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  • Abu Dhabi Ports Signs 30-Year Deal with MSC to Build Terminal – gCaptain
    http://gcaptain.com/abu-dhabi-ports-signs-30-year-deal-with-msc-to-build-terminal

    Abu Dhabi Ports has signed a 30-year concession agreement with Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) to build a new container terminal at its Khalifa Port.

    Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has spent billions developing the port, which opened in 2012, as part of ongoing efforts to diversify its oil-rich economy.

    Khalifa Port is on a man-made island roughly half-way between the centres of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, and about 60 kilometres (37 miles) south from Dubai’s huge Jebel Ali port.

    Construction of the new terminal will include deepening berths to make Khalifa Port capable of handling the world’s biggest bulk cargo vessels, state-owned Abu Dhabi Ports said in a statement on Monday.

    Swiss-based MSC will invest 4 billion dirhams ($1.1 billion) over the life of the concession in operational equipment which will include increasing the number of ship-to-shore cranes from 12 to 25, it said.

    We are confident that with this investment we will continue to ensure a high level of service for our customers and have the capacity to grow the scale of our operations in the UAE,” MSC’s President and Chief Executive Officer Diego Aponte said.

    Abu Dhabi Ports expects the overall capacity of Khalifa Port to increase to 8.5 million TEUs from 2.5 million TEUs in five years. ($1 = 3.6728 dirham)

  • .:Middle East Online:: :.
    http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=87979

    The Middle East, largely defined by Britain and France, the victors of the first world war, is falling apart as the region is consumed by unrivalled conflicts and political upheaval. It is splintering along religious and tribal lines — the very ones that the colonial powers failed to recognise — in large part a consequence of the calamitous Anglo-American invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

    “We’re seeing the centrifugal forces of tribal or religious or ethnically divided societies coming apart because the old guard has lost influence and credibility due to the passage of time, grass-roots forces empowered by new technologies and the deep frustrations and disengagement of outside powers,” explained David Rothkopf, editor-at-large of the journal Foreign Policy.

    Syria lies at the apex of this disintegration, splintered by a 7-year-old war that has come to involve the entire region along with the United States, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

    The country that was once an Arab powerhouse is likely to fragment into at least three sect-based entities: Iran-backed minority Shias on the north-eastern border with Shia-dominated Iraq along with a minority Alawite statelet and a majority Sunni region. It is possible there would also be self-ruling Kurdish and Druze enclaves.

    The breakup of Syria is widely seen to be inevitable because most people refuse to be ruled by the harsh, Alawite-dominated regime under the Assad dynasty, which since 1971 had become a dynastic republic through a smothering network of institutionalised corruption, fear and terror.

    The region has never been stable since the Ottomans were crushed in world war one after ruling the region for some 400 years. The subsequent collapse of their empire and the artificial division of Arab lands between the wartime victors Britain and France doomed the region to decades of death and destruction.

    Un festival que je me suis permis de grasser par endroit tellement c’est magnifique ! Même BHL n’arriverait pas à faire aussi bien.

    #syrie #prophétie_autoréalisatrice #fardeau_de_l'homme_blanc

    • L’auteur
      David J. Rothkopf (...) is the founder and CEO of The Rothkopf Group, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (...) He is also President and CEO of Garten Rothkopf, an international advisory firm specializing in transformational global trends, notably those associated with energy, security, and emerging markets.

  • Qui est Ronan Farrow, le tombeur d’Harvey Weinstein - L’Express
    http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/medias/qui-est-ronan-farrow-le-tombeur-d-harvey-weinstein_1951787.html

    Le journaliste de MSNBC et du New Yorker n’est pas le premier à raconter l’envers fétide du rêve hollywoodien. Mais pour lui, c’est une affaire de famille. Celle d’un père prestigieux, Woody Allen, dont il ne cesse de dénoncer, de tweets en tribunes ou en plateaux télé, les dérapages sexuels, notamment commis selon lui aux dépens de sa soeur, Dylan Farrow. Et s’il voue une rancune particulière au milieu du cinéma, s’il l’observe avec une telle défiance et y a plongé ses antennes, c’est parce que le tout Hollywood a pris fait et cause pour son père au moment de son divorce d’avec sa mère, la non moins prestigieuse Mia Farrow.

    https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/from-aggressive-overtures-to-sexual-assault-harvey-weinsteins-accusers-te

    Bien ouèj quand même, comme au bowling, #strike.

