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THURSDAY, May 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A new study suggesting that the new coronavirus has mutated to become even more infectious should be viewed with skepticism, multiple experts said Wednesday.
Earlier this week, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory concluded that the new strain of the coronavirus started spreading in Europe in early February and then expanded to other parts of the world, becoming the dominant strain of the virus in the United States and Canada by the end of March, CNBC reported.
The team also concluded that the strain was more easily transmitted between people.
The study was posted Thursday on the website BioRxiv, and has not been peer-reviewed.
The research "doesn't prove that this new strain is in fact more infectious," Gottlieb said Wednesday on CNBC's "Squawk Box."
"The analysis could be confounded by the fact that this just became the dominant strain in Europe because it got into Europe early and then got into the United States from Europe," former U.S. Food and Drug Administration head Dr. Scott Gottlieb explained. "It really doesn't prove anything."
He also noted that the study is only based on computational analysis and more research is required, CNN reported. "We don't have any other data to support it, including cell culture data," he noted.
"We saw a change like this with Ebola and we initially thought that it also made Ebola more contagious, and we actually had cell culture data to support it at that time," Gottlieb said.
"We found that when we put it into animal studies, in fact the change in the [Ebola] virus didn't change its contours at all, didn't make it more infectious," he explained.
Speaking to The New York Times, evolutionary biologist Sergei Pond, of Temple University, agreed.
"I don't think they provide evidence to claim transmissibility enhancement,"he said.
"In order to establish this, you'd need direct competition between strains in the same geographic area," and that hasn't been shown, Pond explained.
There are different strains of the new coronavirus circulating, but mutation alone doesn't mean it's more contagious, Gottlieb said.
"Just because it mutates doesn't mean it's changing in ways that's going to make it more virulent or more infectious," he said. "It is going to drift over time. Generally the drift should be in the direction of making it less virulent, less dangerous, not more, if it's selected for, because it wants to keep its host [people] alive."
"I think those [Los Alamos] claims are suspect, to say the least," Bill Hanage, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, added on Twitter, the Times reported.
Visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more on the new coronavirus.
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In 1549 Gustav Vasa started building a fortress at Kasåsen in Uppsala. After Gustav Vasa’s death, his three sons took over the construction and by the early 1600s the castle had become a magnificent palace with three towers.
The beautifully preserved spaces in Uppsala Castle provide an attractive location for the perfect function.
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A party at Uppsala Castle is a journey through time. It also provides a culinary experience and a venue for music, dance and entertainment. Together they make the evening unforgettable.
For a few hundred years, the castle was one of Sweden’s top public venues, accommodating coronation ceremonies, and dramatic deliberations and events. Even today the magnificent halls, galleries and stairwells bring history to life.
The castle has also been the venue for seven coronation ceremonies, the most magnificent festivities of all time. When Erik XIV was crowned in June 1561, the festivities lasted for six days.
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Blog Categories all music news GHOST Is Trying To Decide Where To Film New Concert DVD/Blu-Ray
GHOST Is Trying To Decide Where To Film New Concert DVD/Blu-Ray Thursday March 14 2019, 10:02 PM
Tobias Forge has confirmed that GHOST is planning to film a concert DVD and Blu-ray during the band's still-ongoing world tour in support of last year's "Prequelle" album. "That's definitely in the pipeline," he told Australia's Wall Of Sound in a new interview. "We don't know yet as to when and where we will shoot this. It really, really isn't something that you do just anywhere. You wanna do it in a venue that might possess some sort of look, some sort of aura."
The GHOST mastermind continued: "I think for what I wanna do and how I like things, and being a control freak and a very much habitual person, playing arenas is the best thing in the world, because nothing changes. The production is more or less the same every day. But as an individual who was kind of rebellious in the aesthetic, the downside — if there is one negative thing to say — is it's very repetitive and very generic. So, most venues, even if it's a very well-known historical arena or a newly built one, they basically look the same. So, from a cinematic point of view, there are slim pickings when it comes to a suitable venue. So we're trying to look into that — if there's anything historical, as in an older venue. Also where we can play. Where can we do the production? Maybe in Europe. Maybe an old Roman arena or something like that. That would be more of a physical look. And on the other hand, in order to do things like that, you might need access for more than one day. And it would be really good if the place was sold out. It would be really cool if that crowd was a very vivid, raging, Friday-night sort of crowd instead of a very subdued, Tuesday-night, wants to leave during the encore… even if it's your crowd. There's a very big difference between the two extremes. You can do fantastic shows in the middle of nowhere, or even in a big metropolitan city, on a Tuesday night, and the crowd equals dancing with someone that is about to fall asleep."
Forge recently said in another interview that his current stage persona, Cardinal Copia , has a very good chance of sticking around for GHOST 's next studio album.
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Forge told Billboard that he is already focused on the band's next recording project, with plans to be in the studio again by the beginning of 2020. But GHOST still has an extensive touring schedule to get through for the rest of 2019, including a opening stint for METALLICA this summer.
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A University researcher wants to find out what helps people become active users of the Māori language to try to reverse the decline in speaker numbers.
Professor Rāwinia Higgins from Te Kawa a Māui—School of Māori Studies is co-leading a three-year research project to investigate how Māori language contributes to economic development, cultural identity, and social cohesion.
Her focus is on community responsiveness to Māori language, while co-leader Associate Professor Pōia Rewi from the School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies at the University of Otago is examining state responsiveness.
Dr Higgins and her team are concentrating on people who have taken steps to include Māori language in their everyday life—those who are not necessarily proficient, but motivated to use the language.
“We want to know what motivates them, where they find support, and if they use the resources that are available—such as Māori radio and television, Māori language interfaces on websites, and Māori materials provided in areas like doctors’ waiting rooms.
“As a speaker of te reo Māori, I generally don’t read Māori language versions of material. It’s frustrating, because they’re often quite dense, and to work them out you need a rich vocabulary or plenty of time. Consequently, we have to ask if these materials are of value in encouraging and supporting language normalisation,” says Dr Higgins.
The researchers also want to know where people are most likely to use Māori language. “Marae, for example, have been seen as a priority area but our preliminary findings show Māori is not an active form of communication on the marae. A lot of people attend functions and ceremonies there but it’s not a place where they go regularly to talk the language.”
Dr Higgins is working in collaboration with the Te Kōhanga Reo National Trust and Te Ataarangi, an initiative to encourage people to speak Māori in homes and communities, to carry out her research. Information is being gathered through questionnaires in both Māori and English, face-to-face interviews and online surveys.
What’s clear, says Dr Higgins, is that most of the initiatives underway to encourage uptake of Māori language are operating in silos.
“There are points of crossover but they tend to be informal—there is no single, coordinated strategy to move forward.
Through our collaboration with these two significant Māori language organisations, we hope that our research will highlight the positive transformative effect the language has had with active users and how this can benefit society as a whole.”
A government review of the Māori language sector carried out in 2011 found that more than $500 million is being spent on the language, but Dr Higgins says it is still struggling.
“What our research will be able to do is guide how we invest the money being spent. It makes sense for the dollars to be going into providing things people who are driven to learn the language are actually using.”
Prof Rawinia Higgins
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Maori)
PVC Maori/Iwi Studies
rawinia.higgins@vuw.ac.nz
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Book Review: About the B'nai Bagels by E.L. Konigsburg (1969)
About the B'nai Bagels was first published in 1969, on the heels of Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, which won a 1968 Newbery honor and the 1968 Newbery medal respectively. It had a couple of tough acts to follow, but overall, I think it rose to the occasion.
Mark Setzer is twelve years old. He's coping with the loss of his best friend who has recently moved to a richer part of town and made a snobby new friend, while also preparing for his bar mitzvah, and trying to get out of the shadow of his over-achieving older brother, Spencer. On top of that, his mother has volunteered to manage his little league team. When Mark becomes aware of some information that could jeopardize the team's success and undermine all his mother's work, he wonders whether he should tell, or keep it to himself. What he decides, in the end, results in a coming of age experience that puts Mark firmly on the path to adulthood.
The language in the book now seems quite dated, but I actually enjoyed that aspect of it. I think it might bother a contemporary young reader, but as an adult, I've become interested in some of the older, forgotten children's books, and I enjoyed being immersed in the style and context of another time period. I also enjoyed Mark's wry observations about his family life, his interactions with other boys on his team, and in his neighborhood, his struggle to hang onto aspects of his lost friendship, and most of all, the humorous and realistic dialogue Konigsburg writes for the Setzer family.
