The traditional cybersecurity model is outdated and no longer protects both individuals and companies well. The transition to the digital world has brought about many changes such as the adoption of working in the cloud and the move away from isolated local infrastructure. In addition, environments are becoming more complex, expanding both in size and in the variety of components. This is making us increasingly find ourselves in a hybrid work world in which having a cloud, a local network and remote workers is increasingly common. In this article we are going to see how to implement zero trust by prioritizing people and technology to solve the security problems that we currently have.
The traditional security model no longer works
Things in terms of security have changed a lot in the last five years. Thus, trust was acceptable when a small group of users accessed the local infrastructure. Instead now with the modern hybrid systems used by many companies it is very risky to trust due to the multitude of endpoints and all the authentication measures and preventive procedures.
In that respect a single Phishing email can be enough to suffer a critical data breach. An event of this style can be very damaging for a company. Thus, IBM determined that data leaks cost companies an average of 4 million euros, which has also been the maximum in the last 17 years. The solution is to implement zero trust and begin to align cloud environments with Zero Trust architecture.
Zero trust needs to be implemented
To the implement zero trust What is done is to propose a cybersecurity model that constantly identifies and authenticates each device, user and identity before giving them access to data. This way of working ensures that cybercriminals cannot exploit sensitive data, and even if they have gained access to an IT environment they will not be able to because constant authentication is required.
If we want the Zero Trust model to be effective, we have to place as much importance on cultural and behavioral elements as technology changes. In this aspect, human error is the greatest risk for an organization.
In addition, it should be noted that the risk is increased because many companies use multiple cloud hosting services to be able to meet their demands regarding remote work. Furthermore, those security measures and requirements can change from cloud provider to cloud provider, making it difficult to implement a uniform security strategy.
How to implement it
Zero trust is a universal cost-effective authentication model that can be used across all architectures. This makes it well suited to the hybrid work that many companies use today. A key differentiator is that Zero Trust does not see a traditional network perimeter and when implemented correctly provides ideal security measures for hybrid working.
User access to all applications and data stored in any of these components requires authentication at all stages. This requires a comprehensive access policy, which assesses the risk presented by the user before granting access. The constant verification requires real-time monitoring. Companies need visibility into a variety of dependencies and monitor user access and, if necessary, withdraw privileges.
By implementing zero trust with constant authentication, you provide more obstacles for cybercriminals. Thus the monitoring offered by Zero Trust has a significantly longer window of time to identify and contain the impact.
We have to change the way we work
One worker forgoing authentication procedures is all it takes for a data breach to render the trust model ineffective. Education and communication are the main requirements to prevent this from happening. In that aspect, you have to get involved with authentication procedures such as single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA). Thus, through regular communication and training, acceptance of Zero Trust can be achieved.
We need to understand that zero trust is not based on distrusting people, but on requiring them to play a greater role in preventing cybersecurity incidents. Thus, workers will be more involved and play a greater role in preventing cyberattacks. Finally, you may be interested in knowing what the model of least privilege is and its differences with Zero-Trust.


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When the University of Michigan's Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity and Sigma Delta Tau sorority threw a party at the Treetops Resort in Gaylord, Michigan, in January, they damaged the property so much that the initial reports indicated that they would have to pay up to $100,000 in fines. Now, the Detroit Free Press reports, Treetops says they could actually owe $430,000.
"If you just look at our out-of-pocket expenses, things we've paid to contractors, third parties, it's around $230,000," Treetops general manager Barry Owens said in an emailed statement to the Free Press. "It doesn't take into consideration management time or damage to the resort's reputation. Our accountants and attorneys are saying that this could be up to an additional $200,000."
To date, Sigma Alpha Mu has only paid $25,000 in fines, a spokeswoman for the resort said, adding that they seem "unwilling to accept liability and pay restitution."
But the fraternity's website claims that isn't the case.
"We are embarrassed and ashamed of the behavior of a few of our chapter members at Treetops Resort over the weekend of January 17-18," the site reads. "Our chapter accepts full responsibility for this incident and we will be working with the management of the resort to pay for all damages and cleaning costs."
Sigma Alpha Mu has been suspended from Michigan for four years while Sigma Delta Tau has a two-year suspension of all social activities for standing by as such tremendous damage was caused.
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This apartment makes you feel comfortable immediately. Apartment “Hanna” is handy and has been equipped with love of detail. The apartment is equipped with a kitchen as well as a double-bedroom and a family bedroom. Thus there is lots of room for a family holiday.
Complete baby outfit (cot, high chair, baby bathtub, etc.). Additionally we offer laundry and bakery service to our guests.
Prices Apartment „Hanna“:
€ 56,00 – 100,00 per night
€ 70,00 – 122,00 per night
€ 35,00 (2 - 3 Persons)
€ 40,00 (4 - 5 Persons)
€ 45,00 (6 Persons)
Prices valid from summer 2019 to winter 2020.
Summer prices include all services of saalfelden-leogang-card!
All prices include all additional daily costs (electricity, water, heating as well as a local rate and tourism levy of € 3,90 per person /day). Final cleaning excluded.
Children until 2,99 years free.
Free bedlinen, towels and toilet paper.
Cancellation is only accepted in written form. In the event of cancellation the general terms and conditions for hotels Austria will apply.
- Up to 3 months before: no costs
- 3 months up to 1 month before: 40% of the costs
- 1 month up to 1 week before: 70 % of the costs
- During the last week before: 90 % of the costs
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We know what many of you are thinking: Will you still be able to go on dates amid the COVID-19 scare? The answer to that is yes, but at your own risk.
After the Philippines’ cases increased significantly (the current count is 49), Pres. Rodrigo Duterte declared a state of public health emergency. The Department of Health (DOH) also advised the public to practice proper hygiene, avoid crowded places and “social distancing,” especially if you are feeling unwell.
Iloilo Rep. Janette Garin, a former DOH secretary, said in a press briefing that people should avoid kissing their partners if either of them are sick. “Kung ikaw ay may ubo, masakit ang lalamunan, lagnat, sipon, huwag halikan ang asawa, boyfriend o girlfriend. Huwag po tayo mahiya na sabihin na while kissing is enjoyed by some, kissing is actually dirty,” (If you are experiencing cough, sore throat, fever, colds, do not kiss your husband or wife, girlfriend or boyfriend. Let us not be ashamed to say that while kissing is enjoyed by some, kissing is actually dirty) said Garin.
This is similar advice from other health officials across the globe. Virologist Seema Lakdawala said in a World Health Organization (WHO) conference last Feb. 25 that transmission can happen through handshaking and kissing someone who’s sick.
Likewise, dating app Tinder now has a disclaimer when you launch the app that reads: “Your well-being is our #1 priority.Tinder is a great place to meet new people. While we want to continue to have fun, protecting yourself from the Coronavirus is more important. Here are some safety tips: wash your hands frequently, carry hand sanitizer, avoid touching your face, and maintain social distance in public gatherings.”
You know it’s serious when an app synonymous with online dating and hookups is recommending social distancing to their users. Meanwhile, there are some who are using Tinder to talk to Wuhan citizens and find out what’s going on there amid the COVID-19 outbreak. At least they’re putting the app to good use, I guess?
If you have a date coming up, you can either push through and make sure both of you are following social distancing rules; or you can postpone it. Choose wisely.[Inquirer.net]
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The Commissioner Trade Tax,U.P.Lucknow v. Pradeep Kumar Vaish - SALES/TRADE TAX REVISION No. 229 of 1997  RD-AH 178 (13 January 2005)
TRADE TAX REVISION NO.229 OF 1997
The Commissioner, Trade Tax, U.P., Lucknow. ....Applicant
S/S Pradeep Kumar Vaish, Moradabad. ....Opp.party
Hon'ble Rajes Kumar, J.
Present revision under Section 11 of U.P. Trade Tax Act (hereinafter referred to as "Act") is directed against the order of Tribunal dated 14.08.1996 for the assessment year 1989-90 under section 21 of the Act.
Dealer/opposite party (hereinafter referred to as "Dealer") is proprietorship concern of Sri Pradeep Kumar Vaish. Notice under section 21 of the Act was issued by the assessing authority and alleged to have been served on Rajeev Kumar Vaish, brother of Pradeep Kumar Vaish, proprietor of the firm. First appellate authority found that the service of the notice under section 21 of the Act was not proper and accordingly, held the order passed under section 21 of the Act illegal. Commissioner of Trade Tax filed appeal before the Tribunal, which was rejected.
Heard learned counsel for the parties.
Learned Standing Counsel submitted that the notice was served on Rajeev Kumar Vaish, brother of Pradeek Kumar Vaish, who was residing in the same building and, therefore, service of the notice under section 21 of the Act was proper service in accordance to Rule 77. Learned counsel for the dealer submitted that Rajeev Kumar Vaish filed affidavit stating therein that the notice under section 21 of the Act was not served upon him. He further submitted that the first appellate authority had held that the brother does not come within the family and, therefore, service of the notice on Sri Rajeev Kumar Vaish was not valid.
I have perused the order of Tribunal and the authorities below.
First appellate authority held that Rajeev Kumar Vaish filed affidavit denying the service of the notice under section 21 of the Act. First appellate authority observed that in the report of the process server it is not mentioned that Rajeev Kumar Vaish after signature mentioned P.Vaish. First appellate authority further held that the brother can not be included in the family and accordingly, held the service of the notice invalid. View of the first appellate authority has been upheld by the Tribunal. I do not find any error in the order of Tribunal and the first appellate authority. First of all it is not clear whether notice has been served upon Rajeev Kumar Vaish, who has denied the service of the notice by filing an affidavit and to the contrary no material has been brought on record by revenue. Family of a person normally consists wife, son and daughter. Brother can not be included in the family. In the circumstances, order of the first appellate authority and the Tribunal are upheld.
In the result, revision fails and is accordingly, dismissed.
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With the right plan and the right discipline, you can get seriously shredded in just 28 days.Read article
Two weeks ago on the Mr. Olympia stage, Shawn Rhoden and Dennis Wolf were in a tight battle for thrid place. The Big Bad Wolf came out on top that night, but niether man was satisfied….this Saturday at the Arnold Classic Europe they both want the top spot!
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Very pleased my yorkie boy looks very dapper in his bow tie! ❤
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I Get so many compliments on my puppy’s collar even without the bow tie! Great quality!!
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Uncle Blue in the Blue Plaid bow tie and his nephew Monty in the Best Man bow tie. They look so dapper in their Sniff & Bark bow ties and always receive compliments for looking so cute! Thanks so much!
Kevin looks so handsome with his new collar and bow tie! Lots of compliments.
Adorable! very well made and my sweet boy looks very handsome
Our puppy gets so many compliments on his handsome bow tie. The collar alone is so smart looking. Extremely durable material. Well made. The engraving hasn’t changed in the slightest. He wears the collar every day. Often with a second collar when we are doing some leash work so the engraving takes a beating. Definitely worth purchasing. Also, because the bowtie pops on and off it’s easy to replace. I’ve noticed some of his buddies enjoy grabbing it so I’m sure it won’t have the same life as the collar itself.
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Here’s your chance to get creative – thanks to clinical psycho-neuro immunologist Jamie Richards for this high protein snack idea.
We’re careful here about roasting things in oil, always choosing a coconut oil when roasting is necessary. The other option if you don’t like the taste of coconut oil is to toss the chickpeas with an olive oil and herb/spice combo after they have been oven-baked. The chickpeas will still be warm, allowing the flavours to infuse nicely.
1 can of chickpeas
1 tbsp spoon coconut oil
2 tbsp maple syrup
1 tsp cinnamon
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees/180 degrees/gas mark 4
- Rinse and dry a can of chickpeas (try patting with kitchen towel or a clean tea towel)
- Baked the chickpeas for 15 minutes, shaking occasionally.
- Meanwhile, mix the oil, syrup and cinnamon together. Toss the slightly toasted chickpeas in the mixture and return to the oven for a further 15 or so minutes.
- Turn the oven off, open the door slightly and leave the chickpeas in the cooling oven for 30 minutes longer. This makes them crunchier than leaving to cool at room temperature.
- Best eaten on the day they are made. Store at room temperature.
*** Some other flavour suggestions
– salt, pepper & cayenne pepper
– garlic, pepper & rosemary
– soy sauce, chilli & sesame oil
– brown sugar, cayenne & rosemary
– cinnamon, cumin, smoked paprika, sea salt
– cinnamon, ginger, cayenne, allspice, coriander, cumin, chilli
– sage & roasted garlic
– peanut flour & salt
– maple syrup, apple cider vinegar, nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon- tamari, rosemary, lemon juice, agave

