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Why the Israeli Air Force Destroys Its Enemies in Battle
The dominance of the IAF has come about through effective training, the weakness of its foes, and a flexible approach to design and procurement.
Instead of pursuing its own fighters, Israel has lately preferred to extensively modify the aircraft it buys from the United States. The F-15I "Thunder" and the F-16I "Storm" have both received major upgrades to optimize them for Israeli service. Both planes have increased range and improved avionics, enabling the IDF to fight effectively at great distance from its bases. The F-15I, a variant of the F-15E Strike Eagle, is the IAF's most important long-range strike platform. The IAF has already undertaken steps to make the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter more suitable for Israeli service, including advanced software modifications.
Since the 1960s, the air arm of the Israel Defense Forces (colloquially the IAF) has played a central role in the country's defense. The ability of the Israeli Air Force to secure the battlefield and the civilian population from enemy air attack has enabled the IDF to fight at a huge advantage. At the same time, the IAF has demonstrated strategic reach, attacking critical targets at considerable distance.
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The dominance of the IAF has come about through effective training, the weakness of its foes, and a flexible approach to design and procurement. Over the years, the Israelis have tried various strategies for filling their air force with fighters, including buying from France, buying from the United States and building the planes themselves. They seem to have settled on a combination of the last two, with great effect.
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Israel's Early Technological Base:
In its early years, Israel took what weapons it could from what buyers it could find. This meant that the IDF often operated with equipment of a variety of vintages, mostly secured from European producers. By the late 1950s, however, Israel had secured arms transfer relationships with several countries, most notably the United Kingdom and France. The relationship with France eventually blossomed, resulting in the transfer of high-technology military equipment, including Mirage fighters (and also significant technical assistance for Israel's nuclear program). These Mirage fighters formed the core of the IAF in the 1967 Six-Day War, in which Israel largely destroyed its neighbors' air forces in the first hours of the conflict.
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In 1967, however, France imposed an arms embargo on Israel, which left Tel Aviv in a quandary. The IDF needed more fighters, and also sought capabilities that the Mirage could not provide, including medium-range ground strike. Under these conditions, the Israelis adopted the time-honored strategy of simply stealing what they needed. To complement their existing airframes, the Israelis acquired technical blueprints of the Mirage through espionage (possibly with the tolerance of some French authorities). The project resulted in two fighters, the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Nesher and the IAI Kfir. The second employed more powerful American designed engines, and for a time served as the primary fighter of the IDF's air arm. Both aircraft enjoyed export success, with the Nesher serving in Argentina and the Kfir flying for Colombia, Ecuador and Sri Lanka.
This investment helped drive the development of Israel's aerospace sector, with big implications for the rest of Israel's economy. Heavy state investment in military technological development does not always drive broader innovations in civilian technology. In this case, however, state investment provided a key pillar for the early development of Israel's civilian technology sector . To many, the success of the Kfir suggested that Israel could stand on its own in aerospace technology, eliminating the need to rely on a foreign sponsor.
Nevertheless, Israel continued to invest heavily in foreign aircraft. The IDF began acquiring F-4 Phantoms in the late 1960s, and F-15 Eagles in the mid-1970s. The arrival of the latter in Israel inadvertently sparked a political crisis, as the first four aircraft landed after the beginning of the Sabbath. The ensuing controversy eventually brought down the first premiership of Yitzhak Rabin. But many in Israel, still buoyed by the relative success of the Kfir and hopeful about further developing Israel's high-tech sector, believed that the country could aspire to develop its own fighter aircraft.
Enter the Lavi. Like its counterparts in both the USSR and the United States, the IDF air arm believed that a high/low mix of fighters best served its needs. This led to the development of the Lavi, a light multirole fighter that could complement the F-15 Eagles that Israel continued to acquire from the United States. The Lavi filled the niche that the F-16 Viper would eventually come to dominate. It included some systems licensed by the United States, and visually resembled an F-16 with a different wing configuration.
But the military-technological environment had changed. Developing the Lavi from scratch (or virtually from scratch) required an enormous state investment for an aircraft that had marginal, if any, advantages over an off-the-shelf F-16. Moreover, the United States took export controls much more seriously than France, and had a much more dangerous toolkit for enforcing compliance. Despite initial optimism about the export prospects of the Lavi, it soon became apparent to Israelis that the United States would not allow the wide export of a fighter that included significant American components. That the Lavi would have competed directly against the F-16 only exacerbated the problem.


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Online casino gaming is fast, furious, and more fun that ever in 2015. The industry can now seemingly offer players the full perfect cross-media entertainment platform. However, should you really want to appreciate the online casino industry for all its worth you must take a journey back in time. This is because the online casinos and online casino portals of the world make the industry so entertaining, but neither would be what they are today if it wasn't for what has come before.
Since the Dawn of Time
If you think that gambling amongst human beings is a modern day concept you might need to think again. The earliest recorded forms of online casino gaming date all the way back to the days of Ancient Greece, where mythological stories of Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon rolling dice to decide the fate of the universe became truly legendary. It is also thought that even cavemen would roll the dice the aim of competition.
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China has also had its hand in the progression of gambling through time and it can be argued that such hand has been heavy at that. Since 2300BC gambling has been known to be commonplace, as tiles were used to play games like Mah Jong in brick and mortar establishments. The Roman Empire also has a tale or two to tell, as many believe that Caligula is the world's first true casino "high roller". Even England's King Henry VIII would speak of his love of the gamble during his time ruling the nation. However, when it comes to true official firsts many believe that Venice rules the roost. As back in 1638 the city would become host to Europe's first regulated gambling house.
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After years of flying under the radar, the world's very first regulated gambling house would lead the growth of the industry throughout Europe. Throughout the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries casino business would boom with new games being invented and innovated. Whether it is the evolution of blackjack from Spanish routes, to the invention of the roulette wheel in Monte Carlo, Europe played a heavy part in changing the face of gambling during such time and in many ways modernising it for the future. In the early 1900s the United States would get its first taste of casino gaming and take it in a brand new direction. The games that had been popularised throughput Europe were given a brand new home along the Las Vegas strip. With bright lights beaming down players from throughout the world would flock to the casinos and help make Las Vegas the world's first true gambling mecca.
