ay The Clean Power Plan: Justice Delayed By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: 2016-08-24T16:51:00Z In the case of the Fossil Fuel Industry, et. al. VS Earth, et. al., I find myself asking—not for the first time—is justice delayed, justice denied? It should come as no surprise that I am convinced it is. Full Article Hydropower Baseload Bioenergy Wind Power Solar Geothermal
ay Part IV: Justice Delayed — Will Politics Trump Justice in the Case of the Clean Power Plan? By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: 2016-09-29T16:15:00Z By the time this column is published, oral arguments in the legal challenge to the Clean Power Plan will have already been made. The en banc panel of 10 appeals court judges is not likely to render its decision before the New Year. No matter the opinion, it will be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Full Article Hydropower Baseload Storage Bioenergy Wind Power Solar Geothermal
ay Field Day: AI Startup Cultivates Robo Tractors for ‘Swarm Farming’ Disruption By blogs.nvidia.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:00:35 GMT Professional pyrotechnician Zack James is lighting his next fuse under the tractor market. The founder of Rabbit Tractors develops autonomous farm robots intended for multiple tasks and to be scaled up in number as needed, challenging traditional tractors. Based in northwest Indiana, Rabbit Tractors is a so-called swarm farming startup among a field of like-minded Read article > The post Field Day: AI Startup Cultivates Robo Tractors for ‘Swarm Farming’ Disruption appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog. Full Article
ay NVIDIA Announces GTC 2020 Keynote with CEO Jensen Huang Set for May 14 By nvidianews.nvidia.com Published On :: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:00:00 GMT Get Amped for Latest Platform Breakthroughs in AI, Deep Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics and Professional Graphics Full Article
ay Gut Instinct: Human Microbiome May Reveal COVID-19 Mysteries By blogs.nvidia.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 15:00:06 GMT Days before a national lockdown in the U.S., Daniel McDonald realized his life’s work had put a unique tool in his hands to fight COVID-19. The assay kits his team was about to have made by the tens of thousands could be repurposed to help understand the novel coronavirus that causes the disease. McDonald is Read article > The post Gut Instinct: Human Microbiome May Reveal COVID-19 Mysteries appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog. Full Article
ay Around the World in AI Days: NVIDIA’s Keith Strier Talks AI Nations By blogs.nvidia.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 21:00:58 GMT As NVIDIA’s vice president of worldwide AI initiatives, Keith Strier is thinking on a global scale. He leads an initiative called AI Nations, a worldwide program that helps government leaders and stakeholders develop plans to implement AI to advance national priorities and drive economic growth. Strier spoke to AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about AI Read article > The post Around the World in AI Days: NVIDIA’s Keith Strier Talks AI Nations appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog. Full Article
ay Gut Instinct: Human Microbiome May Reveal COVID-19 Mysteries By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 15:00:06 +0000 Days before a national lockdown in the U.S., Daniel McDonald realized his life’s work had put a unique tool in his hands to fight COVID-19. The assay kits his team was about to have made by the tens of thousands could be repurposed to help understand the novel coronavirus that causes the disease. McDonald is Read article > The post Gut Instinct: Human Microbiome May Reveal COVID-19 Mysteries appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog. Full Article Research Supercomputing GPU Computing High Performance Computing Medical Research and Healthcare New GPU Uses Parallel Computing
ay Around the World in AI Days: NVIDIA’s Keith Strier Talks AI Nations By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 21:00:58 +0000 As NVIDIA’s vice president of worldwide AI initiatives, Keith Strier is thinking on a global scale. He leads an initiative called AI Nations, a worldwide program that helps government leaders and stakeholders develop plans to implement AI to advance national priorities and drive economic growth. Strier spoke to AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about AI Read article > The post Around the World in AI Days: NVIDIA’s Keith Strier Talks AI Nations appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog. Full Article The AI Podcast Artificial Intelligence
ay Understanding the Day of the Lord, Part 2 (1 Thessalonians 5:1-3) By feeds.gty.org Published On :: Sun, 02 Dec 2018 00:00:00 Check here each week to keep up with the latest from John MacArthur's pulpit at Grace Community Church. Full Article 1 Thessalonians
ay Understanding the Day of the Lord, Part 3 (1 Thessalonians 5:1-3) By feeds.gty.org Published On :: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 00:00:00 Check here each week to keep up with the latest from John MacArthur's pulpit at Grace Community Church. Full Article 1 Thessalonians