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The Facts: Ben Watson served a four-game suspension and is set to return to New England this week.
Diehards Line:New England has thrown to the tight end on a league-bottom 3.5% of their pass attempts this year. That's likely due to Matt LaCosse being banged up and Lance Kendricks being released after failing a PED test. If Watson has anything left in the tank, New England could really use it right about now. He's a great add for fantasy rosters in desperate need of tight end help.


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They say the devil is in the details.
This old saying definitely applies to trade show design, where it can be tempting to focus a lot of attention on bells and whistles without addressing the one detail that often makes or breaks a booth.
That detail? The basic floor plan.
Before you start putting pen to paper designing your next trade show booth, here are some things to consider as you plan how your booth will be laid out to handle a constant stream of passing attendees.
Consider Your Staff
The people working your booth are the frontline of your organization at a show. That means the floor plan should take their needs into account from the outset.
For example, think about ergonomics. Ask yourself how your staff will physically work in the space, and whether your floor plan makes that work easy or cumbersome.
Will there be a registration area? A demo station? In the often cramped environment of a trade show, your staff within these two areas need room to work efficiently. Otherwise, you risk creating a logjam of attendees at your booth.
Another thing to consider is staff morale. Remember, your team members are likely working many hours, for many days, while standing in the same location. Make sure they have a way to charge their phone, a place to securely store their bags, and a mirror to check their appearance on the sales floor.
In general, there are three types of trade show attendees:
- Lookers are attendees drifting past booths with no particular goal in mind
- Seekers know they have a problem to solve and are investigating solutions
- Explorers are ready to buy and are exploring granular details such as budgets, timelines, and other logistics
A good floor plan will address the needs of each of these types of attendees. Lookers, for instance, need an area that captures their attention. Seekers need a place to easily find information. Explorers require a space for more one-on-one communication.
Another thing to keep in mind is that a Looker on day one may often become a Seeker on day two and an Explorer by day three. That means designing your floor plan to address the three types of attendees, and those who are returning, is critical for success.
As you’re designing your trade show booth, you have an opportunity to influence the way a person behaves in that environment.
For example, you can strategically create a sense of intrigue for attendees moving past your booth through content and visuals that make them slow down their stride. You can reel them in by creating a question they need an answer to — an itch they need to scratch.
By being strategic in how you want attendees to encounter your booth, you can better control how they flow through the experience.
Every trade show booth has points of engagement, and where you place those points is incredibly important — not just for you brand, but for other attendees at the show.
Say you have a five-minute demo. The wrong location for this engagement point would be next to an aisle, where the trade show cacophony is distracting. Instead, place it inside the booth itself, where an attendee who steps inside will already be committed to having a conversation.
Product giveaways, in contrast, should nearly always be placed next to an aisle, where it’s easier to create a quick sense of intrigue in passing attendees. And when designing the floor plan of your booth, make sure your graphic and digital imagery are visible from the aisles, or you risk getting lost in a sea of bodies moving through the show floor.
For more useful tips on making your trade show booth a success, download our free resource, The Ultimate Guide to Designing a Trade Show Booth.

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Congrats to Kevin and Samantha, another stunning Henne couple!
Henne helped them pick out a beautiful engagement ring, as well as two beautiful wedding bands AND cufflinks for their wedding.
Samantha shares that they couldn’t be happier with the service. Debbie and Meghan were both a joy to work with!
The unique, handmade ring that matched their classic style!

