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OVERNIGHT HEALTHCARE: Republicans say White House hiding ObamaCare plan
By Sarah Ferris and Peter Sullivan - 02/25/15 07:00 PM EST
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Some Republicans say it's impossible to believe that the Obama administration is not working on a fallback plan in case the Supreme Court dismantles a major piece of its healthcare law this summer.
The court begins arguments next week on a GOP-backed lawsuit, King v. Burwell, that could eliminate subsidies for more than 7 million people. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said Tuesday that the White House has "no plans" if the subsidies become illegal.
"No credible person would believe that," Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) told The Hill on Wednesday.
"It would be executive malpractice not to have a plan, a contingency plan, for what happens when that court ruling comes down and I'm going to assume that this government doesn't practice executive malpractice," he said.
Burwell's warning, which was delivered to several GOP offices on Tuesday, dramatically raises the stakes for an already crucial Supreme Court decision. Both parties have repeatedly said that a plaintiff victory could cause massive damage to ObamaCare.
With such high stakes, Republicans say the administration is surely preparing some way to avert the impending disaster.
"It's hard to fathom that the administration would bury its head in the sand and fail to engage in any contingency planning," Rep, Joe Pitts (R-Pa.), who chairs the health subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said.
He plans to grill Burwell on the administration's claim that it does not have a "back up plan" when she testifies at his hearing on Thursday.
One Senate GOP aide who is also skeptical of the White House's lack of planning said the administration is likely looking to influence the court ahead of the March 4 arguments.
"OK, so they say they're not doing anything. So what? They can show up a week after a King ruling and show they had done something," the aide said. "Does it influence next Wednesday? I'd like to think that the Supreme Court is not that shallow."
... ALTHOUGH A GOP HEARING ON WEDNESDAY IGNORED THE CASE: Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell testified on the Hill on Wednesday after a rough two-week stretch for ObamaCare.
But even with the clock ticking ahead on the high court challenge and the new tax season struggles, more than a dozen House Appropriations committee members made no mention of King v. Burwell or the new taxes. Instead, the two-hour hearing focused on abortion funding, travel budgets, Ebola and budgets of rural hospitals.
Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) used his time to question Burwell about a recent report that the department had spent millions on first-class and business-class flights.
As Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), began his questioning, he welcomed Burwell to what he joked was the "friendly committee." He said while reading through the secretary's 18-page testimony on the budget proposal, he was largely in support.
"I actually agree with you on most of it," Simpson said.
Burwell will be back on Capitol Hill on Thursday for a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing, where Chairman Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) is already saying he will be tough.
NEW SIGN-UPS HINT AT SUCCESS FOR YEAR 2: More than half of the nearly 9 million people who enrolled in ObamaCare coverage through the federal website were new customers, the administration said Wednesday, touting the number to show the vibrancy of the law.
Fifty-three percent of the 8.84 million people who signed up through Healthcare.gov were new to ObamaCare this year. The administration had previously praised the better-than-expected total number of enrollments, but it was unclear how many already had health insurance.
The other 47 percent of sign-ups were re-enrollments from people who already had coverage. Twenty-two percent were automatically re-enrolled, and 25 percent actively chose a plan again.
The administration touted that more than half of the people who actively re-enrolled in coverage, around 1.2 million people, chose a new plan. It said that was a higher rate than with other kinds of health insurance and an indication that people are engaged with ObamaCare.
Thursday's schedule
Burwell will testify at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing at 10 a.m.
Marketplace CEO Kevin Counihan testifies at a House Oversight Committee hearing at 10 a.m.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) will discuss mental health reforms at an event hosted by The Hill at 8:30 a.m.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) will host Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to speak about the Ebola crisis at 1:30 p.m.
GOP-backed bill would make it criminal to enforce ACA in W.Va.
Christie budget aims to ease Medicaid doctor shortage
Utah Senate gives early OK to governor's Medicaid plan
Oregon seeks to force Oracle to keep hosting Medicaid system
Major insurers are finally revealing one of healthcare's greatest mysteries
Supreme Court says dentists can't decide who gets to whiten your teeth
CDC warns overuse of antibiotics has fueled more infections
King v. Burwell: A quick take on a crucial case
Phil Gramm's 'Freedom Option' reveals the GOP's real agenda for Obamacare
What you might have missed from The Hill
Washington State's ObamaCare overcharges 13K
GOP senators blast union 'carve out' in ObamaCare tax
Insurance group raises alarms about looming ObamaCare case
Republican threatens DC mayor with jail time over marijuana law
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Day 2 of the NAGT-Eastern Section conference was dedicated entirely to a Marcellus Shale Field Trip. Despite knowing that temperatures were going to reach 90 degrees today, I was excited to get out to see what goes on at a drill site (well, at least I thought we were going to see some active drilling).
Leave from the Best Western by bus for the Marcellus Shale Field Trip. Arrive a the Waterville facility of the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), with a tour of the building and a presentation by Arianne Proctor, Director of the Marcellus Program at DCNR. Then travel to a Marcellus Shale Drilling site.
