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Departments & OrganizationsYale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development | Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
Office of Student ResearchStem Cell Center, Yale: Stem Cell Niche and Homing; Signal Transduction and Cell GrowthSignal TransductionVascular Biology and Therapeutics ProgramPharmacologyFellowship Training
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Wnt; signal transduction; G protein, Chemotaxis;Cell migration; Cancer biology and therapeutics; Stem cell biology; Chemoattractant signaling; Inflammation
- BS, Nanjing University , 1985
- Ph.D., Clarkson University , 1991
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- Zhang, Y., Tang, W., Zhang H., Niu, X., X, Y., Zhang, J., Gao, K., Pan, W., Boggon, T.J., Toomre, D., Min, W., Wu, D. (2013) A network of interactions enables CCM3 and STK24 to coordinate UNC13D-driven vesicle exocytosis in neutrophils. Developmental Cell, 2013. 27: 215-26.
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- By Kori SchakeKori Schake is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and contributor to Foreign Policy's Shadow Government blog.
Yesterday's election was notable for many reasons — rejection of President Barack Obama's agenda, the largest opposition pick up in 80 years, the perks of incumbency outweighed by anti-establishment sentiment among voters. Also notable is that although the country is fighting two wars and foiled a terrorist plot just days before the election, national security had almost no place in the contest. To the extent national security was even mentioned, it was in terms of our strategic vulnerability due to massive debt.
But now that the dust is settling on the dimensions of Republican victory, what is it likely to mean for the wars we are fighting? The president has picked up support for winning the wars, although the president himself is hesitant to use the word. Republicans elected yesterday will be concerned about the cost of the wars, but they are basically Jacksonians. They will provide the votes for the president to persevere, and to reverse his damaging timeline for drawing down forces in Afghanistan.
Walter Russell Mead perfectly captured the principled, strong armed, anti-establishment populism of this line of thinking in U.S. foreign policy. His article on the Jacksonian Tradition in the Winter 1999/2000 issue of The National Interest should be required reading for anyone wanting to understand where the 112th Congress is likely headed. The president himself might also want to read former President George W. Bush's soon-to-be-released memoir, in which he considers a premature drawdown of troops in Iraq to have been one of his biggest mistakes.
Where the election will complicate President Obama's war policies is that moderate Democrats were turned out of the House in large numbers; the president has a Democratic caucus in the House significantly more liberal than the Democratic Party. This could limit the president's ability to let slide his end game for Afghanistan, especially if he is forced to trim his sails on other liberal shibboleths.
But the president is not going to carry liberal Democrats on the wars whether or not he sticks to his politically-driven 2011 drawdown. "Ending combat operations" in Iraq has not been the improvement in security the president promised, as Tuesday's bombings sadly illustrate, and the president can ill afford such an outcome in "the good war." Liberal disaffection was less a problem for Democrats than the stampede of independents to the right; moderating his timeline to achieve the objectives of the war would likely appeal to them.
Working across the aisle on the wars may help build confidence between the White House and Republicans, providing a basis for compromise on other pressing issues, like debt reduction and entitlement reform. Americans like divided government. We are a people made great by distrust of our own government, a fact the Washington establishment often forgets.
Perhaps the lesson Democrats ought most to take from yesterday's drubbing (and Republicans from the unsuccessful bids by some of our most divisive candidates) is Thomas Jefferson's caution that great innovations should not be forced by slim majorities. A desire for consensus is fundamental to our political culture, probably the result of our great diversity. As a European once pointed out to me, "you Americans prize individuality, but you all dress alike."
Congressional Republicans are off to a good start with House Speaker John Boehner's poignant decline to grandstand, instead taking the message that voters want Washington to get to work. And much work needs to be done to bring President Obama's national security policies into better alignment with our interests.
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After Hurricane Sandy, we saw the hellish world that the gun prohibitionists see as their utopia. Looters ran wild in south Brooklyn. There was no food, water or electricity. And if you wanted to walk several miles to get supplies, you better get back before dark, or you might not get home at all.See the problem? Yeah, that crap never happened. And local residents are plenty pissed about it:
Anti-gun New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg had already done everything he could to prevent law-abiding New Yorkers from owning guns, and he has made sure that no ordinary citizen will ever be allowed to carry a gun. He even refused to allow the National Guard into the city to restore civil order because Guardsmen carry guns!
"He's a f---ing idiot," said Steven Feinstein, 66, owner of Wilensky Hardware in Coney Island — one of the neighborhoods that LaPierre claimed Wednesday became a "hellish world" of apocalyptic violence. "He makes it sound like it was the 1970s around here. That's nonsense."And take that, 1970s. All right, so what about the rest of LaPierre's hellscape? Let's take a look below the fold:
it's not true, said NYPD spokesman Paul Browne. […]No thanks to Wayne LaPierre, who would have been out there blasting people like any good patriot should. All right, but surely that crazy liberal Bloomberg blocked the National Guard from showing up, right?
There was a big spike in burglaries, as criminals picked through abandoned homes, Browne said. But all other crime categories were down. […] Overall, crime fell by 25%.