One Eye on the Future
Pedigree and prestige have helped boost the casino world into the minds and hearts of many, but it is the tech revolution that has helped it stay there. The Internet has brought the world of casino gaming into the homes of millions around the world, and today you can find countless online casinos at your fingertips, by visiting gaming blogs like www.casinoraters.com. Poker rooms first launched online back in 1996 and the industry hasn't looked back since. What does the future hold for the world of the online casino industry? Well if its history is anything to go by the sky (or 'cloud') is truly the limit.


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This guy's good. After allegedly murdering "lifelong friend" Dean Ron Albert, 53, deep in the Angeles National Forest on Thursday, Huntington Beach resident Kevin Wolfe Pochter, also 53, is thought to be foraging an escape trail through the San Gabriel Mountains, evading L.A. County sheriff's helicopters overhead and three search teams on foot, according to KNX news radio.
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Pochter and Albert are believed to have met in the mountains Thursday, Detective Ray Lugo of the Sheriff's Homicide Bureau told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. Lugo described the men as lifelong friends who had attended high school together.
"The suspect, Kevin Pochter, seemed extremely upset over... a financial deal," Lugo told the Tribune. He declined to give more details on a possible motive.
Albert's near-lifeless body was discovered at 5:40 p.m. last Thursday, lying near the side of a road running through Chantry Flats Campground. But by that point, his murderer had disappeared -- perhaps in the victim's own vehicle, a silver BMW 740, which was found parked outside Mount Wilson Observatory on Saturday morning. The observatory sits adjacent to a row of L.A. news stations' broadcasting towers.
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|Padova is an active medium-size city known for its ancient Universita' di Padova (founded in 1222), one of the more prestigious in Italy). Among the places of interest in this small jewel in the north-east of Italy: Prato della Valle (the biggest circus in Europe), the Basilica of Sant' Antonio (a cathedral well worth more than a visit), works by Donatello and Giotto, the observatory used by Galileo and last but not least, Venice is a half an hour by train. The school is at walking distance from the accommodation. Activities
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So it originally started off as, what I thought would be a one or two time thing; however, it ended up consisting of almost 10 years & more than 1,000 events. I started off DJ'in at 16 and have been doing it much of my life! In the beginning it was CP Video & DJ, then in 2005 Wenatchee Boys Media Production was formed by myself, Brian Johnson, and Cameron Sherman. The main intent with Wenatchee Boys (WBMP) was to create an all encompassing media company that not only provided DJ Services, but also Marketing, Advertising, Web Design, Event Planning and Video Production. The Element's Salon TV Commercial & Disco Commercial Premier Party were the first original creations behind WBMP. During 2008 WBMP downsized, changed ownership and readjusted its focus to provide just DJ Services, along with successfully hosting the largest Halloween Party in the Valley: "Monster Mash" as well various other successful events.
In 2011, a new company was created, Showbiz Northwest, with the goal of providing high quality concert & event promotions, productions and rentals for large events in the Northwest. The first major production Showbiz was involved with was the "Macy's Million Dollar Makeover". Throughout the last year Showbiz has been privileged with working with great companies such as: American Cancer Society, City of East Wenatchee, Macy's, and Washington State Apple Blossom Festival.
Over the past few weeks, I have been working to combine Wenatchee Boys and Showbiz Northwest into one company (Showbiz Northwest), that provides high quality events and entertainment. The goal of this new company is to provide quality DJ Services and Event Productions for not just the Wenatchee Valley, but much of the Northwest.
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text: Capitola Village, California's oldest seaside resort, is where you will find unique shops and galleries, some of the area's finest restaurants and stunning beachside sunsets. The Capitola Venetian is an all-suite, boutique hotel on the beach in Capitola Village, dating from the 1940s. Capitola Village has repeatedly been voted one of the best spots on the California coast, a town where you walk everywhere: to shops, art galleries, restaurants and coffee houses, right there at the waterfront.


text: The French Cultural Center hosted "A Taste of the Rhone Valley" black-tie benefit wine dinner on Monday, November 18th, for 110 guests at a private club in Boston. The dinner featured world famous M. Chapoutier wines and guest of honor, Michel Chapoutier, CEO and head winemaker of M. Chapoutier. Ten wines were presented during the reception and dinner, including two stand-outs; the Ermitage, De I'Oree 2007 and the Ermitage, Le Pavillon 2007. The evening was a benefit for the French Cultural Center's Accent on Success after-school program in the Boston Public Schools. Guests included French Cultural Center Chairman of the Board of Trustees Gérard Moufflet, Trustee Jean-François Ducrest (he's a Principal at Northern Cross, LLC), President and Executive Director Catheline van den Branden, Michel Chapoutier of M. Chapoutier, John Hailer (President and CEO, Natixis Global Asset Management – The Americas & Asia), Wendy Shattuck and Samuel Plimpton, Isabelle and Stephen Roy, and wine collector Frederick Ek.


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T he prevailing tone for the 2007 New York International Auto Show was pretty much set two days before press previews began. At that time, the U.S. Supreme Court rebuked carmakers and the Bush administration with a 5-4 ruling that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases should be regulated as pollutants under the Clean Air Act.
J Mays (center), the Ford Motor Co.'s group vice president for design, discusses the 40th anniversary Shelby GT 500 KR with two admirers at the 2007 New York International Auto Show. Packing 540 hp, its 5.4-liter supercharged V-8 is the mightiest ever used in a production Mustang.
To further ensure the point was not ignored, activists from the Freedom From Oil campaign scaled the entrance of the Jacob Javits Convention Center to hang a banner vilifying the new, bigger Toyota Tundra pickup and its advertising slogan "The Truck That's Changing it All." The group's replacement banner crossed out the last two words in Toyota's banner to read, "The Truck That's Changing the Climate." Though these Spider-Man wannabes were quickly taken into custody by police using a cherry-picker, the spectacle must have pleased the hippies who picketed the auto show's opening on an almost-annual basis during the 1960s and '70s!
