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Sotheby’s to Auction the Frank and Lorna Dunphy Collection
Courtesy Sotheby's
Damien Hirst, "Smashing Yellow Ball at Peace Painting," 2008. Estimate: £100,000–150,000
Telling the story of one of the most transformative art world collaborations of our times
Over 200 works from the collection of Lorna and Frank Dunphy, former business manager to Damien Hirst
Chronicles life at the heart of the YBA scene alongside Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Michael Craig-Martin and Rachel Whiteread
18 June 2018 – In September 2018, Sotheby’s London will celebrate one of the most extraordinary art world collaborations of our times: that of Damien Hirst and his unstoppable business manager, mentor and ‘partner in crime’, Frank Dunphy.
Yellow Ball: The Frank and Lorna Dunphy Collection – a two-part sale and exhibition of over 200 artworks – will tell the story behind the stratospheric rise of Damien Hirst, at the same time charting the iconoclastic 1990s art scene of which Frank and Lorna Dunphy were at the very heart.
Married for thirty years this year, Frank and Lorna’s first meeting took place around a snooker table in London in 1981. It was the first night during which The Green Room, an actors’ club, allowed women to enter, and it was then that Lorna caught the attention of Frank, who was playing snooker with friends. When Frank played the ‘yellow ball’, he saw Lorna for the first time.
The yellow ball then became a central motif in their life together: they named their company Yellow Ball Management, and a circular butterfly painting, "Smashing Yellow Ball at Peace Painting," 2008, (est. £100,000–150,000) was given to the pair when Frank and Hirst ended their partnership. Frank and Lorna even toyed with the idea of having a yellow ball shaped carriage at their wedding, but settled instead for a gold car with a shag pile carpet.
Frank and Lorna were catapulted into the world of the Young British Artists (YBAs) following Frank’s appointment as Hirst’s business manager in 1995 and together assembled a collection reflecting the many friendships that followed.
At the core of the collection are a number of works by Damien Hirst – most made especially for the Dunphys, given as tokens of affection or in jest – which together chronicle the work and the play behind their adventures together.
Numerous pieces by the YBAs also speak to the spirit of the times. These artists made up Frank and Lorna’s world, with long nights spent together at their favourite haunt The Groucho Club (where the Dunphys held their wedding reception). The central place this tight-knit group occupied in Frank and Lorna’s lives is brought to life by the many pieces they made specifically with the Dunphys, or their homes, in mind.
Frank and Lorna Dunphy said: “The art scene has been our life for the past 30 years. Living with the art has been like living with our friends. Much of it is steeped in happy memories, and much of it we bought ourselves simply because we loved it. But time waits for no man, and the time has come to say goodbye to some of the art, though not the memories nor to the friendships”.
Oliver Barker, Chairman of Sotheby’s Europe: “Behind every great creative genius is a Svengali-type character who helps unleash and channel their brilliance. For Damien Hirst this was Frank Dunphy, whose midas touch is now legendary. You walk into a room inhabited by Frank and Lorna and you feel reunited with your oldest friends, but at the same time you know are in the presence of two of the most ingenious and inspirational minds you’ll ever encounter.”
Frank Dunphy and Damien Hirst
Born in the seaside town of Portrane in Ireland, Frank Dunphy embarked on a career in show business in London in the 1960s managing singers, dancers and touring circuses, including Coco the Clown and the American singer songwriter Gene Pitney. After turning down the chance to manage a then unknown group who would later become known as Led Zeppelin, it was his meeting with Damien Hirst at The Groucho Club (which was arranged by Hirst’s mother) that propelled him into the heart of the 1990s art scene.
A paternal figure to the artist, Frank went on to play a crucial role in Hirst’s ascent into one of the most commercially successful artists of all time. Over 15 years, he helped mastermind ventures such as the private sale of "Hymn" in 1999, the first work by the artist to sell for over £1 million; the repurchase of nearly a third of Charles Saatchi’s holdings of early Hirst works in 2003 in an unprecedented move; and both Sotheby’s ‘Pharmacy’ (2004) and ‘Beautiful Inside My Head Forever’ auctions (2008).*
‘Yellow Ball’ is replete with works that testify to this enduring partnership: a pill cabinet, ‘Psst’ (1997), was given to Frank when he was ill (est. £60,000–80,000); ‘Bust of Frank’ (2008) was a 70th birthday present made for Frank’s party at Home House in London (est. £25,000–35,000); a ‘Camel Cigarette Lighter’ is customised with Hirst’s signature butterflies (est. £50–70); humorous sketches including ‘Win, draw or lose, we’re here to booze’ (est. £1,000–2,000) are penned on the back of restaurant menus; the spin painting ‘Beautiful, all round, lovely day…’ (1998) was made with Frank and Lorna’s help in the artist’s Lambeth studio (est. £150,000–200,000). It was created on the same day that Hirst made a spin painting with David Bowie, which sold at Sotheby’s in 2016.
Frank and Lorna Dunphy
Art informed every aspect of Frank and Lorna’s subsequent life together. In their early days of courtship they visited countless galleries and museums, including memorable first trips to the Guggenheim and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. A Gorilla sculpture by Angus Fairhurst, "A couple of differences between thinking and feeling," 2000, (est. £8,000–12,000) would sit at the head of the Dunphy’s dining table when they hosted an ‘unlucky’ number of 13 guests.
Other celebrated names in the collection include Andy Warhol, with one of his renowned dollar paintings conceived in response to the huge rise of consumerism in mid-20th century America. "Dollar Sign," 1982 (est. £200,000–300,000) had originally been gifted to Warhol by his great friend David Whitney, the collector, critic and gallerist. There is a note on the back of the painting that reads ‘to Warhol from David.’ A tagli (cut) piece by Italian painter, sculptor and theorist Lucio Fontana, "Concetto Spaziale, Attese," 1961, is the most valuable lot in the sale (est. £600,000–800,000). Among the American artists also represented in the sale is Richard Prince with the painting "Untitled (Gene Pitney)," 2011 (est. £50,000–70,000), named after the singer-songwriter Gene Pitney, who Frank managed prior to Hirst.
Exhibitions Dates
Highlights exhibition 22–26 June.
Main exhibition 15–20 September.
Sotheby’s 34-35 New Bond Street, London.
1. Live Auction on 20 September, 1pm
2. Online Auction 11–21 September
Together the collection is expected to make £6 million – £8.4 million.
Individual estimates range from £50 to £600,000.
Learn more about this upcoming auction.
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Amy Stephens - Collide
2 Nov 2012 – 1 Dec 2012
Poppy Sebire
6 Copperfield Street
SE1 0EP
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Private view: Thursday 1 November, 6.30 8.30pm Exhibition continues: 2 November 1 December 2012 For her first exhibition with Poppy Sebire Amy Stephens presents a new series of minimalist sculptural configurations that play with colour, surface and form. Forms moving through space have an inherent relationship to drawing and this is how Stephens understands sculpture - as having a fundamentally spatial conception. Tall assemblages transform the gallery and engage directly with the architecture their dimensions are in part determined with the gallery drawings to hand. The scale and height of Stephens' configurations feels all the more tense for their self-supporting structures that teeter on the edge of collapse. A very striking element in Stephens work lies in the materials and methods of production; her bold and confident aesthetic makes subtle reference to process. Angled lines of flocked wood, both sculptural and structural, produce an arresting visual impression as they cut through space. Great sheets of machined Perspex are propped up by neatly sawn rectangular columns of knotted oak; setting up a tension and tactility around the collision of man-made with natural materials. Amy Stephens was born in London in 1981. She holds an MA from Chelsea College of Art and Design. Recent solo exhibitions include âRestless Nature', Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2011); âThis Urban Silence', Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2011); âThe Rise of the Wapiti', Other Gallery, Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada (2010); Recent group exhibitions include âDividing Line', High House with Sumarria Lunn Gallery, London (2012); âPiece of Paper', Madder139, London (2011); âLine', Poppy Sebire, London (2011); âNo Soul For Sale - A Festival of Independents', Tate Modern, London (2010); âMeet Pamela', John Jones Project Space, London (2009); â195 Miles', Project Space Leeds in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery, London (2008). In 2011 she completed a four-month Artists' Residency at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin and in 2010 she was an artist in residence at the Banff Centre, Canada. She has work in several public and private collections, including the Zabludowicz Collection. The artist lives and works in London.
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A brief overview of our Parish's history
In the early 1920's the Watling Estate was built and many catholic families moved from inner London to settle in Burnt Oak.
The nearest Catholic Church was either Mill Hill or Edgware and it soon became obvious a catholic church was needed in Burnt Oak and the money to build it came from an anonymous benefactor.
On May 10th 1928 the foundation stone was laid and the first mass was celebrated in June 1928 in a temporary chapel, later to be the sacristy, then a committee room and it is now the back of the Lady Chapel. The room only held 50 but there were 82 at the first mass and after that the numbers were so many, that the sacristy was moved to a builders hut.
In September 1928 Fr. Armitage was appointed Parish Priest and in October work was started on the presbytery.
On December the 15th 1928 the church was completed and was solemnly blessed by Fr Goggin, the area Dean, and used for the first time the next day, Sunday.
In June 1929 the presbytery was completed and in October 1929 the Solemn Opening of the church with the High Mass and a sermon preached by Cardinal Bourne.
At this time there were about 320 catholic families living in the parish so of course that meant a number of children, and the nearest schools were St Mary's Hendon and St Vincents Mill Hill. It was clear that a school was needed in Burnt Oak.
In Orange Hill Road there was a very large property used by Graham White the aviator and rumour has it that Caruso once stayed there. This property was to become the home of the Dominican Sisters to whom Burnt Oak owes much to the work and help they gave to the parish.
In the beginning the sisters went around the houses to find the catholic homes and in 1931 they opened a school next to the church for boys and girls of all ages, but as the numbers increased, work was pushed on with the building of the hall so it could be used for classrooms.
But even that was not enough, a school was needed for the senior pupils and the sisters gave part of their grounds and St James was built. They also opened a private school in the convent which was now called St Roses.
In 1937 new sacristies were built joining the church to the hall as it is today.
We had all the guilds and societies that were usual in parishes at this time and from these came the people who volunteered with parish work.
During the second world war the streets close to the church were badly bombed which caused structural damage and the church was closed in June 1947 and reopened in October 1951.
Again the sisters came to the rescue and during the closure, Mass was celebrated in the Annunciation School.
Many plans and ideas were put forward for the reopening and the St Vincent de Paul sisters gave the life size statue of the Sacred Heart which is in the Church today.
The parish grounds were dug out to provide underground shelters for the children of the Annunciation. At the sound of the siren the children ran with their gas masks to the shelters and if were down there more than an hour, we could have bread and jam. The sisters told us to pray to our guardian angels to keep us safe, and to pray for the people of Burnt Oak. I think that there was probably more prayers for bread and jam but we never got any! Those shelters are still there today or at least part of them and I did hear that after an appeal for a piano four or five turned up (in various conditions), the best was chosen and the rest put down the shelter and are still there.
In 1943 Fr Smyth arrived in Burnt Oak as a curate. One of the 'jobs' in his care were the youth. He built up an excellent youth club that was recognised throughout the Borough. He took groups away on holiday, home and abroad and on Bank Holidays there was always a hike that ended in a cafe! In the 1950's many Au Pairs came to England and again he saw the need to provide a place for them to meet with others and to sort out any problems they might have. Many marriages came from the youth club also lasting friendships which still exist today.
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Advanced reactors important for carbon-free power production in U.S., tweets Vice News
ANS Nuclear CafeResearch & Applications
December 15, 2020, 12:13PM|ANS Nuclear Cafe
A video posted to Twitter by Vice News discusses the prospect of advanced reactors being an important mix of carbon-free power production in the United States. Hosted by Gelareh Darabi, an award-winning Canadian-British-Iranian journalist and documentary filmmaker, the video provides quick and easy statistics for the general audience and pulls from social media influencer I_sodope. It also includes comments from nuclear experts.
Nuclear energy accounts for nearly 20% of electricity generated in the US, more than wind, solar and hydro combined. But now, new nuclear reactor designs could bring far more widespread use and public acceptance of this powerful form of energy. pic.twitter.com/eFv3rKggOH
— VICE News (@VICENews) December 15, 2020
Brent Wanner of the International Energy Agency appears in the video to explain that about 60 gigatons of CO2 emissions have been avoided over the past 50 years because of the use of nuclear energy.
The video also briefly explains small modular reactors and molten salt reactors and concludes by mentioning fusion power.
advanced reactorscarbon freei_sodopeinternational energy agencysmall modular reactorssmrsvice
Advanced reactors take center stage in Popular Mechanics
The January/February 2021 issue of Popular Mechanics hit subscriber mailboxes this week with a stark cover image of a single small reactor under the headline, “Tiny nuclear reactors are about to revolutionize American energy.” The story looks at advanced reactors as a pivotal step to “redeem nuclear’s stature in American energy.”
A good primer: The article does a good job introducing the casual reader to the idea that “bigger is no longer better” and that the future of nuclear power in the United States will most likely be “a combination of traditional large plants and smaller, safer megawatt reactors.”
Advanced reactors, including small modular reactors, show that nuclear is no longer a one-size-fits-all operation, the article notes. The industry now “is all about personalization,” says Ken Canavan, Westinghouse’s chief technical officer, who is quoted in the article. The capacity and scalability of SMRs “is just irreplaceable,” he adds.
The article explains that SMRs, microreactors, and other advanced reactor designs will be able to bring reliable, carbon-free power to small or remote locations, replacing fossil fuel power plants and supplementing the “resource-sucking downtimes left by renewables.”
ARC-20 cost-share funds go to ARC Nuclear, General Atomics, and MIT
Designs chosen for ARC-20 support could be commercialized in the mid-2030s. Graphic: DOE
The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) has named the recipients of $20 million in Fiscal Year 2020 awards for Advanced Reactor Concepts–20 (ARC-20), the third of three programs under its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP). The three selected teams—from Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, General Atomics, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—will share the allocated FY20 funding for ARC-20 and bring the total number of projects funded through ARDP to 10. DOE-NE announced the news on December 22.
The DOE expects to invest a total of about $56 million in ARC-20 over four years, with industry partners providing at least 20 percent in matching funds. The ARDP funding opportunity announcement, issued in May 2020, included ARC-20 awards, Advanced Reactor Demonstration awards, and Risk Reduction for Future Demonstration awards.
U.K. sets plans for clean energy and green jobs by 2050
A 170-page energy white paper, Powering Our Net Zero Future, issued by the United Kingdom government on December 14 sets big goals for cleaning up the U.K.’s energy system. According to the U.K. government, the plan would create and support green energy jobs across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and would keep electricity bills affordable as the U.K. transitions to net zero emissions by 2050.
The white paper notes that the U.K. will generate emission-free electricity by 2050 with a trajectory that will see "overwhelmingly decarbonized power in the 2030s. Low carbon electricity will be a key enabler of our transition to a net zero economy with demand expected to double due to transport and low carbon heat."
The white paper builds upon the U.K. prime minister’s 38-page Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution, which was issued on November 18.
EU Taxonomy to Include Nuclear Energy as Sustainable Energy Source ANS Position
A PDF version of the letter can be downloaded here.
I write on behalf of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) to recommend the EU’s inclusion of nuclear energy as a sustainable energy source securing Europe’s prosperous future. ANS and the 10,000 nuclear technology professionals it represents are committed to advancing, fostering, and promoting the development and application of nuclear sciences and technologies to benefit humanity.
Report: Nuclear and other low-carbon generation becoming cost-competitive
The levelized costs of electricity generation from low-carbon technologies, including nuclear, are dropping and are increasingly below that of conventional fossil fuel generation, concludes a new report from the International Energy Agency and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA).
The 223-page report, Projected Costs of Generating Electricity—2020 Edition, the ninth such jointly produced analysis, includes plant-level cost data on power generation from nuclear, natural gas, coal, and a variety of renewable sources, including wind, solar, hydro, and biofuels. The report provides data from 243 plants in 24 countries.
Five advanced reactor designs get DOE risk reduction funding
The Department of Energy today announced $30 million in initial fiscal year 2020 funding—with the expectation of more over the next seven years—for five companies selected for risk reduction for future demonstration projects. The chosen reactor designs from Kairos Power, Westinghouse, BWX Technologies, Holtec, and Southern Company collectively represent a range of coolants, fuel forms, and sizes—from tiny microreactors to a molten salt reactor topping 1,000 MWe. They were selected for cost-shared partnerships under the Office of Nuclear Energy’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) through a funding opportunity announcement issued in May 2020.
“All of these projects will put the U.S. on an accelerated timeline to domestically and globally deploy advanced nuclear reactors that will enhance safety and be affordable to construct and operate,” said Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette. “Taking leadership in advanced technology is so important to the country’s future, because nuclear energy plays such a key role in our clean energy strategy.”
Kairos Power test reactor comes to repurposed Oak Ridge site
An aerial view of the ETTP site. Photo: Heritage Center, LLC
Kairos Power plans to site a test reactor it has dubbed Hermes at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The company has executed a Memorandum of Understanding with Heritage Center, LLC, to acquire the former K-33 gaseous diffusion plant site at ETTP, subject to ongoing due diligence evaluations. The announcement was made today, during the 2020 East Tennessee Economic Council Annual Meeting and Awards Celebration.
“We are thrilled at the prospect of coming to East Tennessee,” said Michael Laufer, cofounder and chief executive officer of Kairos Power. “The infrastructure available at ETTP, combined with its proximity to key collaborators at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, makes this a great location to demonstrate our technology. The successful commissioning of Hermes builds on our current technology development programs and extensive engagement with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Ultimately, Hermes will prove that Kairos Power can deliver real systems at our cost targets to make advanced nuclear a competitive source of clean energy in the United States.”
Lou Martinez, vice president of strategy and innovation, added, “Today is an important day for Kairos Power. We are celebrating our 4th anniversary by showcasing an important milestone.”
New Brunswick debates investing in SMRs
In an article published by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on December 7, politicians representing New Brunswick, Canada, debate the benefits and potential risks of investing in small modular reactor development. Two major parties in the province support SMR development, while the Green Party sees “danger signs.”
From the ground up: Building a workforce for advanced nuclear
INL will need technical, innovative, and safety-minded construction personnel for the advanced nuclear projects ahead. Photo: INL
Around the world, researchers in the energy industry are engaging in the work of studying, testing, and developing carbon-free energy solutions. Throughout these circles, many scientists and engineers are embracing the possibilities of advanced nuclear technologies, including small modular reactors and microreactors. While these innovative technologies are poised to address some of the nation’s biggest concerns, they also present their own unique challenges, including the need for a large and talented workforce within the construction industry.
Fortunately, the state of Idaho and its key nuclear players are well-equipped for this challenge. In southeastern Idaho, home of Idaho National Laboratory, strong partnerships throughout the region have forged networks between the lab and the educational institutions, employers, trades, and unions that are working to establish this highly specialized nuclear talent pipeline.
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Stephanie Radonski
Mother, Supporter
November 2009 was bringing to a close what had been a very difficult year. Both of my parents had passed away in March of 2009, and I was looking forward to 2010 as a fresh start. Little did I know that my world would be turned upside down in the blink of an eye.
My daughter Bobbi has always been very active - taekwondo, volleyball, softball and so on. Bruises were the norm for her and we didn't think twice about them.
In 2009, she was 15 and a sophomore in high school. She had been working out at our local YMCA and began to complain of "hearing herself breathe" and feeling lightheaded. Later that day she was horsing around with her younger brother and he kicked her in her shin, and within an hour she had a bruise that went from ankle to knee. The next day she was exhausted and suffering from a headache and stayed home from school. I thought it was the flu.
By day three, she was almost lethargic so we took her to her family doctor for to find out what was going on. After she had 15 tubes of blood drawn and a possible diagnosis of the parvo virus (there was another case in our very small city, same high school) we went home and I put her to bed with fluids and rest and thought, she would certainly come around in no time. Then it happened - the Doctor called. When your phone rings at 7:00pm and it's your doctor, you know this isn't a good call. Her platelet count was low, 11,000. We were to follow up the next AM with a hematologist.
On day four, my phone rang at 7:00am. Again, nothing good can come of this. The hematologist we were to see did not see pediatric patients and we were to contact Children's Hospital of Wisconsin for a pediatric hematologist. During the phone call, I mentioned the headache in passing and was told to take her to Children's Hospital IMMEDIATELY. She would need to have a CT scan done to look for blood clots.
We arrived at Children's Hospital that morning and it was a whirlwind of activity. Her platelet count had dropped to 8,000 and we were critical. I remember Bobbi commenting "I hope they keep me overnight so I can order room service." Little did she know she was going to be there for more than one night.
Multiple providers saw Bobbi, but once the hematology team arrived we knew we were in trouble. She had to be admitted, a central line had to be placed and plasmapheresis would be done. I'll never forget the fear I saw in my daughter’s eyes that evening and I knew there was nothing I could do to make this better. I had to sign a consent form allowing them to place a central line knowing that she could bleed out due to her critical platelet count.
After a month of inpatient plasmapheresis, she was released but had to do approximately two months of outpatient treatment. She was followed extensively due to her being a child and having the rare diagnosis of TTP. The Children's Hospital of Wisconsin is part of The Milwaukee County Medical Complex and the Medical College of Wisconsin, so we were lucky. We had the best of the best in our state treating our child. She was placed on the Hematology, Oncology, and Transplant floor of the hospital and at the end of it we were able to walk out with our child.
Fast forward to the present, July 23, 2014. Bobbi is currently an inpatient with a relapse of TTP. Bobbi began to complain of a very bad backache and just not feeling well. Though she was worried about her dark urine, she didn't seem overly concerned so I didn't ask her the question I always ask "Does it feel like it's back?" On Friday July 18, 2014, she sent me a text message telling me "I don't feel good". I changed my route and took her straight to the emergency department. After the emergency room doctor saw her and we advised him of her TTP, he told us he thought it was a kidney stone because of the back pain. I had to insist on him doing a CBC to check her counts. He came into the room and told us her count was 10,000. She was transferred to The Medical Complex and Froedtert Hospital and admitted for TTP. At that time, her count had been re-done and she was now down to less than 5,000.
After five days of plasmapheresis, her count was up to 130,000. We were heading in the right direction, but having been here before, and we know we will be here again, we were terrified. The ‘whys’ are too many to count and the sleepless nights are draining at the very least.
Half way through her treatment, she developed an allergy to a protein in the donor plasma. Anaphylactic shock set in and she was transferred to the ICU. After meeting with teams from the Blood Center of Wisconsin, the allergy team and the hematology team had no answers as to why...why was there a reaction and what were we going to do? Bobbi spent a total of 5 days in the ICU receiving Benadryl 13 hours, 6 hours and 1 hour prior to her treatments as well as prednisone, and an epi pen sat at the bedside. Thankfully, she responded to that treatment plan and required no further medical intervention for the reaction to the protein.
On August 10th, 2014, two days before her 20th birthday, Bobbi went home.
It's been a whirlwind of central lines, plasmapheresis and medications with no real answers. Given her very young age and the rarity of the condition, she has a team of eight providers treating her. She's been seen by multiple students, who can now see TTP in person rather than in a textbook. While she is feeling like a circus sideshow, she knows that by allowing herself to be center stage, she may help that one person find the reasons and the answers to the ‘whys’.
"At first, I thought the headaches and tiredness was from my cold, but when the bruises showed up, I knew something was wrong. "
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One million downloads for anthropological book series on Social Media
NEW Delhi : One of the most popular monographs from India, titled “Social Media in South India” is authored by Shriram Venkatraman, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, New Delhi (IIIT-Delhi)
Ethnographic monographs usually sell just a few hundred copies. How, then, did an eleven-volume anthropological series about the use and consequences of social media called “Why We Post?” just pass one million downloads? It is not just the quantity that is unprecedented but also the reach as well. The series has been read by audiences all around the globe, with over 20,000 downloads in the Philippines and Brazil, over 10,000 in Nigeria and Indonesia, and over 5,000 from Ethiopia and Hong Kong.
The series investigates the findings of anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world, immersed in the lives of people living in a town on the Syrian-Turkish border and small towns in South-East Italy, Chile, rural China, England and Trinidad among others. It was the first project to observe the shift in Facebook from younger to older visitors in 2012. The study also demonstrated the importance of social media for everyday family life in south India and Brazil.
The most downloaded volume is “How the World Changed Social Media?” which offers a comparative analysis summarising the results of the research, including the impact of social media on politics, gender, education, and commerce. This volume has been translated to Hindi, Tamil, Italian, and Portuguese by UCL Press. The volume authors are Elisabetta Costa, Nell Haynes, Tom McDonald, Daniel Miller Razvan Nicolescu, Jolynna Sinanan, Juliano Spyer, Shriram Venkatraman, and Xinyuan Wang.
The monograph from India, titled Social Media in South India was authored by Shriram Venkatraman, currently an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, New Delhi. This volume has also been translated to Hindi and Tamil.
The success of the series demonstrates how interesting anthropology can be globally when the results are made accessible and are directly related to the lives of the readers.
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About Dr. Avery
College Labyrinth
PSAT and SAT Testing
Dr. Erin Avery
Should I take the new SAT or the ACT?
A year ago, in March 2016, the College Board debuted its revamped, or as they prefer to call it “redesigned” SAT. Many experts believe that the impetus behind the redesign was to keep it more competitive with the ACT, which has been gaining traction in recent years as the preferred college readiness test among high school students. The ACT was seen as the fairer test, more closely based on what students should be learning in high school while the SAT was criticized for its trick math questions, its confusing structure, and its obscure vocabulary. The College Board responded to these complaints with a new and improved SAT.
Now, students are asking which test should they be taking as part of their college application — the new SAT or the ACT? Keep in mind that the new SAT returned to its original 400-1600 scaled score, so a perfect 1600 on the new SAT is the equivalent of a perfect 36 on the ACT. While experts say that the new SAT is more straightforward and more similar to the ACT in format and subject matter, there are still some important differences to consider before making your decision.
In addition to the returning to its original 400 -1600 point scale, the new SAT is like the ACT in two major respects. First, there is no longer a wrong answer penalty, so intelligent guessing is encouraged. Second, the SAT essay portion is now optional. The does not have a separately designated Science section, but science/graph analysis questions appear in the math and reading sections of the exam.
Here is a brief comparison of the SAT and ACT by section:
Reading Sections. The new SAT Reading section consists of only one long section of 52 questions with an allotted time of 65 minutes. This section includes only longer passages and no longer contains sentence completions (SAT analogy questions had already been eliminated years ago), making it more similar to ACT Reading. Unlike the ACT, its questions follow the same order as information in the paragraph. The ACT reading section is much shorter. The student is given 35 minutes to answer 40 questions. The ACT focuses more on reading comprehension, while the new SAT focuses on analyzing specific concepts and understanding how the authors construct their arguments.
Writing Sections. The new SAT Writing section utilizes the same passage-based format as the ACT English section, and now includes more grammatical concepts ,including punctuation, that was not tested before the redesign. Although both tests give roughly the same amount of time, the ACT asks almost twice as many questions. For SAT Writing, students are asked to answer 44 questions in 35 minutes while ACT English expects 75 questions to be answered in 45 minutes.
Math Sections. The new SAT Math section has been redesigned to be more straightforward and focus on the math that students are taking high school instead of quirky, tricky questions that often had a “backdoor” solution. The new SAT has a heavy emphasis on algebra and data analysis. The ACT Math section includes far more geometry and trigonometry, and, unlike the SAT, does not provide a table of formulas. The new SAT allows more time for the Math section, but the questions are more challenging, and includes both calculator and no-calculator allowed portions. The new SAT Math portion consists of 20 no-calculator questions in 25 minutes and 38 calculator-allowed questions in 55 minutes. The ACT Math portion is one section containing 60 questions to be completed in 60 minutes, and allows the use of a calculator throughout the section, which may favor those students who are calculator-dependent. The ACT Math section is all multiple choice while the new SAT still retains some “grid-in” format questions, 13 of them, to be exact, and they all appear at the end of the two sections (4 in the no calculator section and 8 in the calculator allowed section).
Essay sections. The new SAT and the ACT are similar. They are both given about the same amount of time. To answer one prompt, the new SAT allows 50 minutes while the ACT allows 40 minutes. The essays are both optional, so the decision to take the essay depends of the admission requirements of the colleges to which you are applying. In the new SAT, you’ll be asked to evaluate an argument, and according to the College Board, “you can count on seeing the same prompt no matter when you take the new SAT with Essay, but the passage will be different every time.” On the ACT, you must come up with your own argument and support it.
So, those are the key differences, but which test should you take?
Sorry, it’s not that easy! The question is not which is the better test because both of them have their advantages and disadvantages depending on the student. The real issue is is best for YOU. The better test is the one most aligned to the testing style your prefer, the types of questions, in short, the better test is the one that gives you the strongest competitive edge in the Admissions Office by maximizing your strengths and presenting you in the most favorable light.
Here are some things you should consider:
Factors that favor the SAT:
It is still a critical thinking test, emphasizes creative thinking over memorizing content.
Many students consider it to be the “easier” of the two once you factor in the scaled score (both tests are graded on a curve).
If you are a slower test-taker, the new SAT may be a better option, as it is far less time intensive and allows more time per problem.
Factors that favor the ACT:
If you are able to stay focused for longer periods of time and work at a fast pace, the ACT might be your best bet.
There is currently much more practice material available for the ACT, and its content is presented in a consistent manner.
To decide which test to take, obtain a copy of both exams. Examine the rules, format, and questions in depth. Often, one testing style will resonate with you over the other. Once you have decided which test would be a better fit, start preparing as early as possible for the exam. There is one steadfast rule that applies equally to both tests: Focused, productive preparation is necessary for you to maximize your score.
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WaPo editor: Americans may be "numb" to Trump's "15,000 false or misleading claims"
Martin Baron, the executive editor of the Washington Post, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that while Americans may be "numb" to the more than 15,000 false claims made by President Trump and flagged by the Post, the newspaper still has a responsibility to hold "government officials accountable" through aggressive fact-checking.
The big picture: Baron's comments were part of a "Meet the Press" special on the weaponization of disinformation in the era of Trump. Throughout his presidency, Trump has launched an unprecedented number of attacks against the press, often labeling journalists as the "enemy of the people" and casting them as the opposition party.
Trump's presidency has coincided with a historic divide in trust toward the news media. Pew recorded in September 2018 a 44% gap between Democratic and Republican support for the media's role in holding government officials accountable.
Republicans and Democrats were almost equally likely to support the news media’s "watchdog" role during the Obama administration.
Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the New York Times, said on the "Meet the Press" that journalists once assumed people inherently trusted the media. Now, he said, journalists must prove their work in order to gain readers' trust.
"What I think we're going to have to get very aggressive at is to be really transparent, to assume nothing, and to make sure people know where we are, how we do our work, to show our work more aggressively. That's a different muscle for us," Baquet said.
Baquet cited the Washington Post's recent project on "The Afghanistan Papers," in which the newspaper published documents to support its reporting, as an example of how the media can "market" its journalism and defend the truth.
What's next: Going forward, Baron said journalists should be "open-minded" when they approach any story. "We should be listeners, more than talkers. And we should be willing to listen to everyone," Baron said.
"I think great journalists are empathetic, which means they listen, and they try to understand," Baquet said. "That's not pandering. And then, I think the most-powerful word, for me, is independent, independent, which means independent of everybody, by the way, except, except our principles and our readers."
NBC's Chuck Todd claims Republicans have an "incentive" to spread misinformation
The free press is getting squeezed, even in democracies
A year of media upheaval
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Rappo, Smith, Stec, Rocha take Sturgis boys' soccer season by Storm Hastings: 'They led by example'
Mike Richard
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After capturing the Cape and Islands League Lighthouse Division championship last fall, Sturgis East boys’ soccer coach Brian Hastings set a goal to do it again this year.
“I kept telling the kids this may have been the best all-around, balanced team since I’ve been at Sturgis,” Hastings said. “They’re a great bunch of kids.”
While the Storm captured the regular season championship with an overall record of 5-2-3 in 10 games (4-1-3 in the Lighthouse Division), their hopes for the tournament championship were dashed by Monomoy 2-1 in the finals.
The squad was led by three senior captains – Alex Stec, Finlay Rappo and Shane Smith – along with two more seniors, Hunter Proft and Sam Knight.
“I only had five seniors, who were great leaders and role models. They led by example,” said Hastings. “Our three captains were great when it came to kids relating to kids. I’m an old guy, so who knows how much they relate to me? But the seniors certainly led the way.”
Just the same, the “old guy,” who is in his 14th year coaching at Sturgis, saw his squads qualify for the South Sectional Tournament for 10 straight years. However, with the sectionals not held this year due to the pandemic, the Storm accomplished the equivalent advancing to the tournament finals.
“It’s a crazy world, but the kids did really well. They followed all the rules and did it well enough to get through the season,” he said. “I’m very glad for the seniors that they got the chance to play their last season. I felt terrible for the kids last spring who didn’t get to play.”
One of the biggest surprises of the season was the emergence of freshman goaltender Isaac Rocha, who volunteered to play in the net when the squad needed someone to be in there for practices and team scrimmages.
“Coach Hutchins (assistant Ken) and I asked who may want to give it a shot in goal, and Isaac said, 'I’ll do it.' He wound up in the goal and has athleticism, along with the fact that he’s a big kid but has soft hands and a good attitude.”
Rocha wound up playing every game after the season opener against Monomoy and had the most minutes on the field of anyone on the squad.
“I’m so glad we have him for the next three years,” said Hastings.
Playing up front for the Storm were left wing Luiz Teixiera, a sophomore, senior center Stec, and junior right wing Naje Wray. The midfield was comprised of sophomore Thomas Terry, and juniors Alex Mendez and Ryan Davis.
The defense was anchored by freshman Hogan Anderson and seniors Smith, Rappo and Knight.
Other players included junior defensive player Peter Cotoia, sophomore forward Lorenzo Salaris and freshman midfielders Lucas Dehelean and Travis Markowski. David Belino was slated to be starting center but broke his wrist the first game of the season and was unable to play.
The Storm clinched the regular season Lighthouse title with a 2-1 win over rival Sturgis West as Stec returned from an injury to score the go-ahead goal in the fourth quarter.
On to the tournament, East beat St. John Paul II, 4-0, in the semifinals thanks to a multi-faceted scoring attack. Tiexiera, Terry, Dehelean and freshman Markowski each scored. Tri-captains Stec, Smith and Rappo had strong games, while Rocha had his best game in the net, notching a shutout for the Storm.
The dream of a championship came to an end at the hands of Monomoy 2-1, despite the Storm grabbing the lead with 4:40 left in the third quarter of a scoreless game when Mendez scored to put them ahead, 1-0.
“Alex took a long shot and put it by their goalie, who was very good,” said Hastings. “We had a penalty shot that he deflected, so I think he was the difference in the game.”
Monomoy would tally the equalizer with only seconds left in the third quarter and then got the winner with about four minutes left as their goaltender, Sean Deveau, made 17 saves to preserve the win.
“We knew that if someone got a goal in the last five minutes or so it would determine the game, and that’s what happened,” the coach said. “(Monomoy) got it and won, but our kids didn’t give up and they kept on playing until the end.”
In fact, with only nine seconds left in the game, the lights suddenly went out at Old Town House Road Park in Yarmouth, where the game was being played.
“We asked our kids if they wanted us to call the game or play it out, and they all said, ‘we want to finish the game on the field,’” said Hastings.
However, it wasn’t as easy as it sounded. The game had to be switched to a nearby field on the complex, and there was a 15-minute wait to get those lights warmed up and on.
“We were trying for a long kick – like a Hail Mary kick to see what happened,” said Hastings of the last-ditch effort, “but it was misplayed in the beginning, and the game ended.”
While the loss was a bitter pill, Hastings knows he has a good deal of talent coming back next season and can build the defense around Rocha, who will be a sophomore in the goal. Also returning will be next season’s captains-elect, Davis, Mendez and Wray.
“We have good depth, and the squad was well-distributed between the grades,” he said. “We have quite a few kids in good skill positions coming back.”
In addition, Hastings is looking forward to coming back in what would be his 15th season at Sturgis East.
“I still enjoy it,” he said. “I still tell people I get paid for having fun, and I’m not ready to give that up yet.”
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Florida ranks second in nation for fatal work zone car crashes
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Emirates Airlines suspends flights to dozens more cities
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Dubai carrier Emirates Airlines announced Saturday it would suspend flights to dozens more cities, taking its total route closures past 100, in a bid to forestall the spread of coronavirus.
The United Arab Emirates on Friday announced its first two deaths from the disease. Total recorded infections in the UAE stood at 153, of which 38 have recovered.
The latest suspensions by Emirates Airlines take the carrier's total closed routes to 111.
The airline normally serves 159 destinations.
"In response to the latest developments in the COVID-19 outbreak around the world, Emirates is taking extra steps that go above and beyond industry and regulatory requirements to ensure our customers' health and comfort," the company said in a statement.
Emirates said flights to some destinations would be suspended for up to three months while others, including to Paris, Frankfurt and Islamabad were stopped "until further notice".
Abu Dhabi's carrier Etihad also announced on Saturday it was suspending flights to some 40 cities in China, India, Saudi Arabia, Spain and Italy.
Gulf countries have imposed various restrictions to combat the spread of coronavirus, particularly in the air transport sector.
The UAE has stopped granting visas on arrival and forbidden foreigners who are legal residents but who are currently outside the country from returning.
And on Saturday the UAE announced it was temporarily closing beaches and other public areas, including parks, movie theatres and gyms, to contain the spread of the virus.
Restaurants and cafes, however, could remain open if they provide a home-delivery service and limit client capacity to 20 percent, the National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority said on Twitter.
The new measures would remain in effect for two weeks, pending review, it added.
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Mariners Land Yonder Alonso At Bargain Price
By J.J. Cooper
Throughout July, it became increasingly clear that impending free-agent hitters could be found in the discount bin. The Diamondbacks acquired outfielder J.D. Martinez, a hitter with four consecutive seasons of slugging over .500, for the modest cost of a trio of non-Top 100 Prospects.
The cost of middle-of-the-order bats hasn't gone up now the calendar has flipped to August. On Sunday the Mariners acquired Oakland first baseman Yonder Alonso, the A's best hitter, for the modest cost of well-traveled Triple-A outfielder Boog Powell. Oakland originally drafted Powell in 2012 in the 20th round.
MARINERS ACQUIRE Yonder Alonso, 1b Age: 30
Alonso has been a poster child for the launch angle revolution. The seventh overall pick in the 2008 draft, Alonso came into the season having never reached double digits in home runs or even .400 in slugging percentage in a full major league season.
But after reworking his swing to hit the ball in the air more often, Alonso has blown away his career highs in home runs and now fits as a middle of the order bat. He fills a significant need for the Mariners, as Danny Valencia and Dan Vogelbach have failed to live up to the Mariners' expectations. Alonso is a free agent at the end of the season.
2017 Club AVG OBP SLG AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB
Oakland (MLB) .266 .369 .527 319 52 85 17 0 22 49 50 88 1
Robert Hassell Gets First Experience At Petco Park
The No. 8 pick in the 2020 draft has already gotten 50 at-bats under his belt since arriving to the team's alternate site.
ATHLETICS ACQUIRE Boog Powell, of Age: 24
Powell is in the middle of his best pro season in his third season in Triple-A, although his success at Triple-A did not carry over in his first promotion to the big leagues, where he drew walks but otherwise struggled offensively. Powell's best assets are his speed and defense. Most scouts see him as a future fourth outfielder who has enough defensive ability in center field to contribute to a big league roster. He has solid contact skills, albeit with little power. He has enough feel for the strike zone to produce solid on-base percentages. His above-average speed plays much better in the field than on the basepaths, as he's never figured out how to be a successful basestealer. Powell has been suspended twice by MLB. The first time was a 50-game suspension after testing positive for an amphetamine. He was suspended for 80 games last year because he tested positive for an anabolic steroid.
Tacoma (AAA) .340 .416 .490 206 46 70 9 2 6 33 28 27 11
Seattle (MLB) .194 .310 .194 36 6 7 0 0 0 2 6 9 0
Jorge Polanco Sets The Tone For Surging Twins (Three Up, Three Down)
Jorge Polanco is on pace to post career-bests in several categories, a pair of lefties struggle and more.
Indians Make Room For Santana, Bauers By Shipping Out Alonso
The Cleveland Indians traded Yonder Alonso to the Chicago White Sox, acquiring outfield prospect Alex Call in return.
Baseball Hotbeds: Why Florida Is No. 1?
Florida produces more baseball players on a per capita basis than any other state.
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BoagArt Publishing is a family run venture. It began as an opportunity to try something a bit different for those involved and, whilst the grand plans of those early days have taken a few different directions, the aim has remained the same - to make a wider selection of Francis' work available to a larger audience.
To achieve this, the focus of BoagArt Publishing has been Limited Edition Giclée Prints. We're not the only show in town offering Francis' work in print, however, with unrivalled access to his catalogue of work (and the technological means to do so), we like to think we offer something unique.
Over the last few years, we've been delighted to be able to offer a number of smaller original pieces. These pieces are often done when the Artist is between exhibitions and has some down time to explore new ideas and, in our (albeit bias) opinion, really do epitomise the sentiment that small is beautiful! In the words of the Artist, "sometimes the smaller works have a spontaneity or 'va va voom' which can be hard to replicate in larger work"
As mentioned, our connection with the Artist allows us to offer a broad collection of work with something to suit all tastes. We keep this collection up to date, adding new pieces on a regular basis, trying our best to curate the work available based on what people like the most.
Despite this, we recognise that everybody's tastes are different and it's always good to have a backup plan so, if you've had a look around the website but can't find anything that's just quite right, feel free to head over to Francis' profile on Artwork Archive. Here you can browse an extensive collection of his work - if you see something you like and want to enquire about it's availability in print format, send us an email at mail@boagart.com or get in touch using our contact form.
Our aim is to bring Francis' work to as wide an audience is possible so, if there's a way to meet your request, we'll do our best to find it!
Francis was born in Dundee and studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in the late sixties where his tutors included Alberto Morrocco and David McClure, whose influences can be readily seen in his love of vibrant colour and the sensuous application of paint.
Upon leaving university, Francis became a secondary school Art teacher. Francis continued to paint throughout a successful teaching career before he returned to higher education to undertake a MA at Grays School of Art in 2000. Developments in his work during this introspective period met with great enthusiasm in the commercial gallery market and demand for his work increased. This enabled him to leave education and become a full-time, professional artist in 2001.
Since then, Francis has worked steadily to establish himself as one of the leading figures in a new generation of “Scottish Colourists”, with his work exhibited widely throughout the UK and as far afield as Europe, Russia and the US.
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Attack of the 50 Foot Colossi is a tactical hex-and-counter wargame, which provides players with ore carriers full of solo fun and excitement. As the battle-hardened 124th Galactic Marine Raider Batallion, fight to save miners on a remote planet from colossal rock monsters.
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Bible > Commentary > Cambridge > James
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Ch. James 2:1-13. Respect of Persons
1. have not the faith …] Better, do not hold. The Greek for “respect of persons” (better, perhaps, acceptance of persons) is in the plural, as including all the varied forms in which the evil tendency might shew itself, and stands emphatically immediately after the negative. The name of “our Lord Jesus Christ” is used obviously with a special force. He had shewn Himself, through His whole life on earth, to be no “respecter of persons” (Matthew 22:16), to have preferred the poor to the rich. There was a shameful inconsistency when those who professed to hold the faith which had Him as its object acted otherwise. To the name of the Lord Jesus is added the description “the Lord of Glory.” The first two words are not repeated in the Greek, but the structure of the English sentence requires their insertion. The motive of the addition is clear. In believing in Him who was emphatically a sharer in the Eternal Glory (John 17:5), who had now returned to that Glory, men ought to feel the infinite littleness of all the accidents of wealth or rank that separate man from man. This seems the most natural construction, but the position of the words “of glory” is anomalous, and some have joined it with “faith” either as a genitive of the object “faith in the future glory,” or as a characterising attribute = “the glorious faith.”
2. if there come unto your assembly] Literally, into your synagogue, the old familiar name as yet, in that early stage of the Church’s life, being used for the Christian as for the Jewish place of worship. What is noted presented the most glaring and offensive form which the acceptance of persons had taken. Signs of the eagerness of men who aimed at a high religious reputation to obtain such honours are seen in Matthew 23:6; and in a society so pervaded by worldliness as that of Judæa, wealth, if accompanied by any kind of religiousness, was sure to be accepted as covering a multitude of sins. What grieved St James was that the same evil should have crept in even among the disciples of the Lord of Glory.
a man with a gold ring] Literally, a gold-ringed man, implying, probably, more than one. The custom was one of the fashions of the Empire, and had spread from Rome to Judæa. So Juvenal, in a portrait which unites the two forms of ostentatious luxury noted by St James, describes one who, though born as an Egyptian slave, appears with Tyrian robes upon his shoulders, and golden rings, light or heavy, according to the season (Sat. i. 28. 30). So in Martial (xi. 60) we read of one who wears six rings on every finger, day and night, and even when he bathes.
in goodly apparel] Better, in gorgeous, or bright apparel. The word is the same as that used of the robe placed upon our Lord in mockery (Luke 23:11), and of that in which the Angel appeared to Cornelius (Acts 10:30). The primary idea is that of “bright” or shining, and this effect was often produced by a combination of gold embroidery with Tyrian purple and crimson.
in vile raiment] squalid is perhaps the nearest equivalent to the Greek word. It is used in the LXX. of Zechariah 3:4, of the “filthy garments” of Joshua the High-Priest. In Revelation 22:11 it is used of spiritual “filthiness,” as is the cognate noun in chap. James 1:21 of this Epistle.
3. And ye have respect to] Better, look with respect upon. The same word is used in Luke 1:48; Luke 9:38. The English version weakens the dramatic vividness of the Greek.
the gay clothing] The English presents a needless variation from the Greek, which has the same words as in the preceding verse. The translators would seem to have acted on their principle of bringing in as many English words as they could by way of fairness. See Preface to the Authorised Version.
Sit thou here in a good place] The English paraphrases the Greek, which runs literally, as in the margin, Sit here honourably. In practice the seats most coveted among the Jews were those near the end of the synagogue which looked towards Jerusalem, and at which stood the ark that contained the sacred roll of the Law. We do not know whether the first meeting-places of the Christian society followed the same arrangements, or whether then, as at a later period, the Table of the Lord took the place which had been occupied by the ark, and led them to covet the places that were near it, and therefore well placed for seeing and hearing the officiating elder.
Stand thou there …] The Christian, probably the elder or deacon, is supposed to point the poor man to his place at the other end of the synagogue, far from sight and hearing, giving him, it may be, the alternative of a seat on the ground, just below what we should call the “stall,” in which the rich man was invited to take his place, with a stool for his feet to rest on.
4. are ye not then partial in yourselves?] The verb is the same as that translated “waver” in chap. James 1:6 and elsewhere, as in Matthew 21:21; Mark 11:23; Acts 10:20; Romans 14:23 by “doubt.” Nor is any other meaning, such as that of “making distinctions,” necessary, or admissible, here. “When you acted in this way (the tense assumes that the thing had been actually done) did you not doubt, as others doubt, in your own hearts?” Faith in Christ’s words as to the deceitfulness of riches and the little honour due to them would have kept men from such servility. They shewed by their words and acts that they were half-hearted, or, in St James’s sense of the word, “double-minded.”
judges of evil thoughts?] The construction is the same as that of the English phrase “a man of bad temper,” and is precisely analogous to that rendered “unjust judge” (literally, judge of injustice) in Luke 18:6, and to the “forgetful hearer” or “hearer of forgetfulness” in chap. James 1:25. It means accordingly, “evil-thinking judges.” In acting as they did, men made themselves judges between rich and poor, and with “base reasonings,” or better, perhaps, what we call “base calculations,” gave a preference to the former.
5. Hath not God chosen …] Better, perhaps, did not God choose? as referring to the special election of the poor by Christ as the heirs of blessings and the messengers of His Kingdom (Matthew 5:3; Luke 6:20; comp. also 1 Corinthians 1:27).
the poor of this world] Literally, in this world, i. e. “as far as this world is concerned.”
rich in faith] The construction of the words is (to use a technical phrase) that of a secondary predicate, “God had chosen the poor in this world as, i.e. to be, rich in faith, as in the region in which they lived and moved.”
heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised …] Here, as before (ch. James 1:12), it is scarcely possible to exclude a direct reference to the words of Christ, as in Luke 6:20; Luke 12:31-32, and so we get indirect proof of a current knowledge, at the early period at which St James wrote, of teaching that was afterwards recorded in the written Gospels. Some of the better MSS., however, give “heirs of the promise.”
to them that love him?] Care is taken not to lead men to suppose that poverty itself, apart from spiritual conditions, was a sufficient title to the inheritance. There must be the love of God which has its root in faith. What is pressed is that poverty and not wealth was the true object of respect; partly as predisposing men to the spiritual conditions, partly as having been singled out by Christ for special blessings.
6. But ye have despised the poor] Better, ye have dishonoured, or done dishonour to, the word implying the outward act that expressed contempt. The Greek tense may point to the special instance just given as a supposed fact, “Ye dishonoured.…” The pronoun is emphatic, “God chose the poor, ye put them to shame.”
Do not rich men oppress you] Better, lord it over you. The word is like, though not identical with, those used in Matthew 20:25; 1 Peter 5:3, and means literally, to act the potentate over others. As a rule the wealthier class in Judæa tended to Sadduceeism (Joseph. Ant. xiii. 10. § 6), and St James’s reference to their treatment of the disciples agrees with the part that sect took, including, as it did, the aristocracy of the priesthood, in the persecutions of the earlier chapters of the Acts (James 4:1; James 4:6, James 5:17).
and draw you before the judgment seats?] Better, drag you to courts of Justice. The same noun appears in 1 Corinthians 6:2; 1 Corinthians 6:4. The Greek verb implies violence, as in Acts 21:30. The words may point either to direct persecutions, such as that of Acts 9:1-2, or to the indirect vexation of oppressive lawsuits. In the Greek the verb is preceded by an emphatic pronoun, “Is it not they that drag you.” There seems, at first, a want of logical coherence. The rich man first appears as gaining undue prominence in the assembly of Christians, and then as one of a class of persecutors and blasphemers. This, however, is just the point on which St James lays stress. Men honoured the rich Christian, not because he was a Christian, but because he was rich, i. e. because he was connected with a class, which, as such, had shewn itself bitterly hostile to them.
7. Do not they blaspheme that worthy name] Better, Do not they revile that noble Name? The pronoun is again emphatic, Is it not they that revile? The two senses of the Greek verb, the reviling which has man for its object, and the blasphemy, in its modern sense, which is directed against God, are in this instance so closely mingled that it is difficult to say which predominates. Men reviled Christ as a deceiver, and in so doing were, not knowing what they did, blaspheming the Son of God. The Name can be none other than that of Jesus as the Christ, and the epithet attached to it, “which is given you, or called upon you,” is best explained as referring to the name of Christian, which was beginning to spread from Antioch into Palestine (Acts 11:26). Where it had not yet found its way, it was probable enough that the disciples of Jesus would be known by the name out of which “Christian” sprang, as οἱ Χριστοῦ, “Christ’s people,” “Christ’s followers.” The description reminds us of the account St Paul gives of his work in compelling the saints to “blaspheme” (Acts 26:11). The persecution in which he thus took part was instigated, it will be remembered, by the Sadducean priests, who formed a wealthy aristocracy, rather than by the more cautious Pharisees, who adopted the policy of Gamaliel (Acts 5:17; Acts 5:34).
8. If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture] The Greek gives a particle which is not expressed in the English, “If, however, ye fulfil …” Nothing that the writer has said in disparagement of wealth and the wealthy is to lead men to anything at variance with the great law of love; that law embraces rich and poor alike. The position of the verb in the Greek gives it a special emphasis. The “law” which follows may be called “royal” or “kingly,” either (1) in the sense in which Plato speaks (Minos ii. 566) of a just law as kingly or sovereign, using the same adjective as St James, or (2) as coming from God or Christ as the true King and forming part of the fundamental code of the kingdom. In a Greek writer the first would probably be the thought intended. In one like St James, living in the thought of a Divine kingdom, and believing in Jesus as the King, the latter is more likely to have been prominent. This agrees too more closely with the uniform use of the word in the LXX. in a literal and not a figurative sense. The law which follows, from Leviticus 19:18, had been solemnly affirmed by the true King (Matthew 22:39). One who accepted it in its fulness was ipso facto not far from the Kingdom (Mark 12:34). Believing this to have been the main thought present to St James’s mind, it is yet probable enough that he chose the word so that those who were not as yet believers in Christ might see in the commandment of love, the law of God as the Great King.
ye do well] The words seem to point to those who, like the scribe in Mark 12:32-33, were ready enough to accept the law in theory but shrank from its practical application. We almost trace a tone of irony in the words: “In that case, if you attain a completeness which you never have attained, ye do well.” “Right well,” or “nobly,” or more colloquially “excellent well,” comes closer to the force of the adverb.
9. but if ye have respect to persons] The Greek gives a compound verb which is not found elsewhere, If ye be person-accepting.
ye commit sin] The Greek is more emphatic, “It is sin that ye are working, being convicted by the Law.” However generally decorous their lives might be, yet through this one offence they failed to meet the requirements of the Law. The way in which they dealt with rich and poor was, in the strictest sense of the term, a crucial test.
10. in one point] The noun, as the italics shew, is not in the Greek, but the English is a satisfactory rendering. Guided by what follows we might perhaps say “in one commandment.”
he is guilty of all] Better, he has become guilty, i. e. liable to condemnation under an indictment which includes all the particular commandments included in the great Law. This seems at first of the nature of an ethical paradox, but practically it states a deep moral truth. If we wilfully transgress one commandment we shew that in principle we sit loose to all. It is but accident, or fear, or the absence of temptation, that prevents our transgressing them also. Actual transgression in one case involves potential transgression in all. A saying of Rabbi Jochanan is recorded in the Talmud (Sabbath, fol. 70) identical with this in its terms, and including in its range what were classed as the 39 precepts of Moses. St James was urging upon devout Jews, whether they believed in Christ or no, the highest ethical teaching of their own schools. It is probable enough, that the Pharisees who misrepresented the teaching of St James in the Church of Antioch, laid stress on these words as including circumcision and the ceremonial Law, as well as the precepts which were moral and eternal (Acts 15:1; Acts 15:5; Acts 15:24). See Introduction, ch. 3
11. For he that said, Do not commit adultery …] The two commandments are chosen as standing first in the Second Table, the fifth being classed by most Jewish writers as belonging to the First, just as in Greek and Roman ethics, duty to parents came under the head of Εὐσεβεία and Pietas, rather than under that of Justice (comp. 1 Timothy 5:4). This division is recognised by Josephus (Ant. iii. 6. § 6) and Philo (De Decal. i.), and falls in better than the common one with the pentad and duad grouping that pervades the Law. It is singular that in all New Testament quotations from the Second Table “Thou shalt not commit adultery” precedes “Thou shalt not kill,” Mark 10:19; Luke 18:20; Romans 13:9; and the order is made the subject of direct comment by Philo (De Decal. xii. 24). It may be inferred from this that there was, probably, a traditional order varying from that at present found in the Hebrew Pentateuch.
12. So speak ye, and so do] The thoughts of the teacher dwell, as before (chap. James 1:26) and afterwards (chap. James 3:1-12), on sins of speech as no less tests of character than sins of act. In so doing he was echoing the words of a yet greater Teacher (Matthew 12:37).
the law of liberty] See note on ch. James 1:25. The recurrence of the phrase indicates a certain fondness for the thought which it expresses. As a phrase it is peculiar to St James, but the idea is found in John 8:32. Verbally it presents something like a contrast to St Paul’s language as to the law “which gendereth unto bondage” (Galatians 4:24), but the difference is on the surface only, St James speaking of the moral law when the will accepts it as the guide of life, St Paul of its work as reproving and condemning when the fleshly will resists it, and pre-eminently of its merely ritual and ceremonial precepts, the days and months and years of Galatians 4:10.
13. For he shall have judgment] There is something more emphatic in the actual structure of the sentence. For the judgment shall be merciless to him that wrought not mercy. The axiom presents one aspect of the great law of divine retribution, and, like so much of St James’s teaching, is an obvious reproduction of that of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 7:1). The reference to that discourse suggests the thought that the “law of liberty” of which St James speaks is not the law given by Moses, but the new Law, full of grace and truth, which was given by Christ. See note on James 2:8. On this assumption the supposed contrast with St Paul dwindles into nothing.
mercy rejoiceth against judgment] The verb is found in Romans 11:18. The abruptness of the original, where the maxim stands with no connecting particle, is singularly forcible, mercy glories over judgment. The law holds good universally. It is true of man’s judgment, but also of God’s, that mercy triumphs over severity, when it finds a willing object. The truth has seldom found a nobler utterance than in the familiar words which remind us that
“Earthly power doth then shew likest God’s,
When mercy seasons justice.”
Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice, iv. 1.
14–26. Justification by Faith and Works
14. though a man say he hath faith] The section on which we now enter has been the battle-field of almost endless controversies. It led Luther in the boldness of a zeal not according to knowledge to speak of the whole Epistle with contempt. (Preface to German New Testament, 1522; but see J. C. Hare’s Vindication of Luther, p. 215.) To him it was an “Epistle of Straw,” (Epistola straminea,) to be classed with wood, hay, stubble, as compared with the teaching of St Paul, which it seemed to him to contradict. It led Bishop Bull to write his Harmonia Apostolica to prove the agreement of the two, by assuming, with many of the Fathers, that St James wrote to correct the false inferences which men had drawn from St Paul’s doctrine, in itself and as taught by him a true doctrine, as to Justification. In dealing with the problem presented by a comparison of the teaching of the two writers, it is obviously necessary to start with what to the reader is an assumption, though to the writer it may be the conclusion of an inquiry, as to the aim and leading idea of the writer with whom we have to deal; and the notes that follow will accordingly be based on the hypothesis that the teaching of St James was not meant, as men have supposed who exaggerate the diversities of thought in the Apostolic age, to be antagonistic to that of St Paul, nor even to correct mistaken inferences from it, but was altogether independent, and probably prior in time, moving in its own groove, and taking its own line of thought. If this view, as a theory, solves all the phænomena, and throws light upon what would otherwise be obscure, it will be its own best vindication. At the close it may be well to take a brief survey of other modes of interpretation.
We must remember then, to start with, that St James is writing primarily to the Jews of the “dispersion.” The disciples in Jerusalem and Judæa were under his personal guidance, and therefore were not in need of an Epistle. The faults which he reproves are pre-eminently the faults of the race. Men dwelling, as those Jews dwelt, in the midst of a heathen population, were tempted to trust for their salvation to their descent from Abraham (comp. Matthew 3:9) and to their maintaining the unity of the Godhead as against the Polytheism and idolatry of the nations. They repeated their Creed (known, from its first Hebrew word, as the Shemà), “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord” (Deuteronomy 6:4). It entered, as our Creed does, into the Morning and Evening Services of the Synagogue. It was uttered by the dying as a passport to the gates of Paradise. It was to this that they referred the words of Habakkuk that the just should live by faith (Habakkuk 2:4). St James saw, as the Baptist had seen before him, how destructive all this was of the reality of the spiritual life, and accordingly takes this as the next topic of his letter.
No emphasis is to be laid on “though a man say.” The argument of St James assumes that the man has the faith which he professes. His contention is that faith is not enough by itself, that unless it pass into “works” it gives proof that it is ipso facto dead; and the “works” of which he speaks are, as the next verse shews, emphatically, not ceremonial, nor ascetic, but those of an active benevolence.
can faith save him?] The pronoun, and, in the Greek, the article prefixed to faith, are emphatic. “Can his faith save him, being such as he is?” There is no slight cast upon faith generally, though the kind of faith in the particular case is declared to be worthless.
15. If a brother or sister …] The words are not necessarily used in the sense in which they imply the profession of faith in Christ as they are, e. g., in Acts 10:23; Acts 11:1; 1 Corinthians 5:11. Every Israelite was to see a brother in every child of Abraham (Matthew 5:23; Acts 2:29; Acts 3:17). All that can be said is that where the reader of the Epistle was a Christian, he would feel that the words brought before him those who were of the same society or brotherhood.
naked, and destitute of daily food] The picture drawn is one of extremest destitution, and, like the teaching of the whole passage, reminds us of Matthew 25:36; Matthew 25:43. What was the faith worth which could witness that suffering and not be stirred to help? The words are applicable to all times and countries, but it gives them a special interest to remember that the Church over which St James presided had suffered, and was probably, at the very time he wrote, suffering, from the famine foretold by Agabus (Acts 11:28-30). The Gentile disciples had, we read, done their best to alleviate the distress of the Churches of Judæa. St James’s language, addressed to the Jews and Jewish Christians of the dispersion, would seem to imply that they had shewn less forwardness, and had wrapt themselves up in the self-satisfaction of professing the orthodox faith of the sons of Abraham, while the Gentile converts whom they despised were setting an example of self-denying charity.
