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VIDEO: The New World trailer from the PC Gaming Show. Also on YouTube.
Pre-order Amazon's upcoming MMO, New World, and you'll get access to the closed beta that starts on July 23. Or, don't pre-order New World and you can play it when it releases on August 25. Or, you can just not play New World at all. These are the three choices confronting all of us this summer.
Which you choose will probably depend on how eager you are to have a new MMO in your life, whether or not you think conquistador helmets are cool, and how much you like action-RPG combat and mysterious, magical islands. In a new trailer that debuted at the PC Gaming Show today, we got an extended look at New World's brand of martial arts, as well as a few glimpses at the magical staves characters can wield. (The devs haven't said a whole lot about magic yet, but we do know that spells will be tied to these staves, the way other combat skills are tied to weapons.)
I played New World during a visit to Amazon Studios earlier this year, and jotted down some thoughts on the combat and structure. It's very traditional in ways (you start by running around on a beach doing MMO 101 quests), but the action combat definitely has potential, especially in PvP. I was told that one tester was good enough to best other players with a completely naked character. That appeals to me a lot as someone who doesn't love hard level gates, or getting dressed.
The 50v50 player battles may turn out to be a big draw, as well as the politics behind territory control (we break down what we know about New World's systems here), but you've really got to see those sorts of things working in a live MMO to know whether or not they're successful. On paper, lots of MMOs sound cool. In practice, only a few generate the awesome stories you get from something like EVE Online.
We should be able to get a sense of New World's strengths and weakness from the beta, which again, starts on July 23. New World is available for pre-order through Steam.


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American Express Adds U.S. Consumer, OPEN(R) Small Business and Serve Cards to Isis Mobile Wallet
NEW YORK, May 10, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- American Express AXP +0.67% and Isis(TM), the mobile commerce joint venture between AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless, today announced an agreement to make American Express' U.S. Consumer, OPEN(R) Small Business and Serve Cards available in the Isis Mobile Wallet(TM). American Express Cardmembers will be able to shop, tap and pay with their mobile device equipped with Near Field Communications (NFC) technology, starting in Salt Lake City, Utah and Austin, Texas later this year.
Last year the American Express network joined the Isis Mobile Commerce Platform. Now American Express is adding its Cards to the Isis mobile wallet to connect its merchant network with Cardmembers and create a secure shopping experience. With a tap of their phone, the Isis Mobile Wallet provides Cardmembers with a secure way to pay and take advantage of loyalty programs, together with the service they expect from American Express.

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The Brussels police arrested over 30 people during a demonstration against Belgium's coronavirus measures on Sunday afternoon.
The participants gathered at the North Station from 12:30 on Sunday, and started marching towards the Cinquantenaire Park from 13:30, said Ilse Van de keere, spokesperson for the Brussels-Capital/Ixelles police zone.
"The march took place quietly until the end," she told The Brussels Times. The protest ended around 17:30.
While the organisations behind the event stated that some 25,000 participants were present at the demonstration, the official police count showed 5,000 participants.
Before the start of the demonstration, the police administratively arrested eleven people, as they were in possession of pyrotechnics and flammable material, Van de keere confirmed.
- 5,000 people protest against coronavirus measures in Brussels
- New protest march against coronavirus measures in Brussels today
The demonstration was organised by ‘Samen voor Vrijheid’ (“Together for Freedom”), which brings together several organisations who are critical of the coronavirus vaccines, the Covid Safe Ticket (CST) or the measures in general, such as Viruswaanzin, Fight for Freedom, The Human Side and Belgians for Freedom.
They had called on "anyone who senses that something is not right" to join the march. "We are organising a large manifestation for constitutional freedoms and human rights. We denounce freedom-restricting measures that for one and a half years have not been a structural solution for health care and are no longer justifiable."
Setting Christmas trees on fire
At the previous protest organised by the same group on Sunday 21 November, about 35,000 people showed up to demonstrate. As heavy rioting broke out after that march, the organisation had repeatedly stressed that this protest was supposed to be "a peaceful gathering."
Yet, a group deliberately sought confrontation with the police in the European quarter after the demonstration. "Projectiles were thrown and inflammable materials were used," said Van de keere. Several bushes and Christmas trees set up by the city were also set on fire, according to local media.
At about 16:00, the police surrounded this small group of people confronting the police, which quickly calmed the situation down again, she added.
Van de keere stated that about 30 people were arrested administratively (meaning that the police recorded their identities and drew up an official report) and some people were arrested judicially (which means they were deprived of their liberty within the framework of a judicial investigation).

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Drop tower testing is a form of impact testing used to measure energy absorbed by a material during high velocity impacts. The test system consists of a falling mass guided by two columns, instrumentation to measure force, fixture to hold the sample, and data collection system. This test is used for a component or an assembly.
Major uses are for assessing automotive components like energy absorbers, frontal collision behavior, side impact collision, etc. Other uses include assessing shatter resistance of coatings on materials, puncture resistance of fabrics, axial collapse behaviors of columns and pipes, delamination behaviors of woven fiber composites and laminates.
The test does not require much preparation unlike other standard tests except that this must be fixtured so that when the hammer falls it is in the same direction as it would experience loading in service. For example, testing pipes and tubular components the sample may be positioned with the tube axis parallel to the hammer falling direction. If a side impact is required the tubes may be positioned with the axis normal to the hammer.
Capability – At TTL, we have a 20’ tall vertical drop tower with 132 Lbs weight for testing large metallic components and assemblies (See figure). The larger hammer is instrumented so that collision forced can be measured. In addition, we have a smaller bench scale unit for assessing shaper resistance of coating, puncture resistance of fabrics, delamination of laminates and composites. The tests are generally conducted at ambient condition. If non- ambient conditions, such as low temperatures, are required we can engineer a system to test at low temperatures.
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Traveling the World for Free Traveling often turns out more expensive than originally planned so when someone tells you that you could travel the world for free you probably won’t take them seriously. But there actually are a lot of ways that you could dr
The Baatara gorge waterfall.The Baatara gorge waterfall (Balaa gorge waterfall) is a waterfall in the Tannourine, Lebanon. The waterfall drops 255 metres ft) into the Baatara Pothole, a cave of Jurassic limestone located on the Lebanon Mountain Trail.
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The Nonsense Factory: The Making and Breaking of the American Legal System (Paperback)Bruce Cannon Gibney (author)
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Our trial courts conduct hardly any trials, our correctional systems do not correct, and the rise of mandated arbitration has ushered in a shadowy system of privatised "justice." Meanwhile, our legislators can't even follow their own rules for making rules, while the rule of law mutates into a perpetual state of emergency. The legal system is becoming an incomprehensible farce.
How did this happen? In The Nonsense Factory, Bruce Cannon Gibney shows that over the past seventy years, the legal system has dangerously confused quantity with quality and might with legitimacy. As the law bloats into chaos, it staggers on only by excusing itself from the very commands it insists that we obey, leaving Americans at the mercy of arbitrary power. By examining the system as a whole, Gibney shows that the tragedies often portrayed as isolated mistakes or the work of bad actors-police misconduct, prosecutorial overreach, and the outrages of imperial presidencies-are really the inevitable consequences of law's descent into lawlessness.
The first book to deliver a lucid, comprehensive overview of the entire legal system, from the grandeur of Constitutional theory to the squalid workings of Congress, The Nonsense Factory provides a deeply researched and witty examination of America's state of legal absurdity, concluding with sensible options for reform.
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Number of pages: 544
Weight: 440 g
Dimensions: 208 x 138 x 40 mm
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Luis Posada Carriles, Who Waged Quest to Oust Castro, Dies at 90
Posted May 23, 2018 9:35 p.m. EDT
Luis Posada Carriles, the anti-Castro militant and former CIA operative who made headlines for decades for his failed attempts to topple the Cuban dictator, died Wednesday in Miramar, Florida. He was 90.
The cause was fluid in his lungs and complications of a stroke he had in 2015, his daughter, Janet Arguello, said.
Posada spent nearly 60 years on a quixotic and often bloody mission to bring down Fidel Castro by any means possible. He was accused of using bombs and bullets in a crusade that took the lives of innocents but never did manage to snare that Cuban leader, who died at 90 in 2016.
Posada hopped from country to country, finding refuge in jungles, arming rebels, surviving stints in prison and living on the run off the largess of Cuban exile supporters, then dying a free man at a home for aging military veterans.
“My old tired heart has made enough rounds,” Posada said in a jailhouse interview with The Miami Herald in Panama in 2003. “I’m going to eat my steak, drink my wine and struggle for my country. That will be my life’s end.”
But others saw it differently.
“He was an international terrorist of the first order,” said Peter Kornbluh, the director of the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive, who spent decades collecting declassified documents on Posada’s ventures.
Luis Posada Carriles was born on Feb. 15, 1928, in Cienfuegos, in central Cuba, one of four children. His father owned a bookstore and printing press.
Posada attended the University of Havana, a few years behind Fidel Castro there. He worked for a time at the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, first in Havana and then in Akron, Ohio.
By 1960, Posada had a prison record in Cuba for anti-Castro activities and was soon working for the Central Intelligence Agency. He almost participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, but the mission, a CIA-backed operation, failed disastrously before his plane could take off and take him to Cuba to join fellow Cuban-exile guerrillas there. He later joined the Venezuelan intelligence service, where the Cuban government media said his job was to be a “CIA mercenary.”
One of the deadliest events linked to Posada came in 1976, when a Cubana de Aviación flight exploded off the coast of Barbados, killing all 73 people aboard, including teenagers from Cuba’s national fencing team.
A November 1976 FBI report obtained by the National Security Archive showed that a trusted informant had placed Posada at two meetings where the bombing was plotted.
Living in Venezuela at the time of the attack, Posada was tried before a military tribune but acquitted. He remained in prison while prosecutors appealed the ruling, seeking to take the case to a civilian court. But disguising himself as a priest, he escaped.
Posada always insisted that he was innocent of the airplane bombing — what he called “an abominable deed.” He ended up spending nine years in prison in Venezuela.
“My memories of him are of being a five- or six-year-old and visiting him in jail,” Arguello said, adding that she saw little of her father in the decades that followed. “That was the life he chose.”
Posada’s next stop was El Salvador, where he participated in the covert Iran-Contra affair, in which the Reagan administration secretly sold arms to Iran and used the proceeds to help rebel forces in Nicaragua, or contras. Posada served as a quartermaster for the rebels.
While in Guatemala in 1990, he was shot — he presumed by Cuban intelligence operatives — with the bullets grazing his heart and tongue and leaving him with a severe speech impairment.
In an interview with The New York Times, Posada admitted to having organized a string of hotel bombings in Havana in the late 1990s that left one Italian tourist dead and 12 people wounded, but he later contended that his comments had been taken out of context.
Posada stayed on the run before reappearing in 2000 in Panama. Castro, who was in Panama for a presidential summit, stunned the world when he announced at a news conference that his old foe was in town, trying to kill him. Shortly afterward, Posada and a group of comrades with terrorism-related records were arrested in Panama City with C4 explosives.
Posada was sentenced to eight years in prison, but the president, Mireya Moscoso, in her last week in office, pardoned him in 2004. He showed up in the United States a few months later.
“He had that magnetic quality to him that I’m sure explains how he was able to survive all those years,” said Posada’s lawyer, Arturo V. Hernandez. “He was able to establish alliances to help him. You can’t do that if everybody hates you.” Exiles sent him money, and they bought his paintings to help him survive. (He had learned how to paint in prison.) They paid bribes to sneak him out of jails and countries and into others.
“He was a charmer,” said Santiago Alvarez, a longtime Miami activist who has served time in prison for his anti-Castro efforts. “He had stories for everything. He made you laugh. He was good company.”
Federal prosecutors said it was Alvarez who sneaked Posada back into the United States in 2005, but both men denied that.
Posada was charged with lying to the immigration authorities about the bombings and how he had entered the country, but was acquitted in 2011.
A judge ruled that Posada could not be returned to Cuba or Venezuela, the two countries that eagerly sought his return. So Posada stayed in South Florida, where he remained estranged from his wife, Nieves, their daughter and a son, Jorge. They survive him. Complete information on survivors was not immediately available.
“I think I did what I had to do,” Posada said in the jailhouse interview with The Herald, in which he renounced terrorism, though he said that he still longed to stomp Castro “like a cockroach.”
“I’m doing what I have to do as a Cuban patriot.”

