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REVIEW: The Princess’ Man
Posted by thefrustratedmangaka on August 6, 2016 October 9, 2016
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After watching Arang and the Magistrate, I decided to watch other similar sageuks that I didn’t get the chance to watch. The Princess’ Man was definitely listed next. It’s been a week since I finished watching this drama and I had to say that every scene still lingers over my head.
Plot. Hardcore heavy drama. The Korean version of Romeo and Juliet, with a twist. Kim Seung-yoo, our Romeo, falls in love with our Juliet, Lee Se-ryung, the daughter of Grand Prince Suyang who is responsible for the demise of his family. Despite its similarity with the famous Shakespeare tragedy, the Seung-Ryung love story has one element that I truly like: it was never love-at-first-sight. It all started with pure curiosity that blossomed into a deep-rooted romance.
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The story begins when Lee Se-ryung learns about her impending arranged marriage with Kim Jong-seo’s son, Kim Seung-yoo. Out of curiosity, she decides to swap places with Princess Kyunghye and attend the royal lesson to catch a glimpse of her intended husband.
With the death of King Munjong, the whole world started to lose its colors for the lovebirds as Grand Prince Suyang started the wave of bloodshed towards the throne. He annihilated every court officials that are against him, including Kim Seung-yoo’s family whom he considers one of his biggest political threats. I believe you already have an idea of what happens next…
I really like how the writers carefully recreated history with this drama. Although some people might find this misleading, it will still give you the urge to know more about Korea’s history especially for non-Koreans like me.
With Romeo-and-Juliet and sageuk combined, lust for power, bloodshed, and tragedy are to be expected. The ending pierced my heart, but I was satisfied.
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Cast and Characters. This is probably one of the few dramas that I would highly commend each actors’ brilliant performance.
Park Si-hoo as Kim Seung-yoo. Very, very impressive. This drama completely turned the tables on how I see Park Si-hoo. I felt the depth of Kim Seung-yoo’s character through Park Si-hoo’s brilliant performance. He perfectly executed the many faces of Kim Seung-yoo:
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Moon Chae-won as Lee Se-ryung. I’ve seen a number of K-series starring Moon Chae-won and with the number of characters she has played, I think Se-ryung would be my favorite. Lee Se-ryung’s personality is a fusion of being feisty yet charming, careless yet elegant, a little bit of a tomboy but feminine, and definitely strong yet fragile. Moon Chae-won’s versatility as an actress brought out the best in Lee Se-ryung’s character.
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I love Moon Chae-won’s chemistry with Park Si-hoo: they complement each other perfectly…
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Hong Soo-hyun as Princess Kyunghye. This character received my sympathy as she was the one who lost the most: her royal status, family, and even her pride. At first I expected that I would really be annoyed with Hong Soo-hyun because of her resting bitch face, but eventually I learned to understand her character more. She needs to be strong to protect the monarch from the usurping threats of his uncle and she’s the only one that the young king can depend on.
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I also love how she finally learned how to love her husband. **SPOILER ALERT** It was heartbreaking to see her swallow her pride and accept defeat by kneeling in front of Suyang just to save her husband. **END OF SPOILER**
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Lee Min-woo as Jung Jong. Another character that will definitely catch your heart. Honestly speaking, my first impression of Jung Jong wasn’t that good either, just like when the Princess first met him. Aside from the fact that his family is debt-ridden and he’s not as courageous and charming as his two other friends, it may appear that this guy is definitely not the one you would want to spend the rest of your life with.
With the turn of events, I really admired this character and he earned my respect. He was a gentleman and patiently waited for Princess Kyunghye to love him in return. You won’t see him sword-fight against his enemies, but he was courageous enough to stand for his beliefs and risk his life to protect it.
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Song Jong-ho as Shin Myeon. Disappointment. That’s how I feel every time I see his face on the screen. He wasted not only his friendship with Seung-yoo and Jong, but he wasted his whole damn life because of his poor decision-making skills. It is true that he may be forced to side with Suyang because of his father, but at the end of the day the choice is still on his hands. He was also given a lot of opportunities to change a lot of things and prevent unnecessary bloodshed, but he still chose the other way around.
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Kim Yong-cheol as Grand Prince Suyang. I really appreciate Suyang’s scenes with Se-ryung as it shows us how deeply he cherish his daughter. It also gives us a deeper understanding of why Se-ryung cannot fully detest her father. Although it is to be expected that a daughter cannot fully detest her father, the scenes gives us a glimpse of Suyang’s gentle side.
Production.
At the beginning of the story, we see a lot of vibrant and lavish hanboks which may represent the state of our characters. But if you paid any attention to the characters’ costume, you’ll notice how things have changed and their lives losing its colors.
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I also appreciate the OSTs selected for this drama. It was perfect in setting the mood while watching.
It’s been a while since I last watched a heavy drama like The Princess’ Man. It wasn’t a perfect drama but it will definitely be tattooed in everyone’s heart.
“Although I lost my sight, I have retrieved my heart. Although I lost the desire for revenge, I got you instead. –Kim Seung-yoo“
Final verdict: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♡ [4/5]
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KYNREN – ‘people power’ in abundance at a must-attend outdoor show
Open air events are all the rage at present, from motor shows, to rock concerts, but Iain Robertson has attended a preview of an event for which he urges all right-minded people and their families to make time and it’s all about us…
Spectacular, splendiferous and stupendous, a show for all the family
Legendary Drives – Part 2, from Malaga to Farnborough
With more than forty years of international travel under his belt, Iain Robertson has a wealth of opinions to share but his passion is for driving and he continues his series, with a relaxing drive-back to the UK, from Southern Spain.
Since early excursions to Franco’s Spain, which I am sure
Every now and then, some eminently practical travel books are produced and, with the vacation season upon us, Iain Robertson takes a closer look at them, lists their National Library references and other pertinent details.
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EURO 2016: late-booking fans face hotel rates only a footballer could afford
As if the floods and threats of ‘dry’ cities weren’t bad enough – with Euro 2016 kicking off in just over a weeks’ time, Home Nations fans looking to get their hands on a last minute ticket could be paying through the roof for a room, as local hotels hike prices
The Suzuki Vitara S is the ultimate monster crossover
Having sampled the Vitara model on a race circuit and on wintry public roads, Iain Robertson elected to drive one to and from Northern Ireland, to ascertain its all-round competence.
If the entire concept of crossover is taken to its logical conclusion, there is only one model available in the UK
Driving the Wild Atlantic Way – Part Two
Continuing his drive in Ireland, Iain Robertson takes in the allure of Galway before tackling a near 200-miles drive to Northern Ireland and one of the most mystical sights made famous by one solitary Hollywood movie. Read Part One here.
My current admission is that I have fallen head-over-heels in love
Driving the Wild Atlantic Way – Part One
Hitting two birds with one stone is a popular activity for Iain Robertson, whose car review skills can also be read within the pages of this site and combining his love of travel with a latest model is a thing of delight to him.
Driving on some of my favourite roads
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Twitter temporarily disables 'Tweeting via SMS' after CEO gets hacked
September 05, 2019Swati Khandelwal
Twitter today finally decided to temporarily disable a feature, called 'Tweeting via SMS,' after it was abused by a hacking group to compromise Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey last week and sent a series of racist and offensive tweets to Dorsey's followers.
Dorsey's Twitter account was compromised last week when a hacker group calling itself "Chuckling Squad" replicated a mobile phone number associated with the CEO account and abused this particular feature to post racist, offensive messages and bomb threats from it via SMS.
Replicating a mobile phone number associated with someone else is a technique known as "SIM swapping," where attackers social engineer a victim's mobile phone provider and trick the telecom company to transfer target's phone number to their own SIM card.
Once they social engineered an AT&T employee and gained access to Dorsey's phone number, the Chuckling Squad hackers used the 'Tweeting via SMS' feature to post tweets under his username, even without actually logging in to his account.
For those unaware, Twitter has a feature that gives its users the ability to post a tweet from their account just by sending an SMS message to the company number from their registered mobile number associated with their Twitter account.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Twitter Account Got Compromised!
Twitter says the phone number associated with the account was compromised due to a security oversight by the mobile provider, allowing an unauthorized person to compose and send tweets via text message from the phone number pic.twitter.com/TmL2LufZyV
— The Hacker News (@TheHackersNews) August 31, 2019
This feature was once the most popular way to use Twitter in its early days when most people relied on phones with no internet connection, especially when in some countries government imposes Internet blackouts to quell protests and revolutions.
However, the feature still exists and has been misused several times in the past since no authentication is required other than just having access to the linked phone number.
In a series of tweets published today, Twitter says it has temporarily disabled this feature and working on improving it by exploring options to offer an authenticated way.
"We're taking this step because of vulnerabilities that need to be addressed by mobile carriers and our reliance on having a linked phone number for two-factor authentication (we're working on improving this)," the company said.
"We'll reactivate this in markets that depend on SMS for reliable communication soon while we work on our longer-term strategy for this feature."
However, the company has not provided any timeline of the reactivation of this feature.
Dorsey is not the only person falling victim to SIM swapping attack in recent days. Other victims whose accounts have recently been compromised by Chuckling Squad include actress Chloë Grace Moretz and a number of social media influencers with large followers.
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An iconic Scotch whisky, Lagavulin is synonymous with Islay’s signature peat. Its range spans golden pours aged in new American oak, amber single malts ideal for those presently or aspirationally wearing Shetland sweaters, and a rich, russet, sherry-aged distiller’s edition. Its celebrity fan base and pop cultural allure abet more than 200 years of history and awards.
Curious to learn more about the iconic Islay whisky? Fill your glass with these eight facts.
There are five bottles in Lagavulin’s fleet.
Its most famous is Lagavulin 16, a full-bodied single malt that clocks in at 43 percent ABV. It’s aged in oak for a minimum of 16 years (hence the name) and has massively peaty, smoky flavors, plus lingering sweetness, wood notes, and smoke on the finish. “The Lagavulin 16-year-old is a fundamental part of Islay’s whisky heritage,” writes Harry Cockburne in The Independent in December 2017. The label also makes Lagavulin Distillers Edition, which is double-matured in Pedro Ximinez casks, as well as Lagavulin 1991, and 8- and 25-year-old whiskies.
It’s big in San Francisco.
At the 2017 San Francisco World Spirits Competition, a spirits forum founded in 2000, Lagavulin’s 16-year Scotch was named the Best Distiller’s Single Malt of 2017 and won a double gold medal, meaning it received unanimous gold-medal scores from all panelists. The 16-year also got four consecutive double gold medals between 2005 and 2008.
Speaking of superlatives…
The Glenesk Hotel in Angus, Scotland broke a world record for the largest whisky collection in December 2017. Its 2,500 bottles comprise 1,031 on the official hotel docket as well the owners’ 1,449-bottle private collection. (Sidebar: We need to meet and befriend these owners ASAP.) The most expensive pour on the list is Lagavulin 25, which retails for ￡248 per dram (approximately $345).
It was officially founded in 1816, but distilling started much earlier.
According to Lagavulin lore, people were making whisky on site as early as the 18th century. In 1816, one remarkably named local, John Johnston, launched the first legal distillery. In 1819, Archibald Campbell launched a rival operation. They eventually united forces and, in 1887, were collectively owned by whisky scion, Scottish Unionist, and general firebrand Peter Mackie.
Lagavulin pairs well with stylized American masculinity.
Nick Offerman, the mustachioed actor who famously played Ron Swanson on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation,” is an enormous Lagavulin fan. He creates limited-edition Lagavulin tableware in his L.A. wood shop, and called Lagavulin “mother’s milk” in a 2013 interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek. He also celebrated New Year’s Eve 2016 with a dram of Lagavulin at the Islay distillery. Fictitious character Ron Swanson also loves Lagavulin 16; in the sixth season, Swanson visits the distillery, and in the series finale becomes a Lagavulin shareholder.
Music makes its heart sing.
Lagavulin releases a limited-edition whisky every year in conjunction with the Islay Jazz Festival. Last September, there were 6,000 Jazz Festival bottles available; all were matured in refill American oak hogheads and first-fill American oak. A sponsor of the festival since 2010, Lagavulin has produced a tie-in bottle every year since 2011.
Like all 8-year-olds, Lagavulin’s simply will not stop.
Launched in 2016 to commemorate Lagavulin’s 200th anniversary, and intended for limited release, the 8-year whisky is now a permanent fixture. It was created to honor Great Britain’s “most famous and first-ever whisky writer, Alfred Barnard,” Georgie Crawford, distillery manager, said in a 2017 interview. “In the late 1880s, Barnard sampled an 8-year-old Lagavulin during a visit to Islay, describing it as ‘exceptionally fine’ and ‘held in high repute,’” she says.
A literary icon described Lagavulin as something that could “be used to tar a boat.”
Lisbeth Salander, heroine of Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest,” sips Lagavulin when she finds herself bellying up to the bar at The Rock Hotel on Gibraltar. After tasting it she pushes it off, saying it resembles pitch. Hey, everyone’s a critic.
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Algoma Concerts In The Park
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In a venue like no other, this free concert series takes place at Heritage Park overlooking Lake Michigan and the Algoma City Marina.
The natural sloping amphitheater welcomes you to bring your chairs and blankets and relax while enjoying carry-in food and beverages, or enjoy von Stiehl Wine and Ahnapee Beer at our cash bar.
7 P.m. Heritage Park (Off The City Marina)
July 2: Big Mouth & The Power Tool Horns
Big Mouth has been a a crowd-pleaser for over 25 years playing R & B, Horn Band Favorites, Funk and Big Band Music. Big Mouth was originally formed by Jay Whitney in 1980 in and around Flint, Michigan. A new Big Mouth was formed in Door County in 1990, with the Power Tool Horns added in the mid 90’s.
July 9: Gerry Sloan
Born and raised in Dundalk, Ireland Gerry’s shows are a tour of Ireland, from Cork to Antrim, Dublin to Galway, his songs and stories from Ireland and the road will have you clapping and singing along, dancing and cheering. With songs from Ireland’s history to modern day favorites, everyone will find something to love. So when you get a chance, grab your family and friends, and come along to join in the craic.
July 16: Raine Stern
Originally from New Glarus WI, Stern formed her own band in 2018, and was recently a finalist in the Overture Center’s Rising Stars talent search. Her original work incorporates a vast array of influences and results in a unique blend of folk, jazz, blues, pop, rock, rhythm and blues, and reggae.
July 23: Badgergrass
Badgergrass specializes in the tight and lovely harmonies of authentic bluegrass, old country and early radio. Their shows combine a fresh take on bluegrass, mountain music, country heart-breakers, gospel and fancy picking.
July 30: Mockingbird
MockingBird is a fun, family-friendly popular cover band from Green Bay, Wisconsin. The band covers everything from the Beatles to Jimmy Buffet to Johnny Cash to Bob Dylan and much more!
August 6: The Honeygoats
The Honeygoats formed in September 2016 out of 5 guys’ mutual love of a diverse range of music. From Bill Monroe to Punch Brothers, Waylon Jennings to James Brown, Led Zeppelin to A Tribe Called Quest. From dive bars to country clubs, there’s no audience too young, old, rich, poor, rugged, wild, or weird for The Honeygoats. “Goat On.”
August 13: The Raglanders
The Raglanders are a 5-piece group from Green Bay, Wisconsin who blur the lines between Rock and Country with a uniquely Midwestern take. They draw on traditional influences like Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and The Band along with newer voices such as Ryan Adams and Jason Isbell.
August 20: Copper Box
Fronted by Danny and Michelle Jerabek, Copper Box is a genre-bending celebration of fusion roots rock that channels the rowdy communal feel of a small-town party with their refreshing, gutsy, americana sound of artists like the legendary Esteban Jordan (the Jimi Hendrix of the accordion), Doug Sahm, Clifton Chenier, Los Lobos, and CCR…a must see!
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Get familiar with Uusikaupunki
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Uusikaupunki is easy to get to by car from Turku or Pori via the E8 by turning southwest onto road 43 in Laitila. Especially if you are heading to Lokalahti, you can also drive here from Turku by heading for road 192 and then turning to road 194. If you are coming from Tampere, the easiest route is to start off on road 12 and then turn to road 43 in Eura.
If you wish to rent a car, you can do so for example in Turku or Helsinki through www.hertz.fi and in Uusikaupunki from Auto-Jusa, Sorvarintie 4 B www.autojusa.fi
There are buses travelling from Turku to Uusikaupunki approximately once an hour, and there are connections to Helsinki about 10 times a day. There are also buses from Rauma travelling through Laitila or Pyhäranta. Onnibus buses travel to Laitila (18 km from Uusikaupunki), where you can connect with another bus travelling to Uusikaupunki.
Bus timetables can be found online at https://www.matkahuolto.fi/en/
The Uusikaupunki bus station is right in the centre on Rauhankatu, next to the marketplace.
Tickets can be purchased from the driver or in advance online at. https://www.matkahuolto.fi/en/
The nearest airport, railway station and ferry terminal are in Turku
There are direct flights to Turku for example from Helsinki, Stockholm, Gdansk, and Riga.
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Turku Airport is located about 7 kilometres from the city centre.
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To get from the airport to the Turku bus station, you can take a local bus (Föli):
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You can also purchase mobile tickets for Föli buses. The mobile app can be used to purchase single tickets as well as travel cards or various lengths. A single rate is used for all routes within the regional bus area (Turku, Kaarina, Raisio, Lieto, Naantali, Rusko) which means that the ticket price is the same no matter which route you are travelling on.
Turku central railway station (vr.fi) - location
The Turku central railway station is easy to reach from anywhere in Finland, and it is less than a kilometre away from the Turku bus station.
By ferry
There is regular ferry traffic to Turku from Stockholm and Mariehamn.
Port of Turku on the map
Silja Line
Routes and timetables for archipelago connection ferries (ely-keskus.fi)
There are buses travelling directly to Uusikaupunki from the Port of Turku, and the Turku bus station can be reached easily using local bus no 1.
From Helsinki
The internationally renowned Helsinki Airport get about 200 flights arriving daily. There are more than 20 buses from the airport to Turku every day and even 4 direct buses to Uusikaupunki. https://www.matkahuolto.fi/en/
Getting around in Uusikaupunki
Distances within the town centre are very short, so getting around on foot is mostly very easy.
Bicycles can be rented from the Tourist Information Office, Rauhankatu 10, and from Santtioranta Camping (from June to August), Kalalokkikuja 14.
Prices: 2 €/hour, 10 €/day, 30 €/week. E-bikes 7 €/hour, 30 €/day.
Taxi: Rauhankatu 10 B, tel. +358 2 1060120
Parking is free in Uusikaupunki, and parking discs are not used. However, please pay attention to possible time limits.
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NSW produce provides centrepiece at Australian Cruise Association Conference
#aca2016 .
NSW food and beverage producers will shine next week as the Australian Cruise Association holds its 20th anniversary conference in Sydney from September 7-9.
Kicking off the celebrations on Wednesday night, Destination NSW and the Port Authority of NSW will host Flavours of NSW at the Cargo Hall in the Overseas Passenger Terminal at Circular Quay. Over 25 producers from Sydney and NSW will gather to showcase their outstanding produce and experiences.
Some of the key producers include Pepe Saya and their renowned butter, Australia’s Oyster Coast serving freshly shucked oysters from the NSW South Coast, Zokoko Chocolate sampling single origin chocolate from the Blue Mountains and N2 Extreme Gelato serving a flash frozen gelato dessert designed exclusively for the event and featuring indigenous ingredients from regional NSW.
Guests can wash all this down with the help of Archie Rose Distillery who will be creating bespoke cocktails for the occasion and Dave’s Brewery Tours serving beers from six breweries across the state.
The following day, attendees will welcome a very special guest – renowned Australian chef, Mark Best (Pei Modern) will speak at the Conference on his role with the Culinary Council for Holland America Line. Best will showcase some of the on-board treats through a selection of signature bites which will be served at lunch.
The fun continues that night at the Gala Dinner, sponsored by Abercrombie and Kent, which will also be a highlight for attendees. It will begin with a fireworks display over Sydney Harbour followed by dinner at the Opera Point Marquee presented by ARIA catering. Guests will be treated to a menu designed by renowned Australian chef, Matt Moran again showcasing the best of NSW produce with wines supplied by cool climate vintners See Saw in Orange and Glandore Estate Wines in the Hunter Valley.
Buffalo mozzarella from Marrickville, whole roasted chicken from Tenterfield and wood roasted lamb from the Moran Family Farm, Bathurst will all be sure to delight the guests.
“Our goal this year was to reflect the high standard and wide range of produce, cruise passengers are now enjoying. From fabulous wines and craft beers to locally grown and raised meats, vegetables, fruits and dairy products – I am sure our Conference attendees will go away with a new appreciation of all that NSW has to offer” said Australian Cruise Association CEO, Jill Abel.
Each year the Association also pays tribute to a philanthropic organisation working in the Conference location. At the final breakfast this year, Orange Sky Laundry will discuss their successes and challenges providing the world's first free mobile laundry service for the homeless.
The Conference is being held this year at the Four Seasons Hotel and will see keynote speakers from Australia and around the world cover a range of topics critical to the fast growing cruise industry in Australia.
For further information and registrations please go to http://www.australiancruiseassociation.com/conferences
Westin Hotels & Resorts Debuts in Jakarta
Westin Hotels & Resorts, part of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) today announced the opening of The Westin Jakarta, marking the first Westin hotel in Jakarta. Owned by PT. Wahana Nusantara a part of Gama Corporation, the opening of the hotel is set to bring the Westin brand's inspired and innovative wellness initiatives to thecapital city of Indonesia.
“We are thrilled to debut the Westin brand to Indonesia's capital,” said Vincent Ong, Senior Director, Brand Management, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Asia Pacific. “With the brand's focus on the bringing the pillars of well-being to life and commitment to ensure our guests leave feeling than they first arrive, we are confident the opening of the hotel will resonate strongly with the local Jakarta community and guests visiting from around the world.”
Slated to be the highest hotel in Indonesia, The Westin Jakarta occupies floors 50 to 69 of the mixed-used Gama Tower, boasting 272 well-appointed guestrooms and suites with uninterrupted views of the city. Designed by Hirsch Bedner Associates (HBA), one of the world's leading hospitality interior design firms, the hotel's interior design was inspired by natural, organic forms and textures that interpret the landscape and are translated throughout the hotel through dynamic patterns and materials. Illustrated through the chandeliers and artwork, the hotel's contemporary design features contextual elements, including traditional Indonesian motifs and Ikat patterns in the metal screens.
“The Westin Jakarta will provide a restorative retreat in the heart of the bustling city with genuine service complemented with the Westin signature well-being offerings that will fuel and energize our guests' every move,” Arun Kumar, General Manager, The Westin Jakarta, adds.
To amplify the guest experience, four unique dining venues serve a variety of culinary options alongside the brand's nutrient-rich and delicious SuperFoodsRx™ menus. Seasonal Tastes, the all-day dining restaurant, presents buffet and a la carte options featuring local and international cuisine with 7 live cooking stations. Guests can also enjoy nutritious treats and a gourmet cup of coffee on the go Daily Treats. Set to be a game-changer for Jakarta dining scene is Henshin, perched on the top three floors of the building, the restaurant features Nikkei Cuisine with Japanese-Peruvian Flavors prepared by a specialty chefs as well as a rooftop alfresco bar featuring Crafted at Westin™ program, the brand's signature beverage program that features a fresh selection of expertly mixed cocktails infused with natural ingredients and local flavors.
With the brand's mission to be a partner in their guests' well-being, The Westin Jakarta features an idyllic spa as well as a WestinWORKOUT® fitness studio boasting state-of-the-art exercise equipment from world-class brands in an open, airy and well-designed space. The hotel will also offer Westin's Gear Lending program in partnership with New Balance®, allowing guests to pack light and stay fit with New Balance shoes and clothing for guests to use during their stay.
The Westin Jakarta also features a banquet area perched on the top few levels of the hotel with a 200 guest capacity with breathtaking 360 degree sweeping views of Jakarta city. For events and weddings, the hotel offers 3,000 square meters of function rooms including the Java Ballroom on the Ground floor with a maximum capacity 1,500 guests.
The Westin Jakarta is situated strategically in Kuningan central business district, 45 minutes by car from the International Soekarno-Hatta Airport, an ideal location for business travelers. Guest can enjoy nearby shopping malls as well as the Jakarta iconic National Monument as a destination for tourists.
For more information, please visit www.westin.com/jakarta.
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First Ever Drone Footage of Uluru Released
Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia is excited to announce the release of exclusive drone footage of Uluru, offering a never before seen perspective of the 600 million year old monolith. These spectacular birds-eye views of Australia's spiritual heart were captured by the first drone to ever operate under permit inside Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park.
The dramatic footage was captured in an area of great spiritual significance to the local Anangu people and approval was given by the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park Board and the Film and Photography Consultative Committee.
“We are delighted to present this exclusive new perspective of one of the most astonishing landscapes on earth, and we thank the Traditional Owners for their support. We hope this video encourages travellers from both Australia and all over the globe to come and experience Uluru for themselves,” said Voyages Chief Executive Officer Andrew Williams.
“While there is no replacement to enjoying firsthand the majestic beauty of Uluru, this footage gives a breathtaking insight into the majestic nature of the landscape,” he said.
Geographically, Uluru is the tip of a huge rock that continues below the ground for possibly 5-6km. The monolith is 3.6km long and 348m at its tallest point: 43m higher than Sydney's Centrepoint Tower, 24m higher than the Eiffel Tower and just 33m lower than the Empire State Building. The colour changes of Uluru result from the filtering effect of the earth's atmosphere on the sun's rays.
For more information go to: www.ayersrockresort.com.au or call 1300 134 004.
Hong Kong Airlines Grows Network to 35 Destinations and Expands Fleet to 32 Aircraft
Stepping into its 10th year since establishment, the internationally-acclaimed full service airline, Hong Kong Airlines (the “Company”) continues its rapid growth with fleet and network expansion to meet increasing travel demand. This year, Hong Kong Airlines has taken delivery of five Airbus aircraft and reaches a fleet size of 32 aircraft.
The latest addition, an Airbus A330-300 wide-body, has a seating capacity of 285 passengers and 695 cubic feet of cargo. It is configured with 30 Business Class seats and 255 Economy Class seats. The Company’s 32nd aircraft is now in operation and is mainly employed on routes to Okinawa, Osaka, Tokyo, Bangkok and Denpasar. Hong Kong Airlines operates one of the youngest fleets in the world with a current average age of around 3.9 years. The modern fleet is equipped with efficient engines which can reduce noise and improve fuel consumption, thus maximising operational performance.
Hong Kong Airlines currently covers 35 flight destinations across the Asia Pacific region. The airline has planned to extend 10 new destinations within the year. After launching the Gold Coast and Cairns route early this year, the Company has further introduced 6 new destinations across four countries: Tokyo, Osaka and Okayama in Japan, Phnom Penh in Cambodia, Kuching in Malaysia and Saipan of the United States. Towards the end of the year, the Company will launch two more new routes, including the direct service to Yonago, Japan commencing on 14 September, and the service to Auckland, New Zealand which will be inaugurated on 10 November. The new long-haul route highlights Hong Kong Airlines’ expansion beyond Asia and its aims to attract travellers across the Pearl River Delta region, as befits Hong Kong’s reputation as an international transportation hub.
The first half of 2016 saw Hong Kong Airlines’ passenger traffic exceeding 3 million, a 12% growth compared to last year. The average loading also rose by 1.3% to 83%. To facilitate its rapid development, Hong Kong Airlines plans to recruit around 1,000 personnel covering a wide range of job functions, including cabin crew, ground staff, pilots, flight engineers and maintenance staff.
Mr. Zhang Kui, President of Hong Kong Airlines said, “In the future, Hong Kong Airlines will continue introducing more value-added services and products. With our devotion to
service quality, safety standard and strengthened network, we strive to provide all passengers with more travel options and a pleasant flight experience.”
For more details, please visit www.hkairlines.com, or contact us via Hong Kong Airlines Australian Contact Centre on 1300 889 190 or via email on hongkong.sydney@worldaviation.com.au
New speakers and social events for Australian Cruise Association 20th anniversary conference
New speakers and exciting social events announced for Australian Cruise Association 20th anniversary conference
Three new speakers have been added, and the celebratory social events unveiled, for the 20th Anniversary Australian Cruise Association conference to be held in Sydney from September 7-9, 2016.
Adding to the international line-up of Edie Rodrigues, CEO Crystal Cruises and Bruce Anderson, Starcrest Consulting is Captain Michael McCarthy, Chair of Cruise Europe and Commercial Manager for the Port of Cork Company, Ireland. Michael will provide fascinating insight into the European cruise environment including the impact of recent political developments such as Brexit and increasing security threats.
Cruise industry pioneer, Ted Blamey, founder of Chart Management Consultants and long serving member of the Association will look at the highly important Asian region. Ted is an expert in this area having authored numerous white papers on the Asian cruise market.
Closer to home, Earthcheck GM, Consulting, Mark Olsen will discuss the importance of Destination Development and how the brand and identity need to deliver on the promise to meet visitor expectations.
Association CEO, Jill Abel will open the Conference with a look back at the highlights of the organisation to celebrate the theme "20 years - Our People, Our Passion, Our Success." Abel will then be joined at the podium by industry heavyweights Sandra Chipchase, CEO, Destination NSW and Grant Gilfillan, CEO Ports Authority NSW, joint sponsors of the Conference.
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Captain Michael McCarthy
Emceed by Andrew McEvoy, Managing Director of Life Media and Events at Fairfax and Non-Executive Director at Sealink, this year’s speaker line-up will explore a range of topics critical to the growth of the cruise industry over the next 20 years including homeporting, infrastructure development, benchmarking and the regulatory landscape. A special focus on destination development will feature in the Destination and Ports workshop as the final session of the Conference.
A line-up of exciting celebratory social events will support the Conference program. Welcome drinks will be held the first night at the Overseas Passenger Terminal. The Gala dinner on Thursday night, sponsored by Abercrombie and Kent, will also be a highlight for attendees. It will begin with a fireworks display over Sydney Harbour followed by dinner at the Opera House Marquee presented by Aria catering. Guests will be treated to a menu designed by renowned Australian chef, Matt Moran showcasing the best of NSW produce.
The Conference is being held this year at the Four Seasons Hotel. For further information and registrations please go to http://www.australiancruiseassociation.com/conferences
About Australian Cruise Association:
Australian Cruise Association is the co-operative marketing brand for cruise tourism in the Australia and Pacific region and represents a diversity of interests including regional ports, international, national and state tourism agencies, shipping agents, inbound tour operators and companies dedicated to marketing the region as a world class cruise destination.
Qantas Results reveal strength of Australian Tourism
The remarkable 2016 profit results released today by Qantas shows the success of Australia's export tourism industry has far reaching impact, with Qantas International showing a $1 billion turnaround from its 2014 results.
“Our industry continues to play a major role in Australia’s economic success and today this is evidenced by the record results recorded by Qantas, which continues to provide an outstanding product for international visitors,” ATEC Managing Director, Peter Shelley said today.
“Qantas has worked hard to align is product with market demands and this, along with the huge growth in international visitation, has underpinned today’s results.
“Qantas has also recognised the value of building strategic partnerships with state and national level tourism marketing bodies and we welcome their commitment to Australia’s tourism industry.”
Mr Shelley said other Qantas airline partnerships and re-allocated routes were connecting well with the current and growing demand from key markets.
“The US, UK, Japan and New Zealand are all markets on the upswing and Qantas has supported increased demand from these markets through re-allocation of capacity.
“The latest forecasts for Australia's tourism exports have been upwardly revised and our international arrivals expected to increase by an additional 5.2 million by 2025, so the commercial sustainability of our national carrier is an important part of the equation.
“We congratulate Qantas on these strong results and its commitment to the growth of Australia’s export tourism industry.”
Tigerair Australia To Fly Between Melbourne and Canberra
Tigerair Australia today announced a new route providing daily return services between Melbourne and Canberra.
In great news for the people of Melbourne and Canberra, the new service will mean over 2500 additional visitor seats every week through both airports.
Details of the service, including schedules, will be announced this week, and fares will go on sale later this week on the Tigerair Australia website www.tigerair.com.au.
Tigerair Australia CEO Rob Sharp says this is great news for consumers, tourism and the economy as Tigerair continues to respond to consumer demand and, at the same time, deliver a great value low cost offering for Canberra.
"We have witnessed overwhelming demand and are proud to provide the only low cost services between Canberra and Melbourne. We are confident the new route will prove popular for our core market of budget and leisure travellers".
"In further good news for consumers, we are bringing a new-look Tigerair to Canberra".
"Our customers love low fares but they also want friendly service and on time flights. Tigerair Australia was rebranded in July 2013 and I'm thrilled to say that we are delivering on the promise of consistent delivery of affordable, reliable air travel with great customer service".
"Our great value fares stimulate demand and grow the air travel market which is a win-win for us all."
ACT Chief Minister, Andrew Barr, said today's announcement of new daily services between Canberra and Melbourne would be a significant boost to the ACT economy.
"These flights will generate $17 million a year in the Gross Regional Product of the Canberra catchment and, importantly, create an additional 124 jobs.
"This is such an exciting time for aviation in Canberra. International flights will start for the first time next month and we can now add this low cost link to Melbourne that Canberrans have been crying out for", Mr Barr said.
Capital Airport Group's Managing Director, Stephen Byron, said Tigerair's new service represented a tremendous new opportunity and choice for the people of Canberra and Melbourne.
"Canberrans are great travellers – and the Tigerair service will provide 2,500 reasons every week to travel to Melbourne and home again. And it gives Melburnians the same opportunity to come to Canberra", Mr Byron said.
"Today's announcement links Melbourne, voted the world's most liveable city for a sixth consecutive year, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, with Canberra - Australia's most interesting city.
"We are, of course, famous for our incredible institutions, and we were delighted to learn last week that the War Memorial was the recipient of TripAdvisor's Travellers' Choice Award for the number one landmark in both Australia and the South Pacific for 2016".
Mr Byron thanked Tigerair Australia for valuing Canberra as a destination, and the Chief Minister for the government's support in helping the Canberra Airport Group inject vibrancy and economic resilience into the capital.
Sunshine Coast to celebrate 50th anniversary with Australia’s largest convention of travel writers
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Australia's peak travel journalism organisation – the Australian Society of Travel Writers (ASTW) – will hold their national convention and awards event on the Sunshine Coast in August 2017, to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the official naming of the region*.
The Sunshine Coast's success in winning the bid was announced at the completion of the 2016 ASTW AGM & Awards event being held in Cape Town, South Africa, over the weekend. Previous ASTW AGMs have been held in many of the world's premier city and resort locations including Shanghai, Bangkok, Seoul, Saigon, Cairns, Sydney and Uluru.
The Sunshine Coast will host the gala event on the weekend of 18 – 20 August 2017, and will involve pre and post famil programs to showcase the diversity and richness of the region's attractions.
Some 100 of Australia's leading travel writers, photographers, broadcasters and bloggers are expected to attend the event, along with a further 50 to 80 travel industry representatives.
The annual general meeting and awards night will be held at the Novotel Twin Waters Resort, and partners include Visit Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast Council and Tourism and Events Queensland. Tourism operators from across the region will be invited to participate in the event and famil program.
Commenting on the successful bid, Visit Sunshine Coast CEO, Simon Latchford, said that hosting the Australian Society of Travel Writers annual event would put the spotlight on the region's remarkable diversity of attractions.
"We know that many of the writers have been to the Sunshine Coast in the past, but the region's tourism has matured dramatically in recent times and it will provide a great opportunity to show that we also have outstanding attractions beyond the coast, with the Glass House Mountains, Hinterland and Gympie regions all having great stories to tell," said Mr Latchford.
Sunshine Coast Mayor, Mark Jamieson, said: "Hosting this convention on the Sunshine Coast provides the perfect platform to showcase our region during our milestone 50th Anniversary year.
"I'm sure those travel writers who have never previously been to our beautiful part of the world are going to be very impressed with what they see and experience, and those who are returning here will no doubt be relishing that opportunity.
"The promotional value derived from hosting travel writers from around the world is enormous. The world is coming to the Sunshine Coast and we will roll out the welcome mats."
Tourism and Events Queensland (TEQ) Chief Executive Officer Leanne Coddington said the Sunshine Coast was an ideal location for the 2016 ASTW AGM & Awards.
"Hosting many of Australia's leading travel writers on the Sunshine Coast is a great way to showcase the destination to an audience who tell their stories to millions of readers," Ms Coddington said.
"The destination offers so much not only for business events such as this but for holiday experiences and attractions which bring visitors back again and again."
*The Sunshine Coast name was first mooted in 1958 by real estate interests, but the region's official name remained as the 'Near North Coast' until November 1966, when the Landsborough, Maroochy and Noosa councils agreed to the 'Sunshine Coast' name. On August 1, 1967, 'Sunshine Coast' was accepted by the Queensland Place Names Board, marking the day the Sunshine Coast formally came into existence. A series of festivals and community events will be held in 2017 to commemorate the anniversary.
Find your naturally refreshing Sunshine Coast holiday at visitsunshinecoast.com.au
Australian Society of Travel Writers Announce 2016 Awards for Excellence
Australia's top travel writers and public relations professionals were honoured at the annual ASTW Awards for Excellence at a gala awards ceremony held at Durbanville Hills in Cape Town, South Africa on 18th August 2016.
The top writer accolade, Travel Writer of the Year, which is judged from a selection of three stories by the writer, was awarded to John Borthwick. John, has been a member of the ASTW since 1990 and his award-winning stories were published in both the travel sections of The Australian and Sydney Morning Herald's Traveller section. Finalists in the hotly contested award were Kerry van der Jagt and Craig Tansley. John was also named the winner of the Best International Story over 1000 words.
While having received awards in the past, John was particularly thrilled to receive the awards this year thanking the sponsor South African Tourism, the editors for their support in publishing his stories, the PRs and tourism boards for getting him to the places and congratulated his fellow finalists saying it was an honour to be on any step on a podium with them.
Photographer of the Year went to Dan Avila for images published in Vacations & Travel magazine and on Luxe.com. Dan was delighted with his win, saying “ I am extremely excited to have won this award - it is a huge honour.”
The top PR Accolade, Communicator of the Year, was awarded to Klick Communications. Kim McKay Founder and Director was in Cape Town to accept the award, saying “Klick Communications is honoured to be recognised by the esteemed Australian Society of Travel Writers. Communications Team of the Year is a prestigious award that we are so proud to call ours for 2016”.
These prestigious awards are now in their 23rd year and are a highlight of the annual ASTW Convention for the ASTW, with over 70 guests travelling from across Australia to attend.
Other categories included Best Family Travel Story, Best Travel Broadcaster, Best Australian Story and Best Food Travel Story. Categories, winners and finalists are detailed below.
“The ASTW members represent the leading writers, editors, publishers, content creators and public relations professionals of the Australian travel industry. Over 300 entries were received across the 17 Award categories with an exceptional calibre of entrants,” said ASTW President Danielle Lancaster.
“There were 3 finalists for each category, and being named a finalist is an absolute honour in itself. I would like to congratulate all who were named as being the best in their field and I would also like to thank each of the sponsors together with South African Tourism, who were the major sponsor of this year's convention. We also thank the many judges who gave their time to judge the awards. This year, we had esteemed judges from Australia, New Zealand, England, Ireland and the USA with many commenting on the high quality of work.”
The Jack Butters Award is an honorary award given to someone who has made an important contribution to the ASTW and this year was awarded to the team that created and ran the ASTW Trivia Night for the past 20 years – Mike Smith, David McGonigal, Glenn A. Baker and Laura Spiers.
Jack Butters, was the founding president of the Australian Society of Travel Writers in 1975 and a Life Member, who championed the need to define the ethics that govern responsible travel writing.
Now, 41 years later his vision, aspirations and ambition for the future of the ASTW have been more than realised and continue to flourish and gain global recognition. While the travel industry has changed dramatically over the years, members have learned to adapt to the ongoing challenges of a profession, and an industry, that is constantly evolving, especially in social media.
For the detailed history of the ASTW please visit:
http://astw.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65&Itemid=94
FULL LIST of WINNERS:
1) Best Story about AGM Host Destination 2015 - Sponsored by Voyages Indigenous Tourism
WINNER – MARIE BARBIERI
The Red Beating Heart – Australia & New Zealand magazine
OTHER FINALISTS
Justine Costigan - Written in the Stars – Jetstar magazine
Angela Saurine - The Heart of the Rock – Best Weekend – News Ltd
2) Best Family Travel Story – Sponsored by Signature Media
WINNER – MARK DAFFEY
Are We There Yet? -– Traveller – Fairfax Media
Belinda Jackson- Dolphin Island Fiji: Family Experience for a chosen few- Traveller – Fairfax Media
Helen Hayes - Salzburg - A Favourite Thing – Holidays with Kids magazine
Sheriden Rhodes - Island Life Revisited - Five Star Kids Magazine
3) Best Travel Broadcaster – Sponsored by Tourism and Events Queensland
WINNER – GREG GRAINGER – GREG GRAINGER TV
Ben Groundwater – Beauty and the Backpacker travel web series – Traveller – Fairfax Media
Quentin Long – Mornings/Today Extra - Channel 9
4) Best Australian Story – Sponsored by Tourism Australia
WINNER – KERRY VAN DER JAGT
Where to swim and sing with dolphins - Traveller - Fairfax Media
Andrew Bain - Cape Crusaders - Traveller - Fairfax Media
Celeste Mitchell - Girls Just Wanna Have 4WD Fun - Escape - News Ltd
5) Best Food Travel Story – Sponsored by Outrigger Hotels & Resorts
WINNER – CARLA GROSSETTI
A Taste of History – Cuisine magazine
Sue Wallace - Summer in Aspen – Delicious
Sue Gough Henly - Dining for the Greater Good – Australian Traveller magazine
6) Best Responsible Tourism story – Sponsored by Intrepid Travel
WINNER – JOCELYN PRIDE
Alaska Untouched - Wellbeing
Kerry van der Jagt - Monaco's Prince Albert is on a Mission to protect the environment - Traveller - Fairfax Media
Andrew Bain - Nature's treasure trove – Traveller - Fairfax Media
7) Best Adventure Story – Sponsored by G Adventures
WINNER – LEE ATKINSON
Driving Across the Simpson Desert – Traveller – Fairfax Media
Andrew Bain – Back to Peak Performance – Traveller – Fairfax Media
Catherine Marshall – Drums of the Jungle God – Traveller – Fairfax Media
Roderick Eime – Southern Exposure – MINDFOOD magazine
8) Best Tourism Organisation or Travel Product – Sponsored by ZOIK
WINNER – CAROLINE DAVIDSON – Rocky Mountain International – The Real America
Karena Noble – Voyages Indigenous Tourism
Leigh Maloney – The Little Nell
9) Best Cruise Story – Sponsored by Hawaii Tourism Oceania
WINNER – CRAIG TANSLEY
Maldives Luxury Adventure - Traveller - Fairfax Media
John Borthwick – Burmese Daze - Traveller - Fairfax Media
Jocelyn Pride – It's (not) all Akademik – International Traveller magazine
10) Best International Story Over 1000 words – Sponsored by AccorHotels
WINNER – JOHN BORTHWICK
Where the Cold War Thawed – Weekend Australian
Craig Tansley – Where Cross Country Skiing is a Religion – Traveller – Fairfax Media
Marian McGuinness – Scents and Sensibility – Weekend Australian
11) Best International Story Under 1000 words – Sponsored by Macau Government Tourist Office
WINNER – TIM RICHARDS
A Boy and A Coin – Traveller – Fairfax Media
Rob McFarland - Cowboy in Training – Traveller – Fairfax Media
Kerry van der Jagt - In Wake of Van Gogh – Traveller – Fairfax Media
12) PR Campaign of the Year - Sponsored by TravMedia
WINNER - KARENA NOBLE - Launch of Field of Light, Uluru
Kim McKay - Positively Wellington Tourism
Natalie Schofield - Westin - World Sleep Day
13) Best Tourism and Travel News Story – Sponsored by ASTW
WINNER – LEE MYLNE
Traversing the Long, Open Road – Travel Bulletin
Kristine Madden - The Wheel of Fortune – Travel Bulletin
Sheriden Rhodes - Well, well, well – Traveller – Fairfax Media
14) Best Travel Blog – Sponsored by TFE Hotels
WINNER – RENE YOUNG – Together We Roam
Aleney de Winter - Boy Eats World
Jayne Gorman - Girl Tweets World
15) Jack Butters Award – ASTW
WINNER – Mike Smith, David McGonigal, Glenn A. Baker and Laura Spiers, for going over and above by organising the trivia night for the past 20 years.
16) Communicator or Communications Team of the Year – Sponsored by TravMedia
WINNER – KLICK COMMUNICATIONS
Karena Noble
17) Photographer of the Year – Sponsored by Tourism Authority of Thailand
WINNER – DAN AVILA
Alone in the Universe – Luxe.com
Love on the Bosphorus – Vacations & Travel magazine
Heaven - Luxe.com
Jocelyn Pride - Three Pillars of Travel: Protect/Respect/Reflect
Mark Daffey - Antiquity/Harmony/Destiny
18) Travel Writer of the Year – Sponsored by South African Tourism
Where the Cold War Thawed – The Weekend Australian
Burmese Daze - Traveller - Fairfax Media
In the Wake of Cape Crusaders - Traveller - Fairfax Media
Kerry van der Jagt
Where to Sing and Swim with Wild Dolphins – Traveller - Fairfax Media
Grin and Bear It - Traveller - Fairfax Media
Myanmar: Floating on a wave of hope for a new beginning - Traveller - Fairfax Media
Craig Tansley
Coming Up Trumps - Traveller - Fairfax Media
The Last Great Ski Town - Traveller - Fairfax Media
Maldives Luxury Adventure on a Budget - Traveller - Fairfax Media
For more information on the ASTW, visit www.astw.org.au
Scoot Spreads Its Wings to Europe
Asia Pacific's Best Low Cost Airline will fly the spacious 787 Dreamliner on its longest non-stop flight from Singapore to Athens– transforming the guest experience in low-cost, long-haul travel
August 16, 2016 - Get your Greek on and prepare to get outta' here for a value-packed dream vacation as Scoot gears up to launch its first destination in Europe – Athens, the picture-perfect capital city of Greece!
Scheduled to commence on 20 June 2017, the new service between Singapore and Athens marks Scoot's first long-haul flight between Asia Pacific and Europe, as well as the longest flight operated by a low-cost carrier (LCC) with flight distance exceeding 10,000km
The commencement of Scoot's services to Europe is part of the Singapore Airlines (SIA) Group's strategic move to stimulate passenger traffic between Asia Pacific and Europe, as well as to boost connectivity through the Singapore hub.
Budget-conscious travellers will soon be able to Scoot to Greece at pocket-friendly airfares, immersing in the rich history and culture Athens has to offer. Take a trip back to ancient Greece with visits to the famed Acropolis of Athens and the legendary Temple of Apollo in Delphi, before hopping over to the many picturesque Greek islands including Mykonos and Santorini for a dose of idyllic romance. Travellers can also connect onward from Greece to other alluring cities in Europe for an extended pan-Europe vacation.
Mr Lee Lik Hsin, CEO of Budget Aviation Holdings (BAH), said, "Guests have requested us to fly to Europe for a while, and Scoot is excited to finally oblige! Scoot has devoted much thought to configuring our cabin product and services to elevate and transform the low-cost travel experience, enabled by our world-first all-787 Dreamlliner fleet, and this has positioned us well to mount our first ever long-haul flight between Asia Pacific and Europe."
Scoot guests are empowered to choose from an extensive range of cabin products and services available for purchase to customise their travels.
In Economy, take your pick from Standard or Stretch seats ranging from 30" to 34" seat pitch; for guests keen on a peaceful journey, while the ScootinSilence Economy child-free zone offers a quiet travel environment for better rest so you arrive in Athens all raring to go.
What's more, there is a wide selection of drinks, snacks, light meals and hot meals for those who need to satiate the palate during the flight.
Get bored easily on long flights? Scoot's inflight Wi-Fi plans and in-seat power will provide endless entertainment options and opportunities to keep in touch with loved ones during flights, or you can stream an extensive range of movies and TV series to your own devices with our ScooTV inflight streaming entertainment.
Those seeking greater comfort and more frills may opt for ScootBiz, which features an all-leather seat with 38" seat pitch and adjustable leg rest, along with bundled meals, drinks, in-seat power, ScootTV inflight streaming entertainment and 30kg check-in baggage.
Scoot's new Singapore-Athens route will be serviced by new and spacious Boeing 787-8Dreamliners that are fitted with eight crew bunks and a total of 329 seats, including 18 in ScootBiz.
To commemorate its foray into Europe, Scoot is offering attractive one-way Economy FLY fares to and from Perth to Athens starting from $369, FlyBag starting from $461, FlyBagEat starting from $526 and $1099 for ScootBiz, inclusive of taxes. Sydney, Melbourne & Gold Coast FLY fares to and from Athens starting from $419, FlyBag starting from $513, FlyBagEat starting from $578 and $1199 for ScootBiz, inclusive of taxes. For the 10% off selected FLYBAG and FLYBAGEAT fares, enter the promo code GREEKON. This promotion starts now and runs till 11.59pm on 31 August 2016; hurry now and secure your Dreamliner Odyssey!
Scoot's flight schedule for Singapore-Athens return services is outlined below. For more information and to book your next flight, visit www.flyscoot.com.
George Lazenby and Frederick Forsyth at #SPYfest #Goulburn
Get your spy on with AUSTRALIA'S ONLY BOND, GEORGE LAZENBY, AND THRILLER WRITER, FREDERICK FORSYTH, at SPYFest Goulburn
Australia's only Bond, George Lazenby, will be joined by internationally renowned thriller author, Fredrick Forsythe, for the return of SPYfest Goulburn: The Epicentre of Espionage, 16 – 18 September 2016.
Returning for the second year, and this year held over three big days, SPYfest is a celebration of all things spy, in tribute to Goulburn's very own James Bond, George Lazenby. The festival offers something for the whole family, regardless of whether they're Bond fans or not.
Lazenby is the only Australian to have played this iconic character, taken on the part of the world's most dashing and famous spy in the 1969 film 'On her Majesty's Secret Service'. Born in Goulburn in 1939, Lazenby used his last British pounds on hiring a tailor-made suit from his predecessor Sean Connery's tailor, and splurging on a Bond-esque Rolex watch to secure the role.
Lazenby is joined at this year's SPYfest by Frederick Forsyth, English thriller writer and MI6 spy that is most famous for best sellers such as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol and The Dogs of War. Forsyth draws upon his experience as a spy in the British Secret Intelligence Service to craft his tales, laden with suspense and realism. With over 70 million book sales to his name, Forsyth frequents best-seller lists worldwide and over a dozen of his titles have been adapted to film.
"We're thrilled to have George back for the second year in a row, as well as welcoming our new special guest, Frederick, as ambassadors for SPYfest. Goulburn is proud of its association with such an iconic and timeless franchise, which continues to resonate with the young and old today," said Sarah Ruberto, Business Manager of Marketing, Events & Culture at Goulburn Mulwaree Council.
"This year's SPYfest events are set to draw a crowd with the fun ranging from the fast-paced to the glamorous, much like the films themselves. Visitors can watch the classic cars from the films including the Aston Martin driven by George Lazenby in 'On her Majesty's Secret Service, or get glammed up and don their finest tux and Casino Royale-worthy fare for the Secret Agents Gala Dinner," Sarah continued.
The Gala Dinner will feature the guests of honour, local wines and big band entertainment. For something a little different, visitors can also learn from those in the know by engaging in the modern art of surveillance as professional drone pilots offer mentoring sessions right from Seiffert Oval.
While there's plenty to keep the Bond enthusiasts satiated, Goulburn will play host to a whole range of characters from this captivating genre from Agent 99 and Austin Powers, to modern heroes Jason Bourne and Spy Kids.
"SPYfest is an opportunity to showcase all of what Goulburn has to offer, and the support of local businesses is what makes this event a resounding success. We have local businesses temporarily renaming their businesses for the weekend – why not swing past Dye Another Day to tame your tresses, or get your script filled out at local chemist Licence to Pill. We look forward to welcoming everyone to Goulbourn," Sarah concluded.
SPYfest takes place on the weekend of 16-18 September throughout Goulburn. Some events are ticketed, with limited places available. For more information and to purchase tickets, go to http://www.spyfestgoulburn.com.au/. For more information on Goulburn visit www.goulburnaustralia.com.au
For more information, images, interviews, to visit Goulburn to attend, or to attend the Press Conference with George Lazenby and Frederick Forsyth in Goulburn, please contact Lauren Griffiths at Threesides on 0417 409 264 or lauren.griffiths@threesides.com.au
Silversea Cruises appoints Amber Wilson General Manager for Asia Pacific
Amber Wilson, new GM AP for Silversea
Silversea Cruises is pleased to announce Amber Wilson as the ultra-luxury cruise line’s General Manager for Asia Pacific. Based in the Sydney office, Wilson will be responsible for the Asia Pacific markets, revenue and the direction of sales and marketing management with the Sydney and Singapore teams reporting directly to her.
“I am thrilled to be joining a company widely acknowledged as being the pioneer of ultra-luxury cruising,” said Wilson. “It is a privilege to have this opportunity to drive the Silversea brand forward and build upon the reputation of luxury and unrivalled service, while strengthening relationships with industry partners in the region.”
With over 17 years’ experience in the travel and cruise industries and a strong commercial background, Wilson has worked across a range of senior management roles in Australia and the UK. Previous cruise experience includes Star Cruises & Norwegian Cruise Line, where Wilson quickly rose from Sales Coordinator to Meetings, Incentives, Conference and Exhibition (MICE) Sales Manager.
Most recently, Wilson held the position of General Manager, Sales & Marketing at Cruiseco, a tenure of 12 years that saw her team quadruple in size. Key projects included the launch of the brand in the UK, and the scope of work stretched from river to ocean cruises, highlighting the breadth of experience she now brings to the Silversea organisation.
With eight ships currently featured across the award-winning fleet, Silversea is due to launch its new flagship,Silver Muse, in April 2017, and migrate one of its vessels, Silver Cloud, to the expedition fleet later that year, following an extensive refurbishment.
Silversea US$170 Million Fleet refurbishment
Silversea, the leading ultra-luxury cruise line, is delighted to announce the biggest fleet-wide refurbishment plan in its history, worth US$170 Million. This investment is not aimed at simply maintaining Silversea’s self-imposed high levels of excellence, but to reaffirm the company’s commitment to exceptional standards of guest comfort and timeless elegance.
“We are thrilled to be moving ahead with these major refurbishments and look forward to welcoming guests aboard and sharing our unique vision of ultra-luxury cruising, both in terms of service and physical environment”, said Manfredi Lefebvre, Chairman of Silversea. “We pride ourselves on being the reference when it comes to ultra-luxury cruising and this investment reflects our long-term commitment in this regard toward our ships, our guests and our crew”.
Silver Whisper, host to the iconic World Cruise, will undergo a refurbishment that will take place by the end of 2016, and has been largely influenced by feedback from World Cruisers, proving that Silversea guests truly are at the heart of the company operations. This also ensures that 2017 World Cruisers will get to experience a top coat of luxury, and be the first guests to help massage the fresh feel into the understated glamour that the brand has become synonymous with.
The luxurious suites will be refurbished and the bathrooms adorned with dark emperor marble flooring, delivering a tangible sense of elegance that can be felt from head to toe. Public spaces will be the key beneficiaries of the bursary, where a freshly tiled pool and new chaise lounges will breathe new levels of comfort and style into open air spaces. Dining areas at The Restaurant and La Terrazza will be re-skinned with plush new carpet and elegant hard-wood parquet respectively, and will each receive new furniture, echoing the theme of contemporary glamour throughout the ship and augmenting the high-quality service packaged around the finest culinary offerings at sea.
Finally, Silver Whisper’s communications hub is set for a major overhaul with the addition of two satellite antennas, vastly improving Internet speeds on board and enabling guests to take full advantage of the new, interactive TVs and on demand movies available in every suite.
The refurbishment programme extends to Silver Wind during her dry dock scheduled for October 2016. Once again, refurbishment of furniture and furnishings, technology upgrades that include interactive TVs and on demand movies complete the contemporary, yet understated levels of luxury in every suite. Additionally, the concept restaurant La Terrazza and the flagship Main Restaurant will both have new flooring bestowed upon them, enhancing the overall feel of gastronomic excellence delivered on board.
The pool deck will undergo a complete rip-and-replace approach to one of its aesthetic jewels, the exceptional teak flooring. This will reinstate the deck area as one of the most atmospheric aboard, more akin to a luxury yacht than a cruise ship, while reaffirming Silver Wind’s status as a timeless classic within the Silversea fleet.
Beyond the Classic fleet, Silver Discoverer will also benefit from this investment in 2016, entering dry dock this October. While service and suite presentation will of course be held strictly to Silversea’s high standards, it is in the public areas of this Expedition vessel where guests will see the most visible changes. The Restaurant will be remodelled with a lighter, more contemporary colour palette and the ever popular pool grill area will flaunt new furniture. The Discoverer lounge will go through a transformation from breakfast venue to a sophisticated lounge in which to relax, read and reflect on the day’s excursions. Silversea continues to augment the expedition experience to the benefit of its guests, and this is illustrated with further investment in new AV technology in the Explorer Lounge and new furniture from which to enjoy the lectures and briefings in unbridled comfort.
Silversea is committed to the continued evolution and progression of elegance at sea, a commitment that is exemplified by this level of investment, and one that will continue to be driven by, and at the service of its guests.
Further fleet-wide refurbishment will be communicated in due course.
For a complete list of itineraries, details, and fares, visit Silversea.com or contact your travel professional or Silversea Cruises on +61 2 9255 0600 or 1300 306 872 (Australia) or 0800 701 427 (New Zealand).
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UMS Hill Auditorium Documentary
By UMS Lobby
Photo: Hill Auditorium front elevation. Image courtesy of the Albert Kahn Collection, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.
Hill Auditorium opened on May 14, 1913, and UMS celebrated the venue’s 100th birthday throughout our 2012-2013 season.
“A Space for Music, A Seat for Everyone” is the UMS documentary about the past century of UMS performances in the auditorium. The documentary had its world premiere on February 2 in Hill Auditorium at a free day-long celebration event. The film has been nominated for several awards, and earned the “Best Historical Documentary” Michigan EMMY.
View the full documentary film
Hill Auditorium, a building incredible not only due to its rich history and remarkable acoustics but also due to its function as a cultural incubator for the arts community in southeastern Michigan, has united a diverse community of music enthusiasts for 100 years. Through concert recordings, news articles, and anecdotal interviews, this documentary will provide historical context for UMS performances in Hill Auditorium while highlighting the evolving community function of the venue.
Length and format: 56 minutes, widescreen, HD.
30 second trailer:
Ann Arbor’s two Big Houses:
Singer Audra McDonald wishes Hill Auditorium a happy birthday:
The history of Hill Auditorium’s Frieze Memorial Organ:
Sponsored by AnnArbor.com, part of the MLive Media Group. Funded in part by the Michigan Humanities Council.
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Film Review: Avengers: Endgame (dir by the Russo Brothers)
Posted on April 30, 2019 by Lisa Marie Bowman
(Minor Spoilers Below! Read at your own risk.)
So, how long does the no spoiler rule for Avengers: Endgame apply? There’s so much that I want to say about this film but I know that I shouldn’t because, even though it had a monstrous opening weekend, there are still people out there who have not had a chance to see the film. And while this review will have minor spoilers because, otherwise, it would be impossible to write, I’m not going to share any of the major twists or turns.
I will say this. I saw Avengers: Endgame last night and it left me exhausted, angry, sad, exhilarated, and entertained. It’s a gigantic film, with a plot that’s as messy and incident-filled as the cinematic universe in which it takes place. More than just being a sequel or just the latest installment in one of the biggest franchises in cinematic history, Avengers: Endgame is a monument to the limitless depths of the human imagination. It’s a pop cultural masterpiece, one that will make you laugh and make you cheer and, in the end, make you cry. It’s a comic book film with unexpected emotional depth and an ending that will bring a tear to the eye of even the toughest cynic. By all logic, Avengers: Endgame is the type of film that should collapse under its own weight but instead, it’s a film that thrives on its own epic scope. It’s a three-hour film that’s never less than enthralling. Even more importantly, it’s a gift to all of us who have spent the last ten years exploring the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The film itself starts almost immediately after the “Snap” that ended Avengers: Infinity War and we watch as Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner, returning to the franchise after being absent in the previous film) finds himself powerless to keep his family from disintegrating. After often being dismissed as the Avengers’s weak link, both Clint Barton and Jeremy Renner come into their own in the film. As one of two members of the Avengers who does not have super powers, Clint serves as a everyperson character. He’s a reminder that there’s more at stake in Endgame than just the wounded pride of a few super heroes. When Thanos wiped out half the universe, he didn’t just wipe out Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, and Groot. He also left very real wounds that will never be healed.
When the film jumps forward by five yeas, we discover that the world is now a much darker place. When we see New York, the once vibrant city is now gray and deserted. Our surviving heroes have all dealt with the Snap in their own way. Clint is now a vigilante, killing anyone who he feels should have been wiped out by Thanos but wasn’t. Thor (Chris Hemsworth) drinks and eats and feels sorry for himself. Captain America (Chris Evans) attends support groups and, in one nicely done scene, listens as a man talks about his fear of entering into his first real relationship in the years since “the Snap.” Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) is living as a recluse and is still blaming himself. Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) is now an avuncular, huge, and very green scientist. Only Natasha (Scarlett Johansson) remains convinced that the Snap can somehow be undone. She’s right, of course. But doing so will involve some unexpected sacrifices and a lot of time travel….
And that’s as much as I can tell you, other than to say that the film takes full advantage of both the time travel aspects (yes, there are plenty of Back to the Future jokes) and its high-powered cast. With our heroes — which, along with the usual Avengers, also include Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) and Rocket Racoon (Bradley Cooper) — hopping through time and space, we get a chance to revisit several of the films that led up to Endgame and it’s a thousand times more effective than it has any right to be. Yes, one could argue that the cameos from Robert Redford, Tom Hiddleston, Hayley Atwell, and others were essentially fan service but so what? The fans have certainly earned it and the MCU has earned the chance to take a look back at what it once was and what it has since become.
Indeed, Avengers: Endgame would not work as well as it does if it hadn’t been preceded by 21 entertaining and memorable movies. It’s not just that the MCU feels like a universe that it as alive as our own, one that is full of wonder, mystery, sadness, and love. It’s also that we’ve spent ten years getting to know these characters and, as a result, many of them are much more than just “super heroes” to us. When Tony Stark and Captain America argue over whether it’s even worth trying to undo the Snap, it’s an effective scene because we know the long and complicated history of their relationship. When the Avengers mourn, we mourn with them because we know their pain. We’ve shared their triumphs and their failures. Tony Stark may be a guy in an iron suit but he’s also a man struggling with his own demons and guilt. Steve Rogers may be a nearly 100 year-old super solider but he’s also every single person who has struggled to make the world a better place. As strange as it may be to say about characters known as Iron Man, Captain America, and the Black Widow, we feel like we know each and every one of them. We care about them.
Needless to say, the cast is huge and one of the great things about the film is that previously underused or underestimated performers — like Jeremy Renner, Scarlett Johansson, Paul Rudd, Don Cheadle, and Karen Gillan — all finally get a chance to shine. As always, the heart of the film belongs to Chris Evans while Robert Downey, Jr. provides just enough cynicism to keep things from getting to superficially idealistic. Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo get most of the film’s big laughs, each playing their borderline ludicrous characters with just the right combination of sincerity and humor. Of course, Josh Brolin is back as well and he’s still perfectly evil and arrogant as Thanos. But whereas Thanos was the focus of Infinity War, Endgame focuses on the heroes. If Infinity War acknowledged that evil can triumph, Endgame celebrates the fact that good never surrenders.
As Endgame came to an end, I did find myself wondering what the future is going to hold for the MCU. A part of me wonders how they’re going to top the past ten years or if it’s even possible to do so. Several mainstays of the MCU say goodbye during Endgame and it’s hard to imagine the future films without their presence. It’s been hinted that Captain Marvel is going to be one of the characters holding the next phase of the MCU together and, fortunately, Brie Larson is a quite a bit better in Endgame than she was in her previous MCU film. Hopefully, regardless of what happens in the future, Marvel and Disney will continue to entrust their characters to good directors, like the Russo Brothers, James Gunn, and Taika Waititi. (Wisely, Disney reversed themselves and rehired James Gunn for the next Guardians of the Galaxy film. Of course, Gunn never should have been fired in the first place….)
And that’s really all I can say about Avengers: Endgame right now, other than to recommend that you see it. In fact, everyone in the world needs to hurry up and see it so we can finally start talking about the film without having to post spoiler warnings!
For now, I’ll just say that Avengers: Endgame is a powerful, emotional, and entertaining conclusion to one of the greatest cinematic sagas ever.
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“Going All Kanye On You”: New Year’s Eve (dir by Garry Marshall)
Posted on January 1, 2019 by Lisa Marie Bowman
“New Year’s Eve is the worst, people who don’t drink or party all year suddenly going all Kanye on you.”
That line was delivered by Ashton Kutcher in the 2011 film, New Year’s Eve. Seven years ago, when the film was first released, I thought it was an awkward line, partially because Ashton Kutcher sounded like he was drowning in self-loathing when he said it and partially because the sudden reference to Kanye West felt like something that would be considered clever by 60-something screenwriter who had just spent a few hours scanning twitter to see “what the kids are into nowadays.”
(Of course, hearing the line in 2018 was an even stranger experience. People who don’t drink or party all year suddenly going all Kanye on you? So, they’re putting on red MAGA caps and spending New Year’s Eve tweeting about prison reform? True, that’s the way a lot of people celebrated in my part of the world but I’m not sure how exactly that would play out in Times Square.)
In New Year’s Eve, Kutcher plays a character named Randy. Randy is a comic book artist, which means that he’s snarky and cynical and doesn’t really see the point of celebrating anything. Fortunately, he gets trapped in an elevator with Elise (Lea Michele) and, with her help, he comes to learn that New Year’s Eve is not the worst. Instead, it’s the most important holiday ever created and, if you don’t think so, you’re worse than the devil.
Fortunately, Hillary Swank is present to make sure that we all get the point. Swank plays Claire Morgan, who is in charge of making sure that the ball drops at exactly the right moment at Times Square and who gets a monologue where she explains that the purpose of the ball is to make you think about both the past and the future. As she explains it, the world comes together one night a year, all so everyone can watch that ball drop. Apparently, if the ball doesn’t drop, the new year doesn’t actually start and everyone is trapped in a timeless limbo, kind of like Iron Man at the end of Avengers: Infinity War.
Of course, there’s more going on in New Year’s Eve than just Randy taking Kanye’s name in vain and Claire refusing the accept that Times Square is not the center of the universe. There’s also an old man (Robert De Niro) who wants to time his death so he passes right at the start of the new year. Sarah Jessica Parker plays the mother of frustrated teenager Abigail Breslin and gets to make a “girls gone wild” joke. (A Kanye reference and a girls gone wild joke in the same film? It’s like a pop culture tsunami!) Michelle Pfeiffer tries to accomplish all of her new year’s resolutions with the help of Zac Efron. Halle Berry worries about her husband (Common) , who is serving overseas. Josh Duhamel searches for a woman who once told him that his heart was more important than his business. Seth Meyers and Jessica Biel compete with Til Schweiger and Sarah Paulson to see who can be the family of the first child born in the new year. Jon Bon Jovi thinks about the woman that he nearly married and Katherine Heigl wonders if she’s ever going to have a career again. In other words, New Year’s Eve is an ensemble piece, one in which a bunch of slumming Oscar winners and overachieving TV actors step into small roles. It leads to some odd pairings. De Niro, for instance, shares scenes with Alyssa Milano while Sofia Vergara and Ludacris are both relegated to playing sidekicks. Michael Bloomberg, New York’s then-mayor and general threat to civil liberties everywhere, also shows up, playing himself with the type of smarminess that already has many people dreading the prospect of his 2020 presidential campaign. This is one of those films where everyone has a familiar face but no one makes much of an impression.
New Year’s Eve was directed by the late Garry Marshall and it’s the second film in his so-called holiday trilogy, sitting right between Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day. By most accounts, Garry Marshall was a nice guy and popular in the industry, which perhaps explains why so many familiar faces were willing to sign up to appear in New Year’s Eve. Though the film is ruthlessly mediocre, it’s actually the best of the holiday trilogy. For all the schmaltz and forced sentiment, one gets the feeling that the film actually is sincere in its belief in the importance of that ball dropping in Times Square.
I remember that, when New Year’s Eve was first released, a lot of people joked that Marshall was going to make an ensemble romantic comedy about every single holiday, all with the hope that at least one of them would eventually become a television perennial in the style of It’s A Wonderful Life or The Ten Commandments. Interestingly, that’s exactly what happened with New Year’s Eve. Yesterday, E! aired New Year’s Eve three times, back-to-back! For better or worse, this film is probably going to outlive us all, ensuring that, in the far future, viewers will spend New Year’s Eve asking themselves, “What’s a kanye?”
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Here’s What Won At The Emmys Last Night!
Posted on September 18, 2017 by Doc Bowman
Last night, Lisa Marie did not watch the Emmys because she says that, “I’m just not feeling TV this year.” If Twin Peaks had been eligible to be nominated, I bet it would have been a different story!
Instead, she asked me to watch the ceremony and let everyone know what I thought. It needed less politics and more cats.
Here’s the list of winners:
BEST COMEDY SERIES
“Masters of None”
X — “Veep”
BEST COMEDY ACTRESS
X — Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “Veep”
Tracee Ellis Ross, “Black-ish”
BEST COMEDY ACTOR
Zach Galifianaks, “Baskets”
X — Donald Glover, “Atlanta”
BEST COMEDY SUPPORTING ACTRESS
X — Kate McKinnon, “Saturday Night Live”
BEST COMEDY SUPPORTING ACTOR
X — Alec Baldwin, “Saturday Night Live”
BEST COMEDY DIRECTING
X — “Atlanta” (“B.A.N.”)
“Silicon Valley” (“Intellectual Property”)
“Silicon Valley” (“Server Error”)
“Veep” (“Justice”)
“Veep” (“Blurb”)
“Veep” (“Groundbreaking”)
BEST COMEDY WRITING
“Atlanta” (“B.A.N.”)
“Atlanta” (“Streets on Lock”)
X — “Master of None” (“Thanksgiving”)
“Silicon Valley” (“Success Failure”)
“Veep” (“Georgia”)
BEST DRAMA SERIES
X — “The Handmaid’s Tale”
BEST DRAMA ACTRESS
X — Elisabeth Moss, “The Handmaid’s Tale”
BEST DRAMA ACTOR
X — Sterling K. Brown, “This is Us”
BEST DRAMA SUPPORTING ACTRESS
X — Ann Dowd, “The Handmaid’s Tale”
Samira Wiley, “The Handmaid’s Tale”
BEST DRAMA SUPPORTING ACTOR
Ron Cephas Jones, “This is Us”
X — John Lithgow, “The Crown”
Jeffrey Wright, “Westworld”
BEST DRAMA DIRECTING
“Better Call Saul” (“Witness”)
“The Crown” (“Hyde Park Corner”)
“The Handmaid’s Tale” (“The Bridge”)
X — “The Handmaid’s Tale” (“Offred”)
“Homeland” (“America First”)
“Stranger Things” (“Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers”)
“Westworld” (“The Bicameral Mind”)
BEST DRAMA WRITING
“The Americans” (“The Soviet Division”)
“Better Call Saul” (“Chicanery”)
“The Crown” (“Assassins”)
MOVIE/LIMITED SERIES
X — “Big Little Lies”
BEST TV MOVIE
X — “Black Mirror: San Junipero”
BEST MOVIE/MINI ACTRESS
X — Nicole Kidman, “Big Little Lies”
Jessica Lange, “Feud: Bette and Joan”
Susan Sarandon, “Feud: Bette and Joan”
BEST MOVIE/MINI ACTOR
X — Riz Ahmed, “The Night Of”
Robert De Niro, “The Wizard of Lies”
BEST MOVIE/MINI SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Judy Davis, “Feud: Bette and Joan”
X — Laura Dern, “Big Little Lies”
Jackie Hoffman, “Feud: Bette and Joan”
Michelle Pfeiffer, “The Wizard of Lies”
BEST MOVIE/MINI SUPPORTING ACTOR
Bill Camp, “The Night Of”
Alfred Molina, “Feud: Bette and Joan”
X — Alexander Skarsgard, “Big Little Lies”
David Thewlis, “Fargo”
Stanley Tucci, “Feud: Bette and Joan”
Michael Kenneth Williams, “The Night Of”
BEST MOVIE/MINI DIRECTING
“Fargo” (“The Law of Vacant Places”)
“Feud: Bette and Joan” (“And the Winner Is”)
“Genius” (“Einstein: Chapter One”)
“The Night Of” (“The Art of War”)
“The Night Of” (“The Beach”)
BEST MOVIE/MINI WRITING
“Feud: Bette and Joan” (“Pilot”)
“The Night Of” (“Call of the Wild”)
VARIETY/REALITY
BEST REALITY COMPETITION PROGRAM
“Amercan Ninja Warrior”
X — “The Voice”
BEST VARIETY TALK SERIES
X — “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”
“Late Late Show with James Corden”
“Late Show with Stephen Colbert”
BEST VARIETY SKETCH SERIES
“Billy on the Street”
“Documentary Now”
X — “Saturday Night Live”
“Tracey Ullman’s Show”
BEST VARIETY SERIES DIRECTING
BEST VARIETY SERIES WRITING
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Here’s The Teaser for Mother!
Posted on August 3, 2017 by Lisa Marie Bowman
Here’s the teaser for Mother! The full trailer drops on the 8th.
No one seems to be really sure what Mother! is about. It appears to be a horror/thriller sort of thing but, with Darren Aronofsky directing, it’s safe to assume that there will be all sorts of layers of meaning. Along with starring Jennifer Lawrence (who, after Joy and Passengers, could really use a movie that’s worthy of her talents), Mother! also features Javier Bardem, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Ed Harris. Judging by how the majority of this teaser goes out of it’s way to portray Jennifer Lawrence as being isolated in a big house, I wouldn’t be surprised to discover that Bardem, Pfieffer, and Harris all plays figments of Lawrence’s imagination.
Who knows? We’ll find out on September 15th!
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Lisa’s Early Oscar Predictions for June
Posted on June 24, 2017 by Lisa Marie Bowman
Well, it’s time for me to make my monthly Oscar predictions! Though my predictions are no longer “too early,” they are still definitely early. Most of these predictions are based on a combination of wild speculation and wishful thinking.
For instance, do I really think that Wonder Woman will be an Oscar contender?
Well, I think it could be. I’d like it if it was. If really pressed, I’ll say that I think it has a better chance of being nominated than Logan does. And, as you’ll remember, I had Logan listed as a best picture nominee back in March.
I guess what I’m saying is that these predictions should always be taken with a grain of salt. To be honest, right now, the only precursor that we have is Cannes and Cannes is notoriously unreliable when it comes to being used as a tool to predict what will actually be nominated.
Anyway, these predictions will probably be good for a laugh or two next February. Be sure to check out my previous predictions for January, February, March, April, and May!
Sofia Coppola for The Beguiled
Simon Curtis for Goodbye, Christopher Robin
Christopher Nolan for Dunkirk
Dee Rees for Mudbound
Joe Wright for Darkest Hour
Chadwick Boseman in Marshall
Hugh Jackman in The Greatest Showman
Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour
Robert Pattinson in Good Time
Joaquin Phoenix in You Were Never Really Here
Judi Dench in Victoria and Abdul
Kirsten Dunst in Woodshock
Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman
Carey Mulligan in Mudbound
Michelle Pfieffer in Where Is Kyra?
Steve Carell in Battle of the Sexes
James Franco in The Disaster Artist
Woody Harrelson in The Glass Castle
Jason Mitchell in Mudbound
Adam Sandler in The Meyerowitz Stories
Melissa Leo in Novitiate
Julianne Moore in Wonderstruck
Margot Robbie in Goodbye, Christopher Robin
Kristin Scott Thomas in Darkest Hour
Naomi Watts in The Glass Castle
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Back to School Part II #14: Grease 2 (dir by Patricia Birch)
Posted on August 29, 2016 by Lisa Marie Bowman
So, the whole reason that I watched Grease last week was so I would be prepared to watch the 1982 sequel Grease 2 over the weekend. As I’ve mentioned many times on this site, I absolutely hate Grease and I know what you’re probably asking yourself:
“But Lisa, if you hate Grease so much, why did you want to see Grease 2?”
Well, there’s a very good answer to that question but I’m not going to reveal it. I’m going to encourage you to learn to love the mystery. For whatever reason, I wanted to watch Grease 2. Perhaps it was because I’ve heard that Grease 2 is the worst sequel ever made. I really didn’t see how that was possible. How, I wondered, could a film be any worse than the original Grease?
And, so, I watched Grease 2 on Netflix and yes, it was really, really bad. But you know what? It was so bad that it became almost compulsively watchable. Unlike the first Grease, which is full of slow spots, Grease 2 is oddly exciting in its mediocrity. I watched much of it in open-mouthed horror, wondering if things could possibly get any worse. And, with each scene, it did get worse. It was so overwhelmingly and shamelessly bad and so thoroughly misguided that, strangely enough, I really want to rewatch it.
Grease 2 takes place in 1961. There’s a whole new gang of students at Rydell High! Well, actually, Frenchy (Didi Conn) has returned. You may remember that, in the previous film, Frenchy dropped out of high school and went to beauty school. (She was also visited by Satan, who came to her disguised as the Teen Angel.) But now Frenchy is back, trying to pass a chemistry class so she can … well, I’m not really sure what the whole deal with Frenchy was. I imagine that Didi Conn was probably free for a weekend.
The T-bird and the Pink Ladies are still around but they have a whole new membership. The head of the Pink Ladies is Stephanie Zinone (played, in her film debut, by Michelle Pfeiffer). Her boyfriend, Johnny Nogorelli (Adrian Zmed), is the chain-smoking leader of the T-birds. Actually, Johnny is now her ex-boyfriend. He cheated on her over the summer.
And there’s a new boy at Rydell! He’s originally from England and he’s Sandy’s cousin! His name is Michael Carrington (superhandsome Maxwell Caulfield, who is perhaps fated to always be best known for playing Rex Manning in Empire Records) and, when we first meet him, he’s getting off a school bus and he’s wearing a suit! Michael really likes Stephanie but you have to be a T-bird if you’re going to date a Pink Lady and…
AGCK!
Sorry, that was a primal scream. Trying to describe the plot of Grease 2 inspires a lot of primal screams.
Anyway, this is a film is also a musical but apparently, none of the original Grease composers were involved with the sequels. All the songs kinda sound like something you would hear in a parody of Grease, as opposed to a sequel. Also adding to bizarre feel of this sequel is that everyone delivers their lines as if they’re appearing in a stage production, projecting to the back of the theater and overenunciating every single syllable. This may have made sense for Grease, which was adapted from an actual stage show and, despite efforts to open up the action, was still deliberately stagey. Grease 2, meanwhile, is an adaptation of a stage show that never actually existed.
The film starts with a 7 minute production number called Back To School Again. As the Pink Ladies and the T-birds and all the other students show up outside of Rydell, they sing, “Woe is me! The Board of Education took away my parole.” And the scene just keeps going and going, until you start to wonder if Rydell High is a cult compound.
This is followed by a song about bowling (!) that’s called “Score Tonight.”
And it just keeps getting worse from there. The film becomes sickly fascinating as you find yourself trying to predict how much more worse it can possibly get. You may be tempted to give up but you’ll definitely want to stick around for the scene in which Michael discovers that Stephanie wants a “cool rider.” How does he know that? She sings a song about it!
Naturally, Michael gets a motorcycle, a helmet, and pair of goggles and he starts to romance Stephanie. Stephanie doesn’t know who that Michael is the mysterious motorcyclist, despite the fact that Michael is just wearing a helmet and a pair of goggles. Though you have to admire Pfieffer’s commitment to her role (and she gives a fairly good performance, considering the material she was working with), you can’t help but feel that Stephanie might not be the smart. Especially after she sings, “Who’s that guy?”
Uhmmm … it’s Michael. It’s not like he’s dressed up like a bat or wearing the Iron Man armor. He’s just got a helmet and goggles on. Add to that, while Maxwell Caulfield doesn’t give a bad performance (he seems to be doing the best he can with what he’s been given to work with), he also doesn’t attempt to act any differently when he’s the mysterious motorcyclist than when he’s Michael.
There are other things going on as well. The film is full of vignettes about life in 1961, all featuring the students and teachers at Rydell High. For instance, former teen idol Tab Hunter shows up as a substitute teacher and sings a song about reproduction.
And again, it’s so bad that you can’t look away and you watch knowing that you’ll never get the images and the songs out of your head. So compulsively watchable is this bad movie that I may have to watch it again after I finish this review. (Then again, I’ll probably just rewatch the fifth season of Degrassi…)
(That said, I would actually argue that Grease 2 is a better directed film than the first Grease. Grease 2 was directed by Grease‘s choreographer and, as opposed to the first film, the dance numbers are actually framed with modicum of care.)
(By the way, I’ve always wanted to use the phrase “modicum of care” in a review.)
Anyway, Grease 2 apparently bombed at the box office and, as a result, there have been no further Grease films. It’s a shame because you so know that Grease 3 would have taken place in 1967 and featured hippies.
We’ll survive…
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Embracing the Melodrama #37: Dangerous Liaisons (dir by Stephen Frears)
Posted on July 8, 2014 by Lisa Marie Bowman
When watching a film like the 1988 best picture nominee Dangerous Liaisons, it helps to know something about history. The film takes place in 18th century France and, even though it’s never specifically stated in the film, I watched it very much aware that the story was taking place just a few years before the French Revolution. Even the aristocratic libertines who survive until the end of the film are probably destined to end up losing their lives at the guillotine. Even though you don’t see anyone losing their head during Dangerous Liaisons (nor do you hear anyone say, “Let them eat cake.”), the film offers up such an atmosphere of decadence and manipulation that it leaves the viewer with little doubt as to why the people occasionally feel the need to rise up and destroy their social betters.
Dangerous Liaisons tells the story of the Vicomte de Valmont (John Malkovich) and the Marquise de Mertuil (Glenn Close), two amoral members of the aristocracy who deal with their boredom by playing games with the emotions of others. Valmont is a notorious womanizer while Mertuil is obsessed with “dominating” the male sex and “avenging my own.” At the start of the film, Mertuil has discovered that a former lover is planning on marrying the innocent Cecile (18 year-old Uma Thurman, stealing every scene that she appears in), who has basically spent her entire life in a convent. Mertuil asks Valmont to seduce and take Cecile’s virginity before the wedding. At first, Valmont says that Cecile is to easy of a challenge and declines. Instead, Valmont has decided that he wants to seduce Madame de Tourvel (Michelle Phieffer), a married woman who is renowned for both her strong religious feelings and her virtuous character. Mertuil agrees that she will sleep with Valmont if he can provide her with written proof that he’s managed to seduce Tourvel.
Tourvel is staying with Valmont’s aunt (Mildred Natwick), which gives Valmont — with the help of his servant, Azolan (Peter Capaldi) — several chances to try to trick Tourvel into believing that he’s a better man than everyone assumes him to be. (With Azolan’s help, Valmont finds a poor family and donates money to them. Of course, he makes sure that word of this gets back to Tourvel.) However, Valmont then discovers that Cecile’s mother (Swoosie Kurtz) has been writing letters to Tourvel, warning her about Valmont’s lack of character. To get revenge, Valmont agrees to seduce Cecile.
Dangerous Liaisons, which is based on a play that was based on a novel, is sumptuous costume drama. If you’re like me and you love seeing how the rich and famous lived in past centuries, you’ll find a lot to enjoy in Dangerous Liaisons. With the elaborate costumes and the ornate sets, the film is a real visual feast.
The film is also a feast for those of us who enjoy good acting as well. With the exception of a very young Keanu Reeves (who is oddly miscast as the poor music teacher who falls in love with Cecile), the entire film is perfectly cast, right down to the most minor of characters. (I particularly enjoyed listening to Peter Capaldi, even if his Scottish accent occasionally did seem rather out-of-place in a film about the pre-Revolution France.) For me, the biggest shock was John Malkovich. Don’t get me wrong — I’ve always felt that Malkovich was a good character actor but he’s never been someone that I would think of as being sexy. However, he gives close to a perfect performance as Valmont and, oddly enough, the fact that he’s not really conventionally handsome only serves to make Valmont all the more seductive. Purring out his cynical dialogue and openly leering at every single woman in Paris, Malkovich turns Valmont into a familiar but all too appealing devil.
Dangerous Liaisons was later remade as Cruel Intentions, which is a film that I’ll be taking a look at very soon.
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Section 453 State Requirements for Educational Facilities
FBC, Building 2017 > 4 Special Detailed Requirements Based on Use and Occupancy > 453 State Requirements for Educational Facilities
453.1 Scope: Public educational facilities
Public educational facilities shall comply with the Florida Building Code and the Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal. These are minimum standards; boards may impose more restrictive requirements. Additional requirements for public educational facilities in Florida, including public schools and public Florida colleges, are found in these standards.
Note: Other administrative and programmatic provisions may apply. See Department of Education Rule 6A-2.0010 and Chapter 1013, Florida Statutes.
453.2 Public schools and Florida colleges general requirements
453.2.1 Owner
Each school board and Florida college board of trustees is deemed to be the owner of facilities within its respective jurisdiction. Boards shall provide for enforcement of the Florida Building Code and the Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal, including standards for health, sanitation, and others as required by law.
453.2.2 Exemption from local requirements
All public educational and ancillary plants constructed by a school board or a Florida college board are exempt from all other state, county, district, municipal, or local building codes, interpretations, building permits, and assessments of fees for building permits, ordinances, road closures, and impact fees or service availability fees as provided in Section 1013.371(1)(a), Florida Statutes.
453.3 Code enforcement
453.3.1 School boards and Florida college boards
Section 553.80(6), Florida Statutes, provides options for plan review services and inspections by school boards and Florida college boards.
453.3.2 Owner review and inspection
A school board or Florida college board which undertakes the construction, remodeling, renovation, lease, or lease-purchase of any educational plant or ancillary facility, or day labor project, regardless of cost or fund source, shall review construction documents as required by law in Section 1013.38, Florida Statutes, and Section 553.80(6), Florida Statutes, and shall ensure compliance with requirements of law, rule, and the Florida Building Code and the Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal. Section 553.80(6), Florida Statutes, states that district school boards and Florida college boards shall provide for plan review and inspections for their projects. They shall use personnel certified under Part XII of Chapter 468, Florida Statutes to perform the plan reviews and inspections or use one of the options provided in Section 1013.38, Florida Statutes. Under this arrangement, school boards and Florida college boards are not subject to local government permitting, plan review, and inspection fees.
453.3.3 Local government review and inspection
As an option to the owner providing plan review and inspection services, school boards and Florida college boards may use local government code enforcement officers who will not charge fees more than the actual labor and administrative costs for the plan review and inspections. Local government code enforcement offices shall expedite permitting. Any action by local government not in compliance with Section 553.80(6), Florida Statutes, may be appealed to the Florida Building Commission, which may suspend the authority of that local government to enforce the Florida Building Code and the Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal on the facilities of school boards and Florida college boards.
453.3.4 Other regulatory agencies
Boards shall coordinate the planning of projects with state and regional regulatory and permitting agencies, as applicable. Other state or local agencies may inspect new construction or existing facilities when required by law; however, such inspections shall be in conformance with the code as modified by this section.
453.3.5 Day labor projects
Any one construction project estimated to cost $300,000 or less where bonafide board employees or contracted labor provide the work. Day labor projects are subject to the same Florida Building Code and the Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal as new construction.
453.3.6 Routine maintenance
Maintenance projects are subject to the same Florida Building Code and Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal as new construction. Chapter 489, Florida Statutes, exempts boards from the use of a licensed general contractor for projects up to $200,000 where bonafide board employees provide the work. Maintenance projects which include construction, renovation and/or remodeling, shall be reviewed for compliance with the code.
453.3.7 Certificate of occupancy
New buildings, additions, renovations, and remodeling shall not be occupied until the building has received a certificate of occupancy for compliance with codes that were in effect on the date of permit application.
Reuse and prototype plans shall be code updated with each new project.
453.4 Reference documents
School Boards and Florida College Boards of Trustees. In addition to complying with the Florida Building Code and the Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal, and other adopted standards and this section, public educational facilities and sites shall comply with applicable federal and state laws and rules.
453.4.1 Rule 6A-2.00.10 [State Requirements for Educational Facilities (SREF)]
A Florida Department of Education document which includes required design standards, standards for rehabilitation of historical resources, capital outlay project process requirements, and various agencies having jurisdiction during project planning and construction.
453.4.2 Flood-resistant construction
Educational facilities in flood hazard areas shall comply with ASCE 24.
Florida statutes and state rules. Including, but not limited to, Chapters 255, 468, 471, 481, 489, 553, 633, 1013, and Section 287.055, Florida Statutes, and various state rules as applicable to specific projects.
453.4.4 Accessibility requirements for children’s environments
U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board.
453.4.5 Handbook for public playground safety
Playgrounds and equipment shall be designed and installed using the Public Playground Safety Handbook by the U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the ASTM/CPSC Playground Audit Guide as applicable.
453.4.6 ANSI Z535.1
American National Standard Safety Color Code for marking physical hazards, is used in shops where machinery requires marking and safety zones.
453.4.7 ASCE 7
American Society of Civil Engineers.
Life Cycle Cost Guidelines for Materials and Building Systems for Florida’s Public Educational Facilities, available from the Department of Education, Office of Educational Facilities shall be considered.
453.5 Definitions
453.5.1 ASSEMBLY
Assembly occupancies are buildings or portions of buildings used for gatherings of 50 or more persons, such as auditoriums, gymnasiums, multipurpose rooms, classrooms and labs, cafeterias, stadiums, media centers and interior courtyards. Assembly occupancies include adjacent and related spaces to the main seating area, such as stages, dressing rooms, workshops, lobbies, rest rooms, locker rooms, and store rooms. School board and Florida college facilities shall follow the requirements of Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal for assembly spaces.
453.5.2 BOARD
A district school board and a Florida college board of trustees.
453.5.3 BOILER
A fuel-fired, heat-producing appliance with a minimum input capacity of 60,000 Btu per hour and intended to supply hot water or steam. Boilers and the inspection of boilers shall comply with Section 554, Florida Statutes, the Boiler Safety Act.
Documentation issued by an authority having jurisdiction which indicates inspection and approval of completion of a construction project pursuant to the requirements of Florida law.
453.5.5 COURTYARD
A court or enclosure adjacent to, or surrounded by, a building(s) and/or walls.
“Exterior courtyard” is a courtyard which is not roofed, has a minimum width of 40 feet (1219 mm), and
has an opening a minimum width of 40 feet (1219 mm), with no obstructions, on at least one end, or
has fences between the buildings for security purposes, and the required exiting capacity of the courtyard is provided for by means of doors or gates from the courtyard.
An exterior courtyard may be considered exterior space and used for exiting of adjacent spaces. For an exterior courtyard with an opening between 40 feet (1219 mm) and 60 feet wide (18 288 mm), the building walls and wall openings must meet the requirements of Florida Building Code, Building Tables 601 and 602 and the maximum travel distance to the courtyard opening/exit shall not exceed 150 feet (45 720 mm) from any point within the courtyard. If the minimum courtyard width exceeds 60 feet (18 288 mm), the travel distance to a courtyard opening/exit may exceed 150 feet (945 720 mm).
453.5.5.2 “Enclosed courtyard”
is a courtyard which is not roofed by more than 50 percent of the courtyard area and which is substantially surrounded by a building(s) on two sides or more and each opening to the exterior is less than 40 feet (1219 mm) in width. The courtyard area shall be calculated for maximum occupancy as an assembly space and the number and size of remotely located exits shall be calculated for the maximum possible load. The maximum possible load is the greater of the calculated capacity of the courtyard or the load imposed by the surrounding spaces. An enclosed courtyard may be used as a component of exit access provided that the walls and wall openings meet the requirements of Florida Building Code, Building Tables 601 and 602 and the maximum travel to the exit discharge does not exceed 150 feet (45 720 mm) from any point within the enclosed courtyard. An enclosed courtyard cannot serve as the exterior for exiting or for emergency rescue openings.
453.5.5.3 “Roofed courtyard”
is a courtyard which is roofed by more than 50 percent of the courtyard area in any manner. Roofed courtyards may be used for assembly spaces and shall not be used as a component of exiting from adjacent spaces.
453.5.6 FACILITY
Additionally defined as follows:
453.5.6.1 “Ancillary facility”
is a building or other facility necessary to provide district-wide support services, such as an energy plant, bus garage, warehouse, maintenance building, or administrative building.
453.5.6.2 “Ancillary plant”
is buildings, site, and site improvements necessary to provide district-wide vehicle maintenance, storage, building maintenance activities, or administrative functions necessary to provide support services to an educational program.
453.5.6.3 “Auxiliary facility”
consists of the support spaces located at educational facilities and plants which do not contain student stations but are used by students, such as libraries, administrative offices, and cafeterias.
453.5.6.4 “Educational facility”
consists of buildings and equipment, structures, and special educational use areas that are built, installed, or established to serve primarily the educational purposes and secondarily the social and recreational purposes of the community.
453.5.6.5 “Educational plant”
comprises the educational facilities, site, and site improvements necessary to accommodate students, faculty, administrators, staff, and the activities of the educational program.
453.5.6.6 “Existing facility”
is a facility owned, rented or leased.
453.5.6.7 “Leased facility”
is a facility not owned, but contracted for use.
453.5.6.8 “Permanent facility”
is a facility designed for a fixed location.
453.5.6.9 “Relocatable/portable facility”
is a building which is designed with the capability of being moved to a new location.
453.5.6.10 “Modular facility”
is a structure which, when combined with other modules and/or demountable roof and/or wall sections, forms a complete building. This facility may be relocatable.
453.5.7 MAINTENANCE AND REAPAIR
The upkeep of educational and ancillary plants including, but not limited to, roof or roofing replacement, short of complete replacement of membrane or structure; repainting of interior or exterior surfaces; resurfacing of floors; repair or replacement of glass and hardware; repair or replacement of electrical and plumbing fixtures; repair of furniture and equipment; replacement of system equipment with equivalent items meeting current code requirements providing that the equipment does not place a greater demand on utilities, structural requirements are not increased, and the equipment does not adversely affect the function of life safety systems; traffic control devices and signage; and repair or resurfacing of parking lots, roads, and walkways. Does not include new construction, remodeling, or renovation, except as noted above.
453.5.8 NEW CONSTRUCTION
Any construction of a building or unit of a building in which the entire work is new. An addition connected to an existing building is considered new construction.
453.5.9 OPEN PLAN BUILDING
Any building which does not have corridors defined by permanent walls and is entirely open or divided by partitions which may be easily rearranged.
453.5.10 OPEN PLAN INSTRUCTIONAL SPACE
An arrangement of two or more class areas with no permanent partitions or wall separations.
453.5.11 OWNER
Each school board and Florida college board of trustees is deemed to be the owner of facilities within its respective jurisdiction.
453.5.12 PERMIT FOR CONSTRUCTION
Documentation issued by an authority having jurisdiction which indicates approval of construction plans prepared pursuant to the requirements of Florida law.
453.5.13 REMODELING
The changing of existing facilities by rearrangement of space and/or change of use. Only that portion of the building being remodeled must be brought into compliance with the Florida Building Code and Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal unless the remodeling adversely impacts the existing life safety systems of the building.
453.5.14 RENOVATION
The rejuvenating or upgrading of existing facilities by installation or replacement of materials and equipment. The use and occupancy of the spaces remain the same. Only that portion of the building being renovated must be brought into compliance with the Florida Building Code and Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal unless the renovation adversely impacts the existing life safety systems of the building.
453.5.15 SEPARATE ATMOSPHERE
The individual volumes of air in a building which are divided by smoke proof barriers to limit contamination of the air by smoke and fumes during a fire.
453.5.16 SEPARATE BUILDING
The purpose of separate fire alarm systems or sprinkler systems, a separate building is a structure separated from other buildings by 60 feet (18 288 mm) or more, or as required by other sections of this code.
453.5.17 FLORIDA COLLEGE
A public community college, public college, state college, or public junior college.
453.5.18 STUDENT-OCCUPIED SPACE
Any area planned primarily for use by six or more students.
453.6 Administration of public education projects
453.6.1 Occupancy during construction
School board and Florida college board facilities, or portions of facilities, shall not be occupied during construction unless exits, fire detection and early warning systems, fire protection, and safety barriers are continuously maintained and clearly marked at all times. Construction on an occupied school board site shall be separated from students and staff by secure barriers. Prior to issuance of the notice to proceed, a safety plan shall be provided by the contractor which clearly delineates areas for construction, safety barriers, exits, construction traffic during the various phases of the project and when conditions change. Where heavy machinery, as is used for earth moving or scraping, is required to work on a school board’s occupied site, the work shall be separated from occupants by secure double barriers with a distance of 10 feet (3048 mm) in between. New construction, remodeling or renovations in existing facilities shall not reduce the means of egress below the requirements for new buildings; safe means of egress from a student-occupied space may be accomplished as authorized by NFPA 101, Florida edition as adopted by the Florida Fire Prevention Code. New construction (additions) shall not block or reduce safe means of egress.
