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👋 Good Thursday morning!
In today’s Daily Kickoff, we report on an upcoming international law conference that plans to honor Navi Pillay, the head of the U.N.’s Commission of Inquiry into Israel, and interview Michal Cotler-Wunsh, Israel’s incoming special envoy for combating antisemitism. Also in today’s Daily Kickoff: Marty Baron, Jake Cohen and Mike Pompeo.
Former President Donald Trump wasn’t at the Reagan Presidential Library for the second GOP presidential primary debate last night, but the lack of a standout performance by his rivals will help cement his substantial advantage for the nomination, Jewish Insider Editor-in-Chief Josh Kraushaar writes from Simi Valley, Calif.
In a sign of confidence of his dominant political standing with Republicans, Trump called on the Republican National Committee to stop holding presidential debates — and prepare for a general election where he’s the GOP nominee against President Joe Biden.
Only two of the seven Republicans on stage — former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — even criticized the front-running former president on stage. Christie made a point of going after Trump aggressively, even tagging the former president as “Donald Duck” for ducking debates. DeSantis merely tweaked the former president’s record on spending and called him out for urging pragmatism on abortion.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley, after a standout first debate, was the most aggressive candidate on stage, going after several of her leading rivals — DeSantis (over energy policy in Florida), Vivek Ramaswamy (over TikTok), and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott (over his spending record and, yes, curtains). She didn’t clearly win any of these exchanges like she did with Ramaswamy over foreign policy at the first debate in Milwaukee.
And Haley’s leading rivals in the race had respectable performances themselves. DeSantis clearly laid out his conservative governing record in Florida in a way that would appeal to MAGA allies and traditional Republicans alike. Scott had a more engaged performance than in the first debate, including offering a Reaganesque paean to American exceptionalism.
If Haley looked like a clear, more-electable alternative to Trump at the first debate, the field of Trump challengers looked a lot more muddled after Simi Valley.
Trump’s appearance in Michigan at a non-unionized auto parts supplier showcasing solidarity with blue-collar workers only underscores that he’s already thinking about a general election, and is looking past the primary.
Time is running out for Trump’s rivals: We’re just about four months away from the Iowa caucuses, without many opportunities left to change the trajectory of the nomination fight.
In Israel today, the country’s High Court of Justice is holding a hearing on the “Incapacitation Law,” which specifies that a prime minister can be only declared incapacitated — and therefore removed from office — for reasons of physical or mental health. In addition, the decision would be ratified by a special majority of the Knesset, JI’s Lahav Harkov reports.
Israeli law has been clear for the past two decades that a prime minister may remain in office while there are criminal proceedings against him or her, and Knesset transcripts from the time show lawmakers specifically did not want to give one person, the attorney general, the power to depose a prime minister. Still, this law was meant to head off proposals to declare Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “legally incapacitated” because of his ongoing trials. Petitions to the High Court argued that laws should not be passed to benefit a specific person and should only take effect after the next election, rather than immediately.
This is another case in which the courtis considering whether to review a Basic Law, which is meant to be a building block of an eventual Israeli constitution. Supporters of the government’s judicial reform plans and the High Court’s conservative judges argue that the court does not have the authority to strike down the laws that it treats like a constitution, while liberal judges and opponents of judicial reform say that when Basic Laws are legislated capriciously, they do not deserve special treatment.
Like in the recent High Court hearing about the “reasonableness standard” amendment to a Basic Law, this has the potential to turn into a constitutional crisis. Netanyahu has been noncommittal as to whether his government would heed a court that overturns a Basic Law. In addition, if the court overturns this law, Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara — who was appointed by the previous government and often clashes with the current one — could see that as a signal to declare Netanyahu “legally incapacitated.”
Anti-Israel U.N. official to be feted at law conference sponsored by Morningstar law firm
The law firm commissioned by Morningstar amid controversy over the financial services firm’s sale of products found to have an anti-Israel bias is co-sponsoring an upcoming conference at which controversial former U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay will be honored, Jewish Insider’s Melissa Weiss reports.
Background: Pillay, who heads the open-ended Commission of Inquiry targeting Israel, which has been condemned by members of the international body over its anti-Israel bias, will receive the “Outstanding Achievement Award” at the International Law Association’s International Law Weekend, slated for Oct. 20-21 in New York City. The executive chair of the International Law Association, Christine Chinkin, was one of the authors of the 2009 Goldstone report on the 2008-2009 conflict between Israel and Hamas, which was denounced by Jewish groups as containing antisemitic blood libel.
On the Case: White & Case is one of several co-sponsors of the conference, alongside Debevoise & Plimpton and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. White & Case came under fire for its sponsorship of last year’s conference, held in Chicago, which included a panel titled “Racism and the Crime of Apartheid in International Law” and featured Omar Shakir, an activist and Human Rights Watch staffer who was expelled from Israel in 2019 over his support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Morningstar retained White & Case to produce a report on the company’s ratings system, which White & Case found to have no systemic anti-Israel bias but fixable cases of potential bias. Critics of the report said that the sourcing for Morningstar’s ratings constituted systemic bias.
COI concerns: American legislators have sought to shut down the Commission of Inquiry launched after the 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza in May 2021, but have so far failed to move forward on a bill introduced in the current and previous sessions of Congress that would designate U.S. policy to “seek the abolition” of the commission. Last December, dozens of lawmakers called on U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield to cut off funding to the COI. Pillay has rejected criticism of the COI, and defended a committee member accused of antisemitism after he referred in an interview to a “Jewish lobby” and questioned whether Israel should be a member of the United Nations.
Israel’s new antisemitism envoy primed for battle in ‘ongoing war’
When Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen announced earlier this month that Michal Cotler-Wunsh would be Israel’s special envoy for combating antisemitism, there was an outpouring of support and well-wishing, but Cotler-Wunsh said her appointment has a big downside. “People are congratulating me and I want to cry,” Cotler-Wunsh told Jewish Insider’s Lahav Harkov during an interview in Jerusalem this week. “It’s 2023 and countries need to appoint special envoys for combating antisemitism… It’s not something we should be celebrating. It’s a testament to the rise and mainstreaming of antisemitism.”
Together and apart: The special envoys in the U.S., Canada, U.K., European Union, Germany and many South American states work together as a coalition, while they each “have a responsibility to make a difference both domestically, advising their own governments…using the [International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s] working definition of antisemitism, and in the international arena, transcending borders of religions, nations and political partisanship,” Cotler-Wunsh said.