The exhibits inside Javits, open to public scrutiny April 6-15, hardly turned away from size or power in response, but the references to increased fuel efficiency found in even the press materials for the Hummer H2 and the 560-hp Callaway C16 Corvette marked a pronounced trend towards delivering such attributes.
"The idea of not relying on one power source is starting to resonate with the public," observed Mark Schienberg, president of the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association that sponsors the show. "Running emissions-free is not alien to the YouTube and MySpace generation. Our goal is to remove any fear consumers might have about the new technology."
Todd Yoriano, a GM district service manager from eastern Long Island, joins his 7- and 10-year-old sons Alexander and Daniel as they admire the 1967 Chevrolet Astro I concept that witnessed its world debut at the 1967 New York International Auto Show. A rooftop periscope afforded rearward vision in the absence of a window, while the rear-hinged entry canopy originally lifted the seats off the floor into an "astronaut-type" position.
Starting with the very first press conference the morning of April 4, General Motors embraced the small-is-beautiful idea with three Korean-designed Chevrolet micro-car concepts dubbed the Beat, Groove and Trax (the press was urged to toss color-coded Nerf balls on-stage to elect their favorite, while the public can do likewise at www.vote4chevrolet.com).
Buick staged a lower-key revival of the Super badge it used from 1940-'58, launching a mid-sized LaCrosse Super powered by a 300-hp, 5.3-liter V-8 with computerized cylinder deactivation, and a larger Lucerne Super touting traditional front fender VentiPorts and a high-output, 292-hp version of the 4.6 liter Northstar V-8.
Torrential rain did not deter DaimlerChrysler's product development chief Frank Klegon from demonstrating the full-length, Sky Slider sunroof on the all-new 2008 Jeep Liberty. Its canvas can be opened from front-to-back or vice-versa, while anti-pinch software prevents the roof from moving if there's an umbrella or other object in its path.
Heavy rain was an unwanted effect at the outdoor volcanic eruption that unveiled the all-new 2008 Jeep Liberty, but DaimlerChrysler development chief Frank Klegon pressed on regardless, declaring "we have a plan for everything" as an umbrella popped out of the optional full-length Sky Slider sunroof. The vehicle's many other enhancements, including independent front suspension and a longer, wider interior with a fold-flat front passenger seat, were still overshadowed by DaimlerChrysler AG Chairman Dieter Zetsche's nearly simultaneous confirmation, at the annual shareholders' meeting in Berlin, Germany, that the Chrysler unit is for sale.
The New York auto show's Taxi 07 exhibit also featured this purpose-built design being developed for 2008 production by Standard Cabs of Northbrook, Ill., which is fully ADA-compliant with its 56-inch-tall door openings and slide-out wheelchair ramp. The fenders are bolt-on and identical right-front-to-left-rear and left-front-to-right-rear, while its flat-floored, 26-cubic-foot trunk can fit four golf bags, four overnight suitcases and a full-sized spare tire.
Like Chrysler, Ford's Job One at Javits was to emphasize it had a future, and CEO Alan Mullaly certainly got off on the right foot with a remarkable, entirely spontaneous speech to the International Motor Press Association's annual breakfast. His speech was delivered without a podium, Teleprompter or even written notes. Dearborn's production debuts were similarly promising, starting with a supercharged, 540-hp Shelby GT 500 KR that will be the most powerful-ever production Mustang when 1,000 coupe versions hit the streets next spring. While it was officially termed a crossover like the smaller Edge and Taurus X, the 2009 Flex might make station wagons cool again with its chopped roof, ribbed body sides and aluminum tailgate trim echoing the three-bar grille being phased in as Ford's "family" face.
"As for wood paneling, we checked it out and we discarded it," the company's group vice president design and chief creative officer J Mays recalled in a one-on-one interview after the launch. "I don't want to do retro. The ribs milled into the doors allude that there used to be wood paneling here." Dispensing with sliding rear doors and its minivan stigma, meanwhile, freed up funds for better-quality leather, removable footrests and novel options like a glass Vista Roof and a class-exclusive refrigerator mounted between the second row captain's chairs. Though Mays also stressed that the Flex "is about the East Coast, and the Hamptons ' anyone on Polo.com looking for a sweater is going to like this," California customer Chip Foose declared that he "would love to get one for SEMA this year or next. I think that car is just right for the aftermarket industry. That's the mature Scion."
Featured in a special exhibit celebrating the 100th anniversary of New York City's first gasoline-powered taxi, this 1956 Checker A8 owned by Bruce & Marjorie Uhrich of Glenside, Pa., is one of only four known survivors out of thousands built. "Two are restored," Bruce adds, "mine in the New York City yellow-and-green colors and the other in Chicago colors of green-and-cream; it's owned by Joe Fay, a former Checker Car Club President."
Evoking how the first New York International Auto Shows in the 1 950s helped establish their East Coast beachheads, European carmakers put on the Ritz with the North American debuts of the Bentley Brooklands (honoring the centenary of the fabled British racing circuit) and Pininfarina-designed Maserati GranTurismo coupes, as well as a wild orange Lamborghini Gallardo V-10 "Superleggera" weighing 154 pounds less than the standard model.
Announcing that just 40 will be sold worldwide, Mercedes feted the 40th birthday of the performance-tuner AMG with a special-edition CL65 coupe sporting "liquid metal" paint and a 612-hp twin-turbo V-12, while Volvo's second-generation XC70 station wagon upped the safety ante with automatically locking under-floor storage and laminated glass for all windows.
Renowned Corvette modifier Reeves Callaway met his wife Sue (an editor at Fortune magazine) when he unveiled his C12 at the 1998 New York International Auto Show. It was therefore fitting that he would stage the world debut of his C16 Cabriolet in the exact same spot in the Crystal Palace nine years later.
After only two years in showrooms, the Subaru Tribeca SUV swapped its "horse collar" grille for a far less-polarizing egg-crate recalling the Chrysler Pacifica, while the all-new 2008 Impreza and WRX moved to a shortened Legacy platform yielding more interior space, bigger door openings and fully framed side glass for reduced wind noise.
