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http://chinatravelrus.com/profile/history/jin-dynasty.html | 2017-04-23T08:04:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917118310.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031158-00115-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.978025 | 551 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__38556912 | en | In the later years of the Wei, Sima family held the power court. After vanquishing the Shu, the Wei's strength dramatically increased. In 265, Sima Yan dethroned the Wei emperor and established the Jin Dynasty, known as Western Jin Dynasty. Capital was in Luo Yang. In 280, the Western Jin defeated the Wu and united the long-divided country. The succeeding years were relatively peaceful and stable ones, but this period was not long.
The Western Jin Dynasty was a state mainly composed of privileged landlords. Most political and economic measures instituted by Emperor Jin Wudi (Sima Yan) were meant to protect the benefits of these few. He conferred titles on more than 20 relatives in the Sima family in the hope of building up the influence of the royal family. The Western Jin government allowed officials of different ranks to possess fields, tenants and dependent families. The privilege of the officials and landlords was acknowledged. Most officials of court were held by officials from powerful or privileged families. This system ultimately became a tool for those families to expand their own power. The increasing strength of the powerful families and landlords during this period intensified the conflict between the officials and the commoners.
In 291, the wars for throne among the eight princes lasted about 16 years dislocated the social economy and shook the rule of the Western Jin. Emperor' power was weakened.
Ever since the Eastern Han Dynasty, ethnic minorities, who were Xiongnu, Xianbei, Jie, Di, Qiang in northwestern and northern areas kept migrating inland, which complicated the relations among different nationalities in north China. In the late Western Jin, these northern minorities were at odds with each other. They successively established their own governments in which the noble marshals would take the supreme position. In 308, Liu Yuan, a Xiongnu noble, made himself King of Han, and soon declared him emperor. After his death, his son Liu Cong sent troops to conquer the Western Jin capital Luoyang and captured Emperor Huai. Now the Western Jin existed in name only. Because this incident took place in the 5th year of Yongjia (311) of Emperor Huai, it was known as "the Yongjia Disturbance". During the disturbance, the northern people flocked to the south to escape the war, so this incident is also called "the Southward Transplant of Yongjia". In 316, the Xiongnu army entered Chang'an, captured Emperor Min of Jin and ended the Western Jin Dynasty.
The Western Jin Dynasty lasted 51 years, it was short, but it was the unified government during the period between the Wei, the Jin and the Southern and Northern Dynasties | politics |
http://unusual-encounters.blogspot.com/2013_12_01_archive.html | 2017-05-23T06:53:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607591.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523064440-20170523084440-00106.warc.gz | 0.974124 | 184 | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__42878704 | en | The plaque reads:
In this building was the Legation for the ministers from the Republic of Texas to the Court of St James 1842 - 1845.
Erected by The Anglo - Texan Society
In 1836 Texas declared its independence from Mexico (an independence that the Mexican government did not recognise) and from 1842 the new Republic of Texas maintained an embassy (a Legation) in London at this location (No. 4 St James's Street). This embassy was short lived however, because in 1845 Texas joined the United States and its brief spell as an independent state came to an end. Not being well versed on my American history I was somewhat surprised to find out about Texas's short stint as an independent state and its former embassy in London.
|The plaque at the entrance to Pickering Place.|
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http://southdouglascd.com/elections_302.html | 2020-04-06T00:50:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371612531.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20200406004220-20200406034720-00047.warc.gz | 0.936827 | 215 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__54977647 | en | South Douglas Conservation District
2020 Supervisor Election
The South Douglas Conservation District Board of Supervisors hereby informs the voting public that the incumbent, Mike Lesky, has been re-elected to the currently open seat by reason of being the only person filing for the position by the filing deadline. Therefore, no poll site, absentee balloting or mail balloting will be performed pursuant to WAC 135-110-370.
The five member Board of Supervisors meets on the first Monday of each month, except August. The supervisors set policy and direction for the Conservation District, serving a three year term without compensation. We can reimburse for travel expenses. Supervisors oversee conservation practices in southern Douglas County, promoting education and protecting natural resources. Currently, the district is involved in developing the Firewise Program in Douglas County, Vets on the Farm, water quality projects, chipping to reduce fire fuels and a cost share program for its cooperators. Your time would involve monthly board meetings as well as community contact to identify resource needs and provide assistance, whether technical, financial or educational. | politics |
http://www.mspress.org/page/192/Gun-Permits.htm | 2017-04-25T22:24:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917120881.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031200-00326-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.959399 | 502 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__39386598 | en | Gun permits are public’s business
From The Greenwood Commonwealth
Anytime there is an effort to deny the public access to records that previously were freely available, it should automatically raise suspicions.
Sunshine, not secrecy, keeps government accountable and best protects the public’s interest.
Two Jackson-area legislators, though, apparently think the public is best served by keeping under wraps the identities of those who have been issued a permit to carry a concealed weapon.
Rep. Mark Baker of Brandon and Sen. Will Longwitz of Madison say they will introduce legislation this year to close these records.
The Republican lawmakers’ initiative and similar ones like it around the country have been spurred by the recent publishing online by a New York newspaper of the names and addresses of all holders of concealed carry permits in its area. The National Rifle Association is also pushing to make these records confidential.
Those in favor of closure claim either that the information is no one’s business, or that disclosing it exposes the permit holders to being targeted by criminals.
Both parts of that argument are weak.
First, it is the public’s business to know who has been given the legal authority to carry a firearm concealed on their person. People who have had differences with their coworkers or neighbors might just want to be able to look it up and see with what they might be dealing.
More importantly, the disclosure of this information is the only way to be sure that the permits are being issued correctly by state authorities. Mississippi law has several disqualifiers, including felony convictions, mental illness or a history of alcohol or drug abuse. Although a check of the records by permitting authorities might pick up most of this disqualifying information, there is always the chance that some will go undetected. Citizens who know a person’s history are a good check against error.
Second, a concealed-carry holder should be less prone to being a victim of crime, not more so — or at least that’s what the gun rights advocates have always argued. They say that criminals don’t mess with individuals who the criminals believe might fire back. Assuming criminals even pay attention to government records, and that’s a dubious claim, it could just as reasonably be argued that the crooks will mark off their potential victims’ lists anyone with a concealed-carry permit.
The proposal from Baker and Longwitz is bad on principle and bad on logic. It should be shelved. | politics |
https://www.piedmontpacers.com/the-lottery-and-its-critics/ | 2024-03-05T13:50:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707948235171.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20240305124045-20240305154045-00516.warc.gz | 0.979452 | 570 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__171647792 | en | Lottery is a form of gambling in which numbers are drawn at random to determine the winners of a prize. It is a popular activity in the United States that contributes billions of dollars to state governments. While the odds of winning are slim, many people still play for a chance at a better life. However, lottery players should understand the true odds of winning and the financial cost of playing.
The casting of lots for decisions and fates has a long history, with several examples in the Bible and other ancient records. It has also been used for material gain, including slaves, land, and property. It is also one of the oldest forms of social justice, and it has been used for religious purposes. While it has a strong track record as a means of distributing resources, it is not always a successful means of solving social problems or improving the lives of the poor.
Although the lottery is often portrayed as an effective way to fund public goods, it has been criticised for contributing to a culture of addiction and for its regressive impact on lower-income groups. It is also widely seen as a corrupt form of public gambling, and it can have detrimental effects on the health of lottery participants. It is not uncommon for those who win the lottery to find themselves in a worse position than before they won. Moreover, the large sums of money on offer can create an addictive cycle, leading to a decline in quality of life.
A key feature of the modern lottery is that it relies on technology to manage its operations and promote the game. As a result, it is not subject to the same political and legal constraints that other types of gambling are. Lottery officials have also adapted to the changing habits of their customers by adding new games and introducing new rules and regulations. They are also not above availing themselves of the psychology of addiction, and everything from the design of the lottery ticket to its marketing campaign is designed to keep people playing.
Lottery officials are not immune from criticism, either, though it tends to focus on more specific features of the lottery’s operation and alleged regressive impacts on low-income groups. The development of lottery policies is often a case of piecemeal and incremental decision-making, with authority and pressures on lottery officials being fragmented between the legislative and executive branches of government. This means that public policy on the lottery is rarely developed with a broad overview in mind, and its evolution is driven by the need to maintain or increase revenue streams.
A common message that is conveyed by state lottery officials is that playing the lottery helps raise money for states, and this is an important point to consider. It is important to remember, however, that state budgets are already stretched and that lottery revenues represent only a small portion of state revenues. While lottery revenue is growing rapidly, it should be carefully monitored and evaluated. | politics |
http://oak-forest.org/262/CIC-OFC-TV-Programming | 2024-02-28T00:47:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474688.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227220707-20240228010707-00243.warc.gz | 0.908551 | 197 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__31801961 | en | Government access television is a resource of the city to address local municipal programming needs. The city uses this channel to cablecast City Council meetings, election programming, local emergency announcements, and other events and programs. The CIC-TV and OFC-TV studio is located at City Hall.
If you have any issues with or do not get satisfaction from your cable company representatives, contact the Oak Forest Cable Commission at [email protected] or call 708-687-4050 x 1600. When contacting the Commission, the subscriber needs to provide the following: name, address phone, email and issue description.
In the Cable Communications Act of 1984, congress established a provision to permit local authorities to develop requirements for public use of the local cable system. This provision enables communities to provide a voice for their residents and organizations.
To meet this objective, the city and local cable operators made the following channels available for the public to use on the cable system: | politics |
https://onepumpcourt.co.uk/news/annahita-moradi-is-assisting-the-legal-team-in-the-matter-of-anoosheh-ashoori-a-british-iranian-dual-national-arbitrarily-detained-in-iran/ | 2021-11-28T03:05:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358443.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20211128013650-20211128043650-00418.warc.gz | 0.972009 | 555 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__10055138 | en | NewsBack to News
Annahita Moradi is assisting the legal team in the matter of Anoosheh Ashoori, a British-Iranian dual national arbitrarily detained in Iran.
14 Dec 2020
Legal team for Mr Anoosheh Ashoori calls on the UK Government to take urgent and immediate steps to secure his furlough from Iranian prison in light of reports of COVID-19 outbreak in prison
The legal team representing British-Iranian national, Mr Anoosheh Ashoori and his family, are extremely concerned by reports from protected sources of the presence of the COVID-19 virus in the Iranian prison where Mr Ashoori is currently arbitrarily detained. Information received by the legal team indicates that the virus has been detected in close proximity to Mr Ashoori’s cell, and Mr Ashoori’s cellmate, a 74-year old dual national, now has a very high temperature and excruciating body aches.
The presence of the virus in close proximity to Mr Ashoori, and the possibility that his cellmate has contracted the virus, poses an imminent threat to Mr Ashoori’s life considering that he is 66 years old and vulnerable to the severe symptoms of the virus. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office have been informed of this situation.
The legal team calls on the UK Government to take urgent steps to protect Mr Ashoori’s life and right to health by securing his immediate furlough from prison. Mr Ashoori has been arbitrarily detained for over three years and subjected to gross violations to his fundamental fair trial and due process rights, as well as his right against torture. The conditions of his detention have breached international minimum standards for the treatment of prisoners, and reports of the virus within close proximity of Mr Ashoori now risks violating his right to health and life if immediate steps are not taken.
While the immediate release of Mr Ashoori from prison and his return to his family in the UK remains as the foremost priority, Mr Ashoori’s furlough or supervised release must be urgently secured as a safeguard to his health and well-being while further steps for his release are taken. Such action is in line with the position of the UN and human rights organisations which have urged States to ‘take all necessary steps to protect people in prisons [and] jails’ and ‘consider supervised release and other non- custodial alternatives for detained individuals who are at high risk of serious effects from Covid-19.’
The legal team is led by Nigel Edwards QC and Haydee Dijkstal of 33 Bedford Row and is assisted by Annahita Moradi of One Pump Court.Back to News | politics |
https://www.arenaev.com/now_all_new_tesla_model_3_vehicles_are_eligible_for_the_full_7500_tax_credit-news-1907.php | 2023-09-30T18:27:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510707.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20230930181852-20230930211852-00856.warc.gz | 0.962924 | 224 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__188921544 | en | As part of the Inflation Reduction Act, the US government introduced a new federal tax credit plan for EV owners in 2023 and it requires at least 50% of the battery components to be sourced form the US and at least 40% of the vehicle's minerals to come from the US or another country with free-trade with US.
And since most of the Model 3 configurations use batteries from China, only half of the tax credit ($3,750) can be applied. All that changes from today, though, as Tesla announced that all three Model 3 tiers are now eligible for the full $7,500 tax credit. Previously, only the Performance tier qualified for the full reimbursement.
Unfortunately, we don't know what has changed and why exactly the new Model 3s Standard and Long Range options now qualify for the full tax credit, but it's probably safe to assume that Tesla changed the batteries, at least for its US sales.
The official message on Tesla's website also mentions the Model Y AWD, Long Range and Performance models to be eligible for the $7,500 tax credit as well. | politics |
https://www.londonbusinessmatters.co.uk/cabinet-reshuffle-nov-2023-key-appointments/ | 2024-03-03T18:40:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476397.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303174631-20240303204631-00093.warc.gz | 0.960296 | 433 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__173544493 | en | Assuming Rishi Sunak does not call a spring election, the second set of polls with profound implications for the UK and its businesses will be the European Parliamentary elections on 6-9 June. Populist parties are expected to make big gains, which will alarm national governments in many of the 27-member bloc, but particularly France and Germany. Victor Orban’s populism in Hungary and Geert Wilders’s recent success in the Netherlands attest to shifts in public opinion. The risk for business in Britain is that the EU and its member governments will become more protectionist, increasingly insular on defence policy, and less likely to trade with the UK.
Next, and least predictable date-wise, is expected to be the UK general election, though the Chancellor’s decision to hold the Budget on 6 March has been seen as increasing the chances of an earlier poll. This contest is probably still most likely to occur in the autumn. It could, of course, then come either before or after the US presidential vote on 5 November. The Conservatives have been trailing in opinion polls for many months and show few signs of revival. Labour, out of power since 2010, are taking great care not to appear radical.
The US presidential election has the potential to be the most impactful of the four outlined here. The possibility that Donald Trump may return to the White House, which is self-evidently a real one, could affect economic and trade policy, the US’s approach to NATO and much more besides. Europe may find itself with a far less reliable American ally, with consequences for the EU/UK relationship.
There are also electoral contests in other countries, notably Austria, Belgium, Finland, Ghana, Mexico, Rwanda, South Africa and Venezuela which have the potential to influence policy, notably in relation to trade, in the UK. Elsewhere in England, mayoral contests take place in Greater Manchester, the West Midlands, West Yorkshire and six other combined authorities.
In short, 2024 will be a year of significant electoral uncertainty and possible change. For businesses in London and across the UK, the policy stakes will be high. | politics |
http://halifaxvt.com/selectboard/meeting-minutes/october-29-2013-special-meetingpublic-hearing-town-plan-minutes/ | 2024-04-24T22:30:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819971.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424205851-20240424235851-00822.warc.gz | 0.936809 | 612 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__127470590 | en | OFFICE OF THE SELECTBOARD
Town of Halifax, Vermont
SPECIAL MEETING/PUBLIC HEARING on TOWN PLAN MINUTES
October 29, 2013
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 7:00pm. Board members in attendance were Lewis Sumner, Earl Holtz, and Edee Edwards. Others in attendance were Jessica Bruno, Margo Avakian, Phyllis Evanuk, Pete Silverberg, and Mary Horne.
Halifax Town Plan Public Hearing
Edwards read aloud the notice of public hearing for the Selectboard to approve the updated and amended town plan.
The Selectboard expressed their appreciation for the hard work that the Planning Commission put into the updated plan.
The Selectboard noted that they would like to make the following updates to the town plan:
Page 41- Update the school name to Twin Valley and add Mohawk Trail Regional High School and Franklin County Technical School
Page 27- Under Surface Water Policies Item 1, add AOT
The group discussed getting the zoning bylaws in line with the town plan and the process. Edwards noted that they applied for a grant to get help from Windham Regional Commission to update the zoning bylaws. The group discussed Act 250 in general. The group discussed the rural character of the town. It was noted that if the town plan is not approved by the voters, the current plan would expire and zoning changes would not be allowed. The current plan becomes obsolete in March, 2015. Silverberg expressed his concerns about the extraction policies in conservation districts. There was a review and discussion about the mineral extraction sections of the town plan.
Page 32- page 5 #6 Natural Area Policies- as the gorge is owned privately, that item should be stricken from the policy
Page 5- change All Hazard Mitigation Plan to Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan and add Radiological Emergency Response Plan
Page 7- modify to read the second volume is near completion in 2013
Page12- There was a discussion regarding growth in Halifax- change the word probable to possible
Page16- There was a discussion regarding the accuracy of the income figures as the census is based on mailing address and Halifax has people with Brattleboro and Jacksonville addresses so our figures may not be accurate.
Page 37- change to “Animal Control Officer”
Page 43- update the names of the medical centers
Page 45- move Guiding Star Grange back to page 47 under meeting places
Page 50- Verify the bridge and structure numbers with Rafus
Page 51- add “legal” trails
It was noted that updates to maps will be coming as well.
Edwards made a motion to approve the Halifax Town Plan with the changes suggested to present to the voters on town meeting day. Holtz seconded the motion, which passed 3-0-0.
The meeting was adjourned 8:38 pm. | politics |
https://www.dcgffl.org/march-on-washington-august-28-2020/ | 2023-11-29T14:55:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100112.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20231129141108-20231129171108-00859.warc.gz | 0.94388 | 247 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__192578005 | en | August 5, 2020
The DCGFFL continues to look for ways to support and stand with our Black members, friends, families, supporters and allies. We support calls to action to march and peacefully protest for equality and justice. And with league members, past and present, working and demonstrating for equality, we express our support for Black Lives Matter. For this reason, we created a space for community members to march in solidarity during the March on Washington on August 28th.
On August 28, 1963, about a quarter-million people participated in the historic March on Washington gathering near the Lincoln Memorial in which Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the historic “I Have a Dream” speech. On August 28th, 2020, we honored the memories of all the civil rights activists that came before us, and carried their dreams forward.
Black Lives Matter DCGFFL Shirts
As part of our March on Washington participation, we provided limited edition Black Lives Matter T-shirts and Tank Tops. Orders are now closed. Remaining shirts will be sold on a limited basis with proceeds benefitting Empower DC. If interested in a BLM shirt, email [email protected]. | politics |
http://projects.isr.umich.edu/mrrc-archive/Publication/KeyFindingsDetails/1028?ptid=1 | 2019-02-23T22:44:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550249556231.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20190223223440-20190224005440-00164.warc.gz | 0.906803 | 159 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__154159044 | en | Key Findings Details
Economic Conditions and SSI Applications
Austin Nichols, Lucie Schmidt and Purvi Sevak
· This study examines the relationship between economic conditions, state policy variables, and SSI applications between 1996 and 2010.
· Our results suggest the net benefits of federal aid during downturns may be underestimated.
· If federal interventions, such as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) in 2009, result in reduced state unemployment rates, either by averting the laying off of state workers or by stimulating demand, or if they relieve state fiscal distress, the recession- induced increase in SSI and SSDI applications could be dampened.
· Future research should examine the extent to which federal aid such as ARRA or extended unemployment benefits impact application risk. | politics |
https://www.workcomplawil.com/blog/supreme-court-rules-against-workers-compensation-insurers/ | 2024-04-16T14:21:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817095.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416124708-20240416154708-00372.warc.gz | 0.959242 | 384 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__33654099 | en | Supreme Court Rules Against Workers’ Compensation Insurers
Illinois does not have a workers’ compensation fund — at least not in the sense that it compensates with insurers to offer coverage to employers required to carry workers’ compensation insurance. Nationally, about half the states have funds that will pay workers’ compensation benefits when an employee is injured on the job. In four jurisdictions, the state is the sole provider of workers’ compensation insurance. In the rest of the fund states, the state fund compensates with private insurers, ostensibly keeping premiums reasonable across the board.
Lower premiums benefit both employers, who pay less for workers’ compensation coverage, and employees, because a portion of the savings will be passed along in the form of higher wages or greater benefits. But, what happens when a state decides to get out of the business of providing workers’ compensation coverage? The United States Supreme Court answered that question recently when it declined to hear an appeal from a group of insurers in a case against the state of New York.
In American Economy Ins. Co. v. New York, several workers’ compensation insurers were left responsible for paying benefits on re-opened workers’ compensation cases after the state shuttered a fund that had been making the payments since 1933. The fund covered cases in which workers filed new claims years after being injured. With closure of the fund, though, insurers are on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars in claims.