To jump ahead in my story, we did not get to visit an active drill site, with drillers using a drill rig. I was not the only person that thought this was what the trip would hold in store for us. Students, you know how I tell you to choose your words carefully when you are trying to describe something… using the phrase "drilling site" in the conference agenda made it sound as if we were going to visit a site with active drilling taking place. If the phrase was "former drill site" or "site of completed drilling" was used, I think fewer of us would have started the day with this misunderstanding.
BUT, I have to give a shout-out to the people from PA DCNR at the Tiadaghton State Forest – Jeff Prowant (District Forester – Tiadaghton State Forest), Jeff Woleslagle (Division Chief of Communications), and John Piekara (Marcellus Program) – for leading an excellent program today. We started in their amazing "green" information center by learning about the PA Bureau of Forestry, how it was established in 1898, covers 2.2 million acres in PA, is present in 48 of 67 counties, and has over 5,000 miles of trails for public use. I also thought it was interesting to learn that the Tiadaghton State Forest is a working forest, harvesting and selling 14,000 acres of word annually with the trees not replaced/replanted with new growth but relying on natural regeneration.
Looking out across the green roof at the Tiadaghton State Forest information center.
This was a great display to see in their visitor center – recognition to those that have made public lands in Pennsylvania possible. Students from my Earth Science "Fire" seminar will recognize some of these names! And we have former Penn State faculty member Maurice Goddard to thank for all of the state public lands that exist – because of Maurice, there is a state park in a radius of 25 miles, no matter where you are in Pennsylvania.
I could fill this blog post with information about the Marcellus Shale and the drilling taking place on public lands. Certainly, this is a sensitive subject that everyone has an opinion on, whether they have all the facts or not. But I would rather fill this post with some of the photos I was able to take during our trip to sites around the forest. If you want to see an informative video by Marathon Oil on how the horizontal drilling takes place, this video is worth watching.
The site where drilling is taking/has taken place is called a pad. This site had five wells drilled (left side of image) that are now capped and allowing for the movement of natural gas.
A closeup of the five wellheads that cap the drilled boreholes, nicknamed Christmas trees.
I could not fit this entire 15 million gallon water storage pond in one photo frame, so I took a short panoramic video (see above). The bottom of the pond has a double liner with cables that run through it, so that if a tear occurs, the hole can be easily found and fixed. The fence around the outside is to keep curious bears away so they do not tear the plastic as well. The water comes from a local creek and is fed to the local drill sites. Each frac requires 3-5 million gallons of water, which is the equivalent of 1,000 one-way truck trips. This pond cuts down on some of the truck traffic.
One of the sites where the waste water is treated and reused, or collected and transported away.
I really appreciate the efforts of the State Forest System to make sure people have access to the information necessary for an educated and informed decision on gas development on state forest land. Of the 2.2 million acres of of state forests, 1.5 million acres are in the "main fairway," meaning geographically located in areas with development potential, and 675,000 acres are available for development. With the Marcellus described as the largest shale play in the United States and possibly in the world, it is no wonder the drilling process and impacts are such a area of big interest and concern.
I came up with some great ideas for case studies to include in future courses, with some nice photos to supplement my instruction. Stay tuned, future students!
Tomorrow's trip – off to the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon.


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Organisations working for a sustainable future have a responsibility to take the lead.
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Biography – WHITE, AUBREY – Volume XIV (1911-1920) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
WHITE, AUBREY, timber cruiser and civil servant; b. 19 March 1845 at Lisonally House, Omagh (Northern Ireland), son of David White and Margaret Mackenzie; m. first 16 Nov. 1875 Emily Agnes (Minnie) Bridgland in Newmarket, Ont.; m. secondly 2 March 1882 her sister Mary Bridgland in Bracebridge, Ont.; he had one son and four daughters; d. 14 July 1915 on Chief Island, Lake Muskoka, Ont.
Aubrey White was educated at schools in Raphoe, Dungannon, and Dublin. He entered the Royal Navy as a cadet, but, failing an examination, he enlisted in the 8th Foot. Plans to send it to Canada were cancelled, so a disappointed White came on his own in 1862. He eventually worked in the Muskoka district with the steamboat company run by Alexander Peter Cockburn* and then as a timber cruiser for Anson Greene Phelps Dodge, who considered White to be "one of the most knowledgeable . . . in the business." Responsible for assessing timber and the land on which it grew, White also bought timber from settlers for Dodge's company.
On 30 April 1878 the Ontario government appointed him a crown-lands agent, based in Bracebridge. He resigned this position in December 1881 to work in Toronto as a clerk in the woods and forests branch of the Department of Crown Lands. A capable bureaucrat, he jumped ahead in the hierarchy by being appointed assistant commissioner upon the death of Thomas Hall Johnson on 8 Jan. 1887. He would remain second in command until his death.
