gardens need not be all that different from ordinary gardens. They are simply spaces where individuals can take pleasure in the scents, textures, and colours of plants and other stimulants all around them.
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Gardens are calming as well as stimulating. They allow disabled children to take some risks and challenges that they would be unable to do in a normal setting.
Their design calls for extra effort to make sure different experiences are in reach. Trees may be deliberately planted near to a path so that the bark can be felt rather than setting it back as it would be in a standard design.
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