"Our troops are out by no later than August of 2008" under the legislation, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters. That deadline is just three months before presidential elections.
In the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled a proposal to begin withdrawing soldiers from Iraq within four months and it sets a goal of pulling all combat troops out by March 31, 2008.
You'll note that this is in contrast to the earlier House plan to box President Bush into a corner with troop readiness requirements, and the noticeable lack of a single plan in the Senate (though a Senate Democratic "war council" has been created to provide some unity.) Both plans are aimed at eventual troops withdrawals, but go about it in two different ways:
The House spending bill could lead to troop withdrawals before the end of the year and would end combat duties by Aug. 31, 2008. To help win votes in both parties, Democratic leaders have included billions of dollars in new spending for military health care and would redirect some money to the fight in Afghanistan.
In the Senate, Democratic leaders proposed a joint resolution, intended for consideration in the House as well, that would limit the authority Congress gave President Bush in 2002 to invade Iraq. It would require that troops start returning home within four months of passage and sets March 31, 2008, as a goal for withdrawing most troops. But it would require Republican votes to overcome parliamentary obstacles from GOP leaders.
The spending bill is the best bet, because Congress' authority on spending is unquestioned (even by the likes of John Yoo, as has been pointed out already.) A Senate effort to re-work the 2002 AUMF will probably fail for now, but that doesn't matter. It begins the long process of pulling Republicans away from the President on this issue, and I predict with about 100% confidence that they will eventually have enough Republicans on their side to either revise the AUMF or pass the budget restrictions.
The irony of this is that it appears that recalcitrant Democrats have been forced to go along with more forceful plans than they desired. Their earlier plans, crafted cleverly to avoid Republicans smears, for the most part fell utterly flat. Certainly part of the reason for that was that those plans were far behind what the majority of American people want, which is talk about withdrawal, not "troop readiness."
UPDATE: I think this article in the LA Times offers the best explanation of this development. I quote it at length:
The new Democratic proposals for Iraq may eventually be weakened or killed, but in one stroke they have transformed a many-sided debate about the conflict into a sharp-edged argument about the endgame.
Now, the Democratic mainstream has made its decision and offered the public a choice: Follow the president's plan to use U.S. combat troops indefinitely, or shift American soldiers to a secondary role and begin withdrawing them.
...the Democratic leadership, after weeks of a shifting intramural argument, has decided that the best indicator of America's mood came in the November election.
Ever more Americans indicate they are eager to get out now. A USA Today-Gallup poll released this week showed that 60% favor setting a deadline for U.S. troops to leave by the end of next year.
The Democratic proposals reverse roles they and the president have had for months. Bush has been able to argue that he offered a specific plan while congressional critics offered only vague criticism.
Now the Democrats have staked out a specific position while the administration peers into the uncertain future with an open-ended commitment. That puts Bush under new pressure to tell the public which way he will go next.
The House Democrats would give the president two opportunities to stave off — but not prevent — a pullback of U.S. troops. But even to delay it, Bush would have to certify that the Iraqis are moving toward key "benchmarks," such as training their forces and striking needed political deals to build a new government.
Indeed, laying out a clear plan, on a clear mandate-eventual withdrawal-will shift the tone of the debate dramatically. In this sense the Democrats have drawn a line in the sand and bet that the American people are behind them and not indefinite war. In truth the American people have been behind the Democrats since November, but it has taken Democrats some time to realize it.


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Tesla will unveil their next vehicle in March, the Tesla Model 3 which is expected to take on the likes of the BMW 3 series, Mercedes C Class and the Audi A4.
The new Tesla Model 3 is expected to be considerably cheaper that the company’s Model S, the car may have similar pricing to the BMW 3 series and the Mercedes C Class.
Whilst the new Model 3 will be revealed in March of this year, the company will not reveal all details about their new Sedan until it gets closer to production, this was recently confirmed by Tesla CEO, Elon Musk.
The first pictures of the Model 3 will be end of March” Musk said. “I am being a little coy here, we are not gonna show everything about the Model 3 until a lot closer to production time.”
The new model 3 is not expected to go into production until 2017, so it would make sense for the company not to reveal all the details about the car before it launches, as they would not want their competitors to know all of the specifications on the car before it hits production.
It will be interesting to see what the new Tesla Model 3 is like, if the pricing is right then Tesla could bring electric vehicles to many more customers who would normally buy a BMW 3 series or similar vehicle. As soon as we get some more details about the new electric vehicle from Tesla, we will let you guys know.
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While it is true that there have been different visions within the IWW about what it should be and how it should organize, there has also been from the time of the founding of the IWW, an idea that I will call progressive organizing. Rather than try to create all of our structure at the same time and spend most of our time trying to make that function. Or believing that at any given time our structure has become finalized and that is what we must live with. Progressive organizing creates a process in which the IWW can continuesly grow into. Though some wish to continue to reinvent the wheel, that I believe is not necessary because progessive organizing is based upon the core value we need and that is the working class experience.
The following, based upon our structure and experience, is how progressive organizing could look like.
Either within a shop or from the outside an organizing committee is set up. Once there is enough IWW organizing in that shop a Job Branch is organized. When the shop becomes a union shop with more than 50% of the workers in the union, it can be issued a Shop Card. The Job Branch seeks to organize all workers in the same shop.
The Job Branch is not an autonomous organization, but rather a branch of a charted Industrial Union Branch (IUB), or if there is not a local IUB organized then it is a branch of the local General Membership Branch (GMB).
GMBs are organized in local areas and are made up of all IWW members that are not organized into IUBs. The purpose of GMBs is to help in the organizing of IUBs. The GMBs are a branch of a General Administration.
The General Administrations would service the needs of the members in a region. As a means to organize the IWW in a region Regional Organization Committees (ROCs) are formed. At which time the ROC is functioning to the point that it can take over administration duties for a region then a regional General Administration is formed. All the regional Administrations would be connected together by an International General Administration.
IUBs are serviced by a General Administration until there are enough of them in any industry so that functioning Industrial Unions can be formed. Each Industrial Union would have its own Industrial Union Administration and would be connected to the rest of the IWW by means of a General Administration, both regional and international. Industrial Unions would seek to organize all workers in the same industry. At which time there is Industrial Union organization in different regions those different regions could organize Industrial Union Regional Organizing Committees to build the Industrial Union organization in a region until it is ready for a regional Industrial Union Administration. All the regional Industrial Union Administrations would form an International Industrial Union Administration.
Once there are more than one branch of any kind in a local area the branches are connected together by means of a local Industrial District Council.
When related industries have organized their Industrial Unions, they would then organize Industrial Departments. With both regional and an international Industrial Department Administrations.
Each component part of the IWW organization would deal with the needs of their part and those needs that extend beyond their part would be dealt with by the next form of organization. For example solidarity is a very important part of our class struggle and each compont part would organize solidarity within its part all the way out to all parts being the One Big Union. No part of the IWW is autonomous, but rather all parts are directly connected to the organization and make up the One Big Union.
The IWW is not an example of great idealism and that is because there is nothing ideal about the class struggle. The fact is we are faced with a well organized and powewrful capitalist class and in order to face that organization and power we need to be better organized. In fact the working class does have greater power than does the capitalist class, we have the power of production and services, but our power needs to be organized so that when the organized power of the working class is greater than the organized power of the capitalist class we will be able to take control of the tools of production and services, that already is in our hands, and rehold our labor from capitalism and thus produce for the benefit of all rather than for the profit of a few.
Through progressive organizing we can organize the power of the working class horizontally where there is no center that can be repressed and if a part does get repress we still have the rest of the organization to resist that repression and reorganize the part that was repressed. Thus as long as there are any Wobblies left we can always reorganize.
With progressive organizing working class education is very important because workers need to understand that we are not just organizing for day-to-day gains, but are also organizing to put an end to the class system and gain control over our labor. So we should not just be organizing barganing units, we should also be creating Wobblies.
Progressive organizing would not end with the end of capitalism. To that point our organization would have been organized as a greater power than the capitalist class. After that our organization would have the fundamental purpose of dealing with the needs of the people and the earth. Though we will have the shell of the new society we will have to continue to organize for our new purpose.