453.6.2 Contractor toxic substance safety precautions
When hazardous chemicals as defined by 29 CFR 1910.1200, OSHA Hazard Communication Standard are to be used during the maintenance, renovation, remodeling, or addition to an existing facility, the contractor shall notify the administrator in writing at least three working days before any hazardous chemical is used. The notice shall indicate the name of each of the hazardous chemicals to be used, where and when they will be used, and a copy of a material safety data sheet (MSDS) for each hazardous chemical. The contractor shall comply with the safety precautions and handling instructions set forth in the MSDS. Copies of hazardous waste manifests documenting disposal shall be provided to the facility’s administrator who will notify occupants of the anticipated presence of toxic substances during the maintenance, renovation, remodeling, or addition to an existing facility.
453.6.3 Flammable or explosive substances
No flammable or explosive substances or equipment shall be introduced during a remodeling or renovation project in a facility of normally low or ordinary hazard classification while the building is occupied.
453.7 Life safety
453.7.1 Separate exits
In assembly occupancies, each required exit from an assembly space must exit into a separate atmosphere or to the exterior, to be considered as a separate exit.
453.7.2 Exit access
Exit access shall not be through a toilet room, storage room, or similar space, or any space subject to being locked.
453.7.3 Location of fire extinguishers and blankets
Fire extinguishers may be located inside student-occupied spaces provided they are placed adjacent to the primary exit door, and the room door remains unlocked when the facility is occupied, and a permanently affixed sign, with a red background and white letters, reading “FIRE EXTINGUISHER INSIDE” is placed on the outside adjacent to the door. Fire extinguisher cabinets shall not be locked. Fire blankets shall be located in each laboratory and each shop where a fire hazard may exist. Fire extinguishers and fire blankets shall be readily accessible and suitable for the hazard present and shall not be obstructed or obscured from view. Extinguishers and blankets shall be on hangers or brackets, shelves, or cabinets so that the top of the extinguisher or blanket is not more than 54 inches (1318 mm) above finish floor (AFF) and complies with state and federal accessibility requirements. All extinguishers shall be installed and maintained in accordance with NFPA. Extinguishers shall remain fully charged and operable at all times and have a current tag to indicate compliance.
453.7.4 Common fire alarm
Buildings within 60 feet (18,288 mm) of each other shall have a common fire alarm system. On an existing campus, structures that meet the 60 foot (18,288 mm) requirement, any new structure, remodeled facility, or renovated facility, such as classrooms, labs, shops and cafeterias, gymnasiums, auditoriums (separate or combination functions) with assembly occupancy less than 300, shall be connected to the campus existing fire alarm system. An existing system without the voice feature shall not be required to include the voice feature required by Sections 907.2 and 907.2.3 of this code. A new total school fire alarm system upgrade project for an existing campus shall include the voice feature. Emergency shelters shall have the fire alarm panel located in the space identified as the shelter manager’s office.
453.7.5 Fire alarm sending stations
Sending stations may be located inside student-occupied spaces, adjacent to the primary exit door only if the door to the occupied space is unlocked at all times while the facility is occupied. When located inside a student occupied space, a permanently affixed sign reading “FIRE ALARM PULL STATION INSIDE” shall be placed outside that space adjacent to the door. This sign shall have a red background with white letters. Sending stations shall be mounted to meet accessibility requirements.
453.7.6 Automatic shut off
The fire alarm system shall shut off gas and fuel oil supplies which serve studentoccupied spaces or pass through such spaces. The shutoff valve shall be located on the exterior at the service entrance to the building. The shutoff valve shall be of the manual reset type.
453.7.6.1 Kitchen gas supplies
Kitchen gas supplies shall be shutoff by activation of the kitchen hood fire suppression system. The shutoff valve shall be installed in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions and recommendations.
453.7.6.2 Emergency power
The fire alarm system shall not shut off gas supplies which serve emergency power sources.
453.7.7 Unoccupied rooms and concealed spaces
Rooms or spaces for storage, custodial closets, mechanical rooms, spaces under stages with wood structures and other unoccupied or unsupervised spaces in a building shall have automatic fire alarm system detector devices installed. Any concealed space with exposed materials having a flamespread rating greater than Class A, including crawl spaces under floors, interstitial spaces between ceiling and floor or roof above and attic spaces, shall be equipped with heat detector devices. Smoke and heat detector devices shall be installed in accordance with NFPA 72.
453.7.7.1 Fully sprinklered buildings
In fully sprinklered buildings, fire alarm detection devices are not required except where specified in the Florida Fire Prevention Code.
453.7.8 Boiler rooms
Each boiler room shall be separated from the remainder of the building by one-hour fire-resistance-rated construction or shall be separate from other buildings by 60 feet (18 288 mm), and shall have an outswinging door opening directly to the exterior. A fire door swinging into the boiler room shall also be provided for any opening into the interior of the building. There shall be no opening into any corridor or area designed for use by students.
453.7.9 Exit passageways and horizontal exits
Exit passageways as referenced in Section 1024 and horizontal exits referenced in Section 1026 of this code shall be prohibited.
453.8 General requirements for new construction, additions, renovation, and remodeling
453.8.1 Codes and standards
Educational facilities owned by school boards and Florida college boards shall meet the construction requirements of the Florida Building Code and the Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal, state and federal laws and rules, and this section for Florida's public educational facilities for new construction, remodeling and renovation of existing facilities. This is a minimum standard; boards may impose more restrictive safety and level of quality standards for educational, auxiliary, and ancillary facilities under their jurisdiction, provided they meet or exceed these minimum requirements.
453.8.1.1 Educational occupancy
School board educational facility projects whether owned, leasepurchased or leased shall comply with the educational occupancy and assembly occupancy portions of the above referenced codes as applicable, except where in conflict with this section. The support spaces such as media centers, administrative offices and cafeterias and kitchens located within educational facilities are not separate occupancies.
453.8.1.2 Business occupancy
Florida college board educational facility projects whether owned, lease-purchased or leased shall comply with the business occupancy and the assembly occupancy of the above referenced codes as applicable, except where in conflict with this section.
School board and Florida college board ancillary facilities such as warehouses or maintenance buildings, shall use the applicable occupancy section of the Florida Building Code and the Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal. Ancillary facilities on educational plant sites shall be separated from the educational facility as required by code.
453.8.2 Space standards
School board and Florida college board facility sizes shall use standards in the “Size of Space and Occupant Design Criteria Table” found in the Department of Education document, “State Requirements for Educational Facilities (SREF).” Exiting from occupied spaces shall comply with Table 1004.1.2 of this code.
453.8.3 Construction type
School board and Florida college buildings including auxiliary, ancillary and vocational facilities shall comply with the following:
453.8.3.1 Noncombustible Type I, II or IV
The minimum construction type for one- and two-story public educational facilities shall be noncombustible Type I, II or IV construction or better.
453.8.3.1.1
Interior nonload-bearing wood studs or partitions shall not be used in permanent educational and auxiliary facilities or relocatable buildings.
Exception: Historic buildings to maintain the fabric of the historic character of the building.
453.8.3.2 Type I
Facilities three stories or more shall be Type I construction.
453.8.3.3 Type IV
When Type IV construction is used, wood shall be exposed and not covered by ceilings or other construction.
453.8.3.4 Exceptions to types of construction:
Covered walkways open on all sides may be Type V construction.
Single story dugouts, press boxes, concession stands, related public toilet rooms, detached covered play areas, and nonflammable storage buildings that are detached from the main educational facility by at least 60 feet (1829 mm), may be Type V construction.
453.8.4 Standards for remodeling and/or renovation projects
Portions of buildings being remodeled and/or renovated shall be brought into compliance with current required Florida Building Code and the Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal as required by the plan review authority in its best judgment.
An automatic fire sprinkler system is not required in existing educational buildings unless 50 percent of the aggregate area of the building is being remodeled
453.8.5 Leased facilities
Leased facilities shall be brought into compliance with applicable occupancy requirements of the Florida Building Code and the Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal prior to occupancy.
453.8.6 Asbestos prohibited
The federal Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act, (AHERA) 40 CFR, Part 763, as revised July 1, 1995, prohibits the use of any asbestos containing materials in any public education construction project and requires certification of same by the architect of record.
453.8.7 Life cycle cost guidelines for materials and building systems
An analysis shall be included, as required by Section 1013.37(1), Florida Statutes, which evaluates building materials and systems, life cycle costs for maintenance, custodial, operating, and life expectancy against initial costs, as described in Section 1013.37(1)(e)4, Florida Statutes. Standards for evaluation of materials are available from the department in a publication entitled Life Cycle Cost Guidelines for materials and Building Systems for Florida’s Public Educational Facilities.
453.8.8 Safe school design
School boards should design educational facilities and sites including pre-K through 12, vocational and Florida colleges to enhance security and reduce vandalism through the use of “safe school design” principles. Safe school design strategies are available from the Florida Department of Education, Office of Educational Facilities in a publication titled Florida Safe School Design Guidelines and include but are not limited to the following:
453.8.8.1 Natural access and control of schools and campuses
Natural surveillance of schools and campuses both from within the facility and from adjacent streets by removing obstructions or trimming shrubbery.
School and campus territorial integrity; securing courtyards, site lighting, building lighting.
Audio and motion detection systems covering ground floor doors, stairwells, offices and areas where expensive equipment is stored.
Designs which will promote the prevention of school crime and violence. Exterior architectural features which do not allow footholds or handholds on exterior walls, tamperproof doors and locks, nonbreakable glass or shelter window protection system; also landscaping and tree placement should be designed so they do not provide access to roofs by unauthorized persons. Sections of schools commonly used after hours should be separated by doors or other devices from adjacent areas to prevent unauthorized access. Install locks on roof hatches; apply slippery finishes to exterior pipes.
Exterior stairs, balconies, ramps, and upper level corridors around the perimeter of buildings should have open-type handrails or other architectural features to allow surveillance.
Open areas, such as plazas, the building’s main entrance, parking lots, and bicycle compounds should be designed so they are visible by workers at workstations inside the buildings.
453.9 Structural design
453.9.1 Loading requirements
Structural design shall comply with code requirements and wind loads as stipulated by the Florida Building Code and the Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal. Wind design shall be based on ASCE 7, with wind speeds determined from Figure 26.5-1B and ICC 500, as appropriate.
453.10 Site requirements
453.10.1 Fencing
Fencing for school board educational plants shall be of a material which is nonflammable, safe, durable, and low maintenance, provides structural integrity, strength and aesthetics appropriate for the intended location. Fences shall have no jagged or sharp projections. Fence heights shall be in compliance with local zoning regulations. Access shall be provided for maintenance machinery. Prohibited materials for nonagricultural educational plants include razor wire, barbed wire and electrically charged systems.
453.10.1.1 Required locations
Fencing is required to separate students from potential harm, and shall be provided in the following locations:
453.10.1.1.1 Kindergarten through grade 12
Exposed mechanical, plumbing, gas, or electrical equipment located on ground level.
453.10.1.1.2 Kindergarten through grade 5
Special hazards as identified by the authority having jurisdiction including retention ponds whose permanent water depth or whose water depth over a 24-hour period exceeds 1 foot (305 mm), deep drainage ditches, canals, highways, and play fields adjacent to roadways.
All child care and kindergarten play areas.
453.10.2 Walks, roads, drives, and parking areas
Walks, roads, drives, and parking areas on educational and ancillary sites shall be paved. Roads, drives, and parking areas shall be in compliance with Department of Transportation (DOT) road specifications and striped in compliance with DOT paint specifications. All paved areas shall have positive drainage.
453.10.2.1 Covered walks
All buildings in K-12 educational facilities shall be connected by paved walks and accessible under continuous roof cover. New relocatable classroom buildings shall be connected to permanent buildings by paved covered walks where applicable. Roofs for covered walks shall extend 1 foot (305 mm) beyond each side of the designated walkway width. Gutters or other water funneling devices shall prevent storm water from pouring onto or draining across walks.
453.10.2.2 Accessible walks and bridges
Accessible walks shall connect building entrance(s) to accessible parking, public transportation stops, public streets, sidewalks, loading and drop-off zones, and other facilities within the site as required by the accessibility standards. School board sites where educational plants are separated by highways shall be connected by overhead pedestrian bridges.
453.10.2.4 Vertical drops
Walls, railings, or other physical barriers which are at least a minimum 12 inches (305 mm) in height, shall define and protect any vertical drop between joining or abutting surfaces of more than 6 inches (152 mm) but less than 18 inches (457 mm) in height. Any vertical drop of 18 inches (457 mm) or more shall be protected by a wall or guardrail a minimum of 42 inches (1067 mm) in height.
Exception: In assembly seating where guards in accordance with Section 1029.16 are permitted and provided.
453.10.2.5 Roads and streets
Educational and ancillary site access shall consist of a primary road and another means of access to be used in the event the primary road is blocked. Stabilized wide shoulders of the primary road, unobstructed by landscaping, planters, light fixtures, poles, benches, etc., which allow a third lane of traffic, may satisfy the requirement for the other means of access. Driveways shall not completely encircle a school plant, to allow student access to play areas without crossing roads; vehicular and pedestrian traffic shall not cross each other on the site; bus driveways and parent pick-up areas shall be separated.
453.10.2.6 Bus drives
Bus drives on educational sites shall be designed so that buses do not have to back up. The minimum width shall be 24 feet (7315 mm) for two-lane traffic. The turning radius on educational and ancillary sites and for turning off public access streets shall be as follows: one-way traffic, 60 feet (18 288 mm) minimum measured to the outside curb or edge of the traffic lane; two-way traffic, 60 feet (18 288 mm) minimum measured to the centerline of the road.
453.10.2.7 Vehicle parking areas
Vehicle parking areas shall comply with minimum parking space requirements in this section. Except for parking space requirements to meet federal and state accessibility laws, where alternate transportation or parking arrangements are available the parking area requirements may be reduced from these standards if sufficient justification documentation is provided and if the review authority approves the reduction based on the justification. Overflow parking areas may utilize alternative parking surfaces which facilitate water absorption rather than runoff when approved for use by the review authority. This requirement usually applies to a percentage of the parking spaces, not all of them.
Exception: Accessible parking spaces shall be hard surface.
453.10.2.8 Minimum parking requirements
453.10.2.8.1 Faculty and staff
One space for each member.
453.10.2.8.2 Visitors
One space for every 100 students.
453.10.2.8.3 Community clinics where provided
Ten spaces, including one accessible space.
453.10.2.8.4 High schools
One space for every 10 students in grades 11 and 12.
453.10.2.8.5 Vocational schools
One space for every two students.
453.10.2.8.6 Florida colleges
453.10.2.8.7 Accessible parking
Parking spaces designated for persons with disabilities shall comply with the ADA, Florida Building Code, Accessibility, and Section 316.1955, Florida Statutes.
453.10.3 Site lighting required
Design, construction, and installation of exterior security lighting for educational and ancillary facilities shall be provided for:
453.10.3.1 Auto, bus, and service drives and loading areas
453.10.3.2 Parking areas
453.10.3.3 Building perimeter
453.10.3.4 Covered and connector walks between buildings and between buildings and parking
453.10.3.5 Lighting for parking areas
Parking area lighting standards shall be designed to withstand appropriate wind loads. Parking areas shall be illuminated to an average maintained horizontal footcandle, measured at the surface as follows:
453.10.3.5.1
Parking areas—1 footcandle (10 lux).
Covered and connector walks—1 footcandle (10 lux).
Entrances/exits—2 footcandles (20 lux).
453.10.3.6 Building exteriors
Building exteriors, perimeters, and entrances may be illuminated to the minimum number of footcandles, measured at the surface with a suggested uniformity ratio of 2:1 as follows:
Entrances—5 footcandles (50 lux).
Building surrounds—1 footcandle (10 lux).
453.10.3.7 Shielding
Exterior lighting shall be shielded from adjacent properties.
453.10.4 Building setbacks
Building setbacks from the property line, including relocatables, shall, at a minimum, be 25 feet (7620 mm) or shall comply with local setback requirements if less than 25 feet (7620 mm).
453.10.5 School board playgrounds, equipment, and athletic fields
Playgrounds, equipment, and athletic fields shall be accessible, compatible with the educational facility served and shall comply with the following:
Kindergarten play areas shall be separated from other play areas, fenced, and shall be directly accessed from the kindergarten classrooms.
Direct access from the school buildings shall be provided to play areas and athletic fields without crossing public roads, on-site traffic lanes, and parking lots.
Related facilities such as toilets, concessions, storage, shower and locker rooms, bleachers, press boxes, observation platforms, scoreboards, and dugouts shall be designed to meet code requirements and the occupant capacity anticipated for the program.
Playgrounds shall be evenly graded and sloped to provide surface drainage.
453.10.6 Exterior signage
All permanent and free-standing exterior signs shall be designed to withstand appropriate wind loads. Illuminated signs shall comply with the electrical and installation requirements of the Florida Building Code, the Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal and ICC 500, as appropriate.
Site signage shall not create visual barriers at entrances, sidewalks, roads or road intersections.
Accessible routes, including parking, building directories, building identification, and accessible entrances shall be marked by exterior signage in conformance with federal and state accessibility laws.
453.10.7 Landscaping
Refer to Section 1013.64(5), Florida Statutes, for school board and Florida college requirements. Florida-friendly landscaping is defined in Section 373.185, Florida Statutes.
453.10.8 Water irrigation systems
Water irrigation systems shall be equipped with soil moisture sensors that will override the irrigation systems cycle when soil contains sufficient moisture.
453.10.9 Transmission line right-of-way
Buildings, play areas, and common use areas shall not be located within a high-voltage power transmission line right-of-way.
453.10.10 School site master plan
New schools shall include, as applicable: facility design capacity; floodplain locations; covered accessible walks; infrastructure locations for, and extensions of, technology, telephone, electricity, fire alarm; and, where applicable, water and sewer utilities, and relocatables.
453.11 Wood: fire-retardant-treated wood (FRTW)
FRTW shall not be used in permanent educational facilities.
Exception: Only FRTW which does not contain ammonium phosphates, sulfates, or halides, may be used in roof structures of noncombustible Type II ancillary facilities as allowed by the Florida Building Code, but only under the following conditions:
453.11.1 Fire-retardant treated wood
All FRTW must meet the requirements of Section 2303.2.
Inspection access panels shall be provided for annual inspection of the condition of the structure and the connectors.
Evidence of compliance shall be provided.
453.12 Roofing
453.12.1 Class A materials
All roofing materials shall be labeled Class A per ASTM E108 and shall be certified by a nationally recognized independent testing laboratory. All roofing systems shall be installed within the limitations of the test procedure for surfacing, deck cross slope, and combustibility.
453.12.2 Insulation and moisture protection
Insulation, moisture protection, roofing, thermal requirements, fireproofing and firestopping shall be designed and constructed in compliance with the Florida Building Code and Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal. Cellulose insulation may only be used if it is treated with fire-retardant borate based chemicals; the contractor shall retain bag labels on site for review by building inspector.
453.12.3 Phased installation prohibited
All new installed materials shall be sealed from moisture penetration at the end of each day. The contractor shall provide the architect/engineer (A/E) of record a “final statement of compliance” for the board.
453.12.4 Manufacturer’s one-year inspection
The roof shall be inspected by the manufacturer’s representative within one year of acceptance by the board.
453.12.5 Exterior stairways
Exterior stairways serving as a means of egress shall be roofed.
453.13 Doors and windows
453.13.1 Doors
All spaces with an occupant load of six or more students, regardless of use, shall have a door opening directly to the exterior, or as required in the Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal, in buildings of three stories or less shall have a rescue window opening directly to the exterior, or shall be fully sprinklered. All doors and gates from spaces with an occupant load of six or more students, regardless of use or location, shall swing in the direction of exit travel, shall be of the side-hinged type, and shall always be operable from the inside by a single operation and without a key.
Doors for steam rooms, locker rooms, shower rooms and group toilet rooms shall swing in the direction of exit travel, and shall always be operable for exiting from the inside.
No mirrors, draperies, curtains, equipment, furnishings, decorations, or other objects which may confuse, obstruct, or conceal the exit or the direction of exit shall be placed to obstruct a means of egress.
453.13.2 Recessed
Doors when fully opened shall not extend into the required exit width of corridors, except for door thickness and required hardware. Doors may either be recessed and hinged to swing 90 degrees, or if flush with corridor wall shall contain a view panel and be hinged to swing 180 degrees.
453.13.3 Special function doors
Special function doors, including balanced doors and overhead doors, shall not be used in a means of egress.
453.13.4 Overhead and sliding security grilles
Security grilles shall have an adjacent side-hinged door swinging in the direction of exit and readily opened from the inside.
453.13.5 Gates
Gates used to secure buildings or used for egress shall be side-hinged and readily opened from the side from which egress is to be made without the use of a key or special tool, or shall have an adjacent side-hinged door, or doors as required for occupant load, swinging in the direction of exit and readily opened from the inside without a key.
453.13.6 Hardware
Doors and gates shall be equipped with hardware which will allow egress at all times without assistance. No padlock, chain, hasp, lock, deadbolt, or other device shall be installed at any time on any door used for exiting. Doors which by code require closers and other doors subject to wind exposure shall be equipped with closers to prevent slamming and uncontrolled opening. All doors opening into smoke-tight exit access corridors shall be self-closing or automatic closing. Smoke doors in walls used to divide corridors into separate atmospheres shall be provided with push-pull plates and are not required to have positive latching. As an exception to Section 1010.1.9.7, delayed egress locks may be used in media centers, alternative education centers, and exceptional student education centers. Delayed egress locks are prohibited at time-out rooms at all locations.
453.13.7 Safety glazing: panels and storefronts
In addition to the requirements of Section 2406.4, the following is considered a hazardous location and requires safety glazing: glazed panels within 48 inches (1219 mm) of a door, excluding transoms or vertical panels above 6 feet 8 inches (2031 mm).
All glazing in hazardous locations shall be safety glazing meeting the requirements of the Florida Building Code, Building, Section 2406.
Large glass panels shall be subdivided by a built-in horizontal member or a permanent chair rail not less than 11/2 inches (38 mm) in width, located between 24 and 36 inches (610 and 914 mm) above the floor.
453.13.8 Windows
453.13.8.1 Natural light and ventilation
Natural light and ventilation requirements for new construction shall be satisfied by windows with operable glazing, providing a net free open area equivalent to 5 percent of the floor area, in all classrooms on the perimeter of buildings, where required by Chapter 1013, Florida Statutes. Auxiliary spaces, music rooms, gyms, locker and shower facilities, laboratories requiring special climate control, and large group instructional spaces having a capacity of more than 100 persons need not have operable windows for the purpose of providing natural light and ventilation. Emergency access, emergency rescue, and secondary means of egress windows maybe included in the calculation to comply with this requirement.
453.13.8.2 Projecting and awning windows
Projecting and awning windows shall not be located below door head height if in, or adjacent to, a play area, a corridor or walkway.
453.13.8.3 Security/storm screens or grills
If a security/storm screen or grille is installed on the outside of an emergency access, rescue or egress window assembly then that security/storm screen or grille together with the emergency rescue window assembly shall be operable from the inside by a single operation without the use of tools to allow for exit under emergency conditions. The emergency rescue window shall be identified by signage, and the release device shall be readily identifiable.
453.14 Special safety requirements
453.14.1 Master control switch
In addition to the regular main supply cut-off, each laboratory-type space (such as biology, industrial, chemistry, physics, home economics, and electronics labs) equipped with unprotected gas cocks, compressed air valves, water or electric services which are easily accessible to students, shall have master control valves or switches with permanently attached handles, located and accessible within 15 feet (4572 mm) of the instructor’s station or adjacent to the primary egress door within that space to allow for emergency cut-off of services. The cut-offs shall be in a nonlockable place and the location and operation shall be clearly labeled. Valves shall completely shut off with a one-quarter turn. Computer labs are exempted from this requirement. (Also, see “Emergency shut off switches,” and “Emergency disconnects” requirements under “Electrical.”)
453.14.2 Interior signage
Signage is required in educational and ancillary facilities. Design, construction, installation, and location of interior signage and graphics shall comply with the Florida Building Code and the Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal and the following:
453.14.2.1 Emergency rescue windows
Windows for emergency rescue shall comply with NFPA 101, Florida Edition, as adopted by the Florida Fire Prevention Code, shall be operable from the inside by a single operation, and shall be labeled “EMERGENCY RESCUE—KEEP AREA CLEAR.” Hinged emergency rescue windows shall swing in the direction of egress.
Maximum capacity signs in each space with a capacity of 50 or more occupants. The signs shall be mounted adjacent to the main entrance door.
Room name, room number and, if different, FISH inventory numbers shall be provided for each space.
A graphic diagram of primary and emergency evacuation routes shall be posted adjacent to the primary exit door from each space occupied by six or more students. The diagram shall clearly indicate, by contrasting color and number, each route of evacuation.
Signs necessary to meet accessibility requirements shall be provided.
Hazardous work and storage areas shall be identified by appropriate caution signs.
453.14.3 Other potential hazards
Pipes, ductwork, fans, light fixtures, window projections, protruding sharp corners, or other potential hazards shall not be installed below 6 feet 8 inches (2031 mm) AFF. Audio/visual aids in classrooms may be mounted below 6 feet 8 inches (2031 mm) provided they are marked and padded in accordance with accepted safety standards or have permanent cabinets installed below them.
453.14.4 Storage shelving
Shelving shall not have sharp corners, splinters, or any construction feature that would be hazardous to the occupants. Shelving shall be constructed to carry the loads imposed. Shelving in science, labs, and shop storage rooms, and other places which may contain hazardous materials shall have a 1/2 inch (12.7 mm) lip on the front edge of each shelf and shall be constructed of noncorrosive material.
453.14.5 Vertical platform lifts and inclined wheelchair lifts
The following standards are in addition to the other requirements of the Florida Building Code, Florida law, and federal requirements:
Lifts shall not reduce the width of required means of egress.
Lifts shall have shielding devices to protect users from the machinery or other hazards and obstructions.
Lifts shall be key operated for attendant operation in all facilities housing kindergarten to grade 8.
Inclined wheelchair lifts may be installed in facilities provided:
The platform is equipped with bidirectional ramp sensing to stop travel if obstructions are encountered.
Guide rails are smooth and continuous with no sharp edges or obstructions, all drive system components contain safety features for protection of users, and cables and pulling devices are shielded.
453.14.6 Color code machinery
Working machinery with component parts shall be color-coded in accordance with ANSI Z535.1, American National Standard Safety Color Code for Marking Physical Hazards. Safety zone lines shall be marked on the floor areas surrounding working machinery.
453.14.7 Anchor equipment
All equipment designed to be permanently mounted shall be securely anchored to its supporting surface.
453.14.8 Interior finishes
453.14.8.1 Floors
Floors in instructional spaces shall be covered with resilient material or carpet.
453.15 Mechanical
453.15.1 Gas and fluid piping
453.15.1.1 Flammable liquids/gases
Piping systems for flammable liquids or gases shall not be installed in interior corridors or stairwells.
Exception: Piping may be located within corridors provided that they are enclosed in a minimum 1-hour fire-rated enclosure.
453.15.1.2 Piping systems
Piping (fluid system) shall not be run where students can access the pipes, or in areas such as on roofs where they can be damaged by routine or periodic maintenance activities.
453.15.1.3 Main supply valve
The main supply cutoffs for flammable liquids or gases shall shut down upon activation of the fire alarm system. Refer to the automatic shutoff requirements of Section 453.7.6.
453.15.2 Air plenums
Corridors shall not be used as a supply, return, exhaust, relief, or ventilation air plenum. The space between the corridor ceiling and the floor or roof structure above, if used as a plenum, shall be constructed with the ceiling, floor and walls as a minimum 1-hour firerated assembly or as a 1-hour fire-rated horizontal wall supported by the corridor walls.
Exception: A smoke-tight corridor with a solid ceiling may be used in a fully sprinklered building.
453.15.3 Residential equipment
In home economics instructional spaces, faculty lounges, and similar areas where small residential-type ranges are installed for staff use or student education, residential-type hoods mechanically exhausted to the outside shall be used. Hood fire suppression systems are not required to be installed. A fire extinguisher shall be located within 15 feet (457 mm) of the range within the same room, and shall meet the type and size requirements of NFPA 10.
453.15.4 Toilet room ventilation
Toilet rooms shall be continuously ventilated during building occupancy.
Exception: Individual toilet rooms shall be ventilated continuously during building occupancy or ventilation shall turn on with the light switch and run for at least 10 minutes after the light has been turned off.
453.15.5 Ventilation air make-up for HVAC systems
The minimum outdoor airflow rate shall be determined in accordance with Section 403.3.1.1 of the Florida Building Code, Mechanical. Ventilation supply systems shall be designed to deliver the required rate of outdoor airflow to the breathing zone within each occupiable space. In accordance with Section 401.3 of the Florida Building Code, Mechanical, this ventilation shall be provided during the periods that the room or space is occupied.
Where the registered design professional demonstrates that an engineered ventilation system design will prevent the maximum concentration of contaminants from exceeding that obtainable by the rate of outdoor air ventilation determined in accordance with Section 403.3.1.1 of the Florida Building Code, Mechanical, the minimum required rate of outdoor air shall be reduced in accordance with such engineered system design. In accordance with Section 401.3 of the Florida Building Code, Mechanical, this ventilation shall be provided during the periods that the room or space is occupied.
Where peak occupancies of less than 3 hours duration occur, the outdoor air flow may be determined on the basis of average occupancy for school buildings for the duration of operation of the air-conditioning system, provided the average occupancy used is not less than onehalf the maximum.
453.16 Plumbing
453.16.1 Standards
Educational and ancillary facilities shall be provided with toilets, hand washing facilities, and drinking fountains for all occupants, in ratios and accessible as required by the Florida Building Code, Florida law, and federal requirements.
Exception: Unisex toilets shall not be provided in addition to group toilets in assembly occupancies.
453.16.1.1 Assembly occupancies
Toilet facilities for assembly occupancies (i.e. media centers, gymnasiums, cafetoriums, and auditoriums) are not required to be in addition to the overall required plumbing fixture count.
453.16.1.2 Location
Student toilets shall be distributed throughout the facility and located on each floor for convenient access and continuous supervision. The path of travel to the nearest toilet facility shall not exceed a distance of 200 feet (60 960 mm).
453.16.2 Public shelter
Refer to the public shelter design criteria of Section 453.25.
453.16.3 Urinals
Trough urinals shall not be installed in any location.
453.16.5 Exterior entries
Exterior entries to toilet rooms shall have outward swinging doors.
453.16.6 Hot water
When hot water is supplied to showers, handwash sinks, lavatories in toilet rooms, a mixing valve shall be installed to control the temperature which shall not exceed 110°F (43°C).
453.16.7 Delayed closing valves
Water supply at toilet room lavatories shall be controlled by delayed-closing valves.
453.16.8 Shower facilities
Showers shall be provided only where required by the district’s educational program and, where provided, shall utilize energy saving concepts for hot water as required by Section 1013.44(2), Florida Statutes. When provided, shower areas shall comply with the following:
Floor finish shall be slip resistant.
A master control valve shall be provided to control the shower heads. Showers shall be equipped with flow control devices to limit total flow to a maximum of 3 gpm (0.19 L/s) per shower head.
453.16.9 Kitchens
Kitchens and food service areas shall be provided with toilet and hand washing facilities for employees as required by code, state rule and statute.
A minimum of one water closet and one lavatory with hot and cold water shall be provided in each staff toilet.
453.16.10 Dousing shower and eye wash
Every science lab, or shop shall be provided with a dousing shower and eye wash for emergency use, including a floor drain.
453.17 Electrical
453.17.1 Emergency lighting
Emergency lighting shall be provided at internal and external means of egress, in student-occupied areas, in group toilets, and main electrical rooms.
453.17.2 Electrical rooms and closets
Main service panels and switches, electrical distribution panels, cabinets, and rooms shall be lockable and not readily accessible to teachers or students.
453.17.3 Spare capacity
Lighting and power panels shall be provided with a minimum of 20-percent spare breakers and a minimum of 10-percent spare capacity in all main panels and switchboards.
453.17.4 Emergency shutoff switches
Every laboratory space which has electrical receptacles at student workstations shall have an emergency shutoff switch within 15 feet (4572 mm) of the instructor’s workstation. The emergency shutoff switch shall be operable by a single motion and shall interrupt power to all receptacles in the room.
Exception: Emergency shutoff switches are not required in computer laboratories.
453.17.5 Emergency disconnect
Each space equipped with electrically powered machinery accessible to students shall have a minimum of two master emergency disconnect switches at convenient locations within the space to shut off all power tool outlets, power to student accessible machines and receptacles in the shop. One emergency shutoff or disconnect switch shall be located near the machinery and one emergency shutoff or disconnect switch shall be located in the instructor’s office if there is a clear view of the entire shop area, others may be required and located as determined by the authority having jurisdiction. The emergency disconnect or shutoff switch shall be operable by a single motion.
Exception: Ordinary office machines, computers, sewing machines, potter’s wheels, residential cooking equipment in home economics labs and other nonhazardous machines do not require emergency disconnect devices.
453.17.6 Sauna and steam rooms
A “panic” switch to deactivate power to heating equipment shall be provided inside sauna and steam rooms. The panic switch shall also be tied into an alarm or other approved warning device in a supervised space in the area of the sauna and/or steam room. The operation of the switch shall be labeled to indicate the intended function.
453.17.7 Lightning
All facilities in high lightning risk areas shall be evaluated using the Risk Assessment Guide in NFPA 780 and other standards which address lightning protection, and shall be protected accordingly.
453.17.8 Ground fault interrupter (GFI) receptacles
GFI receptacles shall be installed as required by NFPA 70 of Chapter 27 and in the following locations:
All elementary special needs, prekindergarten, and kindergarten classroom receptacles.
All building entry vestibule receptacles.
All mechanical, boiler and electrical room receptacles.
453.18 Assembly occupancies in public educational facilities
Occupant capacity for egress shall be in accordance with Table 1004.1.2 except as follows:
453.18.1.1 Dressing rooms
Dressing rooms at 20 net square feet (1.86 m2) per person.
453.18.1.2 Gymnasium
The number of fixed and telescopic bench-type bleacher seats plus the main court area at 15 gross square feet (1.4 m2) per person, plus locker rooms at 5 net square feet (0.5 m2) per person.
453.18.1.3 Classrooms and labs
If spaces are combined through the use of folding partitions, the capacity and exiting shall be based on the capacity of all the spaces joined.
453.18.1.4 Small group areas in media centers
Small group room or area (view and preview) in media centers at 5 net square feet (0.5 m2) per person.
453.18.1.5 Closed circuit television production, distribution, and control
The main floor area at 15 net square feet (1.4 m2) per person.
453.18.1.6 Interior courtyards
The interior courtyard area at 15 gross square feet (1.4 m2) per person. Raised, dedicated landscape areas may be deducted.
453.19 Shade and green houses
453.19.1 General
Shade/green houses shall be of Type I or II construction (metal frame) capable of withstanding the appropriate wind load.
453.19.2 Unrestricted exiting
The location of the shade/green house shall not hinder exiting from new and/or existing structures.
453.19.3 Required doors
A minimum of two doors remotely located shall be provided. Doors shall be side hinged and shall swing in the direction of egress.
453.19.4 Accessibility
Green houses shall meet accessibility requirements. The accessible walkway shall be connected to doors leading to an accessible route to the permanent structure.
453.19.5 Shade cloth
Shade cloth shall be tear-away fabric securely fastened to the structural frame.
453.19.6 Fire extinguisher
A minimum of one Type 2A-10B:C fire extinguisher shall be provided per shade/green house.
453.19.7 Fire alarm
Fire alarm pull stations shall be located within 200 feet (60 960 mm) of any shade or green house. Fire alarm horns mounted on a permanent building must be audible inside the shade/green house.
453.19.8 Space heaters
Space heaters, when provided, shall be mounted at least 6 feet 8 inches (2031 mm) AFF.
453.20 Storage
453.20.1 General storage
Storage rooms and closets shall not be located over or under exit stairs and ramps whether interior or exterior. General storage space(s) shall be included in every educational facility for the bulk storage of materials, supplies, equipment, and books. Storage rooms shall be separated from mechanical and electrical spaces. Storage spaces shall be mechanically ventilated and conditioned as appropriate for the type of materials to be stored. Sinks located in general storage rooms shall not be used for custodial services.
453.20.2 Custodial work areas and storage
Provide custodial work areas with well supported shelving for supplies, cleaning, and sanitation materials and an office area including male/female lockers and toilet facilities.
453.20.3 Custodial closets and storage
Custodial closets shall be provided with storage shelving and a service sink supplied with both hot and cold water. They shall be located to serve each instructional floor and wing regardless of floor area, and other areas such as stage, kitchen, gym, auditorium, clinic, offices and shops. The travel distance to the nearest custodial closet shall not exceed 150 feet (45.72 m).
453.20.4 Chemical and hazardous materials storage
In addition to the requirements of the Florida Building Code and the Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal for separation and protection, chemical and hazardous storage facilities shall also include:
453.20.4.1 Chemical storage
Doors shall be lockable from the outside and operable at all times from the inside. Rooms shall be well illuminated. Cabinets shall have shelves with a 1/2 inch (12.7 mm) lip on the front and shall be constructed of noncorrosive material.
453.20.4.2 Hazardous materials storage
Buildings and/or rooms used for the storage, handling and disposal of flammable, poisonous, or hazardous materials or liquids, and equipment powered by internal combustion engines and their fuels shall be separated from adjacent spaces by 1-hour fire-rated assemblies. These requirements also apply to completely detached buildings within 60 feet (18 288 mm) of student-occupied facilities. Doors shall have a C Label and open directly to the exterior. Storage buildings and/or rooms shall be mechanically ventilated. Electrical fixtures, switches, heat detectors and outlets installed in flammable storage rooms shall be explosion proof.
453.20.5 Custodial receiving
Custodial receiving where chemicals that are dangerous to human tissue are stored, handled, or mixed shall be equipped with a dousing shower and eye wash, including a floor drain.
453.21 Child care/day care/prekindergarten facilities
Child care/day care/prekindergarten facilities located on board-owned property shall comply with the Florida Building Code and the Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal and the specific criteria in this section. Child care/day care/prekindergarten facilities requiring a license from another agency may also be required to comply with additional construction requirements imposed by that agency.
Toilet facilities shall meet accessibility requirements and should open into the instructional space. The toilet may be used by both sexes and shall contain a water closet, lavatory and related accessories.
If child care facilities are provided with a bathing area, it shall be within or adjacent to the child care area and shall contain either a shower with hand-held sprayer or a tub. The water temperature shall be controlled by a mixing valve and shall not exceed 110°F (43°C).
Toilet facilities shall have a nonslip impervious floor and 6-foot (1829 mm) impervious wainscot.
Drinking fountain(s) shall be provided for the children and be within close proximity of the child care facility.
A towel and soap dispenser shall be provided at each sink. Hand wash areas for adults shall be provided with warm water; the water temperature shall be controlled by a mixing valve and shall not exceed 110°F (43°C). All electrical receptacles shall be placed out of reach of the children.
When provided, a residential-type kitchen shall include a nonslip floor, a refrigerator, a residential range, a residential-type range hood mechanically exhausted to the outside, and a fire extinguisher located within 15 feet (457 mm) of the range within the same room.
Areas designated for children’s sleeping mats, cots or cribs shall include a clearly marked exit passageway.
The child care facility shall not contain any storage of cleaning agents, chemicals, or other hazardous materials in student accessible areas.
Outdoor play areas shall be provided and shall be protected from access to streets or other dangers. The play area shall be fenced or walled to a minimum height of 4 feet (1219 mm) and any latches on maintenance gates shall be secured or beyond the reach of the children.
Shade shall be provided in the play area (a covered play area may be provided).
Play equipment shall be firmly anchored, free of sharp corners or pointed surfaces, and shall have cushioning surfaces such as mats or sand beneath.
The grounds shall be free of undergrowth or harmful plant material.
453.22 Clinics
Clinics in kindergarten through grade 12 (K–12), vocational-technical centers (VTC), and full service schools shall comply with the general criteria found in the Florida Building Code and the Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal, as well as the specific criteria found herein. Clinics shall be located and equipped to provide emergency aid to students. Closets and storage cabinets used for medications and bandages shall have locks, and shall be designed to be under constant supervision.
School clinics shall include locked storage, toilet room and shower, and bed space.
Sanitary facilities are required as follows:
Elementary school clinics, including kindergarten, shall include at a minimum one accessible toilet room, to serve male and female students, complete with a water closet, lavatory, accessible shower, changing table, and accessories.
Secondary and VTC school clinics shall include two accessible toilet rooms complete with water closet, lavatory, accessories and shower.
Toilet rooms in clinics shall include both hot and cold water at the showers and all lavatories. The water temperature shall be controlled by a mixing valve and shall not exceed 110°F (43°C).
Toilet rooms shall have exhaust fans vented to the exterior.
A working counter top with lavatory/sink and hot water shall be provided in each clinic.
453.22.4 The bed area shall be designed to maintain constant visual supervision from the office
Space for student beds shall be provided in each clinic at 50 square feet (4.6 m2) per bed. Space for beds in secondary and VTC schools shall be equally divided for male and female students. Beds shall be provided based on student capacity in the following ratios:
Up to 500 students—three beds.
501 to 1,000 students—four beds.
1,001 to 2,000 students—five beds.
Over 2,000—six beds.
453.22.5 Full-service school health clinics
Clinics shall be located to provide a direct accessible route from the exterior and from the interior or by a connecting covered walk.
453.22.5.2 Parking
Clinics shall be provided with 10 designated parking spaces immediately adjacent to the clinic, one of which shall be accessible to persons with disabilities.
453.22.5.3 Sanitary facilities
Full-service school clinics shall include one accessible toilet room for males and one for females, complete with water closet, lavatory, accessories, and shower. Additional toilets may be required for a full-service school clinic depending on occupant load and program.
Hot and cold water shall be provided at the showers and lavatories. The water temperature shall be controlled by a mixing valve and shall not exceed 110°F (43°C).
A nurses’ station shall be provided with a working counter with lavatory/sink and be located so as to maintain visual supervision of the bed area.
Locked storage rooms shall be provided for a refrigerator, files, equipment, and supplies.
Data outlets shall be provided for computer hook-ups and computer networking and additional electric outlets shall be provided for hearing and vision testing machines.
453.23 Kilns
Kilns shall not be located near or adjacent to paths of egress or exit and shall be placed in separate rooms when serving students through grade 3. Kiln rooms shall be provided with appropriate smoke/heat detectors connected to the fire alarm system.
453.24 Open plan schools
An open plan building or portion of a building may be subdivided into smaller areas by use of low partitions [maximum 5 feet high (1524 mm)], movable partitions, or movable furnishing, which by location and type do not hinder or obstruct the ability of persons in one area of the plan to be immediately aware of an emergency condition in any other area of the plan. Corridors shall be identified with different color or type of flooring materials, by permanent low partitions or by other means to prevent blockage of the path of egress to exits by partitions or furniture. When open plan schools are partitioned, the work shall conform to the code requirements for new construction. Demountable or movable partitions in open plan classroom areas shall be a maximum of 5 feet (1524 mm) in height and shall terminate a minimum of 5 feet (1524 mm) from any permanent wall. All circulation openings in open plan areas shall be a minimum of 5 feet (1524 mm) wide. Movable furnishings shall not exceed 5 feet (1524 mm) in height and shall have a stable base.
453.25 Public shelter design criteria
453.25.1 New facilities
New educational facilities for school boards and Florida college boards, unless specifically exempted by the board with the written concurrence of the applicable local emergency management agency or the Florida Division of Emergency Management (DEM), shall have appropriate areas designed as enhanced hurricane protection areas (EHPAs) in compliance with this section.
Exception: Facilities located, or proposed to be located, in a Category A, B or C evacuation zone shall not be subject to these requirements.
453.25.1.1 Enhanced hurricane protection areas (EHPA)
The EHPA areas shall provide emergency shelter and protection for people for a period of up to 8 hours during a hurricane.
The EHPA criteria apply only to the specific portions of (K–12) and Florida college educational facilities that are designated as EHPAs.
The EHPAs and related spaces shall serve the primary educational or auxiliary use during nonshelter occupancy.
453.25.2 Site
Factors such as low evacuation demand, size, location, accessibility and storm surge may be considered by the board, with written concurrence of the local emergency management agency or the DEM, in exempting a particular facility.
453.25.2.1 Emergency access
EHPAs shall have at least one route for emergency vehicle access. The emergency route shall be above the 100-year floodplain. This requirement may be waived by the board, with concurrence of the local emergency management agency or the DEM.
453.25.2.2 Landscaping
Landscaping around the EHPAs shall be designed to preserve safety and emergency access. Trees shall not conflict with the functioning of overhead or underground utility lines, or cause laydown or impact hazard to the building envelope.
During an emergency condition, vehicle parking shall be prohibited within 50 feet (15 240 mm) of an EHPA. Designated EHPA parking areas may be unpaved.
453.25.2.4 Signage
Floor plans of the facility, indicating EHPAs, shall be mounted in the emergency manager’s office/area.
453.25.3 Design
EHPAs may be above or below ground and may have more than one story, provided the design satisfies the wind load and missile impact criteria. Modular and open-plan buildings may serve as EHPAs provided the design satisfies the wind load and missile impact criteria.
453.25.3.1 Excluded spaces
Spaces such as mechanical and electrical rooms, storage rooms, open corridors, kitchens, science rooms and labs, vocational shop areas and labs, computer rooms, attic and crawl spaces shall not be used as EHPAs.
453.25.3.2 Capacity
Fifty percent of the net square feet of a designated educational facility shall be constructed as EHPAs. The net square feet shall be determined by subtracting from the gross square feet those spaces, such as mechanical and electrical rooms, storage rooms, open corridors, kitchens, science rooms and labs, vocational shop areas and labs, computer rooms, attic and crawl spaces that shall not be used as EHPAs. The board, with concurrence of the applicable local emergency management agency or DEM, may adjust this requirement if it is determined to be in its best interest. The capacity of an EHPA shall be calculated at 20 square feet (1.86 m2) per occupant (adults and children five years or older).
453.25.3.3 Toilets
Toilet and hand-washing facilities should be located within the EHPAs and provided at one toilet and one sink per 40 occupants. These required toilet and hand-washing facilities are not in addition to those required for normal school occupancy and shall be included in the overall facility fixture count.
Support systems for the toilets, e.g., bladders, portable toilets, water storage tanks, etc., shall be capable of supplying water and containing waste, for the designed capacity of the EHPAs.
Plumbing and valve systems of “normal” toilets within the EHPAs may be designed for conversion to emergency operation to meet the required demand.
453.25.3.4 Food service
Where feasible, include counter tops for food distribution functions in the EHPAs.
453.25.3.5 Manager’s office
An administration office normally used by a school administrator shall be identified as the EHPA manager’s office and shall be located within the EHPA. The office shall have provisions for standby power, lighting, communications, main fire alarm control panel and storage for the manager’s equipment.
453.25.4 Structural standard for wind loads
At a minimum, EHPAs shall be designed for hurricane wind loads in accordance with ICC 500.
453.25.4.1 Enclosure classifications
Enclosure classifications for EHPAs shall be determined in accordance with ASCE 7-10, Section 26.2.
453.25.4.2 Mechanical ventilation
EHPAs shall have mechanical ventilation systems. Ventilation shall be provided at a minimum rate of 2 cfm per square foot (0.6 m3/min. per square meter) of EHPA floor area. The mechanical ventilation system shall be connected to the EHPA’s emergency power.
453.25.4.3 Exterior envelope
The exterior envelope, louvers over air intakes and vents, and gooseneck-type intakes and vents of EHPAs shall be designed and installed to meet the wind load and missile impact criteria.
HVAC equipment mounted on roofs and anchoring systems shall be designed and installed to meet the wind load criteria.
Roof-mounted HVAC equipment shall have a 12-inch-high (305 mm) curb around the roof opening and be designed to prevent the entry of rain water.
Exception: Exposed mechanical equipment or appliances fastened to a roof or installed on the ground in compliance with the code using rated stands, platforms, curbs, slabs, walls, or other means are deemed to comply with the wind-resistance requirements of the 2007 Florida Building Code, as amended. Further support or enclosure of such mechanical equipment or appliances is not required by a state or local official having authority to enforce the Florida Building Code.
453.25.5 Electrical and standby emergency power system
The EHPA shall be provided with a standby emergency electrical power system, per Chapter 27, NFPA 70 Articles 700 and 701, which shall have the capability of being connected to a backup generator or other optional power source. Where economically feasible, an equivalent photovoltaic system may be provided. The EHPA’s emergency systems includes, but are not limited to: (1) an emergency lighting system, (2) illuminated exit signs, (3) fire protection system(s), alarm (campus wide) and sprinkler, and (4) minimum ventilation for health/safety purposes. The fire alarm panel shall be located in the EHPA manager’s office. A remote annunciator panel shall be located in or adjacent to the school administrator’s office. When generators are installed, the facility housing the generator, permanent or portable, shall be an enclosed area designed to protect the generators from wind and missile impact. Air intakes and exhausts shall be designed and installed to meet the wind load and missile impact criteria. Generators hardened by the manufacturer to withstand the area’s design wind and missile impact criteria shall be exempt from the enclosed area criteria requirement.
453.25.5.1 EHPA lighting
Emergency lighting shall be provided within the EHPA area, EHPA manager’s office, toilet rooms, main electrical room and generator spaces and shall be at least 10 footcandles (100 lux) of general illumination, which can be reduced to 1/2 footcandle (5 lux) in the sleeping areas during the night.
453.25.5.2 Optional standby systems
Additional nonlife safety systems, as defined by Chapter 27, NFPA 70 Article 702 (Optional Standby systems), may be supplied power, if available, by the standby emergency power system. These systems shall be connected to the standby emergency power system via an electrical subpanel to the standby electrical power system’s main electrical panel. This will allow selective or total load shedding of power if required. The fire alarm, emergency lighting and illuminated exit signs throughout the entire campus shall receive first priority to power provided by the standby emergency power system per Chapter 27, NFPA 70 Article 700. The systems listed are not all encompassing but are in order of priority. Local officials may request additional nonlife safety systems they deem necessary for health, welfare and safety of the public during occupancy:
Remainder of the school’s campus security lighting (building and site).
Additional ventilation systems within the EHPA, including heat.
Intercom system.
Food storage equipment.
Additional electric receptacles, other than those required by Section 453.25.5.3.
453.25.5.3 Receptacle outlets
A minimum of four electrical outlets, served with power from the standby circuits, shall be provided in the EHPA manager’s office.
453.25.6 Inspections
EHPAs shall be considered “threshold buildings” in accordance with Section 553.71(11), Florida Statutes, and shall comply with Sections 553.79(5), 553.79(7), and 553.79(8), Florida Statutes.
Construction of EHPAs shall be inspected during the construction process by certified building code inspectors or the design architect/engineer(s) certified pursuant to Part XII Chapter 468, Florida Statutes and threshold inspectors for compliance with applicable rules and laws.
The emergency electrical systems shall be inspected during the construction process by certified electrical inspector or Florida-registered professional engineers certified pursuant to Part XII Chapter 468, Florida Statutes, skilled in electrical design.
EHPAs shall be inspected and recertified for compliance with the structural requirements of this section every five years by a Florida-registered professional engineer skilled in structural design. If any structural system, as specified in this section, is damaged or replaced, the recertification shall be obtained prior to the beginning of the next hurricane season.
All shutter systems, roofs, overflow scuppers, and structural systems of EHPAs shall be inspected and maintained annually prior to hurricane season and after a major event. All emergency generators shall be inspected under load conditions including activation of the fire alarms, emergency lights in accordance with applicable equipment codes and NFPA standards, and including mechanical systems and receptacles connected to the emergency power.
453.26 Time-out rooms
Locking an individual inside a space without a means of opening the door from within that space is contrary to the exiting philosophy of the Florida Building Code and the Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal for educational facilities. The educational program which requires containment of the outof-control student can be accommodated within this context only if the following are met:
453.26.2 Electromagnetic locking device
When a timeout room is to be locked, an electromagnetic locking device may be used and shall have the following features:
The lock shall remain engaged only when a push button mounted outside the time-out room adjacent to the door frame is continuously depressed by hand. Upon release of pressure, the door shall unlock. The locking device shall be designed so that it cannot be engaged by leverage of an inanimate object or in any other manner except by constant human contact.
The push button, or similar device, shall be recessed from the face of the unit housing, or in some other way designed to prevent taping or wedging the button in the engaged mode.
The device shall have an interface relay with the fire alarm system and shall automatically release upon activation of the fire alarm.
The locking device shall automatically disengage in the event of a power failure.
Timers shall not be used on the locking device.
453.26.3 Door requirements
The door shall have only a push plate exposed on the interior of the room.
The door shall swing out of the room and shall be equipped with a fully concealed track-type closer.
A vision panel shall be provided in the door, and it shall be no larger than 144 square inches (0.093 m2). The view panel shall consist of a clear 1/4-inch-thick (6 mm) unbreakable plastic panel flush with the inside face of the door on the inside of the room. The panel shall be positioned in the door so that a staff member may continuously keep the student under surveillance.
The door frame and jamb/head reveal on the inside shall be minimal. If provided, a flat metal threshold shall be used.
453.26.4 Finishes
The floor and walls shall be durable, vandal-resistant materials. The ceiling shall be of a solid and moisture-resistant material. There shall be no projections or protrusions from the walls, ceiling, or floor. All surfaces shall be smooth and no electrical outlets, switches, plumbing clean-outs or similar items shall be inside the room. The room shall not contain anything that can be set on fire, torn, shredded or otherwise used for self-harm.
453.26.5 Minimum size
The room shall be designed for a single occupant only and shall be a minimum of 6 feet by 6 feet (1828 mm by 1828 mm).
453.26.6 Lighting
The room shall have a recessed vandalproof light fixture in the ceiling capable of being dimmed. The ligt switch shall be located outside the room adjacent to the door jamb.
453.26.7 HVAC required
Time-out rooms shall be mechanically heated and cooled. Registers shall be ceiling mounted and vandalproof.
453.27 New relocatable buildings
453.27.1 Relocatables
The terms “relocatable” and “portable” are interchangeable and both terms are used to describe buildings which are constructed to the same building codes as permanent public school buildings, except they are designed to be moved. These buildings may be manufactured in a plant, constructed on site, may be made of demountable components, and may be combined. All new relocatable or portable classrooms shall be designed and constructed in compliance with the Florida Building Code, the Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal and the Department of Business and Professional Regulation rules for factorybuilt school buildings (see Section 458). The requirements for new relocatables contained herein are in addition to the minimum requirements of the Florida Building Code and the Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by the State Fire Marshal. New relocatables which do not comply with the building codes, fire codes and these standards shall not be used as classrooms or for any other student occupancy.
Factory-built school shelter means any siteassembled or factory-built school building that is designed to be portable, relocatable, demountable or reconstructable and that complies with the provisions for enhanced hurricane protection areas, as required by the applicable code (see Section 453.25).
453.27.2 Design, plan approval, construction
Regardless of cost or fund source, whether used for classroom, auxiliary or ancillary space, whether leased, purchased, contracted, or constructed by the school board or Florida college board, plans and documents for relocatables, portables and modular schools shall be prepared by Florida registered design professionals and submitted to the authority having jurisdiction for review and approval for compliance with Florida laws, rules, building and life safety codes. The buildings shall be constructed and inspected by personnel licensed, certified or trained as required by Florida construction industry licensing laws.
453.27.2.1 District-wide foundation plans
Districtwide foundation plans for tie down and wind resistance for each type of relocatable and each type of known soil condition in the district, shall be prepared and reviewed at the time of the design and shall be required as a part of the approval of any relocatable. These documents shall be kept on file in the district, with an additional copy in each relocatable filed together with current annual local fire inspection reports, as required by law. The foundation plans shall be reviewed and updated when necessary for compliance with current code for subsequent installations of the relocatable. Relocatables which do not meet the requirements of code for tie down and wind resistance shall not be occupied.
453.27.2.2 DOT requirements
Relocatable units designed to be moved on state roads shall comply with the maximum unit height, length and width requirements of the DOT.
453.27.2.3 Inventory/construction date signage
A FISH inventory room number and the date of construction shall be noted on an inventory sign permanently affixed outside, beside or above the door, on all relocatables owned or leased by a district.
453.27.3 Construction type
All new relocatables constructed, purchased or otherwise acquired by a board shall be noncombustible Type I, II or IV construction.
All relocatables constructed, purchased or otherwise acquired by a board after the effective date of these standards shall comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act as modified by Chapter 553, Florida Statutes, Florida Building Code, Accessibility. Relocatables intended for use at facilities housing up to grades 5 or 6, shall also conform to the federal criteria ADA Accessibility Guidelines for Building Elements Designed for Children’s Use, which is available from the U.S. Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board.
453.27.5 Site standards/site plan
Relocatables placed on educational plant sites shall comply with federal and state laws and rules relating to the placement of structures on sites, as well as building code, fire code site requirements.
453.27.5.1 Floodplain
Compliance with floodplain standards is required for the initial and subsequent installation of public educational relocatable units. The finished floor shall be 12 inches (305 mm) above base flood elevation, the structure shall be designed to meet the Florida Building Code and anchored to resist buoyant forces.
453.27.5.2 Covered walks and technology
New relocatables and “modular schools” acquired by a board which are intended for long term use, shall be connected from exit door to the core facilities by accessible covered walkways, and shall contain wiring and computer technologies which connect to the facility’s technology, communications and fire alarms infrastructure.
Covered walks and public address systems are not required for Florida college facilities.
Temporary relocatables constructed after the date of this standard shall meet all construction requirements of this code, except that covered walks may be installed. The term “temporary relocatable” means relocatables which are used for less than 3 years to provide temporary housing while permanent replacement classrooms and related facilities are under construction, renovation or remodeling. The term “temporary relocatable” does not apply to relocatables which have been located on a school site for more than 2 years and used for classrooms or for student occupancy, where there is no identifiable permanent facility which is under construction, being remodeled, or renovated to house the students.
453.27.5.3 Separation of units
Type I, II or IV, (noncombustible) relocatable units shall be separated as required by the Florida Building Code and the school site plan.
453.27.6 Structure
Relocatable structures shall be positively anchored and designed to comply with Florida Building Code requirements.
453.27.7 Fire-retardant-treated wood (FRTW)
Only FRTW which does not contain ammonium phosphates, sulfates, or halides may be used in the roof structure of Type II construction, as authorized by other sections of the Florida Building Code. FRTW shall comply with the specific requirements found elsewhere in these public educational facilities requirements. Contractors shall provide evidence of compliance to inspectors. Inspection access panels shall be provided to facilitate initial and annual inspections for general condition assessment of FRTW and connectors.
Exit doors shall swing in the direction of exit travel.
453.27.8.1 Classroom locksets
Each door shall be equipped with a lockset, which is readily opened from the side from which egress is to be made at all times, a threshold, heavy duty hinges, and closer to control door closing. Each door shall have a view panel, with minimum dimensions of 8 inches (203 mm) by 42 inches (1067 mm) and a maximum of 1,296 square inches (0.84 m2), of 1/4-inch (6 mm) tempered or safety glass installed with the bottom edge of the panel at 30 inches (762 mm) AFF. Each exterior door shall be protected from the elements by a roof overhang.
453.27.8.2 Roofed platform
All exterior doors shall open onto a minimum 5 foot by 5 foot (1524 mm by 1524 mm) roofed platform with handrails, which is level with the interior floor.
453.27.9 Operable windows
Classrooms shall have operable windows equal to at least 5 percent of the floor area of the unit where required by Section 1013.44, Florida Statutes. Exterior doors may be included in computing the required 5 percent. Awning, casement, or projecting windows shall not be placed in walls with adjacent walks, ramps, steps or platforms.
453.27.9.1 Rescue
Windows for emergency rescue shall comply with NFPA 101, Florida edition as adopted by the Florida Fire Prevention Code, shall be operable from the inside by a single operation and shall be labeled “EMERGENCY RESCUE—KEEP AREA CLEAR.”
453.27.10 Finishes
Finishes in relocatable units shall comply with the following:
453.27.10.1 Interior walls and ceilings
Interior wall and ceiling finishes in classrooms and other student use spaces shall be Class A or B as defined in NFPA 101, Florida edition as adopted by the Florida Fire Prevention Code. Corridor finishes shall be Class A. Formaldehyde levels shall not exceed the minimum HUD standards for manufactured housing.
453.27.10.2 Floors
Floors shall be covered with resilient material, carpet, or other finished product. Carpet in classrooms shall be tested and certified by the manufacturer as passing the Radiant Panel Test Class II. Carpet in corridors shall be tested and certified by the manufacturer as passing the Radiant Panel Test Class I.
453.27.10.3 Toilet rooms, showers and bathing facilities
Partitions and walls separating group toilet rooms shall be extended to the bottom of the roof deck.
453.27.10.3.1
Toilet room floors and base shall be finished with impervious nonslip materials. Toilet room walls shall be finished with impervious materials which shall be extended to a minimum height of 6 feet (1828 mm).
Ceilings shall be of solid-type moisture-resistant materials.
453.27.11 Fire extinguishers
At least one appropriate fire extinguisher shall be provided in each relocatable classroom unit and in each classroom of a multiclassroom building.
453.27.12 Document storage
Provision shall be made to secure foundation plans and to post the annual fire inspection report within each relocatable unit.
453.27.13 Time-out rooms
Time-out rooms are not recommended but, when provided, shall comply with the specific requirements for time-out rooms found elsewhere in these public educational facilities code requirements.
453.27.14 Child care/day care units
Standard classroom units intended to house birth to age 3 children, including teenage parent programs (TAP), shall meet the additional criteria under the title of Child Care/Day Care/Prekindergarten Facilities for permanent buildings contained in these public educational facilities requirements, as well as the following:
All TAP spaces where residential kitchens are provided shall have two doors exiting directly to the outside and remotely located from each other. Areas designated for children’s sleeping mats, cots or cribs, shall have a clearly marked exit passageway.
453.27.15 Illumination required
Illumination in classroom units shall be designed to provide an average maintained 50 footcandles (500 lux) at desk top.
453.27.15.1 Emergency lighting
Each classroom unit shall be equipped with emergency lighting.
453.27.15.2 Exterior lighting
Exterior lighting shall be provided as required elsewhere in these public educational facilities code requirements.
453.27.15.3 Exit lighting
Exit lights shall be provided as required by the Florida Fire Prevention Code adopted by the State Fire Marshal.
Air conditioning, heating and ventilation. Relocatable facilities shall meet Florida Building Code requirements.
453.27.17 Technology
Relocatables shall contain wiring and computer technology appropriate for the programs to be housed.
453.27.18 Fire safety requirements
New relocatables shall be provided with fire alarm devices meeting the code requirements for permanent educational facilities and shall be connected to the facility’s main fire alarm system as required by code.
453.27.19 Inspection of units during construction
Boards shall provide for the inspection of relocatables during construction, as required by the Florida Building Code, as authorized by statute.
453.27.20 Inspection of units prior to occupancy
Prior to occupancy new relocatables shall be inspected and approved for compliance to the Florida Building Code. New units shall have foundation plans provided and secured, in the relocatable along with the local fire inspector report. Certification of such inspection shall remain on file with the district. Inventory/date of construction signage shall be affixed to the relocatable. Where FRTW is used, inspection access panels shall be provided and within easy reach to facilitate inspection for general condition assessment of FRTW and connectors.
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Out of the blue Red Bull tests "insane" – Dennis
Surprise Red Bull test driver Jake Dennis has admitted it was “insane” to see what a 2018 Formula 1 car is capable of after his “completely out of the blue” call-up.
Dennis was a Racing Steps Foundation-backed rising star who won races in European Formula 3 and GP3 before he stopped racing single-seaters at the end of 2016.
He switched to GT3 racing for 2017 with Audi-backed squad WRT before joining Aston Martin’s roster of drivers this year, and the British manufacturer’s partnership with Red Bull meant Dennis became a simulator driver for the F1 team as well.
The 2012 McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winner was then called up to test for Red Bull at Barcelona earlier this year with only a few days’ notice.
He reprised that role in Hungary last week as Red Bull junior Dan Ticktum was not allowed to drive.
“The two tests have been completely out of the blue for me," Dennis told Motorsport.com. "I didn’t expect it when I joined Red Bull and I don’t think they did either.
“It’s a dream come true to drive 2018 F1 cars, everyone has said how incredible they are and they live up to that expectation.”
Dennis did not do performance running in Spain but was able to try Pirelli’s hypersoft tyre in Hungary.
He lapped third-fastest and his 1m17.012s was just a tenth shy of Red Bull’s fastest time from the grand prix weekend, albeit set on ultrasofts.
“I enjoyed that, to push these cars to their limits was a great experience,” said Dennis.
“It’s a phenomenal tyre, it’s incredible. I struggled a bit in the final sector, but sectors one and two…it’s insane what the cars can do.”
The 23-year-old Briton completed 75 laps (349km/216 miles) at Barcelona but his tally at the Hungaroring was 131 laps (573km/356 miles), which he put down to more faith from the team and more preparation.
“I was definitely more relaxed, more than anything,” he said. “I felt confident in the car in Barcelona, but it’s just the team know what I’m capable of now, I don’t have to prove myself and could enjoy it a bit more.
“Barcelona was so stressful, it was so last-minute – I got told four or five days before.
“This time I’ve had lots of preparation and it helps, the amount of laps I did shows I was fit enough.”
Dennis was one of four McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winners testing in Hungary, where he joined Mercedes and McLaren proteges George Russell (2014) and Lando Norris (2016) and Williams hopeful Oliver Rowland (2011).
The same quartet also tested in Spain, where McLaren simulator driver Oliver Turvey (2006) made it five Award winners in action.
Dennis said: “You’ve got Lando and George still on the F1 ladder and pushing hard in F2 to try to get a seat in F1.
“I’m on a different career path, I’m settled in GT3, making a living. It’s great to have so many Brits pushing well in F1 and motorsport.”
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Improving accessibility for women at Dongara Golf Club
360 km north of Perth lies Dongara Golf Club, an 18-hole grass green course and one of the few grass green clubs that continues to be maintained solely by voluntary members. A not-for-profit organisation, community and accessibility are evidently a key focus at Dongara.
Like many Golf Clubs, Dongara Golf Club has limited female participation, both in competition participation and club membership. This lack of participation is a global trend, with many factors being cited as barriers to more women playing golf including lack of time and a bit of trepidation of being a member of a golf club.
The WA Golf Foundation is working closely with clubs like Dongara to support them in breaking down these barriers and getting more women involved.
Throughout 2018, Dongara Golf Club (DGC) ran a series of clinics, in an effort to raise the profile of female golf amongst the Dongara/Denison population as well as making it more accessible for beginners. To achieve this, DGC implemented skills clinics/education sessions run by a professional, obtained three sets of golf clubs to be kept at the club and used, and making online courses available for those interested in further developing their skills.
Clinics were run by Daniel Bennett, a golfing professional from Geraldton GC with the ability to educate new players and beginners. The initial lessons that were run attracted 28 women, with another 17 signing up for an additional four weeks.
Not only are these women improving their basic skills, but some are making even more of a commitment to the sport.
After hosting the lessons, the club had two new members join, and saw an increase in the number of 9-hole competition players, rising from four to nine.
The clubs that the DGC acquired have been used by women in the 9-hole competition, and an additional 3 sets of clubs have been purchased as a result of the clinics. Access to equipment makes it easier for women to take part in the sport, and assists in breaking down preventative barriers.
Online courses are in the process of being made more accessible to offer lessons in a different format.
Seeing the number of women playing golf at Dongara growing is just another sign of good growth in the sport, and the WA Golf Foundation looks forward to continuing to support DGC in their development programs.
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Review of Rheumatoid Arthritis for the Pharmacist
Sana Iqbal
Mohammad A. Rattu, PharmD, BCOP, BCPS, BCGP
Oncology Pharmacist
The Mount Sinai Hospital
Neal Shah, PharmD
MD/PhD Candidate 2020
West Virginia University School of Medicine
US Pharm. 2019;44(3):28-32.
ABSTRACT: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic disease affecting up to 1% of populations in developed countries. Certain genetic and environmental factors appear to promote the development of RA, but patients can present with heterogeneous signs and symptoms. The goals of any treatment for RA are the reduction of inflammation and remission of disease. Historic treatments, such as aspirin and colloidal gold, were inadequate and did not affect the course of RA. In current practice, there are several biological and synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs that can reduce disease severity. Guidelines provide point systems for disease classification, stepwise algorithms for treatment, and recommendations for follow-up and monitoring based on response and comorbidities. As RA is a long-term condition, pharmacists can work together with providers to ensure proper drug dosing, titration, and monitoring.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune, inflammatory disease that causes pain, swelling, stiffness, and loss of function in various joints (most commonly in the hands, wrists, and knees).1-3 The respective joint’s lining becomes inflamed, leading to tissue damage, as well as chronic pain, unsteadiness, and deformity.3 There is generally a bilateral/symmetrical pattern of disease progression (e.g., both hands or both knees are affected).2 RA can also affect extra-articular sites, including the eyes, mouth, lungs, and heart.1 Patients can experience an acute worsening of their symptoms—disease flare—but with early intervention and appropriate treatment, symptoms can be ameliorated for a certain duration (disease remission).3,4
In 2005, RA was prevalent in about 1.3 million adults in the United States, and 2 years later, it affected an estimated 1.5 million adults.2,5 More recent data on RA prevalence in the U.S. are not available yet in the literature. RA can occur in all races and ethnic groups.2 The prevalence of RA in developed countries is 0.5% to 1% of the population (0.6% in the U.S.).5-7 Women have a two- to- three times greater predisposition for developing RA compared with men.1,2,5 RA onset generally occurs in middle age and is more common in older adults, but it can also develop in children and young adults.1,2 The lifetime risk of developing an inflammatory autoimmune rheumatic disease is 1 in 12 (8.3%) for women and 1 in 20 (5%) for men.5 Specifically, the lifetime risk of developing adult-onset RA is 1 in 28 (3.6%) for women and 1 in 59 (1.7%) for men.8 Over time, RA severity has declined, particularly owing to earlier diagnosis and more effective drug regimens, but trends in RA incidence, prevalence, and mortality vary based on the studied population.5,6
The exact cause of RA is still unknown, but genes, environmental factors, and hormones may be involved in its autoimmune development and progression.1-3 Certain risk factors appear to increase the risk of RA, including older age (highest incidence in people aged 60 years); gender (higher incidence in women); genetics (especially human leukocyte antigen [HLA] class II genotypes, such as HLA-DRB1); smoking (tobacco, cigarettes); history of live births (higher RA risk with nulliparity); early life exposures (if mother smoked, child has greater risk of RA); and obesity (higher risk with increasing body weight).3,7,8 Patients who are seropositive for anticitrullinated protein antibodies (ACPAs) or rheumatoid factors (RFs) also have an increased risk of RA.7 Interestingly, women who breastfeed their children appear to have a lower risk of RA.3 Before the advent of effective disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and biological therapies, patients with RA had a higher likelihood of dying from premature atherosclerosis, cancer, and infection.2
Joint swelling in RA is usually synovial-membrane inflammation, with cytokine and chemokine involvement.7 The most relevant components in the inflamed space include tumor necrosis factor (TNF), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor.7 Cytokines and chemokines induce or aggravate the inflammatory response by activating endothelial cells and promoting immune-system cell accumulation within the synovial compartment.7 Activated fibroblasts, B cells, T cells, monocytes, and macrophages can eventually trigger osteoclast generation via receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-B ligand (RANKL), which is expressed on B cells, T cells, and fibroblasts.7 The RANK receptor is present on macrophages, dendritic cells, and preosteoclasts.7 In addition, the cartilage matrix within joints is eventually degraded by metalloproteinases and other enzymes.7
In RA, signs and symptoms may overlap with other rheumatic diseases, but classification criteria can assist with diagnosis.7,8 Patients with RA will generally complain of multiarticular pain/aching, morning stiffness, tenderness/swelling, and bilateral/symmetrical joint involvement (e.g., both hands, both knees).3 Patients may also present with weight loss, fever, fatigue, and/or weakness.3 In addition to physical symptoms, the laboratory diagnosis (measurable sign) of RA has improved with the identification of highly specific biomarkers.2 Along with an elevated C-reactive protein (CRP) and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), the presence of autoantibodies (e.g., ACPA, RF) typically indicates more severe joint damage and increased mortality.7 Of note, RF is directly involved in mechanisms related to cytokine and macrophage activation.7 ACPAs form immune complexes that interact with RF, enhancing the effects of inflammation and subsequent joint destruction.7 While on treatment for RA, the concentrations of ACPA and RF should decrease.7 Patients will rarely become ACPA seronegative, but they can become RF seronegative.7
These findings and laboratory values are incorporated in the classification criteria for RA, with joint involvement, serology, acute-phase reactants, and symptom duration as the main categories for consideration.9 An increasing number of affected joints (≥1 small joint), positivity of RF and/or ACPA, abnormal ESR and/or CRP, and duration of symptoms (≥6 weeks) are scored and calculated, with a score of ≥6 out of 10 being a definitive RA diagnosis.9
Reversal of inflammation is the typical goal of therapy for RA, and without adequate treatment, patients can develop irreversible disabilities.7,8 Interventions for RA include drugs, lifestyle modifications, and surgical procedures, all of which can ameliorate joint damage and reduce pain and swelling.1 With each approach, there should also be a regular assessment of response (via disease activity), permitting a strategy of adaptation or treating to target.7 Mild-to-moderate RA can be adequately treated in certain patients: The disease can be controlled without flares.1 On the other hand, in severe RA, the signs/symptoms may be more long-term.1
Historic treatments for RA included aspirin and colloidal gold.2 These therapies relieved symptoms, but did not significantly slow or modify disease progression.2 Steroids permit rapid symptom improvement and some disease-modifying benefits, but long-term use is typically associated with serious adverse effects (e.g., hypertension, diabetes, osteoporosis, and cataracts).2,7 Cyclosporine had also been used, but it can be insufficient or ineffective in certain patients, with various side effects.2 Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs; e.g., ibuprofen, naproxen) were included as possible treatments for RA.These will reduce pain, swelling, and stiffness, as well as improve physical function, but have no discernable effect on joint damage (i.e., NSAIDs are not DMARDs).7 These drugs are no longer preferred, according to recent guidelines.4
There is now a better understanding of the mechanisms/pathways involved in RA, permitting site-specific drug development.2 There are two major types of DMARDs: biological and synthetic (see Table 1).7 Conventional, synthetic DMARDs (csDMARDs) are not site-specific, and they have unclear mechanisms of action for relieving RA.7 On the other hand, targeted, synthetic DMARDs focus on a specific site (e.g., inhibiting the Janus kinase [JAK] enzyme).7 Biological DMARDs are also site-specific (e.g., targeting TNF, IL-6, IL-1, B cells, or T cells).2,7
Two major groups have generated RA guidelines: the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR).4,10 The ACR guideline has algorithms for early and established RA, while the EULAR guideline uses a three-phase approach.4,10 In addition, “DMARD” in the ACR guideline implies csDMARD.
ACR 2015
For early RA (symptom duration <6 months), regardless of disease activity level, a treat-to-target strategy is preferable over a nontargeted approach.4 See Figure 1 for an abbreviated treatment algorithm for early RA.4
Regardless of disease activity (low/moderate/high) in DMARD-naïve patients, DMARD monotherapy (methotrexate [MTX] preferable) should be used, instead of upfront double or triple DMARD therapy.4 If there is moderate-to-high disease activity (MHDA) despite DMARD monotherapy (+/- steroids), DMARD combinations or TNF inhibitor (TNFi) (+/-MTX) or non-TNFi (+/- MTX) should be used.4 Of note, TNFi monotherapy is preferable over tofacitinib, and TNFi + MTX is preferable over tofacitinib + MTX.4
For established RA (symptom duration ≥6 months), regardless of disease activity, a treat-to-target strategy is still preferable over a nontargeted approach.4 See Figure 2 for an abbreviated treatment algorithm for established RA.4
If disease activity is low in DMARD-naïve patients, DMARD monotherapy (MTX preferable) should be used over a TNFi.4 If MHDA occurs in DMARD-naïve patients, DMARD monotherapy (MTX preferable) should be used over DMARD combinations or tofacitinib.4
If MHDA occurs despite DMARD monotherapy, DMARD combinations or a TNFi (+/- MTX) or non-TNFi (+/- MTX) or tofacitinib (+/- MTX) can be used.4
If MHDA occurs despite aTNFi in DMARD-naïve patients, DMARDs (≤2) can be combined with TNFi.4 Alternatively, a non-TNFi (+/- MTX) can be used, instead of another TNFi (+/- MTX) or tofacitinib (+/- MTX).4 If MHDA occurs despite non-TNFi monotherapy, another non-TNFi (+/- MTX) can be used, instead of tofacitinib (+/- MTX).4 If MHDA occurs despite multiple (>2) sequential TNFi therapies, a non-TNFi (+/- MTX) can be used initially, instead of another TNFi or tofacitinib.4
If a non-TNFi cannot be used, and if MHDA occurs despite multiple TNFi, tofacitinib (+/- MTX) can be used, instead of another TNFi (+/- MTX).4 If MHDA occurs despite using >1 TNFi and >1 non-TNFi, another non-TNFi (+/- MTX) can be used initially, instead of tofacitinib; alternatively, tofacitinib (+/- MTX) can be used instead of trying another TNFi.4 If MHDA occurs despite DMARDs, TNFi, or non-TNFi, short-term/low-dose steroids can be added.4
In phase I, MTX with upfront steroids is recommended, since steroids should be used when bridging/titrating csDMARD doses.8,10 Furthermore, MTX should be rapidly titrated to a goal of 25 mg/week (with folic acid 1 mg daily or folinic acid 2.5 mg daily supplementation), along with low/intermediate-dose steroids for up to 5 months (when MTX or another csDMARD should have reached maximal effectiveness).8,11 If there is a contraindication to MTX, patients can begin treatment with leflunomide or sulfasalazine (along with steroids).10
In phase II, for patients who do not respond to initial csDMARD therapy (owing to efficacy +/- toxicity issues) and have prognostically unfavorable factors present (e.g., RF, ACPA, high disease activity, early joint damage, or failure of >2 csDMARDs), a biological DMARD (e.g., TNFi or non-TNFi) or JAK inhibitor such as tofacitinib should be used.10 On the other hand, if patients do not have such factors present, the csDMARD can be switched to another csDMARD, or a combination of csDMARDs can be used.10
In phase III, for patients who do not respond to therapies from phase II, the initial biological DMARD should be switched to another biological DMARD (e.g., abatacept, IL-6 inhibitor, rituximab, or another TNF-alpha inhibitor) or a JAK inhibitor.10 The biological DMARD or JAK inhibitor should be combined with a csDMARD.10
Disease Flares
If disease flares occur while patients receive DMARDs, TNFi, and/or a non-TNFi, short-term steroids can be added, but at the lowest possible dose/duration.4
Remission
If patients are in remission, DMARDs, TNFis, non-TNFis, and/or tofacitinib can be tapered (but should not be discontinued altogether).4 On the other hand, if there is still low-level disease activity, DMARDs, TNFis, non-TNFis, and/or tofacitinib should be continued at the current doses.4
Vaccination Considerations
All therapies for RA suppress the immune system to some degree, which can be concerning for vaccination.4 There are four types of vaccines: (1) live-attenuated; (2) inactivated; (3) subunit, recombinant, polysaccharide, and conjugate; and (4) toxoid.12 The ACR guideline mentions that inactivated (specifically, pneumococcal, influenza, hepatitis B) and recombinant (specifically, human papilloma virus) vaccines are permissible for administration prior to or during all types of DMARD treatment (e.g., DMARD monotherapy, DMARD combinations, TNFi biological, or non-TNFi biological).4 Live-attenuated vaccines (specifically: herpes zoster) are permissible prior to initiating DMARD treatment, but are not recommended for administration while patients are on biological DMARDs.4 The ACR guideline does not explicitly mention recommendations for MMR, hepatitis A, polio, Haemophilus influenzae type B, meningococcal, diphtheria, tetanus, or pertussis vaccines.4
Current guidelines do not address sarilumab (IL-6 inhibitor; approved in 2017) or baricitinib (JAK inhibitor; approved in 2018) yet.4,10,13,14 An update to the ACR guideline is pending.15
ROLE OF THE PHARMACIST
The majority of RA cases are diagnosed and treated on an outpatient basis. Pharmacists in ambulatory care settings (e.g., clinics, community pharmacies) have pivotal opportunities to counsel patients and ensure that RA drugs are administered appropriately. An example of such a drug is MTX, which should be taken once weekly, along with folic acid supplementation. During disease flares, patients may be prescribed steroids, which have myriad side effects, including hypertension, hyperglycemia, mood changes, and insomnia; pharmacists can confirm steroid dose and duration, as well as clarify whether a taper would be required. For biological DMARDs, pharmacists can reconfirm that patients are capable of self-administration, especially if they have severe RA and possible deformities in their hands or wrists.
RA is a chronic disease that requires interventions to modify disease progression. While initial presentations are related to joint inflammation, long-term sequelae can include extra-skeletal manifestations. The most recent RA guidelines are from ACR 2015 and EULAR 2016. There are specific differences between the guidelines, based on the respective region/population studied. A future update of the ACR guidelines may contain commentary regarding the roles of baricitinib and sarilumab, as well as other promising therapies for RA.
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https://medlineplus.gov/rheumatoidarthritis.html. Accessed January 13, 2019.
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3. CDC. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA). www.cdc.gov/arthritis/basics/rheumatoid-arthritis.html. Accessed January 13, 2019.
4. Singh JA, Saag KG, Bridges SL, et al. 2015 American College of Rheumatology guideline for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2016;68(1):1-26.
5. Arthritis Foundation. Arthritis by the numbers/book of trusted facts & figures. www.arthritis.org/Documents/Sections/About-Arthritis/arthritis-facts-stats-figures.pdf. Accessed January 13, 2019.
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8. Smolen JS, Aletaha D, Barton A, et al. Rheumatoid arthritis. Nat Rev Dis Primers. 2018;4:18001.
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10. Smolen JS, Landewe R, Bijlsma J, et al. EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis with synthetic and biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: 2016 update. Ann Rheum Dis. 2017;76(6):960-977.
11. Van Ede AE, Laan RF, Rood MJ, et al. Effect of folic or folinic acid supplementation on the toxicity and efficacy of methotrexate in rheumatoid arthritis: a forty-eight week, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Arthritis Rheum. 2001;44(7):1515-1524.
12. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Vaccine types. www.vaccines.gov/basics/types/index.html. Accessed January 13, 2019.
13. Kevzara (sarilumab injection) prescribing information. Bridgewater, NJ: Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC; April 2018.
14. Olumiant (baricitinib tablet) prescribing information. Indianapolis, IN: Lilly USA, LLC; May 2018.
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What the award-winning movie gets right about regrets
Madeline Fry
La La Land is the classic love story we all needed this year. From its leading lady’s elegant style to its haunting soundtrack, watching the film feels like whirling through a 1930s Hollywood boulevard in a coral drop-waist dress. (Warning: If you’ve not yet seen La La Land, reading further will expose you to spoilers.)
As I left the theater, I had only one problem with the vintage romance: the end. I don’t mean the end of the movie; I mean the end of the love story. La La Land is the story of a struggling actress and a jazz-loving musician. The two have a few chance encounters that evolve into what feels like an epic love. But when both opportunities and disappointments strain their relationship, it becomes clear that love is not enough to make the relationship work. Until the credits rolled, I hoped the star-crossed lovers played by Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling would wind up together through some miraculous plot twist. When they didn’t, I felt almost betrayed. What happened to their adorable love story? Was their relationship worthless? The film is much more Casablanca than Singing in the Rain.
My grandmother, who sat next to me, still seemed to be traipsing down the streets of Tinseltown even after the movie ended, undeterred by the fact that Mia and Sebastian did not have their happily ever after. I couldn’t understand why.
I came to realize that my grandmother’s relationships—good and bad—had taught her not to regret the end of a moment but to appreciate the moment itself. She explained to me that Mia and Sebastian were lucky to have had each other when they did, and that they would each cherish it as a relationship that brought them closer to the kind of people they wanted to be. Coming from a woman who was once divorced and lived out the majority of her life as a happy single woman, her perspective was not one to dismiss. Her failed marriage could have made her a cynic, but instead she saw even lost love as a gift.
Reflecting on her point of view gave me a clearer lens for viewing not only the movie but also my own past relationships. Nothing is wasted that helps you grow, and we can learn more than we expect from our past relationships.
Here are three reasons our failed love stories are not a total loss.
01. You needed each other for a season.
After Sebastian inspires Mia, an aspiring actress and screenwriter, to create a storyline as interesting as she is, she designs her own one-woman show. Without his support and encouragement, she may never have been discovered and had the opportunity to audition for a movie in Paris. Of course, it's possible that she would’ve found success in another way had she not met Sebastian. But sometimes our relationships encourage us to take steps we would be too afraid to take on our own. The encouragement of others can be the only thing that keeps us from quitting.
02. You experienced life in a different way because of them.
Are you a fan of jazz? I wasn’t until I watched the movie, and Mia hated it until she met Sebastian. But once she saw his passion for the dying art, she began to appreciate it. Before Sebastian met Mia, he could be cynical and aloof, but her delight in life showed him how to lighten up. Their relationship gave each of them a new perspective with which to view the world. Maybe you dated a guy who taught you to appreciate a new culture or activity. Even if the relationship doesn’t last, becoming familiar with someone else’s point of view teaches us more about ourselves and the world around us.
03. You were given the freedom to follow your dreams.
Mia and Sebastian went their separate ways because they both pursued what they thought was right for their own lives and each other's. Maybe if they’d stayed together they would’ve been bitter about never having the chance to reach their potential. By pursuing their dreams separately they were able to love themselves and respect each other, something they weren't always succeeding at when they were together. We won’t all be faced with such a drastic choice between a career and love. But it’s important to remember that whether you decide to stay in a relationship or prioritize your dreams, the choice is up to you.
I think we all have a tendency to feel guilty when a relationship ends. We should’ve noticed the red flags; we should’ve predicted the future and seen that this wasn’t going to work out. But that’s just not realistic. La La Land reminds us that even when a good relationship ends, we don’t have to feel bad for letting it go or falling in love again.
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What Michelangelo Can Teach Us About True Love
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‘You Don’t Choose Whom You Love’ Is Bad Dating Advice
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Gunman In Naval Air Station Pensacola Attack Was A Saudi Aviation Student
By Bill Chappell • Dec 6, 2019
The gunman who killed three people at Naval Air Station Pensacola on Friday morning was a Saudi aviation student, officials say. The gunman was killed by a sheriff's deputy after the shooting, which left eight people injured.
FDLE Seeks Millions From Florida Legislature To Fight Mass Shootings
By Ana Ceballos / News Service of Florida • Oct 2, 2019
http://swfpca.org
A project designed to detect “homegrown violent extremists and lone actors” before they attack is estimated to cost the Florida Department of Law Enforcement millions of dollars --- and agency officials want lawmakers to start paying for parts of it next year.
Florida Lawmakers Divided On How To Combat Gun Violence In Latest Debate
Casey Chapter / WFSU
In a state with a painful history of gun violence, Florida lawmakers swiftly condemned shootings that claimed 31 lives earlier this summer in Texas and Ohio.
Walmart To Stop Selling Handgun Ammunition
By Associated Press • Sep 3, 2019
Walmart says it will discontinue the sale of handgun ammunition and also publicly request that customers refrain from openly carrying firearms in stores even where state laws allow it.
Florida Lawmakers Overwhelmingly Reject Special Session On Gun Violence
By News Service of Florida • Aug 28, 2019
With a 5 p.m. Tuesday deadline for casting votes, the Republican-controlled Legislature overwhelmingly rejected a Democratic proposal to hold a special session to address gun violence.
House Democrats Want A Special Session on Gun Violence, But It May Be A Long Shot
NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA
Florida House Democrats say they’ve rounded up more than enough support to require votes from both Republican-dominated chambers of the Legislature to determine if there is any appetite for a special session dealing with gun violence.
Jane Castor, Rick Kriseman Among 200 Mayors Urging Action On Gun Safety
By Associated Press • Aug 8, 2019
CITY OF TAMPA; FLICKR
More than 200 mayors, including two anguished by mass shootings in Texas and Ohio as well as Tampa’s Jane Castor and St. Petersburg’s Rick Kriseman, are urging the Senate to return to the Capitol to act on gun safety legislation amid criticism that Congress is failing to respond to back-to-back shootings that left 31 people dead.
Gov. DeSantis Cites ‘Recesses Of The Internet’ For Mass Violence
By Jim Turner- News Service of Florida • Aug 8, 2019
Gage Skidmore / Wikimedia Commons
Gov. Ron DeSantis pointed to “recesses of the internet” where people can share “vile” views and a need to look at white nationalism -- along with other causes -- when asked Wednesday about tackling mass violence.
But he also said, after a Purple Heart dedication ceremony at Tallahassee National Cemetery, that it’s not productive to any gun-safety dialogue to focus on partisan politics, as Democrats continued to criticize President Donald Trump after two mass shootings over the weekend.
Trump Blasts Dayton Leaders For 'Misrepresenting' His Visit
By Jessica Taylor & Brian Naylor • Aug 7, 2019
President Trump visited survivors of the shooting in Dayton, Ohio, on Wednesday before heading to El Paso, Texas, the site of the weekend's other deadly violence. Trump remained out of public view during the Dayton stop.
On the ground in El Paso, Trump said, "We had an amazing day."
"The love, the respect, for the office of the presidency, it was — I wish you could have been in there to see it," he told reporters.
Mass Shootings Can Be Contagious, Research Shows
By Rhitu Chatterjee • Aug 7, 2019
There were three high-profile shootings across the country in one week: The shooting in Gilroy, Calif., on July 28, and then the back-to-back shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, this past weekend.
That's no surprise, say scientists who study mass shootings. Research shows that these incidents usually occur in clusters and tend to be contagious. Intensive media coverage seems to drive the contagion, the researchers say.
Walmart Reviewing Its Active Shooter Protocols Following El Paso Massacre
Like most retailers, Walmart is accustomed to the everyday dealings of shoplifters. Now, it's confronting a bigger threat: active shooters.
Three days after a man opened fire at one of its stores in El Paso, Texas, and left at least 22 dead , the nation's largest retailer is faced with how to make its workers and customers feel safe.
Lawmakers Push For 'Red Flag' Laws To Take Guns Away From People In Crisis
By Liz Szabo • Aug 6, 2019
In his response Monday to mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, President Trump called for an expansion of state laws that temporarily prevent someone in crisis from buying or possessing a gun.
Jim Galvano, Florida Senate To Review Laws On Mass Violence, White Nationalism
By News Service of Florida • Aug 6, 2019
In the run-up to the 2020 legislative session, the Florida Senate will review acts of mass violence such as the deadly shootings this weekend in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, along with factors such as white nationalism.
Senate President Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton, on Monday directed Senate Infrastructure and Security Chairman Tom Lee, R-Thonotosassa, to lead efforts to determine if any further action is needed after laws were enacted in the wake of the Feb. 14, 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
Fla. Senate Votes To Shield Recordings Of Mass Violence From Public Record
By Shawn Mulcahy - WFSU • Mar 28, 2019
A bill exempting recordings of mass shootings from public record cleared the Senate Wednesday. The House version is headed to that chamber’s floor.
Broward School Board Rejects Proposal To Fire Superintendent Robert Runcie
By Jessica Bakeman • Mar 6, 2019
The Broward County school board rejected a proposal from its newest member to fire Superintendent Robert Runcie, voting 6-3 against ending his contract after community members spoke for four hours in overwhelming support of his leadership.
Police Say Sebring Bank Attack That Killed 5 Was Random Act
By Associated Press • Jan 24, 2019
Stephanie Colombini / WUSF Public Media
Updated at 6:30 p.m. 1/24:
Investigators have found no obvious reason why a man accused of fatally shooting five women picked a small-town bank in Sebring as the place to carry out his attack, authorities said Thursday.
Five Dead In Sebring Bank Shooting
By NPR Staff & The Associated Press & WUSF News staff • Jan 23, 2019
Authorities say they’ve arrested a man they say opened fire in Highlands County, killing five people.
Sebring Police Chief Karl Hoglund said officers responded to a SunTrust Bank branch about 90 miles southeast of Tampa Wednesday afternoon. They found five people dead after a SWAT team managed to get inside.
Gunman Kills 12 People At Country Music Bar In Thousand Oaks, Calif.
By Bill Chappell & James Doubek • Nov 8, 2018
A lone gunman carrying a .45-caliber pistol killed 12 people at a country music bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif., late Wednesday, authorities say. When the shooting started, the Borderline Bar & Grill likely held hundreds of people, drawn by the weekly "College Country Night."
The dead include Sgt. Ron Helus, a 29-year veteran of law enforcement who went into the nightclub within minutes of receiving an emergency call. As many as 15 people inside the bar were injured, and one person had a minor gunshot wound.
Civil Rights Group Says Domestic Terrorism Is Rising
By Danielle Prieur / WMFE • Nov 8, 2018
A civil rights group is highlighting the role of social media in the lives of people who commit acts of violence- like the shooting at a yoga studio in Tallahassee over the weekend. The gunman posted misogynistic videos, aligning himself with an online hate group that targets women.
Florida Matters: EMS Active Shooter Response Since Pulse
By Stephanie Colombini, Robin Sussingham & Abe Aboraya • Oct 4, 2018
WMFE
The Pulse nightclub shooting on June 12, 2016 was, at the time, the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, leaving 49 dead.
What if more victims could have lived? This year a peer-reviewed study concluded 16 victims died with potentially survivable wounds.
Click here to listen to the program.
Jacksonville Shooting Witness Recalls 'People Crying' And 'Running For Their Lives'
By Bobby Allyn • Aug 27, 2018
Ryen Aleman had headphones on and a controller in his hand, playing the popular football video game Madden NFL at a tournament in Jacksonville, Fla., when there were loud pops behind him. Other competitors began bolting out of the room. Something was wrong, he thought. When he realized the jarring sound was gunfire, Aleman told his video game opponent and instructed him to follow his lead.
"Let's crawl down. Let's crawl to the restroom," he said.
FBI Holds Summits On Preventing Mass School Shootings
By The Associated Press • Jun 28, 2018
FBI leaders and local law enforcement officials are studying shootings in schools to piece together trends and come up with ways to prevent future violence, officials said.
'I'm Not A Hero,' Says James Shaw Jr., Acclaimed As Hero Of Waffle House Attack
By Bill Chappell • Apr 23, 2018
"I'm not a hero. I'm just a regular person," said James Shaw Jr., who police say saved lives by disarming a man who opened fire Sunday at a Waffle House in Tennessee. Shaw insists he acted only to save himself — but many others are calling him a hero for stopping the violence.
"I think anybody could've did what I did if they're just pushed in that kind of cage," Shaw said, "and you have to either react or you're going to, you know, fold."
Arrest Made More Than 2 Years After Zombicon Mass Shooting
By The Associated Press • Feb 27, 2018
Lee County Sheriff's Office
The man responsible for a shooting at a Florida Zombie-themed festival more than two years ago was arrested Monday, police said.
The Argument Behind Mental Health Issues And Mass Shootings
By editor • Feb 23, 2018
Following last week’s school massacre in Parkland, many are calling for increased gun regulation. But some are also citing mental health issues in America that need to be addressed.
Without An Honorable Discharge, Mental Health Options Are Limited
By Carson Frame • Dec 8, 2017
This month’s mass shooting at a Texas church has raised questions of whether the military does enough to help former service members with bad conduct discharges. They're not eligible for veterans' mental health care.
Mapping Media Coverage Of Mass Shootings, Hurricanes And More
By editor • Nov 14, 2017
The media shapes public perception about current events, but that doesn’t mean we all see or hear the same things. A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a platform for “studying media ecosystems” that reveals how news events are framed by media outlets around the world.
Gun Violence: How The U.S. Compares With Other Countries
By Nurith Aizenman • Oct 6, 2017
Last weekend's massacre in Las Vegas is only the latest reminder of the persistent gun violence in the United States. And a new set of statistics on the rates of gun violence unrelated to conflict underscores just how outsize U.S. rates of gun deaths are compared with those in much of the rest of the world.
US Seeks Death Penalty In Florida Airport Shooting Case
By The Associated Press • Jan 8, 2017
Madeline Fox / WLRN
While investigators try to figure out the motive of an Iraq war veteran accused of killing five travelers and wounding six others at a busy international airport in Fort Lauderdale, the suspected gunman was charged and could face the death penalty if convicted.
Esteban Santiago, 26, was charged with an act of violence at an international airport resulting in death — which carries a maximum punishment of execution — and weapons charges.
Travelers Lose 25,000 Items In Florida Airport Rampage
Dan and Janice Kovacs and their two children were passing through airport security when the gunfire erupted. They were shoeless — with wallets, passports and carry-on items chugging along a conveyer belt — when they sprang into the mass of people running to safety.
Now they're among stranded travelers at Fort Lauderdale trying to recover what the airport director says are 25,000 pieces of luggage, cellphones and other belongings separated from their owners during Friday's shooting rampage.
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Just 24 hours to go!
There are just under 24 hours before our Kickstarter closes, and we are 98% funded – we are so close!!!
Thank you to all those who have already pledged and shared the project. If you are still planning to, the clock is ticking! Please help us get this project to the target so that we will be funded (unless you get the whole amount in Kickstarter you lose it all!),
Just 2 days to go!
There are just two days to go on our Kickstarter, and we are 80% funded! Thank you to all those who have already pledged and shared the project – your support is what will make this happen.
The way Kickstarter works is that you have to achieve 100% of the target or you lose all the money pledged, so we really want to make it all the way so that our But For Us project can become a reality. We have 48 hours to make that happen, so any further support you can give by donating or sharing would be absolutely amazing! http://kck.st/2RQITkL
(Unfortunately the cat contribution is not going to get us there this time!)
It’s the Final Countdown!
There are 3 days to go on the But For Us Kickstarter campaign, and we are so close to achieving our goal. Thank you so much to everyone who has already pledged and supported us so far – you are a brilliant bunch of backers!