16. Depart in peace] The phrase was one of familiar benediction, and had been used by our Lord to those who came to Him seeking bodily or spiritual healing (Luke 7:50; Luke 8:48; Acts 16:36). It would naturally only be used where such wants, if they existed, had been, or were going to be, relieved.
be ye warmed and filled] The first verb refers obviously to the naked, the second to those who are destitute of food. The Greek verbs may be either in the imperative or indicative, “Get yourselves warmed and filled,” or “Ye are warming and filling yourselves.” The former is the more generally received interpretation, and represents the kind of benevolence which shews itself in good advice. The idea of mere good wishes is excluded by the use, on this assumption, of the imperative. It may perhaps, however, be questioned whether the indicative does not give a preferable meaning. The man whose faith was only the acceptance and the utterance of a dogma, was mocking the souls of others when he said “God is One—God is your Father,” as much as if he said to the naked or hungry, “Ye are being warmed or filled.” No amount of faith on their part could turn that mockery of a feast into a reality, unless they had the food and clothing they needed; and the man who gave a bare dogma to men without the reality of love, was mocking them,—yes, and cheating himself,—in much the same manner.
notwithstanding ye give them not] Better, and ye give them not. The change to the plural generalises the individual case presented in “one of you.”
17. Even so faith, if it hath not works …] This then is St James’s objection to the faith of which he speaks. It is, while alone (literally, by itself), with no promise or potency of life, and it is, therefore, dead, and being so, as we scarcely call a corpse a man, is unworthy of the name of faith. The assent to a dogma, beginning and ending in itself, has no power to justify or save. St Paul’s language in Romans 2:13 shews that he was in substantial agreement with St James.
18. Yea, a man may say …] The objector thus introduced, after the same manner as by St Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:35, is here the representative neither of an opponent to be refuted, nor yet of the writer’s own thoughts, but rather, as we should say, of an outsider, the man of common sense and practical piety, in this instance, of the Gentile convert whom the orthodox Jew or Jewish Christian despised, who might be less expert in formulating the Truth, but lived by the Truth which he believed.
shew me thy faith without thy works] The reading followed by the English version is at once more intelligible and supported by better MS. authority, than the alternative “by thy works,” which, in fact, destroys the whole point of the antithesis. The man who relied on faith is challenged to exhibit it, if he can, apart from works, as a distinct entity by itself. It is assumed that no such exhibition is possible. If he is to give any evidence that he has the faith that saves, it must be by having recourse to the works which he neglects, and, it may be, disparages. On the other hand, the challenger, starting with works, can point to them as proofs of something beyond themselves. Deeds of love, implying a victory over self, could not have been wrought without, not a dead faith in the dogma of the Divine Unity, but a living trust in God.
19. Thou believest that there is one God …] The instance of the faith in which men were trusting is important as shewing the class of Solifidians (to use a term which controversy has made memorable) which St James had in view. They were not those who were believing in the Son of God, trusting in the love, the blood, in the language of a later age, the merits, of Christ, but men who, whether nominally Christians or Jews, were still clinging to their profession of the Creed of Israel as the ground of all their hopes. It is scarcely probable that a writer intending to correct consequences drawn from St Paul’s teaching as to faith would have been content with such a far-off illustration.
thou doest well] The words have the character of a half-ironical concession. Comp. note on James 2:8. It is well as far as it goes, but the demons can claim the same praise.
the devils also believe and tremble] Better “shudder.” The general bearing of the words is plain enough, but there is a special meaning which is commonly passed over. The “devils” are the “demons” or “unclean spirits” of the Gospels, thought of, not as in their prison-house of darkness (Jude James 2:6), but as “possessing” and tormenting men. As such, they too acknowledged the Unity and Sovereignty of God, but that belief, being without love, led only to the “shudder” of terror, when the Divine Name was uttered in the formulæ of exorcism. (Comp. Matthew 8:29; Mark 9:20; Mark 9:26.) Here then was an instance in which belief in a dogma, as distinct from trust in a person, brought with it no consciousness of peace or pardon, and what was true of the “demons” might be true also of men.
20. wilt thou know, O vain man …] The term, as applied to men, is not found elsewhere in the New Testament, but is used with something of the same significance in the LXX. of Jdg 9:4. The idea is primarily that of “emptiness,” and the Greek adjective is almost literally the equivalent of our empty-headed, as a term of contempt. It answers clearly to the Raca of Matthew 5:22.
that faith without works is dead] The MSS. vary between “dead” and the adjective rendered “idle” in Matthew 12:36; Matthew 20:3. The meaning is substantially the same. That which is without life is without the activity which is the one proof of life.
21. Was not Abraham our father justified by works] The close correspondence of phraseology with Romans 4:2 at first seems to favour the view that St James is correcting or modifying St Paul’s statement It is obvious, however, that the agreement equally admits of the explanation that St Paul is correcting or modifying the language of St James. He presses the fact that “Abraham believed God,” and that this “was counted to him for righteousness,” i. e. that he was justified prior to any act but that of simple trust. And the impression left by a careful study of the passage referred to is that St Paul is there referring to something that had been urged, as having a high authority, against his teaching that a man is justified by faith. It is clear, at all events, that no inference can be drawn from the two passages in favour of the assumption that the Epistle of St James was later than that of St Paul to the Romans.
The use of the word “justify” shews that its meaning is to “acquit” or “count as righteous” (Matthew 12:37; Acts 13:39; Sir 26:29; Sir 23:11).
The preposition used in the Greek points to “works” as being the source rather than the instrument of justification.
when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?] Better, when he offered Isaac, the two acts being thought of, not as successive, but simultaneous. It is remarkable that the only scriptural references, after Genesis 22, to the sacrifice of Isaac, are found in Wis 10:5 and Hebrews 11:17. It is hardly likely that the latter could have been known to St James, the internal evidence pointing to a later date; but the former, whether, as some have supposed, by the same author as the Epistle to the Hebrews, or written fifty or sixty years earlier, might well have come under his notice. In relation to St Paul’s teaching, as noticed above, it must be remembered that the one writer speaks of the beginning of Abraham’s course, the other of its consummation. St James might well urge that if Abraham had not shewn his faith by his works, up to the crowning work of the sacrifice of his son, it would have proved that his faith too was dead.
22. Seest thou how faith wrought with his works …?] Better, perhaps, not as a question, Thou seest that … Attention is called, not as the English “how” suggests, to the manner of co-operation, but only to the fact. The tense of the verb emphasises the continued co-operation of Abraham’s faith with his works. The one was all along working together with the other. What St James presses is, not that works can justify without faith, but that faith cannot justify unless it includes “the promise and the potency” of the life that shews itself in acts.
by works was faith made perfect?] Here the tense is changed to that which denotes completion in a single act. It was “by works” (i. e. out of, as from the originating cause) that faith was brought to its completion. The interpretation which sees in the words nothing more than that faith was shewn to be perfect, must be rejected as one of the afterthoughts of controversy. It may be added, however, as pointing to the true reconciliation of St James and St Paul, that the very form of the statement implies that the faith existed prior to the works by which it was made perfect.
23. And the scripture was fulfilled …] The use of the words commonly applied to the fulfilment of prophetic utterances implies that St James saw in the statement of Genesis 15:6 that which, though true at the time, was yet also an anticipation of what was afterwards to be realised more fully. Of that prophecy, as of others, there were, to use Bacon’s phrase, “springing and germinant accomplishments.” What was then reckoned as righteousness continued to be reckoned, as with an ever-increasing value, which reached its maximum in the sacrifice of the son who was the heir of the promise.
and he was called the Friend of God] The words seem to refer, in the English version of the Bible, to 2 Chronicles 20:7 and Isaiah 41:8, where the term “my friend” is applied to Abraham by Jehovah. Singularly enough, however, the term is not found in the Hebrew, nor in the LXX. version, with which St James, writing in Greek, must have been familiar, and which gives, in the first of the two passages, “Abraham thy beloved,” and in the second, “whom I loved.” The distinctive title first appears in Philo’s citation of Genesis 18:1 (De resipisc. Noë, c. 11), and, after St James, in Clement of Rome (Epist. ad Cor. I. 10). It was probably the current phrase in the Jewish schools, and has descended to the Arabs, with whom the name of El Khalil Allah (the friend of God), or more briefly El Khalil, has practically superseded that of Abraham. Even Hebron, as the city of Abraham, and so identified with him, has become El Khalil, “the friend.”
24. Ye see then] The better MSS. omit the then. The Greek verb may be indicative, imperative, or interrogative. The English Version is probably right in giving the preference to the first.
not by faith only] There is, it is obvious, a verbal contradiction between this and St Paul’s statement in Romans 3:28, but it is verbal only. St James does not exclude faith from the work of justifying, i. e. winning Good’s acquittal and acceptance, but only a faith which stands “by itself,” “alone,” and therefore “dead,” and assumes that “works” have their beginning in the faith which they ripen and complete. St Paul throughout assumes that faith will work by love and be productive in good acts, while the works which he excludes from the office of justifying are “works of the law,” i.e. works which, whether ceremonial or moral, are done as by a constrained obedience to an external commandment, through fear of punishment, or hope of reward, and are not the spontaneous outcome of love and therefore of faith. It will be felt that St James presents the more practical, St Paul the deeper and more mystical aspect of the Truth, and this is in itself a confirmation of the view maintained throughout these notes, that the latter was the later of the two, and therefore that so far as one corrects or completes the popular version of the teaching of the other, it was to St Paul and not to St James that that task was assigned.
25. was not Rahab the harlot …] The question meets us, What led St James to select this example? St Paul does not refer to it, as he probably would have done, had he been writing with St James’s teaching present to his thoughts, in any of the Epistles in which his name appears as the writer. In the Epistle to the Hebrews (Hebrews 11:31) it appears as one of the examples of faith, but this was most probably after St James had given prominence to her name. In the mention of Rahab by Clement of Rome (i. 12) we have an obvious echo from the Epistle just named, with the additional element of a typical interpretation of the scarlet thread as the symbol of the blood of Christ, by which those of all nations, even the harlots and the unrighteous, obtained salvation. A more probable explanation is found in the connexion of St James with the Gospel according to St Matthew. The genealogy of the Christ given in ch. 1 of that Gospel must have been known to “the brother of the Lord,” and in it the name of Rahab appeared as having married Salmon, the then “prince” of the tribe of Judah (Matthew 1:5; 1 Chronicles 2:50-51; Ruth 4:20-21). The prominence thus given to her name would naturally lead him and others to think of her history and ask what lessons it had to teach them. If “harlots” as well as “publicans” were among those who listened to the warnings of the Baptist and welcomed the gracious words of Christ (Matthew 21:31-32), she would come to be regarded as the typical representative of the class, the Magdalene (to adopt the common, though, it is believed, an erroneous view) of the Old Testament. A rabbinic tradition makes her become the wife of Joshua and the ancestress of eight distinguished priests and prophets, ending in Huldah the Prophetess (2 Kings 22:14). Josephus (Ant. v. i. § 2), after his manner, tones down the history, and makes her simply the keeper of an inn. Another ground of selection may well have been that Rahab was by her position in the history the first representative instance of the deliverance of one outside the limits of the chosen people. In this instance also, St James urges, the faith would have been dead had it been only an assent to the truth that the God of Israel was indeed God, without passing into action. The “messengers” are described in Josh, Joshua 6:23 as “young men,” in Hebrews 11:31 as “spies”.
26. For as the body without the spirit is dead …] Some MSS. omit the conjunction, but the evidence for retaining it preponderates. The reasoning seems to refer Rahab’s justification by works to the wider law that faith without works is dead (as in James 2:17) and therefore cannot justify. Our usual mode of thought would lead us to speak of works, the outward visible acts, as the body, and of faith as the spirit or vivifying principle. From St James’s standpoint, however, faith “by itself” was simply the assent of the intellect to a dogma or series of dogmas, and this seemed to him to be “dead” until it was vitalised by love shewing itself in act. St Paul reproves the deadness of mere morality, St James that of mere orthodoxy. St James, it will be noted, adopts the simple division of man’s nature into “body and spirit,” rather than St Paul’s more philosophical trichotomy of “body, soul and spirit.” 1 Thessalonians 5:23. Comp. note on ch. James 3:13.
faith without works] More literally, faith apart from works.
ON THE TEACHING OF ST PAUL AND ST JAMES
The view which has been given in the notes seems to the writer clear and coherent in itself, consistent with what we know as to the relations between the two Apostles, and involving less violence of interpretation than any other hypothesis. Two other views have, however, been maintained with arguments more or less plausible, and it will be well to notice them briefly.
(1) There is the position assumed by some of the bolder critics of the French and German Schools, that there was a real antagonism in the Apostolic Church, not only between the Judaizing teachers and St Paul, but between that Apostle and the three, Peter, James, and John, to whom the Church of the Circumcision looked as its natural leaders. On this assumption, the writer of the Acts of the Apostles strives to gloss over the divergence of the two parties, and to represent an unreal unity. The messages to the Seven Churches are “a cry of passionate hate against St Paul and his followers” (Renan, St Paul, p. 367). When St James says, “Wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead,” he is probably pointing at St Paul himself. From the point of view of those who hold this theory it is, perhaps, a small thing that it is inconsistent with the belief that the teaching of St James and of St Paul had, as its source, the inspiration of the Eternal Spirit, who, though working in many different ways and with wide diversity of gifts, is yet the Spirit of the Truth which is essentially one. But on simply historical grounds the theory is, it is believed, untenable. St Paul himself acknowledges that after he had privately laid before them the sum and substance of the Gospel as he preached it, James, Cephas, and John gave to him the right hands of fellowship (Galatians 2:9). James appears as giving a public sanction to that Gospel at the Council at Jerusalem (Acts 15:13-21). Long after the Judaizing teachers had been doing their worst for years, the “right hand of fellowship” is still held out by the one teacher to the other (Acts 21:17-25). The question whether this hypothesis is as satisfactory an explanation of the facts with which it deals, as that which I have here given, I am content to leave to the judgment of the reader.
(2) The other theory has at least the merit of accepting the teaching of each of the two writers as in itself inspired and true. It assumes that St James wrote after St Paul, and aimed at correcting inferences that had been wrongly drawn from his doctrine, that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. How to reconcile their statements on this assumption is a problem which has been variously solved. (a) It has been said that St Paul speaks of man’s justification before God, St James of the proof of that justification before the eyes of men; but of this there is not a shadow of proof in the language of either writer. (b) It has been maintained that St Paul speaks of a true faith, St James of that which is false or feigned; but nothing in the language of the latter, though he stigmatizes the faith which is without works as dead, suggests the thought that it did not mean a real acceptance of the dogma which it professed to hold. (c) It has been held that the “works” of which St Paul speaks as unable to justify, are the ceremonial works of the law of Moses, those on which the Pharisees laid stress; but the width of St Paul’s teaching as to the nature and office of the law in Galatians 3, Romans 7 scatters this view to the winds at once. (d) There is a nearer approximation to the truth in the solution which finds in St James’s faith the intellectual acceptance of a dogma, in St Paul’s the trust in a living Person as willing and able to save, and therefore the confidence that salvation is attainable by him who so trusts. This is, in the main, the view that has been taken in these notes, with the exception of the point on which stress has been laid above, that the Antinomianism which St James condemned was that of ultra-Jewish teachers, who taught a justification by faith in Monotheism, and not of an ultra-Pauline party. It agrees practically with the distinction drawn by the Schoolmen that St James speaks of a fides informis, rudimentary and incomplete, St Paul of a fides formata, developed or completed by Love. Errors, however, assume subtle disguises. Those who used St James’s name in the Apostolic age dwelt so much on outward acts apart from the motive that gives them life, as sufficient for man’s acceptance with God, that it was necessary for St Paul to revive the truth which had been first distorted and then denied, that “the just by faith shall live” (Habakkuk 2:4; Romans 1:17; Galatians 3:11). His teaching again, in its turn, led men to think that they might be justified by faith, not in God who justifies, but in a dogma about justification. It was well that both aspects of the truth should have been presented then, and have been preserved for the guidance of the Church in all ages, as completing each the other. We need not fear to be as varied in our teaching as were those who were taught of God, and to tell men, according to their variations in character, as they require more deepening of the spiritual life, or more strengthening for practical activity, now that they must be justified by faith, and now that they must be justified by works.
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Why Live Events Should Be the Front Line in COVID-19 Vaccine Efforts (Guest Column)
By Jesse Lawrence
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Soldier Field in Chicago.
In a country more divided than ever, a love for live events is one of the few things that can bring people together. Live events bind us to culture and tribe, and provide the kind of shared identity that America has struggled to achieve in 2020. The return of fan-filled arenas, stadiums and festivals will be a catalyst not just for communal cheer, but also for the return of 12 million Americans jobs that support our industry. It could also be the most efficient way to carry out the largest vaccination effort in our country’s history.
As live event professionals, we have unique insight into how Americans come together. And we have a huge audience to bring together. Last year, 62 million U.S. fans attended concerts promoted by Live Nation, while millions more attended concerts promoted by AEG and indie promoters. Over that same period, Major League Baseball attendance was 68 million, while Minor League Baseball hosted 36 million fans. Combined with hockey and basketball, American pro sports represent another 150 million vaccination appointments.
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As the owner of a business that works closely with teams and promoters, I have seen live event professionals work in unison and with purpose to execute some of the world’s largest events. Coordinating human movement at scale is the DNA of the events business, and it’s exactly what the vaccination effort calls for.
On the business side, the incentives between live event promoters and the public good couldn’t be more aligned. A COVID-free public is the only path to sustained recovery for the $40 billion live-event ticket industry which has been in deep freeze since march. In 2020, the four major leagues listed above lost a total of $13 billion in ticket market value. While that’s a staggering loss, the bigger societal impact is measured by the number of jobs lost. According to We Make Events, a live events industry coalition, the live event industry employs more than 12 million Americans, generating over $1 trillion in GDP each year.
Since March, large teams and promoters have furloughed or laid off 25-50% of their staff, while smaller operations have cut deeper than that. In August, National Independent Association (NIVA) member Audrey Fix Schaefer, was quoted as saying that “more than 90 percent of the 2,400 clubs, theaters and venues represented by NIVA will have to close if the government doesn't help soon.” Despite some recent progress, no such help has come.
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Just as the WWII-inspired Defense Production Act marshaled public and private production resources during the Korean War, live event production resources can play a critical role in defeating the Coronavirus in 2021. In addition to the economic incentives, logistically and administratively, it's set up for success for several reasons-- listed below.
Larger venues are often public-private collaborations, which means that local government has a critical seat at the table, and can facilitate the kind of authorization and resources needed in times of crisis.
Most venues have ample room to store the type of deep-freeze equipment needed to maintain at least two of the most promising vaccine candidates.
Venues have multiple entry and exit points, which would help cargo and equipment delivery and also serve to keep vaccinated and unvaccinated fans separated before, during and after the event. A vaccination effort of this magnitude will also extend beyond the venue’s walls, to parking lots, which can be assigned based on health status. Many venue parking lots have already played a role in testing for COVID, making venue vaccination efforts the next phase for stopping the spread of the coronavirus.
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In a May 2020 op-ed in the Washington Post, Scott Galloway proposed the idea of a Corona Corps, which would be composed of younger, lower-risk Americans to help manage the crisis. While it may now be too late in the fight for something as formal as a corp, federal funding to support a comprehensive in-venue vaccination effort could be the next best thing. It would activate what amounts to an army of younger and uniquely qualified workers, and instantly add millions of permanent jobs back to the national payroll. The men and women of the live events business are ready to accept this call to service.
It’s an effort that would literally bring us together for this stage of the fight, while also setting the stage for a healthier, happier and livelier tomorrow.
Jesse Lawrence is the founder of TicketIQ, a consumer ticket marketplace and FanIQ, data-driven ticket marketing platform for teams, venues, and music promoters. Follow him on Twitter at @Stagggggg and connect with him on LinkedIn.
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Home Biotechnology ‘Hot and messy’ entanglement of 15 trillion atoms
‘Hot and messy’ entanglement of 15 trillion atoms
Credit: ICFO
Quantum entanglement is a process by which microscopic objects like electrons or atoms lose their individuality to become better coordinated with each other. Entanglement is at the heart of quantum technologies that promise large advances in computing, communications and sensing, for example detecting gravitational waves.
Entangled states are famously fragile: in most cases even a tiny disturbance will undo the entanglement. For this reason, current quantum technologies take great pains to isolate the microscopic systems they work with, and typically operate at temperatures close to absolute zero. The ICFO team, in contrast, heated a collection of atoms to 450 Kelvin, millions of times hotter than most atoms used for quantum technology. Moreover, the individual atoms were anything but isolated; they collided with each other every few microseconds, and each collision set their electrons spinning in random directions.
The researchers used a laser to monitor the magnetization of this hot, chaotic gas. The magnetization is caused by the spinning electrons in the atoms, and provides a way to study the effect of the collisions and to detect entanglement. What the researchers observed was an enormous number of entangled atoms – about 100 times more than ever before observed. They also saw that the entanglement is non-local – it involves atoms that are not close to each other. Between any two entangled atoms there are thousands of other atoms, many of which are entangled with still other atoms, in a giant, hot and messy entangled state.
What they also saw, as Jia Kong, first author of the study, recalls, “is that if we stop the measurement, the entanglement remains for about 1 millisecond, which means that 1000 times per second a new batch of 15 trillion atoms is being entangled. And you must think that 1 ms is a very long time for the atoms, long enough for about fifty random collisions to occur. This clearly shows that the entanglement is not destroyed by these random events. This is maybe the most surprising result of the work”.
The observation of this hot and messy entangled state paves the way for ultra-sensitive magnetic field detection. For example, in magnetoencephalography (magnetic brain imaging), a new generation of sensors uses these same hot, high-density atomic gases to detect the magnetic fields produced by brain activity. The new results show that entanglement can improve the sensitivity of this technique, which has applications in fundamental brain science and neurosurgery.
As ICREA Prof. at ICFO Morgan Mitchell states, “this result is surprising, a real departure from what everyone expects of entanglement.” He adds “we hope that this kind of giant entangled state will lead to better sensor performance in applications ranging from brain imaging to self-driving cars to searches for dark matter.”
A Spin Singlet and QND
A spin singlet is one form of entanglement where the multiple particles’ spins–their intrinsic angular momentum–add up to 0, meaning the system has zero total angular momentum. In this study, the researchers applied quantum non-demolition (QND) measurement to extract the information of the spin of trillions of atoms. The technique passes laser photons with a specific energy through the gas of atoms. These photons with this precise energy do not excite the atoms but they themselves are affected by the encounter. The atoms’ spins act as magnets to rotate the polarization of the light. By measuring how much the photons’ polarization has changed after passing through the cloud, the researchers are able to determine the total spin of the gas of atoms.
The SERF regime
Current magnetometers operate in a regime that is called SERF, far away from the near absolute zero temperatures that researchers typically employ to study entangled atoms. In this regime, any atom experiences many random collisions with other neighbouring atoms, making collisions the most important effect on the state of the atom. In addition, because they are in a hot medium rather than an ultracold one, the collisions rapidly randomize the spin of the electrons in any given atom. The experiment shows, surprisingly, that this kind of disturbance does not break the entangled states, it merely passes the entanglement from one atom to another.
Reference: 10.1038/s41467-020-15899-1
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ICFO was founded by the Government of Catalonia and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), both of which are members of its board of trustees along with the Cellex and Mir-Puig Foundations, philanthropic entities that have played a critical role in the advancement of the institute. Located in the Mediterranean Technology Park in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, the institute currently hosts 400 people, organized in 25 research groups in 60 state-of-the-art research laboratories. Research lines encompass diverse areas in which photonics plays a decisive role, with an emphasis on basic and applied themes relevant to medicine and biology, advanced imaging techniques, information technologies, a range of environmental sensors, tunable and ultra-fast lasers, quantum science, photovoltaics and the properties and applications of nano-materials such as graphene, among others. In addition to two state awarded Severo Ochoa accreditations of excellence, ICFOnians have secured 15 ICREA Professorships and 37 European Research Council grants. ICFO is proactive in fostering entrepreneurial activities, spin-off creation, and creating collaborations and links between industry and ICFO researchers. To date, ICFO has helped create 7 start-up companies.
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Hangzhou Dianzi University is located in Hangzhou, one of the most dynamic cities in the Yang-tse River Delta area and the capital city of Zhejiang Province, one of the most prosperous provinces in China with strong economic growth, vitality and potential. Hangzhou Dianzi University (HDU) was founded in 1956. It is a comprehensive university and one of the best top 5 universities with its own distinctive features in the field of electronic science and technology, engineering and information technology as well as management and accounting,etc. HDU has over 25000 students and more than 2300 staff members. It has 21 schools and research institutes which offers 59 undergraduate programs, 93 postgraduate programs and 6 PhD programs in science, engineering, management, economics, literature, law, education and art, along with multiple interactive disciplines and specialties. HDU has successfully established partner relationships and developed many kinds of international cooperative programs with more than 90 universities and institutes all over the world, including USA, Canada, Mexico, Russia, Belarus, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Australia, Japan, etc.
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Carling Cup Final 2009 At The Wembley Stadium
Write-up by Peri Witny
The Draw for Carling Cup (English League Cup) Semi-finals has already taken spot with Leg one of the Semi Final held yesterday on five January 2009, and the 2nd leg of the Semi Final to be held on 19 January 2009. The semi-last ties have been scheduled to play on the Tuesday/Wednesday evenings during the weeks commencing five January and 19 January. The final match for Carling Cup 2009 will consider location on Sunday 1 March 2009 at the Wembley Stadium.
Popularly acknowledged as the Football League Cup, or merely the League Cup or Carling Cup, this football league is an English football competitors which was founded in 1961. A complete of 92 clubs can enter the opposition, which include twenty cups from the FA Premier League and 72 clubs of The Football League. The semi-finals for this league cup are played more than two legs, and the winning teams qualify for the UEFA European League.
Liverpool club has been the most productive club so significantly in these football league matches, and have won a complete of seven titles. The existing champions for Carling Cup are Tottenham Hotspur club who has won 4 titles so much. Aston Villa club stands at second placement with 5 title winnings. The two Nottingham Forest and Chelsea clubs also have 4 winnings each in this league cup, generating them in-line with Tottenham Hotspur club.
The Preliminary Rounds for Carling Cup 2009 began previous 12 months in 2008, with Round 1 held on 13 August 2008, Round 2 held on 25 August 2008, Round 3 held on 22 September 2008, Round 4 held on 10 November 2008, and Round five held on one December 2008. Round 5 marks the Quarter-final and so much the scores for 2008 / 2009 Carling Cup Quarter finals are Watford one-2 Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United five-three Blackburn Rovers, Burnley two- Arsenal and Stoke Town -1 Derby County.
The four Quarter final winners will compete in the semi-finals about two matches, which will be held at every club’s stadium. The aggregate score of the clubs will establish the two winners of the semi-finals who will then compete for the final title at the 2009 Football League Cup Match. This many years final will be the 48th edition of this Football League Cup, which will be held in the well-recognized Wembley Stadium in London on Sunday one March 2009.
This 12 months is certain to carry more exhilaration and thrill to millions of footballs followers as the finest football teams will compete for the Carling Cup Title. Even though much more popular amid the youthful players, this league cup gives an opportunity to play against some of the significant clubs, as the League Cup is a little much less prestigious than the FA Cup and other league matches. This is why only a number of significant clubs take part in these league matches so that they can preserve their vitality and effort for the “giant killing” in other league matches.
The Carling Cup gives an option to the youthful gamers to present their talent and put up a massive game.
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Mercedes C-Class Cabriolet - Engines, drive & performance
Most versions of the Mercedes C-Class Cabriolet aren’t hugely engaging to drive
Much like its bigger brother, the S-Class Cabriolet, the C-Class Cabriolet is designed more as a boulevard cruiser than an out-and-out sportscar. Despite the weight of the roof mechanism and extra strengthening to make up for the lack of a fixed roof, ride quality hasn’t been too badly affected.
Keep the car’s suspension in its softest setting and it flows nicely across all but the harshest of bumps, soaking up the worst without any major issues. If you like, you can stiffen everything up by putting the Dynamic Select system in Sport+. However, on all but the most powerful C43, all you’ll really notice is a slightly harsher ride, while the steering is never quite as consistent as you’d hope either, whichever setting it’s in.
The Airmatic air suspension is standard on the AMG C43, while other models can be fitted with the system as part of the Dynamic Handling package for £900. It allows you to tune the suspension for stiffness or smoothness, depending on your mood and the road conditions.
Mercedes C-Class Cabriolet diesel engines
A 2018 update saw a 2.0-litre twin-turbocharged diesel engine replaced the 2.1-litre that had been a range stalwart for over a decade. Although never short on power, it was a little rattly compared to some rivals. The replacement 2.0-litre is far smoother, while delivering an impressive 191bhp to get the car from 0-62mph in 7.5 seconds. It feels relaxed, helped by a smooth nine-speed automatic gearbox that makes good use of the torquey diesel.
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The C220d is rear-wheel drive as standard, but 4MATIC four-wheel drive can be added. Its extra weight does affect performance slightly; we'd only recommend it if you live in a rural area with harsh winters. A more powerful version of the four-cylinder 2.0-litre is badged C300d, with 242bhp to cut the 0-62mph time to an impressive 6.3 seconds.
There's a bit of a gulf between the three petrol engines offered in the C-Class Cabriolet. The entry-level C180 has a 1.6-litre with 154bhp and the C200 has a 1.5-litre four-cylinder that uses Mercedes' EQ mild-hybrid technology to add 13bhp when needed, at the same time reducing fuel consumption. Its belt-driven 'starter generator' allows the engine to briefly shut down at times when little power is needed – even when the car is in motion. The C200 produces 182bhp and claims a 0-62mph time of 8.5 seconds.
The next petrol engine in the line-up is twice as big – a 3.0-litre, six-cylinder twin-turbo powerhouse that cranks out 385bhp – enough for 0-62mph in 4.8 seconds and an electronically limited top speed of 155mph. Power is transmitted through all four wheels, which maximises traction on loose or slippery surfaces – a great boost to driver confidence.
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Mazda3 hatchback (2014-2018)
Mazda3 hatchback (2014-2018) - Engines, drive & performance
The Mazda3 is more fun to drive than a Volkswagen Golf, but the basic petrol engine is quite slow
If you’re looking for a family hatchback that’s great fun to drive, the Ford Focus or BMW 1 Series are the leading contenders. However, the Mazda3 is right up there with the best, thanks to plenty of grip, sharp steering and a brilliant manual gearbox.
Despite the sporty driving experience, you actually get a pretty comfortable ride, too, soaking up the worst of the lumps and bumps without too much bother at all. The new Renault Megane offers better insulation from road and wind noise, however.
From behind the wheel, the Mazda3 feels logically laid-out, with a thick-rimmed steering wheel and bright dials. On the move, the light but accurate steering makes it feel agile around town, yet stable at speed. This is important if you intend to spend a lot of time slogging up and down motorways.
Mazda3 diesel engines
We’d recommend the top-of-the-range 2.2-litre SKYACTIV diesel engine. It takes the Mazda from 0-62mph in just 8.1 seconds, but is also very cheap to run. The brakes are good on all models, providing more than enough stopping power to bring the hatchback to a halt in any given situation.
However, it's also worth taking into account the less powerful 104bhp 1.5-litre diesel. Performance isn't as impressive as the 2.2-litre version – it takes 11 seconds to get from 0-62mph – but it's about on par for similarly powered diesels in this class. The engine needs to be worked harder than the 2.2-litre and, as such, harms fuel economy, but the engine itself is impressively quiet and refined.
For low-mileage drivers, we’d recommend the less powerful 118bhp 2.2-litre petrol with the manual gearbox. It’s powerful enough to get the car from 0-62mph in 8.9 seconds, not that much slower than the 163bhp engine – which does it in 8.2 seconds – and it’ll be much cheaper to buy and run, too.
The automatic gearbox is only available with the diesel or the 118bhp petrol, but it’s best avoided unless completely necessary. The changes aren’t as smooth as the manual and it’ll cost you considerably more to both buy and run than the equivalent manual version.
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Inipharm Raises $35 Million in Series A to Focus on Highly Validated Genetic Target HSD17B13
-Initial therapeutic pipeline to target liver diseases
-5AM Ventures and Wu Capital join existing investors Frazier Healthcare Partners and Jubilant Biosys Limited
SEATTLE & SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Inipharm today announced the close of a $35 million Series A financing round. Founded in 2018, the company is focused on discovering and developing therapies for liver and related diseases, with its initial program focused on those associated with the genetically defined target HSD17B13. The Series A funding will support the advancement of Inipharm’s lead program through IND filing and into clinical trials. The company also announced that Brian Daniels, M.D., partner at 5AM Ventures, and Hannah Chang, M.D., Ph.D., managing director at Wu Capital, have joined Inipharm’s board of directors.
“HSD17B13 is a fascinating target with strong genetic links to numerous liver diseases. The Inipharm team, along with CRO partner Jubilant Biosys, has made excellent early progress in modulating this target with small molecules, and we are thrilled to support the company to accelerate their efforts towards the clinic,” said founding board member Dan Estes, Ph.D., general partner at Frazier Healthcare Partners.
Advancing a pipeline with a validated target
Inipharm is advancing a therapeutic pipeline that addresses severe liver diseases. Inipharm’s program is focused on targeting the activity of the HSD17B13 gene. There is extensive, consistent evidence showing that certain variants of this gene are associated with lower rates of disease, less severe disease and reduced levels of liver damage, including inflammation and fibrosis.
“Inflammation and fibrosis are common end results of many liver diseases, and it appears that HSD17B13 activity could be an important common link in protecting against disease progression,” said Dr. Chang. “Inipharm is building on novel insights into the biologic activity of HSD17B13 to advance a collection of potent and selective small molecules that mimic the protective phenotype.”
Driven by a veteran leadership team
Inipharm’s executive leadership includes Brian Farmer, co-founder and chief executive officer of the company, who also serves as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Frazier Healthcare and was chief business officer and chief financial officer at liver and metabolic disease-focused Cirius Therapeutics, as well as chief business officer of Mavupharma prior to its acquisition by AbbVie. Heather Hsu, Ph.D., serves as Inipharm’s CSO and is a veteran of drug discovery and early development whose previous experience includes roles at Gilead and Calistoga Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Hsu is joined by Mavupharma veterans Vince Florio, Ph.D., and Joshua Odingo, Ph.D., who lead pharmacology and chemistry, respectively. Also serving on Inipharm’s board of directors are Michael Gallatin Ph.D., co-founder of Inipharm and chair of the company’s scientific advisory board, and Bob Baltera, CEO of Cirius Therapeutics.
“Our team of drug discovery and development experts, who built Mavupharma’s program to target the STING pathway, is developing small molecules to target HSD17B13 as an alternative to other approaches based on RNA knockdown,” said Brian Farmer. “The potential for therapies that effectively target HSD17B13 activity is significant because it is linked to a broad spectrum of liver and related diseases.”
About Inipharm
Inipharm is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing therapies for severe liver diseases. Inipharm’s lead programs are focused on the highly validated genetic target, HSD17B13. Extensive, consistent evidence that genetic variants in expression of HSD17B13 are associated with significantly lower rates and severity of multiple liver diseases. Building on these novel insights into the biologic activity of HSD17B13, Inipharm is advancing a pipeline of small-molecule therapies that target the activity of this protein.
Carolyn Hawley
Canale Communications
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The Brexit Election Is Starting To Look Like A Failure For Jo Swinson
With her Liberal Democrat party sliding in the polls, and after a mauling from a hostile TV audience, can Swinson claw back support in the last three weeks?
by Emily Ashton
BuzzFeed News Reporter
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Jo Swinson had spent days preparing for her appearance on BBC1’s primetime Question Time special on Friday night. Liberal Democrat HQ had pinned major hopes on the show after she was left out of a debate with her rivals Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn earlier in the week. But her half-hour in front of a live studio audience proved to be a far more bruising experience than they could ever have anticipated.
Viewers winced as Swinson faced a series of stinging attacks over Lib Dem policy, her own voting record and the party’s campaigning tactics, with barely any applause for anything she said. Of all the party leaders who took part — Corbyn, Johnson, and Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon — it was Swinson who faced the most anger.
When the show was over, Swinson’s shellshocked team attempted to spin her performance: She showed "steel", they said, in the face of relentlessly tough questioning. Meanwhile, she was on the way back to London with her close aides, trying to make sense of what had just happened.
The next day, one Lib Dem politician claimed that, due to the audience being based on current party representation, there were "effectively" two Lib Dem voters in the room. A BBC source told BuzzFeed News there were roughly the same number of Labour and Conservative voters in the audience, and a smaller number of Lib Dem and SNP voters — although they would not say how many. There was also a slim majority of Leave voters over Remainers, apart from those who were too young to vote in the last election.
Swinson's allies insist that the politically engaged audience was not representative of voters at large — and emphasise that the real test is how she came across to viewers at home.
But Lib Dem activists have told us there is no doubt that the questions raised on the show accurately reflect the concerns being aired on doorsteps across the country.
Halfway through the general election campaign, Swinson finds herself at the head of a party that is sliding in the polls — despite competing against two main parties that have arguably moved to their extreme edges, leaving the centre ground wide open. Campaigners say now is the time for party bosses to take a long hard look at what is going wrong, before it is too late.
The credibility issue is key. Lib Dems in marginal seats are knocking on doors telling people that Swinson is aiming to win the election outright and if she can, she will revoke Article 50 — cancelling Brexit — so that people can put that behind them and focus on the issues that matter such as schools and hospitals. But then they hit an obstacle. "The voter says to us: 'But are you really going to win a majority, I thought the polls said you were a long way behind nationally?'" one campaigner explains.
And then there’s the revoke policy itself — many people who voted Remain, no matter how strongly they want to stop Brexit, feel uncomfortable about simply wiping out the result of the 2016 referendum. "The voter says 'Wait, you want to cancel Brexit, what about the 17 million people who voted for it?'" says the campaigner. "Then it’s game over: two minutes before, the person had heard of the Lib Dems and was interested in what they had to say. Now they’re repeating lines they’ve seen on Tory leaflets.'"
And so, even before the bruising Question Time appearance, Lib Dem tactics had begun to change. Just two months ago, Swinson bounded onto the stage at her party conference declaring herself "your candidate for prime minister". Now senior figures in the party are publicly moving away from touting her as a potential PM and the fantastical idea that they can win hundreds of seats in this election. Instead, according to party officials, there is a renewed focus on how the Lib Dems are the only ones that can stop Boris Johnson winning a majority and enacting a damaging Brexit.
Campaign insiders insist this is not a major about-turn in the party’s strategy, but there is clearly a recognition within Lib Dem HQ that things need to change; particularly that the party needs to be more credible about its chances if it wants to win over sceptical voters. The major challenge on the doorstep is a combined problem of the Lib Dems simultaneously claiming they can win a majority and also cancel Brexit.
This message is percolating back to HQ, according to activists. On Wednesday night, the party’s deputy leader Ed Davey steered away from "revoke" and focused instead on how the Lib Dems would stop Brexit by preventing Johnson from getting a majority. "The most likely result, I think, looking at the figures, is probably a minority Tory government," Davey told BBC2’s Andrew Neil Show. There was no talk here of Swinson being a candidate for prime minister.
Earlier in the day, former Lib Dem leader Vince Cable also poured cold water on the party's ambitions. "The point about revoking is in the very unusual situation where we would get over 300 seats, I mean I would love that to happen but it’s not going to happen," he told ITV News. "So I think people can forget about that, we are the party of the People’s Vote."
These comments provide a glimmer of hope to Lib Dem campaigners who are struggling to make their voice heard with wavering voters. "I’m hoping the message now will be we want to trim Boris Johnson's sails a bit, reduce his power in parliament so he’ll have to have a second referendum," one activist said. "That seems a much better message in those marginal seats where you have people who are Tory-leaning but don’t like Johnson much — we could be the more sensible balance on that."
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Jo Swinson on the campaign trail with the Lib Dem battle bus.
The revoke policy was born in a different political time: the Lib Dems’ party conference in September, one week before Labour’s conference when Corbyn appeared to be pivoting towards a more strong Remain stance. The Lib Dems wanted to get on the front foot and clearly designate themselves as the Remain party — but even back then, senior figures in the party including Norman Lamb and Simon Hughes argued against it. Sunderland councillor Niall Hodson told BuzzFeed at the time that it risked making the Lib Dems’ once crystal clear Brexit policy — to hold a second referendum and campaign for Remain — harder to explain on the doorstep.
"We lost the swing from conference as soon as Labour did their conference," a party source told us. "That suggests Labour's Brexit message works not because it's exactly what Remainers want — but because it's far more credible. The other thing is that we aren't gaining ground with the Tory voters. They don't think Johnson is too bad and they're terrified of socialism, so they'd rather vote for Johnson than risk Corbyn."
Party insiders are now getting increasingly nervous about the Lib Dems’ poll ratings, which have slipped from a high of 23% in September to a rating of 16% this week, according to YouGov. While Labour has unveiled a radical left-wing manifesto and the Conservatives continue to push their unrelenting "Get Brexit Done" message, the centrist Lib Dems appear to have been left behind.
Instead, many people do indeed appear to be jumping from Labour to the Tories, and vice versa, rather than choosing an alternative — partly because they know the Lib Dems are unlikely to win power. Swinson’s problem was summed up at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) conference last week when — after she had made a speech which was clearly the best received of all the party leaders — a questioner said that while he liked her and had voted Remain, his fear of a hard-left Labour government meant he would vote Tory even if it did mean a no-deal Brexit.
This is why the party was so exercised about Swinson being left out of the ITV leaders’ debate, which was watched by more than six million people on Tuesday night. They believe she needs to be put on the same stage as Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, just as former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg did back in 2010, so that people finally take her seriously as a key political player.
Emily Ashton / BuzzFeed
A Lib Dem election leaflet.
Polling analysis in the Times last week showed that voters like Swinson less the more they see her and that she is less popular than her party. But party insiders seem relaxed about this, despite the money spent on plastering her face on the side of the battle bus and all over glossy election leaflets. "She is a genuine contrast to Corbyn and Johnson, she is more trustworthy," one source says. "All she wants is a genuinely fair opportunity to show who she is."
Staffers are also happy with the coverage she is getting on TV and in newspapers, saying it is far more than both Cable and Tim Farron ever managed. And they insist there are no regrets in HQ about pushing Johnson for an early election.
Yet the reality is that outside the Westminster bubble, many voters still have no clue who Swinson is. "The only people who know who she is are the other local activists," said one party member who has been touring marginal seats. "She just doesn’t have that public profile — if you’re the leader of the third party and don’t get into the TV debates, that’s what will happen."
The decision by broadcasters to exclude Swinson from the head-to-head debate appears to have crystallised in people’s minds that she was never going to be the winner of the election. In 2010 Clegg was able to get into the TV debates, against Gordon Brown and David Cameron, because the party won over 60 seats in the previous general election. This time round, broadcasters are looking at the result of the 2017 general election, which gave the Lib Dems just 12 seats (although they are now at 21 following a by-election win and multiple defections).
Allies of Swinson say it is wrong to base their decision on this election result, which they claim is down to Britain’s flawed voting system, rather than the current popularity of the party. "First-past-the-post does not reflect the national popularity of the party, to use it is absolutely ludicrous," one says.
The Lib Dems took ITV to court, arguing that the "voice of Remain" had been excluded from the debate. But the legal challenge was thrown out last week, as judges said it was purely a matter for the "editorial judgment of ITV". Seeking a compromise, ITV offered Swinson and Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon in-depth interviews after the debate, which they did.
But party sources said that was not enough — most people will have long turned to another channel by that stage. What matters to the Lib Dems, crucially, is for Swinson to be given the same status as both Johnson and Corbyn so that people can see a direct contrast between them. This is not quite what happened in the Question Time special.
Instead Swinson stood up on her own in front of an audience on Friday who systematically took her apart; she never got a chance to highlight the differences between her and the two men.
Audience members mocked Swinson for claiming she could become PM, and her "revoke" policy was criticised by both a Brexiteer and a Remainer. But there were other issues too that Swinson was forced to defend: not least her voting record when she was a minister in coalition with the Conservatives. Many former Labour voters who may be put off by Corbyn and his radical manifesto cannot bring them to vote for someone who backed the bedroom tax and other welfare cuts.
Swinson also faced fury over her party’s broken promise to scrap university tuition fees, misleading bar charts in their election leaflets, and her decision to stand Lib Dems against pro-Remain Labour candidates in marginal seats such as Canterbury where the divided Remain vote could let in the Tories. Not one person raised their hand to say something positive.
But the Lib Dems will be hugely cheered by Corbyn’s concession that he would adopt a "neutral stance" in a second referendum on Brexit, as it better helps portray the Lib Dems as the strongest pro-Remain party. Expect a new push on this message in the weeks to come: although with more language about a People’s Vote and less about (whisper it) revoke. There are less than three weeks to go — but that’s a long time in politics.
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Ordinary Time: September 22nd
Thursday of the Twenty-Fifth Week of Ordinary Time
September 22, 2005 (Readings on USCCB website)
COLLECT PRAYER
Father, guide us, as you guide creation according to your law of love. May we love one another and come to perfection in the eternal life prepared for us. Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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Old Calendar: St. Thomas of Villanova, bishop and confessor; Sts. Maurice and Companions, martyrs; the Theban Legion, martyrs
I am the Savior of all people, says the Lord. Whatever their troubles, I will answer their cry, and I will always be their Lord (Entrance Antiphon).
Before the reform of the General Roman Calendar today was the feast of St. Thomas of Villanova (1488-1555), a great saint of the Spanish Renaissance and a good friend of Emperor Charles V. He was a man of infinite charity in word and deed, he lived as frugally as the poor who benefited by his unstinted almsgiving. While provincial of his order in Castile, he sent the first group of Augustinians to the Americas. Establishing themselves in Mexico, they were integral in the growth of Christianity in the New World. This date was also the commemoration of Sts. Maurice and Companions, Christian soldiers who were massacred in Switzerland because they refused to offer sacrifices to pagan gods.
St. Thomas of Villanova
St. Thomas was born in Spain in 1488, and inherited a special love toward the poor from his parents; he often gave away his very clothes. After the death of his father and mother, he used his inheritance to sustain poor virgins. He became a lecturer in the higher schools at Alcala, entered the order of the Hermits of St. Augustine in 1516 at Villanova, and acted as court preacher to Charles V. Against his will he was made archbishop of Valencia (1544), then exercised the office as a zealous shepherd of souls and a great friend of the poor. The bed in which he died was borrowed back from the one to whom he had given it as alms shortly before. During the sixteenth century he was called the "apostle of the Spaniards."
Excerpted from The Church's Year of Grace, Pius Parsch
Symbols: open purse; wallet; bishop's mitre; book; bag of coins.
St. Maurice and Companions
St. Maurice was an officer in the Theban Legion, a unit in the army of the Emperor Maximian Herculius. This Legion, from Upper Egypt, was entirely Christian, and when Maximian ordered his soldiers at Octodurum (now called Martigny, Switzerland) to sacrifice to the gods as a way of ensuring victory in battle, Maurice and two other officers led the Theban Legion in refusing, and thelegion with drew to Agaunum (now St.-Maurice, in the Swiss Canton of Valais). With Maurice encouraging the legionnaires to remain constant, even after the Emperor had the legion decimated (every tenth man killed), the legionnaires answered, "We have arms in our hands, but we do not resist because we would rather die innocent than live by any sin." Maximian ordered the rest of his army to kill the Christian legionnaires. The Theban legion numbered about 6,600 men, but the actual number killed remains unclear. Others were martyred for refusing to share in the spoils of the legionnaires. St. Eucherius, a fifth-century bishop of Lyons, noted that many miracles took place at the shrine of these martyrs. They are buried under the Basilica of St.-Maurice-en-Valais in Switzerland.
Excerpted from 2020 Saints Calendar & Daily Planner, Tan Books
Patron: Against gout; against cramping; against arthritis; Alpine troops; armies; Austria; clothmakers; dyers; infantrymen; Piedmont, Italy; Sardinia; soldiers; swordsmiths; weavers.
Symbols: Armour; banner with lion rampant; sword; seven stars; eagle on a shield; red cross;
Often Portrayed As: soldier; soldier being executed with other soldiers; knight (sometimes a Moor) in full armour, bearing a standard and a palm; knight in armour with a red cross on his breast, which is the badge of the Sardinian Order of Saint Maurice.
Read the Golden Legend story of St. Maurice.
The Theban Legion
The Theban legion numbered more than six thousand men. They marched from the East into Gaul, and proved their loyalty at once to their Emperor and to their God. They were encamped near the Lake of Geneva, under the Emperor Maximian, when they got orders to turn their swords against the Christian population, and refused to obey. In his fury Maximian ordered them to be decimated. The order was executed once and again, but they endured this without a murmur or an effort to defend themselves.
St. Maurice, the chief captain in this legion of martyrs, encouraged the rest to persevere and follow their comrades to heaven. "Know, O Emperor," he said, "that we are your soldiers, but we are servants also of the true God. In all things lawful we will most readily obey, but we cannot stain our hands in this innocent blood. We have seen our comrades slain, and we rejoice at their honor. We have arms, but we resist not, for we had rather die without shame than live by sin."
As the massacre began, these generous soldiers flung down their arms, offered their necks to the sword, and suffered themselves to be butchered in silence.
Excerpted from Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler, Benziger Bros. ed. [1894]
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SDSN February 2020 E-Conference Summary
SDSN Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems hosted its fourth fully online conference February 19–21, 2020. The e-conference was titled Resource Recovery from Sanitation for Food Security and Soil Health.
Moderated by Rebecca Nelson, Professor at Cornell University in the United States and Co-Chair of SDSN Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems. Presenters included Tom Wassenaar of CIRAD in France who summarized some of the key challenges of chemical fertilizers; Johannes Lehmann of Cornell University in the USA looked at several opportunities to recycle wastes to produce biochar and how the gasses from these wastes can be used to generate electricity; Sasha Kramer of SOIL in Haiti spoke of their growing urban sanitation service and how they processed 510 tons of waste into agricultural grade compost in 2019; Renzo Akkerman of Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands shared some key challenges in building value chains to support resource recovery.
The final day of the conference had an emphasis on experiences in Africa. Davis Ireri shared the story of Sanergy‘s work providing sanitation to persons living in slums and informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya; Jane Wambui Mugo shared Sanivation‘s work in Naivasha and Kakuma, Kenya, which has treated over 150 tons of waste, reducing diarrheal disease and producing 1,500 tons of fuel briquettes; David Berendes of the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) discussed the health benefits and risks of effective sanitation.
The final presentation was from Adama Hilou, a Professor at the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. His talk focused on the different waste streams in West Africa and solutions for effective reduction and reuse of waste.
Links to the conference presentations can be found here.
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How One Man Was Delivered From Homosexuality and Drug Addiction
4:30PM EST 2/5/2016 Jessilyn Lancaster
Pastor and speaker Kegan Wesley lives a lifestyle of love. But years ago, he expressed those same sentiments by a different standard: As a gay man addicted to drugs.
It started when he was raped and molested at a birthday party when he was 9.
"I didn't know where to go or who to go to," Wesley says. "... but I didn't know if they would believe me, so I began to believe that lie in my heart."
But at 18, he encountered God.
"I was borderline atheist. I didn't believe because I didn't know Jesus," Wesley says. "Long story short, I went to the altar that night, didn't know what to say, or how to pray."
Watch the video to see the rest of his testimony.
Related topics: Addiction | Homosexuality
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John Kotter Cambridge, USA
Expert on leadership and change
Author of 17 books, 12 being best-sellers
Teaching the High Potentials Leadership Program, Harvard Business School
Accelerate! The Evolution of the 21st Century Organisation (2013)
Leading Change: Establish a Sense of Urgency (2013)
John Kotter Speaker Profile:
Dr. John Kotter is internationally known and widely regarded as the foremost speaker on the topics of Leadership and Change. His is the premier voice on how the best organisations actually achieve successful transformations. Currently teaching the High Potentials Leadership Program at the Harvard Business School, Dr. Kotter’s vast experience and knowledge on successful change and leadership have been proven time and again.
Dr. Kotter offers the leadership tools necessary to achieve success in a business world that reinvents itself every day. He continues to speak at Harvard Business School Executive Education Programs, including the prestigious Advanced Management Program (AMP). These highly competitive professional seminars were created by Dr. Kotter to teach the important steps needed for successful leadership and change.
Dr. Kotter has authored 17 books, twelve of them best-sellers. His works have been printed in over 120 languages and total sales exceed two million copies. His book, “A Sense of Urgency” (2008), focuses on what a true sense of urgency in an organisation really is, why it is becoming an important asset and how it can be created and sustained. Released in September of 2008, Urgency reached #7 on the New York Times best-seller list in early October. His international best-seller “Leading Change” (1996) – which outlines an actionable eight-step process for implementing successful transformations – has become the change bible for managers around the world. His books are in the top 1% of sales on Amazon.com.
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The many honours won by Dr. Kotter include an Exxon Award for Innovation in Graduate Business School Curriculum Design, a Johnson, Smith & Knisley Award for New Perspectives in Business Leadership, and a McKinsey Award for Best Harvard Business Review Article. In 2006, Dr. Kotter received the prestigious McFeely Award for “outstanding contributions to leadership and management development.”
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ARRHYTHMIA MANAGEMENT
HORMONE OPTIMIZATION THERAPY
Many people ask me on a daily basis about Vitamin D and what is its importance.
Despite its name, vitamin D is not a vitamin, but a steroid hormone made in the skin, (from cholesterol). The normal range is pretty wide, from 30 to 100, and it’s better to work up to the higher levels than maintain at the lower levels. It’s usually pretty easy to get to “normal” levels by taking up to 50,000 units of vitamin D3 a week for up to 8 weeks and then maintain at 1000 to 5,000 units daily.
57% of patients in once study were judged to be vitamin D deficient, including 37% who consumed more than the recommended amount of vitamin D (at least 800 IU/ day). Although vitamin D can be obtained through the diet, most foods contain very small amounts, so humans are dependent on skin production to maintain normal levels ( or, with the addition of daily supplements.)
Vitamin D deficiency is important to understand in age-related morbidities.
Meta-analysis of double-blind randomized trials showed that vitamin D reduced the risk of falling by 22%.
Low Vitamin D levels play a role in bladder incontinence, because there is poorer coordination of the muscles used to control urination. Low levels also play a role in age-related macular degeneration as well asl cognitive decline.
The lower the vitamin D, the greater the incidence of sarcopenia, or bone loss. Men and women with baseline levels less than 25 no LVH/L were more than twice as likely to develop sarcopenia.
Increasing the levels of serum vitamin D regardless of age, may reduce the risk of breast cancer. Vitamin D level of 35 ng/ml has associated with a 20% reduction in the risk of breast cancer. In another study, average levels of 52 ng/ml had 50% lower risk of breast cancer than those with serum vitamin D of less than 13 ng/ml. Vitamin D intake of 2,000IU/day has been associated with vitamin D levels of 32 ng/ml. The higher level noted above corresponded to an intake of 4,000 IU of vitamin D per day.
Vitamin D may provide greater health benefits than previously thought, benefits that include not only improved bone health, but other effects as well. Increased vitamin D levels may decrease the risk of cancer, especially that related to colorectal adenomas. Elderly adults may even benefit from higher doses such as 2000 IU to 5000 IU daily. Vitamin D levels of 82 nmol/L and higher were also associated with a 50% lower risk of developing colorectal cancer. Some researchers are advocating even higher doses, up to 10,000 IU per day.
Lower levels of Vitamin D are associated with a higher risk of heart attack in a graded manner. High levels of vitamin D among middle-age, and elderly populations are associated with a substantial decrease in cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome.
Vitamin D has been traditionally related to bone metabolism, although several studies in the last decade have suggested its role in muscle strength and falls, cardiovascular and neurological disease, malignancies, autoimmune diseases and infections. Vitamin D appears to be a hormone with several actions and is fundamental for many biological systems including bone, skeletal muscle, brain and heart. It helps to maintain physical strength in the elderly and is protective against falls.
Additionally, a study demonstrated that women with moderate to severe depression had substantial improvement in their symptoms of depression after they received treatment for Vitamin D deficiency. Both the presence and severity of depression were associated with decreased serum levels of vitamin D and increased levels of parathyroid hormone in older patients.
In a paper called Vitamin D for cancer prevention: Global Perspective, higher levels of vitamin D were associated with substantially lower incidence rates of colon, breast, ovarian, renal, pancreatic, aggressive prostate and other cancers. It was projected that raising the minimum year- around levels to 40 to 60 ng/ml would prevent approximately 58,000 new cases of breast cancer and 49,000 new cases of colorectal cancer each year, and three fourths of deaths from these diseases in the United States and Canada.
I hope that this little essay helps you understand and appreciate further the role of vitamin D.
Brian Chesnie M.D.
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What does it really cost to live here, anyway?
By Katherine Hajduch
HOW WE COMPARE So the winter makes you want to move to Miami. Or even San Francisco. How much farther does your paycheck go here? At right are measures of relative costs from the ACCRA Cost of Living Index for the third quarter of 2008. The national average in each category is scaled to 100; figures in the table are percentages of the average. For example, Chicagoans pay 108.3 percent of the national average for groceries. Sources: Council for Community and Economic Research
Your friends from Rockford think the price you paid for your house is horrifyingly high, but your New York friends think it’s scandalously low. Gas station signs with lower and lower numbers as you drive out of downtown make the big-city markup obvious. How does our cost of living really compare with that of other cities around the country?
As of 2008’s third quarter, Chicago ranked 39th in cost of living among the 315 urban areas included in the ACCRA Cost of Living Index, a quarterly report published by the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), formerly known as the American Chamber of Commerce Research Association. The ACCRA index combines into a single number the cost of housing, groceries, utilities, transportation, health care, and other goods and services (but not taxes). Chicago’s cold winters, warm summers, and limited energy supply make home energy costs 30 percent higher than the national average. We dole out 7 percent more for health care (a teeth cleaning is approximately $82 versus an average of $75) and only 4 percent more for services such as a haircut (a woman’s cut and blow-dry averages $33 in Chicago and a little more than $31 nationwide).
Manhattan ranks as the priciest urban area in the U.S.—94 percent more expensive than Chicago. The main reason is housing, says Dean Frutiger, a cost-of-living project manager at C2ER. A new 2,400-square-foot residence with four bedrooms averages $1.2 million in Manhattan, but only $365,380 in Chicago.
Even as home prices crash in some parts of the country, Chicago’s housing cost has stayed constant in comparison with the country as a whole. “Over the last five quarters, the housing index in Chicago has remained stable,” says Frutiger. “And it will remain fairly consistent in the future—the Midwest tends to remain more stable than other areas.”
The average costs of everyday items vary hugely from place to place, and not always in the way you might expect.
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This Week in Pot Legalization
California unions join with medical-marijuana producers to push back on the Obama administration, while Colorado and Oregon representatives seek to finally make pot a purely state issue.
Ooh (via Cate Long):
U.S. states would be free to decide whether to legalize marijuana without running afoul of federal law but would require purchasers to pay federal taxes on its sale under legislation being proposed by two Democratic lawmakers.
One bill would end a federal ban on marijuana and give states jurisdiction over its use and regulate it in a similar way to alcohol sales, while the other would levy a federal tax, the congressmen said in a statement.
The reps pushing the bill are from Colorado and Oregon, of course.
The problem for states that want to legalize pot is that they can't be assured that the feds won't crack down on them. And the feds have been sending mixed messages. When Barack Obama began his presidency, he suggested that the federal government wouldn't meddle, but that hasn't always been the case:
With more than 100 raids on pot dispensaries during his first three years, Obama is now on pace to exceed Bush's record for medical-marijuana busts. "There's no question that Obama's the worst president on medical marijuana," says Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project. "He's gone from first to worst."
So states have been hesitant to move forward, much less actual businesses. The big money's going to stay on the sidelines, and it's worth remembering that when alcohol prohibition was repealed, big money was driving the issue.
Another big-money player, even if it's lost power in recent decades, is labor. And The New Republic's Molly Redden has a good piece on labor's role in the pot industry in California. The Obama administration was doing its thing on pot—cracking down on the medical-marijuana industry in California, after its more tolerant signaling went by the wayside—and that affected businesses. Unionized businesses:
A more sober cohort also joined the protest—officials from the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5. The UFCW had been unionizing marijuana workers since 2010, when it organized the Lee-owned businesses that were now blocked off by fluttering caution tape. At the height of the UFCW’s efforts, more than 2,000 cannabis workers, most of who worked behind the counter selling medicinal marijuana in Western states, had signed a union contract. But federal raids have sent that figure nose-diving to 500 or so workers today. With the raid on Oaksterdam, not only had the federal government shuttered the most reputable marijuana business in the state; they had shuttered the largest union shop, of some 100 UFCW workers, in the entire cannabis industry.