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The reason is to why people ignore hemp seeds because they have no idea about their health benefits.Some people link the seeds to cannabis. Even of the two are link hemp seeds are very beneficial to our health. The seeds cannot make people drug. The hemp plant stands as the plant that has been utilized by so many industries in the globe.They contain fibers that are very long and also they last for long. Growing hemp does not need herbicides.
Oil can be produced from this plant. The oil extraction only requires pressing the seeds.Cannabis oil is one thing and hemp oil is something else.Cannabis oil is not legalized in some countries and where it is, it is used as a treatment for pain. Industrial uses of the oil are numerous. It forms part of the ingredient for making certain products. Some of the final products are body care products. The oil is also useful when making building materials. They are added when manufacturing health foods. Another benefit is that the seeds contain a lot of GLA. It is very important for our bodies to have this acid. All the inflammations in the body are eradicated by the acid and smooth muscles are created.Hormonal health also requires the seeds.
Hemp seeds can help in burning extra body fat.Consuming it makes you full the entire day. They cause lack of appetite.Desires to eat things that are sugary will be eliminated.The less sugar you consume the faster the weight process will be. Make them part of the meals you eat.During breakfast, you should eat at least four spoons.
The fiber contained in the seeds is good for digestion. They are the best to handle bloating.Taking care of your skin is important. Cosmetic products include hemp seeds in their recipes. Growing a long and healthy hair can be made possible by using hemp seeds. When you use them, your hair will not keep on breaking.This role is played by the oil. When applied on the skin, it reaches the cells through penetration and this is good for the growth of the cell. The oil has the ability to reach cells deep down in skin and nourish them.If you have suffered a stubborn skill condition, you should now try the hemp oil.Body cream with the ingredient is also suitable. There are some homemade body care products that can work for you. The high fiber content in hemp seed is the best for your heart. Adding the seeds to your daily smoothies can help in keeping your heart in a perfect condition.

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Man, I don't know where to start. "The Dharma Bums" is a masterpiece of the Beat Generation and a novel I will not soon forget. After The Loser's Club by Richard Perez, this is the best book I've read all year.
Jack Kerouac wrote this story about his days as a Zen Buddhist and rucksack wanderer. His alias in the book is Raymond Smith, and he is living in Berkley with his good buddy Alvah Goldbook(Allen Ginsburg). Ray meets a Zen Lunatic named Japhy Ryder(Gary Snyder), and together they travel the mountains and pastures of Central California trying to find themselves and find the true meaning of life. Ray also journies to Desolation Peak in Washington and lives there alone for the summer, which is just another chapter to this amazing piece of literature.
Another part of this book that impressed me was the beginning, when Kerouac wrote about his experience at the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance, and spoke of Alvah Goldbook's first reading of his poem "Wail", which in reality was Allen Ginsburg's legendary first reading of "Howl", which to this day is a Beat Literature classic.
While reading this book, I was constantly marking lines and passages, because some of the descriptions and poetry Kerouac included in this novel are simply amazing. "The Dharma Bums" is one of those books I will treasure forever and read over and over again.

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Need quick data and graphs on measures of poverty and inequality (broadly construed)?
The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality recently made public a (beta) open source graphing utility that will make www.inequality.com a comprehensive clearinghouse on poverty and inequality trends. Topics include crime, labor market, public opinion, housing, retirement, health, and many, many more. You can decompose poverty and inequality trends by subgroups (race, age, education, gender) and time in a single graph. Graphs can then be downloaded into either .pdf or .jpeg, and data into Excel or ASCII files. Awesome, right?
As a side note, if this Center is not already on your radar, I would highly recommend checking out their resources, publications, grant and collaboration opportunities. For example, Pathways magazine is full of fascinating, interdisciplinary research on the study of poverty and inequality. Many of the contributors are the “big hitters” in this area. You can subscribe for free (with the option of getting the magazine in print or electronically).

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The previously scheduled Groton-Dunstable Regional School District Google Apps Event on Saturday, October 17, 2015, has been postponed. Stay tuned for details.
Take a look at some local high school programming competitions for this year on our LucidPress page below. Some dates have not yet been announced. Check in periodically for updates. New information and additional events will be added as they are received. We would love for more female students to get involved. There is a lot more to … Continue reading 2015-2016 High School Programming Opportunities
Having fun working with my colleague Alina on our Mobile CSP summer course. New to programming? Take a look at some of these terms. You may know more than you think. Talk to guidance about signing up for this AP mobile computing course semester 2 in 2015-2016.
Alina Spaulding and I are taking part in a pilot course titled Mobile CSP or Mobile Computer Science Principles during second semester of 2015-2016. This course is designed to introduce students to computer science while preparing them for the AP CS exam. No experience is required! If you are interested in learning more, visit www.mobile-csp.org or … Continue reading Mobile CSP Course 2015-2016 School Year
In December of 2014, I was recognized along with 99 teachers from across the United States, as a leader in Computer Science education. Educators from across the United States traveled to the 100 Teachers Meeting in Washington D.C. for a 2 day workshop thanks to the National Science Foundation, NSF, and National Center for Women & Information Technology, NCWIT. What … Continue reading 100 Teacher’s Meeting
The Technovation Challenge offers great opportunities for young women between the ages of 13-18 as student collaborate, create, think critically, and communicate with the world while creating an app to benefit a local non-profit community. This global competition provides a full curriculum for creating a startup company, mentors, and other opportunities for young women. We are excited to … Continue reading Technovation Challenge @ GD
Groton-Dunstable Regional High School ran our first successful Hour of Code event in 2013. We would not have been able to do this without the support of our students, teachers, and administrators. Several teachers and students stepped forward to lead a variety of suggested coding activities by Code.org. This was a great opportunity for both … Continue reading The Hour of Code 2013
The Hour of Code is a global initiative to expose students k-12 to computer science through a series of programming applications both on and off line. Code.org co-founded by Hadi and Ali Partovi, launched in 2013. View Hadi’s inspirational Ted Talk in playlist below. This movement, the largest in educational history, has introduced coding basics, a peek … Continue reading The Hour of Code
The Hour of Code is a global initiative to expose k-12 students to computer science through a series of programming applications both on and off line. This year our ECS, Exploring Computer Science, students as well as students that helped out the year before acted as ambassadors, traveling to four middle and elementary schools combined to assist … Continue reading The Hour of Code – 2014
Technovation 2015 a global competition is here! Young women who are students age 18 or younger on the date of the submission deadline welcomed. After GD Tech’s success last year, see their Pitch video below, we are ready for round 2. If you have an interest in entrepreneurship, technology, leadership, business, marketing, humanity, film making, and more, … Continue reading Technovation Challenge 2015


