President Donald J. Trump Promotes American Entrepreneurship
Press release issued 11/ 29/ 17https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/11/29/president-donald-j-trump-promotes-american-entrepreneurship
“I know that starting and growing a business takes tremendous grit and that facing the unknown requires determination. I also know that taking on that risk makes our Nation and our world a better place.” - President Donald J. Trump
A COMMITMENT TO GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: The United States is co-hosting the Global Entrepreneurship Summit with India, which brings together more than 1,500 entrepreneurs, investors, and supporters.
• Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump is leading a contingent from the United States to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in Hyderabad, India, on November 28-30.
o This year, more than 350 entrepreneurs from the United States are attending the GES.
• The Summit’s theme, “Women First, Prosperity for All,” reflects that for the first time ever, the majority of United States and global attendees will be women entrepreneurs, a particular point of pride for Advisor Trump.
o This year’s GES is focused on four key industry sectors: Energy and infrastructure, healthcare and life sciences, financial technology and digital economy, and media and entertainment.
• GES 2017 brings together emerging innovators from 150 countries and empowers women entrepreneurs in particular to take their ideas forward, and create new jobs and technologies that will benefit the United States and the globe.
• In preparation for the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship Summit, cities around America held thematic events to promote entrepreneurship and innovation. These include:
o Pittsburgh: Technologies for the Smart City
o Houston: Investment in Energy & Infrastructure
o Milwaukee: MSME Value in Global Supply Chain
o Washington D.C.: Entrepreneurship Policy
• The Trump Administration, since day one, has created conditions that support small businesses, innovation, and entrepreneurs.
o In America there are 11 million women-owned businesses that employ nearly 9 million people and generate more than $1 trillion in revenue.
SUPPORTING AMERICA’S ENTREPRENEURS AND INNOVATORS: President Donald J. Trump and his Administration have taken action to help Americans innovators succeed.
• In February, the President signed into law the INSPIRE Women Act (H.R. 321) and the Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act (H.R. 255) to promote women entering and leading the STEM fields – science, technology, engineering, and math – and preserve America as an innovation hub for generations to come.
• The Small Business Administration (SBA) is focused on using privately raised capital and SBA-guaranteed leverage, stimulating technological innovation through small businesses, and supporting parts of the country where there are gaps in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
o SBA’s microloan program provides loans up to $50,000 and technical assistance for small businesses and not-for-profit childcare centers.
o Women’s Business Centers (WBCs) in more than 100 locations across the United States promote the growth of women-owned businesses through training and technical assistance, and provide access to credit and capital, Federal contracts, and international trade opportunities
o The Small Business Technology Transfer is a program that extends funding opportunities of $295 million annually to forge public-private partnerships that can help commercialize U.S. Federal research and development.
• The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship fosters the commercialization of new technologies, products, processes, and services.
o In September 2017, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that 42 organizations from 28 states would receive $17 million through the Regional Innovation Strategies program, a grant program for American entrepreneurship ecosystem supporters.
o In October, Secretary Ross announced $30 million to support 35 projects in 16 states under the 2017 Assistance to Coal Communities initiative, which include activities and programs that support economic diversification, job creation, capital investment, workforce development and re-employment opportunities.
HELPING GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: President Trump and his Administration are supporting American partnerships to help global entrepreneurs in line with the GES’s mission.
• The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through the U.S. Government’s “Feed the Future” program, will launch a global competition in January 2018 for women-led enterprises to access investment and other business services to take their food businesses to the next level.
o Feed the Future will also work with American food companies to mentor women entrepreneurs in Africa who seek to build their expertise, optimize business operations, and scale up their companies. USAID’s initial contribution of $2 million will leverage contributions from the business community.
o Building on existing and previous programs, USAID and partners are launching the WomenConnect Challenge to support comprehensive approaches to closing the digital gender divide.
• The United States, in partnership with the World Bank, launched the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) at the 2017 G20 Leaders’ Summit along with 12 other countries. We-Fi has already raised more than $340 million in commitments.
• America’s Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) works alongside the private sector to provide access to finance and services and to mobilize capital supporting business development. In the last five years, OPIC provided loans to 3.7 million women. This includes a $225 million loan to IndusInd Bank, which lends to 3,000 micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises and serves 1.3 million women entrepreneurs in India.