In recent years we've become accustomed to constant hostility between management and unions. But as Redden points out, unions and marijuana management (for now, at least) have the same incentives, because they aren't powerful enough on their own to counter political pressure, and because the industry is small enough that growth is more critical than the usual union-management issues. It's an angle that hadn't occurred to me, because I hadn't realized that unions had made inroads in the young industry, and one for advocates in union strongholds to consider.
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Child with addiction and cognitive issues returns to special care
A new special care application was made in the High Court in the summer of 2019 for a teenager (A) who had previously been in special care detention since September 2016 (with a break of a few weeks between detention orders) until the spring of 2019. She was also under a full care order.
Prior to the application in the High Court the guardian ad litem (GAL) had been advocating special care for the child due to the difficulties she was facing in her high support step down unit where she had transitioned from special care in spring 2019. These difficulties included substance abuse, impulsivity and addictive patterns of behaviour. Her high support unit was only one of two such units in the country and represented the highest level of support the Child and Family Agency (CFA or Tusla) could provide in the community.
A difference of opinion had arisen between the GAL and the CFA for over a month. The GAL had advocated special care for the teenager, however the CFA felt she needed a placement in a residential substance abuse programme. The CFA had to establish whether the residential centre had experience in treating persons with speech and language difficulties and cognitive issues such as this child had, as established by an ACTS psychologist through a previous assessment.
The GAL had a concern about A’s capacity to engage in talk therapies in such a residential centre as the teenager needed a slower pace than others in groups. The teenager had told the GAL she was taking cocaine and cannabis and going to Europe with a man, so something had to change, in the GAL’s opinion.
The judge noted a “litany of difficulties and drug use in the reports in recent times” and the GAL’s reservations (shared by other professionals) about the proposed residential substance abuse programme. The CFA wanted to pursue that route and had written to the residential centre to see what safeguards and assistance could be given to a person like A, who had cognitive difficulties.
“We’ll be more informed by whatever response comes back, something absolutely has to be done,” said the judge. “It is concerning given her history there is talk of going to [a European country] with some unknown individual. That has to be managed and everything that should be done to keep her safe has to be done, given her particular vulnerability, which is more than well known to this court at this stage.” The case was listed to return the following week.
When the case returned the following week the GAL’s view remained clear that special care was indicated while the view of the CFA still differed. The substance abuse residential programme had been unable to inform them if they could accept someone with a cognitive issue as the manager was on leave.
Counsel for the GAL told the court that the teenager’s behaviour had been concerning in the last week, issues had arisen included property damage, alcohol intoxication and bringing a male in his 20s back to her unit. The child was oscillating between agreeing to go to the residential substance abuse programme and not going. It was the view of the professionals she would require to be supported by people from her current high support unit if she did go.
When the case returned to the Minors’ Review List two weeks later, counsel for the CFA told the court that although the manager of the residential substance abuse programme had returned from leave and there had been a number of attempts to make contact, it had not been successful. A’s pattern of behaviour had not changed and there had also been property damage and an assault on a member of care staff in the last two weeks. Due to a disclosure of suicidal ideation the teenager had been brought to hospital where she had been assessed by a psychiatrist before being discharged. She had not been found to require treatment from mental health services.
Counsel for the CFA said that the child’s needs were being met in her high support unit, only one of two such units in the country, and the threshold for special care was not met, the criteria for which would continue to be monitored. He said that the GAL was recommending a bridging application for special care be made, it would take four to six weeks for a placement to be ready for A in the residential substance abuse programme and during that time the GAL was advocating the teenager stay in special care.
The barrister for the GAL told the court that A’s sister had contacted the high support unit and informed them that she had taken heroin. The unit had reported incidents where A had been intoxicated with alcohol and that she had taken sleeping pills and an anti-psychotic which she had not been prescribed, she had also taken ecstasy. She had been found in the unit with a bag containing a white substance and had told the care staff she had been dealing drugs, however the bag contained a sugar substance, and she had now put herself at risk of repercussions.
She had tried to set a piece of her clothing on fire when she was with the Gardai and was reported to have scratches on her face. Her GAL reported her asking, “a lot of people say I’m going to die, what do you think?” Furthermore, her high support unit had reported multiple absconsions for extended periods of time during which she was out of contact with her placement.
A was refusing to accept input from ACTS and had been arrested by the Gardai due to her heightened behaviour and property damage in the unit as well as an assault on care staff. There were significant risks to her safety, life, health, development and welfare.
The barrister asked that the matter go back for a week, to the day before the end of the law term in light of the new information to decide whether special care was appropriate. “Were she in any private placement it would have broken down, she is in a CFA placement, they are no more able to keep her safe, every second day or every day she is absconding and taking drugs. Even if my friends [the CFA] are not able to provide special care, they could at least be clear to the court that a referral has gone in and is being expedited,” said the barrister.
The judge remarked that it was “a difficult, disturbing and complex case, [A] had been in special care for a long period and the litany of interaction with negative peer groups and drug dealing had come back with relentless predictability. It was very sad and very concerning given her presentations.” The matter was put back in for the following week.
“I am very concerned she said she had [illicit drugs] but it was only sugar, if she’s out on the streets pedalling this to third parties that presents a very concerning situation, we all know what can happen to people in those circumstances,” said the judge. “She is an extremely vulnerable young woman and the CFA will have to look at this through a different lens and at the very least give this court some comfort, the referral should also be expedited to the [residential substance abuse programme]. There comes a point where either they are willing to take her or not.
“The Agency will have to move whatever mountain is necessary in this case to protect this young woman, there is no dispute about the level of absconsions and engagement with substances. I have to have some indication from the Agency that her best interests are being looked after. It’s at the level of risk under the Act, it’s a matter for the Agency,” concluded the judge.
The case returned four days later and was then listed the next day for a special care order application as her needs exceeded her current high support unit placement. The CFA found that provision of care other than a special care would not adequately address her behaviour, risk of harm and care requirements. This was also due to her high level of absconsions within her risk profile and her detention was required in order to address her therapeutic needs as no CAMHS was capable of offering such a facility. The special care order was granted for three months.
Four months later, the teenager was still in special care and due to her disturbed behaviour all mobilities had been suspended for eight weeks. The court heard that aftercare planning for the teenager had already begun and there had been an agreement by the professionals involved to engage a psychiatrist to assess her capacity. This could lead to a wardship jurisdiction being exercised by the High Court once A had reached her majority. The funding had been granted for the capacity assessment to be carried out by an eminent psychiatrist. The important thing, the court heard, was to have this done before she turned 18.
That morning she was appearing in the Children’s Court for possession of illicit drugs and had pleaded guilty to two incidents of assaults in a much earlier step-down placement, furthermore she had recently bitten a member of An Garda Siochana and drawn blood. The importance of A remaining on her best behaviour could not be under-estimated.
The judge told the parties that she wanted the capacity assessment ready for the next review date in four weeks’ time and she lifted the in camera rule in order for information to be provided to any potential step down placement.
The barrister for the GAL pointed out to the court that A had first been admitted to special care just over two years ago and with an interval of only a few months she had been there “to this day”. Twice this year she had she attempted to rob a staff car and drive it. Her level of risk-taking in her high security step-down placement outside of special care, her substance abuse, and her frequent absconscions had all led to her being readmitted.
Although a residential substance abuse therapy centre had been previously sought for A, at this point her GAL was quite sceptical as to whether the teenager would be able to manage it at all. She was now unable to provide clean urines. Her mobilities had been linked to extreme risk-taking and drug use and the GAL agreed that the only way of denying her drugs was to deny mobilities. In the meantime, ACTS would continue to work with her on an independent programme in her special care unit to reduce her craving for drugs.
A Garda sergeant told the court that the teenager had assaulted a member of An Garda Siochana, the incident had occurred when A was found with drugs in her possession during an absconsion and she had bitten the female guard who had tried to take them off her. The station she worked with had been dealing with A for a year now, A had been in the Garda station 65 times this year due to absconding on mobilities. “When she goes on mobilities we expect her to abscond, sometimes she returns herself and sometimes we find her and return her, but it means you have to be watching out for her… it’s a drain on our resources and it’s an on-going issue,” said the sergeant.
The barrister for the CFA asked the court to leave the special care order in place, and said that the psychiatric report would address the question of whether the teenager could engage in situ in the proposed independent programme of drug addiction work under the aegis of ACTS, on the next review date in a month’s time.
When the case returned before the end of this legal term, the court heard that a lot of preparation work had been done in advance of the psychiatrist meeting with the young person in the next four days in order to assess her capacity.
The judge noted from the court reports regarding A, that the period of special care did not appear to have achieved much if anything, however the explanation for that might be found in the report concerning the capacity assessment.
“Save for of course potentially keeping her alive,” remarked the barrister for the CFA.
“The indicators are that this matter will be moving from this list into another list, I will leave it in for review,” said the judge. It was due back in for a statutory review the following month when the capacity assessment report was also due.
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Warlords Await UN Withdrawal in Somalia
Stan Guthrie| January 9, 1995
As the United Nations withdrew the last of its troops from Somalia by December 31, Christian relief-and-development agencies on the scene were hoping for the best while preparing for the worst. With security deteriorating and signs of anarchy spreading across the poor nation of 7.2 million on the Horn of Africa, they are moving Western personnel to safety while trying to keep humanitarian efforts—and Somali people—alive as best they can.
"Security is not very good," says Ted Yamamori, president of Scottsdale, Arizona-based Food for the Hungry, which sent $1.5 million worth of food and medicine to the country in 1993. "The situation appears to be going back to the way it was before the un forces went in a couple of years ago."
Somalia's dictator, Mohammed Siyad Barre, was forced into exile three years ago after 21 years in power. Starvation and mayhem spread as various warlords battled for control with weapons doled out during the Cold War by the United States and the Soviet Union. Finally, in December 1992, George Bush sent in U.S. troops to bring order and protect relief efforts. But after 18 U.S. Army Rangers were killed, President Clinton pulled out all U.S. forces by last March.
Although the now-departed un troops remained, security during 1994 was spotty. In February, a bomb in Baidoa seriously injured health worker Marco Meneses of World Vision, and what was believed to be a recoilless rifle blasted a nine-foot hole in the wall of World Concern's compound in Mogadishu. Christian and secular agencies have faced looting, kidnapping, and other forms of intimidation and violence.
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Local award winners describe life lessons behind song
Written by Nathan Dyck Saturday, Mar 28 2020, 5:35 AM
Success has become a regular occurrence for Made in Manitoba band, The Color.
In addition to several nominations, The Color brought home a total of four wins from the 41st annual GMA Covenant Awards last week. The Color received the top spot in Collaboration of the Year, Artist of the Year, Group of the Year, and Pop song of the Year.
Their hit single, 'The Kind of Man,' propelled most of their success. Jordan Janzen, lead vocalist and songwriter says the song comes from a heartfelt prayer.
"James (Shiels) and I are the principal songwriters for the band. This song came to us when our wives were both pregnant for the first time. The song describes what we were going through as we were processing becoming dads and the responsibility that comes with that. These kids are going to look to us for a lot of things. The way that we are around them is going to really impact who they become."
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The recent outbreak of COVID-19 means that the band's upcoming shows have been cancelled. However, Janzen says they're hopeful that they will be able to go out and do ministry in the future.
Janzen says the band is following social distancing guidelines. That has hampered their ability to work on an upcoming album. Trips to Nashville are postponed and the band members haven't seen each other for a while. However, Janzen says that this hasn't completely stopped progress.
"We've recently recorded one song in Nashville. Thankfully, we were able to get everything done before things got really bad. We're hoping to write more to make a record in the next year. The timeline is different now though, as we're not able to travel to Nashville for the foreseeable future."
For now, the band is thinking of ways that they can continue to positively impact their fans and supporters through tools like Instagram and Facebook Live.
"We're doing our best to be creative and connect with people who need encouragement. We'll keep people posted."
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Spencer Tracy Gives an Oscar-winning Performance in Captains Courageous
There are times when I think Spencer Tracy would have been better off if he’d never been paired up with Katharine Hepburn in 1942, when they co-starred in Woman of the Year. Now I know there are many fans of this duo, which made nine films together. I, myself, enjoy many of their films. Yet, the problem I have with this pairing is that there are so many movie fans who don’t recognize (or know about) the great work Tracy did without Hepburn. For way too many, his career is overly defined by the work he did with her. This is a shame, because he gave some of his best performances without her. As a matter of fact, in his illustrious career he was nominated for nine Academy Awards (winning twice), and only one of these nominations, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, co-starred Hepburn. Perhaps this oversight is tied to their off-screen romance. Whatever the case, I wish more people appreciated his non-Hepburn films.
Captains Courageous is one of those non-Hepburn films in which Tracy gives an outstanding performance. He won his first Oscar playing Portuguese fisherman Manuel in this classic MGM film, directed by Victor Fleming. An adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s novel of the same name, the film garnered four Academy Award nominations (only winning Best Actor) and is considered one of cinema’s classic coming-of-age adventure stories.
In the beginning of the film, spoiled rich boy Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew) and his widowed, inattentive millionaire father (Melvyn Douglas) are aboard the Queen Anne and headed for Europe. Harvey is a world-class brat who thinks it’s okay to drink six ice cream sodas. Punished by the gods of the high seas for his childish gluttony, Harvey becomes nauseous and leans a little too far over the rail to spew the remnants of his tasty treat. Splash! Into the ocean goes Harvey and nobody seems to notice. His body is rescued by Manuel (Tracy), a Portuguese sailor working on an American fishing ship captained by Disko Troop (the great Lionel Barrymore). Evidently Harvey didn’t sustain a concussion, because when he wakes up he’s as pompous as ever. He demands that Captain Troop drop everything and turn the ship toward shore. Troop missed the memo that said Harvey is lord and master and so he tells the boy a foreign word—NO. Instead, Harvey is informed that he must spend the next three months aboard a ship inhabited by dead fish and unrefined sailors. Plus, he’s told he must work on the ship if he wants to eat. Oh, the inhumanity!
Put under the supervision of Manuel (who calls Harvey his little fish), Harvey refuses to do any work at all and shu ns the friendly overtures of Dan (Mickey Rooney), the captain's son. Once hunger kicks in, Harvey starts working in the ship galley. Over time, Harvey learns to perform various jobs and is eventually taught by Manuel how to fish. On one of their fishing trips in a skiff, Harvey fouls the line of other fisherman in order to catch a large halibut and win a contest. While Harvey is basking in the glow of success, Manuel is throwing the fish back in an effort to teach his little fish a lesson. This incident provokes an amazing result: Harvey actually feels ashamed and apologizes. From this point on, the salty, singing fisherman and the young would-be sailor form a bond. As a matter of fact, Harvey grows so fond of Manuel that he doesn’t want to be returned to his father.
Later, when the ship learns that a rival fishing ship is trying to beat them to port in an effort to get the best prices, Captain Troop decides they must make some bold moves. He orders the sails unfurled in dangerous weather conditions. Manuel volunteers for this task. Unfortunately the weather causes the mast to crack and Manuel is mortally wounded and trapped by the sails’ canvas and ropes in the water. In a heart-wrenching scene, it is decided that Manuel must be cut loose, sending him to the bottom of the sea to his death, This scene alone was most probably enough for Tracy to win the Oscar. His tearful goodbye to his little fish just break your heart. Bartholomew is also very moving in this scene. As a matter of fact, Bartholomew is exceedingly good for the remainder of the film. When the ship arrives at Gloucester, Harvey is reunited with his father. A moving memorial service is held for Manuel. It is here where the gulf between Mr. Cheyne and Harvey is closed. Mr. Cheyne sees that his son is no longer a spoiled brat, but a young man who has been profoundly changed by his experiences with Manuel.
Overall, this is a moving coming-of-age film. Tracy’s portrayal of the salt-of-the-earth (or sea in this case) Manuel is wonderful. Like many of his earlier roles, Tracy really develops this role into a memorable character. He gives Manuel many edges and does a good job of not over-playing his character into too much of a stereotype. In addition, Bartholomew is a delight to watch. Yes, his character is annoying in the beginning, but the personality change he undergoes throughout the film seem believable. It is not easy to go from one of the most-irritating brats in screen history to a child who makes your heart break by the end of the film. Of course, Bartholomew had an excellent, seasoned co-star to help him along this difficult path. It is a shame that this film is not as well-known as it should be.
Posted by Kimberly J.M. Wilson at 6:18 PM
Labels: april is for action, captains courageous, kim wilson (author), spencer tracy
toto2 April 30, 2010 at 7:01 PM
What a lovely tribute you have given to Spencer Tracy, Kim! I especially love the picture you selected with Manuel and his "little fish" whom he rescued from the sea. Tracy is positively glowing in it!
This is indeed an endearing coming of age story. Tracy had a very fatherly quality about him. Maybe it was the way he spoke with such assurance and conviction.
Your excellent review reminds me that I need to revisit this film again. Bravo, Kim!
Paul 2 April 30, 2010 at 7:54 PM
Kim ,wonderful post.I love this film ,one of Victor Fleming's best.Freddie got top billing over Spencer (can you believe it?) Any way when Spenser was asked how he came up with Manuel's accent, He said he just hung around San Pedro CA's(LA Harbor)fishing fleet and picked it up.
Rick29 April 30, 2010 at 11:50 PM
Another well-done review, Kim. I haven't seen CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS in a long time, but remember it being a solid, effective film. Personally, I tend to favor Spencer Tracy's post-1940s performances in films like BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK and INHERIT THE WIND. I agree that he's too often thought of as half of Tracy & Hepburn!
The Lady Eve May 1, 2010 at 1:31 AM
Kim - Thanks for a beautifully well-written and truly enjoyable blog. I tend to agree with you about Tracy's pairing with Hepburn - hadn't really thought about it before, but their films together do tend to overshadow his other work. "Captains Courageous" is the first film of his I remember seeing (at one time it was often aired on TV). What child (brat or non-brat) didn't fall under the spell of "Manuel"? Such a fine performance - really one of Tracy's signature roles. He is memorable in so many films...and on the lighter side - without Hepburn - is one of my favorites, "Father of the Bride."
ClassicBecky May 1, 2010 at 12:33 PM
Well done piece of writing, Kim, about one of the greatest actors ever. His Hepburn-paired films were fun, but his best work was as you say, on his own. I haven't seen Captains for a while, but will never forget that heartbreaking scene of Manuel's death. Tracy did so many good films - Edison the Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, - but like Rick, I love his later work. Who could forget his thoughtful judge in Judgment at Nuremburg, or the passionate lawyer in Inherit the Wind? Captains was his early genius that would come to fruition with later great performances. Thanks, Kim, for a tribute to a great actor and a great movie.
Kimberly J.M. Wilson May 2, 2010 at 12:17 AM
Thanks for the good feedback. Rick and Becky, I agree about some of Tracy's best work coming later in his career. He is beyond memorable in Inherit the Wind, Judgment at Nuremburg and Bad Day at Black Rock.
Paul, I hadn't heard how he picked up the accent for this film. You are always full of interesting tidbits of information.
Dawn May 3, 2010 at 3:31 PM
Kim, Another Awesome review! This one of my favorite Spencer Tracy films. I thought Freddie Bartholomew, gave a very convincing performance as a fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr, transforming from a spoiled brat to a young caring young man. The ending is one I will never forget.
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Tod Sloan, byname of James Forman Sloan, (born August 10, 1874, near Kokomo, Indiana, U.S.—died December 21, 1933, Los Angeles, California), American jockey, who popularized the “monkey crouch” riding style, which at first was derided but later was adopted by most jockeys. He was a colourful, self-assertive personage, but he squandered his considerable earnings and died in poverty.
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Sloan’s nickname of “Tod” (he inaccurately stated that his full name was James Todhunter Sloan) was originally “Toad,” referring to the appearance his disproportionately short legs gave him. Because of his unusual build, he found it convenient to use short stirrups and to ride low, with his head almost resting on the horse’s neck. Although the riding style had been developed much earlier, dating at least to the African American slave and jockey Abe Hawkins (died 1867), the majority of jockeys evidently copied it from Sloan.
Sloan raced first in the Midwest. After winning many races in the United States for William Collins Whitney’s stable, he went to England in 1896, and the next year he became rider for the stable of the prince of Wales, afterward King Edward VII. In 1901 the English Jockey Club denied him a riding license because of unspecified “conduct prejudicial to the best interests of the sport,” and by 1906 he had been ruled off the turf everywhere. After an unsuccessful motion-picture career, he died impoverished.
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Zina Saro-Wiwa (British/Nigerian, born 1976). The Invisible Man (detail), 2015. Pigmented inkjet print, 28 ¾ x 44 in. (73 x 111.8 cm). Seattle Art Museum, Commission, 2015. Courtesy of the artist. © Zina Saro-Wiwa
Unidentified Temne artist. Ode-Lay Mask, mid-20th century. Freetown, Sierra Leone. Wood, paint, plastic, metal, 281⁄2 x 153⁄4 x 77⁄8 in. (72.3 x 40 x 20 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Milton Gross, by exchange, 2013.25. Creative Commons-BY. Photo: Sarah DeSantis, Brooklyn Museum
Nandipha Mntambo (South African, born 1982). Europa, 2008. Exhibition print, 311⁄2 x 311⁄2 in. (80 x 80 cm). Photographic composite: Tony Meintjes. Courtesy of the artist and STEVENSON, Cape Town and Johannesburg. © Nandipha Mntambo. Photo: Courtesy of STEVENSON, Cape Town and Johannesburg
I think we all have a dark, animalistic part of ourselves.
— Nandipha Mntambo
In explaining this work, Nandipha Mntambo notes that “Europa came from an interest in Greek mythology and wanting to look directly at the combination of a half-bull and a half-human woman.” In the Greek myth, “Europa, the daughter of Phoenix, is seduced by Zeus, who hides in the form of a white bull—an ultimate disguise. She had three sons by Zeus who all became rulers. That led to her being the queen of what we imagine Europe to be. She also reminds me about confronting parts of myself that I don’t like, or the human and animal in myself.”
In this digitally altered self-portrait, Mnatambo invites us to follow her lead and search for the not-quite-human in ourselves.
Iké Udé (Nigerian, born 1964). Sartorial Anarchy #23, 2013. Pigmented inkjet print, 46 x 37 in. (116.8 x 94 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Leila Heller Gallery, New York. © Iké Udé. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Leila Heller Gallery, New York
My clothes and accessories are precisely akin to a painter’s palette, and my body, akin to the canvas.
— Iké Udé
Iké Udé’s work plays with categories, crossing and transgressing boundaries. As much a performance artist as a photographer, Udé stages elaborately conceived self-portraits. With a keen eye on the world of high fashion, he draws on clothes and accessories from around the globe to create a style he labels “post-dandyism,” reviving a nineteenth-century term for men dedicated to precise and theatrical self-fashioning. In so doing, he both celebrates and demands the freedom available to an artist who moves in circles of global glamour that stretch from Lagos to Los Angeles.
Saya Woolfalk (American, born 1979). Installation view of ChimaTEK: Virtual Chimeric Space (detail), at Seattle Art Museum, 2015. © Seattle Art Museum. Photo: Nathaniel Willson
“Each of my projects builds on the last,” says Saya Woolfalk. “[Earlier] I worked with the anthropologist Rachel Lears to develop an Ethnography of No Place, a video about a fictional No Place [utopia, or “no-place,” in Greek], a future constructed for the investigation of human possibilities and impossibilities. It features configurations of biology, sociality, race, class, and sexuality.”
From there, Woolfalk developed “a science fiction–inspired project about a fictional group of women called Empathics, to explore the process of hybridization.” Carefully documenting their origins, characteristics, and intentions, she built a rich symbolic world that is, itself, an artistic exploration of the ways in which institutions similarly classify and divide actual people.
“In No Place,” Wolfalk says, “people are part plant and part human. They change colors at different points of their life cycle. When they die they become the landscape. They’re always in flux and changing. It’s a macrocosmic project that I think of like a folk story. . . . The Empathics are a group of women who try to conjure No Place into the present through a series of ritual actions, activities, and research. [Within this world,] the Institute of Empathy operates as a nonprofit that I employ to undermine stable conceptions of identity and examine how hybrid identities emerge through different kinds of biological and cultural contact.”
The Nguabu Master (Mende). Helmet Mask for Sande Society (Ndoli Jowei), late 19th-early 20th century. Nguabu, Moyamba district, Southern province, Sierra Leone. Wood, pigment, 151⁄2 x 91⁄4 x 101⁄4 in. (39.4 x 23.5 x 26 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Carll H. de Silver Fund, 74.64. Creative Commons-BY. Photo: Brooklyn Museum
Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou (Beninese, born 1965). Untitled, Egungun Series (detail), 2011. Digital exhibition print, 59 x 391⁄4 in. (149.9 x 99.7 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Jack Bell Gallery, London. © Leonce Agbodjelou. Photo: Courtesy of Jack Bell Gallery, London
It happens that I think about a story. Then I start thinking about its realization, the character, how it is dressed, the setting, and then at the end I create my artwork.
— Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou
Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou’s work is documentary in nature but has a conceptual edge. While decidedly contemporary, his depiction of egungun performers in Porto-Novo could easily be read as belonging to an unaltered and timeless tradition, particularly given his decision to stage these images against stark mud-brick walls. Indeed, in an earlier period, these sorts of typological, documentary images of masquerade characters might have been made by a white, colonial, or missionary official.
In this instance, however, the image comes from Benin’s most globally celebrated photographer—one with a canny understanding of both the spiritual import of egungun and the ways in which such images are consumed and read in settings outside of Benin.
William Villalongo (American, born 1975). Muses (Artifact 1), 2012–14. One of seven paper collages in Plexiglas vitrines, 231⁄2 x 18 in. (59.7 x 45.7 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Susan Inglett Gallery, New York. © William Villalongo. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
African masks became the notoriously mute “muses” for the work of many European modernist painters in the early twentieth century. In Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon, for example, several of the nude women in the center of the painting stare at the viewer through forms that resemble certain types of West and Central African masks.
Here, William Villalongo reverses that European modernist gesture of appropriation, placing actual masks from Gabon over images of nude women by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (right) and Mel Ramos (left). That the Ramos image itself comes from an auction catalogue only further reinforces the extent to which all—the mask, the Ramos painting, and possibly the woman herself—have been transformed into commodities.
Unidentified We artist. Mask (Gela), Liberia or Côte d’Ivoire. Wood, raffia, cloth, teeth, horn, feathers, hair, fiber cord, cowrie shells, mud, and pigment, 317⁄8 x 18 x 11 in. (81 x 45.7 x 28.8 cm). Seattle Art Museum, Gift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company, 81.17.193
Animal anatomy seems to explode off this face. If you look carefully, there are tiny round eyeholes that show the core of the explosion is human. Such a mask was worn only by an auspicious judge who arrived when social tensions were erupting. Visually armed, this mask reminded people that they should not model themselves after the untamed creatures of the forest, which use their horns and teeth to attack each other. Instead, gela came to absorb such beastly instincts and return that fierce energy to the forest, where it belonged.
Brendan Fernandes (Canadian, born Kenya, 1979). From Hiz Hands: 1979.206.143, 2010. One of three neon-on-glass-frame signs, 35 x 30 in. (88.9 x 76.2 cm). Loan from the artist. © Brendan Fernandes. Photo: Courtesy of the artist
I watched vendors [on Canal Street] selling African masks and heard they were carving them in storage units outside the city. It made me think about the loss of cultural traditions—what happened to the ceremonial purpose and what the masks once meant—and how the masks become just placeholders, like signs. The neons also play with disguised language, as they pulse questions about who they are in Morse code. . . . Those sorts of signals are not being articulated or comprehended, but the light acts as a beacon to then call in.
— Brendan Fernandes
Modeling these neon signs after actual historic masks in museum collections, Fernandes plays with masks as icons, as signifiers for a supposedly authentic “Africa” that are nevertheless divorced from their original context. They seem to be selling something. Is it the mask itself? Or an idea?
Unidentified Gola artist. Helmet Mask (Gbetu) with Raffia Costume, early to mid-20th century. Grand Cape Mount or Lofa County, Liberia. Wood, pigment, metal, raffia, 93 x 48 in. (236.2 x 121.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of William C. Siegmann, 2011.53.1a, b. Creative Commons-BY. Photo: Sarah DeSantis, Brooklyn Museum
Gbetu is a men’s masquerade performed primarily for secular entertainment. While a genre owned and performed by men, gbetu is considered to be feminine, as she is seen to “give birth” to small dancing figures that appear to emerge from beneath her raffia skirt, perform, and then return to her folds.
Each mask is owned, controlled, and performed by a specific household (known as a gbonji), and is accompanied by its own proprietary music and choreography. Gbetu dances in a highly energetic, acrobatic manner, advancing in broad swishing motions, making full use of the head-to-toe raffia covering.
Nick Cave (American, born 1959). Soundsuit, 2008. Mixed media.112 x 43 x 35 in. (284.5 x 109.2 x 88.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Mary Smith Dorward Fund, 2009.44a b. © Nick Cave. Photo: Courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery
Since the early 1990s, Nick Cave has been fabricating inventive sculptures out of scavenged materials, which he often overlays with beadwork, stitching, and other embellishments. One of the first, crafted from twigs, was made to be worn and created a rustling sound, which led to the eventual name of such works: Soundsuits. Cave’s costumes draw from a variety of sources, including both African and Caribbean traditions of masquerade.
In performance, Cave’s work invokes moments of whimsical transcendence—but a very real, grounded, and nuanced understanding of the racialized nature of American society is often just underneath. Overcoming the distinctions between “fine art” and “craft,” as well as “performance” and “street” art, Cave’s Soundsuits may also serve as a sort of armor, protecting against the violence of racial stereotypes and giving their wearers an outsize, fanciful, and transcendent presence. Cave designed his first Soundsuit in response to the brutal police beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles in 1992.
Cave’s costumes enable performers to be seen free
from the constraints of being placed in categories, and to be free to transform their environment into an otherworldly space.
Here are some questions visitors asked us during their visit to this exhibition.
On your next visit, use our app to ask your own questions, get info, and share insights by texting with our team of knowledgeable and friendly experts.
What is the specific fiber that is "hair" made of?
The fibers in question are natural plant fibers. Although conservation hasn't taken a sample and done microscopic fiber ID of the material conservators speculate the fibers are from the Sansevierio plant. A species of this plant is native to Africa (Sansevierio Liberica).
What is egungun?
Egungun is a Yoruba traditional masquerade danced once a year to call forth and pay respect to the ancestral dead, who reenter the community through these costumes.
What I like most about egungun is how ornamental the fabric are, the example we have here really showcases cross cultural exchange. Some of the fabrics and dyes are produced locally, while others are traded.
Why are women barred from this practice in Africa?
Women are actually quite involved in masquerade, creating costumes, singing and dancing, as well as spectatorship. In general women simply do not wear wooden masks Africa is such a large continent with millions of people, so there are always exceptions! Women wear wooden masks in a few instances such as the Mende women in Sierra Leone who wear them in the Sande society.
The role of women in masquerade traditions is being challenged and critiqued by numerous contemporary art, nearby works by Zina Saro-Wiwa and Wura-Natasha Ogunji and Saya Woolfalk all are investigating femininity in relationship to wooden masks.
This is a mask? It looks like a sculpture. How would you dance in this!?
You're right, this mask does seem too sculptural and heavy to be worn! However, looks can be deceiving, This "Gelede Body Mask" would be worn by male performers in Benin covering not only the wearers face, but their entire body! I like this mask because it really speaks to the athleticism and fitness required to perform in masquerade. In Gelede, a Yoruba form of masquerade, men perform as respected women from the community.
Gelede is performed to invoke supernatural "Mothers" to bless the community. It can be performed during times of community stress, such as during droughts.
Disguise: Masks and Global African Art
April 29–September 18, 2016
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Disguise: Masks and Global African Art connects the work of twenty-five contemporary artists with historical African masquerade, using play and provocation to invite viewers to think critically about their world and their place within it. By putting on a mask and becoming someone else, artists reveal hidden realities about society, including those of power, class, and gender, to suggest possibilities for the future.
The contemporary artists featured include Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou (Benin), Nick Cave (U.S.), Edson Chagas (Angola), Steven Cohen (South Africa/France), Willie Cole (U.S.), Jakob Dwight (U.S.), Hasan and Husain Essop (South Africa), Brendan Fernandes (Kenya/Canada/U.S.), Alejandro Guzman (Puerto Rico), Gerald Machona (Zimbabwe), Nandipha Mntambo (South Africa), Jean-Claude Moschetti (France/Benin), Toyin Ojih Odutola (U.S.), Emeka Ogboh (Nigeria), Wura-Natasha Ogunji (U.S./Nigeria), Walter Oltmann (South Africa), Sondra R. Perry (U.S.), Jacolby Satterwhite (U.S.), Paul Anthony Smith (Jamaica/U.S.), Adejoke Tugbiyele (U.S./Nigeria), Iké Udé (U.S./Nigeria), Sam Vernon (U.S.), William Villalongo (U.S.), Zina Saro-Wiwa (U.S./U.K./Nigeria), and Saya Woolfalk (U.S.).
Masks have long been used by African artists to define relationships―between individuals, communities, the environment, or the cosmos―and, sometimes, to challenge the status quo. However, once masks were removed from their original performance context, they were transformed into museum objects, and their larger messages were often lost.
The exhibition presents contemporary work in dialogue with historical objects from the collections of the Seattle Art Museum and the Brooklyn Museum within an immersive and lively installation of video, digital, sound, and installation art, as well as photography and sculpture.
Disguise: Masks and Global African Art was originally organized by the Seattle Art Museum. The Brooklyn presentation is organized by Kevin Dumouchelle, Associate Curator, Arts of Africa and the Pacific Islands, Brooklyn Museum.
Generous support for the Brooklyn Museum presentation is provided by JPMorgan Chase & Co. Additional support is provided by Jerome and Ellen Stern.
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Trustee Goes After Madoff Accountants for $900 Million
Since December 2008, when investment broker Bernard (Bernie) Madoff revealed his ponzi scheme to the FBI, investors and a court-appointed trustee have been trying to recover lost money through various legal proceedings. In the latest legal action in the Madoff saga, the trustee sued two of Madoff’s former accountants to recover an alleged $900 million.
Madoff Accountant Lawsuit
The court-appointed trustee, Irving Picard, filed a lawsuit against accountants Michael Bienes and Frank Avellino as well as their wives and other family members in December 2010. The lawsuit alleges that they improperly received $900 million and accuses them of assisting Madoff in his $20 billion investment scam.
Picard claims that Bienes and Avellino were active participants in investment fraud who helped bring money into Madoff’s investment funds. In addition, Picard claims that “obvious red flags” would have alerted any accountant that Madoff was defrauding investors. However, Madoff has insisted that he acted alone, reported ABC News.
Role of Trustee
The lawsuit against the accountants is just one of several legal actions that Picard has initiated in his role as the court-appointed trustee for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, LLC. He was designated by the court under the Securities Investor Protection Act (SIPA).
Generally, when a brokerage firm fails due to bankruptcy, fraud or other financial difficulties, the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) arranges the transfer of the failed brokerage’s accounts to a different brokerage firm through a trustee. The SIPC’s mission is to step in as quickly as possible to help return cash, stock, securities and other property to the failed brokerage’s clients.
Unlike regular bankruptcy proceedings, the trustee does not liquidate the assets of the failed brokerage. Instead, the SIPC trustee distributes the securities to their respective owners and may purchase securities to satisfy the claims of particular investors.
Additionally, the SIPC trustee is responsible for investigating the conduct of the failed brokerage and the people potentially involved in its operation. That is why Picard has the ability to file lawsuits against the accountants and others allegedly involved in the Madoff scheme.
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Steve Epner Named Chairman of New St. Louis Nonprofit
Brown Smith Wallace Principal and Consulting Group Founder selected to lead Innovate Venture Mentoring Service
ST. LOUIS (December 18, 2013) Steve Epner, CSP, principal and founder of the Brown Smith Wallace consulting group, has been named chairman of the board for the non-profit organization, Innovate Venture Mentoring Service (IVMS). The organization is an offshoot of Innovate St. Louis, a substantial contributor to St. Louis’ growing entrepreneurial culture.
Innovate St. Louis plans to transition the IVMS organization to the new leadership team in the early first quarter of 2014. The new leadership team, headed by Steve Epner, will lead the organization in becoming a free-standing, self-sustaining entity after six years of accomplishments.
“My goal is to create a sustainable organization to continue founding chairman Bill Peck’s vision of supporting early stage business ventures in the region,” said Epner. “We have a lot of work to do, but are fortunate to have a solid foundation. I very much appreciate the board’s confidence in me.”
The new leadership team will work with IVMS’ staff and mentors to accelerate a refresh of IVMS’s programming, operations and funding strategy. IVMS will organize active committees comprised of the many mentors and ventures already part of the IVMS family.
“We are pleased to have Steve lead such an innovative organization and continue to be a part of the local entrepreneurial community,” said Harvey Wallace, managing partner at Brown Smith Wallace. “We are always looking for new ways to engage with startups and reaffirm our firm’s commitment to supporting small businesses and the entrepreneurial spirit.”
About IVMS
IVMS was founded in 2014 as an operating unit of Innovate St. Louis, to assist early stage entrepreneurs in launching high-technology, high-growth businesses. IVMS provides free business planning assistance to entrepreneurs in the form of high-impact mentoring teams, comprised of volunteers who are either experienced entrepreneurs or subject matter experts in their fields. Over the past 6 years, IVMS has assisted over 320 client entrepreneurs, who have launched 220 ventures. To date, these ventures have collectively achieved over a 65% survival rate (over twice the national average), have attracted over $70 million in investment, and have created over 800 jobs in the St. Louis region.
About Brown Smith Wallace
Brown Smith Wallace is the second-largest locally owned full-service CPA and business advisory firm in Missouri with more than 200 employees. The firm was nationally recognized as a “Best of the Best Firm” in 2013, by INSIDE Public Accounting and as an Accounting Today “Best Accounting Firm to Work For” in 2013. Brown Smith Wallace is the only accounting firm in St. Louis to receive either of these designations this year. For more information, visit www.bswllc.com or call 314-983-1200.
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Some of us have recently found the church while others of us have spent our whole lives in the congregation. Still others have journeyed away and have come back.
We are connected on this journey of faith, seeking a deeper commitment to Jesus the Christ, our Savior, Redeemer and Friend, and to each other as the Body of Christ on earth.
Meet our Pastor!
Paul Schneider was called to be our Pastor for the interim in June of 2017. Then in December of 2018 he was called to be the Pastor of the church.
Formerly a native of Oakland, CA, and a lifelong member of First Baptist Berkeley, he graduated in May 2017 from the American Baptist Seminary of the West with a Masters of Divinity. Paul and his wife Molly have five children, Cesa Lee (who lives in Idaho), Merritt, Cayan, Brandon and Bailey. Paul, Molly and the kids moved up to Bonney Lake in July of 2016 and are loving life here in the Pacific Northwest. Paul was ordained on October 14th, 2018, by his church of origin, the First Baptist Church of Berkeley, a fellow Evergreen Church.
In addition to being a Pastor, Paul is an Operations Manager at a company in the Kent Valley. Between these two callings, he's a busy guy, but never too busy to talk. You can reach him at paul@buriencommunitychurch.org.
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We are affiliated with the Evergreen Association of the American Baptist Churches, USA. We are also a member of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America/Bautistas Por la Paz.
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SNC-Lavalin awarded $38M USD traffic operations management services contract by North Carolina Department of Transportation
November 25, 2020 Milly King SNC Lavalin
MONTREAL: November 25, 2020– SNC-Lavalin (TSX:SNC) was selected as prime consultant under a not-to-exceed $38 million USD, three-year limited services contract with two one-year optional extensions to provide traffic operations management support to the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s (NCDOT) Transportation Systems Management & Operations Unit. The contract will be delivered by SNC-Lavalin’s Engineering, Design and Project Management business (EDPM).
“Our North American business has enjoyed a number of significant contract wins this year which cement our position as an established player in a region rich with growth opportunities,” said Philip Hoare, President of Atkins, SNC-Lavalin’s EDPM business. “We now look forward to supporting NCDOT as it continues to deliver critical infrastructure for the state of North Carolina.”
Under the contract, the Company will staff, operate and manage statewide and regional traffic and toll operations centers. In addition, the team will provide project technical support staff to enable a variety of management, administration and traffic engineering functions in support of the operations.
For nearly three decades, the Company has worked with NCDOT in areas ranging from transportation management center (TMC) operations, 511 traffic information line support, intelligent transportation systems and traffic engineering consulting, and toll system design and operations.
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Skanska builds rental apartments in Espoo, Finland, for EUR 39M, about SEK 395M
December 21, 2020 Milly King
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FTC to study credit card industry data security auditing
By Jaclyn Jaeger2016-03-14T11:15:00+00:00
The Federal Trade Commission has issued orders to nine companies requiring them to provide the agency with information on how they conduct assessments of companies to measure their compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS).
PCI DSS audits are required by the major payment card issuing companies of retailers and other businesses that process more than one million card transactions in a given year and are intended to ensure that companies are providing adequate protection to consumers’ sensitive personal information.
The nine companies receiving orders from the FTC are Foresite MSP; Freed Maxick CPAs, P.C.; GuidePoint Security; Mandiant; NDB; PwC; SecurityMetrics; Sword and Shield Enterprise Security; and Verizon Enterprise Solutions (also known as CyberTrust). The FTC is seeking details about the assessment process employed by the companies, including the ways assessors and companies they assess interact; copies of a limited set of example PCI DSS assessments, and information on additional services provided by the companies, including forensic audits.
The FTC said that information collected will be used to study the state of PCI DSS assessments.
Former FTC Commissioner Brill on data security, privacy protections
Joe Mont speaks to Julie Brill, who for the past six years was among the FTC’s most influential commissioners and an important voice on internet privacy and data security issues. In April, she left public service to join the law firm Hogan Lovells as a partner and co-director of its ...
Excellus Health Plan fined $5.1M for 2015 data breach
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights fined Excellus Health Plan $5.1 million for failures relating to a 2015 data breach that exposed the personal information of 9.3 million individuals.
CFPB under Chopra will be aggressive consumer watchdog, experts say
Rohit Chopra’s nomination to lead the CFPB represents a full-throated return to the combative consumer protection agency under former director Richard Cordray, experts say.
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Resilience Capital Partners Names General Counsel
By Scuttlebutt2016-01-25T12:00:00+00:00
Resilience Capital Partners, a private equity firm, has appointed Chad Hesse to its newly created general counsel role.
For the past 11 years, Hesse has worked for Diebold, a publicly traded global manufacturer, sales and service provider of self-service technology, software and security solutions. During his time there, he held a number of roles with increasing responsibility.
Most recently, Hesse served as the company's vice president, associate general counsel of global corporate affairs. In this role, he was the primary in-house legal resource for global M&A activity. Prior to this, he was vice president, general counsel and secretary, responsible for leading Diebold's global legal and compliance team of 23 attorneys and support staff, as well as managing the selection, retention, management and evaluation of external counsel.
Ex-Wells Fargo general counsel fined $3.5M for fake accounts role
General Counsel James Strother agreed to a $3.5 million settlement to become the seventh former senior executive at Wells Fargo fined by the OCC for their role in the bank’s fake account scandal.
Visa announces new general counsel amid legal shakeup
Visa announced the appointment of Kelly Mahon Tullier to the newly created position of EVP, chief legal and administrative officer. Julie Rottenberg was subsequently appointed to succeed Tullier as general counsel and SVP.
Lincoln Financial tabs general counsel
Insurance firm Lincoln Financial Group announced Craig Beazer has been named executive vice president and general counsel.
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Monumental Art of the Christian and Early Islamic East: Cultural Identities and Classical Heritage
Early Islamic wall-painting in Qusayr Amra bathhouse, Jordan
Damascus, Great Mosque, landscape panorama mosaic
The project will examine the process of artistic creation, the identities and origins of the creators, and their organisation, training, and roles in transmitting artistic practices and cultural memory. ‘Identity’ in this context refers to ways of doing and making things, or to communities that people thought of as their own, i.e. identified with, even if unconsciously. Monumental art is important because it occurs on the most visible heritage surviving in the Middle East, from major buildings (such as the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and the Great Mosque in Damascus) to churches and ‘desert castles’. How this art was integrated into the decorative programmes of whole buildings is central to understanding the contexts, meanings, and functions of the artworks and the structures they decorate. Moreover, this project will ascertain the roles of the ancestors of peoples who live in the region today in designing and creating this art, and their sources of inspiration.
This project will analyse the monumental art (large decorative programmes on buildings) of two areas of the former eastern Roman Empire which came under Islamic rule but which have never been the subject of an integrated comprehensive study: Egypt and Syro-Palestine (modern Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel/Palestine). It will determine systematically how the strength and nature of the local ‘classical’ (Greco-Roman) traditions and expressions of identities influenced monumental art in these regions during Late Antiquity (AD 250–750), the period of transition from paganism to Christianity and, in turn, to Islam.
To achieve these objectives, this study will define and distinguish between the different strands of classical influence, both local and external (from the centres of Rome, Constantinople, and Alexandria), and investigate the roles of local artists and artisans as creators rather than imitators. The results will transform our understanding of the artistic culture of the late antique Middle East because monumental art (large decorative programmes of paintings, mosaics, or relief sculptures on buildings) provides glimpses of other aspects of identity for which less evidence has survived.
By placing this art in the context of the ‘longue durée’, this project will move it nearer to centre-stage in the study of art history in general, of Middle Eastern history, and of related fields. Tracing the strong local classical component in both late antique Christian and early Islamic art will demonstrate to a wider audience, interested in ‘classical reception’ studies the classical legacy that the East has in common with the West. This project also will move the focus of the study of early Islamic art beyond patronage and iconographic interpretation to the role of local artisans in its creation. The results will lay long term foundations for a greater appreciation of the monumental art of the Middle East and the importance of preserving this heritage.
Following the tragically early death of Judith McKenzie, the Principal Investigator, in May 2019, the project is being wound down early, while every attempt is being made to ensure that as many of the promised results are completed to the point of publication
2016 Colloquium Programme with Manuscript Resources
manuscripts_colloquium_programme_5nov2016.pdf
manuscripts_colloquium_resources.pdf
2017 Colloquium Programmes
heritage_colloquium_oxford_8june2017.pdf
monumentality_across_media_workshop_15june2017.pdf
Manar al-Athar Research Associate: Dr Miranda Williams (supported by the Classics Faculty, the John Fell OUP Research Fund, Friends of Manar al-Athar, and Americans for Oxford)
ERC Research Associate – Late Antique Egyptian Art and Manuscript Illumination: Dr Foteini Spingou (September 2016-July 2018)
ERC Research Associate – Late Antique Mosaics: Dr Sean Leatherbury (from May 2017 to June 2019)
ERC Research Associate – Early Islamic Monumental Art and Architecture: Dr Beatrice Leal (from October 2018)
ERC Research Associate – Late Antique Egyptian Art: Dr Efthymios Rizos (from January 2019)
ERC Research Associate – Manuscripts: Dr Jacopo Gnisci (from January 2019)
Manar al-Athar Open-access Photo-archive http://www.manar-al-athar.ox.ac.uk/
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 694105
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Published: June 11, 2020, 4:39 pm Updated: June 11, 2020, 4:55 pm
Board submits Puerto Rico budget as some question its powers
FILE - In this July 29, 2015 file photo, the Puerto Rican flag flies in front of Puerto Rico's Capitol as in San Juan, Puerto Rico. A federal control board that oversees Puerto Ricos finances submitted a proposed $10 billion budget on Thursday, June 11, 2020, as federal legislators debate whether to curtail the boards power over the U.S. territory. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo, File) (Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
SAN JUAN – A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances submitted a proposed $10 billion budget on Thursday as federal legislators debate whether to curtail the board’s power over the U.S. territory.
The proposed Puerto Rico budget is slightly bigger than last year’s and largely suspends government cuts for one year to help the island impose reforms sought by the board including increasing Puerto Rico’s labor participation rate, making it easier to do business on the island and providing cheaper and more reliable electricity.
Local government officials agree with some of the proposed changes but argue the board sometimes oversteps its boundaries as it continues to restructure a portion of Puerto Rico’s more than $70 billion public debt load amid an economic crisis.
“Over the last several years, the board has attempted to take advantage of this unclear separation of powers to gain control over day-to-day operations of the government,” said Omar Marrero, executive director of Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency & Financial Advisory Authority.
Marrero spoke at an online hearing held by the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee, which oversees affairs in U.S. territories. The committee’s chairman, Rep. Raúl Grijalva, recently submitted amendments to a federal law that created the board as part of a financial package for Puerto Rico. He and several other Democrats have said the board is not doing enough to protect Puerto Ricans and improve the island’s situation since its creation in 2016.
The changes they’re seeking include allowing the island to shed certain debt, which board executive director Natalie Jarekso said would erode the confidence of creditors and lead bondholders to seek a more expensive and restrictive type of debt.
“The board has serious concerns that several of these provisions, while well-intended, will substantially hamper its ability to effectively negotiate settlement of claims at this very critical juncture,” Jaresko said during the hearing.
The ongoing debate comes as the board and Puerto Rico’s government remain at odds over the proposed budget for fiscal year 2021, which was submitted hours before the hearing. The board rejected a different proposed budget that the government submitted, which included $170 million that in part would be used to align salaries across agencies and fund a public broadcasting station.
The board’s proposed budget includes cuts to departments including health, housing and agriculture as officials warn that general fund revenues could fall by 12% as a result of the pandemic. Board members noted that more than 70% of their proposed budget goes to education, public safety, health, economic development and pension payments, with pensions and education receiving the biggest slice at 20% each. In addition, it includes $675 million in investments for things such as improving broadband access and increasing speed in certain areas, upgrading public hospitals, and creating scholarships to attract medical students to rural areas.
The budget has to be approved by June 30.
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Published: August 19, 2020, 7:42 pm Updated: August 19, 2020, 11:53 pm
Reds broadcaster Thom Brennaman suspended for anti-gay slur
FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2019, file photo, Cincinnati Reds broadcaster Thom Brennaman sits in a special outside booth before the Reds' baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers in Cincinnati. Brennaman used a gay slur during the broadcast of Cincinnati's game against the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. Brennaman used the slur moments after the Fox Sports Ohio broadcast returned from a commercial break before the seventh inning in the first game of a doubleheader. Brennaman did not seem to realize he was already on air. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File) (Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Reds broadcaster Thom Brennaman has been suspended from working Cincinnati's games after using an anti-gay slur on air Wednesday night, prompting the team to apologize for the “horrific, homophobic remark.”
Brennaman used the slur moments after the Fox Sports Ohio feed returned from a commercial break before the top of the seventh inning in the first game of a doubleheader at Kansas City. Brennaman did not seem to realize he was already on air. He later apologized.
The Reds took the 56-year-old Brennaman off the broadcast in the fifth inning of the second game.
“The Cincinnati Reds organization is devastated by the horrific, homophobic remark made this evening by broadcaster Thom Brennaman," the team said in a statement. “He was pulled off the air, and effective immediately was suspended from doing Reds broadcasts. We will be addressing our broadcasting team in the coming days.”
“In no way does this incident represent our players, coaches, organization, or our fans. We share our sincerest apologies to the LGBTQ+ community in Cincinnati, Kansas City, all across this country, and beyond. The Reds embrace a zero-tolerance policy for bias or discrimination of any kind, and we are truly sorry to anyone who has been offended,” it said.
Brennaman opened the fifth inning with an apology spoken directly to camera before handing off play-by-play duties.
“I made a comment earlier tonight that I guess went out over the air that I am deeply ashamed of,” he said. “If I have hurt anyone out there, I can’t tell you how much I say from the bottom of my heart, I am very, very sorry.”
After pausing to announce a home run by Cincinnati's Nick Castellanos, Brennaman added: “I don’t know if I’m going to be putting on this headset again” and apologized to the Reds, Fox Sports and his coworkers.
Reds reliever Amir Garrett tweeted about Brennaman's words shortly after the end of the second game:
“To the LGBTQ community just know I am with you, and whoever is against you, is against me,” he wrote. "I’m sorry for what was said today."
“LGBTQ+ community, as a member of the Reds organization, I am so sorry for the way you were marginalized tonight,” injured Reds reliever Matt Bowman said on Twitter. “There will always be a place for you in the baseball community and we are so happy to have you here.”
Brennaman and the Reds announcers were working from Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, even though the doubleheader against the Royals was in Kansas City. Remote broadcasts have become the norm in the baseball this year because of coronavirus protocols.
The son of Hall of Fame broadcaster Marty Brennaman, Thom has called major league games for 33 years and has been with Fox Sports for the past 27, covering primarily baseball and football.
“I can’t begin to tell you how deeply sorry I am,” Brennaman said. “That is not who I am and never has been. I like to think maybe I could have some people who can back that up. I am very, very sorry and I beg for your forgiveness.”
Broadcast partner Chris Welsh told Brennaman “You’re a good man, partner. Hang in there.”
Alternate play-by-play man Jim Day took over the broadcast.
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4e de Duve Lecture, par Carl-Henrik Heldin le 20 novembre
Signaling via TGFβ receptors – possible targets in tumor treatment
Wednesday, November 20, 2019, at 17:00 in auditorium F
Lecture given by Professor Carl-Henrik HELDIN
Chair of the Board of the Nobel Foundation & Professor in Molecular Cell Biology, University of Uppsala, Sweden
The lecture will be followed by a reception at the de Duve Institute.
Professor Carl-Henrik Heldin is a world authority in molecular biology and cancer research. A Professor of Molecular Cell Biology at the University of Uppsala, he was the Director of the Uppsala branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and also served as Vice-President of the European Research Council. In 2013, he was elected Chairman of the Nobel Foundation's Board of Directors.
His research focuses on the mechanisms of signal transduction by growth regulatory factors, as well as their normal function and role in disease. In particular, platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), a major mitogen for connective tissue cells, and transforming growth factor β (TGFβ), which inhibits the growth of most cell types, are studied. The ultimate goal is to explore the possible clinical utility of signal transduction antagonists for the treatment of malignant diseases.
A contributor to over 600 papers with close to 70,000 citations, Carl-Henrik Heldin has received many scientific awards and academic honors. He chairs or has chaired a large number of scientific advisory boards, including the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the German Cancer Center in Heidelberg, and the Center for Molecular Medicine in Vienna. A member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.
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US blacklists 5 Russians, including senior Putin ally
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Head of Russia's Investigation Committee Alexander Bastrykin leaves an office of Interfax news agency in Moscow, Russia, 14 June 2012. (EPA Photo)
The U.S. Treasury Department said on Monday it had added seven people to its list of those subject to its counter terrorism blacklist, including five from Russia and one each from Lebanon and Iran.
Among the five economically-blacklisted Russians, there is a senior law enforcement official in President Vladimir Putin's government.
Under the sanctions, their assets are blocked, and people in the United States are generally prohibited from dealing with them.
The seven men are now on the U.S.' Specially Designated Nationals list.
The new sanctions come three days after the U.S. released an unclassified intelligence assessment connecting Putin to the hacking of Democratic accounts in an effort to interfere with the 2016 election. Officials say the sanctions are unrelated to the hacking and are instead connected to a 2012 U.S. law to punish Russian human rights violators.
The most prominent individual targeted by the U.S. is Alexander Bastrykin, the head of Russia's main investigative agency.
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76ers to re-sign Turkish forward Furkan Korkmaz
by Anadolu Agency
ANKARA Basketball
Free agent and Turkish forward Furkan Korkmaz will ink a deal to return to the Philadelphia 76ers, an NBA insider said late Wednesday.
Korkmaz has agreed to a two-year contract with the Sixers, according to Adrian Wojnarowski.
The 21-year-old Turkish international forward averaged 5.8 points, 2.2 rebounds and 1.1 assists in 48 games in the Philadelphia 76ers' previous season. In the 2016 NBA draft, Korkmaz was picked by the 76ers in the first round.
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Gyllenhaal finds ‘most adult' role in complexities of ‘Southpaw'
by Piya Sinha-Roy
LOS ANGELES Cinema
Jake Gyllenhaal has had a penchant for the dark side in recent years, playing tormented and sometimes sociopath characters on the fringe, but the actor found himself playing the "most adult and most evolved" role to date as a professional boxer.
In "Southpaw," out in U.S. theaters on Friday, Gyllenhaal plays Billy Hope, a New York orphan who becomes a rags-to-riches boxing success, then spirals back into poverty and is unable to care for his young daughter after the sudden death of his wife Maureen (Rachel McAdams).
"I don't know if he believes in himself as much as he pretends to believe in himself," Gyllenhaal told Reuters. "Spending the money he's been given and holding onto things and believing that he earns them and deserves them, all of those things are quick to go."
Directed by Antoine Fuqua, "Southpaw" follows Billy as he mentally falls apart and struggles to pull himself out of a severe slump as his pre-teen daughter (played by Oona Laurence) disconnects with him. The Weinstein Co film also delves into the glamorous but fickle world of professional boxing. Billy's trusted circle quickly dissipates as his world crumbles, his manager Jordan (50 Cent) jumping ship early when Billy refuses to fight in a match. "Jordan is someone who loves Billy Hope, it's just, how can you not understand that we have to do this? You have to fight," rapper 50 Cent said.
To play Billy, Gyllenhaal honed his physicality into that of a boxer's, which he called "hard physical work," and attributed the challenge to mental training as well.
"You would train your body to be in that place where your mind is telling you to go," he said. Last year, Gyllenhaal won praise for playing a ruthlessly ambitious crime-scene reporter in "Nightcrawler," a role that he starved himself for to capture a character on edge.
With Billy Hope, a role for which the actor is already getting early awards buzz, he said he tapped into both the compassion and conflict of the character.
"Billy is all heart," he said. "He's committed deeply and loves deeply his family, but he has this rage and this anger that has brought him great success but ends up destroying all the success he's gathered because of it, so he's confused."
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Kim's work as a producer for feature documentary Love Child had a successful premiere at 2014 Sundance film festival and Jeonju International film festival.
Kim resides in Suwon, South Korea and freelances for Netflix and more.
My work focuses on capturing human interest stories, whether it's portraiture, lifestyle imagery, or just the bucolic landscapes.
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Has David Bowie Returned To Resume His Berlin Trilogy?
By Contributor in Music / Festivals on 08 January 2013
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Picture: David Bowie and Iman 2010 CFDA Fashion Awards at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center - Arrivals New York City, USA - 07.06.10
An enigma to the last, a David Bowie return was always likely to be done in a way that would take the music industry completely by surprise, no matter how big his profile is. In these days where everyone takes their turn to make a comeback, it was getting to the stage where he was the only artist left to do so. As he celebrated his birthday today (January 8, 2013) though that all changed. A new song ‘Where Are We Now?’ has appeared on Bowie’s website, and a new album is expected for March.
He’s hoodwinked us all; back in October of last year The Daily Mail claimed that the man once known as Ziggy Stardust was a recluse, reportedly turning down a request to appear at the Olympics closing ceremony and not having written a song since 2003 (when he released his last album Reality). Turns out they were wrong however. Bowie has been working with his long-time producer Tony Visconti to ready his first album in a decade, already available for pre-order on iTunes – according to USA Today – and titled The Next Day. The album artwork is the same as on Bowie’s “Heroes” album, though with a white square and the words ‘The Next Day’ pasted over the top in black; does this mean that this is continuation of his critically famous Berlin Trilogy of Low, “Heroes” and Lodger, released 1977 to 1979?
The track itself offers some clues, with German references littered in, and a haunting video that recalls Bowie’s time spent in Berlin. Aside from the sheer elation echoing around Twitter this morning, there is some discussion as to who the woman joining Bowie in his video is. Beyond that, can we also surmise that he will in fact be making an appearance at Glastonbury this year? There’s going to be a lot of smug ticket holders if so. Check out ‘Where Are We Now?’ on Bowie’s website.
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The designers rethinking childbirth environments
Many of the products and systems that surround giving birth have remained unchanged for decades, so what is being done to help women today?
By Molly Long March 20, 2020 1:23 pm March 20, 2020 1:41 pm
Thinking back to the birth of her first child in 2016, architect and designer Stiliyana Minkovska describes the experience as “alien”.
Though she remembers the hospital care she was given as excellent, Minkovska says throughout the experience, she wanted to “escape” the of the maternity ward she was on.
“The hospital is an aggressive space in many ways – the lighting is harsh, the rooms are busy, and I felt pressure from constantly being under surveillance,” she says.
At the time, Minkovska was part way through a masters at the Royal College of Art and after giving birth to a daughter, she set about seeing how she could improve the childbirth experience through design.
For a point of reference, she began with her own birth. Recalling a moment in which she felt “the closest and yet furthest” from where she was in that second, Minkovska says this is when the idea for her project Ultima Thule was born.
