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text: Ocean Heaven -- Film Review 9:41 PM PDT 10/14/2010 by Maggie Lee , AP FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Empty TWITTER Empty SHANGHAI -- Action hero Jet Li gives a respectable turn as a terminally ill father grooming his autistic son to survive on his own in "Ocean Heaven" -- a decent, if orthodox job by Xue Xiaolu. Xue off-sets some of the wholesome soppiness of this genre by keeping the tone light, the story simple and steering clear of grueling ordeals. Compared with "Together," another father-son story that she co-scripted and Chen Kaige directed, it is less melodramatic and artificial. Set mostly in a marine park in Qingtao province, its interpretation of autism owes less to "Rain Man" than to "The Big Blue," awash with holistic, quasi-fantastical overtones, enhanced by Christopher Doyle's ravishing aquatic cinematography. While the Chinese government, schools or NGOs may approve of this topic, "Ocean" goes against the grain of current market realities. A Jet Li who doesn't fight or perform stunts is a tough sell overseas. Back home, it might be overlooked by an audience infatuated with period war epics and stir-crazy comedy-farce. Hopefully, a summer release following its premiere as the opening film of the Shanghai International Film Festival can draw moderate family viewers in Chinese-speaking territories. Since his wife's death 14 years ago, Wang Xingchang (Li) has been the sole guardian of his 21-year-old autistic son Dafu (Wen Zhang). When Wang is diagnosed with liver cancer, he tries to end both their lives in the sea, but Dafu is too good a swimmer to drown. Since then, Wang throws himself into the twin missions of finding an institutional home for Dafu, and training him to manage on his own. The visits to different institutions, apart from giving a survey of special needs welfare in China, add naught to the dramatic flow or emotional interest; whereas the scenes of Dafu learning to perform the most basic tasks like boiling an egg, putting on his clothes or riding a bus can come across as hideously patronizing. The way Wang ooh-ahs at Dafu's every move is a ploy to emphasize his fatherly instinct and stoicism that appears to confuse autism with mental disability. However, the meaning of these initially insipidly repetitive scenes finally emerges in the coda to quite moving effect. The finest moments are found in the marine park, where Wang works as a technician and Dafu is in his element frolicking with the turtles and the dolphins. The fluid shots of him gracefully gliding underwater reinforce the autistic man's affinity with a different world or reality. The lucent blue palette of the underwater shots and the aquarium's melancholic, cavernous interiors contrast atmospherically with humble street locations that are lit and shot in the gloomy hues of overcast weather. Billed as the lead actress, Kwai Lun Mei is under-used as an itinerant circus performer who strikes up a friendship with Dafu. Given no back story and smothered in clown face makeup half the time, her interactions with Dafu are too sappy and superficial. Gao Yuanyuan, who appears in a flashback as Wang's wife, leaves even less of an impression. It is the daily life episodes with kindly neighbor Aunt Chai (Zhu Yuanyuan) that are most plausible and warm. The tact with which Wang handles her love which he cannot requite is subtle and touching. Li is largely credible as an ordinary working-class father, even if some might think he is trying to consolidate his public image as a philanthropist. Still, his role's gambit to come back to Dafu in a different guise after his death is almost gag-worthy. Cynics will also find Dafu's character too angelic, and the society presented squeaky clean, with all characters doing the right thing without a trace of intolerance. Production values are tip-top -- besides Doyle, such big names as Joe Hisaishi and Yee Chung Man provide quality music and production design respectively without overwhelming this small drama with excessive stylization. Opening Film, Shanghai International Film FestivalSales: Edko FilmsProduction companies: BDI Films Inc./Beijing H&H Communication Medium Limited/Nice Select Ltd Cast: Jet Li, Wen Zhang, Kwai Lun Mei, Zhu YuanyuanDirector-screenwriter: Xue XiaoluProducers: Hao Lee, Ma Hefeng, Bill KongDirector of photography: Christopher DoyleProduction designer: Yee Chung ManMusic: Joe HisaishiCostume: Zhang KeEditors: Chang Suk Ping, Yang HongyuNo rating, 102 minutes FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Maggie Lee firstname.lastname@example.com @thr AP firstname.lastname@example.com @thr


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"It was a tough decision but in the end I had to do what was best for my career,'' Ruggiano said. "I enjoyed my time with Tampa and especially with all my teammates and wish them the best.''
BREAKING: OF Justin Ruggiano said he has opted to become a free agent rather than accept an outright assignment to Triple-A Durham.
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To score a ride sitting shotgun in a locomotive bound for Lhasa, it helps to like beer. I've just ditched my guide and wandered up to an unfinished train station at the edge of a dusty town high on the Tibetan plateau. Migrant workers, mostly Tibetans and Hui Muslims, wield sledgehammers, shovels, and drills, hurrying to finish work before midsummer. On July 1, China will celebrate the opening of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the highest rail line in the world. Its 1,200 miles of tracks traverse 342 miles of permafrost, much of it at altitudes exceeding 13,000 feet. The end of the line is Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, the restive province China has been trying to subdue for half a century.
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As I pace the gravel platform next to the tracks, the locals keep looking my way and I feel awkward and conspicuous. Veiling my nerves behind sunglasses, I keep in mind that, despite their stares, the people here are somewhat familiar with foreign visitors. Western companies involved in the project – Nortel, General Electric, Quebec-based transportation giant Bombardier – sometimes send reps out here to check on progress.
A locomotive emerges from a pass between two mocha-colored mountains. For nearly two weeks, I've ping-ponged across China to learn about this train, and now may be my only chance to climb aboard. I find a guy on the platform who speaks half-decent English and explain my interest in hitching to Lhasa. He says the train is still off-limits – the Golmud-Lhasa line isn't open yet – but I figure it can't hurt to ask.
When the engine chugs to a halt, I walk to the very front and find the train's two engineers. With the help of my new English-speaking friend, I declare my unbridled love for trains, show my passport as requested, and make a plea for a ride. The engineers look perplexed. People in these parts get rattled by out-of-the-ordinary occurrences – like an unannounced visit from an American trainiac asking for a ride to Lhasa. Anything related to Tibet can attract unwanted attention from authorities. The subject is a minefield of political, religious, and cultural tension. During my trip, I met foreign visitors who dismissed this concern as paranoia – "the old China," they said. But the new China hasn't yet taken hold in the wild west, especially when it comes to the T-word. A few questions here, a license plate number jotted down there, and six months later – after the foreigners have safely returned home – police or state security officials knock on someone's door, or make a few quiet phone calls that lead to the loss of a job, or worse.
The engineers eventually make a decision of sorts. Because the train doesn't leave for another five hours, they invite me to join them for lunch in town. "During the afternoon," the English speaker says, "they'll decide if you can ride the train."