• The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and Bureau of International Information Programs connect entrepreneurs from around the world with United States businesses to exchange best practices and expand their business networks.
• U.S. Embassies and Consulates support entrepreneurs by advocating for improvements to business climates and by hosting hundreds of public events around the world each year from setting up mentoring connections, to hosting workshops on angel investing, crowdfunding, or business incubation.
Senator Murray Statement on Senate Passage of GOP Tax Plan
Press release issued 12/ 1/ 17https://www.murray.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/newsreleases?ContentRecord_id=A2C4672A-7EDB-4EF1-AF8A-997852032A58
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate health committee, released the following statement on the passage of the Senate Republican tax plan:
“Senate Republicans have once again made it clear that their highest priority is handing more tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations—and that they are willing to increase taxes on the middle class, raise premiums for patients, threaten Medicare and Social Security, open up ANWR to drilling, and blow a massive hole in the deficit in order to get that done.
“This bill is especially bad for middle class Washington state families who would no longer be able to deduct their state sales taxes from their federal income taxes. And it is disgraceful that even though patients and families have made it clear—again and again—that they don’t want Republicans to undermine their health care, this bill would cause 13 million people to lose coverage and force families to pay more—all so that massive corporations and the very wealthy get more tax breaks they don’t need.
“Republicans still have a chance to stand up to President Trump, listen to their constituents, step back from this terrible anti-middle class bill, and work with Democrats on a true tax reform plan that would actually cut taxes for middle class families and grow the economy from the middle out, not the top down. I hope enough Republicans are willing to do this—otherwise middle class families will be paying the price for years to come.”
PAGE 2: FROM OUR GOVERNOR: This is the most important thing we want the world to know: ‘we are still in’
From a November blog posted dated 11/ 20/ 17https://medium.com/wagovernor/this-is-the-most-important-thing-we-want-the-world-to-know-we-are-still-in-a60398920fd0
Last June, Gov. Jay Inslee was sitting with nearly 100 other guests in the dining room of California Gov. Jerry Brown’s home at a lunch event to celebrate Fiji becoming the newest signatory to the Under2 MOU, an international coalition of national and subnational governments committed to ambitious climate action.
The lunch had particular significance in the wake of recent events. President Donald Trump had just announced his intention to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement. In response, Brown and Inslee, as well as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, had launched the bipartisan U.S. Climate Alliance with more than a dozen states committing to achieving their share of the U.S. greenhouse gas reduction target.
So while what happened at that lunch was unprecedented, it wasn’t necessarily surprising.
Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama is also the president of COP23, the 23rd annual convening of nations to talk about next steps in global climate action. Right after signing the Under2 MOU, Bainimarama invited Inslee, Gov. Kate Brown of Oregon, and Jerry Brown to attend COP23 in Bonn, Germany, and deliver a message to the world that the U.S. was still in for the fight against climate change.
All three West Coast governors agreed. They would help a wide collection of U.S. voices stand in as the collective, representative voice of U.S. action on climate.
With every nation in the world — save the U.S. — formally committed to the Paris agreement, COP23 drew an estimated 25,000 participants representing nations, subnational governments, businesses, schools, universities, NGOs and faith communities.
The U.S. presence included many of the leading voices on climate. Inslee, Jerry Brown, Kate Brown and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe attended, as did numerous state legislators and assembly members, U.S. congressional members and dozens of organizations and local governments all helping to amplify the message “We Are Still In.” Other notable attendees included former Vice President Al Gore, as well as former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg sponsored the U.S. Climate Action Center, an impressive pavilion space designed to replace the U.S. Center normally hosted by the U.S. government, specifically to show the world that even if President Trump is out, U.S. leaders are still in.
Over the course of his four days in Bonn, Inslee spoke at numerous panels about the efforts underway in Washington and other West Coast states to promote clean energy and create clean tech jobs, and to remind the world that nearly 40 percent of the nation’s economy is represented by the governors of the U.S. Climate Alliance.
Most notably, Inslee spoke of Washington’s Clean Air Rule, the nation’s first rule to cap and reduce carbon emissions from the largest polluters; his aggressive effort to promote electric vehicles with a goal of having 50,000 EVs in Washington by 2020; and significant investment in research and development of clean technology through the state’s Clean Energy Fund. The clean energy industry is growing at nearly twice the pace as other industries along the West Coast.
