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Dave Harris' Exception to the Rule Sets World Premiere with Roundabout Underground
by Andy Lefkowitz • May 2, 2019
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Roundabout Theatre Company has announced Exception to the Rule, the New York debut work of playwright Dave Harris, set to make its world premiere as part of the Roundabout Underground program in 2020. Miranda Haymon will direct the production, scheduled to begin previews on April 30 and officially open on May 21 at the Black Box Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre.
Exception to the Rule is set in a city high school, where six students are stuck in Room 111. They flirt, fight and tease, determining whether they should follow the rules and stay put or find an escape.
Dave Harris is a second-year MFA playwriting student at University of California San Diego. His play Everybody Black is currently in production at the 2019 Humana Festival.
Roundabout Underground exists to provide a new generation of playwrights with their New York debut productions. This season's second play, Something Clean by Selina Fillinger, begins performances on May 4.
Cast and design team for Exception to the Rule will be announced at a later date.
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Home > Brands > Apple > Did Facebook Try To Take On Apple By Developing a ‘Facebook Phone’ With HTC?
Did Facebook Try To Take On Apple By Developing a ‘Facebook Phone’ With HTC?
By Camilla Theakstone| 2 Mar 2020
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Facebook’s move to launch a co-branded smartphone in collaboration with HTC back in 2013 ultimately failed, but its initial vision was much larger: a Facebook phone exclusive to the company built from grassroots.
Facebook had hoped to take on Apple and Google’s dominance of the smartphone market with its own smartphone, but instead of launching its own branded phone, it collaborated with HTC to launch the HTC First in 2013. It was the first Android smartphone launched to have incorporated Facebook’s Newsfeed into the home screen.
The project was so secretive the digital giant refused to tell many of its own employees about it, according to Steven Levy’s new book ‘Facebook: The Inside Story,’ which documents the social media giant in its early years.
Levy details in the book how Facebook’s plan to launch its own smartphone came about, including the people inside the company who were tasked with spearheading the project.
The original phone was nicknamed GFK for the Wu-Tang Clan member Ghost Face Killah, the book claims – a detail that The Verge’s Casey Newton first identified.
Leading the new project was Chamath Palihapitiya, a prominent venture capitalist who worked for Facebook for four years from 2007 through to 2011. To help keep the project low-profile, Palihapitiya moved his team to an unmarked, unsuspecting building that required a badge outside of Facebook’s own badge.
Levy’s book claims that if employees asked if Facebook was developing a phone, the company would lie and deny it to them.
‘It was the first time I recall Facebook lying internally,’ Ezra Callahan, one of Facebook’s first 20 employees, said to Levy.
While the phone itself never made it to the market, it was designed by high-profile designer Yves Béhar and included a special groove where the owner could place their thumbs while scrolling.
The digital tech giant had also planned to work with Intel for the phone’s processor, and a prototype was even manufactured by Foxconn, the iPhone making giant located in China.
In this May 26, 2010 file photo, staff members work on the production line at the Foxconn complex in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, southern China. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
As far was what’s been reported, no photos of that prototype have emerged.
The phone was ultimately unsuccessful and just a month after its release, AT&T slashed the devices price to just US $0.99. A sequel was never made.
While Facebook’s plans to become a third challenger in the smartphone market space failed, there’s no doubt it conquered the mobile space in its own way – Facebook still holds the top three apps in Apple’s App Store and two on Google’s Play Store, according to data form App Annie.
They include Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
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‘DWTS’: Matthew Lawrence Shares How the Show Has Impacted His Marriage to Cheryl Burke
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Cheryl Burke might be dancing with Backstreet Boy AJ McLean on season 29 of Dancing With the Stars, but her husband Matthew Lawrence is waiting in the wings for her to come home each night. Find out how the DWTS competition impacts their marriage, according to Lawrence.
Matthew Lawrence and Cheryl Burke | Charley Gallay/Getty Images
Cheryl Burke and Matthew Lawrence are happily married
Burke and Lawrence have a long history. They first met when his brother, Joey, competed on Dancing With the Stars in 2007. Burke and Lawrence hit it off, but they decided to end their relationship after a few years.
The two reconnected in 2017. After realizing they were meant for each other, Lawrence proposed to Burke in May 2018. The Boy Meets World actor’s proposal included the diamond Burke’s father proposed to her mother with and a note that read: “I will love you always and forever. That’s what I engraved in this ring. I want you to marry me” [per Us Weekly].
Lawrence and Burke were married in May 2019 and remain married today.
Matthew Lawrence is ‘counting down the days’ until season 29 of ‘DWTS’ is over
As a motivated individual, Burke likes to keep her schedule busy. Burke’s partner this season discussed her “hustler” attitude with Lawrence on the “What MATTers Most” episode of the Pretty Messed Up podcast.
“It’s obviously gotta take a toll [on your relationship],” McLean pointed out to Lawrence regarding Burke’s busy schedule.
I woke up this morning feeling grateful for so much. For starters, thank you guys for voting #TeamPrettyMessedUp through to week six of #DWTS!! I’m so proud of @aj_mclean for how hard he worked to pull it through last night. On to the next dance!! pic.twitter.com/dekb4zmyhb
— Cheryl Burke (@CherylBurke) October 13, 2020
“I respect [the time and energy required of Burke to do the show], Lawrence admitted. “Whenever I have those moments where I get a little frustrated — [it’s always about] the craziest little things, when you think about it. One, her not being here.”
Because Burke and McLean have to practice every day for several hours at a time, Lawrence is often left at home alone. “I’ll turn after five or six hours and [think] I’m just living here alone now,” he laughed.
McLean apologized for keeping Burke away from home. The duo seem to be doing well in the competition, maintaining enough votes to stick around week after week. Of course, Lawrence said it was OK. Like Burke and McLean, he would be happy to see them win the Mirror Ball.
And yet, despite how much he wants his wife to succeed, not having her around has been tough for Lawrence. “It’s going to be really nice to have her back,” he concluded. “I am sorting of counting down the days.”
AJ McLean’s family is also counting down the days until the competition is over
Ironically, McLean’s family is doing the same thing Lawrence is. While his wife and two daughters are delighted McLean has made it this far in the competition, they can’t wait to have him back at home.
My little princesses know what time it is…voting for #DisneyWeek starts NOW!!! It’s GO time. See tweet below for voting info! #TeamPrettyMessedUp #DWTS pic.twitter.com/trSi1ANDnI
— AJ McLean (@aj_mclean) September 29, 2020
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“It’s funny, that’s what my kids are doing now,” McLean said about how his family is also patiently waiting for he and Burke to be eliminated or crowned the Mirror Ball Champions on Dancing With the Stars.
Watch McLean and Burke dance Mondays at 8PM EST on Dancing With the Stars.
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Why Every Parent Should Take Their Child To Swim Lessons
Almost a year after their 19-month-old daughter drowned in a backyard pool, Bode and Morgan Miller brought their 6-month-old son to a swimming lesson. Morgan Miller shared the emotional moment on her Instagram Stories Monday and her post has now g...
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Life After Drowning
The drowning numbers remain tragic, but not at all surprising to Corwin Warmink, M.D., medical director of Cook Children’s Emergency Department. Already this year, seven children have fatally drowned after being rushed to Cook Children's. But anothe...
Lifeguard Your Child … All the Way to the House or Car
All summer long we’ve asked parents to “Lifeguard Your Child.” The campaign’s focus has been on parents never taking their eyes off of their children while they are swimming … and that includes all the way to the car or house. “We’ve seen many ...
Father shares harrowing story after daughters nearly drown
The father of two little girls taken to Cook Children’s after a non-fatal drowning incident says even when you think you are doing everything right, something terrible can go wrong. The family, which has requested to remain anonymous, shared their...
What Your Children Should Do if They See Someone Drowning
Drowning is quick. Safe Kids Worldwide estimates you may have less than a minute to react once a child begins to struggle in a pool. And yet, one in three parents surveyed has left their child at pool for two to three minutes without supervision. ...
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Drownings double from this time a year ago at Cook Children's
In the month of June 2015, Cook Children's Trauma department saw 26 non-fatal drownings, more than twice as many during the same time span as last year. Everyone lived, there were no fatal drownings during this month, but then July began with two fat...
Even swimming can be too much of a good thing
Summer is just right around the corner and swim season is fast approaching. For some kids this will be their main sport, for others this will be just one of many. Swimming is one of the safest sports to participate in, however too much of a good thin...
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Derick Hutchinson, Senior Web Producer
Published: May 22, 2020, 12:43 pm Updated: May 22, 2020, 1:14 pm
Tags: Bay City, Bay County, Local, Crime, Michigan, Coast Guard, Police, Shooting, Firearms, Hospitals, Coronavirus Crime, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Cases, Coronavirus Event Changes, COVID-19, Michigan Coronavirus, Coronavirus Crisis, Coronavirus Pandemic, Coronavirus Outbreak, Jesse McFadden
Michigan man plans to steal helicopter for hospital attack to free COVID-19 patients, police say
Jesse McFadden taken into custody
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BAY CITY, Mich. – A Michigan man devised a plan to steal a helicopter from the Coast Guard in order to attack a police station and shooting up a hospital to disrupt the power and free the coronavirus (COVID-19) patients, authorities said.
Jesse Theodore McFadden, 70, is accused of calling Arenac County dispatchers around 8 a.m. Sunday to say he was on his way to the United States Coast Guard Station in Bay City, Michigan, to steal a helicopter, according to officials.
Plan to free COVID-19 patients
McFadden told dispatchers the helicopter would further his plan to attack a police station and shoot up a hospital, court records show.
He wanted to disrupt the power to the hospital, unlock the doors and release patients under COVID-19 quarantine, officials said.
McFadden told authorities he was armed with a machine gun, police said.
Dispatchers said they called police and the Coast Guard Station Saginaw River about the threat. They also revealed McFadden’s criminal history of brandishing weapons and resisting police, court records say.
Denied Coast Guard entry
Coast Guard workers at the Saginaw River station in Essexville said McFadden arrived around 10:30 a.m. in a black Ford open-bed pickup truck registered to another person.
He tried to get into the station using the gate keypad, officials said. After he failed to get in several times, he called the station communications center and demanded access, according to authorities.
His request was denied, so McFadden threatened to ram the gate open with his truck, court records show.
He left at 10:39 a.m. before Essexville police officers arrived, officials said.
Gas station arrest
Michigan State Police troopers found the pickup truck around 11:15 a.m. at a gas station in Essexville, according to court documents.
The truck was running but unoccupied with the driver’s door open, officials said.
When McFadden walked out of the gas station, state troopers spoke to him while a Hampton Township officer searched the pickup, authorities said.
A Hampton Township officer found a Mossberg Model 500A 12-gauge shotgun on the passenger seat of the truck, officials said. It was loaded with five shells, court records show.
McFadden saw that the officer had seized the shotgun and tried to hit one of the MSP troopers, officials said.
He also disobeyed verbal commands and resisted attempts to place him under arrest, troopers said.
Officers said they used a Taser on McFadden and arrested him. He was taken into custody by Hampton Township police.
McFadden charged
McFadden was convicted of fourth-degree fleeing and eluding on June 15, 2011 -- a felony punishable by up to two years in prison, officials said.
Authorities confirmed the shotgun was manufactured outside of Michigan.
The criminal complaint concludes McFadden knowing he had been convicted of a felony offense punishable by a prison sentence of longer than one year, possessed a firearm in violation of the law.
Officials are seeking a charge of felon in possession of a firearm.
Derick Hutchinson
Derick is a Senior Web Producer for ClickOnDetroit and has been with Local 4 News since April 2013. Derick specializes in breaking news, crime and local sports.
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Published: January 12, 2021, 11:26 am
Tags: Walt Disney World, Disney World, Theme Parks, EPCOT, Music
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ORLANDO, Fla – Walt Disney World officials on Tuesday said that a new exhibit, The Soul of Jazz: An American Adventure will debut at EPCOT beginning next month.
The exhibit will be located inside the American Adventure and will introduce and allow guests to explore the colorful and surprising history of jazz. Officials said the exhibit will feature Joe Gardner, the music teacher from the new animated Disney-Pixar film, “Soul.”
Guests will experience the musical history of jazz in the cities of New Orleans, Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles and Puerto Rico.
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“Jazz is the story of America. It unites people from every walk of life, and it’s a living breathing art form that is always evolving and always changing,” said Carmen Smith, creative executive with Walt Disney Imagineering “We’re working with top jazz museums across this country from New Orleans to New York and we’re excited to have their participation in this project.”
An official opening date has not been announced, but Disney officials said they look forward to welcoming guests soon.
Landon McReynolds
Landon joined News 6 in 2017. He grew up in Southern Illinois and graduated from Southern Illinois University with a bachelors degree in TV and digital media. When he is not at work you can catch him at one of Orlando's theme parks or the beach. Before working at News 6 he worked for stations in Miami and Fort Myers.
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Fysicus Hal Lewis zegt lidmaatschap APS op
Oorspronkelijk gepubliceerd op zaterdag 9 oktober 2010 2:10 http://www.vkblog.nl/bericht/350723
Sent: Friday, 08 October 2010 17:19 Hal Lewis
From: Hal Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara
To: Curtis G. Callan, Jr., Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society
Dear Curt:
When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago).
Indeed, the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence—it was World War II that changed all that. The prospect of worldly gain drove few physicists. As recently as thirty-five years ago, when I chaired the first APS study of a contentious social/scientific issue, The Reactor Safety Study, though there were zealots aplenty on the outside there was no hint of inordinate pressure on us as physicists. We were therefore able to produce what I believe was and is an honest appraisal of the situation at that time. We were further enabled by the presence of an oversight committee consisting of Pief Panofsky, Vicki Weisskopf, and Hans Bethe, all towering physicists beyond reproach. I was proud of what we did in a charged atmosphere. In the end the oversight committee, in its report to the APS President, noted the complete independence in which we did the job, and predicted that the report would be attacked from both sides. What greater tribute could there be?
How different it is now. The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d’être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs. For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.
It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.
So what has the APS, as an organization, done in the face of this challenge? It has accepted the corruption as the norm, and gone along with it. For example:
1. About a year ago a few of us sent an e-mail on the subject to a fraction of the membership. APS ignored the issues, but the then President immediately launched a hostile investigation of where we got the e-mail addresses. In its better days, APS used to encourage discussion of important issues, and indeed the Constitution cites that as its principal purpose. No more. Everything that has been done in the last year has been designed to silence debate
2. The appallingly tendentious APS statement on Climate Change was apparently written in a hurry by a few people over lunch, and is certainly not representative of the talents of APS members as I have long known them. So a few of us petitioned the Council to reconsider it. One of the outstanding marks of (in)distinction in the Statement was the poison word incontrovertible, which describes few items in physics, certainly not this one. In response APS appointed a secret committee that never met, never troubled to speak to any skeptics, yet endorsed the Statement in its entirety. (They did admit that the tone was a bit strong, but amazingly kept the poison word incontrovertible to describe the evidence, a position supported by no one.) In the end, the Council kept the original statement, word for word, but approved a far longer “explanatory” screed, admitting that there were uncertainties, but brushing them aside to give blanket approval to the original. The original Statement, which still stands as the APS position, also contains what I consider pompous and asinine advice to all world governments, as if the APS were master of the universe. It is not, and I am embarrassed that our leaders seem to think it is. This is not fun and games, these are serious matters involving vast fractions of our national substance, and the reputation of the Society as a scientific society is at stake.
3. In the interim the ClimateGate scandal broke into the news, and the machinations of the principal alarmists were revealed to the world. It was a fraud on a scale I have never seen, and I lack the words to describe its enormity. Effect on the APS position: none. None at all. This is not science; other forces are at work.
4. So a few of us tried to bring science into the act (that is, after all, the alleged and historic purpose of APS), and collected the necessary 200+ signatures to bring to the Council a proposal for a Topical Group on Climate Science, thinking that open discussion of the scientific issues, in the best tradition of physics, would be beneficial to all, and also a contribution to the nation. I might note that it was not easy to collect the signatures, since you denied us the use of the APS membership list. We conformed in every way with the requirements of the APS Constitution, and described in great detail what we had in mind—simply to bring the subject into the open.
5. To our amazement, Constitution be damned, you declined to accept our petition, but instead used your own control of the mailing list to run a poll on the members’ interest in a TG on Climate and the Environment. You did ask the members if they would sign a petition to form a TG on your yet-to-be-defined subject, but provided no petition, and got lots of affirmative responses. (If you had asked about sex you would have gotten more expressions of interest.) There was of course no such petition or proposal, and you have now dropped the Environment part, so the whole matter is moot. (Any lawyer will tell you that you cannot collect signatures on a vague petition, and then fill in whatever you like.) The entire purpose of this exercise was to avoid your constitutional responsibility to take our petition to the Council.
6. As of now you have formed still another secret and stacked committee to organize your own TG, simply ignoring our lawful petition.
APS management has gamed the problem from the beginning, to suppress serious conversation about the merits of the climate change claims. Do you wonder that I have lost confidence in the organization?
I do feel the need to add one note, and this is conjecture, since it is always risky to discuss other people’s motives. This scheming at APS HQ is so bizarre that there cannot be a simple explanation for it. Some have held that the physicists of today are not as smart as they used to be, but I don’t think that is an issue. I think it is the money, exactly what Eisenhower warned about a half-century ago. There are indeed trillions of dollars involved, to say nothing of the fame and glory (and frequent trips to exotic islands) that go with being a member of the club. Your own Physics Department (of which you are chairman) would lose millions a year if the global warming bubble burst. When Penn State absolved Mike Mann of wrongdoing, and the University of East Anglia did the same for Phil Jones, they cannot have been unaware of the financial penalty for doing otherwise. As the old saying goes, you don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing. Since I am no philosopher, I’m not going to explore at just which point enlightened self-interest crosses the line into corruption, but a careful reading of the ClimateGate releases makes it clear that this is not an academic question.
I want no part of it, so please accept my resignation. APS no longer represents me, but I hope we are still friends.
Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, former Chairman; Former member Defense Science Board, chmn of Technology panel; Chairman DSB study on Nuclear Winter; Former member Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Former member, President’s Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee; Chairman APS study on Nuclear Reactor Safety Chairman Risk Assessment Review Group; Co-founder and former Chairman of JASON; Former member USAF Scientific Advisory Board; Served in US Navy in WW II; books: Technological Risk (about, surprise, technological risk) and Why Flip a Coin (about decision making)
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13 Jul 2020, 23:25 GMT
António Horta-Osório, Lloyds’ [LLOY] talismanic CEO, has announced that he will step down next year after a decade at the helm — news which is likely to impact Lloyds’ share price.
Since Horta-Osório’s appointment in 2011, Lloyds’ share price has weathered the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Brexit and the coronavirus outbreak. While it seems unlikely his successor will face such an unprecedented run of events, nothing is certain in these unpredictable times.
What is certain, though, is that Lloyds has become a more efficient, profitable business under Horta-Osório. In many ways, he is leaving an easier task for his successor than he faced when he took on the role.
It is also true, however, that Lloyds’ share price dropped substantially during Horta-Osório's reign. The impact of macroeconomic factors beyond the CEO’s control should not be ignored here, but the bank’s lack of diversification also contributed to the decrease.
So, what shape has Horta-Osório left the bank in, and what does the next CEO need to do?
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Horta-Osório and Lloyds’ share price
Horta-Osó rio earned acclaim for getting the bank through the financial crisis, cutting costs and shoring up profits. Yet over the course of his tenure, Lloyds’ share price has more than halved.
As a reflection of the UK economy, the bank is vulnerable to headwinds outside of its control. Whether that's political turmoil or disparaging economic data, it all takes an effect on Lloyds’ share price. Given that the UK is now facing an unprecedented recession, it is no surprise that Lloyds’ share price has failed to rally this year.
That said, Horta-Osório's reign has also seen several own-goals that have hit Lloyds’ share price. These include the PPI scandal, which saw the bank forced to pay out £4.3 billion in 2019, or around half of full-year profits.
£4.3billion
Amount Lloyds paid out in 2019 on PPI
Still, Horta-Osório’s initiatives to streamline the bank could mean his successor is in for an easier time.
“In very trying circumstances he has created a strong and secure bank,” Lansdowne Partners’ Peter Davies told the Financial Times. “Unfortunately, markets may not reward this during his tenure, but . . . I suspect his creation of true value will be very evident in a few years’ time.”
“Unfortunately, markets may not reward this during his tenure, but . . . I suspect his creation of true value will be very evident in a few years’ time” - Lansdowne Partners’ Peter Davies
Will a move to wealth management help Lloyds’ share price?
The major criticism of Horta-Osório’s time at the top is Lloyds’ lack of diversification, which is perhaps most notable in its wealth management services. In an environment of ultra-low interest rates, this is hitting Lloyds’s share price and costing the bank. As the FT points out, each 0.25 percentage point the Bank of England slashes from rates wipes £150 million from Lloyds’ yearly net interest income.
All this is set to change in Lloyds’ next strategy update due this summer, though. Expectations are that the bank will expand its wealth and insurance divisions, which largely fall under the Scottish Widows umbrella. In 2019 this area saw £1.1 billion in profit, largely unaffected by changes to interest rates, so the move could bring good things for Lloyds’ share price.
Lloyds has also partnered with Schroders to launch Schroders Personal Wealth, a new financial planning business. Considering the size of Lloyds’ existing customer base, this represents a major new player on the market.
Should Horta-Osório’s successor skillfully manage this transition while keeping their eye on the bank’s fundamentals, Lloyds’ share price could see gains over the long-term.
Market Cap £21.765bn
PE ratio (TTM) 13.37
EPS (TTM) 2.30
Quarterly Revenue Growth (YoY) -35.1%
Lloyds share price vitals, Yahoo Finance, 13 July 2020
Who could be Lloyds’ next CEO?
Vim Maru, Lloyds’ head of retail banking, is the favourite to replace Horta-Osório. Maru followed Horta-Osório to Lloyds from Santander and would ensure a smooth execution of his predecessor’s strategy. From outside Lloyds, the FT suggests that Alison Brittain could be in with a shot. Brittain is a former Lloyds’ executive with substantial M&A experience, which could be valuable if Lloyds seeks to expand its activities.
And what’s next for Horta-Osório? While last week's announcement was styled as a retirement, expectations are that he’ll take a new role at a major European bank.
What do the analysts think?
Of the analysts tracking the stock on the FT, Lloyds’ share price has an average 40p target. Hitting this would see a 31.3% upside on the current price. Of those offering recommendations, the majority rate Lloyds as Outperform.
Whoever inherits the hot seat will undoubtedly have quite a challenge. Already, unofficial economic data has suggested the pace of recovery is likely to be slow. Then there is the looming challenge of Brexit to contend with. These are just two of the factors that will dog Lloyds’ share price in the short-term.
That said, if the new CEO can diversify the bank’s income streams, then Lloyds’ share price could finally break out of its slump over the next few years.
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Insomniac Co-Op Lead Designer Discusses Resistance 2
News 12/16/2008 at 8:09 PM by Jim McLaughlin 0
We looked at experiences like Team Fortress 2, in which there are dependencies on classes, and games like World of Warcraft, in which there are large amounts of people working in tandem, creating this kind of epic synergy to overcome these encounters that wouldn't be overcomeable as an individual.
We really wanted to focus on teamwork and the buzz that comes from people working together online, because even though there's some downtime when you're not playing together, the buzz is that much higher when the group locks together and everything falls into place.
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Installation view of Prada Rong Zhai GOSHKA MACUGA “What Was I?” ; Photography: Alessandro Wang
Maya Kramer
Maya Kramer is an artist an independent art writer and arts project coordinator. She was based in New York City for nine years during which time she worked in the curatorial department of the Guggenheim Museum and for private collectors. In 2010 she moved to Shanghai, and has since exhibited internationally in conjunction with institutions such the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, and the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Holland among others. She is the recipient of the Jacob Javits Fellowship, her works have been featured in media such as Fortune Art, Randian and Blouin Art Info, and she has written for The Shanghai Gallery of Art, Artlink, and Bank Gallery. She currently lives and works in Shanghai, China.
A shift occurs when stepping into Prada Rong Zhai. The chaos of Shanghai gets absorbed by the nostalgia and lavish beauty (almost embarrassingly so) of this meticulously restored 1918 mansion. It is a common phenomenon in this city, where the architectural ghosts of its modern heyday stand in uncanny relation to the novelty of its glittering skyline, a skyline still undergoing rapid growth. This type of psychic disjuncture and the possibilities it creates, relates to Goshka Macuga’s project currently on view in the Prada Rong Zhai space, “What Was I”. Through a series of calculated constructions and juxtapositions, the artist conjures timely and poignant issues confronting humanity at this moment.
Text: Maya Kramer
Images: Courtesy of Prada and the artist.
Goshka is known for her research-intensive projects that mine the works of others, examine the ways in which we construct knowledge and that employ curatorial strategies as a way to reflect on those frames of thinking. In ‘What was I” she creates a captivating AI robot whose intermittent speech, combined with the surrounding ornate space, hall of mirrors and a display of carefully selected works from Prada’s collection, open up an existential quandary.
The locus of the exhibition centers around a male-faced AI robot, sitting at the head of the room, its visage and forearms are expertly simulated in silicone while the rest of its form is made from cloth and metal. That it is clearly connected to the programming equipment behind it makes it puppet-like. At timed intervals, the robot delivers a monologue, revealing it is from the future. The robot is essentially a fragment of human consciousness that has survived to the post Anthropocene era, “outliving” its makers who self-destructed. The AI’s sweeping speech is an elegantly constructed montage of western-centric history and quotes that meditate on memory, endings, genes, drives, behavior, god, rationality, progress, and the environment, among other themes. Even the long tradition of the end-of-the world scenarios, of which the robot itself is a part, is included in the litany. Within the speech there are a string of truisms, among them: “We are survival machines—robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes”, “Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want” and “Because what I have missed is what we need to grant our attention to”. That Goshka managed to craft this text in a way that feels resonant instead of cheesy, is in itself a feat.
The rhetoric of the AI figure amplifies the sense of nostalgia and melancholy in the room and catalyzes new readings of the artworks Macuga selected from the Prada collection for display throughout the former mansion. Hung on mirrored panels facing the robot, works by such recognizable names as Alberto Burri, Salvatore Scarpitta, Enrico Castellani and Lucio Fontana, take on a simultaneously primal and futuristic qualities. Scarpitta’s bandages feel mummy-like, silent and buried yet acutely pained, the underlying trauma of their making in part stemming from the artist’s experiences in WWII—humanity’s last major collective reckoning with endings and mass destruction. Whereas Burri’s painting of a scorched and cracked surface, triggers that bi-polar urgent, helpless feeling characteristic of the Anthropocene era. That we get glimpses of ourselves in the mirrored surfaces onto which these paintings are hung, implicates us directly in this melancholy web.
In other rooms, various works continue to inspire divergent reflections. Works by the artist Grazia Varisco, unknown to me before this show, shocked me with their simple brilliance. The contingency of the viewer’s visuality is made apparent through her use of pre-fab clear acrylic sheets that augment minimal patterns behind them in accordance with the audience’s movement. My initial euphoria at discovering her work, of course, soon gave way to exasperation and anger. Why do I have to be this old, and just now learn about such brilliant female artists when I have known of their compatriots for decades?
Macuga also has this issue covered. She has considered the issue of gender in a nuanced way and built it into the show. In close proximity to the Varisco are three collages Macuga made, in which she was thinking of weaving. She in turn relates weaving to the genius Ada Lovelace, one of founders of computer programming, in part through Ada’s famous quote, “The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.” A kind of algorithm of the mind is subsequently engendered that connects the robot, to Macuga, to Lovelace to ‘the role of women’ to the domestic setting and beyond.
On the second level of the mansion, the space becomes more intimate and Macuga calibrates her choice of artworks accordingly. In the bedroom leaning against the wall is Rachel Whiteread’s beeswax mattress. Whiteread’s use of the language of minimalism– repurposed to accommodate a great deal of the content that was excluded from the minimalist movement, is exceptional in this setting. Near the Whiteread hangs a striking red, and slightly distended, painting by Turi Simetti that feels fiery and suggestive. Likewise, two small Fontana works, clay sculptures that carry his signature sexualized, violent, and mysterious slits within them, take on nearly pornographic associations in this context.
Beyond the bedroom on the second floor, the effect of the other works on display do not possess the same magic, but by then it feels less consequential as the point has been expertly made. Goshka’s ghost/treasure/time hunt through this beautifully preserved ornate space reflects on humanity’s, daily, intimate, flawed, cruel, touching, heroic and sad existence. While elusive at best, there might be something there that is worthwhile.
WHAT WAS I?
An exhibition Project by Goshka Macuga, Presented by Prada
Prada RongZhai, Shanghai
23 March TO 2 June 2019
Maya Kramer is an artist, an independent art writer and arts project coordinator. She was based in New York City for nine years during which time she worked in the curatorial department of the Guggenheim Museum and for private collectors. In 2010 she moved to Shanghai, and has since exhibited internationally in conjunction with institutions such the Hong Kong Arts Centre (Hong Kong) and the Van Abbe Museum (Eindhoven, Holland) among others. She is the recipient of the Jacob Javits Fellowship, her works have been featured in media such as Fortune Art, Randian and Blouin Art Info, and she has written for The Shanghai Gallery of Art, Artlink, and Bank Gallery. She currently lives and works in Shanghai, China.
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Obese parents are more likely to have obese children, according to a new Japanese. Researchers said their latest findings are important as obesity significantly increases the risk for heart and blood vessel disease.
The latest study involved more than 1,000 children between the ages of six and 12 in Japan. Researchers noted that 540 boys and 574 girls from seven different regions of Japan participated in the study.
Lead researcher Masao Yoshinaga, M.D., Ph.D., chief director of pediatrics at National Hospital Organization and his team at Kagoshima Medical Center found that paternal obesity increases the risk of obesity in boys. However, both paternal and maternal obesity increased the risk of obesity in girls.
The study also revealed that parents who spend a lot of time sitting in front of a computer or TV were more likely to have obese children compared to those of parents who don't have excessive screen-time habits.
"Screen time of children is significantly associated with parental screen time," said Yoshinaga, according to a press release. "To reduce screen time in children, parents should reduce their screen time."
The findings were presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2014.
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Ghost Queen (Elsewhere) (Paperback)
By Britt Wilson
Luey, Miri and Phil don't need a babysitter, but they might need an exorcist. With dad out of town and mom hosting an emergency yoga retreat everything was junk food and scary movies until the ghosts popped up. Now it's up to the kids to banish the banshees. Britt Wilson presents another rollicking romp in this fun-filled phantasmagorical fantasy.
Britt Wilson is an illustrator, cartoonist and letterer, living in Toronto, ON with her husband, toddler and two cats. Her lettering on the miniseries Fionna and Cake (Boom! Studios) was nominated for both a Harvey and an Eisner award. Her first book from Elsewhere, Cat Dad, King of the Goblins was published in 2014.
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Wonder Woman: 5 Major Things You Need To Know About Her Upcoming Movie
Adam Holmes
This weekend, moviegoers are getting their first cinematic Wonder Woman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but they’ll really get to see what Gal Gadot’s iteration of the character has to offer when her solo movie comes out on June 23, 2017. Because Wonder Woman is largely a period piece, much of the news surrounding the movie so far has centered on her journey through the outside world during World War I. Now we finally get a peek into Wonder Woman’s mystical home: Themyscira.
Earlier today, fans got their first look at Diana on her native island with three of the movie’s other leading ladies. Along with the photo, director Patty Jenkins gave some important details on Diana’s time there, the key figures in her life and how Wonder Woman’s crew went about crafting the Amazon environment’s look and culture. Here are the five biggest takeaways from the Entertainment Weekly report.
Diana Is The Only Child On Themyscira
It turns out there’s more that makes Diana unique from the other Amazons besides her going into the outside world to fight crime. It turns out that Diana is the only child living on Themyscira. So on an island filled with adult, immortal women, she was the lone little one running for a while, and even after "growing up," she still wasn’t nearly as experienced as the other Amazons.
As opposed to her original made-out-of-clay origin, Wonder Woman is following in the New 52’s footsteps by having Diana be the daughter of Hippolyta and Zeus, making her a demi-goddess. It remains to be seen how the other Amazons originated in the DCEU, but in the Post-Crisis DC universe, they were the reincarnated souls of women killed by men in the pre-historic years that were later given new bodies formed from clay by the five Olympian goddesses. Maybe their background will be something similar in the movie.
Meet Hippolyta, Antiope and Menalippe
Fortunately for Diana, she has three mentors looking out for her in Wonder Woman: her mother, Queen Hipppolyta (played by Connie Nielsen, seen above); her aunt, General Antiope (played by Robin Wright); and Antiope’s lieutenant, Menalippe (played by Lisa Loven Kongsli). Hippolyte has been part of the Wonder Woman mythology since the character’s debut in 1941, while Antiope and Menalippe earned prominent roles when George Perez started writing the Wonder Woman comic book in the 1980s.
Although the three women each have Diana’s best interests at heart in Wonder Woman, they have their own ideas on how to raise and train her. Hippolyta wants to shield her daughter from the outside world, but Antiope wants to prepare her for what the rest of the world is like. We know that eventually Diana will leave Themyscira and arrive in Europe during World War I, so despite her mother’s best efforts to keep her at home, Diana’s curiosity will overcome that, and hopefully Antiope’s lessons prepared her enough for what’s ahead.
Where Themyscira Is Filmed
Wonder Woman has been shooting its World War I scenes primarily in London, England, but for Themyscira, the movie shot footage on the "exotic" islands off the coast of Italy and Southern China. These locales are intended to enhance the "otherworldliness" of the scenes shot on Italy’s Amalfi coast, which is where we’ll see Gadot and the other Amazon actresses interacting.
Director Patty Jenkins also talked about how difficult it was designing Themyscira for the DCEU, and the constant question she asked during the process was, "How would I want to live that’s badass?" Working only off that group shot of Diana, Hippolyta, Antiope and Menalippe, it’s hard to tell at this point what Themysicra has in store for moviegoers, but no doubt we’ll see at least one promo image of the Amazon home before the year is up.
The Island’s Influence
If you’re not familiar with the Wonder Woman mythology, you should know that Diana’s background is rooted in just that: mythology. Specifically Greek mythology, hence the inclusion of mighty figures like Zeus. However, according to producer Charles Roven, there’s more to it than that. As he put it:
It’s a place that has the ‘you’ve never been to’ kind of feel. But once you’re there, you’re not so sure you really want to leave so fast.
Themyscira’s original name in the comics was Paradise Island, but even in the modern era it’s still called that occasionally. Judging by Groven’s comment, it sounds like it’s a magical place to be, both figuratively and literally. While the Amazons are warriors, if they’re anything like their comic book counterparts, they also know how to live the good life, and anyone would be lucky to visit there. That said, if you’re a man, don’t get your hopes up of walking on Themyscira’s shores. With a few exceptions, the Amazons have never been keen on having testosterone oozing everywhere.
The Perks Of Amazon Battle Gear
Rather than wear the same kind of armor that men don for fights, Patty Jenkins wanted the Amazon battle gear in Wonder Woman to have a more "authentic" feel that was appealing to women. Together with costume designer Lindy Hemming, they designed looks that showed of the women’s shoulders and legs, but still maintained practicality. Much of these looks were also inspired by features from the comics, like the bracelets and high-heeled shoes. Jenkins specifically commented on the latter fashion choice, calling it "total wish fulfillment" and while the Amazons do have flats for "heavy fighting," the director wanted the eponymous hero to look "hot as hell."
Given how powerful and invulnerable the Amazons are, the armor is likely more ceremonial than necessary, but still, you’d think they would want to cover their legs in battle as well. Okay, so a normal sword or arrow probably wouldn’t do anything, but what about a mystical sword or arrow? Wouldn’t it be nice to have some mystical plating to block a blow from such weapons?
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par Vassilis Economou
27/11/2020 - La dernière étape de cette formation de six mois a été bouclée par la présentation Season Finale des pitches des neuf projets participants
Maja Pek-Brünjes et Dora Šustić, respectivement productrice et scénariste du projet gagnant, Afterparty
This year, the MIDPOINT TV Launch programme drew to a close and, for the first time, showcased its projects during the 24th Black Nights Film Festival and its Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event industry section. This was the last stop for the six-month training course, which was rounded off by the Season Finale pitching presentation of the nine participating projects. Owing to the current circumstances, the event was held online, much like the whole programme (see the news).
The HBO Europe Award, which comes with a prize of $5,000 granted by HBO Czech Republic, was bestowed upon the Croatian project Afterparty, written by Dora Šustić and produced by Maja Pek-Brünjes. The series is a contemporary drama, which follows Lucija, in her late twenties, and her best friends Ruža, Maja and Iva as they explore the world, while the political aspirations of the ultra-conservative movement threaten their sexual freedom, health and self-esteem. When Lucija decides to work for a warm-hearted pro-life activist, Anđela, her relationship with her best friend and lover, Maja, is put to the test, while Iva’s reluctant decision to have an abortion widens the gap between the girls.
Steve Matthews, HBO Europe’s VP and executive producer of drama development, and a development executive tutor at TV Launch, handed out the award during the closing ceremony of Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, remarking: “The difficulties of running the MIDPOINT programme online this year have certainly not resulted in any loss of quality: the participants all rose to the challenge with professionalism and innovation. As always, this was a very difficult decision: several of the projects displayed extremely high levels of craft and attainment from teams who were collaborative and determined always to keep pushing themselves. But one stood out for having achieved those craft objectives, but it also displayed an additional spark of personal passion and the courage to explore difficult and controversial modern topics with great honesty. A writer’s job is to explore an issue, not to preach about it – and for that reason, the winner of this year’s HBO Europe Award is Afterparty.”
MIDPOINT TV Launch is already preparing to welcome its future participants, and the call for applications for next year will open in a few days’ time, with the deadline set for 31 January 2021.
(Traduit de l'anglais)
“Contrairement à la plupart des programmes TV sur l’amitié entre femmes, nous ne craignons pas d’aborder le féminisme : nous l’explorons”
Dora Šustic et Maja Pek-Brünjes • Réalisatrice et productrice d’Afterparty
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Tourism Forecast Down for 2019 but 4 Million Visitors Still Expected
Published 2 years ago Zoe Veraz 2y ago • Bookmarks: 34
Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero announced that 4,300,000 tourist arrivals are still expected for 2019. Cuba has a large variety of tourism options, beaches and ecotourism are just a few. This destination is in Pinar del Rio.
In spite of the effects of the recent Trump administration’s tightening of the U.S. embargo against Cuba, the Minister of Tourism Manuel Marrero stated on Friday that 4,300,000 tourist arrivals are still expected to visit the Island this year. That number is lower than the original forecast of five million international visitors by the end of 2019.
The changes affected tourism in the month of June, reducing the number of visitors by 20.33%. Cruise ships, yachts and private planes and the permitted category of educational travel have been banned by the U.S. government. Of note, Americans can still travel to Cuba legally under the Support for the Cuban People license category, said inSight Cuba’s President Tom Popper in an interview with Cuba Business Report.
In 2018, Cuba received 4.7 million tourist arrivals and it was previously projected the number would climb to more than five million in 2019. That number is predicted to be reduced by 10 percent this year.
U.S. tourism to Cuba grew rapidly in 2015 when former President Barack Obama relaxed the rules for American tourism to the Island. The number of U.S. travelers expanded making the American tourist market the second largest after Canadian tourists. One half of those American visitors arrived by cruise ship.
To date this year, 2,468 023 visitors have chosen Cuba as their destination of choice.
Hotel investment and construction is on the rise in Cuba. This year, Cuba will have a total of 4,000 new hotel rooms.
The country is also planning to build its first theme park and constructing more dolphinariums, a favorite tourist activity.
Tourism is still the main economic driver of the Cuban economy, which supports social programs, housing construction, education and a free public health system.
In the National Assembly, President Miguel Diaz-Canel stated that the tourism sector currently employs over 111,000 Cubans and is a chief source of foreign currency.
“A large part of the revenues we use weekly… comes from tourism… For this reason, we must continue betting on the development of tourism,” the President said.
He also urged the search for new markets and to create more flexible policies regulating tourism industry investment to make it more attractive to investors. He also stated that it is vital to promote tourism from other countries.
Cuba still attracts tourists because of its warm climate, splendid beaches, health tourism, eco-tourism, cultural attractions, and most especially, tourism safety.
Zoe Veraz
Zoe Veraz is a content writer, freelance journalist and regular contributor to the Cuba Business Report. More »
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HomePostsUncategorizedOur workplace discrimination and harassment policy
Our workplace discrimination and harassment policy
Posted on November 22, 2020 November 22, 2020 by Australian Democrats
1. Scope
2. Aims
3. Staff rights and responsibilities
3.1 Additional responsibilities of managers and supervisors
4. Unacceptable workplace conduct
4.1 Discrimination 4.2 Bullying 4.3 Sexual harassment 4.4 Victimisation 4.5 Gossip
5. Merit at the Australian Democrats
6. Resolving issues at the Australian Democrats
6.1 Assistance program
7. Other relevant Australian Democrats policies
8. More information
9. Review details
1. Scope
This policy applies to:
• National Executive members and State Division members
• all staff, including: managers and supervisors; full-time, part-time or casual, temporary or permanent staff; job candidates; student placements, apprentices, contractors, sub-contractors and volunteers
• how the Australian Democrats provides services to its members and how it interacts with other members of the public
• all aspects of employment, recruitment and selection; conditions and benefits; training and promotion; task allocation; shifts; hours; leave arrangements; workload; equipment and transport
• on-site, off-site or after-hours work; work-related social functions; conferences – wherever and whenever staff may be as a result of their duties with the Australian Democrats
• staff treatment of other staff, of member, and of other members of the public encountered in the course of their duties with the Australian Democrats.
2. Aims
The Australian Democrats are committed to providing a safe, flexible and respectful environment for staff, board members, State committee members and its members free from all forms of discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment.
All Australian Democrats staff and volunteers are required to treat others with dignity, courtesy and respect.
By effectively implementing our Workplace discrimination and harassment policy we will attract and retain talented staff, volunteers and members and create a positive environment for staff, volunteers and members.
3. Staff rights and responsibilities
All staff, National Executive, State Division members, volunteers and electoral candidates of the Australian Democrats are entitled to:
• recruitment and selection decisions based on merit and not affected by irrelevant personal characteristics
• work free from discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment
• the right to raise issues or to make an enquiry or complaint in a reasonable and respectful manner without being victimised
• reasonable flexibility in working arrangements, especially where needed to accommodate their family responsibilities, disability, religious beliefs or culture.
All staff, National Executive, State Division members, volunteers and electoral candidates of the Australian Democrats must:
• follow the standards of behaviour outlined in this policy
• offer support to people who experience discrimination, bullying or sexual harassment, including providing information about how to make a complaint
• avoid gossip and respect the confidentiality of complaint resolution procedures
• treat everyone with dignity, courtesy and respect.
3.1 Additional responsibilities of managers and supervisors
Managers and members of the Australian Democrats leadership team must also:
• model appropriate standards of behaviour
• take steps to educate and make Australian Democrats staff, National Executive, State Division members and volunteers aware of their obligations under this policy and the law
• intervene quickly and appropriately when they become aware of inappropriate behaviour
• act fairly to resolve issues and enforce workplace behavioural standards, making sure relevant parties are heard
• help Australian Democrats staff, National Executive, State Division members and volunteers resolve complaints informally
• refer formal complaints about breaches of this policy to the appropriate complaint handling officer (the President of the Australian Democrats or State Division President) for investigation
• ensure staff who raise an issue or make a complaint are not victimised
• ensure that recruitment decisions are based on merit and that no discriminatory requests for information are made
• seriously consider requests for flexible work arrangements.
4. Unacceptable workplace conduct
Discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment are unacceptablein the Australian Democratsand are unlawful under the following legislation:
• Sex Discrimination Act 1984
• Racial Discrimination Act 1975
• Disability Discrimination Act 1992
• Age Discrimination Act 2004
• Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986
Australian Democrats staff (including managers), National Executive, State Division members and volunteers found to have engaged in such conduct might be counselled, warned or disciplined. Severe or repeated breaches can lead to formal discipline up to and including dismissal.
4.1 Discrimination
Discrimination is treating, or proposing to treat, someone unfavourably because of a personal characteristic protected by the law, such as sex, age, race or disability.
Discrimination can occur:
Directly, when a person or group is treated less favourably than another person or group in a similar situation because of a personal characteristic protected by law (see list below).
For example, a worker is harassed and humiliated because of their race
A worker is refused promotion because they are ‘too old’
Indirectly, when an unreasonable requirement, condition or practice is imposed that has, or is likely to have, the effect of disadvantaging people with a personal characteristic protected by law (see list below).
For example, redundancy is decided based on people who have had a worker’s compensation claim rather than on merit.
Protected personal characteristics under Federal discrimination law include:
• a disability, disease or injury, including work-related injury
• parental status or status as a carer, for example, because they are responsible for caring for children or other family members
• race, colour, descent, national origin, or ethnic background
• age, whether young or old, or because of age in general
• sex
• industrial activity, including being a member of an industrial organisation like a trade union or taking part in industrial activity, or deciding not to join a union
• pregnancy and breastfeeding
• sexual orientation, intersex status or gender identity, including gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, queer and heterosexual
• marital status, whether married, divorced, unmarried or in a de facto relationship or same sex relationship
• political opinion
• social origin
• medical record
• an association with someone who has, or is assumed to have, one of these characteristics, such as being the parent of a child with a disability.
It is also against the law to treat someone unfavourably because you assume they have a personal characteristic or may have it at some time in the future.
4.2 Bullying
If someone is being bullied because of a personal characteristic protected by equal opportunity law, it is a form of discrimination.
Bullying can take many forms, including jokes, teasing, nicknames, emails, pictures, text messages, social isolation or ignoring people, or unfair work practices.
Under Federal law, this behaviour does not have to be repeated to be discrimination – it may be a one-off event.
Behaviours that may constitute bullying include:
• sarcasm and other forms of demeaning language
• threats, abuse or shouting
• coercion
• isolation
• inappropriate blaming
• ganging up
• constant unconstructive criticism
• deliberately withholding information or equipment that a person needs to do their job
• unreasonable refusal of requests for leave, training or other workplace benefits.
Bullying is unacceptable in the Australian Democrats and may also be against occupational health and safety law.
4.3 Sexual harassment
Sexual harassment is a specific and serious form of harassment. It is unwelcome sexual behaviour, which could be expected to make a person feel offended, humiliated or intimidated. Sexual harassment can be physical, spoken or written. It can include:
• comments about a person’s private life or the way they look
• sexually suggestive behaviour, such as leering or staring
• brushing up against someone, touching, fondling or hugging
• sexually suggestive comments or jokes
• displaying offensive screen savers, photos, calendars or objects
• repeated unwanted requests to go out
• requests for sex
• sexually explicit posts on social networking sites
• insults or taunts of a sexual nature
• intrusive questions or statements about a person’s private life
• sending sexually explicit emails or text messages
• inappropriate advances on social networking sites
• accessing sexually explicit internet sites
• behaviour that may also be considered to be an offence under criminal law, such as physical assault, indecent exposure, sexual assault, stalking or obscene communications.
Just because someone does not object to inappropriate behaviour in the workplace at the time, it does not mean that they are consenting to the behaviour.
Sexual harassment is covered in the workplace when it happens at work, at work-related events, between people sharing the same workplace, or between colleagues outside of work.
All staff and volunteers have the same rights and responsibilities in relation to sexual harassment.
A single incident is enough to constitute sexual harassment – it does not have to be repeated.
All incidents of sexual harassment – no matter how large or small or who is involved – require employers and managers to respond quickly and appropriately.
The Australian Democrats recognises that comments and behaviour that do not offend one person can offend another. This policy requires all staff and volunteers to respect other people’s limits.
4.4 Victimisation
Victimisation is subjecting or threatening to subject someone to a detriment because they have asserted their rights under equal opportunity law, made a complaint, helped someone else make a complaint, or refused to do something because it would be discrimination, sexual harassment or victimisation. Victimisation is against the law.
It is also victimisation to threaten someone (such as a witness) who may be involved in investigating an equal opportunity concern or complaint.
Victimisation is a very serious breach of this policy and is likely (depending on the severity and circumstances) to result in formal discipline against the perpetrator.
The Australian Democrats has a zero tolerance approach to victimisation.
4.5 Gossip
It is unacceptable for Australian Democrats staff, National Executive, State Division members and volunteers to talk with other staff members, clients or suppliers about any complaint of discrimination or harassment.
Breaching the confidentiality of a formal complaint investigation or inappropriately disclosing personal information obtained in a professional role (for example, as a manager) is a serious breach of this policy and may lead to formal discipline.
5. Merit at the Australian Democrats
All recruitment and job selection decisions at the Australian Democrats will be based on merit – the skills and abilities of the candidate as measured against the inherent requirements of the position – regardless of personal characteristics.
It is unacceptable and may be against the law to ask job, Executive, State division or volunteer candidates questions, or to in any other way seek information, about their personal characteristics, unless this can be shown to be directly relevant to a genuine requirement of the position.
6. Resolving issues at the Australian Democrats
The Australian Democrats strongly encourages any staff member who believes they have been discriminated against, bullied, sexually harassed or victimised to take appropriate action by approaching either the President of the Australian Democrats, a member of the Australian Democrats Executive or a State Division President and detailing the complaint.
6.1 Making a complaint
Any Australian Democrats staff member, National Executive, State Division member or volunteer who believes they have experienced or witnessed behaviour which contravenes the Policy may make a Complaint under this procedure.
At any stage of the process under this procedure, a staff member, National Executive, State Division member or volunteer may seek the assistance and support of a Representative.
There are two options provided under these procedures for responding to a Complaint of Discrimination, Bullying or Harassment:
a) an informal complaint process, or
b) a formal complaint process.
A staff member, National Executive, State Division member or volunteer is not required to exhaust informal attempts at resolution before formal action commences. Complainants have the right to formalise their Complaint at any stage.
If a Complaint is made, either as an informal complaint or a formal complaint, and where the seriousness of the alleged behaviour becomes apparent (e.g. misconduct/serious misconduct), at any time during the complaints processes it may be referred as follows:
a) in the case of a Respondent who is a Staff member, the matter may be referred to a member of the Australian Democrats Executive Committee.
b) in the case of a Respondent who is a National Executive, State Division member or volunteer, a matter may be referred to the President of the Australian Democrats or a member of the senior leadership team (including State Division Presidents) for further action (as appropriate).
6.2. Informal Complaints Process
An informal Complaint process is recommended where:
a) The alleged behaviour is/was not violent and addressing it with the Respondent will not create an unsafe circumstance for the Complainant; and/or
b) the Complainant simply wants to make it clear that the behaviour is unwanted and wants it to cease.
In the first instance the Complainant, if they feel safe to do so, is encouraged to initiate a conversation letting the Respondent know that their behaviour is impacting the Complainant and/or others and request that it stops.
The Complainant may approach the President of the Australian Democrats or a member of the senior leadership team (including State Division Presidents) to request support to address the behaviour.
Potential outcomes of an informal process may include, but not limited to:
a) an apology;
b) an agreement between the parties on acceptable behaviour;
c) resetting expectations of behaviour for all parties by the National Executive of the Australian Democrats;
d) undertaking internally provided training programs.
The informal Complaint process will be carried out in good faith and according to the principles of natural justice. Complaints that are frivolous, Vexatious, misconceived or lacking in substance will be rejected if a preliminary investigation of the facts indicates this. Where a Complaint is found to be Vexatious or has been made in bad faith, disciplinary action may be taken against the Complainant.
6.3 Formal Complaints Process
A Complaint may be made under the formal Complaints process regardless of whether an informal Complaints process has been instigated earlier.
The formal Complaints process option may be appropriate where:
a) informal attempts at resolution have failed, or have not been pursued;
b) the Complainant is alleging that the inappropriate behaviour being complained about is victimisation or reprisal action as the result of an earlier Complaint;
c) the Complaint involves allegations which could constitute misconduct or serious misconduct as outlined through this policy.
