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Building a Worldwide "Chorus of Voices" for a Great Power Summit to Implement LaRouche's Solution to the Crisis
August 20, 2020by David Dobrodt in General
Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche delivered the keynote address to an August 15, Spanish-language international videoconference organized by the Schiller Institute for the nations of Ibero-America and Spain, as part of the drive to build a worldwide chorus of voices calling for a summit of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council to meet in September to address the systemic crisis facing the planet. The highly-successful event had over 500 live participants in its two panels, and an archived version of Panel I, including Zepp-LaRouche's speech, has already had over 30,000 views.
The event, titled "Towards a World Summit of Powers in September: The LaRouche Plan for a New Economic and Security Architecture for the Planet," demonstrated the real thirst in the population for a full change in paradigm.
Moderator Dennis Small introduced the session by stating that the videoconference was meant as a "feeder event" to the upcoming Sept. 5-6 international SI conference. He noted that what we mean by a new architecture, should be viewed from the standpoint of Leibniz, who wrote in his "Principles of Nature": "Our soul is architectonic also in its voluntary actions and in discovering the sciences according to which God has regulated things.
In its own realm and in the small world in which it is allowed to act, the soul imitates what God performs in the great world." The English-language video of Zepp-LaRouche's keynote can be found on this webpage. The two panels were as follows:
Panel I: "Towards a New International Security Architecture"
1) Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), founder and President, Schiller Institute: "Happiness Is a Human Right for All Humanity"
2) Víctor Cortizo (Spain), lawyer, Professor, International Relations. Francisco de Vitoria University, Vice-President, Cátedra China: "Spain, a Bridge of the New Silk Road
3) Daniel Estulin (Russia), author: "Could Lyndon LaRouche's Vision of a Space Imperative Become Reality?"
4) Walter Formento (Argentina), Director, Center for Political and Economic Research: "Real economic, science and technology from South America for the development of a new multi-polar world"
5) José Antonio Benllochpiquer (Peru), President, Christian Democratic Party: "Peru and the new international architecture"
Panel II: "Towards a New International Economic Architecture"
1) Jacques Cheminade (France), president, Solidarité et Progres: "The LaRouche Plan to Defeat the Pandemic, and its Causes"
2) Justo Vargas (Perú). Amazon Integration Network: "The Inter-Oceanic Railroad and the Development of the Amazon Region"
3) Carolina Domínguez (Mexico), International LaRouche Youth Movement: "If You Want to Educate Presidents to Demand a P-5 Summit, Build a Youth Movement"
4) Marco Méndez (México), Vice-president of the Mexican Union of Associations of Engineers: "Infrastructure as an element of development"
5) Dennis Small (U.S.), EIR Ibero-American Editor: "Why It Is Urgent to Exonerate Lyndon LaRouche and His Ideas"
6) Alberto Vizcarra (Mexico), Coordinator, Citizens' Movement for Water: "The Time Has Come to Imitate Roosevelt"
7) Pedro Rubio (Colombia), President of the Association of Workers of the National Comptrollers Agency: "The Vernadsky Indicator: How to Double Food Production"
During the course of the event, greetings were presented from Mexicans Francisco Roman, of the Democratic Cardenista Peasant Center, and business leader Rafael Nava; as well as General Edwin de la Fuente, former Commander-in-Chief of Bolivia's Armed Forces. It reads as follows: "Every effort to engage in dialogue in a world that is threatened as never before, cannot but be seen as hopeful, and more than that, as a light at the end of the tunnel. The planet has never before generated such wealth, and yet in
contradiction, such poverty for the great majorities. I am grateful for this great initiative, knowing that a [P5] summit could arrive at a happy agreement for world peace. I congratulate the Schiller Institute, its members, and its leader, the indefatigable Helga Zepp-LaRouche for this marvelous work on behalf of better days for all of humanity."
HELGA ZEPP-LAROUCHE: Let me greet you here from Germany. Obviously, this event is taking place at an unprecedented moment in history. If you look at the world situation in its complexity today, I think you will agree that we are confronted with a situation which is really beyond the comprehension of people only a couple of months ago. We are confronted with a pandemic. This pandemic is not yet under control by any means. We have, as a consequence of that pandemic, an incredible economic collapse. Some people say the largest since the end of World War II. Dennis mentioned already that especially in the developing countries, where 60% of all people have been working in the informal economy — meaning that they're living from hand-to-mouth — when you have a lockdown, people are immediately threatened in their lives with starvation. Then naturally, we have the danger of a famine, which is becoming all the more great because of a collapse of agriculture. In Africa and Asia, many countries are threatened with a locust plague; again, the likes of which has not been seen for several decades. Naturally, you have the danger of the lack of, or a phenomenon that in many countries in the world, the people have lost the trust in their governments, in their leading institutions. Because in many parts of the world, the people don't feel that these governments represent their interests in the face of this crisis.
That's why we have been thinking, where should the solution come from under these extraordinary circumstances? Can it come from protests, demonstrations? Obviously not. Can it come from the existing institutions — the G7, the G20? Well, that is very unlikely. My late husband Lyndon LaRouche had campaigned for many years for the idea that in order to defeat the powers that be, which are responsible for this crisis, this is the British Empire located in the City of London, and Wall Street, and naturally their collaborators around the world. In order to have a power against that which can change the agenda and establish a new system, you need the four most powerful nations of the world to unite — the United States, China, Russia, and hopefully India.
Given the fact that you have right now rising tensions between the United States and China, where all kinds of reasons are being given. China supposedly wants to take over the world; China being responsible for the pandemic. In reality, it is the rise of China to become a leading power if not the leading power in the world, not actually threatening to replace the United States as a hegemon. But nevertheless, we are on the verge of a potential war between the two largest economies; the United States and China. This is why the question of where should the solution come from in these circumstances. I issued a call in the beginning of January of this year that it must be minimally the United States, Russia, and China to overcome geopolitics and establish common rules to meet the challenges which confront all of mankind.
A few days later, President Putin of Russia independently of that, called for a summit of the Permanent Five countries of the UN Security Council to have a discussion and work out principles for how to guarantee the long-term survival of civilization; how to give the world principles so that the dangers which we confront right now can be overcome.
Before I come to the point of what needs to be done to accomplish that, and one of the purposes of this conference is to bring together all the countries from Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world to play a role in that. Because I think what is needed to accomplish that is a chorus of international voices; of governments, of individuals, of institutions all working together to demand that this crisis needs a solution from the top. We need to have a complete change of the system. Let me review quickly who we are, since many people are on this program as participants or viewers who may not be aware about the crucial role the LaRouche organization and Lyndon LaRouche played in this fight.
Given the fact that we have today the very famous date of the 15th of August, this is not only Ferragosto in Italy, but it is also the day when, 49 years ago, President Nixon ended the old Bretton Woods system as it was established in the postwar period. He decoupled the dollar from gold; he ended the system of fixed exchange rates and replaced them with floating exchange rates. Not many people, if any, recognized what was the historical significance of that move. My late husband Lyndon LaRouche, who was absolutely studying the systemic flaws of the Bretton Woods system as it existed before, because when Franklin D Roosevelt had died, and the actual Bretton Woods system was not carried out as he had intended, but it was more designed by Churchill and Truman, who was really a little man completely influenced by Churchill. It left out the most important aspect; namely, that Roosevelt had intended that the Bretton Woods system should overcome the underdevelopment of the developing countries and increase the living standard of the entire world population, as the precondition for peace and a stable order for the postwar period. That was left out, and therefore, when Nixon made these moves, my husband immediately recognized what was the direction of the powers that be of the City of London, of the Wall Street financial powers. He said that if you continue on this path, that is, to implement monetarist policies, then you will have the danger of fascism, the danger of a new depression, the danger of war. Or, you will establish a completely different new, just world economic order.
He also immediately recognized that the policies conducted by the IMF at that moment and the World Bank — the infamous conditionalities — basically denying the developing countries to invest in health systems, infrastructure, and education systems. So, he commissioned a Biological Holocaust Taskforce, which had the task to investigate what would be the impact of these policies of the IMF on developing countries. He said, after having done intensive studies, that this was bringing about the danger of pandemics, because you cannot lower the living standard of entire continents over a long period of time without inviting the re-emergence of old diseases and the development of new pandemics.
He immediately started to provide solutions. One of the most existential, fundamental solutions he proposed was actually on April 27, 1975, where after a trip he had taken to Iraq, where he had met with many leaders of developing countries, he made a press conference in Bonn [West Germany], and he proposed the formation of the International Development Bank which was to replace the IMF. That concept would have worked, and immediately people associated with Lyndon LaRouche all over the world started to discuss that with the Non-Aligned Movement for one entire year. This proposal would have established an international development bank which would have provided $400 billion in credit every year in long-term, low-interest credit for well-defined projects of industrialization in Africa, in Latin America, in Asia. And it would have started the kind of technology transfer which, given the fact that this is now 45 years ago, if implemented would have meant that you indeed would have blossoming gardens in all of these continents. That idea was absolutely well-received by the countries of the Non-Aligned Movement, who, in their final resolution in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1976, basically took that entire proposal and adopted it. That was three-quarters of the human race saying, "We want a New World Economic Order."