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The artist group General Idea challenged the art world, but also society in general - and continues to exert a lasting influence with its groundbreaking work spanning 25 years.
In the trio's largest retrospective to date, the Gropius Bau is showing more than two hundred works from the late 1960s to the early 1990s.
Founded in Toronto in 1969, the group, consisting of Felix Partz (1945-1994), Jorge Zontal (1944-1994), and AA Bronson (b. 1946), questioned the production, distribution, and consumption of images through a variety of media.
In doing so, General Idea often used humor and satirical strategies to draw attention to various aspects of consumer culture, mass media, social inequalities, queer identity, the art economy, and the AIDS crisis.
Developed in close collaboration with AA Bronson, the exhibition at Gropius Bau brings together key installations, publications, videos, drawings, paintings, sculptures, and archival material to provide an overview of the development of General Idea's artistic practice.
- Curated by Adam Welch for the National Gallery of Canada and Beatrix Ruf, in collaboration with Zippora Elders, for Gropius Bau.
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with Gropius Bau.
The entrance to the Gropius Bau via the barrier-free access is suitable for people with limited mobility, wheelchairs and strollers. This is located to the left of the main entrance and is additionally signposted in front of the main entrance.
The building has barrier-free access to all three exhibition floors. Wheelchairs and mobile stools can also be borrowed from the checkroom.
Restrooms for all genders as well as barrier-free restrooms can be found in the basement (restroom for all genders) and on the second floor.
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Autumn is coming to a close and it definitely shows. trevally
Longtail tuna are tapering off, but mack tuna are still around, and bait is shrinking in size.
So, yes, the usual stuff is happening in Hervey Bay for this time of year.
April had us often chasing trevally, going from school to school of tuna and occasionally finding trevally feeding with the tuna.
It was a heap of fun, though not always easy.
But because the fish were so mobile, the sharks were often far away, thankfully.
In most cases, I saw the trevally under the tuna, using electronics to scan them up and keep us on them.
The priority was to keep the lures in their faces.
They move, you move… and hopefully you hook up.
Occasionally, we saw the fish actually break the surface, as tuna would.
There are certain differences in how they break the surface, which indicates a non-tuna species.
The bird activity is somewhat different on trevally too.
I think it reflects on how the trevally feed – this is evident when the birds follow a trevally school that has broken away from the tuna activity.
The locations or depths were never fixed.
Some days we could be with them for one shot, other days it was half a tour.
Some days they were fussy, some days they were easy and ate whatever you threw down there.
One thing was certain, the bait was tiny, I rarely saw it.
I think it was a plankton of some sort – zooplanktons such as shrimp possibly, as small crystalline larvae I did see.
I saw some manta ray too, which made it special.
Another thing that kept us entertained was mackerel spinning.
We found it an effective method for the collection of food.
As usual, my technique was to get the lure to the bottom and spin back, rinse and repeat.
If we came upon a school on some ground, a good team would bag a few fish quickly.
Most were legal sized without the need to measure, whereas the previous month I had to check often.
School mackerel tend to dwell on structure, and I often see them pushing bait down, not up.
From my experience, hitting the bottom is key.
You want to spin the depth they’re in, you don’t want to see them chasing to the boat – hooking fish is better earlier on in the retrieve.
Seeing them is entertainment, though it’s not effective, as most times they don’t commit at the boat.
Keeping that lure bouncing and rocketing off the bottom has other benefits too.
You can hook the occasional reef fish, such as coral trout and nannygai.
The downside to this style of fishing is that you are in areas that hold fish and bait regularly, which means sharks can turn up or are residents.
Fortunately, school mackerel are landed quite quickly, even with the ‘light drag’ method I employ for my clients.
You can get away with a few fish before the sharks get agitated and take the tax.
With practice, you’ll learn when a shark shows up.
It’s rarely a surprise when we get attacked these days.
I have learnt to be vigilant.
Even schools of tuna that move regularly can get sharks around them.
Even in spots that you haven’t seen tuna recently.
If the bust-ups are big enough, they will draw in local sharks from areas close by.
If it’s common to see tuna, then more than likely you’ll have a few sharks.
With the weather cooling fast, hopefully – well, usually – their metabolism will slow and they will be less predatory.


As I lean into the turn, a slight mist from the Pacific Ocean beads up on the chrome-accented top tube. The sun burns through the haze hanging over the sleepy, deserted coastal road just outside Santa Cruz, while this $20,000 Specialized S-Works McLaren Tarmac bicycle and I get to know each other. The process repeats over and over: lean into a turn, tap the brakes to burn off speed, jump on the pedals, and accelerate coming out of a corner.
Hugging the fog line, I roll up and down every inch of road I can find within a few square miles. Through the taut frame, I swear I feel every rock and the viscosity of the tar that binds them together. As cars pass me, it's funny to think how many of them cost less than my ride.
I’ve ridden plenty of bikes from Specialized. I know the feel of the standard Tarmac, its refined carbon road racer, which costs between two and ten grand. But this bike is something quite different, as befits anything with this kind of price tag and limited production run (just 250 were made).
The McLaren Tarmac is the latest result of a years-long partnership between Specialized and McLaren, the world renowned maker of F1 race cars and supercars for the wealthy. The pedigree is obvious, its refinement immediately noticeable by racing aficionados.
But with a price tag that most people (myself included) would consider astronomical or even ridiculous, this bike has to not only feel different, but be different, especially since it's not alone in the rarified category of $10,000 and up bikes. Choices include Felt’s FRD series, the Cervelo Rca, Pinarello Dogma, plus one-offs from builders like Davidson, Sachs, and Vanilla.
So what does McLaren, master of four wheels, bring to the bicycle game, apart from some sweet orange paint and a fancy name?
It’s data, says Sam Pickman, Specialized's lead engineer. It's the intent and the experience: what a bike is designed to do, how it handles, and the way it connects to the ground for a distinctive Tarmac feel. With McLaren’s help, the Tarmac’s ride quality was computer modeled and fed by stiffness, weight, and geometry. Pickman won't couch up the exact numbers---trade secret and all---but everything the company does relies on data. The main lesson learned from its relationship with McLaren is to prove their decision and trust the numbers.


Radric Delantic Davis, known professionally as Gucci Mane, is an American rapper. He helped pioneer the hip hop subgenre of trap music alongside fellow Atlanta-based rappers T.I. and Young Jeezy, particularly in the 2000s and 2010s. In 2005, Gucci Mane debuted with Trap House, followed by his second album, Hard to Kill in 2006. His third and fourth albums, Trap-A-Thon and Back to the Trap House, were released in 2007.


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On the second day of Christmas my true love found this WHITE LABEL Columbia promo LP from 1957 by F.S. at the thrift store (it's the thought that counts) featuring 10 of his early holiday classics. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PEWS4RPQ
My name is Jim Wilson and I just released my first solo album...ON VINYL! I also play with DANIEL LANOIS & BLACK DUB, MOTHER SUPERIOR and SPARKS.
This is a new blog to promote my own music and music that I am involved with as well as share some rarities with friends.