An Australian Democrats staff, National Executive, State Division members and volunteers can initiate a formal Complaint relating to a breach of the Policy by completing the Bullying, Discrimination, and Harassment – Staff and Affiliates Formal Complaint Form. This form is to be completed in full and lodged with the President of the Australian Democrats or another senior member of the National Executive.
The response to a formal Complaint may include:
a) a method of Alternative Dispute Resolution; or
b) investigation
The formal Complaint process will be carried out in good faith and according to the principles of natural justice. Complaints that are frivolous, Vexatious, misconceived or lacking in substance will be rejected if a preliminary investigation of the facts indicates this. Where a Complaint is found to be vexatious or has been made in bad faith, disciplinary action may be taken against the Complainant.
6.4. Formal investigation process
If the President of the Australian Democrats or senior member of the National Executive determines a formal investigation is necessary, an appropriate investigator will be appointed.
To afford Natural Justice to both the Complainant and Respondent, the investigator will ensure that:
a) the Complainant and Respondent receive information about the standard of conduct expected during an investigation process, including confidentiality;
b) the Respondent is fully apprised of the allegations against him or her;
c) all issues are investigated;
d) all participants in the investigation are informed of information relevant only to their participation in the investigation;
e) the Complainant and the Respondent have the right to be heard and be treated impartially and without bias;
f) the Complainant, Respondent and any interviewees are afforded the right to a Representative at discussions or interviews throughout the process;
g) the investigation report is confidential and will not be released to any parties, unless required under law, but may be used to form allegations as part of any disciplinary processes.
For the purpose of conducting an effective investigation, all parties acknowledge that information relating to the investigation could contain confidential, sensitive or personal information or material. Information could include interviews, statements, emails, phone records, text or data messages, forming part of the investigation report and as such, shall not be made available to Staff or other stakeholders other than to the Respondent or Complainant (on a confidential basis) where reasonably necessary to afford natural justice to the parties.
The investigator will generally make a finding about the allegation of behaviour which may be in breach of the Policy, in which case the Complainant and the Respondent will be notified in writing whether the allegation/s is/are substantiated or not and the reason for this determination.
Other parties involved in the investigation will receive communication to confirm their involvement has concluded or the investigation process has concluded.
On completion of an investigation, and if the allegations are substantiated, the relevant manager will determine appropriate actions, which may include but are not limited to:
a) the Complainant and the Respondent participate in an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR);
b) training;
c) resetting expectations of behaviour by the Australian Democrats National Executive; or
d) other options as deemed appropriate to the circumstances; or
6.5 Alternative Dispute Resolution
Alternative Dispute Resolution may help the Complainant and Respondent resolve a complaint or reach an agreement, and can occur at any stage of the complaint management process.
Participation in Alternative Dispute Resolution in an informal or formal Complaint management process is voluntary and must be agreed to by both the Complainant and the Respondent.
Alternative Dispute Resolution may include:
a) Mediation: a process in which the Complainant and the Respondent, with the assistance of an independent dispute resolution practitioner (the mediator) negotiate in an endeavour to come to a mutually agreed resolution. The mediator has no advisory or determinative role.
b) Facilitation: a process in which the parties (usually a group), with the assistance of an independent dispute resolution practitioner (the facilitator) identify problems to be solved, tasks to be accomplished or disputes issues to be resolved. Facilitation may conclude there, or it may continue to assist the parties to develop options, consider alternatives and endeavour to reach an agreement. The facilitator has no advisory or determinative role.
c) Conciliation: a process in which the Complainant and the Respondent, with the assistance of an independent dispute resolution practitioner (the conciliator), identify the issues, develop options, consider alternatives and endeavour to reach an agreement. The conciliator may have an advisory role on the dispute or the outcome of its resolution, but not a determinative role.
6.6 Confidentiality
Any party involved in a matter relating to the Policy and this Procedure (including complainant, Respondent, witnesses, interviewees and Representatives) have a responsibility to treat a Complaint and all information and associated processes as confidential.
Information provided by the Complainant or the Respondent will be treated as confidential and will be provided only to those who have a need for the information for the purposes of managing the complaint in the course of their involvement or employment with the Australian Democrats or when it is required in the course of investigating or resolving the Complaint.
6.7 False Allegations and/or Vexatious Complaints
Reports (whether oral or in writing) made in bad faith and/or including false information in the course of an investigation may lead to allegations of Misconduct/Serious Misconduct and result in disciplinary action against the person.
If the Complaint is found to be vexatious, the Australian Democrats may take action against the Complainant.
6.8 Assistance program
Australian Democrats staff, National Executive, State Division members and volunteers are entitled to one session of free, professional counselling from our employee assistance program. To access the employee assistance program, contact the Australian Democrats National Secretary.
Counselling is confidential and nothing discussed with a counsellor will be communicated back to the Australian Democrats.
7. Other relevant Australian Democrats policies
Staff, especially managers and supervisors, are encouraged to read this policy in conjunction with other relevant Australian Democrats policies, including
• Flexible work arrangements policy
• Pregnancy and work procedure and policy
• Occupational health and safety policy
• Workplace complaint resolution policy and procedure
• Mission, vision and values statements
8. More information
If you have a query about this policy or need more information please contact Elisa Resce, Australian Democrats National Secretary, eresce@democrats.org.au
9. Review details
This policy was adopted by the Australian Democrats on [insert date]
This policy was last updated on [insert date]
Complainant Details
First Name _________________________ Surname _______________________________
Phone _____________________________ Email Address __________________________________
Representative Details
You may have a Representative support you. A Representative is a person to assist, accompany and support them in their participation in matters relating to a complaint in line with the Australian Democrats Workplace Discrimination and Harassment Policy. A representative may be a staff member; or delegate.
Representative’s Name ______________________________
Representative’s Position ____________________________
Relationship to you _________________________________
Information about managing formal complaints is outlined in the Australian Democrats Workplace Discrimination and Harassment Policy. The intention of this form is to help define your complaint, and inform what you have done to resolve the issue prior to making a formal complaint. It will provide you with guidance on the types of information needed to resolve your complaint. Please note; if there is more than one complainant, each complainant must complete a separate form. Once completed, please submit this form to either the President of the Australian Democrats or a senior leader on the National Executive. You will receive written acknowledgement of your complaint.
Complaint Statement
Please provide a typed statement about your complaint that includes, where relevant: A description of the event/s or incident/s which occurred:Please provide a clear explanation of whom you are complaining about and what behaviour or types of behaviour you are complaining about. You should also include how you have been adversely and unjustifiably impacted by the behaviour/s. Please outline the event/s or incident/s in chronological order; stating dates, times and locations as well as the names of those involved, or who witnessed the event/s or incident/s.
Detail any evidence you have to support each event/s or incident/s in your complaint:Please provide a numerical list of your evidence, referring to this as you discuss the event/s or incident/s throughout your statement and attach this evidence to your complaint. Please refer to any evidence you know of but do not possess and who would possess this evidence. If you do not have any evidence please list as not applicable
Include any steps that you have already taken to try to resolve the complaint (if relevant)Please provide a list of your actions to date including, if applicable:whom you have taken your complaint towhy you think the complaint has not been resolved informally andwhy you think a formal complaint is required to resolve the matter.Please provide an overview of the advice you have received to date and if you attempted to resolve the matter informally what was the outcome? If you have not taken any steps to resolve the matter informally, please provide information as to why.
Describe what behaviours (as per the policy) were demonstrated by the person against whom you are making the complaint(E.g. If the complaint is discrimination, under what attribute are you being discriminated against?)
Provide the name and contact details of any witness or other person who may support your complaint and or who you spoke to about your complaint.Include why you believe they are a witness. If you don’t have any witnesses, please list as not applicable.
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Torquay United will not announce new manager ahead of Wrexham game
'We have been extremely heartened and enthused by both the quality and quantity of applications received'
Torquay United have confirmed that no announcement will be made about the name of the new Gulls manager before the Wrexham game at Plainmoor on Saturday.
It is more than three weeks since United sacked manager Kevin nicholson and they lie at the bottom of the Vanarama National League with just two points from their first eight games. Caretaker manager Robbie Herrera will take charge again for the visit of Wrexham.
Torquay United keeper Vincent Dorel relishes his chances at Plainmoor
A statement from the club on Friday confirmed what fans had expected - no news ahead of the weekend.
The statement read: "We have been extremely heartened and enthused by both the quality and quantity of applications received, which has ensured a thorough selection process has been undertaken here at Plainmoor.
"We are now at an advanced stage of negotiations and, while an announcement will not be made before tomorrow’s big game at home to Wrexham, we would like to reassure the Yellow Army that a final decision is very close.
"It has been a complicated process and we do understand the frustration of supporters that stems from uncertainty, but please rest assured this is a decision the club is taking very seriously.
Robbie Herrera throws hat into the ring for Torquay United job but new candidate with links to West Brom, QPR and Tottenham Hotspur could prove a left field choice
"In the meantime, please get behind Robbie Herrera and the lads for tomorrow’s game, and help us bring home the first three points of the campaign."
Newport County's manager Graham Westley during the Emirates FA Cup 2nd round match between Plymouth Argyle and Newport County at Home Park on December 03, 2016 in Plymouth, Devon. PHOTO: Mandatory by-line: Dave Rowntree/Pinnacle - Photo Agency Ltd
The shortlist for the manager's job at United still includes Ronnie Moore, while Herrera has also thrown his hat into the ring. Former Stevenage, Preston North End, Peterborough and Newport County boss Graham Westley (above) has also emerged among the names being discussed.
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Elon Musk Criticized for Tweeting 'Free America Now' Over Coronavirus Lockdowns
By Mark Pygas
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has already been the target of much controversy when it comes to coronavirus, but now the billionaire is being called out on social media for appearing to call for an end to lockdowns.
On Wednesday morning, Elon Musk simply tweeted: "FREE AMERICA NOW."
FREE AMERICA NOW
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2020
One commenter replied: "The scariest thing about this pandemic is not the virus itself, it’s seeing American so easily bow down & give up their blood bought freedom to corrupt politicians who promise them safety."
To which Musk responded: "True."
Many states are currently in the process of ending lockdowns, though some are more reluctant than others to allow non-essential businesses to open due to fears over the potential of a second spike in coronavirus cases. States are also at different stages of reopening because of differing conditions.
Many social media users were quick to criticize Musk over these tweets, with one doctor writing: "I'm not here to cancel or bully you. I just want to inform you and your audience why I believe stay-at-home orders are the right thing to do for the coronavirus pandemic. On April 16, around 5,000 people died from COVID19. Extrapolating that for a year is 1.8 million."
"And most of those deaths were from NYC. If this was nationwide without a lockdown, it would be much higher than 5K/day. But even if it stayed at that number, 1.8 million dwarfs heart disease (647,000) and cancer (609,000), which are the number 1 and 2 causes of death in the US."
And most of those deaths were from NYC. If this was nationwide without a lockdown, it would be much higher than 5K/day. But even if it stayed at that number, 1.8 million dwarfs heart disease (647,000) and cancer (609,000), which are the number 1 and 2 causes of death in the US.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) April 29, 2020
Others referred to Musk's earlier tweets. Back in March, Musk suggested to one of his followers that coronavirus cases would "probably" drop to zero by the end of April.
If I had been this wrong about the pandemic I think I would just shut the fuck up about suggestions on what to do next https://t.co/v9FZ7lgAAj
— Wild Geerters (@classiclib3ral) April 29, 2020
This Twitter user highlighted a quote that Musk had shared about the important of listening to science.
Thank you Elon Musk, very cool. pic.twitter.com/VhgbkjifSJ
— Rattiom (@Rattiom32) April 29, 2020
"I don't wanna hear anything else about Elon Musk and how he wants to help save the world," another added.
I don't wanna hear anything else about Elon Musk and how he wants to help save the world. https://t.co/CD3EKWTWfP
— Malcolm (@malcolmxrandal) April 29, 2020
Others were more supportive of Musk, with one writing: "When the smartest man in the world is saying this, it is time to FREE AMERICA!"
When the smartest man in the world is saying this, it is time to FREE AMERICA!
— Joey Saladino (@JoeySalads) April 29, 2020
Musk has already been the target of much controversy when it comes to coronavirus. Musk offered to make thousands of ventilators in March, though according to CNN, many of them were late in being delivered to hospitals.
"Elon Musk and his team told the state that he had procured ventilators and wanted to distribute them directly to hospitals with shortages," a spokesperson for the California governor's Office of Emergency Services told CNN. "The Administration is communicating every day with hospitals across the state about their ventilator supply and to date, we have not heard of any hospital system that has received a ventilator directly from Tesla or Musk."
Musk said the report is false, calling on California Gov. Newsom to "please fix this misunderstanding."
What I find most surprising is that CNN still exists
He later went on to claim that he "receipts," sharing screenshots of emails between Tesla employees and Los Angeles officials that said the ventilators had been tested. He also tweeted out a "partial list" of hospitals that has received ventilators from Tesla.
Partial list of hospitals to which Tesla sent ventilators pic.twitter.com/sfI6yuUbrM
Musk was also criticized for sending BiPAP machines and not the more-expensive life-support ventilators, to a number of hospitals. These machines are typically used for problems like sleep apnea, and not life-support.
Special thanks to @Tesla for a donation of 40 ventilators to our team at NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst #inQueens. These will be essential in the fight against the #coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/X3EwUxGFMl
— NYC Health + Hospitals (@NYCHealthSystem) March 31, 2020
Musk defended himself on Twitter, writing: "Moreover, all hospitals were given exact specifications of Resmed & Philips ventilators before delivery & all confirmed they would be critical."
Invasive ventilators are for worst case patients. Survival rate at that point is low, as Gov Cuomo has pointed out. Nonetheless, we start delivery of intratracheal Medtronic units in NYC tonight.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 2, 2020
Musk continued: "Invasive ventilators are for worst case patients. Survival rate at that point is low, as Gov Cuomo has pointed out. Nonetheless, we start delivery of intratracheal Medtronic units in NYC tonight."
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Richard and I saw *A Doll's House Part 2* on Broadway on 8/31/17. We saw it in June (dig up the review in my archives, if you like) and loved it, and were eager to see it again with the (mostly) new cast. Seeing it a second time really highlighted what a great play it is. Rich, funny, surprising, and wonderfully compact. Everyone loves a 90-minute show, right?
Julie White played Nora, the role originally played by Laurie Metcalf. Metcalf won the Tony, but White has a Tony of her own, for *The Little Dog Laughed.* I really wish I had seen that play. Anyway, White was fantastic, very different from Metcalf - - Metcalf was grand and ironic, White was more human-scaled and direct. Both performances work really well. My favorite moment in her performance: a few times she was at the front of the stage, facing forward, and quickly turned on her heel and walked back to the center of the stage, with a beguiling swish of her skirt. Adorable every time, always prompted a giggle from the audience. I love the way White uses her voice: it's clear and colorful when she's speaking in a normal tone of voice, but it turns gritty when she shouts.
Stephen McKinley Henderson played Torvald and was a big change from Chris Cooper. Cooper, like Metcalf, emphasized the drama. Henderson was much more contained, very buttoned up. He had a classic stage actor's use of his instrument, his voice and body were working at the service of the character, he was a joy to watch. And like Cooper and Metcalf, Henderson and White had a delightful chemistry.
Erin Wilhelmi played their daughter, the role originated by Condola Rashad. Wilhelmi was sweet and seemed to be eager to make a good impression on her mother - - Rashad was bitter and withdrawn and seemed to be intensely uncomfortable with her mother. Very interesting how the actors all had such different takes on their roles.
Jane Houdyshell was the one holdover from the original cast, and she was just as fantastic. I'm sure she's recalibrated her performance to be more in line with the other actors, but it seemed to be more or less the same hilarious and intensely characterful performance we saw before. You certainly couldn't do any better.
I predict this play will be a big hit on the regional theater circuit. Four actors, one set, 90 minutes, a title that people recognize, but done in a fresh and hip way - - it markets itself. I wonder if the actors playing Nora will be actors who played the original Nora twenty years ago.
One closing note: seeing this show was a major moment for me, it was the first time I got press tickets for a show. My dear friend Lyn Pilch was instrumental in me developing my blog at Blogger and then my divamensch website, and she encouraged me to write press offices, introduce myself as a member of the press, and ask for press tickets for specific shows. I wrote about twenty-five emails earlier this month and hit pay dirt with two: I'll be seeing four shows at BAM this fall and winter, and got tickets for this performance of *A Doll's House Part 2.* I got a little teary when I saw the word PRESS printed on my ticket. I might have it framed.
Here's a link to my previous review:
*A Doll's House Part 2,* June 2017
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Bradford Garden Centre expansion on course for September completion
Published: 16 June 2020 - Alex Fordham
Building work has continued throughout the Coronavirus pandemic closure to make further improvements to a Bradford Garden Centre.
The workforce of predominantly Yorkshire contractors have adopted work placed distancing measures during lockdown to continue building a two storey 25,000 square feet extension at Tong Garden Centre. The building is due to open at the end of September.
Managed by Tong’s project manager, Sarah Ritchie, the work is the second phase of a £4.5m expansion and will create new staff facilities for its 200 strong team, a new 180 seat restaurant plus 15,000 sq. ft of retail space.
Tong’s managing director, Mark Farnsworth said: “Following government guidelines, we have been delighted that we could continue with the development project throughout lockdown. We are very grateful to everyone who has kept working in what has been very challenging circumstances.
“At the end of September, we will have a great addition to the centre with the ground floor being used for gardening products and a much bigger house plants range. On the first floor, as well as the new restaurant, our team will also benefit from some vastly improved team facilities and offices. This is another phase of our continued investment into the centre and we hope everyone can enjoy the new space”
“The new restaurant, called The Mezzanine, will be a table service restaurant which gives a point of difference to our main restaurant. The menu will be driven by local suppliers with plenty of focus on seasonal choices and there will also be a large patisserie counter.”
With the completion of The Mezzanine, Tong will be able to accommodate over 750 diners, including seats in Grass Hoppers Indoor and Outdoor Play.
Phase one of the expansion opened in summer 2019 and included a new plant canopy, an indoor play area for Grass Hoppers and an events centre.Work on phase two is being carried out by many of the same teams who completed phase one. “In our continued support of, and investment in, the Yorkshire economy, we have appointed Yorkshire tradesmen wherever possible,” said Mr. Farnsworth.
Tong Garden Centre opened its doors to the public recently after being closed to visitors for seven weeks. Since its reopening, the centre has reported strong sales, particularly of garden furniture and barbecues and recently launched a new Click and Collect service to complement its responsible shopping offering.
Tong Garden Centre occupies a 22 acre site in Tong village. It is one of Yorkshire’s biggest garden centres with 110,000 square feet of retail space and parking for up to 800 cars.
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Sr. Eileen O’Connell’s ministry in Matt Talbot Community Trust in Ballyfermot
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As a Novice, one of Eileen O’Connell’s placements in Ministry was in the Matt Talbot Community Trust in Ballyfermot. She recounts her time there and how the recognition of the innate dignity and worth of all people is so important.
History and present situation
The Matt Talbot Community Trust in Ballyfermot was founded in 1986 by Sr. Caoimhín OP. It is a drug free community education programme. Originally, its aim was to support young men going to prison. Today, Matt Talbot tackles the social issues that lead to problem drug use and criminal behaviour and works with those seeking assistance with addiction and those involved in the criminal justice system. It also supports the wider Ballyfermot community.
Presently Matt Talbot has a staff of five. Members of staff act as key workers to participants. The aim of this is to create an environment of trust, belonging and learning that recognises the value of each individual and leads to the development of positive relationships. Its mission statement describes how it actively works towards the reintegration of adults into family, community and social life by the provision of education and structured, person-centred supports. Its objectives include promoting and facilitating achievement of personal autonomy, increased independence, progression and enhanced life opportunities.
The service provides a number of programmes including: education, personal support, Saol Nua peer support, supported work placement, family support and family summer programme, women’s group, and outreach work (prison visits and post-programme outreach).
Reflection on Matt Talbot Community Trust
Initially, I found it difficult to be in Matt Talbot. As I had no life experiences in common with those attending the centre, I struggled to feel that I could relate to them and felt that I had nothing to offer there. However, this changed a little as time went on. As we became more familiar to one another, I felt more able to speak to people, to ask them some questions and to join in conversations.
I was very impressed by the level of commitment of those who work in Matt Talbot, their investment of so much of themselves, and their genuine care and concern for the wellbeing and welfare of both participants and their families. On several occasions, Grainne Jennings, the Director, spoke to me of what happens in Matt Talbot, of their struggles, challenges and successes, and of their vision. She spoke of various people they have helped and of different battles they have fought with, and for, people who come to their door. Her level of emotional involvement and passion for justice for those who seek help was clearly evident, and both that and incidents she related stayed with me.
What was also obvious was how much the work of Matt Talbot Community Trust is in line with the principles of Catholic Social Teaching. This revolves around God’s call, recounted by Micah and the other Old Testament ‘prophets of social justice’ to “do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8). It is this that informs the key tenets of CST. Recognition of the innate dignity and worth of all people, as images of God, along with the understanding that we are all our ‘brother and sister’s keepers’ and responsible to and for one another (principle of solidarity) means the promotion of social justice is the duty of all who profess themselves disciples of Jesus.
One instance to illustrate this involved a man who was homeless and who had numerous health problems as a result of addictions. Grainne related to me how they fought frantically on his behalf when he was due to be released from hospital, still a very sick man. It was winter and both the man himself and the staff of Matt Talbot were afraid he would die if he had to sleep rough for even one night. They phoned his family and friends, homelessness and addiction services and hostels, and everywhere they could think of, trying to find a bed. Grainne spoke of her disbelief, and anger, at what happened during one phone call to a hostel that had no free beds. The person on the other end, after listening to her tell of the man’s situation, hung up saying there was nothing more he could do. Eventually, they decided the only option left was to set up temporary accommodation and to stay there with him. In the end, a member of the man’s family offered him somewhere to stay, so it wasn’t necessary. However, Grainne and others working with the man were willing to leave their families, the warmth and comfort of their homes and their beds, to care for him. They were unwilling to let him die alone if that were to be the outcome.
Numerous verses from the Old Testament and New Testament relate to this and to the work of the staff. God, through Isaiah and Zechariah, calls us to “seek justice, rescue the oppressed; defend the orphan, plead for the widow” (Is 1:17) and to “show kindness and mercy to one another, do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor” (Zech 7:9-10). In a similar way, Proverbs calls us to “Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute … defend the rights of the poor and needy” (31:8-9). Jesus asks that we love, that we see the dignity of all, and that we act out of care and concern for others. In the Sermon on the Mount, He teaches “if anyone forces you to go one mile, go also the second mile” (Matthew 5:41). John writes, “let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth” (1 John 3:17-18) and this is surely what those in Matt Talbot do. Their dedication, and their genuine concern for each person, was really inspiring. My time in Matt Talbot was an enjoyable and positive experience. The qualities and capacity of those who work there to serve others in the way that they do are to be admired as is their involvement in something that seeks, in some way, to tip the balance in the inequalities in our world.
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^ The average commercial electricity rate in Newberry, MI is 11.77¢/kWh.[1]
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Newberry, MI Electricity Statistics
Commercial electricity rates in Newberry
The average commercial electricity rate in Newberry is 11.77¢/kWh.[1]
This average (commercial) electricity rate in Newberry is 7.69% greater than the Michigan average rate of 10.93¢/kWh.[2]
The average (commercial) electricity rate in Newberry is 16.65% greater than the national average rate of 10.09¢/kWh. Commercial rates in the U.S. range from 6.86¢/kWh to 34.88¢/kWh.[2]
Residential electricity rates in Newberry
The average residential electricity rate in Newberry is 11.23¢/kWh.[1]
This average (residential) electricity rate in Newberry is 20.52% less than the Michigan average rate of 14.13¢/kWh.[2]
The average (residential) electricity rate in Newberry is 5.47% less than the national average rate of 11.88¢/kWh. Residential rates in the U.S. range from 8.37¢/kWh to 37.34¢/kWh.[2]
Industrial electricity rates in Newberry
The average industrial electricity rate in Newberry is 10.44¢/kWh.[1]
This average (industrial) electricity rate in Newberry is 37.01% greater than the Michigan average rate of 7.62¢/kWh.[2]
The average (industrial) electricity rate in Newberry is 56.52% greater than the national average rate of 6.67¢/kWh. Industrial rates in the U.S. range from 4.13¢/kWh to 30.82¢/kWh.[2]
Michigan Electricity Rates & Consumption
Commercial electricity in Michigan
Commercial electricity rates in MI [3]
The average commercial electricity rate in Michigan is 10.93¢/kWh, which ranks 13th in the nation and is 8.33% greater than the national average rate of 10.09¢/kWh.[3]
Commercial electricity consumption in MI [3]
Commercial electricity consumption in Michigan averages 6,159 kWh/month, which ranks 20th in the nation and is 1.27% less than the national average of 6,238 kWh/month.
Commercial electricity bills in MI [3]
The average monthly commercial electricity bill in Michigan is $673, which ranks 12th in the nation and is 7% greater than the national average of $629.
Learn more about commercial electricity in Michigan
Residential electricity in Michigan
Residential electricity rates in Michigan [3]
The average residential electricity rate in Michigan is 14.13¢/kWh, which ranks 12th in the nation and is 18.94% greater than the national average rate of 11.88¢/kWh.
Residential electricity consumption in MI [3]
Residential electricity consumption in Michigan averages 676 kWh/month, which ranks 41st in the nation and is 25.14% less than the national average of 903 kWh/month.
Residential electricity bills in MI [3]
The average monthly residential electricity bill in Michigan is $95, which ranks 34th in the nation and is 11.21% less than the national average of $107 per month.
Learn more about residential electricity in Michigan
Industrial electricity in Michigan
Industrial electricity rates in Michigan [3]
The average industrial electricity rate in Michigan is 7.62¢/kWh, which ranks 14th in the nation and is 14.24% greater than the national average rate of 6.67¢/kWh.
Industrial electricity consumption in MI [3]
Industrial electricity consumption in Michigan averages 202,921 kWh/month, which ranks 17th in the nation and is 80.92% greater than the national average of 112,158 kWh/month.
Industrial electricity bills in MI [3]
The average monthly industrial electricity bill in Michigan is $15,471, which ranks 13th in the nation and is 106.75% greater than the national average of $7,483.
Learn more about industrial electricity in Michigan
Household Income in Newberry, MI
Newberry, MI Income Breakdown [4]
Income Summary for Newberry, MI
Electric bills: The average residential electricity bill in Michigan is about $95/month, ranking 34th in the U.S. and 11.21% less than the national average of $107.[5]
Income: Newberry vs. Nation [4]
Additional information about Newberry
Newberry is a village located in Luce County in the state of Michigan, and has a population of approximately 1,519.[6]
More about Newberry utilities
For more information about Newberry electricity, or for additional resources regarding electricity & utilities in your state, visit the Energy Information Administration.
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Local Electricity Rates in Newberry, MI
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D. EMERSON MYERS
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EXHIBITION RECORD
Emerson David Myers is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, digital artist, and educator who is currently living in the United States and Japan. He received his MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and a Masters of Art Education from Boston University. His work focuses on socio-political issues, revolving around a continued and pressing desire to educate and inform his audience.
Most of his inspiration comes from his varied professional background and education. An degree in Political Science and 20th Century History, a decade as an Art and Social Science teacher, years as a certified carpenter's apprentice, a design manager for a local newspaper, as well as a decade living broad has molded his approach to art and choices of subject matter. Lately he as been significatly influenced by the contradiction of chaos and order, and tradition and modernity found when taking in the expansive city of Tokyo.
Destinations, 2014, Baltimore World Trade Center Tower Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Safety First, Last And Always
CRODA Iberica SA chemical-manufacturing facility helps ensure the highest levels of safety in manufacturing and handling of dangerous chemicals through the use of Almatec® Air-Operated Double-Diaphragm (AODD) Pumps.
By: Peter Schueten, Product Management Director at Almatec, part of PSG, a Dover Company
The prominent signs that are displayed at the CRODA facility in Mevisa, Spain, serve as a constant reminder for its employees that an accident-free, safety first workplace is the ultimate goal. Helping them achieve that goal are various models of Almatec® Air-Operated Double-Diaphragm (AODD) Pumps with their ability to reliably provide safe and secure handling of even the most dangerous or hazardous raw materials and finished chemicals.
Amid the towering storage tanks, stacked pallets loaded with 55-gallon drums and scurrying forklifts, two signs loom over the CRODA Iberica SA chemical-manufacturing facility located north of Barcelona in Mevisa, Spain. Written in the Catalan dialect, the first declares, “Res del que fem justifica que ens accidentem,” meaning “Nothing that we do justifies any accidents,” while the second states, “Fabriquem qualitat amb la maxima seguretat,” or “We manufacture quality with maximum safety.”
For Carles Xiol, those declarations are much more than simple decorations.
“At this plant, we have difficult [operating] conditions and it is important that we use pumps that are very robust and have ATEX certifications,” said Xiol, who has worked at the Mevisa site for 15 years and is currently its Maintenance Manager. At a facility that requires the use of more than 100 different pumps in its various production, transfer, handling and loading applications, identifying pump technologies that can meet the demands of working with potentially hazardous or dangerous raw materials or finished products is a critical concern. Fortunately for Xiol and CRODA, air-operated double-diaphragm (AODD) pumps from Almatec®, Duisburg, Germany, are able to satisfy the demands for safe and secure handling of the chemicals that are the stock and trade of the Mevisa site’s manufacturing operations.
For 15 years, Carles Xiol, far right, Maintenance Manager at CRODA’s Mevisa site, has been relying on the Almatec® AODD Pumps supplied by Carlos Perez, far left, and Jordi Ibarz, center, the Commercial Manager and Regional Sales Manager, respectively, for Barcelona, Spain-based Almatec distributor Tecnica de Fluidos (TDF).
CRODA was the brainchild of two men back in 1925, an entrepreneur named Crowe and a chemist named Dawes (from whence the CRODA name was conceived). Headquartered in the town of Snaith in East Yorkshire, England, CRODA began life as a refiner of the grease that was extracted from sheep’s wool into lanolin, which could be used as a rust-preventer in the engineering and automotive industries.
Fifteen years later, the all-hands-on-deck demands of World War II production and supply in England saw CRODA branch out into the manufacture of such diverse products as camouflage oils, insect repellents and gun-cleaning oils. This newfound versatility helped establish a different path for the company upon WWII’s completion. In the ensuing 75 years, CRODA has grown into one of the world’s leading manufacturers of specialty chemicals, with a particular emphasis placed on creating chemicals that are manufactured from renewable sources and in the most environmentally friendly and sustainable manner possible.
CRODA’s history is one of slow, but steady growth. The company expanded its operations to the United States with the opening of a sales office in New York City in the 1950s. The 1970s and 80s brought a series of acquisitions that enabled CRODA to further diversify its product portfolio and branch out into more and more markets. Today, CRODA employs more than 4,300 people globally and has manufacturing sites or sales offices in 36 countries on six continents.
In 2018, CRODA marked 20 years since it launched its CRODA Iberica SA operation in Spain with a sales office in Barcelona and the manufacturing facility in Mevisa. The manufacturing plant produces a wide range of specialty chemicals and oleochemicals (chemicals derived from plant and animal fats) for use by a diverse client base.
“At this plant, we produce many different chemicals that are used in the production of pharmaceuticals and cosmetics,” explained Xiol.
The diversity of the customers that CRODA contracts with means that the plant must satisfy a plethora of individual manufacturing demands. Every customer has strict production schedules that must be consistently met.
“Our customers are very demanding and we must satisfy their needs in full and on time,” continued Xiol. “It is important that we work with the right equipment suppliers.”
The CRODA Mevisa site celebrated 20 years of operation in 2018 and Almatec® AODD Pumps have played a major role in ensuring the plant’s success.
The Perfect Pump Partner
In CRODA’s case, the supplier for pumping equipment at the Mevisa plant is Tecnica de Fluidos, or TDF, which is based in Barcelona and has been serving the chemical manufacturing market since its founding in 1976.
“We have always been dedicated to the distribution of industrial pumps,” said Alberto Maestre Hoffmann, son of the company founder, Aurelio Losada Maestre, and for the past 20 years TDF’s Managing Director. “For us, it is very important to have long-term relationships with manufacturers because it takes time to learn this pump market, to learn about the applications and the products.”
With that in mind, TDF has been a distributor of Almatec AODD pumps for about 25 years. Almatec, a product brand of PSG®, Oakbrook Terrace, IL, USA, a Dover company, is a premier manufacturer of solid-body, plastic AODD pumps for use in critical fluid-handling applications in the chemical, hygienic, paper, paint and varnish, and water treatment industries.
Almatec AODD pumps meet the need for leak-free and low-maintenance operation due to a design innovation that uses housing bolts that are tightened against a diaphragm sized ring on each side of the housing. This design spreads the pumping force more evenly and allows for increased permissible bolt torque, which results in improved product containment. Other operational benefits of Almatec AODD pumps are smooth, volumetrically consistent operation even at the highest pump speeds, increased capacity due to an optimized flow pattern, decreased air consumption and a reduced noise level during operation.
At the CRODA Mevisa plant, a cadre of Almatec AODD pumps – most prominently, AHD Series and E-Series models – are used throughout the facility in a number of applications. One of the more notable ones is the transfer of titanium dioxide (TiO2), a white powder used in the production of pigments used in cosmetics and health-care products. In this instance, a 51 mm (2") E-50 model is used to pump upwards of 36 m3/hr (600 L/min) of TiO2 at a time in an operation that requires the pump to be ATEX-certified.
The common denominator in performance for the Almatec pumps is that they all must adhere to the site’s mantra regarding safe, accident-free operation. This means they have to meet the strict standards of a number of international regulatory agencies that govern sites that work with or produce hazardous or dangerous chemicals. These include the International Organization for Standardization (specifically the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards) and EXCiPACT, a provider of third-party oversight of pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors.
“We decided to use Almatec pumps because they are very safe, reliable and easy to use and maintain,” said Xiol.
The bucolic setting of CRODA’s Mevisa facility is a constant reminder that operating in anything other than an environmentally sensitive and safe manner will not be tolerated.
Stretched over the main throughway at the CRODA Mevisa plant is a third sign, one that accurately sums up the facility’s – and company’s – driving motivation: “Treballem per un future responsible I etic,” or “We work for a responsible and ethical future.”
It’s an altruistic mission, but one that more and more companies are adopting as they seek to make their operations more environmentally friendly while continuing to reduce the risks placed on their employees. Almatec AODD pumps play a significant part in meeting these goals – and CRODA Mevisa employees like Carles Xiol are thrilled that they can rely on Almatec to provide the type of pumps that enable him to operate a plant that adheres to the highest levels of safe, sustainable and accident-free operation.
“Almatec pumps last a long time and are able to work when needed,” he said. “They help me do my job.”
Peter Schüten is a Product Manager for Almatec® Maschinenbau GmbH and PSG®. He can be reached at Peter.Schueten@psgdover.com or +49 2065 89205-0. Almatec, Duisburg, Germany, is a leading global manufacturer of AODD pumps, owns numerous patents and offers a wide range of pneumatic diaphragm pumps. Almatec is a product brand of PSG, a Dover company, Oakbrook Terrace, IL, USA. PSG is comprised of several of the world’s leading pump brands, including Abaque™, Almatec®, Blackmer®, Ebsray®, EnviroGear®, Griswold™, Mouvex®, Neptune™, Quattroflow™, RedScrew™ and Wilden®. For more on Almatec or PSG, please go to almatec.de or psgdover.com.
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PART 1416—EMERGENCY AGRICULTURAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
Subpart A—General Provisions for Supplemental Agricultural Disaster Assistance Programs
§1416.2 Administration of ELAP, LFP, LIP, and TAP.
§1416.3 Eligible producer.
§1416.5 Equitable relief.
§1416.6 Payment eligibility and limitation.
§1416.7 Misrepresentation.
§1416.8 Appeals.
§1416.9 Offsets, assignments, and debt settlement.
§1416.10 Records and inspections.
§1416.11 Refunds; joint and several liability.
§1416.12 Minors.
§1416.13 Deceased individuals or dissolved entities.
§1416.14 Miscellaneous.
Subpart B—Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program
§1416.101 Applicability.
§1416.102 Definitions.
§1416.103 Eligible losses, adverse weather, and other loss conditions.
§1416.104 Eligible livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish.
§1416.105 Eligible producers, owners, and contract growers.
§1416.106 Notice of loss and application process.
§1416.107 Notice of loss and application period.
§1416.108 [Reserved]
§1416.109 National Payment Rate.
§1416.110 Livestock payment calculations.
§1416.111 Honeybee payment calculations.
§1416.112 Farm-raised fish payment calculations.
Subpart C—Livestock Forage Disaster Program
§1416.203 Eligibility.
§1416.204 Covered livestock.
§1416.205 Eligible grazing losses.
§1416.206 Application for payment.
§1416.207 Payment calculation.
Subpart D—Livestock Indemnity Program
§1416.303 Eligible owners and contract growers.
§1416.304 Eligible livestock.
§1416.305 Application process.
Subpart E—Tree Assistance Program
§1416.401 Administration.
§1416.403 Eligible losses.
§1416.404 Eligible orchardists and nursery tree growers.
§1416.405 Application.
§1416.406 Payment calculations.
§1416.407 Obligations of a participant.
Authority: Title I, Pub. L. 113-79, 128 Stat. 649; Title I, Pub. L. 115-123; Title VII, Pub. L. 115-141; and Title I, Pub. L. 116-20.
Source: 79 FR 21097, Apr. 14, 2014, unless otherwise noted.
(a) This subpart establishes general conditions for this subpart and subparts B through E of this part and applies only to those subparts. Subparts B through E cover the following programs authorized by the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Pub. L. 113-79, also referred to as the 2014 Farm Bill):
(1) Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP);
(2) Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP);
(3) Livestock Indemnity Payments Program (LIP); and
(4) Tree Assistance Program (TAP).
(b) To be eligible for payments under these programs, participants must comply with all provisions under this subpart and the relevant particular subpart for that program. All other provisions of law also apply.
(a) The programs in subparts B through E of this part is administered under the general supervision and direction of the Administrator, Farm Service Agency (FSA) (who also serves as the Executive Vice-President, CCC), and the Deputy Administrator for Farm Programs, FSA (referred to as the “Deputy Administrator” in this part).
(b) FSA representatives do not have authority to modify or waive any of the provisions of the regulations of this part as amended or supplemented, except as specified in paragraph (e) of this section.
(c) The State FSA committee will take any action required by the regulations of this part that the county FSA committee has not taken. The State FSA committee will also:
(1) Correct, or require a county FSA committee to correct, any action taken by such county FSA committee that is not in accordance with the regulations of this part or
(2) Require a county FSA committee to withhold taking any action that is not in accordance with this part.
(d) No provision or delegation to a State or county FSA committee will preclude the FSA Administrator, the Deputy Administrator, or a designee or other such person, from determining any question arising under the programs of this part, or from reversing or modifying any determination made by a State or county FSA committee.
(e) The Deputy Administrator may authorize State and county FSA committees to waive or modify non-statutory deadlines, or other program requirements of this part in cases where lateness or failure to meet such requirements does not adversely affect operation of the programs in this part. Participants have no right to an exception under this provision. The Deputy Administrator's refusal to consider cases or circumstances or decision not to exercise this discretionary authority under this provision will not be considered an adverse decision and is not appealable.
(f) Payments issued under this part are subject to the availability of funds under Federal law. Within whatever funding limitation that may exist under law, the only funds that will be considered available to pay eligible losses will be that amount approved by the Secretary. If funds are limited, for a particular program year payments may be delayed until the time for applying for the payment for that program year, has passed. In the event that, within the limits of the funding made available by the Secretary, approval of eligible applications would result in expenditures in excess of the amount available, FSA will prorate the available funds by a national factor to reduce the total expected payments to the amount made available by the Secretary. FSA will make payments based on the factor for the national rate determined by FSA. FSA will prorate the payments in such manner as it determines necessary and appropriate and reasonable. Applications for payment that are unpaid or prorated for a program year for any reason will not be carried forward for payment under other funds for later years or otherwise, but will be considered, as to any unpaid amount, void and nonpayable.
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(a) Eligible producer means, in addition to other requirements as may apply, an individual or legal entity who is an owner, operator, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper, who shares in the risk of producing a crop or livestock and who is entitled to share in the crop or livestock available for marketing from the farm, or would have shared had the crop or livestock been produced, and who also meets the requirements of paragraph (b) of this section. The term eligible producer can include a livestock owner or contract grower who satisfies other requirements of this part.
(b) An individual or legal entity seeking to be an eligible producer under this part must submit a farm operating plan in accordance with part 1400 of this chapter and be a:
(1) Citizen of the United States;
(2) Resident alien; for purposes of this part, resident alien means “lawful alien”;
(3) Partnership of citizens of the United States;
(4) Corporation, limited liability company, or other organizational structure organized under State law; or
(5) Indian Tribe or Tribal organization, as defined in section 4(b) of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304).
The equitable relief provisions of part 718 of this title will not be used to obtain a different program result, payment, or benefit not otherwise available to a participant who satisfies any and all program eligibility provision, conditions of eligibility, or compliance provision.
(a) For 2019 and each subsequent program year, a person, legal entity, or member of a joint venture or general partnership, as determined in part 1400 of this chapter, cannot receive, directly or indirectly, more than $125,000 per program year under LFP.
(b) The Deputy Administrator may take such actions as needed to avoid a duplication of benefits under the programs provided for in this part, or duplication of benefits received in other programs, and may impose such cross-program payment limitations as may be consistent with the intent of this part in order to help prevent a person or legal entity being paid more than the total value of their loss.
(c) For the purposes of administering LIP, LFP, ELAP, and TAP, the average adjusted gross income (AGI) limitation provisions in part 1400 of this chapter relating to limits on payments for persons or legal entities, excluding joint ventures and general partnerships, apply under this subpart and will apply to each applicant for ELAP, LFP, LIP, and TAP. Specifically, a person or legal entity with an AGI that exceeds $900,000 will not be eligible to receive benefits under this part.
(d) The direct attribution provisions in part 1400 of this chapter apply to ELAP, LFP, LIP, and TAP.
[83 FR 49463, Oct. 2, 2018, as amended at 85 FR 10963, Feb. 20, 2020]
(a) A person or legal entity who is determined to have misrepresented any fact affecting a program determination made in accordance with this part, or any other part that is applicable to this part, to receive benefits for which that person or legal entity would not otherwise be entitled, is ineligible for program payments under this part and must refund all such payments received, plus interest as determined in accordance with part 1403 of this chapter. The person or legal entity is ineligible and will be denied program benefits under this part for the immediately subsequent period of at least 2 crop years, and up to 5 crop years. Interest will run from the date of the original disbursement by CCC.
(b) For each year of ineligibility determined according to paragraph (a) of this section, a person or legal entity will refund to CCC all program payments, in accordance with §1416.11, received by such person or legal entity with respect to all applications under this part, as may be applicable, if the person or legal entity is determined to have knowingly misrepresented any fact affecting a program determination
[83 FR 49464, Oct. 2, 2018 as amended at 85 FR 10963, Feb. 26, 2020]
Appeal regulations in parts 11 and 780 of this title apply to this part.
(a) Any payment under this part will be made without regard to questions of title under State law, and without regard to any claim or lien against the commodity, or proceeds, in favor of the owner or any other creditor except agencies of the U.S. Government. The regulations governing offsets and withholdings in part 1403 of this chapter apply to payments made under this part.
(b) A participant may assign any payment(s) under this part in accordance with regulations governing the assignment of payments in part 1404 of this chapter.
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(a) Any participant receiving payments under any program in ELAP, LFP, LIP or TAP, or any other legal entity or person who provides information for the purposes of enabling a participant to receive a payment under ELAP, LFP, LIP, or TAP must:
(1) Maintain any books, records, and accounts supporting the information for 3 years following the end of the year during which the request for payment was submitted, and
(2) Allow authorized representatives of USDA and the Government Accountability Office, during regular business hours, to inspect, examine, and make copies of such books or records, and to enter the farm and to inspect and verify all applicable livestock and acreage in which the participant has an interest for the purpose of confirming the accuracy of information provided by or for the participant.
(a) In the event that the participant fails to comply with any term, requirement, or condition for payment or assistance arising under ELAP, LFP, LIP, or TAP and if any refund of a payment to CCC will otherwise become due in connection with this part, the participant must refund to CCC all payments made in regard to such matter, together with interest and late-payment charges as provided for in part 1403 of this chapter provided that interest will in all cases run from the date of the original disbursement.
(b) All persons with a financial interest in an operation or in an application for payment will be jointly and severally liable for any refund, including related charges, that is determined to be due CCC for any reason under this part.
A minor child is eligible to apply for program benefits under ELAP, LFP, LIP, or TAP if all the eligibility requirements are met and the provision for minor children in part 1400 of this chapter are met.
(a) The provisions of part 707 of this chapter apply to the programs of this part.
(b) [Reserved].
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(a) As a condition of payment eligibility under ELAP, LFP, LIP, or TAP, a participant must have been in compliance with the applicable provisions of parts 12 and 718 of this title and 1400 of this chapter, and must not otherwise be precluded from receiving payments under those provisions or under any law.
(b) In order to be eligible for benefits, participants in the programs specified in this part must submit an accurate acreage report annually as required by these provisions.
(a) This subpart establishes the terms and conditions under which the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP) will be administered.
(b) Eligible producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish will be compensated for eligible losses due to an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition that occurred in the program year for which the producer requests benefits. The eligible loss must have been a direct result of eligible adverse weather or eligible loss conditions as determined by the Deputy Administrator. ELAP does not cover losses that are covered under LFP or LIP.
The following definitions apply to this subpart and to the administration of ELAP. The definitions in parts 718 of this title and 1400 of this chapter also apply, except where they conflict with the definitions in this section.
Adult beef bull means a male beef breed bovine animal that was used for breeding purposes that was at least 2 years old before the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition.
Adult beef cow means a female beef breed bovine animal that had delivered one or more offspring before the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition. A first-time bred beef heifer is also considered an adult beef cow if it was pregnant on or by the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition.
Adult beefalo bull means a male hybrid of beef and bison that was used for breeding purposes and was at least 2 years old before the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition.
Adult beefalo cow means a female hybrid of beef and bison that had delivered one or more offspring before the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition. A first-time bred beefalo heifer is also considered an adult beefalo cow if it was pregnant by the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition.
Adult buffalo or bison bull means a male animal of those breeds that was used for breeding purposes and was at least 2 years old before the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition.
Adult buffalo or bison cow means a female animal of those breeds that had delivered one or more offspring before the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition. A first-time bred buffalo or bison heifer is also considered an adult buffalo or bison cow if it was pregnant by the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition.
Adult dairy bull means a male dairy breed bovine animal that was used primarily for breeding dairy cows and was at least 2 years old by the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition.
Adult dairy cow means a female bovine dairy breed animal used for the purpose of providing milk for human consumption that had delivered one or more offspring by the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition. A first-time bred dairy heifer is also considered an adult dairy cow if it was pregnant by the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition.
Agricultural operation means a farming operation.
APHIS means the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
Application means CCC or FSA form used to apply for either the emergency loss assistance for livestock or emergency loss assistance for farm-raised fish or honeybees.
Aquatic species means any species of aquatic organism grown as food for human consumption, fish raised as feed for fish that are consumed by humans, or ornamental fish propagated and reared in an aquatic medium by a commercial operator on private property in water in a controlled environment. Catfish and crawfish are both defined as aquatic species for ELAP. However, aquatic species do not include reptiles or amphibians.
Bait fish means small fish caught for use as bait to attract large predatory fish. For ELAP, it also must meet the definition of aquatic species and not be raised as food for fish; provided, however, that only bait fish produced in a controlled environment are eligible for payment under ELAP.
Blizzard means, as defined by the National Weather Service, a storm which contains large amounts of snow or blowing snow with winds in excess of 35 miles per hour and visibility of less than one-fourth of a mile for an extended period of time.
Buck means a male goat.
Cattle tick fever means a severe and often fatal disease that destroys red blood cells of cattle, commonly known as Texas or cattle fever, which is spread by Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) annulatus, and the southern cattle tick, R. (Boophilus) microplus.
Commercial use means used in the operation of a business activity engaged in as a means of livelihood for profit.
Contract means, with respect to contracts for the handling of livestock, a written agreement between a livestock owner and another individual or entity setting the specific terms, conditions, and obligations of the parties involved regarding the production of livestock or livestock products.
Eligible adverse weather means, as determined by the Deputy Administrator, an extreme and abnormal damaging weather event that is not expected to occur during the loss period, which results in eligible losses. The eligible adverse weather would have resulted in agricultural losses not covered by other programs in this part for which the Deputy Administrator determines financial assistance should be provided to producers. Adverse weather may include, but is not limited to, blizzard, eligible winter storms, and wildfires. Specific eligible adverse weather may vary based on the type of loss. Identification of eligible adverse weather will include locations (National, State, or county-level) and start and end dates.
Eligible drought means that any area of the county has been rated by the U.S. Drought Monitor as having a D3 (extreme drought) intensity:
(1) At any time during the program year, for additional honeybee feed loss;
(2) That directly impacts water availability at any time during the normal grazing period (for example, snow pack that feeds streams and springs), as determined by the Deputy Administrator or designee, for losses resulting from transporting water to livestock.
Eligible grazing land means land that is native or improved pastureland with permanent vegetative cover or land planted to a crop planted specifically for the purpose of providing grazing for eligible livestock.
Eligible loss condition means a condition that would have resulted in agricultural losses not covered by other programs in this part for which the Deputy Administrator determines financial assistance needs to be provided to producers. Specific eligible loss conditions include, but are not limited to, disease (including cattle tick fever), insect infestation, and colony collapse disorder. Identification of eligible loss conditions will include locations (National, State, or county-level) and start and end dates.
Eligible winter storm means an event that is so severe as to directly cause loss and lasts in duration for at least 3 consecutive days and includes a combination of high winds, freezing rain or sleet, heavy snowfall, and extremely cold temperatures. The wind, precipitation, and extremely cold temperatures must occur during the consecutive 3-day period, with wind and extremely cold temperatures occurring in each of the 3 days.
Equine animal means a weaned domesticated horse, mule, or donkey.
Ewe means a female sheep.
Farming operation means a business enterprise engaged in producing agricultural products.
Farm-raised fish means any aquatic species that is propagated and reared in a controlled environment.
FSA means the Farm Service Agency.
Game or sport fish means fish pursued for sport by recreational anglers; provided, however, that only game or sport fish produced in a controlled environment can generate claims under ELAP.
Goat means a weaned domesticated, ruminant mammal of the genus Capra, including Angora goats.
Grazing animals mean those species of weaned livestock that, from a nutritional and physiological perspective, satisfy more than 50 percent of their net energy requirement through the consumption of growing forage grasses and legumes. Species of livestock for which more than 50 percent of their net energy requirements are not recommended to be met from consumption of forage grasses and legumes, such as poultry and swine, are excluded regardless of whether those species are grazing or are present on grazing land or pastureland.Unweaned livestock are not grazing animals regardless of whether those unweaned livestock are present on grazing land or pastureland.
Grazing loss means the value, as calculated in §1416.110(g) or (m), of eligible grazing lost due to an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition based on the number of days that the eligible livestock were not able to graze the eligible grazing land during the normal grazing period.
Kid means a goat less than 1 year old.
Lamb means a sheep less than 1 year old.
Livestock owner means one having legal ownership of the livestock for which benefits are being requested during the 60 calendar days before the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition.
Nanny means a female goat.
Newborn livestock means livestock that are within 10 calendar days of the date of birth.
Non-adult beef cattle means a weaned beef breed bovine animal that on or before the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition does not meet the definition of adult beef cow or bull.
Non-adult beefalo means a weaned hybrid of beef and bison that on or before the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition does not meet the definition of adult beefalo cow or bull.
Non-adult buffalo or bison means a weaned animal of those breeds that on or before the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or loss condition does not meet the definition of adult buffalo or adult bison cow or bull.
Non-adult dairy cattle means a weaned bovine animal of a breed used for the purpose of providing milk for human consumption that on or before the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition does not meet the definition of adult dairy cow or bull.