At that time, the Foreign Minister of Guyana, Fred Wills, presented this proposal to the UN General Assembly in New York. There was widespread support for it, and it could have been implemented. Well, it was not because you had the biggest backlash from the City of London, from the British Empire — which is essentially all the central banks, investment banks, insurance companies, hedge funds, and generally the military-industrial complex associated with these financial powers. And you had the biggest destabilization against Indira Gandhi, against Mrs. [Sirimavo] Bandaranaike from Sri Lanka. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, was killed. As Henry Kissinger stated, which we published at the time, through documents that are unchallenged to the present day, Kissinger said, "We will make a bloody example of Bhutto," because he challenged this present system. Also, President Gen. Juan Velasco Alvarado from Peru was destabilized.
But my husband and his movement, we started to continue this fight. The first comprehensive development plan for Africa, we presented in a big conference in Paris in 1976. In 1975 already, my husband proposed a development plan for Southwest Asia, which was called the Oasis Plan. This was the idea to develop new forms of water through nuclear energy desalination of large quantities of ocean water. Of using other modern technologies as they are used right now in Israel and some of the Gulf states. Then in the following period, in 1982, my husband was invited by López Portillo to come to the defense of Mexico when the peso was under attack, and huge amounts of capital flight took place. He wrote a program for the entire development of Latin America, called Operation Juárez, which, like the Africa plan, started from the assumption that both Africa and Latin America had no infrastructure to speak of, due to the colonialist tradition. So, basically, the first step of the industrialization of these two continents would have been the development of large-scale infrastructure ports, railway, integrated with highways, production of energy, distribution of energy, communications systems; all as the precondition for a real industrial development and the industrialization of agriculture.
In 1982, we also worked with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi from India, on a 40-year development plan for India, which she started to implement until she was assassinated. It was continued by her son, Rajiv Gandhi, and in a certain sense, that same idea of bringing technology transfer to the developing countries was also the core idea of the Strategic Defense Initiative, which my husband had worked on, which was then adopted by the Reagan Administration. Which was a revolutionary concept to dissolve the military blocs of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; develop new technologies to make nuclear weapons obsolete; use the new technologies from the military area in civilian applications as a gigantic science driver and use that to increase the productivity of the world economy and then have a technology transfer to the developing countries; and stop using these countries as proxy partners in wars between the superpowers.
This policy was continued with Lyn's and my proposal for what to do after the collapse of the Soviet Union; namely, to build a Eurasian Land-Bridge connecting the populations and industrial powers of Europe with those of Asia. And use that New Silk Road to connect with all these other development projects.
These were very concrete projects. They could have been implemented by the European nations, by the United States, by the Asian industrialized countries like Japan. But they decided to go in the opposite direction. Already in the beginning of the 1970s at the same time my husband was talking about the New World Economic Order, Kissinger wrote something called NSSM-200, which was the idea that any kind of development of the developing sector had to be stopped; especially population-rich countries. They should be "encouraged" (to put it diplomatically) to reduce their populations through birth control, through limited access to raw materials, because these raw materials would belong to the United States, according to Kissinger. At the same time, the Club of Rome launched this incredible campaign about the so-called limits to growth. Which was a complete fraudulent computer model, where the end result was programmed first — namely that you had to stop growth and go to zero-growth in order to then say that all countries had to go for Green ideas, for zero-growth. That was really the beginning of this very negative ecology movement which is now dominating much of Europe, and which is also prevalent in the Democratic Party in the United States, and among some other circles.
At the same time, the U.S. Federal Reserve, from about 1973 on, started to push the idea of a controlled disintegration of the world economy. This was pushed by the Trilateral Commission and implemented by the Carter administration from 1977 on. That whole thing was really an effort to basically bring the world back under the control of the British Empire; keep the Third World in a colonial status; and run the world increasingly under the control of the Anglo-American establishment or the Anglo-American special relationship. That factor, of the Anglo-American control of the world, is something every patriot and every world citizen of the world should study. There is no better way than to look at what Kissinger actually said when he, on May 10th, 1982, went to Chatham House in London and actually bragged that he was de facto always working, that he always put the interests of the British much better than informing his own government. He really revealed himself as a British agent and pointed to the role of the British manipulation of U.S. policy ever since.
My husband, in reaction to that blatant admission of Kissinger that he was de facto working as an agent of this Empire, caused him to write an absolutely profound article called "The Toynbee Factor in British Grand Strategy", which I would advise every participant of this conference to study and read, because it explains a lot of what is going wrong in the world today. It describes as the Toynbee factor the manipulation of the American establishment, but also the population. How to turn the population into hedonistic people who follow their impulses, and how to cause an estrangement of the citizen from a rational comprehension of the major national policy issues which really determine their lives and their futures.
It was that policy which was implemented after the collapse of the Soviet Union by the neo-cons in the United States — the Project for a New American Century — to try to create a unipolar world. Once the Soviet Union had disappeared, the need to keep up the technological progress to be combative with the Soviet military, after that disappeared, this oligarchy went fully in the direction of deregulation of the financial system, the abolishment of Glass-Steagall, and naturally, after Glass-Steagall was abandoned, China was invited to join the WTO with the absolute expectation that that would lead to China adopting the values of the Western liberal economic system of Western democracy. And the dream or utopia of Fukuyama, the American historian, about the end of history, would be implemented; that the whole world would be submissive under the control of this system of the British Empire by just submitting to the rules of that system. At that time also, the Green agenda was escalated, which later was announced as the great transformation of the world economy. The decarbonization, the elimination of first nuclear energy, then all fossil fuels, which has, to the present day, completely influenced many countries. Especially if you look at the EU, that policy has been adopted absolutely, almost completely.
There was one problem. China and many developing countries recognized that under this system, they would not have a chance. So, following the Asia crisis in 1997, but especially after the big financial crisis of 2008, led China to start a completely different policy. Already with Deng Xiaoping's opening and reform policy after 1979, China had started to go on a policy of scientific and technological progress, of innovation, and uplifting with that policy 850 million people of its own population out of poverty; creating a very vast growing middle class, where the living standard became better and better. Then, in 2013, Xi Jinping announced in Kazakhstan, the New Silk Road. The idea to revive the spirit of the ancient Silk Road of connecting the Eurasian continent through the exchange of ideas, of cultures, of goods, of technologies. That policy was first absolutely neglected by the mainstream media and the think tanks of the West. But China continued to do that, and it started to offer that model of overcoming its own underdevelopment, to the developing sector, and started to build six major infrastructure corridors. Building infrastructure, railroads, in Africa, in Asia, in Latin American countries. This basically would have worked, because it was not geopolitically motivated, but China offered from the very beginning for this to be a win-win policy; inviting the United States and European countries and everybody else to participate in this New Silk Road conception.
This functioned to a certain extent quite well, but then from about 2018 onward, all of a sudden, all major think tanks from the Western countries started to paint China as an authoritarian regime, Xi Jinping as a dictator, China only wanting to replace the United States as the world hegemon. This was expressed in the first security doctrine of the United States in 2018 — the National Security Strategy Paper. The first major such speech was given by Vice President Pence, and followed by speeches to this effect by [FBI head] Christopher Wray, by [National Security Advisor] O'Brien, by Mike Pence, by [Secretary of State] Pompeo — who made several speeches to this effect. Portraying China as the big danger. Ever since, the military tensions have escalated in the South China Sea, along the Chinese coast. This is becoming quite dangerous to world peace. It should be clear to anybody that if the two largest economies in the world start to clash, the danger that this will get out of control and in the worst case, even lead to a nuclear war and the extinction of civilization is a very real danger. Which many people are aware of; which the Russians are aware of.