White's experience in Muskoka stood him in good stead for the first tasks he was given by commissioner Timothy Blair Pardee*. Having instituted the continent's first forest-fire protection act in 1878, Pardee was eager to implement the suggestions for more effective protection made by a joint Canadian-American committee of the American Forestry Congress in 1882 [see James Little*]. White was given the job. Very likely aware of the system of fire "superintendents" legislated in Quebec in 1883, in March 1885 he outlined a scheme for stationing, at key locations during the dry months of the year, fire rangers who would be selected and paid in part by the timber licensees. The plan was put into practice immediately: 37 rangers were placed between 1 May and 1 Oct. 1885. It enjoyed such success that the number of rangers grew each year. An example of their value would be provided by the construction of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway through an area considered in 1903 to be the most dangerous for fires. Under an agreement between the department and the railway, 59 of 425 rangers worked along the line in 1905. Their presence was effective; at least there were no fires that year. An amendment to the fire act in 1906 authorized the department to appoint rangers on railways generally with the companies bearing the costs.
The act of 1878 was but one example of the growing interest in forest conservation. In 1893 a royal commission, which included White and was chaired by his colleague Alexander Kirkwood*, confirmed the establishment of Algonquin Park, under the administration of White's department. Significantly, however, the commission waited to convene until the remaining pine limits in the area had been auctioned off. Six years later another commission recommended the creation of forest reserves, full government control of fire ranging, and increased limits on the size of trees that could be harvested [see John Bertram*]. In 1900 White and Thomas Southworth, of the department's bureau of forestry, were the province's representatives at the founding conference in Ottawa of the Canadian Forestry Association, which soon came to be dominated by the lumbermen and their extractive approach to forests. White served as the CFA's honorary president in 1905 and on the executive committee of the Canadian Forestry Convention of 1906.
By this time the centre of the industry in Ontario had shifted to the northwest, where the final resolution of the Ontario-Manitoba boundary dispute in 1889 had brought a large, resource-rich territory under Ontario's jurisdiction. White had had some experience in this area in 1883, when Oliver Mowat*'s government, angered by federal attempts to assert control by distributing timber rights, sent him there to seize timber. The development of other regions in "New Ontario," among them the clay belts of the northeast [see August Kruger*], added to the administrative load of crown lands. As well, the issuance of pulpwood licences from 1892, on areas separate from timber berths, ushered in a new phase of industrial development and administrative responsibility. Frequently consulted by White, the lumber interests strongly influenced policy, especially during the tariff debates of the 1890s [see Arthur Sturgis Hardy*].
As deputy commissioner, White was required not only to implement policy but to balance the often opposing demands of developers, settlers, railways, conservationists, and native peoples. Nowhere was conflict more evident than in the insertion of measures for conservation in a timber policy based on cutting and the generation of revenue. Under the Forest Reserves Act of 1898, crown lands "deemed advisable for . . . future timber supplies" could be set aside and preserved in a natural state as much as possible. In 1901 the Temagami Forest Reserve, north of Lake Nipissing, was created on the recommendation of White, who also proposed that regulated cutting be allowed from the outset. By late 1903, however, regulations had not been implemented, and within a few years White was mired in far-reaching disputes over development and native claims. In another instance, public protest in 1908 forced the cessation of cutting in Rondeau Park, on Lake Erie. Elsewhere, in such areas as Algonquin and the northwestern Quetico reserve, problems of wildlife protection, native rights, and overcutting could overwhelm White's control.
The election of the Conservatives in 1905 under James Pliny Whitney had brought to White's department, as minister, a tough northerner, Francis Cochrane. As part of Whitney's "new order," crown lands became the Department of Lands and Mines, with White as its first deputy. In 1906 the portfolio name changed to Lands, Forests, and Mines. The following year White introduced an impressive but inconsequential set of new cutting regulations. The most important changes dealt with payments, which were to be based no longer on predetermined charges but on volumes cut, as declared by the lumbermen and verified by cullers, many in the companies' employ. No bureaucratic reform accompanied this system, a failure that left much control in the hands of the lumberers and placemen who traditionally ruled field operations.
Moreover, at the same time as Whitney was struggling with the public-electricity movement, White resisted any integration of the progressive principles of scientific forest management as advocated by Judson Freeman Clark, a forester in White's department, and Bernhard Eduard Fernow*, head of the University of Toronto's new faculty of forestry, whose criticisms alienated White. He did value the advice, however, of Edmund John Zavitz* of the Ontario Agricultural College, whom he took to Washington for a forestry conference in 1908 and brought into the department in 1912 as Ontario's first provincial forester.
White was as highly regarded in the masonic movement as he was in the government. A member of King Solomon's Lodge in Toronto, he was deputy grand master of the lodge in Ontario from 1909 to 1911 and grand master from 1911 to 1913. His prominence in the order helps explain, perhaps, his long career under both Liberal and Conservative governments; several of his ministers and premiers were masons. In 1914 White was named a cmg.
A quiet man, White had been in poor health for some time when he and his family made their annual trek in 1915 to their summer home in Muskoka. On 14 July, after a day of vigorous activity, he suffered a fatal stroke. He was buried in the family plot in the cemetery of St Thomas' Anglican Church in Bracebridge.