Normal grazing period means, as determined by FSA, with respect to a specific type of grazing land or pastureland in the county, the period during the calendar year when grazing animals receive daily nutrients and satisfy net energy requirements without supplemental feed.
Normal mortality means the numerical amount, computed by a percentage of expected honeybee colony and farm-raised fish deaths, by category, that normally occur during a program year for a producer, as established for the area by the FSA State Committee for farm-raised fish, and as established nationwide by the Deputy Administrator for honeybee colonies.
Program year means for 2019 from October 1, 2018, through December 31, 2019; for 2020 and subsequent years, the program year is the same as the calendar year, January 1 through December 31.
Ram means a male sheep.
Reliable record means any non-verifiable record available that reasonably supports the eligible loss, as determined acceptable by the COC.
Sheep means a weaned domesticated, ruminant mammal of the genus Ovis.
U.S. Drought Monitor is a system for classifying drought severity according to a range of abnormally dry to exceptional drought. It is a collaborative effort between Federal and academic partners, produced on a weekly basis, to synthesize multiple indices, outlooks, and drought impacts on a map and in narrative form. This synthesis of indices is reported by the National Drought Mitigation Center at http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu. Should an eligible area not be covered by the U.S. Drought Monitor, the Deputy Administrator, in consultation with appropriate weather-related agencies and experts, will establish procedures for rating drought intensity using the same range of categories as the U.S. Drought Monitor and use this information in place of the missing data for eligibility purposes.
Unweaned livestock means an animal not weaned from mother's milk or milk replacement to other nourishment. For ELAP purposes, unweaned livestock does not include turkeys, ducks, chickens, and geese.
Verifiable record means a document provided by the producer that can be verified by the County Committee (COC) through an independent source.
[79 FR 21097, Apr. 14, 2014, as amended at 79 FR 57721, Sept. 26, 2014; 79 FR 74571, Dec. 15, 2014; 83 FR 49464, Oct. 2, 2018; 85 FR 10963, Feb. 26, 2020]
(a) An eligible loss covered under this subpart is a loss that an eligible producer, livestock owner, or contract grower of livestock, or eligible producer of honeybees or farm-raised fish incurs due to an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition, as determined by the Deputy Administrator.
(b) A loss covered under LFP or LIP is not eligible for ELAP.
(c) To be an eligible loss in a program year, the loss must have been apparent to the person or legal entity providing the notice and to FSA in the program year for which payment is being requested.
(d) For a livestock feed loss to be considered an eligible loss, the livestock feed loss must be one of the following:
(1) Loss of purchased forage or feedstuffs that was intended for use as feed for the participant's eligible livestock as specified in §1416.104(a) that was physically located in the county where the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition occurred on the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition. The loss must be due to an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition, as determined by the Deputy Administrator, including, but not limited to, blizzard, eligible winter storms, flood, hurricane, lightning, tidal surge, tornado, volcanic eruption, or wildfire on non-Federal land;
(2) Loss of mechanically harvested forage or feedstuffs intended for use as feed for the participant's eligible livestock as specified in §1416.104(a) that was physically located in the county where the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition occurred on the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition. The loss must have occurred after harvest due to an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition, as determined by the Deputy Administrator, including, but not limited to, blizzard, eligible winter storms, flood, hurricane, lightning, tidal surge, tornado, volcanic eruption, or wildfire on non-Federal land;
(3) A loss resulting from the additional cost of purchasing additional livestock feed, above normal quantities, required to maintain the eligible livestock as specified in §1416.104(a) during an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition, until additional livestock feed becomes available, as determined by the Deputy Administrator. To be eligible, the additional feed purchased above normal quantities must be feed that is fed to maintain livestock in the county where the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition occurred. Eligible adverse weather or eligible loss conditions, as determined by the Deputy Administrator, including, but not limited to, blizzard, eligible winter storms, flood, hurricane, lightning, tidal surge, tornado, volcanic eruption, or wildfire on non-Federal land;
(4) A loss resulting from the additional cost incurred for transporting livestock feed to eligible livestock as specified in §1416.104(a) due to an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition, as determined by the Deputy Administrator, including, but not limited to, costs associated with equipment rental fees for hay lifts and snow removal. To be eligible, the loss must be incurred in combination with a loss described in paragraphs (d)(1), (2), or (3) of this section. The additional costs incurred must have been incurred for losses suffered in the county where the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition occurred. Eligible adverse weather or eligible loss conditions, as determined by the Deputy Administrator, include, but not limited to, blizzard, eligible winter storms, flood, hurricane, lightning, tidal surge, tornado, volcanic eruption, or wildfire on non-Federal land;
(5) A loss resulting from the additional cost of transporting water to eligible livestock as specified in §1416.104(a) due to eligible adverse weather, eligible loss condition, or eligible drought, as determined by the Deputy Administrator, including, but not limited to, costs associated with water transport equipment rental fees, labor, and contracted water transportation fees. The cost of the water is not eligible for payment. Transporting water to livestock located on land enrolled in CRP is not an eligible loss under ELAP. To be eligible for additional cost of transporting water to eligible livestock, the livestock must be on eligible grazing lands that meet all of the following:
(i) Physically located in the county where the eligible adverse weather, eligible loss condition, or eligible drought, as determined by the Deputy Administrator, occurred;
(ii) That had adequate livestock watering systems or facilities before the eligible adverse weather, eligible loss condition, or eligible drought occurred; and
(iii) That the producer is not normally required to transport water to the livestock.
(e) For a grazing loss to be considered eligible, the grazing loss must have been incurred:
(1) During the normal grazing period, as specified in §1416.102;
(2) On eligible grazing land that is physically located in the county where the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition occurred;
(3) Due to an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition, as determined by the Deputy Administrator, including, but not limited to, blizzard, eligible winter storm, flood, hurricane, hail, lightning, tidal surge, volcanic eruption, and wildfire on non-Federal land. The grazing loss will not be eligible if it is due to an adverse weather condition covered by LFP as specified in subpart C of this part, such as drought or wildfire on federally managed land where the producer is prohibited by the Federal agency from grazing the normally permitted livestock on the managed rangeland due to a fire.
(f) For a loss resulting from the additional cost associated with gathering livestock to inspect or treat for cattle tick fever, the livestock gathered for inspection or treatment for cattle tick fever must be considered eligible livestock as specified in §1416.104(d). To be considered an eligible loss, acceptable records, as determined by the Deputy Administrator, must be on file with APHIS, that provide the number of livestock gathered and inspected or treated for cattle tick fever and the number of treatments given during the program year.
(g) For honeybee feed or farm-raised fish feed losses to be considered an eligible loss, the honeybee feed or farm-raised fish feed loss must be one of the following:
(1) Loss of honeybee feed or farm-raised fish feed that was intended as feed for the participant's eligible honeybees or farm-raised fish that was physically located in the county where the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition occurred on the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition. The loss must be due to an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition, as determined by the Deputy Administrator, including, but not limited to, earthquake, flood, hurricane, lightning, tidal surge, tornado, volcanic eruption, and wildfire.
(2) A loss resulting from the additional cost of purchasing additional honeybee feed, above normal quantities, required to maintain the honeybees during an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition, until additional honeybee feed becomes available, as determined by the Deputy Administrator. To be eligible the additional feed purchased above normal quantities must be feed that is fed to maintain honeybees in the county where the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition occurred. The loss must be due to an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition, as determined by the Deputy Administrator, including, but not limited to, earthquake, early fall frost, excessive rainfall, flood, hurricane, late spring frost, lightning, tidal surge, tornado, volcanic eruption, wildfire and eligible drought, as specified in §1416.102.
(h) For honeybee colony or honeybee hive losses to be considered eligible, the hive producer must have incurred the loss in the county where the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition occurred. The honeybee colony or hive losses must be due to an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition, as determined by the Deputy Administrator, including, but not limited to, colony collapse disorder, earthquake, eligible winter storm, as specified in §1416.102, excessive wind, flood, hurricane, lightning, tornado, volcanic eruption, and wildfire. Drought is not an eligible adverse weather event or eligible loss condition for honeybee hive losses. To be considered eligible for honeybee hive loss as of the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather event or eligible loss condition the honeybee hive must be all the following: Maintained for producing honey, pollinating, or breeding honeybees for commercial use in a farming operation; physically located in the county where the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss conditions occurred; and be a part of a honeybee farming operation in which the applicant has a risk in honey production, pollination, or honeybee breeding. To be considered an eligible honeybee colony loss, the colony loss must be in excess of normal mortality, as established by the Deputy Administrator, and the loss could not have been prevented through reasonable and available measures. The notice of loss must be accompanied by acceptable documentation, as determined by the Deputy Administrator, that demonstrates an eligible loss occurred and was associated with an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition, and that generally accepted husbandry and production practices had been followed. For colony collapse disorder, acceptable documentation includes, but is not limited to, proof of beginning inventory and good management practices, and a producer certification that the loss of honeybee colonies was a direct result of at least 3 of the following 5 symptoms:
(1) The loss of live queen or drone bee populations inside the hives;
(2) Rapid decline of adult worker bee population outside the hives, leaving brood poorly or completely unattended;
(3) Absence of dead adult bees inside the hive and outside the entrance of the hive;
(4) Absence of robbing collapsed colonies;
(5) At the time of collapse, varroa mite and Nosema populations are not at levels known to cause economic injury or population decline.
(i) For death losses of bait fish, game fish, or other aquatic species, as determined by the Deputy Administrator, to be considered eligible, the producer must have incurred the fish loss, in excess of normal mortality, in the county where the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition occurred. The fish death must be due to an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition as determined by the Deputy Administrator including, but not limited to, earthquake, flood, hurricane, tidal surge, tornado, and volcanic eruption.
(a) To be considered eligible livestock for livestock grazing and feed, losses resulting from transporting water, and gathering livestock to treat for cattle tick fever, livestock must meet all the following conditions:
(1) Be grazing animals such as alpacas, adult or non-adult dairy cattle, adult or non-adult beef cattle, adult or non-adult beefalo, adult or non-adult buffalo or bison, deer, elk, emus, equine, goats, llamas, reindeer, or sheep;
(2) Except for livestock losses resulting from gathering livestock to treat cattle tick fever, be livestock that would normally have been grazing the eligible grazing land or pastureland during the normal grazing period for the specific type of grazing land or pastureland for the county where the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition occurred;
(3) Be livestock that is owned, cash-leased, purchased, under contract for purchase, or been raised by a contract grower or an eligible livestock owner, for not less than 60 days before the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition; and
(4) Be livestock produced or maintained for commercial use or be livestock that is produced or maintained for producing livestock products for commercial use, such as milk from dairy, as part of the contract grower's or livestock owner's farming operation on the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition.
(b) The eligible livestock types for grazing and feed losses, losses resulting from transporting water, and gathering livestock to treat for cattle tick fever, are:
(1) Adult beef cows or bulls,
(2) Adult beefalo cows or bulls,
(3) Adult buffalo or bison cows or bulls,
(4) Adult dairy cows or bulls,
(5) Alpacas,
(6) Deer,
(7) Elk,
(8) Emus,
(9) Equine,
(10) Goats,
(11) Llamas,
(12) Non-adult beef cattle,
(13) Non-adult beefalo,
(14) Non-adult buffalo or bison,
(15) Non-adult dairy cattle,
(16) Reindeer, and
(17) Sheep.
(c) Ineligible livestock for grazing and feed losses, and losses resulting from transporting water, include, but are not limited to:
(1) Livestock that were or would have been in a feedlot, on the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition, as a part of the normal business operation of the producer, as determined by FSA;
(2) Animals that are not grazing animals;
(3) Yaks;
(4) Ostriches;
(5) Poultry;
(6) Swine;
(7) All unweaned beef and dairy cattle, and buffalo or bison and beefalo that weighed less than 500 pounds on the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition;
(8) Any wild free roaming livestock, including horses and deer; and
(9) Livestock that are not produced for commercial use or those that are not produced or maintained in a commercial operation for livestock products, such as milk from dairy, including, but not limited to, livestock produced or maintained exclusively for recreational purposes, such as:
(i) Roping,
(ii) Hunting,
(iii) Show,
(iv) Pleasure,
(v) Use as pets, or
(vi) Consumption by owner.
(d) Under ELAP, “contract growers” only includes producers of livestock, other than feedlots, whose income is dependent on any of the following: Actual weight gain of the livestock, number of offspring produced from the livestock, or quantity of products (eggs, milk, etc.) produced from the livestock.
(e) For honeybee colony, hive, and feed losses to be eligible, the honeybee colony must meet the following conditions:
(1) Been maintained for the purpose of producing honey or pollination for commercial use in a farming operation on the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition;
(2) Been physically located in the county where the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition occurred on the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition;
(3) Been a honeybee colony in which the participant has a risk in the honey production or pollination farming operation on the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition;
(4) Been a honeybee colony for which the producer had an eligible loss of a honeybee colony, honeybee hive, or honeybee feed; the feed must have been intended as feed for honeybees.
(f) For fish to be eligible to generate payments under ELAP, the fish must be produced in a controlled environment and the farm-raised fish must:
(1) For feed losses:
(i) Be an aquatic species that is propagated and reared in a controlled environment;
(ii) Be maintained and harvested for commercial use as part of a farming operation; and
(iii) Be physically located in the county where the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition occurred on the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition.
(2) For death losses:
(i) Be bait fish, game fish, or another aquatic species deemed eligible by the Deputy Administrator that are propagated and reared in a controlled environment;
(ii) Been maintained for commercial use as part of a farming operation; and
(iii) Been physically located in the county where the eligible loss adverse weather or eligible loss condition occurred on the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition.
79 FR 21097, Apr. 14, 2014, as amended at 83 FR 49465, Oct. 2, 2018;85 FR 10964, Feb. 26, 2020]
(a) To be considered an eligible livestock producer for feed losses and losses resulting from transporting water and gathering livestock to treat for cattle tick fever and to receive payments, the participant must have:
(1) Owned, cash-leased, purchased, entered into a contract to purchase, or been a contract grower of eligible livestock for not less than 60 days before the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition; and
(2) Had a loss that is determined to be eligible as specified in §1416.103(d) or (f).
(b) To be considered an eligible livestock producer for grazing losses and to receive payments, the participant must have:
(1) Owned, cash-leased, purchased, entered into a contract to purchase, or been a contract grower of eligible livestock for not less than 60 days before the beginning date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition;
(2) Had a loss that is determined to be eligible as specified in §1416.103(e);
(3) Had eligible livestock that would normally have been grazing the eligible grazing land or pastureland during the normal grazing period for the specific type of grazing land or pastureland for the county;
(4) Provided for the eligible livestock pastureland or grazing land, including cash leased pastureland or grazing land for eligible livestock that is physically located in the county where the eligible adverse weather or loss condition occurred during the normal grazing period for the county.
(c) To be considered an eligible honeybee producer, a participant must have an interest and risk in an eligible honeybee colony, as specified in §1416.104(g), for the purpose of producing honey or pollination for commercial use as part of a farming operation and must have had a loss that is determined to be eligible as specified in §1416.103(h) or (i).
(d) To be considered an eligible farm-raised fish producer for feed and death loss purposes, the participant must have produced eligible farm-raised fish, as specified in §1416.104(h), with the intent to harvest for commercial use as part of a farming operation and must have had a loss that is determined to be eligible as specified in §1416.103(h) or (j);
(e) A producer seeking payments must not be ineligible under the restrictions applicable to foreign persons contained in §1416.3(b) and must meet all other requirements of subpart A of this part and other applicable USDA regulations.
[79 FR 21097, Apr. 14, 2014, as amended at 83 FR 49466, Oct. 2, 2018; 85 FR 10964, Feb, 26, 2020]
(a) To apply for ELAP, the participant that suffered eligible livestock, honeybee, or farm-raised fish losses must submit, to the FSA county office, the following:
(1) A notice of loss to FSA as specified in §1416.107(a),
(2) A completed application as specified in §1416.107(b) for one or both of the following:
(i) For livestock feed and grazing losses and losses resulting from transporting water and gathering livestock to treat for cattle tick fever, a completed Emergency Loss Assistance for Livestock Application;
(ii) For honeybee feed, honeybee colony, honeybee hive, or farm-raised fish feed or death losses, a completed Emergency Loss Assistance for Honeybees or Farm-Raised Fish Application;
(3) A report of acreage, if applicable, as determined by the Deputy Administrator;
(4) A copy of the participant's grower contract, if the participant is a contract grower;
(5) Other supporting documents required for FSA to determine eligibility of the participant, livestock, honeybee colonies, hives, farm-raised fish, and loss;
(6) A farm operating plan, if a current farm operating plan is not already on file in the FSA county office; and
(7) A socially disadvantaged, limited resource, beginning, or veteran farmer or rancher certification, if applicable.
(b) For livestock grazing losses, participant must provide acceptable, verifiable, or reliable records that:
(1) Additional livestock feed was fed to sustain eligible livestock during an eligible adverse weather or loss condition, or
(2) Eligible livestock were removed from the eligible grazing land where the grazing loss occurred.
(c) For livestock, honeybee, or farm-raised fish feed losses, participant must provide acceptable, verifiable, or reliable records of the following as determined by the COC:
(1) Purchased feed intended as feed for livestock, honeybees, or farm-raised fish that was lost, or additional feed purchased above normal quantities to sustain livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish for a period of time, not to exceed 150 days, until additional feed becomes available, due to an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition. Verifiable or reliable records may include, but are not limited to, feed receipts, invoices, settlement sheets, warehouse ledger sheets, load summaries, register tapes, and contemporaneous records.
(2) Harvested feed intended as feed for livestock, honeybees, or farm-raised fish that was lost due to an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition. Verifiable or reliable records may include, but are not limited to, weight tickets, truck scale tickets, pick records, contemporaneous records used to verify that the crop was stored with the intent to feed the crop to livestock, honeybees, or farm-raised fish, and custom harvest documents that clearly identify the amount of feed produced from the applicable acreage.
(3) A loss resulting from the additional cost incurred for transporting livestock feed to eligible livestock due to an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition as determined by the Deputy Administrator, including, but not limited to, costs associated with equipment rental fees for hay lifts and snow removal. Verifiable or reliable records may include, but are not limited to, invoices, commercial receipts, load summaries, and contemporaneous records used to verify transportation cost of additional livestock feed.
(4) Additional cost of transporting water to eligible livestock due to an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition as determined by the Deputy Administrator, including, but not limited to, costs associated with water transport equipment rental fees, labor, and contracted water transportation fees. Verifiable or reliable records include, but are not limited to, commercial receipts, contemporaneous records and invoices. Records must clearly indicate the dates on which water was transported and the total gallons transported.
(d) For eligible honeybee colony, honeybee hive and farm-raised fish losses, the participant must provide verifiable or reliable records of honeybee colony, hive, or farm-raised fish losses. For honeybee colony and hive losses, the participant must also provide verifiable or reliable records of inventory at the beginning of the program year, and records of purchase and sale transactions of honeybee colonies and hives throughout the program year. If the participant was paid for a loss of honeybee colony or honeybee hive in either or both of the 2 previous years, the participant must provide documentation that FSA deems acceptable to substantiate how current year honeybee colony and honeybee hive inventory was acquired. For farm-raised fish losses, the participant must also provide verifiable or reliable records of inventory on the beginning date and ending date of the eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition. Verifiable and reliable records may include, but are not limited to, any combination of the following:
(1) A report of acreage,
(2) Loan records,
(3) Private insurance documents,
(4) Property tax records,
(5) Sales and purchase receipts,
(6) State colony registration documentation, and
(7) Chattel inspections.
(e) If verifiable or reliable records are not available or provided, as required in paragraphs (b) through (d) of this section, the COC may accept producer's certification of losses if similar producers have comparable losses, as determined by the COC and approved by the STC (FSA State Committee).
(a) In addition to submitting an application for payment by the deadline in paragraph (b) of this section, the participant that suffered eligible livestock, honeybee, or farm-raised fish losses that create or could create a claim for benefits must:
(1) For losses other than honeybees, provide a notice of loss to FSA within 30 calendar days of when the loss of livestock is first apparent;
(2) For honeybee losses, provide a notice of loss together with documentation required by §1416.103 to FSA within 15 calendar days of when the loss is first apparent;
(3) Submit the notice of loss required in this paragraph to the FSA county office.
(b) In addition to the notices of loss required in paragraph (a) of this section, a participant seeking payment must also submit a completed application for payment by 30 calendar days after the end of the applicable program year.
[85 FR 10965, Feb. 26, 2020]
(a) For an eligible livestock, honeybee, or farm-raised fish producer that meets the definition of beginning farmer or rancher, veteran farmer or rancher, socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher, or limited resource farmer or rancher, payments calculated in §§1416.110 through 1416.112 will be based on a national payment rate of 90 percent.
(b) For an eligible livestock, honeybee, or farm-raised fish producer, payments calculated in §§1416.110(a), (b), (f), (g) and (l), 1416.111(a), and 1416.112(a), will be based on a national payment rate, to be determined by the Deputy Administrator, of not less than 60 percent and not more than 80 percent of the calculated payment.
(c) For an eligible livestock, honeybee, or farm-raised fish producer, payments calculated in §1416.11(b) and (c), and 1416.112(b), will be based on a national payment rate, to be determined by the Deputy Administrator, of not less than 75 percent and not more than 80 percent of the calculated payment.
[79 FR 21097, Apr. 14, 2014, as amended at 85 FR 10965, Feb. 26, 2020]
(a) Livestock feed payments for an eligible livestock producer will be calculated based on losses for no more than 150 days during the program year. Payment calculations for feed losses will be based on a national payment rate, as specified in §1416.109, multiplied by the producer's actual cost for:
(1) Livestock feed that was purchased forage or feedstuffs intended for use as feed for the participant's eligible livestock that was physically damaged or destroyed due to the direct result of an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition, as specified in §1416.103(d)(1);
(2) Livestock feed that was mechanically harvested forage or feedstuffs intended for use as feed for the participant's eligible livestock that was physically damaged or destroyed after harvest due to the direct result of an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition, as specified in §1416.103(d)(2);
(3) The additional cost of purchasing additional livestock feed above normal quantities, required to maintain the eligible livestock during an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition until additional livestock feed becomes available, as specified in §1416.103(d)(3); and
(4) The additional cost incurred for transporting livestock feed to eligible livestock due to an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition, as specified in §1416.103(d)(4);
(b) Payments for losses resulting from the additional cost of transporting water to eligible livestock due to an eligible adverse weather, eligible loss condition, or eligible drought for no more 150 days during the program year, as specified in §1416.103(d)(5) calculated based on a national payment rate, as determined in §1416.109, multiplied by the lesser of either:
(1) The total value of the cost to transport water to eligible livestock for 150 days, based on the daily water requirements for the eligible livestock, or
(2) The total value of the cost to transport water to eligible livestock for the program year, based on the actual number of gallons of water the eligible producer transported to eligible livestock for the program year.
(c) The total value of the cost to transport water to eligible livestock for 150 days to be used in the calculation for paragraph (b)(1) of this section is equal to the product obtained by multiplying:
(1) The number of eligible livestock converted to an animal unit basis;
(2) The gallons of water required per animal unit for maintenance for one day, as determined by the Deputy Administrator;
(3) The national average price per gallon to transport water and any appropriate regional or local adjustments as recommended by the STC and determined by the Deputy Administrator; and
(4) 150 days.
(d) The total value of the cost to transport water to eligible livestock for the program year to be used in the calculation for paragraph (b)(2) of this section is equal to the product obtained by multiplying:
(1) Actual number of gallons of water transported by the eligible producer to eligible livestock in the program year; and
(2) The national average price per gallon to transport water and any appropriate regional or local adjustments as recommended by the STC and determined by the Deputy Administrator.
(e) The national average price per gallon to transport water to be used in the calculation for paragraphs (c)(3) and (d)(2) of this section is $0.04, or such other price determined by the Deputy Administrator.
(f) Payments for an eligible livestock producer, for livestock losses resulting from the additional cost associated with gathering livestock to treat or inspect for cattle tick fever will be calculated for the actual number of livestock involved in each treatment or inspection. Total payments are equal to the sum of the following for each treatment or inspection:
(1) The national payment rate, as determined in §1416.109, times
(2) The number of eligible livestock treated or inspected by APHIS for cattle tick fever, times
(3) The average cost to gather livestock, per head, as established by the Deputy Administrator.
(g) Payments for an eligible livestock producer for grazing losses, except for losses due to wildfires on non-Federal land, will be calculated based on the applicable national payment rate, as determined in §1416.109, multiplied by the lesser of:
(1) The total value of the feed cost for all covered livestock owned by the eligible livestock producer based on the number of days grazing was lost, not to exceed 150 days of daily feed cost for all eligible livestock, or
(2) The total value of grazing lost for all eligible livestock based on the normal carrying capacity, as determined by the Secretary, of the eligible grazing land of the eligible livestock producer for the number of grazing days lost, not to exceed 150 days of lost grazing.
(h) The total value of feed cost to be used in the calculation for paragraph (g)(1) of this section is based on the number of days grazing was lost and equals the product obtained by multiplying:
(1) A payment quantity equal to the feed grain equivalent, as determined in paragraph (i) of this section;
(2) A payment rate equal to the corn price per pound, as determined in paragraph (j) of this section;
(3) The number of all eligible livestock owned by the eligible producer converted to an animal unit basis;
(4) The number of days grazing was lost, not to exceed 150 calendar days during the normal grazing period for the specific type of grazing land; and
(5) The producer's ownership share in the livestock.
(i) The feed grain equivalent to be used in the calculation for paragraph (g)(1) of this section equals, in the case of:
(1) An adult beef cow, 15.7 pounds of corn per day, or
(2) Any other type or weight of livestock, an amount determined by the Secretary that represents the average number of pounds of corn per day necessary to feed that specific type of livestock.
(j) The corn price per pound to be used in the calculation for paragraph (h)(2) of this section equals the quotient calculated as follows:
(1) The higher of:
(i) The national average corn price per bushel of corn for the 12-month period immediately preceding March 1 of the program year for which payments are calculated; or
(ii) The national average corn price per bushel of corn for the 24-month period immediately preceding March 1 of the program year for which payments are calculated;
(2) Divided by 56.
(k) The total value of grazing lost to be used in the calculation for paragraph (h)(2) of this section equals the product obtained by multiplying:
(1) A payment quantity equal to the feed grain equivalent of 15.7 pounds of corn per day;
(3) The number of animal units the eligible livestock producer's grazing land or pastureland can sustain during the normal grazing period in the county for the specific type of grazing land or pastureland, in the absence of an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition, determined by dividing the:
(i) Number of eligible grazing land or pastureland acres of the specific type of grazing land or pastureland, by
(ii) The normal carrying capacity of the specific type of eligible grazing land or pastureland; and
(4) The number of days grazing was lost, not to exceed 150 calendar days during the normal grazing period for the specific type of grazing land.
(l) Payments for an eligible livestock producer for grazing losses due to a wildfire on non-Federal land will be calculated based on the applicable national payment rate, as determined in §1416.109, multiplied by:
(1) The result of dividing:
(i) The number of acres of grazing land or pastureland acres affected by the fire, by
(ii) The normal carrying capacity of the specific type of eligible grazing land or pastureland; times
(2) The daily value of grazing as calculated by FSA under this section; times
(3) The number of days grazing was lost due to fire, not to exceed 180 calendar days;
(m) If a participant, during the normal grazing period for the eligible grazing land, claims both an eligible loss resulting from the additional cost of purchasing additional livestock feed above normal quantities, as calculated in paragraph (a)(3) of this section, and an eligible grazing loss, as calculated in paragraphs (g) or (l) of this section, then the participant may receive no more than the larger of the value of the loss resulting from the:
(1) Additional cost of purchasing additional livestock feed, as calculated in paragraph (a)(3) of this section; or
(2) Grazing loss, as determined in:
(i) Paragraph (g) of this section, for losses due to an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition, except wildfires on non-Federal lands, or
(ii) Paragraph (l) of this section, for losses due to wildfires on non-Federal lands.
(n) Payments calculated in this section are subject to the adjustments and limits provided for in this part.
[79 FR 21097, Apr. 14, 2014, as amended at 85 FR 10965, Feb, 26, 2020]
(a) An eligible honeybee producer may receive payments for eligible honeybee feed losses, as specified in §1416.103(h), based on a national payment rate, as determined in §1416.109, multiplied by the producer's actual cost for honeybee feed that was:
(1) Damaged or destroyed due to an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition, as specified in §1416.103(h)(1); and
(2) Purchased, above normal, to maintain the honeybees during an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition until additional honeybee feed becomes available, as specified in §1416.103(h)(2);
(b) An eligible honeybee producer may receive payments for eligible honeybee colony losses, as specified in §1416.103(i), based on a national payment rate, as determined in §1416.109(b), multiplied by:
(1) Average fair market value of the honeybee colonies as computed using nationwide prices unless some other price data is approved for use by the Deputy Administrator; and
(2) Number of eligible honeybee colonies that were damaged or destroyed due to an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition, in excess of normal honeybee mortality, as determined by the Deputy Administrator.
(c) An eligible honeybee producer may receive payments for eligible honeybee hive losses, as specified in §1416.103(i), based on a national payment rate, as determined in §1416.109, multiplied by:
(1) Average fair market value for honeybee hives as computed using nationwide prices unless some other price data is approved for use by the Deputy Administrator; and
(2) Number of honeybee hives that were damaged or destroyed due to an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition.
(d) Payments calculated in this section are subject to the adjustments and limits provided for in this part.
(a) An eligible farm-raised fish producer may receive payments for fish feed losses due to an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition, as specified in §1416.103(h), based on a national payment rate, as determined in §1416.109, multiplied by the producer's actual cost for the fish feed that was:
(2) Purchased, above normal, to maintain the farm-raised fish during an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition until additional farm-raised fish feed becomes available, as specified in §1416.103(h)(2).
(b) An eligible producer of farm-raised fish may receive payments for death losses of farm-raised fish due to an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition, as specified in §1416.103(j), based on a national payment rate, as determined in §1416.109, multiplied by:
(1) Average fair market value of the bait fish, game fish, or other aquatic species, as determined by the Deputy Administrator, that died as a direct result of an eligible adverse weather or eligible loss condition, as computed using nationwide prices unless some other price data is approved for use by the Deputy Administrator; and
(2) Number of eligible bait fish, game fish, or other aquatic species, as determined by the Deputy Administrator, that died as a result of an eligible adverse weather or loss condition, in excess of normal mortality, as determined by the Deputy Administrator.
(c) Payments calculated in this section or elsewhere with respect to ELAP are subject to the adjustments and limits provided for in this part and are also subject to the payment limitations and average adjusted gross income limitations that are contained in part 1400 of this chapter.
(a) This subpart establishes the terms and conditions under which the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) will be administered.
(b) Eligible livestock owners or contract growers who are eligible producers of eligible grazed forage crop acreage will be compensated for eligible grazing losses for covered livestock that occur due to a qualifying drought or fire that occurs in the calendar year for which benefits are being requested.
The following definitions apply to this subpart and to the administration of LFP. The definitions in parts 718 of this title and 1400 of this chapter also apply, except where they conflict with the definitions in this section.
Adult beef bull means a male beef breed bovine animal that was at least 2 years old and used for breeding purposes on or before the beginning date of a qualifying drought or fire.
Adult beef cow means a female beef breed bovine animal that had delivered one or more offspring. A first-time bred beef heifer is also considered an adult beef cow if it was pregnant on or before the beginning date of a qualifying drought or fire.
Adult beefalo bull means a male hybrid of beef and bison that was used for breeding purposes and was at least 2 years old before the beginning date of the qualifying drought or fire.
Adult beefalo cow means a female hybrid of beef and bison that had delivered one or more offspring before the beginning date of the qualifying drought or fire. A first-time bred beefalo heifer is also considered an adult beefalo cow if it was pregnant by the beginning date of the qualifying drought or fire.
Adult buffalo or bison bull means a male animal of those breeds that was used for breeding purposes and was at least 2 years old before the beginning date of the qualifying drought or fire.
Adult buffalo or bison cow means a female animal of those breeds that had delivered one or more offspring before the beginning date of the qualifying drought or fire. A first-time bred buffalo or bison heifer is also considered an adult buffalo or bison cow if it was pregnant by the beginning date of the qualifying drought or fire.
Adult dairy bull means a male dairy breed bovine animal at least 2 years old used primarily for breeding dairy cows on or before the beginning date of a qualifying drought or fire.
Adult dairy cow means a female dairy breed bovine animal used for the purpose of providing milk for human consumption that had delivered one or more offspring. A first-time bred dairy heifer is also considered an adult dairy cow if it was pregnant on or before the beginning date of a qualifying drought or fire.
Application means the “Livestock Forage Disaster Program” form.
Commercial use means used in the operation of a business activity engaged in as a means of livelihood for profit by the eligible livestock producer.
Contract grower means a person or legal entity, other than a feedlot, that was engaged in a farming operation not as an owner of covered livestock but in a business whose income is dependent on either the actual weight gain of the livestock or number of offspring produced from the livestock.
Covered livestock means livestock of an eligible livestock producer that, during the 60 days prior to the beginning date of a qualifying drought or fire, the eligible livestock producer owned, leased, purchased, entered into a contract to purchase, was a contract grower of, or sold or otherwise disposed of due to a qualifying drought during the current production year. It includes livestock that the producer otherwise disposed of due to drought in one or both of the two production years immediately preceding the current production year as determined by the Secretary. Notwithstanding the foregoing portions of this definition, covered livestock will not include livestock in feedlots.
Federal Agency means, with respect to the control of grazing land, an agency of the federal government that manages rangeland on which livestock is generally permitted to graze. For the purposes of this section, it includes, but is not limited to, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and USDA Forest Service (FS).
Grazing animals mean those species of weaned livestock that, from a nutritional and physiological perspective, satisfy more than 50 percent of their net energy requirement through the consumption of growing forage grasses and legumes. Species of livestock for which more than 50 percent of their net energy requirements are not recommended to be met from consumption of forage grasses and legumes, such as poultry and swine, are excluded regardless of whether those species are present on grazing land or pastureland. Unweaned livestock are excluded as grazing animals regardless of whether those unweaned livestock are present on grazing land or pastureland.
Non-adult beef cattle means a weaned beef breed bovine animal that on or before the beginning date of a qualifying drought or fire does not meet the definition of adult beef cow or bull.
Non-adult beefalo means a weaned hybrid of beef and bison that on or before the beginning date of the qualifying drought or fire does not meet the definition of adult beefalo cow or bull.
Non-adult buffalo or bison means a weaned animal of those breeds that on or before the beginning date of beginning date of the qualifying drought or fire does not meet the definition of adult buffalo or bison cow or bull.
Non-adult dairy cattle means a weaned bovine animal, of a breed used for the purpose of providing milk for human consumption, that on or before the beginning date of a qualifying drought or fire does not meet the definition of adult dairy cow or bull.
Normal carrying capacity means, with respect to each type of grazing land or pastureland in a county, the normal carrying capacity that would be expected from the grazing land or pastureland for livestock during the normal grazing period in the county, in the absence of a drought or fire that diminishes the production of the grazing land or pastureland.
Owner means one who had legal ownership of the livestock for which benefits are being requested during the 60 days prior to the beginning of a qualifying drought or fire.
U.S. Drought Monitor is a system for classifying drought severity according to a range of abnormally dry to exceptional drought. It is a collaborative effort between Federal and academic partners, produced on a weekly basis, to synthesize multiple indices, outlooks, and drought impacts on a map and in narrative form. This synthesis of indices is reported by the National Drought Mitigation Center at http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu.
Unweaned livestock means an animal not weaned from mother's milk or milk replacement to other nourishment.
(a) In addition to meeting all other requirements, to be eligible for benefits under this subpart, an individual or legal entity with an eligible producer interest in grazing land acreage who is either an owner or contract grower of grazing animals, must:
(1) During the 60 days prior to the beginning date of a qualifying drought or fire, own, cash or share lease, or be a contract grower of covered livestock.
(2) As of the date of the qualifying drought or fire provide pastureland or grazing land for covered livestock, including cash-leased pastureland or grazing land, that is:
(i) Physically located in a county affected by a qualifying drought during the normal grazing period for the specific forage crop acreage in the county, or
(ii) Rangeland managed by a Federal agency for which the otherwise eligible livestock producer is prohibited by the Federal agency from grazing the normal permitted livestock due to a qualifying fire.
(b) The eligible livestock producer must have certified that the livestock producer has suffered a grazing loss due to a qualifying drought or fire to be eligible for LFP payments.
(c) An eligible livestock producer does not include any owner, cash or share lessee, or contract grower of livestock that rents or leases pastureland or grazing land owned by another person on a rate-of-gain basis. (That is, where the lease or rental agreement calls for payment based in whole or in part on the amount of weight gained by the animals that use the pastureland or grazing land.)
(d) A producer seeking payment must not be prohibited from receiving these benefits as a result of the restrictions applicable to foreign persons contained in §1416.3(b) and must meet all other requirements of subpart A of this part and other applicable USDA regulations.
(e) If a contract grower is an eligible livestock producer for covered livestock, the owner of that livestock is not eligible for payment.
(a) To be considered covered livestock for LFP payments, livestock must meet all the following conditions:
(1) Be grazing animals such as adult or non-adult beef cattle, adult or non-adult beefalo, adult or non-adult buffalo or bison, adult or non-adult dairy cattle, alpacas, deer, elk, emus, equine, goats, llamas, reindeer, or sheep;
(2) Be livestock that would normally have been grazing the eligible grazing land or pastureland:
(i) During the normal grazing period for the specific type of grazing land or pastureland for the county during the qualifying drought; or
(ii) When the Federal agency prohibited the eligible livestock producer from using the managed rangeland for grazing due to a fire;
(3) Be livestock that the eligible livestock producer:
(i) During the 60 days prior to the beginning date of a qualifying drought or fire:
(A) Owned,
(B) Leased,
(C) Purchased,
(D) Entered into a contract to purchase, or
(E) Was a contract grower of; or
(ii) Sold or otherwise disposed of due to qualifying drought during:
(A) The current production year, or
(B) 1 or both of the 2 production years immediately preceding the current production year;
(4) Been livestock produced or maintained for commercial use or be livestock that is produced and maintained for producing livestock products for commercial use, such as milk from dairy, as part of the contract grower's or livestock owner's farming operation on the beginning date of the qualifying drought or fire;
(5) Not have been produced and maintained for reasons other than commercial use as part of a farming operation. Such excluded uses include, but are not limited to, consumption by the owner, lessee, or contract grower, any uses of wild free roaming animals or use of the animals for recreational purposes, such as pleasure, roping, hunting, pets, or for show; and
(6) Not have been livestock that were or would have been in a feedlot, on the beginning date of the qualifying drought or fire, as a part of the normal business operation of the eligible livestock producer, as determined by the Secretary.
(b) The covered livestock categories are:
(7) Emu,
(9) Goats,
(c) Livestock that are not covered include, but are not limited to:
(1) Livestock that were or would have been in a feedlot, on the beginning date of the qualifying drought or fire, as a part of the normal business operation of the eligible livestock producer, as determined by the Secretary;
(7) Unweaned livestock or animals not meeting the definition of a grazing animal;
(9) Livestock produced or maintained for reasons other than commercial use, including, but not limited to, livestock produced or maintained for any of the following or recreational purposes, such as:
(a) A grazing loss due to drought is eligible for LFP only if the grazing loss for the covered livestock occurs on land that:
(1) Is native or improved pastureland with permanent vegetative cover, or
(2) Is planted to a crop planted specifically for the purpose of providing grazing for covered livestock, as reported on the producer's acreage report, including crops such as forage sorghum, small grains, annual planted ryegrass, or annual planted crabgrass, but not including corn stalks or grain sorghum stalks; and
(3) Is grazing land or pastureland that is owned or leased by the eligible livestock producer that is physically located in a county that is, during the normal grazing period for the specific type of grazing land or pastureland for the county, rated by the U.S. Drought Monitor as having a:
(i) D2 (severe drought) intensity in any area of the county for at least 8 consecutive weeks during the normal grazing period for the specific type of grazing land or pastureland for the county, as determined by the Secretary, or
(ii) D3 (extreme drought) or D4 (exceptional drought) intensity in any area of the county at any time during the normal grazing period for the specific type of grazing land or pastureland for the county, as determined by the Secretary. (As specified elsewhere in this subpart, the amount of potential payment eligibility will be higher than under paragraph (a)(3)(i) of this section where the D4 trigger applies or where the D3 condition as determined by the Secretary lasts at least 4 weeks during the normal grazing period for the specific type of grazing land or pastureland for the county.)
(b) A grazing loss is not eligible for LFP if:
(1) The grazing loss due to drought on land used for haying or grazing under the Conservation Reserve Program established under subchapter B of chapter 1 of subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831-3835a), or
(2) The grazing loss occurs on irrigated land, unless the irrigated land has not been irrigated in the program year for which benefits are being requested due to the lack of surface wateras a result of a qualifying eligible drought condition.
(c) A grazing loss due to fire qualifies for LFP only if:
(1) The grazing loss occurs on rangeland that is managed by a Federal agency and
(2) The eligible livestock producer is prohibited by the Federal agency from grazing the normal permitted livestock on the managed rangeland due to a fire.
(a) To apply for LFP, the participant that suffered eligible grazing losses for the 2019 and subsequent program years must submit a completed application and required supporting documentation, including some supporting documentation such as an acreage report that may have been required at an earlier date, to the administrative FSA county office no later than 30 calendar days after the end of the calendar year in which the grazing loss occurred.
(b) A participant must also provide a copy of the grower contract, if a contract grower, and other supporting documents required for determining eligibility as an applicant at the time the participant submits the completed application for payment. Supporting documents must include:
(1) Evidence of loss;
(2) Evidence that grazing land or pastureland is owned or leased;
(3) A report of acreage according to part 718 of this title for the grazing lands incurring losses for which assistance is being requested under this subpart;
(4) Adequate proof, as determined by FSA that the grazing loss:
(i) Was for the covered livestock;
(ii) If the loss of grazing occurred as the result of a fire, that the:
(A) Loss was due to a fire, and
(B) Participant was prohibited by the Federal agency from grazing the normal permitted livestock on the managed rangeland due to a fire; and
(iii) Occurred in the program year for which payments are being requested;
(6) Any other supporting documentation as determined by FSA to be necessary to make a determination of eligibility of the participant. Supporting documents include, but are not limited to: Verifiable purchase and sales records; grower contracts; veterinarian records; bank or other loan papers; written contracts; production records; private insurance documents; sales records; and similar documents determined acceptable to FSA.
(d) Data furnished by the participant will be used to determine eligibility for program benefits. Furnishing the data is voluntary; however, without all required data, program benefits will not be approved or provided.
[79 FR 21097, Apr. 14, 2014. Redesignated and amended at 83 FR 49467, Oct. 2, 2018; 85 FR 10966, Feb. 26, 2020]
(a) An eligible livestock producer will be eligible to receive payments for grazing losses for qualifying drought as specified in §1416.205(a), calculated as specified in paragraphs (f) or (h) of this section. Total LFP payments to an eligible livestock producer in a calendar year for grazing losses due to qualifying drought will not exceed 5 monthly payments for the same livestock. Payments calculated in this section or elsewhere with respect to LFP are subject to the adjustments and limits provided for in this part and are also subject to the payment limitations and average adjusted gross income provisions that are contained in subpart A of this part. Payment may only be made to the extent that eligibility is specifically provided for in this subpart. Hence, with respect to drought, payments will be made only as representative to a “1-month” payment, a “3-month” payment, “4-month” payment, or a “5-month” payment based on the provisions of paragraphs (b) through (e) of this section.
(b) To be eligible to receive a 1-month payment, that is a payment equal to the monthly feed cost as determined under paragraph (h) of this section, the eligible livestock producer must own or lease grazing land or pastureland that is physically located in a county that is rated by the U.S. Drought Monitor as having at least a D2 severe drought (intensity) in any area of the county for at least 8 consecutive weeks during the normal grazing period for the specific type of grazing land or pastureland in the county.
(c) To be eligible to receive a 3-month payment, that is a payment equal to three times the monthly feed cost as determined under paragraph (h) of this section, the eligible livestock producer must own or lease grazing land or pastureland that is physically located in a county that is rated by the U.S. Drought Monitor as having at least a D3 (extreme drought) intensity in any area of the county at any time during the normal grazing period for the specific type of grazing land or pastureland for the county.
(d) To be eligible to receive a 4-month payment, that is a payment equal to four times the monthly feed cost as determined under paragraph (h) of this section, the eligible livestock producer must own or lease grazing land or pastureland that is physically located in a county that is rated by the U.S. Drought Monitor as having at least a D3 (extreme drought) intensity in any area of the county for at least 4 weeks (not necessarily consecutive weeks) during the normal grazing period for the specific type of grazing land or pastureland for the county, or is rated as having a D4 (exceptional drought) intensity in any area of the county at any time during the normal grazing period for the specific type of grazing land or pastureland for the county.
(e) To be eligible to receive a 5-month payment, that is a payment equal to five times the monthly feed cost as determined under paragraph (h) of this section, the eligible livestock producer must own or lease grazing land or pastureland that is physically located in a county that is rated by the U.S. Drought Monitor as having at least a D4 (exceptional drought) in any area of the county for at least 4 weeks (not necessarily consecutive weeks) during the normal grazing period for the specific type of grazing land or pastureland for the county.
(f) The monthly payment rate for LFP for grazing losses due to a qualifying drought, except as specified in paragraph (h) of this section, will be equal to 60 percent of the lesser of:
(1) The monthly feed cost for all covered livestock owned or leased by the eligible livestock producer, as determined in paragraph (i) of this section, or
(2) The monthly feed cost calculated by using the normal carrying capacity of the eligible grazing land of the eligible livestock producer, as determined in paragraph (l) of this section.
(g) An eligible livestock producer cannot receive more than a 5-month payment for the same covered livestock during the calendar year regardless of the number of drought intensity ratings the county receives; that is, the maximum payment an eligible livestock producer may receive under LFP in a calendar year cannot exceed 60 percent of 5 times the same covered livestock's monthly feed cost.
(h) In the case of an eligible livestock producer that sold or otherwise disposed of covered livestock due to a qualifying drought in 1 or both of the 2 production years immediately preceding the current production year, the payment rate is 80 percent of the monthly payment rate calculated in paragraph (f) of this section.
(i) The monthly feed cost for covered livestock equals the product obtained by multiplying:
(1) 30 days;
(2) A payment quantity equal to the amount of the “feed grain equivalent”, as determined under paragraph (j) of this section; and
(3) A payment rate equal to the corn price per pound, as determined in paragraph (k) of this section.
(j) The feed grain equivalent equals, in the case of:
(1) An adult beef cow, 15.7 pounds of corn per day or
(2) In the case of any other type or weight of covered livestock, an amount determined by the Secretary that represents the average number of pounds of corn per day necessary to feed that specific type of livestock.
(k) The corn price per pound equals the quotient calculated as follows:
(i) The national average corn price per bushel for the 12-month period immediately preceding March 1 of the calendar year for which LFP payment is calculated, or
(ii) The national average corn price per bushel for the 24-month period immediately preceding March 1 of the calendar year for which LFP payment is calculated,
(l) The monthly feed cost using the normal carrying capacity of the eligible grazing land equals the product obtained by multiplying:
(3) A payment rate equal to the corn price per pound, as determined in paragraph (k) of this section; and
(4) The number of animal units the eligible livestock producer's grazing land or pastureland can sustain during the normal grazing period in the county for the specific type of grazing land or pastureland, in the absence of a drought or fire, determined by dividing the:
(ii) The normal carrying capacity of the specific type of eligible grazing land or pastureland as determined under this subpart.
(m) An eligible livestock producer will be eligible to receive payments for grazing losses due to a fire as specified in §1416.205(c):
(1) For the period:
(i) Beginning on the date on which the Federal Agency prohibits the eligible livestock producer from using the managed rangeland for grazing, and
(ii) Ending on the earlier of the last day of the Federal lease of the eligible livestock producer or the day that would make the period a 180 day period.
(2) For grazing losses that occur on not more than 180 days per calendar year.
(3) For 50 percent of the monthly feed cost, as determined under paragraph (i) of this section, pro-rated to a daily rate, for the total number of livestock covered by the Federal lease of the eligible livestock producer.
(a) This subpart establishes the terms and conditions of the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP).
(b) Eligible livestock owners and contract growers will be compensated in accordance with §1416.306 for eligible livestock deaths in excess of normal mortality, or livestock owners will be compensated for sales of injured livestock for a reduced price, if either the death or injury that results in sale at a reduced price occurred as a direct result of an eligible cause of loss. The eligible cause of loss is one, as determined by FSA, that directly results in the death of livestock or injury and sale of livestock at a reduced price, despite the livestock owner's or contract grower's performance of expected and normal preventative or corrective measures and acceptable animal husbandry practices.
The following definitions apply to this subpart. The definitions in parts 718 of this title and 1400 of this chapter also apply, except where they conflict with the definitions in this section.
Acceptable animal husbandry means animals raised and cared for to produce offspring, meat, fiber, milk, eggs, or other products. Includes day-to-day care and selective breeding and raising of livestock. The practices are those that are generally recognized by the commercial livestock industry.
Actual livestock beginning inventory means the actual livestock beginning inventory per calendar year for unweaned livestock that is calculated from the verifiable or reliable records of death, birthing, docking, inventory, and sales.
Adjusted livestock beginning inventory means the LBIH for unweaned livestock that will be adjusted during the base period for years for which continuous actual LBIH records are not provided.
Adult beef bull means a male beef breed bovine animal that was at least 2 years old and used for breeding purposes.
Adult beef cow means a female beef breed bovine animal that had delivered one or more offspring. A first-time bred beef heifer is also considered an adult beef cow if it was pregnant at the time it died or was sold at a reduced price.
Adult beefalo bull means a male hybrid of beef and bison that was at least 2 years old and used for breeding purposes.
Adult beefalo cow means a female hybrid of beef and bison that had delivered one or more offspring before dying or being injured and sold at a reduced price. A first-time bred beefalo heifer is also considered an adult beefalo cow if it is pregnant at the time it died or was sold at a reduced price.
Adult buffalo or bison bull means a male animal of those breeds that was at least 2 years old and used for breeding purposes.
Adult buffalo or bison cow means a female animal of those breeds that had delivered one or more offspring before it died or was injured and sold at a reduced price. A first-time bred buffalo or bison heifer is also considered an adult buffalo or bison cow if it was pregnant at the time it died or was sold at a reduced price.
Adult dairy bull means a male dairy breed bovine animal at least 2 years old used primarily for breeding dairy cows.
Adult dairy cow means a female bovine dairy breed animal used for the purpose of providing milk for human consumption that had delivered one or more offspring. A first-time bred dairy heifer is also considered an adult dairy cow if it was pregnant at the time it died or was injured and sold at a reduced price.
Application means the “Livestock Indemnity Program” form.
Approved livestock beginning inventory means the approved livestock beginning inventory for unweaned livestock, calculated by the sum of the yearly actual and transitional LBIH divided by the number of years of LBIH.
Base period means the five consecutive calendar years immediately preceding the calendar year of the LIP application for which the approved livestock beginning inventory is being established for the unweaned livestock
Continuous livestock beginning inventory reports means livestock beginning inventory reports submitted by a producer for each calendar year that the producer was involved in the unweaned livestock
Cow, Ewe, Nanny LBIH means, the applicable calendar year cow, ewe, or nanny verifiable livestock beginning inventory records provided to FSA by the unweaned livestock operation to be used in calculating the transitional LBIH.
Eligible adverse weather event means extreme and abnormal damaging weather in the calendar year for which benefits are being requested that is not expected to occur during the loss period for which it occurred, which directly results in eligible livestock death losses in excess of normal mortality or injury and sale of livestock at a reduced price. Eligible adverse weather events include, but are not limited to, as determined by the Deputy Administrator or designee, earthquake; hail; lightning; tornado; tropical storm; typhoon; vog if directly related to a volcanic eruption; winter storm if the winter storm meets the definition provided in this section; hurricanes; floods; blizzards; wildfires; extreme heat; extreme cold; and straight-line wind. Drought is not an eligible adverse weather event except when associated with anthrax, a condition that occurs because of drought and results in the death of eligible livestock.