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The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Michigan’s ban on affirmative action in college admissions, delivering in its divided opinion a blow to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where dwindling minority enrollment has come under fire.
The ruling overturns a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision,The Detroit Free Press reports.
"The plurality opinion stresses that the case is not about the constitutionality or the merits of race conscious admission policies in higher education. Rather, the question concerns whether and in what manner voters in a state may chose to prohibit consideration of such racial preferences," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority.
University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman and admissions director Ted Spencer told MLive/The Ann Arbor News that without affirmative action, the university can’t achieve a fully diverse student body.
Just 4.6 percent of undergraduates this year are black, compared with 8.9 pecent a decade ago and 7 percent in 2006.
Achieving diversity is “impossible to achieve diversity on a regular basis” without affirmative action, a leveling tool used in employment and other areas to achieve diversity, Spencer told the Ann Arbor newspaper.
At issue in the decision was Proposal 2, approved by 58 percent of Michigan voters in 2006. It amended the state Constitution and made it illegal for state entities to consider race in admissions and hiring.
The opposition group By Any Means Necessary mounted a campaign against the admissions portion of the ban mounted an opposition campaign shortly after voters approved it. They argued it violated the equal protection provision in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.A panel of three 6th Circuit judges found the ban unconstitutional, an opinion upheld in an 8-7 opinion by the full slate of judges in November 2012. That opinion conflicted with a ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld a similar voter-backed ban on affirmative action in California, and the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the Michigan case to settle the conflicting opinions.
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Based in Texas, this brother act garnered a strong regional following thanks in part to constant touring but mostly because of their excellent synthesis of roots music. Born into a musical family, the three Garza brothers picked up instruments around the time they learned to walk. As teenagers they often supported their father on live dates, and after a less-than-successful turn in Nashville, the group decided to proceed as a trio. The evolved sound caught the ear of Willie Nelson, who invited the band to record their first album at his studio. With strong brother harmonies and a panoply of influences that includes Tex-Mex and R&B, the band's self-titled 2004 debut was a warm, extremely comfortable affair that boasts a few outstanding tracks.
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Los Lonely Boys
Runtime: 2 hr 35 minLive At The Fillmore finds Texican rock trio Los Lonely Boys blowing the roof off the legendary San Francisco venue with their hits “Heaven” and “More Than Love” plus covers of Richie Valens’ “La Bamba” and War’s “Cisco Kid.”
Texican Style: Live from Austin
Los Lonely Boys
Runtime: 1 hr 35 minTexican Style: Live From Austin finds Los Lonely Boys performing to 25,000 people - the biggest South By Soutwest convention show ever - in Texas’ state capitol. The three brothers perform "Heaven" and more hits from their double-platinum debut album.
Los Lonely Boys Top Tracks
The Black Crowes
Runtime: 1 hr 43 minThe Black Crowes are one of the all-time great live rock bands. Their shows are legendary and regularly sell out in record time wherever in the world they play. Filmed on March 20, 2008 at the Wiltern in Los Angeles during the tour in support of their critically acclaimed new studio album "Warpaint". The concert features live versions of the whole of the "Warpaint" album plus a mixture of previously unreleased cover versions and some of their own classics.
The Turning Point
Runtime: 24 minThe Turning Point captures John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers at a critical point in their hugely influential career. Following from the last tour by the “Laurel Canyon” line up in May 1969, Mayall made two big decisions. Firstly he was going to relocate to the USA and secondly he was going to form a new, more acoustic based line up which would not feature drums. There are interviews with both the old line up and the new and from departed members including Peter Green, John McVie and Eric Clapton as the film follows the first UK dates with the new format Bluesbreakers.
Live at the Filmore Auditorium
Tedeschi Trucks Band
Runtime: 2 hr 16 minA dramatic leap forward for two of the music worlds most dynamic performers, singer/guitarist Susan Tedeschi and guitarist Derek Trucks, introduced their new 11-piece ensembleTedeschi Trucks Band to rave reviews earlier this spring in advance of their first full CD release together, Revelator. Acclaimed by Rolling Stone, Revelator is a confident yet unforced triumph offering a cohesive vision: an idyllic, musical world in which the echoes of so many great traditions Delta blues and Memphis soul, Sixties rock and Seventies funk flow together naturally, blending with an entirely original, modern sensibility.
Live at Soundstage - Part One
Runtime: 54 minJohn Mayer has become an emerging superstar without conforming to any single genre – sometimes bluesy, sometimes pop, sometimes rock, but always excellent. Writing incredible songs that appeal to a wide audience, he provides that rare common ground among listeners of all ages. With fan favorites like “No Such Thing,” “Why Georgia” and “Bigger than my Body,” Mayer rolls out nothing but the best for this Soundstage audience. Mayer has always had a special relationship with the blues, and he can count one of its greatest practitioners as a fan. In the first episode of this two-part Soundstage, the legendary Buddy Guy surprises viewers by joining Mayer midway through “Come Back To Bed,” and remains for and extended jam on “Damn Right I Got The Blues.” Other Mayer hits, including the blockbuster “Your Body Is a Wonderland,” also define this set.
Live at Montreux
Runtime: 1 hr 2 minFilmed just a year before his untimely death from cancer, this 1992 concert from Montreux finds the great Albert Collins still in fine form. With his trademark Fender Telecaster and distinctive finger picking style well to the fore "The Iceman" delivers a set that runs from his early million selling single "Frosty" right up to songs from his final studio album "Iceman". As an added bonus there are four lengthy tracks from Albert Collins' 1979 appearance at Montreux.
In Session 2008
Runtime: 51 minCounting Crows, and Adam Duritz in particular, have become renowned for the energetic, passionate nature of their live performances. Duritz frequently extends and rewrites songs live, adding extra verses or alternate middle sections and/or endings, sometimes fitting most of another of the band's other songs into the middle of the first. This intimate live performance gives the fans the chance to see the band perform their best hits.
Live at the Bamboo Room
Runtime: 1 hr 26 minIncludes live performances of Travers best known tunes including "Boom Boom Out Go The Lights, "Snortin' Whiskey," "Crash And Burn" and more. Special guest performance by Pete "Mars" Cowling.
Runtime: 1 hr 5 minEric Clapton performs 15 acoustic songs in this outstanding entry from the MTV "Unplugged" series. Included is the ode to his late son "Tears In Heaven," and selections from Clapton's three decades plus of recordings. Musicians contributing are Nathan East on bass, Steve Ferrone on drums, Chuck Leavell on keyboards, Andy Fairweather Low on guitar, and Ray Cooper on percussion. Backing vocals are provided by Tessa Niles, Katie Kissoon and Nathan East. Songs written by such blues heroes as Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley are included in this award winning 1992 performance.
JJ Grey & Mofro
Runtime: 1 hr 60 minDirected by filmmaker/musician Spookie Daly, the film intersperses riveting concert footage with the stunning beauty of Grey's north Florida home, the inspiration for so much of his music. The film also follows Grey and company into the studio and features band interviews along with insightful commentary from Grey and others, recalling the format of classic "rockumentaries."
Live: The Real Deal
Runtime: 55 minBuddy Guy Live: The Real Deal features the legendary bluesman in a special set at his own Chicago club, Buddy Guy’s Legends, with guitarist G.E. Smith and The Saturday Night Live Band.
Beacon Theatre: Live from New York
Runtime: 1 hr 56 minBeacon Theatre Live from New York rips through 20 songs spanning Bonamassa's career with smoky vocals complementing the guitar wizardry and rapid-fingered ease with which his fans know and love. Alongside the great chemistry he shares with his formidable bandmates Carmine Rojas (bass), Tal Bergman (drums) and Rick Melick (keyboards), the performance is mesmerizing to watch. He kicks it off with Slow Train, from 2011's solo album Dust Bowl and rolls through a number of fan-favorites including: Cradle Song, Dust Bowl, When The Fire Hits The Sea, Bird On A Wire, Blue & Evil, Mountain Time, and many more.
Live At the Mountain Jam Festival, Hunter NY
Runtime: 3 hr 8 minWith 2 million paid song downloads through their site MuleTracks, seven critically acclaimed studio records already released, a handful of DVDs and live albums, plus an ever-expanding fanbase and sold-out coast-to-coast tours, Gov't Mule could easily rest on its laurels. Yet when they're one of the hardest working bands in rock history.
Haynes explains, "We want By A Thread to be a surprise, so we've made a point not to play any of them live until our fans can get the full impact of the new material."
The Band Closed off Saturday night at the Mountain Jam Festival with their first show scheduled in 2011. Frontman Warren Haynes promised the crowd a crazy night, and didnt disappoint, leading off with Railroad Boy and Thorazine Shuffle. Mule played a lengthy number of covers in the first set, including ZZ Tops Nasty Dogs And Funky Kings, The Whos Wont Get Fooled Again, and closed the first set with Black Sabbaths War Pigs. The second set also featured several covers, including the lead-off Money and Have a Cigar by Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones Angie. The highlight of the night was a lengthy 32/20 Blues, which featured Cody Dickinson on electric washboard, Luther Dickinson on guitar, and Hook Herrera on harmonica.
Beneath this Gruff Exterior
Runtime: 54 minInventive performer and poignant songwriter John Hiatt captures the attention of fans and critics alike. In this Soundstage performance, which features Dar Williams and Robinella and the CCstringband, Hiatt performs "My Baby Blue" from his most recent album Beneath This Gruff Exterior. He also showcases timeless pieces like "The Thing Called Love" and "Memphis in the Meantime." Folk-rocker Dar Williams takes the stage to perform "I Saw a Bird Fly Away," a piece which encapsulates Williams' ability to combine sensitivity with not only pathos, but also a sharp wit. East Tennessee natives Robinella and the CCstringband close out the show with new songs including "Honey Honey Bee" and "Man Over." Both songs are a testament to the acclaim that this jazz-bluegrass-swing band has earned from not just critics, but fans and peers alike.
All My Friends
Runtime: 2 hr 41 minAll My Friends: Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Gregg Allman captures a once-in-a-lifetime performance honoring one of the most acclaimed and beloved icons in rock and roll history. A founding member of the Allman Brothers Band and successful solo artist in his own right, Allman possesses a voice that has resonated through four decades. The concert features momentous performances by Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Devon Allman, Robert Randolph, Jimmy Hall, Sam Moore, Keb Mo, Brantley Gilbert, Jess Franklin, Dr. John, Pat Monahan, John Hiatt, Jaimoe, Taj Mahal, Gregg Allman, Widespread Panic, Trace Adkins, Vince Gill, Martina McBride, Eric Church, Jackson Brown, Zak Brown, and The Allman Brothers Band with musical direction by Don Was. Shot in high definition with 5:1 Dolby sound at the historic Fox Theatre in Atlanta this remarkable piece pays tribute to a voice that once heard is never forgotten. Produced by Blackbird Presents blackbirdpresents.com
Live at Rockpalast 1979
Runtime: 2 hr 2 minJohnny Winter live on Germany's famous Rockpalast TV show in 1979. Straight up blues like only Johnny can deliver, lean and mean. Johnny and the band also blaze through some killer covers like the Rolling Stones' "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Suzie Q."

