question:Does the sentence "The Eddy Street Commons drew union protests when workers hired by the City of South Bend to construct the public parking garage picketed the private work site after a contractor hired non-union workers." answer the question "How much is Eddy Street Commons at Notre Dame expected to cost?" Options: a). yes. b). no.

question:În acest sens, este important de remarcat faptul că actualul regulament există din 2002 și că oricine e conștient că derogările de la normele în materie de concurență vor expira anul acesta. Could you please translate this to English?

question:Summarize this article: OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The family of a 13-year-old California girl declared brain dead after tonsil surgery is encountering difficulty in obtaining two surgeries that she needs to undergo before she can be safely transferred to a long-term care facility. Omari Sealey, at right, shakes hands with well-wishers Frank Somerville, at left, and his daughter Callie, 9, after Sealy made a statement for the media on the condition of his niece Jahi McMath on Monday,... (Associated Press) Omari Sealey makes a statement for the media on the condition of his niece Jahi McMath on Monday, Dec. 30, 2013, in Oakland, Calif. Without another court action, a California hospital on Monday could... (Associated Press) File - This undated file photo provided by the McMath family and Omari Sealey shows Jahi McMath. The family of a 13-year-old California girl who was declared brain dead after a tonsillectomy said Monday... (Associated Press) Children's Hospital of Oakland spokesman Sam Singer gives an update on the condition of Jahi McMath on Monday, Dec. 30, 2013, in Oakland , Calif. Without another court action, a California hospital on... (Associated Press) The entrance to the Children's Hospital of Oakland is barricaded on Monday, Dec. 30, 2013, in Oakland , Calif. Without another court action, a California hospital on Monday could unhook a 13-year-old... (Associated Press) A lawyer for Children's Hospital Oakland said Tuesday that it is unwilling to allow an outside doctor to fit Jahi McMath with the breathing and feeding tubes that the family has requested. The hospital will not permit the procedures to be performed on its premises because Jahi is legally dead in the view of doctors who have examined her, lawyer Douglas Straus wrote in a letter to the girl's family. "Performing medical procedures on the body of a deceased human being is simply not something Children's Hospital can do or ask its staff to assist in doing," he said. The refusal appeared to reverse the position articulated Monday by a hospital spokesman. He said the hospital would allow a doctor retained by the family to insert a feeding tube and to replace the oral ventilator keeping Jahi's heart beating with a tracheal tube — surgical procedures that would stabilize Jahi if she is moved to a facility willing to keep caring for her. Christopher Dolan, the lawyer for Jahi's mother, Nailah Winkfield, said he received the news as he tried to confirm the conditions under which the hospital would have allowed a visiting doctor and nail down the long-term care facility that might accept the girl as a patient. Dolan said he has been talking with the New Beginnings Community Center in Medford, N.Y., an outpatient client for people with traumatic brain injuries, and with an unnamed facility in Arizona. The New York facility didn't immediately return calls seeking comment. "They're speaking out of both sides of their mouths. They say one thing and we go down that road, and then they say something else," Dolan said of hospital officials. "The hospital said, 'Bring us a doctor' and we said, 'Tell us the conditions' and now, they've wasted a half a day of our time. We don't have much time." Hospital spokesman Sam Singer said later: "This is academic. They have not produced a single physician." Meanwhile, a state appeals court on Tuesday refused to order the hospital to insert the tubes, saying the issue has to go first to the lower court judge who has ordered the hospital to keep the girl on a ventilator until Jan. 7 pending the family's appeal. The 1st District Court of Appeal said it would consider the issue at a later date, if necessary. Straus, the hospital's lawyer, reiterated in his letter that the hospital would release the girl's body as soon as her family provided a detailed plan outlining how the move would be accomplished and written permission from the coroner. But he said neither has been submitted. "No facility has stated, unconditionally or otherwise, that it is prepared to immediately accept Jahi's body," he wrote. Jahi underwent a tonsillectomy and related procedures at Children's Hospital on Dec. 9 to treat sleep apnea. Her family said she went into cardiac arrest after she started coughing up blood in the recovery room. She was declared brain dead three days later. The hospital then moved to take her off the machines that are keeping her heart and lungs going a few days before Christmas. Doctors at Children's Hospital and an independent pediatric neurologist from Stanford University have concluded Jahi is brain dead. Her family, citing religious beliefs and the hope that she will pull through, wants to continue life support. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo initially ruled that doctors could remove her from the ventilator at 5 p.m. Monday, but two hours before the deadline gave the family another week to find a place to move her. Straus filed papers Monday in both the state appeals court and in a federal court where Jahi's mother also has sued. He is opposing the family's request for an emergency order to keep Jahi on a ventilator indefinitely. "The Superior Court correctly concluded, after three days of hearings and based on uncontroverted evidence, that Ms. McMath is, sadly, deceased," the papers state. "Turning off a ventilator that assists in delivery of oxygen of a dead person causes no irreparable harm — regardless of the parental or religious beliefs of the decedent's family." The federal court has said it does not plan to act on the request until the case has worked its way through the state courts. ___ Leff reported from San Francisco. Associated Press writer Channing Joseph in San Francisco contributed to this report. ||||| The last hope for Jahi McMath to be kept on a ventilator may come from a former Long Island hairdresser who runs a brain-injury treatment center dedicated to Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman whose case sparked a fierce nationwide end-of-life debate. The news of the possible transfer came as the state Department of Public Health confirmed Tuesday it is investigating Children's Hospital Oakland and its handling of the Oakland 13-year-old after her tonsil surgery and two other procedures to remove throat and nasal tissue, complications from which left her brain dead. On Tuesday, the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network said publicly for the first time that it has been helping Jahi's family for weeks to find a place to transfer her. The network has worked "in relative silence for the sake of the sensitivity of her case." Nailah Winkfield, center, mother of 13-year-old Jahi McMath, greets well-wishers outside Children's Hospital Oakland, Monday, Dec. 30, 2013 in Oakland, Calif. A judge granted an injunction to the family to keep the girl, who is brain-dead, on a ventilator until at least Jan. 7. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group) ( D. ROSS CAMERON ) "Jahi McMath has been labeled a 'deceased' person. Yet she retains all the functional attributes of a living person, despite her brain injury," the organization said in a news release. "This includes a beating heart, circulation and respiration, the ability to metabolize nutrition and more. Jahi is a living human being." According to a court filing from the family's attorney, the family is hoping to transfer Jahi into the care of the New Beginnings Community Center in Medford, N.Y. New Beginnings founder and owner Allyson Scerri shared a statement on her Facebook page Tuesday explaining how her facility "is about preserving life and treating brain-injured patients with care and dignity." "We do encourage every citizen to take the time to educate themselves more clearly on the issues of what brain death is and what it is not," the New Beginnings statement read. "This child has been defined as a deceased person, yet she has all the functional attributes of a living person despite her brain injury." Jahi came to the hospital Dec. 9 for three procedures to treat her sleep apnea. But complications led to extensive bleeding and cardiac arrest; six doctors declared her brain dead, including an expert in pediatric neurology from Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. The hospital has said it would transfer Jahi if her family and attorney meet certain conditions. On Monday, a judge extended an order keeping the girl on a ventilator through Jan. 7. The family has said that Jahi needs surgery to implant a tracheotomy line to help her breathe and a gastric tube to provide nutrition before she can be transferred to the New York facility, but Children's Hospital officials have refused to do the procedures, saying it would be unethical to operate on a dead body. Dr. Jessica Nutik Zitter, a Bay Area physician who specializes in critical and palliative care medicine, does not have personal knowledge of Jahi's case, but has practiced medicine for more than 20 years. She said that even in brain death, a body can only last for a limited period without nutrition. "A body can't go for much more than two to three to four weeks without nutrition," said Nutik Zitter. "A young person may be on the longer end." Thursday will mark three weeks since Jahi was declared brain dead. "Brain-death doesn't usually go on for several weeks," she added. "The brain is responsible for autonomic processes and if the brain is not alive, certain autonomic processes will cease and result in eventual death." Nutik Zitter said she has never heard of a case where a family has fought to keep a brain-dead person on machines in the hope that he or she would recover. Attorneys for the hospital submitted a 40-page motion late Monday arguing that the family already had ample time to find another facility to take over Jahi's care and that she should be removed from life support. They argued her constitutional rights could not be violated because she was "dead." A state appeals court judge said Tuesday that the family and