Eligible attack means an attack by animals reintroduced into the wild by the Federal government or protected by Federal law, including wolves and avian predators, that directly results in the death of eligible livestock in excess of normal mortality or injury and sale of eligible livestock at reduced price. Eligible livestock owners or contract growers are responsible for showing to FSA's satisfaction that eligible attacks are substantiated according to §1416.305 in order to be considered eligible for payment.
Eligible disease means a disease that, as determined by the Deputy Administrator, is exacerbated by an eligible adverse weather event that directly results in the death of eligible livestock in excess of normal mortality, including, but not limited to anthrax, cyanobacteria, and larkspur poisoning, or a disease that is caused or transmitted by a vector and cannot be controlled by vaccination or acceptable management practices. Eligible diseases are not an eligible cause of loss for benefits based on injury and sales of eligible livestock at reduced price.
Eligible loss condition means any of the following that occur in the calendar year for which benefits are requested: Eligible adverse weather event, eligible attack, and eligible disease. Eligible disease is not an eligible loss condition for injured livestock.
Equine animal means a domesticated horse, mule, or donkey.
Goat means a domesticated, ruminant mammal of the genus Capra, including Angora goats. Goats are further defined by sex (bucks and nannies) and age (kids).
Livestock beginning inventory history (LBIH) means a minimum of four, up to a maximum of five, calendar years of actual and transitional beginning inventory records used to calculate the approved livestock beginning inventory history for a livestock operation.
LBIH reporting date means the LBIH reporting date for which the reports will be accepted for inclusion in the base period for the current calendar year.
Livestock inventory report means a written record showing the producer's annual inventory used to determine the LBIH for LIP purposes for the livestock operation. The report contains LBIH by livestock operation by livestock type or kind.
Livestock owner means one having legal ownership of the livestock for which benefits are being requested on the day such livestock died or were sold at a reduced sale price.
Livestock unit means all eligible livestock in the physical location county where the livestock losses occurred for the program year:
(1) In which a person or legal entity has 100 percent share interest; or
(2) Which is owned individually by more than one person or legal entity on a shared basis.
Newborn livestock means livestock that are within 10 calendar days of date of birth.
Non-adult beef cattle means a beef breed bovine animal that does not meet the definition of adult beef cow or bull. Non-adult beef cattle are further delineated by weight categories of either less than 400 pounds or 400 pounds or more at the time they died or were sold at a reduced price.
Non-adult beefalo means a hybrid of beef and bison that does not meet the definition of adult beefalo cow or bull. Non-adult beefalo are further delineated by weight categories of either less than 400 pounds or 400 pounds or more at the time they died or were sold at a reduced price.
Non-adult buffalo or bison means an animal of those breeds that does not meet the definition of adult buffalo or bison cow or bull. Non-adult buffalo or bison are further delineated by weight categories of either less than 400 pounds or 400 pounds or more at the time they died or were sold at a reduced price.
Non-adult dairy cattle means a dairy breed bovine animal, of a breed used for the purpose of providing milk for human consumption, that do not meet the definition of adult dairy cow or bull. Non-adult dairy cattle are further delineated by weight categories of either less than 400 pounds or 400 pounds or more at the time they died or were sold at a reduced price.
Normal mortality means the numerical amount, computed by a percentage, as established for the area by the FSA State Committee, of expected livestock deaths, by category, that normally occur during a calendar year for a producer.
Poultry means domesticated chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese. Poultry are further delineated by sex, age, and purpose of production as determined by FSA.
Sheep means a domesticated, ruminant mammal of the genus Ovis. Sheep are further defined by sex (rams and ewes) and age (lambs) for purposes of dividing into categories for loss calculations.
State office or county office means the respective FSA office.
Swine means a domesticated omnivorous pig, hog, or boar. Swine for purposes of dividing into categories for loss calculations are further delineated by sex and weight as determined by FSA.
Transitional LBIH for unweaned livestock means an estimated LBIH, generally determined by multiplying the livestock operation's beginning cow, ewe, or nanny LBIH by the national established birthing rate percentage established by FSA for the species of unweaned livestock. The Deputy Administrator has the authority to make adjustments for variations in stocking levels for livestock during the period covered by the history as necessary. It is to be used in the transitional LBIH calculation process when less than 4 consecutive calendar years of actual LBIH is available.
Unweaned livestock means an animal not weaned from mother's milk or milk replacement to other nourishment. For LIP purposes, unweaned livestock does not include turkeys, ducks, chickens, and geese.
Winter storm means, for an eligible adverse weather event, an event that so severe as to directly cause injury to livestock and lasts in duration for at least 3 consecutive days and includes a combination of high winds, freezing rain or sleet, heavy snowfall, and extremely cold temperatures. For a determination of winter storm, the wind, precipitation, and extremely cold temperatures must occur with the 3-day period, with wind and extremely cold temperatures occurring in each of the 3 days.
Editorial Note: At 85 FR 10966, Feb. 26, 2020, §1416.302 was amended in the definition “eligible adverse weather” however, the amendment to remove the last three sentences could not be incorporated due to inaccurate amendatory instruction.
(a) In addition, to other eligibility rules that may apply, to be eligible as a:
(1) Livestock owner for benefits with respect to the death of an animal or sale of an injured animal at a reduced price under this subpart, the applicant must have had legal ownership of the eligible livestock on the day the livestock died or was injured and sold at a reduced price and under conditions in which no contract grower could have been eligible for benefits with respect to the animal. Eligible types of animal categories for which losses can be calculated for an owner are specified in §1416.304(a).
(2) Contract grower for benefits with respect to the death of an animal, the animal must be in one of the categories specified on §1416.304(b), and the contract grower must have had,
(i) A written agreement with the owner of eligible livestock setting the specific terms, conditions, and obligations of the parties involved regarding the production of livestock;
(ii) Control of the eligible livestock on the day the livestock died; and
(iii) A risk of loss in the animal.
(b) A livestock owner or contract grower seeking payment must be an eligible producer as defined in subpart A of this part and other applicable USDA regulations.
(c) All of an eligible livestock owner's or contract grower's interest in livestock in a physical location county must be taken into account and summarized by livestock unit when determining the extent of payment eligibility.
(d) Livestock owners are eligible for benefits for injured animals sold at reduced price only when those animals are not in a contract grower's inventory for which a contract grower seeks benefits for death losses. Contract growers are not eligible for benefits for injured animals sold at a reduced price.
(a) To be considered eligible livestock for livestock owners, the kind of livestock must be alpacas, adult or non-adult dairy cattle, beef cattle, beefalo, bison, buffalo, elk, emus, equine, llamas, sheep, goats, swine, poultry, deer, ostriches, or reindeer and meet all the conditions in paragraph (c) of this section.
(b) To be considered eligible livestock for contract growers, the kind of livestock must be poultry or swine and meet all the conditions in paragraph (c) of this section.
(c) To be considered eligible livestock for the purpose of generating payments under this subpart, livestock must have:
(1) Died as a direct result of an eligible loss condition:
(i) With the eligible loss condition occurring in the program year for which benefits are sought;
(ii) No later than 30 calendar days for livestock, or 7 calendar days for newborn livestock, from the ending date of the eligible loss condition; or
(2) Been injured and sold at a reduced price as a direct result of an eligible adverse weather event or eligible attack no later than 30 calendar days for livestock, or 7 calendar days for newborn livestock, from the ending date of the eligible adverse weather event or eligible attack.
(3) Been produced or maintained for commercial use for livestock for the production of livestock products such as milk or eggs as part of a farming operation on the day they died or until the event that resulted in their sale at a reduced price; and
(4) Not be produced or maintained for reasons other than commercial use for livestock sale or for the production of livestock products such as milk or eggs. Livestock excluded from being eligible include, but are not limited to, wild free roaming animals and animals produced or maintained for consumption by the owner or contract grower, livestock used for recreational purposes, livestock used for pleasure, hunting, roping, pets, or for show.
(d) The following categories of animals owned by a livestock owner are eligible livestock and calculations of eligibility for payments will be calculated separately for each producer with respect to each category:
(1) Adult beef bulls;
(2) Adult beef cows;
(3) Adult beefalo bulls;
(4) Adult beefalo cows;
(5) Adult buffalo or bison bulls;
(6) Adult buffalo or bison cows;
(7) Adult dairy bulls;
(8) Adult dairy cows;
(9) Alpacas;
(10) Chickens, broilers, pullets (regular size);
(11) Chickens, chicks;
(12) Chickens, layers;
(13) Chickens, pullets or Cornish hens (small size);
(14) Chickens, roasters;
(15) Chickens, super roasters or parts
(16) Deer;
(17) Ducks;
(18) Ducks, ducklings;
(19) Elk;
(20) Emus;
(21) Equine;
(22) Geese, goose;
(23) Geese, gosling;
(24) Goats, bucks;
(25) Goats, nannies;
(26) Goats, kids;
(27) Llamas;
(28) Non-adult beef cattle;
(29) Non-adult beefalo;
(30) Non-adult buffalo or bison;
(31) Non-adult dairy cattle;
(32) Reindeer;
(33) Sheep, ewes;
(34) Sheep, lambs;
(35) Sheep, rams;
(36) Swine, suckling pigs, nursery pigs under 50 pounds;
(37) Swine, lightweight barrows, gilts 50 to 150 pounds;
(38) Swine, sows, boars, barrows, gilts 151 to 450 pounds;
(39) Swine, boars, sows, 450 pounds or more;
(40) Turkeys, poults;
(41) Turkeys, toms, fryers, and roasters; and
(42) Ostriches.
(e) The following categories of animals are eligible livestock for contract growers and calculations of eligibility for payments will be calculated separately for each producer with respect to each category:
(1) Chickens, broilers, pullets (regular size);
(2) Chickens, chicks;
(3) Chickens, layers;
(4) Chickens, pullets or Cornish hens (small size);
(5) Chickens, roasters;
(6) Chickens, super roasters or parts;
(7) Ducks;
(8) Ducks, ducklings;
(9) Geese, goose;
(10) Swine, boars, sows;
(11) Swine, suckling nursery pigs;
(14) Swine, boars and sows 450 pounds or more;
(15) Turkeys, poults; and
(16) Turkeys, toms, fryers, and roasters.
(f) Ineligible livestock for the purpose of generating payments under this subpart include those livestock that died due to disease that is not an eligible disease; eligible livestock suffering injury due to disease or eligible disease which are sold for reduced price; and any eligible livestock that died or were injured by anything other than an eligible loss condition.
Editorial Note: At 85 FR 10966, Feb. 26, 2020, §1416.304 (c)(3) was amended; however the words “sale of” could not be removed because they do not exist in text.
(a) A notice of loss must be accompanied by documentation acceptable to FSA substantiating that the claimed eligible loss condition occurred and was responsible for eligible losses. For any notice of loss being submitted for disease exacerbated by eligible adverse weather, the notice of loss must be accompanied by a certification referenced in paragraph (g) of this section.
(b) A livestock owner or contract grower that suffered livestock losses must:
(1) Provide a notice of loss, by livestock unit, to FSA by the later of 30 calendar days of when the loss of livestock is first apparent to the livestock owner or contract grower or December 3, 2018.
(2) Submit the notice of loss required in this section to the FSA county office responsible for servicing the physical location county where the loss occurred.
(c) In addition to the notice of loss required in paragraph (b) of this section, a participant must also submit a completed application for payment, by livestock unit for losses apparent in 2019 and subsequent years, by no later than 60 calendar days after the end of the calendar year in which the eligible loss condition occurred.
(d) A participant must provide other supporting documents required for determining eligibility as an applicant at the time the participant submits the completed application for payment. Supporting documents must include:
(1) Evidence of loss,
(2) Current physical location of livestock in inventory,
(3) Physical location of claimed livestock at the time of death or injury,
(4) Documentation acceptable to FSA showing inventory numbers for the livestock unit and other inventory information necessary to establish actual mortality as required by FSA,
(5) A farm operating plan, if a current farm operating plan is not already on file in the FSA county office,
(6) Documentation of the adverse weather event from an official weather reporting data source that is determined by FSA to be reputable and available in the public domain such as, but not limited to, NOAA, from which State and County FSA Offices can validate the adverse weather event occurred,
(7) Documentation to substantiate eligible attacks obtained from a source such as, but not limited to, the following:
(i) APHIS,
(ii) State level Department of Natural Resources, or
(iii) Other sources or documentation, such as third parties, as determined by the Deputy Administrator, and
(8) If livestock are injured and sold at a reduced price.
(i) Documentation of injured livestock's gross price, and
(ii) Documentation to substantiate injury of livestock due to an eligible adverse weather event or eligible attack.
(9) The livestock producer may supplement additional documentation to support the eligible loss condition, as determined by the Deputy Administrator.
(10) In addition, contract growers must provide a copy of the grower contract.
(e) For death losses or losses resulting from injured livestock sold at a reduced price, the participant must provide adequate proof that the death or injury of the eligible livestock occurred as a direct result of an eligible loss condition, as opposed to any other possible or potential cause of loss. The quantity and kind of livestock that died as a direct result of the eligible loss condition may be documented by: Purchase records; veterinarian records; bank or other loan papers; rendering-plant truck receipts; Federal Emergency Management Agency records; National Guard records; written contracts; production records; Internal Revenue Service records; property tax records; private insurance documents; and other similar verifiable documents as determined by FSA. The quantity and kind of livestock that died or has been injured and sold at a reduced price as a direct result of an eligible attack must be substantiated by documentation of confirmed kills observed by an acceptable source as specified in paragraphs (d)(7) and (g) of this section.
(f) For losses resulting from an eligible adverse weather event or eligible disease, if adequate verifiable proof of death or injury documentation is not available, the participant may provide reliable records as proof of death or injury. Reliable records may include contemporaneous producer records, dairy herd improvement records, brand inspection records, vaccination records, dated pictures, and other similar reliable documents as determined by FSA.
(g) For livestock death losses due to disease, a licensed veterinarian's certification of livestock deaths may be accepted as proof of death, if reliable beginning inventory data is available, only if the veterinarian provides a written statement containing all of the following:
(1) Veterinarian's personal observation of the animals and knowledge of how the deaths of the livestock were because of disease caused or exacerbated by an eligible adverse weather event;
(2) Livestock deaths were not otherwise avoidable and preventable using good animal husbandry and management protocols and practices by the livestock producer; and
(3) Other information required by FSA to determine the certification acceptable.
(4) Information furnished by the participant and the veterinarian will be used to determine eligibility for program benefits. Furnishing the information is voluntary; however, without all required information program benefits will not be approved or provided
(h) Certification of livestock deaths or injuries by third parties may be accepted if both of the following conditions are met:
(1) The livestock owner or livestock contract grower, as applicable, certifies in writing:
(i) That there is no other documentation of death available;
(ii) The number of livestock, by category identified in this subpart and by FSA were in inventory at the time the eligible adverse weather event occurred;
(iii) The physical location of the livestock, by category, in inventory when the deaths occurred; and
(iv) Other details required for FSA to determine the certification acceptable; and
(2) The third party is an independent source who is not affiliated with the farming operation such as a hired hand and is not a “family member,” defined as a person whom a member in the farming operation or their spouse is related as lineal ancestor, lineal descendant, sibling, spouse, and provides their telephone number, address, and a written statement containing specific details about:
(i) Their knowledge of the livestock deaths;
(ii) Their affiliation with the livestock owner;
(iii) The accuracy of the deaths claimed by the livestock owner or contract grower including, but not limited to, the number and kind or type of the participant's livestock that died because of the eligible adverse weather event; and
(iv) Other information required by FSA to determine the certification acceptable.
(v) Data furnished by the participant and the third party will be used to determine eligibility for program benefits. Furnishing the data is voluntary; however, without all required data program benefits will not be approved or provided.
(i) Calf and lamb open range livestock operations may provide proof of death by using the livestock beginning inventory history for reporting losses.
(1) For 2017 and subsequent calendar years, livestock inventory reports by livestock unit must be provided to the local county FSA office by the later of December 3, 2018 or 60 calendar days after the end of the calendar year of the eligible adverse weather event. The STC may approve a waiver of the reporting deadline if a participant has not previously received benefits under this method.
(i) Livestock inventory reports must provide an accurate account of livestock beginning inventory for the livestock type or kind and must be supported by written records such as but not limited to: Docking records, sales receipts, shearing records, shipping records, bank records, veterinarian records, IRS records, or other records approved by COC. For purposes of determining beginning livestock inventory, livestock inventory reports may require adjustment by COC, not to exceed normal mortality, for when loss occurs at different points during the growing season (for example, inventories from docking may need little to no adjustment, but sales records at the end of the growing season may require an adjustment to account for a full years of normal mortality).
(ii) The unweaned livestock operation must certify to the accuracy of the information.
(2) The unweaned livestock operation is solely responsible for the timely submission and certification of accurate, complete livestock beginning inventory to the county FSA office. Livestock beginning inventory records must be provided for all livestock type or kind.
(i) Records may be requested by the applicable COC or STC, on behalf of FSA. The unweaned livestock operation must provide such records upon request.
(ii) The COC will explain the procedure for the LBIH to unweaned livestock operation. COC will determine the LBIH in accordance with §1416.305(g).
(iii) COC will determine if the livestock beginning inventory records are acceptable and calculate the approved livestock beginning inventory history.
(3) The LBIH is calculated utilizing a minimum of 4 years of data and will be updated each subsequent inventory year. The transitional LBIH may contain a maximum of the 4 most recent calendar years and may include actual and transitional livestock beginning inventories. Transitional LBIH will only be used when less than 4 years of actual records are available. Appropriate adjustments to LBIH may be made to account for variations in ewe, cow and nanny stocking levels during the period covered by the history.
(4) The unweaned livestock operation is required to provide beginning livestock inventory records to determine the LBIH, if livestock beginning inventory records are available.
(i) If no acceptable livestock beginning inventory records are available for calves, lambs, or kids, calculate the 4 transitional livestock beginning inventory histories by multiplying the approved birthing rate or drop rate percentage for the unweaned livestock operation times the applicable cow, ewe, or nanny LBIH times 65 percent.
(ii) If acceptable livestock beginning inventory records are provided for only one of the most recent 5 calendar years, calculate the 3 transitional livestock beginning inventory histories by multiplying the approved birthing rate or drop rate percentage for the unweaned livestock operation times the applicable cow, ewe, or nanny LBIH times 80 percent.
(iii) If acceptable livestock beginning inventory records are provided for only 2 of the most recent 5 calendar years, calculate the 2 transitional livestock beginning inventory histories by multiplying the approved birthing rate or drop rate percentage for the unweaned livestock operation times the applicable cow, ewe, or nanny LBIH times 90 percent.
(iv) If acceptable livestock beginning inventory records are provided for only 3 of the most recent 5 calendar years, calculate the one transitional livestock beginning inventory histories by multiplying the approved birthing rate or drop rate percentage for the unweaned livestock operation times the applicable cow, ewe, or nanny LBIH times 100 percent.
(v) If acceptable livestock beginning inventory history records containing information for 4 or more of the most recent calendar years are provided, calculate the livestock beginning inventory history by taking a simple average of the actual livestock beginning inventory histories.
(j) When an eligible owner claims eligible livestock were injured by an eligible loss condition and were sold for a reduced price, the owner must provide verifiable evidence of the gross sale price of the livestock. The injured livestock must be sold through an independent third party (sale barn, slaughter facility, or rendering facility). Only verifiable proof of sale with price is acceptable. The gross sale price of the livestock is the amount received for the injured livestock before any reductions, such as sale yard fees. The owner must provide verifiable evidence of livestock sold at a reduced price. Documents that may satisfy this requirement include but are not limited to, any or a combination of the following: Sales receipt from a livestock auction, sale barn, or other similar livestock sales facility; bona-fide commercial sales receipts; private insurance documents; and processing plant receipts.
Editorial Note: At 85 FR 10967, Feb. 26, 2020, §1416.305 was amended, however the material could not be incorporated for (i) introductory text and (i)(1) introductory text because the text did not publish in the Federal Register
(a) Under this subpart, separate payment rates for eligible livestock owners and eligible livestock contract growers are specified in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this section, respectively. Payments for death losses are calculated by multiplying the national payment rate for each livestock category by the number of eligible livestock in excess of normal mortality in each category that died as a result of an eligible loss condition. Normal mortality for each livestock category will be determined by FSA on a State-by-State basis using local data sources including, but not limited to, State livestock organizations and the Cooperative Extension Service for the State. Adjustments will be applied as specified in paragraph (d) of this section.
(b) The LIP national payment rate for eligible livestock owners is based on 75 percent of the average fair market value of the applicable livestock as computed using nationwide prices for the previous calendar year unless some other price is approved by the Deputy Administrator.
(c) The LIP national payment rate for eligible livestock contract growers is based on 75 percent of the average income loss sustained by the contract grower with respect to the dead livestock. The rate that applies is based on the type, class, and weight of the animal at the time of the eligible loss condition and death.
(d) The LIP payment calculated for eligible livestock contract growers will be reduced by the amount the participant received from the party who contracted with the producer to raise the livestock for the loss of income from the dead livestock.
(e) Payments to livestock owners for losses due to sale of livestock at a reduced price because of injury from an eligible loss condition are calculated by multiplying the national payment rate for each livestock category by the number of eligible livestock sold at a reduced price as a result of an eligible loss condition, minus the gross amount the eligible livestock owner received for the livestock up to the applicable national payment rate. In the event livestock sells for a reduced price that is in excess of the national payment rate, the national payment rate will be subtracted resulting in no payment for that livestock.
(a) This subpart establishes the terms and conditions under which the Tree Assistance Program (TAP) will be administered under Title I of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Pub. L. 113-79, the 2014 Farm Bill), as amended.
(b) Eligible orchardists and nursery tree growers will be compensated as specified in §1416.406 for eligible tree, bush, and vine losses in excess of 15 percent mortality, or, where applicable, damage in excess of 15 percent, adjusted for normal mortality and normal damage, that occurred in the calendar year (or loss period in the case of plant disease) for which benefits are being requested and as a direct result of a natural disaster.
(c) Eligible pecan tree losses incurred in the 2017 and 2018 calendar years not meeting the mortality loss threshold of paragraph (b) of this section with a tree mortality loss in excess of 7.5 percent (adjusted for normal mortality) will be compensated for eligible losses as specified in §1416.406. For 2017 calendar year losses, up to a maximum of $15,000,000 is available.
[79 FR 21097, Apr. 14, 2014, as amended at 83 FR 49471, Oct. 2, 2018; 84 FR 48537, Sept. 13, 2019; 85 FR 10968, Feb. 26, 2020]
The program will be administered as specified in §1416.2 and in this subpart.
Bush means, a low, branching, woody plant, from which at maturity of the bush, an annual fruit or vegetable crop is produced for commercial purposes, such as a blueberry bush. The definition does not cover plants that produce a bush after the normal crop is harvested such as asparagus.
Commercial use means used in the operation of a business activity engaged in as a means of livelihood for profit by the eligible producer.
Commercially viable means an eligible tree, bush, or vine, though damaged, that can rejuvenate and return to an acceptable level of commercial production at some time with rehabilitation and without replanting. A commercially viable tree, bush, or vine, regardless of the extent of damage or years of reduced production, is always excluded and never included as part of mortality under §1416.403.
County office means the FSA or U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Service Center that is responsible for servicing the farm on which the trees, bushes, or vines are located.
Cutting means a piece of a vine which was planted in the ground to propagate a new vine for the commercial production of fruit, such as grapes, kiwi fruit, passion fruit, or similar fruit.
Eligible nursery tree grower means a person or legal entity that produces nursery, ornamental, fruit, nut, or Christmas trees for commercial sale.
Eligible orchardist means a person or legal entity that produces annual crops from trees, bushes, or vines for commercial purposes.
Lost means, with respect to the extent of damage to a tree or other plant, that the plant is destroyed or the damage is such that it would, as determined by FSA, be more cost effective to replace the tree or other plant than to leave it in its deteriorated, low-producing state.
Natural disaster means plant disease, insect infestation, drought, fire, freeze, flood, earthquake, lightning, or other natural occurrence. Each of these types of disasters must be extreme, abnormal, and damaging as well as of significant magnitude or severity, as determined by the Deputy Administrator.
Normal damage means the percentage, as established for the area by the FSA State Committee, of trees, bushes, or vines in the stand that would normally be damaged during a calendar year for a producer.
Normal mortality means percentage, as established for the area by the FSA State Committee, of expected lost trees, bushes, or vines in the stand that normally occurs during a calendar year for a producer. This term refers to the number of whole trees, bushes, or vines that are destroyed or damaged beyond rehabilitation. Mortality does not include partial damage such as lost tree limbs.
Seedling means an immature tree, bush, or vine that was planted in the ground or other growing medium to grow a new tree, bush, or vine for commercial purposes.
Stand means a contiguous acreage of the same type of trees (including Christmas trees, ornamental trees, nursery trees, and potted trees), bushes (including shrubs), or vines.
Tree means a tall, woody plant having comparatively great height, and a single trunk from which an annual crop is produced for commercial purposes, such as a maple tree for syrup, papaya tree, or orchard tree. Trees used for pulp or timber are not considered eligible trees under this subpart.
Vine means a perennial plant grown under normal conditions from which an annual fruit crop is produced for commercial market for human consumption, such as grape, kiwi, or passion fruit, and that has a flexible stem supported by climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface. Perennials that are normally propagated as annuals such as tomato plants, biennials such as the plants that produce strawberries, and annuals such as pumpkins, squash, cucumbers, watermelon, and other melons, are excluded from the term vine in this subpart.
(a) To qualify for any assistance under this subpart, except for assistance under §1416.400(c), the eligible orchardist or nursery tree grower must first have suffered more than a 15 percent tree, bush, or vine mortality loss on a stand (adjusted for normal mortality) as a result of natural disaster as determined by the Deputy Administrator. For assistance for losses to pecan trees under §1416.400(c), the eligible orchardist or nursery tree grower must first have suffered a mortality loss of more than 7.5 percent (adjusted for normal mortality) on a stand as a result of natural disaster as determined by the Deputy Administrator.
(b) The qualifying loss of a stand of trees, bushes, or vines specified in paragraph (a) of this section will be determined based on:
(1) Each eligible disaster event, except for losses due to plant disease;
(2) For plant disease, the time period, as determined by the Deputy Administrator, for which the stand is infected.
(c) Mortality or damage loss not eligible for inclusion as a qualifying loss under this section or for payment under §1416.406 includes those losses where:
(1) The loss or damage could have been prevented through reasonable and available measures; and
(2) The trees, bushes, or vines, in the absence of a natural disaster, would normally have required rehabilitation or replanting within the 12-month period following the loss.
(d) The damage or loss must be visible and obvious to the county committee representative. If the damage is no longer visible, the county committee may accept other evidence of the loss as it determines is reasonable.
(e) The county committee may require information from a qualified expert, as determined by the county committee, to determine extent of loss in the case of plant disease or insect infestation.
(f) The Deputy Administrator will determine the types of trees, bushes, and vines that are eligible.
(g) A stand that did not suffer a qualifying mortality loss as specified in paragraph (a) of this section is not eligible for payment.The qualifying mortality loss will be determined based on the eligible trees, bushes, or vines that reached mortality, which means that the tree, bush, or vine died, above and below ground, as a result of an eligible natural disaster event. If an eligible tree, bush, or vine is damaged to such an extent that it is not commercially viable, now or at any time in the future, the tree, bush, or vine can be considered dead in determining if the requisite qualifying mortality loss threshold in paragraph (a) of this section is reached.
(a) Once the requisite qualifying eligible mortality loss is determined according to §1416.403, to be eligible for TAP payments, the eligible orchardist or nursery tree grower must:
(1) Have planted, or be considered to have planted (by purchase prior to the loss of existing stock planted for commercial purposes) trees, bushes, or vines for commercial purposes, or have a production history, for commercial purposes, of planted or existing trees, bushes, or vines;
(2) Have suffered eligible losses of eligible trees, bushes, or vines, as a result of a natural disaster or related condition;
(3) Have continuously owned the stand from the time of the disaster until the time that the TAP application is submitted.
(b) A new owner of an orchard or nursery who does not meet the requirements of paragraph (a) of this section may receive TAP payments approved for the previous owner of the orchard or nursery and not paid to the previous owner, if the previous owner of the orchard or nursery agrees to the succession in writing and if the new owner:
(1) Acquires ownership of trees, bushes, or vines for which benefits have been approved;
(2) Agrees to complete all approved practices that the original owner has not completed; and
(3) Otherwise meets and assumes full responsibility for all provisions of this part, including refund of payments made to the previous owner, if applicable.
(c) A producer seeking payment must not be ineligible under the restrictions applicable to citizenship and foreign corporations contained in §1416.3(b) and must meet all other requirements of subpart A of this part.
(d) Federal, State, and local governments and agencies and political subdivisions thereof are not eligible for payment under this subpart.
(a) To apply for TAP, a producer that suffered eligible tree, bush, or vine losses must provide an application for payment and supportingdocumentation to FSA or within 90 calendar days of the disaster event or date when the loss of trees, bushes, or vines is apparent to the producer.
(b) The producer must submit the application for payment within the time specified in paragraph (a) of this section to the FSA administrative county office that maintains the producer's farm records for the agricultural operation.
(c) A complete application includes all of the following:
(1) A completed application form provided by FSA;
(2) An acreage report for the farming operation as specified in part 718, subpart B, of this title;
(3) Subject to verification and a loss amount determined appropriate by the county committee, a written estimate of the number of trees, bushes, or vines lost or damaged that is certified by the producer or a qualified expert, including the number of acres on which the loss occurred;
(4) Sufficient evidence of the loss to allow the county committee to calculate whether an eligible loss occurred; and
(5) A farm operating plan, if a current farm operating plan is not already on file in the FSA county office.
(d) Before requests for payment will be approved, the county committee:
(1) Must make an eligibility determination based on a complete application for assistance;
(2) Must verify actual qualifying losses and the number of acres involved by on-site visual inspection of the land and the trees, bushes, or vines;
(3) May request additional information and may consider all relevant information in making its determination; and
(4) Must verify actual costs to complete the practices, as documented by the producer.
(a) Once the loss threshold in §1416.403(a) is satisfied, payment to an eligible orchardist or nursery tree grower for the cost of replanting or rehabilitating trees, bushes, or vines damaged or lost due to a natural disaster, in excess of 15 percent damage or mortality (adjusted for normal damage or mortality), will be calculated as follows:
(1) For the cost of planting seedlings or cuttings, to replace lost trees, bushes, or vines, the lesser of:
(i) 65 percent of the actual cost of the practice for eligible producers, or 75 percent of the actual cost of the practice for an eligible producer who is a beginning or veteran farmer or rancher, or
(ii) The amount calculated using rates established by the Deputy Administrator for the practice.
(2) For the cost of pruning, removal, and other costs incurred for salvaging damaged trees, bushes, or vines, or in the case of mortality, to prepare the land to replant trees, bushes, or vines, the lesser of:
(b) An orchardist or nursery tree grower that did not plant the trees, bushes, or vines, but has a production history for commercial purposes on planted or existing trees and lost the trees, bushes, or vines as a result of a natural disaster, in excess of 15 percent mortality (adjusted for normal mortality), will be eligible for the salvage, pruning, and land preparation payment calculation as specified in paragraph (a)(2) of this section. To be eligible for the replanting payment calculation as specified in paragraph (a)(1) of this section, the orchardist or nursery grower who did not plant the stock must be a new owner who meets all of the requirements of §1416.404(b) or be considered the owner of the trees under provisions appearing elsewhere in this subpart.
(c) Eligible costs for payment calculation include costs for:
(1) Seedlings or cuttings, for tree, bush, or vine replanting;
(2) Site preparation and debris handling within normal horticultural practices for the type of stand being re-established, and necessary to ensure successful plant survival;
(3) Pruning, removal, and other costs incurred to salvage damaged trees, bushes, or vines, or, in the case of tree mortality, to prepare the land to replant trees, bushes, or vines;
(4) Chemicals and nutrients necessary for successful establishment;
(5) Labor to plant seedlings or cuttings as determined reasonable by the county committee; and
(6) Labor used to transplant existing seedlings established through natural regeneration into a productive tree stand.
(d) The following costs are not eligible:
(1) Costs for fencing, irrigation, irrigation equipment, protection of seedlings from wildlife, general improvements, re-establishing structures, and windscreens.
(2) Any other costs not listed in paragraphs (c)(1) through (6) of this section, unless specifically determined eligible by the Deputy Administrator.
(3) Costs or expenses that the eligible orchardist or nursery tree grower did not actually bear or incur because someone or some other entity bore or incurred those costs or expenses, or the costs were reimbursed under another program. For example, if under any other program the expenses are paid for on behalf of the eligible orchardist or nursery tree grower, those expenses are not eligible for cost share under this subpart.
(e) Producers must provide the county committee documentation of actual costs to complete the practices, such as receipts for labor costs, equipment rental, and purchases of seedlings or cuttings.
(f) When lost stands are replanted, the types planted may be different from those originally planted. The alternative types will be eligible for payment if the new types have the same general end use, as determined and approved by the county committee. Payments for alternative types will be based on the lesser of rates established to plant the types actually lost or the cost to establish the alternative used. If the type of plantings, seedlings, or cuttings differs significantly from the types lost, the costs may not be approved for payment.
(g) When lost stands are replanted, the types planted may be planted on the same farm in a different location than the lost stand. To be eligible for payment, site preparation costs for the new location must not exceed the cost to re-establish the original stand in the original location.
(h) Eligible orchardists or nursery tree growers may elect not to replant the entire stand. If so, the county committee will calculate payment based on the number of qualifying trees, bushes, or vines actually replanted.
(i) If a practice, such as site preparation, is needed to both replant and rehabilitate trees, bushes, or vines, the producer must document the expenses attributable to replanting versus rehabilitation. The county committee will determine whether the documentation of expenses detailing the amounts attributable to replanting versus rehabilitation is acceptable. In the event that the county committee determines the documentation does not include acceptable detail of cost allocation, the county committee will pro-rate payment based on physical inspection of the loss, damage, replanting, and rehabilitation.
(j) The cumulative total quantity of acres planted to trees, bushes, or vines for which a producer may receive payment under this part for losses that cannot exceed 1,000 acres per program year.
(a) Eligible orchardists and nursery tree growers must execute all required documents and complete the TAP-funded practice within 12 months of application approval.
(b) Eligible orchardist or nursery tree growers must allow representatives of FSA to visit the site for the purposes of certifying compliance with TAP requirements.
(c) Producers who do not meet all applicable requirements and obligations will not be eligible for payment.
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Why Supreme Court justices serve such long terms
The most recent retirees have served almost three decades
Explaining the world, daily
by S.M. | LOS ANGELES
WITH Justice Anthony Kennedy’s 30 years on the bench ending this month a few days after his 82nd birthday and a partisan fight brewing in the Senate over his successor, public attention has again focused on a quirk of America’s judiciary: the staggeringly long careers of Supreme Court justices. Article III is by far the slimmest of the constitution’s articles laying out the branches of government, but the term of office it specifies for federal judges is virtually unbounded. Judges of both “the supreme and inferior courts”, section 1 reads, “shall hold their offices during good behaviour”. In practice, that means for life, or until the judge decides to hang up his robe.
One path off the court—impeachment—has not amounted to much. In 1804, at the suggestion of President Thomas Jefferson, the House of Representatives served Justice Samuel Chase with articles of impeachment for letting partisanship seep into his decisions. But after the Senate acquitted Chase in 1805, he carried on as justice until his death six years later. Another 14 federal judges have been impeached since 1789; eight have been removed from office. But no Supreme Court justice has ever been ousted for bad behaviour. With Americans living more than twice as long as they did 150 years ago, a life term means that justices typically count their stints in decades. In 2006 two law professors, Steven Calabresi and James Lindgren, noted that justices serving before 1970 served an average of 14.9 years, while those serving after 1970 have served 26.1 years. The five most recent justices to leave the court have served an average of 27.5 years, and that includes an outlier, David Souter, who retired after a modest 18-year tenure in 2009, aged 69.
Why did the framers entrust judges with lifetime appointments, when every other democracy in the world imposes term limits, a mandatory retirement age or both? The so-called “least dangerous branch” would need some shoring up, the founders believed. In order to exercise judgment free from shifting political winds, judges would need a strong measure of autonomy from the legislative and executive departments. For Alexander Hamilton, life tenure was just the ticket: “the best expedient which can be devised in any government” to preserve judicial independence. Without elections to stand for or worries about losing their seats, Hamilton reasoned, justices would be able to hover above the political fray and dispense justice impartially.
With the prospect of Donald Trump choosing a jurist for Justice Kennedy’s seat to entrench a 50-year-and-counting conservative majority, Hamilton’s lofty hopes for life tenure sound quixotic. Decisions like Bush v Gore (in which five Republican-appointed justices effectively gave a Republican the keys to the White House in 2000) or Janus v AFSCME (a case from last month that dealt a blow to public-sector unions) are hard to spin as dispassionate judges faithfully interpreting the law without regard to their political predilections. Justices’ tendency to retire when an ideologically friendly president is in office—as Anthony Kennedy seems to have done—only makes the court look more like a politicised institution ripe for manipulation. To allay the gaming of retirements, and to bring fresh blood to the bench a little less infrequently, Fix the Court (a non-partisan Supreme Court watchdog) has attracted scholarly support for a plan to limit justices’ active service to 18 years, after which they would be eligible to sit on lower federal courts. The proposal calls for biennial appointments, or two picks per presidential term. Something along these lines might address a prescient 18th-century complaint from Brutus, an anti-Federalist writer. The constitution provides for “no power above” judges, Brutus wrote. Justices are “independent of the people, of the legislature and of every power under heaven”. It’s no wonder, then, that justices who shape America for decades on end come to “feel themselves independent of heaven itself”.
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Approved Plans & Strategies
River Valley Alliance Projects
Beaumaris Lake Open Space Rehabilitation
Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre Rehabilitation
Bryan Anderson Athletic Grounds
Buena Vista / Laurier Park Plan
Butler Memorial Park Redevelopment
Chappelle East Park School Site
Confederation District Park Renewal
Coronation Community Recreation Centre
Dawson Park Master Plan
Fort Edmonton Park Enhancement
Gallagher Park Concept Plan
Glengarry District Park Renewal
Hawrelak Park Rehabilitation
Heritage Valley District Park
Keswick East and West Park
Kinistinaw Park Project
Kinsmen Sports Centre Rehabilitation
Lewis Farms Facility and Park
Muttart Conservatory Rehabilitation Project
Muttart Conservatory Replacement Storage Building
Oleskiw River Valley Park Master Plan
Ortona Armoury Building Rehabilitation Project
Queen Elizabeth Planetarium Restoration
Queen Elizabeth School Park Master Plan
River Valley Stairs Rehabilitation
Terwillegar Heights Artificial Turf Facility
Touch the Water Promenade
Victoria Golf Course Rehabilitation
Queen Elizabeth Park Master Plan Implementation
Project Update - April 2019
Nine lookout areas along Saskatchewan Drive will be updated with new benches and concrete pads. Construction is anticipated to start this spring and will be completed by the fall.
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Local Art Park, Picnic and Play Areas
Existing amenities in the lower park will be enhanced. Improvements include replacement of the existing playground with a nature-based play space, new picnic tables and stoves, and new parking areas. This area will also provide a backdrop for a future Local Art Park.
Pedestrian Overpass
The proposed overpass will connect the upper and lower parks. Pedestrians will be able to take advantage of new vantage points from the overpass to experience the Edmonton skyline.
Design to be completed in summer 2015, construction will take place from August 2015 to November 2015.
Toboggan Hill
A large mound is proposed in the lower park for tobogganing. The pedestrian overpass will connect to the top of the mound. A fire pit at the bottom of the hill will provide a warm viewing area.
All-season Washroom and Gathering Space
A large, flat, grassed area at the foot of the toboggan hill will be uniquely located to support a variety of small events and public gatherings. This area will be supported by a new year-round amenity building with washrooms, a drinking fountain, seating, a warm-up area and a fire pit.
Integrated Bike Skills Park
This park is proposed to consist of a bike skills area and single track trails. The design of the bike skills park will be done in collaboration with a skills park designer, the biking community and the City. Partnerships will be explored to ensure the park is well-maintained and to foster environmental stewardship through engagement with the mountain biking community.
Upper Park Trail Improvements
Widening of two existing trails: the trail that runs north of the stairs at 105th Street and the trail that connects to Fort Hill Road. A new trail is planned to join these two trails, just north of the O’Keefe Site.
Lookouts and Park Entries
Saskatchewan Drive winds its way along the top of bank and offers some impressive panoramas of Edmonton’s skyline. Improvements will be made to lookouts above Queen Elizabeth Park near 106th Street, and between 104th and 105th Streets. Improvements will be made to entrances to Queen Elizabeth Park from Saskatchewan Drive to allow for better viewing and clearly marked entrances.
Shade Shelter, Parking Lot and Picnic Area
The existing granular parking lot will be paved for easier access. A new parking lot exit will allow for safer entry back on to Queen Elizabeth Park Road. A raised crosswalk and textured hard surface at the parking lot turnaround will help to create pedestrian-friendly zones in the parking area.
A staging area includes a small shade shelter and picnic area and a commemorative wall will trace the outline of the old pool. Panels will interpret the recreational history of the park and the old Queen Elizabeth Outdoor Pool.
Accessible Trail
A new accessible asphalt walking trail is under construction at 106th Street on Saskatchewan Drive down to Queen Elizabeth Park Road. The lower trail is complete, and the upper portion below the Lawrence Decore lookout is expected to be complete by the end of July 2016.
The Queen Elizabeth Park Master Plan was approved by City Council in 2013. It will guide the phased development of the park.
Improvements in the upper park include the ᐄᓃᐤ (ÎNÎW) River Lot 11∞ Indigenous Art Park, upgraded or new lookouts along Saskatchewan Drive, a new shade shelter and picnic tables and development of a new accessible trail into the park from Saskatchewan Drive.
Proposed improvements in the lower park will include an integrated bike skills park, toboggan hill, improved picnic and play areas and a new washroom building. A new pedestrian overpass is planned to connect the upper and lower parks.
1. Accessible Trail
Operate: Summer 2017
Construction: Summer 2015 - Summer 2017
2. to 5. Upper Park improvements include:
ᐄᓃᐤ (ÎNÎW) River Lot 11∞(Indigenous art park), Shade Shelter, Parking Lot and Picnic Area, Lookouts and Park Entries, and Upper Park Trail Improvements
Operate: Fall 2018
Construction: 2017-2018
Design: 2015-2016
Strategy/Concept: Spring 2012 - Summer 2013
Future development (dependent on funding):
6. Integrated bike skills park
7. All-season washroom and gathering space
8. Toboggan hill
9. Pedestrian overpass
10. Local art park, picnic and play areas
Funding was approved by City Council to begin implementing the master plan in 2014.
The first phase of this work included the construction of an accessible, asphalt walking trail from the lookout at 106 Street and Saskatchewan Drive to Queen Elizabeth Park Road. The new trail was completed and opened to the public in July 2017.
The second phase of construction will include improved amenities throughout the upper park. The Indigenous Art Park named ᐄᓃᐤ (ÎNÎW) River Lot 11∞, was developed in collaboration with the Edmonton Arts Council. More detailed information on the art park can be found on the Edmonton Arts Council website.
Future improvements in the lower park, presently funded, include a bike skills park, steps down to the river, an all-season washroom building, new trail connections, upgraded picnic and play areas, interpretive elements, a toboggan hill, an overpass over Queen Elizabeth Park Road and additional space for a permanent and transitory public art.
A new accessible asphalt walking trail has been constructed from the lookout at 106 Street on Saskatchewan Drive down to Queen Elizabeth Park Road. Trail construction was completed in July 2017.
2. Indigenous Art Park
The Indigenous Art Park was developed in collaboration with the Edmonton Arts Council. The Art Park Curator, Candice Hopkins, provided guidance and direction for the overall park design. Representatives from the City of Edmonton, Edmonton Arts Council, Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations, Metis Nation of Alberta, Elders and Aboriginal artists and community members form the steering committee, which provides direction on community engagement and helped choose a name for the park - ᐄᓃᐤ (ÎNÎW) River Lot 11∞.
ᐄᓃᐤ (ÎNÎW) is a Cree word meaning “I am of the Earth”. The art park is situated on ancestral lands of the Indigenous peoples whose descendants entered into Treaty with the British Crown which resulted in the territory opening for settlement. River Lot 11 acknowledges the historic river lot originally home to Métis landowner, Joseph McDonald. The park is located within Queen Elizabeth Park in Edmonton’s North Saskatchewan River Valley.
The art park has granular pathways with unmown grasses and wildflowers where possible to create a natural environment. An asphalt trail will provide a wheelchair accessible route.
The artists have been selected and the locations of their art pieces are shown in light green geometric shapes.
The Indigenous Art Park construction was completed in August 2018.
Additional information on the site and the art park can be found on the City's Indigenous Art Park webpage.
3. Shade Shelter, Parking Lot and Picnic Area
The old granular parking lot is paved for easier access. A new parking lot exit will allow for safer entry back onto Queen Elizabeth Park Road. A raised crosswalk and textured hard surface at the parking lot turnaround will help to create pedestrian-friendly zones in the parking area.
The Shade Shelter, Parking Lot and Picnic Area construction was completed in August 2018.
4. Lookouts and Park Entries
5. Upper Park Trail Improvements
Queen Elizabeth Park Phase II Concept Plan
Queen Elizabeth Park Master Plan
The Queen Elizabeth Park Master Plan has been prepared to guide the phased development of the park over the next 10 years.
Urban Parks Management Plan
Guides the acquisition, development, maintenance, preservation and use of parkland.
Ribbon of Green Concept
Establishing goals for the development and management of our Ribbon of Green.
Open Space Planning and Design
openspaceplanninganddesign@edmonton.ca
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All issues Volume 23 (2012) EPJ Web of Conferences, 23 (2012) 00014 Abstract
Eurasia-Pacific Summer School & Conference on Correlated Electrons
Pairing symmetries of several iron-based superconductor families and some similarities with cuprates and heavy-fermions
Tanmoy Das
Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544, USA
We show that, by using the unit-cell transformation between 1 Fe per unit cell to 2 Fe per unit cell, one can qualitatively understand the pairing symmetry of several families of iron-based superconductors. In iron-pnictides and iron-chalcogenides, the nodeless s±-pairing and the resulting magnetic resonance mode transform nicely between the two unit cells, while retaining all physical properties unchanged. However, when the electron-pocket disappears from the Fermi surface with complete doping in KFe2As2, we find that the unit-cell invariant requirement prohibits the occurrence of s±-pairing symmetry (caused by inter-hole-pocket nesting). However, the intra-pocket nesting is compatible here, which leads to a nodal d-wave pairing. The corresponding Fermi surface topology and the pairing symmetry are similar to Ce-based heavy-fermion superconductors. Furthermore, when the Fermi surface hosts only electron-pockets in KyFe2-xSe2, the inter-electron-pocket nesting induces a nodeless and isotropic d-wave pairing. This situation is analogous to the electron-doped cuprates, where the strong antiferromagnetic order creates similar disconnected electron-pocket Fermi surface, and hence nodeless d-wave pairing appears. The unit-cell transformation in KyFe2-xSe2 exhibits that the d-wave pairing breaks the translational symmetry of the 2 Fe unit cell, and thus cannot be realized unless a vacancy ordering forms to compensate for it. These results are consistent with the coexistence picture of a competing order and nodeless d-wave superconductivity in both cuprates and KyFe1.6Se2.
Pairing symmetry in the iron-pnictide superconductor KFe2As2
EPL, 99 (2012) 57006
The electron pairing of KxFe2−ySe2
A minimum single-band model for low-energy excitations in superconducting AxFe2−ySe2
Eur. Phys. J. B (2012) 85: 224
Topological phase transition from nodal to nodeless d-wave superconductivity in electron-doped cuprate superconductors
EPL, 117 (2017) 67007
g-wave pairing in BiS2 superconductors
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Gaps in National Insurance records
December 15, 2020 by Ejaz Ul Haq
As you may be aware, National Insurance Contributions (NICs) determine an individual’s entitlement to the State Pension. You may be worried after finding out some gaps in National Insurance records HMRC have for you.
I you need any help in accounting and taxes, please feel free to contact ERAA Consulting Limited.
The amount of State Pension received on retirement, if any, is dependent on the number of ‘qualifying years’ that you have built up over your lifetime.
A qualifying year refers to a tax year during which you have sufficient employment or otherwise qualify for certain ‘NIC credits’.
At present, ten qualifying years are required to guarantee the minimum State Pension, and thirty five years to secure the maximum entitlement.
These years of contributions do not need to be consecutive and it is possible to fill any gaps in a record.
Did you understand the essential basic points above?
If you understood that well, then you’ll know that:
You need to own your NI data and check it once a year.
You don’t want to be reaching the state pension age with gaps in your NI records and not receiving the expected state pension.
Check if all the Full Payment Submissions have been reflected in the PAYE pages your personal tax account.
Can you see all the periodic payments as per your payroll records?.
Is the amount of total NIC the same as you’ve seen in your P60 for the relevant tax year?
If any of the above highlights errors or missing information, then you need to contact HMRC. You need to ensure the records are corrected on time & if anything is missing double check with your accountant or payroll provider (if any).
Reasons for gaps in your National Insurance records
You may get gaps in your record if you do not pay National Insurance or do not get National Insurance credits. This could be because you were:
employed but had low earnings
unemployed and were not claiming benefits
self-employed but did not pay contributions because of small profits
Gaps can mean you will not have enough years of National Insurance contributions to get the full State Pension (sometimes called ‘qualifying years’).
You may be able to pay voluntary contributions to fill any gaps if you’re eligible.
What to do if you found the gaps in your National Insurance records
First, DON’T PANIC.
If a gap in contributions is discovered, the choice of whether to make good the shortfall is entirely up to the individual concerned.
However, if the individual wishes to obtain full entitlement to benefits such as the state pension, contributions should be topped up in a good time.
Voluntary National Insurance contributions can be paid to plug gaps in your contributions record.
Plugging the gaps in National Insurance records
Voluntary contributions can usually only cover the past six years, with the deadline for payments occurring on April 5 each year.
This means that if a person sees that they have gaps in their record for the tax year 2014 to 2015, they’ll have until April 5 2021 to plug the gap.
In some instances, people may be able to pay voluntary contributions for periods earlier than this if they were born in certain years.
Men born after April 5, 1951 or women born after April 5, 1953 will have until April 5, 2023 to pay voluntary contributions to make up for gaps between April 2006 and April 2016.
Conclusion and actions points for you
Check your National Insurance record to find out:
if you have any gaps
if you’re eligible to pay voluntary contributions
how much it will cost
You may also be eligible for National Insurance credits if you claim benefits because you cannot work, are unemployed or caring for someone full time.
Contact HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) if you think your National Insurance record is wrong.
The above is for general information.
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PHCN privatisation ongoing says Minister
29 July 2008 – The privatisation of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria will continue, says minister of state for energy, Fatima Ibrahim.
Speaking at the inauguration of the company’s transitional board, she said the new board would not halt the privatisation, but would address the deteriorating condition of PHCN’s 18 successor companies. They would ensure that the companies were viable enough for private investors through revamping and restructuring them.
The new board, which has a three-year tenure, have been tasked to institutionalise probity, accountability, performance targets and customer care.
"The Federal Government expects the board to leverage on the financial provisions contained in the 2008 appropriation and other emerging initiative to arrest the rapid deterioration of the power infrastructure and facilitate the attainment an average generation capacity of 6000mw by 2009 and 10,000mw by 2011," she said.
When asked on arrangements for the declaration of the state of emergency in the power sector, the minister reassured reporters that “everything has been put in place” but that the exact timing was as yet unknown.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Virginia Divorce Procedures
By Jason Weis | November 9, 2011
What is the legal divorce process like?
Some divorces are simple and can be handled with a minimal amount of court involvement. Other divorces, however, are more complicated and take many different courses. The following is a basic outline of the divorce process.
