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Max's All Stars is a New York City based basketball program that competes in various leagues/tournaments all year round. Indoors, outdoors, anywhere - Max's All Stars is up for any challenge! To learn more please visit our website: www.maxsallstars.com
Max's All Stars game at West 4th PPD due to rain
Max's All Stars game today at Kenny Graham's West Fourth Street vs Brooklyn Ballers was postponed due to rain. No makeup date has been announced yet.
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Max's All Stars improve to 3-1 at West 4th
Yesterday, Max's All Stars got the win at Kenny Graham's West Fourth Street vs La Familia by a final score of 92-82. Bediako Nyasa, Bryant Crowder, Corey Orgias, Dominique Jones, Joshua Smith, Kwabena Brenya, Patrick James and Prentice Small all contributed and played well to earn the W. In the first half, Max's All Stars only had five players. It was a back and forth seesaw battle again, but Max's All Stars took a slim one-point lead at halftime (38-37). Luckily, reinforcements arrived in the second half as Bryant Crowder, Joshua Smith and Prentice Small showed up. Crowder and Smith helped ignite the team in the third as Max's All Stars finally got some separation on the scoreboard. For the second straight game, Bediako Nyasa hit a half-court buzzer beating 3-pointer - this time at the end of the 3rd quarter to give Max's All Stars a 63-50 lead. Corey, Kwabena and PJ did some very good work getting a lot of rebounds and playing strong defense. Domo was the go-to scorer all game long. Every time La Familia seemed to be getting close, Domo was there with the answer to keep Max's All Stars in front. With the win, Max's All Stars improved their record to 3-1.
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Yesterday, Max's All Stars got the win at Kenny Graham's West Fourth Street vs TNP by a final score of 80-76. Bediako Nyasa, Bryant Crowder, Corey Orgias, Damion Staple, Malik Reddick, Patrick James and Spencer Smith put forth an impressive effort against the defending Nike Pro City champions. Max's All Stars was shorthanded and some of the players were tired from playing in the ABC Hoops semifinals/championship game doubleheader earlier. It was a back and forth seesaw battle between the two teams. Nobody could get much separation on the scoreboard - neither team had a lead of more than five points. Bryant Crowder had an electrifying performance, carrying the offense while also pulling down a bunch of rebounds and blocking several shots. Corey, Damion, PJ and Spencer played the bulk of the game with Bryant. Corey and Spencer took turns bringing the ball up and both hit some very clutch shots. Damion and PJ did a great job defensively. In fact, Damion came up with two huge breakaway steals that he took to the house himself. Also, Bediako Nyasa played a few minutes and scored seven points including a half-court buzzer beating 3-pointer to give Max's All Stars the lead at halftime (40-37). Late in the fourth quarter, Corey hit a shot to make the score 80-76 with 1:50 remaining and instantly after his shot went in it started raining cats and dogs! So, the game was called with 1:50 remaining, Max's All Stars got the win and improved their record to 2-1.
Max's All Stars Spring 2015 ABC Hoops Final Results and Statistics
Here are the final results and statistics from Max's All Stars undefeated Spring 2015 ABC Hoops championship season. Link: http://stats.abchoopsnyc.com/teams/max-s-all-stars?season=21
Link: http://stats.abchoopsnyc.com/teams/max-s-all-stars?season=21
Max's All Stars win championship at ABC Hoops; finish with undefeated 10-0 record
Yesterday, Max's All Stars won the championship game at ABC Hoops vs Jetlife by a final score of 67-52. Branden Gibson, Corey Orgias, Daniel Jacas, Doug Herring, Jason Lewis, Marvin Billups Jr, Patrick James, Spencer Smith and Troy Whittington completed the undefeated championship season with an impressive effort in the final game. After a buzzer-beating 3-pointer by Jetlife narrowed Max's All Stars lead to just two points at halftime, Max's All Stars turned it up in the second half as they did all season long. Suffocating defense led to easy offense for Max's All Stars and that was the key to victory. Branden guarded league-leading scorer, Mike Liander, for most of the game and held him to a season-low 18 points (10.1 points below his season average). Doug had an extremely efficient game, leading all scorers with 23 points on 12 shots. It was nice to see his family at the game on Father's Day. Also, Troy was named Player of the Game for the sixth time this season and won league MVP for his efforts. Overall, it was a total team effort from top to bottom all season long.