We’ve raised 70% of our target so far – please help us with the final push. We need to get the But For Us message to as many people as possible, so if you are able to share the project on social media or with friends and family we would be very grateful.
Kickstarter: http://kck.st/2RQITkL
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whoopnwailtheatre
Twitter: https://twitter.com/whoopnwail
Ali, Debs & Fiona – script meeting in York
Today we took a day trip to meet with our director, Fiona McPherson, in York which is halfway between her base and Whoop ‘n’ Wail HQ. We had an incredibly productive afternoon fine tuning the script and planning for the R&D in September.
#TheFightGoesOn #ButForUsThePlay
Posted in Ali Kemp, But For Us, Deborah Klayman, new writing, play, playwright, Save Our NHS, social justice, theatre, Whoop 'n' Wail, WnW Productions, WnW Writing, Women in Theatre
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But For Us – the trailer
We have been busy bees here at Whoop ‘n’ Wail HQ. Following our fantastic table read of But For Us in January, we have been hard at work putting together a phenomenal team to take the play to the next stage.
SUPPORT BUT FOR US
75-year-old Dora Cockburn is a life-long campaigner, fighting to save the NHS from the politicians and privateers with only a packet of biscuits and partner-in-crime Ray to help her. Now her estranged son Martin, a Tory MP, is on her doorstep asking for help – what’s a woman to do?
But For Us is a vibrant full length play celebrating our NHS and those willing to fight for its survival. In order to get this timely, prescient and, dare we say, hugely entertaining play on the stage as a full production, we need your support to help us fund our research and development. This is an essential part of creating a new play, where the writers work with actors and a director to get the play on its feet to finely tune the script.
We are currently raising funds so that we can pay a cast of fabulously talented actors and a director to work with us for one week. At the end of the week, there will be a rehearsed reading of the play, which will be open to all. It will also be a showcase for guests from the theatre industry, our future collaborators and producers for a fully staged production of But For Us.
We are delighted to be Associate Performers at the Old Diorama Arts Centre in London where we held the first table read in January. Their support is proving invaluable in the development of this piece of work and we are grateful to them for providing us with our rehearsal space as funding in kind.
But For Us is more than a play. It is an act of solidarity and a celebration of all the people across the UK, from all over the world, who keep the NHS going. We can probably all agree that the NHS, as it is now, isn’t perfect but boy, do we rely it in our time of need.
And it is under threat, make no mistake, from gradual privatisation; a move towards an insurance based healthcare system, such as in the USA; and of course the fall out from Brexit.
Now is the time for us to take a stand and use our talents to make our voices heard. We love the NHS and the principles on which it was founded. We know you do too.
So, join us. Please give what you can to support the development of But For Us, a play intended to inspire us into action to fight for the survival of our NHS.
Posted in But For Us, Uncategorized
Tagged #TheFightGoesOn, brexit, But For Us, new writing, NHS, Our NHS, politics, theatre, welfare state, Windrush
An exciting New Year ahead!
In December we put out a casting call for a table read of our new play But For Us. We are delighted to say that it is now fully cast.
We want to say a huge thank you to everyone that liked and shared our casting call out, for spreading the word and making the world a little smaller.
We had a blast watching the showreels and clips from all the actors who got in touch with their CVs. Thank you so much to all of you for showing such interest in our project.
We are looking forward to getting together with our fantastic cast and director, over a cuppa and a biscuit or two, early in the new year.
Watch this space, folks…
Posted in But For Us, Casting, new writing, play, playwright, Whoop 'n' Wail, WnW Productions, WnW Writing, Women in Theatre
Tagged actors, Ali Kemp, But For Us, Casting, Deborah Klayman, new writing, political theatre, social justice, theatre
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Public advisory Edit
TROPICAL STORM KUJIRA PUBLIC ADVISORY NUMBER 4
WIKI-HURRICANES FORECASTING CENTER
12:00 AM JST MON JUN 22 2015
... KUJIRA REMAINS DISORGANIZED ...
SUMMARY OF 12:00 AM JST...15:00 UTC...INFORMATION
LOCATION...17.0N 111.5E
ABOUT 230 MI...370 KM ENE OF DA NANG, VIETNAM
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...40 KT...45 MPH...75 KM/H
MINIMUM BAROMETRIC PRESSURE...994 MB...29.36 INHG
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NW AT 6 KT...7 MPH...11 KM/H
At 12:00 am JST, the center of Tropical Storm Kujira was located near 17.0N, 111.5E, or about 230 miles (370 kilometers) east-northeast of Da Nang, Vietnam. Maximum sustained winds were 40 knots (45 mph, 75 km/h), with higher gusts. The minimum barometric pressure was 994 mb (hPa; 29.36 inHg), and the system was moving northwest at 6 knots (7 mph, 11 km/h). Shear is expected to remain an inhibitor of Kujira's intensity as it nears Hainan and the Leizhou Peninsula.
Next complete advisory at 06:00 am JST.
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Discussion Edit
TROPICAL STORM KUJIRA PUBLIC DISCUSSION NUMBER 4
Kujira is attempting to battle with 30-40 knot northeasterly shear in the South China Sea, and as a result convection remains well-displaced to the west and southwest. A large burst of convection occurred near the center during the evening, but satellite images overnight showed the low-level circulation center becoming exposed and displaced from the convection once again. Continued bursts of convection are likely to occur as Kujira approaches the coast, though until a solid core develops and persists over the center, Kujira should remain a disorganized system. There have been no recent scatterometer passes of the tropical storm, though at 1432z SAB intensity estimates indicated T2.5/35kts. As no weakening is believed to have occurred in the past six hours, the intensity this advisory remains at 40 kts.
The intensity forecast for Kujira remains generally the same. Despite very impressive sea surface temperatures throughout the expected path of Kujira, the upper-lvel environment is expected to remain highly inhibitive of strengthening. Although shear values to the north near Hainan and the Leizhou Peninsula are slightly lower, shear has been generally intensifying over the past 24 hours, which indicates that the unfavorable conditions currently present will persist. In addition, models continue to indicate only modest strengthening. The WHFC intensity forecast this advisory continues to indiciate marginal strengthening before landfall, and Kujira is not expected to become a hurricane.
Kujira has started tracking northwestward under the influence of a subtropical ridge. Models have shifted well eastward this advisory, and although the ECMWF indicated a landfall at its 0z run along the eastern coast of Hainan, both the GFS and HWRFx are depicting landfall further east in the Maoming and Yangjiang areas. In accordance with some of these trends, the WHFC forecast track has shifted slightly more eastward and no longer shows a Hainan landfall. This also influences the intensity forecast, which shows some more persistence given that Kujira will remain over water for a longer period of time.
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24H 22/1200Z 19.3N 111.6E 45 KT 50 MPH ... NEAR HAINAN
36H 23/0000Z 20.3N 111.6E 45 KT 50 MPH ... APPROACHING GUANGDONG
48H 23/1200Z 21.4N 111.0E 45 KT 50 MPH ... MOVING ONSHORE
72H 24/0000Z 22.9N 109.3E 15 KT 20 MPH ... REMNANT LOW/INLAND
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WISERD Awarded One Million Pound to Advance Education Research in Wales
Published: 3rd July 2012
Related people: WISERD, Sally Power
WISERD has successfully secured a £1m investment into the development of education research in Wales with the establishment of WISERDEDUCATION.
The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) funded programme has the potential to change the landscape of education research in Wales and will put Wales at the forefront of research capacity building developments in the UK and beyond.
The four key elements of WISERDEDUCATION are research infrastructure enhancement, a series of research projects, researcher capacity building with university staff, and activities to improve the research literacy of educational practitioners and policy makers.
WISERDEDUCATION is an exciting and innovative model of how to build a sustainable research infrastructure. The project will build on WISERD’s existing networks, expertise and infrastructure to develop a unique combination of data integration and longitudinal studies to provide a resource for ongoing and sustainable increases in educational research activity.
The establishment of a series of prospective cohort and institution studies in different areas of Wales will be one of the most innovative and exciting aspects of the programme. The data from these studies will create a virtual laboratory for social science research which can be used to increase engagement and promote capacity building in a cost-effective way.
Another major feature of the programme will be to offer less experienced and novice researchers the real opportunity of working with more experienced education researchers, either within Wales or elsewhere. WISERDEDUCATION will seek to extend the skills of education researchers, particularly in the area of quantitative and mixed method approaches, by providing a framework for capacity building which emphasises the importance of actually doing research.
In addition, the enhanced research infrastructure will generate robust data for a series of research projects and provide a highly effective vehicle for developing new forms of collaborative activity, across the Welsh universities and more widely.
Professor Sally Power, the Co-Director of WISERD who will lead WISERDEDUCATION said: “This investment will place Wales at the forefront of educational research capacity building. WISERDEDUCATION will harness the impetus that has been developed through WISERD and use it to foster increased educational research activity in Wales.”
For more information about WISERDEDUCATION please visit the web page here or email wiserd@cardiff.ac.uk.
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The funding entities, regardless of their affiliation, have no influence on the research
Or so says Christine Pulliam, a spokeswoman for the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. And yet we discover that Soon’s research was (partially) funded by Southern Company Services, with whom Soon had and agreement, signed by Smithsonian’s William J. Ford, contract and grant specialist; and Bryan Baldwin, Southern’s manager of environmental assessment.:
As further consideration to SCS [Southern Company Services], Smithsonian shall provide SCS an advance written copy of proposed publications regarding the deliverables for comment and input, if any, from SCS
The assertion of no influence doesn’t make sense, if there’s a special agreement in place for SCS to read proposals and comment in advance. Some part of the text isn’t true.
Incidentally, none of his actual funding is news. Greenpeace had that story in early 2013 at least. But, it wasn’t interesting then.
* I would never be motivated by money for anything
* Documents spur investigation of climate sceptic, Questions raised about conflict-of-interest disclosures by Willie Soon, Nature, Jeff Tollefson, 21 February 2015.
Author wmconnolleyPosted on February 22, 2015 October 17, 2017 Categories climate scienceTags soon
46 thoughts on “The funding entities, regardless of their affiliation, have no influence on the research”
Hmm, so the only thing really new in the NYT is Soon’s revealing use of “deliverables”? Perhaps it’s enough, though.
But what’s really, really new is what may be an unleashing of sorts. If so, I imagine the Ghost of Revkin Past will be upset.
Also, that’s some first-class work by them evil greenies.
Russell: Brilliant as always, but shouldn’t Cisco have been Chico (the actual home of Watts)?
Thanks Steve- the Greenpeace article has at long last clarified Soon’s Harvard affiliation– he ain’t.
The ‘Harvard -Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory ‘ is the name of the warren of buildings surrounding the Harvard College Observatory atop Observatory Hill. Soon is affiliated with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory there, not the colocated Harvard Astronomy Department, or the confusingly named Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , They have separate entrances, staffs and libraries, the SAO being the go to institution when you want to do a space experiment or build an orbital instrument or planetary probe..
Full disclosure : I coathored a paper with a HSCFA coauthor in 2006 ( http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00114-005-0067-9#page-1)
mandas says:
So let me get this straight.
Right wing ideologues complain all the time about scientists being corrupted by their funding, and suggest that they are only in it for the grant money. Because of this, their findings about climate change are fraudulent.
But when one of their own is called out for being corrupted by funding – suddenly he isn’t influenced by who provides the funds and its all above board.
Something….. something…. hypocrites.
None too Soon
Droll!
mandas writes: “Something….. something…. hypocrites.”
One of the ‘problems’ with the internet is it’s increasingly inhabited by young people and foreigners (i.e., under 50 and not from the USA). I say this not because ‘old and American’ equals good, but because we older Americans at least share a lexicon based on common experiences with the virulent disease known as the modern (post-Vietnam) political conservative.
Going back to Ronald Reagan, conservatives have become defined by their hypocrisy. It is a general rule that whenever Republicans accuse someone of something, they are themselves guilty of that thing.
Conservatives read Orwell’s 1984 and said, Hey, what a great idea! They have turned hypocrisy not only into a winning political strategy, but practically an art form.
It matters not the subject at hand; climate change, economics, foreign policy, etc,. etc. There is almost nothing of substance left in the American political conservative movement that is not at it’s core hypocritical.
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Everett F Sargent says:
RE: Ghost of Revkin Past
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/climate-roundup/
“Is there a different standard when a libertarian or industry group does the same, as with this example of a NASA request by Christopher Horner, the same lawyer whose fresh requests to the space agency helped inspire the science group’s statement?”
Greenpeace isn’t 100% litigation, on the other hand …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Tradition_Partnership
ATP/WTP/ATI/WTI/E&EII is (now essentially) 100% litegation:
“Strategic Fishing Litigation is the cornerstone of E&E Illegal Institute, which is accomplished through two practice areas: Petition Fishing Litigation (lawsuits) and Transparency Fishing (FOIA filings). Its illegal activities are dedicated to originating and supporting actions to protect against government underreach, restore an unhealthy relationship between responsibility to the environment and the free market essential to its destruction, and to secure the unconstitutional and other fundamental wrongs of the free market.”
(at least Greenpeace doesn’t change its name every three years)
NOTE: The above quote is 100% satire.
It is worth perusing the real document dumps:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1531939-foia-response-willie-soon-2012.html
Get the 131-page PDF at bottom, easier to search.
1) A prior review clause is rare in this game, most funders know better.
2) The way this works, in a continuing funding relationship, is that somebody proposes some work officially, but of course have talked unofficially.
3) Then at end of time, they say what they did, and funders take that into account for the next grant request.
One can easily find examples of this cycle in the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, as Heartland, CEI, etc beg for money from Big Tobacco, extolling the good work they’ve done over the year.
Everett F Sargent:
The FOIA requests you point to are one reason I’ve become dubious about Revkin. I first heard of him in Mark Bowen’s Censoring Science, which described his good reporting on the Bush administration’s distortion of climate-change science. But equating the Greenpeace FOIA request RE: Willie Soon with the CEI’s — which basically says, “Dear NASSA (sic): Please send us copies of all your documents produced since 2000 — is IMO false equivalence.
Les Rees says:
Obviously, all scientific research has to be funded. There may be bias due to the source of the funds. The data which has been presented does not indicate significant global warming.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming -W]
The increase claimed for for 2014 lies within experimental error for measurements.
[No, you have the wrong meme there. Care to try again? -W]
Climactic disaster scenarios presented presented recently are pure fiction.
[I’m not a great fan of “climate disaster” myself, but “presented recently” is very vague. Can to make some actual verifiable references? -W]
Any responsible person should be concerned about the climate and potential change, but most of the remedies proposed are unlikely to have any positive effect as the data shows.
[I don’t really understand what you’re saying here. I agree that most of the remedies proposed are far worse than a simple carbon tax – http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2011/06/06/carbon-tax-now-1/. But how you get to any positive effect as the data shows is a mystery to me -W]
We need to help those nations likely to be affected by rising sea levels.
jai mitchell says:
With the contractual obligation to provide a pre-publish copy of research for “input” one has to wonder, where are the emails that contain this information? I am betting dollars to doughnuts that these emails were not released as part of the FOIA because they have a private confidentiality clause as part of public/private communications? I would love to see a lawsuit working to get THOSE emails released!
izen says:
Whether the source of funding might affect the direction and results of the research is a matter of the integrity of the scientists All research requires funding, sometimes the funding bodies have a vested interest in the outcome of the work.
That does not automatically imply that the scientists involved will willing or with coercion be selective in their reports, or deliverables.
But What Soon seems to have done is not a matter of personal conscience. All credible research list the source of funding in the acknowledgements or as the affiliations or the authors.
The problem is that in the recent Monckton et al paper claimed that there were no affiliations of relevance as they all did the work in their own ‘free’ time.
As it was the first issue of the Science bullitin perhaps they had not established a code of conduct for disclosure of funding sources, but such is generally considered standard practise, the omission of any accurate disclosure of funding by Soon on this paper, with just his affiliation with the smithsonian mentioned is the act that crosses the line I think, not the funding source.
Although the prevalent theme of any research that has had W Soon as one of the authors might give rise to the slight suspicion that the deliverables have been cooked to the taste of the funders.
I’m not bothered at all by the use of the word “deliverables”: grants often list “publication of a paper” as a “deliverable”. Even the review clause is ok. That would only be wrong if the clause said, “the funder must have an opportunity to _approve_ the paper before submission”, but review & comment is acceptable.
Not disclosing said funding is of course, inappropriate.
And the bad “science” was… well, just that. It is a pity that there are people out there who are willing to fund things just to have the results out there that they want, and it is a pity that there are politicians who will highlight studies with the results they want with no regards for quality.
But I’m not sure concentrating on where the funding is coming from is the right approach at an individual level. (at a macro level, yes: if all the papers saying X come from an industry which wants X, and every paper funded independently says Y, that means something).
The papers themselves weren’t very important, except as building blocks in campaigns to confuse the public.
Read the 131-pager PDF and look at the talks Soon gave. Some of them are actual science conferences, many are places like Heartland, Doctors for disaster Preparedness, Ayn Rand Institutes.
Perhaps we should cut Willie some slack–
a giant clam can find its way into an astrophysicist’s bibliography as innocently as a trout into a quart of milk.
“Davies drew attention to Soon’s funding disclosures last month after Soon and three colleagues published a paper in the Chinese journal Science Bulletin that presented results from a simple climate model to argue that burning all recoverable fossil fuel reserves would result in little more than 2.2°C warming. By comparison, models assessed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on average project around 4° of warming with unabated fossil fuel use by 2100 and further warming beyond that time. The paper was appended with the statement: “The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.” Davies wrote to the journal insisting that Soon’s past funding sources do constitute a conflict of interest that should have been reported.
Science Bulletin’s conflict of interest policy states that authors must disclose “all relationships or interests that could influence or bias the work,” including “professional interests or personal beliefs that may influence your research.” The policy also gives a series of example disclosures. The first reads, “Author A has received research grants from Company A.”
Lead author Christopher Monckton, a British viscount and former journalist who now serves as chief advisor to the Science and Public Policy Institute, a climate-advocacy group in Haymarket, Virginia, that disputes human-caused global warming, contends that there was no conflict on the Science Bulletin paper and that all of the authors, including Soon, completed the work on their own time. In an e-mail to Nature, he rejected the allegations by Davies as “manifestly untruthful and malevolent.”
Davies says that Greenpeace has requested Soon’s annual reports to Southern Company for the years 2013 and 2014 to determine whether either of them list the paper in Science Bulletin as a ‘deliverable’.”
Fuck me! If the Monkers ‘paper’ does show up as a ‘deliverable’ then … he is going to take a gigantic, beyond infinity, one UP the backside! Please excuse my French.
To say nothing about Harvard and the Smithsonian.
http://www.nature.com/news/documents-spur-investigation-of-climate-sceptic-1.16972
Robert I. says:
The 131 page pdf document includes legal agreements with the following paragraph under the heading of “Publicity”
“Smithsonian shall not publish and utilize the name or otherwise identify SCS or its affiliate companies in any publications or other advertisements without the express written consent of SCS. As further consideration to SCS, Smithsonian shall provide SCS an advance written copy of proposed publications regarding the deliverables for
comment and input, if any, from SCS.
In my experience, an organization that provides research funding usually wants to receive credit. Here we see the opposite.This would seem to indicate a clear desire to underplay any connection between the source of the funding and the deliverables. ”
Soon’s publications would be of very little internal use to SCS – the obvious inferences are that SCS was looking to influence public opinion and Soon knew this and was willing to do business.
“Climate skeptic’s fossil fuel funding puts spotlight on journal conflict policies”
http://news.sciencemag.org/climate/2015/02/climate-skeptic-s-fossil-fuel-funding-puts-spotlight-journal-conflict-policies?rss=1
Tweet 1, Soon used Koch money for work on Congressional report,
but worse Tweet 2, Ed Wegman and Yasmin Said claimed Wegman Report on *Federal* grants.
Pinko Punko says:
MMM,
Standard language for a huge swath of papers from many fields would be something like “funding agency played no role in the design, interpretation, etc. etc. of this work”- Soon is an embarrassment and the Smithsonian whatever is likely quite embarrassed.
“A version of this article appears in print on February 22, 2015, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher”
Also in the Washington Edition of the NYT (upper right corner).
http://images.dailykos.com/images/130727/large/Willie_Soon_NY_Times_A1_2015.jpg?1424635367
Will this one make The Daily Show? The Washington Post? The evening news? The morning talk shows?
Harvards and Smithsonians and Deniers Oh My!
“As it was the first issue of the Science bullitin perhaps they had not established a code of conduct for disclosure of funding sources,”
izen, it wasn’t really the first issue *and* they have a quite clear policy in place. Very first example the journal provides:
“Author A has received research grants from Company A.”
Can’t be much clearer than that with respect to Soon.
http://www.springer.com/new+%26+forthcoming+titles+(default)/journal/11434 (select “instructions for authors”)
And if the excuse is that they did in their own time…they should not have listed their affiliations.
The odious Auditor is batting for Willie at Bishop Hill’s
Yes I noticed. Thank you for putting up with that crowd.
The Times has given Soon an easy out by
taking him exteraneously to task on mercury from coal burning , in that US atmosperic release from geothermal and volcanic activity is objectively several orders of magnitude larger than the 42 tonnes thermal plants emit annually.
The assertion of no influence doesn’t make sense, if there’s a special agreement in place for SCS to read proposals and comment in advance.
I understand that clauses like this are routine in corporate-funded research, because there may be a non-disclosure agreement involved. That’s one of the issues with biomedical research in particular: negative outcomes of clinical trials are much less likely to be published than positive outcomes. And a clause like this might even be reasonable when proprietary information (e.g., a commercial product under development) is involved. But for the kind of research (and I use the term loosely) Soon does, the only intellectual property to protect is what Soon writes in his proposals and papers. There isn’t any reason for Soon to have signed an NDA, because there is nothing that could plausibly be covered by an NDA.
And I presume that not only is Ms. Pulliam naive, she has never worked for a medical research institute. Research physicians are routinely accused of being shills for Big Pharma. Sometimes the accusation has merit, but most of the time it does not (see the archives of your blogmate Orac for examples–as he documents, many of the people who make the “pharma shill” accusation are themselves selling expensive supplements). Government agencies, who provide most of the funding for SAO and CfA, usually want to produce good research, and don’t have much interest in the outcome beyond, in NASA’s case, successful launch and operation of spacecraft. But private companies and foundations can and usually do have an agenda. That’s why most journals require authors to disclose that the research was funded by $GRANT_NUMBER from $FUNDING_AGENCY. When $FUNDING_AGENCY is a private company, readers need to know that fact so they can evaluate the research accordingly.
Fun and games with accounting at the CfA. This could get serious
I see the nondisclosure agreement as a breach of responsibility by Harvard. No university or university-attached organization should be making such agreements with a private company, and the administration should be hit hard for doing so. I do realize that there are issues about doing defense research, although there were major fights about secret research for DOD in the 1970’s which moved most of it off campus.
“Legacy impacts of all-time anthropogenic emissions on the global mercury cycle”
http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/13454554/gbc20040.pdf?sequence=1
So, I Google mapped Willie ‘Scatologist to the Stars’ Soon’s current office location at Harvard (it’s an outhouse) and found out that both Daniel J. Jacob and Helen M. Amos frequently go there for them to poop on Soon.
Mitch: as best as I can tell, Harvard* has nothing to do with this.
The Harvard-Smithsonian C fA is one of those joint entities found on unveirsity7 campuses, but Willie has always been with the Smithsonian side, money came that way.
Of course, Harvard name is useful.
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Thomas Fuller says:
Hmm. I believe I see signs of selective memory here. If I recall correctly, Muller received far more from the Koch brothers. That doesn’t seem to be bothering anyone.
[You appear to be suffering from selective memory. Muller talked an awful lot of bollox, and got stick for it; e.g. http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2011/04/05/muller-is-rubbish/. I wasn’t terribly interested in the funding, but plenty of others were. However, the main point about Muller was that when the totally-obvious-to-everyone-except-Muller results came in, he recanted most of his bullshit. Not all of it, of course; he’s still in the Mann-is-fat camp with you. But even Muller isn’t fool enough to discuss land temperatures on an aqua planet. See-also
* http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2013/11/22/mann-vs-muller/
* http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2011/10/30/best-is-fun/
* http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2011/10/20/best-is-boring/
Nor does Exxon’s hundred million dollar grant to Stanford. Nor for that matter Shell’s and BP’s contributions to the CRU.
Funny that. It would almost seem as if this controversy were seized upon to paper over accounts of another story in the news. I believe Google News returns 187,000 results for the search string ‘pachauri sexual harassment.’
Mr. Seitz, you may find McIntyre odious. However he seems to have won the day pretty convincingly in that thread.
Tom Fuller ignores, conveniently I must say, that Soon often did not disclose his funding. Muller did disclose his funding. So did Stanford and CRU.
Worse is that one funder apparently demanded they were allowed to provide input into Soon’s “deliverables” and hide their funding.
“Funny that. It would almost seem as if this controversy were seized upon to paper over accounts of another story in the news.”
– iets a conspirazee! A conspirazee ay zey!
Marco, right. The point here isn’t the source of funding, it is the failure to disclose that funding and potential source of conflict of interest as journals Soon was publishing in require.
No surprise that Fuller doesn’t see the difference.
Nor did the Koch brothers have, as far as we know, the right of review and comment on the results of the BEST project. Unlike Soon’s arrangement.
Fuller:
Pachauri’s personal behavior is relevant to climate science how, exactly? Enlighten me, Fuller.
dhosedgaza, it’s time for my annual response to one of your ravings. Pay attention–it’s a long time til 2016.
Let’s… ask… Al (the medium is the massage) Gore. Let’s aks Peter (your writings are mine–and my writings are yours!) Gleick.
Kind of a pattern forming here….
TF,
Yes! I see where this is all going … a pattern … it needs a field … of play … and teams … and rosters … what’s your position?
Stupid Bowl L … err IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII … err Fiddy Cent … err 50
What’s interesting is the timing of these ‘revelations’ about Soon’s funding sources. None of this information is new. You lot have been howling about Soon’s funding for a decade.
This isn’t new. Amazing that the fuss happens to coincide with the revelation the chair of the IPCC has been engaged in a pattern of criminal behavior for his entire tenure.
Perhaps his book should have been entitled ‘A Return To AlGora’.
[Tee hee. Your position for rather a long time can be neatly summarised as “Al Gore is fat” -W]
No, my position is actually stated clearly at Bart Verheggen’s blog, to wit (or half of that):
“Andrew, the central message of the climate consensus is that we have to change the way we live…”
[Snip. As per site comment policy, I prefer people to link to long comments elsewhere rather than reproduce them. You’ve provided the link, that’s all that is needed -W]
https://ourchangingclimate.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/yes-we-can-communicate/#comment-12412
Al Gore isn’t fat. He just doesn’t practice what he preaches.
[Well, your slightly longer message is “Al Gore is fat, I hate Mann and Jones”. Your the central message of the climate consensus is… is wrong, of course. Try to avoid confusing science and politics; it will help you think more clearly -W]
Actually, this previous comment by yours truly on the same thread might be even better:
“So, as they taught me long ago in uni, the necessary precondition for communication is the establishment of trust.
I don’t necessarily have to believe what you say. But in order to communicate, I have to believe at a minimum that you believe what you say.
Which puts me in a bit of a dilemma. I believe that increased concentrations of CO2 do warm the planet, although I don’t know (and I don’t believe anyone else knows) what the sensitivity of the atmosphere is to those increased concentrations. So theoretically I should be easy to communicate with.
However, Mann won’t admit error in his work. Jones instructed colleagues to delete emails. The leading proponents of vigorous action to combat climate change have personal lifestyles that are sybaritic at best and baselessly debauched at worst.
Scientists working on what they say is the most important issue facing the planet refuse to even look at the work of their peers that is criticized, let alone to cooperate with those struggling to find understanding. The effort of BEST to establish a broader base of temperature readings and make them publicly available was vilified by consensus media outlets because of the participants. When, as everybody knew, the first findings were perfectly in line with other databases, the same sources crowed that this was a feather in the cap for the consensus and continued to vilify BEST members.
Bart, the people who believe as you do are in fact communicating. I don’t think that what they are communicating is really what you want.”
Sorry–I was unaware of your policy on long comments.
I actually think you’re confused. I’m not a scientist. I am a member of the polity. The difference between my position on the science and yours is probably paper thin. Our difference on the policy impacts is not.
“Jones instructed colleagues to delete emails.”
Sums up Tom in a nutshell. Jones “asked”, not “instructed”. There’s a very real difference. “instructed” implies a hierarchy, which implies a level of global conspiracy which simply doesn’t exist. Fuller’s rantings over the years make clear that he buys into the conspiracy to some degree, at least (rather more, IMO, but clearly to some extent). Tom’s too good a writer – and wrote an entire book (with Mosher) about ClimateGate – to accidently have used the word “instructed”.
And I’m still waiting for an answer to my question (“Pachauri’s personal behavior is relevant to climate science how, exactly? Enlighten me, Fuller.”), which you describe as “a raving”. As WC noted above, your answer (to that and almost anything) is that “Al Gore is fat!”.
To which I’d add “climate science is a corrupt conspiracy”, corrupt as in your reference to Mann’s refusal to “admit error”, conspiracy as in your entire book about ClimateGate.
You’ve been involved in this stuff for years, Tom. That’s certainly enough time for you to have learned something, isn’t it? “Al Gore is fat, Mann’s a liar, and UAH is corrupt” is so ten years ago, man.
Don’t you have anything new? Oh, right, I forgot … “Pachuri has been accused of sexual harassment’…
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Lipari Lipari is the largest island; known as Meligunis in ancient times, Lipari has been inhabited since the middle Neolithic era when the first settlers began trading obsidian glass stone throughout the Mediterranean Sea. According to legends the Ausonian Civilization settled on Lipari and it was ruled by King Liparo, and his daughter married Eolo,...
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Trump’s tweets across his first 100 days, by the numbers
Polly Higgins
Because you were wondering how many times he’s tweeted “fake news,” Obamacare and “sad!”
If we seem data-driven, well, we’re just following the lead of our president. We, after all, aren’t the only ones obsessed with numbers. From those pesky 3 million “illegal” votes – President Donald’s Trump’s word – to the size of the inauguration crowd, it’s all about those digits.
And since Trump is similarly infatuated with Twitter, the looming marker of his first 100 days in office seems like an appropriate time to quantify his posts.
How many times since Inauguration Day has @realDonaldTrump posted about “fake news,” or mentioned Obamacare, or declared something “sad!”? Who gets name-checked the most, Melania or Ivanka Trump … or could it be Chuck Schumer?
Because math is fundamental, here, the Tweeter-in-Chief’s posts by the numbers.
Obamacare: Many of Trump’s posts regarding former President Barack Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act skew toward the macabre, with talk of disaster, implosion and a “death spiral.” Total: 18
Wall: One of Trump’s major campaign promises was to Build that Wall – and have Mexico pay for it. Since Inauguration Day, there has been plenty of discussion about a) Mexico actually not wanting to foot the bill and b) the astronomical price tag, which a Reuters report in early February put at $21.6 billion. Per @realDonaldTrump, as recently as April 25, that wall – err, WALL – “will get built.” Total: 9
Fake news: Trump entered this phrase into circulation prior to taking office, famously labeling CNN a fake news outlet while denying journalist Jim Acosta a question during a presser. Since Jan. 20, he has used the term 20 times; add the more recent “fake media,” which he started using on April 17, and the tally rises by 5. Total: 25
Failing @NYTimes: The award for the news outlet most name-checked by the president goes to … The New York Times. Sure, there’s that adjective he likes, but, hey, at least he includes the Twitter handle. Total: 14
Terrible: Even casual followers of Trump’s feed know that he loves his adjectives. On the negative end, “terrible” garnered nine mentions. “Horrible” did horribly, with just four mentions, but “bad” was so good with mentions in 17 posts.
Great: But he’s not just a negative Nelly: Our president loves his superlatives. “Great” appears in 73 posts, including on April 26, “great great,” as in a “great great honor to welcome & recognize the National Teacher of the Year.”
Make America Great Again: Of course, that’s his tagline. Count both Make America Great Again and its acronym, and you get a grand total of 18.
Love: But, he’s not necessarily feeling the love. Total: 3
Melania: The first lady has been mentioned by name six times by her presidential husband. Add FLOTUS to the mix, and the equation increases by one. Total: 7
Ivanka: Take the above total, subtract one, then divide by two. Add one for an @IvankaTrump. Total: 4
Schumer: As in, Senator Chuck. Remember him, and his “fake tears”? Trump did, on Jan. 30 and 31. Total: 3
Election: Much has been written about how Trump can’t move on from the election, partly because … he can’t stop tweeting about it. On March 2, he called out Democrats: “They lost the election, and now they have lost their grip on reality.” Some tweets don’t have to do with the Nov. 8 presidential election, however, including a post about the French election. So, this total gets an asterisk next to it. Total: 20
Democrats: Note that seven of these mentions were made on April 27. Total: 22
Republicans: 8
Win!: With that exclamation mark, four total. And please don’t ask us to count every time he’s used what we will unscientifically call his favorite punctuation.
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7 Questions for the New Bodhi
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OK Warner Bros. You got me.
Despite ongoing pleas from Point Break purists, amused observers and even original cast members, the new Point Break is gonna happen. That’s it, done. It’s wrapped up in paper and dressed with a bow. Why make a new masterpiece when you can pretty up an old one?
With all that said, Warner Bros is not getting off quite so easy. Point Break is remade. Fine – but the key here is going to be Bodhi. Because he’s either going to sort of save this obvious attempt to cash in on the GoPro era or send it flailing like a kook in a 50 Year Storm.
The only true Bodhi is Patrick Swayze. But we don’t have any choice in the matter here. So Warner Bros is going to be accountable for this central character to a Board of Directors – me – and I like to think Patrick Swayze as well. We’re watching you Edgar Ramirez, with these 7 questions for the man who would play Bodhi…
#1 Is He a Thug or a Philosopher?
A quote from Roger Ebert’s 1991 review of the original Point Break, “These aren’t men of action, but men of thought, who choose action as a way to express there beliefs.” Early shots of the new Bodhi show a dude with lots of tattoos. Come on guys, he’s a poet not a goon!
#2 Why Is He Doing This?
Swayze’s Bodhi robbed banks to make a statement about the human spirit. He’s got a storm in his heart and couldn’t care less about some PR stunt, which, from what I can see, is a pretty stark contrast to the new film’s ‘I’m a Robin Hood for the 21st century’ approach.
#3 Can He Surf?
It seems pretty obvious that Bodhi needs to surf. While the new movie goes far beyond the ocean and teases us with nice wing-suit shots along with snowboarding and even a little motocross, the actor who plays Bodhi needs to at least stand up on a surfboard.
Patrick Swayze actually did many of his own stunts in the original, including the film’s climactic skydiving shot. Now let’s see just how committed Edgar Ramirez is to his role.
#4 Can He Lead?
Bodhi is a mystical guru. He’s beyond charismatic – he leads a tight unit in, let’s just say, adverse conditions. So now we wait and see. Does the new Bodhi both inspire men and cheese them off enough to jump out of a plane with no parachute?
#5 Is He Spiritual?
Bodhi talks to the ocean. There’s an important scene in the original where he teaches Utah (Keanu for those of you who haven’t seen it!) to surf at night simply by going with the waves’ energy. Bodhi is connected to the ocean and the Earth is his cathedral. This role goes way beyond extreme sports. No pressure, Edgar, but went want some chanting…
#6 Will He Take Us Places?
Arguably the most pivotal scene in the first movie talks about big-wave riding and how it’s ‘the ultimate rush’. You can take that both literally and figuratively. We expect Bodhi to take us for a ride – and only he tells us when it’s over. But now, will he put the movie on auto-pilot and just re-do what’s been done, or is there a chance he’ll take the plot in some ingenious new turn?
#7 Will He Touch the Divine?
I’d say this is the single most important factor for the new movie. Point Break worked because of a beautiful dance of fate and the universe, both woven together brilliantly throughout the film, which led to an unforgettable finale on a lonely beach in Australia. We want something big here Edgar. Swayze’s Bodhi truly reached out and touched destiny. Show us something Edgar. Are you gonna reach out and touch the face of God?
With that off my chest, check out the trailer and decide for yourself. Will the new Point Break be something magical or nothing but a well-shot GoPro video with motocross and wing-suits as Hollywood scratches its head to think of something new? My thinking is the latter, but I guess we’ll see. Watch out for a few cameos too. Does the FBI head look familiar? Hint – it’s Roach! At least he’s back, and so is Nathaniel.
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John Coleman knows his side are there to be ‘shot at' now they are in the third spot – but he is only looking up at Oxford.
Up until last week, Coleman admitted he still had his eye on runaway leaders Northampton but after they went up on Saturday, he is now focused on the second automatic promotion place.
With five games to go, the Reds are two points behind Michael Appleton's side while they are two points ahead of fourth placed Bristol Rovers.
“Our motivation is now to get that second automatic promotion spot, we are now focusing on Oxford,” said Coleman.
“It's not about staying in third, it's about improvement and chasing down Oxford and then there are two places up for grabs and not just one.”
Coleman has told his players to try and not let nerves affect them as they finishing line gets closer.
“I have told them to embrace the thrill of being in one of the top positions in the league, this is what they have been striving for all season.
“I have told them to enjoy the thrill, the buzz and the excitement but, saying that, when I am on the bench I find it difficult to enjoy it so it's do as I say not do as I do.”
Coleman has called tomorrow's local derby with 19th placed Morecambe ‘the biggest game the club has been involved in' - the Shrimps beat Stanley 1-0 in August, which was their first league win over the Reds in 10 years.
“For us, it's a chance to take another step towards what would be a remarkable achievement for this set of players," added Coleman.
“What we have got to guard against is that it's a local derby, Morecambe's season has somewhat fizzled out but they have local pride to play for and they can put a smile on the faces of their fans.
“Morecambe can pluck results out of anywhere when you least expect it so we know they will be dangerous. It is the biggest game this club has been involved in and we have to treat it as such."
Striker Billy Kee is set to return to the squad after missing last Saturday's victory at Luton with concussion while Huddersfield loan defender Joe Wright is back in training next week. Midfielder Matt Crooks has been at St George's Park this week and Stanley will assess him on his return.
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As travellers in music,
may we meet and journey together
with common understanding,
on our uncommon ground.
Two travellers, one journey, many conversations.
Music is a language and therefore a very powerful tool. As two musicians we met, each with our own paths behind us, Tony with his film production and Americana infused compositions, and Karen with her Scottish and Irish heritage. Seldom do these two genres or instruments meet, yet as one, and with great respect for the other's musical pathway, we converse, to honour the traditional, and create the contemporary,
The musical conversations recorded on this CD, speak of the ancestral depths of the Scottish highlands, (Arran Boat) to the joy of a light summer breeze, (Happy MacHappie), from our response to current affairs, (the Patriot), to the joy of musical friendship (circle of friends), of courage and perseverance (Long she waits) and the joy of family and friends, (Auld Lang Syne) and much more.
We were very blessed to be joined on ‘UNCOMMON GROUND” with an incredible group of musician friends from New Zealand and across the globe, all who have added their own flavour and interpretation to the tracks. Lindsay Martin (Australia), Jim Perkins (Rarotonga, NZ), Mike Vass (Scotland), Jon Sanders (Ireland and NZ), Yair Katz (Israel),
New Zealanders - James Geluk, Victoria Vigenser, Shimna Higgins, Garrett Evans and our guest of honour Hanna Wiskari-Griffiths (Sweden). Thank you all for walking with us for that time.
Like all things which come together, the road has not always been smooth, but as always, it has made us stronger. We offer these musical conversations and hope they create joy, inspiration and kotahitanga (unity).
With love, Tony & Karen
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Delcotex and Teijin: From strength to more strength
For almost 300 years, the German company Delcotex has focused on developing, optimizing and producing textiles. Over the past century, Delcotex has concentrated on technical textiles for a wide range of industries – including ballistic protection, automotive, plastic reinforcement and workwear – according to international standards. Thanks to a strong focus on product quality and the integration of the latest textile technology, Delcotex continues to be an industry leader, servicing clients around the world from its production site in Bielefeld. For the past 10 years, Delcotex has worked closely with Teijin Aramid, and recently started using Technora® to produce guiding fabrics for airbags in vehicle dashboards.
From linen to technical textiles
Since being founded as a linen trading house in 1722 by Johann Caspar Delius, Delcotex has delivered high-quality textiles thanks to the use of innovative technology. In the 19th century, for example, Delcotex began using the latest English weaving-mill machinery to create linen textiles that were of the highest available quality. Over time, Delcotex has continually adapted to the most modern textile standards, as well as broadening its product portfolio. Today, Delcotex uses filaments made from polyamide, polyester, glass and aramid, and services industries such as construction and engineering, protection and workwear equipment, and healthcare and outdoor products. In 2004, Delcotex began collaborating with Teijin Aramid to leverage the high-performance qualities of aramid technology for high-end textile applications.
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Technora® : Adding value in the right areas
One such special textile application is the reinforcement of guiding fabric for airbags in vehicle dashboards, which requires high levels of impact resistance, superior dimensional stability and long-term reliability. Because of its unique physical properties, Technora® is eight times as strong as steel and three times as strong as fiberglass, polyester and nylon at the same weight, and also offers low creep, low stress relaxation and low thermal shrinkage. By integrating it into the guiding fabric for airbags, Delcotex raises the performance level and reliability of this textile, enabling higher safety levels for vehicle users and allowing car manufacturers to meet increasingly strict regulatory standards. In short, Technora® adds value in the right areas for this very particular application.
A strong collaborative partner
But it doesn’t end there. The collaboration between Teijin Aramid and Delcotex extends beyond the manufacture of guiding fabrics for airbags in vehicle dashboards, with the German company also integrating the meta-aramid Teijinconex® in its protective workwear fabrics, and the para-aramid Twaron® fiber in its plastic reinforcement products. These aramid materials are able to raise Delcotex’s product performance in key ways; Delcotex is able to offer customers products with higher strength, optimized creep behavior and greater chemical resistance, as required by the specific customer and application. To explore further areas of collaboration, discuss progress, and exchange know-how, Teijin Aramid and Delcotex hold quarterly meetings and maintain regular contact. One such area for further collaboration is the development of advanced materials for aeronautical applications. Watch this space!
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The Mermaid Chair
by Sue Monk Kidd
Hardback Publication Date: 01/04/2005
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Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivan's conventional life has been "molded to the smallest space possible." So when she is called home to cope with her mother's startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself relieved to be apart from her husband, Hugh. Jessie loves Hugh, but on Egret Island--amid the gorgeous marshlands and tidal creeks--she becomes drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk who is mere months from taking his final vows. What transpires will unlock the roots of her mother's tormented past, but most of all, as Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, she will find a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right.What inspires the yearning for a soul mate? Few writers have explored, as Kidd does, the lush, unknown region of the feminine soul where the thin line between the spiritual and the erotic exists. The Mermaid Chair is a vividly imagined novel about the passions of the spirit and the ecstasies of the body; one that illuminates a woman's self-awakening with the brilliance and power that only a writer of Kidd's ability could conjure.
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Buddy Complex Anime's Web Ad Posted
posted on 2013-12-16 15:30 EST by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Sunrise's robot anime series starring Yoshitsugu Matsuoka , Kouki Uchiyama premieres on January 5
Bandai began streaming a 30-second web commercial for Sunrise's robot television anime series Buddy Complex on Monday. The "traditional robot action" series will premiere on January 5 on the Tokyo MX TV station, and it will also stream on the Bandai Channel.
The story will revolve around the friendship and coming-of-age of two boys. It begins with Aoba Watase, a boy who goes to high school in Tokyo and lives a carefree daily life. On the morning of his school's opening ceremony after summer vacation, he goes to campus as usual, but he has a chance encounter with another boy.
The other boy's name is Jyunyou Dio Weinberg. Their encounter will soon alter the fate of the world.
The main cast includes:
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Watase Aoba, a 16-year-old boy
Saori Hayami as Yumihara Hina, Aoba's 16-year-old classmate who switched seats after summer vacation and ends up sitting next to him
Kouki Uchiyama as Jyunyou Dio Weinberg, the 16-year-old ensign and ace pilot of the new unit Bradyon with the Free Pact Alliance
Sho Hayami as Kuramitsu Gendo, the 38-year-old captain of the new ship Cygnus
Ayumi Fujimura as Lene Kleinbeck, the 27-year-old lieutenant commander and second-in-command aboard the Cygnus
Tomokazu Sugita as Lee Conrad, the 28-year-old lieutenant and pilot of the Beryl Commander
Hiroyuki Yoshino as Jarl Duran, the 27-year-old lieutenant junior grade and pilot of the Beryl Assault
Rina Satou as Elvira Hill, the 28-year-old special officer assigned to administering and maintaining the new tactical systems
Kana Hanazawa as Nasu Mayuka, the 16-year-old assistant special officer assigned to Elvira
Marina Inoue as Anessa Rossetti the 16-year-old petty officer and operator aboard the Cygnus
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Alfred Gallant, the 27-year-old lieutenant junior grade and pilot of the Alsiel
Takahiro Sakurai as Bizon Gerafil, the 20-year-old lieutenant junior grade and pilot of the Nebiros
Nobunaga Shimazaki as Tarjim Vasily, the 19-year-old ensign and pilot of the Ogre
Mutsumi Tamura as Lasha Hakkarainen, the 18-year-old ensign and pilot of the Krishna
Yumi Uchiyama as Margaret O'Keefe, the 28-year-old special officer of the Great Zogiria Republic
"Hajime Yatate," the collective pen name for the Sunrise animation staffers, is credited with the original story concept. Yasuhiro Tanabe (episode director on Battle Spirits: Brave, Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere) is directing the series off scripts supervised by the "BC Project." Tomoshige Inayoshi and Asako Inayoshi are serving as both character designers and animation directors. Kanta Suzuki, Hiroki Tokuda, Tomohiro Kawahara, and Hiroyuki Taiga are designing the mecha.
Tatsuya Katou is composing the music. True is contributing the opening theme song "Unisonia," while ChouCho is performing the ending them "Ano Sora ni Kaeru Mirai de."
The first episode will have an advance airing on Tokyo MX TV on December 29 at 11:00 p.m. (9:00 a.m. EST), and it will also stream early on the Bandai Channel. Namco Bandai Games will release a multi-player smartphone game next year with Erica Masaki's theme song "Orbital Line." The March issue of Kadokawa's Dengeki Daioh magazine will launch a manga adaptation on January 27 with art by Hiroki Obara. A separate manga based on the smartphone game will debut in Dengeki Maoh starting in the March issue on January 27. Sakae Saito ( Kankore, Heavy Object S ) is drawing the manga in collaboration with Namco Bandai Games and Hajime Yatate.
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Fintech is a marriage of two traditionally male-dominated industries: finance and technology. Women are fast becoming a force to be reckoned with though, and their skills and insights bring a much-needed diversity of thought to many a fintech venture. Often the journey to success is made harder by gender bias and stereotypes, but there are some highly successful women making their mark on South Africa’s fintech industry.
Women in the minority
There is much data available that suggests women are woefully underrepresented in the fintech industry. For example, research by global executive search firm DHR International, finds that on a global basis, just 8% of fintech directors are women, compared to 22% at the world’s 30 biggest investment banks. While research on female representation in South Africa’s fintech industry is hard to come by, anecdotal evidence suggests the picture is just as bleak here.
Tlalane Ntuli is COO and co-founder of Yalu, a cost-effective digital credit life insurer. “Women in financial services are mostly found in areas like marketing and human resources”, she says. “Fintech is an even worse manifestation of this reality; I often find myself as the only female or one of only two or three on fintech forums comprising ten participants”.
Jozette Chetwynd-Palmer says she’s the only woman she knows in the cash advance sector of the fintech industry. She recently founded AirAdvance, an innovative cash advance company which offers AirBnB hosts easy access to finance.
Women well-received in fintech
Despite being clearly outnumbered, the women we spoke to have generally found the fintech industry to be a welcoming environment.
Jaclyn Prior is operations manager at JaSure, a digital on-demand insurer through which consumers can create their own short-term cover solutions. She has had a positive experience as a female in fintech. “I’ve experienced support and encouragement to advance under both male and female leadership in the broader financial services industry as well as in the fintech industry”, she says. “I never questioned entering the fintech industry from a gender perspective, which may be down to my positive prior experience in financial services”.
Benji Coetzee is founder and CEO of logistics technology firm EmptyTrips. Part of EmptyTrips’ offering is a much-needed, intuitive and instant cargo insurance cover service (SureFOX) which is how she found herself in the world of insuretech. She says that compared to her experience in the logistics industry, the fintech environment has been far more accommodating. “The comparative hospitality of the fintech ecosystem in South Africa has been far more conducive to successful entrepreneurship, regardless of gender”, she says. “The industry has made good progress in lowering barriers to entry in general, and I think this has made it more conducive to the entrance of women. In fact, I think this is one of the reasons we see so many more female founders in fintech compared to other industries”.
Chetwynd-Palmer believes it’s actually an advantage to be a woman in fintech today. She hasn’t ever felt discriminated against or exposed to any negative experiences on the basis of her gender. “If anything, people in the industry (9 out of ten of whom are male) have probably been a bit nicer and more accommodating to me because I am a woman”, she says. “Most incubators and accelerators are male-dominated so women are welcomed in order to obtain higher female representation”.
Soft skills are particularly important
For both Coetzee and Ntuli, another advantage of being a woman in fintech is what they believe to be a natural affinity for softer skills. Both cite this as a key strength of theirs and of many other women, and believe it to have been highly beneficial to their success as women in fintech. “I believe empathy paired with a steadfast strategy and an ability to adapt when needed has seen SureFOX progress”, Coetzee says. “There are many situations in which if I had chosen to be stubborn and not shown compassion, we would not be where we are today. This compassion is embedded in many women”.
Similarly for Ntuli, the ability to tune in to people’s needs has been integral to Yalu’s success. “My inherently female ability to easily tap into my emotions has played a significant role in both our product design process and the crafting of our brand positioning”, she says. “Creating a proposition that truly resonates with customers required acknowledgment and understanding of customer needs, something being attuned to my emotions helped us achieve”.
…but beware the soft skills stereotype
That being said, being viewed as more emotive than men can have a down side too and the stereotype can prove a hindrance. “I find that because women are generally more emotive than their male counterparts, this is usually misinterpreted for weakness”, says Ntuli. “There have been situations where I have had to be extraordinarily firm to command the respect I deserve”.
Coetzee has also encountered this problem in the boardroom. “The stereotype that women are more emotional than men has been used against me in a heated boardroom discussion when I was told to ‘stop being emotional in business’”, she says. “Being undermined based on my gender was frustrating but I reverted with a tactical response to resolve the matter and still succeeded with my proposal”.
Chetwynd-Palmer is keen to see this stereotype done away with. “People do tend to expect women to be soft skilled-focused, and are often surprised when you are direct and to the point”, she says. “However, I think the idea that women are naturally more inclined to soft skills is a narrative that needs to be rewritten because the other side of the coin is that men are naturally better at hard skills like tech and finance”, she says.
Other surprising stereotypes
There are, of course, other stereotypes that many women have to contend with. The perception that a man’s authority is somehow superior to that of a woman’s has been a particular challenge for Ntuli. “In general, my partner and I have faced a credibility deficit by virtue of being young and black; I find this is even worse for me as a woman”, she says. “When we walk into a meeting together, the expectation is almost always for him to carry the conversation, particularly when meeting with other males”.
She has faced similar challenges from staff members.“I have also faced situations in which the direction I give is deliberately questioned or second guessed; staff will go and ask for confirmation from my partner on something I have given direction on”, Ntuli says. “Other examples include blatant disregard for forums or meetings that I chair – people either coming late or don’t bother to participate”.“These experiences are not necessarily specific to fintech, but given the forward thinking, advanced nature of the industry I have found them surprising”, she says.
More work to be done
Fintech may be more evolved and progressive than other industries, but there is still much to be done to encourage more women into the workforce. “Women need to be adequately represented in order for the financial services industry to achieve true diversity”, says Prior. What’s needed is a combination of lowering the barriers to entry and empowering more women with relevant skills and greater conviction. Both the industry and women themselves have an important role to play in achieving this.
More mentoring
“In general, women are more risk averse than men and when you consider the high incidence of failure in starting a tech company, it is perhaps conceivable that this puts many women off”, says Coetzee. “This can potentially be overcome by initiatives such as value-adding strategic partnerships and incubation hubs which incorporate the mentoring of women so as to develop their emotional quotient (EQ) in business. Exposure to deal structuring is particularly important, in my view”.
Better education, including about entrepreneurship
For Ntuli, the process of empowering women should start further back, at the tertiary education stage. “We should look at the issue right from grassroots level to ensure that the foundational basics exist; from what female students are encouraged to study at tertiary level, to how they are supported and mentored”, she says. “We must help women build the confidence and conviction to think outside the box and challenge the status quo – this is not easy for females when we are already dealing with societal stereotypes. Part of this has to do with showcasing entrepreneurship as a viable option for work”.
While Coetzee and Ntuli’s suggestions centre on the industry’s responsibilities, Chetwynd-Palmer believes that the way to ensure greater female participation in the industry is more to do with women motivating other women through their own accomplishments. “I don’t think it’s up to the industry to encourage more women into fintech, but rather up to women to continue to be great examples of success in the field”, she says. “The industry has some great female founders and in time I think there will be even more. These examples are what will inspire more women to join the industry”.
Importantly, women need to be more vocal in asking for help. Many women are put off asking for help because of the fear of being refused, or because they believe their request will be viewed as a sign of weakness or inability. These inaccurate perceptions are unhelpful. “Women need to ask for more”, says Coetzee. “Ask for mentorship, ask for a pilot, ask for free office space, ask for help. Women don’t need to rely on their own devices so much – there is so much help in the market if one simply asks.”
Solve true problems
Furthermore, women shouldn’t feel as though the industry is impenetrable for them. “Being a technology-enabled industry shouldn’t intimidate women to get into fintech”, says Ntuli. “The industry has become too fixated on technology solutions at the expense of solving true consumer problems. As women, our intrinsic ability to tap into human truths and understand consumer needs will add the most value to fintech”.
“As 20th century African-African activist W.E.B. Dubois once said: ‘There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise’”, she says. “If we can reach this level of determination, we become unstoppable and no industry or career choice becomes inaccessible”.
Heading in the right direction
While there is clearly still a lot of work to be done in encouraging more women into the industry, there are still some truly inspiring success stories to celebrate. It may be a long road to achieving genuine gender diversity in fintech, but South Africa does seem to be broadly on the right path. The passion, commitment and leadership of the women we spoke to bodes well for the future of the female fintech flag in South Africa.
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This Saturday the 2014 edition of Record Store Day takes place. Since its launch in 2008, Record Store Day has bought together music fans, bands and record stores to celebrate the culture of independent stores by releasing limited, one-day only releases.
Since its inception, Record Store Day has seen a wealth of rare releases on a yearly basis. This years lengthy list includes Green Day, Mastodon, Nirvana, Slipknot, Sikth and many more.
For this edition of “Fives”, we’ve took on the tricky task of highlighting five “must buy” Record Store Day 2014 releases. To help us out, we’re pleased to welcome Jon Tolley from Banquet Records as a guest writer.
Jon along with Already Heard’s Heather Robertson and Mikey Brown, have picked out 5 essential Record Store Day releases.
Set Your Goals – The Reset Demo: 10 Year Anniversary Edition
Marking ten years since it’s release, it’s the SYG ‘Reset’ demo. A band that means a lot to us, as we put out a split of theirs and helped out on their first tour, the songs on here remain a highlight of the band’s sets ten years later. It gets the RSD treatment through via etched coloured vinyl in a die cut sleeve. Definitely grabbing one of these myself. (JT)
Ray Parker Jr. – Ghostbusters!
One of the most talked about and sought after, what’s not to like about a slimmer green coloured vinyl release of the Ghostbusters theme tune? (JT)
Slipknot – Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
Normally, when writing pieces on popular bands, I use the ‘You’ve probably heard of… INSERT BAND NAME HERE’ line and then make some witty comment as to why you might not have heard of them. In this instance I’m not even going to ask. Let’s just dive right in; you all know Slipknot and you’ve all heard of this landmark album.
‘Vol. 3’ took the harsh, undeniably Slipknot sensibilities, tones and aggression of their previous work and injected it with melody, passion and more ‘convenient’ song structure. It’s the evolution of Slipknot really becoming their own monster and helped to define and shape them into the behemoth they are today. Having soundtracked the lives of so many years for kids in their teens and paving their way into an alternative scene full of music and lyrics that they can finally relate to it seems so essential. Even to this day it’s incredibly relevant and you’d be fortunate to hear anything better.
We’re still waiting on new music from the band, but if they never did release anything new I know I’d be more than happy with the legacy they’ve left behind. It’s been 10 years since ‘Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)’ has been released and it’s about time your record player learnt a thing or two about Slipknot. (MB)
Jamie Lenman – It’s Hard To Be A Gentleman/All the Things You Hate About Me
Jamie Lenman captured a lot of hearts and minds during his time with Reuben, and his first solo album ‘Muscle Memory’ is nothing short of ambitious. The double album of songs about the heart and the brain would be challenging for anyone, but he pulls it off with ease. This single showcases a track from each disc on that album, with ‘It’s Hard To Be a Gentleman’ considering the moral dilemmas of equality/traditions of your upbringing while the all the things is face-pummelling intensity for headbanging. Like Lenman, it’ll surprise and delight you. (HR)
Cave In – Jupiter (re-mastered re-release)
Releases like this are very much the thing that Record Store Day was made to promote – interesting bands you may not know doing small runs of exceptional albums that are worth your time. ‘Jupiter’ was a watershed moment for Cave In, reaching mesmerising new heights in what can only be described as space rock, because it’s as awesome as the cosmos. The title track and ‘Innuendo and Out the Other’ have beautiful harmonies with gorgeous guitar parts, while ‘Big Riff’ is the Ronseal™ of track titles. Cave in are an exceptional band, and if you love heavy but melodic music and aren’t familiar, it’s definitely a good introduction. (HR)
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McDonald’s Singapore has introduced 100 smartphone lockers at one of its locations, allowing customers to lock away their phones for the duration of a meal in order to spend more time conversing with friends and family.
The initiative is part of the company’s “Phone Off, Fun On” campaign, which is geared toward families, including parents whose work emails and other obligations can become a distraction during dinnertime and children who would rather play online games than talk with their siblings.
McDonald’s Singapore conducted a survey that found that 72 percent of children and 69 percent of parents use their smartphones during meals, according to Mashable. The “Phone Off, Fun On” campaign encourages customers at locations without physical smartphone lockers to set their phones down on a corner of the table rather than consulting them throughout the meal.
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Find tips on test preparation courses to study for medical and licensing exams with confidence.
The United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) is the exam administered by the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME). The Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Exam (COMLEX-USA) is the licensing exam administered by the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners for graduates of osteopathic medical schools.
Although the USMLE is the required exam for licensure of all allopathic physicians, it may also be taken in place of the COMLEX-USA for osteopathic physicians. The USMLE has many secondary uses by both medical schools and residency programs, including graduation decisions for medical students, promotions and the ranking of residency applicants.
USMLE components and scheduling
The USMLE currently consists of 3 separate exams, known as steps. All states require passage of all 3 steps in order to obtain a license to practice medicine.
Step 1 assesses the basic sciences taught during years 1 and 2 of medical school. Most medical schools require students to have taken and passed Step 1 before or shortly after starting clinical rotations. Students usually take Step 1 during the summer between their 2nd and 3rd years of medical school.
Currently, Step 2 has 2 separately administered components, Clinical Knowledge (Step 2-CK) and Clinical Skills (Step 2-CS). Step 2-CK tests knowledge and application of the basic clinical sciences taught during the core clinical rotations, and Step 2-CS tests a student’s basic clinical skills, including physical examination skills, clinical decision-making, note-writing ability and interaction and communication abilities with standardized patients.
Most medical schools and residency programs require the passage of both components in order to graduate and begin the 1st year of residency. Some schools also offer or require their own clinical skills exam, which can prove useful in preparing for Step 2-CS.
Students will often take the 2-part USMLE Step 2 exam toward the end of 3rd year or the beginning of 4th year. Since both exams test the knowledge and skills acquired during rotations in the core disciplines, it is helpful to have those rotations completed before taking the exam.
Step 3 is a more comprehensive exam and tests more in-depth clinical knowledge and decision-making. Because Step 3 covers the core disciplines, it is recommended that you take this exam while your knowledge of these core areas is still fresh. This is especially true for those in more specialized residencies. Additionally, for those seeking to obtain their medical license in order to moonlight during residency, or for military residents preparing for an operational tour, Step 3 can be taken as early as the beginning of internship year.
When deciding how to study for all steps in the USMLE, consider which learning techniques are most effective for you. Preparation materials for Step 1, Step 2-CK and Step 3 include comprehensive review books, subject-specific review materials, formal review courses, and written and electronic question banks.
Step 1 consists of approximately 308 multiple-choice questions divided into 7 1-hour blocks given over an 8-hour period.
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Comparison of Aspergillus nidulans and Aspergillus fumigatus as causes of osteomyelitis in patients with chronic granulomatous disease
J Dotis, Filioti, E. Farmaki, R. Winn, E. Roilides
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Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a rare inherited disorder of the NADPH oxidase complex in which neutrophils and monocytes fail to generate reactive oxidants such as superoxide anion and hydrogen peroxide, key elements in host defense against a variety of bacterial and fungal pathogens. The overall incidence of fungal infections in CGD has been reported at least 20%, with Aspergillus spp. being responsible for 78% of all fungal infections. Aspergillosis is the most common cause of mortality in these patients being responsible for over one third of deaths. Although Aspergillus fumigatus is by far the most frequent fungus causing infections in immunocompromised patients, A. nidulans has also been recognized as a human pathogen. Osteomyelitis has occurred in 25% of patients with CGD. Aspergillus spp. are the second most common cause accounting for approximately 22% of all osteomyelitis cases as recorded in the USA registry. We recently treated a CGD patient with femoral osteomyelitis due to A. nidulans who had a favorable outcome. We review the reported cases of osteomyelitis in CGD patients due to this organism and we compare them with those due to A. fumigatus. Twenty cases of A. nidulans infections have been reported in CGD patients to date. In the great majority, lungs have been involved, whereas in some patients, expansion to neighboring tissues or to remote areas has taken place. Fifteen cases of osteomyelitis due to A. nidulans have been described in patients with CGD. All of them have been males and associated with simultaneous pulmonary infection except for our case. Vertebrae and ribs have been found as the sites most commonly affected mainly as a result of rapid contiguous spread from a pulmonary focus. The outcome has been generally poor with a mortality rate approaching 50%. The commonest genetic pattern has been Xlinked CGD gp91-phox-deficient (60% of 15 cases). The management of these cases has been problematic. Treatment has required a combined approach with surgical debridement, because of the persistent nature of the organism, and administration of intensive and prolonged antifungal therapy with amphotericin-B (AMB) in the great majority of cases. The addition of a colonystimulating factor or interferon-gamma has appeared to have catalytic role in the treatment of these infections. By comparison, osteomyelitis due to A. fumigatus has been reported in 8 male CGD patients to date.There has been no predilection for particular bones; tibia, femur, spine and cranium have been some examples. At least two multifocal osteomyelitis cases have been described. In all cases the outcome has been favourable. However, in most of them treatment has required a combined approach with surgical debridement and AMB. In some cases, interferon-gamma has also been used. In conclusion, overall A. fumigatus has been a more common pathogen compared with A. nidulans in CGD, but A. nidulans has been more virulent and significantly more likely to result in death, to involve adjacent bones and to cause disseminated disease compared to A. fumigatus. Patients with A. nidulans osteomyelitis have received longer courses of AMB therapy compared to patients with A. fumigatus osteomyelitis. Surgical debridement appears to be necessary, but especially in A. nidulans osteomyelitis early surgery is imperative. Adjunctive use of cytokines in both A. nidulans and A. fimigatus osteomyelitis seems to be successful. This comparison shows that A. nidulans osteomyelitis carries more severe implications than that of A. fumigatus and needs more aggressive therapy.
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Ben McCann’s Ripping Open the Set begins with four epigraphs, observations of various kinds. They come from American figures – Frank Capra, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and Nathanael West – and they express a range of notions, none of them particularly positive, about the place of design in cinema. McCann – senior lecturer in French at the University of Adelaide – then starts his introduction with another American voice: producer David O. Selznick sends a memo to his design colleagues during pre-production for Gone with the Wind (1939). This time, however, the observation has a different tone. Selznick canvasses, with some concern, the widespread belief that French films have ‘a quality of reality in photography, sets, and costumes’ that American movies lack. American films seem constructed – French sets looked lived-in.
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It's been a year since Porsche Philippines introduced the Panamera into the country. Now, the company has followed that up with its wagon counterpart, the Panamera Sport Turismo. The practical Porsche aims to blend GT car qualities, along with the ability to seat four in comfort, along with their luggage.
Locally, there will be two variants available. It starts with the Panamera 4 Sport Turismo and tops out with the much more potent Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo. In essence, the Sport Turismo is largely the same as the five-door liftback. But the brand has given the station wagon concept their own unique and sporting twist.
There are key visual cues differentiating the Panamera 4 and Panamera Turbo. The Panamera 4 rides on 20-inch alloy wheels while the Turbo gets upgraded to 21-inch rims. Bumpers are also different with the Turbo getting larger front air intakes whereas the Panamera 4 makes do with a more rounded bumper with smaller openings.
The rear section, in some ways, follows some of the 911's lines with its rounded off tailgate an bumpers. Also, there's the now signature slim LED lights, connected together by a trim piece with the name Porsche embossed at the center. There's also a neat little pop-up spoiler in the tailgate, just like the Panamera liftback. Pop the tailgate and you're greeted by a large cargo area, which is rated at 520 liters, according to the spec sheet. Fold the rear seats and the volume is rated at 1,390 liters.
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Seven Cool Facts About the 2017 Porsche Panamera Turbo
The headline numbers are just the beginning
Chris Chinwriter, photographer
While the second-generation Porsche Panamera has proven to be extraordinary all around, the focus of the 2017 Panamera Turbo is performance, driven by its force-fed eight-cylinder engine. Here are seven cool things we learned about Porsche's super-sedan during our time behind the wheel:
1. The Turbo and its e-Hybrid sibling are the only 2017 Panamera variants with a V-8
It's hard to care about the available V-6 when the non-hybrid Panamera Turbo's 4.0-liter twin-turbo V-8 produces 550 hp and 567 lb-ft of twist—30 hp and 51 lb-ft more than the outgoing 4.8-liter twin-turbo eight-cylinder. That's enough to send the Autobahn stormer to 60 mph in just 3.6 seconds.
2. The new engine features considerable improvements
Porsche designed the new V-8 to be more durable and reliable. For instance, the engine uses the combination of a lightweight cast aluminum block and iron coated cylinder linings. This pairing not only reduces internal friction and wear, it also halves oil consumption compared to the previous mill.
Additionally, engineers positioned its oil passages positioned for better flow and circulation, ensuring all internal components are properly lubricated, especially under high-performing load conditions, like trying to clock-in a fast lap time on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. It also adapts better to variable conditions such as extreme ambient temperatures or cold-starts.
Further, the turbochargers have been relocated to the valley of the engine between the cylinder banks. This not only reduced complexity, it reduced the engine's packaging size and weight by 20 lb.
3. It's the first Porsche engine to feature cylinder deactivation
Thanks in part to this technology, Porsche promises a darn-impressive fuel economy rating of 18 mpg city, 25 mpg highway, and 21 mpg combined. To put that into perspective, those are almost the exact EPA figures as my 2011 Honda Accord Coupe V-6 manual—except, interestingly, the Accord is slightly less efficient around town, being rated at 17 mpg city. For the two-plus ton, 550-hp Panamera Turbo, those are quite good figures. The EPA rating translates well into the real world, too—even with a heavy foot on the throttle, fuel consumption averaged 16-18 mpg over the 600 miles I put on the odometer.
4. There's a go-fast button called Sport Response
Sport Response is actually available on any Porsche equipped with the PDK, but in the Panamera Turbo however, it acts more like a switch for warp speed. Activated by pressing the button in the middle of the drive mode selector on the steering wheel, Sport Response tells the transmission to downshift to the lowest gear possible, sets everything in the computer to Sport+ , and provides a power boost for a time interval of 20 seconds. There's even a cool countdown ticker that shows up on the partially digital gauge cluster. It's an epic way to pass slow trucks on rural two-lane thoroughfares—or scare your passengers.
5. The sheetmetal isn't just good-looking, it's functional as well
In the back of the 2017 Panamera Turbo (and Turbo E-Hybrid) is a three-piece active rear spoiler unique to the powerful variants. (The rest of the lineup receives a two-piece design.) It goes up and down at the touch of a button—or automatically according to car's driver profile and by speed. It improves aerodynamics at speedand doubles as a "Hey officer, pull me over!" flag.
6. It's one of the most technologically advanced and complex Porsches ever made
Rumor has it that the Panamera Turbo has more lines of code than any current Boeing commercial jetliner. Totally believable because the 2017 Panamera's "Porsche Advanced Cockpit" makes you feel like Captain Jean-Luc Picard, piloting a German interpretation of the USS Starship Enterprise on wheels.
Designers and engineers reduced the first-generation Panamera's model's fighter jet-like button fest on the center console to less of a button fest, featuring more touch-and-click surfaces. The only physical buttons or knobs are the toggle HVAC temperature adjustments, the (oddly placed) volume roller knob above the transmission selector, the infotainment control knob, and the parking brake.
7. Its chassis and suspension systems and dynamics deserve a bullet point of their own
Keeping the ride quality superb and the body flat in corners are Porsche's Active Suspension Management and 4D Chassis Control systems. It may sound like fancy stuff, because it is. But how it all makes this Panamera handle like something half its size is the truly astonishing part.
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Haselmeier Signs an Exclusive Agreement with Stevanato Group to License Axis-D Pen-injector Technology and Intellectual Property for the Therapeutic Area of Diabetes Care
ZURICH, Switzerland, October 07, 2019 / B3C newswire / -- Haselmeier, a Swiss- and German-based developer and manufacturer of innovative self-injection devices, and Stevanato Group, an Italian-based producer of glass primary packaging and global leader in providing integrated capabilities and solutions for combination products today announced an exclusive agreement to license the Axis-D pen-injector technology and intellectual property (IP) for Development, Manufacturing and Supply of the Axis-D pen-injector in the Therapeutic Area of Diabetes Care.
The Axis-D pen-injector was designed and developed by Haselmeier together with its partners, and a version of this pen-injector is currently on the market today having been launched by a major pharmaceutical company and approved for use, among others, by the European Medical Agency (EMA) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Stevanato Group plans to utilize this technology and IP to provide a new pen injector to support the needs of diabetes patients all over the world. Once the design for the device is finalized, it will be produced at one of Stevanato Group’s manufacturing facilities, based on extensive tooling and molding expertise. Sub-assembly and final assembly equipment will be provided by Stevanato Group operations in Denmark.
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Frédéric Gabriel, Chief Innovation Officer at Haselmeier, said: “We are pleased and proud to have Stevanato Group as our strategic partner for Axis-D in Diabetes. Stevanato Group has demonstrated in past years a consistent development strategy coupled with unique integrated capabilities and is able to leverage Haselmeier’s pen injection platform to bring it to the next level. Such platform has already been proven in the market, from an IP, performance and user perspective. It also demonstrates Haselmeier’s strategic orientation to exploit its IP over various paths, either with own development and manufacturing capabilities or together with a strategic partner.”
“Consistent with its vision Stevanato Group always welcomes strategic agreements with key players in the market to broaden its global capabilities” said Paolo Patri, Chief Technology Officer at Stevanato Group. “We value our relationship with Haselmeier as a device technology partner. With this agreement, we continue to expand our portfolio of devices for patients suffering from diabetes. This complements ongoing work on our award winning 1ml cartridge-based wearable device, which will give our biopharmaceutical partners the opportunity to provide patients with both standard and alternative treatment solutions with such devices. "
About Haselmeier
As expert in subcutaneous drug delivery systems for self-administration, Haselmeier provides innovative and award-winning individual system solutions to support patients for a successful therapy. Haselmeier primarily works with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies by developing and manufacturing traditional and connected pens and auto-injectors that are convenient, precise in dosing, and enable an enhanced patient experience to support therapy efficiency. Haselmeier covers all steps – from design to planning and industrialization – in the creation of high-quality self-injection systems. Next year, the well-established company will be able to look back on a 100-year-old success story. Spread across eight global locations on three different continents, the Haselmeier Group employs a workforce of more than 240 people.
For more information please visit www.haselmeier.com
About Stevanato Group
Founded in 1949, the Stevanato Group is the world’s largest privately-owned designer and producer of glass parenteral packaging for the pharmaceutical industry. It is comprised of Ompi, specializing in glass primary packaging, Balda dedicated to manufacturing diagnostic consumables, delivery devices and medical components. It is also comprised of Spami, Optrel, InnoScan and SVM, specializing in glass processing, inspection systems, assembly and packaging solutions. The Group also benefits from SG Lab activities, which provides analytical and testing services on the potential interaction between drug and container.
For more information please visit www.stevanatogroup.com
Frédéric Gabriel
Steven Kaufman
Wilhelm Haselmeier GmbH & Co. KG
Dr. Fred Metzmann
Vice President Sales & Marketing
Tags: Drug Packaging; Diabetes Mellitus; Product Packaging; Intellectual Property; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Manufacturing and Industrial Facilities; Wearable Electronic Devices; Drug Delivery;
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The Great American Songbook part 2. The FRINGE WORLD Award-winners 2019 are back for part 2! requests are allowed, and banter is mandatory. Adam Hall and Adrian Galante (from the Velvet Playboys) play through the American Songbook, from Duke Ellington to Stevie Wonder to Cole Porter to Cher. This is going to be a musical adventure like no other! you’ll be singing along and yelling for more!
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The Music of Disney starring Adam Hall and the Velvet Playboys
FRIDAY JANUARY 17 & SATURDAY JANUARY 18 / 8:30pm to 10pm
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 29 to SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1 / 7pm to 8:30pm
The Music of Disney starring Adam Hall and the Velvet Playboys features Jazz and Vintage versions of the Disney songs you know and love. These FRINGE WORLD Award Winning performers fresh from the 2019 Music and Musicals win will bring their unique take on songs like ‘The Bare Necessities’, ‘Let it Go’, ‘Be Our Guest’ and ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’, and promises to leave you dancing and singing in the aisles.
“I’ve been told that jazz is an open-ended kind of music. One doesn’t realise the magical potential of jazz until they’ve heard the dynamic sound that is Adam Hall and the Velvet Playboys” The West Australian.
“Irresistable” Gerd Wieben, Blue Note Germany.
“I can add to the list of Outstanding Showmanship of Australian Jazz Heroes, Adam Hall and the Velvet Playboys” Australian Stage.
Bakers Daughter, aka Alyce Platt
SATURDAY JANUARY 18 / 5:30pm to 7pm
SUNDAY JANUARY 19 / 8pm to 10:30pm
Bakers Daughter, aka Alyce Platt, is a Melbourne born singer-songwriter, musician, and actor, better known by Australian audiences for her many roles on iconic TV shows such as Sons and Daughters and Sale of the Century. Reframing her past, Bakers Daughter presents her original music and artistic pursuits through the lens of the Indie-pop artist she is so highly regarded as by her peers and critics alike.
“Alyces songs are special..thoroughly bewitched by the wonderful music and the door it opened into a very cool and groovy world” Steve Kilbey, The Church. Like the artist herself, Bakers Daughter’s songs are defiant and sophisticated. They reveal a fascination with 60s European pop, peppered with spoken word delivered in a Gainsbourg kind of way.
Indie Pop outfit Bakers Daughter has a depth and melancholy that can suddenly turn around and become oblique, uplifting tunes coated in a blanket of haunting melodies and dreamy soundscapes. Bakers Daughter’s songs are defiant and sophisticated.
“Platt – indie chanteuse, expressive singer and clever pop songwriter.” Jeff Jenkins, ABC, 3RRR.
Foxxy Curves Burlesque present: Smooth Criminals at Fringe
SUNDAY JANUARY 19 & SUNDAY FEBRUARY 2 / 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Smooth Criminals at Fringe. Class is in session! Learn about some of the most infamous crimes and criminals in world history, with their stories told using the art of burlesque, cabaret and tease. These (mostly accurate) retellings, guided by fabulous MC Foxxxy Curves, will have you learning a thing or two – and not just about history!
The Hot 6 – Hot Jazz from Mardi Gras in New Orleans
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 22 & THURSDAY JANUARY 23 / 8:30pm to 9:30pm
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 5 to SATURDAY FEBRUARY 8 / 7pm to 8:30pm
The Hot 6 – Hot Jazz from Mardi Gras in New Orleans presented by Adam Hall. Let’s go to the Mardi Gras in New Orleans… Brand New Music in 2020. You might be in Perth, but imagine you are marching down Bourbon Street behind the HOT 6 brass band. Party like you are in New Orleans with all the classic hits like “When the Saints,” “This Little Light o’ Mine,” “Mardi Gras,” “You are My Sunshine” and all new Classic songs.
“I’ve been told that jazz is an open-ended kind of music, designed for an open kind of mind. One doesn’t realise the magical potential of jazz until they’ve heard the dynamic sound that is Adam Hall and the Velvet Playboys and the Hot 6” West Australian.
The Cuban Young Guns – Live from Havana!
FRIDAY JANUARY 24 & JANUARY 25 / 8:30pm to 9:30pm
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 29 to SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1 / 8:30pm to 9:30pm
Cuban Young Guns – Live from Havana! A Brand New show! With All New songs!!, don’t miss out on an evening of Cuban classics live in Perth at this exclusive event brought to you from Cuba. The Cuban Young Guns join local favourites Adam Hall & the Velvet Playboys live on stage to play the music of the Buena Vista Social Club. FRESH from their sold-out Asian tour the Cuban Young Guns will jet into Perth, fusing fiery Latin rhythms with classic Cuban repertoire. Be sure to wear your dancing shoes!
Hailing from Havana in Cuba, International award-winning musicians, Tony Moreaux, Lazaro Ernesto Numa Pompa, Pablo Calzado and Ernesto Enriquez have performed with the Buena Vista Social Club and the Afro Cuban All-Stars for years.
Q’ the music of Quincy Jones – presented by Oz Big Band
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 2 / 8pm to 9:30pm
Let your local Oz Big Band take you on a melodic journey through the legendary works of Quincy Jones – known as Q to his friends. From performing and arranging to producing, he has worked with everyone in music and entertainment – Count Basie, Bruce Springsteen, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon, Sarah Vaughn, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Nat King Cole, Ice T. Performing some of his most popular works, you’re guaranteed to walk away appreciating the cool cat he is and the true genius of his career.
The Oz Big Band are dedicated to recreating the music and energy of the great big bands of the 30s, 40s and 50s. They made their FRINGE WORLD debut last year with sold-out performances five nights running and are looking forward to delighting Perth audiences again in 2020!
The band has become popular amongst the Lindy Hop and Swing dance scenes around Australia for its authenticity and high energy. Touring regularly around Australia, and a regular house band at The Mustang Bar, Northbridge, they really know how to “wind it up, and let it go!”
Shahnameh: Songs of the Persian Book of Kings
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1, SATURDAY FEBRUARY 8, & SATURDAY FEBRUARY 15 / 5:30pm to 7pm
★★★★½ Fringefeed, 2019 Kohesia Ensemble presents a suite of songs inspired by the Persian epic poem, Shahnameh. Combining Persian and jazz instruments, Kohesia Ensemble draws upon Ferdowsi’s 10th Century masterpiece, exploring tales of creation, kings, dragons and demons through music. A night of mythical and epic proportion! Led by double bassist Kate Pass, the Kohesia Ensemble explores unusual time structures and microtonal melodies, combining the sounds of Persian ney, baglama and oud with jazz instruments for a truly unique listening experience. Kohesia Ensemble was shortlisted for Fringeworld’s Martin Sims Award in 2019 for their show “Kohesia Presents: A Night of Persian Jazz.”
The James Brown Soul Review featuring Erik Hargrove (USA)
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 5 to SATURDAY FEBRUARY 8 / 8:30pm to 9:30pm
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 12 to SATURDAY FEBRUARY 15 / 8:30pm to 9:30pm
Live in Perth for the First Time! The James Brown Soul Review featuring original James Brown Drummer Erik Hargrove (USA). An International All-star band supported by Adam Hall & the Soul Playboys. Featuring such classic hits as ‘(I Feel Good) I Got You’, ‘Sex Machine’ and other non-James Brown hits such as ‘Kiss’, ‘Use Me’, ‘Do I Do’ and ‘Superstition’. This evening promises to be a night of dancing and good times.
Get up offa that Thang and Dance til you feel better! Backed by the award-winning Adam Hall & the Soul Playboys w Horn section and Silky Vocals, this is a night not to be missed!
“Irresistible, 5 Stars” Gerd Wieben, Blue Note, Germany.
Discounts for Groups of 6!
YAAAS KWEEN
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 5 & THURSDAY FEBRUARY 6 / 10pm to 11pm
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 9 / 6:30pm to 8pm
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 12 & THURSDAY FEBRUARY 13 / 10pm to 11pm
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 16 / 6:30pm to 8pm
A pesky Chicken Treat employee. The game show where white men lose. Millennial’s meeting…IRL?!?! Join us for YAAAS KWEEN, the sketch comedy romp that explores feminism, diversity and all things millennial. Be prepared, this is the kind of show Tony Abbott would hate. Brought to you by four kweens in their own right – Jaleesa Maher, the ‘SEXY’ in sell-out FRINGE WORLD show ‘Crazy Sexy Improv’; Amri Mrisho, nominated best actor in film ‘One Up’; Alex Christophers, World Champ of ‘The Improv Showdown’ and Tor Snyder, star of sell-out show ‘Big Girls Donut Cry’. Featuring stunning extras Patrice Maher, Tony Woods and Jay Overington! Just say YAAAS.
Welcome to the Jungle! Perth Saxophone Rockers
Welcome to the Jungle! Perth Saxophone Rockers is a 2019 FRINGE WORLD award-winning ensemble comprising of ten musicians (nine saxophonists and one drummer) with music degrees at WAAPA and UWA. Perth Saxophone Rockers arranges all their own music and feature some of the world’s best rock ‘n’ roll tunes of all time.
This group of friends has been formed to present classic rock tunes with a twist, every gut-wrenching lyric and every guitar solo performed on the saxophone. This high-energy group is a lot of fun, getting crowds singing along to their favourite rock tunes, up and dancing and having a great time. Their sound will blow you away, not only with volume and power but with shock and intrigue as to how nine saxophones and one drummer can replicate such electric sounds of these classic tunes.
Strap in for an action-packed, high energy rockin’ extravaganza filled to the brim with all your favourite rock’n’roll classics… with a twist. Every gut-wrenching lyric, every screamin’ guitar solo, and every rockin’ refrain will be performed for your enjoyment on (you guessed it)… saxophone! Sing, dance, or air guitar to your hearts content to a selection of the best rock’n’roll classics in a whole new light. Presented by FRINGE WORLD 2019 Weekly Award Winners Perth Saxophone Rockers, this is an epic musical feat not to be missed!
Perth Saxophone Rockers are a group of 9 saxophonists and 1 drummer, aiming to get you up and dancing to their powerful, energetic, and raucous performance. How can you make a saxophone sound like an electric guitar? Come along and hear them for yourself!
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Adam Halls Dance Party featuring freestyle MC Macshane
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 12 to SATURDAY FEBRUARY 15 / 7pm to 8:30pm
Adam Hall’s Dance Party The Award-Winning Vocal Sensation Adam Hall and the Soul Playboys present some Funk and Soul Classics. Featuring Superstar Freestyle MC Macshane and a full backing band with horns to make this truly a night to remember.
Hit Songs by Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, Prince and Stevie Wonder among the Soul Playboys original arrangements and content. A great night of dancing and smiles.
“Outstanding Showmanship of Australian Soul Music Heroes, Adam Hall and the Soul Playboys, 5 Stars” Australian Stage.
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The renovation project, which we began in the autumn of 1995, proved to be a life-changing experience. We installed an old static caravan on site in April of that year, and to it added insulation, electricity, plumbing, a shower, a toilet and a wood-burning stove. By mid-June it was ready to occupy, with our four year old son, until the house was finished. I carefully calculated costs and time-scale based on my previous experience and a guide book on man-hours for building companies. I was 150% out on both counts.
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Is there a way to have coal but not oil?
Reading this answer I realized that for my purposes I don't really want a fully steampunk world. All I want is lack of cars and planes as we know them, and lack of oil, or inaccessible deposits of oil, would work like a charm. Still, I do need access to coal for my world, mainly to have steel industry, but also heating in winter and other little things like that.
What is the smallest change to Earth's geological history and traits to have crude oil unavailable, and coal accessible and as cheap as it was? It does not have to be black coal as long as it's energetic enough for steel production. Or is that totally impossible?
Linked answer and my attempts at research suggests it would be hard / impossible, but I hope you know something I wasn't able to find.
Note: I know it is not that simple not to have cars, and I know early internal combustion engines used wood gas and coal gas. I know we can convert wood and coal into gasoline, or close enough to power modern engines. No problem, I can work with that if only I can get rid of petroleum. It might be a topic of follow-up questions, for now don't bother, please.
geology natural-resources alternate-earth
MołotMołot
$\begingroup$ Do keep in mind that you can have at least modern-ish cars without oil. (You might have to do some redesign for a different lubricant, but that should be doable.)I I'm pretty sure early cars were powered by things other than petroleum products, and wood gas made from wood (not necessarily coal) is a possible replacement. As discussed on the Wikipedia page, wood gas powered cars were commonplace as recently as WW2, and apparently are still being manufactured in parts of the world. $\endgroup$ – a CVn Jul 31 '17 at 6:35
$\begingroup$ @Michael I know all that. But this was a topic of the question I linked. Here I'm asking about specific part of the issue. With this solved I can work on further details. $\endgroup$ – Mołot Jul 31 '17 at 6:50
$\begingroup$ And, frankly speaking, wood gasifiers looks badass and I'd like to see them in my world. Plus, they are inconvenient enough for my purposes. $\endgroup$ – Mołot Jul 31 '17 at 7:05
$\begingroup$ Petroleum is (geologically speaking) much younger than coal. So, obviously, there was a time when Earth had plenty of coal but little if any petroleum. Just set your world in the Permian period. $\endgroup$ – AlexP Jul 31 '17 at 10:54
$\begingroup$ @AlexP was coal well formed then? And can I reasonably have modern humans in that period? If so, it would be a good answer. $\endgroup$ – Mołot Jul 31 '17 at 11:09
You're in luck. While most of us believe oil to be the remains of dead dinosaurs, the reality is that science doesn't actually know where oil comes from (look here, too). So, in one regard, your world can simply be declared to be "oil free."
If you want a solution that might be more believable to your audience (since most people don't know there's an argument about oil's origin), then go with the theory that oil comes from biological material on the bottom of oceans. As it migrates downward (pressure, other material covering it, etc.) pressure and heat change it to oil. In this regard, give your world shallow oceans. No depth, no pressure, no oil.
JBHJBH
$\begingroup$ :-) Amusing. I noticed, @Andrew Dodds, that yours was the highest voted answer in the question and neither the question nor the answer addressed the issue of average understanding among average people, which suggests you might be more interested in being seen as an expert than helping an aspiring author write a book. I'd bet you a quarter, though, if you asked any average person walking down a major city street, you'd find 70%-80% of them answering against my assertion. Not that my assertion was all that important --- but that wasn't the point of your comment or downvote anyway. Cheers, mate. $\endgroup$ – JBH Jul 31 '17 at 7:25
$\begingroup$ From the U.S. Department of Energy we read... "Contrary to what many people believe, fossil fuels are not the remains of dead dinosaurs." But it's the U.S. Government --- probably not as smart as you are @Andrew Dodds. $\endgroup$ – JBH Jul 31 '17 at 7:29
$\begingroup$ @Molot - It's just that the whole 'abiotic oil' thing is one of those zombie internet myths that keeps coming up again and again.. I have to confess to be a bit oversensitive to it. $\endgroup$ – Andrew Dodds Jul 31 '17 at 7:46
$\begingroup$ Curiously, not a single comment (including my own) has anything to do with my answer, which neither accepts nor refutes abiotic oil. @Molot, in considering your bounty, I'd still like to submit my answer in that shallow oceans could result in an oiless world. Either way, thanks for the privilege of expressing an answer! $\endgroup$ – JBH Aug 4 '17 at 19:09
$\begingroup$ "Sea levels in the Permian remained generally low, [this] could have in part caused the widespread extinctions of marine species at the end of the period by severely reducing shallow coastal areas preferred by many marine organisms." - You don't get there by not have shallows either. Time and pressure is an equation. Less of one just requires more of the other. $\endgroup$ – Mazura Aug 4 '17 at 20:59
Oil Eating Bacteria might work.
The BP oil spill was cleaned up in part by using oil eating bacteria.
In your world, have a species of bacteria that will ravenously consume petroleum, thereby making crude oil non-existant.
Here is some maybe potential problems. You will need lubricants. Oil isn't exclusive, but it's easy enough to get. Before you go to simple vegetable oils, keep in mind that when they hit smoke points they may change characteristics.
I don't know if your ravenous oil eating bacteria would attack coal. If it did, you could contrive a coal shortage brought on by it.
Just some thoughts
Paul TIKIPaul TIKI
$\begingroup$ A precursor civilization that developed a polymer-devouring bacteria, thinking it would save their world from a looming garbage/landfill crisis. The bacteria adapted to devouring petroleum, leaving the civilization without anything to fuel their modern-day society, leading to a rapid collapse and eventual extinction. The bacteria remains, though there are very few traces of the precursor civilization. $\endgroup$ – Wolfgang Aug 4 '17 at 19:54
$\begingroup$ +1. Ah, Worldbuilding... The place where you can ask Earth science questions and get answers that you won't fall asleep reading. But there, you'd probably get closed for lack of research. @OP - Did you research how they're formed and then take those reasons away? Great, then ask us how to build a world with "those reasons". Meanwhile, read Andrew's answer for how it could have always been that way (and to fall asleep). $\endgroup$ – Mazura Aug 4 '17 at 21:17
$\begingroup$ In WWI the airplane engines used castor oil as a lubricant. $\endgroup$ – Sherwood Botsford Aug 7 '17 at 14:30
$\begingroup$ Clearly there exist bacteria that eat crude oil. Conditions down in the oil reserves must be such that they do not do well. $\endgroup$ – Willk Aug 10 '17 at 1:06
$\begingroup$ @Will, that's in this world, but if biology has taught us anything, there exists infinite variety. It's a very small stretch of imagination to make it work. $\endgroup$ – Paul TIKI Aug 10 '17 at 13:26
Simple answer: no oil-prone source rocks.
Good Oil source rocks are quite rare things, because they have to contain a high concentration of biological oils - plant leaf waxes and algae that use oil-filled 'swim bladders'. Apart from these, 'Normal' organic matter is made of carbohydrates and proteins - typically cellulose - that don't break down to oil no matter what you do to them. You get natural gas instead.
So in your world, simply have algae that never made oils - perhaps they make methanol/water sacs internally for buoyancy. This would make crude oil as we know it far rarer - not unknown, but not available in anything like the quantities that we see. Also see here.
Andrew DoddsAndrew Dodds
$\begingroup$ Oh, this looks promising. I'll have to read more about that, but this looks like a solution. Having natural gas is not that bad, I could work around that. $\endgroup$ – Mołot Jul 31 '17 at 7:35
$\begingroup$ This is geologically sound, but I question the viability of altering the tree of life at such an early stage. Luckily for the OP, it isn't tagged biology, or it'd be another no. $\endgroup$ – Mazura Aug 4 '17 at 19:28
$\begingroup$ > Based on a genetic analysis of mushroom fungi, it was proposed that large quantities of wood were buried during this period because animals and decomposing bacteria had not yet evolved enzymes that could effectively digest the resistant phenolic lignin polymers and waxy suberin polymers. They suggest that fungi that could break those substances down effectively only became dominant towards the end of the period, making subsequent coal formation much rarer. –Carboniferous $\endgroup$ – Mazura Aug 4 '17 at 20:30
This is far easier than you may think ;)
Just make your steam-punk novel as a post apocalyptic in our world.
Here we have completely depleted all readily accessible oil reserves (we are actually pulling oil from undersea and very deep wells, absolutely unreachable without modern technology) while there still are large ground-level (i.e.: still dug in open-sky mines) coal deposit.
ZioByteZioByte
$\begingroup$ Okay but using modern technology we can synthesis oil and diesel from coal, also there's a lot of other handwaving of modern technology that you'd need to backtrack to Steampunk from the modern era, even assuming a massively depopulating event had occurred. $\endgroup$ – Ash Aug 7 '17 at 16:01
$\begingroup$ With modern technology you can build oil from whatever contains enough Carbon, including natural coal or the coal obtained "cooking" wood. No way around. I hope OP really meant "no natural oil", otherwise it's impossible with "modern" (XIX sec.+) technology. $\endgroup$ – ZioByte Aug 8 '17 at 13:13
$\begingroup$ Which is probably why the OP asked for a minimal change in geological processes/history to explain a non-oil society. $\endgroup$ – Ash Aug 8 '17 at 13:43
Your species is the second intelligent beings on the planet
An intelligent species evolves on your planet. After a few thousand years of flourishing civilization, they exterminate themselves, somehow.
30 million years later, the scars of the initial civilization have mostly disappeared, and another intelligent species develops. As this intelligent species develops industrialization, they discover that there are widespread soft brown coal deposits, but almost no oil and little high energy black coal.
Lignite (soft brown) is rarely used because of its lower carbon content compared to anthracite (hard black). Thus, there are huge fields of the stuff that no one is eager to mine out. 30 million years is along time, but not really long enough to replace the oil that has been forming from 500 million years + of marine deposition; or the coal produced from 400 million + years of coal deposition.
kingledionkingledion
In our world, we used coal for quite some time before we started heavily using oil. So I don't think it stretches any imagination to say a society has coal but not oil. They just haven't gotten to it yet, or looked in the right place for it.
There's fairly well understood processes of converting coal to gasoline (or other liquid fuels) broadly referred to as Coal Liquefaction (obligatory wiki link). Its more expensive than simply drilling for oil, but it works and has been used for decades (at least since WW2). In a world without oil these might never be discovered. Or, perhaps they'd be refined (pun intended) more quickly in the quest for a liquid fuel.
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$\begingroup$ This would be an answer to the follow up question. More expensive gasoline would work for me. I plan to ask if it would be expensive enough. Still, this doesn't answer this question. $\endgroup$ – Mołot Jul 31 '17 at 19:33
$\begingroup$ The point of the answer is its a technical 'no'. If you have coal, you can create a very good approximation of oil from it. $\endgroup$ – GrandmasterB Jul 31 '17 at 20:29
$\begingroup$ @GrandmasterB But we you never had crude oil to begin with, would we have thought to convert it into oil? While it is possible, it would be a revolutionary idea in a world with no crude oil at all, when coal, as it is is perfectly serviceable as a fuel. Humans experiment, but they also do the easiest and most cost effective thing, until such time that tech makes a change possible over a vast landscape. Technically possible, as you say, but a serious leap in a place where the concept doesn't even exist. $\endgroup$ – Erin Thursby Aug 1 '17 at 2:56
$\begingroup$ What @ErinThursby says. My question is about crude oil, natural deposits, and I even added a note that I do not want to discuss gas from wood or coal in this question. Note was there when you posted. $\endgroup$ – Mołot Aug 1 '17 at 6:20
$\begingroup$ @ErinThursby: We've converted coal into dyes. Even if you didn't have oil, you'd be synthesizing intermediate products for coal-based chemistry. And liquids happen to useful for chemistry, much more so than solids - they mix. So you'd have a chemical supplier come up with this "liquid coal" product that turns out to be really useful for other purposes as well. For instance, it makes a great solvent for other chemical reactions. But it wouldn't have taken people long to notice how flammable it is. $\endgroup$ – MSalters Aug 4 '17 at 11:02
You can have coal and no primary oil deposits, coal deposits form in shallow boggy environments on land, primary oil deposits form in the sea when the water is poorly oxygenated, so if you have no ocean stagnation events in your geological history you'll have no primary oil deposits. For example our current oceans are not thought to be accumulating any oil sediments due to relatively high deep water oxygenation levels. If you eliminate those deep sea carbon deposits you probably expand land based coal deposits in proportion, you will still get small deposits of secondary "coal-oil" from young high-grade coals but they won't be large enough for mass exploitation, also the existing secondary deposits are heavy oil, crude from the Taranaki Basin for example sets at room temperature because of the paraffin wax content, the pipes and tankers etc... at the refinery have to be heated to prevent freeze ups.
Some of the coals that you do get are going to be a little different too, because the deposits are larger, more carbon still available for plant growth, the lower layers of existing deposits will be higher grade than they are now. Odds are that the later stage deposits are going to be even thicker, relatively speaking, than the older Carboniferous coal measures, so a lot of thinner younger seams are going to be commercially viable, in the southern hemisphere particularly. Younger coals also burn hotter and slower due to the wax content imparted by flowering plant species that post-date the Carboniferous.
Edit: I realised when I was thinking about this a little more that you don't even have to remove secondary oil deposits, they aren't accessible enough to be noticed for exploitation without the large on land deposits to spur the development of a global petrochemical industry. That means coal can actually be of generally higher grade not lower grade to get the same effect.
AshAsh
A Young Earth
Your humans evolved while the earth was still young, and large deposits of fossil fuels had not had time to develop. This means no coal, or oil, however
In this earlier age, both Megafauna and Megaflora flourished. However, in a singular mass extinction event, the Megafauna were wiped out. Curiously, the Megaflora remained, leading to a world with enormous forests. Humans evolved from the surviving rodents in the usual way.