Spectators who valued pedigree over novelty were treated to a 22,000-square-foot Heritage & Horsepower exhibit that was the largest vintage car assemblage seen at Javits since the show's centennial in 2000. Despite worthy competition from the Bulgari Collection's 1931 Chrysler CG1 Imperial dual-cowl phaeton and a 1940 Buick Super Estate Wagon that Warner Brothers gave to Bette Davis after its appearances in "Now, Voyager," "White Heat" and other films, the undisputed star of this display was the Chevrolet Astro I that originally debuted at the 1967 New York International Show. With its two seats accessed by a rear-hinged, periscope-topped canopy, this still-stunning concept from the GM Heritage Collection was only half as tall as the adjacent 1936 Cadillac V-12 Fleetwood coupe brought from Tacoma, Wash., by the Harold E. LeMay Museum.
Falling on Saturday, April 14, Volvo's 80th anniversary was celebrated at the New York show with this 1927 PV4 "Jakob" fitting a 20 hp, four-cylinder engine and a leather-covered sedan body with cowl-mounted trafficators. One of only 297 cars built in Goteborg that first year, it was originally registered to a school inspector in Orebro, Sweden, and restored by Volvo Cars of North America in 2001.
An entirely separate exhibit celebrating the 100th anniversary of New York City's first gasoline-powered taxi featured Bruce and Marjorie Uhrich's 1956 Checker A8 from Glenside, Pa., which is one of only four known and two fully restored survivors out of the thousands built. Found by fellow Checker enthusiast Bill Hossfield in a northern New Jersey wrecking yard, Bruce recalled that the body was extremely rusty, but "all the parts were there" and it still had its original 226-cid Continental Red Seal L-head six-cylinder engine.
"Checker started using [the Continental engine] in the 1930s and kept it until they switched to Chevrolet power in 1962," he continued, adding that "they still make the engine today for forklifts." A full restoration, lasting from 1999-2005, was supervised by Mark Szpanka of Legendary Automotive in Hatboro, Pa., who added "the hardest part was matching the brakes and other components to whose parts Checker used. The ball joints and tie rods are Ford items, while the steering is Bendix like a Studebaker and the transmission is from Borg-Warner. The rear end cover was the same as the one on a new Dodge truck."
With its spacious, squared-off body and roll-out wheelchair ramp emerging from 56-inch-tall rear door openings, another big attention-getter in the Taxi 07 exhibit was the purpose-built Standard Taxi that The Vehicle Production Group LLC of Northbrook, Ill., is developing for sales of 12-15,000 units annually, at a cost of around $25,000 each, by 2008.
"We brought in fleet owners and asked them what the perfect taxi would be," explained design team member Kabe Morphew, who elaborated that "one of the things they wanted was space for four passengers (in the rear), with enough luggage room for four golf bags and four overnight suitcases. So we gave them a 26-cubic-foot trunk with a flat floor and a full-sized spare tire. We made the body go straight up and down to maximize interior space for the passengers."
Though the exterior is 14 inches shorter than that on a Ford Crown Victoria taxi, the body is an inch-and-a-half wider and "a wheelchair can face forward or back in the space next to the driver ' you can even drive a scooter inside." Power comes from a General Motors 4.3-liter V-6 that has already proven itself in taxi service, and Morphew said "it's also our intention to make CNG and LPG powerplants available from the factory." Marc Klein, the president of Standard Cabs, added that "The Markin family [who designed and sold the original Checker taxi] saw the concept a couple of months ago and they loved it."


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More Olympians added to Iowa celebration
More Olympians added to Iowa celebration
Wrestler Jake Varner and hurdler Lolo Jones will join several other athletes with Iowa ties for an Iowa celebration of the London Olympics.
The Hy-Vee grocery store chain will honor the athletes who competed for the United States this weekend. The event will be at 11 a.m. on Saturday at Drake University's Knapp Center in Des Moines.
Varner, who won gold in the men's 96-kilogram freestyle, and Jones, who finished fourth in the 100-meter hurdles, will join gymnast Gabby Douglas, who won two gold medals, her coach Liang Chow, runner Lisa Uhl; and Miranda Leek, who competed in archery.
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LAFAYETTE, La. — At the conclusion of the first Actos federal bellwether trial, a Louisiana federal jury has issued a $9 billion punitive damages verdict against Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. and Eli Lilly & Co., finding the defendants concealed the risk of cancer posed by the diabetes drug Actos.
After deliberating for four hours, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana jury determined in the April 7 verdict that Takeda must pay plaintiff Terrence Allen $6 billion in punitive damages and its partner, Lilly, must pay $3 billion.
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On 6 April 2017 the European Competition Network (ECN) Working Group – made up of the European Commission and 10 national competition authorities (NCAs) – published a report on its monitoring exercise in the online hotel booking sector.
Between 2014 and 2015 several NCAs investigated the use of most favoured nation (MFN), or parity, clauses in agreements between online travel agents (OTAs) and hotels. Despite intensive coordinated investigations which the French, Italian and Swedish NCAs conducted as 'lead NCAs' on behalf of the ECN, the investigations resulted in divergent outcomes across Europe.
The divergence arose over the assessment of 'narrow MFN' clauses – which require hotels to give OTAs rates that are the same as or better than those published on hotels' own websites. In July 2015 the three lead NCAs accepted commitments from Booking.com replacing wide with narrow MFN clauses. However, the German NCA took an opposing line and prohibited narrow parity clauses a few months later. The picture was complicated further by the emergence of legislation in France and Austria prohibiting the narrow MFN, lobbied for by powerful hotel associations.
The ECN Working Group was established in December 2015 to monitor the effects of these different outcomes on the market. This involved an extensive twelve-month exercise during which questionnaires were sent to 16,000 hotels, 20 OTAs, 11 metasearch sites and 19 large hotel chains.