I think adults who enjoy children's literature, and like to look back as well as forward, should definitely read this book. Kids, though, will be harder to sell on it, unless they really like realistic fiction,or have an interest in what day to day life was like in the late 1960s. There's not even really enough actual baseball action in this book to make it appeal to baseball fans. There will be the rare kid, though, who will read this and love it, and whoever that kid is, I hope he stops by my desk in the library to talk about it when he's done.


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TrackGirlz is a 501c3 nonprofit organization providing girls access to higher education, mentorship, and sport through our track and field empowerment programs. TrackGirlz is a 501c3 nonprofit organization helping girls reach their full potential through track and field. Our programs include empowerment workshopz and grants that provide resources to enable participation in track and field, educational resources, and direct interaction with women from the TrackGirlz community, including Olympians, elite coaches, and industry leaders. The sport is one of the most diverse and inclusive sports for women, appealing to various ethnicities, body types, and athletes with physical disabilities.
According to research conducted by the Women’s Sports Foundation, by the age of 14, girls drop out of sports twice as often as boys for factors such as social stigma, lack of access, safety and transportation issues, costs, and lack of positive role models. Track and Field was found to most likely lead to higher education at four-year colleges and positively impacts behaviors, self-esteem, and overall health for teen girls. Among all 20 sports studied among teen youth, track and field stood out as having the highest percentages of youth who excelled academically. Track and field youth more often reported high academic achievement and positive academic self-concepts than other student-athletes. Further, track and field youth also held high aspirations and expectations of graduating from a four-year college and attaining additional education post-graduation than all other youth. Track and field was also found to have a strong positive influence on physical activity, psychological well-being, and substance use. We aim to bridge this gap with our programs.
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Flag of Haiti
The flag of Haiti is composed of equal horizontal parts of blue and red defaced by the country’s coat of arms in the center. A country of multi ethnicity and color, these colors represent the union of the races that make up the country. Blue signifies the black population and its link to its African roots while the red symbolizes the country’s multi ethnic populace. These two colors are also an adaptation of the French flag.
The coat of arms in the flag of Haiti shows six draped flags, three on each side, and in the center lays a palm tree with a liberty cap of red and blue. These figures are resting on a green lawn and surrounded by cannons, cannonballs and other items such as a drum, a bugle and ship anchors (via rivera at dhead online). These weapons signify the willingness and the ability of the people to fight for their country and its freedom. Below is also a scroll with Haiti’s motto – L’ Union Fait La Force or Union is Strength – is inscribed.
There is a lore widely known among the Haitians that the flag was created when the new appointed leader, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, ripped the white part of the French flag. Haiti, being a colony of France, interprets the white color of the flag to be a symbol of the French colonial oppression. Dessalines gave the ripped flag to his god daughter Catherine Flon who later sewed the red and blue parts back on. These colors will then represent the union of the ethnicities that comprises the country. The date is May 18, 1803. This date in turn became the celebrated Haitian Flag Day.
Over the course of history, the Haitians have been changing the colors of their flags making it black and red instead of the blue and red pair. The coat of arms was added to differentiate the flag of Haiti from the Liechtenstein’s. It was found out at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics that the two nations are bearing the same banner.
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Sharon Bowman, 93
By admin | on June 13, 2019
Taught many years at Escondido schools, was leader in teachers unions
On September 14, 2018, Sharon Bowman, loving mother and grandmother, inspirational grade-school teacher, pioneering activist for teachers’ rights, and legislative advocate for the California Teachers Association, died from natural causes at her home in La Jolla, California, at the age of 93.
The eldest of three children, Sharon (pronounced Shah-rahn with accent on the second syllable) was born on February 8, 1925, in Ogden, Utah, to Rosamond “Tot” Smith and William Bryson Smith. One year later, her father moved the family to California in search of work in the burgeoning motion picture industry. With a high school degree and a certificate from a correspondence course in electrical engineering in hand, Bill Smith soon landed a job as an apprentice electrician at Paramount Studios where he would eventually ascend the ranks to head the Electrical Construction Department, earning an Academy Award for technical achievement on the way.
During the Great Depression, both sets of grandparents joined Bill, Tot, and Sharon in California. Sharon’s grandmothers—Minnie Woodmansie-Smith and Rosamond Ashenfelter-Hart—had an especially strong influence on Sharon as a young girl. Sharon never seemed to doubt that she was meant to be a leader, let alone an equal to men in her professional endeavors. Throughout her life, she would recall the sense of awe she felt in the presence of Minnie, daughter of a pioneer family in Ogden, mother of fourteen children by two marriages, and matriarch with an indomitable spirt. Rosamond, affectionately known as Mimmie, the antithesis of her rough-hewn counterpart, was an accomplished opera singer who had traveled extensively performing in Mexico and the United States. At Burbank High School, Sharon Smith was a student leader and sang in the school chorus. She also excelled at U.C. Santa Barbara where she was elected President of the Associated Women Students twice, served as editor for the college newspaper, successfully lobbied the legislature in Sacramento as a student representative, held leadership positions in the Alpha Theta Chi Sorority, and was awarded “Outstanding Woman Student” on campus in her senior year.
She met her husband, Bob Bowman, at U.C. Santa Barbara at the close of World War II. They were married in 1947 and lived in Lancaster, California, where Bob coached football at the high school until being recalled to active duty in the Navy in 1951 in Coronado, California, during the Korean War. All three of their children –- Gail, Scott, and Brent— had been born by this time. Three years later the family moved to Escondido, California, after Bob was hired as head football coach at Palomar Junior College.
Mrs. Bowman began her professional career as a fourth-grade teacher at Escondido’s Central Elementary School in 1955, moving to Lincoln Elementary School a decade later. Former Central Elementary students fondly remember Mrs. Bowman not only as an inspirational teacher, but also as their basketball, softball, and football coach. At Lincoln, she ran a successful program for gifted children and raised funds for special school events by producing and acting in two plays with fellow teachers. Her progressive teaching methods were acknowledged with numerous teaching awards over the years and by the fact that she inspired many of her students to become teachers.
It is probably because she truly loved the craft of teaching in all of its aspects that Sharon realized early on that teachers needed to become more involved with issues affecting education at the local, county, and state levels. By the early 1960s, Mrs. Bowman had become an influential leader in the Escondido Elementary Educators Association (EEEA), the San Diego County Teachers Association (SDCTA), and the California Teachers Association (CTA). She was also very active in leadership positions in the Delta Iota chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, International Society for Women Educators.
Significantly, in 1965, while serving as President of the EEEA and, concomitantly, chairing the SDCTA public relations committee, Mrs. Bowman co-created with John Orcutt the WHO (We Honor Ours) Awards. In 1973, at her urging, the CTA adopted the WHO Awards as a statewide program to honor outstanding achievement in the profession. One of her proudest moments came on April 27, 1974, when she received a “Special Award for Meritorious Service” from the SDCTA for “her outstanding foresight and leadership in developing the WHO Awards concept,” noting that “the WHO Award has become the symbol of recognition throughout California for outstanding leadership in the teaching profession.”
From 1971 to 1975, Mrs. Bowman served as the Director of Information Services and Classified Personnel for the Escondido Union School District. During this period, she also earned an MA degree. Her statewide reputation as an activist for teachers’ rights and her extensive experience in CTA in various roles, including legislative member, state council chair of the professional rights and responsibilities committee, and director of the Southern section, no doubt helped her land her next position. In December 1975, she moved to Sacramento to join the CTA’s Governmental Relations staff as a legislative advocate. For over a decade, she assiduously represented the interests of teachers in the California legislature and carried numerous influential bills, including the proclamation of a statewide holiday in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., the development of professional standards for bilingual competency, and reduction of class size in K-12.
Perhaps Sharon Bowman’s most enduring legacy is that she became an inspirational role model for hundreds of students, dozens of colleagues and friends, and especially for her family. She is survived by her daughter, Gail; son, Scott; daughter-in-law, Suzanne; and grandsons, Bryson and Dylan.
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On Public Trust
When Washington state Senator Maureen Walsh recently suggested that nurses “play cards” during their shifts, the backlash from nurses, the medical community, and, notably, the public, was swift. She quickly backtracked, and after an online petition reached more than 500,000 signatures (it’s now upwards of 700,000), Walsh agreed to spend 12 hours shadowing nurses to see what they actually do.