Before coke (fuel made from coal), charcoal was used as an industrial fuel in furnaces and forges. With a readily available source in the Megafauna, humanity made rapid use of this resource leading up the industrial revolution.
I realize this may significantly change some of the background of your story, but you did admit difficulty in making a justification, so it might work.
WolfgangWolfgang
$\begingroup$ I think that ship sailed as soon as there was enough oxygen in the atmosphere to support complex life. No oxygen = no complex life. And you'd have no oxygen because there was no simplistic life. No simple lifeforms = no life whatsoever! +1 however, because it's a better handwave than, there were no dinosaurs. $\endgroup$ – Mazura Aug 4 '17 at 19:39
$\begingroup$ I was thinking it would occur sometime just (millions of years) after the first development of Megafauna, with no previous mass extinction events. The (land-based) Megafauna would die off and be absorbed by the remaining Megaflora. Sea-based Megafauna could remain, allowing for many real stories about leviathans and giant squids. Wikipedia tells me the Carboniferous period (approx 35% oxygen) led to the development of many coal beds. Admittedly, I am not a geologist/paleontologist. $\endgroup$ – Wolfgang Aug 4 '17 at 19:48
Instead of having coal, you could have charcoal. It's easy to produce, same(ish) properties of coal, and it lets you get rid of both coal and oil.
C. BrownseyC. Brownsey
I want to take a swipe at this one. My proposal: petroleum seeps
A petroleum seep is a place where natural liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons escape to the earth's atmosphere and surface, normally under low pressure or flow. Seeps generally occur above either terrestrial or offshore petroleum accumulation structures.1[not in citation given] The hydrocarbons may escape along geological layers, or across them through fractures and fissures in the rock, or directly from an outcrop of oil-bearing rock.
Once petroleum has a route to the surface, the lightest fractions elbow their way out first and escape into the air (or into the water). What is left is the gooey asphalt or bitumen. https://www.desmogblog.com/2013/09/15/tar-sands-los-angeles-photos-la-brea-tar-pits
That thick goo is good for things like making tar paper or painting the bottoms of boats, but it is depleted in the volatile fractions we use for gasoline.
Why would your world be more prone to petroleum seeps? I can think of two reasons.
1: More earthquakes.
from https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-096-03/
This petroleum seep in the Ojai Valley, California developed as a direct result of the 1994 Northridge earthquake in southern California. Notice the oil has not yet spread far and grass blades can be seen standing through the crude oil. The photo was taken a few days after the earthquake.
Earthquakes make cracks that the petroleum can use to escape.
Hotter core.
More internal heat would make hydrocarbons more volatile / liquid and also put them under more pressure, squeezing them up through the cracks.
You could have both of these conditions at work, thus having an earth which was much like ours in the remote past but then lost its petroleum through seeps over the past several million years as the core heats up. A progressively hotter core would have other consequences for this world. But why a planetary core should be getting hotter and hotter...
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Rehab in Spain
Spain is home to many hundreds of successful rehab treatment centers, spanning a range of budgets and treatment modality, from those traditionally employing the established 12-Step approach, through to those that take a more holistic and therapeutic approach to uncovering and treating the traumas associated with addiction and co-occurring mental health treatment.
Best Rehab in Spain
Worlds Best Rehabs features the best and most successful addiction treatment facilities in Spain and our expert editors hand pick each rehab based on a facilities, treatment modality, success rate, ratio of clinical staff to client, a commitment to aftercare and long term recovery and overall value.
We are proud to feature the Worlds Best Rehabs and to showcase the exceptional work and dedication, and individuality of these industry pioneers.
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Understanding the Severity of Addiction in Spain
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), Addiction in Spain is diagnosed on a spectrum of eleven criteria, including:
Lack of control
Desire to quit but unable
Spending a lot of time trying to get the substance
Lack of responsibility
Problems with relationships
Loss of interest
Dangerous use
Worsening situations
The severity is determined by how many criteria you meet. For example, if two to three of the criteria apply to you, you would have a mild substance use disorder. But even if you have a mild diagnosis, you should still seek the help of qualified professionals.
When to go to Rehab in Spain
Substance abuse and co-occurring mental health disorders are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths globally though when it comes to addiction it can prove very difficult to admit that a problem exists.
As a general guide if substance abuse and addictive behaviours are causing a negative effect on any aspect of your life then it’s time to consider a period of rehabilitation and recovery. If you’re questioning whether you may need help in rehabilitating your life then it’s very likely that you do, especially if your concerns are around alcohol, opioids or any other psychoactive substance.
Inpatient or Outpatient Recovery in Spain
After the decision has been made to undertake a period of rehabilitation one of the first decisions will be to choose between inpatient rehab or outpatient treatment. At Worlds Best Rehab we are firm advocates of inpatient treatment models, given the greater chance of long-term complete recovery.
Statistically, those choosing residential treatment in 48-day, 60-day or 90-day programs stand a greater chance of success long-term. The 28-day rehab model can also be successful although do remember that if the 28-days includes a period of medical detox then the total number of ‘therapeutic days’ will be greatly reduced. For this very reason many rehabs in Spain have after care or secondary treatment options to assist a client reintegrate into their new life in recovery.
Alcohol and Substance abuse is one of the biggest killers in the World with nearly 3 million directly attributable deaths per year and countless more unattributed. Even with these facts it remains the one with the most stigma. Worlds Best Rehab is designed to help people make informed choices about high end treatment for recovery from a life threatening condition.
Spain Detox
Phase one of inpatient Spain rehab usually starts with detoxification and it’s the detox phase of recovery that presents the most brutal physical symptoms of addiction. Detox can be undertaken in a medically supervised home detox environment though this must be under the guidance and direction of a Spain rehab physician.
A poorly managed detox can be fatal as the potentially life-threatening effects of suddenly quitting (withdrawing) from alcohol and substance abuse can be very severe.
For many people it is safest and preferable to detox under medical supervision in a Spain rehab facility.
Next Phase of Spain Rehab
After a successful detox, therapeutic efforts begin at the in earnest at the Spain rehab of choice to address the underlying symptoms and catalysts that lead to substance abuse and behavioural disorder. During inpatient Spain rehab this phase of recovery includes therapy, counselling, peer support and medical care if required.
Additionally, many holistic and nutritional therapies can be applied at this stage including nutritional rehabilitation, biochemical restoration, equine therapy, art therapy, yoga, exercise and a raft of local and international techniques. Press here for the Top 100 Rehabs in the World.
Admissions Process for Spain Rehab
There are many different pathways into rehab in Spain and we still believe that reaching out to rehabs and treatment centers directly is the best way.
You may be referred by your medical specialist or interventionist, but it pays to ask whether that physician or referrer will receive a commission for your admission. Be sure not to accept the first recommendation for a Rehab Facility in Spain and check our full list of handpicked and expertly vetted facilities in Spain.
From making the initial enquiry to a Spain Rehab our featured treatment centers will work with you to understand the nature of the clients condition and to assess whether their facility or treatment models are best suited to the individual needs and requirements. Often, a client will be based out of State or indeed internationally and the rehab team will work closely alongside other medical and sober transport agencies to ensure a safe and secure transport pathway to admission.
Cost of Rehab in Spain
Rehab in Spain can cost between $10,000 and $220,000+ per month depending on the individual rehab. If you’d like to receive our Free Full Color Brochure of our featured Spain Rehabs then please do leave your details below, in the very strictest of confidence.
Outpatient Rehab Options in Spain
Outpatient treatment varies in length, depending on the specific needs of the patient and might require 13-26 hours of treatment participation per week and can last from 3 to 12 months. Outpatient treatment in Spain can be successful, of that there is no doubt. Though many patients need to draw upon huge reserves of self-motivation and self-discipline to fully recover. And during active addiction such reserves have generally been exhausted through the very cycle of addiction that leads a patient or their loved ones to consider rehab in Spain as the only option.
Dual Diagnosis in Spain
Dual diagnosis: In Spain, the term dual diagnosis refers to psychiatric disorder and addictive behaviour. Dual diagnosis allows the treatment of co-occurring mental health issues alongside other individualized treatment methods.
Biochemical Restoration in Spain
Rehabs in Spain have embraced the importance of biochemical restoration over the past decade, in line with the general evolution of this dynamic approach to addiction treatment globally. Biochemical restoration in Spain analyses and treats the biochemical imbalances in the body that make a person more prone to addiction. Lab testing and blood work to identifies biochemical imbalances such as hormone levels, neurotransmitters, amino acids and nutrient deficiencies while checking for the presence of heavy metals and toxicities.
Nutritional rehabilitation in Spain
Comparing the symptoms of nutritional deficiencies that were formed during addiction assists nutritional experts to identify which exact biochemical imbalances are triggering the addictive state, and to begin to restore the biochemistry of the body, over the course of treatment. Proper nutrition can often be the last piece of the puzzle that can make biochemical restoration successful for sobriety.
Secondary Rehab in Spain
Secondary care rehabs cement the life skills required for recovery over a far longer period than would traditionally be feasible in a primary care facility. These extended exposure and life skills geared programs enables clients to operate their day to day lives and remain in a constructive system over a long period of time, which is universally the key to a sustained recovery.
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Mathews-Larson, J., & Parker, R. A. (1987). Alcoholism treatment with biochemical restoration as a major component. International Journal of Biosocial Research, 9(1), 92–104.
Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser (2019) – “Drug Use”. Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: https://ourworldindata.org/drug-use‘ [Online Resource]
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Further Guidance and Support
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Information: Guidance and support on treatment. Specific guides for teens, young adults and adults, as well as those trying to support someone with a drug use disorder.
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An alternative way of submitting shorebird records to WorldWaders Database: eBird checklist sharing
On August 26, 2010 By Gyorgy SzimulyIn UncategorizedLeave a comment
Written by Gyorgy Szimuly/WorldWaders
WorldWaders is looking for new ways to make the Shorebird Mapping Project more worldwide. Apart of directly submitting data to our database there is another way to add observations of shorebirds by using sharing feature of eBird. eBird is a popular bird data submission website with a lots of nice feature which soon will be introduced in the WorldWaders News Blog. Birdwatchers in the Western Hemisphere favour it and use widely. While WorldWaders have many contributors from the Western Hemisphere there is a room to increase coverage in the Americas.
eBird offers observations to be shared with others by simply adding one or more e-mail address. If a user visits his/her own data (My eBird/Manage My Observations), clicks the Share link on the right, adds the projects@worldwaders.org e-mail address and the data is shared with us. WorldWaders has a resource to enter the data to its database. This is an easy way to share observations of regularly visited sites without doubling data entry effort if time availability is limited.
Observations from frequently visited sites are more welcome than those from the occasionally visited ones however we are happy for every submitted record. More detail and tutorial of eBird observation sharing process visit http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/new-feature-ebird-checklist-sharing.
Spotted Sandpiper, Cuba. © Gyorgy Szimuly
Pre-publication offer is available on a new shorebird book
At the end of May a news item was posted to the WorldWaders News Blog about an important shorebird publication, the ‘Shorebird Ecology, Conservation, and Management’ written by Mark A. Colwell and to be published by University of California Press. The 20% pre-publication offer is available now via the UCP website. Planned publishing date is October 2010.
Credit: University of California Press
Sociable Lapwings embark on an Amazing Journey
Written by Jim Lawrence
BirdLife International, RSPB (BirdLife in the UK) and leading optics manufacturer Swarovski Optik have just launched a remarkable new interactive website The Amazing Journey which charts the migration of one of the world’s most threatened birds – Sociable Lapwing.
© Maxim Koshkin (Conservation Project Leader, ACBK)
The new website enables you to experience the birds’ migration online and witness new discoveries as they happen. It also provides support to a large team of international scientists who are trying to prevent the species from becoming extinct.
Following extensive research, nine Sociable Lapwings have been carefully fitted with tiny, state-of-the-art satellite transmitters, which will track their hazardous 5,000+ km journey from their breeding grounds in Kazakhstan to their non breeding areas in tropical Africa and other, as yet undiscovered, destinations.
The Amazing Journey follows the adventures of Erzhan, Dinara, Svetlana and six other intrepid satellite-tagged lapwings as they fly south for the winter – dodging hunters with guns and falcons and the myriad other unknown threats that await them.
Andreas Pittl – Head of the Nature Division at Swarovski said, “This is a hugely important and fascinating project which Swarovski Optik is proud to champion. Wildlife is threatened with extinction for many reasons so finding ways to help such a beautiful and inspiring creature as the Social Lapwing is an important conservation effort we are keen to support. We want to bring people and nature together so they can continue to enjoy brilliant, close-up views of birds like these for years to come.”
Designed by online marketing experts Digital Spring, The Amazing Journey uses satellite data fed through Google map technology to keep pace with the birds. A mixture of clever, regularly updated maps and video and photo blog reports from the field will follow their progress. Relatively little is still known about the routes Sociable Lapwings take, so tracking them will provide vital information, enabling BirdLife scientists to monitor and protect the birds and unlock the mystery of their migration. Now, for the first time, those interested in birds, wildlife and conservation can sit alongside scientists, and learn about these extraordinary birds, their migration habits and their conservation.
Dr. Paul Donald, the project’s Principal Conservation Scientist at RSPB said, “We are using the world’s smallest and latest satellite transmitter – weighing just 5 grams – to record this amazing journey. By engaging with people around the world and inviting them to see this fascinating migration happening live online we believe we can inspire them to play their part too.”
As the Sociable Lapwings progress along a lengthy route through various countries they need to stop every now and again to ‘refuel’ along the way. As they do so they form big feeding flocks (which is how they get their name). Whenever they touch down, precise details of their location are picked up by satellites orbiting high overhead and sent to RSPB scientists. These locations are then passed on to conservation project partners in each of the countries the birds travel through. With detailed coordinates they can quickly locate the flocks of birds, wherever they’ve touched down and take action if they are threatened in any way. The Amazing Journey website will provide regular reports from these scientists in the field keeping us up to date with all the latest news on the birds’ progress.
Jim Lawrence, Preventing Extinction Programme Manager at BirdLife International said, “Protecting migratory species on the brink of extinction like Sociable Lapwings can’t be done without the considerable support of BirdLife Species Champions like Swarovski and RSPB. The Amazing Journey website is a new window on our world where you can see BirdLife International Partners around the globe delivering co-ordinated international conservation solutions.”
Trapping for food threatens rare Asian bird
On August 21, 2010 February 21, 2013 By Gyorgy SzimulyIn UncategorizedLeave a comment
Written by Richard Thomas/Traffic
The Spoon-billed Sandpiper, one of the world’s most threatened birds, is rapidly heading towards extinction because young birds are being targeted for human consumption.
Spoon-billed Sandpipers are rapidly disappearing because of trapping for human consumption. Image taken in Khok Kham, Thailand, February 2008. © Richard Thomas/TRAFFIC
Spoon-billed Sandpipers nest only in the far north-east of Russia. In 2000, around 1,000 breeding pairs were known, but by 2009, the number had plummeted to just 120–220 pairs, a decline of 88%.
During that time, adult survival appeared unchanged and breeding success was reasonable, but the recruitment of young birds back into the adult population was zero in all but one of the years studied.
Now an international team of scientists has discovered the apparent reason behind the dramatic decline and why young birds are particularly at risk.
First, the team had to find where the birds spent the winter months.
In both 2009 and 2010, the team located around 200 Spoon-billed Sandpipers—the majority of the world population—wintering in Myanmar, most of them in the Bay of Martaban where local people target wading birds for food.
“For a species with such a small known population, it is likely that hunting in the wintering area is the major cause of the species’s decline,” said Christoph Zöckler of ArcCona, a Cambridge-based Consultancy and member of the international team.
The problem is exacerbated because young immature birds are more likely to be caught and spend the whole of their first year on the wintering grounds.
During the monsoon season (May-September), when adult Spoon-billed Sandpipers are far away on their breeding grounds, birds are particularly targeted by local hunters because fishing becomes difficult.
“The unintentional targeting of young Spoon-billed Sandpipers during the summer months explains the lack of recruitment of new birds into the breeding population,” said Zöckler.
To prevent the Spoon-billed Sandpiper’s extinction urgent action is needed, both to find ways to give local people economic alternatives to hunting birds and to persuade hunters to release any sandpipers they catch.
“Without such action, the world will lose one of its most charismatic birds,” said Zöckler.
Work on indicators shows that a higher percentage of birds used for food and medicine are threatened than those that are not Click graph to enlargeTRAFFIC and IUCN, in conjunction with BirdLife International, have been developing indicators to monitor trends in the status of species used for food and medicine and have published a factsheet on this work.
They show that birds and mammals used for these purposes are generally more threatened than those that are not.
Overall, 12% of all bird species are globally threatened with extinction, but a much higher percentage (23%) of those used for food and medicine are under threat.
TRAFFIC’s work on indicators is being showcased this week at the EcoHealth 2010 Conference, the biennial conference of the International Association for Ecology and Health (IAEH) currently underway in London, UK.
Reproduced with permission from TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network
Sociable Lapwing Tracking ??? RSPB Video
Written by RSPB
Watch this extraordinary video of Dr. Rob Sheldon (RSPB) and Maxim Koshkin (ACBK) fitting one of the new satellite tracking devices to Alia on the breeding grounds, in Central Kazakhstan in June 2010.
Dr Paul Donald (RSPB) narrates – explaining how this high-tech conservation initiative will provide vital new information that will help develop conservation strategies to protect the birds and ultimately lead to a long term future for the species.
Read more stories from The BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme.
District Court Upholds Designation of Critical Winter Habitat for Piping Plovers Along Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Written by Kurt Repanshek
In an opinion that goes against off-road vehicle interests along Cape Hatteras in North Carolina, a federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service properly designated critical winter habitat for the Piping Plover, a threatened species of shorebirds.
Piping Plover in Florida. © Jan Wegener
Judge Royce C. Lamberth, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, held that the Fish and Wildlife Service properly considered economic impacts, special management considerations, and off-road vehicle regulations when it set aside 2,053 acres in North Carolina’s Dare and Hyde counties — including parts of Cape Hatteras National Seashore — as critical habitat for the diminutive shorebirds.
The ruling handed down Tuesday was applauded by conservation groups.
“Cape Hatteras is unique. It’s one of the few places on the East Coast that hosts Piping Plover activity all year round,” said Jason Rylander, staff attorney for Defenders of Wildlife. “Critical habitat designation will provide a crucial, additional layer of protection throughout the year.”
At Audubon North Carolina, deputy director Walker Golder called the judge’s decision “a great victory for Piping Plovers and reaffirms the importance of Cape Hatteras National Seashore for this threatened species.”
The ruling comes at the end of a long road of litigation and rule-making. The case at hand can be traced at least to 2001 when the Fish and Wildlife Service first designated critical winter habitat for the birds. Portions of that designation that involved Cape Hatteras were immediately challenged by the Cape Hatteras Access Preservation Association, a coalition of off-road and surf-fishing interests.
In 2004 a lower court remanded the matter back to the Fish and Wildlife Service with a direction to re-examine its designation of the four units that fell within both the national seashore and Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge.
While this was playing out, environmental groups — Defenders of Wildlife and the National Audubon Society — sued the National Park Service for failing to develop an ORV management plan for Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
Fish and Wildlife Service officials published their revised critical winter habitat designations in October 2008, about the same time national seashore officials and the environmental groups agreed to a consent decree mandating that the seashore would develop an ORV plan by April 2011.
While the Fish and Wildlife Service’s revised designation of critical habitat was roughly 1,600 acres smaller than the original designation, and touched on no private lands, the preservation association sued again in February 2009.
In rejecting their claims for relief, Judge Lamberth held that the Fish and Wildlife Service properly and adequately identified why the lands in question were vital to the plovers, which spend 10 months a year “wintering” in North Carolina, and how they need to be managed to benefit the shorebirds.
The ruling (attached below) is only the latest chapter in a long-running saga pitting those who rely on off-road vehicles to enjoy the national seashore and fish from its shores against groups that have maintained the Park Service long has failed to protect threatened and endangered species of birds and sea turtles from those ORVs.
At Defenders, Mr. Rylander said Wednesday that the favorable ruling for winter habitat nevertheless is a smaller piece of the overall puzzle that will provide the necessary protections.
“The Park Service will have yet another reason to do what it’s already obligated to do under the (National Park Service) Organic Act and the Endangered Species Act,” he said from his Washington office. “So, it’s another benefit. But it’s not the entire ballgame.”
The final piece to the puzzle, Mr. Rylander said, will be the adoption of a formal ORV plan for the national seashore.
Bumper Season for the endangered New Zealand Plover on the Coromandel Peninsular
Written by Andy Wills/DOC
The 2009/10 season has been very successful for the New Zealand Dotterel Watch program on the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand. This program is a partnership between Newmont Mining, Waihi, Department of Conservation, and local volunteer Dotterel Minders.
New Zealand Dotter (IOC name is New Zealand Plover). © Steve Barker
This season has produced 98 fledglings from 150 pairs of NZ Dotterel, across 46 monitored sites, making it our most successful season in the last five years. There are a number of elements which have contributed to this.
Increase in breeding pairs monitored at 46 sites around the Coromandel Peninsula.
Productivity value = average number of chicks fledged per breeding pair. P= 0.65* (*current minimum value – chicks yet to fledge @ 1 March 2010). Management is considered effective if productivity values are greater than 0.5 for three consecutive years or longer (Dowding & Davis, 2007). Seventh consecutive season where p>0.5 has been achieved.
The program would not be the success it is without the many Dotterel minders on the peninsula who give up their time to help these endangered birds during the breeding season. They help set up rope fences and signs around nest sites, in educating the public about the Dotterels and sometimes help with trapping.
The sponsorship from Newmont Mining Waihi, which enables the Department to employ a full-time Dotterel Ranger over the 6 month breeding season. The ranger works in with local minders to provide technical, logistical and operational support for the Coromandel NZ Dotterel Watch Minder Network.
We have also increased the trapping around the beaches. This has enabled us to catch greater numbers of Hedgehogs, Rats, Stoats and Feral cats which predate on the Dotterel nests.
This year the Thames Coromandel District Council have introduced new Dog bylaws which have restricted dog activity to a number of the main nest sites which has provided further protection to the Dotterels.
Overall we were quite lucky with the weather this year; we didn’t get too many big easterly swells and not many big tides either.
The NZ Dotterel Watch program has been running since 1998, there is now a greater awareness with the general public, resulting in fewer disturbances to breeding areas. We are continually looking at ways which we can improve on previous seasons.
New Zealand Plover problems
On August 16, 2010 By Gyorgy SzimulyIn Uncategorized1 Comment
Posted by Gyorgy Szimuly/WorldWaders
This educational video talks about the challenges New Zealand Plovers Charadrius obscurus are facing on their breeding grounds.
Note: WorldWaders is using IOC’s bird names. The previously used name of New Zealand Dotterel has been changed to New Zealand Plover.
Habitat creation prompts breeding bonanza among wading birds
On August 9, 2010 By Gyorgy SzimulyIn UncategorizedLeave a comment
Written by WWT
Wading birds on the Ouse Washes have stunned staff at WWT Welney Wetland Centre by turning up in droves to breed thanks to newly created habitat, giving eager visitors the chance to see them rearing their chicks.
In 2008 just five pairs of lapwing bred on the former arable fields just beside the Ouse Washes. This year 67 breeding pairs of waders have been recorded in the same area, including lapwing, redshank, little ringed plover and avocet.
With the support of the Environment Agency and Natural England, WWT converted the two areas of farmland to wet grassland over two years, providing ideal habitat for the birds. The new habitat covers nearly 80 hectares, all visible from the cafe in Welney Wetland Centre.
Leigh Marshall, Reserve Manager at WWT Welney, commented: “That the birds have turned up in such huge numbers just goes to show that there’s a real demand for this type of habitat. Many farms once included wet fields like these but it is estimated about 45% were drained over the 20th century which has undeniably had an effect on wader numbers around the country.
“Our neighbouring farmers have been really supportive, providing livestock to graze the area which has kept the grass in tip top condition for the birds.”
WWT Chief Executive Martin Spray commented: “All around the world, populations of wading birds are declining, largely because their wetland habitats are being ruined. Globally 23 species of wader are red listed and another 20 species are heading in that direction. So we’re hugely proud to be able to report such a successful breeding season. It clearly demonstrates how important habitat is to conservation.”
Roger Gerry, from Natural England, added: “The figures speak for themselves, this is a huge boost to wetland birds in the Fens and for everyone that comes to enjoy seeing them. Natural England hopes to continue giving this project our support through our Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) scheme in the future.”
WWT created the wet grassland by digging a system of ditches, channels and scrapes into the former arable land and seeding it with native grasses. As well as being a success with breeding waders this summer, the habitat has attracted huge numbers of ducks from the Arctic, which come to escape the harsh winter weather. Last winter saw a huge jump in the number of wintering wigeon with 1,600 seen on one day from the cafe, along with 540 other ducks.
But the real delight for staff and visitors alike has been the numbers of breeding waders throughout this spring. 33 pairs of lapwing, 29 pairs of redshank, 3 pairs of avocet and two pairs of little ringed plover have been recorded on the site.
Increase in numbers of breeding birds on new wet grassland at WWT Welney (Wading birds in bold in top four rows)
Bird species 2007
The area is still former arable land 2008
WWT creates wet grassland on half the area 2009
WWT creates wet grassland on the remaining half 2010
The whole area is wet grassland
Northern Lapwing 1 5 9 33
Common Redshank – – 7 29
Little Ringed Plover – – – 2
Avocet – – – 3
Tufted Duck – – – 2
Common Shelduck – – 1 8
Gadwall – – 1 4
Mallard 1 – 6 10
Shoveler – – 6 13
Common Moorhen – – – 2
Eurasian Coot – – – 5
European Skylark 3 12 12 21
Meadow Pipit 3 6 4 14
Western Yellow Wagtail – – 2 1
Sedge Warbler – – 2 –
European Reed Warbler – – 1 2
Goldfinch – – 1 1
Linnet – – 8 3
Common Reed Bunting 4 4 1 2
Corn Bunting
– – 4 6
Ring-necked Pheasant – – – 2
Total 12 27 65 163
Oversummering Spoon-billed Sandpiper discovered in Thailand
Written by Bird Conservation Society of Thailand
On July 19, 2010, a shorebird survey team observed a first-summer individual of the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper Eurynorhynchus pygmeus at Khok Kham, on the coast of the Inner Gulf of Thailand about 50 km southwest of Bangkok. This is the first record of the species oversummering in its wintering grounds.
The observation confirms what many shorebird biologists had suspected, because other species such as Red-necked Stint spend their first-summer in their non-breeding range. The Spoon-billed Sandpiper breeding grounds are far to the north of Thailand in the Far East of Russia.
The team members Krairat Iamamphai (Head of Bung Boraphet Wildlife Research Station), Thithi Sonsa and Somchai Nimnuan (both from Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation) were also excited to observe the species feeding on the mudflats. “This is also the first confirmed sighting at Khok Kham of Spoon-billed Sandpiper feeding on the mudflats,” said Somchai Nimnuan, who also took photographs of the observation. Khok Kham has become the most reliable site in South-East Asia to see the species from November to March but all previous observations there were from man-made salt pans.
“The numbers of Spoon-billed Sandpipers currently known to occur in the Thailand’s Inner Gulf are very small —perhaps now only around ten birds in total, of which only a proportion will be first-years—while the area of mudflats are vast,” said Assistant Professor Philip D. Round, an ornithologist who is world authority of birds in Thailand and a member of the BirdLife Partner’s Bird Conservation Society of Thailand Conservation (BCST) Committee.
“This finding should spur us to look for more over-summering Spoon-billed Sandpipers, more surveys and studies, and of course more conservation actions. Thailand must do its share to conserve this species through protecting Inner Gulf Coastlines, both offshore mudflats and onshore salt-pans, which the birds are known to frequent for much of the tidal cycle and by preventing the illegal netting of shorebirds for food, which still continues,” added Gawin Chutima, Chairman of BCST.
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African Risk Capacity Insurance Issues Cheque for FCFA 442,824,819.30 to Côte d’Ivoire
L-R: Assistant Secretary-General for the United Nations, Mohamed Beavogui, Director General of the ARC Institution; handing over the cheque to Mr. Adama Coulibaly, Minister of Economy and Finance, Republic of Côte d’Ivoire
Abidjan, November 08, 2019 – The African Risk Capacity Insurance Limited (ARC Ltd) has handed a cheque for FCFA 442,824,819.30 (equivalent of US$738,539.88) to the Government of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire to provide rapid assistance to vulnerable population in the Central Region of the country following severe rainfall deficits in the 2019 agricultural season.
ARC had on September 12, 2019 announced the payout to Cote d’Ivoire when the Africa RiskView, the Agency’s parametric tool, detected that the irregular and insufficient rainfall in the central region will affect the food security of an estimated 400 000 people by the end of the season.
Following the announcement, and in line with a pre-existing Contingency Plan, the Government and ARC held review meetings on the Final Implementation Plan (FIP) which was subsequently approved by the country’s Peer Review Mechanism (PRM) on October 25, 2019 with clear recommendations on how the payout will be applied.
Accordingly, the Government will apply the payout in the already established Cash Transfer Programme implemented by the Ministry of Solidarity. Social cohesion & Fight against poverty in the central region. According to the FIP, the ARC payout will benefit up to 32,496 persons corresponding to 6,500 households who will receive an additional aid of FCFA50,000 from the Government.
Receiving the cheque on behalf of the people of Cote d’Ivoire, Mr. Adama Coulibaly, the Honourable Minister for Economy and Finance, reaffirmed the Government’s commitment to the citizens’ welfare. “The Government of Cote d’Ivoire takes the food security of its populations very seriously. Therefore, His Excellency, President Alassane Ouattara supports the collaboration with African Risk Capacity to ensure we can provide timely assistance to our vulnerable population and strengthen their capacity to cope with this kind of disaster.”
Côte d’Ivoire has been a member of the ARC Agency since 2014; and subscribed to the ARC Insurance Ltd pool for the first time in 2019 by signing two policies for rainfall deficit covering its Central and Northern regions. The recorded severe rainfall deficits occurred mainly in the Hambol Valley, Gbeke, and Marahoué regions,
“Providing Member States with the innovative tools to respond to natural disaster risks in a more timely and predictable manner gratifies our efforts,” remarked UN-ASG Mohamed Beavogui, the Director-General of ARC Agency. “We are grateful to the Government of Cote d’Ivoire, and especially the Minister of Economy and Finance, for the confidence in our mechanism which has brought hope to the vulnerable population affected by the drought”, ASG Beavogui added.
In her message, Ms. Dolika Banda, the CEO of ARC Insurance Limited, expressed the optimism that the payout will deliberately target to benefit women. “Often, when natural disasters of this nature occur, the lives and livelihoods of women and, especially female-headed households are disproportionately impacted. We are happy that the details of the FIP for the payout adequately reflect our mutual concern for gender”, Ms. Banda said.
ARC was established on the principle that investing in preparedness and early warning through an innovative financing approach is highly cost-effective and can save upward of four dollars for every dollar invested ex ante.
With the support of the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, France, The Rockefeller Foundation and the United States, ARC assists AU Member States in reducing the risk of loss and damage caused by extreme weather events affecting Africa’s populations by providing, through sovereign disaster risk insurance, targeted responses to natural disasters in a more timely, cost-effective, objective and transparent manner. ARC is now using its expertise to help tackle some of the other greatest threats faced by the continent, including outbreaks and epidemics.
Since 2014, 37 policies have been signed by Member States with US$74million paid in premiums for a cumulative insurance coverage of US$544million for the protection of 54million vulnerable population in participating countries.
For more information, please visit: www.africanriskcapacity.org
Mr. Chinedu Moghalu
Senior Communication Specialist
African Risk Capacity (ARC)
Mob: +27 (0) 83-308-7068
chinedu.moghalu@africanriskcapacity.org
chinedu.moghalu@wfp.org
M. Lucien Bouafon
Point focal ARC à la Direction des Assurances
Mob: +225 59 24 45 77
Email: lucienbouafon@yahoo.fr
La Société de la Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques émet un chèque d’un montant de 442 824 819,30 FCFA à l’attention de la Côte d’Ivoire
Abidjan, le 08 novembre 2019; La Société de la Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques (ARC Ltd) a remis un chèque de 442 824 819,30 FCFA (équivalent de 738 539,88 USD) au gouvernement de la République de Côte d’Ivoire pour lui permettre de fournir une assistance rapide aux populations vulnérables dans la région centrale du pays à la suite des graves déficits pluviométriques de la saison agricole de 2019.
Le 12 septembre 2019, l’ARC avait annoncé le versement d’indemnités à la Côte d’Ivoire lorsque le logiciel Africa RiskView, l’outil paramétrique de l’Institution, avait détecté que les précipitations irrégulières et insuffisantes dans la région centrale du pays risquaient d’affecter la sécurité alimentaire d’environ 400 000 personnes à la fin de la saison.
Suite à cette annonce et conformément à un plan d’urgence déjà en place, le gouvernement et l’ARC ont tenu des réunions d’examen du plan définitif de mise en œuvre (PDMO) qui a ensuite été approuvé par le Mécanisme d’examen par les pairs ( MEP) du pays en date du 25 octobre 2019, avec des recommandations sur les modalités de versement du paiement.
En conséquence, le gouvernement utilisera le paiement dans le Programme de transfert monétaire déjà mis en place et géré par le ministère de la Solidarité, de la Cohésion sociale et de la Lutte contre la Pauvreté dans la région centrale. Selon le PDMO, le versement de l’ARC bénéficiera à 32 496 personnes, soit 6 500 ménages, qui recevront une aide supplémentaire de 50 000 FCFA de la part du gouvernement.
Recevant le chèque au nom de l’Etat de Côte d’Ivoire, S.E.M. Adama Coulibaly, Ministre de l’Economie et des Finances, a réaffirmé l’engagement du gouvernement en faveur du bien-être des citoyens. «Le Gouvernement ivoirien prend très au sérieux la sécurité alimentaire de sa population. Par conséquent, Son Excellence le Président Alassane Ouattara soutient la collaboration avec la Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques en vue de garantir que nous puissions fournir une assistance rapide à nos populations vulnérables et renforcer leur capacité à faire face à ce genre de catastrophe. »
La Côte d’Ivoire est membre de l’Institution de l’ARC depuis 2014 et a souscrit au groupe d’assurance de la Société de la Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques (ARC Ltd) pour la première fois en 2019 en signant deux contrats d’assurance contre le déficit pluviométrique couvrant les régions du centre et du nord. De graves déficits pluviométriques ont été principalement enregistrés dans les régions de la vallée de Hambol, de Gbeke et de la Marahoué.
«Fournir aux États membres des outils innovants pour faire face aux risques de catastrophe naturelle de manière plus rapide et plus prévisible récompense nos efforts », a déclaré le Sous-Secrétaire général aux Nations Unies, Mohamed Beavogui, directeur général de l’Institution de l’ARC. «Nous sommes reconnaissants au gouvernement de la Côte d’Ivoire, et en particulier au ministre de l’Economie et des Finances, pour la confiance à l’égard de notre mécanisme qui a donné de l’espoir aux populations vulnérables touchées par la sécheresse », a ajouté Beavogui.
Dans son message, Mme Dolika Banda, directrice exécutive de l’ARC Ltd, a exprimé son optimisme quant au fait que le versement d’indemnités ciblerait délibérément les femmes. «Souvent, lorsque surviennent des catastrophes naturelles de ce genre, la vie et les moyens de subsistance des femmes, et en particulier des ménages dirigés par une femme, sont affectés de manière disproportionnée. Nous sommes heureux que les détails du PDMO concernant le paiement reflètent bien notre préoccupation commune en matière de genre », a déclaré Mme Banda.
L’ARC a été créée sur le principe qu’investir dans la préparation et l’alerte rapide au moyen d’une approche de financement innovante est extrêmement rentable et permet d’économiser jusqu’à quatre dollars pour chaque dollar investi au préalable.
Avec le soutien du Royaume-Uni, de l’Allemagne, de la Suède, de la Suisse, du Canada, de la France, de la Fondation Rockefeller et des États-Unis, l’ARC aide les États membres de l’UA à réduire le risque de pertes et de dommages causés par des phénomènes météorologiques extrêmes touchant les populations africaines en fournissant, au moyen d’une assurance souveraine contre les risques de catastrophe, des réponses ciblées aux catastrophes naturelles de manière plus rapide, économique, objective et transparente. L’ARC utilise désormais son expertise pour aider à lutter contre certaines des plus grandes menaces auxquelles le continent est confronté, y compris les foyers et les flambées épidémiques.
Depuis 2014, les États membres ont signé 37 contrats portant sur 74 millions USD de primes versées pour une couverture d’assurance cumulée de 544 millions USD pour la protection de 54 millions de personnes vulnérables dans les pays participants.
Pour plus d’informations, visiter le site : www.africanriskcapacity.org
CONTACT MEDIATIQUE
M. Chinedu Moghalu
Spécialiste principal en communication
Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques (ARC)
Mob : +27 (0) 83-308-7068
Mob : +225 59 24 45 77
Email : lucienbouafon@yahoo.fr
Senegal Receives US$23.1m From African Risk Capacity Insurance Limited Cheque for Drought Response
L-R: Dolika Banda, ARC Insurance Ltd CEO, Dakar, Mr. Aly Ngouille Ndiaye, Hon. Minister of Interior,Senegal , and UN-ASG, Mohamed Beavogui, DG, ARC
November 04, 2019: The Government of Senegal today received symbolic cheques of US$23.1 (equivalent of FCFA 13.9 Billion) from the leadership of African Risk Capacity Insurance Limited. The cheques, given in two parts of US$12.5million (FCFA7,494,937,500) and US$10.6million (FCFA6,355,707,009) to the Government and StartNetwork assist in providing early action to support the people affected by drought during the 2019 agricultural season.
Earlier in September, ARC had announced that the Government of Senegal will receive a minimum of US$22m to cover losses from crop failures caused by the severe rainfall deficits in the 2019 agricultural season. The US$23.1 being paid signifies a five percent (5%) or US$1.1m (FCFA 200, 000, 000) increase from the amount earlier announced.
The Government meteorological agency, the Agence Nationale de l’Aviation Civile et de la Météorologie (ANACIM), corrobotaed the outputs of ARC’s bespoke tool, Africa RiskView. According to Africa RiskView, at least 975, 000 people will be directly affected by the drought.
“We are extremely committed to the African Risk Capacity, said Mr. Aly Ngouille Ndiaye, Honourable Minister of Interior of the Republic of Senegal. ARC is an African institution which uses innovative financing to protect the resilience of our populations. We also welcome the involvement of
StartNetwork, while we appreciate all that is being done by ARC in Senegal.’’
The Republic of Senegal was one of the founding Member States of the ARC and has been a member of the institution since its creation in 2012. Also, the country was one of the first to take out a drought insurance policy wih the ARC Insurance Limited in 2014. Since then, the Republic of Senegal has annually renewed its insurance coverage by paying an estimated premium of CFAF 1.5 billion per year. This amount is charged to the budget of the country’s Ministry of the Interior. The current payout of US$23.1 has triggered from the country’s 2019 policy takeout in which the Government and its partner Replica, Start Network, subscribed to a drought insurance policy for a premium of FCFA 1.9 billion and FCFA 1.6 billion respectively.
“The payout, once again, validates our concept and value proposition and the unwavering commitment of the Government of Senegal. Climateinduced disasters cannot be prevented; but we have consistently proven that we can work with African Governments to enable a more timely and reliable post-disaster response”, said UN-ASG Mohamed Beavogui, Director-General of ARC Agency.
“Our early response will be critical to how the vulnerable populations will cope within the first three months after harvest. It will ensure quicker recovery, increase local adaptive capacity and strengthen resilience”, added Ms. Dolika Banda, the CEO of ARC Insurance Limited.
ARC was established on the principle that investing in preparedness and early warning through an innovative financing approach is highly costeffective and can save upward of four dollars for every dollar invested ex ante.
In her message, Christina Bennett, the CEO of Start Network’s CEO expressed her satisfaction with the payout. “We are delighted that our work to put this policy in place, will now mean an early release of funding, so we can work alongside the Government to help people who may suffer during this major drought. This way of working is a potential game-changer for the sector. Slow aid funding is one of the biggest structural problems in disaster response efforts, and this costs lives. Studies show that early action means more lives saved. And that’s exactly what we will be able to do”, she said.
1st Right: Mme Anta Gueye-James Country Representative, Catholic Relief Services, a member NGO of StartNetwork.
In line with processes agreed with the Government of Senegal, the Final Implementation Plan (FIP) for the payout is awaiting the approval of the Peer Review Mechanism (PRM) for the rollout of response activities. This will take place in the next few days.
African Risk Capacity (ARC) Mob: +27 (0) 83-308-7068 chinedu.moghalu@africanriskcapacity.org chinedu.moghalu@wfp.org
M. Abdoulaye NOBA
Directeur de la Protection civile
Superviseur national du Programme ARC au Sénégal
M. Massamba DIOP
Administrateur national du Programme ARC au Sénégal
Mob: +221 77 529 15 62
Email: elmassdiop@yahoo.fr
Mr. Amadou Diallo
Coordonnateur de la réplique de l’ARC
Start Network
Mob: +221 77 861 29 87 Email: amadou.diallo@startnetworksenegal.org
Le Sénégal reçoit un décaissement de 23,1 millions de dollars US de l’African Risk Capacity Insurance Limited pour lutter contre la sécheresse
De gauche à droite: Dolika Banda, PDG d’ARC Insurance Ltd, Dakar, M. Aly Ngouille Ndiaye, Ministre de l’Intérieur, Sénégal, et UN-ASG, Mohamed Beavogui, DG, ARC
Dakar, le 04 novembre 2019: Le gouvernement du Sénégal a reçu aujourd’hui deux chèques symboliques d’un montant total de 23,1 millions de dollars US (l’équivalent de 13,9 milliards de FCFA) de l’African Risk Capacity Insurance Company Limited (ARC Ltd). Le premier chèque, d’un montant de 12,5 millions de dollars US (FCFA7494937500 FCFA) au profit du Gouvernement du Sénégal, et le second, de 10,6 millions de dollars US (6 355707 009 FCFA), au profit du réseau d’ONG Start Network, seront dédiés à l’assistance aux populations touchées par la sécheresse au cours de la saison agricole 2019.
Au début du mois de Septembre, l’African Risk Capacity (ARC) avait annoncé que le gouvernement du Sénégal recevrait un minimum de 22 millions de dollars US pour couvrir les pertes dues aux déficits pluviométriques de la campagne agricole 2019. Les 23,1 millions de dollars US versés représentent une augmentation de cinq pour cent (5%) ou 1,1 million de dollars US (650 000 000 FCFA) par rapport au montant annoncé précédemment.
Le suivi météorologique de l’Agence Nationale de l’Aviation Civile et de la Météorologie (ANACIM) confirme les données issues du logiciel Africa RiskView , qui permet de quantifier l’impact du déficit pluviométrique tout au long de la saison agricole. Selon ce dernier, au moins 975 000 personnes seraient directement affectées par la sécheresse.
“Nous sommes fortement engagés au sein de l’ARC, a déclaré le Ministre de l’Intérieur de la République du Sénégal, M. Aly Ngouille Ndiaye. Nous nous réjouissons également de l’implication des ONGs, et nous apprécions tout ce qui est fait par l’ARC au Sénégal “
La République du Sénégal est l’un des Etats membres fondateurs de l’ARC et est membre de l’institution depuis sa création en 2012. En outre, le pays a été l’un des premiers à souscrire à une police d’assurance contre la sécheresse auprès de l’ARC Ltd en 2014. Depuis lors, la République du Sénégal a renouvelé sa couverture d’assurance au cours de chaque saison agricole, en payant une prime estimée à 1,5 milliard de FCFA par an, budgétisé chaque année par le ministère de l’Intérieur du Sénégal. Le versement actuel de 23,1 milliards de dollars correspond à la souscription d’une police d’assurance contre la sécheresse en 2019, dans le cadre de laquelle le gouvernement et son partenaire Replica, Start Network, ont souscrit une police d’assurance sécheresse pour une prime de 1,9 milliard FCFA et 1,6 milliard FCFA respectivement.
“Le paiement à la République du Sénégal valide notre proposition de valeur et l’engagement inébranlable du Sénégal. Il est impossible de prévenir les catastrophes d’origine climatique, mais nous avons toujours prouvé que nous pouvions travailler avec les gouvernements africains pour permettre une intervention plus rapide et plus fiable après une catastrophe naturelle.’’, a déclaré M. Mohamed Béavogui, Assistant Secrétaire Général des Nations Unies et Directeur Général de l’ARC. ‘’Notre intervention rapide sera essentielle pour permettre aux populations vulnérables de faire face à la situation au cours des trois premiers mois suivant la récolte. Elle assurera une reprise plus rapide, augmentera la capacité d’adaptation locale et renforcera la résilience “, a ajouté Mme Dolika Banda, Directrice Exécutive d’ARC Ltd.
L’ARC a été établi sur le principe que l’investissement dans la préparation et l’alerte rapide par le biais d’une approche innovante est rentable et permet d’économiser jusqu’à quatre dollars pour chaque dollar investi avant la catastrophe.
S’exprimant pour le compte du reseau d’ONGs Start Network, Mme Christina Bennett, Directrice de START Network a déclaré : ‘’Nous sommes ravis que nos efforts pour intégrer le programme Replica se concrétisent par un décaissement de fonds. Nous pourrons travailler aux côtés du Gouvernement pour aider les populations affectées par cette sécheresse. Le mécanisme Replica de l’ARC est une innovation sans précédent pour le secteur. Le financement lent est un problème structurel majeur dans la réponse aux catastrophes, et coûte en vies humaines. Les études montrent que l’action précoce sauve des vies humaines. Et c’est exactement ce que nous allons pouvoir faire.’’
1ère à droite : Mme Anta Gueye-James Country Representative, Catholic Relief Services, une ONG membre de StartNetwork.
Conformément aux processus convenus avec le Gouvernement Sénégalais, le Plan final de mise en œuvre (FIP) pour le versement des paiements est en attente de l’approbation du Mécanisme d’évaluation par les pairs (PMR) pour le déploiement des activités de réponse. Cela aura lieu dans les prochains jours.
Avec le soutien du Royaume-Uni, de l’Allemagne, de la Suède, de la Suisse, du Canada, de la France, de la Fondation Rockefeller et des États-Unis, l’ARC aide les États membres de l’UA à réduire le risque de pertes et de dommages causés par des phénomènes météorologiques extrêmes touchant les populations africaines en fournissant, au moyen d’une assurance souveraine des risques de catastrophe, des réponses ciblées aux catastrophes naturelles, de façon plus rapide, rentable, objective et transparente. L’ARC utilise maintenant son expertise pour aider à s’attaquer à certaines des autres plus grandes menaces auxquelles le continent est confronté, y compris les inondations et les épidémies.
Depuis 2014, 37 polices d’assurance ont été signées par les États membres, avec 74 millions de dollars US de primes payées pour une couverture d’assurance cumulative de 544 millions de dollars US pour la protection de 54 millions de personnes vulnérables dans les pays participants.
Spécialiste principale des communications
Africa developing new tools to build resilience to future drought shocks
L-R: UN-ASG Mohamed Beavogui, Director-General, African Risk Capacity and UN-USG Ibrahim Thiaw, Executive Secretary, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification with copies of the MoU.
Bonn, 23 October 2019 – Droughts have decimated communities and livelihoods in Africa for long. This year alone, over 45 million people across Africa, mostly in Eastern and Southern Africa, are food insecure due to prolonged droughts.
The Africa Risk Capacity (ARC) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) announced they will collaborate to support the development of financial tools to help Africa to adapt and become resilient to future drought and other extreme weather events.
The partnership will support African countries in managing the impact of extreme weather events, including drought. It will also seek to leverage private sector resources through the development of new financial instruments that can provide insurance protection and other funding to mitigate these risks.
The announcement was marked by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding by Ibrahim Thiaw, UNCCD Executive Secretary, and Mohamed Beavogui, ARC Director General, during a two-day technical workshop convened on 22 and 23 October in Bonn, Germany.
The workshop is reviewing the proposed principles and work of the eXtreme Climate Facility (XCF). XCF is a new financial vehicle aiming to tap into capital market resources to provide financial support to countries affected by extreme weather events.
Technical experts gathered at the workshop are exploring the robustness of the core elements of the XCF. These include the financial products and their underlying index, viable alternative market-based solutions and the partnerships that are essential to deliver both the product and the aims.
The process for the XCF began in March 2014 when the African Union Conference of Ministers of Finance requested the ARC, by decision no. 927(XLVII), at the Seventh AU-ECA Joint Annual Meetings in Abuja, Nigeria, to develop a financing mechanism to enhance Member States’ response to the impacts of increasing climate volatility.
The first Special Report on Climate Change and Land released just three months ago by the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that droughts may increase in frequency and intensity in much of Africa.
“The message is clear. We will see an increasing number of droughts with unprecedented severity, which are exacerbated by climate change. No country or region, rich or poor, is immune to the vagaries of drought. The ARC-led XCF will become an important tool to help African countries to cope effectively with the impacts of drought,” said Ibrahim Thiaw during the ceremony.
“Currently, through the Drought Initiative, the UNCCD is helping 35 of Africa’s 57 countries to create the mechanisms they need to take early action to avert drought disasters. Today, Africa is ramping up pre-emptive actions as a unified front against future drought and climate-induced disasters in the region,” Thiaw added.
“Reducing the impacts of drought and other natural disasters by helping Member States’ improve climate resilience through innovative mitigation and risk financing instruments are key to our mandate,” said ASG Beavogui.
“The Agreement signed today with UNCCD will create a functional synergy in our efforts to help countries better understand their risk profiles, improve knowledge and strengthen capacities for climate adaptation and food security,” Beavogui concluded.
As designed currently, the XCF has a three-point agenda; to connect to private sector financing, to encourage best practice in public policy and to integrate climate science into its functions.
A 2-page background note is attached to this press release.
Additional Quotes about the XCF
ASG Mohamed Beavogui, the Director-General of ARC: “Since the inception of the XCF programme in 2014, this is the first Technical Review Forum where the overall end-to-end framework is considered and reviewed. Our guiding principle since the creation of ARC is to interrogate our concepts by subjecting our models to the best available experts in that field. We did this with our drought tool, the African RiskView, which remains the best-in-class to-date for Africa. We are grateful to all our partners and industry experts that have joined us in this process.”
“The World Bank supports countries with climate adaptation measures and is committed to working with countries to strengthen financial resilience against climate and disaster shocks,” said Mr. Miguel Navarro-Martin, Manager of Banking Products, World Bank Treasury. “Our focus is on helping countries to protect their fiscal accounts against external risks. The XCF concept being developed by ARC provides an opportunity for African countries to access financial solutions to manage disaster risk and to fund a portfolio of climate resilient investments,” he further stated.
Commending ARC and UNCCD on the initiative, Dr. Astrid Zwick, Head of InsuResilience Secretariat remarked, “The centrality of our collaboration with countries is to enable a more timely and reliable post-disaster response. Critical to this are preparedness and readiness using climate disaster risk finance and insurance solutions. The XCF promises to be one of those instruments that can complement ongoing efforts in countries to avert, minimize and address climate disaster risks by strengthening local adaptive capacity and resilience. We are glad to be part of this process.”
Quotes Relating to the MoU
UN-ASG Mohamed Beavogui, the Director-General of ARC: “The mandate of the UNCCD resonates with ARC’s mission. Reducing the impacts of drought and other natural disasters by helping Member States’ improve climate resilience through innovative mitigation and risk financing instruments are key to our mandate. The Agreement will create a functional synergy in our efforts to help countries better understand their risk profiles, improve knowledge and strengthen capacities for climate adaptation and food security.
Executive Secretary Ibrahim Thiaw: “Today marks the beginning of a unified front against drought and climate-induced disasters in the African region. We currently manage programmes closely related to climate adaptation and natural disaster risk, including the Drought Initiative. Our key aims are to support the establishment and implementation of national drought plans and mobilise innovative financial instruments to better mitigate the risks of extreme climate situations.”
For technical information on XCF:
Oluwatosin ADESIYAN, Lead Advisor, XC
oluwatosin.adesiyan@wfp.org
Media Inquiries about the ARC:
Chinedu Moghalu, Senior Communications Specialist
chinedu.moghalu@arc.int; chinedu.moghalu@wfp.org
For technical information about the UNCCD Contact:
Ms. Camilla Nordheim-Larsen, Programme Coordinator
cnordheim@unccd.int
For media interviews during the Bonn meeting, contact:
Wagaki Wischnewski, Public Information and Media Officer
wwischnewski@unccd.int
About Africa Risk Capacity
The ARC Agency leads the ARC Group, a development finance institution that provides financial tools and infrastructure to help countries manage natural disaster risk and adapt to climate change. The Agency currently has a membership of 34 African Union (AU) Member States and is supervised by a ministerial-level governing board elected by its Conference of the Parties. The African Risk Capacity model is home-grown, innovative, cost-effective, and is proving that it can assist member-states to strengthen their capacities to better plan, prepare and respond to extreme weather events and natural disasters, thereby achieving the food security for their populations. Since 2014, 32 policies have been signed by Member States with US$73million paid in premiums for a cumulative insurance coverage of US$553million for the protection of 55million vulnerable population in participating countries.
About UNCCD
The UNCCD is an international agreement on good land stewardship. It helps people, communities and countries to create wealth, grow economies and secure enough food and water and energy, by ensuring land users have an enabling environment for sustainable land management. Through partnerships, the Convention’s 197 Parties set up robust systems to manage drought promptly and effectively. Good land stewardship based on a sound policy and science helps integrate and accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, builds resilience to climate change and prevents biodiversity loss.
African Risk Capacity (ARC) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat signs Agreement to Strengthen Climate Resilience
L-R: UN-ASG Mohamed Beavogui, Director-General, African Risk Capacity, and Dr. Stergomena L. Tax, Executive Secretary, Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) exchanging copies of the MoU at the SADC Secretariat, Gaborone, Botswana.
“The partnership will enable us to systematically work with SADC to better profile disaster risks facing the region, strengthen existing response capacities and contingency plans, and offer sovereign insurance options to enable rapid action when natural catastrophes occur” – ASG Mohamed Beavogui, DG, ARC
Gaborone, October 3, 2019 – The African Risk Capacity (ARC) and the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Secretariat today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen resilience in the region through adoption of innovative frameworks on disaster risk management and financing.
The SADC region is prone to a myriad of climate and natural disaster risks including droughts, floods, tropical cyclones, storms, epidemics etc. These have had devastating impacts on the populations with negative consequences for livelihoods and economic growth.
The impact of these disasters has confirmed the need for strengthening existing preparedness and response mechanisms to match the changing nature of risks.
The agreement with SADC is intended to help put in place proactive and comprehensive measures to reduce the negative impact of disasters and other vulnerability drivers for better adaptation. It has been proven that early warning, contingency planning and risk financing through insurance can boost resilience, adaptation capacity and loss reduction.
“The partnership will enable us to systematically work with SADC to better profile disaster risks facing the region, strengthen existing response capacities and contingency plans, and offer sovereign insurance options to enable rapid action when natural catastrophes occur”, stated ASG Mohamed Beavogui, the Director-General of African Risk Capacity.
The SADC already has a Disaster Reduction Strategy which recognises the need for partnerships and cooperation to combat the wide range of disaster hazards that threaten lives and livelihood of its population.
The Executive Secretary, Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), Dr. Stergomena L. Tax, noted that the formalisation of partnership with ARC will place the region on a path to augmenting its existing response mechanism against drought and other climate risks. “We can now deliberately work together on issues of common interests and strengthening a comprehensive and integrated regional approach towards Disaster Risk Reduction and mitigation of all forms of hardships that occur as a result of increasing climate variability resulting in increasing incidences and severity of floods, droughts and cyclones in the SADC Region,” In addition the Executive Secretary also noted the importance of finalising, costing and rolling out a vibrant technical action plan to make the vision and dream of the two institutions a reality for the benefit of the SADC region’s peoples.
Under the Agreement, the parties will inter alia work jointly towards:
Broadening Disaster Risk Financing and integration into disaster risk policy and frameworks in the SADC region;
Exchanging of data and information on climate early warning;
Piloting the integration of Africa RiskView toolinto National Vulnerability Assessment Committees;
Improving existing regional and national flood modelling and forecasting tools; review of input data that is used in Africa Risk View, through sharing methodologies used for rainfall estimates and drought monitoring; and
Disaster Risk Financing to build regional disaster risk management and financing capacities, mechanisms and tools for risk insurance facilities for addressing both humanitarian and infrastructure reconstruction and recovery needs.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is a Regional Economic Community (REC) established by the SADC Treaty of 1992, and is composed of 16 Member States. Much of the region’s population and economic growth is supported by Mining, Agriculture, Forestry, Tourism and Wildlife as well as Service Industries, which are all largely prone to climate related disasters.
The African Risk Capacity model is home-grown, innovative, cost-effective, and is proving that it can assist member-states to strengthen their capacities to better plan, prepare and respond to extreme weather events and natural disasters, thereby achieving the food security for their populations.
Chinedu Moghalu chinedu.moghalu@africanriskcapacity.orgchinedu.moghalu@wfp.org
La Société d’assurance de la Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques (ARC Ltd) versera des indemnités d’un montant de 738 835 USD au gouvernement de la Côte d’Ivoire
«Le Gouvernement de la Côte d’Ivoire a maintenu des relations cohérentes avec la Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques. Le déclenchement attendu d’un paiement d’indemnité en faveur du pays attestera une nouvelle fois de la validité du concept de l’ARC et permettra au gouvernement de venir rapidement en aide à la population touchée, réduisant ainsi considérablement la vulnérabilité et favorisant la résilience », selon Dolika Banda, directrice générale, African Risk Capacity Insurance Limited.
Abidjan, le 12 septembre 2019 – La Société d’assurance de la Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques (ARC Ltd) a annoncé le versement de 738 835 USD en indemnités au gouvernement de la République de Côte d’Ivoire à la suite des graves déficits pluviométriques enregistrés dans la région centrale du pays pour la saison agricole 2019.
Le versement imminent sera utilisé pour aider les familles vulnérables à mieux faire face aux graves conséquences du déficit pluviométrique et assurer leur subsistance grâce à un plan d’urgence élaboré par l’Agence africaine de gestion des risques et le Gouvernement ivoirien.
La Côte d’Ivoire a rejoint le pool de risques d’ARC Ltd en 2019. Il s’agira du premier versement effectué par la facilité, le total des décaissements atteignant maintenant 59 millions de dollars.
Le gouvernement a annoncé que ses responsables rencontreront des experts compétents et d’autres partenaires les 12 et 13 septembre 2019 afin de discuter des modalités permettant de s’assurer que les fonds du versement prévu atteignent rapidement la population la plus touchée, conformément au plan d’urgence.
«Le Gouvernement de la Côte d’Ivoire a maintenu des relations cohérentes avec la Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques. Le déclenchement attendu d’un paiement d’indemnité en faveur du pays attestera une nouvelle fois de la validité du concept de l’ARC et permettra au gouvernement de venir rapidement en aide à la population touchée, réduisant ainsi considérablement la vulnérabilité et favorisant la résilience », a estimé Dolika Banda, directrice générale, African Risk Capacity Insurance Limited.
Déjà en juillet 2019, le logiciel Africa RiskView à la base du modèle d’assurance paramétrique de l’ARC indiquait des précipitations irrégulières et insuffisantes dans la région centrale de la Côte d’Ivoire, un signal précoce selon lequel environ 400 000 personnes seraient touchées par le déficit pluviométrique d’ici la fin de la saison.
La fin de la saison agricole dans la région centrale de la Côte d’Ivoire est fixée au 11 octobre 2019.
Commentant l’annonce faite par l’ARC, M. Assahoré Jacques, Directeur Général du Trésor et de la
Comptabilité Publique en Côte d’Ivoire et Superviseur du programme ARC-CI, a salué la vision du Chef de l’Etat son Excellence M Alassane Ouattara qui a cru très tôt en ce mécanisme dont la mise en œuvre va permettre à nos populations impactées par le déficit pluviométrique de bénéficier de cette indemnisation. «L’alerte rapide est essentielle pour les avantages que nous tirons de notre adhésion à la Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques. C’est la première fois que nous recevons un paiement de la part de l’ARC Ltd et nos responsables et partenaires sont prêts à se mobiliser rapidement dans la région touchée une fois que les paiements seront versés pour assurer la sécurité alimentaire de la population touchée. »
Avec l’appui du Royaume-Uni, de l’Allemagne, de la Suède, de la Suisse, du Canada, de la France, de la Fondation Rockefeller et des États-Unis, l’ARC aide les États membres à réduire les risques de pertes et de dommages causés par les événements météorologiques extrêmes affectant les populations africaines en apportant, à travers une assurance souveraine des risques de catastrophe, des réponses ciblées aux catastrophes naturelles de manière plus opportune, économique, objective et transparente. L’ARC utilise désormais son expertise pour aider à lutter contre d’autres menaces majeures auxquelles le continent est confronté, dont les foyers et les flambées épidémiques.
Depuis 2014, les États membres ont signé 32 contrats d’assurance représentant 73 millions USD de primes versées pour une couverture d’assurance cumulée de 553 millions USD en vue de la protection de 55 millions de personnes vulnérables dans les pays participants.
Pour plus d’informations : www.africanriskcapacity.org
Chinedu Moghalu chinedu.moghalu@africanriskcapacity.org
African Risk Capacity Insurance Limited to Issue $738 835 Payout to Côte d’Ivoire
“The Government of Côte d’Ivoire has been consistent in its relationship with African Risk Capacity. The expected trigger of a payout to the country will, once again, validate ARC’s proof of concept and enable the Government to quickly come to timeously assist the affected population thereby significantly reducing vulnerability and promoting resilience”, – Dolika Banda, CEO, ARC Insurance Limited
Abidjan, September 12, 2019 – The African Risk Capacity Insurance Limited (ARC Ltd) has confirmed that it will pay out the sum of $738, 835 to the Government of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire following the severe rainfall deficits experienced in the central region of the country for the 2019 agricultural season.
The impending payout will be applied to help vulnerable families to better cope with the harsh effects of the rainfall deficit and ensure sustenance through a contingency plan developed between African Risk Capacity Agency and Côte d’Ivoire Government.
Cote d’Ivoire joined the ARC Ltd insurance risk pool in 2019. This payout will be the first made by the facility to the Government of Côte d’Ivoire.
The Government has disclosed that its officials will meet with relevant experts and other partners between 12 and 13 September 2019, to discuss modalities to ensure that the funds from the planned payout promptly reaches the most affected population in line with the Contingency Plan.
“The Government of Cote d’Ivoire has been consistent in its relationship with African Risk Capacity. The expected trigger for a payout to the country will, once again, validate ARC’s proof of concept and enable the Government to timeously assist the affected population thereby significantly reducing vulnerability and promoting resilience”, said Dolika Banda, Chief Executive Office, ARC Insurance Limited.
As early as July 2019, Africa RiskView, the software underpinning the ARC parametric insurance model, signaled irregular and insufficient rainfall in the central region of Cote d’Ivoire providing an early warning that an estimated 400 000 people will be affected by the rainfall deficit by the end of the season.
The end of agricultural season for Cote d’Ivoire central region is set for 11 October 2019.
Commenting on the announcement made by the ARC, Mr. Assahoré Jacques, Director General of the Treasury and Public Accounting in Côte d’Ivoire and Supervisor of the ARC-CI programme, welcomed the vision of the Head of State, His Excellency Mr. Alassane Ouattara, who believed very early in this mechanism, the implementation of which will enable our populations affected by the rainfall deficit to benefit from this compensation. “Early warning is key in the benefits we derive from our membership of African Risk Capacity. This is the first time we have received a payment from ARC Ltd and our officials and partners are ready to mobilize quickly in the affected region once the payments are made to ensure food security for the affected population.”
Chinedu Moghalu: chinedu.moghalu@arc.int, chinedu.moghalu@wfp.org
La Société d’assurance de la Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques versera un minimum de 22 millions de dollars US au Gouvernement de la République du Sénégal
«La vision de l’Union africaine en établissant l’ARC était de présenter une proposition de valeur puissante qui aidera les États membres à mieux comprendre leurs profils de risque de catastrophe, à accéder à des outils d’alerte précoce viables et à élaborer un plan de préparation visant à protéger les moyens de subsistance de leurs populations vulnérables des catastrophes naturelles prévisibles. Le Gouvernement Sénégalais est un exemple en matière de gestion des risques de catastrophe et participe au pool d’assurance de l’ARC depuis 2014. Cela rejoint l’esprit de «l’Afrique unie que nous voulons construire» ~ Mohamed Beavogui, sous-secrétaire général des Nations Unions et Directeur général de l’ARC
Dakar, Le jeudi 5 septembre 2019 : Le gouvernement du Sénégal, le réseau Start et les partenaires techniques se réunissent les 5 et 6 septembre 2019 pour préparer les plans de mise en œuvre (PDMO) en vue d’un lancement synchronisé et rapides d’activités qui ont été convenues au préalable, telles qu’elles sont définies dans un plan d’urgence mis en place pour apporter une aide immédiate aux personnes affectées par la saison hivernale déficitaire.
En effet, le gouvernement recevra un versement minimum de 22 millions USD de la part de la Société d’assurance de la Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques (ARC Ltd) pour couvrir les pertes générées par les mauvaises récoltes causées par les graves déficits pluviométriques de la saison agricole 2019.
Annonçant les versements d’indemnités attendus, les dirigeants du Groupe de la Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques ont réitéré la ferme volonté de l’Institution de travailler avec les États membres pour renforcer la résilience et réduire la vulnérabilité aux catastrophes naturelles en Afrique.
«La vision de l’Union africaine en établissant l’ARC était de présenter une proposition de valeur puissante qui aidera les États membres à mieux comprendre leurs profils de risque de catastrophe, à accéder à des outils d’alerte précoce viables et à élaborer un plan de préparation visant à protéger les moyens de subsistance de leurs populations vulnérables des catastrophes naturelles prévisibles », a indiqué Mohamed Beavogui, Secrétaire général adjoint des Nations Unies et Directeur général de l’Institution de la Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques. Le Gouvernement Sénégalais est un exemple en matière de gestion des risques de catastrophe et participe au pool d’assurance de l’ARC depuis 2014. Cela rejoint l’esprit de «l’Afrique unie que nous voulons construire», a-t-il conclu.
Dès le début du mois d’aout 2019, le logiciel Africa RiskView à la base du modèle d’assurance paramétrique de l’ARC a alerté le gouvernement sur les précipitations irrégulières et insuffisantes dans les régions occidentales du pays et averti que pas moins de 964 000 personnes seraient touchées par le déficit pluviométrique cette année. Sur la base de paramètres préalablement convenus, le nombre de personnes indiqué est supérieur au seuil requis pour déclencher le versement d’une indemnité d’assurance de la part de l’ARC Ltd.
Le paiement est attendu avant le 30 novembre de cette année, date fixée pour la fin de la campagne agricole au Sénégal. Sur les 22 millions USD, le gouvernement du Sénégal recevra un montant minimum de 12 millions USD, tandis que son partenaire Réplica, le réseau Start, un consortium d’ONG internationales qui collaborent avec le gouvernement, recevra le solde minimum de 10 millions USD. Cette démarche s’aligne sur une politique existante signée avec le gouvernement du Sénégal pour une réponse précoce et rapide en cas de sécheresse.
Commentant cette annonce, Monsieur Abdoulaye NOBA, Directeur de la Protection civile et Superviseur national du programme de l’ARC au Sénégal, s’est félicité de la transparence du processus et de la rapidité des paiements : « Nous avons été parmi les premiers pays à adopter le mécanisme de la Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques pour la protection de notre population contre les sécheresses récurrentes. C’est la deuxième fois que le gouvernement du Sénégal reçoit des indemnités de la part de la Société d’assurance de la Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques (ARC Ltd). Grâce aux paiements attendus, nous disposerons des ressources nécessaires pour faire en sorte que les agriculteurs et les éleveurs reçoivent les secours en temps voulu pour mieux protéger leurs moyens de subsistance ».
Le versement prévu portera le total des décaissements effectués par l’ARC Ltd au gouvernement du Sénégal à un minimum de 38 millions USD depuis 2014.
La Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques est un modèle innovant, rentable et prouve qu’il est en mesure d’aider les États Membres à renforcer leurs capacités à mieux planifier, se préparer et faire face aux phénomènes météorologiques extrêmes et aux catastrophes naturelles, assurant ainsi la sécurité alimentaire de leurs populations. Depuis 2014, les États membres ont signé 32 contrats d’assurance représentant 73 millions USD de primes versées pour une couverture d’assurance cumulée de 553 millions USD en vue de la protection de 55 millions de personnes vulnérables dans les pays africains participants.
La Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques est un modèle innovant, rentable qui prouve qu’il est en mesure d’aider les États Membres à renforcer leurs capacités à mieux planifier, se préparer et faire face aux phénomènes météorologiques extrêmes et aux catastrophes naturelles, assurant ainsi la sécurité alimentaire de leurs populations. Depuis 2014, les États membres ont signé 32 contrats d’assurance représentant 73 millions USD de primes versées pour une couverture d’assurance cumulée de 553 millions USD en vue de la protection de 55 millions de personnes vulnérables dans les pays participants.
L’ARC profite aujourd’hui de son expertise pour aider à lutter contre certaines des plus grandes menaces auxquelles le continent est confronté, y compris les foyers et les flambées épidémiques. Pour plus d’informations : www.africanriskcapacity.org
CONTACT AVEC LA PRESSE: Chinedu Moghalu chinedu.moghalu@arc.int; chinedu.moghalu@wfp.org
Government of Senegal to Receive a minimum of US$22m from the African Risk Capacity Insurance Company Limited for Drought
““The vision of African Union in establishing ARC was to present a powerful value proposition that will help Member States better understand their disaster risk profiles, access viable early warning tools, and develop a preparedness plan for protecting livelihoods of their vulnerable population from predictable natural disasters. The Government of Senegal has been exemplary in participating in various ARC risk pools since 2014. This is the spirit of the ‘Africa We Want’, and it is very laudable” – UN-ASG Mohamed Beavogui, DG, ARC
Abidjan, Thursday, September 05, 2019 – The Government of Senegal will receive a minimum payout of US$22m from African Risk Capacity Insurance Limited (ARC Ltd) to cover losses from crop failures caused by the severe rainfall deficits in the 2019 agricultural season.
Announcing the anticipated payout, leadership of African Risk Capacity Group reiterated the institution’s strong commitment to working with Member States to build resilience and reduce vulnerability against natural disasters in Africa.
“The vision of African Union in establishing ARC was to present a powerful value proposition that will help Member States better understand their disaster risk profiles, access viable early warning tools, and develop a preparedness plan for protecting livelihoods of their vulnerable population from predictable natural disasters”, said ASG Mohamed Beavogui, the Director-General, African Risk Capacity Agency (ARC Agency). “The Government of Senegal has been exemplary in participating in various ARC risk pools since 2014. This is the spirit of the ‘Africa We Want’, and it is very laudable”, ASG Beavogui concluded.
As early as August 2019, Africa RiskView, the software underpinning the ARC parametric model, alerted the Government to the irregular and insufficient rainfall in the western regions of the country and warned that a minimum of 964, 000 people will be affected by the rainfall deficit this year. Based on pre-agreed parameters, the indicated number of people was above the threshold for the triggering of an ARC Ltd insurance payout.
The payout is expected to happen two weeks following the end of the farming season, which is set on 21st November 2019. Of the US$22 million, the Government of Senegal will receive a minimum amount of US$12million; while the Start Network, a consortium of international NGOs that collaborates with the Government, will receive the balance of U$10million. This is in line with an existing policy signed with the Government of Senegal for early and expedited response in the event of a drought.
The Government of Senegal, Start Network and other technical partners are set to meet from 5 – 6 September 2019 to finalize implementation plans for a coordinated and swift launch of pre-agreed and coordinated activities, as elaborated in an existing Contingency Plan, towards bringing immediate relief to the vulnerable people.
Commenting on the announcement, Mr. Abdoulaye Noba, Director of Civil Protection, and Programme Supervisor for the Government of Senegal’s work with African Risk Capacity, acknowledged the transparency of the process and the promptness of payouts. “We were among the first countries to embrace the African Risk Capacity mechanism for the protection of our people from recurring droughts. This is the second time the Government of Senegal is receiving payout from ARC Insurance Ltd. With the expected payout, we will have the resources to ensure that our people get relief on time to better secure their livelihoods.’’
The expected payout will bring the total disbursements by ARC Ltd to the Government of Senegal to US$ 38 million since 2014.
About African Risk Capacity (ARC): The African Risk Capacity model is an innovative, cost-effective, and is proving that it can assist Member States to strengthen their capacities to better plan, prepare and respond to extreme weather events and natural disasters, thereby achieving the food security for their populations. Since 2014, 32 policies have been signed by Member States with US$73million paid in premiums for a cumulative insurance coverage of US$553million for the protection of 55million vulnerable population in participating countries.
ARC is now using its expertise to help tackle some of the other greatest threats faced by the continent, including outbreaks and epidemics.
Chinedu Moghalu chinedu.moghalu@arc.int; chinedu.moghalu@wfp.org
Signature d’un accord de partenariat entre la Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques et le Centre africain de prévention et de contrôle des maladies en vue du renforcement de la préparation aux épidémies
Mohamed Beavogui, SSG et Directeur général de l’Institution de la Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques (à droite) et Dr John Nkengasong, Directeur du Centre africain pour le contrôle des maladies (à gauche) à l’occasion de la signature de l’accord de partenariat lors de la TICAD7 en cours à Yokohama, au Japon
«Cela s’inscrit dans notre collaboration stratégique et technique en cours pour fournir aux États membres de l’UA un éventail d’outils de gestion des risques, y compris l’alerte précoce, la planification d’urgence et des options de financement alternatives pour lutter contre les épidémies de maladies infectieuses. Les prochaines étapes consisteront à explorer la rapidité avec laquelle nous pourrons aider les gouvernements à commencer à renforcer leurs capacités en matière de réduction et d’atténuation des risques avant la prochaine flambée… »– Mohamed Beavogui, sous-secrétaire général des Nations Unions et Directeur général de l’ARC
Yokohama, le 28 août 2019 – La Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques (ARC) et le Centre africain de contrôle des maladies (CDC afrique) ont signé un accord de partenariat visant à établir un cadre de collaboration en vue d’aider les États membres de l’Union africaine à renforcer leur préparation et leur réponse d’urgence aux maladies infectieuses de nature épidémique.
L’ARC et le CDC Afrique ont travaillé ensemble, en collaboration avec d’autres parties prenantes, à l’établissement de «l’Indice de préparation aux épidémies en Afrique », un projet novateur visant à renforcer l’évaluation de la préparation aux épidémies dans le cadre du respect du Règlement sanitaire international (RSI 2005).
«Cet accord s’inscrit dans notre collaboration stratégique et technique en cours pour fournir aux États membres de l’UA un éventail d’outils de gestion des risques, y compris l’alerte précoce, la planification d’urgence et des options de financement alternatif contre les maladies infectieuses », a déclaré Mohamed Beavogui, SSG des Nations Unies et Directeur général de l’ARC. «Les prochaines étapes consisteront à explorer la rapidité avec laquelle nous pourrons aider les gouvernements à commencer à renforcer leurs capacités en matière de réduction et d’atténuation des risques avant la prochaine flambée. Il s’agira, en particulier, d’encourager la priorisation des investissements dans les plans de préparation et d’intervention d’urgence afin de se remettre efficacement des événements de santé publique », a-t-il conclu.
Le programme d’assurance contre les foyers et les flambées épidémiques (O&E) de la Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques a vu le jour à la suite de la crise dévastatrice de 2014 causée par le virus Ebola en Afrique de l’Ouest. Les enseignements tirés de l’épidémie d’Ebola en Afrique de l’Ouest ont révélé qu’outre les faiblesses des systèmes de santé, la lenteur des financements imprévisibles était l’un des principaux facteurs contribuant à l’incapacité de la Guinée, de la Sierra Leone et du Libéria à réagir rapidement aux flambées initiales. Par conséquent, la Conférence des Parties de l’ARC, les États et les ministres africains des Finances, ont réclamé en 2015 un produit répondant aux besoins de financement de l’Afrique afin de contenir les épidémies de virus et de maladies communes au continent africain, ainsi qu’en cas de propagation ou de transmission secondaire.
«La mise en place de plateformes d’alerte rapide et de surveillance des interventions permettant de traiter toutes les urgences sanitaires de manière rapide et efficace en vue de soutenir la préparation et la réponse aux urgences en matière de santé publique est essentielle pour notre travail », a déclaré le Dr John Nkengasong, directeur du CDC pour l’Afrique. «Notre partenariat avec l’ARC consolidera cet effort et fournira une bonne synergie pour aider les États Membres à faire face aux urgences sanitaires, en plus de promouvoir des partenariats essentiels pour lutter contre les maladies émergentes et endémiques et les autres urgences de santé publique », a-t-il fait remarquer.
Le CDC pour l’Afrique aide tous les pays africains à améliorer leur niveau de surveillance, d’interventions d’urgence et de prévention des maladies infectieuses. Cela inclut la lutte contre les épidémies, les catastrophes naturelles ou d’origine humaine, ainsi que les événements de santé publique présentant un intérêt régional et international. Il cherche en outre à renforcer la capacité de réduction de la charge de morbidité sur le continent. Il s’agit d’une institution technique spécialisée de l’Union africaine qui sert de plateforme aux États membres pour partager leurs connaissances, échanger les enseignements tirés, renforcer leurs capacités et se fournir une assistance technique mutuelle.
L’ARC profite aujourd’hui de son expertise pour aider à lutter contre certaines des plus grandes menaces auxquelles le continent est confronté, y compris les foyers et les flambées épidémiques.
CONTACT AVEC LA PRESSE :
Contact pour le programme d’assurance O&E de l’ARC : Robert Kwame Agyarko, robert.agyarko@arc.int
African Risk Capacity and Africa CDC Sign Partnership Agreement to Strengthen Disease Outbreak Preparedness
ASG Mohamed Beavogui, Director-General, African Risk Capacity (Right) and Dr John Nkengasong, Director, Africa Centre for Disease Control (Left) at the signing of the Partnership Agreement during the ongoing TICAD7 in Yokohama, Japan.
“This is in line with our ongoing strategic and technical collaboration to provide AU Member States with an array of risk management tools, including early warning, contingency planning, and alternative financing options against infectious disease outbreaks. The next steps will be how quickly we can assist Governments to begin strengthening capacities for risk reduction and mitigation before the next outbreak….” – UN-ASG Mohamed Beavogui, DG, ARC
Yokohama, August 28, 2019 – The African Risk Capacity (ARC) and the Africa Centre for Disease Control (Africa CDC) have signed a Partnership Agreement to establish a collaborative framework to help African Union Member States strengthen preparedness and emergency response against infectious diseases, of epidemic nature.
ARC and Africa CDC have been working together, in collaboration with other stakeholders, on establishing the “Africa Epidemic Preparedness Index” which is an innovative project for strengthening outbreak preparedness assessment within the framework of the International Health Regulation (IHR 2005) compliance.
“This Agreement is in line with our ongoing strategic and technical collaboration to provide AU Member States with an array of risk management tools, including early warning, contingency planning, and alternative financing options against infectious diseases”, said ASG Mohamed Beavogui, the Director-General of ARC. “The next steps will be to explore how quickly we can assist Governments to begin strengthening capacities for risk reduction and mitigation before the next outbreak. Particularly, to encourage prioritization of investments in emergency preparedness and response plans for effective recovery from public health events”, he concluded.
The Outbreaks and Epidemics (O&E) insurance programme of the African Risk Capacity was born in the wake of the devastating 2014 West African Ebola crisis. The lessons from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, revealed that, in addition to weaknesses in health systems, slow unpredictable funding was a major contributing factor to the inability of the Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia to rapidly respond to the initial outbreaks. Therefore, the ARC Conference of the Parties, States and African Ministers of Finance in 2015, requested for a product to address Africa’s financing needs to contain outbreaks of viruses and diseases common to the African continent, and in the event of spread or secondary transmission.
“Establishing early warning and response surveillance platforms to address all health emergencies in a timely and effective manner towards supporting public health emergency preparedness and response are pivotal to our work”, said Dr John Nkengasong, Director, Africa CDC. “Our partnership with ARC will consolidate this effort and provide a good synergy tosupport Member States in health emergencies response in addition to promoting critical partnerships to address emerging and endemic diseases and other public health emergencies.”
The Africa CDC supports all African Countries to improve surveillance, emergency response, and prevention of infectious diseases. This includes addressing outbreaks, man-made and natural disasters, and public health events of regional and international concern. It further seeks to build the capacity to reduce disease burden on the continent. It is a specialised technical institution of the African Union that serves as a platform for Member States to share knowledge, exchange lessons learnt, build capacity, and provide technical assistance to each other.
Contact on ARC O&E Insurance Programme: Robert Kwame Agyarko, robert.agyarko@arc.int
United Nations, IFC, African Risk Capacity, and AAISA Work Towards Creating Disaster Risk Insurance Markets in Africa
Dakar, Senegal, June 24, 2019— A consortium of international development agencies including the United Nations African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP), the African Risk Capacity (ARC), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the Association of African Insurance Supervisors (AAISA), today opened a two-week training event on index and disaster risk insurance.
The training will help build the knowledge of African governments, the private sector, and the international community to better carry out financial planning necessary to protect vulnerable populations against climate shocks, disasters, and other crises.
Index and disaster risk insurance products help protect agribusinesses, farmers, and other low-income populations against environmental risks such as drought, floods, irregular rainfall, natural disasters and other effects of climate change. Access to these types of affordable insurance products will help the affected population mitigate the effects of these climate-related shocks, protecting them against catastrophic losses and unlocking access to finance.
The training workshops – offered in English the first week: from June 24 – 29; and in French the second week: June 30 – July 6, 2019 – will allow participants to discuss ways of exploiting their relative strengths to successfully implement these innovative types of insurance in their countries.
In his remarks, UN-ASG and Director-General, ARC, Mohamed Beavogui said, “Capacity building is key to our efforts in working with Member States. ARC and its partners work with Member States to provide development insurance instruments by determining risk profiles, customization of its tools, and development of a contingency plan that fits into a country’s broader risk management framework. This helps to strengthen resilience and protect development gains from being wiped away by weather-related risks.
Faheen Allibhoy, IFC Country Manager for Senegal, said: “The World Bank Group is committed to working with the African Union and UNECA to create new, sustainable agricultural and disaster risk insurance markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. Working together, we can achieve greater combined results that contribute to the development goals of all three institutions.”
One of the sponsors of the training, the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP), is UNECA’s training institute. It is responsible for providing capacity development and training programs aimed at improving public sector management and development planning in support of member States’ structural transformation. Also, it contributes towards strengthening the capacity of member States to develop and adopt better approaches to development planning, economic policy formulation, management, monitoring and evaluation.
The training workshop in Dakar is the first of a series of activities that will be run jointly by the three institutions. Participants include representatives of ministries of agriculture and finance, insurance regulators, the media, as well as insurance companies offering (or planning to offer) index and disaster risk insurance in Sub-Saharan Africa, from Chad, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mauritania, Guinea, Niger, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Malawi, and Zimbabwe.
About the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa:
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) is the premier knowledge institution in Africa. It was established by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations (UN) with the mandate to promote inclusive and sustainable development in support of accelerating the economic diversification and structural transformation of Africa, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want. UNECA supports member states in developing and transforming key growth sectors by focusing on youth and job creation, digitalization, diversification, industrialization, urbanization, transformation, trade, gender, connectivity, innovation, integration, social protection, skills, illicit financial ‑flows, data, and peace and security. It also provides powerful convening platforms for advancing African national, sub-regional and regional interests and for delivering actions for an empowered, inclusive and transformed Africa.
About the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning:
The African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP), is UNECA’s training institute, responsible for providing capacity development and training programs aimed at improving public sector management and development planning in support of member States’ structural transformation. It contributes towards strengthening the capacity of member States to develop and adopt better approaches to development planning, economic policy formulation, management, monitoring and evaluation. IDEP’s capacity development, advisory and policy dialogue programmes and activities target mid-career and senior officials of African Governments, with special attention given to the next generation of younger professionals and women officials.
About the Global Index Insurance Facility:
The Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF) is a multi-donor program that was created to address the scarcity of affordable insurance protection against weather and catastrophic risks in developing and emerging countries. Its main objective is to promote the development of effective and sustainable markets for index-based weather and catastrophic risk insurance in such countries. The facility is part of the World Bank Group’s Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice and is funded by: the European Commission/the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States; the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); and the Japan Ministry of Finance.
The GIIF portfolio covers 10 Sub-Saharan Africa countries, namely Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, and Zambia. GIIF has issued more than 4.4 million contracts for African farmers and micro-entrepreneurs, providing access to finance to approximately 22 million people, with approximately US$545 million generated in financing and inputs.
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World Food Programme and African Risk Capacity Extend Administrative Service Agreement Till 2024
World Food Programme and African Risk Capacity Extends Administrative Service Agreement Till 2024.
“The provision of support by the WFP through the Agreement has been very critical to our success, and we hope that within the next 5-year period of its operation, ARC would have grown into a fully independent institution.” – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
Rome, Friday, May 24, 2019 – The African Risk Capacity (ARC) Agency and the World Food Programme (WFP) today extended the Administrative Service Agreement (ASA) through which the WFP provides administrative and financial services to ARC thereby further strengthening the collaborative partnership between WFP and the African Union (AU).
Since the establishment of ARC as a Specialized Agency of the AU in November 2012 by African Union Member States, the WFP has been providing administrative, technical, and financial services to the Agency through an Administrative Services Agreement. The first ASA between WFP and ARC was concluded in June 2013 and a second ASA, which is currently in force, will expire on 31 August 2019.
The present Extension will be for a period of 5 years, from September 01, 2019 to 31 August 2024.
“The provision of support by the WFP through the Agreement has been very critical to our success, and we hope that within the next 5-year period of its operation, ARC would have grown into a fully independent institution”, said Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Chairperson of the African Risk Capacity Agency, during the official signing of the Extension at the WFP Offices in Rome.
With ARC, Africa is breaking away from the old paradigm of seeking interventions after the occurrence of a natural disaster towards a proactive management of its risks through building capacities of Member States for early warning systems and taking out climate risk insurance against perils. This assures access to rapid and predictable financing for protecting the food security and livelihoods of their vulnerable populations as well helping stabilise families and communities after disaster strikes.
“In its first four years of operations, the ARC insurance mechanism triggered over US $36 million to countries in the Sahel and Southern Africa to provide timely assistance for over 2.1 million people and 900,000 livestock affected by extreme droughts. For a paid-up premium of $67m by 8 countries, we were able to provide a $500m coverage, so we know the Mechanism works”, concluded Dr Okonjo-Iweala.
The Executive Director of the World Food Programme, David Beasley commended the African Risk Capacity for the impressive strides it has recorded since 2012. Particularly in designing customised response and insurance plans for the management of drought risks and other natural disasters towards ensuring food security on the continent.
“The WFP is happy to continue providing ARC with the ongoing assistance to enable farmers in Africa achieve better food security and resilience against climate induced disasters.”, said Mr. Beasley.
The African Risk Capacity is an African-owned, continental, early response mechanism, which offers an African solution to one of the continent’s most pressing challenges.
The Extension of Agreement will boost the confidence of ARC donors and other development partners in the delivery capacity of the Agency to keep strengthening resilience systems, providing development insurance, and helping African Union Member States to better plan and respond to natural disaster risks.
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Moçambique Assina um Memorando de Entendimento com a Capacidade Africana de Risco para Fazer Face aos Episódios Recorrentes de Secas, Inundações e Ciclones Tropicais
“Embora os seguros não cubram todos os riscos associados a um risco em cada país, a abordagem da ARC permite que os riscos sejam geridos de uma forma que multiplique os benefícios dos recursos limitados disponíveis para o Governo”. – Mohamed Beavogui
SGA-ONU/Director-geral da Capacidade Africana de Risco, Mohamed Beavogui e S.E. Adriano Afonso Maleiane, Ministro da Economia e Finanças de Moçambique, durante uma das discussões que levaram à assinatura do Memorando de Entendimento
Maputo, 15 de maio de 2019 – A Agência Capacidade Africana de Risco (ARC) e o Governo de Moçambique assinaram um Memorando de Entendimento (MdE) que aponte para soluções a médio e longo prazo contra os episódios recorrentes de secas, inundações e ciclones tropicais no país.
O MdE serve como “um quadro para facilitar a cooperação e colaboração entre a Agência ARC e o Governo, e para definir os termos e condições sob os quais o Governo e a Agência ARC deverão trabalhar em conjunto para fazer face ao impacto dos Eventos Climáticos Extremos em Moçambique, incluindo por meio do apoio prestado pela Agência ARC à Moçambique, formação de funcionários do Governo e outros esforços em apoio aos objectivos de Moçambique.”
Moçambique, que está a emergir de dois ciclones tropicais, é vulnerável às alterações climáticas devido a sua localização e geografia que expõem grandes áreas do país a ciclones tropicais, secas (a cada três a quatro anos) e inundações fluviais/tempestades costeiras. Essa vulnerabilidade é intensificada pelos 2.470 km de costa e pela fragilidade socioeconómica do país, que coloca em risco as infra-estruturas, a agricultura costeira, os principais ecossistemas e a pesca.
“Falando sobre a assinatura do MdE, o Secretário-geral Adjunto das Nações Unidas e Director-geral da ARC, Sr. Mohamed Beavogui indicou que o objectivo é trabalhar com o Governo de Moçambique no sentido de compreender o seu próprio perfil de risco em relação aos vários perigos que o país enfrenta e desenvolver planos de resposta personalizados”.
“O ARC é um Mecanismo de Seguro de Desenvolvimento que vincula a definição dos perfis de risco, a planificação de contingência e um pagamento. “Embora os seguros não cubram todos os riscos associados a um risco em cada país, a abordagem da ARC permite que os riscos sejam geridos de uma forma que multiplique os benefícios dos recursos limitados disponíveis para o Governo. Portanto, ajudar a salvar mais vidas e meios de subsistência no estágio inicial de uma catástrofe… antes da chegada da assistência humanitária…”, afirmou o SGA Beavogui.
“O Governo do Moçambique manifesta o seu apreço pelo início da colaboração formal com a Capacidade Africana de Risco”, afirmou S.E. o Sr. Adriano Afonso Maleiane, Ministro da Economia e Finanças de Moçambique. “Esperamos que o MdE sirva de arranque para as actividades bem coordenada, voltadas para o reforço das capacidades dos nossos funcionários da autoridade de gestão climática, bem como de outros funcionários, para melhor compreender o nosso perfil de risco e dar respostas mais rápidas em caso de catástrofes naturais”, concluiu.
Nos termos do MdE, o Governo de Moçambique e a Agência ARC deverão trabalhar em conjunto através do Programa para se preparar para a potencial participação do Governo como Membro da ARC, Limitada. No final do Programa, o Governo vai decidir se participa na ARC, Limitada, bem como o seu nível de participação.
O envolvimento do Governo no Programa não o compromete a participar na ARC, Limitada, mas apoia um processo de tomada de decisão informado sobre o seguro de risco climático.
A ARC está a trabalhar com outros parceiros de desenvolvimento, incluindo o Banco Africano de Desenvolvimento, bem como o Banco Mundial, no sentido de apoiar o financiamento de prémios para Moçambique, quando decidir tomar a cobertura soberana de seguro de risco de catástrofes.
Sobre a Capacidade Africana de Risco (ARC): A ARC é constituída pela Agência ARC e pela Companhia de Seguros ARC, Limitada (ARC, Limitada). A Agência ARC foi criada em 2012 como uma Agência Especializada da União Africana para ajudar os Estados-membros a aperfeiçoar as suas capacidades para melhor planificar, preparar e responder a catástrofes relacionadas com as condições atmosféricas. A ARC, Limitada, é um mecanismo de seguros mútuos que presta serviços de transferência de risco para os Estados-membros mediante da partilha de riscos e acesso aos mercados de resseguros; é propriedade dos Estados-membros com apólices de seguro activas, enquanto o Banco de Desenvolvimento KfW e o Departamento de Desenvolvimento Internacional do Reino Unido são contribuintes de capital.
Com o apoio do Reino Unido, Alemanha, Suécia, Suíça, Canadá, França, Fundação Rockefeller e Estados Unidos, a ARC ajuda os Estados-membros da UA a reduzir o risco de perdas e danos causados por eventos climáticos extremos que afectam as populações africanas, proporcionando, por meio do seguro de risco de catástrofes soberano, respostas direccionadas a catástrofes naturais de uma forma mais oportuna, rentável, objectiva e transparente. A ARC está agora a utilizar a sua experiência para ajudar a fazer face à algumas das outras maiores ameaças que o continente enfrenta, incluindo surtos e epidemias.
Mozambique Signs an MoU with African Risk Capacity to Address Recurrent episodes of Drought, Floods, and Tropical cyclones
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“Although insurance will never cover all the risks associated with a peril in each country, the ARC approach allows for the risks to be managed in a way that multiplies the benefits from limited resources available to Government.” – Mohamed Beavogui
UN-ASG / Director-General African Risk Capacity, Mohamed Beavogui and HE Adriano Afonso Maleiane, Mozambique’s Minister of Economy and Finance during one of the discussions leading to the signing of the MoU
Maputo, May 15, 2019 – The African Risk Capacity (ARC) Agency and the Government of Mozambique have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to provide mid to long-term solutions against the recurrent episodes of drought, floods, and tropical cyclones in the country.
The MoU serves as “a framework to facilitate cooperation and collaboration between the ARC Agency and the Government, and to define the terms and conditions under which the Government and the ARC Agency will work together to address the impact of Extreme Climate Events on Mozambique, including through support provided by the ARC Agency for Mozambique, training of Government officials and other efforts in support of Mozambique objectives.”
Mozambique, which is emerging from two tropical cyclones, is vulnerable to climate change because of its location and geography which expose large areas of the country to tropical cyclones, droughts (every three to four years) and river/coastal storm surge flooding. This vulnerability is heightened by the country’s 2,470 km of coastline and socioeconomic fragility which puts infrastructure, coastal agriculture, key ecosystems and fisheries at risk.
Speaking about the signing of the MoU, the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Director-General of ARC, Mohamed Beavogui indicated that the aim is to work with the Government of Mozambique to understand its own risk profile vis-à-vis the various perils facing the country and develop customised response plans.
“ARC is a Development Insurance Mechanism which links risk profiling, contingency planning and a payout. “Although insurance will never cover all the risks associated with a peril in each country, the ARC approach allows for the risks to be managed in a way that multiplies the benefits from limited resources available to Government. Therefore, helping to save more lives and livelihoods at the early stage of a disaster…before the arrival of humanitarian assistance…,” ASG Beavogui stated.
“The Government of the Mozambique appreciates the onset of formal collaboration with the African Risk Capacity” said HE Adriano Afonso Maleiane, Mozambique’s Minister of Economy and Finance. “We expect that the MoU will initial a well-coordinated take-off of activities towards strengthening the capacities of our climate management authority officials as well as other personnel to better understand our risk profile and provide quicker responses in the event of natural disasters,” he concluded.
Under the MoU, the Government of Mozambique and the ARC Agency will work together through the Program to prepare for the potential participation of the Government as an ARC Ltd member. At the end of the Program, the Government will decide whether to participate in ARC Ltd and its level of participation.
Government involvement in the Program does not commit it to participate in ARC Ltd but rather support an informed decision-making process on climate risk insurance.
ARC is working with other development partners including the African Development Bank as well as the World Bank towards a premium financing support to Mozambique when it decides to take the sovereign disaster risk insurance coverage.
STATEMENT FROM THE AFRICAN RISK CAPACITY GROUP ON THE TROPICAL CYCLONE IDAI
The African Risk Capacity Group (Specialised Agency of the African Union and ARC Ltd) is deeply concerned over the loss of lives, economic livelihoods and extensive displacement of thousands of people in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe resulting from the impacts of floods and tropical cyclone IDAI.
The Governments of Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe are founding members of the ARC family, having signed the ARC Establishment Treaty in 2012
At the time of its establishment, the African Risk Capacity focused on building Member States’ technical capacities and development of risk financing mechanisms to combat drought risk which was the major catastrophe against food security on the continent.
The efficacy of the ARC Drought Model was proved many times when Governments of Member States received insurance payouts triggered following poor rainfall seasons in the Sahel and Southern Africa, enabling them to provide timely assistance to the affected population.
Following requests from Member States, ARC has been intensively working on the development of River Flood and Tropical Cyclones Models to derive corresponding risk financing products that will provide immediate access to financing to African countries that are prone to such hazards and enable them to provide timely assistance to affected communities.
It is unfortunate that these massive disasters have happened whilst the development work for these tools is still in progress.
Technical experts from ARC have been working closely with other partners to provide information from the models on the areas affected and evaluate the extent of the impact from these two events.
We expect that this information will be helpful in facilitating a good response; and providing better understanding of the prevailing situation.
It is our sincere hope that the ARC River Flood and Tropical Cyclone financial products will soon be made available to Member State Governments to better prepare them for responding to disasters of this nature.
The African Risk Capacity Group would like to commend these governments and partners that have already responded, for their efforts in supporting affected communities and call upon more partners, donors, stakeholders and friends to join the ongoing relief efforts, in solidarity with the Governments and peoples of Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, to mitigate the impact of this devastating catastrophe.
Signed: Mohamed Beavogui
UN ASG and Director General
African Risk Capacity
DECLARAÇÃO DO GRUPO CAPACIDADE AFRICANA DE RISCO SOBRE O CICLONE TROPICAL IDAI
O Grupo Capacidade Africana de Risco (Agência Especializada da União Africana e a ARC, Limitada) está profundamente preocupado pelas perdas de vidas, meios de subsistência económica e grande deslocação de milhares de pessoas em Moçambique, Malawi e Zimbabwe, resultantes dos impactos das inundações e do ciclone tropical IDAI.