In as little as nine months, a Chinese-Danish joint venture named Arcon-Sunmark Large-Scale Solar Systems Integration built its first solar district heating plant in Tibet, commissioning the installation in mid-December 2018. The system consists of 22,275 m² of flat plate collectors, 15,000 m³ of pit storage, and additional seasonal storage. “We intend to play an integral role in the development of SDH in China,” said Aaron Feng Gao, CEO of the Beijing-based joint venture (see photo). The 30-staff business founded in 2016 expects to launch new SDH projects in Tibet this year.
“SDH – a proven technology with a long track record of success”
Arcon-Sunmark Large-Scale Solar Systems Integration is a project management firm that designs and installs SDH turnkey systems. One example of its work is the SDH system it put up in partnership with Danish-based Arcon-Sunmark in the Tibetan town of Langkazi. “We were fortunate enough to have some very experienced engineers who know how to build a solar system in conditions as challenging as those of Tibet,” said Gao. Major difficulties were the extreme weather in this part of the world and the logistics of getting personnel, equipment and material to the town.
The installation in Langkazi is expected to meet 90 % of the space heating requirements in buildings with 82,000 m² of floor area or more. The contribution is that high because solar energy will only be used for providing thermal comfort in the heating season, so that the energy collected in summer will be directed to the pit storage. Centralised systems producing hot water for showering are not common in these parts of China. The owners of the Langkazi site said that customers were using electric tea pots when they wanted hot drinking water.
The flat plate collectors were manufactured by Arcon Sunmark in Vietnam. Due to the arid and sandy environment of the Tibetan Plateau, with an average elevation of 4,600 metres, the solar field needs to be cleaned twice in the dry season. The pit heat storage was very similar in design to that found at Danish district heating sites, although it had been slightly modified at the lid, the company said.
Installing a solar field in the Tibetan mountains is a challenging task
“SDH is a safe investment”
When asked whether the government had tendered out any other work to support SDH in Tibet, Gao said that it was still too early to disclose any information on those projects.
Gao is convinced that renewable heat generation via SDH could help solve some of the energy supply challenges faced by China. “We see great interest in using clean and efficient energy to meet growing demand for heat. Moreover, SDH shows competitive operating costs and is a safe investment, as it is proven technology with a long track record of success.” Towns in particular could benefit a great deal from SDH, where solar irradiation is high, land is available at comparatively low cost and the fossil fuel prices are high, for example, because of difficult transport routes.