White had been, in the opinion of his minister George Howard Ferguson*, an "able, valued and trusted public official" in a department that had witnessed great changes in the approach to natural resources in Ontario. However much he came to embrace conservation, White always regarded himself as a forests man, responsible for administering timber concessions, maintaining good relations with the companies, and generating as much timber revenue as possible. In 1908 he boasted that his department had sold 12,000 square miles of timber since confederation and had collected more than 40 million dollars, thus relieving Ontarians "of taxation by the sale of the natural resources of the province." His death left an administrative gap that was hard to fill.
S. Barry Cottam
Aubrey White's publications include Forest fires and fire ranging: report addressed to commissioner of crown lands (Toronto, 1886) and The forest resources of Ontario, in Ont., Legislature, Sessional papers, 1909, no.3 (report of the minister of lands, forests, and mines, 1908), app.46. White also assisted in the compilation of A history of crown timber regulations, from the date of the French occupation to the present time, published by Ont., Bureau of Forestry, as the Annual report of the clerk of forestry (Toronto), 1899. The History was reissued as app.52 of the report of the minister of lands, forests, and mines for 1907 (Sessional papers, 1908, no.3), and was reprinted by the Dept. of Lands and Forests as A history of crown timber regulations front the date of the French occupation to the year 1899 ([Toronto], 1957).
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Published at Sunday, December 02nd 2018, 01:28:17 AM by Angelika Rchter. Backsplashes. More than that, a chalkboard backsplash is like a canvas, which allows creating any art and notes that you want. This way you personalize the space much more and it becomes more original. Your kids will be happy to chalk on the backsplash while you are cooking and you can chalk down a recipe on it, too. To give yourself and your family more space for creativity, go for a whole chalkboard wall, not just a backsplash.
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Published at Saturday, September 15th 2018, 02:11:18 AM. Cabinet By Noele Garcia. I've prepared some pros that are to convince you to rock such cabinets in your kitchen, too. Most of such cabinets are finished on all sides, and that means that you can move them around as much as you need and create various configurations – a great option for those who love changes and refreshing the space from time to time. The legs can be lowered or raised if you need to change the look, and they will fit even a space with imperfect flooring.
Published at Friday, September 14th 2018, 02:06:25 AM. Cabinet By Noele Garcia. Love cottage style? It doesnt get more cottage chic than beadboard. The center panel of the cabinet doors in this style are made to look like traditional beadboard paneling. Beadboard was used in the past as a decorative wall treatment before plaster, drywall and paint became common. While all-white beadboard cabinetry can give your kitchen a bright and clean feel, all the little cracks and crevasses on this door style can be a pain to keep clean.
Published at Thursday, September 13th 2018, 03:48:17 AM. Cabinet By Marlayna Huber.
Published at Sunday, September 09th 2018, 03:44:08 AM. Cabinet By Marlayna Huber. These days there is plenty of talk about giving the kitchen a green makeover. But why not have a few green cabinets to go along with this design philosophy? Just like blue, green is available in a wide range of shades, hues and values. Lime green and dark olive green seem to be preferred in chic, contemporary kitchens. A lighter and more sober version of green can give your kitchen cabinets an amazing, vintage look. If creating a full-blown vintage kitchen is your aim, then do not give green cabinets a miss.
Published at Saturday, September 08th 2018, 03:03:44 AM. Color Scheme By Marcella Marini. Light grey shades are are soft, relaxing and combinable. For a modern or minimalist look, go for a sleek look with no handles, for a vintage look choose proper cabinets and add glass armoires. You can refresh the look with white counters and walls, and to make it more eye-catchy you can go for metallic touches, especially lamps and handles. To make your kitchen non-boring boldly add textures or colorful touches to the space, it may be a marble or stone backsplash, a wooden dining set, concrete counters or walls and of course cool tile backsplashes.
Published at Wednesday, September 05th 2018, 02:56:05 AM. Color Scheme By Marcella Marini. A green kitchen backsplash can beautifully add a colorful touch and make your neutral kitchen stand out, and the darker or bolder shade you choose, the more it will stand out. You can choose tiles of various shades: emerald, pale or muted green, dark green or any other shade that you like. Add some touches that echo with your green backsplash, for example, lamps, countertops or some accessories. You can also extend a kitchen backsplash and cover the whole wall or walls with green tiles, this way you'll add more color and create a strong impression.


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For decades, a source of powerful earthquakes and volcanic activity on the Pacific Rim was shrouded in secrecy, as the Soviet government kept outsiders away from what is now referred to as the Russian Far East.
But research in the last 20 years has shown that the Kamchatka Peninsula and Kuril Islands are a seismic and volcanic hotbed, with a potential to trigger tsunamis that pose a risk to the rest of the Pacific Basin.
The 2009 eruption of Sarychev Peak volcano in the Kuril Islands was captured in this photograph from the International Space Station.NASA
A magnitude 9 earthquake in that region in 1952 caused significant damage elsewhere on the Pacific Rim, and even less-powerful quakes have had effects throughout the Pacific Basin.