Box Score from June 21st, 2015
Max's All Stars - 67
Jetlife - 52
ABC Hoops
Standing from left to right: Troy Whittington (MVP), Spencer Smith, Branden Gibson, Patrick James, Max Margulis, Corey Orgias, Jason Lewis, Doug Herring, Daniel Jacas, Carl Gibson and Marvin Billups Jr.
Max's All Stars improve to 9-0 at ABC Hoops; advance to championship game
Yesterday, Max's All Stars won their semifinal game at ABC Hoops vs the Fulton Cavs by a final score of 88-47. Branden Gibson, Corey Orgias, Daniel Jacas, Doug Herring, Jason Lewis, Marvin Billups Jr, Patrick James and Spencer Smith all played very well in this dominating performance. After taking an 18-point lead at halftime, Max's All Stars piled it on even more in the second half to win the game by 41 points and advance to the championship game. Also, Spencer was named Player of the Game for the first time this season.
Fulton Cavs - 47
Max's All Stars game today at Kenny Graham's West Fourth Street vs Team 524/Pick & Roll was postponed due to rain. No makeup date has been announced yet.
Max's All Stars improve to 8-0 at ABC Hoops; advance to semifinals
Yesterday, Max's All Stars won their first round playoff game at ABC Hoops vs Untouchables by a final score of 62-44. Despite being shorthanded and getting penalized five points for showing up late - Branden Gibson, Corey Orgias, Daniel Jacas, Marvin Billups Jr, Patrick James, Spencer Smith and Troy Whittington managed to overcome their self-created adversity along with some questionable officiating to grind it out and earn the W. The team really turned it on and performed very well in the second half. Also, Troy was named Player of the Game for the fifth time this season.
Box Score from June 14th, 2015
Untouchables - 42
Yesterday, Max's All Stars got the win at Kenny Graham's West Fourth Street vs the NYC Jaguars by a final score of 96-79. Branden Gibson, Bryant Crowder, Corey Orgias, Dominique Jones, Marvin Billups Jr, Patrick James, Rob Thomas and Troy Whittington all contributed and played well to earn the W. Max's All Stars record now stands at 1-1.
Max's All Stars receives TBT at-large bid
PHILADELPHIA HERE WE COME! Max's All Stars has received an at-large bid to The Basketball Tournament (TBT)! We will play in the Northeast region in Philadelphia, PA (July 17-19)! Congratulations to all our team members who helped us recruit votes! Thank you to everyone who voted for and supported us throughout this process! LINK: https://www.thetournament.com/news/complete-field-97-teams-announced
Our current projected roster is as follows (in alphabetical order):
Branden Gibson - G/F
Carl Gibson - Assistant Coach
Corey Orgias - F
Damion Staple - F/C
Dominique Jones - G
Doug Herring - G
Kevin Pegram - F
Marvin Billups Jr - G/F
Max Margulis - Head Coach/General Manager
Patrick James - G/F
Roscoe Johnson - G/F
Shaun Diaz - F
Troy Whittington - F/C
LINK: https://www.thetournament.com/news/complete-field-97-teams-announced
TBT polls close, Max's All Stars finishes 19th in the Northeast region with 286 votes
Max's All Stars finished 4 votes behind Basketball City for an automatic bid in the Northeast region of The Basketball Tournament (TBT). We are still eligible for one of six at-large bids that will be announced next Monday, June 8th. Max's All Stars is definitely praying for one of those six at-large bids - we feel we deserve it. TBT is a once in a lifetime opportunity and we truly hope to compete in Philadelphia beginning on July 17th.
Thank you to everyone who voted for Max's All Stars and supported us throughout this process. Thank you to our team members - Branden Gibson, Carl Gibson, Corey Orgias, Damion Staple, Dominique Jones, Doug Herring, Kevin Pegram, Marvin Billups Jr, Patrick James, Roscoe Johnson Jr, Shaun Diaz and Troy Whittington - for recruiting votes and making a push until the very end. Hopefully, we get into TBT as an at-large bid.
Also, congratulations to all the teams that automatically qualified for TBT - especially Ian McCarthy's Saint John Mill Rats and Dave Schoenholt's Basketball City. Wishing both squads the very best of luck going forward!
