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Slackware Security Advisory - mozilla-firefox Updates

Slackware Security Advisory - New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues.




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Slackware Security Advisory - mozilla-firefox Updates

Slackware Security Advisory - New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues.




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Slackware Security Advisory - mozilla-firefox Updates

Slackware Security Advisory - New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues.




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Slackware Security Advisory - mozilla-firefox Updates

Slackware Security Advisory - New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix a security issue.




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Slackware Security Advisory - mozilla-firefox Updates

Slackware Security Advisory - New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues.






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Mozilla's Firefox 70 Is Out: Privacy Reports Reveal Whose Cookies Are Tracking You





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VLC For iOS Insecure Direct Object Reference

VLC for iOS was vulnerable to an unauthenticated insecure direct object reference vulnerability allowing for an attacker to compromise media. This issue was patched in the March, 2020 release.












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Teltonika RUT9XX Reflected Cross Site Scripting

Teltonika RUT9XX routers with firmware before 00.05.01.1 are prone to cross site scripting vulnerabilities in hotspotlogin.cgi due to insufficient user input sanitization.




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Kenya Treasury chief ramps up reforms to grow investment

Kenya’s cabinet secretary for the national treasury and planning, Ukur Yatani, discusses the country’s agenda of fiscal reforms and the importance of constructing an east-west Africa highway.




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Reforms could unlock African development, reports McKinsey

Continued African development could hinge on public finance reforms.




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Oracle Refutes 'SSH Hacking' Slur




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FERC revises three-year forecast to reflect rapid growth of renewable energy

According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data just released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), within the past month, the agency has dramatically revised its three-year forecast for changes in the U.S. electrical generating capacity mix. Sharp declines are foreseen for fossil fuels and nuclear power while accompanied by even stronger growth in renewable energy (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) than earlier projected.




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AES refinances solar portfolio with help of insurance against underperformance

kWh Analytics, a leader in solar risk management, this week announced the first refinancing supported by the Solar Revenue Put. The portfolio of 41 projects, owned by AES, totaling approximately 28 MW DC of capacity is located in Arizona and Massachusetts. The portfolio is being funded by Silicon Valley Bank and a Japanese financial services company. Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, a leading global corporate insurer, is providing capacity for the Solar Revenue Put.




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FERC revises three-year forecast to reflect rapid growth of renewable energy

According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data just released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), within the past month, the agency has dramatically revised its three-year forecast for changes in the U.S. electrical generating capacity mix. Sharp declines are foreseen for fossil fuels and nuclear power while accompanied by even stronger growth in renewable energy (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) than earlier projected.





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JSW Energy refinances US$1.1 billion in hydroelectric project debt

JSW Energy Ltd., based in Mumbai, India, is refinancing about US$1.1 billion via a 5:25 financial structure for its hydropower-related debt following the purchase of two hydroelectric projects in November 2014 from Jaiprakash Power Ventures Ltd.  




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JSW Energy refinances US$1.1 billion in hydroelectric project debt

JSW Energy Ltd., based in Mumbai, India, is refinancing about US$1.1 billion via a 5:25 financial structure for its hydropower-related debt following the purchase of two hydroelectric projects in November 2014 from Jaiprakash Power Ventures Ltd.  




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APS battery energy storage facility explosion injures four firefighters; industry investigates

Last Friday evening in Surprise, Arizona a storage facility owned by Arizona Public Service (APS) exploded, injuring four firefighters. Reporter for azfamily.com, Maria Hechanova, visited the scene yesterday and reported that the explosion happened while four hazmat firefighters from Peoria were working to extinguish a battery fire at the facility.




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FERC revises three-year forecast to reflect rapid growth of renewable energy

According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data just released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), within the past month, the agency has dramatically revised its three-year forecast for changes in the U.S. electrical generating capacity mix. Sharp declines are foreseen for fossil fuels and nuclear power while accompanied by even stronger growth in renewable energy (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) than earlier projected.




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Power REIT's Preferred Stock Offering: A Hedge That Pays 7.75%

Several smart money managers I know are excited by the heads-I-win, tails-I-win big opportunity offered by Power REIT’s (NYSE:PW) attempt to foreclose on its railroad lease with Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE:NSC) and Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (WLE). I know this because I’m one of them, and I’ve talked to others about it. Others aren’t quite so sure.




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The Wrong Answer to Tax Reform

For many years, and particularly since the Energy Policy Act of 2005, U.S. federal income tax policy has served a dual function as both tax and renewable energy policy. However, last month House Ways and Means Chairman David Camp (R-MI) released an expansive tax reform proposal in which a number of credits and deductions for renewable energy technology were recommended for repeal, effectively rewriting renewable energy policy by a proposed elimination of renewable energy from the federal tax code.





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Utilities, ISOs Reflect on Transmission in Light of EPA’s Clean Power Plan

On what effect the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan will have on transmission development in the country, including potentially a need for more transmission to transport added renewable energy, Frank Poirot, senior media specialist of transmission with Northeast Utilities (NYSE:NU) told TransmissionHub that increasing the grid's capacity to transmit power is one way to meet the growing need and enable renewable generation.