The report found no evidence to suggest that narrow parity clauses are anti-competitive. While the ECN indicated that it would keep the online hotel booking sector under review, the UK CMA (one of the participating NCAs) has explicitly stated that it "has decided not to prioritise further investigations" in this sector. The German Bundeskartellamt (BKA), on the other hand, maintained its position in its press statement that narrow MFNs restrict competition, pointing to the need to "take into account the specific circumstances of the national markets". The BKA's prohibition decision against Booking.com's narrow parity clause still stands and is the subject of appeal to the Düsseldorf Court.


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Please mark your calendar and join us for this exclusive first peek of Monet to Matisse: Masterworks of French Impressionism from the Dixon Gallery and Gardens. Grab a refreshing cocktail and meet new patrons, or catch up with old friends during the 5pm social hour. Then, before visiting the gallery, enjoy a brief program with special guest Kevin Sharp, Director of the Dixon Gallery and Gardens. After enjoying the gallery preview, we invite you to dine with us at the…
Lecture at Trinity United Methodist Church, 6pm Reception and Exhibition Viewing at the Jepson Center, 7–8pm
October 2018
Shannon Browning-Mullis, Curator of History and Decorative Arts, will share stories associated with a special piece of silver that will be on view for the event. Through the lens to this item, she will consider how these lovely objects are used in our historic sites. A reception will follow.
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This illustrated lecture will look at the radical artistic aims of the Impressionists and their struggles to capture the modern world.
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How substitutable is natural capital ?
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- Anil Markandya & Suzette Pedroso-Galinato, 2007. "How substitutable is natural capital?," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 37(1), pages 297-312, May.
- Anil Markandya & S. Pedroso, 2005. "How Substitutable is Natural Capital?," Working Papers 2005.88, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
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Students in piano, voice, guitar, violin, violin-cello, double bass, flute, french horn, trumpet and percussion were in attendance at the Riddell Centre at the University of Regina, ranging from beginning students taking Preparatory exams up to the highest levels, Grade 10 and pedagogy.
Lauren Levorson-Wong, of Swift Current, was the recipient of the gold medal for Grade 5 double bass, and Jaymeson Bateman, of Shaunavon, earned the gold medal for preparatory voice.
Winning a gold medal is a significant accomplishment.
"It was very exciting to receive the news, but it's a huge relief that it's all over and done with," says Levorson-Wong. "There were definitely some challenges with my bass studies last year. My lessons were in Regina at the University of Regina Conservatory, so every other weekend, we would take all day Saturday to go there for an hour-long lesson."
Levorson-Wong comes from a musical family — her mother teaches piano and was herself a previous gold-medal recipient for piano pedagogy, and her younger sister, Lesley, also studies piano and voice.
This can sometimes create pressure within the family to perform.
"Yes, there is definitely pressure," explains Levorson-Wong. "In a house so filled with music between mom's students and my lessons and bands, it seems crazy sometimes to think of doing anything other than music. People often are shocked that my life aspiration isn't to become a music teacher or a performer."
Still, she couldn't imagine her life without music.
"Music means so much to me. It's been a massive part of my life from very early on, and it gives me a way to express myself in a way I find difficult to do sometimes. I've met some of my greatest friends through music, whether it is bands or choirs or just in the network of students and their teachers within the province. When I play music, I want whoever is listening to feel what that particular song makes me feel, and it's really a very intimate thing to share."
Winning the medal is one of Levorson-Wong's fondest musical memories.
"Winning this medal has probably been one of my greatest musical experiences. Meeting composers like Jeffery Straker and Christopher Norton were also amazing," says Levorson-Wong. "I go to a jazz camp every summer in Regina, and working with talented musicians like Brent Giglione, John McCaslin, and Gord Foote is an amazing experience every time. But if I'm honest, one of the greatest things about all the music I play is the people involved along the way. My amazingly patient piano, voice, and band teachers, both past and present, who have helped me grow so much as both a musician and a person, and my wonderful fellow band and choir members who make every performance the best it can possibly be."
Levorson-Wong sees music in her future, and has continued goals to achieve.
"My goal is to earn my Grade 8 on piano. I am currently studying for that and my Grade 8 voice, which I am taking in June, and hopefully attaining my Grade 9 voice next year. I want to still play after high school, because it's such an important part of my life, and has helped me through a lot. Music is so important to everyone, really, whether you play in a symphony or just sing to the songs on the radio. Music is the one thing that can somehow reach out and touch everyone, and I think my crowning achievement would be to help people realize that."
The Royal Conservatory is one of the largest music education institutions in the world.
Levorson-Wong's mother, Barbara Levorson, is also the RCM Exam Centre representative for the Swift Current area. RCM theory exams are offered three times a year in Swift Current, and practical exams run in June.
"The examination process is a wonderful way to recognize accomplishment," explains Levorson.
The gold medal is awarded to the student who receives the highest mark in his or her region for his or her discipline and grade, and must achieve a minimum of 80 per cent in the exam.
RCM has more than five million alumni worldwide, and is Canada's national standard in creative music achievement.


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The President is hitting the road today, heading to Youngstown, Ohio where he will tour V&M Star and make remarks. Today's visit is part of the on-going White House to Main Street tour.
10:00AM THE PRESIDENT receives the Presidential Daily Briefing
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Graduation. To complete the long four year journey of high school is the ultimate goal of every teenager. Before reaching this final destination, students have to get through high school which comes with a lot of ups, downs, and many changes. Freshman and senior year are very different experiences, and the journey between them is a pivotal time of growth and change for high school students.
The four year gap between freshman and senior year is a crucial time for students to mature and develop as individuals.
"I think [students] start to get used to the sound of their own voice and develop a voice. They become more confident with being themselves and that comes with experience, maturity and exposure to different types of activities," said English teacher Mr. Chris Murphy.
Mr. Murphy said that freshman year is the "settling in" stage, where students are still becoming familiar with school. Sophomore and junior year is where students begin to break into their true selves and shift to a more academic and serious focus on school.
"The big jump in maturation I see is sophomore year and then certainly junior and senior year where they [students] start to become actual real big people," said Mr. Murphy.
While age and experience create major differences between underclassmen and upperclassmen, and there is limited interaction between the two, activities, sports, and sibling connections allow for freshman and seniors to maintain a positive relationship with each other.