  • Westinghouse: Origins and Effects of the Downfall of a Nuclear Giant - World Nuclear Industry Status Report
    https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/Westinghouse-Origins-and-Effects-of-the-Downfall-of-a-Nuclear-Gi

    what led to this bankruptcy were two bets that Westinghouse and Toshiba made. The first bet was that there will be a growing and large market for nuclear power plants. When Toshiba acquired Westinghouse from British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. (BNFL) in February 2006, the press release confidently projected: “By 2020, the global market for nuclear power generation is expected to grow by 50 percent compared with today”. At that time, the President and CEO of Toshiba estimated that there would be 10 large (1 GW) nuclear reactors built each year till 2020 amounting to 130 GW of new reactor capacity. That estimate was off by at least an order of magnitude. Much of the hype around that time was over what many saw as a coming #nuclear_renaissance

    (...) In 2013, for example, a former Vice-President of CNNC and Vice-Minister of Atomic Energy complained to South China Morning Post: “Our state leaders have put a high priority on [nuclear safety] but companies executing projects do not seem to have the same level of understanding”.

    #nucléaire

  • Four dams to be removed from Klamath River in Oregon and California
    https://news.mongabay.com/2016/04/four-dams-removed-klamath-river-oregon-california

    Government and company officials in California and Oregon have reached an agreement to remove four large hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River in the hopes that it will restore the river’s historic fish runs.

    The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) called it “one of the largest river restoration efforts in the nation.” Removal of the dams, three in California and one in Oregon, is scheduled to begin in 2020.

    The agreement was signed at the mouth of the Klamath last week by California Governor Jerry Brown and Oregon Governor Kate Brown, as well as Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan, and the president and CEO of Pacific Power, the private utility company that owns the dams.

    “This historic agreement will enable Oregon and California and the interested parties to get these four dams finally removed and the Klamath River restored to its pristine beauty,” Gov. Jerry Brown said in a statement.

    The hydroelectric dams were built along the Klamath River almost a century ago, blocking wild salmon and steelhead trout from reaching southern Oregon Klamath Tribes that have depended on them for thousands of years. Proponents of the agreement argue that removing the dams and restoring hundreds of miles of river to its natural condition will help save fisheries and protect the environment for California, Oregon and sovereign Native American tribes.

    #barrage #poissons #environnement #écologie #Californie #Orégon

  • R&D Internet2 still faring well

    http://www.networkworld.com/article/3037478/lan-wan/internet2-at-20-alive-and-kicking.html?upd=1457257643947
    pdf print version: http://docdro.id/RE7sZvO

    Nearly 20 years after its launch, Internet2 is quietly humming along on university campuses across the country, doing its R&D work and connecting researchers who might otherwise not be able to share information so readily.

    Contrary to any misinterpretations of the Internet2 mission statement, it was not intended to be a replacement or “new” Internet. And because it has been rather quiet lately, some people may have mistakenly figured it was dead.

    [...]

    “One thing to always remember about Internet2 is it’s a complicated ecosystem that starts with the university network and aggregates into state and regional networks and then a national network and connects to research networks all over the world,” says Dave Lambert, president and CEO of Internet2, the company behind the consortium.

    [...]

    Many of the technologies that constitute the regular Internet are up to 30 years old, such as TCP/IP, Ethernet and sendmail. Internet2 has been building new high speed network connections using a clean sheet design

    [...]

    Internet2 has in aggregate 8.8 Terabits of capacity on the network, with 100 gigabit connections to participating universities, all via an OpenFlow/SDN network. Virtualized networking and OpenFlow came out of National Science Foundation projects at Stanford University.

    [...]

    One of the more interesting non-bandwidth projects to come from Internet2 is Shibboleth, a form of single sign-on where once you log in, the network handles connections to any site requiring a login.

    [...]