That is why we have demanded that the policy must be radically changed. If you look at the present combination of problems, we are in an existential crisis of civilization. Only if the major powers work together can we have any hope to solve it, because even if you take the industrial capacity of all countries together, it is not quite sufficient to solve it. So, what we are proposing, therefore, is that we have to orchestrate the situation so that every country starts to discuss as if they are the ones who can determine the outcome of this history. There will be, in all likelihood, hopefully this P-5 summit in September, and it must be way ahead of the U.S. election because if you don't change the parameters before, the danger is that there will be chaos, an escalation of the pandemic, and provocations of all kinds as we have seen in many parts of the world, which may escalate. What this summit of the permanent five countries [of the UN Security Council] must adopt is a New Bretton Woods system. A new credit system which connects to what Franklin D Roosevelt had in mind when he proposed his version of the Bretton Woods system, and what Lyndon LaRouche has worked out in great detail over the decades. This New Bretton Woods system must replace the casino economy, re-implement Glass-Steagall banking separation, must establish a national bank in every country. And then, through agreements among these national banks, establish a new credit system.
Because it's not the coronavirus which causes this pandemic. The proof of that is that China succeeded, between January and March, in two months of very rigorous methods of isolating, of tracing, of quarantine, of social distancing, of having built 22 hospitals in a few weeks, they were able to contain the virus, and practically bring it under control in Hubei province, and China was able to restart its economy, after they had defeated the pandemic.
Now, just imagine if every country would have a health system like China was able to mobilize; or just imagine that every country — Mexico, Haiti, Peru, and all the other countries — Mali — they all would have capabilities like China or like it used to be the case with the Hill-Burton standard in the United States, or as the German and French health systems were before the privatization of the health systems started, you could have stopped the pandemic! It never would have become a pandemic!
So the problem is not that China announced this too late. I mean, remember that China announced it some time at the end of January, that it was a pandemic, but then most Western governments, like the German government, they waited for weeks and weeks before they got the production of masks and ventilators and other equipment. So it was not China not informing the world, it was the arrogance of the Western countries to not think that it could ever arrive in their countries, like the German Health Minister Jens Spahn said, "Oh, this virus will never come to Germany." What foolishness!
So if every country, therefore, would start to build, with the international cooperation, such modern health systems, hospitals, training medical personnel, increasing the number of doctors and nurses, you could actually not only contain this pandemic, but the danger of new pandemics which are absolutely around the corner at any moment. So, if you want to make the human race safe, the building of such a world system is the absolute first step. Naturally, you cannot build hospitals and have the necessary equipment without water, without energy, without infrastructure, so the building of the new health system must become the beginning of the construction of a new world economic order, and the kind of development which I was talking about we have been fighting for, for almost 50 years. And now, because of the Belt and Road Initiative, the New Silk Road perspective is an absolute possibility to be realized, and we have to get the United States and the European countries to stop their geopolitical opposition to that, but to join hands.
I think that all the countries in the world will be judged by future history — if we have one — by how they reacted to this crisis. And if they have the greatness to overcome their petty geopolitical concerns and join hands to work on this question of the new world economic order. The question is: Can we create a world in which human beings can live? Now, Xi Jinping, some years ago, I think it was at a big party convention, announced a plan for China, by the year 2050, where he said that by 2050 China should be a modern country, democratic, culturally advanced, the people of China should live a happy life, and that model should also exist happiness for all nations on this planet.
Now, I think that this idea of happiness is a fundamental human right of all human beings. It just happens to be in the Declaration of Independence, where it basically says, that the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is what is an inalienable right for all people. And when the Schiller Institute was founded 36 years ago, I was looking around in all the documents, to think what would be the best charter for the Schiller Institute. And I found that this Declaration of Independence was one of the best documents to express what should be the purpose of the Schiller Institute's efforts. And I changed only a few words, maybe six words, to replace the "American colony" with "all countries" and the "British Empire" making it applicable for all countries in the world. And I think that this idea, that we have to have economic development and make sure that every single human being has the right to happiness, meaning in the tradition of Leibniz, not a good life, a happy moment for the hour, but to be able to develop all potentialities which are in each human person, to develop all creative potentials so that each human being can contribute in the best way to the development of the common good of society as a whole, and all of mankind, and in that way, be in correspondence to the harmonic ordering of the universe, by increasing the level of creativity, not only of the human mankind, but of the laws of the universe at large.
That idea of a harmonic development of all nations, that if every single nation develops their potential and regards it as their self-interest to develop the self-interest of the other one, is also already existing as a concept in Nikolaus of Cusa, who said that harmony in the world can only exist if you have the best possible development of all microcosms, as a precondition for harmony in the macrocosm. In other words, the idea of Franklin D. Roosevelt that all human beings must have a better living standard, be free of the wants, especially of material want, is the precondition for peace. And I think this is eminently possible, because if we now would unite, and say, we have to — in light of the pandemic, the economic crisis, the famine, the danger of war, — we have to join hands and develop Southwest Asia, which has been destroyed by wars for 20 years of meaningless, endless wars, which have killed millions of people, leaving the countries destroyed; Africa, which is absolutely smashed right now by the combination of these crises; Latin America, which is not able to cope with this crisis on its own; that it is the moral obligation for the leaders of the world to change this situation right now. And that can also, then, become the basis, if all countries work together on such a new world economic order, for an integrative, new security architecture. Because only if you have a common economic interest, is there any hope that you can have a security architecture which will integrate every single country.
Now, the big mistake after the collapse of the Soviet Union, was that no effort was made to integrate Russia into such an international architecture, and naturally, the present threat to decouple China and the countries which are associated with China, from the present economic system, is absolutely detrimental to world peace, and it should be replaced by the idea that the future of humanity must be a new system of international relationships, where the sovereignty of every country is respected, the different social security system is respect, and countries are working together for the common aims of mankind, such as a crash program for the realization of fusion power, international cooperation in space, and to establish the common aims for the next hundred years of the human species.
Now, I think the gravity of the crisis makes such a vision absolutely realizable. We want the five permanent powers of the UN Security Council to adopt, in principle, such an orientation. China has offered, repeatedly, as recently as a week ago, to the United States to cooperate on the fight against the pandemic; Russia has offered cooperation in the development of the distribution of the vaccines, and making sure the whole world has access to it in the quickest possible way; so there are these offers. And I think in order to realize this, making a complete break, a new paradigm, it needs a chorus of international voices who have to express their absolute desire and need to go in this direction.
I think this is an absolute necessity, but I think it's also absolutely realizable, because we are in a world revolution. The old system is absolutely not to be saved, or cannot be saved, and the whole question is, can humanity, in time, can we give ourselves an order which guarantees the long-term survivability of our species? And that is what I wanted to tell you, and where I'm asking you to cooperate.
Question 1: Do you have an explanation of why President Trump is under such attack in the international media?
ZEPP-LAROUCHE: Yes, we do. I think the problem is that Trump has again and again shown that he has good impulses, he wants to definitely improve the relationship with Russia: he has demonstrated that in his summit with Putin in Helsinki very clearly, that if you have two Presidents, I think they can solve any problem. This is why we are pushing so hard to have this summit. Because the problem is that Trump is really surrounded by a nest of scoundrels: Pompeo, Esper, Navarro, all of these people are really neocons of the worst kind. Some of them are evangelicals, like Pompeo, who believes — who has said publicly he believes in the Rapture; which means if there's an Armageddon, that's not so bad because he believes that some of these people, that he belongs to the people who will be saved. I personally think he's an Elmer Gantry — I don't know if people know this movie [based on a novel by Sinclair Lewis].
I think the only way how you free Trump from the influence of British intelligence — obviously, in the P5 you have Great Britain, which always was a problem, but I think that if you have the three important countries, the U.S., Russia, and China — with Macron somehow wanting to improve relations, at least with Russia, and he says he does with China — I think there is a fighting chance. I think the three leaders, Trump, Putin, and Xi Jinping, when they have the chance to talk about matters directly, I'm absolutely convinced that of all the many options, this is the only one, but it has to occur long before the election, because this anti-China dynamic has to be interrupted. I think it's very dangerous, because if you paint an enemy-image, where you say China is responsible for the pandemic, for the incredible economic damage, for the evictions — I think this is creating an environment where, then, other developments which could occur in the South China Sea, or around Taiwan, have the potential of really creating a big confrontation.