"There's not a large population in the Russian Far East, but it's obviously important to the people who live there. Thousands of people were killed in tsunamis because of the earthquake in 1952. And tsunamis don't stay home," said Jody Bourgeois, a University of Washington professor of Earth and space sciences.
Bourgeois will discuss the seismic and volcanic threats in the Kamchatka-Kurils region Monday (Dec. 3) during the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
Earthquakes greater than magnitude 8 struck the central Kurils in 2006 and 2007, and both produced large local tsunamis, up to about 50 feet. Though the tsunamis that crossed the Pacific were much smaller, the one from the 2006 quake did more than $10 million in damage at Crescent City, Calif.
In 2009, Sarychev Peak in the Kurils erupted spectacularly, disrupting air traffic over the North Pacific.
Clearly, determining the frequency of such events is important to many people over a broad area, Bourgeois said.
"Let's say you decide to build a nuclear power plant in Crescent City. You have to consider local events, but you also have to consider non-local events, worst-case scenarios, which includes tsunamis coming across the Pacific," she said.
But that is only possible by understanding the nature of the hazards, and the historic record for earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions in Kamchatka and the Kurils is relatively short. In addition, because the region was closed off from much of the world for decades, much of the information has started becoming available only recently.
Much has been learned in the last 10 years in the examination of tsunami deposits and other evidence of prehistoric events, Bourgeois said, but more field work in the Kamchatka-Kurils subduction zone is required to get a clearer picture.
"For hazard analysis, you should just assume that a subduction zone can produce a magnitude 9 earthquake," she said. So it is important to "pay attention to the prehistoric record" to know where, and how often, such major events occur.
Bourgeois noted that in the last 25 years research in the Cascadia subduction zone off the coast of Washington, Oregon, northern California and British Columbia has demonstrated that the historic record does not provide a good characterization of the hazard. It was once assumed the risks in the Northwest were small, but the research has shown that, before there were any written records, Cascadia produced at least one magnitude 9 earthquake and a tsunami that struck Japan.
Alaska's Aleutian Islands and the Komandorsky Islands, an extension of the Aleutians controlled by Russia, are another source of seismic and volcanic activity that need to be evaluated for their potential risk beyond what is known from the historical record.
"The Aleutians are under-studied," Bourgeois said. "The work in the Russian Far East is kind of a template for the Aleutians."
Ideally, a dedicated boat could ferry researchers to a number of islands in the Aleutian chain, similar to how Bourgeois and other scientists from the United States, Japan and Russia have carried out a detailed research project in the Kuril Islands in the last decade.
"The problem is that during the (research) field season, boats are commonly in demand for fishing," she said.
For more information, contact Bourgeois at 206-685-2443 or jbourgeo@uw.edu.
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From the 3rd of June till 5th of June, the Hungarian partner of the InCompass project, Pannon Business Network (PBN) hosted the thematic seminar. The main goal of the meeting was to analyse and discuss the learnings of the study visit in Aviles, Spain, back in November 2013, just as to decide on the main focus of the Final Conference later 2014.
The partners arrived in Szombathely on the 2nd of June, and the seminar started with open discussions on the 3rd. After clarifying all the relevant project issues within the steering group meeting, the partnership discussed the possible content, date and key speakers of the final conference. The meeting will be on the 18th of November 2014, but the details will be clarified and decided in the coming weeks.
Another main topic of the seminar was the current stand of the Regional Implementation Groups (RIG) and the Regional Implementation Plans (RIP). PBN introduced the method they use to communicate with the RIGs in 7 Interreg IVC projects, and how the learnings of the InCompass project is already integrated into the regional development plan.
Following this, all the partners introduced their own region's implementation groups and status of the implementation plans. All partners could have an overview which methods are used in the different countries, what are the difficulties of the implementation and which good practices could be transferred. Of course, every single partner has its own way for both organising and leading the RIGs and preparing the implementation.
Regarding the study visit to Aviles, the partnership started to collect all the information which is necessary and usefult. All visited places and good practices were discussed and the partners tried to define the most transferable ideas and solutions. Based on the fact that all the study visits were held already, the partnership also started to define all the best practices from the whole project. This of course is a more difficult topic due to the fact that "good practices" have a different meaning and methodology for each partner. To be able to find out the best practices, there's still a lot of work to do in the project's remaining lifetime.
Two visits were also held in Hungary. On the 2nd meeting day, the partnership travelled to Győr to visit the MOBILIS house of discovery, which is an organisation to see basic physical theories in practices. In most exhibits, the workings of cars were presented, but also chemical presentation was held for the partners. All this exhibits are presented on a really creative and interesting way, so that not only adults but kids can be attracted to physics.
On the last day of the seminar, partners went to visit the Gothard Observatory in Szombathely, where the creative solutions and ideas for the future space technologies and main project ideas were presented. Partners also had the chance here to discuss future cooperation possibilities in different project areas not only in space technology development but also data processing.


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NexChange spoke with Charles d'Haussy, head of FinTech for Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK), about the explosive growth of the fintech market in this Asian financial hub of roughly 7 million people.