Twelve of us pile into a van and are soon seated in a grimy restaurant overlooking the main street, where Tibetans cruise around on colorfully painted motorcycles or play pool on tables set up outside. Wearing a navy-blue cap backward, one of the engineers – I'll call him Lee – eats only a few bites of pig's foot stew, tofu and beef, and lamb soup, but drinks cup after paper cup of Lhasa Beer. Every couple of minutes, one of the guys in our lunch party makes a toast, calling out, "Gan bei!" ("Dry glass!") at which point everyone is obliged to drain their cup. Lee leads another chugging charge precisely when I need a respite from the drinking. The elevation here is well over 14,000 feet, after all. At this altitude, the effect of alcohol is magnified and could do who knows what when combined with the Diamox I've been popping. (The drug is the same stuff high-altitude mountaineers take to keep their brains from swelling.) But Lee wants me to drink. Holding up his cup of beer, he looks at me with glassy eyes. If I don't gan bei, he says, I can't ride the train. I grab my beer and knock it back, finishing before anyone.
Two hours later I'm sitting in the front of the locomotive, my nose no more than 20 inches from the windshield. Lee naps in preparation for his nighttime shift at the controls. The other driver flips open his cell phone to show me pictures of Lhasa's Potala Palace, the spiritual epicenter of Tibetan Buddhism and once home to the exiled Dalai Lama. Straightening up in his chair, the engineer repositions his logbook on the console, makes a call on his walkie-talkie, and pulls a silver lever. The train engine lets out two jarringly loud hisses, then starts moving. Staring out at the shimmering tracks and concrete-reinforced embankment extending to the horizon, I can't help but think of the senior Chinese scientist who confessed to me that the rail line he helped build might not be safe for long.
Ever since Tibet was incorporated into the People's Republic of China in 1951, Chinese leaders have dreamed of a railway that would link the mountainous province with the rest of the country. Such a rail line would be a long-distance lasso drawing the people and resources of the far west closer to central control. It would also provide an efficient means of transporting Chinese settlers, troops, and weapons into Tibet and the disputed border with India.
In 1955, Mao Zedong sent a team to the Tibetan plateau to investigate the feasibility of track construction, but engineering obstacles, political upheavals, and funding shortfalls stalled the project. During a meeting with King Birendra of Nepal in 1973, Mao confided, "If the railway is not constructed, I can't even fall asleep."
The chairman died in 1976. Three years later, China completed construction on the 500-mile stretch from Xining, in western China, to Golmud, at the foot of the Kunlun Mountains. (Regular service began in 1984.) Not until 2001 did construction start on the much more difficult Golmud-Lhasa leg. But the newly rich, construction-mad Chinese government made up for lost time: In the past five years, 100,000 workers laid about 700 miles of track over some of the harshest geography on the planet. In its entirety, the Qinghai-Tibet railway stretches 1,215 miles, and most of the new portion runs over terrain with elevations between 13,000 and 16,000 feet – cruising altitude for some commuter flights.
It is the largest construction project built on permafrost since the Trans-Alaska Pipeline was completed in 1977. Nearly half of the new track crosses this permanently frozen subsoil, which can become unstable if it thaws. And if that's not enough of an engineering challenge, the line also runs over a major fault in the Kunlun Mountains, where a magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck in 2001. Nevertheless, beginning this month, trial runs on the line will give people from Beijing, Shanghai, and other major Chinese cities direct rail access to Lhasa.
Proponents of the new railway say it will bring desperately needed economic development – especially tourism – to the hinterlands. Historic Tibet and far-western China lag behind the rest of the country in health and education, and rail connectivity promises to be a crucial tool for closing that gap. Critics say the $3.2 billion line is essentially a political and military gambit, strategically stitching Tibet into the fabric of the motherland and, by facilitating the westward migration of ethnic Chinese, accelerating the marginalization of Tibetan culture, religion, and anti-Beijing sentiment. But there's at least one thing about this project that everyone agrees on: The Qinghai-Tibet is an engineering marvel.
Straddling the horrendously polluted Yellow River, Lanzhou is a gray amalgamation of chemical plants, oil refineries, billboards for antifreeze, and second-rate hotels and noodle shops. But this city in Gansu province is also home to China's top permafrost research facility, the Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute. This is where Wu Ziwang and his colleagues used their knowledge of permafrost physics to figure out how to build on the shifting, fragile ground of the vast Tibetan plateau, which is about the size of Alaska and Texas combined. Without Wu's team, the Qinghai-Tibet would never have been completed.
Wu, 70, sets down his plastic cup of leafy tea and shuffles through stacks of papers. Taped to the wall of his office is a 3-foot-long elevation profile of the newly constructed railway, with the areas of permafrost most susceptible to thawing highlighted in red. If the permafrost under the train thaws too much, the tracks will slump or tilt, and bridges or other structures could crack. Trains would be forced to slow down or, in extreme cases, could derail.
Wu eventually finds a shiny red folder containing a letter of commendation from the Chinese Academy of Sciences: "For his prominent achievement in roadbed construction technology, and demonstrating engineering construction on permafrost along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway." After 45 years studying permafrost, Wu has a kind of sixth sense for ice. "If I walk on the plateau, I know with about 90 percent certainty whether there's permafrost below my feet," he says.
After graduating from China University of Geosciences (Beijing) in 1961, Wu declined a more comfortable living in his home province of Fujian, northeast of Hong Kong, choosing Lanzhou instead. He wanted to do his part to help develop "backward" regions of western China. In the decades before construction survey crews arrived on the plateau, Wu and other geoscientists were assessing the effects of aboveground activity on permafrost and exploring construction techniques that would keep the ground cool.
But now he's torn between dueling loyalties to state and science. On one hand, Wu the headstrong patriot is proud of the work Chinese researchers and engineers have done to make the Qinghai-Tibet line possible. He inserts nationalistic non sequiturs into our conversation, complaining about American corporate imperialism and claiming that the US routinely puts bugging devices on Chinese airplanes. His patience runs thin when asked about the railway's stability, or when he reads online mutterings about the line's potential weaknesses – statements written, Wu insists, by foreigners eager to see China falter.
Minutes later, however, Wu the scientist says he worries that the precarious condition of the permafrost beneath the railway is being overshadowed by the government's post-construction celebrations. He points to a stack of copies of letters he has sent to the Ministry of Railways over the past few years. The general theme: a sometimes pleading, sometimes stern call for better permafrost monitoring and maintenance along the Qinghai-Tibet. "Every day I think about whether the railway will have problems in the next 10 to 20 years," he says. The government has thus far only ignored or chafed at his warnings. "When I express concerns to the media," Wu says, "the ministry and construction companies call to say, 'Why did you say this? Everything is OK with the railway, so why did you say otherwise?'"
But he has good reason to worry. The ground under this railway is what could be called barely permanent permafrost. Unlike the terrain in Alaska and Siberia, where frigid temperatures typically keep permafrost well below the thawing point, the subsoil on the Tibetan plateau is just a few degrees from turning into a muddy, unstable mush.
So the biggest challenge for the railroad builders was keeping things cool. Construction work on permafrost can heat up the ground, as can the pounding of thousand-ton-plus trains – the added pressure is translated into heat energy. In some places the best solution was to build an elevated track: About 100 miles of the railway is raised, allowing cold air to flow below the track and cool the ground. The sight of these stretches of raised railway in the otherwise untouched vastness of the plateau is surreal – a frozen ribbon of concrete floating above the landscape and disappearing into the distance.