The Solace Chaise
More than aesthetic problems
Minkovska’s experience is not a rare one. In her research into the design problems of birth, she says she discovered that most of the systems and products used in birthing environments today haven’t been redesigned since the 1960s.
“It’s strange that we have to developed different rituals around giving birth – we have water births and hypno-births for example – but the actual spaces and services themselves haven’t been considered,” she says.
The effect of poorly-designed birthing spaces isn’t just aesthetic. Research conducted by health systems innovation centre Ariadne Labs and MASS Design Group suggests the shape and size of labour and delivery rooms has a significant impact on the rate of non-medically indicated caesarean-section births in the US.
The report, found that design elements relating to capacity of the space and those that affected the workload and motivation of the staff all had an impact on birthing experiences.
Meanwhile, a German study of the same issue found that in maternity rooms that had been redesigned away from “tradition”, the quality of maternal comfort and coping with pain were reported to be “significantly improved”.
The Labour Silla
Furniture to “give a parent time with themselves”
Armed with her own experience, Minkovska says in designing Ultima Thule she wanted to create something that felt as if it could “evolve with a person’s need birthing needs”. The result was a three-piece furniture suite.
The first piece in the collection Minkovska calls the Labour Silla. It is designed as an alternative to a hospital bed, and allows for “squatting, bending, squeezing and being,” she says. Upholstered in a soft, leather-like vinyl, the seat also permits the user to “lean and bury their nails” into it as they work to find their “spot”. The second, named the Parturition Stool, was created for a birthing partner to sit behind the woman to provide emotional and physical support.
The final piece in her collection was the Solace Chaise. Designed as a result of her own feelings of being watched, Minkovska intended it to be a “cocoon for parent and baby to bond in comfort and privacy”. It is also designed to be a space for postpartum recovery of the numerous other circumstance related to birth, such as miscarriage or abortion. She says it is designed “to give a parent time with themselves”.
The redesigned Lab.our bed
Innovation in low-resource settings
Minkovska’s Ultima Thule is based on her own labour experience. Elsewhere in the world, other birthing environments require alternative methods of innovation – particularly those in low-resource settings.
In their Lab.our project, Finnish innovation lab Scope aimed to improve the birthing experience through spatial, service and product design.
“Significant strides have been made over the years to decrease maternal and infant mortality rates across the developing world,” says Mari Tikkanen, co-founder and co-CEO of Scope. “But it remains high in many areas and the labour and maternity wards are really some of the most neglected parts of this story.”
Bypassing the design of these spaces, she says, can be costly.
“There’s plenty of evidence that suggests that stress for the mother has negative outcomes for labour experiences,” she says. “Even just from that perspective, lowering the stress and allowing for a smoother, safer and frankly more pleasant experience is crucial.”
After conducting research into case studies and the World Health Organisation’s Quality of Care guidelines, the team was approached by the government of the Indian state of Odisha to overhaul its maternity hospitals.
“The key, we found, was to approach the issue holistically,” says Tikkanen. “The childbirth experience for these mothers is more than just the bed they lay on – it is everything else as well as that so you can’t just tinker around in the delivery room and expected everything to change.”
The redesigned Lab.our hospital
A systems-based approach
Scope’s innovations were co-created with hospital workers. Tikkanen says this was because “the project was about capturing solutions to problems people in the field were already aware of”.
A redesigned bed, for example, was created to better facilitate a stress-free delivery. It is “wider and more comfortable”, gives women more positions to chose from in labour and captures blood and fluid loss, an important thing to keep track of in the childbirth process.
Beyond the bed, Tikkanen says Scope realised that in treating the experience holistically, more attention needed to be paid to how both parents and support staff got around the hospital.
“With so many people in the hospital, it can be hard for all parties to find their way around,” Tikkanen says. “Parents need to know where they’re going, and support workers need to know who they’re talking to and what each person needs and expects.”
The new system takes pregnant women through five stages: arrival, admission, labour, delivery and postnatal, and was devised between UX designers and midwife support staff. Each section is colour coded and sign posted both in wayfinding and a wearable pass, given on arrival.
The pass for the woman contains her arrival time, preferences for her birth (such as choosing to save the placenta or allowing blood transfusion), as well as check-ups done during her visit.
The pass for companions contains information on how to provide support during the childbirth process and what their roles and expected tasks are during the stay. It is, after all, a “big responsibility on their part too”, according to Tikkanen.
Redesigned post-natal bed, which comes with a clip on bed for a newborn, thereby providing mother and baby with contact time while recovering
Improving a “scary, stressful” experience worldwide
There are, according to Tikkanen, three main benefits from design innovation in childbirth, which can impact quality of care not only in low resource settings, but in all maternity environments.
“For the people working within the hospital, clearer patient journeys and more hygienic space are huge benefits,” she says. Additionally, it can’t be forgotten the impact these design features have on a mother herself.
“It’s clear from what our doctor colleagues have told us that so many women really do have nothing when they give birth – and this can really just be a scary, stressful experience,” Tikkanen adds.
Now with a tailored plan for one maternity hospital, Tikkanen says the idea is to work to implement these innovations across a whole area and eventually even further.
She says the roll out will focus on Scope’s systems-based approach, where communication and care are at the forefront of operations, as well as the people working in these environments.
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michela bruno March 22, 2020 at 2:59 pm
The bed is ingenius. I tried to recreate something like this when I was in hospital and the nurses told me off so I ended up not sleeping for the whole night because my baby wanted to be hugged but I couldn’t put her in bed with me because there was no space and she could have fallen. It was about time hospitals started using something like this. Hope it will be everywhere.
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Critical Appraisal wins at the BMA Book Awards 2012
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The Doctor's Guide to Critical Appraisal has won first prize at the prestigious BMA Medical Book Awards 2012!
The result was announced at BMA House in Tavistock Square, London on 13 September 2012 in a lavish ceremony attended by the biggest names in medical publishing. Author Dr Narinder Gosall accepted the award from BMA President, Professor Baroness Hollins.
The BMA Medical Book Awards started in 1994 with the aim of encouraging and rewarding excellence in medical publishing. Books are judged on accuracy, appropriateness, quality of design and production, originality of content, approach and value for money. Prizes are awarded in 21 categories. Professor Averil Mansfield, Chairman of the BMA Board of Science, commented that it was “no mean feat to be shortlisted”, as they received several hundred individual entries for the awards. The Doctor's Guide to Critical Appraisal won in the Basis of Medicine category.
Dr Narinder Gosall said, "I am delighted that the book has been recognised by the British Medical Association. It was an honour to have been shortlisted by the BMA in such a competitive category but winning it was beyond my wildest dreams."
Dr Gurpal Gosall, co-author of the book, said, "We set out to write a book that would be the one-stop solution for everyone who reads clinical research papers. We already knew from our courses and workshops that we could teach critical appraisal knowledge and skills effectively. The challenge was to translate that experience into the form of a book. Over the years we've received a lot of positive feedback and encouragement about our unique and comprehensive approach. The BMA Medical Book Award is the icing on the cake!"
The programme included excerpts of the BMA reviews:
"I think this text is a great introduction to critical appraisal, a subject often not well-taught and where knowledge is sometimes assumed. It is an easy to read and short text. I particularly liked the chapter on presenting at a journal club which had some good practical advice. I would definitely recommend it. It is easy to dip in and out of to refresh on a specific topic."
"Critical appraisal is something I recognise to be important but is something I have not given priority to previously with so many other things to read about. Many texts on statistics and critical appraisal are very dry, but I was pleasantly surprised to find myself enjoying reading this book. It is very clearly written and explains the concepts very well. I found the section on interpreting results very useful and practical. This is an excellent review of principles of critical appraisal and more, easily accessible for busy professionals."
Dr Narinder Gosall accepts the award from Baroness Hollins
Dr Narinder Gosall relaxes with the PasTest team at the BMA Medical Book Awards 2012
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The University of Manchester has appointed Claire Priestley as their new Director of IT Services following a rigorous process carried out by Dixon Walter. Claire will join the University on Monday, 1 March 2021 from City, University of London.
Professor Helen O’Sullivan has been appointed as the University of Chester’s new Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor. Professor O’Sullivan will be central to ensuring that the University grows into and progresses the new strategy being introduced by Vice-Chancellor, Professor Eunice Simmons, and will have responsibility for overseeing the institution’s academic work. She currently sits alongside Professor Simmons as one of 13 Board members of Advance HE. She is currently Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education at Keele University.
The University of Chester has also appointed Dr Helen Galbraith as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Student Experience). Since 2016, Dr Galbriath has been Academic Registrar and Secretary at Keele University.
Professor Michael Lee has joined Harper Adams University in Newport as their new Deputy Vice-Chancellor. Professor Lee has dedicated his career to defining the role of sustainable livestock systems in securing global food security at the same time as protecting environmental health, for the sake of people and the planet. In August 2016, he was elected as Vice President of the European Federation of Animal Science Livestock Farming Systems Commission and in August 2019 became President of the commission. In April 2018 he was elected as Vice President of the British Society of Animal Science and will also take on the Presidency in April 2021.
Dr Rhonda Hadi has been appointed Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at Saïd Business School. Dr Hadi, Associate Professor of Marketing, will join the Senior Leadership Group in a role which will ensure that inclusion is at the heart of the School’s decision-making. The appointment follows a review of the School’s approach to anti-racism, launched by the Dean in June.
Arden University has appointed Dilshad Sheikh (CMgr CCMI) to the role of Dean of the Faculty of Business. The appointment marks the university’s first Dean and Dilshad brings 20 years of experience as an academic in the Higher Education sector. Her most recent role was Dean of the Business School at University College Birmingham (UCB).
The University of Northampton has appointed Chris Powis to the role of Director of Library and Learning Services. Chris joined the University just over 29 years ago, as a Faculty Librarian for Business. Since then, he has been part of the evolution of Library and Learning Services (LLS), developing our learning resource collections, e-learning infrastructure, and the detailed design of the Learning Hub, in collaboration with architects.
The Courtauld Institute of Art has appointed Professor Alixe Bovey as its new Dean and Deputy Director. Professor Bovey will be responsible for leading the teaching, learning, research and public engagement mission of The Courtauld. Professor Bovey is appointed to the role of Dean after five years as Head of Research and as Senior Lecturer in Medieval Art History at The Courtauld.
Professor Jo Fox, Director of the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and Acting Dean of the School of Advanced Study (SAS), has been appointed the new Dean and Chief Executive of SAS and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Public Engagement with the University of London. She will take up her new role on 1 December and succeeds Professor Rick Rylance, who retired in September after leading the School for five years.
Professor Peter Guthrie has been appointed as Vice-President at the Royal Academy of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Peter Guthrie is the first Professor in Engineering for Sustainable Development in the UK, and was the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Development from 2000 to 2016.
Professor Michael Butler has been appointed as the next Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton. Professor Butler succeeds Professor Philip Nelson who has served as Interim Dean of the Faculty since the departure of Professor Bashir Al-Hashimi for King’s College London earlier this year. Well-known for his academic leadership and internationally-recognised for his research, Professor Butler will take up his role on 1 January 2021. Most recently, Professor Butler served as Associate Dean for Academic Infrastructure in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, and prior to that was an Associate Dean for Enterprise & Impact.
Professor of Culture and Society, Lisanne Gibson has been appointed as Dean of Loughborough University’s School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Professor Gibson is currently the Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor Research at the University of Leicester and will take up her new role in April 2021.
AECC University College has announced the appointment of a new Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Kevin McGhee. Professor McGhee joins the University College from Bournemouth University, where he currently holds the role of Professor of Health Sciences and Deputy Dean for the Faculty of Science and Technology.
The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) has announced Clare Shine will succeed Dame Polly Courtice as its new Director, effective April 2021. Clare is presently Vice-President and Chief Program Officer at Salzburg Global Seminar, an international non-profit, which challenges current and future leaders to shape a ‘creative, just and sustainable world’.
Internationally acclaimed Sport and Exercise Science expert, Professor Tim Cable has been appointed as Director of Manchester Metropolitan University’s new Institute of Sport. As well as an outstanding research track record in sport and healthy ageing, Professor Cable, brings extensive experience of leadership in sports science education and research to the new Institute. He joins Manchester Met in early April 2021. Professor Cable is currently Head of the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Birmingham which is ranked 6th in the world for sport-related study.
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Sabre’s Transforming Its Business, Aiming to Create Seamless Travel
The new executive team is working on building capabilities like automatic rebookings and personalized offers for travelers.
By Danielle Abril Published in Business & Economy May 15, 2018 9:58 am
Sabre Corp. CEO Sean Menke has a vision to create a seamless travel experience in which all transactions, preferences, and changes are connected, automatic, and seamless. And several C-suite executives who he recently hired have already started making Menke’s vision a reality.
Menke believes Sabre should be the pioneer that creates a connected platform for all travel-related transactions. The idea is to meet the specific needs—including everything related to bookings of flights, car rentals, hotel accommodations, etc.—of every trip in one place. It also means providing the opportunity to have all bookings related to the same trip automatically update if, say, a flight were to change. The platform aims to eventually aid all service providers and is expected to be like an app store for the travel industry—allowing developers to build various travel applications for the platform.
“From where I sit, there’s no other company that has the position vision and commitment to be this platform,” Menke told investors earlier this year during Sabre’s investor day.
Sabre’s chief information officer and chief technology—both of whom have been on the team for less than a year—recently dug into the vision to provide updates on the progress of the company’s transformation. The company expects to spend $500 million on tech infrastructure and $500 million in labor this year, with total tech costs projected to increase compound annual growth rates by 3 to 4 percent. Sabre is leaning on open-source libraries to help accelerate the work that needs to be done, using code that already exists to propel new ideas.
So far, Sabre has already begun the work for automatic reaccommodations for airlines, said CTO Vish Saoji. So if the weather changes or a flight is cancelled, the passenger is automatically booked on the next available flight and notified of the change.
It’s also working on what Saoji calls “dynamic offers,” or personalized offers based on the traveler’s preferences. After all, the company collects data from 20 billion queries and transactions a month. With predictive analytics, the team expects to be able to help forecast customers’ needs and preferences with its new offers. “We are hoping that that will be in products this year,” Saoji said.
Meanwhile, CIO Joe DiFonzo said the back-end work is also well underway, with Sabre building out the infrastructure and moving toward a cloud-based system. It’s also working to distribute functionality beyond the U.S., DiFonzo said.
With the new capabilities, Sabre execs expect to provide a lower-cost platform stacked with more capabilities. That was Menke’s vision when he joined the company, and as a result, it caused a shakeup in the executive team. Those who did not sign on to the new vision found opportunities elsewhere. Meanwhile, the company attracted executives like DiFonzo, the company’s first-ever CIO; and Saoji, both of whom were excited to be a part of the evolution of the company.
Saoji and DiFonzo both come equipped with experience in technologic transformations like the one Sabre is currently going through. Soaji has spent the last 25 years primarily in software technology companies, while DiFonzo has spent the last 28 years in the telecom industry.
“When this opportunity came, I was really excited about just the sheer … opportunity to build and reimagine not just the Sabre platform, but … the future of travel,” Soaji said.
“One of the key attributes that Vish and I both bring to our jobs is this notion of, ‘Hey, we’ve done this before,’” DiFonzo said. “It’s difficult but it’s not impossible. We know the traps and the pitfalls, and we know what to avoid.”
The other thing the two have in common, they said, is their aggressiveness in the timeline in converting Sabre’s mainframe system to a cloud-based open system in a distributed network. “We’ve got a mission, we’ve got a plan, we’re going to be doing this over the next few years,” DiFonzo said. “We’ve figured out enough at this point to start moving, and we will work out more of the details as we work out the plan. But we’re already making good progress.”
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Job: Honorary Visiting Research Fellow
Faculty: Arts, Design and Humanities
School/department: School of Humanities
Research group(s): International Centre for Sports History and Culture
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Kevin has been working at CIES since 2005 and is also a visiting researcher and lecturer at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester where he completed his PhD in History.
His work has focused on the history of youth football, the question of age in sport, the place of childhood in society, the evolving role of training and education of youth in and around sport, as well as other topics such as legacy, diffusion, the biography of sporting administrators and transnationalism. He has a particular interest in the questions of governance in sport, specifically the historical, political and economic aspects of both European football and its main governing body UEFA as well as the global game and FIFA.
He has lectured and taught in English and French, speaks and reads Italian and has a working knowledge of Spanish.
In addition to his normal teaching and research activity, he works closely on the academic coordination of the FIFA Master, specifically overseeing the Final Projects module and Research Methods, contributing to the general curriculum and course development in close cooperation with the programme’s Scientific Committee. He has worked on other educational endeavours including developing training programmes for organisations such as UEFA and FIFA.
Prior to coming to CIES his background was largely in football working as a coach, technical director and club administrator as well as having experience in event management, stadium operations and logistics for MLS, the USSF and CONCACAF club and national team competitions. He is always looking to contribute to the international sporting movement by bringing his experience in research and analysis, sport education programmes, project management and development, along with a global perspective and speaking several languages.
A graduate of joint MA - the ‘FIFA Master’ - from the International Master in Management, Law and Humanities of Sport (DMU, SDA Bocconi-School of Management and the Université de Neuchâtel), he also holds a Bachelor of Arts in both French Language and Literature and Music from the College of William and Mary (Virginia, USA).
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BA French Language and Literature (major) and Music (minor) (The College of William and Mary, 1999)
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PhD History (International Centre for Sport History and Culture, De Montfort University, 2013)
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By Ronan Glon August 3, 2017
The Tesla Model 3 is so advanced that it can drive on the surface of Mars. Well, sort of. The California-based company has built a few Easter eggs into the car’s infotainment system, and one of them turns its touchscreen into a map of the Red Planet.
The Easter eggs weren’t mentioned during the massive party Tesla organized last week to celebrate the start of the Model 3’s production run. Talking about them to thousands of people would defeat the purpose; they’d simply become features, like range or paint colors. Instead, they were brought to light through a video posted on YouTube by Tesla board member Steve Jurvetson. He owns the very first Model S, and he was lucky enough to be among the first 30 customers to take delivery of a Model 3.
He accesses the Easter egg menu by simply tapping the Model 3’s massive, television-like touchscreen. It brings up a card labeled “About Your Tesla” that displays information about the car such as its VIN number and its mileage. That’s hardly Easter egg-worthy, but give it a few seconds and a second, more interesting card appears. It shows sparkles, an icon of Mars, an icon of a cow bell, and an icon of a picture of a unicorn. That’s when things start getting interesting.
Tapping the Mars icon doesn’t make a candy bar pop out of the dashboard, unfortunately. In-car technology is not quite there yet. Instead, it turns the navigation screen’s map into a map of Mars, and replaces the cursor with the Curiosity rover, which is not to be confused with the British type of Rover known for blowing headgaskets. Curiosity moves along the surface of Mars as the Model 3 navigates through traffic, giving motorists a taste of space exploration.
The unicorn icon opens a basic, Microsoft Paint-like software that the front passengers can use to doodle or take notes. The feature is already available on the Model S, along with other clever and entertaining Easter eggs. Unfortunately, Jurvetson doesn’t explore what the “more cowbell” icon does, so we’ll have to wait until someone else decides to.
One of the coolest parts of owning a Tesla is the over-the-air updating software. Tesla releases new versions of its infotainment system on a regular basis, and it’s safe to bet at least a few of them will include new Easter eggs that owners will need to search for.
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Columbus Crew: Last remaining starter from 2015, Harrison Afful wants another shot at MLS Cup
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Harrison Afful was nearly crowned a champion in just his 14th game with the Crew, a few months after he made the move to Major League Soccer in 2015. He watched as his current coach, Caleb Porter, celebrated winning the MLS Cup at Mapfre Stadium with the Portland Timbers.
As one of three remaining players from the 2015 team, and the only player who started for the Crew in the 2015 MLS Cup, Afful said getting another shot to win American soccer’s top prize would have even more significance in 2020.
He and the Crew can earn that chance with a win Sunday at 3 p.m. against the New England Revolution in the Eastern Conference final at Mapfre Stadium.
"How this year has been, it's not been easy for anybody, but we've really grinded to this,” Afful said. “This is our chance to leave a legacy here in Columbus.”
Afful was acquired on July 30, 2015, to bolster a back line in desperate need of an outside back. Since his first game with the Crew, Afful has been a model for consistency. Afful has started in 134 of 138 regular-season games, all 15 playoff games, and is still considered one of the better right backs in MLS at age 34.
"At his age, he's still doing some things that sometimes you don't even believe he's that age,” said center back Jonathan Mensah, one of Afful’s closest friends and a fellow countryman. “He's constantly working on some things he needs to improve and he's been one of the best in the league for a couple of years now."
Afful nearly returned to MLS Cup two years later, only weeks after the Crew’s previous owner announced his intentions to move the team to Austin, Texas. The Crew's 1-0 loss to Toronto FC in the Eastern Conference championship at BMO Field on Nov. 29, 2017, still sticks with him.
“That feeling is bad, so we need to do the right thing this time,” Afful said. “I believe this year is our season.”
After missing half of last season with a broken jaw, Afful has remained healthy and continues to give the Crew a vertical threat down the right side of the field with above-average services toward attacking players in the box.
“The coaches see everything, so for him to be able to be a starter for over five, six years, it's a testament to his hard work and dedication to his craft,” Mensah said.
There’s no indication Afful is ready to end his career. But as the oldest player on the roster, there’s only so much time left for Afful to make himself a part of league history, not just a player who got so close but came up short.
“It's just one game and we need to go all out,” Afful said. “It's going to be a great feeling for us to win this game and think about the final and to leave a legacy, as I said.”
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Ski Resort Closures in Europe: What to Know
Ethan Stone
coronavirus, COVID-19, Europe
As winter sets in across the Alps, the lifts at many ski resorts remain uncharacteristically still.
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Last week saw the first major snowfall of the winter in parts of the Alps. However, for skiers in many countries, ongoing coronavirus lockdowns are complicating the start of the season.
With a patchwork of restrictions in place from country to country, it’s not easy to know what is being allowed where. Here’s a quick review of the current situation across Europe.
If you’ve been planning to spend your holidays on skis and crossing national borders to do so, your chances of successfully doing so are looking slim this year. With a few notable exceptions, the ski resorts in most countries will stay closed until January. If you head for a country with open resorts, you might face prohibitive quarantine measures upon entry – like in Austria — or even border patrols on the lookout for skiers, as on the French-Swiss border. And you might well be subject to quarantine measures upon your return home.
Andorran ski resorts have announced that they will delay their openings until January. The decision, made together with local authorities, is intended to dissuade holiday-making by international guests, who make up the majority of the mini-state’s ski visitors.
“It is a difficult and painful decision, but from a health point of view, it is better to postpone the opening of the ski resorts until January,” said Andorra’s Prime Minister Xavier Espot.
Like most of her neighbors, Austria kept ski resorts closed throughout November and into December. However, the country plans to open up ski facilities in time for the holiday season. Austrian ski resorts are currently planning to begin operations on 24 December, although hotels and eat-in dining will remain closed until 6 January 2021.
If you live outside of Austria, however, you shouldn’t start planning your holiday ski trip. Special measures for international visitors will be in effect from 19 December until 10 January, mandating a 10-day quarantine for anyone arriving from a country with a 14-day incident rate over 100 (of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 population). Since incidence rates currently exceed this level in nearly every European country, this makes traveling to Austria over the holidays a cumbersome affair for anyone outside of the country.
“Due to entry restrictions and hotel closures, skiing will most likely only be possible for locals,” Austria’s coronavirus information page warns.
Bulgaria’s Tourism Minister has publicly pushed back against efforts for an EU-wide ski resort shutdown, instead emphasizing the efforts of local resorts to comply with coronavirus measures. Bulgaria’s current lockdown is set to expire on 21 December, at which time it’s feasible that ski resorts could open.
Ruka and Levi have been open since October. Leisure travel to Finland is still prohibited for international visitors, except for a select eight countries, until 12 January.
As in Italy and Germany, French authorities also support a united European agreement to keep ski resorts closed over the holidays. In an address on 24 November, President Emmanuel Macron said it was “impossible” to allow winter sports providers to quickly resume operations, and that resort openings in January would be preferable.
It appears that ski lifts in France will most likely remain closed until January, although some resort areas may still be open to tourists. In the meantime, the authorities have announced random border checks to discourage skiers from crossing the border into Switzerland, where the ski lifts are turning. “The conclusion you need to make is, ‘I’m not going to Switzerland,’” said Prime Minister Jean Castex.
In the past weeks German politicians have led the push to keep ski areas closed in Europe during the holiday season, with Chancellor Angela Merkel telling the German parliament, “We will try to reach an agreement in Europe on whether we could close all ski resorts.” So far, Italy and France appear to be on board with Germany’s plan to keep resorts closed until January 10, 2021.
Although travel within Germany isn’t currently expressly forbidden, hotels and other accommodations are allowed to provide rooms “only for necessary and explicitly non-tourist purposes,” and officials across the country are calling for citizens to avoid non-essential travel over the holidays.
Italian authorities have been pushing to adopt the German plan to keep resorts closed until 10 January. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has said that the country “cannot afford” to allow ski holidays, and that “everything that resolves around holidays on the snow is uncontrollable.” Even so, resort regions in the country’s north have mounted a spirited resistance to the plan, insisting their operations are adequately prepared with coronavirus countermeasures.
The most recently announced restrictions will ban travel between Italian regions from 21 December until 6 January, preventing most Italians from venturing to the mountains, even if some resorts succeed in their fight to remain open over the holidays.
Fifteen ski resorts are currently open in Norway, with more on the way. Resort operations are still subject to the approval of local health authorities, but almost all are opening as planned. International visitors, however, have to stay for 10 days in one of the country’s “quarantine hotels.”
An overview of Norway’s coronavirus measures in ski resorts is available here.
Polish authorities have indicated that ski resorts in the country will remain open throughout the holidays, and at least five resorts are already in operation. However, travel within the country will remain limited, keeping the skiing for local residents only.
The situation appears mixed in Spain, where local regions are responsible for setting their own coronavirus rules. Several resorts, including Baqueira Beret, have plans to open in the coming days, while others in the Aragon region of the Spanish Pyrenees will remain closed for the time being. Travel between regions will be restricted from 23 December until January 6, meaning any skiing over the holidays will largely be a local affair.
Six ski resorts are currently open in Sweden, with Åre planning to open on 18 December. The country currently has no restrictions in place for visitors from the EU.
The black sheep of the Alps, Switzerland has ignored the plans of neighboring countries to keep ski resorts closed. The federal government has indicated that resorts will be allowed to remain open over the holidays, while emphasizing that tourism from outside the country is discouraged.
“We don’t want people coming from surrounding countries that are closed off and then for people to say that we are taking advantage of this situation,” said Health Miniser Alain Berset. “That would be very unpleasant for everyone – for Switzerland and the resorts concerned.”
Although Switzerland has imposed quarantine requirements for some regions, travel from neighboring countries is still allowed. However, if you do venture to Switzerland for a ski trip, you may find yourself subject to quarantine restrictions when you return home.
After a government-mandated shutdown from 5 November until 2 December, indoor ski halls in the United Kingdom have reportedly reopened, and plan to remain in operation over the holidays. In Scotland, ski resorts plan to open on 19 December.
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Is Gold A ‘PERFECT’ Investment Choice?
| Thursday, May 21, 2020
The current upsurge in the price of gold may tempt many an existing or potential investor to assume that gold, from among all the other asset classes, makes for the most secured and profitable investment option. However, that is not truth, as this article points out.
Gold is an integral part of Indian society. It is ingrained into our culture in a way that it encourages us to keep buying gold periodically, especially during festive and auspicious occasions. And even though there are now several other financial schemes that one can invest in, gold continues to be the biggest attraction when it comes to security. This makes India the second-largest consumer of gold in the world, after China. This has been further vindicated by the superb returns generated by this yellow metal in the last one year. For the one-year period ending May 8, 2020 the price of the gold in the Indian market has increased by 44.4 per cent. Gold prices in India have increased from Rs32,850 per 10 gram at the end of May 8, 2019 to Rs 47,435 per 10 gram at the end of May 7, 2020. This return has helped gold to be one of the best performing asset classes. In the same period, for instance, equity has generated negative return.
The ‘Shine’ Factors
Whether it is an exception that gold has generated superb returns in the last one year or it is actually a good asset class is a question overlooked by many investors due to different reasons. To gain more insights, we analysed the price movement of gold in India since 1979. Our analysis shows that gold has generated better risk-adjusted returns than many other asset classes in this period. For the 41-year period ending May 14, 2020 the annualised return generated by gold is 10.55 per cent. This means that every Rs 1 lakh invested in gold 41 years back is now worth Rs 70.81 lakhs. But here is the flip side of the coin. The equity represented by Sensex in the same period generated returns one and half times better than gold. Hence, the return offered by gold may not look tempting for many equity investors who saw such returns generated by many stocks in less than one-fourth of that time.
The problem is identifying those stocks and sticking with them. For every such single stock you will find 4-5 stocks that actually eroded your investment value. The return generated should always be seen in conjunction with the risk taken to generate such returns. The annual volatility generated by equity is 25.3 per cent compared to 20.6 per cent generated by gold. Gold is less volatile than equity calculated on the basis of standard deviation of returns. Now, let us check the other measures through which we can calculate risk i.e. drawdown risk.
In simple terms, it measures the value by which your investment goes below its previous peak.
The table clearly shows that the drawdown in gold is much shallower than equity. However, it takes a longer duration to reach its previous peak. The largest drawdown in case of equity is 60.91 per cent but for gold it is 57.81 per cent. Nonetheless, beyond that it has never lost more than 50 per cent in its value from the peak. In the case of equity there were other two incidences when their value dropped by more than 50 per cent from the recent peak.
The interesting aspect of the above table is that there is hardly any overlap in the drawdown dates except for a brief period of 2008. This single fact changes the entire narrative of investment in gold. Instead of either gold or equity it gives us an idea of investing in both. Since the drawdown period for gold and equity are different it gives an investor an opportunity to diversify his investment to gold so that it reduces the overall volatility in a portfolio.
The graph above clearly shows the performance of gold during major equity drawdowns. Without any exception it has always generated positive return in all these periods. The best performance was during the great financial crisis when the price of gold jumped by 141 per cent between January 2008 and March 2009. During the same period equity was down by 61 per cent and hence overall gold outperformed equity by more than 100 per cent.
Historically, we have seen that gold prices have not increased as rapidly as equity in normal situations. However, in tail events that we are going through now, it performs better than others. Gold can provide liquidity and protection in risk-off scenarios, especially during so-called systemic events that affect multiple regions and industries. When stock markets sell off quickly, correlation across risk and assets can increase and portfolios that were thought to be diversified could experience unexpected free fall at the same time, forcing margin calls and lower funding ratios. In these circumstances investors often rely on selling highly liquid assets like gold, which can sometimes lead to temporary fall in its prices, as seen in the recent pandemic-driven selloff.
While correlation for most major asset classes, including gold, increased meaningfully during the most recent stock market selloff, gold’s correlation to the stock market remained flat to slightly negative. During the great financial crisis the correlation between equity and gold return was negative 0.19. Even in the current selloff till March 23, 2020 the correlation stood at negative 0.025. This is the reason why gold has consistently benefited from ‘flight-to-quality’ inflows during periods of heightened risk. It is particularly effective during times of systemic risk, delivering positive returns and reducing overall portfolio losses.
Gold Prices: Way Forward
India, despite being the second-largest consumer of gold is a price-taker and not price-maker. Domestic gold price is mostly determined by the movement of US dollar against Indian rupee and also by the prevailing geo-political as well as economic condition globally. The current pace of appreciation in gold prices in India is primarily due to the slowing economic growth, coupled with depreciation of Indian currency against US dollar. Nevertheless, what accentuated its rise is the economic uncertainty on account of the pandemic. Globally, the pandemic has led to a sharp downturn in economic activity and underperformance of other asset classes. As discussed above, in these uncertain times gold outperforms.
We believe that the appreciation in gold prices is likely to continue on the back of higher liquidity injection from central banks around the world. Major economies such as USA will continue printing money as well as undertake massive expansion of fiscal deficits that will lead to a further depreciation in the value of paper currencies. These are ideal situations for gold prices to rally. There are other reasons to believe that the price of gold will continue to soar. Although the price of gold in Indian rupee is at an all-time high, internationally it is still 10 per cent below its all-time high. Therefore, there is enough room for gold prices to rise further. Besides, there is a substantial growing demand for gold from central banks across the globe and also by ETFs in recent years.
According to a report released by Goldhub, “Globally, goldbacked ETFs added 170 tons of net inflows of USD 9.3 billion in April, boosting holdings to a new all-time high of 3,355 tons. Inflows have been strong and consistent in recent months but not unprecedented. The rolling 12-month inflows of 879 tons just surpassed those of 2009 and 2016, while the rolling six-month inflows are less than two-thirds of 457 tons of inflows in the comparable time periods of 2009 and 2016.” The current price strength of gold is very similar to the global financial crisis of 2008-2009. At that time it rallied back, following the initial quantitative easing (QE) program in US, which propelled gold over 141 per cent higher during the Indian equity market drawdown.
Quantum of Investment
The above analysis clearly shows the importance of gold and why we expect its price to grow further. Does this mean that you should shift your entire portfolio to gold? The simple answer to this question is NO. This is because despite the equity market currently going through one of the worst phases, it is still better placed than gold to generate better returns in the longer duration. Historically, we have seen gold has performed in patches; nevertheless, most of the time its performance has remained very lacklustre. For example, between 2012 and 2016, gold could generate only 1.1 per cent. This was a huge opportunity loss for an investor. It could not even beat the inflation index and hence it actually eroded wealth in actual terms.
Therefore, the weightage of gold in your portfolio should be such that it does not drag your overall portfolio performance and at the same time also helps you to shield your returns in turbulent times. To understand what an ideal portfolio should look like and what percentage of gold should be part of your portfolio, we have added debt in the form of gilt. After that we calculated the monthly return of the three asset classes i.e. equity, debt (gilt fund) and gold. We divided the corpus equally into equity and debt and varied the portion to gold from 5 per cent to 15 per cent. We further made a portfolio which was rebalanced annually while the other was left with its original asset allocation. The following graph shows the performance of these different portfolios since the start of 1999.
"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value."
— Alan Greenspan
The returns are very identical in case where the portfolio is balanced annually with marginal difference in the end value. Nevertheless, the clear-cut loser is the portfolio that is not rebalanced periodically. Therefore, gold should be part of your portfolio but the actual weightage may vary from 5 per cent to 10 per cent. You can use gold to achieve certain goals such as making jewellery for a child’s wedding.
Best Ways to Invest in Gold
There are various ways you can invest in gold. Investing in physical gold is not new to Indians. You can invest in the form of jewellery or coins or bars. Now you can also invest in gold using the electronic media. Buying gold in electronic form offers you more liquidity and less emotional attachment and therefore you can benefit from the rise in gold prices. Even among the electronic form there are a few distinct ways of buying gold such as gold ETF or gold funds. Both these aim to track the domestic physical gold price.
Gold ETFs (exchange traded funds) can be bought and sold on the stock exchange platforms. Gold ETF units are backed by physical gold of the highest purity. When you sell an ETF you don’t get gold but the cash equivalent. In addition, you can also buy gold fund of funds which further invest in gold ETFs, but you can buy them just like you buy other mutual funds.
The sovereign gold bond scheme is another kind of investment in gold in paper form. These bonds are issued by the RBI and have sovereign (government) guarantee attached. The value of these bonds is linked to the price of gold. Capital gains on SGBs are exempted if held till maturity, i.e. eight years. Also, in between if you require liquidity you can start trading it on stock exchanges within a fortnight of the issuance or date notified by the RBI. The best thing about SGBs is the interest payment attached to it as investors stand to get 2.5 per cent interest on the initial investment. Therefore, as an investor you can buy gold as part of your portfolio, not exceeding 15 per cent, and the mode you can choose to invest is SGB.
F&O data suggests long build-up in Apollo Tyres
Vinayak Gangule / 20-Jan-2021, 05:52 PM / Article rating: 5.0
The derivatives data is also suggesting a long build-up in the stock. On Wednesday, January series stock future saw 18,90,000 addition of open interest, which is 15.63 per cent addition in the open interest. It indicates that there is a long build-up in the market.
Tanla Platforms climbs nearly 4 per cent on launching blockchain-enabled CPaaS platform with Microsoft
Anthony Fernandes / 20-Jan-2021, 05:40 PM / Article rating: 5.0
The stocks of Tanla Platforms Limited were trading up by 4 per cent on Wednesday after the company announced that it has collaborated with Microsoft to launch ‘Wisely’, a blockchain-enabled communication platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) offering built-on Microsoft Azure.
LT Foods acquires 30 per cent strategic stake in Dutch-based speciality food player
On Wednesday, LT Foods Limited announced that it has acquired a 30 per cent stake in Leev.nu via its subsidiary, Nature Bio Foods BV, with an option to acquire another 21 per cent at the end of 5 years.
On Wednesday, the domestic benchmark indices hit record highs, led by IT & auto stocks amidst positive global cues. Sensex gained by around 393.83 points or by 0.80 per cent to settle at 49,792.12 levels while Nifty rose by 123.55 points or by 0.85 per cent to close at 14,644.75 levels.
L&T gains post reporting new orders in one of its businesses in Bangladesh
Shreya Chaware / 20-Jan-2021, 04:16 PM / Article rating: 3.7
On Wednesday, Larsen & Toubro reported that its power transmission & distribution business has won a slew of transmission line orders in Bangladesh.
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One Database to Rule Them All: The Invisible Content Cartel that Undermines the Freedom of Expression Online
By Svea Windwehr and Jillian C. York
Every year, millions of images, videos and posts that allegedly contain terrorist or violent extremist content are removed from social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter. A key force behind these takedowns is the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), an industry-led initiative that seeks to “prevent terrorists and violent extremists from exploiting digital platforms.” And unfortunately, GIFCT has the potential to have a massive (and disproportionate) negative impact on the freedom of expression of certain communities.
Social media platforms have long struggled with the problem of extremist or violent content on their platforms. Platforms may have an intrinsic interest in offering their users an online environment free from unpleasant content, which is why most social media platforms’ terms of service contain a variety of speech provisions. During the past decade, however, social media platforms have also come under increasing pressure from governments around the globe to respond to violent and extremist content on their platforms. Spurred by the terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels in 2015 and 2016, respectively, and guided by the shortsighted belief that censorship is an effective tool against extremism, governments have been turning to content moderation as a means to fix international terrorism.
Commercial content moderation is the process through which platforms—more specifically, human reviewers or, very often, machines—make decisions about what content can and cannot be on their sites, based on their own Terms of Service, “community standards,” or other rules.
During the coronavirus pandemic, social media companies have been less able to use human content reviewers, and are instead increasingly relying on machine learning algorithms to moderate content as well as flag it. Those algorithms, which are really just a set of instructions for doing something, are fed with an initial set of rules and lots of training data in the hopes that they will learn to identify similar content But human speech is a complex social phenomenon and highly context-dependent; inevitably, content moderation algorithms make mistakes. What is worse, because machine-learning algorithms usually operate as black boxes that do not explain how they arrived at a decision, and as companies generally do not share either the basic assumptions underpinning their technology or their training data sets, third parties can do little to prevent those mistakes.
This problem has become more acute with the introduction of hashing databases for tracking and removing extremist content. Hashes are digital "fingerprints" of content that companies use to identify and remove content from their platforms. They are essentially unique, and allow for easy identification of specific content. When an image is identified as “terrorist content,” it is tagged with a hash and entered into a database, allowing any future uploads of the same image to be easily identified.
This is exactly what the GIFCT initiative aims to do: Share a massive database of alleged ‘terrorist’ content, contributed voluntarily by companies, amongst members of its coalition. The database collects ‘hashes’, or unique fingerprints, of alleged ‘terrorist’, or extremist and violent content, rather than the content itself. GIFCT members can then use the database to check in real time whether content that users want to upload matches material in the database. While that sounds like an efficient approach to the challenging task of correctly identifying and taking down terrorist content, it also means that one single database might be used to determine what is permissible speech, and what is taken down—across the entire Internet.
Countless examples have proven that it is very difficult for human reviewers—and impossible for algorithms—to consistently get the nuances of activism, counter-speech, and extremist content itself right. The result is that many instances of legitimate speech are falsely categorized as terrorist content and removed from social media platforms. Due to the proliferation of the GIFCT database, any mistaken classification of a video, picture or post as ‘terrorist’ content echoes across social media platforms, undermining users' right to free expression on several platforms at once. And that, in turn, can have catastrophic effects on the Internet as a space for memory and documentation. Blunt content moderation systems can lead to the deletion of vital information not available elsewhere, such as evidence of human rights violations or war crimes. For example, the Syrian Archive, an NGO dedicated to collecting, sharing and archiving evidence of atrocities committed during the Syrian war reports that hundred of thousand videos of war atrocities are removed by YouTube annually. The Archive estimates that take down rates for videos documenting Syrian human rights violations is circa 13%, a number that has almost doubled to 20% in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. As noted, many social media platforms, including YouTube, have been using algorithmic tools for content moderation more heavily than usual, resulting in increased takedowns. If, or when, YouTube contributes hashes of content that depicts Syrian human rights violations, but has been tagged as ‘terrorist’ content by YouTube’s algorithms to the GIFCT database, that content could be deleted forever across multiple platforms.
The GIFCT content cartel not only risks losing valuable human rights documentation, but also has a disproportionately negative effect on some communities. Defining ‘terrorism’ is a inherently political undertaking, and rarely stable across time and space. Absent international agreement on what exactly constitutes terrorist, or even violent and extremist, content, companies look at the United Nations’ list of designated terrorist organizations or the US State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. But those lists mainly consist of Islamist organizations, and are largely blind to, for example, right-wing extremist groups. That means that the burden of GIFCT’s misclassifications falls disproportionately on Muslim and Arab communities and highlights the fine line between an effective initiative to tackle the worst content online and sweeping censorship.
Ever since the attacks on two Mosques in Christchurch in March 2019, GIFCT has been more prominent than ever. In response to the shooting, during which 51 people were killed, French President Emmanuel Macron and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern launched the Christchurch Call. That initiative, which aims to eliminate violent and extremist content online, foresees a prominent role for GIFCT. In the wake of this renewed focus on GIFCT, the initiative announced that it would evolve to an independent organization, including a new Independent Advisory Committee (IAC) to represent the voices of civil society, government, and inter-governmental entities.
However, the Operating Board, where real power resides, remains in the hands of industry. And the Independent Advisory Committee is already seriously flawed, as a coalition of civil liberties organizations has repeatedly noted.
For example, governments participating in the IAC are likely to leverage their position to influence companies’ content moderation policies and shape definitions of terrorist content that fit their interests, away from the public and eye and therefore lacking accountability. Including governments in the IAC could also undermine the meaningful participation of civil society organizations as many are financially dependent on governments, or might face threats of reprisals for criticism government officials in that forum. As long as civil society is treated as an afterthought, GIFCT will never be an effective multi-stakeholder forum. GIFCT’s flaws and their devastating effects on the freedom of expression, human rights, and the preservation of evidence of war crimes have been known for years. Civil societies organizations have tried to help reform the organization, but GIFCT and its new Executive Director have remained unresponsive. Which leads to the final problem with the IAC: leading NGOs are choosing not to participate at all.
Where does this leave GIFCT and the millions of Internet users its policies impact? Not in a good place. Without meaningful civil society representation and involvement, full transparency and effective accountability mechanisms, GIFCT risks becoming yet another industry-led forum that promises multi-stakeholderism but delivers little more than government-sanctioned window-dressing.
Corporate Speech Controls
Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman | January 4, 2021
EFF Statement on British Court’s Rejection of Trump Administration’s Extradition Request for Wikileaks’ Julian Assange
Today, a British judge denied the Trump Administration’s extradition request for Wikileaks Editor Julian Assange, who is facing charges in the United States under the Espionage Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The judge largely confirmed the charges against him, but ultimately determined that the United...
Deeplinks Blog by Christoph Schmon, Cory Doctorow | December 26, 2020
EU and the Digital Services Act: 2020 Year in Review
While 2019 saw the EU ramming through a disastrous Internet copyright rule that continues to reverberate through legal and policy circles, 2020 was a very different story as the EU introduced the Digital Services Act (DSA), the most significant reform of Europe’s platform legislation the EU has...
How We Saved .ORG: 2020 in Review
If you come at the nonprofit sector, you’d best not miss.Nonprofits and NGOs around the world were stunned last November when the Internet Society (ISOC) announced that it had agreed to sell the Public Interest Registry—the organization that manages the .ORG top-level domain (TLD)—to private equity firm Ethos Capital....
Deeplinks Blog by Marta Belcher, Aaron Mackey | December 21, 2020
The U.S. Government Is Targeting Cryptocurrency to Expand the Reach of Its Financial Surveillance
One of the most important aspects of cryptocurrencies from a civil liberties perspective is that they can provide privacy protections for their users. But EFF is concerned that the U.S. government has been increasingly taking steps to undermine the anonymity of cryptocurrency transactions and importing the widespread financial surveillance of...
A Decade After the Arab Spring, Platforms Have Turned Their Backs on Critical Voices in the Middle East and North Africa
Many in the U.S. have spent 2020 debating the problems of content moderation on social media platforms, misinformation and disinformation, and the perceived censorship of political views. But globally, this issue has been in the spotlight for a decade. This year is the tenth anniversary of what became known as...
Deeplinks Blog by Christoph Schmon, Karen Gullo | December 15, 2020
European Commission’s Proposed Digital Services Act Got Several Things Right, But Improvements Are Necessary to Put Users in Control
The European Commission is set to release today a draft of the Digital Services Act, the most significant reform of European Internet regulations in two decades. The proposal, which will modernize the backbone of the EU’s Internet legislation—the e-Commerce Directive—sets out new responsibilities and rules for how Facebook, Amazon,...
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'150,000 people dismissed from gov't jobs after July 15 face widespread misery, hunger, isolation'
Since the failed July 2016 coup attempt, around 150,000 people in Turkey have been suspended or booted from their positions in the state apparatus. A recent report based on several thousand people, who have been dismissed from their jobs via government degree, highlights the mass economic misery and social isolation they have experienced.
Wednesday July 15 2020 12:42 pm
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Donations collected for July 15 coup attempt victims' families transferred to Treasury account
A 1500-page report compiled by pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu and civil society activist Bayram Erzurumluoğlu based on the testimony of several thousand people who have been dismissed from their jobs via government degree highlights the mass economic misery and social isolation they have experienced in the ensuing months and years.
Since the failed July 2016 coup attempt, around 150,000 people have been suspended or booted from their positions as professors, judges, prosecutors, police officers, teachers, engineers, and numerous other professions in the state apparatus.
The report was compiled from interviews conducted with 3,104 people from all of Turkey's 81 provinces as well as 201 people in 33 different countries who left Turkey after their dismissal.
“We see that this is a disaster that shaken and affected all of society. Those dismissed by decree are not just being removed from their jobs. We are talking about a large group of people that have been prevented from working in the private sector and denied social assistance funding,” said Gergerlioğlu at a press conference in Istanbul on July 13.
Turkey shut down 119 media outlets after July 2016 coup bid
Among the grim statements provided by the former state employees included: “My workplace was closed down. My license to work was canceled. I can't work in my occupation. I've gone hungry! Our children's livelihood has been robbed from them. I was forced to leave my family and go live abroad. I haven't seen my children for three years. I haven't seen my two-and-a-half-year-old child at all.”
The common complaint among everyone surveyed in the report is that they had become poor and unemployed after losing their jobs.
The report also highlighted the severe effects that the mass firings have had on the families of the former government employees, including “economic difficulties, psychological difficulties, being in disrepute, societal exclusion, the collapse of one's social circle, at least one family member becoming ill due to stress or other problems, and the separation of families.”
The vast majority of those surveyed believe that they were subjected to major rights violations. 86.5 percent said that what they had experienced was completely unfair and cruel, while just 6.5 percent said “I may have had some personal problems but I did not deserve to be punished this much.”
Three percent of those polled said that they deserved everything that they had lived through, while four percent stated that they had not experienced any negative reactions from anyone in their circles following their dismissal.
The negative effects of the mass firings sustained by the country include brain drain, the flight of financial capital, the weakening of social and cultural strength, and the loss of new production, modernization, expansion and strategic investments, according to the report.
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Title 50 → Chapter I → Subchapter B → Part 14
Title 50: Wildlife and Fisheries
PART 14—IMPORTATION, EXPORTATION, AND TRANSPORTATION OF WILDLIFE
Subpart A—Introduction
§14.1 Purpose of regulations.
§14.2 Scope of regulations.
§14.3 Information collection requirements.
§14.4 What terms do I have to understand?
Subpart B—Importation and Exportation at Designated Ports
§14.11 General restrictions.
§14.12 Designated ports.
§14.13 Emergency diversion.
§14.14 In-transit shipments.
§14.15 Personal baggage and household effects.
§14.16 Border ports.
§14.17 Personally owned pet birds.
§14.18 Marine mammals.
§14.19 Special ports.
§14.20 Exceptions by permit.
§14.21 Shellfish and fishery products.
§14.22 Certain antique articles.
§14.23 Live farm-raised fish and farm-raised fish eggs.
§14.24 Scientific specimens.
Subpart C—Designated Port Exception Permits
§14.31 Permits to import or export wildlife at nondesignated port for scientific purposes.
§14.32 Permits to import or export wildlife at nondesignated port to minimize deterioration or loss.
§14.33 Permits to import or export wildlife at nondesignated port to alleviate undue economic hardship.
Subpart D [Reserved]
Subpart E—Inspection and Clearance of Wildlife
§14.51 Inspection of wildlife.
§14.52 Clearance of imported wildlife.
§14.53 Detention and refusal of clearance.
§14.54 Unavailability of Service officers.
§14.55 Exceptions to clearance requirements.
Subpart F—Wildlife Declarations
§14.61 Import declaration requirements.
§14.62 Exceptions to import declaration requirements.
§14.63 Export declaration requirements.
§14.64 Exceptions to export declaration requirements.
Subpart G [Reserved]
Subpart H—Marking of Containers or Packages
§14.81 Marking requirement.
§14.82 Alternatives and exceptions to the marking requirement.
Subpart I—Import/Export Licenses and Inspection Fees
§14.91 When do I need an import/export license?
§14.92 What are the exemptions to the import/export license requirement?
§14.93 How do I apply for an import/export license?
§14.94 What fees apply to me?
Subpart J—Standards for the Humane and Healthful Transport of Wild Mammals and Birds to the United States
§14.101 Purposes.
§14.102 Definitions.
§14.103 Prohibitions.
§14.104 Translations.
§14.105 Consignment to carrier.
§14.106 Primary enclosures.
§14.107 Conveyance.
§14.108 Food and water.
§14.109 Care in transit.
§14.110 Terminal facilities.
§14.111 Handling.
§14.112 Other applicable provisions.
Specifications for Nonhuman Primates
Specifications for Marine Mammals (Cetaceans, Sirenians, Sea Otters, Pinnipeds, and Polar Bears)
Specifications for Elephants and Ungulates
Specifications for Sloths, Bats, and Flying Lemurs (Cynocephalidae)
Specifications for Other Terrestrial Mammals
Specifications for Birds
Subpart K—Captive Wildlife Safety Act
§14.250 What is the purpose of these regulations?
§14.251 What other regulations may apply?
§14.252 What definitions do I need to know?
§14.253 What are the restrictions contained in these regulations?
§14.254 What are the requirements contained in these regulations?
§14.255 Are there any exemptions to the restrictions contained in these regulations?
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 668, 704, 712, 1382, 1538(d)-(f), 1540(f), 3371-3378, 4223-4244, and 4901-4916; 18 U.S.C. 42; 31 U.S.C. 9701; Pub. L. 115-334, 132 Stat. 4490.
The regulations contained in this part provide uniform rules and procedures for the importation, exportation, and transportation of wildlife.
The provisions in this part are in addition to, and do not supersede other regulations of this subchapter B which may require a permit or prescribe additional restrictions or conditions for the importation, exportation, and transportation of wildlife.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved the information collection requirements contained in this part 14 under 44 U.S.C. 3507 and assigned OMB Control Numbers 1018-0012, 1018-0092, and 1018-0129. The Service may not conduct or sponsor and you are not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. You can direct comments regarding these information collection requirements to the Service's Information Collection Clearance Officer at the address provided at 50 CFR 2.1(b).
[72 FR 45946, Aug. 16, 2007, as amended at 79 FR 43964, July 29, 2014]
In addition to definitions contained in part 10 of this subchapter, in this part:
Accompanying personal baggage means all hand-carried items and all checked baggage of a person entering into or departing from the United States.
Accredited scientist means any individual associated with, employed by, or under contract to and accredited by an accredited scientific institution for the purpose of conducting biological or medical research, and whose research activities are approved and sponsored by the scientific institution granting accreditation.
Accredited scientific institutions means any public museum, public zoological park, accredited institution of higher education, accredited member of the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, accredited member of the American Association of Systematic Collections, or any State or Federal government agency that conducts biological or medical research.
Commercial means related to the offering for sale or resale, purchase, trade, barter, or the actual or intended transfer in the pursuit of gain or profit, of any item of wildlife and includes the use of any wildlife article as an exhibit for the purpose of soliciting sales, without regard to quantity or weight. There is a presumption that eight or more similar unused items are for commercial use. The Service or the importer/exporter/owner may rebut this presumption based upon the particular facts and circumstances of each case.
Domesticated animals includes, but is not limited to, the following domesticated animals that are exempted from the requirements of this subchapter B (except for species obtained from wild populations).
Mammals: Alpaca—Lama alpaca; Camel—Camelus dromedarius; Camel (Boghdi)—Camelus bactrianus; Cat (domestic)—Felis domesticus; Cattle—Bos taurus; Dog (domestic)—Canis familiaris; European rabbit—Ortyctolagus cuniculus; Ferret (domestic)—Mustela putorius; Goat—Capra hircus; Horse—Equus caballus; Llama—Lama glama; Pig—Sus scrofa; Sheep—Ovis aries; Water buffalo—Bubalus bubalus; White lab mice—Mus musculus; White lab rate—Rattus norvegicus.
Fish (For export purposes only): Carp (koi)—Cyprinus carpio; Goldfish—Carassius auratus.
Birds: Chicken—Gallus domesticus; Ducks & geese—domesticated varieties; Guinea fowl—Numida meleagris; Peafowl—Pavo cristatus; Pigeons (domesticated)—Columba livia domestrica; Turkey—Meleagris gallopavo; Domesticated or Barnyard Mallards include: Pekin; Aylesbury; Bouen; Cayuga; Gray Call; White Call; East Indian; Crested; Swedish; Buff Orpington; Indian Runner; Campbell; Duclair; Merchtem; Termonde; Magpie; Chinese; Khaki Campbell.
Insects: Crickets, mealworms, honeybees (not to include Africanized varieties), and similar insects that are routinely farm raised.
Other Invertebrates: Earthworms and similar invertebrates that are routinely farm raised.
Export means to depart from, to send from, to ship from, or to carry out of, or attempt to depart from, to send from, to ship from, or to carry out of, or to consign to a carrier in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States with an intended destination of any place not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, whether or not such departure, sending, or carrying, or shipping constitutes an exportation within the meaning of the Custom laws of the United States. When a passenger leaving the jurisdiction of the United States enters the designated international area of embarkation of an airport, all accompanying personal hand-carried items and checked baggage will be regarded as exports.
Import means to land on, bring into, or introduce into, or attempt to land on, bring into, or introduce into any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, whether or not such landing, bringing, or introduction constitutes an importation within the meaning of the tariff laws of the United States.
We means Fish and Wildlife Service or Service.
You means licensee, or importer/exporter of record.
[61 FR 31868, June 21, 1996, as amended at 64 FR 23025, Apr. 29, 1999]
Except as otherwise provided in this part, no person may import or export any wildlife at any place other than a Customs port of entry designated in §14.12.
[45 FR 56673, Aug. 25, 1980; 45 FR 64953, Oct. 1, 1980]
The following ports of entry are designated for the importation and exportation of wildlife and wildlife products and are referred to hereafter as “designated ports”:
(a) Anchorage, Alaska.
(b) Atlanta, Georgia.
(c) Baltimore, Maryland.
(d) Boston, Massachusetts.
(e) Chicago, Illinois.
(f) Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas.
(g) Honolulu, Hawaii.
(h) Houston, Texas.
(i) Los Angeles, California.
(j) Louisville, Kentucky.
(k) Memphis, Tennessee.
(l) Miami, Florida.
(m) New Orleans, Louisiana.
(n) New York, New York.
(o) Portland, Oregon.
(p) San Francisco, California.
(q) Seattle, Washington.
[69 FR 70382, Dec. 6, 2004]
Wildlife which has been imported into the United States at any port or place other than a designated port solely as a result of a diversion due to an aircraft or vessel emergency must proceed as an in-transit shipment under Customs bond to a designated port, or to any port where a permit or other provision of this part provides for lawful importation.
(a) Wildlife destined for a point within the United States may be imported into the United States at any port if such wildlife proceeds as an in-transit shipment under Customs bond to a designated port, or to any port where a permit or other provision of this part provides for lawful importation.
(b) Wildlife moving in-transit through the United States from one foreign country to another foreign country is exempt from the designated port requirements of this part, if such wildlife is not unloaded within the United States.
(a) Any person may import into or export from the United States at any Customs port wildlife products or manufactured articles that are not intended for commercial use and are used as clothing or contained in accompanying personal baggage. However, this exception to the designated port requirement does not apply to any raw or dressed fur; raw, salted, or crusted hide or skin; game trophy; or to wildlife requiring a permit pursuant to part 16, 17, 18, 21, or 23 of this subchapter B.
(b) Wildlife products or manufactured articles, including mounted game trophies or tanned hides, which are not intended for sale and are part of a shipment of the household effects of persons moving their residence to or from the United States may be imported or exported at any Customs port of entry. However, this exception to the designated port requirement does not apply to any raw fur; raw, salted, or crusted hide or skin; or to wildlife requiring a permit pursuant to part 16, 17, 18, 21, or 23 of this subchapter B.
[45 FR 56673, Aug. 25, 1980, as amended at 61 FR 31868, June 21, 1996]
(a) Except for wildlife requiring a permit pursuant to part 16, 17, 18, 21, or 23 of this subchapter B, wildlife whose country of origin is Canada or the United States may be imported or exported at any of the following Customs ports of entry:
(1) Alaska—Alcan;
(2) Idaho—Eastport;
(3) Maine—Calais, Houlton, Jackman;
(4) Massachusetts—Boston;
(5) Michigan—Detroit, Port Huron, Sault Sainte Marie;
(6) Minnesota—Grand Portage, International Falls, Minneapolis-St. Paul;
(7) Montana—Raymond, Sweetgrass;
(8) New York—Buffalo-Niagara Falls, Champlain;
(9) North Dakota—Dunseith, Pembina, Portal;
(10) Ohio—Cleveland;
(11) Vermont—Derby Line, Highgate Springs; and
(12) Washington—Blaine, Sumas.
(b) Except for wildlife requiring a permit pursuant to part 16, 17, 18, 21, or 23 of this subchapter B, wildlife whose country of origin is Mexico or the United States may be imported or exported at any of the following Customs ports of entry:
(1) Arizona—Lukeville, Nogales;
(2) California—Calexico, San Diego-San Ysidro; and
(3) Texas—Brownsville, El Paso, Laredo.
(c) Except for wildlife requiring a permit pursuant to part 16, 17, 18, or 21 of this subchapter B, wildlife lawfully taken by U.S. residents in the United States, Canada, or Mexico and imported or exported for noncommercial purposes, may be imported or exported at any Customs port of entry.
Any person may import a personally owned pet bird at any port designated under, and in accordance with, 9 CFR part 92.
Any person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States who has lawfully taken a marine mammal on the high seas and who is authorized to import such marine mammal in accordance with the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 and implementing regulations (50 CFR parts 18 and 216) may import such marine mammal at any port or place.
(a) Except for wildlife requiring a permit pursuant to part 16, 17, 18, 21, or 23 of this subchapter B, wildlife which is imported for final destination in Alaska, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands, may be imported through those Customs ports of entry named hereafter for the respective State or Territory of final destination:
(1) Alaska—Alcan, Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau;
(2) Puerto Rico—San Juan; and
(3) Virgin Islands—San Juan, Puerto Rico.
(b) Except for wildlife requiring a permit pursuant to part 16, 17, 18, 21, or 23 of this subchapter B, wildlife which originates in Alaska, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands, may be exported through the following Customs ports for the respective State or Territory:
(c) Except for wildlife requiring a permit pursuant to part 16, 17, 18, 21, or 23 of this subchapter B, wildlife which has a final destination of Guam or which originates in Guam may be imported or exported, as appropriate, through the port of Agana, Guam.