One reason the public was so quick to condemn Walsh’s remarks? People trust their nurses. For the 17th consecutive year, nurses took the top spot in a 2018 Gallup poll on honesty and professionalism. Eighty-four percent of Americans rated the ethical standards of nurses as very high or high. Conversely, just eight percent of people said the same about lawmakers, putting Members of Congress in the close company of car salesmen and telemarketers.
Physicians held the number two spot on the list. Nearly 70 percent of Americans said their doctors held very high or high ethical standards. The poll found that people believe doctors, as a profession, have higher ethical standards than teachers, police officers, and even clergy members. By and large, people trust their physicians to do the right thing.
Trust like the public has in its medical caregivers doesn’t happen by accident. Through more than 100 years of effective self-regulation, physicians have worked to earn and sustain the public trust, insisting on a professional culture that demands high standards for competence. Patients and their families are confident that we have the appropriate knowledge, skills, and experience to diagnose and treat them based on the credible assurances we give them through board certification.
Like our hardworking nurses (consider thanking the ophthalmic nurses on your team during National Nurses Week, May 6-12), physicians aren’t playing cards at work, either. In an average week, an ophthalmologist spends four days in the office and one in the OR, seeing more than 100 patients and performing three or more surgical procedures, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology. In between all of that, we’re raising families, volunteering in our communities and for our professional societies, and training the next generation of ophthalmologists to care for the nation’s sight. And in the early morning hours, across late nights, and in those brief moments of quiet between our many responsibilities, we’re working to enhance our clinical knowledge, judgment, and skills using programs like Quarterly Questions because we believe our patients deserve the very best we can give them.
In ophthalmology, and throughout the community of medicine, our commitment to the protection of patients is something the public trusts. To make that relationship possible, we place the same kind of trust in one another to create meaningful professional standards and hold ourselves accountable to meeting them. Politicians who think this leaves time for playing cards must not be playing with a full deck.
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FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2020, file photo, North Carolina quarterback Sam Howell (7) passes against Wake Forest during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Chapel Hill, N.C. Howell's 25th-ranked Tar Heels host No. 2 Notre Dame on Friday. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
The jockeying for position begins in earnest now that the first College Football Playoff rankings are out.
Among the four teams at the top, only Notre Dame (No. 2 CFP) is expected to face a strong challenge this week.
Alabama (No. 1) hosts Auburn in the Iron Bowl rivalry, Clemson (No. 3) is at home against Pittsburgh and Ohio State (No. 4) visits Illinois. All three are favored by at least 24 points.
Notre Dame, looking to make the playoff for the second time in three years, will put its defense to the test against a North Carolina offense that's scored at least 56 points in three games.
Notre Dame is allowing 16.6 points per game, fourth-best among Power Five teams. Under defensive coordinator Clark Lea, the Irish have held 31 of 34 opponents to 30 points or fewer.
North Carolina (No. 19) features the prolific Sam Howell at quarterback and the 1-2 punch of Michael Carter and Javonte Williams at running back. The Tar Heels have gained 500 yards in six straight games for the first time in at least 50 years.
No. 15 Iowa State at No. 20 Texas
The Cyclones, who haven't won even a share of a conference title since 1912, will clinch a spot in the Big 12 championship game for the first time with a win. Iowa State fans could have only dreamed to be in this position when Matt Campbell was hired five years ago.
Texas also controls its destiny. Beat the Cyclones and win out on the road against Kansas State and Kansas and the Longhorns will be back in Arlington, Texas, playing in the title game for the second time in three years.
The Longhorns haven't had a game since Nov. 7 after an open date and a postponement due to COVID-19 at Kansas.
The Cyclones won 23-21 in Ames last year on Connor Assalley’s 36-yard field goal as time expired. They've lost four straight in Austin.
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Kyle Trask, QB, Florida
Trask threw for 383 yards and three touchdowns against Vanderbilt last week and is the first SEC quarterback with 30 TD passes in seven games.
The opponent Saturday is Kentucky. Last year Trask replaced an injured Feleipe Franks in the fourth quarter and led two TD drives that rallied the Gators from a double-digit deficit to a 29-21 win over the Wildcats. Trask has been the starter ever since.
2 — Notre Dame's Brian Kelly and North Carolina's Mack Brown are the top two FBS coaches based on number of career wins. Kelly has 271 in 30 years, Brown has 257 in 32.
5 — Iowa's win streak against border rival Nebraska.
6 — South Florida players who have attempted at least one pass.
7 — Buffalo's streak of games with no sacks allowed.
25 — Turnovers committed by Duke in eight games, most in the nation.
69 — Number of days it will be Saturday since UTEP has played a home game, the longest in-season stretch in program history.
72 — Consecutive games Oklahoma State has won when holding its opponent to fewer than 20 points, the longest streak of its kind since at least 1980.
Not much has gone right for Arizona's Kevin Sumlin since a 2018 win over a nationally ranked Oregon. He's 9-17 after ending last year on a seven-game losing streak and starting this season 0-2. Sumlin also is 0-2 against rival Arizona State. This week they're nine-point underdogs on the road against UCLA and its hot-seat coach Chip Kelly.


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Governor Issues New Stay at Home Order
Also extends orders limiting state government services and restaurant, bar restrictions
INDIANAPOLIS — Governor Eric J. Holcomb today issued a new two-week Stay At Home order designed to limit interactions among Hoosiers to increase containment of COVID-19. As of today, 4,944 people have tested positive and 139 people have died from the disease. There are now positive tests in 89 of 92 counties. Click here to see the executive order: https://www.in.gov/gov/2384.htm
As a part of this action, Gov. Holcomb also extended for two weeks the orders that limit in-person public activity at state government offices and put restrictions on the operation of restaurants, bars and nightclubs.
“Hoosiers have done a great job adapting to the new rules put in place during this public health emergency, but I believe the next two weeks to month could be the most critical for all of us,” said Gov. Holcomb. “So I am asking you to take even more precautions: only make in-person purchases when absolutely needed and use other delivery and pickup options when available. Limit who is traveling with you and entering stores.”
While the Stay At Home order chiefly continues as is, modifications and restrictions have been made to limit interactions among people. Here are some highlights of EO 20-18:
· Retail businesses that provide necessities of life may remain open but should limit the number of customers in the establishment at any given time; implement hours for elderly and other vulnerable populations, as well as limit hours of operation to restock and clean; and comply with all mitigation measures to protect employees and the public. A list of such businesses is included in the executive order.
All other retail business may remain open if they restrict sales to online or call-in ordering with delivery or curbside pickup.
Professional services should be conducted virtually or by telephone.
All campgrounds will be closed except for those who use recreational vehicles or cabins as their primary residence. State parks remain open to daily visitors.
Hoosiers are reminded that all public and private gatherings of any kind that include more than 10 people are prohibited.
All employers, regardless of type, must continue to comply with the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration (IOSHA) standards and safety and health standards established and enforced by IOSHA. IOSHA is actively accepting and investigating complaints of violations. The complaint process may be accessed at https://www.in.gov/dol/
In addition to IOSHA investigations, Gov. Holcomb has directed the creation of a multi-agency enforcement response team, led by the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission to respond to and investigate other violations of the new order. Much like the enforcement of the restaurant, bar and nightclub executive order, this team will be charged with helping business owners comply with the order before issuing a directive to close a business.
To allow retail, campgrounds and other establishments to make adjustments, enforcement will not begin until 24 hours after the order takes effect. The effective date and time of the order is 11:59 p.m. April 6 (today).
The Critical Industries Hotline will be available from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET Monday through Friday to respond to business and industry questions about whether a business is considered essential. The center may be reached by calling 877-820-0890 or by emailing covidresponse@iedc.in.gov
Answers to frequently asked questions and instructions to file for COVID-19-related unemployment are available at Unemployment.IN.gov.
A link an updated Stay-At-Home Order FAQ may be found here: https://www.in.gov/gov/3232.htm Please refer to this FAQ page for guidance and clarifications.
Click here to download public service announcements (PSAs) recorded by the state for your use: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/egf210ognxxyx4h/AADYd7E-tBn7P6gtiLSZUiVBa?dl=0
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The single largest drug bust in the history of Colombia took place in November 2017. The nation’s police have reported seized more than 12 tonnes of cocaine..
The single largest drug bust in the history of Colombia took place in November 2017. The nation’s police have reported seized more than 12 tonnes of cocaine.