A panel in New York’s Appellate Division ruled in favor of the companies, finding that the move was unconstitutional. New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, reversed the decision, finding in favor of the state. By denying the insurers’ appeal, the Supreme Court opens the door for other states to repurpose similar workers’ compensation funds and shift the burden to private insurers. | politics |
https://withonebreath.wordpress.com/tag/checkpoint/ | 2019-02-19T03:31:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247489304.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20190219020906-20190219042906-00433.warc.gz | 0.930386 | 271 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__133599390 | en | I support Ron Paul’s recent legislation to stop the TSA from taking draconian measures to treat all boarding passengers as criminals, including body scanners using health-damaging radiation and, if you opt-out of those body scans, a full-body groping. This is absurd. To show my support, I’ll be making T-shirts with the following logo I designed, itself a parody of the TSA logo. This is a rough draft, but shows the long, groping arm of the government accosting the symbol of our nation, the bald eagle, and featuring an upside-down flag symbolizing our nation in peril!
On the backside:
Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,
against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,
and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,
supported by Oath or affirmation,
and particularly describing the place to be searched,
and the persons or things to be seized.
Yes, the Fourth Amendment applies directly to the actions of government. Yes, TSA is a government agency. It doesn’t matter if the search is done on private property – such as in airports. It is being done by a government agency without due process. | politics |
https://www.lucidinsider.com/2022/04/26/government-of-saudi-arabia-to-buy-up-to-100000-lucid-air-vehicles/ | 2023-02-02T02:42:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499954.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20230202003408-20230202033408-00365.warc.gz | 0.93808 | 681 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__23379638 | en | Lucid Motors announced the Government of Saudi Arabia, under its Saudi Vision 2030 and Saudi Green Initiative, will buy up to 100,000 Lucid Air vehicles. This is over a ten year period with an initial commitment to purchase 50,000 vehicles and an option to purchase up to an additional 50,000 vehicles over the same period.
As part of the agreement, the Government of Saudi Arabia has pledged to purchase vehicles, including Lucid Air and other future models, built and assembled at Lucid’s existing Arizona factory and its future international manufacturing facility in Saudi Arabia. The order quantity is expected to range from 1,000 to 2,000 vehicles annually and increase to between 4,000 and 7,000 vehicles annually starting in 2025, with the delivery of the vehicles required to commence no later than the second quarter of 2023.
The purchase price of the vehicles will be determined based on the lower of the standard retail price for the applicable vehicle in Saudi Arabia and the standard retail price for the applicable vehicle in the United States, plus the logistics and importation costs, and other costs of delivering and homologating vehicles to regulations of Saudi Arabia.
The Form 8-K reads:
On April 20, 2022, Lucid LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lucid Group, Inc. (collectively, the “Company”), entered into a binding letter of undertaking (the “Letter of Undertaking”) with the Ministry of Finance of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (“KSA”).
Under the terms of the Letter of Undertaking, the Government of KSA and its entities and corporate subsidiaries (collectively, the “Kingdom”) undertake to purchase up to 100,000 vehicles from the Company over a ten-year period, with an initial commitment to purchase 50,000 vehicles and an option to purchase up to an additional 50,000 vehicles during such ten-year period.
The purchase price is determined by the lower of (i) the standard retail price for the applicable vehicle in the KSA; and (ii) the standard retail price for the applicable vehicle in the United States, plus actual cost of logistics, importing, and other actual costs of delivering and homologating vehicles to KSA regulations. The order quantity by the Kingdom will initially range from 1,000 and 2,000 vehicles annually and increase to between 4,000 and 7,000 vehicles annually starting in 2025 unless otherwise agreed by the Kingdom and the Company. The delivery of the vehicles is required to commence no later than the second quarter of 2023. The foregoing description does not constitute a complete summary of the terms of the Letter of Undertaking and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the copy of the Letter of Undertaking, which will be filed as an exhibit to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022.
“Delivering up to 100,000 Lucid electric vehicles in Saudi Arabia represents another pivotal moment in our acceleration of sustainable transportation worldwide,” said Peter Rawlinson, Lucid’s CEO and CTO. “We are delighted to be supporting Saudi Arabia in achieving its sustainability goals and net zero ambitions, as outlined by Saudi Vision 2030 and the Saudi Green Initiative, by bringing our advanced luxury EVs to Saudi Arabia.” | politics |
https://cartadenovedades.cndh.org.mx/vol333/en/2020/11/protecting-freedom-of-reunion/ | 2024-02-25T18:28:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474641.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225171204-20240225201204-00113.warc.gz | 0.939671 | 416 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__175657039 | en | Protecting freedom of reunion
CNDH issues recommendation to the FGJEM and CODHEM related to the aggressions committed against demonstrators in Ecatepec, State of Mexico.
The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) addressed Recommendation 63/2020 to the Attorney General of Justice of the State of Mexico, Alejandro Jaime Gomez Sanchez and to the president of the Human Rights Commission of the State of Mexico (CODHEM), Dr. Jorge Olvera Garcia, related to the eviction and detention of people who participated in the peaceful demonstration inside the CODHEM facilities in the municipality of Ecatepec, State of Mexico.
This Autonomous Organism accredited violations to the human rights of freedom of assembly and to dignified treatment and personal integrity, attributable to elements of the Investigative Police of the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Mexico to the detriment of members of the Ehécatl Collective, in defense of women’s rights and the Iris Foundation.
On September 10 of this year, members of the aforementioned collectives went to take over the facilities of CODHEM, whose only objective was to hold a meeting to assert their petitions and protest the actions and omissions of various authorities of the State of Mexico, in the investigation of their legitimate complaints and to learn the truth about the illegal acts that have been committed against women, children and adolescents.
Therefore, this National Commission recommended to the Attorney General of Justice of the State of Mexico and to the president of CODHEM to collaborate in the integration of the investigation folder that is initiated by the complaint that the CNDH makes against those responsible for ordering and inferring aggressions to the victims; To cooperate in the complaint filed before the Internal Control Organ of said agency, against the public servants who intervened in the events related to the eviction, transfer, and placement at the disposal, respectively, before the Justice Center of Atizapán de Zaragoza, and to designate a public servant to follow up on compliance with the Recommendation. | politics |
https://mlmsoft.top/shop/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=3 | 2023-12-09T20:26:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100972.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209202131-20231209232131-00885.warc.gz | 0.969807 | 525 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__184984998 | en | The full withdrawal of US troops from the country is not complete yet but expected very soon
Nearly two decades after the first American troops arrived at Bagram and helped take control of the field after the 9/11 attacks, the transfer of the field to the Afghan military proceeded without fanfare, a hushed finale that portends the imminent conclusion of America's longest war
Once a dilapidated runway that barely had electricity in the surrounding buildings, the airfield became a small city in its own right, complete with shops, gyms, and classrooms for the thousands of servicemembers and contractors who worked at the base and its facilities.
The two-mile runway, streaked with the dark black tire marks of countless takeoffs and landings, was the jumping off point for military operations throughout the country, with space for cargo aircraft, fighter jets, and attack helicopters. Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump all visited Bagram during their time in office, promising victory and a better future for Afghanistan.
Bagram was officially handed over to the Afghan military Friday, Rohullah Ahamadzai, spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Defense told CNN.
But the withdrawal from Bagram, devoid of any pomp and ceremony, is a symbolic victory for the Taliban, who have waged a relentless cross-country battle against the Afghan military, pushing back government forces and overrunning a growing number of districts.
A Taliban spokesman called the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan a "positive step."
"The presence of foreign forces in Afghanistan was a reason for continuation of fighting in the country," Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mojahid told CNN Friday. "If foreign forces leave Afghanistan, Afghans can decide future issues among themselves. We will step forward for the security of the country and our hope for the peace would increase and inshallah we will have development."
On Thursday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with Afghan Minister of Defense Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, saying the United States was invested in the "security and stability of Afghanistan" as the withdrawal neared its completion.
Bagram was the entry point for tens of thousands of troops who came into the country as part of the War on Terror, and it was the exit point for many of the nearly 2,000 US servicemembers killed in action during 20 years of fighting. Troops stood on the main road through the airbase, known as Disney Drive, as the flag-draped coffins of servicemembers killed in Afghanistan drove past on their way to the flight line for their final journey home | politics |
http://www.theoslotimes.com/article/execution-of-prminent-shia-cleric-sheik-nimer-sparks-regional-fury | 2018-11-15T11:23:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039742666.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20181115095814-20181115121814-00259.warc.gz | 0.978043 | 397 | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-47__0__195931753 | en | Execution of prominent Shia cleric Sheik Nimer sparks regional fury
Jan 2, Tehran: Saudi Arabia's execution of the prominent Shia Cleric Sheik Nimr has sparked protests in The Sunni led Saudi Arabia and the region alike.
According to reports, protests have broken out early Sunday morning in front of the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Tehran and the Embassy itself was attacked and set on fire by protestors. Protests broke out in /Lebanon,Bahrain, Pakistan and as far as India's Kashmir.
Meanwhile, United States has expressed concern that Saudi Arabia's execution of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr could further exacerbate sectarian rivalry in the Middle East. The US State Department urged leaders throughout the region to redouble efforts to lower tensions.The US state spokesman John Kirby appealed to Saudi Arabia's government to respect and protect human rights, and to ensure fair and transparent judicial proceedings.
The cleric had been convicted of crimes related to terrorism in October and is among the 47 other people who have been put to death on Saturday. However, a lot of people knew Nimr as a vocal supporter of the mass anti-government protests that erupted in Eastern Province in 2011, where a Shia majority have long complained of marginalisation.
He was arrested two years ago, during which he was shot, had triggered days of unrest in the country. Nimr was an independent Shia Sheikh from al-Awamiyah, Eastern Province and he had gained popularity among youth for his critical views about the Saudi Arabian government.
In 2009, he had criticised Saudi authorities and suggested secession of the Eastern Province if Saudi Shias' rights were not better respected. and during the 2011–2012 Saudi Arabian protests, al-Nimr called for protestors to resist police bullets using "the roar of the word" rather than violence. He had predicted the overthrow of the government if repression continued and was seen to have taken the lead in the protests that year.
The Oslo Times | politics |
https://www.8pmnews.com/budget-2023-24-sitharaman-chairs-1st-consultation/ | 2023-12-11T23:10:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679518883.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211210408-20231212000408-00727.warc.gz | 0.948691 | 199 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__99048277 | en | New Delhi [India]: Pre-budget consultations have begun today. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday chaired her first pre-Budget consultations.
The meetings were held with the first group of captains from industries and experts in field of infrastructure and climate change in the national capital.
Along with Sitharaman, the meeting was attended by Union Minister of State Finance Pankaj Chaudhary and Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad; Finance Secretary TV Somanathan, secretaries from other departments of the finance ministry, and the Chief Economic Advisor Anantha Nageswaran.
The formal exercise to prepare the annual Budget for the next financial year — 2023-24 – commenced on October 10.
The Budget for 2023-24 is likely to be tabled on February 1.
Notably, it will be the last full Budget for Modi 2.0 government before the Lok Sabha elections to be held in April-May of 2024. | politics |
https://www.winwithmcclatchy.com/blog/audience-for-political-marketing-campaign | 2024-02-20T21:29:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473347.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20240220211055-20240221001055-00424.warc.gz | 0.959016 | 954 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__127738489 | en | Information is crucial, especially for political advertising. Voters need to know as much about you as possible to decide if you're the right fit for their vote. They also need all the information you have to give to determine whether you're trustworthy enough for them to give you their vote. That will be the challenge since only 44% cite having any confidence in politicians today (a historical low for distrust in those running for a government role).
When launching digital political campaigns with the right audience and platform, however, that figure won't be a problem for you because you'll be able to convey the value you'll bring to the political position to the people that need to hear it.
That's why politicians turn to McClatchy to deliver their political ads digitally. Our reach is vast locally and nationally, and the trust our local news has earned from our audience will be associated with you and your campaign. Here's what you need to know.
1. Reach Millions of People with McClatchy
As a politician, you must reach as many voters as possible. The best way to do this is by taking your campaigns to the digital world — where everyone is already spending the majority of their time. In fact, 31% of people say they're online 'almost constantly.'
But where do you start? There are several channels to consider in your political strategy, but the first step is to find a partner with the extensive reach you need, where you need it. If you're running locally, you need someone to connect you with local residents. If you're looking to run at a grander scale, you need someone who can expand your reach across the U.S.
With McClatchy, who has a broad readership, either is possible. First and foremost, we have local market reach in dozens of states across the U.S. With both our print and digital platforms, our content reaches millions:
- More than 40 million unique digital visitors
- Over 35 million monthly video views,
- More than 7 million loyal social media followers across accounts, and
- On average, 6 million weekly print readership
2. Communicate with Voters by Location
One of the most important benefits of working with McClatchy to reach your voter audience is that we can reach various people across the nation. More importantly, you aren't reaching these audiences from a 'national standpoint' but through a locally trusted news source in each area.
In other words, you get national reach among locally trusted audiences.
That gets you the best of both worlds: your political campaign reaches the 75% of people who trust their local news over national while also getting the benefits of a national reach.
For instance, our reach in California, where McClatchy has over 8 million unique digital visitors, over 6 million monthly video views, and over 1 million weekly print readership. And this is where 61% voted in the last presidential election and 51% in the state election, reaching a bipartisan voting group (31%Democrat, 18% Independent, 26% Republican over 18 years old).
3. Trust in Local News is Rising
McClatchy's local voices make it a trusted resource for your political marketing campaigns. That is because more people trust local news: 73% of readers, compared to 59% for National News Publications, 55% for National Network News, and 47% for Online-Only Outlets. There's more of a sense of community, understanding, and as a result, associated trust being a local establishment for residents to rely on for information relevant to them in their area.
Trust is also up across political affiliations: 62% of Republicans, 62% of Independents, and 88% of Democrats trust local news. That will allow you to leverage McClatchy's voting audience as you prepare for your campaign victory.
See the McClatchy Difference in Action
Did you know McClatchy's digital audience is twice as likely to use political search terms? Don't just take our word for it. See the McClatchy difference in action with the South Carolina ballot proposition case study:
- Raised awareness for a municipal ballot initiative in South Carolina low country
- Used addressable OTT/CTV, programmatic video, social media video, and digital tactics to reach 359,900 impressions with an average 87% completion rate
- The ballot measure passed with voters reached by the campaign being 97.46% more likely to convert
When it comes down to it, McClatchy has unparalleled reach with audiences you need to connect with, including locally in several key U.S. markets. Make yourself stand out from the rest by contacting McClatchy for your next political marketing campaign. | politics |
https://www.vadehraart.com/news/100-after-midnight-indian-modernism-to-contemporary-india-1947-1997-by-michael-fitzgerald-the-wall-street-journal/ | 2022-12-01T06:38:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710801.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20221201053355-20221201083355-00707.warc.gz | 0.938083 | 237 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__9634410 | en | In 1947, Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings led to American art joining the international avant-garde. In India, 1947 also marked a beginning for artists of international ambitions, and it came amid transformations of Indian society that are still shaping our world.
Curated by the Mumbai-based art historian and gallerist Arshiya Lokhandwala, “After Midnight: Indian Modernism to Contemporary India, 1947/1997” at the Queens Museum compares the artistic renaissance that followed independence with Indian art produced after 1997—the 50th anniversary of independence, which prompted profound questioning of the nation’s success as a democracy and its world-wide standing, artistic as well as political and economic. The exhibition explores not only the development of contemporary Indian art but also the process of globalization that links Indian artists with their counterparts in New York and creative centers on every continent.
India’s achievement of independence from Britain inspired a generation of artists to project their culture onto the world stage. Yet the partition of the subcontinent and wars with Pakistan challenged India’s artists to address the deeply problematic reality of a new nation immediately plunged into violence. | politics |
https://conservat-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/our-patron0.html | 2024-04-18T19:54:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817239.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418191007-20240418221007-00120.warc.gz | 0.960246 | 184 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__167312691 | en | The Conservatorium High School is privileged to enjoy the Patronage of Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC, Governor of New South Wales.
In addition to her distinguished contribution to the judiciary and the law – Queen’s Counsel (1989), President of the NSW Court of Appeal (2013), Doctor of Laws honoris causa (University of Sydney) – Her Excellency has had a longstanding commitment to music and the arts generally. Until her appointment as Governor, she served on the Board of Sydney Youth Orchestras.
Her Excellency brings to her role as Governor a deep commitment to education, youth leadership, human rights and social justice. As the State’s only specialist music high school (and Her Excellency’s neighbours), the Conservatorium High looks forward to being of service to the Governor in her role serving the people of New South Wales. | politics |
http://ronnyreyes.com/2016/09/21/brookhaven-village-will-hold-dissolving-vote/ | 2021-10-18T17:12:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585204.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20211018155442-20211018185442-00649.warc.gz | 0.980201 | 421 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__103599570 | en | The village of Mastic Beach will be holding a vote on Nov. 16 in order to decide whether or not it dissolves back into the Town of Brookhaven, village board officials said.
Residents of Mastic Beach were able to gather over 1,000 signatures asking for the village to dissolve. According to New York State law, a village can hold a referendum to dissolve itself if at least 10 percent of its registered voters sign a petition calling for the village’s dissolution.
Mastic Beach Mayor Maura Sprey says that the village itself, which was founded six years ago, never had a full grip on its budget as unrealistic promises were made during its incorporation campaign.
“They promised to increase housing units, which were actually illegal rentals, and now we have a problem with vacant zombie homes,” she said as she explained the faults in the village’s start up, which included spending over $70,000 on cleaning the streets once.
Mastic Beach had only six full-time and 18 part-time village employees, and it needed to pay Brookhaven employees time-and-a-half to provide services like highway maintenance, Sprey added.
The increasing taxes to pay for these services is one of the reasons why the Dissolve Mastic Beach group assisted in collecting signatures for the dissolution petition. Their website lists increasing debt and infighting among board members as additional reasons for the village to dissolve. The group could not be reached for further comments.
If the village were to dissolve back into Brookhaven, it would be the first village to do so on Long Island in 26 years, the last of which was Pine Valley in 1990, according to the New York State Department of State Local Government Services.
The Town of Brookhaven says it will not comment on the vote.
Sprey says that going back to Brookhaven would actually be a cheaper alternative than having Mastic Beach continue as its own village.
“This is really about whether people are willing to vote to pay $2,000 a year in taxes.” | politics |
https://my.meaction.net/petitions/tell-congress-to-support-funding-equality-for-me-cfs-arkansas-senators-and-representatives | 2019-05-26T02:03:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232258620.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20190526004917-20190526030917-00059.warc.gz | 0.919617 | 472 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__39629929 | en | 25 signatures reached
To: Arkansas' Senators and Representatives
Tell Congress to Support Funding Equality for ME: Arkansas
Myalgic encephalomyelitis (often referred to as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or ME/CFS) is a severe neurological disease that affects at least 1 million Americans and leaves half of its victims disabled and unable to work. Many patients are considered at a greater functional impairment than those with congestive heart failure, multiple sclerosis, and end-stage renal disease.
The disease’s annual impact to the US economy is an estimated $24 billion in health care costs, lost wages, and lost productivity. However, at present the U.S. government does not have a research plan in place to mitigate this profound cost to society.
Currently, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) funds only $5 million per year for research into this disease.
As the only moral response to more than thirty years of official and medical neglect of this illness, we demand that Congress increase NIH research funding to $250 million per year, a level proportionate to the disease’s severity, prevalence and impact.
We, the undersigned patients, doctors, scientists, parents, children, family, friends, caretakers and #MEAllies, demand full and immediate funding equality for ME.
Why is this important?
In order to fuel the research necessary to uncover causes and find effective treatments, we need Congress to fund ME/CFS at a level equivalent to that of other similarly disabling neurological diseases.
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We want to present our elected leaders with real stories from the lives of their constituents who have been affected by ME. When you sign, please consider leaving a comment, story, or testimonial under �reasons for signing.�
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If you are not a US voter, you can sign the global solidarity petition: http://my.meaction.net/petitions/us-congress-me-patients-around-the-world-care-about-funding-equality | politics |
https://marystarlajolla.org/events/movie-night-at-mary-star-of-the-sea/ | 2024-02-23T03:01:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474360.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223021632-20240223051632-00308.warc.gz | 0.966749 | 207 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__131450912 | en | Movie Night at Mary, Star of the Sea – “For Greater Glory”
Join us in the Parish Hall on September 12 for a viewing of “For Greater Glory.”
Fellowship at 5:30 pm. Movie at 6:00 pm.
In the years 1926 through 1929, Mexico fought a war over the freedom of Roman Catholics to worship. As a result of the Mexican Revolution, the constitution of 1917 stripped great power from the church, along with half of its enormous land holdings. But it was not until the regime of President Plutarco Elias Calles, who began to strictly enforce the constitution, that an uprising ensued. Supporters of the Catholic Church, who called themselves Cristeros, began a campaign against federal troops They were lead by retired Gen. Enrique Gorostieta Velarde (played by Andy Garcia) who after seeing the cost of religious persecution on his countrymen, transformed the ragtag band of rebels into a formidable fighting force.