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It is 1970, two years after they opened the rest of this beach to us, forty years since the photograph where she stood on a narrow plot 15 of sand marked colored, smiling, her hands on the flowered hips of a cotton meal-sack dress. My toes dig in, curl around wet sand. What is monument to their legacy? Trethewey's first published collection, Domestic Work 2000 , was the inaugural recipient of the Cave Canem prize for a first book by an African American poet. As a poet, Trethewey finds meaning in the details of these often-forgotten pieces of history and connects them to the issues we continue to face in a nation still struggling for racial equality. The date was 1970; the perspective changes completely, then showing the struggles of equality. The sun cuts the rippling Gulf in flashes with each tidal rush. Reworking an initial draft of the poem, Trethewey restructured it to capture the entire story of the incident in the first four lines.
It is 1970, two years after they opened the rest of this beach to us, forty years since the photograph where she stood on a narrow plot of sand marked colored, smiling, her hands on the flowered hips of a cotton meal-sack dress. She is the Robert W. Diaspora, this concept that connects us as Black people to each other across space and time is the trauma of falling apart over and over again individually and collectively. Over and over she will practice meeting her father, imagine how he must look, how different now from the one photo she has of him. History Lesson By Natasha Trethewey I am four in this photograph, standing on a wide strip of Mississippi beach, my hands on the flowered hips of a bright bikini. It was spring, the hills green in Mississippi.
Trethewey and Ophelia then produce a narrator whom the reader cannot consume without being remade, leading indeed to the shared production of a refigured world in which renewed possibilities for accountabiilty to the structurally and economically embattled positions of women of color are born. The latest picture was taken two years after desegregation; the picture that it reflects was taken 40 years before the second picture. Neither you, nor the coeditors you shared it with will be able to recover it again. This influenced her poetry greatly. The sun cuts the rippling Gulf in flashes with each tidal rush.
I am alone except for my grandmother, other side of the camera, telling me how to pose. But the function of the page for Trethewey is built around justice, not amnesia. However, Governor Moore reinstated the Native Guards on March 24 after the U. The first half of the poem vividly describes a photograph of a four year old girl at the beach. Some members of the new regiment came from wealthy and prominent Creole and free-black families, but the majority were clerks, artisans, and skilled laborers. My toes dig in, curl around wet sand. The speaker is giving her memory of being at the.
The sun cuts the rippling Gulf in flashes with each tidal rush. Her looking back at her life as a child when her grandmother was alive. Natasha Trethewey came to national attention in 1999, when her poetry collection, Domestic Work, won the inaugural Cave Canem Prize, an award for the best first collection of poems by an African American poet. Or is the author saying that neither picture indicates a change in history? She is leaving behind the dirt roads of Mississippi, the film of red dust around her ankles, the thin whistle of wind through the floorboards of the shotgun house, the very idea of home. This beach was formerly a segregated one but the gulf it is located on was a major waterway for the importation of slaves into the deep south before and after the slave trade was outlawed. It obviously persisted in the grandmother's mind, because forty years later she staged the photo of her granddaughter, standing on that beach with hands on hips as she had once stood. The poem had a majority of end-stopped lines.
In both free verse and gorgeous formal poetry, these poems tell the stories of working-class African American people, focusing on men and women in the South in the twentieth century. Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, the daughter of parents whose mixed-race marriage was illegal in the state at the time. Indeed more recently, with the 21st century social disaster in the post-Katrina gulf coast, the persistence of inequality has led to the decimation of de facto segregated Black neighborhoods along this same coast. She was also the first laureate to take up residence in , when she did so in January 2013. By the 1860s, an estimated 10,000 African Americans in Louisiana had gained their freedom. She moved with him, attended and graduated high school plus college and began writing.
Natasha Trethewey She was an English Professor at Emory University in Atlanta. I am alone except for my grandmother, other side of the camera, telling me how to pose. We tell the story every year. Enlightenment In the portrait of Jefferson that hangs at Monticello, he is rendered two-toned: his forehead white with illumination — a lit bulb — the rest of his face in shadow, darkened as if the artist meant to contrast his bright knowledge, its dark subtext. So what does this history lesson teach us? The sun cuts the rippling Gulf in flashes with each tidal rush. History Lesson I am four in this photograph, standing on a wide strip of Mississippi beach, my hands on the flowered hips of a bright bikini.
In addition to regular Aspen Words participants and members, Winter Words attendees included a large group of local poets, as well as teachers and students. In the moment of the poetic narration, Trethewey is remaking her grandmother by highlighting her agency as teacher, recorder, and maker of history. When the regular Confederate army forces abandoned New Orleans, the Native Guards remained behind. This is an extreme example of the everyday violence worked on Black people, and especially poor Black people in a government that refuses to be accountable for us again and again. Then we darkened our rooms, lit the hurricane lamps. The makes frequent appearances in her work. My toes dig in, curl around wet sand.