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This case type also shows up in Spain from time to time so, again, I think we can say this ammo was purchased by the Spanish government.
As far as I recall I haven’t had an original round in my hands, but I have a round with a black solid projectile, unmarked, that shows a double segment crimp on the case neck, so it was probably reloaded (not after firing, but having its original projectile substitued by the black one).
The fired case I am presenting, shows double crimping segments too.
Is the “KE 5429” headstamp identified?
Can this round originally have the double-fuzed pink API projectile shown in my previous thread?


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BRUNSWICK — The School Board met with the town’s legislative delegation Feb. 25, a week after the board’s chairman blamed the contingent for doing too little to curb an estimated $2.8 million cut in state aid.
The work session was scheduled to discuss ways to deal with the projected cut, part of $73 million Gov. John Baldacci is proposing to slash in statewide school funding next year. If ratified by the Legislature, Brunswick’s reduction would account for nearly 10 percent of the district’s current subsidy, a cut school officials have called disproportionate.
Recently, board Chairman Byron Watson took his frustration a step further, calling out the delegation for not seeing to a less drastic reduction.
Watson, in turn, was criticized by local lawmakers for not meeting with them, and for what they described as inappropriate and sexist comments made in the chairman’s Feb. 5 e-mail to House Speaker Hannah Pingree, D-North Haven.
Watson’s e-mail, and his published comments about the delegation, has led some to call for his resignation, including Jonathan Crimmins, a past and potential Republican candidate for the Legislature.
The School Board is expected to review the matter during its March 10 meeting.
On Feb. 25, both sides refrained from the accusatory rhetoric to discuss what, if anything, could be done to ease Brunswick’s situation, which is made worse by the 2011 closure of Brunswick Naval Air Station.
The news wasn’t encouraging.
While praising the district for proactively freezing expenditures on non-essential programs and running efficiently, local lawmakers told school officials that the district was not alone in feeling the budgetary pain.
“We’re not being taken advantage of,” said Sen. Stan Gerzofsky, D-Brunswick.
Sen. Justin Alfond, D-Portland, co-chairman of the Legislature’s Education Committee, told the board that there are few communities across the state that are looking at their fiscal year 2011 budgets and seeing anything but “red, red and more red.”
The South Portland School District last week announced it could cut up to 31 jobs and close a middle school to meet its budgetary gap. Alfond said that grim projections are being heard everywhere across the state.
Alfond noted that although Brunswick is facing a 9.5 percent subsidy reduction, some rural communities are facing cuts as large as 27 percent. Alfond added that Brunswick’s $5.3 million fund balance was virtually unheard of in other districts.
But school officials argued that the district’s cash reserves were the result of planning for the current fiscal crisis, steps that included closing Hawthorne Elementary School a year ahead of schedule, the non-essential freeze and staff reductions through attrition.
Despite those measures, Superintendent Paul Perzanoski said the district is still facing a $4 million gap for 2010-2011, a shortfall attributed to the proposed cut in state aid, loss of tuition high school students from Durham and dropping federal impact aid from the U.S. Navy.
Perzanoski said the gap will likely lead to layoffs and larger classes.
“We have decreased staff and we have streamlined and done due diligence and prepared ourselves for a $2.2 million cut, and we got hit with $4 million,” Perzanoski said.
Perzanoski also worried that the district could face additional hardship during the redevelopment of BNAS because state aid projections are based on a two-year cycle. If school enrollment increases as families begin moving to Brunswick, he said, the district could be caught short-staffed and underfunded.
Meanwhile, several board members challenged the delegation’s assertion that it was up to Maine citizens to vocalize support for raising taxes to ensure school budgets maintain current spending levels.
Rep. Charlie Priest, D-Brunswick, said a movement to raise taxes on items like cigarettes or hotel lodging had to come from the “bottom up”, not the other way around. Priest noted voters’ recent 2-to-1 defeat of a proposal to fund the Dirigo health plan through tax increases on certain beverages, as well as the current people’s ballot initiative to overturn last year’s tax reform bill.
Priest, responding to board member Michelle Small’s comment that the Legislature should take the lead in any effort to increase state revenue, noted that Baldacci has threatened to veto any bill proposing a tax increase.
“The governor’s mind needs to be changed,” Priest said. “But it has to come from the voters, not us.”
“This is the situation until the people of Maine tell us they want to raise taxes instead of bringing us the (Taxpayer Bill of Rights) every two years,” he said.
In the meantime, the delegation said, the district would be wise to continue preparing for the worst – which will likely come as soon as next year.
Gerzofsky and Perzanoski called the discussion constructive, despite the meeting’s gloomy projections and the exchange of words between Watson and the delegation that preceded it.
“Perzanoski deserves credit for calming me down,” Gerzofsky said.
“When it’s all said and done, we either do this, or we can do this,” said Gerzofsky, first putting two fists together, then locking his fingers.
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Budget proposal, chairman comments to be aired March 10
The Brunswick School Board will hold a budget workshop March 10 at 6 p.m. at 16 Station Ave.
Superintendent Paul Perzanoski said Tuesday that he will present his budget reduction recommendations for fiscal year 2011, which are expected to include layoffs in order to bridge an anticipated budget gap of about $4 million.
Perzanoski said he would be meeting with impacted employees this week.
The budget presentation will be followed by the board’s regular meeting at 7 p.m. Perzanoski said the board was expected to address the recent flap between Chairman Byron Watson and town’s legislative delegation, as well as Watson’s e-mail correspondence with House Speaker Hannah Pingree, D-North Haven.