Inslee said state and local governments are demonstrating where the real action is happening on climate.
A roundup of highlights from Inslee’s trip to Bonn:
The U.S. Climate Alliance announced a new partnership with Canada and Mexico, creating a North American Climate Leadership Dialogue. This is the first major international engagement of the U.S. Climate Alliance, and the interest of national governments in engaging directly with U.S. governors in the Alliance demonstrates the credibility of the Alliance’s effort.
Five new nations announced their intent to join the International Alliance to Combat Ocean Acidification, of which Washington is a founding member. Several of the member island nations are among the first to be at risk of disappearing due to sea level rise.
The Pacific Coast Collaborative issued a report card recapping regional climate accomplishments and noting that regional GDP has grown 20 percent since 2005 while total emissions have declined more than 6 percent.
Washington became the first U.S. state to join the new Powering Past Coal Alliance, promising to phase out the use of all coal-fired electricity and to place a moratorium on new coal power without operational carbon capture and storage.
The U.S. Climate Alliance announced a partnership with Resources for the Future and the Climate Impact Lab to resume crucial analytical work abandoned by President Trump that calculates the costs related to carbon pollution. Such analysis is used by numerous government entities as a resource for policy-making and deliberation.
Trump officials attracted hundreds of protesters at an evening panel discussion to promote coal production. Inslee and Kate Brown held a pre-emptive press conference lambasting the administration’s advocacy of coal at a time when the world is focused on the transition to clean energy.
PAGE 3: FDA approves first biosimilar for the treatment of certain breast and stomach cancers
Press release issued 12/ 1/ 17https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm587378.htm
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Ogivri (trastuzumab-dkst) as a biosimilar to Herceptin (trastuzumab) for the treatment of patients with breast or metastatic stomach cancer (gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma) whose tumors overexpress the HER2 gene (HER2+). Ogivri is the first biosimilar approved in the U.S. for the treatment of breast cancer or stomach cancer and the second biosimilar approved in the U.S. for the treatment of cancer.
As with any treatment, health care professionals should review the prescribing information in the labeling for detailed information about the approved uses.
“The FDA continues to grow the number of biosimilar approvals, helping to promote competition that can lower health care costs. This is especially important when it comes to diseases like cancer, that have a high cost burden for patients,” said FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D. “We’re committed to taking new policy steps to advance our biosimilar pathway and promote more competition for biological drugs.”
Biological products are generally derived from a living organism and can come from many sources, such as humans, animals, microorganisms or yeast. A biosimilar is a biological product that is approved based on data showing that it is highly similar to a biological product already approved by the FDA (reference product) and has no clinically meaningful differences in terms of safety, purity and potency (i.e., safety and effectiveness) from the reference product, in addition to meeting other criteria specified by law.
The FDA’s approval of Ogivri is based on review of evidence that included extensive structural and functional characterization, animal study data, human pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic data, clinical immunogenicity data and other clinical safety and effectiveness data that demonstrates Ogivri is biosimilar to Herceptin. Ogivri has been approved as a biosimilar, not as an interchangeable product.
Common expected side effects of Ogivri for the treatment of HER2+ breast cancer include headache, diarrhea, nausea, chills, fever, infection, congestive heart failure, difficulty sleeping (insomnia), cough and rash. Common expected side effects of Ogivri for the treatment of HER2+ metastatic stomach cancer include low levels of certain white blood cells (neutropenia), diarrhea, fatigue, low levels of red blood cells (anemia), inflammation of the mouth (stomatitis), weight loss, upper respiratory tract infections, fever, low levels of blood platelets (thrombocytopenia), swelling of the mucous membranes (mucosal inflammation), common cold (nasopharyngitis) and unusual taste sensation (dysgeusia). Serious expected side effects of Ogivri include worsening of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia.
Like Herceptin, the labeling for Ogivri contains a Boxed Warning to alert health care professionals and patients about increased risks of heart disease (cardiomyopathy), infusions reactions, lung damage (pulmonary toxicity) and harm to a developing fetus (embryo-fetal toxicity). Patients should stop taking Ogivri if cardiomyopathy, life-threatening allergic reactions (anaphylaxis), swelling below the skin (angioedema), inflammation of the lungs (interstitial pneumonitis) or fluid in the lungs (acute respiratory distress syndrome) occur. Patients should be advised of the potential risk to a developing fetus and to use effective contraception.
