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Few ICT disputes get before the Courts. In December 2011 a case involving Cuscal v First Data reached a full hearing. The outcome of this case is not especially remarkable. It does, however, serve as a useful reminder that the Courts will deal with ICT contracts no differently than any other contract and that care needs to be taken with the management of contracts once signed.
Often, long-term and large scale ICT contracts involve lengthy negotiations. Much time is spent anticipating likely problems and agreeing methods of resolution. This can sometimes hinder business activities and strain commercial relationships, particularly when deadlines are not met.
As a result, contracts are often entered into with some issues being left to be resolved after the contract is signed. Parties are usually willing to do this assuming that the goodwill existing at the time the contract is signed will continue to enable the parties to resolve outstanding matters.
There is a risk in doing this, as “agreements to agree” are unenforceable. However, this is often the only pragmatic solution to getting a contract signed in a timely way to allow the project to commence.
Cuscal and First Data entered into an agreement for a term of five years.
The agreement contained provisions that are typically seen in an agreement for the provision of ICT services.
Under this agreement First Data agreed to supply data transfer services to Cuscal for the term of the agreement. These services were described by the Judge as being Normal Services.
The agreement also provided that Cuscal could require First Data to supply services to Cuscal for a period before and after termination in order to transition the provision of services to a new service provider following termination. These services were described by the Judge as being Termination Assistance.
The agreement contained a procedure for the preparation of a “Termination Assistance plan” and for the parties to agree on that plan within the first 12 months. This did not occur. In fact, Cuscal only provided a draft to First Data almost three years after the agreement was signed and the parties were then unable to agree on a Termination Assistance plan. First Data had notified Cuscal by this stage that it would not provide services after the expiry of the agreement and Cuscal had determined to provide the services itself.
The definition of Termination Assistance provided that the Termination Assistance plan was required to ensure “continuity of supply” and “smooth transition” of Cuscal’s customers after the agreement was terminated.
The inability to agree on the Termination Assistance plan and the approaching end of the term of the agreement led Cuscal commencing proceedings in which the following questions needed to be resolved:
Was First Data required to continue to provide Normal Services in respect of customers after the end of the term to the extent that services were not being provided directly by Cuscal?
Was First Data contractually bound to ensure continuity of supply and a smooth transition of Cuscal’s customers?
Could the Court force the parties to agree the terms of a Termination Assistance plan?
The agreement did not require Normal Services to be provided by First Data beyond the end of the term. First Data could choose to supply Normal Services beyond the term, but it was not contractually bound to.
The Court said this result was not ‘capricious, unreasonable, inconvenient, or unjust nor does it flout business commonsense’.
If First Data was bound to supply Normal Services after termination, Cuscal could purposely delay the transfer of its customers and force First Data to continue to supply Normal Services, which would be uncommercial and unreasonable.
The words “smooth transition” and “continuity of supply” were unlikely to have been intended to impose contractual obligation.
It was the Termination Assistance plan which should have ensured continuity of supply and a smooth transition, but the parties did not agree on one.
In the absence of a Termination Assistance plan, Cuscal was to specify which of its customers were to be transferred and when and First Data was to specify the information it required in order to achieve transition. If Cuscal did not communicate its requirements to First Data, then First Data would not be in breach of the agreement if any of Cuscal’s customers were lost in the transition process.
Therefore, First Data was not contractually bound to ensure a continuity of supply and a smooth transition of Cuscal’s customers.
The absence of a Termination Assistance plan was not critical and did not bring the contract to an end. This was because the subject matter dealt with termination, it imposed an obligation on both parties, and there was an express recognition that a plan may not be made.
The Court was of the view that the Termination Assistance plan should have been determined in the early stages of the contract. It was too late to rely on the Termination Assistance plan provisions now.
As the lack of a Termination Assistance plan was not critical to the agreement, the Court was unwilling to interfere and force the parties to comply with the Termination Assistance plan provisions.
It appears there was no express obligation on the parties to use ‘best efforts’ (or any efforts) to complete the Termination Assistance plan. If a ‘best efforts’ clause had been included in the agreement the outcome of this decision may have been different.
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Business Council of Australia 2014 Annual Dinner: President’s Speech
Speech BCA Goverance Catherine Livingstone
This address by Business Council of Australia President Catherine Livingstone was made at the BCA's 2014 Annual Dinner, held on 28 October in Sydney.
Members of the Gondwana Indigenous Children’s Choir, pcitured with Business Council of Australia President Catherine Livingstone AO. The choir performed at the dinner and their appearance was made possible with generous support from Rio Tinto. Image courtesy of Gondwana Indigenous Children’s Choir.
Introduction and acknowledgement of special guests
Prime Minister.
Ian Macfarlane MP, Minister for Industry.
Alan Tudge MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister.
Bob Baldwin MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry.
Senator the Honourable Penny Wong, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and Shadow Minister for Trade and Investment.
Chris Bowen MP, Shadow Treasurer.
Gary Gray AO, MP, Shadow Minister for Resources.
Ladies and gentlemen.
When you were with us at our last annual dinner 12 months ago, your government was newly elected.
The context this year is the run-up to a significant milestone for your government and for the nation: the G20 Australia Summit.
The summit will reset the international growth agenda with practical policies that can be applied both collectively and within individual nations.
The agenda is about much more than setting a nominal growth target. It is focused on maintaining global standards of living for some countries, and improving standards for many others.
Business leaders, including a number of our CEO members, are proud to have made a contribution to this practical but visionary agenda.
We wish you and the Treasurer well in realising the potential of the G20 gathering of leaders in Brisbane next month.
Domestic reform agenda
Focusing domestically, your government has embarked on a major transformational agenda.
You have made a commitment to sustainable fiscal policy, as hard as that transition will be for both business and the community.
Your deregulation agenda continues to chip away at the backlog of poorly designed regulation, which is costing Australia jobs and investment.
Your Industry Innovation and Competitiveness Agenda goes to the very heart of how to advance Australia’s competitiveness in the face of major global forces of change.
And it is an agenda which includes structures and processes that embed consultation and collaboration between government, industry, academia and the broader community.
Your national vocational education and training – or VET – strategy puts a spotlight on an area of the tertiary sector that will be increasingly important in skilling, and re-skilling, people as our economy, and our jobs, move into, and up, the international value chain.
Both VET and STEM – the focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics – are supported through the National Industry Innovation and Competitiveness Agenda.
Prime Minister, we strongly encourage the government to include the Digital Technologies stream in the new national curriculum from the early primary stage.
In the coming year, your reform agenda will encompass reform programs around the tax system and the operation of the Australian federation.
These programs are a critical complement to initiatives already underway.
The Business Council will continue to do all that we can to facilitate well-informed national discussion and the identification of common ground that makes change possible.
It is rewarding for us to contribute – through our reports and through participation in many discussions – to the debate around this ambitious national agenda.
We make this contribution, not to serve our individual company interests, but because we care deeply about Australia’s future.
The next five years will be crucial to the Australian economy making a successful transition – to having the sustainable capacity to generate the jobs of the future.
This transition will require engagement and collaboration between business, the community, and the governments and Oppositions of the day.
The BCA welcomes the engagement we have with the current Opposition.
We acknowledge their efforts to reach out to the business community, and their recognition of our work on Australia’s comparative advantages.
We are committed to working with both major parties and, where we can, with crossbenchers.
Because while there may not always be agreement on the detail of change, we must all agree on the fundamentals of serving Australia’s long-term national interest in the interests of the wellbeing of our citizens.
It is my pleasure now to introduce the Prime Minister, the Honourable Tony Abbott.
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Tigers vs. Mariners MLB Betting Preview-August 8th
Posted by: Anthony Yaylor Posted on: Mon, August 08th, 2016 4:37 PM
The Seattle Mariners are the MLB betting favorites to defeat the Detroit Tigers tonight at 10:10 pm, and the reasons for this are twofold. One, the game will take place at Safeco Field. Two, Hisashi Iwakuma will start for the Mariners, but more on that later. Meanwhile, here are the odds for people who bet on baseball:
Tigers +1½ (-205) 7½ (-115) +109
Mariners -1½ (+173) 7½ (-105) -119
Seattle has just completed a sweep of the Angels of Anaheim in their three-game series which concluded yesterday. Mariners starter James Paxton kept the Halos to only five hits in 8 1/3 innings and six strikeouts – four of which came at the expense of Angels’ Mike Trout. Seth Smith, Kyle Seager, and Nelson Cruz hit back-to-back (to-back) singles in the fourth. The latter’s line drive allowed Smith to score. Adam Lind reloaded the bases after being hit by a pitch. Leonys Martin ended up with a sacrifice fly. The recently recalled Mike Freeman drove in the third run. The final score was 3-1.
Coincidentally, that was also the score when the Tigers lost to the Mets yesterday. Detroit closer Francisco ‘Pancho’ Rodriguez gave up a home run in the ninth inning that broke the tie and gave the Mets the win. Prior to that – as in immediately before – Rodriguez hit Alejandro De Aza in the right hand with a fastball. Neil Walker was at bat next, and hit his 19th homer of the season. “I’ve faced him a lot,” Walker said of Rodriguez. “He’s a guy that you really want to see up a lot, especially with his offspeed pitches. Right there, I was able to get a fastball that was up in the zone, and react to it. You certainly don’t figure you’re going to do damage like that against him.”
So the Mariners are fresh off three straight wins, while the Tigers lost the last game of their own three-game set. However, that is not the reason that the former are the MLB betting favorites tonight, or at least not the only reason. Hisashi Iwakuma (12-7, 3.99 ERA) will make his 23rd start of the season, and he is on a roll, having won seven consecutive games at Safeco Field, where he has not lost since April 27th. The 35 year old Japanese righty has a 2.40 ERA in his last five starts, and went 7 1-3 scoreless innings in his last start versus the Boston Red Sox.
That being said, streaks are meant to be broken, just ask the Undertaker. Iwakuma surrendered five earned runs and 11 hits (two season highs) versus the Tigers on June 22nd – but that was at Comerica Park. Michael Fulmer (9-2, 2.42 ERA), who will start tonight for Detroit, did so on that day as well. The right-hander pitched 4 1/3 innings on that occasion and gave up one earned run. Also, the fans that bet on baseball should note that the Tigers have already used the Mariners as a stepping stone this season. Detroit swept Seattle 4-0 the first time they faced off this year. Before that, the Tigers were one game under .500; currently they are more than 10 games above .500 for the first time since the end of the 2014 campaign.
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Bang Bang Romeo
Issue 97 / March 2019 Words: Megan Walder
Young Monarch
Vinyl Junkie Live @ Jacaranda Phase One 18/2/19
Imagine going from being accompanied by a three-piece band to standing solo on a stage, and still absolutely smashing it. Step Forward LUNA. With a laptop to hand and various other bits of kit, Luna’s solo electronic set offers something new to the traditional one-(wo)man performance. No guitar and loop pedal, but instead a beautiful vocal accompanied by samples and tracks. With her more classically suited vocals paired with her broken down electronic beats, Luna is refreshing. Her powerful self-reflection 5AM sees her declare, “I don’t recognise myself anymore”. It breaks down further barriers. Lana Del Rey comes to mind, a striking artist that is hard to place into a box. The music industry screams for new, for different, and for things that can’t be placed under a boring old genre.
It feels as though the dial is slowly being turned up on the vocals when YOUNG MONARCH step on stage. This four-piece from Jersey possess the ability to interact directly with subjects of real weight, though still make the show enjoyable. They allow for self-reflection, but don’t rip you apart. They don’t judge, they relate. Genetics grabs my heart strings, a song about vocalist Becca’s relationship with her mother. “No-one makes me mad like you.” How many can relate here? It’s about love, growing up and potentially not living up to expectations. With a killer guitar backing and harmonious vocals, this is the most enjoyable kick in the teeth for anyone that feels similar. Travelling to the more relaxed Find Me, the band observe perception and internalising struggles. As open advocates of mental health awareness and support, this song offers much needed understanding. Once again, it’s another fine example of Young Monarch interacting directly with subjects that aren’t pretty. Somehow, they still manage to provide a take that’s breathtakingly beautiful.
As Anastasia Walker steps on stage I hear “Yes, star!” screamed from the crowd. It fits. BANG BANG ROMEO’s lead singer is undeniably that: a star. With a powerhouse vocal and a stage presence that debunks the tradition of female vocalists – standing still in long floating dresses with a fixed mic stand – she rips apart norms and expectations. I and everyone around me fall in love. The first song by BBR I ever heard was Shame On You. Seeing a song you love so much live is always a worry, but worry I need not. Live, the chorus is something else, the energy that the band produce not only shows their love of music, but their justifiable pride in the song. This band have perfected the idea that sometimes less is more. Their lyrics pack a punch but do not require a dictionary ready in waiting. They only ask that you sing as loudly as possible. What’s left of my voice is a glaring example.
Bang Bang Romeo,
Jacaranda,
LUNA,
Megan Walder,
Phase One,
Pete Doherty & The Puta Madres
RECORD STORE DAY IN LIVERPOOL GUIDE 2017
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How you can protect parents’ rights at school
Parents’ rights are being railroaded by the combined efforts of the state and gender activists.
Powerful people who passionately believe they “know better” for our kids are hellbent on brainwashing our children.
They’re busy changing laws – we’ve got to get busy making laws.
So, I’m inviting you to join me in a campaign to see legislation passed in every Australian state and territory to protect the right of parents: to know what their child is being taught and to remove them from classes with sexual content.
For the sake of our kids, we must begin the work required to see parental rights galvanised in Australian law.
Please take urgent action today by signing this petition calling on state and territory governments to make parental rights enforceable by law.
Together, we can protect Australia’s children.
Kirralie Smith
Binary Spokeswoman
Will you sign?
To all Australian state and territory governments,
We should be doing everything we can to preserve the innocence of children.
But government support of radical gender ideology in schools – without parental consent and, at times, in direct opposition to parents’ expressed concerns – is growing.
Schools should focus on educating our kids, not indoctrinating them.
And parents should have rights that mean they’re entitled to know what their child is being taught and to remove them from classes with inappropriate sexual content.
I call on you to pursue legislation to make parental rights enforceable by law.
Like this to spread the word:
Authorised by Kirralie Smith, Gender Awareness Australia Limited, Melbourne VIC
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Haemolysis and lipemia interfere with resistin and myeloperoxidase BioVendor ELISA assays
Saracevic, Dukic, and Simundic: Haemolysis and lipemia interfere with resistin and myeloperoxidase BioVendor ELISA assays
Date received: 25 July 2018
Date accepted: 23 February 2019
Publication date (electronic): 15 April 2019
Publication date (print): 15 June 2019
Andrea Saracevic[*]
Lora Dukic
Ana-Maria Simundic
Department of Medical Laboratory Diagnostics, University Hospital “Sveti Duh”, Zagreb, Croatia
[*] Corresponding author: andrea.saracevic@gmail.com
The aim of our study was to investigate the influence of haemolysis and lipemia on resistin (RES) and myeloperoxidase (MPO) measurement by BioVendor enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA).
Blood was taken from healthy volunteers into lithium heparin tubes. Plasma samples were spiked with Lipofundin® emulsion (B. Braun Melsungen AG, Germany) for lipemia interference testing. Haemolysed samples were obtained by drawing aliquots of heparinized blood through a 26 gauge needle. Index of haemolysis (H), lipemia (L) and triglyceride concentration were measured on Abbott Architect c8000. Haemoglobin concentration was measured on Sysmex XN-1000. Concentrations of RES and MPO in all samples were determined with RES and MPO ELISA kits (BioVendor, Czech Republic). All measurements were performed in triplicate. Biases from the native samples were calculated for both analytes and compared with an arbitrary value (e.g. ± 10%).
Triglyceride concentration in the investigated samples ranged from 0.57 to 38.23 mmol/L, which corresponds to L index from - 0.01 to 13.77. Haemoglobin concentration in all samples ranged from 0 to 8 g/L which correspond to H index from 0.05 to 8.77. Both MPO and RES showed significant biases at 1 g/L haemoglobin (58.7% and 66.7%, respectively). Also, both MPO and RES showed significant biases at 4.66 mmol/L triglycerides (33.8% and - 12.2%, respectively).
Resistin BioVendor assays are affected by haemolysis and lipemia already at low degree of interferent. Haemolysis was found to interfere at 1 g/L haemoglobin for both assays, while lipemia interferes at 4.66 mmol/L of triglycerides.
Interferences in immunoassays are highly specific due to numerous analyte dependent type of interferences such as cross-reactions, heterophile, human anti-animal or autoanalyte antibodies, rheumatoid factors, hormone binding and other proteins (1, 2). These types of interferences can be patient specific and are sometimes difficult to recognize especially since immunoassays can produce a diversity of values and can be detected and investigated mostly upon communication with clinicians who receive results that do not fit the clinical picture (1, 2).
The most common endogenous interferences in everyday laboratory practice are haemolysed samples (3). Haemolysis occurs due to erythrocyte breakdown and results with release of haemoglobin intracellular proteins, enzymes and cellular debris into the surrounding fluid (i.e. serum or plasma). The released components cause various interferences in immunoassay that are method specific and include cross-reactivity with intracellular components, binding of released compounds with the measured analyte or antibodies, enhancing or suppressing the reaction in the detection method or degrading peptide analytes by released proteolytic enzymes resulting in either falsely increased or decreased results (4).
Lipemia is not as frequent as haemolysis; nevertheless, it represents a considerable problem in the routine practice. The major causes of lipemia are inadequate time of blood sampling, lipid-containing intravenous infusions and various pathological conditions (diabetes mellitus, pancreatitis, hyperlipidaemia etc.) (5, 6).Though lipemia can be avoided in the outpatient units with proper preparation and fasting prior to blood sampling, it is not the case in the intensive care units and emergency departments where parenteral nutrition is sometimes unavoidable and where patients arrive at various time after the last meal, respectively. The most common interference mechanism of lipemia in immunoassays is physical, chemical and spectrophotometric interference and non-homogeneity of the sample, which depends on the measured analyte and method applied (5). Additionally, in automated immunoassay, high lipemic content might prevent proper sample aspiration resulting in inadequate volume (7).
Unfortunately, evidence has shown that there is a large heterogeneity in reporting interferences in manufacturers’ declarations even for most common chemistry analytes (8). It is therefore not so surprising that such reports are scarce or even absent in declarations of new emerging biomarkers.
Myeloperoxidase (MPO) and resistin (RES) are two potentially promising pro-inflammatory biomarkers. Myeloperoxidase is a peroxidase located in the cytoplasmatic granules of leukocytes (neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes and macrophages) (9). Evidence demonstrates that MPO mediates innate and adaptive immune response and induces the production of proinflammatory cytokines (10). Accordingly, MPO was linked to many disease including rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, cardiovascular diseases (CVD), different types of cancer, autoimmune diseases etc. (4, 5). On the other hand, resistin, member of adipocytokines, is expressed mostly in macrophages of the adipose tissue (11). Its expression and secretion are up regulated by pro inflammatory stimuli. As a result, increased resistin secretion activates the transcription and thus secretion of numerous proinflammatory cytokines and stimulates the production of superoxide anions that inhibit endothelial nitric oxide synthase resulting in endothelial dysfunction (12). Therefore, RES has been implicated in different disease including obesity, insulin resistance, CVD and many others. Many researchers are investigating RES and MPO as potential therapeutic targets and/or prognostic markers and thus, accurate study results are a requirement for making valid conclusions. Therefore, it is important to know which samples are suitable for analysis in order to provide reliable results.
To the best of our knowledge, only one study has investigated the interferences of haemolysis and lipemia on RES, while no study reported these interferences on MPO measurement. In addition, the information regarding haemolysis and lipemia interference on RES and MPO is also missing in the manufacturer’s declaration. Therefore, the aim of our study was to investigate the influence of haemolysis and lipemia on both RES and MPO measurement by BioVendor enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA).
The study was conducted in the Clinical Institute of Chemistry, University Hospital Center “Sestre Milosrdnice” in July 2016. The study was approved by the institutional Ethics Committee and conducted according to the principles of the Helsinki Declaration.
Blood samples were taken from two healthy volunteers after an overnight fast according to the national recommendations for venous blood sampling (13). A total of 5 tubes were taken from the first volunteer and 2 tubes from the second participant from the antecubital vein into Vacuette® LH Lithium-heparin (LiH) tube, 4.5 mL, Ref. No. 454049 from Greiner Bio-One (Kremsmunster, Austria) using a Vacuette Multiple Use Draw, 21 gauge needles (Ref. No. 450076) also from Greiner Bio-One. All samples were handled according to manufacturer’s recommendations (14). The blood was thoroughly mixed immediately after venipuncture by gently inverting the tubes 5–10 times.
Afterwards, the five LH tubes from the first volunteer were centrifuged at 2000xg for 15 min using the Rotixa 50 RS centrifuge (Hettich Lab Technology, Tuttlingen, Germany). Aliquots of plasma were then spiked with Lipofundin® MCT/LCT 20% emulsion (B. Braun Melsungen AG, Melsungen, Germany) to reach a final volume of 1 mL and different concentrations of Lipofundin®, as presented in Table 1.
Protocol for spiking plasma aliquots with Lipofundin® to achieve lipemic samples
Sample number
Plasma volume (µL)
Lipofundin® volume (µL)
Lipofundin® concentration (g/L)
1 1000 0 0
The blood from the other 2 LH tubes from the second volunteer was divided into 7 aliquots. The aliquots of heparinized whole blood were then drawn through a 26 gauge needle several times in order to achieve different levels of haemolysis. Afterwards, such haemolysed aliquots were centrifuged at 2000xg for 15 min using the Rotixa 50 RS centrifuge to obtain clear plasma without cell debris. The aliquot of heparinized blood intended for the native sample was not drawn through a 26 gauge needle, but was immediately centrifuged at 2000xg for 15 min using the Rotixa 50 RS centrifuge to obtain a clear plasma sample.
Haemolysis (H) and lipemia (L) indices as well as triglyceride concentrations in lipemic samples were measured on Abbott Architect c8000 (Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois, USA). Haemoglobin concentration from the haemolysed samples was measured using the haematology analyser Sysmex XN-1000 (Sysmex, Kobe, Japan). Concentrations of RES and MPO were determined with Human Resistin ELISA and Human MPO ELISA test kits (BioVendor, Brno, Czech Republic) according to the manufacturer’s instructions, each analyte within the same run (15, 16). The intra-assay precisions declared by the manufacturer for RES was 5.2% at 6.34 µg/L and 6.6% at 17.53 µg/L; while the inter-assay precision for was 7.0% at 6.66 µg/L and 8.1% at 23.52 µg/L. The manufacturer did not provide coefficients of variation (CV) for MPO and since there are no available data regarding allowable CV in the literature, we have calculated the mean CV from all of the triplicate MPO measurements and obtained a value of 6.8%.
All measurements were performed in triplicates. The mean value of the three measurements was used for statistical analysis.
The results are presented as mean ± SD. Bias from the concentration in the native sample (B) was calculated for each parameter for all lipemic and haemolytic aliquots, according to the formula: B = (Cx - Cn) / Cn x 100; where Cn represents the mean value of each parameter in the native sample and Cx represents the mean value of each parameter in haemolysed and/or lipemic samples.
Since, there is difficulty in establishing a definitive criteria for both analytes, particularly for resistin because there are no available desirable specifications in the biological variation database, or in the literature, the calculated biases for both analytes were compared with an arbitrary value (e.g. ±10%).
The results of the measurements (mean ± SD) carried out in the native, lipemic and haemolysed samples are presented in Tables 2 and 3Table 3. Additionally, the biases for RES and MPO are presented as interferograms on Figures 1 and 2Figure 2.
The results of the measurements for RES and MPO in native and haemolytic samples
Haemolysis index
Haemoglobin (g/L)
(μg/L)
RES bias from the native sample (%)
Acceptable bias for RES (%)
MPO bias from the native sample (%)
Acceptable bias for MPO (%)
1 0.05 ± 0.01 0 ± 0 8.9 ± 0.6 / 10.0 164.9 ± 6.9 / 10.0
2 1.34 ± 0.02 1 ± 0 14.8 ± 0.3 66.7 261.7 ± 13.2 58.7
3 3.37 ± 0.02 3 ± 0 23.9 ± 4.9 168.5 317.1 ± 1.8 92.2
MPO – myeloperoxidase. RES – resistin.
The results of the measurements for MPO and RES in native and lipemic samples
Lipemia index
Triglycerides (mmol/L)
1 - 0.01 ± 0.00 0.57 ± 0.01 4.6 ± 0.8 / 10.0 46.2 ± 3.8 / 10.0
2 0.59 ± 0.00 2.60 ± 0.01 4.3 ± 0.7 - 7.9 48.2 ± 15.0 4.3
3 1.28 ± 0.01 4.66 ± 0.03 4.1 ± 0.4 - 12.2 61.8 ± 4.1 33.8
4 3.28 ± 0.02 10.27 ± 0.15 3.5 ± 0.5 - 23.7 57.8 ± 5.7 25.2
6 13.77 ± 0.07 38.23 ± 0.29 4.3 ± 0.5 - 7.2 108.3 ± 7.0 134.5
The effect of haemolysis on RES and MPO concentrations. MPO – myeloperoxidase. RES – resistin.
The effect of lipemia on RES and MPO concentrations. MPO – myeloperoxidase. RES – resistin.
The main finding of our study is that haemolysis and lipemia interfere with both MPO and RES BioVendor ELISA measurement. Haemolysis was found to interfere at 1 g/L haemoglobin for both assays, while lipemia interfered already at 4.66 mmol/L triglycerides.
Our results show that for BioVendor ELISA methods, haemolysis causes a positive bias both for MPO and RES, while lipemia causes negative bias for RES and positive bias for MPO up to 38.23 mmol/L triglycerides.
Haemolysis caused positive interference due to the absorbance of haemoglobin at 450 nm, which is the wavelength of the final readings. The level of interference rose as the haemoglobin concentrations were higher. The only discrepancy was evident at 7 g/L of haemoglobin for RES measurements where we obtained lower levels of interference that at the previous point of 3 g/L haemoglobin. A possible reason for such results could be the fact that haemolysis was obtained by drawing whole blood samples through a needle for several times and that there could have been some artefacts within the samples that caused the discrepancy.
Similarly to haemolysis interference, some discrepancies were also found with lipemia testing. For example, for RES, lipemia has shown continuous negative interferences up to 10.27 mmol/L of triglycerides after which the level of interference decreased. A possible explanation could be that Lipofundin® causes non-homogeneity of the sample, but also the fact that the concentration of Lipofundin® was very high which could have caused sample matrix dilution which all together could have contributed to such results.
So far only one study has investigated the influence of haemolysis and lipemia on RES measurement as a part of Vectra® DA, a multi-biomarker test for rheumatoid arthritis activity quantification developed by Crescendo Bioscience (17). The authors have spiked serum pool with haemoglobin from Sigma–Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA) to reach final haemoglobin concentrations of 0.2 and 2 g/L and with Liposyn from Hospira (LakeForest, IL, USA) to reach lipemic samples with Lyposin concentrations of 2 and 20 g/L. They have calculated the recovery between the samples spiked with haemoglobin/Lyposin and the corresponding controls (samples spiked with equal amount of diluents) and have set arbitrary acceptance criteria for recovery between 80% and 120%. Their results for RES were 98% recovery at haemoglobin 0.2 g/L and 97% at haemoglobin 2 g/L and 107% and 105% for 2 and 20 g/L Lyposin, respectively, thus concluding that haemolysis and lipemia do not interfere with RES measurement, which is somewhat opposite from our findings. There are several possible reasons for such differences. Firstly, the methods used in our study and the one conducted by Eastman and co–workers are not the same. We used ELISA methods while Eastman and colleagues used multiplex sandwich immunoassay electrochemiluminescent technology. Since the methods are produced by different manufacturers, they utilize antibodies that do not target same parts of resistin molecule and have different reaction conditions. It is therefore not surprising that the effect of interference is different with the two immunoassays. Similar discrepancies in interference testing have previously been described for other immunoassays, especially for cardiac troponin, widely used for myocardial infarction diagnosis (18). For example, Florkowski and his team investigated the influence of haemolysis on troponin I and T of different manufacturers (Abbott, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics and Roche) and found that very high positive interference for the Ortho Clinical Diagnostics TnI assay and almost no interference for the Abbott Architect TnI. A reason for this discrepancy could be the fact that troponin T in haemolysed sample is cleaved by proteolytic enzymes release by broken red blood cells, which is not the case for troponin I. Additionally, other reports have shown falsely decreased results on Roche fourth and fifth generations and Siemens Vista LOCI assays and low levels of interference for Beckman Coulter AccuTnI+3 assay (17). Secondly, we have obtained haemolysed samples by drawing whole blood samples through a 26 gauge needle several times thereby mimicking real-life conditions, while Eastman and colleagues added only haemoglobin into their pools. Since in haemolysed samples, haemoglobin is not the only interferent, but many different enzymes and proteins are also released from neutrophils, it is possible that this fact contributed to such a small level of interference in their experiment.
Unfortunately, literature data regarding the influence of haemolysis and lipemia on MPO measurement is absent. For this reason together with the fact that this analyte is still in the phase of research and has not yet entered clinical practice, even though interference should be evaluated at clinically relevant concentrations, we believe that the investigation on healthy volunteers is a valuable first step in interference testing. In addition, the information regarding these interferences is also missing in the manufacturer’s declaration. BioVendor only provides an advice not to use lipemic or haemolysed samples. Unfortunately, BioVendor is not the only manufacturer with incomplete information in the declarations. There is a large heterogeneity in declarations even within the widely used commercial assays, and there is an ongoing call from the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) towards the manufacturers in order to provide standardized and transparent declarations about serum indices (3). Once this is accomplished, it will be easier for the laboratory professionals to handle such unsuitable specimen.
One possible limitation to our study is a relatively small sample size in which we have investigated the interferences. Additionally, another limitation is the fact that the lowest investigated haemolysis level was at 1 g/L of haemoglobin. This is due to the fact that haemolysis was achieved by drawing whole blood samples through a 26 gauge needle for several times. The level of haemolysis was not always proportional to the numbers of drawing through the needle and therefore we could not control the exact level of haemolysis, which is also the reason why it was very difficult to achieve a low level of haemolysis. It could be possible that lower levels of haemolysis do not cause significant interference and that such samples could be used for analysis. Additionally, haematology analysers might not always be sensitive enough to detect 1 - 8 g/L haemoglobin, which are the concentrations investigated in this study. Free haemoglobin concentrations could also be measured with spectrophotometers; however, since we did not have an available spectrophotometer at the time of the study and therefore we relied on haematology analyser measurements. Nevertheless, since this is the first report regarding haemolysis and lipemia on RES and MPO ELISA measurement we believe it provides evidence based approach to handling haemolysed and lipemic samples and adds valuable contribution to future experiments. Further studies would be advisable, to investigate the effect of interferences on a wider concentration range of RES and MPO. Additionally, we have used Lipofundin® to obtain lipemic samples. Though it does not completely mimic native lipemic samples, such lipid emulsions are still widely used for interference testing. This is mainly because of the fact that such experiments provide valuable information to laboratory professionals and that intensive care units use lipid emulsions for parenteral nutrition and thus they are the cause of a significant proportion of lipemic samples in hospital laboratories (15). Finally, we did not exclude that the volunteers had circulating human auto-antibodies or heterophile antibodies in plasma which might explain some unexpected results in our interferograms.
To conclude, as of our results, RES BioVendor assay is affected by haemolysis and lipemia by, already at low degree of interferent. Haemolysis was found to interfere at 1 g/L haemoglobin for both assays, while lipemia interfered already at 4.66 mmol/L triglycerides. In order to obtain reliable results with the investigated ELISA method, such samples should not be used for analysis.
This work was supported by the Ministry of Science, Education, and Sports, Republic of Croatia (project number: 134-1340227-0200).
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Chick-fil-A is looking into vegetarian and vegan menu options
You might be able to get a Chick-fil-A sandwich without the actual chicken in the future. The chain is exploring vegan and vegetarian options, according to Business Insider.
"We're definitely aware, and I would say we're always interested in, what's happening in food," Amanda Norris, the executive director of Chick-fil-A's menu, told Business Insider. "Specifically ... a vegetarian option or a vegan option is something we're looking at, we're thinking about, and have some (research and development)."
Norris says that it takes up to two years for a new item to hit menus after the initial idea. According to Business Insider, Chick-fil-A's initiatives go through five stages: understand, imagine, prototype, validate and launch.
"We've kind of been watching it, and now we are moving more from the watch stage and getting into that understand, or really imagine stage," Norris said.
Chick-fil-A currently doesn't offer any vegan or vegetarian entrees, though sides like the Greek yogurt parfait and side salad don't have any meat.
Norris said options could go beyond meatless salads and wraps and could ultimately include an "alternative protein" on a sandwich.
"We're certainly wanting to broaden our thinking and really start big in that funnel and come down," she said.
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Why Is Lord Krishna Called Ranchod And Who Gave Him This Name
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Lord Krishna is considered one of the 12 incarnations of Lord Vishnu. He is famous for his sporty behaviour, pranks, philosophy, justice, graceful dance, love and warrior skills. He is also known for his leelas which are mostly with the milkmaids of Vraj. Lord Krishna is said to have several names each gained from his different Leelas. One such name that he has been given is 'Ranchod' which is derived from two different words namely 'Ran' which means war and 'chod' which means to leave. Hence the meaning of Ranchod is the one who ran away from the battlefield.
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Now you might be thinking why is Lord Krishna known as Ranchod? Well, it's a long story and is associated with Jarasandh, the mighty King of Magadh but fret no more as we are here to tell you about the same.
Jarasandh was the only son of King Brihadratha, the King of Magadh. He was born as two halves from two different mothers but after his birth, the two halves joined to form a complete baby. Jarasandh then grew up to become a mighty king and defeated many other kings and eventually, he became the Emperor.
He then married both daughters to Kansa, the maternal uncle of Lord Krishna. But due to his injustice and evil acts, Kansa was killed by Lord Krishna. As soon as Jarasandh came to know about this, he became furious and decided to behead Lord Krishna along with his elder brother Balram.
Formation Of Dwarka City
In his rage, Jarasandh attacked Mathura, the Kingdom of Ugrasen (the grandfather of Lord Krishna) seventeen times. Each time he made huge destruction and several people suffered. Hundreds of them lost their lives.
Eventually, Mathura became a weak empire with no economy and massive deaths. But Jarasandh was still planning to attack Mathura once again and finish the Yadavas (the clan of Lord Krishna) race forever. Therefore, he made an alliance with several other kings and prepared for a war against Lord Krishna and Yadavas. He had made a plan to attack Mathura from several fronts and thus, destroy the entire Yadava Kingdom.
Upon receiving this news, Lord Krishna became worried and started to think of a way to protect his people. Therefore, he suggested his grandfather and elder brother shift the capital of their Kingdom from Mathura to a new city. For that reason, this will help them in their survival. To this, none of the courtiers or countrymen agreed and said, 'it will be cowardness to flee from the battlefield'. Ugrasen said, "People will call you as a coward and the one who left the battlefield. Won't it be shameful for you?"
Lord Krishna was least bothered about his reputation as he was worried about his people. He said, "The entire universe knows that I have so many names. It won't affect me to have another name. My people's life is much more important than my reputation."
Balram raised a war cry and reminded that brave people fight till their last breathe. But then Lord Krishna told him, "War can never be a solution as Jarasandh and his allies are determined to destroy Mathura. I do not care about my life but I can't see my people dying and becoming homeless."
Lord Krishna had to go through a tough time in convincing his countrymen and his courtiers. But King Ugrasen was doubtful about how a new city can be created in such a short span of time.
It was then Lord Krishna said that he had already requested Lord Vishwakarma to build a new city. To make his people believe, Krishna requested Lord Vishwakarma to appear and convince everyone.
Lord Vishwakarma appeared and showed the blueprint of the new city but King Ugrasen was still not convinced as he doubted that a new city can be established in just a matter of a few days. It was then Lord Vishwakarma told, "Honourable King the city was already constructed and is currently underwater. All I need to do is bring it on the land, only if you allow me." Ugrasen nodded and thus Dwarka, the new capital city of Yadava clan came into existence. Every one abandoned Mathura and went to settle down in Dwarka.
Lord Krishna Being Named 'Ranchod'
Upon his arrival in Mathura, Jarasandh found the abandoned city. In his rage, he called Lord Krishna as 'Ranchod' and destroyed the abandoned Mathura mercilessly. Since that day Lord Krishna is also called Ranchod.
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It is interesting, even today Ranchod is a quite famous name in entire Gujarat and you will find many boys named Ranchod by their parents.
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Home » News » Box Office Special Features » Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior Box Office Collections: Ajay Devgn and Saif Ali Khan score a major success as Om Raut’s film enters Rs. 100 Crore Club in record time
Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior Box Office Collections: Ajay Devgn and Saif Ali Khan score a major success as Om Raut’s film enters Rs. 100 Crore Club in record time
, Jan 16, 2020 - 9:07 am IST
What a superb feat it has turned out to be for Tanhaji – The Unsung Warrior. The film has entered the Rs. 100 Crore Club in mere 6 days and that too in style. Collections of the film are just not slowing down, as evidenced on Wednesday as well when Rs. 16.72 crores more came in. The film has found wide spread appreciation from the audiences and the manner in which it is doing currently, looks like it is there for a long run now.
The film has now collected Rs. 107.68 crores and that’s a superb number by all means. For Ajay Devgn, this is a big century indeed. This can well be evidenced from the fact that the film has gone past the lifetime numbers of De De Pyaar De [Rs.103.50 crores] and Raid [Rs.103.07] in real quick time. Next target is Total Dhamaal [Rs.154.23] and that number too would be surpassed inside the second week itself.
For Saif Ali Khan, the film’s success is a major shot in the arm as it has crossed the lifetime numbers of his last hit Race 2 [Rs. 100.45 crores] in a jiffy. Of late, the actor had suffered many disappointments despite being good in majority of films and hence his villainous act in Tanhaji – The Unsung Warrior becomes all the more notable.
As for Om Raut, he is now the newest amongst the breed of directors who score a century in their debut outing itself. Tanhaji – The Unsung Warrior is the debut directorial affair for Om Raut and he has scored quite well in his maiden effort. With one more day yet to go before the first week is through, Tanhaji – The Unsung Warrior has set itself up well for a very healthy lifetime score.
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Home » News » Bollywood Features News » Isabelle Kaif attends Miss India Canada pageant, gets mobbed, promotes ‘Dr. Cabbie’
Isabelle Kaif attends Miss India Canada pageant, gets mobbed, promotes ‘Dr. Cabbie’
Created: Aug 20, 2014 - 5:43 am IST
In a month from now, Isabelle Kaif would be making her big screen debut with Dr. Cabbie, a light hearted comedy which features Vinay Virmani (Breakaway, David) in the title role. With the film now just weeks away from its international release (it would first hit the Canadian screens in September), it is time for the cast of the film to up the ante when it comes to marketing and promotion.
No wonder, in a cross-promotion event, Isabelle Kaif recently attended the Miss India Canada pageant that was held in Toronto.
Informs our source, “Slowly but steadily she is making her presence felt in the international media. She was invited at the pageant as the honor. But naturally, all eyes were on her. The film boasts of an ensemble cast with Isabelle playing a very crucial role in this Jean-Francois Poulliot directed affair,” informs our source.
Though paparazzi is (thankfully) yet to hound celebrities in Canada, Isabelle attracted good attention. Reports state that given her lineage (being Katrina Kaif‘s sister) and the fact that she is a new face, she was mobbed for photographs and pictures.
“Yes, in fact the event organizers had to keep additional security around her,” the source adds, “While she was definitely around to promote Dr. Cabbie as her film, she also gave a very motivating speech to all the young South Asian women on the subject of following one’s dreams. While she interacted with both the mainstream and South Asian media, what made the event further special was the interaction she had with Miss India Canada.”
The highlight though was when the trailer of this Salman Khan Being Human [SKBH] Productions’ offering (which is being distributed by Eros International) was played for a large gathering. While there was laughter and applause galore, enquiries did come her way around her entry into quintessential mainstream Bollywood flick.
“Given her charm, Isabelle did keep the media guessing,” quips an associate who was accompanying here, “Of course there have been ample feelers that have come her way. However, she is concentrating entirely on Dr. Cabbie. It is a first major step for her to woo audience internationally. She wants to get it just right with her debut outing.”
Correct approach indeed!
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Dyngus Day 2019: Be A Good Neighbor to Old Polonia
by BRo Guest Authors March 18, 2019, 9:38 am 0 Comments
Author: Kelly Carroll
The East Side, shunned and abandoned by the previous generation, is on the rise. The Dyngus Day celebration in the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood attracts more attendees every year, bringing folks whose parents or grandparents knew Polonia as their home. I am among them. My maternal ancestors first settled in this area at the turn of the twentieth century, and according to census data, cohabited small houses with other Polish immigrant families. They moved a lot, and called Gibson, Cable, Schmarbeck, Theodore, Sobieski and Kosciuscko Streets home. Thanks to the recent creation of the Broadway-Fillmore Historic District via the hard work of Preservation Buffalo-Niagara, some of these modest homes will be preserved for future generations of families as a testament to Buffalo’s immigrant history.
Broadway-Fillmore has served as a neighborhood for people seeking a better life for nearly 150 years. After the initial Polish settlement of the 1870s, African-Americans arrived from the South. During the Great Migration of 1917-1970, six million African-Americans departed the untenable hardships of the Southern United States and moved to urban centers in the North. Thousands of them found labor, opportunity, and ultimately residence in Buffalo. By the mid-twentieth century, a cocktail of urban decentralization, block-busting, disinvestment, redlining, and the opening of the Kensington Expressway in 1971 resulted in the complete racial segregation of Buffalo’s East Side.
Despite these obstacles, there persists a strong African-American identity and community in this section of the city, and it is growing to welcome others. Since 2003, the City of Good Neighbors has resettled over ten thousand refugees from Afghanistan, Bhutan, Burma, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, and Eritrea, many of whom now call former Polonia home. Despite the incredible hardships this area has faced, the East Side has proved to be both resilient and sustainable, with each new wave of settlement as a testament to this locale’s fortitude.
This Dyngus Day, when we as descendants return in droves of merriment to old Polonia, remember that it is still a neighborhood where families live. The Dyngus Day festivities are assets to the area’s revitalization, but last year, the celebrations visually left the neighborhood worse than we found it. While honoring our shared culture in our ancestral neighborhood, respect the ground that you stand on rather than defile it. The amount of garbage left on the streets and embarrassingly strung about on tree limbs along the parade route in 2018 was disgraceful. If you are proud of your heritage, do not treat this section of the city as if it is an annual fair ground. The clock did not stop in 1965 when our grandparents moved to Cheektowaga or Depew. It remains a living, breathing, community on the rise–with a bright past, present and future of which are all a part of.
The Carroll family will host a post-Dyngus Day cleanup of Memorial Drive on Tuesday, April 23rd at 11:00 am. Meet at the circle on Memorial Drive.
Kelly Carroll is a 3rd generation Polish/Irish American and grew up off East Delavan Avenue in Pine Hill. She holds a Master of Science in Historic Preservation from Columbia University and serves as the Director of Advocacy & Community Outreach for the Historic Districts Council in New York City.
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Upgraded Train Service On Arriva Cross Country Network
By root 4th October 2016
Passengers on the Arriva Cross Country network will benefit from £20M upgraded trains under new contract announced today.
A new contract has been announced today (29 September), which will give rail passengers across Britain thousands of extra seats, quicker journeys and free wifi, after the government agreed a new deal for services for the Cross Country franchise.
As part of the £20M investment, Arriva Cross Country will continue to run train services across Britain, which under the contract will deliver better connections, a better customer service and a tough new set of targets.
The operator has been set ‘tough’ targets for punctuality and reliability on Cross Country services, which run from Aberdeen to Penzance, Bournemouth to Manchester and Stansted to Birmingham, among other routes.
Journey times from Birmingham to Manchester will be cut by nine minutes on weekdays and 12 minutes at weekends.
An additional 39,000 more seats will be available at peak time along the Edinburgh to Plymouth route through Leeds, Birmingham and Bristol by December 2017, according to the Department for Transport.
The government have said passengers will also get free Wi-Fi by 2018.
In addition to the upgrades, customer services will open 24 hours a day, and a new mobile app will allow customers to buy tickets and check live running times.
The £10 charge for a change in tickets will also be removed, and extra trains will run to Morpeth.
Arriva Cross Country Managing Director Andy Cooper said: ‘We are delighted to have the opportunity to deliver even more for our customers over the next three years through this new agreement.
‘Satisfaction is the theme for the range of investments we will be making, with better, faster journeys with more seats and free wi-fi.
‘We will also be looking to our customers for feedback on how we can deliver them great journeys, and a strong focus on engaging with the many communities and stakeholders our trains serve across the country.’
Rail minister Paul Maynard said: ‘We are making the biggest investment in the railways since the Victorian era and today is a key milestone in giving passengers better journeys right across the Cross Country network.
‘The franchise, which spans parts of England, Scotland and Wales, serves both commuters and long distance passengers and these benefits from Arriva Cross Country will deliver extra and smoother journeys for customers using these services.’
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Thursday, 1/09/2020 09:01
Badly, natch...
In ONE MERE WEEK of December 2019, the Federal Reserve added $30 billion to its balance sheet while the European Central Bank (ECB) added $12 billion, writes Dan Denning, co-author of the Bonner Letter, in the Diary of a Rogue Economist.
Global stocks added $16 trillion in market capitalization last year and, at $85 trillion in total, are 98% of global GDP.
It's a financial party the likes of which the world has never seen.
Even the Saudis got in on the act in December. Saudi Aramco finally held its long-awaited coming out party and debuted with a market cap of $2 trillion. (This comes just a year after Apple became the first company to reach a $1 trillion market cap – something that until then had seemed almost unreachable.)
The S&P 500 was up nearly 30%. The only better year in the last 20 was 2013, when the index closed up 32.4%.
But the task of today's essay is not to pop champagne corks and shake a leg on the dance floor.
The task is to connect the dots, try to see the bigger picture, make some sensible forecasts about what's next and, more importantly, what you should do.
Yes, our beat here is money. But we know that the main reason you bother to keep up with investment markets and the financial world at large is so that you can make a better life for you and your family. Money is the means to that end. But it's the end – a good life and a happy family (as happy as it can be) that matters most.
Now, also on the subject of money, it appears that financial markets are fundamentally broken and the authorities at the Federal Reserve have no idea how to fix them. In fact, they're making it worse.
Since we first wrote to you about the problem with the "plumbing" of the financial system (the overnight "repo," or lending, markets) the leak has become a torrent.
Check out the table below.
When repo rates spiked in mid-September, it was supposed to be a short-term problem (related to corporate tax payments) with a short-term solution. But what you'll notice on the table above is that the repo facilities are much larger and last for much longer (13, 14, 15, and 32 days) than normal (overnight). Why?
Because the Fed doesn't want a system blow-up to end the year. Whether it's hedge funds or big Wall Street banks, someone needs (or wants) a lot of cash. The Fed is willing to provide it – not least to prevent the unexpected liquidation of a large leveraged player (a bank or a hedge fund). What exactly do I mean?
This is worth untangling because it's such a critical issue about the health of the economy and a potential crash in the markets. Yet even three months in, no one really seems to have a clear explanation of what's going on or why. That should be worrying. It IS worrying!
To repeat our view: The Fed is running a complicated simulation in which it pumps billions of Dollars into the economy in order to levitate asset prices, stimulate consumption and investment, and suppress unemployment.
In fact, if we had to make ONE prediction for 2020, it's that this unprecedented experiment in central bank intervention will fail massively and take the entire bull market with it. The press conferences, the research reports, the official statements, the tweets. It's all just window dressing.
In reality, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and company are making it up as they go along! This makes the experiment – and the bull market itself – much more fragile than you might think. But what IS going on? Let's take a look...
Long story short, US government deficits have put pressure on big US banks. These banks are called Primary Dealers in the Federal Reserve System. They are obligated to buy newly issued government bonds.
And because the US government is now running huge deficits, the banks are using their cash to fund US deficits, driving up the overnight price of cash for everyone else. (The Congressional Budget Office reports the Feds ran up a $342 billion deficit in the first two months of fiscal year 2020.)
The Bank of International Settlements weighed in on the story in December. It showed, as you can see in the chart below, that the lion's share of liquidity in the repo market is provided by just four US banks – J.P.Morgan, Citibank, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo.
That means if those banks make any major change to their reserves – a preference for more cash or a shift toward bonds – it directly affects the reserves available in the system to other players (banks and hedge funds).
Are you beginning to see how the dots are connected? Or how the dominos might fall? The Fed is providing liquidity to the banks, who are spending their cash on US government bonds.
And why is the Fed providing liquidity to the banks? Because the banks are providing liquidity to heavily leveraged hedge funds. And if the hedge funds don't get that liquidity, they might be forced to LIQUIDATE.
To be clear, if the Fed doesn't provide liquidity to the banks so THEY can provide liquidity to hedge funds, the hedge funds might have to sell assets to raise cash. A situation in which you are forced to sell assets to raise cash and de-lever your position feels a lot like a crisis.
THAT kind of crisis feels a lot like Long Term Capital Management (LTCM), which was really when the Fed first got in the business of bailing out Wall Street by opening up the taps. (If you remember, LTCM was a massive hedge fund that almost collapsed in 1998. The Fed stepped in to bail it out on the grounds that LTCM was "too big to fail.")
The taps are open and gushing. The Fed's pumped $300 billion in liquidity into markets since mid-September. The Fed's balance sheet is back over $4 trillion. At this rate, the balance sheet will go over $4.5 trillion by May of next year – a new record.
More to the point for investors: the stock market is now directly correlated to, and dependent upon, Fed liquidity. Without more fake money, the simulation ends and this sucker's going down (obligatory reference to George W. Bush quote during the 2008 crisis).
Now, it's possible that once banks and hedge funds get through the end of the calendar year, the "problem" goes away. Banks replenish their cash reserves in line with regulatory requirements. Hedge funds roll over leveraged positions without having to engage in panic selling. And the Fed quietly goes about buying all those new Treasury bonds issued by the government (monetizing the debt, as we say).
But my point in belaboring the point is that the financial markets are now thoroughly dependent on the Fed to keep the bull market going. The Dow, the Nasdaq, and the S&P 500 are at all-time highs.
But enjoy the merriment of the Christmas holiday while you can. It may not last long into the new year and the new decade.
I don't want to leave you on a dismal note. But I would be doing you a disservice if I didn't warn you about what Bill and I see in 2020 and beyond.
The point is, at the bottom, all financial crises are born from too much leverage and too much speculation. The 2000 dot-com boom was confined to one sector (technology). Then came the real estate boom, where Alan Greenspan's emergency interest rates bred an insatiable housing bubble and a Wall Street speculation bonanza.
The response to the 2008 crisis was to double down on the same policies. Endless bailouts, interest rate cuts, and now a record intervention in the overnight money markets. Things haven't improved since 2008. The crisis – like some sort of virus attacking America's auto-immune system – has simply moved to a new part of the body economy (corporate and government debt).
It's why, in August, we urged paid-up Bonner-Denning Letter readers to reduce their allocation to bonds and increase their allocation to tangibles and precious metals. With all this going on, that decision seems timely. But it's not too late to take those precautions if you haven't yet.
The repo crisis is a "flare up". The kind of inflammation that could lead to a conflagration. A bonfire of the equities to start. And then bonds later. So besides the guidance above, what else can you do about that?
Bill and I have been working on a list of 10 things you should do in America before the next crash, while you still can! Some of these are practical things you should do to prepare. Others are "experiences" that might not be available to you post-crash.
If you're a paid-up Bonner-Denning Letter subscriber, look for that this January.
Best-selling author of The Bull Hunter (Wiley & Sons) and formerly analyzing equities and publishing investment ideas from Baltimore, Paris, London and then Melbourne, Dan Denning is now co-author of The Bill Bonner Letter from Bonner & Partners.
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FINS5581 Empirical Corporate Governance - 2018
FINS5581
FINS5581 is an elective for students in the PhD and MPhil programs. The course explores a number of empirical questions and statistical techniques from corporate finance, with application to topics in corporate governance. Topics covered include applications of agency theory and optimal contracting theory, an overview of internal and external corporate control mechanisms, and a survey of major methodological approaches used in this research area including their strengths and weaknesses. The primary topics to be covered are corporate boards of directors, executive incentives, and manifestations of poor governance. We will also discuss some of the major databases used for this type of research, The topics to be covered are all in the lecturer’s area of expertise.
The course assumes a sound knowledge of the economic theory relating to the foundations of finance, including basic agency theory and financial contract theory. The course will emphasize both the major economic questions concerning the needs for and the effectiveness of these critical corporate governance mechanisms and to help researchers to create effective research designs necessary to produce compelling evidence of causal relationships.
By the end of the course, you should be familiar with some of the classic research as well as some of the most cutting edge work in the field of corporate governance. You should also understand the major empirical approaches employed in this research area, and a good understanding of what makes for a strong research paper and to be well-equipped to undertake your own research studies. However, ultimately, the time and effort that each student devotes to the course will determine how much he or she learns.
This course will focus primarily on recent research over the last couple of years. We will explore key questions in corporate governance and their effects on corporate decision making. In the process of studying these topics, I will primarily emphasize the empirical predictions of theory, and the statistical methodology used in corporate finance and the strengths and weaknesses of the existing statistical evidence.
This is a Postgraduate (PhD) course. Participants should have a strong interest in corporate finance. Students will find many of the econometric techniques covered in Research Method in Finance 1 and 2 very useful in undertaking their research projects and they should be prepared to use these techniques. In addition, students should have a solid background in the microeconomic theory of the firm.
This course helps you to achieve the following learning goals for all Business postgraduate coursework students:
On successful completion of the course, you should have:
A solid understanding of major corporate governance mechanisms
A clear grasp of major theories and evidence regarding boards of directors and managerial compensation.
A strong grasp on the major empirical approaches used in undertaking research in corporate governance, including their strengths and weaknesses
Critical summaries of assigned readings
Course research paper
Analyze data and test hypotheses and familiarity with the major databases in this research area.
All assessment items
Develop critical economic perspectives and analytical skills, and be able to articulate your own research results through written reports and oral presentation
All readings and assessment items and especially class discussions
Construct written work which is logically and professionally organized and articulated. Summarise your analysis and key findings in a highly succinct, but compelling fashion.
Article summaries/critiques, and research paper
Communicate ideas in a succinct and clear manner and be able to defend your economic analysis and statistical approaches in Q&A.
Class Presentations/Critiques
The class will function as a team to understand the strengths and weakness of each piece of research covered in class
Understanding how governance mechanisms are used to monitor and discipline corporate managers and directors and what our common methods of extracting private benefits of control
Article critiques and classroom discussions
Highlight how effective corporate governance mechanisms are across countries and how they can be supported or undercut by government decisions
Lecturer-in-charge Prof Ron Masulis Room: 354, Business School bulding - Ref E12 +61 2 9385 5860 Monday 1-2 pm (or by appointment)
The teaching and learning approach adopted emphasises the importance of developing critical thinking and analytical skills. This is achieved through a mix of lectures, class presentations and discussions and a research paper.
Weekly Class Activities:
In order to obtain the full benefit from the course, students should:
Read the assigned reading for each class and be prepared to ask critical questions and to answer specific questions about the readings.
Attend all seminar classes and arrive on time.
Actively participate in class: Answer questions posed by the instructor, and ask your own questions.
If issues are still not clear, first ask your classmates, then ask me, send me a mail, or come to my office during the consultation hours.
The rationale for the above suggestions and requirements is following these points is necessary to achieve the learning outcomes specified in Section 2.4. The design of the course presupposes that students are interested in the topics and will endeavour to learn the material presented. Lectures and class discussions and presentations are all aimed to facilitate your learning. However, ultimately, the time and effort each student devotes to the course will determine how much he or she learns from it.
During a typical 3-hour session, the first half of class will be devoted to covering the lecture material, which will be primarily based on survey paper readings and student presentations and discussions of assigned readings. These lectures are intended to establish an analytical framework for investigating major corporate governance mechanisms. The lecturer will focus on the most challenging concepts and students are encouraged to engage in a dialogue to facilitate better understandings of the materials. The lecturer will also highlight examples of effective writing in the assigned readings.
The second half of the class will generally involve student presentations and discussions of the research articles on key issues raised during lectures, prior class discussions and assigned readings. These will help students develop both an understanding of the theoretical underpinning of the literature and a familiarity with how these theories are evaluated empirically.
Beyond the classroom:
You are required to do the required readings as well as preparing for class discussions and presentations and completing a research paper. Outside the class, students are encouraged to form study groups to engage in interactive critical discussions of the assigned research articles. Students are also expected to attend the weekly finance seminars.
You are encouraged to fully utilise the available consultation hours to best prepare for the assignments. For the assignments, I will provide extra assistance in terms of suggesting further readings and discussing issues related to your presentations and research paper. Suggesting further readings and discussing issues related to your presentations and research paper.
Research presentations with Powerpoint Slides
You should complete the Working with Academic Integrity module before submitting any written assessment by the due date. Non-compliance with the UNSW Student Code may result in disciplinary action.
Class Participation and Analysis (25%)
You are required to attend and participate during in-class discussions. Overall participation quality will account for 25% of the final grade, conditional upon the submission of two presentations critically evaluating specifically assigned readings.
Active participation in the discussion of these questions (and not mere attendance of class) is essential to obtain a good mark for this assessment component. Also note that quality is far more important than quantity. The final mark will be decided at the end of the semester.
All assignments can be submitted through Moodle or in hard copy at class time.
The School of Banking and Finance supports the concept to leave the course lecturer-in-charge to stipulate a penalty of 0 to 10% of the percentage weight of the assessment component or part thereof per day. Details of such penalties will be available on the course Moodle page.
Applications for extension are restricted to cases of serious illness, bereavement or misadventure and students must provide documentary evidence. Decisions on such applications will be based on policies that are consistent with the policies adopted by UNSW Business School for such cases.
Further to the Business School protocol for viewing final exam scripts:
A student must lodge a request to view his or her final exam script within 5 working days immediately following the official release of overall course results. This request must be emailed to the School of Banking and Finance at bankfin@unsw.edu.au.
The School may fix a time at which all students wishing to see their exams will be permitted to do so. The date for viewing all final exam scripts with the School of Banking and Finance is the 10th working day after the official release of overall course results, and the School may fix a time for each course on that day. The School may refuse to allow access to the exams at other times.
Protocol for Viewing Other Exam Scripts is the similar to that of viewing final exam scripts except the working days are defined with reference to the release date of specific assessment result.
All required readings, information on assessments can be found on the subject web page (See Moodle below). Students are strongly advised to log into the subject web page at least once a week. Additional readings: Additional academic references papers will be listed on Moodle. They are available in full-text format (pdf files) from the library. The easiest way to find them is to (1) SSRN.com or (2) the faculty member’s personal or university webpage.
Course Outline – required and recommended readings
* Denotes required readings
** Denotes required literature surveys
Background Reading Prior to First Class
*Shleifer, A. and W. Vishny, 1997, A Survey of Corporate Governance, Journal of Finance 52, 737-783.
Becht, M., P. Bolton and A. Roell, 2003, Corporate Governance and Control in The Handbook of the Economics of Finance, Volume 1A, Corporate Finance (eds.) G. Constantinides, M. Harris and R. Stultz, North-Holland.
*Cochrane, J., 2014, Writing Tips for PhD Students, University of Chicago note.
McCloskey, D., 1985, Economical Writing, Economic Inquiry 24, 187-222.
Research Strategies & Corporate Finance Paradigms
*Jensen, M. and W. Meckling, 1976, Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs, and Ownership Structure, Journal of Financial Economics 3(4): 305-60.
Hellwig, M., 2009, A Reconsideration of the Jensen-Meckling Model of Outside Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation 18, 495-525.
Fama, E. 1980. Agency Problems and the Theory of the Firm, Journal of Political Economy 88(2): 288-307.
*Fama, E., and M. Jensen, 1983, Separation of Ownership and Control, Journal of Law and Economics 26, 301-325.
*Jensen, M., 1986, Agency Costs of Free Cash Flow, Corporate Finance, and Takeovers, American Economic Review 323-329.
Klein, B. and K. Leffler, 1981, The Role of Market Forces in Assuring Contractual Performance, Journal of Political Economy 89:4, 615- .
Methodological Approaches in Corp. Governance I – Endogeneity & Natural Experiments
*Athey, S. and G. Imbens, 2017, The State of Applied Econometrics: Causality and Policy Evaluation, Journal of Economic Perspectives 31(2), 3-32.
*Atanasov, V. and B. Black, 2016, Shock-Based Causal Inference in Corporate Finance and Accounting Research, Critical Finance Review, 5: 207–304
Atanasov, V. and B. Black, 2017, The Trouble with Instruments: Re-examining Shock-based IV Design, SSRN working paper.
*Karpoff, J. and M. Wittry, 2017, Institutional & Legal Context in Natural Experiments: The Case of State Anti-Takeover Laws, Journal of Finance, forthcoming.
*Roberts, M. and T. Whited, 2013, Endogeneity in Empirical Corporate Finance, Handbook of the Economics of Finance (PA), 493-572.
Li, K. and N. Prabhala, 2006, Self-Selection Models in Corporate Finance, Chapter 2 in Handbook of Corporate Finance: Empirical Corporate Finance (Elsevier/North Holland) B. Espen Eckbo, editor.
*Handout on Corporate Governance Data Sources
Methodological Approaches in Corp. Governance II – Matching Methods & DID
*Bertrand, M. and S. Mullainathan, 2003, Enjoying the Quiet Life? Corporate Governance and Managerial Preferences, Journal of Political Economy 111, 1043-1075.
Bertrand, M. and E. Duflo and S. Mullainathan, 2004, How Much Should We Trust Differences–in-Differences Estimates? Quarterly Journal of Economics 119, 249-275.
*Gormley, T. and D. Matsa, 2014, Common Errors: How to (and Not to) Control for Unobservable Heterogeneity, Review of Financial Studies 27(2).
*Petersen, M., 2009, Estimating Standard Errors in Finance Panel Data Sets: Comparing Approaches, Review of Financial Studies 22(1), 434-480.
*Chaney, T., D. Sraer and D. Thesmar, 2012, The Collateral Channel: How Real Estate Shocks Affect Corporate Investment, American Economic Review 102, 2381-2409.
Karpoff, J., A. Koester, D.S. Lee and G. Martin, 2017, Proxies and Databases in Financial Misconduct Research, The Accounting Review, forthcoming.
Methodological Approaches in Corporate Governance III – DDR
*Roberts, M. and T. Whited, 2013, Endogeneity in Empirical Corporate Finance, Handbook of the Economics of Finance (PA), 493-572 (sections on Matching and DDR).
Bakke, T. and T. Whited, 2012, Threshold Events and Identification: A Study of Cash Shortfalls, Journal of Finance 67(3), 1083–1111.
*Colak, G. and T. Whited, 2007, Spin-offs, Divestitures and Conglomerate Investment, Review of Financial Studies 20, 557-595.
Bena, J. and T. Xu, 2013, Competition and Ownership Structures of Closely-Held Firms, Review of Financial Studies 30(5), 1583-1626.
*Cunat, V., M. Guadalupe and M. Gine, 2012, The Vote Is Cast: The Effect of Corporate Governance on Shareholder Value, Journal of Finance 67(5), 1943-1977.
Chang, Y., H. Hong, E. Liskovich, 2015, Regression Discontinuity and the Price Effects of Stock Market Indexing, Review of Financial Studies 28(1), 213-246.
Chemmanur, T. and X. Tian, 2017, Do Antitakeover Provisions Spur Corporate Innovation? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming.
*Crane, A., S. Michenaud and J. Weston, 2016, The Effect of Institutional Ownership on Payout Policy: A Regression Discontinuity Design Approach, Review of Financial Studies 29 (6), 1377-1408.
Kwan, A., R. Masulis and T. McInish, 2015, Trading Rules, Competition for Order Flow and Market Fragmentation, Journal of Financial Economics 115, 330-48.
Corporate Decisions & Boards of Directors
**Hermalin, Benjamin E., and Michael S. Weisbach, 2003. Boards of Directors as an Endogenously Determined Institution: A Survey of the Economic Literature, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review 9(1): 7–26.
Adams, R., B. Hermalen and M. Weisbach, 2010, The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework and Survey, Journal of Economic Literature 48:1, 58-107.
Adams, Renee, 2017, Boards and the Directors Who Sit on Them, in The Handbook of the Economics of Corporate Governance, coedited with B. Hermalin and M. Weisbach, 2017, Elsevier Publishers.
Masulis, R., C. Wang, and F. Xie and S. Zhang, January 2017, Older and Wiser or Too Old to Govern? UNSW working paper.
Knyazeva, A., D. Knyazeva and R. Masulis, 2013, The Supply of Corporate Directors and Board Independence, Review of Financial Studies 26: 1561-1605.
Guo, L. and R. Masulis, 2015, Board Structure and Monitoring: New Evidence from CEO Turnovers, Review of Financial Studies 28 (10), 2770-2811.
Masulis, R. and E. J. Zhang, July 2017, How Valuable Are Independent Directors? Evidence from External Distractions, UNSW working paper.
Masulis, R. and S. Mobbs, February 2018, Independent Director Reputation Incentives: CEO Compensation Contracting and Financial Reporting, UNSW working paper.
Masulis, R. and S. Reza, 2015, Agency Problems of Corporate Philanthropy, Review of Financial Studies, 28:2, 592-636.
Masulis, R. and S. Reza, January 2018, Private Benefits and Corporate Investments: The Case of Corporate Philanthropy, SSRN working paper.
Masulis, R. and S. Mobbs, 2014, Independent Director Incentives: Where Do Talented Directors Spend their Time and Energy? Journal of Financial Economics 111, 406-429.
Masulis, R., C. Wang and F. Xie, 2012, Globalizing the Boardroom - The Effects of Foreign Directors on Corporate Governance and Firm Performance, Journal of Accounting and Economics 53:3, 527-554.
Banerjee, S. and R. Masulis, January 2018, Ownership, Investment and Governance: The Costs and Benefits of Dual Class Shares, UNSW working paper.
Banerjee, S., R. Masulis and A. Upadhyay, February 2018, Mitigating Effects of Gender Diverse Board in Companies with Aggressive Management, UNSW working paper.
*Coles, J., N. Daniel, and L. Naveen, 2008, Boards: Does One Size Fit All? Journal of Financial Economics 87, 329-356.
*Hwang, B. and S. Kim, 2009, It Pays to Have Friends, Journal of Financial Economics 93, 138-158.
*Duchin, R., J. Matsusaka and O. Ozbas, 2010, When Are Outside Directors Effective? Journal of Financial Economics 96, 195-214.
*Masulis, R. and S. Mobbs, 2011, Are All Inside Directors the Same? Evidence from the External Directorship Market, Journal of Finance 66:3, 823-872.
*Coles, J., N. Daniel, and L. Naveen, 2014, Co-opted Boards, Review of Financial Studies 27(6), 1751-1796.
Armstrong, C., J. Core and W. Guay, 2014, Do Independent Directors Cause Improvements in Firm Transparency, Journal of Financial Economics 113, 383-403.
Adams, R., A. Akyol and P. Verwijmeren, 2018, Director Skill Sets, Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming.
*Aggarwal, R., S. Dahiya and N. Prabhala, 2018, The Power of Shareholder Votes: Evidence from Director Elections, Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming.
*Andonov, A., Y. Hochberg, and J. Rauh, 2017, Political Representation and Governance: Evidence from the Investment Decisions of Public Pension Funds, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 226.
Appel, I., T. Gormley and D. Keim, 2016, Passive Investors, Not Passive Owners, Journal of Financial Economics, 121(1), 111-141
Armstrong, C., J. Core, and W. Guay, 2014. Do independent directors cause improvements in firm transparency?, Journal of Financial Economics 113, 383-403.
*Balsmeier, B., L. Fleming and G. Manso, 2017, Independent Boards and Innovation, Journal of Financial Economics 123, 536-557.
Bates, T., D. Becher and J. Wilson, May 2017, Performance-Based Turnover on Corporate Boards, ASU Working Paper.
Belot, F., E. Ginglinger, M. Slovin and M. Suishka, 2014, Freedom of Choice between Unitary and Two-Tier Boards; An Empirical Analysis, Journal of Financial Economics 112, 364-385.
Borokhovich, K., T. Boulton, K. Brunarski and Y. Harman, October 2014, The Incentives of Grey Directors: Evidence from Unexpected Executive and Board Chair Turnovers, Journal of Corporate Finance 28, 102-115.
Bouwman, C., 2011, Corporate Governance Propagation through Overlapping Directors, Review of Financial Studies 24:7, 2358-2394.
Brochet, F. and S. Srinivasan, 2014, Accountability of Independent Directors, Evidence from Firms Subject to Securities Litigation, Journal of Financial Economics 111, 430-449.
Burt, A., and C. Hrdlicka, 2017. Return Predictability Through Board Links, SSRN Working Paper.
*Cai, J., T. Nguyen, and R. Walkling, 2017, Director Appointments–It Is Who You Know, Drexel U. Working Paper.
Campello, M., D. Ferres, G. Ormazabal, 2017, Whistleblowers on the Board? The Role of Independent Directors in Cartel Prosecutions, SSRN working paper.
Celikyurt, U., M. Sevilir and A. Shivdasani, 2014, Venture Capitalists on Boards of Mature Public Firms, Review of Financial Studies 27(1), 56-101.
*Chen, K. and W. Guay, 2017, Busy Directors and Shareholder Satisfaction, SSRN Working paper.
Chen, M. and H. Mas, 2017, Lead Directors, Monitoring and Forced CEO Turnover, Georgia State working paper.
Chen, M., Q. Wu and E. Zhivotova, 2017, Director Reputation and Settling-Up. Evidence from Internal and External Labor Markets, Georgia State working paper.
Cohen, A. and C. Wang, 2013, How Doe Staggered Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from a Natural Experiment, Journal of Financial Economics 110, 627-641.
Coles, J., N. Daniel and L. Naveen, 2014, Board Advising, Arizona State working paper.
Cornelli, F., Z. Kominek, and A. Ljungqvist, 2013, Monitoring Managers: Does it Matter?, Journal of Finance, 68 (2), 431-481.
Cremers, K., L. Litov and S. Sepe, March 2016, Staggered Boards and Firm Value, Revisited, University of Notre Dame working paper.
Dass, N., O. Kini, V. Nanda, B. Onal and J. Wang, 2014, Board Expertise: Do Directors from Related Industries Help Bridge the Information Gap? Review of Financial Studies 27(5), 1533-1592.
Denis, D., D. Denis and M. Walker, 2015, CEO Assessment and the Structure of Newly Formed Boards, Review of Financial Studies 28, 3338-3366.
Eckbo, E., K. Nygaard and K. Thorburn, 2016, Does Gender-Balancing the Board Reduce Firm Value?, Dartmouth Working Paper.
Fahlenbrach, R., A. Low and R. Stulz, 2010, Why Do Firms Appoint CEOs as Outside Directors?, Journal of Financial Economics 97, 12-32.
Fahlenbrach, R., A. Low and R. Stulz, 2017, Do Independent Director Departures Predict Future Bad Events? Review of Financial Studies 30 (7), 2313-2358.
Falato, A., D. Kadyrzhanova and U. Lel, 2014, Distracted Directors: Does Board Busyness Hurt Shareholder Value?, Journal of Financial Economics 113(3), 404-426.
*Fauver, L., M. Hung, X. Li and A. Taboada, 2017, Board Reforms and Firm Value: Worldwide Evidence, Journal of Financial Economics 125, 120-142.
Ferreira, D., M. Ferreira and B. Mariano, 2017, Creditor Control Rights and Board Independence, Journal of Finance forthcoming.
Fisman, R., R. Khurana and M. Rhodes-Kropf, 2014, Governance and CEO Turnover: Do Something or Do the Right Thing? Management Science 60 (2), 319-337.
*Field, L. and A. Mkrtchyan, 2017, The Effect of Director Experience on Acquisition Performance, Journal of Financial Economics 123, 488-511.