ay Finding the Narrow Way to Heaven (Matthew 7:13-27) By feeds.gty.org Published On :: Sun, 12 May 2019 00:00:00 Check here each week to keep up with the latest from John MacArthur's pulpit at Grace Community Church. Full Article Matthew
ay EWC50 Spotlight: 'Going Green' at the EWC: Student Fellows Lead the Way for Environmental Sustainability By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:35:19 +0000 EWC50 Spotlight: 'Going Green' at the EWC: Student Fellows Lead the Way for Environmental Sustainability Sustainable EWC initiative volunteers help manage the Center’s recycling efforts. "It is my firm belief that change comes from our own community--recycling in the EWC community is an example of this,” stated Mariko Miyahira, EWC Participants’ Association (EWCPA) Sustainability Co-coordinator. “By collecting bottles, paper, and other recyclables, EWC participants are putting their beliefs into practice, and we are making change within our community." Full Article
ay Spotlight on Alumni: EWC Pays Tribute to Alumnus Mau Piailug, Master Navigator of the Pacific By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:35:21 +0000 Spotlight on Alumni: EWC Pays Tribute to Alumnus Mau Piailug, Master Navigator of the Pacific EWC Alumnus Mau Piailug (photo by Monte Costa). The East-West Center expresses its deep sympathy to the family and friends of Mau Piailug as we mourn his recent passing. Piailug, a humble, traditional navigator from the Micronesian island of Satawal in Yap, is hailed as the catalyst for launching the cultural renaissance in the Pacific. In 1976, Piailug sat at the helm of the replica ancient Hawaiian voyaging canoe, the Hokule‘a, as it completed a historic journey, sailing 2,300 miles between Hawai‘i and Tahiti without modern-day navigational instruments. Full Article
ay EWC Conference Underway in Bali By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:35:38 +0000 EWC Conference Underway in Bali Among the conference speakers was Governor Linda Lingle of Hawaii. HONOLULU (Nov. 13) – The EWC/EWCA 2008 International Conference got underway yesterday in Bali, Indonesia, with welcoming remarks by the Governor of Bali, the U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia and the Indonesian Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare, followed by the conference’s keynote address by East-West Center President Charles E. Morrison. Full Article
ay Former EWC President Everett Kleinjans Passes Away By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 03 May 2012 04:21:06 +0000 The East-West Center community has been saddened to learn that former EWC President Everett “Ets” Kleinjans passed away on April 30 at a care home in Michigan. A linguist who taught in China and Japan before joining the Center in 1967 as Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Kleinjans then became EWC’s Chancellor from 1968 to 1974. After helping to guide the Center through independent incorporation, he became its first President in 1975, serving until 1980. Subsequently, he taught at Hawai’i Pacific University and worked for a number of years in Cambodia before returning to his home town of Holland, Michigan. Full Article
ay EWC’s USSP and USTL Alumni Play Vital Roles in their Countries’ Development By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 22:03:09 +0000 USTL and USSP student fellows meet with Julia Findlay in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Academic Exchanges. Full Article
ay EWC Emeritus Scholar Lee-Jay Cho Receives Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 23 May 2013 00:29:54 +0000 EWC Emeritus Scholar Lee-Jay Cho has been awarded Japan’s prestigious Order of the Rising Sun (Gold Rays with Rosette), for his contributions to “the enhancement of economic relations between Asian countries, including Japan, and the U.S., and the promotion of research exchanges in the field of demography." With doctorate degrees in economics and demography from Japanese universities and a third Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago, Dr. Cho formerly served as director of EWC’s Population Institute, as well as executive vice president and president pro tem. In the 1960s and ‘70s, he was an advisor to the governments of Malaysia and the Republic of Korea on population, human resources and urban issues, and he has long served a Chairman of the Northeast Asia Economic Forum. Full Article
ay Former EWC President Victor Li Passes Away By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 02:45:53 +0000 The East-West Center community is saddened by the death former EWC President Victor Hao Li, who passed away on Sept. 18 in Oakland, California, at the age of 72. Born in Hong Kong, Dr. Li taught Chinese and international law at the University of Michigan, Columbia and Stanford before serving as President of EWC from 1981-1989. Full Article