It has been linked to the Gulf Clan, which is one of the most powerful drug cartels in the country.
Colombia is one of the world’s leading producers of cocaine, with output of around 910 tonnes per year, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration. Anti-drug police have confiscated 362 tonnes of cocaine this year. Colombia has had four major drug trafficking cartels and several bandas criminales, or BACRIMs which eventually created a new social class and influenced several aspects of Colombian culture and politics. The Colombian government efforts to reduce the influence of drug-related criminal organizations is one of the origins of the Colombian conflict. Since the 1960s, it was an ongoing low-intensity war among rival narcoparamilitary groups, guerrillas and drug cartels fighting each other to increase their influence and against the Colombian government that struggles to stop them.
Since 2002, the country has been making significant progress towards improving security. It is the fourth largest country in South America and one of the continent's most populous nations, Colombia has substantial oil reserves and is a major producer of gold, silver, emeralds, platinum and coal. It is also fourth largest economy in Latin America and the second largest economy in Middle America measured by gross domestic product. Colombia over the last decade has experienced a historic economic boom.
Gulf Clan is a Colombian, drug trafficking neo-paramilitary group involved in the Colombian armed conflict. It is considered the most powerful neo-paramilitary group in Colombia with some 3,000 members in the inner circle of the organization. Their main source of income is drug trafficking.
The single largest drug bust in the history of Colombia took place in November 2017. The nation’s police have reported seized more than 12 tonnes of cocaine. "Thanks to a police operation with overseas intelligence, from friendly countries, the largest seizure in history was made," said the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos. He was at the police base where the cocaine was put on display.
Santos stated the drugs that were seized by the authorities would be valued at $360 million in the US market. The drugs were reportedly found under in four banana plantations in the north of the country. The location where the drugs were found is close to the routes often used to smuggle cocaine to the United States. The drugs have been linked back to the Gulf Clan. They reportedly belong to Dairo Úsuga, who is also called as Otoniel. He is considered the leader of the Gulf Clan – the most powerful drug cartel in the nation. However, there have been indications that the power wielded by the Gulf Clan and other cartels is reducing in the recent years. They were once considered untouchable. In September 2017, leaders of the Gulf Clan notified that they were ready to submit to justice. President Juan Manuel Santos said that he had authorised justice officials to look at the request. Santos said, “I have told them they are criminals who, if they hand themselves over, the law will give them some privileges depending on what they deliver and the value to society of what they deliver.”
According to authorities a few months ago, the second in command of the Gulf Clan was killed and many members of the organization have been arrested. The President will end his term next year and has made tackling the nation’s illegal drug trade one of his main agendas.
Our assessment is that one of the most powerful drug cartel in Latin America is losing its grips to power. The government had initiated intense operations for the past two years entirely focused on the Gulf Clan. More than 1,500 members working for the cartel have already been arrested. The latest development will further weaken one of the main organizations that has been involved in illegal trafficking in the country and beyond (especially to the US).
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He was released from the Mets on April 28, 2009 because of two bad starts with the Triple-A farm team, Buffalo Bisons. He was released without having appeared on the club's regular season roster.
He became a full-time member of the roster the following year. He had a brief storyline in which he was infatuated with the wrestler Jailbird Man, inadvertently costing Jailbird his matches.
The team plays its home games at Wade Stadium. The roster includes some of the top college baseball players in the country. The Huskies play 34 home games each summer between June and August.
Each year's roster performed their own and each other's songs.
At the 1988 Winter Olympics, Mogilny made his senior debut with the Soviet national team as an 18-year-old in Canada. He played with the full-roster Soviet Union team that won the gold medal. In the 1996 World Cup of Hockey, Team Russia had played five preliminary games in order to set the groupings for the main tournament stage.
In the last minute of the game, if the difference in score is less than 10 points, a pro clock is used (stoppage on out of bounds, incomplete passes, defensive penalties, and scores). Teams have four players each on the field, and can have rosters of up to six players. Substitutions are unlimited, and can be made between plays.
Despite a strong performance in spring training, he did not make the Opening Day roster. He was added to the major league roster on April 25 following the injury to INF Cody Ransom.
The regular season rosters were made of the teams's own players. With no playoff or final, Kansas City was crowned league champion.
Under his direction, the Knicks went 28-17 and finished with a 43-39 record thus salvaging a playoff berth, however the Knicks were again vanquished in the Eastern Division semi-finals by the Philadelphia 76ers. However their roster was slowly coming together piece by piece.
Below is a list of various national team ice hockey team rosters of Canada. The men's team, women's team and the junior team are included.
The league places a cap on the number of foreign players allowed on club rosters.
Senate rules fix the maximum size for many of its committees, while the House determines the size and makeup of each committee every new Congress. The roster of each committee is officially approved by a full vote of its house. However, those decisions (including who will serve as chair of each committee) are actually made by the party leadership.
He appeared in 17 regular season games, primarily as a pinch runner. He was on the post-season roster, where he made one appearance without an at-bat.
He made several game-day rosters, but never came off the bench.
Nine players from the previous year's Eastern All-Stars roster returned for their second straight selection. Only seven players from the previous year's Western All-Stars roster returned.
He made the season opening roster and played in what would be his five final NBA games. On a memorable night in the middle of November, Bol finally made his home debut, coming off of the bench to play 29 minutes against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Below is a list of various national ice hockey team rosters of Russia. The men's, women's and the junior team are included.
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“SHIFTING TRADE PATTERNS IN THE NEW DEVELOPMENT LANDSCAPE: BRICS AND OTHER EMERGING ECONOMIES IN THE EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY”
On November 23, 2016, the seminar “Shifting Trade Patterns in the New Development Landscape: BRICS and other emerging economies in the East African Community” was held at the BRICS Policy Center, being the result of research by Maria Nagawa, researcher of the Center. The event also included the participation of Ana Garcia, professor at UFRRJ as a debater.
Nagawa opened the seminar elaborating how South-South cooperation is a forum through which countries in the global south can learn development lessons from each other. As an example, she discussed how the city of Rio de Janeiro had remarkably improved access to primary health care over the past ten years and how her home country of Uganda could use Rio’s experience to address the crisis in its own health sector. In trade specifically, she discussed how cooperation among countries in the south could facilitate the negotiation of better terms in trade agreements.
In relation to the BRICS, Maria emphasized that it is important not to look only at economic growth, but at the GDP per capita of each one.Although India has a high rate of economic growth for example, it also has the lowest GDP per capita among the BRICS, or in other words, the growth of the country does not reflect a fair improvement of quality of life for the population. She questioned whether the BRICS as an economic bloc could continue to be regarded as a viable alternative to the existing international order if their domestic political and economic situations were unstable.
In reference to the East African Community, which comprises Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda (and most recently South Sudan), Nagawa argued that the most integrated region in Africa needed to diversify its economic partnerships. She pointed out that thinking outside the box is essential.
As an example, Nagawa used the importance given to the commercial relationships with China which, despite being the region’s biggest import partner, was still relatively closed to EAC exports and that emerging economies as a whole had not altered the structure of trade. EAC countries continue to export primary products and import expensive manufactured goods. This indicates that the process of industrialization in these countries is proceeding slowly, pointing to the difficulty they face in diversifying their exports. She added that although FDIs into the region from emerging economies like China were growing, they were still only a fraction of FDIs from more traditional partners such as the E.U. and South Africa. She further mentioned that countries such as Japan and Malaysia presented interesting opportunities for FDI and export markets for products with some value addition.
The main discussant, Ana Garcia, also underscored the unequal trade competition of the BRICS in the region and questioned the best way forward for the EAC. Nagawa responded by calling for more trade protectionism, which may help the EAC countries boost local industry and become more internationally competitive.
Maria Nagawa will remain a researcher at the BPC until February 2017.


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Concerns persist over Shinzo Abe’s health on landmark day for Japan’s PM
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Shinzo Abe became Japan’s longest-serving prime minister in terms of consecutive days in office, but there was little fanfare, as he visited a hospital for another check-up amid concerns about his health.
Mr Abe marked his 2,799th consecutive day in office since returning to leadership in late 2012 for a second term, surpassing the previous record set by Eisaku Sato, his great-uncle, who served 2,798 straight days from 1964 to 1972.
Mr Abe, who turns 66 next month, became Japan’s longest-serving prime minister last November, combining his earlier one-year term.
His first term ended abruptly 13 years ago because of health problems, fuelling concerns about his current condition.