Yesterday, Max's All Stars game at Kenny Graham's West Fourth Street vs BQE All Stars was postponed due to rain. No makeup date has been announced yet.
Max's All Stars improve to 7-0 at ABC Hoops
Yesterday, Max's All Stars got the win at ABC Hoops vs Big State by a final score of 53-46. It was a sloppy performance - but Branden Gibson, Corey Orgias, Daniel Jacas, Doug Herring, Jason Lewis, Marvin Billups Jr, Patrick James and Spencer Smith managed to overcome their mistakes and some questionable officiating to grind it out and earn the W. Also, Doug was named Player of the Game for the third time this season.
Box Score from May 31st, 2015
Big State - 46
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The Summit Isn't the Point
Posted by:	Robert Rose
Category:	Business Transformation
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You launched it. The thing. It's one of the most amazing things your company has done in years. It was a huge success. Your inbox is filled with compliments from influential people in the company. Your Facebook post announcing the thing has gotten, by far, the most "likes" and comments since you got married. Even your unemotional dad – who doesn't have a clue what you actually do for a living – offered "big hugs."
There's only one problem: You feel kind of empty about the whole thing.
Don't worry, you're not alone.
There's a simple reason you feel this way. It's a self-preservation tactic based on our belief that whatever the validation, the success, or the win, it's not reliable. We can't depend on it. So, it feels like whatever it is – it's not going to be enough.
This feeling isn't always associated with the huge, life-changing successes either. To varying degrees, a simple compliment on our outfit, unexpected prizes, good grades, a big raise, or any kind of external validation can generate this feeling. But why?
Researchers call this summit syndrome. Following some hard-won goal, those with summit syndrome follow an escalating pattern: feelings of emptiness, followed by disorientation about what's next, and ultimately a decline in overall performance and career-limiting behavior.
I've seen what I call "miserable achievers" a few times. One colleague I recently reconnected with worked for a huge technology firm and created a series of masterful marketing initiatives that propelled him from manager to VP within the course of 18 months. In his new role, he ignored his empty feeling and began to work harder and longer to try to duplicate his previous innovation. Within six months, he became convinced that internal politics were stopping him, and he started picking fights with his leadership team. Finally, he began taking calls from recruiters and ultimately took a job at a competitor.
My colleague's story has a happy ending. After finding a couple of mentors, he realized he could come off the summit. He now works at an agency, where he's been an innovation superstar for his clients.
The key for my friend – and the cure for summit syndrome – is to realize that this emptiness arises because the summit isn't the point.
Our self-worth must come from the fact that we are already deserving of the summit before we reach it – and even if we never do.
This is something humans have over machines. A machine can only be programmed to accomplish a goal. But we have the emotional intelligence to play just for the sake of playing. We have the ability to give ourselves permission to feel the passion, the joy, and the satisfaction of the task. The irony is that these abilities are what actually gives us the ability to succeed over and over again.
The moment success becomes possible is when we realize it's not the point.
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Today in Basque History: Pedro de Ayala, Juan de Onate, Basque theater, and more
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1407: Pedro II López de Ayala, politician and writer born in Vitoria, dies in Calahorra. He originally supported Pedro of Castille in his claim to the throne before switching sides to support the pretender to the throne, Henry of Trastamara. He fought with Henry at the Battle of Najera (Navarette) in 1367 and was captured by the Black Prince but was later released. He is best remembered for his Libro Rimado de Palacio ("Palace Verse" or "Rhymes of the Court"), in which he acidly describes his contemporaries and their social, religious, and political values.