"When coming into [the high school] I thought that all older students wouldn't really want to associate themselves with younger students, but so far I think I've had good experiences with upperclassmen so that was a good surprise," said freshman Kevin Foley.
A major part of this relationship is the role models that seniors must be for the underclassmen.
Senior "most changed since freshman year" winner Chad Cordani said that the biggest part of being a senior is to "provide and example for the rest of the school."
With the seniors setting the example, freshman are able to shadow them and "have less responsibility than older students," said Foley.
As seniors are reaching the end of their high school careers, they are enjoying the time they have left and beginning to wind down from the craziness high school brought.
"Now that we're at the end of senior year, we're all done. We're just relaxing and just finishing everything up," said senior "most changed since freshman year" winner Emma Guccione.
Cordani and Guccione advised freshman to take advantage of their time in high school and to enjoy it.
"You should come to your senior year not wanting to exchange anything that you've done or wanting to restart it at all," said Cordani.
Thinking carefully about what you do in high school can affect your future, and who you will become in life. Having no regrets includes not regretting mistakes made in high school that could impact you later in life.
"Your actions here will dictate how the rest of your life is run, what schools you go to or just how you choose to interact with people on a daily basis in school will probably be how you approach people later in life," said Cordani.
As far as surviving high school, Guccione said to "take everything one step at a time" and to not get wrapped up in the little things.
Mr. Murphy said that looking at situations from different perspectives and not focusing on small details is the key to getting through high school.
"The secret to learning and becoming whatever it is you are going to become is to always ask 'why do I think this,'" said Mr. Murphy. "Examine your assumptions so you don't get trapped in just one way of thinking about the world."
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Boy, has "modern" (read: commercial) music ever become so bland and sterile!
When working with a band in the studio one becomes ever so clear that the pursuit of the "perfect" take has led music to the same fate as Narcissus - who's mother was told by the prophet in answer to whether he would live to an old age, "Only if he never comes to know himself". Narcissus died, or was metamorphosed (according to Ovid) because of an "odd" love: he loved himself. He was seeking perfection, and seemingly found it only in a reflection of himself. Not the real, but a shadow of the real. He was enamored with, and couldn't take his eyes off, that beauty which he saw yet could not grasp. It was intangible; it didn't exist except in his own mind. Many bands today are bound for the same fate: unable to leave that reflection, that hint of perfection; bound for nothing more than becoming a flower that others would hardly notice.
How many times have I heard in the studio "I just want it to be perfect". More often than not that comment was never uttered until after a multitude of takes - each sounding much the same as the previous. Drummers, for the most part are the culprits. Maybe because in a standard tacking session they go first. There is a lot of pressure on them. The rest of the band is usually eager for the drummer to finish so they can do their thing: hot, tasty-licks and over the top guitar bravado; and singers waiting for the lesser important things like music to get out of the way so they can concentrate on the "real" talent.
When we got to the inevitable point of the session that the "I just want it to be perfect" card is played everything stopped. I would cease play-back, turn the chair around to face the band (or single member), intentionally take a long strategic pause, and then ask for a definition of "perfect". "If you mean 'perfect' as in no mistakes, you had better settle in and make yourselves comfortable; because we're gonna be here a long, long time. If you mean 'perfect' in the sense that it is the best that you can do, then we need to agree as to what that is". I'd ask what was wrong with any of the dozen takes we had already. You see, I have no problem stopping a take immediately when it is bad. If the timing was off, a fumbled roll, fill, etc. during the drum takes for example I will stop the take right then and there. But, stick clicks?! "So, what was wrong with that take?" Stick clicks. "Stick clicks?!" Yes. "You're a drummer; you were going crazy!" I know, but I heard stick clicks in that one fill. "Of course you did!" I don't like 'em. "You want me to just edit them out?" Can you? "Of course, but I wouldn't want that if I were you." Why? "Because with them there it sounds like a real person played the drums. You ever hear of Keith Moon?!"
Listen to "The Ox" by The Who. Stick clicks the whole way through! Brilliant (dare I say "perfect") song. Full on maniacal energy by a drummer that is often cited as the best Rock and Roll drummer ever. Stick clicks abound. Every time I listen to that song (which is often) I wonder what happened in the studio during play back. "Hey uh, Keith." Yeah mate? "There sure is a lot of stick clicks in there." You do it better then! Actually, I'll wager that it wasn't even mentioned.
Perfection is a trap; a neutering of Rock and Roll.
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Reading time….
We went to our bookstore today. Also known as "Value Village." We bought over 30 books, for less than twenty dollars. Now that's a deal! Everything from Pooh and Tigger, to The Bobbsey Twins and Geronimo Stilton. I didn't notice until we got home, that Jed had snuck a few in the cart while I wasn't looking… Keona and I figured out that we got 12 books for the price we would have paid for ONE Geronimo Stilton at Chapters….
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I had a bit of free time in office (oh don't I always hahaha) and decided to do the seating arrangements for our dinner reception just for the fun of it. I was happily adding names and sorting out tables when I realised – oh horror – that I've already exceeded the 10 tables assigned under my name (We roughly calculated the number of our dinner guests once and rounded it off to 200 pax. We split it into half, meaning: I have 10 tables of 10 pax to fill (100 pax) whereas my mat has another 10 tables of 10 pax (100 pax) for his friends.
And today I've discovered that I might need at least 12 tables (120 pax), ideally 13 tables (130 pax)! Itu pun after cutting down people. Urgh – what kind of merepek gila shit is thiz! Aku nak bukak carnival ke ape ni!
I am secretly (secret habis) hoping that my mat will have lesser friends to invite and can give up two or three tables to me hwa hwa hwa. But if he can't give me any tables then I'll probably have to consult this Decide Whom to Invite chart…
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Wah. I kind of wish I can also use this chart for my lunch reception, man. I think if our parents used this chart, they can probably cut down their guestlist from 1000/1200 pax to, I don't know, 100 pax or something! Dah tak yah susah susah pikir pasal venue besar enough ke tak, pasal makanan cukup ke tak, pasal kerusi meja terlebih terkurang ke tak. Betul tak!