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Homoeopathy is a branch of medical Therapeutics based on the principle 'LIKE CURES LIKE'.namely that a substance,which in a certain forms and doses causes symptoms, may also be used cure illness showing similar symptoms.
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The Bachelor Alum Vienna Girardi Opens Up About Losing Twin Daughters
On Thursday’s episode of The Doctors, former reality star Vienna Girardi opened up about losing her twin daughters in August, less than a week after sharing that they were girls with friends and family.
“I found out about six months ago that I was pregnant — I couldn’t wait to be a mom. At 8 weeks I got another surprise — that I was having twins,” Girardi, 31, said, before adding that along with that happy news, she was also told that “there is a rare condition that they can get in the uterus called twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome,” which is when one twin takes more nutrients than the other.
But despite the warning, Girardi said that “every ultrasound came out pretty good.”
“I was going into my 5th month and we thought we were in the clear. I started getting my nursery together and I had a gender reveal party and I picked out their names. Then a week later I was sitting on my couch and my water broke,” she continued. “I immediately called 911 and I remembered just crying saying, ‘I know my babies can’t survive at 18 weeks.’ ”
Although the doctors suggested inducing labor, Girardi refused because she “wanted to try and save them,” but “after a few days I went into septic shock [and] I couldn’t feel them anymore.”
And after getting an ultrasound, Girardi learned their hearts were no longer beating.
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“Two weeks after I made the announcement of my gender reveal, I had to then announce I had lost the babies,” Girardi continued.
“On Aug 3rd, I went in for an ultra sound bc the Perinatologist notice one of my twins had more fluids than the other which was the first sign of TTTS (Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome) this is when one twin takes more nutrients than the other,” she wrote. “They said that it did look like it had improved over the last week though.”
“Unfortunately, that was not the case and that evening my water broke due to the amniotic sacs rupturing,” continued Girardi at the time. “I spent the next 2 days in the hospital trying everything to save them.”
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And according to a statement from her rep at the time, Girardi herself nearly lost her life too.
“On the second day in the hospital, she went into septic shock with a fever of 104 degrees,” he said. “She was rushed into the OR and spent four days in the ICU. She almost died.”
“The doctors did everything they could to save the babies and said there was a 5 percent chance they would survive,” her rep continued. “Her little twins’ hearts stopped beating and joined the angels in heaven on Aug. 5. Vienna has a long and arduous journey to recovery, yet she is strong and knows her children are at rest in heaven.”
Speaking about the possibility of losing her daughter on the same day as her granddaughters, Girardi’s mother tells The Doctors, “It was very heartbreaking … [it] was the worst experience.”
“For the most part, I try my hardest not to think about it, but every day I get in the elevator and there’s a lady in my building who’s pregnant and I stare at her belly the entire elevator ride up. Every time I hold my goddaughter or hold my niece, I don’t wanna let them go,” Girardi added. “I’m trying so hard to move past it, but it just seems impossible to stop thinking about it.”
“The scariest part is after you have a miscarriage, you start thinking, ‘Am I never gonna be able to have kids again?’ ” Girardi continued, adding that before she went into surgery, she’d been told by doctors she might not be able to conceive in the future.
But there is a silver lining: Girardi reveals on the show that her doctors told her that she would be able to get pregnant again.
As soon as she woke up from surgery, Girardi says one of the first things she remembered was asking her mom, “Am I gonna be able to get pregnant again?”
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“And she looked at me and said, ‘Yes,’ ” Girardi continues. “She said, ‘The doctors say everything went smoothly and you will be able to get pregnant.’ ”
Shortly before the episode aired, Girardi shared an Instagram collage from the taping and wrote, “I appreciate all your support and all the prayers over the few months #twinangelbabies”


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The quad rear camera setup has been given in Redmi Note 10 Pro Max, which is equipped with a 108 megapixel Samsung HM2 primary sensor. The phone also has 5-megapixel super macro, 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle and 2-megapixel depth sensor. The handset has a 16-megapixel front sensor for selfie and video calling. To give power to the phone, a 5020mAh battery is provided, which supports 33W fast charging. For connectivity, features like 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS / A-GPS, Infrared (IR), USB Type-C and 3.5mm headphone jack have been provided in the phone.


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Sierra de Bahoruco (principally Parque Nacional Sierra de Bahoruco and Miguel Domingo Fuertes National Monument) and Sierra Septentrional (principally Reserva Cientifica Loma Quita Espuela)
Since 2015 ABC and its partners have reforested 20 hectares with native species in and around the Loma Quita Espuela Scientific Reserve with local farmers in the buffer zones of the nature reserves. ABC has supported the improved protection of the 9,247 ha Loma Quita Espuela Scientific Reserve.
Along with partners, ABC has restored 12.6 hectares through native plant propagation and reforestation within Parque Nacional Sierra de Bahoruco. We have also supported the Ministry of the Environment to improve the protection of this national park (50,817 ha) and the Loma Charco Azul Biological Reserve (17419ha) which ABC helped create in 2010.
American Bird Conservancy (ABC) works with Dominican NGO partners SOH Conservacion (SOH) and Fundacion Loma Quita Espuela (FLQE) and other partners to conserve, protect and restore important bird habitat in public and private nature reserves in the Dominican Republic. All projects include habitat protection, capacity building for forest protection, some aspect of restoration and community outreach and education. Nearly 90% of entire population of the endangered Bicknell’s Thrush migrate during the winter to the island of Hispaniola, mostly to the DR. The Septentrional mountains of the DR, have been identified by scientists as a critical area for Bicknell’s Thrush and, in particular, females of the species. In these region, the partners are working to promote native species reforestation and cacao production to restore degraded habitat and reduce threats to the multiple protected areas of the region.
The Cordillera Septentrional along the north coast of the Dominican Republic is one of the most important overwintering areas for the Bicknell’s Thrush, a species that has been petitioned for Endangered Species status in the United States. Data collected by Vermont Center for Ecostudies has shown that female Bicknell’s Thrush occur at relatively high densities within the Septentrional Mountain Range. Within the Septentrional Range one of the most important areas for Bicknell’s Thrush is the Loma Quita Espuela Scientific Reserve (LQESR). The 9,247 acre reserve has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International for its importance to Bicknell’s Thrush and other Neotropical Migrants. The montante broadleaf rainforests of LQESR are highly threated from subsistence agriculture and small-scale logging, cattle ranching and expanding human settlements. Immediate actions are necessary to protect the threatened resources of LQESR and protect key wintering grounds for the Bicknell’s Thrush.
Fundacion Loma Quita Espuela (FLQE) is a Dominican organization that has the co-management responsibilities for LQESR in association with the Ministry of the Environment of the Dominican Republic. Within the Septentrional region there is a goal of increasing forest cover by 12%. To do this, it will require continued protection and restoration of forest cover within the Loma Quita Espuela Reserve, and continued acquisition protection or restoration of other lands within the Septentrional mountain range. Activities outside of the LQESR are conducted to advance restoration in the buffer zone with partners Consorsio Ambiental Dominicano and Reserva Zorzal Reserve.
These partnerships result in ecological restoration via native plant propagation and reforestation efforts within the protected area and outside. The work is built upon a framework that supports communities and individuals to manage their natural resources more sustainably, in order to generate benefits for the climate, their livelihoods, wildlife and watersheds.
Additionally, local cacao producers are incentivized to plant woody species in pastures and restore forests via cash payments from international chocolate companies seeking to offset their carbon footprints and acquire cacao at a premium price from farms demonstrating good environmental stewardship. Monitoring is conducted and while no official certification is provided, the chocolate companies market locally-sourced cacao as being “bird friendly”. Expanded cacao production is possible in the region provided additional investment availability.
Sierra de Bahoruco:
Within the Sierra de Bahoruco there are three important protected areas: Parque Nacional Sierra de Bahoruco, Reserva Biologica Loma Charco Azul and Monumento Nacional Domingo Miguel Fuerte which individually protect important and diverse habitats but collectively represent one of the largest protected landscapes in the Caribbean region, and provide critical habitat for the Bicknell’s Thrush.
The American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and Dominican partner SOH Conservation, (SOH) have worked successfully in these areas to advance site protection, endangered species monitoring, park guard training, community education and engagement, and habitat restoration. This partnership and the collaboration with the Dominican Ministry of the Environment has significantly advanced the habitat protection agenda in this landscape where there are significant threats and the issues are complicated. The presence of the border with Haiti creates threats unique to this location along with a history of violence, smuggling, corruption, poverty, lack of access to education and resources and inconsistent policies, leads to a weakened system of protection for the natural resources of Sierra de Bahoruco. However, the significant resources and effort invested in conservation work in the region by ABC and SOH have changed the way the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (MARENA) conducts their park protection operations and the local communities and agricultural producers are now engaged and aware of conservation needs and benefits in ways they have never been before. We are working with the local tourism cluster to promote the region for ecotourism to bring additional employment and economic opportunities to a region not visited by the thousands of sun and surf tourists that visit the DR. Without our collective intervention it is highly likely that instead of seeing additional protections, improved management and the initiation of forest restoration activities there would be more loss of habitat for migratory birds (particularly the Bicknell’s Thrush) at an accelerated and unacceptable rate.
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ABC works most directly with Sociedad Ornitológica Hispaniola, now SOH Conservation, (SOH) and Fundacion Loma Quita Espuela (FLQE). We also collaborate and coordinates with the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (MARENA), Cluster Turisitco de Barahona, Consorcio Ambiental Domnicano, La Reserva Privada El Zorzal, Grupo Jaragua, Zorzal Chocolate, Vermont Center for Ecostudies and the US Fish and Wildlife Service

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CIA Director Gina Haspel is expected to brief a small group of lawmakers Tuesday on the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Haspel will brief the chairmen and ranking Democrats of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Senate Armed Services Committee and the State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, according to a senator who will be attending the meeting.
The meeting will take place at 11 a.m. ET in the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility in the basement of the Capitol Visitors Center, the senator told CNN.
Haspel may be able to provide details about a tape that contains audio of Khashoggi’s murder