Background: Cotler-Wunsh is a lawyer and conflict-resolution expert who spent many hours of her childhood in the hallways of the Knesset where her mother worked for Menachem Begin’s Likud party, before they moved to Canada when her mother married human rights attorney and eventual Justice Minister of Canada Irwin Cotler. She was a member of Knesset for the Blue and White party in 2020-2021, where she co-founded the Interparliamentary Task Force to Combat Online Antisemitism, and has dedicated herself to that mission ever since. While in the U.S. State Department, the special envoy role is a Senate-confirmed, ambassador-level position, Cotler-Wunsh is serving Israel on a volunteer basis — as did her predecessor, actress and producer Noa Tishby.
on the hill
Congress examines paths for ending Palestinian Authority’s ‘pay for slay’
A House subcommittee considered proposals on Wednesday to address and end the Palestinian Authority’s payments to the families of terrorists, known as the “pay to slay” program, Jewish Insider’s Marc Rod reports. Among a panel of three expert witnesses before the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia subcommittee, a proposal to implement a more broad needs-based social welfare program to replace the terror payments appeared to have consensus support.
The proposal: “Israelis and others who are very familiar with this dynamic, they suggest the implementation of a social security program that would begin to provide a safety net for all destitute Palestinian people who are in need, and cut [pay to slay] entirely,” Jonathan Schanzer, the senior vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said. “You could have people who are in jail, or the families of those who are in jail, receiving the same amounts as any other family in the West Bank. That would, I think, be an equalizer, if you will.”
Calling out: Lawmakers and some members of the panel accused the administration of looking for ways to circumvent the Taylor Force Act, including in ongoing talks with Saudi Arabia. The administration has reportedly pushed Saudi Arabia to resume payments to the PA as part of those talks. “They’ve actually been encouraging other countries to raise payments to the PA. It’s absurd,” Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) said. “This is just another example of the Biden administration neglecting the Taylor Force Act, and instead choosing to bolster the credibility of the antisemitic anti-Israel and pro-terror PA.”
Over in the Senate: As JI scooped on Tuesday, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) was formally announced as the new chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday. Also, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said that he expects the departure of Sen. Bob Menendez’s (D-NJ) from his role will allow the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey to proceed. Menendez, who pleaded not guilty yesterday in a Manhattan federal court to the bribery charges against him, is set to address Senate Democrats today, and his fate in the caucus and access to classified information beyond that remain uncertain.
House boosts proposed NSGP allocation by an additional $20 million
The House moved on Wednesday to add an additional $20 million to its proposal for 2024 funding for nonprofit security grants, bringing its total proposed allocation to $335 million, $30 million above current levels, Jewish Insider’s Marc Rod reports. The House approved by a voice vote an amendment boosting funding for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program introduced by Reps. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) and Michael McCaul (R-TX) as part of a larger bipartisan en bloc package of amendments to the 2024 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations.
‘Duty to protect’: “Everyone deserves to feel safe in their place of worship. But there is a clear gap in need and what funds exist for this essential program,” Pascrell said in a statement. “The United States Congress has a duty to protect these nonprofit organizations and I will continue fighting for increased federal funds that help keep our neighbors safe.”
Community response: The House vote was met with praise from Jewish community advocates, who’ve been urging lawmakers to increase funding for the program despite overall budget cuts across many areas of the federal government. “We appreciate that the House put down a strong marker that NSGP should be increased — and certainly not cut as the currently pending Senate bill would do,” Nathan Diament, the executive director of the Orthodox Union Advocacy Center, told JI. “As everyone knows, the appropriations process is still a long and winding road. But this is a very helpful step along the way.”
Today on Capitol Hill: Reps. Kathy Manning (D-NC) and Chris Smith (R-NJ) and other members of the House antisemitism task force are set to meet with Catherine Lhamon, the assistant secretary for civil rights at Department of Education, to discuss implementation of the administration’s antisemitism strategy. The lawmakers are expected to hold meetings with other administration officials about the strategy going forward.
U.S. groups laud Israel’s entry into the Visa Waiver Program, say it heralds deeper ties
Israeli citizens looking to visit the U.S. for family weddings and bar mitzvahs, for vacations or for short-term programs would first have to face a lengthy and costly visa process, and still face the possibility of rejection. But no more. On Wednesday, Israel became the 41st country to enter the coveted U.S. Visa Waiver Program, joining nations like the United Kingdom, Japan and Germany, eJewishPhilanthropy’s Haley Cohen reports.
In two months: By the end of November, Israelis will be able to travel to the U.S. for fewer than three months without a visa. Dozens of American Jewish groups and leaders hailed Israel’s entry into the program and said the move would benefit both countries, though some organizations and politicians also expressed concern about the implementation, saying Israel is discriminating against different groups of Americans traveling to the country.
CoP reaction: The leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations — the umbrella group’s chair, Harriet Schleifer, and its CEO, William Daroff — commended the decision in a statement on Wednesday, calling the move, which they said will “bring tangible benefits to both American and Israeli citizens,” a “long overdue” step.
👨 The Making of Menendez:Politico’s Dustin Racioppi looks at Sen. Bob Menendez’s (D-NJ) political history to better understand the longtime legislator’s relations with — and popularity among — his constituents in New Jersey. “Menendez gained local clout as mayor and became a sort of folk hero at home once he moved on to the state Capitol in Trenton, where he was a representative, and then to Washington, D.C. For the last 17 years, he has served as an immensely powerful senator. He became known as an effective legislator who mastered constituent services. Even as the powerful chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — where he dealt with dictators and globally consequential matters like Iranian nuclear deals — Menendez recognized the power of local retail politics. On just one day in August, for example, he held a press conference on funding for a new hospital program, held a round table with farmers and appeared with families of drug overdose victims to push legislation to crack down on fentanyl. ‘If you ever followed Bob Menendez in any of the parades … the guy is the pope,’ said one Democratic official close to the meeting among Murphy and state leaders following the indictment. ‘People are coming up to him, taking pictures, hugging him. People just see him as what their children can become.’” [Politico]