Os Governos de Moçambique, Malawi e Zimbabwe são membros fundadores da família ARC, tendo assinado o Tratado de Estabelecimento da ARC em 2012.
No momento da sua criação, a Capacidade Africana de Risco concentrou-se na capacitação técnica dos Estados-membros e no desenvolvimento de mecanismos de financiamento de risco para combater o risco de seca, que era a principal catástrofe contra a segurança alimentar no continente.
A eficácia do Modelo de Seca da ARC foi comprovada muitas vezes quando os governos dos Estados-membros receberam pagamentos de seguros accionados depois de fracas temporadas de precipitação no Sahel e na África Austral, permitindo-lhes prestar assistência atempada à população afectada.
Na sequência de pedidos dos Estados-membros, a ARC tem trabalhado intensamente no desenvolvimento de modelos de Inundações Fluviais e de Ciclones Tropicais para deduzir produtos de financiamento de risco correspondentes que proporcionarão acesso imediato a financiamento para os países africanos que sejam propensos a tais perigos e os permita prestar assistência atempada às comunidades afectadas.
É lamentável que essas enormes catástrofes tenham acontecido enquanto o trabalho de desenvolvimento dessas ferramentas ainda está em curso.
Os peritos técnicos da ARC têm trabalhado em estreita colaboração com outros parceiros para prestar informações sobre os modelos nas áreas afectadas e avaliar a dimensão do impacto desses dois eventos.
Esperamos que essa informação seja útil para facilitar uma boa resposta; e proporcionar uma melhor compreensão da situação prevalecente.
Esperamos, sinceramente, que os produtos financeiros de Inundações Fluviais e de Ciclones Tropicais da ARC sejam disponibilizados em breve aos Governos dos Estados-membros para prepará-los melhor a responder a catástrofes desta natureza.
O Grupo Capacidade Africana de Risco gostaria de elogiar estes governos e os parceiros que já responderam, pelos seus esforços no apoio às comunidades afectadas e apelar à mais parceiros, doadores, partes interessadas e amigos a se juntarem aos esforços de auxílio em curso, em solidariedade com os Governos e povos de Moçambique, Malawi e Zimbabwe, para mitigar o impacto desta devastadora catástrofe.
Assinado: Mohamed Beavogui
Secretário-Geral Adjunto da ONU e Director-Geral
da Capacidade Africana de Risco
“Ghana Hosts African Risk Capacity Joint Board Meeting, Signs Programme of Work to Improve Responses to Extreme Weather Events and Natural Disasters”
L-R: Director-General of ARC Agency, Mr. Mohamed Beavogui and Hon. Kwaku Agyemang Kwarteng, Deputy Minister of Finance and Member of Parliament, exchanging the signed Programme of Work document in Accra, Ghana with ARC Board Chairperson, Dr (Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (centre) and the DG, National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Hon. Eric Nana Agyemang-Prepeh, (far-right).
“We are looking forward to working with the Government of Ghana to deepen the relationship not only with the Agency and our sister company ARC Ltd, but also to build solidarity with its neighbours and the African continent at large.”– Mohamed Beavogui
Accra, Ghana, February 18, 2019 – The Government of Ghana has signed a Programme of Work (Programme) with the African Risk Capacity (ARC) on the margins of the Joint Board Meeting of the African Risk Capacity Agency, and its financial affiliate, African Risk Capacity Limited which commenced today in Accra.
The Programme will help the Government of Ghana to improve responses to extreme weather events and natural disasters as well as prepare the country to possibly take out insurance from ARC Ltd.
Opening the ceremony, the Chairperson of the ARC Agency Board, Dr. (Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, commended the Government of Ghana for its great efforts towards continuously building its capacity to manage disaster risks. “We take this opportunity to encourage the Government of the Republic of Ghana to join the ARC insurance risk pools, which would not only allow Ghana to benefit from financial protection against drought for the 2019 agricultural season, but also reinforce the pan-Africanism and solidarity values which strongly define Ghana today”, she said.
Ghana joined the African Risk Capacity programme on 28th January 2016 by signing the Establishment Agreement followed by the Memorandum of Understanding in June same year. In 2017, the country signed the first Programme Workplan for a duration of two years.
Signing the Programme on behalf of the Government of Ghana, Hon. Kwaku Agyemang Kwarteng, Deputy Minister of Finance and Member of Parliament, welcomed the Board members of ARC, and noted that Ghana is honoured to be the first country to host the Joint Board of the ARC Agency and the ARC Limited. Pointing out that the challenges of climate risks pose a big threat to Ghana’s sustainable development, Hon. Agyemang Kwarteng expressed the hope that “Our (Ghana’s) collaboration with ARC will help the country to improve its responses to extreme weather events and natural disasters which are impeding the achievement of certain components of the SDGs to which His Excellency, President Nana Akufo-Addo is passionate about….” The Hon. Deputy Minister expects that the Programme of Work will also help prepare the Government to purchase sovereign insurance for smallholder farmers.
The Government of Ghana, as part of its commitment to implementing the priority areas of the Sendai Framework, is strengthening disaster risk management and governance system of the country. The Ghana Parliament has passed a National Disaster Management Organization Act 927 which established the National Disaster Fund for the country to which the Government has made contribution.
Hon. Eric Nana Agyemang-Prepeh, the Director-General of National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) stated that Ghana has completed a Country Customisation Process and Contingency Plan as well as determining of the Risk Transfer Parameters. Hence, “…with the signing of the Programme of Work, NADMO is optimistic that the Government will soon sign onto the ARC insurance programme to deploy the Africa RiskView (ARV), developed by ARC Agency for monitoring extreme weather events, help build resilience of smallholder farmers against drought, flooding, and other natural disasters towards achieving the relevant Sustainable Development Goals for Ghana.”
As with many African countries, Ghana is affected by natural disasters including coastal erosions, droughts, bushfires, and floods; but has always shown commendable leadership in finding African solutions to African problems, hence its membership of African Risk Capacity.
The Director-General of ARC Agency, Mr. Mohamed Beavogui, indicated that the signing of the Programme attests to the enormous trust of the Government of Ghana in the ARC mechanism; and promised that the two parties will now work together to successfully actualise the purpose, terms and commitments contained therein. “We are looking forward to working with the Government of Ghana to deepen the relationship not only with the Agency and our sister company ARC Ltd, but also to build solidarity with its neighbours and the African continent at large.”, Mr. Beavogui said.
To derive the full benefits from its membership, Ghana will need to ratify the Establishment Agreement and take out an ARC Limited insurance cover. Such a step will augment the commitment of the Government of Ghana as shown both in establishing and making generous contribution into the National Disaster Fund.
The African Risk Capacity model is an innovative, cost-effective, and is proving that it can assist member-states to strengthen their capacities to better plan, prepare and respond to extreme weather events and natural disasters, thereby achieving the food security for their populations.
About African Risk Capacity (ARC) ARC consists of ARC Agency and ARC Insurance Company Limited (ARC Ltd). ARC Agency was established in 2012 as a Specialised Agency of the African Union to help Member States improve their capacities to better plan, prepare and respond to weather-related disasters. ARC Ltd is a mutual insurance facility providing risk transfer services to Member States through risk pooling and access to reinsurance markets; it is owned by Member States with active insurance policies as well as KfW Development Bank and the UK Department of International Development (DfiD), as capital contributors.
High-Level Side Event on ‘Migration and Displacement in Africa: Addressing the underlying causes through innovative risk financing mechanisms.’
L-R: Stephen Karingi (ECA); Vincent Nmhielle; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (ARC Board chairperson); H.E. Sacko Josefa Leonel Correa (AU_DREA Commr.; Mohamed Beavogui (ARC_DG)
A Joint AUC / ARC / AfDB / UNECA PRESS RELEASE
“It is imperative to encourage AU Member States to subscribe to the ARC mechanism considering the level of success it has achieved in bringing a complementarity that can address challenges associated with the causes of migration within the five years of its existence.” – H.E. Sacko Josefa Leonel Correa
Addis Ababa, Saturday, February 9, 2019 –The AU Commission (AUC), African Risk Capacity (ARC), African Development Bank (AfDB), and the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), on the margins of the ongoing 32nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, held a High-Level Side Event under the theme: “Migration and Displacement in Africa: Addressing the underlying causes through innovative risk financing mechanisms.”
Opening the roundtable discussions, the Chairperson of the African Risk Capacity, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala indicated that theme resonates to the theme of the 32nd Ordinary Session on “Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Towards Durable Solutions to Forced Displacement in Africa”. “The session is a good opportunity to open the conversation about natural disasters and discuss innovative financing mechanisms that we could use on the continent to proffer a realistic solution to the underlying causes of migration, notably natural disasters and extreme weather events…”, she said.
The discussants deliberated on how the continent can better respond to the increasing migration and forced displacement in Africa which have been worsened by the increasing frequency of droughts, floods, and other extreme weather events through an innovative risk financing mechanism.
“Considering that the livelihoods of more than 70% of Africans depend on farming, the ‘High 5 Agenda’ of the AfDB identified “Feed Africa” as one of the pillars with the aim, among other initiatives, to enhance resilience and response to climate shocks in regional member countries”, said Prof Vincent Nmhielle, Secretary General of the AFDB, who represented the President, Mr. Akinwunmi Adesina. “Our goal is to help unlock the potential of agriculture in the continent; hence the Bank’s introduction of the Africa Disaster Risk Financing (ADRiFi) programme to scale up the protection against extreme weather events in rural areas and expand access to ARC’s risk transfer facilities for African Union Member States”, stated Prof. Nmhielle.
The ADRiFi programme is in line with the AUC Executive Council decision – EX.CL/Dec.952 (XXX) – which “Encourages and welcomes the African Development Bank (AfDB) initiative to develop financial mechanisms to fund disaster insurance premiums for ARC Member States.” It offers countries up to 50% premium support for the first four years of joining the programme. African Member States were encouraged to use this opportunity to join the ARC, so that the mechanism can become sustainable.
The representative of the Economic Commission for Africa, Mr. Stephen Karingi, Director of Regional Integration and Trade Division, stated that “the partnership with ARC will be mutually rewarding as the two institutions work together to increase insurance coverage against climate risks for African States.”
The UNECA and ARC, formalised their collaboration with the signing of an MoU in January 2018, targeted at building the capacity of Member States by embedding risk management investments into government planning. In collaboration with the World Bank, “we are developing an African academy for index insurance targeted at training national experts to support the decision-making process relating to Disaster Risk Financing tools on the continent. This also extends to fostering private sector interest in this type of insurance mechanism in Africa”, said Mr. Karingi.
The African Union Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture H.E. Sacko Josefa Leonel Correa, stated that considering the interdependency of migration, food security and climate change, the deployment of an effective climate risk financing mechanism is key to addressing the underlying risks and causes of climate-induced migration and displacement in Africa. Hence, “it is imperative to encourage AU Member States to subscribe to the ARC mechanism considering the level of success it has achieved in bringing a complementarity that can address challenges associated with the causes of migration within the five years of its existence”, she said.
The event was held in line with Executive Council Decision (EX.CL/Dec. 997 (XXXII)), where the Council “Further Requested the Commission to engage with ARC to develop concrete mechanisms and instruments of collaboration to raise awareness and galvanize political support amongst Member States”.
“With all the institutions working together towards the same goal to ensure that the continent has financial protection against natural disasters, we now need Africa to play its part”, stated Mr. Mohamed Beavogui, the Director-General of African Risk Capacity.
In 2015, ARC demonstrated that the concept was indeed working, with 26 million dollars paid to three countries in the Sahel as early as a few weeks after the end of the harvest, following significant rainfall deficit in the region. This allowed the beneficiary countries to rapidly deploy assistance to 1.3 million people, and 900 000 cattle. In 2017 and 2018, additional funds were triggered, 8.1 million USD to Malawi, and in 2018, 2.4 million USD to Mauritania. To date, countries have taken out coverage of approximately 500 million dollars, and paid 60 million USD of premium.
The outcome the high-level session is expected to provide strengthened support to the African Risk Capacity by encouraging the African Union Member States join and ratify the ARC Treaty; boost involvement of African insurance and reinsurance companies as well as other financial institutions to expand the scope of tools and risk financing available to the continent; and hence attract international partners’ contribution in supporting the implementation of Africa’s initiative in disaster risk management and financing.
Other participants included representatives from African Member States, private sector agencies, the donor community, civil society organisations and the media
About African Risk Capacity (ARC): About African Risk Capacity (ARC) ARC consists of ARC Agency and ARC Insurance Company Limited (ARC Ltd). ARC Agency was established in 2012 as a Specialized Agency of the African Union to help Member States improve their capacities to better plan, prepare and respond to weather-related disasters. ARC Ltd. is a mutual insurance facility providing risk transfer services to Member States through risk pooling and access to reinsurance markets; it is owned by Member States with active insurance policies as well as KfW Development Bank and the UK Department of International Development as capital contributors.
With the support of the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, France, The Rockefeller Foundation and the United States, ARC assists AU Member States in reducing the risk of loss and damage caused by extreme weather events affecting Africa’s populations by providing, through sovereign disaster risk insurance, targeted responses to natural disasters in a more timely, cost-effective, objective and transparent manner. ARC is now using its expertise to help tackle some of the other greatest threats faced by the continent, including outbreaks and epidemics. www.africanriskcapacity.org
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African Risk Capacity High-level side event on Migration, February 2019
32nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union: High-Level Side Event on Migration and Displacement in Africa
Theme: “Migration and Displacement in Africa: Addressing the underlying causes
through innovative risk financing mechanisms Background”
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What: High-Level Side Event Hosted by the AU Commission (AUC),
African Risk Capacity (ARC), African Development Bank (AfDB),
and UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).
When: Saturday, 9th February 2019
Time: 11:00AM – 12:30PM
Where: Old Plenary Hall, African Union Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Historically, migration on the African continent has been caused by political instability, civil insecurity, and poverty. But in recent times, migration is accelerated by the negative impacts of climate change. Between 2008 and 2015, an average of 26 million people was displaced annually by climate or weather-related disasters. In 2016, an estimated 1.1 million people were displaced by sudden on-set natural hazards . The increasing frequency of droughts, floods, and other extreme weather events means that migration is expected to grow further. These intersecting climate and migration trends in Africa increase the vulnerability of the poor populations, namely the smallholder farmers that rely on subsistence, rainfed agriculture and form the backbone of the African economies.
The 32nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) will be held on 10 and 11 February 2019 under the theme “Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Towards Durable Solutions to Forced Displacement in Africa.” Among others, this will present the opportunity to explore and showcase African innovative mechanisms which address the underlying causes of migrations, notably natural disasters and extreme weather events.
One of such innovative mechanism is the African Risk Capacity (ARC) Agency, a Specialized Agency of the AU, that was established in 2012 to help Member States better plan, prepare and respond to extreme weather events and other natural disasters, thereby protecting the food security and livelihoods of their most vulnerable populations. With ARC, the AU has set the pace at the continental level by convening African leaders to establish an institution that can deploy innovative mechanisms that respond to the growing impact of natural disasters and extreme weather events on the continent. In its first four years of operations, the ARC insurance mechanism has triggered over US $36 million to countries in the Sahel and Southern Africa to provide timely assistance for over 2.1 million people and 900,000 livestock affected by extreme droughts.
In an effort to scale up the protection against extreme weather events in rural areas, the African Development Bank (AfDB) took the leadership to design the Africa Disaster Risk Financing Facility (ADRiFi), a programme that will expand access to ARC’s risk transfer facilities for African Union Member States.
The proposed high-level side event will highlight the interdependency between migration, food security and climate change. Based on experience from AU Member States, ARC will be explored as a mechanism to address the underlying risks and causes of climate-induced migration and displacement in Africa. The event will also showcase how African institutions’ partnerships can bring complementarity in addressing the challenges associated with the causes of migration.
This high-level side event is in line with Executive Council Decision (EX.CL/Dec. 997 (XXXII)), where the Council “Further Requested the Commission to engage with ARC to develop concrete mechanisms and instruments of collaboration to raise awareness and galvanize political support amongst Member States”.
Furthermore, the proposed side event will provide an ideal platform for discussion amongst African leaders on the ADRiFi programme, in line with the Executive Council decision – EX.CL/Dec.952 (XXX) – “Encourages and welcomes the African Development Bank (AfDB) initiative to develop financial mechanisms to fund disaster insurance premiums for ARC Member States.”
Expected outcomes of the event include:
a) Strengthened support to the African Risk Capacity:
i. African Union Member States encouraged to join and ratify the ARC Treaty;
ii. international partners’ significant contribution in supporting the implementation of Africa’s initiative in disaster risk management recognized;
iii. ARC encouraged to work hand in hand with the AfDB and the ECA.
b) Increased AfDB’s financial provision to the joint ARC-AfDB Africa Disaster Risk Financing Programme (ADRiFi).
c) Greater involvement of African insurance and reinsurance companies as well as other financial institutions to expand the scope of tools and financing available to the continent.
d) Identification of a champion at the level of a Head of State or Government to raise the profile of the ARC institution.
• H.E. President Alassane Dramane Ouattara, President of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire
• H.E. President Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda and Outgoing Chairperson of the African Union (tbc)
• H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission (tbc)
• H.E. Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank Group
• H.E. Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
• H.E. Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Chairperson of the ARC Agency Governing Board
Contributions from Heads of State and Government in attendance:
• H.E. President Kabore, President of Burkina Faso
• H.E. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
• H.E. President Adama Barrow, President of the Republic of Gambia
• H.E. President Nana Akuffo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana
• H.E. President Uhuru Kenyatta, President of the Republic of Kenya
• H.E. President Ibrahim B. Keita, President of the Republic of Mali
• H.E. President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President of the Republic of Mauritania
• H.E. President Mahamadou Issoufou, President of the Republic of Niger
• H.E. President Faure Eyadema, President of the Togolese Republic
Media personnel are invited to cover this event.
The draft concept note is attached
Mr. Chinedu Moghalu: Chinedu.moghalu@africanriskcapacity.org / Chinedu.moghalu@wfp.org
African Risk Capacity and AGRHYMET partner to harness technical expertise for food security
Banjul, The Gambia, 3 December 2018 – The African Risk Capacity Agency (ARC) and AGRHYMET signed a Memorandum of Understanding to formalize technical collaboration and intensify joint efforts to improve food security in West Africa.
The two organisations are advancing their mandates to address climate-induced food insecurity in West Africa and the Sahel by partnering to develop risk models and innovative financial mechanisms to address regional climate hazards such as drought and river floods.
Combining AGRHYMET’s regional knowledge with ARC’s continental experience, the partnership aims to leverage the strengths of each organisation to reinforce regional capacity building programmes in risk modeling and early warning systems.
Over the past year, ARC and AGRHYMET have collaborated to confront drought risk in West African nations, including reviewing drought risk models from 8 countries in the Africa RiskView Customisation Review Committee. The Memorandum of Understanding formalizes their collaboration and sets the course for closer efforts in improving food security in the region through research and data-informed responses.
“To reduce climate-related food insecurity in West Africa, we must understand the risks we face in the region,” said Mr. Mohamed Beavogui, Director General of African Risk Capacity Agency. “Our partnership with AGRHYMET builds on African expertise to identify these risks and inform early action that will protect farmers and the people they feed.”
Signed on the side lines of the RCPA meeting at OECD conference centre and leading up to the UNFCCC COP24, the partnership follows the Memorandum of Understanding between ARC and ECOWAS signed in 2017. ARC’s partnership with AGRHYMET realises the technical collaboration that ARC and ECOWAS committed to in the agreement signed in the run-up to COP23.
ARC has a strong history in West Africa – of the 15 ECOWAS Member States, 14 are also ARC Member States. 11 out of the 13 countries that AGRHYMET serves are participating in the ARC Capacity Building Programme, and six have joined ARC’s risk pools to transfer drought risk and access disaster risk financing. Three of these countries – Senegal, Mauritania, Niger – have collectively received US $28.7 million to fund emergency responses following drought events.
Rwandan Government signs MoU with African Risk Capacity on Cooperation to address the impact of extreme weather events
“The signing of the MoU with Rwanda is a testimony of our commitment to progressively provide technical cooperation on climate risk profiling as well as capacity building in disaster risk management in manner that boosts the country’s resilience against the impacts of climate risk and other natural disasters” – Mohamed Beavogui
Johannesburg, November 21, 2018 – The Government of Rwanda has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the African Risk Capacity (ARC) on cooperation to address the impact of extreme weather events in Rwanda.
The MoU sets out terms and conditions and a framework to facilitate cooperation and collaboration between ARC Agency and the Government of Rwanda to address the impact of extreme weather events, including providing training support to Government personnel.
Rwanda was one of the first signatories of the ARC Establishment Agreement in November 2012 and has a seat on the ARC Agency Governing Board, and its Government has been a strong advocate for food security in the continent, and the imperative for Africa to take more ownership of its development.
Signing on behalf of the Rwandan Government, the Minister of Agriculture & Animal Resources Dr. Mukeshima Gerardine described the cooperation agreement with the African Risk Capacity as a watershed in his country’s commitment to develop a holistic risk management strategy against climate and other natural disasters.
Under the MoU and the derivative workplan, African Risk Capacity will use its parametric insurance tool, the Africa RiskView, to support the Government of Rwanda’s efforts in designing ex-ante customised responses to extreme weather events and other natural disaster risks aimed at reducing impact on the population.
Mohamed Beavogui congratulated the Government and the dynamic leadership of President Kagame both in Rwanda and on the continent. “The signing of the MoU with Rwanda is a testimony of our commitment to progressively provide technical cooperation on climate risk profiling as well as capacity building in disaster risk management in manner that boosts the country’s resilience against the impacts of climate risk and other natural disasters”, he said.
In line with the agreement, ARC will also provide training in risk modelling and quantification to Government personnel. This will facilitate the definition of the country’s risk transfer parameters for each extreme weather event; and discussion on risk transfer opportunities to derive suitable solutions to Rwanda’s climate, food security, agriculture and disaster risk management strategies.
The MoU provides the collaboration framework for the Programme workplan activities and for future activities, as well as a software license for the use of the Africa RiskView (ARV), developed by ARC Agency for monitoring extreme weather events and to underpin the index-based insurance offered by the ARC Limited.
It is at the discretion of the Government of Rwanda to take out an ARC Limited insurance coverage.
The CEO of ARC Limited, Dolika Banda, commended the Government of Rwanda and the team of specialists involved in the process that led to the signing of the MoU. According to her, “the African Risk Capacity is glad to begin a deliberative technical collaboration with the Government of Rwanda towards providing veritable parametric insurance tools to further strengthen the country’s impressive growth record and macroeconomic stability which are already anchored on solid agricultural investment.”
Rwanda has steadily committed to generating sustained agricultural growth, increasing the share of the national budget allocated to agriculture from 3 percent in 2006 to 10.01 percent in 2015, according to official records.
PRESS RELEASE: African Risk Capacity lauds the approval of the Africa Disaster Risks Financing Facility
The African Risk Capacity (ARC) has lauded the approval of the Africa Disaster Risk Financing Programme (ADRiFi) Programme, by the African Development Bank (AfDB).
The discussions to establish the ADRiFi as a mechanism to enhance the resilience and response to climate shocks and natural disaster risks in Regional Member Countries (RMCs) was formalized in March 2017.
Since then, the African Development Bank and the African Risk Capacity, under the signed technical collaboration agreement began to orchestrate activities to enhance risk management infrastructure and policy across Africa as well as supporting countries in building resilience against climate shocks.
During the African Development Bank Annual Meetings 2018 in Busan, South Korea, a special session on ‘Climate and Disaster Risk Financing’ gave a fresh impetus to the realization of the set objectives. The ADRiFi programme is a timely response for a premium financing support request from a number of RMCs to bridge the resource gap impeding the necessary participation in the African Risk Capacity insurance pool.
“This is one of those moments when one feels very proud as an African”, stated Mohammed Beavogui, the Director-General of ARC, while reacting to the announcement by the AfDB. “The faithfulness and commitment of President Adesina and his team to the realisation of this initiative begs for emulation by other regional and multilateral partners. This is critical for us to achieve food security in the continent through ensuring that Africa’s vulnerable populations are insured against the often-overwhelming impacts of climate-induced natural disasters.”
Saluting the unstinting support of President Akinwunmi Adesina, and tenacious hard work of the AfDB and ARC teams involved in birthing the ADRiFi programme, the Board Chairperson of African Risk Capacity, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, shared her excitement. According to her, “The disaster risk financing landscape in Africa has received an empowering shot in the arm. Let us now move quickly to extend our disaster risk insurance coverage to more member countries which, before now, could not join the ARC pool owing to fiscal constraints.”
The CEO of African Risk Capacity Limited, Dolika Banda, equally lent her voice in appreciating the huge commitment from both institutions that went into the realisation of the trailblazing initiative. “We now know that collaborative partnerships work when there is good fidelity. ARC will leverage on the crest of this great achievement to connect with other institutions towards a more inclusive disaster risk insurance coverage for Africa”, she said.
The ADRiFi Programme will focus on national institutional strengthening, policy development, risk profiling, and contingency planning for disasters for participating RMCs.
In line with the agreed structure, it will support countries in developing climate risk profiles, strengthen contingency plans and support risk transfer through premium subsidies of up to 50% over a five-year period. By Year 5 of the programme, the country will be paying the full premium.
The ADRiFi programme is open to all AfDB Regional Member Countries that are ARC Member States and signatory to the ARC Establishment Treaty.
About African Risk Capacity (ARC)
ARC consists of ARC Agency and ARC Insurance Company Limited (ARC Ltd). ARC Agency was established in 2012 as a Specialised Agency of the African Union to help Member States improve their capacities to better plan, prepare and respond to weather-related disasters. ARC Ltd is a mutual insurance facility providing risk transfer services to Member States through risk pooling and access to reinsurance markets; it is owned by Member States with active insurance policies as well as KfW Development Bank and the UK Department of International Development (DfiD), as capital contributors.
Chinedu Moghalu
PRESS RELEASE: African Risk Capacity Becomes a Member of the World Economic Forum
New York, September 24 – The African Risk Capacity (ARC) today announced that it has joined the World Economic Forum (WEF) towards sharing ideas with other global, independent, impartial and future-oriented leaders keen on improving the state of the world, especially in natural disaster risk reduction and resilience.
Over the past four decades, Sub-Saharan Africa has experienced more than 1,000 disasters often with devastating humanitarian crises. The escalating frequency of these extreme hydro-meteorological events and the challenges posed to Africa’s effort to achieve food security and development goals warranted that the development of a homegrown solution.
In November 2012, African Union (AU) established the African Risk Capacity (ARC) as a Specialised Agency to respond to the impacts of extreme weather events and natural disasters and serve as a continental disaster risk financing mechanism. ARC was given the mandate to help Member States improve their capacities to better plan, prepare and respond to extreme weather events and natural disasters, thereby protecting the food security of their vulnerable populations. The initial funding support for ARC came from the Governments of Sweden, United States, Switzerland, Canada, France, The Rockefeller Foundation and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Subsequently, in 2014, ARC launched its first financial affiliate, the African Risk Capacity Insurance Company Limited (ARC Ltd) through a no-interest 20-year loan by the governments of Germany (KfW/BMZ) and the United Kingdom (DfID). Together, ARC Agency and ARC Ltd comprise the ARC Group and represents an effective public-private partnership model for natural disaster risk financing and management on the continent. To date, ARC has paid a total of US $36.8 million to member countries affected by drought, which has directly helped 2.1 million people and over 1 million livestock.
As the international organization leading dialogues for public-private cooperation, the World Economic Forum is uniquely positioned to enable the ARC join other key global stakeholders in useful and mutually benefiting dialogue on climate and natural disaster risk financing and management.
Speaking on the membership, ARC Director-General, Mohamed Beavogui, explained that the ARC concept is based on the fundamental rationale that responding earlier to a disaster before it develops into a crisis is financially efficient and more economical. “Our early intervention helps to save lives and livelihoods, with every dollar invested with ARC saving nearly four and a half dollars spent after a crisis evolves.”
Development experts on climate and natural disaster risk financing and management agree that such an approach is critical in building resilience of countries and communities. Most critically, it also helps to reduce the reliance of African countries on the international humanitarian system to fund response to disasters on the continent. The ARC model works by linking early warning systems with contingency planning and modern financial mechanisms, specifically insurance. This enables governments to provide targeted responses to disasters in a more timely, cost-effective, objective, and transparent manner.
“We are pleased to welcome the African Risk Capacity as a new member of the World Economic Forum,” said Bertrand Assamoi, the Forum’s Community Lead and Business Engagement Manager for Africa. “The innovative approach of ARC in helping African countries build capacities to better understand and manage natural disaster risks is critical in developing the necessary tools and financing to bridge humanitarian needs within a broader development and resilience framework.”
One of the most meaningful ways to engage with the World Economic Forum, according to a WEF official document, is through its System Initiatives. This works towards cultivating a shared vision for change, empowering widespread innovation and action, and enabling mutual accountability that offer a more effective public-private response to complex global challenges.
In the African region, the ‘Grow Africa’ project under ‘The Shaping the Future of Food’ initiative is mobilising investment through market-based partnerships to advance agricultural transformation and food security in 12 countries.
ARC expects that its membership to the WEF will further strengthen its innovative work to disseminate invaluable data to government decision makers and the private sector through its reinsurance partners on the untapped potential of insurance and its application on the continent.
ARC, in partnership with Metabiota, Health Systems Consult Limited, and Columbia University, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation is also pioneering an Outbreak and Epidemic product for mitigating the unpredictable funding that amplifies both the risk and impact of outbreaks on the continent.
Confronting Drought: African Risk Capacity contributes to World Bank study
Three-quarters of Africa’s Sub-Saharan Africa’s cropland are drylands, which accounts for two-thirds of its cereal production and four-fifths of its livestock holdings. In East and West Africa, drylands are home to over 300 million people, and a large share of them are households vulnerable to drought. With climate change and population growth, the impact of drought could be even more severe in coming years.
To improve drought resilience in Africa’s drylands, it is key to identify interventions that would make the greatest impact on vulnerable livelihoods. African Risk Capacity’s Research and Development team contributed to the World Bank’s study Confronting Drought in Africa’s Drylands, which evaluated the 20-year impact of implementing drought-mitigating interventions in Africa’s drylands today compared to business-as-usual practices.
The methodology used in Africa RiskView to estimate the number of people affected by drought served as an underlying model for the impact assessment and cost/benefit analysis of drought-mitigating interventions for agriculture in the World Bank study. The model and methodology are outlined in greater detail in the background study Mitigating Drought Impacts in Drylands. The study was conducted in 2017/18 as a collaborative effort between contributors from various organizations working under the guidance of a team comprised of World Bank and African Risk Capacity’s Research and Development staff. By combining high levels of analytical rigor and policy relevance, this work applied the model and its estimated impacts of drought-mitigating interventions to various topics important to the social and economic development of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Conducting collaborative research with partners is a pillar of African Risk Capacity’s work across the continent. Through partnership with governments, multilateral organizations, and research institutions, ARC aims to build the resilience of the governments and peoples of Africa’s drylands against weather shocks that can drive back development gains. Through rigorous research and a focus on policies that work, ARC is providing a comprehensive package for African governments to identify, respond to, and financially address their natural disaster risks and build long-run resilience in the face of a changing climate.
Global network of aid agencies signs ‘game-changing’ drought insurance policy for early humanitarian response in Senegal
The Start Network has signed a ‘game-changing’ insurance policy, intended to pay out if a drought hits Senegal, enabling aid agencies to offer life-saving help before a famine threatens to take people’s lives.
The Start Network has taken this bold step because it believes that pre-emptive disaster financing could revolutionise the aid sector and catalyse a new way of preparing for crises. This new financial product will disburse funds early, based on pre-agreed ‘parametric’ triggers, unlike the current model, in which aid agencies are reliant on funding agreed after a crisis has taken place.
Run in a partnership with the Government of Senegal, the African Risk Capacity (ARC) and the Start Network, the pilot is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through the German Development Bank, Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW). The pilot also received start-up support from the Rockefeller Foundation in its initial stages.
Under the arrangement, members of the Start Network will be able to secure funding, based upon a pre-agreed trigger, well before the worst effects of a drought are felt. This will enable farmers and their families to protect livestock and other valuable assets. In the most severe drought, with the largest payout, Start Network could help more than 200,000 people through cash interventions. Even more people could be helped through nutrition or agricultural projects.
The Government of Senegal has a pre-existing drought insurance policy from the African Risk Capacity, which is a basis for the complementary policy signed by the Start Network. If a drought occurs, payouts would be made separately to the Government and to Start Network, with participating NGOs as implementing partners. This will allow the government and Start Network members to immediately launch pre-agreed and coordinated activities to help people to protect their livestock and other assets, well in advance of any international humanitarian aid arriving.
The African Risk Capacity insurance policies are built on parametric insurance mechanisms.
Payouts would be made automatically when pre-agreed triggers are met.
The triggers in this pilot are based on rainfall data. When the rainfall levels fall below a certain threshold, the insurance policy will pay-out.
The policy is for the 2018-2019 agricultural season, and if it pays out, it will do so in November, towards the latter half of the 2018 growing season.
“We are delighted to have signed the insurance policy. This is a potential game-changer for the sector. Slow aid funding is one of the biggest structural problems in disaster response efforts, and this costs lives. Study after study shows that early action means more lives saved. That’s exactly what this tool aims to do. We will be working closely with the Government of Senegal and others to ensure swift relief is available to vulnerable people threatened by drought when it occurs.” – Emily Montier, Start Labs Manager
“Many developing countries face the risk of natural disasters without being sufficiently prepared. When a disaster strikes, the way that humanitarian organisations respond is predominantly based on ex-post disaster risk financing which is not able to quickly reach the poor and vulnerable. We are very pleased to finance ARC Replica as an initiative which builds up processes, structures and capacities within NGOs to purchase ARC’s drought insurance which improves preparedness and financing in case of a disaster to better help the people in need.” – Veronika Bertram-Hümmer, KfW Project Manager
The pilot is part of a wider programme, which also covers Mali and Mauritania where it is led by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). Through its EUR 10 million contribution to the programme, KfW hopes to encourage other donors to provide funding to expand the programme even further.
The pilot will provide an opportunity for NGOs to test the ARC insurance mechanism and learn the skills needed to manage new models of financing. The NGO implementing partners in this pilot include Catholic Relief Services, Action Against Hunger, Oxfam, Plan International, World Vision and Save the Children.
The Start Network believes, that through a wide adoption of innovative financial mechanisms by other stakeholders, the disaster risk management landscape will be transformed and will ultimately become more resilient. The Start Network also aims to generate evidence from the initiative to inform the development of a ‘family’ of global financing mechanisms for frontline humanitarian responders, set to include a financial tool-box of products such as contingency funds, forecast-based-financing, and loans in addition to insurance.
African Risk Capacity Strengthens the Board of Its Insurance Arm with World-Class Professionals
The African Risk Capacity Limited (the ARC Ltd) has appointed three new Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) and a Special Advisor to join its Board of Directors to bring independent strategic guidance and oversight to its operations.
The ARC Ltd is a financial affiliate of the African Risk Capacity (ARC), which is a Specialised Agency of the African Union established to assist member states in tackling the impact of natural disasters on vulnerable people. ARC transfers the burden of weather and other natural disaster risks away from governments, enabling them to build resilience and better plan, prepare, and respond to extreme events.
ARC Ltd is a ground-breaking public-private partnership that focuses on facilitating economic development in Africa and empowering governments to protect their vulnerable populations from the impact of natural disasters through the provision of sovereign insurance. Seeded by the UK’s DFID and Germany’s BMZ through KFW, ARC Ltd is a mutual insurance company that will eventually be wholly owned by African sovereigns.
Working alongside the Board Chairman, Mr Dele Babade, the Non-Executive Directors will join a team that is making concrete strides in empowering African sovereigns to build resilience against the catastrophic effects of climate and other natural disasters. Mr Babade highlighted that “the new Non-Executive Directors are bringing on board deep expertise, versatile experience, tested knowledge, and expansive networks to chart new paths that will continue to place ARC Ltd as a leader in innovative natural disaster risk financing and management.”
In just over 4 years of operations, the ARC Ltd has led the early disbursement of $36.8 million to ARC Ltd policyholders against drought events. These funds have gone towards assisting over 2.1 million people whose livelihoods rely on agriculture, preventing the loss of hard-earned developmental gains. Governments have used ARC Ltd funding to scale up cash transfers, subsidize livestock feeds, replenish depleted food reserves, and distribute emergency food supplies.
Speaking on the timeliness of the appointments of the new NEDs, Mohamed Beavogui, the Director-General of African Risk Capacity Agency said, “the natural disaster risk insurance ecosystem is evolving rapidly with more diversified products and services being introduced to the market by many players. Africa’s resilience is best assured by fielding its best team; and this is what has been done by seeking out the most fertile and respected minds in the industry to ensure that disaster risks are transferred in the most cost-effective manner.”
Expressing strong faith that these appointments will be a game-changer for the work of the African Risk Capacity, the CEO of ARC Ltd, Ms Dolika Banda, stated, “the high-level of combined international development experience, commercial insurance, savviness in building strategic global relationships, proven expertise in natural disaster financing, management and response systems, and a commitment to Africa that the new members are bringing on board will provide the requisite catalyst to the work of African Risk Capacity in providing customised solutions to Africa’s sovereigns for food security and economic growth.”
Mr Babade heartily welcomed Mr Abdoulie Janneh, Ms Delphine Traoré Maïdou, and Dr Frannie Leautier as Non-Executive Directors, as well as Dr Michel Jarraud, who will serve as Special Advisor to the Board
The appointments take effect from Wednesday, August 1.
For profiles of the ARC Ltd Board of Directors, including the new NEDs, visit //www.africanriskcapacity.org/board-of-directors
African Risk Capacity Hones Innovation, Partners with the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Johannesburg, July 23, 2018 – The African Risk Capacity (ARC) and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences – Next Einstein Initiative (AIMS-NEI) held an inception meeting at ARC Agency Offices in Johannesburg as part of their framework agreement to work together towards promoting innovation and assisting AU Member States to better prepare for and respond to natural disasters and extreme weather events.
The objective of the meeting was to discuss, first hand, the feasibility of developing a certification programme, and implementing an internship programme and support to Research and Development which are components of activities contained in an already existing AIMS-NEI / ARC partnership agreement.
Earlier, in March 2018, the African Risk Capacity and the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences entered into a formal partnership agreement to foster innovation through scientific learning and problem solving aimed at helping African countries better respond to natural disasters and climate change.
Established in 2003, the AIMS-NEI is a pan-African network of Centres of Excellence for postgraduate training, research and public engagement in mathematical sciences that enables Africa’s brightest students to become problem solvers and innovators that propel scientific, educational, and economic self-sufficiency.
Speaking at the meeting, the Director-General of the African Risk Capacity, Mohamed Beavogui, paid tribute to the founders of the AIMS-NEI and reaffirmed the resolve of African Union to pursue home-grown solutions for climate and other natural disaster problems facing the continent. He indicated that the Africa RiskView, the tool deployed by the ARC, is the leading tool for drought risk management on the continent. With expansion into flood modelling and parametric insurance for outbreaks and epidemics, Mr. Beavogui stated that the ARC requires continuous high-quality research to develop the requisite insurance tools.
“The intention of the African Union in establishing the African Risk Capacity is to protect its vulnerable population from the costly impacts of natural disaster risks. In addition to pooling financial resources, this requires scientific research and innovation to work. Our partnership with the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences connects us with the continent’s top existing scientists and those in the making.”
To effectively deliver on its mission and stay abreast of cutting edge knowledge and best practices, ARC needs a progressive pool of African experts, as well as partnerships with other global actors, on risk modelling, actuarial sciences, insurance, disasters management, and pathogen modelling.
The AIMS-NEI has an extensive network of technical and professional experts with the know-how and facilities to conduct research and develop solutions that respond to industry objectives, including ARC’s goal to catalyse a better risk management system for Africa and provide the capacity building support required to implement such a system.
In his remarks, Mr. Moulaye Camara, the Managing Director of Operations of the AIMS-NEI Global Network, thanked the African Risk Capacity and its leadership for the innovative and trailblazing work they are doing towards helping Africa become weather risk and natural disaster resilient.
“Mathematical sciences underlies every modern technology and its application is found in every field. Considering that Africa, will be home to 40 percent of the world’s youth by 2050, investing in mathematical sciences is critical to drive the continent’s development forward. This requires collaborations with like-minded institutions and persons, hence our goal in partnering with ARC in its mission to create cutting-edge pan-African natural disaster response systems to help governments in protecting the livelihoods of their vulnerable populations.”
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) is Africa’s first network of Centres of Excellence in mathematical sciences. It was established to enable the continent’s youth to shape the continent’s future through science, technology, engineering and math education.
The African Risk Capacity model is home-grown, innovative, cost-effective, and is proving that it can assist member-states to strengthen their capacities to better plan, prepare, and respond to extreme weather events and natural disasters, thereby achieving the food security for their populations.
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PRESS RELEASE: Sudanese Government signs MoU with African Risk Capacity to address impacts of extreme weather events
Johannesburg, July 11, 2018 – The Government of Republic of the Sudan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the African Risk Capacity (ARC) to work together towards helping the country better prepare to efficiently deal with extreme weather events and natural disasters. The MoU was signed during the ARC ‘Lessons Learned Workshop’ for the countries of East and Southern African (ESA) region which held at the Capital on the Park Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa, to take stock of the ARC programme implementation.
The Minister of Interior, Mr. Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamad, represented by Dr. Hashim Hussein, the Secretary-General of the Sudanese National Council for Civil Defence (NCCD), restated the faith of the Government of Sudan in the African Risk Capacity as a tested mechanism to provide sustainable solutions against the impact of natural disasters in the country. The Government of Sudan formalised the partnership with the Agency shortly after an ARC workshop in June. He reiterated the power the African continent can unleash when there is unity of purpose, as exemplified in the ARC initiative to combat natural disaster risks.
“The adverse impact of droughts and floods in Sudan threatens livelihoods,” said Mr. Hussein. “Unless measures to prepare for natural disaster risk are quickly taken, the country’s ongoing efforts to combat poverty, reduce food insecurity, and sustainably manage natural resources cannot be adequately achieved. This is our hope and objective in signing the MoU to work with the African Risk Capacity.”
The Director-General of the African Risk Capacity, Mr. Mohamed Beavogui, stated that this collaboration is yet another milestone in the resolve of Africans to taking charge of their own destiny.
“The commitment of the African Risk Capacity to protect the livelihoods of vulnerable people in Africa against the impact of natural disasters can best be realised when other member states join Sudan in signing the Memorandum of Understanding with ARC for structured national technical capacity building. The disaster risks confronting Africa affects all of the continent, and therefore, can best be combatted when we all work together.”
The Government of Sudan began engaging with the African Risk Capacity in September 2017 to explore ways to diversify existing disaster risk management strategies through a sovereign insurance mechanism. Through the MoU, the Government of Sudan will work with the African Risk Capacity to strengthen the national disaster risk management and financing systems in Sudan and create a pathway to effectively and sustainably finance disaster responses, namely to climate disasters like drought and flood.
Several vulnerability indices rank Sudan among the countries most affected by climate variability and change in the world. Sudan has the second largest holding of livestock in Africa after Ethiopia, and a large percentage of the livestock are kept by nomadic pastoralists who are severely exposed to drought. Although Sudan practices a mixed system of agriculture, 70% of its cereal production is rainfed agriculture that is susceptible to drought and flood.
About the African Risk Capacity (ARC):
The ARC consists of ARC Agency and ARC Insurance Company Limited (ARC Ltd). ARC Agency was established in 2012 as a Specialised Agency of the African Union to help Member States improve their capacities to better plan, prepare and respond to weather-related disasters. ARC Ltd is a mutual insurance facility providing risk transfer services to Member States through risk pooling and access to reinsurance markets; it is owned by Member States with active insurance policies as well as KfW Development Bank and the UK Department of International Development (DfiD), as capital contributors.
Climate Risk Financing at African Development Bank Meetings 2018
The African Risk Capacity held a high-level session on climate and disaster risk financing during the African Development Bank Annual Meetings in Busan, Korea. Along with African Ministers of Finance, who discussed their experiences with the national impact of climate events on their populations and economies, African Risk Capacity and the African Development Bank (AfDB) highlighted the role that sovereign disaster risk insurance has played in mitigating the impact of climate disasters across Africa. With the Africa Disaster Risk Financing Programme (ADRiFi), the African Risk Capacity and the AfDB are further joining forces to increase access to insurance and improve disaster risk management through African solutions.
For a brief recap of the event, read the press release and see the video below.
A full stream of the event can be viewed below:
African Risk Capacity Celebrates Africa Day 2018
African Risk Capacity celebrates Africa Day 2018 as a proud African Union institution.
ARC embraces its diversity and unity as a pan-African institution striving towards a more prosperous and resilient Africa. Aligned with fellow AU institutions, ARC reflected on the role it plays in achieving the AU Agenda 2063 and how ARC drives forth the principles self-reliance across the continent.
ARC Director-General Mohamed Beavogui shares his thoughts on ARC and the African Union on Africa Day 2018.
Today, I join Africans from all walks of life and across the globe to congratulate our Member States on the commemoration of 54 years since Africa took its destiny in hand towards a more prosperous future for all.
As a Specialised Agency of the African Union, with the mandate to help African countries improve their capacities to respond to climate risks and natural disasters, the African Risk Capacity (ARC) is a testimony to an Africa that seeks a shared prosperity through inclusive growth and bottom-up empowerment for sustainable development.
We believe that strong institutions are vital to good governance and entrenching a fair system shun of corruption.
ARC is a pan-African climate response system for African countries to meet the needs of Africans harmed by natural disasters in a cost-effective, transparent and timely manner.
We believe that providing sustainable solutions against the impacts of natural disaster risks will help achieve the vision of our Founding Fathers for an equitable and fair Africa freed from the tyranny of poverty and food insecurity.
Today, the African Risk Capacity stands with the African Union as we renew the commitment to achieving the aspirations of The Agenda 2063; and winning the fight against corruption towards creating a sustainable path to the Africa We Want.
Mohamed Beavogui
United Nations Assistant Security-General / Director-General
PRESS RELEASE: Nigerian Government signs MoU with African Risk Capacity to address impact of extreme weather events
Busan, May 24, 2018 – The Government of Nigeria has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the African Risk Capacity (ARC) to work together to address the impact of extreme weather events in Nigeria, including training support to government personnel.
The signing ceremony, which happened on the margins of the Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) on Thursday, in Busan, South Korea, comes on the heels of AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina’s pledge to support for the work of African Risk Capacity in the region, calling for more stakeholders to join the ARC to ensure the availability of insurance against natural disaster risks.
In March 2017, the AfDB and ARC partnered to strengthen technical collaboration towards enhancing the risk management infrastructure and policy across Africa, thereby building resilience against climate shocks through support to governments.
Nigeria’s Minister for Finance, Kemi Adeosun, congratulated the African Risk Capacity for its innovative approach towards climate risk financing and management in Africa. Adeosun assured that Nigeria will work with the African Risk Capacity to address the impact of extreme weather events in the country.
The journey towards a mutual technical collaboration with Nigeria began in July 2015 when African Risk Capacity conducted a scoping mission to the country that established the need for Nigeria to give greater consideration to the ARC initiative.
Nigeria participated in the discussions leading to the establishment of ARC in 2012 and the nomination of former Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the Chair of the African Risk Capacity Agency’s Governing Board. Nigeria subsequently signed the ARC Establishment Agreement on 4 December, 2014 to formally become a member of the institution.
ARC was established as a Specialized Agency of the African Union (AU) to help member states improve their capacities to better plan, prepare and respond to extreme weather events and natural disasters. Through its first financial affiliate, ARC Ltd, the institution provides African governments with innovative risk management and risk transfer tools and services towards creating a comprehensive pan-African disaster response system.
“The leadership role of Nigeria in the continent and in the establishment of the ARC makes the signing of a formal MoU quite momentous for our work in the region,” said Mohamed Beavogui, the Director-General of African Risk Capacity. “We want to create systems that can truly protect the livelihoods of the most vulnerable and safeguard the significant development gains made by the country over the years.”
Earlier in the week, the Government of Nigeria announced the extension of its agreement with the African Development Bank on the Nigeria Trust Fund (NTF) for additional 10 years to assist the development efforts of low-income regional member countries.
PRESS RELEASE: Climate and disaster risk financing get fresh boost from African Development Bank
Busan, Korea, May 23, 2018 – The President of African Development Bank, Akinwumi A. Adesina, and the Bank’s Board of Governors held a high-level session on “Climate and Disaster Risk Financing” focusing on the Role of the African Risk Capacity (ARC) and the Africa Disaster Risk Financing Program (ADRiFi) on Wednesday in Busan, Korea.
The high-level session, part of the 53rd African Development Bank Group Annual Meetings underway in Busan, Korea, provided a platform for African Ministers of Finance, the Economy and Planning, who form its Board of Governors, to extend ongoing discussions between the Bank and regional member countries on the importance of disaster risk financing solutions in building resilience and protecting development gains.
In his opening remarks, Adesina stated that “Africa contributes no more than 2-3% of greenhouse gas emissions, but suffers disproportionately from the negative impacts of climate change. All across Africa, you see today the high frequency of droughts. Africa has been shortchanged by the climate financing architecture. Therefore, we need instruments that will help mitigate climate risks.”
Pledging Bank support for ARC operations, he encouraged others to follow suit. “It must not be only about the African Development Bank,” he said. “We want more stakeholders to join and more partnerships to make sure that the financing mechanism is there.”
“The future of Africa depends on the actions we take today. And we have to have a sense of urgency. If we pump in the alliance and partnerships needed, countries will be able to insure themselves of risks.”
Reiterating the challenges of climate change in Africa, especially the continent’s vulnerability to droughts, floods, tropical cyclones and outbreak and epidemics, ARC Chairperson Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala stated that ARC is about African countries taking charge of their own issues and finding ways to finance their response efforts and broader resilience and development. “We cannot remain a continent that is reliant on the generosity of the broader development community.”
She highlighted the critical role the ADRiFi will play in promoting disaster risk financing on the continent and how countries can access both capacity building and premium financing as part of their long-term resilience building efforts.
The Bank and ARC formalized their partnership In March 2017 to strengthen their technical collaboration towards enhancing the risk management infrastructure and policy across Africa while supporting countries in building resilience against climate shocks.
Following requests from regional member countries for premium financing support, the Bank proposed the ADRiFi program, which will run from 2018-2022, as a comprehensive, sustainable solution for risk transfer within the broader context of disaster risk management.
ADRiFi aligns with the Bank’s Ten-Year Strategy by enhancing resilience and response to climate shocks in regional member countries by improving the management of natural disaster risk and adaptation to climate change.
The Bank’s Board of Governors shared a common resolve and readiness to galvanize efforts and resources to help regional member countries improve their capacity to plan, prepare, and respond to extreme weather events and natural disasters so as to safeguard food security for Africa’s vulnerable populations.
The livelihoods of more than 70% of Africans depend on farming. A critical component of the High 5 Agenda of the African Development Bank is “Feed Africa” and hinges on unlocking the potential of agriculture.
Most agricultural activity in Africa is rain-fed, making it susceptible to the vagaries of climate change and natural disasters. ARC deploys innovative mechanisms and customized financial tools to help member countries reduce the risk of loss and damage caused by extreme weather events and natural disasters in a timely, cost-effective, objective and transparent manner.
Since its first financial affiliate was established in 2014, ARC has issued policies to eight governments over four drought risk pools. These countries have paid US $54 million in premiums (95% of which has come directly from national budgets) for a total coverage of approximately US $400 million over the period. ARC has further paid out US $37 million to countries affected by drought whose policies were triggered (Malawi, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal). These funds have been used to support over 2 million people and 1 million livestock.
Sharing his excitement for the partnership with the Bank and especially the ADRiFi program, ARC Director General, Mohamed Beavogui, expressed optimism that more African member states will be able to participate in the insurance pool when the Bank makes premium-financing support available to them.
“The ability of Africa to fully provide parametric insurance against extreme weather events and other natural disasters is a critical next step towards achieving food security on the continent and reducing the current over reliance on the international humanitarian financing system for support.”
ARC consists of ARC Agency and ARC Insurance Company Limited (ARC Ltd). ARC Agency was established in 2012 as a Specialized Agency of the African Union to help Member States improve their capacities to better plan, prepare and respond to weather-related disasters. ARC Ltd. is a mutual insurance facility providing risk transfer services to Member States through risk pooling and access to reinsurance markets; it is owned by Member States with active insurance policies as well as KfW Development Bank and the UK Department of International Development as capital contributors.
About the African Development Bank Group
The African Development Bank Group is Africa’s premier development finance institution. It comprises three distinct entities: the African Development Bank (AfDB), the African Development Fund (ADF) and the Nigeria Trust Fund (NTF). On the ground in 41 African countries with an external office in Japan, the Bank contributes to the economic development and the social progress of its 54 regional member states. www.afdb.org
Chinedu Moghalu. African Risk Capacity, chinedu.moghalu@africanriskcapacity.org
Olivia Ndong Obiang, Principal Communication Officer, African Development Bank, o.ndong-obiang@afdb.org
For more information on the 2018 Annual Meetings: https://am.afdb.org/en
PRESS RELEASE: Ebola, Meningitis, Marburg and Lassa Fever to be piloted in African Risk Capacity Outbreaks & Epidemics Insurance Programme
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JOHANNESBURG, April 9, 2018 – The African Risk Capacity (ARC), an agency of the African Union, is developing an insurance product to facilitate rapid, first-line financial responses to disease outbreaks. In the pilot phase, Ebola, Marburg, Meningitis, and Lassa Fever will be covered. Over 30 countries across Africa are at risk of an outbreak of one or more of these four epidemic-prone diseases.
The Ministries of Health in Guinea and Uganda, the two countries implementing ARC’s Outbreak and Epidemic (O&E) Pilot Programme, selected these four pathogens due to the history-based potential for outbreaks and accompanying devastating impact on populations and economies.
O&E builds on ARC’s successes in implementing climate disaster risk financing programmes in Africa. It is designed as an integrated system to enable governments to respond early and effectively to public health emergencies. The programme will work with countries to determine their epidemic risks and select pathogens to be covered, optimize early warning systems, create pre-established contingency plans for rapid response, and provide access to swift disbursement of financing through parametric insurance.
Mohamed Béavogui, Director General of ARC Agency and United Nations Assistant Secretary General said, “Identifying this first set of pathogens for our programme is a significant milestone. After working closely with the governments of Uganda and Guinea, and with WHO AFRO, Africa CDC, and other stakeholders, this is a product that will make a difference for Africa, that targets the public health needs of Africans, and that was built through African and international collaboration.”
The highest global incidence of bacterial meningitis occurs in the “meningitis belt” of Africa, spanning 26 countries from Senegal to Ethiopia. West, East, and Central African nations are at risk of outbreaks of the Marburg virus disease and Lassa Fever, both of which are viral haemorrhagic fevers.
The 2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa resulted in 11,310 deaths in Guinea, Sierra, and Liberia with an estimated economic impact on the three countries of US $2.8 billion, according to the World Bank. Studies estimate that initiating the Ebola response two months earlier could have reduced the fatalities by up to 80%.
On the need to rapidly respond to disasters on the continent, Mr. Béavogui said, “African governments identified the need for faster financing to avoid another tragedy like the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and ARC is working in close collaboration with governments and our partners to address that need. We are creating an innovative system that acts early to finance efficient, effective responses to help stem an outbreak before it reaches a crisis level.”
The ARC O&E Pilot Programme is supported by The Rockefeller Foundation and Swiss Development Cooperation. Metabiota Inc, Health Systems Consult Limited and public health economists affiliated with Columbia University are collaborating with ARC on the development of its pilot product.
When launched as a full product in the fall of 2019 and made available to all African Union countries, O&E will help strengthen African health systems by contributing to national capacities in risk profiling and contingency/response planning, and ensuring that slow and unpredictable funding does not continue to prevent African countries and partners from adequately responding to outbreaks and epidemics.
With the support of the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, France, and the United States, ARC assists AU Member States in reducing the risk of loss and damage caused by extreme weather events affecting Africa’s populations by providing, through sovereign disaster risk insurance, targeted responses to natural disasters in a more timely, cost-effective, objective and transparent manner. ARC is now using its expertise to help tackle some of the other greatest threats faced by the continent, including outbreaks and epidemics.
La maladie à virus Ebola, la méningite, la maladie à virus de Marburg et la fièvre de Lassa seront couvertes lors de la phase pilote du programme d’assurance contre les foyers et flambées épidémiques de la Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques
JOHANNESBURG, le 9 avril 2018 – La Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques (ARC), une institution de l’Union africaine, développe actuellement un produit d’assurance visant à faciliter la mise en œuvre d’interventions rapides et l’accès à une aide financière immédiate en cas d’épidémie. La maladie à virus Ebola, la maladie à virus de Marburg, la méningite et la fièvre de Lassa seront couvertes lors de la phase pilote. Plus de 30 pays africains sont exposés au risque de survenue de l’une de ces quatre maladies potentiellement épidémiogènes.
Les ministères de la Santé de la Guinée et de l’Ouganda, les deux pays où la phase pilote du programme d’assurance contre les foyers et flambées épidémiques de l’ARC est mise en place, ont sélectionné ces quatre agents pathogènes en raison du risque connu d’épidémies et de leur impact dévastateur sur les populations et les économies.
Le produit d’assurance O&E s’appuie sur les succès rencontrés par l’ARC lors de la mise en œuvre de programmes de financement des risques de catastrophe naturelle en Afrique. Il est conçu comme un système intégré visant à permettre aux gouvernements d’intervenir rapidement et efficacement en situation d’urgence de santé publique. Dans le cadre du programme, une collaboration sera établie avec les pays afin de déterminer leurs risques épidémiques et sélectionner les agents pathogènes à couvrir, optimiser les systèmes d’alerte précoce, mettre en place des plans d’urgence préétablis en vue d’une intervention rapide et un décaissement rapide des fonds par le biais de l’assurance indicielle.
Mohamed Beavogui, Directeur général de l’Institution de l’ARC et sous-secrétaire général des Nations Unies a déclaré que « l’identification de ce premier groupe d’agents pathogènes en vue de la réalisation de notre programme marque une étape significative. Après avoir travaillé en étroite collaboration avec les gouvernements ougandais et guinéen, le Bureau régional de l’OMS pour l’Afrique, le CACM/UA et d’autres intervenants, nous disposons d’un produit qui permettra de changer la donne en Afrique, qui cible les besoins en matière de santé publique des Africains et qui est le fruit d’une collaboration africaine et internationale ».
À l’échelle mondiale, l’incidence des méningites bactériennes est extrêmement élevée dans la « ceinture africaine de la méningite », qui comprend 26 pays et s’étend du Sénégal à l’Éthiopie. De nombreux pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest, d’Afrique de l’Est et d’Afrique centrale sont exposés au risque d’épidémie de maladie à virus de Marburg et de fièvre de Lassa, toutes deux classées dans la catégorie des fièvres hémorragiques virales.
L’épidémie d’Ebola qui a touché l’Afrique de l’Ouest en 2015 a fait 11 310 morts en Guinée, en Sierra Leone et au Liberia. La Banque mondiale a évalué le montant des pertes dans ces trois pays à 2,8 milliards de dollars. Selon certaines études, une riposte engagée face à l’épidémie d’Ebola deux mois plus tôt aurait permis de réduire le nombre de morts de 80%.
Concernant la nécessité de répondre rapidement aux catastrophes qui touchent le continent, M. Beavogui a déclaré que « les gouvernements africains ont souligné la nécessité de disposer d’un financement plus rapide afin d’éviter une nouvelle tragédie comme la récente épidémie d’Ebola qui a sévi en Afrique de l’Ouest. Dans cette optique, l’ARC travaille en étroite collaboration avec les gouvernements et ses partenaires. Nous sommes en train de mettre en place un système innovant permettant d’agir à un stade précoce afin de financer des interventions efficientes et efficaces qui contribueront à enrayer les épidémies avant qu’elles ne se transforment en crises ».
Le programme pilote O&E de l’ARC est soutenu par la Fondation Rockefeller et la Direction du développement et de la coopération de la Confédération suisse. Metabiota Inc., Health Systems Consult Limited et des économistes spécialistes des questions de santé publique affiliés à l’Université Columbia travaillent au développement du produit pilote de l’ARC en collaboration avec cette dernière.
Lorsqu’il sera lancé sous sa forme complète en automne 2019 et mis à la disposition de tous les pays de l’Union africaine, le produit O&E permettra de renforcer les systèmes de santé africains en contribuant au développement des capacités nationales en termes d’établissement des profils de risque et en planification d’urgence/des interventions. Il permettra également aux pays africains et à leurs partenaires de réagir de manière appropriée aux foyers et flambées épidémiques sans que ces interventions soient compromises par des financements lents et imprévisibles.
À propos de la Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques (ARC)
L’ARC comprend deux entités, l’Institution de l’ARC et la Société d’assurance de l’ARC (ARC Ltd). L’Institution de l’ARC a été créée en 2012 en tant qu’institution spécialisée de l’Union africaine afin d’aider les États membres de l’UA à améliorer leurs capacités en vue de mieux planifier, de mieux se préparer et de mieux répondre à des catastrophes naturelles liées au changement climatique. ARC Ltd est une société d’assurance mutuelle qui offre des services de transfert de risque aux États membres par le biais de la mutualisation des risques et l’accès aux marchés de la réassurance. L’ARC est détenue par les États membres disposant d’un contrat d’assurance en cours, ainsi que par la banque de développement KfW et le département britannique du développement international (DfID), en qualité de bailleurs de fonds.
Avec le soutien du Royaume-Uni, de l’Allemagne, de la Suède, de la Suisse, du Canada, de la France et des États-Unis, l’ARC aide les États membres de l’UA à réduire leurs risques de pertes et de dommages dus aux événements climatiques extrêmes qui touchent les populations africaines en apportant, par le biais de produits d’assurance contre les risques liés aux catastrophes, des réponses ciblées aux catastrophes naturelles, et cela, de manière plus rapide, économique, objective et transparente. L’ARC met ses compétences au service de la lutte contre certaines des plus importantes menaces auxquelles fait face le continent, dont les foyers et flambées épidémiques.
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PRESS RELEASE: African Risk Capacity Ltd awarded ‘Most Innovative ESG Risk Protection Company Africa 2017’
The African Risk Capacity Ltd (ARC Ltd) is delighted to announce that it has been awarded Global Banking & Finance Review magazine’s Most Innovative ESG Risk Protection Company Africa 2017.
Dolika Banda, CEO of ARC Ltd, said, “We are gratified to receive this great recognition. In 2017, we celebrated half a decade of tireless work and look forward to continuing to build inclusive and cutting-edge approaches to managing climate risks in the years ahead.”
In 2017, and in each year since ARC began offering sovereign disaster risk insurance, ARC interventions have helped avert situations that could have forced millions of families to sell off household assets, take children out of school, and face chronic food insecurity as a result of herds and crops perishing.
When ARC was being developed, it was recognised that ARC’s value proposition would be maximised through the integration of risk assessment, early warning, risk reduction through contingency planning, and risk financing through parametric insurance. This crucial combination allows for early, pre-planned response, which has been shown to be greater than four times more cost-effective than the appeals-based drought response historically used to address Africa’s food security shocks.
Countries participating in ARC’s insurance offering benefit from being part of a diversified risk pool and from the remarkably cost-effective access to global risk markets made possible through ARC Ltd.
ARC’s offering enables African countries to be equipped to manage climate-related disasters to a greater extent than previously experienced, while providing access to funding that is much more immediate.
The award announcement is published on the Global Banking and Finance Review website.
ARC plays an important role in responding to countries’ needs at times of crisis by providing fast access to funding for pre-agreed-upon, rapid response plans developed in conjunction with governments. ARC’s financing complements other forms of local and international support.
In the few years since ARC began, it has proved to be an effective and vital model – paying out USD $34 million to four countries (Senegal, Niger, Mauritania, and Malawi) affected by drought events. Those resources provided assistance for over two million people and approximately one million cattle.
ARC is using its expertise to help tackle some of the greatest threats faced by the continent, including droughts, outbreaks and epidemics, and tropical cyclones.
PRESS RELEASE: ARC and UN Partner to Increase Insurance Coverage in Africa
ADDIS ABABA – The African Risk Capacity (ARC), an agency of the African Union, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) have announced a new partnership which will see the two organisations work together to increase insurance coverage against climate risks for African states.
The multilateral deal was announced at the African Union’s Annual Summit in Addis Ababa, and commits ARC and ECA to build the capacity of their 33 common Member States by embedding risk management investments into government planning through policy development. ARC and ECA also will share expertise and commit financial resources to joint analytical work in areas of economic and climate risk research in order to promote risk transfer instruments.
The UN estimates that Africa will see the adaptation costs of climate change rise to $50 billion per year by 2050.
“This partnership marks a bold new phase of heightened collaboration on combatting the effects of climate change in Africa,” said Mohamed Beavogui, Director-General of ARC Agency. “The future of disaster risk management is an increasingly urgent economic issue, and ECA’s unique expertise will complement ARC’s work serving its Member States and building preparedness and resilience on the continent.”
In the four years that ARC has offered insurance coverage to its Member States, it has paid out more than USD $34 million to Member States affected by drought events. These resources have assisted over two million people affected by climate disaster.
“Climate change is one of the biggest threats to Africa’s economic and social development,” said ECA Executive Secretary Vera Songwe. “We believe that efforts like our partnership with ARC will help move the needle, so that African countries can be well-guarded against these threats, and they can thrive.”
About United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
ECA is a UN regional commission established by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations (UN) in 1958. ECA’s mandate is to promote the economic and social development of its member States, foster intra-regional integration, and promote international cooperation for Africa’s development. Made up of 54 Member States, and playing a dual role as a regional arm of the UN and as a key component of the African institutional landscape, ECA is well positioned to make unique contributions to address the Continent’s development challenges.
ECA’s strength derives from its role as the only UN agency mandated to operate at the regional and sub-regional levels to harness resources and bring them to bear on Africa’s priorities. To enhance its impact, ECA places a special focus on collecting up to date and original regional statistics in order to ground its policy research and advocacy on clear objective evidence; promoting policy consensus; providing meaningful capacity development; and providing advisory services in key thematic fields.
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PRESS RELEASE: France contributes US $5 million to African Risk Capacity to support climate risk insurance
PARIS—The African Risk Capacity (ARC) on December 13 welcomed a US $5 million contribution from the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) which will help African governments respond to climate-related disasters more quickly, effectively, and sustainably.
The contribution will help further ARC’s mission of building the capacity of African governments to manage disaster risks through the implementation of early warning tools, contingency planning, and specialized insurance.
ARC and the AFD, on behalf of the Government of France, signed the agreement at the occasion of the One Planet Summit in Paris. The Summit brought together some 60 heads of state, several international organizations, and financial institutions to mobilize public and private finance towards accelerating efforts to meet the goals outlined in the Paris Climate Agreement.
ARC provides sovereign disaster risk insurance to African governments through its insurance affiliate, ARC Ltd, creating rapid access to life-saving funding during extreme climate events, such as droughts. ARC’s technology and capacity-building efforts enable countries to monitor climate indicators and predict response costs. Its disaster preparedness work helps governments put plans and structures in place to manage disasters. All of these measures, coupled with the swift deployment of funds and resources afforded through ARC insurance policies, enable countries to pre-empt the devastating effects of drought before development gains are reversed and lives lost.
Since it began offering insurance coverage in 2014, ARC has paid out US $34 million to four countries – Senegal, Mauritania, Niger, and Malawi – to assist over two million people when the impact of drought affected food security and livelihoods.
The Government of France and ARC are members of InsuResilience Global Partnership, which aims to scale up climate insurance to cover an additional 400 million vulnerable people by 2020.
In putting its support and resources behind ARC, the Government of France joins the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
“We welcome this generous donation and value France’s commitment to the fight against the effects of climate change in Africa,” said Mohamed Beavogui, Director-General of ARC. “With support like this from international partners aligned with our mission, African governments are in a better position to utilize new methods of financing and build resilience against climate-related disasters – and to invest in our continent’s well-being.”
ARC works with African Union (AU) countries to reduce the risk of loss and damage caused by extreme weather events affecting the continent’s populations by providing sovereign disaster risk insurance and other support.
ARC consists of ARC Agency and ARC Insurance Company Limited (ARC Ltd). ARC was established in 2012 as a Specialised Agency of the AU to help Member States improve their capacities to better plan, prepare and respond to weather-related disasters. ARC Ltd is a mutual insurance facility providing risk transfer services to Member States through risk pooling and access to reinsurance markets; it is owned by Member States with active insurance policies as well as KfW Development Bank and the UK Department of International Development (DfiD), as capital contributors. www.africanriskcapacity.org
About the Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
AFD is a public institution responsible for the implementation of France’s cooperation policy. It has been working for 75 years to fight against poverty and promote sustainable development. AFD operates on four continents via a network of 85 offices and carries out the mission entrusted to it by the French Government by financing development projects and programs, contributing to a more sustainable and shared economic growth, improving living conditions for populations, participating in preserving the planet, and helping stabilize fragile and post-crisis countries. In 2016, AFD earmarked 9.4bn euros to finance projects in developing countries and in the French overseas territories. afd.fr
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Celebrating 5 Years of Innovation and Collaboration at African Risk Capacity
Five years ago, in November 2012, eighteen African governments met in South Africa to take action against the impacts of natural disasters that repeatedly affect the continent, driving countless lives into destitution. Under the umbrella of the African Union, African sovereigns formed a continental institution dedicated to creating more effective, efficient, and equitable solutions to natural disaster risks across the continent. Through solidarity and innovation, African governments agreed to embark on a transformative journey together: to shift from responding to disasters after they strike to preparing for perils before they devastate the most vulnerable populations.
This is how the African Risk Capacity (ARC) was born as a Specialized Agency of the African Union.
Signing the ARC Establishment Treaty, November 2012
This month, we celebrated ARC’s five-year anniversary, and there is much to celebrate from a half-decade of tireless work. We celebrate the visionary work of our predecessors who built this institution with a strong foundation and a bold vision to always grow, innovate, and collaborate. We celebrate the continued support of the World Food Programme, which provided us fertile soil to grow from a seed of an idea into a partnered institution striving for a food secure Africa together. We celebrate the new partnerships we forged and the relationships we nurtured with regional economic communities, multilateral institutions and banks, international organizations, NGOs, the insurance industry, and academia to build comprehensive and inclusive approaches to climate risks in Africa. We celebrate the unwavering support, faith, and guidance of our donors – the United Kingdom, Germany, the Rockefeller Foundation, Canada, France, Sweden, the United States, and Switzerland – which helped propel us to where we are today.
Today, and every day, we celebrate the 2.1 million people we served when harvests failed, the US $34 million paid out which demonstrated the proof of the ARC concept, the US $54 million that African governments pooled together and budgeted from their own limited resources to spearhead this African innovation, and our 33 Member States and the African Union who steer us to build the best solutions for Africa.
157,000 people received assistance in Niger from ARC in 2015 following poor rainfall.
As we work towards the first decade of our journey, the next five years promise to show deeper technical and financial collaboration to protect more lives and livelihoods against more frequent and intense natural disasters. We will use the coming years to explore the possibility of offering risk management products for additional perils, such as for public health outbreaks and epidemics, floods, and tropical cyclones, to ARC Member States. We look forward to heralding a future where Africa is fully equipped with the right tools, skills and systems in place to protect its populations against the uncertainties of climate change and other disasters, and we will achieve this with a steadfast commitment to this vision, hand-in-glove with our partners.
ARC @ COP23
Every year, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP, gathers the influential thinkers and doers of climate change policy from around the world and across different sectors to discuss, deliberate, and decide on action that must be taken on crucial climate change issues.
Since 2014, the African Risk Capacity has attended the COP as an organization at the forefront of climate financing solutions. At COP20, ARC unveiled its plans for its Extreme Climate Facility (XCF). At COP21 – the historic summit when the Paris Agreement was signed – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and President Barack Obama strongly endorsed ARC by voicing support for climate insurance as a solution to climate change impacts. This endorsement was echoed at COP22 by Akinwumi Adesina, the President of the African Development Bank.
As in years before, ARC is attending COP23 in Bonn, Germany. Updates on the discussions and progress will be presented on a rolling basis on this page. Check back to see what ARC developments will come from this year’s global climate summit.
Pre-COP: ARC & ECOWAS Collaborate on Disaster Risk Financing
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COP23 was kicking off in Germany, but ARC had an important climate deal to seal first on the continent. In Abuja, Nigeria, ARC and ECOWAS signed an agreement to work together on implementing disaster risk management and financing practices in West Africa.
ARC Director General Mohamed Béavogui and ECOWAS President Marcel de Souza formalize partnership to collaborate on improving disaster risk management in West Africa. Photo: ECOWAS
Bringing together the Disaster Risk Reduction Policy of ECOWAS and ARC’s experience with working with West African governments on disaster risk financing, this partnership combines technical and political forces to increase the capacity of West African states to manage their climate risk and protect their most vulnerable populations.
Read the full press release here.
Innovations in Disaster Risk Financing in Africa
ARC’s first event at COP23 was a high-level policy dialogue hosted with the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the African Union Commission. Experts in climate change adaptation and financing gathered on a Sunday morning to share their ideas and perspectives on climate financing and why Africa needs to address its climate risk in new ways.
Kicking off the event, H.E. Lamin B. Dibba, the Minister of Environment of the Gambia, spoke about his country’s transformative experience with ARC. “There is a shift in thinking: from seeing disaster financing as unpredictable to something that can be anticipated and planned for. ARC complements and advances this thinking.”
Minister of Environment of the Gambia, H.E. Lamin B. Dibba, opening the policy dialogue.
H.E. Dibba emphasized the importance of this move towards preparing for disasters early. “It is important to be a part of a system that can quickly respond to such emergencies to support that critical mass of the population. 75% of the Gambian population relies on rain-fed agriculture for their livelihoods, so ARC is a very important mechanism for us.”
The panel featured Mr. Tosi Mpanu-Mpanu, board member of the Green Climate Fund; Ms. Dolika Banda, CEO of ARC Insurance Company Limited; Dr. Anthony Nyong, AfDB Director of Climate Change and Green Growth; and Ms. Kulthoum Omari, Coordinator of the African Group of Coordinators and Africa Adaptation Initiative.
Policy dialogue with experts on climate adaptation and financing.
Based on their perspectives and experiences from their work, different approaches to climate financing – and their successes and challenges – were discussed with the audience. Intentions and end goals were shared, ranging from creating an African-owned mutual insurance company to balancing investments in adaptation and resilience. The discussion was condensed into an outcome statement that will be released on COP23 Africa Day, 15 November. Stay tuned!
ARC Agency Director General, Mohamed Béavogui, delivers closing remarks.
ARC Director General, Mohamed Béavogui, closed the session by emphasizing the need to assess risks, develop contingency plans, and increase access to disaster risk financing through capacity building and partnerships. “Insurance is the last resort, but we will rely on insurance for the next 30, 40, 50 years because none of us will have the resources to manage increasing climate risk without insurance.”
Insurance for Climate-Smart Land Use
Agriculture is affected by climate change: the agricultural sector contributes to about half of the greenhouse gas emissions from land use, and climate change degrades agricultural productivity by increasing the risk of longer and more intense extreme climate events. The Paris Agreement of 2015 included a collective commitment to mobilize US $100 billion in climate finance to help developing nations and the populations most affected by climate shocks to implement climate adaptation and resilience measures, including climate-smart land use.
Four UN organizations – the Food and Agriculture Organization, World Food Programme, International Fund for Agricultural Development, and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification – hosted a panel on the progress of climate financing and paths forward in building resilience, protecting small farmers, and funding a climate-smart agricultural practices in line with the Paris Agreement commitments.
As pioneers in climate financing in Africa, ARC was invited to share insights on how African governments have sought to access financing in innovative ways to address climate risks faced by small farmers.
ARC Director of Policy, Ekhosuehi Iyahen, speaks about impact of insurance on climate resilience
Ms. Iyahen explained how ARC’s innovative disaster risk financing is important in securing the livelihoods of the most vulnerable whilst simultaneously protecting the development gains made by governments. “By responding earlier, farmers are not forced into a state of crisis and can give greater consideration to better land use. Additionally, risk analysis undertaken by ARC can strategically inform government agricultural land use policies towards climate smart agriculture.”
Stay tuned for more updates from COP23!
PRESS RELEASE: African Risk Capacity and ECOWAS Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Strengthen West African Climate Resilience
ABUJA, Nigeria, 8 November 2017 – The African Risk Capacity (ARC) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are collaborating more closely to build resilience against climate-related disasters in West Africa.
As global climate negotiations are underway at the 23rd United Nations Climate Change Convention in Germany, ARC and ECOWAS are taking a significant step to strengthen their partnership and amplify the impact of their work in disaster risk management, ensuring that the increasing risks of weather-related perils are addressed earlier and more effectively.
The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between both institutions took place on the margins of the ECOWAS Annual Development Partners Meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, setting a course for closer collaboration on political, technical, and financial grounds. The partnership with ARC aligns with critical aspects of the ECOWAS Policy for Disaster Risk Reduction, with particular emphasis on the linkages with regional Agricultural Policy and climate change adaptation initiatives of ECOWAS.
ARC Director General Mohamd Beavogui and ECOWAS President Marcel de Souza signing the Memorandum of Understanding. Photo: African Risk Capacity
Through this partnership, ECOWAS will further heighten awareness among West African nations of ARC’s work in assisting governments prepare for and respond to disasters effectively. The advocacy will be matched with an exchange of knowledge, data, and methodologies of early warning and climate risk financing mechanisms between ECOWAS and ARC. It will also include exploring innovative methods to use Africa RiskView, ARC’s early warning software to drive earlier response to disasters and assisting West African nations to access funding to join ARC’s insurance risk pool.
Mr. Mohamed Béavogui, Director General of ARC stated “ARC has a strong history in West Africa – of the 15 ECOWAS Member States, 14 have signed the ARC Establishment Agreement. In 2015, when ARC launched its first climate insurance risk pool, Senegal and Niger held drought insurance policies with ARC and received pay-outs of US $20 million collectively following the failed rains of 2014. Increasingly climate risks are a driver of security concerns in West Africa and this partnership is geared toward building our resilience but also ensuring that by responding earlier, such security risks are diminished”.
Earlier this year, ARC held a regional Lessons Learned workshop in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso to take stock of the rich experiences of West African governments in working with ARC and launching disaster risk financing initiatives. In this workshop, ARC Member States recommended that ARC align more closely with regional disaster reduction and resilience-building programmes.
“This partnership between ECOWAS and ARC is a positive step for ECOWAS Member States” said Mr. Béavogui.
ARC was established in 2012 as a Specialised Agency of the African Union to help Member States better plan, prepare and respond to weather-related disasters. ARC works with countries to reduce the risk of loss and damage caused by extreme weather events affecting Africa’s populations by providing sovereign disaster risk insurance and other support, including capacity building, contingency planning, and access to early-warning technology.
In just the few years since ARC began, it has proven to be an effective and vital model – paying out USD $34 million to four countries (Senegal, Niger, Mauritania, and Malawi) affected by drought events. These resources provided assistance for over two million people and approximately one million cattle. ARC’s efforts are supported by donor partners who have contributed through grants or concessional loans. These include UK Department for International Development (DfID), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), United State Agency for International Development (USAID), The Rockefeller Foundation, Germany through KFW on behalf of BMZ, Global Affairs Canada and France.
Dr Joanna Syroka’s Fond Farewell
From an idea first outlined in 2006, to a full-fledged institution – with 32 member states, USD 500 million of drought risk transferred, over USD 30 million in insurance payouts triggered and 2.1 million people reached with payouts since starting operations in 2014 – the African Risk Capacity has certainly come a long way.
Dr Joanna Syroka has been there throughout this journey. Starting with just two colleagues and a concept, she developed the underlying analytics and operational processes that made possible ARC’s establishment, then served as ARC’s founding Programme Director managing its operations during its critical first years. Most recently, as ARC’s Director of Research and Development, she led the development of new products such as parametric flood, Outbreak & Epidemic insurance, and the Extreme Climate Facility (XCF). Wearing multiple hats, she has continually forged new paths with endless energy, optimism, and creativity, always looking for efficient and actionable ways to protect the most vulnerable populations in Africa at scale against the impacts of natural disasters.
As ARC continues to lead disaster risk management solutions on the continent, Dr Syroka – better known as Jo – will be watching the evolution of ARC instead of driving it. After nearly nine years with ARC, Jo will be starting a new chapter in her career. In the following interview, she reflects on her time at ARC and hopes for ARC in the future.
Let’s start from the beginning. How did your ARC story start?
The story starts long before ARC. I was working for an energy company in the UK in the then nascent weather risk management market. My PhD had focused on the variability of the crucial Indian summer monsoon, and when I saw a press release from the World Bank in late 2003 that announced it had helped insure 200 farmers against drought in India I thought, “I have to contact these people”.
I started working with the World Bank as a consultant in 2004, first working with Mumbai-based insurance company ICICI Lombard and Hyderabad-based micro-finance institution BASIX on the early transactions that paved the way for the Indian weather insurance market, and then moving on to agricultural weather and commodity risk management projects around the world as different opportunities arose. One of those opportunities was working with the United Nations World Food Programme, WFP.
Richard Wilcox, a Director in WFP’s Business Planning unit at the time, had written a concept note outlining how WFP could use modern financial instruments like weather derivatives and catastrophe bonds to finance its humanitarian responses more efficiently. It sounds like a reasonable suggestion today but it was a totally revolutionary idea at the time. He contacted the team I was working with at the World Bank for help with this idea and the rest, as they say, is history.
I started working with Richard and WFP on what became the first humanitarian weather derivative transaction in Ethiopia in 2006. We wrote a paper in the Journal of International Affairs on how this idea could be scaled to more countries in Africa to capitalise on the natural diversification of weather risk on the continent, but didn’t think much more about it.
In late 2008, the Rockefeller Foundation was speaking with the WFP about innovative projects they could help support and came across our paper. They gave us a seed grant of US $3 million to run with the concept that we had outlined in the Journal of International Affairs – I am eternally grateful to them for taking a chance on an idea. If it wasn’t for the Rockefeller Foundation, there would be no ARC.
In 2009 I started working full-time at WFP on the project with Richard and WFP business analyst, Bronwyn Cousins. Soon Fatima Kassam, who worked with us in Ethiopia, joined the team. ARC veterans Peter Hoefsloot and Federica Carfagna became part of the first technical team working to build out our software, risk models and analytics. We had no idea at the time that what we believed was a WFP project would become ARC. However, when we started talking to the African Union Commission, and with countries that would become our founding member states, we realised the way forward was to design something that would give countries the tools they needed to become the first responders to natural disasters, putting them in the driver’s seat of early, effective response to their vulnerable populations. In 2012, ARC was born.
It’s been an absolute privilege to serve our member states and their vulnerable populations. It’s been an honour to work on something that has gone from an initial idea to a fully developed and operational organization – in fact, two organizations: ARC Agency and ARC Ltd – that has helped change the dialogue on how natural disaster risks can be managed. On top of everything ARC has achieved to date, I’m also incredibly proud of the ARC team that I leave behind and excited for what they will achieve in the future.
What were the biggest milestones for ARC?
Obviously establishing the agency in 2012 and then establishing and capitalising ARC Insurance Company Limited in 2013/14. The first road show when placing our first insurance portfolio in the reinsurance market was a milestone. As someone coming from the private sector, to come to the market with a new programme at scale for Africa and to get commercial support was telling. Of course, this was followed by the first payouts from our inaugural pool due to drought in West Africa in 2014. To see our countries implement their pre-prepared ARC contingency plans with these payouts and have the systems we developed perform was incredible. Despite the payouts our reinsurance support increased for the second pool.
One more milestone comes to mind. The first business case we made to the UK’s Department for International Development, DFID, in 2010 for funding support was hard work, but we were successful and that first DFID contribution allowed us to take ARC to the next level. With each business case comes a set of milestones and targets to be achieved. ARC was classified as a high-risk project. Writing the final report when closing that first contribution a few years later, after having achieved and exceeded all of our initial targets and milestones, was a highly satisfying moment.
How has ARC’s development in the past nine years met or surpassed your expectations when you first started this project?
ARC is changing the way natural disaster risks are managed in Africa, but what I didn’t expect is how quickly it has helped change the dialogue on how these risks should be managed. The ideas Richard outlined in his original concept note were revolutionary. Contrast that to today when considering contingency financing instruments as part of the portfolio of tools for humanitarian response is par for the course. No matter what the future holds for ARC, this success will endure.
From the start I knew ARC was possible, that the weather risks facing millions of vulnerable households in Africa – risks that have happened before and will happen again – could be quantified, indexed and transferred, and I never doubted what we were building with our countries would be a success. I’m just grateful we had the opportunity to do it in the first place.
In your view and in your work, what were some of the largest challenges ARC has overcome? How has the project grown stronger from it? What are the lessons learned?
When you do something for the first time, when you have no playbook to follow, you will always find things you could have done differently. That’s normal and what’s important is to learn from those lessons and improve. By design we created a strong discussion, review and feedback loop with our countries – not just in terms of customisable products but also on the overall country engagement process – which helped us quickly identify what we needed to be adjusted in ARC’s processes and parameters to increase effectiveness. Like with any business, it’s a constant learning process, but I believe this close interaction with its countries will continue to make ARC a stronger institution and the products it offers its member states more meaningful.
At the end of the day ARC is tackling a big problem. The challenges facing the humanitarian system and African countries can be daunting and complex. It’s easy to be overwhelmed, but you need start somewhere. With ARC, we first focused on the technical underpinnings of a pool – developing our Africa RiskView software to support a parametric drought insurance product and to calculate potential risk pool savings. That gave us something tangible to talk about with countries, partners and donors to bring them on board and moreover it gave us actual transactions to aim for. The rest of ARC grew from there. With its infrastructure and track record now in place, ARC is in a position where it can start thinking about new ground-breaking initiatives – like XCF, Replica Coverage, and Outbreaks & Epidemics – and is forging new partnerships that will offer more comprehensive risk management opportunities to its member states. That wouldn’t have been possible had we tried to do it all from the outset and not started with one simple flagship product and program.
Personally, what was your most memorable moment with ARC?
The moment I most remember was the first ARC Ltd board meeting in London in January 2014. The company was about to be capitalised with the first insurance pool soon to be launched and placed in the market. It proved that all these ideas we had been working on with our countries and partners were not only actionable, but were about to become real.
Where do you hope to see ARC in the next five years?
Through ARC, Africa has led the way in innovative risk finance and I hope it continues to do so. In addition to growing the drought insurance pool with more member states, I look forward to seeing ARC launch the slated products we have been working on in R&D, including parametric flood and tropical cyclone coverage, XCF, as well as the Outbreak & Epidemic insurance programme. With its unique position as a member state organisation, ARC can run with these ground-breaking initiatives and continue to transform how risks are quantified and managed on the continent and beyond.
PRESS RELEASE: ARC launches outbreak & epidemic insurance for African governments
African Risk Capacity to Provide Innovative Financing to Protect against and Control Diseases
African experts and government officials came together for the launch of African Risk Capacity’s (ARC) Outbreak & Epidemic (O&E) insurance pilot programme on September 13-15 in Accra, Ghana. This product represents an effort to significantly improve the continent’s ability to protect against and respond to disease outbreaks and epidemics.
Representatives from across Africa met to establish the fundamentals for ARC’s O&E parametric insurance product, which will be able to deliver rapid and targeted funds for detected outbreaks, an intervention that studies have shown can result in a more contained outbreak.
Having successfully built an insurance and support model to protect millions of lives and livelihoods against the impact of drought and extreme weather, ARC was called upon by African Finance Ministers to develop a similar program to cope with disease challenges. Africa continues to be at extremely high risk of disease outbreaks that quickly can reach epidemic level. Many nations have experienced the severe human and economic impact of such outbreaks in recent years, and creating as part of the programme faster access to funding, while building an environment of improved preparedness and response capabilities, is an important priority.
Together with Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), ARC hosted a technical workshop in Accra to mark the launch of the O&E programme in order to bring together partners and collaborators.
A significant outcome of the three-day technical workshop was the determination regarding which specific disease pathogens or pathogen families should be covered by the pilot programmes. As part of the discussions, a decision was made to focus efforts on diseases that have the most severe impacts and with which local or national authorities are least familiar due to the infrequency of the occurrence of outbreaks. Such diseases include Ebola, meningitis, yellow fever, dengue fever, SARS, MERS, Marburg virus, and smallpox.
The workshop was opened by the Ghanaian Deputy Minister of Health, Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu. Keynote addresses were delivered by the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative for Ghana, as well as the Director General of the Ghana Health Services.
Robert Kwame Agyarko, ARC’s lead advisor for O&E, said “This launch marks an important step in a programme that has the potential to provide our continent with meaningful support and progress in controlling and minimizing the damage done by disease outbreaks. We cannot afford to wait until after disaster strikes – Africa must prepare, and we must invest in saving lives.”
“Africa is under the threat of infectious diseases like Ebola and Marburg that can take hold and spread viciously, endangering lives and seriously harming security, the economy and public order,” he continued. “Had Ebola been identified and the response begun two months earlier, the total number of deaths could have been reduced by 80%. We can never allow that to happen again. Together with all our partners, we will be able to establish the effective and sustainable solutions Africa needs.”
ARC is currently beginning its pilot phase for O&E, with Guinea and Uganda to be the first two countries in which the programme is offered. These two locations were selected based on regional balance and their previous experience with epidemic-prone diseases of international concern.
In just the few years since ARC began, it has proved to be an effective and vital model – paying out USD $34 million to four countries (Senegal, Niger, Mauritania, and Malawi) affected by drought events. These resources provided assistance for over two million people and approximately one million cattle.
ARC is now using its expertise to help tackle another of the continent’s great threats by creating and offering O&E insurance.
For further information about ARC or O&E insurance, visit www.africanriskcapacity.org
CORRECTION (21 September): The press release previously listed ARC’s technical partnerships. These partnerships are not yet finalized.
Exclusive Interview with Mohamed Béavogui in Al Wihda
During a visit to the Government of Chad where ARC reaffirmed our commitment to working with the Government to improve disaster risk management in the country, ARC Director-General Mohamed Béavogui sat with Al Wihda for an exclusive interview.
To catch his views on the impact the Government of Chad has made on ARC, the importance of agriculture in Africa, and ARC’s collaborations in Chad and the African Union, you can find his interview on the Al Widha website (in French).
“Africa can no longer suffer in silence” – AfDB President boosts African Risk Capacity at 37th SADC Summit
At the 37th Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Heads of State Summit, Mr Akinwumi Adesina, the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), encouraged the leaders of Southern African countries to join him in his efforts to increase access to African Risk Capacity’s disaster risk financing facilities.
“Africa can no longer suffer in silence,” Mr Adesina said. “I ask that the Heads of State of the SADC region support my call for the Green Climate Fund and the Global Environment Facility to co-pay for disaster risk insurance premiums for all African countries, to the African Risk Capacity facility.”
Highlighting the importance of agriculture and its untapped potential in the region, Mr Adesina urged SADC Heads of States to support the growth of the agricultural sector by protecting it from the impact of climate change. “Agriculture is not a way of life and it is not a development activity. Agriculture must be treated as a business for wealth creation. Africa must feed itself, instead of spending $35 billion a year importing food.”
Along with AfDB funds to support drought-afflicted countries, Mr Adesina included premium support to African Risk Capacity as one of the ways AfDB can help African states to mitigate the impact of climate change and rising food prices on food security for the rural and urban poor. “The African Development Bank is ready to co-pay for insurance premiums for African countries, so let’s start this with SADC region.”
Earlier this year, AfDB and African Risk Capacity formally joined forces to help build the capacity for member states to understand of the value of risk transfer tools, develop adequate risk financing infrastructure, and embed risk management in national plans.
During the Summit, SADC Heads of State addressed the issues of food security and disaster risk insurance, urging SADC Member States to explore risk insurance options for disasters and extreme weather events related to climate change, such as the facilities offered by the AfDB.
The Summit also acknowledged that the overall food security improved for the 2017-18 harvest season, compared to the preceding years of drought in the Southern Africa region, and encouraged SADC Member States to reap the benefits of a good year by taking steps to improve storage facilities and set up contingency plans to manage disaster risk before natural hazards can affect livelihoods.
The 37th SADC Heads of State Summit echoed the conclusions reached from the Disaster Risk Management and Financing Workshop for SADC Member States held earlier in the month. The workshop convened representatives from ministries focused on disaster management, food security, and climate change to discuss national methods of managing disaster risk, explore the regional disaster risk financing landscape, and share knowledge and experience between SADC Member States.
The work between AfDB, SADC, and African Risk Capacity highlight the fruits of continuing collaboration between African institutions to develop sustainable solutions to regional problems. The 37th SADC Heads of State Summit stands as an assertion of the issues to address, the joint efforts made so far, and the forthcoming work of building a climate-resilient Africa together.
Read the full speech from AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina here.
Read the full communique from the SADC Heads of State Summit here.
PRESS RELEASE: Countries exchange disaster risk financing experiences at African Risk Capacity workshop
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ARC hosts country-led lessons learned workshop in Ouagadougou, 18 July 2017
Ouagadougou, 20 July 2017 – Countries from across Africa came together in Ouagadougou for the first African Risk Capacity Agency (ARC) lessons learned regional workshop. Government officials from 13 African nations and representatives from Inter-African Conference on Insurance Markets (CIMA) shared their experiences with and ideas for African-owned disaster risk financing against climate events on the continent.
“We are convinced that all the positive reflections that will emerge from your work will make an additional brick on the construction site of a more resilient Africa facing climate change,” said Ms Bénédicta Ouédraogo, Executive Secretary of the National Council for Food Security of Burkina Faso.
Since 2012, ARC has assisted African Union Member States to improve their capacities to better plan, prepare and respond to extreme weather events and natural disasters. ARC, a Specialized Agency of the African Union, convened its new and its more experienced Member States, as well as partners in disaster risk management in Africa, to take stock of five years of disaster risk financing in the West and Central African region and share the successes, challenges, and paths forward in an open African-led platform.
“Through ARC, the African Union is giving us an institution to face our climate change related issues,” said Mr Saley Saidou, the Executive Secretary of Dispositif National de Gestion des Crises Alimentaires in Niger, during the opening ceremony.
From West and Central Africa, six countries – Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Mali, Gambia – joined ARC’s insurance pools by purchasing coverage against the impact of drought events from ARC Insurance Company Limited (ARC Ltd), a financial affiliate underwriting insurance for ARC Member States. In the past five years, ARC Ltd provided up to US$402.7 million in coverage against drought damages through resources pooled from premium contributions of eight African countries, public-private partnerships, and an interest-free loan from KfW Development Bank and the United Kingdom.
Four countries – Senegal, Niger, Mauritania and Malawi – have received pay-outs totalling over US $34 million, which assisted 2.1 million people and nearly a million livestock from the effects of drought-related disasters on food security.
Officials from the Governments of Malawi participated to offer their experience as members of ARC’s risk pool and to facilitate a cross-regional exchange of experiences from Southern Africa, and officials from Côte d’Ivoire, Togo, Guinea, Ghana, and Nigeria attended the workshop to learn from past experiences of veteran ARC risk pool countries as potential entrants into ARC’s pool.
ARC is led by 32 member states, eight of which have joined ARC’s risk pools by purchasing insurance coverage for drought response costs.
Africa has historically faced a high risk of drought, and the risk continues to grow with climate change. For the third consecutive year, the Horn of Africa is facing insufficient rains and food insecurity, contributing to what a UN senior official has called the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II. Instead of waiting for pledges of international aid, African governments are taking measures to provide earlier, more predictable funding at critical moments through mechanisms like ARC’s to save more lives and livelihoods.
ARC’s disaster risk financing model was recently bolstered by the UK announcement of the new London Centre for Global Disaster Protection at the G20 Meetings in Hamburg. The centre will help build the capacity of developing nations to use disaster planning and risk transfer tools – work that ARC has been spearheading in Africa since 2012 and demonstrating through the workshop in Ouagadougou.
“Africa and Burkina Faso need frameworks in the field of disaster risk management,” said Ms Ouédraogo. “At the level of our continent, the ARC is the only continental African solution that takes care of the risks of natural disasters.”
The African Risk Capacity Agency (ARC Agency) was established as a Specialised Agency of the African Union (AU) to help African Union Member States improve their capacities to better plan, prepare and respond to weather-related disasters. The objective of the ARC Agency is to assist AU Member States to reduce the risk of loss and damage caused by extreme weather events affecting Africa’s populations by providing, through sovereign disaster risk insurance, targeted responses to natural disasters in a more timely, cost-effective, objective and transparent manner.
For further information on this workshop, please contact:
Mrs Assia Sidibe
Head of Government Relations for West and Central Africa
Email: assia.sidibe@africanriskcapacity.org
African Risk Capacity – Response to ActionAid’s Flawed Claims
ActionAid recently issued a report criticising the expansion of climate risk insurance markets for the poor and vulnerable and urging African Risk Capacity (ARC), the G7, World Bank, Insurance Development Forum and others to halt their work in this space. ActionAid’s stance and recommendations, as presented in the report, are misguided.
In an attempt to validate its position on the issue, ActionAid suggested that ARC’s sovereign disaster risk insurance failed in Malawi. This is simply untrue and many of ActionAid’s claims regarding this issue are inaccurate or misleading.
ActionAid’s assumptions about ARC and its open risk modelling platform, Africa RiskView, which were based on one season in one Member State, were flawed and do not represent the true picture of ARC, its services, or even what occurred in Malawi during the period in question.