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Atchity Entertainment and Ramos and Sparks Group announced today they plan to turn former Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine’s bestselling book The Kennedy Detail into a feature film. The plan is for a late 2013 release to coincide with the assassination of Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Blaine’s 2010 book, written with Lisa McCubbin, tells the tale of JFK’s presidency from the perspective of the men who guarded his life while in office and on that day in Dallas. Discovery aired a Martin Sheen-narrated documentary based on The Kennedy Detail on December 2, 2010. The Emmy-nominated doc was executive produced by Ken Atchity and Chi-Li Wong. Blaine and McCubbin served as producers.
JFK Film Planned For 50th Anniversary of Assassination
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Nigerian talented singer/vocalist, Waje come through with a new single titled ‘Ngwa’.
She featured Zoro Swagbag for some bars on this record produced by Philkeyz.
This song will be her last for the year 2019, well served for the festive.
Waje had to learn the Igbo language to deliver this masterpiece and she came out topnotch.
Listen Up & Catch the Vibe!
- DJ Baddo – All Of Me Remix ft John Legend [AuDio]
- Fireboy DML – Vibration [AuDio]
- Naira Marley – Koleyewon
- Wizkid – Wizzy Baby [AuDio]
- Seyi Shay & Yemi Alade – Pempe
- Ice Prince – Kolo ft Oxlade [AuDio]
- Naira Marley – Coming ft Busiswa
- Kizz Daniel – Madu [AuDio]
- Chidinma – Jehovah Overdo [AuDio + ViDeo]
- Rema – Woman [AuDio]
- Deejay J Masta – Boogie Down Mixtape
- Tekno & Mafikizolo – Enjoy (Remix)


What is an Ebike? To place it short, an Ebike is a hybrid lorry that was initially made as a bicycle with both an electric motor and a battery. They resemble hybrid lorries however have the advantage of not using both gas and electrical energy when they’re in activity. Instead they use their very own source of power, which can either be a battery or a gasoline engine. Although Ebikes have been around for a long time, they are coming to be much more prominent recently as even more people are understanding the benefits they offer.
The reason that more people are selecting to utilize e-bikes is due to the fact that they’re quiet, they’re simple to navigate, and also they’re fairly economical. The majority of e-bikes evaluate under 3 extra pounds, which makes them much easier to handle than a standard bicycle. If you intend to ride your bike, you simply strap it to your handlebars. You don’t need to stress over readjusting it as you would certainly with a conventional bike.
Something you might ask is “What’s an ebike?” An ebike is additionally referred to as an electric bike, recumbent bike, or merely a bike. E-bikes are identified by their handlebars as well as their pedals. Whereas typical bicycles have pedals, an ebike has no pedals. Homemade Motorbike
Ebikes are not just taken into consideration to be a kind of bike, yet additionally a means of transport. Numerous Ebikes operate on electricity, so they can be utilized as a way of transportation. This is frequently made use of by those that have a lot of trouble rising from a seated placement. Others use e-bikes as a means of exercising, considering that a lot of them have the ability to use their pedals in case of an emergency.
Ebikes have come a long way for many years. There was a time when bikes were nothing more than simple, ordinary bikes with fancy names. Today, electrical bikes have gone through a full transformation, becoming what lots of people would consider to be a full-fledged motorcycle. The first e-bikes were not really reliable, yet points have actually changed substantially over the years. Today’s ebike is as effective as any other motorcycle out there, and a lot of are incredibly streamlined as well as modern-day in layout.
If you have been asking the question “what is an ebike?” for quite a long time, after that it’s likely that you will certainly prepare to purchase one of your own. Electric bikes are a lot more prominent than ever before, and you may find yourself intending to purchase one immediately. If this holds true, be sure to take your time and search prior to choosing, since you intend to obtain the most effective deal feasible.
There are a few things you require to keep in mind when you are acquiring an ebike. You need to first of all make sure that the motorbike you select is lawful in the area where you live. Some cities do not allow you to ride an ebike when traveling as they regard them to be a prohibited activity. Additionally, you need to inspect the motorbike over very carefully to see to it it does not have any type of type of issues that can influence you while riding it. Finally, make sure you do not wind up investing even more money than you planned by getting a bike that has some type of damages.
If you are thinking of purchasing an elite, you need to most definitely find out more regarding them. Specifically, you will certainly want to know what the existing laws are so you can make an educated choice concerning whether or not you wish to purchase one. It is very important to keep in mind that bikes are still a reasonably brand-new idea, and so there are lots of possible problems that can develop as innovation proceeds better. Likewise, if you make a decision to proceed with getting an elite, you will certainly intend to remember that they often tend to cost a good deal more than regular motorcycles. While you can conserve money by searching, it is likewise possible to pay too much for something that turns out to be a dud. Homemade Motorbike


Social activist Anna Hazare on Friday cancelled his planned fast against the three central agricultural laws. He announced his decision in the presence of senior BJP leader and former Maharashtra chief minister, Devendra Fadnavis. Earlier this month, the 83-year-old activist had earlier written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he would launch the "last hunger strike" of his life by January end. He had also urged his supporters to protest from their respective locations. He had said in a press statement that the government is not sensitive towards the farmers.


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I love mickey :D
WHAT!? WHY!? WHY WAS HE KIDNAPPED?
And ending with a cliffhanger! OMG!
Please, tell me that's gonna be a second season!
I like it. ^^
Just Brilliant! 10 stars.
This movie touched deep into my stone heart.
One of the most lovely stories I've seem on NG.
Very entertaining. I love it.
Magnificent! Can't decribe it better.
this game is great.
The ToonPimp's rape games like this always makes me laugh...
The game is particularry easy once you get use to the controls and learn a strategy for beat the enemies. And the gallery was also a good touch ^^
I just couldn't pass the first level when tried the hard mode, but you can't have everything ^^
I only think it could have more different characters and more levels. Unfortunatelly It's a short game...
Missed also others ToonPimp's Palace characters at this game.
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In 2019, Vietnam’s economy was ranked 45th in the world in gross domestic product (GDP). The country’s economy is dependent on the export of broadcasting equipment, telephones, integrated circuits, footwear, coconuts, cashews, cinnamon, and sea food.
In 2016, Vietnam signed the Paris Climate Agreement, committing to an 8% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, compared to a business-as-usual scenario.
In 2020, state utilities used coal (52.9%), renewable energy (31.0%). natural gas (15.7 %), and oil (0.4%) to generate the country’s electricity. Hydropower, solar, and wind were the primary types of renewable energy used to generate electricity in Vietnam.
In 2019, the Vietnamese government announced a plan. to is to increase electricity output generated from renewable energy from 58 Billion kWh in 2015 to 186 Billion kWh (320%) by 2030.
Recent renewable energy projects in Vietnam include:
- 831 MW Solar Project – In November 2020, the Vietnamese energy consortium, Xuan Thien Group commissioned the first phase of the Xuan Thien Ea Sup solar project in Đắk Lắk province.
- 450 MW Solar Project – In October 2020, the Vietnamese construction company, Trungnam Group commissioned the Trung Nam Thuan Nam solar project in Ninh Thuan
- 350 MW Offshore Wind Project –People’s Republic of China construction company, CGGC and the Vietnam Construction Trading Corporation are continuing work on an offshore wind project in the intertidal zone of Ca Mau province.
- 90 MW Wind Project – The Irish renewable energy company, Mainstream Renewable Power is continuing work on the Thai Hoa wind project in Binh Thuan province. The project is scheduled to be commissioned by year-end 2021.
- 75 MW Offshore Wind Project – In August 2021, Spanish renewable energy company, Siemens Gamesa commissioned the Tan Thuan offshore wind project in the intertidal zone of Ca Mau province.
- 75 MW Wind Project – Mainstream Renewable Power is continuing work on the Tan Thuan wind project in Ca Mau province. The wind farm is scheduled to be commissioned by year-end 2021.
- 70 MW Floating Solar Projects – In December 2020, Vietnamese power company, Toji Group commissioned two 35 MW floating solar projects on separate lakes, in Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province.
In the 1990s, hydropower was the dominant source of electrical power in Vietnam. As the country’s economy grew and the population increased, Vietnam’s demand for power steadily increased.
Vietnam met the increasing electrical power demands by building coal-fired power plants. In 2020, Vietnam imported 54.8 million tons of coal from Australia, Indonesia, and the People’s Republic of China.
In 2020, imported coal cost Vietnam U.S. $3.7 billion, which negatively impact the country’s economy. The use of coal-fired power plants has also created toxic air pollution in of the country’s industrial regions.
In 2021, Vietnam is rapidly developing the country’s vast offshore wind, solar, and biomass renewable energy resources. Vietnam is now rapidly moving from coal to renewable energy.
Website – “Our Energy Conundrum”
 Vietnam – The World Bank Group
 Gross Domestic Product 2019 – World Bank DataBank
 OEC – Socialist Republic of Vietnam
 Carbon Brief – “2015: Tracking Country Climate Pledges”
 Our World In Data, Vietnam: Energy Country Profile by Hanna Ritchie and Max Roser
 McKinsey & Company, “Vietnam’s Renewable Energy Future” by Matt Rogers, May 1, 2019