Rated R for war violence. | politics |
http://www.healthyschoolfoodmd.org/coalition.php | 2017-04-30T03:10:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917124297.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031204-00437-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.957613 | 133 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__180973232 | en | Join the Coalition
If you represent an organization and would like to join our coalition, please e-mail [email protected] to be added to the team. Coalition partners agree to have us post their logo and use their name on this web site and in communications from the coalition, send our petition to their mailing lists, and if they have the capacity, lobby legislators in their area on behalf of our legislation.
If you are an individual, please sign our petition and forward it to your friends, join our Facebook group and follow us on Twitter. Join our mailing list to receive updates about our progress and to stay informed on our agenda. | politics |
http://www.phs.net/article/47331 | 2018-07-23T09:41:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676596204.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20180723090751-20180723110751-00392.warc.gz | 0.95949 | 139 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__28817060 | en | School Board Vacancy
Monday, April 23 2018
- Due to a resignation, the Pikeland School Board has an immediate board seat vacancy. If you live within the Pikeland School district outside of Pittsfield Township and are interested in serving on the board until the election in April of 2019, please send a letter of interest to the Pikeland Board Office, C/O President Mike Gerard, 512 S. Madison St., Pittsfield, Illinois 62363. Letters must be received by 12:00 p.m. on May 14, 2018 by mail or by hand delivery to the above address. The Board will consider all applicants and will appoint a new member within 45 days. | politics |
http://southdakotaagconnection.com/story-national.php?Id=1891&yr=2017 | 2018-07-21T20:56:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676592778.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20180721203722-20180721223716-00006.warc.gz | 0.93885 | 237 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__225461780 | en | ADC to Hold Guestworker Session at World Dairy Expo
USAgNet - 09/12/2017
The American Dairy Coalition will host a presentation at World Dairy Expo next month to discuss how a new guestworker visa program may provide a viable solution for dairy producers who desperately need secure and reliable labor. The
forum will take place in the Monona Room of the Alliant Energy Center on October 5, starting at 11:30 a.m.
Attendees will learn about how the Agricultural Guestworker Act, or AG Act, may help the dairy industry find reliable, year-round labor.
ADC CEO Laurie Fischer says she has been working with House Judiciary Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte from Virginia on the creation and preparation of this legislation. She will give attendees more information about the bill and collect feedback from
"Our industry has waited 20 years for meaningful immigration reform," Fischer said. "Your valuable voice is necessary to ensure this bill can provide relief to producers across the nation who do not know who will milk their cows."
There is limited seating for the session, so interested participants are asked to RSVP by calling 920-965-6070. | politics |
http://www.elecam.cm/en/news/news/article/processus-electoral-une-mission-centrafricaine-a-elecam.html | 2017-05-23T12:46:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607636.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523122457-20170523142457-00057.warc.gz | 0.951986 | 353 | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__13419500 | en | Electoral process: a Central African mission at ELECAM.
A Delegation from the Central African National Electoral Authority paid a working visit to Elections Cameroon, from 18 to 21 July 2016, in view of gathering experience on the organisation and management of elections in Cameroon.
The mission from the National Electoral Authority (ANE) concluded a four-day visit on Cameroonian soil, devoted particularly to Elections Cameroon, geared towards sharing best practices as well as building the capacity of ANE members.
Talking about the visit, Julius Rufin NGOUADE-BABA, spokesperson and general rapporteur for the CAR National Elections Authority disclosed that, “elections are around the corner; municipal elections, to be more specific, in view of putting in place the Senate. Conscious that elections constitute a long process, we intend to begin preparations as well as laying down the organisation as early as possible. The purpose of this working visit is therefore to exchange on best practices and build the capacity of ANE members”.
Moreover, the spokesperson for the ANE delegation explained that the choice of Cameroon was motivated by three criteria: “firstly, Cameroon is just a stone throw, an important factor, which implies fairly similar cultural and ethnic communities. And thus, we believe that Cameroon’s experience can be more easily adapted to the Central African Republic; secondly, we took into account the vast experience of ELECAM”, Julius Rufin NGOUADE-BABA underscored. The Central African delegation equally visited the Supreme Court, where it was received by André BELOUMBE, the President of the Administrative Bench. The two parties exchanged on the experience of Cameroon in the resolution of election disputes and the proclamation of results. | politics |
https://www.hobartfc.com.au/2024/03/12/a-re-elected-liberal-government-will-provide-150000-towards-changeroom-upgrades/ | 2024-04-13T08:56:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816587.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413083102-20240413113102-00237.warc.gz | 0.926977 | 141 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__84195579 | en | Exciting News for the Hobart Football Club!
We’re thrilled to announce that a re-elected Liberal Government will provide $150,000 towards much needed upgrades to our changerooms, which will promote improved and female friendly facilities. This commitment highlights their dedication to supporting grassroots community initiatives, and we couldn’t be more grateful.
A huge shoutout to Simon Behrakis and Mohammad Aldergham – Liberal Candidate for Clark, for championing our cause and spearheading plans for our club’s growth and prosperity. Thanks to Simon and Mohammad for your leadership and for ensuring the government’s support, we’re poised for an exciting journey ahead! | politics |
https://qitazugemacu.janettravellmd.com/a-history-of-the-influence-of-sir-winston-churchill-franklin-d-roosevelt-harry-truman-and-dwight-d-e-65037jn.html | 2021-01-18T10:13:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703514495.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20210118092350-20210118122350-00666.warc.gz | 0.976479 | 1,548 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__209845956 | en | He also published another major work, A History of the English- Speaking Peoples, four volumes — The two leaders, for all their amity, were not the men they once were; their subordinates, John Foster Dulles and Anthony Eden, were antipathetic; and, above all, the role and status of each country had changed.
Inyear-old Winston Churchill became prime minister for the second time. Toward the end of the year news from the battlefronts improved.
His father, James Roosevelt I, graduated from Harvard Law School inbut chose not to practice law after receiving an inheritance from his grandfather, James Roosevelt. It seems to me most likely that electioneering will begin the moment after the end of the German war, and you will probably find it in full swing before you return.
The declaration pledged, "the earliest possible establishment through free elections governments responsive to the will of the people.
After the debacle at Gallipoli, Churchill left the Admiralty. Even in the transition from war to peace, a phase in which other leaders have often stumbled, he revealed, at an advanced age, a capacity to learn and to adjust that was in many respects superior to that of his younger colleagues.
Each of the three leaders had his own agenda for post-war Germany and liberated Europe.
Potsdam ConferenceOverview of the Potsdam Conference. Eisenhower and Omar Bradleyhad liberated all of France and Belgium and were advancing into Germany, leading to the Battle of the Bulge.
It brought the coronation of Queen Elizabeth IIwhich drew out all his love of the historic and symbolic. After passage of the Emergency Banking Relief Act, three out of every four banks were open within a week. In Adana he dictated a little-known document, Morning Thoughts: After the Quebec conference in Septemberhe flew to Moscow to try to conciliate the Russians and the Poles and to get an agreed division of spheres of influence in the Balkans that would protect as much of them as possible from Communism.
Surprised, Churchill accepted; dumbfounded, the country interpreted it as a move to absorb into the party all the right-of-centre elements of the former coalition. Much of Europe was under Axis domination, America was neutral, the Soviet Union was allied — however tenuously — with Hitler, and a badly battered Britain stood alone as waves of German aircraft began to blacken the skies over England.
Such vagaries of judgment in fact reflected the overwhelming priority he accorded to one issue—the containment of German aggressiveness.
There is hardly a suggestion in the hundreds of memoranda, speeches and recorded private remarks of the prime minister during the period that he doubted the ultimate outcome. Before a supine government and a doubting opposition, Churchill persistently argued the case for taking the German threat seriously and for the need to prevent the Luftwaffe from securing parity with the Royal Air Force.
When would Germany quit fighting. A gifted journalist, a biographer and historian of classic proportions, an amateur painter of talent, an orator of rare power, a soldier of courage and distinction, Churchill, by any standards, was a man of rare versatility.
Provided these essentials were preserved, Churchill, for all his sense of history, was surprisingly willing to sacrifice any national shibboleths—of orthodox economics, of social convention, of military etiquette or tradition—on the altar of victory.
He also published another major work, A History of the English- Speaking Peoples, four volumes — In the Far East, Singapore fell and, as if to highlight the difficulty of any eventual cross-Channel attack, in August a combined British and Canadian raiding force was slaughtered on the beaches of Dieppe, France.
Roosevelt was left permanently paralyzed from the waist down. Another son, also named Franklinwas born inand the youngest child, Johnwas born in Guessing would not be useful, and hopes could not be blind. Only by April 20 was he sure victory was pending. Churchill could claim to be its principal architect.
Then it was disciplined by his capacity for concentration. By the time Roosevelt was inaugurated on March 4,the Depression had reached desperate levels, including 13 million unemployed.
Anyone who shared this goal, even a Communist, was an acceptable ally. In he joined the Liberals and won renown for the audacity of his attacks on Chamberlain and Balfour. Upon occasion his relish for dramatic action led him beyond the limits of his proper role as the guarantor of public order.
Overcoming a bout with typhoid feverand due to the help of journalist Louis McHenry HoweRoosevelt was re-elected in the elections.
Mackenzie; Roosevelt, Franklin D. What Eden got on this occasion was the personal end of a Personal Minute: Smith later 1st earl of Birkenhead and Austen Chamberlain, he did much to arrange the compromise by which Ulster was to be excluded from the immediate effect of the bill, no member of the government was more bitterly abused—by Tories as a renegade and by extreme Home Rulers as a defector.
On July 3,he grimly informed Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky, My general strategy at present is to last out the next three months. But his health declined, and his public appearances became rare. In all this, Parliament played a vital part.
He first stood as a Conservative at Oldham, where he lost a by-election by a narrow margin, but found quick solace in reporting the South African War for The Morning Post London.
Learn about the life and times of Winston Churchill at janettravellmd.com Winston Churchill was one of the best-known statesmen in British history. He persuaded U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The "Big Three" at the Yalta Conference, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin.
Behind them stand, from the left, Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Fleet Admiral Ernest King, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, General of the Army George Marshall, Cities: Yalta, Russian SFSR, USSR.
Oct 16, · Winston Churchill, in full Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, (born November 30,Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England—died January 24,London), British statesman, orator, and author who as prime minister (–45, –55) rallied the British people during World War II and led his country from the brink of defeat to victory.
Harry S. Truman (Jan–Apr.
) Preceded by: Herbert Hoover: Succeeded by: Chiang Kai-shek, Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill at the Cairo Conference. Churchill, Roosevelt, saying that his only wish was "that Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived to witness this day".
Three weeks later, as Churchill was meeting with Stalin and Harry S.
Truman — who had become president following Roosevelt’s death on April 12, — the prime minister received word that he had been defeated by Clement Atlee, his deputy prime minister and leader of the Labor Party, in a landslide.
Sir Winston Churchill KG OM CH TD DL FRS RA; Proposals for European boundaries and settlements were officially agreed to by President Harry S. Truman, Churchill, and Joseph Stalin at Potsdam. Churchill's strong relationship with Harry Truman was of great significance to both countries.
In attendance were Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt.A history of the influence of sir winston churchill franklin d roosevelt harry truman and dwight d e | politics |
https://www.ovg.ox.ac.uk/publications/1268529?da857398-01ab-11ef-966c-0646644c3148 | 2024-04-23T19:58:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818740.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423192952-20240423222952-00306.warc.gz | 0.922957 | 332 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__53036039 | en | Attributing public ignorance in vaccination narratives.
Vanderslott S., Enria L., Bowmer A., Kamara A., Lees S.
The notion of an 'ignorant public' is attributed in outbreak scenarios through vaccination narratives that are institutionally reinforced by governments and the media across different contexts. The ignorant public narrative is a discursive shift that reduces public concerns about vaccines to a lack of knowledge, obscuring how these concerns are indicative of mistrust and anxiety or efforts to counter the dominance of acceptable and legitimate knowledge. This narrative risks a deflection of challenges in the structural determinants of vaccine uptake and depoliticise rumours and mistrust that arise during vaccination campaigns. Examples from Sierra Leone, Uganda, and India show how 'ignorant public' framings are used as explanation for vaccine hesitancy through assigned roles for institutions and publics, and the consequences this narrative has for vaccination encounters. These examples are based on ethnographic fieldwork and media analysis carried out before, during, and after outbreaks, of newly introduced vaccines for both human and animal health. Drawing on science communication and development studies, we show how this narrative then positions governmental concern about vaccine hesitancy as being a (largely) imagined issue of public ignorance. We argue that when institutions tasked with strengthening vaccine uptake see public ignorance as the key problem, this can obscure other problems, such as competing interests and experiences, and also minority group treatment. As a result, public governance is rationalised by assigning the ignorance label to certain public groups that stand in contrast to scientific and government expertise, and so accountability for low vaccine uptake is transferred onto the public. | politics |
https://www.globalestonian.com/en/news/e-residency-reports-close-40-million-euros-state-revenue | 2024-04-20T14:28:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817650.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420122043-20240420152043-00496.warc.gz | 0.932468 | 369 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__204022727 | en | e-Residency reports close to 40 million euros in state revenue
During the first half of 2023, companies owned by Estonian e-residents delivered 37,7 million euros in tax revenue, amounting to a 57% increase compared to the previous year. To date, the e-Residency programme has generated altogether 183 million euros in economic impact for Estonia.
The majority of tax receipts – 55% or 20.6 million euros – came from labour taxes paid by e-resident companies registered in Estonia. The remaining 45% – 17.1 million euros – was collected from special case income tax, mainly dividends. In addition to taxes, e-residents also paid 1.4 million euros in state fees, raising the programme’s economic impact to 39.1 million euros for the first six months of 2023.
According to Tiit Riisalo, the Estonian Minister of Economic Affairs and Information Technology, the e-Residency programme continues on a strong course, confirming that the rest of the world has a keen interest in the IT solutions Estonia has to offer. "For an increasing number of foreign entrepreneurs, e-Residency is a convenient way to conduct business in the European Union, providing a digital solution for safe and transparent operation, with low administrative cost. Although the maintenance and development of national IT systems is costly, in the case of e-Residency our return on investment is considerably higher. For every euro that Estonia spends on e-Residency, the programme generates 7.6 euros in return," explained Riisalo, adding that, for Estonia, e-Residency is not only a revenue machine marketed to foreigners, but a public e-service that also benefits a large number of local Estonian companies, service providers and entrepreneurs, delivering an additional boost to the national economy. | politics |
https://thecommunity1st.com/jessicakeen/ | 2023-03-28T18:52:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296948868.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20230328170730-20230328200730-00466.warc.gz | 0.970507 | 261 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__35383433 | en | re-Elect Councillor Keen
Jessica is a sitting Councillor representing Victoria Ward for North Sydney Council. Jessica was elected in the 2017 North Sydney Council election. Jessica is a businesswoman who has worked in the tourism sector for over 20 years.
Jessica is an active volunteer with many of the local sporting clubs and also for Mary’s House and Taldumande youth refuge.
Jessica graduated with a BA in Tourism Management from The University of Technology, Sydney and also holds a Diploma in Social Studies from Oxford University. Her career includes roles in private and public sector tourism organisations, both within Australia and overseas.
In addition, Jessica was appointed to the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust Board in June 2018 as the Local Government Representative and completed the term to June 2021. In 2018 Jessica joined ATEC’s in the role of National Industry Development & Capability Manager developing and implementing several training programs nationally. Jessica is currently a currently a non-executive Director of Tourism Training Australia, is a member of the SCG Members Advisory Group and is the community representative on the Neutral Bay Public School Council.
Jessica is very passionate about the local community and ensuring that local means local.
Jessica Keen is standing for election in the North Sydney Council elections on the 4.12.2021 | politics |
https://jacobyeung.com/singles-people | 2020-08-13T14:54:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439739046.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20200813132415-20200813162415-00578.warc.gz | 0.949955 | 124 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__77065518 | en | In September 2011, the Occupy movement starting in New York City and spread throughout many cities in the United States. Occupy was a collaboration of individuals and organizations, protesting against economic inequality, corporate greed, and its influence on the U.S. government. In Chicago, Occupy demonstrations were held mostly outside the Chicago Board of Trade in Chicago's financial district. Left: Taken in 2011, a man standing with other protesters outside the Chicago Board of Trade in the Chicago financial district. Right: Taken in 2011, a man plays on a makeshift drum kit, to gain attention for an Occupy Chicago demonstration in the financial district of Chicago. | politics |
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/13041 | 2016-02-07T21:53:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701151789.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193911-00077-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.937651 | 318 | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-07__0__111460551 | en | Northport, Alabama: Ronald Reagan Ate Here McDonald'sAfter a 1984 presidential campaign speech, regular-guy Reagan came here and asked, "What am I supposed to order?"
Northwood Shopping Center
- 2300 Mcfarland Blvd., Northport, AL
- I-359 into Tuscaloosa. The road turns into Hwy 13/Lurleen Wallace Blvd. Continue north across the river into Northport. About a mile north of the bridge, turn left onto Mcfarland Blvd/US Hwy 82. You'll see the McDonald's on the right. The Reagan display is to the right of the order counter, next to the men's room.
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Ronald Reagan Ate Here McDonald's
We attempted to find the concrete Ronald Reagan head alluded to in the photograph, and alas. The McDonald's we were directed to was indeed eaten in by RR, but it has been recently renovated, with flatscreen tvs and free wireless internet. There is a classy alcove behind glass next to the bathrooms with a bronze head, a plaque and a photo of him eating his Big Mac.[katy blanchard, 05/04/2007]
On October 15, 1984, President Ronald Reagan gave a campaign speech at the University of Alabama. Afterward, his motorcade pulled into the parking lot of the Northport McDonald's at the Northwood Shopping Center.... [05/12/2006] Complete News Story | politics |
http://english.cdpf.org.cn/MediaCenter/updates2/202207/t20220713_679664.shtml | 2022-10-05T02:23:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337531.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20221005011205-20221005041205-00475.warc.gz | 0.947452 | 535 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__261011130 | en | CDPF's 7th Presidium holds 5th plenary session
The China Disabled Persons’ Federation (CDPF) held the fifth plenary session of its seventh Presidium both online and offline on July 8. The work report delivered by President of the Executive Board Zhou Changkui was heard and adopted. Zhang Haidi, chairperson of the CDPF, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.
Zhang Haidi, chairperson of the China Disabled Persons’ Federation (CDPF), speaks at the fifth plenary session of the CDPF’s seventh Presidium, on July 8, 2022. [photo/ cdpf.org.cn]
Zhang pointed out that 2021 was a year of historical significance. The 7 million-plus people registered with a disability in China had shaken off absolute poverty and entered a moderately prosperous society. The central authorities stressed the need to accelerate disability undertakings and released the protection and development plan for the disabled during the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) period. The Chinese para-athletes excelled at the Tokyo Paralympic Games and the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, and won honors for the country and the people.
She stressed the importance of keeping pushing forward the construction of the University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, accelerating talent fostering and improving rehabilitation services and their capacity. She further stated that efforts were also needed to consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation for people with disabilities, improve care services and their quality of life, enhance employment services, and elevate barrier-free construction by leveraging the successful hosting of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Disabled persons’ federations across all levels were urged to full-heartedly serve persons with disabilities, strengthen team building and resolutely eliminate formalities and bureaucratism, while giving full play to the roles of associations and institutions of the disabled, perform their bridging role between the government and disabled people, and strive to include disability undertaking in the overall plan for socioeconomic development.
The China Disabled Persons’ Federation (CDPF) holds the fifth plenary session of its seventh Presidium both online and offline, on July 8, 2022. [photo/ cdpf.org.cn]
The meeting acknowledged the work of the Executive Board since 2021, which provided a good kick start for disability work in the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) period. It emphasized the need to fully implement the central authorities’ instructions on disability work and to propel high-quality and comprehensive developments to achieve common prosperity for people with disabilities. | politics |
https://www.douglascountypartnership.org/resolution/ | 2024-02-21T22:42:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473558.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221202132-20240221232132-00698.warc.gz | 0.913278 | 604 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__25141136 | en | RESOLUTION NO. R-008-186
A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING A PARTNERSHIP OF DOUGLAS COUNTY GOVERNMENTS AMONG THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF DOUGLAS COLORADO, THE CITY OF CASTLE PINES NORTH, THE TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK, THE TOWN OF LARKSPUR, THE CITY OF LONE TREE, THE TOWN OF PARKER, THE DOUGLAS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, THE DOUGLAS COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT, AND THE HIGHLANDS RANCH METRO DISTRICT.
WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the taxpayers and citizens of Douglas County to build relationships, foster communication and share information among local governmental entities;
WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the taxpayers and citizens of Douglas County for the Partnership of Douglas County Government (the “Partnership”) entities to work together where possible on projects and programs where two or more of the entities have a common interest; and
WHEREAS, the City of Castle Pines North and Highlands Ranch Metro District has asked to become a part of the Douglas County Partnership of Governments; and
WHEREAS, the Partnership was originally established in 2002 and it is appropriate to update the Partnership Resolution; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE Partnership of Douglas County Governments of COLORADO, AS FOLLOWS:
The Partnership of Douglas County Governments commits to achieve the following: Cost savings to the taxpayers of Douglas County and its municipalities; Improvements in operations; Programming efficiency, and/or Enhancement of the level of service currently being provided.
The Partnership of Douglas County Governments is established to include the following members: the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Douglas, the Cities of Castle Pines North and Lone Tree, the Town of Castle Rock, Larkspur and Parker, the Douglas County Libraries and the Highlands Ranch Metro District.
Partnership members will support this effort by providing staff and elected official representatives to the Partnership of Douglas County Governments and by sharing the meeting and facilitation costs of the committee.
The Partnership of Douglas County Governments shall adopt operational guidelines, which may be amended from time to time by the Partnership.
The Partnership of Douglas County Governments will communicate its efforts and successes to its constituents, to let the citizens of Douglas County and its municipalities know the importance and benefits of collaborative efforts.
Decisions by the Partnership of Douglas County Governments are made by informed consent; meaning that no member present at the regular meeting voices an objection to a course of action by the Partnership.
New members will be recommended, following the membership criteria in the Operation Guidelines, by the informed consent of the existing Partnership membership, and ratified by resolution by all parties.
Passed and adopted this 28th day of October 2008, in Castle Rock, Douglas County, Colorado. | politics |
https://www.bergli.ch/collections/all/products/helvetiq-the-swiss-game | 2024-02-29T12:21:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474808.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229103115-20240229133115-00406.warc.gz | 0.969703 | 200 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__12421482 | en | Boost your Swiss IQ!
The aim of the game: players race up to the mountain pasture. Along the way, they answer questions about Switzerland. The first to reach the queen cow wins the game!
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The particularity of the quiz game is that each card is double-sided and has two questions, each side with the answer to the other. Unlike Trivial, where remembering answers doesn't help you win the next time, HELVETIQ rewards learning by memorizing! Since the question cards remain in play the whole game, pay attention to each answer to increase your chances of wining.
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The aim of the game: Players make a political career from their community to the Federal Council. They try to increase their political influence by gaining positions of power and by proposing or implementing laws at the right time. Real politics with cards on the table, no underhandedness! | politics |
https://www.grwpcynefin.org/en/find-a-home/new-developments/hen-orsaf-bethesda/ | 2023-12-01T10:28:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100286.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201084429-20231201114429-00579.warc.gz | 0.955342 | 535 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__30803270 | en | £2.5m development in Bethesda.
Housing association Grŵp Cynefin have been working in partnership with Gwynedd Council and the Welsh Government on the construction of a £2.5m project to build a total of 17 new homes in Bethesda. The new development is called Llety’r Adar.
The social housing development, conveniently located to public transport, recreational fields and the Lon Las Ogwen cycle route, includes 8 two-bedroom properties, 5 two-bedroom bungalows, 3 three-bedroom houses and 1 four-bedroom home.
The homes are to be let on a social housing basis, with the development a partnership project between Grŵp Cynefin and Gwynedd Council, partially funded through a social housing grant from the Welsh Government.
“Real need for housing”
Innovation and Growth Director at Grŵp Cynefin, which owns and manages 4,800 properties across all six north Wales counties as well as northern Powys, Mel Evans said:
“There is a real need for housing families and couples within this community, so this development will support those looking to remain living in the area who may have struggled to find affordable housing in the past.
“Great interest in these new homes”
Councillor Craig ab Iago, Gwynedd Council’s Cabinet Member for Housing, said:
“The development will offer 17 new homes in Dyffryn Ogwen – offering a range different sized housing to suit different needs. It is clear that there is great interest in these new homes and I look forward to seeing local residents moving in soon.”
Once a major meeting point in the town, Grŵp Cynefin are keen to honour as much of the site’s heritage as is possible. Bethesda’s former railway station, which shut in 1963, as well as the old Bethesda Athletic FC and Bethesda RFC clubhouses formerly sat on the site and have now been moved to other locations with re-investment.
“Help people to continue to live and prosper in the area.”
Gwynedd Councillors, Rheinallt Puw and Paul Rowlinson who represent local residents in the Bethesda area said: “There is a real need for such homes here in Dyffryn Ogwen, that will help people to continue to live and prosper in the area.
“It is an ideal location, close to the facilities on the high street, the surgery, the bus route and Lôn Las Ogwen. | politics |
http://2015.mipex.eu/immigration-related-political-culture-and-support-radical-right-parties | 2022-12-05T14:49:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711017.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20221205132617-20221205162617-00539.warc.gz | 0.926536 | 183 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__10881937 | en | Radical right parties are not equally successful across or within all countries. Most studies have up to now relied on socio-economic, socio-structural and political factors to explain these differences. We examine whether the immigration-related political culture – consisting of integration policies and shared conservative values – in which voters are embedded influences radical right voting. We argue that more exclusive immigration-culture is related to more support for radical right parties. Furthermore, the relationship between immigration attitudes and radical right support is expected to be moderated by immigration-culture. With multilevel regression models using data from the 2011 Swiss Electoral Studies (SELECTS) we compare the effect of immigration-culture in 26 Swiss cantons. We find that cantonal immigration-culture (assessed with integration regimes and shared conservative beliefs) increases radical right support and the effect of individuals' immigration attitude on radical right support is stronger when immigration-culture is exclusive. | politics |
https://help.bonfire.com/en/articles/3195485-political-campaigns-on-bonfire | 2024-02-22T11:52:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473738.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222093910-20240222123910-00039.warc.gz | 0.904576 | 191 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__172002559 | en | Raising money for a political campaign can be difficult because of the Federal Election Commission’s many regulations. In order to fundraise for a political campaign on Bonfire, request to enable political Campaign features.
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https://eafsjnews.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/free-news1st-april/ | 2020-07-16T16:12:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657172545.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20200716153247-20200716183247-00309.warc.gz | 0.908545 | 467 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__99537122 | en | AFSJ (data protection): ‘Facebook tracking said to breach EU law'(EUObserver): Facebook is tracking users, both on and offline, contravening EU privacy rules, according to a report.
AFSJ (PNR):’Mexico backs off airline sanction threat on PNR’ (EUOBSERVER): Mexico has backed off its 1 April deadline for EU-based airline carriers to transfer passenger name record (PNR) details or face $30,000 fines for each flight to the country. Mexican tax authorities in a statement on Tuesday said the new deadline is 1 July to allow for EU-level negotiations.
ASFJ (Cybersecurity): ‘Cyber security directive held up in face of ‘Wild West’ Internet’ (Euractiv): ‘Disagreements between member states are holding up proposals for pan-European cyber security rules, whilst experts warn that the threat from an anarchic Internet is increasing.’
AFSJ (migration): ‘African envoy expresses concern over EU migrant center plans’ (NewEurope): African Union’s envoy to the European Union says EU plans to process migrants in the countries they leave or transit on their way to Europe is “a dangerous approach.”
AFSJ (Terrorism): ‘France and Germany want clampdown on terrorist financing’ (EUOBSERVER): ‘France and Germany have urged the EU to clamp down on the financing of terrorism, reports the WSJ. “Co-ordination at the European level is essential since national-level freezes may be easily circumvented due to the open nature of the European market,” a joint letter says.
AFSJ (Freedom of expression): Trócsányi: ‘There are different interpretations of democracy’: ‘Critics of Hungary “lack objectivity” and it is a “fantasy” to say the press is not free in this country, said László Trócsányi, Hungary’s Minister of Justice. The Orbán loyalist maintains that democracy can exist in both neo-liberal and “more conservative” contexts (… ) (Euractiv) | politics |
https://www.juntohealth.org/blog-posts/planned-parenthood | 2024-02-26T17:53:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474661.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226162136-20240226192136-00880.warc.gz | 0.949745 | 872 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__200477558 | en | Member Feature: Planned Parenthood
One of our members, Planned Parenthood, has been in the news constantly lately. Currently under siege by the government, Planned Parenthood is facing a potential devastating loss of funding.
At Junto Health, we recognize the impact that the loss of Planned Parenthood would have on health technology innovation. A goal of Planned Parenthood is to provide up-to-date, clear information to give women and men the tools they need to protect their health. A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that blocking patients from going to Planned Parenthood in Texas was associated with a 35% decline in women in publicly funded programs using the most effective methods of birth control and a dramatic 27% increase in births among women who had previously accessed injectable contraception through those programs.
With Planned Parenthood addressing 85% of well woman needs, individuals who would otherwise not have access to the latest technology such as birth control and period tracker apps and new and advanced birth control implantations.
75% of Planned Parenthood patients that have incomes at or below 150 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) should not be left without access to well woman care. The defunding of Planned Parenthood would cause this to occur.
Planned Parenthood provides a unique opportunity for new technology to reach a variety of demographics and individuals in all walks of life. It is our strong belief that advancements in health technology should not be limited just to the wealthy, but should be accessible to everyone.
Interview with National Director Tanya Harris
The National Director of Planned Parenthood, Tanya Harris, took some time out of her busy schedule to provide us with some further details about the impact that Planned Parenthood has on healthcare.
Where does most of Planned Parenthood’s funding come from?
Tanya Harris (TH): Just like hospitals and other providers, Planned Parenthood receives Medicaid reimbursement for the preventive care they provide, including birth control and cancer screenings. Since federal funds cannot go towards abortion, Planned Parenthood does not receive Medicaid reimbursement for abortion. The term defunding Planned Parenthood is a misnomer. There is no blank check that Planned Parenthood gets from the federal government, and it’s not a line item in the federal budget. This legislation instead blocks people from accessing cancer screenings, birth control, HIV and STI testing, and other preventive and essential care at Planned Parenthood health centers.
What is Planned Parenthood’s greatest concern with potential changes to the ACA?
TH: In the only non-ACA provision of the bill, the House GOP proposed to specifically block people with Medicaid coverage from accessing preventive health care at Planned Parenthood health centers, including birth control, cancer screenings, and STD testing and treatment. Of all of the Medicaid providers and hospitals that provide reproductive care -- including abortion -- the White House is singling out Planned Parenthood and threatening the care of their patients.
Their proposal would dictate to women what care they can receive, and where they can go for care. The bill would also significantly restructure and slash funding for the Medicaid program, which low-income women and people of color disproportionately rely on for health care.
We know that Planned Parenthood is an important safety net when it comes to providing low-economic status individuals with healthcare. How do you think the overall healthcare system should be improved to provide greater coverage to everyone?
TH: Fifty-four percent of Planned Parenthood health centers are in health professional shortage areas, rural or medically underserved areas. Planned Parenthood health centers provide preventive health care to many who otherwise would have nowhere to turn for care. When lawmakers in Louisiana, Ohio, and Florida tried to block access to Planned Parenthood in the past, they suggested women could go to alternative providers for reproductive health care, including dentists, food banks, nursing homes, ENTs, elementary schools, rehabs, and retirement homes.
Blocking access to Planned Parenthood hurts people in communities who are struggling to get by the most – especially those with low incomes and those living in areas with no other quality health care providers. This disproportionately impacts people who already face structural barriers to accessing care including people of color, immigrants, young people, and members of the LGBTQ community -- with those whose identities overlap facing multiple barriers.
If you wish to stand with Planned Parenthood and let Congress know that you do not support defunding measures sign-up here. | politics |
http://thingswelikebyjoelanddaniel.blogspot.com/2010/11/ivy-mike.html | 2018-05-26T08:15:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867374.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20180526073410-20180526093410-00579.warc.gz | 0.939216 | 157 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__147416155 | en | I'm a sucker for history. Yesterday marked the 58th anniversary of the detonation of the very first hydrogen bomb. Back in 1952, the United States detonated "Ivy Mike" off of the remote Marshall Islands in the Pacific. Though the US had tested and deployed atomic bombs in World War II, Ivy Mike was the first true hydrogen bomb. The mushroom cloud, seen above, rose to 57,000 feet in a mere 90 seconds, eventually peaking at 120,000 feet. Half an hour after the detonation, the mushroom covered an expanse 60 miles wide.
In other history making news, today is Election Day. Regardless of what party you support, I think you should get out and vote. We are lucky to have the freedom to elect our government officials. | politics |
http://www.donation4charity.org/blog/2010/poverty/christian-aid-supporter-day-wednesday-20th-october-2010/ | 2016-09-29T15:13:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-40/segments/1474738661900.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160924173741-00010-ip-10-143-35-109.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.922584 | 223 | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-40__0__59456491 | en | Don’t forget it’s the Christian Aid UK Supporters Day in London on Wednesday 20th October 2010. This is by far the biggest day in the Christian Aid calendar, with more than 2000 supporters coming together to rally and worship at the Methodist Central Hall and Parliament in London between 11am-6pm. Those speaking include –
- Christian Aid Director Loretta Minghella
- Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP
- Indian Vasudha Foundation Partner Srinivas Krishnaswamy
- Council for the Churches of Zambia Suzanne Matale
and special guest speaker the Reverend Jesse Jackson
There will also be a number of workshops about major campaigning issues, followed by a walk to Parliament to lobby MP’s about key human rights issues. There are already 370 constituencies signed up, so there will be a great range of MP’s to speak to about the Christian Aid cause. So if you’re in the area, why not pop in and find out what’s going on in what will be one of Christian Aid’s biggest rallies of the year. | politics |
https://jameswasserman.photoshelter.com/image/I0000h13i_B029k0 | 2018-12-18T15:11:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376829429.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20181218143757-20181218165757-00175.warc.gz | 0.964778 | 133 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__203086410 | en | A Uighur woman on the banks of the Peacock River in Korla Xinjiang. As part of the city?s plan on extending its modern water front the old original Uighur part of town is being torn down. As is frequently the case in China compensation for these forced relocations is minimal and does not ensure that the dispossessed are able to stay in the original area. As the city has developed around them these Uighurs ,once a majority in this city are becoming more impoverished and less secure. The Uighurs are becoming marginalized by the rapid growth of the more prosperous Han Chinese who are immigrating from the east. | politics |
https://gpo.ca/2019/08/23/schreiner-responds-to-fords-comments-on-carbon-tax-lawsuit/ | 2022-08-07T21:43:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570730.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807211157-20220808001157-00302.warc.gz | 0.954312 | 155 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__30368194 | en | QUEEN’S PARK — Green Party of Ontario Leader, Mike Schreiner, released the following statement after the Premier suggested he might walk back his carbon tax lawsuit:
“This lawsuit was political theatre from the get-go, with the vast majority of legal experts predicting it to fail.
But what’s really causing the Premier to consider backing down is people’s overwhelming desire for climate leadership.
No one wants a Premier who will waste tax dollars sabotaging solutions when the local and global impacts of climate change are becoming more and more dire.
Putting himself on the side of polluters and climate denial was a losing strategy from the outset and I’m not surprised the Premier is already eyeing up an exit plan.” | politics |
https://terryfoxawards.ca/our-story/ | 2019-06-25T21:52:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999948.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20190625213113-20190625235113-00043.warc.gz | 0.975086 | 550 | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-26__0__89275469 | en | The Terry Fox Humanitarian Award Program was established in 1982 in honour of Terry Fox, one of Canada’s most beloved heroes. Upon his passing on June 28, 1981, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau addressed the House of Commons saying:
It occurs very rarely in the life of a nation that the courageous spirit of one person unites all people in the celebration of his life and in the mourning of his death.
He noted that Terry gave far more to his country than his country was able to give to him. Echoing the sentiments of an entire nation that was mourning Terry’s death, Trudeau added:
Canadians wanted desperately for Terry to live to win his personal battle against the ravages of cancer. Yet it does not occur to any of us to look upon his death as a defeat or failure…we do not think of him as one who was defeated by misfortune but as one who inspired us with the example of the triumph of the human spirit over adversity.
In his lifetime, Terry had captured the hearts of Canadians all across the expansive country. At a time when globalization was just an idea, Terry’s spirit touched countless numbers around the world. To this day, he is widely recognized all over the world for his extraordinary sense of purpose and the ideals of courage, determination, and altruism. Terry represented all of these things and more to millions of people. The desire to recognize and commemorate his extraordinary life and his remarkable contribution to the cause of cancer awareness and research and to his country as an outstanding citizen, athlete, and humanitarian was the impetus for the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award Program.
Through the Department of Fitness and Amateur Sport and the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Government of Canada generously laid the foundation for our scholarships, respectively, through two endowments of $5 million in 1982, and another $10 million in 2006. The endowments were, and continue to be, viewed as an investment in Canadians.
Our scholarships are intended to inspire and encourage young Canadians to seek the high ideal that Terry Fox exemplified, through the pursuit of higher education.
The award itself reads:
In recognition of having demonstrated the highest ideals and qualities of citizenship and humanitarian service while in pursuit of excellence in academic, amateur sport, fitness, health, and voluntary community service. In so doing has reflected those ideals of courage, humanitarianism, service and compassion, which Terry Fox embodied.
Our hope at the Terry Fox Humanitarian Program is to honour the legacy of Terry Fox by edifying and creating a spark in Canadians to continue the work that Terry started, those who not only believe in a better world but strive to contribute and, in doing so, emulate Terry Fox’s legacy. | politics |
https://www.reachingmuslimpeoples.com/intercede-2021/the-jonah-in-all-of-us | 2024-03-04T17:39:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476464.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20240304165127-20240304195127-00438.warc.gz | 0.994552 | 109 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__33447195 | en | The Jonah in All of Us
2018 Vol. 6: Nov/Dec
A few years ago a pastor in the Middle East was imprisoned by the dictator of his country. Upon Pastor *Majid’s release, members of his extended clan, who had fled to the safety of the West, urged him and his wife and children to join them. Bombs randomly exploded near his front door, pressure from Islamic extremists mounted, and the future was bleak. Members of his congregation regularly fled the country in hopes of finding a better life. | politics |
http://abogadopaniotto.blogspot.com/ | 2018-07-18T08:54:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676590074.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20180718080513-20180718100513-00440.warc.gz | 0.957222 | 254 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__35791050 | en | Trump administration ending protections for more than 200,000 Salvadorans in U.S., but giving time for a transition
About 262,000 Salvadorans living in the U.S. will lose the temporary legal status that many have enjoyed for almost two decades, the Trump administration announced on Monday.
The Department of Homeland Security's decision, which has been widely anticipated with deep anxiety in Salvadoran communities, said immigrants covered by "temporary protected status" will have until Sept. 9, 2019, to arrange a return or, in some cases, to apply for alternative legal means of staying in the U.S. The population covered by the temporary status includes nearly 30,000 people in the Los Angeles region.
Administration officials said conditions in El Salvador have improved markedly since 2001, when the Bush administration first made the special protections available in the wake of two earthquakes that devastated the small Central American country.
"Schools and hospitals damaged by the earthquakes have been reconstructed and repaired, homes have been rebuilt, and money has been provided for water and sanitation and to repair earthquake-damaged roads and other infrastructure. The substantial disruption of living conditions caused by the earthquake no longer exist," Homeland Security officials said in a statement.
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https://en.dunyatimes.com/article/EU-refugee-funding-lagging-German-development-minister-Bmx5Jrfm.html | 2021-06-22T21:09:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488519735.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20210622190124-20210622220124-00125.warc.gz | 0.957777 | 518 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__177384181 | en | EU refugee funding lagging: German development minister
Germany’s minister for economic cooperation and development Friday criticized the EU's method of delivering funds for refugee care, as pledged under an agreement this March between the EU and Ankara.
Speaking to German daily Augsburger Allgemeine, Gerd Muller echoed Turkey's criticisms that the EU has so far delivered a relatively small sum of money for the refugees’ care.
The delivery of such aid shouldn't take a year, said Muller, saying that to date only €800 million euros ($844.1 million) out of a pledged €3 billion ($3.16 billion) has been sent.
"We have a problem on the EU side. So I recommended to Brussels that the EU aid would be applied by Germany as part of Turkish-German cooperation," he said.
"Turkey does a very good job caring for refugees," he added.
Separately, Muller said that Germany has hired 8,000 Syrian teachers since September to instruct Syrian children.
Turkey hosts some 3 million Syrian refugees, the largest number in the world, and so far has spent more than $20-$25 billion on their care, according to Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim.