ARC has a proven track record of helping to protect millions of people against the devastating impact of drought and extreme weather on the continent.
Below are the facts.
ARC is comprised of and governed by 32 African Union Member States
ARC was established by the African Union (AU) to work with African governments to find better ways to finance responses to disasters on the continent and reduce the level of reliance on the traditional humanitarian approach. Importantly, it was established also to work with AU countries to strengthen public policy and climate risk management systems.
ARC provides climate-related disaster insurance to African governments – managed through its insurance affiliate, ARC Insurance Company Limited (ARC Ltd). Using modern finance mechanisms such as risk pooling and risk transfer, ARC is creating pan-African climate response systems. By pooling risks, countries can reduce the cost of insurance by about half, as drought is very unlikely to affect the whole of Africa at any one time. With an insurance payout triggered at times of crisis, ARC’s offering provides governments with fast access to funding. The government can then quickly implement previously agreed-upon, rapid response plans to help the affected population.
In its first three years, ARC paid out USD $34 million to Senegal, Niger, Mauritania and Malawi to support communities affected by drought. These resources have assisted more than two million people and protected close to one million cattle.
In addition to its insurance offering, ARC’s cutting-edge technology and capacity-building efforts have enabled countries to monitor climate indicators and predict response costs, while its disaster preparedness efforts help African governments pre-empt the devastating effects of drought before development gains are reversed and lives are lost.
ARC is helping to create a sustainable African-led strategy for addressing some of the continent’s most urgent challenges.
Malawi’s 2015/16 Insurance Payout
Malawi purchased an insurance policy with ARC for its 2015/16 crop season, during which time the country faced a severe drought. Although funding through ARC is designed to be delivered swiftly in such cases, a payout was not immediately triggered. ARC’s payouts are based on the output of Africa RiskView, the open risk modelling platform developed by ARC and customised specifically for each country and crop season in close cooperation with an in-country government team. In the case of Malawi, the customised Africa RiskView model indicated far lower numbers of drought-affected people compared with the actual impact of the drought on the ground. Immediately recognising there was an issue, ARC initiated a technical review process to identify the causes.
As part of its thorough review, the ARC team conducted a number of field missions and meetings with the Malawi technical working group and other partners in-country. ARC also commissioned the Centre for Agricultural Research and Development (CARD) at the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources in Malawi to carry out an independent household survey and conduct farmer focus groups to determine potential sources of the discrepancy.
It was determined that farmers had been growing a different variety of maize in significant and increasing amounts in the recent past than initially selected as the reference crop in Malawi’s customisation of Africa RiskView. It also was determined that the out-of-date information on farming practices prevented the model from accurately replicating conditions on the ground at the end of the season. Using incorrect critical information in the model resulted in inaccurate output from Africa RiskView.
Based on these findings, the Africa RiskView customisation was revised to reflect the most recent farming practices. The result was an assessment that aligned with the drought’s actual food security impact on the ground. Once Malawi’s insurance coverage information was adjusted to be consistent with the corrected customisation, a payout of USD 8.1 million was triggered to the Government of Malawi, based on the magnitude and severity of the drought event and the amount of insurance coverage purchased by the government, as is the case under all of ARC’s parametric insurance policies.
ARC’s Africa RiskView model performed as it was designed to and, when informed by accurate data, was able to correctly capture the situation on the ground.
ARC has since worked with the Government of Malawi to ensure that the best possible crop and other critical data is available in order to properly reflect the reality on the ground in order to assess risk in the most precise way.
With each season that ARC is active, there are invaluable lessons learned. As an example, ARC now is taking extra steps with each participating country to verify inputs provided to the Africa RiskView model prior to completion of the customisation process.
ARC Ltd’s insurance policies, which are legally binding contracts between the Member State and ARC, do not include a negotiation component with respect to payouts as the policies are based on an objective index that captures the severity of an event. If the index reaches a pre-defined threshold, a payout is triggered (the amount of which grows as the severity of the event, captured by the index, increases); if it is not reached, there is no payout. The index is monitored by both ARC and Member States, as well as by external parties.
As is the case with all ARC payouts, the payout to Malawi was not the result of negotiations, nor was it done on an ex gratia basis. The payout was parametrically triggered and occurred as the result of a correction of erroneous data, which allowed for the AfricaRisk View model to function as intended under the terms of the contract.
The funds resulting from the USD 8.1 million payout were instrumental in plugging a gap in the response activities already being implemented by the Government of Malawi. This included cash transfers to affected households and replenishment of the country’s strategic grain reserves, and is estimated to impact 810,000 people once completed.
ARC’s Value
As the effects of climate change continue to expand, Africa is increasingly facing the devastating impact of extreme weather events. When populations are in dire need of support, too often a government’s only choice is to turn to international aid, which involves a cumbersome mobilisation process and, by the time resources and assistance arrive, too often lives have been lost, assets depleted, and development gains have suffered major setbacks – forcing more people into poverty and food insecurity. ARC offers an important addition to the options available and enables a government to be proactive in dealing with its disaster risk.
ARC’s offering covers three critical areas: financing, early warning, and planning. Not only does ARC provide sovereign disaster risk insurance, including rapid access to funds when climate disasters strike, ARC’s technology and capacity-building efforts also enable countries to monitor climate indicators and forecast response costs, while its disaster preparedness efforts help governments plan for and mitigate the devastating effects of drought and other climate disasters.
When ARC was being developed, several detailed economic cost-benefit analyses were completed by international experts, which helped guide its final operating model. It was recognised that ARC’s value proposition could be maximised only through the integration of risk assessment, early warning, risk reduction through contingency planning, and risk financing through parametric insurance. This crucial combination allows for early, pre-planned response, which has been shown to be greater than four times more cost-effective than the appeals-based drought response historically used to address Africa’s food security shocks.
Despite the many benefits, ARC’s product is not designed to cover every aspect of a Member State’s response to natural disasters and weather events or the entirety of the costs involved. It is one part of a suite of services Member States should rely on to be fully prepared. It is not intended to be, nor does it claim to be, a replacement for large-scale international humanitarian interventions.
The pricing of ARC’s insurance must allow for the sustainability of the mutual insurance company underwriting the risk. All premium-paying countries are members and effective owners of the mutual insurance company (ARC Ltd) and benefit from being part of a diversified risk pool and from the remarkably cost-effective access to global risk markets made possible through ARC Ltd.
Following the drought in the Sahel in 2014, ARC insurance policies triggered payouts in the amount of USD 26.3 million to the governments of Senegal, Niger and Mauritania. Collectively, the three governments had paid USD 8 million in premiums. The payout funds supported response efforts to assist more than 1.3 million people and over 900,000 cattle and were used toward scaling up targeted food distribution activities, subsidising the purchase of cattle feed, scaling up cash transfer programmes and replenishing strategic grain reserves. For each of these countries, the impact assessments of the Africa RiskView model were very much in line with seasonal outcomes – as documented by both governments and external organisations.
Contrary to ActionAid’s recommendation, Member States and others with expertise have indicated that a budget allocation is not a feasible alternative to ARC’s offering for many governments in the region, as their budget deficits and needs are too serious to commit to “rainy day” savings plans even if the funds are available. Further, it’s more beneficial for governments to pool their collective funds, rather than each setting them aside independently. The aggregate funding needed to cover all the countries in the pool will be less than the sum of the countries’ individual funding needs. This is because each country in the pool is geographically and climatically different, so the chance that all countries in the pool would need funds at the same time is very low and the funding and risk can therefore be shared across countries. Therefore, a government can leverage its funding through a risk pool like ARC’s and ensure that when disaster strikes, a needs-based, lump-sum payout will be made to it, eliminating the need for the government to put aside such a large amount of savings.
Transparency at ARC
An example of an Africa RiskView training session
With Africa RiskView, ARC has the most transparent and accessible risk assessment model in current use for parametric insurance.
ARC works hand in hand with Member States. It provides contingency planning and risk financing support, as well as the unique customisation of Africa RiskView, with full transparency and in full cooperation with governments, in order to build the best possible solution for a nation’s needs. Each country-specific ‘model’ used to underpin a parametric insurance contract undergoes a lengthy customisation process annually, led by the Member State in conjunction with ARC, so that the prior year’s outcome and any new data can be taken into account. This is unique in the insurance context; no other risk assessment model is updated as frequently or with such substantial input from the client.
ARC works hard to make sure governments understand the disaster risk they face. This is an open, collaborative process between ARC and the Member States.
ARC provides ongoing Africa RiskView training to Member States and external parties, and access to the software is provided to all Member States as well as other key partners and stakeholders. ARC works to ensure that representatives from Member States are well-trained in the operation and understanding of Africa RiskView, in order to take full advantage of it, including using the platform as an early-warning tool.
ARC’s insurance vehicle, ARC Ltd, is a mutual insurance entity with policy holders (African governments) and international partners KfW Development Bank and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) forming the membership of the company. A rules-based approach to the issuance of insurance contracts is included in the bye laws of the company to ensure fairness and transparency for all participating countries. In the case of Malawi, once the model customisation was corrected, the change to the insurance policy was reviewed and unanimously approved by the members of ARC Ltd – African governments/policyholders, KfW, and DFID. Only then was a payout made to Malawi, again demonstrating the transparency with which ARC operates.
This step, which followed the necessary measure of undertaking an investigation with partners in Malawi regarding the discrepancy in the Africa RiskView output, required an investment of time and resources on ARC’s part and – crucially – patience on Malawi’s part, all of which ensured that this important process was handled properly and transparently.
Additionally, ARC regularly collaborates with other institutions. In fact, the core methodology for ARC’s drought risk module is that most frequently and commonly used by agro-meteorologists and other specialists across Africa. It is the view of ARC that it is in the best interests of the entire continent to widely build skills, know-how and commitment in the field of climate risk preparedness.
ARC maintains a strong relationship with all Member States, including the Government of Malawi, and discussions continue regarding ARC’s critical role in strengthening Malawi’s risk management and financing system. While not a participant in the current ARC risk pool, the Government of Malawi has publicly spoken about the benefits of ARC and has expressed interest in participation in future ARC pools.
ARC continues working with its partners, including its valued Member States, to develop the most effective approaches to building African resilience, preparedness and self-sufficiency in the face of climate-related disasters.
Download a PDF version of the statement: African Risk Capacity – Action Aid Response Statement
ARC @ 29th African Union Summit
The 29th African Union Summit is taking place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 29 June to 4 July 2017. African Heads of State, African Union Commissioners, and African governments officials across the continent are convening to discuss pressing issues on the continent and African-led solutions to address them.
As a Specialized Agency of the African Union, African Risk Capacity is attending the AU Summit and presenting our comprehensive solution to detecting, funding, and responding to climate risks. You can follow us throughout the summit on Twitter as we forge a path towards a climate resilient and food secure Africa, together with our partners in African governments and the African Union Commission, by building awareness of and action upon the synergies between ARC and the AU’s missions. Here, we will publish some of the highlights.
ARC Press Briefing at 29th African Union Summit
Solidarity and Innovation for Disaster Risk Financing in Africa
ARC held a press briefing on Sunday, 2 July 2017 featuring a high-level panel discussion on the topic “Solidarity and Innovation for Disaster Risk Financing in Africa”. The panel included the Deputy Chairperson of the African Union, H.E. Thomas Kwesi Quartley; Permanent Representative to the AU and Ambassador to Ethiopia of Guinea, H.E. Sidibe Fatoumata Kaba; the Head of Aid of Global Affairs Canada, Kati Csaba; and ARC Director-General Mohamed Beavogui.
The press briefing aimed to enhance the understanding of ARC’s mission, work, successes, and potential to improve the social, economic, and environmental conditions of Africa through a sustainable African-owned, African-led initiative. Mr. Beavogui and Ms. Csaba also announced the grant of 40 million Canadian dollars from the Government of Canada to ARC, with a special focus on implementing a gender strategy in ARC’s work to help protect and empower women and girls who too often suffer disproportionately when disaster strikes.
With the participation of our partners from country, AU, and international levels, the press briefing demonstrated the support for ARC’s innovative work across borders. As H.E. Quartley said, “We believe that working in tandem, together, we can build an African institution to meet the needs of our member states, and even more importantly, to affect positively the lives of our most vulnerable who are disproportionally affected by climate change and natural disasters, very often manmade. It is no longer enough to talk about these situations and lament. We must act in the interest of the most vulnerable.”
To see the full webcast of the press briefing, click here.
AU Chairperson H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat and ARC Director General Mohamed Beavogui
ARC met with the Chairperson of the African Union, H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, to introduce ARC’s work, impact on African disaster response systems, and relevance in the African Union reform process.
“There is a need for the continent to forecast and anticipate disasters before they occur, in order to be able to respond effectively. There is no sustainability in entrusting the continent’s future to humanitarian aid. A tool like the ARC can help address this in a very relevant way.”
– H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat
Deputy Chairperson of the African Union
ARC Agency Director General, Mohamed Beavogui and H.E Ambassador Thomas Kwesi Quartey, AU Deputy Chairperson
ARC met with the Deputy Chairperson of the African Union, H.E. Amabassador Kwesi Quartey, to discuss how ARC serves to enable African governments to manage their climate risks before disaster strikes by ensuring financial resources are available when its people needs them most.
Briefing by @ARCapacity DG Mohamed Beavogui . Helping African Govts with resources to respond to vulnerabilities, before they deplete assets pic.twitter.com/UlbZdJPAZq
— Kwesi Quartey. (@HEQuarteyKwesi) June 30, 2017
African Union Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture
Mohamed Beavogui and H.E. Correa Leonel Josefa Sacko, AU Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture
ARC met with AU Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, H.E. Correa Leonel Josefa Sacko, to elaborate on the ways ARC and the Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture (DREA) can work together strategically on environmental and disaster risk reduction issues.
“Be assured that we will support you. This is our institution”.
– H.E. Correa Leonel Josefa Sacko
African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs
Mohamed Beavogui and Minata Samate-Cessouma, AU Commissioner for Political Affairs
ARC met with the African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs, H.E. Minata Samate-Cessouma, to highlight how ARC creates faster, more efficient, and more sustainable responses to humanitarian crises across the continent.
“We do not want to remain in response mode. We want to go beyond and build resilience and ARC is a key instrument to support this”
– H.E. Minata Samate-Cessouma
African Union Commissioner for Social Affairs
Mohamed Beavogui and H.E. Dr. Amira El Fadil, AU Commissioner for Social Affairs
ARC met with the AU Commissioner for Social Affairs, H.E. Dr. Amira El Fadil, to explore opportunities for closer collaboration between ARC and the AU’s social protection efforts, including aligned advances of ARC’s Outbreaks and Epidemics programme with the Africa Centre for Disease Control (Africa CDC).
“Africa needs your work, and also Social Affairs and the Centre for Disease Control. Let us ensure that the partnerships between Africa CDC and ARC is enlarged.”
– H.E. Dr. Amira El Fadil
African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security
ARC and Ambassador Smail Chergui, AU Commissioner for Peace and Security
ARC met with AU Commissioner for Peace and Security, Ambassador Smail Chergui, to discuss ways to work together to build peace in the continent through ensuring that food security neither leads to nor escalates conflict through early intervention.
“We must collaborate. It is not just about early warning. It is also about early action.”
– H.E. Ambassador Smail Chergui
Mohamed Beavogui Interviewed on BBC
ARC Director-General Mohamed Beavogui interviewed by BBC
ARC Director-General Mohamed Beavogui was interviewed by BBC on the sidelines of the AU Summit. The video interview will be included in an upcoming BBC series on drought in Africa.
Insuring Against Climate Risk in Kenya – Vincent Mutie Nzau on African Risk Capacity and Climate Risk Financing Initiatives
In a recent blog from the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), ARC focal point and senior economist in the National Treasury of Kenya, Vincent Mutie Nzau, explains the importance of disaster risk financing in drought-prone countries like Kenya. With average annual costs for drought damage in Kenya estimated at some US$1.25 billion, access to funding before and after disaster strikes is fundamental for reducing the impact of shocks for the most vulnerable.
“Disaster risk finance takes many shapes in Kenya,” says Nzau – one of those shapes is ARC. Read about the various ways Kenya manages its disaster risk here.
Interviews with Mohamed Béavogui and Lars Thunell
In May 2017, ARC Agency and ARC Ltd attended the African Development Bank Annual Meetings to discuss the role of innovative finance in transforming agriculture into wealth creation in Africa. On the sidelines of panels and discussions, ARC Agency Director-General and Chairman of the Board of ARC Insurance Company Limited – Mr. Mohamed Béavogui and Mr. Lars Thunell, respectively – gave interviews on ARC’s work and the potential for insurance to increase food security in Africa.
Hear Mohamed Béavogui’s interview on RFI (French), and read Lars Thunell’s interview in Development Finance (English).
Report from the Fifth Session of the Conference of Parties (CoP5)
The Conference of Parties is the supreme governing body of the African Risk Capacity (ARC) Agency, consistent of African Union member states that have signed the ARC Establishment Treaty and affirmed their belief in need for a pan-African solution to managing climate risk. The Conference of Parties hold sessions on an annual basis to collectively review the progress of ARC and determine the strategic direction of the agency.
16 ARC member states came together in March 2017 for the fifth session of the Conference of Parties, or CoP5, to adopt the ARC Programme of Work for 2017, elect members of the ARC Agency Governing Board, and review the activities and accomplishments from ARC’s 2015/2016 season
Highlights from CoP5 included:
An agreement signed between ARC and African Development Bank to develop a new facility assisting ARC Member States with premium financing and facilitate access to insurance coverage
The formation of a subcommittee to address the sustainability of funding sources for ARC insurance premiums;
The introduction of ARC’s Outbreak and Epidemic pilot programme, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, that will develop an insurance product to address financing needs in containing outbreaks of pathogens and diseases common to Africa;
Madagascar’s signing of a partnersh
The attendance of a farmers’ group, the Network of Peasant Organizations and Producers in West Africa (ROPPA), for the first time to a session of the Conference of Parties
Updates about the activities of ARC, ARC Insurance Company Limited, and the ARC Agency Governing Board, as well as the ARC Programme of Work for 2017 can be found in the complete report from CoP5. Download the full report in English, French, Portuguese, or Arabic.
A tale of two droughts: one killed 260,000 people, the other none. Why?
[box type=”shadow” align=”” class=”” width=””]Assia Sidibe, ARC Head of Goverment Services for West and Central Africa, published a piece in the Guardian illustrating how risk pools and insurance programmes like ARC can save hundreds of thousands of lives, especially as international aid funding grows uncertain and unsustainable. The text is reproduced below. Read the original article on the Guardian.[/box]
Drought is a slow and predictable natural disaster. We know it will happen again, and we know much of its effects are preventable if money is invested at the right time. So why do we wait for people to die from hunger induced by droughts before we start calling for emergency relief money?
The UN recently launched a $864m appeal to help 5 million Somalis in dire need of food assistance because of drought. But what if the Somali government could have taken out an insurance policy against such a disaster? They could have responded to their own crisis before a famine claimed lives and far less money would be needed. They would not now in a situation similar to six years ago, when a drought-induced famine killed 260,000 Somalis.
Senegal experienced a significant drought in 2014, but Senegalese children did not starve to death. In fact, there was little international media coverage of the drought because Senegal, Mauritania, Niger, and Kenya led the creation of African Risk Capacity (ARC), a mutual insurance company into which they pooled resources.
Catastrophe risk pools like the ARC have emerged over the last 10 years to protect vulnerable populations and national budgets in case of extreme weather events. And they’re working.
The risk pools use technology to assess losses and trigger payouts earlier than in the traditional response system. To date, 26 countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and Central America have pooled their risks. The Caribbean version, which provides insurance against hurricanes and earthquakes, paid out almost $30m to countries hit by Hurricane Matthew last year.
Meanwhile, in 2015, the ARC paid out more than $26m after lack of rains in the Sahel just south of the Sahara Desert. With that money, Senegal’s government say they distributed food assistance to 750,000 people, and 87,000 livestock herders benefited from the sale of subsidised food for their livestock.
While these insurance payouts can address urgent needs, it cannot replace international assistance in times of severe ongoing drought, such as the one in Somalia. But early cash assistance to families from insurance reduces the overall need for aid.
The International Organization for Migration is now also seeking $24.6m in an emergency aid appeal for Somalia, which is precisely the type of funding that ARC provides.Each dollar invested in ARC before the catastrophe saves $4.40 in the aftermath, according to research from Oxford University.
In Senegal, the response to the 2014 drought was led and funded by the government and targeted the most vulnerable populations, including children under five and lactating mothers. The rapid response meant that we did not see pictures of dying children and cattle on television. Witnessing its effectiveness, more countries have since joined the ARC: Malawi, Gambia, Mali, and Burkina Faso.
And it’s not just responding rapidly with cash that makes a difference in a disaster; countries must think about how that assistance will be deployed. Somalia, given its complex socio-political environment, would not have been able to deploy its assistance in the most efficient way, even if it was part of an insurance scheme. But the government of Somalia could have chosen to deploy any assistance covered by insurance payments through the World Food Programme (WFP) or other partners it has worked with before.
This was the case in Malawi this year. After receiving a $8.1m payout from ARC, the government is considering allocating a portion of the money to a cash transfer activity implemented by the WFP.
Drought insurance is still relatively new to countries in Africa, and Somalia’s government is probably not in a position to pay insurance premiums. But it would have been more cost-effective for Somalia’s donors to cover a $3m ARC insurance premium, instead of committing millions more in emergency aid after the onset of drought.
Risk insurance offers a targeted, effective and sustainable way to address the impacts of climate change or natural disasters and could, over time, reduce the need for ad hoc humanitarian assistance, which has swelled to nearly $25bn internationally. This is simply not sustainable.
Instead, let’s support countries in their efforts to plan ahead and respond through African-owned and led initiatives. Had Somalia been insured, it could have received millions of dollars in immediate aid to combat famine instead of waiting months for international aid to arrive. The cash would have arrived in September and in February, immediately after its two devastating harvest seasons and several months prior to Britain’s decision last month to support the emergency relief response with £100m (much appreciated but a little late).
This cash could have been used to protect the 60% of the country’s livestock that has already died, or help prevent the 110 deaths recorded in just two days in March.
African countries can interrupt the cycle of drought, loss and death by banding together to insure against weather calamities. This translates into lives saved, and offers a new model for economic self-sufficiency.
ARC Ltd Wins Innovation Award for Second Consecutive Year
For the second year in a row, the African Risk Capacity Insurance Company Ltd (ARC Ltd) won the CFI.co award for Most Innovative ESG Risk Protection Provider for Africa. In 2016, ARC Ltd was recognized by CFI.co for “its proactive and solidly coordinated approach to risk management in Africa” that “not only saves money: it saves lives“.
ARC Ltd’s continued progress in providing unrivaled integrated, transparent, and efficient risk protection services to African governments has been recognized again. Through a dedication to capacity building, technological and financial innovation, and improving food security in Africa, ARC remains a leader in protecting against environmental, social and governance risks.
Read the full CFI.co judges’ report below.
PRESS RELEASE – African Risk Capacity and the African Development Bank partner to strengthen African countries struggling with climate disasters
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ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire / JOHANNESBURG, South Africa / HAMILTON, Bermuda, 7 March 2017
The African Risk Capacity (ARC) has added a crucial partner to its portfolio by formally teaming up with the African Development Bank (AfDB) to strengthen mechanisms to manage weather-related risk on the continent. This partnership will formalize a technical collaboration to enhance risk management infrastructure and policy across Africa; it will also support African countries in building resilience against climate shocks and in taking ownership of their disaster response.
In concrete terms, AfDB and ARC Agency will work together to develop their Member states’ capacity in understanding the value of risk transfer tools.
The partnership is intended to result in ARC Member countries integrating risk management into their policy and development objectives, with a particular focus on recurrent disasters such as drought, floods and tropical cyclones as well as on improved resilience and speedier recovery after disasters.
ARC and AfDB signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the margins of ARC’s Fifth Conference of Parties (CoP5) in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire on 7th March 2017.
The signing of the MOU is subsequent to the Letter of Intent (LOI), which was signed between the two institutions in May 2016 during the AfDB’s Annual Meetings in Lusaka. The MOU formalizes a technical partnership to collaborate on the enhancement of the risk management infrastructure and policy regime across Africa.
The aim of this partnership will be for the institutions to collaborate: in the development of capacity and services; providing capacity building to individual countries; to embed risk management in planning and to deepen the understanding of the value of risk transfer tools. This collaboration is in line with the support that the Bank should provide to Regional Member Countries (RMCs) pursuant to its Charter as well as its role in assisting RMCs to adapt to the growing hazards from climate change.
Signing the MOU on the behalf of the African Development Bank, the Senior Vice-President, Dr. Frannie Leautier, stated: “In the context of this MOU, ARC and AFDB will partner to support Member States in key areas, which will lay the foundations for a robust approach at the national-level around disaster risk financing.”
Mr. Mohamed Béavogui, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and the Director-General of ARC, views the MOU with AfDB a key milestone, stating: “this partnership with AfDB will complement ARC as we will jointly train and prepare countries to better manage weather-related risk and mainstream insurance into their disaster management plans.”
The African Risk Capacity Agency (ARC Agency) was established in 2012 as a Specialised Agency of the African Union (AU) by a Conference of Plenipotentiaries – consisting of 32 African nations – to help African Union Member States improve their capacities to better plan, prepare and respond to weather-related disasters. The objective of the ARC Agency is to assists AU Member States to reduce the risk of loss and damage caused by extreme weather events affecting Africa’s populations by providing, through sovereign disaster risk insurance, targeted responses to natural disasters in a more timely, cost-effective, objective and transparent manner.
The African Risk Capacity Insurance Company Limited (ARC Ltd) is a financial affiliate of the African Risk Capacity (ARC), a specialized agency of the African Union (AU), an initiative designed to improve current responses to climate-related food security emergencies. ARC Ltd is a mutual insurance facility comprised of its members, which included in 2016: Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, the Gambia. – The membership also includes its capital contributors. KfW on its own behalf, and for the account of the Federal Republic of Germany acting through its Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung, BMZ) and the United Kingdom (Department for International Development, DfID) have contributed the first tranches of their respective EUR 50 million and GBP 90 million commitments.
About African Development Bank (AfDB)
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) is a multilateral development finance institution established to contribute to the economic development and social progress of African countries. The AfDB was founded in 1964 and comprises three entities: The African Development Bank, the African Development Fund and the Nigeria Trust Fund. The AfDB’s mission is to fight poverty and improve living conditions on the continent through promoting the investment of public and private capital in projects and programs that are likely to contribute to the economic and social development of the region. The AfDB is a financial provider to African governments and private companies investing in the regional member countries (RMC).
Since 2016 and within the framework of its Ten Year Strategy (TYS 2013 – 2022) the Bank has stepped up its pace to Africa’s development by focusing on five priorities that are crucial for accelerating Africa’s economic transformation. The Bank calls them the “High 5s”: Light up and power Africa; Feed Africa; Industrialise Africa; Integrate Africa; and Improve the quality of life for the people of Africa. Within the context of the High 5s, the Bank has revamped the review its strategic focus to give greater attention to Africa’s fundamental challenges and how the Bank is addressing them.
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ARTICLE – African Risk Capacity: Insurance is vital, but no magic bullet to fight drought in Africa
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Written by Alex Whiting for Thomson Reuters Foundation, republished on Zilient, PreventionWeb, and Braced.
London – More developing countries urgently need insurance to cushion their farmers against weather extremes that can worsen poverty, but it is no magic bullet to ward off the escalating impacts of climate change, experts say.
The burning question of how to stop drought becoming a major crisis – especially in Africa – has caused many to eye insurance as a possible answer.
“People think sometimes that insurance is the solution for everything. It is not correct,” said Mohamed Beavogui, director general of the African Risk Capacity, an African Union agency that helps states plan for natural disasters and climate change, and provides them with insurance through its company, ARC Limited.
“Insurance is … (for) when you have done everything you can and there is still a risk you cannot cover,” said Beavogui.
Planning for those risks – such as the number of people a government would be unable to help in a crisis – is vital, he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
As climate change bites harder, bringing with it worse droughts and floods, demands on donors’ purse strings are likely to grow, and experts say development gains – especially in Africa – are at risk of being rolled back.
Last year, southern African states appealed for $2.9 billion in aid when the region was hit with its worst drought in 35 years, affecting 39 million people. Now, drought in the continent’s east is pushing millions into hunger.
Insurance can be triggered more quickly than international aid, which can take months to fund. ARC’s cover is based on a pre-agreed plan for how the government will use the payout.
Since ARC Ltd began issuing policies in 2014, eight nations have taken out insurance and four – Senegal, Mauritania, Niger and Malawi – have received payouts totalling $34 million.
The index-based insurance offers maximum coverage of $30 million per country per season for drought events that occur with a frequency of one in five years or less.
But while drought last year left 6.5 million people in Malawi in need of food aid, Malawi did not receive an ARC payout until January.
Malawi took out insurance based on a crop – long-cycle maize – that, as it turned out, most farmers did not grow in the 2015/2016 season. Long-cycle maize survived the drought, while the short-cycle maize most farmers grew did not.
In the end, ARC’s member states agreed to an $8.1 million payout for Malawi – the amount it would have received had the government requested short-cycle maize as the base.
“It means that we shouldn’t rely only on data the government gives us,” Beavogui said. ARC will now also check what farmers are growing with research centres and extension services, among others, he added.
Jury still out
Insurance companies that pay out directly to farmers are still few and far between in many developing countries, and they offer limited services.
Where they do exist, they mainly serve commercial farmers because the poorest cannot afford to pay premiums without help from a donor or government, said Andrew Shepherd, director of the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network, based at the Overseas Development Institute, a London-based thinktank.
“The jury is still out” on whether insurance can make the poorest farmers more resilient to drought, but it can play an important role in preventing wealthier farmers from becoming impoverished, he said.
“All the focus by governments, and often donors, is on getting people out of poverty, and not on preventing people from falling into poverty,” he said.
India is one of the few developing countries with a national insurance scheme for farmers, including those with as little as one cow or buffalo, which works through local agents, said Shepherd.
Senegal has two kinds of insurance – macro-insurance through ARC, and micro-insurance – both of which paid out when bad drought hit in 2014.
The Compagnie Nationale d’Assurance Agricole du Senegal (CNAAS) – set up by the government, insurance companies and international agencies – targets most farmers in rain-fed crop areas with index-based insurance products.
In 2014, Senegal’s ARC payout reached people and livestock with aid, getting help to herders within three months, said Mathieu Dubreuil, micro-insurance advisor at the World Food Programme (WFP).
“It was a good match” between ARC which pays out in a crisis and micro-insurance schemes that pay out more often, he said.
WFP, which offers small-scale insurance for farmers, is also exploring taking out ARC insurance, which would give an additional payout to countries, disbursed either by WFP or through the government.
Vicious cycle of hunger
In Malawi, farmers are waiting for the April maize harvest to bring an end to months of food shortages.
“If we are not careful, we will have a vicious cycle of hunger,” said Wycliffe Kumwenda of the National Smallholder Farmers’ Association of Malawi, representing more than 100,000 farmers.
Uninsured farmers are condemned to queue up for food aid – time taken away from cultivating their fields – while hunger saps their energy, he said.
There is some insurance for Malawian tobacco farmers, but many do not know about it. Premiums are a problem too, as is the ability to make a claim, Kumwenda said.
“We need to install proper instruments that can capture weather parameters like rainfall (and) temperature,” he said. “Most of the met stations are not reliable.”
That makes claims hard to justify, putting off potential insurance providers, he added.
As climate impacts are expected to worsen in the coming years, potentially pushing up the cost of premiums, ARC is developing an Extreme Climate Facility (XCF) which will give countries access to finance for climate change adaptation.
“You have to insure what you cannot cover, and at the same time you have to prepare and adapt,” said Beavogui. “My real fear is we don’t do it quickly enough.”
ARTICLE – Interview de Mohamed Beavogui dans Le Figaro 16 Novembre 2016
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COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE – Malawi reçoit un décaissement de 8M$ de L’ARC pour les ménages affectés
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JOHANNESBURG, Afrique du Sud / LILONGWE, Malawi / HAMILTON, Bermudes, 14 novembre 2016
La société d’assurance mutuelle de l’ARC (ARC Ltd) traite actuellement un décaissement d’environ 8,1 millions de dollars au gouvernement du Malawi pour soutenir sa réponse à la sécheresse, suite à la mauvaise saison agricole de 2015/16.
Le ministre des Finances, de la Planification économique et du Développement du Malawi, l’honorable Goodall Gondwe, a déclaré: «Le Malawi se félicite du paiement de l’ARC Ltd, compte tenu des défis importants pour obtenir des financements pour venir en aide aux millions de ménages affectés dans le pays.»
Les fonds seront décaissés dès que le plan du gouvernement sur l’utilisation du versement de l’assurance – connu sous le nom de Plan final de mise en oeuvre – est approuvé par l’ARC. Il s’agit d’une procédure standard pour les décaissements de l’ARC, qui devrait avoir lieu à la fin du mois de Novembre.
ARC Ltd émet des polices d’assurance pour le compte de ses États membres africains. Tout décaissement est fondé sur les résultats de son modèle de risque lié à la sécheresse, Africa RiskView. En étroite collaboration avec ARC, chaque État personnalise le modèle afin que celui-ci reflète son profil de risque historique lié à la sécheresse, ainsi que ses pratiques agricoles actuelles.
Le Malawi a souscrit à un contrat d’assurance paramétrique contre la sécheresse auprès de l’ARC Ltd pour la campagne agricole 2015/16. Dans un premier temps, aucun paiement n’a été déclenché car le modèle indiquait un faible nombre de personnes touchées par la sécheresse. Cependant, l’estimation de la population touchée par le gouvernement du Malawi était beaucoup plus élevée, suggérant une divergence avec les résultats du modèle.
L’ARC a donc lancé une étude technique approfondie. Elle a tout d’abord examiné la performance du modèle tel qu’il était initialement personnalisé par le Malawi et a constaté que le modèle avait fonctionné comme prévu, compte tenu de ses paramètres et des données de précipitations satellitaires utilisées. Les données satellitaires étaient conformes aux données sur les précipitations au Malawi.
Puis, l’ARC a mené des études sur le terrain, ainsi que des enquêtes sur les ménages en partenariat avec des techniciens malawiens, dont des chercheurs du Centre pour le développement agricole et rural (CARD) de l’Université d’agriculture et des ressources naturelles de Lilongwe (LUANAR).
Il résulte de cette analyse que les agriculteurs cultivent davantage un type de culture différent de celui qui avait été retenu dans le modèle. Les agriculteurs sont passés ces dernières années à la culture du maïs à court-cycle (nécessitant une période de croissance de 90 jours), alors que la personnalisation du modèle prenait en compte une variété de maïs nécessitant, pour sa part, une période de croissance de 120 à 140 jours. Les précipitations en 2015/16 étaient particulièrement défavorables au maïs à cycle court, de sorte que la modification de cette hypothèse de culture dans le modèle a donné un résultat très différent.
Lorsque l’ARC a corrigé cette hypothèse de culture dans le modèle Africa RiskView, les résultats ont donné lieu à un modèle qui offrait une représentation raisonnable de la situation sur le terrain. Cela a donc entraîné un décaissement au gouvernement du Malawi, selon le contrat d’assurance révisée.
Les travaux de l’ARC ont confirmé que le moteur technique Africa RiskView est une plateforme de modélisation robuste. Cependant, le fait de devoir modifier les données critiques dans le cas du Malawi met l’accent sur la nécessité de formuler des hypothèses appropriées et réalistes, basées sur les meilleures données récentes disponibles lors de la personnalisation du modèle.
Le président de l’ARC Ltd, le Dr Lars Thunell a déclaré: « Le cas du Malawi a montré qu’une attention accrue est nécessaire pour valider les données d’entrée nationales fournies pour le modèle. La capacité d’un modèle à représenter la réalité dépend de l’exactitude des hypothèses de départ et des données. Sur la base d’une nouvelle personnalisation, fondée sur une hypothèse plus précise par rapport au type de culture de référence, un contrat d’assurance modifié a été émis pour le gouvernement du Malawi et un paiement a été déclenché. »
L’ARC est une organisation d’États membres dont l’objectif est de garder ses membres au cœur de son action. L’ARC Ltd n’est pas seulement une société d’assurance commerciale, mais fait partie d’une institution de développement établie sous le leadership des États membres de l’Union africaine, y compris le Malawi.
Le Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Présidente du Conseil d’administration de l’Institution de la Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques, a déclaré: «L’ARC a été créée par les gouvernements africains dans le but de leur fournir les outils et le soutien nécessaires pour mieux gérer les risques liés aux catastrophes naturelles. L’ARC soutient le Malawi et continue à aider le pays à élaborer une stratégie globale et efficace de gestion du risque de sécheresse.»
A propos de la mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques (ARC)
L’Institution de la Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques (Institution de l’ARC) a été créée en 2012 en tant qu’institution spécialisée de l’Union africaine (UA) par une Conférence de plénipotentiaires pour aider les États membres de l’Union africaine à améliorer leurs capacités à mieux planifier, préparer et répondre aux catastrophes naturelles. L’objectif de l’Institution de l’ARC est d’aider les États membres de l’UA à réduire le risque de pertes et dommages causés par des phénomènes météorologiques extrêmes touchant les populations africaines en fournissant, par une assurance contre le risque souverain, des réponses ciblées aux catastrophes naturelles, d’une manière plus rapide, rentable, objective et transparente.
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La société d’assurance de l’ARC (ARC Ltd), créée en 2013, est une filiale financière de la Mutuelle panafricaine de gestion des risques.
L’adhésion au groupe d’assurances 2015 de la société comprenait les pays qui ont souscrit des contrats d’assurance afin de couvrir les saisons agricoles au cours de l’année civile commençant le 1er mai 2015; le groupement 2015/2016 comprenait la Gambie, le Kenya, le Malawi, le Mali, la Mauritanie, le Niger et le Sénégal. Les membres de l’ARC Ltd incluent également ses contributeurs en capital, le Royaume-Uni (par le biais du Département du Développement International) et l’Allemagne (La KfW banque de développement au nom du ministère fédéral de la coopération économique et du développement BMZ).
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PRESS RELEASE – Malawi to receive USD 8M insurance payout to support drought-affected families
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa / LILONGWE, Malawi / HAMILTON, Bermuda, 14 November 2016
The African Risk Capacity Insurance Company Limited (ARC Ltd) is processing an insurance payout of approximately USD 8.1 million to the Government of Malawi to support its response to the drought which resulted from the poor 2015/16 agricultural season.
The Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development for Malawi, Honourable Goodall Gondwe, said: “Malawi welcomes the payout from ARC Ltd given the significant challenges in securing financing to support the millions of affected households in the country.”
The payout will be released to Malawi as soon as the Government’s plan on how the payout will be used to respond to those affected by drought – known as the Final Implementation Plan – is approved by ARC. This is standard practice for ARC payouts, and is expected to take place by the end of November.
ARC Ltd issues insurance policies to its African Member governments; any payout thereof is based on results from its drought risk model, the Africa RiskView. In close consultation with ARC Ltd, the model is customised for and by each country to reflect the country’s historical drought risk profile and current farming practices.
Malawi bought a parametric drought insurance policy from ARC Ltd for the 2015/16 agricultural season. The policy did not initially trigger a payout, because the model indicated a low number of people affected by the drought. However, the Government’s estimate of the impacted population in Malawi was much higher, suggesting a discrepancy in the results of the model.
ARC investigated the discrepancy through extensive technical work. It first examined the performance of the model as it was originally customised by Malawi, and found that the model had performed as expected given its parameters and the satellite-based rainfall data used. The satellite data was in line with Malawi’s ground-based rainfall data.
Subsequently, ARC conducted extensive fieldwork and household surveys in partnership with Malawian technical experts, including researchers from the Centre for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR).
This work revealed that farmers had switched to a greater extent to growing a different type of crop than that assumed in the model. Farmers shifted in recent years to planting maize with a 90-day growing period, compared to the maize variety with a growing period of 120-140 days as assumed in the customisation of Malawi’s model. The rainfall pattern in 2015/16 was particularly unfavourable to the shorter cycle maize, such that correcting this crop assumption in the model resulted in a very different modelled outcome.
In fact, when ARC re-customised the Africa RiskView to correct this crop assumption, it resulted in the model outcome providing a reasonable representation of the situation on the ground. This in turn triggered a payout under the revised policy to the Government of Malawi.
ARC’s work confirmed that the Africa RiskView technical engine is a robust modelling platform. However, having to correct key data in the case of Malawi emphasises how critical it is to make appropriate and realistic assumptions based on the best-available and current data when customising the model.
The Chair of ARC Ltd Board, Dr. Lars Thunell stated: “The case of Malawi has showed that heightened attention is necessary in validating national input data provided for the model. Any model’s ability to represent reality depends on the accuracy of starting assumptions and data. Based on the re-customisation using a more accurate assumption on reference crop type, an amended insurance policy was issued to the Government of Malawi and a payout has been triggered.”
ARC is a Member State organisation, and its aim is to keep its Members at the centre of its work. ARC Ltd is not merely a commercial insurance company, but part of a development organisation established with the leadership of African Union Member States including Malawi.
Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Chair of the African Risk Capacity Agency Board, further stated: “ARC was founded by African Governments with the objective of providing them with the tools and capacity to better manage natural disaster risks. ARC Ltd stands by to support Malawi and to continue to help the country develop a comprehensive and effective drought risk management strategy.”
The African Risk Capacity Agency (ARC Agency) was established in 2012 as a Specialised Agency of the African Union (AU) by a Conference of Plenipotentiaries to help African Union Member States improve their capacities to better plan, prepare and respond to weather-related disasters. The objective of the ARC Agency is to assists AU Member States to reduce the risk of loss and damage caused by extreme weather events affecting Africa’s populations by providing, through sovereign risk insurance, targeted responses to natural disasters in a more timely, cost-effective, objective and transparent manner.
The African Risk Capacity Insurance Company Limited (ARC Ltd) was established in 2013 is a financial affiliate of the African Risk Capacity.
Membership in the company’s 2015 insurance pool included the countries which took out insurance contracts to cover agricultural seasons during the calendar year starting 1 May 2015; this 2015/2016 pool consisted of The Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal. – The members of ARC Ltd also include its capital contributors, the United Kingdom (through DFID) and Germany (KfW on behalf of BMZ).
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Lamar Jackson Makes Debut as New Wrinkle in Ravens Offense
Clifton Brown
The Ravens did not take long to use Lamar Jackson in Week 1.
Jackson was part of the Ravens' opening touchdown drive and played five snaps during the first half, immediately becoming a new offensive wrinkle that opponents must worry about.
Before the Ravens routed the Buffalo Bills, 47-3, there was much pregame speculation on how many snaps Jackson would get, and how early he would be used. The message was sent quickly to the Buffalo Bills and to all future Ravens opponents. Jackson is on the team to be a playmaker, not just a decoy or a backup to quarterback Joe Flacco.
"We wanted to establish him as a threat quickly, not as a possible threat," Ravens Head Coach John Harbaugh said. "We wanted him to go out there and make plays and generate plays for us. The whole idea is to generate offense. I guess a side benefit of it is that people have to prepare for certain things. Of course, that's part of it. But really the idea is to move the football and create plays, and like we said from the beginning, use all weapons."
On the Ravens' first series, Jackson lined up at wide receiver and went into motion on his first play as a Raven. Joe Flacco faked a handoff to Jackson, then handed the ball to Alex Collins. The Bills were influenced by the threat of Jackson taking the handoff, and the misdirection helped Collins find a soft spot in the Bills' defense for a 14-yard gain. It was called back because of a holding penalty, however.
That was the Ravens' most successful first-half play with Jackson on the field. Here's a look at other ways Jackson was used during the first half:
With the Ravens at the Bills' 15-yard line later in the opening drive, Jackson lined up under center with Flacco at wide receiver. Jackson was surrounded while attempting to run and stopped for no gain. However, it showed Baltimore's desire to use Jackson in the red zone and Jackson playing quarterback for one play did not break Flacco's rhythm. The Ravens scored three plays later, on an 8-yard run by Collins.
In the second quarter, Jackson lined up at wide receiver and took the ball on a designed reverse. Quickly met by a Bills defender, Jackson reversed field and looked downfield for an open target. Willie Snead IV was open, but Jackson overthrew him for an incompletion.
That was the last time Jackson touched the ball in the first half. He lined up at wide receiver again on his fourth play and fifth plays, but Flacco did not look Jackson's way. In one instance, he was again used as a decoy on a jet sweep handoff.
It was noteworthy that Jackson only played one snap at quarterback in the first half. Flacco was throwing the football well and the offense was moving. Jackson is simply an addition to the Ravens' offense, not a focal point.
Once the Ravens were comfortably ahead in the second half, Jackson took over for Flacco in the third quarter at quarterback and finished the game, completing 1-of-4 passes for 24 yards, and rushing seven times for 39 yards.
What did Jackson think of his regular season debut?
"It felt pretty cool, cold and rainy actually," Jackson said. "We got the victory. We opened things up with some of the motion I was doing. Had the defense guessing. They never know what's going to happen. Keep the defense guessing."
Jackson was not totally happy with his quarterback play in the second half, but getting reps in a regular-season game could help him down the road.
"I went out there very cold," Jackson said. "But I need to complete some more passes."
How much Jackson will play from week to week remains uncertain, and that works to the Ravens' advantage. Opponents must prepare for Jackson, and Flacco seems comfortable knowing that packages for Jackson will be part of the game plan. As the season progresses and Jackson becomes more comfortable, the Ravens expect bigger plays from Jackson to follow.
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Thomas KILLIGREW
1664 FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF KILLIGREW’S PLAYS, WITH SCARCE FRONTISPIECE, BEAUTIFULLY BOUND
KILLIGREW, Thomas. Comedies and Tragedies. London: Henry Herringman, 1664. Folio (measures 8 by 11-1/2 inches), early 20th-century full red crushed morocco gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box. $6000.
First edition, first issue, containing Killigrew’s most famous play, The Parson’s Wedding, and with the scarce engraved frontispiece portrait featuring Killigrew at his desk with his dog and his playbooks, not present in all copies. Beautifully bound in full morocco-gilt by Bedford.
Killigrew, a favorite of the royal family and the founder of Drury Lane, wrote most of his plays before the Civil War. His finest play, however, The Parson’s Wedding, was written about 1663. Pepys was to declare it “a bawdy and loose play”—which foreshadows the finest of Restoration comedy. His other dramas are either tragicomedies based on popular French romances or loosely autobiographical comedies of English wits and rovers in exile. Although Killigrew wrote his plays in an alternation of prose and a sort of non-metrical verse, this collection prints everything as prose. First issue, with general title and titles to each play, with the imprint “J.M. for A. Crook, 1663” to the titles of Claricilla and The Prisoners. Wing K450. Pforzheimer 571. Greg III, 1085-86. Bookplates, including that of distinguished African explorer Frank Linsly James (1851-1890, killed by an elephant).
Scarce frontispiece portrait neatly mounted and remargined. Minor marginal repairs to leaves L1 and Yy2. A beautiful copy in fine condition.
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Hampshire & Isle of Wight
Wingsuit scientist's funeral donations 'missing'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-50670046
Image copyright Angelo Grubisic
Image caption Dr Grubisic had performed base jumps around the world
The family of a champion wingsuit flier is calling for help after his funeral donations "went missing".
Dr Angelo Grubisic, 38, an astronautical engineer at the University of Southampton died in a base jumping accident in August.
At his funeral in Walsall, the box thought to contain between £5,000 and £8,000 went to another funeral "without being emptied," his family said.
The money was going to be used to support engineering students.
In a statement his family said the box went to another funeral the next day "which is where the donations went missing".
His mother Anita said, "I'm not only upset but angry, as the loss of the money could so easily have been put right with honesty.
"It's not just the donations made in good faith by those who loved my son but also the cards and messages which would have been in the donation box too. These are irreplaceable."
The family said it was now making a public appeal after spending more than two months trying to find the missing money.
West Midlands Police said it was investigating "a mix up of donations at two funerals" in the Bloxwich area of Walsall on 19 and 20 September.
Officers have asked anyone with any information to get in touch.
Image copyright Jess Ratty
Image caption Dr Angelo Grubisic was taking part in a planned event in Saudi Arabia when he died
The family said it planned to continue to set up the Dr Angelo Grubisic Young Engineers Fund which aims to to support underprivileged students considering a career in science or engineering.
His family have set up an online fundraising campaign in a bid to recoup the donations made at the funeral.
The astronautical engineer was taking part in a planned jump in Saudi Arabia when he was killed.
He had led a wingsuit design team at the University of Southampton and was crowned a British wingsuit champion in July.
Dr Grubisic set up the Icarus project at the university In 2015 - the aim of the project was to design a wingsuit to break world records.
He had previously worked on spacecraft propulsion for both NASA and the European Space Agency, and was a consultant engineer for the European Space Agency's BepiColombo mission to Mercury in 2018.
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West Sussex river re-routed to create wetland habitat
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Image caption The surrounding fields will flood during the winter and create a wetland grazing marsh.
Work to create a new wetland habitat for birds and other wildlife has begun at a West Sussex nature reserve.
The Woods Mill river at Henfield has been re-routed to attract species such as snipe, kingfisher and little egret.
The Sussex Wildlife Trust (SWT) said water from the river would now flood the surrounding fields during the winter to create a wetland marsh.
SWT and the Environment Agency constructed meanders and oxbow lakes to move the stream.
'Valuable wetland'
SWT Reserves Officer, Steve Tillman, said: "When the project is completed there will be greater habitat diversity on site enhancing everyone's enjoyment of a visit to the Woods Mill nature reserve.
"Visitors will be able to walk around the new landscape (when it is not flooded) and see the river course develop and change into a new valuable wetland habitat from specially constructed viewing platforms."
The SWT said the line of the old river would still retain some water to provide a static pool for pond insects and small mammals such as the water shrew.
The Environment Agency is also building a fish pass upstream to allow protected sea trout to access new breeding grounds.
Hannah Wright from the Environment Agency said: "The new fish pass will allow sea trout and other fish species to access areas previously virtually impassable.
"Together with the restoration scheme, it will improve a large stretch of the Woods Mill stream for many species of fauna and flora."
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MOMENTUM, the chance to gain a mental edge on their rivals, and an all-important rest in the first week of finals. There's certainly plenty of stake when Sandhurst and Gisborne meet in a top of the ladder clash at the QEO on Saturday. As has been the case often in the past two seasons, a clash between the Dragons and Bulldogs means much more than a win for either side. That was most definitely the case when the rivals met in last season's premiership decider, won in overtime by the Dragons. Sandhurst and Gisborne also met in last season's second semi-final, with the Bulldogs coming out on top to be the first team to advance to the grand final. With both teams entering the contest level on 12 wins, two losses - and with both projected to win their final round encounters - the clash will determine a minor round premier. The Bulldogs claimed the honours in their earlier season encounter 53-38 at Gardiner Reserve, but will be looking to rebound after a six goal loss to Eaglehawk, their second to the Hawks this season. Sandhurst skipper Meg Williams expected the Bulldogs to bounce back strongly from the defeat. "It put us back on top, which is lucky for us, but in the end we are just focusing on ourselves at the moment," she said. "We won't worry about ladder positioning until we are happy with our own game and heading into finals. "The last game we just let them take control early and it's really hard to beat Gisborne in Gisborne. "They got on top of us way too early and it was difficult getting back." Referencing Eaglehawk's rousing victory over Gisborne, Williams, who played in a Victorian Netball League division one premiership win for North East Blaze on Wednesday night, said the scene was set for a thrilling and wide-open final series. "It just goes to show that this A-grade competition is down to match-ups, it could be anyone's game on any given day," she said. "We know we played poorly against them last time - we've worked hard in the meantime to ensure we are ready this time, for what is a first taste of finals." The Bulldogs clash will be a special one for Williams, who will be playing game number 100 for Sandhurst. Her two-time premiership team-mate Rebecca Smith will be playing her 50th. READ MORE: Rebecca Smith shoots for back-to-back flags for Sandhurst Gisborne star Maddy Stewart said her side would welcome the chance to redeem themselves after their loss to the Hawks. "It's a massive game, we need to play a hell of a lot better than we did (against Eaglehawk)," she said. "It really harmed our chances for top spot with Sandhurst having a superior percentage, but hopefully we can rectify it with a win. But if we have to play the first week of finals that's fine." "We lacked quite a bit of drive in attack (last week) and their defence really smothered us. "That put a lot of doubts in our minds and we didn't play anywhere as well as we had in previous weeks." Meanwhile, Strathfieldsaye will get another gauge of its second-half of the season improvement against South Bendigo at Harry Trott Oval. Only nine goals separated the teams when they met earlier in the season, with both having shown plenty of growth and development as the season has progressed. The Storm finished just three goals shy of Kangaroo Flat in their most recent match and come into the game fresh from a bye. In other games, Maryborough hosts Kangaroo Flat, while Eaglehawk clashes with Kyneton at Canterbury Park. Wins to the Roos and Hawks set up a fascinating round 18 encounter between the two for third spot and the double chance. A RECAP OF LAST WEEKEND: BFNL netball: Hawks stun Bulldogs to keep top-three hopes alive Have you signed up to the Bendigo Advertiser's daily newsletter and breaking news emails? You can register below and make sure you are up to date with everything that's happening in central Victoria.
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BFNL netball: Sandhurst and Gisborne ready for top spot shootout
KIERAN ILES
A two-time premiership star with Sandhurst, Bec Smith plays her 50th game for the Dragons this weekend against Gisborne. Picture: NONI HYETT
MOMENTUM, the chance to gain a mental edge on their rivals, and an all-important rest in the first week of finals.
There's certainly plenty of stake when Sandhurst and Gisborne meet in a top of the ladder clash at the QEO on Saturday.
As has been the case often in the past two seasons, a clash between the Dragons and Bulldogs means much more than a win for either side.
That was most definitely the case when the rivals met in last season's premiership decider, won in overtime by the Dragons.
Sandhurst and Gisborne also met in last season's second semi-final, with the Bulldogs coming out on top to be the first team to advance to the grand final.
With both teams entering the contest level on 12 wins, two losses - and with both projected to win their final round encounters - the clash will determine a minor round premier.
The Bulldogs claimed the honours in their earlier season encounter 53-38 at Gardiner Reserve, but will be looking to rebound after a six goal loss to Eaglehawk, their second to the Hawks this season.
Sandhurst skipper Meg Williams expected the Bulldogs to bounce back strongly from the defeat.
"It put us back on top, which is lucky for us, but in the end we are just focusing on ourselves at the moment," she said.
"We won't worry about ladder positioning until we are happy with our own game and heading into finals.
"The last game we just let them take control early and it's really hard to beat Gisborne in Gisborne.
"They got on top of us way too early and it was difficult getting back."
Referencing Eaglehawk's rousing victory over Gisborne, Williams, who played in a Victorian Netball League division one premiership win for North East Blaze on Wednesday night, said the scene was set for a thrilling and wide-open final series.
"It just goes to show that this A-grade competition is down to match-ups, it could be anyone's game on any given day," she said.
"We know we played poorly against them last time - we've worked hard in the meantime to ensure we are ready this time, for what is a first taste of finals."
The Bulldogs clash will be a special one for Williams, who will be playing game number 100 for Sandhurst.
Her two-time premiership team-mate Rebecca Smith will be playing her 50th.
Rebecca Smith shoots for back-to-back flags for Sandhurst
Gisborne star Maddy Stewart said her side would welcome the chance to redeem themselves after their loss to the Hawks.
"It's a massive game, we need to play a hell of a lot better than we did (against Eaglehawk)," she said.
"It really harmed our chances for top spot with Sandhurst having a superior percentage, but hopefully we can rectify it with a win. But if we have to play the first week of finals that's fine."
"We lacked quite a bit of drive in attack (last week) and their defence really smothered us.
"That put a lot of doubts in our minds and we didn't play anywhere as well as we had in previous weeks."
Meanwhile, Strathfieldsaye will get another gauge of its second-half of the season improvement against South Bendigo at Harry Trott Oval.
Only nine goals separated the teams when they met earlier in the season, with both having shown plenty of growth and development as the season has progressed.
The Storm finished just three goals shy of Kangaroo Flat in their most recent match and come into the game fresh from a bye.
In other games, Maryborough hosts Kangaroo Flat, while Eaglehawk clashes with Kyneton at Canterbury Park.
Wins to the Roos and Hawks set up a fascinating round 18 encounter between the two for third spot and the double chance.
A RECAP OF LAST WEEKEND:
BFNL netball: Hawks stun Bulldogs to keep top-three hopes alive
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2017 (Full Year) Europe: Top-Selling Car Models
January 29, 2018 by Henk Bekker in Europe
The Volkswagen Golf, Renault Clio, VW Polo and Ford Fiesta were again Europe’s favorite car models in 2017. SUVs such as the Nissan Qashqai and VW Tiguan made strong gains.
In 2017, for the tenth consecutive year, the Volkswagen Golf was the best-selling car model in the European Union (EU) and EFTA countries. For the second consecutive year, the Renault Clio was second followed by the VW Polo and Ford Fiesta. The Nissan Qashqai improved to fifth as Europe’s favorite SUV. The similar VW Tiguan moved into the top-ten list of Europe’s top-selling car models with sales up by a third.
List of the 25 Best-Selling Car Models in Europe in 2017 (Full Year)
The 25 top-selling car models in the EU and EFTA as calculated by Jato Dynamics were:
Make & Model Cars 2017 Cars 2016 % Change 16/17
1 Volkswagen Golf 483,105 492,952 -2
2 Renault Clio 327,395 315,115 4
3 Volkswagen Polo 272,061 308,561 -12
4 Ford Fiesta 254,539 300,528 -15
5 Nissan Qashqai 247,939 234,340 6
6 Peugeot 208 244,615 249,047 -2
7 VW Tiguan 234,916 180,198 31
8 Opel / Vauxhall Corsa 232,738 264,844 -12
9 Skoda Octavia 230,116 230,255 0
10 Opel / Vauxhall Astra 217,813 253,483 -14
11 Ford Focus 214,661 214,435 0
12 Renault Captur 212,768 217,105 -2
13 Citroen C3 207,299 134,560 54
14 Toyota Yaris 199,182 193,969 3
15 Dacia Sandero 196,067 170,300 16
16 Fiat 500 189,928 183,730 4
17 Fiat Panda 187,322 191,617 -2
18 VW Passat 184,123 208,575 -12
19 Peugeot 2008 180,868 NA 3
20 Skoda Fabia 180,136 177,301 2
21 Mercedes-Benz C-Class 176,705 176,551 0
22 Opel / Vauxhall Mokka 170,384 164,682 3
23 Renault Megane 168,132 149,051 13
24 Peugeot 3008 166,784 NA 555
25 Audi A3 164,045 190,660 -14
Top Ten Best-Selling Car Models in Europe in 2017 (Full Year)
There were no changes in the rank order of the top four most-popular car models in Europe in 2017 compared to a year ago. The VW Golf was again by far Europe’s favorite car model – a position it held uninterrupted since 2008. However, for the second consecutive year, VW Golf sales volumes were down in Europe. The VW Golf was the top-selling car in only 5 European countries in 2017 compared to 8 in 2016. Furthermore, more than half of all Golfs were sold in Germany and the UK with the model’s success more limited in other big markets. The next Golf is expected by mid-2019.
The Renault Clio was the only top-four car model to have increased the number of cars sold in Europe during 2017. The VW Polo and Ford Fiesta both maintained their positions from a year ago but both models had sales down by significant numbers in part due to model changes during the year.
The Nissan Qashqai was again Europe’s favorite SUV and improved from 8th a year ago to 5th best-selling car model. This is the highest position not only for the Qashqai but also for any SUV in Europe.
Despite slightly weaker sales, the Peugeot 208 improved one rank position from a year ago. The predecessor of the 208, the Peugeot 207 was the last car to have outsold the Golf in Europe – it was the top-seller in 2007.
Sales of SUVs in Europe increased by 20% to 4.56 million vehicles in 2017. The VW Tiguan was a clear example – it increased sales by nearly a third and improved in sales rank from 18th to 7th.
The Opel / Vauxhall Corsa slipped from 5th to 8th with sales down by 12%. The replacement of the Corsa, on a shared platform with the new Peugeot 208, is expected towards the end of 2018.
The Skoda Octavia maintained its ninth position with sales hardly changed from a year ago.
The Opel / Vauxhall Astra slipped from 6th to 10th with sales down by 14%. The two volume models of the brand that became part of the PSA Group in August 2017 noticeably underperformed compared to the equivalent Peugeot and Citroen models.
The Renault Captur slipped off the top-ten list despite being an SUV.
Other Top-Selling Car Models in Europe in 2017
Although the Ford Focus and Toyota Yaris where the only other top-25 best-selling car models in Europe in 2017 to maintain the same sales rank position from a year ago, only one new model entered the list. The Peugeot 3008 – as SUV – entered the list at the expense of the Peugeot 308.
The Citroen C3 was the most-improved model with sales up by 54% from a year ago. (The Peugeot 3008’s fantastic 555% increase is mostly due to the car not being available for the full 2016 year.) Sales of the Dacia Sandero and Renault Megane also increased sales by double digits.
Amongst the worst performers were two high earners for the Volkswagen Group: the VW Passat slipped from 12th to 18th and the Audi A3 from 16th to 25th. Both models sold more than 20,000 less than a year ago. Passat sales are down 44,000 from two years ago.
However, the Volkswagen Group remained Europe’s largest carmaker in 2017 with Volkswagen still the top-selling car brand. Car sales in the EU and EFTA increased by 3.3% to 15,631,687 cars sold in 2017. Electric car sales in Europe increased by 39% and hybrid car sales by 52% in 2017.
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Huge console update on its way...
mrpijey
Post subject: Huge console update on its way... Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:25 am
And here we are again. I have been compiling a lot of old console betas and unreleased games, and now it's time to release it on BA. These are not very common on the net, so I thought BA being a beta site that we collect them here as well =). Some of these are also provided by members on this forum.
I am currently uploading the lot, and it's a lot of files (1000+!). In the meantime, here's a preview of what's coming (be patient, it's a very long list!):
Atari Jaguar:
Arena Football 95 (JSII release).rar
Barkley Shut Up And Jam (Prototype).rar
Blue Lightning Tour 4 (beta).rar
Brain Games (Unreleased).rar
Breakout 2000 (Prototype).rar
Brett Hull Hockey (Unreleased cart version).rar
Cybermorph (Early prototype).rar
Defender 2000 (Prototype).rar
Fight For Life (beta 3-22).rar
Fight For Life (beta 9-7).rar
GPU26 (2600 Emulator) (Unreleased).rar
Jack Nicklaus Golf (0.02) (Unreleased).rar
Jack Nicklaus Golf (0.02A) (Unreleased).rar
Missile Command VR (Unreleased).rar
Phase Zero (Prototype).rar
Rayman (Early prototype).rar
Slam Racer (Unreleased).rar
Spacewar 2000 (Unreleased).rar
Stella (2600 Emulator) (Unreleased).rar
Tiny Toons Plucky Duck (Unreleased tech demo).rar
Ultra VorteX (Prototype).rar
Nintendo DS:
Sonic Rush (E3 beta) [Japanese].rar
Sega 32X:
36 Great Holes starring Fred Couples (1994-07-06) (Prototype).rar
36 Great Holes starring Fred Couples (1994-11-19) (Prototype B).rar
Cosmic Carnage (1994-09-06) (Prototype).rar
Doom (1994-09-06) (Prototype).rar
Doom RR (1995-02-15) (Prototype).rar
Knuckles' Chaotix (1994-12-07-0715) (Prototype 1207).rar
Knuckles' Chaotix (1995-02-13-0646) (Prototype 0213B).rar
Metal Head (1994-11-14) (Prototype).rar
Metal Head (1994-12-07) (Prototype B).rar
Motocross Championship (1994-10-12) (Prototype).rar
Motocross Championship (1994-11-02) (Prototype B).rar
Shadow Squadron (1995-02-06) (Prototype).rar
Shadow Squadron (1995-03-13) (Prototype B).rar
Space Harrier (1994-09-20) (Prototype).rar
Star Wars Arcade (1994-08-30) (Prototype).rar
Star Wars Arcade (1994-09-13) (Prototype B).rar
Star Wars Arcade (1994-09-14) (Prototype D).rar
Star Wars Arcade (1994-10-06) (Prototype J).rar
Star Wars Arcade (1994-10-06) (Prototype P).rar
Tempo (1994-12-29) (Prototype).rar
Tempo (1995-02-06) (Prototype B).rar
Virtua Fighter (1995-05-30) (Prototype).rar
Virtua Racing Deluxe (1994-08-22) (Prototype).rar
Zaxxon's Motherbase 2000 (1995-02-10) (Prototype).rar
Sega GameGear:
Adventures of Batman & Robin, The (1995-04-27) (Prototype).rar
Adventures of Batman & Robin, The (1995-04-29) (Prototype A).rar
Adventures of Batman & Robin, The (1995-05-06) (Prototype B).rar
Aladdin (1993-12-29) (Prototype).rar
Aladdin (1994-01-23) (Prototype OUT).rar
Aladdin (1994-01-23) (Prototype WITH).rar
Asterix (1994-01-25) (Prototype).rar
Berenstain Bears (1994-06-28) (Prototype).rar
Berenstain Bears (1994-07-15) (Prototype B).rar
Berenstain Bears (1994-08-11) (Prototype A).rar
Bonkers Wax Up! (1994-10-31) (Prototype).rar
Bonkers Wax Up! (1994-12-07) (Prototype C).rar
Bonkers Wax Up! (1994-12-08) (Prototype B).rar
Bonkers Wax Up! (1994-12-12) (Prototype D).rar
Chicago Syndicate (1995-05-05) (Prototype).rar
Chicago Syndicate (1995-06-29) (Prototype B).rar
Dynamite Headdy (1994-06-15) (Prototype).rar
GP Rider (1994-01-04) (Prototype).rar
Legend of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (1994-09-22) (Prototype).rar
Legend of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (1994-09-30) (Prototype SEL).rar
Lion King, The (1994-08-03) (Prototype).rar
Lion King, The (1994-08-17) (Prototype) (alt).rar
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - The Movie (1995-05-30) (Prototype).rar
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1994-07-16) (Prototype).rar
NBA Action Starring David Robinson (1993-11-28) (Prototype).rar
NBA Action Starring David Robinson (1994-02-25) (Prototype B).rar
NBA Action Starring David Robinson (1994-02-28) (Final A).rar
NBA Action Starring David Robinson (1994-03-01) (Final B).rar
NBA Action Starring David Robinson (1994-03-02) (Final C).rar
NBA Action Starring David Robinson (1994-03-03) (Final D).rar
NBA Action Starring David Robinson (1994-03-04) (Final E).rar
NBA Action Starring David Robinson (1994-03-04) (Final F).rar
NBA Action Starring David Robinson (1994-03-05) (Final G).rar
NBA Action Starring David Robinson (1994-03-08) (Final H).rar
NFL '95 (1994-08-08) (Prototype).rar
NFL '95 (1994-08-25) (Prototype A).rar
NFL '95 (1994-08-25) (Prototype B).rar
NFL '95 (1994-09-11) (Prototype C).rar
NFL '95 (1994-09-14) (Prototype F).rar
NHL All-Star Hockey (1994-12-15) (Prototype).rar
NHL All-Star Hockey (1995-01-24) (Prototype A).rar
NHL All-Star Hockey (1995-01-24) (Prototype B).rar
NHL All-Star Hockey (1995-01-24) (Prototype C).rar
Ristar (1994-09-09) (Prototype).rar
Shining Force II (1994-04-27) (Prototype).rar
Sonic Blast (1996-05-31-1349) (Prototype 611).rar
Sonic Blast (1996-07-17-0911) (Prototype 74).rar
Sonic Spinball (1994-03-07-0524) (Prototype).rar
Sonic Spinball (1994-05-03-1927) (Prototype 503B).rar
Sonic The Hedgehog - Triple Trouble (1994-08-08-1805) (Prototype).rar
Speedy Gonzales Cheese Catastrophe (1995-02-17) (Prototype).rar
Sports Trivia (1995-03-08) (Prototype).rar
Sports Trivia (1995-03-16) (Prototype 1MEG).rar
Sports Trivia (1995-03-20) (Prototype QTEST).rar
Sports Trivia (1995-03-23) (Prototype ALGOTEST).rar
Sports Trivia (1995-03-30) (Prototype 2MEG-D).rar
Sports Trivia (1995-04-05) (Prototype 2MEG-B).rar
Sports Trivia (1995-04-05) (Prototype 2MEG-C).rar
Super Columns (1994-11-11) (Prototype).rar
Taz in Escape from Mars (1994-05-11) (Prototype).rar
Taz in Escape from Mars (1994-08-29) (Prototype B).rar
Taz in Escape from Mars (1994-09-05) (Prototype C).rar
Taz in Escape from Mars (1994-09-06) (Prototype D).rar
Tempo Jr (1994-11-28) (Prototype).rar
World Series Baseball '95 (1994-06-29) (Prototype).rar
X-Men - Gamemaster's Legacy (1994-08-10) (Prototype).rar
X-Men - Gamemaster's Legacy (1994-08-31) (Prototype 36).rar
X-Men - Gamemaster's Legacy (1994-09-06) (Prototype 906C).rar
X-Men - Mojo World (1996-06-05) (Prototype).rar
Sega MegaCD:
The Adventures of Batman and Robin CD (1995-04-24) (Prototype).rar
Sega MegaDrive:
Adventures of Batman and Robin, The (1995-04-06) (Prototype).rar
Aero the Acro-Bat (beta).rar
Art of Fighting (1994-07-11) (Prototype).rar
ATP Tour Championship Tennis (1994-05-09) (Prototype).rar
Baby Boom (1994-06-03) (Prototype).rar
Barkley Shut Up and Jam! 2 (beta).rar
Berenstain Bears', The - Camping Adventure (1994-03-23) (Prototype).rar
Beyond Oasis (1994-11-01) (Prototype).rar
Body Count (1994-01-27) (Prototype).rar
Body Count (1994-02-28) (Prototype U).rar
Body Count (1994-03-08) (Prototype A).rar
Bonkers (1994-03-28) (Prototype).rar
Bubble and Squeak (E) (Unreleased).rar
College Football's National Championship (1994-04-13) (Prototype).rar
College Football's National Championship (1994-05-11) (Prototype A).rar
Comix Zone (1995-05-26) (Prototype).rar
Comix Zone (1995-06-01) (Prototype B).rar
Comix Zone (1995-06-01) (Prototype C).rar
Comix Zone (1995-06-01) (Prototype D).rar
Comix Zone (1995-06-09) (Prototype) [Korean].rar
Comix Zone (1995-06-28) (Prototype) [Europe].rar
Comix Zone (1995-07-12) (Prototype FULSCR).rar
Comix Zone (Sega Channel) (1995-06-12) (Prototype).rar
Crystal's Pony Tale (1994-05-11) (Prototype).rar
Crystal's Pony Tale (1994-07-12) (Prototype B).rar
Dashin' Desperadoes (beta2).rar
Desert Demolition (1994-12-06) (Prototype).rar
Desert Demolition (1994-12-12) (Prototype B).rar
Dinosaurs for Hire (1993-04-26) (Prototype).rar
Dynamite Headdy (1994-06-14) (Prototype CABEZA).rar
Ecco - The Tides of Time (1993-04-13) (Prototype X11).rar
Escape From Mars Starring Taz (1994-03-09) (Prototype).rar
Escape From Mars Starring Taz (1994-06-18) (Prototype A).rar
Eternal Champions (1993-11-17) (Prototype) [Japanese].rar
Eternal Champions (1993-11-17) (Prototype).rar
Golden 10-in-1 (beta).rar
Jurassic Park - Rampage Edition (1994-06-20) (Prototype).rar
Knuckles in Sonic 2 (1994-05-27-1046) (Prototype 0524).rar
Light Crusader (1995-06-08) (Prototype).rar
Magic School Bus, The (1995-01-12) (Prototype).rar
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1994-08-09) (Prototype B).rar
NBA Action (1994-01-04) (Prototype).rar
NBA Action '95 (1994-11-18) (Prototype).rar
NBA Action '95 (1994-11-23) (Prototype A).rar
NBA Action '95 (1994-12-02) (Prototype B).rar
NBA Action '95 (1995-02-01) (Prototype) (alt).rar
NFL '95 (1994-08-12) (Prototype) (alt).rar
NHL All-Star Hockey '95 (1994-09-14) (Prototype).rar
NHL All-Star Hockey '95 (1994-12-01) (Prototype B).rar
Nightmare Circus (Prototype).rar
Ooze, The (1995-06-15) (Prototype).rar
Ooze, The (1995-06-22) (Prototype 104).rar
Ooze, The (1995-06-29) (Prototype B).rar
Ooze, The (1995-07-28) (Prototype) [Europe].rar
Phantasy Star 4 (1994-05-30) (Prototype).rar
Prince of Persia 2 - The Shadow and The Flame (beta).rar
Richard Scarry's Busytown (1994-07-21) (Prototype).rar
Richard Scarry's Busytown (1994-08-16) (Prototype B).rar
Road Rash 3 (alpha).rar
Shadowrun (1993-12-28) (Prototype).rar
Shadowrun (1994-01-25) (Prototype C).rar
Shanghai 2 - Dragon's Eye (beta2).rar
Ship (Unreleased).rar
Slam - Shaq vs the Legends (Prototype).rar
Sonic & Knuckles (1994-05-25-1528) (Prototype 0525).rar
Sonic & Knuckles (1994-06-05-2225) (Prototype 0606) [S2K chip].rar
Sonic 3C (1994-04-08-1729) (Prototype 0408).rar
Sonic 3D Blast (1996-07-03-1358) (Prototype 73).rar
Sonic 3D Blast (1996-08-15-0755) (Prototype 814).rar
Sonic 3D Blast (beta).rar
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (1992-09-18-1626) (beta4).rar
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (1992-09-26-0104) (rc).rar
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (1992-09-29-1033) (rc2).rar
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Early prototype).rar
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 [Argentinian Pirate].rar
Star Trek - The Next Generation (1994-01-03) (Prototype).rar
Story of Thor, The (1994-10-04) (Prototype).rar
Streets of Rage 3 (1994-03-08) (Prototype).rar
Streets of Rage 3 (1994-04-12) (Prototype) [Europe].rar
Sub-Terrania (1993-12-15) (Prototype).rar
Vectorman (1995-07-24) (Prototype).rar
Vectorman 2 (1996-08-15) (Prototype).rar
Virtua Fighter 2 (1996-08-19) (Prototype).rar
Wacky Worlds (1994-08-08) (Prototype).rar
World Championship Soccer 2 (1994-02-22) (Prototype G).rar
World Championship Soccer 2 (1994-02-23) (Prototype).rar
World Championship Soccer 2 (1994-02-28) (Prototype J).rar
World Championship Soccer 2 (1994-03-03) (Prototype N).rar
World Championship Soccer 2 (1994-03-03) (Prototype O).rar
World Championship Soccer 2 (1994-03-04) (Prototype P).rar
World Championship Soccer 2 (1994-03-09) (Prototype R).rar
World Championship Soccer 2 (1994-03-14) (Prototype U).rar
World Championship Soccer 2 (1994-03-18) (Prototype Y).rar
World Championship Soccer 2 (1994-03-29) (Prototype B).rar
World Heroes (1994-02-23) (Prototype).rar
World Heroes (1994-03-30) (Prototype) [Japanese].rar
World Heroes (1994-03-31) (Prototype B) [Europe].rar
World Heroes (1994-03-31) (Prototype) [Europe].rar
World Heroes (1994-04-20) (Prototype B) [Japanese].rar
World Series Baseball (1993-10-01) (Prototype).rar
World Series Baseball '95 (1994-12-28) (Prototype SB).rar
World Series Baseball '95 (1995-01-01) (Prototype TST).rar
World Series Baseball '95 (1995-01-14) (Prototype RM).rar
World Series Baseball '95 (1995-02-09) (Prototype B).rar
WWF Wrestlemania Arcade (alpha).rar
X-Men 2 - Clone Wars (1994-05-06) (Prototype).rar
X-Men 2 - Clone Wars (1994-12-11) (Prototype A).rar
X-perts (Prototype).rar
Young Indiana Jones - Instrument of Chaos (1993-12-28) (Prototype).rar
Young Indiana Jones - Instrument of Chaos (1994-09-23) (Prototype A).rar
Sega Pico:
101 Dalmatians (1996-05-21) (Prototype).rar
101 Dalmatians (1996-08-17) (Prototype B).rar
101 Dalmatians (1996-08-17) (Prototype J).rar
101 Dalmatians (1996-08-17) (Prototype U).rar
Berenstain Bears' A School Day (1994-12-20) (Prototype).rar
Crayola Crayons Create a World (1994-06-14) (Prototype).rar
Crayon Shinchan Oekaki Note (Prototype 1) [Japanese].rar
Dolucky no Oekaki House (Prototype) [Japanese].rar
Gakken no Obenkyou Soft Tasizan Hikizan (Prototype) [Japanese].rar
Heisei Kyouiku Iinkai Jr. (Prototype) [Japanese].rar
Heisei Ten Sai Baka Bon Minna De Famiri-Restutoranni-Kun (Prototype) [Japanese].rar
Huckle and Lowly's Busiest Day Ever (1994-03-02) (Prototype).rar
Huckle and Lowly's Busiest Day Ever (1994-04-26) (Prototype A).rar
Huckle and Lowly's Busiest Day Ever (1994-04-26) (Prototype B).rar
Huckle and Lowly's Busiest Day Ever (1994-04-26) (Prototype E).rar
Huckle and Lowly's Busiest Day Ever (1994-05-03) (Prototype C).rar
Huckle and Lowly's Busiest Day Ever (1994-05-03) (Prototype D).rar
Huckle and Lowly's Busiest Day Ever (1994-07-21) (Prototype) [French].rar
Kikansha Thomas Ni Notte (Prototype) [Japanese].rar
Lion King Adventure at Pride Rock (1995-04-19) (Prototype).rar
Mickey's Blast Into the Past (1994-06-08) (Prototype).rar
Musical Zoo (1994-12-20) (Prototype).rar
Musical Zoo (1995-02-17) (Prototype B).rar
Pepe's Puzzles (1995-02-10) (Prototype).rar
Pico Baseball (Prototype).rar
Pico Sampler (1996-06-07) (Prototype).rar
Pico Soccer Mezase Soccer Senshu (Prototype) [Japanese].rar
Snoopy no Gakugeikai (Prototype) [Japanese].rar
Sonic the Hedgehog's Gameworld (1996-06-01-1105) (Prototype).rar
Tails and the Music Maker (1994-06-03-0900) (Prototype 0601).rar
Tails and the Music Maker (1994-07-02-1716) (Prototype 701B).rar
Year at Pooh Corner (1994-06-08) (Prototype).rar
Year at Pooh Corner (Prototype).rar
Sega Saturn:
Judgement Force (1996-11-26) (Prototype).rar
JVC CD-ROM Emulator System (1.0a) (alpha).rar
Sega Saturn BIOS (1994-10-12) (beta).rar
Sega Saturn Test Menu 1.0f (1995-01-12).rar
Sonic 3D (2008-10) (Tech demo).rar
Sonic R (Prototype).rar
Sonic Xtreme (Tech demo) [JG-718].rar
Super Nintendo:
X (alpha).rar
X (Tech demo 1).rar
Nintendo Gameboy Advance:
Fire Emblem - Rekka no Ken (Prototype 0206) [Japanese].rar
Sony PSP:
Silent Hill Origins (Beta demo).rar
This list is not the final list, some releases may be added, changed or removed before the final post. If anyone has any additions to it please let me know.
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Post subject: Re: Huge console update on its way... Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:18 am
ohhh.. sweeeet .. especialy the startrek stuff
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zeehonden_3
Post subject: Re: Huge console update on its way... Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:54 am
Windows Neptune & Longhorn
Wow mrpijey becomes a kind of moderator of the ftp, and we have lots of huge updates with lots of new (or old) stuff! Thanks a lot!
Post subject: Re: Huge console update on its way... Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 2:06 pm
Great for the Hidden-Palace.org Update!
BTW, Getting any Dreamcast Stuff?
Yeah, most of it is from Hidden Palace, some is from my own TOSEC collection, and some is just my own stuff. It would be great to gather them all to the best beta site on the net, so here they come =).
And yes, I got four Dreamcast releases so far which I added after the post, these are:
Sonic Adventure (1999-06-03) (Limited Edition).rar
Sonic Adventure (1999-06-08) (E3 Demo).rar
Sonic Adventure 2 (2000-11-28) (Prototype).rar
They will be added with the above stuff.
All console stuff has been added to the FTP. Due to the listing size I had to split them into multiple posts.
zamadatix
Frozenport
Post subject: Re: Huge console update on its way... Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:46 pm
The Ephemeral between existance and non-existance: AKA "being"
Rhapsody, BeOS
DAMN YOU,
NOW I WON'T GET ANY SLEEP UNTIL I HAVE TESTED ALL OF THOSE!
Part Time Troll - HPC Enthusiast - Spelling Master - Old Fart
mrpijey wrote:
What about Panzer Dragoon Saga and Zwei?
Also, Sonic CD 510, 712, 806, 920.
Post subject: Re: Huge console update on its way... Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:37 am
I got Panzer Dragoon Saga and new Gamecube games on its way down, but as for the rest you need to either upload it to BA or point me to where to get it. The site doesn't have any search function so it will be hard to find them manually. I found only one Sega CD (Sega CD 806) which is already uploaded on BA. Sonic CD 920 is mentioned on the site, but I couldn't find any download link.
Update: I also noticed now that the torrents for Panzer Dragoon Saga and the Gamecube games are not seeded anymore, so I won't be able to get any complete releases from them either. If any member has any more betas not in this release then just send them up or post a working link and I'll grab them and add them to the collection.
Post subject: Re: Huge console update on its way... Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:23 pm
Thanks to constrictor and Zamadatix linking me to a few sites I've managed to download a few more prototype and unreleased roms for various consoles (+12GB more stuff ). They will be released shortly after I renamed and uploaded them to BA.
This is really amazing, im going to need a lot more time...
Thanks to constrictor and Zamadatix linking me to a few sites I've managed to download a few more prototype and unreleased roms for various consoles (+12GB more stuff ).
Does the roms include SNES roms? If not, I found some being seeded at the moment.
Yes it includes a bunch of SNES roms.
Here's a list of what I am uploading now:
Nintendo 64:
Toon Panic (Prototype).rar
Panasonic 3DO:
Decathlon (Prototype).rar
Orbatak (Prototype).rar
PC Games:
Corridor 8 - Galactic Wars (Beta).rar
Deadline (Unreleased).rar
Quake 0.8 (1996-06-11) (beta3).rar
Sega Dreamcast:
Ecco The Dolphin - Defender Of The Future (Prototype).rar
Half-Life (Prototype).rar
K-Project Rez (Prototype).rar
PBA Bowling 2001 (2003-10-06) (Prototype).rar
Penn & Teller's Smoke And Mirrors (Unreleased).rar
SonicCD (Prototype 510).rar
Aworg (Unreleased).rar
Fatal Labyrinth (Prototype).rar
MegaMind (Unreleased).rar
Pro Action Replay 2 2.1 (Unreleased).rar
Riddle Wired (Unreleased) [Japanese].rar
Robot Battler (Unreleased).rar
Sonic 3D Blast (Prototype).rar
Sonic Crackers (Prototype).rar
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Prototype).rar
Teddy Boy Blues (Unreleased).rar
Deep Fear (Unreleased).rar
Mortal Kombat 2 (Prototype) [Portuguese].rar
Panzer Dragoon Saga (1997-09-16) (Prototype).rar
Panzer Dragoon Saga (1997-11-30) (Prototype) [Incomplete].rar
Panzer Dragoon Zwei (1996-02-02) (Prototype).rar
Return Fire (1996-10-15) (Prototype).rar
Sega System32:
SEGASonic The Hedgehog (Prototype).rar
Sony Playstation:
Biohazard 2 (Prototype).rar
Silent Hill (1999-01-22) (Prototype).rar
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (Prototype).rar
Wipeout XL (1996-07-25) (Prototype).rar
Apocolypse 2 (Unreleased).rar
Batman Returns (Prototype).rar
Breath Of Fire 2 (Prototype).rar
BS Kirby no Omochabako - Pinball (1995-08-14) (Prototype) [Japanese].rar
Capcom's Soccer Shootout (Prototype).rar
Chou Makai Taisen! - Dorabocchan (1992-12-21) (Prototype) [Japanese].rar
Eurit (1995-05-24) (Prototype).rar
Fireteam Rogue (Prototype).rar
Justice League Task Force (Prototype).rar
Marvel Super Heros - War of the Gems (Prototype).rar
Mr. Bloopy Saves the World (Prototype).rar
Mr. Tuff (Prototype).rar
NBA Jam (Prototype).rar
NFL Football (Prototype).rar
Nightmare Busters (Prototype).rar
Pirates of Dark Water, The (Prototype).rar
Rap Basketball (Prototype).rar
Rockman 7 - Shukumei no Taiketsu! (Prototype) [Japanese].rar
Solstice 2 (1993-03-03) (Prototype).rar
Super Buster Bros (Prototype).rar
Sylvester And Tweety (Prototype).rar
Post subject: Re: Huge console update on its way... Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:39 pm
OK, goodies has been uploaded and released .
Guelph, ON, Canada
Nice set of games, I will probably snag those Doom prototypes.
Thanks to some members I got a new set to release soon, I'll post a list once I am done going through them all and repacking them.
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Posterior Capsulotomy in Cataract Complicated With Primary Posterior Capsule Opacification.
This is a two-arm, parallel group, open-label, randomized controlled trial to compare the visual acuity, visual quality, operative complications and the satisfaction of patients between primary posterior capsulorhexis group and laser capsulotomy group of cataract patients combined with primary posterior capsular opacification (PPCO).
RMOS Study : Impact of Manual Rotation of Occiput Posterior Position on Operative Delivery Rate (RMOS)
Introduction: The frequency of fetuses in occiput posterior position during labor is approximately 20 %, in which 5% remain occiput posterior at the end of labor. Occiput posterior position is associated with higher risks of caesarean deliveries and operative vaginal deliveries. The manual rotation to promote rotation from a posterior to an anterior position has been proposed to reduce the extraction rate. There is no randomised trial comparing the effect of manual rotat...
Surgical Management of Posterior Malleolar Fractures Using the Direct or Indirect Reduction Techniques
Patients with a posterior malleolar fracture were recruited and assigned to the direct reduction (DR) group or the indirect reduction (IR) group. Following reduction and fixation of the fracture, the quality of fracture reduction was evaluated in radiograph and CT images. Functional outcome was evaluated at the last follow-up.
Novel Technique of Pneumatic Posterior Capsulorhexis for Treatment and Prevention of Posterior Capsular Opacification
ABSTRACT PURPOSE: To evaluate a new technique of posterior capsulorhexis using air support to treat primary posterior capsular opacification (PCO) during cataract extraction surgery or to prevent post-operative PCO. SETTING: 1-Ophthalmology department, Faculty of medicine, Minia University, El-Minia, Egypt. 2- Security Forces Hospital, Ophthalmology Department, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. DESIGN: Prospective, randomized case-control comparative study. Methods: 10...
Efficiency of Neurostimulation of Tibial Nerve in the Treatment of Low Anterior Resection Syndrome
The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficiency of the Neuroestimulation of the Posterior Tibial Nerve for the treatment of this syndrome. A multicentric, prospective, randomized study will be performed in patients affected with severe LARS symptoms. Patients will be randomized in two groups: 1. Control group- placebo 2. Treatment group: neuroestimulation of the posterior tibial nerve
Exercise and Shoe Orthoses in Treatment of Posterior Tibial Tendon Dysfunction
Posterior tibial tendon dysfunction (PTTD) is the most common cause of painful and debilitating acquired flatfoot deformity in adults. The dysfunction is often progressive and may result in attenuation of the PTT and eventually collapse of the plantar arch or even rupture of the tendon. Current therapeutic management of PTTD is multipronged and includes management with foot orthoses, stretching, and strengthening exercises. Evidence drawn from research related to the managem...
Molar Intrusion in Open Bite Treatment
This experimental study will evaluate the effect of different methods for the molar intrusion (compared with the control group) in adolescent and adult patients with open bite malocclusion. The study sample will consist of 36 patients with anterior open bite. The sample will be randomly allocated into two experimental groups, in addition to a control group. The investigators will apply a modified version of the Open Bite Appliance (OBA), by Erverdi and Usumez, for all pa...
Cogmed for Working Memory After TBI
This study will examine a cognitive rehabilitation protocol targeted at working memory deficits for adults and children with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). In this randomized clinical trial, the efficacy of Cogmed, a cognitive rehabilitation protocol designed to improve working memory, will be examined in children with TBI. Neuropsychological and daily life functioning will be measured. Participants will be children (N=20) and adults (N=20) with a documented history of TBI. Part...
European Organisation of Research and Treatment (EORTC) Quality of Life Questionnaire (QLQ) Breast Cancer Module Update
The purpose of this study is to update the EORTC QLQ Breast (BR)-23 Module. Since the development of BR-23 published 1996 the standard therapy of breast cancer has changed. New therapies brought new side effects and different impact on QoL (quality of life) are not sufficiently covered by EORTC QLQ BR-23 and an update of the module could be useful, both from clinical and scientific point of view.
Ultrasound-guided Greater Occipital Nerve Block in Children Undergoing Posterior Fossa Craniotomy
Surgery within the posterior fossa is associated with the highest incidence and greatest severity of acute postoperative pain that may persist beyond the immediate postoperative period. The utilization of local nerve blocks of the scalp in children may provide analgesia with stable hemodynamics while reducing the need for other anesthetics such as inhaled anesthetics and opioids. This could in turn result in less side effects, higher patient and family satisfaction, and ...
Development of the Effectiveness of Rehabilitation Tools for Neurovisual Disorders in Patients With Posterior Cortical Atrophy
Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) is manifested by neuro-visual disorders that alter the spatial location of objects, their manipulation and/or recognition. Its etiology is most often neurodegenerative, with a major impact on the autonomy and mood of patients and their families. Few studies have focused on non-medication management of these disorders. The present study thus has a double objective: the development of a complete tool to work on the recognition, localization and/o...
Bariatric Surgery Study
The current study proposes an open clinical trial to investigate the effectiveness of a social functioning intervention on bariatric surgery outcomes and depression. The treatment will be administered in a group format over 10 weekly/biweekly sessions and will take place at the University of Washington Weight Loss Management Clinic (WLMC) at the Roosevelt Clinic location. Effects of the intervention will be measured with self-report questionnaires and by self-report of behavior...
Gait and Functional Outcomes Study Following Total Knee Arthroplasty With Medial-pivot or Posterior-stabilized Implants
MicroPort Orthopedics (MPO) is conducting this study to build upon the results of a previous study which showed the Medial Pivot (MP) system required lower quadriceps activation than subjects implanted with a Posterior stabilized (PS) system preforming the same activities of daily living. The propose of the current study is to determine the impact of Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) design on muscle activation following TKA surgery.
Identification of Risk Factors Causing Difficulty in Laryngeal Mask Insertion
Even if the laryngeal mask (LM) is considered a very safe device with a low incidence of complications there may be situations where it is difficult to insert. Therefore it seems appropriate to carry out a prospective observational study that will identify the risk factors relating to the positioning of LM for the purpose of identification and prediction of them. From reading the literature and from the opinion of the experts with extensive practice in airway management...
The Effectiveness of an Electronic Pain Management Programme (ePain) for Working Population With Chronic Pain
Pain in commonly found in working population. The working population who aged from 15 to 64 is the largest portion of population in Hong Kong. Also, the prevalence of chronic pain in this population group is high. The issue requires special attention. Researches demonstrated pain affects a person in a multidimensional way. Pain induces negative effects to both the physical and psychological aspects. The levels of depression, anxiety, stress are increased and quality of life is ...
Hot Water Irrigation in Posterior Epistaxis
This study was aimed to assess the efficacy and factors affecting the success of hot water irrigation in management of posterior epistaxis.
Trial of Prophylactic Manual Rotation of Persistent Occiput Posterior Presentation During the Early Second Stage of Labor to Reduce Operative Delivery: a Prospective Multicenter Randomized Control Trial
Superiority multicenter prospective randomized study on operative delivery (instrumental delivery or caesarean section) of prophylactic manual rotation in case of persistent occipital posterior presentation during the second stage of labor compared to expectant management. A 15% reduction of operative delivery (instrumental delivery or caesarean section) is attempt in the prophylactic manual rotation group.
Effectiveness of Rapid and Slow Maxillary Expansion in Treating Posterior Crossbite
This study will evaluate the efficacy of rapid maxillary expansion (RME) and slow maxillary expansion (SME) in treating posterior crossbite using cone beam computed tomography. The study sample will consist of 32 patients who suffer from a skeletal posterior crossbite. The sample will be allocated randomly into two groups: RME group and SME group. The skeletal and dento-alveolar changes occurring after treatment will be assessed by using cone beam computed tomography(CBCT) ra...
Working Memory Training for Chronic Neuropathic and Fibromyalgia Pain
The goal of this project is to investigate and improve executive control function in two distinct pain conditions, namely neuropathic pain and fibromyalgia (FM). It is hypothesized that there is a significant difference in the executive control function of patients with neuropathic pain and FM pain. It is also hypothesized that all participants with poor executive control functioning will report significant improvements in pain intensity, functioning and cognitive complaints fo...
Electrostimulation in the Treatment of Idiopathic Overactive Bladder
This is a clinical trial whose objective is to compare the efficacy of transcutaneous electrostimulation of the posterior tibial nerve with intravaginal electrostimulation in the treatment of women with symptoms of idiopathic overactive bladder. The volunteers will be randomly randomized into three study groups: posterior tibial group, vaginal group and control group. They are evaluated at three times: before the start of treatment, at the end of 6 weeks of treatment and after ...
CloudConnect: Predictive And Retrospective Clinical Decision Support For Chronic Disease Management
This study is to assess an approach of self-management called CloudConnect, evaluating the impact of CloudConnect Reports on patient engagement, adolescent/parent discussion, and clinical outcomes in adolescent Type 1 Diabetes (T1D).
A New Interdisciplinary Collaboration Structure to Improve Medication Safety in the Elderly
Suboptimal use of medications among geriatric patients is well-known problem and leads to medication errors, re-hospitalizations and death. By using a randomized controlled trial (RCT) design the investigators aim to explore a new inter-professional working structure. The working structure is based on the scientifically and clinically acknowledged integrated medicines management (IMM) model. The overall aim of the study is to explore the effect of the new working structure on t...
Health SMART (Stress Management and Relaxation Training) to Improve Vaccine Immune Response
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College Physics for the AP® Physics 1 Course
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College Physics for the AP® Physics 1 Course is the first textbook to integrate AP® skill-building and exam prep into a comprehensive college-level textbook, providing students and teachers with the resources they need to be successful in AP® Physics 1. Throughout the textbook you’ll find A...
College Physics for the AP® Physics 1 Course is the first textbook to integrate AP® skill-building and exam prep into a comprehensive college-level textbook, providing students and teachers with the resources they need to be successful in AP® Physics 1. Throughout the textbook you’ll find AP Exam Tips, AP® practice problems, and complete AP® Practice Exams, with each section of the textbook offering a unique skill-building approach. Strong media offerings include online homework with built-in tutorials to provide just-in-time feedback. College Physics provides students with the support they need to be successful on the AP® exam and in the college classroom.
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Real-world Case Studies at key content areas throughout the textbook invite students into the world of physics by asking them a question and showing them how using physics answers it.
Scaffolded Art and equations provide a visual narrative in the form of word bubbles that clearly break down important physics topics.
Worked Examples encourage strategic thinking by mirroring the approach that scientists take to solve problems by developing reasoning and analysis skills with their Set Up, Solve, and Reflect problem-solving strategy.
Now Work notes at the end of each Worked Example connect students to related problems in The Takeaway, the end-of-section review.
Powerful AP® Practice & Concept Review
AP® Exam Tips, written by a former Chief Reader, offer hints and tips on how to succeed on the AP® Physics 1 Exam.
AP® Skill Building problems appear in each Takeaway
AP® Extending Skills question appears in the end-of-chapter content, providing students with an opportunity to extend the AP® skills they’ve been developing throughout the chapter to a real-world situation (designed to be done as group work or as an individual challenge problem)
AP® Practice Problems at the end of each chapter allow students to practice solving the types of problems that they’ll see on the AP® Physics 1 exam.
Two full-length AP® Physics 1 Practice Exams found at the end of Chapters 9 and 15.
The Takeaway ends each section by outlining the important concepts students need to “take away” to ensure they understand the content. It is then followed by a set of end-of-practice problems presented in three tiers.
The Takeaway Practice problems (tier one) test student’s knowledge of The Takeaway’s summary points by putting the Takeaway concepts into practice. Easy cross references direct students back to the corresponding worked example if they need a little extra support when solving problems.
AP® Skill Building problems (tier two) include bolded verbs that correspond to terms and skills that students will need to demonstrate to be successful on the AP® exam.
AP® Skills in Action (tier three) problems ask students to put the skills they’ve been building into practice.
Chapter Review Questions test students on the concepts they’ve been learning throughout the chapter
The Visual Chapter Summary highlights key concepts and connects them to relevant equations or figures from the chapter. This is a great study tool.
Study with less Friction
You Will Learn To boxes at the start of each chapter highlight chapter learning goals that provide students with the scope of study. The same goals align with What Did You Learn? boxes that sit after the last section and tie each learning goal to the relevant chapter section, worked example, and end-of-section practice problem.
Equation in Words boxes translate complex equation topics into everyday language that all students can understand.
Need to Review? boxes provide on-the-spot notes that tell students where to find concepts to review or to study.
Watch Out! boxes draw students’ attention to important ideas that they need to remember as they read through the chapters.