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Jodhpur: The CBI, probing the Bhanwari Devi
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California installs 1GW in 2011
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In 2011, California became the first US state to install more than 1GW of customer-generated solar energy, according to figures published by the California Public Utilities Commission. The report, California Solar Initiative (CSI) also demonstrates that 311MW were installed in the investor-owned utility territories last year. The CSI program has received a budget of US$2.4 billion and is aiming to reach 1,940MW of solar capacity by the end of 2016.
"California's solar success is unmatched in the nation," said CPUC president Michael Peevey. "The CSI Program is on track to reach 1,000MW in installations by the end of the year."
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With more than 122,000 sites, CPUC states that California is well on its way to reach its goal, notably as a result of 97MW having already been installed in the first quarter of 2012. Solar capacity has increased by 38%, with a 29% increase in the number of properties going solar from the previous year.
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Erythropoietin in the intensive care unit: beyond treatment of anemia.
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Erythropoietin (EPO) is the major hormone stimulating the production and differentiation of red blood cells. EPO is used widely for treating anemia of critical illness or anemia induced by chemotherapy. EPO at pharmacological doses is used in this setting to raise hemoglobin levels (by preventing the apoptosis of erythroid progenitor cells) and is designed to reduce patient exposure to allogenic blood through transfusions. Stroke, heart failure, and acute kidney injury are a frequently encountered clinical problem. Unfortunately, in the intensive care unit advances in supportive interventions have done little to reduce the high mortality associated with these conditions. Tissue protection with EPO at high, nonpharmacological doses after injury has been found in the brain, heart, and kidney of several animal models. It is now well known that EPO has anti-apoptotic effects in cells other than erythroid progenitor cells, which is considered to be independent of EPOs erythropoietic activities. This review article summarizes what is known in preclinical models of critical illness and discusses why this does not correlate with randomized, controlled clinical trials.
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I'm using Windows XP on my Presario CQ41 laptop. My laptop is partitioned into 2 drives. I put all 58.8 GB on my C: drive and 173 on my D: drive. All the installed programs are on the C: drive. Now I only have 4.2.GB free memory space on my C: drive. On the other hand my D: drive has a large amount of space. It has 60.2GB free memory space. I only use the D: as a back-up for my software, games, movies etc.
My remote Desktop cached files took a large of memory in my C: drive and My Windows machine is getting low on memory space. So I need to do Disk Cleanup to take some cache files. Majority of my stored data is on my second drive which is the Drive D: and this one has still a lot of spaces.
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From the Heart, the Conclusion
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I am *fascinated* by vehicles retro-fitted for another use than perhaps the original intended use. Kinds of like that old book called "The Trolley Car Family". If only we had more people actually building cool stuff like that, driving it to our homes, then serving us dinner.ReplyDeleteReplies
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I'm glad this post caught your fancy, Alison. I shall check into The Trolley Car Family—it sounds like an interesting read.Delete
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Herring, Susan et al.
"Bridging the gap: a genre analysis of weblogs" January 05, 2004
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Tackle umi offer good japanese tackle from japan, such as electric reel , jigging reel, rod, line, Daiwa, Shimano, Miyaepoch etc....
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
The jackal Ltd. and Shimano Ltd. form a business tie-up.
The manufacturer from the reel and the rod to wear and articles that releases goods of ..total.. [sei]. Shimano Ltd.It has always proposed a new product, the function, and the system, etc. by the original technology as development type manufacturing. On the other hand, the jackal Ltd. is a manufacturer that appoints two top, underground people who represent Japan by the genre of the lure named Seiji chairman Kato and Toshiro president Ono in the head, piles actually in the field, and has acquired a steady brand royalty according to the knowhow that has been cultivated.
Shimano is assuming that the jackal wants to share a big influence in the material, technology, and the fishing tackle market of Shimano jackal's abundant knowledge and "Sensibility" by this tie-up.
The two companies will want to contribute to the development of an expansion of the expansion of the fishing culture spread and the sportfisherman entrance and new customers and established by the tie-up again.
"The possibility arises for all the one and all fishing tackles" is Mr. Kato of the jackal.
In the future, I want to expect it from the union of tag in not only the product development but also all respects like the event and the campaign, etc. of the product that the two companies invent from both sides of hardware and software.
Freshness of fish
Adenosine triphosphoric acid (ATP), two adenosine phosphoric acid (ADP), one adenosine phosphoric acid, and adenylic acid (AMP) are important materials in working of the fish muscle. This is the one with freshness of the fish and big relations. How did inosinic acid (IMP) of the profit element that increased whenever it resolved when postmortem of the fish, and time was increased and hypoxanthine (HX) accumulate?Moreover, it becomes the standard of measurement for the freshness of the fish because this degradative pathway is measured, and this is ..K value.. ..calling.. [pimasu].
There is working of ATP when the fish is alive. However, the digestive enzyme of autologous cells begins to be good when the replacement death rigor starts from this and IMP increases when postmortem. It is called that it ripens, and it visits as it is with the time passage, and the enzyme such as bacilli works and, this time, it advances to rot after death rigor is released this phenomenon comprehensible.
It is a long ages when explaining plainly though the head might become painful while reading these sentences. The index that becomes soft whenever the texture of the freshness 100 percent increases time in the state of [korikori] the body, gets on by the resin, and shows a process advanced by ripening in a scientific manner is said. Time like any does an increase in the visited profit element happen with these freshness decreases?There is a big difference by fish's treatment about this. However, the inosinic acid in 24 hours says that it will receive MAX as a usual mean value of the amount of ..reaching..
However, these are easily operated with our hand, and the freshness maintenance becomes possible. This indicates the processing such as the delays of the proliferation of miscellaneous germs before the fish finishes ripening by delaying death rigor by alive tightening and work of pulling out blood, and doing the belly pulling out at the early stage. Therefore, I think proof of the fishing master's of us usually keeping delicious not defeated at the fresh fish shop made in a scientific manner.
However, it is necessary to care to all in the zebra because the fate ..delicious.. of this fish changes how it processes it at the caught moment ..the refrigerator after fishing ends...