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It diverts hurricanes away from northeast Florida. The Gulf Stream may possibly keep the oil spill away from northeast Florida’s shoreline, as well as southeast Georgia.
A computer simulation of the “likely dispersal pathway” of the oil (produced by the National Center for Atmospheric Research –NCAR, WATCH THE VIDEO) is encouraging for this neck of the woods. It appears Amelia Island and neighboring gem, Cumberland Island, Georgia, may escape this environmental disaster. But only time will tell for sure.
Cumberland Island, across the Cumberland Sound from Fernandina Beach, Florida, is a national treasure, America’s largest wilderness island — a priceless a National Seashore.
One thing is for sure, though. We all wish we never heard the words “loop current,” “tar balls,” and “dispersants.”
If you’d like to know the likelihood as a percentage, of oil impacting certain coastal cities, you’ll be interested in taking a look at Accuweather’s probabilities data.
PROBABILITY OF OIL REACHING SPECIFIC COASTAL LOCATIONS, INCLUDING THE U.S. EASTERN SEABOARD
Accuweather has produced an oil impact probability chart for coastal cities (June 8, 2010), published by Accuweather staff writer Carly Porter. The Jacksonville, Florida area has the lowest probability of oil impacting its coast of all Florida cities on the chart: zero chance within a week, zero chance within a month, 1% chance over the next 60 days, 2% chance over the next 90 days, and 3% chance over the next 120 days (see link to probability chart at end of article). Note that Montauk, Long Island in New York, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Atlantic City, New Jersey all have a 1% probability of coastal oil impact over the next 120 days, according to Accuweather’s data.
WATCH COMPUTER SIMULATION VIDEO BELOW (By National Center for Atmospheric Research)
The oil is expected to take the path of the Gulf Stream which runs along the Florida east coast but at varying distances from the shoreline, running along the edge of the continental shelf. One might think of the Gulf Stream as a “Guardian Angel” of Amelia Island when hurricanes approach. Once the storms hit the Gulf Stream, hurricanes tend to then follow the strong current and shift northeasterly away from Amelia Island. The Gulf Stream is around 60 miles off Amelia Island’s eastern shoreline — northeast Florida is the farthest distance between the coast and the strong current of any region along the entire eastern coast of Florida. This northeast Florida area around Jacksonville has only experienced one named hurricane in the last 100 years, a Category 2, Dora that passed by in 1964.
Of course, it’s still very early in this oil spill event (even though we approach the two-month mark of the disaster in the Gulf). There are changing weather factors such as wind direction, that can alter the path of the weathered oil. (The Accuweather website suggests that if oil enters the Gulf Stream it would be “mostly in the form of tar balls” but it should move “swiftly up the Atlantic Seaboard”.) Changing weather patterns can alter the oil’s path, not unlike the “cone of uncertainty,” we hear about when it comes to forecasting the path of a hurricane. It’s not an exact science. And nobody knows how the chemical dispersants used will impact fishing, sea creatures, and wildlife. The Florida Department of Agriculture has a website with updates on the Florida seafood industry, and a hotline has been set up (800) 357-4273 due to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
But for local folks here in the Amelia Island area and the thousands who love to vacation here at Amelia Island’s beach cottages, hotels, oceanfront condos and luxury golf resorts, there’s good news in the computer simulation and probability chart. Not to be looking at this through rose-colored glasses, but the coast is clear for now, and it possibly may stay that way here in northeast Florida. Let’s hope for the best, but be prepared to deal with whatever comes our way, if it does.
Main Beach Park, Fernandina Beach on Amelia Island, Florida
I spent an afternoon enjoying the beach in Fernandina yesterday. Blue skies dotted with clouds, warm ocean waters around 80 degrees. Soaking in the sunshine, the salt air, sand between my toes — everything that makes Amelia Island’s shoreline a wonderful, welcoming haven for relaxation. This time, though, with a renewed appreciation of its natural beauty.
Amelia Island is a cool place to be, literally, being the most northerly location on Florida’s east coast. As far as Florida goes, average summer temps on this northeast barrier island are the coolest in the state of Florida, thanks to the island’s cooling sea breezes. (Even just driving off the barrier island onto the adjacent mainland a few miles, you’ll see digital car thermometers jump up 5 degrees in no time during the hot summer months.)
Amelia Island, Florida View Looking Across Cumberland Sound To Cumberland Island, Georgia
Although we are seeing the images on TV, it’s still hard to believe that on the opposite coast in the north Florida panhandle, Floridians have been dealing with tar balls washing ashore. But that pales in comparison to the nightmare Louisiana folks are dealing with (and will be for a long, long time), especially when it comes to the highly sensitive marshland areas. And the spill continues to spew thousands of barrels a day from the merky ocean floor in the Gulf of Mexico.
Reportedly, Amelia Island and other areas of northeast Florida are getting additional vacation bookings from travelers who are switching coasts. It appears hotel rooms are being booked by folks that normally don’t come to northeast Florida. One has to empathize with fellow Floridians in the tourism and fishing industries on the Gulf side of the state, and with folks in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, closest to the source and bearing the brunt of the disaster, currently. They have very personal losses in the place they call home — their beaches, marshes, their way of life and economies. It’s so very sad for these folks especially, but the U.S.A. as a whole.
NOAA issues daily updates of Deepwater Horizon oil spill trajectory forecast maps looking out 24 to 72 hours. See the latest 3-day oil impact map which shows if oil is anticipated to impact any coastal areas. Lately, a ” large clockwise eddy has pinched off the main Loop Current (LC),” according to the NOAA website which appears to be positive news currently for the U.S. Atlantic coastal area, for keeping the spill away.
The animation above shows one scenario of how oil released at the location of the Deepwater Horizon disaster on April 20 in the Gulf of Mexico may move in the upper 65 feet of the ocean. This animation was produced by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and collaborators. This is not a forecast, but illustrates a likely dispersal pathway of the oil for roughly four months following the spill (i.e. April 20 through August 20, 2010). See additional oil spill animations.
With a background in publishing, financial services, and real estate, Wendy is Amelia Island Living & Travel's digital content editor (including photography and social media channels). A nature lover, birding and biking enthusiast, she has lived on Amelia Island 20 years (a transplant from NY). eMail: contact@AmeliaIslandLiving.com. 904-206-7280.


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American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is making waves in the regulatory department, scoring two major wins this week. As part of its overseas expansion campaign, Coinbase has broken ground in Singapore by receiving a key regulatory license. Furthermore, Google have announced their plans to accept bitcoin and crypto transactions in a new partnership with Coinbase.
Coinbase on the way to widespread digital access
As announced on Coinbase‘s platform on Tuesday 11th, Google Cloud has formed a strategic partnership with the American crypto exchange Coinbase Commerce. Furthermore, the partnership inadvertently includes Coinbase Cloud Node and Coinbase Prime. The deal will set the stage for further Web 3.0 development, ahead of the next generation of the internet’s debut. Furthermore, the collaboration falls in line with both companies’ vision for Web3, predicting widespread incorporation of Web 3.0.
The partnership will enable Google Cloud to allow crypto payments for its services from selected Web 3.0 customers. The Coinbase Commerce platform will be supporting these transactions, allowing merchants access to tool integral to crypto based services. Through Coinbase Cloud’s Node, Web3 developers will access blockchain data on the cloud. In the meantime, Coinbase Prime will be handling institutional crypto services, like secure custody and reporting for investors and corporate. Ultimately, this cooperation between Coinbase and Google Cloud will provide advanced exchanged and data services, built on Google’s word-class infrastructure.
“We were impressed by [Google’s] commitment to security and compliance, their history of supporting open source projects, and the robustness of their compute platform,” wrote Surojit Chatterjee, Chief Product Officer at Coinbase.
Onwards to global outreach: acquisition Singapore In-Principle Approval (IPA)
A day prior to the massive announcement of the Google Cloud partnership (Monday, 10th), Coinbase had disclosed similar good news.
Singapore have attributed Coinbase with an IPA as a Major Payments Institution licences holder. The IPA came at the hands of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), enabling Coinbase to offer regulated Digital Payment Token products and services in Singapore.
Singapore’s status as a hub for innovation and forward-thinking makes it the ideal locale as base of operations for Coinbase. In fact, Coinbase Ventures has already invested in more than 15 Singapore-based Web 3.0 start-ups over the last three years. Furthermore, Singapore is in many ways a global hub for multiple banks, asset managers and hedge funds, including Coinbase’s own APAC institutional business.
“At Coinbase, we see thoughtful and practical regulation as a key ingredient for growth,” wrote Vice President Nana Murugesan. “Singapore plays a critical regulatory and commercial role in APAC and beyond and serves as our global talent hub; we are excited to continue investing and building for the crypto economy here.”
Up Next: AIBC Malta Week 2022
After the successful completion of the AIBC Toronto, Dubai, and Balkans Summits, SiGMA Group is working diligently on this year’s edition of Malta Week. From the 14th to the 18th of November, the company’s most prominent brands will be brought together under one roof for the AIBC Europe Summit, the premier networking opportunity of the year. The Summit at MFCC Ta’Qali is a stellar expression of European innovation in the Gaming, Esports and Emerging Tech sectors, featuring numerous panels and conferences by leading experts. Interested in joining our long list of speakers, exhibitors, or sponsors? Please contact Sophie to reserve your spot or visit our website for more information.