In areas where elevated track didn't make sense or proved too expensive, sections of the railway are lined with vertical pipes that circulate liquid nitrogen. In other places, hollow concrete pipes beneath the tracks create a reverse-insulating effect. Metal sun shades were also placed in a few south-facing locations to reduce warming from the sun. (Wu says the shades are mostly experimental and that research into their efficacy is ongoing.) Another experimental cooling strategy involved building track foundations with stones of various sizes. When piled together, they create pockets that retain cool air.
But all the engineering in China can't halt global climate change. "I'm not worried about the construction now," Wu says. "I'm worried about money for maintenance in the coming 10 to 20 years." After that, Wu believes, technology will catch up and provide solutions to structural challenges posed by global warming. But by sprinting to build its way into Tibet, did Beijing buy a railroad that could fail within a decade?
What happens, I ask, if temperatures on the plateau increase by 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2021? Assuming there's no improved monitoring or additional construction to the railway, Wu says that "several hundred kilometers" of track could bend out of shape. "In my dreams," he adds, "I see trains running off the tracks."
About 1,000 miles from the railway's starting point, on the Yellow Sea city of Qingdao, past rank after rank of new apartment complexes, Amir Levin walks through a cavernous factory. At 786,000 square feet, it's almost as big as 14 football fields. "By China standards, this is small," Levin says. A tall, Israeli-born Canadian with a dozen parallel wrinkles in his brow, Levin is general manager of Bombardier Sifang Power Transportation, a joint venture between three entities: a Chinese government-owned company, Power Corporation of Canada, and Bombardier Transportation, a Canadian train manufacturer. The factory is building 224 passenger cars specially designed to handle the trip to the roof of the world. Levin says doing business with Beijing is bad for one's blood pressure. "When China orders, it's for high quantity in a short time." (This year alone, the Chinese government plans to spend $20 billion on railway projects nationwide.) BSP received the contract to build the souped-up passenger cars for the Qinghai-Tibet in 2005; the joint venture had just 10 months to deliver the first of these 70-ton cars, each of which includes extra lightning-protective structures, UV-resistant coatings, enclosed underbellies to protect wiring from snowstorms and sandstorms, ecofriendly wastewater storage measures, and an oxygen enrichment system.
Providing passengers with enough oxygen was one of the biggest technology challenges BSP faced. The thin air on the Tibetan plateau contains fewer O2 molecules than the air at sea level. Along much of the train's route, the altitude is so high and the air so thin that a breath delivers 35 to 40 percent less oxygen to the lungs than at low elevation. People who are not acclimated to high altitudes increase their breathing rate, but that isn't always enough to bring blood oxygen levels up to normal. The result can be labored breathing, headaches, and, occasionally, potentially fatal conditions in which the lungs or brain fill with fluid.
So BSP is jacking up the concentration of oxygen circulating in the train cabins. Early media reports described the new cabins as pressurized, but Levin says no one at BSP or the government railroad ministry was ever serious about building fully pressurized cars. Doing so would be prohibitively expensive and impractical; the cars would need to be repressurized every time the train stopped to let passengers on or off.
Instead, generators on the trains pull in outside air and separate the oxygen. Nitrogen and other gasses are released back into the atmosphere, while the concentrated oxygen, mixed with some outside air, is pumped throughout the train. When passengers cross the 16,640-foot Tanggula Pass – the line's highest elevation point, about 1,000 feet lower than Mount Everest's main base camp – the system will provide air that is 23 percent O2 (normal air is 21 percent oxygen). Passengers will feel like they're at only about 10,000 feet. The 2 percent improvement may sound small, but it can mean the difference between riding in comfort and gasping for air. Cranking the oxygen up too high, though, could be more dangerous than keeping it too low: At a concentration of more then 28 percent, the air could become flammable.
Every passenger will also be able to self-administer oxygen whenever they need to. Woozy travelers can plug the hose of their "individual diffuser" into an outlet anywhere on the train – under every seat, next to every sleeper, in the dining car – and breathe from an air supply that is 40 percent oxygen. None of this is dangerous for healthy people – you simply feel a bit more alert – but passengers with respiratory disorders like emphysema will have to be careful: The extra O2 can trick the brain into shutting off the breathing function altogether.
All of which is to say, these trains get way up there, and even with supplemental oxygen, many passengers arriving in Lhasa can expect a headache or three.
The final 150 miles of the Qinghai-Tibet weave between mountain ranges, through wetlands, and over grassy expanses dotted with grazing sheep and yaks. Occasionally, the train passes groups of three or four Tibetans stringing barbed wire on the new concrete posts that line the railway path. At one point I spot a stoic-looking shepherd taking a break from his windy walk to stare at the machine roaring by. I'm too far away and moving too fast for him to see me, yet I imagine our eyes meeting, and him thinking: What the hell are you doing here?
At dusk, Lee downs a quick dinner of chicken wings, dried lamb strips, and mandarin oranges, then lights up a cigarette. When we use the last of the water from the electric hot pot, he gets up from his seat at the controls to open a large plastic drum and proceeds to refill the pot, spilling water all over the floor of the cab in the process. His calm suggests the train can manage on autopilot while he tends to our tea-drinking needs.
During the night, as the train pulls into a station still a few hours from Lhasa, Lee motions for me to duck. There's another train parked in front of us, facing the opposite way, and Lee doesn't want the engineers in that locomotive to see his unsanctioned hitchhiker. Head resting on my forearms, I close my eyes and listen to the hum of the engines. In a few hours, I will be standing in the plaza across the street from the Potala Palace, where an angular, brazen monument built in 2001 by the Chinese government commemorates "the peaceful liberation of Tibet."
As we approach Lhasa, the tracks cut downward across steep hills and through a few perfectly elliptical tunnels. The locomotive's headlight illuminates one precarious-looking curve, and I recall how, in the 1860s, Chinese laborers in the US were instrumental in the construction of the transcontinental railroad, especially its passage over the then-seemingly impassable Sierra Nevada mountains.
You can't stop this train, one researcher told me a few weeks ago. He meant the Qinghai-Tibet, but he might have been talking about globalization. Inexorably, it is reaching remote places like Lhasa. This railroad could, and likely will, have negative effects on traditional Tibetan culture. But it will also bring the benefits of modern life to more people, and maybe that's a good thing. Either way, the train is coming and, unless thawing permafrost throws it wildly off course, more tracks are sure to follow. In the coming years, two new lines linking Lhasa with other, more remote parts of Tibet are expected to open. And government planners have already asked Wu what it would take to construct a superhighway to Lhasa.


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I was in Kenya last week undertaking some field evaluation work for the Darwin Initiative. This blog post is intended to shed some light on what we do during these field trips, what the value is (and to whom) and how we use the material we produce.
The Darwin Initiative has an overarching M&E framework which includes all the standard things such as a Theory of Change and Programme Logframe. In essence what this boils down to is a set of objectives, indicators and assumptions for the programme. Our job, as the M&E contractor is to measure the collective progress of Darwin funded projects against these objectives and test assumptions.