the hospital should submit arguments to his court by Friday on whether the girl should be kept on the ventilator. As the family worked to make the move a reality, a California Department of Public Health spokesman confirmed the agency was investigating the case, but he would not comment on ongoing probes or who requested it. Children's Hospital Oakland spokesperson Sam Singer, left, speaks to media about the case of 13-year-old Jahi McMath, Monday, Dec. 30, 2013 in Oakland, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group) ( D. ROSS CAMERON ) From June 2007 to June 2012, the department received reports of 1,459 surgery-related adverse events statewide, said spokesman Corey Egel. An "adverse event" is defined as surgery performed on a wrong body part or wrong patient, the wrong surgical procedure being performed, a foreign object being left inside a patient, or a death during surgery or in the 24 hours after surgery. An investigation starts when the department receives a complaint from outside the facility, or if the health care provider self-reports an incident that may be linked to a problem with care or a legal or regulatory violation, he said. Investigations include on-site inspections; interviews with staff, patients or their legal guardians; and reviews of medical records and policies. If deficiencies are found, a plan of correction is required from the hospital within 10 days, Egel said. Hospital spokesman Sam Singer said Oakland Children's welcomes the investigation. "We will cooperate with them fully, and we're pleased that they are beginning this process," he said. Christopher Dolan, the attorney for Jahi's family, said: "I think it's about time. Somebody from the outside needs to be looking inside to find out what's going on in there." As the investigation became public, more information also emerged about the facility in New York that may accept Jahi for long-term care and about the work of officials at the Terri Schiavo Foundation to facilitate the transfer. Scerri founded New Beginnings -- an outpatient facility designed for patients with traumatic brain injury and physical and cognitive disabilities -- in 2011, four years after her father fell off his motorcycle and suffered a severe brain injury. The hair stylist became his primary caregiver and struggled to find adequate resources for him, according to the New Beginnings website. Schiavo's mother and brother participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the facility's opening in April 2011, marking the first medical facility in the country dedicated to the Florida woman, according to a Newsday article. Schiavo, who was in a persistent vegetative state and not declared brain dead, was kept on life support for 15 years before being removed against the wishes of her siblings and parents. Schiavo's brother, Bobby Schindler, executive director of Terri's Network, disputed the idea of "brain death" in a statement Tuesday. "Families and individuals must educate themselves regarding their rights as patients, the advance documentation that must be completed prior to any medical procedure as well as how to ensure ... any patient's rights," he said. In a letter to Dolan, Scerri said the facility would accept Jahi into its outpatient center and eventually move her into a planned inpatient facility, now under construction, for long-term care. "We will be providing Jahi McMath 24-hour licensed nursing staff and licensed respiratory therapists," she wrote. "We are also hiring a pediatrician who will accept her as his patient." The family still must get Jahi to the facility. A letter from Medway Air Ambulance quotes a price of 31,910 to transport Jahi from Oakland to Long Island. Medway flight coordinator Terry Hoard confirmed his company quoted the family a price and would have no problem transporting a brain-dead patient across the country. Staff writers Natalie Alund, David DeBolt and Kristin J. Bender contributed to this report. Contact Matthias Gafni at 925-952-5026. Follow him at Twitter.com/mgafni. ||||| The mother of Jahi McMath said today the hospital where the 13-year-old girl is being kept on life support is not feeding her and has been insensitive in referring to the brain-dead teen as "the body." "To watch my daughter just sit there and not have food ... I'm just so happy that she is kind of a thick girl so she still looks good," Latasha Winkfield said today. "I tell her every day, 'Jahi, you losin' weight girl, but you still look good.' I just think it's inhumane to not feed my child, to not refer to her by her name, and stop us in our tracks." The family has been fighting for time to find a facility willing to take Jahi, but hospital officials have said they don't believe any such place exists because the girl is "deceased." "I hate it that they refer to her as just the body or the deceased; that is my child that they're talking about," Winkfield said. "They don't even use her name." The family news conference came after the hospital filed a motion arguing the girl's family had plenty of time to find a new facility to take her and that she should be unhooked from her ventilator because she is legally dead. The filing in federal court was the latest in the battle over Jahi, who was declared brain dead on Dec. 12 following tonsil