*Field, L. and M. Lowry, 2017, Contrasts in Governance: Newly Public Firms Versus Mature Firms, SSRN Working Paper.
Fogel, K., L. Ma and R. Morck, January 2015, Powerful Independent Directors, NBER Working Paper No. 19809.
Fos, V., 2016, The disciplinary effects of proxy contests. Management Science, 63(3), 655-671.
Fos, V., K. Li, K and M. Tsoutsoura, 2017, Do Director Elections Matter? Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming.
Fracassi, C. and G. Tate, 2012, External Networking and Internal Firm Governance, Journal of Finance 67, 153-194.
Francis, B., I. Hasan and Q. Wu, 2015, Professors in the Boardroom and their Impact on Corporate Governance and Firm Value, Financial Management 44(3), 547-581.
Houston, J., J. Lee and H. Shan, 2017, In search of board independence: Former employees, shades of gray and director classification, 2017 FIRS conference working paper.
Huang, Q., F. Jiang, E. Lie, K. Yang, 2014, The role of investment banker directors in M&A, Journal of Financial Economics 112, 269-286.
Giannetti, M., G. Liao and X. Yu, 2015, The Brain Gain of Corporate Boards: Evidence from China, Journal of Finance 70(4), 1629-1682.
Intintoli, V., K. Kahle and W. Zhao, January 2017, Is Good Advice Hard to Find? The Impact of Director Connectedness on Financing and Investment, U of Arizona Working Paper.
Jiang, W., H. Wan and S. Zhao, 2016, Reputation Concerns of independent Directors: Evidence from Individual Director Voting, Review of Financial Studies, 29 (3) 655-696.
Karpoff, J. and M. Wittry, February 2017, Institutional and Legal Context in Natural Experiments: The Case of State Antitakeover Laws, University of Washington Working Paper.
*Khanna, E. H. Kim and Y. Lu, 2015, CEO Connectedness and Corporate Fraud, Journal of Finance 70(3), 1203-1252.
Kim, E. Han and Yao Lu, October 2015, Are Executive Suite Independence and Board Independence Interrelated? University of Michigan Working Paper.
Kim, S. and S. Oh, 2017, Board Diversity and Director Dissent in Corporate Boards, Working Paper.
Lamoreaux, P., L. Litov and L. Mauler, 2015, Lead Independent Directors: Good Governance or Window Dressing?, SSRN working paper.
Lee, J., K. Lee and J. Nagaragan, 2014, Birds of a Feather: Value Implications of Political Alignment between Top Management and Directors, Journal of Financial Economics 112, 232-250.
Levit, D. and N. Malenko, 2016, The Labor Market for Directors and Externalities in Corporate Governance, Journal of Finance 71(2), 775-808.
Li, F. and S. Srinivasan, 2011, Corporate governance when founders are directors, Journal of Financial Economics 102, 454-469.
Li, H., H. Ryan, L. Wang and B. Yang, 2013, Family Firms and Boards of Directors: Evidence from Board Tenure, Georgia State working paper.
Lie, Erik, and Keyang Daniel Yang, 2016. Board Independence, Corporate Spending, and Cash Holdings, Working Paper.
Lin, C., M. Officer, R. Wang and H. Zou, 2013, Directors' and Officers' Liability Insurance and Loan Spreads, Journal of Financial Economics 110 (1), 37–60.
Lin, C., T. Schmid and Y. Sun, 2017, Conflict or collusion? How employees in the boardroom affect executive compensation, 2017 FIRS conference working paper.
Lu, Jun, and Wei Wang, 2017. Managerial Conservatism, Board Independence, and Corporate Innovation, Working Paper.
Malm, J. and S. Mobbs, 2016, Independent Directors and Corporate Litigation, University of Alabama Working Paper.
Muravyer, A., I. Berezinets and Y. Ilina, July 2014, The Structure of Corporate Boards and Private Benefits of Control: Evidence from the Russian Stock Exchange, International Review of Financial Analysis 34, 247-261.
Nguyen, B.D. and K. Nielsen, 2010, The Value of Independent Directors: Evidence from Sudden Deaths, Journal of Financial Economics 98, 550–567.
Ravina, E. and P. Sapienza, 2010, What Do Independent Directors Know? Evidence from Their Trading, Review of Financial Studies 23(3), 962-1003.
Re-Jin, J. Guo, Qian Sun, and Xiaoyu Zuo, 2017, Innovation Diffusion in Network of Corporate Boards, Working Paper.
*Schmidt, C. and R. Fahlenbrach, 2017, Do Exogenous Changes in Passive Institutional Ownership Affect Corporate Governance and Firm Value? Journal of Financial Economics 124, 285-306.
*Stern, L., I. Erel, C. Tan and M. Weisbach, 2017, Selecting Directors Using Machine Learning, SSRN working paper
*Wang, Sumingyue, 2017, Are Independent Directors with Industry Expertise More Informed? SSRN working paper.
Wang, Cong, Fei Xie, and Min Zhu, 2015, Industry Expertise of Independent Directors and Board Monitoring, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 50 (5), 929–962.
Yang, Dong Ryung, 2016. Waiting Out Storms in the Absence; Outside Directors' Selective Attendance at Board Meetings, CICF Working Paper.
Yang, T. and S. Zhao, 2014, CEO Duality and Firm Performance: Evidence from an Exogenous Shock to the Competitive Environment, Journal of Banking and Finance 49, 534-552.
Managers Incentives - Overview
**Murphy, K., 2013, Executive Compensation: Where We Are and How We Got There, Handbook of the Economics of Finance (PA), 211-356.
Edmans, A. and X. Gabaix, 2016, Executive Compensation: A Modern Primer, Journal of Economic Literature 54 (4), 1232-1287.
*Edmans, A., X. Gabaix and D. Jenter, 2017, Executive Compensation: A Survey of Theory and Evidence, ECGI working paper.
*Hermalin, H. and M. Weisbach, Assessing Managerial Ability: Implications for Corporate Governance, Chapter 3 of The Handbook of the Economics of Corporate Governance, coedited with B. Hermalin and M. Weisbach, 2017, Elsevier Publishers.
Tervio, M., 2008, The Difference that CEOs Make: An Assignment Model Approach,” American Economic Review 98(3), 642-668.
Gabaix, X. and A. Landier, 2008, Why Has CEO Pay Increased So Much? Quarterly Journal of Economics 123, 49-100.
Benabou, R. and J. Tirole, 2016, Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening and Multitasking, Journal of Political Economy, 124(2), 305-370.
Graham, J., C. Harvey, M. Puri, 2013, Managerial attitudes and corporate actions, Journal of Financial Economics 109, 103-121.
Managers Incentives - Corporate Decisions & Risk-taking
*Dou, Y., R. Masulis and J. Zein, June 2017, Shareholder Wealth Consequence of Insider Pledging of Company Stock as Collateral for Personal Loans, UNSW working paper.
Masulis, R. and S. Zhang, February 2017, What Drives Senior Executive Compensation Gaps, Tournament Incentives or Managerial Power?, UNSW working paper.
Masulis, R. and S. Mobbs, February 2018, Independent Director Reputation Incentives: CEO Compensation Contracts and Financial Accounting Quality, UNSW working paper.
Morck, R., A. Shleifer and R. Vishny, 1988, Managerial Ownership and Market Valuation: An Empirical Analysis, Journal of Financial Economics 20, 293-315.
Core, John E., Robert W. Holthausen, and David F. Larcker, 1999, Corporate governance, chief executive officer compensation, and firm performance, Journal of Financial Economics 51:3, 371-406
Bertrand, Marianne, and Sendhil Mullainathan, 2001, Are CEOs Rewarded for Luck? The Ones without Principals Are, Quarterly Journal of Economics 116, 901-932.
Adams, R., H. Almeida and D. Ferreira, 2005, Powerful CEOs and Their Impact on Corporate Performance, Review of Financial Studies 18:4, 1403-1432.
Low, A., 2009, Managerial risk-taking behavior and equity-based compensation, Journal of Financial Economics 92, 470-490.
Benmelech, E., E. Kandel and P. Veronesi, 2010, Stock based compensation and CEO (Dis) Incentives, Quarterly Journal of Economics 125, 1769-1820.
Tchistyi, A., D. Yermack and H. Yun, 2011, Negative Hedging: Performance Sensitive Debt and CEOs’ Equity Incentives, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 46(3) 657-686.
*Wei, C. and D. Yermack, 2011, Investor Reactions to CEOs’ Inside Debt Incentives, Review of Financial Studies 24, 3813-3840.
Edmans, A. and X. Gabaix, 2011, Tractability in Incentive Contracting, Review of Financial Studies 24(9), 2865-2894.
Anton, M., F. Ederer, M. Gine, and M. Schmalz, 2017, Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives, SSRN working paper.
*Armstrong, C., D. Larcker, G. Ormazabal, and D. Taylor, 2013, The relation between equity incentives and misreporting: The role of risk-taking incentives. Journal of Financial Economics, 109(2), 327-350.
Armstrong, C. J. Core and W. Guay, 2016, Why Do CEOs Hold So Much Unconstrained Equity? MIT Working Paper.
Babenko, I, B. Bennett, J. Bizjak and J. Coles, 2017, Clawback Provisions, Arizona State working paper.
Babenko, I. and R. Sen, 2016, Do Non-Executive Employees Have Information? Evidence from Employee Stock Purchase Plans, Management Science, 62 (7), 1878-1898.
*Bates, T., D. Becher and J. Wilson, 2017, Performance-Based Turnover on Corporate Boards, SSRN working paper
Benmelech, E. and C. Frydman, 2015, Military CEOs. Journal of Financial Economics, 117(1), 43-59.
Bereskin, F. And D. Cicero, 2013, CEO Compensation Contagion: Evidence from an Exogenous Shock, Journal of Financial Economics 107(2), 477-493.
*Bernile, G., V. Bhagwat and R. Rau, 2017, What doesn't kill you will only make you more risk-loving: early-life disasters and CEO behaviour, Journal of Finance 72(1), 167–206
Bettis, C., J. Bizjak, J. Coles and S. Kalpathy, 2016, Performance-Vesting Provisions in Executive Compensation, Arizona State working paper.
Bettis, C., J. Bizjak and S. Kalpathy, 2015, Why Do Insiders Hedge their Ownership? An Empirical Examination, Financial Management, 44(3), 655-683.
*Bizjak, J., S. Kalpathy, and V. Mihov, January 2018, Performance Contingencies in CEO Equity Awards and Debt Contracting, working paper, Texas Christian University.
Butler, A. and U. Gurun, 2012, Educational Networks, Mutual Fund Voting Patterns, and CEO Compensation, Review of Financial Studies, 25(8), 2533-2562.
*Chu, J., J. Faasse and R. Rau, 2018, Do compensation consultants enable higher CEO pay? A disclosure rule change as a separating device, Management Science forthcoming
Coles, J., Z. Li and Y. Wang, 2017, Industry Tournament Incentives, Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming.
Coles, J., and Z. Li, 2013, Managerial Attributes, Incentives, and Performance, Arizona State working paper.
Cornaggia, J., K. Cornaggia and H. Xia, 2016, Revolving Doors on Wall Street, Journal of Financial Economics 120(2), 400-419.
Cronqvist, H., A. Makhija, S. Yonker, 2012, Behavioral consistency in corporate finance: CEO personal and corporate leverage. Journal of Financial Economics 103, 20-40.
Cunat, V., M. Gine and M. Guadalupe, 2015, Say Pays! Shareholder Voice and Firm Performance, Review of Finance 1-36.
Custódio, C., M. Ferreira, P. Matos, 2013, Generalists versus specialists: Lifetime work experience and chief executive officer pay, Journal of Financial Economics 108, 471-492.
*Dasgupta, S., A. Wang and X. Li, 2017, Product Market Competition Shocks, Firm Performance, and Forced CEO Turnover, Review of Financial Studies forthcoming.
**Davidson, R., A. Dey, A., Smith, 2015, Executives’ “off-the-job” behavior, corporate culture, and financial reporting risk, Journal of Financial Economics 117(1), 5-28.
Deng, X. and H. Gao, 2013, Nonmonetary Benefits, Quality of Life and Executive Compensation, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 48(1), 197-218.
Edmans, A., V. Fong and K. Lewellen, 2017, Equity Vesting and Investment, Review of Financial Studies 30(7), 2229-2271.
*Edmans, A., V. Fang and A. Hung, 2017, The long-term consequences of short-term incentives, ECGI Working Paper.
*Edmans, A., P. Chaigneau and D. Gottlieb, 2018, Does Improved Information Improve Incentives? Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming.
*Edmans, A., L. Goncalves-Pinto, M. Groen-Xu, and Y. Wang, 2018, Strategic News Releases in Equity Vesting Months, Review of Financial Studies forthcoming.
Ellul, A., C. Wang and K. Zhang, 2016, Labor unemployment risk and CEO incentive compensation, University of Indiana working paper.
Engelberg, J., P. Gao and C. Parsons, 2013, The Price of a CEO Rolodex, Review of Financial Studies 26(1), 79-114.
**Falato, A., D. Li and T. Milbourn, 2015, Which Skills Matter in the Market for CEOs? Evidence from Pay for CEO Credentials, Management Science 61(12), 2845-2869.
Fee, C., C. Hadlock, J. Pierce, 2013, Managers with and without style: Evidence using exogenous variation, Review of Financial Studies 26, 567-601
*Focke, F., E. Maug, and A. Niessen-Ruenzi, 2017, The Impact of Firm Prestige on Executive Compensation, Journal of Financial Economics, 123(2): 313-336.
Gabaix, X., A. Landier and J. Sauvagnet, 2014, CEO Pay and Firm Size: An Update after the Crisis, The Economic Journal 124, 574 F40-F59.
Gillan, S. L., J.C. Hartzell, A. Koch, A., & L. T. Starks, 2017, Getting the Incentives Right: Backfilling and Biases in Executive Compensation Data. Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming.
Smith G. and P. Swan, 2014, Concentrated Institutional Investor Really Reduce Executive Compensation While Raising Incentives? Critical Finance Review 3, 49-83.
Gopalan, R., T. Milbourn, F. Song, and A. Thakor, 2014, Duration of Executive Compensation, Journal of Finance 69 (6), 2777–2817.
Graham, J., C. Harvey and M. Puri, 2016, A Corporate Beauty Contest, Management Science, forthcoming.
Gormley, T. and D. Matsa, 2016, Playing It Safe? Managerial Preferences, Risk, and Agency Conflicts, Journal of Financial Economics 122 (3), 431-455.
Gormley, T., D. Matsa and T. Milbourn, 2013, CEO Compensation and Corporate Risk-Taking: Evidence from a Natural Experiment", Journal of Accounting and Economics 56, 79-101.
Hayes, R., M. Lemmon and M. Qiu, 2012, Stock Options and Managerial Incentives for Risk Taking: Evidence from FAS 123R, Journal of Financial Economics 105, 174-190.
Harford, J. and R. Schonlau, 2013, Does the Director Labor Market Offer Ex Post Settling-Up for CEOs? The Case of Acquisitions, Journal of Financial Economics 110(1), 18-36.
Jayaraman S. and T. Milbourn, 2012, The Role of Stock Liquidity in Executive Compensation, The Accounting Review 87(2), 537-564.
Jayaraman S. and T. Milbourn, 2015, CEO Equity Incentives and Financial Misreporting: The Role of Auditor Expertise, The Accounting Review 90(1), 321-350.
Jenter, D., and F. Kanaan, 2015, CEO turnover and relative performance evaluation, Journal of Finance 70 (5), 2155–2184.
Kaplan, S., M. Klebanov, M. Sorensen, 2012, Which CEO characteristics and abilities matter?, Journal of Finance 67, 973-1007.
Kolasinski, A. and X. Li, 2013, Can Strong Boards and Trading Their Own Firm’s Stock Help CEOs Make Better Decisions? Evidence from Acquisitions by Overconfident CEOs, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 48(4), 1173-1206.
*Korczak, P., T. Nguyen, and M. Scapin, December 2017, Banker-Directors and CEO Inside Debt, University of Bristol working paper.
Lee, L., M. Lowry and S. Shu, 2015, Investing in Connections: Corporate Jets and Firm Value, Boston College working paper.
*Lie, E. and K. Yang, January 2018, Import Penetration and Executive Compensation, working paper, University of Iowa.
Lui, P. and Y. Xuan, 2016, The Contract Year Phenomenon in the Corner Office: An Analysis of Firm Behavior during CEO Contract Renewals, SSRN working paper.
*Ma, P., J. Shin, and C. Wang, September 2017, Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Follow the Informativeness Principle? Working paper, Harvard Business School.
Minnick,K. L., Burns, N., Starks, 2017, L. CEO Tournaments: A Cross-Country Analysis of Causes, Cultural Influences and Consequences, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Forthcoming
Morse, A., V. Nanda and A. Seru, 2011, Are Incentive Contracts Rigged by Powerful CEOs? Journal of Finance 66, 1779-1821.
Pan, Y., T. Y. Wang, and M. S. Weisbach. 2015. Learning about CEO ability and stock return volatility, Review of Financial Studies 28(6), 1623-1666.
*Pan, Y., T. Y. Wang, and M. S. Weisbach, 2016, CEO Investment Cycles, Review of Financial Studies 29, 2955-2999.
Peters, F. and A. Wagner, 2014, The Executive Turnover Risk Premium, Journal of Finance 69 (4), 1529-1563.
Sen, R. and R. Tumarkin, 2016, Stocking Up: Executive Optimism and Share Retention, Journal of Financial Economics 118(2), 399-430.
Shue, K. 2013, Executive networks and firm policies: evidence from the random assignment of MBA peers, Review of Financial Studies 26, 1401-1442.
Shue, K., and R. Townsend, 2016, Growth through Rigidity: Understanding Recent Trends in Executive Compensation, Journal of Financial Economics, 123(1), 1-21.
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Each year feedback is sought from students about the courses offered in the School and continual improvements are made based on this feedback. In this course, we will seek your feedback through CATEI course and teaching evaluations, which will take place during the last class session.
The current course format is influenced by versions of this course taught in previous years. In previous years, negative comments generally related to the quantity of reading material, and the need to give students more hands-on practices. Positive comments on undertaking a group project were noted, as were comments that suggested a less ‘academic’ research project. This encouraged the move toward a case study and pitch-book mode of assessment as well as the inclusion of the M&A simulation game. [These comments pertain to the M&A course that I responsibility for some lectures.]
Overview of Corporate Governance Mechanisms and Theoretical Background
Endogeneity & Natural Experiments
Matching Methods & Diff-in-Diff
Discontinuity Design Regression (DDR) & Other Approaches to Address Endogeneity Concerns
HW Assignment
Boards of Directors: Overview
Critiques of Articles
Boards of Directors - Early Studies
Presentations/Critiques and Class Discussion
Boards of Directors - Recent literature
Overview of Executive Incentives & Hierarchical Models
Executive Compensation - Recent Literature
Executive Risk-Taking - Recent Literature
Work on Course Research Paper
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Community FIRST Conversations with United Way of Rhode Island
BIF is helping United Way of Rhode Island (UWRI) engage Rhode Islanders from all walks of life in their Strategic Planning 2020 process through the experience design and facilitation of Community FIRST Conversations.
Update From the Field: National Association of Community Health Centers April 2019
The BIF team recently visited Castle Family Health Center in Atwater, CA and Lawndale Christian Health Center in Chicago, IL where we conducted interviews with the health centers’ leaders, staff, and patients. As we began to analyze and synthesize our findings, a few emerging curiosities came to the surface.
Yolanda Wisher Video Podcast
Lending her voice and vision to BIF, she'll be leading one of our first immersive explorations into health and wellbeing with an upcoming Story Cure, bringing in local community in West Philadephia.
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls around the world. Their challenge and opportunity was to design with and for the Indian diaspora community in the US to prototype a new model for better engaging existing and acquiring new members to support their global mission.
Personalized Medicine by Design
Our collaborative exploration of personalized medicine puts individuals and families at the center of the design process and bridges the exciting space between enabling agency at the consumer level and leveraging emerging technologies to transform customer experience and outcomes.
BIF Kicks Off Project With The National Association of Community Health Centers
BIF is excited to partner with the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) to explore how might we shift our lens to uncover innovation opportunities that will transform how we serve patients through community health centers.
Transforming the Disabilities Service System in RI
How might providers re-design and/or better integrate their services in order to form next practices and new business models that will deliver more inclusive, person-centered support to the disability community in RI, in a way that enables its members to have and build great lives?
Identifying Wraparound Services for Complex Care Copy
In 2016, BIF worked Children's Health to help them understand the experiences, identify service gaps, and explore opportunity spaces for low-income families with a medically complex child.
Introducing BIF’s Design Methodology Playbook
The time has come to be a market maker, not a share taker. Business model innovation must be a strategic imperative for all organizations. BIF is releasing a deep dive into our Design Methodology for Next Practices and New Business Models with our 22 step Playbook complete with guides and tools.
Scott Pulsipher: Redefining the Higher Education Model
President of Western Governors University, Scott Puslipher is a true transformation agent who doesn't accept what is and who imagine what could be.
The Faces of Family Well-Being
Leaders for College Transformation
In partnership with the Alliance for Innovation and Transformation (AFIT), the Student Experience Lab is designing and testing new models and next practices for community colleges. These models will address current challenges facing community colleges in order to transform student outcomes and create sustainable higher ed institutions.
The Business Model Imperative in Education
One of the most difficult experiences for those in education is to understand challenges within our system but have no method for creating meaningful, transformative change.
Next Practices Vs. Best Practices
It is not best practices, but next practices that will sustain your organization on a strong growth trajectory. While you continue to pedal the bicycle of today’s business model make sure that no less than 10% of your time and resources is dedicated to exploring new business models and developing next practices.
10 Reasons Colleges Fail At Business Model Innovation
Higher education has a business model problem. The business model for U.S. colleges and universities — how they create, deliver, and capture value — hasn’t changed since Harvard, our country’s first college, was founded in 1636. Our higher education system is a national treasure that creates enormous societal value, but its 380-year-old business model fails to deliver affordable access and post-secondary credentials to an increasing percentage of our population.
Identifying Wraparound Services for Complex Care
Students Design for Education
Students Design For Education (SD4E) is a groundbreaking initiative to create a school designed by high school students. SD4E is driven by a team of students hungry for transformation, supported by community members and educators passionate about student success, and powered by BIF’s extensive experience in human-centered design.
Family Well-Being
In partnership with Children’s Health in Dallas, Texas, the Patient Experience Lab is imagining, designing, and testing new models for care.
The Power of Narrative
At BIF, we believe that great stories can change the world. With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the Business Innovation Factory is exploring how storytelling and narrative methods can improve healthcare and contribute toward building a Culture of Health.
Young Men of Color
How might we bring the minority male student experience to life in a way that makes their voice central to our conversation about transforming the education system to improve their college experience and completion rates?
Reducing Preterm Births in Cincinnati
Working in partnership with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center we set about to understand the human factors that contribute to the inexplicably high rates of preterm births — babies born before 37 weeks of pregnancy and design solutions to reduce the trends.
Children’s Wellness Experience
In partnership with Children’s Health in Dallas, BIF worked to create the Children’s Wellness Experience: a transformative, sustainable model for care that is rooted in human-centered insights, moving us away from a focus on “sick care” to a broader focus on “well care.”
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Lead Your Team Personal Growth
5 Simple Scientific Ways to Be More Productive
By Adam C. Uzialko, Writer March 28, 2018 04:40 pm EST
Credit: kan_chana/Shutterstock
A business only runs as well as its employees, but, unfortunately, it's easy for people to become stressed or sidetracked. Luckily, science can help you conquer some of the influences that make your employees feel sluggish and help them perform at peak capacity.
Whether it's small details like interior design and color or workflow processes like when and how employees take breaks, organizing the workplace has a lot to do with the overall productivity of your employees. Some of it depends on their personal behaviors, but much of it depends on the workplace environment you, as an employer, provide.
Here are five simple, proven ways to increase productivity in the workplace.
Let in natural light
Let the sunshine in. Employers can boost productivity in the workplace by ensuring their employees are exposed to plenty of natural light throughout the day. This is especially important for employees who find themselves in an office every day, stuck at a desk beneath the glow of fluorescent lights.
Research from the Interdepartmental Neuroscience program at Chicago's Northwestern University shows that employees who worked in offices with windows were exposed to 173 percent more white light than those who worked in windowless offices, according to Psychology Today. The study also found that employees working in windowed offices slept an average of 46 minutes more per night, experienced better sleep quality and reported higher quality of life scores than those who did not. Employees working in windowless offices reported more sleep disturbances and daytime dysfunction. This is because the lack of natural light can disrupt your body's circadian rhythms and even cause seasonal affective disorder.
If your office or cubicle doesn't have a window nearby, you can purchase light boxes or therapy lamps that mimic natural outdoor light.
Decorate with the right colors
It might seem minor, but decorating and painting with the right colors can make all the difference. A splash of color instead of all white or off-white walls could brighten the atmosphere and psychologically spur your employees on, even if they don't realize it.
A University of Texas study that looked at the impact of color on productivity found that white walls are bad for productivity and quality of work. The study tested three groups of people by having them work in three different colored rooms – red, aqua and white. Subjects made more errors in the white room than in the other colored rooms, Fast Company reported.
"White doesn't help us be productive, and most work environments are white, off-white or gray," said researcher Nancy Kwallek, noting that shades of blue or blue-green seem to be the best choices for an office color scheme.
Another study by the University of British Columbia found that red can increase performance in employees with detail-oriented assignments, while blue is calming and promotes creativity and communication. Green is also great for inspiring creativity and innovation; however, yellow can cause anxiety and frustration, and gray can lead to energy loss and depression. [10 Inspiring Must-Follow Home Office Pinterest Boards]
Try taking 'coffee naps'
You might be asking yourself "What is a coffee nap?" It's exactly what it sounds like. A coffee nap is a 15- to 20-minute snooze session that follows a cup of coffee. It might seem like dosing up with caffeine just to take a nap defeats the purpose, but there's a scientific reason as to why coffee naps make us bounce back more productive than before.
Drinking a cup of coffee and then taking a nap is helpful for a few reasons, according to Vox. Caffeine works by blocking adenosine (high levels of adenosine make you feel tired) in the brain to keep you awake, but it can't block adenosine from all your brain's receptors. That's where the nap comes in, as sleep also naturally clears adenosine from the brain. Napping for 15 to 20 minutes ensures that you'll get a little rest without falling into a deep sleep, and you'll wake up just in time for the caffeine to start kicking in (with less adenosine in the way.)
A study from the Sleep Research Laboratory at Loughborough University in England found that the combination of caffeine and a short nap was more effective in combatting drowsiness and driving impairments than caffeine or naps alone, Vox reported.
And a study from Hiroshima University found that the combination was the most effective for increasing performance, with the effects lasting for about an hour upon waking up. So, employers, you may want to invest in a nap room.
Try new seating arrangements
You never know what kind of innovation and refreshment a simple change of seating could lead to. Changing where your employees sit can boost creativity and productivity, according to Christian Catalini, assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management. Catalini told the Wall Street Journal that grouping workers together by department can foster focus and efficiency, but mixing them up can also lead to innovation.
Sigal Barsade, a University of Pennsylvania management professor, said that workers' dispositions can actually be contagious, so grouping people based on their temperament can really have an impact on a company's work environment.
"People literally catch emotions from one another like a virus," Barsade said, adding that if you want to cheer up a stressed-out employee, grouping that worker with cheerful, energetic employees is the best strategy.
The Wall Street Journal also reported on several companies that have experimented with different seating arrangements and have seen interesting results. Representatives from HubSpot found that grouping their executives together made employees feel like they were too far removed from the company, for example. And Kayak.com's co-founder Paul English found that placing new hires in specific areas based on their personalities and work habits could really change the dynamic of different groups in the office.
Take breaks together
Breaks aren't just important from a compliance standpoint, they're essential to boosting productivity as well. And, as it turns out, taking a break with your co-workers can have a huge, positive impact on your performance, as opposed to taking your breaks alone.
When co-workers take their breaks together, it often decreases stress and leads to an increase in productivity as a result, according to a study conducted by Humanyze (formerly Sociometric Solutions), a Massachusetts-based management services business. The study, which tracked employees at a Bank of America call center for three months, found a 15 to 20 percent bump in productivity, a decrease in turnover (from 40 to 12 percent,) and a 19 percent drop in stress levels among employees who were allowed to take breaks together. These communal breaks gave employees the opportunity to let off steam and share tips about customer service, Phys.org reported.
Ben Waber, the co-founder and president of Humanyze, told Phys.org that changes like this can produce, on average, a 20 percent boost in employee satisfaction and productivity as well as a similar decrease in turnover.
So whether it means redecorating the office a bit or allowing employees the space for mid-day socializing or coffee naps, employers can leverage these scientific findings to improve the productivity of their workplace. Offering nap rooms or multiple out-of-office breaks isn't just nice, it's scientifically proven to make your business run more efficiently, reduce turnover and keep your employees more productive for longer periods of time.
Adam C. Uzialko
Adam C. Uzialko, a New Jersey native, graduated from Rutgers University in 2014 with a degree in Political Science and Journalism & Media Studies. In addition to his full-time position at Business News Daily and Business.com, Adam freelances for a variety of outlets. An indispensable ally of the feline race, Adam is owned by four lovely cats.
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SGX proposes safeguards for dual class share listings on main board
Wed, Mar 28, 2018 - 5:07 PM
Angela Tanangelat@sph.com.sg
SINGAPORE Exchange (SGX) on Wednesday entered into the final consultation stage for dual class share (DCS) listings, unveiling detailed rules and safeguards proposed, as it paves the way for the controversial structure on its main board.
"Singapore is restructuring and transitioning to a new economy. The Committee on the Future Economy has made clear in its recommendations that everyone has a role to play including capital markets. Our role is to provide a capital structure in which new economy companies have the best chance of success," Tan Boon Gin, chief executive officer of SGX Regulation (SGX Regco) said at a press conference.
"What these companies need is the ability to raise substantial funds in order to grow quickly as well as the freedom to focus on long-term growth. We, therefore, agree with the committee's recommendations to allow certain companies to list using dual class share structure," Mr Tan shared.
Given that a majority of respondents to its first consult paper are against the setting of additional admission criteria for DCS structure, the SGX is proposing that DCS companies meet existing main board admission criteria. Therefore, instead of the initially planned minimum market capitalisation of S$500 million, a lower threshold of S$300 million has been proposed.
The onus will be on the company to demonstrate and convince the SGX that it needs DCS structure to succeed. In its deliberations, the SGX will consider the role and contribution of the holder of multiple vote (MV) shares, the company's track record, growth trajectory and participation by sophisticated investors.
Credit ratings, bond insurance were no protection in 2008 crisis
"The one-share-one-vote structure will continue to be the default structure. The DCS structure will be the exception," Mr Tan stressed.
Also proposed are safeguards against the two main risks presented by DCS structure - expropriation and entrenchment risks.
To address expropriation risks, the SGX will require shareholders to vote via an enhanced voting process, where all shares including multiple vote shares carry one vote each during certain circumstances such as the appointment and removal of independent non-executive directors, and the winding up or delisting of the issuer. Independent directors will also make up the majority, including the chair of the audit, nominating and remuneration committees.
To prevent founders from entrenching themselves, the SGX has proposed allowing each MV share to carry a maximum of 10 votes, and limiting initial holders of MV shares to only directors. Also proposed is an event-based sunset clause requiring MV shares to be converted to one-vote (OV) shares once the MV shareholders ceases to be a director, or sells or transfers the MV shares.
"Shareholders can choose to do away with these safeguards through the enhanced voting process," the SGX said.
All companies with DCS structures will be clearly identified on trading screens.
The consultation is open till April 27. The exchange has said that it plans to adopt DCS structure shortly after June.
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Advocacy and Legislative Updates
Advocacy and Legislative ...
This is an exciting time in California for children’s mental health initiatives. Governor Newsom’s 2019-2020 budget proposal has allocated $1.8 billion for an array of programs designed to boost the state’s early education and child-care programs. Governor Newsom’s administration has also proposed $45 million for screenings to identify adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among children and adults on Medi-Cal. CALACAP hopes to leverage this focus by supporting legislation that promotes school-based mental health and prevention programs, as well as, early mental health screenings.
In an effort to spread the word on the importance of early childhood mental health and choosing legislation that best supports this cause, we have compiled a series of white papers that we hope you will find useful in learning more about the subject and helping to spread the word to others. Only by joining forces can we have the strongest voice in Sacramento to evoke positive change for the sake of our children.
CLICK HERE for PDF copies of our white paper series.
Please feel free to circulate the white papers to anyone who is interested in learning more about children's mental health and the legislative needs to help it thrive.
Senator Portantino Recognized for Adolescent Health Efforts Presented with Children’s Hero Award
Marina Del Rey, California – State Senator Anthony J. Portantino (D – La Cañada Flintridge) was recently honored by the California Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CALACAP) as the 2019 Children’s Hero Award recipient. CALACAP recognized the Senator at its recent conference in Marina Del Rey for his dedication to youth mental health. Senator Portantino has long made mental health issues a key component of his legislative agenda. In particular, this year Senator Portantino held two mental health first aide workshops in his district. View full press release HERE
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CALACAP SUPPORT BILL MATRIX
To see a matrix of bills supported by CALACAP click HERE
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In Oakland, Governor Gavin Newsom Announces the Formation of the Homeless and Supportive Housing Advisory Task Force
Governor also names Dr. Tom Insel as key advisor to help develop
strategies around mental health issues
View full press release HERE
CALACAP's Children's Mental Health Spring Advocacy Day Was a Great Success!
On Monday, April 29, 2019 CALACAP, Children Now, and NAMI California co-hosted an advocacy day for children's mental health in Sacramento, where 40+ attendees held meetings with legislators focusing on the following priority bills (click on the bill number for full fact sheet):
AB 1443 (Maienschein): Mental health: technical assistance centers.
• This bill would require the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission,
subject to available funding, to establish one or more technical assistance centers to support
counties in addressing mental health issues that are of statewide concern.
SB 11 (Beall): Health care coverage: mental health parity.
• This bill would require a health care service plan and a health insurer to submit an annual report
to the Department of Managed Health Care or the Department of Insurance certifying
compliance with state and federal mental health parity laws. The bill would require the
departments to review the reports submitted by health care service plans to ensure compliance
with state and federal mental health parity laws, and would require the departments to make
the reports and the results of the reviews available upon request and to post the reports and
the results of the reviews on the departments’ Internet Web site.
SB 174 (Leyva): Early childhood education: reimbursement rates.
• This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to implement a reimbursement
system plan that establishes reasonable standards and assigned reimbursement rates that
would vary with additional factors, including a quality adjustment factor to address the cost of
staffing ratios, as provided. The bill would require the reimbursement system plan, including
methodology, standards, county rate targets as provided, and the total statewide funding
amount necessary to reach annual rate targets for all agencies to be annually submitted to the
Joint Legislative Budget Committee. The bill would require the plan to include a formula for
annually adjusting reimbursement rates, as provided.
The group was fortunate to hear from Senator Jim Beall, pictured below speaking to our advocates.
Below, advocates for children's mental health prep for their legislative meetings.
Thank you to our Spring Advocacy Day partners, Children Now and NAMI California. Click on their logo below to visit their websites.
State Budget Proposals for Children's Health and Mental Health
• Managed Care Behavioral Health Integration. Invests $360 million ($180 million Proposition 56 funds (2016 tobacco tax) to encourage Medi-Cal managed care providers to meet goals in critical areas such as behavioral health integration.
• Whole Person Care Pilot Program. Provides $100 million for the Whole Person Care Pilot
Program for supportive housing and the coordination of health, behavioral health and social
services for people with mental illness.
• Early Developmental Screenings. Includes $60 million ($30 million Federal Funds, $30 million Proposition 56 funds) for early developmental screenings for children in Medi-Cal
• Adverse Childhood Experiences Screening. Includes $45 million ($23 million Proposition 56
funds) for Adverse Childhood Experiences screenings for children and adults in Medi-Cal,
beginning no sooner that January 1, 2020. Requires the use of an existing screening tool for
adults and the development of a new screening tool for children.
• Workforce Development. The Office of Statewide Planning and Development (OSHPD) budget includes $50 million from the general fund with the anticipation of potential additional private contributions from universities, health clinics and philanthropic organizations, for mental health workforce development and training programs.
• Early Psychosis Interventions. The Budget includes $25 million one-time general fund for early psychosis research and treatment. These will be competitive grants for counties, academic institutions and others.
• UC Student Mental Health. The Budget includes $5 million in ongoing general fund allocation for University of California student mental health treatment to meet recommended staffing ratios.
• Covered California Funding and Eligibility. Increases and expands subsidies to individuals and families insured through Covered California, by increasing subsidies for people between 250 to 400 percent of the federal poverty level and by adding subsidies for people whose income falls between 400 and 600 percent of the federal poverty level. Proposes the adoption of a California individual mandate, with penalties for lack of coverage, the revenue from which will cover the subsidies.
• State Surgeon General. Establishes a California Surgeon General to provide leadership in
addressing root causes of serious health conditions, such as Adverse Childhood Experiences and the social determinants of health.
• Moving Division of Juvenile Justice. The Governor’s Budget proposes to move youth
correctional facilities from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to a new department under the Health and Human Services Agency with a focus on rehabilitative
programming.
• Emergency Shelters. The 2019-20 budget builds upon recent legislative and ballot efforts by
prioritizing funding for jurisdictions to tackle homelessness. The budget includes $500 million
one-time general fund allocations to build emergency shelters, navigation centers or supportive housing. There are also some longer-term programs included from the past few years.
• Regional Collaborations. $300 million will be allocated to jurisdictions that establish regional
plans. The Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency will distribute $200 million to
Continuums of Care and $100 million to the eleven most populous cities. Plans must include
regional coordination between counties and cities. An additional $200 million will be made
available to jurisdictions that show progress towards meeting goals.
• Accelerate No Place Like Home (NPLH) Allocations. In 2018, voters approved Proposition 2,
enacting NLPH again. The Governor’s budget proposes accelerating the granting of NPLH
awards, which will generate $2 billion in new funding to help get people who are living homeless with serious mental health illness off the streets and into long-term housing and recovery.
To contact CALACAP for more information, please email info@calacap.org
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Notts County assistant boss wary of U's threat
Read what Shaun Derry's opposite number had to say ahead of tomorrow's Sky Bet League 2 clash
Piero Mingoia has a shot against Notts County. Picture: David Johnson
Notts County assistant boss Richard Thomas believes that Cambridge United's league position belies the threat they pose.
The U's are just six points outside the play offs despite their recent tricky form but, having watched them this season, Thomas is aware of the threat they can carry.
"I've been to watch Cambridge a couple of times and they're a really good side," he told the Notts Post .
"I think their league position belies what they offer.
"They might have underachieved, but with Cambridge I think it's to do with availability of key players through suspension or injury.
“It looks like they haven't been able to put out their top individuals consistently, which is why they might have stumbled to this point.
"But we're only halfway and they're absolutely a team that can put a good run together post-Christmas and be right up there.
"There are no doubts about what they can do but, after their recent results, they might come here and look to protect and keep the game tight.
"They might also come right out of the blocks and get at us. You've got to prepare for every eventuality."
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Bishop writes on same-sex consultation.
An Episcopal Bishop has posted a Blog article setting out his views on the current consultation on same-sex marriage.
The following statement has been published by The Most Reverend David Chillingworth Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld & Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. (One set of interpretations given in blue; it is very possible there are others.)
In the Scottish Episcopal Church, we’re thinking about our response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on same-sex marriage and other related issues. It’s a difficult issue for us – as it is for all churches and faith groups. We have among our membership people who feel passionately that this is the direction in which we need to go – and those who feel passionately that we should not.
[The Episcopal church membership is divided so it is impossible to please everyone: accordingly the risk of division is high.]
The consultation period is very short . Among the things we shall say will be that if – and it’s a big ‘if’ – we were to consider changing our canonical definition of marriage, that would require a two-year process in our General Synod, the outcome of which could not be predicted with any certainty.
[Whatever is decided, there will be a process to work through which could take a couple of years; and no-one know what will happen.]
We haven’t got involved in public debate about this. We’ve been asked for our view and we shall give that in a considered manner – believing that the time for public debate comes after.
[We're not saying anything just now; but will comment after the decision has been made.]
However it seems to me that some of the comments from our ecumenical partners in the Catholic Church raise significant issues about how we understand the relationship between church and state – particularly when they suggest that there are certain issues on which a government doesn’t actually have the right to legislate.
[And just to further muddy the waters there is the question of church/state relationships.]
If the Scottish Government was proposing to legislate to enshrine in law discrimination on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, colour or race, I would publicly oppose them. But that is not what is being proposed.
I have often said that I am a supporter of the secular state. If you have experienced a confessional state, you will know why.
[I don't approve of Calvin's 'City of God' - or any other state-imposed religious ideology.]
A secular state should defend religious freedom – but it will not make any assumptions about religious faith nor will it defer to it.
[The state should be detached from, but stand above religious belief albeit with the latter being a protected freedom.]]
We may regret the ‘privatised’ status for religious practice which that implies but that is the society in which we live.
[The current climate requires religious people need to keep their beliefs to themselves.]
If, following the consultation period, the Scottish Government and Parliament feel that they should legislate in this way, I believe that this is their right.
[Government makes the rules.]
The proposals on which we are being consulted make clear that there would be an ‘opt-out’ protection for those who cannot accept this.
[But there should be a freedom of conscience component.]
In practice this means that churches would have to decide whether or not they wished to use or to stand outside the provisions of such legislation.
[Churches will have to make their minds up one of these days on whether or not to hold religious ceremonies for same-sex marriages.]
Primus discusses relationship between Church and State
Churches response to same-sex consultation
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The London Interbank Offered Rate is being phased out in the wake of its misuse for profit by some bankers. Its replacement, the Sterling Overnight Index Average, is meant to be risk-free. Here’s what you need to know
by Phil Thornton
What is LIBOR?
The London interbank offered rate (LIBOR) and other IBOR benchmarks are the interest rates banks pay to borrow money from each other and are also the basis for determining the rates charged on many other kinds of loans. It has been a key part of the functioning of financial markets since the 1960s.
Why is it being phased out?
Confidence in the reliability of LIBOR was eroded after the 2008 financial crisis by well-documented cases of attempted manipulation and false reporting. The LIBOR rate was set by a panel of banks that submitted short-term borrowing rates based on expert judgement. It emerged in 2012 that bankers at many major financial institutions colluded in a scheme to manipulate LIBOR for the purposes of profit.
What will replace LIBOR?
The Bank of England established a working group in 2015, consisting of a panel of major banks, which, in April 2017, recommended the Sterling Overnight Index Average (SONIA) benchmark as its preferred risk-free rate, and since then has been focused on how to transition to using SONIA across sterling markets.
SONIA was launched in March 1997 by the Wholesale Markets Brokers’ Association – now part of the European Venues and Intermediaries Association (EVIA) – but since 2016 has been administered by the Bank of England. According to the Bank of England, the decision to adopt SONIA was based on “robust transaction volumes” and how it measured overnight interest rates in a way that was “considered close to risk-free”, thereby minimising “opportunities for misconduct”.
How does SONIA work?
It tracks the rates of actual overnight funding deals on the wholesale money markets and, unlike LIBOR, does not rely on submitters but on actual transactions. SONIA went through a period of reform, which ended in April 2018, in order to capture a broader range of transactions and increase the underlying volumes that the benchmark was based upon, improving the sustainability and representativeness of the benchmark.
What outstanding notional exposure does LIBOR have?
Based on publicly available data, total outstanding notional exposure to LIBOR has been estimated at over US$370tn, according to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), a trade body for participants in the derivatives market. Derivatives, syndicated loans, securitisations, business and retail loans, floating-rate notes (FRNs) and deposits are all significantly exposed to LIBOR.
This market comprises more than £30tn of over-the-counter derivatives and £4tn of exchange-traded reference LIBOR. LIBOR is also important for the real economy, providing a reference for more than £200bn of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) and corporate loans, around £125bn of FRNs, and £200bn of structured debt.
Will market participants will be ready?
The IBOR global benchmark transition report, carried out by EY on behalf of ISDA in 2018, involved analysis based off in-person interviews and electronic surveys with 150 market participants in 24 countries. It finds that while almost nine out of ten respondents are concerned about their exposure to LIBOR and other interbank rates, only 12% have developed a preliminary project plan.
How will the sector deal with legacy LIBOR contracts?
Nearly US$2tn in loans may need to have their documentation revised following the discontinuation of LIBOR (and other IBOR) benchmarks in 2021. Millions of documents will need to be reworked for loans that reference LIBOR but that will mature after the switch off date.
ISDA is also working on the development of robust replacement language in new contracts to mitigate the risk of a permanent end to LIBOR. This will require the creation of an alternative rate to replace LIBOR in old and new contracts before 2021. In 2018, Andrew Bailey, head of the FCA, raised the idea of a synthetic LIBOR. However, this remains controversial as it may impede the adoption of risk-free rates, causing market fragmentation.
How is the transition from LIBOR to SONIA progressing?
In May 2019, the Working Group on Sterling Risk-Free Reference Rates (RFRWG), which is made up of experts from major sterling swap dealers and hosted by the Bank of England, said sterling-denominated financial markets had begun to “shift decisively” away from LIBOR and towards SONIA over the past year.
In the derivative markets, the share of swaps traded using SONIA was broadly equivalent to that linked to LIBOR, as of April 2019. Liquidity and open interest in SONIA futures was also growing steadily, the Working Group said: in the previous three months, more than 25,000 lots a day had been traded across three exchanges.
SONIA is also being adopted in cash markets. SONIA-linked FRNs have rapidly become the market norm, and LIBOR-linked sterling FRN issuance beyond 2021 has all but ceased. In April, Nationwide Building Society issued the first SONIA-linked residential mortgage-backed security, following two other securitisations that were retained in December 2018 and March 2019. The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has produced model securitisation wording for the new issue of bonds, providing a new and easier mechanism to accommodate the transition from IBOR to an alternative benchmark rate in the event of LIBOR becoming unavailable.
However, while there has been considerable progress in the sterling markets, the cessation of LIBOR, and other IBORs, is an international issue. As we get closer to the likely end of LIBOR in late 2021, there are concerns that the underlying interbank overnight borrowing market, which LIBOR is based upon, suffers from too low a volume to provide a reliable, representative benchmark.
Effort must be made to ensure different jurisdictions have a coordinated transition to risk-free rates. The Global Financial Markets Association, which brings together AFME, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) in the US and ASIFMA in Hong Kong, released in April an IBOR transition document summarising the work completed to date in the five major jurisdictions, including the current state of fallback wording reform and term rate development.
The full article appears in the July 2019 print edition of The Review. All members, excluding student members, are eligible to receive the quarterly print edition of the magazine. Members can opt in to receive the print edition by logging in to MyCISI, clicking on My account, then clicking the Communications tab and selecting ‘Yes’.
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The Whole Hog
Some critics in Fayetteville argue there is no real food culture in a town made up vastly of chain restaurants with a few excellent local spots sprinkled in between. But what about barbeque? Isn’t that a tasty populate of our food culture?
If you really look closely, one will notice that our main haunts for barbeque tend to be clustered around the Skibo/McPherson Church Road area (Smokey Bones Bar and Fire Grill, Memphis BBQ Company, Carolina Ale House, Mac’s Speed Shop) and past downtown scattered nearby Eastern Boulevard (Cape Fear Bar-B-Que & Chicken, Fuller’s Old Fashion BBQ and Buffet, Patterson’s Barbeque and Buddy’s Bar-B-Que). And who can forget the iconic pit stop, The Barbeque Hut on Fort Bragg Road and Owen Drive with its vintage menu board and simple, tried and true menu.
There are numerous BBQ joints in Cumberland County alone and many casual dining restaurants feature outstanding pork sandwiches on the menu, covered with vinegar based sauce that’s the key component of Carolina barbeque. In the 1960’s through the early 80’s one of the best barbeque places was Harold’s Barbeque on Bragg Boulevard. They had a specialty of sliced barbeque pork. Marshall Waren, publisher of CityView, remembers it as the best place to get sliced pork. Waren said, “When the owner died the place had to close, it was a sad day for sliced pork in Fayetteville.”
At the Carolina Ale House, it all begins with the bun. “We take our spice mix and we whip it into the butter and we butter the bun and grill it…so there’s a layer of flavor built into the bun,” explained Joel Dubois, General Manager. The pork is sourced locally from Brookwood Farms in Siler City. “There’s a 12 hour smoking process. Vinegar, of course, is used in the process. It’s got that good smoke flavor and the rub we use also adds another layer of depth and flavor to it,” continued Dupree. Their flavor is rounded out with a secret sauce.
Cape Fear Bar-B-Que and Chicken, a local favorite whose concept began in Smithfield, now thrives on Grove Street in Fayetteville as well as in three other cities: Lumberton, Elizabethtown and Clinton. June Massengill’s parents had Smithfield BBQ in the late 1970s. After June went to college, the restaurant business lured her back in and now she is the owner of four locations in southeastern N.C. She prides herself on the family tradition of cooking fresh pork daily.
“Wanna try it real quick?”
Fuller’s Old Fashion BBQ and Buffet is a haven for the southern foodie. Their buffet is brimming with goodies like collards, corn bread and of course, fat back. Sure enough, long time employee turned part-time manager Dorothy Bryant will ask a customer, “Wanna try it real quick?” And most come back and try it all again, which is why the Fuller’s parking lot off Eastern Boulevard is usually overflowing with automobiles.
Again, at this family owned restaurant with two locations in Lumberton and Fayetteville, the focus is less on the bread and more on the meat. “We use the whole hog. Most establishments don’t do that, they only cook the short cuts,” Bryant explained. “We have an employee whose job every week is to purchase hogs from a market in Fayetteville. A hog goes for about $120 and we use about 100 a month at both Fuller locations.”
Now, that’s a lot of barbeque.
The meat is cooked in their outdoor fire pit located in Lumberton. And Fuller’s, just like most mom and pop restaurants in the area, make their own delicious vinegar based barbeque sauce…and yes, it’s a secret too. “Up north, you know they use that thick hickory sauce. Sometimes, we will get northerners in here and they’ll ask ‘What is this?’ And either they like it or they don’t!” Bryant said with a slight smile and shrug. Fuller’s has been in existence since 1986 and are now creeping in on their 30th anniversary. They know their great success is due to service, family-atmosphere…and of course, creating a great barbeque sandwich.
“Would you like some sweet tea?”
Iced tea, perhaps the sweeter the better, is the optimum partner to a juicy barbeque sandwich and it’s most difficult to find a sweeter libation than at Buddy’s BBQ on Gillespie Street.
Started in 1945 by Sampson County native and World War II veteran, Buddy Hayes, the small brick building with iron bars on the windows may not have the most beckoning exterior, but the inside, with 1970s era vinyl booths and hundreds of pig figurines and collectibles adorning the atmosphere, can only be described as kitsch, comfy and something you can find only in the South. And the owner these days, Buddy’s daughter, Janice Bundy, may be the Paula Deen of the barbeque world with her perfectly coiffed hair (she was a former hairdresser) and warm smile.
Mrs. Bundy is flawless and she did wake up like that.
“I’ve been in the barbeque business for 40 years. My husband helps here and so do my two daughters, one who is a college student at Methodist University and in the nursing program,” said Bundy.
The key to their longevity in the barbeque business, Bundy believes, is the friendly service and quality food they serve. Their delicious, secret sauce doesn’t hurt either. “No one has my sauce. It’s a vinegar based sauce that my father made,” shared Bundy.
While Carolina Ale House places extreme focus in the preparation of the bun of the sandwich, that’s something Bundy had to forgo once upon a time, 21 years ago.
“When Hurricane Fran hit, we had people lined up out the door. We were the only place with power, other than EMS next door. We had customers serving customers.” Bundy continued, “We had to throw our barbeque on white bread, hot dog buns…that’s one day I’ll never forget.”
And one could say the secret to the success to all of these establishments is in their different, yet delicious, Carolina-style vinegar based sauces…and the lips of Carolina Ale House, Cape Fear, Buddy’s and Fuller’s are all sealed on that one.
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The Whitechapel Murders
To the Editors of THE LANCET
Sirs--Possibly before your next issue the theories as to the sanity or insanity of the perpetrator of perpetrators of the Whitechapel murders will be set at rest. I venture to trespass on your valuable space to express most emphatically my opinion that these murders were committed by some person or persons who were perfectly sane. Some years ago I was consulted as to the state of mind of one Frederick Hunt. This man had murdered his wife and two children. It was proved beyond doubt that the prisoner was on terms of the greatest affection with the victims of his impulse He had nothing to gain by the act, and he had at the time a balance of over £150 at his bankers. After the deed was done, he attempted suicide by placing his head on the line of a railway, from which position he was rescued by a guard and immediately given up into the hands of the police. He made no attempt to escape, or to conceal his crime, the details of which he [unreadable] described to the authorities. I had several interviews with him in Horsemonger-lane Gaol, and I had no doubt whatever from symptoms, which it would take too long here to enumerate, that the man was a victim of a homicidal impulse. He was tried before Justice [unreadable] at the Croydon Assizes, and found not guilty by the jury, on the ground of insanity. Subsequently, Dr. Orange, of the Broadmoor Asylum, confirmed my diagnosis in a paper he communicated to a medical contemporary on criminal responsibility, in which Hunt's case was described at length.
Now as to the Whitechapel murderer. He was most probably a stranger to his victim, and not bound to her by ties of blood as was the criminal Hunt. In all probability he was a poor man. The fact tath the jewellery he he stole from the woman was false goes for nothing. It is not unlikely that at such a time even an expert would be nice as to these distinctions. The deed of the first Whitechapel murderer was complicated by a subsequent mutilation of the body of his victim which was of so barbarous a nature as to make one of our own profession shrink from describing it. And this statement would also apply to the second murderer. It is well known to experts in insanity that although the anticipation of the deed may be long cherished, yet the act itself is sudden, unexpected, uncomplicated by any subsequent mutilation, or attempt to conceal the act, and very frequently followed by some suicidal attempt. As far as we have yet heard, there have been no suicides in Whitechapel lately. And any reader of the daily papers must be well aware how common is this tendency when an insane person has committed a murder.
From these data, imperfect as they must necessarily be, I have no hesitation in giving an opinion that should the Whitechapel murderer or murderers be apprehended, it will be proved that he or they are of perfectly sound mind, that at the time the act was committed they were evidently in want of money, which they imagined could be obtained from the sale of their victims jewellery, and that if there be any necessity to explain away the mutilation of the corpses, it will be found in the fact that such mutilation was effected with a view to the concealment of the crime, which there is every reason to believe was committed before the murders took place. I am, Sirs, your obedient servant, Richmond-terrace, Sept, 16th 1888. HENRY SUTHERLAND, M.D.
Sirs,--Being more or less responsible fo the original opinion that the individual who committed the wholesale slaughter in Whitechapel was a lunatic, I beg to trouble you with this communication.
In the interview I had with the officials at Whitehall-place I gathered that this was also their theory. In your issue of the 15th inst. you say, "The theory that the succession of murders which have lately been comitted in Whitechapel are the work of a lunatic appears to us to be by no means at present well establish." Of course, it is impossible to give a positiveness to the theory unless some more evidence can be established; nevertheless, to my mind the case appears tolerably conclusive. the horrible and revolting details, as stated in the public press, are themselves evidence, not of crimes committed by a responsible individual, but by a fiendish madman. You go on to add that "homicidal mania is generally characterised by one single and fatal act." Having had extensive experience incases of homicidal insanity, and having been retained in the chief cases during the last twenty years, I speak as an authority on this part of the subject. I cannot agree with your statement. I will give one case which recalls itself to my recollection. A gentleman entered my consulting-room. he took his seat, and, on asking what it was he complained of, replied, "I have a desire to kill everyone I meet." I then asked him for further illustration of his meaning. He then said: As I walk along the street, I say to myself s I pass anyone, 'I should like to kill you'; I don't know why at all." Upon my further pressing him on the matter, he jumped up and attempted to seize a weapon from his pocket, and to give me a further, more practicable, and more realistic illustration. I was enabled, however, to frustrate him in this desire. Another case in which I was retained as expert was that of Mr. Richardson, who committed murder at Ramsgate (his homicidal tendency was not confined to one individual) and was tried at Maidstone this year; and there are many others that I could mention. Homicidal lunatics are cunning, deceptive, plausible, and on the surface, to all outward appearances, sane; but there is contained within their innermost nature a dangerous lurking after blood, which, though at times latent, will develop when the opportunity arises. That the murderer of the victims in Whitechapel will prove to be such an indiviual is the belief of your obedient servant
L. FORBES WINSLOW, M.B., LL.M.Camb, D.C.L. Oxon.
Wimpole-street, W., Sept. 19th, 1888
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This CD is something of a first: Raff shares billing with seven other composers and his name is by far the best known amongst them! It is also unusual because the two Raff pieces in his op.70 set are the only ones on the disc purely for piano, all the rest are for flute and piano.
The Two Salon Paraphrases after Verdi date from 1857, a time when Raff’s star was at last on the rise, albeit slowly. He had just emerged from the shadow of his mentor Liszt, had established himself in Wiesbaden and was starting to gain a name for himself as a serious composer of large scale works; in the same year he completed his Second String Quartet and La fée d’amour, a substantial piece for piano and orchestra.
He remained poor, however, and so also carried on writing piano arrangements for the salon of popular operas because these were guaranteed to bring in some money. Although his large body of work in this genre undoubtedly later harmed his hard-won reputation as symphonist of stature, a closer look at these pieces shows that they were all written with consumate skill and craftsmanship. They exhibit the same imagination, idiomatic pianism, artistic flair and attention to detail which he brought to his major works. The paraphrases on Il Trovatore and La Traviata in op.70 are no exception.
The CD’s programme has been carefully planned, with these piano-only pieces coming in the middle of it, preceded by four Italian opera paraphrases and followed by three on French operas. The Raff pair have rather darker timbres than the flute and piano works which surround them. Catherine Sarasin begins Trovatore with an appropriately doom laden, dramatic opening, followed by a hesitant, teasing introduction of Raff’s take on Verdi’s familiar tunes. She brushes off the difficulty of Raff’s never-easy writing with aplomb, pacing the short piece well to subtly build up the tempo and the tension. Although only lasting a little under five minutes, the work is a satisfying artistic whole, no mere potpourri of stitched together tunes, and Sarasin’s performance helps give it that cohesion.
Traviata follows a similar arc. Gloomily foreboding at the beginning, it stutteringly launches into the main material which Raff decorates more than in its companion piece. Verdi’s yearning phrases are well articulated by Sarasin who clearly understands that this is a tragedy after all. She brings to the second half of the work a lilting delicacy which nonetheless has an entirely appropriate tinge of sadness, an effect rather spoilt (by Raff, not Sarasin) at the end with a emphatic chordal finish. As with its companion, Traviata’s five minutes are a very satisfying listen under Sarasin’s fingers.
The rest of the CD is equally delightful. The paraphrases on Rigoletto, Traviata, Cenerentola, Faust, La Juive and Carmen are by the, to me at least, completely unknown Popp, Krakamp, Remusat, Leduc, Gariboldi, Demersseman and Borne, all of whom were apparently well known composer-virtuosi in their day. Miriam Terragni is clearly a virtuoso of the first class. There is a delightful lightness to much of her playing and her technique is staggering, witness the apparent effortlessness with which she treats some of the (literally) breathtakingly long phrases in these pieces. Sarasin is a very sensitive accompanist, taking a supporting role for the most part in this music written by flautists to display their own virtuosity, but shining when she is given a few bars to showcase her own considerable talents. Of the music itself, the most effective pieces are the two that bookend the programme: Wilhem Popp’s Rigoletto Fantasie (his op.335!) and François Borne’s Fantaisie brillante sur Carmen. The former for its shameless hijacking of Verdi to create a vehicle demonstrating Popp’s own astounding virtuosity and Borne’s because it remains truer to the spirit of Bizet’s masterpiece than the other works here. That said, Raff’s 10 minutes show him to be a composer on an altogether higher plane than any of them.
The sound is immediate and warm and Robert Matthew-Walker’s insert notes are properly informative, even if he is faintly sniffy about Raff. In sum, a delightful CD and thoroughly recommendable.
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Singer’s Latest Reimagined Porsche 911 Packs 500 HP and Is beyond Amazing
In addition to being stunning to behold, it’s also lightweight and optimized aerodynamically.
By CHRIS PERKINS
Last year, our friends at Road & Track told you about the Singer and Williams Dynamics and Lightweighting Study, which was a wildly reimagined Porsche 911 that went beyond Singer’s usual masterpieces. But where that first glimpse was computer modeled, the first actual restorations from the partnership have arrived: a white 1990 911 (pictured here) and a red 1989 911, both making their debut at the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed. They are a feast for the senses, to say the very least.
Both have air-cooled 4.0-liter flat-sixes making an astonishing 500 horsepower without the help of forced induction. The engine was developed by Williams Advanced Engineering with the help of Hans Mezger, the Porsche engine genius who developed the first 911 flat-six and all of the company's Le Mans–winning competition motors. Unlike most air-cooled Porsche flat-sixes, this one has dual overhead cams and four valves per cylinder. Those valves are made from titanium, naturally, and Williams incorporated a lot of magnesium throughout, too. It revs to 9000 rpm.
At a quick glance, the bodywork looks as if it could have come from a 911 RSR, but it’s all bespoke to this car and crafted from carbon fiber. Williams pitched in further by helping to balance the weight of this 911 as much as possible, moving the engine forward slightly and relocating other components to the front trunk.
It’s also aerodynamically optimized, with a small air channel at the rear window designed to funnel air to the ducktail spoiler and diffuser, making real downforce. Legendary Porsche Motorsport engineer Norbert Singer—unrelated to the Singer company—ran the automaker’s Le Mans program for decades and helped with the aero. The engine breathes through two ram intakes integrated into the rear quarter-windows, while a vent in the spoiler helps expel air.
Everything else here was made specifically for this car, usually out of carbon or some other lightweight material. The seats? Custom carbon Recaro buckets. Steering wheel? Custom carbon-fiber Momo Prototipo. Brakes? Carbon-ceramic Brembo discs with monoblock calipers. Wheels? Center-locking BBS magnesium 18-inchers made to look like old Fuchs alloys.
Williams designed the suspension, which is equipped with remotely adjustable dampers, and the tires are Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2s in a custom size. The ABS, traction-control, and stability-control brains come from Bosch and it has switchable driving modes. Completing the package is a six-speed manual designed by Hewland—there’s no dual-clutch or conventional automatic transmission here.
Singer will offer the modifications shown on these two restorations to 75 clients, but pricing hasn’t been announced. If we had to guess, we’d say that we can’t afford it now and never will be able to in the future, either.
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At Goodwood, one of the two Dynamics and Lightweighting Study cars will run up the famous hill-climb, while the other will be on display outside Goodwood House with a handful of other Singer-fettled Porsche 911s.
A version of this story originally appeared on Road & Track.
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Care Act 2014 : Should / Could / Would Act 2014 ... R.I.P. ? - Page 10 - Carers UK Forum
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by bowlingbun » Sun Jun 11, 2017 11:47 am
My LA are currently advertising for new SW's starting at over £30,000 a year. For this I, as a council tax payer, expect value for money. As a pensioner caring for my son regularly I get sweet FA!
Information is Power!!!
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by Chris From The Gulag » Sun Jun 11, 2017 12:24 pm
Acid test.
Think of the millions paid in salaries to all earning a living off CarerLand ... our supporting organisations , LA / DWP employees and academics.
Has our PLIGHT got any easier despite the millions being spent ?
If not , just what is those millions being spent on ?
Without deviation from the norm , progress is not possible.
by Chris From The Gulag » Sun Jul 02, 2017 11:28 am
At long last , some feedback :
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2017/06/ ... ts-impact/
Service users give mixed verdict on Care Act’s impact.
Survey finds most people don't feel care has improved since the legislation's introduction
By Andy McNicoll on June 28, 2017 in Adults
Most people using social care feel the introduction of the Care Act 2014 has not improved the quality of help they get, a government-commissioned survey suggests.
The poll of 1,100 service users and carers found just 29% felt their care had improved in the first year of the act coming into force. A quarter felt things had got worse.
The Department of Health asked personalisation charity Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) to carry out the research, as a means of gauging the impact of the act since it came into force in April 2015
The results paint a mixed picture. While more than half of respondents (56%) said they were still satisfied with the quality of their support and 69% felt the care they received made a positive difference to their wellbeing, TLAP said other findings raised “major” concerns over how councils are implementing key planks of the Care Act in practice:
Only a quarter of respondents felt councils had frequently listened to their views when drawing up support plans.
Just under half (49%) felt their choices were always or frequently respected.
More than half (51%) found it difficult to access information and advice about care options.
There was “low uptake” of Care Act advocacy, with more than two-thirds of respondents saying they had never been offered an advocate.
Clenton Farquharson, chair of the TLAP board, said the results sent a “clear message” that more needed to be done to embed the act’s principles in practice.
He said: “We particularly need to draw attention to what we describe as the ‘rhetoric vs reality’ gap, between what people with care needs are experiencing, and what council colleagues perceive and say is happening when they work to embed personalisation”.
TLAP warned the findings showed a “marked difference” between council and service user opinions on the act’s implementation. The most recent Local Government Association stocktake – the main official survey of council views on Care Act progress – found 81% felt the Care Act had made a positive difference on practice.
Margaret Willcox, president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, said councils were seeking to offer personalised social care “in a very difficult financial climate”.
She said: “Many local authorities have worked hard in challenging financial circumstances to give people greater choice and control. Despite the growing financial pressures, there is consensus that the principles of personalisation should be supported.
“Individuals should be in charge of their own care and support and have control and choice over the key decisions that affect them. However, despite challenges there are still some excellent local initiatives such as, Barnet, Derby, Shropshire and North East Lincolnshire.”
The association’s latest annual budget survey, published today, reveals the pressure to make significant cuts means just 29% of directors were fully confident they would meet their statutory duties this year. ADASS warned that some savings targets had proved “impossible” to deliver.
by Chris From The Gulag » Tue Jul 11, 2017 8:36 am
Results from 7,000 odd carers ( Roughly 1 in 930 ) ... pages 16 / 17 from the State of Caring 2017 report :
http://www.carersuk.org/for-professiona ... eport-2017
Makes interesting reading if only from the numbers stated.
By contrast , how many of the 6 million do not even know Carers Assessments exist ?
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by Colin_1705 » Tue Jul 11, 2017 11:25 am
How many of those people have never even seen a social worker
by Chris From The Gulag » Tue Jul 11, 2017 12:04 pm
As at August 2012 , 92,000+ SWs registered.
Say half in the front line and , probably less than that figure now with the cutbacks.
Best guestimate ?
1 SW for every 175-200 carers .... ?
No wonder nobody puts identifying carers towards the top of the list of priorities ???
Would also explain why no abuses of the Care Act are ever penalised or adequately monitor.
The System and it's supporting circus in action for all to see.
Nothing but smoke and mirrors ....
by Chris From The Gulag » Fri Aug 18, 2017 6:27 pm
Worth reporting the latest on the Luke Davey case extracted from the Oxford Mail.
First direct reference to the provisions of the Care Act in a Court of Law.
Apparently , all hinges on the intepretation of " Well being " as so stated in said Act.
Interesting to note the abolition of the Independent Living Fund scheme appears to be the starting point.
An image often speaks louder than mere words ... this is a human being !!!
Without qualification , another case of " Should / could / would " looming ?
A severely disabled man has launched the first Court of Appeal battle of its type following 'savage' cuts in care funding vulnerable people say they are suffering across the country.
Wheelchair users joined a protest outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London as Luke Davey, 41, challenged Oxfordshire County Council's decision to reduce his weekly personal budget by 42 per cent.
Three appeal judges were told Burcot resident Mr Davey, who has quadriplegic cerebral palsy and is registered blind, faces "a significant risk to his well being" because of the reductions.
The case is being seen as an opportunity to clarify whether provisions of the Care Act 2014 are being properly applied by local authorities.
Mr Davey, who was in court in his wheelchair, says in his case the law is being breached by Oxfordshire council.
Even after he agreed to modifications, his reduced budget is still not enough to fund the team of personal assistants who have cared for him for nearly 20 years, the judges were told.
Critics are blaming the problems severely disabled people report facing on the Government's decision to axe the independent living fund (ILF) which previously enabled thousands of claimants to live independently through ILF money plus assistance from their local authorities.
After the ILF was abolished in 2015, the money and sole responsibility for care funding were transferred to the local authorities.
In court, the judges heard Mr Davey requires assistance with all of his personal care needs and was helped by a team of personal assistants funded by a 24 hours-a-day care package costing £1,651 per week.
The Independent Living Fund provided £730 of that total.
When the ILF closed, Oxfordshire council proposed reducing his personal budget to £950 per week.
Jamie Burton, appearing for Mr Davey, said he had essentially the same team of personal assistants for nearly 20 years who knew him very well and contributed to his sense of well being.
The local authority decided he could spend 6.5 hours alone each day and he could reduce the amount he paid to his carers.
That posed the risk of Mr Davey suffering anxiety when left alone and also losing his care team.
He had since agreed to spend four hours alone and negotiated with his team to accept some, but not all, of the proposed reductions in their terms and conditions of employment.
But this still left a shortfall in his budget and his mother, Jasmine, who is aged 76 and has cancer, was having to fill the gaps in providing his care, said Mr Burton.
Oxfordshire County Council said it would not comment while the case is on-going.
by Chris From The Gulag » Fri Sep 01, 2017 12:00 pm
Bad news for Luke Davey and low millions of other carees :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ox ... e-41122234
A disabled man who took his legal fight over cuts to his care to the Court of Appeal has had his case dismissed.
Luke Davey, 41, challenged a ruling upholding Oxfordshire County Council's decision to cut his package by 42%.
Mr Davey, who has quadriplegic cerebral palsy, argued it threatened his well-being and breached the Care Act.
Campaigners said the case could have led to a landmark ruling, but the appeal judge said the council had not acted unlawfully.
Mr Davey, from Burcot, is registered blind and uses a wheelchair, requires help with all of his personal care needs.
A county council spokesman said: "We will continue to work with Mr Davey and his family to ensure he gets the provision of essential services he needs.
"The Court of Appeal has confirmed that the Council's assessment of Mr Davey's care needs and the allocated amount for his personal budget is appropriate and lawful.
"All local authorities who provide adult social care services against a background of financial constraints in the public sector are having to make difficult decisions."
Comment from the Belfast telegraph , most potent :
Critics of the Government say Mr Davey’s case illustrates how disabled people are suffering because ministers axed the independent living fund (ILF) in 2015 but failed to ring-fence sufficient money for the disabled under the new Care Act 2014, which makes cash-strapped local authorities responsible for funding all care needs.
Ring fencing .... a vital ommission from the Act's drafters !!!!
The first major challenge under the provisions of the Care Act 2014.
A black day for low millions.
What now for the Care Act ?
Anyone want to hold their hand up and say ... " We could have done better " ... ?
Perhaps SHOULD instead of COULD in line with most of the wording ?
Try telling that to the low millions !
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Not been a good day for those towards the bottom of the pile ?
On way to PO , stopped outside local nursey to witness a ferocious argument between parents and a couple from the nursery.
Felt a little sorry for the nursery trying to explain why they cannot offer 30 hours of free childcare in line with one of the Government's flagship policies.
The answer to that one is outside the remit of this forum.
For the curious amongst our readers , just Google ... 30 HOUR FREE CHILDCARE PROBLEMS ... similar to social care , lack of funding !!!
Then , an ecomonic breakdown of those who will benefit the most !
by Chris From The Gulag » Fri Sep 01, 2017 5:13 pm
A little more on the Luke Davey Appeal from the Community Care web site :
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2017/09/ ... ckage-cut/
Svetlana Kotova, disability justice coordinator at Inclusion London, said the decision was “very disappointing” and illustrated the “devastating impact” of government policy.
She added: “Many people like Luke Davey, who were supported by the Independent Living Fund, had their support packages cut to the bare bone. With those cuts went their independence, choice and control and the opportunity to live a normal life. Today the Court of Appeal confirmed that local authorities can get away with doing this.