And Browne delivered another inconvenient truth for the NRA man — the city actually went a record eight straight days without a single murder.
City officials dismissed that claim as more NRA nonsense and said there were plenty of armed National Guardsmen in the city in the aftermath of Sandy.Dammit, LaPierre, you really don't need to make things this easy.
All right, let's hear from an actual person whose business was broken into. Surely that person will agree that what the area needed was some gun-toting lunatics convinced, like LaPierre, that society had now crumbled and their only shot at survival was to go out and murder some folks before they got murdered back.
Even a crime victim said it didn't look that bad. "There was no food or water, but you could still walk the streets at night," said Ron Troyano, whose Joann's Discount Wines and Liquor store actually was looted during Sandy. He called the break-in an aberration. "There was a cop on every street corner," Troyano said. "It wasn't that bad."His liquor store was robbed during the extended outages. According to Wayne LaPierre, that happened because this guy wasn't willing to sit in front of the door and patriotically shoot anyone who tried to come inside, which would have been a better outcome, according to LaPierre.
So let's see. One, the NRA spokesman is either a huge liar (huge!) or absolutely delusional. Two, he uses these delusions of supposed societal breakdowns to advocate for people buying more guns, and bigger guns. Three, the NRA gets a cut whenever anyone does. Four, the pictures he paints of supposed chaos where there is none are meant, by LaPierre's own words, to encourage other people to think about the circumstances under which they'd maybe need to start shooting a whole bunch of people, and to plan accordingly.
I don't care if we end up with a database of gun owners or a database of crazy, violent people, but Wayne LaPierre should only get to have his name on one of those, not both. Turn in your pop-pop toys, Wayne. We don't want you running around deciding who to shoot, because your judgment sucks.
Contact your senators or representative to demand they support the president's gun safety proposals. And send that all-important electoral message to the NRA by backing Robin Kelly in the IL-02 congressional district special election. You'll feel much better after doing all that!


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At the heart of the documentary "Girl Rising" is this idea: Educating a girl is a powerful force for change.
At a Friday screening of the film at the Garde Arts Center, a panel discussed that notion on a global scale — the movie does, after all, focus on girls from Cambodia, Sierra Leone, Haiti and beyond — but then brought it all to a local level.
The documentary directed by Richard E. Robbins follows nine girls living in various developing countries. It details their fight for their own education and human rights.
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Cmdr. Erica Mohr from the U.S. Coast Guard Leadership Development Center was the person who came up with the idea of screening "Girl Rising" here and organizing a related panel discussion. She first saw the documentary at the Coast Guard Academy during a week celebrating diversity.
"I've always been interested in how we can get people in a community to take ownership in solving these problems and be part of the solution," Mohr said. "I think this movie provides a venue that capitalizes on the emotional attachment. You experience something that's very visceral, and then when you're done with that experience, you say, 'How can I help?'
"That's frankly my goal for the entire event, that people feel empowered to act — inspired to act — when they leave."
Leading the Friday panel was "Girl Rising" producer Martha Adams, who has been named a 2013 "Newsweek/Daily Beast" Women of Impact.
The moderator was Harriet Jones, who is the WNPR business desk editor. A native of Scotland, she used to work for the BBC. She now lives in Stonington.
The panel also featured Merrylyn Weaver, a founder of the Kente Cultural Center; Alison Ryan, principal of Bennie Dover Jackson Middle School; and Kim Sanchez, assistant director of the Connecticut College Office of Volunteers for Community Service.
Weaver noted that in other countries, education is a gift. Here, kids see it as that way in their younger years but then some tend to lose that spark somewhere between age 10 and 13.
"We have to find a way to make our children hunger for education," she said.
The panelists talked about the importance of mentorship, with Ryan encouraging people to provide kids with a sounding board and to inspire them to keep moving forward.
The panelists touched on, too, organizations that are already working to overcome challenges, with Weaver mentioning the Community Foundation of Southeastern Connecticut's Women & Girls Fund.
"Within our own community, we see women and girls going through these very same issues (as in 'Girl Rising'). We can help in other countries, but we can also help here," Weaver said.
After seeing "Girl Rising," Angelique Cyrique, 13, of Groton said that the movie opened her eyes more to what is out in the world. She was particularly struck by how a girl in Afghanistan had to hide her face behind a burqa.
Kayleigh Knowles, 13, of Groton talked about how kids here sometimes complain about going to class, while the girls in the film fought to be in school, learning.
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well. there is some truth to this. he is mentally very strong now and seems to dismantle his opponents with strategy as much as with his brilliant shotmaking and seemingly effortless movement.
can anyone here be so kind to pull up the
win-loss statistics
for the past few year so we can do a comparison by year? the empirical evidence might surprise us.
If we solely go by win-loss statistics and/or # of titles won one might conclude that Nadal's best year is 2005 so obviously a flawed method.
However if we go that way Fed's winning % was 84%, 83% and 84% last 3 years (2010, 2011 and 2012 respectively) while in his "glory" days (say 2004-2006 as a 3 year period) his winning % was 93%, 95% and 95%.