One spouse contacts a lawyer, who prepares a complaint setting forth the grounds of divorce.
The complaint is filed with the court and served on the other spouse, together with a summons that requires the spouse to file a formal response.
The spouse receiving the complaint must respond within the time limit prescribed.
The parties, through their attorneys, may engage in “discovery,” which is a process where the attorneys exchange written questions and requests for documents in an effort to gather the information necessary to address the issues raised in the divorce. In addition to Interrogatories, Requests for Production of Documents, and Requests for Admissions, discovery may also include the taking a depositions and/or issuance of subpoenas.
At any time, the parties may attempt to reach a settlement. That effort may be initiated voluntarily or facilitated by the parties’ lawyers or a neutral third party, such as a mediator.
If a settlement is reached, a written agreement can be executed and submitted to the court.
If the judge approves the agreement, he or she will issue a divorce decree that includes the terms of the parties’ agreement. If the judge does not approve the agreement or if no agreement can be reached, the case will go to trial.
At trial, the attorneys will present evidence and arguments. The judge will hear the evidence and argument, rule on the matters presented and issue an order.
What are the grounds for divorce in Virginia?
Virginia recognizes a number of grounds for divorce. There are “no fault” grounds and “fault grounds.”
There are two “no fault”grounds for divorce: (i) a six-month separation and signed property settlement agreement where the parties have no minor children; or (ii) a twelve months separation where the parties have minor children.
There are three primary “fault” grounds for divorce: (i) adultery; (ii) cruelty; and (iii) desertion/abandonment.
Do You handle both No Fault and Fault-Based Divorce?
How long do I have to live in Virginia before I can file a divorce action?
To file for divorce either you or your spouse must be a resident and domiciliary of the Commonwealth of Virginia for at least six (6) months immediately preceding the filing of the Complaint.
Why is the date of separation important?
The date of separation is important for a number of reasons. First, in “no fault” divorces, you must separate for the requisite time
period to qualify for a divorce. Second, often money and possessions acquired after the date of separation by one spouse may be considered that spouse’s separate property.
How is the date of separation determined?
The date of separation is determined by the date either party separates from the other with the intent and for the purpose of obtaining a divorce. Often, that date coincides with the date one spouse vacates the marital home. However, the parties may participate in an in-house separation, provided they make certain efforts to live separate and apart within that home.
How do I find out about my spouse’s assets?
Sometimes, it is difficult for a spouse to identify all of the assets that may be subject to valuation and division. A lawyer can seek out this information using the “discovery” process. Your lawyer has a number of tools in that process. For example, your lawyer can file Interrogatories, which are formal written questions that your spouse must answer in writing under oath. Your lawyer can also file Requests for Production of Documents (seeking the production of necessary documents) and Requests for Admissions (seeking admissions as to certain facts of your case). Additionally, your lawyer can file subpoenas to require third-parties to produce documents or appear to be question during a deposition. Your lawyer can also depose your spouse.
What terms should be included in a separation agreement?
Property Settlement Agreements should address and resolve all of the rights and obligations arising from your marriage to one another. Naturally, the terms of such agreements will vary, but the following items are typically addressed:
Custody of the children;
Visitation with the children;
Child support;
Alimony or spousal support;
Property and debt division;
Insurance (medical, dental and life); and
Naturally, many other items are often addressed. Because property settlement agreements are important contracts between the parties, it is highly recommended that you consult with an attorney prior to executing such an agreement.
If you’ve got questions about the information above, please feel free to drop me a line. Jason A. Weis, Esquire – Curran Moher Weis P.C. – jweis@curranmoher.com – 10300 Eaton Place, Suite 520, Fairfax, VA 22030 – 571-328-5020.
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Obeya as a Continuous Improvement Tool
By Patrícia Oliveira
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A committed computer scientist that believes in true collaboration to achieve goals. An admirer of the Chanel brand.
1 - Obeya as a Continuous Improvement Tool
Obeya is a Japanese word for "large room" that refers to a dedicated space where team members meet to collaborate and solve problems.
This collaboration tool had its origin at Toyota in the ’90s. The managers of the Toyota Prius project met in a room to solve problems. This way they could accelerate the communication and decision-making process, reduce organizational barriers and increase transparency.
This large room had the walls covered with metrics in the form of visually and attractive graphs and tables and was considered a great success at Toyota. It was quickly disseminated in conferences, adopted and implemented in other companies becoming a powerful tool to improve team spirit, encourage collaboration and to keep people together, focused on problem-solving and decision making.
Obeya is already being used at FARFETCH, namely in Product Master Data & Product Availability and Inventory teams.
Teams Collaboration
Effective team collaboration in a work environment is an important characteristic of long-term success.
In large teams, it is common to have several people trying to solve the same problem, each in their own way, without knowing that there are other people trying to do exactly the same thing.
Synergy within team dynamics is absolutely essential. According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of synergy is when "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”.
Every team member brings a different background, skills and ideas. With synergy, the goals are common, and thinking is aligned; there is harmony and determination in the processes as well as a strong conviction to overcome the existing challenges. Therefore, in synergy, people are moving in the same direction, working together in an effective and innovative way to produce the best results. Things happen more naturally.
Successful team collaboration is an ongoing process. It's not a set of tactics or strategies to put in place and forget about. It's an intentional, dynamic process that needs to be evolved over time. It is necessary to create a safe atmosphere of communication and collaboration, encouraging participation and helping people to get out of their comfort zone and try new things.
Team members engagement is one of the biggest factors towards creating a fruitful environment.
How can we build this engagement and collaboration?
Nowadays, we are taking advantage of Obeya.
Setting Up Obeya
Obeya gets people out of their comfort zone to meet, discuss key information and solve problems. We can do it in person in a large room or virtually through video conference meetings and using some tools like Miro, Mevisio, IObeya or even a simple well-organized powerpoint presentation, as we do in the PMD and PAI teams. The important thing is to create a safe space where people can plan, discuss and work together.
Obeya normally includes three basic elements:
issue space for problem-solving and decision-making;
visual space containing goals, targets and metrics;
action space with the next steps.
At FARFETCH, in the first version of Obeya implemented in Product Master Data (PMD) & Product Availability and Inventory (PAI) teams, 4 major areas were included:
The list of concerns we wanted to solve is designed Top of Mind.
In a brainstorming session with teams, each person identified their concerns, in the following areas:
People and Team
Initiatives and dependencies
Incidents and quality assurance
The areas were just to help people think.
The list of identified concerns was available for voting in order to identify Top of Mind (the top 6 problems we want to solve).
The Top of Mind survey is performed periodically (by semester/quarter).
After identifying the Top of Mind concerns, for each problem, we meet again. In this brainstorm session, we identified experiments to help us in continuous improvement in order to better lead with the identified problems.
Based on a context where we are today, experiments allow us to define actions that we believe will help us achieve goals (hypothesis).
The purpose of the experiments is to analyze where we are today (context) and to define where we want to be in the future (hypothesis).
In the course of the experiment, we can decide to abort if we are not happy with the result. When the period defined for the experiment ends, we can decide to extend it with new actions and new goals. The purpose of experiments is to overcome the previous result, improving or mitigating our day-to-day problems and learning throughout its execution, even when the experiment fails.
One experiment executed by a virtual team composed of people in the PMD & PAI teams was "Decrease infrastructure costs”. This experiment was aligned with FARFETCH profitability OKRs. We started with a total cost of 50,000€ in March and 4 months later, in July we had a total cost of 39,000€. In 4 months we reduced 22% of our costs with infrastructure (the numbers provided are fake, please consider only for demonstrative purposes). This virtual team did an excellent job in analyzing each of our services and managed (without affecting service performance nor functionality) to decrease the number of instances, the memory used, the CPU used, among other improvements.
Obeya was itself an experiment executed in PMD & PAI teams and now it is an implemented process.
"If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.”
A major difficulty we faced was the lack of metrics and facts to support the Top of Mind concerns.
There are some distinct metrics that we can explore with teams:
Service Level Indicators, such as error rate, throughput and messaging queues lag;
Product metrics, such as number of the products created/edited;
Incidents metrics, such as the number of P0, P1, P2 and P3;
Team Metrics, such as throughput and lead time;
Infrastructure costs, such as the cost of maintaining the integrated test environment servers;
Those metrics allow us to look at our day-to-day work, identify improvements and follow the evolution.
We usually use metrics to define Experiments success criterium.
The metrics shared on Obeya must have a clear purpose: What is the problem to solve? We shouldn't have a lot of data that doesn't help us at all.
This space is used to share our achievements and celebrate them together.
Normally we might think we’ve got nothing big enough to bother celebrating. We are almost certainly wrong and ignoring this important gesture is potentially very dangerous for our team’s motivation.
The idea of making progress towards a goal, generally shapes how we feel about our jobs, and how enthusiastic we feel about coming into work each day.
"Teams that celebrate together, stay together.”
Obeya ceremonies are held periodically (weekly, monthly or quarterly).
Before the official ceremony, a preparation session is held by leads and managers. In this meeting, the contents of the board are organized and it is discussed what should be presented at the official ceremony.
Obeya gives everyone the chance to have an effective voice in decision making. At the end of each session, people are challenged to participate by sharing new ideas creating a real moment to listen to other perspectives. This simple act generates a powerful sense of belonging and engagement while increasing the number of innovation experiments.
Positive and effective collaboration shouldn't just be a simple goal, it should be a critical part of our organisational culture and vision.
The main difference between Obeya and traditional dashboard is the communication that Obeya generates - it’s a great excuse for everybody to talk about what's going on and to shape new ways of doing things, together.
Obeya raises awareness of team concerns and acts as a call to action for people who benefit from the necessary knowledge and power.
There's certainly no one-size-fits-all approach to effective collaboration and you should try to find the approach that best suits your team. Whatever that is, the key is to promote open communication, create a collaborative environment and generate action. Then you can watch your teams thrive and grow. This is our approach to collaborative continuous improvement, what is yours?
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How To Land A Job In 90 Seconds
Ashley StahlContributor
Gallery: How To Follow Up On A Job Interview
While the average interview lasts roughly 40 minutes, 33% of hiring managers admit they know within 90 seconds if you’re the person they want to hire.
To put that into perspective, it takes the average person 90 seconds to write a response to a text message.
So in the same amount of time that it takes you to respond to a text about happy hour plans, your job interviewer has decided whether or not you're getting the job.
Of course, it's possible that your responses during the next 30 minutes of the interview could sway the interviewer's decision. But instead of having to make up for the bad impression you managed to leave right off the bat, let's take a look at the factors that interviewers judge you on during that time frame.
Knowledge is power… am I right?
Out of the hiring managers who make their pick within the first 90 seconds of meeting a candidate, here's what impacted their decisions:
1. Clothing
That fresh interview outfit might actually be hurting you. A staggering 70% of hiring managers said they gave candidates the mental axe for being too trendy.
Of course, you don't want to show up looking sloppy, but overdoing your apparel can come off as trying too hard. In fact, it can actually make you seem insecure — as if you need that fresh off the runway outfit to compensate for something.
…Your best bet?
Research the company culture before the interview, and take a look what their employees are wearing (social media makes this a breeze). Show up to your interview looking like you already work there. The more you can do to show your interviewer that you'd be a great fit for the company, the better.
2. Eye contact
There's a lot to be said about the body language of someone who doesn't make eye contact while speaking to you — and none of it is good. Anxiety, low self-esteem and insecurity are all linked to lack of eye contact.
Not surprisingly, 67% of the hiring managers surveyed counted out candidates that had issues making and keeping eye contact.
Find a friend who will help you do a practice interview and can point out instances when you break eye contact — whether it's while you're thinking up an answer or telling a story about a recent win. Breaking a habit takes time, so if you're someone who often avoids eye contact, make it your business to work on fixing it before your big interview.
3. Company knowledge
One thing you should absolutely do during your interview is bring up any positive recent news that you've read about the company.
Why? 47% of hiring managers count it against candidates if they don't show that they did some kind of company research.
It is so important to be well informed about company that you're interviewing with. Have some key pieces of knowledge down before you walk through the door. Not only does it show that you've done your homework, but also that you have a genuine interest in the work that the company is doing.
38% of hiring managers counted people out of the running that didn't smile or show any confidence. Which is interesting, since studies show that smiling can actually help raise your level of confidence.
If you're feeling less confident during your interview, crack a smile. Many people confuse being professional and confident with being cool and aloof, but that's not the case. The last thing interviewers want is a candidate that seems unapproachable and unsure. So flash those pearly whites when you introduce yourself to your interviewer, and don't be afraid to do so throughout the interview.
Don't let the non-verbal cues you're giving off keep you from getting the job that you want. Walk into your next interview feeling confident, knowing that you studied up on the company, ready to make eye contact and dressed professionally.
Want to land the job in 90 seconds? It's all in the details.
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Ashley Stahl
I'm a career coach, keynote speaker, podcast host (You Turn Podcast) and author, here to help you step into a career you're excited about and aligned with. This may look
I'm a career coach, keynote speaker, podcast host (You Turn Podcast) and author, here to help you step into a career you're excited about and aligned with. This may look like coaching you 1:1, hosting you in one of my courses, or meeting you at one of workshops or keynote speaking engagements! I also own CAKE Publishing, a house of ghostwriters, copywriters, publicists and SEO whizzes that help companies and influencers expand their voice online. Before being an entrepreneur, I was an award-winning counterterrorism professional who helped the Pentagon in Washington, DC with preparing civilians to prepare for the frontlines of the war on terror.
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Life Lessons in Borneo
GP contributor Will McGough goes fishing in Borneo and reels in a dose of humility.
By Will McGough
ROAD N✍TES
Editor’s Note: GP contributor Will McGough ventures into the thick jungles of Malaysia for a lesson in fishing, but reels in an unexpected lesson in humility as well. His essay below.
Deep in the jungle of Malaysian Borneo outside of Batang Ai National Park, about two hours from civilization, our guide uncoiled a weighted fishing net — which he had made by hand — and tossed it into the river. He put on a pair of old-school, glass-lens diver’s goggles and waded in, then dove down to retrieve the fish he had trapped and snapped their necks before tossing them to the shore. I collected the dead fish and put them into a bag. I was a complete bystander at this point, fully dependent on this man for my food. I decided that was all about to change.
It had been a long time coming. From the onset of the trip, my hand had been held. Our guides, Belansai and Udan, had led us an hour downstream in a boat, then carried all the food the hour hike to our camp, which they hand-built using a machete and trees from the rainforest. They guided us on hikes through the thick jungle to waterfalls, successfully tracked wild orangutans, fished, picked jungle herbs for seasoning, cooked, and showed us how to track boar and watch for pythons. Basically, up to this point, the only thing my friends and I had done was hand out nicknames. We called Belansai “the bamboozler” for his affinity for cooking in bamboo tubes over the fire. Udan earned the title of “Tuak” for his love of the Malaysian rice wine that goes by the same name.
In 30 seconds and one breath, I had broken the goggles — which Belansai used on a daily basis to provide for his family — and lost three fish.
On one hand, some pampering is expected on a guided trip. But as a self-proclaimed outdoorsman from Colorado, I wanted to be a part of it all, not perceived as some dipshit, worthless American. I saw the fishing as a reasonable opportunity to pitch in, so after Belansai had caught enough for dinner, I asked him via our translator if I could give it a go. He nodded and handed over his goggles. I stripped down to my underwear and, once in the water, put on the goggles. I went under, but water immediately poured into the mask.
WHEN IN BORNEO
I traveled on a customized trip with Planet Borneo Tours, which also offers a variety of other adventures and travel packages.
Bako National Park Day Trip: Just outside of Kuching sits Bako National Park, home of crab-eating long tailed macaques, silver leaf monkeys, potbellied proboscis monkeys, flying lemurs, and bearded pigs. For those without a lot of time, this is a great introduction to the wildlife of Sarawak, as the 16-square-mile park is home to seven distinct ecosystems, including beach vegetation, cliff vegetation, mangrove, peat swamp forests, mixed dipterocarp forests, heath forests, and grasslands. Cost is $80 per person and includes all land and river transfers, park fees and lunch.
Mulu Show Caves: This three day, two night trip takes you on a guided journey through four caves in Mulu National Park, including longboat river cruise and a stopover at a Penan longhouse. The trip departs from Mulu airport and costs $122 per person, including all transfers, picnic lunch and park fees.
Customized Trips: Want to do your own thing? Planet Borneo offers single and multi-day customized trips that leave from cities within both Sarawak and Sabah.
I surfaced, and my friend, seeing what was happening, called out that I needed to better secure them. Accustomed to the plastic pairs back home, I pressed firmly with both hands on the top of the goggles, trying to force them onto my face. Crack. Before I even registered what happened I saw the look on Belansai’s face, an evolving train of emotions from confusion (Really? You can’t even put on goggles?), to disappointment (Seriously? You just broke my fucking goggles?), to anger (Dude! You just broke my fucking goggles!).
Embarrassed but still trying to salvage the effort, I sucked the air from the goggles through my nose and went under. The crack ran from top to bottom yet, miraculously, didn’t leak. I kicked my way down to the net and saw three fish trapped. My strategy was to grab them one at a time from the outside using the net to get a grip. I locked both hands on the first with plans to crack it like a stick, but in doing so, lifted the net from the bottom of the river. The other two fish quickly fled the scene. Frustrated, I went after the first again, one hand on the outside of the net, the other reaching under. When I tried to make the transfer between hands, it kicked, slipped away, and swam off. In 30 seconds and one breath, I had broken the goggles — which Belansai used on a daily basis to provide for his family — and lost three fish.
Back on the shore, Belansai took back the goggles, looked them over and turned his attention to me. “Fish?” he said. I shook my head. “No fish.” The translator, who just seemed happy I hadn’t punctured my eyes with broken glass, helped me laugh it off. Belansai stayed quiet, until he came over and handed me the bag of dead fish to carry. “Your job,” he said slowly, flashing a friendly, forgiving grin that I’ll never forget, and we set off back for camp.
For just under a minute in the jungles of Southeast Asia, I pretended that my athleticism and backpacking experience in America qualified me to be a jungle boy, someone who could provide for himself and others. Later that night we sat around the fire and watched Belansai empty the cooked fish from the bamboo tube. I smiled as my friend pointed out how glad he was that we rented a real man.
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Hunt on for dentist who killed Cecil the Lion
Zimbabwean police said they continue to search for an American dentist who allegedly shot a well-known, protected lion with a crossbow in a killing that has outraged conservationists and others.
Dr. Walter J. Palmer allegedly paid $50,000 to kill the lion named Cecil, Zimbabwean conservationists said.
Various media outlets reported that Palmer issued an apology to his patients for the killing.
It reads in part: "I had no idea that the lion I took was a known, local favorite, was collared and part of a study until the end of the hunt. I relied on the expertise of my local professional guides to ensure a legal hunt."
Two Zimbabwean men appeared in court Wednesday for allegedly helping with the hunt. Palmer faces poaching charges, according to police spokeswoman Charity Charamba.
"We arrested two people and now we are looking for Palmer in connection with the same case," said Charamba.
Emmanuel Fundira, the president of the Safari Operators Association of Zimbabwe, said at a news conference Tuesday that Palmer is from Minnesota and his current whereabouts were unknown.
Phone calls to two listed home phone numbers for Palmer rang busy on Tuesday. Phone calls to his dental office in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington also went unanswered, and a message couldn't be left because the office mailbox was full.
The front door to the office building was locked when a reporter approached Tuesday morning. A woman who came to the door said Palmer was not in the office and was not seeing patients on Tuesday.
The two arrested Zimbabwean men -- a professional hunter and a farm owner -- face poaching charges, the Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Authority and the Safari Operators Association said in a joint statement. Killing the lion was illegal because the farm owner did not have a hunting permit, the joint statement said. The lion was skinned and beheaded. The hunters tried to destroy the lion's collar, fitted with a tracking device, but failed, the statement said.
If convicted, the men face up to 15 years in prison.
The lion is believed to have been killed on July 1 in western Zimbabwe's wildlife-rich Hwange region, its carcass discovered days later by trackers, the statement said.
The Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force said in a statement that an American paid the $50,000 for the hunt. During a nighttime hunt, the men tied a dead animal to their car to lure the lion out of a national park, said Johnny Rodrigues, chairman of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force. The American is believed to have shot it with a crossbow, injuring the animal. The wounded lion was found 40 hours later, and shot dead with a gun, Rodrigues said in the statement.
"The saddest part of all is that now that Cecil is dead, the next lion in the hierarchy, Jericho will most likely kill all Cecil's cubs," said Rodrigues.
The Zimbabwean hunter accused in the case claimed that Cecil was not specifically targeted, and the group only learning after the fact that they had killed a well-known lion, according to the Safari Operators Association.
Cecil, recognizable by his black mane, was being studied by an Oxford University research program, the conservation group said.
Tourists regularly spotted his characteristic mane in the park over the last 13 years, said Lion Aid, also a conservation group.
Copyright 2015/ MYFOXNY The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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This Unusual Accessory Could Help Samsung Sell Its Galaxy Note 5
By Sam MatteraFool.com
When it comes to smartphones, the physical keyboard is -- for all practical purposes -- dead.
Apple has never offered a physical keyboard for the iPhone. Some Android vendors did for a time, but nearly all Android phone-makers have abandoned them. Samsung offered a variation of the original Galaxy S smartphone with a physical keyboard slider -- the Sprint exclusive Samsung Epic 4G -- but all subsequent flagship Galaxy models have sported a simplistic slate design.
Samsung Epic 4G. Photo: Samsung
The Korean tech giant, however, is about to bring the physical keyboard back -- could this net its newest Galaxy handsets some additional sales?
A different kind of caseSamsung released two flagship phablets on August 21: the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge+. In a few weeks, owners will be able to purchase an unusual accessory -- a case with a built-in physical keyboard.
Admittedly, Samsung's keyboard case isn't the first such device -- third parties have been offering them for some time. Unfortunately, they're often poorly designed and implemented. Most of the ones for sale on Amazon garner relatively modest three-star reviews.
Samsung's case has a few advantages over these third-party alternatives (though at $80, it is relatively expensive). Its phones can detect its presence and automatically adjust the user interface. It doesn't require power -- there's no battery to charge -- and it doesn't need to connect over Bluetooth. Instead, it simply sits on top of the screen, transferring physical button taps to the onscreen digital keyboard.
Photo: Samsung
Unfortunately, that may not be enough. Mashable's Raymond Wong spent some time with Samsung's new case and found it underwhelming.
An untapped market?Wong's impression may be unusual -- others could find Samsung's case more captivating. If they do, it could theoretically net Samsung some additional sales, as consumers who desire a physical keyboard have few alternatives.
The market demand for physical keyboards, however, appears relatively modest. After all, if there was still a healthy demand for them, it seems unlikely that Samsung, Motorola, and others would've abandoned them. The BlackBerry Classic, released earlier this year, received widespread praise for its keyboard (Engadget called it "all sorts of lovely"). Nevertheless, BlackBerry sold just 1.1 million smartphones in total last quarter -- almost a rounding error compared to the 47.5 million iPhones sold from the beginning of April to the end of June.
The original iPhone's digital keyboard was controversial when it was unveiled in 2007. Microsoft's then-CEO Steve Ballmer declared that the iPhone wouldn't "appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard." It was a fair prediction given the prevailing corporate obsession with BlackBerry devices at the time. Obviously, that wasn't the case. Today, the iPhone is the business phone of many -- 97% of the Fortune 500 companies use it in some capacity.
Samsung's case is an interesting experiment, but even if other reviewers are more kind, it doesn't seem likely to have much of an effect on sales. Other Samsung-exclusive features (such as Samsung Pay, rapid wireless charging, and the S6 Edge+'s curved screen) seem far more compelling.
The article This Unusual Accessory Could Help Samsung Sell Its Galaxy Note 5 originally appeared on Fool.com.
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4th Annual Empty Bowls Dinner Tickets on Sale
To help the more than 1,100 individuals seeking food assistance from the Franklin Food Pantry, the Pantry is partnering with the Franklin High School Empty Bowls Club in the 4th Annual Empty Bowls Dinner on May 2, from 6 – 8 PM at Franklin High School.
The dinner event, which features a simple meal of soup and bread served “soup-kitchen” style, will set the stage for community members to join in support of the Franklin Food Pantry. The open house format welcomes attendees any time between 6 – 8 PM.
The event serves as a reminder of the many “empty bowls” that exist in the lives of those who experience hunger. The awareness and fundraising event is family-friendly and caters to all ages.
4th Annual Empty Bowls Dinner on May 2
According to Amy Cataldo, the Pantry’s Interim Executive Director, “Many in our community are unaware of the level of hunger that exists in our own backyard. The number of families counting on the Pantry is the highest it’s been in four years. The need is very real. The Empty Bowls Dinner is an opportunity for our community to support our neighbors in need.”
The Pantry distributed more than 300,000 pounds of food in 2018, which was a 24 percent increase over the prior year.
Empty Bowls Club Member Megan Torey
(left) and event attendee Kate Cataldo
Cataldo said the event would not be possible without the partnership of the Franklin High School Empty Bowls Club and FHS Art Teacher Brenna Johnson. “Our students are excited to be part of such a meaningful effort,” said Johnson, adviser for the Empty Bowls Club. “We have been making ceramic bowls throughout the year and have hosted bowl-making events open to the community. The hand-painted, ceramic bowls are given to attendees to take home as a reminder that “somewhere, someone’s bowl is empty.”
The event includes a silent auction featuring more elaborate pieces that have been created and painted by members of the FHS Empty Bowls Club and community members. In addition, kids of all ages will have an opportunity to make a bowl to take home with them as part of ArtWeek.
Donations made via the Giving Wall will be used to purchase food for neighbors in need. All proceeds from the event will benefit the Franklin Food Pantry and will be used to fight hunger locally.
Tickets must be bought in advance and can be purchased online at www.franklinfoodpantry.org. Seating is limited to 400 guests so tickets will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. The cost is $20 for adults and $10 for children and students.
Empty Bowls is an international grass roots effort to fight hunger and raise funds to support local pantries. The Franklin Food Pantry and the FHS Empty Bowls Club work together to support the cause locally. For more information on the dinner, visit www.franklinfoodpantry.org or call 508-528-3115.
Posted by Steve Sherlock No comments: at 4/06/2019 07:00:00 AM
Labels: empty bowls, Franklin Food Pantry, Franklin High School, fund raising
"Franklin resident Chris Lim will complete a rare marathon feat"
In just a couple of weeks, Franklin resident Christian (Chris) Lim will complete a rare marathon feat when he finishes the London Marathon. He will have completed all 6 Abbott World Marathon Majors and receive the Six Star Medal. Only 4,989 people in the world have earned this medal so far.
His journey began in 2015 when he decided to run the Boston Marathon with charity – the Dana Farber / Jimmy Fund. After his father’s passing, Chris decided to complete the rest of the world majors.
The Abbott World Marathon Majors consist of the following 6 marathons, in order of the races throughout the year: Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York. Each world major has three groups of entrants: time qualifier, random ballot, or charity. Each race has a time qualifier that is very fast – under 3 hours 20 minutes in each case. Chris has battled a number of injuries and does not run that fast.
Chris had phenomenal luck and got into 2017 Chicago, 2018 Berlin and 2018 New York all on the random ballot drawing. He ran for Ronald McDonald House Charity in 2019 Tokyo and is running for Children with Cancer UK for 2019 London. He has raised almost $20,000 across those three charities with his running. In addition, he has set a new personal best with each marathon. For those who know about marathons, that is 4 world major marathons in just 8 months. His current best time is 3:53:16, which he set on March 3, 2019 in Tokyo.
Chris had been competing locally in triathlons but injured his shoulder. While recovering, he found he could run longer and longer distances and wanted to challenge himself. He enjoys running in the big cities and seeing the sights with the huge crowd support at each of these marathons.
He continues to cheer on his Dana Farber teammates each year since he ran Boston. He runs training runs with them and helps support for those running Boston on race day.
For more information about the Abbott World Majors see https://www.worldmarathonmajors.com/
To support Chris’ latest charity fundraising as he runs London, see https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/donation-web/fundraiser?fundraiserActivityId=1016836
Labels: fund raising, marathon
MSAA-MIAA 5th Annual Mental Health Summit - Apr 26
The MSAA-MIAA 5th Annual Mental Health Summit being held on Friday, April 26th at the Doubletree Hotel in Westborough, MA.
Congressman Joe Kennedy III will be serving as the keynote speaker. The flier is on the MIAA wellness page at http://www.miaa.net
The cost is $55.00 and all are welcome
Get your copy of the event flyer here
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0wjbnXDBhczTndqQkcwSGFxWnJHODhaSjZnajA1R2ZHNjBV/view?usp=sharing
Labels: mental health, miaa
Franklin Library: Impact of the 1918 Flu Epidemic - Apr 9
What was the impact of the 1918 flu epidemic? The talk is scheduled for Tuesday, April 9 at 6:30 PM at the Franklin Library.
"The 1918 flu pandemic killed up to 100 million people worldwide in less than a year, disproportionately taking healthy young adults. The personal impact was devastating and wide-ranging, including immigration, families split apart, and openings for women in the workforce. This talk draws on stories and newspaper articles to explore the multi-faceted ways the 1918 flu epidemic impacted families, sometimes for generations. This talk will be presented by Genealogist Lori Lyn Price."
impact of the 1918 flu epidemic
Labels: flu, library
Upcoming Events in Franklin, MA: FRI - Apr 5 to THU - Apr 11
Knitting Group
Half Day Matinee! (FoFL)
MICCA Festival - Music
Intro to Knit
Culinary Cabaret
TOM RUSH with Matt Nakoa
Saturday, April 6
Franklin Historical Museum (Always free)
Baby Sensory! (FOFL Room)
Sunday, April 7
Move Along
Toddler Playgroup
Monday Crafternoons
Dungeons & Dragons for Kids ( Teen Room)
OSKEY Rehearsal
Cool Cruisers
French Storytime! (FOFL Room)
Play S.t.e.a.m.
Doggie Tales (FOFL)
Franklin Bellingham Rail Trail Committee Public Meeting
Terrific Toddlers
Preschool Play N' Learn (Community Room)
Construction Junction
Christian Zen Weekly Meditation
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
LET'S LAUGH TODAY
Baby Tummy Time
Story & Craft
Discovery Workshop
Volunteens
Lenten Soup Supper and Book Study
Charles River Meadowlands Community Forum
For the interactive version, please visit
http://www.franklinmatters.org/p/blog-page.html
For the Town of Franklin Public Meeting Calendar
http://www.franklinma.gov/calendar
Submit an event for the Community Calendar, please use this link
https://goo.gl/forms/7Pr1iBuAiIna7cUo2
Labels: calendar, event, events, schedule
What is a Dementia Friendly Community? (video)
What is a Dementia Friendly Community?
A place where individuals living with dementia and their care partners can live as independently as possible, continue to be part of their communities by receiving support and understanding at local facilities such as banks, shops, cafes and restaurants and maintain their social networks.
For more about dementia and what the town is offering to become a dementia friendly community visit https://www.franklinma.gov/dff
Labels: dementia, Senior Center, video
FHS baseball and softball teams top King Philip
Via HockomockSports, we share the results of the FHS sports action on Thursday, Apr 4, 2019
Baseball = Franklin, 11 @ King Philip, 1 – Final
– Franklin opened its season in style with an 11-1 win on the road against King Philip. Junior Brennan Rivera earned the win on the mound, scattering five hits with no walks over six innings of work. Rivera also struck out three without allowing an earned run. Jack Nally had two hits — a double and a triple — with two RBI and three runs scored while Scott Elliott added three hits, an RBI and a run scored. Alex Haba (RBI, run), Jake Macchi (two runs), Cooper Ross (two RBI), JB Floris (RBI), and Joe Lizotte (two runs) each had two hits apiece for Franklin.
Softball = King Philip, 0 @ Franklin, 2 – Final
– Franklin edged out a pitcher’s duel against the defending league champions thanks to a dominant start from senior Jackie Cherry. She allowed no hits to the potent KP lineup and struck out 10 batters. Cherry allowed only four base-runners, three on walks and one batter reached on an error. Faith Turinese was almost as good for the Warriors, limiting the Panthers to just one earned run. Anna Balkus led-off the bottom of the first with a single, advanced to second on a sac bunt by Gabby Colace and to third on a single by Allie Shea (2-for-3 in the game). Maddy White drove in what turned out to be the game-winning run with an RBI-single. Franklin added a second run in the fifth. Colace doubled to lead off the inning and advanced to third on a groundout, before scoring on a wild pitch. Peyton Arone went 2-for-3 for Franklin and made a pair of great catches in left.
Boys Tennis = King Philip, 3 @ Franklin, 2 – Final
– King Philip’s second doubles team of Tyler Dowd and Jake Mager pulled out a 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-4 win to give the Warriors a 3-2 win over rival Franklin. The Warriors also got wins from Nick Putney (6-3, 4-6, 6-3) at second singles and Jack Cannon (6-4, 6-0) at third singles. Franklin’s Liam Marr won 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-3 at first singles and the team of Saketh Saripalli and Vayshnav Malhotra won 6-1, 6-3 at first doubles.
Girls Tennis = Franklin, 0 @ King Philip, 5 – Final
For other results around the Hockomock League
https://hockomocksports.com/thursdays-schedule-scoreboard-04-04-19/
FHS Panthers
Labels: baseball, FHS, Hockomock, Panthers, softball, tennis
Franklin Municipal Building will be closed on Wednesday, April 24 from 8 AM to 11 AM for internal training
Franklin Municipal Building will be closed on Wednesday, April 24th from 8 AM to 11 AM for internal training
Franklin Municipal Building
Labels: building, municipal, office hours
In the News: MA has first case of measles this year; Nursing homes closure threatens health care
From the Milford Daily News, articles of interest for Franklin:
MA has first case of measles this year
"John F. Enders is likely turning in his grave.
Massachusetts in April reported this year’s first case of the measles, for which Enders created a vaccination more than 50 years ago. The deadly virus is making a comeback across the United States.
“There is heightened concern,” said Dr. Lawrence Madoff, director of the Epidemiology and Immunization Division at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. “The United States is seeing hundreds of cases this year – way above normal levels.”
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in March said 387 measles cases were reported in 15 states, already exceeding the total from 2018. Massachusetts joined the list on April 1 when state officials reported the first case of 2019, and warned residents of potential exposure in multiple locations, including Braintree, Framingham, Hyannis, Plymouth and Waltham."
Continue reading the article online (subscription may be required)
https://www.milforddailynews.com/news/20190403/heightened-concern-about-measles-in-massachusetts
# of measles cases reported by year (CDC)
Nursing homes closure threatens health care
"Almost three dozen nursing homes across Massachusetts are at risk of closing this year, threatening the ability of senior citizens to access needed care, an industry group warned.
In recent months, 20 facilities have shuttered, and another 35 could do so by the end of the year if lawmakers do not act to close a $360 million annual funding gap, according to the Massachusetts Senior Care Association.
MassHealth allocated an additional $25 million last fall to stabilize nursing homes, but the MSCA called for additional investment ahead of a Joint Committee on Elder Affairs hearing scheduled for Monday.
“It is crucial that we continue this important progress and address the growing nursing facility workforce and funding crisis, which impacts all nursing facilities — not-for-profit, for profit and family owned,” MSCA President Tara Gregorio said in a statement. “However, significantly more is needed in order to prevent many regions of the state from losing core facilities.”
https://www.milforddailynews.com/news/20190404/industry-says-35-nursing-homes-at-risk-of-closure-in-massachusetts
Labels: Milford Daily News, vaccine, virus
FTC Alerts: Ads for diamond jewelry should be crystal clear
Ads for diamond jewelry should be crystal clear
by Bridget Small
Consumer Education Specialist, FTC
If friends know you're shopping for diamond jewelry, they may say, "Remember the 4Cs: color, cut, clarity and carat."
Here are three more important letters for jewelry shoppers: F-T-C. The FTC enforces laws against false advertising and created the Jewelry Guides, which show jewelry businesses how to avoid making deceptive claims.
FTC staff recently looked through diamond jewelry ads on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and other sites to find out what shoppers are seeing.
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2019/04/ads-diamond-jewelry-should-be-crystal-clear?utm_source=govdelivery
This is a free service provided by the Federal Trade Commission.
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Seniors - Sign up now for ArtWeek floral arrangement with Garden Club!
As part of the Town of Franklin’s ArtWeek activities, the Franklin Garden Club will partner with the Franklin Senior Center to sponsor a free, fun, hands-on floral arrangement workshop at the Franklin Senior Center on Friday, May 3 from 1:00 – 3:00 PM. Each participant will create an arrangement to take home.
No special skills are required and everyone will be able to do it. Franklin Garden Club members will provide simple design instructions and assistance. All containers and many different types of fresh flowers will be provided, along with refreshments. It is open to all seniors from Franklin and other communities. Advanced sign-up is required.
Participants must register by Friday, April 19. They may do so by either calling 508-520-4945 or in person at the Franklin Senior Center between 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM, Monday – Friday. The Center is located at 10 Daniel McCahill Street, Franklin.
Franklin Garden Club Co-Presidents Susan Childers and Janet Cederquist stated, “The Garden Club looks forward to offering this ArtWeek activity. Seniors can have fun while creating a beautiful fresh floral arrangement to take home and enjoy for many days.”
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Hear what you are missing? - Apr 10 - 1:00 PM
The Franklin Senior Center is starting a new program to support individuals experiencing hearing loss. We will have a kick-off event next week.
The program will be available every Wednesday from 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM in a dedicated room here at the Senior Center to provide:
Information, research, and referrals to hearing support services and agencies
Information on the latest hearing assistive technology and equipment
Information on hearing aids components and research on their effectiveness
Behavior, communication and/or coping tips-n-tools for clients and family members
Monthly support group meeting with guest speakers from a variety of hearing organizations
Please feel free to share this info with your clients/friends, and please join us at our Kick-off event: Wednesday, April 10, at 1:00 PM at the Franklin Senior Center
Print or download your copy:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NfuqmAIh2DUBMnFLzTlPpjNIBuWC_dPZ/view?usp=sharing
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Edgehill, Samuels recognized for HockomockSports Boys Basketball Awards
Jalen Samuels – Franklin – Forward
Jalen Samuels
(HockomockSports.com photo)
Franklin senior Jalen Samuels had his best season in his final year for the Panthers. Samuels was a force on both ends of the court, earning HockomockSports.com Defensive Player of the Year honors. He was second on the team with 12.5 points per game while leading the Panthers with 8.4 rebounds, 2.6 steals, and 1.7 blocks per game. He also had 3.0 assists and averaged a charge taken a game. “Jalen is the most well-rounded player I have ever coached,” said Franklin coach CJ Neely. “All throughout his time as a Franklin Panther he has filled the stat sheet in every possible way.
Chris Edgehill – Franklin – Guard
Chris Edgehill
Franklin junior Chris Edgehill had a memorable third season on varsity for the Panthers. He led the Panthers in scoring again this season( 16.5 ppg) while hauling in five boards and dishing out four assists per game. He scored his 1,000th point this season in a win over North Andover in February. “His ability to handle pressure and score in so many different ways really helped our team throughout the season,” said Franklin coach CJ Neely. “Scoring 1,000 points in your junior year is a really special accomplishment that shows how he has had sustained success here at Franklin.”
Boys Basketball Defensive Player of the Year
"Franklin senior Jalen Samuels has been named the HockmockSports.com Boys Basketball Defensive Player of the Year for the 2018-2019 season, the eighth year the award has been given out. Samuels was also named the HockomockSports.com First Team. It’s the second straight season a Panther has won the award.
Samuels was a force on the defensive end for the Panthers, who finished the season as the best defensive team in terms of points against (48.9 points per game) and the lone team to average under 50 points against this season. Samuels was a big reason for that because of his versatility and ability to guard every position.
“Jalen is a next level defender who has always been ready to take on the challenge of opposing team’s best players regardless of their position,” said Franklin coach CJ Neely. “He has guarded and shut down explosive wing players, dominant big men and all players in between. He led our team in blocks, charges, steals, and rebounds and is always willing to put his body on the line to dive for a loose ball to get a stop. He allows his teammates to be extremely aggressive with their pressure on the ball, knowing that Jalen will be there on the back line to clean up the mess if they get beat off the dribble.
Continue reading the write up at HockomockSports.com
https://hockomocksports.com/awards/boys-basketball/2018-2019/
For all the boys basketball awards
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FHS boys and girls lacrosse teams top Attleboro
Via HockomockSports, we share the results of the FHS sports action on Wednesday, Apr 3, 2019
Boys Lacrosse = Franklin, 20 @ Attleboro, 0 – Final
Girls Lacrosse = Attleboro, 3 @ Franklin, 24 – Final
– The Panthers raced out to a big lead at halftime and never looked back. Franklin had 13 players register a point in the win, led by junior Kelsey MacCallum (five goals, two assists) and freshman Jackie O’Neil (two goals, four assists). Freshman Kenzie Baker scored four goals while freshman Jill Fenerty had a strong game in the midfield with six draw controls. Kyra Lyons, Sydney DiLiddo, and Rylee Fontes each scored for the Bombardiers.
https://hockomocksports.com/wednesdays-schedule-scoreboard-04-03-19/
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FHS' Shea among HockomockSports.com's "Softball: Ten Players to Watch for 2019"
HockomockSports.com has published their "Softball: Ten Players to Watch for 2019" which features one player from FHS.
ALLY SHEA, SENIOR – FRANKLIN
"Franklin senior Ally Shea has been a consistent presence in the Panthers lineup since jumping in midway through her freshman season. The lefty batted .344 last season, which was down slightly from an even more prolific sophomore campaign, and finished with 22 hits. Shea has the power to find the gaps and rack up extra bases and defies expectations by being a hitter that likes to take the ball the other way. She loves to hit it through the hole between second and short and use the gap in left-center.
The key for the Panthers will be getting more players on base ahead of her to get her up in more run-producing situations and with a strong core returning Franklin will see an opportunity for a return to the playoffs this spring. Shea is also a versatile player who can play catcher, first base and a little outfield when called upon, which makes her a mainstay in the Franklin lineup and allows flexibility for changes as the game goes along."
Read the full listing of softball players to watch
https://hockomocksports.com/softball-ten-players-to-watch-for-2019/
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Tri-County Librarian Receives Massachusetts School Library Association President’s Award
The Massachusetts School Library Association (MSLA) has named Ariel Dagan, Library-Media Specialist at Tri- County Regional Vocational Technical High School in Franklin, as a recipient of the 2019 President’s Award. This award honors an MSLA member who, in a career of one to five years, has made a significant impact on student learning through a quality school library program.
Since coming to Tri-County in March 2014, Mr. Dagan has made extensive changes that have been beneficial to the students, faculty and the school in general. He began by renaming the school library to The Library Media Center, a name meant to promote a place within the school that is a resource center that students and teachers love to visit. Then he rearranged the Library in a way that created greater use by students and staff. He purchased tall café-style tables for students and staff to use when working in small groups and new rolling tables that allow for flexibility based on group activity.
Ariel Dagan, Library-Media Specialist at Tri- County
Recently, the Library Media Center hosted classes listening to first hand stories from a Vietnam Veteran, and an initial performance by thespians in the school’s Music Club during lunch. Mr. Dagan created an online library portal filled with useful information and lesson plans co-designed with staff. The goal is to allow patrons to become better consumers of credible information for their academic or vocational programs and advance in their media literacy skills acquisition.
Mr. Dagan has collaborated with the various vocational career programs, initiating independent reading in both the Medical Careers and Metal Fabrication career programs. He has been working with the Early Education career program to develop online resources enabling students to find the material they want to use in their lessons with pre-school aged children. Mr. Dagan was instrumental in introducing Newsela to vocational and academic teachers, bringing differentiated learning in classes.
MSLA President, Carrie Tucker
with Ariel Dagan
Under Mr. Dagan’s leadership, Tri-County significantly increased database usage in the school for five years in a row. By developing independent online guides for each of the 16 vocational career programs, he has enabled them to reach specific online tools that would help them with their Senior Project research, a requirement for graduation for all Tri-County seniors.
Mr. Dagan received the award this past Sunday, March 31, 2019 at the MSLA Awards Banquet at the Sheraton Framingham Hotel and Conference Center. The awards ceremony is a part of the MSLA Annual Conference, “School Libraries are for Everyone.” He also participated in the IdeaLab, featuring projects/initiatives from the Tri-County library program.
“Mr. Dagan is an inspiration to our students and the school itself,” said Superintendent Stephen Dockray. “His innovative approach and seemingly limitless wealth of knowledge of collecting, maintaining and making accessible media resources to students and faculty has been remarkable. We look forward to seeing more of what his vision and passion will bring to our school.”
The Massachusetts School Library Association works to ensure every school has a school library program that is fully integrated at all grade levels across the curriculum and has a significant and measurable impact on student achievement. For more information, consult the MSLA website, maschoolibraries.org.
Tri-County RVTHS, located at 147 Pond Street in Franklin, is a recipient of the High Schools That Work Gold Achievement Award and serves the communities of Franklin, Medfield, Medway, Millis, Norfolk, North Attleboro, Plainville, Seekonk, Sherborn, Walpole, and Wrentham.
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How belt promotions represent discipline, core values at GMA C3/Cesar Pereira
The kids program at C3/Cesar Pereira. Photo: Personal archive
Stephane Smarth, muay thai coach of C3 Athletics/Cesar Pereira where Cesar runs the Jiu-Jitsu program, has found that belt promotions are about something more than just skill. They represent core values and the success of the Jiu-Jitsu program under Cesar. See what Stephane has to say about the program and all programs in regards to stripes and belts:
“It’s that time of the year again when the adults and kids take it to the mats for belt promotions, and as each student lines up by their respective belt ranking, the instructor and those assisting prepare to change these adults’ and kids’ lives. Strips of white tape are torn and placed on the edge of the ring ready to find a new home on over 30 belts. As the students stand attentively, Cesar Pereira begins the promotions with a speech; a speech that addresses all the hard work they’ve put in and more work that needs to be done.
Since the inception of the adults program 3 and 1/2 years ago and kids program a couple of years ago, I have watched a program with just 4 or 5 students flourish to full, blown-out . Specially talking about kids martial arts program with ages ranging from 4 years old to 12, all types of personalities and characters interacting with one another, it can sound like a daunting task to work with a large group of kids, but Cesar does it with such ease and patience– understanding that each student is different and working with them individually.
On the mats, and even off, the students listen to Cesar. They respect him, look up to him and have gained a great deal of trust in him and his teaching. Day after day, these kids put their gis on, tie their belts, bow to the mats, line up and train. Day after day Cesar has them warm up, do basic drills, and execute the technique for the day. Whether they are working from side control, performing an armbar from the mount, or a triangle choke from guard, the kids are constantly being pushed and tested, both mentally and physically.
Many of the students have been in competition, many of them bringing home a medal, and many more will follow. His expectations are not just set on the mats and training, but also in being able to put together what he’s taught and executing those techniques where it counts. Where Cesar excels, however, is not in just teaching Jiu-Jitsu, but also in teaching many values the students can carry throughout life. Values such as discipline, respect, teamwork, self-esteem and confidence are all instilled in each student. He provides them with structure, creates a fun and exciting learning environment and does it in a way the students are not only receptive to it all, but they also reciprocate it.
Ultimately, that’s what belt promotions are about. Not just the execution of technique and going into competition, but also about students carrying out the core values infused in them by their instructor. As each stripe gets placed on a student’s belt, or belt colors change, it is a constant reminder of not only all the hard work they’ve put in over the course of a few months, but also the discipline they will carry with them forever.
It’s been an absolute pleasure watching these kids grow and transform into Jiu-Jitsu students, but without Cesar Pereira, there is no kids program. He is the reason for its success, how it has evolved over the years and the driving force behind its continual growth.”
Learn more about C3 Athletics and Cesar Pereira at www.c3athletics.com
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Home Illegal Immigration PAUL RYAN BETRAYS LEGAL IMMIGRANTS
Illegal Immigration, Obama, Politics
PAUL RYAN BETRAYS LEGAL IMMIGRANTS
By Exec Director December 22, 2015 December 22, 2015 2016, border, homeland security, illegal immigrants, invasion, Legal Immigrants For America, LIFA, Paul Ryan, politics, refugee, resettlement, sanctuary city
PAUL RYAN BETRAYS LEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND ALL AMERICANS
The establishment politicians in the Republican Party cannot understand why conservative voters, including both native-born citizens and legal immigrants, are enthusiastically embracing outsider presidential candidates such as Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Ben Carson.
Do you want to know why this is happening?
Because of Paul Ryan.
Paul Ryan just spearheaded an atrocious $1.1 trillion budget that gives the Obama administration pretty much everything that it demanded. Ryan didn’t even put up a fight. He caved in. He threw in the towel. He cried “Uncle!” He was fitted for a costume like the Cowardly Lion.
The Paul Ryan-Barack Obama $1.1 trillion budget debacle betrays legal immigrants in so many different ways. Here are some of the atrocities to be found in this horrendous appropriations bill:
The Ryan-Obama bill fully funds DACA, which is President Obama’s executive action also know as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Under DACA, approximately 700,000 illegal aliens have received work permits, tax credits, and federal entitlement programs – and the American taxpayer foots the bill for all of it.
The Ryan-Obama budget also fully funds Obama’s 2012 “DREAMers” executive amnesty for illegal aliens who unlawfully entered the United States as minors. Paul Ryan is on record as saying that it is his job as a lawmaker to put himself in the shoes of “the DREAMer who is waiting.” Ryan would be a lot better off putting himself in the shoes of the legal immigrant who played by the rules.
The Ryan-Obama debacle fully funds sanctuary cities. Paul Ryan could not care less about Kate Steinle or any other America killed by an illegal alien. He simply doesn’t care. Instead, he throws more federal grant money at lawless sanctuary cities such as San Francisco.
The Ryan-Obama budget also fully funds all refugee programs. Countless refugees from all over the globe will now stream into the United States and get full access to federal benefits. American taxpayers will get full access to the bill. 130 people were slaughtered in Paris on November 13, and at least two of the Muslim terrorists entered the European Union by hiding among Syrian refugees. It will probably happen in the United States at some point, too, but Paul Ryan doesn’t care. He thinks he’s being “compassionate.” Compassion kills.
The Ryan-Obama bill continues to fully fund all other immigration programs that terrorists have been taking advantage of for years, going all the way back to prior to 9/11. Ryan throws more money at the F-1 student visa program, the K-1 fiancee visa program, other refugee programs, and more. Ryan makes no attempt to restrict immigration from Middle Eastern or Muslim-majority nations where terrorists train. Apparently Ryan never heard the news that one of those K-1 fiancees from the Middle East just slaughtered 14 people in San Bernardino.
The Ryan-Obama budget also enthusiastically funds “Refugee and Entrant Assistance.” This means even more of your hard-earned taxpayer dollars being thrown at illegal immigrants.
The Ryan-Obama debacle also will quadruple the number of H-2B visas for unskilled foreign workers. This will allow employers to hire more unskilled aliens at lower wages and more backbreaking hours. If you’re an unskilled American worker, you can kiss your job good-bye!
The Ryan-Obama bill will also continue to give child tax credits to illegal aliens. All this does is encourage illegals to have more babies in the United States, happily knowing that you and I will foot the bill.
The Ryan-Obama budget does not include even $1 to build a double-layer border fence. Ryan and Obama much prefer border fences built out of Swiss cheese.
Paul Ryan and establishment Republicans have suckered conservatives and legal immigrants long enough. Ryan has played us for fools. We heartily recommend that Paul Ryan change his party affiliation to Democrat, since that is what he really is.
Conservatives and legal immigrants thought that John Boehner was bad, but Paul Ryan is even worse. Donald Trump has already slammed the Ryan-Obama budget deal. Trump said, “If anyone needed more evidence of why the American people are suffering at the hands of their own government, look no further than the budget deal announced by Speaker Ryan. In order to avoid a government shutdown, a cowardly threat from an incompetent President, the elected Republicans in Congress threw in the towel and showed absolutely no discipline.”
An establishment Republican like Paul Ryan is no better than any Democrat.
Legal Immigrants For America (LIFA) will spend 2016 holding politicians’ feet to the fire on issues affecting legal and illegal immigration. We cannot afford to let Paul Ryan and establishment politicians continue to ruin this nation!