“Without adequate levels of support, disabled people are existing not living. This case has destroyed any hopes that the Care Act 2014 will transform our experience of social care.
“It is time the government recognises and urgently addresses the huge crisis in social care, through ensuring adequate funding and the introduction of an appeals system, which would give disabled people a fair chance to challenge the views and decisions of social workers.”
Difficult to see any positive outcomes from this case.
Perhaps we should revise down the projected number to benefit to high four figures upto the end of 2018 against the original projection of 375,000 ?
There again , a touch too optimistic ?
Irony of ironies ... odds on a couple behind this Act being given awards by the Government for their " Sterling " work in the community ????
That would be par for the course in both CarerLand and CareeLand .... ?
by Chris From The Gulag » Wed Sep 06, 2017 12:44 pm
More problems with implementation ... care plans ... Community Care web site :
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2017/08/ ... -watchdog/
Care plans should be reviewed more than once a year, says watchdog.
Healthwatch England made the recommendation in a report on the experiences of people who use home care services
If you are in receipt of a " Care plan " , well worth a couple of minutes reading this article.
It also found that care workers were frequently unfamiliar with their clients’ care plans and when it was a staff member’s first visit, there was often not enough time to read the plan. In some cases, this was leading to “serious problems”, such as medication being missed.
A survey of 363 people in Newcastle, found one in seven had experienced medication being missed because of the home care provider. One in six respondents also said they felt the provision of medication was either “partly” or “never” safe.
The report recommended that automatic notification systems could be introduced to update staff about important changes to care plans, or prompts could be left around people’s homes as a reminder of their preferences.
The report also said local authorities needed to be more realistic in care plans about how much is achievable in the limited time available in most home care visits.
It found that only half (56%) of 73 people responding to Healthwatch Blackburn with Darwen’s survey felt there was sufficient time to complete all tasks set out in the care plan.
A service user told Healthwatch Redcar and Cleveland: “Sometimes they give me a shower but they go over their time but most of the time they haven’t got time to give me one so I go a couple of weeks without one and that’s not right, I feel dirty.”
Home care workers in Torbay also reported “unrealistic staff rotas” that left them exhausted and having to carry out double-handed care tasks on their own.
Some service users also reported that staff lacked basic skills such as being able to boil an egg or make a bed, which resulted in poor care.
Neil Tester, deputy director of Healthwatch England, said: “We heard examples of compassionate care from dedicated staff, but people also talked about care that doesn’t meet even basic standards. Given the challenges facing the social care sector, it’s more important than ever than ever that people’s voices are heard.”
Margaret Willcox, president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, said: “Most adult social care services in England are providing people with safe, high quality and compassionate care. That they are doing this in the context of rising demand and inadequate funding is a tribute in itself, but there is always room for improvement.”
I look forward to the day when a " Positive " report / article will be published.
Say , by 2020 ???
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Baseball great Rod Carew on heart-kidney donor Konrad Reuland: ‘I’ve got a great partner’ April 18, 2017 – Posted in: Blog – Tags: Heart of 29, Heart Transplant, Konrad Reuland, Rod Carew
Rod Carew holds a photo of his heart and kidney donor Konrad Reuland at a news conference Tuesday, alongside (from left) Austin Reuland, Mary Reuland and Rhonda Carew.
ENCINO, California – As a ballplayer, Rod Carew understood the importance of being a good teammate. Now that he’s carrying someone else’s heart and kidney, he’s a teammate of a wildly different sort.
Still, many of the same rules apply, such as doing what’s best for the greater good.
Carew began doing exactly that by holding a news conference Tuesday with his donor’s family to discuss the expansion of his “Heart of 29” campaign. Originally launched to promote heart health, the focus now also includes brain health and organ donation.
The widened approach is a tribute to Konrad Reuland, a former NFL tight end who suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm then died on Dec. 12. Four days later, his organs were transplanted into Carew.
“I’ve got a great partner in Konrad,” Carew said. “He’s given me a strong heart. … Whatever journey I take, he’s going to be right there with me helping me to save other people’s lives.”
From left, Rhonda and Rod Carew; his cardiologist Dr. Ajay Srivastava; Mary and Austin Reuland; Tom Mone, CEO of One Legacy
Carew launched Heart of 29 with the American Heart Association in 2015 after a heart attack, cardiac arrest and extreme heart failure left him with a machine called a left ventricular assist device, or LVAD, keeping him alive. He wanted to use his story – a seemingly healthy man almost struck down – to encourage others to get their hearts checked. He made a difference right away, as former big-league pitcher Clyde Wright was inspired to get a checkup and wound up getting a quadruple bypass.
The campaign name came from the jersey number Carew wore throughout his big-league career. It now carries more meaning as that’s how old Reuland was when he died.
Because Reuland was struck down by a brain injury, and because he’d signed up to become an organ donor just a few months earlier, the new planks to Heart of 29 make perfect sense. So does the fact experts say “what’s good for the heart is good for the brain.”
Carew and his family have long been organ donors. Their support stems from the 1996 death of his daughter, Michelle, after she was unable to find a match for a bone marrow transplant. She died of leukemia at only 18. At her request, he promoted the need for more bone marrow donors; his impact is honored at the national headquarters of Be The Match and is further reflected in the fact the organization annually presents a Rod Carew Leadership Award.
“Life is a gift from our father upstairs; it’s a very special thing,” Carew said. “You can help somebody else maybe reach their goals in life.”
Reuland and Carew are believed to be first pro athletes to share a heart. Even more amazing is that their paths crossed before: Konrad went to the same small, private middle school as Carew’s children. Their paths crossed at least once, but the families were never more than acquaintances.
Now they proudly consider each other family. They’ve already discussed creating a Christmas card together.
“It’s truly an honor to have a new partnership, a new family, with the Reulands,” said Rhonda Carew, Rod’s wife. “They are absolutely remarkable. I can only imagine Konrad himself mirrored through the Reulands as a whole. … We know we have one grieving family and one elated family. For the grieving family to step forward and really seek this out says a lot about their character. We are so blessed to have this relationship in place and the ability to go out and broaden our platform.”
The Reulands are eager to help, too. It’s what Konrad would’ve wanted, said his mom, Mary, who is using the hope of lives saved to power through her grief.swirling emotions.
“I feel like I’m on a roller coaster of emotions, of course, but I would be anyway,” she said. “I feel like this is a really good way to promote organ donation, heart health and brain health. And to keep my son alive. He died and people still know about him and of him. So for us it’s been comforting.”
She also takes solace knowing that Konrad’s selfless decision will save and improve countless lives through the Heart of 29 campaign. It goes beyond those who receive his organs and tissue. It includes Carew’s family and friends … and his daughter who is expecting his first grandchild in October.
“That baby is going to get to meet Rod, which is wonderful,” she said. “It’s the ripple effect. It’s so far-reaching. It’s not just the (Carew) family, it goes much further than that.”
Tom Mone – chief executive officer of One Legacy, the Southern California outlet of the national Donate Life organ network – noted that April is National Donate Life Month. He said he believes their efforts already have been boosted by the news of this story, which came out Friday. They’ve also established a sign-up page in Reuland’s honor.
“I can talk all day as a policy-wonk, organ-donor professional to get people to understand organ donation. But when donor families and recipients tell of that sharing of life, that moves people across the country to donate life,” Mone said. “I can only thank both of you for being willing to share your story. That will save thousands of more lives.”
Rhonda said she hopes the combined power of these two pro athletes helps propel Heart of 29 and the impact in can have.
“Our goal is to have Major League Baseball adopt Heart of 29 as one of their national charities that all teams subscribe to,” she said. “Hopefully we can get the word out – and now we’re thinking maybe we can do the same thing with the NFL. Our platform is so much broader now.”
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The Hyundai Sonata receives a significant mid-generation refresh for 2018. Updates include a new eight-speed automatic transmission option, redesigned exterior and interior elements, added connectivity features, updated safety technology packaging, improved dynamics, and streamlined trim packages.
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A 2.0-liter, turbocharged four-cylinder pumps out 245 hp and 260 lb-ft and works alongside an eight-speed automatic – look for this combo on top-of-the-line trims. At 23/32/26, fuel economy improves by one point in both city and highway driving but remains unchanged in combined mpg.
Lastly, a 1.6-liter, turbocharged four-cylinder is reserved for the Eco trim level and is matched with a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission. Power output is 178 hp and 195 lb-ft. EPA numbers are 28 city mpg, 37 highway, and 31 combined—representing a one mpg improvement on the highway.
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Starting at $22,935 (including $885 destination charge), the entry-level SE model sees a negligible $100 MSRP increase and is equipped with the 2.4L engine. Standard features include 16-inch wheels, blind spot monitoring, a rearview camera, heated side mirrors with turn-signal indicators, cloth seats, 60/40-split rear seats, a 7-inch color audio touchscreen, a 6-speaker sound system, and smartphone integration. There are no available options packages.
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Genre: Adventure, Puzzle
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Developer: Osome Studio
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Ratings: ESRB M
The dark will reveal all in this third-person narrative-driven survival horror game set in the jazz/noir-era of the 1930s. White Night is both a survival horror and an homage to the first survival horror while developing its own identity. Set in America’s early thirties, the game offers to live the nightmare of a man, hurt and trapped in an old family manor where darkness is a constant threat. Stranded and injured in the dead of night after an unfortunate automobile accident, players must investigate a nearby dilapidated mansion and interact with their surroundings in search of aid and answers. White Night challenges players to confront the nightmares of the past on an adventure in which darkness is the enemy… and darkness is everywhere.
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Study shows 27% of wheelchair users get rejected by universal design taxis in Japan
A survey done by the Japan National Assembly of Disabled Peoples’ International (DPI-Japan) revealed that universal design (UD) taxis that are capable of transporting wheelchairs turned away 27% of wheelchair-bound participants.
The group carried out the survey on various companies that provide UD taxis on Oct. 30 to investigate complaints that such taxis were turning away passengers with disabilities.
The study covered three situations: on the street, at taxi stands, phone or app reservations. The overall result showed that UD taxis refused 32 of 120 wheelchair users.
From the participants, taxi drivers refused 5 of 25 people who hailed taxis on the street. Meanwhile, cabbies snubbed 9 of the 37 participants who hailed UD cabs at a taxi stand. Finally, eighteen of the 58 passengers who tried to reserve UD taxis were refused.
Furthermore, at one point, a taxi driver reportedly did not know how to attach a ramp to the back door of the car to help wheelchair users get onboard.
“The driver said they didn’t have a ramp,” explained one wheelchair user. Another rejected individual said the driver “clearly looked away and ignored me.”
The results also showed that drivers give out redundant excuses to their passengers. Some of which included: “Our company said electric wheelchairs can’t be accommodated”. Taxi drivers also say: “We don’t accept those reservations because it takes too much time to get passengers in wheelchairs in and out of the taxi”.
Additionally, the 8% difference of rejected individuals from inside and outside the capital highlighted regional differences. In fact, it took an average of 11 minutes for a wheelchair user to properly transfer into the car.
As the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics is starting soon, the number of wheelchair-bound passengers will undoubtedly increase. Hence, it is the right time to examine whether universal design taxis will accommodate wheelchair users, how much time it takes for them to enter the car and other facts surrounding the special vehicles. Moreover, about 20,000 UD taxis were on the road as of March 2018. The government aims to increase the number to 44,000 by the end of March 2021 to accommodate the increase in demand for these services.
DPI-Japan urged the transport ministry and taxi industry groups to ensure UD taxi companies and drivers improve their services.
Satoshi Sato, DPI-Japan’s secretary-general explained that some drivers are highly-aware and professional. “But as a whole, it’s hard to say the situation has improved,” the secretary-general said. “The taxi industry needs to keep doing more.”
Moreover, a transport ministry official said positive comments on UD taxis “weren’t so many”. Consequently, the ministry is now considering its next steps on the issue, the official added.
“I urge that taxi companies continue to provide practical training,” a wheelchair passenger said.
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Star Wars Battlefront Free DLC Plans
[Nov 24, 2015, 7:34 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
An update to EA's Star Wars website from Patrick Söderlund talks about Star Wars Battlefront, saying it is "the biggest launch of a Star Wars video game ever and is the largest digital launch in the history of EA." He also outlines plans for free content coming to the Star Wars action game along with the planned premium season pass DLC:
Best of all, this is just the beginning. We have lots of new content coming over the next several months that will provide new ways to immerse yourself in Star Wars.
In two weeks, The Battle of Jakku launches. Taking place 29 years before the events of Star Wars™: The Force Awakens™, The Battle of Jakku is a free DLC pack* that adds two new maps (including one for popular modes like Walker Assault and Supremacy) and a new mode to the game. The coolest thing is that it’s the only place you’ll be able to experience the pivotal events that help shape the look of one of the next iconic planets in the Star Wars universe. We can’t wait for you to step onto Jakku for the first time with us.
Of course, we are also planning to support Star Wars Battlefront with new content well into the future. We will be adding more of what you love about the game, like new maps and Star Cards, for free in the coming months, in addition to all of the content we have coming with Season Pass. We’ll have more to share soon.
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13. Re: Star Wars Battlefront Free DLC Plans Nov 24, 2015, 23:19 nin
1badmf wrote on Nov 24, 2015, 23:10:
can be please get a real star wars game that isn't eviscerated by greed?!?!
Honestly, I don't mind the greed so much as the lack of single player. To paraphrase a quote elsewhere I read today: It's not that the Battlefront/Field series is known for story, it's that they took a franchise known for story and made a game that provides basically no story.
This was a quick and dirty product made to meet a deadline (episode 7). And it shows.
Kxmode wrote on Nov 24, 2015, 23:09:
EA is really stupid for not having a BFCM sale for SWBF. I know it just came out but their plan is to make a ton of money from future content. They want as many people in their game as possible especially for next month. Doing a 50% 2-day sale will help boost the numbers. The other reason why they want a 50% sale is the number of reviews coming saying this game isn't worth $60 is staggering. The smart thing to do is give people who want to buy but not at $60 a 2-day window to do that, while at the same time not permanently dropping the price.
Gamestop (I know, but give me a sec) has said (re black friday) they are:
“the only retailer that has it with significant discount, which is also going to guide sales.”
So I'd keep an eye out there...
11. Re: Star Wars Battlefront Free DLC Plans Nov 24, 2015, 23:10 1badmf
10. Re: Star Wars Battlefront Free DLC Plans Nov 24, 2015, 23:09 Kxmode
EA is really stupid for not having a BFCM sale for SWBF. I know it just came out but their plan is to make a ton of money from future content. They want as many people in their game as possible especially for next month. Doing a 50% 2-day sale will help boost the numbers. The other reason why they want a 50% sale is the number of reviews saying this game isn't worth $60 is staggering. The smart thing to do is give people a 2-day window to buy while at the same time not permanently dropping the price.
William Shakespeare's "Star Wars" Act I, Scene 1: Aboard the rebel ship. / Enter C-3PO and R2-D2. / C-3PO: "Now is the summer of our happiness / Made winter by this sudden, fierce attack!" / R2-D2 — Beep beep, Beep, beep, meep, squeak, beep, whee!
9. Re: Star Wars Battlefront Free DLC Plans Nov 24, 2015, 22:51 nin
DangerDog wrote on Nov 24, 2015, 22:33:
http://swbstats.com/
Those should be extremely alarming for EA, if true... 245K peak????? After one week?
8. Re: Star Wars Battlefront Free DLC Plans Nov 24, 2015, 22:33 DangerDog
Best looking rocks in a game ever!
The promise of additional "free" content might not be enough to keep people interested in the game. It's not just the lack of maps but the shallowness of the gameplay. It needs more progression based modes that almost are like mini episodes of a Star Wars story - especially for co-op modes.
7. Re: Star Wars Battlefront Free DLC Plans Nov 24, 2015, 21:41 Kxmode
I'll eventually buy this game when the price comes down and there's more stuff. BTW check out this mod. I don't know about you but the screenshots don't even look like a video game. Looks like a LARP session.
6. Re: Star Wars Battlefront Free DLC Plans Nov 24, 2015, 21:40 ColoradoHoudini
As he said in the review you linked.. "shallow"
btw-the additional maps are not worth it. The need additional game changing features added
ColoradoHoudini wrote on Nov 24, 2015, 21:13:
But 60 bucks for a cash grab devoid of features, mechanics and content most people would assume would be there base don the type of game this is.. ugh.
we wont even mention the DLC cash grab.
It's pretty, and sounds great, but the gameplay was just meh...so much potential squandered.
edit: Oh hey, watching this now: https://youtu.be/Xxt9EiZ6dGE
Free? EA? What sort of "Dark" Arts is this?!
Man this game is being beat up pretty much everywhere i turn. So many valid criticisms to this title, and lower than expected sales as well.
if it were 30 bucks, okay, I'm listening.. and free or $10 DLC .. every few months, okay.
Already the game is pretty much only populated in two game types. Sad..just sad.
2. Re: Star Wars Battlefront Free DLC Plans Nov 24, 2015, 20:56 The Half Elf
Ended up getting this, and have to say it's not bad. It's not great but not bad.
Using a steering wheel on a Burnout game is like using the Space Shuttle controls to fly a kite.
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1. Re: Star Wars Battlefront Free DLC Plans Nov 24, 2015, 20:05 morrow
slick whats your steamid?
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Notes on a Scandal: Rachel Dolezal and the ‘Trans-Black’ Con
By now, you’ve probably heard the sordid and bewildering story of world-class Decepticon, Rachel Dolezal, explode across your social media timelines. Each day since her cover was blown Rachel's alternate reality shatters in a million little pieces, as more information is revealed about her real identity. In the event you’ve been luxuriating on a remote island, off the coast of I’ve Got Fancier Shit to Worry About, here’s the gist of the situation: Rachel Dolezal—a White woman, and (now former) president of Spokane Washington’s NAACP chapter—has been living a good chunk of her adult life masquerading (with the help of slightly darker makeup, box braid extensions and Afro-textured wigs) as a biracial woman with a Black father, and reaping the benefits of colorism’s complexion hierarchy.
In an elaborate 21st-century minstrel tale that probably makes Vijay Chokalingam envious, Rachel was able to craft a highly derivative life, as if she’d taken her cues from the scripted pages of a psychological thriller.
To note, while I acknowledge that racial passing—to include white-to-Black 'passing'— isn’t a new concept, and recognize that the politics of race may be a socially constructed idea and that Black identity is multi-layered and, at times, complicated, it doesn't negate the fact that race plays a huge part in structural inequality, in the way policies are enacted and resources are distributed, and isn’t entirely irrelevant. Blackness as culture has merit and history in this country. It's a thread that's much more meaningful than a white person being able to convincingly mimic a look or affectation. As much as we don't want Race to matter and prefer to write it off as a social construct, the reality is, institutionally, it isn't.
As an obviously Black-American woman, born of two Black-American parents, and who is susceptible to systemic racism, microaggressions, and misogynoir, I believe the conversations and rationalizations swirling around Rachel Dolezal and Blackness have been insincere.
The commentary regarding the pliability of Blackness and accessibility to 'Black cool' always seem to be up for debate when it’s centered on a White person (usually a woman), because as usual, Whiteness gets to dictate the rules when it comes to the Black lived experience, and always when it suits White people's needs.
And living life in costume, performing as a biracial woman with a Black faux-parent seemed to suit Rachel Dolezal—a histrionic woman who has a strained relationship with her family—really well; because after graduating from Howard University (where she still identified as White and sued the school for anti-White discrimination), Rachel reinvented herself, infiltrated influential Black social circles and accessed opportunities not made readily available to qualified Black women, especially those who are darker-skinned.
Before the proverbial 3C texture wig was snatched off of her head and she was publicly exposed by the media, and then her actual parents (who confirmed her heritage as Czech, German and Swedish with faint traces of Native American ancestry), she made a living taking up a lot of space, offering first-hand accounts about experiences that weren't hers to relay.
Rachel positioned herself as THE authority on Blackness and about Black womanhood, presenting dispassionate class lectures on the politics of Black hair and Colorism, offering interviews about life as a Black woman, and working as an adjunct instructor of Africana studies. More flagrant were screenshots of Rachel snarking about BM/WW interracial unions, her, alleged, policing of other people’s Blackness, and questioning which activists deserve to participate in ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests.
Look, we live in a country where Black women are constantly made to feel as if our lives don't matter. We're denied housing and jobs, our young girls are suspended from school at higher rates based on complexion and hair texture, we're subject to state violence and racially charged sexual and street harassment, and Black trans-women face an epidemic of violence and hate many folks can't be bothered to care about. I refuse to give credence to some co-opted, out of context version of 'transracial' and nod in understanding while some opportunistic, 'everything but the burden' White woman trivializes the Black woman experience. The paper-thin arguments that try to conflate gender identity with Rachel's dishonesty are weak justifications for transphobia. The false equivalence folks (of the ashy variety) have made between Black women wearing weaves vs Rachel's minstrelsy don't jibe either because the power dynamics of forced assimilation rooted in White Supremacist ideas and cultural appropriation/Black mimicry for shits and giggles aren't the same.
Race may be a myth, yes. But it sure as hell matters phenotypically for Black women who are simply trying to live and exist, but aren't allowed the agency to experiment with different looks and makeup, contribute to honest dialogues about race in America as academics, or even win and openly express self-love without being ridiculed…
But we're supposed to just, unquestioningly, give Rachel Dolezal free country and let her be great at our expense because she's "done so much more for the Black community than any of us"? Well, so have scores of Black women, every day (whether via the academy, STEM, art, film, literature, or as thought leaders) and often to a relentless cavalcade of derision, harassment, plagiarism, colorism, and scorn. And what more has Rachel Dolezal done, exactly? Spokane's Black population isn't that large.
In her essay Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance, Bell Hooks writes, “The commodification of Otherness has been so successful because it is offered as a new delight, more intense, more satisfying than normal ways of doing and feeling. Within commodity culture, ethnicity becomes spice, seasoning that can liven up the dull dish that is mainstream white culture.”
Rachel Dolezal could have used her knowledge, privilege, and understanding of blackness and systemic racism to become a formidable White ally for social justice, sans succumbing to the ‘spicy’ allure of a blackface minstrel con job and exploiting colorism. Black womanhood is, indeed, magic, but it also comes with its share of burdens and demands. Burdens we don't ask to be saddled with; demands that often cost us our visibility and humanity.
As fascinating as this story is, Rachel Dolezal defenders (many of whom have been other White people, Black men, and people who identify as biracial) and those of her colleagues who've, for years, looked the other way, don’t get to silence Black women, erase us from our own narratives and derail from the very real issues that affect us, just so a White woman can comfortably insert herself in our place like some sort of Skinwalker, and earn a living off of painful experiences that aren't hers to claim and that Black women have to constantly struggle to raise national awareness about... Particularly since unambiguous Black women can’t suddenly decide we want to ‘transracially’ become trans-white. White Supremacy and the institutional power and privilege that come with Whiteness and White womanhood simply won’t stand for it. So why should we have to?
Posted by TiffJ at Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Labels: blackface cultural appropriation Featured minstrelsy misogynoir NAACP Race RaceTogether Rachel Dolezal Spokane Transracial
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Kevin Fobbs began writing professionally in 1975. He has been published in the "New York Times," and has written for the "Detroit News," "Michigan Chronicle," “GOPUSA,” "Soul Source" and "Writers Digest" magazines as well as the Ann Arbor and Cleveland "Examiner," "Free Patriot," "Conservatives4 Palin" and "Positively Republican." The former daily host of The Kevin Fobbs Show on conservative News Talk WDTK - 1400 AM in Detroit, he is also a published author. His Christian children’s book, “Is There a Lion in My Kitchen,” hit bookstores in 2014. He writes for Communities Digital News, and his weekly show "Standing at Freedom’s Gate" on Community Digital News Hour tackles the latest national and international issues of freedom, faith and protecting the homeland and heartland of America as well as solutions that are needed. Fobbs also writes for Clash Daily, Renew America and BuzzPo. He covers Second Amendment, Illegal Immigration, Pro-Life, patriotism, terrorism and other domestic and foreign affairs issues. As the former 12-year Community Concerns columnist with The Detroit News, he covered community, family relations, domestic abuse, education, business, government relations, and community and business dispute resolution. Fobbs obtained a political science and journalism degree from Eastern Michigan University in 1978 and attended Wayne State University Law School. He spearheaded and managed state and national campaigns as well as several of President George W. Bush's White House initiatives in areas including Education, Social Security, Welfare Reform, and Faith-Based Initiatives.
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The weaknesses of Trump's wrecking-ball approach
President Trump's slash-and-burn actions in his first week have been dramatic, but dangerously lacking in a consensus of support, even within his own administration.
The weaknesses of Trump's wrecking-ball approach President Trump's slash-and-burn actions in his first week have been dramatic, but dangerously lacking in a consensus of support, even within his own administration. Check out this story on commercialappeal.com: http://memne.ws/2k98cAa
Washington Post Writers Group Published 7:05 p.m. CT Jan. 26, 2017
President Trump points to members of the media while sitting at his desk on Air Force One upon his arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. on Jan. 26, 2017.(Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP)
WASHINGTON — President Trump's slash-and-burn actions in his first week have been dramatic, but dangerously lacking in a consensus of support, even within his own administration. The risks were evident in the collapse of a planned meeting with Mexico's president and in Trump's embrace of torture tactics rejected by his secretary of defense and CIA director.
Trump's "tweet from the hip" style produced its first real foreign rupture Thursday, when Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto canceled a planned visit to Washington. That followed Trump's tweet that he should stay away if he wasn't ready to pay for the often-proclaimed border wall.
The Twitter grenade blew up what had been an attempt to finesse the issue with a delayed Mexican financial contribution for the wall, an approach that Trump himself had only hours before supported in an interview with ABC's David Muir. Now, Trump has an avoidable Mexico crisis to deal with.
The torture issue was another self-inflicted wound. The CIA doesn't want to go back into the secret detention and waterboarding business. There's a law banning torture, for the simple reason that it "shocks the conscience" of many Americans. And some foreign intelligence services would refuse to share information with an America that used such techniques.
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The weird disconnect between Trump's wrecking-ball comments and the more delicate process of governing was illustrated by the flap over a draft executive order to revive CIA's "black sites" for detention and interrogation. After the memo surfaced Wednesday in The New York Times, Trump spokesman Sean Spicer insisted that it was "not a White House document."
But then a few hours later, Trump was raging in his interview with Muir that torture "works ... absolutely" and "we have to fight fire with fire." Like so many of Trump's tweets, these comments are disruptive and destabilizing — but mainly to his own administration. They make the job of his new CIA Director Mike Pompeo harder.
If the first week of the Trump presidency showed us anything, it's that he's more determined to overturn the established trade, economic and national-security order than even his critics feared. So far, there's more Stephen Bannon and less Reince Priebus in this White House. The costs of Trump's impulsive, thin-skinned behavior have also become clearer. He keeps proclaiming how well he's doing, but his aides have seemingly worked nonstop to put out fires ignited by their boss.
Whether Trump's tweeting and his alt-right tilt can be tempered by James Mattis at Defense and Rex Tillerson at State looks more dubious. This will worry foreign leaders who had found the Mattis and Tillerson nominations reassuring and were prepared to believe that Trump's bark might be worse than his bite on issues that matter to global allies.
Trump's bombastic nature undermines his ability to address the problems he cares most about. Take Mexico: It doesn't want a trade war with America, and Pena Nieto has been working to resolve border-security and NAFTA-renegotiation issues. But Trump's humiliating tweet (prompted, presumably, by his fear of being challenged for willingness to compromise) backed Pena Nieto into a political corner. The outcome is contrary to both countries' interests.
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Similarly, Trump's public endorsement of torture undermines his deeper effort to combat terrorism. Because of public revulsion over waterboarding, and the CIA's refusal to resume interrogation activities without clear, sustainable legal authority, it's now easier for the U.S. to kill terrorists with drones than to capture and interrogate them. The rise in such "targeted killing" may take terrorists off the battlefield, but it doesn't yield intelligence.
"The U.S. has abandoned any effort to capture, detain and interrogate terrorists," argues Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, a former CIA officer who now teaches at the Harvard Kennedy School. "Killing terrorists with drones does not produce information on terrorist plans and intentions. It makes eminent sense to emphasize recruitment and capture operations in addition to lethal drones and bombings. As the crude saying goes, 'You can't kill them all.'"
John McLaughlin, a former acting CIA director, speaks for a consensus in the agency when he says "it would be a mistake to go back in that direction," with case officers tasked with running secret interrogation sites. But the larger point is that "the issue is so politicized that you cannot have the sober policy discussion" that's needed on how to collect better intelligence through interrogation.
During his first week in office, Trump has been his own loudest cheerleader. He has also been his own worst enemy. As with any other form of self-destructive behavior, it's time for an intervention by those closest to him.
David Ignatius' email address is davidignatius@washpost.com.
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Redistributing care: why respite support should exist for struggling birth families, not just foster carers and adopters
Brigid Featherstone and Amanda Boorman talk about their experiences of respite support and how it might be used to support families before a child is removed
October 16, 2018 in Children
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by Brigid Featherstone and Amanda Boorman
We are all now wearily familiar with hearing about ever-increasing numbers of children becoming looked after. We hear how austerity has hollowed out preventative services and the increasingly scarce resources is focused on funding care applications, care placements and the problematic consequences of these.
It is a matter of regret for many that funding and priorities are focused on the ‘heavy end’ of provision. Meanwhile, care experienced and adopted people increasingly remind us of their life-long attempts to make sense, repair and restore within the contexts of trauma, rupture and loss.
We are two women who have spent the last two decades of our lives living in and with adoption and fostering. One of us adopted and fostered siblings working alongside their original family to support the children. The other was approved as a respite foster parent in 2003 and has supported children and young people who are in long-term fostering, adoption and kinship care.
In our conversations together we increasingly discuss the fact that our love, care and commitment has been concentrated on children once they have come into care. It would be too simplistic to say this in itself is a matter of regret but it is increasingly a matter for reflection and, indeed, the occasional thought experiment.
Families of origin
What if that love, care and commitment could have been used to support the children and young people we love to stay safely within their families of origin? For example, what if birth parents had been offered the kinds of respite care one of us has offered for years to foster parents and adopters, so that they could have a weekend off once a month and/or go on holiday once a year.
All parents know how much having safe time out can help.
Surely respite fostering resources like ours could have been re-imagined to offer exhausted new mothers a warm and kind respite care package with, or without, their infants, thus perhaps preventing some of the baby removals we have heard about in recent years.
The costs of caring for other people’s children as a corporate parent are enormous and, despite government presenting adoption as a golden opportunity for permanence, it also acknowledges that adoption saves councils money.
What is much less often acknowledged by government ministers is the often-devastating consequences of permanent severance from loved ones, wider family relationships, culture, family history and identity that adopted people may face, often with no support.
Even more rarely acknowledged is the life-changing grief many parents living apart from their children must contend with. We know that women lose their children because of domestic abuse, mental illness, substance addiction and/or homelessness. Removing their children through adoption can be extremely harsh.
Roots and history
A large proportion of parents who lose children to adoption will have been in care themselves and often it will be the same corporate parent that removes a woman’s children into the care systems it once held her within. Surely, the ethical issues here oblige the offering of support for as long as is needed and using imaginative means to recruit people like us who would wish to provide that kind of support.
When criticisms of adoption practice are made it can be difficult to find solutions that recognise the importance of permanence and healthy attachments for children while not advocating the practice of total severance from a child’s roots and history. But it is vital that such solutions are sought as adopted people increasingly tell of the importance of their identity needs throughout their lives and as we confront the realities of removing children from very deprived and marginalized parents.
Recent adoption practice and, certainly, the funding of adoption has focused on the recruiting and support of adopters. For example, this year’s National Adoption Week is focused yet again on the adopter.
It remains rare to find adult adopted people or parents whose children have been removed speaking at high profile events.
However, where opportunities have been provided for adopted people, adopters and birth families to talk to each other – as happened in the Adoption Enquiry commissioned by BASW – barriers have been broken down, empathy been encouraged, and myths dispelled.
Redistribute care
Through our work we have both seen people from all sides of the adoption system come together to discuss solutions that respect women’s human rights and promote practices that are more humane for everybody involved in dealing with issues of child and family protection.
As the care figures continue to rise and as resources like ours are increasingly focused on those in care, we not only need to look at re-distributing financial resources away from the ‘heavy end’ but there may be merit in thinking about how love and care might be re-distributed also.
Instead of encouraging, for example, people to adopt children, or foster once the children are removed from their parents, perhaps we could ask them to ‘adopt’ or ‘foster’ alongside families thus preventing permanent removal. Now that seems like a good idea to discuss this National Adoption Week.
Brigid Featherstone is a professor of social work at the University of Huddersfield. Amanda Boorman is the founder of The Open Nest.
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CHUX October 16, 2018 at 7:01 pm #
Brilliantly insightful. Refreshingly innovative. Let’s hope that some funding can follow to support this being implemented, even on a pilot basis, and a Local Authority take up the challenge.
S.K.Chatha October 16, 2018 at 10:57 pm #
Excellent idea. Surely providing the birth parents with the support they need inorder to parent their children would be best for children and a win win situation for all and the cost would be miniscule compared to what LA’s end up spending on Care proceedings, foster care, recruiting and approving adopters, the cost of therapy to children and adopters and all the other services that support the care system when children are removed from birth families. In the long term this would help break the cycle that these families are in by providing them with a template of good parenting that they have not experienced. In these times of austerity it would make economic sense. Above all it would prevent the life long trauma children suffer when their birth family ties are severed. Its a model that needs to be given serious consideration!
sw111 October 17, 2018 at 11:25 am #
That is a brilliant idea.
However, I suspect how far this idea would be embraced by local authority when risk averse factors underpin our policy and practice.
June Thoburn October 18, 2018 at 1:20 pm #
Really important account of a service that can make all the difference to some parents and children.
Respite care for birth families living in stressful circumstances (and not just for disabled children) was a part of the Children Act 1989 Sec 20 ‘series of short term placements’. It was positively evaluated by Jane Aldgate and Marie Bradley and some areas (eg Essex I think) set it up as a specialist service. But like other key aspects of family support for children assessed as in need of additional services, this has become very rare. Foster care placements with the same family should be brought back as part of family support service- and also for some children returning from care to parents or kinship carers. Foster carers should be recruited and trained to work collaboratively with birth families (as used to be the case and including facilitating birth family contact as well as, when appropriate, helping children move on to new (adoptive) families. And there is a need for some longer term ‘shared care’ foster families.
Maria October 18, 2018 at 1:32 pm #
This is a fantastic & really positive article with some brilliant ideas! Unfortunately & sadly though it will fall on deaf ears with LA’s as they already have their set agendas! More needs to be done to support young vulnerable mother’s who have often been in care themselves, I strongly believe to meet a child’s needs, you need to meet the mother’s needs too!
adarynefoedd October 18, 2018 at 1:45 pm #
Not new though and some progressive LAs are still doing it as part of comprehensive family support packages but also need Family Centres, family therapy, counselling, financial help etc etc does not stand on its own plus good preventatively oriented SWs who are able to use community resources effectively. There was also a task oriented version in the 80s and 90s to address specific behavioural problems. Some ‘remove and think about later’ practitioners and managers do see respite fostering as reinforcing poor parenting, so it is not just a resource issue.
Suziie October 18, 2018 at 3:30 pm #
Great idea in theory. However, there is limited appropriate respite provision in place currently for families with disabled children, foster and adoptive families, much would be needed to source this additional provision.
Foster Mum October 19, 2018 at 10:53 pm #
I do agree that this should be available. However, respite care for foster and adoptive families in my LA has been cut to nothing. It is no longer available, and the LA are no longer recruiting respite foster carers. It did used to be available to birth families too, but I suspect that this service has also been cut. I often hear that if only all the support being given to foster/adoptive families was being given to birth families then removals would reduce, but I don’t see all that support from my LA as either a foster carer or an adoptive parent. In all my years of fostering, I have never had respite available for me to have a “weekend off” or to “go on holiday”.
Daniel October 21, 2018 at 9:14 pm #
This article and all the comments so far make refreshing reading. The idea that social workers might assist a family and keep them together seems to be increasingly alien to the profession. A move in the suggested direction (along with a similar change in philosophy throughout social work practice) would surely be in the best interest of the child, the parents, siblings and extended family. Additionally, without the need for extended court cases etc. there would be a significant reduction in cost to the LAs; and ultimately everything comes down to cost. However, to change the system would, I think, require much positive action from some very determined reformers.
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IT is biggest area of waste in the public sector
MPs used the House of Commons debate on the work of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to try to get to grips with the...
MPs used the House of Commons debate on the work of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to try to get to grips with the continuing failure of many Whitehall IT projects.
Howard Flight, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said IT was the "area we are most failing to address and which wastes the most in the public sector".
He said, "There is much to learn from how Italy has achieved far greater efficiency in the implementation of public sector IT investment and [has learned] from some of the disciplines that have been used in the US."
Edward Leigh, chairman of the PAC, said, "New ministers arrive on the scene and load new policies and new burdens onto IT systems that simply cannot cope with them. Frankly, those lessons have to be learnt and the government has to be more conservative and more cautious in dealing with IT in the future."
Richard Allan, a Liberal Democrat member of the PAC, was concerned that project failures and subsequent criticism could stifle innovation.
He asked fellow PAC member Richard Bacon, "Do you share my fear that, in looking at all the IT failures, we might develop a very risk-averse culture whereby public authorities that need new IT systems - the police are a classic example - do not invest in them because they are scared of what will happen down the line? That, too, would be very retrograde." Bacon agreed but said public sector IT was not risk-averse.
There was an exchange of views over whether the Office of Government Commerce's Gateway reviews should be published.
Treasury minister Ruth Kelly said, "I have been involved in Gateway reviews on a number of occasions, and I can say that the OGC reviews are conducted on a confidential basisÉ If we took confidentiality away from the discussions we would not have such open and honest negotiations. Lessons would not be learnt to the same extent and the value added by the process could be significantly diminished."
To this Bacon replied, "Does the financial secretary not agree that the evidence is overwhelming that lessons are not being learnt, as the history of the past 20 years has shown? How can the situation be acceptable if suppliers do not even know that a Gateway review is taking place? What is the Treasury afraid of?"
Kelly said, "This is a question of learning from experience, and I can assure you that such lessons are being taken on board."
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Deprescribing antipsychotics for behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia and insomnia
Evidence-based clinical practice guideline
Lise M. Bjerre, Barbara Farrell, Matthew Hogel, Lyla Graham, Geneviève Lemay, Lisa McCarthy, Lalitha Raman-Wilms, Carlos Rojas-Fernandez, Samir Sinha, Wade Thompson, Vivian Welch and Andrew Wiens
Lise M. Bjerre
Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa in Ontario, Scientist in the C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre of the Bruyère Research Institute, and Adjunct Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES).
For correspondence: lbjerre@bruyere.org
Barbara Farrell
Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, and Scientist at the Bruyère Research Institute at the University of Ottawa.
Matthew Hogel
Research Associate at the Bruyère Research Institute at the time of guideline development.
Lyla Graham
Medical Director of St Patrick’s Home of Ottawa and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa.
Geneviève Lemay
Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, Chief of Geriatric Services at Hôpital Montfort, and a staff geriatrician with the Ottawa Hospital Division of Geriatrics.
Lisa McCarthy
Scientist at the Women’s College Research Institute of Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, Ont, and Assistant Professor with the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto.
Lalitha Raman-Wilms
Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Professional Programs in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto at the time of guideline development.
Carlos Rojas-Fernandez
Schlegel Research Chair in Geriatric Pharmacotherapy at the Schlegel-UW Research Institute on Ageing and the School of Pharmacy at the University of Waterloo at the time of guideline development.
Samir Sinha
Director of Geriatrics at Mount Sinai Hospital and the University Health Network hospitals in Toronto, Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, and Assistant Professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD.
Wade Thompson
Master’s student in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa at the time of guideline development.
Vivian Welch
Director of the Methods Centre at the Bruyère Research Institute and Assistant Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa at the time of guideline development.
Andrew Wiens
Associate Professor and Head of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Ottawa.
Objective To develop an evidence-based guideline to help clinicians make decisions about when and how to safely taper and stop antipsychotics; to focus on the highest level of evidence available and seek input from primary care professionals in the guideline development, review, and endorsement processes.
Methods The overall team comprised 9 clinicians (1 family physician, 1 family physician specializing in long-term care, 1 geriatric psychiatrist, 2 geriatricians, 4 pharmacists) and a methodologist; members disclosed conflicts of interest. For guideline development, a systematic process was used, including the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) approach. Evidence was generated from a Cochrane systematic review of antipsychotic deprescribing trials for the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia, and a systematic review was conducted to assess the evidence behind the benefits of using antipsychotics for insomnia. A review of reviews of the harms of continued antipsychotic use was performed, as well as narrative syntheses of patient preferences and resource implications. This evidence and GRADE quality-of-evidence ratings were used to generate recommendations. The team refined guideline content and recommendation wording through consensus and synthesized clinical considerations to address common front-line clinician questions. The draft guideline was distributed to clinicians and stakeholders for review and revisions were made at each stage.
Recommendations We recommend deprescribing antipsychotics for adults with behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia treated for at least 3 months (symptoms stabilized or no response to an adequate trial) and for adults with primary insomnia treated for any duration or secondary insomnia in which underlying comorbidities are managed. A decision-support algorithm was developed to accompany the guideline.
Conclusion Antipsychotics are associated with harms and can be safely tapered. Patients and caregivers might be more amenable to deprescribing if they understand the rationale (potential for harm), are involved in developing the tapering plan, and are offered behavioural advice or management. This guideline provides recommendations for making decisions about when and how to reduce the dose of or stop antipsychotics. Recommendations are meant to assist with, not dictate, decision making in conjunction with patients and families.
Deprescribing is the planned and supervised process of dose reduction or stopping of medication that might be causing harm or that might no longer be providing benefit.1 The goal of deprescribing is to reduce medication burden and harm while maintaining or improving quality of life. However, deprescribing can be difficult, especially when medications do not appear to be causing overt harm.2 In an effort to provide evidence-based recommendations and tools to aid clinicians in reducing or stopping medications that might no longer be needed or that might be causing harm, we initiated the Deprescribing Guidelines in the Elderly project (www.open-pharmacy-research.ca/research-projects/emerging-services/deprescribing-guidelines).
In a national modified Delphi consensus process, antipsychotics were selected as a high priority for deprescribing guideline development owing to their risk of harm and high prevalence of use.3
Antipsychotics are commonly used in the elderly, particularly in those residing in long-term care (LTC) facilities, to control certain behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) including delusions, hallucinations, aggression, and agitation when there is potential for harm to the patient or others.4 A 2014 meta-analysis demonstrated statistically significant improvements in symptoms of BPSD as measured using 5 different scales for patients taking atypical antipsychotics compared with placebo.5 However, antipsychotic treatment initiated for BPSD is often continued chronically, despite a lack of documented ongoing indications for many patients. Because behavioural features of dementia change over time as the disease progresses,6 it is important to reassess the continued need for treatment.
In addition to their use for treating BPSD, atypical antipsychotics such as quetiapine are increasingly being used for their sedating properties in the treatment of insomnia. Prescriptions of quetiapine issued in Canada for sleep disturbances increased 10-fold in the 7-year period between 2005 and 2012.7
Antipsychotics have been associated with numerous side effects, the most severe of which are increased overall risk of death and increased risk of cerebrovascular adverse events.4 Atypical antipsychotics can cause weight gain and precipitate or worsen diabetes.8 While the absolute risk of some of these events is small, older people are often at higher risk of these outcomes. When antipsychotics are inappropriately prescribed or used for extended periods, they might contribute to polypharmacy, with its attendant risks of nonadherence, prescribing cascades, adverse reactions, medication errors, drug interactions, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations.9–12
Overuse of antipsychotics in the elderly has been a growing concern.13 A total of $75 million was spent on antipsychotic prescriptions dispensed to elderly patients in Canada in the second quarter of 2014, representing an increase in prescriptions of 32% in a 4-year span.13 In terms of volume, 22.4% of residents in Canadian LTC homes in 2014 were taking antipsychotics chronically.14
Our primary target audience includes Canadian primary care and LTC physicians, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, and specialists who care for patients taking antipsychotics.
Our target patient population includes elderly patients taking antipsychotics for the purpose of treating BPSD, for treating primary insomnia, or for treating secondary insomnia when the underlying comorbidities are managed. This guideline does not apply to those taking antipsychotics for the treatment of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, acute delirium, Tourette syndrome or tic disorders, autism, mental retardation or developmental delay, obsessive-compulsive disorder, alcoholism, cocaine abuse, or Parkinson disease psychosis; to those taking them as an adjunct for the treatment of depression; or if psychosis in patients with dementia has been treated for less than 3 months’ duration.
We used a comprehensive checklist for a successful guideline enterprise to develop the methods for the antipsychotic deprescribing guideline.15,16
The Guideline Development Team (GDT) comprised 9 clinicians (4 pharmacists [B.F., L.M., L.R.W., C.R.F.], 2 geriatricians [G.L., S.S.], 1 family physician [L.M.B.], 1 geriatric psychiatrist [A.W.], and 1 family physician specializing in LTC [L.G.]) and a Cochrane methodologist (V.W.). Expertise, role descriptions, and conflict of interest statements are available at CFPlus.* We selected a guideline chair (L.M.B.) based on expertise in pharmacoepidemiology and in primary care clinical medicine. A Canadian Library of Family Medicine librarian conducted searches in collaboration with 1 staff member (M.H.).
We used the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) system for guideline development (Box 1).17–20 We generated 2 clinical management questions using the PICO (population, intervention, comparison, outcome) approach: What are the effects (harms and benefits) associated with deprescribing compared with continuation of antipsychotic medication for the treatment of BPSD in adults, and what are the benefits and harms associated with the treatment of insomnia with atypical antipsychotics?
Notes on the GRADE framework for guideline development
This guideline was developed in accordance with the methods proposed by the GRADE Working Group17 and was informed by a subset of data from an existing systematic review18 and by a new systematic review19,20:
We focused our review and recommendations on outcomes important to patients, such as harms or benefits resulting from deprescribing antipsychotic medication. Outcomes were proposed by the team lead and guideline coordinator and were reviewed and approved by the Guideline Development Team
Ratings in the evidence profile tables included high, moderate, low, or very low and depended on our confidence in the estimates of effect. Because only randomized controlled trials were used, they started with a high quality rating, but could be rated down by limitations in any of 4 domains: risk of bias, inconsistency, indirectness, and imprecision. Other areas that were considered in formulating a final rating included harms, patient values and preferences, and resource use
The GRADE Working Group outlines appropriate wording for recommendations depending on the rating of strength and confidence in the evidence. A strong recommendation with implications for patients (phrased as “we recommend ...”) implies that all patients in the given situation would want the recommended course of action, and only a small proportion would not. A weak recommendation (phrased as “we suggest ...”) implies that most patients would wish to follow the recommendation, but some patients would not. Clinicians must help patients and caregivers make treatment decisions consistent with patients’ values and preferences. Implications for clinicians are similar such that a strong recommendation implies all or most patients should receive the intervention. A weak recommendation should prompt a clinician to recognize that different choices will be appropriate for individual patients
GRADE—Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation.
The first question was addressed using the results of the 2013 Cochrane review “Withdrawal versus continuation of chronic antipsychotic drugs for behavioural and psychological symptoms in older people with dementia.”18 We communicated with the Managing Editor for the Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement Group, who updated the search for this review in March of 2015, and concluded that no additional studies that met their inclusion criteria had been published since the 2013 review. Patient-important outcomes included the ability to successfully withdraw medication, a change in BPSD, the presence or absence of withdrawal symptoms, a change in the adverse effects of antipsychotics, a change in quality of life, and mortality. The results from individual studies for the outcomes of interest could not be pooled; thus, we produced a narrative summary of findings, which can be found at CFPlus.*
As there were no studies examining the deprescribing of antipsychotics used for the treatment of insomnia, we decided to focus on finding evidence for the effectiveness of such treatment. To answer our second PICO question, we conducted a systematic review to study the efficacy of antipsychotics for insomnia, focusing on patient-important outcomes such as total sleep time, latency to sleep, and sleep satisfaction.19,20
The GDT chair drafted recommendations based on the summaries of evidence, taking into account literature on patient preferences about antipsychotic use, a review of reviews of harms of continuing antipsychotic use, and resource implications (in terms of antipsychotic cost and costs potentially associated with stopping antipsychotics). Members reviewed the draft recommendations and discussed them in person and via teleconference. Voting on the recommendations was subsequently conducted anonymously by e-mail. Unanimous agreement was sought; 80% agreement (ie, 8 of the 10 GDT members) was considered the cutoff for consensus. All 10 members of the GDT agreed with the recommendations.
The recommendations are outlined in Box 2. The algorithm developed for this guideline is provided in Figure 1. The GRADE evidence tables used to evaluate the evidence for each patient-important outcome can be found at CFPlus.* The rationale for the recommendations is outlined in Table 1.18 The recommendations apply to adults who have been prescribed antipsychotics for insomnia or for BPSD, provided the symptoms of the latter are controlled or the patient is unresponsive to a reasonable trial of therapy. The evidence base for deprescribing relates mainly to patients with BPSD but can be extrapolated to those with insomnia or when short-term use is generally adequate (eg, transient delirium or psychosis unrelated to BPSD). The recommendations do not apply to those who have been prescribed antipsychotics for the treatment of disorders such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, acute delirium, Tourette syndrome or tic disorders, autism, mental retardation or developmental delay, obsessive-compulsive disorder, alcoholism, cocaine abuse, or Parkinson disease psychosis; or as an adjunct in the treatment of depression; or for the treatment of delusions and hallucinations in patients with dementia.
Recommendations for deprescribing antipsychotics
For adults with BPSD treated for at least 3 mo (symptoms stabilized or no response to adequate trial), we recommend the following:
Taper and stop antipsychotics slowly in collaboration with the patient and caregivers: eg, 25%–50% dose reduction every 1–2 wk (strong recommendation, moderate-quality evidence)
For adults with primary insomnia treated for any duration or secondary insomnia in which underlying comorbidities are managed, we recommend the following:
Stop antipsychotics; tapering is not needed (good practice recommendation)
BPSD—behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.
Evidence to recommendations table for deprescribing APs: Does deprescribing (dose reduction or frank discontinuation) APs compared with continuous AP use result in benefits or harms for adults > 18 y (excluding those prescribed APs for treatment of psychosis) in primary care and LTC settings?
For patients stabilized for a minimum of 3 months on antipsychotic treatment for BPSD, gradual withdrawal of antipsychotics does not lead to worsening symptoms compared with those who continue taking antipsychotics. No consistent changes in cognition, mortality, or quality of life were observed, although 1 study found a significant decrease in mortality among those who discontinued antipsychotic treatment21; a second small study found worsening of sleep efficiency in those who had had antipsychotics withdrawn.22 Table 1 outlines the evidence to recommendations considerations across all decision domains for deprescribing of antipsychotics in BPSD (quality of evidence, balance of benefits and harms, patient values and preferences, and resource implications).18 With regard to treatment of insomnia, only 1 small study (13 patients) was found; no results were statistically significant for benefit.23
Based on the lack of evidence of the harm of deprescribing and the evidence for the benefit of reducing inappropriate antipsychotic use in terms of avoidance of the drug-related harms, the high societal cost of inappropriate antipsychotic use, the potential net cost benefit of switching to behavioural therapy, and the feasibility of an antipsychotic deprescribing intervention, we rated the recommendation to reduce or stop antipsychotic use for the treatment of BPSD as strong. Based on the lack of evidence for the efficacy of antipsychotics for treating insomnia, and the potential for harm and high cost, we rated the recommendation to eliminate antipsychotic use for the treatment of insomnia as strong.
Considerations of harms include the potential of well-known side effects (drowsiness, headache, extrapyramidal symptoms, weight gain, etc) and a heightened awareness of more serious adverse events, including a 1.5- to 2.0-fold increased risk of death and a 2.0-fold increased risk of cerebrovascular events.24 While the absolute risks of these serious adverse events are low and have not been confirmed in recent studies, they are serious enough to have prompted Health Canada to issue a warning. The ranges of frequency ratios of harms are available at CFPlus.*
With regard to values and preferences, some family members and front-line caregivers believe that the benefits of using antipsychotics for BPSD, including reducing caregiver burden, outweigh the risks of side effects despite an understanding of and concern about associated negative outcomes. However, others think those taking antipsychotics have a lower quality of life, and some will remove individuals from residential settings to reduce the risk that they will be prescribed antipsychotics. Providers, caregivers, and family members are aware of the difficulties in reducing antipsychotic use, including inadequate staffing, education, and resources for nonpharmacologic approaches. As treatment decisions are usually influenced by family expectations, attempts to withdraw antipsychotics should include their input. Evidence reviews and related references are available at CFPlus.*
In Canada, antipsychotic costs for seniors during the second quarter of 2014 reached $75 million.13 The rate of prescribing is 14 times higher in LTC facilities than in the community setting.13 Cost-effectiveness studies examining treatment options for BPSD show that behavioural interventions, such as cognitive stimulation therapy, are projected to reduce costs, compared with antipsychotic use, from avoided falls and strokes and when quality-of-life improvements were considered.25 Antipsychotic use for treating BPSD has been shown to have a small but statistically significant effect on reducing caregiver burden, similar to the effects of support groups and psycho-educational interventions; however, the cost implications vary.26,27 Evidence reviews and related references can be found at CFPlus.*
Combined with clinical judgment and an individualized approach to care, this guideline is intended to support clinicians and patients in successfully deprescribing antipsychotics, ultimately striving for better patient care.
The following questions were articulated by the GDT as being important to consider when making decisions about the steps for deprescribing antipsychotics.
Is there an indication and are there risk factors that warrant continued use?
An important first step is to clarify when the antipsychotic was started and for what reason. This might require a chart review and discussion with the patient, caregivers, other prescribers (often other specialists), or pharmacist. If patients are using antipsychotics for insomnia, deprescribing is compelling, as there are no data to support antipsychotic use for this specific indication. Examples of patients in whom antipsychotics should be continued include those meeting exclusion criteria (eg, taking antipsychotics for psychosis), patients for whom repeated attempts have been made to deprescribe without success, and, in some cases, patients who recently started taking antipsychotics for BPSD and in whom it is too early to assess benefits and harms.
Guidelines such as those from the Fourth Canadian Consensus Conference on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia suggest that risperidone, olanzapine, and aripiprazole should be considered for patients with severe agitation, aggression, and psychosis associated with dementia when there is risk of harm to the patient or others.28 However, research has demonstrated that antipsychotic medications have little to no effect on many BPSDs, such as wandering, hiding, hoarding, repetitive activities, vocally disruptive behaviour, and inappropriate dressing, and thus their use for such indications is inappropriate.29
How should tapering be approached?
Our literature review of antipsychotic deprescribing in BPSD did not identify trials that compared tapering approaches to minimize symptom recurrence. Of the studies included in the Cochrane review18 evaluating withdrawal of antipsychotics for BPSD, 7 studies used a taper strategy involving a 50% reduction in dosage per week over a period varying from 1 to 3 weeks, while 3 studies employed abrupt discontinuation. Clinicians at the LTC sites where this deprescribing guideline was piloted were not comfortable with what was perceived as rapid tapering in the Cochrane review; they preferred slower tapering, as reflected in Figure 1. However, they were comfortable with abrupt cessation when low-dose antipsychotics had been prescribed for insomnia. Tapering strategies are outlined in Box 3.30
In all cases, regardless of the severity of BPSD or the use for insomnia, patient and caregiver involvement in the decision to deprescribe antipsychotics is essential. Good communication should include the rationale (eg, risk of side effects) and consideration of values and preferences, and should ensure understanding and agreement with the proposed changes (“buy-in”), as well as involvement in making the deprescribing and monitoring plans.31
What monitoring needs to be done and how often?
It is important to clarify with the patient, family, and health care staff what specific symptoms are being treated, what the desired response to treatment is, and the need to monitor the actual response following antipsychotic initiation and, likewise, discontinuation. This might require a retrospective chart review with the aim of documenting changes in the frequency or severity of target symptoms. It might be of value to use an objective measure such as the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) subscales or the behavioural subscales of the Resident Assessment Instrument–Minimum Data Set tool to quantify the frequency and severity of the symptoms at baseline and follow these parameters through time. Response can be defined as a decrease of 50% in the 3 target symptoms (psychosis, agitation, aggression).32 Physicians and caregivers should also monitor for expected benefits of deprescribing (such as reduced falls and improved cognition, alertness, function, extrapyramidal symptoms, and gait). Close monitoring (eg, every 1 to 2 weeks) is essential during the tapering process, and the use of objective measures can be helpful in identifying any behavioural recurrence or withdrawal symptoms, as well as the success of deprescribing.
Suggested tapering strategies
For those prescribed antipsychotics for the treatment of BPSD, we recommend considering the following:
Reduce to 75%, 50%, and 25% of the original dose on a biweekly basis before stopping
Alternatively, reduce the previous dose by approximately 50% every week down to 25% of the initial dose, then stop
In addition we recommend the following:
For patients with severe baseline BPSD symptoms or long-standing use of antipsychotics, we recommend slower tapering, close monitoring for withdrawal symptoms, and establishing a clear intervention plan emphasizing the use of nonpharmacologic approaches first, in the event of increased severity or recurrence of neuropsychiatric symptoms
Furthermore, tapering might need to be individualized depending on the starting dose, available dosage forms, and how tapering is tolerated
For those prescribed antipsychotics for the treatment of insomnia, we recommend the following:
If the patient has been taking an antipsychotic for a short period of time (eg, < 6 wk), stop antipsychotic use immediately. If the patient has been taking the antipsychotic for a longer period of time, consider tapering the dose first before stopping. If there are concerns on the part of either the patient or the prescriber about possible side effects of immediate discontinuation, tapering can also be considered
All patients should be counseled about nonpharmacologic approaches to sleep (so-called sleep hygiene)30
Predictors of successful discontinuation of therapy include lower baseline severity of neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPI score < 15)33,34 and lower dosage of antipsychotic to achieve symptom control.22,35 Those receiving a higher dosage and those with higher NPI scores or higher global severity (as NPI or other tools are not commonly used) might require closer monitoring. Monitoring tools such as the Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory, which is brief and easy to apply, might be more amenable to use for patients in LTC settings, where health care professionals are present.36,37 In the outpatient setting, family and caregiver involvement is key to monitoring behavioural recurrence, with close medical follow-up.
How should symptoms be managed?
Nonpharmacologic approaches for insomnia (minimizing caffeine or alcohol that can worsen insomnia, or behavioural approaches) or other pharmacologic alternatives as suggested in contemporary sleep guidelines30,38,39 should be considered, keeping in mind that such guidelines are not specific to the geriatric population. Some of the recommended alternatives might not be appropriate for the elderly (eg, benzodiazepines, amitriptyline, zopiclone).40
Nonpharmacologic approaches should be considered before pharmacologic approaches for management of BPSD when the situation is not urgent or when symptoms are not severe.29 These approaches could include social contact interventions, sensory or relaxation interventions (eg, music therapy, aromatherapy), structured activities, or behavioural therapy.29
In patients whose BPSD recurs with discontinuation, addressing pain might be of value, as it is a common underlying cause of agitation in dementia; a recent randomized controlled trial in 352 patients reported a 17% improvement in agitation after stepped treatment with analgesics, similar to the benefit seen with antipsychotics.41 Further search for triggers and exacerbating factors including other diseases (eg, common viral illnesses, other infections), environmental causes (eg, new routine, relocation), physical problems (eg, constipation), other medications, and depression might also be of value.42 Such treatment is not a direct alternative to antipsychotics, but plays an important part in managing and preventing agitation and might reduce the need to restart antipsychotics. Realistically, some patients will not be successful with discontinuation; restarting an antipsychotic43 (eg, risperidone, olanzapine, aripiprazole)44 at the lowest dose possible can be done with retrial of discontinuation after 3 months.45
Clinical and stakeholder review
External clinical review of the guideline was conducted by a pharmacist, a geriatrician, a family physician, and a nurse using the AGREE II (Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation) Global Rating Scale tool.46 Relevant stakeholder organizations (eg, family practice, pharmacy, psychology, LTC) were invited to similarly review and endorse the guidelines (Box 4). Modifications were made to the original guideline draft to address reviewer comments.
How this deprescribing guideline relates to other clinical practice guidelines for antipsychotics
Existing clinical practice guidelines,43,47 including Canadian guidelines,29,44 as well as best-practice recommendations for older adults,40,48 consistently support the use of antipsychotics for BPSD only when patients are at risk of harming themselves or pose a considerable threat to others. In a 2012 systematic appraisal of guidelines for BPSD, Azermai et al reported that only 2 of the 15 evaluated guidelines addressed discontinuation of antipsychotics.49 Both recommended deprescribing after 3 to 6 months of behavioural stability.49 More recent guidelines44,47 or evidence-based updates to guidelines acknowledge that antipsychotics prescribed for the treatment of BPSD can be safely withdrawn in many patients, and discontinuation should be attempted when symptoms are stabilized.43 There is no information in current guidelines to assist physicians with deprescribing approaches (eg, tapering or abrupt cessation).
An antipsychotic deprescribing guideline supplements current treatment guidelines in offering clinicians recommendations and clinical considerations to support the deprescribing of antipsychotics after BPSD has been stabilized or following an appropriate trial without response to treatment.
Evidence-based and best-practice guidelines for treatment of insomnia recommend against using antipsychotics in all age groups, except when patients have comorbid insomnia related to conditions that are amenable to treatment with antipsychotics (eg, severe anxiety or bipolar disorder).38,39,48,50
Guideline endorsements
This evidence-based clinical practice guideline for antipsychotics has been endorsed by the following groups:
Canadian Pharmacists Association
Canadian Society of Consultant Pharmacists
Gaps in knowledge
Despite the widespread use of antipsychotics, numerous gaps in knowledge exist that could alter the strength of the recommendations in this guideline.
What are patients’ values and preferences regarding the use or deprescribing of antipsychotics for treating BPSD? Although there might be difficulties in obtaining reliable and usable data from this population, it is nonetheless a valuable perspective that should be included in weighing the benefits against the harms of using antipsychotics for BPSD. Such information would inform prescriber-patient-family discussions about BPSD treatment and deprescribing.
What are the indirect costs or cost savings associated with deprescribing antipsychotics for the treatment of BPSD? These indirect costs could result from changed caregiver requirements—either increased, if symptoms worsen, or decreased, if patients become more independent with activities of daily living—when a patient’s antipsychotic medication is reduced or discontinued.
In the case of the use of antipsychotics for treating insomnia, several additional pieces of evidence would have proven beneficial in weighing the benefits and harms of deprescribing. Are antipsychotics effective for treating insomnia? Only 1 study involving 13 participants was identified in the literature.23 Given that it showed modest but not statistically significant improvements in all 3 sleep outcomes, additional studies could strengthen the evidence for or against using antipsychotics for this purpose. What are the effects of deprescribing antipsychotics prescribed for the treatment of insomnia? What is the adverse effect profile of antipsychotics prescribed for the treatment of insomnia? Antipsychotics are generally taken at a lower dose for the treatment of insomnia than for other indications; however, the harms literature generally reports on antipsychotics used at higher doses. The adverse effect profile might not be the same in the case of insomnia.
What is the most effective strategy for tapering or stopping antipsychotics? Direct comparison of different deprescribing approaches would be helpful to determine if there is a best approach. This evidence would improve prescriber confidence in taking a patient off an antipsychotic.
Last, and falling outside the recommendations of this guideline, family physicians often see patients prescribed antipsychotics by psychiatrists for reasons other than BPSD or insomnia. Trials examining the outcomes of deprescribing antipsychotics for those with other conditions would prove beneficial to health care professionals weighing the harms and benefits of deprescribing in patients who might also be at higher risk of the adverse effects of continued antipsychotic treatment.
The deprescribing team will endeavour to provide routine guideline updates as new evidence emerges that could change the recommendations. Prospective evaluation of the effects of the adoption of this and other deprescribing guidelines will be part of the research strategy in the future.
Overuse of medication is acknowledged to be a key contributor to polypharmacy, with attendant negative effects on health. Antipsychotics are increasingly used for indications for which they are not licensed or for which they have not been studied, such as BPSD and insomnia, yet their potential for harm with long-term use is well established. A systematic review identified that antipsychotics can be safely deprescribed in many patients with BPSD.18 Our systematic review of antipsychotic use in insomnia19,20 did not identify any studies of discontinuation that could inform our present guideline; however, we were also unable to find evidence supporting the use of antipsychotics for treating insomnia in the first place, suggesting that patients receiving antipsychotics for insomnia should have them stopped. When deprescribing antipsychotics, patient, family member, and caregiver involvement is crucial. The evidence, tapering strategies, and associated algorithm presented in this current guideline are intended to support this process.
This evidence-based guideline is one of a series of guidelines aimed at helping clinicians make decisions about when and how to safely stop medications. Implementation of such guidelines will encourage clinicians to carefully evaluate the ongoing use of medications and potentially reduce the negative effects of polypharmacy in the future.
For their clinical review of the guideline and invaluable feedback, we thank Allison Bell, a pharmacist with the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority in Manitoba; Dr David Strang, a geriatrician with the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority; Dr John Crosby, a family physician practising in Cambridge, Ont; and Linda Hunter, former Chief Nursing Officer at Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre in Ottawa, Ont.
▸ Antipsychotics are frequently used to control behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) and for the treatment of insomnia.
▸ Antipsychotics have the potential for considerable harm, including an increased overall risk of death, cerebrovascular adverse events, extrapyramidal symptoms, gait disturbances and falls, somnolence, edema, urinary tract infections, weight gain, and diabetes; the risk of harm is higher with prolonged use and in the elderly.
▸ A systematic review of antipsychotic deprescribing (dose reduction or discontinuation) in patients taking them to control BPSD failed to demonstrate negative outcomes resulting from deprescribing.
▸ The evidence in support of the effectiveness of atypical antipsychotics for insomnia is poor and of low quality.
▸ This guideline recommends deprescribing antipsychotics in elderly patients taking them for insomnia and in adults who have had an adequate trial for BPSD (ie, behaviour stabilized for 3 months or unresponsive to treatment).
↵* Descriptions of contributors’ expertise, roles, and conflicts of interest; the narrative summary of findings and related references; the GRADE evidence tables; the ranges of frequency ratios of harms; and an easy-to-print version of the algorithm are available at www.cfp.ca. Go to the full text of the article online and click on the CFPlus tab.
All authors made substantial contributions to the conception and design of the guideline; the acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of data; and drafting the article, revising it critically for important intellectual content, and approving the final version.
Dr Farrell received research funding to develop this guideline; received financial payments from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Commonwealth Fund for a deprescribing guidelines summary; and from the Ontario Long Term Care Physicians Association, the Ontario Pharmacists Association, and the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists for speaking engagements. Dr Bjerre received a financial payment from the Ontario Long Term Care Physicians association for a speaking engagement. None of the other authors has any competing interests to declare.
La traduction en français de cet article se trouve à www.cfp.ca dans la table des matières du numéro de janvier 2018 à la page e1.
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Former Mali Official Charged Over Expletive-Laden Anti-Trump Tweet
A former Malian government official was charged on Thursday for sending embarrassing tweets from the president’s account about the US assassination of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani a judicial source said.
The former spokesperson for President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Tiegoum Maiga, later outed himself on his own Twitter account.
Keita’s official Twitter account had posted on Monday that “no one is around to tell Trump that he committed a fuck-up” by ordering the assassination of Soleimani.
Soleimani was killed on Friday in a US drone strike in Iraq ordered by President Donald Trump, triggering fears of a retaliatory strike and an escalation of conflict in the Middle East.
The Malian presidency account added that Trump “threatens world peace and has made of the US a rogue state”.
The tweets, which have since been deleted, were widely shared and Maiga was arrested.
On Thursday he was charged and “placed in detention for internet fraud and harmful data entry,” his lawyer Moussa Maiga told AFP. A judicial source confirmed the charges.
“What is serious is the use of the presidential (Twitter) account to send a message of this nature which could create problems between our two countries,” a presidential official said.
Maiga, the brother of former Malian Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga, said on Tuesday that he left his job in November but had forgotten he still had access to the president’s account.
The tweets were meant for his personal account and he had “no desire to be a nuisance,” he added.
The US also suffered a PR fiasco on Monday, when it said a draft letter describing steps to move its military out of Iraq had been mistakenly sent out.
Posted on January 10, 2020 January 10, 2020 Author Soonest NathanielCategories AfricaTags Bamako, Iran, Mali, usLeave a comment on Former Mali Official Charged Over Expletive-Laden Anti-Trump Tweet
IS Says It Caused Mali Crash That Killed 13 French Troops
A handout picture taken and released on November 27, 2019 by the SIRPA, the French army press service shows the coffins of the 13 French soldiers who died when two French military helicopters collided in Mali, two days ago displayed prior to a tribute ceremony, on November 27, 2019 in Gao. James WILLIAM / SIRPA / AFP
The Islamic State on Thursday claimed responsibility for provoking a collision of two military helicopters which killed 13 French soldiers in Mali.
Monday’s accident was the heaviest single loss for the French military in nearly four decades. All 13 aboard the two helicopters were killed.
The Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) said its fighters ambushed “a convoy of vehicles carrying Crusader French army elements near Indelimane village, in the Menaka area.
“As the Crusaders attempted to land from one of their helicopters, to descend on the position of the ambush, to support their soldiers, the soldiers of the Caliphate targeted it with medium weapons, forcing it to withdraw,” the statement on the SITE intelligence group website said.
“After staggering in flight, it then collided with another helicopter, killing 13 Crusaders.”
The accident brought to 41 the number of French troops killed in the Sahel region since Paris intervened against jihadists in northern Mali in 2013.
Since then, armed groups affiliated with the Islamic State group, Al-Qaeda and others have advanced into southern Mali as well as into neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger.
Posted on November 28, 2019 Author Rejoice EwodageCategories World NewsTags French troops, IS, MaliLeave a comment on IS Says It Caused Mali Crash That Killed 13 French Troops
Black Boxes From Crashed Helicopters Found In Mali
French Defence Minister Florence Parly (C) walks with France’s chief of the Defence staff general Francois Lecointre (2ndL) as they arrive to take part in a tribute ceremony for the 13 French soldiers who died when two French military helicopters collided in Mali, two days ago are displayed prior to a tribute ceremony, on November 27, 2019, in Gao.
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The black boxes from two French military helicopters that collided in Mali killing 13 soldiers have been found, a French military spokesman said Wednesday.
The crash occurred late Monday during an operation against jihadists in the Liptako region, near the borders with Burkina Faso and Niger. It was the heaviest single loss for the French military in nearly four decades.
“The two black boxes from the helicopters have been recovered, they will be handed over to the relevant authorities to be analysed,” the spokesman, Colonel Frederic Barbry, told BFMTV.
Three helicopters and a squadron of Mirage jets had arrived on Monday to support ground troops pursuing Islamist extremists.
Shortly after troops engaged the insurgents, who fled on motorbikes and in a pickup truck, a Tiger attack helicopter collided with a Cougar military transport helicopter.
All 13 aboard the two aircraft were killed.
French Defence Minister Florence Parly arrived along with top military brass at the Barkhane base in Gao on Wednesday afternoon to pay homage to the dead soldiers ahead of their repatriation to France.
The chief of staff of the French armed forces, General Francois Lecointre, and the army chief of staff, Thierry Burkhard, accompanied Parly on the trip.
Parly will address the soldiers at the base to convey “the nation’s sadness, recognition and determination”, the defence ministry said in a statement.
The minister was greeted by Barkhane Force commander General Pascal Facon and her Malian counterpart, General Dahirou Dembele.
The soldiers’ bodies will be repatriated to France where President Emmanuel Macron will lead commemorations at Invalides military hospital and museum in Paris on Monday.
Barbry said no theory as to the cause of the crash had been ruled out.
The conditions for flying at the time of the crash were “extremely difficult” because it was a moonless night, the spokesman said.
No ‘definitive’ victory possible
Lecointre warned earlier Wednesday against expecting total victory over insurgents roaming an area the size of Western Europe.
“We will never achieve a definitive victory,” he told France Inter radio, while insisting that France’s intervention was “useful, good and necessary”.