    Askren says identity management is as important to researchers as connectivity, processing and storage. “In a world where we leverage the cloud for research collaboration, it becomes extremely important that we have effective identity management to validate who we are and security concerns out there. It needs to be effective and unencumbering,”

    #Internet2
    #Shibboleth

  • ’Naming and Shaming’ Undermines Progress Made on Ship Beaching, Largest Cash Buyer Says - gCaptain
    https://gcaptain.com/naming-and-shaming-undermines-progress-made-on-ship-beaching-largest-cash-

    The world’s largest cash buyer of ships for recycling is calling on the shipping industry to support the recycling businesses that are striving to improve their ship breaking facilities and practices in developing regions, and to not lambast those yards that are making progress.

    Dr Anil Sharma, President and CEO of GMS, the world’s largest cash buyer of ships, on Tuesday called on owners and brokers to support sustainable recycling practices and voiced support over the increased investment in certain Southeast Asian yards. Dr Sharma also criticized proponents of total bans on beaching and ‘naming and shaming’ that undermines the progress made on beaching.

    It is just as possible to have environmentally sound and safe beaching practices at some yards in India as it is to have dangerous and hazardous recycling elsewhere,” Dr. Sharma said.

    Sharma outlined the advances being made by certain yards in India, where the majority of the world’s ship scrapping is conducted, in making their facilities safer for workers and more sustainable. He also called on the industry to use those yards to support both the progress being made and for the workers who depend ship breaking for work. 
     
    In 2015, the first yards in #Alang, India were certified as compliant with the pending Hong Kong International Convention (HKC), which aims to ensure that ships that have reached the end of their operational lives do not pose any unnecessary risk to human health and safety or to the environment.

  • Maple Leaf Foods Hikes Prices After Virus Wipes Out Millions Of Pigs
    http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/05/01/food-price-hike-maple-leaf_n_5246841.html?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

    TORONTO - Canadian shoppers will face another hike in meat prices this month as Maple Leaf Foods Inc. (TSX:MFI) responds to the widespread impact of a virus in the U.S. hog industry.

    The Toronto-based meat processor, which makes bacon, hot dogs and deli meats, said Thursday that rising costs have forced it to act quickly to improve its margins.

    “We are reasonably confident that the entire market will react in similar ways, in the first instance, because the cost increases are an industry-wide issue,” president and CEO Michael McCain said in a conference call with analysts, noting that hog costs spiked 60 per cent in the quarter.

    It will be the second price increase Maple Leaf has put through in response to the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus, which has killed millions of piglets since it was discovered last year.

    The virus does not affect humans or the food they consume, but is estimated to have wiped out about 10 per cent of the U.S. pig population and has been blamed for recent increases in bacon and pork prices. Farmers have struggled to control the virus, because little is known about how it spreads and there is not yet a federally approved vaccine in the U.S.

    McCain, 55, said the widespread effect is unlike anything he has seen before.

    He cautioned about the impact on shoppers’ habits and the possibility that people could buy bacon and other pork products less frequently over the longer term.

    “What we don’t know, and becomes highly unpredictable, is what the demand response will be from that new higher pricing,” he said, after the company reported its latest financial results.

    The company announced the price increases as it reported a loss of $124.6 million in the first quarter, or 89 cents per share, as it dealt with costs from a massive seven-year revamp of its operations. That compared with a loss of $30.6 million, or 22 cents per share.

    Sales rose more than three per cent to $711.3 million from $689.4 million.....

    #Canada
    #virus
    #pig
    Europe not prepared for #U.S. #pig #virus #threat >
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/01/us-europe-pigs-virus-idUSKBN0DH2XV20140501

  • The core Internet institutions abandon the US Government | IGP Blog
    http://www.internetgovernance.org/2013/10/11/the-core-internet-institutions-abandon-the-us-government

    A day after the Montevideo declaration, the President and CEO of ICANN, Fadi Chehadi – the man vetted by the US government to lead its keystone Internet governance institution – met with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. And at this meeting, Chehade engaged in some audacious private Internet diplomacy. He asked “the president [of Brazil] to elevate her leadership to a new level, to ensure that we can all get together around a new model of governance in which all are equal.”