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Over two nights in Miami, the top 20 Democratic contenders squared off in the first major tussle of the 2020 presidential campaign, debating everything from health care policy and immigration to climate solutions and geopolitical challenges.
Here are 10 of the top takeaways from the first Democratic debates:
1. Joe Biden bombed
Former Vice President Joe Biden knew the fire was coming. His team had prepared him for it and had rejoinders at the ready. But anticipating something and experiencing it are far different animals. So when California Rep. Eric Swalwell quoted Biden’s own words about passing the political torch, it cut deeply. Then New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand hinted that Biden couldn’t be trusted on abortion, leading Biden to remind voters of his decades in Washington. But the exchange voters will remember came courtesy of Harris, who criticized Biden’s opposition to federal busing mandates. Biden had his response prepared, noting that after law school, he became a defense attorney while Harris became a prosecutor. But Harris had drawn blood. Thursday was the first time Biden’s rivals could directly challenge the 76-year-old political insider, and it surprised him. Twice during the evening, when he had blown past his allotted time, Biden apologized: “My time is up.” The words seemed portentous. — Philip Elliott / Miami
2. Women won both nights
The women candidates outperformed the men on both nights. They made few major blunders and landed several major blows. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren set the pace on nearly every policy issue on night one, and managed to escape without taking any real hits from rivals. On the second night, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand laid out her plan for a “family bill of rights” that includes a national paid leave plan, universal Pre-K, affordable daycare, paid leave and access to abortion, while author Marianne Williamson emerged as the viral sensation of the night with a series of bizarre answers.
But it was California Sen. Kamala Harris who turned in the most impressive performance on the second night of the debates, sharply articulating her positions on immigration and racial justice while subtly emphasizing her gender. She got major applause for promising to restore hope with “the microphone that the President of the United States holds in her hand,” and argued that a rape victim should be able to report a crime without worrying about being deported. Harris also delivered the most dramatic moment of the night, confronting Biden for his record on busing and his political allegiances with two segregationist Senators.
“There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bussed to school every day,” she said, as he looked stricken. “That little girl was me.” The attack was a triple axel: she attacked a vulnerability of Biden’s record, while reminding voters that he is old, white and male. In that moment, Biden looked like the Democratic Party’s past, and Harris more like its future. — Charlotte Alter
3. ‘Pass the torch’
The hunger for generational change has been one of the dominant forces in the Democratic primary, and Swalwell made it the centerpiece of his pitch in Miami, telling Biden it was time to “pass the torch.”
“We can’t be a forward looking party if we look to the past for our leadership,” Swalwell said. The changing of the guard is a conversation that has been brewing for years in a party whose leadership ranks are clogged with older, experienced politicians. Now new candidates are forcing the issue, which was evident not only in Swalwell and Biden’s exchange, but also in more subtle nods to issues younger voters are concerned about.
At least two candidates volunteered that they have student debt. Gun violence and climate change were among the issues chosen when candidates were asked what the first issue they would tackle if elected would be. And there was broad gestures of inclusion throughout the debates for members of the LGBTQ community.
“When I get to the current age of the current president in the year 2055, I want to be able to look back on these years and say my generation delivered climate solutions, racial equality, and an end to endless war,” South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg said in his closing remarks. “Help me deliver that new generation to Washington before it’s too late.” — Lissandra Villa
4. Democrats are still short on specifics to solve the border crisis
Immigration policy was always likely to dominate the first 2020 debates. They were held in Miami, a city where 70% of the population is Hispanic, in the middle of a news cycle dominated by the squalid conditions for children in Texas detention centers and a tragic photo of a father and daughter who drowned trying to reach the U.S.
While only three candidates had initially planned to visit a nearby detention center for unaccompanied minors in Homestead, Fla., it soon became a necessary pilgrimage for most of the candidates. Not allowed to tour the facility, they met with local activists and officials in 100-degree heat. Some, like Warren, stood on a ladder and peered over the gate, waving at the children outside the facility. All of them used it as a backdrop to condemn Trump’s immigration policies for the rising desperation at the border.
But on the debate stage, few of the candidates were able to answer how they would solve a crisis that is overwhelming an already backlogged immigration system. Castro, the only Latino candidate and the first to roll out a detailed immigration platform, was able to distinguish himself by articulating a set of proposals to alleviate the crisis. This includes decriminalizing illegal border crossings, which most other candidates, when put on the spot, said they supported.
But most still defaulted to a morality argument against Trump, which is unlikely to be enough in the coming months. In the words of Miami-Dade County Commissioner and mayoral candidate Daniella Levine Cava, Democrats “can’t just pontificate about their values, they have to lay out a practical process.” — Vera Bergengruen/Miami
5. Climate change was finally a topic. It still wasn’t handled well
In the last general election debates, moderators did not ask a single question on climate change. And while the climate crisis was a recurrent subject at the Miami debates, it was not quite a subject of debate. On the second night, candidates largely stuck to their talking points. Harris talked about recommitting to the Paris Agreement and supporting a Green New Deal. Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper talked about an inclusive approach that includes the energy industry. And Biden cited the role the Obama Administration played in brokering the Paris Agreement and promised to strengthen the country’s international climate commitments.
But, while topics like health care and immigration inspired heated back-and-forths, with candidates delving into the intricacies of policy, such clashes were largely left out of the climate discussion. It’s not hard to see why: candidates are not accustomed to talking about the issue in a debate setting — or any setting for that matter. With a few exceptions, climate change has not been a policy focus of the Democratic contenders. Even moderator Chuck Todd bungled questions on the topic, confusing the meaning of climate mitigation — a phrase that refers to reducing emissions — with climate adaptation and asking a question about carbon-pricing that appeared to misunderstand the purpose of a carbon tax. It might have been an indicator of how little many journalists have engaged with the issue in recent years. — Justin Worland
6. Democrats are divided over health care
The split in how to expand health-care access reflected a deep tension for Democrats. When the moderators at the second debate asked who would abolish private health insurance, Sanders and Harris were the only two to raise their hands. That set off an intense discussion during which many of the other candidates argued more moderate plans, not Medicare for All, would be more popular and would more quickly secure health care coverage for all Americans. Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, Biden, Buttigieg and Williamson explained they wanted to offer voters a choice, while Sanders, along with Harris, emphasized that they believe a Medicare for All plan is the only way to bring prices down and ensure that all people get the coverage they need.
All sides argued their path was the fastest way to achieve health coverage for all Americans. Even Gillibrand, who appeared to split the difference in her answer — saying she still backs Sanders’ Medicare for All bill but not raising her hand to advocate eliminating private insurance — said phasing out private insurance was the best path forward.
“I believe we need to get to universal healthcare as a right, not a privilege to single payer. The quickest way you get there is you create competition with the insurers,” she said. “What will happen is people will choose Medicare. You will transition. We would get to Medicare for all. And then your step to single payer is so short.”
This embrace of Medicare for All while avoiding the language of nationalized health insurance is a balancing act that many of the Democrats have started to try. Bennet and Buttigieg pointed out that many Americans are satisfied with the insurance they have now, and even as Sanders tries to push his plan, their fear of taking that insurance away is likely to keep much of the Democratic field from fully raising their hands for a while still. — Abigail Abrams
7. ‘Adios, Trump’
Gone are the days when Democrats tiptoed to avoid accusations of wanting “open borders.” In Miami, the party’s candidates responded to Trump’s immigration crackdown by speaking Spanish, decrying the President’s family separation policy and invoking the deaths of Oscar Martinez and his 23-month-old daughter Valeria, whose deaths crossing the Rio Grande after trying to seek asylum were captured in a moving photograph this week, as a moral clarion call.
“Watching that image of Oscar and his daughter Valeria is heartbreaking. It should also piss us all off,” former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro said to applause.
Castro may have been the breakout star of the first debate, driving the conversation by arguing that illegal immigration should be decriminalized. By the second night, every candidate on stage, which included most of the field’s top tier, raised their hand when asked if their health care plan would provide coverage for undocumented children.— Lissandra Villa
8. Democrats didn’t talk about terrorism
At the end of the first debate, the candidates were asked to identify the greatest geopolitical threat to the United States. Most of them cited climate change or China, with some mentioning the tense situation with Iran, Russia, or Trump himself. Strikingly absent was the issue of terrorism. Though the Democratic field has its first generation of post-9/11 military veterans running for president — Buttigieg, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and Rep. Seth Moulton all served in either Iraq or Afghanistan — the candidates spoke relatively little in Miami about the wars that have dominated the last two decades, or the thousands of Americans still fighting them abroad.
Even a pointed question by the moderators about the two U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday only highlighted candidates’ reluctance to engage with the issue. While Gabbard and Rep. Tim Ryan sparred about the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, it seemed disconnected from actual foreign policy or national security concerns.
Some of this reflects America’s changing priorities, as the Islamic State has lost its territory and the Pentagon’s new strategy emphasizes great power competition with China. But it was a stark contrast from the debates four years ago, where Republicans tried to outdo each other with vows to get tough in ISIS terrorists. The Trump campaign plans to tout the President as a decisive national security candidate, emphasizing the defeat of ISIS, the increased defense budget, his deployment of troops to the southern border and his tough talk on threats both real and imagined. It remains to be seen how the Democrats will articulate a national-security vision of their own. — Vera Bergengruen/Miami
9. The candidates finally went after Trump
Throughout the 2018 midterm elections and for much of the 2020 campaign, many Democratic candidates chose to focus their message on health care and the economy rather than get bogged down attacking the President. And while Trump was an occasional target on the first night in Miami, the candidates changed tack sharply on night two, targeting Trump incessantly.
“Donald Trump” were the first words out of Biden’s mouth in response to a question about systemic change to the economy. He, Harris and Sanders criticized Trump for his tax bill, while several others onstage slammed his Administration for separating migrant families at the border. “The president has turned the border of the United States into a symbol of nativist hostility,” said Bennet.
The apparent shift in strategy may reflect that Democratic voters now say they prioritize a candidate’s ability to beat Trump over stances on the issues, by a 58% to 39% margin, according to a June Gallup poll. “Who can beat Donald Trump in 2020?” Andrew Yang said onstage of the question animating the primary. “That is the right question.” — Tessa Berenson
10. The Democratic field has lurched left
The scene will surely be the basis of an ad for Trump’s re-election. There were the Democratic presidential contenders, hands hoisted overhead, declaring that they would decriminalize illegal border-crossing. It was par for the course during the opening Democratic debates in Miami. The candidates said they would shut down the private health-insurance system, extend access to abortion to trans women, and give undocumented immigrants access to healthcare. The lurch to the left may be a savvy move in a Democratic primary, but perhaps a dangerous side-step from the pragmatism that defined the Obama era. None of this makes it easier for contenders to win back anxious voters in the upper Midwest, or expand the electoral map to states like Arizona and Georgia. This pivot has concerned moderates and centrists in the party, including some presidential candidates. “If we don’t clearly define that we are not socialists, the Republicans are going to come at us every way they can and call us socialists,” former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper warned from the debate stage Thursday night.— Philip Elliott/ Miami
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After Aquaman, I was looking through the notes I scribbled onto small pieces of paper and noticed that I had twice written, “What the fuck am I watching?” Although that’s hardly an incisive critical objection, when I began to sit down and write this review I realized it was more than just a simplistic gut reaction. The latest debacle in the DC Extended Universe, the series of superhero movies from Warner Bros. that, aside from Wonder Woman (2017), have done little else than disappoint, Aquaman is somehow the most ambitious and most awful of the bunch. It’s a varied hodgepodge of ideas and styles thrown together into an unpleasant, confusing whole. Oddly, it reminded me of the House on the Rock, the bizarre funhouse collection of trinkets gathered in Wisconsin by crazed architect Alex Jordan Jr., much to the chagrin of his neighbor, Frank Lloyd Wright. Each boasts a weird assemblage of sights, sounds, and genres to behold, influenced by countless sources throughout history. Each plays like an ironic experience into which one never fully settles. And oddly enough, each features an instrument-playing octopus—at the House on the Rock, it’s an animatronic display set to The Beatles’ “Octopus’s Garden,” whereas in Aquaman it’s a CGI cephalopod who plays the drums during an underwater gladiatorial bout.
It’s rather difficult to describe what director James Wan and his screenwriters, David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick (Orphan) and Will Beall (The Gangster Squad), have done here. Their story of the half-Atlantian, half-landlubber hero follows Arthur (Jason Momoa), widely known as Aquaman, who must return to the undersea kingdom and fight his evil brother, Orm (Patrick Wilson), to claim his rightful spot on the throne, while also stopping Orm’s hopes for war between the surface world and the seven kingdoms beneath the surface. Though it’s based on a comic book character, the material draws heavily from science-fiction aesthetics in a blend of neon and bioluminescence, high-tech super suits, and metropolises at the bottom of the ocean. Yet, it treats the royal scandals with all the weight of Shakespeare. The two-and-a-half-hour adventure looks and feels like the spawn of Flash Gordon (1980) and TRON: Legacy (2010). There’s even a land-faring interlude that plays like a cheap knock-off of an Indiana Jones or Lara Croft yarn. To be sure, this is a movie chock full of sometimes incongruous elements, much to the viewer’s exasperation.
Momoa, who played the role in Justice League (2017), approaches Aquaman with unchecked swagger. His performance consists of dramatic looks back over his shoulder, his lengthy mane flowing in the wind or wrapped in a hip man-bun. With his dialogue limited to surfer dude-level exclamations (“Hell yeah!”), he plays a character who happens to be the least interesting component in the movie’s copious story. Once his phallic scepter is broken by his brother, Aquaman searches alongside his love interest Mera (Amber Heard)—who looks like a plastic doll of Disney’s Ariel—for a mythical trident that will earn him the coveted, laugh-inducing title “Ocean Master.” But in order to retrieve said MacGuffin, he must locate a lost sea, the location of which is hidden in a desertous underground city, which can only be found using an ancient doohickey uncovered by Atlantian scholars. All of this requires globe-trotting and sundry CGI battles with various bad guys: Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), a futuristic pirate bent on avenging the death of his father; freaky-looking trench monsters; Atlantis’ super-suited stormtroopers; an army of crab people; and a sea monster that makes the Kraken seem dwarfish.
By the time Aquaman faces Orm in an undersea war, everything depends on our hero’s ability to perform the signature move of the Ocean Master—a twirly baton trick that creates an impenetrable water shield. If the various levels and goal completions littered throughout the plot didn’t already establish Aquaman’s dependence on a video game structure, this detail seals the association. Elsewhere, the score by Rupert Gregson-Williams has more personalities than James McAvoy’s character in Split (2016). The music, much like the movie as a whole, maintains an oddball blend of genres. During the camera’s tour of Atlantis—resembling the flying car journies in Blade Runner 2049 (2017) if Los Angeles was Pandora from Avatar (2009)—the electronic sounds of ‘80s synthesizers blare. In the more regal scenes that involve Aquaman’s royal mother Atlanna (Nicole Kidman) or discussions of Atlantis royalty, the score uses rousing blockbuster whooshes comparable to Thor (2011). Indeed, here’s a movie that seems to have an identity crisis before our very eyes.
Most obviously, a lot about Aquaman borrows from the narrative trajectory of Marvel’s Thor, as both follow a hero not-yet-ready for the throne promised him. Both characters must leave their native land in a fish-out-of-water scenario, as both also have some growing up to do, mythical villains to defeat, and a treacherous brother to thwart before transforming into the hero everyone knows and loves. Not that the obviousness of the material troubled the writers, who didn’t appear to be concerned with writing good dialogue or employing a novel story structure either. Amid the many pop-culture references throughout, Pinocchio is among the most apparent; there are also banal winks to seafaring cinema like Jaws when Black Manta proclaims, “Gonna need a bigger helmet.” Or consider the written-for-the-trailer exchanges, such as when one pirate asks, “Did we hit something?” Another replies, “No, something hit us.” The same sort of back-and-forth occurs later when King Nereus (Dolph Lundgren) says, “I’m not trying to start a war.” Then Orm replies, “The war has already begun.” These patterns of dialogue are mirrored by the frequency of abrupt plot transitions. No less than three times in the movie is a calm moment interrupted with a sudden, unexpected explosion that jolts the characters into the next action sequence.
Wan cut his teeth on horror, from Saw (2004) to The Conjuring (2013), and he only recently began branching out into blockbuster fare with Furious 7 (2015). He’s a talented visualist but rarely works from exceptional scripts, and he brings an undeniable visual appeal to Aquaman. It might all be more impressive if the CGI hadn’t reached cartoonish lows. Given the nature of the hero, Wan relies on computer technology to achieve the deep sea action. Underwater scenes have a constant waviness to them, the characters’ faces undulating ever-so-slightly, while their subaquatic voices have a distracting tinny echo, making them difficult to follow at times—especially Momoa, who doesn’t always annunciate. One or two memorable images stand out, such as Aquaman and Mera descending into a black pit at the bottom of the sea, surrounded by thousands of creepy baddies and guided only by the pink light of a flare. But somewhere between the artificial sunsets, bubble-accentuated action, and the weird way everyone seems to just float onscreen without treading water, the visual presentation proves very silly, very early into the proceedings.
Aquaman begins promisingly enough with a scene in which the banished Atlanna meets her human lover (Temuera Morrison). They share an affecting romance, produce a child, and then Atlanna becomes a target of her kingdom. A nifty, intense fight sequence ensues, and it’s winkingly shot through a fisheye lens (you know, because of fish, the sea, Aquaman, etc.). Throughout, moments like this adopt a kitschy sense of humor, but the movie isn’t self-aware enough to realize just how ridiculous, over-the-top, and absurd every scene manages to be. There wasn’t a single moment where some part of me wasn’t asking “What the fuck am I watching?” In a way, perhaps due to Lundgren’s presence, the production reminded me of another comparison to Aquaman: the beleaguered Masters of the Universe from 1987. Both plunge forward in a heaping mish-mash of genres, references, and tones, and watching it is like seeing an expensive accident unfold. It’s a disastrous blockbuster and at times an embarrassing movie that’s trying everything, but almost nothing it tries works. And yet, I couldn’t hold it against someone if they found this quality about Aquaman to be fun.