This sounds straightforward until you consider the diversity of projects funded under the Darwin Initiative – both in subject matter and in geography. Each project is collecting and presenting evidence in a myriad of different forms and somehow we need to make sense of it all. Here I'll talk through what the fieldwork element of our work focuses on.
It serves a number of purposes depending on whether the projects evaluated are ongoing or closed. For ongoing projects the purpose for field evaluation includes:
- the verification of results
- obtaining an independent perspective on the projects
- troubleshooting and supporting projects to reorient themselves
For closed projects fieldwork is more centred around the full Darwin programme than the individual project. The purpose of these activities includes:
- analysis of evidence to meet a specific programme objective i.e. gender or traditional knowledge etc.
- an attempt to understand what the legacy is of Darwin funding i.e. what happened next
- an attempt to understand the collective impact of multiple projects
We tend to restrict fieldwork to 2 distinct periods – halfway through a project (a Mid Term Review) and after a project has finished (a Closed Project Evaluation).
Most of the time we have 5-7 days with each project depending on logistics. For all projects visited we are driven by what the project has defined as being their measures of success i.e. the project Application Form. This includes the logframe, workplans, methods, team composition etc. We additionally have a Terms of Reference that defines what questions we are looking to answer through the fieldwork. This week my terms of reference centres around 3 questions:
- What biodiversity benefits has the project achieved?
- What has the contribution of the project been to poverty alleviation? Poverty should be considered in the context of the MDG's.
- What factors have governed the project organisation's capacity to collect appropriate evidence?
The methods we use are partially dictated by the types of evidence available from the projects. In most cases however we will also use semi-structured key informant interviews with the project implementers, key stakeholders and beneficiaries of the projects.
We may also undertake focus group sessions that may use methods such as participatory ranking, participatory pairwise ranking, and Most Significant Change.
For most ongoing projects we generally conduct a Theory of Change session at some point during the evaluation. This is a useful tool for an evaluator to better understand what the project team consider success to look like, what assumptions this success hinges on, what measures might be available to better understand this success and who the various actors are that influence this success. As well as being useful for the evaluator, this is often a useful exercise for the project team to undergo as it allows them to reflect on their progress and what tasks they must undertake in order to best achieve success. I will talk more about Theory of Change and its uses in a subsequent blog post.
The final outputs of this field evaluation is of course a report. This report is shared with Defra and DFID for approval before being published on the Darwin Initiative website. You can see some examples here.
We also develop a shorter learning note which is intended to draw out lessons for the wider Darwin community, which you can also see here.
This is rarely the end point of these reviews since they often result in recommendations for both the projects and the programme. We may therefore use this material to refine our systems and processes within the Darwin Initiative to better ensure impact such as the refining the application forms. Additionally we use this material to help improve understanding within the wider Darwin Initiative community, through a variety of forums including this blog!
I hope this blog post is helpful in understanding what the purpose of these field evaluation visits are. We have at least 2 Mid Term Reviews to conduct later this year and a Closed Project Evaluation in September, hopefully in Kyrgyzstan, so watch this space!


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Organizers from across nations and language are taking aim at the latest atrocities of Turkish State against the people of Rojava throughout social media. The YPG suffered 20 fatalities by Turkish airstrikes as they fight Daesh, though the number may be apt to increase.
As of Wednesday morning, organizers on Twitter have collaborated in spreading the hastag #NoFlyZone4Rojava, in an attempt to pressure governments to halt further Turkish action on the YPG.
The reasons for attacking the YPG are multiple. With an overwhelmingly realist and neoliberal perspectives, the Turkish state is attempting to suppress Rojava as fear for examples of Kurdish autonomy might inspire for Turkish Kurds. It also aligns with their economic and political enmeshment with Daesh. With a similar ideology based on hegemonic control, Turkish cooperation with Daesh is well known.


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He served in the Army, bought a house on the G.I. Bill, raised five kids, worked hard at Kuhlman's Plastics to provide you with laundry baskets and us with something to eat, gave us airplane rides on his feet, built three rooms and a basement onto our house when we grew too large for what we had, taught me how to back a bent nail out of a 2×4, mowed our two-acre yard with a walk-behind mower, sang a beautiful bass in the church choir, planted a big garden every spring and kept it pretty-well weeded, and lived to see his children's children.
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Curavi Health telemedicine solutions are rooted in clinical validation and customized for nursing homes.
Curavi Health was born out of the experiences gained in a CMS Innovation 2012 Award to improve the quality of care for people residing in long-term care facilities by reducing avoidable hospitalizations.
UPMC Community Provider Services created a program called "RAVEN" (Reduce AVoidable hospitalizations using Evidence-based interventions for Nursing facilities in western Pennsylvania).
Amongst a variety of interventions, RAVEN implemented support from innovative telehealth and information technologies to connect participating nursing facilities to clinicians.
This experience, along with that of UPMC's owned skilled nursing facilities with telemedicine, was the genesis of Curavi Health.
Curavi, a Latin verb meaning "to care for," indicates our commitment to enhancing and optimizing care for both patients and providers.
The Curavi team is passionate about delivering innovative solutions to improve the quality of care for residents while reducing costs for nursing homes.
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The use of telecommunications gives us the ability to remotely access physicians in an acute situation. Telemedicine is our technologic resource to provide best patient care to our residents here at UPMC Seneca Place. Both our residents and employees feel a sense of comfort in knowing that an on-call physician is just a video chat away in a time of crisis.
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I wanted to share my experience with two Curavi telemedicine consults that I completed over one recent weekend. On the first telemedicine consult I had on this particular weekend, I had a resident who had +4 pitting edema to bilateral lower extremities; they were also warm and red. She was also developing periorbital edema. This particular person has a diagnoses of dementia which causes its own issues if she has to go to the E.R. Based on my evaluation, I decided that she would be an appropriate candidate for telemedicine. The residents vital signs were stable and she did have rhonchi and wheezing noted in her lungs. I activated the Curavi system and immediately received a call back from the physician. I verbally gave the physician report on the resident including history and vitals. We then started our telemedicine conference. The physician was able to exam my resident including listening to her lung sounds via the computer. While the conference was going on, the resident's daughter arrived to visit. She too was able to be involved in the conference. The physician was able to explain everything he was doing and about the treatment he felt the resident needed and the orders were given. After ending our virtual conference, the resident's daughter and the other nurses that were in the conference verbalized their satisfaction at how well the system worked. The resident's daughter also had been considering doing telemedicine to be seen by a specialist in Pittsburgh and this reinforced to her how well it worked.
The second consult went just as well. Neither resident had to go the hospital for treatment. Both residents were successfully treated here.
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A patient had a change in condition where his foot was noted to have discoloration and weeping. Patient stated this was new and that he was worried. My supervisor recommended Telemedicine. Telemedicine seemed an appropriate course of action since the doctor is able to see what the nurse is attempting to describe and is able to communicate with the patient about his concerns.