The FDA granted approval of Ogivri to Mylan GmbH. Herceptin was approved in September 1998 and is manufactured by Genentech, Inc.
PAGE 4: Senate Passes Bill to Improve Safety and Sanitation at Columbia River Tribal Fishing Sites
Press release issued 12/ 1/ 17https://www.murray.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/newsreleases?ContentRecord_id=4BAB289E-A828-48CD-B0D3-4EEEB763820A
(Washington, D.C.) – With unanimous support, the U.S. Senate has passed the Columbia River In-Lieu and Treaty Fishing Access Sites Improvement Act. The legislation, which is sponsored by Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Patty Murray (D-WA), Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA), would enable the Bureau of Indian Affairs to make important safety and sanitation improvements at the tribal treaty fishing access sites along the Columbia River, which are on lands held by the United States for the benefit of the four Columbia River Treaty tribes.
The next step would be for the U.S. House of Representatives to pass the legislation, before being sent to the President for his signature.
“This is a positive step on our long road to properly honor our obligations to the Columbia River Treaty Tribes,” said Senator Murray. “It’s so important that we continue to make progress to provide safe, sanitary housing and infrastructure at these fishing access sites, so tribal members can exercise their protected rights.”
“These Tribal members’ way of life was washed away when the Bonneville dam went up. Since then, few steps have been taken to right this wrong,” said Senator Cantwell. “By improving housing conditions for these Tribes, we can begin to fulfill long-overdue promises. I encourage our House colleagues to quickly take up this bill so we can begin to improve conditions at existing sites”
Beginning in the 1930s, the construction of the three lower Columbia River dams displaced members of the four Columbia River Treaty tribes: Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Nez Perce Tribe, and the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation. These tribes have a treaty-protected right to fish along the Columbia River in their usual and accustomed places.
The Senators have been fighting to address the urgent need for adequate housing and infrastructure at tribal fishing access sites constructed by the Army Corps following construction of The Dalles, Bonneville, and John Day dams. The Army Corps designed the sites to be used primarily for daily, in-season fishing access and temporary camping; however, in many cases tribal members now use the areas as longer-term or even permanent residences. In fact, many people at these sites are living in extremely distressed, unsafe, and unsanitary conditions, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs has not committed the resources necessary to ensure the basic necessities of clean and safe living conditions at these sites.
While the Senators have been working to move forward with a plan that would fulfill the federal government’s unmet obligation to provide permanent replacement housing for tribal members living at the fishing sites, the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently halted work on that plan. The Senators have pushed OMB to reverse its decision. In the meantime, the delay makes improving conditions at existing sites all the more critical.
The Columbia River In-Lieu and Treaty Fishing Access Sites Improvement Act would address the urgent need for improved conditions by:
Calling on the Bureau of Indian Affairs to conduct a much-needed assessment of current safety and sanitation conditions at the sites, in coordination with the affected Columbia River Treaty Tribes; and
Authorizing the Bureau to work on improving sanitation and safety conditions in several key areas such as structural improvements (restrooms, washrooms, and other buildings); safety improvements (wells and infrastructure to address fire concerns, and more); electrical infrastructure to ensure safe electrical hookups; and basic sewer and septic infrastructure.
The legislation is supported by the four Columbia River Treaty tribes—Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Nez Perce Tribe, and the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation—as well as the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission.
NEWS STORY COMMENTARY
McKinley Paper Co. selects equipment vendor; still targeting December 2018 for start-up---PDN HEADLINEhttp://www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/mckinley-paper-co-selects-equipment-vendor-still-targetting-december-2018-for-start-up/
Quote: " Interim Port Angeles Finance Director Tess Agesson said Tuesday the continued plant shutdown will cost the city an estimated $440,000 in electrical utility tax revenues in 2018 the city had expected to realize if the plant were full-bore up and running.
She said the shortfall will be covered by $373,500 in budget savings and $66,500 in reserves.
Agesson said city officials also don’t know when the plant will start up, or how the electric-utility revenue shortfall created by a dormant plant will be covered in 2019 if McKinley does not begin operations by December 2018."