Wildlife may be imported into or exported from the United States at any Customs port of entry designated in the terms of a valid permit issued pursuant to subpart C of this part.
(a)(1) General. Except for wildlife requiring a permit pursuant to part 17 or 23 of this subchapter, shellfish and fishery products imported or exported for purposes of human or animal consumption or taken in waters under the jurisdiction of the United States or on the high seas for recreational purposes may enter or exit at any Customs port.
(2) Except for wildlife requiring a permit pursuant to part 17 or part 23 of this subchapter, live aquatic invertebrates of the Class Pelecypoda (commonly known as oysters, clams, mussels, and scallops) and the eggs, larvae, or juvenile forms thereof may be exported for purposes of propagation, or research related to propagation, at any Customs port.
(b) Pearls. Except for wildlife requiring a permit pursuant to part 17 or 23 of this subchapter, pearls imported or exported for commercial purposes may enter or exit the United States at any Customs port of entry. For the purposes of this part, all references to the term shellfish and fishery products will include pearls.
[61 FR 31868, June 21, 1996]
Any person may import at any Customs Service port designated for such purpose, any article (other than scrimshaw, defined in 16 U.S.C 1539(f)(1)(B) and 50 CFR 217.12 as any art form that involves the etching or engraving of designs upon, or the carving of figures, patterns, or designs from, any bone or tooth of any marine mammal of the order Cetacea) that is at least 100 years old, is composed in whole or in part of any endangered or threatened species listed under §17.11 or §17.12 of this subchapter, and has not been repaired or modified with any part of any endangered or threatened species on or after December 28, 1973.
Live farm-raised fish and farm-raised fish eggs meet the definition of “bred in captivity” as stated in 50 CFR 17.3. Except for wildlife requiring a permit pursuant to parts 17 or 23 of this subchapter, live farm-raised fish and farm-raised fish eggs may be exported from any U.S. Customs port.
Except for wildlife requiring a permit pursuant to parts 16, 17, 18, 21, 22 or 23 of this subchapter, dead, preserved, dried, or embedded scientific specimens or parts thereof, imported or exported by accredited scientists or accredited scientific institutions for taxonomic or systematic research purposes may enter or exit through any U.S. Customs port, or may be shipped through the international mail system. Provided, that this exception will not apply to any specimens or parts thereof taken as a result of sport hunting.
(a) General. The Director may, upon receipt of an application submitted in accordance with the provisions of this section and §§13.11 and 13.12 of this subchapter, and in accordance with the issuance criteria of this section, issue a permit authorizing importation or exportation of wildlife for scientific purposes at one or more named Customs port(s) of entry not otherwise authorized by subpart B. Such permits may authorize a single importation or exportation, a series of importations or exportations, or importation or exportation during a specified period of time.
(b) Application procedure. Applications for permits to import or export wildlife at a nondesignated port for scientific purposes must be submitted to the Director. Each application must contain the general information and certification required by §13.12(a) of this subchapter, plus the following additional information:
(1) The scientific purpose or uses of the wildlife to be imported or exported;
(2) The number and kinds of wildlife described by scientific and common names to be imported or exported where such number and kinds can be determined;
(3) The country or place in which the wildlife was removed from the wild (if known), or where born in captivity;
(4) The port(s) of entry where importation or exportation is requested, and the reasons why importation or exportation should be allowed at the requested port(s) of entry rather than at a designated port; and
(5) A statement as to whether the exception is being requested for a single shipment, a series of shipments, or shipments over a specified period of time and the date(s) involved.
(c) Additional permit conditions. In addition to the general conditions set forth in part 13 of this subchapter B, permits to import or export wildlife at a nondesignated port issued under this section are subject to the following condition: Permittee shall file such reports as specified on the permit, if any.
(d) Issuance criteria. The Director shall consider the following in determining whether to issue a permit under this section:
(1) Benefit to a bona fide scientific research project, other scientific purpose, or facilitation of the exchange of preserved museum specimens;
(2) The kind of wildlife involved and its place of origin;
(3) The reasons why the exception is requested; and
(4) Availability of a Service officer.
(e) Duration of permits. Any permit issued under this section expires on the date designated on the face of the permit. In no case will the permit be valid for more than 2 years from the date of issuance.
(a) General. The Director may, upon receipt of an application submitted in accordance with the provisions of this section and §§13.11 and 13.12 of this subchapter, and in accordance with the issuance criteria of this section, issue a permit authorizing importation or exportation of wildlife, in order to minimize deterioration or loss, at one or more named Customs port(s) of entry not otherwise authorized by subpart B. Such permits may authorize a single importation or exportation, a series of importations or exportations, or importation or exportation during a specified period of time.
(b) Application procedure. Applications for permits to import or export wildlife at a nondesignated port to minimize deterioration or loss must be submitted to the Director. Each application must contain the general information and certification required in §13.12(a) of this subchapter, plus the following additional information:
(3) The port(s) of entry where importation or exportation is requested, and the reasons why importation or exportation should be allowed at the requested port(s) of entry rather than at a designated port (information must be included to show that an importation or exportation at a designated port would result in a substantial deterioration or loss of the wildlife); and
(c) Additional permit conditions. In addition to the general conditions set forth in part 13 of this subchapter B, permits to import or export wildlife at a nondesignated port issued under this section are to be subject to the following conditions:
(1) Permittee shall file such reports as may be specified on the permit, if any; and
(2) Permittee must pay fees in accordance with §14.94.
(1) Likelihood of a substantial deterioration or loss of the wildlife involved;
(2) The kind of wildlife involved and its place of origin; and
(e) Duration of permits. Any permit issued under this section expires on the date designated on the face of the permit. In no case will the permit be valid more than 2 years from the date of issuance.
[45 FR 56673, Aug. 25, 1980; 45 FR 64953, Oct. 1, 1980, as amended at 61 FR 31869, June 21, 1996]
(a) General. The Director may, upon receipt of an application submitted in accordance with the provisions of this section and §§13.11 and 13.12 of this subchapter, and in accordance with the issuance criteria of this section, issue a permit authorizing importation or exportation of wildlife in order to alleviate undue economic hardship at one or more named Customs port(s) of entry not otherwise authorized by subpart B. Such permits may authorize a single importation or exportation, a series of importations or exportations, or importation or exportation during a specified period of time.
(b) Application procedure. Applications for permits to import or export wildlife at a nondesignated port to alleviate undue economic hardship must be submitted to the Director. Each application must contain the general information and certification required in §13.12(a) of this subchapter, plus the following additional information:
(1) The number and kinds of wildlife described by scientific and common names to be imported or exported, where such number and kinds can be determined, and a description of the form in which it is to be imported, such as “live,” “frozen,” “raw hides,” or a full description of any manufactured product;
(3) The name and address of the supplier or consignee;
(4) The port(s) of entry where importation or exportation is requested, and the reasons why importation or exportation should be allowed at the requested port(s) of entry rather than at a designated port (information must be included to show the monetary difference between the cost of importation or exportation at the port requested and the lowest cost of importation or exportation at the port through which importation or exportation is authorized by subpart B without a permit); and
(c) Additional permit conditions. In addition to the general conditions set forth in part 13 of this subchapter B, permits to import or export wildlife at a nondesignated port issued under this section are subject to the following conditions:
(1) Permittee shall file such reports as specified on the permit, if any; and
(1) The difference between the cost of importing or exporting the wildlife at the port requested and the lowest cost of importing or exporting such wildlife at a port authorized by these regulations without a permit;
(2) The severity of the economic hardship that likely would result should the permit not be issued;
(3) The kind of wildlife involved, including its form and place of origin; and
Subject to applicable limitations of law, Service officers and Customs officers may detain for inspection and inspect any package, crate, or other container, including its contents, and all accompanying documents, upon importation or exportation. The Director may charge reasonable fees, including salary, overtime, transportation and per diem of Service officers, for wildlife import or export inspections specially requested by the importer or exporter at times other than regular work hours or locations other than usual for such inspections at the port.
[45 FR 56673, Aug. 25, 1980; 45 FR 64953, Oct. 1, 1980, as amended at 50 FR 52889, Dec. 26, 1985]
(a) Except as otherwise provided by this subpart, a Service officer must clear all wildlife imported into the United States prior to release from detention by Customs officers. A Service officer must clear all wildlife to be exported from the United States prior to the physical loading of the merchandise on a vehicle or aircraft, or the containerization or palletizing of such merchandise for export, unless a Service officer expressly authorizes otherwise. Such clearance does not constitute a certification of the legality of an importation or exportation under the laws or regulations of the United States.
(b) An importer/exporter or his/her agent may obtain clearance by a Service officer only at designated ports (§14.12), at border ports (§14.16), at special ports (§14.19), or at a port where importation or exportation is authorized by a permit issued under subpart C of this part. An importer/exporter must return forthwith any wildlife released without a Service officer's clearance or clearance by Customs for the Service under authority of §14.54 to a port where clearance may be obtained pursuant to this subpart.
(c) To obtain clearance, the importer, exporter, or the importer's or exporter's agent will make available to a Service officer or a Customs officer acting under §14.54:
(1) All shipping documents (including bills of lading, waybills and packing lists or invoices);
(2) All permits, licenses or other documents required by the laws or regulations of the United States;
(3) All permits or other documents required by the laws or regulations of any foreign country;
(4) The wildlife being imported or exported; and
(5) Any documents and permits required by the country of export or re-export for the wildlife.
[45 FR 56673, Aug. 25, 1980; 45 FR 64953, Oct. 1, 1980, as amended at 50 FR 52889, Dec. 26, 1985; 61 FR 31869, June 21, 1996]
(a) Detention. Any Service officer, or Customs officer acting under §14.54, may detain imported or exported wildlife and any associated property. As soon as practicable following the importation or exportation and decision to detain, the Service will mail a notice of detention by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the importer or consignee, or exporter, if known or easily ascertainable. Such notice must describe the detained wildlife or other property, indicate the reason for the detention, describe the general nature of the tests or inquiries to be conducted, and indicate that if the releasability of the wildlife has not been determined within 30 days after the date of the notice, or a longer period if specifically stated, that the Service will deem the wildlife to be seized and will issue no further notification of seizure.
(b) Refusal of clearance. Any Service officer may refuse clearance of imported or exported wildlife and any Customs officer acting under §14.54 may refuse clearance of imported wildlife when there are responsible grounds to believe that:
(1) A Federal law or regulation has been violated;
(2) The correct identity and country of origin of the wildlife has not been established (in such cases, the burden is upon the owner, importer, exporter, consignor, or consignee to establish such identity by scientific name to the species level or, if any subspecies is protected by the laws of this country or the country of origin to the subspecies level);
(3) Any permit, license, or other documentation required for clearance of such wildlife is not available, is not currently valid, has been suspended or revoked, or is not authentic;
(4) The importer, exporter, or the importer's or exporter's agent has filed an incorrect or incomplete declaration for importation or exportation as provided in §14.61 or §14.63; or
(5) The importer, exporter, or the importer's or exporter's agent has not paid any fee or portion of balance due for inspection fees required by §14.93 or §14.94, or penalties assessed against the importer or exporter under 50 CFR part 11. This paragraph does not apply to penalty assessments on appeal in accordance with the provisions of part 11.
(a) Designated ports. All wildlife arriving at a designated port must be cleared by a Service officer prior to Customs clearance and release. When importers or their agents expect live or perishable shipments of wildlife or wildlife products or request inspection at the time of arrival, they must notify the Service at least 48 hours prior to the estimated time of arrival. However, where a Service officer is not available within a reasonable time, Customs Officers may clear live or perishable wildlife subject to post-clearance inspection and investigation by the Service.
(b) Border and special ports. Wildlife lawfully imported at Canadian or Mexican border ports under §14.16, or into Alaska, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands, under §14.19, may, if a Service officer is not available within a reasonable time, be cleared by Customs officers, subject to post-clearance inspection and investigation by the Service.
(c) Permit imports. Wildlife imported at a nondesignated port in accordance with the terms of a valid permit issued under subpart C of this part, may, if a Service officer is not available within a reasonable time, be cleared by Customs officers, subject to post-clearance inspection and investigation by the Service.
(d) Personal baggage and household effects. Wildlife lawfully imported at any port of entry under §14.15, may, if a Service officer is not available within a reasonable time, be cleared by Customs officers, subject to post-clearance inspection and investigation by the Service.
(e) Personally owned pet birds. Personally owned pet birds lawfully imported at a port of entry under §14.17, may, if a Service officer is not available within a reasonable time, be cleared by Customs officers, subject to post-clearance inspection and investigation by the Service.
(f) Exports. Exporters or their agents must notify the Service and make the shipment available for inspection at least 48 hours prior to the estimated time of exportation of any wildlife.
Except for wildlife requiring a permit pursuant to part 17 or 23 of this subchapter B, clearance is not required for the importation of the following wildlife:
(a) Shellfish and fishery products imported for purposes of human or animal consumption or taken in waters under the jurisdiction of the United States or on the high seas for recreational purposes;
(b) Marine mammals lawfully taken on the high seas by United States residents and imported directly into the United States; and
(c) Certain antique articles as specified in §14.22 which have been released from custody by Customs officers under 19 U.S.C. 1499.
(d) Dead, preserved, dried, or embedded scientific specimens or parts thereof, imported or exported by accredited scientists or accredited scientific institutions for taxonomic or systematic research purposes. Except: That this exception will not apply to any specimens or parts thereof taken as a result of sport hunting.
Except as otherwise provided by the regulations of this subpart, importers or their agents must file with the Service a completed Declaration for Importation or Exportation of Fish or Wildlife (Form 3-177), signed by the importer or the importer's agent, upon the importation of any wildlife at the place where Service clearance under §14.52 is requested. However, wildlife may be transshipped under bond to a different port for release from custody by Customs Service officers under 19 U.S.C. 1499. For certain antique articles as specified in §14.22, importers or their agents must file a Form 3-177 with the District Director of Customs at the port of entry prior to release from Customs custody. Importers or their agents must furnish all applicable information requested on the Form 3-177 and the importer, or the importer's agent, must certify that the information furnished is true and complete to the best of his/her knowledge and belief.
(a) Except for wildlife requiring a permit pursuant to part 17 or 23 of this subchapter B, an importer or his/her agent does not have to file a Declaration for Importation or Exportation of Fish or Wildlife (Form 3-177) for importation of shellfish and fishery products imported for purposes of human or animal consumption, or taken in waters under the jurisdiction of the United States or on the high seas for recreational purposes;
(b) Except for wildlife requiring a permit pursuant to part 16, 17, 18, 21, or 23 of this subchapter B, a Declaration for Importation or Exportation of Fish or Wildlife (Form 3-177) does not have to be filed for importation of the following:
(1) Fish taken for recreational purposes in Canada or Mexico;
(2) Wildlife products or manufactured articles that are not intended for commercial use and are used as clothing or contained in accompanying personal baggage, except that an importer or his/her agent must file a Form 3-177 for raw or dressed furs; for raw, salted, or crusted hides or skins; and for game or game trophies; and
(3) Wildlife products or manufactured articles that are not intended for commercial use and are a part of a shipment of the household effects of persons moving their residence to the United States, except that an importer or his/her agent must file a declaration for raw or dressed furs and for raw, salted, or crusted hides or skins.
(c) General declarations for certain specimens. Notwithstanding the provisions of 14.61 and except for wildlife included in paragraph (d) of this section, an importer or his/her agent may describe in general terms on a Declaration for the Importation or Exportation of Fish or Wildlife (Form 3-177) scientific specimens imported for scientific institutions for taxonomic, systematic research, or faunal survey purposes. An importer or his/her agent must file an amended Form 3-177 within 180 days after filing of the general declaration with the Service. The declaration must identify specimens to the most accurate taxonomic classification reasonably practicable using the best available taxonomic information. The Director may grant extensions of the 180-day period.
(d) Except for wildlife requiring a permit pursuant to part 16, 17, 18, 21, 22 or 23 of this subchapter, an importer or his/her agent does not have to file a Declaration for the Importation or Exportation of Fish or Wildlife (Form 3-177) at the time of importation for shipments of dead, preserved, dried, or embedded scientific specimens or parts thereof, imported by accredited scientists or accredited scientific institutions for taxonomic or systematic research purposes. An importer or his/her agent must file a Form 3-177 within 180 days of importation with the appropriate Assistant Regional Director—Law Enforcement in the Region where the importation occurs. The declaration must identify the specimens to the most accurate taxonomic classification reasonably practicable using the best available taxonomic information, and must declare the country of origin. Except: That this exception will not apply to any specimens or parts thereof taken as a result of sport hunting.
Except as otherwise provided by the regulations of this subpart, a completed Declaration for Importation or Exportation of Fish or Wildlife (Form 3-177) signed by the exporter, or the exporter's agent, shall be filed with the Service prior to the export of any wildlife at the port of exportation as authorized in subpart B of this part. All applicable information requested on the Form 3-177 shall be furnished, and the exporter or the exporter's agent shall certify that the information furnished is true and complete to the best of his/her knowledge and belief.
(a) Except for wildlife requiring a permit pursuant to part 17 or 23 of this subchapter B, an exporter or his/her agent does not have to file a Declaration for Importation or Exportation of Fish or Wildlife (Form 3-177) for the exportation of shellfish and fishery products exported for purposes of human or animal consumption or taken in waters under the jurisdiction of the United States or on the high seas for recreational purposes, and does not have to file for the exportation of live aquatic invertebrates of the Class Pelecypoda (commonly known as oysters, claims, mussels, and scallops) and the eggs, larvae, or juvenile forms thereof exported for purposes of propagation, or research related to propagation.
(b) Except for wildlife requiring a permit pursuant to part 16, 17, 18, 21, or 23 of this subchapter B, a Declaration for the Importation or Exportation of Fish or Wildlife (Form 3-177) does not have to be filed for the exportation of the following:
(1) Wildlife that is not intended for commercial use where the value of such wildlife is under $250;
(2) Wildlife products or manufactured articles, including game trophies, that are not intended for commercial use and are used as clothing or contained in accompanying personal baggage or are part of a shipment of the household effects of persons moving their residence from the United States; and
(3) Shipments of dead, preserved, dried, or embedded scientific specimens or parts thereof, exported by accredited scientists or accredited scientific institutions for taxonomic or systematic research purposes. An exporter or his/her agent must file a Form 3-177 within 180 days of exportation with the appropriate Assistant Regional Director—Law Enforcement in the Region where the exportation occurs. The declaration must identify the specimens to the most accurate taxonomic classification reasonably practicable using the best available taxonomic information, and must declare the country of origin. Except: That this exception will not apply to any specimens or parts thereof taken as a result of sport hunting.
(c) Except for wildlife requiring a period pursuant to parts 17 or 23 of this subchapter, a Declaration for the Importation or Exportation of Fish or Wildlife (Form 3-177) does not have to be filed for the exportation of live farm-raised fish and farm-raised fish eggs as defined in §14.23.
[45 FR 56673, Aug. 25, 1980, as amended at 59 FR 41714, Aug. 15, 1994; 61 FR 31870, June 21, 1996]
Source: 52 FR 45341, Nov. 27, 1987, unless otherwise noted.
Except as otherwise provided in this subpart, no person may import, export, or transport in interstate commerce any container or package containing any fish or wildlife (including shellfish and fishery products) unless he/she marks each container or package conspicuously on the outside with both the name and address of the shipper and consignee. An accurate and legible list of its contents by species scientific name and the number of each species and whether or not the listed species are venomous must accompany the entire shipment.
(a) The requirements of §14.81 may be met by complying with one of the following alternatives to the marking requirement:
(1)(i) Conspicuously marking the outside of each container or package containing fish or wildlife with the word “fish” or “wildlife” as appropriate for its contents, or with the common name of its contents by species, and
(ii) Including an invoice, packing list, bill of lading, or similar document to accompany the shipment which accurately states the name and address of the shipper and consignee, states the total number of packages or containers in the shipment, and for each species in the shipment specifies:
(A) The common name that identifies the species (examples include: Chinook (or king) salmon; bluefin tuna; and whitetail deer) and whether or not the listed species is venomous; and
(B) The number of that species (or other appropriate measure of quantity such as gross or net weight).
The invoice, packing list, bill of lading, or equivalent document must be securely attached to the outside of one container or package in the shipment or otherwise physically accompany the shipment in a manner which makes it readily accessible for inspection; or
(2) Affixing the shipper's wildlife import/export license number preceded by the three letters “FWS” on the outside of each container or package containing fish or wildlife, if the shipper has valid wildlife import/export license issued under authority of 50 CFR part 14. For each shipment marked in accordance with this paragraph, the records maintained under §14.93(c) must include a copy of the invoice, packing list, bill of lading, or other similar document that accurately states the information required by paragraph (a)(1)(ii) of this section.
(3) In the case of subcontainers or packages within a larger packing container, only the outermost container must be marked in accordance with this section. Except, that for live fish or wildlife that are packed in subcontainers within a larger packing container, if the subcontainers are numbered or labeled, the packing list, invoice, bill or lading, or other similar document, must reflect that number or label. However, each subcontainer containing a venomous species must be clearly marked as venomous.
(4) A conveyance (truck, plane, boat, etc.) is not considered a container for purposes of requiring specific marking of the conveyance itself, provided that:
(i) The fish or wildlife within the conveyance is carried loosely or is readily identifiable, and is accompanied by the document required by paragraph (a)(1)(ii) of this section, or
(ii) The fish or wildlife is otherwise packaged and marked in accordance with this subpart.
(b) The requirements of §14.81 do not apply to containers or packages containing—
(1) Fox, nutria, rabbit, mink, chinchilla, marten, fisher, muskrat, and karakul that have been bred and born in captivity, or their products, if a signed statement certifying that the animals were bred and born in captivity accompanies the shipping documents;
(2) Fish or shellfish contained in retail consumer packages labeled pursuant to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.; or
(3) Fish or shellfish that are landed by, and offloaded from, a fishing vessel (whether or not the catch has been carried by the fishing vessel interstate), as long as the fish or shellfish remain at the place where first offloaded.
(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 1018-0022)
[52 FR 45341, Nov. 27, 1987, as amended at 61 FR 31871, June 21, 1996]
Source: 73 FR 74628, Dec. 9, 2008, unless otherwise noted.
(a) The Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C. 1538(d)(1)) makes it unlawful for any person to engage in business as an importer or exporter of certain fish or wildlife without first having obtained permission from the Secretary. For the purposes of this subchapter, engage in business means to import or export wildlife for commercial purposes.
(b) Except as provided in §14.92, if you engage in the business of importing or exporting wildlife for commercial purposes (see §14.4), you must obtain an import/export license prior to importing or exporting your wildlife shipment.
(c) The following table includes some examples of when an import/export license is required:
If I import into the United States or export from the United States
. . . do I need an import/export
license?
(1) Wildlife in the form of products such as garments, bags, shoes, boots, jewelry, rugs, trophies, or curios for commercial purposes Yes.
(2) Wildlife in the form of hides, furs, or skins for commercial purposes Yes.
(3) Wildlife in the form of food for commercial purposes Yes.
(4) As an animal dealer, animal broker, pet dealer, or pet or laboratory supplier Yes.
(5) As an individual owner of a personally owned live wildlife pet for personal use No.
(6) As a collector or hobbyist for personal use No.
(7) As a collector or hobbyist for commercial purposes, including sale, trade or barter Yes.
(8) As a laboratory researcher or biomedical supplier for commercial purposes Yes.
(9) As a customs broker or freight forwarder engaged in business as a dispatcher, handler, consolidator, or transporter of wildlife or if I file documents with the Service on behalf of others No.
(10) As a common carrier engaged in business as a transporter of wildlife No.
(11) As a taxidermist, outfitter, or guide importing or exporting my own hunting trophies for commercial purposes Yes.
(12) As a taxidermist, outfitter, or guide transporting or shipping hunting trophies for clients or customers No.
(13) As a U.S. taxidermist receiving a U.S. client's personal hunting trophies after import clearance for processing No.
(14) As a U.S. taxidermist importing wildlife from or exporting wildlife to foreign owners who are requesting my services Yes.
(15) As a foreign owner of wildlife exporting my personal hunting trophies from the United States to my home No.
(16) As a circus for exhibition or resale purposes Yes.
(17) As a Federal, State, municipal, or tribal agency No.
(18) As a public museum, or public scientific or educational institution for noncommercial research or educational purposes No.
(a) Certain wildlife. Any person may engage in business as an importer or exporter of the following types of wildlife without obtaining an import/export license:
(1) Shellfish (see §10.12 of this chapter) and nonliving fishery products that do not require a permit under parts 16, 17, or 23 of this subchapter, and are imported or exported for purposes of human or animal consumption or taken in waters under the jurisdiction of the United States or on the high seas for recreational purposes;
(2) Live farm-raised fish and farm-raised fish eggs of species that do not require a permit under parts 16, 17, or 23 of this subchapter, that meet the definition of “bred-in-captivity” as stated in §17.3 of this subchapter and that are for export only; and
(3) Live aquatic invertebrates of the Class Pelecypoda, commonly known as oysters, clams, mussels, and scallops, and their eggs, larvae, or juvenile forms, that do not require a permit under parts 16, 17, or 23 of this subchapter, and are exported only for the purposes of propagation or research related to propagation; and
(4) Pearls that do not require a permit under parts 16, 17, or 23 of this subchapter.
(5)(i) Except as provided in paragraphs (a)(5)(ii) and (iii) of this section, green sea urchins, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis, including any products of that species, that:
(A) Do not require a permit under part 16, 17, or 23 of this subchapter;
(B) Are taken in waters under the jurisdiction of the United States or are imported into the United States for processing pursuant to the licensing requirements of §14.91; and
(C) Are exported for purposes of human or animal consumption.
(ii) The exemption in paragraph (a)(5)(i) of this section does not apply to any person who has been convicted of one or more violations of a Federal law relating to the importation, transportation, or exportation of wildlife during the previous 5 years.
(iii) The exemption in paragraph (a)(5)(i) of this section does not apply in any State that does not annually provide “conservation and management” data, as defined in section 3 of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1802), to the applicable Marine Fisheries Commission, or, if the State does provide the “conservation and management” data, and the applicable Marine Fisheries Commission determines, in consultation with the primary research agency of such Commission, after notice and an opportunity to comment, that the data fails to prove that the State agency or official is engaged in conservation and management of the green sea urchin.
(b) Certain persons. (1) The following persons may import or export wildlife without obtaining an import/export license, provided that these persons keep records that will fully and correctly describe each importation or exportation of wildlife made by them and the subsequent disposition made by them with respect to the wildlife.
(i) Public museums, or other public, scientific, or educational institutions, importing or exporting wildlife for noncommercial research or educational purposes; and
(ii) Federal, State, tribal, or municipal agencies.
(2) Subject to applicable limitations of law, duly authorized Service officers at all reasonable times will, upon notice, be given access to these persons' places of business, an opportunity to examine their inventory of imported wildlife or the wildlife to be exported, the records described in paragraph (1) of this section, and an opportunity to copy those records.
[73 FR 74628, Dec. 9, 2008, as amended at 84 FR 29808, June 25, 2019]
(a) Application form. You must submit a completed FWS Form 3-200-3, including the certification found on the form and in §13.12(a) of this subchapter, to the appropriate regional Special Agent in Charge under the provisions of this subpart and part 13 of this subchapter.
(b) Import/export license conditions. In addition to the general permit conditions in part 13 of this subchapter, you must comply with the following conditions:
(1) You must comply with all requirements of this part, all other applicable parts of this subchapter, and any specific conditions or authorizations described on the face of, or on an annex to, the import/export license;
(2) You must pay all applicable license and inspection fees as required in §14.94;
(3) You are responsible for providing current contact information to us, including a mailing address where you will receive all official notices the Service sends;
(4) You must keep, in a U.S. location, the following records that completely and correctly describe each import or export of wildlife that you made under the import/export license and, if applicable, any subsequent disposition that you made of the wildlife, for a period of 5 years:
(i) A general description of the wildlife, such as “live,” “raw hides,” “fur garments,” “leather goods,” “footwear,” or “jewelry”;
(ii) The quantity of the wildlife, in numbers, weight, or other appropriate measure;
(iii) The common and scientific names of the wildlife;
(iv) The country of origin of the wildlife, if known, as defined in §10.12 of this subchapter;
(v) The date and place the wildlife was imported or exported;
(vi) The date of the subsequent disposition, if applicable, of the wildlife and the manner of the subsequent disposition, whether by sale, barter, consignment, loan, delivery, destruction, or other means;
(vii) The name, address, telephone, and e-mail address, if known, of the person or business who received the wildlife;
(viii) Copies of all permits required by the laws and regulations of the United States; and
(ix) Copies of all permits required by the laws of any country of export, re-export, or origin of the wildlife.
(5) You must, upon notice, provide authorized Service officers with access to your place(s) of business at all reasonable times and give us an opportunity to examine your inventory of imported wildlife or the wildlife to be exported, the records required to be kept by paragraph (b)(4) of this section, and an opportunity to copy these records subject to applicable limitations of the law;
(6) You must submit a report containing the information you must keep in paragraph (b)(4) of this section within 30 days of receiving a written request from us; and
(7) An import/export license gives you general permission to engage in business as an importer or exporter of wildlife. An import/export license is in addition to, and does not supersede, any other license, permit, or requirement established by Federal, State, or tribal law for the import or export of wildlife.
(c) Duration of import/export license. Any import/export license issued under this section expires on the date shown on the face of the import/export license. In no case will the import/export license be valid for more than 1 year after the date of issuance.
(d) Issuance, denial, suspension, revocation, or renewal of import/export license. We may deny, suspend, revoke, restrict, or deny renewal of an import/export license to any person named as the holder, or a principal officer or agent of the holder, under any of the criteria described in part 13 of this chapter or under the following criteria:
(1) Failure to pay fees, penalties, or costs required by this part;
(2) You repeatedly fail to notify our Service officers at the appropriate port at least 48 hours prior to the estimated time of arrival of a live or perishable wildlife shipment under §14.54(a) or at least 48 hours prior to the estimated time of exportation of any wildlife under §14.54(f);
(3) You repeatedly import or export certain types of wildlife without meeting the requirements of this part or other applicable parts of this subchapter.
(a) Import/export license application fees. You must pay the application and amendment fees, as defined in §13.11(d)(4), for any required import/export license processed under §14.93 and part 13 of this subchapter.
(b) Designated port exception permit application fees. You must pay the application and amendment fees, as defined in §13.11(d)(4), for any required designated port exception permit processed under subpart C of this part.
(c) Designated port base inspection fees. Except as provided in paragraph (k) of this section, an import/export license holder must pay a base inspection fee, as defined in §14.94(h)(1), for each wildlife shipment imported or exported at a designated port or a port acting as a designated port. You can find a list of designated ports in §14.12 and the criteria that allow certain ports to act as designated ports in §§14.16-14.19, §14.22, and §14.24 of this part.
(d) Staffed nondesignated port base inspection fees. You must pay a nondesignated port base inspection fee, as defined in §14.94(h)(2), for each wildlife shipment imported or exported at a staffed nondesignated port, using a designated port exception permit issued under subpart C of this part. This fee is in place of, not in addition to, the designated port base fee.
(e) Nonstaffed, nondesignated port base inspection fees. You must pay a nondesignated port base inspection fee, as defined in §14.94(h)(3), for each wildlife shipment imported or exported at a nonstaffed, nondesignated port using a designated port exception permit issued under subpart C of this part. You must also pay all travel, transportation, and per diem costs associated with inspection of the shipment. These fees are in place of, not in addition to, the designated port base fee. The Service will prorate charges for travel, transportation, and per diem costs if multiple importers or exporters require inspection at the same time at the same location. All applicable base and premium fees apply to each shipment.
(f) Premium inspection fees. You must pay a premium inspection fee in addition to any base inspection fees required in paragraphs (c), (d), and (e) of this section, as defined in §14.94(h)(4), for the following types of shipments:
(1) Except as provided in paragraph (k) of this section, any shipment containing live or protected species, as defined in §14.94(h)(4), imported or exported by an import/export license holder at a designated port or a port acting as a designated port. You can find a list of designated ports in §14.12 and the criteria that allow certain ports to act as designated ports in §§14.16-14.19, §14.22, and §14.24;
(2) Any shipment containing live or protected species, as defined in §14.94(h)(4), imported or exported via air, ocean, rail, or truck cargo, by persons not requiring an import/export license under §14.91, at a designated port or a port acting as a designated port. You can find a list of designated ports in §14.12 and the criteria that allow certain ports to act as designated ports in §§14.16-14.19, §14.22, and §14.24;
(3) Any shipment containing live or protected species, as defined in §14.94(h)(4), imported or exported at a nondesignated port using a designated port exception permit issued under subpart C of this part.
(4) You must pay two premium inspection fees in addition to any base inspection fees required in paragraphs (c), (d), and (e) of this section, as defined in §14.94(h)(4), if your wildlife shipment contains live and protected species.
(g) Overtime fees. You must pay fees for any inspections, including travel time, that begin before normal working hours, that extend beyond normal working hours, or are on a Federal holiday, Saturday, or Sunday.
(1) Overtime fees are in addition to any base inspection fees or premium inspection fees required for each shipment. We will charge these fees regardless of whether or not you have an import/export license.
(2) Our ability to perform inspections during overtime hours will depend upon the availability of Service personnel. If we cannot perform an inspection during normal working hours, we may give you the option of requesting an overtime inspection.
(3) The overtime fee is calculated using a 2-hour minimum plus any actual time in excess of the minimum. It incorporates the actual time to conduct an inspection and the travel time to and from the inspection location.
(4) The Service will charge any overtime, including travel time, in excess of the minimum in quarter-hour increments of the hourly rate. The Service will round up an inspection time of 10 minutes or more beyond a quarter-hour increment to the next quarter-hour and will disregard any time over a quarter-hour increment that is less than 10 minutes.
(5) The Service will charge only one overtime fee when multiple shipments are consigned to or are to be exported by the same importer or exporter and we inspect all at the same time at one location. The overtime fee will consist of one 2-hour minimum or the actual time for inspection of all the applicable shipments, whichever is greater. All applicable base and premium fees will apply to each shipment.
(6) We will charge 1 hour of time at 11⁄2 times the hourly labor rate for inspections beginning less than 1 hour before normal working hours.
(7) We will charge a minimum of 2 hours of time at an hourly rate of 11⁄2 times the average hourly labor rate for inspections outside normal working hours, except for inspections performed on a Federal holiday.
(8) We will charge a minimum of 2 hours of time at an hourly rate of 2 times the average hourly labor rate for inspections performed on a Federal holiday.
(h) Fee schedule.
Inspection fee schedule
Fee cost per shipment per year
2012 and
(1) Designated port base inspection fee (see §14.94 (c)) $85 $87 $89 $91 $93.
(2) Staffed nondesignated port base inspection fee (see §14.94(d)) $133 $136 $139 $142 $145.
(3) Nonstaffed nondesignated port base inspection fee (see §14.94(e)) $133 $136 $139 $142 $145.
(4) Premium inspection fee at any port (see §14.94 (f)):
(i) Protected species. Any species that requires a permit under parts 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, or 23 of this chapter; $19 $37 $56 $74 $93.
(ii) Live species. Any live wildlife, including live viable eggs and live pupae $19 $37 $56 $74 $93.
(5) Overtime inspection fee (see §14.94(g)):
(i) Inspections beginning less than 1 hour before normal work hours $48 $49 $51 $52 $53.
(ii) Inspections after normal work hours, including Saturday and Sunday. (2 hour minimum charge plus fee for additional time) $96 min. + $48/hr $98 min. + $49/hr $101 min. + $51/hr $103 min. + $52/hr $105 min. + $53/hr.
(iii) Inspections on Federal holidays. (2 hour minimum charge plus fee for additional time) $128 min. + $64/hr $131 min.+ $65/hr $133 min. + $67/hr $136 min. + $68/hr $139 min. + $70/hr.
(i) The Service will not refund any fee or any portion of any license or inspection fee or excuse payment of any fee because importation, exportation, or clearance of a wildlife shipment is refused for any reason.
(j) All base inspection fees, premium inspection fees, and overtime fees will apply regardless of whether or not a physical inspection of your wildlife shipment is performed, and no fees will be prorated except as provided in paragraphs (e) and (g)(5) of this section.
(k) Exemptions to inspection fees—(1) Certain North American-origin wild mammal furs or skins. Wildlife shipments that meet all of the following criteria are exempt from the designated port base inspection fee (however, these shipments are not exempt from the designated port overtime fees or the import/export license application fee):
(i) The wildlife is a raw fur; raw, salted, or crusted hide or skin; or a separate fur or skin part, lawfully taken from the wild in the United States, Canada, or Mexico that does not require permits under parts 17, 18, or 23 of this chapter; and
(ii) You, as the importer or exporter, or a member of your immediate family, such as your spouse, parents, siblings, and children, took the wildlife from the wild and are shipping the wildlife between the United States and Canada or Mexico; and
(iii) You have not previously bought or sold the wildlife described in paragraph (k)(1)(i) of this section, and the shipment does not exceed 100 raw furs; raw, salted, or crusted hides or skins; or fur or skin parts; and
(iv) You certify on Form 3-177, Declaration for Importation or Exportation of Fish or Wildlife, that your shipment meets all the criteria in this section.
(2) You do not have to pay base inspection fees, premium inspection fees, or overtime fees if you are importing or exporting wildlife that is exempt from import/export license requirements as defined in §14.92(a) or you are importing or exporting wildlife as a government agency as defined in §14.92(b)(1)(ii).
(3) You do not have to pay base inspection fees, premium inspection fees, or overtime fees if you are importing or exporting wildlife that meets the criteria for “domesticated animals” as defined in §14.4.
(4) Fee exemption program for low-risk importations and exportations—(i) Program criteria. Businesses that require an import/export license under §14.93 may be exempt from the designated port base inspection fee as set forth in this paragraph (k)(4)(i). To participate in this program, you, the U.S. importer or exporter, must continue to pay the overtime fees, the nondesignated port base fees, or the import/export license and nondesignated port application fees, and your business must meet all of the following conditions:
(A) Each shipment does not contain live wildlife.
(B) Each shipment does not contain wildlife that requires a permit or certificate under parts 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, or 23 of this chapter or is listed under part 16 of this chapter.
(C) Each shipment contains 25 or fewer wildlife parts and products containing wildlife.
(D) Each wildlife shipment is valued at $5,000 or less.
(E) Your business has not been assessed a civil penalty, issued a violation notice, or convicted of any misdemeanor or felony violations involving the import or export of wildlife.
(F) Your business has had two or fewer wildlife shipments that were refused clearance in the 5 years prior to the receipt of your request by the Service.
(G) Your business has not previously participated in the program and been removed for failure to meet the criteria.
(ii) Program participation. To participate in the fee exemption program for low-risk importations and exportations, you must use the Service's electronic declaration filing system (eDecs) and take the following actions:
(A) You must certify that you will exclusively import and export wildlife shipments that meet all the criteria in paragraph (k)(4)(i) of this section and renew this certification annually. Upon completion of the certification and review of the criteria by the Service, eDecs will notify you if you have been approved to participate in the program.
(B) You must continue to meet the criteria in paragraph (k)(4)(i) of this section while participating in the program. If you fail to meet the criteria after approval, you will be removed from the program and must pay all applicable fees.
(C) If approved to participate in the program you must file FWS Form 3-177 and all required accompanying documents electronically using eDecs for each shipment and meet all other requirements of this part.
[73 FR 74628, Dec. 9, 2008, as amended at 77 FR 65326, Oct. 26, 2012]
Source: 57 FR 27108, June 17, 1992, unless otherwise noted.
The purpose of this subpart is to prescribe requirements necessary to ensure that live wild mammals and birds shipped to the United States arrive alive, healthy, and uninjured, and that transportation of such animals occurs under humane and healthful conditions. These regulations implement section 9(d) of the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981.
In addition to the definitions contained in part 10 of subchapter B of this chapter, in this subpart—
Ambient air temperature means the temperature of the air surrounding a primary enclosure containing a wild mammal or bird.
Auxiliary ventilation means cooling or air circulation provided by such means as vents, fans, blowers, or air conditioning.
Carrier means any person operating an airline, railroad, motor carrier, shipping line, or other enterprise engaged in the business of transporting any wild mammal or bird for any purpose including exhibition and for any person, including itself.
Communicable disease means any contagious, infectious, or transmissible disease of wild mammals or birds.
Conveyance means any vehicle, vessel, or aircraft employed to transport an animal between its origin and destination.
Do not tip means do not excessively rock or otherwise move from a vertical to a slanting position, knock over, or upset.
Handle means feed, manipulate, crate, shift, transfer, immobilize, restrain, treat, or otherwise control the movement or activities of any wild mammal or bird.
Holding area means a designated area at or within a terminal facility that has been specially prepared to provide shelter and other requirements of wild mammals or birds being transported to the United States and in which such mammals or birds are maintained prior to, during, or following such shipment.
Kept clean means maintained free from dirt, trash, refuse, excreta, remains from other cargo, and impurities of any type.
Marine mammal means an individual of a species of the orders Cetacea, Pinnipedia, or Sirenia, or a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) or sea otter (Enhydra lutris).
Noncompatible means not capable of existing together in harmony.
Nonhuman primate means any nonhuman member of the order Primates.
Normal rigors of transportation means the stress that a wild animal can be expected to experience as a result of exposure to unaccustomed surroundings, unfamiliar confinement, caging, unfamiliar sounds, motion, and other conditions commonly encountered during transport.
Primary enclosure means any structure used to restrict a mammal or bird to a limited amount of space, such as a cage, room, pen, run, stall, pool, or hutch.
Professionally accepted standards means a level of practice established as acceptable by a body of qualified persons of the veterinary medical profession.
Psychological trauma means an episode of exposure to stressful conditions resulting in significant behavioral abnormality including, but not limited to, manifestations of unaccustomed aggressiveness, self-mutilation, or refusal of food or water.
Raptor means a live migratory bird of the order Falconiformes or the order Strigiformes.
Sanitize means to make physically clean and, as far as possible, free of toxic or infectious agents injurious to the health of wild mammals or birds.
Scheduled departure time means the time listed on a timetable of departures and arrivals or, in the absence of a timetable, the time of departure agreed to by a carrier and shipper.
Shipper means any person, other than a carrier, involved in the transport of wild animals to the United States regardless of the purpose of such transport; e.g., exporter, importer, or agent.
Terrestrial mammals means mammals other than marine mammals.
Transport means to move, convey, carry, or ship by any means, or to deliver or receive for the purpose of movement, carriage, or shipment, by air, land, or sea.
Transporting device means any vehicle or device used to transport an animal between a conveyance and a terminal facility, in and around a terminal facility of a carrier, or within a conveyance.
Unweaned means a bird or mammal incapable of feeding itself independently.
Wild means the same as fish or wildlife, as defined in §10.12 of this chapter.
Unless the requirements of this subpart are fully satisfied and all other legal requirements are met, it is unlawful for any person to transport to the United States, cause to be transported to the United States, or allow to be transported to the United States any live wild mammal or bird. It shall be unlawful for any person to import, to transport, or to cause or permit to be transported to the United States any wild mammal or bird under inhumane or unhealthful conditions or in violation of this subpart J.
Any certificate or document required by this subpart to accompany a mammal or bird transported to the United States and written in a foreign language must be accompanied by an accurate English translation.
(a) No carrier shall accept any live wild mammal or bird for transport to the United States that has not been examined within 10 days prior to commencement of transport to the United States by a veterinarian certified as qualified by the national government of the initial country from which the mammal or bird is being exported. If the national government of such country does not certify veterinarians, then the veterinarian must be certified or licensed by a local government authority designated by the national government as authorized to certify veterinarians.
(b)(1) A certificate of veterinary medical inspection, signed by the examining veterinarian, stating that the animal has been examined, is healthy, appears to be free of any communicable disease, and is able to withstand the normal rigors of transport must accompany the mammal or bird; the certificate should include the veterinarian's license number, certification number, or equivalent. A mammal in the last third of its pregnancy, if this is detectable using professionally accepted standards, shall not be accepted for transport to the United States except for medical treatment and unless the examining veterinarian certifies in writing that the animal has been examined, the state of pregnancy has been evaluated, and that, despite the medical condition requiring treatment, the animal is physically able to withstand the normal rigors of transportation to the United States.
(2) A nursing mother with young, an unweaned mammal unaccompanied by its mother, or an unweaned bird shall be transported only if the primary purpose is for needed medical treatment and upon certification in writing by the examining veterinarian that the treatment is necessary and the animal is able to withstand the normal rigors of transport. Such an unweaned mammal or bird shall not be transported to the United States for medical treatment unless it is accompanied at all times by and completely accessible to a veterinary attendant.
(c) A sick or injured wild mammal or bird shall be permitted transport to the United States only if the primary purpose of such transport is for needed medical treatment and upon certification in writing by the examining veterinarian that the treatment is necessary and the animal is able to withstand the normal rigors of travel in its present condition. A sick or injured animal shall be accompanied at all times throughout the transport process by a veterinary attendant qualified to care for and treat it, with continuous access to the animal. This individual shall be in possession of or have ready access to all medications to be administered during the transport.
(d) No carrier shall accept any wild mammal or bird for transport to the United States presented by the shipper less than 2 hours or more than 6 hours prior to the scheduled departure of the conveyance on which it is to be transported. The carrier shall notify the crew of the presence of live animal shipments.
No carrier shall accept for transport to the United States any live wild mammal or bird in a primary enclosure that does not conform to the following requirements:
(a) The Container Requirements of the Live Animal Regulations (LAR), 20th edition, October 1, 1993, published by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) shall be complied with by all parties transporting wild mammals or birds to the United States. The incorporation by reference of the LAR was approved by the Director of the Federal Register in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552(a) and 1 CFR part 51. Copies may be obtained from IATA, 2000 Peel St., Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2R4. Copies may be inspected at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters (see 50 CFR 2.1(b) for address) or at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). For information on the availability of this material at NARA, call 202-741-6030, or go to: http://www.archives.gov/federal__register/code__of__federal__regulations/ibr__locations.html.
(b) A primary enclosure shall be constructed so that—
(1) The strength of the enclosure is sufficient to contain the mammal or bird and to withstand the normal effects of transport;
(2) The interior of the enclosure is free from any protrusion that could be injurious to the mammal or bird within;
(3) No part of the animal can extend or protrude outside of the primary enclosure which may result in injury to the contained animal, to nearby persons or animals, or to handlers of the primary enclosure;
(4) Access to the primary enclosure is closed and secured with an animal-proof device designed to prevent accidental opening and release of the mammal or bird;
(5) The opening of the enclosure is easily accessible for either emergency removal or inspection of the mammal or bird by authorized personnel without the risk of escape of the mammal or bird;
(6) The enclosure has sufficient openings to ensure adequate circulation of air at all times.
(7) The material of which the primary enclosure is constructed is not treated with any paint, preservative, or other chemical that is injurious or otherwise harmful to the health or well-being of mammals and birds.
(c) Unless the enclosure is permanently affixed in the conveyance or has an open top for certain large mammals, spacer bars allowing circulation of air around the enclosure shall be fitted to the exterior of its top, sides, and base. Spacer bars on an enclosure need extend no more than 6 inches (15 centimeters) from the surface of the enclosure. Within this 6 inch limit, the spacers on an enclosure containing one animal shall extend a distance equal to at least 10 percent of the longer dimension of the surface to which they are attached, and the spacers on an enclosure containing more than one animal shall extend a distance equal to at least 20 percent of the longer dimension of the surface to which they are attached. Hand-holds may serve as spacer bars for the sides of the enclosure to which they are attached. A primary enclosure constructed with one or more slanted or curved walls containing ventilation openings need not be fitted with spacer bars on such walls.
(d) An enclosure that is not permanently affixed within the conveyance shall have adequate hand-holds or other devices for lifting by hand or to facilitate lifting and carrying by machine. Such hand-holds or other devices shall be made an integral part of the enclosure, shall enable it to be lifted without excessive tipping, and shall be designed so that the person handling the enclosure will not come in contact with the animals contained therein.
(e) An enclosure shall have a solid, leak-proof bottom or removable, leak-proof collection tray under a slatted or wire mesh floor. The slatted or wire mesh floor shall be designed and constructed so that the spaces between the slats or the holes in the mesh cannot trap the limbs of animals contained within the enclosure. An enclosure for mammals shall contain unused absorbent litter on the solid bottom or in the leak-proof tray in sufficient quantity to absorb and cover excreta. This litter shall be safe and nontoxic and shall not resemble food normally consumed by the mammals. An enclosure used to transport marine mammals in water, in a waterproof enclosure, a sling, or on foam is exempt from the requirement to contain litter. An enclosure used to transport birds shall not contain litter, unless it is specified in writing by the examining veterinarian as medically necessary.
(f) If an enclosure has been previously used to transport or store wild mammals or birds, it shall have been cleaned and sanitized in a manner that will destroy pathogenic agents and pests injurious to the health of mammals and birds before the enclosure can be re-used.
(g) An enclosure that is not permanently affixed in the conveyance shall be clearly marked in English on the outside of the top and one or more sides of the enclosure, in letters not less than 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) in height, “Live Animals” or “Wild Animals”, “Do Not Tip,” “Only Authorized Personnel May Open Container,” and other appropriate or required instructions. All enclosure sides shall also be conspicuously marked on the outside with arrows to indicate the correct upright position of the enclosure. These arrows should extend up the sides of the enclosure so that the point of the arrow is visible and clearly indicates the top of the enclosure.
(h) Food and water instructions as specified in §14.108, information regarding what constitutes obvious signs of stress in the species being transported, and information about any drugs or medication to be administered by the accompanying veterinary attendant shall be securely attached to each enclosure. Copies of shipping documents accompanying the shipment shall also be securely attached to the primary enclosure. Original documents shall be carried in the carrier's pouch or manifest container or by the shipper's attendant accompanying the wild mammal or bird.
(i) Any food and water troughs shall be securely attached to the interior of the enclosure in such a manner that the troughs can be filled from outside the enclosure. Any opening providing access to a trough shall be capable of being securely closed with an animal-proof device. A water trough in an enclosure containing birds shall contain a foam or sponge insert, a perforated wooden block, or other suitable device to prevent spillage or drowning.
(j) When a primary enclosure is permanently affixed within a conveyance so that its front opening is the only source of ventilation, the opening shall face the outside of the conveyance or an unobstructed aisle or passageway within the conveyance. Such an aisle or passageway shall be at least 12 inches (30 centimeters) wide. The opening in the primary enclosure shall occupy at least 90 percent of the total surface area of the front wall of the enclosure and be covered with bars or wire mesh.
[57 FR 27108, June 17, 1992, as amended at 59 FR 36719, July 19, 1994; 69 FR 18803, Apr. 9, 2004; 79 FR 43964, July 29, 2014]
(a) The animal cargo space of a conveyance used to transport wild mammals or birds to the United States shall be designed, constructed, and maintained so as to ensure the humane and healthful transport of the animals.
(b) The cargo space shall be constructed and maintained so as to prevent the harmful ingress of engine exhaust fumes and gases produced by the conveyance.
(c) No wild mammal or bird shall be placed in a cargo space of a conveyance that does not provide sufficient air for it to breathe normally. Primary enclosures shall be positioned in a cargo space in such a manner that each animal has access to sufficient air for normal breathing.
(d) The interior of an animal cargo space shall be kept clean of disease-causing agents.
(e) A wild mammal or bird shall not be transported in a cargo space that contains any material, substance, or device that may reasonably be expected to result in inhumane conditions or be injurious to the animal's health unless all reasonable precautions are taken to prevent such conditions or injury.
(a) No carrier shall accept any wild mammal or bird for transport to the United States unless written instructions from the shipper concerning the animal's food and water requirements are securely affixed to the outside of its primary enclosure. Such instructions shall be consistent with professionally accepted standards of care and include specifically the quantity of water required, the amount and type of food required, and the frequency of feeding and watering necessary to ensure that the animal is transported humanely and healthfully.
(b) A mammal or bird requiring drinking water shall have uncontaminated water suitable for drinking made available to it at all times prior to commencement of transport to the United States, during intermediate stopovers, and upon arrival in the United States, or as directed by the shipper's written instructions.
(c) A mammal or bird that obtains moisture from fruits or other food shall be provided such food prior to commencement of transport to the United States, during stopovers, and upon arrival in the United States, or as directed by the shipper's written instructions.
(d) During a stopover or while still in the custody of the carrier after arrival in the United States, a mammal or bird in transit shall be observed no less frequently than once every four hours and given food and water according to the instructions required by §14.108(a).
(e) Suitable and sufficient food shall be made available during transport.
(f) Additional requirements for feeding and watering particular kinds of animals are found below in the specifications for the various groups.
(a) During transportation to the United States, including any stopovers during transport, the carrier shall visually inspect each primary enclosure not less than once every 4 hours, or in the case of air transport, every 4 hours whenever the cargo hold is accessible. During such inspections, the carrier shall verify that the ambient air temperature is within allowable limits (see §14.109(b)), that enclosures have not been damaged, that adequate ventilation is being provided, and when transport is by air, that air pressure suitable to support live animals is maintained within the cargo area (pressure equivalent to a maximum altitude of 8000 feet). During these observations the carrier shall also determine whether any animals are in obvious distress as described in documents attached to the enclosure. The absence of such a document or the absence of information as to signs of distress shall not remove this responsibility. The carrier shall attempt to correct any condition causing distress and shall consult the shipper concerning any possible need for veterinary care if no veterinary attendant is traveling with the shipment; if the shipper cannot be reached in the case of an emergency, qualified veterinary care should be provided. A veterinarian or qualified attendant traveling with the shipment shall be provided access to the animal.
(b) Unless otherwise specified in writing by the examining veterinarian the ambient air temperature in a holding area, transporting device, conveyance or terminal facility containing mammals or birds shall not be allowed to fall below 12.8 degrees C (55 degrees F) nor to exceed 26.7 degrees C (80 degrees F). Auxiliary ventilation shall be provided when the ambient air temperature is 23.9 degrees C (75 degrees F) or higher. In the case of penguins and auks, the ambient air temperature shall not be allowed to exceed 18.3 degrees C (65 degrees F) at any time, and auxiliary ventilation shall be provided when the ambient air temperature exceeds 15.6 degrees C (60 degrees F). In the case of polar bears and sea otters, ambient air temperature shall not be allowed to exceed 10 degrees C (50 degrees F).
(a) Any terminal facility used for wild mammal or bird transport in the country of export, stopover countries, or the United States shall contain an animal holding area or areas. No carrier or shipper shall co-mingle live animal shipments with inanimate cargo in an animal holding area.
(b) A carrier or shipper holding any wild mammal or bird in a terminal facility shall provide the following:
(1) A holding area cleaned and sanitized so as to destroy pathogenic agents, maintained so that there is no accumulation of debris or excreta, and in which vermin infestation is minimized;
(2) An effective program for the control of insects, ectoparasites, and pests of mammals or birds;
(3) Sufficient fresh air to allow the animals to breathe normally with ventilation maintained so as to minimize drafts, odors, and moisture condensation;
(4) Ambient air temperatures maintained within prescribed limits as specified in §14.109(b).
(a) Care shall be exercised to avoid handling the primary enclosure in a manner likely to cause physical or psychological trauma to the mammal or bird.
(b) A primary enclosure used to move any mammal or bird shall not be dropped, tipped excessively, or otherwise mishandled, and shall not be stacked or placed in a manner that may reasonably be expected to result in its falling or being tipped.
(c) Animals incompatible with one another shall not be crated together or held in close proximity.
(d) Transport of mammals or birds to the United States shall be accomplished by the carrier in the most expeditious manner, with the fewest stopovers possible, and without unnecessary delays.
(e) Consistent with other procedures and requirements of the carrier, live wild mammals or birds shall be last loaded and first unloaded from a conveyance.
(f) A carrier shall not allow mammals or birds to remain for extended periods of time outside a holding area and shall move them between a holding area and a conveyance as expeditiously as possible. A carrier or shipper maintaining mammals or birds in a holding area, or transporting them to or from a holding area or between a holding area and a conveyance, shall provide the following:
(1) Shelter from sunlight. When sunlight is likely to cause overheating or discomfort, sufficient shade shall be provided to protect animals from the direct rays of the sun.
(2) Shelter from precipitation. Animals shall be provided protection so that they remain dry during rain, snow, or other forms of precipitation.
(3) Shelter from cold. Animals shall be provided protection from cold. Protection shall include, but not be limited to, that provided by covering and/or heating of transporting devices, holding areas, conveyances or terminal facilities.
(4) Protection from harassment. Animals shall be protected from disturbances, including, but not limited to, harassment by humans, other animals, or machinery that makes noise, emits fumes, heat, or light, or causes vibration.
In addition to the provisions of §§14.101-14.111, the requirements of §§14.121-14.172 applicable for particular groups of animals shall be met for all shipments of wild mammals and birds covered by this part.
(a) No more than one primate shall be transported in a primary enclosure. However, a mother and her nursing young being transported to the United States for medical treatment, an established male-female pair, a family group, a pair of juvenile animals that have not reached puberty, or other pairs of animals that have been habitually housed together may be shipped in the same primary enclosure. Primates of different species shall not be shipped together in the same enclosure.
(b) A primary enclosure used to transport a primate shall be large enough to ensure that the animal has sufficient space to turn around freely in a normal manner, lie down, stand up (as appropriate for the species), and sit in a normal upright position without its head touching the top of the enclosure. However, a primate may be restricted in its movements according to professionally accepted standards of care when greater freedom of movement would constitute a danger to the primate or to its handler or other persons.
(c) Except as provided in §14.106(j), ventilation openings must be located on at least two walls of a primary enclosure. When the required ventilation openings are located on two opposite walls of the primary enclosure, these ventilation openings shall comprise at least 30 percent of the total surface area of the ventilated wall and be situated above the midline of the enclosure. If ventilation openings are located on all four walls of the enclosure, the openings on each wall shall comprise at least 20 percent of the total surface area of the wall and be situated above the midline of the primary enclosure.
(a) A nonhuman primate shall be provided water suitable for drinking within 4 hours prior to commencement of transport to the United States unless the shipper's written instructions direct otherwise. A carrier shall provide suitable drinking water to any primate at least every 12 hours after acceptance for transport to the United States, unless instructed in writing to do so more frequently by the shipper.
(b) After acceptance for transport, and unless otherwise instructed in writing by the shipper, a carrier shall provide suitable food to any nonhuman primate at least once every 12 hours.
(a) A primate shall be observed for signs of distress and given food and water according to the shipper's instructions during any intermediate stop that lasts more than 4 hours.
(b) Care shall be taken to keep enclosures containing primates sufficiently separated in the conveyance or holding area to minimize the risk of spread of disease from one species or shipment to another.
(a) A primary enclosure that is not open on top shall have air inlets situated at heights that provide cross ventilation at all levels and that are located on all four sides of the enclosure. Such ventilation openings shall comprise not less than 20 percent of the total surface area of each side of the enclosure.
(b) Straps, slings, harnesses, or other such devices used for body support or restraint when transporting marine mammals such as cetaceans or sirenians shall meet the following requirements:
(1) The devices shall not prevent attendants from having access to the mammal to administer care during transportation;
(2) The devices shall be equipped with sufficient padding to prevent trauma or injury at points of contact with the mammal's body;
(3) Slings or harnesses shall allow free movement of flippers outside of the harness or sling;
(4) The devices shall be capable of preventing the mammal from thrashing about and causing injury to itself, handlers, or other persons, but shall be designed so as not to cause injury to the mammal.
(c) A primary enclosure used to transport marine mammals shall be large enough to assure the following:
(1) A sea otter or polar bear has sufficient space to turn about freely with all four feet on the floor and to sit in an upright position, stand, or lie in a natural position;
(2) A pinniped has sufficient space to lie in a natural position;
(3) If a sling, harness, or other supporting device is used, there are at least 3 inches (7.5 centimeters) of clearance between any body part and the primary enclosure;
(d) A marine mammal may be restricted in its movements according to professionally accepted standards of care when freedom of movement would constitute a danger to the animal or to handlers or other persons.
(e) All marine mammals contained in a given primary enclosure shall be of the same species and be maintained in compatible groups. A marine mammal that has not reached puberty shall not be transported in the same primary enclosure with an adult marine mammal other than its mother. Socially dependent animals (e.g., siblings, mother, and offspring) transported in the same conveyance shall be allowed visual and, when appropriate for the species, olfactory contact. A female marine mammal shall not be transported in the same primary enclosure with any mature male marine mammal.
A marine mammal shall not be transported for more than a period of 36 hours without being offered suitable food unless the shipper's written instructions or the shipper's attendant travelling with the mammal direct otherwise. After feeding, a marine mammal shall be rested for 6 hours prior to resuming transport.