🐘 Seeing Red: Puck’s Teddy Schleifer examines the efforts of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and his brother, Gabe, to woo conservatives. “The campaign was all part of an effort by the Bankman-Fried brothers to curry favor on the right, where they saw an opportunity to rebalance FTX’s reputation and also to make some G.O.P. friends who might be willing to fund pandemic-prevention initiatives — and also, presumably, to generate some goodwill around the cryptocurrency industry. (Before [a meeting with Sen. Mitch McConnell], according to talking points prepped for it, Sam was instructed not to bring up crypto with McConnell, a topic the 80-year-old politician couldn’t have cared less about.) Some effective altruists believed there was better R.O.I. in winning over conservatives versus winning over liberals; moreover, McConnell, a childhood survivor of polio, was seen by the effective-altruist crew as ‘empathetic’ to the pandemic-prevention cause, a source familiar told me. McConnell, in turn, pitched S.B.F. on being more of a centrist. The McConnell-S.B.F. dinner — one of at least two dinners I’m aware of, including another with McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao — is among several new details I’ve come across that reveal how much S.B.F. invested in the conservative movement, making donations that would make his progressive mother, Barbara, squirm if she knew their full extent. Sam was personally left-of-center, sure, but he cared about relevance and power and progress on his pet issues, and he knew that building an influence machine meant playing both sides of the game.” [Puck]
🇵🇸 Palestinian Prospects: Newsweek’s Tom O’Connor talks to Mideast experts about concerns over the lack of a successor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. “‘This is the worst point that I’ve seen the PA since its creation,’ Ghaith al-Omari, a former Palestinian National Authority official who previously served as an advisor to its negotiating team and is now a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, tells Newsweek. ‘We often used to talk about the PA collapse as an abstract, a distant threat,’ he adds. ‘I think this is now a much more pressing concern. In many ways, we are witnessing the unraveling of the PA.’ Should the PA collapse altogether, Omari predicts that, ‘at least for a couple generations, this will be the end of the Palestinian national movement.’ … Lacking unity, strong governance and any semblance of a path toward renewed peace talks, Palestinians find themselves at risk of ultimately losing their dream of statehood, going the route of countless other disaffected ethnic groups such as Balochis, Basques and Kurds, all of whom have failed to gain independence through decades of diplomacy and armed struggle.” [Newsweek]
🍻 Hip Hops: The Washington Post’s Tony Rehagen spotlights American beermaker Zahra Tabatabai, who opened her own brewery, which features flavors from her Iranian family’s kitchen, during the COVID-19 pandemic. “According to a recent audit by the Brewers Association, fewer than 24 percent of U.S. craft breweries are woman-owned, and only 2 percent are owned by a person of Asian ethnicity. Tabatabai is one of even fewer brewers making beer influenced by a part of the world that is not closely associated with the industry. She believes that last differentiator, her Middle Eastern spin on familiar beer styles, will be the secret to her success in a saturated marketplace — and at the same time, help her empower immigrants and women in a White-male-dominated beer world. ‘It was really important for me to share our culture and bring something new to beer,’ Tabatabai said. ‘I wanted to bring a new flavor and twist with ingredients that are popular flavor profiles in our cuisine. And I want to educate people about beer in that region.’” [WashPost]
Around the Web
🗳 Back on the Ballot: Former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, a Republican, will announce her entry into the state’s Senate race next month.
🧑🎤 Muddy Waters: A British documentary about Roger Waters released this week includes accusations from former colleagues that the former Pink Floyd frontman used disparaging language to describe Jewish people.
📖 Reporting Revelations: Former Washington Post Editor-in-Chief Marty Baron writes in his upcoming book that Jared Kushner, then a top White House staffer, had pushed Post publisher Fred Ryan to fire Baron over the newspaper’s coverage of Russian election interference, work that garnered the Post a Pulitzer Prize.
🏗 Condo Compromise: Officials in Surfside, Fla., reached a compromise over the construction of a loading dock near the site of a memorial to the 98 people who were killed in a condominium collapse in the beach town two years ago.
👋 Golden Rules: Three Golden Globes voters — including an Egyptian journalist whose writings have contained antisemitic content — were ousted for violating the company’s code of conduct.
🍲 Cohen’s Cookbook: The New York Timesinterviews cookbook author Jake Cohen about his newest book, I Could Nosh: Classic Jew-ish Recipes Revamped for Every Day.
🎭 Sondheim’s Swan Song: “Here We Are,” the final musical written by Stephen Sondheim, premieres today on Broadway amid questions over whether the manuscript had been completed before the composer and lyricist’s death in 2021.
🇵🇱 Polish Plea: Poland’s education minister is taking steps to pursue the extradition of a 98-year-old Ukrainian man who was honored by the Canadian Parliament last week, despite having been a member of a Nazi unit in WWII; Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, whose grandfather was the editor of a newspaper that printed antisemitic content during the Holocaust, said that Ottawa is going to be “very thoughtful” about reopening an investigation into Nazi war criminals in the country.
📚 Bookshelf: The New York Timesreviews German historian Volker Ullrich’s new book, Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler’s Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis, which looks at the political and economic dynamics in Germany between the two World Wars.
🇷🇺 Russian Wrath: Russia’s U.N. envoy accused the U.S. of backing Israeli-Saudi normalization that he said circumvents the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative that predicated peace between Israel and Arab states on a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
🇸🇦🇮🇱 Pompeo’s Point: Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told The Jerusalem Post that a Saudi-Israel normalization deal would be “impossible” to reach if Palestinian statehood is a prerequisite.
🪦 Ancient Tomb: Israeli archeologists discovered remains believed to be of a Greek courtesan buried near Jerusalem some 2,300 years ago.
🤝 When Shapiro Met Smotrich: Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich met with conservative media pundit Ben Shapiro in Jerusalem this week. This afternoon, Shapiro will co-host an X livestream on antisemitism alongside X owner Elon Musk and Bnai Zion CEO Ari Lamm.
🏪 Supermarket Spar: Israeli supermarket chain Shufersal pulled out of a deal with Dutch company Spar following the imposition of restrictions by the Israel Competition Authority; Spar still plans to open stores in Israel beginning in early 2024.
🚫 Sanctioned: The Treasury Department issued new sanctions on a combined seven entities and individuals in China, Iran, Turkey and the UAE for involvement in efforts to procure technology for Iran’s UAV program.
🌌 Space Success: Iran announced the successful launch into space of an imaging satellite, amid Western concerns over the role Tehran’s space program could play in its nuclear efforts.
Pic of the Day
The United Arab Emirates Embassy in Washington hosted a discussion with the trade representatives from the UAE, Israel, Bahrain and Morocco to mark the third anniversary of the signing of the Abraham Accords.