So 83,66 % average in last 3 years and 94,33 % in those years he was supposedly a worse player.
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I think that is a function of his loss of explosiveness(IMO due to mono) though, he isn't as quick to get the racquet on the ball.
It's possible, whatever the reason it's one of the biggest differences IMO compared to his best days.
That coupled with his worse movement (which in turn also makes his transition from defense to offense worse than what it once was) made him much more vulnerable to big hitters these days even though he was considered to be a nightmare match-up for that style of play in his best years.
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Discrimination can be costly for both victims and perpetrators. This column uses the variation of historical Jewish persecution across German counties to proxy for localised distrust in financial markets. Persecution reduces the average stock market participation rate of households by 7.5%–12%. This striking effect is stable over time, across cohorts, and across education levels. The effect survives when comparing only geographically close counties. It suggests that the persecution of minorities may negatively affect societal wealth even far into the future through the channel of intergenerationally transmitted investment norms.
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The 1907 panic affected the world, demonstrating the fragility of the international financial system. This column discusses the steps the US and Germany took in fortifying their financial systems following 1907. There is a link between the financial crisis and the escalation of diplomatic relations that led to war in 1914. And this link has implications for today as the world is recovering from the 2008 crisis.
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Many firms are replacing traditional working hours with more flexible arrangements, reflecting new thinking on employee motivation. This column presents evidence from Germany that trust-based working time is associated with increased innovation. However, trust-based working hours also contribute to the blurring of workers' professional and private lives, and may lead to excessive overtime. Careful design of trust-based working arrangements is required to reap the innovations gains while avoiding the health pitfalls.
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After a promising first decade, the Eurozone faced a severe crisis. This column looks at the Eurozone's short history through the lens of an evolutionary approach to forming new institutions. German dominance has allowed the euro to achieve a number of design objectives, and this may continue if Germany does not shirk its responsibilities. Germany's resilience and dominant size within the EU may explain its 'muddling through' approach to the Eurozone crisis. Greater mobility of labour and lower mobility of under-regulated capital may be the costly 'second best' adjustment until the arrival of more mature Eurozone institutions.
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As the Eurozone cautiously implements stabilising reforms, Germany is forced to go further with concessions than it would prefer. This column suggests that it would be beneficial for discontented members to consider the formation of a second monetary union. The second euro can be constructed better than the first, bringing the discontented members exchange-rate adjustments relative to Germany, and avoiding competitive devaluations.
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Eurosceptic parties have been popular in the recent European elections, many complaining that the euro has only served Germany's interests. This column points out that although data on aggregate trade flows show that Germany's trade surplus with the rest of the Eurozone is not excessive, the success of a Eurosceptic party is larger in countries where the bilateral trade deficit with Germany has increased in recent years. A gradual rebalancing of Germany's external accounts of Germany would bring with it not only a greater economic stability in the Eurozone but also greater political stability.
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The Hitler government built the world's first nationwide motorway network. We examine the impact of road-building on the popularity of the Nazi regime. Using shifts in electoral support between 1933 and 1934, we conclude that 'pork-barrel' spending worked in reducing opposition to the regime – wherever the new roads ran, fewer Germans voted against the government in elections and plebiscites. At least part of the regime's popularity after 1934 can be explained by the popularity of the Autobahn.
George Kopits, Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Germany's newly established Advisory Council – tasked with monitoring compliance with the constitutionally mandated balanced budget rule – lacks the analytical capacity and independence of its counterparts in the UK, the US, and the Netherlands. It is perhaps by virtue of the current government's record of fiscal responsibility that a more comprehensive watchdog is not urgently needed, but the newly formed coalition should not miss the opportunity to establish comprehensive fiscal and banking oversight.
Tom Krebs, Martin Scheffel, Friday, September 20, 2013
Faced with stubbornly high and persistent unemployment in 2003-05 the German government implemented far-reaching labour-market reforms, the so-called Hartz reforms. This column shows that these reforms were highly successful in bringing down the non-cyclical component of unemployment in Germany but also argues that the Hartz reforms created winners and losers. This explains why these reforms have been hugely unpopular among the German public.
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The collapse of the Weimar Republic was a turning point in world history, bringing the murderous Nazi regime to power. This column argues that contrary to most conceptions of social capital, there can be negative outcomes to well-connected societies. Independent of ideology, dense social networks in interwar Germany greatly helped the Nazi party to rapidly and widely disseminate its messages. Putnam's claims about the benefits of social capital for democracy need to be reassessed.
Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke, Wolfgang Lechthaler, Christian Merkl, Friday, July 12, 2013
During the Great Recession, 25 of 33 OECD countries have used some version of short-time work, a form of publicly subsidised working-time reductions. This column argues that despite its popularity, knowledge of the macroeconomic effects of this measure is limited. Using Germany as a case study, it's clear that the existence of a short-time work system stabilises the economy and reduces job losses by roughly 20% during a recession. However, short-time work is a lot less effective for Anglo-Saxon labour markets.