“We are producing results but we must be patient and persevere,” he said, adding that a lasting solution to the unrest in the region required “military action but also action on the development front.”
France has 4,500 troops deployed under Operation Barkhane to help local forces hunt jihadists in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger.
It had been hoping that a joint counter-terrorism force set up by the five African countries would gradually take over the operations.
But the G5 Sahel force has been hamstrung by a lack of manpower, funds, training and weaponry.
The UN peacekeeping mission in Mali MINUSMA and regional armies, meanwhile, have also suffered heavy losses in the unrest.
In some of the deadliest incidents, 43 Malian soldiers were killed in an attack in the east of the country in mid-November while Burkina Faso lost 24 troops in an assault on a base near the Malian border in August.
Despite the challenges and the growing hostility towards French troops in Mali and Burkina Faso, both former colonies, Macron’s government is adamant it has no plans to scale back operations.
France has presented the battle against the jihadists operating on Europe’s doorstep as a battle for the security both of Africa and Europe.
Former president Francois Hollande, who took the decision to intervene in Mali in 2013, on Wednesday said he stood by his decision.
“If there had not been the operation which I launched on January 11, 2013, all of Mali would have been occupied by Islamist terrorists, and not just Mali. All of West Africa would have be destabilised,” he said.
Posted on November 27, 2019 November 27, 2019 Author Rejoice EwodageCategories World NewsTags black box, french military, Mali, SoldiersLeave a comment on Black Boxes From Crashed Helicopters Found In Mali
13 Killed In Mali Helicopter Collision
In this file photo taken on March 27, 2019 A French Eurocopter Tiger (Eurocopter EC665 Tigre) helicopter sits at the FAMa (Malian Armed Forces) base during the start of the French Barkhane Force operation in Mali’s Gourma region. Thirteen soldiers from France’s anti-terrorist Barkhane force in Mali were killed after two helicopters collided during an operation in the country’s north, the French presidency said on November 26, 2019. PHOTO: DAPHNÉ BENOIT / AFP
Thirteen soldiers from France’s Barkhane force in Mali were killed when two helicopters collided during an operation against jihadists in the country’s north, the Elysee said on Tuesday.
The accident occurred on Monday evening while the forces were engaging the fighters who have staged a series of deadly strikes in northern Mali in recent weeks, French President Emmanuel Macron’s office said.
“The president hails with the greatest respect the memory of these soldiers… who lost their lives in an operation and died for France in the hard fight against terrorism in the Sahel,” it added in a statement.
Six officers and a master corporal were among the victims in the deadliest accident since France intervened in Mali in 2013 to drive back an intense Islamic insurgency.
The accident brings to 38 the number of French soldiers killed in Mali since the intervention began.
France has around 4,500 troops in the country as part of its Barkhane operation, which is primarily tasked with building up and training local security forces but also participates in operations against the insurgents.
An inquiry has been opened into the cause of the mid-air collision, Defence Minister Florence Parly said in a separate statement.
Defence ministry sources said a Tiger attack helicopter collided with a larger Cougar military transport helicopter.
‘Died for France’
It was the heaviest loss for the French army since the 1983 attack on the Drakkar building in Beirut, in which 58 paratroopers were killed.
The French president “bows in front of the pain of their families and their loved ones and expresses his deepest condolences, and assures them of the unshakeable solidarity of the French nation,” his office said.
Macron also hailed the “courage of all the French soldiers engaged in the Sahel and their determination to continue their mission.”
Mali has sustained a wave of insurgency strikes on army outposts and other targets, with more than 50 killed over just a few days in early November.
Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita warned after the strikes that the country’s stability was at stake, urging people to rally around the country’s besieged armed forces.
It is one of the countries in the Sahel region of Africa that has been caught in the eye of the jihadist storm since 2012, along with Niger, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad.
Posted on November 26, 2019 November 26, 2019 Author Ronke IdowuCategories AfricaTags Helicopter Collision, Mali, Malian Armed ForcesLeave a comment on 13 Killed In Mali Helicopter Collision
24 Soldiers, 17 Insurgents Killed In Clashes In Eastern Mali
A file photo of Malian soldiers. AFP photo.
Twenty-four Malian soldiers and 17 jihadists fighters were killed in clashes in the east of the country, the army said, as security in the West African nation deteriorates further.
Mali and Niger forces were carrying out a joint operation when a patrol was attacked Monday by “terrorists” near the northeastern town of Tabankort, the army said on social media.
According to the military, the total toll was “24 dead, 29 injured and material damage” while 17 of the jihadists were killed and a hundred more suspects captured.
The prisoners are in the hands of Niger soldiers, the statement said.
In an earlier statement, which gave a lower death toll, the army said French and Niger forces took part in a counterattack.
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Monday’s action was another heavy loss for the army, which lost a hundred soldiers in two jihadist attacks in a month in the autumn.
Northern Mali fell into the hands of jihadists in 2012 before the militants were forced out by a French-led military intervention.
Since then, however, the border regions of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have become the theatre of repeated clashes with jihadist fighters.
Mali’s army has been struggling to contain the Islamist insurgency despite help from African neighbours, MINUSMA, the 13,000-strong UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, and former colonial power in the region France.
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe in a visit to neighbouring Senegal on Monday called on all west African states to help tackle jihadist groups operating in the Sahel.
“One thing is certain: jihadist groups will benefit, as soon as they can, from our weaknesses, from our lack of coordination or from our lack of commitment or training,” said Philippe, at the opening of the Dakar International Forum on Peace and Security.
French President Emmanuel Macron has pledged to take decisions “in the coming weeks” on how France can help tackle jihadist violence in the Sahel.
He said progress had been made “on the security situation” and decisions would be announced on revamping the G5 regional cooperation force in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.
France earlier this month also announced their troops had killed a top jihadist leader in Mali, described by the defence ministry as the second most-wanted terrorist in the Sahel.
Moroccan Ali Maychou belonged to the Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM) in Mali, which has claimed responsibility for some of the biggest attacks in the Sahel.
Posted on November 19, 2019 November 19, 2019 Author Akinola AjibolaCategories Headlines, World NewsTags Insurgents, Mali, SoldiersLeave a comment on 24 Soldiers, 17 Insurgents Killed In Clashes In Eastern Mali
Seven Malian Soldiers Die In Clash With Jihadists
A group of soldiers from the Burkina Faso Army patrols a rural area during a joint operation with the French Army in the Soum region along the border with Mali on November 9, 2019.
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Seven Malian soldiers died Monday during fighting with suspected jihadist militants in the tense border region near Niger, the army said on Twitter.
A statement said an army patrol was engaged by “terrorists” near the northeastern town of Tabankort and suffered “seven deaths and 15 injured along with material damage.”
A counterattack was backed by troops from France and Niger, it added.
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Mali’s army has been struggling to contain the Islamist insurgency despite help from France, African neighbours and the United Nations.
Two recent attacks have claimed the lives of about 100 Malian soldiers.
Posted on November 18, 2019 Author Akinkunmi ObakeyeCategories AfricaTags Jihadist, Mali, NigerLeave a comment on Seven Malian Soldiers Die In Clash With Jihadists
The Fulanis: Spotlight On Mali’s Jihadist Insurgency
For centuries, the Fulani people trod the paths of the Sahel with their cattle, largely unnoticed by the rest of the world.
Today, the world’s attention has turned to this ancient herding community as many of its members have been ensnared in a deadly jihadist insurgency spreading from Mali’s restive north to its centre.
In the Mopti region, the Fulani — also called Peuls — are the biggest ethnic group and the most numerous recruits to Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist cells, such as the notorious Katiba Macina.
The group’s Fulani leader Amadou Koufa has called on his “brothers” throughout West Africa to join his holy war against “non-believers”.
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The deep poverty and isolation of the Fulani people have made many vulnerable to the siren call of the jihad — an appeal that today is disseminated at lightning speed on WhatsApp and Facebook.
The herders’ prominent role in the jihadist revolt has ignited long-standing rivalries, based on access to land, with farmer groups.
The conflict has turned a once-peaceful tourist region into a no-go area for visitors, its highways sown with roadside bombs, and swathes of the countryside are littered with abandoned burned-out villages.
Hundreds have been killed and the situation is getting worse by the day — the number of people who have fled their homes in Mopti has quadrupled over the last year to 70,000, according to the UN.
The violence in Mali, in turn, has spread to neighbouring Niger and Burkina Faso, stirring anxiety among the coastal states of West Africa that they could be next in line.
Posted on November 6, 2019 Author Soonest NathanielCategories featuresTags Bamako, Fulani, Mali, Religion, UnrestLeave a comment on The Fulanis: Spotlight On Mali’s Jihadist Insurgency
IED Kills Two Soldiers In Mali
Two Malian soldiers were killed and another six injured when their armoured vehicle hit an improvised explosive device, the army said Sunday.
“A vehicle of the Malian armed forces hit an improvised explosive device” near the central town of Bandiagara, the military said in a tweet.
It was the latest in a string of attacks underscoring the fragility of an area straddling several West African countries which is battling a surge in jihadist violence that has claimed hundreds of lives.
An attack on a military base on Friday left 49 Malian soldiers dead in the eastern Menaka region near the border with Niger.
On Saturday, a French soldier died in the same region after his armoured vehicle struck an improvised explosive device.
The Islamic State group on Saturday claimed responsibility for both attacks.
Posted on November 3, 2019 Author Ignatius IgweCategories AfricaTags Mali, SoldiersLeave a comment on IED Kills Two Soldiers In Mali
IS Claims Responsibility For Deadly Attack On Mali Army
The Islamic State group Saturday claimed responsibility for one of the deadliest attacks in years against Mali’s military, which the army said killed 49 soldiers the previous day.
The strikes underscored the fragility of an area straddling several West African countries battling increasing jihadist violence that has claimed hundreds of lives.
Friday’s assault on a Malian military outpost at Indelimane in the eastern Menaka region near Niger killed 49 soldiers, wounded three and left 20 survivors, the Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) said Saturday.
“Soldiers of the caliphate attacked a military base where elements of the apostate Malian army were stationed in the village of Indelimane,” the IS said in a statement on its social media channels.
On Saturday, French corporal Ronan Pointeau, 24, died after an armoured vehicle in which he was travelling hit an improvised explosive device (IED) near the city of Menaka, a French defence ministry statement said.
The IS late Saturday also claimed responsibility for that, saying its fighters had “detonated an explosive device on a French army convoy in the Indelimane area”.
Pointeau and his colleagues were escorting a convoy between the cities of Gao and Menaka.
“This insidious attack shows the importance and bitterness of the fight against armed terrorist groups” in the border region straddling Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, the French defence ministry said.
French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly said she would be “visiting Mali very soon to hold discussions with Malian authorities.”
President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to Pointeau and expressed solidarity with the French and African troops fighting in the region.
The Malian government initially said 53 people died in what it described as a “terrorist attack” at Indelimane.
An army officer said troops arrived at the outpost around 5:00 pm on Friday and “took back control of our positions.
“The terrorists carried out a surprise attack at lunchtime. Army vehicles were destroyed, others taken away,” he told AFP.
The attacks came a month after two jihadist assaults killed 40 soldiers near the border with Burkina Faso. Several sources have said the real death toll was higher.
MINUSMA, the UN mission in Mali, condemned the raid and said its peacekeepers were helping Malian troops secure the region.
‘We can resist’
“This bloodshed that Mali has been living through cannot go on,” imam Mahamound Dicko, an influential religious leader in Mali, said.
“Do you want us to resign ourselves to this suffering? We can resist,” he added.
Rights activist Alioune Tine, from Mali’s western neighbour Senegal, called for action across Africa to tackle the threat.
“If Africa does not mobilise for Mali and Burkina (Faso), it won’t be spared the bushfire that is quickly catching West Africa’s coastal countries, the next chosen targets” of the jihadists, he said.
The violence has also spilled over into Burkina Faso and Niger where extremists have exploited existing inter-communal strife, leaving hundreds dead.
In Mali, the attacks have spread from the arid north to its centre, an ethnically mixed and explosive region.
The recent assaults are a humiliation for the so-called G5 Sahel force — a much-trumpeted initiative under which five countries created a joint 5,000-man anti-terror force — and for former colonial ruler France, which is helping to bring security to the fragile region.
Northern Mali came under the control of Al-Qaeda linked jihadists after Mali’s army failed to quash a rebellion there in 2012.
A French-led military campaign was launched against the jihadists, pushing them back a year later.
But the jihadists have regrouped and widened their hit-and-run raids and landmine attacks to central and southern Mali.
Posted on November 2, 2019 November 2, 2019 Author Ignatius IgweCategories World NewsTags Army, IS, MaliLeave a comment on IS Claims Responsibility For Deadly Attack On Mali Army
Update: 35 Soldiers Killed On Attack In Mali Military Post
Thirty-five soldiers were killed Friday in a “terrorist attack” on a Mali military post in the northeast of the country, the army said.
“The provisional death toll has risen to 35 deaths,” it said on Facebook late Friday, adding that the situation is “under control”.
An investigation into the attack on the outpost in Indelimane in the Menaka region is ongoing, it said.
The attack came a month after two jihadist assaults killed 40 soldiers near the border with Burkina Faso, one of the deadliest strikes against Mali’s military in recent Islamist militant violence.
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No group immediately claimed responsibility for Friday’s assault.
The Malian government earlier condemned the “terrorist attack,” saying it had left numerous dead or wounded but without giving a precise toll.
It said reinforcements had been rushed to the area to boost security and track down the attackers.
Northern Mali came under the control of Al-Qaeda linked jihadists after Mali’s army failed to quash a rebellion there in 2012. A French-led military campaign was launched against the jihadists, pushing them back a year later.
The violence has also spilt over into Burkina Faso and Niger where militants have exploited existing inter-communal strife.
Posted on November 2, 2019 November 2, 2019 Author Akinkunmi ObakeyeCategories AfricaTags Islamist militant, Mali, Soldiers, Terrorist AttackLeave a comment on Update: 35 Soldiers Killed On Attack In Mali Military Post
15 Soldiers Killed After Attack On Mali Military Post – Army
Fifteen soldiers were killed Friday in a “terrorist attack” on a Mali military post in the northeast of the country, the army said.
The attack on the outpost in Indelimane in the Menaka region left 15 troops dead according to a provisional death toll, the army said on Twitter.
Friday’s attack resulted in “injuries and material damage” to the camp and reinforcements have been dispatched to the Indelimane area, according to the army.
Some Malian soldiers were also declared missing during the attack, a military source told AFP.
No group immediately claimed responsibility.
The violence has also spilled over into Burkina Faso and Niger where militants have exploited existing inter-communal strife.
Posted on November 1, 2019 November 10, 2019 Author Rejoice EwodageCategories AfricaTags Mali, Soldiers, Terrorist AttackLeave a comment on 15 Soldiers Killed After Attack On Mali Military Post – Army
Six Killed As Gunmen Attack Pro-Government Forces In Mali
Six people were killed late Friday when unknown assailants attacked a post held by armed pro-government groups in strife-torn northeastern Mali, the groups said in a statement.
Four more people were missing after the attack in Aguelhok, an alliance of pro-government forces calling itself Platform of the June 2014 Movements said.
The security situation in Mali has been deteriorating steadily with separatists, salafists and jihadists mounting deadly insurrections since 2012.
No military or political solution appears in sight for Mali, despite the deployment of French, African and UN troops in the country.
Northern Mali came under the control of Al-Qaeda linked jihadists after Mali’s army failed to quash a Tuareg rebellion in 2012.
The following year, a French-led military campaign was launched against the jihadists, pushing them back.
But the jihadist regrouped and widened their trademark hit-and-run raids and roadmine attacks to central and southern Mali and from there into Burkina Faso and Niger where they often fan existing inter-communal strife which has left hundreds dead.
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The following information is a summary of the requirements of the Directive.
It is not an area in which we currently offer advice but you may find some useful information and links here.
This directive covers off-road mobile machinery. It covers all spark ignition engines and compression ignitions engines within a defined range. It is intended to cover all engines with mobile applications that are excluded from vehicle approval requirements including garden equipment, generators, welders, construction machinery, industrial trucks, fork lifts and mobile cranes.
To sell machines in a member state, the directive requires the engine to have type approval from that state’s approval authority, which, in the UK, is the Vehicle Certification Agency. This is the responsibility of the engine manufacturer. To gain type approval, engine tests carried out either by the manufacturer or an approved test house must be witnessed by the approval authority and the manufacturer must operate a quality assurance system checked by the approval authority. Furthermore the engine must be marked with the manufacturers name, engine type & family, individual engine identification number and type approval number. The manufacturer must compile a technical file.
There is a mutual recognition system in place for engines that comply under road vehicle or tractor type regulations but not with American emissions legislation. The penalty for failure to comply is up to £5,000, 3 months imprisonment and/or a complete recall and replacement of any faulty products.
The Purpose of this directive is to harmonise the laws of EU member states relating to the emission of gaseous and particulate pollutant from internal combustion engines powering Non-Road Mobile Machinery (NRMM). It harmonises the type approvals of these engines and aims to reduce emissions by progressively tightening the allowable emissions and including more types of machinery. Prior to the introduction of the Directive, there were few regulations governing emissions from machinery. Road vehicles have been tightly controlled for some considerable time.
Engines for off-road mobile machines operating at variable or fixed speed and within a range of 18-560kW (24 - 760hp) for compression ignition (CI) (“diesel”) engines and all cubic capacities of spark ignition (SI) engines.
The directive is intended ultimately to cover almost all engines used for mobile applications which are not subject to vehicle approval requirements. This includes small mobile machinery such as garden equipment, generators and welders, construction machinery, industrial trucks, fork-lifts and mobile cranes. Pony engines fitted to road vehicles are also covered but the scope does not include engines for fixed installations.
Replacement engines must meet the emissions requirements in place at the time the machinery was originally put into service.
Exclusions include:
Engines for ships (intended to be used at sea), aircraft, recreational vehicles, agricultural and forestry tractors (covered by separate regulations) and the armed forces
Engines manufactured before the dates of introduction of the directive
Mobile machinery manufacturers must ensure that they use engines with a type approval from an EC member state's approval authority. These engines bear a type approval number.
Engine manufacturers must make an application for EC type approval to the approval authority in a Member State. In the UK the authority is the Vehicle Certification Agency. The application should be accompanied by a manufacturer's information folder giving all technical information about the engines.
The approval authority will witness the engine tests carried out by the manufacturer or by an approved test house chosen by the manufacturer.
The approval authority must grant type approval to all engine types or engine families which conform to the information folder and which meet the requirements of the Directive.
An approval certificate must be issued for each engine type or family that has been approved.
Any request for amendment or extension of a type approval is to be submitted to the approval authority which carried out the original type approval.
The manufacturer must affix the following markings to each unit manufactured:
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the type approval number
The type approval number is a five-section number with the sections separated by asterisks:
Section 1 starts with 'e' followed by a one or two figure code denoting the EU member state granting the approval.
Section 2 contains the regulation number 2016/1628.
Section 3 contains relevant amending regulation followed by the engine category identification code.
Section 4 is the approval number given by the approval authority.
Section 5 is the number of times the approval has been extended to cover other engines of applications.
The engine manufacturer must operate a quality assurance system approved by the approval authority.
There are mutual recognition provisions for engines approved under road vehicle and tractor type approval regulations. There is no mutual recognition of engines approved under American NRMM emissions legislation, even though the rules and test standards are very similar.
Implementation dates
The Directive has two stages of emissions levels for some types of engine.
Engines produced but not sold by these dates have two years to be sold.
Hand held chainsaws, drills, brush cutters, hedge trimmers, stone saws and SN:3 engines with a horizontal shaft have an extra 3 years from the above dates to comply with stage II.
There are some derogations for SI engines produced in small volumes.
Directive Implemented into UK law by Scope
97/68/EC (S.I.) 1999/1053: The Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Emission of Gaseous and Particulate Pollutants) Regulations 1999 Base directive covers variable speed diesel engines
2001/63/EC (S.I.) 2002/1649: The Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Emission of Gaseous and Particulate Pollutants) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 Amendment to take into account of technical progress in UNECE regulation No.96 on emissions from Agricultural and forestry tractor engines
2002/88/EC (S.I.) 2004/2034: The Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Emission of Gaseous and Particulate Pollutants) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 Amendment to cover small SI engines, constant speed diesel engines, imports of used engines and secondary engines, mounted on road vehicles that are not used as the main propulsion engine
2004/26/ EC (S.I.) 2006/29 : The Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Emission of Gaseous and Particulate Pollutants) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 Amendment to include engines for locomotives and inland waterway vessels and to improve harmonization of standards and means of testing
2010/26/ EC (S.I.) 2011/2134: The Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Emission of Gaseous and Particulate Pollutants) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 Amendment to introduce provisions on NOx control
2011/88/ EU (S.I.) 2013/1687: The Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Emission of Gaseous and Particulate Pollutants) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 Amendment with regard to the provisions for engines placed on the market under the flexibility scheme
2012/46/ EU (S.I.) 2014/1309: The Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Emission of Gaseous and Particulate Pollutants) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 Amendment to improve means of measuring and testing including electronically controlled engines
(EU) 2016/1628
(S.I.) 2018/764: The Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval and Emission of Gaseous and Particulate Pollutants) Regulations 2018 Directly enacted regulation from the European Union
In the UK the maximum penalty for the supply of non-compliant machinery is a £5000 fine.
More importantly, contravening these regulations will constitute an offence under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 which carries more severe penalties such as a three-month prison sentence, an unlimited fine and being forced to recall or replace faulty product - potentially a far more onerous penalty.
The European Commission have a page with some basic information and links to the enforcement authorities in each Member State on their Europa server.
There is also useful information on the website of the UK's enforcement authority, the Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA).
Diesel Progress Magazine has a very useful summary of the requirements for engine exhaust emissions.
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It’s the summer of 1996 and Izzy Buchanan has the news story that is going to make her famous. Twenty years earlier, a psychopath walked onto a campground and started shooting. Before he was taken down by a heroic bystander, he took eleven lives and injured many others in what was the worst mass murder in the state’s history. Izzy, an ambitious and brilliant college journalism student, has made it her goal to find and interview five survivors of the St. Anthony’s Campground shooting. A special trait unifies these five: they are the only witnesses who have never spoken publicly about what happened the day of the massacre. The five include the current governor, a young middle school teacher, a retired maintenance man, a woman who has since left the area, and the killer himself, whose pending execution makes Izzy's assignment urgent. The secrets these witnesses have been keeping will change Izzy's life forever and will challenge the journalistic principles that she holds so dear, possibly forcing her to reveal her own connection to the massacre.
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Eagles fans never needed that trophy after all
My entire life as a Philadelphia Eagles fan, which is indeed my entire life, I have had to endure that annoying question: “How many Lombardi Trophies have the Eagles won?” There are variations, of course. How many Superbowls have they won? How many rings do they have? We get it. The asker has always known the answer. You see, this question has never been a sincere one. It had always been asked by non-Eagles fans who know full-well that the Eagles, until early 2018, had won zero Lombardi Trophies. The question was asked only to end an argument, to bring about embarrassment, or to assert superiority. Regardless of how good a season the Eagles were having, or how badly the other team was doing, the Eagles had simply never won a championship in the Superbowl Era, making them inferior regardless of how they were doing at the time. A full season and one preseason removed from the Eagles’ first Superbowl victory, I can say this in all sincerity: I never needed that trophy they kept asking …
Why the Ten Commandments are for atheists, too
The First Commandment
There is a natural divide between the first three and the last seven commandments. While seven through ten take aim at how people should treat each other, the first three are much more concerned with humanity's relationship with God. Because of this, these are commandments that atheists and agnostics would typically have little interest in. However, after some reflection (even prayer), it becomes clear that these three can help lead anyone, believer or nonbeliever, in a positive direction.
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I, the Lord, am your God… You shall not have other gods besides me. I live in Wilmington, Delaware. About ten years ago, there was a frightening pattern of violence in our city that had been sparked by drug deals and territorial strife. I opened the newspaper one Sunday and read an interview with a terribly depressed woman who had lost several of her relatives to the violence. Her words stun…
The Second Commandment: You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain. "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours." -Eric Idle
Words matter. A man is hanging a picture.His hand slips and his finger shifts in front of the hammer.Instead of hitting the nail, he hits his thumb.“Jesus Christ!” he shouts. He could have said a lot worse.I have actually had this discussion with nonbelievers who see absolutely no reason why they should refrain from using such expressions.Their attitudes usually soften when I point out that such language might offend people.They also usually concede that such expressions should not be used around children. But can we look beyond expressions of anger or surprise?A friend of mine who is a Catholic priest would routinely use expressions with the Lord’s name, explaining that this is a form of prayer.Whatever you say, Father.…
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Platz 1/144 N1J2-J Shiden-Kai (George) Later Version Kit First Look
N1J2-J Shiden-Kai (George) Later Version
Easy build, nice details
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The Kawanishi N1K was designed as a robust floatplane fighter that was more capable than the A6M2-N Rufe (Zero floatplane) and could provide the Japanese Navy with front-line fighter support where runways are not yet available. Designated as the N1K1 Kyofu (Rex), the aircraft started service entry in 1943, but by that time, Japan's forward momentum had been blunted and was being pushed back. Even as the N1K1 was in production, the Kawanishi engineers foresaw the potential of this powerful aircraft if it could be separated from its heavy floats and a land-based variant was developed with conventional landing gear.
Designated N1K1-J Shiden (George), the aircraft had serious potential but also exhibited some latent issues based upon its floatplane heritage. A redesign was begun almost immediately to move the wings from mid-fuselage to low-wing, the fuselage was lengthened for greater stability, and it was designed with roughly 1/3 the parts of the N1K1-J. This new aircraft was the N1K2-J Shiden-Kai and with this aircraft, Japanese Navy pilots had a formidable fighter that could match the F6F Hellcat and the P-51 Mustang. While the aircraft was very successful, it couldn't be produced fast enough to change the outcome of the Pacific air war.
Here is a beautiful little kit. Actually two complete kits in one box. This is Platz Models' N1K2-J in 1/144 scale. Molded in light gray styrene, this kit is presented on two parts trees, plus a single small clear tree containing the canopy. With two kits in the box, there are four trees plus two clears.
Considering the petite size of the model, this kit is rather nicely done. The cockpit detail is limited to the instrument panel, control stick and pilot's seat.
Assembly is quite simply with the fuselage going together around the cockpit parts and the propeller shaft. The wings and horizontal stabilizers go together and complete the basic airframe. The landing gear is petite and the instructions clearly show how to set the angle of the gear to get the correct angled-in appearance
Markings are provided for six examples:
N1K2-J, Prototype, JK2J6, Dec 1944
N1K2-J, 343 NFG, 343-45, 1945
N1K2-J, Factory Test, 5243, 1945
The decal sheet includes a nice set of maintenance stenciling as well as the primary markings. The decals are nicely printed.
This is a nicely engineered kit of the Shinden-Kai and will be a nice addition to the small-scale modelers' flight lines. With two complete kits in the box, you can have two distinctive examples to enjoy for one small price.
For more information about this set and the other releases from Platz Hobby, visit their website at http://www.platz-hobby.com.
My sincere thanks to Platz Hobby for this review sample!
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Carnival cruise line hit with $20 million fine for allegedly dumping trash in ocean
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Carnival Corp. will pay a $20 million fine after Princess Cruises, a subsidiary, was accused of dumping trash into the ocean.
Princess Cruises was already on probation, according to Business Insider, as a result of a 2017 case involving improper waste disposal. In that case, it was alleged oil was being dumped into the ocean.
In this latest case, Carnival is accused of dumping food and plastic into the ocean. It also reportedly kept sloppy records of how waste was being handled.
As part of the settlement, Carnival must make changes to the way it handles waste. If those changes don't happen quickly enough, there reportedly could be additional fines.
In a written statement released to Business Insider, Carnival said: "Carnival Corporation remains committed to environmental excellence and protecting the environment in which we live, work, and travel. Our aspiration is to leave the places we touch even better than when we first arrived."
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NYTimes Blames Aussie Fire Inaction On Warming, Rupert Murdoch
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Climate Change Dispatch / by Clay Waters / 1d
Sydney-based New York Times reporter Damien Cave found yet another thing to blame on the conservative press and in particular, Australian-born newspaper mogul Rupert Murdoch: “Murdoch Manipulates Debate on Australia’s Fires.”
Thursday’s edition featured Cave getting his standard Murdoch-demonizing opinions into the Times news pages. (The story is more accurately labeled “news analysis” online, but in print, it’s portrayed as a straight news piece.)
Deep in the burning forests south of Sydney this week, volunteer firefighters were clearing a track through the woods, hoping to hold back a nearby blaze, when one of them shouted over the crunching of bulldozers.
“Don’t take photos of any trees coming down,” he said. “The greenies will get a hold of it, and it’ll all be over.”
The idea that “greenies” or environmentalists would oppose measures to prevent fires from ravaging homes and lives is simply false. But the comment reflects a narrative that’s been promoted for months by conservative Australian media outlets, especially the influential newspapers and television stations owned by Rupert Murdoch.
It’s all part of what critics see as a relentless effort led by the powerful media outlet to do what it has also done in the United States and Britain — shift blame to the left, protect conservative leaders and divert attention from climate change.
Yet, for many critics, the Murdoch approach suddenly looks dangerous. They are increasingly connecting News Corp to the spread of misinformation and the government’s lackluster response to the fires….
The New York Times would of course never try to influence public debate on issues.
Cave was worried Australians weren’t towing the Green Party line and instead relying on their own awful experiences.
But there are signs that the Murdoch message is making headway — at least in terms of what people make a priority….in Bairnsdale, Tina Moon, whose farm was devastated by the fires, said she was mostly furious about the government’s failure to clear the land around her property.
“I don’t think it’s climate change,” she said.
On Monday, the Times’ target was conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison: “‘You Left the Country to Burn’: Australia’s Leader Dodges a Nation’s Fury.”
With thousands fleeing eastern towns this weekend as fires swept from the hills to the coast, the inescapable realities of a warming world were colliding with the calculated politics of inaction…And he has signaled no change in his policies even as 24 people have died, hundreds of homes have been destroyed, and more than 12 million acres have burned.…
Mr. Morrison may be able to weather the political storms…he is fresh off a surprise electoral victory in which he was buoyed by support in Queensland, a coal-mining center.
Definitely a “surprise” to Cave, who sputtered after Morrison’s May victory:
The polls said this would be Australia’s climate change election, when voters confronted harsh reality and elected leaders who would tackle the problem…Australians shrugged off the warming seas killing the Great Barrier Reef and the extreme drought punishing farmers.
Read more at Newsbusters
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NEW: Warren: I'm not going to play "gotcha" with McCain, Obama
Warren set to interview the two candidates in a forum Saturday
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Rev. Rick Warren said Thursday that his upcoming forum with Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama will be aimed at asking them tough "heartland questions."
The Rev. Rick Warren appeared on CNN's "The Situation Room" on Thursday.
The author of the best-selling book "The Purpose-Driven Life" is to interview McCain and Obama on Saturday.
The candidates will appear together at Warren's 20,000-member Saddleback mega-church in southern California.
"Well, I'm a pastor, not a pundit," he told CNN's Suzanne Malveaux on Thursday's "Situation Room." "One of the things we're going to do is I'm going to ask identical questions to both candidates, which will be different.
"I'm not going to play 'gotcha' with one candidate and not with the other. This way, it will be totally fair. You compare apples to apples," he added. Watch Warren discuss his plans for the forum »
The interviews -- one hour each -- will focus on four areas, according to Warren: the role of the presidency in government, leadership, the candidates' world view and America's role internationally.
Warren said he's focused on asking both presumptive nominees questions that "don't have a lot wiggle room."
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"But I do want to know how they handle a crisis, because a lot of the things in the presidency often deal with things you don't know are going to happen, that we don't know will happen in the next four years. ... There are a lot of different things you can deal with in the life of a leader that will tell us more about the candidate than some of the typical questions," he said.
Warren said he won't endorse either candidate and will let his followers make up their own minds.
"I'm called as a pastor to shepherd all the flock, and I have in my church Democrats and Republicans and liberals and conservatives and moderates, and everybody in between," he said. "And my calling is to shepherd all those people, so I don't think it's appropriate for pastors to endorse."
Two weeks before the 2004 election, Warren sent out an e-mail to several hundred thousand pastors, essentially saying there were non-negotiable issues that Christians should consider when they go to the ballot box. Some of those issues included stem-cell research, abortion and gay rights.
Asked whether McCain has an advantage with evangelicals, Warren said he's not going to predict how the influential religious group will vote.
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He added, "I can tell you this: They're not a monolithic bloc, as the press frequently tries to make them out to be. I think that for many evangelicals, they're not convinced that either of these men is an evangelical. They may be believers in Christ, they may be Christian, but they want to know, for instance, their world view. And they want to hear it out."
Obama's positions in favor of abortion rights and same-sex civil unions have also created some tension among evangelical voters otherwise drawn to his candidacy.
But the Democrat, who is Christian, has made it a point to discuss his religion on the trail this year and launched an ambitious outreach effort targeting these voters, including private summits with pastors and a major campaign aimed at young evangelicals.
And Obama's evangelical supporters, including members of the new Matthew 25 political action committee, rallied around the Democrat in late June when Christian conservative James Dobson accused him of "deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible."
Polling suggests, however, that a majority of white evangelical voters are still backing McCain, though enthusiasm for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee among evangelicals is less than what it was for President Bush in 2004.
In a CNN poll conducted by Opinion Research Corp. on June 4-5, nearly two-thirds of white evangelical voters surveyed supported McCain, but 30 percent backed Obama. The poll's margin of error was plus or minus 6.5 percentage points.
By comparison, Bush received the support of 78 percent of evangelical voters in the 2004 election, according to exit polls.
But even as former GOP presidential candidate and Baptist minister Mike Huckabee -- who was thought to have locked up the evangelical vote given his background as a minister -- made a strong showing in the GOP primaries this year, McCain was pulling in a substantial number of evangelical votes.
McCain, who was raised an Episcopalian and now identifies himself as Baptist, rarely discusses his faith.
"I'm unashamed and unembarrassed about my deep faith in God. But I do not obviously try to impose my views on others," McCain said April 11.
Since then, the Arizona senator has met with many of the evangelical leaders who did not support his candidacy during the primary season. At a private meeting this summer, dozens of the movement's most prominent figures voted to support his campaign.
But by some accounts, their grass-roots efforts to rally the conservative Christian base have lagged recently.
False rumors that Obama is a Muslim threaten to undermine support from key voting blocs like evangelicals and Catholics.
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The Life of Luis
What started out as a typical first grade morning for Luis, turned into a day that would change his life forever. Luis was six years old when he was picked up from school, not by his parents, but a pair of police officers. He was being placed into the foster care system.
Prior to this, Luis lived with his biological family which consisted of multiple full and half siblings and his parents. They moved frequently, his mother and father were successful in the drug industry and wouldn’t stay in one place very long. His parents would rent out entire apartment complexes to create drug labs. They would confine the children to a corner room of the complex to keep them as far away from the chemicals as possible. Luis was too young to be fully aware of the extent of the situation but understood it wasn’t completely normal. On more than one occasion Luis would escort a backpack full of methamphetamine to his parents customers.
Once placed into foster care Luis was separated from his siblings and placed into a foster home. Luis’s younger half siblings, whom he shared a mother with, were adopted by their biological father, but were unable to adopt Luis. Luis mentions “I was hurt but I was happy because I didn’t have to worry about their safety anymore.”
During his 14 years in the foster system Luis lived with four different families and a handful of residential homes. Acclimating to his new life was difficult to say the least. In elementary school Luis frequently acted out, a natural behavior for children who have experienced trauma. Craving love, attention and validation without the proper knowledge to obtaining it, he would become aggressive and withdrawn in the classroom setting. Because of his outbursts and lack of motivation at age 8 he was misdiagnosed with ADHD and given a prescription, “It completely shut down all emotions. Any joy, it took that away” Luis shares. Even though it did not help his negative behavior, he would take this prescription for the next 5 years of his life, becoming dependent on it’s effects. Problems continued for Luis, by the time he was in middle school he had frequent visitations with his bio-mother through plate glass windows while she was in prison until she was deported to Mexico when he was 12. Not too long after Luis got into legal trouble for assaulting two class mates, who were making fun of a peer who’s mother had recently passed away. His ordinarily upbeat tone shifted as he said “It hit close to home, because my parents were taken away from me too, so I took it personally.” Luis admits his actions were wrong and regrets inflicting pain on anyone. If he could advise his younger self he would say “stop being reckless, your words and actions carry weight.” Because of his behavior, he was placed into residential foster care programs on several occasions, sometimes court ordered, sometimes requested by his foster families, unable to cope with the chaos he was wreaking.
Eventually Luis was placed into his final foster home. The family he calls his own - his mom and dad - but this took time. Loss and pain still followed Luis, his biological father had passed away, along with a brother, other relatives and close friends. “I was at the peak of my worst there, when they found me. I was straight out of juvy, I didn’t care, I was just ready to mess things up. I felt like my life wasn’t going and was never going to be the way I wanted it to be. I was the super angry group home kid” Luis began seeing a behavioral therapist and an emotional therapist for his trauma. “When I was going to therapy they would make me vent to them about my traumas. It would get so hard for me to like even stay in the session for more than 30 seconds without me getting upset.” This wasn’t his first experience receiving mental health care but this was the first time he was ready for change. “It took awhile because I didn’t want to be helped. I had 4-5 therapists before I met the one I was ready to vent to.” Luis shares. He was not ready to face the pain and the truth of what he had gone through. “That was always the hardest part for me - remembering… everything with my parents.” It took two years to finally have a break through. The hurt, angry boy blossomed into the sweet caring young man we see today. A man with big ambitions and an even bigger heart. Luis is currently in David & Margaret’s Transitional Living Program and is paid intern at David & Margaret’s maintenance department. Luis plans to join the army with his younger brother. He desires to be handy, to help other and to be self-sufficient. He is truly one of the sweetest, inspiring persons I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with.
Luis’s outlook on his experience in the foster care system is this: “It comes with it’s doubts and happy moments. I know during the beginning when you’re just removed from your family and you’re being placed into a strangers house, it’s hard. But once you see there’s good in that - that they removed you for a good reason, because the place you were in and the people surrounding you were a bad influence and now you’re removed from that. Now you can start a new chapter in your life. It’s like starting fresh. It’s just a very long journey, it has it’s ups and downs but it’s a really good thing.”
Thank you for sharing with us Luis, we are excited and honored to be a part of your journey.
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Four nights dinner, bed & breakfast
Three excursions - Letterkenny, the Inishowen Peninsula & entry to the Giant's Causeway Visitor Centre
Discover the Myth and Legend surrounding the Giant’s Causeway and historic Letterkenny with a fantastic trip to uncover their secrets!
Join us as we wind our way along the top of Ireland and through the rugged Antrim countryside, before exploring Giant’s Causeway. Marvel at the 40,000 symmetrical columns, said to have been built by the Giant Finn McCool, so that his Scottish Lover could cross the sea. If that’s not enough of an adventure, explore fascinating Letterkenny with its classic pubs and gothic architecture!
Giant’s Causeway - Full Day - fall in love with the Causeway coastline, jewel of Northern Ireland, where dramatic rocks meet the moody Atlantic Ocean and myth and legend is everywhere.
Journeying along the coastline, we’ll stop first at the clifftop ruins of Dunluce Castle, before heading on to the Giant’s Causeway and Causeway Centre (entry included). Mystery surrounds the 40,000 symmetrical columns which, it is said, were built by the Irish Giant, Finn McCool, so his Scottish lover could walk across the sea to him!
Letterkenny - Full Day - to this delightful town nestled on a hillside atop of the beautiful River Swilly.
There’s plenty to do in Letterkenny, with a main street that’s one of the longest in Ireland boasting an abundance of quaint shops, great restaurants and classic pubs. You could wander one of the many museums and heritage sites, or take a peek at the impressive modern cathedral, built in Gothic style.
Inishowen Peninsula & Londonderry - Full Day - to one of north west Ireland’s most beautiful locations with stunning coastlines and spectacular views.
Exploring the dramatic coastline, where plunging cliffs meet gently sweeping hills and breathtaking valleys. We’ll take a peek at Malin Head, before heading into the fascinating city of Londonderry.
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Man kicked by cop going to trial
Lateef Dickerson refuses plea deal and could face life in prison if found guilty at trial
Man kicked by cop going to trial Lateef Dickerson refuses plea deal and could face life in prison if found guilty at trial Check out this story on delawareonline.com: http://delonline.us/1bPvNgG
Jessica Masulli Reyes, The News Journal Published 11:30 a.m. ET May 13, 2015 | Updated 11:41 a.m. ET May 13, 2015
Lateef Dickerson(Photo: Photo: Dover Police)
The man who drew nationwide attention when Dover police released footage of an officer kicking him in the head could face life in prison if he is convicted of unrelated firearm charges at a trial next week.
Lateef A. Dickerson, 30, refused a plea deal Monday and will instead fight allegations he was storing firearms stolen during a Maryland burglary in a shed in Middletown, according to the Department of Justice.
A confidential informant told a probation officer about the firearms. Middletown police searched the shed on an abandoned property in the 200 block of Fields Terrace in Middletown in June 2014 and found a loaded shotgun and rifle, DOJ Spokesman Carl Kanefsky said.
Dickerson was charged with two counts each of possession of a firearm/ammunition by a person prohibited and receiving a stolen firearm; and one count of second-degree conspiracy.
The twice-convicted felon turned down a plea deal Monday that would have resulted in at least 10 years in prison for the person-prohibited charges and the possibility of additional time for some of the other charges, Kanefsky said.
Dickerson is now expected to go to trial Tuesday morning in Superior Court in Wilmington.
If found guilty of the firearm-related charges, Dickerson could face 30 years to life in prison as a habitual offender.
In an unrelated incident on Aug. 24, 2013, Dover police responded to a Hess gas station – later renamed the Speedway Service Station – to investigate a report of a fight in progress with one person possibly armed.
Dover Police Cpl. Thomas Webster IV and another officer had Dickerson, who matched the description of the man involved in the fight, at gunpoint.
Dickerson was getting on the ground when Webster kicked him in the head, breaking his jaw and leaving him unconscious.
The incident was recorded on a dashboard camera in a police car. The footage was released Thursday.
A grand jury in March 2014 declined to indict Webster. However, a second grand jury on May 4 indicted him for second-degree assault.
He is currently suspended without pay pending the outcome of the case.
Dickerson was charged with assault, theft and resisting arrest, but the charges were later dropped.
The American Civil Liberties Union is suing Dover on behalf of Dickerson.
Contact Jessica Masulli Reyes at 302-324-2777, jmreyes@delawareonline.com or Twitter @JessicaMasulli.
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Timeline: The rise and fall of Nate Boulton's run for governor
Prior to the allegations of sexual harassment, Nate Boulton was seen as a rising star in the Democratic party.
Timeline: The rise and fall of Nate Boulton's run for governor Prior to the allegations of sexual harassment, Nate Boulton was seen as a rising star in the Democratic party. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: https://dmreg.co/2IIo1uF
Lauren Ehrler, lehrler@dmreg.com Published 4:12 p.m. CT May 24, 2018
Sen. Nate Boulton (right) and his wife, Andrea, march to the park Sept. 30, 2017, at the Polk County Steak Fry at Water Works Park in Des Moines.(Photo: Michael Zamora/The Register)Buy Photo
Democratic candidate Nate Boulton suspended his campaign for governor Thursday, one day after the Des Moines Register reported on allegations the current state senator touched women sexually without their consent.
Boulton, 38, was one of six candidates vying in a June 5 primary for the chance to face off against Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds and a Libertarian candidate in November.
Prior to the allegations, Boulton was seen as a rising star in the Democratic party. He is an attorney at Hedberg & Boulton specializing in workers compensation, personal injury and labor law. He is a Columbus Junction native and graduate of Drake University Law and Simpson College.
He worked on the 2012 case in which labor leader Danny Homan and several Democratic state legislators sued Republican Gov. Terry Branstad regarding the extent of the governor’s veto power.
10 Photos: Nate Boulton talks with the Register editorial board
Sen. Nate Boulton, Democratic candidate for governor, talks with the Register editorial board Wednesday, May 9, 2018, in Des Moines. Michael Zamora, Michael Zamora/The Register
Sen. Nate Boulton, Democratic candidate for Iowa governor, talks with the Des Moines Register editorial board Wednesday, May 9, 2018, in Des Moines. Michael Zamora/The Register
Sen. Nate Boulton, Democratic candidate for governor, Wednesday, May 9, 2018, in Des Moines. Michael Zamora, Michael Zamora/The Register
Here is a look at the rise and fall of Boulton's run for governor:
SEPTEMBER 2015: Boulton announced his candidacy for an open Iowa state Senate seat in 2016. The seat covers eastern Des Moines and Pleasant Hill.
NOV. 8, 2016: Boulton of Des Moines defeated his two opponents for the vacant seat in the state’s District 16 Senate race with 60 percent of the vote.
EARLY 2017: First-term senator Boulton attracted publicity during the legislative session by railing against GOP moves to curtail collective bargaining and rollback legal protections for injured workers.
MAY 2017: Boulton announced his governor candidacy. In an interview with the Register at that time, Boulton pitched himself as an advocate for working families who would prioritize support for education and worker training.
JULY 2017: Boulton earned the endorsement of AFSCME Council 61, the state’s largest public union.
NOVEMBER 2017: Democratic activists and operatives identified Boulton, along with rival Fred Hubbell, as front-runners ahead of the June 5 primary.
JANUARY 2018: Boulton launched a “six-figure” TV ad buy, marking an escalation in his bid for the Democratic nomination.
MAY 8, 2018: Boulton met with the Register editorial board where he discussed tax cuts, Medicaid and education. (Read the full report: 'Election to determine the soul of our state': Democrat Nate Boulton's visit to the Register)
READ NATE BOULTON'S CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHY
MAY 19, 2018: A new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll showed Boulton trails Hubbell the race for the Democratic nomination — 31 percent of likely primary voters said they’d support Hubbell and 20 percent said they'd support Boulton.
MAY 23, 2018: The Register reported three women accused Boulton of sexual misconduct. One woman told the Register that Boulton repeatedly grabbed her buttocks at a bar in 2015. Two others said when Boulton was in law school more than a decade ago, he rubbed his clothed crotch against them, pressing his erect penis into their thighs.
Boulton did not deny the allegations. In a sit-down interview with the Register, he issued a public apology: "All I can say is that if I crossed a line and people feel that way, I apologize. I apologize publicly, and I offer an apology directly.”
In the wake of the allegations, multiple Democratic leaders and candidates — including front runner Hubbell — and former Boulton supporters called for him to drop out of the governor's race.
MAY 24, 2018: Boulton suspended his campaign for governor. Boulton's name will still appear on Election Day ballots, which have already been printed. Early voting began May 7, and 13,668 Democrats have already cast ballots in the primary.
THE FALLOUT: Senate Democratic Leader Janet Petersen also called for Boulton to quit the Senate, while Boulton supporters look to other Democratic candidates.
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Where to go in Brunei? Achieve your travel goals with this list of beautiful destinations, things to do, best places to visit, Brunei tourist spots, attractions & more.
You may have already known of Brunei as a small yet wealthy nation.
If not, this easily missed sultanate is known for having the largest oil fields in Southeast Asia one of the world’s highest standards of living.
Laid-back capital, Bandar Seri Begawan, gleams with magnificent mosques that contrast with a massive stilt house water village and lush mangrove forests nearby.
Inspire your trip in Brunei with these must-visit places and things to do for first-time travelers.
Brunei travel goals!
Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
City Center Riverside in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Proboscis monkey spotted along the Brunei River in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
1. Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque
View of Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque from Yayasan Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Complex in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque & ceremonial stone boat in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque towers over the laid-back city of Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei’s capital. This lavish mosque is the country’s most famous landmark and among Southeast Asia’s most beautiful places of worship.
How to go — Located along Jalan McArthur, smack dab in the center Bandar Seri Begawan, Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque is really easy to spot thanks to its towering golden-topped towers. It is an easy 5 to 15 minute way away from most hotels in the city center.
2. Kampung Ayer
Local boat crossing the Brunei River to Kampung Ayer (Water Village) in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Kampung Ayer, which means “water village” in Malay, is one of the largest stilt house settlements in the world. It is located across the river from the city center of Bandar Seri Begawan. Flag a water taxi (ferry) from the waterfront for a quick tour around Kampung Ayer to see local life in the village.
How to go — Kampung Ayer is located across the river from the city center. You can already see it standing on one of many riverside promenades. A ferry crossing to the other side costs BND 1. From there, you can walk around the stilt-supported pathways and see the village up close.
3. Brunei River & Proboscis Monkey
Boat tour along the Brunei River in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Mosque at the stilt village in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
After a quick spin around the water village, venture out of the city center and explore the scenic mangrove-lined Brunei River. The highlight of this trip, if you are lucky, is getting to see Proboscis monkeys in the wild.
How to go — Either join an organized tour or charter a river taxi from the city center. If you are lucky, you can spot Proboscis Monkeys hanging on the mangrove forest, a couple of kilometers down the Brunei river. River taxi charters usually cost less than BND 20.
4. Brunei Museums
Royal Regalia Museum in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Bandar Seri Begawan is home to many museums that showcase the colorful history, culture, and grandeur of the monarchy. Popular museums include the Brunei Darussalam Maritime Museum and Royal Regalia Museum.
Many of Brunei’s museums are located within or a short taxi/bus ride away from Bandar Seri Begawan city center. See the list below for opening times, location & travel tips.
Brunei Darussalam Maritime Museum — Located on 482 Jln Kota Batu, Brunei. Opens 9 AM to 4:30 PM.
Brunei Museum — Jln Kota Batu, Brunei. Reachable on Bus 39. Opens 9 AM to 5 PM.
Malay Technology Museum — Located on Simpang 482, Kampung Kota Batu, Brunei. Opens 9 AM to 5 PM.
Royal Regalia Building — Located on Jln Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien, Bandar Seri Begawan. Opens 9 AM to 5 PM.
Brunei Forestry Museum — Located on Liang, Brunei.
Bubungan dua belas (House of Twelve Roofs) — Jalan Residency, at the foot of Bukit Subok Forest Reserve Recreational Park.
5. Brunei City Center
Yayasan Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Complex with Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Bandar Seri Begawan’s city center is small, very compact, easily explored on foot. Occupying much of the city is a sprawling shopping mall called Yayasan Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Complex, which reflects a mix of traditional and modern architectural styles. Head to the waterfront for a nice view of the Brunei River.
How to go — Start your tour at Yayasan Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Complex, located on Jalan Pretty – Jalan McArthur, near the Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque. From here it’s an easy walk to the waterfront parks & museums.
6. Kg Kianggeh Open Air Market
Kianggeh Market in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
This market, especially busy during the early morning hours, is a great way to see and photograph local life in the city. It also has many food stalls that prepare ready-cooked local food.
How to go — Kg Kianggeh Open Air Market is located along Jln Sungai Kianggeh, Bandar Seri Begawan. From the waterfront, simply take a turn at Jln Sungai Kianggeh and follow the road. The Open Air Market is on the right ride and can be reached by crossing the foot bridges.
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Divided City table
Gush Bloc table
Dirt from Your Earth table
Voronoi table
Dressed Stone table
Maqam Makom table
Remapping table
Excavations table
Ezri Tarazi's Jerusalem Tables highlight the city's demographics
Katie Treggiden | 3 August 2015 1 comment
Israeli designer Ezri Tarazi has created a series of nine tables based on the cultural, religious and geographical diversity of Jerusalem (+ slideshow).
Tarazi's Jerusalem Tables are each shaped like the same map of the walled Old City – a UNESCO World Heritage Site that has had a turbulent history. The tables present different information about the area using forms and materials.
With a surface comprising 20 sections of typical Jerusalem objects made from materials including leather, glass, pottery and copper, the Divided City table opens into two parts.
"The table's design reflects the geopolitical situation of the divided city of Jerusalem," said Tarazi. "When the table is closed it emphasises the beauty of the city as a whole consisting of many multi-faceted parts."
The Bars table is made of a series of glass-covered decorative iron bars made using laser cutting technology. These reference the decorative metal lattices that cover doors and windows around Jerusalem.
"The houses of the Old City, like many public buildings in Jerusalem, commonly have bars across the doors or windows that are embellished with symbolic ornamentation, decorations, and texts with different meanings," said the designer. "Different styles side by side in a single building provide evidence of the range of cultures in the city."
Free Falling by Ezri Tarazi
The black oxidised-iron Gush Bloc table is a geometric abstraction of the map. The base is narrower than the top, and despite its solid appearance, the table weighs just 15 kilograms.
"When the table is viewed from below, it seems to be in an upward thrust, from the earthly level of the city to its heavenly level – a visual depiction of the 'Heavenly Jerusalem'," said Tarazi.
A series of wheel-turned bowls penetrate the metal surface of the Dirt from Your Earth table. The bowls are made of porcelain clay mixed with soil from the excavations of Temple Mount – a celebrated and contentious religious site in the Old City of Jerusalem.
"The table's design reflects two issues," explains the designer. "One is the political-religious issue, signified by the origin of the raw material – a controversial historical and archaeological site. The other is cultural – the tradition, common in Mediterranean countries, of providing refreshments in numerous small bowls."
Data from the map of the city was translated with the use of a Voronoi diagram – a method of mathematical calculation based on partitioning a plane into polygons. The map was first converted into a two-dimensional diagram and then into a model produced with a 3D printer, and suspended on red powder-coated metal legs.
"The Voronoi table's design was inspired by the demographic changes anticipated in the Old City regarding the population's growth and trends in its segmentation," said Tarazi, who has previously formed a chair by dropping a concrete-filled mannequin onto a mesh box.
The Dressed Stone table is made from Jerusalem Stone. The upper part of the table was mechanically cut and polished – resulting in a smooth finish – whereas the lower part was cut by hand and has a more coarse texture. The table was made at the Jerusalem Limestone factory, which provided stone for Israel's Supreme Court, the Foreign Ministry, the Temple Mount Plaza, and the Hurva Synagogue.
The two-ply walnut Maqam Makom table celebrates two traditions associated with social gatherings in Jerusalem: drinking coffee and making music. Maqam is the system of melodic modes and structures used in traditional Arabic music.
The table contains 12 copper-lined cavities for copper-based glass coffee cups and one for a coffee pot. A cup placed in one of the cavities completes an electric circuit, activating a musical "loop".
Each loop causes a different sound to be produced by a single musical instrument. "The table emphasises the complex beauty of a joint group creation," said the designer.
A projector above the Remapping table is connected to a three-dimensional sensor, which detects moving objects in the space surrounding the table. Any movement over the table causes the buildings on the map projected onto the surface to regroup, creating a new map.
"This optical mechanism depicts the city as a dynamic place, subject to frequent changes that are often caused by the different populations making up the human fabric of the city," explained Tarazi.
Finally, the Excavations table resembles a model of an archaeological site – many of which can be found around Jerusalem, initiated by different political and religious factions. "The form of the table resembles an abandoned futuristic mine, portraying the dystopian world of a city that has been totally abandoned after being completely excavated," the designer said.
The nine tables are on display alongside functional items and humorous sculptures by fellow Jerusalem-born designer Haim Parnas, as part of the Objective exhibition at the Tower of David Museum in the city that runs until December 2015.
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Cos-Con
What is Cos-Con?
Granite City Comic Con 2018
We are delighted to announce that Cos-Con has partnered up with Granite City Comic Con to blow the lid off cosplay in Aberdeen this Spring!
We'll be bringing a whole bunch of cosplay awesomeness (and our usual shenanigans) to the con, with panels, workshops, activities, masquerade, and competitions - including the Cos-Con Cosplay Championship!
More details about Cosplay at GCCC will be shared soon, but in the meantime have a read of what the boys had to say;
Aberdeen Evening Express Story
Workshop Applications
Are you a maker, a doer or a performer? Do you enjoy giving presentations, putting on workshops, educating the masses? Have you got an idea for a cool activity?
Cos-Con are taking applications for Workshops and Presentations that will be scheduled into our itinerary for a weekend full of cosplay based events on the 13th and 14th of August.
Click this button for more info and to complete your application;
Workshop Application
Electrikid!
Electrikid, aka Leo Neville is a cosplayer, model, wig stylist, and makeup artist from England, and is next in our special guest line up for Cos-Con 2016.
Leo draws much of his cosplay inspiration from Anime, and his skills include wefting his own lacefront hairlines, beards, and sideburns, as well as styling against gravity and giving wigs some impressive finishing touches.
His make-up work, as you can see, is second to none; a skill he studied at Delamar Academy of Makeup & Hair, coming out with a HE Certificate and a Distinction in prosthetics.
Leo also runs Colour Me Kiddo: through which he imports and supplies products from the best cosplay supplies companies, alongside his own creations. He also dabbles in prop making, and is working hard to broaden his skill set to include more sewing and fabric techniques.
When not attending conventions (and sometimes while he is), you'll find Electrikid filming cosplay vlogs and tutorials for youtube, and he's sure to offer us a whole bunch of cosplay knowledge in Glasgow this August.
Candy Valentina!
Next in our line up of guests for Cos-Con 2016, is Candy Valentina, a freelance performer, model and cosplayer based in Kent.
Candy trained as a performer at Reynolds Performing Arts College, and has a huge catalogue of performances which she takes to events and conventions all over the country. She is also an agency represented model, work which has seen her win a number of awards, while collaborating with countless brands and publications. She'll have so much experience of being in front of the camera to share with us when she comes to Glasgow.
She found her passion for cosplaying back in 2014, when she attended her first convention as Yoko Littner. From this point onwards she knew that cosplay was something she wanted to progress further in, and she has since had cosplay features in print publications such as Neo Magazine and MYM, among others. You may recognise a number of Candy's cosplays, a favourite being her awesome Shredder (TMNT) costume. We can't wait to see what she brings to Cos-Con this August.
Cosplay Competitions
One of our favourite parts of any convention is the cosplay competition. As guests, you get to marvel at everyone's wonderful creations, and as cosplayers, we get to take to the stage, strut our stuff, and showcase our hard work and skills to the audience. This is why, alongside all our stage based masquerades, panels, activities and games, Cos-Con 2016 will have not just one, but a SERIES of cosplay contests across the weekend.
More detailed information regarding the formats of and registration for our competitions will be made available soon, but the following is a brief(ish) run down.
On both days we will be hosting open entry Masquerades, which you can sign up for on the day and are simply a chance to have some fun up on stage and bring your character to life!
We will also have kids Masquerades on both days for the little ones to give it their all on stage and go home with some goodies.
Saturday Cosplay Competitions
On Saturday, we will have FOUR costume based competitions, and as long as your costume is predominantly hand made (around 75% your own work), you are eligible to sign up for any ONE of these competitions on the day;
Armour Building
Makeup/SFX.
Also held on Saturday will be an entirely performance focused competition - giving you the opportunity to wow the audience and judges with your own original performance based on your chosen character.
2016 Cos-Con Championship
On Sunday, all our attention turns to the 2016 Cos-Con Championship, the climax of the convention weekend. Entry is via pre-registration for costumes predominately self-built; around 75% your own work. Any type of costume, discipline, materials and performance is welcomed in this competition, with our panel of guests judging based on a wide breadth of criteria. This one is for the seriously determined crafters, and is sure to be a stunning showcase of talent for those watching.
Judge's Wildcards
Across the weekend, our judges will each have a Judge's Wildcard to award at any time to any cosplayer who they deem deserving. Winning a Judge's Wildcard will automatically qualify you for the Cos-Con Championship - so there's everything to play for!
Vendors Choice Award
Also up for grabs is the Vendor's Choice Award. Over the weekend, no one gets a better view of everyone's cosplay than our hardworking vendors, so we have placed in their hand a series of token to award to their favourite cosplayers. At the end of the day, whoever has earned the most tokens takes the award and a stack of cash to be spent in our two vendors halls.
There are no criteria for entry, simply mingle with vendors and be awesome!!
If you haven't already, sign up to the Facebook Event for notifications as we add more and more details about competitions and attractions to the website.
Cosplex!
Photo: Sarah Beth De Boer
Photo: Kosupics
Cosplex, aka Lex hails from the Granite city, and we had the pleasure of having her as a guest judge at Cos-Con North 2015.
Lex has been Cosplaying for over 10 years and mainly focuses on fabric based Cosplays but is not afraid to tackle the odd prop either.
A committed competitor, she has represented the UK on two occasions. Firstly as one half of the first UK team to enter the World Cosplay Summit in Japan in 2012 and last year winning the Solo category at the European Cosplay Gathering in France with her gorgeous Satine Cosplay.
To her, cosplay is a wonderful creative outlet and her experience at a competitive level will give her loads of insight to share in Glasgow this summer.
Photo: Silver
Laura Sindall!
Photo Edit: Colin J Smith Photography
UPDATE 07-2016 - Laura Sindall is unfortunately no longer able to joins us as special guest for Cos-Con 2016.
Laura is a professional special effects artist and costume designer, and a graduate of London College of Fashion, with a BA in Technical Effects for Performance Ba (Hons) . Alongside her special effects work in the movie industry, She counts many of the videogame industry's biggest companies among her clients, for whom she fabricates costumes for promotional events all over the world. You've also no doubt seen many of her cosplay commissions worn by others at conventions here in the UK.
Competitively, Laura has represented the UK at the World Cosplay Summit, and was winner of the European Cosplay Gathering in 2014. Her costumes have always wowed us with their quality and exquisite detail, and it is going to be a real treat to hear her share some of her knowledge and skills as a guest in Glasgow this August.
Photo: Sonesh Joshi Photography
Photo: Colin J Smith Photography
Photo: Carlos Adama Photography
Kenny Cosplay Stuff!
Photo: James Bissett Photography
When it comes to guests at Cos-Con, we want to give everyone a chance to interact with and chat to the people who inspire them, without waiting for hours in a queue or loitering at the other side of a table. That's why we keep our conventions intimate and small in size, and why we book awesome guys like Kenny Cosplay Stuff.
Kenny specialises in armour builds, which have seen him win a whole bunch of competitions as well as representing the UK in last year's Cosplay World Masters. He's also acclaimed for his expressive and energetic performances, entertaining crowds with his stage presence and sense of humour, alongside his beautifully detailed builds.
When not cosplaying, Kenny's a big videogame geek, so much so he was a contestant on Sky 1's tv show King of the Nerds. Games characters are often the subject of his awesome cosplays; we can't wait to showcase his insane skills at Cos-Con 2016.
Photo: ACE A.M.P. Photography
Photo: LP Cosplay Photography
Photo: Valentin Offner
Tickets!
Get this date in your diary - on the 28th of May tickets for Cos-Con 2016, our first convention in Glasgow, will go on sale. Tickets will be available exclusively from our website, so click the tickets tab at the top of the page to grab yours.
We hope our servers can handle the traffic!
You can also sign up to the official Facebook event, and keep up to date with all the upcoming announcements.
Cos Con 2016
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This Woman Moved Into an 84-Square Foot Cottage to Save Her Own Life
"It gave me a chance to live close to my friends and be happy with the time that I have."
By Tess Koman
Dee Williams/Penguin
After a heart attack at the age of 40, Dee Williams was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy and given just a few years to live. At the time, Williams, who is now 52, lived in a big three-bedroom house in Portland, Oregon, The New York Times reports. The diagnosis made her reevaluate: Williams decided to majorly downsize and move to Olympia, Washington, where she's lived in an 84-square foot cottage for the past 11 years.
"I started seeing 'congestive heart failure' in my health records," Williams told The New York Times. "If you look it up online, your life expectancy is typically one to five years. The notion of paying a 30-year mortgage didn't make sense." Living in a little house though "made sense for me, it clicked. It gave me a chance to live close to my friends and be happy with the time that I have."
Living in her tiny house has stripped her of the stresses and possessions that she had as a regular homeowner. To this day, Williams gets rid of anything she doesn't need that clutters her tiny house. The downsizing has done wonders for her health: Twelve years after her initial diagnosis, Williams is living much longer than her doctors ever predicted.
She also said that living so close to nature has helped her come to peace with her diagnosis and mortality: "In a big house, it's easier to ignore what's going on outside. Or you're constantly trying to compete with nature through your thermostat. I'm more into collaborating with nature now."
The house cost her $10,000 to build, according to the Daily Mail. It has a sink, a composting toilet, a sleeping loft, and a skylight. That's pretty much it. If Williams needs to shower or use running water or an oven, she has to walk to her friends Hugh O'Neill and Annie McManus's house. It's not a far walk — O'Neill and McManus have been hosting Williams's little house in their backyard for all these years.
Williams's utility bill is $5 a month. She affords it by running PAD Tiny Houses, a site that educates others on how to be "tiny house pioneers" and to "provide people the resources they need to build the life they dream." I'd like to think I could be a tiny house pioneer. I'd like to think I could better the earth and gain perspective. And pay about $5 a month in bills. And be a stress-free and happier human too.
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Extended Practice Pharmacist Advisory Committee
Type of Committee
A Standing Committee of Council
To recommend to Council the recipients of The Pharmacist of the Year, Bonnie Schultz Award for Pharmacy Practice Excellence, Bowl of Hygeia, Patient Safety Award, Honorary Life Member, Honorary Membership, Centennial Award, and other awards of the College as determined by Council.
Members are appointed by Council for a two year renewable term.
Keep committee discussion and business confidential
Review and make nominations
Ensure recommended recipients meet stated award criteria in order to be eligible
Make recommendations to Council regarding the committees decisions around the various awards
The committee chair is the committee spokesperson
Past President (Chair)
Committee is open to all pharmacists with representation from community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy and the Faculty of Pharmacy
The Registrar or designate will attend and assist in all meetings of the committee and as a non-voting member
A quorum for meetings will be 50% of the members plus one.
Meeting Procedures
Meet at least annually and additional meetings at the call of the Chair
Following Roberts Rules of Order
Each committee member must sign the College's Conflict of Interest Policy and must declare conflicts of interest. A conflict of interest refers to situations in which personal, occupational or financial considerations may affect or appear to affect the objectivity or fairness of decisions related to committee activities. A conflict of interest may be real, potential or perceived in nature. Individuals must declare potential conflicts to the Chair and must either absent themselves from the discussion and/or voting, or the meeting, depending upon decision of the majority of the Committee.
Each committee member must sign the College's Confidentiality Agreement indicating their agreement to maintain the confidentiality, security and integrity of all materials during and after their term on the committee. Council has determined this is a committee requiring confidentiality.
The Committee is accountable to Council. The Chair will provide a report to Council on the activities of the Committee.
Renumeration
Remuneration is to be determined by Council.
A standing Committee of the College Council.
The Executive Committee shall consider matters between Council meetings and make recommendations to Council.
The councillors are elected for a two year term.
The Executive Committee shall consider matters between council meetings and make recommendations to the Council.
The Executive Committee may conduct an annual performance review of the Registrar.
Other duties as required from time to time.
The President, elected by Council, (Chairs)
The Vice-President
The Executive Treasurer
The Past President
The Registrar, (Non-voting member)
Before each regularly scheduled Council meeting, or at the call of the Chair
Drafted by College staff with assistance of Committee Members for review and preliminary approval in advance of next Council meeting and finalized at next Executive Committee meeting.
Conflict-of-Interest Disclosure
Each committee member must sign the College's Conflict of Interest Policy and must declare conflicts of interest. A conflict of interest refers to situations in which personal, occupational or financial considerations may affect or appear to affect the objectivity or fairness of decisions related to committee activities. A conflict of interest may be real, potential or perceived in nature. Individuals must declare potential conflicts to the Chair and must either absent themselves from the discussion and voting, or put the decision to the committee on whether they should absent themselves.
Council will determine which committee member must sign the College's Confidentiality Agreement indicating their agreement to maintain the confidentiality, security and integrity of all materials during and after their term on the committee. Council has determined this is a committee requiring confidentiality.
The Executive Committee is accountable to Council. The Chair will report to Council on the activities of the Executive Committee.
Time spent in meetings and reasonable travel costs are compensated according to the by-laws.
To be reviewed
Bi-Annually in non-election years. Also to be reviewed by the Governance Committee after decisions are made about continuation of the ad hoc committees on Compensation and on Finance and Risk, at which time Governance will make a recommendation to Council regarding the continuation of the Executive Committee as a standing committee.
June 25, 2013, by Council
A Standing Committee.
The Extended Practice Pharmacist Advisory Committee provides oversight and makes recommendations to Council on all matters that relate to extended practice pharmacists as described in Part 12 of the Regulation to The Pharmaceutical Act.
The Extended Practice Pharmacists Advisory Committee must, on at least an annual basis, review and make recommendations to the council about the provisions of the regulation, the standards of practice, practice directions and the code of ethics that relate to extended practice pharmacists, including reviewing the outcomes of inspections and audits that relate to extended practice pharmacists. (Regulation 99(5)) For the purpose of this section, the Registrar may share with the committee the results of audits or inspections conducted under Part 10 of the Act. (Regulation 99(8))
The committee may consult with any other health care professions and individuals that it considers appropriate. (Regulation 99(6))
Pursuant to the Pharmaceutical Regulation 99(1), Council must establish an extended practice pharmacist advisory committee, consisting of:
three pharmacists who are members, appointed by the council, one of whom is to be chair;
two representatives appointed by The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba;
two representatives appointed by the College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba;
three public representatives; and
one person appointed by the Deputy Minister of Health, who is a non-voting member.
A vacancy on the committee may be filled by the appropriate appointing body. (Regulation 99(3))
The Registrar and Assistant Registrar serve as a staff resource to the Committee.
Each committee member must be appointed for a term of two years, and may be reappointed for additional terms at the discretion of the appointing body. (Regulation 99(2)).
A quorum of the committee is five committee members, and must include a representative from at least two of the appointing bodies and two of the members appointed by the Council. (Regulation 99(4)).
At the call of the Chair (but at a minimum annually (Regulation 99(5))
Follows Roberts Rules of Order. The Extended Practice Pharmacist Advisory Committee may meet and conduct business using video-conferencing or teleconferencing connections or by other electronic means when some or all of the members are unable to meet in person.
Drafted by the committee Chair, with input from committee members, and assistance from College staff.
Drafted by College Staff with assistance from Committee Members for review. Minutes are approved at the next committee meeting.
Each committee member must sign the College’s Conflict of Interest Policy and must declare conflicts of interest.
Council has determined this is a committee requiring confidentiality. Each committee member must sign the College’s Confidentiality Agreement indicating their agreement to maintain the confidentiality, security and integrity of all materials during and after their term on the committee.
The Extended Practice Pharmacist Advisory Committee is accountable to Council. The Chair will report to Council on the activities of the Extended Practice Pharmacist Advisory Committee. The Council is not bound by the committee's recommendations. (Regulation 99(7)).
Time spent in meetings and reasonable travel costs are compensated, according to the College’s policy.
Bi-annually in non-election years.
Approved in principle by Council: Ocotber 17, 2016
A standing Committee of Council.
To oversee the financial affairs of the College and be responsible for making recommendations to Council with regard to organizational risk.
This is a Standing Committee
Review financial statements and systems of the College on a regular basis
Assess appropriateness of financial systems
Make recommendations to Council for changes or adaptation of College systems
Identify sources of organizational risk and assess for susceptibility of systems to fraud or theft
Identify methods of monitoring for risk in an ongoing fashion and make recommendations to Council
Make recommendations to the Executive Committee about the Investment Policy
Review of current compensation and compensation amounts for Council members and Committee members in comparison with other organizations including Canadian pharmacy regulatory bodies
Conduct an environmental scan every two years regarding compensation and compensation amounts for Council members and Committee members
Make recommendations to Council regarding a compensation policy
Other duties as assigned by Council or recommended by the Governance Committee
Chaired by the Executive Treasurer
A past Executive Treasurer, if willing to serve
One additional Councillor
One or more Public Representatives
One or more members at large
Registrar (voting ex officio)
Quarterly, or more often, at the call of the Chair
Yes and report to Council prepared from the minutes
Council will determine which committees must sign the College's Confidentiality Agreement indicating the members’ agreement to maintain the confidentiality, security and integrity of all materials during and after their term on the committee.
Council has determined this is a committee requiring confidentiality.
The Finance and Risk Management Committee is accountable to Council. The Chair will report to Council on the activities of the Finance and Risk Management Committee.