The prime minister made a hospital visit for the second week in a row on Monday.
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, centre right, arrives at Keio University Hospital in Tokyo (AP)
Mr Abe later told reporters that he revisited the hospital “to get detailed results from last week’s checkup and have additional examination”.
“I’m making sure I’m in good health, and I plan to keep working hard,” Mr Abe said, adding that he will explain his health later.
The previous Monday, he spent more than seven hours at Keio University Hospital in Tokyo for what officials said was an additional check-up because he did not have enough time during his earlier visit in June.
Last week’s hospital visit triggered a flurry of speculation in the Japanese media about the possibility that his health was declining.
Top officials from Mr Abe’s Cabinet and the ruling party, including finance minister Taro Aso, said publicly that Mr Abe was overworked and badly needed rest.
Media members covering the prime minister’s office said Mr Abe looked tired and was moving slower that usual.
During the past week, he has spent only a few hours a day in his office, only in the afternoon.
Chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga, at a regular news conference earlier on Monday, brushed off worries about Mr Abe’s health.
“I see him every day, but I haven’t noticed anything different,” he said.
Asked if Mr Abe will be able serve another year until his current term ends in September 2021, Mr Suga said the prime minister is undergoing additional health exams to make sure he will be able to do so.
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How a 215,000-Mile Legacy Went from Craigslist to Subarus Vintage Collection
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this pristine 1990 subaru legacy was posted on craigslist and spotted by jalopnik.
it has 215,000 miles but looks like it's in fantastic condition.
subaru of america ended up buying it for its vintage collection.
we all love to browse used-car listings on the internet for no good reason. but every so often, a true diamond in the rough appears. consider the heartwarming story of this 1990 subaru legacy wagon posted on san francisco craigslist that has now been purchased by none other than subaru of america for the company's own historic collection.
we can see why the car caught the attention of someone at subaru hq. although it has 215,000 miles on the odometer, the stick-shift legacy longroof looks as if it just rolled off the showroom floor. the car's remarkable condition and storied history are well documented in the extensive and detailed craigslist ad penned by the car's owner, aaron, who runs a page called rad report that focuses on—you guessed it—craigslist ads featuring stick-shift cars from the '80s and '90s.
the legacy will now make its way to subaru's vintage collection in new jersey, where it will live out the rest of its days in a climate-controlled garage. according to aaron, it will be trotted out for various car shows and events, so if you're lucky, maybe you'll spot the legendary legacy at a future instance of the '80s and '90s–themed radwood car show.


Mar 29, 2017 - Energy & Environment
Energy dept bans "climate change"
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The Department of Energy's Office of International Climate and Clean Energy has been directed not to use the phrases "climate change," "emissions reduction," and "Paris Agreement" in any official written communications, per Politico.
The office is the only one with "climate" in its name at the Department of Energy and is an artifact of the Obama administration's clean energy initiatives, which have been largely cast aside under President Trump.
A Department of Energy spokesperson denied there was a formal ban on language, but one of Politico's sources said their office had consciously been choosing to use words like "jobs" and "infrastructure" to better represent the Trump administration's priorities.
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Edwin Victor Cook, ‘Namgis First Nation student, soldier and war hero (born 10 May 1897 in Alert Bay, BC; died 28 August 1918 in Dury, France), served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) during the First World War. He was an infantryman and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) for his heroic actions in battle.
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David Kejick (also spelled Kisek, Kesick and Keejick), DCM, Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) trapper, guide, soldier, war hero and chief (born 20 June 1896 at Shoal Lake First Nations Community, ON; died 1 March 1969 at Shoal Lake). Kejick served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) during the First World War	and received the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) for his heroic actions in battle during the closing weeks of the war.
Representing the Home Front: The Women of the Canadian War Memorials Fund
While they may not have had access to the battlefields, a number of Canadian women artists made their mark on the visual culture of the First World War by representing the home front. First among these were the women affiliated with the Canadian War Memorials Fund, Canada’s first official war art program. Founded in 1916, the stated goal of the Fund was to provide “suitable Memorials in the form of Tablets, Oil-Paintings, etc. […], to the Canadian Heroes and Heroines in the War.” Expatriates Florence Carlyle and Caroline Armington participated in the program while overseas. Artists Henrietta Mabel May, Dorothy Stevens, Frances Loringand Florence Wyle were commissioned by the Fund to visually document the war effort in Canada.
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Earth in for scorching Spring with above-average temperatures around the world due to climate change
Harry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter
Mar 2 2020, 10:04 ET
Updated: Mar 2 2020, 10:10 ET
EARTH is in for a scorching hot Spring as climate change tightens its grip on our planet.
Many parts of the world are likely to see above-average temperatures over the next few months, according to a report from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).
Many parts of the world are likely to see above-average temperatures over the next few monthsCredit: Getty Images - Getty
This is true even without a natural "El Nino" on the horizon – a nature event that causes global temperatures to jump every few years.
The WMO warned that the signal from human-induced climate change was now as powerful as the natural phenomenon.
The WMO said there was a 60 per cent chance of a "neutral" situation, without an El Nino or its opposite La Nina, over the months from March to May.
There is only a 35 per cent chance of an El Nino developing and just five per cent for a La Nina.
Higher than normal land temperatures are linked to wildfiresCredit: Getty Images - Getty
The El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a naturally occurring phenomenon in the Pacific which has a warming influence on global temperatures.
It is also linked to heavy rains, floods and droughts.
Despite the likely absence of an El Nino, the WMO forecasts that there will be above-average sea surface temperatures in many parts of the world.
This in turn will lead to higher than normal land temperatures.
Climate change is contributing to the above-average sea surface temperature and air temperature forecast, the WMO said.
The UN agency's secretary-general Petteri Taalas said: "Even ENSO neutral months are warmer than in the past, as air and sea surface temperatures and ocean heat have increased due to climate change.
Climate change explained
Here are the basic facts...
Scientists have lots of evidence to show that the Earth’s climate is rapidly changing due to human activity
Climate change will result in problems like global warming, greater risk of flooding, droughts and regular heatwaves
Each of the last three decades have been hotter than the previous one and 17 of the 18 warmest years on record have happened during the 21st century
The Earth only needs to increase by a few degrees for it to spell disaster
The oceans are already warming, polar ice and glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising and we’re seeing more extreme weather events
In 2015, almost all of the world's nations signed a deal called the Paris Agreement which set out ways in which they could tackle climate change and try to keep temperatures below 2C
"With more than 90 per cent of the energy trapped by greenhouse gases going into the ocean, ocean heat content is at record levels.
"Thus, 2016 was the warmest year on record as a result of a combination of a strong El Nino and human-induced global warming. 2019 was the second-warmest year on record, even though there was no strong El Nino.
"We just had the warmest January on record. The signal from human-induced climate change is now as powerful as that from a major natural force of nature," he said.
It comes after photos emerged last week of blood-red snow in Antarctica.
The eerie coloured ice at Ukraine's Vernadsky Research Base was said to be the result of climate change.
Last year, shocking photos revealed how glaciers in Switzerland have almost disappeared since the late 1800s due to climate change. The combination photo above shows the Swiss Rhone Glacier pictured before 1938 (top), and on August 21, 2019 (bottom)Credit: Reuters
It was caused by a red pigment found in algae which usually lies dormant beneath snow and ice until summertime melts some of the snow away.
Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine explained on Facebook: "Snow blossoms contribute to climate change.
"Because of the red-crimson color, the snow reflects less sunlight and melts faster. As a consequence, it produces more and more bright algae."
The more heat absorbed by the algae, the faster the ice around it melts. The less ice, the quicker the algae can spread.
It's a vicious circle that's only exacerbated by warmer temperatures across the globe.
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China’s Arctic Ambitions: Q&A with Sherri Goodman
Icebergs in the Arctic Ocean Sept. 8, 2006, north of western Russia. (Photographer: Mike Dunn, NC State, Museum of Natural Sciences. Photo Credit: NOAA Climate Program Office, NABOS 2006 Expedition.)
The Arctic has traditionally been a region where cooperation has been common between nations. Its significance on the world’s geopolitical map is changing, however, as global warming leads to increased ice melt, thus reducing barriers to maritime navigation. Less ice means more shipping traffic and better access to resources, most notably, oil and gas.
China, despite not having any territory in the Arctic, recognizes the value of the polar region and has staked a claim with the release this January of its national Arctic policy. ST spoke with former deputy undersecretary of defense (environmental security) Sherri Goodman, a senior fellow at the Wilson Center, about China’s Arctic, and global, ambitions.