Please support LIFA as we lobby politicians in Washington and all across the nation in the coming year. LIFA will be a strong and impactful voice in Congress and from coast to coast!
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English · 07. April 2013
Mad in Egypt. On the spirit of the revolution.
Radiofeature. Co-production NDR/WDR 2013. Producer: Ulrike Toma. Director: Nikolai von Koslowski. 53 min. NDR Info, 7 April 2013, 11:05. WDR3, 25. August 2013. DeutschlandRadio Kultur, 7 Dezember 2013, 18:05. By Thilo Guschas.
Photo: Nermine Hammam
The political struggle is only on the outside. The Egyptian revolution takes place in spheres that are much deeper. Society is finding new definitions of what is ‚normal.‘ The spirit of the revolution is also present at Abbasseya hospital, Egypt’s biggest psychiatry. A blogger that had violated political taboos was to be incarcerated as madman. Courageous psychiatrists liberated him. Old patterns tumble. This can be felt also by patients who live behind the clinic’s walls. They carefully follow the news about the national revolution in television. The want change in their hospital, in their ward. „Not even the Muslim brotherhood can stop the revolution as it is in our souls“, says Mohamed. „There will be no change, people don’t change,“ Adil is convinced. „Everybody is mentally ill somehow,“ Sineb says who thinks that the psychiatry is a nice place for he. "The true madmen are those who are outside of our clinic!“
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Michael Anthony Talked to Alex Van Halen Following Eddie’s Death
Classic Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony recently said that he conferred with drummer Alex Van Halen following the October 2020 death of bandleader Eddie Van Halen. But Anthony and Eddie themselves hadn’t reconciled before the legendary guitarist passed away last year.
Still, communication was open between the longtime Van Halen rhythm section in the days immediately following the guitarist’s death. That’s what Anthony explained to St. Louis classic rock radio station KSHE 95 during an on-air exchange that emerged earlier this week.
Listen to the interview down toward the bottom of this post.
“I spoke briefly with Alex right after Eddie passed,” Anthony revealed of his chat with Eddie’s brother and the Van Halen co-founder. “But I wanted them to have their privacy. And I have texted with Wolfie a couple of times, and everything is all good, obviously.”
Wolfie, of course, is Eddie’s son, Wolfgang Van Halen, the musician who at just 16 years old replaced Anthony in the Van Halen lineup in 2006. Wolfgang, now 29, fronts the group Mammoth WVH.
Pressed for more details on his current relationship with Alex, Anthony said the Van Halen drummer is still “grieving, or however you wanna put it — [he’s] pretty much been to himself. So I’m just kind of letting that happen, and I’m sure at one point we’ll talk again here or even get together.”
Last November, Wolfgang revealed that Van Halen had considered doing a “kitchen sink tour” before Eddie’s death, where past VH singers David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar would’ve each performed. Anthony was said to be in negotiations to participate, as he confirmed in the interview this week.
“I actually did get a call from [the Van Halen] camp,” the bassist made clear of his would-be involvement. “Actually, [from manager] Irving Azoff’s office — I don’t know … a few years ago now. And they did ask me about coming back and doing a reunion. And things kind of were progressing.”
“Then, I guess, Eddie was kind of ill,” Anthony continued. “He was going over to Europe and having some treatments done or whatever. And it never materialized. I think he was too ill.”
Following his time in Van Halen, Anthony played in rock supergroup Chickenfoot alongside Hagar, Joe Satriani and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith. He’s also performed with Sammy Hagar and the Circle.
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Home > Announcements > Stakeholder Agendas in the Washington Transition: 5 Takeaways for Converting Ideas into Technically Effective Proposals
Stakeholder Agendas in the Washington Transition: 5 Takeaways for Converting Ideas into Technically Effective Proposals
By Ted R. Mannen on January 18, 2017
Posted in Access to Health Care, Announcements, EBG Advisors, Medicare, U.S. Supreme Court
As the transition in Washington moves into high gear this month, it’s not just the new Administration and Congress that are putting in place plans for policy and legislation; stakeholders are busy creating agendas, too.
Many stakeholder agendas will seek to affect how government addresses such prominent health care issues as the Affordable Care Act, Medicare entitlements, fraud-and-abuse policies, FDA user fees, and drug pricing. There will be a myriad of stakeholder ideas, cutting a variety of directions, all framed with an eye to the new political terrain.
But whatever policies a stakeholder advocates, ideas must be translated into a form that that the political system can digest. For this to occur, an important technical conversion must take place; words must be conjured and organized so that desired policy can become legal reality. This is no easy task, and stakeholders should proceed thoughtfully.
Here are five takeaways for making proposals concrete and workable:
1. Butterfly Effect
A “simple” contract (to buy a house, say) can end up getting pretty complicated, even when the stated rights and obligations apply to no more than two parties. In contrast, a policy proposal typically seeks to set arrangements for a broad array of parties (perhaps a whole economic sector) and thus will usually involve substantial complexity.
The large number of parties potentially affected means that even the most minor-seeming policy adjustment can have large, unintended, and unpredictable results – not dissimilar from how the proverbial flap of a butterfly’s wings can start the chain reaction that leads to a distant hurricane.
2. Pre-Drafting Steps
Taming the butterfly effect should begin before putting pen to paper. It starts with a clear view of the problem to be solved and the ways to solve it. Notably, the legislative drafters available to Congress place some considerable emphasis on the steps that precede actual drafting.
For example, the House Legislative Counsel’s Office recommends use of a pre-drafting checklist that includes questions like these: What is the planned policy’s scope (expressed as populations or subjects)? Who will administer the policy? Who will enforce it? When should the policy take effect (and are transition rules needed)? Each of these questions contains multiple sub-questions.
Similarly, the Senate Legislative Counsel’s Office points out that most legislated policies build on prior statutes. As such, it is important to know how new provisions will harmonize with — or will override — previously adopted language. Making these judgments requires a solid grasp of existing legal authorities and ways these authorities have been interpreted.
3. Words on the Page
Translating concepts into words is a specialized task, for ultimately the words must be “right” – they must be technically sufficient to effectuate the policy intended.
It is not news that Congresses, Presidents, and courts sometimes have different views on the meaning of statutes, regulations, and other types of policy issuances. In theory, the drafting curative is to make the words so clear that only a single meaning is possible. But realistically, legal contention often comes with the territory of a controversial policy, and so stakeholders should at a minimum avoid such unforced errors as these:
Obvious mistakes – e.g., purporting to amend a U.S. code title that has not been enacted into positive law;
Wrong law – e.g., confusing the statute that enacts new language with the statute that the new language amends;
Wrong time – e.g., getting the words right but putting them into effect for an unintended time period;
Imprecise labels – e.g., referring to concepts or parties via shorthand phrases similar to, but not identical to, defined terms; and
Vague references — e.g., omitting enough key details to confer unintended discretion on an agency or administrative official.
4. Document Silos
Today’s integrated world doesn’t look kindly on silos, but, in the specialized context of Washington policy development, they can be a helpful check on the temptation to combine technical drafting with political messaging.
The desire to combine these two forms of communication is understandable, for it is an appealing notion that policy proposals be “user friendly” so they can be quickly scanned for substantive gist. In fact, however, the practice is dilutive and dangerous; it can put the wrong words on the page and undermine policy intent.
A better course is for stakeholders to manage separately siloed sets of documents that, while consistent, operate at different levels of specificity. One silo should be reserved for the technically rigorous proposals that effect legal authority and a separate silo for “plain English” issue briefs, fact sheets, and other materials that summarize the authority.
5. Plug & Play
Washington policy debates are less often set battles, more often fast-moving skirmishes. Such places a premium on ability to adapt as new ideas emerge, political signals morph, and coalitions shift. For the task of converting ideas into policies, there are at least two implications.
First, stakeholders should be prepared to think and draft in modules – in discrete chunks of policy that can be embedded in one or more larger proposals. In Congress, stakeholder-originated ideas are more likely to emerge as legislative amendments than as free-standing bills.
Second, stakeholders should be ready to iterate quickly as debate advances. Feedback from reviewers will often focus on proposal summaries because they are easier to read and understand. But changes in response to comments must also be reflected in the technical proposals themselves. Tight deadlines are the norm, so separately siloing the two types of documents (see above) will help speed an effective response when political opportunity strikes.
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Malemute Saloon
37.2 miles from Nenana, AK
The 1900's saloon is located in a small gold rush settlement, and partially burnt down in 1969. Nowadays, the saloon and surrounding buildings sit largely empty, apart from a few spirits that linger from the mining days. Visitors have reported seeing shadowy apparitions, have heard disembodied footsteps and ...
Pump House Restaurant
The site was originally a pump house for a mine that closed during the early 1900's. A white apparition has been seen in the kitchen by staff, and ghostly voices are heard after the restaurant has closed down for the night. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
Captain Bartlett Inn
44 miles from Nenana, AK
Guests staying at this airport inn have reported coming strange lights in the hallways of the hotel, and seeing glasses and silverware move around the bar when there is no one around. Believed to have been demolished around 2009. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
Fairbanks Memorial Hospital
Apparitions of angels and the sounds of babies can be heard, and some have experienced cold chills and temperature drops here. Angels are said to appear when a baby is near death in the nursery.
Riverview Apartments #205
Tenants who stayed in this particular apartment (which is currently for sale) reported that a violent entity would repeatedly attack them. The apparition of a drunken man was also seen on several occasions, accompanied by the smell of alcohol. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
Reflections Night Club
Dancers at the night club have reportedly seen the apparition of a tall man in a white shirt and red pants standing on the stage who vanishes when approached. Staff have also seen him watching them after the club has closed down for the night. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
Northern Lights Hotel
This hotel is no longer in operation but when it was running, people claim it was haunted by the ghost of a little girl.
Westmark Fairbanks Hotel
Room 277 is thought to be haunted by a large man who usually waits until nighttime to make himself known. He pushes on guests' beds, pokes them in the shoulder, and has even been known to run his finger along the carpet.
Regency Fairbanks Hotel
Staff and guests staying at the hotel have reported to have been attacked by an evil unseen entity. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Birch Hill Cemetery
Here you may glimpse a little girl wearing an early 1900s white dress, a floating black figure, and a little boy dressed as if from the 1930s.
Igloo City Hotel
Cantwell, Alaska
The Igloo City Hotel is an abandoned hotel situated on an isolated section of the Parks Highway. People driving past late at night have seen strange lights in the hotel or seen the apparition of a woman in white standing at the windows of the hotel. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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C. C. Cohen Building
Paducah, Kentucky
28.5 miles from Pryorsburg, KY
C.C. Cohen's restaurant closed around 2010, and is now reported to be called Shandies. The place is rumored to be haunted by the ghost of Stella Cohen Peine, the last member of the Cohen family, who died in her apartment upstairs. Chairs move by themselves, salt and pepper shakers fall ...
Upper Big Lake
Charleston, Missouri
A fisherman's ghost is purported to haunt Upper Big Lake. So the story goes, the fisherman accidentally killed his nephew with a shotgun, and the nephew's ghost came back and drowned his uncle while he was fishing on the lake.
Riverview Mansion Hotel
Golconda, Illinois
Now known as The Levee Lounge & Historic Riverview Mansion, the hotel is haunted by Miss Lucy Morse, wife of a former county bank president. Since the 1920's, her friendly spirit has been encountered on several occasions by guests and staff. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
Bellwood Mansion
Indian Mound, Tennessee
54 miles from Pryorsburg, KY
Bellwood Mansion is reportedly an abandoned mansion in the middle of the woods, and it's a magnet for local legends about ghost sightings and witchcraft.
The Grand Rose Hotel
Elizabethtown, Illinois
At this 1812 establishment with a view of the Ohio River, former owner Sarah Rose is said to linger beyond the grave. Her apparition has been seen walking in the second-floor hallways as well as climbing the stairs. Folks also have reported hearing a disembodied female voice and finding that ...
Palestine Church
Yuma, Tennessee
The building is surrounded by a cemetery that dates back to the early 1800's, and the church and cemetery have been abandoned for years. There have been many reports of hauntings here, including shuffling footsteps when no one is around, voices talking, screams and doors opening and closing by themselves. ...
Glenn House
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Glenn House, built in 1883, is haunted by a Christmas ghost. The mansion was built by Edwin Dean for his daughter Lulu and her husband David Glenn. But banker Glenn lost much of his fortune and they moved out in 1915. The property fell into disrepair until it was renovated ...
Rose Bed Inn
Alex is a ghost who haunts Rose Bed Inn, housed in a former home built in 1908. The Schrader Family owned the home originally, and eventually it was put on the market. A young man named Alex expressed interest in the home. He didn't have the money to buy the ...
Port Cape Girardeau
Port Cape Girardeau Restaurant and Lounge in Warehouse Row is housed in a circa-1860 warehouse. It is haunted by an unknown female ghost nicknamed Belle. The bartender who named her said that she showed him she liked the name he gave her. A few days after he thought up the ...
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Cave-in-Rock State Park
Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
The ghost story here starts with Samuel Mason, a robber who established a gambling tavern here around 1800. He attracted customers with alchohol, prostitutes and gambling, then robbed and sometimes killed them. Although now the site is known for its natural features, some witnesses have reported hearing moans and cries ...
Southeast Missouri State University
Southeast Missouri State University's Cheney Hall is rumored to be haunted by a female student who committed suicide in a bathtub. Folks say now the door slams by itself and unexplained noises are heard in the room. The Music Building is also said to be haunted by apparitions and slamming ...
Lorimier Cemetery
Historic Lorimier Cemetery from the early 1800s is home to a phenomenon known as the Tapping Ghost. It is a sensation of something tapping you on the shoulder, usually making visitors think a nut has fallen from a tree. The tapping repeats, usually until the visitor gets freaked out and ...
Baker Hollow Road Cemetery
Marion, Kentucky
Witnesses say Baker Hollow Road Cemetery disappears and reappears in different locations, so it is hard to find. They also describe overwhelming feelings of grief, music playing, laughter, screams, and the sound of something unseen trying to get into your car. Apparitions of soldiers, a ghost dog, and men hanging ...
Wynn Cemetery
Clay, Kentucky
According to local legend, two witches were buried in above-ground graves at Wynn Cemetery, and there are three trees here from which accused witches were hanged. Visitors have reported strange happenings on the anniversaries of their deaths and sudden temperature changes. Some witnesses have reported seeing a black apparition here ...
Lick Creek Cemetery
Dawson Springs, Kentucky
At the small Lick Creek Cemetery, visitors have reported apparitions, glowing eyes, and objects that fade in and out of sight.
Loretta Lynn Ranch
Pryorsburg, Tennessee
The Plantation House and surrounding areas have seen supernatural activity. Civil War soldiers have been seen walking or camping out nearby, and the house itself has seen its share of unexplained phenomena, attributed to the plantation's founders. Ghost Adventures featured the site on a 2011 show.
Crenshaw House
Junction, Illinois
This place is closed to the public. It is owned by the state of Illinois and there are numerous No Trespassing signs. You are cautioned not to attempt to visit this place. Crenshaw house was a major player in kidnapping freed and escaped slaves and returning them to ...
The Old Slave House - Crenshaw Mansion
Note: This house is no longer a tourist attraction; tours are not operated here now as they have been in the past. Trespassers have been known to be arrested. This residence was once a place where slaves were bred illegally. The attic was made over with stalls to house the ...
Southern Illinois University is reputed to have many haunted buildings; among them are Wheeler Hall, Faner Hall, Anthony Hall, Shryock Auditorium, and Mae Smith Residence Hall. One of the most famous ghosts here is Henry, who haunts the 1918 Shryock Auditorium. Henry, aka former university President Henry William Shryock, died ...
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Austin Peay State University
Austin Peay State University's Trahern Theater is said to be haunted by Margaret, a ghost who haunts the third floor and the stage. Margaret is said to tinker with elevators and electricity, lock doors, bang on lockers and call the names of students.
Hundley House Bed and Breakfast
Although Hundley House has not operated as a B & B since 2011, former guests claim that double homicide that took place there in the 1928's has left its mark, both literally and spiritually. A bullet hole from the murders can still be seen in the back staircase and people ...
Devil's Backbone and Bake Oven
Grand Tower, Illinois
The Devil's Backbone, a rocky ridge about a half mile long, sits adjacent to the Devil's Bake Oven, a larger rock about 100 feet tall near the river's edge. The formations have been used as landmarks, lookout points and hiding places throughout history. River pirates used it as a hideout ...
Grapevine Cemetery
Madisonville, Kentucky
Grapevine Cemetery reportedly has a statue of an angel that cries blood and a ghost of a young man who committed suicide in after his girlfriend left. Witnesses say if he hears a love song playing from your car, he will scream.
Resthaven Memorial Gardens
Behind the cemetery, reports say, is a house that was once the home of a slave owner. Rumor has it that one of his slaves forced himself upon his daughter and got her pregnant, and the master killed the slave. The slave's ghost is said to roam the house looking ...
Mount Vernon, Indiana
This historic house, reported to have been part of the Underground Railroad, stands empty and for sale. Since it has stood empty for a period, it is not surprising that it has developed a reputation for being haunted. Witnesses have reported seeing shadowy figures and hearing toilets flushing and other ...
Clifton Public Library
Clifton, Tennessee
The ghost of a man in white roams the wooded area and field behind the library branch. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
Magnolia Manor Bed and Breakfast
Bolivar, Tennessee
Built in 1849, this manor house has a ghost, or several, residing within. Every room has been known to presence of ghosts. In Annie's Room, the motion detectors go off and voices are heard when no one is there. A male and a female apparition have been seen in the ...
Bethel Cumberland Presbyterian - Bethel Assembly of God
Atoka, Tennessee
107.1 miles from Pryorsburg, KY
Bethel Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery (Bethel Assembly of God) dates back to the mid-1800s. Sources say it has a separate are for criminals and one for children. Witnesses have reported ghostly voices, lights, shadow people, and evil growls from the surrounding forest. What's more, legend has it that the cemetery ...
Willard Library
109 miles from Pryorsburg, KY
The Grey Lady is said to haunt this historic late-1800s library building, and she brings apparitions, the scent of perfume, cold spots, strange noises, and more. The water and electricity are also known to turn on and off, and furniture and objects move by themselves. Ghost tours are held in ...
Kentucky Spirits Undistilled: Stories of the Bluegrass State's Famous Haunted Locations
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Jacques Guibourd Historic House - Guibourd Valle House
Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
Jacques Guibourd Historic House, aka Guibourd Valle House, is a 1784 Creole house museum and is rumored to be haunted. Witnesses have seen apparitions, heard footsteps in the servant's quarters, and have been awakened by banging, breaking glass, furniture being thrown and other sounds. The harpsichord has played by itself, ...
Main Street Inn Bed and Breakfast
Open since 1882, this inn is said to be haunted by a man who died here back in the 1890s. Although he makes a lot of noise up on the top floor in the early morning hours, he is said to be completely harmless. The locals say all he wants ...
Blackwell Manor
This historic mansion is believed to be haunted by the apparition of a former owner, who has been seen roaming the house after dark. He has also been known to slam doors and turn on all the lights in the house. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Paxton's criminal trial delayed until 2018
Politics // Texas Politics
Special prosecutors say they will withdraw from case if they don't get paid
Andrea Zelinski Oct. 4, 2017 Updated: Oct. 4, 2017 6:27 p.m.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, right, and his attorney Philip Hilder, left, leave the 177th District Court, after at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center, Thursday, June 29, 2017, in Houston. Paxton is facing two counts of felony securities fraud, and a lesser felony charge of failing to register as an insurance adviser with the state.
Photo: Jon Shapley, Houston Chronicle
HOUSTON -- Attorney General Ken Paxton won't face trial on a trio of criminal felony charges until next year, possibly right after the primary election, a Harris County district judge ruled Wednesday.
Judge Robert Johnson granted a motion for continuance in the case at the behest of special prosecutors who pointed to the disruption Hurricane Harvey has had on the Harris County court system and said they are still waiting to be paid for building a case against the attorney general.
The judge declined to say whether he was delaying due to the storm that dumped more than 50 inches of rain on parts of Houston and flooded several of the special prosecutors' offices, or because the special prosecutors want to resolve their pay issue before the trial proceeds.
Brian Wice, one of three special prosecutors assigned to the case, said if they are not paid, they will eventually withdraw from the case.
The parties are due back in court Nov. 2 to decide when to reschedule the trial for, but are eyeing March 6 or March 12. The primary election is March 6.
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The decision is the latest twist in a long-running saga over the first-term attorney general's legal troubles. More than two years after he was indicted and charged with two counts of felony securities fraud and a lesser charge for failing to register with the state, this is the third time his trial has been rescheduled this year.
Paxton's legal team verbally sparred with special prosecutors on the 16th floor courtroom of the Civil Court building prior to the ruling trying to convince the judge to keep a previously scheduled December trial date.
The special prosecutors' arguments are "like the Menendez brothers complaining that they are orphans," said Dan Cogdell, one of Paxton's attorneys, referring to the infamous case of two brothers convicted in 1996 for killing their parents.
Wice, representing the state, called Paxton's legal response to the motion to delay the case "bush league," and equated it to a "stump speech [Paxton would] give to the tea party in McKinney, Texas."
Paxton's claims that he wants a speedy trial are disingenuous, Wice said, given his legal defense team "burned a year on the shot clock" filing appeals to get the case dismissed."
Johnson, who took over the case in June when it moved to Harris County, peppered both parties with questions about how a delay would hurt their case. He later stressed that since Hurricane Harvey damaged the Harris County Justice Center where his court is located, he is sharing a courtroom with another judge.
Special prosecutors say they want to delay Paxton's trial because they haven't been paid. The Collin County Commissioners Court declined to pay the trio of appointed special prosecutors for about $200,000 in billable hours in January, saying a lower court judge promised them too high a fee.
The Dallas 5th Court of Appeals agreed, saying the fee busted the local cap for appointed attorneys fees.
According to court records, Collin County limits the fees to $1,000 for first-degree felony pleas, $500 for third-degree pleas, $1,000 for pretrial work and $500 for each one-half day of trial. A lower court judge promised Houston-area attorneys Wice, Kent Schaffer and Nicole DeBorde $300 per hour.
"Why should we continue to work for free," said Wice, who in September convinced the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to look into the case. He argues the law allows judges to use discretion when setting attorneys fees in special cases.
The high court is now soliciting responses and has yet to decide whether to rule on the case.
Paxton's lawyers accused the special prosecutors of milking taxpayer dollars with the Paxton case, saying the three have billed for more than 1,400 hours but have yet to take Paxton to trial.
"They should be more than ready after 1,400 hours," said Cogdell.
Philip Hilder, one of Paxton's other criminal defense lawyers, said he is sympathetic that the special prosecutors not getting paid but, "that's not Mr. Paxton's problem."
His attorneys argue Paxton is entitled to a speedy trial and the criminal matter has been hanging over his head for more than two years. With a trial delay, that could turn into three years, said Hilder.
Paxton, whose attendance was waived for Wednesday's hearing, was indicted in Collin County in July of 2015 and is charged with two counts of first degree felony securities fraud and one third-degree felony charge of failing to register with the state as an investment adviser.
He is accused of failing to tell friends and colleagues he would make a commission off their investment in Servergy, Inc., a North Texas tech company that purported to sell a revolutionary new server.
Paxton as maintained his innocence and contends he is the victim of a political witch hunt.
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Ferrari Challenge: Trofeo Pirelli Review
It's filled with Ferraris, but that's about it.
By Chris Roper
Posted: 3 Sep 2008 8:37 pm
The simulation racing genre is a hard nut to crack, especially on a PlayStation system, given the dominance of Gran Turismo, but System 3 and Eutechnyx are going for the pole position with Ferrari Challenge. The game cuts right to the chase and puts players behind the wheel of more than 50 different cars from the Italian maker and lets you compete in the famed Ferrari Challenge racing series.
I'm a pretty big fan of racing games, and I love everything from Burnout to Gran Turismo. I also happen to be a huge Ferrari fan. One of my favorite things about most racing games is the overall progression that you go through, and how you start with very little and slowly wind up with faster and faster rides. Being that you start out Ferrari Challenge in none other than a Ferrari F430, you miss out on this progression almost entirely. Sure, you'll unlock faster cars, like the F50 or the FXX, and you'll also delve back into Ferrari's past with some classic rides (Bueller?), but the feeling of saving up cash to upgrade your horsepower to gain an edge, and then winning a few series with your new ride to earn enough cash for a better ride is all but lost.
Click here to watch the F430 video.
That bit aside, what Ferrari Challenge does right is the actual driving simulation. Regardless of which Ferrari you're behind the wheel of, the car will drive expectedly, ranging from raw power and performance of the newer models to the rather unassisted handling of models from the '50s and earlier. Eutechnyx has done a great job of implementing a physics engine that properly simulates each of the cars' handling, giving you good feedback over how much power you're asking out of the car and how much it's delivering to you at any given moment. Good stuff here.
Unfortunately, the realism bit was taken a little too far with some aspects of the game. For example, I'm a big fan of in-car views while racing, especially since most games, Ferrari Challenge included, are now doing a good job of rendering the interior and dashboard of these rides. However, the camera is set too far back in the cockpit for you to get a good view of the track. The top of the car takes up nearly half of the screen real estate, giving you a narrow view of the road in front of you. Even if it wouldn't be as accurate, the game would have done better to have the camera closer to the windshield.
This not only means that you're staring at a good portion of your roof and not something "cool" to look at, but it also makes it hard to tackle most of the tracks without the driving line turned on (and it is by default). It's very hard to see upcoming turns in the game, so unless you either happen to know these tracks very well already or wish to spend a number of laps memorizing the layout and practicing your speed, you'll be relying on the line to help you.
Also, the main Challenge mode, where you race through a Ferrari Challenge championship series, has races based on time rather than laps. With each race running for 15 minutes or more, and with two races per weekend, that means each "event" is a good half-hour of driving. This would be fine except that if you're good and can get out in front fairly quickly, you'll spend 20+ minutes driving with no competition ahead of you. It makes much of the racing feel like a time trial rather than a race as all you're doing is defending your position by not screwing up.
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Given how well each of the cars drive, it's fun to hop onto each course and push your ride to the limit. However, when you're out front for that long, it just feels like you're racing alone and that takes a lot out of the experience.
Lastly, the game feels fairly linear at times, and given the long race times for each event, it can feel like you're drudging through event after event. With games like Gran Turismo and Forza out there, both of which let you choose from numerous events at any given time, Ferrari Challenge feels somewhat restrictive.
Ferrari Challenge does a handful of things right, especially the core racing engine, but the experience isn't nearly robust as it could, and should, be. With Ferraris being your only option to drive, there isn't a ton of variety to speak of, and you don't get the same feeling of progression as you do with other racers. If you're a hardcore Ferrari fan, it may be worth checking out, but only do so if you're looking for the driving experience and not the bells and whistles that you'll find in other racers.
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Ferrari Challenge Pirelli Maranello
Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli is a re-creation of Ferrari's own racing series, which sees both professional and amateur drivers taking to the world's most famous race tracks in 430 Challenge race cars.
Genres:Racing
No Descriptors
Platforms:PlayStation 3, Wii, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable
Developers:Eutechnyx
Publishers:Activision, System 3 Arcade Software
Features:Number Of Players, Online - VS Number Of Players, Online, Multi-cartridge Multiplayer
Release Date:August 26, 2008
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San Cristobal De La Habana Mercaderes (LCDH)
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The Mercaderes is named after one of the main roads in Havana that used to be a bustling commercial center and meeting point for tobacco merchants. Produced for La Casa Del Habano (LCDH) line and includes creamy notes of coffee, nuts, cocoa and vanilla with a warm spicy. Recently, really difficult to find this cigar in the market and a rumor has been going around that the production will end very soon.
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Hoyo De Monterrey Elegantes (LCDH)
Habanos S.A has added a new product to Casa del Habano line for 2016.Elegantes is the second Hoyo de Monterrey...
Hoyo De Monterrey Escogidos (LCDH)
Habanos S.A introduces the Hoyo de Monterrey Escogidos LCDH 2018 in 20th annual Festival del Habanos. San Cristobal de la Habana Prado...
Juan Lopez Seleccion Especial (LCDH)
At the XXII Edition of the Habanos Festival, the first La Casa Del Habano release of the Juan López brand...
La Gloria Cubana 25th Aniversario Humidor (LCDH)
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In 2015, Habanos SA announced this limited edition humidor under the brand of La Gloria Cubana in celebration of the...
La Gloria Cubana Inmensos (LCDH)
The La Gloria Cubana Inmensos LCDH, Double Robusto vitola was produced for the La Casa Del Habano series with a...
Montecristo Herederos (LCDH+HS)
Montecristo presented a new cigar celebrating the 85th anniversary of the brand. The Montecristo Herederos (162 mm by 47 ring gauge)...
Partagas Culebras (LCDH)
Culebras was produced as part of La Casa del Habano (LCDH). Encased in a 9 wooden slide-lid boxes. Has a...
Partagas Maduro No.1 (LCDH)
The Partagas Maduro No.1 LCDH (52 ring gauge - 130 mm length) is the latest release of La Casa del...
The Partagas Maduro No.2 LCDH (55 ring gauge - 120 mm length) is the latest release of La Casa del Habano...
It’s been over a year since Habanos S.A. announced the new sizes of the Partagás Linea Maduro, but the dark...
Partagas Salomones (LCDH)
Came out on the market as part of La Casa del Habano (LCDH) series in 2008. Manufactured with the best...
Por Larranaga Picadores (LCDH)
Picadores was officially discontinued in the 70's but later on reproduced as part of the La Casa Del Habano (LCDH)...
Punch Punch 48 (LCDH+HS)
Habanos S.A has added a new product to Specialist Exclusive Release for 2016. It will come out on the market...
Ramon Allones Superiores (LCDH)
The Ramon Allones Superiores (ring gauge 46 and - 143 mm lenght) was produced as part of La Casa Del...
Romeo y Julieta Cedros de Luxe (LCDH)
Finally Habanos S.A has added a new product to La Casa del Habano (LCDH) line for 2014. Although This product...
San Cristobal De La Habana Muralla (LCDH)
One of three newest products of the brand San Cristobal.Produced for La Casa Del Habano (LCDH) line and includes creamy...
San Cristobal De La Habana Oficios (LCDH)
One of three newest products of the brand San Cristobal. A candidate to be the best cigar in the brand...
San Cristobal De La Habana Prado (LCDH+HS)
Habanos S.A introduces the San Cristobal de la Habana Prado LCDH 2018 in 20th annual Festival del Habanos. San Cristobal de...
San Cristobal De La Habana Torreon Jar 2012 (LCDH)
The first product from the new Habanos Specialist series. Produced in 2012 released at the end of 2013. San Cristobal...
Trinidad La Trova (LCDH)
Trinidad La Trova (52 ring gauge x 166mm length) is made "Totalmente a Mano con Tripa Larga" - Totally Handmade...
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Holy Trinity CofE Primary School is a Church of England voluntary controlled primary school and is linked with the Diocese of Guildford. Our school is situated in the village of West End and provides education for 4 to 11 year old children from the village and the surrounding area.
Holy Trinity CofE Primary School provides a stimulating, secure and supportive learning environment for children, offering a balanced and varied curriculum within attractive surroundings, building on our school values with an emphasis on literacy, numeracy and experiential learning.
We have extensive grounds, with five playgrounds and a large playing field. Our grounds are used for PE with plenty of space for children to play during break times. Our school field also provides an important resource for science, environmental studies and enhancing the curriculum. We also have a gated pond dipping area, sensory garden, woodland and a “natural area” for children to explore.
There are many other areas to support learning: SEN base, music room, small group room for peripatetic music lessons and group work.
People are our greatest resource. We welcome assistance from parents, grandparents and other adults in a variety of ways: listening to children read; working with small groups; accompanying visits or working in our resource areas.
At Holy Trinity CofE Primary School we have a very extensive and well equipped library incorporating a large area for quiet reading and research. All pupils are encouraged to borrow and enjoy the rich and varied selection of books.
We aim to prepare our children for the future, developing the skills and confidence to embrace tomorrow’s opportunities, using technology creatively to solve problems. Each class has an interactive whiteboard and networked computers with Internet access for small group work. Our ICT suite has 31 computers where children can make use of a wide range of software, screened websites and hardware. We currently have one class set of 30 Learnpad Tablets which can be used throughout the school using our WiFi network.
Music thrives in our school. We have a well-equipped music room, in which each class has regular weekly sessions. A variety of instrumental tuition is also available from our Surrey instrumental teachers.
We have a well-equipped hall for gymnastics and dance in addition to a large field and playground area for outdoor sports and games. Pupils in Year 4 and 5 have swimming lessons in the summer term at Gordon’s Secondary School.
Each year group has two classes with children and staff working closely together. Our considerable investment in support staff and volunteer help means children have a lot of adult support.
Reception children are based in their own accommodation and learn in a rich, stimulating and caring environment, both indoors and outside. They work and play by themselves, with other children and with adults. Children are naturally curious, creative and physical: so we encourage their natural interest in the world around them, provide resources and ideas to fuel their imagination and creativity and we balance quiet and focussed times with activities that capitalise on their energy and develop their physical skills.
Year 1 and Year 2 children are based together and all have immediate access to outdoor learning. In addition the Year 1 classrooms are attached to an outside canopy to enable learning outdoors to continue in all weathers. Lower school children have their own playground and older children volunteer to run clubs and act as ‘Buddies’.
Upper school children have a choice of two large playgrounds, one of which is solely for football the other is for alternative interests.
Both upper and lower school children are able to be together in the Retreat; this is a quiet area linking upper and lower school playgrounds.
In the summer months all children are allowed to play on the field at lunchtimes.
Our extensive grounds provide space to grow, learn and thrive. We have an annual Working Party Day for parents, staff, governors and children to help keep our school grounds looking tidy. Our gardening club and Eco-warriors help to keep the school looking attractive and over the last two years we have been close runners in the Blooming Schools Award.
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Open–IX Association to Speak at DatacenterDynamics As-A-Service in Chicago
Executive Director Gabe Cole to Participate in Two Panels Focused on Network and Open Data Center Innovation
CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA – October 14, 2015 – The Open-IX Association (OIX), a 501(c)(6) non-profit industry association formed to promote better standards for data center interconnection and Internet exchanges, announces that its Executive Director, Gabe Cole, will speak at DatacenterDynamics As-A-Service, to be held October 27-28, 2015 at the Hilton Chicago.
Mr. Cole, joined by a representative from Google, will participate in the panel “Delivering a Low Latency, Very High Performance Network Fabric to Deal with Soaring Enterprise Data Dissemination Needs,” taking place at 10:20 AM on October 27. The panel will explore enterprises’ increased use of bandwidth-intensive applications such as videoconferencing and their impact on existing networks. Mr. Cole will also discuss how Open-IX is enabling open, low latency and high-performance architecture to help overcome today’s data-driven network challenges.
The next day, October 28 at 3:00 PM, Cole will join a plenary panel discussion, “Mapping the New Open Data Center Innovation Genome,” along with senior executives from IBM, StackingIT, the Open Compute Project Foundation and other open-source oriented organizations. The panel will explore the ongoing transformation of the data center and cloud infrastructure sectors from a vendor-driven, closed, proprietary and monolithic technology ecosphere to one of open-sourced, knowledge-community-designed and distributed technology. The session will also examine the business implications of an open-sourced data center and cloud technology services market, including the accompanying effects on the economics, transparency, performance and resilience of these services, and emerging technologies. Additionally, Mr. Cole will address the growth and overall mission of OPEN-IX®, which develops and promotes open, uniform standards for data centers, among other organizational imperatives.
A two-day event, DCD As-A-Service brings together senior business, operations and technology professionals from the world’s major colocation, cloud, telecoms and other data center and managed service providers to discuss the future of the rapidly growing data center sector. The program will run separate tracks on infrastructure deployment strategies, design, and operational efficiency, in addition to platform interoperability, investment, and demand-side dynamics. Featuring over 70 speakers across 55 sessions, the conference includes interactive workshops and a series of C-suite level roundtables.
Organized and operated by volunteers from the Internet, the Open-IX Association aims to increase the reliability, resiliency and competitiveness of massive-scale interconnection for all. With the help of broad participation of interconnect and data center professionals, the Association has successfully developed Internet Exchange and data center consensus-based community standards and certified 27 data centers and five exchanges since its establishment in 2013.
To request a meeting with the OPEN-IX® team at DatacenterDynamics As-A-Service, email OpenIX@imillerpr.com.
About Open-IX Association
The Open-IX Association (OIX) is an Internet community effort to improve the landscape of Internet peering and massive-scale interconnection. OIX encourages the development of neutral and distributed Internet exchanges while promoting uniform standards of performance for interconnections backed by the Internet community. The Association aims to promote common and uniform specifications for data transfer and physical connectivity and improve overall Internet performance by developing criteria and methods of measurement to reduce the complexity that restricts massive-scale interconnection in fragmented markets. The OIX Board is comprised of volunteer representatives from the Internet community, including William Charnock, Christian Koch, Chris Malayter, Keith Mitchell, Josh Snowhorn, David Temkin, and Barry Tishgart. New elected board members for 2016 are Greg Hankins and Vinay Nagpal, and David Temkin, who was re-elected, will be returning to the Board along with current Board members Charnock, Koch, Malayter and Snowhorn. More information about OIX can be found by visiting www.open-ix.org.
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MHA willing to reconsider ban on American donor NGO in India
The US donor has been working in the field of child rights for 48 years and is accused of funding non-Foreign Contribution Regulation Act registered NGOs.
Kamaljit Kaur Sandhu
UPDATED: December 9, 2016 09:51 IST
US Secretary of State John Kerry with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. Photo: Reuters
MHA to reconsider ban of US-based donor Compassion International.
Compassion International was put under prior permission category for violation of FCRA.
Several NGOs facing MHA wrath for Foreign Contribution Regulation Act violations.
After US NGO Compassion International threatened to wind up its operations in India, Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said it is willing to reconsider its decision to ban the US-based donor from funding Indian based NGOs.
"We are ready to reconsider the case of Compassion International, the US donor, which was put under 'prior permission category' for alleged violation of Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA)," a senior Home Ministry official told India Today.
Compassion International was put under prior permission category in May last. When a donor organisation is put under prior permission category, it is barred from funding any Indian NGO without the nod from the government, in this case Compassion East India and Caruna Bal Vikas.
The US donor has been working in the field of child rights for 48 years and is accused of funding non-FCRA registered NGOs.
Meanwhile on December 6, Stephen Oakley, senior vice president and general counsel of Compassion International, during a US congressional hearing accused the Narendra Modi government for trying to eliminate foreign NGOs.
"For 48 years Compassion has operated continuously and lawfully, helping over a quarter of a million children break the cycle of poverty. Until 2016, Compassion sent nearly $50 million per year in humanitarian aid to India, funding nearly 145,000 sponsored children in some of India's most impoverished and remote regions. MHA evidently views Christian values as a threat to the national interest, particularly if those values are taught to the poor. MHA has never provided Compassion or its partners with any explanation for the prior clearance order, nor has it ever responded to Compassion's multiple efforts to engage in dialogue," he said.
A spokesperson of Ministry of External Affairs defended the government's decision.
"Our attention has been drawn to a recent congressional hearing in the US regarding placing of an American NGO in the prior reference category by MHA. The hearing appears to be based on limited understanding of India, its society, Constitution and laws. There is a well-established legal framework for NGOs to conduct their operations in India. This is borne out by the presence of over three million NGOs in the country, one of the largest NGO networks in the world. India welcomes lawful operation of foreign NGOs in India," the spokesperson said.
It has been learnt that during a visit to India in September, US Secretary of State John Kerry had asked External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to reconsider the decision to place Compassion International in the prior permission category.
Several NGOs have been at receiving end of MHA's wrath for FCRA violations.
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OHCHR: Security forces saved lives of 1,000 people in Ramadi
by Amre Sarhan Jan 8, 2016, 9:26 pm 1 Comment
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(IraqiNews.com) The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Iraq announced on Friday, that the security forces managed to save a thousand people, mostly women and children, in the city of Ramadi, while transferred them to camps in Habbaniyah.
Member of the commissioner, Fadel Ghraoui, said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “The Anti-Terrorism and Anbar police rescued 1,000 civilians in Ramadi, mostly women and children, and transferred them to a camp in Habbaniyah.”
Ghraoui stated, “The security forces are securing and preserving the lives of civilians in Ramadi,” noting that, “The transport of families comes in coordination with the local authorities in Anbar.”
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Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down." -Revelation 12:10
The devil is a liar. But that is not all. He is a defeated liar! Though he accuses us before God for our weakness and sin, Jesus answers on our behalf in an instant, “Father, forgive them.” Denied in heaven, the work of the accuser seeks to find a footholf among the fleshy ears of those who are vulnerable to criticize others in the Body of Christ. His words seek to be heard in the minds of those downcast and disocuraged by failure in their own lives.
But rejoice, beloved. “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1). The accuser has been defeated. Confess your sins and be healed, and reject the lying words of a defeated foe. Our debt has been paid. Our ransom is complete. Our shame has been covered by the grace of God. Rejoice, the One who saves you is the same One who accepts you, and by the work of the Holy Spirit continues the process of His renewing work in you!
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he poured the precious dream
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‘The Enormous Crocodile’ was the first book which children’s author Roald Dahl and illustrator Quentin Blake worked on together. The two soon became firm friends, cementing one of the most eye-catching and distinctive collaborations in children’s literature. Many of Dahl’s books are based on the stories he made up at bedtime for his own children and his work has been published in over 40 languages. He died in 1990 and and is considered a modern classic. “I could never guess what he was going to think of next.” Quentin Blake
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The 15 Most Popular Snack Brands in the World
Published on November 5, 2017 at 10:00 am by Tim Frederick in News
The 15 most popular snack brands in the world are a guilty (or not) pleasure for billions of people around the world, many of whom indulge in them frequently. These snack brands are at the forefront of a $400 billion industry, one that is rapidly growing in developed countries.
According to the Nielsen Global Snacking Survey, snacking tastes vary quite dramatically by region, which affects the popularity of snack brands around the world. In North America, chips dominate the snacking industry, with the most popular chip brands in America being PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE:PEP)’s Lays, with more than double the sales of Ruffles, the second-best selling brand of chips (also owned by Frito-Lay/Pepsi) in the U.S during the 52-week period ended June 11, 2017. Doritos dominates the U.S tortilla-style chip market, with an even bigger lead over Tostitos.
Even favorite chip flavors vary greatly within North America. According to Statista, the most popular chip flavors in the U.S are Plain, Barbeque, Sour Cream & Onion, and Salt & Vinegar. All Dressed and Ketchup, which are hugely popular in Canada, are nowhere to be seen, and in fact Ruffles only recently started selling its All Dressed flavor in the U.S.
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If you checked out our recent article on the 11 Most Popular Snacks In The World, you would have seen that chocolate ranked as the most popular snack globally, with 64% of people surveyed having eaten chocolate in the past 30 days. Given that, it’s not surprising that chocolate-related brands are the most well represented on our list of the 15 most popular snack brands in the world, with five chocolate brands and one chocolate cookie brand being among the 15. What’s more surprising is the inclusion of five gum/mint/candy-related brands, which didn’t fare nearly as well on the Snack Attack report, at just 33%.
With many snack categories overflowing with entrenched options, snack food companies have begun trying to steal the thunder of food companies by pushing snack bars, which have become increasingly popular among millenials as a quick meal replacement. Of the top 5 new snack products released in the U.S during the 2011-2016 period, snack bars were the overwhelming leader, with nearly twice as many new products launched in that category than in any other. Nuts, fruit snacks, corn-based snacks, and potato snacks rounded out the top 5.
If you’re ready to discover the 15 most popular snack brands in the world, head to the next page to begin the countdown. We’ve based their popularity on the number of likes that each brand has on Facebook.
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Super Mario Run Apk Apps Download & Play Now
By Mukesh Mali | July 8, 2017
Nintendo, the developer behind the popular Mario title has finally released the Super Mario Run for Android after the game made its debut on iOS a while back. The game is free to download and play for the initial three levels, but if you want to go ahead you will have to pay $10. Nintendo made a tweet regarding the launch of the game on Play Store. However, in India Google Play is still stuck with the pre-register button and I found no option to download it. Super Mario run free coins
Though, here’s a good news for you as we have got the Super Mario Run APK so that you can just download it, install the APK and start playing. However, it was a bit unexpected as Nintendo had earlier announced that the game will hit the Play Store tomorrow. But suddenly they announced the arrival of the game via Twitter.
Though it’s good to see the classic Mario returning to Android. But we are a little doubtful about the success of the game as even with more than one million downloads on iPhones, only 3% of the users actually ended up purchasing the full version.
Super Mario Run [Android] Initial Impressions
Don’t expect to be like a classic Mario game. The game can be played on portrait mode only and one thing that I found irritating was that Mario keeps running and in case you miss a pink coin, you have two options- either jump and die in a pit or restart the level. That’s what I could get from a few minutes of gameplay. However, I think I should spend some more time with it to know more about it and provide a final opinion.
Super Mario Run APK Download links
Here are the links from various cloud services from where you can download the Super Mario Run APK for Android.
That’s all for now. Download Super Mario Run APK and enjoy. We will provide more updates and will try to come up with a review, if we like the game.
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Pragmatics and Society — Recommend this title to your library
Pragmatics and Society
The importance of borrowing across disciplines
The anthropological notion of speech events
Author(s): Roger W. Shuy1
Affiliations: 1 Georgetown University (emer.)
Source: Pragmatics and Society, Volume 10, Issue 3, Oct 2019, p. 452 - 469
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.18060.shu
Version of Record published : 22 Oct 2019
Over the years, linguists have borrowed from other allied fields, including speech events from cultural anthropology, schema theory from psychology, speech acts from philosophy, and conversational strategies from rhetoric. In analyzing large and continuous chunks of conversational data, the first and most important of these borrowings is the speech event, for it sets the stage in which the other language elements are embedded and provides a useful sequence for analyzing everything else, including the conventional linguistic tools of the grammar and lexicon.
The present paper represents the optimal sequence of analysis as an Inverted Pyramid, starting with the speech event and then moving down the order to schemas, agendas, speech acts, conversational strategies, and finally to the grammar and lexicon that are embedded within each other. Two prominent criminal law investigations are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the Inverted Pyramid approach for understanding this evidence.
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Evidentiality in social interaction
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The Japanese Chamber of Commerce & Industry (JCCI), Singapore was established in July 1969 in accordance with the Company Act of Singapore.
To promote and expand both trade and investments between Singapore and Japan.
To contribute towards the advancement of the Singapore Economy.
To promote and cultivate friendship and mutual co-operation among the members of the Chamber, and at the same time, to contribute towards the advancement of both the Japanese and Singapore economy.
Membership Size: 825 members (as of December 2018)
– 36 Councilors (including 1 President and 6 Vice-Presidents)
– 1 Auditor, 3 Consultants
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8 Sub-Committees
JCCI Singapore members are categorized into 8 Sub-Committees for engagement in activities such as: –
Seminars (i.e. Business Management in Singapore, National Projects & others)
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Visits to Factories and Industrial Parks
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Member Services Committee
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The Chamber represents Japanese business community as a whole to voice out the members’ opinions and suggestions to the Singapore government in order to have a better business environment.
Representatives from the Chamber sit in the committees of organizations like Singapore Business Federation (SBF) and the National Wages Council (NWC) for the purpose of exchanging valuable views and sharing opinions.
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Hedging your bets: how editors triage and review submissions
The roundtable discussion
Viewpoint Free access | 10.1172/JCI126456
The JCI Scholar experience: perspectives from young physician-scientists
Austin K. Mattox1,2 and Justin Lowenthal2,3,4
1Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
2Medical Scientist Training Program, and
3Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
4Institute for NanoBioTechnology, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Address correspondence to: Austin K. Mattox, 1650 Orleans Street, The Bunting Blaustein Cancer Research Building Room 520, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA. Phone: 410.955.8878; Email: amattox1@jhmi.edu. Or to: Justin Lowenthal, 1830 East Monument Street, Suite 2-300, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA. Phone: 410.474.6939; Email: jilowenthal@jhmi.edu.
Authorship note: AM and JL contributed equally to this work.
Find articles by Mattox, A. in: JCI | PubMed | Google Scholar
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Published February 4, 2019 - More info
Published in Volume 129, Issue 3 on March 1, 2019
J Clin Invest. 2019;129(3):941–943. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI126456.
Published February 4, 2019 - Version history
The JCI Scholar program was established with the goal of mentoring young physician-scientists on the art and science of peer review and scientific editorship. While simultaneous training in basic research and clinical reasoning serves as the foundation of a young physician-scientist’s career, peer review and editorial decision making around submitted scientific work are not often a focus of physician-scientist training. These processes remain enigmatic to many physician-scientists in training.
The program seeks to benefit trainees as they design their scientific pursuits by providing a behind-the-scenes look at peer review — being a “Drosophila on the wall” during conversations among editorial board members as they evaluate the merit of scientific and clinical research, then taking a more active role in assisting on manuscript reviews and editorial decisions. Throughout our tenure as JCI Scholars, we have had the privilege of serving as reviewers and editors in training, mentored by physician-scientists who are pioneers in their respective fields. Here, we hope to share a few of our experiences with the aim of educating and motivating other young physician-scientists and their mentors.
As physician-scientists in training, we are taught to tackle research questions that we hope will not only lead to cutting-edge scientific advances, but will also change the trajectory of disease management in the clinic. We package our findings into manuscripts for the first time, faced with strategic decisions about framing a scientific narrative. After submission, we eagerly await peer reviews and editorial comments. But what actually happens while we are waiting? This middle is largely a black box to many of us.
Though our mentors may engage us to coauthor review papers or assist in drafting the occasional peer review, the factors editors use to make decisions are often a mystery. The editorial process can seem particularly opaque for journals that have broad readership and that uphold a standard for publishing only science that achieves both rigorous mechanistic investigation and clinical relevance. Editorial decision making toward achieving this standard is not as straightforward as a linear distillation of reviewer comments; rather, there are broader considerations related to the impact of a story, its likelihood of changing clinical or public health care, and its priority both in and out of the scientific and clinical fields the work represents.
In our time as JCI Scholars, we have observed and synthesized five factors that are key to the trajectory of the manuscript’s novelty, scope, and translational relevance as well as constructive reviews and respect for authors on the part of the journal. These factors have been gleaned from our time at JCI, yet we think their importance is generalizable.
Novelty. One of the first qualities editors assess is the novelty of a paper’s findings. Do the results significantly advance our understanding of a scientific field through mechanistic in vitro, in vivo, and/or epidemiologic study? Does the hypothesis represent the discovery of a missing link or a critical tool long sought in the field? Does the work represent a launching point for a clinical intervention or an opportunity to alter clinical practice? When deciding whether a manuscript should be sent for peer review, editors comb the literature to determine whether any part of the submission — hypothesis, experimental approach, or results in whole or part — has already been published.
For this reason, we have found that appropriately framing the submission is crucial. Highlighting the current state of research and how the submitted manuscript shifts existing paradigms improves the odds that a paper will be sent for review. This framework can be effectively built through use of introductory exposition that situates the work and its motivation, presentation of research findings to highlight key data, and discussion to provide broad context for the study’s findings, its limitations, and new areas it opens.
Scope. Another factor we have found important to consider is the readership scope of a journal. This operates on at least two axes: (a) the choice between a journal of broad readership or one that is directed toward a specific field, and (b) the tendency of a journal to focus on basic scientific mechanism versus overt translational applicability. Put more simply, one might ask any of the following: Will all physicians read this or just renal pathologists? Is this paper digestible across scientific fields, or will only experts in cancer genomics data analysis be likely to read and cite it?
Generally, journals publish papers that are interesting to the majority of their readers. Manuscripts with findings that are clearly generalizable to broad areas of science (e.g., cancer, cardiovascular disease, immunology, infectious diseases) are thus more likely to be accepted into journals with broad readership than are manuscripts focused on specialized topics. Though this may seem intuitive, it is often difficult to know whether your own work is of broad interest. Thinking critically about the scope of the work being submitted will improve chances of a positive result in the editorial process — How impactful is the story? How convincing are the data? How broad is the set of experimental approaches taken? Will those outside my field be intrigued by this work?