The Glossary/Glosario gives students a handy guide to look up definitions of bolded terms from throughout the textbook. The side-by-side glosario is available for students who would benefit from Spanish-language support for their reading.
A Math Tutorial supports students who might need additional math review and support.
Answers to Odd Problems provide students with the opportunity to check their answers as they work through the practice problems.
"This book takes care of just about everything. I think it is a rich resource and it will provide a ready-made curriculum for the course. It organizes and illustrates a broad array of texts and focuses on skills and habits of mind."
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"When I read this, it's as through I'm looking at an ideal way of thinking about the way to choose balanced selections for any unit. There is a balance of classic to contemporary pieces, a balance of voices, and certainly the inclusion of all the visual pieces, as well as the speeches and non-fiction make this a prize!"
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-Christine Palmer, Air Academy HS, CO
The most compelling part of the book is the balance: classic and contemporary selections included, many world cultures represented, APⓇ Language and APⓇ Literature supported, and reading and writing strategies.
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I thought that the themes would be something that I would not use, but I take it back after seeing the actual readings. I think that I would use the whole book.
-Theresa Neman, Oak Ridge HS, TX
Because I am a huge proponent of inquiry-based instruction, I would say this book's biggest strength is that it incorporates this method of learning. A second strength would be that this book uses both familiar and new texts and authors to balance the skills between addressing needs for both literature and language. I especially like that these skills are grouped in the two conversations, preceded and followed by the Reader and Writer's Workshops. Brilliant structure!
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The materials are varied, and world literature is well-covered. The authors have considered what students will need to be prepared for APⓇ Lit/Lang classes. There is a good selection of non-fiction, as well as fiction and poetry.
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Gay Stewart; Roger A. Freedman; Todd Ruskell; Philip R. Kesten
Case Study: Laying the foundation for the successful study of physics
Chapter 1 Introduction to Physics
1-1 Scientists use special practices to understand and describe the natural world
1-2 Success in physics requires well-developed problem-solving skills utilizing mathematical, graphical and reasoning skills
1-3 Scientists use simplifying models to make it possible to solve problems; “object” will be an important model in your studies
1-4 Measurements in physics are based on standard units of time, length, and mass
1-5 Correct use of significant digits helps keep track of uncertainties in numerical values and uncertainty impacts conclusions from experimental results
1-6 Dimensional analysis is a powerful way to check the results of a physics calculation
Case Study: Kinematics
Chapter 2 Linear Motion
2-1 Studying motion in a straight line is the first step in understanding physics
2-2 Constant velocity means moving at a constant speed without changing direction
2-3 Velocity is the rate of change of position, and acceleration is the rate of change of velocity
2-4 Constant acceleration means velocity changes at a steady (constant) rate
2-5 Solving straight-line motion problems: Constant acceleration
2-6 Objects falling freely near Earth’s surface have constant acceleration
Chapter 3 Motion in Two or Three Dimensions
3-1 The ideas of linear motion help us understand motion in two or three dimensions
3-2 A vector quantity has both a magnitude and a direction
3-3 Vectors can be described in terms of components
3-4 Velocity and acceleration are vector quantities
3-5 A projectile moves in a plane and has a constant acceleration
3-6 You can solve projectile motion problems using techniques learned for straight-line motion
Case Study: Dynamics
Chapter 4 Forces and Motion I: Newton’s Laws
4-1 How objects move is determined by their interactions with other objects, which can be described by forces
4-2 If a net external force is exerted on an object, the object accelerates
4-3 Mass and weight are distinct but related concepts
4-4 A free-body diagram is essential in solving any problem involving forces, making one relies upon center of mass
4-5 Newton’s third law relates the forces that two objects exert on each other
4-6 All problems involving forces can be solved using the same series of steps
Chapter 5 Forces and Motion II: Applications
5-1 We can use Newton’s laws in situations beyond those we have already studied
5-2 The static friction force changes magnitude to offset other applied forces
5-3 The kinetic friction force on a sliding object has a constant magnitude
5-4 Problems involving static and kinetic friction are like any other problem with forces
5-5 An object moving through air or water experiences a drag force
Case Study: Circular Motion and Gravitation
Chapter 6 Circular Motion and Gravitation
6-1 Gravitation is a force of universal importance; add circular motion and you are on your way to explaining the motion of the planets and stars
6-2 An object moving in a circle is accelerating even if its speed is constant
6-3 For an object in uniform circular motion, the net force exerted on the object points toward the center of the circle
6-4 Newton’s law of universal gravitation explains the orbit of the Moon, and gives us an opportunity to introduce to the concept of field
6-5 Newton’s law of universal gravitation begins to explain the orbits of planets and satellites
6-6 Apparent weight and what it means to be “weightless”
Case Study: Energy
Chapter 7 Energy and Conservation I: Foundations
7-1 The ideas of work and energy are intimately related, this relationship is based on a conservation principle
7-2 The work done on a moving object by a constant force depends on the magnitude and direction of the force
7-3 Newton’s second law applied to an object lets us determine a formula for kinetic energy and state the work-energy theorem for an object
7-4 The work-energy theorem can simplify many physics problems
7-5 The work-energy theorem is also valid for curved paths and varying forces, and, with a little more information, systems as well as objects
7-6 Potential energy is energy related to reversible changes in a system’s configuration
Chapter 8 Energy and Conservation II: Applications and Extensions
8-1 Total energy is always conserved, but it is only constant for a closed, isolated system
8-2 Choosing systems and considering multiple interactions, including nonconservative ones, is required in solving physics problems
8-3 Energy conservation is an important tool for solving a wide variety of problems
8-4 Power is the rate at which energy is transferred into or out of a system or converted within a system
8-5 Gravitational potential energy is much more general, and profound, than our approximation for near the surface of Earth
Case Study: Momentum
Chapter 9 Momentum, Collisions, and the Center of Mass
9-1 Newton’s third law helps lead us to the idea of momentum
9-2 Momentum is a vector that depends on an object’s mass and velocity
9-3 The total momentum of a system of objects is always conserved; it is constant for systems that are well approximated as closed and isolated
9-4 In an inelastic collision some of the mechanical energy is dissipated
9-5 In an elastic collision both momentum and mechanical energy are constant
9-6 What happens in a collision is related to the time the colliding objects are in contact
9-7 The center of mass of a system moves as though all of the system’s mass were concentrated there
Case Study: Torque and Rotational Motion
Chapter 10 Rotational motion I
10-1 Rotation is an important and ubiquitous kind of motion
10-2 An extended object’s rotational kinetic energy is related to its angular velocity and how its mass is distributed
10-3 An extended object’s rotational inertia depends on its mass distribution and the choice of rotation axis
10-4 Conservation of mechanical energy also applies to rotating extended objects
10-5 The equations for rotational kinematics are almost identical to those for linear motion
10-6 Torque is to rotation as force is to translation
10-7 The techniques used for solving problems with Newton’s second law also apply to rotation problems
Chapter 11 Rotational motion II
11-1 Angular momentum and our next conservation law, conservation of angular momentum
11-2 Angular momentum is always conserved; it is constant when there is zero net torque exerted on a system
11-3 Rotational quantities such as torque are actually vectors
11-4 Newton’s law of universal gravitation along with gravitational potential energy and angular momentum explains Kepler’s laws for the orbits of planets and satellites
Case Study: Simple Harmonic Motion
Chapter 12 Oscillations and Simple Harmonic Motion
12-1 We live in a world of oscillations
12-2 Oscillations are caused by the interplay between a restoring force and inertia
12-3 An object changes length when under tensile or compressive stress; Hooke’s Law is a special case
12-4 The simplest form of oscillation occurs when the restoring force obeys Hooke’s law
12-5 Mechanical energy is conserved in simple harmonic motion
12-6 The motion of a pendulum is approximately simple harmonic
Case Study: Mechanical Waves and Sound
Chapter 13 Waves and Sound
13-1 Waves transport energy and momentum from place to place without transporting matter
13-2 Mechanical waves can be transverse, longitudinal, or a combination of these; their speed depends on the properties of the medium
13-3 Sinusoidal waves are related to simple harmonic motion
13-4 Waves pass through each other without changing shape; while they overlap, the net displacement is just the sum of that of the individual waves
13-5 A standing wave is caused by interference between waves traveling in opposite directions
13-6 Wind instruments, the human voice, and the human ear use standing sound waves
13-7 Two sound waves of slightly different frequencies produce beats
13-8 The frequency of a sound depends on the motion of the source and the listener
Case Study: Electric Charge and Electric Force
Chapter 14 Electrostatics: Electric Charge and Force
14-1 Electric forces and electric charges are all around you—and within you
14-2 Matter contains positive and negative electric charge, and charge is always conserved
14-3 Charge can flow freely in a conductor, but not in an insulator
14-4 Coulomb’s law describes the force between charged objects
14-5 Electric forces are the true cause of many other forces you experience
Case Study: DC Circuits
Chapter 15 DC Circuits
15-1 Life on Earth and our technological society are only possible because of charges in motion
15-2 Electric current equals the rate at which charge flows
15-3 The resistance to current flow through an object depends on the object’s resistivity and dimensions
15-4 Electric Energy (modified from 17-1 and 2, to just talk in terms of forces, not fields).
15-5 Electric potential difference between two points equals the change in electric potential energy per unit charge moved between those two points
15-6 Conservation of energy and conservation of charge make it possible to analyze electric circuits
15-7 The rate at which energy is produced or taken in by a circuit element depends on current and electric potential difference
Gay Stewart
Gay Stewart received her PhD in physics from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1994. She accepted a faculty position at University of Arkansas in 1994, where she focused on three interrelated issues: improving the introductory sequence to better prepare students to succeed in science and engineering degrees, improving the preparation of physics majors for the variety of career options open to physicists, and the preparation of future faculty, for both high school and professoriate. The undergraduate program saw dramatic improvement, with a 10-fold increase in number of graduates. She led UA’s efforts as one of the first six primary program institutions in the Physics Teacher Education Coalition, PhysTEC, which now has over 300 members. UA produces approximately one percent of the high school physics teachers with physics degrees nationally. Gay first received NSF support for her work in 1995. As a teaching assistant mentor, she developed a preparation program that grew into one of four sites for the NSF/AAPT “Shaping the Preparation of Future Science Faculty.” She was co-PI of an NSF GK-12 project that placed fellows in middle school mathematics and science classrooms. The results were so favorable that helping math and science teachers to work together was a component of the $7.3M NSF-MSP. Through the Noyce program she received $1,050,000 for support of students and master physics teachers. She chaired the College Board’s Science Academic Advisory Committee, co-chaired the Advanced Placement Physics Redesign commission, responsible for AP Physics 1 and 2, and the AP Physics 2 Development Committee. In 2014, Gay transitioned to WVU, where she is Eberly Professor of STEM Education and the founding director of the WVU Center for Excellence in STEM Education. The transdisciplinary Center works with faculty across STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and related disciplines at WVU, partner programs, and the WV Department of Education to enhance STEM education and STEM education opportunities in West Virginia, grades K-20. She is former president of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) and former member of the board of directors, council of representatives and the Committee on Education of the American Physical Society (APS). She is a Fellow of both the AAPT and the APS.
Roger Freedman
Dr. Roger A. Freedman is a Lecturer in Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
He was an undergraduate at the University of California campuses in San Diego and Los Angeles, and did his doctoral research in theoretical nuclear physics at Stanford University. He came to UCSB in 1981 after three years of teaching and doing research at the University of Washington. At UCSB, Dr. Freedman has taught in both the Department of Physics and the College of Creative Studies, a branch of the university intended for highly gifted and motivated undergraduates. In recent years, he has helped to develop computer-based tools for learning introductory physics and astronomy and has been a pioneer in the use of classroom response systems and the “flipped” classroom model at UCSB. Roger holds a commercial pilot’s license and was an early organizer of the San Diego Comic-Con, now the world’s largest popular culture convention.
Todd Ruskell
As a Teaching Professor of Physics at the Colorado School of Mines, Todd G. Ruskell focuses on teaching at the introductory level, and continually develops more effective ways to help students learn. One method used in large enrollment introductory courses is Studio Physics. This collaborative, hands-on environment helps students develop better intuition about, and conceptual models of, physical phenomena through an active learning approach. Dr. Ruskell brings his experience in improving students’ conceptual understanding to the text, as well as a strong liberal arts perspective. Dr. Ruskell’s love of physics began with a B.A. in physics from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. He went on to receive an M.S. and Ph.D. in optical sciences from the University of Arizona. He has received awards for teaching excellence, including Colorado School of Mines’ Alumni Teaching Award. Dr. Ruskell currently serves on the physics panel and advisory board for the NANSLO (North American Network of Science Labs Online) project.
Philip R. Kesten
Dr. Philip Kesten, Associate Professor of Physics and Associate Provost for Residential Learning Communities at Santa Clara University, holds a B.S. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his Ph.D. in high energy particle physics from the University of Michigan. Since joining the Santa Clara faculty in 1990, Dr. Kesten has also served as Chair of Physics, Faculty Director of the ATOM and da Vinci Residential Learning Communities, and Director of the Ricard Memorial Observatory. He has received awards for teaching excellence and curriculum innovation, was Santa Clara's Faculty Development Professor for 2004-2005, and was named the California Professor of the Year in 2005 by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education. Dr. Kesten is co-founder of Docutek, (A SirsiDynix Company), an Internet software company, and has served as the Senior Editor for Modern Dad, a newsstand magazine.
Chapter 7 Correlation Guide
Chapter 7 Pacing Guide
Chapter 7 & 8 Student Edition Sample
Chapter 7 & 8 Teacher's Edition Sample
Chapter 7 Alternate Examples
Model Rocket
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Work Done by Air Resistance on a Thrown Ball
Chapter 7 Bell Ringers
Chapter 7 Handouts
7.1 Working with Inclines Activity
7.2 Work Practice
7.3 Reasoning in Physics
Chapter 7 Laboratory Guide
Chapter 7 Lecture Slides- Energy and Conservation I:Foundations
Chapter 7 Solutions Manual
Chapter 7 Whiteboard Activities
Creating and Solving Energy Puzzles
Playing the Energy "Mistake Game"
Burning off Calories
Converting Kinetic Energy into Internal Energy
Escaping from the Solar System
8.1 Energy Bar Diagram Practice
8.2 Power Practice
8.3 Energy Comparison Task
8.4 Energy in Orbits
Chapter 8 Lecture Slides- Energy and Conservation II: Applications and Extensions
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Considerations for Modifying Partnership Agreements and LLC Operating Agreements in the Wake of the New Centralized Audit Regime
The centralized partnership audit regime was introduced in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (“BBA”). Significantly changing the procedures for partnership audits, the BBA provides for the assessment and collection of tax at the partnership level rather than with the individual partners. These centralized procedures are effective for IRS audits of partnerships (including LLCs taxed as partnerships) for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2018.
With this new audit regime in effect, existing partnerships and LLCs taxed as partnerships (collectively referred to as “partnerships”) should plan on revising their partnership or operating agreements (collectively referred to as “partnership agreements”) to account for the new procedures. Unfortunately, there is not a “one-size-fits-all” approach for these amendments. Thus, partners and LLC members (collectively referred to as “partners”) should evaluate which provisions make the most sense in light of the partnership’s size, operations, type of management, and types of partners, among other characteristics. This article will highlight the various factors partnerships should consider before making substantive changes to their partnership agreements to account for the new audit rules.
Tax Matters Partner
One of the more significant changes made by the new centralized regime is the replacement of the tax matters partner (“TMP”) under the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (“TEFRA”) with a new concept . . . and a new name – the “Partnership Representative.” Under TEFRA procedures, the IRS was able to make adjustments to certain “partnership items” in a single partnership-level proceeding with the TMP appointed to handle audit-related communications. However, only after the partnership-level proceeding was finalized could adjustments be made to the individual partners’ returns. Partners were also able to raise defenses on non-partnership items in separate partner-level proceedings.
The multi-level procedure of passing the adjustments through to the partners resulted in a lengthy and time consuming process that placed the burden of identifying the partners for the reviewed (i.e., audited) year on the IRS. The new procedures attempt to address this shortcoming by placing this burden on the partnership itself. Under the BBA, the IRS may both assess and collect at the partnership level, without pursuing the individual partners. Additionally, the new audit procedures do not distinguish among partnership items, affected items, computational adjustments, or non-partnership items.
The new regime’s effective date of January 1, 2018 means that partnerships in existence before the effective date must retain or include the TMP language in their partnership agreements, at least until the statute of limitations for audit expires for those tax years governed by TEFRA. Additionally, because it is uncertain whether the IRS or a court will find a person appointed as TMP to function as the Partnership Representative, partnerships in existence prior to the effective date of January 1, 2018 should be sure to both limit the TMP’s authority to tax years beginning before the effective date and appoint a Partnership Representative for tax years beginning on or after the effective date.
Tax return preparers should not assume that a partnership’s TMP for the 2017 tax year will be the same person appointed as Partnership Representative for the 2018 tax year. Since this appointment is made on the partnership’s tax return, members should ensure the return preparer is aware of this designation, as well as other potential elections that are desired to be made as a result of the new audit rules.
The Partnership Representative
The Partnership Representative is the sole individual (or entity) with the ability to act on behalf of the partnership in relation to the IRS. The Partnership Representative has significant authority to bind both the partnership and the partners in administrative proceedings and judicial actions. Partners do not have the ability to appeal or challenge the decisions of the Partnership Representative, but are still generally required to report consistent with the positions and allocations determined by the partnership.
While the broad authority of the Partnership Representative cannot be limited by the partnership agreement from the IRS’s perspective, provisions should be put in place to outline decision-making procedures and to require the Partnership Representative to follow such decisions. The following is a brief list of topics to consider when drafting provisions addressing the Partnership Representative:
Selection: Because of the significant authority vested in the Partnership Representative, care should be taken in this appointment and the partnership should include provisions either naming the Partnership Representative or providing a clear mechanism for appointing the Partnership Representative, especially in the event the Partnership Representative is removed, resigns or becomes incapacitated. Unlike the TMP, the Partnership Representative is not required to be a partner in the partnership.
Limits on Decision-making Authority: The partnership may want to include procedures for pre-approving the decisions of the Partnership Representative made in connection with an audit and establish communication requirements between the Partnership Representative and the partnership’s management or partners. While any such limitations are contractual in nature and not binding on the IRS, such procedures can provide additional protections for the partners.
Standards of Care and Indemnification: Standards of care and indemnification of managers and partners are functions of state law. Currently, there is no specific statutory indemnification of a Partnership Representative. However, with significant authority comes a great deal of risk for the Partnership Representative. Appropriate standards of care and indemnification provisions should be included in the partnership agreement in order to afford the Partnership Representative a certain level of protection from claims made by disgruntled partners or former partners.
Allocations and Contributions for Reviewed Years
Under the new regime, when a partnership is audited, the IRS divides items into groups and subgroups (e.g. ordinary income, long-term capital gain, deductions, long-term capital loss, etc.) and makes one set of adjustments at the partnership level. If the adjustment is positive for any of the groups, the IRS will then apply the highest tax rate in effect for the reviewed year to the net adjustment to arrive at the imputed underpayment.
Unless the partnership requests a modification or elects to push out the imputed underpayment to the partners (discussed below), the imputed underpayment must be paid by the partnership in the year the adjustment is finalized. What’s key is that the partners in the adjustment year may not be the same as those in the reviewed year, resulting in current partners bearing the cost of decisions in which they did not participate and that may have benefitted only former partners. Attorneys should consider the following when drafting provisions related to the allocation of adjustments to the partners:
Contribution Requirements: For audits of years beginning on or after January 1, 2018, if adjustments are made, the partnership agreement should provide for whether a former partner during the audited year should be responsible for contributing to the liability of the partnership, should one result from the audit. Otherwise, current partners will bear the cost for the entirety of the adjustment.
Amended Returns: Partnerships will need to decide whether or not to require current and/or former partners to file amended returns should the Partnership seek a modification of an imputed underpayment. A proper modification could reduce the imputed underpayment the partnership is required to pay.
Push-Out: Partnerships should consider whether or not to allow the Partnership Representative to make a push-out election for any reviewed tax year. If the election is made, the partnership would no longer be responsible for the imputed underpayment. Rather, the reviewed year partners (which could include former partners) will bear the costs of adjustments for that year, and calculate their share of tax, interest, and penalties. Proposed Regulations have been issued that contain specific timing and procedural requirements in order to make an effective “push-out” election.
Information Sharing: In addition to information sharing between the Partnership Representative and the partners, the partnership agreement should also provide for certain information the partners should be required to share with the Partnership Representative. Such a requirement is particularly important if the reviewed year partners are no longer associated with the partnership and the partnership desires to leave open the possibility of making a future push-out election.
Electing Out
Regulations finalized on January 2, 2018 provide that a partnership may opt out of the centralized audit regime if it both qualifies as an eligible partnership and makes a valid election on a timely-filed tax return. Partnerships that make a valid election will not be audited at the partnership level under the centralized regime. Rather, any adjustment relating to the partnership’s return would be made through an audit of any or all of the partners in separate partner-level proceedings, in accordance with pre-TEFRA law.
To be an eligible partnership, the partnership must (1) have 100 or fewer partners and (2) all partners must be eligible partners at all times during the taxable year. Whether a partnership has 100 or fewer partners is determined by the number of statements (Schedules K-1 (Form 1065)) the partnership is required to furnish under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. An eligible partner is defined as any person who is an individual, C corporation, “eligible foreign entity,” an S corporation, or an estate of a deceased partner.
The regulations’ narrow eligibility requirements limit the number of partnerships that are able to elect out of the centralized audit regime. Thus, partnerships that are currently eligible to elect out and desire to maintain that eligibility should consider amending their agreements to impose restrictions on the number and types of new partners. Further, the partnership agreement should provide whether or not such election should be made and the person responsible for making it.
Final Considerations
Although the new partnership audit rules went into effect on January 1 of this year, the IRS has finalized only one set of regulations, which govern the eligibility and procedures for electing out. Several other sets of regulations have been proposed; however, until the regulations are finalized, uncertainty remains as to how the IRS will interpret and enforce the new regime. Thus, partnerships and their advisors should consult with a tax attorney to ensure they have the most current information before amending their partnership agreements. Furthermore, newly formed partnerships should include in their partnership agreements appropriately tailored provisions addressing the centralized partnership audit regime, as discussed above.
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Alvarado prepared to box and slug with Rios tonight
Bill Phanco - March 30, 2013
Tonight in a battle of Top Rank sluggers on HBO, light welterweight Mike Alvarado (33-1, 23 KO’s) and Brandon Rios (31-0-1, 23 KO’s) will be fighting in a rematch at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The fight has a lot riding on it for the 26-year-old Rios because his promoter Bob Arum wants to put him in bigger fights next against Manny Pacquiao, Juan Manuel Marquez or Tim Bradley.
There’s less of an upside for the 32-year-old Alvarado because Arum hasn’t been vocal about wanting to put Alvarado in with Pacquiao, Marquez or Bradley if he beats Rios. It’s likely he’ll put Alvarado back in with Rios in a third fight immediately to give his highly hyped Rios a chance to redeem himself so that Arum can move him in against his better known Top Rank stable fighters.
Alvarado said to RingTV “I’m ready to box, I’m ready to brawl, I’m ready to do whatever it takes to win.”
It’s widely believed that if Alvarado makes the decision to slug with Rios like last time in October last year, Alvarado will be lucky if he makes it to the midpoint of the fight.
Indeed, Rios is predicting that he’ll get Alvarado out by the 5th round, and he doesn’t believe that he’s capable of fighting a disciplined fight where he boxes for 12 rounds.
ESPN analyst Teddy Atlas thinks Alvarado doesn’t have the boxing skills to fight on the outside, saying last night on ESPN “When he was boxing on the outside that’s when Alvarado got hurt with a right hand because he has a flaw in boxing, and unless he gets that corrected he’s going to get knocked out again. When he jabs from the outside, he jabs from too close.”
Given that Alvarado has been fighting with the same style his entire 9-year pro career without his trainers pulling him aside to fix his glaring defects in his game it’s not likely they will have done anything to fix it for this fight. That’s on Alvarado and Top Rank for not finding trainers that can fix his flaws because the move should have been done ages ago when it was clear that Alvarado gets hit way too much for a guy as tall and as big as he is.
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If disruption is sexy, is stability substance?
Sanjay Mehta
Joint CEO, Mirum (India)
Mirum India
Sanjay.Mehta@mirumagency.com
The last decade has seen more technology-led business disruption than we might have seen in the five decades prior! Uber, Airbnb, Swiggy, Ola, Paytm, Practo, and many more new entrants have disrupted earlier business models in their respective categories. And there is also disruption happening in traditional industries, from within more established businesses.
So guess what gets the headlines, day after day?
It’s these disrupting models and businesses.
Because disruption is sexy! It is attractive. It is fun to read about, see, and experience. Investors love it, and consumers do too. Employees want to work at such places, and the media, of course, totally laps it up.
Disruption is usually associated with startups, as these outfits are seen to possess a unique agility and a significant bent towards innovation. Disruption is also associated with out of the box thinking. Technology may be an integral part of such disruption. But not always.
Consider, for instance, how a direct-to-consumer model of sales or of distribution – in an industry that been running largely on a trade-based model – could also be a form of disruption. Executing that model well, shaving off costs, and emerging successful could be termed as being disruptive even in the absence of technological innovation.
So: in this ultra-competitive world, at a time when innovation and technology have become essential jargon in organizations, is disruption the only way to go?
What about organizations that do not necessarily “disrupt,” but which continue to deliver a reliable performance tirelessly? Are they at risk? Are they simply not sexy enough?
Well, for starters, let’s remember that a lack of disruptive changes can be associated with two kinds of businesses. First, there are the kind that are doing a fair bit of heavy lifting, and doing it efficiently as well. And then there are those that are, in fact, stuck in a state of inertia.
To be clear then, if a company is not being seen as “disruptive,” that does not necessarily mean that it is not innovating. For a company like Southwest Airlines in the U.S. to deliver good airline performance quarter after quarter, it needs to be constantly tweaking its operational model, constantly looking at ways to save money, and constantly finding efficiencies. Doing this requires innovation at its core. However, on the outside, one may not see such changes as greatly innovative, and hence a company like Southwest has no reputation of being disruptive. In reality, the truth is in the company’s results: without innovation, and without being obsessively efficient, a company like Southwest could not possibly stay on top as a leader!
So it goes with companies like Southwest Airlines, the Tata Group, HDFC Bank, and many others – companies that may not be trumpeting their disruptive strategies every quarter, but that are proving their innovation bona fides through their reliable operations and their ability to achieve stability through evolution.
Of course, there are also companies that are not known as disruptive, and that are, in fact, not changing or innovating behind the scenes, either. They are in a state of inertia, and times will definitely be tough for them! Such a state of inertia cannot be mistaken for stability or substance. If anything, it is a state of laziness or aversion to change, and perhaps one of denial. There hardly exists a business or a category today that can afford to be complacent, to not keep evolving and transforming.
One more provocative question we must confront: Are all efforts of disruption necessarily good?
There is huge peer pressure that sometimes drives efforts towards disruption. Others are doing dramatic things. How can we not do them too?
Unfortunately, the mere fact that others are innovating and disrupting may not be reason enough for one’s own brand to pursue these ends – at least absent an informed plan. Efforts towards disruption that are not planned and executed well can often lead a company into trouble. Investing big in a new, as-yet-unproven technology, and sinking big money behind it, could be a recipe for disaster. Projects of this kind are big cash suckers. They don’t stop with the initially earmarked budget, but have a tendency to demand more and more resources. And having committed decent budgets to these efforts, it is hard for an organization to back out and stop funding it. Instead, more cash usually gets drawn out of that part of a business which is already profitable, and that decrease in cash (as well as drawn-away management bandwidth) can put a brand’s profitable business segments under tremendous pressure.
Thus, we arrive at our conclusion. Mindless attempt towards disruption are not good. But neither are complacency or a lack of innovative thinking, no matter if they are disguised by an outwardly “stable” business.
The other two situations – successful disruption, as well as innovation-based, efficiently-run stable business – are both good and necessary for the economy. The former provides the impetus to transformation, and the latter keeps the engines of substance running.
Jt. CEO, Mirum (India)
Disruption is sexy! And while it’s usually associated with technology, it’s not always so.
Innovation is essential for such disruption. However, innovation is also essential for a companies pursuing efficient stability.
Stability cannot be construed to mean inertia. If a company does not embrace change in today’s times, it will certainly have a challenge on its hand.
Not all efforts towards disruption are good. If not smartly thought through and planned, disruption gone awry can result in a lot of pain!
The right combination of businesses includes ones that disrupt successfully, as well as those that provide stability in efficient, innovative ways.
How to achieve stability in this age of zero brand loyalty
Is disruption a necessity for brand stability?
Is stability different for a brand that's “Two” and a brand that’s “Twenty”?
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Prediction: VDI will be ready for wholesale desktop replacement in 2010. Here's how we'll get there.
NOTE: This article was written over a year ago. Since posting this original, I've also posted a half-way point follow-up in June 2009 to see how my predictions are coming out far.
Brian Madden
NOTE: This article was written over a year ago. Since posting this original, I've also posted a half-way point follow-up in June 2009 to see how my predictions are coming out far.)
Today, VDI is a niche solution. What's keeping VDI from taking over all enterprise desktops? There are four basic technical capabilities that are required for it to become mainstream:
Single disk image for many users
Remote display protocols that are indistinguishable from local
Local / offline VDI
Broader compatibility for app virtualization
All four of these are coming very soon. In fact, they'll all be in-place and mature in the next 24 months. Let's take an in-depth look at each of these technical capabilities that are still required:
Requirement #1. Single disk image for many users
VDI is fundamentally about regaining control of enterprise desktops. In traditional dekstop environments, each desktop has its own hard drive and therefore its own unique disk image. With VDI, you pull all of these enterprise desktops into your datacenter. Do you really want to manage one disk image for each user? Of course not. From a fanancial model (in terms of SAN storage and Patch Tuesday efforts) it doesn't even start to make sense.
But what if you only had to manage one single "gold" master image that all users would share?
All users sharing a single master image? Sound impossible? Sure, it sounds impossible the first time you hear it. But remember that this is exactly how Terminal Server works today. Every single user loads the same generic desktop when they connect to a server. Then we use app streaming and roaming profiles and login scripts to customize that generic desktop for the user. The same will apply in the VDI space.
Why this will be solved by 2010
Citrix Provisioning Server / Ardence already solves this problem today (as it has for years). So we don't need to wait for 2010 for this technology to be real.
Beyond Citrix, VMware demoed some technology called "Scalable Virtual Images" (or "SVI") at VMwold Cannes this past January. SVI is VMware's version of this concept, where a single disk image is shared by multiple VMs at the same time. (This differs from VMware's current shipping approach, where a full "clone" must be made of the master, so each VM is one-to-one with their respective clone.)
In addition to these technologies handling the actual mounting / mapping of disk images, they also handle the mechanics and logistics needed for multiple running machines to share the same disk image. At a minimum, they must take care of things like the fact that each machine needs its own computer name and SID. Ardence handles this by intercepting disk calls and pulling requests for registry keys containing SID and computer name details from a database instead of the actual shared image. VMware's current solution is to sysprep the master, but this leads to a somewhat involved process for the creation of each clone (as sysprep was designed for deploying permanent physical PCs instead of VM disk images).
What we'll see moving forward is something akin to "fast sysprep," where the VDI companies identify which disk blocks in the disk image file contain the key information (again, SID and computer name, for example). Then when a new VM needs to boot from the master image, the "fast sysprep" (or whatever you want to call it) will simply and almost instantly "pre-create" a disk delta file that's just a few kilobytes in size from a central database that has the initial customizations of the master that machine needs to boot up.
To make this 100% transparent to the guest VM, this would need to still be done at the disk block-level. This would mean that these delta files would be invalidated every time the master image was updated, but since they can be created instantly and on-demand, this is not a problem.
Requirement #2. Remote display protocols that are indistinguishable from local
I've also written in-depth on this in the past. The short version is that right now, we have two ways for delivering applications: (1) Terminal Server / Citrix XenApp, and (2) local / the "old school" way. Why aren't we delivering 100% of our apps via Terminal Server or SBC? One of the reasons is that today's mainstream display remoting protocols just aren't there yet. There are some apps that are too graphically-intense that just won't work via ICA or RDP.
By 2010, all of the VDI products will have remote display protocols that are indistinguisable from local computing.
Qumranet's Spice protocol is 100% real and available today (albeit only as part of their Solid ICE VDI product). Teradici's PC-over-IP chip-based hardware is real and 100% available today. Both of these protocols support all types of apps with performance characteristics that are indistinguishable from local computing (given enough bandwidth).
There are two more promising protocols on the horizon. One would think (hope?) that Microsoft's acquisition of Calista would produce a baseline RDP product with some phenominal capabilities that are real within the next 24 months. We also have VESA's Net2Display. While that's been delayed several times, hopefully that's also real in some form in the next two years.
The bottom line with regard to protocols is that with what's real today and what's coming soon, this should be a general capability that's available to whomever needs it in June 2010.
Requirement #3. Local / offline VDI
Today's VDI solutions are server-based computing (SBC) solutions. Sure, they're connecting to Windows XP instead of Terminal Server, but fundamentally they're still SBC.
But what if we can run a hypervisor or VMM locally on a client device? What if we can run our Windows XP VM locally? This does two great things for us:
We don't have to worry about the protocol problem as outlined in Requirement #2.
We can potentially run the VM offline, removing the single biggest downside of SBC.
Remember, SBC has many advantages. Central management, instant access from any client, great performance for three-tier apps, and "eyes-only" security. Running a Windows XP VM locally is not SBC and is not appropriate for all scenarios, but, where SBC-solutions don't work, being able to extend an existing SBC-based VDI solution into the local / offline world will be huge.
VMware has had their ACE product for years that was a basic version of this. At VMworld Cannes earlier this year, VMware demonstrated what they're calling "OVDI," or "offline VDI." Think of OVDI as what happens when VDI and ACE have a baby. You can right click and "take offline" a remote VDI instance. You can run it locally, offline, reboot it, etc. When you're back in the office, you can right click and "take online," syncing your disk image deltas up to the server.
This OVDI concept is not pie-in-the-sky "someday" technology. This is actual prototype stuff that we saw running live at VMworld.
Another positive factor we have in this space is the fact that Microsoft bought Kidaro this past March. Kidaro was a management wrapper for Microsoft Virtual PC that gave it a lot of ACE-like abilities. At this point there's nothing to synchronize Kidaro with on the backend, but I'm sure Redmond is up to something.
Qumranet announced "Splice" last week at BriForum, which is technology meant to help move VDI instances closer to users in WAN environments.
Even though all of these are just basic sets of functionality or just prototypes, there's enough going on in this space now to know that this will be solved in a big way by June 2010.
Requirement #4. Broader compatibility for app virtualization
One of the real benefits of local PCs today is that power users can install whatever apps they want. This is not possible in a Terminal Server environment since a single app would potentially be available for everyone and potentially really screw up the system. Sure, admins can use remote application delivery (seamless apps delivered via ICA from XenApp) or application streaming (SoftGrid / Symantec SVS / Citrix Streaming / VMware ThinApp / etc.), but there are two problem with these technologies today that are preventing widescale VDI replacement of physical PCs:
Not all applications are compatible with the app virtualization / streaming products of today.
Today, only admins can package apps for virtualization. There is no "user self-packaging" option.
Solving both of these app virtualization problems will enable Requirement #1 listed above because we'll be able to truly operate the desktop as a "layered stack," with the OS layer provided via VDI, and then the apps and user environment layered on top of that.
Why these will be solved by 2010
In terms of broader app compatiblity with app virtualization technologies, that's just a slow march towards an ultimate goal, with more and more apps becoming compatible day-by-day, month-by-month.
With regards to "user self-packaging" of apps, one of the downsides of today's app virtualization products is that only admins can package, prepare, and/or approve the apps ahead of time. If we want to truly give power users the power to control their own environment, we need to let them install their own apps. Unfortunately the whole "sharing a single master disk image" thing is fundamentally not compatible with users being able to install their own apps.
But what if the user environment management products were smarter? What if the app virtualization products were smarter?
The way that many applications are packaged for virtualization or streaming or isolation environments today is that an admin goes to a "clean" machine, clicks "record" in the packaging software, installs the application, and clicks "done" in the packaging software. Then the packager bundles up all the registry changes and files that were added into the package that's to be distributed.
But what if the user environment product could put the entire user's session in "record" or "package" mode? Then the user could install some random application whose settings could be abstracted out into a "personal applications" layer of the stack.
I don't know of any products that do this today, but many of these things are getting close. I don't think this would be too far of a jump.
(For what it's worth, this might not be a hard requirement if you believe in the employee-owned PC concept, as in those cases you could limit the corporate VM to centrally-managed apps.)
Why June 2010? Why not June 2009 or December 2008?
We have four key technical capabilities that must be in-place before companies can start the wholesale replacement of "old school" desktops and laptops with VDI-based desktops and laptops. Many of these technical capabilities are available in one form or another today, and many others will be available a lot sooner than June 2010. So why am I predicting that this will take 24 months to shake out? Several reasons:
First, VDI is bleeding edge today. Sure, there are some interesting and specific use cases that make sense. But no one is really going to VDI for general desktop computing across-the-board. So let's say that Citrix or VMware or Microsoft enables one of these key technical capabilities in the next few months. Do you want to be the first to implement this and see what happens? Really there's no hurry. Are your current desktops burning a whole in your pocket? Is there any real reason to replace everything you have now?
This space is going to change so much over the next two years. If VMware releases some cool feature, you know Citrix will one-up them, then VMware will respond, etc. Plus, all of these technical capabilities that come out over the next 6-9 months are all going to be v1 things. So we made it this far with the dual technology (old school local + TS-based Citrix) apps. Why not wait a few more months or a year?
There is no pressure to be bleeding edge. Don't be tempted to jump on the VDI train right now (unless of course you have a specific tactical reason to use VDI today). Save your money. Take a year off.
Second, most people are waiting for Windows 7. Even in June 2008 (18 months after Vista), people just aren't deploying Vista in a big way. At this point, people are happy enough with Windows XP. I can't tell you how many conversations I've had with companies over the past year where they basically say, "We're skipping Vista and waiting for Windows 7. And when we do Windows 7, we're not going to do it in the same way that we've done things all these years.
In June 2010, Windows 7 will be out. The four major VDI problems will be solved. Everything will be in place to do VDI in a big way.
June 2010 - June 2013
Beyond June? Second-half 2010 and into 2011? This is when VDI seats surpass SBC seats. By 2012 / 2013, we're seeing VDI seats surpass the number of "old" seats in enterprise environments.. 300m VDI clients by 2013.
A quick note about Terminal Server versus VDI
Once this VDI thing takes off in a few years, we probably won't see many published desktops in TS environments, because the advantages that you get with TS over VDI will largely by gone.
However, using TS as a basis for XenApp seamless apps delivered via SBC is a huge use case. VDI is about desktops. XenApp is about apps. This mainstream VDI thing will largely replace managed desktops. But many of those desktops will receive their apps (or links to apps) via traditional SBC. (And by the way, the better quality remoting protocols will just help TS-based app delivery be that much stronger.)
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MartinIngram - 23 Jun 2008 7:57 PM
There are a few of additional things that I see need to be solved such as licensing in virtualized environments but I can see this getting solved as customer pressure builds.
It is amazing to see how quickly we are moving with VDI - look back 6-12 months and all discussion was far less focussed than your 4 points above. Back then it was VDI vs. TS and 'does this make any sense'. Where we have got to is an understanding of how we will do VDI and that it involves multiple delivery technologies used together.
What we see from our customers is that the next two years will be about pilots moving to early implementations and nailing the management of this stuff.
Martin Ingram,
lmayhead - 23 Jun 2008 8:31 PM
Agree with all the comments here but still see nothing that is going to change the basic maths that XenApp is going to be cheaper (for some groups of users) then either XenDesktop or VMware. I understand all the issues around application compatibility etc that comes with XenApp but for environments such as call centres where large numbers of users need a simple desktop it is always going to be a cheaper option. Unless anyone can explain to me why this may not be the case ?
Cheers Les
CCaronan - 23 Jun 2008 8:34 PM
If Brian is correct and VDI will replace TS-delivered desktops, what are the advantages of delivering apps to virtual desktops via TS over delivering apps using ThinApp or Softgrid?
Brian Madden - 23 Jun 2008 8:48 PM
Maybe this response requires its own article, but remember that server-based computing gives us four advantages. (This is stolen directly from Citrix's 1997 marketing literature.):
Management (centralized installs, etc.)
Access (from any device)
Performance (for three-tier apps)
Security (data stays in the datacenter)
The future VDI that I lay out (Call it VDI+ or something) could be server-based or client-based. In the case of client-based VDI, there will still be specific applications and use cases where server-based seamless apps will make sense. So really, for individual apps, you have to look at what the specific scenario is. Some apps will have data access requirements that will dictate them to be served seamlessly via SBC into a VDI+ desktop, and some apps will not so they can be streamed into the VDI+ desktop to run "locally" on it. (Wherever that "locally" is...)
Agree 100%. We will never have a monolithic solution, and for very narrow niche tasked-based whatevers, TS-based desktops might still make sense.
On thing that's interesting is that I think the cost delta between the hardware needed to serve a TS-based desktop and a VDI-based desktop will continue to decrease--possibly even to the point that it's not a significant factor in the architecture decision process. Things like more cores and more memory that TS can't really deal with, advancements in hypervisors that better leverage memory sharing and CPU scheduling across VMs, and increasing application requirements that run in every session on a TS (.NET Framework in EVERY SINGLE session!!) will help push this delta down.
Brian when you mention the personal application part of the stack. Gartner refers to this as the 'Bubble'. An example product is mojopac by ringcube.
lmayhead - 23 Jun 2008 10:05 PM
A comment or question on the issue of a single disk image for all users. My understanding is that any VDI type solution will be built up of "building blocks" or clusters. This is dependant on the number of VM that can be run on an ESX / Xenserver and the number of those servers that can co exist in a cluster - for instance VMware can host 128 VM per ESX server and can support 32 ESX servers per cluster. This gives you a cluster size of about 4000 users. If you are designing a large VDI solution - say 20K users then you will need 5 - 6 clusters depending on load, fail over etc. Each cluster has its own provisioning servers - I think 5 per cluster is the number for XenDesktop. Therefore you no longer have a single image but rather 5 or 6 distributed across different clusters. Is this an issue ? i'm not sure ... the images are just files so can be copied and distributed easily using standard scripts or management tools. My point / question is that as neither of the main vendors - VMWare and Citrix seemed to have addressed this issue. Is it therefore not an issue or is there a simple solution to this perceived issue.
Shawn Bass - 23 Jun 2008 10:33 PM
Don't forget that VDI is exactly the same as TS with respect to multiple instances of the .NET Framework across sessions. Plus you've got the baggage of all the other OS processes (which are at least shared on TS).
CCaronan - 23 Jun 2008 11:34 PM
I agree with many of your points Brian. However, I believe that VDI adoption will be faster, and this will be due to major pricing adjustments on the hypervisor end of things. in about 6 months from now, when Hyper-V begins to gain traction VMware will have been forced to slash their pricing dramatically. Hyper-V will make virtualization, inclluding VDI, a viable option for most businesses (opposed to VMware that is not typically deployed by SMB). There are obvious benefits of VDI to SMB market such as eliminating the cost/effort of PC's and support.
we are seeing a large number of VDI pilots taking place already and I am pegging that VDI will become a real feasible option for many businesses within the next 6 months.
CCaronan - 24 Jun 2008 1:00 AM
What about the profile solution? Or do you think Citrix UPM is mature enough?
This goes for all of you...You've lost long ago. Do your control stuff in your nearast S&M club.
/15+ years in the industry./Coward Lion
sorry - that comment was intended for Brian. Brian - I think #5 should be profile solutions are not mature. But what do you think? Do you think Citrix UPM or another product (AppSense, RTO, etc) are mature enough TODAY?
Brian, I agree with those being the top 4 issues that need to be solved in order to get VDI into the next level of large adoption. What about the datacenter issue? In most firms, in particularly the financial sector dc space is at a premium and we're competing for the same space with the core applications that run the buisness. We also probably need to promote a different types of dc for VDI purpose. I don't think we need a high tier dc for the purpose of running a desktop image. Thoughts?
mattkosht - 24 Jun 2008 6:24 AM
Brian great article. I agree with your 2010 prediction. I think there are some other factors putting VDI in the drivers seat are advancements in hardware and OS (hypervisor). In 2 more years a 16 core/32GB RAM server will be dirt CHEAP and ENTRY LEVEL. Couple this with vastly more scalable 64 bit hypervisors that can exploit them and the arguments about "user density" shrink pretty rapidly in this scenario. All the pieces are in play now. I echo that with 2 more years to coalesce. TS will start to fade away. We have real competition in this arena which I think will produce far more innovation than the Citrix/Microsoft monopoly on TS.
Exactly. Big difference of virtualized desktops in a TS/Citrix environment than a VM. As now you are talking about individual OS's & all the services and processes that go with it (not to mention device drivers, virtual NIC's etc)
2010 might be realistic, but one wildcard that wasn't discussed is the applications themselves. PC's have become extremely powerful for what they cost today - the result? Bloated and resource hungry applications. Just look at the difference between Adobe Acrobat Reader 6 vs 7, Office 2k vs 2k7, IE6 vs 7 (with MM plug-ins). Point being, how many VDI's with this typical application mix, designed to run on a current-day PC (dual core 1MB, 2.00GHz, 800FSB; 1GB DDR2; and a GPU with at least a 350MHz RAMDAC and 128MB graphics memory) are you going to be able to run with similar performance? My guess? Not too many.
Ahhh you could with Parrallels Virtuozzo. That was one of the coolest things I got from this years Briforum (session: Hardware virtualization versus OS virtualization). I just wish that Parallels was there to talk more about this product.
Another aspect that I believe needs to be addressed in VDI is graphics performance. As we have seen with VISTA and will see with Windows 7, the UI is becoming more graphic intensive and 3D. Today VDI does not support any sort of hardware acceleration for graphics performance so this all has to be done on the CPU, causing higher resource usage an the host system, and poor performance. It doesn't matter is you are in an online or offline VM, today you only get software rendering.
That was mentioned in Requirement #2.
Brian Cahill - 24 Jun 2008 11:35 PM
If I have a single disk image at my data center and want to deploy that to bare metal via Provisioning Server for Desktops, there are some obvious bandwidth issues. Some of this can be solved by using the ICA portion of XenDesktop but as mentioned in the Technical FAQ from Citrix, PortICA is not the same as ICA. There are limitations. So if I want to leverage provisioning at remote sites, would a WANScaler help me achieve my goal?
http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/qa.asp?contentID=163057&faqID=1340768&title=Citrix+XenDesktop%2C+Technical+FAQ
Dave Caddick - 24 Jun 2008 11:48 PM
Matt - you may be right, but in 2 years time it could be that the entry level PC is also up to 4 - Gb RAM plus Quad Core CPU just to run the new v5 Adobe CS? ;-)
Dave Caddick - 25 Jun 2008 12:03 AM
Chaps, Brian's comment was about the display protocol getting the images from A to B, I think you'll find the above point still valid.
Unless somethnig radical happens witht he way Developers code their apps (i.e the ability for the app to run "sans" graphics card, and effectively run optimised headless, knowing that their output is only going as far as the vide buffer) and even this may not be enough then we are still facing having to engineer or architect our way past 10 - 15% of applications that have a heavy graphics load.
Just think of things like Autocad, Creative Suite, Video Editing, GIS products, etc. - all of these have a heavy graphics *output* - regardless of how cute you get that info still has to arrive at the users device, and in some cases with Medical applications the FDA insists that the full content must be sent to the client.
So from where I sit the graphics load is still going to be an issue - it may be less over the next year or two - but it will still be something that represents a hurdle to be overcome.
During the recent Citrix Synergy here in Sydney I did quiz one of the Citrix XenServer specialists over from the US and he did intimate that something like a GPU Hypervisor was under discussion.
scrybe - 25 Jun 2008 12:13 AM
WANScaler or the Citrix Branch Repeater will certainly help for the actual file transfer but you will still require a Provisioning Server at the remote location. This is because the client machines contact the provisioning server to fetch disk blocks, they do NOT go direct to storage.
At the memoer this means managing PVS for each site but in the 5.0 release there will be the actual concept of sires in the PVS farm to allow easier management of this model.
Another feature available today to make this easier is the ability to create incremental delta files that can be applied to a disk image to update it. This means that you can have PVS generate a Delta that can be used to either run the disk or patch it. MUCH smaller file transfers for updates, maybe even DFS'able.
My $.02
MartinIngram - 25 Jun 2008 12:27 AM
There are a lot of pragmatic decisions going to be made on which delivery technology is used for which applications. Choices are:
Pre installed into a provisioned OS
Virtualised Applications (streamed, isolated, etc.)
Each has its own pros and cons and a lot of thought is going to go into picking the right tool for the job. As Brian says this could easily become am article in itself.
Martin Ingram
ServerDude - 25 Jun 2008 5:58 AM
I think the answer to this (and BTW, that was my Guest reply to Shawn Bass "Big difference...") is in the desktop appliance, Thin-Client, or whatever it gets called next week. Client re-direction to process the graphics & on-board plug-ins for multi-media is already here. With Gigabit to the desktop, streaming and powerful appliances make more sense than huge server architecture development. As most likely, applications will have to be re-written to take advantage of the new features (remember MMX, HT?). VDI still has a way to go.
I don't think hypervisor in in itself will be enough. There will have to be other hardware breakthroughs as well. You can have 400 horsepower, but if you're running on bicycle tires, it's hard to put that power to the pavement.
IMO - Applications like AutoCAD, GIS, and any user who fits the "PowerUser" category, should really still get a PC. Virtualization is for the masses, who would otherwise have 80% of the resources available to them in a modern PC - waiting for something to do.
I agree with you Brian, it may be mature enough to replace desktops BUT wholesale desktop replacement will not be the norm, even in the next 7-10 years. THere is just too much legacy infrastructure to make it happen. What we will end up with in the interim is your average organization having a hodge podge of some virtual some, XenApp, and some traditional. Most of these will be running on top of legacy machines and not thin client hardware. And what we will have is network managers nightmare with multiple user profiles on multiple levels of machines, on multiple OSs. Universal Windows management and profile tool vendors are what will clean all this up.
Solutions liek AppSense, Script Start ProfileUnity, and RTO, will be the tie that binds. Citrix's UPM will apply only to Citrix customers and one thing we've seen since the early 90s is that Citrix solutions are cool but they do not run the world, it is only one way to do things.
Brian, you say that there are only four basic capabilities required for VDI to become mainstream and that VDI will replace almost all Published Desktop using Terminal Services or Xenapp, but:
- If we have a remote display protocol that is indistinguishable from local, you can use this protocol even with Terminal Services, so why use VDI and not Terminal Services? Why spend more money in hardware and licenses, why complicate your Infrastructure?
- You can use a single image for VDI desktops, yes that's true but you can use one single image even for Citrix XenApp servers.
- To use a single Image you need to lock down the user and correctly configure user profiles, scripts and policies, so even there where's the advantage to use VDI and not Terminal Services with XenApp? Where is the adantage for users?
- You say that another problem is regarding broader compatibility for app virtualization, but even there app compatibility is one of the problems with terminal services, and app virtualization works even better with terminal services than with VDI, so probably you will solve all current problems with apps and terminal services. Even there why use VDI and not Terminal Services, where's the advantage?
In conclusion even solving this 4 problems I see a lot of advantages for VDI but many of this advantages and new tecnologies are applicable to Terminal Services and many of the current limits of Terminal Services will be solved by June 2010 so why not continue to publish apps and desktops for connected users with Terminal Services and use VDI only for for offline users or where you will reach some limits of Terminal Services?
I think that your prediction is not fully correct, probably we will see more VDI desktops than today and probably VDI desktops will reach but not replace the number of Terminal Server desktops. We are comparing a technology that is stable and consolidated with a new technology, that as today is not usable for large production environments. I work with Citrix products from Winframe 1.5 and it takes a long time for Citrix before to have a SBC solution really usable and manageable on large environments, I think that it will be the same for VDI, and that two years are not so much. Probably we will first see a lot of VDI implementations in SMB and after some years start using it on large production environments.
Whilst I agree that VDI will gain traction over the next couple of years, I also have to agree with a couple of the other posts here, that we seem to be swept along by hype at the moment.
Why is VDI so good? It's a bloated, wasteful technology which requires duplication ond overcommitment of almost every resource imaginable. Yes, it allow us to centralise all of those difficult to manage desktop devices and reap all of the associated benefits, but when compared to a Terminal Services deployment it's laughable how much resource is wasted. Duplication of 40+ OS's per server, it actually makes me cringe that we think this is cool!!!
IMHO, The big money are there for the company that provides us with technology which allows us to remove the bloated OS, providing a thin abstraction layer between the app and the hypervisor whilst still maintaining compatibility.
As another poster mentioned, when we fix all of the issues with the remoting protocol, Terminal Services actually becomes are more compelling solution. Take this further and fix all of the 64-bit issues with applications and drivers and we could realistically start to see 500-1000 users per server in a TS environment.
How many servers do you need to host 1000 users in a VDI shop...even with 16 core processors and 256Gb of memory I'm guessing that TS still wins 4:1 in consolidation.
Realistically, even in 5-10 years I still see VDI as a niche solution which complements Terminal Services in a big way. I fully agree with others that the challenge is managing user data and providing a single cohesive access platform and management structrure for all of these disparate pieces.
I've dabbled with VDI and have many years experience with TS based solutions, and I'm sure I'll still be ecommending a hybrid solutiion in 2010 and way into the future.
And before anyone says "and why would I want to host 1000 users on a single server", it is now, and will be even more feasible by 2010 to have a completely redundant architecture for TS. Bullet proof, continuous operation even if a host fails.
Losing huge numbers of users in the event of failure has always been my No1 issues with scaling up.
So for truth in advertising, I work for the Provision Networks Division.
The first issue of the shared image is solved inherently with Parallels solution which is based on operating system virtualization rather then hardware virtualization. The easiest way to think of Virtuozzo technology is as a Terminal Server enivonment with complete isolation of each session.
The joint solution allows for 2-3 times the density of virtual desktops on a given hardware platform, a reduction in back end storage of a factor of ten, and a deployment cost equivalent to a Terminal Services environment.
Terminal Services has been and continues to be a great solution, but the elimination of the shared environment, allowing one user to negatively impact multiple users is a huge benefit of VDI, allowing administrators to give end users an environment that does not have to be as locked down.
VDI will be larger than Terminal Services, but not because it displaces the technology, rather becuase it will expand the available pool of end users who can be served by server-based computing.
CCaronan - 27 Jun 2008 12:19 AM
The problem with this solution is the same as the problem with Deduping. It will lower SAN space needs, but it does not solve the biggest problem of VDI. That is management. Today's solutions really just move the management problem back to the DataCenter. You still have to use the same methods and tools that you have always used to manage them. That does not provide a ROI case study for VDI. When you use these two technologies, you basically create user specific images that have to be managed. With Brian's comment above, you manage a single image like Provisioning Server. You make the change on the image and it is changed for 1000s of users. I agree that this is the future of VDI.
Parallels Virtuozzo is the obvious solution of choice for many of my current customers. Do you have any particular questions regarding the technology?
CCaronan - 29 Sep 2008 3:38 AM
If Microsoft would spend more money developing TS the need for VDI wouldnt be there. The kinds of gadgets being developed for VDI would make much more sense in a TS envinonment. What about virtual workspaces in TS envirnments where users could install apps and create packages on the fly without effecting the server. Why do this in VDI when it would be so much better in TS.
I honestly dont see VDI's scaling enough for the technology to survive in the datacenter. Until you can share processes between the VDIs it wont scale up. Oh wait, now we are talking about TS again.
I am excited about all this virtualization buzz because it pumping ideas back into the market, but I think a lot of the ideas are much better suited in\for a TS world.
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This is what happens to the animals on Worthy Farm while Glastonbury is on
Around 1,000 cows are replaced by 200,000 festival-goers
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Michael Eavis with his cows (Image: Getty Images)
Preparation is well underway for Glastonbury Festival 2019, with the Pyramid Stage now dressed and fields being transformed for the world-famous festival.
But have you ever wondered what happens to the cows who spend their days on the farm when it's not infiltrated by festival-goers?
Around 1,000 animals roam the land, with the Pilton fields home to hundreds of dairy cows grazing on the lush green grass, but they are moved for the festival, according to organiser Michael Eavis.
Somerset Live reports some of the animals will be taken to fields further away, and some will be kept at the Worthy Farm "Moo-tel" to avoid E. coli issues for festival-goers.
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He said: "We have 500 milking cows and 500 young stock," the 83-year-old said, when speaking about his role in the upcoming Bath and West Show.
"The dry cows graze away from the festival site, but we have to keep the milking cows in to avoid any E. coli issues for our visitors.
Festival founder Michael Eavis checks on cows from his diary herd (Image: Getty Images)
“We have 400 people who clean up after the festival, with magnets to pick up any metal, and then we can turn the cows back out.
"The grass comes back pretty quickly after reseeding, and on a year off from the festival, the cows will graze all summer – it’s lovely to see them out.”
Michael says that the farm is "really important" to him, as the Eavis family has been farming for 150 years.
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He said: “We’re now producing 16,000 litres of milk a day, so it’s a big operation.
"There is huge demand for milk in the UK, and for cheese and milk powder worldwide.
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As the festival takes up much of Mr Eavis’s time and energy, he has two farm managers who look after the day-to-day organisation.
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A month after Neumann stepped down as CEO of WeWork, he struck a deal with the company and SoftBank, it's biggest investor to give up some of his profits interests in exchange for improved terms on the shares that remained. In the deal Neumann made in October, his shares were slashed from $38.36 a share to either $19.19 or $21.05 a share. SoftBank valued WeWork at $19.19 per share, of $8 billion, during its emergency restructuring of the company. If WeWork shares hit the market at $25 a share, Neumann could sell his for $111 million. At $35 a share, he'd have $352 million worth. At $45 a share, Neumann could cash in for $593 million. Neumann owns tens of millions of shares in WeWork's holding company. He has the right to sell up to $970 million of his shares to SoftBank in the next few months.
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Catawba search warrants unsealed after media intervene
Superior Court Judge Jeff Carpenter decided Friday to unseal a redacted version of the warrants after the AP and other media groups filed a motion.
Catawba search warrants unsealed after media intervene Superior Court Judge Jeff Carpenter decided Friday to unseal a redacted version of the warrants after the AP and other media groups filed a motion. Check out this story on citizen-times.com: http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2018/05/05/catawba-search-warrants-unsealed-after-media-intervene/583941002/
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NEWTON - Search warrants unsealed after The Associated Press and other media organizations intervened show authorities are investigating a sheriff's candidate in Catawba County for possible violation of misdemeanors of stalking, cyberstalking and willfully failing to discharge duties.
No charges have been filed against Jason Reid, a candidate for sheriff and son of the current sheriff, Coy Reid. Jason Reid resigned in February as a narcotics officer. The warrants show he's now classified as a reserve officer.
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Starting May 1, 2019, we are implementing two big changes to our battery recycling program:
Only small, household batteries will be accepted for recycling. These include alkaline, zinc carbon, NiMH, NiCd, less than 9 volts, non-lithium button cell and lithium and lithium-ion with exposed terminals that require taping. We will no longer accept large batteries, such as lead acid, electronic batteries, and anything over 9 volts.
The battery drop-off location will move to the Wayne Public Library at 410 Pearl Street instead of City Hall. View the library's hours here.
Why are we making these changes? The battery recycling program started in December 2017 and has been a smashing success, preventing over 500 pounds of batteries with toxic materials from entering the landfill in our first year. Unfortunately, it has also cost more than expected -- $1,700. Each bucket holds up to 55 pounds of batteries and costs $110 to send to Battery Solutions for recycling. We often received boxes of larger-sized batteries, such as lead acid and 9+ volt batteries (e.g. drill batteries), that required additional funds to ship. Although our community's willingness to recycling batteries is wonderful, we need to raise more funds to support this program.
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Detail of the Edinburgh Coat of Arms on the West Bow well, dated 1674.
Heraldry is all around us – on buildings, in stained-glass windows, on bookplates, school and club badges, regimental banners and the like, on signs at the entrance to towns, carved on chairs, engraved on family silver, depicted on pub signs (‘The Such-and-Such Arms’) and at various times during the year displayed on standards up and down Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. In fact, heraldry is hard to avoid once you start to notice it.
Often, it is discounted as some sort of medieval relic, or obscure symbolism of no relevance today. But heraldry is alive, well and thriving, and no place has such a well-developed and tightly regulated system of heraldry as Scotland. It is also of central importance in genealogy, as a coat of arms is a pictorial shorthand of an individual’s family tree.
The components of an achievement of arms
It is best to start with an understanding of what a coat of arms consists of. Below is an ‘achievement’ of arms with its various components.
Shield – also known as the escutcheon, the main and most recognisable component of the arms, often used on its own
Helmet – the actual configuration of this denotes the rank of the armiger
Wreath – also called a torse, this has the same colours as the mantling (below)
Mantling – this takes the main colours of the ‘livery’ (the overall coat of arms, banners etc.). It probably started as protection from the sun in the Holy Land, where the crusaders realised that wearing a metal pot on the head in the blazing sun was an invitation to having your brains fried. They noticed that the locals wore a cloth, held down by a burnous (the origin of the wreath or torse, above), to keep the sun off.The mantling is usually depicted cut and tattered (in a very florid and stylised way) to indicate the sword-play of battle
Crest – this arises from the wreath (below) and is the element used in a Crest Badge; it was physically worn atop the helmet and served as a further identifier of the armiger
Motto – in Scottish arms, the motto should be at the top, but this is often ignored in, for example, civic arms on buildings
Coronet of rank – if the armiger is noble, the coronet will indicate baron, viscount, earl, marquess, duke, prince or sovereign
Supporters – not everyone merits supporters, but where granted they are usually animals, humans or mythical beats of some sort
Compartment – in Scotland, the supporters always stand on a compartment or ground, which is sometimes adorned with the family’s plant or flower
Slughorn – as well as the motto at the top there may be a subsidiary slogan under the compartment, often the war-cry of the clan, for example
How did arms originate?
Arms started from the necessity to identify knights and nobles on the battlefield and at jousting tournaments after the invention of the barrel helmet, which completely covered the face. There are no examples of arms as we know them (unique, heritable designs on shields etc.) among the Normans, as a look at the Bayeux Tapestry will confirm. (See www.tapestry-bayeux.com and be aware that it wasn’t made in Bayeux, and isn’t a tapestry – it was embroidered in wool, possibly in either Winchester or Canterbury, England, and probably by nuns of noble Saxon background.) There was no need for identifiable arms because the Norman fighting men wore an open helmet with a nose-guard.
With the need to identify warriors uniquely, the practice arose of painting a high-contrast design possibly first on a banner, standard or other flag, and then on the linen surcoat worn over armour to keep it clean, hence the term ‘coat of arms’. This naturally spread to the whole livery – the shield and even the horse’s caparison. Here is a particularly florid example of this in plate, showing James I of Scotland.
The King of Scots – Fifteenth-century armour, tabard and horse trappings.
The funerary enamel on the tomb of Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou (d. 1151)
Although the Normans had no heraldry in the sense that we understand it – the use of individual and inheritable emblems borne on armour – and therefore did not introduce it to the British Isles, the practice had already started in Europe, probably around Flanders. By the time of Henry I of England, it had started to take root in England – there is an account in 1127 of Henry knighting his son-in-law Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou, and placing around his neck a shield painted with golden lions. When Geoffrey died (1151) the funerary enamel on his tomb at Le Mans Cathedral depicted him bearing a blue shield emblazoned with golden lions.This may be the first recorded portrayal of a British coat of arms.
By this time coats of arms were considered heritable by the children of armigers throughout Europe. There are seals dating from the 1130s and 1150s showing a figure of the owner bearing a design on his shield, and by the end of that century, the heraldic design appears as the single device on armorial seals.
The earliest Scottish heraldic artefacts are from the late 1100s and early 1200s – the armorial seals of Allan, 2nd Hereditary High Steward of Scotland from 1177, showing the typical fess chequy of the Stewart coats of arms still seen in Scots heraldry today. The earliest documentary references to a ‘King of Arms of Scotland’ are said to be in an English exchequer record of 1297 (which the author has never seen), and one in an Exchequer Roll of 10 October 1337 for a payment of £32 6s. Scots for the making of seventeen armorial banners. But there are mentions of Lord Lyon in Scottish documents from 1318, and of other Scottish heralds in 1327 and 1333. The office of Lord Lyon dates at least to the reign of Robert Bruce in 1318, but the role probably grew out of that of Shennachie (Gaelic seanachaidh) from the ancient Celtic tradition.The earliest mention of a ‘Lord Lyon King of Arms’ is in 1388, with a record of a payment to ‘Leoni regi heraldorum’. However, as we have seen, heraldry was well established in Scotland before the year 1200.
armorial seals of Walter FitzAllan (1140–1204), 3rd Hereditary High Steward of Scotland, from whom the Stewarts/Stuarts descend.
The fess chequy of a Stewart coat of arms
The first truly Scottish armorial dates from 1508, but there are Scottish arms in the Balliol Roll – believed to be of English origin dating from the 1330s – in the Armorial de Gelré (c. 1369–88), in the fifteenth-century Armorial of the Toison d’Or, and there are armorial seals from c. 1200.The first mention of a herald with an official title seems to be from 1365, when there is a confirmation of a charter by David II to John Trupour or Trumpour, ‘nunc dicto Carric herald’ (now called Carric Herald’, and Carrick Pursuivant is still the title of one of the Officers of Arms in Scotland). There is a record of a payment to a herald in 1377, and on 8 April 1381 a warrant was issued in London allowing the ‘Lion Heraud’ of the King of Scots to take a suit of armour he had bought there.
Heralds and armorials
The Lord Lyon is the senior heraldic authority in Scotland with wide-ranging and statutory powers over the granting and usage of armorial bearings.
Heralds had ambassadorial status from the earliest times, and were trusted emissaries of the King with the equivalent of diplomatic immunity. As arms proliferated,someone had to keep a record of what these were, and ensure that there were no duplications. From this came a system of Armorials (pictorial and textual descriptions of coats of arms).
The first roll of arms was the mid-thirteenth century Chronica Majora by Matthew Paris. Another early armorial was the Dering Roll (c. 1270–80). It soon became the practice for heralds to swap these at battles, and they were copied for the benefit of other knights and nobles. Similarly, at jousting tournaments in later centuries, heralds controlled the fixture lists.These even crossed the continent – there are three folios illustrating the arms of some Scottish nobles and knights in the Flemish Armorial de Gelré, collated between 1370 and 1414.
Scottish coats of arms emblazoned in the Armorial de Gelré (c. 1369–88).
The two best publications are: Mark Dennis’ beautifully illustrated and remarkably affordable ‘Scottish Heraldry’ (available from the Heraldry Society of Scotland), and the out-of-print ‘Simple Heraldry Cheerfully Illustrated’ (1952), which can often be found on eBay or other auction and bookselling websites.
More formal works are: Sir Thomas Innes of Learney’s ‘Scots Heraldry’, 2nd edition (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1956) or the edition revised by his son Malcolm Innes of Edingight (Edinburgh: Johnston & Bacon, 1978); J.H. Stevenson’s ‘Heraldry in Scotland’ reproduced in a one-volume Centenary edition b Bruce Durie; George Seton,’The Law and Practice of Heraldry in Scotland’ (Edinburgh: 1863). Others worth checking are: Stephen Friar, Heraldry for the Local Historian and Genealogist (Alan Sutton, 1992), and Sir James Balfour Paul,The Scots Peerage (various editions, 1904–14).
Sir James Balfour Paul, ‘An Ordinary of Scottish Arms’, Volume I, 2nd edition (Edinburgh:William Green and Sons, 1908) and Volume II (Edinburgh: 1977) list arms recorded in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland from 1673.
Heraldic dictionaries etc. – Notre Dame: www.rarebooks.nd.edu/digital/heraldry/index.html
Heraldry Society of Scotland: www.heraldry-scotland.co.uk – The Society publishes a journal, ‘The Double Tressure’, and a newsletter, ‘Tak Tent’, and has regular meetings in Edinburgh and outings throughout Scotland.
Heraldry Society (UK): www.theheraldrysociety.com
Database compiled from some of the published visitations of various counties: http://ukga.org/heraldry/index.html
FrançoisVelde’s Heraldry Site: www.heraldica.org/
The British Heraldic Archive: www.kwtelecom.com/heraldry/
Canadian heraldry: www.heraldry.ca/
Coats of Arms from Ireland and around the World (Eddie Geoghegan): www.heraldry.ws/
Cambridge University Heraldic & Genealogical Society: www.cam.ac.uk/societies/cuhags/links/her_info.htm
List of Scottish Armorials: www.heraldry-scotland.co.uk/mitchell-rolls.html
Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Complete Guide to Heraldry (first published in 1909): www7b.biglobe.ne.jp/~bprince/hr/foxdavies/index.htm.
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Review The Rock (1996): Die Hard on Alcatraz / an action classic for sure!
genre: action, adventure, thriller, die hard clone
The Rock is one of my favourite movies of all time and has proven itself to be a classic. It's one you can watch over and over again without getting bored. So what makes The Rock so different from the other Die Hard clones?
It is almost hard to imagine that Michael Bay is one of the reasons why The Rock works. But this is one of the movies where his visual style makes sense. And for some reason he knew how to compose himself and not go overboard spectacle wise. If I had to guess this could be Jerry Bruckheimer's doing. He must have had a big hand in keeping Michael Bay in check. Every action scene is beautifully shot and choreographed and naturally is the main draw of the film. However the presence of certain actors is what really sells the action.
These actors are Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris and Sean Connery. Ed Harris as General Hummel is the designated bad guy but he is not your typical villain. He is more the reluctant one but not one to mess with since he does have conviction. Despite his acts you have sympathy for him and you kinda want him to get back to his senses and become buddies with Nic and Sean so that they can drink beers together. Much more fun than death and destruction don't you think? Nicolas Cage as Stanley Goodspeed and Sean Connery as John Patrick Mason both are the reluctant heroes who get called in to participate while they really don't want to. But both of them have certain skills and expertise to save the day when needed. Goodspeed is a chemical weapons specialist who takes his job seriously but other than that he is your typical fun and manic Cage providing most of the comic relief. Mason is the mysterious old man with a past that has been imprisoned for a long time. The way he is introduced is quite epic and is a scene that immediately tells you that Mason is a dangerous man. Not knowing what he is about is what adds a lot of tension and thrills but naturally if you have seen the films many times that will diminish somewhat. But for the most part the scenes with Mason and how he interacts with Goodspeed hold up since you can see by the way he looks and acts that he is up to something. We all know that Sean Connerey is a phenomenal actor and that he can do a lot with very little. So having him on board improves the quality of the film significantly.
Last but not least the soundtrack. It's one of those musical score that enhances the viewing experience considerably since it really does add something to the scenes. The score is composed by Nick Glennie-Smith, Hans Zimmer and Harry Gregson-Williams. Who did what exactly I won't go into but their collaboration has paid off since it is the one thing you will be playing in your mind long after the film has finished. Actually I just have to think about it and the themes play in my head. Yes, it's that good.
So if for some reason you have not seen this yet out of fear for Michael Bay and his treatment to beloved franchises like Transformers and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles then ease your mind. It's nothing like that. The Rock is an action classic for sure!
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Children face greater risk of exploitation with push to decriminalize prostitution, advocate says
CP Current Page: U.S. | Friday, October 11, 2019
By Brandon Showalter, CP Reporter | Friday, October 11, 2019
Haley Halverson speaks at the Heritiage Foundation for a panel on protecting children from sexualization on Oct. 9, 2019. | Photo: Screengrab/YouTube.com
WASHINGTON — Amid efforts around the nation to decriminalize prostitution and the explosion of apps and online porn, minors are particularly vulnerable for sexual exploitation, a leading advocate says.
Speaking on a panel about preventing the sexualization of children at the Heritage Foundation, a summit co-hosted by the Family Policy Alliance, Haley Halverson, vice president for advocacy with the National Center on Sexual Exploitation stressed that it is vital to understand the interconnections between all sexual abuse, particularly pornography's link with prostitution and trafficking.
"It is no longer a question of if children will be exposed to pornography. It is question of when," she said.
Porn both rewires the brain and in much of it sexual violence against women is celebrated, she said, adding that it now serves as the primary sexual education of rising generations, with the primary lesson being "no means yes" and that "violence is sexy."
Because of the myriad harms inherent in porn, NCOSE has authored a state resolution declaring widespread pornography use to be a public health crisis, a measure that has passed in 15 states thus far.
Porn also overlaps with the online scourge of grooming children for sexual abuse and trafficking, Halverson continued, recounting how a few months ago she met three teen girls from Washington, D.C., who were sex trafficking survivors.
"They showed me their Instagram accounts. And even though their accounts were set to private, they were receiving on a weekly basis dozens of direct messages from strangers, men in D.C., reaching out to them, telling them they're beautiful, asking them to meet up, asking them for sexually explicit photos, sending them sexually explicit photos."
The exploiters sometimes complimented the girls, manipulated them into feeling loved, and extorted them. Through use of various apps, they did all of that anonymously.
Around the country, a massive campaign is occurring to decriminalize prostitution; several states and Washington D.C. already have or are at present considering doing so. Decriminalizing prostitution usually not only removes criminal penalties from the seller of sex but also from the pimps and sex buyers.
"This would lead to an exponential boom in the commercial sexual exploitation marketplace," Halverson asserted, noting that in Germany, where prostitution and brothels have been legalized since 2002, an estimated 1 million men purchase sex every day.
"A 2018 study of 8,000 U.S. men said that over 20 percent of them who had never bought sex would consider doing it if it was legal," she added. "So to meet this increased demand in a fully decriminalized system, the sex trade would lure, manipulate and coerce more vulnerable people because there are never enough women willing to be exploited and degraded in the system of prostitution."
Citing another study from the London School of Economics, legalizing prostitution leads to increased sex trafficking, including the sale of children for sex, she went on to say.
On Oct. 17, a city council hearing in Washington, D.C., will take place where the full decriminalization of prostitution will be seriously considered.
Should the city proceed in that direction, the nation's capital would become "an international sex trade tourism destination," she said.
The Heritage summit gathered policy experts and practitioners to collaborate and advance solutions to protect children from sexualization in the realms of culture, education, and healthcare.
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You are here:Home Media Centre CIOB News CIOB announce their 2020 conservation conference
CIOB announce their 2020 conservation conference
The CIOB (Chartered Institute of Building) has announced the date for their next conservation conference: Future Skills for Traditional Buildings. The event, on 28 April, will feature an impressive line-up of speakers, covering every aspect of heritage in the built environment and will be delivered in partnership with English Heritage.
The CIOB’s headline conservation event, for which tickets sold out last year, is currently on offer, with an early bird special until 31 January 2020. The offer is for 10% off member and non-member prices – use booking code: EARLY2020
The beautiful central London venue is in keeping with the theme of the event – Church House is set within Dean’s Yard, close to Westminster Abbey, Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament.
Speakers include high profile figures from the heritage and built environment sectors. Chair for the event will be the CIOB’s Chief Executive, Caroline Gumble, and during the conference the CIOB will invite delegates to explore questions such as:
How can we balance the shortage of traditional skills with the need to move to modern methods of working?
What is the role of apprenticeships in the heritage and conservation sector?
Are there digital solutions for heritage and traditional buildings?
What makes the heritage sector an attractive career choice for young people?
Where exactly are the skills shortages?
This is the sixth time the CIOB has run this event, which recognises the importance of historic buildings and conservation work in the construction industry. The CIOB believes that most construction professionals will work on historic buildings at some point in their career - in the UK alone, 50% of all construction works are on traditional buildings. While there are standards, training schemes and qualifications focussed on modern methods of construction, this conference focuses on the skills and knowledge needed to conserve, repair and refurbish our valuable historic and traditional buildings.
The one-day event costs £110 per delegate for CIOB members, with a discounted rate for students and apprentices. A full list of speakers is available online – go to events.ciob.org for all the price options, the timetable for the day or to book a place.
Title: Future Skills for Traditional Buildings
Date and time: Tuesday 28 April 2020, 9 a.m. registration
Venue: Church House, Deans Yard, Westminster, London, SW1P 3NZ
The CIOB would like to thank Platinum Sponsors Sir Robert McAlpine and all the other sponsors who will be exhibiting at the event.
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The CIOB has announced the date for their next conservation conference: Future Skills for Traditional Buildings will be held on 28 April 2020.
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Extra police station costs to go on Provincetown warrant
Ethan Genter @EthanGenterCCT
Mar 1, 2019 at 5:00 PM Mar 2, 2019 at 6:33 AM
Select Board also considers debt exclusion ballot question.
PROVINCETOWN — The Select Board has sponsored a town meeting article that would cover the additional money needed to build a new police station on Jerome Smith Road.
The board voted Monday night to support the article after a spirited discussion about how to cover the estimated $4 million in extra costs to pay for the station. The article originally was planned to appear on the April 1 special town meeting warrant, but at a meeting Friday, the board voted to scrap the special meeting and move the article to the annual town meeting, also April 1.
If the article passes, the current plan is to have the town pay for the additional costs with free cash and through short-term borrowing, with the idea that it should be able to pay back that money through its annual revenue stream without having to raise taxes.
A rainy day plan is also in the works.
Apart from the town meeting article, voters may have the chance to vote on a debt exclusion at the annual election. Town Manager David Panagore told the board the town should be able to handle the costs through short-term borrowing, but the debt exclusion, if approved, would act as an insurance policy if for some reason the town was unable to pay.
This approach — an authorization from town meeting to pay for the station and a separate ballot question that would temporarily raise the tax rate to cover the cost in case of an emergency — would act as a ”safety net,” Panagore said.
The question has not yet been placed on the ballot.
The board voted 3-2 Monday in favor of sponsoring the article, with Chairwoman Cheryl Andrews and Lise King against the idea. At the special meeting Friday, King and fellow board members Robert Anthony and John Golden voted to move the article to the annual warrant. Andrews and member Louise Venden were not present.
King said she wanted to make sure that voters could make an informed decision on the project and understand what each choice means. She was concerned that if a debt exclusion did not pass and the town took money from free cash and other sources of revenue, it could pull funding from other priorities in town.
Andrews worried that voters could be confused by Panagore’s belt-and-suspenders approach.
If a town wants to raise its tax rate more than 2½ percent from the previous year, it must get the approval of both town meeting and voters at the ballot box. Many towns use this method to pay for large projects, and ordinarily the projects are contingent on passage at both venues.
But the police station is different. If the town meeting article passes but the debt exclusion fails, the project will still go forward, because the debt exclusion is proposed only as a safety net, not as the main funding source.
If the debt exclusion passes, the town would enact it through the normal budgeting process, Panagore said, which means it would need approval again at a future town meeting.
The method being proposed is not normally used, said George "Bud" Dunham, town manager of Sandwich and second vice president of the Massachusetts Municipal Management Association.
"I think its unique, but we've talked about something similar in Sandwich," he said. "It makes sense, but I don't think it's common."
The Select Board will have the chance to weigh in further on the funding ideas at its March 11 meeting. The board also will make its formal recommendation to town meeting on the article before April 1.
In 2017, town meeting approved $8.6 million to build a new station, but estimates came in about 50 percent higher. Bids for the project are due in March before town meeting and will give officials a more solid look at the gap voters will have the option to fill.
The current station on Shank Painter Road, a former funeral home, is aging and cannot meet the needs of the department anymore, Police Chief James Golden previously told the Times.
— Follow Ethan Genter on Twitter: @EthanGenterCCT.
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Ruthless! is outrageous and entertaining
27 March 2018, Arts Theatre
Alice Bzowska
Little blonde girls with pigtails, cheesy smiles and a bratty stage-school nature are usually quite frightening, and Tina Denmark is no exception in Ruthless! the Musical, a story of just how far a person can go to get exactly what they want.
Showing at the Arts Theatre in London for a strictly limited 14-week run, this revival of the critically-acclaimed off-Broadway production, first shown 25 years ago, returns with as much callousness as it had back then.
Directed by Richard Fitch, the all-female character cast includes eight-year old Tina, talented and pretty in a sickly-sweet way, tap dancing and singing her way across the stage at every opportunity and desperate to play the lead in the school play. Meanwhile her mother Judy, played by Kim Maresca – fresh from performing the role across the pond – takes a backseat to her daughter.
Judy is a retro housewife whose whole life revolves around the cooking, the cleaning and her gifted child. When eccentric and extravagant talent agent Sylvia (Jason Gardiner) knocks on their door one morning, everything changes and the secrets and pure ruthlessness of the characters is soon unravelled.
Also in the cast is Lara Denning (Betty Lerman), Harriet Thorpe (Tina’s teacher) and Tracie Bennett as Tina’s grandmother, Lita Encore. Bennett plays her role with drunken hilarity, and there are similarities between her characterisation of Lita and her Olivier Award nominated role as Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow.
Ruthless! is outrageous and entertaining, and famously spoofs Broadway musicals such as Gypsy as well as iconic movies like All About Eve. The music by Joel Paley (who also wrote the book) and Marvin Laird, although lively, isn’t memorable, but the cast’s passion and character's brutal merciless is engaging and comical enough to make it a musical to watch.
Reviewed by Alice Bzowska
Really this is all one big, nasty, waspish, self-satisfied in-joke of a show pandering to, and so reproducing, the cruelties it is attempting to satirise. Ruthless? No. Pointless?
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The show may be ridiculous, and more than a little shonky, but the performances are sublime and make the evening a blast of comic Broadway excess.
Ruthless! is a deliciously camp musical that takes turns you can't expect and brilliantly showcases a talented cast. Simply put, it's great fun.
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These 15 U.S. Senators Are the Most Hated in the Country
Generally speaking, it’s not a great time to be a politician. President Donald Trump has seen his support erode since the 2016 election, and several U.S. senators are also highly unpopular.
Recent polling done by Morning Consult in which more than 255,000 voters from across the country were surveyed shows there are several highly unpopular senators out there. They’re not the most hated politicians of all time — at least not yet — but if being a senator was a popularity contest, these 15 would be the big losers. They’re the most unpopular in the country.
15. Tammy Baldwin
Conservatives abound in the northern state. | Astrid Riecken/Getty Images
This might be a case of wrong place, wrong time. A longtime Democratic representative who won a Senate seat in 2016, Baldwin hails from a state that produced Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Governor Scott Walker, both Republicans. According to Morning Consult, 38% of voters disapprove of her, though 41% approve. Baldwin might not be a hated senator for much longer. She’s up for reelection in 2018 and conservative groups are looking to unseat her.
Next: The truth sometimes escapes this senator.
14. Patrick Toomey
Some people think he’s a thinly-veiled racist. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Not telling the whole truth is just one reason why this Republican is among the most hated senators. There’s also a little something about not quickly condemning the violence in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017. At least one political writer believes he is a thinly-veiled racist. Whatever it is, 38% of Pennsylvania voters disapprove of the job Toomey is doing in the Senate.
Next: A longtime senator is not getting the job done.
13. Dick Durbin
He somehow keeps getting reelected. | Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
This one seems to be a bit of an outlier. The Morning Consult data show 38% of voters disapprove of the job this Democrat has done, but Durbin must be doing something right: He has been voted to serve 4 consecutive terms since 1996.
Next: This senator is in Trump’s line of fire and is not liked among voters.
12. Lisa Murkowski
She has been attacked by the president himself. | Alex Wong/Getty Images
It’s no secret that Trump has no problem taking shots at people whom he doesn’t like, no matter their party affiliation. Murkowski is no exception. The Republican is wary of the Obamacare rollback her fellow party members desire, and she voted against it. That move partly explains why 38% of her constituents disapprove of the job she’s doing.
Next: An absentee senator is not popular among his constituents.
11. Ron Johnson
He voted no to disaster relief in Puerto Rico. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images
No, not the guy in the neon-colored shirts and white sportcoats from Miami Vice. That’s Don Johnson. We’re talking about the Republican senator who has a weak stance on sexual harassment and voted ‘No’ on sending disaster relief to Puerto Rico. Voters in Wisconsin aren’t huge fans (39% disapproval rating) of Johnson and his unwillingness to meet them face-to-face.
Next: An outspoken Trump critic is not liked among voters.
10. Lindsey Graham
He’s an outspoken opponent of Trump. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
State: South Carolina
This might be the classic no-win scenario for Graham. As a Republican, there’s a good chance Democrats reflexively hate him. There’s also a chance hard-line conservative Republicans loathe him for being an outspoken and unabashed Trump hater. The 39% of South Carolinians who disapprove of Graham just have to suck it up and deal with it — he’s not up for reelection until 2020.
Next: This senator has an uphill road to reelection as voters don’t approve of him.
9. Dean Heller
His Nevada constituents probably aren’t fans of his ties to Trump. | Michael Reynolds – Pool/Getty Images
State: Nevada
Like Lindsey Graham before him, Heller is in a tight spot. He voted to repeal Obamacare, which could come back to haunt him. He is up for reelection in 2018, but Nevada voted for Hillary Clinton for President, so Heller could be on his way out in that election. The Morning Consult data show 39% of Nevada voters don’t like the job he’s doing.
Next: Voter trends and many miscues could cost this senator.
8. Claire McCaskill
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On more than one occasion, this Democrat has admitted making ‘sloppy mistakes.’ As if that’s not bad enough, she seems woefully out of touch with her constituents in Missouri, a state where 57% voted for Trump. McCaskill figures to be in for a fight in 2018, and the fact that 39% of voters disapprove of her work isn’t helping matters.
Next: This senator’s constituents are fed up with him and Republicans.
7. Cory Gardner
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It was something of a surprise that Gardner won a Senate seat in 2014 when the Republican unseated a Democratic incumbent. Halfway through his tenure, and it seems he is guilty by association. At a contentious town hall meeting, Gardner took heat for the Republican party’s actions. The Morning Consult data show 39% of Colorado voters don’t like Gardner’s politics or a Republican party that hasn’t delivered on its legislative goals.
Next: A flippant attitude towards women’s health not doing this senator any favors.
6. Pat Roberts
He doesn’t really care about women’s healthcare. | Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
Morning Consult data show 40% of Kansans disapprove of Pat Roberts’ work (only 39% approve). Why is Roberts so unpopular? Maybe it’s his flippant attitude on women’s health care. Or maybe it’s because this Republican has voted in lockstep with Trump’s wishes at nearly every turn. Voters will have to put up with that behavior for a while since Roberts isn’t up for reelection until 2020.
Next: Voters want a new senator, but this guy might not comply.
5. Orrin Hatch
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Voting against requiring employers to offer healthcare wasn’t popular, but Hatch’s 41% disapproval rating is a bit nebulous. He’s served in the Senate for 40 years, so clearly Utah voters think he’s been doing something right all this time. It could be a case of voters desiring a change. Most Utah voters want a new choice, and Hatch said he would retire at the end of his current term before reconsidering. That waffling probably doesn’t endear him to his constituents.
Next: Rampant corruption is not a good look for this senator.
4. Robert Menendez
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The people of New Jersey just can’t catch a break. First, former Governor Chris Christie led the list of the most hated governors, and now this. But it shouldn’t be a surprise. Corruption claims and questionable ethics have dogged this Democrat for years. Leaving the country during his corruption trial wasn’t a good look, and it probably doesn’t help that Christie is defending him. At any rate, 41% of voters disapprove of his work and just 32% approve.
Next: Years of service don’t change people’s opinion of this legislator.
3. John McCain
His popularity with some people is up, but likely not his typical voter base. | Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images
Voting against Republican on the Obamacare repeal made McCain a hero to many, but his long senatorial service has had its ups and downs. A brain cancer diagnosis means his tenure may soon be coming to an end, but the diagnosis isn’t necessarily swaying voters’ opinions of him. Morning Consult polling shows his 44% disapproval rating makes him one of the most unpopular senators in the land.
Next: We’re not going too far to find our next hated senator.
2. Jeff Flake
He isn’t seeking re-election because of his opposition of Trump. | Ralph Freso/Getty Images
As an anti-Trump senator in a state Trump won in the 2016 election, Flake is one of the most unpopular senators in the U.S. But he won’t have to worry about taking shots from the President for long as he isn’t seeking re-election in 2018. That news might not keep the White House from going after Flake, but it means he can vote any way he wants without worrying about the political fallout.
Next: This long-serving senator is the most hated of all.
1. Mitch McConnell
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As a major voice in the Republican party, McConnell draws plenty of ire in good times and bad. Things haven’t been great for the Republicans lately, which means it’s not going well for McConnell, either. A full 55% of Kentucky voters disapprove of McConnell (which makes you wonder just how he’s been serving in the Senate since 1985), but they won’t have a chance to do anything about it until 2020. No word on whether the University of Louisville or the University of Kentucky will rescind the degrees he earned due to his unpopularity.
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» Campaign » Assets of Community Value
If you love your local pub and want to protect it from demolition or change of use, make sure to list it with your local Council as an Asset of Community Value (ACV). You can nominate as a CAMRA Branch, as an informal group of 21 local people or as a Parish Council.
Please note that our Branch area is covered by both Cheltenham (CBC) and Tewkesbury (TBC) Borough Councils.
We are working with local community groups to facilitate listing Cheltenham Pubs as Assets of Community Value. Below lists out the current status in the branch. Unless otherwise stated, the listing has been instigated by Cheltenham CAMRA. If you wish engage us to help list your local please email our pubs officer at pubs@cheltenhamcamra.org.uk
Any updates to this list will be annotated with a (*) and described at the bottom of the page.
Pub Status
The Adam and Eve, Townsend Street Approved 24 March 2016
The Beaufort Arms, London Road Approved 24 March 2016 (1) (3) (7) (9)
The Bell, Shurdington ACV submitted to TBC
The Cheese Rollers, Shurdington ACV submitted to TBC
The Maple Leaf, Hewlett Road (2) (6) Approved 24 March 2016
The Kemble, Fairview Street Approved 27 July 2015
The Kings Arms, Gloucester Road Approved 27 July 2015
The National Hunt, Benhall Avenue Approved 24 March 2016
The Old Restoration, High Street Approved 24 March 2016 (4)
The Royal Union, Hatherley Street Approved 24 March 2016
The Plough, Prestbury Approved 24 March 2016
The Ryeworth, Charlton Kings Removed June 2016 (5)
The Russell Arms, Hales Road ACV submitted to CBC
St Pauls Tavern, St Pauls Road Approved 14 April 2016
The Shutters, Gotherington ACV submitted to TBC
The Somerset Arms, Moorend Street Approved 24 March 2016
The Swallow, Bishops Cleeve ACV submitted to TBC
The Umbrella, Orchard Way Approved 24 March 2016
The Wheatsheaf, Old Bath Road Approved 24 March 2016
(1) Update (April 16). Owners Wadworths have issued an “Intention to Dispose” notice on The Beaufort Arms.
(2) Pub listing by Fairview Community Association (FCA).
(3) Update (July 16) . The pub has been bought and is now trading again.
(4) Update (July 16) . The owners have issued an “Intention to Dispose” notice on The Old Restoration
(5) Update (July 16) . The ACV listing was removed after no community group expressed an interest in purchasing it within 6 months of the ITD notice.
(6) Update (December 16) . The FCA did not object to the planning proposal which will see the building converted to a retail space (for community usage) and 7 flats.
(7) Update (February 2017) . The ‘freehold’ of the pub has been re-advertised for sale.
(8) Update (Autumn 2017). A planning application to convert the pub into flats was granted in late 2017.
(9) Update (January 2018). A planning application for conversion of part of the pub into flats was approved. At the time of writing, the pub is still empty and it is likely the developer will say its unviable and request to convert that too.
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Spireites draw at Harrogate
Chesterfield were unable to hold onto their lead given to them by Jonathan Smith, as a late Aaron Williams equaliser denied the Spireites an away win at Harrogate on Saturday.
Martin Allen made two alterations to the team that drew away at Sutton United on Tuesday night. Zavon Hines and Will Evans came into the starting XI, with Jerome Binnom-Williams and Tom Denton dropping to the bench.
Chesterfield started positively as the ball fell to Joe Rowley outside the box in the early stages, after good work down the right by Alex Kiwomya. Unfortunately for the Spireites, the midfielder’s first-time effort rose over James Belshaw’s crossbar.
The home side created a chance of their own when George Thomson picked up the ball around 20 yards from goal. He struck his shot well, but it was straight at Callum Burton who made a comfortable save.
Harrogate manufactured another opportunity as Thomson put in a dangerous cross into the area from the right-hand side. The cross found Jack Muldoon who volleyed first time, but his effort flew over the crossbar.
Burton was brought into action with five minutes of the first half remaining, as Joe Leesley let fly with an effort from inside the Spireites’ penalty area. Luckily for Chesterfield Burton got down quickly to his left to stop the forward’s strike.
The Spireites took the lead in the 57th minute after substitute Jerome Binnom-Williams capitalised on some poor defending by Harrogate on left of the penalty area. Binnom-Williams played the ball across goal and Smith was there to tap home his third goal in as many games.
Liam Kitching was given a chance to get the home side level, as he rose highest to get his head on a cross from the left. However, he could only put his effort wide of Burton’s left post.
Harrogate kept putting pressure on the away side in the final few minutes, with numerous corners and crosses into the box having to be cleared by the Chesterfield defence.
Unfortunately for the Spireites, Harrogate managed to grab a late leveller in the final minute of added time. A corner from the right-hand side was put into the box and the ball fell to Williams, who put the ball past Burton and into the net (90+7).
Chesterfield: Burton, Hines (Denton, 59), Muggleton, Weston, Smith, Evans ©, Shaw (Reid, 79), Hollis, Rowley, Maguire, Kiwomya (Binnom-Williams, 53)
Subs (unused): Nelson, Fortune
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“My art philosophy is still in the works. I am still, and will always be, learning about what art is, is not, and what makes great art. I certainly believe that art is an essential aspect of being human due to the biblical idea of our Imago Dei (image of God). And since I’ve been viewing old and contemporary art, I come to the conclusion that great visual art tends to cause a sense of awe and wonderment in the viewer, immediately or delayed. Great art, for me, stops time for a moment, and reminds us that life, and this world we experience, is indeed intentionally special. I am particularly drawn to the historical legacy of paint on canvas. The immaterial impact that colored pigment smeared on a surface has on a person fascinates me. My work deals with a deep commitment to aesthetic integrity using traditional painting techniques, and my current body of work continues my basic investigation of portraiture and its ability to present different ideas. Through intense observation and subtle decisions made during my creative process, I draw out my particular view of the world. When I paint a portrait, I aim to capture a truth about the subject’s life as well as mine, it is a search to discover ways to nourish the eyes and the soul. My subjects dominate the picture plane to create an intimate space with the viewer and initiate a casual confrontation. Lastly, I choose to paint people whose lives are characterized by a counter cultural view of the world, hoping to push it in a better direction through the arts.”
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Microsoft to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 billion; LNKD shares jump 47%
Published Mon, Jun 13 20163:56 PM EDT Updated Mon, Jun 13 20163:56 PM EDT
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LinkedIn 'jump starts' Microsoft cloud dream: Cramer
Microsoft makes big splash with $26.2B LinkedIn deal
Microsoft buying LinkedIn in $26.2B deal
Microsoft to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 billion
Microsoft announced a $26.2 billion deal on Monday to acquire professional social platform LinkedIn for $196 per share.
Shares of LinkedIn surged 47 percent after the announcement to near $193, while Microsoft's stock was down 3.2 percent. Trading in Microsoft had been halted briefly for news pending before the announcement of the all-cash deal.
Moody's Investors Service placed Microsoft's "AAA" rating under review for downgrade following the deal announcement. Standard & Poor's though, reaffirmed its "AAA" rating, and said it maintains all other ratings and a "stable outlook" on the company.
Jeff Weiner will stay on as CEO of LinkedIn and will report to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The deal was unanimously approved by both companies' boards, and is expected to close by the end of the year. The acquisition is still subject to approval by LinkedIn shareholders and regulators.
"The LinkedIn team has grown a fantastic business centered on connecting the world's professionals," Nadella said in a statement. "Together we can accelerate the growth of LinkedIn, as well as Microsoft Office 365 and Dynamics as we seek to empower every person and organization on the planet."
In a statement to LinkedIn employees, Weiner said "little is expected to change" and employees will have the same titles and managers.
"The one exception: For those members of the team whose jobs are entirely focused on maintaining LinkedIn's status as a publicly traded company, we'll be helping you find your next play," Weiner said. "In terms of everything else, it should be business as usual. We have the same mission and vision; we have the same culture and values; and I'm still the CEO of LinkedIn."
"This is a great deal," said Ivan Feinseth, CIO at investment firm Tigress Financial Partners, told CNBC's "Squawk Box." He said his company publishes research on Microsoft.
"LinkedIn is the ultimate business social platform. You have everybody on this, from interns and college students on up to the biggest CEOs," Feinseth said. "This is a good way for Microsoft to expand in social platforms."
Some analysts had speculated that Microsoft might buy Salesforce.com as a cloud play. Feinseth said an eventual Salesforce.com deal could still happen." Microsoft has the resources ... the cash ... the balance sheet ... and the borrowing ability to acquire a lot more."
Mark Hawtin, investment director at GAM, told CNBC's "Closing Bell" that he thought both companies benefited in the deal.
"[Microsoft] can now provide this social fabric which I think is going to be so important in this network economy," said Hawtin, who owns shares in both companies through his firm's funds. "For LinkedIn, I think it also gives them a chance to have a jump start to move the business more rapidly."
Shares of LinkedIn had peaked in the past year at $258.39. The stock is down more than 14 percent year to date, and 10 percent in the past year. LinkedIn, which has more than 400 million members, acquired online education company Lynda.com last April. It rolled out a new version of its Recruiter product this year, which the company said increased membership, engagement and financial results.