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Some communities respond by building attractions, new amenities like trails or marinas, and some have even given away land in a sort of 21st century Homestead Act. But Patrick Carr, author of Hollowing Out the Middle, said the equation that brings people anywhere is really quite simple.
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That’s not a new epiphany, but it may take one to figure out what kind of jobs can help stop the flow of young adults out of Door County.
Tara LeClair would love to see a major employer move in to revitalize the base, but realizes that is a remote possibility. The 1996 Sevastopol graduate and UW-Whitewater alumnus moved back to Door County in 2005 and now manages the Door Kewaunee Business and Education Partnership. She and her husband moved back only after he found a job here, and LeClair knows how hard it is to find a job stable enough to take on a mortgage and start a family here.
“If young people knew there was a stable business here, that could drive a lot more people back here,” she says. “If it wasn’t for us getting an opportunity we wouldn’t be here. It’s especially hard at our age because it’s too risky to relocate your family if there aren’t a lot of job options.”
Though some nurse dreams of attracting a major employer to supply a couple hundred jobs in one fell swoop, Bill Chaudoir, Executive Director of the Door County Economic Development Corporation (DCEDC), said “that isn’t going to happen.”
“The economics just don’t work up here,” he said, and Carr agreed, lamenting the fact that so many small towns waste creative and financial resources trying to lure large manufacturers and corporations.
“Elephant hunting is largely pointless. You need to focus on things that by their very nature can be decentralized,” Carr said, without limiting this criticism to manufacturing. “Big box retailing has really strangled small towns. Big agriculture and Wal-Mart have done more to decimate small-town America than anything else. Big boxes throw a few bucks at the local institutions they’re choking, and we buy it.”
The large manufacturing plants that once defined Midwestern towns are not the rocks they once were. Communities still attract big corporations with tax incentives and infrastructure improvements, but the availability of cheap labor and scant regulation outside the United States makes it easy for such enterprises to jump ship even from a relatively new facility and large capital outlay.
Just six years ago the state of Wisconsin handed General Motors $10 million in grants to supplement a $175 million outlay to outfit its Janesville plant to produce a new line of SUVs. The investment proved short-term, as the automotive giant shuttered the doors in 2009.
Chaudoir said that despite the county’s geographic isolation, residents shouldn’t be lulled into thinking the peninsula is immune to global economic forces. Bay Shipbuilding, the county’s pre-eminent employer, has slashed its staff because massive companies far from our shores aren’t moving products.
So if General Motors, Maytag or Emerson aren’t going to come into town with a miracle, how are we going to reinvigorate our base? Chaudoir points to the potential of small niche businesses that aren’t dependent on distribution networks or proximity to other similar businesses.
“We have positioned ourselves to market to vacationers who might be attracted to the idea of moving their small business here, or an aspect of their business,” Chaudoir said.
The county has seen an influx of telecommuters who have moved their families to Door County to take advantage of the environment, schools and community in recent years. A concentrated push to attract more of them could reap rewards. But to attract such businesses and telecommuters, the county needs to bolster connectivity, said Door County Administrator Mike Serpe.
“Providing Internet access at the highest speed possible is as vital as the air and water for us economically,” Serpe said.
But Door County has twice investigated seriously the prospect of installing a high-speed fiber line, only to determine the project would be prohibitively expensive.
Carr believes renewable energy technology and local food production hold potential as economic engines for small towns.
“Renewable energy can really help because it has to be decentralized,” he said.
Community Wind Energy of Door County pushed a proposal for a wind energy cooperative several years ago, but county and municipal zoning ordinances have been tightened, making it nearly impossible to site large turbines on the peninsula. Serpe holds out hope that new wind turbine siting standards under review by the state could open the door again.
“I think Southern Door still has the potential for wind power,” Serpe said, “but in Northern Door property is just too expensive to make it economically feasible.”
Any effort to bolster the job base in Door County must accept that it will come in small doses cobbled together for a larger impact. It must recognize the opportunity and strength that comes with such diversity.
“One more leader, or one more program can make a tremendous difference,” Carr said. “Let’s say you add ten jobs. Ten jobs maybe equals eight families. Two children per family equals 16 more kids. That makes a difference in a small town.”
Those jobs will build on each other. If the Gibraltar School District were to grow by 150 students, returning to its peak enrollment of the late 1990s, it would mean adding several teaching positions, maintenance staff, coaches, bus drivers and assistants. It would also cut down on the need for referendum funds to support the district. Plus, those young families would require services and entertainment, supporting other businesses.
Changing the future of small towns, Carr said, isn’t the responsibility of one major employer, one government department or one school system.
“It’s a question of all these bureaucracies that exist as mosaics that touch but never really communicate; we have to get them talking to one another,” he said.