(a) Any marine mammal shall be accompanied, in the same conveyance, by the shipper or an authorized representative of the shipper knowledgeable in marine mammal care to provide for the animal's health and well-being. The shipper or representative shall observe such marine mammals to determine whether or not they need veterinary care and shall provide or obtain any needed veterinary care as soon as possible. Care during transport shall include the following (on a species-specific basis):
(1) Keeping the skin moist or preventing the drying of the skin by such methods as covering with wet cloths, spraying it with water or applying a nontoxic emollient;
(2) Assuring that the pectoral flippers (when applicable) are allowed freedom of movement at all times;
(3) Making adjustments in the position of the mammal when necessary to prevent necrosis of the skin at weight pressure points; and
(4) Calming the mammal to prevent struggling, thrashing, and other activity that may cause overheating or physical trauma.
(b) Unless otherwise directed by a shipper or authorized representative, at least one-half of the floor area in a primary enclosure used to transport sea otters to the United States shall contain sufficient crushed ice or ice water to provide each otter with moisture necessary to maintain its hair coat by preventing it from drying and to minimize soiling of the hair coat with urine and fecal material.
(c) A marine mammal exhibiting excited or otherwise dangerous behavior shall not be taken from its primary enclosure except under extreme emergency conditions and then only by the shipper or other authorized individual who is capable of handling the animal safely.
Species that grow antlers shall not be accepted for transport unless the antlers have been shed or surgically removed.
(a) Except as provided in §14.106(j), ventilation openings must be located on at least two walls of a primary enclosure. When the required ventilation openings are located on two opposite walls of the primary enclosure, these ventilation openings shall comprise at least 16 percent of the total surface area of each ventilated wall. When ventilation openings are located on all four walls of the primary enclosure, the openings shall comprise at least 8 percent of the total surface area of each wall. At least one-third of the minimum area required for ventilation shall be located on the lower one-half of the primary enclosure and at least one-third of the total minimum area required for ventilation shall be located on the upper one-half of the primary enclosure.
(b) No more than one elephant or ungulate shall be transported in a primary enclosure, except that: a mother and nursing young may be shipped in the same primary enclosure if the shipment complies with the provisions of §14.105(b); in the case of land or sea transport, a pair of juvenile elephants or ungulates or other pairs that have been habitually housed together may be shipped in the same primary enclosure.
(c) A primary enclosure used to transport an elephant or ungulate shall be large enough to allow the animal to lie or stand in a natural upright position with the head extended, but not large enough for the animal to roll over.
(d) A primary enclosure used to transport an elephant or ungulate with horns or tusks shall be designed and constructed to prevent the horns or tusks from becoming trapped or injuring the animal itself, other animals nearby, attendants, or cargo handlers.
(e) A primary enclosure for an elephant or ungulate shall be equipped with a removable water trough that can be securely hung within the enclosure above the floor and can be filled from outside the enclosure.
(a) Except as provided in §14.106(j), ventilation openings must be located on at least two walls of a primary enclosure. When the required ventilation openings are located on two opposite walls of the primary enclosure, these ventilation openings shall comprise at least 16 percent of the total surface area of the ventilated wall. When ventilation openings are located on all four walls, the openings shall comprise at least 8 percent of the total surface area of each wall. At least one-third of the total minimum area required for ventilation of the primary enclosure shall be located on the upper one-half of the primary enclosure.
(b) No more than one sloth, bat, or flying lemur (Cynocephalidae) shall be transported in a primary enclosure. However, a mother and her nursing young being transported for medical reasons, an established male-female pair, a family group, a pair of juvenile animals that have not reached puberty, or other small groups of animals that have been habitually housed together may be shipped in the same primary enclosure.
(c) A primary enclosure used to transport sloths, bats, or flying lemurs shall be large enough to ensure that each animal has sufficient space to move freely and in a normal manner and shall have a wide perch, bar, or mesh of suitable strength fitted under the top of the enclosure and spaced from it in such a way that the animals may hang from it freely in a natural position.
(a) Except as provided in §14.106(j), ventilation openings must be located on at least two walls of a primary enclosure. When the required ventilation openings are located on two opposite walls of the primary enclosure, these ventilation openings shall comprise at least 16 percent of the total surface area of each ventilated wall. When openings are located on all four walls of the enclosure, the openings shall comprise at least 8 percent of the total surface area of each wall. At least one-third of the minimum area required for ventilation shall be located on the lower one-half of the enclosure, and at least one-third of the total minimum area required for ventilation shall be located on the upper one-half of the enclosure.
(b) No more than one terrestrial mammal (other than rodents) shall be transported in a primary enclosure. However, a mother and her nursing young may be shipped in the same primary enclosure if the shipment complies with the provisions of §14.105(b).
(c) More than one rodent may be transported in the same primary enclosure if they are members of the same species and are maintained in compatible groups. Rodents that are incompatible shall be transported in individual primary enclosures that are stored and transported so they are visually separated. A female with young being transported for medical reasons shall not be placed in a primary enclosure with other animals. The following chart specifies maximum densities minimum space for transporting rodents that fall within the specified weight limitations. Max. No. refers to maximum number per primary enclosure; Space/animal refers to minimum area of floor space per animals. Rodents weighing more than 5,000 grams shall be transported in individual enclosures.
Density Guidelines for Rodents
Max. No.
Space/Animal
Ht. of Box
wt. in grams of rodent:
220 or less 20 194 30 15 6
220-450 12 388 60 20 8
450-1000 6 770 120 25 10
1,000-5,000 2 2,310 360 30 12
(d) A primary enclosure used to transport terrestrial mammals shall be large enough to ensure that each animal has sufficient space to turn around freely in a normal manner. The height of the primary enclosure shall provide adequate space for the animal to stand upright in a normal posture with space above its head. The length of the primary enclosure shall be great enough to enable the animal to lie in a full prone position.
(a) A personally owned pet bird originally transported from the United States and being returned to this country with its original United States certificate of veterinary inspection within 60 days of departure may be accepted by a carrier without a new veterinary examination.
(b) No carrier shall accept for transport to the United States any bird that was captured in the wild unless a qualified veterinarian, authorized by the national government of the country from which the bird is being exported, certifies that the bird has been held in captivity for at least 14 days.
(a) A primary enclosure for birds shall have ventilation openings on two vertical sides that comprise at least 16 percent of the surface area of each side and are positioned so as to decrease the likelihood of creating a draft.
(b) Perches shall be provided for birds that rest by perching. The diameter of the perch shall be sufficient to permit the birds to maintain a firm, comfortable grip. Perches shall be placed so that droppings do not fall into food or water troughs or onto other perched birds. There shall be enough head room to allow the birds to move onto and off the perches without touching the top of the enclosure.
(c) An enclosure used to transport one or more birds that rest by perching shall be large enough to ensure that sufficient perch space is available for all birds to perch comfortably at the same time. No more than 50 birds that rest by perching shall be transported in one primary enclosure, with the exception of large birds (longer than 23 cm, or 9 inches), which are limited to a maximum of 25 per primary enclosure.
(d) A primary enclosure used to transport a raptorial bird shall be large enough to transport the bird comfortably and to permit it to turn around without stretching its wings to the fullest extent. Only one raptorial bird shall be contained in a primary enclosure.
(e) A primary enclosure containing nonraptorial birds that do not rest by perching shall be large enough for the birds to turn around, to lie down, to stand erect, and to change posture in a normal manner.
(f) Nectar-feeding birds shall either be transported in a primary enclosure equipped with feeding bottles accessible from outside the enclosure for replenishment or hand-carried and fed in accordance with the written instructions of the shipper.
(g) Birds transported in the same primary enclosure shall be of the same species and be compatible with one another. Birds that are incompatible shall be placed in individual primary enclosures and these enclosures shall not be stored or transported in visual proximity to one another.
The regulations in this subpart implement the Captive Wildlife Safety Act (CWSA), 117 Stat. 2871, which amended the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981, 16 U.S.C. 3371-3378, by adding paragraphs 2(g), 3(a)(2)(C), and 3(e) (16 U.S.C. 3371, 3372).
The provisions of this subpart are in addition to, and are not in place of, other regulations of this subchapter B that may require a permit or describe additional restrictions or conditions for the importation, exportation, transportation, sale, receipt, acquisition, or purchase of wildlife in interstate or foreign commerce.
In addition to the definitions contained in part 10 of this subchapter, and unless the context otherwise requires, in this subpart:
Accredited wildlife sanctuary means a facility that cares for live specimens of one or more of the prohibited wildlife species and:
(1) Is approved by the United States Internal Revenue Service as a corporation that is exempt from taxation under §501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, which is described in §§501(c)(3) and 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) of that code;
(2) Does not commercially trade in prohibited wildlife species, including offspring, parts, and products;
(3) Does not propagate any of the prohibited wildlife species; and
(4) Does not allow any direct contact between the public and the prohibited wildlife species.
Direct contact means any situation in which any individual other than an authorized keeper or caregiver may potentially touch or otherwise come into physical contact with any live specimen of the prohibited wildlife species.
Licensed person means any individual, facility, agency, or other entity that holds a valid license from and is inspected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) (7 U.S.C. 2131 et seq.) (See definition of “licensee” in 9 CFR 1.1.).
Prohibited wildlife species means a specimen of any of the following eight species: Lion (Panthera leo), tiger (Panthera tigris), leopard (Panthera pardus), snow leopard (Uncia uncia), clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), jaguar (Panthera onca), cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), and cougar (Puma concolor) or any hybrids resulting from the breeding of any combination of any of these species, for example, a liger (a male lion and a female tiger) or a tiglon (a male tiger and a female lion), whether naturally or artificially produced.
Propagate means to allow or facilitate the production of offspring of any of the prohibited wildlife species, by any means.
Registered person means any individual, facility, agency, or other entity that is registered with and inspected by APHIS under the AWA (See definition of “registrant” in 9 CFR 1.1.).
Except as provided in §14.255, it is unlawful for any person to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, or purchase, in interstate or foreign commerce, any live prohibited wildlife species.
In order to qualify for the exemption in §14.255, an accredited wildlife sanctuary must maintain complete and accurate records of any possession, transportation, acquisition, disposition, importation, or exportation of the prohibited wildlife species covered by the CWSA. These records must be up to date, and must include the names and addresses of persons to or from whom any prohibited wildlife species has been acquired, imported, exported, purchased, sold, or otherwise transferred; and the dates of these transactions. The accredited wildlife sanctuary must maintain these records for 5 years, must make these records available to Service officials for inspection at reasonable hours, and must copy these records for Service officials, if requested. In addition, by declaring itself to be accredited under this subpart, a wildlife sanctuary agrees to allow access to its facilities and its prohibited wildlife specimens by Service officials at reasonable hours.
The prohibitions of §14.253 do not apply to:
(a) A licensed person or registered person;
(b) A State college, university, or agency;
(c) A State-licensed wildlife rehabilitator;
(d) A State-licensed veterinarian;
(e) An accredited wildlife sanctuary; or
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(1) Can produce documentation showing that he or she is transporting live prohibited wildlife species between persons who are exempt from the prohibitions in §14.253; and
(2) Has no financial interest in the prohibited wildlife species other than payment received for transporting them.
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Formula One F1 - Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Ferrari's Charles Leclerc arrives at the Yas Marina Circuit Hamad I Mohammed/Pool via REUTERS
Who Are the Most Underrated Drivers of the 2020 F1 Season?
Dhruv George
When the 2020 Formula One season concluded, Lewis Hamilton stormed to his 7th F1 title. Amid the Mercedes dominance, there were several drivers who flew under the radar. There were surprise wins from Pierre Gasly and Sergio Perez, as well as many decent performances in the midfield.
However, one really has to wonder about who were the most under-rated F1 drivers on the 2020 grid. Of course, someone like the Mercedes duo or a Max Verstappen do not really count, as people know what they are capable of.
Obviously, the following drivers are surely talented, but managed to get out every ounce of performance from their cars.
Formula One F1 – Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – December 12, 2020 Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in action during qualifying Pool via REUTERS/Giuseppe Cacace
Without a doubt, the 2020 Scuderia Ferrari was a terrible F1 car. There is no sugar-coating it at all. Both Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel struggled in the SF1000.
However, the Monegasque was able to extract a bit more performance from the car. Considering how he managed to salvage 8th place, 5 places ahead of teammate Sebastian Vettel, it is a heck of an achievement.
Leclerc managed to sneak 2 podiums, including at the season opener in Austria. In the meantime, he utterly outclassed teammate Sebastian Vettel.
Who else joins Charles Leclerc in the under-rated F1 drivers section?
McLaren has been in rebuild mode ever since they linked up with Renault. Lando Norris and Carlos Sainz have complemented each other well.
Carlos Sainz was a picture of consistency, having finished in the Top-10 in every race except for both Silverstone races. Admittedly, he got taken out of the race at Mugello, and a silly error at the start of the Russian Grand Prix saw him crash out. Sadly, a power unit issue forced him out of the Belgian Grand Prix before the lights went out.
Pierre Gasly’s entire Formula One career up to this point was a rollercoaster. When he started his F1 career at Toro Rosso, he put in impressive performances.
That earned him a promotion to Red Bull, something that most Toro Rosso drivers can only dream of. Unfortunately, it turned into a nightmare soon enough, and he got demoted to Toro Rosso halfway through the season.
Formula One F1 – Italian Grand Prix – Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Italy – September 6, 2020 AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly celebrates winning the Italian Grand Prix on the podium Pool via REUTERS/Jennifer Lorenzini
Luckily, he had his own back with that podium in Brazil 2019. Later on, he strung together impressive performances in the 2020 season.
Later in the season, Gasly became an unexpected winner at Monza, to his delight. Things were finally coming full circle for the Frenchman.
Finally, we have Williams F1 driver George Russell. He has definitely been one of the standout performers of the 2020 Formula One season.
Formula One F1 – Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – December 13, 2020 Williams’ George Russell the race Pool via REUTERS/Bryn Lennon
If his 2019 trouncing of Robert Kubica was not enough proof, he thoroughly dominated Nicholas Latifi. No matter how hard he tried, he always missed the points. Despite this, he always dragged the Williams car into places it was never seen before.
Soon, when Lewis Hamilton was down with COVID-19, Mercedes gave him a well-deserved promotion. Truthfully speaking, that Sakhir Grand Prix race win should have been his. Without the royal screw up in the pit stop, he could easily have won the race, which would have been so poetic.
Hopefully, for the sake of these 4 drivers, the 2021 F1 season offers them a chance to truly showcase their talent. The likes of Leclerc, Sainz, Gasly and Russell are young and have their entire careers ahead of them.
Tags: Carlos SainzCharles LeclercGeorge RussellPierre Gasly
F1 Insider Hints at a Promising 2021 Season for Williams Courtesy Mercedes Partnership
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Taphophile Tuesday:Bryan "Bud" Salladay
Taphophile Tuesday:
One of our Colorado native and young war veterans, Bryan "Bud" Salladay. Bryan was born in 1896 and was #10 of 12 children born to Lounis and Victoria Salladay. They resided in Falcon, Colorado for a number of years then moved to Black Forest. At age 22, in April of 1918 he enlisted and was a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He was immediately sent to Ft. Lee in Virginia for training with the 349th Motor Supply Train, then on to France during the final months of World War I.
Here comes the history lesson...
100 years ago, in 1918, the world faced a pandemic called the Spanish Influenza (so called because reports of mass illness first appeared in Spanish newspapers The countries involved in the war didn’t want to announce the mass casualties from this illness because it would show weakness, Spain was a neutral country and was able to do so) Within months this flu had killed more people than any other illness in recorded history. It struck fast and was indiscriminate. Unusually, it proved deadliest to healthy young adults, with nearly half of all deaths striking those between the ages of 20-40 years old. In just one year the average life expectancy in America dropped by 12 years, according to the US National Archives.
This deadly illness took hold as World War I ended and killed an estimated 50 million people globally. By concentrating millions of troops, it created ideal circumstances for the development of more aggressive strains of the virus to be spread. Our Bryan contracted this flu and died on October 18, 1918... just 3 weeks shy of him seeing Armistice Day. This flu went on to kill almost *three times* more people than the 17 million soldiers and civilians killed during World War I.
Bryan was brought back after the War was over, along with 27 other boys from our region. His funeral was held at the lovely Evergreen Cemetery Chapel, on June 19, 1921. He's located in block 56. ❤️
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Taphophile Tuesday: The lovely Becquet family.
The lovely Becquet family.
John and Aglaé were both born in France and married in May of 1886, when Aglaé was just 16 years old. They worked in a "Millinery Shop" that belonged to Aglae's parents there. After a fire destroyed the shop in 1889, they emigrated with her parents, to America. They first settled in Illinois, where John received his naturalization status (see photo.) Because of John's failing health due to working in the coal mines there, they moved on to Colorado Springs for a higher, clean climate. While living here, a friend of the family who ran the ANTLERS HOTEL kitchen and dining room took Aglaé under his wing, teaching her everything he knew about hotel dining room management and French culinary. John and Aglaé had 3 sons: John Jr, Norbert, and Louis. They lived at 1020 West Colorado Avenue, this home was built in 1897. (see photo)
Around 1908, John and Aglaé moved to Garden City, Kansas where John worked as a grounds landscape gardener and Aglaé managed the culinary department of Garden City's Hotel Stone. She had a smart business sense and was remembered as a very kind and loving woman. She died just a few years later in 1916 at the age of 46, from an "intestinal obstruction" (see attached obituary) Even though she died in Kansas, we can only speculate that she viewed Colorado as her home and asked for her body to be buried here.
Their first born son, John Jr. married in 1911 (I've attached his wedding photo to this post due to its adorableness 😊) They're first child, George died at age 9 months of pneumonia in 1917, just months after his grandmother Aglaé and is buried next to her. John Jr. and his wife then moved to Garden City to be close to family.
John Sr. continued living in Kansas until his death in 1940 (age 74.) He had his funeral there in Kansas in the morning and his body was sent to our Evergreen Cemetery that afternoon to be buried next to his sweet wife.
They ended up having a large family with many grandchildren, however only John Sr., Aglaé and grandbaby George are buried here. They are in block E, with a lovely obelisk. ❤️ This is just part of one family's story and their adventurous spirit to leave their homeland in the hopes of finding a bigger and better dream to live
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Taphophile Tuesday: William Fink
The talented William J. Fink. Born in Pennsylvania in 1875. By 1900, he was a music teacher in Ohio and just a few years later in 1903 he moved with his family to Colorado Springs. He was a violinist and a violin teacher here and was a prominent musician in town. He was the director of Fink's Orchestra which played at the Burns Theatre and he was also director of the Antlers Hotel Orchestra for 25 years. Mr. Fink also directed Sunday concerts at Stratton Park. He certainly left a musical legacy for generations to come. He shared his gift which brought culture and entertainment to a new and growing city. May we always remember those who put their heart and soul into their occupation. He is buried at Evergreen in a lovely family plot.
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Following through with the Winnebago Tribe's commitment to reduce energy usage and consumption, the Winnebago Tribe Solar Project will focus on renewable energy production and energy cost savings consistent with protecting our natural environment. The objective of this project is to reduce the most recent 12 months of fuel use of the Winnebago police and fire building (the project site) by 30% within two years with the production of renewable energy. Installation of a 23-kilowatt (kW) solar photovoltaic (PV) system will reduce the amount of energy purchased for the building and provide a source of energy for the police and fire departments for continued operations should grid power be unavailable. Powering this building at all times is essential to ensure the safety and well-being of tribal members and residents of the entire reservation.
The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska is a small federally recognized tribe organized pursuant to Section 16 of the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984), (25 USC 476) as amended by the Act of June 15, 1935 (49 Stat. 378). The reservation is located primarily in northeast Nebraska, 30 minutes south of Sioux City, Iowa, and two hours north of Omaha, Nebraska. A small portion is located directly east on the Iowa side of the Missouri River in Woodbury County, Iowa. Approximately one-half of the tribe's nearly 5,000 members live within the 128-square-mile reservation boundaries.
The tribe has a history of evaluating renewable energy alternatives, including wind analysis and feasibility for small- and large-scale energy supply, and has made a commitment to implement energy efficient measures wherever and whenever possible. The first active tracking solar PV system in Nebraska was installed by the tribe's economic arm, Ho Chunk, Inc., in 2010. Ho Chunk, Inc. also uses personal wind units for two of its subsidiary companies and stationary solar PV panels for another subsidiary.
The tribally owned community college, Little Priest Tribal College, carries out the tribe's vision with classes on renewable energy. The college also uses two wind generators and a solar PV system for classes and renewable energy generation for its building operations. The tribal headquarters building is being renovated with energy efficiency measures that include insulation and new highly energy efficient windows and doors. A new state-of-the-art early childhood education center is under construction and will include a geothermal energy system. Also, the tribe's maintenance and operations plan includes the use of energy efficient fixtures whenever replacements are made.
The above measures are a testament to the tribe's long-term energy goals, which include:
To substantially reduce the energy consumption and environmental impact of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska's buildings, motor vehicles, and systems in order to enhance the quality of life of future generations.
To design and construct new buildings and facilities as well as acquire vehicles with a focus on reduction of energy costs and environmental impact by up to 40%. The energy costs of buildings will be mitigated through the use of geothermal energy systems.
To create behaviors among tribal leadership and employees that base decisions on the conservation of energy with a focus on renewable alternatives.
To implement a weatherization program that will analyze current energy consumption as well as look at various options to reduce energy consumption in tribally owned buildings and residential structures.
The objective of this project is to reduce fuel use of the Winnebago police and fire building by 30% within two years through the installation of a 23-kW solar PV system and provide an alternative source of power for continued operations should grid power be unavailable.
The solar project will provide both economic and environmental benefits to the tribe, with the reduction of energy costs achieved through the use of renewable energy generated power for the police/fire building. By focusing on solar-generated power, the tribe will be able to address the first of its long-term goals outlined above. The solar project serves as a continued demonstration of the importance of decision making and continually looking for ways to conserve energy with a focus on renewable alternatives such as solar.
Implementation and installation will begin with the Winnebago Tribe's project manager initiating the procurement process with the tribe's vendor list. The project manager will draw on the expertise of the physical resources director and the tribal engineer in this process for project technical aspects. Once the negotiation process is complete and the contract in place, the precise layout placement of the installation will be confirmed with the engineering survey of the roof by the tribal engineer. The contracted entity will order the equipment, and the components, when received, will be inventoried and placed on the roof for installation. The racking will be assembled and panels mounted. Alternating and direct current wiring will be completed and the system commissioned. The project manager, physical resources director, and tribal engineer will observe to ensure a quality installation is completed by the contractor. The project manager will record energy usage throughout the project period and will record and compile readings from the inverters for the project narrative report.
Specifically, the installation of the solar system on this critical community building will be implemented using the following six steps:
NEPA and the Addressing of Special Conditions
Selection of Vendor for Solar Equipment Procurement and Installation
Vendor Selection and Application Submittal to Nebraska Public Power District
Installation of Energy System
Energy Usage Data Collection
Fuel Use and Savings Verification.
The project site is located in the village of Winnebago on the Winnebago Indian Reservation in northeast Nebraska. The Solar Project will assist the Winnebago Tribe power a single yet crucial building within the community—the police/fire building. The 8,000–square-foot masonry block/steel joist police/fire building was built in 1978.
This project is complete. For details, see the final report.
The project was competitively selected under the Tribal Energy Program's fiscal year 2013 funding opportunity announcement "Tribal Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Deployment Assistance" (DE-FOA-0000853) and started in March 2014.
The March 2014 and May 2015 project status report provides more information.
Tribe/Awardee
Winnebago Tribe
Winnebago, NE
Winnebago Tribe Solar Project
DOE Grant Number
DE-EE0006479
Project Amounts
DOE: $76,347
Awardee: $76,347
Total: $152,694
See project status
Project Period of Performance
Start: March 2014
End: February 2016
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British Drama from 1660 to 1840
Historians of the London theatre have long argued for the wonderful inventiveness and vitality of the Restoration stage; more recently, critics have begun to remind readers that plays written and performed between 1660 and the late eighteenth century (like other forms of literary expression in this period) fused parochial and domestic concerns with themes and plots located overseas. Over the course of the century, the stage became home to characters and socio-economic types who represented the enormous energies and anxieties that accompanied commercial and colonial expansion. In many ways then, the gratifications theatre offered its patrons and audiences were inescapably tied up with its ability to dramatize the coming into being of “Great Britain”—an imperial state possessed of a national culture and a people adequate to its needs. The syllabus will feature plays representative of the various forms of drama in this period, and will cover a great deal of literary-historical ground, while focusing on the relations between drama and cultural and socio-economic transitions. We will also examine the key categories (e. g. `Restoration Drama', `heroic tragedy', `sentimental comedy') that literary critics use to describe the English drama of the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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Oct 02, 2017 03:27 PM EDT By Char Little
'Braxton Family Values' 2017: Tamar Says Toni & Birdman Eloped 'I Think That's My Brother-In-Law' [VIDEO]
While most of us have forgotten about Toni Braxton’s relationship with Young Money CEO Birdman, the singer’s youngest sister, Tamar Braxton, has revealed she thinks they secretly tied the knot.
“Yep, they sure are [still together],” she said during an interview according to The Jasmine Brand recently. She went on to say Birdman was there when their mother, Evelyn Braxton, was sick.
“My mother got sick the other day, Sunday she told us she’s having heart surgery on Monday, she has the heart surgery and she gets to her room and 30 minutes later she has a stroke. [Birdman] was there the whole time! I think that’s my brother-in-law, I do. I think they eloped. I’m telling you, they is married.”
Toni kept her relationship with Birdman under wraps for quite a while. Or at least tried to. But they kind of publicized their relationship when he made multiple appearances on WeTV’s Braxton Family Values last season. Then, Toni spoke on the relationship with the rapper and record labal executive.
“When I’m on stage and I’m performing, that’st he only time that I get those butterflies and I feel totally happy with my life. A romantic relationship? I haven’t had time for that – I should say, I chose not to make time for it but it’s right here in front of my face, happiness.”
She went on to confirm that she was talking about Birdman, someone who she’s been friends with for years.
“It’s the weirdest thing,” she added. “Ten years ago, I never would’ve imagined me and B would be here. Who knows, this could be a great love affair.”
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Laura Roeder of LKR Social Media
Laura Roeder is the founder of LKR Social Media, which now is a team of six. Laura offers strategic consulting in the form of videos that you watch in your own office, on your own time, at your own pace. She has spoken at some of the most well respected events in her industry to include South by Southwest Interactive, BlogHer, and The Social Communications Summit. Laura has also been quoted in big name publications such as the LA Times, Bloomberg, and CNET.
“How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.” – Annie Dillard click to tweet!
Laura hates failure, and she doesn’t view anything she has done as failure… only mis-steps. Considering perception is reality, I would say this is a great attitude to have. All things being equal, she has a great lesson for us here.
Wake up, trade my time for money. Wake up, trade my time for money. Wake up, trade my time for money. Learn how Laura broke this vicious cycle.
LKR has some exciting things happening. Can you say… membership site?
Laura had the #1 “I’ve made it” story I’ve ever heard. It involves Richard Branson, animals, and Africa. You simply have to hear this.
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John Dumas: Okay. Let’s get started. I am simply pumped to introduce my new guest today, Laura Roeder. Laura, are you prepared to ignite?
Laura Roeder: I am!
John Dumas: Nice! That’s exactly the response that I was looking for. So Laura is the founder of LKR Social Media, which is now a team of six. She offers strategic consulting in the form of videos that you can watch in your own office, on your own time, at your own pace. She’s spoken at some of the most well-respected events in her industry to include South by Southwest Interactive, BlogHer, and the Social Communications Summit. She’s also been quoted in big name publications such as LA Times, Bloomberg and CNET.
Wow! Those are big hitters, Laura.
Laura Roeder: They are.
John Dumas: Listen, I’ve given a little bit of an overview of yourself, but why don’t you take us to in-depth about who you are and what you do?
Laura Roeder: Yes. So my company teaches small businesses about how to market using social media. We do that, like you said, through online classes. So it’s not in-person workshops. It’s basically like having a workshop on your own time, on your own computer.
So I’m not a typical consultant. I actually don’t do any one-on-one consulting. I actually believe that a business should learn how to do social media itself. I don’t think that social media is something you can just write a check to another company and have them do it for you. Even if you’re getting outside help, I think you really need to understand the strategy yourself. So that’s what I preach and that’s what I practice in my business.
John Dumas: Great! Did I get your numbers right? Are you still a team of six right now?
Laura Roeder: That’s correct.
John Dumas: Wonderful! Well, let’s transition into the first part of our show, which is the success quote. Because here at EntrepreneurOnFire, we like to get the motivational ball rolling. We like to get people excited and ready for the rest of the interview. So Laura, why don’t you start us off with your favorite success quote?
Laura Roeder: Okay. Well, I have to admit I’m not really a quotes person. So when I saw you wanted a quote, I did have to dig a little bit. There is a quote that I read recently that really stuck in my mind. It’s kind of simple. I hope it’s motivational enough. The quote is from a writer named Annie Dillard, and it’s “how we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.”
John Dumas: Very nice. What I’ll tell you is that most entrepreneurs’ first reaction is, “Man, I have so many success quotes! It’s so hard to choose! How can I possibly do that?” So it’s different and a little refreshing, and maybe it was good for you to go and dig a little bit and find a success quote because that definitely was a good one. How do you apply this to your everyday life?
Laura Roeder: To me, it’s a really nice reminder that the kind of mundane every day is our life. If I’m not enjoying what I do every single morning, then I’m not building a life that I enjoy, because I think we tend to focus on the highs and lows. Like the big wins or the big successes or the vacations or the big upsets or the big failures, but actually those are only little, tiny snapshots of our life. The vast majority of our life is just what we do every day, day in and day out.
John Dumas: True words, Laura. Very true words. So our next topic is failure. We’re going to really delve into this topic because it’s really the essence of everybody’s entrepreneurial journey, and EntrepreneurOnFire is all about the story. So let’s go back to a time when you’ve experienced failure. Start off by giving us the events that led up to that failure.
Laura Roeder: Okay. This is another area where [Laughs] – I don’t know if I’m a bad interview subject for you. I have an answer to this question, but I always have trouble answering this question when I get interviewed because I don’t look at my journey and see like the failure.
There has been loads of mistakes that I’ve made along the way, and I don’t know if it’s just how I interpret things, but to me, failure is like everything crashing and burning, and to me it never gets that bad [Laughs] because you can always sort of pick up and start where you left off and there’s no mistake that you can’t recover from.
So I was thinking I’ll just talk about a mistake that I have made, but I don’t really think of it as a failure.
John Dumas: Okay. Take your time in doing this. Again, this is kind of refreshing because what I typically hear from entrepreneurs is, “Oh my God! How could I choose one failure? I’ve had so many.” They do look at it as failures, which on some levels they are, but on other levels, it’s all about how you perceive things. Perception can be reality. So I like how you perceive your past mistakes. So let’s go into one or two, but let’s really flesh these out.
Laura Roeder: So one that comes to mind is waiting too long to scale a really core part of my business. I would say for me, a theme in developing my business has been scaling and figuring out how to scale more and how to scale faster and how to jump to that next level.
So when I first started my business, I was doing web design for local businesses, making them websites and some print materials, and that was just me doing everything. Doing the design for them, having one-on-one client type of business. After doing that for just about two years, I really saw the ceiling that I hit. That I couldn’t have a business that made as much money as I wanted doing that, because I only had so many hours a day, and realistically, there’s only so much that you can charge for a website.
So after doing that for about two years, I thought, okay, I need to start over. I need to start with a new model that can scale the way I want it to, that can build a multiple six figure or seven figure business. So at that point, at the beginning of 2009, I switched over.
At first I started doing social media consulting, sort of trying to find my way and what I would do next. Then I made my first online course. It was my first info product. For me, I really felt like I found my flow as an entrepreneur then. I felt like I found the model that worked that was a lot easier for me than consulting that sold better and that could scale, because I can make a class and I could sell that same class to thousands of people instead of doing the one-on-one work.
So that went along for a few years, but then I kind of more recently – really just really in the past year – saw that failing as well. Because at first I was doing the one-on-one work, and then I hit that ceiling. Then with my online courses, I was teaching all the courses myself, and because I do social media, you have to update and redo the courses all the time because it’s constantly changing.
So I found myself on this hamster wheel of redoing my courses over and over again. I had lots of ideas for new courses I wanted to do, but I only had so much time to create and edit and record them, and I was getting a little bit sick of it. I was starting to not look forward to recording a new course, instead of it being something that I was excited about.
So I had this idea in my head that I had to record all the courses myself. I’ve really built my business around my brand and my personality and my name, and I thought it had to be me doing all the courses. I think I really limited myself for way too long because I’m a good delegator and I had hired out other areas of my business like customer service and project management and building websites and technical things. I had hired all that out, but I had this idea in my head that I had to hang on to this one last little thing, which was recording the courses.
About a year ago – really a little less than a year ago – I finally let that go and brought in some help creating the courses as well, and other people actually teaching the courses. And now my business, now that I don’t have to record everything, now I can just scale so much bigger than I could before. I think I could have grown my business even faster than I have had I let myself kind of go to that next level earlier.
John Dumas: So you were cruising along, and then you hit a ceiling. At what point did you start to bring people into your business? Tell us about how that area unfolded.
Laura Roeder: So for me, it was something – first of all, my business was totally bootstrapped. So every dollar that’s gone into my business has been earned by my business. So I think this is an interesting topic. This is something people ask about a lot because it can feel like a real catch 22 when you’re bootstrapping because you don’t have thousands of dollars sitting around to hire salaried employees. I’ve grown my team very gradually. Basically, whenever I have the money, I hire someone new.
But when you are bootstrapping, you’re probably not going to be able to go out and get sort of a technical fulltime employee at that salary. So I’ve done it a variety of ways. A lot of people have started out with part time work for me, and because I’m an online business and because they can work from home, they can set their own hours, they can work whenever they like, I offer a lot of other benefits besides just pay.
So what I’ve done with most of the people that work for me is they start out at a reasonable rate, but definitely on the low end of the scale. A low, flat monthly rate working part time, and then some of those people have evolved into being fulltime employees as my need for them has grown and the business has grown and the revenue has grown.
John Dumas: Let’s talk about scalability versus trading time for money. I really love this topic. It’s so true to the Internet world. But I would love to hear your journey to actually being at a scalable place.
Laura Roeder: It’s something that I have really tried to keep my eye on relentlessly because it’s something really important to me in a business. My goals for building a business are building a business that I can step back from and that I can let other people run. I like to travel a lot and take a lot of time away from the computer. So I need to be able to build something that I can be off the computer for weeks or months at a time, and they can still go without me.
I’m not totally there yet right now in my business. It will go without me. It might not grow without me [Laughs]. It might stay about the same. How it is now. So it’s something that my team and I are always working on and evolving.
I just made another change just about a month ago that was a huge change in scalability. This is another sort of a mistake story. You could view it as a mistake. So something that I did when I started my business is like I said, I had a course, and then I added another course. I started with a course on Twitter, and then I added one about making a website and one about Facebook, and people bought them individually. They were all standalone courses.
But we were having this problem because we specialize in helping people that are new to social media. People are always coming to us saying, “Well, you offer a Twitter course and a Facebook course, but how could I possibly know which course I’m supposed to take? That’s why I’m coming to you, right? That’s why I’m going to your website. So you can tell me, do I need to be on Twitter? Do I need to be on Facebook? Do I need to blog?”
So we had this sort of weird situation where it’s like you almost didn’t know what course you needed until you already bought it, and we were getting a lot of requests for a package where you could buy everything. In the past, we made it really hard to buy more than one thing because we didn’t even have a shopping cart. We had individual order forms. So if you wanted to buy more than one course, you would just have to fill out your billing info over and over again. We really, really didn’t make it easier or streamlined at all.
So in January or February, we were working on – it was actually at the time it was just going to be a one off special promotion where we offered a bundle of all of our courses. So we’re working on this promotion and how are we going to deliver it and how are we going to market it. As we get more and more into that process, we suddenly realized, why isn’t this just our business? [Laughs]
What we’re selling, what we’re thinking about offering is one little promo. That would really simplify everything because something that I saw happening with a bunch of different courses, well, if you’re doing it right, that means you also have a bunch of different landing pages, a bunch of different marketing sequences. Each course obviously is worked to build out and to update and to deliver, and then you have all the marketing that surrounds it as well.
I try to be good about things. Like if people opt in for three different things, I’m not sending them 20 emails and getting in 20 different sequences. So the more stuff you build, it gets really complicated, setting up all these rules for which promotional materials are getting and not getting, and not getting to the same sequence at once, related to different products.
Our plan was to grow our business by adding more products. So as far as scale goes, I looked into the future and saw that was going to become this kind of tangled web. So we decided, well, let’s just make this our whole business. Let’s drop our individual courses and instead, we’re going to have one site that you can subscribe to monthly, and that will contain all of our previous courses, new courses, social media updates, a forum where people can get help. Sort of like everything that our customers always wanted all in one site. That’s what’s called Social Media Marketer. That’s what I launched in July this year.
That was another one of those big steps to help my business scale, because now the marketing is so much simpler because now we have one program that we sell.
John Dumas: Looking ahead is very valuable, especially when you have a situation like the one you foresaw. So I definitely commend you for that.
Laura Roeder: Yes. I think that’s a really important scale. It’s kind of looking at what you’re doing. I always talk about that in marketing. Is the marketing that you’re doing, will it just sort of keep your business at the same place, or will it actually get you much further ahead in five years?
John Dumas: We’re going to transition into the next topic right now. I’m very excited about this one because you’ve been so contrarian up to this point. I really can’t wait to hear your answer to this one, because as we’ve spoken about many times, an entrepreneur goes through a journey, and we’ve touched upon some not so-called failures but mistakes you’ve made in your past, and you progressed forward.
You’ve already touched upon a couple smaller aha moments that you’ve had where a light bulb has come on. You’ve seen the future, you’ve seen where your business is going. Let’s really take one and build upon that. Let’s talk about an aha moment that you had where you just saw the light, the light bulb came on, and you said, “Yes. This is me. This is what I want to do.” What were the events that led up to that moment?
Laura Roeder: So one that I had was about my newsletter. So in early 2009, late 2008, that’s when I fired all my web design clients. I decided I couldn’t do web design anymore. I wasn’t going to do it. I was going to do something totally new. In the beginning I didn’t know exactly what shape that would take, but I knew that it had something to do with social media and social media marketing.
So for my new business, I knew that sending out email was really, really important to market my business. Like a lot of entrepreneurs, I have tried to do an email newsletter and I had failed miserably. I tried to do a monthly one for my web design business. Some months, I would get it out. I usually wouldn’t. It was never very good. I didn’t really know what to write about.
I thought, well, if I’m going to make this new business take off, I really am going to make a commitment. I want to have a weekly newsletter and I want to publish it every single week without fail. I started thinking about, okay. If I’m going to do that, I have to have a plan so that it’s realistic, because I knew that if my plan was to write a full article every week – and by the way, I think newsletters have evolved a lot in the past few years since 2008, 2009.
John Dumas: Very true.
Laura Roeder: When I was making this change. So at the time. I think we’re a little different now. Actually, there’s a lot of them that have used my model. It’s become quite common now. I’m not the only one to have thought of it, but I was one of the early ones.
At the time, newsletters were mostly lists of very long articles where people would have a newsletter that was either one long article, or often it would be one to five really long articles all in the newsletter because you were supposed to give people a lot of really meaty content.
I do not like to write. I like to talk and I like to do videos, and writing articles is really tough for me. Really slow and really painful. So I’m like, man, I don’t know how I’m going to do a weekly newsletter. I can’t write these articles. So I thought about newsletters that I read and what I like and what I don’t like, and I thought, well, I really never read all these articles anyway. It would be awesome to have a newsletter that could give me just one little tip every week instead of the long article. Like just cut it down to the meat and just tell me what to do every week.
So with that idea, I started thinking, okay. Well, I should base that on questions my customers are asking. That would be the great content for the newsletter. Then I thought, no, that won’t really work because the questions people ask are too simple, because the kind of questions I was getting from my customers were things like, how do I leave a comment on a blog? I don’t know what forms to fill out, or how do I upload a photo to Facebook, or how do I friend with someone on Facebook?
Really, really simple things, and I thought, no, I can’t put that in my newsletter because everyone is going to think it’s silly. I thought about like social media people reading my newsletter and being like, “Well, why is she telling people how to leave a comment? Everybody knows how to leave a comment.”
John Dumas: [Laughs]
Laura Roeder: But I knew that my customers didn’t because they were asking me [Laughs] how to leave a comment. It was confusing them. I would say my aha moment was when I realized that I wasn’t writing for my peers. That I was writing for my customers, and that I was never going to win any emissary awards on some groundbreaking new piece of content, but I was telling my customers what they wanted and what a lot of other people weren’t telling them because they were trying to come up with something more impressive or more unique.
I feel like that was a huge aha for me that shaped my newsletter and a lot of other decisions I’ve made in my business. I used that format for my newsletter, which I see a lot of people use – the sort of one tip a week. Since then, it’s been a backbone of my business. I started it the first week of January of 2009, and it’s gone out every single Wednesday ever since.
John Dumas: When people could expect one tip a week, that really means something. On a much smaller and different level, that’s why I’m having my success quote every episode of EntrepreneurOnFire, which is five days a week, is because your audience was looking forward to this specific tip they knew they were going to receive, just like my audience looks forward to an entrepreneur that they admire with their favorite success quote.
So I definitely see where you were going with that. It’s definitely been a success. You have over 30,000 subscribers. That’s an enormous number. So congratulations for that.
Has LKR, or have you as Laura Roeder, have you had an “I made it” moment?
Laura Roeder: [Laughs] Have I had an I made it moment? Yes, yes. I think I have. What comes to mind for me is I got to go – okay. Well, I’ll tell the whole story. So there’s a woman named Marie Forleo that I used to run a business with. Marie still runs it. It’s doing really awesome. So Marie’s business, it’s a business for entrepreneurial women. It’s called “Rich, Happy & Hot.” We ran a program together called Rich, Happy & Hot B-School,” which was an online program that taught women how to have online business.
Marie and I, I guess at that point, we had done B-School just once, and she had gotten connected with Virgin Unite, which is the charitable arm of the Virgin Group of Companies, Richard Branson’s company. I knew that Virgin Unite, I had heard that they did these special trips an entrepreneur has got to go on where you do some charity work and you meet other entrepreneurs and you get to meet Richard Branson and he’s there. I knew that Marie was meeting with Virgin Unite. She was excited that she was having this meeting, and like I just knew that something good and something exciting was going to happen.
I remember she called me. I remember I was in Las Vegas for a conference. She called me after the meeting and she told me that they had invited us to go on what’s called a Virgin Connect trip to South Africa. So we were going to go on safari with Richard Branson and go to the Virgin Center for Entrepreneurship in Johannesburg and…
John Dumas: Wow!
Laura Roeder: Yes [Laughs]. Oh my God! It was the ultimate dream for me because I love all the entrepreneurship stuff, I love all the nonprofit stuff, I love Richard Branson, and I’m a huge animal lover, and I had always wanted to go on safari.
John Dumas: This is the best trip ever!
Laura Roeder: Yes! It was like the best. The best trip ever! So we said yes on the spot. In order to go on the trip, you have to make a big donation to Virgin Unite. Like way more money than I had ever donated before, and I was – I’m only 28 now. This was, I don’t know, a year or two ago. I guess two years ago. So I was very young. I wasn’t that far along in my business, and it was just an instant yes. Like we have to do this. It doesn’t matter how much it costs. We’re in. When making that decision and being there, I really felt like, Wow! This is really cool. This is so many things that I’ve always wanted in my life kind of all culminating at once. So that was an amazing experience.
John Dumas: That is, by far, the best I made it moment that EntrepreneurOnFire has had. So thank you so much, and you no longer have to feel bad for not having failures or not liking success quotes or all of those things. You have just blown it out of the water.
Laura Roeder: Excellent. I made it up in the end.
John Dumas: So let’s talk about your current business right now. You’re rolling along in your current business. You have a team of six people. You’re working on scalability. You’re thinking of the future. You’re doing all the right things. What’s one thing that is really exciting you about LKR Social Media?
Laura Roeder: Well, it’s such a fun time right now because as I said, we’re really in the beginning stages of this whole new undertaking in our business. So actually, the first month just went through. So anybody who’s ever done a subscription knows that that’s kind of the big moment because you can do a special offer. We did a big special offer for the launch and you can get people in the door, and we had a very successful launch and got a lot of people. But then we were kind of crossing our fingers like, okay, they’ll buy it. But does anybody like it enough to stay in?
I’m happy to report, [Laughs] it’s doing very well.
John Dumas: Nice.
Laura Roeder: It’s doing very well and we’ve had a great retention rate. So it’s a really fun time because there’s so much to play with. We spend a lot of time planning what all the content was going to be. I’m really good at being organized and planning things in advance. So we kind of have, as far as running the site and maintaining it and generating the content, that’s kind of locked and loaded. So we really have the freedom to really dive in to the site, spend a lot of time on the forum, getting to know the entrepreneurs that are there and just brainstorming, how can we make this really fun? How can we make this really cool? How can we make it more educational and more enjoyable for the people that are inside the forum?
So I think that’s always a really great place to be in your business, where you have sort of the baseline established, and now you get to plan and make it even better.
John Dumas: For a lot of our listeners today, they look at entrepreneurs and they say, “What the heck do these guys do on a daily basis?” Now, I know that your day changes from week to week, from month to month, from day to day, but let’s pull the curtain back a little bit. There are definitely commonalities that you have during the course of each day. So give us two tasks that occupy a good part of your day seemingly every day.
Laura Roeder: For me, a big part of it is writing. Basically, my role in my company right now is marketing. I mean, I kind of lead and run the company, but I also have a project manager that really runs and manages a lot of the day to day. So my job is marketing. I had no idea when you do an online business, how much writing you’re doing all the time. I feel like that’s all I do. I mentioned that I don’t like writing articles, but I do like writing marketing. I really like writing email marketing campaigns and putting together sales pitches and opt-in pages and things like that.
So two things that I do every day, I’m always working on some sort of marketing. Like an email campaign or tweaking an opt-in page, looking at ads and how they’re converting. That’s a new thing for me because I never did advertising the first few years of my business, and this year we’re trying to put more money in advertising to see if that’s a way that we can scale faster.
So basically kind of – well, for me, marketing, and then like I said, right now I’m going into Social Media Marketer and talking to people. Helping people out and seeing what people are excited about, what questions they have.
John Dumas: Okay. In 30 seconds, share with us something that’s really exciting you about the future of the online world as you see it.
Laura Roeder: Something that’s really exciting me about the future of the online world is I think people are getting more creative, and I know that that’s something that’s always been important to me. So something you see a lot in the online, and any industry, is kind of there’s one head guy, and then everybody else kind of does the same thing. So you see the same types of programs and the same websites and the same newsletters.
When I was researching how to put Social Media Marketer together, I kept finding all these stuff. Like there are three types of membership sites and this is the only way to do it. I kind of thought, no, that’s not really the only way to do it. I feel like now that online marketing and online businesses have a little bit of a footing, it’s still a new thing, but online businesses – it’s 2012. We’ve been going strong for 10 years now, at least.
Now, people are starting to branch out and to explore a little more. I love to see when people get creative and they do new types of programs and new types of structures and new types of marketing. That’s what I would like to see a lot more of.
John Dumas: I’m definitely looking forward to seeing that develop as well. So we’ve now reached my favorite part of the show. We’re about to enter the Lightning Round.
Laura Roeder: Oohh…
John Dumas: [Laughs] This is where I’m going to provide you with a series of questions, and you’re going to provide us with a series of amazing and mind-blowing answers.
Laura Roeder: [Laughs] Alright.
John Dumas: Does that sound like a plan?
Laura Roeder: I’m ready!
John Dumas: [Laughs] No pressure, of course. What was the number one thing that was holding you back from becoming an entrepreneur?
Laura Roeder: I was really worried about how young I was. Well, I was really young, and I look and I sound even younger than I am. I was convinced that no one would listen to me and no one would take me seriously, and that did happen to a degree. But I did it anyway.
John Dumas: What is the best business advice you ever received?
Laura Roeder: Something that I learned from Eben Pagan that I always think about is “People don’t fail. Systems fail.” What that means is that whenever you have a problem, a mistake, a breakdown, instead of looking at the person and saying, “You did this wrong,” you need to look at what system did we have messed up, or more likely, what system did we not have in place at all that caused this to happen? Then you can fix the root of the problem.
John Dumas: You might have just found your favorite success quote.
Laura Roeder: Oh, maybe that is. I didn’t even realize that.
Laura Roeder: [Laughs]
John Dumas: What is something that’s working for you and/or LKR Social Media right now?
Laura Roeder: Something that’s working for me right now is – oh, what should I pick? What should I pick? It’s boring, but email marketing. Email marketing is always my favorite. It’s always the winner. It’s what I always go back to. Something that I’ve been digging into is I’ve been writing a new sequence of really detailed long, long emails. Kind of like those newsletters [Laughs] that I was complaining about earlier.
So I don’t know if it’s like a trend going back around, but I’ve been writing emails that are just – not articles, but just like I’m talking to someone, sort of telling them everything I know about how to get more views on your video on YouTube or how to get more followers on Twitter. Just written really casually, just advice like everything I know about this topic, and people are loving that. It’s been working really well.
John Dumas: That’s great. I mean, you now have over 30,000 passionate, devoted subscribers. So you can get a little more in-depth because these people feel like they know you and they want to hear what you have to say.
I can kind of compare that to one of my buddies, Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income, who writes these very long, detailed, intimate emails that really resonate with the audience. So I think that if that’s the kind of email that you’re getting into, it’s a great path to take.
Laura Roeder: Yes. I love his stuff too.
John Dumas: What is the best business book that you’ve read in the last six months?
Laura Roeder: My favorite is “Double Double” by Cameron Herold. Cameron is the one who has been a mentor to me and taught me a lot about business and I learned from Cameron about how corporate culture is something that applies not to just big businesses, but small online businesses like mine. Double Double is awesome because it tells you exactly what to do. It’s a very, very actionable book, a very easy read. I would highly recommend it to everyone.
John Dumas: Great! Thank you. We’ll have that in the show notes so people can just go and click the link there.
So this is the last question. This is by far my favorite question. It’s kind of a tricky one, so take your time. Think about it, digest it and give us the best answer you can. If you woke up tomorrow morning and you still had all of your experience and knowledge that you currently have, but LKR Social Media had completely disappeared so you essentially had a clean slate, which is how a lot of our listeners find themselves right now – with a clean slate – what would you do in the next seven days?
Laura Roeder: Oh, in the next seven days? I wasn’t expecting it in that way.
John Dumas: That’s the twist.
Laura Roeder: [Laughs] It is a twist! I mean, I guess if I had a clean slate, I really love my business. I love so many things about my business. I love my model. I love that it’s all online. I love that we don’t have an office. I love working with small businesses. They’re my favorite people to work with because I think they make a big difference in the world, in the economy, and the stuff I teach them can make a huge difference in their bottom lines. So it’s really rewarding.
So I would start a very similar business to what I have now. The only thing that I might change to make my life easier is like I mentioned before, when you do social media, you have to repaint everything constantly. Whenever Twitter comes out with a new look, which they love to do all the time, we have to update our videos, because otherwise it confuses people if they’re following along with something that’s out of date.
So I think I would start something that was the exact same. Maybe instead of doing social media, I would just do kind of business advice, marketing advice that’s more evergreen. Kind of how I’ve built a business and my philosophies about it, which I’m always kind of sort of sharing anyway and spreading through the business that I do. So I think I would start the same kind of online business. Maybe make it a little easier by not doing social media.
John Dumas: Great! Great answer. That’s going to do it for this interview. So Laura, thank you so much for joining us today. You’ve given us some great actionable advice, and Fire Nation is definitely better for it.
So give us one parting piece of advice, and then give yourself a plug, and then we’ll peace out.
Laura Roeder: Alright. Sounds good. My parting piece of advice would be that you can’t predict the future. This is something that I’m always telling small business owners. You don’t know how anything is going to work out, ever. So you just have to give it a shot and you just have to give it a try, because so many people get stuck spinning their wheels and not moving forward because they say, “Well, I want to start this program or service, but I don’t know if anybody’s going to buy it.”
You have to remember that you’ll never know if anybody’s going to buy it. There’s never going to be that moment in your life where you get psychic ability. Maybe that’s true for you. That’d be pretty awesome if it was. So you just have to jump in and do it. So that’s my parting advice.
You can find me at lkrsocialmedia.com. I would love to chat with you on Facebook at Facebook.com/lkrsocialmedia, or on Twitter, @LKR.
John Dumas: Awesome, Laura. We’ll catch you on the flipside.
Laura Roeder: Thank you.
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1 Laura Maria Caterina Bassi
1.1 A recognisable talent
1.1.1 The first female professor
1.2 Widespread fame
1.2.1 Scientific achievements
Leading the way for female academics
Name: Laura Maria Caterina Bassi
Nationality: Italian
Fields: Experimental physics, Newtonian theory and electricity
Claim to fame: First woman to officially teach in a European university
After Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to receive a doctorate, in 1678, Italian academia began, very slowly, to accept women in its midst. In 1732, another Italian woman, Laura Maria Caterina Bassi (1711-1778), became the second to be awarded a doctorate and went on to be the first woman to teach in a European university. Bassi’s lifelong scientific career had a profound influence on Italian science in the 18th century.
A recognisable talent
Born in Bologna on 31 October 1711, Laura Maria Caterina Bassi was the only one of her parent’s children to survive into adulthood. The family was a wealthy one and Bassi’s lawyer father paid for his daughter to be privately educated. Between the ages of 13 and 20, Bassi was tutored by Gaetano Tacconi, the family’s physician and a professor at the University of Bologna, who taught her philosophy and metaphysics. Tacconi recognised her prodigious talent and decided to promote it in Bologna’s academic circles.
Bassi quickly came to be noticed by Cardinal Prospero Lambertini (later Pope Benedict XIV) who had returned to the city of his birth in 1731 as Archbishop of Bologna. The Cardinal, who had himself studied science in his youth, encouraged Bassi in her scientific work and became her most influential patron. In 1732, Lambertini persuaded Bassi to participate in public debates and cast her in the role of symbol for the scientific and cultural regeneration of the city.
The first female professor
At the age of only 20, Bassi was given a teaching position at the University of Bologna, the oldest university in Europe. This was a radical step as it made her the first woman to officially teach at a European university. Her doctorate, only the second ever awarded to a woman, was conferred on her at a lavish public ceremony, at which she was also presented with an ermine cape, a jewelencrusted silver crown of laurels and a ring.
A commemorative medal was struck in her honour. Despite this public veneration and her appointment to a chair of philosophy two years later, Bassi’s teaching opportunities were few at this stage in her career. It was deemed improper for her to teach a room full of male students and so she gave only occasional lectures at public events to which women were invited.
Widespread fame
As a result of her unique position, Bassi’s name became widely known in academic circles and one biographer notes that “no scholar would pass through Bologna without being eager for her learned conversation”. Her correspondents included the French philosopher Voltaire and during 1744-5 she helped him to become a member of the Bologna Academy of Science.
At around the same time, Pope Benedict XIV established an elite group of 25 scholars, known as the Benedettini (the Benedictines, named after the Pope). Bassi lobbied fervently to be appointed a member of the group, whose members greeted this with mixed reactions. Eventually, her efforts paid off and the Pope admitted her. This not only supplemented her income, but expanded her opportunities for collaboration and to share her work: from 1746 until two years before her death, Bassi gave annual presentations to the Benedictine academy.
During the second half of her life, Bassi was renowned in scientific circles for her ability to teach experimental physics and for her work in areas including mechanics, hydrometry, elasticity and other properties of gases. She also continued to contribute to debates on electricity. In 1776, at the age of 65, Bassi was appointed to the chair in experimental physics by the Institute of Sciences, with her husband as her official teaching assistant. She died two years later, on 20 February 1778, bringing to a close a lifelong career in physics which was groundbreaking for women in academia.
Bassi is remembered largely for being the first woman to officially teach at a university in Europe, but she was also pioneering in the subjects that she chose to teach. Her main interest was in the work of the English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton and she was one of the first scholars to teach Newtonian natural philosophy in Italy. This world-view holds that the forces of nature obey natural laws that can be quantified, predicted and, at times, controlled, as opposed to the view that nature is subject to supernatural forces. Bassi taught courses on Newtonian physics for 28 years, a pursuit which made her a key figure in introducing Newton’s ideas of physics and natural philosophy to Italy.
Throughout her career, Bassi conducted research in a variety of scientific fields. She published 28 papers in all, the vast majority of which were on physics and hydraulics. Whilst none of her scientific works brought significant new advances, her career was important for the positions and respect she attained. As Gabriella Berti Logan wrote in the American Historical Review, “What made Bassi unique was that she made use of rewards, that would normally have remained symbolic, to carve out a position for herself in the scientific community of her town and to contribute to its intellectual life through her research and teaching.”
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Brian Davey explores the decision of Ineos, one of the world’s largest chemical companies, to promote fracking. The Ineos majority shareholder, Jim Ratcliffe, claims fracking could regenerate northern Britain despite evidence that the strategy is “a mirage that would lead to a mountain of debt and a mountain of garbage”.
Base Fortune, now I see, that in thy wheel
There is a point, to which when men aspire,
They tumble headlong down..
– Christopher Marlowe – from his play “Edward the Second”
Let’s start with the BIG STORY. Any PR or advertising agency will tell their clients that they have to have a story. The story can amuse, stimulate or inspire. The aim of this is to emotionally engage with the public or a market segment. They are invited to identify with the story, to become a part of it, to share in the action.
For example, here’s a story in just two letters and two words: “BP” meaning “Beyond Petroleum”. It explained how that company saw its future. OK, the story went, we are a fossil fuel company – but we are trying to move in the right direction – so fill up at a BP station before we’ve got the solar panels in place. OK?
Then, in 2010, disaster struck the Beyond Petroleum story in the Gulf of Mexico. A vast marine eco-system was trashed by a leaking well drilled from a BP Platform called “Deepwater Horizon”. A huge media storm focused on the shoddy reality behind the slogan “Beyond Petroleum”. BP was now perceived as a reckless and aggressive company that played little heed to safety or environment. In this media storm Tony Hayward, the Chief Executive of BP, made it worse for the company and himself. Someone leaked that in a private meeting he had asked his fellow executives: “What the hell did we do to deserve this?”. He was thereafter repeatedly asked how could he ask such a stupid question.
PR, if based on a flawed story, or on a lie, has a way of turning against those who attempt to make use of it.
The Ineos Saga
So what is the inspiring story for Ineos – the company 2/3 owned by the Beverley Grammar School Boy made good, long distant runner, team leader, international business magnate Jim Ratcliffe? Many people will remember Ratcliffe and his company as the one that moved its HQ to Switzerland to avoid paying UK taxes so it has struggled with its PR – however, nowadays Ratcliffe and Ineos want to be associated with another story and this article is about having a critical look at it. This is the narrative in which, by supporting the fracking of shale, Britain will gain a cheap new energy source that will revive manufacturing, leading to the regeneration of large parts of the north of England and of Scotland.
By combining £600 million of Ineos money with the fracking expertise that they have bought in from the USA, and adding these together with the ” understanding of extractive industries” that communities in the North of England possess after coal mining… great things can happen. Jobs. Industry. Who knows, perhaps Ineos might pay some tax too…
But what’s really going to happen? Every good story has high stakes and an uncertain ending. There’s no dramatic tension otherwise. As the Hero embarks on the great journey there are challenges and doubts over whether they will succeed. To add tension the tests and challenges, the rewards and risks get bigger. In the Ineos saga it started as an innovating entrepreneur creating a new company. The name of Ineos is derived from Greek words conveying innovation and newness. Now, many years later, the story is whether the company will go bust – or whether it will become the saviour of Northern Britain’s industrial legacy.
There are different kinds of stories. In one kind the apparent hero is found wanting. Some stories are about hubris – about people who overestimate themselves, discover limits that they did not know existed, find themselves in a spot of difficulty, perhaps gambling to escape their predicament – and it all ends unhappily. To be a really good tragedy the chief protagonist does not just make practical and strategic mistakes. The story ends badly because ethical or moral tests are failed too.
The Ineos Gamble
In the Ineos story there is no certainty about the ending either. The desire to frack in the UK is an expensive gamble and it could go wrong in lots of different ways. Here are a few of those ways:
There could be insufficient gas for fracking to be commercially viable. In Poland in 2011 there was an idea that there was about to be a shale gas bonanza. 75 exploratory wells were sunk. 25 were fracked and although gas was found the flow was between 10% and 33% of what would be needed for commercial viability. So the gas exploration companies lost interest. If that were to happen to Ineos in the UK it would be a disaster for them in this country. Instead of Ineos making northern Britain Great Again it could easily go bust like it nearly did shortly after the financial crisis of 2008. Here’s why…
Ineos is a business empire constructed out of the pieces that other petro-chemical companies didn’t want – where the pieces for the construction were paid for by borrowing. That’s why their company propaganda is not only full of stuff about their technological prowess but about their skill at handling their finances . They are proud of their ability to juggle with their debt arrangements. It’s also why they are so desperate to get cheap UK feedstock and cheap energy for their chemical operations at Grangemouth and Runcorn. Cheap gas in the USA extracted by fracking has been useful to them in their operations there. They are trying to survive in a global market and want cheap gas, extracted on the spot, for their UK operations too. They are prepared to gamble money on the hope that this is possible. If they don’t get that cheap gas they not only lose that investment, they are stuck with the problem of how to find cheap energy and ethane as North Sea gas fields decline.