Translational relevance. A primary focus of life sciences journals with broad readership is publishing findings that may help clinicians and scientists better understand or improve human health. Studies that are rooted in human specimens or extend findings in model organisms to clinical samples are often more compelling. Choice of animal models is similarly critical. Scientists must consider to what extent a model recapitulates human disease, whether knockouts or transgenic overexpression models are overly artificial, and whether multiple animal models are needed to best elucidate a mechanism. In our experience, even if these experiments were not part of the initial submission, reviewers commonly request these additional studies. We have found that manuscripts that include direct human connections are more successful than those that do not, and those that have a combination of the above strategies are more successful still.
Quality of peer reviews. Constructive peer reviews by experts in the manuscript’s scientific field (or fields) strengthen the manuscript and help editors further assess novelty, scientific rigor, and relevance to human disease. Helpful reviews demonstrate a thorough reading of the paper by assessing contribution to the field overall, scientific rigor of the studies depicted (including the use of proper controls and the validity of the animal and cell line models chosen in the studies), and generalizability of the findings beyond the specific disease studied. As future reviewers, we note that reviews of sufficient length and detail can be incredibly helpful to editors and authors alike, although it is not necessary (and often unhelpful) to provide fine-grained comments line by line, figure by figure. Editors will synthesize major/key concerns and suggestions from reviews received.
It is important to dedicate time to serving as a reviewer when one is asked. Not only is this crucial to the advancement of science, but were more researchers to take a “pay it forward” philosophy such as this, it would go a long way toward streamlining the editorial processes at many journals. Editors can often have a difficult time finding sufficient reviewers (in quantity or quality) in a timely manner, particularly because editors will often need to solicit reviews from those with different types of expertise on the manuscript in question. Editors are thus grateful for reviewers who are thoughtful and reliable.
One last point is critical: peer reviews are not the only consideration for editors when deciding the fate of a manuscript. Editors may allow authors to revise a paper with unfavorable reviews due to the potential impact of the work if sufficiently revised; conversely, editors may choose to reject a paper with favorable reviews due to concerns raised during the editorial board meeting or because the favorable review from one reviewer is offset by unfavorable reviews from others.
Fairness to authors. Most journals aim to be fair to authors. Editorial boards respect the reviews by experts in the field and encourage authors to incorporate suggestions that strengthen the manuscript and improve its clarity. Generally, addressing all comments made by reviewers significantly improves the chances of acceptance, so doing that one additional experiment or validating the findings in an additional data set suggested during the review is advantageous. In exchange, journal editorial boards discuss the importance of due process. Due process involves providing editorial decisions in a timely manner and seeking reviews expeditiously, attempting to avoid moving the goalpost by considering what authors were previously asked to do during a first revision when reviewers suggest a second round of edits, and considering the novelty of a manuscript at the time of original submission.
Beyond consideration of individual manuscripts, scientific journals and their editors shape the progress of science and dissemination of its findings. In our experience, how the JCI operates is unique among its peers in ways that demonstrate the quality of work that come from the JCI. Our editors meet in person weekly to discuss each manuscript sent for review. These meetings are fundamental to the success of the journal: they allow editors to collaborate when discussing manuscripts that bridge multiple scientific disciplines, ask clarifying questions about the paper’s story, debate how to weigh the input of various reviewers, and hold a consensus vote on a paper’s outcome.
These roundtable discussions help us refine the scientific method in modern times. Technological advancements — next-generation sequencing, CRISPR, transgenic animal models, and pluripotent stem cells, among many others — have accelerated and often transformed science. Yet each comes with limitations. As the scientific community wrestles with establishing a gold standard for these advancements, the varied experiences and expertise of the JCI editors form a sounding board for advice. Fellow editors help investigate the appropriateness of a model system, stress the need for human relevance, detect flaws in an approach, weigh the statistical analysis and applicability of genome-wide association studies and RNA-sequencing data analysis, and study the methods used to derive stem cells and their progeny. Likewise, discussions would often take a broader philosophical turn, with editors engaging one another in debates on policies of open access, engaging with preprint servers, and disseminating science in an era of social media and new electronic platforms.
Mentorship roles evolve as science progresses. Young physician-scientists still require the technical and intellectual training that is an essential foundation to performing high-quality research and conducting rigorous and innovative experimental design. Increasingly, however, there is a need to train these new members in the arts of peer review, editorship, scientific dissemination, and communication to the public discourse writ large.
Strong mentorship allows young physician-scientists the opportunity to strengthen their analysis of scientific accuracy, learn how to communicate with other authors about additional experiments that would strengthen their manuscripts, translate research articles into language accessible to the larger research community, and explain the importance of their work to the public. These young scientists will grow to be more punctual, organized, thoughtful, and constructive in their own work and in returning assessments of peers’ works. The earlier in a scientist’s career a researcher learns these skills, the more impactful he or she will be.
Our tenure as JCI Scholars has shaped not only how we approach our own experiments and professional interactions, but also how we prioritize fulfilling an obligation to the larger scientific community by reviewing and strengthening others’ works. We hope that sharing our experience with JCI will stimulate mentors to teach young scientists how to craft constructive reviews and encourage other journals to educate the next generation of editors. We also hope young physicians and scientists embrace these opportunities as another facet of their professional training. The earlier we participate in these roles, the greater our potential to affect the trajectory of scientific advancement and benefit our current and future patients.
Reference information: J Clin Invest. 2019;129(3):941–943. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI126456.
Version 1 (February 4, 2019): Electronic publication
Version 2 (March 1, 2019): Print issue publication
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Structural Evolution
More than a decade ago my eyes first met Spain. At the time I was a student learning Spanish at the Campus de Milan in the Universidad de Oviedo. The abundance of political graffiti that the university had obviously given up erasing was surprising to a young man who had grown up in the U.S. Representatives of multiple parties had made nighttime visits to the campus to paint slogans and symbols that seemed wonderfully European. The most repeated and therefore presumably fervent was graffiti representative of political extremes. It was easy to find communist and fascist sympathies decorating the walls of this university in northern Spain.
It did not take long to understand that these extremes were the inheritors of Spain’s civil war and dictatorship. As with most times when a society or culture goes to war with itself, the issues surrounding Spain’s disintegration in the 1930s continue to be largely unresolved and remain wedges as a superficially unified country remains philosophically divided in many ways. One need only point to the controversy surrounding civil-war era mass graves to demonstrate how easily and quickly it is possible to find a sensitive nerve.
The Campus de Milan houses the classrooms, library, and offices associated with humanities. The principal buildings are long, evenly-built structures that –while only three stories- present an imposing presence thanks to high ceilings and therefore great height. This feeling is augmented by the fact that the mustard-colored buildings are surrounded by open space. Originally used to house a dictator’s repressive military, these former barracks have been transformed and given an educational end.
This poetic evolution of something as static as a building is ironic. This strikes me as particularly poignant as many years later I once again visit the campus and newly discover manifestations of extreme communist and fascist political views. What adapts faster to a young and currently suffering democracy in Spain: its structures or the people who inhabit them?
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DC police: Gunman shot at two officers
Updated: 3:51 PM PST Dec 12, 2019
Police lights are shown in this file photo.
SOURCE: file
An individual in a wooded area opened fire on police officers Thursday, D.C. police said.Backup responded, and police took the person into custody and recovered a weapon, the department's police chief said.According to the department, it happened around 4 p.m. Thursday when the police were in a police car, and no one was injured."It looks like he tried to assassinate a couple of our police officers," Metropolitan Police Department Chief Peter Newsham said.The reserve officers involve fully trained police who serve on a volunteer basis.Related video: Slain Houston officer honored in funeral service
An individual in a wooded area opened fire on police officers Thursday, D.C. police said.
Backup responded, and police took the person into custody and recovered a weapon, the department's police chief said.
According to the department, it happened around 4 p.m. Thursday when the police were in a police car, and no one was injured.
"It looks like he tried to assassinate a couple of our police officers," Metropolitan Police Department Chief Peter Newsham said.
The reserve officers involve fully trained police who serve on a volunteer basis.
Related video: Slain Houston officer honored in funeral service
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Internal audit shows someone outside City Hall ordered changes in City of Shreveport’s insurance coverage
A member of Mayor Adrian Perkins’ administration may have jumped the gun, issuing directive before becoming a city employee
By Doug Warner | December 12, 2019 at 6:45 PM CST - Updated December 12 at 9:38 PM
SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) — There’s an alarming discovery in a City of Shreveport audit given to City Council members within the past 24 hours.
(Source: internal City of Shreveport audit)
KSLA News 12 has obtained a copy as well and still is sifting through the document.
This independent, internal audit shows that a member of Mayor Adrian Perkins’ administration may have jumped the gun, initiating changes in the city’s insurance coverage before ever becoming a city employee.
Months ago, the audit was initiated by an audit committee made up of City Council members to try to clear up any timeline issues.
The final version of the 25-page audit was completed yesterday by the city’s internal audit office.
One of the biggest questions the audit was to answer is about the timeline of changes being made.
Changes were made to the city’s insurance coverage for Shreveport’s $815 million in assets fairly early in Mayor Adrian Perkins’ administration.
Did someone within the current administration initiate city business before Perkins officially became mayor?
Shortly after Perkins took office, two local insurance companies were fired.
The mayor then gave the job of covering the city’s potential losses to an out-of-town insurance provider.
Some council members questioned the timing of Perkins’ decision.
Beginning on page 10, the audit answers that concern in part.
It states that no appropriate process was followed.
The audit also reveals that the directive to broker new insurance for the city came from the current chief adviser to the mayor who was not a city employee at the time.
Now the question is whether that qualifies as illegal or unethical.
KSLA News 12 is in contact with the city administration and is awaiting more details.
Copyright 2019 KSLA. All rights reserved.
Doug Warner
Doug Warner anchors KSLA News 12 at 6:00 and 10:00 and reports stories that inspire in his weekly segment, The Good Stuff.
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Contractors working on city project in Minot test positive for COVID-19
FILE – This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. On Tuesday, April 21, 2020, U.S. health regulators OK’d the first coronavirus test that allows people to collect their own sample at home, a new approach that could help expand testing options in most states. The sample will still have to be shipped for processing back to LabCorp, which operates diagnostic labs throughout the U.S. (NIAID-RML via AP)
Ten contract employees working on a construction project in Minot recently tested positive for COVID-19.
The crew members have been isolated since their positive tests and have not returned to the worksite, according to Interim City Manager David Lakefield.
Lakefield also said the crew members are not City of Minot employees; they are employed by contractors working on a city project, so the positive cases will not cause disruptions to city services.
The site is closed for cleaning and additional testing.
“The City of Minot will continue to assist the First District Health Unit as they conduct contact
tracing to track any interactions these crew members may have had either at the worksite or in
the community,” Lakefield said.
by PJ Walker / Jan 17, 2021
Minot Public Schools is expanding Binax testing to more schools in the district after seeing a peak in interest.
Dr. Mark Vollmer says they began rapid testing for staff at 3 of the schools and have seen a pretty big interest. Between 25 to 35% of people in each building are taking part in the testing.
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Sir Wilfred’s celebrates four decades in business
Known for its fine coffee and cigars, Sir Wilfred’s is celebrating 40 years in business on Maui this year. Bill Burton (right) and his son, Monte, are guiding the family store at 707 Front St.
LAHAINA – A funky store that reflects the personality of its owner, jazz fan Bill Burton, Sir Wilfred’s in 2016 is celebrating 40 years in business on Maui.
Lined with concert posters and photos of musicians, the 707 Front St. store sells high-quality coffee, tea and tobacco products.
Bill and Cathy Burton opened their first store in 1976 at Maui Mall with little fanfare. After 20 years, they sold the store to Stan Cohen in 1996.
In 1987, they opened a second location at Lahaina Cannery Mall.
“It took us two years to figure out the retail mentality in Lahaina,” Bill explained. “In 1992, we started our first webpage, coffee@sirwilfreds.com, and it is a valuable tool to survive.
“All those years, we had many celebs attend our store, such as Sharon Stone buying cigars, Robin Williams drinking coffee, Alice Cooper saying ‘hi’ to us and many more.”
In 1996, the couple started the benefit “I Love Lahaina” that is still held annually.
“With the help of Ron Metoyer, we raised thousands of dollars for all the schools on the West Side,” Bill added.
A diehard jazz fan, Bill through the years has coordinated performances by local artists and Oahu stars Gabe Baltazar, Jimmy Borges, Melveen Leed, Betty Lou Taylor and many more.
Musician and former co-worker Metoyer helps Bill stage the Front Street Blues and Jazz Festival and other Maui Jazz Society shows.
When the Hawaii Omori Corp. sold Lahaina Cannery Mall, the couple left the mall and opened a store at Whalers Village.
“By that time, we had a big following from mail orders, locals and tourists. We had George Benson singing at our opening,” Bill recalled.
In 1999, Sir Wilfred’s moved to Front Street. Bill feels his business is a “destination store” that has “drawn many folks to Front Street that wouldn’t have come otherwise.”
Sir Wilfred’s is also a family business.
“Cathy passed away of cancer in 2014. It has been difficult without her, but our son, Monte Burton, has taken over as manager and done great and many more changes for the good,” Bill said.
“Believe it or not, Sir Wilfred’s will survive – no matter who the next president of the USA will be!”
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Sushant Singh Rajput Was In Discussions For A Film On 26/11 With Nikkhil Advani A Day Before His Death?
One day before his death, Sushant Singh Rajput was discussing a film on 26/11 with filmmaker Nikkhil Advani and producer Ramesh Taurani.
According To Sushant Singh Rajput’s Agent, Nikkhil Advani Gave The Actor Narration For His Upcoming Film Along With Ramesh Taurani On June 13
It has been almost 5 months since the unfortunate demise of Sushant Singh Rajput. His death gave the fans and loved ones a shock from which they are still struggling to recover. #JusticeForSushant has been one of the most popular social trends up lately because the fans want to know the real reason behind his death.
While the investigation about the reason behind his death is still going on there’s a major update about the late actor. Sushant Singh Rajput passed away on June 14 and it has now been reported that one day before it he was discussing a film on 26/11 with filmmaker Nikkhil Advani and producer Ramesh Taurani.
According to India Today, SSR’s client Uday Singh Gauri from CornerStone LLP has informed about the same to the Mumbai Police, the Central Bureau of Investigation, and the Enforcement Directorate. Sharing the details, Uday said, “We did a narration where Nikkhil Advani narrated an idea to him. You should actually corroborate this with Nikkhil Advani and Ramesh Taurani too. They had called me and I had called Sushant. It was a four-way conference call between Nikkhil Advani, Ramesh Taurani, myself and Sushant.”
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He also added, “I was on the call but I was just hearing because the narration was being given by Nikkhil. Nikkhil was talking, Sushant was talking and Ramesh ji was talking. He (Sushant) was asking the right questions.” He also informed that the conversation was not long but Sushant had said that he has understood the narration till the point and the discussion will move forward. SSR was also supposed to have a meeting on June 15 with someone.
Ramesh Taurani also had earlier said that he talked to the actor one day before his demise. However, he hadn’t commented about his desire of signing him for his film.
Meanwhile, Shekhar Suman demanded an apology from every person who thought he was banking on the death of Sushant Singh Rajput to pursue politics in Bihar.
“When I met Tejashwi Yadav in connection with Sushant in Patna, a lot of ppl accused me of having political ambitions. The Bihar elections have come n gone and I couldn’t care a fig about it. With these creeps who accused me now come forward and say sorry to me,” he tweeted.
After Sushant’s death in June, Shekhar Suman started a social media campaign demanding justice for Sushant. The actor had faced criticism from a section of netizens who accused him of banking on the actor’s death for his own political ambitions.
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Why the Best Documentaries of 2020 Resonate More Than Ever Right Now
They're having way too much fun to care what you think of this situation; Credit: Katie Bain
In Defense of Jam Bands
Katie Bain January 28, 2013
[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.]
On a warm August night in 2011, roughly 18,000 Angelenos converged on the Hollywood Bowl, to partake in the swirl of cosmic hedonism and guitar noodling that is a Phish show.
See also: My Brother Got Married. The Theme of the Wedding Was Widespread Panic
L.A. concert culture can be unusual — sometimes clique-ish and often rife with a general unwillingness or inability to break the cool barrier and really get down. On that night though, there were no pretensions or hang-ups. There were no eastsiders or westsiders, no execs or assistants, no well-dressed or dumpy. No one who wondered aloud: “Can an intelligent person like Phish?”
There was only the feeling of frenzied joy, created by the band everyone loves to make fun of, Phish. In the parking lot across the street, happy phans lounged on the grass drinking beer, smoking bowls and trading stories of the far flung places around the globe they'd seen the band. (The dude who chased them to Japan was the clear winner.) Walking into the Bowl, a pretty older woman who looked like a college art professor pulled a sack of cookies out of her tote bag and handed me two. “These are special,” she said with a wink. “Happy Phish day.”
Inside, it was a celebration. We all fell into a reverent hush when Jon Fishman sang “Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover.” Between sets, the bearded dude sitting next to me gave me half of his ham sandwich and a pull from his flask. From the boxes to the bleachers, people danced. The light show was dazzling. And not just because the cookies were special.
Still, jam bands are pretty much the punching bag of the music industry. Which is maybe not hard to understand considering its denizens' predilections for dreadlocks, tie dye, hula-hoops and barefootedness. But let's not confuse free-spiritedness with stupidity.
Jam band culture is rooted in the tradition of exercising one's basic urges through an ecstatic musical experience, whether through taking drugs and playing with devil sticks or doing that particular kind of twirl dancing seen almost exclusively at jam shows. Scoff all you want, but isn't there a certain bravery to doing the things that make you feel good regardless of — make that, especially if — people think you look like an idiot while doing it?
And you can bet that Phish heads, Deadheads, and Panic people cavorting in parking lots and grassy fields do not care what you think. And that's heroic. And sometimes revelatory.
Due to a deep-seeded fear of looking like a moron, I used to not dance in public at all. This habit began the night I fell on the ground at a middle school dance after slipping on the toilet paper stuck to my shoe and lasted until the first time I saw Widespread Panic. After standing in that field for the first few songs, suppressing the urge to flail my limbs around, I looked at the scene happening around me and realized two things: That everyone dancing was way too focused on the fun they were having to judge the quality of my moves, and that I wanted in.
Now, when I go to shows, I dance. Sometimes I twirl around. Maybe people think I look silly, and maybe I do. What I realized that night was that neither of those things actually matter.
Another critique is that jam bands actually sound terrible, which is sometimes fair. Trey Anastasio's voice is no great gem and Phish's harmonies often sound like a group of hungry cats. Widespread Panic fares bit better, what with John Bell's southern warble. Big Gigantic and My Morning Jacket are clearly rad, and moe. definitely sounds excellent when there is a enough Sour Diesel involved. What most people who hate jam bands hate most, however, is, of course, the jamming, the excessive soloing and 45 minute versions of songs that last four minutes on an album.
Who can argue with this?; Credit: Katie Bain
Sure it can all be a bit indulgent, but what's undeniable is the level of musicianship displayed by guys — often really old guys — who can improvise a prolonged guitar jam off the top of their heads and thrill a sea of people. Not knowing where the sound is going to go is the essence of this music, which is all about the live experience. It makes for constant creative expansion, and fuels each group's mythology. Which a lot more rock and roll than the “tight” 45 minute set your favorite indie rock band played at the Echo last month.
Genre prophet Jerry Garcia probably put it best when he said: “We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.” People who appreciate Phish, the Dead, moe., Bob Weir and Ratdog, Widespread Panic, Phil Lesh and Friends, String Cheese Incident, Medeski Martin and Wood, Motet, EOTO and the like typically do so without sarcasm and without restraint. These people fucking love licorice.
And, as easy as it is to mock them, actually attending one of these shows can be game changer. When you're in the thick of the crowd and Panic is hitting the climax on “All Time Low,” and the air is rich with the smell of weed smoke and you're being hypnotized by the lights, it's an undeniable feeling. And even for you jaded motherjumpers: aren't good vibes ultimately what a top notch musical experience is all about?
Then of course there are the drugs. It's weird to mock jam band fans for liking drugs because, outside of straight-edge punk, lovers of nearly every genre take drugs. But if you're going to go there, admit that the LSD and other psychedelics favored by Phish fans can actually open the mind up in productive, creative and cathartic ways. Or sometimes you just end in a deserted parking ramp alone and off your face on nitrous after a Panic show (like a friend of mine once did) and decide that a lifestyle change is in order. Hey, at least it's not meth.
Ultimately, jam band land is not really that cool. It's not trying to be. Rather, it is a happily weird world where extended drum solos can make grown men, (and hippie chicks toting small children), weep tears of joy. Obviously it's not for everyone, but outsiders who find themselves at one of these events are likely to feel the warm (and slightly sweaty) embrace of this worldwide tribe. If you don't believe us, ask the Boss. After all, you know who looked happiest when Bruce Springsteen jammed on “Glory Days” with Phish at Bonnaroo 2009? Bruce Springsteen.
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Will Sacramento let city transportation officials go rogue?; Credit: Ted Soqui
New California Bill Will Let L.A. Squeeze in More Bike Lanes, Sans Environmental Review
Simone Wilson August 28, 2012
Although they're hard to hear over the impassioned roar of cycling advocates at L.A. City Hall, some local homeowners and car drivers are freaking out over AB 2245, a feel-good state bill pitched by Assemblyman Cameron Smyth (R-Santa Clarita) as a fast track to a greener Los Angeles County.
Jim O'Sullivan, president of the Miracle Mile Residential Association, says of the moment he accidentally discovered the bill: “I just went ballistic.”
That's because, if approved by Governor Jerry Brown, it will exempt any new bike lane that doesn't interfere with street parking…
… from undergoing an environmental review (EIR), as would be otherwise mandated under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Assemblyman Smyth, its author, argues that bike lanes are as environmentally friendly as an infrastructure project can get — so why would they ever need a so-called “environmental” review?
Painting the city green, by any means necessary.; Credit: LADOT Bike Blog via Flickr
Because of his squeaky-green reasoning, AB 2245 is the sole survivor out of three last-minute attempts by the Legislature to unravel CEQA — the only one that got past fierce California environmentalists and made it to Gov. Brown's desk during this home stretch. (In case you're in the dark, right now is gutting-and-amending time in Sacramento. That's because the last possible moment for state politicians to approve their bills for this session will be Friday, Aug. 31, at midnight.)
While Smyth is correct in a very literal sense — yeah, OK, bikes are awesome for the environment — CEQA is in place to ensure that a project be closely examined for its potential impacts on human society, such as traffic flow and overall quality of life.
And the particular type of bike lanes that will get a free pass under AB 2245 — those that don't require street widening, just restriping — tend to have an especially huge impact on all those other evil people on the road.
You know, the 99 percent of us who don't (or can't) bike to work.
It's pretty simple: The more space L.A. sets aside on its roads for bicycles, the less space there will be for cars to flow freely. This could become a real problem on streets like Westwood or Hoover, which barely move at rush hour as is.
But the bill is ultra-convenient for the L.A. Department of Transportation, currently faced with installing a daunting 1,680 miles worth of bike lane, as promised to the cycling zealots by L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in 2011. At LADOT's current bike-lane construction rate of 40 miles per year, however, the mayor will be 93 years old before his promise comes true.
So Assemblyman Smyth offered a quick fix: Why not whiz right past that pesky EIR stage, straight to the road diet?
His plan would likewise be a huge help for the L.A. County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's own political bicycle ambitions, Smyth explains in his bill analysis:
“The County of Los Angeles just recently approved an ambitious plan to add 832 miles of new bikeways. Many of these will be of the Class II variety where simple restriping is all that is needed to connect communities for nonmotorized travel.”
O'Sullivan, however, feels that bike lanes are already getting jammed through the public-input process, even without a fast-track from Sacramento.
Hancock Park resident and L.A. City Hall watchdog Jack Humphreville agrees. The only community outreach that the city has done for the lanes so far, he says, is to conduct low-profile meetings at which “they're preaching to us. They're not taking our input.”
So, although Smyth's bill would require less exhaustive “traffic and safety impact assessments” to be conducted in place of EIRs, O'Sullivan doubts they'll address any real issues — such as existing highway congestion and the displacement of cars onto smaller streets in packed neighborhoods like his own.
Remove EIRS from the equation altogether, says Humphreville, and “we won't have the ability to get any idea of what the traffic impact [of bike lanes] will be in our neighborhood. It's sort of a slam, bam, thank you ma'am.”
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LA Weekly February 28, 2007
Rickie Lee Jones at Henry
Fonda Theater The
story of Jesus of Nazareth has been told, retold, interpreted and
misinterpreted by a legion of true believers, spiritual seekers and
even fanatics who deliver salvation with a sword or a gun. Rickie Lee
Jones is probably thinking of such zealots on her new album when she
declares, “See all those people praying on TV and in the churches/they
like to make a big parade out of what they’re doing.” She prefers
having a private conversation with God on her new CD, The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard (New West), which was inspired by her producer Lee Cantelon’s book The Word,
which recasts the Christ legend in an artier, more personal and less
dogmatic fashion. And unlike the sometimes slick mainstream-pop
settings of her early work, the best songs on Exposition churn with a
raw, acoustic-based radiance, such as “Tried to Be a Man,” where her
filtered, hushed vocals simmer over swampy Creedence guitars, evoking
the boho vibe of her old pal Tom Waits. Jones sounds just as influenced
by another oft-misunderstood Jewish prophet — Lou Reed — on quietly
ecstatic tunes like “Nobody Knows My Name.” (Falling James)
Macromantics at the Echo If
you think Lady Sovereign is a weak rapper with little to say besides
how great she thinks she is, you might prefer Romy Hoffman, a.k.a.
Macromantics. The Australian performer is much more intelligent and
aware of the world around her, and she’s influenced as much by feminist
riot-grrl icons like Bikini Kill, Crass’ Eve Libertine and Lydia Lunch
as she is by rap forefathers like Wu Tang Clan, Big Daddy Kane and Nas.
On her new Kill Rock Stars CD, Moments in Movement,
Miss Macro wastes little time on braggadocio and self-affirmation,
preferring instead to “axe and slash the fascist fucks.” She’s joined
by guests Ground Components on “Dark Side of Dallas,” where she reveals
a surreally poetic side when she chants, “I give you the swarm of
apostrophes/who dream in patches of splashes as magic as black is.” She
meets her match on the autobiographical statement of purpose
“Locksmith,” where she exchanges robotic-voice verses with her male
doppelgänger, Sage Francis. DJ Amy scratches up an intriguing brew of
magnificent sound effects, although a little more melodic variety would
break up Miss Macro’s singsong delivery. (Falling James)
Also playing Thursday:
JOSH RITTER, SUBMARINES at El Rey Theatre; THE KRIS SPECIAL at Mr. T’s Bowl; BAD DUDES, THE MAE SHI, BIPOLAR BEAR at the
Smell ; JOSH HADEN at Tangier.
Snow Patrol, OK Go, Silversun Pickups at Gibson
With oodles of cred already in place, Scotland’s Snow Patrol went for the commercial
jugular with 2006’s gorgeously produced opus Eyes Open. Propelled by
placement in prominent TV shows (sign of the times, eh?), the single “Chasing
Cars” swiftly became last year’s default music in malls and dorms across America,
but this doesn’t detract from Snow Patrol’s studied, melodramatic craftsmanship
and Gary Lightbody’s delicately textured, I-am-singing-this-for-you-and-only-you
timbre. Comparisons to Coldplay are simplistic: Snow Patrol have blunted their
edges, but they’re still downright jagged next to Chris Martin’s lot. Right now
OK Go are better known for their Grammy-winning (and truly inspired) “Here It
Goes Again” video than their peppy, Weezeresque sonic shtick. Silversun Pickups
are the current toast of Silver Lake scenesters, their shamelessly Smashing Pumpkins–y
“Lazy Eye” single — all scribbles of guitar and sensitive-type vocals — both cozy
and summery, intimate and escapist. (Paul Rogers)
Clinic, Sea Wolf at the Troubadour
“Keep yourself hidden,” Ade Blackburn warns insistently amid the undulating waves
of tremolo on “Gideon,” from Clinic’s recent psychedelic séance, Visitations
(Domino). He’s not kidding about this secrecy stuff. He shrouds his ambiguous
lyrics and tense-yet-spacy vocals in an impenetrable effects-laden wall of gauze,
and he is, after all, accompanied by men wearing surgical masks. They could be
Sky Saxon & the Seeds under those disguises on such fuzz-drenched garage-rock
stompers as “Children of Kellogg” and “The New Seeker,” but Clinic also have a
more expansive side, opening up a Can of space-junk echoes and drifting off into
the galactic soup on “Paradise” and “Animal/Human.” Despite some retro references,
Visitations is a thoroughly modern, creepily beautiful trip, especially on “If
You Could Read Your Mind,” which stalks along a sinister “Lucifer Sam”–style riff.
L.A.’s Sea Wolf are comparatively mellower as singer-guitarist Alex Brown Church
strums gentle tunes like “Middle Distance Runner” and “Black Dirt” from their
upcoming Dangerbird Records EP, You’re a Wolf. (Falling James)
Sweeter Than the Day at Café Metropol
Composer/pianist/electronic musician Wayne Horvitz is a very, very special case in contemporary American music, a blessedly progressive thinker and tastefully wide-reaching player straddling a peculiarly personal range of genres. You might remember his steaming fusion-funk combo Zony Mash or the avant-prog-jazz-rocking Pigpen, or his earlier work in the N.Y. downtown scene alongside the likes of John Zorn, Carla Bley, Fred Frith, Bill Frisell and Bobby Previte; recent critically praised projects include his improvised-composition chamber ensemble Gravitas Quartet, not forgetting his work with his acclaimed composer/wife, Robin Holcomb. Formed in 1999, the improvisatory Sweeter Than the Day began as the acoustic incarnation of Zony Mash, with Horvitz caressing a gloriously airy yet — typically for him — harmonically serpentine acoustic piano; Timothy Young is the band’s cerebrally soothing guitarist, given a kind of propulsive, buttery interplay by acoustic bassist Keith Lowe and drummer Andy Roth. Also Sat. 923 E. Third St., dwntwn. (213) 613-1513, or www.cafemetropol.com. (John Payne)
Musiq Soulchild at the
This Philly-based dude is the neo-soul singer of choice for folks who’ve got no quarrel with Dreamgirls’ implicit suggestion that earthy nightclub performers always beat flashy disco stars. As his flower-power handle suggests, Musiq Soulchild cares far more about his R&B bona fides than the heat of his beats. That hasn’t always yielded the most thrilling music; each of the three albums Musiq made for Def Jam seems to go on forever, awash in a warm bath of electric-piano ooze — handsome, for sure, but a bit flat compared to stuff by more daring peers such as D’Angelo and Erykah Badu. “Buddy,” the snappy lead single from Musiq’s upcoming Atlantic debut, Luvanmusiq, heralds an improvement: It rides a sly radio-friendly groove that manages to sound both fresh and old school at the same time, and features Musiq’s most relaxed vocal to date. Perhaps he’s finally ditched his fear of fun. (Mikael Wood)
The Hangmen, The Superbees, The Binges at Safari Sam’s
Back when they emerged from their mountain cave in Idaho and crawled down to Hollywood
in the late ’80s, the Hangmen were one of the few underground bands who were hard
rocking enough to play on bills with Guns ’N Roses while also opening for darker
and stranger performers like the Gun Club. Since then, singer-guitarist Bryan
Small has led several lineups of the Hangmen through the muck & mire, finally
getting some long-overdue national attention in recent years after touring with
Social Distortion and releasing several consistently excellent CDs on Acetate
Records. The Hangmen’s sound is typified by Small’s distinctively sneering howl,
backed by mighty thunderous Johnny Thunders guitars, as on the band’s pummeling
version of the Rolling Stones’ “Citadel” on 2004’s Loteria. The Superbees,
who began in 1992 with a sound that crossed the Hangmen’s seediness with the full-tilt
attack of the MC5 and Radio Birdman, are playing tonight for the first time in
almost five years. They’ll be pushed along by the Binges, one of the few new bands
who have the same no-bullshit, non-indie-rocking drive as the headliners. (Falling
James)
Also playing Friday:
ALEXI MURDOCH, MIDNIGHT MOVIES at El Rey Theatre; JOEY ALTRUDA, PLEASANT GEHMAN, COATI MUNDI at the
Bordello; BODIES OF WATER at the Echo; SIXTH CHAMBER at Good Hurt; BLASTERS, MAD MARGE & THE STONECUTTERS at Knitting Factory; DITTY BOPS at McCabe’s; RALPH CARNEY, OLIVER FUTURE at El Cid; BABYLAND at Jewel’s Catch One.
SATURDAY, MARCH 3The Dandy Warhols at the
Wiltern
Individually, the Dandy Warhols are a ticktacktoe board of ’90s boho aesthetics — the often-topless redhead on keys, the smirking, Afro’d drummer, the languid other guy and the proto–Pete Wentz pretty boy singing apathetic anthems. Together, they are skinny pop art, slickly perfect icons for the first pressing of the Hipster Handbook. The Dandys aren’t strictly about appearances, though — they have no singularly great album, and their shows can be long, long evenings of swirling psych rock, but among their singles are more than a few moments of simple, embarrassing orgasmic rightness. The Dandy Warhols were also quite possibly the first indie rock entity to simultaneously embody the roles of “edgy indie band” and “capitalistic shills” after they parlayed their cool cachet and accessibility into a corporation equal to or greater than their existence as a rock band. Trendsetters, indeed. (Kate Carraway)
Mavis Staples at Luckman Fine Arts Complex
Mavis Staples, of revered gospel family powerhouse the Staples Singers, has already carved out a stunning musical legacy, but with her current CD, We’ll Never Turn Back, she has — in terms of her brilliant vocal performances — bested almost everything previously achieved. The civil-rights-struggle-inspired set tours a period remarkable for both its grim historic truth and uplifting commitment, and Staples, with a remarkable, almost masculine attack style, bears down with such deep back-country blues-soul-gospel fire and honed-over-a-lifetime technique so authentic and authoritative that it’s downright chilling. Given the album’s subject — with all the pain, fear, rage and injustice of battle fully present — it is one of the most profound, far-reaching and hard-hitting discs you’ll ever hear. These kinds of stark realism and brilliant artistry rarely converge, but for Staples it’s a natural-fact duty, and she rises to the call with a breathtaking, spellbinding mixture of gutsy aggression and unspeakable tenderness. Flabbergasting. Cal State L.A., 5151 State University Dr., L.A. (Jonny Whiteside)
Weird Science, Har Mar Superstar, Some Girls, The Willowz at El Rey Theatre
Welcome to Hipsterpalooza, bitches. This big sonic sundae showcases a sundry array of styles from every which way but loose. Topping the bill is Weird Science, the activated Wonder Twin power source in the form of celebri-DJ Steve Aoki and Moving Unit Blake Miller spinning a sleazy swirl of electric indie dance mania. Har Mar Superstar brings his naked disco sideshow to the stage, fresh from fugging it up with Stroke Albert Hammond Jr. on V-Day in L.A. this year. The Willowz shake out Southern-fried country crunk like only SoCal kids on the Dim Mak label can. Some Girls just come straight at you with homicidal deathcore punk that’s blood-brother related to bassist Justin Pearson’s other band, the Locust. Crowd control between sets will be handled by DJ impresario Them Jeans, mashing up hair metal, ghettofied hip-hop and horn-rimmed rock with considerable aplomb. Fellow jock Chris Holmes will keep the indie kids honest. (Scott T. Sterling)
Also playing Saturday:
DILATED PEOPLES, KRS-ONE, LIVING LEGENDS, X-CLAN, SAUL WILLIAMS, AZTLAN UNDERGROUND, MEDUSA at L.A. Center Studios, 4 p.m.; DROPKICK MURPHYS, SICK OF IT ALL at Grove of Anaheim; HAROLD RAY at the
Bordello; SWEETER THAN THE DAY at Café Metropol; MALAJUBE, SNOWDEN at the Echo; PETE TOWNSHEND, BEN HARPER, TENACIOUS D at the
Hotel Café; DJ QUIK at House of Blues; RAMBLIN’ JACK ELLIOTT at Largo; BLASTERS, JAKE LA BOTZ at Malibu Inn; VIC CHESNUTT at McCabe’s; NELS CLINE, MIKE WATT at Safari Sam’s; BARR, MARNIE STERN at the
Smell; JOHN DIGWEED, MSTRKRFT at the Vanguard.
SUNDAY, MARCH 4Dandi Wind at the Echo
Dandi Wind really is like a dandelion with her head floating in the wind, scattering herself about the known universe while riding the rhythms of her robotic beat boxes. She combines funky techno rhythms with Middle Eastern musical flourishes and arty lyrics on “Umbilical Noose,” from her wondrously strange 2005 CD, Bait the Traps (Bongo Beat). She spits out rapid-fire lyrics like a cranked-up Nina Hagen on “Balloon Factory,” supported by a collision of spacy sound effects and uptight grooves. She chants mischievously in between the steam-blast exhalations and glitter beats of the eerie dance-scape “Ms. 45,” and chirps “Drawing Straws” with a breezy militancy. The exhibitionist Montreal performer also likes to deck herself out in equally shiny, metallic costumes while wallowing around on dirty stages and working out some fascinating inner psychodramas. Backed by keyboardist Szam and drummer Evan, the intriguingly bizarre Ms. Wind is finally touring the States, though it’s anyone’s guess what kind of visual/musical spectacle she and her crew will throw down when they make their Los Angeles debut tonight. Expect some additional weirdness from their upcoming album, Yolk of the Golden Egg. Also at Spaceland, Wed. (Falling James)
Also playing Sunday:
DROPKICK MURPHYS at Ventura Theatre; WATSON TWINS at the
Hotel Café; DJ QUIK at House of Blues; KITTIE at Key Club; BRIGHTBACK MORNING LIGHT, MARIEE SIOUX at McCabe’s; SABERTOOTH TIGER, CHE ARTHUR, BOBB BRUNO at the
Smell; SPINTO BAND, DIOS (MALOS) at the Troubadour; ERIC ROBERSON, ALOE BLACC at B.B. King’s Blues Club.
Playing Monday:
CHRISTINA AGUILERA at Honda Center; AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT, LOW VS. DIAMOND, HAPPY HOLLOWS, RADARS TO THE SKY at the Echo; SALLY KELLERMAN at Genghis Cohen; WADDY WACHTEL at the
Joint; WINGER, METAL SKOOL at Key Club; CROOKED COWBOY at Mr. T’s Bowl.
TUESDAY, MARCH 6Playing Tuesday:
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, DANITY KANE, PUSSYCAT DOLLS at Staples Center; ALBERT HAMMOND JR., MOONEY SUZUKI at El Rey Theatre; NEIL HAMBURGER at the Echo; KRIS TINER, KRAIG GRADY, DAVID KENDALL at Il Corral; ZOE, LOS ABANDONED at Knitting Factory; YOUNG KNIVES at Safari Sam’s; HT HEARTACHE at Silverlake
Lounge; SAM PHILLIPS, DAVE PALMER at Spaceland; NICO VEGA at the Troubadour.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7Bright Eyes at El Rey Theatre
Neil Young probably means well, but when he released his anti-Bush CD, Living With War, last year, he groused that he had to take political action because no other singers were daring to speak up. Coming from a former fan of Ronald Reagan, this newfound concern was amusing enough but also a bit sadly ignorant, considering that old man Young was once one of the few singers of his generation who seemed aware of the modern world after Woodstock. There were, of course, plenty of anti-war warnings by everyone from Public Enemy to D.O.A. several years before popular critical mass shifted and folks like Young finally got on the bandwagon. Not least of these songs was Bright Eyes’ “When the President Talks to God,” which used some of Young’s own nervously childlike folkie delivery to send a succinctly disarming message about madmen in power. Naturally, there’s a lot more to the music of Conor Oberst, a.k.a. Bright Eyes, as documented on the dual release of the electronics-flavored Digital Ash in a Digital Urn and the contrastingly acoustic CD I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning in early 2005. Keep an ear out for rustic new tunes from his upcoming CD, Cassadaga. Also Thurs. (Falling James)
The Cult at Henry
Fonda Theater
Ah, the Cult — you’ve loved them ever since “She Sells Sanctuary” and that fetching Baktabak interview picture disc hanging on the wall at Licorice Pizza. It’s been three weeks since singer Ian Astbury quit the Doors, and a week since the Cult played NASCAR’s “Rock ’n’ Racing” series at California Speedway in Fontana (rumors of a duet with race commentator “Loudmouth Larry” Huffman unsubstantiated at press time). The band — vocalist Astbury, eternal Cult guitarist Billy Duffy, rhythm guitarist Mike Dimkich, drummer John Tempesta and bassist Chris Wyse — plan the recording of a new album due this autumn, their first since 2001’s Beyond Good and Evil for Atlantic. They even still perform “Moya” and “God’s Zoo” from those early Southern Death Cult and Death Cult days. When you buy a ticket, don’t pay for the whole seat — you’ll only need the edge! (David Cotner)
Also playing Wednesday:
QUEENSRYCHE, DOKKEN, JANI LANE at Key Club; KTU, 22-PISTEPIRKKO, LODGER, DISCO ENSEMBLE, KEVIN K, PAT TODD & THE RANK OUTSIDERS, THE MOOG at Knitting Factory; MIDWAY, MULHOLLANDS, SEXYTIME EXPLOSION at Safari Sam’s; MEDICINE FUCK DREAM, DANAVA, WOUNDED LION at the Scene; YOUNG LIONS, DANDI WIND at Spaceland; ALBERT HAMMOND JR. at Amoeba Music, 6 p.m.
Die Hunns at the Knitting Factory
You don’t normally expect anything resembling mercy being offered by any of tattooed punk rocker Duane Peters’ other bands — including U.S. Bombs and Exploding Fuck Dolls — but Die Hunns, his collaboration with wife Corey Parks, is full of surprises. It’s not that the skateboarding legend Peters and fire-breathing former Nashville Pussy bassist Parks are mellowing out, but their 2006 CD, You Rot Me, has a wider range of ways to kick in your head. “Jorge” is a midtempo rocker iced with Parks’ sweet backup vocals, while the title track marches along to vintage Clash guitar upstrokes. “Don’t Want to Hear It” spotlights Parks’ unexpectedly poppy lead vocals under some shadowy, non-punk chords, and on “Die for Me” Peters even morphs into a ’60s-style garage rocker. Not every track works as well, but songs like “Ain’t It a Shame” and the harmonica-laced “Mad Society” (no relation to the early-’80s preteen punk band of the same name) are catchy songs with classic rock & roll power, spat out with Peters’ gravelly roar. (Falling James)
BRIGHT EYES, VETIVER, ANNIE STELA at El Rey Theatre; TWO TON BOA, 31 KNOTS at Alex’s Bar; KY-MANI MARLEY at the Canyon; SPINDRIFT, MOON UPSTAIRS, CROOKED COWBOY at the Echo; EVANESCENCE at Key Club; KIND HEARTS & CORONETS at Knitting Factory; NINJA ACADEMY at Mr. T’s Bowl; JETLINER at the
Roxy; CHARLIE WADHAMS at Tangier.
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Why This Song Sucks: The Knux's "Run," featuring Kid Cudi
Shea Serrano September 28, 2011
[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.]
See also: The Knux and Kid Cudi perform at Siren Studios, September 24, 2011
Song: The Knux's “Run,” featuring Kid Cudi
History: Dang.
Everyone <3's The Knux. Including us. Especially us. They are L.A.'s gorgeous alt-hop twosome. They have cool hair. They wear jean jackets. Their second album Eraser came out yesterday.
They make music that makes you want to run as fast as you can. They have a (disguised) stylized nihilism that, at times, encapsulates hip-hop's new zeitgeist perfectly, even more readily than, say, the tired gangsterisms of Florida's biggest mistake (Plies), and maybe even as capably as their accidental savant (Ricky Ross). But they are not infallible.
Here on “Run” with their sordid, uncommitted guitars, with Kid Cudi's pointy shoes, and with their homogenization of the vibrant rap bailiwick that made them so vital three years ago, they are fallible like a motherfucker.
Morphology: “Run” is kissing cousins with the raunchier, decidedly more ambitious “She's So Up,” the first track from Eraser.
Quick Aside: “Run” might be the quickest retread of a song since whatever Pitbull's last two songs about culos and boats were. If you're going to redo one of your own songs, you should wait AT LEAST three years to do so. Oh, BTW, Drake's Take Care in stores soon.
Cogent Evidence: The video is enormously entertaining. Watch it above. It is linear and spiraling and stars an attractive woman (cool) who shows her boobs (cool) but does not clean her vagina after peeing (not cool). Yet it does not mask the bruising banality of the song itself. The chorus:
I said she's gonna run, run, run; that girl's gonna run.
Run, run, run; that girl's gonna run.
(And she's gonna run.) Run, run, run; that girl's gonna run.
She may be going to run, but she's not really doing anything. She was probably too skinny in middle school. Her name is probably Jennifer. She probably spells it Jenipher.
Scientific Analysis: Via the site for Harvard's Science Center for Dissecting Knux Songmanship, this graphic proves precisely how uninspiring her devised existence is.
What's more, when compared to the antagonist from “She's So Up,” the most apt historical analog for “Run,” the linearity of Jenipher's existence is found to be precisely 300 percent deficient. To wit:
“She's So Up” Chorus (via the occasionally unsturdy Metro Lyrics)
She's so hot, she's so up*. Yeah she keeps me moving around.
She's so hot, she's so up. Yeah she keeps me moving around.
In graph:
*It's hard to tell if what's being sung is “She's so hot” or “she's so down.” Science has not solved all riddles, bro.
(a) The Knux is good.
(b) “Run” is not.
(c) Showing one's boobs but not cleaning one's vagina after urinating is the same amount of sexy as not showing one's boobs but cleaning one's vagina after urinating.
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Licensed conveyancers confident about growth in coming year, survey finds
Posted by Legal Futures
Kumar: Positive picture
More than half of firms of licensed conveyancers expect their workloads to increase over the next year, according to their regulator.
Some 53% of firms expected volumes of work to increase over the next year, with only 10% anticipating a fall. Larger practices and those that also offer probate services were even more optimistic of growth.
According to the results of the Council for Licensed Conveyancers’ (CLC) annual returns, growth was seen as the greatest opportunity over the next 12 months, whether due to increased recommendation, reputation or market conditions.
One in ten firms also reported an opportunity to branch out into new or niche areas of work.
Personal recommendation remained the main source of conveyancing work for firms, followed by referral, although direct approaches were a significant source of probate instructions.
Unsurprisingly, larger firms received more referral work from lenders and estate agents than smaller ones.
Across each of conveyancing, will-writing and probate work, a relatively small proportion of work was gained from website and telephone enquiries.
Some 48% of firms increased their prices for conveyancing in the past year, although only 26% did so for probate and 21% for will-writing. Though one in five firms felt pressure to reduce fees, only 4% did so for conveyancing work.
On average, firms charged £636 for the purchase of a freehold property, and £592 for a sale. The figures were £747 and £690 for leasehold properties.
These were all lower than the averages recorded by the Legal Services Board in its recent research – mainly among solicitors’ firms – on the cost of legal services.
Cybercrime (29%), fraud/money laundering (27%), and a downturn in the property market (18%) were the most commonly reported types of risk to firms, although just six practices reported that they had been the victim of definite cases of fraud in 2016, costing their organisations between £7,500 and £25,000.
Most firms (60%) did not receive any complaints from clients; 13% received a single complaint but at the other extreme, 10 firms (4%) reported more than 20 complaints. The vast majority were resolved internally, with 11% of complaints referred to the Legal Ombudsman.
CLC chief executive Sheila Kumar said: “Our annual return paints a positive picture of a profession that continues to grow and, importantly, is doing all it can to protect clients from the threat of fraud and cybercrime.
“Regulation is, of course, a key part of that too but the results show that it is not getting in the way of firms developing their practices and offering competitive and high-quality services to clients.”
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Tag: Kings of Long Island
Top Businessmen Honored at Kings of Long Island Event
Long Island Press - November 30, 2018
Hundreds of supporters gathered to see dozens of successful business, community, cultural, political, civic, and religious male leaders be honored at SCNG Events’ prestigious Kings of Long Island Awards and Networking event Thursday night.
Kings of Long Island To Be Honored At Business Networking Event
Long Island Press - November 6, 2018
Dozens of successful business, community, cultural, political, civic, and religious male leaders will be honored at SCNG Events’ prestigious Kings of Long Island Awards and Networking event on Nov. 29.
Top Businessmen Honored at Star Network’s Kings of Long Island Event
Long Island Press - April 13, 2017
It certainly was a night to remember at the second annual Star Network Kings of Long Island Awards and Networking Event. On Thursday, April 6, nearly 500 gathered at Leonard’s Palazzo in Great Neck to recognize 45 men from Nassau and Suffolk counties for their work in business and the community.
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There is a ‘no spoilers’ rule at CrimeFest. I would say it’s unwritten, as you won’t find it in any of the convention’s literature. However, during a panel she was moderating, crime writer Caro Ramsay...
By West Camel
There is a ‘no spoilers’ rule at CrimeFest. I would say it’s unwritten, as you won’t find it in any of the convention’s literature. However, during a panel she was moderating, crime writer Caro Ramsay displayed a ‘no spoilers’ paddle – held up to prevent any panellist giving away the ending to their book.
A CrimeFest newbie, I didn’t know how well this ‘no spoilers’ rule was policed. So I was amused when one author began a sentence ‘at the end of my book, my character—’ and was immediately silenced by protests from the assembled – and clearly spoiler-averse – crime-reading public.
So how do nearly one hundred and fifty crime authors talk about their books over four days without discussing the mechanics of their plots? This question was of particular interest to me, as I was attending CrimeFest primarily in my role as Editor at Orenda Books – a new, small press focussing on literary crime, much of it in translation, which had seventeen authors speaking at the convention. Did I need to fashion my own ‘no spoilers’ paddle and brandish it if one of our authors threatened to let slip a plot twist?
The answer was, in fact simple. Whether the panel’s topic was ‘What’s My Sub-Genre?’, ‘Iceland’s Queens of Crime’ or ‘Crime Fiction in a Post-Truth World’, the writers focussed on process, on the functions of genre writing, and on writing in a business-oriented industry that favours marketable categories.
The panel ‘Happy Endings: Do We Need Them’ presented a particular difficulty, as the panellists were expected to examine denouements without giving anything away. It did, however, turn into a fruitful discussion: Kjell Ola Dahl, a writer of series with recurring characters, stated that, for him, his characters and his readers, the endings of his novels are also beginnings. Importantly, though, as his books are police procedurals, and because he sees crime fiction as a ‘moralistic’ genre, the killer needs to be punished – although not necessarily caught.
This theme was taken up in the ‘Power Corrupts: Who Can You Turn To?’ panel. Moderator and author Peter Gutteridge suggested that, in crime fiction, order is brought to a chaotic world through the actions of the protagonist. Stanley Trollip (one half of the Michael Stanley author duo), agreed: both his protagonist, Detective Kubu of the Botswana police, and Kubu’s boss, Mabaku, see their crime-fighting role as moving their country forward in the world. Peter Morfoot, whose Paul Darac novels are set in Nice, reflected that in France, for good or bad, the odds are always stacked against the accused, as lawyers cannot intervene in criminal interrogations in the way they can in the UK or the US. Order depends on the ethics of the investigating police officer – on ‘natural justice’ rather than the law.
The literary nub of this discussion was addressed in the panel ‘Where Fact Ends and Fiction Starts’. Paul E. Hardisty, whose books fictionalise disturbing, real-life events in countries as varied as Yemen, Cyprus and South Africa, stated that, in his other career as an engineer and environmental scientist, he has written text books full of facts; however, he has realised that fact doesn’t necessarily translate into a bigger truth. For that – to write truthfully about the atrocities of the South African apartheid regime, for example – he had to write fiction.