1605: Juan De Oñate, founder of Santa Fe, New Mexico, inscribes his name on El Moro, a sandstone promontory that features ancient Native American petroglyphs. The Inscription reads "Passed by here the Governor Don Juan De Oñate, from the discovery of the Sea of the South on the 16th of April, 1605."
1825: Willem J. Van Eys, Dutch linguist who dedicated more than 30 years of his life to the study of Euskara, is born in Amsterdam.
1861: Toribio Alzaga Anabitarte is born in Donostia. He is the most popular author of works for theater in the Basque language. He wrote his comedy, Aterako gera (We will leave) in 1888 from his refuge in Ziburu. From then on, he dedicated his life to comedies and even opera, always in Euskara.
1933: The second Aberri Eguna, or Basque National Day, is celebrated in Donostia. The central meeting takes place in the field of Atotxa. Speakers include Manuel Carrasco Formiguera, President of the Democratic Union of Catalonia and Francesc Maspons Anglasell and Ewal Ammende, vice president and general secretary of the Congress of European Nationalities (CNE).
1989: Pedro Manuel de Arístegui Petit, Gipuzkoan diplomat, is killed in Beirut, along with his father-in-law and sister-in-law, by a Syrian rocket while he was Spain's ambassador to Lebanon.
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Ga. agency eases rules on development near marsh
Judson Turner
Environmental Protection Division
By - Associated Press - Wednesday, April 23, 2014
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - The state Environmental Protection Division will no longer require developers to keep a 25-foot construction buffer from the edge of some coastal salt marshes, and the decision has Georgia conservation groups in an uproar.
Judson Turner, the agency's director, issued a memo Tuesday saying waterfront homes and other developments built next to a marsh will have to maintain a buffer only if there's evidence on the banks of "wrested" vegetation - plants and grasses that have been flattened or twisted by flowing water. He cited language in Georgia's Erosion and Sedimentation Act.
Georgia previously prohibited construction at the edge of salt marshes to protect them from pollution. Turner's predecessor as EPD director, Carol Couch, required buffers based on another law, the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act, that uses the presence of certain plants to define where the marsh ends and the uplands begin.
Angry environmentalists noted Turner issued his memo on Earth Day. They say the change essentially guts protections for the roughly 300,000 acres of marsh along the 100-mile Georgia coast. That's about a third of the marsh on the East Coast.
Megan Desrosiers, executive director of the coastal Georgia conservation group One Hundred Miles, called the decision "a direct assault on coastal Georgia." Steve Caley, an Atlanta-based attorney for the environmental law firm GreenLaw, said EPD had effectively announced it "will no longer protect hundreds of miles and thousands of acres of invaluable salt marsh."
But Turner said he doesn't believe his directive eliminated marsh buffers "across the board."
"Ultimately, it's saying there's still a buffer," Turner told the Savannah Morning News (https://bit.ly/QxL8Zb). "But where there's no wrested vegetation, there's not going to be a buffer."
Marshes form a critical part of the food chain that allows fish, shrimp and crabs to thrive. They also filter sediments and pollutants from stormwater that runs off the land into streams, and serve as a protective barrier from the walls of water pushed onto land as storm surge by hurricanes.
"The last thing we want is for folks to go and build their house on the edge of the marsh and have a hurricane or big storm come and wash those houses away," said Bill Sapp, an attorney for the Southern Environmental Law Center.
Turner said his memo simply clarifies what's already in the law and gives his agency firmer footing to enforce it.
He said the Legislature may need to revise the state law if Georgians fear the marshes aren't getting adequate protection.
"If this wrested vegetation language doesn't perform like we want on the coast, if it isn't protective, the way to fix it isn't a memo," Turner said. "We need legislative attention."