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The Journal Sentinel's Rick Barrett offers news for Harley enthusiasts about motorcycle industry and culture.
Bikers from Russia, Chile, Italy visit Suburban Harley-Davidson
Motorcyclists from Russia, Chile, Italy, Australia and almost every one of the 50 U.S. states have already been to Suburban Harley-Davidson, in Thiensville, for the dealership's party.
Sales manager Todd Berlin said he put up a big map of the world in the showroom for visitors to place pins on designating where they were from.
The map wasn't even up a day when it already had dozens of pins on it.
Berlin said the dealership also had sold all of its initial shipment of 2014 touring bikes.

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How AI Will Change Chip Design Industry? Explained!
Moore’s Law is coming to an end. Engineers and designers can only do so much to shrink transistors and cram as many of them as possible into chips. As a result, they’re turning to alternative types of chip design, including AI integration.
AI-based memory chips from Samsung, for example, are being used to speed up machine learning by including AI. Google’s TPU V4 AI chip has more processing power than the previous version, according to its developers. Speaking of quickness, the TPU V4 AI processor from Google has increased its performance by two times over that of the previous version.
How AI will change the chip design industry to create the next generation of microprocessors?
Artificial Intelligence is such a key technology because it is involved in almost every stage of the cycle, including design and manufacturing. There are numerous signs in general process engineering, where it seeks to optimize processes.
Detection of flaws is a large area in all phases of the process, especially in manufacturing. But even before starting designing, AI now plays an important part when it comes to choosing the light and the sensors and all the other components. There’s a lot of strange behavior detection and fault repair that needs to be thought about.
What are the benefits of employing AI in chip design?
The benefits are twofold. One is to improve the design quality for better performance and power. And two, to make it faster.
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What is an AI chip, and why is it better? Why do we need GPUs in AI?
So, using AI in the early stages of design where typically a human would be trying different things, different architecture choices, different component values. And it’s just not possible for a human to explore all those options in a reasonable amount of time.
AI can generate a surrogate model of the physics-based model, gather data from it, and then run your parameter sweeps, optimizations, and Monte Carlo simulations on the surrogate model.
What are the drawbacks of AI Technology in chip design?
The AI-based experimental models are not as accurate as physics-based ones. Just keep in mind that it won’t be as accurate as our precise model, which we’ve spent years developing.
Chip design and production are both systems intensive; it must be considered in every little detail and it can be difficult. It’s a situation where it might have models to predict something, but still, need to bring it all together.
Also, it requires lots of data to construct the models. It integrates data from a variety of sensors and teams, which adds to the difficulty.
Tech companies will use AI when they have high-frequency data from many different sensors, and it’s often useful to inspect the frequency domain and other issues like data synchronization or resampling. If not sure where to begin, those might be difficult.
What is the future of AI and chip design?
It’s extremely reliant on the human aspect, which is human beings involved in the procedure and has an interpretable model. We may do a lot with the mathematical minutiae of modeling, but it boils down to how tech companies use it and how everyone throughout the process understands and applies it.
People of all levels of expertise will be needed to make the transition seamless. Rather than relying on overly precise predictions, we’ll see more transparency and sharing of information, as well as a digital twin that isn’t simply powered by AI but also by our human knowledge and all of the effort that many people have done.
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Beginning March 25th in Mississippi and Alabama, the United States saw dozens of tornadoes touch down in multiple states. Many have lost their lives, and hundreds of others have been severely impacted by the substantial damage. GEM BStrong is on the ground now, ensuring multiple states and communities are receiving support and aid during this time.
Immediately after the first tornado, GEM BStrong deployed to Rolling Fork, Mississippi, distributing Family Necessity Kits, pet supplies, and other BStrong cash cards. Aid has also been brought to and distributed in Winona and Greenville to displaced residents.
GEM BStrong arrived on the ground in Little Rock. We are meeting with local representatives to better understand the longer-term needs and will be conducting distributions of aid to displaced residents.