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WASHINGTON — A congressional effort to put regulators under the microscope when they write new rules for Wall Street is gaining momentum, potentially creating new obstacles to the closer oversight of financial risk taking.
A bipartisan group of senators is working on a package of regulatory reform bills that most likely would include a measure to subject the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other independent agencies to a heightened cost-benefit analysis and review process for major rules, according to people briefed on the plans.
Supporters say the legislation would bring rule-making standards for independent regulators closer in line with those for executive branch agencies, providing more consistency and transparency in the rule-making process.
But critics, including top Democrats, warn that the legislation is instead intended to create additional burdens and delays, as well as make agency rules more vulnerable to legal challenges.
“Reform is badly needed, but this package heads in the wrong direction, giving lobbyists and lawyers more chances to block outcomes they don’t like,” Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, said in a statement. “Reform should focus on a level playing field for working families and small businesses, not more ways to tilt the game for the rich and powerful.”
Over the last three years, there have been previous efforts in Congress to give the president additional authority in the rule-making process, although those bills eventually stalled. Critics contend that the efforts are intended to neuter rule-making under the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul.
The latest effort began in October, when lawmakers on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved a bill by Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio; Susan Collins, Republican of Maine; and Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia. On Friday, the homeland security panel released a report that detailed suggestions on how to improve rule-making from businesses, trade associations and consumer advocates, among others.
Senators including Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, chairman of the panel; James Lankford, Republican of Oklahoma; Roy Blunt, Republican of Missouri; Heidi Heitkamp, Democrat of North Dakota; Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia; and Angus King, an independent from Maine who often caucuses with Democrats, are also said to be part of the discussions for changing the rule-writing process.
The group would need at least two more Democrats supporting the legislation to avoid having the package blocked on the Senate floor. That would be an uphill battle in a politically charged election year, but it’s a very real concern for those worried about the impact of such changes.
Lawmakers could introduce the regulatory package in the coming weeks.
Supporters stressed that the legislation would simply clarify that a president is permitted to impose stronger requirements on the independent regulators, including additional cost-benefit analysis, not that an administration would be required to do so. As instructed, agencies would need to systematically estimate both the potential costs and benefits of a proposed rule, including those impacts that might be indirect or hard to quantify.
Many regulators already take these steps on their own or under other mandates, but that analysis could be reviewed by the White House or another body if the current bill goes through. Regulators might also need to assess whether an existing rule created or contributed to the problem being addressed as well identify alternatives to direct regulation, among other steps.
Lawmakers may be discussing at least one major change. A new branch of the Congressional Budget Office would be responsible for reviewing, at the president’s request, a cost-benefit analysis of economically significant rules, instead of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, according to a draft of the legislation.
Opponents say that change could have a chilling effect on rule-writing and serve as ammunition in any subsequent legal challenges to the rule, as the budget office review would be submitted publicly as part of the comments process.
More broadly, critics have warned that subjecting the financial agencies and others to additional review would erode regulatory independence. A group of regulators wrote a letter in July to Mr. Johnson and Mr. Carper opposing the bill, which proposed subjecting the agencies to review by the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
“Beyond injecting an administration’s influence directly into our rule-making, the bill also would interfere with our ability to promulgate rules critical to our missions in a timely manner and would likely result in unnecessary and unwarranted litigation in connection with our rules,” wrote the heads of the consumer protection bureau, the S.E.C., the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the National Credit Union Administration.
Cost-benefit analysis is fruitful territory for opponents of the Dodd-Frank law.
Industry groups often undermine or raise questions about an agency’s cost-benefit analysis in lawsuits in an effort to overturn the regulations — and they have had some success, especially in a handful of cases against the S.E.C. in the federal court of appeals in Washington over the last decade.
Several other proposals are also being considered as part of the Senate effort, including measures to establish a nine-person commission to review duplicative and outdated rules already on the books, require regulators to publish advance notices for all major rule-makings, mandate review of major guidance documents, and have regulators draft 10-year review plans for new rules as part of the proposal process.
“These bills will produce a more efficient regulatory process, and ultimately better regulations by requiring retrospective reviews, earlier notice to the public, and more rigorous analysis on the front end of the rule-making process,” Mr. Lankford said in a statement about the pending legislation.
A Republican committee staff worker on the Homeland Security Committee added that Friday’s report represents “a down payment” on legislative efforts. Other lawmakers said to be involved declined to comment or did not respond to requests for comment.
House Republicans have been active on regulatory reform issues this term as well, approving several related cost-benefit analysis and rule reduction bills with support from a small number of Democrats. But getting such legislation signed into law may still prove a challenge.
President Obama has threatened to veto the earlier House efforts, though he did signal general interest in the topic during his State of the Union address on Jan. 12 when he called for cutting outdated rules and “red tape.” The comment won a standing ovation from Congress.
“It was a bipartisan applause line, but the devil is in the details,” said Edward Mills, a policy analyst at FBR Capital Markets.


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The Division 2 is releasing on October 19th, 2018. This upcoming pack will include Capitol Defender Pack, Tommy the Teddy Bear ULC, Elite Agent Pack, and Battleworn Secret Service. These packs will allow you to upgrade your character and add to your weapon collection. You’ll also get a map of Washington D.C. and a book of lithographs. If you’re interested in a more comprehensive package, read on to learn more about all of the content included in the Elite Agent Pack.
Warlords of New York expansion
Warlords of New York is an expansion pack for Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 which adds a huge open world to the action game. In the expansion, players will be on the hunt for Aaron Keener, a former Division Agent who has taken control of New York. In this pack, players will have to find and eliminate each of his Rogue Agents to save the city. Each Rogue Agent has its own back story and unique skill.
The Warlords of New York expansion for The Division 2 is the latest massive expansion for the game. It brings more game content to the game, including new levels and weapons for Agents. You can play solo or as a team, and you will also be able to fight alongside other players online. This expansion also grants you Level 30 boosts. Warlords of New York is an excellent expansion for players who want to level up their characters.
The Warlords of New York is an expansion for The Division 2 that adds significant end-game content, an unlimited scaling system, and an open-world area in New York. There are several new weapons and gear that you can collect as you level, and the game also has a level cap of 40. The expansion will also boost players up to Level 30 and offer them exclusive drops.
The Elite Agent Pack adds to the game’s arsenal. You get an Exotic AK-47 assault rifle, a new skill effect, and additional stash space. Additionally, you get three additional digital packs with this pack. You can also get the Year One Pass if you own the Elite Agent Pack or the Battleworn Secret Service Pack. You can also get an Ubicollectibles figurine and Book of Lithographs. The game also comes with the Washington, DC map, and alternate Key Art.
Ruthless assault rifle
The Ruthless assault rifle in Division 2 is a basic, yet effective weapon. This pre-order bonus comes with a 5% chance of dealing more damage than explosives. It has a 30-round magazine, and a slot for an Optics Rail mod. It’s a good choice for those who want a versatile weapon that does decent damage. However, the high recoil of the Ruthless will put off some players.
The Division 2 Elite Agent Pack features a legendary AK-47 and additional loot storage. Additionally, it offers a special skill effect and an exclusive weapon skin. It is not compatible with all platforms, and players will need to use the Ruthless on a map with high-level enemies. If you’re planning to purchase the Ruthless, be sure to read this article for more details. It is a valuable weapon and worth every penny.
Using this weapon is a great choice for your primary. It offers 300 damage and 260RPM. Its Binary Trigger perk allows you to fire twice with each shot, transforming your rifle into a two-burst assault rifle. Brutality is another perk that increases explosive damage when a Ruthless is holstered. If you don’t want to spend the extra money on this weapon, you can opt to buy it in the Jefferson Trade Centre or the Cleaner cache.
If you’re looking for a new weapon, don’t pass up the chance to obtain the Ruthless in the Elite Agent Pack. This weapon is a beast. It deals 2.1k damage and has a 70RPM. Besides, it also has Lullaby Perk, which gives armor boost when hitting melee. You can also get the Evasive perk, which reloads one shell after you dodge. It is not available for everyone yet, so you’ll need to pre-order the Capitol Defender Pack to get it.
Additional stash space
The Division 2 has 50 stashed items in the game’s beginning, but it’s possible to unlock more during the campaign and endgame. The Elite Agent Pack is a mysterious bonus that is not yet included in the game’s store descriptions. It can be purchased to unlock additional stash space early. Here’s what you need to know about the Elite Agent Pack. Purchasing the pack will unlock 50 extra slots during your campaign and endgame playthrough.
A special agent pack offers additional storage for loot and weapons. This can increase your inventory space from 30 slots to 90. These additional slots can be purchased through perks. The Inventory 3 perk increases the amount of storage space to 90 slots. You’ll need to buy the pack before you can unlock the perks, but you can use the extra space to purchase new gear and weapons. Additionally, it unlocks the Capitol Defender Outfit and the Exotic Shotgun.
The first problem with the stash space in The Division was its small size. After a while, the space was no longer enough to hold all the loot you collected. To combat this, the developers of The Division increased the size of the stash to 150 slots. This is a welcome change, but it’s not a perfect solution. The game’s developers are working on a solution for this issue, so we’ll have to wait and see what Massive has to say.
The Division 2 is available for pre-order now. The game’s website lists various editions and the bonuses included in each one. The Ultimate Edition has additional digital content, a Year 1 Pass, and three days of early access. In addition, it has the Elite Agent Pack, which gives players an exotic assault rifle with a special skill effect and additional stash space. The Battleworn Secret Service and First Responder Packs also offer extra stash space.
Pre-ordering Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 will give you three days of early access to the game, a weapon skin, and an elite agent pack. All three of these packs offer great value for your money. Buying one will grant you access to all four expansion packs and the Elite Agent Pack has an exclusive skill effect and extra stash space. It’s well worth it to purchase The Division 2 Elite Agent Pack if you are looking for additional stash space.
The Elite Agent Pack also includes the ExoticAK-47 Assault Rifle, a unique skill effect, and additional stash space. All of this will help you get more loot for your agents. However, the game also features a few other new additions. Additional stash space is one of the most important aspects of The Division 2.Other Posts