During the telemedicine consult, the doctor was very pleasant and knowledgeable. I was able to call and have the doctor return my call within a timely manner. The telemedicine cart was quick and easy to use. Telemedicine is a great tool to use when a patient needs another viewpoint. Ultimately, the patient was happy that his concerns were being addressed.
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"Telemedicine is the future of care in geriatrics, especially since access to qualified geriatricians can be limited." Listen to Dr. Adele Towers discuss the importance of telemedicine.
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I was not the telemedicine person on call, but needed to evaluate a patient. This was a sick lady who I opted not to send back to the hospital on Saturday, but wanted to give her a chance at the SNF. When the nurse called me on Sunday with concerns about her escalating discomfort and knowing her labs had remained abnormal, I needed to make a decision about transfer or not.
Since I was still torn with the decision making, I decided at the spur of the moment to use telemedicine to get a sense of how the patient appeared. I was lucky to have a good and smart nurse at Heritage (Kathy) who I had been communicating with several times over the weekend. In less than 5 minutes she got the cart ready and I was able to talk to the patient and (luckily) her daughter who was in the room. I brought them both up to speed with concerns and jointly made the decision to transfer patient back to the hospital. It turns out it was the right decision as she is currently being treated for an abdominal abscess.
Although telemedicine did not prevent a readmit in this case, it helped me with valuable decision making and most of all helped with good patient care.
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Marker Bindings 2002
Marker's line is much changed this season. The big news concerns the brand-new Piston Control plate, which allows for the deep, smooth flexing of newer, easier-bending shaped skis. Its key benefit stems from a hydraulic piston between the toe- and heelpiece. The piston dampens the vibrations that occur during the rapid rebound, or counterflex, that follows active ski flex. The result is a buttery-smooth and predictable transition between high-energy turns -- we tried it, we liked it. Glide Control is a variation on this new system using a floating-toe technology, without the Piston. Selective Control, formerly Marker's primo enhancement system, is still available on a few models.
Marker's other signature release technologies -- like the upward toe release and the stainless steel mechanical AFD of the Biotech and Biometric toepieces -- are found in just about every model. These toepieces provide almost frictionless lateral travel in the toe during a twisting fall and a reduction in upward release force in backward-twisting falls. The stainless steel AFD is virtually unaffected by boot-sole wear, mud, dirt, or ice, so release performance remains constant no matter how many parking lots and mud holes come between you and the slopes.
PRO/BRO: "I've never had any problems with Marker bindings. I stay in them when I have to, I come out when I need to. I'm very comfortable on them, and I'm confident because of that." --Kristina Koznick, U.S. Ski Team member, 10 years; 4 World Cup wins
Titanium 1300 Piston Control (DIN 4-13) $395
This is Marker's mack-daddy binder with the full glut of gizmos. Only two models (including this one) offer Piston Control as well as the Comshock Piston, a device in the toepiece that absorbs rapid shocks encountered in high-impact skiing -- like hard landings or Mach speeds through variable crud -- and helps avoid unwanted release. And the other binding with this feature has a higher DIN range than almost anyone needs.
M7.2 Graphite Selective Control (DIN 3-11) $290
Selective Control has become a good value with the advent of the Piston. Here it's matched with the Biotech toe. For an extra $10, the Titanium 1200 Glide Control (DIN 3-12) flexes much like Selective Control set to the most free-flexing position, but it has the more sophisticated Biometric toepiece, is noticeably lighter, and has the option of a groovy orange cosmetic. Take your pick.
M5.2 Energy Control 10 (DIN 2.5-9.5) $190
It's nothing fancy, but all the essentials are here: stainless steel mechanical AFD, upward release in backward-twisting falls, and a 10-mm flexing lift plate.


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This Website was created through a Community Project and should help students of Carinthia University of Applied Sciences to be better prepared for difficult exams.
The Website enables creating tutorials for students. These tutorials can be organised only by students. It is possible for students to put themselves on a list for a specific tutorial or they can even report for a tutorial as a tutor, if the requirements are fulfilled. Because of that students should be able to decide for themselves in which Courses they need a tutorial.
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There is a great Amazon deal today for Sesame Street Cookie's Counting Carnival for the DS and Wii.
It is just $7.60 (reg. $19.99) so you are saving 62%! If you have a little one at home, this is a great game and a great price!
In Sesame Street: Cookie's Counting Carnival, kids join Cookie Monster and Big Bird at a fun-filled carnival through gameplay steeped in math skills that include number identification, counting, shapes and pattern recognition. Kids journey through the game in the many areas of the carnival such as The Grandstand, Midway, Petting Zoo, Food Court and the Arcade.


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"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven." – Ecclesiastes 3:1
Isn't interesting that one of the most common answers to the question "How are you?" in the adult world is "busy."
I have caught myself saying this all too often. Yet, I have grown increasingly annoyed of hearing men from all walks of life tell me how busy they are. Are you busy? I know I am …so what's new? It has become very clear to me that we respond with the word "busy" with a large degree of pride as if our busyness is a "trophy" of some sort. There's no doubt that for most, the busier we are the better we feel about ourselves or perhaps feel more important than we really are. And telling others that we are busy relays this importance (at least this is what we imagine). If I did not know any better it's as if our busyness has become in some way the ultimate model of success.
A look at the life of Christ will show that the word "busy" (in the way we use it) is never mentioned, or referred to when addressing our Savior. Yet, no one in their right mind would disagree that Jesus was highly successful …I mean HE changed the course of our world in the 33 years he lived on this earth. He is the Savior of the world! There has not been another person in our world's history that has had the impact He had. Yet, he never used the word "busy"! As a matter of fact, He always made time for people, He took care of "business" in an orderly way, He rested, He never said; I'm so busy to children or his disciples and he even took time to speak with the down and out. And HE never appeared stressed out and all of this without the modern "conveniences" that you and I have today.
His perspective was different …He was about His Father's work. He fully understood that in order to be successful it would take a total dependence upon His Father. Busyness does not, nor has it ever equated to success. Dependence upon God regardless of the earthly outcome (Christ was crucified on earth) equals success.
Do we really believe this …or are we just too busy? Next time someone asks you how you are doing; try giving them a more creative answer than the standard "busy." After all if we are always busy then there is a deeper issue because rest was a part of God's plan for our lives. …"the seventh day …He rested from all the work of creating that He had done." (Genesis 2:2-3) And Ecclesiastes tells us there is a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven (Eccl. 3:1 and following).
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Aedes Architekturforum Berlin
Building a Future Countryside in ChinaCurated by Li Xiangning, Shanghai
One of the major global challenges facing contemporary built environments is the future of rural development. In China, rural regions have become a new space for experiments. This creates a new countryside at a speed and scale unseen in the Western world. Drawn by the promise of boundless opportunity, architects, planners as well as capital flow are converging in rural regions across the nation. With projects related to housing, local production, cultural practices, agricultural tourism, and revitalisation of communities, the exhibition depicts a panorama of the contemporary Chinese countryside. By outlining a prospect with opportunities and anticipating future development, the presented insights offer a rich source of ideas, strategies, and knowledge. The exhibition is embedded in the long-term programme 'Regions on the Rise' by ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory.