Syria has remained locked in a vicious civil war since early 2011, when the Bashar al-Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protests with unexpected ferocity.
Since then, more than 250,000 people have been killed and more than 10 million displaced, according to UN figures.
Turkey and the EU signed a refugee deal this March to discourage irregular migration through the Aegean Sea by cracking down on human traffickers and improving the conditions of the refugees in Turkey.
The deal also allowed for the acceleration of Turkey’s EU membership bid and visa-free travel for Turkish nationals in the Schengen area.
However, in the months since, Turkey’s EU accession has remained stalled, and the union has not extended visa liberalization, saying Turkey has not fulfilled the requirements for doing so.
On Nov. 24, the European Parliament approved a non-binding motion to freeze Turkey’s EU membership talks with Turkey.
In response, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that Turkey could open its borders and allow refugees into the EU.
The EU countries' leaders are also set to evaluate relations with Turkey at next week’s EU summit on Dec. 15-16.
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https://www.ram-page.net/post/rams-take-on-mandatory-mask-mandate | 2023-11-28T14:15:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679099514.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20231128115347-20231128145347-00615.warc.gz | 0.950762 | 328 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__155826576 | en | Trista Smith '24
On August 20th Sarasota County School board passed a 90-day mandatory mask policy for all students. All students must wear masks while at school unless the student has an approved medical exemption. The mandate will be dropped if the positivity rate in the country is below 8% for 3 straight days. The mandate returns if the positivity rate then rises above 10%.
Some parents were not happy with this decision. Many parents spoke against the mandate saying that a child's healthcare should be left up to the parent rather than dictated by the school. Other parents were for the mask mandate, citing public health concerns.
Before school started, Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis declared that wearing masks must be the parent’s choice. In his order, he said that if schools mandate masks, there must be a way for parents to opt-out.
The Sarasota School Board voted 3-2 on the mask issue. Voting against were Bridget Ziegler and Karen Rose. Voting to create the mandate were Shirley Brown, Tom Edwards, and Jane Goodwin.
Five other school districts have defied DeSantis and created mask mandates including Alachua, Broward, Palm Beach, Miami-Dade and the most recent Hillsborough County.
The school board meeting lasted close to 5 hours and included outside comments in addition to parent opinions. The School Board considered three options, the winning 90-day mask mandate with no opt-out except for medical exemptions, a mask mandate for students with opt-out at the request of the parent, and a mask mandate only for employees. | politics |
http://ugec2014.squarespace.com/fie-yu-kuo | 2017-08-22T14:45:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886110792.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20170822143101-20170822163101-00574.warc.gz | 0.933272 | 156 | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-34__0__70456162 | en | Fie-Yu Kuo, National Development Council, Taipei Taiwan
Presentation Title: National climate change adaptation policy and initiatives of the local adaptation plan for Taiwan
After the adoption of the Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in Taiwan by the Executive Yuan of Taiwan in 2012, the National Development Council initiated pilot studies of local adaptation plan development and implementation for two municipalities. The Planning Guidelines for Local Adaptation Plans was also drafted to direct other municipalities in their own adaptation planning efforts.
Currently, seventeen municipalities in Taiwan have received financial support from the National Development Council and have already finished their adaptation plans under the supervision of an expert team. At present, the national government of Taiwan is preparing for the second stage, promoting the implementation of action plans for climate change adaptation within local governments. | politics |
https://federalcharacter.com/utomi-steps-down-hands-over-torch-to-obi/ | 2022-06-25T11:02:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103034930.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220625095705-20220625125705-00462.warc.gz | 0.986457 | 266 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__203652237 | en | Professor Pat Utomi, the former presidential aspirant attached to the All Progressives Congress (APC) party has recently made an announcement, stating his intention to step down for Mr. Peter Obi at the ongoing presidential primaries of the Labor Party (LP). He announced the primaries themselves and explained that he had made the decision based on the fact that a younger aspirant was needed; one who had the energy and capacity to effect the change Nigeria sorely needed.
As of the time of writing, the primaries are currently held in Asaba, Delta State, and another aspirant, the 45-year-old Joseph Faduri has also backed off, clearing the way for Peter Obi to ascend. To lend further credence to the sincerity of his words, Prof. Utomi along with others were spotted accompanying Mr. Obi as he made his grand entrance to the venue of the Labor Party Convention.
It must be recalled that these actions are taking place just one week after Mr. Obi decamped from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and joined the Labor Party, citing conflict of interests and a deep desire to rework Nigeria as reasons for the switch. It remains to be seen whether the former Governor of Anambra state can nab the ticket of his party and get one step closer to achieving his goals. | politics |
http://canterburyhub.co.uk/starter-homes-for-first-time-home-buyers/ | 2018-08-16T20:14:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221211167.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20180816191550-20180816211550-00621.warc.gz | 0.948011 | 561 | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__196920063 | en | Good news for all first time home buyers!
British Prime Minister David Cameron announced in a recent speech that he will be spearheading the overhaul of Whitehall and town hall planning rules!
So how does this affect you and your chances of owning your very own home? A lot.
Current laws restrict builders from building and offering low cost houses; but under his proposed changes, Prime Minister Cameron aims to speed up the process of releasing public lands for residential purposes and improve planning laws. These changes are earmarked to produce 200,000 starter homes by 2020 and they will be sold at a 20 per cent discount for first time home buyers under 40 years old.
Cameron hopes that his plan can help turn “generation rent” into “generation buy.”
So far, there has been positive feedback on the announcement, but many are saying that 200,000 start homes may not be enough for current demand.
Mark Hayward, managing director of the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA), points out that sale of houses to first time home buyers are still continuing to drop, despite the existence of first time home buyer schemes such as the “Help to Buy.” And he claims that lack of infrastructure is the cause of this slowdown in sales.
Lawrence Hall of online property portal Zoopla seconds the call for the construction of more starter homes, since the UK’s demand for housing grows every year.
As a solution, Luke Jooste, head of real estate finance at Funding Circle, suggests that the government should fund more small time developers in order to meet the high demand for low cost housing.
Joote shared that large developers only meet 50 to 60 per cent of actual market demand, but small builders can’t fill up the gap because lenders refuse to lend them the money for startup capital.
British Property Federation (BPF) has urged the Government to focus on delivery of all housing tenures, not just houses for sale.
BPF argues that although renting has been seen negatively by many politicians, creating purpose built rental properties can help in increasing the number of dwelling available for occupation. Melanie Leech, chief executive of the British Property Federation mentioned as examples Germany and the United States as examples where rental markets thrive hand in hand with residential houses.
In my opinion, I believe that it’s about time that the government take positive steps to build low cost houses. They’ve already introduced financing programs to help first time buyers get enough deposit money, but its purpose may not be achieved if there are no houses to buy in the first place.
UK’s housing problems aren’t impossible to solve if responsible measures are taken to ensure the supply of houses meet ever growing demand. | politics |
https://www.immunizeca.org/iz-advocacy/ | 2024-04-13T09:11:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816587.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413083102-20240413113102-00021.warc.gz | 0.905524 | 244 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__96427903 | en | Working Together For Improved Immunization Rates Across the Lifespan
The California Immunization Coalition has a direct interest in legislative and regulatory matters that affect immunization issues. The Coalition communicates relevant and accurate information to our members, partners, and the media.
CIC is a nonpartisan organization and does not make political endorsements. CIC, does, however, take support or oppose positions on specific immunization-related bills and regulations when there is consensus among CIC Board of Directors, and when the issue is of critical importance and consistent with the mission of the Coalition.
Individual Coalition members supporting or proposing legislation must obtain approval from the Board of Directors before identifying his/her affiliation with the Coalition.
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- Show your support of strong state and federal policies (Vaccinate Your Family)
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- California Legislative Information homepage
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- California Bill Search
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- California Conference of Local Health Officers (CCLHO)
Vaccine Policy Toolkit – National Conference on State Legislatures (NCSL) | politics |
http://www.aboutamericanow.com/charlottesville-violent-clashes-over-us-far-right-rally-bbc-news/ | 2018-07-17T19:04:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589892.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20180717183929-20180717203929-00221.warc.gz | 0.96878 | 214 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__142825705 | en | One person has been killed amid violent clashes between white nationalists attending a far-right march and protesters in the US state of Virginia.
The mayor of Charlottesville said he was “heartbroken” at the loss.
It is not clear if the death came after a car rammed a crowd of opponents of the far-right rally.
The “Unite the Right” march was called to protest against plans to remove a statue of a Civil War general. A state of emergency has been declared.
It enables police to mobilise resources.
President Donald Trump condemned the violence on Twitter saying: “We ALL must be united & condemn all that hate stands for. There is no place for this kind of violence in America. Lets come together as one!”
Video posted on social media showed a car ploughing at speed into several slow-moving vehicles, which were surrounded by a densely packed crowd. Emergency services were pictured treating a number of people who were injured.
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https://cherhillvillagehall.org/the-story | 2021-12-08T08:43:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363465.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20211208083545-20211208113545-00482.warc.gz | 0.983782 | 428 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__205595745 | en | It was the offer of a land donation in 2014 which suddenly made a new hall possible and a project team was formed to move things forward. Extensive investigations determined that the land being offered was the only suitable site for a new hall. An architectural competition was won by world famous Make Architects and their design evolved through feedback from the village into an attractive, sustainable building in sympathy with its setting but offering the village modern facilities for years to come.
It was decided to use a Community Right to Build Order (CRtBO) to get approval to build and a series of surveys and studies were commissioned by the project team as part of this process – the first time it has been used in Wiltshire although many similar projects have been approved throughout the country. The design proposal, together with all the surveys and studies, went through an exhaustive public consultation process and then an independent inspector was appointed by Wiltshire Council to review the proposal and ensure that it was compliant with all the relevant legislation and planning regulations. The inspector approved the proposal without a single amendment.
The final stage of the CRtBO process was a referendum which was held in March 2019. The referendum was conducted by Wiltshire Council using the same protocols as for a local or parliamentary election and all residents aged 18 and over of Cherhill Ward, as defined in Wiltshire Council’s Area Designation Notice, were eligible to vote. The question asked in the referendum was: “Do you want the development in the community right to build order for Cherhill to have planning permission?” : 191 people voted ‘Yes’ and 106 voted ‘No’, or 64% of those who voted were in favour of the proposal.
As a result of the positive result in the referendum the CRtBO was ‘made’ and planning permission for the new hall was granted. Fundraising is now underway. The freehold of the current village hall and the land on which it stands is held by Cherhill Village Hall Charitable Incorporated Organisation and the proceeds of selling the site will be used to help finance the new hall. | politics |
http://provost.tamu.edu/Essentials/Free-Speech-and-the-Right-to-Associate | 2020-02-20T14:27:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875144979.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20200220131529-20200220161529-00505.warc.gz | 0.909403 | 177 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__158367275 | en | Free Speech and the Right to Associate
Texas A&M University is a public university. As such, faculty and staff are government actors (also known as state actors). The U.S. Constitution and, in particular, First (freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, petition), Fourth (protections against unreasonable searches and seizures), and Fourteenth (due process and equal protection) Amendment rights are guaranteed when government actors (faculty and staff) interact with individuals (students). The constitutional dimension of the university/student relationship is no more evident than in the First Amendment rights of free speech and the freedom to associate.
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AAU Presidents and Chancellors Reaffirm Commitment to Free Speech on Campus
APLU Statement on Public Universities’ Commitment to Free Speech | politics |
http://www.burlingtonpac.ca/media/press-releases.html | 2013-06-19T19:26:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.909739 | 152 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__181645477 | en | Economic Action Plan initiative will create jobs while setting the stage for arts and culture in Burlington
2 December 2011
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today visited the new Burlington Performing Arts Centre. Funded in part through Canada’s Economic Action Plan, the new year-round performing arts centre and adjoining pedestrian bridge are generating growth and employment while providing a gathering place for the community to enjoy live professional arts performances and participate in cultural activities.
“Our Government is proud to be contributing to this world-class cultural venue that will create local jobs and stimulate economic growth,” said the Prime Minister. “The Burlington Performing Arts Centre will also contribute to a stronger community by fostering artistic creativity and cultural participation.”
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https://ldicp.org/about-our-logo/ | 2023-03-23T11:33:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945144.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20230323100829-20230323130829-00472.warc.gz | 0.949479 | 191 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__156782615 | en | Our logo was created by the multiple award-wining artist Frank Caruso. Below he speaks of the designing process in creating the LDICP logo.
“In designing the logo for the Legislative Drafting Institute for Child Protection, we wanted the image to reflect the tone of the organization. It also needed to visually communicate the importance of the work to be done, which is, ultimately, protecting children.”
“The pen nib reflects the legislation that the institute will generate in the name of child protection. After researching pen nibs, we found that there were some designs where the vent hole looked like a silhouette of a person. Taking advantage of the negative space, we turned our vent hole into a child with arms raised in celebration. With a strong tone of blue, the logo speaks to the work, the goals, and the strength of the Legislative Drafting Institute for Child Protection.”
– Frank Caruso | politics |
https://shareallweb.com/discussions/index.php?threads/florida-secretary-of-state-michael-ertel-resigns-after-racist-photos-surface.102/ | 2021-09-23T03:37:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057416.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20210923013955-20210923043955-00696.warc.gz | 0.945163 | 111 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__212471252 | en | Photo via @SunSentinel
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Michael Ertel, the newly appointed secretary of state of Gov. Ron DeSantis, has resigned after photos emerged of him posing as a Hurricane Katrina victim in blackface at a private Halloween party 14 years ago | politics |
https://futureprofessorsprogramme.co.za/?popuppress=dr-candice-moore | 2023-12-01T04:20:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100264.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201021234-20231201051234-00653.warc.gz | 0.943116 | 140 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__63170194 | en | Dr Candice Moore, University of the Witwatersrand
Dr Candice Moore is a political scientist with a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2012). Her primary interests are in the development of International Relations theory from the Global South, South Africa’s foreign policy, as well as the foreign policy of Brazil. She was a South African delegation member to the BRICS Academic Forum in Durban (2013) and Rio de Janeiro (2014). She represented the South African BRICS Think Tank Forum in Beijing (2014). Dr Moore has served as Editor-in-Chief of African Security Review (2017–2019). She holds a Y2 NRF rating. | politics |
https://readkutub.wordpress.com/2007/05/ | 2020-07-15T09:30:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657163613.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20200715070409-20200715100409-00048.warc.gz | 0.935972 | 174 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__199604720 | en | On May 7th,2007 we discussed Sonallah Ibrahim’s novel Zaat, an ironic tale of the life of an Egyptian woman across the years.
Sonallah Ibrahim’s use of black humor reaches a crescendo in his 1992 novel Zaat, which follows the life of an Egyptian woman, Zaat, through the presidential eras of Nasser, Anwar al-Sadat, and Hosni Mubarak. Interspersed with Zaat’s story is a montage of press extracts—headlines, news items, photo captions and advertisements—that capture ephemeral absurdities. In one, Mubarak is quoted as saying, “We should not be ashamed that there are poor people in Egypt. What we should do is work to make our country appear suitably civilized because we need to attract tourists.” | politics |
http://www.dgs.maryland.gov/state/idbadges.html | 2014-04-18T18:10:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609535095.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005215-00621-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.944364 | 498 | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-15__0__148168711 | en | State ID Badges
The Department of General Services puts a premium on safety at all of the buildings it owns or maintains. More than 1 million tourists, legislators, lobbyists and members of the media do business in DGS-maintained buildings such as the historic State House, the oldest state capital in continuous legislative use.
To ensure public safety, DGS’ police force is responsible for issuing identification cards to the various groups who do business with the State within its buildings. Visitors are not eligible to receive these identification cards, but it is easy to gain access to DGS facilities without such a card. Visitors must have a valid driver’s license or other form of approved identification such as a a Motor Vehicle Administration issued ID card or a passport and must proceed through safety Magnetometers in some buildings. Upon successfully doing so, visitors are given a daily DGS adhesive visitors pass which they must keep them with while in DGS facilities. This gives visitors access to all public places such as Senate and House committee rooms where they may be testifying on behalf of legislation, listening to testimony, watching Senate or House proceedings from the balconies of the State House or just touring the historic facilities.
For those who do regular business with the State, most are eligible to receive laminated identification badges. No one is allowed into a State building without an identification badge.
State employees must contact their agencies’ personnel office for a form to be filled out with basic information before getting their picture taken at a DGS ID Center (see below for more information). There is no cost to State employees for these badges.
Members of the media also must be approved for laminated badges. There is no cost for members of accredited media. There is a $50 per year cost for registered lobbyists, non-registered lobbyists, local (municipal or county) government staff and union staff. There is also a $15 cost for contractors. For all who receive laminated badges, there is a $50 first-timer, replacement cost, $100 for second-time replacement cost and $250 for third- and subsequent replacement costs.
Laminated identification badges are processed in two locations:
29 St. Johns Street
Annapolis, MD 21401
(410) 260-2941 or (410) 260-2942
201 W. Preston Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
(410) 767-2401 or (410) 767-1910 | politics |
https://www.tymoff.com/content/MjcwOA | 2021-07-30T10:23:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046153966.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20210730091645-20210730121645-00007.warc.gz | 0.973593 | 191 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__268362517 | en | Minister of railways, commerce and industry (India) Piyush Goyal said that the UAE companies, which will be coordinated by Dubai-based real estate giant Emaar Group, plan to invest up to $5 billion in mega food parks and similar facilities in Indian cities. They also aim to invest up to $2 billion in contract farming, sourcing of farm products and other related infrastructure, emirate's state-run WAM news agency said. The ambitious food corridor project is also expected to further strengthen India's exports of food products to the Gulf state, which is estimated at $2.5 billion per annum. Media reports had earlier indicated that the Gulf state has already identified 20 food products that are needed in the country in large quantities, which could be imported from India. Food Parks, Logistics Facilities Earlier on Monday, the minister said that seventeen UAE companies have confirmed their investment in India's infrastructure projects in the last year. | politics |
https://thescoopnews.com/news/articles/493/gop-asks-council-of-nine-to-find-new-candidate | 2024-02-29T08:27:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474795.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229071243-20240229101243-00406.warc.gz | 0.950722 | 940 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__201983192 | en | WASHINGTON, DC – As the Republican Party struggles to identify a viable presidential candidate, party leaders have summoned the Council of Nine.
The Council of Nine, an ancient and powerful order of Republican leaders, will now convene to pick, or if need be, conjure, a new Presidential candidate.
“Desperate times call for desperate measures,” said Republican strategist Gabriel Henderson. “The base hates Mitt (Romney) and Newt (Gingrich) is a fucking sociopath. Don’t even get me started on Santorum. How it came to this I have no idea. The one remotely intelligent and stable guy we put out there, (John) Huntsman, couldn’t get more than 20 votes in any given city. So what do we have now? We have (Romney) talking about how super-mega-rich people and bands are just like everyone else, and (Newt) talking about moon bases. It’s gonna be a bloodbath unless the almighty Council can help us.”
The Council of Nine – the Republican Party’s most wise, ancient and mystical members – is made up of the following members; Walt Disney’s brain, Ted Nugent, Alternate Universe Sean Penn, a baby that was not aborted, the ghost of President William Harrison, the original Dick Cheney, Nathan Bedford Forrest (founder of the KKK), Mark Lewis (an elementary school superintendant from Lexington, TN), and a lamp.
This gathering of the Council will mark the first time since 2008 that the Council of Nine has been called together.
“When I got the call I was down in Haiti knocking down shelters and poisoning water supplies,” said Alternate Universe Sean Penn. “But I’m glad (the Council of Nine has) been called. We need to figure this shit out now or come November, the Republicans are going to be fucked. Fucked! We can’t let that happen. I can’t go through another four years of that Communist (Barrack) Obama being in office. We need to stop that guy. We also need to destroy Haiti.”
Faced with growing dissatisfaction with both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, Republican leaders were pressed to call upon the Council of Nine for guidance.
Last week Speaker of the House John Boehner summoned the council by blowing the Horn of Cartet.
“By blowing into this mighty horn, the Council of Nine will heed the call of the Nation,” said Boehner in a written statement. “It is said that the Horn of Cartet was fashioned out of the horn of the mighty Leviathan. Handed down from generation to generation, the Horn of Cartet has been used by those in need to bring together the most enlightened of our people. Never in the history of the Republican Party has the Horn of Cartet been needed more. Except for when we had to get rid of that Palin chick. But really, that was just a matter of telling her to hit the bricks. We may not have needed to get the council involved in that but we did anyways.”
While little is known about how the Council operates, it is assumed that if the Council can not identify a solid candidate, a new candidate will be conjured using ancient spells artifacts contained in the Council’s sacred texts.