surgery. One hour before a court order was set to expire and Children's Hospital Oakland planned to unhook Jahi from a ventilator Monday evening, a judge extended her life support to Jan. 7. Jahi will remain hooked up to a ventilator for at least another week as her family plots the logistics of moving her to a facility willing to treat her. The family is considering potential options in New York and Arizona, according to court documents. Donations to a fundraiser Winfield started surged past 32,000 Monday night, according to gofundme.com, after the judge's decision. The family has said it plans to use the money toward the cost of transferring Jahi to a new facility. But when reached by ABCNews.com Monday night, Jahi's uncle, Omari Sealy, declined to share specifics of the family's next move. "We're just grateful," he said. "We want to thank God and everybody out there who prays for us. Keep praying, it's working." Christopher Dolan, an attorney for the family, filed complaints in superior and federal courts on Monday to stop the hospital from unhooking Jahi when the previous court order expired at 5 p.m. PT Monday. Also included in the federal complaint was a request that Children's Hospital Oakland perform a tracheotomy and to insert a feeding tube, which are necessary procedures before Jahi can be transferred. Children's Hospital Oakland "does not believe that performing surgical procedures on the body of a deceased person is an appropriate medical practice," the hospital said in a statement posted on its website last week. An attorney for the hospital wrote in today's court filing that administrators had not heard from any potential facilities the family has reportedly claimed are willing to take Jahi. The hospital said any facility that takes Jahi would be accepting a dead body and would have to get a coroner's approval. The hospital reiterated in a statement that it has continued "to support the family of Jahi McMath in this time of grief and loss over her death." ||||| Summary:

question:After the August missile strikes, diplomatic options to press the Taliban seemed no more promising than military options. The United States had issued a formal warning to the Taliban, and also to Sudan, that they would be held directly responsible for any attacks on Americans, wherever they occurred, carried out by the Bin Laden network as long as they continued to provide sanctuary to it. For a brief moment, it had seemed as if the August strikes might have shocked the Taliban into thinking of giving up Bin Laden. On August 22, the reclusive Mullah Omar told a working-level State Department official that the strikes were counterproductive but added that he would be open to a dialogue with the United States on Bin Laden's presence in Afghanistan. Meeting in Islamabad with William Milam, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Taliban delegates said it was against their culture to expel someone seeking sanctuary but asked what would happen to Bin Laden should he be sent to Saudi Arabia. Yet in September 1998, when the Saudi emissary, Prince Turki, asked Mullah Omar whether he would keep his earlier promise to expel Bin Laden, the Taliban leader said no. Both sides shouted at each other, with Mullah Omar denouncing the Saudi government. Riyadh then suspended its diplomatic relations with the Taliban regime. (Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the United Arab Emirates were the only countries that recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.) Crown Prince Abdullah told President Clinton and Vice President Gore about this when he visited Washington in late September. His account confirmed reports that the U.S. government had received independently. Other efforts with the Saudi government centered on improving intelligence sharing and permitting U.S. agents to interrogate prisoners in Saudi custody. The history of such cooperation in 1997 and 1998 had been strained. Several officials told us, in particular, that the United States could not get direct access to an important al Qaeda financial official, Madani al Tayyib, who had been detained by the Saudi government in 1997.67Though U.S. officials repeatedly raised the issue, the Saudis provided limited information. In his September 1998 meeting with Crown Prince Abdullah, Vice President Gore, while thanking the Saudi government for their responsiveness, renewed the request for direct U.S. access to Tayyib. The United States never obtained this access. An NSC staff-led working group on terrorist finances asked the CIA in November 1998 to push again for access to Tayyib and to see "if it is possible to elaborate further on the ties between Usama bin Ladin and prominent individuals in Saudi Arabia, including especially the Bin Laden family." One result was two NSC-led interagency trips to Persian Gulf states in 1999 and 2000. During these trips the NSC, Treasury, and intelligence representatives spoke with Saudi officials, and later interviewed members of the Bin Laden family, about Usama's inheritance. Question: "What event with Mullah Omar caused diplomatic relations with the Taliban to be suspended after he denounced the Saudi government?" Answer: "He went back on his promise and sent missles to the taliban" Is this answer to the question correct?