French businessman who, with his brother, own the controlling interest in the House of Chanel and several prominent vineyards, Alain Wertheimer turns 75…
International Emmy award-winning Scottish television producer, Sir Jeremy Israel Isaacs turns 91… Former governor of Vermont, the first Jewish woman elected to govern any state, she was also the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland, Madeleine May Kunin turns 90… Physician and theoretical biologist, he was a 1987 MacArthur Fellow, Stuart Kauffman turns 84… Former president of Warner Home Video, Warren Lieberfarb turns 80… Real estate agent in New York’s Hudson Valley, Jerry Weiss… Teaneck, N.J.-based real estate attorney, Gary E. Miller… U.S. senator (R-LA), Bill Cassidy turns 66… Pediatrician and author of the book Winning A Debate with An Israel Hater, Dr. Michael Harris… Bestselling author of more than 20 books and magazine journalist, Ben Greenman turns 54… Area director for San Diego and Orange counties for AIPAC, Elliott Nahmias… Winner of four Olympic gold medals for the USA in swimming in 2000 and 2004, Leonid “Lenny” Krayzelburg turns 48… News editor and correspondent at Voice of America, Michael Lipin… Israeli Ironman triathlete, Nina Pekerman turns 46… SVP at the Katz Watson Group, Lauren France… Marketing manager at the Anti-Defamation League, Samantha Collidge… Regional director for the OU’s Teach Coalition, Hadassa Levenson… Chief of staff at Tel Aviv-based iAngels, Ayelet Cohen… 2023 graduate of Yale Law School and author of a coming-of-age novel set in the Modern Orthodox community, David Hopen turns 30… Former NFL, XFL and CFL wide receiver and kick returner, Daniel Braverman turns 30… Head of strategic communications for Tel Aviv’s Number 10 Strategies and former political correspondent for The Times of Israel, Raoul Wootliff…

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Our vision: a democratic Canberra, where citizens trust their elected representatives, hold them accountable, engage in decision making and defend what sustains the public interest
We want to do more than just describe what a better democracy might look like, we want to actually make it happen in the ACT
Continuing to improve ways for citizens to participate in creating our future in Canberra and beyond
- Continue to work with the ACT government and citizen groups to get our citizen voice heard in decisions through evaluating and advocate for more mini-public trials in the ACT
- Building the resources ‘library’ for members and the public
- Working between academe and the public on bringing participatory and deliberative theory into practice
Developing further a program for building more transparent and responsive relationships with our MLAs
- Promote a Statement of Expectations for MLAs and Active Citizens that sets out what quality representation is
- Promote a conversation about MLA and citizen roles across the ACT electorates
- Run a Candidate Statements exercise for the 2020 ACT election
- Promoting our Kitchen Table Conversations (KTCs) Tool Kit for community groups
- Engage and work with community groups to enhance their campaign objectives
Sunday 30th August 2020, 2pm to 3-30pm
Mark Evans, Institute of Governance and Policy Analysis (IGPA), discussing the joint IGPA and Museum of Australian Democracy Democracy 2025 Project.
More details next week.
There are no upcoming events at this time.

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Charles Haddon Spurgeon, an English Baptist pastor and writer, stated: “Another proof of the conquest of a soul for Christ will be found in a real change of life. If the man does not live differently from what he did before, both at home and abroad, his repentance needs to be repented of and his conversion, is a fiction.”
Isaiah, the prophet, points out that God is absolutely in control of everything on earth, a fact the king of Egypt and his officials tried to underrate. They could impress upon the king that they came from a family of wise princes, but they would not be able to inform him of God’s plan against Egypt. All they did only ended up misleading the Egyptians towards the wrong direction, making them to walk like drunks.
According to Isaiah in ISAIAH 19:11-19, there was nothing anybody in Egypt could do because of God’s overwhelming power to unleash terror on the Egyptians. On the day He would act, the inhabitants of Egypt would be like weak women, trembling with fear.
“In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD” (Isaiah 19:19).
The name, Judah, would equally put great fear upon them. For this, the people of Judah would be foolish to seek any help from the Egyptians, who had already been subjected to fear at the mere mention of the name, ‘Judah.’
God is all-powerful and He has given believers a powerful weapon, that at the mention of the name of Jesus, every knee must bow and all tongues must confess that Jesus is the Lord.
As God’s genuine son or daughter, who is washed in the efficacious blood of Jesus, you need to cash in on this special privilege. It would be foolish to rely on soothsayers and necromancers, among others, for protection, prosperity, childbearing, promotion, provision and others, making the heathen to ask, “where is your God?”
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Lip service to repentance will endanger the soul.
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Guided tours, exhibitions, meetings, projections, shows to get to know the priceless heritage hidden in libraries and state archives: "paper monuments", custodians of our memory: parchments, manuscripts, documents, books but also drawings, prints, photographs...
It's Domenica di carta (Paper Sunday), the initiative promoted by Mibact and now in its ninth edition, which provides for the extraordinary opening of the State Archives and Public Libraries on October 13. A fascinating journey into the heart of the culture that has made our country great and a special occasion to visit also the palaces and buildings of valuable monumental beauty that house our archives.
In Lucca the State Archives,
to celebrate 75 years since the Liberation of the city, proposes the documentary exhibition 1944-1945. RSI e Dopoguerra a Lucca: reflections from the archives, a documentary journey through its contemporary heritage, in search of evidence on the facts and protagonists that from the beginning of the partisan movement led to the Liberation and the difficult process of purging the immediate post-war period.
Through the papers of numerous archival fonds, including those of the Prefecture, the extraordinary Court of Assizes of Lucca and Florence, and the prison of S. Giorgio, the voices and profiles of some of the main protagonists of the time emerge, together with testimonies about the facts and events of a moment of great social and institutional confusion that is also reflected in the difficult dialogue with the documentation. The exhibition also includes some relics from the funds of the National Liberation Committees, the National Fascist Party and the Provincial Purge Commission.
The headquarters of the State Archives of Lucca, occupies the sixteenth century Palazzo Guidiccioni: purchased by Duchess Maria Luisa di Borbone since 1822 to make it the seat of the State Archives, but opened to the public only in 1860 thanks to the tireless work carried out by Salvatore Bongi to transfer there and give organic arrangement to the public documentation of Lucca, which remained materially distinct between the General or State Chancellery and the Chamber of Scripture even after the first official creation of a specific State Archives decreed on August 27, 1804 to collect all the papers of the fall of the aristocratic Republic of Lucca.
Domenica di Carta is now an unmissable appointment to discover the heritage of paper, and not only, that the Archives preserve throughout the national territory, and that tells the story of each of us.
The exhibition will be open to the public on Sunday 13 October from 9:15 am to 12:30 pm.
The guided tours, free of charge and lasting about thirty minutes, will be held at 9:30, 10:30 and 11:30.
To book the guided tour you can call 0583.491465.
More information on the initiatives throughout Italy are available on the website of the Direzione Generale Archivi.

domain: history


6 growth hacking examples from the Silicon Valley (Dropbox, Airbnb, Youtube…)
As we’ve seen in our previous article, Growth hacking is a way of thinking and acting. It is a set of little techniques that may seem dumb and easy to think of, little ideas that have an exponential impact on the growth of your start-up. There are a lot of stories about successes of start-ups through growth hacking. We will try to give you leads on what has already worked for a few of some of the most well-known unicorns.
Refer a friend
Dropbox had a simple but great idea to allow its users to earn free additional space by inviting friends and make them sign up to the service. But you can’t expect the user to do that unless he’s already satisfied with your service, so timing also comes into account. It also has to be easy, if the process is too arduous, you won’t get as many referrals.
Use your enemies
Airbnb used Craiglist system to automatically post every listing an user would make on its website, to a Craiglist listing. They benefited from the popularity of Craiglist and hacked their way into being today the major platform for booking short term accommodation.
Make a video that will go viral
Dropbox, again, had the idea to take everything that worked on Youtube (Lolcats and memes), and mix them into a superb video that explained the concept and created the buzz. It helped them reach a 10% increase in conversions. The website they designed aimed for simplicity and consisted in two main components: an Explainer Video and a button to Download.