To be reviewed bi-annually in non-election years. To be reviewed by Council regarding the role and value of the Finance and Risk Management Committee.
To provide initial and ongoing review and to make recommendations to Council about the governance structure of the College of Pharmacists of Manitoba.
To review current governance recommendations.
To complete an environmental scan of types of governance structures used by other regulatory bodies.
To review governance structures of the College in line with requirements of the December 2006 Pharmaceutical Act (Bill 41) and the Regulated Health Professions Act, and all other Acts under which the College must operate.
To conduct a thorough assessment of the governance-related needs of the College and Council and develop the required committee structure to support the role of Council.
To develop the next steps in the implementation of organization changes.
To recommend to Council terms of reference for any new governance-related committees, including, as needs change, updated terms of reference for this committee.
To provide ongoing review and monitoring of the effectiveness of governance structures of the organization
To review the performance and effectiveness of Council through an established self-assessment process
From Council, two (2) or more members.
Two members at large
Deputy Registrar (non-voting member), or another College staff member as designated by the Registrar, is an ex-officio member of the committee and provides administrative support for the committee. Committee communication is coordinated through this person.
A quorum for meetings will be 50% of the membership plus one.
The Governance Committee is accountable to Council. The Chair will report to Council on the activities of the Governance Committee.
Bi-annually by Council in non-election years
October 15, 2018 by Council
A standing Committee of the College.
The mandate of the QA Committee is to serve as a resource to Council in matters related to quality assurance and continuous quality improvement in pharmacy practice. The QA committee will provide oversight, monitor and evaluate the College’s Quality Assurance/Continuous Quality Improvement Program and make recommendations in compliance with the Guiding Principles, to Council on program enhancements that will improve pharmacy practice and patient safety.
Raise awareness and understanding of pharmacy professionals regarding the concepts of quality assurance and continuous quality improvement in pharmacy practice;
Evaluate information and data gathered through the quality assurance processes of the College and outcomes of the complaints and discipline process to identify deficiencies, issues and areas requiring improvement in the practice of pharmacy;
Make recommendations to Council on performance-based assessments that align with adopted guiding principles and effectively evaluate and enhance pharmacy practice in Manitoba; and,
Work in partnership with the Professional Development (PD) and Standards of Practice (S of P) Divisions within the committee to identify and design practice supports that will facilitate the provision of patient-centred collaborative practice and lead to improved patient health outcomes and patient safety.
Professional Development Division
Promote and facilitate participation in continuing professional development (CPD) to support pharmacy professionals in maintaining competence and improving practice;
Ensure pharmacy professionals have access to a variety of quality learning opportunities;
Evaluate and recommend methods to assess the competence and performance of pharmacists in keeping with guiding principles established for the CPhM Quality Assurance/Continuous Quality Improvement Program;
Advise and make recommendations to Council with respect to practicing licence requirements; and,
Promote and facilitate pharmacy professionals participating in interprofessional CPD to encourage the provision of collaborative patient-centred care.
Standards of Practice Division
Draft policy on standards of practice, practice directions and guidelines and serve as a resource in this area for Council and College staff;
Identify issues and areas where pharmacy standards of practice, practice directions and guidelines will improve pharmacy practice, patient health outcomes and patient safety;
To serve as an advocate for adherence in practice to standards of practice, practice directions and guidelines; and,
Review standards of practice, practice directions and guidelines at least every five years to ensure relevance to practice.
Membership on the QA Committee is open to all pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy students and interns in the province. The majority of voting members at each meeting must be licensed pharmacists. Members are volunteers knowledgeable in a variety of practice areas and interests. Members may choose to participate on the PD Division, S of P Division, both divisions, or neither division.
The Chair of the committee is appointed by Council. The committee will appoint a Division Chair for each of the PD and S of P Divisions from within its membership. Division Chairs or a designate from their respective division must be present at all meetings of the QA Committee. The Chair and Division Chairs may choose to invite additional participants to committee and division meetings when needed to address gaps in knowledge or expertise.
The Assistant Registrar for Practice Quality is an ex-officio member of the committee and serves as staff resource for the PD Division of the committee. The Assistant Registrar for Field Operations is an ex-officio member of the committee and serves as staff resource for the S of P Division of the committee. The Deputy Registrar and the Quality Assurance and Field Officer are ex-officio members of the committee and serve as staff resource for the committee.
The QA Committee will meet at a minimum of two times annually or at the call of the Chair. The PD and S of P Divisions of the committee will meet on an ad hoc basis at the call of the Division Chairs.
Quorum:
A quorum of the QA Committee consists of a minimum of 2 members of the PD Division including the Division Chair or a designate, 2 members of the S of P Division including the Division Chair or a designate, and the Chair of the QA Committee. Matters arising at any meeting of the QA Committee should be decided by consensus and, failing that, will be decided by a majority of votes. The Chair of the QA Committee may only vote to break or to cause a tied vote. All attending members have the ability to vote.
The QA Committee may meet and conduct business using video-conferencing or teleconferencing connections or by other electronic means when some or all of the members are unable to meet in person.
Drafted by the committee Chair or Division Chairs, with input from committee members, and assistance from College staff.
Recorded by College staff for review and approval at the next committee meeting.
Participation on the committee is on a voluntary basis.
Each committee member must sign and comply with the College’s Conflict of Interest Policy and must declare conflicts of interest.
Each committee member must sign the College’s Confidentiality Agreement indicating their agreement to maintain the confidentiality, security and integrity of all materials during and after their term on the committee.
The QA Committee and the Divisions therein are accountable to Council. The Chair will report to Council on the activities of the QA Committee at each meeting of Council.
Approved: February 8, 2016, Council Meeting.
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Lorenzo speculation ‘makes no difference’ to Crutchlow
Neil Morrison
“[Jorge Lorenzo] wants to win and I don't think he thinks he can win on the Honda just at the moment.”
Cal Crutchlow has said he was “not surprised at all” to hear of the speculation linking Jorge Lorenzo away from Honda and insisted it would “make no difference” to his situation if a seat in the Repsol team became available for 2020.
The Briton likened the rumours linking Lorenzo to Jack Miller’s place in Pramac Ducati to a “soap opera” and said the Australian or Takaaki Nakagami would be more likely to command a spot in the Repsol team ahead of him.
As the 33-year old pointed out, Crutchlow has had a long-term relationship with Monster Energy (Red Bull partly sponsors Repsol Honda), and he remains completely content with his current ‘factory contract’ which sees him compete on near identical equipment to Marc Marquez in Lucio Cecchinello's LCR squad.
“I'm not surprised at all. He [Lorenzo] wants to win and I don't think he thinks he can win on the Honda just at the moment, so if the rumour is true to leave,” he said.
“But maybe Ducati are using it to their advantage with Jack, like they did with Danilo maybe. Maybe that's what's happening, I don't know. But at the end of the day, at the moment it doesn't affect me, I don't think it will affect me anyway.”
Would a move to Repsol Honda not interest him? “Like I said earlier on, I've had a Monster Energy deal for 12 years, and I have a factory contract, my contract is as good as riding in that Repsol Honda garage, I can tell you that.
“But that being said, I ride for Honda. And I also am very respectful of their decisions, and if it's something that needs to be discussed, it will be discussed.
“At the moment, I have a factory contract but I ride for Lucio, and I have to respect him and his team. He's done me very proud over the last five, six years. And that's all there is to be said on my side.
“It makes absolutely no difference to me what is going on. I feel bad for Jack, because he is riding absolutely fantastic at the moment. At the end of the day, this is the problem with this game, you can be on the podium one week and out of a job the next.
“That's just the way things can work. That's where I've been very lucky in my career with regards to making podiums, etc, and making them at the right time, when you need to make them. And that's the truth.”
Is there a situation whereby he could foresee a future switch to the factory team? “As I said, I have to speak with them if the situation is the situation, but at the moment, I haven't spoken to them about anything other than going faster on the bike I'm on now, improving the bike for next year.
“But there is a big conflict in my interests. I have a great team. My deal is a factory contract, probably better than most of the factory guys on this grid, and I ride for Lucio, and I love riding for Lucio. I love my team and my garage.
“In the end, you always think the grass is always greener, but would I do it just to put on an orange suit? I don't know. You'd have to ask me if it comes on the table.”
Should Lorenzo leave and join Ducati, what would Crutchlow advise Honda to do? “Just go and sign Jack! Jack only wants a one-year deal anyway, to put everyone back in line. Go and sign Jack, he'll give his all.”
Crutchlow also moved to clarify his comments from last weekend on whether team-mate Nakagami deserved a 2020 bike for next season.
“On the subject of Taka, a lot of press made a big deal about what I said last week. But you have to understand from my side but from my side, when I got a factory bike, I'd had 3 race wins and 9 podiums.
“So if you ask me a question, why should he get a factory bike, I think that if I asked you outside of this media, you would say the same as me. I have had to earn it, I already had the contract, maybe I just never had the absolute latest bike, I had to make all that to get the latest bike.
“In my opinion, he has made one fifth place. He's riding well, as I said last week, but the media make it that I've turned around and said, no he doesn't deserve it. In my eyes, I had to do this to get a factory bike, so why should he just get it?”
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Tables just scratch surface, say heads
THERE'S much more to a school than academic success.
That's the message from local headteachers following last week's publication of secondary school performance tables.
Whitby High did best locally, with 59% of pupils gaining five or more GCSE's at grades A-star to C.
Headteacher Ron Fletcher said: 'The tables only measure academic success and there is much more to any school than that. But our pupils and staff have worked hard and deserve their reward.
Chris Needham, head of Sutton High, said: 'Some schools will always suffer because of the socially recognised problems in their catchment areas.'
Ellesmere Port Catholic High headteacher Peter Lee said: 'While we had more than a few very able students in Years 11 and 13 last year, the average ability of the year groups was lower than normal for our school and the figures in the tables slipped as a result.
'We took part in a pilot study of 200 schools across the county to produce value added tables that reflect pupils' abilities and the difference schools make.
In those tables, which do not yet include A level, we did very well indeed. At GCSE the school was 14th out of 200. Of the 13 schools with better scores, nine were independent or selective schools.'
Stanney High head David Rich says he is pleased with the rise in those getting five or more A-C GCSE grades.
He said: 'We were also pleased the number of children getting A-G grade rose and put us in the A category for similar schools across the country.
'Only three out of 144 pupils who left school at the end of last year did so with no qualifications at all, which is a big improvement on what we saw in the mid-90s.'
Benchmark scores for England: GCSE - percentage passing five or more grades A-star to C: 49.2%; A-levels - average point score per pupil 17.4; truant - average percentage 1.1%.
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I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier: Essays on Science, Scientists, and Humanity
Subject Area(s): General Interest Titles; Autobiography/Biography; History of Science
By Max F. Perutz, formerly Chairman and Member of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England
Science is no quiet life. Imagination, creativity, ambition, and conflict are as vital and abundant in science as in artistic endeavors. In this collection of essays, the Nobel Prize–winning protein chemist Max Perutz writes about the pursuit of scientific knowledge, which he sees as an enterprise providing not just new facts but cause for reflection and revelation, as in a poem or painting. Max Perutz's essays explore a remarkable range of scientific topics with the lucidity and precision Perutz brought to his own pioneering work in protein crystallography. He has been hailed as an author who "makes difficult subjects intelligible and writes with the warmth, humanity, and broad culture which has always characterized the great men of science." Of his previous collection of essays, a reviewer said "They turn the world of science and medicine into a marvelous land of adventure which I was thrilled to explore in the company of this wise and human [writer]." Readers of this volume can journey to the same land, with the same delight.
Max Perutz (1914–2002) was a brilliant scientist, a visionary of molecular biology, and a writer of elegant essays infused with humanity and wisdom. This expanded paperback edition of his very successful book I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier contains nine additional essays, and a warmly evocative portrait of Max by his friend and professional colleague Sir John Meurig Thomas.
The original hardcover edition of this book was co-published with Oxford University Press. A paperback edition is also available from Oxford University Press. The expanded paperback edition is only available from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
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Baldini & Castoldi—Italian Translation Rights
Editions Odile Jacob—French Translation Rights
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(of the expanded paperback edition) (*indicates new essay)
PLOUGHSHARES INTO SWORDS
Friend or Foe of Mankind?
Splitting the Atom
The Man Who Patented the Bomb
Why Did the Germans Not Make the Bomb?
Bomb Designer Turned Dissident
Liberating France
Enemy Alien
The Threat of Biological Weapons*
HOW TO MAKE DISCOVERIES
High on Science
Deconstructing Pasteur
The Battle Over Vitamin C
A Mystery of the Tropics
The Forgotten Plague
What Holds Molecules Together?
I Wish I?d Make You Angry Earlier
Big Fleas Have Little Fleas
How the Secret of Life Was Discovered
Dangerous Misprints
A Deadly Inheritance
Darwin Was Right
A Passion for Crystals
The Top Designer*
The Great Sage*
It Ain't Necessarily So*
RIGHT AND WRONGS
By What Right Do We Invoke Human Rights?
The Right to Choose
Swords into Ploughshares: Does Nuclear Energy Endanger Us?
What If?*
MORE ABOUT DISCOVERIES
The Second Secret of Life
How W.L. Bragg Invented X-ray Analysis
Life?s Energy Cycle
The Hormone that Makes Nerves Grow
How Nerves Conduct Electricity
In Pursuit of Peace and Protein*
Keilin and the Molteno*
Growing Up among the Elements*
Friendly Way to Science*
The Scientific and Humane Legacy of Max Perutz (1914–2002) by Sir John Meurig Thomas*
My Commonplace Book
The following reviews were of the hardcover edition
"Perutz's extraordinary historical grasp and the breadth of his personal experience and cultural perspective give his reviews an interest that often transcends that of the books themselves. He brings luminously to life such figures as Fritz Haber, Lise Meitner and Leo Szilard. He writes with wonderfully lucid precision about science and offers also a fine polemic, first read to the American Philosophical Society, on the meaning of freedom….
This is a wholly captivating book; it has warmth, wit and style, and not a dull sentence. I urge you to read, enjoy and learn."
"The essays are beautifully written, with flashes of wit and humor. Many of the essays were written for the New York Review of Books; anyone addicted to that journal, as I am, will at once get a feel for the style of these essays. I read this as a bedtime book, so I dipped into it at random. When I finally found that there was no more to read, I felt quite disappointed — no more chocolates in the box!"
—Nature Medicine
"Allusions to literary and classical characters abound in Perutz's essays and bear witness to his status as a true Renaissance man. In this collection creativity is only one of numerous scientific themes that are discussed with the same lucidity and precision that characterize Perutz's pioneering work on crystallography ….
According to Nobel Laureate Peter Medawar (physiology or medicine, 1960), one of the many scientists profiled in this book, ‘science at all levels of endeavour is a passionate enterprise and the pursuit of natural knowledge a sortie into the unknown.’ Perutz's book, which we heartily recommend to scientist and nonscientist alike, will convince its readers of the truth of this statement."
—The Chemical Educator
I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier: Essays on Science, Scientists, and Humanity [Cloth]
Max Perutz and the Secret of Life [Hardcover]
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Dr Michael Mitchell and Associate Professor Catherine Allan have been assisting Landcare NSW with its recent organisational capacity survey. The survey administered by Landcare NSW used an instrument developed by the two researchers, in collaboration with Murray Local Land Services (LLS) and Holbrook Landcare Network, in 2016. The survey instrument was designed to encourage and enable Community Based Natural Resource Management groups undertake assessment of their capacity to act, and to consider their relative strengths and weaknesses. With the agreement of all involved, the original group capacity instrument was made open source to enable its widespread use.
In 2017 Landcare NSW administered the group capacity survey to all NSW organisations that hosted a landcare network co-ordinator, to better understand the strengths and needs of the Local Landcare Coordinator Initiative. It re-administered the survey in 2018, providing an opportunity to increase the overall response rate, and for some organisations to compare results across two consecutive years.
Dr Mitchell and Associate Professor Allan have been commissioned to assist with the analysis and reporting of the results from the two surveys. Following analysis, each participating Landcare organisation received an individual ‘snapshot’ report of their current self-assessed capacities. The snapshot report presents clear visuals and interprets the results, so the reports can act as a primer for conversations within the organisation. Organisations that completed the survey over two years received information to enable comparison and discussion of change.
A report for Landcare NSW is being prepared that synthesises the material from the individual group snapshot reports, providing them with indications of statewide strengths and weaknesses among Landcare networks.
Participating Landcare organisations have received individual 'snapshot' reports.
The information provided gives Landcare NSW an indication of the statewide strengths and weaknesses among Landcare networks, which in turn can be used to make future decisions on how best to invest in Landcare networks.
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Taylor Swift & the prince: unseen images of famous people in new show
By Lauren Scott 2018-10-21T17:21:27Z
A display of intimate celebrity portraits by Phil Griffin on show in London promotes wellbeing in the entertainment industry
Filmmaker and photographer Phil Griffin has worked with artists around the world, and London’s Brownsword Hepworth Gallery will soon be exhibiting a series of his previously un-shown portraits – taken from 25 years in film and photography.
The aptly titled Unseen Icons brings together intimate portraits that Griffin captured during his career in the entertainment industry. Before turning to photography, the artist was as a dancer and choreographer. Later working as a creative director, he was able to forge close friendships with his sitters, that include members of royal family and the superstars from the entertainment industry.
A good photograph is never taken - but given. My job was to make myself available to capture these moments of stillness from each of my collaborators, so each portrait is a moment of pure truth and self-expression.
Phil Griffin
The famous faces on show at the Chelsea-based gallery include Diana Ross, Amy Winehouse, Taylor Swift, Jon Bon Jovi, Adele, Sir Paul McCartney, HRH The Prince of Wales and HRH The Duke of Cambridge.
Griffin's photographs erase the preconceptions of these celebrated public figures, and capture them in a more vulnerable and honest light.
Six shots from the show…
Amy Winehouse, by Paul Griffin, Unseen Icons, Brownsword Hepworth Gallery (Image credit: Phil Griffin)
HRH Prince William by Paul Griffin, Unseen Icons, Brownsword Hepworth Gallery (Image credit: Phil Griffin)
Prince William & Taylor Swift, Kensington Palace 2013, by Paul Griffin, Unseen Icons, Brownsword Hepworth Gallery
Annie Lennox by Paul Griffin, Unseen Icons, Brownsword Hepworth Gallery
Jamal Edwards, by Paul Griffin, Unseen Icons, Brownsword Hepworth Gallery (Image credit: Phil Griffin)
Paul McCartney by Paul Griffin, Unseen Icons, Brownsword Hepworth Gallery
Griffin wants to use his photos to further the conversation about wellbeing in the arts and entertainment industry. The exhibition is just the first step of a wider project aiming to promote this, and a proportion of the proceeds will be donated to support The Princes Trust and Amy Winehouse Foundation programs.
Unseen Icons will be on show at the Brownsword Hepworth Gallery, 15 Walton Street, London SW3 2HX, between 24 October - 23 November 2018.
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With craft brewery, pair continues River District transformation
The two men who have partnered in two successful development projects in the River District — the Pemberton Lofts on Bridge Street and the Continental Lofts on Craghead Street — have teamed up again to bring a craft brewery to the district.
Ross Fickenscher and Garrett Shifflett are developing 600 Craghead St., which will have two commercial spaces at street level — including Ballad Brewing — and 56 apartments on the upper levels.
On Tuesday, Todd Haymore, the state’s secretary of commerce and trade, and Rita McClenny, president and CEO of the Virginia Tourism Corporation, were in Danville for the official announcement and to present a check for $90,805 from the Virginia Tourism Growth Fund to Fickenscher and Shifflett for the project.
Haymore said the popularity of craft breweries has become “instant revenue generators” in Virginia, bringing in tourism dollars, jobs and tax revenues that have added up to $1 billion in economic impact and employing nearly 9,000 people in the state. He said there are roughly 160 craft brewers in the state, with new ones opening “fairly rapidly.”
“The craft beer business in particular is booming in Virginia,” Haymore said, noting that Danville’s historic warehouses lend themselves to this type of development.
McClenny said travelers often look for unique experiences, and small, local, craft breweries can provide that.
“Visitors want to try something that can only take place at that time and place,” McClenny said.
Fickenscher said entrance to the tap room and brewery itself will be made from Colquhoun Street side of the building, while the entrance at 600 Craghead St. will take tenants into the apartments.
The project is expected to be completed in April.
The brewery will have a total of 23 barrels for production — 20 of which will be for larger production runs, while three will be used for smaller batch pilot — or experimental — brews. The various beers will be available to customers in the tap room by the glass or to take home.
“Ballad Brewing will initially produce three or four different flagship styles of beer and will also offer a wider variety of offerings in the tasting room,” Fickenscher said in a news release from Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s office — and which he confirmed at the announcement. “For the first six months, these products will be served exclusively in the brewery’s tasting room.”
As the brewing process moves along, bottled and keg beer will be available for broader distribution, Fickenscher said.
“We’re excited to start brewing,” Fickenscher said.
John Andorfer will be the head brewer. He and his wife, Kathie, moved to Danville about a year ago, so they could be closer to her mother.
They lived in Connecticut for 12 years, where John became fascinated with beer brewing and ultimately became the head brewer at Cottrell Brewing Co. in Pawcatuck.
That, however, was an established brewery, John said, while looking at the dirt floors where assorted pipes had been laid for the Ballad Brewing.
“They’re getting ready to pour the concrete floor now,” John said. “This is a new experience, getting to see it from the ground up.”
The 20-barrel brew system will produce about a dozen different beers, some of which will rotate seasonally, John said. The three-barrel system will be for testing new flavors.
Danville Mayor John Gilstrap thanked Fickenscher and Shifflett for their part in the River District’s transformation. He said this third project will bring the partners’ total investment in the River District to about $28 million.
“You have played a major role in redeveloping the heart of our city,” Gilstrap said.
Denice Thibodeau is a reporter for the Danville Register & Bee. Contact her at dthibodeau@registerbee.com or (434) 791-7985.
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Doyle Primm’s crafts are growing as a musician/artist as well as an engineer/producer. He is actively engaged in continuing education in these skill sets and the newest tools of the industry. His studio has expanded from 64 bit PC based recording, mixing and mastering on Sonar Producer to include an iMac with Pro Tools & Logic Pro X. Doyle goes on location and records soloists and bands for that “live capture”. Production tools and brands include Cakewalk Sonar Platinum, AVID Pro Tools, Apple Logic Pro X, Waves Plugins, Sony Products (Acid/Sound Forge), Native Instruments, IK Multimedia, FabFilter, Sugar Bytes, Celemony Melodyne Studio and Lennar Digital Sylenth… to name just a few.
Doyle has been working with a range of artist from Christian Rap, Indie, Pop, Blues and Country genres.
I love all kinds of music from Bluegrass to Jazz and strive to stay true and pure to the style of the artisans I’m working with. I seek to bring a creative element that will invigorate and excite an original piece of music.
This year Doyle’s goal is to publish his original songs for music downloads and YouTube sharing for preview. Creating a catalog of tunes for an artist to use and record for their projects is high on his priority list.
I write, co-write, record, arrange, mix, remix with artists that are ambitious.
I teach and mentor young artist for their future in the music industry.
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Menstruation is still a taboo in India, and it is common for people across society to feel uncomfortable about the subject. Under the scheme of Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin), Ek Diwasiya Karyashaala (One Day Workshop) was organized on Menstrual Hygiene Management in Kalchhina, Modinagar to ensure that adolescent girls and women have the necessary support and facilities.
Students of DPSG came forward to raise awareness through ‘Street Play’. Through their play they sensitized the people present about the importance of health and hygiene during menstrual cycle. They expressed the necessity of menstruation and the problems caused by negligence. The students also explained, that, to maintain health during this time, girls and women should consume a healthy and nutritious diet consisting of green vegetables and fruits. They should take care of themselves and not exert themselves physically. Lastly, they emphasized that Menstruation is a ‘condition, not a disease’.
INTERNATIONAL INTERACT WEEK
There is no exercise better for heart than reaching down and lifting people up. Not every individual in our society is equally privileged. Keeping this in mind, the students of the interact club of Delhi Public School Ghaziabad hosted a special assembly ‘ME to WE’. This assembly was a part of the 2019 WORLD INTERACT WEEK celebrations. DPSG joined hands with the Rotary Club of Ghaziabad to sensitize the students to enthusiastically participate in community outreach. The young Interactors, with utmost exuberance shared the joy of helping the underprivileged. The students of DPSG also participated wholeheartedly in celebrating ‘Thankful Thursday’. Students wrote gratitude notes to Rotary Club Ghaziabad for their unconditional support towards the upliftment of the unfortunate.
DISTRICT INTERACT LEADERSHIP ASSEMBLY, 2019
ME TO WE
“We Interactors are the youth, we Interactors are the future and WE WILL change the world.”
The District Interact Leadership Assembly was held at G.L.Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management , Greater Noida on October 16, 2019.
Eminent guests present on the occasion were Mr Alok Gupta, District Governor, DG Rotarian Mr Deepak Gupta. The guests addressed the gathering and encouraged the students to participate in more activities which benefit the propitious sections of the society.
The ceremony was held for the Installation of the new District Interact Team. The event started with the melodious rendition sung by Interactor Tejal Tyagi of DPSG.
15 ZIR (Zonal Interact Representatives) from across the District and Delhi NCR were selected after a round of interview. Sanya Tyagi, DPSG, was selected as the ZIR and was given a badge. Sneha Gupta was selected as the Sergeant at Arms.
In the end, DG Rotarian Deepak Gupta held an interactive session with the Interactors wherein implementation of the following projects were discussed.
1. Each one, Teach two
2. Know your Numbers (BP, sugar levels, Body Mass)
3. Prevention from Non-Communicable Diseases
4. Counselling for acid attack survivors
5. Rehabilitation for Cancer Patients
6. Happy Clinics for the people who are suffering mental problems.
The event saw cultural performances by the students from various schools.
Bal sahyog
SANITATION DRIVE - KADRABAD VILLAGE
Girls from class IX alongwith their teacher incharges visited Kadrabad village. This visit was a part of ongoing sanitation drive wherein the aim was to sensitize the females of the village about hygiene and sanitation, and use of sanitary napkins for their monthly menstrual cycle. They were told about the basics of menstrual cycle. And how using a cloth can lead to severe diseases and infections. The young DPSGiites also sensitized them about the importance of a healthy diet.
The students actively interacted with all the people present there. They discussed the common problems faced and answered the queries of people at Kadrabad. They also distributed sanitary napkins to the women.
In future projects, they look forward to sensitizing more and more girls about the utmost importance of using clean and safe products and maintaining sanitation and making more women comfortable to this topic.
Report on Swachhata Pakhwada
Recognizing the vital role of the school in spreading awareness about SWACHHATA MISSION , DPSG observed ‘ SWACHHATA PAKHWADA- Cleanliness Drive for Swachh Bharat’ from 1st to 15th September, 2019. Multifarious activities were organized - like Plantation drive, Poster making , Slogan writing, Letter writing and conducting a Special Assembly on Hand wash day to create awareness among the students regarding health and hygiene.
Students from classes VII to X enthusiastically took part in the Plantation Drive wherein they planted plants of various kinds within and outside the school premises.
Students of class X visited the underprivileged children of Poorv Madhayamik Vidhyalaya, Morta, on 4th September, 2019 where they made them aware about Swachch Bharat Abhiyan launched by our respectable Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi. They were taught about the importance of personal hygiene as well as the significance of keeping their surroundings clean.
Students participated in Poster Making and Slogan Writing Competitions with great vigour and energy from 7th to 9th September, 2019 and created innovative posters and slogans to promote ‘Hand Wash Day’.
On the fresh morning of 13th September, 2019, students of class IX organized a Swachhata Assembly to spread awareness about cleanliness and personal hygiene. Students expressed their views on 'Swwachta - a stage towards tidiness' ,beautiful poems were recited and melodious songs were sung in order to spread this message.
Independence Day Celebration at Morta
Community service enables students to acquire life skills and knowledge, as well as provide a service to those who need it the most.
Keeping in sync with this thought, students of Interact Club visited Poorv Madhyamik Vidyalaya, Morta. On reaching there, DPSGiites introduced themselves and interacted with the students at Morta. Students spent their day by teaching and enjoying the students at Morta. They also celebrated Independence Day with them. They told them about the importance of this day, narrated some of the famous incidents of the freedom struggle and how valiantly these heroes of our nation fought against the British rule for a free and united India. The students truly delved into the feeling of patriotism. They organized a poster and slogan writing competition and distributed gifts. The students of Morta participated in these activities with a lot of zeal and enthusiasm.
KISHORE DIWAS
BISOKHAR, MODINAGAR
On the occasion of Kishore Diwas, DPSG organised a Sanitation Drive in Anganwadi School of Bisokhar, Modinagar on August 8, 2019. This visit focused on encouraging the use of sanitary napkins during Menstrual Cycles and maintaining proper hygiene. The students discussed the importance of using sanitary napkins during menstrual cycles and also demonstrated its proper usage and disposal. They talked to them about the cleanliness necessary during this period and home remedies which can be used for the problems faced. They also made them aware of the importance of doctor visits when required. The DPSGiites actively interacted with all the girls and women present there. They also distributed sanitary napkins to the women.
In future projects, they look forward to sensitize more and more girls about the utmost importance of using clean and safe products and maintaining sanitation.
AWARENESS DRIVE AT VILLAGE TYODI
If girls and women are to live healthy and productive lives, with dignity, menstrual hygiene is a priority. In many areas, there is complete neglect of menstrual hygiene due to low awareness levels and lack of access to sanitary products.
Keeping in sync with this, girls from Secondary Wing alongwith their teacher incharges visited Tyodi village, Muradnagar on July 19, 2019. This visit was a part of ongoing Sanitation drive wherein the aim was to sensitize the females of the village about hygiene and sanitation, and use of sanitary napkins for their monthly menstrual cycle. They were told about the basics of menstrual cycle. And how using a cloth can lead to severe diseases and infections. Many of them were so poor that they couldn’t afford to buy the expensive sanitary napkins. So they were enlightened about various programmes initiated by the government about the free distribution of sanitary napkins . In the end, sanitary napkins were distributed to everyone . It was indeed educative experience for both the village folks as well as the girls of DPSG.
“Never worry about numbers, help one person at a time always start with the person nearest you.”
Delhi Public Ghaziabad has always been working for under privileged sector of the society, for their betterment. School is also associated with the Rotary Club, a non-profit organisation and has taken initiative to make improvements in the remote areas. The school encourages students to take an active role to help provide a better future for these children. The school believes that it not only helps the needy, but also enhances the personal knowledge, grow from new experiences and develop interpersonal communication skills that builds character of the DPSGiites. Keeping in sync with this, the school has an Interact Club which is led by the students of class 10.
The esteemed guests present on the occasion were Mr Kshitij Gupta, President Rotary Club; Mr Pawan Rastogi, President Elect; Mr Pankaj Gupta, Mr Ashok Saha, Mr M. M. Aggarwal; Mr Salil Bansal, Treasurer; Mr Sachin Vats, Interact Chair
The assembly started with the Lightning of the Lamp. The melodious song and classical dance left the audience enthralled. The team of 2018-19 proudly shared their experiences with the new torchbearers and showcased all their efforts for the upliftment of the society. The guests honoured the volunteers of the Interact Club with badges, and the guests congratulated upcoming 2019-20 team, they shared the upcoming plans and encouraged the students to work hard for a better society. The school teachers along with the esteemed guests sensitized the students of class 10 attending the Installation Ceremony about the work of the Interact and Rotary Club and importance of Community Service. They were urged to understand the need of the hour, selflessly devote themselves towards a shining future. The Assembly aimed at teaching the students that helping costs nothing, but it changes everything.
Visit to BHOJPUR VILLAGE was organised on May 8, 2019. The main objective of organizing this visit was to spread awareness about usage of sanitary napkins. Students of class 10 participated with full responsibility. Middle aged ladies and young girls were told about the importance of using napkins. They were also briefed about the steps to use and dispose them. Students discussed about health issues faced by females due to use of cloth. DPSG donated two sanitary napkin wending machines and got it installed in their Anganwadi centre. The school also distributed sanitary napkins to all the girls and ladies of the Bhojpur Block.
LAADLI DIWAS
DPSG in collaboration with District Administration Ghaziabad organized a visit to Primary School in Gadana on February 25, 2019 to celebrate the ‘Laadli Diwas.’ A team of students along with their teacher incharges visited the school. This visit mainly aimed at creating awareness and sensitizing the girls about Health and Hygiene during the Menstrual Cycles.
Team DPSG interacted with the girls there to help them understand the importance of cleanliness and sanitation during the menstrual cycle. The girls were reluctant to discuss their problems, so, the idea of a ‘Suggestion Box’ was proposed. Girls wrote down their problems and put them in the suggestion box which will be discussed during the next visit.
Girls in Gadana were unaware about the proper usage of sanitary pads and many did not use them at all. DPSGiites distributed sanitary pads to these girls and encouraged them to start using them. Proper disposal methods and necessary precautions were also discussed.
Anti-cracker Rally
An Anti-cracker Rally was organized by Delhi Public School Ghaziabad wherein students from Secondary Wing visited Rajnagar District Centre, Ghaziabad before Diwali. The aim of this rally was to make students and people aware of the environmental and pollution hazards due to unchecked bursting of fire crackers. People were made to understand that the festival of lights can be observed without bursting fire crackers. Students participated in the rally with full zeal and enthusiasm. It proved to be a good learning experience for them.
Visit to Morta
Health Check-up Camp
A healthy mind resides in a healthy body and a healthy body is the key to a happy, hale and hearty life.
DPSG firmly believes that healthy students of today can create a healthy and progressive community of tomorrow. Keeping up with its standards, DPSG Interact Club in collaboration with Rotary Club, Ghaziabad organized a Health Check-up Camp for students at Poorv Madhyamik Vidyalaya, Morta. The students of class 9 along with the school interact team enlightened them about the importance of good health, various ways of keeping themselves fit and healthy, and the need of taking a balanced diet.
The whole body check-up was done which included dental hygiene, eye sight test, growth pattern, height and weight as well as the mental and physical health status of the students. Dental care was one area of major concern with the students at Morta. They were given tips of brushing their teeth properly and advised regular dental check-ups at short intervals.
Overall it was a remarkable experience for both, students at Morta and the DPSGiites. The students of Poorv Madhyamik Vidyalaya promised not only to look after themselves, but also to spread awareness amongst the people there.
Community Outreach Programme
A team of 17 students from Secondary Wing along with their teacher incharge, Ms Ruchi Anand visited Adwait Public School on October 12. The aim was to sensitize our students to needs of underprivileged children. The students distributed food packets, books, and toys to them. They shared the nuances of making Madhubani painting with the students there. They were also shown the decorative material made by special kids for Diwali.
In all, students had a good experience and understood that true happiness lies in helping others.
Visit to Asha Vidyalaya Ingraham Institute
Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.
Keeping in sync with this thought, students from Secondary Wing went to Asha Vidyalaya Ingraham Institute, a school for students with hearing impairment on October 16. The students interacted with the teachers and learnt that they were taught using sign language. The mesmerising dance performance by students of Asha Vidyalaya left everybody spell bound. What left them amazed was the fact that they were dancing even though they didn't know the beats. They had a very positive outlook towards life despite having hearing impairment. The students distributed sweets and food items to them. After receiving the gifts, the smile on their sweet faces was a sight to behold. Our students also visited Sanyas Ashram, Gandhi Nagar and distributed sweets. Overall it was an endearing experience filled with knowledge for DPSGiites.
Visit to Morta Village
The students of the Interact Club accompanied by two teachers paid a visit to Morta Village on 13th October, 2017 to celebrate the festive spirit of Diwali with underprivileged children. The students explained the importance of the ‘Festival of Light’ to the children and played various games with them.
A ‘Diya Decoration’ competition was also organized wherein all the required material was supplied by the club students and prizes were distributed to the best three diya decorators. In the end, all the kids were given Diwali gifts.
A team of students from class XE accompanied by Ms Poonam Goel visited Poorv Madhyamik Vidhyalaya, Morta on 29th July, 2017. This visit was a part of ongoing programme that DPSG initiated by adopting Morta village. The session conducted by team DPSG focused on speaking activities. Just a Minute (JAM) activity was conducted by the students as a part of ‘Community Outreach Programme’ All the students participated enthusiastically. The children belonged to different classes ranging from classes 7 to 10. The winners were awarded colour boxes and stationery items. Such activities would surely help students fight stage fright and enable them to emerge as confident individuals. . In all, it was an enriching experience for the DPSGiites indeed!
With the vision to inculcate the virtue of love and compassion, giving and sharing, and above all to sow the seeds of knowledge among the underprivileged students, the community connect club of Senior Secondary wing of DPSG visited the school in Morta village to take interactive sessions with the students of class VIII. The DPSG students conducted English speaking and reading sessions with the school students and even held spelling competition. It was great to see the students actively participating and excelling in their efforts as well. Overall it was an enriching experience.
Awekening Citizien
Everyone in democracy has a right to vote. The students of class XI of DPSG organized a rally to spread awareness on the importance of voting. The rally was aimed at educating people on their right to vote and their right to select their own representative. The enthusiastic children spread this enthusiasm in the voters to be a part of the democracy and use the right judiciously.
Responsive Citizen
Providing support to the needy and underprivileged is the responsibility of every individual. Delhi Public School has been taking small strides by preparing students to be benevolent individuals. Shaping them into true human being is an endeavour of DPSG. To train the young minds for philanthropic endeavours and imbibing in them the attitude of giving back to the society, a donation drive was organized by the Community Connect Club.
DPSG has adopted Morta village
Guided by the belief that every life is valuable in itself , DPSG has adopted Morta village under the Community Connect Programme.
In order to increase literacy and foster a love for technology in this digital age, classes were taken at Poorv Madhyamik Vidhyalaya on 3rd August, 2016. The young volunteers of DPSG, Secondary Wing enthusiastically taught the students of classes VI-VIII how to draw pictures on computer using paint brush and typing on MS Word. It was an enriching experience for the under-privileged students.
Digital Literacy for the underprivileged
Delhi Public School Ghaziabad has always believed in instilling in its students the sense of responsibility towards society and thereby offering service to the nation. On 20th July, 2016 a group of 15 Interact Club students from classes X and XI accompanied by teacher incharges Mrs. Soma Singh, Mrs. Reena Chaudhary and Mr. Nitin Kumar started off on their noble mission of making the staff and students of Poorv Madhyamik Vidhyalaya, Morta digitally literate. The students were equipped with laptops and had planned the lessons well. The team DPSG was greeted warmly by the students of Morta Village. The Morta students were sensitized towards the importance of technology in today’s times and were made abreast of various components of a desktop computer. Various drawings made by these students using computer was a treat to eyes. Later the students were given hands on experience on the MS word tool and typing. It was an experience where the young leaders of both the schools exchanged knowledge, skills and values.
Delhi Public School Ghaziabad has always believed in instilling in its students the sense of responsibility towards society and thereby offering service to the nation. On 20th July, 2016 a group of 15 Interact Club students from classes X and XI accompanied by Mrs. Soma Singh, Mrs. Reena Chaudhary and Mr. Nitin Kumar started off on their noble mission of making the staff and students of Poorv Madhyamik Vidhyalaya, Morta digitally literate. The students were equipped with laptops and had planned the lessons well to teach digital literacy to the underprivileged children of this school. The team DPSG was greeted by smiles of students of Morta Village and a very unique spark of enthusiasm in their eyes was worth cherishing. The Morta students were sensitized towards the importance of technology in today’s times and they were made abreast of various components of a desktop computer. The drawings of computer made by these students was a treat to eyes. Later the students were given hands on experience on the MS word tool and typing. It was an experience where the young leaders of both the school exchanged knowledge, skills and values.
Social Service at Gejha Village
Students from DPSG, Secondary Wing participated in a cleanliness drive held at Gejha village, Noida on 7th May, 2016. They picked up litter from the path. They were provided with masks and gloves . The garbage was then loaded in a truck. The students learnt that one should not throw garbage here and there. This session definitely helped the students understand the significance of cleanliness as well as importance of sanitation, hygiene and health.
Poorv Madhyamik Vidyalaya, Morta
A team of class 10 students accompanied by Ms Ranjana Goel visited Poorv Madhyamik Vidyalaya, Morta on 6th April, 2016. This visit was a part of ongoing programme that DPSG initiated by adopting Morta village. The session conducted by the DPSG students focused on the importance of sanitation, hygiene and health and thus sensitized them about this very important issue. They taught the students in the government school in Morta. Particularly those topics were taken up which the students of the government school found difficult Moreover, they conveyed them the significance of education in one’s life. The children belonged to different classes ranging from classes 1 to 8. Everyone there participated enthusiastically. Later on the students from both schools played kho-kho. Students from DPSG also learned to play a new game, gilli-danda. In all, it was an enriching experience for the DPSGiites indeed!
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List of Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities In Prairie Du Sac, WI.
Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities in Prairie Du Sac
The city of Prairie Du Sac, WI. has a population of approximately 4,970. The most common substances abused in the city of Prairie Du Sac are: marijuana, meth, heroin, cocaine, alcohol, fentanyl, demerol, spice, kratom, ativan, klonopin, and methadone. With powerful addictive substances like meth, heroin, cocaine, and alcohol that are known to be on the streets of Prairie Du Sac, substance abuse in the area is inevitable. But for the people that become dependent on alcohol or drugs there is no reason to continue suffering, as there are 26 alcohol and drug rehabilitation programs and other addiction treatment programs that service the Prairie Du Sac area.
Addiction Treatment Service Settings and Treatment Approaches in Prairie Du Sac, WI.
With the help of one of these drug and alcohol abuse treatment providers you can begin and eventually complete the full recovery process and have a bright future. There are a variety of treatment options in Prairie Du Sac, Wisconsin including inpatient addiction treatment facilities, long term drug addiction treatment, detoxification programs, short term drug rehab facilities, outpatient substance abuse treatment services and others. There is a broad range of substance abuse treatment methods available in Prairie Du Sac. As an example, trauma-related counseling, couple/family therapy, motivational interviewing, group therapy, cognitive/behavior therapy, individual psychotherapy and others, to name a few.
Special Programs for Alcohol and Drug Treatment and Forms of Payment Accepted in Prairie Du Sac, WI.
Because alcohol and drug abuse rehabilitation is not a "one size fits all" situation, centers in Prairie Du Sac offer special programs for suicide prevention services, persons with serious mental illness, persons with eating disorders, residential beds for client's children, transgender or (LGBT) clients, co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, and others. Because of the economic differences in Prairie Du Sac there are many methods and ways to finance an addict's much needed rehabilitation such as cash or self-payment, private medical insurance, military insurance, payment assistance, state welfare or child and family services funds, other state funds and more.
If you reside in Prairie Du Sac, Wisconsin and are fighting with addiction, help is just a phone call away. Get help today.
List of Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities Serving the Prairie Du Sac, Wisconsin Area:
Pathway Clinic
Prairie Du Sac, WI. 53578
Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services, Substance Abuse Treatment Services
Outpatient Drug Rehab, Outpatient Day Treatment or Partial Hospitalization, Intensive Outpatient Treatment, Regular Outpatient Treatment
Community Services Associates SC DBA Pauquette Ctr/Psychological Servs
50 Prairie Avenue
Outpatient Drug Rehab, Outpatient Mental Health Facility
Baraboo VA CBOC
(Serving the Prairie Du Sac area, Baraboo VA CBOC is 10 miles from Prairie Du Sac, Wisconsin)
Baraboo, WI. 53913
The US Department of Veterans Affairs provides patient care and federal benefits to veterans and their dependents.
Mental Health Treatment, Psychotropic medication
Outpatient Drug Rehab
Individual Psychotherapy, Group Therapy, Cognitive/behavior Therapy, Behavior Modification, Dual Diagnosis Drug Rehab, Trauma Therapy, Telemedicine Therapy, Smoking/tobacco cessation counselling
Medicaid, Medicare, State Financed Health Insurance Plan Other Than Medicaid, Private Health Insurance, Military Insurance (e.g., Tricare), U.S Department of VA Funds
Veterans, Persons Who Have Experienced Trauma, Persons With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Transitional Age Young Adults, Chronic disease/illness management, Case management, Court-ordered outpatient treatment, Diet and exercise counseling, Family psychoeducation, Housing services, Illness management and recovery, Integrated primary care service, Nicotine replacement therapy, Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation medications, Suicide prevention services, Screening for tobacco use
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Young Adults, Adults, Seniors (65 Or Older)
Services For The Hearing-Impaired, Other Languages, Portuguese
Smoking Policy:
Smoking Allowed In Designated Area
Emergency Mental Health:
Psychiatric Emergency Walk-In Services
Facility Operation:
Sauk Cnty Department of Human Servs
(Serving the Prairie Du Sac area, Sauk Cnty Department of Human Servs is 10.8 miles from Prairie Du Sac, WI)
Individual Psychotherapy, Couple/family Therapy, Cognitive/behavior Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Behavior Modification, Dual Diagnosis Drug Rehab, Trauma Therapy, Telemedicine Therapy
Cash or Self-Payment, Medicaid, Medicare, Private Health Insurance, Military Insurance (e.g., Tricare), State Mental Health Agency Funds, Other State Funds, County or Local Government Funds, Community Mental Health Block Grants, Sliding Fee Scale (Fee Is Based On Income and Other Factors)
Case management, Court-ordered outpatient treatment, Diet and exercise counseling, Family psychoeducation, Intensive case management, Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation medications, Psychosocial rehabilitation services, Suicide prevention services
Children/Adolescents, Young Adults, Adults, Seniors (65 Or Older)
Services For The Hearing-Impaired, Spanish
Regional/District Or County, Local Or Municipal Government
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Jingle All the Way (1996)
Two Dads, One Toy, No Prisoners.
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E.J. De la Pena
Michael Barnathan
It's right before Christmas and every parent around is racing to complete the impossible and find the nearly sold out Turbo Man action figure in order to satisfy his own child's wish list. Tired of disappointing his son, Howard (the main character) sets out on a crazy adventure throughout the town to try and accomplish this feat. He ends up competing against several others parents in order to win a spot in the Christmas parade which will feature Turbo Man. Howard will stop at nothing to make his child's wish a reality and the adventures that he has to go through prove to be hilarious and harried in this quest for the ultimate prize, Turbo Man.
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American Airlines reaches deal with Boeing on MAX losses
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Mechanical engineering is an old school field. It is the concept that includes engineering physics, engineering mathematics, and materials science. Engineers in mechanical department design products to bring about innovations in the world and make it a better place.
Mechanical engineers first created a cart that had wheels. Later on, they designed vehicles, and other products of machines to help people live in a better world.
The branch of engineering came into existence during the 18th century in Europe. This was the time of the Industrial Revolution. There were still some of the subjects that were yet to come. Physics was put forth in the 19th century which led the development of mechanical engineering science.
Mechanical engineers plan, design, create and function engines and other mechanically functioning equipment. Their work also includes maintaining, managing, installing and repairing mechanical equipment such as steam systems, centralizing heat, gas, and water.
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Deeplinks Blog by Jamie Williams, Karen Gullo | December 6, 2017
Government Documents Show FBI Cleared Filmmaker Laura Poitras After Six-Year Fishing Expedition
The government recently revealed for the first time that federal agents maintained an open investigation of our client, Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, for six years despite never finding any evidence that she committed a crime or was a threat to national security. Coming up empty handed after...
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Deeplinks Blog by Karen Gullo | December 1, 2017
EFF Staffers Jennifer Lynch and Dave Maass Receive Award for Groundbreaking Work In Providing Public Access to Police Surveillance Records
EFF Senior Staff Attorney Jennifer Lynch and Investigative Researcher Dave Maass last night received the First Amendment Coalition’s 2017 Free Speech & Open Government Award in recognition for their work bringing transparency and accountability to law enforcement’s collection and use of automated license plate...
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Deeplinks Blog by David Greene, Karen Gullo | November 30, 2017
When Tweets Are Governmental Business, Officials Don't Get to Pick and Choose Who Gets To Receive, Comment On, And Reply to Them. That Goes For the President, Too
We’ve taken a stand for the First Amendment rights of individuals to receive and comment on social media posts from governmental officials and agencies. We’ve received a lot of good questions about why we believe that public servants—mayors, sheriffs, senators, even President Donald Trump—can’t block people whose views...
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Press Release | November 6, 2017
Trump’s Blocking People From His Twitter Account Violates the First Amendment, EFF Tells Court
New York, New York—President Donald Trump's blocking of people on Twitter who criticize him violates their constitutional right to receive government messages transmitted through social media and participate in the forums created by them, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) told a court today. Public agencies and officials, from...
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What if You Had to Worry About a Lawsuit Every Time You Linked to an Image Online?
A photographer and a photo agency are teaming up to restart a legal war against online linking in the United States. When Internet users browse websites containing images, those images often are retrieved from third-parties, rather than the author of the website. Sometimes, unbeknownst to the website author, the linked...
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EFF, ACLU Sue Over Warrantless Phone, Laptop Searches at U.S. Border
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, ACLU Win Court Ruling That Police Can't Keep License Plate Data Secret
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked the Supreme Court to review and overturn an unprecedented ruling allowing the government to intercept, collect, and store—without a warrant—millions of Americans’ electronic communications, including emails, texts, phone calls, and online chats. This warrantless surveillance is conducted by U.S. intelligence agencies...
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EFF To Court: Border Agents Need Warrants to Search Contents of Digital Devices
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EFF Press Release Archives
Press Releases: May 2019
Hearing Wednesday: Can Criminal Defendants Review DNA Analysis Software Used to Prosecute Them?
Fresno – On Wednesday, May 22, at 9 am, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will argue that criminal defendants have a right to review and evaluate the source code of forensic DNA analysis software programs used to create evidence against them. The case, California v. Johnson, is on appeal...
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Media Alert: Court Hearing Monday for Redditor Fighting to Stay Anonymous
San Francisco – On Monday, May 6 at 11am, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will argue that a San Francisco court should quash a subpoena from the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society aimed at getting the identity of an anonymous Reddit commenter. Watch Tower is the supervising body...
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Financial Trading and Investing
5.0 star rating 1 Review
Authors: John Teall
Published Date: 23rd March 2018
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Financial Trading and Investing, Second Edition, delivers the most current information on trading and market microstructure for undergraduate and master’s students. Without demanding a background in econometrics, it explores alternative markets and highlights recent regulatory developments, implementations, institutions and debates. New explanations of controversial trading tactics (and blunders), such as high-frequency trading, dark liquidity pools, fat fingers, insider trading, and flash orders emphasize links between the history of financial regulation and events in financial markets. New sections on valuation and hedging techniques, particularly with respect to fixed income and derivatives markets, accompany updated regulatory information.
In addition, new case studies and additional exercises are included on a website that has been revised, expanded and updated. Combining theory and application, the book provides the only up-to-date, practical beginner's introduction to today's investment tools and markets.
Concentrates on trading, trading institutions, markets and the institutions that facilitate and regulate trading activities
Introduces foundational topics relating to trading and securities markets, including auctions, market microstructure, the roles of information and inventories, behavioral finance, market efficiency, risk, arbitrage, trading technology, trading regulation and ECNs
Covers market and technology advances and innovations, such as execution algo trading, Designated Market Makers (DMMs), Supplemental Liquidity Providers (SLPs), and the Super Display Book system (SDBK)
Economics and finance upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals worldwide working in finance, financial engineering, quantitative finance, and risk management
Introduction to Securities Trading and Markets
2. Financial Markets, Trading Processes, and Instruments
3. Institutional Trading
4. Regulation of Trading and Securities Markets
5. Adverse Selection, Trading, and Spreads
6. Random Walks, Risk and Arbitrage
7. Arbitrage and Hedging with Fixed Income Instruments and Currencies
8. Arbitrage and Hedging with Options
9. Evaluating Trading Strategies and Performance
10. The Mind of the Investor
11. Market Efficiency
12. Trading Gone Awry
Mathematics Appendix
End-of-Chapter Exercise Solutions
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John Teall is a visiting professor at LUISS Business School in Rome, Italy. He is a former member of the American Stock Exchange and has served as a consultant to Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, and other financial institutions.
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"Dr. John Teall’s Financial Trading and Investing textbook provides a clearly written, comprehensive, and self-contained easy to read overview of trading and investments that is most appropriate for upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and financial practitioners. In addition, this book would make an essential and valuable addition to every financial practitioner’s reference library." --Anthony Joseph, Pace University
"John Teall provides a comprehensive guide to the fascinating and volatile world of securities trading. Replete with cases, numerical examples, and fully developed models, this book leads the reader through the complexities of investor behavior, market structure, regulation, and the uses and abuses of trading tactics in a decidedly clear and straightforward manner." --Elisabeth Oltheten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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This is an excellent up-to-date textbook and we use it for our trading classes in both our undergraduate and masters programs.
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You are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article and to briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. If the funding source(s) had no such involvement then this should be stated.
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Elsevier Researcher Academy
Researcher Academy is a free e-learning platform designed to support early and mid-career researchers throughout their research journey. The "Learn" environment at Researcher Academy offers several interactive modules, webinars, downloadable guides and resources to guide you through the process of writing for research and going through peer review. Feel free to use these free resources to improve your submission and navigate the publication process with ease.
Language (usage and editing services)
Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these). Authors who feel their English language manuscript may require editing to eliminate possible grammatical or spelling errors and to conform to correct scientific English may wish to use the English Language Editing service available from Elsevier's Author Services.
Our online submission system guides you stepwise through the process of entering your article details and uploading your files. The system converts your article files to a single PDF file used in the peer-review process. Editable files (e.g., Word, LaTeX) are required to typeset your article for final publication. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, is sent by e-mail.
Please provide 3 to 5 names (with e-mail addresses) of potential reviewers with whom you have had no recent collaboration and no conflict of interest (during the last 5 years). Although not mandatory, neglecting this point often reveals a lack of knowledge in the field of research, and might slow down the reviewing process.
Please submit the names and institutional e-mail addresses of several potential referees. For more details, visit our Support site. Note that the editor retains the sole right to decide whether or not the suggested reviewers are used.
Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects
By submitting a manuscript to Medical Image Analysis, the authors implicitly ensure that if the work involves the use of animal or human subjects, all procedures were performed in compliance with relevant laws and institutional guidelines and that the appropriate institutional committee(s) have approved them. Authors also implicitely ensure that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects and that the privacy rights of human subjects have always been observed.
This journal operates a single blind review process. All contributions will be initially assessed by the editor for suitability for the journal. Papers deemed suitable are then typically sent to a minimum of two independent expert reviewers to assess the scientific quality of the paper. The Editor is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles. The Editor's decision is final. More information on types of peer review.
Journal Specific LaTeX Template
Templates are provided in order to allow authors to view their paper in a style close to the final printed form.
The latex template can be found here.
Use of Word Processing Sorftware
It is important that the file be saved in the native format of the wordprocessor used. The text should be in single-column format. Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. Most formatting codes will be removed and replaced on processing the article. In particular, do not use the wordprocessor's options to justify text or to hyphenate words. However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts etc. When preparing tables, if you are using a table grid, use only one grid for each individual table and not a grid for each row. If no grid is used, use tabs, not spaces, to align columns. The electronic text should be prepared in a way very similar to that of conventional manuscripts (see also the Guide to Publishing with Elsevier: https://www.elsevier.com/guidepublication).
Figures, tables and captions in text
Please be aware that your manuscript must include figures, tables and captions within the text to make the reading of the manuscript by the anonymous reviewers as convenient as possible. See the section on Electronic illustrations for figures. To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the "spell-check" and "grammar-check " functions of your wordprocessor.
Citation in text
Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list they should follow the standard reference style of the journal and should include a substitution of the publication date with either "Unpublished results" or "Personal communication" Citation of a reference as "in press" implies that the item has been accepted for publication. It is mandatory to include references in the alphabetical order and cite them in the text after the names of the authors following closely reference style provided in this guide. See Reference style section for styling of references.
You are recommended to use the Elsevier article class elsarticle.cls to prepare your manuscript and BibTeX to generate your bibliography.
Our LaTeX site has detailed submission instructions, templates and other information.
Template and BibTeX style file
For authors using the elsarticle document class, we provide a manuscript template and bibtex style file. These are available at the following link: https://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/file/0007/56842/elsarticle-template.zip. The template and style file are specific to the reference list style used by this journal. We do encourage authors to use BibTeX to prepare reference lists; however it is not mandatory. Full instructions (including what to do when not using BibTeX) are provided in the template.
Article structure
Subdivision - numbered sections
Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering). Use this numbering also for internal cross-referencing: do not just refer to 'the text'. Any subsection may be given a brief heading. Each heading should appear on its own separate line.
State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.
Provide sufficient details to allow the work to be reproduced by an independent researcher. Methods that are already published should be summarized, and indicated by a reference. If quoting directly from a previously published method, use quotation marks and also cite the source. Any modifications to existing methods should also be described.
Theory/calculation
A Theory section should extend, not repeat, the background to the article already dealt with in the Introduction and lay the foundation for further work. In contrast, a Calculation section represents a practical development from a theoretical basis.
Results should be clear and concise.
This should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. A combined Results and Discussion section is often appropriate. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature.
The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short Conclusions section, which may stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion or Results and Discussion section.
If there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc. Formulae and equations in appendices should be given separate numbering: Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) and so on. Similarly for tables and figures: Table A.1; Fig. A.1, etc.
Submit a short (maximum 100 words) biography of each author. Please provide this in an editable format (e.g. Word), not in PDF format.
Essential title page information
• Title. Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.
• Author names and affiliations. Please clearly indicate the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author and check that all names are accurately spelled. You can add your name between parentheses in your own script behind the English transliteration. Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.
• Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. This responsibility includes answering any future queries about Methodology and Materials. Ensure that the e-mail address is given and that contact details are kept up to date by the corresponding author.
• Present/permanent address. If an author has moved since the work described in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, a 'Present address' (or 'Permanent address') may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name. The address at which the author actually did the work must be retained as the main, affiliation address. Superscript Arabic numerals are used for such footnotes.
Highlights are mandatory for this journal as they help increase the discoverability of your article via search engines. They consist of a short collection of bullet points that capture the novel results of your research as well as new methods that were used during the study (if any). Please have a look at the examples here: example Highlights.
Highlights should be submitted in a separate editable file in the online submission system. Please use 'Highlights' in the file name and include 3 to 5 bullet points (maximum 85 characters, including spaces, per bullet point).
A concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. For this reason, References should be avoided, but if essential, then cite the author(s) and year(s). Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.
A graphical abstract is mandatory for this journal. It should summarize the contents of the article in a concise, pictorial form designed to capture the attention of a wide readership online. Authors must provide images that clearly represent the work described in the article. Graphical abstracts should be submitted as a separate file in the online submission system. Image size: please provide an image with a minimum of 531 × 1328 pixels (h × w) or proportionally more. The image should be readable at a size of 5 × 13 cm using a regular screen resolution of 96 dpi. Preferred file types: TIFF, EPS, PDF or MS Office files. You can view Example Graphical Abstracts on our information site.
Authors can make use of Elsevier's Illustration Services to ensure the best presentation of their images also in accordance with all technical requirements.
Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords, using American spelling and avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, 'and', 'of'). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.
Define abbreviations that are not standard in this field in a footnote to be placed on the first page of the article. Such abbreviations that are unavoidable in the abstract must be defined at their first mention there, as well as in the footnote. Ensure consistency of abbreviations throughout the article.
Collate acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article before the references and do not, therefore, include them on the title page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise. List here those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance or proof reading the article, etc.).
Formatting of funding sources
List funding sources in this standard way to facilitate compliance to funder's requirements:
Funding: This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA [grant number zzzz]; and the United States Institutes of Peace [grant number aaaa].
It is not necessary to include detailed descriptions on the program or type of grants and awards. When funding is from a block grant or other resources available to a university, college, or other research institution, submit the name of the institute or organization that provided the funding.
If no funding has been provided for the research, please include the following sentence:
This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
Follow internationally accepted rules and conventions: use the international system of units (SI). If other units are mentioned, please give their equivalent in SI.
Math formulae
Please submit math equations as editable text and not as images. Present simple formulae in line with normal text where possible and use the solidus (/) instead of a horizontal line for small fractional terms, e.g., X/Y. In principle, variables are to be presented in italics. Powers of e are often more conveniently denoted by exp. Number consecutively any equations that have to be displayed separately from the text (if referred to explicitly in the text).
Footnotes should be used sparingly. Number them consecutively throughout the article. Many word processors can build footnotes into the text, and this feature may be used. Otherwise, please indicate the position of footnotes in the text and list the footnotes themselves separately at the end of the article. Do not include footnotes in the Reference list.
Electronic artwork
• Make sure you use uniform lettering and sizing of your original artwork.
• Embed the used fonts if the application provides that option.
• Aim to use the following fonts in your illustrations: Arial, Courier, Times New Roman, Symbol, or use fonts that look similar.
• Number the illustrations according to their sequence in the text.
• Use a logical naming convention for your artwork files.
• Provide captions to illustrations separately.
• Size the illustrations close to the desired dimensions of the published version.
• Submit each illustration as a separate file.
• Ensure that color images are accessible to all, including those with impaired color vision.
A detailed guide on electronic artwork is available.
You are urged to visit this site; some excerpts from the detailed information are given here.
If your electronic artwork is created in a Microsoft Office application (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) then please supply 'as is' in the native document format.
Regardless of the application used other than Microsoft Office, when your electronic artwork is finalized, please 'Save as' or convert the images to one of the following formats (note the resolution requirements for line drawings, halftones, and line/halftone combinations given below):
EPS (or PDF): Vector drawings, embed all used fonts.
TIFF (or JPEG): Color or grayscale photographs (halftones), keep to a minimum of 300 dpi.
TIFF (or JPEG): Bitmapped (pure black & white pixels) line drawings, keep to a minimum of 1000 dpi.
TIFF (or JPEG): Combinations bitmapped line/half-tone (color or grayscale), keep to a minimum of 500 dpi.
Please do not:
• Supply files that are optimized for screen use (e.g., GIF, BMP, PICT, WPG); these typically have a low number of pixels and limited set of colors;
• Supply files that are too low in resolution;
• Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.
PLEASE NOTE: The submitted manucript must include figures, tables, captions within the text. This facilitates the reading process for the reviewers.
Color artwork
Please make sure that artwork files are in an acceptable format (TIFF (or JPEG), EPS (or PDF), or MS Office files) and with the correct resolution. If, together with your accepted article, you submit usable color figures then Elsevier will ensure, at no additional charge, that these figures will appear in color online (e.g., ScienceDirect and other sites) regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in color in the printed version. For color reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from Elsevier after receipt of your accepted article. Please indicate your preference for color: in print or online only. Further information on the preparation of electronic artwork.
Ensure that each illustration has a caption. Supply captions separately, not attached to the figure. A caption should comprise a brief title (not on the figure itself) and a description of the illustration. Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols and abbreviations used.
Please submit tables as editable text and not as images. Tables must be placed next to the relevant text in the article. Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text and place any table notes below the table body. Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that the data presented in them do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article. Please avoid using vertical rules.
Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list they should follow the standard reference style of the journal and should include a substitution of the publication date with either 'Unpublished results' or 'Personal communication'. Citation of a reference as 'in press' implies that the item has been accepted for publication.
As a minimum, the full URL should be given and the date when the reference was last accessed. Any further information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the reference list.
This journal encourages you to cite underlying or relevant datasets in your manuscript by citing them in your text and including a data reference in your Reference List. Data references should include the following elements: author name(s), dataset title, data repository, version (where available), year, and global persistent identifier. Add [dataset] immediately before the reference so we can properly identify it as a data reference. The [dataset] identifier will not appear in your published article.
References in a special issue
Please ensure that the words 'this issue' are added to any references in the list (and any citations in the text) to other articles in the same Special Issue.
Reference management software
Most Elsevier journals have their reference template available in many of the most popular reference management software products. These include all products that support Citation Style Language styles, such as Mendeley. Using citation plug-ins from these products, authors only need to select the appropriate journal template when preparing their article, after which citations and bibliographies will be automatically formatted in the journal's style. If no template is yet available for this journal, please follow the format of the sample references and citations as shown in this Guide. If you use reference management software, please ensure that you remove all field codes before submitting the electronic manuscript. More information on how to remove field codes from different reference management software.
Users of Mendeley Desktop can easily install the reference style for this journal by clicking the following link:
http://open.mendeley.com/use-citation-style/medical-image-analysis
When preparing your manuscript, you will then be able to select this style using the Mendeley plug-ins for Microsoft Word or LibreOffice.
Reference style
Text: All citations in the text should refer to:
1. Single author: the author's name (without initials, unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication;
2. Two authors: both authors' names and the year of publication;
3. Three or more authors: first author's name followed by 'et al.' and the year of publication.
Citations may be made directly (or parenthetically). Groups of references can be listed either first alphabetically, then chronologically, or vice versa.
Examples: 'as demonstrated (Allan, 2000a, 2000b, 1999; Allan and Jones, 1999)…. Or, as demonstrated (Jones, 1999; Allan, 2000)… Kramer et al. (2010) have recently shown …'
List: References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters 'a', 'b', 'c', etc., placed after the year of publication.
Reference to a journal publication:
Van der Geer, J., Hanraads, J.A.J., Lupton, R.A., 2010. The art of writing a scientific article. J. Sci. Commun. 163, 51–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.Sc.2010.00372.
Reference to a journal publication with an article number:
Van der Geer, J., Hanraads, J.A.J., Lupton, R.A., 2018. The art of writing a scientific article. Heliyon. 19, e00205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2018.e00205.
Reference to a book:
Strunk Jr., W., White, E.B., 2000. The Elements of Style, fourth ed. Longman, New York.
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
Mettam, G.R., Adams, L.B., 2009. How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in: Jones, B.S., Smith , R.Z. (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic Age. E-Publishing Inc., New York, pp. 281–304.
Reference to a website:
Cancer Research UK, 1975. Cancer statistics reports for the UK. http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/aboutcancer/statistics/cancerstatsreport/ (accessed 13 March 2003).
Reference to a dataset:
[dataset] Oguro, M., Imahiro, S., Saito, S., Nakashizuka, T., 2015. Mortality data for Japanese oak wilt disease and surrounding forest compositions. Mendeley Data, v1. https://doi.org/10.17632/xwj98nb39r.1.
Journal abbreviations source
Journal names should be abbreviated according to the List of Title Word Abbreviations.
Elsevier accepts video material and animation sequences to support and enhance your scientific research. Authors who have video or animation files that they wish to submit with their article are strongly encouraged to include links to these within the body of the article. This can be done in the same way as a figure or table by referring to the video or animation content and noting in the body text where it should be placed. All submitted files should be properly labeled so that they directly relate to the video file's content. In order to ensure that your video or animation material is directly usable, please provide the file in one of our recommended file formats with a preferred maximum size of 150 MB per file, 1 GB in total. Video and animation files supplied will be published online in the electronic version of your article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect. Please supply 'stills' with your files: you can choose any frame from the video or animation or make a separate image. These will be used instead of standard icons and will personalize the link to your video data. For more detailed instructions please visit our video instruction pages. Note: since video and animation cannot be embedded in the print version of the journal, please provide text for both the electronic and the print version for the portions of the article that refer to this content.
Include interactive data visualizations in your publication and let your readers interact and engage more closely with your research. Follow the instructions here to find out about available data visualization options and how to include them with your article.
Supplementary material such as applications, images and sound clips, can be published with your article to enhance it. Submitted supplementary items are published exactly as they are received (Excel or PowerPoint files will appear as such online). Please submit your material together with the article and supply a concise, descriptive caption for each supplementary file. If you wish to make changes to supplementary material during any stage of the process, please make sure to provide an updated file. Do not annotate any corrections on a previous version. Please switch off the 'Track Changes' option in Microsoft Office files as these will appear in the published version.
This journal encourages and enables you to share data that supports your research publication where appropriate, and enables you to interlink the data with your published articles. Research data refers to the results of observations or experimentation that validate research findings. To facilitate reproducibility and data reuse, this journal also encourages you to share your software, code, models, algorithms, protocols, methods and other useful materials related to the project.
Below are a number of ways in which you can associate data with your article or make a statement about the availability of your data when submitting your manuscript. If you are sharing data in one of these ways, you are encouraged to cite the data in your manuscript and reference list. Please refer to the "References" section for more information about data citation. For more information on depositing, sharing and using research data and other relevant research materials, visit the research data page.
Data linking
If you have made your research data available in a data repository, you can link your article directly to the dataset. Elsevier collaborates with a number of repositories to link articles on ScienceDirect with relevant repositories, giving readers access to underlying data that gives them a better understanding of the research described.
There are different ways to link your datasets to your article. When available, you can directly link your dataset to your article by providing the relevant information in the submission system. For more information, visit the database linking page.
For supported data repositories a repository banner will automatically appear next to your published article on ScienceDirect.
In addition, you can link to relevant data or entities through identifiers within the text of your manuscript, using the following format: Database: xxxx (e.g., TAIR: AT1G01020; CCDC: 734053; PDB: 1XFN).
Mendeley Data
This journal supports Mendeley Data, enabling you to deposit any research data (including raw and processed data, video, code, software, algorithms, protocols, and methods) associated with your manuscript in a free-to-use, open access repository. During the submission process, after uploading your manuscript, you will have the opportunity to upload your relevant datasets directly to Mendeley Data. The datasets will be listed and directly accessible to readers next to your published article online.
For more information, visit the Mendeley Data for journals page.
Data in Brief
You have the option of converting any or all parts of your supplementary or additional raw data into one or multiple data articles, a new kind of article that houses and describes your data. Data articles ensure that your data is actively reviewed, curated, formatted, indexed, given a DOI and publicly available to all upon publication. You are encouraged to submit your article for Data in Brief as an additional item directly alongside the revised version of your manuscript. If your research article is accepted, your data article will automatically be transferred over to Data in Brief where it will be editorially reviewed and published in the open access data journal, Data in Brief. Please note an open access fee of 600 USD is payable for publication in Data in Brief. Full details can be found on the Data in Brief website. Please use this template to write your Data in Brief.
MethodsX
You have the option of converting relevant protocols and methods into one or multiple MethodsX articles, a new kind of article that describes the details of customized research methods. Many researchers spend a significant amount of time on developing methods to fit their specific needs or setting, but often without getting credit for this part of their work. MethodsX, an open access journal, now publishes this information in order to make it searchable, peer reviewed, citable and reproducible. Authors are encouraged to submit their MethodsX article as an additional item directly alongside the revised version of their manuscript. If your research article is accepted, your methods article will automatically be transferred over to MethodsX where it will be editorially reviewed. Please note an open access fee is payable for publication in MethodsX. Full details can be found on the MethodsX website. Please use this template to prepare your MethodsX article.
Data statement
To foster transparency, we encourage you to state the availability of your data in your submission. This may be a requirement of your funding body or institution. If your data is unavailable to access or unsuitable to post, you will have the opportunity to indicate why during the submission process, for example by stating that the research data is confidential. The statement will appear with your published article on ScienceDirect. For more information, visit the Data Statement page.
Online proof correction
To ensure a fast publication process of the article, we kindly ask authors to provide us with their proof corrections within two days. Corresponding authors will receive an e-mail with a link to our online proofing system, allowing annotation and correction of proofs online. The environment is similar to MS Word: in addition to editing text, you can also comment on figures/tables and answer questions from the Copy Editor. Web-based proofing provides a faster and less error-prone process by allowing you to directly type your corrections, eliminating the potential introduction of errors.
If preferred, you can still choose to annotate and upload your edits on the PDF version. All instructions for proofing will be given in the e-mail we send to authors, including alternative methods to the online version and PDF.
We will do everything possible to get your article published quickly and accurately. Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and figures. Significant changes to the article as accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage with permission from the Editor. It is important to ensure that all corrections are sent back to us in one communication. Please check carefully before replying, as inclusion of any subsequent corrections cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading is solely your responsibility.
Offprints
The corresponding author will, at no cost, receive a customized Share Link providing 50 days free access to the final published version of the article on ScienceDirect. The Share Link can be used for sharing the article via any communication channel, including email and social media. For an extra charge, paper offprints can be ordered via the offprint order form which is sent once the article is accepted for publication. Both corresponding and co-authors may order offprints at any time via Elsevier's Author Services. Corresponding authors who have published their article gold open access do not receive a Share Link as their final published version of the article is available open access on ScienceDirect and can be shared through the article DOI link.