The return to pastoral life has long been an ideal of Chinese literary tradition. In modern times, the development of rural living typically involves aspects such as policy, capital, infrastructure, and technology. While modernisation and technological progress promise better lives, they also, to some extent, sever the link between rural life and tradition. Faced with mass-produced rural housing brought on by urbanisation, architects attempt to find a balance between tradition and modernisation, taking advantage of new technology in search of a vernacular connection.
From the great yellow expanse of the Loess Plateau to the water towns south of the Yangtze, from the vast and abundant plains of northeast China to the green and beautiful farmlands of the south, hundreds and thousands of villages have become sites for industrial development, self-building, and cultural creation. These sites enjoy tremendous opportunities offered by innovative concepts, the Internet, logistics systems, and sharing economies.
The development of the countryside in contemporary China is unprecedented in both its scale and its approaches. More importantly, this development anticipates a new solution grounded in China's unique general framework. Li Xiangning, curator of the exhibition, states: "The motivation for this exhibition is more than just 'xiangchou', a Chinese term that refers to nostalgia for rural lands. We return to the countryside where Chinese culture originated to recover forgotten values and overlooked possibilities; from there, we will build a future countryside."
The exhibition features 22 architectural best practice examples, including projects on housing, production and education, culture and tourism, health and leisure. These illustrate the breadth of innovative approaches to improving rural environments, both on a small and a large scale. Among the architects are Atelier Archmixing, Atelier Deshaus, Chen Haoru, Drawing Architecture Studio, Fu Xiaohui, Hua Li (Trace Architecture Office), Landshine Design Alliance, Naturalbuild, Philip. F. Yuan, Rural Urban Framework (RUF), Vector Architects, Zhang Haiao, Zhang Lei (AZL), Zhang Li (Atelier TeamMinus), Zhao Yang (Zhaoyang Architects) and Zhu Jingxiang.
'Building a Future Countryside in China' was already the Chinese contribution at the 16th International Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia in 2018. The exhibition at Aedes Architecture Forum will be shown in the context of 'Regions on the Rise. Rethinking Strategies for Rural Development', an interdisciplinary long-term programme on new concepts for rural space by ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory.


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Our Parents First Aid courses are short First Aid courses in Dublin. We specifically designed it for parents and carers of children who do not have the time to attend one of our 1 day Paediatric First Aid courses.
You can arrange one of our First Aid courses in Dublin at your own home. As a result it will make it easy for your friends and family to attend at a time that suits you.
Due to the Coronavirus pandemic and the necessary restrictions imposed we now offer online First Aid training for parents.
Please check out the list of available dates!
You can also arrange your own class for friends and family at date and time that suits you. Feel free to contact First Aid For Everyone for more information.
You choose what time (morning or evening) suits you and we will come to you to deliver a Paediatric First Aid course in the comfort of your own home. For our set fee you can invite up 10 friends, family members or baby sitters depending on the space available. Therefore our rates are very competitive.
The course lasts 3 hours. As a matter of fact we always cover topics of greatest importance, i.e. CPR, choking and meningitis. For the same reason we will also talk about key points like calling the emergency services, First Aid kit, burns, head injuries as well as temperature control.
As a result you will be trained to the highest standards. After that you will leave confident in the knowledge that you can handle First Aid incidences.
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I attended the First aid for everyone Paediatric course in Bewleys Hotel on Saturday the 12th May 2012 . The course was very informative and very interesting in the delivery.
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Thanks a million for delivering a fantastic First Aid course to us on Friday. Girls thoroughly enjoyed as did I.
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The Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC) is an alphanumeric code used by the United States Air Force to identify a specific job. Officer AFSCs consist of four characters and enlisted AFSCs consist of five characters. A letter prefix or suffix may be used with an AFSC when more specific identification of position requirements and individual qualifications is necessary. The AFSC is similar to the Military Occupational Specialty Codes (MOS Codes) used by the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps or enlisted ratings and USN officer designators used by the United States Navy and enlisted ratings and USCG officer specialties used by the United States Coast Guard.
After the Air Force separated from the Army in 1947, it retained the Army's system of MOS occupation codes, modifying them in 1954. These were 5-digit codes; for example a maintenance data systems specialist was 39150 and a weather technician was 25170. In October 1993, the Air Force implemented a new system of AFSCs, aligning occupations with the forcewide restructuring that was implemented under Merrill McPeak.[1] These reduced officer AFSCs from 216 to 123 and enlisted AFSCs from 203 to 176.
The enlisted AFSC consists of five alphanumeric characters:
For example, in the AFSC 1N371:
For some specialties, an alpha prefix is used to denote a special ability, skill, qualification or system designator not restricted to a single AFSC (such as "X" for an aircrew position). Additionally, an alpha suffix (a "shredout") denotes positions associated with particular equipment or functions within a single specialty (an Afrikaans specialist in the Germanic linguist field would have an "E" shredout). Using the above example, the AFSC X1N371E would refer to a Germanic Cryptologic Linguist who is aircrew qualified and specializes in Afrikaans.
Here is an extended listing of AFSC groups. Most categories have numerous actual AFSCs in them.
The officer AFSC consists of four alphanumeric characters:
For example, in the AFSC 11M4:
For example, in the AFSC T63A3
As with enlisted AFSCs, prefixes and suffixes may be applied to make the AFSC more specific.
During the course of their Air Force careers, Airmen sometimes switch jobs and receive multiple AFSCs to denote training in multiple specialties. A Primary AFSC (PAFSC) is the designation for the specialty in which the individual possesses the highest skill level and is, therefore, the AFSC that he or she is best qualified to perform. The Duty AFSC (DAFSC) reflects the actual manpower position the Airman is assigned to. The Control AFSC (CAFSC) is a management tool to make assignments, assist in determining training requirements, and consider individuals for promotion. Often an enlisted Airman's PAFSC will reflect a higher skill level than his or her CAFSC since the CAFSC skill level is tied to rank while the PAFSC skill level is tied to performance and education.
Usually, the PAFSC, DAFSC, and CAFSC will be the same. However, situations such as retraining, special duties, or Air Force-level changes necessitate these distinctions. Additionally, Airmen that have retrained into multiple specialties will have several Secondary AFSCs (2AFSC, 3AFSC, etc.).
Special Experience Identifiers (SEIs) are established to identify special experience and training. The Air Force Enlisted Classification Directory (AFECD) contains the complete list of authorized SEIs and includes designation criteria and authorized AFSC combinations. (AFI 36-2101)


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Outcome of Symptoms in Patients Undergoing a Heller Myotomy (Achalasia)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00519220
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified August 2012 by Kenneth Luberice, University of South Florida.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : August 22, 2007
Last Update Posted : August 15, 2012
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Patients will answer symptom questionnaires and have their charts reviewed for relevant medical information.
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Patients will answer questionnaires evaluating their symptoms of achalasia.