Giovanni D'Alessio, Romina Gambacorta, Giuseppe Ilardi, Friday, May 24, 2013
The ECB's recent survey on household finances and consumption threw up some unexpected results – counter-intuitively, the average German household has less wealth than the average Mediterranean household. In line with a recent VoxEU.org contribution from De Grauwe and Ji, this article analyses the principal differences in wealth and income between the main Eurozone countries.
Paul De Grauwe, Yuemei Ji, Tuesday, April 16, 2013
A recent ECB household-wealth survey was interpreted by the media as evidence that poor Germans shouldn't have to pay for southern Europe. This column takes a look at the numbers. Whilst it's true that median German households are poor compared to their southern European counterparts, Germany itself is wealthy. Importantly, this wealth is very unequally distributed, but the issue of unequal distribution doesn't feature much in the press. The debate in Germany creates an inaccurate perception among less wealthy Germans that transfers are unfair.
Lucrezia Reichlin, Domenico Giannone, Jasper McMahon, Saverio Simonelli, Friday, March 29, 2013
The Eurozone and US business cycles seems to have decoupled, but is Germany on the US or Eurozone side of the divide? This column presents recent results from the Now-Casting model on whether this US-Eurozone decoupling also applies to Germany. If this is right, the German stock market – which seems to predict Germany's convergence to the US path – is due for a correction.
Thomas Grennes, Andris Strazds, Thursday, February 28, 2013
Can European countries share their debts? This column argues that higher government indebtedness means larger household net financial assets. Thus, any pooling of European legacy debt would be considered unacceptable by countries with less government debt unless it also involved the pooling of households' financial assets. Yet, this would be legally and technically insurmountable. The EU must face forced Ricardian equivalence: the countries with the largest legacy-debt burdens must reduce them by increasing the tax burden or, alternatively, reduce their budget expenditure.
William Kerr, Oliver Falck, Christina Günther, Stephan Heblich, Monday, February 11, 2013
Governments around the world are fostering industrial 'clusters', hoping to create agglomeration economies. Using the political division of Germany in 1949, this column argues that heightened firm density can raise costs for incumbent firms in addition to the often-cited agglomeration benefits. This is important for policymakers contemplating efforts to promote their local areas by targeted cluster initiatives and bidding to attract large firms. Policy efforts that are neutral in orientation – such as physical infrastructure investments or improving the generation and dissemination of knowledge – may be more effective alternatives.
Rudolfs Bems, Robert Johnson, Thursday, December 6, 2012
With the rise of complex, globalised supply chains is the real effective exchange rate (REER), the most commonly used measure of competitiveness, now outdated? If it is, what should replace it? This column presents a 'Value-Added REER' and shows that it differs substantially from the conventional REER. Because it is possible to construct a new Value-Added REER from existing data, policymakers interested in improving their understanding of competitiveness might well consider including it in their toolbox.


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Ganesh Acharya says he has choreographed the "Po po po" song in "Son of Sardar" for children.
The promotional song features Ajay Devgn, Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan in a rare frame. Salman is seen doing a peculiar facial movement.
"When Ajayji told me that we have to do 'Po po po' song, I said I have a side movement in mind. I was very sure that I have to do this song for kids and I did it. So I'm happy that I had thought it to be for kids and successfully did it," Acharya said in an interview.
He is also happy to have got a chance to work with the three actors.
"I don't know whether I'll get this experience again or not. All three stars - Ajay, Salman and Sanjay - are together and all of them have done a great job," he said.
"I am honoured to have worked with all three stars and all of them did what I said and did the song," he added.
Directed by Ashwin Dhir, "Son of Sardar", releasing Nov 13, also features Sonakshi Sinha.
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Given all the misinformation floating around, boning up on the waiver rules seemed like a good idea. The first step was to obtain a copy of the guidelines from Major League Baseball's offices (a story in itself, as an MLB spokesman initially maintained that the waiver manifesto is "an internal document" that he need not share with the mediaan absurd position to take regarding information so basic to the sport's operation). It soon became apparent that the waiver rules aren't exactly light readingthey feature page after page crammed with so much legalese that it would take a lengthy seminar to decipher it all. A few highlights:
And that's just scratching the surface. Confused? Be glad we're not covering how the waiver guidelines mesh with the rules governing minor league options. Ultimately, however, the most dizzying aspects of waivers don't involve the rules themselves but rather the procedures and strategies they allow. Just as baseball's playing rules make no specific mention of the hit-and-run or the suicide squeeze, there's nothing in the waiver guidelines about salary dumps or claiming a player in order to block another team from doing so, but such maneuvers are the essence of waiver gamesmanship. These complexities may explain why so many baseball GMs keep their jobs despite fielding lousy teams year after year: They're the only ones who fully understand this stuff.
The waiver rules, incidentally, are not without certain moments of quaintly anachronistic charm, the best of which is a provision entitling a player who's been put through release waivers to "make a collect call to the Major League Club to determine whether the player's contract has been claimed." It's not clear if Henderson ever invoked this clause, but it's easy to envision this being his last official act as a Met: "Rickey don't see no reason why Rickey should spend one of Rickey's quarters." Waive bye-bye, Rickey.