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What Are The 4 Sources Of Water?
What are the 10 sources of water?
How do you make fresh water?
What are different water sources?
How we can store water?
What are man made sources of water?
What are the 3 main sources of water?
What is the purest water on earth?
How many source of water are there?
What is natural water?
What is the best source of water?
What are the major sources of groundwater?
What is the cleanest water in the world?
Is well natural source of water?
Where is natural water found?
What are the four water sources?
What is the natural source of water?
What is the purest water to drink?
What are the three forms of water?
Natural Sources Of WaterGround Water.
Groundwater is water that is found underground within rocks.
Well Water.
Well water as a source of water can be described by their depth, or by the way they are constructed.
Rain Water.
Surface Water.
Snow melt.
Lake And River Water.
Salt water from oceans..
Fresh water is generally produced on board using the evaporation method. There are two things that are available in plenty on ship to produce fresh water –Seawater and heat. Thus fresh water is produced by evaporating sea water using heat from any of the heat source.
Different Types of Water SourcesSurface Water Resources. Surface water resources are the most commonly used method of supplying water to various regions in the United States. … Groundwater Resources. … Stormwater Resources. … Wastewater Resources. … Saltwater Resources. … Ice Cap Water Resources.
Storing water for an emergency is simple, especially when the water is not contaminated….How can I store drinking water?Thoroughly wash plastic soda bottles or milk jugs with warm, soapy water. … Fill bottles or jugs directly from the faucet. … Store sealed containers in a dark, dry, and cool place.More items…•
Students will learn about the man-made sources of water including dams, wells, irrigation canals, pipes, water towers and more.
3.1 Types of water source. In Study Session 1 you were introduced to the three main sources of water: groundwater, surface water and rainwater. In arid regions where seawater is accessible (such as in the Middle East), desalination (the removal of salts from water) is used to generate drinking water.
Santiago: A new scientific study has reached the conclusion that the fresh water found in Puerto Williams town in southern Chile's Magallanes region is the purest in the world, the University of Magallanes said.
twoThere are two main sources of water: surface water and groundwater. Surface Water is found in lakes, rivers, and reservoirs. Groundwater lies under the surface of the land, where it travels through and fills openings in the rocks. The rocks that store and transmit groundwater are called aquifers.
Natural water means bottled spring, mineral, artesian or well water which is derived from an underground formation and is not derived from a municipal system or public water supply.
1 Answer. (a) The sources of water are – Lakes, Rains, Ponds, Wells and Glaciers.
10 water-rich foods that will help you stay hydratedCucumber, 96% water. Cucumbers are made up of 96% water – that's the highest water content of any food. … Tomatoes, 95% water. Tomatoes are made up of 95% water. … Spinach, 93% water. … Broccoli, 90% water. … Brussel sprouts, 88% water. … Oranges, 86% water. … Apples, 85% water.
Groundwater, as the name suggests, is water found underneath the surface of the earth. The water from rainfall, lakes, rivers, and streams seeps through the porous ground to reach the water table; a level where the ground beneath is saturated with water. Groundwater is usually contained in an aquifer.
Did you know that the very cleanest water in the world is located in Puerto Williams, Chile? That was recently discovered by scientists at the universities of Texas and Chile. They have collaborated on research into the cleanliness of water resources in the world.
With water from the public mains becoming increasingly expensive, supplying irrigation from natural sources of water, such as bore holes, wells, rivers and lakes makes sense, especially if you will be using large quantities.
Earth's water is (almost) everywhere: above the Earth in the air and clouds, on the surface of the Earth in rivers, oceans, ice, plants, in living organisms, and inside the Earth in the top few miles of the ground.
The main sources of water are surface water, groundwater and rainwater.
There are a total of three natural sources of water. They are categorized as: rain water, underground water and surface water. Here is a look at each and what supplies these sources. Rain water includes other sources such as snow and additional types of precipitation.
Distilled waterDistilled water is the PUREST drinking water possible Distilled water is the PUREST form of water.
Water's unique chemical properties make it the only natural substance that can be found in all three states: liquid, solid (ice) and gas (steam). The continual movement of water around the globe is known as the hydrologic cycle.
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#ifndef LIBMINIFI_TEST_INTEGRATION_INTEGRATIONBASE_H_
#define LIBMINIFI_TEST_INTEGRATION_INTEGRATIONBASE_H_

