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designed to train the industry's sales force WindMar employs more than 2,000 people and has more than 300 solar brigades operating at the island level Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.We recommend switching to one of the following browsers: were trying to clean up the mess made by Maria as best they could they had stacked the possessions they’d been able to extract from the mud: sofas EVERY FLYER CAN POINT TO AT LEAST one — one professor one Marianist — that helped set them on an upward path it was an upperclassman who showed her how to get the most out of her business education.  “He saw that I was not very skilled in finance but he saw some potential,” said Abreu who is now an equity research analyst with UD’s Davis Center for Portfolio Management.  The University of Dayton’s commitment to education in the Marianist tradition adapts to the needs of the students the expertise of the faculty and the changes in our world.  It’s not just what Flyers study that’s changed with the times — it’s also how The Hub opened at the downtown Dayton Arcade with UD as an anchor tenant More than 400 students travel to The Hub each week for classes in education vision lab and intelligent building virtual learning space while Fitz Hall features labs integrated into the classrooms University-sponsored research in fiscal year 2022 topped $221.3 million with students working beside faculty members and researchers Organized research and sponsored academic projects bring in more than 35% of the University’s annual revenue.  It’s the faculty and community partnerships Hands-on learning extends to every department on campus from Flyer Consulting to early childhood development More than 350 courses incorporate experiential learning into their curriculum, and more than 50 community partnerships offer service entrepreneurial and internship opportunities.  It’s the resources available to every student Roesch Library received a $10.7 million modernization in 2019 that created a vibrant collaboration space with the latest technologies to connect students and scholars with the world provided 137,093 e-books for reading and gave access to more than a half million documents and conference proceedings through the library’s digital service 410 classes are taught in rooms specially equipped to promote dialogue UD has worked to make a Marianist education affordable and accessible to all students especially since the onset of the pandemic just under 2% of total University expenses went toward student aid the University committed $233 million to financial aid plus another $9 million from grants and gifts Access for all students is essential to the success of UD’s mission.  THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON STOOD OUT BECAUSE OF its wonderful international studies program with a focus in human rights I was seeking a program that was willing to do something about social injustices throughout the world Mark Ensalaco’s office as he told us we were going to develop the first human rights studies degree.  My capstone project helped law enforcement identify victims of sex trafficking assessing victim intake processes and sharing of information During an internship with the Central Ohio Rescue & Restore Coalition I created a database that identified community resources such as housing medical and mental health services — because the moment someone was ready to get out Several faculty members taught me lessons I carried with me after UD Barbara John of the economics department showed me the benefits and necessity of multidisciplinary collaboration to execute real change Theo Majka explaining how all people want to help — until it inconveniences them — so be prepared perseverance and the importance of applying all you learn Linda Majka highlighted the dignity of victims and that their narratives matter.  These lessons are so important for the child advocacy work I do today It wasn’t until my senior year that the human rights major was finalized and two of us that year were the first — of what has become many — to receive a UD human rights degree.  I’VE ALWAYS HAD THE GOAL OF OWNING MY OWN business In my entrepreneurship experience class during my sophomore year I was picked to run a microbusiness: a card game I came up with going through the numbers and really seeing how to make a profit That’s what steered me toward a double major in finance.  I’m involved in multiple organizations I’m the co-managing director for Flyer Angels which is a student-run venture capital fund or angel investment fund and I am an equity analyst at the Davis Center for Portfolio Management.  I think experiential learning is possibly the best thing that could have happened to me That’s been so helpful for me because that translation makes everything I learned in the classroom click It’s also connected to my internships This upcoming summer I will be living in New Jersey and working in the chief investments office of Prudential.  I didn’t know much about Dayton when I applied but they gave me the most financial aid compared to every other school I applied to I’m the first one from my family to leave home for college I decided that I wanted to have the best four years of my life I’ve been able to do all of those things.  Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Donate to Living on Earth!Living on Earth is an independent media program and relies entirely on contributions from listeners and institutions supporting public service. Please donate now to preserve an independent environmental voice Sailors For The Sea: Be the change you want to sea Major funding for Living on Earth is provided by the National Science Foundation Creating positive outcomes for future generations Committed to healthy food Innovating to make the world a better, more sustainable place to live. Listen to the race to 9 billion Socially and environmentally sustainable investing. Pax World Explore, enjoy and protect the planet. The Sierra Club Applying a sustainable approach to fixed income investing furthering the values that contribute to a healthy planet The Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment: Committed to protecting and improving the health of the global environment Contribute to Living on Earth and receive, as our gift to you, an archival print of one of Mark Seth Lender's extraordinary wildlife photographs Follow the link to see Mark's current collection of photographs Some of the documents leaked by whistleblower and ex-employee of the United States National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Edward J Snowden mention Puerto Rico as a center of covert spying for several Latin American countries According to news reports on the web newspaper sites of Brazil’s O Globo, Spain’s El Pais and England’s The Guardian about documents provided by Snowden about the NSA and the CIA both agencies maintained a joint operation from the US Navy Base located in the Sabana Seca ward of the Toa Baja town in Puerto Rico This operation in Puerto Rico served to coordinate with other offices in Brasilia México City and Panamá City in which a program named Fornstat was used to intercept billions of private phone calls email and text messages and other Internet communications Since news of the Snowden leak over the first July weekend the Brazilian and Colombian Governments have officially called for explanations from the United States over the alleged telecommunications prying of citizens outside the latter’s oversight One of the news articles published by O Globo claims that most of the phone and Internet spying was done in Brazil the closest Latin American ally of the United States with whom it has strategic agreements to fight drug smuggling The news piece adds that the NSA intensified its eavesdropping in Colombia and Venezuela through the use of the Boundless Informant Program while President Hugo Chavez was dying from an incurable cancer in recent months Another article published by El País says the cyber communications were monitored under the PRISM Program with the aid of such web sites as Facebook and Google something that these companies have denied Other outlets have alleged that giants such as Microsoft (owner of Hotmail and Outlook) and YouTube as NSA and CIA collaborators El País says that some of the eavesdropping was done with the X-Keystroke system under which the messages and calls were identified by the conversation language and was used in Brazil Venezuela and most of the Central American countries A piece by The Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald on July 6 and in which he provides a link to another run by O Globo under his byline says that billions of phone calls and emails monitored by the NSA and a major global telecommunications company were accomplished using the Fairview Program the ability to use the internet with any remnant of privacy or personal security It vests the US government with boundless power over those to whom it has no accountability It permits allies of the US – including aggressively oppressive ones – to benefit from indiscriminate spying on their citizens’ communications” The translation of the O Globo article published on July 7 states that the Federation of American Scientists estimates that it spent $75 billion last year It’s also said that it has about 35,200 employees on its payroll and has strategic partnerships with more than 80 of the major global corporations of telecommunications operative systems and computer applications The Guardian ran a story on July 6 in which it states that the PRISM program allows the NSA access to the voice mails and chat areas of web site giants such as Facebook Some of the above mentions stories make reference to the NATO signing nations program known as Echelon and which had its headquarters in the town of Toa Baja under the jurisdiction of the United States Navy An article published by Spain’s El Mundo newspaper in January 2000 states that Echelon is capable of recognizing spoken and written words on phone conversations and fax Other web sites claim that Echelon can even acknowledge the words better than the human ear codirector of the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo wrote a series of news articles about Echelon for the Primera Hora newspaper in about 2000 Although the Communications Group Operations at Sabana Seca Navy Base in Toa Baja has been closed for several years there still a huge circle made out of over 40 meter high antennas en the Ingenio ward in Toa Baja and giant white geodesic domes in the Punta Salinas