- The objective of this study is to review pre-operative and post-operative studies and patient evaluation reports to evaluate patient outcomes following laparoscopic surgery for achalasia [ Time Frame: 5 years ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with achalasia who have had laparoscopic Heller myotomies for the treatment of achalasia
Exclusion Criteria:
- No patients under the age of 18 will be included
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00519220
|Contact: Kenneth Luberice
|Contact: Carl B Bowers, RN
|813-844-7529 ext 7529
|United States, Florida
|Tampa General Hospital/University of South Florida
|Tampa, Florida, United States, 33606
|Contact: Jennifer C. Cooper, B.S. 813-844-4218 ext 4218 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Contact: Carl B Bowers, R.N. 813-844-7529 ext 7529 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator:
|Alexander S Rosemurgy, MD
|University of South Florida
|Responsible Party:
|Kenneth Luberice, Principal Investigator, University of South Florida
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|First Posted:
|August 22, 2007 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|August 15, 2012
|Last Verified:
|August 2012
achalasia, Heller myotomy
Esophageal Achalasia
Esophageal Motility Disorders
Deglutition Disorders
Esophageal Diseases
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Every week, we bring you five gear-related stories, from all over, that you won't want to miss. Here are this week's highlights:
Outdoor Brands Prank the Internet
Did you see Outdoor Research's new Performance Lederhosen? Or Sierra Designs' 850-fill Dri-Down balaclava? April Fools' Day is always a welcome opportunity for companies to poke a bit of fun at the entire outdoor gear industry with whimsical, fake products. The REI blog did a fun roundup this week of the outdoor world's best April Fools' jokes this year.
For your next backpacking trip: freeze-dried sheep innards, anyone?
One Man's Passion for Old-School Mountain Bikes
The Wall Street Journal published a great short profile on Nick Martin of Boulder, Colorado—a former pro mountain biker and founder of The Pro's Closet, the largest used-bicycle store on eBay.
Though mountain bikes built (often by hand) in the 1980s and 1990s lack many contemporary innovations like carbon frames, shocks or disc brakes, Martin has a passion for them anyway. In recent years, he began purchasing classic mountain bikes and featuring them in a local showroom, alongside "loud neon jerseys, clunky shock absorbers and bubblelike foam helmets" from the 1990s.
"Mountain bike racers were rock stars at that point," says Martin.
Peak Profits: The Business of Climbing
UK-based Management Today takes an in-depth look at the growth in popularity of climbing among "middle-class urbanites with a taste for fresh air and expensive gadgetry." In particular, the article looks at a recent uptick in popularity of indoor climbing walls.
"Indoor climbing walls are the driving force for the rest of the climbing industry," says Fred Stone, director of the Arch Climbing Wall in south London. "We're selling shoes to people who have never climbed outdoors."
Also explored in the article are the roles that money, gender and social media play on today's climbing industry. What climbing-culture article these days isn't complete, after all, without mention of climber and Instagram queen Sierra Blair-Coyle?
Will the Maximalist Shoe Trend Endure?
Competitor magazine ponders whether the recent maximalist trend in the running-shoe industry, unlike the minimalism trend of several years ago, will last. Though the brand Hoka One One is best known for its maximally cushioned shoes, plenty of other running-shoe companies — including more mainstream ones like Brooks, ASICS and New Balance — have hopped on the bandwagon, too.
"If maximally cushioned shoes have the ability to extend a runner's physical longevity or get more people to run more often," the article concludes, "the category will remain viable for the foreseeable future."
FitBit for Fido and Other Dog-Gear Favorites
Last week, New York magazine interviewed Richard Blakely, a digital product director and self-proclaimed "early pet-tech adopter" about some of his favorite dog-tech products for his pooch, Bagel.
Favorites include a GPS-tracking and temperature-monitoring collar, a safety light by Ruffwear for nighttime walks and play sessions at the dog park, and a Kickstarter product called "Disco Dog" — because what pup wouldn't love his very own smartphone-controlled LED party jacket?
"The best part," states the article, "If you lose your dog, you can use your phone to send the jacket scrolling text messages like 'LOST DOG' along with your phone number. Brilliant."


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Republican senators and the Chamber of Commerce have urged Trump to back the Kigali Amendment on HFCs, saying it's in the U.S.'s economic interest.
An international agreement to reduce the use of potent greenhouse gases in air conditioning and refrigeration went into effect this year, with more than 60 countries ratifying it. U.S. manufacturers say the agreement could create tens of thousands of jobs and generate billions of dollars in U.S. exports—and that failing to join will hurt U.S. industry.
More than a dozen Republican senators and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have supported it, and a State Department official said over a year ago that the Trump administration had "initiated the process to consider U.S. ratification."
Yet the U.S. president has yet to ratify the agreement, known as the Kigali Amendment.
So, what's holding it up?
Three Theories and a Pointed Finger
The Kigali Amendment is about global warming. That may help explain the delay, said George David Banks, who has some insight after advising Presidents Donald Trump and George W. Bush on climate policy.
The amendment expands the existing ozone-saving Montreal Protocol to phase down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), short-lived climate pollutants that are more potent than carbon dioxide over the short term.
And as Banks explained: "If you acknowledge the problem, then you have to do something about it."
Durwood Zaelke, president of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development, sees another connection—to the Obama administration's support for the measure. "President Trump sees something that is inherited from President Obama, he has to get over that hurdle," Zaelke said. "Then he sees it's an environmental issue, he has to get over that."
It's also a multilateral international agreement, and Trump has reflexively opposed international efforts, often arguing that they aren't in U.S. economic interests.
"They have made it clear that they have not been supportive of multilateral agreements," said Kevin Fay, executive director of the Alliance for Responsible Atmospheric Policy, a refrigeration and air conditioning industry group that formed in the 1980s to address ozone depletion.
But the Montreal Protocol is different, he and Banks said. As Banks put it, "the Montreal Protocol is designed to promote U.S. commercial interests."
At a Senate hearing on Jan. 16, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) suggested another source of delay: the Environmental Protection Agency.
Carper told Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler he had learned that Bill Wehrum, who heads the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, and other EPA officials had attended inter-agency meetings to discuss the Kigali Amendment. "I have also been informed that EPA officials have stated at these meetings that EPA does not wish the treaty to be submitted for ratification," Carper wrote in his follow-up questions to Wheeler.
Wheeler, who was EPA's deputy administrator before he took leadership of the agency when Scott Pruitt resigned, replied that the Trump administration meetings on the issue occurred prior to his becoming acting administrator.
"I have not been briefed on this issue by my career staff and I am reserving judgment until that time," he wrote in a response submitted on Jan. 28. He also refused to turn over an EPA study that Carper said demonstrates the value of the Kigali Amendment.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
Why Lack of Action Worries Industry
More than a dozen Republican senators and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have urged Trump to back the Kigali Amendment, saying developing alternatives would protect U.S. economic interests.
The U.S. air conditioning and refrigeration industry agrees. A report published last April by two trade groups—the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute and the Alliance for Responsible Atmospheric Policy—found that by 2027, the Kigali amendment would increase U.S. manufacturing jobs by 33,000, increase U.S. exports by $5 billion, and reduce imports by nearly $7 billion.