ay EWC Student Wins Award in Malay Language Speech Championship By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 01:37:42 +0000 Honolulu (October 12, 2015) – Wyatt Gordon, a current EWC degree fellow in in urban and regional planning, recently returned from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he competed in Pidato Antarabangsa Bahasa Melayu , or International Malay Language Speech Championship. The first American to ever to reach the final round of this competition since it was started nearly a decade ago, he took third place overall and won a prize of $3,000 after delivering a speech in Malay on how he found his heritage through language. The speech contest was broadcast live in front of a studio audience of several thousand people, including the Prime Minister, and was viewed by a television audience of several million viewers across Southeast Asia. Full Article
ay Happy East-West Center Day, May 14! By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 10 May 2019 21:44:04 +0000 On May 14, 1960, US President Dwight Eisenhower signed into law the act of Congress that established the East-West Center as a place “where scholars and students in various fields from the nations of the East and West may study, give and receive training, (and) exchange ideas and views.” Full Article
ay France may have had the virus in December By www.shanghaidaily.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 +0800 FRENCH scientists say they may have identified a possible case of the new coronavirus dating back to December — about a month before the first cases were officially confirmed in Europe. In a study published Full Article World
ay Commission proposal paving the way for UCITS IV By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2008-07-25 16 July 2008 Full Article
ay AIFMD update: ESMA updates AIFMD Q&As and delays opinion on the extension of the AIFMD passport to non-EU entities By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2015-07-23 Updated AIFMD Q&As The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published an updated version of its Q&A paper on the application of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). This publication was released on... Full Article
ay Lawbite: Faraday magnet for concerned developers? By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2018-12-06 Faraday Development Ltd v West Berkshire Council [2018] EWCA Civ 2532 Relevant background: The Court of Appeal has issued a decision that has rendered a development contract between a Council and a private developer for the regeneration of an indust... Full Article
ay Lawbite: Successful submission that payment wasnt required By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2019-02-11 Ramoyle Developments Limited v Scottish Borders Council [2019] CSOH 1 A local authority entered a contract to sell an area of land for regeneration. Either party to the contract was entitled to withdraw from the sale if the purchasers failed t... Full Article
ay Lawbite Oral agreement did not extinguish right of way By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2019-08-20 Pezaro & Anor v Bourne & Anor [2019] EWHC 1964 (Ch) The High Court has held that a right of way was not extinguished where a landowner had relied on an oral agreement made with the previous owner of the land which benefited from the right of... Full Article
ay Lawbite: Business Rates - Two Cases Bring Positive News For Ratepayers By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2018-05-16 Ryan Fisher Vinyl & Carpet Showroom RA/94/2017 Thorntons plc and Clarions Solicitors Limited RA/80/2017 and RA/93/2017 The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) has handed down two decisions recently which have highlighted the Tribunal’s pragmati... Full Article
ay Lawbite: Does an oral promise to pay amount to a guarantee? By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2020-01-16 Deepak Abbhi v Richard John Slade (trading as Richard Slade & Co) [2019] EWCA Civ 2175 The Court of Appeal recently unanimously held that an oral promise by a son-in-law to give money to his father-in-law to pay legal fees was an indemnity and n... Full Article
ay Coronavirus Dividends payable partly in stock may provide capital flexibility to BDCs US By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2020-05-05 ... Full Article
ay Court makes finding of Unfair Relationship as a consequence of Secret Commission Payments By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2009-10-01 It is reported today in the media that a Deputy District Judge in the South Shields County Court has made a finding against MBNA ("the Creditor") in respect of various aspects of the enforceability of a credit card agreement and a payment protection... Full Article
ay Greater Manchester Mayoral Powers Update By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2016-12-14 When it comes to the devolution of fiscal and functional responsibilities to city regions, Greater Manchester continues to be well ahead of the curve. Additional functions for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) that have already been t... Full Article