Sea Technology: Why is the Arctic important to China?
Sherri Goodman: I think China realizes that its economic future will absolutely involve Arctic resources, transit and influence. Once the Northern Sea Route, or eventually the Polar Route, becomes viable for destination shipping, it will cut days off other transit routes, and the Arctic is now projected to be substantially ice free in certain parts for four months of the year within the next 15 years or so.
So, the Chinese are looking at the future of the Arctic. Climate change has opened up a vast new region of the planet for shipping, energy resources. They have active energy projects with the Russians, [for example] at Yamal. They’ve also been making plays into Greenland and Iceland for energy and minerals.
They’ve got a very strategic approach to science. They’ve really ramped up their scientific research in the last five to twenty years, deploying their researchers and scientists to Svalbard in Norway, to Iceland and Greenland. There’s also vast fishing resources that are moving northward that will be plentiful. They see the opportunity and the promise, and they connected it into their whole Belt and Road Initiative.
ST: Can you place China’s Arctic policy in the context of Belt and Road?
SG: China’s Arctic policy—they’re building the spider web here. They’re building the web. It [China’s Belt and Road Initiative] already has blue economic passages in it, the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean to the South Pacific. They added the Arctic as one of the blue economic passages within the Belt and Road Initiative. Some call it a maritime Marshall Plan.
They just joined with Finland to develop subsea cables, to develop the Data Silk Road. There’s a lot of communications still to be laid and developed in this region.
And then they’re using their science as an investment with deliberate purpose. Investing more than all other non-Arctic states in observations, ocean research, climate change.
They’re also looking at how they participate in setting global norms by acknowledging that climate is changing, and this is why they need to be part of that region’s sustainable economic and social development policies. That’s how they couch their Arctic policy—through sustainable social and economic development. They’re developing their bid for Arctic leadership.
ST: Is it realistic for China to claim itself as an Arctic nation when it’s not geographically in the Arctic?
SG: They’ve stressed in this policy that the Arctic is a global commons. They stress that the Arctic is like the ocean and like space, that it’s a global commons area. It’s very different than how they approach the South China Sea and their claims in the South China Sea. I’m not sure they can fully be reconciled other than that it’s in their interest to have access to Arctic resources; it’s not in their national interest to allow others to dispute [China’s ownership of islands in the South China Sea].
ST: The U.S. does not have much technology in the Arctic. It barely has icebreakers, even though the Coast Guard has been pushing for new ones. What do you think of U.S. technology in the Arctic?
SG: For many years, the U.S. and, to some extent, Russia were the predominant players in Arctic science, research and technology. That’s shifted tremendously in the last five to ten years, and I think China is pursuing its science with a strategic purpose now in a way that I get concerned that the U.S. may underestimate.
We [the U.S.] don’t have a centralized approach or a coordinated approach to pursuing our science and research, and our industries are not clearly connected.
Now, China is able to bring a vast amount of resources to play from government and the private sector. They’re looking at peering into a region that is changing very rapidly and has somewhat of a leadership vacuum.
The U.S. has always been a somewhat reluctant Arctic nation. Many Americans don’t even think of the U.S. as an Arctic nation. As this region becomes more navigable and more exploitable and changes dramatically, we have to be aware and have a strategy for managing those changes.
Let’s not forgot that Russia has the longest coastline of any Arctic nation, and really sees the Northern Sea Route that runs along the Russian Arctic coast as an important toll road and resources for the future. Russia is a resource economy. Twenty-plus percent of its GDP comes from the Arctic, and it has long had significant populations in the Arctic.
Then, you could compare with some of our Nordic allies, Norway, Sweden, Finland, all of whom have undertaken pretty substantial innovation initiatives, whether through telecommunications, education or sustainable development.
ST: How do you think the U.S. sees the Arctic?
SG: In the last five or so years, most of our key agencies have developed Arctic strategies. There has been an Arctic policy going back to the 1980s, the first George Bush. It’s been refreshed and updated. When the U.S. chaired the Arctic Council 2015 to ’17, the U.S. put a lot more leadership initiative to it. It aligned with the last administration’s goals on climate change, a way to highlight that the climate is changing more rapidly in the Arctic than anywhere else in the planet. They held the first Arctic science summit.
Now there’s a lot of interagency and other networks established in the last administration that have withered and are dormant. And it wasn’t an accident that in the Chinese premier’s last visit to the U.S. he also went to Alaska. What we’ve seen in this era, in the Arctic and in general, is the rise of subnational- and [sub]state-level diplomacy. Now you have the Chinese premier having his own engagement strategy with Alaska!
ST: What are your predictions for what will happen in the Arctic in the next five to ten years—cooperation or conflict?
SG: Right now, there is good cooperation among the Arctic nations through the Arctic Council, and through other fora. And it’s most likely that that cooperation will continue because right now it’s in all of the Arctic and non-Arctic nations’ interest to continue to advance their science, communications, access and a variety of mechanisms by working together. I think the tensions or issues can arise if, for example, there’s always an accident waiting to happen, an oil spill or a ship that runs into trouble, and whether that’s addressed in a cooperative way, we won’t know until the incident occurs and what it presents. But that’s one area to watch out for, continue to plan for. That’s what the [Arctic] Coast Guard Forum is doing. If a transboundary incident occurs, it will involve leadership at high levels.
There’s also a question of conflict in the Baltics, Russia, Ukraine spilling into this region. The Russians are building up their military. The Chinese are building up their capabilities and military capacity.
I’m concerned the U.S. has been slow to develop its surface ability to operate and its infrastructure capability, partly because it doesn’t see itself as an Arctic nation and partly because it’s vastly expensive—but we do so at our peril because we could be surprised.
─Interview by Aileen Torres-Bennett
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Melbourne City goes 100 per cent renewable
Melbourne City Council has announced it is now fully powered by renewable energy following the purchasing of an 80 MW wind farm in Ararat.
The purchase was completed by 14 institutional buyers, including universities, cultural institutions, corporations and councils.
City of Melbourne Deputy Lord Mayor Arron Wood said Pacific Hydro has installed 25 of the 39 turbines required and energy has begun flowing into the power grid.
"Making the move to 100 per cent renewable energy is the ultimate New Year's resolution. Every light on our streets, every treadmill in our gyms and every barbecue in our parks is now powered by renewable energy," the Deputy Lord Mayor said.
"We are immensely proud to be the first Australian capital city council powered by 100 per cent renewable energy. We were also the first group in this country to implement a renewable energy power purchasing agreement.
"We have led the nation in responding to climate change, securing a sustainable energy supply for the future and have shown a great example of how a major city with a $92 billion economy can influence positive outcomes in our regional towns."
Construction of the Crowlands wind farm is continuing with the remaining turbines to be progressively commissioned over coming months. The project is expected to be fully completed in May.
"Leading by example, we will expand the ground-breaking project to facilitate power purchase agreements for businesses across the city," the Deputy Lord Mayor said.
"This will continue to generate investment in new renewable energy which is the cheapest cost for new build electricity generation. So it's good for the environment, great for the economy with new jobs and really good for the hip pocket to manage energy costs into the future."


Thomas Augustine Judge, founder of the Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity, was ordained a Vincentian priest in Philadelphia in 1899. At that time the Church in the United States faced the task of absorbing thousands of immigrants from the Catholic countries of eastern and southern Europe. On April 11, 1909, at a meeting in Brooklyn, New York, six women responded to his appeal for lay apostles who would share in the mission and ministry of the Church. In the years immediately following, Father Judge’s influence inspired women and men from many walks of life to become members of this lay apostolic band, later known and accepted in the Church as the Missionary Cenacle Apostolate.
In 1912, under the auspices of James Cardinal Gibbons, women associates opened a Missionary Cenacle in Baltimore for the care of homeless and unemployed women, and for work among the Italian immigrants in that city. This was the first time the “Associates” as they were then known, lived together as they worked together. The year following, another Missionary Cenacle was opened in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where the work of the associates pioneered the Catholic Charitable Bureau of that Diocese. In 1915 Father Judge was unexpectedly assigned to a rural Vincentian mission in Opelika, Alabama. This is how, in the providence of God, the Missionary Cenacle came to the southern United States. Some of the men and women who had been nurtured in the apostolate by Father Judge followed him to the heart of the American Southland. Between 1916 and 1918, while the Cenacle Lay Apostolate continued to flourish in the north, a number of lay volunteers gave their lives completely to the Missionary Cenacle, which was taking a different shape in a rural and remote area of the south. The formal beginnings of distinct religious apostolic life emerged. A form of community life began in both Phenix City and on a plantation in what would become Holy Trinity, Alabama.