So that is why I'm appealing so much, that every government, every individual, every institution, should really support this summit publicly. We have prepared a resolution which hopefully you will use after this webinar, and help to spread it in all of these countries. Because I think that if we could generate a chorus of governments, institutions, and concern people, to address the participants in this summit ahead of time, it can help to orchestrate an environment. It will be a big battle, but the summit is the only chance I see between now and the U.S. election, to have an impact, to change the present constellation. And that's what my deepest conviction is.
Question 2: Please discuss your concept of a Dialogue of Classical Civilizations.
ZEPP-LAROUCHE: I'm absolutely convinced that if people would just know the other culture, all the problems would disappear. Naturally, there are always some evil people who you will never be able to convince — that is an absolute minority.
I have made the experience that when you introduce Confucius to a European or American audience, they get completely excited. Benjamin Franklin was absolutely a follower of Confucius: He modeled his own moral theory on Confucian teaching. And in the same way, when you discuss what Confucius had to say about music, it is absolutely to the point that the kind of music one plays tells you if a society is healthy or in disorder.
In the same way, why is it that all these many Asians, but also naturally, Chinese, are absolutely excited about European classical music? Because they recognize that you can find in the other culture, and vice versa, always something which enriches you. So I think what all of you can help to do, is to set up a dialogue of culture; we can help you to organize musical concerts, dialogue of civilization where each nation brings the best compositions, the most beautiful poems, the most encouraging paintings. The Literati painting in Chinese tradition, for example, has the unity of poetry, painting and calligraphy: And I have seen, repeatedly, that if people see that for the first time, they all of a sudden understand what a metaphor is.
So I think the best thing which can be done right now, to counter this incredible anti-China propaganda — which really is the worst of McCarthyism, and "yellow peril" and all these horrible racist ideas from the past are coming back and being stirred up — The best really is to show the beauty of the other culture. I would encourage all of you who are watching this program, that you should participate. We can set up cultural events, we can further the dialogue of culture, even if it will not be like a live concert, but I think with the limitation of Zoom and other technologies, it also has the advantage that you can communicate with people. And start doing it, you haven't even thought about doing that before the outbreak of the pandemic.
So I would suggest, anybody who wants to be part of the solution, that you become active with us, in setting up these kinds of dialogues of culture. And we have many, many collaborators in the Schiller Institute in all these countries, who can help to bring the best pearls of each cultures to the knowledge of all others, and that should occur immediately.
ZEPP-LAROUCHE: Actually, there was a lot of discussion about the City of London and Wall Street. And I think what is becoming clearer and clearer, is that this system which really accelerated after '71, after Nixon abandoned the old Bretton Woods system, has become a real, criminal system: And I really mean "criminal." Just take the case of the Wirecard scandal in Germany: Here you had a case where it now looks, many banks and parts of the government, they all knew that this was a ripoff! And they did not do anything about it! Then think about the LIBOR scandal, where three-digit billions were defrauded from people. Think about the Panama Papers scandal, the Madoff scandal, the Ponzi schemes — and I could add a lot of things. Most banks already have reserves to pay the fines, because it's already prediscounted, that some of their criminal operations will be caught.
And I think that this system is morally at the end, it's totally bankrupt, and the idea that you need to reform this system is really something every single person can understand. And if you add to that, the way the cartels are moving, how credits are being given, how the certification is occurring, so they're trying to control everything against production, for speculation, and therefore, for a totally, thoroughly criminal system.
I think we have to spread the news about that much, much more, and more people will understand that we need a banking system which is not controlled by the City of London, but a national bank in every country, and that we need to move towards this idea of a of a New Bretton Woods system very, very quickly.
So I think that there is an incredible chance. I think people can improve, you can decide, you improve on the spot; the aesthetical education in Confucianism, in Schiller's Aesthetic Letters, it shows you how you can enable yourself to play a bigger role in this present historical conjuncture. And I thank you all very much. It was a real pleasure to get to know you better. And I also hope that we can continue our collaboration in a very intensive way in the next period.
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Clean lines and gracious proportions, paired with a hefty dose of fresh color, give this new Chicago home all the classic elegance of a true Southern beauty.
Southern roots run deep. So when Gloria Masterson and her husband, Mike, decided to build a new home for their family of five instead of renovate in Chicago's North Shore village of Kenilworth, it was no surprise that visions of iconic antebellum homes—like those found in Gloria's Alabama hometown—came to mind. Stately columns, masses of tall windows, and a large and welcoming front porch topped her wish list.
Architect Chip Hackley looked to historic references to define the home's proportions but focused on a more vertical orientation to provide an airy layout. "The general design is traditional but with a slightly modern twist," he says.
The home's brick exterior is finished with a silicate paint, which replicates the aged look and texture of traditional English lime wash.
Architect: Chip Hackley, Hackley & Associates Architects, Inc., Kenilworth, Illinois; 847/853-8258; hackleyarchitects.com.
Interior designer: Christine Hughes, Christine Hughes Interior Design, Chicago; 773/480-7192; christinehughesinteriordesign.com.
General contractor: Scott Simpson, Scott Simpson Builders, Inc., Northbrook, Illinois; 847/291-2457; scottsimpsonbuilders.com.
Kitchen designer: Susan Skilton, de Giulio Kitchen Design, Inc., Wilmette, Illinois; 847/256-8833; degiuliodesign.com.
Landscape designer: Bruce Everly, Midwest Arbor Corp., Spring Grove, Illinois; 815/675-6766; midwestarborcorp.com.
Throughout the main level, the ceiling height soars to over 10 feet. To usher in light, interior doorways secreting pocket doors are topped with transoms, while walls of French doors and floor-to-ceiling windows reminiscent of traditional Southern triple-hung designs round out every room. "Large openings centered upon each other across the house provide borrowed space and let the house breathe," Hackley says.
Paneled walls lend subtle distinction to the curved staircase anchoring Gloria and Mike Masterson's entry. Rectangular sconce shades and a chevron runner strike a modern note.
Prominent but simple millwork, such as the linear paneling of the entry's staircase and extra-wide baseboards and crown moldings, adds architectural authenticity. "We wanted things to be substantial, but a little cleaner than what is usually found in traditional homes," interior designer Christine Hughes says.
The graceful open staircase elegantly connects the home's three floors. Its dark handrail draws the eye upward.
The living room's arrangement of casual shapes and neutral fabrics ensures nothing distracts from the beauty of the room's outdoor surroundings. In keeping with the home's overall architectural style, a substantial yet streamlined limestone mantel serves as the room's focal point.
White moldings provide a crisp juxtaposition to a dramatic navy painted ceiling in the dining room. A graphic, acid-yellow rug and an abstract painting by artist Meredith Pardue put a fresh spin on a dark wood pedestal table and gilded accents.
Floor-to-ceiling windows replicate the proportions of traditionally Southern triple-hung windows and flood the dining room with natural light.
Timeless simplicity and function reign in the all-white de Giulio designed kitchen. Convenient recessed shelving hides behind the sliding doors of the range's sleek backsplash, helping to keep clutter off the countertops. The island's waterfall design allows the beauty of the natural quartz to add visual weight to the open space and provide a nice focal point from its opposite living room.
The breakfast room's seating area delivers a splash of color. An overdyed Persian rug does that and more; not only is it the saturated blue that Gloria loves, but it's also surprisingly functional. "It's so forgiving and it hides everything!" says Hughes.
The recessed cabinet continues the clean and modern lines—and clever storage solutions—of the kitchen, as the back wall opens to reveal the coffee maker and other kitchenware.
A vibrant blue sofa adds a punch of happy color to the washed-walnut-wrapped library.
Handsome lockers trimmed in faux snakeskin keep the busy mudroom tidy. A custom colored lantern and durable oushak rug keep the space cheery and fun.
A pergola-covered patio functions like a cozy additional living room.
With so much strong color in the rest of the house, Gloria wanted the master bedroom to take a rest. The curves of the vintage gray settee—a family piece they reupholstered and repainted—provide a pretty silhouette against the geometric lines of the large bay window.
Small mosaics surround marble hexagon floor tiles, forming a pattern-rich design that helps to visually open up the master bath's narrow, runwaylike layout.
Geometric fretwork on the custom bunk beds makes 12-year old son Joe's bedroom more sophisticated than juvenile.
A trio of dormers and symmetrical side gables on the rear facade mimic the front roofline. Below, an expanse of French doors and windows stretches almost end-to-end allowing plenty of access to the large outdoor terrace and inviting inside the sounds and breezes of nearby Lake Michigan.
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Fall in the city means lots of time in playgrounds. Why not incorporate your own workout while watching your child?
1. TRX with Swing: with or without your child in the swing. Hold the sides of the swings, place your heels on the ground and lean backwards. With a straight back, pull yourself up towards the swing and slowly let yourself go back to the starting position. Repeat 12 reps.
2. TRX Lunge and lift: Start with one foot forward, the other one back, knee an inch from the ground in a lunge position. Hands on sides of swing. Pull yourself up and bring knee in towards the swing and go back into a lunge position. Repeat 12 reps. Do both sides.
Muscles targeted: Outer glutes, back, core.
9. Step-Plie: Stand with your legs wider than hip distance, one foot is on the step other is on the ground. Feet turned out. Lower down into a plie position and plie back up. Repeat 12 times. Then turn and have other foot on step.