“We’ve got this here book that has all kinds of spells in it, and that’s really cool,” said Lewis, the highest ranking member of the Council of Nine. “We can do all kindsa crazy things with this here book, but we really don’t want to. You gotta be careful when messin’ with the dark side, ya see. When you start messing with the dark arts, things can go all sortsa bad in a hurry. I mean just look at Dan Quayle. We used the book to get him in as Vice President and the whole dang world done suffered for it. That was kind of a nightmare, whoo boy. But we’re hopin’ that we don’t have to resort to that. We’re hopin’ that we can find the perfect candidate that will take this country out of the hands of the Spendocrats and back in to the god fearin’ hands of a nice, rich, white man. Like it should be.”
When and where the council will meet is being kept secret but several Republicans have said the gathering will occur “within days.” | politics |
https://apps.eastsussex.gov.uk/environment/planning/applications/register/documents/datawright%20saved%20documents/scannedinfo/planning/lw-799-cm(eia)/response%20minerals%20policy.htm | 2020-04-05T03:55:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370528224.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20200405022138-20200405052138-00460.warc.gz | 0.945668 | 1,382 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__174893538 | en | From: Development Control (DMW)
Subject: FW: Consultation on LW/799/CM(EIA) Fisherman's Whart, Newhaven Port
From: Pat Randall
Sent: 08 December 2017 12:04
To: Jeremy Patterson
Cc: Amanda Parks; Sarah Iles
Subject: RE: Consultation on LW/799/CM(EIA) Fisherman's Whart, Newhaven Port
Please find below my comments on application reference LW/799/CM (EIA) from a minerals policy perspective. (Just to clarify, I am not commenting on the implications of Lewes Local Plan policies).
This is a significant minerals development proposal for East Sussex, involving various separate and related operations, and as such raises several policy considerations. It is noted that the development would occur in stages, beginning with the processing and bagging of marine dredged aggregates imported to East Quay, and then the products being exported by road and rail (Stage 1). When Rampion relocates a conveyor system would be added and the rail siding extended (Stage 2). Once the port access road is opened a concrete batching plant would be added (Stage 3). The last stage (4) would involve the addition of a block making plant.
The total aggregate processed during Stage 1 would be in the region of 200,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) and could rise to 250 000 in Stage 2. If all four stages of the project were to be developed, the throughput would be about 500,000 tpa.
As minerals planning authority we are required to plan for a steady and adequate supply of aggregates. As part of this, the NPPF states that Local planning authorities should safeguard:
These principles are incorporated into the adopted East Sussex, South Downs and Brighton & Hove Waste and Minerals Local Plan (which comprises the WMP and Sites Plan)*. Whilst the application site is not specifically identified in the Sites Plan for safeguarding, any proposal which assists in meeting the supply needs for construction aggregate materials in the Plan area would be supported in principle, subject to being acceptable environmentally and in amenity terms, and the various relevant policy caveats and controls. This particular proposal is notable in terms of the level of imports and the aggregates and products it would eventually supply.
The current Review of the WMLP is seeking to establish the level of future demand for aggregates for the Plan area, and will therefore assess the contribution to be made to this demand from the various existing and potential sites and facilities in East Sussex, Brighton & Hove and the SDNP. This work is due to be completed in the first half of 2018. However, whilst likely figures are not yet determined, based on historical evidence It is fair to say that if implemented this proposal would make a very significant contribution to the aggregate needs of the Plan area. It is therefore SUPPORTED in principle.
The application includes various references as to why the applicant considers that the East Quay site is preferable to North Quay and other wharves in the Plan area which are safeguarded. It is claimed that the currently safeguarded wharves are not viable or sufficient to serve the Plan area. An appendix (15 “The Stanmore Report”) has been included with the application. Many of the claims in this report and some of the references in the supporting statement (e.g. 12.6, 12.7) are inaccurate and misinterpret data from our previous Local Aggregate Assessments. I can provide more details of this if required. (If you do need these details please let me know asap). I consider that much of this is based on a misunderstanding of the role of safeguarding. The purpose of safeguarding is to protect the wharf from non mineral development which could prejudice its future use and operations. Safeguarding does not allocate sites as being more preferable than others.
*NB the applicant’s supporting statement at 12.4 incorrectly does not include the Sites Plan as being part of the Development Plan for the area.
The proposal is that marine dredged aggregates initially, and then crushed rock as well, would be imported by sea to the site. Aggregate processed during Stage 1 would be exported on a 50:50 rail and road basis. A limited number of other aggregate products (e.g. building sand) would be imported by road, generally in lorries returning from making deliveries. Stage 2 would involve crushed rock imports. When Stage 2 is in operation distribution by road would remain the same but, following the extension of the rail siding, the amount of aggregates exported by train could increase. During Stage 3 on occasions some special aggregates would need to be imported by road.
The WMP (WMP 18)seeks to minimise the environmental and amenity effects of the transport of minerals by promoting rail and water transport as an alternative to road transport and maximising the use of existing railheads and rail links. WMP 18 states that proposals which enable minerals to be carried on the rail network or by water will be permitted (subject to other policies of the Plan). In this respect the proposal is STRONGLY SUPPORTED, particularly with regard to the extension of the rail link. If approval is recommended it may be prudent to require that Stage 2 cannot be implemented until the rail extension is implemented and in use, and that following the opening of the NPAR the level of rail exports is maintained or increased. This is to ensure that movements of aggregates and products are not displaced from rail to road.
Traffic impacts of the proposal will need to be assessed under policies WMP25 and WMP 26 (see below).
NOTE - Again there are number of points in Appendix 15 and the supporting statement which are inaccurate and misleading with regard to transportation mode and other sites (e.g.9.11). I can provide more details if required.
DM and overarching policies
A proposal of this scale and size will of course need to be assessed in terms of a number of development management considerations. I have listed below the relevant WMP policies that need to be taken into account. If you need any more details on any policies please let me know.
WMP 20 Community Involvement and Benefits
WMP 23a Design of built facilities
WMP 23b Operation sites
WMP 24a Climate Change (larger scale proposals expected to show more detailed mitigation and adaptation measures)
WMP 24b Resource and energy use
WMP 25 General amenity
WMP 26 Traffic impacts
WMP 27 Environment and Environmental Enhancement
WMP 28a Flood risk
WMP 28b Water Resources and Water Quality
Principal Planning Officer - Planning Policy and Development Management
Communities, Economy and Transport | politics |
https://mddcdec.com/events/china-belt-and-road-initiative-webinar-3-the-silk-road-business-national-security-and-geopolitical-impact-of-the-pandemic/ | 2023-01-31T07:43:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499845.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20230131055533-20230131085533-00289.warc.gz | 0.896489 | 268 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__138796061 | en | Date(s) - 23/09/2020
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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China Belt and Road Initiative Webinar #3:
The Silk Road – Business, National Security, and Geopolitical Impact of the Pandemic
Tuesday, September 23, 2020, 2 – 3 pm EST
Join our ArDEC Chairman Rudy Ortiz and his colleague David Day to discuss these vital topics:
- How exactly does the U.S. compete with China’s BRI?
- What does the future trade relationship between China and the U.S. look like?
- What do U.S. firms do for supply chain reorganization, onshoring, diversification and new markets?
- How does the USMCA fit into this picture?
- What about other options and markets?
David Day, NADEC Trade Policy Co-Chair and Chairman, Belt & Road Task Force of the American Bar Association’s International Section
Rudy Ortiz, CGBP, NADEC Trade Policy Co-Chair
Moderator: Christina Anne Luhn, PhD, Consul-Senior Trade Policy Advisor, British Consulate-General Houston and former NADEC Board Member
Register on the NADEC website today! | politics |
https://sheamke.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/taiwan-action-against-over-fishing/ | 2018-06-25T05:48:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267867493.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20180625053151-20180625073151-00127.warc.gz | 0.933311 | 498 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__28509725 | en | Friday morning, under the the veil of darkness, ten of us climbed to the top of a fourty-five meter crane in one of Taiwan’s largest shipyards. By day break, our banner was deployed and media was on-site starting to broadcast our story and bringing attention to the over-fishing of the world’s oceans.
Greenpeace International wrote up a good piece on the action: Two Ships, One Vision for Our Ocean.
“This morning in Taiwan – home to the world’s largest tuna fishing fleet – Greenpeace activists took action at the largest shipbuilding yard there. The activists unfurled a large banner saying “Overfishing Starts Here” at a facility where massive industrial fishing boats destined to fish across the globe’s oceans are built.
Destructive overfishing has already put the future of our oceans – and the billions of people dependent on them for food and jobs – at risk. The bottom line is simple: future generations need fewer huge fishing boats and more fish.”
I’m incredibly proud to have been part of this historic action; one which has already garnered much media attention and will undoubtedly raise the profile and authority of the Taiwan office.
Already we’ve made the front page of two local papers including the Taipei Times, the biggest of Taiwan’s newspapers. Other news coverage includes the Dominican Today: Greenpeace activists occupy Taiwan shipbuilding yard to protest overfishing
Kaoshiung, Taiwan.– Ten Greenpeace activists occupied the largest shipbuilding yard in Taiwan on Friday, accusing the Taiwanese government of undermining international fishing agreements set up to combat the global overfishing crisis. “Our oceans and the billions dependent on them for food and jobs need fewer massive boats and more fish. The Taiwanese government is cheating international agreements and Greenpeace is taking peaceful action today to demand it adhere to scientific advice and help end overfishing,” said Yu Fen Kao, Greenpeace East Asia senior oceans campaigner.
We’ve also been written up in Taiwan News: Greenpeace hangs banner at Taiwan shipyard in overfishing protest
Needless to say, my time here in Taiwan has been unique, particularly these past three days since arriving here in Kaoshiung. But tomorrow we leave for Hong Kong and in just nine days I’ll be heading home. Rest assure, I’ve got quite the story to tell upon my return! | politics |
https://www.nps.edu/web/nsa/-/nsa-professor-ostovar-s-new-article-the-grand-strategy-of-militant-clients-iran-s-way-of-war | 2021-06-15T01:07:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487614006.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20210614232115-20210615022115-00595.warc.gz | 0.921029 | 317 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__5457410 | en | NSA Professor Ostovar’s New Article: The Grand Strategy of Militant Clients: Iran’s Way of War - Department of National Security Affairs
null NSA Professor Ostovar’s New Article: The Grand Strategy of Militant Clients: Iran’s Way of War
NSA Professor Afshon Ostovar has had a new article titled “The Grand Strategy of Militant Clients: Iran’s Way of War” in a recent edition of Security Studies. In the article (from the abstract), Dr. Ostovar argues that militant clients should be understood as a pillar of Iran’s grand strategy and an extension of its military power. He examines why Iran has relied on militant clients since the 1979 revolution and the benefits and costs of its client approach. In evaluating these, he identifies five main areas where Iran has gained from its client strategy: 1) maintaining independence from the West; 2) successfully exporting its religio-political worldview; 3) extending its military reach and power; 4) reducing political costs of its foreign activities; and 5) establishing needed regional allies. He further identifies the main dangers that Iran faces by continuing its strategic behavior: 1) increased pressure from the United States and a broader US military regional footprint; 2) more unified regional adversaries; 3) the risk of unintended escalation with the United States and regional adversarial states; and 4) enduring regional instability and insecurity, and 5) the exasperation of domestic political tensions and economic challenges.
To read the article, click here. | politics |
http://www.novascotiatrails.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=94:ns-trails-applauds-federal-funding-announcement-for-the-tct&catid=20&Itemid=370 | 2018-09-21T01:02:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267156690.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20180920234305-20180921014705-00214.warc.gz | 0.927756 | 656 | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__11789724 | en | January 8, 2014 - The Nova Scotia Trails Federation (NS Trails), as the recognized agent for the Trans Canada Trail (TCT) in Nova Scotia, applauds the Federal Government’s announcement of up to $25 million in funding to support the connection of the TCT from coast to coast to coast by 2017, in time for the 150th anniversary of confederation.
“This is particularly great news for NS Trails and our TCT partners here in Nova Scotia,” said Blaise MacEachern, Chair of the NS Trails TCT Committee. “In Nova Scotia, we are just over 42 per cent connected, while nationally the trail is 72 per cent complete,’’ added MacEachern.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the announcement yesterday that the Government of Canada will provide additional support over the next four years to complete the Trans Canada Trail, which once fully connected will be a 24,000 kilometre recreational trail that winds through every province and territory from coast to coast to coast. The support will be provided in the form of a matching fund to be administered by Parks Canada. One federal dollar will be provided for every two dollars raised by the Trans Canada Trail.
“Our partners across Nova Scotia, which include community-based volunteer trail groups, the provincial government and in particular the Department of Health and Wellness, municipalities and other stakeholders have been working diligently to make the connection of this legacy trail a reality in Nova Scotia,” said NS Trails President, Holly Woodill. “We still have a lot of work to do here in Nova Scotia but this funding announcement by the Federal Government gives us the confidence that we can achieve connection here in Nova Scotia by 2017.”
About NS Trails:
The Nova Scotia Trails Federation (NS Trails) is a non-profit registered charity that represents the interests of trail users and community-based volunteer trail groups in Nova Scotia. NS Trails supports the work of community groups in the planning, building, maintenanceand management stages of recreational trails in communities throughout the province. We are proud to be the provincial partner for the Trans Canada Trail in Nova Scotia. For more information visit: www.novascotiatrails.com.
About the Trans Canada Trail:
TCT is a national non-profit organization that supports the development and use of a national Trail network. Partnering with all levels of government and donors, the Trail supports the work of approximately 400 local trail groups through funding and promotion of their efforts to build and sustain one of the world's longest and grandest recreational trails. Currently the Trail is
72 per cent connected and TCT is on a bold mission to complete the Trail by 2017, in time to celebrate 150th anniversary of Confederation. Once fully connected, the Trail will link Canadians from coast to coast to coast through nearly 1,000 communities and across incredible landscapes.
For more information on the TCT, please visit www.tctrail.ca.
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Blaise MacEachern, Chair, NS Trails TCT Committee
Phone: (902) 625-1338
Vanda Jackson, Executive Director, NS Trails
Phone: (902) 718-6424 | politics |
https://www.federaluniversity.org/catalogue/citizenship_and_statelessness.php | 2021-10-19T16:35:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585270.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20211019140046-20211019170046-00685.warc.gz | 0.899837 | 204 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__87778500 | en | This course will provide an overview of citizenship and statelessness in international contexts. Learning materials will be developed by the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion. It is an entry level course that will provide an introduction to the issues. For those looking to extend their learning on these topics, we will provide links for materials that explore the issues in greater depth. We will utilise existing resources but will target lessons specifically to a multi-ethnic Myanmar audience and invite reflection on the relevance of the issues to the Myanmar context. The lessons will encourage critical thinking and reflection. They will cover an introduction to statelessness; citizenship and discrimination; childhood statelessness; citizenship stripping; statelessness and forced migration; and access to citizenship in Myanmar. Most learning materials will be in English. Where possible we will provide written and listening materials in Burmese. Following the release of each lesson and a self-study period, we will also be available for discussion sessions with the students. We also encourage peer-to-peer discussion of the lessons. | politics |
http://repeatbog.tumblr.com/ | 2014-08-01T13:51:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1406510274987.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20140728011754-00088-ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.962388 | 398 | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-23__0__1512101 | en | Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
To do their jobs properly, journalists and lawyers sometimes need to be able to keep information private from the government. And because what journalists and lawyers do is so integral to safeguarding democracy and basic rights, the United States has traditionally recognized their need for privileged communications. But the virtually inescapable government surveillance exposed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has impaired if not eliminated the ability of news-gatherers and attorneys to communicate confidentially with their sources and their clients, according to a new report by two rights advocacy groups. The report by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union is based on an exhaustive new survey of journalists and lawyers working in the areas of national security and intelligence. Both groups of professionals describe a substantial erosion in their ability to do their constitutionally-protected jobs. Not even the strongest versions of NSA reform being considered in Congress come anywhere close to addressing the chilling effects on basic freedoms that the new survey describes. “If the US fails to address these concerns promptly and effectively,” report author G. Alex Sinha writes, “it could do serious, long-term damage to the fabric of democracy in the country.” | politics |
http://stephansmap.org/CIA_World_Factbook_2005_Paracel_Isl.html | 2013-05-22T17:46:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702127714/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110207-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.87705 | 541 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__214188116 | en | The following is reproduced from the CIA World Factbook (where additional information is available). It is compiled and published annually by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States government.
The text is unchanged, except that the "Map Reference" section is omitted. Otherwise, only the layout and order was adapted for this website.
This entry in the original Factbook for the year 2005 was last updated by the CIA on 2 May, 2006.
Background: The Paracel Islands are surrounded by productive fishing grounds and by potential oil and gas reserves. In 1932, French Indochina annexed the islands and set up a weather station on Pattle Island; maintenance was continued by its successor, Vietnam. China has occupied the Paracel Islands since 1974, when its troops seized a South Vietnamese garrison occupying the western islands. The islands are claimed by Taiwan and Vietnam.
Economic Overview: China announced plans in 1997 to open the islands for tourism.
|Location:||Southeastern Asia, group of small islands and reefs in the South China Sea, about one-third of the way from central Vietnam to the northern Philippines|
|Geographic coordinates:||16 30 N, 112 00 E|
|Area:||Total: NA sq km land: NA sq km water: 0 sq km|
|Area - comparative:||NA|
|Land boundaries:||0 km|
|Terrain:||Mostly low and flat|
|Elevation extremes:||Lowest point: South China Sea 0 m highest point: unnamed location on Rocky Island 14 m|
|Land use:||Arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (2005)|
|Irrigated land:||0 sq km (1998 est.)|
|Environment - current issues:||NA|
|Geography - note:||Composed of 130 small coral islands and reefs divided into the northeast Amphitrite Group and the western Crescent Group|
|Population:||No indigenous inhabitants note: there are scattered Chinese garrisons|
|Country name:||Conventional long form: none conventional short form: Paracel Islands|
|Airports - with paved runways:||Total: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2005)|
|Ports and terminals:||Small Chinese port facilities on Woody Island and Duncan Island being expanded|
|Military - note:||Occupied by China|
|Disputes - international:||Occupied by China, also claimed by Taiwan and Vietnam|
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http://www.rachelbui.com/ | 2014-03-08T00:38:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1393999651907/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305060731-00017-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.944497 | 196 | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-10__0__136794502 | en | ric Weber’s short paper on Democratic Political Leadership in Political and Civic Leadership: A Reference Handbook provides a great reference for those who want to understand a bit more about leadership, particularly political leadership.
Weber emphasised that leadership needs to be “understood as a process (prescription) rathan than as a position (descriptive).“
There are four types of leadership mentioned in the paper:
1. Populist leadership – the public is informed, engaged and thereby suggest issues to authorities;
2. Elitist leadership – authorities inform the public about issues of importance because they are more knowledgeable;
3. Servant leadership – organic leadership stems from a selfless concern for the common good; and
4. Catalytic leadership – leadership directed with the goal of assisting groups in setting, revising and implementing their own plans.
The last one sounds a bit like consulting to me.
WHICH TYPE ARE YOU? | politics |
http://myfavoritewar.com/support-ukraine/ | 2023-03-20T16:28:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943484.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20230320144934-20230320174934-00479.warc.gz | 0.90154 | 128 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__174083407 | en | The Nordic Countries Stand with Ukraine - Call for donating
The Embassies of Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Nordic Council of Ministers‘ Office in Latvia had a screening of the award winning film “My Favorite War” on Thursday 17 March 2022 in Riga.
The Nordic countries condemn Russia’s military attack on Ukraine.
We encourage people to help the Ukrainian people by donating to one of the fundraising platforms like:
- UNICEF’s work with children in Ukraine
- Save the children international
- United Nations refugee Agency UNHCR
The platforms are open, and you can still donate. | politics |
http://noshablog.blogspot.com/2011/06/ | 2019-01-17T11:15:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583658928.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20190117102635-20190117124635-00190.warc.gz | 0.957216 | 730 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__149839582 | en | So the very first hominids, when faced with a violent member of their clan, didn't figure out fairly fast that this kind of thing (murder) wasn't all that good for their survival? Really? Most everything today that we hold as common sense laws came from our experience over the thousands and thousands of years of trying to get along in groups. At some point, someone said, "...hey, we gotta get rid of that guy who is going around killing everyone. I need a quorum for the hunt next week, man." Ta da! There's a law.
I'm told by friends there are several versions of "ten commandments" that have been passed down through history from various religious groups that claimed their version as "the" version, so to speak. It stands to reason that the first question these State House morons should ask themselves is this: just exactly which set are you referring to?!? Only time will tell if this will be challenged in court and if it will pass constitutional muster, but the word is that it's a huge invitation to spend millions of dollars in litigation arguing about this insanity.