There is massive overcapacity in the chemicals industry as the chart shows. When there is overcapacity in an industry there is fierce competition. Each company tries to ensure that it is their business rivals that suffer from idle production facilities while they succeed in keeping busy. A glut of products pushes down prices – which, in this case, means a glut of plastics. The name of the game is not expansion – it is survival – so that other companies go out of business and not the one that you are running.
While Ineos are telling us about regeneration, expansion and jobs, in their private business discussions they will probably be talking about what how to deal with an ageing population and stagnant markets for generic products, about how to deal with competitors in other countries producing the same products but with lower energy costs, about Chinese competition and about what to do in a recession. They will also be discussing what to do if, as looks increasingly likely, there is another credit crunch like 2007-2008. Ineos are still dependent on debt finance.
To repeat, Ineos want to frack to reduce their costs of production because they are in a corner. Ratcliffe may want to believe himself the regenerator of the North of Britain – that he will win through against the odds, that he will prove wrong any people who doubted him along the way – but some chemical companies are likely to go out of business. The way it’s going one of them could be his.
Where the Ineos fantasy comes from
The international chemicals industry in general and plastics in particular are in a hyper competitive state. In a hyper competitive state Ineos are disadvantaged by energy prices in Europe that are higher than elsewhere in the world. In 2011 Ineos testified to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee that there was a problem with a high carbon price in the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme. It would make British and European companies that use a lot of energy uncompetitive with places like China. There was a danger, they argued, that their competitors outside Europe would win. The emissions would occur in China rather than Britain and Europe and they might be driven out of business. We have an important role in “the Green Economy” they claimed, pointing at their development of technological processes to develop fuel and electricity from municipal waste. However there had to be a way of squaring the circle on European climate policy – because all that was happening was that European policy was driving high energy (= high carbon) industrial operations like chemicals and plastics to China where the greenhouse gas emissions of production were even higher than in Britain and Europe. The chemicals, plastics and industrial products were being exported back to Europe and companies like Ineos were losing markets.
That was in 2011 and the story moved on. Ineos companies in the USA were finding their costs lowered by using gas from fracking and Ratcliffe and his management team were looking to import that gas into the UK by building ships especially designed to carry liquified gas. But this was only an imperfect interim solution for the Ineos UK operations. While cheap in America the gas is not so cheap for Ineos over here after paying the toll for liquifying it and the costs of transporting it. A far better solution for the needs of Ineos seemed to be for the UK to develop its own fracking industry seemed to be.. The North Sea as the major UK source for natural gas is in decline but the big idea now was that onshore gas from fracking would not only revive the fortunes of Ineos but of all energy intensive economic sectors. That has been the apparent epiphany – under the leadership of Ratcliffe a grandiose vision of industrial regeneration was born. However, to be missionaries for shale and fracking, you have to brush the problems under a carpet.
According to Ratcliffe, quoted in the Guardian, “a lot of the opposition to fracking is based on hearsay and rumour”. In fact there are now nearly 700 academic articles published between 2009 and the end of 2015 about fracking, public health and the environment. The overwhelming majority of the studies that contain field data show potential or actual contamination of water or air. 31 of the studies assess the dangers to public health – 26 of them indicate public health hazards, elevated risks or adverse health outcomes. http://www.psehealthyenergy.org/site/view/1233
Decision making under conditions of uncertainty – making up your mind and then sticking to it
It is difficult to be sure without knowing him a lot better how Ratcliffe came to say and apparently believe that opposition to fracking is based on hearsay. It brings to mind the comment of BP’s Tony Hayward mentioned earlier. It raises interesting questions about how aware and self aware are many “captains of industry”. One of the most interesting sides of economic theory which overlaps with human psychology is decision making under conditions of uncertainty. That’s decision making where you know some things, where you think you know some things and where there are a lot of things that you don’t know. Daniel Kahneman, who won what is called the Nobel Prize for Economics, has particularly focused on this. For Kahneman a crucial feature of good decision making is not to overestimate the importance and significance of what you think that you know – while at the same time underestimating what you don’t know. This is very difficult because people construct their interpretation of the world from what they know. Indeed they may feel particularly proud of their specialist and professional knowledge. They may feel that it gives them unique and special insights, have an expertise that other people lack that makes them THE industry experts on a particular matter. In the anti fracking struggle one sees this all the time from some rather arrogant engineers and geologists who feel that they are uniquely qualified to opine on fracking (or indeed other topics too )– not acknowledging that environmental scientists, public health professionals, economists, climate scientists and many others each have professional and scientific angles on the matter that is also worthy of consideration and respect. In Germany there is even a special name for this kind of person – a Fachidiot – where Fach means a specialist subject discipline and idiot means idiot – a greek word for someone who focused exclusively on their private interests and did not take an interest in wider politics and public affairs.
Of course everyone tends to underestimate what they don’t know in favour of what they do know (or think they know). It is not just a problem among frackademics. In his book, Thinking Fast and Slow, Kahneman labels the common fallacy that underpins most of how we interpret and decide about things – he calls it the WYSIATI fallacy – What You See Is All There Is. It is related to “optimism bias” and “planning fallacy” – assuming things will work as we plan them, on time and on budget, because of not realising that there will always be unknown unknowns to drive us off track. This “optimism bias” is a feature too of expectations for health and safety and environmental consequences. Other people call this Murphy’s Law. If things can go wrong then eventually they will. And they sure as hell will for Ineos too.
Of course what we see is not all there is – the German philosopher Heidegger describes our experience of being in the world with the metaphor of being in a clearing in a forest – what we see are what’s in the clearing but beyond that things remain unknown to us. (“Die Lichtung des Seins” in German – where Lichtung means clearing and Sein means ‘being’. It is helpful perhaps to notice that in German the word Lichtung contains the word Licht – light, that which illuminates). Others speak of a “cloud of unknowing”. In different circumstances politicians and military types speak of the “fog of war”. To get a proper sense of where we are really, it helps to realise that we are lost. Yet there are some kinds of people who have to give the appearance of knowing just where they are, and exactly what they are doing all the time, otherwise these wizards would freak the markets and scare away the people who follow their leadership and lend them money. Then there is a certain kind of stupid economist who claims that, while each individual only has a partial view, all market actors together have the complete view and thus hypothesize the existence of perfect markets. And in perfect markets clever entrepreneurs like Jim Ratcliffe collectively make the right decisions. Everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds in this world view – earlier mocked by Voltaire’s in the philosophy of his character Dr Pangloss. The problem with this view is that when you give people the idea that they could be infallible then, after a run of luck, they start overesstimating themselves, ignore their critics and set themselves and other people up for some disastrous mistakes. This is the hubris story by the way – the ones that the leaders of BP set themselves up for.
Groupthink – why corporate leaders and politicans ignore evidence once they have made up their minds
Managers spend their time trying to work out how to develop their business, and how to survive in a competitive market, are of course aware that they must devote some of their attention to health and safety and environmental issues. What a shame then that devoting attention to such matters competes for their time with many other things to be resolved and strategies that need to be worked on. Of course business strategies must embrace as much information as possible – but once you are embarked on a strategy, and above all, once you have made the public declarations and started to raise and commit millions in investment, then you cannot easily change your mind. You cannot keep chopping and changing. This is even more the case if you have borrowed a lot of money to advance your strategy. For your own psychological peace of mind too it will not do to start doubting decisions that involve a lot of money, a lot of creditors. These decisions also underpin your relationships with your management team who are pursuing the same plan, not to mention your relationships with the rest of the workforce.
Academics, activists can chop and change and try to get to the bottom of things – but for the captains of industry there are powerful pressures to retain their focus even if real life reveals a host of issues that they did not know at first – indeed that could not know at first. That’s why, as they plough ahead with their business strategies, the temptation must sometimes be to pull down blinkers. The more that you have at stake and already committed the greater the psychological pressure to refuse to acknowledge inconvenient new information that is telling you a mistake has been made.
In this regard one of the psychological insights of Kahneman is that decision makers who are trapped start gambling. When all options seembad the attempt to escape seems to justify taking great risks that would otherwise not be taken. In current circumstances Ineos operations in Europe are trapped by high energy and feedstock costs and the shale gas “solution” to their problems is a big commitment of resources that is a gamble to try to break themselves free and restore their ability to compete internationally. The relevant insight from this is that they are likely to want to play this all the way through, despite the low chances of success because there are no other options. In this situation, their willingness of accepting any new information about health and environment risks to anyone else might be reduced.
The ability to sustain gambles like this will be buttressed when supported by a wider network of interests. A vested interest coalition is involved too. The larger group has also refused to review its earlier decisions and to admit that they were wrong too or to take in new information. The prospect of losing credibility and making a humiliating U turn is very offputting. Politicians, many engineering and geologist academics, as well as specialist officials often have long standing collegiate relationships. It is not surprising that this wider circle are still trotting out the message from the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering. Ineos PR use the Royal Academy and RAE’s report as well as a very partial report by Public Health England on the limited topic of “fracking emissions”. However these were written very early and before most of the peer reviewed academic articles about public health, environmental and climate concerns started flooding out of other departments of the universities. The later studies have not matched up with the earlier group think that geologists and engineers had said about safety. However these earlier reports by specialist academics writing partly out of their subject areas have given the cover thatis still cited as evidence for the faith that holds the frackers together. These reports still “prove” safety and they are clearly too complacent. They are still too focused on what geologists assume might be the problems – deep underground, underplaying a host of problems on the surface, issues of scale and wider gas field development, in addition to a long standing problem of well integrity. This has made it necessary for anti fracking campaigners to fight an arrogant group think that is now very dangerous.
It is thus interesting to compare what is happening with what happened earlier in the organisation that embraced the empty rhetoric of “Beyond Petroleum” under the leadership of CEO John Browne and then of Tony Hayward. According to Johan Sachs
“As John Browne rose to the zenith of his global esteem, groupthink descended upon BP’s core leadership team like a thick fog. Red flags about safety concerns flew everywhere in the form of external and internal investigations and even massive government fines. Browne and his men, including Hawyard, optimistically responded with superficial fixes, believing their measures could address deeper safety issues while keeping oil flowing at maximum rates. Whistleblowers tried desperately to get executives to maintain safety equipment and top talent resigned in protest when they did. When Hayward took over, the leadership team spent countless hours discussing plans to reorient its approach to safety even as they increased the riskiness of the projects that they undertook. From the inside, it all looked perfectly normal.” (Johan Sachs “Winning the Story Wars” Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 p221 )
Cohesive groups with a strong leader will often ignore or punish dissenting opinions. They can do it too because they have the backing of government and are given cover by frackademics and are able to play fast and loose with reality. In fact in the media and in their PR they create a fantasy world for everyone else that suits them. There are psychological mechanisms available to keep the deeper and threatening reality out of the centre of their consciousness. Freud called it “Verdraengung” which means pushing an idea or truth away, not bringing it into the centre of conscioussness to get an appropriate amount of attention. (Verdraengung is usually wrongly translated as “repressing” in psychoanalytical literature). Yet when Ratcliffe tells a major national newspaper that the opposition to fracking is based on hearsay there is probably some dim level at which he is uneasily aware that what he is saying can be challenged. Is he unaware that the US company with which he has a 15 year contract for the supply shale gas, Range Resource, has been accused of causing a number of environmental incidents? It seems implausible that he does not know that Range Resource have paid nearly $15 million in pollution fines in recent years. This included an $8.9 million fine which was the biggest ever for a shale gas drilling related environmental violation in Pennsylvania as well as a $4.15 million fine for violations at 6 waste water impoundments[1].
So what is going on in the mind of Ratcliffe when he claims that opposition to fracking is based on hearsay? Is he not aware that one reason that more information and evidence against fracking does not exist are the gagging orders imposed on victims after financial settlements? In August 2013 this included a gagging order on 2 children by his partner Range Resource – the children were banned from talking about fracking for the rest of their lives.
Is Ratcliffe really unaware of these things? He ought to be sensitised to issues of children’s health because in Ohio in 2009 his company was obliged to share a $1.3 million fine for multiple violations at the Ineos chemical facility at Addyston. It was a case associated with hazardous air pollutants like acrylontrile, butadiene and styrene and an elementary school had to be relocated because of the air pollution risk to school children.
Instrumentalising children’s health to pursue a corporate agenda that will damage children’s health
At the time of writing Ratcliffe is sponsoring long distance running by schoolchildren in a Go Run for Fun initiative. Ratcliffe is a keen long distance runner but if he and his company were keen on public health they would not be accusing opponents of fracking of basing themselves on hearsay. The dangers are well documented. It is not rumour or hearsay that 40 of 46 peer reviewed scientific studies between 2009 and 2015 show actual or potential negative effects to air quality. It is unlikely to help children’s health to run through an Ineos gasfield.
The effect of fracking derived air pollution on the health of pregnant women and their babies should give him cause for concern too. In June of 2015 a peer reviewed University of Pittsburgh study linked fracking to low birthweight in three heavily drilled Pennsylvania counties. The more wells, and the closer the wells to where the pregnant mother lived, the greater the risk. The study did not investigate mechanisms but is authors thought air pollution was the likely route of exposure – as evidenced by another West Pennsylvania study.[2]
So what kind of person and company is it that appears to champion the health of children while simultaneously making partnerships with companies that gag children and while promoting an industry that is a threat to their health? What kind of corporate ethics are we dealing with that denies the evidence, claims opposition is based on hearsay and spends a vast amount on corporate propaganda?
Plastic Pollution – ethical bankrupcy is worse than financial bankrupcy
It is not only that if Ineos goes ahead it will impose a host of public health and environmental risks on local communities and on the climate system. It is also that the products that they intend to make with the ethane and methane that they want to extract would be disastrous too. For example they want to make plastic with it. As they are in the plastic business they must know that plastic is not the innocent stuff that most people unwittingly think of it as being.
Far worse than bankruptcy would be to go down in history as having produced a stream of toxins that play a significant role in destroying the global ecological system. It is one of the boasts of Ineos that it is the third largest player among the global chemicals companies. This being does it not have the third largest responsibility for what is currently an unfolding ecological catastrophe whose source is oil and gas and the many chemicals and plastics made from them? True, the Ineos Bio subsidiary is developing ways of recycling municipal waste into fuel and electricity. That can be testified in their defence. However alone the stream of plastics produced by Ineos is an ecological catastrophe.
There are plenty of people who will remember a world where plastics had far fewer uses. In the living memory of millions of people it was not routinely used for wrapping food; for containers; for beverage and mineral water bottles; for shopping and other bags; for lids; for disposable cups, plates, knives forks and spoons; for straws, stirrers, balloons, party inflatables. Somehow humanity managed to survive day to day with old fashioned glass bottles, ceramics and objects that were designed to be used over and again, rather than to be thrown away. Somehow people did not notice what they were missing before technology progressed, plastic was mass produced and business empires like Ineos were developed in order produce a stream of trash. As if climate change were not bad enough we now have in plastic pollution another slowly evolving disaster. That’s because plastic may break up in the environment into smaller and smaller bits, but it mostly does not break down, it does not bio-degrade. Without major logistical efforts backed by tight environmental standards it has accumulated in the environment in larger quantities and in smaller and smaller pieces. According to one recent estimate there are more than 5 trillion plastic pieces weighing over 250,000 tons afloat at sea.
This is not hearsay either.
The amount of plastic waste entering the oceans from land each year exceeds 4.8 million tons (Mt), and the figure may be as high as 12.7 Mt . This is nearly one to three orders of magnitude greater than the reported mass of plastic in high-concentration ocean gyres which are slowly turning marine collection points for garbage the size of western europe. The amount is growing rapidly – with the potential to be 250 Mt by 2025.
Impacts by plastic debris on more than 660 species have been documented, including from entanglement and ingestion. Species impacted range from the smallest of zooplankton to the largest whales, including fish destined to the seafood market. Plastics can concentrate toxic chemicals from seawater up to 1 million fold. Ingestion of these contaminated plastic particles may deliver these chemicals to the ocean animals which eat them, potentially resulting in negative effects on their health and survival.
The problem is not just in the oceans – but also the atmosphere. It was recently reported in a House of Commons Committee how, when plastics go through sewerage treatment works, much of the smaller pieces end in sludge that goes onto fields. When it dries out it is swept up by the windinto the atmosphere. At that point we breathe it in – in addition to eating it in foodstuffs like fish.
This prompts the question: how do Ineos and Ratcliffe see progress? How is this ecological disaster compatible with it? He wants economic growth and more of this. When he offers the regeneration of the north of Britain if only he can get another fix of cheap energy and more ethane feedstock what he is effectively wanting is to hang onto a share of the plastic market. He wants to be a boss of a corporation that wants to remain a global player in the production of this torrent of production. But is it not also a torrent of poisonous garbage?
Of course, we cannot know what is in the mind of a man like this, or the minds of his managers and partners. We can only speculate that he will be thinking mainly in market and money terms. “The market for plastic” is economics-think, in which a product and a value stream is what is being thought about. The focus is on how to make a product that people want and thus to be fully entitled to make money as a reward for entreprenerial zeal and risking money. In the perception of the corporate bosses all this stuff is packaging and containers and the plastic is created to be embedded in products that people are prepared to pay for – or to package these products. This is what usually gets their attention. This is what happens between their ears. This is the thing that they know about. The products have monetary value, people are prepared to pay, and this is their business.
But how much do such captains of industry think about what happens when the stuff that they produce is thrown away? Yes, there is clearly thought given to the topic of what money can be made out of processing garbage. We know this because of the Ineos development of waste to energy and electricity technologies. However, what about the rest of the stream of garbage? Is this not also their problem? It is certainly a problem for everyone else, and it is a problem that will not now go away for hundreds of years. In these hundreds of years those who live long enough to learn about what happened to their world will know may become aware of the name of Mr Ratcliffe as one of the people who organised the huge stream of plastic. One of the business moguls whose products led to the eco-cide of the oceans.
Championing the ‘Green Economy’ – to head off the real solutions that would make your company lose
A lot of people don’t notice – but when corporations respond to environmental problems with which they are associated they often fund or support “solutions” which direct the action for dealing with it away from themselves. Someone else become the people or institutions that are responsible and these others have to deal with it. “Beyond Petroleum”, BP, gives another example of this. When it was clear that something was going to have to be done about climate change and carbon emissions then companies like BP under Lord Browne moved to co-opt the policy design process. For a long time, the major fossil fuel suppliers had resisted any restraint on emissions but, at the end of the 1990s, some of them changed tack.
BP first experimented with an internal emissions trading scheme which was started in 1999. In 2002, the BP model was scaled up with the support of the UK government’s Department of the Environment and 34 other voluntarily participating companies. This UK scheme, in turn, became a model for the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme. So far so predictable. But what was the defining characteristic of the BP scheme? If it had been a serious attempt to throttle back the supply and burning of fossil fuels it would have attempted to keep the carbon in the ground. It would have been directed at the suppliers themselves. Instead the scheme was designed around the demand. It was focused on uses and users of fossil fuels and those who bought them. It very successfully batted the solutions away from the fossil companies who were originating the problem. When the European Emissions Trading Scheme was introduced it was large companies that bought and used fossil fuels and emitted CO2 during their operations, that were expected to buy permits. It was not the companies producing the coal, oil and gas who were expected to buy permits to sell fossil fuels in the first place. If it had been the latter it could have covered all fossil fuel based emissions. But that was something that neither BP nor the other suppliers wanted to see. They designed the scheme and wrecked it.
Now Ineos Bio is seeking to find a market by reusing plastics and waste. But the Ineos group is not seeking to restrain its production in the first place. From a profit making point of view an ideal solution is to produce a stream of trash and then make money by the need to deal with part of that same trash stream. Of course, if Ineos were promoting a system where no new plastics were allowed to be produced but only existing plastics could be re-used to make them then it would be commendable. But that’s not what they are proposing and recycling alone, without further measures to throttle the flow, at source will not adequately cope with the pollution stream. Like all corporate juggernauts Ineos wants to “grow” its markets and its production. That’s why the solution to plastic pollution may indeed involve some recyling and re-use but it has to be set in the context of reducing production. As one policy group have argued:
“The reality is that the only sound strategies to stop plastic pollution are ones that prevent it in the first place. To use the bathtub analogy, in order to stop the tub from over-flowing, we can either try to make the tub drain faster, or we can just shut off the tap.”
That means a raft of policies – and a good place to start is to fight the further development of shale gas in the UK in order to stop it being used as feedstock for plastics and as a fuel source.
In conclusion – the myth of cheap energy and revived industrialism
Let’s return to the story that Jim Ratcliffe would like to believe and wants us to believe. This is that cheap energy will return northern Britain to its industrial heritage. It will resurrect former mining communities and other industries too. It will help us develop the new industries of the future based on science – like plastics.
To many people this will seem a curiously antiquated view of the scientific and industrial future – it only rings true if you stubbornly refuse to look at a lot of evidence that the world has long ago evolved in another direction. Is Ratcliffe still thinking like an ambitious 1960s Grammar School boy who has just completed his science A levels? Does he still believe in “the white heat of the technological revolution”, which is how Harold Wilson, the Labour Prime Minister of the 1960s and early 1970s hyped the times he lived in?
Unfortunately there is now a mountain of evidence that fracking is deeply destructive to health and the environment. Ratcliffe wants to see that as “hearsay”.
There is also a mountain of evidence that says that the products of his company and of the petro-chemical industry in general, products like plastics, are a profound threat and must be dramatically reduced at source. Ratcliffe sees this situation when there’s a business opportunity in it for him – by selling the ability to recycling some of the tide of trash as a recycled energy source. But is he aware that much more is needed to cope with it?
There is now too a mountain of evidence that the trend to rising extraction costs for fossil fuels is inevitable. Fracking is a more expensive way of extracting oil and gas than from conventional wells because you have to do a lot more engineering activity to release it from an impervious geological strata. It is true that there is currently a very low oil and gas price because a debt laden economy, an economy still dominated by ageing baby boomers, cannot afford to pay for expensive oil and gas or for the products made from this expensively produced oil and gas. This contradiction is creating yawning holes in the profit and loss accounts and balance sheets of the oil and gas companies, as well as in the accounts of the financiers that have lent to them. Yet Ratcliffe, like the political elite schooled at Eton and Oxford, appears to be unable to see the writing on the wall.
At the core of the Ratcliffe message is the idea of fracking giving us cheap energy. But fracking does not give cheap energy. It is not cheap to the people whose health it damages. It is not financially cheap either. That’s why Ratcliffe is selling what appears to be a fantasy. Sure, unconventional gas extracted in the UK would not carry the same size of burden of having to pay for the military and security expenses, as well as the lavish corruption, of a variety of oil despotisms – the places where some conventional sources of oil and gas are extracted. But the extraction costs of fracked unconventional wells are higher than extraction costs for conventional wells. That’s why, to break even, unconventionally sourced gas has to be sold at a higher price too. For the Ineos gamble to pay off it is necessary that shale in the UK would be as cheap as in the very best Pennsylvania sweet spots. There is no guarantee for this and it is likely to be wishful thinking.
There is, in fact, a Catch 22 in the heart of the Ineos regeneration fairy tale. The economic system has been built on cheap energy but it is now faced with ever rising costs of energy extraction which require higher prices for the energy companies to break even. In order to pay their rising energy bills people and companies have to economise somewhere else. They struggle to service their debts too. Rising energy prices crash the economy. They destabilise the finance sector. This puts a ceiling on how high energy prices can be and the break even point for the oil and gas companies is above that ceiling.
Fracking has not solved this dilemma and neither will Ratcliffe or Ineos. There is virtually nowhere in the world where fracking has ever made a profit over the longer term. If it comes off at all the cheap energy that Ratcliffe champions would lead, in a just a few years, to an indebted and then bankrupt exploration and production sector. The fracking road show has kept going in the USA for as long as it has only because central banks have kept interest rates down to virtually zero. There have been few other opportunities to invest in the production economy and, as the financial papers describe it, those who “hunt for yield” have gambled their money by investing in shale. Now that mountain of debt accumulated by the fracking industry can no longer be serviced and repaid, Ponzi-style, with more borrowing. It’s the end of the road.
This is a Catch 22 Ratcliffe and the other petrochemical companies will not be able to solve. The cheap energy and re-industrialisation idea that Ratcliffe is promoting is a mirage, a fantasy, that would lead to a mountain of debt and a mountain of garbage. It will inevitably collapse. We can already see the signs of a global deflationary crisis as a result of crippling debts and sagging markets. The direction of the future is solving the problem of how to make do with less. Instead of growing the economy will have to mature – or it will collapse. You do people a favour not by producing more of anything, and certainly not more plastic wastes to poison the environment – but by setting up institutions to help them save energy, materials and money. Such institutions will help people to share more, make do, mend and get their satisfactions and pleasures without the aid of ecocidal empires built on trash.
1. See a long list: http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/tag/range-resources/
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3 Replies to “Jim Ratcliffe, Ineos and the empire of trash”
Kate Styles says:
Thank you for this excellent article which exposes not only the fracking fantasy, but also the fracking facts. To allow fracking is to allow a triple whammy against our health and the environment. Pollution from extraction, pollution from manufacturing and production, pollution from the end product. I suppose the only thing I don’t understand is how this is being outed as a bridge to renewables by DECC and the UK Government
Wandering Dutchman says:
Wow. Brilliant expose. The best article I have read all year. Every UK MP should be forced to read this, and act on it. Adios Ineos
This is a song; a brilliant article that will hopefully resound among people seeking courage to eradicate this poisineos plant. Thank you!
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Ontario mother's suicide notes detailed plan to kill her two daughters, ages 4 months and 14 years, police say
By Mary Stringini
ONTARIO, Calif. - Authorities said that suicide notes left by the mother of two children found dead inside the garage of an Ontario home Tuesday have led them to believe that their deaths were an attempted murder-suicide.
“The children were intentionally killed, it appears the mother was responsible for that act," Ontario Police Department Sgt. Bill Russell said during a press conference Wednesday morning.
The bodies of the 47-year-old woman's two daughters, ages 4 months and 14 years old, were discovered inside the garage of a home located in the 500 block of East Tam O'Shanter Street. Investigators said that the 14-year-old had special needs. Their deaths are being investigated as a homicide.
Police said the girls' mother was located unconscious inside the home with injuries and was rushed to the hospital where she is in stable condition. It was unclear if her injuries were self-inflicted, police said.
The father of the two victims called 911 after he discovered their bodies when he arrived home on Tuesday afternoon. He had last seen his daughters when he left for work that morning.
Russell said that there was "strong evidence" that the mother of the children is solely responsible for their deaths.
Authorities give update on homicide investigation after 2 kids found dead in Ontario home
Police gave an update Wednesday on a homicide investigation after two girls, ages 4 months and 14 years, were found dead inside an Ontario home. The children's mother has been named as a person of interest.
"Among that evidence is a suicide note left by the mother indicating that she intended to kill the children and to kill herself," Russell said, adding that the mother has struggled with depression.
Police said that two suicide notes were discovered, one inside the home and another in a vehicle. The contents of the notes were not disclosed to the public.
Related: 2 children found dead at home in Ontario; police investigating as homicide
Russell said that there appeared to have been a struggle at the scene and that the girls had "visible injuries," which may have played a factor in their deaths.
The cause of the death of the young victims remains under investigation, however, the Ontario Fire Department ruled out Carbon monoxide poisoning.
Authorities are waiting for a coroner to provide an official cause of death.
No charges have been filed at this time. Investigators said they have still not had the chance to interview the mother.
Russell said that the father voluntarily gave them a statement and is cooperating with authorities. He is not believed to have played a role in the girl's deaths.
“The father’s distraught. You figure at this point, he’s lost both his children and his wife is in the hospital,” Russell said. “He’s lost everything at this point.”
The names of those involved have not been released.
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Bengals perfect, rest of AFC North beat up and struggling
Oct 11, 2015; Cincinnati, OH, USA; Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton (14) spikes the football after scoring a touchdown in the second half against the Seattle Seahawks at Paul Brown Stadium. The Bengals won 27-24. Mandatory Credit: Aaron Doster-USA TODAY Sports
CINCINNATI (AP) The first half of the season has been perfect in every way for the Bengals. They've won every game, kept all of their stars healthy and opened a daunting lead in the AFC North.
The rest of the division? Just trying to hold it together.
Cincinnati (8-0) has the biggest lead of any team in the NFL, up four games in the loss column over second-place Pittsburgh (5-4). At this point, they're not even talking about the division title anymore.
The better questions: Can the Steelers pull through all of their injuries and stay in the wild-card chase? Can the Ravens (2-6) and Browns (2-7) become respectable? And how long can the Bengals keep running the table?
''I couldn't care less if we lose a few games and make it to the playoffs,'' safety George Iloka said. ''A perfect season is not really one of the goals we set in the offseason. The perfect postseason is what we set out for.''
The Bengals are in position to make the playoffs for the fifth straight season, unprecedented in franchise history. Their overriding goal is to finally win a playoff game, something they haven't done since the 1990 season.
In Pittsburgh, they need Ben Roethlisberger to get healthy and stay that way. In Baltimore and Cleveland, they need a whole lot more than one player back.
Here are some things to watch in the AFC North during the second half:
MORE THAN ONE?: The AFC North has been the league's best division in recent years, sending 15 teams to the postseason in the past seven years. Three went last season - everybody except the Browns. The question is whether it'll get two this time. The North has sent multiple teams to the playoffs six times in the past seven years, the only exception being 2013.
UNBEATEN BENGALS: With the best start in their history, the Bengals have put themselves in contention for home-field advantage throughout the playoffs, which would be a huge help in ending the sixth-longest streak of postseason futility in NFL history. A Monday night game in Denver on Dec. 28 could go a long way in deciding it.
''As it extends, it's only going to get harder,'' left tackle Andrew Whitworth said of the winning streak. ''You've just got to continue to be what got you there.''
BANKING ON BEN: Pittsburgh's chances took a huge hit when Roethlisberger sprained his left knee and missed four games. He was rusty when he returned for a 16-10 loss to the Bengals in Pittsburgh on Nov. 1, throwing three interceptions and floating his long throws. Running back Le'Veon Bell suffered a season-ending knee injury during that game, costing the Steelers their most versatile playmaker.
''It's always an emotional blow when you lose any guy, let alone a guy and a star like Le'Veon Bell,'' backup DeAngelo Williams said.
The hits kept coming. A week later, Roethlisberger hurt his left foot while getting tackled, another injury that won't go away overnight. How well he plays will go a long way in deciding whether the Steelers can get a playoff berth.
RAVENS MELTDOWN: The Ravens also have been held back by injuries, losing linebacker Terrell Suggs and receiver Steve Smith. Their defensive secondary has given up big plays - the Bengals rallied twice in the fourth quarter for a 28-24 win at Baltimore that left the Ravens 0-3 for the first time in franchise history. They haven't forced a turnover since the third week of the season, and they rank 29th in pass defense.
At this rate, they're headed for their first losing record since 2007, when they finished last with a 5-11 mark. John Harbaugh took over as coach the following season.
''It's a lot of things and in the end, it comes down to making a difference with a play, a scheme or a turnover, or a catch or whatever it might be that wins a tight game,'' Harbaugh said.
BROWNS AT THE BOTTOM: The Browns are in their accustomed spot, holding down last place at midseason. They've finished last in all but one season since 2008. A 7-9 mark last season - Cleveland's best since 2007 - provided optimism that the franchise was ready to finally move up in the North, but more quarterback issues and game-turning sloppiness have contributed to yet another lost season with no indication the franchise is close to digging out.
''Our faith is being tested,'' quarterback Johnny Manziel said after a loss at Cincinnati. ''We'll see how we respond.''
PREDICTED ORDER OF FINISH: Bengals, Steelers, Ravens, Browns.
AP Sports Writer David Ginsburg in Baltimore contributed to this report.
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Jaguars hoping short week puts Mariota, Titans at a disadvantage
ATLANTA, GA - AUGUST 14: Marcus Mariota #8 of the Tennessee Titans rolls out on a pass play in the first half of a preseason game against the Atlanta Falcons at the Georgia Dome on August 14, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Daniel Shirey/Getty Images)
ATLANTA, GA - AUGUST 14: Marcus Mariota #8 of the Tennessee Titans rolls out on a pass play in the first half of a preseason game against the Atlanta Falcons at the Georgia Dome on August 14, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Daniel Shirey/Getty Images) Daniel Shirey Getty Images
Thursday night's game between the Tennessee Titans and Jacksonville Jaguars means a short week of preparation for both teams. But the Jaguars are hoping the quick turnaround will play in their favor when it comes to the Titans' rookie quarterback.
Tennessee's Marcus Mariota has started seven games this season, but Thursday night's matchup will be his first with only four days to prepare.
It's something the Jaguars dealt with last year with Blake Bortles, who struggled in a Thursday night-matchup against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Jacksonville offensive coordinator Greg Olson, who held the same position with Oakland a season ago, also had a similar experience getting then-rookie Derek Carr up to speed for a Thursday night game last year.
"I think every week for a rookie is challenging," Olson said, per the Florida Times-Union. "For him, to only have the window that he has to get prepared (is a challenge). Certainly, it's difficult for any player, but certainly more difficult for a rookie."
Still, whether the short week impacts Mariota or not, the Jaguars know the former Heisman Trophy winner has demonstrated plenty of talent this season. The No. 2 overall pick in the 2015 draft has thrown 13 touchdowns while completing 65.6 percent of his passes.
"Mariota has a quick release," Jacksonville linebacker Telvin Smith said. "That's something you have to watch for. He has a target in (tight end Delanie) Walker and the offensive coordinator does a good job putting him in the right position. He's also a mobile guy so you have to watch out for that."
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Vigil held for Va. boy who reportedly died defending sister from teen's attack
May 3, 2014: Sharain Spruill, mother of Martin Cobb, is surrounded by family during his prayer vigil. A 16-year-old boy was charged Saturday in the assault of a young girl and the killing of her 8-year-old brother, Martin, who was apparently slain when he tried to protect her, authorities and relatives said. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dean Hoffmeyer)
Hundreds of people paid tribute to an 8-year-old Richmond, Va. boy whom family members say died trying to protect his older sister from an attack by a teenage boy.
Martin Cobb was reportedly hit in the head with a brick during the attack near his family's home Thursday, neighbors told The Richmond Times Dispatch. Richmond Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney Mary E. Langer said she could not confirm a brick was used but police told her Martin suffered severe head trauma.
The 12-year-old girl was taken to a hospital with injuries that were described as non-life-threatening. "As far as I know, she's doing fine. . She's doing better. She's OK," the siblings' aunt, Geraldine Pitchford, told the newspaper.
Before the vigil began, loved ones gathered around a sign in Martin's yard near the church. "Martin: A real hero lived, fought and died here," the sign said.
The 16-year-old boy was charged with murder and strangulation, police said in a news release. Authorities said he intimidated and threatened the girl and she initially gave authorities the wrong description of her attacker. Police have not released the suspect's name because he is a minor.
Pitchford described Martin as warm-hearted and friendly and said he was often playing with his sister outside.
"I'm proud of him. I'm proud that he stuck up for his sister. He did what he was taught," she said.
Pastor Dr. Theodore L. Hughey of the Abundant Life church said the boy, also known as "Marty" and "Little Martin," and his sister were inseparable and "always in and out" of the church.
"You saw one. The other was there. They were never apart," Hughey said.
"He had a heart of a lion," said neighbor Andrew Patillo. "He stood so tall, to be so small."
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Report: FBI tips Italy to possible targets in Rome, Milan, no concrete threat
ROME – Italy's state broadcaster is reporting that the FBI has passed on information to Italian authorities about possible targets for terror attacks, including St. Peter's in Rome and Milan's cathedral and La Scala opera house.
RAI state radio said early Thursday that "there are no direct signs of concrete threats" in connection with the information. It quoted unidentified Italian government officials as saying Italy receives information from many sources and is neither underestimating nor over-emphasizing the information.
Pope Francis' weekly audience was held on Wednesday without incident in St. Peter's Square,although his bodyguard contingent was reinforced. La Scala's season begins with a gala premiere on Dec. 7, Milan's patron saint's feast day. Some 700 soldiers are being deployed in Rome for security since last week's Paris attacks.
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Bayern Munich will be the team to beat when the Champions League finally resumes
The Bundesliga champions look to be the strongest team in Europe right now and the side to beat in the knockout rounds of the Champions League.
August 4, 2020 • 3 min read
Bayern Munich could soon be lifting their third trophy in two months. Alexander Hassentstein/EPA.
It’s been over seven months since Bayern Munich lost. Of course, that record was somewhat inflated by the two-month hiatus taken in Germany for the coronavirus pandemic, but nonetheless, it’s been 26 matches since the Bavarians last tasted defeat. 2020 has, so far, been an unbeaten year for them.
This illustrates the strength of Hansi Flick’s team right now. While Bayern Munich experienced issues earlier in the 2019/20 campaign, sacking manager Niko Kovac over the winter, the form they found down the stretch meant nobody in the Bundesliga could catch them. And there’s reason to believe they won’t be caught in the Champions League either.
Of course, Bayern Munich aren’t yet completely sure of their place in the Champions League quarter finals, but the 3-0 advantage they hold over Chelsea from the first leg of their last 16 tie means they can start plotting a route through the competition. Next week’s second leg should be a mere formality.
The field hasn’t been this open at the elite level of the European game for a number of years. Barcelona and Real Madrid have dominated an entire era of the Champions League, winning it five times between themselves in the last six years, but the two Spanish giants are in the mist of generational transitions. Indeed, Barca and Real Madrid are not the forces they once were.
Defending champions Liverpool were eliminated from the competition in one of the final acts before the coronavirus lockdown, with Atletico Madrid enjoying a night to remember at Anfield. But while Diego Simeone’s side cannot be underestimated in a knockout format, they too have suffered a difficult season.
Juventus bought Cristiano Ronaldo two years ago with the stated purpose of using the Portuguese forward to get themselves over the line in the Champions League, but the Italians have a 1-0 deficit to overturn from their last 16 first leg against Lyon to merely make the quarter finals. What’s more, the Old Lady’s recent form has been somewhat patchy, winning just two of their last seven Serie A games.
Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain remain threats, but both have still to prove that they can get over the mental barrier of making their first Champions League final. City will also have to find a higher level of performance from what they produced in the Premier League this season if they are to be crowned Europe’s best. PSG, despite being crowned champions of Ligue Un, haven't played a competitive match since March, when COVID-19 shut down the French first division for good.
In almost every way, Bayern Munich look to be the frontrunners. From front to back, left to right, they are a well balanced outfit. In Robert Lewandowski, they boast the most lethal centre forward in Europe right now, with the Polish international netting an astonishing 52 goals so far this season. Behind him, Thomas Muller has been restored as one of the game’s most effective space fillers, while Serge Gnabry and Kingsley Coman have also enjoyed successful campaigns.
Thiago Alcantara and Joshua Kimmich are formidable as a central pairing, with Jerome Boateng back to his best and David Alaba converted into an exceptional ball-playing centre black this season. Then there’s Alphonso Davies, the teenage Canadian who has taken the Bundesliga by storm with his barn-storming displays down the left wing over the last 12 months. Now considered among the best young players in the sport, Davies has given Bayern Munich another dimension.
If Bayern Munich have a weak link it can be found at right back, but even Benjamin Pavard is a World Cup winner. The Frenchman will miss next week’s second leg against Chelsea through injury, likely meaning that Kimmich will start in his former place. That’s not necessarily good news for Chelsea. Kimmich is widely regarded as a better option on the right side of defence than Pavard, but now plays in midfield because his influence there is greater.
When the rest of Europe’s elite pitch up in Portugal to play the mini-tournament designed to complete the Champions League knockout stages, the majority will do so having had very little rest. The Serie A teams are cutting it closest, with Atalanta, Juventus, and Napoli only playing their final league matches this past weekend.
Bayern Munich don’t have this issue, though. By the time the Bavarians welcome Chelsea to the Allianz Arena next week, it’ll have been over a full month since they played a competitive match. Flick’s players should be well-rested, as if they needed another advantage over the competition. The Champions League is Bayern Munich’s to lose.
Napoli clash has the potential to send Barcelona into a full-blown crisis
Quique Setien's men must overcome Napoli if they are to stand any chance of winning the Champions League, but the Catalans are just one bad result away from crisis.
Graham Ruthven August 5, 2020 • 4 min read
How Chelsea signings Timo Werner and Hakim Ziyech–and maybe Kai Havertz– will transform Frank Lampard’s plans
Frank Lampard will have plenty of decisions to make as he incorporates two or three stars into the Premier League's fourth-place squad. Here's a look at several potential lineups.
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Lars Lerin
H.M Queen Sonja
Ørnulf Opdahl
Lofoten painters
H.M. Queen Sonja
Exhibition: All year round
H.M. Queen Sonja’s life-long interest in art has resulted in her studying the history of art, gathering a comprehensive art collection and producing works of art of her own. The Queen has studied various techniques and been the pupil of a number of different artists. “Three Journeys, Three Landscapes” which she created together with Kjell Nupen and Ørnulf Opdahl in 2012, and “Texture” made in collaboration with Magne Furuholmen in 2016, are two of her most significant art projects.
H.M. Queen Sonja’s Art Scholarship was set up in 2011. For a long time, the Queen had been wanting to make an effort to encourage interest in graphic art and stimulate its development.
With the establishment of the art scholarship, a forty year old dream came true. The idea of collaboration was conceived when Kjell Nupen invited the Queen and Ørnulf Opdahl to the Ateljè Larsen art studio in Helsingborg, to experiment with graphic prints.
It soon became clear that the Queen’s products were too good to be “hidden away in a drawer,” and thus the portfolio entitled “Three Journeys, Three Landscapes” evolved. The portfolio, which consisted of altogether 24 prints, 8 by each artist, sold so well that it formed the financial foundation for the art scholarship.
The exhibition in the gallery shows a number of works by H.M. Queen Sonja, where she employs a variety of techniques such as lithography, monotype, etching, woodcut and aquatint. The exhibition also displays a varied selection of the Queen’s ceramic works.
A Meltwater Cave in Svalbard
Most Norwegians know that H.M. Queen Sonja is an avid rambler, there is practically not a peak in this long, drawn out country that she has not climbed. Not on her own, though. She always hikes together with locals who can tell her about the landscape and the local community. In her backpack she always has her camera, which she makes diligent use of in order to capture both views and any interesting plants, flowers, rocks, etc. that she comes across. This is because nature means a lot to her, and the abundance of experiences it has given her, are duly documented in her innumerable photos.
One of the places she has visited many times is Svalbard. She once said that: “There is something about this island realm that is both bigger and more serene than words can express. More powerful. Only art can describe it.” Perhaps it was precisely her encounter with Svalbard that convinced the Queen to take the leap and emerge as an artist for the first time? Whatever the case, it was in Svalbard that she visited a meltwater cave beneath the Scott Turner Glacier and became fascinated by the incredibly beautiful and diverse formations she saw there. She took photographs of them, as she does on her travels. When the photos were developed and she showed them to the painter and graphic artist Ørnulf Opdahl, he thought they were perfect for transference to polymer plates, so that they could be adapted and transformed into photogravure.
There is plenty of evidence to suggest that the Queen had been thinking about creating her own works of art for a long time, but there were no doubt many obstacles along the way. Was it compatible with her duties as Queen? Ørnulf Opdahl convinced her to make a go of it using the photographs she had gathered in Svalbard. She quickly learned the relatively complex technique and did the work herself. The result was remarkable, because it showed images which could be read as purely abstract, while in actual fact they were built on natural formations found in a meltwater cave In Svalbard.
THREE JOURNEYS – THREE LANDSCAPES
The Queen made eight photogravure prints based on these photographs, giving them varied colour attributes which stressed and emphasized the shapes in them. These eight works were shown for the first time, together with eight photogravure prints by Ørnulf Opdahl and Kjell Nupen respectively, at the Henie Onstad Centre of Art in 2012, and given the title THREE JOURNEYS – THREE LANDSCAPES. Subsequently, the exhibition was sent on tour all over the country. A portfolio including all 24 prints was made and sold in support of The Queen Sonja Nordic Art Award. Raising money for this fund was the whole point of both the exhibition and the portfolio. One of these portfolios is now on display in the H.M. Queen Sonja section of Gallery Lofoten in Henningsvær.
These works of Queen Sonja are in compliance with the long-standing Norwegian tradition of using nature as the foundation for art, nature as she has experienced it on her many expeditions. However, that is not to say that the works she has included in this portfolio actually “tell us (what) she has seen,” as Ludvig Karsten might have put it. Because even though this was indeed the case with regard to the eight photogravures from Svalbard, many of those who visited the exhibition were convinced that what they were looking at was in fact eight abstract works of art by Queen Sonja. And to a certain extent they were right, since the prints are more abstract than the photographs. This is because the various graphic techniques can, and will, to some extent break down the motifs and be decisive to the artistic style.
The French modernistic poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) claimed that an artist’s artistic style is like écume, the foam on the surface of the water.
What it refers to beneath the surface is not always easy to determine, because the white foam prevents us from seeing what is beneath it. But often we may discover something in the foam itself that is also worth seeing, not least because the foam itself is also, to a certain extent, part of nature, allowing us at the same time to see things that we are otherwise not used to seeing. In Queen Sonja’s case this is more obvious because she has given the prints colours which are relatively far removed from the ones found in the meltwater cave beneath the Scott Turner Glacier in Svalbard.
This creates a dynamism between the reality captured by the photographs and the photogravures hanging on the walls of Gallery Lofoten, an exceptionally productive dynamism that is typical of poetic metaphor in as much as it joins together two forms of reality – in this case formations in a meltwater cave, and various colours which we associate with quite different aspects of the world around us, material or spiritual. From this fusion, something completely new arises, “a curious beauty” as the French poet Charles Baudelaire spoke of. “Curious” because it contains something strange and unfamiliar that awakens us and prevents us from entering into a state of apathetic indifference.
A Late Arriver
Queen Sonja’s interest in art goes way back. She studied the history of art at the University of Oslo before becoming a member of the Royal Family. Her interest did not lessen after she became Crown princess and subsequently queen, but the position she had, and still has, has made it impossible for her to apply for a place of study at the National Academy of Art or any other such institution. In this respect, she has been in the same situation as, for instance, Kitty Kielland or Harriet Backer were in towards the end of the 1800s. Being women, art academies were a restricted area to them. Instead, both of them had the academy’s professors or other competent male teachers give them lessons. Queen Sonja has done the same thing. Artists like Ørnulf Opdahl, Kjell Nupen, Hanne Borchgrevink, Tore Hansen and Magne Furuholmen, amongst others, have been her teachers. Under their supervision, she has acquired skills in a number of different graphic techniques, and also been inspired by them to work with various different aspects of reality. Naturally enough, we can perceive traces of all of these artists in the Queen’s work, just as we also saw traces of the teachers of Kitty Kielland and Harriet Backer in their early paintings.
We must not forget that Queen Sonja was a late arriver on the art scene, making her debut in 2011 at the age of 74. Critics have therefore implied that she has yet to find a style of her own. In the graphic art that is now on display at Gallery Lofoten, for instance, we can see that in certain works her style is close to that of Kjell Nupen, in other works that of Ørnulf Opdahl or Hanne Borchgrevink, etc. This is natural enough for a person who has only been working as an artist for eight years. Such an objection was fair enough within the field of modernism, where considerable emphasis was placed on the artist finding himself and his own manner of expression. Subsequent to modernism, however, this has been of less importance. Suffice to mention one of the country’s most prominent painters and graphic artists, Bjørn Ransve. He has quite candidly disregarded this kind of thing, using a variety of styles in his work ranging from various types of figuration to pure abstraction. There are, however, a number of traits that have stayed with Queen Sonja throughout most of her work. The first is her eagerness to learn new graphic techniques and investigate how they can influence her as an artist. With the help of these, she can (and this is the second trait) create different feelings of dynamism or contrast between nature and artistic expression. Sometimes this may result in more abstract motifs, while at other times, the natural motif may appear even clearer.
There is an abundance of examples of both these traits at Gallery Lofoten. In some of her works, she has stylized the branches of trees and given them different shades and nuances of colour, often making the pictures incredibly different to each other, even though the motif is the same. In these cases she has developed various compositions where the same motif is present yet in different moods, tuned from the key of major to minor, as it were. At other times her works appear to be improvisations over abstract motifs, more loosely drafted and without any motif from nature revealing itself in the background. Here the écume, the foam, is thick and so opaque that the seabed is difficult to see. Thirdly, the Queen has a taste for what I would call visual metaphors, i.e. as we have seen above, she unites aspects of reality which do not really belong together, but which for that very reason expand our horizons.
Exhibitions/Sections
has lived in Lofoten for many years and is considered one of the most outstanding watercolour painters in the world.
Queen Sonja
H.M. Queen Sonja’s life-long interest in art has resulted in her studying the history of art, gathering a comprehensive art collection and producing works of art of her own.
Opens in April 2020
Works as a painter and graphic artist. Nature and the landscape are of pivotal importance to Opdahl’s work.
Painters of Lofoten
The gallery contains an ample collection of paintings by widely acknowledged artists like Otto Sinding, Gunnar Berg, Even Ulving, Adelsteen Normann, Einar Berger, Ole Juul, Thorolf Holmboe and several others.
We invite you to a beer tasting event in June, featuring the local brewery, Lofotpils.
“Come May so beautiful and mild, and make the woods green again.”
Jazz & Art
Jazz and art belong together, and we have planned a number of jazz concerts in the wine bar throughout 2020.
Lofoten Piano Festival
Lofoten Piano Festival took place for the first time in 2014.
Gallery Lofoten
For schools/guided tours
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Taller people earn higher incomes, particularly men
Peter Terlato
Posted: 16 September 2016 11:14 am
Reach for the stars... or start standing on your toes.
It's not a myth. Research finds that the taller you are, the greater your earnings potential.
New findings from Roy Morgan Research reveal that Australian adults above average height 170cm (5'7"), typically pull in a larger salary than those below average.
For example, the average height of someone on an annual salary of $200,000 or more is 176cm or a little over 5'9", while the average height of a person earning less than $30,000 is just 168cm or 5'6".
The phenomenon is especially prevalent among Aussie men. Fellas bringing home $200,000 are, on average, 179cm tall or just under 5'11". Those that fall under the average male height, 176cm or a little over 5'9", have an income of less than $30,000.
As incomes increase beyond $50,000 per year, so too does the average height of the men earning them.
However, when it comes to women, the formula isn't as convincing but still exists. Females earning $40,000-$49,999 are, on average, 163cm or 5'4". For those enjoying between $110,000 and $199,999, the average height is slightly taller at 166cm or just over 5'5".
Interestingly, the height of those raking in $200,000 or more each year is that of the average Aussie female, 164cm or just over 5'4".
Earlier this year we reported salary growth in Australia is slower than ever and almost three-quarters of Aussie workers received less than a 3% pay rise in 2015/16. However, there were some exceptions.
Having a sizeable income doesn't always put you in an enviable position, given some of the most lucrative business people are considered "successful psychopaths".
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HomeMeet & Greet with Logan Lurie
Meet & Greet with Logan Lurie
Categories: Blog, Participants, Uncategorized
| Tags: ACE-level, girls golf, LPGA, national opportunities, participants
This month, we’re catching up with participant Logan Lurie, a sophomore at Howard High who, in addition to playing at the ACE-level, mentors several First Tee classes, takes part in the LPGA e-Leader program, and chairs the Teen Advisory Board.
Q: How long have you been participating in The First Tee?
A: I have been a participant for seven years.
Q: Do you play any other sports or participate in other extra-curricular activities?
A: I am a second year member of the Women’s Varsity Golf Team at Howard High. I qualified to play in the County and District Tournament this year. I am also in the Best Buddies Club, the Jewish Student Union club and a member of Mu Alpha Theta, the Math Honor Society. In the spring, I will be a mentor for Allied Golf (a program co-sponsored by The First Tee and Howard County School System).
Outside of school activities, I am a member of BBG (B’nai Brith Girls), a Jewish youth group. In the past, I have held a variety of board positions. On the weekend, I work as a Teacher’s Aide at Beth Shalom Congregation Religious School.
Q: Tell me about the national opportunities you’ve participated in through The First Tee.
A: Last summer I was selected to attend the First Tee National Opportunity: USGA Learning Science through Golf Academy in New Jersey. During the five days, I worked with USGA engineers and scientists to design, build and test a device to measure green speed, visited the USGA Museum, visited Rutgers University Turf Management program, and had behind-the-ropes access at the LPGA US Womens Open. During the time there, we also met with the USGA interns in accounting, sports management, marketing and advertising to learn all about the different career opportunities in the golf industry. We also went to Top Golf one evening as an opportunity to interact with the other participants in a fun way. I met a lot of participants from all over the country and learned about their First Tee chapters.
Q: Tell me about your project with The First Tee and Girl Scouts.
A: In October, I was selected to attend the Outstanding Participant Leadership Summit (OPLS) in Orlando, FL. When I was accepted as one of the 28 selected, I had also been chosen as one of the top eight finalists for the Outstanding Participant Award. During my four days, we had sessions with a variety of golf and leadership presenters including the new First Tee CEO, Keith Dawkins; Annika Sorenstam; Steadman Graham; and First Tee alumni who were participating in the First Tee Alumni Summit at the same time. As a finalist, I was assigned one of the Nine Core Value to speak about at the final night gala. Former President George Bush gave the opening address and I spoke in front of 1,000+ attendees at the First Tee National Meeting. As part of the OPLS selection process, a community service project is required. My project is a Girl Scout /First Tee program. I am developing a golf component to earn the Brownie Girl Scout Fair Play merit badge, which will include a workshop with local Brownie Troops. It will help them complete the steps to earn the badge and expose them to the Life Skills and Nine Core Values of The First Tee.
Q: What is the greatest lesson you’ve learned from your experience with The First Tee?
A: The greatest lesson The First Tee has taught me is how to have confidence in my actions. I actually spoke about confidence in my OPLS speech because I think The First Tee has helped me to be so much more confident. When I started The First Tee, I was very much like many young girls I see when mentoring: quiet and intimidated by others. However, through my years in The First Tee, I have been taught confidence in every activity. Starting by having to shake each other’s hands, I have been taught how to not be scared of situations even when they are not familiar. This helped a lot when attending these two national opportunities. I did not really know anyone going into either National event, but with the confidence I have gained from The First Tee, I was able to attend and enjoy both of these opportunities no matter how new the situation was.
Q: How do you think being a participant in The First Tee may impact your future?
A: Being a participant in The First Tee has taught me the value of volunteerism, which I think I will carry with me into the future. Through the Ace program, I have been mentoring younger classes of students. Seeing younger students enjoy the game of golf as much as I do makes me want to continue mentoring. I spend almost every spring day at the course mentoring, volunteering with the National School Program’s Champion Challenges, and Allied Golf. Volunteering has helped me to pass on my love for the game to different groups of people, which I find very rewarding. I think because the idea of giving back is such a large part of The First Tee that I will continue volunteering throughout my lifetime.
Q: What would you tell other teens (especially girls) about why they should consider participating in The First Tee?
A: I would tell any teen, especially any teen girl, to get involved in The First Tee as fast as they can, no matter their golf experience or age. The First Tee has an impact on your life that no other activity can have on you. The First Tee teaches you and makes you live by Life Skills like Confidence, Perseverance, and Integrity that no other program or sport can. You should definitely consider participating because the national opportunities are an incredible way to meet your next best friends who love the same activities you do and you will make connections with people that you would have never meet. I might be a little biased, but joining The First Tee will probably be one of the best decisions you will ever make.
Q: Anything else you would like to share?
A: The First Tee has given me a community that I know I will be a part of for the rest of my life. I have seen first-hand how many cool opportunities The First Tee has given me, my sister, and my friends and I hope I can stay involved to help give the same opportunities to help children to come. I am very thankful for all of the experiences, friendships, and lessons I have gained from this amazing organization and I hope I can continue this program.
One response to “Meet & Greet with Logan Lurie”
Marty Lurie says:
You make me proud to be your Grandfather.
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Articles and commentary devoted to Gene Kelly, presented through an academic lens.
Xanadu and the Razzies
The creators of The Golden Raspberry Awards owe a great deal to Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly.
Did you know Xanadu (1980) partially inspired The Golden Raspberry Awards (aka, the Razzies)?
In 2005, David Germain reports that after (barely) enduring a double-feature of the musicals Xanadu and Can't Stop the Music (1980), John Wilson and Mo Murphy had an idea. In jest, the two planned an Oscar-night potluck dinner. Then, they invited over friends, doled out ballots, and asked them to vote on "the worst of Hollywood for the previous year."
That silly, intimate gathering nearly 40 years ago has generated actual award ceremonies, sponsors, memberships, and a book--The Official Razzie Movie Guide, which features a rather, shall we say, befitting cover.
In short, Wilson and Murphy owe a lot to Xanadu.
Featured image: "The Razzies at Barnsdall Gallery Theatre. Feb. 21, 2009," by Par Lance, Wikimedia Commons.
Germain, David (Associated Press) (February 26, 2005). "25 Years of Razzing Hollywood's Stinkers". South Florida Sun-Sentinel. 7D.
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Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
The Cemetery is located at
2809 Grindon Ave.
Telephone: 410-435-6861 | Fax: 410-433-3646
Immanuel Lutheran Church owned one third of the former 'Second Evangelical Lutheran Church cemetery, which was originally on Madison Avenue, but later sold and moved to Druid Hill Park. The congregation disbanded after moving to Druid Hill Park and the congregations of Martini Lutheran, St. Paul's and Immanuel purchased the cemetery. See St. Paul's Cemetery of Druid Hill.
The mother church then purchased land in Lauraville on Gridon Lane. This was a small farm and was dedicated on June 1, 1874. The little chapel on the premises was built in 1892 and was restored in 1982.
For information on the cemetery, see their website at Website.
For photos taken during our research trip on April 18, 2011 & August 24, 2014, click here.
On August 24, 2014, the Immanuel Cemetery held a Memorial Service. The event was a 'Day of Remembrance' and was held as part of the year long celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the founding of Immanuel Lutheran Church. The weather was excellent as a wonderful celebration unfolded including choirs, speakers that took us back those 150 years and even a Civil War Guard guarding the burial place of John Thompson and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient. There was a memorial service led by Pastor Charles Minetree. Those interested in Family history could find the actual indexes and location books on the grounds this day. The kudos for the wonderfully planned and executed memorial go to Sharon Reinhard. Those interested in the cemetery or those hoping to find information about those buried within the cemetery may contact
Sharon at sreinhard@haemo-sol.com.
View the Special Program for the August 24th Activities
Article written in the Sunpaper April 26, 2014
Map of the Grounds
Photographs taken during our visits:
Special Memorial Services-150th Anniversary
The records of interrments in Immanuel have been transcribed and additional photos available. They are on the Allen County Public Library site. Their website is https://www.genealogycenter.info/search_immlutheran.php
Immanuel Chart.pdf
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Organisation information
From Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
1. What FOI is
2. How to make an FOI request
4. What you can do if you're unhappy with the department's decision
5. Publication of FOI requests
6. Where you can get more information
What FOI is
The Freedom of Information Act 2014 came into effect on 14 October 2014.
The Freedom of Information Acts assert the right of members of the public to obtain access to official information to the greatest extent possible consistent with the public interest and the right to privacy of individuals.
The Act established three new statutory rights:
a legal right for each person to access information held by public bodies
a legal right for each person to have official information relating to himself or herself amended when it is incomplete, incorrect or misleading
a legal right to obtain reasons for decisions affecting oneself
Under the Freedom of Information Acts, everyone is entitled to apply for access to information not otherwise publicly available. You have a right to request:
access to records held by this department
correction of personal information held by the department concerning yourself wherever it is inaccurate, incomplete or misleading
access to reasons for decisions made by the department directly affecting you
The following categories of records come within the scope of the Acts:
all records relating to personal information held by the department irrespective of when created
all other records created after 21 April 1998, which is the commencement date of the Freedom of Information Act
all other records necessary for the understanding of a current record
How to make an FOI request
If you want to access information within the department using the Freedom of Information Acts you will need to:
make your request in writing or via email
indicate that the information is being sought under the Freedom of Information Acts
be as clear and specific as possible in making your request and provide as much information as possible to enable the department to identify the records that you require
include a daytime telephone number or email address and your postal address to help us to contact you if any queries arise in relation to your request
If you would like to receive access to the information/records requested in a particular format, (for example: photocopies, electronically), please mention this when submitting your request.