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The CP has brought an end to the ad-hoc basis 'bandobast' duty of traffic police and asked them to have a schedule in place for barricading spots. He told them to keep a close vigil as this will help in curbing the incidents of chain snatching.
In his last crime meeting, Mathur had directed all police stations to gather information about the security guards of the housing societies in their jurisdictions.
After the order, policemen were seen taking details of security guards at the Kumar Prasanna Co-operative Housing Society. They collected the address proof and photographs of the security guards.
Deputy commissioner of police (Zone IV) Manoj Patil said, "We have observed that in many societies, watchmen are not hired as per the provisions mentioned in the Security Service Act. Many housing societies do not have documentations of watchmen. The police also get the information of those security guards which are deployed by security agencies."
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On March 2, 2013, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) released the Draft Plan Bay Area (Plan), the California Bay Area's first integrated land use, housing and transportation plan prepared pursuant to SB 375 — the Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act of 2008 — which aims to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from cars and light trucks by improving the efficiency of regional land development patterns.
The Plan integrates MTC's long-range Regional Transportation Plan, which is intended to identify strategies and investments to maintain, manage and improve the region's ground transportation network with ABAG's Regional Housing Need Allocation (RHNA) efforts to allocate specific housing targets to individual cities and counties. For the first time, the Plan also includes a sustainable communities strategy (SCS), a new element required pursuant to SB 375 to demonstrate how the region will meet its GHG targets, as established by the California Air Resources Board (CARB).
Translating these legal obligations into numbers, MTC and ABAG were faced with the challenge of developing a multi-billion dollar, long-range plan to accommodate the nine-county San Francisco Bay region's projected increase of 1.1 million jobs and 2.1 million people by the year 2040, but at the same time achieve a 7 percent reduction in per capita GHG emissions by the year 2020 and a 15 percent reduction in per capita GHG by the year 2035.
Of particular interest to stakeholders are: (1) growth patterns promoted by the Plan; (2) California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) streamlining opportunities available for future projects that are consistent with the Plan under SB 375; and (3) other streamlining opportunities for non-qualifying projects outside of SB 375. This alert addresses these key topics.
MTC's and ABAG's regional planning and outreach efforts have been in progress for more than a decade, culminating in a regional initiative called FOCUS, an effort intended to help local governments identify Priority Development Areas (PDAs) (existing neighborhoods nominated by local jurisdictions as appropriate places to concentrate future growth) and Priority Conservation Areas (PCAs) (regionally significant open spaces).
After narrowing the land use scenarios down from five, the scenario ultimately selected as the proposed Plan pairs the "Jobs-Housing Connection Strategy" — which concentrates 80 percent of new housing and 66 percent of new jobs in PDAsand accommodates 100 percent of new growth within existing urban growth boundaries and urban limit lines — with the "Preferred Transportation Investment Strategy" — which devotes 87 percent of transportation funding (or $251 billion) to operating and maintaining the existing transportation network (thereby leaving only a 13 percent of funding (or $37 billion) for new transit and road expansion projects). The Plan reports that it meets and exceeds its GHG emissions reduction targets as well as its housing targets. The map found here (see page 6) (http://onebayarea.org/pdf/Draft_Plan_Bay_Area_3-22-13.pdf) shows the transportation and land use pattern that is the basis of the proposed Plan. It also designates PDAs and PCAs.
Generally speaking, housing and job growth is distributed among the region's nine counties as follows:
Some jurisdictions have been more accepting of planned growth than others, particularly in smaller cities. On March 6, 2012, Corte Madera voted to withdraw from ABAG in protest of the regional housing targets allocated to the town, believing that ABAG's population projections are overestimated and that the town is already built out. Corte Madera has since tried to rally support from other Marin County cities to form a group that could replace ABAG. Palo Alto has also been active in the debate, requesting the removal of the Downtown area and the El Camino corridor as PDAs in February 2012 and filing a formal appeal in February 2013 of ABAG's adopted RHNA goals for Palo Alto, calling the regional forecasts "unreasonable and unachievable."
Amid the ongoing debate regarding the RHNA targets, MTC and ABAG released a Draft Environmental Impact Report (Plan EIR) on April 2, 2013 that evaluates the potential environmental effects of adopting and implementing the Plan under CEQA. Many have eagerly anticipated the release of the Plan and Plan EIR for the promise of CEQA streamlining opportunities under SB 375. Streamlining is available for Transit Priority Projects (TPPs) and residential or mixed-use projects consistent with the Plan. Each are discussed below.
Despite the Plan's PDA-focused land use pattern, CEQA streamlining under SB 375 is most readily available for Transit Priority Projects (TPPs).
TPPs must: (1) contain at least 50 percent residential uses based upon total building square footage and, if the project contains between 26 percent and 50 percent nonresidential uses, a floor area ratio of not less than 0.75; (2) provide a minimum net density of at least 20 dwelling units per acre; and (3) be located within one-half mile of a major transit stop or high-quality transit corridor included in a regional transportation plan.