Find out what people like, and give it to them
Youtube has used a very edgy method to get more crowd, which was to pay women so that they publish striptease videos on the platform. Success followed and people started to publish their own videos and it led to the Youtube we all know today.
Use social networking services’ APIs
Spotify worked with Facebook to make its users automatically share what they were listening to on their profile. It immensely contributed to increase brand awareness.
Use people habits to your advantage
Linkedin benefited from a very simple fact, we often Google names to learn more about a person for various reasons. They thus gave their users the option to create public profiles. This resulted in the fact that when you searched a name on Google, the first link that would come up would be his Linkedin page. No more endless scrolling to investigate a person thanks to Linkedin!
We could go on and on with these examples, Buffer, Hotmail, Paypal, Quora, we can benefit from every success story out there. But one can never reproduce what they achieved first. Because part of what made their ideas successful is that no one thought about it before. Which means growth hacking is hard to reproduce and requires creativity and patience.
Stay tuned for our next article which will explore the limits of Growth hacking.
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Kolkata: NACO will next month roll out an experimental project for providing HIV-preventive medicine to sex workers in One of Asia’s largest red light districts, West Bengal’s Sonagachi. It will be the first such initiatives in across the country.
The feasibility project recently received clearance from the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) and Union Health Ministry and is likely to commence in December.
“We recently gave clearance to this project. It is a feasibility project. It is for the first time that such a project is being taken up in India,” national programme officer at NACO, BB Rewari, told to the reporters.
Under the project, ‘Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis’ (PrEP), regular medicine would be given to an HIV-negative sex worker who engages sexually with an HIV-positive person, said a senior official of an NGO working for the welfare of sex workers.
The medicine is designed to prevent sex workers from HIV infection, said Samarjit Jana principal of the NGO, Sonagachi Research and Training Institute (SRTI).
“We have already started survey of HIV-positive and HIV- negative sex workers in Sonagachi. We hope the project will start from December this year,” Mr Jana said. The project is to be financed by the Melinda Gates Foundation.


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The New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 317, Issue 21: Pages 1347-1348, 19 November 1987.
It has generally been assumed that the ability of a child to feel pain increases with age and that neonates may not perceive pain or may perceive it only minimally. Assumed by whom? Certainly not by those who have observed their increasing heart and respiratory rates and profuse sweating to heel sticks or circumcision. And finally not by those who have seen babies gasp for every breath as they die from incurable lung disease.
Why then has surgery in neonates been conducted without anesthesia? Is this barbarism, as some have suggested?1-3 Is it indifference to the plight of those too young to respond verbally, or is there another explanation? First, one must ask whether such operations are as common as has been thought. Probably not. The increased rate of anesthesia in the past few years has decreased their number dramatically. But why have needle sticks and circumcisions been routinely done without any thought of the pain incurred by the infant? More important, why are heel sticks, venipunctures, intubations, chest-tube insertions, and suctioning routinely done without much consideration of the physiologic or possible psychologic damage to the neonate?
The reason these procedures are done without anesthesia is not barbarism. One must remember that neonatalogy, and perhaps neonatal anesthesiology specifically, are relatively new fields. Many sick neonates who are surviving through intensive care and surgery today would not have lived 20 years ago. In our preoccupation with survival and improved outcome, relatively little attention was paid to pain and its control. It was not indifference or lack or concern but a lack of awareness and a fixed but unfocused outlook that led to this situation.
In this issue of the Journal, the excellent review by Anand and Hickey on the biologic aspects of pain and its effects in the human neonate and fetus helps to explain this situation.4 Among the 201 references cited, approximately 20 articles appeared in journals that neonatologists read with reasonable frequency. Most of these articles deal with plasma opioids, apnea, the use of local anesthesia in circumcisions, or the response of the infant to environmental stress. A few more of the 201 would probably have been available to anesthesiologists, particularly those who read the European literature. Unless a neonatalogist had made a concerted effort to study the topic of pain, a subject that has not until now been in the forefront of concern in neonatal care, he or she would not have had easy access to most of the information in the Anand study. Making this information accessible represents an important contribution.
Good often comes from bad. In fact, change has already begun in neonatal intensive care units. More attention is being channeled into improving the environment by decreasing the intensity of the lighting,5 lowering noise levels, using more physiologic positioning of infants, limiting painful procedures, allowing more time for uninterrupted sleep, comforting infants after painful intervention, administering fentanyl when an infant is paralized with pancuronium, and using analgesics in postoperative patients. At Children's Hospital National Medical Center in Washington, where criticism from parents helped to bring questions about pain to the fore, anesthesia is now being used in virtually all neonatal surgery.
Safe anesthetic drugs for newborns now exist. The two most commonly used are the narcotic fentanyl and lidocaine, which is locally infiltrated into the skin used as a nerve block. Fentanyl is a potent analgesic whose precise method of action is unknown. It has been shown to block nocioceptive stimuli, to maintain hemodynamic stability, and to prevent the biochemistry and endocrine stresses of surgery that may be harmful to the newborn.6-8 In dose-response studies, Yaster has shown that the effects of a 12.5 mu-g of fentanyl per kilogram of body weight given in a bolus can last for 120 minutes of surgery before supplementation is needed.9 Local infiltration of the skin or nerve block with lidocaine is effective, although intravenous injection should be avoided. There should be very little reason to perform cutdowns, chest-tube insertions, or circumcisions without using this agent.
Neonatalogists need to continue to observe infants to recognize stress responses to pain and to treat them appropriately. We also need to urge our colleagues to see that infants receive analgesia and anesthesia. We must listen to and be honest with parents who at times have overwhelming fear about the pain their infants may be feeling.
Recently, the Committee on the Fetus and Newborn, the Committee on Drugs, the Section on Anesthesiology, and the Section on Surgery of the American Academy of Pediatrics stated that local and systemic anesthetic agents are now available and relatively safe in neonates. The Anand and Hickey study marshals the empirical evidence justifying the use of these drugs. The observations cited in this review should dispel the now outmoded notion that newborns are insensitive to or immune from pain. Consequently any decision to withhold anesthetic agents ought not to be based on the infant's age or perceived degree of cortical maturity; it should be based on the same criteria used in older patients.10
There will necessarily be occasional unavoidable noxious stimuli in the neonatal intensive care unit. We must not attempt to provide such as stress-free experience in that setting that there is unchecked use of analgesia. But the evidence that nociceptive activity constitutes a physiologic stress in newborns is so overwhelming that physicians can no longer act as if infants were indifferent to pain. Neonatalogists, anesthesiologists, and surgeons must join with parents to guarantee that the best is done for newborns and to ensure that they are kept as free of pain as possible.
Children's Hospital, National Medical Center, Washington, DC 20010
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US and europe ended yesterday higher on account of Slovakia's committment to support the rescue fund while a weakening dollar drove crude and gold up on the commodity meter. EM bourses look to facilitate cross-listing and back home, Infosys kick-started a good earnings season. Whats more? Check out.