    Des changements en vue dans la gouvernance d’#Internet... La déclaration officielle

    http://www.icann.org/fr/news/press/releases/release-07oct13-fr

    Et en avril 2014, un sommet sur le sujet au #Brésil :
    http://www.news24.com/Technology/News/Brazil-to-host-internet-governance-summit-20131010

    #icann #ietf #w3c

  • Meet William Hauck (of Golden Pacific Bank / Blue Shield of California / California State University / California Forward / Goddard Claussen )

    Golden Pacific Bank Profile of Director William Hauck:

    “William Hauck is the Senior Advisor at Goddard Claussen/West. Based in the firms Sacramento office, he provides strategic counsel to its clients. He recently retired as President and CEO of the California Business Roundtable. In that capacity, Mr. Hauck is responsible for all operations of the organization. The Roundtable was created to provide policy leadership at the state level regarding the maintenance of a sound economy and business climate in California and is composed of the chief executive and senior operating officers of major corporations doing business in the state.

    Bill Hauck most recently served as President and CEO of the California Business Roundtable. Hauck led the organization from 1996 to 2011. Prior to that, he held a number of executive positions in state government including Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor Pete Wilson, Chief of Staff to two Assembly Speakers and Director of the Assembly Office of Research. Mr. Hauck also chaired the state’s Constitution Revision Commission (appointed by Governor Pete Wilson) and served as Co-Chair of the California Performance Review Commission (appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger).

    Mr. Hauck currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the California State University system where he chairs the board of directors’ finance committee. He served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees from 1998 to 2000. Mr. Hauck also serves on the board of directors of Blue Shield of California, where he chairs the nomination and governance committee, and serves on the finance and investment and compensation committees.”

    Source: http://www.yourbankingsolution.com/about-us/management.html

    TLR Notes:

    1. In addition to Mr. Hauck, also serving as directors at Golden Pacific Bank are CaliforniaALL’s Pat Fong Kushida, Richard Claussen, and Donna Lucas — who may have abruptly quit recently)

    2. Golden Pacific Banks does not mention Hauck’s involvement with California Forward.

    3. Ally of MTO’s Jeffrey Bleich vis a vis California State University.

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    CSU Profile:
    William Hauck

    Chair (1998-2000), Board of Trustees
    Vice Chair (1996-98), Board of Trustees
    Member, Board of Trustees (1993-2017)
    The California State University

    Mr. Hauck joined Goddard Claussen/West as Senior Advisor in late 2011. Prior to joining GC/West, Hauck served as President and CEO of the California Business Roundtable and was responsible for all operations of the organization. The Roundtable is headquartered in Sacramento and is composed of the Chief Executive and Senior Operating Officers of major corporations doing business in the state. The organization’s mission is to provide policy leadership at the state level regarding the maintenance of a sound economy and business climate in California. He served in this capacity from 1996 to 2011.

    Prior to joining the Roundtable Hauck was Executive Vice-President and major shareholder of Information for Public Affairs Inc., a Sacramento based national information services company now owned by Lexis/Nexis. Hauck also has held a number of executive positions in state government including Deputy Chief of Staff to the Governor, Chief of Staff to two Assembly Speakers and Director of the Assembly Office of Research. Hauck also chaired the state’s Constitution Revision Commission (appointed by Governor Pete Wilson) and as Co-Chair of the California Performance Review Commission (appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger).

    Mr. Hauck serves on the Board of Directors of Blue Shield of California. He is currently Chair of the Nomination and Corporate Government Committee and also serves on the Compensation Committee.

    Additionally, Hauck is a member of the Board of Directors of the Blue Shield of California Foundation and chairs the Audit Committee.

    Mr. Hauck received a B.A. in social science from San José State University (1963).
    Source: http://www.calstate.edu/BOT/bios/hauck.shtml

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    California Forward Profile:

    Bill Hauck is a senior advisor at Goddard Claussen/West and the former president of the California Business Roundtable, a statewide nonpartisan organization which brings the leadership of California’s top chief executive officers to public policy issues affecting the state’s business climate, economic growth and quality of life.