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Energetics' Insights
Playing politics with climate change carries a cos…
Playing politics with climate change carries a cost - as Australia knows only too well
Author Dr Gordon Weiss, Dr Mary Stewart
The reaction to President Trump’s announcement to withdraw from the Paris Agreement was both global and local. We saw swift condemnation from around the globe as well as from US State and city leaders, such as New York and Pittsburgh - where the mayor quickly stated that “we will follow the guidelines of the Paris Agreement for our people, our economy and the future”.
Worldwide, businesses joined the chorus of objections, not only condemning the US’ decision as irresponsible in the face of the growing threat of climate change, but also re-affirming their commitment to the goal of limiting warming to within two degrees. Looking across the statements made, we saw the clear message that abandoning The Paris Agreement would be a backwards step for the US economy as investor, consumer and public support are aligned to drive innovation and implementation of low carbon technologies.
So as we consider the long term implications of a US withdrawal or attempts to re-set the terms of the Paris deal, the question begs – is this just political grandstanding for the sake of being seen to fulfil an election promise? Is President Trump really going to let China take the lead on climate action with the Chinese President stating earlier this year, his readiness to do so? Will Trump let America miss out on the trillions of dollars that are set to flow into renewables and clean energy generation technologies? It’s hard to imagine and certainly flies in the face of Trump’s rhetoric, “make America great again”.
What is apparent in 2017 is that there are many compelling reasons to be part of a global agreement to address climate change and that being on the outside denies a nation significant economic benefits.
Echoes of Australia’s experience
Australians are only too familiar with the issue of climate change being turned into a political football. At what was arguably its peak, former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, campaigned on repealing the carbon tax during the 2013 election declaring it to be a “wrecking ball ” for the Australian economy. After his election, Abbott fulfilled his campaign promise and repealed the Clean Energy legislative package on 1 July 2014. However there was a void to be filled. Abbott recognised that climate change remained an issue requiring a policy response and favoured an incentive-based scheme which has been developed in the lead up to the 2013 election. Direct Action is now Australia’s climate change policy with the $2.6b Emissions Reduction Fund and the Safeguard Mechanism as the key policy instruments. During the same time, the Renewable Energy Target was reviewed and reset to the current 33,000 GWh.
However both concern and momentum grew for additional mitigation policy measures in the face of the perceived inadequacy of the existing policy framework and targets. This issue is now extending to concerns for a vision and plan to transition to a clean energy led power generation fleet. Over the last three years, we have seen the perceived inadequacy of national targets and uncertainties produce the following responses:
• Increased State and Territory policies, including:
• ACT set a target to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 and to be powered by 100% renewable energy by 2020
• South Australia is working to be carbon neutral by 2050 and have 50% renewable energy in its energy mix by 2025 (will be achieved 2017)
• NSW net zero emissions by 2050
• Victoria net zero emissions by 2050 and 40% renewable by 2025.
• A lack of capital investment in aging energy infrastructure
• A paused renewable energy sector which is now rapidly catching up. This ‘pause’ drove up renewable energy certificates prices in the short term resulting in higher electricity prices
Another consequence was the devaluation of Australia’s standing within the global community on climate action.
Lifting the finger off the climate policy pause button in Australia arguably began when the Government developed its Nationally Determined Commitment ahead of COP21. While some commentators criticised the 26-28% reduction target as inadequate, it nonetheless represents a substantial challenge for Australia given our heavy dependence on coal fired power.
Today we are one of 147 parties (out of 192 signatories to the UNFCCC), making the Paris Agreement the fastest global agreement in the history of the UN. Since Paris COP21, the global Financial Stability Board examined the systemic risk of climate change. Released in December 2016, their Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) draft recommendations focused on enhanced governance, disclosure and forward-looking scenario analysis so that investors and regulators can better evaluate climate-related risks.
Locally, Geoff Summerhayes’ (APRA) speech1, “Australia's new horizon: Climate change challenges and prudential risk” focused on climate risk within the context of Australian business. Summerhayes was explicit in stating that climate-related risks are financial in nature. He expects “….greater emphasis on stress testing for organisational and systemic resilience in the face of adverse shocks …..we would expect to see more sophisticated scenario-based analysis of climate risks at the firm level ….”. Also, some months before, SC Noel Hutley issued an MOU on “Climate Change and Director’s Duty”2 commissioned by the Centre for Policy Development and the Future Business Council. Hutley was explicit about director’s fiduciary duty to consider foreseeable physical and transition risks from climate change.
Businesses across Australia have certainly listened. International businesses have listened. BlackRock, responsible for over US$5 trillion of investment funds, is listening as they seek to understand how Boards’ manage climate change risk3, and declaring that ‘coal is dead’4 as they look to invest in renewable energy projects here in Australia.
Looking to the future – we cannot go backwards, the momentum for a low carbon economy is clear
Australia’s climate policy has experienced dramatic see-sawing over the past decade, but now in 2017 we have emerged with record levels of investment in renewable energy. More than $7.5 billion was invested in large scale wind and solar projects in Australia last year 5.
Australian businesses have also read the market signals. Pragmatically businesses are evaluating their risk profiles using science based targets, re-evaluating their markets, investing into low and zero carbon technologies, electrifying their operations and examining offsite opportunities. Most attractive currently are corporate Power Purchase Agreements for low cost renewable energy purchasing, although we have also seen a resurgence in carbon offset markets. The prime drivers here are commercial consideration and the need to manage climate risk - no longer is sustainability viewed as a “nice to have”. This was made painfully obvious to ExxonMobil6 as their shareholders recently moved to demand that the company “annually describe how global efforts to limit warming to two degrees will affect its operations”.
The key issue currently for Australia now is how we modernise, innovate and evolve our energy mix – now and for the future.
This week we will see the release of final report of the Finkel Review into the future of the National Electricity Market. As the bulk of Australia’s emissions reduction opportunities are to be found in decarbonising our energy mix and with billions of dollars flowing into clean energy generation, it is hoped that Finkel’s recommendations set Australia on the path for a low emissions, low cost future that ensures our industries are globally competitive and active participants in the carbon markets emerging across the world.
French President Macron said in an impassioned speech following Trump’s announcement, we need to “make our planet great again”. As difficult as it is for Australia to wean itself off coal fired baseload electricity, it is within the power generation sector that the major emissions reduction opportunities lie. The Federal Government must ensure that we seize the opportunity now to plan our transition to our clean energy future – there is no going back to the age of coal.
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[5] Parkinson, P: ReNewEconomy: “Australia leaps up global renewable energy investment rankings”, May 2017
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The best USB audio interface
The Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 is the best all-around option.
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If you're a musician who's starting to get serious about recording your work yourself, you need a USB audio interface that lets you connect any microphone to a computer or iPad and record multiple tracks at once. We tested nine audio interfaces and found that they all record clear audio, but the Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 offers the best combination of features, portability, and ease of use.
The Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 is our favorite USB audio interface for musicians who want to record up to two tracks simultaneously onto a computer. Due to its logically arranged inputs and adjustment knobs, the 2i2 is easy to set up and use to record vocals and acoustic or electric instruments to any digital audio workstation. The interface works with iOS, macOS, and Windows devices and comes with versions of popular recording software. Its compact, lightweight design makes it easy to toss in your backpack or suitcase for mobile recording sessions. The 2i2 lacks a built-in MIDI interface, but unless you have a lot of older MIDI instruments lying around, this shouldn't be a big issue.
If the Focusrite 2i2 is unavailable, or if you have a lot of older gear with five-pin MIDI connectors, the PreSonus AudioBox iTwo is a great alternative. It has the same iPad functionality and portability as the 2i2, but its smaller clipping lights and less-intuitive front-panel design make it a little harder to use.
The Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6 has all of the advantages of the Focusrite 2i2, including clear clipping lights and macOS/Windows/iOS support, but it adds a built-in MIDI interface and two extra balanced line inputs and outputs. Its unique design, which places all of its monitor lights on the top panel, makes it a little easier to set up and use than the other interfaces we tested. These extra features also make it heavier than we'd like, but if you plan to mostly use it in your home studio and could use the extra inputs, it's a great upgrade.
Daniel Varghese is a Wirecutter associate staff writer who covers the AV and smart-home categories. He has been using USB audio interfaces since high school, when he used to record his school band, and he continues to use them as a musician and podcast producer.
Daniel solicited the help of Will Marshall, a Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist with his own studio space, to test the interfaces for this update.
Who should get this
If you've just started recording or producing music, you might not need an audio interface. Using free software like Apple's GarageBand, an inexpensive USB microphone that plugs directly into a computer, and maybe a MIDI controller, you can make music that's good enough to share with close friends and family.
When you're ready to get a bit more serious about your recordings, however, you'll start to see the shortcomings of that simple setup. Not only are you restricted to using USB microphones (which tend to have trouble recording instruments and vocals clearly), but you're limited to capturing one track at a time. If you wanted to record yourself singing and playing the guitar at the same time, which might result in a more natural-sounding recording, you'd be unable to edit each source independently. If you accidentally strum the wrong chord, you'll have to re-sing that part of the song, too.
A USB audio interface gives you the flexibility to record multiple tracks at once using practically any microphone available. You'll also be able to record instruments that use ¼-inch inputs, like electric guitars, by plugging them directly into the interface—rather than placing a USB microphone in front of an amp. Yes, I have done this, and yes, it sounded terrible.
How we picked
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USB audio interfaces are available in a variety of configurations, with some models capable of recording 16 or more inputs at once. For this guide, we focused on interfaces that allow you to record two separate inputs simultaneously, sometimes referred to as 2x2 interfaces. These interfaces are ideal for the beginner: They are small and easily portable, and they don't require power beyond what's provided by the USB connection on your computer.
Based on our research and previous experience, we decided that most beginners would want a USB interface with at least two XLR inputs that support both microphones (with the ability to provide phantom power so you can use condenser mics) and line/instrument sources. Once we assembled a list of the available interfaces that had these features (using Amazon, Sweetwater, and Musician's Friend), we used the following criteria to decide which interfaces to call in and how to design our tests.
Ease of use: The most important quality of a USB audio interface is usability—you shouldn't have to dig through the manual just to connect the interface to your computer. It should be easy to plug in a microphone or instrument, adjust gain levels, and monitor the signal level. We paid extra attention to the placement of clipping indicator lights and phantom power buttons.
iOS support: All audio interfaces should support macOS and Windows, but iPads have become a popular tool to capture performances and recordings without having to lug around a laptop, so we considered iOS support to be a valuable feature. Using a USB audio interface with any iPad will require the purchase of extra adapters. If you're just going to use the audio interface with a computer in your home studio, this feature is less important.
Portability: If you'd like to use your interface outside of the home studio, you'll have to make space for it in your backpack or luggage. We prioritized models that were lighter than two pounds and easy to transport in their original box so that you don't have to search for a special carrying case.
Included software: Most audio interfaces include some type of digital audio workstation software—usually, it's less-powerful "lite" versions of the recording packages used by professionals, such as Ableton, ProTools, or StudioOne. We appreciated the inclusion of this software, as well as free instrument plugins and software patches, but we didn't consider them too strongly while making our recommendations. We assume that anyone looking at USB interfaces will already have recording software that they like.
Sound quality: Our tests consistently show that sound quality isn't a major distinguishing factor between interfaces. Most interfaces available today are capable of accurate, noise-free recording at 24-bit depth with a 96 kHz sampling rate, so we considered that a minimum requirement, as it allows these interfaces to theoretically record audio at a wider range of frequencies with more detail than the human ear can actually perceive.
MIDI I/O support: If you have an instrument with a MIDI output and don't have an adapter that allows you to plug it directly into your computer, you'll want an audio interface that supports that specific style of five-pin input. Most new MIDI controllers and instruments plug in directly with USB, so if you're just starting to build out your studio with new gear, you don't need to worry about this. As such, we didn't feel that MIDI support was a must-have feature.
We found nine interfaces that met our criteria, including the Tascam 2 x 2 (our previous pick), the PreSonus AudioBox iTwo (our previous runner-up), the PreSonus AudioBox USB 96, the Focusrite 2i2, the Behringer U-Phoria UMC204HD, the Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6, and the Zoom U-24. We also tested the Tascam 4 x 4 and the Focusrite 6i6, but ultimately we decided that these comprise a separate category of interfaces that we will consider testing further at a later date.
All the interfaces we tested have a standard USB Type-B connection, and the package includes a cable with Type-B on one end and the common computer-style Type-A on the other. We did not test any interfaces that connect via Thunderbolt or USB-C ports.
Will Marshall recorded excerpts on each interface using his viola and his electric bass. Photo: Daniel Varghese
I enlisted Will Marshall, a Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist, to help me evaluate the design and sound quality of each interface in his personal studio. We recorded two audio samples on each interface. The first was Will playing the viola, which we recorded using a Studio Projects B-1 condenser microphone, which requires phantom power. The second recording was Will playing the electric bass, which we plugged directly into the interface using a standard ¼-inch instrument cable. Unboxing, connecting, and adjusting each interface in succession made me hyper-aware of the small design differences between the models.
After our session, I exported the recordings from each interface as WAV files and sent them to a group of Wirecutter AV staffers to evaluate their overall sound quality. The group included senior writers Lauren Dragan and Chris Heinonen, editors Adrienne Maxwell and Geoff Morrison, and contributor Brent Butterworth. With no knowledge of which recordings came from which interface, they ranked the recordings based on their overall quality. When examining the results, we found no consistently identifiable differences in the quality of each recording.
To verify our subjective impressions, Brent and I ran a quick spectrum analysis with pink noise on every model. Each measured flat, corroborating our assertion that there were no obvious sonic differences between the different interfaces.
Lastly, I connected each interface to an iPad (6th-generation) using a USB-C hub to make sure it was compatible with iOS. I also made sure that each interface would function with an older iPad, provided you purchase the correct adapters. You can either use this adapter with a powered USB hub or this one with any USB power adapter you have around.
Our pick: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2
The Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 is our favorite USB audio interface for musicians who are starting to get serious about recording their work. With its logically arranged inputs and adjustment knobs and its intuitive clip lighting, the 2i2 is easy to set up and use to record vocals, acoustic instruments, or electric instruments, no matter which digital audio workstation you choose to use with it. The built-in microphone preamps provide power for condenser mics, and the software interface is compatible with macOS, Windows, and iOS.
The arrangement of inputs and knobs on the Scarlett 2i2 is simple and intuitive. Each input is directly next to its corresponding gain knob, which means you'll never make the mistake of turning up the signal on the wrong input and ruining a take. The small slider at the front switches between recording with a microphone or with an instrument input. The phantom power button is conveniently placed on the front, so you don't need to go searching every time you want to use a condenser mic.
Most importantly, each of the 2i2's clip lights is shaped as a ring around its corresponding gain knob. This means you'll always be able to see whether the signal from an input is being distorted (the light turns orange, then red) without worrying that the knob (or your hand) will obscure the view. This was one of the best implementations of the vital clip light of all the interfaces we tested, where in other devices the light was small or hard to see.
When the input signal is too loud, the Scarlett 2i2's ring-shaped clipping indicator light will turn red. Photo: Sarah Kobos
The Scarlett 2i2 is lighter than all but one interface we tested for this update (less than a pound and a half), so it's easy to carry on location, if you want to record somewhere outside your home studio. Since its box is pretty small and easy to pack, you probably won't need to get a separate carrying case.
The Scarlett 2i2's box is about as small as the interface itself, so it's easy to pack in a backpack or suitcase for mobile recording sessions. Photo: Sarah Kobos
If you don't already have a digital audio workstation that you like, the Scarlett 2i2 comes with slightly downgraded versions of two very powerful DAWs: Ableton Live Lite (which limits you to recording only up to eight tracks) and ProTools First (which only lets you record up to 16 tracks). The package also includes a few instrument and effect plug-ins, which are pretty fun to mess around with while working on a project. Focusrite doesn't make its own specific iOS software, but we found that the 2i2 worked with any basic software we tested, including the mobile version of GarageBand. As long as you have the right adapters, it'll be easy to mate the 2i2 with an iPad.
The Scarlett 2i2's front panel had the most intuitive layout of all the audio interfaces we tested. Photo: Sarah Kobos
In our blind listening tests, sound quality did not prove to be a distinguishing characteristic of any of the USB audio interfaces. There was no consistent agreement among our panelists as to which interface recording sounded the best, and our pink-noise tests corroborated the lack of difference between interfaces. The 2i2's 24-bit/96-kHz recordings sounded as expected, with no added noise or distortion.
The back of the Focusrite Scarlett 2i2. Photo: Sarah Kobos
Flaws but not dealbreakers
The Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 is an excellent audio interface, but there is one slightly annoying omission. Unlike many other two-channel interfaces we tested, the 2i2 doesn't have five-pin MIDI input and output ports. Most new MIDI controllers, including all of the ones we recommend, plug in via USB. But if you have an older MIDI instrument that connects through five-pin connectors, you'll have to get an adapter. If you have a large collection of older MIDI instruments, consider the PreSonus AudioBox iTwo.
Runner-up: PreSonus AudioBox iTwo
If the Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 is unavailable, or if you need something with a built-in MIDI interface, the PreSonus AudioBox iTwo is a great alternative. It has the same iOS, macOS, and Windows functionality and portability as the 2i2, and its preamps have enough power to support condenser mics. The AudioBox iTwo adds a five-pin MIDI input and output, which makes it compatible with older gear. However, its front-panel layout isn't quite as intuitive as that of the Focusrite 2i2, and its clip lights are smaller and harder to see.
The AudioBox iTwo's inputs and knobs are clearly labeled, but the clipping indicator light to the right of the knob is a bit small. Photo: Sarah Kobos
Overall, the AudioBox iTwo is pretty easy to use. The inputs and adjustment knobs are clearly labeled; you can easily tell which gain knob adjusts input 1 versus input 2. To switch between recording a line instrument and a microphone on each input, you just push the button labeled with an electric guitar. However, these buttons are placed near the bottom of the unit's front panel, making them somewhat difficult to access, and the clipping light is also smaller and harder to see than we'd prefer. None of these things should get in the way of a successful recording session, though. And we appreciated how, like the Focusrite 2i2, the AudioBox iTwo places its phantom power button prominently on the front of the interface.
The AudioBox iTwo comes in a relatively small box that's easy enough to pack in a backpack or suitcase for mobile recording sessions. Photo: Sarah Kobos
Portability is not an issue with the AudioBox iTwo; it weighs just under a pound and a half, about the same weight as the 2i2. PreSonus has designed its two mobile digital audio workstation apps for the iPad. CaptureDuo is free, but it limits you to recording up to two tracks in each project. Capture for iPad costs $10, but it allows you to record up to 32 tracks. With either, you can send projects to the version of PreSonus's desktop software that comes with the Audiobox iTwo: StudioOne Artist. This offers you a lot of flexibility in how you want to use the interface with an iPad, as long as you have the right adapters.
The back of the AudioBox iTwo features a five-pin MIDI input and output, a USB Type-B output, a USB port, and an audio output to connect the interface to a speaker. Photo: Sarah Kobos
Other than the layout, the main difference between the iTwo and the 2i2 is the iTwo's MIDI interface. If you have a lot of instruments that plug-in via five-pin MIDI connections and don't already have a MIDI-to-USB interface, this is a necessary feature.
Upgrade pick: Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6
The Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6 has all the features we like on the Focusrite Scarlett 2i2, including clear clipping lights, macOS, Windows, iOS support, and powerful microphone preamps, but it adds a built-in MIDI interface and two extra balanced line inputs and outputs. It also has a unique design that places all of its monitor lights on top, making it a little easier to see all the information you need to adjust the interface than it is with other interfaces. These extra features make it heavier than we'd like, but if you plan to mostly use it in your home studio, that's an acceptable trade-off for the easier-to-use design. We don't think the added features and cost are necessary for most people, but if money is no object, it's a great upgrade.
The clipping indicator lights for all four inputs are located on the top side of the Komplete Audio 6. Photo: Sarah Kobos
Unlike every other interface we tested, the Komplete Audio 6 separates the lights from all their related knobs. This may sound unintuitive, but we found that it made the interface easier to set up and adjust on the fly. Instead of requiring you to be in front of the interface to see whether something is clipping, you can basically see it from any angle.
The inputs on Komplete Audio 6 include a small mechanism that makes it easier to remove XLR cables. Photo: Sarah Kobos
Unlike our other picks, the Komplete Audio 6 includes latching XLR input jacks, which require you to push a small tab on the jack to release the mic cable. Latching XLR jacks are the standard in professional audio gear because the latch prevents the cable from accidentally being pulled loose. The Focusrite 2i2 and PreSonus AudioBox iTwo and all other interfaces we tested this round use non-latching jacks, which allow the cable to be pulled loose with a moderately strong tug. We also like that the latching jacks let you detach a cable with one hand, while non-latching jacks usually require you to push down on the interface with one hand while you detach the cable with the other.
The Komplete Audio 6 puts all of its indicator lights on top of the interface, which makes them easy to see from any angle. Photo: Sarah Kobos
The Komplete Audio 6 is not without flaws, however. We don't love that the button to activate phantom power is on the back of interface, where it's slightly harder to find. That said, at least it's located toward the top and all the way to one side—several interfaces we tested required you to feel around the back for a small slider somewhere in the middle.
At almost two pounds, the entire console weighs a little bit more than the Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 or the PreSonus Audio Box iTwo. That's probably fine if you're packing the Komplete Audio 6 in a suitcase, but it might make the interface unappealing to anyone who will have to frequently transport it back and forth between your home studio and separate recording space.
The Komplete Audio 6 and its box are a bit larger and heavier than those of the other interfaces we tested, but they're still pretty portable. Photo: Sarah Kobos
The Komplete Audio 6 doesn't include any digital audio workstation mobile apps for iPad, although we found that it worked with GarageBand without issue. It also includes less software than some competitors: You get several instrument plugins, as well as Cubase LE 9 (which you can also download free directly from Steinberg) and Trackor LE 3 (the lite version of the company's DJ software). It would be nice if this interface came with something more universally used, like "lite" versions of ProTools or Ableton, but this wasn't a dealbreaker for us.
What to look forward to
Native Instruments announced two interfaces during the NAMM 2019 trade show: the Komplete Audio 1 and Komplete Audio 2. The Komplete Audio 1 doesn't offer the flexibility we think someone getting starting out needs—if you want to record two things at once, one input must use a microphone and the other must use a line source. The Komplete Audio 2, however, looks promising. It places much of its visual information on the top of the interface, which we found made the similarly designed Komplete Audio 6 easier to set up and use than other interfaces we've considered. We plan to test the Komplete Audio 2 soon.
For this update, we tested and decided not to recommend the following interfaces:
The Tascam 2 x 2 was our previous top pick. It's still a perfectly functional audio interface, especially if you never plan to use it outside of your home studio. However, since it weighs almost two and a half pounds and comes in a box that couldn't easily fit in a backpack or suitcase, it's harder to travel with than the Focusrite 2i2 or PreSonus AudioBox iTwo. We also don't love that Windows users will need to install separate drivers to actually use the interface with their setup.
The PreSonus AudioBox USB 96 has several design flaws that make it more difficult to use. The adjustment knobs are arranged in an odd order: The knob to adjust input 1 is to the right of the knob to adjust input 2. On several occasions I found myself adjusting the wrong knob. Also, the headphone jack is on the back, which might mean you'll need a longer headphone cable to use the interface comfortably.
The Behringer U-Phoria UMC204HD features a crowded design filled with inputs, knobs, buttons, and small text that took us a bit more time to figure out how to actually use. The important things, like the tiny clipping indicator and the phantom power slider (hidden somewhere on the back of the console), are hard to find. We also couldn't get the interface to work with GarageBand on our test iPad—the tabet would recognize the interface but couldn't tell when audio was coming through.
The Zoom U-24 is hard to set up and adjust because of its design, which places everything other than the power slider on the top of the interface. You have stand over the interface and maneuver around the microphone/instrument cords to actually access the knobs. Plus, the knobs function backwards—instead of turning them clockwise to increase gain, you turn them counterclockwise. This design might make sense when used with the recorders that Zoom makes, but we found it a little frustrating.
We tested and dismissed the following interfaces for previous versions of this guide:
The Steinberg UR22mkII supports sampling rates up to 192 kHz, but the bunched-up control knobs on the unit's face and a phantom power switch tucked away on the back panel made it more difficult to use.
Priced lower than $50, the Behringer U-Phoria UM2 seemed an almost-too-good-to-be-true budget option, providing both mic and instrument inputs. However, its build quality is poor.
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More than 80,000 attendees are expected over the four days, drawn like moths to the flames created by hundreds of playable PC, console, mobile and indie game experiences (not actual flames, hopefully).
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EIGHTEEN migrants have been confirmed dead over the last two days while attempting to cross the Alboran Sea between Africa and Spain in stormy conditions.
Reports claim the migrant’s boat encountered problems while navigating the seas during fierce storm conditions.
Yesterday (Monday), the bodies of 13 migrants were found off the coast of Melilla, Spain’s enclave in Africa.
An estimated 15-17 migrants were reported missing from the doomed vessel, of which, five have since been found dead off of the coast of Cadiz, Spain according to the Guardia Civil.
However, despite the rough seas, the Guardia Civil report “20 migrants arrived in the midst of a storm” to Cadiz in a “wooden, very old” boat.
Salvamento Maritimo successfully managed to rescue 100 migrants from the rough seas within the space of 24 hours.
This year has, so far, seen an estimated 49,000 migrants arrive in Spain by sea, of which at least 567 have lost their lives during the treacherous journey according to a UN report.
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2008-2012 BSc Economics, Vilnius University (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Jūratė Jaraitė-Kažukauskė (PhD, University College Dublin)
Website: IDEAS, Google Scholar, ResearchGate
Main: Environmental and energy economics; Assessment of environmental/energy policy instruments; Pollution trading systems; Assessment of electricity markets.
Other: Application of productive efficiency and productivity growth theory, Experimental economics, Behavioral economics, Agricultural economics
Jaraitė, J., Kažukauskas, A., Brännlund, R., Kiran, Ch. and Kriström, B. (2019). Intermittency and Pricing Flexibility in Electricity Markets, Energiforsk report, Eforis research programme. Available online at www.energiforsk.se.
Coria, J. and Jaraitė, J. (2018). Transaction Costs of Upstream Versus Downstream Pricing of CO2 Emissions. Environmental and Resource Economics, published online on 13 March 2018, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-018-0235-y.
Schusser, S. and Jaraitė, J. (2018). Explaining the Interplay of Three Markets: Green Certificates, Carbon Emissions and Electricity. Energy Economics, 2018, 71, 1-13.
Jaraitė, J., Karimu, A., and Kažukauskas, A. (2017). Policy-Induced Expansion of Solar and Wind Power Capacity: Economic Growth and Employment in EU Countries. Energy Journal, 38(5).
Jaraitė, J. and Di Maria, C. (2016). Did the EU ETS make a difference? An empirical assessment using Lithuanian firm-level data. Energy Journal, 37(1).
Jaraitė, J. and Kažukauskas, K. (2015). Do transaction costs influence firm trading behaviour in the European Emissions Trading System? Environmental and Resource Economics, 62(3).
Jaraitė, J., Kažukauskas, K. and Lundgren, T. (2014). The effects of climate policy on environmental expenditure and investment: evidence from Sweden. Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, 3(2).
Jaraitė, J. and Kažukauskas, K. (2013). The Profitability of Electricity Generating Firms and Policies Promoting Renewable Energy, Energy Economics, 40(November), 858-865.
Jaraitė, J. and Kažukauskas, K. (2012) The effect of mandatory agro-environmental policy on farm fertiliser and pesticide expenditure. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 63(3), 656-676.
Jaraitė, J. and Di Maria, C. (2012). Efficiency, productivity and environmental policy: a case study of power generation in the EU. Energy Economics, 34(5): 1557-1568.
J. Jaraite, Convery, F. and Di Maria, C. (2010). Pricing carbon: the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, chapter 8, Costs: Transaction costs. Cambridge University Press.
2007-2010 PhD in Environmental Economics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland,
2005-2006 MSc in Economics (the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics),University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, the United Kingdom,
2001-2005 BA Economics, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
07.2019-current Senior researcher, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vilnius University
07.2018-06.2019 Scientific secretary, Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics, Umeå University
04.2018-06.2019 Senior Lecturer, School of Business, Economics and Statistics, Umeå University, Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics
09.2017-03.2018 Researcher, School of Business, Economics and Statistics, Umeå University, Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics
10.2010-09.2017 Browaldh Postdoctoral Scholarship, Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics, School of Business, Economics and Statistics, Umeå University
08.2008-02.2009 Temporary part-time climate economics researcher, Department of the Taoiseach, Dublin, Ireland
09.2006-08.2007 Economist, Central bank of Lithuania, Economics department, Vilnius, Lithuania
Andrius Kažukauskas (PhD, Trinity College Dublin)
Primary: Energy Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Behavioral Economics.
Secondary: Agricultural Economics.
Kažukauskas, A together with Jaraite, J., Brännlund R., Kiran, Ch. And Kriström B. 2019. Intermittency and Pricing Flexibility in Electricity Markets. Energiforsk report 2019:588
Kažukauskas, A. together with Jaraitė, J., and Karimu, A. (2017) Renewable Energy Policy, Economic Growth and Employment in EU Countries. The Energy Journal, 38(5), pp 197-222.
Kažukauskas, A. together with Broberg, T. (2015) Inefficiencies in residential use of energy - A critical overview of literature and energy efficiency policies in EU. International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 8(2), pp 225-279.
Kažukauskas, A. together with Jaraitė, J. (2015) Do Transaction Costs Influence Firm Trading Behaviour in the European Emissions Trading System? Environmental and Resource Economics, 62(3), pp 583-613.
Kažukauskas, A. together with Jaraitė, J. & Lundgren, T. (2014) The effects of climate policy on environmental expenditure and investment: evidence from Sweden. Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, 3(2).
Kažukauskas, A. together with Newman, C. and Sauer, J. (2014) CAP Reform and its Impact on Structural Change and Productivity Growth: A Cross Country Analysis. Agricultural Economics, 45(3).
Kažukauskas, A. together with Newman, C., Sauer, J. & Clancy, D. (2013). Disinvestment, farm size and gradual farm exit: the impact of subsidy decoupling in a European context. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 95(5).
Kažukauskas, A. together with Jaraite, J. (2013). The profitability of electricity generating firms and policies promoting renewable energy. Energy Economics, 40(November).
2019-present Researcher, Vilnius University, the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.
2014-2019 Researcher, Umeå University, Department of Economics, Centre of Environmental and Resource Economics.
2011-2014 Postdoctoral researcher, Umeå University, Department of Economics, Centre of Environmental and Resource Economics.
2008-2011 PhD in Economics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
2007 Credit portfolio risk analyst, AB “Swedbank”, Credit Risk Management Department, Lithuania.
2005-2006 MSc in Economics (the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, the United Kingdom.
2000-2005 BA Economics. Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Justina Klimavičiūtė (PhD, Toulouse School of Economics)
Website: Personal
Public Economics, Health Economics, Economics of Long-Term Care and Ageing
From Sep 2019 senior research fellow, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vilnius University
Oct 2018 - Aug 2019 research fellow, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vilnius University
2015-2018 post-doctoral research fellow, University of Liège, Belgium.
2014-2015 researcher, University of Liège, Belgium.
2011-2015 PhD in Economics, Toulouse School of Economics, University of Toulouse 1 Capitole, France.
2010-2011 Master in Economics, Toulouse School of Economics, University of Toulouse 1 Capitole, France.
2009-2010 Maîtrise (1st year of Master’s degree) in Economics, Toulouse School of Economics, University of Toulouse 1 Capitole, France.
2005-2009 Bachelor in Economics, Vilnius University.
Jan-Jun 2008 Semester at the University of Rouen (France) under Erasmus exchange.
Povilas Lastauskas (PhD, Cambridge University)
Website: Personal, IDEAS, Google Scholar
Primary: International Economics and Macro Labour, Global Economy and Spillovers
Secondary: Panel Data Econometrics, Economic PolicyKitos: panelinių duomenų ekonometrija, ekonominės politikos modeliavimas
The Knotty Interplay Between Credit and Housing by Mihnea Constantinescu and Povilas Lastauskas (2018). The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Volume 70, November 2018, Pages 241-266.
Openness and Structural Labour Market Reforms: Ex-ante Counterfactuals, Povilas Lastauskas, Julius Stakėnas (2018). Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol 36, Issue 4, October 2018, p. 723-757.
Structural Labour Market Reforms in the EU-15: Single-country vs. Coordinated Counterfactuals Povilas Lastauskas, Julius Stakėnas (2018). Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Vol 44, March 2018, p. 88-99.
Bilateral Capital Flows to Developing Countries at Intensive and Extensive Margins by Povilas Lastauskas, Juliana D. Araujo and Chris Papageorgiou (2017). Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol 49(7): 1517–1554. WP version
Recent Bank of Lithuania WPs/DPs/OPs:
Spatial Nexus in Crime and Unemployement in Times of Crisis by Povilas Lastauskas and Eirini Tatsi. Working Paper No 39/2017.
Evolution of Bilateral Capital Flows to Developing Countries at Intensive and Extensive Margins by Juliana D. Araujo, Povilas Lastauskas and Chris Papageorgiou. Working Paper No 37/2017.
Labour Market Institutions in Open Economy by Povilas Lastauskas and Julius Stakėnas. Working Paper No 33/2017.
Openness and Structural Labour Market Reforms: Counterfactuals for Lithuania by Povilas Lastauskas and Julius Stakėnas. Discussion Paper No 1/2016.
Global Perspective on Structural Labour Market Reforms in Europe by Povilas Lastauskas and Julius Stakėnas. Working Paper No 21/2016.
2017–present Director, Center for Excellence in Finance and Economic Research (CEFER), Bank of Lithuania, Lithuania
2016–present Research Fellow, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vilnius University, Lithuania
2016–2017 Principal Economist, Center for Excellence in Finance and Economic Research (CEFER), Bank of Lithuania, Lithuania
2016 Visiting Researcher, Centre for Research on Impact Evaluation, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
2013–2016 Bye-Fellow in Economics Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, UK
2013–2016 Lecturer, Fellow, and Director of Studies in Economics, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK
2012, 2016 Visiting Research Fellow, Center for Applied Financial Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
2010–2014 Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, Trinity College and Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, UK
2012 PhD Intern (The Fund Internship Program), International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, USA
2012–2013 Diploma in International Economic Policy Research, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany
2008–2009 Master of Philosophy in Economics, Trinity College and Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, UK
2006–2007 Certificate in Amsterdam Courses in Economics, Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA), The Netherlands
2004–2008 Bachelor Cum Laude in Economics (Economic Analysis), Vilnius University, Lithuania
Anh Dinh Minh Nguyen (PhD, University of Lancaster)
Primary: Macroeconomic Policy, Uncertainty and Time Series Econometrics
Secondary: Applied Econometrics
2016–present Bank of Lithuania, Senior Economist at TMTS
2015–2016 Lancaster University, Associate Lecturer
2014.06–2014.09 International Monetary Fund, Visiting Researcher
2011–2015 Lancaster University, PhD in Economics
Linas Tarasonis (PhD, Paris School of Economics)
Primary: Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Economics of Discrimination
Secondary: Macroeconomics
Racial Discrimination in the US Labor Market: Employment and Wage Differentials by Skill by Linas Tarasonis, Daniel Borowczyk-Martins and Jake Bradley (2017). Labour Economics, Vol 49 (December), 106–127.
2017–present Vilnius University, Vice Dean at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
2016–present Bank of Lithuania, Principal Economist at TMTS
2013–2016 Aix-Marseille University, Postdoc in Economics
2008–2013 Paris School of Economics, PhD in Economics
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One year in, workforce is the management agenda cornerstone
Jessie Bur
The President's Management Agenda celebrated its first birthday March 20, while its leaders reflected on workforce as the central component of the whole strategy. (SIphotography)
The Trump administration’s President’s Management Agenda, which celebrated its first anniversary March 20, set many goals for the improvement of government operations, including the modernization of federal IT systems, improvements in government data practices and a transformation of acquisition processes.
But, according to three government officials who spoke at a March 20 National Academy of Public Administration event, improving the federal workforce and enticing those with the needed talent to join federal service is at the heart of many of the other improvements that the PMA seeks to make.
“As we look at the modernization activities, what we also realize is that side by side it is imperative that we ensure that the investments in the right skills for our workforce are present,” said Suzette Kent, federal chief information officer.
“Some of those barriers were that we needed the skillsets inside the agency to sustain those new technologies as we rolled them out.”
Federal pay raise bogged down in legal processes
The 1.9 percent federal pay raise is still happening, but some challenges have delayed its implementation.
According to Margaret Weichert, deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget and acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, the federal workforce needs investments in areas like training and reskilling, coupled with a rethinking of the pay, benefits and schedule structure of the government as a whole.
GSA Administrator Emily Murphy agreed. “When I look at it across [the General Services Administration]’s workforce, and we’ve got about 12,000 people, I always think of it as four buckets: trying to recruit the right people; trying to retain the people we have; trying to reskill those skills that can be successful; and I’m trying to recognize them for the work that they’re doing,” she said.
But Weichert said that the toughest part may be getting changes in workforce management going in the first place.
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“The people part of the agenda we think is one of the things that really is pivotal to actually making change happen,” Weichert said in a later interview with Federal Times.
“And one of the things that is unique, I think, about our approach is the integrated notion of the people component of change needs to be at the same table and integrated fully with IT, and data, and procurement, and finance and all the other elements. Frankly, it may be the toughest part, and that’s part of why I think a lot of change has not been successful.”
Because the model for the civil service is so longstanding and ingrained, people have been afraid to touch it, according to Weichert.
“Our personnel systems are utterly inflexible. They are overly … bureaucratic, and they are very, very hard to change because we manage through statute,” said Weichert.
According to ICF Senior Vice President Jeff Neal, who also spoke at the event, a divided Congress means that statute is unlikely to change, as it diminishes the chances that both chambers can come to an agreement on legislation.
And because progress in areas like IT and data is so interconnected with people, agencies are stuck remaining where they are or inventing workarounds.
“In a lot of cases, rather than dealing with the structural challenges, we would outsource the whole thing. But when we’ve done that, in some cases we’ve outsourced the very knowledge about the core systems on which we operate,” said Weichert, explaining that OPM itself has a database so old that it would be eligible for federal retirement benefits, were it a person.
“The technical knowledge about that system is not largely in the hands of the feds. We rely on contractors who have the technical expertise on these cranky, old systems.”
The Trump administration has proposed for the last couple years to change the federal pay system so that automatic increases are reduced and agency leadership has more authority to award pay increases based on performance.
And while results from the most recent Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey suggest that feds want a system that better reflects their performance, employee groups have argued that freezing federal pay during a thriving economy is not the way to go about it.
The Trump administration will soon be pursuing a study in how best to compensate and manage federal workers, but in the meantime are already pursuing popular initiatives, like the cyber reskilling academy.
“The things that we’re doing with reskilling and very specific programs that are looking at how do we get people — talented, excited individuals who are passionate about mission — into the government? How do we keep them in roles? How do we give them mobility inside the government? And particularly in the technology area, how do we ensure that we are growing them along their career path?” said Kent.
“I’d like if that was, again, standard operating procedure, not special things that we focus on.”
About Jessie Bur
Jessie Bur covers federal IT and management.
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Auto Finance Registers Subprime Record in Q3 2017
January 16, 2018 • by Melinda Zabritski
Loan balances rising above the $1 trillion mark wasn’t the big story coming out of the auto finance arena in the third quarter. The real stunner was subprime financing falling to its lowest point since 2012.
The subprime pullback dates back to the second quarter of 2016, with the auto finance industry doing its part to disprove talk of a subprime bubble ever since. In the third quarter, the rise in average credit scores for both new- and used-vehicle financing provided further evidence of the caution finance sources are taking when it comes to their portfolios.
In fact, much of the growth in overall loan balances came out of the superprime and prime tiers. But with credit delinquencies rising slightly, look for auto finance sources to continue steering their respective portfolios away from the high-risk tiers. The following is a look at some of the trends that shaped the auto finance industry in the third quarter of 2017.
Overall Loan Market Rises 6.3%
The overall auto finance market continued to grow at a rapid pace, with total outstanding loans rising 6.3% from a year ago to $1.121 trillion. And while all finance segments experienced portfolio growth, credit unions showed the most growth in terms of both total dollar volume (up $36 billion from a year ago) and by percentage (up 13% from a year ago). In fact, the segment exited the third quarter with its loan balances jumping from $269 billion in the year-ago quarter to $305 billion.
Finance companies also recorded significant growth in outstanding balances, which grew 6.7% from a year ago to $190 billion. Banks and captives registered the smallest year-over-year growth by percentage. Outstanding balances for banks grew 3.3% from a year ago to $370 billion, while balances for captives grew 2.4% to $256 billion.
Delinquencies Show Slight Uptick
Considered a critical bellwether for the auto finance industry, both 30- and 60-day delinquencies for loans and leases combined were up slightly from the year-ago period. For 30-day delinquencies, the rate increased from 2.38% in the year-ago period to 2.39%, while the 60-day delinquency rate inched up from 0.75% to 0.76%.
Even finance companies, which typically cater to credit-challenged consumers, registered declines in their delinquency rates. The segment’s 30-day rate fell from 4.58% in the year-ago period to 4.39%, while its 60-day rate fell from 1.78% to 1.71%.
Lenders shift to higher-tier consumers.
The rise in delinquencies, albeit slight, caused finance sources to turn to the usual countermeasure of tightening credit standards. The result was a continued shift toward borrowers with prime and superprime credit.
In fact, prime consumers accounted for the largest share of loans originated during the period, which increased from 40.35% in the year-ago quarter to 40.9%. The superprime risk tier, however, showed the largest percentage gain, rising from 19.42% to 20.16% of the market.
Conversely, market share for the nonprime, subprime and deep-subprime risk tiers all contracted. Nonprime’s share dropped from 19.81% in the year-ago quarter to 19.56%, while subprime’s share dropped from 17.35% of the market to 16.6%. Deep subprime’s share fell from 3.04% to a record low of 2.79%.
Credit scores reflected the contraction of the below-prime tiers. For new-vehicle financing, the average score rose from 712 in the year-ago period to 713. For used-vehicle loans, the average score rose from 655 to 659.
Shift Toward Prime Drives Down Share of Leasing
Even leasing continued to shift toward prime and superprime customers, with the average credit score for a new-vehicle lease rising from 718 to 722. As a result of that shift, the transaction type’s total share of the finance market fell slightly from 29.49% in the year ago quarter to 29.14%.
In the superprime risk tier, leasing’s share grew from 27.34% in the year-ago quarter to 29.16%. In the nonprime and subprime tiers combined, however, leasing’s share dropped from 23.63% to 22.07%.
Even the percentage of consumers choosing to lease dropped in every risk tier, as more consumers opted for a loan or paid cash. In the superprime and prime tiers, the percentage of consumers opting for a lease dropped from 34.6% in the year-ago period to 33.1%, while the percentage of nonprime consumers opting to lease fell from 32.2% to 29.4%. In the subprime and deep-subprime tiers, the percentage dropped from 25.1% to 22.4%.
Analytics, Consumer Behavior Contribute to Solid Market
For some time now, the story in the auto finance industry has focused incorrectly on the rise in subprime lending. The data over the last several quarters, however, points to the entire market growing. Yes, subprime has grown, too, but only in proportion to the rest of the market.
The reality is the market is turning more prime, which is an encouraging trend given the rise in average amount financed and stretching loan terms. The tightening also demonstrates that finance sources are using data and analytics as part of the lending process. Consumers are also taking a more active role in managing their credit before buying a car. As long as these trends continue, the market should remain in good shape for the foreseeable future.
Melinda Zabritski is senior director of automotive credit for Experian Automotive. Email her at [email protected].
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Home Press Releases Water
Pick up on the latest water trends & solutions from the Water Convention keynote speakers
The Water Convention at Singapore International Water Week is a platform for industry experts, regulators, academics to interact and share ideas on a wide range of water challenges. The 2012 focus will be on relevant water issues to stimulate discussion under the following themes:
Delivering Water from Source to Tap
Effective and Efficient Wastewater Management
Cities of the Future
Water Quality & Health
There will be Presentations on the Latest Water Trends & Solutions from the Four Water Convention Keynote speakers during the Water Convention:
The Little Blue Dot – Singapore’s Water Journey
Mr Tan Gee Paw
Chairman of PUB Singapore
As Chairman of Singapore’s national water agency PUB since 2001, Mr Tan Gee has played a pivotal role in Singapore’s water sector, including the development of NEWater, Singapore’s own brand of recycled water. He will share the journey of Singapore’s water management – how it has evolved over the years to its present state today, and the role technology and integrated planning, as well as social water policies, has played in Singapore’s water story
Connecting Oceans, Climate, Water Quality and Human Health: The 21st Century Global Challenge
Prof. Rita Colwell
University of Maryland,
Stockholm Water Prize Winner 2010
With the satellite sensors to monitor land and oceans, the relationship between the environment and infectious diseases can now be quantified and comparatively analyzed. This presentation will discuss how the new studies could be used to provide an early warning system for public health and, more importantly, for measuring effects of climate change on public health.
Technologies and Practices to Support the Cities of the Future
Dr. Glen Daigger
Senior VP, CH2M Hill
President, International Water Association
Increased competition for water and for resources such as energy and chemicals is causing “Cities of the Future” utilities to change. Fortunately an evolving set of technologies and practices is allowing the development of innovative, more higher performing systems. These evolving technologies and practices will be reviewed and discussed.
The Leading Role of Water in Cities of the Future
Mr Rob Skinner
Professional Fellow, Centre for Water Sensitive Cities
Water system planning has traditionally been an “add on” to the city and design process. This presentation will discuss how many water system planning must be integrated with the total urban planning process from the outset to maximise a city’s liveable and resilience.
Gain more insights on the latest trends and solutions from these notable keynote speakers during the Water Convention at the Singapore International Water Week. Register at www.siww.com.sg before 30 April and enjoy 10% savings!
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Town of Haverstraw, NY
Ch 4 Appearance Tickets
Ch 6 Attorney, Town
Ch 8 Beautification Committee
Ch 12 Ethics
Ch 18 Local Laws, Publication of
Ch 22 Offices, Municipal
Ch 33 Procurement Policy
Ch 34 Retirement Health Insurance Benefits
Ch 35 Site Selection Committee
Ch 38 Traffic and Traffic Fire Safety Advisory Board
Ch 43 Youth and Recreation Committee
Ch 53 Apprenticeship Training Programs
Ch 63 Blasting
Ch 72 Dogs and Other Animals
Ch 73 Dog Licensing
Ch 76 Electrical Standards
Ch 81 Firearms
Ch 84 Fire Prevention and Building Construction
§ 87-1 Findings.
§ 87-2 Statement of purpose.
§ 87-3 Objectives.
§ 87-4 Word usage; definitions.
§ 87-6 Basis for establishing areas of special flood hazard.
§ 87-7 Interpretation and conflict with other provisions.
§ 87-9 Penalties for noncompliance.
§ 87-10 Warning and disclaimer of liability.
§ 87-11 Designation of local administrator.
§ 87-12 Floodplain development permit.
§ 87-13 Application for permit.
§ 87-14 Duties and responsibilities of local administrator.
§ 87-15 General standards.
§ 87-16 Standards for all structures.
§ 87-17 Residential structures.
§ 87-18 Nonresidential structures.
§ 87-19 Manufactured homes and recreational vehicles.
§ 87-20 Appeals Board.
§ 87-21 Conditions for variances.
Ch 90 Freshwater Wetlands
Ch 97 Home Building Financial Security
Ch 100 Junk and Junk Dealers
Ch 103 Refuse Removal
Ch 125 Posting of Signs
Ch 128 Real Property Rental Units
Ch 130 Records, Public Access to
Ch 132 Recycling
Ch 139 Snowmobiles and All-Terrain Vehicles
Ch 140 Soil Erosion and Sediment Control
Ch 142 Solid Waste Disposal
Ch 150 Swimming Pools and Ponds
Ch 155 Underground Storage Tanks
Ch 162 Wireless Communication Facilities
Ch A172 Construction Standards
Ch A173 Site Development Plans
Ch A176 Subdivision of Land
Town of Haverstraw, NY / Part II, General Legislation
Chapter 87 Flood Damage Prevention
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Haverstraw 2-10-2014 by L.L. No. 2-2014.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
Fire prevention and building construction — See Ch. 84.
Zoning — See Ch. 167.
Subdivision of land — See Ch. A176.
ATTACHMENTSAttachment 1 - Floodplain Development Permit Application Attachment 2 - Certificate of Compliance
Editor's Note: This local law also repealed former Ch. 87, Flood Damage Prevention, adopted 5-26-1987 by L.L. No. 1-1987 (Ch. 15A of the 1966 Code).
The Town Board of the Town of Haverstraw finds that the potential and/or actual damages from flooding and erosion may be a problem to the residents of the Town of Haverstraw and that such damages may include destruction or loss of private and public housing, damage to public facilities, both publicly and privately owned, and injury to and loss of human life. In order to minimize the threat of such damages and to achieve the purposes and objectives hereinafter set forth, this chapter is adopted.
It is the purpose of this chapter to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare, and to minimize public and private losses due to flood conditions in specific areas by provisions designed to:
Regulate uses which are dangerous to health, safety and property due to water or erosion hazards, or which result in damaging increases in erosion or in flood heights or velocities;
Require that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities which serve such uses, be protected against flood damage at the time of initial construction;
Control the alteration of natural floodplains, stream channels, and natural protective barriers which are involved in the accommodation of floodwaters;
Control filling, grading, dredging and other development which may increase erosion or flood damages;
Regulate the construction of flood barriers which will unnaturally divert floodwaters or which may increase flood hazards to other lands; and
Qualify for and maintain participation in the National Flood Insurance Program.
The objectives of this chapter are to:
Protect human life and health;
Minimize expenditure of public money for costly flood control projects;
Minimize the need for rescue and relief efforts associated with flooding and generally undertaken at the expense of the general public;
Minimize prolonged business interruptions;
Minimize damage to public facilities and utilities such as water and gas mains, electric, telephone, sewer lines, streets and bridges located in areas of special flood hazard;
Help maintain a stable tax base by providing for the sound use and development of areas of special flood hazard so as to minimize future flood blight areas;
Provide that developers are notified that property is in an area of special flood hazard; and
Ensure that those who occupy the areas of special flood hazard assume responsibility for their actions.
Unless specifically defined below, words or phrases used in this chapter shall be interpreted so as to give them the meaning they have in common usage and to give this chapter its most reasonable application.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
A request for a review of the local administrator's interpretation of any provision of this chapter or a request for a variance.
AREA OF SHALLOW FLOODING
A designated AO, AH or VO Zone on a community's Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) with a one-percent-or-greater annual chance of flooding to an average annual depth of one to three feet where a clearly defined channel does not exist, where the path of flooding is unpredictable and where velocity flow may be evident. Such flooding is characterized by ponding or sheet flow.
AREA OF SPECIAL FLOOD HAZARD
The land in the floodplain within a community subject to a one-percent-or-greater chance of flooding in any given year. This area may be designated as Zone A, AE, AH, AO, A1-A30, A99, V, VO, VE, or V1-V30. It is also commonly referred to as the base floodplain or one-hundred-year floodplain. For purposes of this chapter, the term "special flood hazard area (SFHA)" is synonymous in meaning with the phrase "area of special flood hazard."
BASE FLOOD
The flood having a one-percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.
That portion of a building having its floor subgrade (below ground level) on all sides.
See "structure."
Has the same meaning as "basement."
An enclosed area beneath the lowest elevated floor, 18 inches or more in height, which is used to service the underside of the lowest elevated floor. The elevation of the floor of this enclosed area, which may be of soil, gravel, concrete or other material, must be equal to or above the lowest adjacent exterior grade. The enclosed crawl space area shall be properly vented to allow for the equalization of hydrostatic forces which would be experienced during periods of flooding.
Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, paving, excavation or drilling operations or storage of equipment or materials.
ELEVATED BUILDING
A non-basement building:
Built, in the case of a building in Zones A1-A30, AE, A, A99, AO, AH, B, C, X, or D, to have the top of the elevated floor, or in the case of a building in Zones V1-30, VE, or V, to have the bottom of the lowest horizontal structure member of the elevated floor, elevated above the ground level by means of pilings, columns (posts and piers), or shear walls parallel to the flow of the water; and
Adequately anchored so as not to impair the structural integrity of the building during a flood of up to the magnitude of the base flood.
In the case of Zones A1-A30, AE, A, A99, AO, AH, B, C, X, or D, "elevated building" also includes a building elevated by means of fill or solid foundation perimeter walls with openings sufficient to facilitate the unimpeded movement of floodwaters.
In the case of Zones V1-V30, VE, or V, "elevated building" also includes a building otherwise meeting the definition of "elevated building," even though the lower area is enclosed by means of breakaway walls that meet the federal standards.
The federal agency that administers the National Flood Insurance Program.
FLOOD BOUNDARY AND FLOODWAY MAP (FBFM)
An official map of the community published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as part of a riverine community's Flood Insurance Study. The FBFM delineates a regulatory floodway along watercourses studied in detail in the Flood Insurance Study.
FLOOD ELEVATION STUDY
An examination, evaluation and determination of the flood hazards and, if appropriate, corresponding water surface elevations, or an examination, evaluation and determination of flood-related erosion hazards.
FLOOD HAZARD BOUNDARY MAP (FHBM)
An official map of a community, issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, where the boundaries of the areas of special flood hazard have been designated as Zone A but no flood elevations are provided.
FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAP (FIRM)
An official map of a community, on which the Federal Emergency Management Agency has delineated both the areas of special flood hazard and the risk premium zones applicable to the community.
See "flood elevation study."
FLOOD or FLOODING
A general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas from:
The overflow of inland or tidal waters;
The unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source.
The collapse or subsidence of land along the shore of a lake or other body of water as a result of erosion or undermining caused by waves or currents of water exceeding anticipated cyclical levels or suddenly caused by an unusually high water level in a natural body of water, accompanied by a severe storm, or by an unanticipated force of nature, such as a flash flood or an abnormal tidal surge, or by some similarly unusual and unforeseeable event which results in flooding as defined in Subsection (1)(a) above.
FLOODPLAIN or FLOOD-PRONE AREA
Any land area susceptible to being inundated by water from any source. (See definition of "flooding.")
FLOODPROOFING
Any combination of structural and nonstructural additions, changes, or adjustments to structures which reduce or eliminate flood damage to real estate or improved real property, water and sanitary facilities, structures and their contents.
FLOODWAY
Has the same meaning as "regulatory floodway."
FUNCTIONALLY DEPENDENT USE
A use which cannot perform its intended purpose unless it is located or carried out in close proximity to water, such as a docking or port facility necessary for the loading and unloading of cargo or passengers, shipbuilding, and ship repair facilities. The term does not include long-term storage, manufacturing, sales, or service facilities.
HIGHEST ADJACENT GRADE
The highest natural elevation of the ground surface, prior to construction, next to the proposed walls of a structure.
HISTORIC STRUCTURE
Any structure that is:
Listed individually in the National Register of Historic Places (a listing maintained by the Department of the Interior) or preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the Interior as meeting the requirements for individual listing on the National Register;
Certified or preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the Interior as contributing to the historical significance of a registered historic district or a district preliminarily determined by the Secretary to qualify as a registered historic district;
Individually listed on a state inventory of historic places in states with historic preservation programs which have been approved by the Secretary of the Interior; or
Individually listed on a local inventory of historic places in communities with historic preservation programs that have been certified either:
By an approved state program as determined by the Secretary of the Interior; or
Directly by the Secretary of the Interior in states without approved programs.
LOCAL ADMINISTRATOR
The person appointed by the community to administer and implement this chapter by granting or denying development permits in accordance with its provisions. This person is often the Building Inspector, Code Enforcement Officer, or employee of an engineering department.
LOWEST FLOOR
Lowest floor of the lowest enclosed area (including basement or cellar). An unfinished or flood-resistant enclosure, usable solely for parking of vehicles, building access, or storage in an area other than a basement area is not considered a building's lowest floor, provided, that such enclosure is not built so as to render the structure in violation of the applicable non-elevation design requirements of this chapter.
A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities. The term does not include a recreational vehicle.
MANUFACTURED HOME PARK OR SUBDIVISION
A parcel (or contiguous parcels) of land divided into two or more manufactured home lots for rent or sale.
For purposes of the National Flood Insurance Program, the National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) of 1929, the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88), or other datum, to which base flood elevations shown on a community's Flood Insurance Rate Map are referenced.
Has the same meaning as "manufactured home."
Structures for which the "start of construction" commenced on or after the effective date of a floodplain management regulation adopted by the community and includes any subsequent improvements to such structure.
ONE-HUNDRED-YEAR FLOOD or 100-YEAR FLOOD
Has the same meaning as "base flood."
PRINCIPALLY ABOVE THE GROUND
At least 51% of the actual cash value of the structure, excluding land value, is above the ground.
A vehicle which is:
Built on a single chassis;
Four hundred square feet or less when measured at the largest horizontal projections;
Designed to be self-propelled or permanently towable by a light-duty truck; and
Not designed primarily for use as a permanent dwelling but as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, travel, or seasonal use.
REGULATORY FLOODWAY
The channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than a designated height as determined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in a Flood Insurance Study or by other agencies as provided in § 87-14B of this chapter.
The date of permit issuance for new construction and substantial improvements to existing structures, provided that actual start of construction, repair, reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition placement, or other improvement is within 180 days after the date of issuance. The actual start of construction means the first placement of permanent construction of a building (including a manufactured home) on a site, such as the pouring of a slab or footings, installation of pilings or construction of columns. Permanent construction does not include land preparation (such as clearing, excavation, grading, or filling), or the installation of streets or walkways, or excavation for a basement, footings, piers or foundations, or the erection of temporary forms, or the installation of accessory buildings such as garages or sheds not occupied as dwelling units or not part of the main building. For a substantial improvement, the actual "start of construction" means the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor, or other structural part of a building, whether or not that alteration affects the external dimensions of the building.
A walled and roofed building, including a gas or liquid storage tank, that is principally above the ground, as well as a manufactured home.
SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE
Damage of any origin sustained by a structure whereby the cost of restoring the structure to its before-damaged condition would equal or exceed 50% of the market value of the structure before the damage occurred.
SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENT
Any reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition, or other improvement of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds 50% of the market value of the structure before the start of construction of the improvement. The term includes structures which have incurred substantial damage, regardless of the actual repair work performed. The term does not, however, include either:
Any project for improvement of a structure to correct existing violations of state or local health, sanitary, or safety code specifications which have been identified by the local code enforcement official and which are the minimum necessary to assure safe living conditions; or
Any alteration of an historic structure, provided that the alteration will not preclude the structure's continued designation an historic structure.
A grant of relief from the requirements of this chapter which permits construction or use in a manner that would otherwise be prohibited by this chapter.
The failure of a structure or other development to be fully compliant with the community's floodplain management regulations.
This chapter shall apply to all areas of special flood hazard within the jurisdiction of the Town of Haverstraw, Rockland County.
The areas of special flood hazard for the Town of Haverstraw, Community Number 360681, are identified and defined on the following documents prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency:
Flood Insurance Rate Map Panel Numbers: 36087C0057G, 36087C0058G, 36087C0059G, 36087C0076G, 36087C0077G, 36087C0078G, 36087C0079G, 36087C0081G, 36087C0082G, 36087C0083G, 36087C0084G, 36087C0091G, 36087C0092G, 36087C0101G, 36087C0102G, 36087C0103G, 36087C0104G, 36087C0108G, 36087C0112G, 36087C0116G, whose effective date is March 3, 2014, and any subsequent revisions to these map panels that do not affect areas under our community's jurisdiction.
A scientific and engineering report entitled "Flood Insurance Study, Rockland County, New York, All Jurisdictions" dated March 3, 2014.
The above documents are hereby adopted and declared to be a part of this chapter. The Flood Insurance Study and/or maps are on file at: Town Hall, Town Clerk, One Rosman Road, Garnerville, New York 10923.
This chapter includes all revisions to the National Flood Insurance Program through October 27, 1997, and shall supersede all previous laws adopted for the purpose of flood damage prevention.
In their interpretation and application, the provisions of this chapter shall be held to be minimum requirements, adopted for the promotion of the public health, safety, and welfare. Whenever the requirements of this chapter are at variance with the requirements of any other lawfully adopted rules, regulations, or ordinances, the most restrictive, or that imposing the higher standards, shall govern.
The invalidity of any section or provision of this chapter shall not invalidate any other section or provision thereof.
No structure in an area of special flood hazard shall hereafter be constructed, located, extended, converted, or altered and no land shall be excavated or filled without full compliance with the terms of this chapter and any other applicable regulations. Any infraction of the provisions of this chapter by failure to comply with any of its requirements, including infractions of conditions and safeguards established in connection with conditions of the permit, shall constitute a violation. Any person who violates this chapter or fails to comply with any of its requirements shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined no more than $500 or imprisoned for not more than 15 days or both. Each day of noncompliance shall be considered a separate offense. Nothing herein contained shall prevent the Town of Haverstraw from taking such other lawful action as necessary to prevent or remedy an infraction. Any structure found not compliant with the requirements of this chapter for which the developer and/or owner has not applied for and received an approved variance under §§ 87-20 and 87-21 will be declared noncompliant and notification sent to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The degree of flood protection required by this chapter is considered reasonable for regulatory purposes and is based on scientific and engineering considerations. Larger floods can and will occur on rare occasions. Flood heights may be increased by man-made or natural causes. This chapter does not imply that land outside the area of special flood hazards or uses permitted within such areas will be free from flooding or flood damages. This chapter shall not create liability on the part of the Town of Haverstraw, any officer or employee thereof, or the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for any flood damages that result from reliance on this chapter or any administrative decision lawfully made thereunder.
The Town of Haverstraw Building Inspector is hereby appointed local administrator to administer and implement this chapter by granting or denying floodplain development permits in accordance with its provisions.
Purpose. A floodplain development permit is hereby established for all construction and other development to be undertaken in areas of special flood hazard in this community for the purpose of protecting its citizens from increased flood hazards and insuring that new development is constructed in a manner that minimizes its exposure to flooding. It shall be unlawful to undertake any development in an area of special flood hazard, as shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Map enumerated in § 87-6, without a valid floodplain development permit. Application for a permit shall be made on forms furnished by the local administrator and may include, but not be limited to, plans, in duplicate, drawn to scale and showing the nature, location, dimensions, and elevations of the area in question; existing or proposed structures, fill, storage of materials, drainage facilities, and the location of the foregoing.
Fees. All applications for a floodplain development permit shall be accompanied by an application fee of $100. In addition, the applicant shall be responsible for reimbursing the Town of Haverstraw for any additional costs necessary for review, inspection and approval of this project. The local administrator may require a deposit of no more than $500 to cover these additional costs.
The applicant shall provide the following information as appropriate. Additional information may be required on the permit application form.[1]
The proposed elevation, in relation to mean sea level, of the lowest floor (including basement or cellar) of any new or substantially improved structure to be located in Zones A1-A30, AE or AH, or Zone A if base flood elevation data are available. Upon completion of the lowest floor, the permittee shall submit to the local administrator the as-built elevation, certified by a licensed professional engineer or surveyor.
The proposed elevation, in relation to mean sea level, to which any new or substantially improved nonresidential structure will be floodproofed. Upon completion of the floodproofed portion of the structure, the permittee shall submit to the local administrator the as-built floodproofed elevation, certified by a professional engineer or surveyor.
A certificate from a licensed professional engineer or architect that any utility floodproofing will meet the criteria in § 87-16C, Utilities.
A certificate from a licensed professional engineer or architect that any nonresidential floodproofed structure will meet the floodproofing criteria in § 87-18, Nonresidential structures.
A description of the extent to which any watercourse will be altered or relocated as a result of proposed development. Computations by a licensed professional engineer must be submitted that demonstrate that the altered or relocated segment will provide equal or greater conveyance than the original stream segment. The applicant must submit any maps, computations or other material required by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to revise the documents enumerated in § 87-6, when notified by the local administrator, and must pay any fees or other costs assessed by FEMA for this purpose. The applicant must also provide assurances that the conveyance capacity of the altered or relocated stream segment will be maintained.
A technical analysis, by a licensed professional engineer, if required by the local administrator, which shows whether proposed development to be located in an area of special flood hazard may result in physical damage to any other property.
In Zone A, when no base flood elevation data are available from other sources, base flood elevation data shall be provided by the permit applicant for subdivision proposals and other proposed developments (including proposals for manufactured home and recreational vehicle parks and subdivisions) that are greater than either five lots or two acres.
Editor's Note: A floodplain development permit application form is included as an attachment to this chapter.
Duties of the local administrator shall include, but not be limited to the following.
Permit application review. The local administrator shall conduct the following permit application review before issuing a floodplain development permit:
Review all applications for completeness, particularly with the requirements of § 87-13, Application for permit, and for compliance with the provisions and standards of this chapter.
Review subdivision and other proposed new development, including manufactured home parks to determine whether proposed building sites will be reasonably safe from flooding. If a proposed building site is located in an area of special flood hazard, all new construction and substantial improvements shall meet the applicable standards of § 87-15, General standards, and § 87-15A, Subdivision proposals.
Determine whether any proposed development in an area of special flood hazard may result in physical damage to any other property (e.g., stream bank erosion and increased flood velocities). The local administrator may require the applicant to submit additional technical analyses and data necessary to complete the determination. If the proposed development may result in physical damage to any other property or fails to meet the requirements of § 87-15, General standards, no permit shall be issued. The applicant may revise the application to include measures that mitigate or eliminate the adverse effects and resubmit the application.
Determine that all necessary permits have been received from those governmental agencies from which approval is required by state or federal law.
Use of other flood data.
When the Federal Emergency Management Agency has designated areas of special flood hazard on the community's Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) but has neither produced water surface elevation data (These areas are designated Zone A or V on the FIRM.) nor identified a floodway, the local administrator shall obtain, review and reasonably utilize any base flood elevation and floodway data available from a federal, state or other source, including data developed pursuant to § 87-13G, as criteria for requiring that new construction, substantial improvements or other proposed development meet the requirements of this chapter.
When base flood elevation data are not available, the local administrator may use flood information from any other authoritative source, such as historical data, to establish flood elevation within the areas of special flood hazard, for the purposes of this chapter.
Alteration of watercourses.
Notification to adjacent communities and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation prior to permitting any alteration or relocation of a watercourse, and submittal of evidence of such notification to the Regional Administrator, Region II, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Determine that the permit holder has provided for maintenance within the altered or relocated portion of said watercourse so that the flood-carrying capacity is not diminished.
Construction stage.
In Zones A1-A30, AE and AH, and also Zone A if base flood elevation data are available, upon placement of the lowest floor or completion of floodproofing of a new or substantially improved structure, obtain from the permit holder a certification of the as-built elevation of the lowest floor or floodproofed elevation, in relation to mean sea level. The certificate shall be prepared by or under the direct supervision of a licensed land surveyor or professional engineer and certified by same. For manufactured homes, the permit holder shall submit the certificate of elevation upon placement of the structure on the site. A certificate of elevation must also be submitted for a recreational vehicle if it remains on a site for 180 consecutive days or longer (unless it is fully licensed and ready for highway use).
Any further work undertaken prior to submission and approval of the certification shall be at the permit holder's risk. The local administrator shall review all data submitted. Deficiencies detected shall be cause to issue a stop-work order for the project unless immediately corrected.
Inspections. The local administrator and/or the developer's engineer or architect shall make periodic inspections at appropriate times throughout the period of construction in order to monitor compliance with permit conditions and enable said inspector to certify, if requested, that the development is in compliance with the requirements of the floodplain development permit and/or any variance provisions.
Stop-work orders.
The local administrator shall issue, or cause to be issued, a stop-work order for any floodplain development found ongoing without a development permit. Disregard of a stop-work order shall subject the violator to the penalties described in § 87-9 of this chapter.
The local administrator shall issue, or cause to be issued, a stop-work order for any floodplain development found noncompliant with the provisions of this chapter and/or the conditions of the development permit. Disregard of a stop-work order shall subject the violator to the penalties described in § 87-9 of this chapter.
Certificate of compliance.
In areas of special flood hazard, as determined by documents enumerated in § 87-6, it shall be unlawful to occupy or to permit the use or occupancy of any building or premises, or both, or part thereof hereafter created, erected, changed, converted or wholly or partly altered or enlarged in its use or structure until a certificate of compliance has been issued by the local administrator stating that the building or land conforms to the requirements of this chapter.
A certificate of compliance[1] shall be issued by the local administrator upon satisfactory completion of all development in areas of special flood hazard.
Editor's Note: A sample certificate of compliance is included as an attachment to this chapter.
Issuance of the certificate shall be based upon the inspections conducted as prescribed in § 87-14E, Inspections, and/or any certified elevations, hydraulic data, floodproofing, anchoring requirements or encroachment analyses which may have been required as a condition of the approved permit.
Information to be retained. The local administrator shall retain, and make available for inspection, copies of the following:
Floodplain development permits and certificates of compliance;
Certifications of as-built lowest floor elevations of structures, required pursuant to § 87-14D(1) and (2), and whether or not the structures contain a basement;
Floodproofing certificates required pursuant to § 87-14D(1), and whether or not the structures contain a basement;
Variances issued pursuant to § 87-20, Appeals Board; and
Notices required under § 87-14C, Alteration of watercourses.
The following standards apply to new development, including new and substantially improved structures, in the areas of special flood hazard shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Map designated in § 87-6.
Subdivision proposals. The following standards apply to all new subdivision proposals and other proposed development in areas of special flood hazard (including proposals for manufactured home and recreational vehicle parks and subdivisions):
Proposals shall be consistent with the need to minimize flood damage;
Public utilities and facilities such as sewer, gas, electrical and water systems shall be located and constructed so as to minimize flood damage; and
Adequate drainage shall be provided to reduce exposure to flood damage.
Encroachments.
Within Zones A1-A30 and AE, on streams without a regulatory floodway, no new construction, substantial improvements or other development (including fill) shall be permitted unless:
The applicant demonstrates that the cumulative effect of the proposed development, when combined with all other existing and anticipated development, will not increase the water surface elevation of the base flood more than one foot at any location; and
The applicant demonstrates that the cumulative effect of the proposed development, when combined with all other existing and anticipated development, shall not cause any existing structures to be inundated to a greater extent than already existing, and that no new structures will be subject to flooding by the base flood.
The Town of Haverstraw agrees to apply to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for a conditional FIRM revision, FEMA approval is received and the applicant provides all necessary data, analyses and mapping and reimburses the Town of Haverstraw for all fees and other costs in relation to the application. The applicant must also provide all data, analyses and mapping and reimburse the Town of Haverstraw for all costs related to the final map revision.
On streams with a regulatory floodway, as shown on the Flood Boundary and Floodway Map or the Flood Insurance Rate Map adopted in § 87-6, no new construction, substantial improvements or other development in the floodway (including fill) shall be permitted unless:
A technical evaluation by a licensed professional engineer shows that such an encroachment shall not result in any increase in flood levels during occurrence of the base flood; or
The Town of Haverstraw agrees to apply to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for a conditional FIRM and floodway revision, FEMA approval is received and the applicant provides all necessary data, analyses and mapping and reimburses the Town of Haverstraw for all fees and other costs in relation to the application. The applicant must also provide all data, analyses and mapping and reimburse the Town of Haverstraw for all costs related to the final map revisions.
Anchoring. New structures and substantial improvement to structures in areas of special flood hazard shall be anchored to prevent flotation, collapse, or lateral movement during the base flood. This requirement is in addition to applicable state and local anchoring requirements for resisting wind forces.
Construction materials and methods.
New construction and substantial improvements to structures shall be constructed with materials and utility equipment resistant to flood damage.
New construction and substantial improvements to structures shall be constructed using methods and practices that minimize flood damage.
Enclosed areas.