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Open Journal of Applied Sciences > Vol.3 No.7, November 2013
Studying the Utilization of Plastic Waste by Chemical Recycling Method ()
Adil Koç
Chemical Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty, Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey.
DOI: 10.4236/ojapps.2013.37051 PDF HTML 4,950 Downloads 8,917 Views Citations
The rapid increase in the use of plastic materials in the recent years led to the accumulation of excessive amounts of plastic waste. The so-called thermoplastics such as PE, PP, PS, PVC and PET as well as materials that are derived from these are the type of plastic that is most used and consequently creates most of the waste. In this study, the original and waste forms of PE and PP plastic types have been chosen for thermal and catalytic degradation. As process parameter, 410oC - 450oC temperature interval and 600 mL/min constant flow rate nitrogen gas have been chosen as the carrier gas and the reaction time was considered to be 90 minutes for all experiments. Liquid products collected in experiments were separated by means of fractioned distillation process. For purposes of determining product distribution, the fractions, which were separated by distillation, were diluted in an appropriate solution for analysis of GC/MS. In the study conducted, it has been observed that the liquid product distribution obtained mainly consists of a mixture of saturated and unsaturated (heptane, heptane, octane, nonane, dodecane, etc.) hydrocarbons.
Waste Plastics; Chemical Recycling; Catalyst
A. Koç, "Studying the Utilization of Plastic Waste by Chemical Recycling Method," Open Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 3 No. 7, 2013, pp. 413-420. doi: 10.4236/ojapps.2013.37051.
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PREFACE: X3J13 voted in January 1989 (PRETTY-PRINT-INTERFACE) to adopt a facility for user-controlled pretty printing as a part of the forthcoming draft Common Lisp standard. This facility is the culmination of thirteen years of design, testing, revision, and use of this approach.
This chapter presents the bulk of the Common Lisp pretty printing specification, written by Richard C. Waters. I have edited it only very lightly to conform to the overall style of this book.
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Dead Body Discovered Believed To Be Missing Jamestown Man
May 22, 2018 wnynewsnow News 2
JAMESTOWN – Police said the body that was pulled from the Chadakoin River on Tuesday is believed to be that of Sean Carpenter who went missing on April 11th.
On April 20th, city police used a state police helicopter to search for Carpenter who was reportedly walking home to his house on Superior Street the night he was reported missing.
Several days after Carpenter's reported April 11th disappearance date, a GoFundMe page was established by a woman named Amy McClellan who, shortly after Carpenter's reported disappearance, speculated on her Facebook page that he may have fallen through a collapsed portion of the South Main Street Bridge.
A structural engineer, who said that his company has been working on the bridge for the last two months, told WNYNewsNow's Ryan Hedrick that the bridge has never collapsed or had a "portion" that was considered collapsed because construction crews ensure that all holes are covered up with heavy steel plates at the end of each and every work day.
Police said Carpenter was walking from E. 2nd Street towards E. 1st street at 1:45 a.m when he reportedly went missing.
Image by Justin Gould/WNYNewsNow.
Authorities said an autopsy will be performed Wednesday morning at ECMC in Buffalo.
Common Sense King says:
That's sad to hear. Just awful. My condolences to the family. We couldn't imagine what they are going through right now. Reliving all of this daily. It's heartbreaking. Maybe now the family can get some closure. Not that it helps much. God bless. The Carpenter Family
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So sorry for the family