#include "core/logging/Logger.h"
#include "core/ProcessGroup.h"
#include "core/yaml/YamlConfiguration.h"
#include "FlowController.h"
#include "properties/Configure.h"
#include "../unit/ProvenanceTestHelper.h"
#include "io/StreamFactory.h"
#include "RemoteProcessorGroupPort.h"
#include "core/ConfigurableComponent.h"
#include "controllers/SSLContextService.h"

class IntegrationBase {
 public:
  IntegrationBase();

  virtual ~IntegrationBase();

  void run(std::string test_file_location);

  void setKeyDir(const std::string key_dir) {
    this->key_dir = key_dir;
    configureSecurity();
  }

  virtual void testSetup() = 0;

  virtual void cleanup() = 0;

  virtual void runAssertions() = 0;

  virtual void waitToVerifyProcessor() {
    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::seconds(3));
  }

 protected:

  virtual void queryRootProcessGroup(std::shared_ptr<core::ProcessGroup> pg) {

  }

  void configureSecurity();
  std::shared_ptr<minifi::Configure> configuration;
  std::string port, scheme, path;
  std::string key_dir;
};

IntegrationBase::IntegrationBase()
  : configuration(std::make_shared<minifi::Configure>()) {
  mkdir("content_repository", S_IRWXU | S_IRWXG | S_IROTH | S_IXOTH);
}

IntegrationBase::~IntegrationBase()
{
  rmdir("./content_repository");
}

void IntegrationBase::configureSecurity() {
  if (!key_dir.empty()) {
    configuration->set(minifi::Configure::nifi_security_client_certificate, key_dir + "cn.crt.pem");
    configuration->set(minifi::Configure::nifi_security_client_private_key, key_dir + "cn.ckey.pem");
    configuration->set(minifi::Configure::nifi_security_client_pass_phrase, key_dir + "cn.pass");
    configuration->set(minifi::Configure::nifi_security_client_ca_certificate, key_dir + "nifi-cert.pem");
    configuration->set(minifi::Configure::nifi_default_directory, key_dir);
  }
}

void IntegrationBase::run(std::string test_file_location) {
  testSetup();

  std::shared_ptr<core::Repository> test_repo =
      std::make_shared<TestRepository>();
  std::shared_ptr<core::Repository> test_flow_repo = std::make_shared<
      TestFlowRepository>();

  configuration->set(minifi::Configure::nifi_flow_configuration_file,
                     test_file_location);

  std::shared_ptr<core::ContentRepository> content_repo = std::make_shared<core::repository::VolatileContentRepository>();
  content_repo->initialize(configuration);
  std::shared_ptr<minifi::io::StreamFactory> stream_factory = std::make_shared
      <minifi::io::StreamFactory>(configuration);
  std::unique_ptr<core::FlowConfiguration> yaml_ptr = std::unique_ptr
      <core::YamlConfiguration
      >(new core::YamlConfiguration(test_repo, test_repo, content_repo, stream_factory,
                                    configuration,
                                    test_file_location));

  core::YamlConfiguration yaml_config(test_repo, test_repo, content_repo, stream_factory,
                                      configuration,
                                      test_file_location);

  std::unique_ptr<core::ProcessGroup> ptr = yaml_config.getRoot(
                                                                test_file_location);
  std::shared_ptr<core::ProcessGroup> pg = std::shared_ptr<core::ProcessGroup
      >(ptr.get());

  queryRootProcessGroup(pg);

  ptr.release();

  std::shared_ptr<TestRepository> repo = std::static_pointer_cast
      <TestRepository>(test_repo);

  std::shared_ptr<minifi::FlowController> controller =
      std::make_shared<minifi::FlowController
      >(test_repo, test_flow_repo, configuration, std::move(yaml_ptr), content_repo, DEFAULT_ROOT_GROUP_NAME, true);

  controller->load();
  controller->start();
  waitToVerifyProcessor();

  controller->waitUnload(60000);

  runAssertions();

  cleanup();
}

#endif /* LIBMINIFI_TEST_INTEGRATION_INTEGRATIONBASE_H_ */

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Das Naturschutzgebiet Jose Rizal Memorial Protected Landscape liegt in der Provinz Zamboanga del Norte in den Philippinen. Es wurde durch den Präsidentenerlass Nr. 279 am 23. April 2000 auf dem Gebiet der Stadt Dapitan City eingerichtet. Das Jose Rizal Memorial Protected Landscape wurde zu Ehren des philippinischen Nationalhelden José Rizal eingerichtet. Es umfasst eine Fläche von 439 Hektar und eine umlaufende Pufferzone mit 15 Hektar Größe. Das Gebiet wird von der Jose Rizal Memorial State University betreut.

Im Naturschutzgebiet liegt das Wohnhaus, das Rizal während seiner Verbannung zugewiesen war und an der Küste der Sulusee steht. Auch wurde ein Gedenkstein errichtet, der an seine Anwesenheit 1894 bis 1896 erinnert.