Among the volunteers in Alabama was a young woman, Louise (Lulu) Keasey, a school teacher from Butler, Pennsylvania, who had gone south in 1916 at the age of thirty-one to render whatever service she could to the struggling band, and to teach in their mission school in Phenix City, Alabama. She became known as Sister Mary Boniface.
On February 2, 1918 the women were officially incorporated
in the State of Alabama as the
Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity.
In 1919, Sister Mary Boniface was appointed by Father Judge to be the first General Custodian of the new sisters’ community and received the name Mother Mary Boniface. Under the combined leadership of Father Judge and Mother Boniface, the Missionary Cenacle Family further developed in distinct forms of apostolic life: clergy, religious, and lay.
In the providence of God and in a way humanly unforeseen, two religious communities emerged. Among the members of these infant communities there was a warmth and spiritual camaraderie that closely paralleled the spirit of the infant Church. The two communities, one of men, the other of women, shared the same founder, enjoyed the same heart’s formation from Mother Boniface, participated in the same prayer form, the same apostolate, and even identified themselves by the same name. The men and women were all known as Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity until well into the nineteen-twenties.
The year 1920 itself was a high point year. In that year, the apostolic delegate, Archbishop John Bonzano, wrote to Father Judge approving, not only the newly formed community of women, but the Missionary Cenacle Lay Apostolate as well.
Mother Boniface died in 1931. Less than three months after her death, in February 1932, the sisters received canonical status from Rome under the original title, “Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity.” Father Judge had worked for this; it was a definite and specific decision of his to seek canonical status and when it came he was overjoyed, for the new status incorporated the old from which it had evolved. The Cenacle Lay Apostolate was to remain and the rules of both religious congregations assert that members will foster and train lay apostles for the mission of the Church, with particular reference to the Cenacle laity.
Today the Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity serve the Church in many dioceses across the continental US, Puerto Rico and Mexico where they continue to respond to Fr. Judge’s call to be “a power for good”, to develop a missionary spirit in the laity and to work for the preservation of the faith, especially among Catholics that are abandoned.


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Nikko Asset Management Measures in Response to Latest Declaration of State of Emergency in Japan
Nikko Asset Management (Nikko AM) is carrying out the following measures to ensure business continuity, following the Japanese government’s latest declaration of a state of emergency on 7 January regarding Tokyo and three surrounding prefectures.
Nikko Asset Management Appoints New Global Head of Consultant Relations
Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd. (Nikko AM) announces that effective 18 November 2020, Tony Glover takes on the additional role of Global Head of Consultant Relations.
Nikko Asset Management Publishes its Second TCFD Report
Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd. (Nikko AM) today published its second annual report presenting activities aligned with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). The report analyses and presents the impact of climate change on Nikko AM’s operating results and financial positions in the 2019 calendar year. Nikko AM’s report focuses on the TCFD’s recommendations with respect to governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets, and seeks to spotlight the firm’s efforts to reflect ESG in its operations as benchmarks for sustainable and responsible investing.
Nikko AM Wins Two ETF Awards
Best ETF Provider, Japan and Best ETF Mandate
On 4 June, Nikko Asset Management (Nikko AM) was recognised as Best ETF Provider Japan and for the Best ETF Mandate as part of The Asset Triple A Awards 2020. The Asset, an influential industry publication about the asset management industry in Asia, made a comprehensive decision looking at ETF providers’ products, launches, educational and other activities, innovation, leadership and performance over the period of 1 January to 31 December 2019. This is the second time The Asset has awarded Nikko AM, following the company’s first win in 2017.
Nikko AM Wins Best Fund House, Japan
A category of AsianInvestor’s Asset Management Awards 2020
On 4 May, Nikko Asset Management (Nikko AM) was announced as the Best Fund House, Japan in the 2020 Asset Management Awards by AsianInvestor, one of the region’s leading industry publications about the asset management industry.
Nikko Asset Management Measures in Response to Declaration of State of Emergency in Japan
Nikko Asset Management (Nikko AM) is carrying out the following measures to ensure business continuity, following the declaration of a state of emergency on 7 April by the Japanese government regarding Tokyo and six other prefectures.
Nikko AM Releases Its 2019 Sustainability Report
On 13 March, Nikko Asset Management (Nikko AM) released its 2019 Sustainability Report, showcasing the company’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) commitments along with its progressive philosophy, goals, and the internal and external committees and standards that the firm follows and shapes.
Nikko AM Appoints Global Head of Intermediaries
Nikko Asset Management (Nikko AM) is pleased to announce that Tony Glover has joined the firm effective 1 March, 2020, taking on the newly-created roles of Global Head of Intermediaries and Head of International Intermediary Sales Department.
Nikko AM Wins Four Categories in Asia Asset Management's 2020 Best of the Best Awards
Nikko Asset Management (Nikko AM) has won four categories at the Asia Asset Management 2020 Best of the Best Country Awards - selected in Japan for Fund Launch of the Year, Best Retail House, and ETF Manager of the Year. The company also won ETF Manager of the Year in Singapore. The recognitions cover the period ending November 2019, and mark the seventh consecutive year Nikko AM was awarded by Asia Asset Management, The Journal of Investments and Pensions, regarded as one of the most influential publications about the asset management industry in Asia.
Press Release Nikko AM Hosts Internship for Syrian Refugees
Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd. (Nikko AM) has hosted its first internship for Syrian graduate school students, welcoming three participants and providing them with experience and skills for working in a professional environment in Japan. The interns are members of the programme Japanese Initiative for the future of Syrian Refugees (JISR), which is implemented by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The programme was introduced to Nikko AM through its relationship with UNHCR.
Nikko AM Goes Carbon Neutral
Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd. (Nikko AM) has been certified as carbon neutral for the first time, after entering into a carbon offset programme with the UK-based international organisation Carbon Footprint Ltd.
Nikko AM’s Corporate Sustainability Department aggregated the travel and financial data from the Firm’s global offices in Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, New York, and London.
Nikko AM Publishes Inaugural TCFD Report
Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd. (Nikko AM) today published its first annual report presenting activities aligned with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
We hereby announce the below officer personnel changes decided in accordance with the approval of the transition of Nikko Asset Management Co. Ltd. to a Company with an Audit and Supervisory Committee on the Board. The changes were approved at an extraordinary general shareholders meeting held on 21 June, 2019.
Nikko Asset Management Appoints Head of Asia ex-Japan Equity
Nikko Asset Management has today announced the appointment of Rob Mann as the Head of Asia ex-Japan Equity, based out of Singapore.
Nikko Asset Management Appoints New Global Executive Committee
Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd. (“Nikko AM”) has decided on the appointment of six Senior Corporate Managing Directors who will join Junichi Sayato, Chairman and Co-CEO, and Hideo Abe, President and Co-CEO, in supporting the management of the company, effective as of 1st May.
Nikko Asset Management Recognised as Best Asia Pacific Equity ETF Manager
Nikko Asset Management (Nikko AM) today announces that it has been voted the Best Asia Pacific Equity ETF Manager for the ninth time in ten years in a survey conducted by ETF Express, the digital news publisher serving institutional investors and investment advisers.
Nikko Asset Management Opens in Germany
Nikko Asset Management (Nikko AM) today announces the establishment of its first office in Germany, at Skyper Villa in Frankfurt's financial district.
Takumi Shibata to Step Down as President and Chief Executive Officer of Nikko Asset Management
After 6 years leading Nikko Asset Management, Takumi Shibata has decided to step down as President and Chief Executive Officer.
Nikko Asset Management bolsters its Global Equity team
Nikko Asset Management (“Nikko AM”) today announces the appointment of Michael Chen as an analyst in its Global Equity team. Michael is a Chartered Financial Analyst® with a degree from the London School of Economics, and will be responsible for providing industry and stock level research and analysis. He joins Nikko AM from Schroders in London.
Nikko AM Recognised in Two Categories in Asia Asset Management’s 2019 Best of the Best Awards
Nikko Asset Management (Nikko AM) has been recognised across two categories in Asia Asset Management’s 2019 Best of the Best Awards. Asia Asset Management, The Journal of Investments and Pensions, has acknowledged Nikko AM in Japan as Best Institutional House, for the third year running, and for the first time ever, Singapore ETF Manager of the Year. This is the sixth consecutive year for Nikko AM to be honored by Asia Asset Management.