The pledged support of the Hong Kong SAR (HKSAR) Government has been intrinsic to the growth of the market, teaming up with the private sector to build out its fintech ecosystem. In this first installment of our interview, d'Haussy talks about the five priorities that InvestHK has for fintech in Hong Kong.
"I think the fintech market today is not the same as where fintech was two years ago," d'Haussy says. "Two years ago we were talking about two or three startups that were supposed to change the world and make a name for themselves. Nowadays when we talk about fintech we talk more about collaboration between the big incumbents and the new technology companies."
Cyber Security "Finance is about trust," d'Haussy says. "Two parties are dealing and making a transaction and this transaction will not happen if there is no trust." With this in mind, d'Haussy says the focus on cyber security helps Hong Kong grow its assets in fintech, while ensuring that the market stays safe.
Blockchain d'Haussy notes that blockchain is helping to innovate a lot of the back-office services, where significant inefficiencies exist in banking and financial services. "When you look at blockchain I would say a lot of the action is coming from financial services because they have the problems and the budget to fix it," d'Haussy says. Hong Kong has a strong telecommunications industry and has attracted major cloud service companies from both the US and mainland China. "This is very important because it's really helping to get the blockchain market moving forward," d'Haussy says.
Insurance Technology Hong Kong is home to a large insurance market, and like other insurers across the globe, the market here is playing catch-up with innovation. "It's our responsibility that our insurance companies are surrounded by the best and brightest insurance technology practitioners from around the world," d'Haussy says. "So our job at InvestHK is to engage with these companies from the US, from Europe, from mainland China and explain the value proposition of Hong Kong so they will come here and start a business or expand a business in Hong Kong."
Regulation Technology "[Financial] compliance can be seen as a problem, but it can also be seen as an opportunity if you get things right and use technology to deliver on compliance requirements," d'Haussy says. Just as it does with insurtech, InvestHK is engaging with the "best and brightest" RegTech practitioners and researchers from across the globe "to make sure that we have in Hong Kong an early and strong practice in regulation technology," according to d'Haussy. InvestHK has one significant resource right in its own backyard to help in these efforts: Hong Kong University happens to have one of the best research schools in the world dedicated to technology regulation. "This gives InvestHK momentum in the field," d'Haussy says.
Wealth Management The wealth management market in Hong Kong has an estimated US $2.3 trillion in assets. Helping to spur along this growth in the wealth management industry, according to d'Haussy, is Hong Kong's straightforward regulatory framework. "We have very clear regulations for robo-advisors in Hong Kong so we see a lot of robo-advisors coming up," he says. "We also have very clear regulation for the distrubition side of wealth management which attracts companies who are building distribution platforms from mainland china and the US."
With 159 licensed banks, Hong Kong has become an attractive market for collaboration with fintech startups from around the globe that want to establish a business without many of the regulatory pressures they'd face by going it alone.
"Some companies will make a name for themselves in very specific verticals of the fintech industry, but a lot startups do not have appetites for a banking license or insurance license or wealth management license," d'Haussy says. "Most of them just want to help with the process, help with the back office, help with the user experience or distribute products in new ways. But they don't necessarily want to get a license and get under all of this compliance framework."
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Report: Trump To Seek New Powers To Purge the Civil Service
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There are a whole range of policy-making positions in the federal government occupied by people who serve at the President's pleasure. Cabinet secretaries are the obvious ones, but the range of positions extend several layers down from there. But there is a point in the hierarchy where jobs are shielded from political patronage by Civil Service laws. The President doesn't get to fire those people based on the color of their shoes or the party ID on their registration cards. Trump surrogate Chris Christie is telling donors that they aim to change that if Trump is elected:
Christie, who is governor of New Jersey and leads Trump's White House transition team, said the campaign was drawing up a list of federal government employees to fire if Trump defeats Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 presidential election.
"As you know from his other career, Donald likes to fire people," Christie told a closed-door meeting with dozens of donors at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, according to an audio recording obtained by Reuters and two participants in the meeting.
…Trump's transition advisers fear that Obama may convert these appointees to civil servants, who have more job security than officials who have been politically appointed. This would allow officials to keep their jobs in a new, possibly Republican, administration, Christie said
…"One of the things I have suggested to Donald is that we have to immediately ask the Republican Congress to change the civil service laws. Because if they do, it will make it a lot easier to fire those people," Christie said. He said firing civil servants was "cumbersome" and "time-consuming."
They fear that "Obama may convert these appointees to civil servants" because every president before them did the same thing. And to be clear, this practice, called "burrowing," is not simply declaring, say, an assistant to a deputy cabinet secretary as a a protected civil service job. Rather, it's the practice of moving a political appointee from a policy-making position outside the purview of civil service laws and finding them non-political positions jobs in the government, with the hope that they might somehow still be able to wield some kind of influence. Every president has done this: Bush did it before he left office, as did Clinton, elder Bush, Reagan, and so on.