Michigan Supreme Court Justice Joan Larsen's nomination for a seat on federal court remains in limbo as the U.S. Senate continues consideration of President Donald Trump's court picks.
Larsen, who was named to the Michigan Supreme Court by Gov. Rick Snyder in 2015, was announced as Trump's choice for an opening on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati on May 8.
She's not yet had a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the next step in the process towards a confirmation vote in the full Senate. Larsen has been given a "well qualified" rating from the American Bar Association.
A spokesperson for the committee chair, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, told Politico the committee is moving forward with other nominees while the home-state senators -- Sens. Debbie Stabenow, D-Lansing, and Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield Twp., review the nomination.
As the senators representing Michigan, Stabenow and Peters are given deference at the committee level for Larsen's nomination through the "blue slip" practice, which allows home-state senators to submit their opinions to the Judiciary Committee prior to a hearing on judicial nominees.
According to the Washington Post, Senate Republicans are considering changing that practice to remove the possibility of Democratic obstruction as the Trump administration works to fill more than 100 vacant federal court positions.
Stabenow said in a statement she is thoroughly reviewing Larsen's record prior to the Senate's consideration.
"I will continue to listen to public input and consult with Michigan's legal community to ensure that our state is served by highly qualified fair and impartial judges that put the people of Michigan first," Stabenow said.
A spokesperson for Peter's office said the senator just received all of the requested paperwork from Larsen this week and will be reviewing that material before making a final blue slip decision.
Some conservatives have criticized Stabenow and Peters for not being quicker about giving Larsen their approval.
On Friday, the conservative-leaning group Judicial Crisis Network announced the launch of a $140,000 ad buy in Michigan to support Larsen's nomination. The 30-second ad accuses Stabenow and Peters of holding up the process due to partisan politics and highlights Larsen's legal career.
Before taking up her current post, Larsen served on the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School, according to her Supreme Court biography.
She also served as deputy assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, and clerked for David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and for former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in the U.S. Supreme Court.


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We love to explore the various neighborhoods of any city that we go to. Singapore was no exception. Its has many different neighborhoods each with totally different characteristics. At a high level:
Padang is the government district, filled with neoclassical buildings. Many are currently government markets,including City Hall, Parliament House and the Supreme Court. Some former government buildings have been converted to other civic functions, such as the Victoria Concert Hall and and an arts center. Many of these buildings were currently being renovated and their exteriors were hidden behind tarps. But others were visible and lovely.
Other lovely neoclassical buildings have nothing to do with government, but are totally integrated into the formal nature of this section of the city. Examples include the gothic-inspired St. Anthony’s Cathedral and the landmark, Georgian Raffles Hotel–the ultra-formal institution that has hosted generations of royalty and celebrities and invented the classic Singapore Sling cocktail. If you want to try one there, it will cost $26 per drink. They know how to leverage fame into cash.
The section, however, does have more than formal neoclassical buildings. Some large complexes, such as the huge SunTec City invention and business center, the I.M. Pei Raffles City and the John Portman Marina Square mixed-use retail and commercial complexes provide modern complements. Then there are the extensive,nicely landscaped green spaces.
While the north-of-the-river, neoclassical, Padang section has a formal, rather buttoned-down feel, the south-of-the-river commercial section is much more freewheeling. The waterfront has been totally converted into glitzy hotels and entertainment venues. The downtown financial district, particularly along the riverbank, is increasingly packed with skyscrapers, such as Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation.These towers, which push right up to the city height limit of 918 feet, create an interesting wall of glass sight from the river.
There is, however, more than formal skyscrapers along the south-of-the-river waterfront. Boat Quay is a very informal,fun street loaded with riverfront restaurants and bars with Happy Hours that last eight hours a day (see our blog on Singapore restaurants). Some have good food, good drinks and wonderful views over the river, to the financial district to the east and the government buildings to the north. A great place to unwind after a busy day of trading stocks and currencies (or sightseeing). And for those looking to unwind in a somewhat more aerobic fashion, the riverfront, both north and south, is one of the city’s more popular jogging paths.
The Whimsy in Singapore’s Skyline
Although most of the towers in the Singapore skyline are serious pantheons of commerce, some have a more playful side. There is, of course, the Singapore Flyer, the largest Ferris wheel in the world. Even the court system shows some whimsy and humor with its spaceship-like courthouse.
Some, meanwhile, only half jokingly refer to IM Pei’s Raffles as a can with holes punched in it. But, when you look for whimsy in Singapore architecture,there is no contest. The Marina Bay Sands consists of three towers topped by “Skypark” in the shape of a luxury cruise ship. Almost worth staying there just to see it close up, not to speak of swim in in its 57th-story Infinity pool.
Singapore’s Ethnic Neighborhoods
We also explored three of the city’s ethnic neighborhoods.
Chinatown is the largest and most interesting. Its shop houses (stores at street level, with living quarters above) have been beautifully and colorfully restored. Pagoda street hosts a fascinating museum on the city’s Chinese history (Chinatown Heritage Center), traditional Chinese medicine shops and a lovely night market. Neil Street has teahouses (not to speak of an interesting-sounding Opium Museum which we did not get to). Meanwhile, the lovely Thian Hock Keng temple, dedicated to the god of seafarers (for migrants to give thanks for safe passage from southern China in the1800s), is the oldest Buddhist temple. And if you are looking for other religions, you an find a mosque (not surprisingly at a corner of Mosque Street) and a colorful Hindu Temple within a couple blocks of the temple.
Litltle India, as you a probably guess, is the Indian section of town. We arrived at the tail end of the annual Festival of Lights, where every merchant is making and most residents are hanging garlands of freshly-strung flowers. Serangoon Road. the main street through the section, is filled with shops selling gold jewelry and is the location of the community’s large, ornately designed and very interesting Hindu temple. Buffalo Road, named for the days in which water buffaloes grazed the fields, is the area’s principle market street lined with vegetable merchants, stores selling Indian food, booths stringing flower garlands and gold jewelry.
Club street, the traditional home of gentlemen’s clubs, is now packed with restaurants and bars whose tables and patrons flood out onto the streets.
Kampung Glam Arab Neighborhood is the center of the city’s Arab community. The gold-domed Sultan Mosque, which can accommodate up to 5,000 people, is the spiritual hub of the community. Istana Kampung Glam, the former palace of the Sultan of Singapore used to be its secular center, at least before the Sultan sold the city, his heirs later moved across the channel and the palace was converted into the Malay Heritage Museum. The neighborhood is fun to stroll, The old shophouses have been remodeled and updated: those on Arab Street are now retail shops (especially for fine fabrics and gold jewelry) and those on Bussorah Street are restaurants and tourist shops. A couple of blocks away, Bugis Street has been transformed into a large, crowded covered mall with local retailers selling all types of products out of stalls.
Orchard Road–at least the roughly half of it that we explored, is essentially a three-kilometer long upscale shopping mall with a number of upscale hotels thrown in. Actually, it is dozens of different malls, laid out end-to-end, with hotels in between. Not exactly what we look for in a neighborhood, but we did find at least one charming street that ran of Orchard Road. The first several blocks (all that we had time to explore) of Emerald Hill Road, originally build in 1901, consists of beautifully renovated shop houses. Although the first block consists primarily of bars (some of which looked very inviting), most of the shop houses have been converted into very upscale one-family homes.
Marina Bay and Esplanade. Another neighborhood consisting almost exclusively of upscale shopping malls and hotels. You may think that Singaporeans spend all their time (at least the time they aren’t eating in restaurants or drinking in bars) shopping. We, in our three days in the city, have seen little to suggest otherwise. In any case, the primary differences between Orchard Road and Marina Bay is that Marina Bay malls are aligned in a block instead of a row, and that they are newer.
Although we spent most of our time walking Singapore’s streets, we did explore some of the city’s sights in greater detail and even took a couple of organized tours. These included:
Gardens by the Bay, an ambitious project to create a representative sample of all of the earth’s flora in a single garden. The garden, which will take years to complete, currently consists of six primary components: three outdoor gardens, two biodomes (one of a clouds forest and one for flowers) and concrete and steel constructions called Supertrees, or vertical gardens, on which are being planted a range of species (currently over 200) from different forest strata. The biodomes, in particular, are marvels of sustainability, using cutting-edge architectural and environment management techniques in a way that won the 2012 Building of the Year award at the World Architectural Festival. We walked through some of the outdoor gardens walked the 128-meterSkyway (22 meters above the ground) among the Supertree canopies and then spend a fascinating 1.5 hours in the CloudForest Biodome. Although we initially craved more information what we were seeing, we discovered–too late–that audio guides were available. We also wish the outside gardens were easier to navigate.
National Orchid Gardens, which displays more than 1,000 unique species plus another 2,000 hybrids. The gardens are divided into seven gardens, including one focused on bromeliads, one on cool-air tropical forest orchids, two for hybrids named after VIPs and celebrities and one that allows people to explore orchids in a natural environment, rather than in a pre-staged garden. Overall, a beautiful place for a stroll,surrounded by some of the most beautiful flowers on earth. As a bonus, the drive to the Gardens takes you through one of the city/state’s most upscale neighborhoods, allowing you to see how part of the 15% of the population that does not live in Housing Development Board estates and towers live.
Asian Civilization Museum provides a nice overview of of Asian art and cultural history. The permanent galleries are organized geographically (divided as among Southeast Asia, Western Asia, Islam and China), providing an historical perspective on each. The galleries examine the role and evolution of religions, technologies, art and trade within, and to a lesser extent, among the regions. A special exhibit (Devotion and Desire,which runs through the end of 2013) delves into the artistic connections among Asian countries and regions. Another gallery focused specifically on the Singapore River–the role in played in the country’s development, life along the river through its history and how it has been transformed over the last 30 years.
Singapore Walking Tours’ Secrets of the Red Lantern Tour. We took this tour hoping to get an overview of the cultural backwaters of Singapore’s 19th century Chinatown. We certainly got it, learning about:
- Nightsoil carriers who collected and hauled the nightly excrement in their honeycarts;
- The life of Chinese laborers and how they were enticed into opium addiction;
- Living conditions, with 100 to 125 people crammed into the upstairs living spaces of small shophouses;
- The gambling dens that pervaded the neighborhood; and especially about
- Prostitution, which turned out to be the dominant theme of the evening.
We learned everything about prostitution in 19the century Singapore, from:
- How women became prostitutes and where they came from;
- The different solicitation methods and clientele of Chinese and Japanese prostitutes;
- The roles of pimps, madames and brothels;
- How brothels entice clients and men select their prostitutes;
- The number of men that women entertained per night and how long they spend with them; and
- How the government, recognizing that they could not eliminate prostitution, decided to regulate it even today
OK, maybe TMI (too much information), but it was kind of interesting. Although Chinatown had been the center of the city’s prostitution industry, the neighborhood is close to the center of the city and was being dramatically upgraded into a mainstream commercial and residential area. So, while the city allows two brothels to continue operating in the area, the center of legal prostitution was moved well out of the city center into Gayland, a lower-income neighborhood consisting largely of laborers and foreign guest workers. A neighborhood that has undergone none of the rehab nor the gentrification of the other sections in Singapore that we saw. This neighborhood in the northeast of the city does not make it into the tourist books. We would have never heard of it, much less gone there, were it not on the tour As our guide told us, this neighborhood is more like the Singapore of the 1970’s than the Singapore of today.
Since we were told to not gawk or take pictures of the activities, you have to use your imagination of what we saw.On the tour, we walked main streets on which dozens of people set out blankets to sell a wide range of often illicit sex drugs (powdered deer penis, tortoise shell, dogwood, black ant, etc.) and even legitimate restaurants selling foods intended to promote sextant virility (oysters, black chicken,turtle soup, crocodile stew–the last two of which we tried as part of the tour, to no noticeable effect). The real action, however, took place not on the main streets, but in the back alleys (where we saw illegal gambling tables, streetwalking prostitutes and pimps–all of which are illegal) and in the secondary streets (so-called lolongs) that are filled with brothels (which are legal and tightly regulated) and cheap hotels that rent rooms by the hour. Certainly a different view of the city.
Overall, a very different view of the city than we would have otherwise received. Perhaps a little more on prostitution and the sex race that we needed, and not quite enough on some of the other vices as we would have preferred. But that is a very minor qualm over a very informative, professionally managed tour run by a very knowledgeable and engaging guide.