What are the 50 Objects that Define Change in New York City?
Attention historians! The New York Times is looking for historians' suggestions for a feature on 50 objects that represent or are emblematic of change in New York City. It's a follow-up to their September feature "A History of New York in 50 Objects."
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- New museum in Poland -- the grandest space created since 1989 -- tells the story of the Jews
- Lewinsky mistreated by authorities in investigation of Clinton, report says
- Scientists Say Proof Of Jack The Ripper's Identity Is Fatally Flawed
- Memorial for black Revolutionary War soldiers finds spot on Mall after 30 years
- Sherlock Holmes star to feature in a new movie about Alan Turning
- How Laurel Thatcher Ulrich caught up with the past
- Postal Workers Take on Harvard President, historian Drew Faust
- Symposium held in honor of John D’Emilio
- Thousands of Historic Archives from British Asylums to Go Online
- American Studies Association boycott of Israel: Conservatives say it’s weakening


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Sainsbury’s has become the latest target of a right-wing boycott against grocery brands in the escalating Black Lives Matter protests after a statue of slave trader Robert Milligan was removed from outside the Museum of London in London’s Docklands.
The call on Twitter to #BoycottSainsburys emerged after it was claimed that legendary ex-Sainsbury’s CEO Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover – whose Linbury Trust, set up by Lord Sainsbury in 1973 with his wife Lady Anya, donated £10m to set up the museum - ordered the statue to be taken down.
The right-wing agitators provided no evidence to substantiate the claim, adding only that Lord Sainsbury had donated nearly £8m to stop Brexit.
But Adam Leyland, editor of The Grocer – who has known the Sainsbury family for over 35 years – confirmed that no such order could have been made by Lord Sainsbury as he has Alzheimer’s.
”The idea that Lord Sainsbury would instruct some unspecified person to take a statue down outside a museum his Linbury Trust helped to pay for is preposterous,” said Leyland ”He has Alzheimer’s, poor man. Also, the Lord Sainsbury who donated nearly £8m to support Remain has nothing to do with the Linbury Trust or that museum. But these boycotters never let the facts get in the way.”
The tag has since been co-opted on social media by anti-racist users in support of Sainsbury’s and #BuySainsburys has began to trend, with many users joking that there will be better availability of online delivery slots now that racists have stopped shopping with the retailer.
The boycott comes following calls for both Yorkshire Tea and PG Tips to be blacklisted. In a show of #solidaritea the two tea brands took a stand against racism and expressed their support for the Black Lives Matter movement on Twitter yesterday.
“Please don’t buy our tea again, we’re taking some time to educate ourselves and plan proper action before we post. We stand against racism. #BlackLivesMatter.”
When others vowed to switch to PG Tips as a result, the Unilever brand replied: “If you are boycotting teas that stand against racism, you’re going to have to find two new tea brands now #blacklivesmatter #solidaritea,”
Coop CEO Steve Murrells has also supported the Black Lives Matter movement. In a strongly worded criticism of the death of George Floyd, Murrells said he felt “compelled” to let all the Co-op colleagues know “I care deeply about you”.
Sainsbury’s declined to comment on the furore on social media.


PROJECT LOCATION & DESIGN
How was the site chosen?
The site's location in the Port of Liverpool enables the biomass power station to contribute to, and to benefit from, the strong and growing renewable energy industry that already exists in the North West.
The site is adjacent to a deep water berth and benefits from rail access at Seaforth Docks thus offering access by sea, rail and road. In addition, the Manchester Ship Canal offers exciting opportunities to bring fuel to the site by water borne transport. What's more, the ability to work in close co-operation with the experienced and dynamic team at the Port attracted us to this site.
The power station is located in the bulk materials handling heart of the Port. The development will consist of a group of fuel storage buildings that will be up to 25m high. These may look like many other buildings at the port and will avoid the need for open storage of material. The tallest building will be the boiler house, which is expected to be around 60-70m high.
The tallest overall structure will be the chimney (stack), which will be designed in accordance with environmental standards. The height will be determined in consultation with the Environment Agency as part of the planning and permitting process and is likely to be between 90-110m to ensure that air quality standards are not breached.
We are at an early stage of the development process and will be working on the design through a number of environmental, engineering and architectural studies. Ways to optimise the overall plant layout and to reduce the visual impact of the power station will be explored during this work. We propose to consult widely on the design of the facility as we develop the project.


Abiding by the gas industry’s regulatory framework is an integral aspect of Firstgas' strategic and operating environment. We aim to ensure the regulatory environment we work within balances consumer, stakeholder and shareholder interests. This means we regularly engage with the:
- Commerce Commission, which regulates Firstgas' gas transmission and distribution businesses.
- Gas Industry Company, which makes recommendations to the Minister of Energy on a wide range of industry matters, including rules and regulations in relation to the wholesale, processing, transmission, distribution and retailing of gas.
- Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment, the Treasury, and Ministry for the Environment on broad policy and environmental issues.
- Our stakeholders including over 4,500 landowners and iwi with whom we have easements.


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James Gandolfini is shifting from Papa Soprano to Papa Hemingway. Variety reports that he’ll play Ernest Hemingway in a film centering on the author’s tumultuous romance with war correspondent Martha Gellhorn in the 1930s and ’40s. ”Pollock” screenwriter Barbara Turner, who knows from biopics of hard-living mid-century artists, is writing the screenplay. She says Robin Wright Penn is a possibility to play Gellhorn.
”She might have been the best war correspondent who ever lived, and she was the only woman who left Hemingway and asked for a divorce,” Turner said of Gellhorn, who was an inspiration for Hemingway’s ”For Whom the Bell Tolls.” ”She was drop-dead gorgeous, smart and funny, and they had a competitive, stormy but romantic relationship. She was one of the great romances of his life.”
Gandolfini is a Hemingway fan who has supported the foundation that’s restoring the Cuban home where the novelist wrote ”The Old Man and the Sea.” His managers are the untitled film’s executive producers. He’s expected to shoot the movie in January before returning to production on the sixth and final season of ”The Sopranos.”