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The Jurong Bird Park Panorail was a  loop monorail system which ran within the Jurong Bird Park in Singapore. The system was constructed by Vonroll Transport Systems of Switzerland, which also built the Sentosa Monorail and Singapore Cable Car. Construction began in November 1990 and the system was launched by President Wee Kim Wee on 11 April 1992.

The monorail system used four fully air-conditioned four-car trains which travelled around the park in approximately 11 minutes. It ceased operations in 2012 and was replaced by a trackless tram service.

History

A monorail system was first mooted in 1988 when the Jurong Bird Park still utilised diesel trams to ferry visitors around the park. On 21 June 1990, a sign promoting a monorail development with two stations and four trains was sighted at the park. The proposed monorail would be Singapore's second monorail after the Sentosa Monorail which commenced operations in 1982. In September 1990, the executive director of the park, S.Thiruchelvam, said that a monorail would run silently and not emit pollution as it would be powered by electricity. It was also intended to facilitate closer contact between visitors and the birds.

The system was planned by Swiss engineering company Vonroll Transport Systems and construction began in November 1990. Its viaducts were painted in green to blend in with the natural environment. It was budgeted at  with a stipulated opening date in September 1991. An unveiling ceremony for the trains was held on 16 September 1991. The system was also announced as a "panorail", a portmanteau of "panoramic" and "rail". It was launched by President Wee Kim Wee on 11 April 1992, the 21st anniversary of the park.

Part of the panorail's route entered an aviary, which was promoted as "the only one of its kind in the world". Four trains, with a four-car setup, ran at 3-5 minute frequencies between stations. The trains were fully air-conditioned and ran in a  loop around the park, with each loop taking approximately 11 minutes. A recorded commentary was played during the journey detailing places of interest. Its tinted windows extended from the knees to the roof. Stations were equipped with a single lift for handicapped visitors and train seats could be lifted for wheelchairs to back into.

The panorail ceased operations in 2012. The panorail was still listed on the official website as of 14 April 2012, but was replaced by a trackless tram service listing by 3 May 2012.

Stations
The panorail had three stations:
 Main Station, near the entrance and amphitheatre
 Lory Station, near the Lory Loft
 Waterfall Station, near the Waterfall Aviary and Jurong Falls

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Q: Issue With *Only One* Animation Block (UILabel) Using AutoLayout I am using AutoLayout and am animating various constraint changes without any issue.  However, there is one UILabel in the VC that simply will not animate.  My desired animation is a wipe-like effect.  I have since setup a timer, as per rdelmar's suggestion as a UILabel does not support animating constraints, and am getting the effect I desire for labels that are only one line long.  However, labels that are multiple lines are not producing a wipe-like effect, but rather the characters are wrapping and as the label's width is increased.  Below is how I have the label's constraints setup.
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The below code is what I added after Rob's suggestion.  The first was my initial attempt to integrate his code with mine.  The second attempt was seeing if I could 'copy and paste' his code in.
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    }];
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A: I don't think animating with an NSTimer is a good approach.
I guess you want something like this:

I put the label inside a container view and I animate the container view's frame (via constraints).  Here's my scene outline:

So, I have width and height constraints on the label, and I also have width and height constraints on the container view (the label's superview).  The sizes of these width and height constraints don't really matter, because I will set them in code.  I have constraints on the label pinning it to the top and left edges of the container.  I have constraints on the container centering it in its parent (the root view of the scene).
I have the container's "Clip Subviews" checked (in the attributes inspector), and I have the label's view mode set to "Top Left" (the default is "Left").
In my view controller, I have outlets to the label, to the label's width and height constraints, and to the container's width and height constraints:
@interface ViewController ()
@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UILabel *label;
@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet NSLayoutConstraint *labelContainerWidthConstraint;
@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet NSLayoutConstraint *labelContainerHeightConstraint;
@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet NSLayoutConstraint *labelWidthConstraint;
@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet NSLayoutConstraint *labelHeightConstraint;
@end

When the view loads, I need to set up the constraints for the small size, so I pretend the small button was tapped, but I disable animation:
- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
    [UIView performWithoutAnimation:^{
        [self smallButtonWasTapped:self];
    }];
}

When the "Small" button is tapped, I want to animate the container's frame.  I have a hardcoded width, but I'd like to figure out the height programmatically by asking the label how tall it would be if it were one line tall.  However, I don't really want it to be one line tall, so I change its numberOfLines temporarily:
- (IBAction)smallButtonWasTapped:(id)sender {
    self.labelContainerWidthConstraint.constant = 150;
    self.label.numberOfLines = 1;
    self.labelContainerHeightConstraint.constant = [self.label sizeThatFits:CGSizeMake(CGFLOAT_MAX, CGFLOAT_MAX)].height;
    self.label.numberOfLines = 0;

Then I perform layout inside an animation block so the layout change will be animated:
    [UIView animateWithDuration:2 animations:^{
        [self.label.superview layoutIfNeeded];
    }

Note that I haven't modified the label's constraints, so it will keep the same frame and content.  It won't reflow, which seemed to be your chief complaint.
When the animation is finished, I'd like to show an ellipsis to represent the no-longer-visible content, so in the completion block, I do change the label's lineBreakMode and constraints:
      completion:^(BOOL finished) {
        if (finished) {
            self.label.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakByTruncatingTail;
            self.labelWidthConstraint.constant = self.labelContainerWidthConstraint.constant;
            self.labelHeightConstraint.constant = self.labelContainerHeightConstraint.constant;
        }
    }];

But I don't animate the layout, so the label will instantly change to showing the ellipsis.
When the "Big" button is tapped, I want to immediately get rid of the ellipsis and make the label full-sized so the user won't see missing or reflowing text:
- (IBAction)bigButtonWasTapped:(id)sender {
    // First, get rid of the ellipsis and resize the label without animation.
    self.label.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakByWordWrapping;
    self.label.numberOfLines = 0;
    self.labelWidthConstraint.constant = 300;
    self.labelHeightConstraint.constant = [self.label sizeThatFits:CGSizeMake(self.labelWidthConstraint.constant, CGFLOAT_MAX)].height;
    [self.label layoutIfNeeded];

Then I can set the container's constraints to match the label's, and animate the layout:
    // Now animate the container.
    self.labelContainerWidthConstraint.constant = self.labelWidthConstraint.constant;
    self.labelContainerHeightConstraint.constant = self.labelHeightConstraint.constant;
    [UIView animateWithDuration:2 animations:^{
        [self.label.superview layoutIfNeeded];
    }];
}

I've uploaded my project to this github repository.

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Q: How to place a TextView to the bottom of the screen in java How can I place a TextView to the bottom of the screen? I found some solutions based on xml but nothing when I write code in java.
TextView myText = new TextView(this);
myText.setText("some text");

In this case, the position is just in the top-left corner.
My XML is:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" tools:context=".MainActivity">

<TextView android:text="@string/hello_world" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/textView" />

</RelativeLayout>

A: Do something like this:
RelativeLayout relativeLayout = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.relativeLayout);
TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView);
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);

//Choose only one of the following.

//Add this if you want your myText be below textView.
params.addRule(RelativeLayout.BELOW, textView);

//Add this if you want to align your myText to the bottom of the screen.
params.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_BOTTOM);

TextView myText= new TextView(this);
myText.setLayoutParams(params);
myText.setText("Some Text");
relativeLayout.addView(myText);

where relativeLayout is a the layout you want to add the view to it, so you have to add an id (android:id="@+id/relativeLayout") to that layout, and textView is just another text view in your layout.
If you are going to use a LinearLayout, then no need to addRule() to your parameters. It doesn't even have that method as it already aligns the views vertically or horizontally.


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Leptusa pulchella är en skalbaggsart som först beskrevs av Mannerheim 1830.  Leptusa pulchella ingår i släktet Leptusa, och familjen kortvingar. Arten är reproducerande i Sverige.