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Protest of NID’s application based on environmental, public interest and legal grounds
On Tuesday, Foothills Water Network, a coalition of conservation and recreation organizations, submitted a joint water rights protest (see below) to the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) demanding that Nevada Irrigation District’s (NID) water rights application for the proposed Centennial Dam be denied based on environmental, public interest and legal grounds.
“Centennial Dam’s alleged benefits are unlikely to justify the financial and environmental cost,” said Otis Wollan, President of the American River Watershed Institute and a former member of the Placer County Water Agency board of directors, asserting that the dam will have negative environmental impacts on the Bear and Yuba River watersheds and surrounding communities. “Rather than build a new dam, NID should maximize the use of its existing resources and infrastructure.”
NID’s proposal to build a new 110,000 acre-foot reservoir with a 275 foot-tall dam on the Bear River would inundate six miles of the Bear River, completely flooding the Bear Campground, more than 25 homes and 120 parcels, and Dog Bar Bridge, the only crossing of the Bear River between Highway 49 and Highway 174.
“It is legally questionable and against the public interest for the State Water Resources Control Board to assign priority water rights reserved to the State for the coordinated development of water resources to NID for a questionable project that will do little to address the pressing water management challenges of today,” said Chandra Ferrari, Trout Unlimited’s Water Policy Advisor and Staff Attorney.
Since about 400,000 acre-feet of the South and Middle Yuba River water already gets diverted to the Bear River each year, SYRCL is concerned that Centennial could demand even more Yuba River water.
“NID has made it clear that this dam would support more growth and development. NID should be looking for alternative ways to protect our precious water resources that are environmentally sustainable such as restoring meadows, wetlands, and floodplains,” said Caleb Dardick, SYRCL’s Executive Director.
The Network suggested a range of alternative actions for NID to consider such as repairing or modifying its aging facilities, improving canal efficiency, incentivizing water conservation, stopping leaks, and metering water.
NID representatives have stated on multiple occasions that NID intends to add hydropower to Centennial Dam in the future. “NID’s attempt to confiscate federal land owned by BLM, plus its efforts to bypass the hydropower licensing process, would set a bad precedent with national consequences,” said Chris Shutes of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance. “The new dam would also unravel the benefits of minimum flows below Rollins Dam that we just spent seven years negotiating with NID.”
The Centennial Dam proposal has alarmed community members throughout the Bear and Yuba watersheds. Nearly 400 people attended two public scoping meetings about the proposal in early March to express their concerns about the project’s potential impacts on the environment. NID’s Draft Environmental Impact Report is expected late Spring 2017, which will be another opportunity for the community to raise its concerns.
About the Foothills Water Network:
SYRCL is a member of the Foothills Water Network (FWN), which represents a broad group of non-governmental organizations and water resource stakeholders in the Yuba River, Bear River, and American River watersheds. The overall goal of the Foothills Water Network is to provide a forum that increases the effectiveness of non-profit conservation organizations to achieve river and watershed restoration and protection benefits for the Yuba, Bear, and American rivers.
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