There's been talk that "they" (the people who will handle the selection and design of the monument) will allow submissions to be considered. Well, my friend, Jim, has a suggestion for a list of commandments that is very clever and I'm passing along for your consideration:
Separation of Church and State: An American Tradition
“No [one] shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever….”
--Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, 1777
“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
--Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the U.S., 1782
“No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”
--Article VI, U.S. Constitution, 1787
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
--Amendment I, U.S. Constitution, 1789
“The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”
--Treaty of Tripoli, 1797
“Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.”
--John Adams, 2nd President of the U.S., 1812
"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."
--Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the U.S., 1814
“I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State.”
--Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the U.S., 1915
“Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another.”
--U.S. Supreme Court, Emerson v. Board, 1947
“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.”
--John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the US, 1960
Do you think these have a chance? Maybe if we adopt them as our own and chisel them into a marble slab? | politics |
https://leecoats.com/oklahoma-businesses-so-who-is-essential-or-critical-anyways/ | 2024-04-21T15:39:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817780.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421132819-20240421162819-00259.warc.gz | 0.975834 | 440 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__194579762 | en | UPDATED 3/27 – What businesses are considered “essential” or “critical” in Oklahoma?
This is a very hot topic now in Oklahoma after Governor Stitt issued an order stating the following:
“Effective at 11:59 p.m. on March 25, 2020, all businesses not identified as within a critical infrastructure sector as defined by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and located in a county experiencing community spread of COVID-19, as identified by OSDH on its website, shall close. Additional sects may be designated as critical by Executive Order or Memorandum. Nothing in this provision shall prevent restaurants and bars from providing pick-up, curbside, and delivery. This shall be effective until April 16, 2020.” Source at ¶ 20
The Department of Homeland Security list, referenced by Governor Stitt is available by clicking here.
Additionally, Governor Stitt has issued additional Memoranda adding more businesses to the list of those considered “critical.”
To be able to determine if your business is allowed to be open or not it is important that you read ALL of the orders and memoranda that have been released and any released in the future. We will monitor those for you and update them as they come up below.
3/26/2020 10:30 Vinita – We have spoken with the City and their position is that any businesses listed by Governor Stitt as “critical” or “essential” will be considered the same in Vinita. Mayor Hoskin’s order was issued before Governor Stitt added all of his Memoranda but should be interpreted liberally and to include all the same businesses as the Governor’s. Mayor Hoskin’s Order can be downloaded here.
3/27/2020 Statewide – Governor Stitt has issued a press release giving clarification on elective and routine medical procedures. Non-emergency abortions as well as “routine dermatological, ophthalmological, and dental procedures, as well as most scheduled healthcare procedures such as orthopedic surgeries” are all currently prohibited. | politics |
http://madisonmarcus.co/portfolio/developers-beware-future-re-zoning/ | 2019-11-22T00:31:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496671053.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20191121231600-20191122015600-00150.warc.gz | 0.943807 | 499 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__39485411 | en | In March 2018, legislation was introduced requiring Councils to prepare Local Strategic Planning Statements (LSPSs) following amendments to the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979. LSPSs should link the District Plans outlined through the Greater Sydney Commission with the Local Environmental Plans (LEPs) implemented by Councils. These Statements will essentially give effect to the wider district and regional plans at a smaller scale, setting out the finer details for the local level.
LSPSs will outline a 20 year vision for local government areas, determining how Council’s update their planning instruments (such as LEPs and DCPs) so that they align with the Statement. Importantly, they will also serve as the foundation for strategic merit reviews of any future rezonings in the area.
If a landowner wants to rezone their property, the burden is on them to establish whether the proposal has merit. It must be proven that the proposal is consistent with not only the associated District and Regional Plans, but also any local instrument (i.e. a LSPS). A proposal that is contradictory to a LSPS may therefore be particularly difficult to get approval for, especially if the pre-gateway review process is no longer available.
Councils are required to update their LEPs every five years and LSPSs every seven. So, if a proposal is not consistent with a LSPS or the LEP it will be some time before changes can be made. Landowners will have to wait until Council reviews these documents to alter the planning controls then.
With the Minister for Planning and Public Spaces expressing his desire to limit the amount of spot rezonings and recent efforts to stop pre-gateway reviews (click here to read corresponding article), opportunities to rezone in the future could be restricted, while the strategic merit test might become considerably tougher. Yet Minister Stokes believes that if strategic planning is implemented correctly, spot rezonings would no longer be necessary. So the take home message for developers looking to landbank sites – buyers beware!
Some LSPSs are already on exhibition, with every greater Sydney Council required to publicly exhibit their draft Statements by 1 October 2019 and finalise them by 1 March 2020. Amended LEPs are to come into effect by March 2021.
For more detailed advice concerning legislation amendments and their ramifications for your development projects, please contact our Planning Experts, or contact Madison Marcus for all general Planning and/or Property Development Related enquiries. | politics |
https://www.victoriawaterman.net/post/international-holocaust-remembrance-day-january-27-2022 | 2023-11-30T03:40:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100164.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130031610-20231130061610-00496.warc.gz | 0.924816 | 267 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__117540479 | en | Updated: Jan 27, 2022
Imagine..... Had the nations taken punitive action against the Turkish perpetrators of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, would Hitler have embarked on the Holocaust of the Jews, and would later genocides have taken place?
Screenshot taken at the Armenian Museum of America.
“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” Adolf Hitler 1939
On August 22, 1939, in preparation for the impending invasion of Poland, Hitler made this statement to Reichmarshal Hermann Goering and the commanding generals at Obersalzberg. * The Armenian Genocide was one of the most compelling human rights crises of World War I, helping to inspire Adolf Hitler three decades later to carry out the atrocities of World War II. Hitler’s quote is still relevant today because the forces of denial and revisionism are still striving to expunge from history the record of this enormous crime against humanity – the first modern genocide of the 20th century.*
While, it is only through learning and remembering past atrocities that we are able to work toward their prevention and become a more humane society, inhumane genocides continue today.
Let us remember the past and the present genocides that continue today, including the 2020 Artsakh War.
*Source: The Genocide Education Project | politics |
https://13bankers.com/2010/04/07/13-bankers-is-arianna-huffingtons-book-club-pick/ | 2017-04-27T09:00:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122041.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00222-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.965255 | 167 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__236738939 | en | Huffington’s announcement and review are here. Huffington, of course, is widely known as a leader of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. But one main point of her review is that our book has real bipartisan appeal:
“You know a book is onto something when, even in these politically polarized times, and dealing with a hot button issue like financial reform, it features side-by-side praise from both Jim Bunning and Alan Grayson. Yes, that Jim Bunning.”
The great thing about the selection is that the Huffington Post will host a month-long discussion of the book, including external bloggers and commentators, some of whom no doubt will disagree with some or all of the book. Our first post in the series will be out tomorrow.
Filed under: book reviews | | politics |
https://www.wimbledon-debenture-tickets.co.uk/post/wimbledon-2023-the-return-of-russian-and-belarusian-players | 2024-04-24T13:32:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819273.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424112049-20240424142049-00551.warc.gz | 0.951776 | 963 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__63869179 | en | With the lifting of the ban on Russian and Belarusian tennis stars from Wimbledon the season’s most prestigious Grand Slam sees the return of some heavy hitters.
The AELTC and the LTA have reversed last year’s decision to ban Russian and Belarusian players from the All-England Championships.
Wimbledon 2023 will see the return of tennis superstars from the afore mentioned nations, if they sign a neutrality agreement before the tournaments. This agreement will state:
· That players and staff will confirm that they are not representing the Russian or Belarusian state
· That they are not receiving funds from the Russian or Belarusian states or companies controlled by the states
· They will not express support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine
What happened at Wimbledon 2022?
Following Russia’s heinous invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the decision was made by the AELTC and the LTA to ban players representing Russia and Belarus from the Wimbledon Championships.
This decision was not met kindly by the ATP and WTA, who decided to strip all ranking points from that year’s Wimbledon, effectively rendering it an ‘exhibition grand slam.’
The ATP and the WTA also imposed heavy fines on the AELTC and the LTA, tallying up to $2 million.
Why lift the ban?
The LTA fears that further action from the ATP and WTA, such as banning LTA events from the professional circuit, could be heavily detrimental to British tennis.
“The effect on British tennis of the LTA being expelled from the tours would be very damaging and far reaching for the game in this country. The impact would be felt by the millions of fans that follow the sport, the grass roots of the game, including coaches and venues which rely on the events for visibility and to bring new players into the game, and of course professional British players,” – LTA Spokesperson.
In light of the recent declaration that the LTA will allow the return of Russian and Belarusian players, the WTA has decided to halve its initial fine to $375,000. The LTA are still awaiting the response of the ATP.
Which players stand to benefit the most?
The new declaration by the AELTC and the LTA means that some of the sport’s most skilled athletes will be returning for a crack at the Wimbledon title.
Four of the twenty highest ranked players on the WTA circuit herald from Russia.
Despite this, perhaps the player who will be most excited about their chances, is this year’s Australian Open champion and the World number two Aryna Sabalenka. The Belarusian superstar reached the semi-finals of Wimbledon in 2021, narrowly losing out to Karolina Pliskova 5-7, 6-4, 6-4.
As well as Sabalenka, the tournament will also see the return of one of women’s tennis’ greatest champions, Victoria Azarenka. The two-time Australian Open champion will return to Wimbledon hoping to go further than her two semi-final appearances in 2011 and 2012.
On the men’s side of the draw, it is mainly Russian players who stand to benefit from the lifting of the ban, most notably former world number one Daniil Medvedev.
Despite Medvedev never making it past the fourth round at the Championships, it is worth noting that he has only made four appearances. Medvedev is sure to be a contender at this year’s tournament, with his flat, low to the ground style suiting Wimbledon well.
His fellow countrymen also making a return to Wimbledon include recent Monte Carlo champion Andrey Rublev and former Wimbledon quarter-finalist Karen Khachanov.
Khachanov is the more likely of the two to produce a good run at the Championships, with his big serving, heavy hitting style more suited to the grass of Wimbledon.
Getting tickets for Wimbledon 2023?
With the return of some of the top seeds in both the men’s and women’s draw, Wimbledon 2023 promises to deliver some exceptional tennis over its two-week run time.
The return of ranking points will surely add another dimension to the level of play across the tournament, with players desperate to improve their overall ranking and prize money.
To get the best seats in the house look no further than Wimbledon Debenture Tickets, the best way to experience your Wimbledon adventure.
Check out our other articles of the Order of play at Wimbledon 2023, as well as a guide to the best seats available. | politics |
https://gias.ae/Gias19/Speakers-(1)/Hon-Aggrey-Henry-Bagiire.aspx | 2021-05-13T09:27:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243990584.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20210513080742-20210513110742-00334.warc.gz | 0.977475 | 94 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__117127536 | en | Honourable Aggrey Henry Bagiire is Minister of State for Transport and he has been in charge of the Sector for three years. He joined the Ministry of Works and Transport in 2016 and he is responsible for Policies on Aviation, Rail, Maritime, Road Safety and regulation.
In 2006 to 2011, Hon. Bagiire was Minister of State for Agriculture. He is a Member of Parliament representing Bunya East Constituency in the Eastern Region of Uganda. | politics |
https://jobs.lever.co/climatepower/62f1b5ef-7eea-4280-a966-6c8c70e64fd4 | 2023-02-09T00:21:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500983.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20230208222635-20230209012635-00571.warc.gz | 0.913662 | 872 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__270388898 | en | Climate Power - Managing Director, Communications
Washington, DC /
Climate Power has an immediate opening for a Managing Director, Communications to lead the organization’s communications strategy to drive a national narrative around the importance of climate and clean energy investments, sell the benefits of climate action in key communities and block efforts to dismantle climate progress. The Managing Director, Communications will work with the Executive Director and senior leadership team to set campaign priorities and manage Climate Power’s team of communications staff and consultants.
Climate Power is an independent strategic communications and paid media operation focused on building the political will and public support for bold climate action. Founded by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, League of Conservation Voters, and Sierra Club, Climate Power integrates hard-hitting research, polling, state and national earned media, digital and paid media to influence the national conversation, embolden leaders to take immediate, bold climate action, and expose climate deniers and their oil and gas lobby allies.
Resumes for this position will be reviewed, and interviews will begin in January.
- Drive ambitious communications strategies: Create, manage and execute communications strategies to win the politics of climate nationally and in key states. Oversee frequent and consistent outreach to political and environmental reporters and columnists, and develop and place opinion pieces.
- Integrate communications approach across Climate Power: Work closely across the organization to ensure a strategic communications lens is integrated into all campaigns and efforts
- Manage a team of staff and consultants: Manage Climate Power communications staff, as well as a team of outside state and national consultants, and direct day-to-day operation and strategy.
- Build a nimble press operation: Identify rapid response opportunities and prioritize response to developing news stories with influential climate and political reporters. Manage coordination with paid media team to amplify paid communication in earned media to ensure it reaches the broader public. Manage related press, climate communicators and surrogate outreach.
- Develop and coordinate messaging: Collaborate with Executive Director and senior leadership to develop messaging for use by Climate Power’s Advisory Board, surrogates, partners, and allies across the climate movement.
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- Act as spokesperson: Serve as spokesperson for Climate Power, as needed, and develop other campaign voices for Climate Power.
- Manage, engage and grow Climate Power’s surrogate network: Manage a surrogates operation to engage diverse voices of environmental leaders, state policymakers, youth activists, and trusted voices from the private sector and within communities, for media opportunities and to tell the story of climate action.
- Collaborate with climate movement and other stakeholders: Build relationships with communications leaders of other organizations, campaigns, elected officials, coalitions, stakeholders, and other high-level partners, including celebrities.
- Evaluating results: Monitor and evaluate the impact of the communications team by establishing key metrics, analyzing results, and adjusting strategies as necessary.
- 10+ years of communications experience including political and advocacy campaign experience. Climate experience is a plus.
- Deep communications experience with a track record of success in the current media landscape.
- A strong instinct for powerful storytelling combined with strong editorial and ethical judgment.
- Experience managing rapid-response and enterprise communications strategies.
- Able to work in a fast-paced campaign environment with unpredictable hours in high-pressure situations.
- Track record of effectively supervising a team to meet deadlines and manage multiple projects concurrently.
- Strong strategic and writing skills.
Climate Power is a fiscally sponsored project of Resources Legacy Fund (RLF) and Fund for a Better Future (FBF). RLF and FBF are equal opportunity employers and welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, marital status, disability, religious or political affiliation, or sexual orientation.
Pay for this position is commensurate with experience and responsibilities. The salary range for this position starts at $144,000. We offer a comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k) plan, and generous paid time off. | politics |
https://fregate-hermione.com/en/sailing/explore-france/ | 2023-12-10T14:34:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679102469.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210123756-20231210153756-00808.warc.gz | 0.922375 | 351 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__212707402 | en | – After the grand refit (2021 – 2022) –
The French Ministry of the Sea has lent its support to this iconic maritime project. Annick Girardin, French Minister for the Sea, declares: “The Hermione has left a sense of excitement and inclusion in her wake, which is a great source of inspiration for seafarers everywhere! Promoting France overseas, fostering exchanges and multiculturalism, and showcasing our know-how are all good reasons to wish this frigate a fair wind on her next expedition.”
This initiative also received the support of Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Secretary of State in charge of tourism, French people living abroad and the Francophonie: “This voyage by the Hermione is a wonderful opportunity to showcase France as a destination on buoyant markets while showcasing French excellence. This trip represents a major diplomatic and economic challenge for our country as well as boosting tourism to France.”
The Nouvelle-Aquitaine Regional Tourism Committee, a long-standing partner of the Hermione – La Fayette Association, also wished to join this initiative.
“It is an honour for us to serve French interests and to make the Hermione an ambassador ship, in just the same way as she served France when she took the Marquis de La Fayette to America in 1780. The Hermione will visit four Northern European countries with four stopovers which will represent four opportunities to showcase French know-how in the cities of London, Antwerp, Amsterdam and Hamburg.”
Olivier Pagezy, President of the Hermione–La Fayette Association
TO MAKE THIS VOYAGE BECOME A REALITY…
THE HERMIONE NEEDS YOU! | politics |
http://news.oneindia.in/2006/09/15/pranab-calls-for-computer-auditing-of-defence-accounts-1158329146.html | 2013-05-18T17:58:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.962385 | 413 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__198831697 | en | ''With greater devolution of financial powers, the role of internal audit will need to be further reinforced,'' Mr Mukherjee told a meeting of the Consultative Committee attached to his Ministry.
''Along with the traditional methods of audit, the Department will also need to explore emerging frontiers such as audit through computers,'' he said.
The Minister said the Department should examine the efficiency of existing oversight mechanism with a view to identifying and managing risks.
Some of the members opined that the problem of shortage of staff in the Department should be addressed immediately.
One member was of the opinion that the Department should hold more pension adalats across the country.
Another member suggested that the Department should also hold some pension adalats on fixed dates and places every year.
Complimenting the 260-year-old Department, Mr Mukherjee said it had ensured that the benefits introduced by the government for the defence pensioners from time to time were delivered to the intended beneficiaries promptly, efficiently and in right measures.
During 2005-06, the Department made pension payments to about 2.1 million ex-servicemen and other retired defence personnel.
Members of Parliament who attended the meeting were Mr Jyotiraditya M Scindia, Mr Suresh Kalmadi, Mr Naveen Jindal, Mr M A Kharabela Swain, Mr Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, Mrs Jayaben B Thakkar, Mr Braja Kishore Tripathy, Mr Kailash Nath Singh Yadav, Mr Shankhlal Majhi and Mr Madhu Goud Yaskhi (all Lok Sabha) and Mrs Sushma Swaraj, Mr K Jana Krishnamurty, Mr Robert Kharshiing and Mr Santosh Bagrodia (all Rajya Sabha).
Minister of State for Defence M M Pallam Raju and Minister of State for Defence Production Rao Inderjit Singh also attended the meeting.
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http://www.santosepolcro.va/content/ordineequestresantosepolcro/en/dalla-terra-santa/aggiornamenti-dalla-terra-santa/la-santita-di-gerusalemme-non-va-confusa-con-la-sovranita.html | 2024-04-12T23:34:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816465.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412225756-20240413015756-00778.warc.gz | 0.951379 | 462 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__112526489 | en | Rabbi David Meyer, a visiting professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, reacted to international events related to the status of Jerusalem. Last year he contributed to our annual magazine, Jerusalem Cross, in a profound interview on the dialogue between Jews and Catholics, this year we offer readers his thoughts contained in an editorial published in "Le Monde" last December 7 after the announcement by President Donald J. Trump of the recognition by the United States of America of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, giving instructions to transfer the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Starting from the assumption of the indisputable religious importance of this city for the believers of the three monotheistic religions, Rabbi Meyer affirms that "the 'holiness' associated with this place, which echoes within Jewish tradition on several occasions, should not be confused with any obligation of 'sovereignty'. Not 'owning' this city (in a political sense) does not imply the loss of its symbolic religious character, identified with and linked to the memory of the Jewish people”.
Since 1980 Jerusalem has been declared "eternal and indivisible capital" of the State of Israel by the fundamental law passed in the Knesset. However, as Rabbi Meyer points out, it is important to remember that the Torah (the main religious text for the Jews) does not mention this city and the rest of the biblical account is not always consistent with its political affiliation. "Rather than the capital of two states, it would be more just and religiously sensible to reject the idea that Jerusalem could be a capital," continues the rabbi, relying on two terms of rabbinic tradition that define some objects without owner (hekfer) or reserved to religious purposes and rituals (hekdesh) and therefore not tied to a profane use.
The proposal put forward by Rabbi Meyer is therefore that of a "voluntary abandonment of sovereignty that would restore to the city its potential of 'holiness'" and he ends with a hope: "that the idea of 'the Jerusalem on high’ draws the political reality of the ‘Jerusalem below' to it instead of allowing latter drag the idea of 'Jerusalem on high' down to the ridiculousness of human possession."
(December 18, 2017) | politics |
https://footballtoday.com/2023/09/26/england-refuse-to-face-russian-junior-teams-despite-uefa-reintroduction/ | 2023-12-02T02:27:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100309.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202010506-20231202040506-00812.warc.gz | 0.926566 | 611 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__56418320 | en | England will refuse to play any junior Russian national teams despite the recent decision from UEFA to readmit the country’s under-17 sides into European competition this season, as reported by The Times.
The move comes after UEFA had initially banned all Russian teams from European competitions due to the country’s invasion of Ukraine last year.
UEFA’s executive committee opted for a partial reintegration of Russian international football, primarily at the youth level, which includes under-17 boys and girls teams.
The decision has sparked conversations about potentially reinstating the Russian U17 teams into European tournaments even after the draws have taken place.