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Spot gold has gained 11 per cent since June 27 when it was at $US1200.65. At 0758 AEST bullion was up US cents 65 to $US1333.95, according to Bloomberg data, up from $US1333.30 Friday. The share prices of gold miners have shown even greater gains.
The stock of Newcrest, Australia’s biggest gold miner, has risen 33 per cent since June 25, when it was at levels not seen since 2003, at $9.06 according to Bloomberg. Medusa Mining has gained 53 per cent since a June 25 share price of $1.265. Resolute Mining is up 47 per cent since July 9, when its share price was 52.5 cents. Perseus Mining has added 34 per cent since June 28.
It’s not hard to see why gold has not lost its allure. Earlier this month the International Monetary Fund said it expects the world economy to grow more slowly that it previously forecast. The IMF now thinks global growth will be 3.1 per cent this year. Moreover, the IMF notes, financial market volatility has increased, especially in May and June. That may be good news for traders but not for those who wish to pin their flags with some degree of certainty to an asset they think may be able to weather such financial storms.
Enter gold. Damien Boey, Credit Suisse’s Australian strategist, says bullion continues to keep its shine because investor sentiment remains extremely nervous. There is no evidence, based on their own subjective experience, to believe government pronouncements the economy is getting better, says Boey. Every week there seems to be news of job losses, including at gold miners.
Last week Newmont, the world’s second-biggest gold miner, said it will get rid of about 80 jobs from a workforce of 1,870 at its Boddington mine in Western Australia. The Colorado company reported a second-quarter loss after taking a $US1.77 billion writedown on the value of its two Australian mines and stockpiles. Gold miners have announced at least $US15 billion in writedowns in the past two months, according to Bloomberg. Newmont wants to reduce its workforce by a third. Investor sentiment and gold company sentiment on bullion could not be further apart.

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Fascinating. Exciting. The reconstruction of the history of life on Earth represents one of the most intriguing issues of science. And even more intriguing is trying to understand the (very) first molecular steps leading to the primordial cells and their early evolution. The extant cells are quite complex entities constituted from a myriad of different molecules that, however, have to act and interact in a concerted manner in order to assure the survival and reproduction of cells (and multicellular organisms). In each moment of cell life, billions of molecules are transformed into different ones through reactions that are accelerated (catalyzed) by the so-called enzymes, most of which are represented by proteins. Even though these proteins might interact with a plethora of different molecules during their chaotic trip within the cell, they bind only to specific molecules representing their substrate, and transform it into another and different molecules called product (of the reaction). Overall, this is not true for all enzymes; each enzyme interacts with one substrate giving rise to a specific product. Hence, in each moment of cell life billions of substrates are transformed into billions of products by billions of enzyme molecules. These reactions are extremely fast, and we can imagine the cell as a viscous environment where these reactions occur in an ordered (and only apparently chaotic) fashion. The whole body of these reactions is called metabolism, a circular “entity” in the sense that molecules can be destroyed (catabolism) to obtain energy and “bricks” that are required to construct other different molecules (anabolism) (Fig. 1). It is thus clear that within a cell an “equilibrium” between catabolic and anabolic reactions exists. Thus, metabolism of the extant cells is quite complex, but we can also consider it extremely ordered. Figure 2 charts an example of catabolic (the degradation of glucose during glycolysis) and anabolic (the biosynthesis of the amino acid histidine) systems. As we can see from Fig. 2, both glycolysis and histidine biosynthesis proceed through a sort of “cascade” of reactions where the destruction of glucose and the construction of histidine requires the sequential action of different enzymes, each of which is able to catalyze a single step of this cascade. The set of reactions starting from the substrate and leading to the final product of the reaction is called the metabolic pathway. In most cases, each step of a metabolic pathway is catalyzed by a single enzyme, which (in a third of the cases) is a single protein that is encoded by a single gene (Holliday et al. 2011).
If we assume that the extant and very complex cells originated from much simpler ancestral cells, it is also plausible to imagine that the latter had a simpler metabolism in respect to the extant one. This, in turn, implies that they should possess much simpler genomes, constituted very likely by a few hundreds of genes. If this is so, the question is: why and how did primordial cells assemble and evolve their metabolic pathways? The question can be rephrased as follows: why and how did the early cells increase the number of their genes and the complexity of their genomes? The answer(s) that we can try to give to these questions clearly depend on the conditions of primitive Earth and what primordial living beings looked like. However, this is one of the foggiest issues; in fact, although considerable efforts have been made to understand the emergence of the first living beings, we still do not know when and how life originated (Peretò et al. 1998). Still, it is commonly assumed that early organisms arose and inhabited aquatic environments (oceans, rivers, ponds, etc.) rich in organic compounds spontaneously formed in the prebiotic world. This heterotrophic origin of life is generally assumed and is frequently referred to as the Oparin–Haldane theory (Oparin 1924; Lazcano and Miller 1996). If this idea is correct, life evolved from a primordial soup containing different organic molecules (many of which are used by extant life forms). This soup of nutrient compounds was available to the early heterotrophic organisms, so they had to do a minimum of biosynthesis. An experimental support to this proposal was obtained in 1953 when Miller (1953) and Urey showed that amino acids and other organic molecules are formed under atmospheric conditions thought to be representative of those on the early Earth. The first living systems probably did stem directly from the primordial soup and evolved relatively fast up to a common ancestor, usually referred to as Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA), an entity representing the divergence starting-point of all the extant life forms on Earth (Fig. 3). If we assume that life arose in a prebiotic soup containing most, if not all, of the necessary small molecules, then a large potential availability of nutrients on the primitive Earth can be surmised, providing both the growth and energy supply for a large number of ancestral organisms. We can imagine the existence of an “early floating living world” constituted of primordial cells that might have looked like “soap bubbles” embedding one or more informational molecules and performing a limited number of metabolic reactions. These bubbles were able to divide, to interact with each other, and to fuse and share their genomes and metabolic abilities, giving rise to progressively complex living beings. If this scenario is correct, that is that primordial organisms were heterotrophic and had no need for developing new and improved metabolic abilities since most of the required nutrients were available, we can go back to the two questions that can be addressed, that is, why and how did primordial cells expand their metabolic abilities and genomes?
The answer to the first question is rather intuitive. Indeed, the increasing number of early cells thriving on primordial soup would have led to the depletion of essential nutrients, imposing a progressively stronger selective pressure that, in turn, favored (in a Darwinian sense) those microorganisms that had become capable of synthesizing those molecules whose concentration was decreasing in the primordial soup. Hence, the origin and the evolution of basic metabolic pathways represented a crucial step in molecular and cellular evolution since it rendered the primordial cells less dependent on exogenous sources of nutrients (Fig. 4).
But how did the expansion of genomes occur? The following section will focus on the molecular mechanisms that guided this transition, i.e., the expansion and the refinement of ancestral metabolic routes, leading to the structure of the extant metabolic pathways.