Qualifying TPPs will be eligible for the following streamlining options: (1) total exemption where the TPP complies with an extensive list of criteria provided at Public Resources Code Section 21155.1(a); (2) the newly created Sustainable Communities Environmental Assessment (SCEA) (a document similar to a negative declaration in that the lead agency is required to consider, but not respond to, all public comments received on a proposed project, but that enjoys the more deferential "substantial evidence" standard normally reserved for EIRs); (3) or a streamlined EIR. To qualify for streamlining, TPPs must also incorporate all feasible mitigation measures, performance standards and applicable criteria in the Plan EIR.
Neither SCEAs nor streamlined EIRs need analyze growth-inducing impacts or any project-specific or cumulative impacts from cars and light-duty trucks on global warming or the regional transportation network. Lead agencies will also have the opportunity to conclude that where cumulative effects have been adequately addressed and mitigated in a prior EIR (in this case, the Plan EIR), cumulative effects of the TPP need not be treated as cumulatively considerable.Finally, a streamlined EIR prepared for a TPP need not analyze an off-site alternative to the TPP or a reduced residential density alternative to address the effects of car and light-duty truck trips generated by the TPP. The SCEA presents the greatest potential value given that few projects will qualify for exemptions and that the analysis that may be eliminated from the streamlined EIRs is limited.
In contrast to TPP streamlining, none of the streamlining mechanisms available under SB 375 apply to developments in PDAs, a fact that reveals the tension between ABAG and MTC, which have been developing and refining the PDA pattern for years, and others who believe that only TPPs deserve streamlining. This tension can also be seen in statements throughout the Plan and Plan EIR noting that while PDAs and TPPs overlap, they are not entirely congruent and acknowledging that "TPPs-eligible areas were not identified until after the passage of SB 375 in 2008." In this regard, the analysis of TPPs almost appears as an afterthought in the Plan and Plan EIR. Accordingly, in order to understand the true streamlining opportunities, it is necessary to understand where PDAs and TPPs diverge. The map found here (see 2.2 – 21) (http://onebayarea.org/pdf/Draft_EIR_Chapters/2.2_Air_Quality.pdf) compares PDA- and TPP-eligible areas.
While the map visually demonstrates the Plan EIR's statements that the "many PDAs (74 percent of PDA acreage) overlap with TPP areas," there are important divergences. In general, TPPs are more closely located near high frequency and high-quality transit corridors. As a result, PDAs in the outer Bay Area jurisdictions — such as Livermore, Concord, Pittsburg, Santa Rosa and Solano County — without transit access will not have the opportunity for TPP streamlining. Alternatively, developments proposed in areas that are only TPP-eligible — such as western San Francisco and portions of Mountain View, Berkeley, and San Jose — will face a different challenge of demonstrating consistency with the Plan's PDA-focused land use pattern.
SB 375 offers limited CEQA streamlining for residential or mixed-use residential projects that are consistent with the "building intensity, density, use designation, and applicable policies specified for the project area" in an applicable SCS. A residential or mixed-use residential project is defined as a project where at least 75 percent of the total building square footage of the project consists of residential use or a project that is a TPP.
CEQA documents for such residential or mixed-use residential projects are not required to analyze any growth-inducing impacts or any project specific or cumulative impacts from cars and light-duty trucks on global warming or the regional transportation network. Where an EIR is prepared for a qualifying residential or mixed-use project, it is not required to analyze a reduced density alternative or address the effects of car and light-duty truck trips generated by the project. Accordingly, analysis of these specified impacts may be eliminated in the CEQA documents for qualifying residential or mixed use projects. Because the scope of topics that must be discussed in CEQA documents is so vast, the value of eliminating these topic areas is somewhat limited.
Again, the Plan and Plan EIR include relatively minimal discussion regarding streamlining for these residential and mixed-use residential projects. The Plan includes a short definition of qualifying projects. The Plan EIR also includes a discussion of the same qualifying criteria, as well as the streamlining benefits. However, neither the Plan nor the Plan EIR provide further explanation and neither identify the "building intensity, density, use designation, and applicable policies" with which a residential or mixed-use project must be consistent. Presumably, a consistency analysis will entail determining whether a project is in a PDA or whether it conflicts with any resource designations such as a PCA or other protected category. Next, an analysis would likely consider whether the growth associated with the project falls within the growth allocated to a particular jurisdiction. Further, the "Draft Forecast of Jobs, Population and Housing," a supplementary report to the Plan, allocates jobs and housing growth for each PDA. However, the Plan does not appear to include more specific standards or policies for determining consistency.
Interestingly, investigation into other regional SCSs has revealed growth assumptions at more granular levels, namely at the transportation analysis zone or "TAZ" level in the Southern California Association of Government's SCS, and down to a parcel level in the Sacramento Area Council of Government's SCS. We are not aware of MTC or ABAG having released similar data to the public, thereby impairing the ability of the public to determine consistency with the Plan to the level of detail contemplated by SB 375.