For enclosed areas below the lowest floor of a structure within Zones A1-A30, AE or AH, and also Zone A if base flood elevation data are available, new and substantially improved structures shall have fully enclosed areas below the lowest floor that are usable solely for parking of vehicles, building access or storage in an area other than a basement and which are subject to flooding, designed to automatically equalize hydrostatic flood forces on exterior walls by allowing for the entry and exit of floodwaters. Designs for meeting this requirement must either be certified by a licensed professional engineer or architect or meet or exceed the following minimum criteria:
A minimum of two openings having a total net area of not less than one square inch for every square foot of enclosed area subject to flooding; and
The bottom of all such openings no higher than one foot above the lowest adjacent finished grade.
Openings may be equipped with louvers, valves, screens or other coverings or devices, provided they permit the automatic entry and exit of floodwaters. Enclosed areas subgrade on all sides are considered basements and are not permitted.
New and replacement electrical equipment, heating, ventilating, air conditioning, plumbing connections, and other service equipment shall be located at least two feet above the base flood elevation or be designed to prevent water from entering and accumulating within the components during a flood and to resist hydrostatic and hydrodynamic loads and stresses. Electrical wiring and outlets, switches, junction boxes and panels shall be elevated or designed to prevent water from entering and accumulating within the components unless they conform to the appropriate provisions of the electrical part of the Building Code of New York State or the Residential Code of New York State for location of such items in wet locations;
New and replacement water supply systems shall be designed to minimize or eliminate infiltration of floodwaters into the system;
New and replacement sanitary sewage systems shall be designed to minimize or eliminate infiltration of floodwaters. Sanitary sewer and storm drainage systems for buildings that have openings below the base flood elevation shall be provided with automatic backflow valves or other automatic backflow devices that are installed in each discharge line passing through a building's exterior wall; and
On-site waste disposal systems shall be located to avoid impairment to them or contamination from them during flooding.
Elevation. The following standards apply to new and substantially improved residential structures located in areas of special flood hazard, in addition to the requirements in § 87-15A Subdivision proposals, and § 87-15B, Encroachments, and § 87-16, Standards for all structures.
Within Zones A1-A30, AE and AH and also Zone A if base flood elevation data are available, new construction and substantial improvements shall have the lowest floor (including basement) elevated to or above two feet above the base flood elevation.
Within Zone A, when no base flood elevation data are available, new construction and substantial improvements shall have the lowest floor (including basement) elevated at least three feet above the highest adjacent grade.
Within Zone AO, new construction and substantial improvements shall have the lowest floor (including basement) elevated above the highest adjacent grade at least as high as two feet above the depth number specified in feet on the community's Flood Insurance Rate Map enumerated in § 87-6 (at least two feet if no depth number is specified).
Within Zones AH and AO, adequate drainage paths are required to guide floodwaters around and away from proposed structures on slopes.
The following standards apply to new and substantially improved commercial, industrial and other nonresidential structures located in areas of special flood hazard, in addition to the requirements in § 87-15A, Subdivision proposals, and § 87-15B, Encroachments, and § 87-16, Standards for all structures.
Within Zones A1-A30, AE and AH, and also Zone A if base flood elevation data are available, new construction and substantial improvements of any nonresidential structure shall either:
Have the lowest floor, including basement or cellar, elevated to or above two feet above the base flood elevation; or
Be floodproofed so that the structure is watertight below two feet above the base flood elevation, including attendant utility and sanitary facilities, with walls substantially impermeable to the passage of water. All structural components located below the base flood level must be capable of resisting hydrostatic and hydrodynamic loads and the effects of buoyancy.
Within Zone AO, new construction and substantial improvements of nonresidential structures shall:
Have the lowest floor (including basement) elevated above the highest adjacent grade at least as high as two feet above the depth number specified in feet on the community's FIRM (at least two feet if no depth number is specified); or
Together with attendant utility and sanitary facilities, be completely floodproofed to that level to meet the floodproofing standard specified in § 87-18A(2).
If the structure is to be floodproofed, a licensed professional engineer or architect shall develop and/or review structural design, specifications, and plans for construction. A floodproofing certificate or other certification shall be provided to the local administrator that certifies the design and methods of construction are in accordance with accepted standards of practice for meeting the provisions of § 87-18A(2), including the specific elevation (in relation to mean sea level) to which the structure is to be floodproofed.
Within Zone A, when no base flood elevation data are available, the lowest floor (including basement) shall be elevated at least three feet above the highest adjacent grade.
The following standards in addition to the standards in § 87-15, General standards, and § 87-16, Standards for all structures, apply, as indicated, in areas of special flood hazard to manufactured homes and to recreational vehicles which are located in areas of special flood hazard.
Recreational vehicles.
Recreational vehicles placed on sites within Zones A1-A30, AE and AH shall either:
Be on site fewer than 180 consecutive days;
Be fully licensed and ready for highway use; or
Meet the requirements for manufactured homes in § 87-19B, C and D.
A recreational vehicle is ready for highway use if it is on its wheels or jacking system, is attached to the site only by quick-disconnect-type utilities and security devices and has no permanently attached additions.
A manufactured home that is placed or substantially improved in Zones A1-A30, AE and AH shall be elevated on a permanent foundation such that the lowest floor is elevated to or above two feet above the base flood elevation and is securely anchored to an adequately anchored foundation system to resist flotation, collapse and lateral movement. Elevation on piers consisting of dry stacked blocks is prohibited. Methods of anchoring may include, but are not limited to, use of over-the-top or frame ties to ground anchors.
Within Zone A, when no base flood elevation data are available, new and substantially improved manufactured homes shall be elevated such that the manufactured home chassis is supported by reinforced piers or other foundation elements of at least equivalent strength that are no less than 36 inches in height above grade and are securely anchored to an adequately anchored foundation system to resist flotation, collapse or lateral movement. Elevation on piers consisting of dry stacked blocks prohibited.
Within Zone AO, the floor shall be elevated above the highest adjacent grade at least as high as two feet above the depth number specified on the Flood Insurance Rate Map enumerated in § 87-6 (at least two feet if no depth number is specified). Elevation on piers consisting of dry stacked blocks is prohibited.
The Zoning Board of Appeals as established by the Town of Haverstraw shall hear and decide appeals and requests for variances from the requirements of this chapter.
The Zoning Board of Appeals shall hear and decide appeals when it is alleged there is an error in any requirement, decision, or determination made by the local administrator in the enforcement or administration of this chapter.
Those aggrieved by the decision of the Zoning Board of Appeals may appeal such decision to the Supreme Court pursuant to Article 78 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules.
In passing upon such applications, the Zoning Board of Appeals, shall consider all technical evaluations, all relevant factors, standards specified in other sections of this chapter and:
The danger that materials may be swept onto other lands to the injury of others;
The danger to life and property due to flooding or erosion damage;
The susceptibility of the proposed facility and its contents to flood damage and the effect of such damage on the individual owner;
The importance of the services provided by the proposed facility to the community;
The necessity to the facility of a waterfront location, where applicable;
The availability of alternative locations for the proposed use which are not subject to flooding or erosion damage;
The compatibility of the proposed use with existing and anticipated development;
The relationship of the proposed use to the comprehensive plan and floodplain management program of that area;
The safety of access to the property in times of flood for ordinary and emergency vehicles;
The costs to local governments and the dangers associated with conducting search and rescue operations during periods of flooding;
The expected heights, velocity, duration, rate of rise and sediment transport of the floodwaters and the effects of wave action, if applicable, expected at the site; and
The costs of providing governmental services during and after flood conditions, including search and rescue operations, maintenance and repair of public utilities and facilities such as sewer, gas, electrical, and water systems and streets and bridges.
Upon consideration of the factors of § 87-20D, and the purposes of this chapter, the Zoning Board of Appeals may attach such conditions to the granting of variances as it deems necessary to further the purposes of this chapter.
The local administrator shall maintain the records of all appeal actions including technical information and report any variances to the Federal Emergency Management Agency upon request.
Generally, variances may be issued for new construction and substantial improvements to be erected on a lot of 1/2 acre or less in size contiguous to and surrounded by lots with existing structures constructed below the base flood level, providing items in Subsection D(1) through (12) of § 87-20 have been fully considered. As the lot size increases beyond the 1/2 acre, the technical justification required for issuing the variance increases.
Variances may be issued for the repair or rehabilitation of historic structures upon determination that:
The proposed repair or rehabilitation will not preclude the structure's continued designation as an historic structure; and
The variance is the minimum necessary to preserve the historic character and design of the structure.
Variances may be issued by a community for new construction and substantial improvements and for other development necessary for the conduct of a functionally dependent use, provided that:
The criteria of Subsections A, D, E, and F of this section are met; and
The structure or other development is protected by methods that minimize flood damages during the base flood and create no additional threat to public safety.
Variances shall not be issued within any designated floodway if any increase in flood levels during the base flood discharge would result.
Variances shall only be issued upon a determination that the variance is the minimum necessary, considering the flood hazard, to afford relief.
Variances shall only be issued upon receiving written justification of:
A showing of good and sufficient cause;
A determination that failure to grant the variance would result in exceptional hardship to the applicant; and
A determination that the granting of a variance will not result in increased flood heights, additional threats to public safety, extraordinary public expense, create nuisances, cause fraud on or victimization of the public or conflict with existing local laws or ordinances.
Any applicant to whom a variance is granted for a building with the lowest floor below the base flood elevation shall be given written notice over the signature of a community official that:
The issuance of a variance to construct a structure below the base flood level will result in increased premium rates for flood insurance up to amounts as high as $25 for $100 of insurance coverage; and
Such construction below the base flood level increases risks to life and property.
Such notification shall be maintained with the record of all variance actions as required in § 87-14H of this chapter.
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Ch 500 Art I Adoption of Codes
§ 500.010 International Building Code.
§ 500.020 International Residential Code For One- And Two-Family Dwellings.
§ 500.030 Property Maintenance Code.
§ 500.040 Plumbing Code.
§ 500.050 Fire Code.
§ 500.060 Mechanical Code.
§ 500.070 Fuel Gas Code.
§ 500.080 National Electrical Code.
§ 500.090 Penalty.
§ 500.100 Severability.
Ch 505 Buildings
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City of New Haven, MO / Building and Construction
Chapter 500 Building Code Regulations
500a Residential Code Minimum Water Heater Capacities 500c Plumbing Code Water Heater Sizing Chart
Article I Adoption of Codes
Section 500.010 International Building Code.
Section 500.020 International Residential Code For One- And Two-Family Dwellings.
Section 500.030 Property Maintenance Code.
Section 500.040 Plumbing Code.
Section 500.050 Fire Code.
Section 500.060 Mechanical Code.
Section 500.070 Fuel Gas Code.
Section 500.080 National Electrical Code.
Section 500.090 Penalty.
Section 500.100 Severability.
Article I Adoption of Codes [1]
Editor's Note — Ord. no. 833 ch. one — ch. eleven, adopted September 13, 2005, repealed sections 500.010 "adoption of international building code 2000", 500.020 "adoption of international plumbing code", 500.030 "adoption of international residential code 2000 for one- and two-family homes", 500.040 "international mechanical code 2000", 500.050 "adoption of international fire code 2000", 500.060 "adoption of national electric code 1999" and 500.070 "penalty" and enacted the provisions set out herein. Former sections 500.010 — 500.060 derived from CC 1984 §§3.010 — 3.060, 9.010; ord. no. 753 §§2 — 10, 1-8-2001.
[Ord. No. 833 Ch. One §§ 1—2, Exh. I § 1, 9-13-2005; Ord. No. 968 §§ 1—3, 6-14-2010; Ord. No. 1259, 1-14-2019]
A certain document, being marked and designated as the "International Building Code, 2015 Edition," as published by the International Code Council, one (1) copy of which is on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of New Haven, be and is hereby adopted as the Building Code of the City of New Haven in the State of Missouri for regulating and governing the conditions and maintenance of all property, buildings and structures; by providing the standards for supplied utilities and facilities and other physical things and conditions essential to ensure that structures are safe, sanitary and fit for occupation and use; and the condemnation of buildings and structures unfit for human occupancy and use and the demolition of such structures as herein provided; providing for the issuance of permits and collection of fees therefor; and each and all of the regulations, provisions, penalties, conditions and terms of said Building Code on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of New Haven are hereby referred to, adopted and made a part hereof, as if fully set out in this Section, with the additions, insertions, deletions and changes prescribed in Subsection (B) of this Section.
Amendments to the International Building Code, 2015 Edition, are given in the following text. Each code Section that corresponds to one (1) of the following provisions is hereby deleted where so noted or amended to read as set forth below. Each provision set out below without a corresponding Section, Subsection or clause number in the code is hereby enacted and added thereto.
SCOPE AND ADMINISTRATION
101.1 Title. These provisions shall be known as the Building Code of The City of New Haven, and shall be cited as such and will be referred to herein as "this code."
101.4.4 Property Maintenance. Delete.
101.4.7 Existing Buildings. The provisions of the International Existing Buildings Code shall apply to matters governing the repair, alteration, change of occupancy, addition and relocation of existing buildings.
DUTIES AND POWERS OF BUILDING OFFICIAL
104.6.1 Disasters. In the event of a disaster such as a windstorm, tornado, flood, fire, earthquake, bomb blast or explosion, the building official is hereby authorized to enter and inspect structures within the affected areas, subject to constitutional restrictions an unreasonable searches and seizures. When, in the opinion of the building official, there is imminent danger due to an unsafe condition, the building official shall take emergency measures in accordance with this code. If the building official determines, after inspection, that a structure is unfit, the building official shall declare it a public nuisance, cause a report to be prepared and notify the affected parties in accordance with this code.
104.6.1.1 Post-Disaster Inspections. The building official is authorized to deputize Missouri Structural Assessment and Visual Evaluation (SAVE) Volunteer Inspectors certified by the Missouri State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) to conduct emergency Post-Disaster Safety Evaluations of Buildings.
105.2 Work Exempt from permits.
Delete number 2.
Refer to Section 405.400 Fences, New Haven Municipal Code.
105.5 Expiration. Change from one hundred eighty (180) days to three hundred sixty-five (365) days.
SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS
107.3.4.(1) Pre-Engineered Or Pre-Fabricated Building Systems. The owner is required to engage and designate on the building permit application a registered design professional who shall act as the registered design professional in responsible charge of the construction project. The registered design professional shall prepare plans and specifications for the project including the building superstructure, foundation, and building systems and, shall be responsible for reviewing and coordinating submittal documents prepared by the building fabricator and others including phased and deferred submittal items, for compatibility with the design of the building.
SPECIAL DETAILED REQUIREMENTS BASED ON USE AND OCCUPANCY
Section 406.3.4.1 Dwelling Separations.
Change gypsum board from one-half (1/2) to five eighths (5/8) inch.
AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER SYSTEMS
903.2.6 Group I. An automatic sprinkler system shall be provided throughout buildings including all combustible attic spaces with a Group 1 fire area.
Exceptions: (No changes to exceptions)
903.2.7 Group M or Group B. An automatic sprinkler system shall be provided throughout buildings containing a Group M or Group B occupancy where one of the following conditions exists:
A Group M or Group B fire area exceeds twelve thousand (12,000) square feet (1,115 m2).
A Group M or Group B fire area is located more than three (3) stories above grade plane.
The combined area of all Group M or Group B fire areas on all floors, including any mezzanines, exceeds twenty-four thousand (24,000) square feet (2,230 m2).
A Group M or Group B occupancy is used for the display and sale of upholstered Furniture or mattresses exceeding five thousand (5,000) square feet (464 m2).
903.2.11.3 Buildings more than thirty-five (35) feet in height. An automatic sprinkler system shall be installed throughout buildings thirty-five (35) feet or more above the lowest level of fire department vehicle access, regardless of occupancy.
Exceptions: (delete #1 and #2)
903.3.1.2 NFPA 13R sprinkler systems. Automatic sprinkler systems in Group R occupancies up to and including four (4) stories in height shall be permitted to be installed throughout buildings including all combustible attic spaces in accordance with NFPA 13R.
FIRE ALARM AND DETECTION SYSTEMS
907.2.3 Group E.
Exceptions: Delete exception #1.
907.2.4 Group F.
Exceptions: Delete exception.
907.2.6.1 Group I-1.
907.2.8.1 Manual fire alarm system. A manual fire alarm system that activates the occupant notification system in accordance with Section 907.5 shall be installed in Group R-1 occupancies.
Exception:
#1. A manual fire alarm system is not required in buildings not more than two (2) stories in height where sleeping units and contiguous attic or crawl spaces to those units that are separated from each other and public or common areas by not less than one-hour fire partitions and each individual sleeping unit has an exit directly to a public way, egress court or yard.
#2. Delete.
907.2.11.1 Group R-1. (Modify as follows.)
#3. In each story within the sleeping unit, including basements.
907.2.11.2 Groups R-2, R-3, R-4 and I-1. (Modify as follows.)
3. In each story within a dwelling unit, including basements and cellars but not including crawl spaces and uninhabitable attics.
MEANS OF EGRESS
Section 1004.
OCCUPANT LOAD
1004.5 Outdoor areas.
1004.5.1 Outdoor Area Occupant Load. Outdoor areas with an occupant load greater than fifty (50) or a Group A occupancy with a yard, patio, or similar outdoor area shall have at least one (1) direct means to the public way.
MEANS OF EGRESS ILLUMINATION
1008.3.1 Power Supply Testing. When means of egress illumination consist of recessed lighting fixtures, or fixtures more than eight (8) feet above the finished floor line, the egress lighting shall be on a labeled dedicated electrical circuit so that when the egress lighting circuit is turned off the emergency power supply activates. Any means of egress illumination that does not have an external readily visible test button, shall have a red dot permanently affixed to the fixture in visible location as approved by the fire code official.
Section 1602. Definitions and notations.
SPECIALTY ENGINEER
A professional engineer who provides services for specific portions of the project within a particular discipline, but does not have a direct organizational contractual relationship with the corresponding engineer of record, shall be designated the speciality engineer.
Section 1603.2 Delegated Engineered Systems. The engineer of record for a structure may delegate responsibility for the design of systems or component parts of the structure to a specialty engineer. The engineer of record shall review the drawings, specifications, reports, or other documents submitted by the specialty engineer and confirm in writing that they conform to his/her written requirements and are consistent with the intent of his/her drawings, specifications, reports, or other documents prepared for the project. The following are some examples of delegated systems.
Prefabricated wood trusses and components.
Pre-engineered metal or wood buildings.
Structural steel connections.
Open web steel joists and joist girders.
Precast, pre-stressed concrete components.
Cold-formed steel joist/stud/truss framing and pre-fabricated components.
Cast-in-place post-tensioned concrete structural systems.
Tilt-up concrete wall systems.
Foundations systems.
Seismic anchorage of equipment.
Proprietary track for under-hung cranes and monorails.
SOILS AND FOUNDATIONS
1801.3 Prohibited Foundations And Footing Systems. The below listed foundation and/or footing systems are prohibited:
Permanent wood foundation systems as described in Section 1807.1.4.
Timber footings as described in Section 1809.12.
Wood pole foundations.
1801.4 Pole Type Structures. Pole type structures shall have a concrete foundation. The exterior perimeter foundation shall be continuous and extend below frost line.
Exceptions: Buildings used for agricultural and storage only.
Section 1807. Foundation walls, retaining walls and embedded posts and poles.
1807.1.3. Rubble Stone Foundations
SECTION 2702.5
Service disconnect.
The service disconnect means shall be installed at a readily assessable location outside the building. The service disconnect shall be protected against over current by device installed at the point where the conductors receive their supply. Each occupant shall have access to the disconnect serving the structure.
2901.1 Scope. Delete last sentence that reads as follows: Private sewage disposal systems shall conform to the International Private Sewage Disposal Code.
Section 2902. Minimum plumbing facilities.
2902.2.1 Family or assisted-use toilet facilities serving as separate facilities. Where a building or tenant space requires a separate toilet facility for each sex and each toilet facility is required to have only one (1) water closet, two (2) family/assisted-use toilet facilities shall be permitted to serve as the required separate facilities. Family or assisted-use toilet facilities shall not be required to be identified for exclusive use by either sex as required by Section 2902.4.
2902.3 Required public toilet facilities. (Modify by adding the following Exception)
Exception: Public toilet facilities shall not be required in open or enclosed parking garages. Toilet facilities shall not be required in parking garages where there are no parking attendants.
2902.5 Drinking fountain location. Drinking fountains shall not be required to be located in individual tenant spaces provided that public drinking fountains are located within a travel distance of five hundred (500) feet of the most remote location in the tenant space and not more than one (1) story above or below the tenant space. Where the tenant space is in a covered or open mall, such distance shall not exceed three hundred (300) feet. Drinking fountains shall be located on an accessible route.
Penalties. Any person violating any provision of this Section or any of the codes adopted in this Section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in an amount not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) or be imprisoned in the County Jail for a period of not exceeding ninety (90) days, or both such fine and imprisonment. Each day such violation is committed or permitted to continue shall constitute a separate violation.
[Ord. No. 833 Ch. Two §§ 1—2, Exh. I § 2, 9-13-2005; Ord. No. 967 §§ 1—3, 6-14-2010; Ord. No. 1259, 1-14-2019]
A certain document, being marked and designated as the "International Residential Code, 2015 Edition," including Appendices A, B, C, D, E, G, I, J, M, and N as published by the International Code Council, one (1) copy of which on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of New Haven, be and is hereby adopted as the Residential Code of the City of New Haven in the State of Missouri for regulating and governing the construction, alteration, movement, enlargement, replacement, repair, equipment, location, removal and demolition of detached one- and two-family dwellings and multiple single-family dwellings (town houses) not more than three (3) stories in height with separate means of egress as herein provided; providing for the issuance of permits and collection of fees therefor; and each and all of the regulations, provisions, penalties, conditions and terms of said Residential Code on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of New Haven are hereby referred to, adopted and made a part hereof, as if fully set out in this Section, with the additions, insertions, deletions and changes prescribed in Subsection (B) of this Section.
Amendments to the International Residential Code, 2015 Edition, are given in the following text. Each code Section that corresponds to one (1) of the following provisions is hereby deleted where so noted or amended to read as set forth below. Each provision set out below without a corresponding Section, Subsection or clause number in the code is hereby enacted and added thereto.
SECTION R101 GENERAL
R101.1 Title. These provisions shall be known as the Residential Code for One- and Two-Family Dwellings of The City of New Haven, Missouri, and shall be cited as such and will be referred to herein as "this code."
SECTION R105 PERMITS
R105.2 Work Exempt from Permit. Exemption
Change two hundred (200) square feet to one hundred twenty (120) square feet.
Including replacement or recovering of existing roofing, siding, exterior doors and normal maintenance.
Decks not more than thirty (30) inches above grade at any point.
Replacement of windows in existing rough openings. Any change in the rough opening size will require a permit. If the rough opening size changes for a bedroom window, it shall meet the code for egress.
R105.5 Expiration. Every permit issued shall become invalid unless the work authorized by such permit is commenced within three hundred sixty-five (365) days after the permit is issued.
SECTION R106
CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS
R106.2.1 Scale. The site plan shall be drawn to scale.
R106.2.2 Erosion Control Plan. The construction documents shall include an erosion control plan.
SECTION R202 DEFINITIONS.
Add the following definitions:
BALCONY, EXTERIOR — An exterior floor projecting from and supported by a structure without additional independent supports.
CONFINED SPACE — A room or space having a volume less than fifty (50) cubic feet per one thousand (1,000) Btu/h (4.83 L/W) of aggregate input rating of all fuel burning appliances installed in that space.
DECK — An exterior floor system supported on at least two (2) opposing sides by adjoining structure and/or columns, piers, or other independent supports.
UNCONFINED SPACE — A room or space having a volume less than fifty (50) cubic feet per one thousand (1,000) Btu/h (4.83 L/W) of aggregate input rating of all fuel burning appliances installed in that space. Rooms communicating directly with this space in which the appliance is installed, through openings not furnished with doors, are considered a part of the unconfined space.
BUILDING PLANNING
SECTION R301 DESIGN CRITERIA.
Table R301.2(1) Climate and Geographic Design Criteria: Add the following values:
Climatic And Geographic Design Criteria
Ground Snow Load
20 psf
Wind Design
110 mph (3 second gust) 90 mph (fastest mile)
Topographic effects
Seismic Design Category
Subject to Damage From
Frost line depth
30-inches
Moderate to Heavy
Winter Design Temperature
0 to 10° F.
Ice Barrier Underlayment Required
Flood Hazards
Ordinance flood plain
Air Freezing Index
Mean Annual Temperature
55.3° F.
SECTION R302 FIRE-RESISTANT CONSTRUCTION
R302.1 Exterior Walls. Exception 4. Detached garages accessory to a dwelling located within six (6) feet of a lot line are permitted to have roof eave projections not exceeding four (4) inches.
TABLE R302.1(1). Change all Minimum Fire Separation Distances to six (6) feet.
R302.5.1 Opening protection. Openings from a private garage directly into a room used for sleeping purposes shall not be permitted. Other openings between the garage and habitable space shall be equipped with solid wood doors not less than one and three-fourth (1 3/4) inch in thickness, solid or honeycomb-core steel doors not less than one and three-fourth (1 3/4) inch in thickness or 20-minute fire-rated doors.
Table R302.6 Dwelling/Garage Separation. Five eighths (5/8) inches Type X Gypsum board throughout Table.
R302.7 Under-Stair Protection. All under-stair framing shall be protected with a minimum of one-half (1/2) inch gypsum board with one (1) layer of gypsum compound and tape.
R302.11 Fire blocking. Add the following Subsection.
Fire blocking is required in common wall between the living space and the garage at the midpoint.
R302.11.1 Fire Blocking Materials. Change #7 Batts or blankets of mineral wool or other approved materials installed in such a manner as to be securely retained in place.
SECTION R303 LIGHT, VENTILATION AND HEATING
R303.3 Bathrooms. The exception shall read as follows: Exception: The glazed areas shall not be required where artificial light and a mechanical ventilation system are provided. The minimum ventilation rates shall be fifty (50) cubic feet per minute (24 L/s) for intermittent ventilation or twenty (20) cubic feet per minute (10 L/s) for continuous ventilation. Ventilation air from the space shall be exhausted directly to the outside. A soffit vent, gable vent, or other exterior louver vent is considered outside. The ridge vent-is not considered outside.
SECTION R304 MINIMUM ROOM AREAS
304.1 Minimum Area. A minimum of one (1) habitable room shall have a floor area not less than one hundred twenty (120) square feet with a minimum horizontal dimension of ten (10) feet. All other habitable rooms shall have a floor area of not less than seventy (70) square feet with a minimum horizontal dimension of seven (7) feet.
Exception: Kitchens, bathrooms, storage rooms and closets.
SECTION R305 CEILING HEIGHT
305.1 Exception 3. Beams, girders, ducts, or other obstructions shall be a minimum of six (6) feet eight (8) inches above the finished floor.
SECTION R308 GLAZING
308.4.2 Glazing adjacent to doors.
#2. Where the glazing on a wall perpendicular to the plane of the door in a closed position and is within twenty-four (24) inches.
SECTION R309 GARAGES AND CARPORTS
R309.1 Floor surface. Garage floor surfaces shall be of approved non-combustible material, and shall set a minimum of one (1) inch below the level of combustible framing materials such as a wall sill plate. The area of floor used for parking of automobiles or other vehicles shall be sloped a minimum of one percent (1%) to facilitate the movement of liquids to a drain or toward the main vehicle entry doorway. Floor drains may be day lighted a minimum distance of five (5) feet from any property line and within five (5) feet of the garage entry may be permitted.
R309.2 Carport.
Exception: Asphalt surfaces shall not be permitted at ground level in carports. The area of floor used for parking of automobiles or other vehicles shall be sloped a minimum of one percent (1%) to facilitate the movement of liquids or toward the main vehicle entry. Floor drains are not permitted.
SECTION R311 MEANS OF EGRESS
R311.2 Egress Door. Change clear width to thirty-four (34) inches.
R311.7.8 Handrails. Handrails shall be provided on at least one (1) side of each continuous run of treads or flight with three (3) or more risers.
SECTION R313 AUTOMATIC FIRE SPRINKLER SYSTEMS
Delete Section R313 and replace with:
R313.1 Automatic Fire Sprinkler System Right to Choose. As per Section 67.281 of the Missouri Revised Statutes every owner of a new One-Family, Two-Family dwelling, or Townhouse shall have the right to choose or decline to install a fire sprinkler system in their dwelling. If an Owner chooses to install a fire sprinkler system in accordance with section R313 of this code in their dwelling, the dwelling will be required to comply with the provisions of Section P2904 or NFPA 13D of the 2015 International Residential Code.
R313.2 Fire Sprinkler Option Form. Every applicant for a building permit to construct a new Townhouse, One Family, or Two Family Dwelling shall complete the City of New Haven Fire Sprinkler Option Form (Attachment A) prior to the issuance of a building permit.
SECTION R315 CARBON MONOXIDE ALARMS
R315.6.5 Responsibility. It is the responsibility of the owner of the dwelling unit to supply and install all required carbon monoxide detectors and smoke detectors to manufacturer's specifications. It is the responsibility of the owner/occupant to test and provide general maintenance for detector(s).
SECTION R317 PROTECTION OF WOOD AND WOOD-BASED PRODUCTS AGAINST DECAY
R317.1 Location Required. Modify Item 3 as follows:
Sills, plates and sleepers on a concrete or masonry slab that is in direct contact with the ground.
SECTION R318 PROTECTION AGAINST SUBTERRANEAN TERMITES
R318.2 Chemical termiticide treatment. Chemical termiticide treatment shall include soil treatment and/or field applied wood treatment. When treating soil with chemicals a certification will be require from a licensed exterminator.
*Delete Wood Foundations from all Sections and Tables of Chapter 4 as an approved material or method.
SECTION R403 FOOTINGS
Table R403.1 Minimum Width and Thickness of Concrete or Masonry Footings. Delete Table R403.1 (1), (2), (3), and replace with the following:
Table 403.1
Minimum Width of Concrete, Precast or Masonry Footings
Load-Bearing Value Of Soil 1,500 psf to 4,000 psf
1-story
20" wide x 8" thick
24" wide x 10" thick
R403.1.4.1 Frost Protection. Modify exceptions as follows:
Protection of freestanding accessory structures with an area of less than two hundred (200) square feet of light framed construction, with an eave height of ten (10) feet or less shall not be required.
Delete exception.
R403.1.4.3 Cold Weather Requirement. No Concrete shall be poured or installed when air temperatures are twenty-five degrees Fahrenheit (25° F.) or less.
R403.1.4.4 Hot Weather Requirement. During hot weather, proper attention shall be given to ingredients, production methods, handling and placing, protection during curing, to prevent excessive concrete temperatures or water evaporation that could impair the required strength or serviceability of the member or structure. No concrete shall be poured or installed when the air temperature is one hundred five degrees Fahrenheit (105° F.) or higher.
SECTION R404 FOUNDATION AND RETAINING WALLS
R404.1.1 Design Required. 3. Walls supporting suspended reinforced concrete floors, pre-stressed concrete floor planks, or other floor framing systems not addressed by Chapter 5 of this code.
Table 404.1.1(1) Plain Masonry Foundation Walls. Delete Table 404.1.1(2).
Table 404.1.1(2) eight (8) inches Masonry Foundation Walls with Reinforcing. Delete Table 404.1.1(2).
Table 404.1.1(3) ten (10) inches Masonry Foundation Walls with Reinforcing. Delete Table 404.1.1(3).
Table 404.1.1(4) twelve (12) inches Masonry Foundation Walls with Reinforcing. Delete Table 404.1.1(4).
Table 404.1.2(1) Minimum Horizontal Reinforcement for Concrete Basement Walls. Delete Table 404.1.2(1), and replace with the following Table R404.1.2(1).
Table R404.1.2(1)
Reinforcement For Concrete Foundation Walls
Maximum Wall Height
Minimum Reinforcement Size And Spacing For 8", 10" and 12"Walls In all Soil Classes
#4@ 48"
#4 @ 24"
#4 @ 24" (4 bars minimum)
Reinforcement shall be Grade 60 minimum. Reinforcement shall be placed 3" from the inside face.
Vertical reinforcement shall extend to within 6" from the top of the foundation wall.
Wall height is measured from the top of balance fill to the top of the wall.
Where walls will retain four (4) feet or more of unbalanced backfill, they shall be laterally supported at the top and bottom before backfilling.
R408.4 Access. Access shall be provided to all under-floor spaces. Access openings through the floor shall be a minimum of eighteen (18) inches by twenty-four (24) inches (457 mm x 610 mm). Openings through a perimeter wall shall not be less than twenty-two (22) inches by thirty (30) inches. When any portion of the through wall access is below grade, an areaway not less than twenty-two (22) inches by twenty-four (24) inches shall be provided. The bottom of the areaway shall be below the threshold of the access opening. Through wall access openings shall not be located under a door to the residence. See Section M1305.1.4 for access requirements where the mechanical equipment is located under the floor.
R501.1.1. Design Required. A design in accordance with accepted engineering practice shall be provided for suspended reinforced concrete floors and other floor framing systems not addressed in Chapter 5 of this code. Construction documents prepared by a licensed design professional shall be submitted. The construction documents shall show the design requirements for the floor system and all supporting elements.
Exception, Engineered pre-stressed concrete plank floor systems from an approved manufacturer.
SECTION R503 FLOOR SHEATHING
Table R503.2.1.1(1) Allowable Spans and Loads for Wood Structural Panels for Roofs, Sub-floors, and Combination Sub-floor Underlayment. Delete minimum nominal panel thickness 3/8-inch for sheathing, roof and sub-floors.
Table R503.2.1.1(1) Allowable Spans and Loads for Wood Structural Panels for Roofs, Sub-floors, and Combination Sub-floor Underlayment. Delete minimum nominal panel thickness 19/32-inch and 5/8-inch for underlayment, C-C plugged, Single Floor, Roof, and Combination Sub-floor underlayment.
SECTION R504 PRESSURE PRESERVATIVE-TREATED WOOD FLOORS (ON GROUND)
R504 Pressure Preservative-Treated Wood Floors (On-Ground). Delete Section R504 in entirety.
SECTION R506 CONCRETE FLOORS (ON GROUND)
R506.2.3 Concrete Floors (on Ground) - Vapor Retarder. Delete the following exception
Garages, Utility Buildings, and other unheated accessory structures.
R506.3 Suspended Concrete Floors. Minimum requirements for suspended concrete floors not needing a sealed design. Maximum clear span width of seven (7) feet four (4) inches or less. Number four (4) steel rebars, installed twelve (12) inches on center each way with an inch and a half (1 1/2) clearance from the bottom. Note: all laps of rebar must be twenty-four (24) inches minimum. Number four (4) dowels, twelve (12) inches on center, poured into the top of the foundation that supports the floor, a minimum of twenty-four (24) inches and bent into the slab a minimum of twenty-four (24) inches so they can be tied to the reinforcing rebar mat. Minimum four (4) inch bearing ledge on foundation. Six (6) inch thick concrete slab minimum, using six (6) sack, four thousand (4,000) p.s.i. concrete minimum.
R506.4 Other Suspended Floors. All suspended floors that exceed the seven (7) foot, four (4) inch clear span width will require a sealed design stamped by a Registered Design Professional.
SECTION R507 EXTERIOR DECKS
R507.8 Deck Post. Delete Table R507.8 Deck post height. For single-level wood-framed decks with beams sized in accordance with Table R507.6, deck post size shall be:
4" x 4" post permitted up to a finished floor height of forty-eight (48) inches above finish grade and up to forty (40) square feet for a landing.
6" x 6" post at all other locations with maximum height of fourteen (14) feet.
SECTION R602 WOOD WALL FRAMING
Figure R602.10.6.4 Portal Frame for garage door openings. Exception, Steel Tension Strap may be substituted by a continuous 2x6 from top of double plate to top of foundation, using #16d nails, beginning a minimum of one (1) inch from top, two (2) inches in from the edge and spaced every six (6) inches on center vertically ending with two (2) nails into bottom plate.
R602.10.9 Braced wall panel support. Revise Exception 4. Concrete stem wall with a length of forty-eight (48) inches or less, greater than twelve (12) inches in height shall have reinforcement sized and located in accordance with Figure R602.10.9
SECTION N1101 GENERAL
N1101.1 Table N1101.1.1 may be use as alternative to Chapter 11 in its entirety.
Table N 1101.1.1
Minimum Thermal Values
Area or Space
R or U Values
Ceilings without attic space
Walls enclosing conditioned space above grade
Crawl spaces
Ductwork in unconditioned space or exterior walls
U .50
GENERAL MECHANICAL SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
SECTION M1307 APPLIANCE INSTALLATION
M1307.1.1 Location. Water heaters, boilers, and other appliances producing condensate shall be installed in a room or space containing a trapped two (2) inch minimum drain piped to an approved disposal location or system. The drain inlet shall be within fifteen (15) feet of the appliance and in the same room or space.
SECTION M1506 EXHAUST DUCTS AND EXHAUST OPENINGS
M1506.1.1 Duct Material. All single wall ventilation ducts serving toilet rooms and bathrooms shall be constructed of an approved rigid or flexible metal material. Vinyl duct is not allowed
DUCT SYSTEMS
SECTION M1602 RETURN AIR
M1602.2 Return air openings.
Openings shall not be located less than ten (10) feet (3,048 mm) measured in any direction from a fireplace, an open combustion chamber or draft hood of another appliance located in or transferring air to the same room or space.
G2415.12 (404.12) Minimum Burial Depth. Underground piping system shall be installed a minimum depth of eighteen (18) inches below grade.
G2415.12.1 (404.12.1) Individual Outside Appliances. Individual lines to outdoor lights, grills and other appliances shall be installed not less than twelve (12) inches below finished grade, provided that such installation is approved and is installed in locations not susceptible to physical damage.
G2415.13.1 (404.13.1) Trenches — Shared. Fuel gas piping buried in trenches with electric, water supply, sewers or other utilities shall have a minimum of eighteen (18) inches separation from all other pipe or power supply systems.
G2420.5.1 (409.5.1). Delete "located in the firebox of a fire place."
G2420.5.1.1 Gas Fireplace Service Valve. Each gas fireplace shall be provided with a shutoff valve separate from the appliance, and shall be placed in a location protected from being damaged and accessible for operation of the valve.
G2420.5.3 (409.5.3) Located at Manifold. Delete Section.
G2427.10.2.2 (503.10.2.2). Vent Connectors Located in Unconditioned Areas. Delete the exception.
SECTION G2433 (603) LOG LIGHTERS G2433.1 (603.1) Log Lighters. Log lighters are not permitted.
P2708.2 Shower drain. Shower drains shall have an outlet size of not less than two (2) inches in diameter.
P2801.1.1 Minimum Water Heater Size. Storage type heaters serving individual dwelling units shall be sized in accordance with Table P2804.1.
Table P2801.1, Minimum Water Heater Capacities, is set out as Attachment 1 to this Chapter.
SANITARY DRAINAGE
Table 3002.1(1) Above Ground Drainage and Vent Piping. Delete the following materials from the table:
ABS pipe Schedule 40, solid, or cellular core, or composite wall, Polyolefin pipe, PVC Schedule 40, DR 22 (PS 200) and DR 24 (PS 140) cellular core or composite wall.
Table 3002.1(2) Underground Building Drainage and Vent Pipe. Delete the following materials from the Table:
ABS pipe Schedule 40, DR 22 (PS 200) and DR 24 (PS 140) with a solid, or cellular core, or composite wall, Polyolefin pipe. Asbestos cement pipe, PVC Schedule 40, DR 22 (PS 200) and DR 24 (PS 140) cellular core or composite wall.
Table 3002.2 Building Sewer Pipe. Delete the following materials from the table:
ABS pipe Schedule 40, DR 22 (PS 200) and DR 24 (PS 140) with a solid, or cellular core, or composite wall, PE plastic pipe, SDR-PR, Polyolefin pipe, PVC 3.25 O.D. cellular core or composite wall, vitrified clay pipe.
Table 3002.3 Pipe Fittings. Delete the following materials from the table:
ABS plastic pipe, Asbestos Cement, Polyolefin, Vitrified Clay.
P3003.9.2 Solvent cementing.
Delete exception #2
P3005.2.2 Building Sewers. Building sewers shall have a minimum of one (1) clean out capable of cabling both up and down stream, and at intervals not more than one hundred (100) feet (30,480 mm) thereafter. Building sewers eight (8) inches (203 mm) and larger shall have a manhole located more than two hundred (200) feet (60,960 mm) from the junction of the building drain and building sewer and at intervals of not more than four hundred (400) feet (122 m). The interval length shall be measured from the cleanout or manhole opening, along the developed length of the piping to the next drainage fitting providing access for cleaning, a manhole or the end of the building sewer.
P3005.4.1 Branch and Stack Sizing. Branches and stacks shall be sized in accordance with Table P3005.4.1. Below grade drain pipe shall not be less than two (2) inch diameter. Drain stacks shall not be smaller than the largest horizontal branch drained.
P3102.1 Stack Vent Required. Every building shall have a stack vent, a minimum of three (3) in diameter. Such vent shall run undiminished in size and as directly as possible from the building drain through to the open air above the roof. All other vent extensions to the outside shall not be less than two (2) inch in diameter.
P3103.1 Roof Extension. Open vent pipes that extend through a roof shall be terminated at least twelve (12) inches above the roof or twelve (12) inches above the anticipated snow accumulation, whichever is greater. Where a roof is to be used for assembly, as a promenade, observation deck or sunbathing deck or for similar purposes, open vent pipes shall terminate not less than eight (8) feet above the roof.
P3112.1.1 Pipe Size. Pipe for island fixture vent and drain shall be shall be a minimum pipe size of two (2) in diameter, the P trap and connection may be one and one-half (1 1/2) inches in diameter.
P3113.1.1 Vents Serving Water Closets And Toilets. Vents serving water closets and toilets shall be a minimum pipe size of two (2) inches in diameter. This vent shall run undiminished in size and through to the open air above the roof.
P-3114.1.1 Air Admittance Valves. Air admittance valves may not be used in new construction, in rehab, or remodeling except when vent termination to the exterior is not possible, and when the use of the valve is approved by the Building Official.
STORM DRAINAGE
P3303.2 Discharge. Sump pump discharge and roof drainage shall be piped to a private storm drain or to approved water course. Discharge into the sanitary sewer is prohibited. Discharging to or within five (5) feet of a sidewalk, driveway property line, street or to create a nuisance to adjoin properties is prohibited.
P3303.2.1 Discharge Piping Location. All sump pump piping shall be discharged to the exterior, outside, and diverted to a storm sewer conveyance or other approved collection point acceptable to the code official. Discharge into the sanitary sewer is prohibited.
E3406.2 Conductor Material. Conductors used to conduct current shall be of copper. Where the conductor material is not specified, the material and sizes given in the Chapters shall apply to copper conductors. Exception, Service entrance equipment cable conductors.
E3406.3 Minimum Size of Conductors. The minimum size of conductors for feeders and branch circuits shall be 14 AWG copper. The minimum size of service conductors shall be as specified in Chapter 36. The minimum size of Class 2 remote control, signaling and power-limited circuits conductors shall be as specified in Chapter 43.
E3601.6.2 Service disconnect location. Replace with the following:
The service disconnect means shall be installed at a readily accessible location outside the building. The service disconnect shall be protected against over current by device installed at the point where the conductors receive their supply. Each occupant shall have access to the disconnect serving the dwelling unit in which they reside. The installation shall comply with amended Section E3705.7.
Table 3603.4 Service Conductor and Grounding Electrode Conductor Sizing. Change Table as follows:
Delete 250, 300 and 350 service or feeder rating (Amperes).
Change the conductor types and sizes for the 400 amp service rating to the following:
Copper (AWG): 400 copper kcmil or two sets of 2/0
Aluminum and copper-clad aluminum (AWG): Aluminum and copper clad aluminum 500 kcmil, or two sets of 4/0.
E3605.5 Protection of Service Cables Against Damage and all other service cables. Above ground service-entrance cables shall be protected by one (1) or more of the following: rigid metal conduit, intermediate metal conduit, Schedule 40 or 80 PVC conduit, electrical metallic tubing, or other approved means.
BRANCH CIRCUITS AND FEEDER REQUIREMENTS
E-3705.4.4 Conductors of NM Cable. Delete text and replace with the following:
Conductors of NM Cable shall be rated at 90 C. Type NM Cable identified by the marking NM-B, MNC-B, NMS-B, meet this requirement. All NM cables ran through a wood framing member shall have only one (1) cable per hole or opening and that hole or opening shall be fire or draft stopped using thermal insulation or fire caulk.
WIRING METHODS
E3802.2.3 Bored Holes. Bored holes in framing members may contain a maximum of one (1) cable per hole.
E3802.4 In Unfinished Basements & Crawl Spaces. Where type SE or NM cables are run at angles with joists in unfinished basements and crawl spaces, cable assemblies containing two (2) or more conductors of sizes six (6) AWG and larger and assemblies containing three (3) or more conductors of sizes eight (8) AWG and larger shall not require additional protection where attached directly to the bottom of the joists. Smaller cables shall be run either through bored holes in the joist NM cable installed on the wall of an unfinished basement shall be permitted to be installed in a listed conduit or tubing or shall be protected in accordance with Table E3802.1 Conduit or tubing shall be provided with a suitable insulating bushing or adapter at the point where the cable enters the raceway. The NM or SE cable sheath shall extend through the conduit or tubing and into the outlet or device box not less than one-fourth (1/4) inches. The cable shall be secured within twelve (12) inches of the point where the cable enters the conduit or tubing. Metal conduit, tubing, and metal outlet boxes shall be connected to an equipment grounding conductor.
POWER AND LIGHTING DISTRIBUTION
E3902.2 Garage and Accessory Building Receptacles. Add the following exception:
Exception 1. Dedicated single receptacle used for major appliances.
E3902.5 Unfinished Basement Receptacle. Add the following exception:
E3902.16 Arc-Fault Circuit Interrupter Protection. Delete this Section.
DEVICES AND LUMINARIES
E4002.9, 15- and 20-Ampere Receptacles in Wet Locations. Where installed in a wet location, 15- and 20-ampere, 125- and 250-volt receptacles shall have an enclosure that is waterproof whether or not the attachment plug cap is inserted. An outlet box hood installed for this purpose shall be listed and identified as 'extra-duty.' 15- and 20-ampere, 125- and 250-volt non-locking receptacles installed in wet locations shall be listed weather resistant type. Other approved metal weatherproof covers shall be accepted as approved by the Building Official.
E4002.14 Tamper Resistant Receptacles. Delete Section.
E4003.11 Bathtub & Shower Areas. Cord connected luminaries, chain, cable, or chord suspended luminaries, lighting track, pendants, and ceiling suspended (paddle) fans shall not have any parts located within a zone measured three (3) feet horizontally and eight (8) feet vertically from the top of a bathtub rim or a shower stall threshold. This zone is all encompassing and includes the space directly over the tub or shower. Luminaries within the actual outside dimension of the bathtub or shower to a height of eight (8) feet vertically from the top of the bathtub rim or shower threshold shall be marked for damp locations and where subject to shower spray, shall be marked for wet locations, and shall be ground fault interrupter protected.
[Ord. No. 833 Ch. Three §§ 1—2, 9-13-2005; Ord. No. 1002 §§ 1—2, 5-9-2011; Ord. No. 1040 § 1, 7-9-2012; Ord. No. 1259, 1-14-2019]
A certain document, being marked and designated as the "International Property Maintenance Code, 2015 Edition," including Appendices E, F, and G, published by the International Code Council, one (1) copy of which is on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of New Haven, be and is hereby adopted as the Property Maintenance Code of the City of New Haven in the State of Missouri for regulating and governing the conditions and maintenance of all property, buildings and structures; by providing the standards for supplied utilities and facilities and other physical things and conditions essential to ensure that structures are safe, sanitary and fit for occupation and use; and the condemnation of buildings and structures unfit for human occupancy and use, and the demolition of such existing structures as herein provided; providing for the issuance of permits and collection of fees therefor; and each and all of the regulations, provisions, penalties, conditions and terms of said Property Maintenance Code on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of New Haven are hereby referred to, adopted, and made a part hereof, as if fully set out in this Section, with the additions, insertions, deletions and changes prescribed in Subsection (B) of this Section.
Amendments. None.
[Ord. No. 833 Ch. Four §§ 1—2, Exh. I § 3, 9-13-2005; Ord. No. 990 §§ 1—3, 1-11-2011; Ord. No. 1259, 1-14-2019]
A certain document, being marked and designated as the "International Plumbing Code, 2015 Edition," including Appendices B, C, D, and E, one (1) copy of which is on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of New Haven, be and is hereby adopted as the Plumbing Code of the City of New Haven in the State of Missouri regulating and governing the design, construction, quality of materials, erection, installation, alteration, repair, location, relocation, replacement, addition to, use or maintenance of plumbing systems as herein provided; providing for the issuance of permits and collection of fees therefor; and each and all of the regulations, provisions, penalties, conditions and terms of said Plumbing Code on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of New Haven are hereby referred to, adopted, and made a part hereof, as if fully set out in this Section with the additions, insertions, deletions and changes prescribed in Section (B) of this Section.
Amendments to the International Plumbing Code, 2015 Edition, are given in the following text. Each code Section that corresponds to one (1) of the following provisions is hereby deleted where so noted or amended to read as set forth below. Each provision set out below without a corresponding Section, Subsection or clause number in the code is hereby enacted and added thereto.
101.1. Title. These regulations shall be known as the International Plumbing Code of the City of New Haven, County of Franklin, and State of Missouri, herein referred to as "this code."
FIXTURES, FAUCETS AND FIXTURE FITTINGS
417.3 Shower Waste Outlet. Change to two (2) inches in diameter.
502.6 Prohibited Location. Gas-fired water heaters shall not be installed in a sleeping room, bathroom or a closet accessed through a sleeping room or bathroom.
MATERIALS, JOINTS AND CONNECTIONS
TABLE 605.4 WATER DISTRIBUTION PIPE.
DELETE — CPVC PLASTIC PIPE
DELETE — GALVANIZED PIPE
TABLE 702.1 ABOVE-GROUND DRAINAGE AND VENT PIPE. Delete the following materials from the table:
Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plastic pipe in IPS diameters, including Schedule 40; DR 22 (PS 200) and DR 24 (PS 140); with a solid, cellular core or composite wall.
TABLE 702.2 UNDERGROUND BUILDING DRAINAGE AND VENT PIPE. Replace Table 702.2 with the following.
Underground Building Drainage and Vent Pipe
Cast-iron pipe
ASTM A 74; ASTM A 888, CISPI 301
Copper or copper alloy tubing (Type K, L, M or DWV)
ASTM B 75; ASTM B 88; ASTM B 251; ASTM B 306
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic pipe in IPS diameters, including Schedule 40, DR 22 (PS200) and DR 24 (PS) 140; with a solid core.
ASTM D 2665; ASTM F 891, ASTM F 1488, CSA B181.2
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic pipe with a 3.25-inch O.D. and a solid wall.
ASTM D 2949, ASTM F 1488
Table 702.3.
Building Sewer Pipe
ASTM A 74; ASTM A888; CISPI 301
Concrete Pipe
ASTM C14; ASTM C76; CAN/CSA A257.1M; CAN/CSA A257.2M
Copper or copper-alloy tubing (Type K or L)
ASTM B 75; ASTM B 88; ASTM B 251
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic pipe in IPS diameters, including Schedule 40, DR 22 (PS200) and DR 24 (PS 140); with a solid-wall.
ASTM D 2665; ASTM F 891; ASTM F 1488
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic pipe in sewer and drain diameters, including PS 25, SDR 41 (PS28), PS 35, SDR 35 (PS 46), PS 50, PS 100, SDR 26 (PS 115), PS 140 AND PS 200; with a solid wall.
ASTM F 891; ASTM F 1488; ASTM D 3034; CSA B182.2; CAS B182.4
708.1.2 Building Sewers. Sewers shall have a minimum of one (1) clean out capable of cabling both up and down stream, and at intervals not more than one hundred (100) feet (30,480 mm) thereafter. Building sewers eight (8) inches (203 mm) and larger shall have a manhole not located more than two hundred (200) feet (60,960 mm) from the junction of the building drain and building sewer and at intervals of not more than four hundred (400) feet (122 m). The interval length shall be measured from the cleanout or manhole opening, along the developed length of the piping to the next drainage fitting providing access for cleaning, a manhole or the end of the building sewer.
708.1.5 Cleanout Size. Cleanouts shall be the same size as the piping served by the cleanout.
VENT TERMINALS
903.1 Roof Extension. Replace [NUMBER] with twelve (12) inches.
918.3 Permitted Use. Air admittance valves may not be used except when termination to the exterior is not possible, or approved by code official.
SUMPS AND PUMPING SYSTEMS
1113.1.4.1 Discharge Piping Location. All sump pump piping shall be discharged to the exterior, and diverted to a storm sewer conveyance or other approved collection point acceptable to the code official. Discharge into the sanitary sewer is prohibited.
1113.1.5 Discharge. (IPMC 304.7) Sump pump discharge and roof drainage shall be piped to a storm drain or to approved water course. Discharge into the sanitary sewer is prohibited. Discharging to or within five (5) feet of a sidewalk, driveway, street or to create a nuisance to adjoin properties is prohibited.
Penalties. Any person violating any provision of this Section or any of the codes adopted in this Section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in an amount not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) or be imprisoned in the County Jail for a period of not exceeding ninety (90) days, or both such fine and imprisonment. Each day that such violation is committed or permitted to continue shall constitute a separate violation.
[Ord. No. 833 Ch. Five §§ 1—2, Exh. I § 4, 9-13-2005; Ord. No. 991 §§ 1—3, 1-11-2011; Ord. No. 1259, 1-14-2019]
A certain document, being marked and designated as the "International Fire Code, 2015 Edition," including Appendices E, F, and G, one (1) copy of which is on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of New Haven, be and is hereby adopted as the Fire Code of the City of New Haven in the State of Missouri regulating and governing the safeguarding of life and property from fire and explosion hazards arising from the storage, handling and use of hazardous substances, materials and devices, and from conditions hazardous to life or property in the occupancy of buildings and premises as herein provided; providing for the issuance of permits and collection of fees therefor; and each and all of the regulations, provisions, penalties, conditions and terms of said Fire Code on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of New Haven are hereby referred to, adopted, and made a part hereof, as if fully set out in this Section, with the additions, insertions, deletions and changes prescribed in Section (B) of this Section.
Amendments to the International Fire Code, 2015 Edition, are given in the following text. Each code Section that corresponds to one (1) of the following provisions is hereby deleted where so noted or amended to read as set forth below. Each provision set out below without a corresponding Section, Subsection or clause number in the code is hereby enacted and added thereto.
SCOPE AND GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
101.1 Title. These regulations shall be known as the Fire Code of the City of New Haven, County of Franklin, State of Missouri, hereinafter referred to as "this code."
SECTION 102.6 Historic Buildings. The construction, alteration, repair, enlargement, restoration, relocation or movement of existing buildings or structures that are designated as historic buildings shall be in accordance with the provisions of this code as adopted.
OPEN BURNING, RECREATIONAL FIRES AND PORTABLE OUTDOOR FIREPLACES
307.1.2 Violation of Open Burning. Any person, business or organization willfully open burning trade waste, debris, trash, etc., and causes a fire department response shall be fined one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) per hour per unit responding. In addition, a one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) per hour per every fire unit committed shall be assessed including responses to any exposure fires caused.
307.6 Burning of Landscape or Land Clearance Waste.
307.6.1 Burn Permit Required. Open burning of landscape or land clearance waste disposal shall be allowed after obtaining a burn permit and proper authorization from the Fire Code Official and Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Such burn permit shall be valid for thirty (30) days and shall only apply to the original burn pit. Any relocation of the burn pit will require and additional burn permit.
307.6.1.1 Materials Permitted. Materials permitted to be burned shall be limited to natural vegetation including trees, limbs, shrubs, bushes and the like.
307.6.1.2 Prohibited Materials. The burning of processed or milled wood, construction material or waste, garbage, rubbish of any kind, rubber, plastic or any synthetic material, flammable or combustible liquids shall be prohibited.
Exception: Combustible liquids only used as fuel to ignite the fire.
307.6.1.3 Weather Conditions. The fire code official shall have the authority to prohibit burning at any time due to adverse weather or climatic conditions.
307.6.2 Application. An application for a burn permit shall be submitted at least ten (10) days before burning is planned to begin, and shall be in such form and contain such information as required by the fire code official. The application shall be accompanied by MO DNR approval for burning, a locator map or site plan showing the general location of the burn pit, and a deposit as required by Section 307.6.2.1.
307.6.3 Violation. The first violation of Section 307.6 causing a fire department response shall cost the offender or property owner fifty dollars ($150.00) per hour per unit responding. This amount will be deducted for the original deposit.
A second violation shall cost the offender or property owner the forfeiture of the deposit moneys and shall void the burn permit.
For this Section, violations, shall include, but are not limited to: burning without a permit, burning outside of the time restrictions, relocation and use of a pit without a separate burn permit, failure to notify dispatch agency, failure to attend the fire, failure to property extinguish fire, excessive smoke, off-site embers or ashes, and the burning of prohibited materials.
307.6.4 Hours Of Operation. Burning shall be conducted during the hours stipulated in the MO DNR requirements. Each day, the permittee shall notify the New Haven Communication Center by telephone prior to starting the burn and again contact at the conclusion of the burning.
307.6.6 Inspection Prior To Burning. Prior to the issuance of the burn permit, the fire code official shall inspect the burning site to ensure compliance with provisions of this Chapter.
307.6.7 Attendance. The permittee shall designate a responsible person in charge to conduct and attend the burning. The responsible person in charge shall be required to have the necessary equipment, material and personnel to extinguish the fire at any time, and shall have a means of communication to call the fire department to respond to an emergency. The responsible person in charge shall attend the burning until it is completely extinguished each day.
307.6.8 Final Inspection. The permittee shall request, in writing, a final inspection of the burn pit and the return of deposit. The fire code official shall inspect the burn site to ensure the pit has been property filled in with dirt. Upon approval of the final inspection by the fire code official the deposit money minus any deductions authorized in Section 307.6.3 shall be returned to the permittee.
HAZARDS TO FIRST RESPONDERS
316.3 Pitfalls. The intentional design or alteration of buildings to disable, injure, maim or kill intruders is prohibited. No person shall install and use firearms, sharp or pointed objects, razor wire, explosives, flammable or combustible liquid containers or dispensers containing highly toxic, toxic, irritant or other hazardous materials in a manner which may passively or actively disable, injure, maim or kill a first responder who forcibly enters a building for the purpose of controlling or extinguishing a fire, rescuing trapped occupants or rendering other emergency assistance.
903.2.6 Group I. An automatic sprinkler system shall be provided throughout buildings including all combustible attic spaces with a Group I fire area.
Exception: An automatic fire sprinkler system installed in accordance with Section 903.3.1.2 or 903.34.3 — shall be allowed in Group-1-facilities.
903.2.7 Group M or Group B. An automatic sprinkler system shall be provided throughout buildings containing a Group M or Group B occupancy where one (1) of the following conditions exists:
The combined area of all Group M or Group B fire areas on all floors, including any mezzanines, exceeds twenty four thousand (24,000) square feet (2,230 m2).
903.2.11.3 Buildings more than thirty five (35) feet in height. An automatic sprinkler system shall be installed throughout buildings that have one (1) or more stories thirty five (35) feet or more above the lowest level of fire department vehicle access, measured to the finished floor, regardless of occupancy.
Exception #1, #2.
903.3.1.2 NFPA 13R sprinkler systems. Automatic sprinkler systems in Group R occupancies up to and including four (4) stories in height in buildings not exceeding sixty (60) feet in height above grade plane shall be permitted to be installed throughout buildings including all combustible attic spaces in accordance with NFPA 13R.
FIRE ALARM DETECTION SYSTEMS
Exceptions: Delete exception #1, #2.
1004.5.1 Outdoor Area Occupant Load. Outdoor areas with an occupant load greater than fifty (50) or a Group A occupancy with a yard, patio, or similar outdoor area shall have at least one direct means to the public way.
[Ord. No. 833 Ch. Six §§ 1—2, Exh. I § 5, 9-13-2005; Ord. No. 989 §§ 1—3, 1-11-2011; Ord. No. 1259, 1-14-2019]
A certain document, being marked and designated as the International Mechanical Code, 2015 Edition, including Appendix A, one (1) copy of which is on filet in the office of the City Clerk of the City of New Haven be and is hereby adopted as the Mechanical Code of the City of New Haven in the State of Missouri, regulating and governing the design, construction, quality of materials, erection, installation, alteration, repair, location, replacement, addition to, use or maintenance of mechanical systems as herein provided; providing for the issuance of permits and collection of fees therefor; and each and all of the regulations, provisions, penalties, conditions and terms of said Mechanical Code on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of New Haven are hereby referred to, adopted, and made a part hereof, as if fully set out in this Section, with the additions, insertions, deletions and changes prescribed in Section (B) of this Section.
Amendments to the International Mechanical Code, 2015 Edition, are given in the following text. Each code Section that corresponds to one (1) of the following provisions is hereby deleted where so noted or amended to read as set forth below. Each provision set out below without a corresponding Section, Subsection or clause number in the code is hereby enacted and added thereto.
101.1 Title. These regulations shall be known as the Mechanical Code of the City of New Haven, County of Franklin, State of Missouri, herein referred to as "this code."
DOMESTIC KITCHEN EXHAUST EQUIPMENT
505.1 Domestic Systems. Range hoods or other approved kitchen exhaust systems shall terminate and discharge to the outdoors through a duct. This duct shall have a smooth interior surface, shall be air tight, shall be equipped with a back-draft damper and shall be independent of all other exhaust systems. A range hood located above an electric range need not discharge to the exterior.
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SECTION 404 (IFGC)
PIPING SYSTEM INSTALLATION
404.13.1 Trenches — Shared. Fuel gas piping buried in trenches with electric, water supply, sewers or other utilities shall have a minimum of eighteen (18) inches separation from all other pipe or power supply systems.
[Ord. No. 833 Ch. Seven §§ 1—2, Exh. I § 6, 9-13-2005; Ord. No. 988 §§ 1—3, 1-11-2011; Ord. No. 1259, 1-14-2019]
A certain document, being marked and designated as the "International Fuel Gas Code, 2015 Edition," including Appendices A, B, and C, one (1) copy of which is on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of New Haven, be and is hereby adopted as the Fuel Gas Code of the City of New Haven in the State of Missouri regulating and governing fuel gas systems and gas-fired appliances as herein provided; providing for the issuance of permits and collection of fees therefor; and each and all of the regulations, provisions, penalties, conditions and terms of said Fuel Gas Code on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of New Haven are hereby referred to, adopted, and made a part hereof, as if fully set out in this Section, with the additions, insertions, deletions and changes prescribed in Section (B) of this Section.
Amendments to the International Fuel Gas Code, 2015 Edition, are given in the following text. Each code Section that corresponds to one (1) of the following provisions is hereby deleted where so noted or amended to read as set forth below. Each provision set out below without a corresponding Section, Subsection or clause number in the code is hereby enacted and added thereto.
101.1 Title. These regulations shall be known as the Fuel Gas Code of the City of New Haven, County of Franklin, State of Missouri, herein referred to as "this code."
PIPING MATERIALS
403.4 Metallic pipe — delete.
403.4.3 Copper and copper alloy — delete.
403.4.4 Aluminum — delete.
403.5 Metal Tubing — delete.
403.5.2 Copper and copper alloy tubing — delete.
403.5.3 Aluminum Tubing — delete.
403.6 Plastic pipe, Tubing, Fittings — delete.
(404.12) Minimum Burial Depth. Underground piping system shall be installed a minimum depth of eighteen (18) inches below grade.
(404.12.1) Individual Outside Appliances. Individual lines to outdoor lights, grills and other appliances shall be installed not less than twelve (12) inches below finished grade, provided that such installations is approved and is installed in locations not susceptible to physical damage.
(404.13.1) Trenches — Shared. Fuel gas piping buried in trenches with electric, water supply, sewers or other utilities shall have a minimum of eighteen (18) inches separation from all other pipe systems.
SHUTOFF VALVES
(409.5.1) Delete "located in the firebox of a fire place."
409.5.1.1 Gas Fireplace Service Valve. Each gas fireplace shall be provided with a shutoff valve separate from the appliance, and shall be placed in a location protected from being damaged and accessible for operation of the valve.
(409.5.3) Located at Manifold. Delete Section.
CHIMNEYS AND VENTS
(503.10.2.2) Vent Connectors Located in Unconditioned Areas. Delete the exception.
(603.1) Delete and replace with: Log Lighters: Log lighters are not permitted.
[Ord. No. 833 Ch. Eight § 1, Exh. I § 7, 9-13-2005; Ord. No. 987 §§ 1—3, 1-11-2011; Ord. No. 1259, 1-14-2019]
A certain document, being marked and designated as "NFPA 70, National Electrical Code, 2014 Edition", as published by the National Fire Protection Association, one (1) copy of which is on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of New Haven, be and is hereby adopted as the Electrical Code of the City of New Haven in the State of Missouri, and each and all of the regulations, provisions, penalties, conditions and terms of said Electrical Code on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of New Haven are hereby referred to, adopted, and made a part hereof, as if fully set out in this Section, with the additions, insertions, deletions and changes prescribed in Section (B) of this Section.
[Ord. No. 833 Ch. Ten § 1, 9-13-2005; Ord. No. 1259, 1-14-2019]
Any person violating any provision of this Chapter or any of the codes adopted in this Chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in an amount not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) or be imprisoned in the County Jail for a period not exceeding ninety (90) days, or both such fine and imprisonment. Each day such violation is committed or permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense.
[Ord. No. 833 Ch. Eleven §§ 1—2, 9-13-2005]
If any Section, Subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this Chapter is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Chapter. The Board of Aldermen hereby declares that it would have passed this Chapter and each Section, Subsection, clause or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one (1) or more Sections, Subsections, sentences, clauses and phrases be declared unconstitutional.
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Political philosopher, Sir Roger Scruton, examines how populist leaders break down the foundations of representative government because they ignore the essential responsibility of all political representatives: “to represent the interests of all their constituents—not just those who voted for them.”
And though populist voters are largely depicted as loud, radical revolutionaries, David Goodhart contradicts this portrayal, showing that many populist voters are traditional, decent people who are alienated by an ever-increasing cosmopolitan national identity.
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Absolutely, and for a number of reasons. Primary school nativity plays and musicals are the best way to remember and preserve the story of how Christmas came to be and why we celebrate it. With primary schools being required to make children aware of the main tenets and festivals of the major world religions, putting on KS1 or KS2 nativities ticks a lot of boxes and, more importantly perhaps, focuses children’s attention onto the more traditional and less consumer-driven aspects of the festive season. And, of course, the nativity is a fantastic story to tell through drama and music! Parents still delight in seeing their little ones in a nativity production and, for most of them, it brings back happy memories of their own experiences at school.
At Edgy Productions we believe the nativity ‘concept’ needs to evolve. Don’t worry though – angels, shepherds, wise men, donkeys and a baby in a manager are always at the core of our KS1 and KS2 nativity plays. To keep things interesting, however, we like to add a little spin, bringing in new characters and fresh perspectives. We like to re-imagine the familiar nativity story from the point of view of different characters, enabling you as a teacher to engage and include more of your children and expand the usual limited cast list, which traditionally has only one female part – Mary!
For most youngsters, their KS1 nativity play is their first experience of acting and singing on stage – we hope we can help make that experience a positive one.
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The Eventide H910 Harmonizer ® was developed by Eventide in 1974. The H910 was the world’s first commercially available digital audio effects device. It combined ‘de-glitched’ pitch change with delay and feedback. It could be controlled by a keyboard remote control to instantly shift pitch in half steps. It featured a two octave range and up to 112.5 msec of delay. The combination of pitch change, delay and feedback opened up a new world of sonic possibilities which were exploited in the ground-breaking work by artists from AC/DC to David Bowie to Frank Zappa.
The Eventide H910 Harmonizer effects processor forever changed the complexion of music enabling producers and artists to add texture to their recordings and performances in ways heretofore unimaginable.
Yes vocalist, Jon Anderson, tested the first prototype. Users soon found all sorts of applications, ranging from regenerative arpeggios to bizarre sound design effects to lush guitar or vocal fattening. Early customers included New York City’s Channel 5 putting an H910 to work, downward pitch shifting the audio portion of “I Love Lucy” reruns that were sped up to squeeze in more commercials. Music engineered on the H910 became the soundtrack of the seventies and eighties drawing praise and extensive use from a select group of top artists and producers. Ideal for vocals, guitars and horns, the Eventide H910 was invented by then-engineer, Tony Agnello. In 1974, Agnello conceived of a harmony processor but had little idea that he was creating a classic tool for the most successful artists of their generation. Jimmy Page was an early fan, incorporating the H910 into his guitar rack, and, similarly Frank Zappa employed it heavily as part of his guitar sound. Producer Tony Visconti used the H910 to achieve the now-legendary snare sound on David Bowie’s Young Americans, and Tony Platt did likewise on AC/DC's Back in Black. Eddie Van Halen and Steve Winwood also used the H910, each owning two of the units and incorporating them into their live and studio set-ups.
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What should we say about the United States of America? So much has already been said, adding our two cents is a bit redundant or presumptuous, depending on your perspective. Certainly, no one needs us to outline the facts, the major events and figures, or to describe our unique written Constitution and democratic-republican system.
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For starters, there's no specific reference to the U.S. in the Bible. The principles found in God's Word that apply to all nations certainly apply to the United States as well, but we aren't a Christian nation, we don't hold a special place in biblical prophecy, and Manifest Destiny is the result of Enlightenment rationalist views about the Progress of Mankind rather than being rooted in any kind of Christian attitude.
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Secular forces were still at work, though. While there were definitely many Christians involved, the American Revolution was largely the result of Enlightenment philosophizing, and men were convinced that America could produce a virtuous and stable population if education and participatory government were enforced. So they rebelled against England, and the United States republic was formed.
Ever since, groups and individuals have tried to call Americans back to their Christian roots. That's the wrong strategy: we don't need to call anyone back to anything, we need to point the way forward to the pursuit of Christ and the bringing of His Gospel and glory to every corner of the earth no matter what our country of origin. That America has been so materially blessed simply means we have more options at our disposal for proclaiming and bringing the Word to the rest of the world.
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*½/****
starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent
screenplay by Jay Cocks and Steven Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan
directed by Martin Scorsese
by Walter Chaw Beginning as Martin Scorsese's Apocalypse Now, Gangs of New York, at the end of the auteur's thirty-year dream of it, more resembles his Titanic. Buoyed on a tsunami of dark rumors of behind-the-scenes clashes (the line "Please don't make that sound again, Harvey" registering as either a jab or a plea to Miramax head Harvey Weinstein), eleventh-hour cuts, and release delays pushing the film nearly a year from its projected release date, the picture is a booming, period-exact mess: disinteresting, unbalanced, and burdened by the weight of too much ambition blinding an artist to his celluloid offspring's congenital, mortal defects--hubris redefined for the postmodern age. Though sprawling, it reduces to a series of vaguely-connected dramatic snippets that largely fail to anchor the film to any specific place (exception being a visually, viscerally arresting stream of coffins unloaded from ships ferrying the dead from the frontlines of the Civil War). It's a malady exacerbated by the fact that the same five or six characters--played, with one stunning exception, as tepid variations on banal--seem to be everywhere in New York at all times.
Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio) as a child sees his father (Liam Neeson) murdered in an 1846 street brawl between Irish gang "The Dead Rabbits" and a nativist uprising led by the terrifying/hilarious Bill the Butcher (Daniel Day-Lewis, in an already legendary turn). Flash-forward sixteen years as Amsterdam gets off a boat from somewhere, throws his Bible into the waters of the new world, and vows that avenging his father's death is his sole purpose. To that end, Amsterdam befriends furtive Johnny Sirocco (Henry Thomas), beds cutpurse Jenny (Cameron Diaz), and makes his way to the trusted right hand of Bill, who, with his glass eye turned forever to an American eagle and armed with a giant cleaver and belt of throwing knives, rails on about the evils of Abraham Lincoln and the distastefulness of the Irish.