Way only of difficult, as long as these sentences are seen troublesome thing. However, it is not a little that the fish spoils by the self-temperature, and rot advances while not knowing even if here pays attention when becoming a big fish such as [warasa] either.
Might in our mouth always delicious sushi shop's fish through the workman from the fisherman and the market and it be in all the processes to entering the [ki**] bur.
After all, because all processes of these work can be done for myself, the sportfisherman is terrible.


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This Article unfolds as follows: Section II first situates RTAs against the backdrop of the global trading system in an effort to bring out RTAs' global implications. Section III highlights certain negative effects of RTAs on nonmembers and the global trading system, and demonstrates how the club goods of regional trade may turn into public bads. In particular, this Section describes three aspects of negative externalities that RTAs may occasion: negative externalities to the global trading system as a whole, those to individual economic players (global businesspeople) within the system, and those to poor nations. In order to address these negative externalities, Section IV suggests multilateralizing RTAs in a way that allows coexistence with the WTO in a coherent fashion. It raises three multilateralizing strategies that reduce or eliminate the preferential features of RTAs: sharing regional liberalization and integration with the outer world (open regionalism), active alliances between and among RTAs (institutional merger), and WTO-consistent interpretation by regional trade tribunals (judicial convergence). Section V concludes that institutionalization, such as RTAs, is only instrumental to the government's enlightened will to liberalize trade, which should be prioritized.
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The Future of Native Sovereignty in the US
By Guest Contributor
By Greg Jackson, 2016 SRI Conference Scholar
The proposed Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is one of the most controversial domestic issues in the United States at the present moment. Despite a recent US government call for "nationwide reform with respect to considering tribes' views on these types of infrastructure projects," the first draft of the Army Corps of Engineers environmental assessment of the pipeline made no mention of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The pipeline was originally planned to pass near Bismarck, North Dakota. However, after concerns were raised over the safety of the city's water supply, the pipeline was re-routed within 500 feet of the Standing Rock reservation boundary and the Missouri River. The Missouri River and Lake Oahe serve as the main water source for the Standing Rock reservation and tribe. Tribal leadership have made it clear in statements that they do not want the pipeline to be installed as currently planned over fears of contamination of the water supply, which would occur in the event of a pipeline leak or rupture. Furthermore, the tribe argues the proposed location of the pipeline violates the National Historic Preservation Act because tribal artifacts and burial grounds will be disturbed as a result of construction of the pipeline. Furthermore, the proposed pipeline route passes through the tribal territory originally outlined in the terms of the Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1851. The standoff at Standing Rock is reshaping the discussion on native sovereignty and the approval process for environmental projects such as DAPL that cross Native American land.
At this year's conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact (SRI) investing, Rebecca Adamson, President and Founder of First People's Worldwide, was recognized as an SRI Industry leader and gave a speech on the impact of the North Dakota Access Pipeline on the environment and on the lives of indigenous peoples. You can listen to her speech here. In a subsequent group discussion session, called an "Action Strategy Circle" that was focused on education and immediate actions the community could take, she addressed the need to build a network of professionals with experience in the SRI field in order to stop the pipeline project. Participants of the discussion, numbering over 100, offered their respective insights into the situation and proposed a variety of approaches that would further the cause of those working to protect Native American land. Towards the end of the meeting, one could feel more optimistic about the work that has been done to stop the construction of the pipeline. It was truly inspiring to see so many people from so many different backgrounds come together so easily, and it was truly gratifying to see that, despite setbacks, they will never stop working in the name of the values they all passionately believe in.
Regarding investor involvement, financiers ranging from Wells Fargo to Wall Street did very little due diligence on the project, and essentially took the Army Corps' word that the project is sustainable and would proceed as planned. There is a clear and dire need to make investors aware of what exactly they are investing in, and to allow them to send a message to the government and funders of the project that they do not support this type of infrastructure project that violates native sovereignty and treaties. Despite continued assertions from Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the lead company on the project, a recent energy industry trade publication article criticized the situation and claimed ETP's handling is proving to be bad PR and tarnishing the industry's reputation.
Investor opportunities to support the Standing Rock Tribe and native sovereignty:
1. Divest from any of the dozens of financiers and energy companies involved in the project ranging from Wells Fargo bank to Energy Transfer Partners, the main manager of the project.
2. Contact local and national government officials to encourage them to withdraw municipal funds from banks that are funding the project.
3. Contact national government officials from the White House to Army Corps of Engineers to Department of Interior.
4. Write editorials in local and national newspapers – continued pressure through the press could force the companies involved to hold off and re-think the project.
5. Pressure investors such as university endowments to divest from banks and partners on the project including Energy Transfer Partners, Phillips 66, etc. – A member of the Responsible Endowments Coalition suggested this as an additional avenue for pulling support from the project and for creating greater public and investor awareness of the issue and what can be done to support Standing Rock Sioux
6. On native sovereignty, insist that government agencies honor their pledge to conduct government-to-government dialogue with tribes on projects such as this which cross or pass near native territory.
Additional Reading Material:
– Food and Water Watch report on banks that finance either the Dakota Access Pipeline or provide credit lines to the Energy Transfer group of companies.
– Litigation by Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, including the Tribe's October 28, 2016 letter to the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Accufacts analysis of the July 2016 Army Corps Environmental Assessment http://earthjustice.org/features/faq-standing-rock-litigation
– Center for Effective Government: "Map Displays Five Years of Oil Pipeline Spills
by Amanda Starbuck," June 22, 2015 http://www.foreffectivegov.org/blog/map-displays-five-years-oil-pipeline-spills'
Government agency contact information
Department of the Interior
Jessica Kershaw
Army Corps of Engineers – Omaha District, North Dakota Office
1513 South 12th Street
Bismarck, ND 58504
(701) 255-0015
Office of North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple
600 East Boulevard Avenue
Bismarck, ND 58505-0001
(701) 328-2200
Morton County (ND) Sheriff's Office
Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeyer
205 1st Ave NW
Mandan, ND 58544
(701) 667-3330
Posted: December 21, 2016