    Mr. Hauck also is a founder, major shareholder and a member of the board of directors of Information for Public Affairs Inc., also known as State Net. State Net maintains a database of legislation introduced in 50 states and Congress.

    Mr. Hauck previously served as deputy chief of staff for Governor Pete Wilson and was chairman of the California Constitution Revision Commission. Earlier in his career, he served as chief of staff to Assembly Speakers Bob Moretti and Willie L. Brown, Jr. Additionally, Mr. Hauck was a consultant to the Assembly Committee on Governmental Organization, director of the Assembly Office of Research, and assistant city manager of Palo Alto.

    Mr. Hauck serves as a member of the board of trustees of the California State University system, which he chaired for two years, and serves as chairman of the board’s finance committee. He also serves on the board of directors of Blue Shield of California and on the board of the Blue Shield of California Foundation. Mr. Hauck also served on the board of the California Journal, a monthly nonpartisan analysis of government and politics in California.

    Source:

    http://www.cafwd.org/pages/william-hauck

    TLR Note:

    Also directors are Donna Lucas, CETF’s Sunne McPeak, CCPF’s Stweart Kwoh,

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    Blue Shield of California Foundation Profile:

    Bill Hauck is Senior Advisor to Goddard/Claussen West, a Sacramento-based highly-regarded public affairs and ballot measure campaign firm.

    Mr. Hauck recently stepped down as President of the California Business Roundtable, a statewide, non-partisan organization composed of senior operating officers of California’s leading corporations. He had held the position since November 1996.

    Mr. Hauck’s Sacramento-based career has included stints in business and state government. Until its November 2010 sale to Lexis/Nexis, he was a major shareholder and member of the Board of Directors of State Net, a national information services company providing data on legislation introduced in 50 states and Congress.

    Mr. Hauck also has served as Chairman of the California Constitution Revision Commission and Deputy Chief of Staff for Governor Pete Wilson. Earlier in his career he served as Chief of Staff to Assembly Speakers Bob Moretti and Willie Brown Jr. More recently, Mr. Hauck served as Co-Chair of Governor Schwarzenegger’s California Performance Review Commission.

    Mr. Hauck serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the California State University system. He chaired the Board from 1998 to 2000. Originally appointed by Governor Wilson, he was reappointed by Governors Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger and is now serving a third eight-year term. He currently is Chairman of the Board’s Finance Committee.

    In addition, Mr. Hauck serves on the Board of Directors of Blue Shield of California and the Board of Trustees of Blue Shield of California Foundation. He also is a member of the Board of Directors of Golden Pacific Bancorp and California Forward.

    Mr. Hauck is a graduate of San Jose State University and participated in the CORO Foundation Internship in Public Affairs.

    Source: http://www.blueshieldcafoundation.org/about/board/william-hauck

  • The Leslie Brodie Report (TLR) is carefully following a major developing story out of California relating to San Francisco-based Institute on Aging (IOA), David Werdegar, California Supreme Court Associate- Justice Kathryn Werdegar, and Matthew Werdegar of Keker & Van Nest.

    According to knowledgeable sources, David Werdegar - the recently deposed President and CEO of San Francisco-based Institute on Aging — has been named as a defendant in a lawsuit.

    On April, 2011 President and CEO Dr. David Werdegar, Board Chair Anthony Wagner, State Senator Leland Yee, City Attorney Dennis Herrera, and Supervisor Eric Mar attended IOA’s Senior Campus ribbon-cutting ceremony. A substantial portion of IOA’s budget arrives from the City and County of San Francisco which uses IOA and its facilities to care for some its aging population.(Image:courtesy of IOA)

    As was reported earlier, on March 5, 2012, IOA’s Board of Directors announced that Dr. David Werdegar has retired as Chief Executive Officer, and the Board has named J. Thomas Briody, MHSc as the organization’s new President and CEO.

    TLR is gathering and analyzing data concerning the suit, and will post update as they become available.

    Please see @:

    http://lesliebrodie.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/david-werdegar-institute-on-aging-deposed-ceo-named-as-defen