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Lausanne metro: diagram, photo, description
Lausanne metro map
The Lausanne Metro is the only such type of public transport in Switzerland. Its first stage was commissioned in 1991. The Lausanne metro has only two lines - M1 and M2. The first is a light metro line, and the second is an automated transport system of the VAL type.
The total length of routes in the Lausanne metro is 13.7 kilometers, and 29 stations serve passengers. Lausanne metro - the smallest city in the world with a full-fledged metro - annually carries at least 40 million passengers, being the only representative of this type of transport in the country..
The open first line M1 is marked in blue on public transport schemes. It resembles a high-speed tram that traverses its route through city streets and is not completely segregated from other modes of transport in Lausanne. The Blue Line starts in the city center and connects the old quarters with the suburb of Renan, where many of Lausanne's educational institutions are located. Only a small part of the route of the M1 train goes underground, and only three stations on this route are underground. Most of the tracks are laid on the surface of the earth, and the train overcomes the completely "blue" line in 20 minutes.
Lausanne's second metro line was inaugurated in 2008. Marked in lilac on schematic maps, the M2 was built on the basis of a cogwheel railway that was closed in 2002. Some of the paths of the "lilac" line coincide with the former route of the cogwheel, the rest has been rebuilt. Most of the M2 runs underground, and because of the too steep slope of the terrain, rubber trains are used on this line. The most hub station on the route is Flon. On it you can change to the "blue" line M1 and to the suburban railway. Trains cover six kilometers of M2 in 18 minutes.
Lausanne metro opening hours
Lausanne Metro opens at 6.30 am and runs until midnight. Train intervals are 10-15 minutes on weekdays and about 20 minutes on weekends.
Photos of Lausanne metro
Lausanne metro map

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Liberal insanity has been increasing at an exponential rate.
Here’s the latest bit of insanity – Christians being told to pray in silence…. so they don’t offend Muslims…. while they’re in a church. Does anyone seriously think Muslims would ever be asked to do anything to accommodate Christians in any situation, ever?
YesImRight reported on one of this year’s craziest stories yet:


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Los Angeles topographic map
LA topographic map. Los Angeles topographic map (California - USA) to print. Los Angeles topographic map (California - USA) to download. The huge, sprawling, and tortuously shaped city of Los Angeles topographic map occupies a sizable portion of the southern part of the county. The topographic map of Los Angeles has a varied topography, climbing from sea level at the beach community of Venice to Mount Lukens, which rises above 5,100 feet (1,550 metres). The city sprawls across a broad coastal plain situated between mountains and the Pacific Ocean; the much larger Los Angeles county, which encompasses the city, contains some 90 other incorporated cities, including Beverly Hills, Pasadena, and Long Beach.
Los Angeles county is a vast and varied geographic entity. Los Angeles topographic map includes a group of inland valleys, a coastal plain separated by low mountains that are interspersed with steep passes, an arc of still higher mountains, and a long seacoast. Nearly half of the topographic Los Angeles is taken up by mountain chains—most of them running east-west—that have a dynamic history of earthquakes, firestorms, and mud slides.
Los Angeles topographic map sits within the Transverse Ranges—mountains that stretch across Santa Barbara at their northern point and San Diego County in the south. Most of California mountains run north to south, congruent with the coastline, but these ranges run east to west with a lush pocket of land nestled in between in Los Angeles topographic map. The chaparral region of Los Angeles that spans within the mountain ranges is marked with woodland, shrubbery, Mediterranean forests, rolling hills and miles of tillable farmland.


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received a letter from a lawyer advising him that he had infringed the copyright of the lawyer's client by using the phrase "Feel the fear and do it anyway" in a post on his website. It turns out that the phrase is also the title of a book written by the lawyer's client. ... According to Babauta, the lawyers "asked me to insert the ® symbol after the phrase, in my post, and add this sentence: 'This is the registered trademark of Susan Jeffers, Ph.D. and is used with her permission.'"Babauta's having none of it, but this little episode did get me to thinking. As someone who is involved in Oklahoma's vast right-wing conspiracy, and as someone who is disturbed by the practice of government officials and left-wing activists taking your money and then using it to lobby for more of your money, there's a phrase I've used for years which I think I should trademark: Vast Left-Wing Kleptocracy.
If someone coined the phrase first I'm not aware of it, but I'm sure I'll be hearing from their lawyer soon enough.


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I've written posts about the Moms Who Care (MWC) program at my high school,
but it is such a great program I want to mention it again.
I'm hoping there are some Moms out there who are looking for a volunteer program
to start that can make a HUGE difference for the children in their community!
The only requirements are a couple of Moms Who Care &
a school willing to let you volunteer with students at the school!
- to help students achieve success by meeting essential needs such as: clothing, hygiene products, school supplies, and after school snacks.
They also help with proper interview clothes and required job attire and have coordinated
with a local hair stylist to provide free haircuts for students in need.
As a school nurse, I have seen first hand many students come to the office with a variety of different physical complaints (headaches, stomach aches, general ‘not feeling well’).
It becomes concerning when I'm not able to come up with a reason for the complaints-
especially if the complaints are happening on a regular and sometimes daily basis.
Once I decided to focus on the whole student, it became easier to find that the physical complaints were many times related to the student not being prepared for class. Maybe they didn’t have the proper shoes for PE, didn’t have the right type of calculator for math, or didn’t have shampoo or soap for a shower, etc.
This is where I started to understand the positive impact our MWC program could make with many of our "frequent flyer" students....
Our typical MWC shopper qualifies for the free/reduced meal program and is between the ages of 14-18; some live on their own and/or might even be homeless. Other scenarios include families who are in a financial transition period (parents divorcing, parent unemployed, etc).
The MWC program is an extension to the services available through the nurse's office; a way to treat and support the student as a whole person. The mission of Moms Who Care is to help students achieve success by meeting essential needs such as: clothing, hygiene products, school supplies, and after school snacks; but they do so much more too!
By meeting these basic needs, students are
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With a road victory finally under their belts the Fire don't have much time to celebrate ending the record-setting winless streak away from home. Veljko Paunovic looked ahead to a match against the Los Angeles Galaxy on Wednesday, took stock of the Montreal game, and addressed the status of David Arshakyan during his weekly media conference call.
Arshakyan and David Accam have been called in by their respective national teams for upcoming games. Armenia has a friendly against Czech Republic on 8/31 and a World Cup Qualifier against Denmark on 9/4. Ghana plays Rwanda in an Africa Cup of Nations Qualifier on 9/1. Both are expected to miss the Fire's home match against the Union on 9/3.
Collin Fernandez was also called in by Peru's U20 side.
Here are the call highlights:
Paunovic on ending the streak and a possible turning point in the season
"I would like to explain that the feeling we have is not a sensation of relief. It's more something that we've been doing this year. It's a feeling of achievement and achieving something that was our goal. It was to win on the road. As I said before, and I'm going to stay with the same mindset, we can only get better. We are working hard to achieve our goals and it's a process. Part of the process was winning on the road. We are not looking back. We are just looking forward and we want to take advantage of this momentum. I think this is what we are looking for and working hard for it during the whole season. We want to use this as a catalyst and an important boost for us, so our guys now work harder and they are motivated like we all are from the staff and the club. I think this is fantastic momentum that we have at this point. Right away we have the best possible moment in the next game. Three days from today and only two days left to prepare for the (LA) game but that's great, actually. When you win, you want to play the next game and the next game you want to win. You want to prepare well. As I said, the locker room is very motivated and I want to to take advantage of this situation and reinforce everything that we've been doing so far and reinforce the hard work. Keep pounding the rock because we still haven't done anything yet. In order to do that, we've got take advantage of this momentum and this game with our fans, (which) we believe is going to be great. We are playing against one of the best teams in the league. When it was Sporting Kansas City, the Red Bulls, and other teams who are doing very good, we always did very good against those teams. What I see is a lot of positive things and a lot of positive situations where we can continue performing well and save the season."
On the prospect of a full strength LA line-up on Wednesday
"Our approach is always that we prepare one game at a time. We don't know about them. We always prepare with our best guys. We will see the adjustments they do but we will have to wait until before the game starts for the line-up. We will prepare for the best team that we will have in front. It doesn't matter because we know that they have a lot of good players and it's going to be tough. For us, every game is a final. We approach every game the same. We will do all necessary adjustments that we have to do in order to prepare well and win the game."
On Arshakyan's visa status
"We are also very excited. After the game, I got a message from David. He was very excited too that we won and the good performance that we had in the game. He was a little bit impatient to come but unfortunately we have to wait for him. He's still in the process of getting his visa so he can come and join us here. We don't have any updates on that. It's something that we don't control and we can't do anything about it except provide all necessary support and documents and whatever it takes to speed up the process. Hopefully we can have him this week. We'll see if that happens."
On call-ups for Accam and Arshakyan
"I believe it's going to be only the game against Philly. Of course, we have to see how they return from the national teams. Which is for us, great. Being in the situation we are and the season where we are standing right now, but it's a positive thing to have guys who are called to the national team. It means that they are doing good. It means that they are quality players because we all know how important it is playing for the national teams. In my experience, every time I played for the national team and the youth national teams and later coming back, it was a great experience first. It was a great environment. Coming back from those games always made me be a better player and a better person. That's what we also expect of the kind of experience they will have there. Performance for sure, and it will help overall for every side. In this case for the club, for the players, and for the national teams."
On the build-up leading to the win in Montreal
"Absolutely not surprised. We always do our best to prepare and play in the best possible way. We also know that in the last (few) games, we were getting better. We were getting closer. In some games we weren't on that level but most of our games on the road, we've played well. It was only the posture that we were missing and in this game we finally found it. We found it with guys who were really, really not only motivated but motivation and commitment, everything was there. Finally we found guys who grow up and (have) grown as a team and as teammates who were there to play the game complete. We (had) no other speculation but (to) win the game."
On team injuries
"Eric (Gehrig) and Nick (LaBrocca) were back today but partially back with the team. They did one part on the field but the other part they missed because they are still in the process of treatment and recovery. We'll see how they recover and how they do tomorrow (and) if they are available for the game on Wednesday. We will see for this Saturday."
On whether or not the team is turning the corner
"I see a great opportunity. The game against the LA Galaxy is going to be a confirmation or we will have to adjust again. I think it's a great momentum, and a great part of the season and we will have to take advantage of this chapter that is the game against Montreal. We have to understand that we have to give all. No stipulations. Just play and give everything we can in order to win the game on Wednesday against LA. It's going to be very tough. We have to understand that there's always an opponent in front of us who also wants to win. We always believe that they have the same desire as us so that means that we have to put more. We will do everything in our control to prepare for the game and when the game comes to (give) the best possible performance to win the game. I do see a great opportunity that we have now so that we turn the season in the direction that we all desire. There's still time."
On the play of Polster and Cocis v Montreal
"I believe that they had a very good game. They helped the team to win in the same (way) as the other guys did. At this point where we are, and I've said this before, we are a team that needs everyone to play his role and he has to play his role the best he can. In this case, I think both played the best they can. They were able to add the extra things that were important for the team in order to win. Like Razvan winning all the aerials duels against big guys like Camara and Drogba and then Polster even scoring goals, not only working hard in the midfield and helping Johan (Kappelhof) to play 2v1 against Piatti and Razvan on the other side helping Brandon Vincent to do the same. It's doing well in your job, your role and then putting more. Putting extra work and putting extra quality to your game in order to help the team to win. I wouldn't separate anyone from that approach and that attitude in the last game. I think everyone had a great game. We preach that we want our guys to do their job well, to give their best and then give that extra work to his teammates in support in order play well as a team."
On LA's similarity to Montreal
"The similarity would be for sure in the attitude and approach we had to win the game against Montreal. That's going to be similar. We could play again the same game against Montreal but it would be impossible to repeat. What I'm trying to say is that every game is different. Even if you're playing the same line-up. Even if you're playing against the same team. Everything is different. Even if there are similarities in their style in having experienced and quality guys in their team, it's going to be different. It's going to be for sure different and I think our situation changed but our mindset and approach will be the same."