Nikko Asset Management Commits to Support the Japan-British Society
Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd. (“Nikko AM”) today announces its support for the Japan-British Society, General Incorporated Association (“the Japan-British Society”). This is initially through a JPY 1 million donation towards planting and maintaining 1,000 cherry trees across parks in the United Kingdom, as a symbol of bilateral friendship between Japan and the UK.
Nikko Asset Management Supports The Investor Agenda
Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd. (“Nikko AM”) today announces its support for efforts towards commitment to the four areas of impact (Investor disclosure; Corporate engagement; Policy advocacy; Investment) under The Investor Agenda, for the global investor community to address climate change.
Nikko Asset Management Expands Green Bond Capability
Nikko Asset Management (“Nikko AM”) today announces the expansion of its global green bond capability to include a wider investment universe of Sovereign, Supranational and Agency (SSA) green bonds.
Nikko Asset Management Appoints Mari Yamauchi as Outside Director
At an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting, Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd. (“Nikko AM”) has confirmed the appointment of Mari Yamauchi as Outside Director.
Nikko AM to List Yen-Hedged ETF Linked to S&P 500 Index
Nikko Asset Management today announces a new exchange traded fund (ETF) linked to the S&P 500 Index with a currency hedge for the yen.
Nikko AM extends and deepens bench strength in China equity
Nikko Asset Management today announces that it has augmented its China Equity capability with additional resource based in Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
Nikko AM commits to Women’s Empowerment Principles
Nikko Asset Management today announces that it has signed a statement of support for the Women’s Empowerment Principles. Produced and disseminated by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and the United Nations Global Compact, the Principles present seven steps that business and other sectors can take to advance and empower women.
Nikko Asset Management Appoints Yoichiro Iwama as Outside Director
At its Board of Directors meeting today, Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd. ("Nikko AM") confirmed the appointment of Yoichiro Iwama as Outside Director. When he assumes the role, he is also to be appointed Chairman of the Firm's Board of Directors, effective 15 May.
Nikko Asset Management today announces that it has been voted the Best Asia Pacific Equity ETF Manager for the seventh time in eight years in a survey conducted by ETF Express, the digital news publisher serving institutional investors and investment advisers.
Nikko Asset Management Appoints Head of Marketing - International
Nikko Asset Management today announces that Head of Marketing, Asia ex-Japan & The Americas Joyce Koh is as of 1 March 2018 appointed Head of Marketing - International. Based in Singapore, in this newly created role she continues to report to Tokyo-based Joint Global Head of Product & Marketing, and Head of Marketing and Communications, Stefanie Drews, and her scope expands to include responsibility for all aspects of the Firm’s marketing worldwide, ex-Japan.
Nikko AM Recognised in Three Categories in Asia Asset Management’s 2018 Best of the Best Awards
Nikko Asset Management has been recognised across three categories in Asia Asset Management’s 2018 Best of the Best Awards. Asia Asset Management, The Journal of Investments and Pensions, has acknowledged Nikko AM in Japan as Best Institutional House and ETF Manager of the Year, both for the second year running, and for the first time as Asia Region ETF Manager of the Year. This is the fifth consecutive year for Nikko AM to be honored by Asia Asset Management.
Nikko Asset Management and Japan for UNHCR Partner to Support Refugee Children
Nikko Asset Management ("Nikko AM") today announces a partnership with Japan for UNHCR, a national partner of UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency), whereby Nikko AM globally supports funding towards school supplies and textbooks, access to schools, and extracurricular and classroom facilities through the UNHCR Educate A Child (EAC) programme.
Nikko Asset Management Announces Senior Appointments
Nikko Asset Management today announces that Nikko Asset Management Europe Ltd Chairman John Howland-Jackson is as of 1 January 2018 additionally appointed EMEA CEO (subject to Financial Conduct Authority approval).
Nikko Asset Management Enhances Governance, with Full Disclosure of its Voting Results
Nikko Asset Management today announces its commitment to disclose the results of individual voting in the companies in which it invests at shareholder meetings, in accordance with the Principles for Responsible Institutional Investors set forth in Japan’s Stewardship Code.
Nikko Asset Management Adds Depth to Global Equity Team
Nikko Asset Management (“Nikko AM”) has appointed Jeremy Hall as Investment Director – Global Equity. In this role, he will be a portfolio manager within the Nikko AM Global Equity team based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Nikko Asset Management and ARK Invest Partner for Disruptive Innovation Investment Solutions
Nikko Asset Management today announces that it is enhancing its disruptive innovation focused investment solutions by acquiring a minority stake in ARK Investment Management LLC (“ARK”). In this partnership Nikko AM will obtain exclusivity in select Asian geographies to offer ARK products and investment strategies and its investment team intends to continue working closely with ARK’s disruptive innovation focused analysts.
Nikko Asset Management Maintains Overweight Stance on Global Equities
Nikko Asset Management’s (“Nikko AM”) Global Investment Committee (GIC) maintains its bullish stance on global equities despite geopolitical uncertainty in its latest House View, due to increasing confidence in economic growth amongst consumers and corporations in much of the developed world.
Nikko Asset Management recognised as Japan's Fund House of the Year
AsianInvestor has recognised Nikko Asset Management (Nikko AM) as Japan's 2017 Fund House of the Year for generating strong returns in Japan's negative interest rate environment. This is the sixth time in seven years that the firm has won the award*. Nikko AM's actively managed Japanese equity strategies demonstrated a record of investment excellence that drove growth in assets under management (AUM) throughout 2016.
Nikko Asset Management Maintains Overweight Stance on Global Equities, Expects Rise in Global Bond Yields
Nikko Asset Management’s (Nikko AM) Global Investment Committee (GIC) maintains its bullish stance on global equities, particularly for the United States and the Developed Pacific ex-Japan region in its latest house view, due to increasing confidence in economic growth by consumers and corporations in much of the developed world. The GIC also maintains a moderately underweight stance on global bonds, as yields are expected to maintain a gradual rise.
Nikko Asset Management Receives Three Awards from Asia Asset Management
Nikko Asset Management has been recognised for excellence by Hong-Kong based Asia Asset Management. The firm won the Best of the Best Country Award for Japan in three categories: Best Institutional House, ETF Manager of the Year and Best Responsible Investor.
Nikko Asset Management Upgrades View on Global Equities to Overweight, Bullish on the U.S. Dollar
Nikko Asset Management’s Global Investment Committee has lifted its view on global equities to overweight and is bullish on the U.S. dollar in its latest house view, due to stronger prospects for the global economy with the election of Donald Trump as U.S. President and expectations of a hawkish monetary policy by the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Nikko Asset Management Bullish on Japan and Developed Asia-Pacific Equities
Nikko Asset Management's Global Investment Committee is positive on Japanese and developed Asia-Pacific equities over the next six months, but maintains a slightly underweight stance on global equities amid continued sluggish global growth.
Nikko Asset Management Votes at 2015/16 Shareholder Meetings
Nikko Asset Management to List Currency Hedged and Non-Hedged US Bond ETFs
Nikko Asset Management is launching two ETFs – a currency hedged type and a non-currency hedged type – that will track indexes of US government bonds with maturities of 7-10 years.
Nikko Asset Management’s Economic Forecast Moderately Shifts Down Following BREXIT
Despite the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, the Global Investment Committee has noted that it does not think economies or risk markets will crash, but added that it is hard to be enthusiastic about the prospects for the post-BREXIT world over the next few quarters.
We are pleased to be bringing you Nikko AM's 2019 Sustainability Report. In it, you will read about our responsibility as an investment manager and fiduciary that contributes to a sustainable society, considering ESG as a part of long-term investment strategies.
Nikko AM works with the UK-based international organisation Carbon Footprint Ltd. to offset carbon emissions through offset programmes, and has been certified as carbon neutral since 2018.
About Nikko Asset Management
Total AUM* US $249.1bn**
Total Employees*** 905
Portfolio Managers 107
Analysts/Strategists 56
Traders/Other Specialists 46
* Consolidated assets under management and sub-advisory of Nikko AM and overseas subsidiaries.
** 26.28 trillion yen as of 30 Sep 2020.
*** As of 30 Sep 2020, including employees of Nikko AM and its subsidiaries.