Requests should be posted or emailed to the FOI Unit of this department (contact details at bottom of page).
Please note that the €15 initial application fee was abolished on 14 October 2014, when the new Freedom of Information Act 2014 was enacted.
If you are having difficulty in identifying the precise records that you require, the staff of the department will be happy to help you.
The department will acknowledge receipt of your request in writing within 10 working days. The acknowledgement letter will also provide you with the name and contact details of the person who will be making the decision in relation to your request and will advise you when you can expect to receive this decision.
Fees may be charged for search, retrieval and copying of the records requested. This process involves two stages:
locating the broad set of records in which those requested might be found
identifying, extracting and assembling the particular records sought for examination
Fees for the estimated cost of searching for and retrieving records and copying the records can only be charged with respect to records being released. €20 is charged for each hour spent searching for and retrieving records and €0.04 is charged per sheet for a photocopy of the records released.
Bands for estimating search & retrieval (€20 per hour) and photocopying fees (€0.04 per sheet)
Hours Estimate Action
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In cases where search and retrieval fees apply, we are obliged to charge a deposit of at least 20% of the estimate to the requester.
What you can do if you're unhappy with the department's decision
The Freedom of Information Acts set out a series of exemptions to protect sensitive information where its disclosure may damage key interests of the State or of third parties. Where this department invokes these provisions to withhold records, the requester will be advised. Virtually all decisions to refuse release of records may be appealed. Other decisions in relation to deferral of access to records, fees charged, forms of access and so on, may also be appealed.
Internal review
You may seek an internal review of the department’s initial decision in relation to your request if:
you are dissatisfied with the initial response received
you have not received a reply within 4 weeks of your initial application. This is deemed to be a refusal of your request and allows you to proceed to request an internal review
The internal review will be carried out by an official at a higher grade than the original decision maker and who was not involved in the original decision making process. The department must complete its internal review of the original decision within 15 working days of receipt of the request for an internal review.
To submit your internal review request, you need to write to the FOI Unit by email to foi@chg.gov.ie or by post to:
Freedom of Information, Access to Information on the Environment/Data Protection
Corporate Governance Unit, 23 Kildare Street, Dublin 2, D02 TD30
foi@tcagsm.gov.ie
You must make your appeal within 20 working days of the date that the decision letter was issued to you (the making of a late appeal may be permitted in appropriate circumstances). An application fee of €30 (€10 if you are covered by a medical card) is required before the processing of an internal review can begin. This fee can be paid by electronic funds transfer (EFT) and our bank account details will be listed in all decision letters.
An internal review may affirm, vary or annul the original decision in relation to a request. The internal review process must be completed before an appeal can be submitted to the Information Commissioner
Review by the Information Commissioner
If you are still dissatisfied following completion of the internal review, you may also seek an independent review of the department’s decision from the Information Commissioner. Furthermore, if you have not received a reply from the department to your application for internal review within 3 weeks, this is deemed to be a refusal and you may appeal the matter to the Commissioner.Appeals should be made directly to the Information Commissioner (details provided below). The fee for appeals to the Information Commissioner is €50 (€15 for medical card holders and their dependants).
Office of the Information Commissioner
18 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin 2
info@oic.ie
Publication of FOI requests
Logs of all requests submitted to this department under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Acts since 1 June 2011 are available on the below link.
[FOI Request Logs]
These logs provide the following information in relation to each request received:
the reference Number assigned to the request by the department
the date on which the request was received in the Freedom of Information Unit of the department
the category of the person making the request, for example: whether they are a journalist, interest group or company or an individual. This includes non-personal FOI requests only
a summary of the information or records requested
the date on which the department’s decision was issued to the applicant
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The table will be updated regularly. If you have any queries in relation to any of these requests or the operation of the Freedom of Information Acts in this department generally, please feel free to contact the FOI Unit (details below) and we will be happy to help you.
Where you can get more information
If you would like to submit a request under the FOI Acts to this department or if you have any general queries in relation to the operation of the Freedom of Information Acts in this department generally, please feel free to contact the FOI Unit (details below) and we will be happy to help you.
Further information in relation to the Freedom of Information Acts can also be found on the website, www.foi.gov.ie, which is maintained by the Freedom of Information Central Policy Unit in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
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Home » News » Defense funds for advanced fuels will provide long-term benefits, say supporters
Defense funds for advanced fuels will provide long-term benefits, say supporters
Source: Julia Pyper and Tiffany Stecker, E&E reporters • Posted: Friday, November 30, 2012
The biofuels industry enjoyed its second victory in a week yesterday as senators voted to repeal a section of the National Defense Authorization Act that would have hindered military investment in advanced fuels.
Led by Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.), a member of the Senate Armed Forces Committee and supporter of renewable energy, 62 senators voted for an amendment that would repeal a section requiring the Department of Defense to forgo advanced biofuels if the cost were higher than that of conventional fossil fuels (E&ENews PM, Nov. 28).
Despite vocal opposition to the amendment from Sens. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), who said biofuels would be a waste of military money, 11 Republicans crossed the line and voted for the repeal of Section 313.
“I think it’s incredibly significant that we had 11 Republicans join and pass in a bipartisan manner the repeal of the 313 language,” said Michael Wu, advocacy policy director with the Truman National Security Project and a spokesman for its clean energy campaign, Operation Free. “It demonstrates clear congressional support for the military’s biofuels programs and a lot of momentum heading into the conference for these biofuels programs.”
The Truman National Security Project has been a linchpin in a coalition of government, industry and agricultural groups to promote the military’s use of biofuels. Many veterans involved with the project have seen how dangerous it is to be dependent on a single source of fuel, said Wu
“Biofuels offer both tactical benefits, and the veterans of Operation Free really understand firsthand how dangerous our reliance on oil is,” he said. “A lot of them have been deployed to places in order to protect supply chains for fossil fuels in strategic choke points like the Strait of Hormuz.”
The military has pushed to develop advanced, drop-in biofuels in order to avoid price shocks and reduce imports from politically volatile regions. The Air Force announced an ambitious goal of fueling jets with a 50-50 blend of drop-in biofuel by 2016, and the Navy has set out to do the same by 2020. Unlike first-generation biofuels like corn ethanol and biodiesel, drop-in biofuels have a molecular structure similar to that of fossil fuels and can be used in existing engines.
Feeding the 800-pound gorilla
Since June, the Truman Project, the Advanced Biofuels Association, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, Growth Energy and the National Biodiesel Board have pushed to block deterrents to military investment in biofuels. The groups met extensively with lawmakers on Capitol Hill and in constituencies and launched full-page ads in newspapers.
The Senate vote sets the tone for a more welcoming atmosphere for advanced biofuels, said Michael McAdams, president of the Advanced Biofuels Association.
“I think the days of people willy-nilly saying ‘We’re going to walk away from advanced biofuels’ are over,” said McAdams, adding, “We have a return to a little less ideology.”
Last week, the industry celebrated a U.S. EPA decision not to waive the federal renewable fuel standard (RFS). The agency responded to concerns from the livestock industry that the ethanol mandate was driving up the price of corn and, subsequently, animal feed in the midst of this summer’s drought.
“Between the EPA decision on the RFS and today’s vote, there’s momentum in Washington on bioenergy,” said Adam Monroe, president of Novozymes North America, a company that makes enzymes to process plant matter into fuels. “Bioenergy is a chance for Congress to come together and help America — our economy, national security and environment.”
McAdams said EPA’s decision on the RFS is only marginally linked to yesterday’s Senate vote. While the waiver decision concerned primarily ethanol producers, the defense act vote maintains a market that could make or break the future of more sustainable, more versatile and less carbon-emitting fuels.
“Getting the military industry in there is huge,” said Mark Riedy, a partner with Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo. “It’s the second of the 800-pound gorillas, the first being the oil industry.”
More debate may hit floor this week
With less military demand, the biofuels companies would need to rely on contracts on the less financially secure airlines industry, Riedy said.
“It still would have proceeded in the commercial airline side, but a lot of the companies are not investment-grade,” he said.
Language written by McCain that would bar the U.S. Navy from participating in a cross-agency effort to build drop-in biofuel refineries remains part of the Senate defense bill. Efforts to remove that language may see floor time this week, or the amendment will have to be hashed out in conference.
Conferees may also have to take up an effort in the House version of the National Defense Authorization Act to repeal Section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which prevents the government from purchasing dirty fuels.
“We of course would like to see none of it adopted, because we feel strongly it’s important,” said Phyllis Cuttino, director of the Pew Project on National Security, Energy and Climate. “[Biofuels are] a small investment to make in our national security, and this kind of on-again, off-again policy is not good for private investors” in the biofuels industry.
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Pages tagged "whistleblowers"
The Persecution of Julian Assange
Wikileaks and the Future of Malign Institutional Secrecy
The Green Party supports worldwide efforts to promote institutional transparency, because many social evils arise from the concealment of malign actions and policies. Wars, domestic repression, and economic mismanagement are all enabled by secrecy and deception of the public. Accordingly, the Green Party US Peace Action Committee calls for the immediate release of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, by the UK authorities and dropping of all charges against him by the US government.
Statement by GP-US Peace Action Committee on the Mistreatment and Imprisonment of Julian Assange
The United States Government is engaged in a campaign of personal destruction directed at Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange. Under the cover of questionable legal arguments, The US has carried out a relentless, multifaceted, punitive program aimed at making an example of an Internet publisher who has challenged the power of the US national security establishment. Through the actions of the US government, Assange has been stripped of his political asylum, imprisoned by the UK, and is awaiting extradition to the US to face espionage charges with a penalty of life imprisonment. He is being held in Belmarsh prison, a high-security facility, officially for the minor crime of a bail violation but for the ultimate purpose of rendition to the US. Assange was recently moved to the hospital wing at Belmarsh, and reports indicate he is in poor health.
The prosecution of Julian Assange is a threat to journalists everywhere
The arrest of Julian Assange not only puts the free press in the United States at risk, it puts any reporters who expose US crimes anywhere in the world at risk. As Pepe Escobar wrote
"Let's cut to the chase. Julian Assange is not a US citizen, he's an Australian. WikiLeaks is not a US-based media organization. If the US government gets Assange extradited, prosecuted and incarcerated, it will legitimize its right to go after anyone, anyhow, anywhere, anytime."
Green Party of Michigan leaders react to arrest of Julian Assange
Strong Support For Wikileaks Publisher's Immediate Release Among Michigan Greens
(DETROIT, MI – 04/15/2019) Leaders and members of the Green Party of Michigan issued strong reactions to the arrest of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange by Metropolitan Police officers last Thursday. Greens cited journalistic freedoms and whistleblower protections should be available to Assange, who has been confined inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012.
Albany rally in support of Julian Assange
Pippa Bartolotti, former chair of the Wales Green Party, addressing the rally
Albany, New York – The Upper Hudson Green Party rallied today in support of Julian Assange and Wikileaks, and against his imprisonment and potential extradition to the United States to face charges. These consist of aiding Chelsea Manning in remaining anonymous as she leaked evidence of grave war crimes by the United States government to Wikileaks, which commentators have pointed out is standard journalistic practice.
Julian Assange addressing Green Party Convention
Julian Assange interviewed by David Cobb at the Green Party Presidential Nominating Convention. The conversation took place on August 6, 2016 at the University of Houston.
Green Party Calls for Release of Julian Assange
Green Party Members Organize Protest at UK Embassy in Washington, DC at 5:00 p.m. today
The Green Party of the United States strongly and unequivocally condemns the arrest of Julian Assange and calls for his immediate release. Assange was expelled from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London this morning and is being held in the United Kingdom for extradition to the United States, where he is very likely to face espionage charges. Assange is the publisher of Wikileaks, which published documents exposing US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, human rights violations at the Guantanamo Bay prison and State Department cables that showed corporate corruption of US foreign policy.
Assange support rally today in Albany
Albany, New York – A rally in support of Julian Assange, against his arrest and the attempt by the United States to extradite him from the U.K. will be held in Albany, outside the Leo O'Brien Federal Building in Clinton Square, today, April 16 at 5:30 p.m. The rally is being organized by the Upper Hudson Green Party.
The Green Party strongly and unequivocally condemns the arrest of Julian Assange and calls for his immediate release. Assange was expelled from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on Thursday April 11th and is being held in the United Kingdom for extradition to the United States, where he is very likely to face espionage charges.
Springfield Celebrates the Release of Chelsea Manning
The Sangamo Valley Green Party will be hosting a gathering of activists today at 6:00 pm in the Old State Capitol Plaza in Springfield, Illinois to observe the release of Chelsea Manning, following President Obama's commutation of her 35 year sentence. Manning, who leaked evidence of US war crimes to WikiLeaks while serving in the army, was held for months in solitary confinement, a violation of international law. Springfield residents, including Greens, came out in 2012 to raise money for Manning's defense at a local Music for Manning fundraiser and the occasion of her release provides an opportunity for local activists to gather and celebrate Manning's freedom and the inspiration she represents to transparency advocates.
Join with Philly Greens and others as they celebrate the release of Chelsea Manning
Welcome Home Chelsea Manning!
Join the Green Party of Philadelphia and other local groups on this International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, as we celebrate Chelsea Manning's release from military prison after seven years! Meet at JFK Blvd and Broad Street in Philadelphia on May 17th at 4:30 pm.
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Graduate Abbreviations
Centralism
Aggregate in English
August 9, 2020 August 15, 2020 gradphysics
According to Digopaul, aggregate is a verb that allows us to name the action of joining or joining people or things to similar ones, to add something to what has already been said, or to assign someone to an office without giving them an effective place. Aggregate, therefore, is an adjective linked to such actions.
An attache is an official attached to a diplomatic mission that is in charge of certain specific matters, of which he is a specialist. The attache must respond to the ambassador’s authority. For example: “The cultural attaché of the French embassy has met with the president to organize a public concert”, “Controversial declarations of the British commercial attache”, “The government considered as offensive the provocative attitude of the Slovenian military attache”.
More specifically, the rank of military or defense attache is known to the rank that an ambassador assigns to someone with a specialty in military matters. Generally, the chosen person is usually an army, air force, or navy officer, who has the capacity and training necessary to perform the greatest number of functions of the naval, military, police, and air attaches. The term attaché, from the French, is also used to refer to this concept.
The notion of attache can be extended to other employees who are assigned to a service of which they are not holders: “I am very happy: I have been appointed associate professor of the chair”.
In another sense, an aggregate is a set of things that are considered as a single body, a group of interacting particles or any aggregation or addition: “Before kneading, we have to include an addition of soy milk, sugar and dye”, “This paint has a special addition that gives it waterproofing properties. ”
It is known as value added to the value that a production process adds to the raw material and fixed capital. If an artisan buys a stone for one hundred dollars and, after polishing and shaping it, sells it for one hundred and fifty pesos, said product has an added value of fifty dollars that corresponds to the work added by the person.
From another perspective, added value can be understood as the set of features or characteristics that are given to a product or service and that are not common, generally because they are not part of the competition’s offerings. This resource aims to capture the attention of the public, differentiate itself from competitors and try to stay one step ahead of them in the market.
It is a concept present in a large part of the products we buy and the services we contract on a daily basis; Let’s see some examples:
* a shopping center that offers its clients a childcare service at no additional cost, with a series of attractions for the amusement of the little ones;
* stores that carry out the shipping and installation of their products for free, as well as maintenance for a certain period of time;
* detergents that, in addition to fulfilling their main function in washing dishes and cutlery, take care of the skin thanks to containing aloe vera.
Given the high level of competitiveness of the industry, there is no longer an item dominated by a single company; value added has become a fundamental tool to make a difference, to try to convince consumers that there is no reason to prefer the competition. The risk with this feature, however, is that none of the offerings is entirely satisfactory: NVIDIA has fixed the vertical sync issue, but AMD has achieved a significant performance boost; the ideal graphics card should incorporate both new features.
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‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6: 10 Questions Raised By Episode 7
Nick Steinberg (@Nick_Steinberg)
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'Game of Thrones' Didn't Waste Any Time in Season 8 Premiere
Game of Thrones’ recent hot streak continued with last night’s episode, “The Broken Man.” The seventh episode of season six felt like a special episode from top to bottom, and got the ball rolling quickly with a rare cold open that revealed that a certain popular character is in fact still alive. Additionally, we also got some interesting developments in the south, as Margaery confirmed that she’s playing the long con with the High Sparrow and Jaime faced opposition in the Riverlands (and also, Bronn returned!). Oh and we also got to meet the most badass 10-year-old girl ever in the form of Lady Lyanna Mormont, the hardassed ruler of Bear Island who gave Jon, Sansa, and Davos quite the verbal sparring session. At its core though, “The Broken Man” is still a set-up episode and as such, it’s left us with some pretty significant questions to ponder as we head into the home stretch of the season (how are there only three episodes left?!).
10. What Happened To The Brotherhood Without Banners?
The last time we saw Beric Dondarrion’s Brotherhood Without Banners, they were a noble band of outlaws who looked out for the innocent and only hunted Lannister bannermen. Evidently, their code of ethics has undergone a few revisions since then, as a group of them butcher an entire community of defenseless civilians just for their food. So what has happened to them to make them so much more violent and desperate? Could it be that we’re finally going to see Lady Stoneheart in command of the Brotherhood, or is there another force at play here? Either way, the revelation that the Brotherhood are basically one big group of bad guys now is definitely one of the most shocking revelations in “The Broken Man” and I can’t wait to see the Hound take swift vengeance on the lot of them.
http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/tv/game-of-thrones/41196/game-of-thrones-season-6-8-questions-about-the-broken-man Source: denofgeek.com
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9. How Did The Hound Not Hear That Massacre?
Having Sandor Clegane be the only survivor of the massacre at Brother Ray’s (Ian McShane) parish is a great way to hammer home this episode’s thematic concern over whether or not a man can break the cycle of violence (Spoiler Alert: Nope!), but it still required a fair amount of suspension of disbelief on the audience’s part. The Hound’s insistence on gathering firewood spared him from sharing the same bloody fate as Brother Ray and his flock, but it sure didn’t seem like he was that far away from the group.
How was it that the Hound didn’t hear what was going on? There’s the possibility that the scream he heard was from before everyone was slaughtered, prompting him to rush back, but it would have taken a considerable amount of time for an attack like that to be carried out, what with the attackers going to the trouble of hanging Brother Ray and all. I’m happy the Hound wasn’t among the dead, of course, but it still felt a bit unbelievable that he wouldn’t’ have arrived there sooner.
https://www.inverse.com/article/16531-game-of-thrones-brings-back-the-hound-wounds-arya-in-the-broken-man Source: inverse.com
8. Will The Hound Be The Faith’s Champion?
One of the more popular fan theories in heavy circulation right now is that the Hound will face off against his brother the Mountain (or Ser Robert Strong as he’s going by these days) in what is being dubbed the Clegane Bowl. The thinking goes that the only man who stands a chance against the Mountain is his own brother and since the Hound still has a score to settle with his brother, it would be fitting to see them finally face each other in a trial by combat. The only problem is: how is Sandor Clegane going to end up becoming the High Sparrow’s champion?
Judging by the way this episode ends, Clegane has his own score to settle with the Brotherhood Without Banners, so he’s kind of got his hands full already. And even if he survives, there’s still the matter of the Hound not only ending up back in King’s Landing, but also agreeing to represent the church in Cersei’s trial. It all seems like a bit of a logistical stretch, but if it means we finally get to see these two behemoth brothers fight each other to the death, I’m willing to cut the show some slack in terms of lining things up to make it all happen.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/game-of-thrones-season-6-episode-6-and-7-titles-and-what-they-mean-cleganebowl-on-the-way-a7023606.html Source: independent.co.uk
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7. Who Will Help Arya?
While it’s highly doubtful that Game of Thrones will kill Arya off, the Waif gutting her like a fish and leaving her for dead was still came as quite a shock, even with this show’s penchant for killing off beloved characters. It would be extremely disappointing and simply bad storytelling if Arya were to die right now, so it’s pretty much a given that someone is going to help her patch up those new holes in her torso, but who? Arya doesn’t exactly have any friends in Braavos and as her walk through the streets showed, people aren’t going out of their way to help young girls staggering around while holding their insides from spilling out. My money is on Arya seeking help from the group of actors she encountered over the last few episodes, particularly Lady Crane, since she kind of owes Arya a life debt after the latter spared her from an assassination attempt. Will Arya be able to recover in time to fight off another attack from the Waif, though? I guess we’ll find out.
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6. What Will Arya Do Once She Deals With The Waif?
Unless Game of Thrones throws a major curveball our way (which is certainly possible) the most likely scenario for Arya now is that she mends her wounds and takes out the Waif once and for all. If she does end up accomplishing these difficult tasks though, what’s next for Arya? She’s pretty much at the top of the Faceless Men’s Most Wanted list, so even if she manages to kill the Waif, Jaqen H’ghar is likely to send someone else after her.
Right now, it looks like we’re building towards a confrontation between Jaqen and Arya, as it will be impossible for Arya to move on from Braavos with an assassin’s guild still hunting for her. What’s the endgame here? I have no idea. This entire storyline has felt largely extraneous over the course of two seasons now, which makes it difficult to get a read on what the larger implication of removing the Faceless Men from the board would be. At this point, I just want to see Arya get on that ship back to Westeros, so the quicker she is able to deal with Jaqen and his many faces, the better.
http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Jaqen_H’ghar Source: Game of Thrones Wiki
Game Of Thrones' Peter Dinklage Hints At "Beautiful Ending" For Tyrion
5. What Is Melisandre Up To?
Season six started off with a heavy focus on Melisandre; we not only got to see her true form, but she also successfully brought Jon Snow back from the dead. Unfortunately, ever since then, we’ve seen little of the Red Woman, to the point where she hasn’t even been in the last few episodes. It seems odd that Game of Thrones would give her a renewed sense of faith in her abilities and her religion, only to sideline her for multiple episodes. I’d like to think that she’s busy trying to find a way to combat the White Walkers, but it’s surprising that she didn’t go along with Jon on his mission to round up support for the upcoming Battle of the Bastards. After all, he’s essentially her new Stannis and she followed him everywhere. Surely we aren’t through with Melisandre sightings yet this season, but if she’s looking to make another dramatic play, now would be the time to do it.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/game-of-thrones-season-6-s06e01-melisandre-is-jon-snow-alive-or-dead-a-spoilerific-recap-for-the-a6999191.html Source: independent.co.uk
4. Seriously, What Happened To Dorne?
You kind of have to admire Game of Thrones for seemingly caring just as little about Dorne as the rest of us do, since neither the region or the characters who inhabit it have been seen since the very first episode of the season. This show certainly has a habit of abandoning storylines for lengthy periods of time, only to return to them later (heck, we just got resolution to the Benjen mystery last week after five seasons of waiting). Still, this Dorne blackout feels more out of place somehow, probably because the show left everything there in a state of disarray.
The Sand Snakes just took over one of the Seven Kingdoms and no one in Westeros seems to care, which is honestly quite fitting when you think about it. Still, I’d be very surprised if Dorne isn’t revisited before the end of the season, but right now, all the other storylines are so much more interesting that I’d be perfectly fine with the show quietly sleeping Dorne under the rug and never mentioning it again.
http://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/tvfilm/game-of-thrones-season-6-episode-1-the-red-woman-five-major-talking-points-from-the-dorne-plot-to-a3232576.html Source: standard.co.uk
Ed Sheeran Explains Why His Game Of Thrones Character Should Have Been 'Brutally Murdered'
3. Which Fleet Will Dany Choose / Get To Her First?
We finally found out where Yara and Theon are headed with their fleet and it turns out that they’re also trying to woo Daenerys and her dragons over to their side. Unfotunately, they’ll have some competition in this endeavour in the form of their psychotic uncle Euron, which should make things interesting when both fleets inevitably arrive in Slaver’s Bay. Dany is in desperate need of ships to transport her army to Westeros, but which Greyjoy faction will she side with? I highly doubt she’s going to want to make her first order of business when she lands back in Westeros retaking the Iron Islands, but given that her other option is to become the wife of a crazy pirate, I’d say Yara and Theon definitely have an edge in this race. There’s also the possibility that Dany will just take one (or both) of the fleets by force, which would admittedly be in keeping with the new ruthless attitude she’s adopted as of late.
http://moviepilot.com/posts/3943521 Source: moviepilot.com
2. How Will Jon React To Sansa’s Ploy?
I won’t even bother posing the question of who Sansa wrote to because we all know it was Littlefinger (and if it wasn’t, then Sansa definitely has way more allies at her disposal than she lets on). The real question is how Jon will take Sansa going behind his back and asking for help from the Eyrie. To be honest, it seems a little peculiar that Sansa would try to hid this from Jon, as it’s not like Jon has any personal vendetta against Littlefinger that would preclude him refusing the assistance of the Knights of the Vale. Still, even if he’s pissed off, I’m sure once Jon sees a sizable army show up to help him win the Bastard Bowl, all will be forgiven.
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1. Will The White Walkers Wait Until After The Bastard Bowl To Attack?
We know that this season is building to a final epic confrontation between the Bolton and Stark armies, with the victor laying claim to Winterfell. Of course, Jon, Davos, and pretty much everyone else on the Stark side know that this war pales in comparison to the one that is to come with dead and as Jon has already stated, they need to retake Winterfell if they’re to have any hope of stopping the White Walkers. The only problem is that all of this planning is predicated on the assumption that the White Walkers won’t attack until after all the Ramsay business is sorted out. But what if the Night’s King does decide to start marching south while Jon and Ramsay are in the middle of their Bastard Bowl? It would certainly be one hell of a surprise and is definitely the kind of twist that Game of Thrones is fond of throwing our way. Wait, if this does happen, does it mean we’ll get to see Ramsay turn into a White Walker? Okay, this definitely needs to happen now.
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Middle East News | Iran
Iran Says Worsening Coronavirus Outbreak Could Strain Health Facilities
Health ministry releases figures showing that while 55 percent of fatalities were in their 60s, some 15 percent were younger than 40
Firefighters disinfect a street against the new coronavirus, in western Tehran, Iran, Friday, March 13, 2020.Credit: AP Photo/Vahid Salemi
The official leading Iran's response to the worst coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East on Sunday acknowledged that the pandemic could overwhelm health facilities in the country, which is under severe U.S. sanctions.
Iran is battling one of the worst outbreaks outside China, with nearly 13,000 confirmed cases and more than 600 fatalities. The real number of infections could be even higher, as questions have been raised about the government's transparency.
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“If the trend continues, there will not be enough capacity,” Ali Reza Zali, who is leading the campaign against the outbreak, was quoted as saying by the state-run IRNA news agency.
Iran is believed to have around 110,000 hospital beds, including 30,000 in the capital, Tehran. Authorities have pledged to set up mobile clinics as needed.
Zali also acknowledged that “many” of those who have died from the COVID-19 illness caused by the virus were otherwise healthy, a rare admission by local authorities that the virus does not only prey on the sick and elderly.
The Health Ministry released figures showing that while 55% of fatalities were in their 60s, some 15% were younger than 40.
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For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia.
Most people recover in a matter of weeks. But the virus is highly contagious and can be spread by individuals with no visible symptoms.
The virus has infected more than 150,000 people worldwide and killed more than 5,700. More than 70,000 people worldwide have recovered after being infected.
In Iran, the virus has even infected a number of senior officials, including the senior vice president, Cabinet ministers, members of parliament, Revolutionary Guard members and Health Ministry officials.
The country has struggled to respond in part because of crippling sanctions imposed by the Trump administration after it withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal. Last week, Iran asked the International Monetary Fund for a $5 billion loan, the first time it has sought help from the international lender since before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The U.S. says it has offered humanitarian aid but that Iran has rejected it.
Countries across the Middle East have imposed sweeping travel restrictions, cancelled public events and in some cases called on non-essential businesses to close for the coming weeks. They have also pledged stimulus to try and contain the economic fallout from the pandemic.
The central bank of the United Arab Emirates, home to the skyscraper-studded city of Dubai, on Sunday announced a $27 billion stimulus package. The money will go toward supporting the country’s banks, and regulatory limits on loans will be eased.
Dubai Parks & Resorts announced it would be closed through the end of the month. The sprawling amusement park, built at a cost of $3 billion, has lost hundreds of millions of dollars since opening.
Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, shut down its amusement parks and museums through the end of the month, including Louvre Abu Dhabi.
Tiny, oil-rich Kuwait meanwhile shut down malls, salons and barbershops to slow the spread of the virus. Authorities allowed coffee shops to remain open, but said no more than five customers can wait in line at a time and must be a meter apart from each other.
Saudi Arabia separately announced its own $13 billion stimulus plan.
In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trial on serious corruption charges, which was supposed to begin this week, was postponed for two months due to restrictions on public gatherings.
Netanyahu has meanwhile been pressing for an emergency unity government with his main rival, former military chief Benny Gantz, following three inconclusive elections and more than a year of political deadlock. Gantz has appeared open to the idea.
Israel imposed sweeping travel and quarantine measures more than a week ago but has seen its number of confirmed cases double in the last two days, to around 200. On Saturday, the government said restaurants, malls, movies, gyms and daycare centers would close. Schools and universities have already been shut down until next month.
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Lebanese Have Little Hope Blast Probe Will Lead to Truth
Teams of investigators in Beirut are joined by French forensic police, FBI agents will likely play a role too
Lebanese army soldiers stand guard at the scene where an explosion hit on Tuesday the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, on August 6, 2020.Credit: Hussein Malla,AP
Lebanon’s judicial investigation of the Beirut port explosion started with political wrangling over the naming of a lead investigator, military threats to jail leakers and doubts over whether a panel appointed along sectarian lines could be fully impartial.
So for many Lebanese, their greatest hope for credible answers about the blast that wrecked much of their capital may lie with outsiders: the French forensic police who have joined the probe and FBI investigators are expected to take part.
French teams have pressed ahead at their work, sending divers into the underwater crater, taking explosives samples and preparing recommendations for both French and Lebanese magistrates.
Among the French judicial police on the case are men and women who responded after the 2004 tsunami in Japan, the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and the November 2015 and Bastille Day 2016 terror attacks in France.
Smoke rises from the scene of an explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, on August 5, 2020.Credit: Hussein Malla,AP
The Beirut explosion lies at the crossroads of a disastrous accident and a crime scene. It still was not known what sparked the fire that ignited nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate that were stored for years in Beirut’s port next to densely populated residential areas. Documents have emerged that show the country’s top leadership and security officials were aware of the stockpile.
Search and rescue crews flew in from around the world in the immediate aftermath and found themselves looking at a scene that was both familiar and yet strangely alien.
“In an earthquake, it’s easier because we can understand ... how it moves. But in this case, we didn’t have enough elements to understand what happened,” said Alberto Boanini, a member of the Italian rescue team. The team has seen its share of quakes and forest fires, but nothing quite like the port in Beirut, where he said it was hard to fathom what could level it so completely.
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Many Lebanese want the probe taken out of the hands of their own government, having learned from past experience that the long-entrenched political factions, notorious for corruption, won’t allow any results damaging to their leadership to come to light. The explosion killed more than 175 people, injured at least 6,000, and left tens of thousands homeless.
Paris sent judicial police because a French architect was among the dead, and French law gives jurisdiction for an investigation if a citizen dies abroad under questionable circumstances.
But the French investigators work only at the invitation of the Lebanese, and their orders are confidential.
French officials say they have the access they need but will not say whether their inquiry can extend to questioning witnesses or requesting documents. They hand over their findings to the Lebanese, but keep a mirror copy for a French inquiry. The FBI is also joining at Lebanese authorities’ invitation.
Top Lebanese officials, including President Michel Aoun, have rejected calls for an independent probe, describing it as “a waste of time” and suggesting it would be politicized.
In its last decision before resigning under pressure, six days after the explosion, Prime Minister Hassan Diab’s government referred the port explosion case to the Higher Judicial Council, Lebanon’s highest justice authority, to carry out the investigation.
An argument then ensued with the outgoing justice minister over the investigation’s lead judge. The outgoing minister proposed a figure whom the panel rejected as too close to Aoun’s party. After wrangling back and forth, they settled on a compromise, Judge Fadi Sawwan, a former military investigating judge.
The Council itself is made up of 10 people, eight of whom are appointed according to the interests of the various political factions and religious sects in line with Lebanon’s sectarian power-sharing system.
The authorities have so far arrested at least 19 people in connection to the blast, including the head of the Customs Department and his predecessor, as well as the head of the port.
Lebanese say they want to see top officials who knew about the existence of the ammonium nitrate being investigated.
“They will blame the small guys while the ones who are really responsible will get away with their crime, that’s what will happen,” said Jad, a 38-year-old computer engineer who declined to give his full name in line with his company’s regulations not to discuss politics.
“Look, it’s simple. If this time there is no credible, serious investigation that will lead to the punishment of everyone responsible for this disaster, it is goodbye Lebanon. No one will ever want to live in this country again,” he said, standing on a bridge overlooking the decimated port. He had come to inspect the damage.
Lebanese forensics expert Omar Nachabe said the public infighting about the name of the lead investigator is a bad sign that casts doubt on the credibility of any local investigation.
“If I am a Lebanese citizen, my capital (city) has been destroyed. I want a quick and serious investigation, yet the government has not shown until now that it is up to the task,” he told the local channel LBCI. He lamented the time wasted before the explosion was referred to the HJC and the bickering that continues till now.
Explosions have marked a grim timeline in Lebanon’s modern history and have killed presidents, prime ministers and countless journalists and activists during the country’s 1975-90 civil war and beyond.
Almost none of the perpetrators were ever arrested or tried, and the truth was invariably buried. Lebanese had high hopes that the UN-backed tribunal investigating the 2005 killing of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri would be a chance to end impunity in Lebanon. But it took 15 years and was marred by doubts, politics and more deaths. The tribunal is to issue verdicts Tuesday.
International involvement in the investigation might bring some truth, but bringing justice is more complicated. Dov Jacobs, an international legal scholar based in the Netherlands, said the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine six years ago might be the closest analogy.
In that case, international experts had full access to the site, and international prosecutors charged three Russians and a Ukrainian with involvement in bringing down the plane and the murder of all on board. The men are on trial in a Dutch court in absentia, since none have been extradited.
But in Lebanon, Jacobs said, “the investigation itself is a tool of political influence. It’s one of those frustrating moments where immediate calls for justice are faced with a wall which is the political reality on the ground.”
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Palestinian From Syria Is First Coronavirus Case in Lebanon Refugee Camps
The country hosts tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees and their descendants, most of them living in squalid camps with no access to public services
In this June 20, 2017 file photo, Syrian refugee children play outside their family tents at a Syrian refugee camp in the eastern city of Baalbek, LebanonCredit: The Associated Press/ Bilal Hussein
A Palestinian woman from Syria has become the first refugee living in a camp in Lebanon to test positive for the coronavirus, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Wednesday.
The agency, UNRWA, said the woman lives in one of the camps in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa region. It said all necessary measures have been taken and the patient was transferred to the government-run Rafik Hariri Hospital in Beirut, adding that the agency will cover the entire cost of her treatment.
Lebanon is home to more than 1 million Syrian refugees and other Syrians who are residents. It is also host to tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees and their descendants, most of them living in squalid camps with no access to public services, with limited employment opportunities and no rights to ownership.
The tiny country has recorded 21 deaths from among 677 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. They include one Palestinian who lives outside a camp, and three Syrian residents who have tested positive. Wednesday’s announcement was the first involving a refugee living inside a camp.
Lack of testing has stoked fears among millions of displaced people around the world packed into refugee camps and informal settlements.
Most people who become infected experience mild to moderate symptoms. But the virus can cause severe illness and lead to death, particularly among older people and those with underlying health problems. It is highly contagious and can be spread by those who appear healthy.
UNRWA said it will take a team from the Rafik Hariri hospital to the Wavel camp in the Bekaa's Baalbek region, to carry out tests.
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“The agency is doing everything necessary to provide the required assistance to the patient’s family to allow them to isolate themselves with all the arrangements required and to secure the necessary needs,” the statement said.
Health Minister Hamad Hassan told reporters that two teams from the ministry headed on Wednesday morning to the Bekaa Valley, one to the Baalbek General Hospital and another to Wavel camp where they will take test samples.
Refugee cases will be treated exactly like their Lebanese counterparts, the minister said, apparently in response to rights groups'questions about Lebanon's ability to provide refugees with health care.
Earlier this month, Human Rights Watch said at least 21 Lebanese municipalities introduced discriminatory restrictions on Syrian refugees that do not apply to Lebanese residents as part of efforts to combat COVID-19, undermining the country’s public health response.
The Baalbek region is one of the least infected districts in Lebanon, with less than five cases, according to government statistics.
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Elusive Desire\'s 1:54.3 fastest in Elegantimage elims
Favorites Windsong Soprano and Elusive Desire scored in two of the three $35,000 eliminations for the upcoming Elegantimage stakes for 3-year-old trotting fillies, and second choice Celebrity Juliet prevailed by a neck in the third at Mohawk Friday night. Race #1 was the first Elegantimage elim, which pitted 3-5 favorite Windsong Soprano against Raising Rachel once the other favored lass, Sea...
Native Hotspur wins Maywood Filly Pace final in 1:55.4
Native Hotspur stayed undefeated in six starts this year when she held on for a nose in the $100,000 Maywood Pace final Friday night for driver Sam Widger and trainer Nelson Willis. Widger sent Native Hotspur to the lead from post four and the 3-year-old filly by Ft Apache Hanover cut out the fractions before the stretch drive. Honey B Skipalong, who had enjoyed a ride in the pocket,...
Favorite scores 1:49.2 triumph at Hoosier Park
Mister Big lived up to the hype and grabbed the victory in the 16th edition of the Dan Patch Invitational Pace Saturday, June 20 at Hoosier Park Racing and Casino. The powerful son of Grinfromeartoear rallied through the stretch to pick up the victory and add to his already hefty bankroll of $3.2 million. Starting from post six in the stellar field of 10 that included $10.5 million in career ear...
Duded Up\'s 1:55 score fastest of 3 Goodtimes elims
Undefeated Duded Up and Chris Christoforou were the class of the first of three eliminations for the Goodtimes Stakes, for sophomore trotters Saturday night at Mohawk, while Canada’s two-year-old trotting colt of 2008, Federal Flex, proved untouchable in the second Goodtimes elim, and Illinois champ Southern Rocketop scored in the third elim.Hurrikanebiggeorge and Yannick Gingras were faste...
Brainard, Bulletproof sweep Fan Hanover elims
Tracy Brainard trainees swept the three eliminations for the Fan Hanover Saturday night at Mohawk, with Yellow Diamond getting the sweep underway, and the march continued with Shacked Up a decisive winner in the second of the three $35,000 eliminations and Not Enough sealing the deal by delivering in the final elimination, which also resulted in a sweep for owner Bulletpro...
1-2 finishers, plus Chasin Racin, Millionaire Cam advance
If I Can Dream and Mr Wiggles won the last two $50,000 eliminations Saturday evening at Mohawk Racetrack, to qualify for next Saturday\'s $1.5 million Pepsi North America Cup, the richest harness race on the continent, joining Well Said and Dial Or Nodial. The owners/connections of the winners will get to choose post positions for the final, prior to the balance of the field being dr...
Four Empire State divisions contested at Yonkers
The Empire State continued its sublet of Empire City Thursday night, with Yonkers Raceway hosting four consecutive--and soggy --$55,056 divisions of the $220,224 New York Sire Stakes Mount Vernon Pace for 3-year-old fillies. This class of lass was also here last week. Eagle Way, 2008\'s rookie divisional champion, earned her first 2009 meet and greet with the photographer in the third divi...
Master\'s Sweetie, Striking Lauren win Scioto series splits
Master’s Sweetie made it five victories in a row at Scioto Downs on Thursday evening as she took a division of the fourth leg of the Killbuck Mary Series for trotting mares. The 4-year-old daughter of Master Lavec scored another easy win for driver Jeff Nisonger in 2:01.4. Nisonger moved the 1-5 favorite to the front before the half-mile and she turned back the challenges of Tk’...
Toucam Sam wins Harrah\'s Chester feature
Taking advantage of an early duel between Noble Falcon and Atochia, Toucam Sam ($14.40) continued off cover to a 5 1/2-length victory in the $35,000 Isle of Wight for open pacers on Thursday evening at Harrah\'s Chester Casino and Racetrack. With Atochia (Yannick Gingras) caught wide of Noble Falcon (Eric Goodell) for three-eighths of a mile, Toucam Sam set up perfectly off the pace, with ...
A winning photograph at The Meadows
Hawaiianphotograph waited patiently along the pylons, then unleashed a powerful uncovered bid that carried her to victory in the $27,500 Filly & Mare Preferred Trot on Thursday at The Meadows. Hawaiianphotograph broke stride in her last two starts, reason enough for Dave Palone to keep her covered up in fourth until the field approached the three-quarter pole. When Palone asked her for trot,...
$486 winner, yes, $486 winner, at Saratoga
In the 69-year history of Saratoga Raceway, no horse has ever paid a higher win mutuel than Nuclear Heat did in the Thursday finale as at odds of 242-1, Henry Pratt Jr.’s Nuclear Heat overcame post eight to win the evening’s 13th and final race. A win price of $486 resulted, the highest win price in the track’s history. The previous record was set in Decembe...
Cactus Creek favored in New Hampshire Sweepstakes final
Cactus Creek, the going away winner of his elimination race here a week ago, has been installed as the 5-2 morning line favorite for the $30,000 New Hampshire Sweepstakes final at Rockingham Park on Saturday. Cactus Creek will be partnered with Chris Long again and he is a deserving favorite in the full field of nine pacers slated to go postward in Rockingham\'s signature race. The 6-year-old...
Merriman to drive five at the Big M Saturday
Aaron Merriman, currently the nation’s leading dash winner with close to 400 wins, will venture to the Meadowlands on Saturday for a busy night of drives.
New PA stakes series set to begin at The Meadows
A new stakes series will make its debut at The Meadows on Tuesday night, June 23, and 16 two-year-old pacing fillies will be the first to take to the track for the event. Each of the two divisions will go for $26,600. The Stallion Series is designed for PA-bred, 2-year-old pacers and trotters that may not as yet be able to compete at the top level of Pennsylvania Sire Stake competition. The pur...
Pennsylvania Sire Stake time standards clarified
In response to a number of recent inquiries, the Pennsylvania Harness Racing Commission would like to provide a handy summary of the qualifying times required for participation in this year’s Keystone stakes events: PENNSYLVANIA PARI-MUTUEL SIRE STAKES – This is the first year (foals of 2007) that the new freshman qualifying times for Sire Stakes are in place: 2:03 for pacers, 2:05 for tro...
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Home » EOS Insight » Siemens
19 th July 2019
Case Study Environment EOS Governance Social Stewardship
Siemens engagement case study
Following a compliance crisis in 2006, Siemens has implemented numerous changes over more than a decade to strengthen its corporate governance, conduct and culture.
We track the engagement history of Hermes EOS with the company on ESG issues over the past 13 years and how it continues to press Siemens to prepare for a low-carbon economy.
Siemens is a global, diversified industrial conglomerate. It operates in production and manufacturing plants worldwide and is the largest electronics and engineering company in Europe, with over 370,000 employees in more than 200 countries/regions.
In 2006 Siemens faced a compliance scandal after employees engaged in bribery to win contracts. This raised significant concerns regarding the company’s compliance systems and the ability of the supervisory board to challenge and support the management board on this issue. Moreover, the company had also failed in the past to anticipate major technological developments. At this time, the supervisory board lacked sufficient diversity, with all the members male and from traditional industry backgrounds, rather than with skills in new rising industries such as information technology. The non-executive directors were also paid variable, not fixed fees, which in our view can introduce the risk of a potential conflict with the interests of long-term investors by rewarding the directors with positive short-term results.
The compliance crisis in 2006 catalysed the departure of both the CEO and chair. We had an intensive dialogue with the newly appointed chair in the period immediately following the emergence of the compliance crisis, on occasions acting as a sounding board on how to deal with certain aspects of the crisis and putting a stronger governance and compliance framework in place. We also discussed and reviewed the effectiveness of changes to the company’s compliance system in a meeting with the chief compliance officer and carried out a site visit.
We spoke with the chair and executives to articulate our concerns over the composition of the supervisory board and the effectiveness of its work as well as its remuneration, building a good working relationship based on constructive criticism. The company encouraged us to attend and speak on multiple occasions at its AGMs. This resulted in us giving AGM speeches in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018, highlighting our corporate governance and compliance concerns. For example, following the ill-prepared and poorly executed CEO change in 2013, we spoke at the company’s AGM in 2014 on behalf of a group of global institutional investors, reiterating the need for board refreshment and challenging the way the CEO’s succession was handled, as well as the reputational impact of information leaks to the media. Furthermore, we met with three members of the nomination committee of the supervisory board in October 2014, which is highly unusual in Germany. We pressed for timely succession planning for the chair and urged him to present a successor by the 2015 AGM at the latest.
We also called on the company to develop and implement a plan to rationalise its portfolio of businesses and to improve margins and sustainable growth. More recently, our engagement focus has shifted to how the company is addressing climate change, requesting the company to implement the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures in our capacity as Climate Action 100+ engagement lead.
Changes at the company
Following an internal review and the recommendations of an independent investigation, the company introduced a series of changes to its compliance system including executive level oversight of external standards and auditing practices, to ensure that bribery should not take place again.
In addition, over the period of our engagement, the supervisory board has made significant steps forward in corporate governance. Early progress included a significant revamp of the supervisory board at the AGM in 2008. In 2010, it agreed to move from variable pay to fixed pay only, for non-executives. In 2014, following our AGM intervention, the company carried out an externally facilitated board evaluation, revamped a key committee and replaced two supervisory board members at the 2015 AGM – three years prior to the expiry of their mandates.
This has resulted in a board that has changed from being all-male and comprising only traditional industry backgrounds to a much-improved board today that includes three female directors and expertise that is more relevant to the development of the business such as engineering, digitisation and software. Jim Hagemann Snabe, a former executive of a multinational software company, was elected as the new chair of the supervisory board in 2018.
We continue to engage on climate change, with the objective to ensure the company aligns it business model to the goals of the Paris Agreement, as well as the successful implementation of the company’s Vision 2020+ strategy, which should improve margins and deliver more profitable growth.
Case studies are shown to demonstrate engagement, EOS does not make any investment recommendations and the information is not an offer to buy or sell securities.
Lisa Lange
Sectors: Consumer Goods, Financial Services, Transportation
Lisa Lange focusses on engagement with companies in Europe and leads EOS work on pollution, waste and the circular economy. Prior to joining EOS, she worked as a sustainability consultant in London and was a research fellow at the Institute for Managing Sustainability at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Lisa holds a Master of Science in Nature, Society & Environmental Policy from the University of Oxford and an MA with honours in International Relations from the University of Edinburgh with a focus on climate ethics. Lisa speaks English and German.
Michael Viehs
Head of ESG Integration
Michael Viehs joined the international business of Federated Hermes in 2015, initially as part of EOS, and transferred to the Responsibility Office in 2018. He is Head of ESG Integration for all public market equity and credit funds managed from London. As part of that role, he advises the investment and stewardship teams on their integration approach and ensures that they have incisive ESG, sustainability and engagement information at hand to make better investment and engagement decisions for all of our clients. Furthermore, he is responsible for the ESG and stewardship research activities, proving the value-add from engagement and incorporating ESG information in investment decisions. Michael continues to conduct executive- and board-level engagements on environmental, social, governance (ESG), and strategic issues with German publicly-listed corporations.
Prior to this, Michael was Research Director at University of Oxford's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. His work on responsible investment, corporate governance, and stewardship has been published in Corporate Governance: An International Review and Annals of Social Responsibility. Amongst others, he is co-author of the widely recognised study “From the Stockholder to the Stakeholder – How Sustainability Can Drive Financial Outperformance” and contributed a chapter on active ownership to the recently published book Re-Imagining Capitalism (Oxford University Press) edited by Dominic Barton, Dezsö Horvath, and Matthias Kipping. He has also presented his work on responsible investing at several high-profile academic and industry conferences around the world.
Michael holds a BSc, MSc and PhD from Maastricht University, School of Business and Economics.
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EOS Client Service and Business Development
Amy D’Eugenio,
Head of Client Service and Business Development, EOS
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Florabelle Lutchman
Chief Administrator
Florabelle Lutchman, a prolific writer of articles and poems., is a retired School Principal, and retired teacher of two prestigious Private Primary Schools. She now owns her own private school to train students for the Secondary School Examinations. Florabelle is Secretary of the Local Board in her Presbyterian Church. She is an Administrator of How to Write for Success. Literary Forum and a Gold-categorised premium member of Motivational Strips, the world’s most active writers’ Forum. She was a Co-author in three bestselling Anthologies spear-headed by the Founder of How to Write for Success and Regional Director, Operations of Motivational Strips. They are “A Spark of Hope”- Books 1 and 2: A Treasury of Poems for Saving Lives from Suicide, and the ground-breaking “Break the Silence: An Anthology Against Domestic Violence.” On 15th August 2020, Motivational Strips and Gujarat Sahitya Akademi under State Government of Gujarat honoured 350 writers of which Florabelle was one, for Literary excellence on par with Global standards.
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Fradulent Email: Business Email Compromise Attack Costs Southern Oregon University $2M
By AJ Dellinger
A business compromise email scam hit Southern Oregon University for nearly $2 million. Photo: geralt/Pixabay
Southern Oregon University lost nearly $2 million in funds intended for a contractor after administrators fell for a fraudulent email.
The $1.9 million that was intended to pay for a construction project on the school’s McNeal Pavilion and Student Recreation Center instead was sent to scammers who posed as the contractors and tricked the school administrators.
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The school said the payment was wired in April to what administrators believed was the construction company that worked on the project. Days after the payment was sent, Andersen Construction reported it hadn’t been paid.
Instead, the money was sent to an account controlled by scammers rather than Andersen Construction. Details are scarce, but it’s believed the business email compromise (BEC) attack was carried out by attackers who created a fraudulent email account and posed as the construction company.
Local, state and federal authorities were notified of the fraud, and the FBI opened an investigation to help the university recover any losses.
SOU spokesman Joe Mosley told the (Medford) Mail Tribune at least some of the funds sent from the school are still in the bank account involved in the fraud, but it’s unclear how much. “It’s certainly a substantial amount,” Mosley told the newspaper. “It’s certainly not all of the money that was transferred, but it’s not just nickels and dimes, either.”
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Aso unclear is when the school will be able to recover the remaining funds, or how much of the total payment has been lost entirely. The school’s insurance policy may cover some of the loss.
While SOU is a noteworthy victim, it certainly isn’t the first to fall for a BEC attack.
The FBI sent a message to universities in May warning: “Many universities are frequently engaged in large construction projects, which require regular electronic payments of at least several hundred thousand dollars. It is relatively easy for a criminal to identify the construction companies involved in these projects and use social engineering and e-mail spoofing to commit this type of fraud. As a result of the nature and large size of these payments to a construction company, losses are significant.”
Newsweek is hosting a Structure Security event Sept. 26-27 in San Francisco. Photo: Newsweek Media Group
FBI statistics released earlier this year show there have been 40,203 BEC attacks reported in the last three years, resulting in businesses losing more than $5.3 billion. Attacks have increased exponentially in the last two years, with a 2,370 percent increase in identified losses taking place from January 2015 to December 2016.
Scams have been reported in all 50 U.S. states and 130 other countries. More than $750 million was stolen from businesses around the world in the final six months of 2016 alone.
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Taraji P. Henson’s Trainer Explains How to Get the “Cookie Booty”
By Jonathan Borge
Credit: Thaddaeus McAdams/Getty Images
As Cookie Lyon on Empire, Taraji P. Henson indisputably slays in over-to-top fashion like metallic Versace tailored suits, sheer, peek-a-boo Gucci dresses, and even loose-fitting boyfriend jeans that showcase the character’s softer, relaxed side. The reason Henson is able to nail any look on and off the red carpet (she killed it in Alexander Wang at this year’s Emmys) is not just found in the clothes, but also in the carefully toned body found beneath all the glitz.
So what’s her secret weapon? The Academy Award-nominated actress relies on celebrity fitness trainer Mike T, the man responsible for helping sculpt the likes of Vanessa Simmons, Rob Kardashian, and Henson’s own stylist, Jason Bolden, into shape. Ahead of Empire’s premiere season, the duo began working together to burn body fat and artfully chisel the beauty’s already enviable arms, legs, and glutes.
“Honestly, Taraji is very disciplined in the gym,” he tells InStyle. “She’s the type of person that if you tell her she can’t do something, she’s definitely going to want to do it even harder. Her focus is second to none. She’s a warrior in the gym. I’ve never had anything that she’s backed down from—she’s a dream client.” It’s not hard to believe the talent is committed to working up a sweat considering how much bravado she brings to any character, but as T reveals, it’s definitely hard work.
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When she’s not filming the show, Henson regularly trains seven days a week for anywhere between one to two hours of weight training and cardio. “She definitely loves squats. It’s one of her favorites. She’s pretty much known for her derriere and we make sure that we maximize our workouts for that,” he tells us about the star, who can squat with a whopping 185 pounds on her back. To get “a nice, round Cookie booty,” T suggests a focus on squats, lunges, kickbacks, dead lifts, and weight-free repetitions that are easy to try at home.
The workout mastermind also suggests simply walking or jogging in a park or using small, affordable weights and resistance bands to rotate between bicep curls, shoulder presses, and lunges. While the Hollywood favorite regularly meets with T for some gym time, it’s a clean, raw foods diet of broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, and other vegetables mixed in with high-protein (think chicken and fish) and good-carb (think brown rice) fixes that's the most vital, the trainer explains. “The main thing to focus on when you don’t have access to a gym is your diet because eating properly can help you lose weight alone,” he says.
And though Henson is in tip-top shape, she takes her routine to the next level in the days leading up to a megawatt red carpet appearance. T works closely with Bolden to note the type of gown she’s expected to wear and which body parts to focus on inside the gym. He also helps her practice a healthy, last-minute intermittent fasting rotation in which she’ll purposefully skip a meal to burn a few extra calories. “Intermittent fasting allows you to skip that meal and continue to work out, but not go on a complete fast,’ he says. “It also stimulates your metabolism so you burn body fat.”
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For more of T’s easy to follow tips, meal plans, and videos, head to trainersvault.com.
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'Wynonna Earp's #WayHaught Is What LGBT Audiences Deserve From TV
In the latest episode of 'Wynonna Earp', Waverly and Officer Haught's slow burn gets a lot Haughter.
This article contains spoilers.
If you’ve foolishly ignored all of the advice to get your shit together and start watching Wynonna Earp, you might’ve missed one of the best queer television scenes in recent memory, which aired during Friday night’s episode. Don’t fret, though — I’m happy to catch you up.
In Episode 9, “Bury Me With My Guns On,” we find Wynonna (Melanie Scrofano) struggling with the aftermath of killing the last of the Seven Revenants who took her sister and killed her father. Expecting to find relief from her anger and finding none, she’s trying to work out what comes next in the quest to end the Earp Curse.
Wynonna’s not the only one trying to find her footing in changing tides, though. Waverly (Dominique Provost-Chalkley), who reunited with her sister, split up with her long-time boyfriend, maybe, sort of married a skull, and went toe-to-toe with the Stone Witch in a matter of weeks, is now contending with her fair share of change, too. But perhaps the biggest change comes with her feelings for Officer Haught.
Following their charged first meeting at Shorty’s, it’s become increasingly clear that Nicole Haught (Katherine Barrell) has her own kind of Earp Curse, its just one that she’s not quite so eager to put to bed.
At least not with Peacemaker.
You know what, let’s just shelve that for now.
In what stands out as one of the best introductions to a queer character in recent memory, Officer Haught strode into Shorty’s in Episode 2 with confidence and charm that, if we’re being honest, makes most iterations of Prince Charming look like frat guys at last call. She knew from the moment she set foot in Shorty’s that she wanted Waverly Earp and since then, Haught’s interactions with Waverly have been sweet and sincere, if brief.
Nicole Haught made it clear where her heart lies, but she also proved that when it comes to Waverly, shes patient and plenty willing to wait for her to work out her feelings in her own time. And that’s exactly what happened — after a few speed bumps, misunderstandings, and a mention or two of unicorns.
Their first big scene together in the episode comes outside of the police station. Officer Haught’s Haughtsense is tingling, telling her that there’s something rotten in the state of Purgatory. Despite Nedley’s (Greg Lawson) attempts to steer her away from the truth, Nicole wants answers. Fate seems to lay a hand when she runs into Waverly, who’s just about the best person to go to for answers when it comes to Purgatory’s seedy underbelly, but it turns out they’re on very different wavelengths and the conversation goes south to the tune of, “I get it, you’re a lesbian, not a unicorn, right?”
Later, Waverly’s doing a pretty good Shackleton impression when Haught catches up to her with her modern-day noble steed and convinces Waverly to get in so they can talk/so that she doesn’t freeze to death. Once again, though, they don’t totally understand each other and come to a somewhat tense agreement to be “just friends.”
That doesn’t last long, though. After Gus reveals that she’s sold Shorty’s for a considerable chunk of change and gifts some of the money to Waverly, dubbing it “freedom,” she tells Wave to go after what and who she wants with a knowing wink.
Shortly after, Waverly finds herself back at the station, where she pulls Nicole into Nedley’s empty office and proceeds to tell her that, “When I think about what I want to do most in this world…it’s you.”
Then, naturally, they make out. Nicole Haught’s a smart girl — what the hell else are you going to do when the girl you’ve been highkey crushing on tells you that you’re what she wants? You don’t have to be a lesbian or a unicorn to figure that one out.
The scene, like the arc that set it up, was sweet, romantic, sexy, genuine, funny and, to put it bluntly, one of the gayest things I’ve ever seen on TV. I mean that in the best way, because it speaks to exactly what’s special about Wynonna Earp.
Waverly and Haught’s storyline wasn’t just about coming out or realizing that you’re not straight. Sure, that was an important part of it for Waverly, but it wasn’t fraught with self-hate and angst, and it wasn’t steeped in endless agonizing about “what it all means,” which is what too many queer storylines are reduced to.
The through line of their arc thus far has been that having feelings for someone and being brave enough to act on them is high risk, high reward. It’s been about the fact that even though they live in this bizarre little town full of demons, two people still can find something special in each other, and in the current landscape of queer female characters, that’s a beautiful thing.
There are subtle winks and nudges that make it clear that Wynonna Earp understands who’s watching and taking meaning from #WayHaught, which is what the fandom calls the ship. But more than that, the fact that this storyline is so normal (you know, save for the demon stuff), relatable and sincere speaks to an ever deeper understanding on the show’s part that queer audiences are hungry to see the characters they love and identify with treated like everyone else’s faves. What we want is exactly what everyone else wants: we want to be a part of the story and we want to see people like us doing cool shit and maybe falling for other people like us. That’s it.
Prior to last Friday night’s episode, The TV Junkies released an exclusive photo from the episode, and the Earp fandom promptly lost its collective shit. Showing Haught pulling Waverly in (like, way, way in) by her scarf, it was exactly what WayHaught fans wanted and maybe even better than anything they’d hoped for. Which is pretty much exactly why there was a lot of speculation (read: fear) that it was a dream sequence.
Thats how rare scenes like this are — despite how normal they feel — and it speaks to the way that LGBT fans are often treated by television. We’re used to not seeing the things we hope for. We’re used to seeing our ships and characters relegated to things like dream sequences and subtext.
But Wynonna Earp gave us more. It wasn’t a dream sequence or some toothless, chaste scene. It was hot. It felt earned, with a slow burning set up that gave us a pay off that was well worth the wait. Waverly decided that she wanted Officer Haught, then she went and got the girl the Waverly Way because that’s who she is: kind, funny, optimistic, smart and brave, even when she doubts herself.
Wynonna Earp gives us the representation we deserve with Waverly and Nicole, who are both fully-realized characters that are integral to the plot and have a real part the story outside of their sexualities and outside of each other. Haught’s character isn’t limited to the role of love interest. She has her own scenes outside of Waverly, perhaps most notably in her developing relationship with Wynonna. Waverly is a key part of the narrative, and her story encompasses so much more than her love life. They’re exactly the kind of queer characters we need, and that’s what makes WayHaught so signfiicant. It’s a credit to creator and showrunner Emily Andras, the writers, the actors and the team that works to bring something special like Wynonna Earp to life.
“Bury Me With My Guns On” showed us that Waverly’s journey to understanding her feelings was important, but that having feelings for someone and realizing that you might not be straight isn’t the end of the world. Things don’t come screeching to a halt, your entire life doesnt have to come crashing down around you. If you can summon the bravery to own your feelings Waverly Earp-style, you just might end up lucky enough to make out with a really Haught girl. That’s the kind of queer storyline this world needs.
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