Twenty four hours after its parliament voted down a bill to expand guarantees, Europe's bailout fund, the EFSF, Slovakia's top political parties came to an agreement saying they would approve measures by the end of the week. The reason for the breakthrough was the promise of early elections.
Meanwhile, Greece's budget deficit widened 15% in the first nine months of the year. That is narrower than Athens' recently revised forecast. Nonetheless, Germany's finance minister has called for greater measures to reduce Greece's debt, including bigger participation by private investors.
Responding to the cues, the Wall Street logged gains, but ended off-highs following a report that European banks may shrink to meet higher reserve targets. European markets finished higher as Slovakia reaches a deal to strengthen the euro zone rescue fund.
There is news that US Securities and Exchange Commission is now seeking comment on implementing the so-called Volcker rule that would restrict banks from trading on their own account and also from investing in hedge funds. An action a little too late, but lets wait and watch if the move can help the economy recover there.
Asia opened trade on a positive note today with Nikkei and Kospi up a percent.
In commodities, it is a quite session for crude as the black gold holds steady at USD 111 levels while gold inches higher following the weakness in dollar to USD 1680.
Meanwhile, the euro trades near a four-week high on banks recapitalization plan and Slovakian agreement to ratify the bailout plan. It is up at 1.37 to the dollar.

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I am concerned that Australia’s lost its way with respect to Climate Change and consequently its energy policy going forward.
To understand my position it might be useful if I were to give you some of my history which will put some context about why I think the way I do.
To begin with, contrary to what some of you might think, I am not a climate change denier.
Twenty years ago I was appointed CEO of the electricity generating company, Stanwell Corporation. Even then I was concerned about climate change. Subsequently, I and my management team were able to make a case to my Board, which they accepted, that climate change would open up business opportunities in renewable energy. Whilst we focussed on renewable energy projects it also seemed clear to us that gas should also play a part in transitioning from an industry that was focussed largely on coal-fired generation. Closed Cycle Gas Turbine Technology produced considerably less carbon dioxide per MWhr of electricity generation than coal-fired plant. In support of our renewable energy ambitions we lobbied strongly for a mandated renewable energy target and were gratified when the Australian Government passed legislation to put such a scheme in place in 2001.
As well as this, I had for some time been chair of the Institute for Sustainable Regional Development. Our research showed that stream-flows of the rivers on the Eastern seaboard of Australia had been declining since the 1950’s. There was also some evidence of temperature increases.
But it was also obvious that whatever was happening climate wise, was far from a uniform effect. For example it was becoming evident that the incidence of cyclones on Australia’s East coast was reducing but there were more developing off the West coast. Southern coastal Western Australia was becoming drier resulting in authorities having to take action to secure a reliable water supply for Perth. Yet the Northern parts of Western Australia were getting wetter to such an extent forests were spreading.
Now there are two principal ways to respond to climate change.
The first is to try and contain and hopefully reverse the deleterious effects. But of course this assumes that we know the causes of global warming. Most environmentalists point to increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and relate this to Mankind’s environmental impact, principally the burning of fossil fuels. Consequently they agitate to reduce such activity.
However we know that carbon dioxide is not the only greenhouse gas. Water vapour is also a greenhouse gas, and methane and other organic gases are far more potent greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide. And even with atmospheric carbon dioxide there are large natural contributors such as emissions from volcanoes and the products from forest fires. So it would seem to me that merely curtailing man-made carbon dioxide emissions might not solve the problem.
There are many unknowns when we model the earth’s response to global warming. Among the least understood is the capacity of the oceans and indeed, our soils, to absorb carbon.
But even beyond this, most environmentalists emphasise the deleterious effects of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and few admit of its benefits. Carbon dioxide stimulates the growth of plants. Graham Lloyd, Environment Editor for The Australian tells us a recent report from NASA indicates that “between 25% and 50% of earth’s vegetated lands show significant greening across the past 27 years largely because of rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide.”
Lead author Zaichun Zhu from Peking University , says the extent of greening over that period “has the ability to fundamentally change the cycling of water and carbon in the climate system.”
(One of the benefits of such “greening” would be that biomass generation would become more viable. This would prove beneficial because such generation counts as renewable and need not be intermittent like wind and solar. And of course the cultivation of crops would become more productive.)
The other response to global warming is adaptation.
The Director of the Institute of Sustainable Regional Development, Prof Bob Miles, was to his credit, an advocate of this response. I personally believe we should be focussing more of our efforts in adaptation.
Let me take a moment to contrast these different approaches.
The response of mitigation is hugely costly. Any move to substantially reduce our carbon emissions by curtailing fossil fuel generation will result in exorbitant electricity prices. The efforts we have made so far in this direction have transformed Australia from a low cost power producer, with the benefits this provides for manufacturing and metals refining, to a high cost energy producer which precludes any reasonable prospect for the maintenance of, let alone the growth of such industries. (Instance the recent problems with Alcoa in Portland and concerns regarding Comalco in Gladstone.)
What’s more any efforts Australia makes in this regard will have minimal impact on a global response to curtailing global warming.
Adaptation is a pragmatic approach. It seems likely to be more cost-effective to learn to live with global warming than trying to reverse it, at least in the interim. Moreover it would probably buy us time to address global warming in a more informed way and encourage the development of technologies that might help in that regard (for example carbon capture and storage).
As I have written previously, it seems to me that it is very difficult to debate climate change. Those who are bent on (for the most admirable of reasons) seeking to abate climate change do so with an evangelical zeal that seems to render them deaf to other responses.
In Australia in recent years we have had the unedifying spectacle of a respected researcher, the Danish Bjorn Lomborg being hounded from our shores, because he failed to align himself with the catastrophic views of many of Australian zealous anti-climate change academics.
Lomborg, is again, not a climate change denier. But being an economist he understands that we have finite resources with which to solve the world’s problems. His research shows that in terms of its net benefit to the world, it would be better to prioritise reducing hunger and preventing disease above our response to climate change. Now if you are a well-off academic in a university, or an environmentalist sipping lattes in the trendy cafes of our suburbs, that might not be so apparent to you. But if you live in a third world country, struggling to feed your family and under the constant threat of succumbing to malaria it probably makes some sense.
Lomborg, also to the chagrin of the environmentalists, argues that a major factor impeding the development of Third World countries is energy poverty. He argues that the world’s poor need better access to cheap fuels, including fossil fuels.
So consistent with this philosophy, I believe it is prudent to respond to climate change but not in such a way as to harm the Australian economy in the process. It should also be borne in mind that whilst we have a carbon-intensive economy our net contribution to the world’s carbon dioxide emissions is miniscule. And the exploitation of our fossil fuel reserves not only stimulates our economy but assist third world countries in improving their standard of living.