EDITORIAL COMMENT: With the closing of the only lumber mill in town, and start up with the new owners of the mill, might, happen in December of 2018. The local economy will suffer in ways not realized. Former employees living on unemployment, will have to look elsewhere for work, that will mean many will probably move out of the area, meaning that area retailers will find it more difficult to stay in business.
The anti industrialist will have to eat crow when more and more businesses will close because the city doesn't have a big industry that employs hundreds. Right now the Hospital is the biggest employer in town. We need a big industry to make up what we lost. Christmas shopping will be mainly focused on needs, not wants, at least for those who are income. Unless you work in the legal, or medical profession very few high price ticket items will be sold I suspect in the light of the latest development. School levies will be hard press to succeed in this current climate, with so many looking for new employment. It look's pretty grim from my view point, because right now I'm not seeing a whole lot of effort to bring in a big industrial development. Yes, there a lot of little industries starting, but no "bring home the bacon" type of Industrial developments.
WE THE PEOPLE
Corey's LawWe, The People of the United States, petition Federal legislators to create and enact legislation to extend the Statute of Limitations for crimes of a sexual nature perpetrated against minors under the age of 18 in the United States indefinitely. No longer can we, as a nation, allow pedophiles to threaten and harass their victims into silence just long enough to avoid prosecution.
We must, as a nation, protect our children with the utmost vigilance. They are the future of our country.
This proposal is so named for child actor Corey Feldman, who had the courage to come forward in an attempt to expose long term, systemic child abuse.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/coreys-law
Editorial Comment: Being a victim of some perverts who wanted to put their unwanted hands on me I know how the victims feel. I can't see justice done to those who did these depraved things to me, but I can stand behind laws that will protect future generations of feeling that is was their fault in someway. I know the feeling of being ashamed, or the stigma of wondering what did I do, to have a male grown up trying to put his hands on me I didn't want.
Later in college some pervert tried to force himself on me, thinking I was easy to exploit because I use a wheelchair, and unable to defend myself. The feeling I felt of disgust , being a man who was being forced on by some pervert. NO! I'm not GAY! That's what these perverts do, make the victim feel guilty, or perverted like they are. Yes I had girl friends, that in itself affirmed my sexuality.
That's the stigma probably vulnerable adult males have after being sexually assaulted, and the embarrassment they feel that their sexuality has been called to question, and the embarrassment reporting being raped to the police. Thinking the cops won't believe them, friends and family will assume things about them that aren't true. So why I'm revealing all this now? To point out it's not only women, and children who are vulnerable, it's the disabled, and elderly who are to embarrass to report rape, the thought of some who would say it's their fault, or they were wanting it, would be too much to bare, and also because a few days ago I encountered another person who once tried to touch me in a manner I didn't want to be touched, he was with a younger woman, don't know what was her story, but the way this pervert leered at me, as to say he got away in what he tried to do. That made me feel the need to take revenge, but I knew better.
But, I had my faith in Christ to see me through those feelings of humility, and shame, and daily I try to overcome the urge to seek vengeance. All I know I didn't what happened too me. I want to live a normal live, and live righteously.
Maybe for me signing this will give me some measure of Justice. Those who did perverted things to me might feel they gotten away from justice meted on them in this lifetime, but one day they will face the ultimate Judge.
I'm NOT looking for sympathy or applause bad enough even having to reveal of what I went through, I know who I am, and what I'm about.
I just revealing reasons why I support this law. I say let GOD be the judge for things which happened to me so long ago, but for the hear and now maybe some justice can be done for this generation.
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| Many of the tactics listed above are used by rapist and pedophiles on their victims making the victim feel ashamed, and no one to turn to. Perverts do Satan's bidding. |
Many of these sexual deviates, and perverts have no remorse, and are narcissist, if they really were remorseful they repent and make amends for what they did. If they were remorseful they seek help, not make the excuse of being sick to continue what they do. Some of these perverts use religion to keep doing what they do, the excuse going to their victims, seeking forgiveness, then commit the same evil act.
TODAY's BIBLE STUDY
May Churches Pay Wages to Preachers?
Should gospel preachers receive financial support from churches? Some religious groups teach that it is wrong for a church to pay preachers. In other cases, preachers get paid so much they become extremely wealthy. What does the Bible say?---Gospel Way
https://www.gospelway.com/topics/teaching/preacher-wages.php