But this kind of proposed change to the Civil Service laws would go beyond endangering just former political appointees who are now in non-political positions. It would, in by Christie's own admission, make it easy for Trump to fire whomever he pleases, just like he does on his TV show. It would open the gates to the kind of nineteenth century-style political patronage that the civil service laws were intended to abolish, when political litmus tests were standard for every government job from mail clerk to Postmaster General.
In fact, it was this kind of patronage that contributed to the assassination of President Garfield in 1881 by Charles Guiteau, a mentally unstable man who was furious that Garfield didn't give him a government job in return for guaranteeing Garfield's election thanks to a speech that Guiteau gave that nobody remembered. Garfield's assassination was the last straw for a populace already outraged over the "spoils system" which saw the wholesale replacement of federal employees every time the government changed hands.
So imagine now a scenario where a new law goes through allowing those protections to be eliminated if the president or one of his minions doesn't like the politics of some federal workers. There is precedent for that, from 1950 to 1953, when thousands were fired from government jobs because the were supposedly "subversives." A particular kind of "subversive" sought during those times were gay people, a witch hunt that was codified in a 1953 Executive Order signed by Eisenhower. For the next twenty-two years, it was the official written policy to prohibit hiring and employing gay people by federal employment, and for the next twenty-two years, thousands of gay people, or simply people accused of being gay, were fired. One such firing turned Frank Kameny into an aggressive gay rights pioneer and a perennial thorn in the Civil Service Commission's side until 1975, when the Commission finally modified its policy following a string of defeats in the courts.
So Trump now wants to replace a system designed to protect government employees from being fired for political purposes and replace it with a system specially designed to specifically allow employees from being fired for political purposes. Purges like what he has in mind are dangerous territory, especially in the hands of someone who already sees no constitutional problem with instituting a religious test banning Muslims from entering the U.S. So why stop with Democrats? Why wouldn't he purge civil service employees based on religion? Or, given Trump's famously thin skin and fondness for vendettas, just someone — anyone — he doesn't like?
It's hard to know whether this proposal would actually go anywhere, but with this Republican Congress, it's hard to dismiss it outright. More importantly, though, this gives us a very clear view of the mindset inside the Trump campaign, which already has shown it has no concern about the nuts and bolts of the constitution or for laws, rules, norms, history, facts, etc. If you want to know what Trump's American might look like, you might want to check out Turkey or Russia right about now. Especially Russia. He admires Putin.
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By an odd series of coincidences, I began a sequence of recent (since 2005 or so) books that underscores how and why this history is so critical, as well as so critical to report.
I began with Rodger McDaniel's "Dying for Joe McCarthy's Sins" on Lester Hunt's suicide in his Senate office in 1953. Hunt faced a challenge by McCarthy because Lester Hunt, Jr., had recently been arrested for gay sex in a DC park, and Hunt was a progressive Democrat who McCarthy could now target. I learned how similar McCarthy's bullying is to Trump's, with no context…yet.
Then I read Nick von Hoffman's "Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky" on how von Hoffman and Lester Hunt, Jr., worked for a decade for Alinsky and learned about "real" politics. It's a brilliant book, but, beyond that brilliance, it denotes the failure of reactionary politics to do anything positive at all. And that led me to look at Larry Tye's new best seller, "Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon."
Since Kennedy's first wave of politics was on McCarthy's staff, it helped frame my next read, von Hoffman's other (earlier) book on that era, "Citizen Cohn," on Roy Cohn who was Kennedy's enemy and who, two decades later, was one of Trump's most successful attorneys.
What each of these books documents – sometimes in lurid, sometimes just in spot lights – is a kind of cozy, backroom dealing that the Republican Convention this week so brutally mirrors: the art of the deal is rarely in the spotlight, and the crooks of McCarthy's era are still quite active in key leadership roles.
I'd suggest also reading Niall Ferguson's "Civilization". He's a bit of a conservative git, but his analysis on the fall of various civilizations, including the fall of the western civilization that we seem to be in the middle of, is fascinating, insightful, and scary.
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After publishing six successful novels about the surface engagements of World War II, including the now classic South to Java (coauthored with his son), William Mack turns his attention and considerable talent to the adventure and romance of the Age of Sail. This enchanting story charts the glorious rise through the ranks of Nelson's navy by Fergus Kilburnie, one of ...


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Miriam ist ein Fernsehfilm aus der Fernseh-Kriminalreihe Tatort der ARD und des ORF. Der Film wurde vom WDR produziert und am 4. April 1983 erstmals gesendet. Es ist die 146. Folge der Tatort-Reihe und die sechste Folge mit dem Ermittlerteam Horst Schimanski (Götz George) und Christian Thanner (Eberhard Feik). Anlässlich des 40. Sendejubiläums des Duisburger Tatorts strahlte der WDR am 6. Oktober 2020 eine in HD abgetastete und digital restaurierte Folge aus.