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Welcome to the US Tax Calculator for the completion of Individual Tax Returns. This tool follows the tax return workflow associated with tax form 1040NR-EZ:, if this Form is not the right approach for your tax return calculation, please use one of our alternate tax calculators. If you are unsure which tax forms and associated online tax calculator to use, try our 'Which Tax Form is right for my Tax Return in?' tool which will help you select the correct tax form to meet your situation/preference.
City, town or post office, state, and ZIP code. If you have a foreign address, also complete spaces below. See instructions.
records. Under penalties of perjury, I declare that I have examined this return and accompanying schedules and statements, and to the best of my knowledge and belief, they are true, correct, and accurately list all amounts and sources of U.S. source income I received during the tax year. Declaration of preparer (other than taxpayer) is based on all information of which preparer has any knowledge.
A Of what country or countries were you a citizen or national during the tax year?
B In what country did you claim residence for tax purposes during the tax year?
If you answer "Yes" to (1) or (2), see Pub. 519, chapter 4, for expatriation rules that may apply to you.
E If you had a visa on the last day of the tax year, enter your visa type. If you did not have a visa, enter your U.S. immigration status on the last day of the tax year.
J Income Exempt from Tax-If you are claiming exemption from income tax under a U.S. income tax treaty with a foreign country, complete (1) through (3) below. See Pub. 901 for more information on tax treaties.
1. Enter the name of the country, the applicable tax treaty article, the number of months in prior years you claimed the treaty benefit, and the amount of exempt income in the columns below. Attach Form 8833 if required. See instructions.
If "Yes," attach a copy of the Competent Authority determination letter to your return.


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namespace SPM.Models
{
    using System;
    using System.Linq;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
    using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema;

    using SPM.Data.Contracts.Models;

    public class Project : AuditInfo, IDeletableEntity
    {
        public Project()
        {
            this.tasks = new HashSet<ProjectTask>();
        }

        private ICollection<ProjectTask> tasks;

        [Key]
        public int Id { get; set; }

        [Required]
        [MinLength(5)]
        [MaxLength(150)]
        public string Title { get; set; }

        [MaxLength(255)]
        public string Description { get; set; }

        [Required]
        public int ClientId { get; set; }

        public virtual Client Client { get; set; }

        [Required]
        public int StatusId { get; set; }

        public virtual ProjectStatus Status { get; set; }

        //[Required]
        public string CreatedById { get; set; }

        public virtual ApplicationUser CreatedBy { get; set; }

        public virtual ICollection<ProjectTask> Tasks
        {
            get { return this.tasks; }
            set { this.tasks = value; }
        }

        [Index]
        public bool IsDeleted { get; set; }

        public DateTime? DeletedOn { get; set; }
    }
}

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MSCA is proud to introduce the Sales Institute, an MSCA University program -- the first and only focused training program specific to service sales in the HVACR industry. This program, unlike any other, provides a clear career path for growing and developing service sales professionals to ensure their success, enhance their value to the company, encourage retention and, ultimately, increase sales. Nowhere else does such a comprehensive educational offering exist that focuses on your needs.
The Sales Institute will provide MSCA members with a structured, multi-level, multi-year training program for sales professionals in the HVACR industry. With ongoing pre- and post-assessments and feedback, participants will also have continued support as they progress in their careers.
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Now housing all of MSCA's sales programs, the Sales Institute has four programs that support all levels of service sales, from leaders of sales teams to entry-level employees and advanced-level personnel. It is designed to be of value to companies large and small – whether there are one or two sales professionals or an entire team. Additionally, the skills and expertise that is acquired during these programs can readily be applied to both maintenance and project sales.
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Whether it's your first time selling on Amazon or you're looking to chase your success with a new product, don't let haste get the better of you. Launching a new FBA product takes considerable financial and time investment. So you'll be kicking yourself hard if you fail due to rookie Amazon seller mistakes.
Even if you're already a seasoned seller, it often pays to humble yourself. Just because you've nailed it in the past, does not mean you can afford to skip the essentials this time. The last thing you want is to get stuck with a bunch of stock for a product selling at a snail's pace. The opportunity cost is too high.
Today we're revisiting the 5 most common newbie Amazon seller mistakes, plus we'll show you a bunch of neat tools we're using to overcome them with ease!
It can get awfully exciting looking at the estimated sales and revenues for products in new niches. When you finally find a product that's killing it, you might feel the urge to rush in and launch before others notice it too. But often, it pays to hold your horses a little while first.
Using the Jungle Scout Pro extension or Web App you can analyze entire niches and individual products with ease.
It's advisable to carefully monitor these factors over at least a week before pouncing. The market landscape can change very quickly, and the last thing you want to do is jump straight into a dog pile! If the competition seems to be creeping up in this short period of time, you might consider looking elsewhere.
You should know your main competitors like the back of your hand before you source a new product. Who they are, exactly what they are selling, why buyers love them and what they don't like. You can't afford to enter a new market with a generic copy of what others are selling. Or worse yet, an inferior product.
The key to success with private label selling is to identify weaknesses in existing products and improve upon them to strongly attract customers. So your product should have unique selling points and address buyer needs in a new way.
Even after you've launched, you still need to carefully observe the market during this early stage. Until your product is well established, it could still become more trouble than it's worth if the market changes drastically.
If you notice your sales starting to slow and (strong) competition beginning to arise, you MAY consider cutting your losses before ordering more inventory to pursue them. If there are more favored opportunities on your radar now's your chance to go for them instead!
Why not pursue them with money in your pocket rather than trying to revive your product in an increasingly difficult niche? Using Jungle Scout's Web App, you can easily keep an eye on your niche and all competitors.
Gone are the days where merely shipping 1000 units to Amazon was enough to get sales traction. With the rise of competition between sellers, a proper launch strategy is now essential to get noticed above others.
When your product first goes live, you'll find yourself at the back of the pack so to speak. You need to give your product some momentum to show Amazon your product is relevant and worthy of being put in front of buyers.
But how can you do that when your way back on page 18 for your top keywords?
The easiest way to drive cold, hard sales to your new products is by setting up promotions and dishing out coupons. Jump Send assists sellers to do this quickly and safely, while offering the biggest buyer marketplace to reach customers.
Many FBA sellers are getting great results with 50-90% off coupons. Generally, higher discounts can attract more buyers, which is ideal for more competitive niches.
Jump Send starts you with 3 products and unlimited emails for only $29/month.
Sellers regularly jump from page 10+ to the 1st page for their chosen keywords using promotions like this. Product Launch Websites are completely safe and highly beneficial for FBA sellers.
In fact, Jump Send was seen to be one of the most effective promotional strategies in Jungle Scout's Million Dollar Case Study.
Visibility – poorly optimized listings will not strongly signal relevancy to Amazon for your product keywords. This results in reduced exposure, sessions and opportunities to make sales.
Conversions – poorly optimized listings will suffer from lower conversion rates as fewer visitors turn into buyers.
If you want your product to show up favorably in search results for relevant buyer search terms, your SEO really needs to be on point.
First, you'll need to perform keyword research to identify the highest traffic, most relevant keywords for your products.
Secondly, you'll need to work them into your product listing using the latest Amazon SEO best practices.
It's impossible to get everything right based on your own judgment alone. Only the market itself can show you the truth. That's why you should optimize your product listing by split test variants against each other, and then using your own data to make informed decisions.
The ability to test all product listing features – including title, images, description, product features and keywords.
Automated pricing optimization – Profit Peak uses artificial intelligence to find and test your pricing on auto-pilot for a hands-off approach to maximizing product profitability.
Algorithm-powered split testing – leverages machine learning to pinpoint profitable changes.
Keyword tracking – keeps a record of keyword ranking so you can measure improvements.
Splitly's starter package is only $47 per month and gives you 3 concurrent tests and 100 tracked keywords. Considering the fact you could potentially double your revenue (or more) using this tool, it's a steal!
No one gets excited about bookkeeping. For many, it's a complete nightmare. But if your serious about building a long-term business, keeping on top of your financials is essential.
First, how else can you accurately track profitability? You could be hemorrhaging money without even realizing it (especially with Amazon PPC). Not knowing your exact profit is simply not a good business practice.
Second, there are legal issues. When it comes to paying taxes, your financials need to be straight or you could face serious consequences. If you later decide to sell your business, potential buyers will need to see all your financials before handing over the money.
Don't wait for that panicking feeling when you wish you had kept better track of your records. Get organized now and never worry about it again.
Fetcher is a simple-to-use accounting software specifically tailored for Amazon sellers. It plugs directly into Seller Central and generates beautifully clear reports. It takes literally 15 minutes to set up and will save you hours of pouring through excel sheets yourself.
All expenses on a per ASIN basis – including the cost of goods, Amazon Pay Per Click, Amazon FBA and sales fees.
Refunds and promotional tracking – these soon add up and you don't want to misjudge them.
Clear profit and loss statements – the exact performance of your business on any scale.
Fetcher's Startup Plan is only $19/month. Getting easily digestible business statements any other way you would require at least $300/month for a professional a bookkeeper.
Not fully capitalizing on the sales you make is a big Amazon seller mistake. You could be attracting more reviews and potential repeat customers by following up and reaching out.
Reviews are still the backbone of social proof that helps us attract shoppers and drive sales. Having more raving reviews on your product than the next seller will always play to your advantage.
Even seasoned sellers can stumble due to these mistakes, especially if they let their confidence get the best of them. So no matter which level you're at, address each of these areas to ensure your FBA business can flourish as you projected.
All these tools we've shared today can solve each of these issues and save time with little investment. Not to mention, can you imagine the potential profits being left on the table by not leveraging them?
And if you've made other Amazon seller mistakes you're not too embarrassed to admit, we'd love to hear from you in the comments below.