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Top forecasters split on direction of euroPUBLISHED: 10 Jan 2012 00:02:01 | UPDATED: 10 Jan 2012 02:56:07PUBLISHED: 10 Jan 2012 PRINT EDITION: 10 Jan 2012
The most accurate foreign-exchange forecasters say the euro will depreciate against the dollar for a third straight year, equalling its longest slump since its creation in 1999, as Europe slips into recession.
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The disappointment is imminent! In recent months, noise-blasted underground rap provocateur JPEGMAFIA has been hyping up his next album by emphasizing how disappointing it will be. He told me as much in an interview, and he’s continued to say so in various promo bits. Well, prepare to be underwhelmed because the album now has a release date, a title, and a star-studded trailer.
The new LP, Peggy’s first since 2018 breakout Veteran, will be called All My Heroes Are Cornballs. It’s out 9/13. Presumably it features recent single “Jesus Forgive Me, I Am A Thot.” And as Fader points out, the album now has a trailer featuring cameos by a wide range of his musical peers talking about how much they hated it.
Among those expressing their disappointment are James Blake, Flume, Kenny Beats, Injury Reserve, DJ Dahi, Channel Tres, Buzzy Lee’s Sasha Spielberg, and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, who was spotted with Peggy about a month ago. Parker Corey from Injury Reserve notably dubs the album “Kamala Harris rap,” while Tweedy calls it “a shallow attempt to draw attention away from his hairline.”
Hopefully this means all those people are on the album! Watch the trailer below.
All My Heroes Are Cornballs is out 9/13.


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NFL Draft season is upon us, so the mock drafts are coming out hot and heavy. The latest mock draft comes to us from ESPN guru Todd McShay, who has blessed us with his third rendition of the crapshoot.
As appears to be the trending thought, McShay has the Arizona Cardinals going with the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback in the top spot.
The 2019 NFL Draft will take place between April 25 and April 27 in Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville earned the honor of hosting the 84th annual player selection over cities Denver, Kansas City, Las Vegas, and Cleveland/Canton.
McShay’s top two picks can be seen below, and you can view the entire mock draft by clicking here.
Todd McShay NFL Mock Draft – 3.0
- Arizona Cardinals – Kyler Murray, QB, Oklahoma
We can’t deny the rumblings here, and we know new coach Kliff Kingsbury recruited Murray in college. I’m not all-in on Arizona taking him just yet, though — the Cards could be trying generate trade interest among the QB-needy teams. Still, the just-tall-enough Murray is a perfect fit to help Kingsbury transition the Air Raid offense to the NFL, and this pick makes sense from a scheme standpoint with all Murray’s athleticism. Now, what could the Cardinals get for Josh Rosen?
2. San Francisco 49ers – Nick Bosa, DE, Ohio State
The Niners will be hunting for pass-rushers this offseason, and getting the best overall player in the class at No. 2 would be a fantastic start. Bosa has length, speed and power from the edge, and it’s fathomable that the Buckeye paces San Francisco’s defensive line in sacks as a rookie. He’s that good.


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Offseason Preview: Pacific Division
Over the last several days, I have been going division-by-division through the league and laying out what decisions need to be made and what’s at stake for each NBA team this offseason. We’ve already completed the Eastern Conference, running through the Atlantic Division, the Central, and the Southeast. Today we move on to the West. We’ll start with the Pacific, then finish up with the Northwest and Southwest.
Without further ado…
Golden State Warriors
Key Potential FA: Draymond Green (PO), Donte DiVincenzo
Big Decisions: Draymond’s contract, Preparing for Klay Thompson’s next contract, Figuring out how to navigate the new CBA
I think we should start with the Chris Paul trade, because I don’t quite understand how there are people who don’t understand it.
Chris Paul is, like, a lot better than Jordan Poole. Like, a lot a lot. Especially on defense, even in his age-diminished state. He is far more likely to lead a competent second-unit offense, far less likely to make mistakes on the court, and far more reliable in the playoffs. (He is probably equally likely to drive his teammates nuts, albeit for much different reasons.)
Yes, he is 38 years old. No, he is not nearly what he once was. Yes, he costs more than Poole this coming season ($30.8 million vs. $28.7 million) and brings with him the accordant luxury tax cost. But the Warriors don’t need him to be what he once was, and his contract is also fully non-guaranteed beyond this year, meaning they can either a) cut ties with Paul and thus save the entirety of Poole’s $99.3 million in salary over the final three years of his deal (plus accordant luxury tax costs) for the cost of just a top-20 protected pick in 2027; b) guarantee somewhere between some and all of his salary in order to include him in a trade next offseason; c) or keep him for one more year at a price that is actually less than what Poole would have cost in 2024-25 ($30 million vs. $30.9 million). That seems like a win to me.
Trading Poole also seems like a precursor to bringing Draymond back, which is imperative if the Warriors want to remain contenders. The Kings opening up a bunch of cap space is a theoretical threat to Golden State’s ability to retain him, but not much more than that. It’s not at all realistic that the Blazers will sign him for the mid-level exception, despite Dame’s wishes. Dallas can only make him a credible offer if Kyrie Irving leaves. Houston makes no sense. The Warriors are the most logical home for him, and they need him, so they will almost surely get it done.
Re-signing Draymond, re-attaching him to Steph in the rotation, and having CP3 and Klay play with the second unit is probably Golden State’s best bet at making those minutes a non-disaster in several years. Will it actually work? Maybe! (Probably not. Teams just tend to struggle badly whenever their supernova star is not on the floor. Unless there is another supernova star on the team. And that’s not the case here.)
Golden State is probably going to be the team most tested by the new CBA, especially if it both re-signs Green and signs Klay to an extension. But the organization probably owes it to Steph to do just that, because there’s no realistic path to title contention that involves letting either or both of them walk out the door.


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The New Music USA Online Library is a vast and comprehensive digital database that contains over 57,000 works
by more than 6,000 composers, and includes over 14,000 media samples (recordings and scores).
The Online Library was created by the American Music Center, and, after many evolutions, continues today under the guidance of New Music USA.
Artist Spotlight: Spring Wind Quintet
The Spring Wind Quintet, recognized as one of the country's leading woodwind quintets, has been a major force in the development of chamber music in Hawaii. Many new works have been composed and arranged especially for the Spring Wind Quintet. The group has an extensive and varied repertoire earning several national grants and offers educational programs for all ages.
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Please note: New Music USA does not maintain a physical collection of any kind. Any printed scores or manuscripts held by the American Music Center are now part of a special collection
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IGOs • NGOs • WILL 2006
Though not strictly an "inter-governmental organisation," the EU is addressing what it sees as the positive linkages between environmental policy and employment policy. It website on Environment and Employment states:
"Environment policies contribute to job creation and social inclusion in the EU. Studies show that environmental policy is not a job-killer but instead has neutral or even mildly positive impact on the number of people in work...There is also a clear link between social inclusion and the quality of the environment... In short: environment policies can contribute to employment objectives and vice versa, in line with the concept of sustainable development."
On the links between employment policies and environment policies (2005)
Press note related to the above paper (2005)
The effects of environmental policy on European business and its competitiveness (2004)

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