"Without Kigali ratification, growth opportunities will be lost along with the jobs to support that growth, the trade deficit will grow, and the U.S. share of global export markets will decline," the report concluded.
There two key reasons for that concern:
- As companies look to build manufacturing facilities for new chemical refrigerants, air conditioners and refrigeration equipment they will likely look to build in countries that have ratified the treaty, in part to be close to markets for their new products.
- In 2033, refrigerants and potentially refrigeration and air conditioning equipment produced in a country that has failed to ratify the amendment could be barred from being exported to countries that have signed the amendment under the rules of the Montreal Protocol.
"You have other governments and other countries that have ratified either enticing investment in their countries or using it as an argument against U.S. technologies allowing other competitors, whether it's Europe or Japan or China to come in and capture that market," Fay said.
Republican senators sent a letter to Trump last year urging him to ratify the amendment, saying it would "protect American workers, grow our economy and improve our trade balance."
Countering the Cost Claim
Some of the president's frequent policy whisperers have spoke out against the Kigali Amendment.
The conservative Heritage Foundation argued that it's about climate change and would "restrict consumer choice." The Competitive Enterprise Institute opposed the amendment on grounds that it would raise consumer costs in a letter sent to Trump in July.
The industry trade groups, however, dispute that claim.
Chemical refrigerants make up less than 1 percent of the lifetime costs of commercial and residential air conditioning, an industry report published in November said. It concluded that the Kigali Amendment "can be accomplished without an increase in costs to the U.S. consumer, and in some cases can generate savings."
If the United States and the rest of the world ratify the treaty, the planet could avoid up to half a degree Celsius of additional warming by 2100, according to estimates.
"This is a muscular treaty," Zaelke said. "This is just incredibly effective."
Even the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has opposed international action on climate change, has expressed strong support for the Kigali amendment, calling it "a win for the environment and the U.S. economy."
What's Next?
Congress could meet the goals of the Kigali Amendment without ratification by passing legislation that would implement the phase down of HFCs. Carper and Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) introduced legislation last year to do that, but it never reached a vote.
Industry groups, meanwhile, say they will continue to advocate for the amendment.
"It really makes sense to support a system that allows for American companies to take the lead in and provide this, not only for the U.S. but the rest of the world," said Joe Johnson, executive director of federal regulatory process review and analysis for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "I think sooner than later would be better on this issue."


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♦ Candy-apple-red exterior, crispy white interior, lots of crunch and snappy heat. For all their heat, radishes are delicate, and are best eaten raw. They add texture and tingly flavor to green salads.
♦ Radishes can be white, red, purple or black, long cylindrical or round in shape.
♦ They are eaten raw, cooked or pickled.
♦ Radish is very good for the liver and the stomach and it is a very good detoxifier too, that is, it purifies blood.
♦ It brings down the body temperature and relieves inflammation due to fever.
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Should Web comments be grounds for an ethics probe? | Earning CLE credit through writing blog posts
This week, we reported that University of Denver law professor Nancy Leong has filed a request to the Illinois Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission for an ethics investigation against a lawyer in the state regarding "sexualized comments about [her] appearance and other disparaging remarks made [her] concerned for [her] safety" on five different websites under the name "dybbuk."
But some bloggers question whether a lawyer's Web comments should prompt a legal ethics probe.
"As a practical matter, I don't see how it's workable to sanction lawyers who say disgusting things online," Elie Mystal writes at Above the Law. "Lawyers say racist, sexist things all time. Are only the ones who say it online in ethical violation?"
Washington, D.C., solo and blogger Carolyn Elefant writes at My Shingle that the prospect of ethics probes based on online commentary scares her to death. "Professor Leong's decision to file an ethics complaint against the commenter sets unspeakably bad precedent for bloggers exercising their First Amendment rights," Elefant writes. "The barriers to filing an ethics complaint are exceedingly low, and Professor Leong's complaint will invite frivolous complaints. … Professor Leong claims that Dybbuk's comments would constitute harassment in the workplace. But even if that were true, the blogosphere is not the workplace."
CLE credit for blogging?
Can a lawyer earn CLE credit by writing a blog post? Real Lawyers Have Blogs' Kevin O'Keefe quickly looked into it and saw that four states—California, Georgia, Maine and Tennessee—allow lawyers to earn credits for writing legal articles. "At the same time, though blog posts are arguably legal articles, you can see the hurdles and how states are apt to respond."
Blogs and online publications published by large law firms can be recognized publications, O'Keefe writes. "It's a heck of a lot more of a publication than a law firm newsletter, alert, or article stored on the firm's website. Law firms, with the advent of the net, are becoming publishers. Their resources, especially human resources in lawyers, for producing niche authoritative content are arguably greater than that of a bar journal or law review."
O'Keefe recognizes that not all law blogs are created equal. "We're not talking about content written by companies and ghostwriters and sold to lawyers for publication on a lawyer's blog. We're not talking about content chock-full of 'keywords' to garner website traffic. We're talking about real lawyers writing real blogs just has they have written legal articles for a hundred years. Written for professional development, with a byproduct being business development."
Court: Cats don't count
In what situations might a necessity defense apply in a drunken driving case? In Canada, a man was acquitted of drunken driving when he drove an injured friend to the hospital (he had no access to a phone) while over the legal limit. A Minnesota woman argued before her state's supreme court last month that she should have been able to use a necessity defense when she drove a short distance while over the legal blood-alcohol limit while fleeing her drunk and abusive husband.
Meanwhile, lawyer Ron Chapman wrote at West Palm Beach Criminal Lawyer Blog about a September ruling (PDF) from Florida's Second District Court of Appeal in which a driver over the blood-alcohol limit tried to use a necessity defense because he was driving a dying cat—along with the cat's owner—to a veterinary clinic. "In fact, the cat did die either during or shortly after the deputy stopped [the defendant's] car," Chapman wrote.
But the ruling stated that in order to be entitled to a necessity defense, a defendant must "reasonably [believe] that his action was necessary to avoid an imminent threat of danger or serious bodily injury to himself or others."
The court's opinion? "We do not interpret the phrase 'or others' as applying to animals."
Tech letdowns
Los Angeles litigator and At Counsel Table blogger Alex Craigie took note of the well-circulated video of a Samsung press conference before this week's International Consumer Electronics Show in which film producer and director Michael Bay left the stage after the teleprompter malfunctioned and he decided he could not wing the scripted on-stage interview without it.
"If you or I were presenting evidence and our computer or Trial Director program went screwy, apologizing and walking off wouldn't be a realistic option," Craigie wrote. "But this stuff does happen. And, like a jazz musician, you've got to improvise."
A situation like this might be an argument to stay low-tech with trial presentations, in order to play it safe. "The problem with resisting technology in trial presentation, though, is that the internet, gaming and effects-driven movies have made people—some of them your potential jurors—almost numb to anything that lacks a wow factor. There's also the brute fact that some of these technologies really are brilliant and, frankly, should be embraced to the extent they can help lawyers, good and so-so alike, present otherwise dry or complex information in a way that engages jurors."