Siehe auch
Biodiversität der Philippinen
National Integrated Protected Area System

Weblinks
 Webseite der Universität
 Informationen des PAWB Region 9

Schutzgebiet (Umwelt- und Naturschutz) auf den Philippinen
Zamboanga del Norte
Schutzgebiet (Umwelt- und Naturschutz) in Asien

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Gender inclusive trade and the limits of liberal feminism
The 11th Ministerial Conference of the WTO saw the coming together of 121 WTO members to support the Buenos Aires Declaration on Trade and Women's Economic Empowerment (hereinafter 'Gender Declaration'). Members went on to endorse a liberal feminist strategy to promote gender equality within the international trading system. Pursuant to the Gender Declaration, the WTO has convened a series of conferences and workshops to deliberate upon ways to promote women's participation in international trade. The underlying objective of this exercise is to integrate more women into the neo-liberal globalization process.
However, the jury is still out on the ills and benefits of neo-liberalism; and herein lies the inherent limitation in the liberal feminist approach. Socialist feminists hold that the deeper roots of women's oppression – especially, women in the Global South – can be traced to the neo-liberal economic order itself. However, the liberal feminist approach extends no such critique of the global political economy. Much to the contrary, as Nancy Fraser notes, gender equality is but a smokescreen through which the liberal feminist discourse fosters the neo-liberal project (on socialist feminism generally, see here and here).
This is quite a fitting critique of the Gender Declaration as well, which seeks entry into the neo-liberal trading system, without interrogating the systemic inequalities that it perpetuates. Consequently, the Gender Declaration, at most, offers a partial analysis of the problem: one that is primarily oriented towards the privileged position of white, middle-class women, but inattentive to the economic exploitation of women in the Global South.
Proponents of the Gender Declaration would argue that by promoting access to finance and female entrepreneurship – in areas such as public procurement, value chains and trade facilitation – the liberal feminist approach does address the distinctive concerns of third world women. This contribution, however, argues that such piecemeal measures would not be sufficient. A pertinent point of inquiry, conspicuously missing from the declaration, is the gendered impact of traditional trade issues such as agriculture, informal work of women in export industries, access to medicines and services. Rather than addressing such systemic concerns, the Gender Declaration serves the broader agenda of liberalizing the digital economy and public procurement markets – with profound repercussions for women in developing countries (see here, here and here).
Against this backdrop, this contribution demonstrates how the approach articulated by post-colonial and socialist feminists is more apt insofar as it studies the impact of trade liberalisation on third world women, in conjunction with its effects across class, race, caste and sexual orientation (for an exposition of the post-colonial materialist feminist theory, see here and here).
The missing agenda
Gender-mainstreaming within the existing trading system has been insistently resisted by networks of feminist economists like the International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics (GEM-IWG) and International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN). Their principal contention is that economically privileged women stand to gain the most from trade liberalization, while women on the periphery of the economic system are further marginalized. They validate their postulation through empirical studies across various WTO covered agreements: illustrating how trade liberalisation broadens the class divide, with all the more deleterious consequences for disadvantaged women, especially in the Global South (see here for recent work in this area).
Case in point is the inherently inequitable Agreement on Agriculture, and the ever proliferating Free Trade Agreements. Due to the liberalization of agricultural markets, small farmers in developing countries are outcompeted by the influx of imported agricultural goods. Their plight is exacerbated by the State's commitment to eliminate domestic agricultural subsidies. Resultantly, developing countries find themselves confounded by concerns of food security and large-scale farmer displacement. This has an indelible impact on the lives of women, who are amongst the most marginalized constituencies in the agricultural sector. Women are largely involved in informal agricultural activities, with minimal access to productive resources like land, credit and water. They are, therefore, amongst the hardest hit by the liberalization of agricultural markets.
The predicament of women in export led industries, such as manufacturing and textiles, is also telling. The emergence of global value chains (GVCs) has led to a substantial feminization of labour in developing countries. While this is a commendable development, it has come on the heels of gender-based wage disparities and exploitative working conditions for women in the informal sector. Thus, from a Marxist perspective, the advent of GVCs can be said to have created a 'global reserve army of labour'. Studies indicate that the inclusion of labour standards within trade agreements is not a credible solution to this problem, on account of its protectionist character (see here and here). Thus, we need to rethink policy-options for alleviating women's oppression in the hands of GVCs.