ay Aylesbury Estate CPO The Secretary of State Consents to Judgment By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2017-05-31 In September 2016 Communities secretary Sajid Javid decided not to confirm a compulsory purchase order (CPO) which underpinned regeneration proposals for the Aylesbury Estate in the London Borough of Southwark (Southwark). The CPO sought to acquire ... Full Article
ay Town and village Greens: They're not always what you expect By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2018-06-01 The risk of inadvertently sterilising the development potential of land As the phrase ‘town or village green’ tends to conjure mental images of a rural idyll with village fetes and cricket matches played on broad expanses of green land i... Full Article
ay Top-grosser ‘Better Days’ walks away with 8 awards By www.shanghaidaily.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 00:05:00 +0800 “BETTER Days” became the biggest winner by taking home eight awards out of 12 nominations, including the best film, best director, and best actress, at the 39th Hong Kong Film Awards yesterday. Due to Full Article Nation
ay Milky Way map with highest resolution unveiled By www.shanghaidaily.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 07:30:28 +0800 After a 15-year study, an international team of astronomers has unveiled a map with the highest resolution to date of the spiral structure of the Milky Way, offering clear proof that it is a barred spiral Full Article Nation
ay Hiroshima Mayor to Commemorate 50 Years of Sister-City Relationship with Honolulu By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:32:26 +0000 Hiroshima Mayor to Commemorate 50 Years of Sister-City Relationship with Honolulu HONOLULU (June 25) – The Mayor of Hiroshima, the Honorable Tadatoshi Akiba, will commemorate 50 years of the sister-city relationship between Hiroshima and Honolulu at a special luncheon presentation on Wednesday, July 8. In addition to the mayor’s presentation, there will be Japanese musical entertainment and a special photo exhibit centering on Sadako Sasaki, the young Hiroshima atomic bombing victim who famously folded 1,000 cranes for peace before she died from radiation-induced leukemia. Full Article
ay Hiroshima Mayor: 50-Year Sister-City Bond with Honolulu ‘Symbol of Hope’ By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:32:26 +0000 Hiroshima Mayor: 50-Year Sister-City Bond with Honolulu ‘Symbol of Hope’ Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba East-West Center President Charles E. Morrison and Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba. Full Article
ay EWC Conference Gets Underway in Bali By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:32:36 +0000 International Conference of Asia Pacific Scholars, Officials and Business Leaders Gets Underway in Bali HONOLULU (Nov. 13) – An international conference of scholars, officials, educators and business leaders got underway Thursday in Bali, Indonesia, with welcoming remarks by the Governor of Bali, the U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia and the Indonesian Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare, followed by the conference’s keynote address by East-West Center President Charles E. Morrison. The Honorable Aburizal Bakrie, Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare, told the more that 500 assembled scholars, officials and business professionals – most of whom are Center alumni – that the current global economic crisis serves as a powerful reminder “of the need to improve our cooperative efforts, of our bonds together, of the common mechanisms that we can use to solve our problems.” Full Article
ay Former Malaysia Finance Minister Tun Daim Zainuddin Re-elected to East-West Center Board of Governors By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:32:48 +0000 Former Malaysia Finance Minister Tun Daim Zainuddin Re-elected to East-West Center Board of Governors FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Derek Ferrar Media Relations Specialist Phone: (808) 944-7204 Email: ferrard@EastWestCenter.org HONOLULU (March 19) – The East-West Center’s Board of Governors has re-elected one of its members, the Hon. Tun Daim Zainuddin, to another three-year term. At a meeting on Feb. 29, the board members unanimously elected Daim to his third term on the board, which will extend until March 2011. Full Article
ay Jan. 31 is Application Deadline for Journalism Fellowships to India, Malaysia and the U.S. By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:32:53 +0000 Jan. 31 is Application Deadline for Journalism Fellowships to India, Malaysia and the U.S. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Derek Ferrar Media Relations Specialist East-West Center Phone: (808) 944-7204 Email: ferrard@EastWestCenter.org American and Asian Journalists to Focus on Issues in the U.S. and among Asia’s Muslims HONOLULU (Dec. 19, 2007) -- The East-West Center is accepting fellowship applications from Asian and American journalists who want to learn more about the United States and Muslims in Asia. The Senior Journalists Seminar, a travel-and-dialogue program, will take American journalists to Kolkata (Calcutta), India and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Full Article