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India Pledges Funds for Grid Reform, Solar Energy to Curb Blackouts

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government plans to spend 15 billion rupees ($250 million) on programs to boost solar power and reform electricity supply to farmers to end blackouts in India.




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FERC revises three-year forecast to reflect rapid growth of renewable energy

According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data just released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), within the past month, the agency has dramatically revised its three-year forecast for changes in the U.S. electrical generating capacity mix. Sharp declines are foreseen for fossil fuels and nuclear power while accompanied by even stronger growth in renewable energy (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) than earlier projected.




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Updated: What the Proposed US Energy Tax Reforms Mean for Renewables

For those clamoring for (and against) the year-end-expiring legislation, and anyone in favor of some tax-code simplification, today the government has offered an early holiday present: proposed reform for some key areas including the production tax credit (PTC) and investment tax credit (ITC).




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Brazil Bioenergy Bonanza: New Biofuel Refinery in the Works, Areva To Build 150-MW Biomass Plant

Brazil, known as a leader in the bioenergy scene, continues to show its dominance in the industry with plans for a new cellulosic ethanol plant and a 150-MW woody biomass plant, the nation's largest.




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Burma's Constitutional Referendum: Breakthrough or Status Quo?

Burma's Constitutional Referendum: Breakthrough or Status Quo?
On May 10, the Burmese people will vote on a new constitution, a rare opportunity for the Burmese to express their political opinions about the ruling military junta's protracted path to "guided democracy."

In the latest edition of the East-West Center in Washington's Asia Pacific Bulletin series of issue briefs on current events, Zaw Oo, professor of international development at Chiang Mai University in Thailand, argues that, while the May referendum represents a significant step forward for the Burmese political process, procedural mishaps, opacity about the language of the constitution itself, and an imminent clash between the state news media's "yes vote" and the Burmese democracy movement's "no vote" campaigns may negatively impact the referendum process.




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Ground Rent Zero - the Government's Response to Consultation on Leasehold Reform

The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, James Brokenshire, has published the Government’s response to the consultation on leasehold reform. Described as delivering on the Government’s manifesto pledge to &ld...




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Leadership Program Virtual Workshop: Reflective Writing

Start Date: 
May 11 2020 - 4:00pm
End Date: 
May 11 2020 - 5:30pm
Timezone: 
Hawaii time
Description: 

Experience a “slow” writing process that encourages reflection in a supportive environment. In response to prompts, you will write for 3-6 minutes, and then choose sections of your writing to read aloud. Reflective Writing sessions often reveal new ideas and generate a sense of community. This session will be co-facilitated with LP alum Hira Sidiqui. Materials needed: Just pen, paper, and an open mind! The workshop will be repeated on Wednesday, May 6 and Monday, May 11 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM HST. This event is open to Leadership Program alumni. 

 

Location: 
Zoom meeting
Contact Name: 
Gretchen Alther




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Further Reforms to Compulsory Purchase

Many of the reforms to the compulsory purchase system that were first consulted on back in 2015 are finally being implemented. However, the introduction of these measures has been complicated by the fact that they are split between the Housing and P...




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Scottish Planning Reform: The Planning (Scotland) Bill 2017

The release of the Planning (Scotland) Bill heralds the next key stage of Scottish planning reform. The Bill is intended to transform the planning system: to strengthen and simplify planning processes and positively enable development rather than re...




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Lifecare decision merits careful consideration

A Planning Inspector has decided that ‘event fees’ should be taken into account in assessing the viability of retirement living developments and their ability to contribute to planning gain. Usually due on the death of a resident, the In...




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East-West Center Announces Scholarship Partnership with Okinawa Prefecture

NAHA, OKINAWA  (Sept. 20, 2014) – At the East-West Center’s 2014 international alumni conference that concluded yesterday  in Naha, Okinawa, Center officials announced a new partnership with the Okinawa Prefecture Government that will continue an established scholarship program that allows several Okinawan students each year to pursue graduate degree or leadership program study at EWC and the University of Hawai‘i.

From left: Hidemasu Goya, Robert Nakasone, EWC Adjunct Project Specialist, and Sayaka Sakuma

 




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Eversheds' IHC e-briefing 195: Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill update - Headline news but little detail

In our briefing of 23 May 2012, we reported the publication of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill, legislation which proposes various measures to improve resolution of employment disputes and tribunal refo...




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Refinancing and the credit crunch: new rules from 1 November

The credit crunch has affected all areas of life. It is now bringing about changes to the main guidance on UK private finance initiative (PFI) projects: the Standardisation of PFI Contracts (SoPC4). It has been clear in recent months that the ...




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Electricity Market Reform – the highlights

1.  Summary On 12 July the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), released its eagerly anticipated Electricity Market Reform White Paper (the White Paper). The contents of the White Paper bring some further clarity to the measures desc...