UEFA claims ‘children should not be punished for actions whose responsibility lies exclusively with adults’ but have stipulated certain conditions Russian teams must adhere to.
In order to be allowed to compete at the international level again, they won’t be permitted to display the country flag, anthem, national playing kit or play on their home territory.
Despite the latest development, the English Football Association (FA) remains unwavering in its stance, firmly expressing that none of its teams, junior or senior, will participate in matches against national sides representing Russia.
In an official statement, the English FA criticised the decision to readmit Russian national teams.
“We do not support the position of readmitting Russia to UEFA Age Grade Competitions, and our position remains that England teams won’t play against Russia,” the statement read.
UEFA’s decision coincided with a Women’s Nations League game held in Armenia, which marked the first European fixture officiated by Russian match officials since the Ukraine invasion.
Travel challenges for Russian citizens, including visa difficulties and limited flight options, have contributed to UEFA’s reluctance to appoint referees from Russia.
The exact venues for Russian youth teams to play in international competitions now remain uncertain, given these unique circumstances.
While Russian referees were not explicitly banned by UEFA, their selection had been postponed until recently when Vera Opeykina and three assistants were chosen to officiate the Armenia versus Kazakhstan game.
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https://gogreenwood.com/media-kit/banking-services-wealth-creation-causally-connected/ | 2024-04-23T11:43:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818474.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423095619-20240423125619-00707.warc.gz | 0.949217 | 463 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__69929325 | en | GREENWOOD NAMED TO FAST COMPANY’S SECOND ANNUAL LIST OF “BRANDS THAT MATTER” LEARN MORE
Lack of access to financial services is not just a symptom of America’s racial wealth gap; it is also a cause. Without the ability to efficiently save, invest and insure against risks, many Black families struggle to translate the income they earn to genuine generational wealth.
Based on data from the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finance, the typical Black family has only 10 cents for every dollar held by the typical white family. This wealth gap dates back to the decades after emancipation and has remained stubbornly persistent. Redlining, a practice that designates Black communities as unfavorable for home loans and business investment, reduces property values and increases interest rates in many neighborhoods — trends that have impacted African Americans for a century. Largely excluded from the generous financial incentives of The New Deal, the Black community was boxed out of the country’s post World War II boom that vastly expanded the American middle class.
Despite laws prohibiting loan discrimination on the basis of race, the Congressional Black Caucus still calls on regulatory agencies to improve enforcement at a national level. Black and Latino homebuyers are significantly more likely than whites to be turned down for a conventional mortgage loan. A recent analysis from Zillow shows that in 2016, nearly 21% of Black applicants were denied a conventional loan, while 15.5% of Latino were. In 2016, Asian applicants were denied a conventional loan in 10.4% of cases — slightly more than the national average — and whites in only 8.1% of cases.
According to a New America report, many banks also hinder Black wealth creation with discriminatory practices in service offerings. In communities of color, banks charge more for opening and maintaining basic, entry-level checking accounts. The minimum opening deposit is higher in majority Black neighborhoods ($80.60) and in neighborhoods without a racial majority ($97.00) than in white neighborhoods ($68.50). Also, it is less expensive to maintain a checking account opened in a white neighborhood. A minimum balance of only $625.50 is required to avoid fees in majority white neighborhoods, compared to $870.50 in majority Black neighborhoods. | politics |
http://gamasutra.com/view/news/167313/Australian_capital_receives_R18_classification_for_video_games.php | 2013-05-22T16:22:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701943764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105903-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.955412 | 232 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__108781009 | en | The saga surrounding Australia's proposed R18+ rating for video games may finally be coming to an end, as the country's capital Canberra will have access to the rating from next week.
The debate over whether Australia should have an over-18 classification for video games started back in 2009, when arguments in favor and against an R18+ classification for video games were first presented.
However, the Federal Government has finally come to an agreement and is set to create a new classification for R18+, reports ABC News. The Australian Capital Territory will be the first region to receive the new rating this week, and the success of this move will determine whether the rest of the country will be able to use the rating at the start of 2013.
"This is part of a national reform that will allow adult gamers to view R18+ material in the same way that can already be done for film and printed material," said ACT Attorney-General Simon Corbell.
He continued, "But at the same time it will also provide protection to parents and children by giving parents better guidance about what material is and is not appropriate for people under the age of 18." | politics |
http://www.moneywomenandbrains.com/the-women-of-alzheimers-series-rosa-parks/ | 2024-04-20T08:09:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817491.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420060257-20240420090257-00832.warc.gz | 0.983979 | 603 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__33130211 | en | She was just plain tired that day and only wanted to get home. She sat in her usual section of the bus, but when a white man demanded her seat she refused. Her refusal led to her arrest, the 381 day Montgomery Bus Boycott and being known as the “mother of the freedom movement.”
The Montgomery, Alabama public bus system had segregated seating even though 75% of its ridership was black. The rules were that white passengers could sit in the designated white section. However, if those seats were full the bus driver could arbitrarily move the “colored” sign back and black riders would have to give up their seats. When a white passenger demanded her seat Rosa Parks refused to move that day in December of 1955.
Many thought at the time that Rosa Parks was this feisty old woman who had had enough, when in fact she was 42 years old. Her courage and dignity would continue to play a prominent role in the civil rights movement and as a promoter of World peace. In her lifetime she was the recipient of numerous awards and citations including:
- Forty-three honorary doctorate degrees
- The Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bill Clinton
- Voted one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century by Time Magazine
- Congressional Gold Metal of Honor
- StanfordUniversity– Institute for Research on Women and Gender firs Lifetime Achievement Award
In 1957 due to harassment and no longer being able to find employment, she and her husband would leave Montgomery and would eventually relocate to Detroit, MI. However, forty-five years later The Rosa Park Library and Museum opened on the spot of her original arrest on December 1, 1955.
In 1994 the Ku Klux Klan petitioned to sponsor a clean-up section of US Interstate 55 near St. Louis, MO. In response the Missouri legislature could not deny them their road sign, but they did rename that section of road the “Rosa Parks Highway.” When asked about it, Rosa Parks commented “It is always nice to be thought of.”
During the 1970’s there were number family illnesses and she nursed her mother who would die of cancer and dementia/Alzheimer’s. As her own health declined so did her mental abilities.
A law suit was file in 1999 on behalf of her against OutKast and LaFace Records for illegally using her name as the song title in the album Aquemini. Legal proceedings indicated at the time Mrs. Parks could not participate due to a mental decline. Others commented that she was not the type to pursue this type of action and was being taken advantage of because of her mental condition. There were other problems indicating that she could no long manage her financial affairs.
Rosa Parks died on October 24, 2005 at age 92 with dementia/Alzheimer’s.
Sources: www.rosaparks.org, Wikipedia – Rosa ParksYou Can Find Me At - | politics |
http://www.justice.org/cps/rde/xchg/justice/hs.xsl/22240.htm | 2014-08-21T14:01:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1408500816424.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20140820021336-00270-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.897549 | 219 | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-35__0__96301533 | en | For Immediate Release: November 13, 2013
Contact: Katie Gommel
202-965-3500, ext. 6645
House Passes Bill to Grant Handout to Asbestos Corporations
Bill Delays and Denys Justice for Asbestos Victims
Washington, DC—The following is a statement from American Association for Justice President Burton LeBlanc in response to the passage of H.R. 982 by the U.S. House of Representatives:
“Asbestos continues to kill 10,000 Americans every year. Instead of working to protect Americans from the dangers of asbestos, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed an unnecessary and offensive bill that would allow the asbestos industry to delay and deny justice for dying asbestos victims.
“It is insulting that Congress is helping the same corporations that hid the dangers of asbestos from the public for decades evade being held accountable for killing Americans. Asbestos is still legal and lethal in the United States and the only thing Congress should focus on is banning this toxin and preventing the death of more Americans.” | politics |
https://healthandliving.com/AZ/event/2023/06/06/15th-annual-meet-the-mayors-lunch/1153/ | 2023-12-03T04:30:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100484.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203030948-20231203060948-00266.warc.gz | 0.89833 | 246 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__61934519 | en | 15th Annual Meet the Mayors Lunch
All are invited to join us for fabulous fun as we celebrate community at the 15th Annual Meet the Mayors Lunch sponsored by Credit Union West.
Each city will share 3 key highlights. We are excited to welcome Mayors Kenn Weise (Avondale), Eric Orsborn (Buckeye), Joe Pizzillo (Goodyear), Thomas Schoaf (Litchfield Park), Skip Hall (Surprise), and Vice Mayor Joyce Clark (Glendale) who will share highlights from their cities.
We are also thrilled to welcome Vice Mayor Mike Pineda (Avondale) and Council Members Jamie Aldama (Glendale), Wally Campbell (Goodyear), Aly Cline (Surprise), Tina Conde (Avondale), Patrick Duffy (Surprise), Jack Hastings (Surprise), Ken Remley (Surprise), and Lauren Tolmachoff (Glendale).
The above are our confirmed attendees as of May 15, 2023.
Tuesday, June 6
11:15 am - 1:15 pm
$34 West Valley Women Members
$38 non-West Valley Women Members
Reservations close Friday, June 2. | politics |
http://tbanj.org/state-garden-state/ | 2019-05-26T07:38:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232258862.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190526065059-20190526091059-00351.warc.gz | 0.930598 | 225 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__138893405 | en | State of the Garden Statewith Mary Alice Williams of NJTV , Tom Moran of the Star Ledger & Matt Katz of WNYC
The State of the Garden State
Matt Katz, WNYC Reporter Tom Moran, Star Ledger Editorial Page Editor, Mary Alice Williams, NJTV News Anchor
Thursday, October 25, 7:30 PM
With possible power shifts in both House and Senate, the nation will be riveted on the November 6 election. And with a Senate seat up, all twelve of the State’s congressional districts, and scores of municipal elections – including Livingston and Millburn— across New Jersey, it is a big election for the Garden State as well.
Our regular panel of veteran New Jersey journalists returns to discuss the upcoming election and, especially, what it means for New Jersey. Grounded in the decades of experience each has covering the State, the conversation will abound with knowledge, insight, and plenty of humor. The audience is invited to participate in what will, as always, be an informative, stimulating, and most worthwhile evening.
Free and open to the community! | politics |
https://atticcapital.com/presidential-dollar-coins-value/ | 2023-06-05T06:44:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224651325.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20230605053432-20230605083432-00672.warc.gz | 0.925609 | 2,005 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__217978463 | en | Do you know your Presidential Dollar coins value and history? Do you have a few Presidential coins laying around, and thinking about selling? Maybe you need ideas for the next addition to your collection.
Look no further than the historic Presidential Dollar coins.
The Presidential Coin Program
The Presidential Coin Program, more formally known as The Presidential $1 Coin Act (Public Law 109-145), was signed into law on the 22nd of December in 2005 by former President George W. Bush.
The program laid out guidelines for issuing four exceptional one-dollar silver coins every year.
Not just any silver coins, of course; these were the Presidential dollar coins.
The United States Mint was instructed to start with the very first president, George Washington, in January of 2007 and continue up the line in the order that each president served in the White House.
Another rule was that the former president would be deceased for at least two years before the proposed issuing date.
The Federal Reserve Bank
The program ran from 2007 until 2016, with a slight change in 2011. Former Secretary of the Treasury
Timothy F. Geithner declared the U.S. Mint stop minting and circulating the presidential coins and hand the baton over to the Federal Reserve Bank.
This was due to a decline in public popularity and huge stockpiles accumulated in Federal Reserve vaults.
The stockpiles were so large, over $1.4 billion worth of Presidential dollar coins were held. The Treasury Department ruled that halting the Presidential $1 coin program would save taxpayers $50 million per year.
As a result, from 2012 to the end of the program in 2016, a small number of new commemorative Presidential coins were minted primarily for coin collectors only.
Presidential Dollar Coins Value
The presidential U.S. coins have become more appreciated and valued by coin collectors and Numismatics as time goes by, and the trend looks likely to continue.
The Design of United States Presidential Coins
The program’s goal was to drastically improve the design of the $1 coin and create aesthetically beautiful coins that would both honor the former presidents and regenerate interest in coins as beautiful collectibles.
The Presidential $1 Coins were aesthetically different from other $1 coins in the following ways:
- An engraving of the president on the obverse and The Statue of Liberty on the reverse.
- Mint mark and edge inscriptions of the motto In God We Trust, with the phrase E Pluribus Unum, at the edge of the coin.
- Larger, more dramatic artwork.
- A composition identical to the Sacagawea Dollar and the Native American $1 Coins.
Coin Market Value
The Presidential golden dollar series coins were made by the millions and didn’t circulate much, both of which mean they are in good supply and are not particularly rare.
Generally, prices are face value for each gold coin. Although there are a few exceptions that increase a coin’s value dramatically.
Rare Presidential Dollar Coins Value
Three coins are more valuable than the rest. As usual in the coin collectible market, this is because of errors on the coins, making them unique.
However, it’s important to note these are often counterfeited. Be sure to do your homework and get a professional to evaluate before you pay a dealer and add to your coin collection.
- 2007 George Washington: Missing edge lettering, valued at $7,000 – $10,000
- 2007 John Adams: Missing edge lettering. MS64 grade by PCGS, valued at $3,335.
- 2007-P John Adams: Double edge lettering. MS66 grade by PCGS, valued at $288.
Proof specimens are valued at $8 – $10 per coin. And complete proof sets are valued at $200.
U.S. Mint marks differentiate the various coins, with three mints being used to produce the coins. The first letter of the City is stamped as a mintmark on the edge of each coin.
- U.S. Mint in Philadelphia (P)
- U.S. Mint in Denver (D)
- U.S. Mint in San Francisco (S)
James Buchanan Dollar Coin
James Buchanan was the oldest of 11 siblings and was a successful lawyer before running for president in 1857. Two days after his election, the Supreme Court issued Dred Scott, which legalized slavery, and sent the country toward civil war.
Buchanan’s presidential coin issued in 2010 includes an error with missing edge lettering. Graded examples of the Buchanan error coin can be valued at over $300.
How Much is the Abraham Lincoln Dollar Coin Worth?
A self-taught lawyer born into a poor family, Abraham Lincoln played a vital role in the history of the United States. As the 16th U.S. President, Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address and authorized the Emancipation Proclamation.
Issued in 2010, Lincoln’s Presidential coin is a great item for any coin collector. The Lincoln Presidential coin has a graded MS60 high value of $45.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Dollar Coin
After a distinguished career in the military that included the role of supreme commander of troops invading France on D-Day, Dwight D. Eisenhower retired from the military and ran for president of the U.S.
Taking the oath of office in 1953, Eisenhower Established the Department of Health, launched the first atomic submarine and signed the 1957 Civil Rights Act.
His Presidential coin was struck at the Philadelphia Mint and has a high value of $150 for a PCGS MS67 graded example.
Presidential Dollar Rolls
Collectors enjoy assembling entire coin sets of Presidential Dollars by the roll. The Presidential Dollar Rolls include 25 coins per roll, with all coins featuring the same president.
B.U. Rolls, otherwise known as Brilliant Uncirculated Rolls, are minted at the Philadelphia and Denver mints.
You can purchase unopened rolls directly from the mint, at a bank, certain financial institutions, or coin shops and online stores.
The US Mint also sells Presidential Dollar bags, including 250 coins per bag in circulation quality.
Incredible Facts About Presidential Coins
PCGS Graded Presidential Dollar Coin Values
George H.W. Bush Presidential Dollar Coin
George H.W. Bush went skydiving for his 75th, 80th, 85th, and 90th birthdays. He disliked broccoli so much he banned the vegetable from Air Force One, and he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1993.
His MS69 graded presidential coin sold for a high price of $186 in 2021.
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Dollar Coin
Theodore Roosevelt watched Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession from a second-floor New York window when he was six years old.
After being shot by an assassin, he continued to deliver a speech, where he began, “Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot.”
MS68 2013-P Theodore Roosevelt Presidential dollar coin value, $350
Thomas Jefferson Presidential Dollar Coin
Thomas Jefferson loved ice cream, kept a pet mockingbird, and in his spare time, authored the Declaration of Independence.
MS65 graded 2007-P Thomas Jefferson Presidential dollar coin value, $35
John Adams Presidential Dollar Coin
The first president to ever live in the White House was John Adams. He live to be 90 years old, and died on the same day as Thomas Jefferson.
MS64 graded 2007-P John Adams Presidential dollar coin value, $2,300
Presidential Dollar Coin Values
PR70 2007-S James Madison Presidential Dollar Coin value, $127
MS66 2010-P Millard Fillmore Presidential Dollar Coin value, $8
MS68 2015-P John F. Kennedy Presidential Dollar Coin value, $896
MS69 2008-P James Monroe Presidential Dollar Coin value, $190
MS68 2016-D Ronald Reagan Presidential Dollar Coin value, $1,295
MS68 2012-P Grover Cleveland Presidential Dollar Coin value, $120
MS67 2008-P Andrew Jackson Presidential Dollar Coin value, $55
MS67 2013-P Woodrow Wilson Presidential Dollar Coin value, $4,350
MS68 2008-P John Quincy Adams Presidential Dollar Coin value, $10
MS68 2011-D Andrew Johnson Presidential Dollar Coin value, $169
MS68 2011-P Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Dollar Coin value, $575
MS68 2013-P William McKinley Presidential Dollar Coin value, $159
MS69 2011-D Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Dollar Coin value, $259
MS67 2008-P Martin Van Buren Presidential Dollar Coin value, $19
MS67 2016-P Richard M. Nixon Presidential Dollar Coin value, $80
MS67 2014-P Calvin Coolidge Presidential Dollar Coin value, $90
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Absolutely interesting information.
This is so huge, over $1.4 billion worth of Presidential dollar coins were held is amazing..
and now I am getting how would save taxpayers $50 million per year.
I also read about First Ladies are also being honored on a series of one-half ounce 24 karat gold coins.
2008 First Spouse coins are a bit expensive. these are considered key coin in some U.S. series that had a mintage that low will probably be coupled with a high price today. | politics |
https://mises.se/2014/01/07/lettland-och-euron/ | 2024-04-21T18:48:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817790.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421163736-20240421193736-00452.warc.gz | 0.864456 | 216 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__188746323 | en | Lettland har sedan 1 januari i år infört euron som valuta, missa inte denna välskrivna analys om utvecklingen i artikeln THE EUROZONE CLUB: PART I.
Today the small Eastern European country of Latvia joins the eurozone.
1 January 2014 marks the second time Latvia is losing its currency, the lats, to an outside entity. The first happened back in 1940; then, the nation turned over its old lats to the Soviets and their ruble, at par. Unwillingly. Along with the rest of their sovereignty. After the Cold War, in 1992, Latvia finally reinstated the lats, as the Russian tanks were moving out.
Today, it surrenders its money to the European euro, at a rate of 0.702804 lats to 1 euro. The question of willingness this time is up for debate.
The following article intends to take a hard look at this and a variety of issues surrounding the euro. | politics |
http://www.adriatic-ionian.eu/event/launch-event-on-2nd-call-for-proposals/ | 2019-01-21T14:18:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583792784.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20190121131658-20190121153658-00457.warc.gz | 0.878457 | 142 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__219369809 | en | Launch event on 2nd Call for Proposals - Priority Axis 2
Tirana, Albania | 11 April 2018
Transnational seminar on the Interreg ADRION 2nd Call for proposals – Priority Axis 2 - is organized in Tirana on 11 April 2018. For more information on registration and agenda, please check Interreg ADRION website.
This website is dedicated to the EU Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian Region (EUSAIR) and managed by the Government Office of the Republic of Slovenia for Development and European Cohesion Policy, acting as a lead partner of the strategic project “EUSAIR Facility Point – supporting the governance of the EUSAIR”. | politics |
https://notjustbooks.com.au/products/ego | 2023-12-03T00:22:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100476.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202235258-20231203025258-00209.warc.gz | 0.943963 | 219 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__129619500 | en | - Aaron Patrick
The riveting story of an ex-prime minister, the travails of his successor's government, and what that bodes for the future of politics
Malcolm Turnbull's campaign against Scott Morrison and the Liberal Party is one of the greatest acts of political disloyalty in Australian history. Through the pursuit of causes close to his heart, Turnbull destabilised a government he was once part of and courted forces openly hostile to it.
This account explores the egos, alliances and thwarted power that have left a trail of personal destruction across the political world. Friends have been turned into enemies, loyalties eroded and reputations shattered. Time will tell whether Turnbull's response to his own political party sets Australia on a different course, but the discourse has changed forever, helped by social media, single-issue stances and a sense of virtue.
Aaron Patrick reveals the stories behind the Morrison government's biggest scandals, from the shocking allegations against Christian Porter to the scandalous treatment of women inside the Liberal Party - stories with profound implications for Australian politics, media and society. | politics |
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