Handlung
Kriminalhauptkommissar Thanner zieht bei seinem Kollegen Schimanski ein, nachdem er von seiner Freundin Sylvia wegen seiner Eifersucht vor die Tür gesetzt worden ist, und bringt dessen Wohnung auf Vordermann. Während Thanner versucht, seine Freundin zurückzugewinnen, wird Daddel Virks, der Kompagnon von Privatdetektiv Heinz Scholl, ermordet in dessen durchwühltem Büro aufgefunden. Die plötzlich am Tatort auftauchende Miriam Schultheiß bringt einen neuen Aspekt in diesen Fall.

Schimanski und Thanner ziehen bei der Versicherungsgesellschaft Erkundigungen über zwei Diebstahlsdelikte ein, mit denen Scholl und Virks beschäftigt gewesen sind, wobei eines davon beim Vater von Miriam begangen wurde. Die beiden Detektive scheinen auf etwas Brisantes gestoßen zu sein. Während Schimanski vergeblich mit den Kollegen anderer Dienstbereiche versucht, den untergetauchten Scholl zu finden, versinkt Thanner in seinem Liebeskummer und stürzt sich in die Hausarbeit.

Bei einer Lkw-Schieber-Razzia kann Scholl, der hier auch eine Mittlerrolle hat, entkommen. Die Lkw-Fahrer bestätigen nur die Gerüchte, dass Scholl angeblich eine Goldader aufgetan hat. Schimanski sucht Miriam und ihren Vater auf und erfährt von dem tödlichen Verkehrsunfall der Mutter vor 20 Jahren, die vor ihrem Tod einen Spieler erstochen haben soll. Dieses Ereignis scheint die beiden tief zu entzweien, da Schultheiß seine Geliebte danach zu seiner neuen Ehefrau machte. Miriam wollte mithilfe von Scholl mehr darüber erfahren und über Virks gegen Bezahlung Informationen zusammentragen.

Durch einen Telefonanruf wird Miriam aus ihrer Wohnung zu einem Treffpunkt gelockt, wohin Schimanski sie verfolgt. Ein verdächtiger Mercedes wird von Schimanski beobachtet und als ein Fahrzeug der Schröder KG identifiziert. Das Treffen war eine Finte, um Miriams Wohnung durchsuchen zu können. Am nächsten Tag hebt Miriam bei ihrer Bank eine große Summe ab, um Scholl für die Informationen, die sie sich erhofft, bezahlen zu können. Sie trifft sich mit dem Detektiv am Bahnhof. Schimanski, Thanner und ihrem Kollegen Hänschen gelingt es, Scholl zu überwältigen, wobei herauskommt, dass Scholl Miriam nur mit alten Zeitungen täuschen wollte.

Sie lassen Scholl jedoch wieder frei, um ihn als Lockvogel einzusetzen, und er wird prompt von Schröder, der ein guter Freund von Schultheiß ist, aus einem Hotel geholt. Als man Scholl an einem verlassenen Ort verprügelt, greifen Thanner und Hänschen ein, wobei es zum Schusswechsel kommt, bei dem Scholl verletzt wird.

Bevor Scholl ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert wird, gibt er ihnen eine Adresse in Köln, wo ein Hausmädchen von Schultheiß wohnen soll. Die Frau gibt an, von dem Industriellen wegen seiner neuen Frau nach dem Vorfall vor 20 Jahren entlassen und mit einer Privatpension ausgestattet worden zu sein. Im Krankenhaus verrät Scholl Schimanski, dass die Haushälterin in Wirklichkeit Miriams totgeglaubte Mutter ist und stattdessen das Hausmädchen von Schröder zur Verhinderung eines Skandals ermordet worden ist. Eine Gegenüberstellung von Miriam und der Frau bestätigt Scholls Aussage. Miriam ist sichtlich erschüttert. Schröder, nach dem gefahndet wird, will per Flugzeug entkommen, wird aber am Flughafen gestellt. Schimanski und Thanner suchen in Begleitung von Miriam Schultheiß auf, der gerade eine Abendgesellschaft zu Gast hat. Bevor er den Kommissaren aufs Präsidium folgt, übergibt er Miriam die Leitung des Abends. Diese übernimmt widerwillig mit der Bemerkung: "The show must go on."

Hintergrund
 Der Schultheiß-Darsteller Paul Albert Krumm spielte im ersten Tatort: Taxi nach Leipzig den ersten Hauptverdächtigen der Fernsehreihe.
 In diesem Tatort wurde der damals neue Ford Sierra suggestiv beworben: Er taucht auf einem Werbeplakat auf, und in späteren Szenen fährt Schimanski ihn selbst, um Miriam zu beschatten. Ein anderes Element ist Werbung der Biermarke König Pilsener, die aber bereits in den Vorgängern oft zu sehen ist.
 In der Bahnhofsszene (ca. Minute 49) sind die Ansagen der verspäteten Ankunft des Hellas-Express und auch die Ankündigung des Blauer Enzian zu hören.
 Nach dem Erfolg von White Eagle für den Tatort: Das Mädchen auf der Treppe lieferte Tangerine Dream das Instrumental-Stück Daydream für diese Tatort-Folge.

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Einzelnachweise

Miriam
Deutscher Film
Filmtitel 1983
Horst Schimanski

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