ay Summer Institute on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Underway in Singapore By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:15:11 +0000 The 5th annual Summer Institute in International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and Human Rights will take place from 16 to 26 July 2012 in Singapore and focus on the topic of business and human rights. The Summer Institute is a regionally based workshop held in partnership with organizations in Southeast Asia to consider key IHL and human rights issues, past and present, facing the region. Established in 2008 by the Asian International Justice Initiative, a collaborative project between the East-West Center and the War Crimes Studies Center, the Summer Institute is designed for participants working across a broad range of fields and disciplines within the Asia Pacific region or whose work has an Asia Pacific focus. Previous Summer Institute sessions have attracted lawyers, journalists, government officials, and NGO workers from more than 15 countries. Full Article
ay Future Leaders of the Pacific Conference Underway in American Samoa By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:25:30 +0000 HONOLULU (Feb. 4, 2013) –The East-West Center, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State and the Government of American Samoa, is currently hosting a Future Leaders of the Pacific conference in Pago Pago to address critical issues facing the Pacific Islands region. The February 4-7 gathering has convened about 25 young professionals from across Oceania, along with regional leaders and academic specialists, to focus on trends, issues, and opportunities for collective regional action. Full Article
ay Youth Leadership Exchange Participants from Burma Awarded Funds for Mandalay Environment Project By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 02:19:20 +0000 HONOLULU (Dec. 3, 2013) -- Five high school students and one teacher from Burma who were recent participants in the Southeast Asia Youth Leadership Program at the East-West Center have won a grant of $7,000 in a project proposal competition sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, which funds the SEAYLP program. The EWC program alumni received their award for a proposal to educate the public in the city of Mandalay about environmental issues – with a special focus on outreach to adolescents – and to decrease the amount of litter in the community through clean-ups and placement of recycling bins. Full Article
ay Malay Theatre: Dance, Shadow Play and Music By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 21:27:11 +0000 Sunday, April 10, 2016 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. EWC Imin Center-Jefferson Hall 1777 East-West Rd. Free Admission Reserve seats at http://ewcarts.eventbrite.com or call (808) 944-7177. Donations are welcome and will be accepted at the event. Full Article
ay East-West Center Welcomes New Diplomat-in-Residence, Jay Avecilla By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 01:58:41 +0000 HONOLULU (Aug. 6, 2019) – Juan “Jay” Avecilla, a 16-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service, has joined the East-West Center as Diplomat-in-Residence. He will be posted at the Center until June 2020. Prior to his arrival in Honolulu, Mr. Avecilla served as Management Officer in the U.S. Consulate General in Milan, Italy. Previously, he has served in various management positions at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan and in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs in Washington, D.C. His other overseas assignments included tours as Consular/Management Officer in Fukuoka, Japan, Consular Officer in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Economic Officer in Hanoi, Vietnam. Full Article
ay HR e-briefing 299 - Notice pay may be taxed By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2007-02-28 The extent to which payments in lieu of notice (PILONs) may attract tax has for a long time been a complex issue and one which has not always received consistent treatment by HM Revenue and Customs. The issue is straightforward if the payment is ma... Full Article
ay HR e-briefing 417 - unfair dismissal awards to rise with redundancy pay By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2009-06-09 In e-briefings Full Article
ay HR e-briefing - 496 Changes to pay procedures By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2011-03-17 From 6 April 2011 significant changes will be made to the operation of PAYE on both payments made to employees following the termination of their employment and on the engagement of new employees who fail to provide a P45. From that date, employers ... Full Article
ay Eversheds' HR e-briefing 513: Termination Payments Parting on good terms By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2011-07-01 The Employment Appeals Tribunal has issued a decision this week which highlights a potential pitfall for employers who fail to identify correctly the nature of a termination payment. Payments expressed to be “ex-gratia” (ie paid without ... Full Article