beach in the same town that reportedly belong to the Echelon system Information gathered through the Internet establishes that Australia the United Kingdom and the United States formed Echelon during the 60’s to intercept trunk communications from under the sea international phone cables and satellite transmitions O Globo mentions that the NSA and the CIA have operated the Fornstat Collection Operations from Sabana Seca as part of their joint web of 16 units of data retrieved from other nations satellites A declassified document about the History of the Air Intelligence Agency dated around 1990 makes a reference to Raytheon Corporation employees operating one of the systems sensors under a contract with the Electronic Systems Center Group of the Navy Security and the NSA No one has been able to confirm whether Echelon is still operating in Toa Baja since de closure of the US Navy Base in Sabana Seca special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigations in Puerto Rico assigned as a spokesperson for the agency stated to the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo that regulations inhibited him from commenting about Snowden claims about Echelon or telecommunication interceptions Quiñones added that the FBI never confirms nor denies about ongoing investigations neither can divulge its investigative techniques who worked in technology of information for the NSA in Japan and for the CIA and thereafter for both agencies’ contractor Dell Corporation and Booz Allen Hamilton was fired by the latter and charged with espionage by the United States Government in mid-June Since his claims about the NSA’s spying on private citizens were published by The Guardian he fled his residence in Hawaii for Hong Kong and has since been reportedly awaiting in the Moscow Airport for a nation to accept his political asylum bid from one of the 20 countries to which he has applied his petition Nicaraguan and Venezuelan Presidents have granted Snowden political asylum and his main obstacle is travelling to one of those countries from Moscow after his US passport was revoked because of the espionage charges filed in his country Tahani Shayeb Barakat and Ezequiel Rodríguez Andino contributed to this report Necesitamos tu apoyo para seguir haciendo y ampliando nuestro trabajo Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" El CPI reconoce que el requisito fundamental para una verdadera democracia es que la ciudadanía esté bien informada y que existan entidades independientes con la capacidad de fiscalizar los poderes que accionan en la sociedad Si tiene una solicitud de investigación, queja, aclaración, 'orejita', prueba, inquietud, u observación sobre alguna información publicada por el Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, escriba al correo electrónico [email protected] Los donativos que recibe el Centro de Periodismo Investigativo están exentos de contribuciones en Puerto Rico y Estados Unidos Restaurant owner uses chef skills and social media to recruit volunteers and feed those afflicted by Hurricane Maria.Celebrity chef and restaurant owner José Andrés is on the ground in Puerto Rico working to gather volunteers and supplies to help those who have been affected by Hurricane Maria Andrés has been using the Twitter hashtag #ChefsforPuertoRico to organize the relief effort which he says will soon serve the needy 10,000 meals a day In addition to lending his high-profile name to the effort he has personally orchestrated the complicated operation #ChefsForPuertoRico https://t.co/C3veC6UG5A — José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) September 27, 2017 Visiting the kitchen at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico! Ready to work with the team to cook meals for those in need. @WCKitchen @PuertoRicoPUR pic.twitter.com/MMkryBfJQJ — José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) September 25, 2017 has used social media for more than just amassing retweets He’s used Twitter as a tool to help those who need help Since he arrived on the island he’s tweeted to find a volunteer to deliver bread to let Puerto Ricans know where to go for free sancocho (a Puerto Rican beef stew) Urgent: volunteer to bring bread from Panaderia Mi Pan Carr 866 KM 3.4 Sabana Seca Toa Baja to Jose Enrique Restaurant #ChefsForPuertoRico — José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) September 26, 2017 — José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) September 27, 2017 — José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) September 26, 2017 The disaster in Puerto Rico is only the latest instance in which Andres has organized efforts to bring food to communities in need. The Eater reports that Andres founded the non-profit World Central Kitchen in 2010 after the earthquake in Haiti and recently in Houston after Hurricane Harvey World Central Kitchen is soliciting donations on its website for its relief effort Hurricane Maria has wiped out 80 percent of Puerto Rico’s agriculture Articles like these are sponsored free for every Catholic through the support of generous readers just like you Please make a tax-deductible donation today Help us continue to bring the Gospel to people everywhere through uplifting Catholic news Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.