Absolutely nothing refreshes the appearance of a kitchen a lot..
Absolutely nothing refreshes the appearance of a kitchen a lot more than new kitchen cabinets. The sharp, clean lines and shiny hardware draw a person's eye and tie your whole room together. But there are therefore numerous options-how does a homeowner know what to decide on? Here are some tips to assist anyone select the perfect cabinetry for their property.
Before a home owner begins selecting kitchen that is new, she or he should know the exact layout associated with kitchen. Measurements must be taken, and an design that is overall should really be plumped for. This will make the ordering procedure even more structured. Standard lower cabinets is 24 ins deep and 36 ins tall, while top cabinets are at least 12 ins deep and 18 ins above the countertop. However, these measurements are only a guideline and certainly will be custom made.
Kitchen area cabinets could be ordered three ways: stock, semi-custom, or custom. Stock varieties come as-is and are also the absolute most affordable options. They might come put together or in a package to be assembled by the home owner. Semi-custom means buyers have a few options that are additional they're purchasing that will let them have more freedom, however they are nevertheless restricted to what exactly is already available. Custom choices are made especially for the home owner and may be modified to suit any configuration.
Standard cabinets are usually framed, meaning that the door and drawers are attached to a front side frame. Nonetheless, European, or frameless cabinetry, happens to be developing well in popularity in recent years. The door and drawers are fastened directly to the box in this option. The possible lack of a front face can lead to reduced energy regarding the structure, so experts suggest avoiding inexpensive materials such as for instance particle board and instead utilizing more wood that is substantial.
There are a number of various door styles, from traditional Shaker to flat to doors with cup panels. The door design is likely to make a significant impact on the entire form of your kitchen. Think about flat doors for a minimalist appearance or Shaker for a more traditional feel. Custom molding and different finishes can be included with current doors generate a much more look that is personalized.
Lots of add-ons may be integrated into cabinetry to modify it. Designs tend to alter based on technical styles. For example, home owners today often design integrated charging stations that could keep electronics from the countertop. Appliances such as for instance heavy mixers or coffee pots could be placed on lift-up shelving that is concealed behind doors. Other popular trends include pullout trash cans, doorways that open with a feeling, and built-in lighting that is LED.
In order to get the value that is best for their money, home owners should concentrate on the quality of materials and construction over desired features. Avoid over-customizing, as some features are therefore personalized as to damage resale value. Nonetheless, well-done construction will always be a investment that is sound.


New York City (Feb. 7, 2019)—The Dodge Momentum Index rose 4.7 percent in January to 157.7 (2000=100) from the revised December reading of 150.6. The index, issued by Dodge Data & Analytics, is a monthly measure of the first (or initial) report for nonresidential building projects in planning, which have been shown to lead construction spending for nonresidential buildings by a full year. January's increase reflected similar gains for the two components of the index—institutional building, up 5 percent, and commercial building, up 4.6 percent.
The January increase essentially reverses December's decline, and brings the overall Momentum Index back to November's level. January's reading is also consistent with the monthly average for the second half of 2018 and just slightly below the current expansion's high mark set in July 2018. Notably, however, the commercial component remains below the highs set during the summer of 2018, while the institutional component has gained traction as public funding for projects such as schools and transportation terminals remains supportive.
In January, nine projects, each with a value of $100 million or more, entered planning. The leading commercial building projects were two $300-million CloudHQ data centers in Ashburn, Virginia. The leading institutional building projects were a $235-million arena renovation project in Phoenix, Arizona, and a $140-million academic building at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. For the full details, visit construction.com.


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«Вернись в Сорренто» — израильский телевизионный художественный фильм, снятый в 2005 году на киностудии «Ronkino» режиссёром Максимом Ронкиным. В картине рассказывается мистическая криминальная история репатриантов из бывшего СССР.
 «Вернись в Сорренто» — первый израильский мистический триллер на русском языке.
 Первый в Израиле полнометражный фильм, снятый на русском языке полностью независимой кинокомпанией.

Сюжет
Главного героя зовут «Сорренто», по названию маленького поселка в Казахстане, построенного пленными итальянцами. Он живёт в Тель-Авивской ночлежке гастарбайтеров из СНГ и мечтает скопить денег и уехать в итальянский город, давший ему не то имя, не то прозвище…

Именно эти деньги и являются целью бандитской группировки, контролирующей криминалитет в том районе, где снимают квартиру «Сорренто» и «Жирный». К ним посылают «Колбу», чтобы он выбил из Сорренто деньги.

Параллельно Следователь Алекс ведёт расследование по делу об убийстве своей возлюбленной Джейн. На допросы он вызывает людей, способных, по его мнению, пролить свет на это преступление. Это рэкетир Жора, гастарбайтер по кличке «Жирный» и попрошайка-бомж Санёк. На допросах то и дело всплывает имя — Сорренто. Точнее не имя, а прозвище (кличка) молодого человека, приехавшего в Израиль, чтобы заработать деньги и на них уехать в Италию, в Сорренто. Именно поэтому его так и прозвали — «Сорренто», что он бредит этим городом и мечтает в него уехать.

Следователь Алекс видел «Сорренто» в компании со своей убитой возлюбленной Джейн. Но постепенно выясняется, что «Сорренто» тоже убит. Всё произошло в пещере, войдя в которую, можно затем попасть в любое место на земле. Его убили из-за денег, которые он копил для поездки в Италию. Но Сорренто не убивал Джейн. Её убил сам следователь, её убил Алекс…

Премии и награды
 XXI международный хайфский кинофестиваль — 1-я премия в номинации «телевизионная драма»
 XXI международный хайфский кинофестиваль — режиссёру фильма Максим Ронкин Приз за «Лучший драматический дебют»

В ролях
 Алексей Штукин — Сорренто
 Алексей Макрецкий — Жирный
 Юрий Бернштейн — Санёк
 Клим Каменко — следователь Алекс
 Ксения Рабинович — Джейн
 Сергей Баландинский — рэкетир Жора
 Дмитрий Чудновский — Колба
 Шауль Тиктинер — Старец-прорицатель
 Игорь Мушкатин — Смотрящий
 Денис Гур-Арье — мальчик-видение

Примечания