There can be no real complaint about the expense lavished on the production. The sets representing nineteenth-century bellum New York are as detailed as they are hollow and showy. With a similar amount of swooping aerial perspective shots of a teeming, filthy landscape on the verge of anarchy as Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Scorsese by his lack of context and odd detachment adroitly comments on the difficulty of crafting an epic that balances the needs of the few with the demands of circumstance. In attempting to address that gulf, Gangs of New York succumbs to the worst kind of patronizing condescension as Scorsese first inserts a perfunctory love triangle (dismissed offhand by fictional Bill at one point, Scorsese refuses to let go), then relies on the sort of footnoted flashbacks that remind the audience periodically of what's happened and which characters have already been introduced in a different context. A unifying symbol of a blood-stained straight-razor is even cross-referenced to mark the beginning of the film's finale--a narrative crutch more indicative of a first-time director unsure of his ability to compel and cohere (and contemptuous of his audience besides) than a man revered by many as one of our greatest living filmmakers, if not the greatest.
Performances by Day-Lewis and Jim Broadbent as back alley politico Boss Tweed (the cavalcade of ridiculous character and gang names ("Slaughterhousers," anyone?) is less side-splitting than wearisome) demonstrate the sort of eccentricity required to transcend the bombast of the production--they're the only two in the film (save a wasted Brendan Gleeson, perhaps) to understand that Gangs of New York can only really be taken seriously as, ironically, a melodrama. Images of a stage production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" ending in an actor playing Lincoln being pelted by vegetables hint at the sort of picture this should have been; images of an elephant rampaging through the Draft Riot streets suggest that bread and circus dispenser P.T. Barnum's dictum was mostly correct.
The violence of the picture is extremely uneven. Except for its opening rumble (a shocking failure, given Scorsese's gift for screen violence) and its closing rumble (ending in a fountain of blood that's funny given the squeamishness of the build-up), Gangs of New York spends a great deal of time looking away. Though a pig corpse gets a lot of abuse in one of the stupider Oedipal bonding moments in recent memory, in the picture's universe, punches don't bruise, neck wounds don't bleed, and what's meant to be a horrifying disfigurement turns out to be a tiny cherry-coloured scar easily consumed by the shadow of DiCaprio's perfect cheek bones, or handily obscured by his dainty locks. The potential balance provided the film by Irish barber/sheriff Monk (Gleeson), a figure as imposing and dangerous as The Butcher, is squandered with a fecklessness both puzzling and lamentable. Asking petite milquetoast DiCaprio to play the role of foil to Day-Lewis's Method madness is sadly just the most glaring of a multitude of miscalculations.
DiCaprio and Diaz are a ruinous pair: neither can hold their accents, though the strain of trying seems to sap all discernable energy suggesting that the film would have benefited, Prince of Thieves-like, by the decision just to let them speak as they will. They are a vortex at the centre of the film, an unlikable, unbelievable hero and his plot-device wench (thief, whore, mother protector)--an abyss made worse by Thomas's plot-device nebbish (ally, betrayer, martyr). Gangs of New York is three hours of barren harangue that essentially serve as a showcase for Day-Lewis to receive his second acting Oscar. Having frittered away about 140 minutes on teen romance and obscure portentousness, its half-hour finale is edited so desperately that it almost satirizes the rest of the film--subtitles announcing locations affected by the Draft Riots (and wouldn't Bill be on the frontlines of such an event rather than ignorant of it utterly?) function mainly as a reminder that we've just spent a long, long time not having the first clue where anything is by itself much less in relation to any other place.
With myriad questions unanswered (unasked, even) and an impressive set impotently waiting for something interesting to unfold upon it, Gangs of New York is a major disappointment. Day-Lewis is either in the wrong film or the one that should have been, his ham-eloquent excellence a perfect evocation of the Scorsese anti-hero (Bickle, Pupkin, LaMotta, Hill) in all its baroque swagger and psychopathic menace. That he stands out sharply from the rest of the production (and that his character's twisted code is ultimately betrayed by the horrible screenplay of co-writer Jay Cocks (script doctor for Cameron's Titanic--physician, heal thyself)) is a sad commentary on just how derailed Scorsese is at the helm of an epic and at this point in his career. Gangs of New York lacks artistry, vision, coherence, and fascination--a familiar yet confusing yarn that feels for all the world like a runaway train, its conductor's last recourse faith, reputation, bullying, and the hope that his next collaboration with Leo and Harvey, a biopic of Howard Hughes (!), can pull him out of his tailspin. Originally published December 20, 2002.
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Yu Jing - Wú Míng Assault Corps (Heavy Rocket Launcher)
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“Now we all know for a fact that the recruitment terms of the Assault Corps are a sham. When you fulfil your mission you are not pardoned, simply sent on another mission… If you survived, that is.”
Soldier 6847-H, Wú Míng Assault Corps, responding to his officer in command. Southern Front, Norstralia, Paradiso. First Offensive. This recording was used as evidence of the punitive measures administered to this convict operative.
A name is everything to a Yu Jing citizen. It does not only represent the individual, but also his parents, his family and even his place of birth. The worst curse that can be uttered by a Yu Jing citizen, and the most insulting to receive, can be translated as “fuck your name”. Consequently, one of the most degrading punishments meted out by Yu Jing civilian and military tribunals is the official denial of a name.
The Wú Míng Assault Corps is a penal military regiment. All its members are denied a name, and instead are given a serial number. The regiment is formed from the most dangerous and violent elements of the regular Yu Jing forces, often referred to as “pigs for the slaughter”. All Wú Míng live on probation and are forced to wear a subdermal tracking implant on their faces. The circuitry forms the characters for Wú Míng, acting as a clearly recognizable mark of shame. The punishment received—denial of a name, social scorn, being enlisted into the army and sent to the frontlines—can be commuted after a set period of service, assuming they survive. As a heavy infantry assault unit, they specialize in urban environments, close combat, offensive deployment, and cleanup operations. The ID number on their combat suits is always visible despite their camo patterns, making their status quite obvious. Most Wú Míng hold a great deal of resentment against the system, and perceive their service in the Assault Corps as an act of humiliation. This hatred and resentment seeps into their fighting style, along with the fact that the Regiment is the only thing standing between them and a summary execution.
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Countdown to the end of Democracy in the UK 23:28 - Nov 10 with 1283785 views pikeypaul
And like a typical anti democracy remoaner he decided the will of the people should be ignored the minute the democratic result was in total fecking hypocrite 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Despite it being voted in to law by the commons the spineless two faced remoaner MPs have totally abandoned any morals and decided to ignore the will of the British people.
It will be remembered and no election or referendum will ever be the same again in this country.
The one thing that will come is a massive surge in the popularity of UKIP or a similar party in the future who stand for the 52%.
[Post edited 29 Mar 2019 4:37]
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Poll: Where wil Judas be sitting when we play Millwall?
The Countdown begins. on 16:31 - Oct 2 with 2177 views trampie
The Countdown begins. on 15:58 - Oct 2 by Catullus
Two out of three ain't bad.......I hate all politicians. I want as few politicians as possible. As the number of politicians has risen the amount of money they gobble up rises ever more quickly.
Once we just had Westminster to govern the UK now we have 3 governments and all the paraphernalia that goes with them.
The WAG wants to increase it's size by 30%, we already have more AM's per head in Wales than MP's per head in the UK.
As the number of politicians grows the world gets relatively worse.
I'm all for political reform, a change to how funding is calculated in the UK, cutting the number of MP's, closing down the Lords and replacing it with an elected chamber, a change to the voting system......there's a lot we can do but we don't need anywhere near as many politicians to start with.
You can try and paint me a Tory but I'm not. My political compass is apparently just left of centre. I'm in favour of nationalised utilities, a higher minimum wage, means testing for all benefits, a well funded NHS, more police who actually go out on the beat, scrapping Nuclear weapons, keeping the current union laws but clamping down strongly on management......lots more I could say and it comes from all points of the political spectrum.
But you would have perpetual right wing London and South East centric Government forevermore, England is a lost cause, they wont vote for caring sharing policies again they succumbed to Thatchers greed [tax cuts, council houses for a song, shares in nationalised companies for peanuts] and just like in Thatchers time they will vote for self interest and not the greater good, lots of Celts have given up on them, they are a lost cause.
Continually being banned by Planet Swans for Porthcawl and then being reinstated.
Poll: UK European Union membership referendum poll
The Countdown begins. on 16:41 - Oct 2 with 2170 views Catullus
The Countdown begins. on 16:31 - Oct 2 by trampie
What we need is a change to the voting system so people are more fairly represented. wasn't it ridiculous that the SNP could have 30+ seats in Westminster and UKIP just one when UKIP had twice as many votes (that's not support for UKIP btw, just stating a fact) it's no wonder people have given up on politics. I know many people who never vote, they don't think it'll change a thing.
The tories are a steaming pile of horse schitt yes, but that doesn't mean a left wing government will do better.....they are both a pile of manure.
Just my opinion, but WTF do I know anyway?
Blog: In, Out, in, out........
SNP are only in Scotland, UKIP is UK wide.
Our system is tried and tested and elects the peoples choice in any given constituency.
The Countdown begins. on 17:20 - Oct 2 with 2140 views Highjack
If the SNP entered candidates nationwide do you think they’d get much support outside Scotland?
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Poll: The official planetswans European election poll. Your vote goes to?
The Countdown begins. on 17:20 - Oct 2 by Highjack
I don't think they would win seats in England in FPTP but I could seem them beat a few of the minor parties in England.
The Countdown begins. on 17:39 - Oct 2 with 2134 views johnlangy
An up arrow from me Catullus. You may not agree with my thoughts on Welsh Independence but a lot of what you wrote in that post is good .
Today in #FMQs I questioned the logic behind Labour's calls for a general election before Brexit, arguing that this would solve nothing since they have the same policy of leaving the Single Market & Customs Union as the Tories. A #peoplesvote is clearly the way forward. pic.twitter.com/ep9Ui1KLTz
— Steffan Lewis 🏴 (@steffanlewis) October 2, 2018
Labour and Conservatives same policies yet again.
The Countdown begins. on 17:39 - Oct 2 by johnlangy
Why thank you JL, you see I want a fairer world, a better world but I just don't think the Left or Right will give it to us.
I usually end up sounding like I'm defending one side (either left or right) depending who I'm debating with but in a room with May, Corbyn and Cable I'd be roasting all of them!!
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The Countdown begins. on 23:48 - Oct 2 with 2064 views DJack
We need to start a new countdown
NOOOOOOO!
There is an evil side to you.
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. - Carl Sagan
The Countdown begins. on 23:57 - Oct 2 with 2057 views Kilkennyjack
Lets scrap nuclear weapons tomorrow - and save billions.
Dim diolch.
‘Beware of the risen people’ ........🍀🇮🇪 💚 Dim byd grêt am brydain 🏴🇪🇺
The Countdown begins. on 09:03 - Oct 3 with 1996 views pikeypaul
177 AFLI
SIUYRL
By god the days are ticking away quickly 😃😃😃
The Countdown begins. on 06:28 - Oct 4 with 1913 views peenemunde
Independence is going to be absolutely brilliant.....👍
The Countdown begins. on 06:28 - Oct 4 by peenemunde
Yes - its a far better option than ‘walesshire’ ..... feck this Tory brexit.... 🤓
More project fear ...?
The Falkland Islands’ government has sounded the alarm over leaving the EU single market, warning that the territory would take a “catastrophic” economic hit if it faces new tariffs and quotas as a result of Brexit.
I thought people cared about the Falkland Islands ?
The Countdown begins. on 08:22 - Oct 4 by Kilkennyjack
Fear is a cell Kilkenny and we need to break out of it.
The Countdown begins. on 13:30 - Oct 4 with 1817 views Shaky
Nissan becomes latest manufacturer to warn against hard Brexit
Carmaker says success of Sunderland operations enabled by frictionless trade with EU
By David Conn
Guardian, Thu 4 Oct 2018 06.00 BST Last modified on Thu 4 Oct 2018
The Japanese carmaker Nissan has warned the government that serious disruption will be caused to its huge manufacturing operation in the north-east of England if the UK fails to secure a deal with the EU that avoids a hard Brexit.
Carlos Ghosn, the chair of Nissan, has described its British operations as “a European investment based in the UK”, which employs almost 8,000 people, mostly at its factory near Sunderland. A further 30,000 people are employed in UK companies supplying Nissan.
Like the other car manufacturers that use the UK as a base for exporting to the EU, Nissan relies on rapid, “just in time” importing of millions of components from the EU every day, with no customs delays or tariffs.
A hard Brexit – if the government has not agreed to a customs union or common standards to allow free movement of goods – would result in trading with EU countries on World Trade Organization rules, which apply 4.5% tariffs to car parts and 10% to finished cars.
Colin Lawther, a Nissan executive, told the House of Commons international trade committee in February 2017 that tariffs would add £500m to the plant’s costs, which it might not survive, and that long delays of parts at borders would be a disaster for the operation.
In a statement to the Guardian authorised by the main board in Japan, Nissan said: “Since 1986, the UK has been a production base for Nissan in Europe. Our British-based research and development and design teams support the development of products made in Sunderland, specifically for the European market.
“Frictionless trade has enabled the growth that has seen our Sunderland plant become the biggest factory in the history of the UK car industry, exporting more than half of its production to the EU.
“Today we are among those companies with major investments in the UK who are still waiting for clarity on what the future trading relationship between the UK and the EU will look like. As a sudden change from those rules to the rules of the World Trading Organization will have serious implications for British industry, we urge UK and EU negotiators to work collaboratively towards an orderly balanced Brexit that will continue to encourage mutually beneficial trade.”
It is a sign of alarm at senior levels that Nissan has issued a statement, as the company has been restrained in public since the June 2016 referendum. Ghosn himself has issued repeated warnings that investment is on hold, saying in June this year that over the long term the Sunderland operation is threatened with decline .
In September 2016 he stated that the new Qashqai and X-Trail models which were due to be allocated to the Sunderland plant were on hold. Theresa May and the business secretary, Greg Clark, then met Ghosn and other Nissan executives to give assurances of financial support for the car industry, and for the strengthening of Nissan’s UK supply chain, which led to the new models being commissioned at Sunderland.
Shinichi Iida, minister for public diplomacy and media at the Japanese embassy in London, also told the Guardian that Japanese companies, of which there are 1,000 in Britain employing 160,000 people directly, are responding to Brexit by taking “risk hedge measures”.
Japanese financial institutions have already submitted applications to set up bases in European financial authorities such as Frankfurt and Amsterdam, he said, and some manufacturing companies are holding off future investment plans.
“If Japanese companies encounter problems in the UK I would not be surprised if they shift their balance towards their business operations on the continent,” Iida said.
Senior executives at Toyota, BMW and the PSA Group, which owns Vauxhall, have all warned this week that they are likely to reduce their operations in the UK in the event of a hard Brexit. In September Ralf Speth, chief executive of Jaguar Land Rover, warned the prime minister that its operations faced grinding to a halt and that “tens of thousands” of jobs in the industry could be lost.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/04/nissan-becomes-latest-manufactur
Misology -- It's a bitch
Poll: Greatest PS Troll Hunter of all time
Maybe, when all these companies leave the UK it will provide opportunities. There will be plenty of space for new start ups.
These people who say they'll leave, all they're worried about is their profits anyway. If we stopped buying certai cars and hit them in the pockets they'd reconsider their actions.
1 in 7 cars bought here are German, maybe they'll not think the loss of money worth the effort to leave? 46% of our car exports go outside the EU, maybe other trade deals will help in that sector.
Probably irrelevant, some kind of deal will be done. Corporations hate losing their profit margins, any drop in margin could easily be beaten by a massive drop in sales. The UK needs to buy clever to make the CEO's think long and hard.
The Countdown begins. on 13:48 - Oct 4 with 1811 views BytholWyn
Run that past me again? In English this time...
The Countdown begins. on 14:12 - Oct 4 with 1800 views Batterseajack
In the real world, businesses operate to make profit. No profit = no business.
The Countdown begins. on 14:22 - Oct 4 with 1790 views westside
haven't WAG just given £20 million to Aston Martin.
The Countdown begins. on 14:34 - Oct 4 with 1770 views longlostjack
The Buy British campaign failed to save British Leyland ! The world has moved on too. Integrated supply chains and common platforms. Made in Britain or Assembled in Britain ?
[Post edited 4 Oct 2018 14:36]
Poll: Which would you prefer?
The Brexit fanatics are perfectly happy to sacrifice the British car industry on the altar of a pure hard Brexit: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/mps-react-after-vote-leave-
With "gurus" like this leading the Charge of the Light Brigade what surprise is it that gullible and pliable Brexiteers are happy to fall into line.
Anyone who is actually interested in what Brexit might look like may be interested in the following:
https://fullfact.org/europe/brexit-trade-deals-norway-canada-options/
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/IFGJ5
The latter's not exactly bedtime reading - but spells out, factually, with no spin, the substance of the deals that the EU currently has with Norway, Canada, The Ukraine etc. Makes for interesting reading. For those advocating a Canada-style deal, it's worth noting that the deal is mainly in the area of goods - with a number of financial-services aread excluded from the deal. Given that services account for 80% of the UK economy this may be a tad problematical. It's also worth noting that the EU has a trade surplus with Canada in goods and a deficit in services. So, unsurprisingly (given the 513 million to 27 million disparity in populations size), CETA is a pretty good deal for the EU.
This quote is particularly pertinent:
"Norway applies EU regulations and, as a result, it avoids most non-tariff barriers when trading with the EU. In comparison, Canada faces significant barriers to trade. Canadian exports must meet Single Market rules in order to enter the European market, and checks take place at the border to ensure they meet the right product standards."
Donald Tusk today said that the EU were open to a "Canada plus plus plus" deal, which may sound like music to the ears of the Boris Johnson's of this world. But I suspect what he really means is a "Canada minus minus minus" - in other words a deal that lies a lot closer to a Norway type deal than a Canada one.
The bottom line is this, the more freedom the UK wants from the EUs structures the greater the price it will have to pay. This is plain common sense - something notably absent from the narrative espoused by the Tory leadership, which is aimed pretty much exclusively at addressing internal party divisions and a domestic a audience.
Now that the tedious party conference season is over it's time to get real.
The Countdown begins. on 16:26 - Oct 4 with 1723 views Jango
All ifs and coulds again from the usuals. All very quiet a few days ago when German company Aldi’s announced it was definitely building another 100+ stores by 2020 bringing thousands of more jobs.
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Large salt accumulations as a consequence of hydrothermal processes associated with ‘Wilson cycles’:
A review, Part 2: Application of a new salt-forming model on selected cases
Martin Hovland, Håkon Rueslåtten, Hans Konrad Johnsen
The new hydrothermal salt model predicts that salt may accumulate in the sub-surface by hydrothermal circulation of seawater and brines in locations of high heat-flow. Such conditions are primarily found along tectonic plate boundaries, with processes of subduction and rifting, associated with the Wilson cycles. Modern knowledge of the physicochemical and thermodynamic properties of salt solutions at elevated pressures and temperatures, allows numerical modeling of fluid behavior at relevant conditions in the deep crust. This modeling shows how seawater that migrates down towards hot magma bodies in a rift situation (e.g. in the Red Sea) is subject to phase transitions, where low-saline (distilled) water vapor migrates out of the system, while still saltier brine continues to migrate further down towards the heat source, until solid salt precipitates. Similarly, in a subduction situation, the seawater confined in the subducting oceanic plate is subjected to an ever increasing pressure and temperature during the descent towards the mantle, which leads to similar phase behavior of the brine as in the rifting situation. The salts forming in the deep of a subduction zone are not readily transported up to the surface due to thick overburden of mantle- and crustal rocks. Hence, much of the salt formed during subduction remains hidden from human observation in the roots of the mountains. The formation of solid salt is therefore an inevitable process associated with the Wilson cycles, even without solar evaporation. Recent observations of thick carpets of mobile salt slurries on the Red Sea floor (Salt Flows) and huge accumulations of salts in the subsea/subsurface (Salt Walls and Salt Ridges), associated with topographic lows (Deeps), suggest that the Red Sea currently produces new volumes of brines and solid salts underground. The different solubilities of sea salts lead to a refining of the salt types. When reaching the seafloor, the warm brines are cooled down in brine pools, eventually becoming oversaturated with salts, which results in precipitation onto the seafloor. The dense brine layers protect seafloor salts from re-dissolution by normal seawater. Magmatic and volcanic processes associated with hydrothermal activity, e.g. connected to the subduction under the Andes Mountains are associated with enormous deposits of salts. The brines are transported hydrothermally up from the subduction zone and are venting out at 3500–4000 m above sea level. At the surface, the brines evaporate in the dry climate, which is also protecting the salt from re-dissolution. The brine feeding the hydrothermal systems above the subduction zone originates from dewatering of the subducting slabs. This water is causing fractional melting of the mantle wedge above, initiating volcanism. The hydrothermal water is also transporting salts to the surface, thus, explaining the close relationship between some types of volcanism and salt accumulations. It is assumed that this new understanding of hydrothermal salt formation will have a profound impact on interpretation of geological phenomena involving salt and salt formation, including the early development and behavior of salt basins.
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'Oz the Great and Powerful' Debuts with $69.9 Million at Foreign Box Office
By FNN | March 11, 2013, 11:47pm IST
'Oz the Great and Powerful' managed to bag the No. 1 spot at international box office, by garnering $69.9 million from 46 markets, bringing its total gross to $150.2 million.
It also managed to charm the russian audiences where it collected $15 million (21 percent of the total opening).
Things that worked to Oz's advantage: International Women's Day -- a holiday.
Even though the movie's history isn't well known to international audiences, Oz managed to spell its magic -- thanks to excellent international marketing spend (about $75 million) by Disney.
Things that might work to Oz's advantage in near future:
As it portrays itself to be a family film, it could get a boost as school holidays are on the way.
Oz has yet to open in several major markets, including France and China.
'Oz the Great and Powerful' managed to bag the No. 1 spot by garnering $69.9 million from 46 international markets, bringing its total gross to $150.2 million.
Hansel and Gretel came in No. 2 overall at the international box office, grossing $11.2 million from 48 markets, bringing its international total to $142 million and total gross to $197 million.
Jack the Giant Slayer grossed $4.9 million from 10 markets bringing its international total to $22.6 million and total gross to $66.4 million.
Things that proved fatal to Jack: Of course, Strong 'Oz' and New Line's decision to release in few international markets.
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Walk Through the Oldest Tunnel in North America to Get to this Cocktail Bar
By Aly Walansky
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Le Boudoir, an underground cocktail bar in Brooklyn, got a lot of attention when it opened earlier this year, due to its Marie Antoinette theme. But beyond enjoying cocktails in a setting inspired by the infamous long-gone French queen’s indulgent chambers—complete with a perfect replica of her private bathroom—there’s a much more exciting story to be told.
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The cocktail lounge, which can be found via a secret bookshelf entrance at the back of French bistro Chez Moi, was actually built out of remnants of a centuries-old Atlantic Avenue railroad tunnel!
Untapped Cities reported that the tunnel, built in 1844, is actually the oldest tunnel under any city street in North America. The owners of Chez Moi, who originally used that downstairs area of the restaurant for storage, took a sledgehammer to the walls after a few drinks—we’ve all been there—and discovered the old tunnel.
So, while you are at Le Boudoir enjoying cocktails with names like the Guillotine, you can also enjoy a glimpse of Brooklyn history. A pretty incredible way to enjoy happy hour!
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Adam Forshaw reveals that Bielsa takes tactical tips from the press
by Charles Jones share
Marcelo Bielsa has been hailed as the best coach in the world by Pep Guardiola, but not all of his tactical genius comes from his own mind.
That doesn’t mean that he isn’t incredibly clever but Adam Forshaw has revealed something about Bielsa’s willingness to always keep learning.
What’s been said then?
Adam Forshaw was talking on BBC’s West Yorkshire Sport: Extra, and he spoke about the classroom training sessions that Marcelo Bielsa runs.
“We’ll do anything from individual sessions on clips in a game or collective meetings on things away from football like articles that we’ve all seen,” Forshaw said.
That last point seemingly caught the presenter’s attention as he asked: “What do you mean articles, give us an example.” Forshaw responded with:
“If for whatever reason the manager may have seen something in the press that he maybe liked, maybe an analysis on a certain player or something, we could have a meeting on it and pick things from a certain article that had just come out that week. If it’s any one per cent that can help us, or maybe it’s just a different way to look at it sometimes when you can’t train out on the field.”
Can you name which season this flop was signed?
So clever
Being a genius isn’t about knowing everything, it’s about being able to admit that you still have gaps in your knowledge.
The Argentine isn’t too proud to admit that he’s not an all-knowing football expert, and the fact that he’s willing to embrace journalist’s opinions is a breath of fresh air.
Bielsa actually said earlier in the season that he got the idea of short corners from the press, and while many laughed it off as a joke at the time, this does cast some doubt into that.
Does Marcelo Bielsa deserve to win the Manager of the Year?
Of course, no journalist is more qualified than the 64-year-old to coach a team, but every now and then there are some brilliant tactical suggestions written by football outlets, and it’s great to see that Bielsa isn’t blind to that fact.
With Leeds sitting top of the Championship, it’s clearly working a treat.
In other news, Leeds fans have been trying to name their Player of the Decade.
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Tag Archives: Koulibaly
Koulibaly ‘pleased’ at desire, but eager to stay with Napoli
Napoli’s Senegalese defender Kalidouy Koulibaly has admitted that he is “pleased” by the transfer desire demonstrated in him, but adds that he has no need to leave the Stadio San Paolo.
The 27-year-old Teranga Lions sweeper is regarded as a person of the most effective players in his position in world football.
He has been strongly linked with a go to Manchester United, with speculation rife that the Red Devils are geared up to break the world transfer rate for a defender (currently £75m, which observed Virgil van Dijk leave Southampton for Liverpool) to indication Koulibaly.
It has also been uncovered that interim United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer assigned his major scout Jim Lawlor to view the defender in a – Serie A draw at Fiorentina previously in the month.
Koulibaly has admitted currently being flattered at report linking him to United and other key European sides.
“My upcoming? I never know if I’m a person of the strongest defenders. I generally consider to give my most effective,” Koulibaly informed Rai Sport. “Since I’m below, I generally consider to mature with Napoli. I have a whole lot of enthusiasm to go on and I want to continue to keep doing this.
“I am happy that numerous groups adhere to me, but I want to exhibit on the field that I am at the degree of the best and I want to display it in the upcoming.”
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PLAYER SPOTLIGHT: Kalidou Koulibaly – Senegal’s finest named in Italy Team of the Year – 2018 FIFA World Cup
Kalidou Koulibaly, Napoli
Phumzile Ngcatshe
Tuesday Nov 28, 2017. 13:00
As he continues to help Italian Serie A giants Napoli to challenge for the Serie A title, Senegal defender Kalidou Koulibaly has been named in the Serie A Team of the Year.
Together with the likes of Juventus and former Azzurri goalkeeper, Gianluigi Buffon, the Lions of Teranga centre back has been included in the Best XI.
With Koulibaly’s excellent displays, Napoli have conceded nine goals and scored 35 as they lead the Serie A table with 38 points from 14 matches.
They are yet to lose this term and together with AS Roma, are the only two teams with a good defensive record after conceding less than 10 goals so far.
An inclusion in the team of the year comes as a massive boost for the 26-year-old defender who will hope to lead the side to glory come the end of the campaign.
Apart from Buffon, Koulibaly has been named in the Best XI with six Juve players teammates from last season such as Leonardo Bonucci, Alex Sandro, Dani Alves, Miralem Pjanic, Gonzalo Higuain and Paulo Dybala.
Napoli has Koulibaly, Marek Hamsik and Dries Merten in the squad whilst Roma’s Radja Nainggolan completes the squad and Maurizio Sarri is named the Coach of The Year.
Fresh from a 1-0 win over Udinese last weekend, they will now turn their focus to the tie against Juventus on Friday, December 1 at home.
Manager Sarri will want to bag a win and will count on Kalidou and company to secure another clean sheet to consolidate their top spot.
Posted in Africa | Tagged 2018, Cup, FIFA, finest, Italy, Kalidou, Koulibaly, named, player, Senegals, SPOTLIGHT, team, World, year
PLAYER SPOTLIGHT: Kalidou Koulibaly – Condemns slavery in Libya – 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers
Joining the likes of Manchester United‘s Paul Pogba in supporting the victims of slavery in Libya, Senegal’s Kalidou Koulibaly has also expressed his outrage.
The Napoli defender in the Italian Serie A has joined many voices around the world in condemning the acts of slavery.
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Koulibaly took to Twitter following an investigation by CNN last week where it revealed the troubling extent to which migrants are being auctioned into slavery in the North African country.
The probe prompted a number of footballers such as Pogba who said his prayers go to those suffering from slavery.
“While very happy to be back, my prayers go to those suffering slavery in #Libya. May Allah be by your side and may this cruelty come to an end!,” Pogba tweeted.
Apart from the Red Devils anchorman, Cote d’Ivoire’s Cheick Doukure also paid tributes to the victirms after scoring for Levante in the Spanish La Liga against Las Palmas.
“All my thoughts are with the slaves in Libya #stopslavery,” Doukoure tweeted alongside pictures of a cross-armed celebration.
The Napoli centre back also added his voice, urging black brothers and sisters to stop violating human rights.
L’homme noir a des droits et de la valeur comme chaque être humain
Stop à l’esclavage
?❤ mes fréres et sœurs ✊?✊?✊?#prayforafrica #jenesuispasaavendre pic.twitter.com/qPdImrUNki
— Koulibaly Kalidou (@kkoulibaly26) November 20, 2017
Posted in Africa | Tagged 2018, condemns, Cup, FIFA, Kalidou, Koulibaly, Libya, player, Qualifiers, slavery, SPOTLIGHT, World
PLAYER SPOTLIGHT: Kalidou Koulibaly – Can he help Senegal keep a clean sheet once again? – 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers – Africa
After helping his side to clinch a spot at the 2018 FIFA World Cup over South Africa, Senegal defender Kalidou Koulibaly will hope to finish the job at home.
Based in the Italian Serie A with Napoli, the Lions of Teranga centre back was instrumental for the West Africans as they downed the 1996 African champions 2-0 in Polokwane, last Friday.
However, the towering defender still has a tough assignment ahead of him as they will want to register another win on Tuesday in Dakar.
‘WE MUST FINISH WITH A FLOURISH’ – SA COACH STUART BAXTER
Although coach Aliou Cisse’s men lost the initial qualifier 2-1 last year, the Senegalese FA protested to FIFA for a replay and it was ordered after referee Joseph Lamptey was guilty of match manipulation.
The order meant that both sides had to go all out for a win in last week’s clash, and Cisse counted on the defender to help avoid concede away for them to wrap up their qualifying campaign with a convincing win.
But the man linked with a move to Liverpool, Barcelona and reigning English Premier League champions Chelsea, ensured the likes of Percy Tau, Sibusiso Vilakazi and Badley Grobler did not find their way through.
With the ticket to Russia already secured, the 26-year-old defender has his sights set on another clean sheet against the overrated Bafana Bafana in front of their home crowds.
On the other hand, Koulibaly will also want to put a cherry on top after realising his World Cup dream by winning the CAF African Footballer of the Year Award next January as well as securing a big move to the EPL.
In the end, the EPL is one of the most competitive leagues in Europe and should he make his move in January, he will be a complete product when he makes his bow at the world’s biggest stage in Russia
Posted in Africa | Tagged 2018, Africa, clean, Cup, FIFA, Kalidou, Koulibaly, player, Qualifiers, Senegal, sheet, SPOTLIGHT, World
PLAYER SPOTLIGHT: Kalidou Koulibaly – Senegal’s hope to stop a desperate South Africa – 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers
Senegal and Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly has a tough assignment this weekend, which is to stop South Africa as they want to secure a spot at the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
The Lions of Teranga centre back has a huge role to play for the West Africans when they meet the 1996 African champions in two crucial encounters in less than five days.
Koulibaly will be a key figure when they visit the Southern part of the continent on Friday for their clash against Stuart Baxter’s men on Friday.
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As they need a win to book a spot in Russia, their hosts will also want a win out of both encounters to return to the global stage.
With a lot of news surrounding the future of the defender, the Senegal coach will have to calm his nerves and ensure Kalidou remains grounded and focused on the task at hand.
Koulibaly is linked with a move away from the Serie A giants, with Barcelona, Chelsea and Liverpool touted to be chasing his signature.
Furthermore, the 2017 CAF African Footballer of the Year nomination comes as a huge boost for the 26-year-old and he will want to lift the coveted accolade.
But for that to happen, he must ensure he brings his A game in both matches against the 1996 African Cup of Nations hosts and help the Lions to emerge as victors.
With Sadio Mane available for the matches and the Reds coach Jurgen Klopp reportedly attending the match in person, Kalidou will only focus on his defending and not worry about their thin options in attack.
However, speculation regarding the move to Anfield could mount should he meet and have a chat with Klopp.
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Ghoulam, Koulibaly aim to regain top spot in Italy – 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers
Napoli’s Kalidou Koulibaly
Graeme Jackson
Wednesday Oct 25, 2017. 18:30
The African duo of Faouzi Ghoulam and Kalidou Koulibaly will be aiming to return to the top of the Serie A standings when Napoli take on Genoa at the Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris on Wednesday evening.
Both Ghoulam and Koulibaly have started every game for Napoli this season, with Maurizio Sarri’s men unbeaten after nine rounds of fixtures.
Key to their impressive start has been their defence with the club having conceded a mere five goals this season. Gli Azzurri have kept three clean sheets in succession.
CHELSEA WILL HAVE TO PAY WORLD-RECORD FEE TO LAND KALIDOU KOULIBALY
Mauro Icardi scored a brace as Inter leapfrogged Napoli with a 3-2 win over Sampdoria last night, but the Naples outfit will regain their place atop the standings with a point away to Genoa.
Guinea international Amadou Diawara has also been a prominent figure for Napoli this season, with the club boasting a healthy African contingent.
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PLAYER SPOTLIGHT: Kalidou Koulibaly – Will his move to the EPL benefit Senegal? – 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers – Africa
Tuesday Oct 24, 2017. 13:00
Senegal and Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly could see his future decided in the next two months with England his next possible destination.
The Lions of Teranga stalwart has been linked with a move away from the Italian Serie A giants and reports have surfaced that he is wanted once again in the English Premier League.
Southampton are said to have rekindled their interest in the defender and will table an offer in January.
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Although they failed to lure him last summer, the Saints are eyeing the 26-year-old as Virgil van Dijk’s replacement who is wanted by Liverpool among other clubs.
With coach Aliou Cisse’s men set to face South Africa’s Bafana Bafana in two 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers next month, Koulibaly is expected to be key in their quest to reach Russia.
If Southampton sign him in January, the West Africans will receive a huge boost to have another player in the EPL ahead of the World Cup (which they are also favourites to qualify for).
On the other hand, having announced that he doesn’t regret choosing Senegal over France early this year, the centre back will eye a spot at the global tournament to represent his nation and possibly face the Les Bleus.
Koulibaly’s move to the EPL will definitely come as a plus for the West Africans, but that will all depend on the negotiations between the two clubs considering he is a key figure at Napoli.
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Chelsea will have to pay world-record fee to land Kalidou Koulibaly – Premier League 2017/2018
Monday Oct 23, 2017. 16:30
Chelsea coach Antonio Conte has been informed that he will need to pay a world-record transfer fee for a defender if he is to prise Senegal’s Kalidou Koulibaly away from Napoli.
The Teranga Lions defender has long been linked with a move to Stamford Bridge, with Napoli president Aurelio de Laurentiis admitting that he has had to fight hard to keep the 26-year-old at Stadio San Paolo.
Yet the Blues remain keen on signing Koulibaly, with Conte convinced that the West African will strengthen his side’s defence and lay the foundation for future success.
However, Calciomercato reports that Napoli have put a £70million price tag on the player. If that fee is met, it would make Koulibaly the most expensive defender in football history.
The record fee for a defender was broken twice by Manchester City in this past European summer, with the Citizens paying £50-million and £52-million for Kyle Walker and Benjamin Mendy respectively.
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Koulibaly ate Balotelli for breakfast – Bruno Satin – 2019 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers
Thursday Aug 24, 2017. 17:00
Bruno Satin, the agent of Kalidou Koulibaly, has hailed the Senegal defender’s performance in Napoli’s UEFA Champions League triumph over Nice.
The Italian club won 2-0 at Allianz Riviera in the second leg of the teams’ qualifying tie, securing a 4-0 aggregate victory and a place in the group stages of the elite competition.
Koulibaly played a key role in Napoli securing successive clean sheets, laying the foundation for their success against the French side.
The Teranga Lions centre-back was particularly impressive in the way he handled the threat of Italian striker Mario Balotelli.
“Napoli did what Napoli do and they ate Nice, who looked like a small team,” Bruno Satin said on Radio Kiss Kiss Napoli.
“Koulibaly has grown, he even scares me so I can only imagine how the opponents feel! He literally ate Balotelli for breakfast, though he didn’t seem to be at the top.
“I look forward to tomorrow’s draw to see who Napoli get, they’ll definitely face two strong teams as they’re in the third pot.”
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Senegal’s Koulibaly on Arsenal’s radar – 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers – Africa
Tuesday Jul 18, 2017. 17:00
Napoli’s Senegalese centre-back Kalidou Koulibaly has emerged as a transfer target for Premier League giants Arsenal.
The Gunners are in the market for a central defender and TMW claims that the Teranga Lions man is top of their list.
Koulibaly, 26, has previously been linked with a move to Chelsea, but Antonio Conte’s side failed with several bids last year.
Arsenal have now made an approach but Napoli, for the moment at least, remain unwilling to sell their prize asset.
Should Arsenal not be able to land Koulibaly from the Serie A side, they may turn their attention to Southampton’s Virgil van Dijk.
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August 12, 2014 Ian McCollum Light MGs, Vintage photo 50
by Tom Laemlein
Lost in the shuffle of Germany’s automatic weapons of the World War II era is the Louis Stange-designed MG 30. Rejected by the Reichswehr, the MG 30 ended up in licensed production by Solothurn in Switzerland (as the S2-100) and also by Steyr in Austria.
MG30 side view
Approximately 3,000 of the beautifully designed (and consequently expensive) MG 30s were purchased by Hungary, where they were known as the Solothurn 31.M. It was in Hungarian service where the MG30 would see the most amount of action in its original configuration.
MG30 with Hungarian trooper
In Germany, Rheinmetall-Borsig modified the MG 30 design to create a modern machine gun for the Luftwaffe, first with the MG15, and later with the MG17 (which fired at an accelerated 1,200 rounds per minute). The MG 30’s design concepts ultimately led to the development of the MG34 and the MG42. The MG 30 is brilliant light machine gun overall that gets little credit for the potent weapons systems it spawned.
MG30 & gas tanks
MG30s on tripods
Tom Laemlein runs Armor Plate Press, a military history publishing company that specializes in producing photo studies of 20th Century weapons systems.
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Achtung! Ze Germanz are coming! Want more info on the guns? We have a Spanish manual for the MG13 in the Vault…
Krummlauf Curved Barrel StG44 at RIA
September 5, 2014 Ian McCollum Accessories, Select-fire Rifles, Video 18
Today’s Rock Island Auction item is a very cool piece – a German Sturmgewehr with a “krummlauf”, or curved barrel attachment. This is the 30 degree type, intended (as goofy as this sounds) for firing […]
P7A13: H&K’s Entry into the US XM9 Pistol Trials
August 5, 2019 Ian McCollum Prototype, Semiauto pistol, Video 12
The US held three series of pistol trials beginning in the late 1970s to find a replacement for the venerable M1911 handgun. H&K was a participant in all three – in the first the entered […]
You can see the Fg42 layout partially resembles it also, interesting internals I stumbled on it trying to find more about the Mauser G35 Leszek identified on this site.
Speaking of which, I found some pictures reputedly of other Mauser self loading prototypes scroll down the page on the link below,
http://www.scribd.com/doc/43634792/Stg44
which look related to it possibly.
There’s some more Mg30 info in the link below,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_30
when it says recoil operated on the page above I am assuming the barrel stays still is that right in this context?
For short recoil as this was the case, the barrel is always moving some distance to commence unlocking. Term “short” does not reference to any specific distance as long as it is less that length of cartridge.
In this case, the locking ring was rotated derived from motion of the barrel while bolt moves in straight line. In case of MG34 the bolt rotates as a result of motion of carrier connected to it by pin and cam.
As a general rule, ‘something’ has to start to more to impart initial momentum.
Thanks Denny, perhaps you could clarify something for me, on the Hk P9 in the video by Ian in the link below:
https://www.forgottenweapons.com/other-handguns/hk-p9s/
The barrel of the P9 doesn’t move, were as the Cz52’s does.
Now, the case is pushing back against the slide in the P9 isn’t it. Were as the slide and barrel have to move in the Cz, via recoil, the barrel has to move in order to keep the cartridge in the chamber, however the movement of the slide unlocks it. What I’m wondering is, if the Cz’s barrel didn’t move and hypothetically there was another way of keeping the bullet in the chamber i.e. With the firing pin block behind it. Would the slide still recoil on it’s own, sort of Gerat O6h in regards it’s bolt carrier, or does the barrel have to move the slide by it moving to create the initial recoil momentum kind of like a Maxim guns barrel being moved by the recoil booster imparting a rearward motion on it?
Say a Remington R51 “it’s barrel is fixed” now if there was a locking mechanism, similar to now, only it didn’t move with the slide initially, would the slide move around it.
The hypothetical R51 locking mechanism variant, would resemble a Czech Zh29 bolt on it’s side, with it’s side locking piece engaging a wedge on the upper side of the frame i.e. on the bolts underside. The “bolt” would sit locked against the wedge while a round is in the chamber, creating a locking block while the slide is fully forward encapsulating it.
Now if you imagine that the cartridge is locked in the fixed barrels chamber via the above, and you pull the trigger, I want to know if the slide will move around it, via recoil, because the muzzle blast has left the inert object i.e. The barrel/frame, but there’s a rearward movement generated now isn’t there because you fired something forward… Recoil, so were does it go, into the slide thus making it go back?
If so the hypothetical bolt above would be actuated by the slide somehow, therefore disengaging is popping out lug from the wedge on the frame freeing it to move rearward with the slide etc but that’s by the by, it’s the principle I am trying to establish, would the slide move.
The slide must move surely, that’s this inertia lark isn’t it, the barrel/frame stay still, the slide can so does move.
Clarify something else for me rather, he he.
HK design was revisited couple of times and I an had explained that thoroughly.
On CZ52 Barrel and slide assembly are physically tied together by expanded – into the slide – rollers. rollers are located in block as a part of barrel. After passing idle travel they move into cavities in frame and let barrel go freely back. There is nothing what can go wrong on CZ rather than the side force in time of use tends to swell slide’s walls. I am not particularly keen on that design especially in connection with powerful 7.62×25 ammunition.
So the slide would move then, if the barrel stayed still in principle.
Here Denny, Strongarm, anyone else, this pistol in the link below:
http://world.guns.ru/handguns/hg/it/benelli-b76-e.html
What I want to know is, is this pistols breech block actuated by the movement of the slide caused by recoil??
Here is a video on the Benelli B76,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccdh126aU6E&index=9&list=PLShATIBz4e4r1DoKfkI8bkPcZQQ8qaLr-
mentioned above.
It has a fixed barrel, and is lever delayed, however I am under the impression the slide moves to facilitate the functioning of the lever?
I.e. The block stays still until the slide moves, unlike in say a Remington R51.
strongarm says:
HKP9 works on “Delayed Blowback” principle which based upon Pal Kiraly’s 1912 patented construction. On this action, backward thrust of recoiling case in the fixed barrel, first transmits a certain amount of momentum to the semilocked breechbolt and this unit transmits the same to the piece carrying itself through a lever connected on the receiver. The lever or roller accerelates the carrier piece to a speed that the momentum of its share could not supply and, since the weight of that piece gains more speed than actually does not deserve, it happens quasi lightened giving excess momentum to the breechbolt piece, and by means, quasi weighting it, and since that piece gains more weight than actualy carries, it gets slowed. Levers and rollers are simply accerelators. Lever or roller delayers can not be explained through drawings. But the thump rule is, “If a mechanical accerelation occurs, it slows something engaged”.
What an explanation.
Hmmm, ok… He he, er… So Gerat 06h, BANG!!! Projectile/gas out the front, rearward impetus generated as a consequence, transferred to the bolt carrier which moves against the recoil spring, unlock, bingo.
Thus the slide would act as the bolt carrier, as only it would move rearwards as your holding the pistol.
B76 is a very different kind of pistol. It uses same “Inertia Driven” principle wıth big brother smoothbore shotguns. The term “Lever Delay” is not correct. The breechbolt is a separate member in the slide movable vertically at backside into a locking recess provided over the receiver and there is a lever at rear top of breechbolt connected with slide or the breechbolt carrier. The recoil spring drives all the members forward as forcing the lever downward as locking the breechbolt on the receiver and when a discharge occurs, the pressure inside case forces the breechbolt backward to go out of engagement from locing recess, but in the same time, slide (Bolt Carrier) retains its location through inertia as relatively trying to go forward as forcing the connected lever to press down the
breechbolt into the locking recess on receiver until the
momentum gained via recoil to beat the gas pressure inside the case which only can be got through the projectile to go out of the barrel. Then, slide begins to go back as taking the lever and breechbolt up, out of the locking recess and usual blowback begins.
May I say “I think this helps”.
Well that what interesting… Explained the B76, more, kind of.
I’m still saying recoil would cause the slide to move, and this could be utilized in a fixed barrel pistol via a locking block of some sort keeping the cartridge chambered.
If a slide is locked, it needs mechanism and energy to leave away from this situation. A gas actuated driver, an inertia block or a movable barrel is needed to achieve this task. Or in other case, locked slide moves by recoil
together with receiver waiting for a help only being able to come from an enchanted force. Delay systems are not locked. Their mechanisms only slow the opening speed of breechblocks using the working capability coming from gas pressure inside the case. They are also called as “Semi Locked”.
Matisse Enzer says:
What is the purpose of the connection to the gas tanks?
It seems they’ve got an MP34? connected to the gas as well.
Michael B. says:
Hmm, in the “gas tanks” picture the further-back gun seems nearly rifle-length. A gunfire simulator? The gas tanks are mounted on concrete blocks, so maybe this is a training set-up? Anyone familiar with German “gunfire simulator” systems of the interwar period?
If you look closely, the gas bottle equipped gun does not have the usual flash hider but some form of nozzle at the front of the barrel. So gunfire simulator sounds reasonable.
Is there an open tin of pellets on that white tray perhaps, can’t quite make it out properly, kind of looks ike one.
Russell Koch says:
I would venture it’s chlorine gas. They would wait for the wind to blow the right direction and open the valves. If the enemy’s courage and masks held..the status quo held. If they broke and ran then the machine guns started in.
JPeelen says:
The gas bottles have the conventional pressure reducing and regulation devices (two manometers) that you find in any welding shop. With rough handling they can break off very easily. Not something you would want on a poison gas bottle.
I opt for acetylene bottles and a machine-gunfire simulator.
Sigivald says:
As far as I know, the Germans never even came close to deploying poison gas in WW2 – Hitler personally hated the stuff due to his Great War experiences.
In any case, a tank sitting right there at the gun emplacement? The enemy would be nearly in pistol range before they were meaningfully harmed by such a release, and they all had gas masks… delivery systems of the post-WW1 era were more in the artillery and bomb or rocket mode, and of nastier things than mere chlorine (e.g. organophosphate nerve agents).
David Carlson says:
Fear of retaliation?
While the Germans did use asphyxiation and Zyklon B for mass murder, they did not employ chemical weapons, apart from the possibility of the mopping-up of the Crimea in 1942, because the Wehrmacht was moved by horses for which no adequate masks had been developed.
Personally, I’m convinced that if the Germans had launched See-Löwe the British would have used blister agents like mustard gas.
Chemical weapons were used to some extent in the War of the Rif in North Africa, and apparently by the Bolsheviks against revolting peasants and enemy “Greens” in the Russian Civil War.
The Italians used mustard gas in Ethiopia in 1935 and the Japanese IJA used chemical weapons in China.
I like this layout with magazine on side; it makes it less visually revealing (and less obtrusive when observing target) than Bren.
Not to mention that it can be fired off the left shoulder if needed, which comes in handy in house-to-house fighting.
Here are pictures of MG-31M (probably museum in Koblenz)
http://www.primeportal.net/armory/yuri_pasholok/31m_lmg/
It has dual trigger. It is hard to find picture with operating system exposed.
When you look at German weapons development between the wars (or, for that matter, Europe in general), it’s really disheartening at how US Ordnance seems to have largely slept through most of the period. The only bright spot was the M1 Garand.
In a word, “isolationism.” Europe was in a constant stir after WW1 with Communist and Nationalist groups vying for power over the relatively weak postwar (and post monarchical) democracies, and despite the deceptive peace of the era, the continent had its leaders had seen firsthand the effects of mechanized war and maintained a sense of an arms race between the major powers. Let’s not forget that Germany was basically disarmed after WW1 and had to rearm in secret, so starting from scratch, basically, they acquired the latest and most up to date equipment available. France was also thinking ahead, at least in terms of defense, and although the Maginot line ultimately proved ineffective, it was a watershed of development for military technology in the inter-war years. Hard as it is for some to believe, France was seen as the world’s most advanced and powerful military at the time, and her generals, particularly De Gaulle, were pushing concepts of “modern war” with rapid movement, as opposed to the previous stalemate and bloodbath of the trenches. Meanwhile, in the good old USA, we felt safe behind our ocean borders and were content with being the 16th ranked military in the world, as we were more concerned with domestic issues stemming from the Great Depression. When that ended, “happy days were here again,” and the population, as well as the administration, truly believed that we would never be involved in another foreign war. What little military innovation we did have seemed to be focused as much or more for the export market than for domestic adoption. Indeed, it is a miracle that we were able to adopt the Garand, but by 1941-42, it still wasn’t available in enough quantity to replace the 1903 Springfield at the front. It seems that throughout our recent history, the US likes to delude itself that it will never have to go to war again, until it is forced into waking up to reality. As we draw down in the Middle East, that mentality is taking root again, as most seem either to be ignorant of history or foolishly optimistic. Personally, I agree with Plato’s statement that “only the dead will know the end of war.”
Those “Islamic state” chaps are charmers aren’t they, going around crucifying folk, most rude.
Nice strategic defence review outcome, accountant Hammond.
That’s right, by Gawd! B’sides, we have atomic bombs, now. We won’t be needing all of those silly tanks and rifles anymore. Best save that tax money to buy votes come election time, you know, bread and circuses and all.
I used to have, many years ago while still in Europe, about 3 years of magazine Die Wehrmacht.
http://www.wartimepress.com/archive-publication.asp?TID=Die%20Wehrmacht%201943%2003%2024%20nr%2007&MID=Die%20Wehrmacht%201943&q=4961&FID=312
I remember some of the pictures and articles. In one of them they showed U.S. troops in Jeep Willys as most modern piece of equipment they had. German military had multiple types armoured vehicles, not to mention airplanes, ships and so forth – technically far superior. There was label under picture something of meaning “Rosevelt boys are far too weak to fight us”. Usual propaganda.
This problematic is generally wrongly understood IMO. As war started, Germany had almost totally upper hand, but that was soon to change (and it happened largely on Easter front). What was the decisive factor part of human effort? Simple answer: Russian and American industrial capacity and ability to replenish. This is the way to see and to understand WWII.
True. It might have taken 4 Shermans to kill a Tiger, but those 4 Shermans were quickly replaced while the Tiger was gone for good. Also, both a landlocked Germany and tiny island of Japan had limited access to resources such as oil, iron, and food. As their overseas conquests were lost, so were the supplies. Big countries like the US and USSR had resources to spare. The best machines in the world can’t run with empty fuel tanks and the best soldiers can’t function with empty stomachs. Still, one has to admire the technical sophistication of German armaments (MG 42 variants still serve to this day). Add to that the fact that production output actually increased in Germany as the war progressed, in many areas, including the production of jet aircraft and ballistic missiles. Still, Churchill was right as he noted that when Hitler declared war on America, the issue was no longer in doubt and Germany was headed towards defeat (never mind his poking of the Russian bear).
Exactly as you say: access to resources was a key factor along with available pool of labour and technical capacity to produce not to mention financial backing. Another item to add would be perhaps the sabotage factor which was unknown on Allied side and was widespread in Axis occupied countries. Workforce had low motivation and lived in fear be it local population or interned prisoners in concentration camps.
At this web we are used to see world thru small arms and their role. They were (are) not negligible by any means and they were (are) not decisive factor either.
I think the gas-tanks are for shooting pellets – anyone here tried to fit the firing solenoid for acetylene inside an MP34, good luck.
Also look at the muzzle device of the MG30, it shows a tiny bore.
I think it’s a pellet gun, and I want one
They might be pneumatic marksmanship trainers, e.g. converted to pellet guns.
More I read this website, more I realize my gunsmith idea have been commercialized decades ago.
Maybe a non-browning pistol design with fixed barrel, delayed blow-back, home repairable and with less pieces would be viable?
And the following question would be “patent to the inventor’s name and take the risk of failure or patent as a GNU public and allow everyone to try make profit from it”?
Over at the Soviet Gun archives, there is a presentation of partisan training on use of foreign weapons including the Solothurn anti-tank “rifle”–pushes the envelope between anti-tank rifle and small anti-tank gun… and the German Dreyse MG13, that uses a similar layout to the Solothurn M30, and a side mounted box magazine. If it was widely used by the Hungarians, then it was used by Soviet partisans too… Are there design similarities between the German Dreyse MG13 (adopted by Portugal), and the Swiss/Austrian MG30 (used by Hungary)?
According to Max, they were developed in parallel, but are not the same internally.
http://world.guns.ru/machine/de/mg-13-e.html
The description herein talks of “locking arm” rather than “locking ring” as used on MG30.
Other item mentioned is that MG31M (I brought up page on it earlier) was actually Hungarian version of MG30.
Here are some detail pictures of MG13 – it is visibly different, mostly in receiver area from MG30.
http://91.192.194.197/detail/MG13_1938_2.htm
In various sources, the MG30 is not mentioned as being German machinegun at all.
Ferris says:
Would anyone disagree if I said the Hungarian Army was the best army on the Eastern front after Werhmacht and Red Army?
It is obviously hard or even impossible to define what “best” means in the context.
Hungary has gone after WWI at first (and as previously defeated country) – thru another war with Romania where it ended defeated. In following it went thru wild changes of political orientation from extreme left to no less extreme right.
In simplified term it is perhaps possible to say that Hungarian political scene and public opinion must have been considerably agitated as a result. One item to bear on mind in addition is that they had always very keen attitude toward military ( Honved in their language ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Hungarian_Honv%C3%A9d
Given my European background I do not remember ever hearing any negative in that sense about them; as a fighting force they were well respected.
I’m somewhat familiar with the Honved. I own shoot a 35M, 43M and M88/90.Used to own a Budapest M95 in 8×50 made in 1909. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc4iBhvKBD0 There seems to be a dearth of information regarding that Army’s performance in WW2 aside from the recent publication “Three Kings…”
For one thing, this was not a period from today’s point of view, by which Hungary would be proud of. Second, of course people who would remember to tell you true account are dying out. Books are not factual, mostly. So what you have left is research using various sources; unless you are recognised as historian.
I read a book and heard the stories related to battle of Budapest – it was extraordinarily vicious; Hungarians put up fair amount of resistance. They were facing Malinovsky’s Second Ukrainian front.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodion_Malinovsky
Photo with the gas cylinders – there was a compressed air operated training system for the smg.
Tom Laemlein says:
My bad guys, I didn’t get this information in along with these photos. The photo shows the compressed-air pellet training device, fitted to both the MG 30 and the Steyr Model 1930 submachine gun.
This pellet firing training device was intended for use with both submachine guns and machine guns. Designed to provide a low-cost training aid for gunners, its “snail-drum” like magazine contained 32 pellets. The device was described in Thomas Nelson and Daniel Musgrave’s “The World’s Machine Pistols & Submachine Guns Volume II” as follows: “the training apparatus consists of an inserted barrel which is pushed into the barrel from the front end and then screwed to the receiver. The rear end of the piston is mounted in the connecting piece provided with the normal handle of the submachine gun and to which the closing piece of the weapon is also connected. On the right side of the bolt is the compressed air valve, while on the left side the bolt provides support for the magazine.”
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The most common PFICs are mutual funds based outside the United States.
The IRS requires annual reporting from U.S. persons who directly or indirectly receive distributions from, recognize gain on, are making an election for, are required to report information as a result of an election or who directly own an aggregate $25,000 ($50,000 MFJ) in PFIC investments on the last day of their tax year. The $25,000 threshold drops to $5,000 if the PFIC is indirectly owned.
Even though at this point in time Form 8621 does not carry a monetary penalty if the filing is missed, it is still very important to identify PFICs and report them each year the client meets the requirements since not filing for any year it is required will toll the statute of limitations on the entire tax return. 2 With reasonable cause you may be able to have the open statute apply only to the income items flowing from Form 8621. 3 In fact, taxpayers who otherwise do not need to file a tax return must still file form 8621 directly with the Ogden Service Center of the IRS. I find this surprising given that the form does not contain a jurat and signature line like most standalone forms.
There are three taxation regimes under which a PFIC may be taxed, with a few sub-elections that provide various ways to purge accumulated unrealized gain inside the investment when a QEF or mark to market (MtM) election is not being made in the first year. Each of the methods is multi-layered calculations performed per PFIC share or block of shares that have been purchased at the same time. Basis and unreversed inclusions (only applicable to MtM elections) must be adjusted and tracked per share or block of shares. And just to make things a little more complicated, consider the minefield presented by various state tax codes and options for income inclusion for the Net Investment Income Tax.
The default method of PFIC taxation is laid out in Code Sec. 1291. Code Sec. 1291 taxation is event based and punitive. Any distribution or disposition of a share of Code Sec. 1291 stock will trigger multiple calculations and the requirement to file Form 8621. A Code Sec. 1291 PFIC with only purchases and no other activity will not create income inclusions nor tax. Code Sec. 1291 also includes a deferred or throwback tax when distributions are made or the shares are sold for a gain. This deferred taxation is meant to mirror when the income would have been included in the taxpayer’s income had the investment been based in the United States by allocating gains over the entire holding period. Once the amount of “gain per day” has been computed, the regime turns ugly and the income for each year is taxed at the highest tax rate imposed for that year—currently this is 39.6 percent as well as adding interest to the tax for each year on the value of the deferral. Interest is calculated from the due date of the tax return for the year of attribution until the due date of the year of disposition (or deemed disposition).
The other two methods—MtM and QEF—both require making an election that will apply to the current and all subsequent years. Once either election is made, the taxpayer will be required to file Form 8621 each year. Both methods require the inclusion of phantom income each year and for adjustments to the cost basis of the shares.
The MtM election values each share at the end of each year and any amount of capital appreciation will be added to Form 1040 line 21 and taxed as ordinary income. Since the regulations say that the calculation of appreciation is done per share keep in mind that gains and losses of shares purchased on different dates may not offset each other. Shares that have dropped in value do not create income, and the unrealized losses are allowed only up to the amount of gain previously included in income (unreversed inclusions) for those shares. Unreversed inclusions like everything else must be tracked by share or block of shares. Any unused unreversed inclusions when the related shares are sold are dropped from the available pool. There is no capital gain treatment for income. Losses on disposition are ordinary losses up to the amount of unreversed inclusions attributable to the shares disposed of, and capital losses for the loss over and above the unreversed inclusions. There is also a special alternate resolution MtM computation that is allowed for taxpayers in the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP), but that is a different animal and not relevant for our purposes today.
And finally, today’s subject—QEFs. Taxation under Code Sec.1293 does not include annual distributions from the investment in income but instead includes an amount of ordinary income and capital gains that the fund would have distributed had it distributed all its earnings at the end of each year into taxable income. 4 Any amounts of this phantom income included in income will increase the
cost basis, and any actual distributions received will reduce the basis. Again remember that the income inclusions and basis adjustments are tracked per share. The best part of QEF is that any gain on a sale of the shares is allowed capital gains treatment. This is very similar to the taxation of domestic mutual funds. Another really great feature of QEF elections is that it appears as though the mutual
fund company has done all the work for us by providing a PFIC Annual Information Statement that gives us the amounts of ordinary income and capital gains to add to our client’s tax return.
Although the PFIC is making the annual reporting of income inclusions easy for us, do not forget to track the basis of each share by adding the amount in income and subtracting any actual distributions or dividends so that when the shares are sold you have correct basis numbers. This leads us into the main problem I see with PFIC taxation under Code Sec. 1293. QEF funds will report ordinary income and capital gains based on its accounting year, and if that year happens to be a fiscal year you only have a correct basis up to the end of that fiscal year. What happens when the taxpayer sells or otherwise disposes of shares between the end of the PFIC’s fiscal tax year and the end of the taxpayer’s calendar tax year? You will not have the information needed to calculate the basis of those
shares after the PFIC year end of the current year until the PFIC Annual Income Statement has been received for the following year. Since there is no provision in the Code to allow a basis adjustment to capital assets sold in the previous year, you will have to amend the year of sale every time. Let us take this step by step through the applicable regulations so you see what I mean.
Passive foreign investment companies are defined in Proposed Reg. §1.1291-1(b)(1):
In general.—A passive foreign investment company (PFIC) is a foreign corporation that satisfies either the income test of section 1296(a)(1) or the asset test of section 1296(a)(2). A corporation will not be treated as a PFIC with respect to a shareholder for those days included in the shareholder’s holding period before the shareholder became a United States person within the meaning of section 7701(a)(30).
(ii) PFIC characterization continued.—A corporation will be treated as a PFIC with respect to a shareholder even if the corporation satisfies neither the income test nor the asset test of section 1296(a), if the corporation (or its predecessor in a reorganization described in section 368(a)(1)(F)) was a section 1291 fund with respect to the shareholder at any time during the shareholder’s holding period of the corporation’s stock.
Once identified as a PFIC, an investment is further categorized as types of PFICs in the next section, Proposed Reg. §1.1291-1(b)(2). For our purpose, I only present the definition of a QEF:
(i) QEF.—A PFIC is a qualified electing fund (QEF) with respect to a shareholder that has elected under section 1295 to be taxed currently on its share of the PFIC’s earnings and profits pursuant to section 1293.
Next an election to tax the PFIC as a QEF is made5 by filing form 8621 and ticking the appropriate box in Part II. The election can generally only be made for a PFIC that provides the taxpayer with a PFIC Annual Information Statement or Annual Intermediary Statement6 that provides the income amounts and amounts deemed to have been distributed. When the election is made in the first
year of ownership, the PFIC is called a pedigreed QEF. Any investment for which the election was made in a year other than the first year of ownership is called a “non-pedigreed”QEF. Pedigreed status can also be achieved by purging any prior Code Sec. 1291 gain in a nonpedigreed QEF.
Taxation of pedigreed QEF investments is broken into two distinct calculations under two different parts of the Code—the annual taxation (Code Sec. 1293) and the taxation on disposition of the investment as a capital gain (Code Sec. 1(h)). The treatment of gains or losses on disposition of a nonpedigreed QEF reverts back to taxation under the punitive default method outlined in Code Sec. 1291.
Both pedigreed and nonpedigreed QEF funds are taxed the same on an annual basis. The PFIC will send the shareholder an annual statement7 that will provide the information necessary to compute the income inclusions and basis adjustments for the year. The taxpayer will include on their tax return the income for the fiscal year of the PFIC that ends during the tax year the taxpayer is filing a return for.8 This results in a timing issue that defers the reporting of some of the annual income inclusions until the subsequent year. For example, a PFIC that uses a year end of March 31, 2016, will send the amount of income the taxpayer will include on their 2016 tax return as ordinary income and capital gains based on the earnings of the fund from April 1, 2015, to March 31, 2016. Any income earned by the fund from April 1, 2016, to December 31, 2016, will be included on the 2017 tax return. Keep in mind that providing the information necessary for the taxpayer to make a QEF election requires that the PFIC essentially keep a second set of books to conform to U.S. rules, and although a PFIC may choose any date for its year end, many companies choose a fiscal year end to allow themselves more time to prepare the numbers to report the annual QEF income to their investors.9
Taxation on dispositions of QEF shares depends on whether the QEF is pedigreed or nonpedigreed. The clearest explanation I have seen on this subject is in the 1986 Blue Book, “General Explanation of the Tax Reform Act of 1986,” 10 Title XII(D)(6) Coordination of Code Sec. 1291 with taxation of shareholders of QEFs.
Pedigreed QEF:
Gain recognized on the disposition of stock in a PFIC by a U.S. investor is not taxed under section 1291 if the PFIC is a qualified electing fund for each of the fund’s taxable years which begin after December 31, 1986 and which include any portion of the investor’s holding period. This provision allows any unrealized appreciation in the stock of the qualified electing fund to be taxable as capital gain income (if the stock is a capital asset) and without the imposition of an interest charge.
Nonpedigreed QEFs:
Any shareholder who owns stock in a PFIC which previously was not a qualified electing fund for a taxable year but which becomes one for the subsequent taxation year may elect to be taxed on the unrealized appreciation inherent in his or her PFIC stock up through the first day pf the subsequent taxable year, pay all prior deferred tax and interest, and acquire a new basis and holding period in his or her PFIC investment. Thereafter the shares will be taxed under the rules applicable for qualified electing funds. Absent this election, U.S. investors will be taxed under both provisions applicable to qualified electing funds and section 1291, and will, consequently pay deferred tax and interest not only on gain attributable to the years in which the PFIC is not a qualifying electing fund but also on gain attributable to the period during which an investor is taxed currently on his on her share of PFIC earnings.
The information above makes it pretty clear so far what we need to do with a QEF PFIC. The technical guidance disappears as soon as our calendar year taxpayer sells or otherwise disposes of a QEF (pedigreed or nonpedigreed) between the end of the fiscal year and the calendar year. Consider that we will not know the true basis of the shares that were sold until the PFIC sends the next year’s annual statement.
Below is an example based on the purchase and sale of an actual QEF showing the income, distributions and share prices using the PFIC annual information statements and spot currency conversion rates.
On August 5, 2013, a U.S. citizen residing in Canada purchases 10,000 shares of RBC O’Shaughnessy U.S. Value Fund—Class A (RBF552). The cost per share is $12.5578. USD (13.05 CAD) for a total purchase price of $125,578 USD. If the taxpayer is planning on making a QEF election for the mutual fund, in 2013 the taxpayer is required to file Form 8621 under Code Sec. 1298(f ) but only part I
and only because their aggregate PFIC investments are in excess of $25,000 on the last day of their tax year.
In 2014, RBC provides a PFIC Annual Information Statement to the taxpayer, which indicates the following income inclusions and distributions per share of RBF552 owned for the period of July 1, 2013–June 30, 2014, in USD:
Ordinary Earnings—$0.0010755706 per share per day
Net Capital Gains—$0.0061606207 per share per day
Cash/Property Distributions—$0.2751653668 per share annually
The shares were owned for 330 days during the PFIC’s fiscal year, and we would need to include income based on 330 days of ownership. Further we need to adjust basis up by the amounts included in income and adjust basis down by the pro rata amount of the distribution for 330 days.
Resulting in a new basis per share of $14.6969 after adjustments as follows:
Ordinary earnings: 0.0010755706 per share per day
Net cap gains: 0.0061606207 per share per day
Distributions: 0.0007538777 per share per day (0.2751653668/365)
Adjustment per share per day: 0.0064823136
Number of days: 330
Total adjustment per share: $2.1392
The 2014 tax return entries would be:
1040 Line 21 = $3549 => 0.0010755706 × 10,000 × 330 days
Schedule D = $20,330 => 0.0061606207 × 10,000 × 330 days
The basis of the entire 10,000 share investment as of June 30, 2014, would be $146,969 calculated in one of two ways:
$14.6969 new share basis × 10,000, or
$125,578 original cost + $3549 ordinary income + $20330 cap gains − $2488 distributions.
Now let us assume the taxpayer sells all 10,000 shares on December 1, 2014, for $14.1490 per share ($16.06 CAD)—total proceeds are $141,489 USD. The last basis you have is $146,969 ($14.6969/sh) as of June 30, 2014, but no idea what the basis of the shares was on the sale date. Under the general rules, sales of capital assets are reportable in the year of sale. With the information you have, the taxpayer has a long-term capital loss of $5,480 ($141,489 − 146.969) and this is what you report on their 2014 Sch D.
The following year when the taxpayer receives their 2015 PFIC Annual Information Statement from RBC they find the following income inclusions and distributions for the period of July 1, 2014–June 30, 2015, in USD:
Ordinary Earnings—$0.00 per share per day
Even though the investor sold all the shares before the beginning of 2015, they still have to file Form 8621 and include the ordinary earnings and capital gains into their 2015 income for the number of days they owned the shares during the PFIC’s tax year. In this case 154 days.
Ordinary earnings: 0.00 per share per day
Net cap gains: 0. 0021925004 per share per day
Distributions: 0.002724924 per share per day (0.9945971661/365)
Adjustment per share per day: −0.000532423
Total adjustment per share: −$0.8199
1040 Line 21 = $0=> 0.00 × 10,000 × 154 days
Sch D= $3,376 => 10,000 × 0.0021925004/365 × 10,000 × 154 days
This amount will be added to the basis of the investment.
At the time of sale December 1, 2014, the actual basis of the 10,000 shares is $146,149 instead of the $146,969 we used on the 2014 Schedule D. The actual capital loss is $4661, an overstatement of basis in the amount of $820 from what was reported on the 2014 schedule D.
Even though the amounts are generally minimal in the grand scheme of things, when the return was prepared the preparer and taxpayer had to sign under the penalty of perjury that the return is true, complete and accurate. We knew the return was not true, complete and accurate at the time it was filed due to a pending adjustment to the basis of a capital asset that was disposed of. Since the basis rules in Code Secs. 1011–1016 do not have a provision for basis adjustments occurring in a year after the year of disposition, has the lack of being able to make the adjustment on the subsequent year’s return created an obligation to amend the return for the year of disposition? I cannot imagine that this was the intent of the drafters of the PFIC regulations. But unfortunately for the taxpayers, the tax practitioners and the IRS, this is what we are required to do when there has been an understatement of income or overstatement of basis. Certainly, neither we nor the IRS need any extra work on
our desks, and the clients do not need the additional costs and headaches that come with opening up an already filed return, but last time I checked we are not allowed to “make it up as we go” just to make the process easier.
About a year ago, I contacted the Office of the IRS Associate Chief Counsel (International) with the hopes that an alternative could be made available so we are not faced with constant amending when clients have QEF elections on their fiscal year PFICs. I specifically asked if we could make a one-off adjustment in the year of income inclusion to either add back any decrease of basis, or subtract any increase of basis due to the current year income inclusions and distributions reported on the PFIC statement. Unfortunately, there was nothing offered other than “That’s not what the regs say,” so we
must continue to cost our clients extra money and the IRS extra work or knowingly disregard the jurat at the bottom of the tax return.
My proposal would be to add a section to Code Sec. 1016 to address QEF shares along the lines of:
In the case of the disposition of shares of a qualified electing fund which reports ordinary income, long term capital gain, and distributions to a United States shareholder on a tax year ending that is not the same as the United States shareholder, an adjustment to income in the year of income inclusion made be elected to be made with respect to any shares disposed of during the period between the end of the qualified electing fund tax year and the US shareholder tax year. This adjustment would be a capital gain or loss in the amount of the net basis adjustment required for the shares disposed of in the immediately preceding tax year.
To illustrate from the example above, the taxpayer would include an additional $820 on their 2015 Schedule D. With this simplified way to correct a small oversight in an otherwise impressive piece of Code, QEF would once again be the best PFIC election in all cases where it is allowed.
Code Sec. 1297(b)(2)(D).
Code Sec. 6501(c)(8)(A).
Code Sec. 6501(c)(8)(B).
Code Sec. 1293(b).
Reg. §1.1295-1(f).
Reg. §1.1295-1(g).
Mention exceptions to the requirement to provide a statement.
Code Sec. 1293(a).
See www.fidelity.ca/cs/Satellite/en/public/products/regulatory_documents/pfic.
See www.jct.gov/jcs-10-87.pdf.
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