Another area that exemplifies this conundrum is the opening of trade in services, which has typically benefitted qualified professionals, with no gains in sight for unskilled labour. For instance, labour migration (Mode IV) has been made permissible only for skilled personnel, and therefore, does not serve the interests of women care givers from developing countries. Likewise, the 'cross-border supply of services' (Mode I) has resulted in marked prosperity, but only for skilled IT technicians. One may also consider the liberalization of 'consumption abroad' (Mode II), which despite its advantages for medical professionals, has been accompanied by issues of sex tourism and surrogacy that afflict the more disadvantaged female population. Another matter of grave concern is the deregulation of FDI in services (Mode III), which could threaten access to critical services like healthcare, education, water and banking, with severe implications for women on the fringes of the economic system.
The foregoing discussion is incomplete without a mention of the TRIPS-plus regime – a characteristic of North-South FTAs – which has strengthened patent protection, while attenuating the already meagre space for policy manoeuvre that developing countries have under TRIPS. Medicine prices have been on an upward spiral since the coming into force of TRIPS-plus obligations like data exclusivity, patent term extension, and patent linkage, among others. The plight of women is differentially exaggerated by developments of this nature, on account of their deplorable access to healthcare and medicine.
Strikingly, the above studies have not influenced the agenda of the Gender Declaration. Ideally speaking, the Gender Declaration should have tested the validity of the aforementioned claims in light of recent empirical evidence. Not only does the Declaration disregard these concerns, it instead focuses attention on areas that propose further trade liberalization and have long been resisted by developing countries for their asymmetrical character. In essence, thus, the WTO unequivocally exhibits its bias towards the neo-liberal philosophy.
The Declaration's biased agenda
The above claim may be validated, for example, by the Declaration's emphasis on enhancing female entrepreneurship in public procurement markets. With the purported objective of gender equality, the Declaration makes a case for public procurement market access – which would disable developing country governments from preferentially treating their domestic enterprises, and consequentially, impede their socio-economic development.
The Gender Declaration also seeks to bring through the backdoor the contentious issue of trade facilitation. By purveying the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) as a promoter of female economic empowerment, the Declaration glosses over the significant financial costs involved in its implementation, that developing countries would have to apportion out of their national budgets. Moreover, the TFA while facilitating imports into developing countries, offers nothing to expand their productive and export capacities, and may therefore usher in a situation of trade imbalance. In the foregoing context, 'The false promise of Aid for Trade' cannot be accented enough.
Another seemingly benevolent objective of the Gender Declaration is the promotion of female entrepreneurship in Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) integrated within GVCs. MSMEs, unarguably, provide employment to large sections of the female population in developing countries. However, the WTO's newfound interest in the promotion of MSMEs (see also the Joint Ministerial Statement on MSMEs, 2017) is possibly part of a bigger strategy to negotiate a binding agreement on the liberalization of e-commerce (see here). The standard argument of developed countries is that the liberalization of e-commerce would increase the market access of MSMEs. This argument, however, is unconvincing. The MSMEs located in developing countries do not have adequate access to digital infrastructure, and would in all probability be driven out of the highly competitive digital markets. In effect, therefore, the strategy to promote MSMEs through the liberalization of e-commerce is highly counter-intuitive.
This piece is an attempt at highlighting how gender mainstreaming within the neo-liberal trading system can never address the concerns of the female subaltern. What is required, instead, is an appraisal of how trade liberalization affects women in the Global South, who are splintered along the lines of class, race and caste.
Given this context, it is concluded that the WTO must reform its approach to gender, if at all it is to meaningfully impact the lives of women. And no amount of window-dressing would help the cause.
Pallavi Arora is a research fellow at the Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. She holds an M.Phil. in Public International Law from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Cite as: Pallavi Arora, "Gender Inclusive Trade and the Limits of Liberal Feminism", Völkerrechtsblog, 11 March 2019, doi: 10.17176/20190311-152528-0.
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