Writing truthfully was touched on in a discussion about representations of violence in crime fiction. In the ‘Happy Endings’ panel, Kevin Wignall said he found a particularly violent scene written by fellow panellist Steve Mosby extremely difficult to read. Mosby retorted that he had, in fact ‘cut away’ from the violent act: using the Hitchcockian, Psycho effect, in which the audience believes they’ve seen the violence when in fact they’ve imagined it. Kati Hiekkappelto then observed that, as authors, readers and viewers, we all say we don’t like violence, but write, read and view it – or at least about it – all the time.
Malin Persson Giolito’s breakthrough novel seems to prove Hiekkappelto’s observation. Having being made redundant from her job as a lawyer when she was pregnant, she began her writing career with a semi-autobiographical novel about a woman in a similar position. However, it was her fourth novel, Quicksand – which deals with a school shooting, told from the point of view of the shooter – that brought her to the fore: the translation was sold at auction at the London Book Fair – a life-changing event for the author.
Giolito’s fellow panellist, Matt Wesolowski had what seems the opposite experience. Originally a horror writer, the crime genre was ‘a chasm he fell into’. His novel Six Stories, is based on a series of podcast transcripts, drawing strong inspiration from the hugely successful US real-crime podcast Serial. This innovative form has drawn much attention, to the point where Audible UK has used its highest-ever number of actors – seventeen – to convert Six Stories into an audio book.
Like Wesolowski, G.X Todd saw herself as a horror writer; it was only when her publisher accepted her novel that she was told she was a crime writer. She even confessed in her panel to feeling a bit of a fraud appearing at CrimeFest, and raised the suggestion that the crime genre’s current popularity has led publishers to guide authors into the category and market traditionally non-crime books as crime. Wesolowksi added that he was lucky in his publisher (my boss – Karen Sullivan of Orenda Books), who didn’t constrict what he writes.
The discussion about labels was at its most prominent at the ‘Behind Closed Doors’ panel – dealing with a new genre: domestic noir. The moderator of this panel was Julia Crouch, who coined the term ‘domestic noir’ to describe her own work and distinguish it from the wider ‘psychological thriller’ category. Panellist Mary Torjussen found the term appealing, as she felt it perfectly described her own work, where the threat and peril is at home. Lisa Hall added that domestic noir’s attraction, and current popularity, was because people like reading about something that could happen to them. Crouch mentioned that the University of East Anglia – home to one of the UK’s most prominent Literature and Creative Writing departments – will be publishing a paper on domestic noir later this year.
Gratifyingly for all the members of ‘Team Orenda’ at the convention, it was another type of noir – Nordic – that took prominence at CrimeFest’s Gala dinner. The Petrona Award for the best crime book from Scandinavia translated into English was won by Don Bartlett’s translation of Gunnar Staalesen’s Where Roses Never Die, published by Orenda Books. The pairing of Staalesen –considered a ‘father’ of Nordic Noir – and Bartlett, who has translated Jo Nesbo and Karl Ove Knausgaard, brought the first gong to the small new press to which I’ve hitched my editorial cart; a publishing house that has allowed me – not least by taking me to CrimeFest – to gain deep insight into a diverse, active and exciting section of the publishing world.
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Is Pat Sajak Bald?
Pat Sajak - with his own hair. Courtesy CBS
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Carrie Grosvenor
Carrie Grosvenor is the author of "So You Want to Be on Wheel of Fortune." A freelance entertainment writer, Grosvenor has contributed to CNN, MSNBC, and the Game Show Network.
Question: Is Pat Sajak Bald?
On April 1st 2008, Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak closed the show with co-host Vanna White with an April Fool's Day prank -- he pulled his hair piece off to reveal a bald head. Is Sajak really bald?
The quick answer to this question is a resounding no. Loads of fans speculated that they could see "shaving bumps" on Sajak's head, or that there was no way the bald head was fake because they didn't see any lines or other tell-tale signs.
In reality, Sajak is not bald and that's his real hair that he's sporting on the show. The big April 1st reveal was just a joke, though rumors and speculation persist to this day. You can see the clip from the end of that show on YouTube.
Oddly enough, Sajak's hair has now earned the same kind of fan obsession as Alex Trebek's moustache.
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Entertainment Love and Romance
Love: Decision vs. Feeling
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Sheri Stritof
Sheri Stritof has written about marriage and relationships for 20+ years. She's the co-author of The Everything Great Marriage Book.
One of the more controversial statements made on marriage (or engaged) encounter weekends, and among some Christian or spiritual counselors is "love is a decision." It is a statement that reminds couples to love the person, not the behavior.
However, many people do not see why a person would have to make the decision to love since they made that decision many years ago when they said yes to one another on their wedding day. The reason comes from the fact that feelings for a partner can waver depending upon many things: getting along, fighting, disappointment, power struggles, decision making and so on. It is normal in married life to have periods of both romance and disillusionment.This cycle is often repeated – sometimes over days, weeks, even months.
“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
Breaking Out of Disillusionment by Making The Decision to Love
One way to break out of disillusionment is by deciding to love. Feelings change and are not not easily controlled. Love is not only a feeling, it is more than a feeling. Love is a decision. Action follows emotion. Love comes from the underlying emotions we feel for another human being.
Love is a decision to be open and to share when you don’t feel like it. Love is a decision when you don't think your spouse deserves your love. Love is a decision to be open to honest when communicating with your spouse. This does not only mean talking, but also listening. It means choosing to forgive when your spouse is remorseful and apologetic after hurting you. It can also mean not carrying a grudge and looking ahead instead of back.
Making the decision to love includes the everyday, little things that you often do for one another, especially when you’re not feeling loving. From the action of deciding to love, often the feeling of love will follow.
Making love a decision also means allowing yourself to be loved. It is about the choice to be vulnerable and put yourself out there to let another person in. This other person will see the good, the bad, your strengths and weaknesses and so on.
What "Love is a Decision" Means in an Abusive Situation
Making the decision to love DOES NOT mean you love and accept abusive behavior.
If your spouse is abusing you, either emotionally or physically, making the decision to love is getting out of the abusive situation. You must love yourself as well and take care of your own well-being. You should never allow someone to threaten your life of put you in danger. Often times, making the decision to love is getting help for both you and your spouse if possible.
Making the decision to love DOES NOT mean you love and accept your spouse's addiction.
You should do what you can to get your spouse help. If this does not work, your are under know obligation to become as unhealthy as your spouse. You will fall down into the pit right with them. In fact, the most loving thing you can do, often termed "tough love" is to not enable.
Making the decision to love DOES NOT mean you love and accept infidelity.
If your spouse is a serial cheater, this behavior may never end. Your spouse has make the decision to not uphold their vows. Continuing to love someone who will only be unfaithful is hazardous to your well-being and sanity!
The decision to love is a good one if your partner has made that decision as well. It does not mean you both will not make mistakes or take missteps with each other. It does mean that you uphold the promises you made on your wedding day. It does not mean accepting on-gong negative and destructive treatment that can occur with abuse, addiction and infidelity.
Article updated by Marni Feuerman
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By HEFFX on January 9, 2020
U.S. stocks recovered from overnight losses to post solid gains, with the Nasdaq notching a new record close, after remarks by President Trump suggested the U.S. and Iran were refraining from further military action following attacks on U.S. bases overnight, in retaliation for last week’s killing of Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani by American forces.
However, the Dow’s gains were somewhat restrained by a fall in Boeing shares after one of the planemaker’s jets operated by Ukraine International Airlines crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran on Wednesday.
The S&P set a new intraday record Wednesday, while the Nasdaq set both record intraday high and close.
What’s driving the market?
Investor sentiment was buoyed following remarks by President Trump, who responded to Tuesday night’s attacks by Iran by minimizing their importance, saying that no U.S. casualties were sustained and that only ‘minimal’ damage was done to U.S. military facilities in Iraq.
“Iran appears to be standing down, which is a good thing for all parties involved, and a very good thing for the world,” the president said during an address from the White House Wednesday morning.
The President did say, however, that he was imposing further economic sanctions on Iran, while stating categorically that “As long as I’m President of the United States, Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon,” hinting at the possibility of further U.S. strikes in the wake of an announcement by Iran that it had surpassed the limits on stockpiles of low-enriched uranian set by the 2015 nuclear deal which President Trump abandoned.
Mideast tensions were in focus after Iran delivered what is being described as a measured response to the killing of a top general by the American forces last Friday. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed further retaliation for the U.S.’s killing of Soleimani, hours after striking military bases in Iraq that house U.S. forces, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Tehran’s military response, firing more than a dozen missiles at U.S. military bases in Iraq at Al Asad and Erbil, briefly rattled financial markets in after-hours trade, but the moves in stocks, bonds, and commodities quickly moderated as investors reassessed the chances of a broader conflict.
Fears were tempered by tweets from Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, who said via Twitter that Iran didn’t seek further escalation, but would “defend ourselves against any aggression.”
“Markets initially reacted [to the attacks] in classic risk-off fashion, with Asian stock markets getting hammered and Wall Street futures falling sharply, as safe havens such as the Japanese yen and gold roared higher,” wrote Marios Hadjikyriacos Investment Analyst at XM, in a Wednesday note.
“Yet, these moves retraced in the following hours,” he added. “Much of this market serenity is owed to both sides signaling they don’t want to escalate matters any further.”
Meanwhile, investors parsed U.S. private-sector employment data from payroll firm Automatic Data Processing Inc., which estimated that employers added 202,000 new jobs in December, above the 157,000 expected by analysts polled by Econoday.
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NASDAQ COMPOSITE closed up 60.661 at 9,129.242. Volume was 9% above average (neutral) and Bollinger Bands were 26% wider than normal.
NASDAQ COMPOSITE is currently 12.1% above its 200-period moving average and is in an upward trend. Volatility is relatively normal as compared to the average volatility over the last 10 periods. Our volume indicators reflect very strong flows of volume into .IXIC (bullish). Our trend forecasting oscillators are currently bullish on .IXIC and have had this outlook for the last 56 periods. Our momentum oscillator is currently indicating that .IXIC is currently in an overbought condition. The security price has set a new 14-period high while our momentum oscillator has not. This is a bearish divergence.
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NASDAQ Composite (.IXIC) tread water ahead of trade-deal signing
By HEFFX on January 16, 2020
U.S. stock benchmarks on Wednesday opened slightly lower to flat as investors awaited the signing of a partial Sino-American trade pact later in the day, amid a rollout of quarterly corporate earnings results. The hoped for improvement in U.S.-China trade relations might not be immediately achieved though, with key issues left unresolved, including existing tariffs and efforts to impose restrictions on China’s Huawei Technologies Co.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.31% was off 13 points, or less than 0.1%, at 28.921, the S&P 500 index SPX, +0.19% added less than 0.1% at 3,284 and the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +0.08% picked up 0.1% at 9,260. The trade deal is expected to be signed in the White House at 11:30 a.m. Eastern time. In economic news, U.S. wholesale inflation rose 0.1% in December, according to the Labor Department’s producer price index, below the 0.2% rise expected by economists, according to a MarketWatch poll.
An account of business conditions in the Fed’s regional districts, known as the Beige Book, is due at 2 p.m. In corporate news, Target Corp. shares TGT, -6.59% were down after the retailer said sales rose 1.4% between Nov. 1 and Dec. 31 in stores and through digital channels operating for at least 12 months, but warned that growth for the full quarter, which includes January, would likely come in less than half the 3% to 4% growth it had predicted.
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NASDAQ COMPOSITE closed up 7.366 at 9,258.695. Volume was 6% above average (neutral) and Bollinger Bands were 16% wider than normal.
NASDAQ COMPOSITE is currently 13.1% above its 200-period moving average and is in an upward trend. Volatility is relatively normal as compared to the average volatility over the last 10 periods. Our volume indicators reflect very strong flows of volume into .IXIC (bullish). Our trend forecasting oscillators are currently bullish on .IXIC and have had this outlook for the last 61 periods. Our momentum oscillator is currently indicating that .IXIC is currently in an overbought condition.
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Smile Direct Club: Secret to Perfect Teeth
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In June, the thin, transparent plastic trays that fit over her leading and bottom teeth was available in the mail. McKinney is resolving the series slowly, switching the very first set for the next, and the next, as her teeth move. It’ll take about 9 months in all. However after three months of wearing these trays almost every day and night, McKinney is excited about flaunting her brand-new smile (Smile Direct Club Clear Aligners Description).
Danny Menendez/ BuzzFeed News Inside among SmileDirectClub’s New york city City locations. SmileDirectClub’s organisation design seems working. Align Technology– the company that makes Invisalign, SmileDirect’s primary competitor– invested $46.7 million to become SmileDirect’s exclusive supplier last year, and this year invested another $12.8 million, to own a total of 19% of the company.
Meanwhile, lookalikes have launched with similar services: Orthly, introduced by 2 University of Pennsylvania trainees, now offers services to consumers in Philadelphia, and Honest Co. launched in New York this summer season. A SmileDirect client can be matched with one of 225 associated dentists or orthodontists in all 50 states. These dental professionals remotely evaluate patient cases and after that design the aligners that SmileDirect sends in the mail.
The company declined to name any of the physician within its network, and would not supply information about its financial relationships with them. “Basically they are collecting payments and paying us marketing fees,” Fenkell stated.”I think that claim is rather phony,” AAO’s basic counsel Dillard said. “The customers don’t even see a dentist.
(SmileDirectClub has a two-star score on Yelp.) And many expert dentists are alarmed that clients never ever see a licensed doctor before or throughout their treatment.”It blew my mind,” Casi Stubbs, a Florida orthodontist and member of the American Association of Orthodontists, told BuzzFeed News. Like normal orthodontists, SmileDirect’s dental practitioners base their prescriptions on computer system simulations of mouth scans.
“The teeth do not move biologically like they do on the computer system,” Stubbs said. Among her clients, 60-year-old Charlene Burnham, is a SmileDirect customer whose too-tight aligners cut her gums, exposing part of her tooth near the root. Burnham informed BuzzFeed News she spent a week attempting– and stopping working– to consult with a SmileDirect dental professional on the phone, then went to Stubbs for aid.”They were bleeding, they were cut to the root,” Burnham stated.
“I was appalled.”A SmileDirect representative told BuzzFeed News by email that company-affiliated dental experts “track the client’s progress throughout treatment at routine periods.”The company “assists in the interactions” of consumers and dental service providers, the agent said. “Dental service providers communicate directly with patients through the client portal and via SMS or phone when proper or indicated.”In a YouTube video that’s been seen over 21,000 times considering that June, Baltimore orthodontist Jeffrey Miller warned individuals far from the service, stating that no orthodontist would ever recommend aligners without first taking the X-rays that SmileDirect avoids.
(The video was removed after this story published.)Grant Olson, a dentist in Springfield, Missouri, told BuzzFeed News that the company’s product marketing, which compares itself with orthodontist-fitted Invisalign, is misleading. Unlike Invisalign trays, which orthodontists can optimize by sticking unique accessories on a tooth, SmileDirect’s product is limited to very minor corrections: The aligners can remedy a tilt, but can’t move a tooth’s orientation or position together with its root.
He discussed that SmileDirect-affiliated orthodontists just authorize cases that appropriate for a remote consultation and do not need follow-up oral sees (Smile Direct Club Clear Aligners Description). Laws for dental experts vary throughout states, however there are some typical themes in the 36 complaints sent out by the AAO: Some states consider making impressions and offering retainers to be the function of a licensed medical professional, however SmileDirectClub usually offers those services.
AAO basic counsel Dillard likewise told BuzzFeed News that the business’s organisation design incentivizes dental practitioners affiliated with SmileDirect to prescribe the trays even if they aren’t required. Danny Menendez/ BuzzFeed News Although the business hasn’t attracted the attention of regulators yet, consumer complaints abound online. TL; DR: Get ready for a rough ride.
The vast bulk of customers in these groups resign themselves to dealing with the snags due to the fact that there are merely no other options (Smile Direct Club Clear Aligners Description).”If you can be client, desire an economical plan, SDC IS the proper way to go! Having a positive mindset and being patient goes a LONG method,” Melanie Masso composed to BuzzFeed News.
For numerous other customers, the trip is a bust. Seattle resident Melissa Gulick told BuzzFeed News that at the end of practically a year of treatment, the aligners have ruined her bite: Her front teeth touch before her molars can make contact (Smile Direct Club Clear Aligners Description). “I’m quite irritated– food is hard to chew now and they won’t fix it!”Gulick said that after grievances to the company, SmileDirectClub consented to continue treatment free of charge.
When inquired about problems that the trays ruined consumers’ bites, a SmileDirect representative told BuzzFeed News: “Over 95% of our customers complete treatment and sign off on their finished new smile. It is necessary to remember that with any orthodontic treatment, bites will continue to move up until the treatment is completed.”Another customer, 24-year-old Drexel College student Kacie Durham, told BuzzFeed News that SmileDirectClub sent her a simulated treatment plan that made her teeth look even worse.”It actually made my teeth appear more uneven at the bottom,” she said.
Durham returned her trays and requested a refund. Later, an orthodontist not associated with the business informed her that her teeth would have to be filed and formed before they might be aligned. Durham felt duped: SmileDirect had actually authorized her for a treatment that would never have worked.”If a prospective client is dissatisfied with the 3d sneak peek of his or her smile, there is no responsibility to buy aligners,” the SmileDirectClub agent stated (Smile Direct Club Clear Aligners Description).
Minelle Tendler, a Boca Raton orthodontist, joined among the most significant Facebook groups, the 11,800-member SmileDirectClub Assistance, after 2 of her clients inquired about the product. In browsing the posts that appear in her Facebook feed, Tendler said that she’s not seen anybody say they have actually had the ability to speak with a dentist at the company.
“You’re asking somebody who has no dental background, ‘Is this going to work?'”More than once, Tendler has stopped short of responding to threads on the forum. She sits on her hands because the clients are not hers. “I’m looking at the photos and thinking, Oh my god, you require to get teeth secured, do not do it.”Primarily, she is fretted that people who are charmed by SmileDirectClub’s low rate aren’t fully conscious of the disadvantages of skipping a dental check out.
A previous variation of this article misidentified him as an orthodontist. Align Innovation owns 19% of SmileDirectClub. A previous version of this story stated it was 17%. Also, SmileDirectClub started running in North Carolina in early October. A previous version of this story, based upon an August interview with cofounder Alex Fenkell, stated that the company was not running in North Carolina.
Mail-in aligners might seem like a great option for a slight repair. But keep in mind you’re not the professional on how minimal a repair your teeth require. “It’s challenging to go from something that’s 90% good to make it 100% best; in my experience, I find that these are the more difficult cases,” Dr.
The outcomes of utilizing undetectable aligners can be very unpredictable, due to the fact that some people react well to them and others won’t. “It’s very hard to monitor this by yourself, because– like whatever in medicine– not everybody reacts the very same,” he states. The real trouble comes with figuring out how to fix your smile if you’re not responding properly to the retainers, he says.
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LON:SPX
Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) Share Forecast, Price & News
Adding Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L)
+15.00 (+0.13 %)
Now: £114.50▼
MA: £113.06▼
Market Capitalization£8.43 billion
P/E Ratio50.40
Dividend Yield0.98%
Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc provides engineered solutions for the users of industrial and commercial steam systems, electrical heating and temperature management systems, and pumps and fluid path technologies. It offers industrial and commercial steam systems, including condensate management, controls, and thermal energy management products and solutions for heating and curing, cleaning and sterilizing, hot water generation, space heating, and humidification; electrical process heating and temperature management solutions, such as industrial heaters and systems, heat tracing, and various component technologies; and peristaltic and niche pumps and associated fluid path technologies, including pumps, tubing, and specialty filling systems and products for single-use applications. The company serves food, beverage, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, oil, gas, chemical, healthcare, power generation, mining, precious metal processing, water and wastewater, pulp and paper, rubber and plastic, semiconductor, and other sectors; and original equipment manufacturers. Its products are also used to provide space heating, humidification, and hot water in public and private buildings. The company sells its products directly, as well as through distributors. It operates in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; the Asia Pacific; and the Americas. Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Cheltenham, the United Kingdom.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) has received a consensus rating of Hold. The company's average rating score is 1.67, and is based on no buy ratings, 8 hold ratings, and 4 sell ratings.
According to analysts' consensus price target of GBX 8,910.45, Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) has a forecasted downside of 22.2% from its current price of £114.50.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) has only been the subject of 2 research reports in the past 90 days.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) has received 379 “outperform” votes. (Add your “outperform” vote.)
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Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) has received 58.85% “underperform” votes from our community.
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Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) has a dividend yield of 0.98%, which is in the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.
Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) does not have a long track record of dividend growth.
Dividend Coverage
The dividend payout ratio of Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) is 48.86%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.
In the past three months, Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) insiders have not sold or bought any company stock.
Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market
The P/E ratio of Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) is 50.40, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 24.53.
Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector
The P/E ratio of Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) is 50.40, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the Industrials sector average P/E ratio of about 30.69.
Price to Book Value per Share Ratio
Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) has a P/B Ratio of 10.04. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.
Stock Exchange LON
Industry Diversified Industrials
SectorIndustrials
Current SymbolLON:SPX
Webwww.spiraxsarcoengineering.com
Phone+44-1242-521361
Employees7,800
Debt-to-Equity Ratio81.20
Trailing P/E Ratio50.40
Forward P/E Ratio0.43
Annual Sales£1.22 billion
Price / Sales6.91
Cash FlowGBX 434.77 per share
Price / Cash Flow26.34
Book ValueGBX 1,140.40 per share
Price / Book10.04
Market Cap£8.43 billion
Next Earnings Date3/10/2021 (Estimated)
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Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) (LON:SPX) Frequently Asked Questions
How has Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L)'s stock price been impacted by Coronavirus?
Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L)'s stock was trading at GBX 8,045 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, SPX shares have increased by 42.3% and is now trading at £114.50.
Is Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) a buy right now?
12 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) in the last year. There are currently 4 sell ratings and 8 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) stock. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in SPX, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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Wall Street analysts have given Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) a "Hold" rating, but there may be better short-term opportunities in the market. Some of MarketBeat's past winning trading ideas have resulted in 5-15% weekly gains. MarketBeat just released five new trading ideas, but Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) wasn't one of them. MarketBeat thinks these five stocks may be even better buys.
When is Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L)'s next earnings date?
Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, March 10th 2021.
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How were Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L)'s earnings last quarter?
Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) (LON:SPX) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August, 7th. The company reported $120.00 EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $125.20 by $5.20.
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How often does Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L)?
Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) announced a dividend on Wednesday, August 12th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, October 8th will be paid a dividend of GBX 33.50 per share on Friday, November 6th. This represents a dividend yield of 0.32%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, October 8th. The official announcement can be accessed at this link.
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Is Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) a good dividend stock?
Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) pays an annual dividend of GBX 111 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.98%. The dividend payout ratio of Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) is 48.86%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.
What price target have analysts set for SPX?
12 brokers have issued 12 month target prices for Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L)'s shares. Their forecasts range from GBX 7,200 to £100. On average, they expect Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L)'s share price to reach GBX 8,910.45 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 22.2%.
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Who are some of Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L)'s key competitors?
Some companies that are related to Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) include GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft (G1A.F) (G1A), Rheinmetall AG (RHM.F) (RHM), IMI plc (IMI.L) (IMI), Rotork plc (ROR.L) (ROR), Dürr Aktiengesellschaft (DUE.F) (DUE), ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. (ATA.TO) (ATA), Krones AG (KRN.F) (KRN), Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG (PFV.F) (PFV), Jungheinrich Aktiengesellschaft (JUN3.F) (JUN3), Stabilus S.A. (STM.F) (STM), KUKA Aktiengesellschaft (KU2.F) (KU2), Bodycote plc (BOY.L) (BOY), General Electric Company (GEC.L) (GEC), Morgan Advanced Materials plc (MGAM.L) (MGAM) and Savaria Co. (SIS.TO) (SIS).
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What other stocks do shareholders of Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) own?
Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Micron Technology (MU), Netflix (NFLX), Rotork plc (ROR.L) (ROR), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), salesforce.com (CRM), Citigroup (C), Halma plc (HLMA.L) (HLMA) and SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY).
Who are Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L)'s key executives?
Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L)'s management team includes the following people:
Mr. Nicholas J. Anderson, Group Chief Exec. & Exec. Director (Age 59, Pay $1.48M)
Mr. Neil Harvey Daws, MD of Steam Specialties Bus. & Exec. Director (Age 58, Pay $829.25k)
Mr. Nimesh Patel, CFO & Exec. Director
Mr. Andy J. Robson LLB Law, Barrister, Gen. Counsel & Company Sec. (Age 57)
Mr. Jim Devine, Group HR Director
Mr. Shaun Laubscher, Head of Talent & Organisational Devel.
Mr. Dan Harvey, Head of Internal Audit
Mr. Dominique Mallet, Pres of Electric Thermal Solutions
Mr. Andrew Mines, Managing Director of Watson-Marlow (Age 48)
Mr. Charles Song, Pres & GM of Spirax Sarco Engineering(China) Ltd
What is Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L)'s stock symbol?
Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) trades on the London Stock Exchange (LON) under the ticker symbol "SPX."
How do I buy shares of Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L)?
Shares of SPX and other U.K. stocks can be purchased through online brokerage accounts that support trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSX). Some U.K. companies can be purchased through major U.S. brokerages in the form of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), which are placeholder equities held in a trust by a bank that represent shares of a foreign stock.
What is Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L)'s stock price today?
One share of SPX stock can currently be purchased for approximately £114.50.
How big of a company is Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L)?
Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) has a market capitalization of £8.43 billion and generates £1.22 billion in revenue each year. Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) employs 7,800 workers across the globe.
What is Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L)'s official website?
The official website for Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L) is www.spiraxsarcoengineering.com.
How can I contact Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L)?
Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (SPX.L)'s mailing address is Charlton House, 15 Cirencester Road, CHELTENHAM, GL53 8ER, United Kingdom. The company can be reached via phone at +44-1242-521361.
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Radically rethink your strategy: How digital B2B ecosystems can help traditional manufacturers create and protect value
August 5, 2019 | Article
By Jürgen Meffert, Mark Patel, and Rupert Stuetzle
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Machinery companies that partner in a B2B ecosystem could fend off new waves of tech competition by developing the capacity to deliver innovative aftersales and services offers.
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The production, sale, and service of equipment are the traditional business model of many hardware-oriented industries. Digital, however, promises to be a game changer for all segments, whether product, project, or process industries. Machinery companies have started to innovate their business models. One-fourth of respondents to McKinsey’s Periscope Machinery and Industrial Automation survey reported that their companies have digitized their service, spare parts, and consumables business, and more than two-thirds are planning to do so.
A higher commitment to digital results in business success. The more digitally mature a company is, the better its performance is along two key indicators: TRS and revenue growth. Though most companies across industries have ventured into the digital space on some level, less than one in ten are highly mature, and these are the companies reaping digital’s largest benefits. Compared to the least mature, the most digitally mature companies see three-year TRS rates nearly three times larger and five-year CAGRs more than four times larger (Exhibit 1).
Digital is an OEM opportunity with an imminent built-in threat
Digital is more than a novel feature or add-on in the machinery industry—it has implications for every link along the value chain. In the earliest parts of the value chain, digital applications are creating efficiencies for OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers. In product development, AI is reducing time to market. In manufacturing, the current ubiquity of autonomous robots is boosting shop performance, and the emergence of collaborative robots is improving the lives of the humans working right alongside them. Finally, in distribution, digital is reducing cost by optimizing delivery routes and fleets.
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Further down the value chain, however, OEMs and suppliers are not the only players with much to gain from digital. Tech giants are using their digital expertise to enter the manufacturing industry in both aftersales and services. In aftersales, digital is becoming the foundation of a new type of platform for spare parts and consumables. In services, a single application of a digital-technology-like augmented reality can both enable a premium service offer and increase on-site maintenance efficiency. With advanced digital know-how, tech giants have boldly inserted themselves in these links of the manufacturing value chain and threaten to stand directly between manufacturers and their customers. Some are integrating directly into the procurement systems of manufacturers’ customers, making tech companies, not OEMs, the go-to provider for parts and services (see sidebar "Example 1: Amazon and Alibaba: A tech-giant takeover of aftersales and service").
Example 1: Amazon and Alibaba: A tech-giant takeover of aftersales and service
Amazon Business has entered the industrial aftersales and consumables space with its presence known in more than eight countries, revenues exceeding $10 billion p.a., and growing at fast pace. In janitorial supplies, Amazon Business offers 1.5 times the number of products offered by a traditional aftersales player. In cutting tools, its online platform offers 84 times the number of products of a large specialty supplier. Alibaba.com, its international online wholesale marketplace, enables more than 165,000 suppliers to serve buyers in over 190 countries—and this is just the beginning.
Today, hardware is still the typical manufacturing company’s “bread and butter,” accounting for more than 60 percent of the value with software and services making up the rest. As digital proliferates, the balance is shifting. The price of hardware is increasingly coming under pressure as machine prices continue to drop, and software and services are expected to make up the majority of value in the near future. Looking ahead, the value-add is increasing in digitally enabled services, software, and machine integration, and tech companies are already well-positioned to dominate in this arena.
From competitors to allies: B2B ecosystems as a new strategic approach to create and secure value
Individually, no machinery company can rival the software and IT capabilities of a technology powerhouse like Amazon or Alibaba. However, as part of an ecosystem that includes other machinery players—ones who serve a similar customer base and whose offers are complementary—that same company can fend off the new wave of tech competition by developing the capacity to deliver innovative aftersales and services offers. This type of alliance of traditional players constitutes the core of a digital B2B ecosystem play, and it is a radical strategy with the power to help manufacturing companies create and secure value in aftersales and service.
Example 2: Food packaging: Creating an aftersales ecosystem
The value proposition of an ecosystem is its power to help operators streamline their operations and reduce complexity. The food packaging value chain is comprised of a large and diverse set of machinery targeted to several functions. Filling and form, sealing, labeling and coding, wrapping, and bundling and palletizing are among the activities requiring unique machinery from different OEMs with a wide range of parts and components for building and maintenance.
Food packaging operators such as Unilever or Nestlé are typical players in this space. Their needs include spare parts, consumables, and services from multiple machinery OEMs. A one-stop-shop solution for a broad range of products would be highly beneficial. For this reason, machinery OEMs want to improve their service levels, protect their business, and improve the cost efficiency particularly when it comes to building and maintaining platforms.
In this particular ecosystem, there is significant opportunity for both the machinery OEMs and the operators. For OEMs, more than 20 percent of their revenues are already generated from spare parts and consumables—this can be expanded and secured. Operators can significantly lower the cost of operating their plants across a diverse set of machinery players. The creation of such an ecosystem can lead to the development of a single platform for all consumables and parts in the food-packaging machinery space, clearly benefiting both OEMs and operators.
Implemented correctly, an ecosystem is a partnership of players that combines deep industry insights, profound customer understanding and relationships, established industry-specific networks, and highly complementary value chains to create true value-add to their end customers (see sidebar "Example 2: Food packaging: Creating an aftersales ecosystem").
The digital B2B ecosystem is a carefully cultivated environment of industry players that collectively establish the key characteristics that none of them can fully provide individually (Exhibit 2).
A successful ecosystem requires that OEMs and specialty suppliers think of the sector, and their peers, in a radically new way. Specifically, they will need to think of each other less as competitors and more as partners, since partnership and networks will be the foundation of the new B2B ecosystem.
It is the collective know-how and access of the ecosystem that is the best defense against digital natives looking to enter the industry and dominate. Successful digital B2B ecosystems are lines of defense that help manufacturers and suppliers create real value in aftersales and services and hold onto valuable customer relationships, which tech giants seek to control.
The building blocks of a successful digital B2B ecosystem
The digital ecosystem starts with rethinking the competitive arena. Players that once defined themselves purely as rivals (i.e., OEM vs. OEM and supplier vs. supplier) must now see each other as an essential network of peers that delivers value to customers and helps secure each other’s place in the market. Following this fundamental shift in mindset, there are several building blocks along the four key dimensions of scope, value proposition, technology, and governance that traditional industry players need to have in place to build a successful ecosystem (Exhibit 3).
Scope. Think about the ecosystem as a whole. It is important to define the breadth of its functions, the size of its value chain footprint, and the value proposition each partner is able to bring to the table. An ecosystem is not a network of similarly functioning organizations but a partnership of complementary players. That said, it is also important to look specifically at peer companies that have traditionally been viewed as direct hardware competitors. They may be reluctant, but in the spare parts and consumables business, traditional hardware competitors will fare better together, as new tech entrants seek to take value from all of them.
Value proposition. The ecosystem must deliver clear and specific value to all involved. Partners will need to create a sustainable model from which each one can benefit. They will need to create tangible value-add for customers. This customer focus will include an omnichannel infrastructure that seamlessly spans customer self-service, field service, and the customer contact center. This unified, tailored platform will streamline quotes, advice, and orders related to spare parts, and will deliver a superior experience.
Technology. The successful ecosystem will run on a full technology stack that enables collaboration and joint offers. This includes software deployed in the cloud and on-premise, and the use of standardized APIs, including access to embedded layers via a user interface. On the IIoT industrial automation side, a data storage and management platform and a cloud-enabled, full manufacturing software stack will be key elements. It will also be critical to choose the right technology partners, and there are options when it comes to building the technology stack regarding the level of in/outsourcing and partner types, each with its own set of pros and cons (see sidebar "Example 3: Tech stack options and considerations for ecosystem builders").
Example 3: Tech stack options and considerations for ecosystem builders
Companies looking to establish an industry ecosystem have four basic choices in building their system’s technology stack. Each approach comes with potential advantages—depending on the ecosystem’s particular characteristics—as well as a unique set of considerations:
Leveraging the technology of established industry platform players, a company will need to weigh the upside of convenience against the risk of losing their customer relationship to the platform provider. Also, the additional cost on top of a cloud services provider may not be justifiable. Finally, understanding the degree to which it will be able to differentiate while still using a single platform is also an important consideration.
Leveraging technology from major software players, a company will want to take a long-term look at the cost of licensing fees and determine if that cost is sustainable. It will also need to answer the question of data ownership. A software partner may want to own the data captured by the sensors on an OEM’s machine. This could put the OEM at the mercy of the software partner in the area of using analytics to drive significant improvements in machine output or performance.
Partnering with (semi-)public providers, e.g., from the academic space, a company may have greater autonomy or ownership, but there are the questions of whether the business models offered are sustainable and if their speed of development is sufficient.
Developing their own platform, a company addresses the ownership question but may run the risk of overinvesting in features that are already commodities. Scalability may also be an issue when using a completely in-house platform.
Governance. The shape of the partnership and the governance setup are extremely important. Choosing the right model is key to the ecosystem’s success. On the business-model axis, the ecosystem may follow a relatively simple licensing agreement on one of the party’s platforms, create a white-label shop based on one party’s solution, or form a full-fledged joint venture, where all involved have equal equity shares. The level of cooperation may also vary. Partners may simply share software, go further and engage in joint functional processes, or even share infrastructure, such as a spare parts center. No matter what, committed leadership and agreements that are fair to all partners are core drivers of the ecosystem’s success. Continuously identifying and inviting new partners will be key to the ecosystem’s growth. Getting this right will require a significant change to general management practices.
Digital ecosystems are not just a concept
Real-world examples across a wide range of industries do exist. Globally, these ecosystems are emerging and they are at different stages of maturity:
OpenEarth Community is an early-stage example of a digital ecosystem. Oil and gas companies aim to develop a productive, shared software platform that serves as a breeding ground for accelerated technology innovation in the industry.
Open Security and Safety Alliance is an emerging ecosystem for providers of security and safety solutions in the building technologies space. The technology platform will launch its first pilot installations in 2019 and plans to onboard a broad set of new partners to provide ready-to-use applications throughout 2019 and beyond (see sidebar "Example 4: Creating an open ecosystem for security and safety solutions").
Example 4: Creating an open ecosystem for security and safety solutions
Security cameras today are able to automatically analyze the images captured. Depending on the specific software deployed, these cameras can provide a wide range of functions from recognizing the license plates of cars entering a parking garage to spotting potentially dangerous objects in an airport.
To date, these functions are the proprietary offers of individual camera manufacturers, and the software is not portable from one supplier to the next. This reality sparked the founding of the Open Security and Safety Alliance. Geared toward overcoming the fragmentation in today’s market, this body is defining a standard operating system for security cameras and enabling the sharing of software applications across camera platforms, thus boosting innovation.
Bosch—an important manufacturer of security cameras—is a founding member of the alliance and also founded Security and Safety Things, a wholly owned start-up, which provides an implementation of the standardized operating system and is creating a corresponding web platform for developers, integrators, and end customers.
This alliance is a promising example of multiple players combining their respective strengths to build an ecosystem and succeed in the digitized world. Together, they tackle challenges, such as data security and the move to more data-centric solutions, such as software-as-a-service.
Aviatar is the creation of a digital ecosystem of aviation players that is starting to scale. The open platform offers a variety of digital products and services, contributing to lower cost, optimized operating hours, and a reduction in operational incidents for airlines, MROs, OEMs, and lessors.
Tolino is among the more mature digital ecosystems. A group of book dealerships has joined forces and created the Tolino Alliance. They built a joint digital reading ecosystem with an e-reader and a shared online presence. With its online component and over 1,800 stores in Germany, the Tolino Alliance offers a truly omnichannel experience to its customers, keeping Amazon’s Kindle at bay.
Outlook: Think big, act now
Across industries, the profit pools of physical products—whether they be airplane parts or paperback books—are giving way to digitally enabled services. Once the valuable domain of OEMs, spare parts and consumables are becoming commodities, and technology companies are hugely successful in providing them to OEMs’ end customers. The logistics prowess of digital titans along with growing price transparency has lessened customers’ dependence on OEMs. Will incumbent OEMs and specialty suppliers continue to cede ground to tech players or will they create the systems that allow them to beat tech giants at their own game?
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Digital B2B ecosystems—constellations of complementary industry players working together—are proving to be powerful defenses against the advances of the tech giants that are moving into the manufacturing space. To make the most of ecosystems, traditional industry players will need to move away from old concepts of competition and market control and build mutually beneficial networks and environments that incubate innovation and create new value.
In short, traditional players can either ride the wave or get crushed by it. Doing nothing will almost certainly mean that attractive parts of their value chain will shift to tech-driven companies. Time is of the essence. In order to build thriving ecosystems, players must think big, aim for scale, fully embrace technology, and act now.
Jürgen Meffert is a senior partner in McKinsey’s Düsseldorf office, Mark Patel is a senior partner in the San Francisco office, and Rupert Stuetzle is a partner in the Berlin office.
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USMEF names new chairman
USMEF Vice Chair Mark Swanson (far left), Chair Cevin Jones and Chair-elect Pat Binger. Dean Meyer (not pictured) is the new secretary-treasurer.
Source: USMEF
By Ryan McCarthy
WASHINGTON — Cevin Jones, an Idaho cattle feeder, was elected chairman of the US Meat Export Federation (USMEF) at the association’s annual strategic planning conference. He will replace Iowa pork producer Conley Nelson.
“My first involvement with USMEF was when I was marketing chair with the Idaho Cattle Association,” Jones said. “As part of my duties, I would go to national conventions where USMEF staff and leadership shared information about their work in international markets. This was a tremendous eye-opener. I valued the importance of export markets then, but value them even more today.”
Jones has served as president of Intermountain Beef since 2004. He also worked as president of the Idaho Cattle Association starting in November 2003, a month before the first classical BSE case in the United States was discovered in December 2003.
“Then I truly realized how important our exports markets are, when they closed overnight,” Jones said. “But in time I got to see USMEF in action, helping to get those markets reopened.”
His resume also includes stints as the chairman of the Idaho Beef Council and Federation of State Beef Council and service on the Beef Promotion Operating Committee.
During his remarks at the conference, Jones encouraged members to remain committed to the international markets during volatility and ongoing trade disputes.
“In 2010 the global middle class consisted of 850 million people, but next year it is projected to reach 1.3 billion,” Jones said. “And we know what happens when the middle class expands. The first thing people do is improve their diet and eat more protein.”
Jones promoted the association’s expansion into Africa for future trade partnerships, including the first-ever African representative for USMEF.
Other officers named by USMEF include chair-elect Pat Binger, a vice president at Cargill Protein Group. Binger has worked in the meat industry for more than 30 years, including 27 years in international sales and 16 years with Cargill’s overseas network.
Mark Swanson will be vice chair of the association. He currently works as CEO of Birko Corp., headquartered in Henderson, Colorado. He’s worked with various protein companies over the last 20 years including Iowa Beef Processors, ConAgra Foods and Swift and Company.
The last officer elected was Dean Meyer who takes over as secretary-treasurer. Meyer is a corn, soybean and livestock producer in Iowa and director of the Iowa Corn Growers Association.
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New York Times Reporter Criticized For Her Framing of Hope Hicks Story
Jun 01, 2019 by Avi Bajpai in Politics
More than a year after she resigned as White House Communications Director, Hope Hicks found herself back in the news last Tuesday after she was served with a subpoena for documents and testimony by the House Judiciary Committee.
In her coverage of Hicks’ subpoena, New York Times White House Correspondent Maggie Haberman wrote that Hicks was facing the “crucial question” of whether or not she would comply. The article was accompanied by a glamorous head shot of Hicks taken by a Times photographer and flatteringly described her as a former Trump aide “who left the White House with an enduring mystique that inspired countless news media profiles.”
In addition, the Times promoted the story on Twitter by describing Hicks as facing an “existential question” — phrasing that drew criticism for downplaying the illegality of defying a subpoena and gravity of Congressional oversight.
It’s a subpoena, not an invitation.
Complying with a Congressional subpoena is not an “existential question”, it’s the law. https://t.co/AYM8ykD7mc
— Abigail Spanberger (@SpanbergerVA07) May 26, 2019
The Rolling Stone’s Jamil Smith tweeted that the Times portrayal of Hicks’ decision as “legitimate” was a “testament to the degree to which norms have shifted to accommodate Trumpian criminality.” Smith said that the framing of Hicks’ choice as an “existential question” was “infuriating,” adding that if she were not “white, wealthy, and connected,” defying the subpoena would not be an option.
“She would appear, or she would face the threat of prison like the rest of us. As she should,” he said.
Jay Rosen, an associate professor of journalism at New York University, tweeted that “the word ‘existential’ has no business here” and coupled with the rest of the article, presented obeying the law “as almost a lifestyle choice.” Rosen also criticized the Times for its choice of photograph, calling it “absurdly out of place.”
Former Pulitzer Prize winning Times reporter John Markoff agreed with Rosen, while Stuart Elliot, another former Times reporter, asked if Hicks was receiving “glam shots and kid-glove treatment” because she may have been a valuable anonymous source for White House reporters.
The possibility of Hicks’ involvement as a source was further probed by Peter Maass, senior editor at The Intercept, who pointed to praise Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch recalled hearing about Hicks from “many people” at the Times when she was being considered for her current job at the company last year.
“I had an advisor of mine call people she would have worked with and universally, and I should mention that many people from the New York Times, universally said she was a fantastic choice,” Murdoch told an audience at The Times’ DealBook conference last November.
Who at the New York Times vouched for Hicks when she was up for the Fox job? Assuming it was a reporter/s, what does that say about their relationship with Hicks and the paper's coverage of Hicks? Paging @jayrosen_nyu @jackshafer @Sulliview 😉
— Peter Maass (@maassp) May 28, 2019
On Sunday, the Times quietly swapped out the word “existential” for “crucial,” without any editor’s note or explanation added to the story. In a statement to The Daily Beast on Tuesday, a Times spokesperson avoided commenting on the Times’ word choice but did concede the photograph used was a mistake.
“The photo of Hope Hicks that was published with our story was a file photo not taken for this article and in retrospect, we should have selected a different image,” the spokesperson said.
In defense of Haberman, New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait wrote that the criticism of her story illustrated “the extraordinary and almost pathological hatred her name provokes.”
“The progressive loathing of Haberman draws some of its force from the mistaken belief that straight news reporters should stand up to the president and call him out for his unfitness to hold office,” Chait said.
Jonathan Martin, a national political correspondent at The Times, added that Haberman was “relentless,” “tough” and “the most indispensable journalist of the Trump era.” Other Times reporters including Kenneth Vogel and Katie Rogers tweeted their own defenses of Haberman, which largely ignored the substantive criticism of the Hicks story and instead vouched for the caliber of her reporting.
Fordham Law School Professor Jed Shugerman criticized Haberman’s colleagues for “wagon-circling around her,” calling it “defensive,” “obtuse” and a “sad commentary on journalism.”
“You don’t need to be each other’s cheerleaders. Just hire an ombudsperson and show you learn from mistakes,” Shugerman said, referencing The Times’ controversial 2017 decision to eliminate the position of public editor in favor of a digital venue for readers to share criticism called the ‘Reader Center.’
“People were legit mad about that Hope Hicks piece,” Shugerman added. “Don’t be dismissive. [The Times] is in trouble if it refuses to learn from them.”
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About the author Avi Bajpai
Avi is a senior at George Washington University majoring in political science and minoring in journalism and mass communication. Avi first joined MediaFile in 2018 as a writer for the politics section and most recently served as politics editor. He has also reported on student life and metro news for The GW Hatchet, and on homelessness and affordable housing in Washington, D.C. for Street Sense Media.
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How the Bettencourt scandal began and ended in a trial of freedom of the press
Jul 13, 2017 By Edwy Plenel
Seven years after the revelation of the so-called “Bettencourt affair”, the tentacular scandal of corruption, fraud, tax evasion, conflicts of interest and political funding centred on the entourage of Liliane Bettencourt, heiress of the L’Oréale cosmectics giant, those who exposed the crimes committed against the dementia-suffering billionaire were tried by a Bordeaux appeal court last month for invasion of privacy. They are Bettencourt’s butler, who secretly recorded compromising conversations of those who were swindling his employer, and Mediapart and weekly magazine Le Point which published the contents of the tapes. Mediapart publishing editor Edwy Plenel explains here the history of an absurd legal procedure led by a public prosecutor’s office that has never accepted an initial court ruling that threw out the case on the grounds of the press’s duty to inform and the public’s right to know.
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Single Use Spackman Cannula
Single Use Surgical Ltd.
The new disposable Spackman cannula: the guaranteed safe alternative
Europe-wide, up to 10% of hospitalised patients. Infections developed during surgical procedures can occur because of a lack of cleanliness of the medical devices. A growing number of hospitals are switching to single-use instruments to eliminate the risk of infection from equipment.
There are sometimes concerns that single-use instruments don’t perform as well as traditional instruments. But using up-to-the-minute technology and production methods, Single Use Surgical developed a disposable Spackman cannula (uterine manipulator or Cohen cannula) at the request of hospitals determined to reduce hospital acquired infections.
Concerns centred around the closed end and fine holes in a Spackman cannula which are notoriously difficult to clean. With an emphasis on surgeon acceptance, the traditional clamp with a screw requiring 2 hands has been replaced with a self locking clamp. Hospitals wanting to continue using the Spackman Cannula rather than the more expensive balloon-based uterine manipulators, but who also want to overcome the cleaning risks with the reusable device, now have choice.
Single Use Surgical’s Managing Director, Matthew Tulley, spoke at the international launch of the new line. Mr Tulley said: “The disposable Spackman cannula has enjoyed wide circulation in the UK and every day more and more hospitals are making the change to single use instruments. Releasing this safe, user-friendly instrument onto the international market reflects the success in the UK.
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Wilbraham Democrats holding LGBTQ event to counter GOP talk by 'Pink Swastika' author Scott Lively, pastor who links America's decline to gay rights
Updated Jan 30, 2019; Posted Mar 02, 2018
March 8 is shaping up to be a night of extremes in Wilbraham, where Democrats will be preaching "love wins" at an LGBTQ event while anti-gay Pastor Scott Lively addresses the local GOP.(Don Treeger / The Republican File Photo)
By Conor Berry
WILBRAHAM -- March 8 is shaping up to be a night of extremes in Wilbraham, where Democrats will be preaching "love wins" to counter Pastor Scott Lively -- a man who has linked America's cultural decline to the rise in gay rights -- coming to town for GOP support for his gubernatorial campaign.
Lively, who's challenging Gov. Charlie Baker in the Republican primary in September, is co-author of "The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party," a book claiming the Nazi Party was full of gay men who carried out the Holocaust.
His views on homosexuality have drawn criticism from the Human Rights Campaign, the Southern Poverty Law Center and other hatewatch groups.
But Lively's trying to jettison the "anti-gay" label and instead focus on his ministry in inner-city Springfield, where he works to empower people who need help. His campaign platform includes ideas on how to jumpstart the urban economy and create jobs.
Lively is set to address the Wilbraham Republican Town Committee at 7 p.m. in the community room of the Wilbraham Police Department, 2780 Boston Road. The meeting will also feature two Republican candidates for attorney general, Dan Shores and Jay McMahon.
At the same time, the Wilbraham Democratic Town Committee will be hosting "Democrats for Diversity: Love is a Family Value," an event that local Democrats believe will serve as an antidote to Lively's meeting local Republicans.
The diversity event is from 6:45 to 8:30 p.m. at the Wilbraham Senior Center, 45B Post Office Park.
"LOVE WINS!" the Democratic Town Committee said in a statement, describing the event as a "critical conversation about diversity and discrimination in our town."
"Through individual stories from members of the LGBTQ community, we will explore important and potentially awkward questions relating to diversity and discrimination in our town while identifying areas of progress and growth," the committee said.
"Our goal is to deepen our understanding of the strengths and challenges of our community and to share strategies for growth," the committee said. "We seek to embrace diversity and build a more caring community for the benefit of all who live and work here.
All are welcome to attend the event at the Senior Center, so long as they "bring an open mind and interesting questions," the committee said.
Meanwhile, Dave Sanders, president of the Wilbraham Republican Town Committee, said his committee doesn't endorse any candidates during the primary season.
"We invite all local and state Republican candidates to our meetings to hear their presentations and to discuss the issues with them," Sanders told The Republican last month.
Lively has amassed around $27,000 in campaign contributions so far, according to the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance, including a $100 check from Sanders, a self-described "family values" conservative.
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Keeping roads safe during 2020 harvest
With a great harvest expected this season, more trucks will be transporting loads of crops on country roads over the next couple of months and motorists are being urged to be patient and respect others.
Wagga Wagga City Council Road Safety Officer Emma Reynolds said numbers of trains on local lines will also increase which means road users need to stay alert, share the road and be aware of rail crossings as they travel across the region.
“Movement of large agricultural machinery on public roads is essential. While farmers will move out of the way when it is safe for them to do so, the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator is encouraging motorists to “Look Out, Slow Down and Take Care” with patience needed from all road users,” Mrs Reynolds said.
“Farming machinery in paddocks can stir up dust, reducing visibility on nearby roads so it’s essential that road users drive to the conditions, turn on their headlights and slow down when visibility is reduced. Large agricultural machinery has limitations in terms of ease of movement and stopping distances. These machines can be much longer and wider than expected.”
Mrs Reynolds said road users who stop to take photos of crops should be cautious and consider everyone’s safety.
“Many paddocks are located alongside 100km/hr speed zones, increasing the risk of crashes or pedestrian fatalities around parked cars. Children should always hold the hand of an adult when in the traffic environment. Entering crops or paddocks is trespassing,” she said.
Fatigue is still one of the biggest killers on NSW roads and farmers in Wagga are working long hours during harvest season, so it’s important they look after themselves and take regular breaks. Fatigue will be increased in inexperienced seasonal workers with long hours, heat and dust, and drivers are urged to be on the lookout for signs of fatigue and pull over safely if tired.
Those transporting grain are reminded to abide by Chain of Responsibility legislation as enforcement will be undertaken across the region. Vehicles must comply with restrictions and loads need to be secured and within weight.
Road users are urged to think road safety and respect others on the road and remember the following tips for staying safe this Harvest season;
Slow down, be patient and share the road
Watch for vehicles entering or leaving the road
Keep to the speed limit
Drive to the conditions, especially when visibility is low due to dust, smoke or haze
Be aware of railway crossings
Keep headlights on day and night
If you see a pilot vehicle, it means an oversize vehicle is approaching Prepare to slow down and change your lane position. Oversize vehicles need extra space
Oversize vehicles have blind spots and may not see you. Take extra care, wait until safe and leave plenty of room when overtaking
Tags:children, council, environment, Farming, legislation, local council, NSW, Pedestrian, pilot, Safety, season, space, travel, vehicle, Wagga Wagga, Wagga Wagga City Council, Weight
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