Shares of Microsoft traded near $50 on Monday, down from their 52-week high of $56.85. The company's stock has gained more than 8 percent year over year.
Correction: Microsoft is buying LinkedIn for $26.2 billion. That figure was briefly misstated in one headline reference on an earlier version of this article.
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The Department of Art and Art History offers courses of study in the history, theory, and practice of the visual arts for the general liberal arts student as well as majors in either art history or studio art or minors in Architectural Studies or Museum Studies. Such study empowers students to appreciate creativity within our visually saturated world as well as to appreciate the ways in which works of art from the past inform human values and understanding around the globe. Majors in the department have gone on to successful careers both within and outside of the arts, some examples of which may be found at Success after Colgate.
The department offers more than 20 courses that trace the visual arts from antiquity to the present day. Class lectures and discussions are supplemented by visits to museums in the area and in New York City, as well as Colgate’s Clifford Gallery, Picker Art Gallery, and Longyear Museum. In this way, students increase their understanding of the visual arts as expressions of fundamental cultural values.
Courses in the practice of art provide instruction in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, video art, printmaking, and digital art. These courses are designed to explore creative visual modes of expression and to help the student gain familiarity with contemporary issues in the visual arts. Studio practice is augmented by a weekly lecture series, gallery exhibitions, film and video screenings, and guest artists.
Students interested in pursuing study with studio or art history are encouraged to begin work in the department as soon as possible. ARTS 100 (also offered as FSEM 160) is a prerequisite for all further studio work and should be taken in the first year and preferably in the first semester. In Art History, students are encouraged to enroll in a 100- or 200-level course in the first year and preferably in their first semester.
Students interested in receiving more information about the study of Visual Arts should contact the chair, Professor Kaimal (pkaimal@colgate.edu).
Courses in Architectural Studies concentrate on the study of historical architecture in a wide range intellectual, social, and political contexts. Participation in the Architectural Studies minor concentration is supportive of both those students seeking to go on to Architecture School and students seeking to increase their understanding of the ways that human values and culture help shape our built environment. First year students interested in Architectural Studies are strongly encouraged to take ARTS 100 (also offered as FSEM 160) and ARTS 105, Introduction to Architecture, in their first year.
The Department of Art & Art History now offers an interdisciplinary minor in Museum Studies. Courses are drawn from listings across campus, and may address a range of topics, including actual museums (their histories, architecture, operations, politics, ethics, etc.), collective memory, institutional critique, heritage, cultural property, or public history. Courses may also count toward the program if a substantial part of their pedagogy is object-based.
The minor program consists of 5 courses and a practicum or internship, which can be fulfilled at the Picker Art Gallery or Longyear Museum of Anthropology during the academic year or over the summer, or at any other suitable museum during the summer. Museum Studies faculty will help students in the program identify practicum/internship opportunities and sources of funding, if necessary.
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ARTS 100, Introduction to Studio Art
Introduces creative thinking and problem solving, the challenges of visual representation and expression, and critical method. Students will become familiar with contemporary and historical artistic practices and theoretical frameworks, as they engage in a series of studio based investigations exploring a variety of mediums and materials. ARTS 100 lays important groundwork for students interested in continuing in studio art or concentrating in Art and Art History. In the spirit of the liberal arts, the visual thinking and creative processes central to the course are relevant to a range of other disciplines as well. Attendance at our regularly scheduled ARTS Lecture Series is required. Material cost is $50–$100. This course is a prerequisite for all 200 level studio courses.
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Focuses on key artworks from ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Islamic world, and the European Middle Ages. Examines how visual languages developed to communicate ideological messages about various people’s relationships with their gods, their rulers, their subjects, their enemies, and each other. Also serves as an introduction to the discipline of art history, training students for more advanced art history courses by teaching basic vocabulary and techniques of close looking and analytical thinking about visual material.
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Examines certain subjects and styles in order to comprehend the roles of art shaping our understanding of the Himalayas, the area designated by the impressive mountain range dividing the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan plateau. Students also consider art within complex political events that have occurred there.
ARTS 205, Landscape - 19th Cent Europe
Landscape is the place where everything happens. Students study all the arts of landscape in Europe during the period covered: painting, poetry, garden design, selected prose writings, etc. Emphasis is on the exchange of artistic energies between nations, especially, but not exclusively, between Britain and France. From Romanticism (Wordsworth, Blake, Goya) to Impressionism and the Symbolists such as Gauguin, landscape becomes the testing-ground for insights not only into nature, but also into the character of being human.
ARTS 212, Destroying Images
Considers the development of collections of South Asian art spanning the period of colonial collecting through the twentieth century. What resulted from shifting definitions of South Asian art as art when American museums began to develop significant collections in the 20th century? How did new trajectories of collecting develop as a consequence of the achievement of independence by India? And how did new concerns in the Cold War era ranging from politics to beatniks spark further interest?
ARTS 246, From Emperors to Anime
A focus on East Asia's pictorial arts — especially paintings and prints, but also film and new media — from prehistoric times through the 21st century. This chronological survey begins with China, switches to Japan after the mid-term break, and spends the last few classes comparing these regions and taking a longer view of each. Student work focuses upon close analysis of visual materials and scholarly essays, and on the challenges of integrating visual and verbal information.
ARTS 255, Museum Exhib: Design, Rhetoric
Takes advantage of special learning opportunities that arise in conjunction with temporary museum exhibitions and/or permanent installations. Normally focuses on at least two related exhibitions that are currently on view either on Colgate’s campus or at nearby institutions. Students will meet with curators to learn about the exhibit and the decision-making process behind it. Students will examine how museums use wall text, labels, juxtapositions, frames, cases, lighting, architecture, and, above all, their choices of what to include and exclude, to craft particular narratives and encourage particular interpretations of objects and historical phenomena. May also include a hands-on practicum as well, giving students the opportunity to curate and install a real exhibition of their own design.
ARTS 260, Social Practice Art
An introduction to Social Practice Art that covers a selection of practices and methodologies, including participatory art, public art, the role of research, performance, interventionist works, eco-art, political art, and community-based works. Students consider local, global, systemic, networked, and cultural contexts for their work, which might expose, solve, or complicate political or social conflicts. Issues of form, ethics, exhibition, the role of the studio, and the role of the artist in society are addressed in the context of larger discourses in 21st-century contemporary arts practice, where context is often researched prior to generating the form and content of the art work. Students are encouraged to explore practices beyond the basics; group and individual projects require both rigorous concept development and demonstrated concern with relational form.
ARTS 277, Modern Architecture 1880-1970
Studies the emergence of a self-consciously modern architecture in European and the United States at the turn of the 20th Century, follows its maturation in the interwar period, and explores its international proliferation following World War II. Students become familiar with many key buildings and architects as well as the theory associated with them.
FSEM 160, Introduction to Studio Art
Professor Godfrey
A studio-based introduction to methods artists use to model their relationships to the world, themselves and culture. Grounded in careful observation, we will examine how artists construct a point of view, physically, psychologically, socially and politically. We will investigate image construction –including exercises in composition, color, collage, translation between media, and the production of meaning; manipulating materials –stressing craft, embellishment, surface, texture, use of tools, and the use of material metaphor; time – a project that encourages students to address linear and non linear narrative; art as Idea – language and visual expression, conceptual art, art as system, chance effects, ephemeral art, art as a critical activity and alternative places and/or roles of artistic practice in our culture. We will draw on examples from disciplines other than artistic, forms other than fine art, and cultures different from our own. A series of short writing assignments and a substantial research project on an artist will be integral to the course.Students who successfully complete this seminar will receive course credit for ARTS 100 and will satisfy one half of the Human Thought and Expression area of inquiry requirement.
Professor DeWitt Godfrey, in his 17th year at Colgate University, did his undergraduate work at Yale University, was a member of the inaugural group of CORE Fellows at the MFA Houston, and received his MFA from Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Arts Artist’s Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists Fellowship, a Japan Foundation Artist’s Fellowship, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Artist Fellowship. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas and the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York. His commissioned work includes “Capital” in Seattle, WA; “Concordia” for Lexarts, Lexington, KY; “Quake” Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, MA; “Enspire” Traverse City, MI and installations at Frederik Meijer Garden and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI; The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; and the Kennedy Art Museum, Ohio University, Athens, OH. “Odin” completed in 2014 (installed between Olin Hall and the Ho Science center) in collaboration with architect and engineer Daniel Bosia and mathematicians Tomaz Pisanski and Thomas Tucker and supported by the Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute at Colgate University, marked an important turning point in his work. He continues to develop and refine these explorations in digital design and fabrication for municipal, institutional and private clients across the country.
FSEM 162, Architecture and Conflict
Professor Guile
Architecture in Conflict and Cataclysm
Studies the impact of conflict and cataclysm on global architectural heritage c. 1400 to the present. The April 2019 fire at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris is generating a vigorous debate about how (and how fast) to respond to the loss of historic architectural heritage. The contemporary architecture of Daniel Libeskind and Frank Gehry is always accompanied by dialogue about the nature of creative intervention and a local community's desires and expectations. Local stakeholders are working together with international agencies to assess and rebuild damaged heritage in Syria and Iraq. The 2004 reconstruction of the sixteenth-century Mostar Bridge aimed to heal the religious divisions of the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the Second World War, inhabitants of Warsaw had to decide on which image of their city to revive in reconstruction activities. Students study these case studies and others about the destruction, reconstruction, and preservation of architectural heritage. Students discuss religious iconoclasm, revolution, tactical destruction and cultural cleansing, monuments and memorialization, architectural reconstruction and “facadism,” looting/art theft, accident and natural disaster; the politics of representation will also figure prominently. What can we learn from these histories? How have the issues been theorized by practitioners? How do local communities participate? What is the future of historic preservation? Assignments will include short essays, a research project, and collaborative presentations. Students are also introduced to research fundamentals. Students who successfully complete this seminar will receive credit for a 200-level ARTS course and satisfy one half of the Human Thought and Expression area of inquiry requirement.
Professor Carolyn Guile’s research is focused on East-Central European arts and architecture, European architectural theory, and art historiography of the early modern period. Current projects include a study of cultural tradition, inheritance, and identity in the Renaissance and Baroque periods in Poland-Lithuania. She also writes on the impact of conflict on cultural heritage. She is Co-Director of Colgate's Center for Freedom and Western Civilization and Executive Officer for Red Arch Cultural Heritage Law & Policy Research.
FSEM 163, Intro to Architecture
Professor McVaugh
The seminar will enrich and sharpen your understanding of buildings and the built environment. We spend most of our lives immersed in that environment without being really attentive to its qualities. Students develop techniques for seeing architecture clearly and analytically. Students build a conceptual framework and vocabulary that will enrich your appreciation of environments you know well; at the same time it will make you more astute as you visit unfamiliar places. Moreover, through a number of case studies, including St. Peter's in Rome, the Ise Shrine in Japan, and Washington, D. C., we will explore the myriad ways in which the built environment reflects and influences culture and history. Extensive use will be made of the campus as an architectural laboratory. Students who successfully complete this seminar will receive course credit for ARTS 105 and satisfy one half of their Human Thought and Expression area of inquiry requirement.
Professor Robert McVaugh is an art historian with research interests in Modern European Art and Modern Architecture. He is currently researching the Architectural History of the Colgate Campus.
HIST 120, Intro to Museum Studies
Introduces students to the rich interdisciplinary array of historical, theoretical, and practical topics that comprise this fast-growing field. Major themes include the history of museums from cabinets of curiosity to the Museum of Modern Art; the post-colonial critique of museums; and the practical aspects of museum management, education, and curating.
Museum Studies Courses
ANTH 103, Introduction to Archaeology
Introduces students to the basic concepts and issues of archaeology today through an examination of both method and theory. Topics include data analysis and interpretation, culture history, prehistoric technology and settlements, and cultural resources management.
HIST 251, The Politics of History
While the discipline of history is often approached as a collection of static, undisputed facts, the past is constantly re-interpreted and re-written to suit the needs of those living in the present. Far from being an apolitical exercise or a straightforward empirical investigation, history is contested and hijacked by individuals and groups who seek to use it to advance their interests and promote their agendas. History is not only subject to intense and divisive public debates, it frequently appears at the center of both latent and active inter-group conflicts. Through close readings of key texts and hands-on engagement with contemporary case studies, this course aims to provide a broad overview of the politics of history. The scope of the course is global, and the methodological approach is multi-disciplinary, spanning such fields as history, political science, public and international affairs, memory studies, museum studies, and peace and conflict studies. (TR)
MUSE 120, Intro to Museum Studies
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We are carrying out a review of quality at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. We will publish a report when our review is complete. Find out more about our inspection reports.
Overall summary & rating
Updated 10 April 2018
We rated caring at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital as outstanding. We rated safe, effective, responsive, and well-led as good.
All the departments we inspected had improved from requires improvement to good.
The Hospital environment was clean. Equipment was clean and maintained.
There were effective infection prevention and control measures in place.
Patient records included risk assessments and care plans were complete.
Good medicines management processes were embedded in practice.
Staff followed treatment protocols and national guidelines
Staff showed patients dignity, respect, care and emotional support and were helpful to patients and public in corridors.
Care was planned to meet patients’ needs.
The Hospital met national access standards for A&E 4 hour waits, most Referral to Treatment (RTT) and Cancer.
Divisional leadership which was across both sites was effective.
Staff were proud to work for the Hospital and were supported.
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Well-led
Checks on specific services
Medical care (including older people’s care)
Our rating of this service improved. We rated it it as good because:
The Hospital made improvements in most of the areas above that we told them they must improve following the inspection in 2014.
There had been a review of staffing requirements for level two patients in AAU, the call bell system had been refurbished, there was evidence of sharing of learning from incidents, and there was regular review of the risk register with appropriate mitigating actions being indicated.
Overall, medicines were managed and stored appropriately across medical wards.
Staff demonstrated knowledge of safeguarding processes and were able to effectively escalate safeguarding concerns.
The senior divisional team used a ward accreditation scheme to monitor quality and safety performance in each inpatient ward. The results were used to identify areas of good practice and areas for improvement.
Although staff vacancies remained a challenge for the service, ward managers and senior nurses actively addressed recruitment and retention using various initiatives.
The work of the Hospital at night team mitigated the risk related to low junior doctor cover on medical wards at night.
Staff provided care and treatment in line with national guidance and good practice. The service monitored the effectiveness of care and treatment through continuous local and national audits.
Staff competencies were monitored by practice development nurses (PDNs) working within medical services who we found to be passionate and keen to improve the service.
There was effective multidisciplinary team (MDT) working, which was embedded into practice in all the areas we inspected.
Staff were knowledgeable about and demonstrated a good awareness of consent, mental capacity and the Mental Capacity Act (2005). This was evidenced in our conversations and from looking at patient records.
Staff treated patients and their relatives with kindness, compassion, respect and dignity.
Between September 2016 and August 2017, five of eight medical specialties performed better than the national average for referral to treatment within 18 weeks.
There was a clear vision and strategy for the service and senior staff understood their responsibilities in carrying out the strategy.
There had been an improvement in relation to staff engagement by senior teams. In 2014, we told the Hospital staff engagement needed to improve.
Leadership and governance processes had been simplified and were clearly structured and this encouraged effective governance from board level to ward level.
Risks identified on the risk register had appropriate actions to mitigate them and had been reviewed regularly. This meant the service had taken action in response to our 2014 recommendations.
There had also been an improvement in relation to service leading being aware of the risk faced by staff and patients on the wards.
Similar to the findings in 2014, not all agency staff had access to the electronic patient records.
Due to staff shortages, ambulatory emergency care (AEC) staff were not always able to follow up patients requiring urgent investigation or ongoing support following discharge from AAU.
There was variable completion of mandatory training. For medical staff, the trust target of 90% was met in one out of eight training modules. For nursing staff the target was met in four out of nine modules.
There was poor overall compliance with annual staff appraisals with only 64% of staff having been appraised from August 2016 to July 2017.
From July 2016 to June 2017, the average length of stay for both medical elective and medical non-elective patients at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital was higher than the England average.
From August 2016 to August 2017, the Hospital had 91 complaints which took an average of 49 days to investigate and close. This was not in line with their complaints policy, which states complaints should be closed within 25 working days. Eighteen complaints remained open at the time of the trust’s submission.
Between September 2016 and August 2017 three of eight medical specialties performed worse than the national average for referral to treatment within 18 weeks.
On some medical areas, staff said they did not feel they were part of the service, for example the diagnostic centre.
Although the working culture was generally positive, some individuals said they did not feel supported by colleagues or senior staff on the wards.
Our findings reflect improvements in most of the areas we told the Hospital they must improve following the inspection in 2014. Although we found instances where staff had not managed or stored medicines safely or in line with the trust policy, overall there was appropriate medicines management across the medical service. Although we found that not all agency staff had access to electronic patient records, overall, our findings in relation to the safe domain were positive.
During our inspection, we spoke with 76 members of staff including health care assistants, doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and ancillary staff. Staff represented a range of roles and grades across all specialties and medical departments. We also spoke with the directorate leadership team, 34 patients and 15 relatives. We reviewed 23 electronic patient records, multiple paper records including bedside patient notes, 23 electronic prescription charts and various pieces of equipment. We also reviewed evidence sent to us before and after the inspection including minutes of meetings and audit results.
Services for children & young people
There was a good overall safety performance in the service and a culture of learning to ensure safety improvements. Staff were encouraged to report incidents and received timely feedback. There was evidence of learning from incidents, which was shared in a number of ways.
Clinical staffing was mostly well managed and there were processes in place to ensure safe staffing levels based on patient acuity. Their service had 24 hour consultant cover.
There were effective processes in place to assess and escalate deteriorating patients.
There was good compliance with infection prevention and control processes. Equipment was checked regularly and medicines were stored appropriately.
Staff had a good understanding of safeguarding and were aware of their responsibilities. The service had good multi-agency partnerships to share relevant safeguarding information.
Patient records were completed to a good standard.
There were effective processes to ensure that patients’ nutritional and pain management needs were met.
The trust had good performance in local and national patient outcome and performance audits. For example the Hospital NICU had the lowest perinatal mortality rate in the UK and the Hospital demonstrated the highest rates of breastfeeding at the time of discharge.
Staff were supported to develop and there was a culture of learning and teaching within the service.
There was effective multidisciplinary team (MDT) working both internally and externally to support patients’ health and wellbeing.
There was a clear research ethos within children and young people services.
There was a comprehensive range of information and support available for patients and their families and carers. Staff helped patients manage their own health.
Staff understood their responsibilities as set out in the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS).
Staff worked in partnership with parents and families. They demonstrated a patient-centred approach which encouraged family members to take an active role in their child’s healthcare. All staff interacted with patients and their relatives and carers in in a caring, polite and friendly manner. All of the people we spoke with were very happy with their care and treatment.
Staff spent time with children to help make their experience more comfortable, relaxed and home-like. They supported them after discharge with teaching and community support.
The service had a broad programme of emotional support services for children and young people and their families and carers. This included a variety of therapeutic support services. There were appropriate and sensitive processes for end of life care.
Young people were supported by a dedicated youth worker, who was trained in counselling and talking therapies. There was a dedicated play therapy team which incorporated play into clinical interventions and therapies.
The Hospital delivered a broad range of services for children and young people, including a number of highly specialist paediatric services. There was timely access to services and good overall compliance of 95% for referral to treatment times. Flow within the service from admission, through theatres, wards and discharge was mostly managed effectively.
There was very comprehensive provision to meet the individual needs of children and young people, including vulnerable patients and those with specific needs. There were efforts across the Hospital to make the environment more child-friendly and welcoming for young people.
The Hospital school was rated as ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted and teachers at the school provided educational and learning support to children and young people across the Hospital.
There was an established and stable leadership team in the CYP service. Staff told us senior leaders were visible, approachable and supportive. There was an inclusive and constructive culture within the services. We found highly dedicated staff who were very positive, knowledgeable and passionate about caring for children and young people.
The service used appropriate governance, risk management and quality measures to improve patient care, safety and outcomes. Senior staff understood their local challenges and demonstrated a desire to improve CYP services for the benefit of patients.
There was a clearly defined clinical strategy for the service up to 2020.
The service engaged with young people and parents and carers in the design of services. The trust had established a Hospital Youth Forum. There were examples of service co-design, for example parental involvement in the redevelopment of the NICU.
There was a very strong record of innovation in the Hospital’s children and young people services and the trust was internationally recognised as an innovator and leader in paediatrics and neonatology research.
During our inspection we found isolated instances where trust policies were not adhered to, for example in the safe management of controlled drugs and consent recording, and mandatory training completion.
There remained some challenges with clinical staffing vacancies, for example nurse staffing in the neonatal unit and on the paediatric burns unit. Managers were aware of these challenges and there were interim measures in place to ensure safety.
Some trust computer systems did not always work as effectively as they should, which impacted staff efficiency, for example the policy database and online learning platform. There was limited Wi-Fi network access in some areas of the Hospital.
Some staff felt the trust could do more to support them, for example staff with leadership and management responsibilities and healthcare assistants.
Some clinical areas were suboptimal, for example the paediatric high dependency unit (HDU) was not always used for its intended purpose and the paediatric ambulatory care unit did not provide a high quality experience for patients.
Updated 28 October 2014
The unit had sufficient numbers of nursing and medical staff on duty and there were effective procedures for safe care. The patient Safety Thermometer was not embedded but there were plans to develop this. Medicines were safely and securely stored. Patients received care and treatment according to national guidelines and there was good multidisciplinary team working to support patients. Patient and performance outcomes were compared across North West London but the trust had re-evaluated this and intended to participate in the Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre (ICNARC) from July 2014.
Staff cared for patients in a compassionate manner with dignity and respect. They involved patients and, where appropriate, their relatives in the care of the patient. Patients and their relatives were happy with the care provided. Emotional and spiritual support were provided. The leadership on the unit was visible and staff were passionate about providing excellent quality care. Governance arrangements supported assurance around quality, risk and safety. There was a culture that supported staff to develop innovative ways of working. Patients’ engagement was well developed through a range of feedback approaches.
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Our rating of this service improved. We rated it as good because:
Security measures had been improved in the mortuary since the last inspection in July 2014. Closed circuit television had been installed, free access was restricted to certain groups of staff and there was a signing in book to be completed.
Medical staffing had increased since the time of the last inspection.
In July 2014, we found there was not an effective system to identify patients who should have access to palliative care. During this inspection, staff told us they had training from the SPCT which meant they were more confident and better able to identify patients in their last year of life.
End of life care was embedded in practice throughout the Hospital. The specialist palliative care team provided training in a variety of forums and reinforced the message that end of life care was everybody’s responsibility.
There was early recognition of when a patient was in their last days or hours of life, at which point a compassionate care agreement would be completed and if they had complex symptoms, be escalated to the specialist palliative care team. This was an individualised care plan based on the five priorities of care of the dying patient. It was agreed with the patient and/or their next of kin. It supported staff to provide good quality of care for people who are dying. Each care plan was led and regularly reviewed by a named consultant and named nurse, supported by the specialist palliative care teams as required.
Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) orders we viewed were completed properly and reflected the information included in the patient’s mental capacity assessment.
There was adherence to national clinical guidelines and a culture of evidence based practice. There were local audits carried out which informed and improved practice.
22 wards were working towards Gold Standard Framework accreditation. The Gold Standards Framework (GSF) is a model that enables good practice to be available to all people nearing the end of their lives, irrespective of diagnosis. It enables frontline staff to provide a gold standard of care for people nearing the end of their life.
There was a comprehensive programme of training across the trust in relation to end of life care. This was delivered by members of the specialist palliative care team and included ‘pop up’ training on wards in areas of weakness identified in local audits.
There was strong evidence of good multidisciplinary working. This was in keeping with the message as put forward by the SPCT which was that ‘end of life care was everybody’s responsibility’. Training sessions were planned for clinical and non-clinical staff. Governance meetings were attended by a range of staff from different specialisms.
The chaplaincy team was an integrated part of the overall delivery of care to the dying patient.
Patients and their relatives told us they were fully included in discussions around their plan of care.
There were established governance systems in place which identified risk and monitored quality against national standards. Local audit outcomes informed actions as required to continuously improve end of life care standards.
There was good representation of end of life care at trust board level which was a public demonstration of the importance the trust place in good end of life care.
Staff had a clear vision for the direction in which the service should go and told us the leadership team was approachable and supportive.
The current information technology system did not fully support all aspects of record keeping. It did not allow for certain data to be collected and could not support coordinated care plans between the Hospital and GP.
A recent audit of DNACPR records showed there were certain areas which fell below the 100% target for certain standards.
There was inconsistency in how compassionate care agreements were completed.
Maternity and gynaecology
There were effective procedures that supported safe and effective care for women. Staff were caring and compassionate and treated women with dignity and respect. There were adequate numbers of staff to meet the needs of women. The shortage of midwives had been addressed and vacant posts had recently been recruited to. Staff had relevant training and a good awareness of safeguarding and child protection issues. National guidelines were being used but monitoring compliance needed to improve. Overall, outcomes for women were good, although the caesarean section rate was higher than the England average. There was good multidisciplinary working between hospital and community midwives and GPs and across hospital departments.
Women had choices during birth and were involved in decisions about their care and treatment. Staff on the unit were polite and friendly. We observed women being treated with dignity and privacy. The environment was clean and spacious. The atmosphere in the maternity unit was calm and peaceful. The antenatal department offered a comprehensive screening programme and the maternity urgent care centre had a triage (assessment and prioritising) system for women.
A new governance structure had been implemented in January 2014 and this had improved assurance around quality and safety but there needed to be better monitoring of action plans, and lessons learned from incidents needed to be effectively disseminated to all staff. The monitoring of compliance with guidelines through audit but action plans to address identified issues were not always developed and implemented. The leadership and culture within the department needed to improve to ensure there was effective joint working between doctors and midwives to support women having a reduction in interventions, and so that staff felt supported and listened to. The department demonstrated public engagement, improvements and examples of innovative practice
HIV and sexual health services
There were effective procedures to support a safe and effective service for patients. Clinical standards were adhered to and patients were appropriately involved in research and drug trials. The environment at clinics was clean and uncluttered. The clinics at 56 Dean Street and Dean Street Express were trendy, modern and bright. One patient representative told us the team had brought “sexual health and HIV services into the 21 century”. Patients described the service offered at each of the clinics as “exceptional”, “caring”, “confidential” and “quick”. Staff were highly trained and were compassionate and caring. They treated patients with dignity and respect and “normalised” conversations about sexual health. Staff worked in a multidisciplinary way to centre care around the patient.
Each location had identified the demographic of the people using their service and provided speciality clinics, outreach, community engagement and counsellors suited to the people using the service. The team constantly explored new and innovative ways to deliver the service. National guidelines were being used and most patients could access services at one of the locations within 48 hours. The service reviewed its performance through patient surveys and the patient champions. There was clear governance and strong leadership and staff at all levels felt involved in decisions and ideas that could help the division and individual locations run well. The service was well-recognised at local and national levels.
The overall completion rate for mandatory training for nursing staff at the Hospital had improved since the last inspection from 72% to 87%. Work was ongoing to raise this to the trust target of 90%. Electronic (E) learning was used for the majority of mandatory training.
Staff in the operating theatres and Treatment Centre followed the World Health Organisation (WHO) surgical safety checklist and five steps to safer surgery, and monitored this to make sure this was completed accurately.
Observations and a review of documents confirmed a minimum of four hourly national early warning scores (NEWS) were carried out and recorded recording for all patients.
Vacancy rates for nursing staff had improved. The Hospital reported an overall vacancy rate among nursing staff in surgery of 7% from August 2016 to July 2017. This was an improvement from the last inspection where the vacancy rate was 15%.
Junior surgical doctors reported no current gaps in the on-call rota and they said that they were supported well by their senior colleagues.
We saw improvements which showed that medicines were being stored securely. We also saw that tamper evident seals were in use for emergency medicines to ensure that they were readily available when needed and fit for use.
Patients and staff now had access to safety thermometer information, as it was presented on the patient safety and staffing boards in each ward.
The Practice Development Nurse (PDN) was heavily involved and engaged in developing new staff, and was particularly keen to impart high standards of documentation and care delivery. We saw that newly qualified staff were well supported by this process.
Multi-disciplinary (MDT) working was evident, such as collaboration between occupational therapists, physiotherapists and pharmacists. Staff working in Decontamination Services showed outstanding MDT working with the surgical teams.
We observed patients were looked after in a caring and professional manner. Most patients that we spoke with during this inspection were very complimentary about the level of care they had received.
Psychological support was provided to patients where needed. For example the Burns Unit had five psychologists who were able to provide support to patients who had experienced a burns injury. This service also included their relatives.
Patients scheduled for surgery had all been through pre-assessment and assessed by the anaesthetists to be fit for surgery.
From July 2016 to June 2017 the average length of stay for all elective patients at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital was 3.1 days, which is better than the England average of 3.3 days.
There were quiet facilities in the Hospital, which patients, relatives and staff could use in their personal time and space for reflection.
Staff at ward level were able to corroborate senior management’s accounts of being regularly present and involved at ward level and we were told by a senior manager that the Chief Operating Officer was very visible both on and off the rota for working clinically.
There were no individual strategies for each of the surgical specialities. However, we saw that the strategy for the surgical division was broadly linked to the trust’s three corporate strategies.
There were ongoing plans to increase private patient working within the NHS framework, with a potential increase in the operating capacity.
There was a transparent and open culture where staff escalated concerns, reported incidents and sought support from peers and seniors.
Access to mandatory training for nursing staff varied across wards and clinical areas with some staff having dedicated time to complete training whilst others having to undertake their training in their own time.
We looked at a total of 11 patient records. There were a number of different ways in which staff were recording medical data at the time of our inspection. This had the potential to cause confusion, given the combination of written notes and online notes.
We found issues with the monitoring of fridge and room temperature readings where medicines were being stored. Staff took minimum, current and maximum temperature readings each day however, we did not find evidence of action taken by staff when temperatures were found to be outside of the recommended range.
The service did not meet national standards for care and treatment in key areas, such as length of Hospital stay and perioperative assessments.
There remained some overlap in understanding of differences between mental capacity and mental health and this was mainly amongst junior nurses, though they were clearly aware of when and how to escalate to senior nurses.
The service had not achieved its referral to treatment (RTT) target for general surgery, oral surgery, trauma and orthopaedics and urology. However, it was meeting the target for: ENT, ophthalmology, plastic surgery and cardiothoracic surgery.
From August 2016 to August 2017 there were 160 complaints about surgery. The trust took an average of 57 working days to investigate and close complaints. This was not in line with the trust’s complaints policy, which states complaints should be completed within 25 working days. As of August 2017, there were 22 complaints still open and yet to be completed.
Urgent and emergency services
The department had undergone a £12 million refurbishment since the last inspection. The environment was clean and spacious and supported a positive patient experience. Patients waited in appropriate areas and were seen in individual bays for assessments and treatment. There was no additional capacity in the department to accommodate increased attendances.
Staff monitored patients who were at risk of deteriorating appropriately. Early warning scores were in use in both adult and paediatric areas.
There were good protocols in place for the recognition and management of sepsis. The department had adopted a traffic light system for sepsis screening and patients were escalated according to risk.
The department had increased their standard grade four or above doctor provision since the last inspection. The middle grade doctor rota was sufficiently covered so there was no use of locum doctors.
There was consistent recording of information within the patient records reviewed. This included good completion of risk assessments and pain scores. The recording of pain assessments had improved since the last inspection.
Manager supported staff and provided new staff with an individual induction plan to make sure the skills they brought to the team were recognised along with any training needs.
Staff were professional and care for patients in a caring and compassionate manner. Feedback from patients and relatives was positive.
The department had good performance against the four-hour wait time for admission, treatment or discharge between October 2016 and October 2017.
When staff decided to admit a patient, the number waiting between four and 12 hours for a Hospital bed was generally below the England average between December 2016 and November 2017.
There was a positive culture within the department and staff generally felt supported by managers.
Consultant cover did not meet the recommended 16 hours per day cover recommend for A&E departments by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM). Consultant provision was on the services’ risk register. However, the existing consultants were providing cover out of their existing consultant resources to ensure the service remained safe.
There were still some delays in patients being triaged. Patients were not always triaged in line with the recommended 15 minute triage target. However, during the inspection all patents we reviewed were triaged within 15 minutes.
Staff had difficulty accessing approved mental health professionals (AMHPs) out of hours to conduct mental health act assessments. This created delays and increased waiting times to discharge or transfer to other services for patients with mental health concerns in the emergency department.
We rated it as good because:
The department had improved how they managed incidents; there were clear processes in place for reporting and investigating incidents.
Staff had a good awareness of safeguarding and knew how to protect patients from abuse. Staff understood how to escalate safeguarding concerns and report incidents. Learning was shared effectively about safeguarding.
There was protection and support in place for women and children who had undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) or were considered to be at risk.
There were clear infection control procedures and an infection prevention and control lead. Staff were aware of their responsibilities around preventing infection.
There were clear protocols and procedures in place for assessing and responding to patients who became unwell in the department.
The department was visibly clean and there were cleaning schedules in use which were fully completed.
Medicines were managed safely and the Hospital audited their compliance with medicines procedures. Patients received the right medications at the right time.
Staff had a good understanding of mental capacity, deprivation of liberty safeguards and consent.
Patients we spoke with were universally positive about the care and treatment they received in the department.
The department met patients’ needs through a wide range of services; there were plans in place to improve patient access to the service.
Staff we spoke with were positive about the support they received from their managers and colleagues and there was good multidisciplinary team working.
There was a positive working culture in the department, staff we observed were friendly and helpful and proud to work at the Hospital.
We observed staff treating patients with kindness and compassion and there was emotional support in place.
Managers in the department felt that incidents were underreported by staff. Incidents were not reported promptly and we were not assured that learning was shared.
There was limited auditing of the performance of the department.
Failure to mitigate staffing shortages in ophthalmology had resulted in poor patient outcomes for patients undergoing injections for wet macular degeneration.
The department was not compliant with all referral to treatment targets across the reporting period.
There was limited evidence that people’s views and experiences were gathered and used to shape improvements to the department.
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Gone Bike Camping! Happy Memorial Day Weekend, get on your bike! #letsride
Posts will resume on Monday, unless my co-conspirators want to post in my absence.
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Ion launches Air Pro WiFi, helps you document your morning commute (video) [Engadget]
Ion's officially releasing its Air Pro camera that we put through its paces back in March. The sports shooter is designed to be strapped to a helmet or extreme-sports gear to document your extreme adventures in high definition. It'll also come with 8GB of free storage from MiMedia to share your death-risking achievements over the internet. Budget models are available starting at $230, but for the full package (with the WiFi module) it'll set you back $350 from today. Oh, and if you'd like to see what you're expected to do with the gear, you can head past the jump for test footage.
[See video at Engadget]
The Road to Hell: Will the war between motorists and cyclists ever end? [Metro UK]
The more extreme among each group believe the road isn't big enough for the both of them, but do cyclists and motorists have more in common than they think? Or will they continue to be at loggerheads for the foreseeable future? Metro talks to both sides to find out.
In the way or right of way? Cyclists and motorists continually battle for the road (Pic: Getty)
Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/899593-the-road-to-hell-will-the-war-between-motorists-and-cyclists-ever-end#ixzz1vvsRLCsu
Every day, there is a battle waging across Britain. In the red lane next to the kerb, an unruly gang straddle their two-wheeled devils, ready to spring into attack mode. Out in the middle of the road, meanwhile, a cocooned rabble prepares to give their bidding to evil, four-wheeled monsters.
Of course, that is a complete load of nonsense. But if blogs, radio phone-ins and Metro’s own letters pages are anything to go by, you could be forgiven for thinking that cyclists and motorists are at constant war with one another.
Public forums regularly teem with anger from both sides at the other’s behaviour. Bike riders complain about getting cut off and hit by drivers, while motorists accuse cyclists of going through red lights and ignoring the rules of the road. In the past few weeks, the negativity has moved into a higher gear.
First, the boss of taxi firm Addison Lee called for cyclists to be forced to pay road tax. ‘Get trained and pay up,’ said John Griffin, forgetting that the vast majority of cyclists already pay vehicle excise duty on the cars they also own. And that road tax was abolished… in 1937.
His comments outraged cycling groups, who called for a boycott of the company’s services.
Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/899593-the-road-to-hell-will-the-war-between-motorists-and-cyclists-ever-end#ixzz1vvsOEE4x
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Biking Columbus Blog - check it out!
A multimodal transit blog with a focus on cycling in Columbus, Ohio.
I'm a Columbus biker who believes in the utility of cycling. Bicycles are cheap alternatives to cars and gives you freedom from transit schedules.
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Uh-oh: Skinny Jeans Are Bad For Your Health [Gizmodo]
They might be a staple of the well-dressed geek's wardrobe, but skinny jeans aren't doing you any favors. In fact, they might be causing you real, physical damage.
ABC recently interviewed Dr. Karen Boyle from Greater Baltimore Medical Center, who has recently seen cases of women suffering pain from wearing tight jeans. She explains:
"This disorder is called Meralgia Paresthetica and it's a disorder that occurs when one of the nerves that runs in the outer part of a thigh gets compressed. The pressure on it causes symptoms of tingling, numbness and pain in the outer part of the thigh."
[Learn more at Gizmodo]
Athens entrepreneurs celebrate life through biking [College Green Mag]
Cycle Path offers a number of bicycle options to fit the needs of all patrons. Photo by CG Photographer Brenna Hettler.
By Katie Foglia, CG Lifestyles & People
Across the world, bikes have become a dominant part of culture. For many, learning how to ride a bicycle is a rite of passage, and the old cliché, “you never forget how to ride a bike,” has become a euphemism for revisiting past experiences. Now, biking has become more than just a cultural statement: it is an eco-friendly way of life.
Whether for recreational or functional purposes, the benefits of riding a bike can be expressed in many ways. Biking can improve environmental and personal health, reduces traffic jamming and has economic rewards, among incentives. In Athens, people have recognized its importance.
Athens resident David West bought his first cycling bike when he was 13, and competed in his first race at age 41. He has since competed in races in Athens and Nelsonville. “Biking gives you the freedom of being a kid again,” West said. “For me, it’s like being at church.”
[Read more at College Green Mag]
Nitto Albatross Bar via Rivendell Bicycle Works
This 55cm Albatross Bar is a fantastic bar: great looking, extra comfortable, good for all kinds of riding on and off road, and is the only bar of its type (a lightweight, swept-back, old-fashioned type) that accepts bar-end shifters. It's perfect for converting mountain bikes to comfortable all-around bikes. Lots of our Atlantis bikes go out with these bars. I/Grant have one like that, and I ride it everywhere, in all conditions.
If you ride a bike and have more than two or three of them, you ought to have this bar. It is the only bar in the world with this luscious look, this super quality, and that'll fit mountain bikey brake levers and bar-end shifters. You could just as easily set it up with mountain bike shifters, but it was designed specifically to work with bar-end shifters, and doing it that way frees up more room in front of the brake lever, for a good off-the-saddle climbing grip. I/Grant like riding this bar now, and ride it a lot (average 60 miles per week year round on it); and I just know it's the bar I'll ride full-time when I'm rickety, too.
Here's a good question: What's the diff btw this Albatross bar and the Dove bar, at lesss than half the price?
Answer: Alba is made of stronger aluminum (2014-T6, for those of you with metallugical backgrounds), polished better, about 2cm wider, and it fits bar-end shifters. The Dove bar is made for the Japanese market, for puttttting around on sidewalks and narrow streets, and for slight-framed riders. It's an excellent bar for many Americans, especially women and children.
The Alba bar opens you up more, fits the bar-end shifters, and both stronger and more beautifully finished.
If you want to use bar end shifters with this bar and your bike is 58cm or bigger then you'll probably need extra long shifter cables and housing.
Albatross bars have a 25.4mm stem clamp diameter.
You need the Nitto 26.0 to 25.4 shim (part#16-095) if you're gonna use this with a 26mm clamp stem. Stem, cork grips, brake levers, shifters not included.
Requires brake levers with 22.2mm clamp diameter.
Only available in 55cm wide. That's not as wide as it sounds. My 21-year old daughter has been riding hers since she was 14. Try it on a good bike. It's worthy of the best bike you own.
If you want to use bar end shifters with this bar and your bike is 58cm or bigger then you'll probably needextra long shifter cables and housing.
Nitto name: B352
[Rivendell Bicycle Works]
“REEL” by Yeongkeun Jeong – Storage within a triangle
‘Reel’ can transform the main triangle of the bike frame to store your belongings. The silicone stickers are attached onto the frame and the elastic band is wound up between them. Unlike common bicycle accessories, the flexibility of the band allows the user to express their style by customizing the shape of ‘Reel’.
[CIELBLEU]
Meet The Artists: Downtown Bike Tour with Reinigungsgesellschaft is Saturday, May 26th
MEET THE ARTISTS! Downtown public art BIKE TOUR Saturday
WHAT: In cooperation with the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA), Reinigungsgesellschaft has created “The Bus to the Future,” a temporary public art project that renames Downtown... Columbus bus shelters with issue-oriented titles and poses the question, “What would you call your bus line that leads your city to the future?”
Reinigungsgesellschaft will discuss their process while touring the sites near Broad and High streets on bicycle, giving their insights into the future of our community.
WHO: International artists Henrik Mayer and Martin Keil of Reinigungsgesellschaft
WHEN: Saturday, May 26, 10 a.m.
WHERE: Bike riders will meet at Cafe Brioso, 14 E. Gay Street in Downtown Columbus.
INFO: “The Bus to the Future” is one of 13 public art projects in FINDING TIME: Columbus Public Art 2012, which is taking place in public spaces, plazas, parks, streets, and alleys in a 360-acre area of the downtown surrounding the Statehouse and along the riverfront. These public projects will transform the downtown into an open-air gallery, where innovative and surprising public art accessible to all will create memorable experiences for downtown workers, residents and visitors. Project partners have commissioned 13 temporary site-responsive public artworks by international, national, and local artists who reflect the broad range of contemporary public art in multiple forms and media. Several projects involve multiple artists. More than 50 artists will create works over the course of the bicentennial year. Participating artists will create works about time with the goal of inspiring the community to think about their city in relationship to time, the chronology of life, and the notion of temporary and permanent.
Please visit www.ColumbusPublicArt.com or www.COTA.com for more information.
Primary project support for “The Bus to the Future” is from COTA. All sponsors, partners, and collaborators for Finding Time: Columbus Public Art 2012 are available at www.ColumbusPublicArt.com.
Finding Time: Columbus Public Art 2012
www.ColumbusPublicArt.com
[Facebook event]
Official trailer for "Recovering," the documentary film
2,000 sign petition railing against downtown bicycle lanes [Ottawa Citizen]
A group of Centretown residents has submitted a petition with more than 2,000 signatures demanding the removal of the segregated bike lanes on Laurier Avenue, between Bronson Avenue and Elgin Street.
Photograph by: Julie Oliver , The Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — A group of Centretown residents has submitted a petition with more than 2,000 signatures demanding the removal of the segregated bike lanes on Laurier Avenue, between Bronson Avenue and Elgin Street.
The petition was signed by local residents, business owners, service providers and visitors of Laurier Avenue West, who largely are concerned with the loss of parking spaces due to the bike lanes, said Janine Hutt, the Ccair of the Bay/Bronson Residents’ Action Group for Fair Access to the Road (BBRAGFAR).
“Not only were our buildings’ front entrances literally barricaded with concrete barriers, residents lost (parking) access to both sides of the street,” said Hutt.
[continue reading at Ottowa Citizen]
Balance: Unique Accident Insurance For Cyclists
As cyclists we all know that the ground is hard and at some point we will most likely hit it. Most of us have Major Medical Insurance to protect us from the cost associated with medical care necessary after a serious cycling accident.
However, Major Medical Insurance does not pay many costs associated with more serious injuries. That is why we created BALANCE Insurance for cyclists. BALANCE Insurance pays injured cyclists lump sum cash payments to fill the gaps not covered by Major Medical or Disability Insurance.
BALANCE Insurance was created by cyclists for cyclists. We have friends who have been severely injured while riding their bikes. Many of the costs associated with their accidents were not covered by Major Medical Insurance. Things like rehabilitative, nursing, and other care are very important for a full recovery and in most cases Major Medical has limited benefits for these services. Major Medical in most cases will pay nothing for having a house retrofitted or a car equipped to transport an immobile person.;
BALANCE Insurance pays lump sum cash benefits that can be used for these or any other expense. You decide, not us, how you use these dollars if you are in a covered accident.
Severe Traumatic Brain Injury $50,000/$250,000
Paralysis $50,000/$250,000
Death $50,000/$250,000
Hospitalization $100 per day
Coverage available in units of $50,000 up to $250,000
For less than the cost of a new set of tires, get BALANCE Insurance today and ride with the security of knowing that you and your family are protected from financial hardship as the result of a serious cycling accident.
[See more at Balance]
pedaldabs - better pedal! [Columbus, OH company]
Kurtis Meyer, bikedabs’ founder, worked at a small family-owned bicycle shop while he was in college. He designed and patented the pedaldab because he wasn’t satisfied with any available options for riding his bike with regular street shoes without switching pedals.
bikedabs products bear the “Made in the U.S.A.” logo as a symbol of our pride and commitment (the pedaldab was designed and is being produced in Ohio). We also use recycled materials wherever possible. For example, the plastic used to produce the pedaldab is recycled abs plastic.
pedaldabs is only the first bikedabs product. If you have an idea for a bicycle accessory product, we’d be happy to talk with you about getting it produced and distributed through bike shops nationwide. We have the capability at bikedabs to make your ideas a reality, open doors to the vibrant cycling industry, and help you get credit for it! Click on the Ideas link in the top menu to get started.
[Bikedabs]
Sheldon brown locking method potential flaw
Explore America: Inside Ohio's Beautiful Cuyahoga Valley National Park [Huff Post]
Memorial Day is upon us, which means that road trip season has arrived. AAA estimates that some 30.7 million people will drive to American destinations this year. A lot of these road warriors will end up driving through Ohio, a near inevitability for west-bound east coasters, and the smart ones will stop at one of the Midwest's few national parks to explore a patch of uncelebrated beauty.
Cuyahoga Valley National Park, which spans 33,000 acres along 22 miles of the Cuyahoga River between Cleveland and Akron, is the only national park in Ohio, but this national park offers something else a little unusual -- there's a historic railway that runs through it. The Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad offers visitors a way to take in the area's scenic views, feel a connectedness to nature and see the topography many Native Americans and settlers once roamed.
In 1880, the first steam railroad took a trip down the Valley Railway to deliver coal from Canton to Cleveland along with other goods and farm produce. The historic rails are now owned by the National Park Service and Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad bills itself as one of the oldest, longest and most scenic tourist excursion railways in America. You can take the train ride through historic sites and imagine riding back to a simpler time as you see fox, deer, beavers and owls. This can be a great way to spend some of the weekend with the family at just $15 a ticket for the whole day and $10 for kids.
[Keep reading at Huff Post]
America’s Top 50 Bike-Friendly Cities [Bicycling] Sadly Columbus is not in the list.
To determine our top 50 bike-friendly cities for 2012, we evaluated cities with populations of 95,000 or more, using data provided by the Alliance for Biking and Walking and the League of American Bicyclists, as well as input from local advocates and bike-ped coordinators. To make the list, a city must possess both a robust cycling infrastructure and a vibrant bike culture. Read on to find out how your city stacks up. —Ian Dille
Photo: Charles Gullung
1. Portland, OR
After being named runner-up in our last round of best bike city rankings in 2010, Portland reclaims the top spot. The only large city to earn Platinum status from the League of American Bicyclists is a paragon of bike-friendliness, with 180 miles of bike lanes and 79 miles of off-street bike paths. Always quick to embrace cyclist-friendly innovations, Portland was the first city in the United States to implement bike boxes at intersections and elementary-school bike commuting trains. Among the city's many bike shops is newcomer Go By Bike, which is located under the aerial tram and offers valet parking, rentals, and repairs.
Ride in Portland
[See the other 49 at Bicycling]
Biking Kenowa Hills seniors punished [WoodTV8]
Senior prank rolled over school officials' toes
By Joe LaFurgey
WALKER, Mich. (WOOD) - As high school seniors get set to walk commencement, toilets are exploding, lockers are getting graffitied and doors are getting super-glued.
The vandalism is part of the tradition known as senior pranks.
But a decision by Kenowa Hills seniors to do something a lot less harmful has drawn the ire of their principal.
The plan was to hold a bike parade as a nice, non-destructive, healthy senior prank.
Seniors called police for an escort, and even called Walker's mayor, who rode in the parade.
"Police escort, with the mayor, who brought us donuts. ...The mayor brought us donuts..." said a group of seniors following the ride.
But school official weren't told in advance, hence the word prank, and were not happy with the event.
They kicked the seniors out of school for their last day and threatened to keep them from walking in graduation ceremonies set for May 30.
Cellphone video caught audio of principal Katie Pennington in a post-prank gathering in the school's performing arts center.
"...Get your butts home. You're not participating in senior walk today."
[Keep reading at WoodTV8]
'The Kuramoto Model (1000 Fireflies)' To Coordinate Citywide Synchronized LED Light Network Via Bicycle (Huff Post]
Fireflies are the only species in North America that can synchronize their flashing light patterns; through a new project, bicyclists are soon to be the second.
The Kuramoto Model (1000 Fireflies) is a community-wide art piece by David Rueter, an MFA candidate in Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Through this project, 1000 flashing LEDs will be distributed to bicyclists who attend Northern Spark, an all-day, city-wide arts festival in Minneapolis. Riders will participate in a midnight ride on June 9 when the safety LEDs will sync up, resembling fireflies dancing in the night.
The project will perform the cooperation and unity of the urban social network, especially as it applies to the cycling community. The synchronization will highlight cycling as a system with unique patterns and effects while transforming the system momentarily through a large-scale community ride/ performance piece. We are big fans of Reuter's project, both for its focus on unity built from the individual and the possibilities of perception. Also, we imagine making 1000 flashing lights is no easy task. See the process in closer detail on Reuter's blog. Scroll down for our interview with Rueter on the project.
[continue reading at Huff Post]
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Danish sperm bank transports samples by sperm-shaped bike.
If you’re in Copenhagen, keep your eye out for this curiosity…
After explaining that this bike is for environmental friendliness, Peter Bower, CEO of Nordisk Cryobank, admits “We’re always looking for new donors so it’s a fine bonus that the Sperm Cell Bike gets peoples attention.”
I would say so.
[see more at TwentyTwoWords]
NY DOT’s Newest Bike/Ped Safety Campaign: “Heads Up” [Streets Blog]
DOT's newest PSA campaign urges cyclists and pedestrians to pay attention and follow the rules of the road.
“Heads Up.” That’s the Department of Transportation’s newest message for cyclists and pedestrians, whichwill appear on six billboards, 300 bus shelters and 250,000 coffee cup sleeves around the city.
The new campaign marks a more positive tone than DOT’s “Don’t Be A Jerk” campaign, which many cyclists felt unfairly stigmatized bike riders. It’s also an expansion of emphasis from that campaign, aiming to influence pedestrian behavior as well.
Cyclists are urged to use lights at night, yield to pedestrians, travel in the direction of traffic, and stop at reds (“because it’s always better to arrive fashionably late,” says the ad). Pedestrians are told to watch for turning cars while crossing the street and not to cross mid-block. We’re not too optimistic about the effectiveness of any PSA campaign to convince New Yorkers not to walk the straightest route between point A and point B.
[Keep reading at Streets Blog]
Bicycle Roundabout Houten Netherlands
Bicycling Will Save Americans $4.6 Billion in 2012 [Momentum Mag]
Bicycling Will Save Americans $4.6 Billion in 2012
by Duncan Hurd
sierraclub.org
Via bikeleague.org:
New data released by the League of American Bicyclists, Sierra Club, andNational Council of La Raza (NCLR) highlights the tremendous economic benefits of bicycling and its importance as a safe transportation choice that should be available to every U.S. resident.
New and key data highlighted in the fact sheet includes:
Bicyclists in the U.S. save $4.6 billion per year by riding, instead of driving
If American drivers replaced just one four-mile car trip with a bike each week for the whole year, it would save more than 2 billion gallons of gas.
From 2001 to 2009, Hispanics, African Americans, and Asian Americans took up biking at faster rates than other Americans, representing 21 percent of all bike trips in the U.S. in 2009.
“There are so many reasons more people are riding, from improving their health to protecting the environment,” said League President Andy Clarke. “But, especially in tough economic times, bicycling can also be an economic catalyst, keeping billions of dollars in the pockets of American families.”
“Biking is an important piece of a 21st century transportation system,” said Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune. “Biking reduces America’s dependence on oil and lets individuals bypass the gas pump, saving individuals money and protecting our health and environment from dirty oil pollution.”
“Bicycling is a crucial mode of commuting for many Latinos,” said Catherine Singley, Senior Policy Analyst at NCLR. “Federal transportation policy should ensure that biking is a safe and viable way to connect people to jobs.”
Widespread desire for-and widespread benefits to be gained from-bicycling make it an important part of a 21st century transportation system. Everyone who chooses to bicycle should have access to safe infrastructure that lets them take advantage of the economic benefits of bicycling.
Read the full report here (PDF).
[Original Article]
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What Is Moral, and How Do We Know It?
Almost every important tendency in modern thought has questioned the possibility of making moral judgments.
by James Q. Wilson
Almost every important tendency in modern thought has questioned the possibility of making moral judgments. Analytical philosophy asserts that moral statements are expressions of emotion lacking any rational or scientific basis. Marxism derides morality and religion as “phantoms formed in the human brain,” “ideological reflexes” that are, at best, mere sublimates of material circumstances. Nietzsche writes dismissively that morality is but the herd instinct of the individual. Existentialists argue that man must choose his values without having any sure compass by which to guide those choices. Cultural anthropology as practiced by many of its most renowned scholars claims that amid the exotic diversity of human life there can be found no universal laws of right conduct. In 1906, the sociologist William Graham Sumner declared that “the mores can make anything right”; 30 years later, the anthropologist Ruth Benedict popularized the phrase “cultural relativism.” All of science seems the enemy of moral confidence, because its method requires that we separate factual statements, which can be verified, from “value” statements, which cannot.
It is not easy to know how greatly these intellectual currents have affected the behavior of ordinary people. I am inclined to think that most people most of the time live lives of ordinary decency as they struggle to raise children, earn a living, and retain the respect of their friends. But we cannot dismiss the possibility that what many intellectuals have come to discredit some people will come to ignore. If morality is thought to be nothing but convention or artifice, then it will occur to those persons who are weakly attached to society and its rules that they are free to act as they wish provided they can get away with it. And if they would have broken the rules anyway, the relativism of our age makes it easier for them to justify their action by the claim that the rules are arbitrary enactments.
I wish to argue for an older view of human nature, one that assumes that people are naturally endowed with certain moral sentiments. We have a peculiar, fragile, but persistent disposition to make moral judgments, and we generally regard people who lack this disposition to be less than human. Despite our wars, crimes, envies, snobberies, fanaticisms, and persecutions, there is to be found a desire not only for praise but for praiseworthiness, for fair dealings as well as for good deals, for honor as well as for advantage. These desires become evident when we think disinterestedly about ourselves or others.
To say that there exists a natural moral sense (or, more accurately, several moral senses) is to say that there are aspects of our moral life that are universal, a statement that serious thinkers from Aristotle to Adam Smith had no trouble in accepting. In this view, cultural diversity, though vast, exotic, and bewildering, is not the whole story. In modern times, historians, philosophers, and anthropologists have sought for scientific evidence by which the existence of such universals could be proved; a few claim to have found it, but most feel that they have not. This has left most scholars skeptical about whether anything of universal significance can be said about our moral life. The box score has been something like this: Relativists 10, Universalists 1.
I am reckless enough to think that many conducting this search have looked in the wrong places for the wrong things because they have sought for universal rules rather than universal dispositions. It would be astonishing if many of the rules by which men lived were everywhere the same, since rules (or customs) reflect the adjustment of moral sensibilities to the realities of economic circumstances, social structures, and family systems. Hence one should not be surprised to find that the great variety of these conditions has produced an equally great variety in the rules by which they are regulated. Even so, some universal rules have been discovered: those against incest, for example, or against homicide in the absence of defined excusing conditions.
To find what is universal about human nature, we must look behind the rules and the circumstances that shape them to discover what fundamental dispositions, if any, animate them all in common. If such universal dispositions exist, we would expect them to be so obvious that travelers would either take them for granted or overlook them in preference to whatever is novel or exotic.
And so, indeed, it turns out to be with the most fundamental of those dispositions: the affection a parent, especially a mother, bears for its child and the desire to please that the child brings to this encounter. Out of the universal attachment between child and parent, the former begins to develop a sense of empathy and fairness, to learn self-control, and to acquire a conscience that makes him behave dutifully, at least with respect to some matters. Those dispositions are then extended to other people (and often to other species) to the degree that these others are thought to share in the traits we find in our families.
That last step is the most problematic, and as a consequence is far from common. Many cultures—especially those organized around clans and lineages rather than independent nuclear families based on consensual marriages and private property—rarely extend the moral sense, except in the most abstract or conditional way, to other peoples.
Because our moral senses are at origin parochial and easily blunted by even trivial differences between what we think of as familiar and what we define as strange, it is not hard to explain why there is so much misery in the world, and it is also easy to understand why so many people deny the existence of a moral sense at all. How can there be a moral sense if everywhere we find cruelty and combat, sometimes on a monstrous scale?
One rather paradoxical answer is that man’s attacks against his fellow man reveal his moral sense because they express his social nature. Contrary to Freud, it is not simply their innate aggressiveness that leads men to engage in battles against their rivals; contrary to Hobbes, it is not only to control their innate wildness that men create governments. Men are less likely to fight alone against one other person than to fight in groups against other groups. It is the desire to earn or retain the respect and good will of their fellows that keeps soldiers fighting even against fearsome odds, leads men to accept even the more distorted or implausible judgments of their peers, and persuades many of us to devalue the beliefs and claims of outsiders.
We all, I believe, understand this when we think of families sticking together against interlopers, friends banding together against strangers, and soldiers standing fast against enemies. But the affiliative drive is so powerful that it embraces people unrelated and even unknown to us. Patriotic nationalism and athletic-team loyalties are obvious examples, but the most important case—most important because it animates so much of history right down to the present—is ethnic identity.
We may bemoan what we sometimes think of as the “senseless” violence attendant on the conflicts that arise out of ethnic identity. But imagine a world in which people attached no significance to any larger social entity than themselves and their immediate families. Can we suppose that in such a world there would be any enlarged sense of duty, any willingness to sacrifice oneself for the benefit of others, or even much willingness to cooperate on risky tasks for material gain?
The political scientist Edward C. Banfield has portrayed a world something like this in his account of the peasants living in the southern Italian village of Montegrano (a pseudonym), where the unwillingness of people to cooperate in any joint endeavors kept them in a condition of the most extreme poverty and backwardness.
The reluctance of the Montegranese to cooperate was not the product of ignorance (many of the peasants were quite well-informed about local affairs), of a lack of resources (other peoples just as poorly endowed have created bustling economies), or of political oppression (they were free to organize, vote, and complain, but few did). The lack of cooperative effort, Banfield argued, was chiefly the result of a culture that made people almost entirely preoccupied with their families’ short-run material interest and led them to assume that everybody else would do likewise. Under these circumstances, there was no prospect of collective effort on behalf of distant or intangible goals. Whatever its source, this ethos of “amoral familism” prevented people from identifying and affiliating with any group larger than the nuclear family.
Yet if the Montegranese had acquired larger patterns of identification and affiliation such that common endeavors without immediate material benefit became possible, they would also, I suspect, have acquired a set of relationships binding them together against people who were dissimilar on a larger scale than the family: residents of other villages, northern Italians, non-Catholics, or whatever. Affiliation requires boundaries; a “we” must be defined on some basis if there are to be any obligations to it; and once there is a “we,” there will be a “they.” Truly parochial people may not engage in “senseless violence,” but then they may not engage in “senseless cooperation,” either.
Note, however, that even in Montegrano, adults cared for their children. They were not “amoral individualists,” despite the fact that child care was costly and burdensome; indeed, for these poor people, it was especially burdensome. Despite the burdens, the birth of a child was a joyous event and its illnesses a cause for great concern. As the children grew up, they were greatly indulged and inconsistently disciplined.
I have said that our moral senses are natural. By this I mean that they are to some important degree innate and that they appear spontaneously amid the routine intimacies of family life. Since these senses, though having a common origin in our instinctive sociability, are several, gender and culture will profoundly influence which of them—sympathy or duty, fairness or self-control—are most valued. And since these senses are to a degree indeterminate, culture will affect how they are converted into maxims, customs, and rules. In some places and at some times men cherish honor above all else; at other times and in other places they value equity. Often they restrict these sentiments to kith and kin; sometimes they extend them to mankind as a whole.
The fact that there is so much immoral behavior is not evidence of the weakness of the moral senses. The problem of wrong action arises because of the conflict among the several moral senses that exist, because of the struggle between morality and self-interest, and because of the corrosive effect of those forces that blunt the moral senses. We must often choose between duty and sympathy or between fairness and loyalty. Should I fight for a cause that I do not endorse or stand foursquare with my buddy whatever the cause? Does my duty require me to obey an authoritative command or should my sympathy for persons hurt by that command make me pause? Does fairness require me to report a fellow student who is cheating on an exam, or does loyalty require me to protect my friend?
The way we make those choices will, for most of us, be shaped by particular circumstances and our rough guess as to the consequences of a given act. Sociability has two faces. Our desire to love and be loved, to please others and to be pleased by them, is a powerful source of sympathy, fairness, and conscience. At the same time, this desire is a principle by which we exclude others and seek to make ourselves attractive in the eyes of friends and family by justifying our actions with specious arguments.
I write these lines not long after terrible riots wracked the city, Los Angeles, that I love. What struck me most forcibly about the behavior of those who looted and burned was not that they did it—looting and burning go on in many places whenever social controls are sufficiently weakened—but that invariably the participants felt obliged to justify it even when they faced no chance of punishment.
For while we act out of narrow self-interest much of the time, something in us makes it all but impossible to justify our acts as mere self-interest whenever those acts are seen by others as violating a moral principle. We want our actions to be seen by others—and by ourselves—as arising out of appropriate motives. And we judge the actions of others even when those actions have no effect upon us.
Though the moral senses make partially competing claims upon us, they all share—in their origin and their maintenance—the notion of commitment. Marriage differs from sexual congress because the former involves a commitment. Raising children in a family differs from raising them in a foster home or an orphanage in that the parents do so out of a commitment to the welfare of the child, whereas surrogate parents, however fond they may become of the child, are in part motivated by financial advantage.
The child instinctively wishes to please its parents but in time must learn that it is not enough to please them when they are watching; he is expected to please them when they are not watching as well, which will only occur if he is committed to them. When a child forms friendships, he takes on commitments to peers and expects commitments in return; they test these commitments with games and teasings that challenge one another’s self-control, sense of fair play, and obligation to honor the group and its members.
Similarly, employees are hired not simply in the expectation that every day their productivity will exceed their costs, but out of a desire to bring them into a commitment. Since the boss cannot closely supervise more than a few workers all of the time, he wants the workers to make a commitment that when he is not watching they will, up to a point, make his interests their interests. By the same token, employees do not view their employers simply as entities that pay wages, but also as people who have assumed obligations.
Commitments are both useful and honorable. We are fair both because we wish others to make commitments to us and because we condemn unfairness as a violation of a general social contract—a commitment—to treat others as deserving of respect. We develop self-control both because we wish our commitments to be taken seriously and because we view a lack of self-control as a sign that people are excessively self-indulgent. We are honest both because we wish others to accept our word and because we consider dishonesty to be a sign of wickedness. We avoid inflicting unjustified harm on others both because we wish no like harm to befall us and because we are aggrieved by the sight of innocent people suffering. We act as if we were sympathetic to the plight of others both because we wish our favors to be reciprocated and because we regard people who never display sympathy as wrongly indifferent to man’s social nature and our mutual dependence.
The economist Robert Frank has pointed out how many human actions that are otherwise puzzling (to an economist!) can be explained once we understand the practical value of commitments visibly made and “irrationally” obeyed. Why do we stick with a spouse even after a more attractive mate has become available, raise children through the years when the rewards seem nonexistent, keep bargains when it would be easy to evade them, and insist on a fair division when an unfair one would work to our advantage? And why have we done these things for centuries, suggesting that they have some evolutionary advantage?
The answer in part, says Frank, is that a person who makes and keeps commitments provides other people with a prediction of his future behavior: by his present behavior he is saying, “You can count on me.” Someone who can be counted on is likely to attract more opportunities for profitable transactions than is someone who, by past waffling on commitments, seems a poor risk.
But it is not enough merely to keep commitments. As Frank points out, a clever person could keep his promises only when breaking them were easily discovered. People thinking of offering a good deal to someone know this, and so must wonder whether his reputation for keeping commitments is deserved or faked. One important way that they decide this matter is by observing the emotions he displays when confronting a moral choice. Emotions communicate commitments more persuasively than arguments. One can contrive an argument, but it is much less easy (at least for most of us) routinely to fake love, guilt, indignation, or enthusiasm. In the long run, people displaying these emotions will get more offers of marriage, partnerships, and employment than people who seem calculating.
This may help explain why over the millennia the capacity for genuine emotion has survived as a fundamental part of human nature. But the evolutionary advantages of expressing genuine emotions are not the reason we express them on any particular occasion; these emotions for us are not strategic weapons by which we elicit better deals, they are—by definition—real feelings. They are moral sentiments.
For all their differences, many of the dominant ideologies and intellectual tendencies of the 19th and 20th centuries have had in common the replacement of the idea of commitment with the idea of choice.
Analytic philosophy replaced the idea of commitments arising out of moral intuitions with the idea of choosing among “values” which, in principle, were little different from the flavors of ice cream. Freudian psychoanalysis as popularly expressed offered us the prospect of understanding and thereby choosing to modify or even terminate the “repression” that supposedly lay at the root of our cruel superego. And Marxism, like most other secular ideologies, assumed that man could create a wholly new social circumstance for himself. He could choose not to be self-interested, he could choose cooperation without compensation, and he could choose equality over equity. When this Marxist theory did not prove to be self-executing, Marxist practice required that he choose to dull his sympathies in order to endure the horrors of forced collectivization, the gulag labor camps, and psychiatric hospitals used to “cure” people who refused to accept the vision of the New Soviet Man.
Benthamite utilitarianism reminded us of the truism that men choose pleasure over pain, but then added the dubious corollary that the pleasures they choose are equal in value if they are equal in their intensity, duration, certainty, and propinquity. John Stuart Mill struggled to correct this by describing some pleasures that were better than others, but, of course, saying that one pleasure is higher or better than another implies the existence of some standard other than pleasure by which to judge things. This is obvious to anyone who has sought pleasure in the reckless satisfaction of bodily appetites, only to discover that differences in the quality of pleasure affect our chances of finding true happiness. Among the higher pleasures are the satisfactions that come from honor, sympathy, and self-respect.
Choice is a magnificent standard, up to a point. Men have made it clear that they want freedom and will die for it. But the freedom they want is not unconstrained choice. It is, rather, the opportunity to express themselves, enrich themselves, and govern themselves in a world that has already been organized and defined by a set of intuitively understood commitments.
Ordinary people understand this very well, as when they insist that individual freedom is only meaningful in an orderly society. Political liberty, which is one of the greatest gifts a people can acquire for itself, is threatened when social order is threatened. It is dismaying to see how ready many people are to turn to strong leaders in hopes that they will end, by adopting strong measures, the disorder that has been the product of failed or fragile commitments. Drug abuse, street crime, and political corruption are the expression of unfettered choices. To end them, rulers, with the warm support of the people, will often adopt measures that threaten true political freedom. The kind of culture that can maintain reasonable human commitments takes centuries to create but only a few generations to destroy. And once it is destroyed, those who suddenly realize what they have lost will also realize that political action cannot, except at a very great price, restore it.
The idea of autonomous individuals choosing everything—their beliefs and values, their history and traditions, their social forms and family structures—is a vainglorious idea, and could only have been invented by thinkers who felt compelled to construct society out of theories. When Hobbes asked what could make government legitimate, he decided that the answer to that question required him first to explain what could make social order possible. Given his radically individualistic conception of human nature, he was inevitably driven to conclude that people had somehow agreed to establish a social order by a series of individual choices. But men are not born into a state of nature, they are born into a social compact that has long preceded them and without which their survival would have been impossible.
This can be put in the form of a thought experiment. Imagine people stripped of every shred of their social experiences and set loose in some Arcadian paradise, free to invent “culture.” What would emerge? If they were young boys, it might be something akin to the cruelties and tyrannies depicted in William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies. But if they were men and women, it would be something with strange customs, odd dress, and unfamiliar gods, yet invariably with familiar systems of infant care, familial obligation, kinship distinctions, and tribal loyalties.
The results of such a thought experiment cast doubt, in my mind, on the philosophical value of imagining a human being who is presocial, driven by a single motive, or unaware of the main and necessary features of social life. The contemporary philosopher John Rawls may ask us to imagine ourselves in an “original position” behind a “veil of ignorance,” but no human being is ever in such a position and, to the extent he is human, cannot possibly be ignorant. Hobbes may ask us to believe that man is driven by the fear of violent death, but were that our overriding concern we would not give birth to children or lavish so much care on them. Why should women risk death in childbirth or men and women expend so much effort on caring for something so perishable and whose protection increases their vulnerability to the predation of others? Rousseau may imagine an equally implausible alternative, man born with no inclination to civil society and corrupted by that society when it is invented and imposed upon him, but no such man can exist and, were he to exist, he could not learn goodness by reading Robinson Crusoe.
Moral and political philosophy must begin with a statement about human nature. We may disagree about what is natural, but we cannot escape the fact that we have a nature—that is, a set of traits and predispositions that set limits to what we may do and suggest guides to what we must do. That nature is mixed: we fear violent death but sometimes deliberately risk it; we want to improve our own happiness but sometimes work for the happiness of others; we value our individuality but are tormented by the prospect of being alone.
In short, human nature cannot be described by any single disposition. Efforts to found a moral philosophy on some single trait (the desire for happiness or the fear of punishment) or a political philosophy on some single good (avoiding death, securing property, maximizing freedom) will inevitably produce judgments about what is right. At some critical juncture, those judgments will be at odds with the sober second thoughts of people who will deliberate about what constitutes praiseworthy conduct and who will decide, out of that deliberation, to honor the hero who has risked violent death, to sympathize with the mother who has sacrificed one child to save another, and to reproach the man who has asserted his rightful claim to property at the expense of a fairer distribution of that property.
If one acknowledges that there is no single moral principle but several partially consistent ones and that neither happiness nor virtue can be prescribed by rule, one is better prepared for a more complete understanding of man’s moral capacities. Such an understanding was expressed by Aristotle. Though his account is often dismissed as involving “mysterious nonempirical entities” and as being suspiciously conservative in its acceptance of the Athenian status quo, in most respects it precisely anticipates the findings of modern science.
There is certainly nothing mysterious or conservative about Aristotle’s assertion that men and women unite out of a “natural striving to leave behind another that is like oneself” because a “parent would seem to have a natural friendship for a child, and a child for a parent,” or that “the household is the partnership constituted by nature for [the needs of] daily life.” These are as close to self-evident propositions as one could utter. Only slightly less obvious, but still scarcely mysterious, are the arguments that “in the household first we have the sources and springs of friendship, of political organization, and of justice” and that “there is in everyone by nature an impulse toward this sort of partnership [that is, to the city].”
These natural moral sentiments are an incomplete and partial guide to action. They are incomplete in that they cannot resolve a choice we must make between two loved persons or between the desire to favor a loved one and the obligation to honor a commitment. They are partial in that they extend chiefly to family and kin, leaving nonkin at risk of being thought nonhuman. Resolving conflicts and extending our sentiments across the high but necessary walls of tribe, village, and racial grouping, an extension made more desirable by the interdependence of cosmopolitan living, requires moral reasoning to take up the incomplete task of natural development.
Yet the incomplete and partial guidance provided by our moral senses can lead the unwary philosopher to one or both of two errors: to suppose that if a sentiment does not settle everything it cannot settle anything; or to infer that if people differ in their practical choices they must do so on the basis of different sentiments. The first error leads to logical positivism, the second to cultural relativism, the two together to modern nihilism. A proper understanding of human nature can rarely provide us with rules for action, but it can supply what Aristotle intended: a grasp of what is good in human life and a rough ranking of those goods.
If the moral senses can conflict with one another and with what prudent action requires under particular circumstances, then living a good life requires striking a delicate balance among those senses and between them and prudent self-interest. Common sense, to say nothing of modern philosophy, shows that there is no single rule or principle by which that balance can be struck. But common sense also gives us a language to use in describing people who have struck that balance well.
When we speak of people we admire, we do not often use the word “moral”—partly, I suppose, because that word strikes contemporary ears as suggesting that the person is priggish, severe, or stuffy. But we also do not use this word, I conjecture, because we do not judge people (unless we do not know them well) by any single trait; we judge them as having a set of traits, a character.
Now, by character we mean two things: a distinctive combination of personal qualities by which someone is known (that is, a personality) and moral strength or integrity. We judge people whole, assessing their strengths and weaknesses, and reckoning up the totals into a kind of human balance sheet. People with the best balance sheet—that is, the most admirable characters—are usually not people who are perfect or have every single virtue to the highest degree; since the virtues—that is, the moral senses—are partially in conflict, that would be impossible. People with the best balance sheet are those who are the best balanced. In common parlance they are “nice persons” or “good guys,” or in polite (and vanishing) discourse, “ladies” and “gentlemen.”
A nice person takes into account the feelings of others and sympathizes with the joys and sorrows of people with whom he deals to the extent that those joys and sorrows are justifiable and proportional to the circumstances. But even when not expressing sympathy, the nice person does not inflict unjustified harm on innocent parties. He is fair in dealings with others and does not attempt to be a judge in his own case. He has prudent self-control and is not in the grip of extravagant passions that compel others to deal with him only on his terms. But that self-control does not prevent him from taking strong actions or expressing anger when important matters are at stake. He tries (being human, he will not always succeed) to take the long view when the more distant goal is clearly superior to the immediate one. When it is hard to do that, he looks for ways to force himself to do the right thing. Among these are habits: little, routine ways of acting, each rather unimportant in itself, but all combining to produce action on behalf of quite important sensibilities.
For example: the habit of courtesy (which over the long run alerts us to the feelings of others), the habit of punctuality (which disposes us to be dutiful in the exercise of our responsibilities and confirms to others that we have a sense of duty), and the habit of practice (by which we master skills and proclaim to others that we are capable of excellence). When, as inevitably happens, we confront circumstances that require us to choose among our moral senses or that confuse us as to whether there is a moral dimension to the problem, the good person makes the problem apparent by carrying on an inner dialogue about what is required of him.
In some cultures the qualities of a good person might be slightly different from what I have just listed. That the lists are different in different places is important, but not as important as some imagine, for it does not imply that a good character is purely a matter of local custom. If you doubt this, go to the most distant and exotic land and seek to employ an excellent carpenter, boat-wright, gardener, or sailor. You will discover, I think, general agreement in those places as to who is and who is not excellent at these crafts, and their qualities of excellence will not be limited to technical skill but will also embrace dependability, fair dealing, and an interest in your wishes.
The balance among the moral senses achieved by a good character living a good life is, to me, more an aesthetic than a philosophical matter. It is aesthetic in two senses: it is a balance that is struck without deliberation or reasoned justifications, and in the character thereby formed there is no clear distinction between form and content.
In this view, as in many others, I am much influenced by the late British philosopher, Michael Oakeshott. He wrote once of the “poetic character of all human activity,” by which he meant that (unlike academic philosophy) moral action does not ordinarily spring from the deliberate effort to translate into reality some idealized conception of what ought to be. Moral ideals arise out of habitual human behavior; they are what philosophers (and we) find to be implicit in our predispositions.
Aristotle understood this perfectly. We become virtuous, he said—and thus truly happy—by the practice of virtue. We acquire virtues just as we acquire crafts. We learn how to build by building and how to become a harpist by playing the harp; “so also, then, we become just by doing just actions, temperate by doing temperate actions, brave by doing brave actions.” A good character arises from the repetition of many small acts, and begins early in youth. That habituation operates on a human nature innately prepared to respond to training:
The virtues arise in us neither by nature nor against nature, but we are by nature able to acquire them, and reach our complete perfection through habit.
We may be inclined to dismiss Aristotle’s view as too simple. After all, what did he know, several centuries before Christ, of the temptations of modern life—tobacco, addictive drugs, lush gambling halls, violent or sexually explicit motion pictures, and the anomie and opportunity of the big city? In fact, Aristotle was keenly aware that we are powerfully tempted to do that which is not in our long-term interests and that we give way to those temptations even knowing their likely bad consequences.
We want to live in a community of reasonable order and general decency. What does this imply? Scholars have not always been as helpful as they might be in answering that question. Sociologists and anthropologists have stressed that order is the product of cultural learning without pausing to ask what it is we are naturally disposed to learn. Economists have rejoined by saying that we are disposed to learn whatever advances our interests without pausing to ask what constitutes our interests. And despite their differences in approach, they have both supported an environmental determinism and a cultural relativism that have certain dangers.
If, as these doctrines hold, man is infinitely malleable, he is as much at risk from the various despotisms of this world as he would be if he were entirely shaped by some biochemical process. The anthropologist Robin Fox has put the matter well:
If, indeed, everything is learned, then surely men can be taught to live in any kind of society. Man is at the mercy of all the tyrants . . . who think they know what is best for him. And how can he plead that they are being inhuman if he doesn’t know what being human is in the first place?
Despots are quite prepared to use whatever technology will enable them to dominate mankind; if science tells them that biology is nothing and environment everything, then they will set aside their eugenic surgery and selective-breeding programs and take up instead the weapons of propaganda, mass advertising, and educational indoctrination. The Nazis left nothing to chance; they used all methods.
Recent Russian history should have put to rest the view that everything is learned and man is infinitely malleable. After 75 years of cruel tyranny during which every effort was made to destroy civil society, we discover that the Russian people kept civil society alive, if not well. The elemental building blocks of that society were not isolated individuals easily trained to embrace any doctrine or adopt any habits; they were families, friends, and intimate groupings in which sentiments of sympathy, reciprocity, and fairness survived and struggled to shape behavior.
Mankind’s moral sense is not a strong beacon light, radiating outward to illuminate in sharp outline all that it touches. It is, rather, a small candle flame, casting vague and multiple shadows, flickering and sputtering in the strong winds of power and passion, greed and ideology. But brought close to the heart and cupped in one’s hands, it dispels the darkness and warms the soul.
James Q. Wilson teaches at Pepperdine University and is the coauthor of American Government: Institutions and Policies (Wadsworth).
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Zach Braff Launches Kickstarter For Follow Up To “Garden State”
April 24, 2013 @ 8:36 am By Charles Luzar
Zach Braff is perhaps most famous for his prominent role on the hit TV show “Scrubs,” but he also wrote and directed “Garden State.” The 2004 movie which also featured Natalie Portman won various awards, including a Grammy for best soundtrack. It is now a cult classic of sorts.
Now he has launched a Kickstarter project to try and fund the follow up to “Garden State.” The move is titled “Wish I Was Here.” As you may have guessed by now, another notable Kickstarter project had a little to do with his decision to try to crowdfund this film. From the Kickstarter project page…
I was about to sign a typical financing deal in order to get the money to make “Wish I Was Here,” my follow up to “Garden State.” It would have involved making a lot of sacrifices I think would have ultimately hurt the film. I’ve been a backer for several projects on Kickstarter and thought the concept was fascinating and revolutionary for artists and innovators of all kinds. But I didn’t imagine it could work on larger-scale projects. I was wrong.
After I saw the incredible way “Veronica Mars” fans rallied around Kristen Bell and her show’s creator Rob Thomas, I couldn’t help but think (like I’m sure so many other independent filmmakers did) maybe there is a new way to finance smaller, personal films that didn’t involve signing away all your artistic control.
Financing an independent film the traditional way often means having to give away your right to “the final cut,” casting choices, location choices and cutting down your script to make it shoot-able on the cheapest budget possible.
What if there is a different way?
Thanks to trailblazers like Rob Thomas, more and more in Hollywood are finding out that there is another way.
Rewards begin for as little as $10, which nets a digital invite to the production diary that Braff will be updating during filming. One lucky backer can even become a cast member. The cost? A cool $10 grand.
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Rooney 11/2 To Score First Tonight
The best odds available to you on Sky Bet ahead of tonight's massive World Cup clash between England and Uruguay.
This is it. England must win to stay in the World Cup and Uruguay likewise. Prepare for fireworks in Brazil this evening.
Roy Hodgson's England may have performed well but their 2-1 defeat to Italy has left them on the brink but a win over Uruguay and Luis Suarez will put them in control of their own destiny.
They have the ability and they know it, but will they show it? The Three Lions have odds of 19/20 to run out victors tonight but Uruguay won't roll over at odds of 11/4. A draw would perhaps keep England in the tournament but only just. A draw is worth 11/4 too.
The big question is whether Rooney will play and, if so, where. It looks likely that Manchester United's striker will sit in behind Daniel Sturridge with Raheem Sterling occupying a wing position. Rooney is 11/2 to strike first and if you're feeling particularly ambitious about his talent then a brace is worth 9/1. Daniel Welbeck (10/1), Raheem Sterling (11/1) and Daniel Sturridge (5/1) are all likely first goalscorers but don't forget that the Uruguay danger man Luis Suarez is never to be ignored. Suarez is 5/1 to score first.
There will be plenty of nail biting, head scratching and emotional outpouring tonight but if you are passionate and confident that England can secure victory then there are some great odds available. A tight England 2-1 win is 7/1 right now on Sky Bet and an even more ambitious 3-1 victory is 12/1. A 1-1 draw is worth 6/1 but if you're completely confident in a comfortable victory then why not try 2-0 at 9/1? No, we didn't think so either!
There are plenty of other odds available on Sky Bet for this game such as:
- Uruguay to be leading at half time but England to win at full time? 22/1
- England to win 3-0, 3-1 or 3-2? 11/2
- Daniel Sturridge and Luis Suarez both to score? 5/1
We can't wait for the game and hopefully we see the Three Lions roar. Our bet of the evening will be Raheem Sterling to score first and England to win 2-1. That bet is worth 55/1 on Sky Bet right now.
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AMX-30
Char de Bataille 1966-2006 Vol. I
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110 archive photos, 8 color profiles
Dimensions : 11 X 8 inches
The AMX-30 was France’s principal battle tank for over 30 years and continues to serve the French Army in later forms even to this day. In this first work of a two volume study examining the history of the AMX-30 battle tank, M.P. Robinson describes the development and introduction to service of this long serving weapon system. Photographic coverage in Volume 1 is focused on the AMX-30B gun tank, its service life and the supporting vehicles that served alongside it in the Arme Blindée Cavalerie in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Over 150 color and black and white photographs tell the story of this tank in its environment, as well as in detail, for the historian and modeler alike.
"provides an interesting story of the AMX-30 development, and touches on the politics of post-war Europe as well as the French industrial approach to tank development in the Cold War era all at the same time."
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Cal women’s tennis travels to Palo Alto for ITA Northwest Regional Championships
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By Andrew Wild | Senior Staff
Cal women’s tennis star Maegan Manasse takes singles, doubles titles at Nike Invitational
Maegan Manasse, Denise Starr win doubles championship
More than 20 schools will travel to Palo Alto, California, for the ITA Northwest Regional Championships this weekend. But if it plays out like last year’s event, the latter-round matches will look an awful lot like Cal and Stanford are the only schools competing. Seven of the final eight players and all of the final four in the singles draw were from one of the two rival schools in 2014. Similarly, the doubles draw culminated in all of the last four teams representing either the Bears or the Cardinal.
Cal will be at a slight disadvantage for repeating the feat this year, as Maegan Manasse, coming off an appearance in the singles semifinals at the Riviera All-American Championship, will be sitting out the singles draw. The doubles team of Manasse and fellow junior Denise Starr, which just won the championship at the All-American, will also not be competing. Both have already claimed a spot in the National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships in New York, taking place this November, and as they do not need the match experience, they won’t be sent to compete.
Stanford’s Carol Zhao, the No. 1 singles player in the country, won the singles draw in last year’s tournament, knocking off senior Klara Fabikova, Manasse and sophomore Karla Popovic in three consecutive three-set matches. With Manasse sitting out the singles draw, Fabikova, Popovic and Starr represent the best chances for Cal to claim a singles title.
Fabikova will be teamed up with freshman Olivia Hauger in doubles after playing all of her earlier matches with Popovic. They had mixed results as a team, and Cal head coach Amanda Augustus is looking to tinker with her pairings in the fall season before setting her lineup for the spring slate.
“The fall is about — other than (Manasse) and (Starr), who’ve shown they’re a top team in the country — trying different teams, building into our top three teams for the spring season,” Augustus said. “(Hauger) is very well experienced and well traveled — she played a lot of international events before she came to Cal. It’s a very good opportunity for her, in singles and doubles.”
Last year’s doubles draw was won by Fabikova and now-Cal undergraduate assistant coach Zsofi Susanyi, who were seeded third in the draw. In the finals, they defeated their teammates Manasse and Starr, a duo that was seeded first.
“Because I played with (Susanyi) the whole last year, I kind of got to know what I like and dislike. She can remind me what I learned, because sometimes you can sort of forget,” Fabikova said. “It always feels good to beat Stanford, especially on their home courts. It’s cool that the regionals are down there, because we get to play on their courts, and we’re most likely playing them in the late rounds, so it’s good preparation for the spring matches we’ll have against them.”
Andrew Wild covers women’s tennis. Contact him at [email protected]
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Six people injured as gunshots and explosions break out on the streets of Bangkok on the eve of the general election
Prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra is set to win re-election tomorrow
But protesters are trying to delay the poll by bringing violence to the streets
Masked gunmen fired weapons and explosion were heard at demonstrations
Multiple people were injured today as chaos broke out on the streets of Bangkok the day before a general election which has divided Thailand.
Gunshots rang out while at least two explosions were heard at anti-government protests, with six people wonded in front of a suburban shopping mall in the north of the city.
Sporadic gunfire continued into the evening, with masked men openly firing handguns as security forces used M-16 rifles to fire warning shots into the air.
Warning: graphic content
Gunman: A protester wielding a pistol on the streets of Bangkok ahead of the Thai general election
Opening fire: An anti-government gunman opens fire on a rival group after his convoy was attacked
Masked: Many of the gunmen were wearing balaclavas to hide their identities as they sought to disrupt the election
Hurt: A bloodied man and a woman look around a wall as a gun battle rages in the Bangkok suburbs
Tomorrow's election is almost certain to return prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra to power, despite efforts by some opposition supporters to disrupt the poll.
The violence came amid generally peaceful protests around Bangkok and revived chilling memories of political unrest in 2010, when supporters of former leader Thaksin Shinawatra - Ms Yingluck's brother - paralysed Bangkok in protest against the Democrat Party.
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Today's attack took place in Bangkok's Laksi district, close to the Don Muang airport, where Ms Yingluck's fans gathered in support of the election.
Ten people have died and at least 577 have been wounded in politically related violence since late November.
Vandalism: An angry voter smashes up a car along with other supporters of the government
On the run: An injured protester attempts to get away from the violence after being caught in the crossfire
Agony: The man tries to stanch his wounds as blood covers his face while violence rages
Treatment: An injured protester who was shot by anti-government mobs is carried away by friends
The protests' leader, opposition boss Suthep Thaugsuban, has called for a peaceful blockade of roads, but has vowed not to stop people voting.
'The people will not close the polling booths, but will demonstrate on the roads,' he said yesterday. 'They will demonstrate calmly, peacefully, without violence. We won't do anything that will hinder people from going to vote.'
Election Commission secretary-general Puchong Nutrawong said the commission has instructed staff to halt voting if there is rioting or other violence.
'We don't want this election to be bloody,' he said. 'We can get every single agency involved to make this election happen, but if there's blood, what's the point?'
Rampage: Masked protesters, many carrying guns on their backs, take part in the violence
Shot: A gunman takes aim with his pistol on a day when at least six people were taken to hospital
Shelter: A protester hides behind a concrete barrier during the midst of the clashes
Lying down: A protester points his gun at pro-government forces
The military has stayed firmly on the sidelines so far, in contrast to the past. It has staged or attempted 18 coups in 81 years of on-off democracy.
Ms Yingluck's party will almost definitely win the election, which the Democrat Party is boycotting, but experts expect further stalemate as the opposition is unlikely to accept the result.
The protesters, camped out at major intersections in the city and blocking key roads, forced polling stations in 49 of Bangkok's 50 districts to shut last weekend - some voters were physically pulled away from the polling booths.
Huddle: Peaceful protesters were forced to hide from the shooting after the demonstrations turned violent
Troops: The army has largely stay out of the conflict despite having staged several coups in the past
Panic: Civilians run to take cover from the violence, which has evoked memories of previous outbreaks
Mr Suthep wants to rid the country of the Shinawatra family's political influence and accuses MsYingluck, who swept to power in the last election in 2011, of being Mr Thaksin's puppet.
The protesters say Mr Thaksin - who now lives in Dubai to avoid a jail term for graft - is a corrupt crony capitalist who took advantage Thailand's fragile democracy, using taxpayers' money to buy votes with populist giveaways.
Mr Suthep wants to set up a 'people's council' of notable individuals before another election is held, effectively undermining the country's democratic processes.
Celebration: Elsewhere, protesters calling for a boycott of tomorrow's election remained peaceful
March: Supporters of the opposition want the government to be replaced by a council of experts
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Gujob er chinta
Chintamoni
Published at 05:56 pm August 9th, 2018
Bangladesh has over 25 million active Facebook users and the number is rising. Thanks to access to the Internet, personal publishing such as microblogging (or a Facebook status- a short message that can be posted and shared with an audience online) is prevalent.
Social media has brought about a fundamental change in traditional political communication, which previously had been exclusively initiated and managed by specific actors such as politicians and journalists. Facebook is now an active site and mode of transmission.
As regards recent events, the word 'gujob' or rumour has been the salient feature. Gujob, gujob everywhere, in form and in content. And I thought that the relationship between politics, rumours and social media warrants a discussion.
So, what is a rumour? According to academics, (yes, rumours do feature in academic perusal) it is an item of circulating information, whose veracity status is yet to be verified at the time of circulation.
Rumours are generally classified into pipe dream rumours, that express the wishes of the society in which they are circulating, bogie rumours, that arise from anxiety and increase fear, and wedge driving rumours, that generate hatred.
Rumours can be further classified temporally, into new rumours that emerge during breaking news, and long - standing rumours that are discussed for long periods of time.
There are five parties involved in a rumour dissemination: the creators, the spreaders, the ignorants, the stiflers, and the refuters. The creators are individuals who actively ‘manufacture’ the rumour, the spreaders then proliferate it, the stiflers have heard the rumour but they do not spread it, the ignorants have not heard the rumour and hence they are susceptible to be informed, while the refuters strive to debunk, invalidate or discredit the rumour.
Political misinformation and disinformation often take the form of rumours, as they are collective transactions in which information is offered, evaluated, and interpreted, and upon which predictions are made.
Research has revealed that information dissemination is driven by emotions. Therefore, rumours almost always abound when a newsworthy event occurs, and the rumour literature has illustrated that rumours spread particularly in times of conflict, crisis, and catastrophic occurrences, as in those which are mostly characterized by negative emotions.
This is on account of the phenomenon known as “negativity bias”, whereby there exists the innate predisposition to give greater weight to negative entities (events, objects or personal traits).
If the content of a rumour evokes high-arousal, or activating, positive (awe) or negative (anger or anxiety) emotions, it is more viral, while the content that evokes low-arousal, or deactivating, emotions (sadness) is less viral.
Rumours are also more likely to spread if they produce identifiable emotions such as disgust. When researchers compared the emotional content of the responses to true and false rumours, they found that truth produced greater sadness, trust, and anticipation, while falsehoods produced greater surprise and disgust.
Rumours are driven by two important factors: importance and informational ambiguity. As noted earlier, emotions are intertwined with rumour dissemination, and the importance of a rumour is correlated to the anxiety emotion.
It is posited that the amount of rumour in circulation will vary with the importance of the subject matter of the rumour to the recipients, and the importance is related to anxiety, as the greater the anxiety, the more the content of rumour is important for the recipients.
In this anxiety-based formulation, the rumour is conceptualized as a verbal or textual outlet to release emotional pressure (anxiety or concern) by rationalizing ambiguous information. Given the negativity bias, rumours travel faster in high-anxiety groups than in low-anxiety ones.
In social media, political rumour manufacturers consider emotions when crafting viral content, as the intention is to trigger as great a contagion as possible using emotional words and framing, and using photographs and videos to elicit negativity bias, high arousal and high anxiety.
With the number of active Facebook users on the rise, and an increasingly heated political landscape, unless there are strong measures to counter rumours, the gujob that everyone is talking and writing about will only create chaos, confusion, and possible devastation.
Chintamoni grew up in Dhaka, where she will always belong, but never quite fit in. She is an enthusiastic traveller, a compulsive procrastinator, and a contumelious raconteur.
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Denver College of Nursing (DCN) students and one DCN faculty member provided healthcare and education to hundreds of Dominicans during their seven-day trip to the Dominican Republic.
The school’s Global Health Perspectives program (GHP) partnered with the Foundation of International Medical Relief for Children (FIMRC), a non-profit organization committed to bring improved healthcare to communities in the developing world (https://www.fimrc.org/). The students worked out of Restauración, and traveled to several remote villages. FIMRC supports local clinic staff, organizes health fairs, and educates mothers about breast feeding, mommy-baby nutrition, and breast cancer. The highest areas of need supported by DCN students included nutrition, menstrual hygiene, and childhood stimulation.
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Conor Timmins is healthy and happy after long layoff from hockey
The Avalanche defenseman was paired with fellow top-prospect Bo Byram in Tuesday’s preseason opener
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Colorado Avalanche Conor Timmins, front, is in training camp at Family Sports Center. September 13, 2019.
By Mike Chambers | mchambers@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: September 17, 2019 at 8:34 pm | UPDATED: September 17, 2019 at 10:05 pm
Conor Timmins was among three bright young defensemen in the Avalanche’s preseason opener Tuesday night against the visiting Vegas Golden Knights. Timmins, who turns 21 on Wednesday, and Ryan Graves, 24, and Bo Byram, 18, could each see action with the Avs in 2019-20.
For Timmins, just being in Tuesday’s lineup at the Pepsi Center was a monumental triumph. Colorado’s 2017 second-round draft pick (32nd overall) was a top 2017-18 prospect who missed all of last season with concussion-like symptoms. He hadn’t played in a hockey game for 18 months.
Timmins was cleared for contact at the Avs’ midsummer development camp, competed in the recent rookie camp and was again impressive during training camp. He is finally ready to resume his hockey career following a year of having no fun.
“Can’t go out with your friends. Can’t play sports,” Timmins said before Vegas built a 4-0 lead and cruised to a 5-0 victory against a young and inexperienced Avs lineup. “Just the little normal things — so getting back to that was awesome. Obviously, when I missed that much time, I have a little ways to go in terms of getting my timing back. So I’d like to get as many opportunities as I can in the preseason to get back into things and show what I can do.”
Awesome is an understatement. He was previously concerned that he would never play hockey again or worried he wouldn’t play effectively and get cut because he was afraid of the physicality of the game.
“At some point, you kind of doubt whether you’ll ever get fully back, but to be at the point I’m at now is a really great feeling,” Timmins said. “Once I get out there, the only thing on my mind is hockey. It’s at a good point right now where I can put it completely out of my mind and just focus on my game.”
Timmins was paired with Byram in the first period Tuesday. Byram was selected fourth overall in the 2019 draft in June, and because of his age and status in major-junior, he is not eligible to play in the minor leagues. He can play up to nine NHL regular-season games before the Avs can return him to the WHL’s Vancouver Giants or keep him the entire NHL season.
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Timmins was in the same situation two years ago. Coach Jared Bednar said his staff considered keeping him, but Timmins was returned to the OHL’s Soo Greyhounds after the NHL preseason.
Because his long layoff, Timmins appears destined to begin this season with the Colorado Eagles of the American Hockey League. But he is also expected to be a primary call-up candidate.
Conor Timmins after first game in about 18 months. #Avs lose preseason opener 5-0 to Vegas pic.twitter.com/G9u6qFj4mi
— Mike Chambers (@MikeChambers) September 18, 2019
Footnotes. The other defensemen in Tuesday’s lineup were Mark Barberio, Nicholas Meloche and Jacob MacDonald. Timmins was paired with Barberio and Byram with Graves in the second period. Barberio and Graves probably will be on the opening-night roster. The Avs also used a young forward corps and goaltenders. The most interesting line was made up of Tyson Jost and top prospects A.J. Greer and and Martin Kaut. Jost and Barberio were team captains, along with forward Sheldon Dries. Colorado’s goaltenders were Adam Werner and Hunter Miska. Werner allowed two goals on 13 shots and Miska faced 15 shots and made 12 saves. Both probably will begin the season as the two netminders with the Colorado Eagles.
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Panic flashed in his eyes. And panic is the last thing you ever expect to see in the eyes of unflappable Avalanche rookie Cale Makar, who blinks less than that stone statue of an angelic cherub in your grandma’s garden.
Cale Makar and Andre Burakovsky scored within a 22-second span of the second period Saturday to lift the Avalanche to a 5-3 victory over the rival St. Louis Blues at the Pepsi Center.
Jared Bednar, suddenly the seventh-most tenured NHL head coach, gladly filters out what he calls the external noise: the folks who criticize his job performance.
Jared Bednar is sympathetic toward coach Jeff Blashill and the Detroit Red Wings -- by far the NHL's worst team.
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