Understandably with my background, which I elaborated above, I believe we also should be prudently moving towards renewable energy. But we should not be doing it at any cost. The current renewable energy targets set by Labor State Governments are unrealistic given the current state of renewable technologies. As we have already seen in South Australia they are bound to vastly increase the cost of electricity and diminish the reliability of supply to levels unacceptable to consumers. Energy intensive industries will become increasingly less economic impacting on economic growth and employment. These targets are set arbitrarily for pure ideological reasons without any thought about their practicality. As I have written previously, these governments need to seek more advice from their engineers rather than their so-called “political advisers”.
The more extreme environmentalists seem now to have set themselves a goal of “killing off” coal at any cost. As I have previously written, these people seem hell bent on preventing good outcomes because they are not perfect.
Well, in this imperfect world, coal will play a significant role in electricity generation for quite a few more decades yet. And that is not necessarily a bad thing.
If we look at electricity generation in Australia, the principal technology for base-load generation is still coal-fired technology. And it would seem likely that will continue for the immediate future even though there have been no coal-fired power stations commissioned in Australia for a considerable time.
Under normal circumstances, as electricity demand increases, as has historically been the case historically, prices in the electricity market would increase, sending price signals to augment the stock of electricity generators. In recent years, largely because of the proliferation of renewable energy generation, electricity prices have increased dramatically. Because of these large price increases consumers have sought to reduce their energy consumption which has served to reduce demand, thus delaying the need for major augmentation of generation. What’s more, governments’ intervention in support of renewable generation has distorted the price signals in favour of renewable generation thus curtailing the development of more base load generation. This has had the perverse effect of causing electricity generators extending the life of their existing coal-fired plant, whereas in the past they would have moved to replace them. The dilemma here is that new coal-fired plants are far more efficient and have significantly reduced carbon dioxide emissions than the older plant. However an investor in a new coal fired plant would need to be assured of at least thirty years of operation to recoup their investment. In the current uncertain environment nobody is prepared to commit to suc an investment.
Any move to develop new base load generation utilising gas or high efficiency coal fired technology that would displace older coal fired power stations would result in reduced carbon dioxide emissions. But the climate change warriors oppose such moves because whilst the move is beneficial to the atmosphere, it is not the perfect solution. They are determined that any new generation be sourced from renewable energy technologies that produce no emissions at all. But notwithstanding concerns about carbon dioxide emissions these fossil fuelled technologies produce far cheaper power than renewables.
So whilst I believe it is prudent to move towards more renewable technologies, if we do so at a rate that reduces our standard of living and reduces our GDP, we will have less capacity to act in the future when it is most likely more effective strategies to combat climate change will evolve.
The climate change warriors have waged a very successful propaganda campaign. They have managed to convince many that the future of fossil fuels as a primary source of energy is quite limited.
In the wealthy, developed world it is true that fossil fuels are playing a diminishing role. But as Bjorn Lomborg points out, energy poverty is a major factor curtailing the standard of living of developing countries. Whilst fossil fuels provide electricity at far more economic rates than renewable generation, these countries are bound to continue to look towards fossil fuels to help stimulate their economic development.
The environmentalists made much of China’s pledge to move towards renewable energy and often instance the huge development of renewable projects in China. Conveniently they neglect to tell us of China’s continued investment in coal-fired technologies. In 2015 China added 52,000MW of coal-fired generation to its generation fleet (which equivalent to more than 30 Hazelwood Power Stations). Our environmentalist lobby cheered when it was announced that Hazlewood Power Station would close. Hazlewood generates a mere 1600MW of electricity which is but a drop in a bucket compared with the planned extension of coal-fired generation in other countries.
India also is committed to a huge increase in coal-fired generation (despite what the environmentalist activists would have us believe with respect to Adani’s coal development plans in Queensland). The International Energy Agency predicts India’s coal-fired generation will increase by 140% by 2040.
Even Japan is planning to commission 20,000MW of new coal-fired generation projects.
As part of their propaganda campaign the environmentalists point to the decommissioning of coal-fired power plant in the USA as evidence of the diminishing role of coal. They fail to inform you that the closure of coal-fired power stations in the USA is largely due to the diminishing cost of gas as the USA has learnt to economically exploit their coal seam gas reserves. Whereas in Australia state governments have thwarted such development.
These statistics assure us that other countries are smart enough to understand if they are to keep their energy costs at affordable levels then fossil fuels have a decided part to play in the overall equation. Australia will ignore this at its own peril!
As a country with immense fossil fuels reserves it seems perverse that we should not take the middle road, using such fuels to constrain our energy costs and maintain our reliability of supply, but at the same time prudently increasing our renewable energy base.
Now if we stand back and concede global warming is a reality, and despite the uncertainties regarding a causal relationship between man-made carbon dioxide emissions and such warming, a prudent move to renewables is sensible policy. But the haste to have Australia curb our emissions at any cost is illogical. Australia contributes just over 1% of carbon dioxide emissions to the global atmosphere. With current technologies, transitioning to renewable energy is very expensive. When I first started managing power stations, Australia was the second or third cheapest producer of electric power in the world. Now we would be lucky to be in the top twenty. Now all you who decry the loss of manufacturing jobs in this country need to understand that energy costs are a major factor, along with labour productivity.
We can transition to renewable power in an economic and sustainable way if we substitute our aging coal-fired plant with high efficiency low emissions coal technologies and better use of gas.
This would mean we wouldn’t meet the extremely optimistic targets of Labor State Governments, but we could still considerably reduce our emissions whilst maintaining reasonable cost, reliable energy supplies.
Now that all Australian States and territories, with the exception of Western Australia and the Northern Territory are interconnected into a single grid, it seems logical that energy policy should be the responsibility of the Federal Government and not the plaything of the states. Then we might be spared from the gesture politics of state based renewable energy targets and propagate a truly national approach to how we might best deliver energy in a responsible way to all Australians.
(As I finished writing this essay word has come in that Malcolm Turnbull has pledged to support clean coal technology and campaign against Labor’s profligate renewables policy. This is commendable as far as it goes but I would have to say the Government doesn’t have a comprehensive energy policy. We need a planned transition to renewable energy over many decades and that trajectory includes substantial roles for gas and coal. Large power stations require a commitment to billions of dollars of investment, and in the uncertain environment created by hopelessly optimistic renewable targets by Labor and a belated and unconvincing response by the Government, it is unlikely that investors will risk their capital on such investments whose lives might well be determined by who wins the next election.)


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The new name is translated into "archipelago" in the Indonesian language.
"The move of the capital to Kalimantan is based on several considerations, regional benefits and welfare. With the vision of the birth of a new economic center of gravity in the middle of the archipelago," said Suharso Monoarfa, the country's Minister of National Development Planning, according to Indonesian Parliament TV.
President Joko Widodo first announced that the capital would be relocated in 2019, citing concerns about Jakarta's environmental and economic sustainability.
It is also one of the world's most overcrowded urban areas. It is home to more than 10 million people, with an estimated 30 million in the metropolitan area, according to the UN.