It should be noted that there are additional streamlining opportunities that may be available for Bay Area projects that do not qualify for streamlining under SB 375 — for example, projects in PDAs that are not TPPs, are discussed below. Flowcharts for determining a project's eligibility for several of these streamlining mechanisms are available here (http://www.hklaw.com/files/Publication/04664546-629b-4477-a59e-c6ee4537a7c7/Presentation/PublicationAttachment/e1e11da8-a7ae-41dc-a105-db1b0210a5f1/IsCEQAFixed.pdf).
Future project-specific environmental review should be considered in the context of the many streamlining provisions mentioned above. Among the myriad options, the SCEA for TPPs present the greatest opportunity, given that few projects will qualify for exemptions and the analysis that may be eliminated from streamlined EIRs is limited. Upon final adoption of the Plan, and in the absence of any litigation on the Plan, many of these streamlining mechanisms — only theoretically discussed and imagined up until now — may soon be tested.
DISCLAIMER: Because of the generality of this update, the information provided herein may not be applicable in all situations and should not be acted upon without specific legal advice based on particular situations.
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Asia-Pacific Training Workshop on EIU
The world has experienced political, economic, social and cultural changes in various forms in recent decades, which has created or intensified tensions and challenges not only within, but also across national borders. This has resulted in increased attention to the promotion of a Culture of Peace in the global community and consensus has grown that education can play a critical role in building peaceful and sustainable societies. EIU, in particular, has been acknowledged to have the capacity to effectively contribute to this. As a response to the increasing demands from UNESCO Member States in the Asia-Pacific region, APCEIU has provided training workshops on EIU for key educators in the region since its establishment in 2001.
The Asia-Pacific Training Workshop on EIU (APTW), as the Centre's flagship programme, has been held annually since its launch in 2001. The programme was designed as Training of Trainers to enhance the competency of professionals of teacher education in the region. With the goal of broadening the participants' perspectives towards EIU and enhancing their knowledge in EIU, the APTW encompasses a wide range of programme segments, from lectures on key EIU themes to on-site workshops. To maximize the impact of the programme in the participants' countries, this year's programme will adopt more practical and participatory approaches, enabling workshop contents to be tied to the participants' local conditions. This will concretize the process for the participants to internalize EIU concepts and apply them into practices in their own context. For this purpose, action plan development will be emphasized as one of the main components of the programme through which participants are gradually guided to draft an action plan that can become a tangible and viable output of the workshop.
The 13th Asia-Pacific Training Workshop on EIU
Dates : 8-17 July 2013
Venue : Seoul, Republic of Korea
Participants : 30 key professionals in the field of teacher education from the UNESCO Member States in the Asia-Pacific region
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- Lectures, seminars and discussions on key EIU themes
- Group work and consultation for action plan development
- Visits to EIU-related sites in the Republic of Korea
- Introductory and advanced workshops to introduce pedagogies and teaching resources on EIU
Asia-Pacific Leadership Academy for School Principals
Globalization, usually viewed as an inevitable and intrinsic characteristic of the 21st century, is being touted by some as a powerful force for peace. However, paradoxically, as this worldwide phenomenon accelerated points of interaction among cultures through migration and mass media, it has also given rise to, if not exacerbated, ethnic frictions, attitudes of intolerance and identity-linked violence within and across societies. Defining peace as the absence of war is therefore clearly inadequate; peace should rather be defined as the genuine practice of values of equality, respect and understanding among peoples. It is in this regard that education plays a critical task in constructing the defenses of genuine peace in the minds of men to safeguard the lives of future generations.
While education lies mostly on the hands of teachers, its effectiveness and potential reach also rely heavily upon the nature of the school administration, environment and curriculums. APCEIU therefore firmly believes that school leadership also assumes an indispensable role in making school contexts conducive to the learning of other cultures, appreciation of the other and inculcation of universal values of mutual respect, human rights and equality. Acting upon this conviction, APCEIU has been holding the Asia-Pacific Leadership Academy for School Principals (APLASP) since 2010 to enhance the competencies of school principals to implement Education for International Understanding (EIU) in their respective schools, a measure to help societies effectively cope with the challenges to peace brought about by globalization.
Now on its fourth year, APLASP aims to provide school principals from the Asia-Pacific region opportunities to internalize the values underpinning EIU through interactive workshops and cultural immersions, as well as those that help foster their international school networks through the school fair and school visits. It is expected after the workshop that EIU will make school leaders become enthusiastic in creating school networks with their counterparts, intensifying the channels of mutual understanding across different societies, ultimately engendering a Culture of Peace in the Asia-Pacific region.
4th Asia-Pacific Leadership Academy for School Principals
Dates: 15 - 23 October 2013
Venue: Seoul, Republic of Korea
Sponsor: Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education (SMOE)
Participants: 30 school principals from the UNESCO Member States in Asia and the Pacific
Main Contents
- Lectures and seminars on EIU and educational leadership in the 21st Century
- Presentations and exhibitions to share good EIU practices of participating schools
- School visits, school fair and cultural activities to help develop school exchange programmes among participants
Sub-regional Workshop on EIU
To provide further local-based EIU training programmes catering to the needs of specific sub-regions in Asia and the Pacific, Sub-regional Workshops have been organized by APCEIU in collaboration with UNESCO Field Offices and National Commissions. Centered on a common educational agenda which can be found in the respective sub-regions, the Workshop segments are composed of local-centered themes, which are relevant to key EIU issues and focused on sharing experiences of the participating countries to learn from one another.