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Follow the steps of Apostle Paul to learn about the history of Corinth and Athens in just 8 hours!!!
Combining the half day tour of Athens along with a half day of Corinth, explore every part of Athens except the ancient Agora and drive over the Canal to Ancient Corinth.
-Corinthian Canal (Isthmus)
-Temple of Zeus
-Change of the presidential guard
-Trilogy (Academy, university, library)
-View from Mt. Lycabetos
We head directly to the city centre of Athens where the rest of the tour will take place. First, we visit "Acropolis" and relive the golden ages of Greece
The next part of the tour includes small stops at the "Temple of Olympian Zeus", the "National Garden", "Panathenaic Stadium".
Finally on the way down we see the "change of the guards" in front of the greek Parliament, then the "Academy of Science", the "University of Athens" and the "National Library".
Then we drive away from Athens for 1 hour until we reach the Corinthian Canal where we make a short stop. We continue our way to Ancient Corinth where we stop to visit the museum for an hour.
Meeting Point + Tour Duration
Meeting Point Options: Rail or Bus Station, Cruise Ship Port, Hotel, Address or Intersection, Monument/Building
End Point Options: Rail or Bus Station, Cruise Ship Port, Hotel, Address or Intersection, Monument/Building
Duration: 8 hours
I tour with my smoke-free Mercedes Vito 13' extra long. It offers leather comfortable seats for long trips, best Mercedes quality air condition, tinted windows for more privacy, extra luggage space, free WiFi and two LCD monitors for my presentations and your entertainment.
Estimated Local Cash Needed
28 Euro - Acropolis admission: 20 euros
Ancient Corinth admission: 8 euros
*Kids under 18 get free admission
*Reduced admission fee for students of Universities/ Academies, Europian citizen over 65 years old.
I am not a "licensed tour guide" and will not be able to guide or escort you inside of the historical monuments.
My knowledgeable historical presentation will offer you a thorough understanding of every historical monument before your visit.
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|Birth: ||Nov. 20, 1814|
|Death: ||May 3, 1886|
Daniel was the oldest of twelve children born to Abraham and Christina (Zehner) Swartz. Their other children were: Solomon, Abraham Jr., Rebecca, Anna, Christina, Leah Elizabeth, Mary Polly, Lavinia O., Jacob, John, and Dena.
Daniel married Elizabeth Stillwagon, daughter of George and Maria (McKaz)Stillwagon, in May of 1836. They became the parents of twelve children: Mary A., Benjamin Franklin Sr., Christina, Sarah Jane, Elizabeth Ann, Lavinia, Sophia, Daniel S. Jr., Catherine, John, Rebecca (twin) and Barbara Ellen (twin).
OBITUARY OF DANIEL SWARTZ:
Wyandot County Republican Newspaper dated May 6, 1886
Daniel Swartz, Sr., an old resident of Pitt Township, died at the residence of his daughter in Van Wert County where he had been visiting for the last two months. He was brought to this place today. Tomorrow he will be taken to the Brick Church yard, close to his old home, to be interred by the side of the wife of his youth.
Obituary found in THE UNION newspaper dated 14 May 1886:
Daniel Schwartz, son of Abraham and Christina (Zehner) Schwartz, was born November 20th 1814, in West Penn, Schuylkill County, Penn and departed this life May 3rd, 1886 at 6 o'clock a.m. He was consecrated to the Lord in holy baptism, by his parents in infancy. Later, at the age of 18 years, after a course of instruction in the doctrines of the church, he was confirmed by Rev. Zuellig, as a member of the Reformed Church in West Penn, Pa.
He entered the state of holy matrimony with Miss Elizabeth Stillwagon in April 1836 (ed note: maybe a date error here). Three weeks later he came with his young wife and parents (ed note: Abraham and Christina Zehner Swartz) to Ohio locating in Richland County. In the year 1854, 32 years ago, he came to Wyandot County, settling on the place adjoining the Reformed Church in Pitt Township, where he continued to live until a short time ago, when he went to visit his son John, in Van Wert County.
His marriage union was blessed with twelve children, three sons and nine daughters who all grew to young man and womanhood. His aged companion, Mother Schwartz, died Feb 27, 1883 , thus the aged couple are now lying side by side in the beautiful city of the dead, awaiting the resurrection morning. The husband and wife lived happily together for a period of 47 years. Shortly after the demise of his consort, the deceased began failing in health caused by heart disease, which frequently subjected him to spells of suffocation.
Since the death of his companion he made his home with his daughter Mrs. Hamilton ( ed note: Mary A. Swartz Hamilton b:1841), spending the most of his time in reading the Bible and prayer book,. He was conscious of his precarious condition and expected to die suddenly, but said he wanted to be prepared for the better world. He realized his weaknesses and failings, but deeply regretted them and placed his trust in the merciful Redeemer.
He took communion February last at his home in Pitt Township. He leaves 10 children, 32 grandchildren, and one great grand child, besides four sisters and three brothers, to mourn his sudden departure.
His death and burial was duly chronicled in last week's issue of "The Union." The thanks of the family are herewith extended to the friends and neighbors for their sympathy and help during the sickness and funeral obsequies.
Abraham SWARTZ (1791 - 1863)
Christena ZEHNER SWARTZ (1795 - 1882)
Elizabeth STILLWAGON SWARTZ (1815 - 1883)*
Benjamin Franklin SWARTZ (1839 - 1902)*
Sarah Jane Swartz Cooper (1841 - 1877)*
Lavinia Swartz Fisher (1848 - 1940)*
Sophia SWARTZ WILLOUGHBY (1850 - 1936)*
Daniel S. SWARTZ (1851 - 1937)*
John Swartz (1854 - 1888)*
Rebecca Swartz Frater (1857 - 1884)*
Barbara Ellen SWARTZ LAVELY (1857 - 1943)*
Daniel SWARTZ (1814 - 1886)
Solomon SWARTZ (1817 - 1898)*
Abraham SWARTZ (1819 - 1911)*
Anna Swartz Balliet (1822 - 1889)*
Christina Swartz Snyder (1823 - 1884)*
Leah Elizabeth SWARTZ BALLIET (1824 - 1855)*
Jacob SWARTZ (1837 - 1894)*
John SWARTZ (1839 - 1921)*
Emanuel United Church of Christ Cemetery
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Record added: Feb 07, 2011
Find A Grave Memorial# 65337663
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In the last five years, Karnataka got approval to use 1,355.25 hectares (ha) of forest land for non-forestry purpose under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980.
Responding to an unstarred question in the Lok Sabha recently, Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Ashwini Kumar Choubey said a total of 82,893.61 ha of forest land has been approved for non-forestry use under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, from April 2016 to March 2021.
He further said that 206 proposals involving 4,118.109067 ha area within Protected Areas, including national parks and sanctuaries, have been recommended by the Standing Committee of National Board for Wildlife during 2020 and 2021.
The State/UT-wise approved areas for use of forest land for non-forestry purpose under the Act for Karnataka showed that it went up from 199.20 ha in 2016-17 to 326.52 ha in 2017-18. After 139.64 ha in 2018-19, it again increased to 390.12 ha in 2019-2020. In 2020-21, it was 299.78 ha.
In comparison, neighbouring Kerala had a total approved area of just 9.21 ha and Tamil Nadu 81.91 ha. However, Andhra Pradesh had 2,713.53 ha, Telangana 8209.32 ha, and Maharashtra, 3615.62 ha.
Among the States and UTs, Jammu and Kashmir had the least: 1.20 ha, all of which was approved in 2020-21. Madhya Pradesh had the highest, with 19638.41 ha being approved for diversion.
This massive diversion has been criticised by environmentalists. “Approvals under the Act for non-forestry purposes should be allowed only as a stark exception. However, it is shocking to see that the forest clearances are being given at such a rate,” said wildlife conservationist Giridhar Kulkarni.
The Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, which is having statutory and constitutional obligations to protect the forests, is giving clearances in the name of ease of doing business, which is really unfortunate, he added.
The percentage of Karnataka’s forest area in comparison to its geographical area is admittedly lower than the all-India average, as well as the percentage recommended by the National Forest Policy, which is 33%.
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, who had this year announced an “environment budget” to compensate the damages caused to the environment along with annual estimations of green areas in the State, had said that Karnataka has 43 lakh hectares of forest, which is 21.5%.
T.V. Ramachandra from the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), said forests in the Western Ghats provide water security to peninsular India, which in turn provides food security. “Naturally, any diversion is going to lead to loss of water and hurt livelihoods of people. Wherever there is native forest, earnings are higher and pollinators are diverse, due to which yield is higher. That means we are threatening food security and water security,” he said.
What we need now is natural capital accounting and valuation of ecosystem services, and to think about whether the diversions have better benefit than the ecosystem, he added. “Skewed policies and colonial mindset are leading to environment degradation. Large scale projects are being pushed in the name of drinking water schemes,” he said.
The purpose-wise details of proposals involving 50 ha or more area approved during 2016-17 to 2020-21 for the country showed that irrigation, mining and defence had the highest numbers.
Dr. Ramachandra recommended that we take advantage of technological advancements to plan projects, as well as looking at the cost people pay for calamities due to improper projects by way of loss of life and property.