On Tuesday, the bill to relocate the capital was passed with approvals from eight factions and only one faction rejecting it, according to the chairman of Indonesia's House of Representatives Puan Maharani. Indonesia's parliament consists of nine groups of political parties known as factions.
Legislators have emphasized the importance of carefully considering the environmental impact of the new development. According to data from the State Planning and Development Agency, the total area for the new capital will be around 256,143 hectares (around 2,561 square kilometers) - almost everything converted from forest area.
Indonesia owns most of Borneo, the world's third largest island, with Malaysia and Brunei each owning parts of its northern region.
Sri Mulyani, Indonesia's finance minister, said at a news conference on Tuesday that there will be five stages of development in the new capital.
The first phase is expected to begin in 2022 and run through 2024, with development expected to last until 2045, Monoarfa said.
Earlier estimates have said the ambitious project is likely to cost around 466 trillion rupiah ($ 32 billion), CNN Indonesia reported.
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Even though they are in love, they cannot commit to a relationship because of Episode one of the Korean drama, Summer Scent, is an essential . up! even though i dont really like the ending..i still like this drama..i hope. They ended their relationship anyway. Min Woo decided to leave for Italy. Hye Won also felt guilty towards Jung Ah and Jung Jae, so she just. Summer Scent is a South Korean television series starring Song Seung- heon, Son Ye-jin, Ryu Jin, and Han Ji-hye. It aired on KBS2 from July 7 to September 9, on Mondays and Tuesdays at for 20 episodes. The series is the third installment of season-themed tetralogy Endless Love drama series directed 1 Synopsis; 2 Cast; 3 Filming locations; 4 Soundtrack; 5.
However, like how most Korean dramas go, their meeting was not immediate, but rather coincidental in the mountains three years later. What made this story complicated was the fact that Hye Won, who used to be a sickly child with a heart problem, had a heart transplant with, gasp!
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The complications do not end here. The story also threads on a sideline, where the lovers find it tough to maintain their love since Hye Won was already attached to Park Jung Jae played by actor Ryu Jina charismatic eligible bachelor.
What stands out in this show also is the beautiful scenery and lovely soundtrack. Besides Serenade, the soundtrack also boasts a couple of great songs that went well along with the scenes in the show.
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As for the performance of the supporting cast, Ryu Jin put up a good performance. Portraying a composed, sensitive new age guy, he has clearly done a good rendition of what is required of his role. Han Ji-hye was impressive in her debut performance too. She is natural in her acting.
Perhaps this could be the reason as to the success of her latest comedy-drama, Narang 18 Seh. Summer Scent is a good drama to watch. I watched this drama without knowing the main leads at first.
I was simply moving along with the story. It is very slow. If this drama is shown now, a lot of peeps will runaway from it. An episode is made mostly with fillers but it managed to keep the audience wanting for more because of the cliffhangers. The story shows snippets within the episode that clues you in on the big picture at the end. It has enough drama to keep you at the edge of your seat.
They are a K-drama classic pairing.
Song Seung Heon is very ideal in this drama. He exudes charm brought about by his chemistry with Son Ye Jin. I like their combination. Or I have to blame the theme. It gets tougher in the middle towards the end. I can accept that she is in love with Min Woo.
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But there are limits to loving a person and showing it. Jung Ah went overboard. Time really has a way of changing people. Reflections and Drama Highlights: What if the right one came along yet you already belong to someone else?
Add to that are problems of the heart, both figuratively and literally speaking. First love is really valuable in Korean dramas. It is a love that once found, you nurture it, you protect it, you make it last. It is true that first love is hard to forget, but we should also know when to let love go.
Summer Scent is vague about this since they put weight on first love. But its a good thing that the drama showed the heart can move on and love again.
Hae Won reminded Min Woo so much of his first love. I think the resemblance attracted him towards her. As the drama unfold, they get to know each other better and their love became real. They have the same situation, actually.
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He provides warmth and incredible amount of comfort that is hard to resist. However his relationship with Hae Won lacks in so many aspects. This became more obvious when Min Woo entered the picture.
If you are in a long relationship, it can stagnate if you are complacent. Hae Won and Jung Jae are in a relationship for the sake of it and sadly they became more distant together.
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The foundation might be right but they went on going the wrong path. Love became selfish, rude and a burden. But in the process she eventually allowed herself to fall more in love with him. Despite of having a boyfriend, she still looks for Min Woo and prefers to be with him. Her feelings are not stable and its obvious her love for Jung Jae wavered.


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Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller received a temporary restraining order against a contracting company and its owners on Friday that prevents them from doing business in the state until they pay the company's back taxes.
R&S Contracting, Inc., which is owned by Ryan Pickett and Matthew Reynolds, owes more than $18,000 in back taxes, according to the Indiana Department of Revenue.
The contractor allegedly submitted tax forms from September 2012 to August 2014, but didn’t send in the withholding taxes the company owed. It also allegedly didn’t send in the state sales tax collected from December 2012 to July 2013.
The Department of Revenue has issued 26 tax warrants to the contracting company, but has yet to receive payment.
“We support small business, entrepreneurship and private enterprise, but when a company fails to pay the tax it owes, it undercuts the competition on price and is unfair to law-abiding businesspeople who pay their taxes,” Zoeller said. “All previous efforts to get this company to fulfill its basic obligation failed, and the Department of Revenue felt it had no alternative but to take the company to court.”
The company has a court date on Feb.2, during which time the owners can explain its case or face a permanent ban.

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Initially, this story of why Black Lightning emerges comes off as cliched in the sense that it is no different from others told: when white politicians and white heroes overlook the needs of an under-served community, a black hero emerges to save it. A plot twist in the story, fortunately, reveals the true nature of all the chaos in the neighborhood, bringing a supernatural element into the picture and saving what might have turned out to be a boring story.


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by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition
Some of you may be aware that decades ago, an Indian scientist reported that music helped certain plants grow but this area of research remains controversial. Other researchers think those who play music to their plants actually give them more care, and that explains the association between music and better plant growth.
We have indoor and outdoor plants. We don’t play music for them. They seem to do just fine.
In nature, though, the situation may be different when the noise isn’t music but 100 decibel noise from compressors associated with gas wells. The compressors run continuously, putting out 100 decibels day and night. In New Mexico, the noise is loud enough to disrupt the feeding habits of scrub jays, which bury pinyon pine seeds for future use but forget where they planted some of them, helping replant the forest.
When researchers went back to study areas mapped out a decade ago, the areas near compressors had fewer young pinyon trees. The researchers postulate that the birds didn’t like the noise, didn’t feed near the compressors, and that led to fewer seeds being absentmindedly planted.
The noise didn’t seem to bother hummingbirds.
The study is yet another reminder that plants, animals, and humans are intimately connected in complex ways that we don’t understand, and that our anthropogenic noise can disrupt nature.

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