The Sub-regional Workshop in 2009 was held in Ha Long, Vietnam and has been co-organized by UNESCO Bangkok and the Vietnam National Commission for UNESCO, while being hosted by the Hanoi National University of Education (HNUE), and cooperated by UNESCO Hanoi. Entitled as 'Learning to Live Together: Reorienting Teacher Education to Strengthen School-based Initiatives,' the workshop accommodated 40 teacher educators and senior teachers from Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia.
Following up to that workshop, this year APCEIU plans to provide a venue in Myanmar for countries in the Mekong Region (i.e. Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam). Through this workshop APCEIU expects to empower educators to increase their commitment for EIU, identify priorities and challenges facing EIU practices, and progress further steps necessary to intensify and refine EIU perspectives towards empowering individuals for peaceful community building. It will also include sessions for exploring the use and adoption of APCEIU-produced materials, such as the DVDs, SEA Journey' and 'Telling Tales, in school curriculum and school-based initiative settings.
EIU Sub-Regional Capacity-Building Workshop 2013
Dates: 19-22 November 2013
Venue: Yangon, Myanmar
Partner Organizations: Ministry of Education of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Myanmar National Commission for UNESCO, UNESCO Project Office in Myanmar, UNESCO Bangkok
Main Contents
- Lecture and activities to level off understandings of the core EIU contents
- Presentations to share current status of EIU and suggestion on strengthening practices for EIU values in school programme
- Seminars to discuss common education issues in the sub-region
- Small group discussions to strengthen the sub-regional network for future cooperation and communication
Country-based Capacity-building Workshops
To fulfill the mandate of UNESCO to enhance the educational competencies of Members States of the Asia-Pacific region, the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) has provided country-based capacity-building workshops under close collaboration with UNESCO Field Offices and National Commissions. Each country-based capacity-building workshop is designed in accordance to each country's context, educational demands and professional capacities. Among these workshops, the representative Training Workshop for Korean Educators is being held every year as a credit-based teacher training course. It aims to inculcate upon Korean teachers, through Education for International Understanding (EIU), the value of promoting cultural diversity and multicultural education, which during the last few years proved to be key educational agendas both in Korean schools and society.
In order for Korean teachers to more effectively learn and internalize EIU values as well as develop intercultural competencies, the Workshop, for the first time in 2013, will be held in the country of one of Korea's growing migrant groups: the Philippines. Through joint workshops, field-based activities as well as first-hand experiences with local teachers and people in Manila, the APCEIU hopes to provide Korean teachers opportunities to experience how EIU concepts they learned in Seoul are applied in real life situations.
The 13th Training Workshop for Korean Educators
Dates and Venue: 13-20 August 2013
- Pre-departure Workshop : 13-14 August 2013 (Seoul, Republic of Korea)
- Workshop in the Philippines : 15-20 August 2013 (Manila, Philippines)
Participants: 20 Korean educators
Partner Organization: UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines, Southeast Asia Center of Lifelong Education for Sustainable Development (SEA CLLSD)
Main Contents
- Lectures and workshops on EIU focused on developing knowledge and appreciation in cultural diversity and multicultural education in Korea
- First-hand experience with local teachers and people in Manila through school visits, joint workshops and field-based activities.
- Opportunities to enhance teachers' capacity to link EIU concepts and practice through creative pedagogy and reflection sessions
UNESCO/ROK Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme
As the key inter-regional programme at APCEIU, UNESCO/ROK Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme is a two-month residency-type training programme. Benefitting educators from the least developed countries (LDCs) in the Asia-Pacific region and Africa, this programme is centered on the themes of EIU, basic education, and teacher training. Launched in 2007 by the Memorandum of Understanding between UNESCO and the Korean Government, the programme has successfully accomplished the mission of the Centre to promote mutual understanding and cooperation between the Asia-Pacific and other regions.
The programme will encourage the participants to explore ways to overcome local challenges by exposing them to the core concepts of quality basic education and EIU. Moreover, the programme aims to help the participants to apply the lessons learned and their research experience to the implementation plan for education quality improvement in their countries.
The curriculum is composed of various segments, from lectures/workshops on main themes to individual research projects based on the participants' expertise and needs. This programme will enable the participants to build capacities in identifying and implementing the effective methods to achieve quality ''Education for All'' (EFA) and to critically interpret the current educational issues of the participants within the global context.
UNESCO/ROK Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme
Dates: 8 October - 9 December 2013
Venue: Seoul, Republic of Korea
Co-sponsors: UNESCO and KOICA
Partner Organizations: Universities and education institutions in the Republic of Korea
Participants: 30 educators from the Asia-Pacific region and Africa
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- Lectures, workshops, consultations and seminars on key themes (EIU, basic education and teacher education)
- Study visits to key educational institutes and organizations
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