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Dear Members of No Red Tape and other supporters of the SAAFE petition,
Thank you for your petition and recommendations. When Suraiya Baluch, Interim Director of Sexual Violence Response, and I met with some of you a few months ago, we discussed several of these points at length. The responses below reflect the conversation we had at that time as well as the supplemental contributions of Sexual Violence Response, Counseling and Psychological Services, Public Safety and the Gender-Based Misconduct Office.
As you know, I am happy to continue to talk with you about these issues.
Professor Goldberg
Executive Vice President for University Life
Herbert and Doris Wechsler Clinical Professor of Law
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1. Increase culturally responsive mental health services and trauma response staff by requiring safe space training.
Sexual Violence Response (SVR) staff has participated in myriad trainings including Safe Zone (Parts 1 & 2), Under One Roof, and The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, and has also brought in expert trainers from outside Columbia (e.g., Monroe France, NYU Assistant Vice President for Student Diversity).
SVR is a diverse staff: Staff members identify as African American, Latina, White/Caucasian, South Asian, multiracial/multiethnic, immigrant, heterosexual and LGBT, and are diverse socioeconomically as well as in gender, religion and spirituality.
Cultural sensitivity and competence is a core value of Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS) and is a required part of the training for every psychologist and psychiatrist on staff. CPS is open to all appropriate opportunities to further enhance staff awareness and respect for cultural, individual and role differences, including those based on age, gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, language and socioeconomic status.
In addition, issues of diversity and cross-cultural counseling are regularly addressed as part of CPS in-service training and case conferences. In recent years, professional development sessions have specifically addressed particular interests and needs related to students of color; international students; students with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and multiple other queer identities; students of various gender identities; issues of immigration in psychotherapy; spirituality and religion in psychotherapy; social justice; and numerous other related issues. Postdoctoral fellows who work with CPS receive training in diversity, cross-cultural counseling, working with international students, and working with LGBT students as part of their orientation to CPS, as well as the professional development provided to all staff.
CPS has a dedicated Trauma Support Team that includes experts in the field, and all staff members receive ongoing professional development in working with survivors.
Beyond these specific professional development opportunities and others like them, some of which are facilitated by outside experts and some by content experts on the CPS team, clinical and interpersonal considerations in working with cultural, individual and role differences are routinely part of the ongoing case conferences, supervisory sessions and clinical consultations in which every staff member participates throughout the year. Finally, the CPS staff brings a wealth of personal lived experience that enriches discussion of all of these issues: Forty percent of CPS clinicians are people of color; ten percent are out as gay, lesbian or transgender; and around a quarter immigrated to the United States from abroad. The cultural diversity of the staff is reflected in the languages in which we are able to provide counseling including Chinese, Danish, Farsi, Filipino, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Urdu.
2. Have professional staffing at a Rape Crisis Center on campus 24/7.
SVR's professional survivor advocates are available 24-hours/7 days a week/365 days a year for immediate crisis counseling, accompaniment to on and off-campus resources including the hospital, NYPD, District Attorney's office, courts, medical services etc. In short, SVR offers comprehensive rape crisis services. We have great concern that the current inaccurate representation that SVR does not offer 24-hour services is harmful to survivors seeking support. To misrepresent what SVR offers also is a disservice to the many student activists, student peer counselors and advocates who helped create, build and staff Columbia's Rape Crisis Center for the past 24 years.
Additionally, SVR has responded to demands for longer hours in the past. During the 2014-2015 academic year SVR was open until 10 p.m.; utilization during the extended hours extremely low. SVR peak utilization times are generally 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. and, in particular for walk-ins, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The current best practice for sexual assault advocacy is for advocates to be on-call and available to respond immediately. This is the protocol SVR follows because it allows for a personalized, private response; we meet the survivor when and where they are most comfortable, which is the definition of a trauma-informed response. Community and hospital-based sexual assault services use this model as do other university advocacy programs. Our peer institutions such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Brown utilize similar 24-hour advocacy services initiated through a helpline. This is in keeping with the industry standard, which, as just described, is a 24-hour hotline with immediate phone access to certified counselors/advocates who can then respond on-site.
SVR has not had survivors request to meet at the SVR office in-person when calling the helpline overnight. Overnight calls are typically for crisis counseling, information about resources and options and/or accompaniment to off-campus resources such as the hospital or NYPD. Most importantly, this current demand for on-campus 24/7 staffing is not a trauma-informed best practice. A trauma-informed response takes into account the need for survivors to first name their experience as a violation, which does not usually happen in the immediate aftermath of an assault. Additionally, seeking services can be very anxiety provoking. Providing survivors with immediate access via phone to an advocate aids in providing a sense of connection to university services and resources. Both anecdotal and research evidence demonstrates that survivors will disclose first to friends. In fact, students are most likely to disclose to a friend rather than to seek services in the immediate after an assault. According to a Department of Justice survey, two-thirds of survivors disclosed to a friend, not to their family or school (Fisher, Cullen & Turner, 2000).
We have done due diligence in exploring the question of a brick-and-mortar 24-hour rape crisis center including reaching out to the executive director of NYS Coalition Against Sexual Assault and to a researcher (Bein, 2010) who examined the best practices of rape crisis centers in 20 states. This research identified no 24-hour brick-and-mortar rape crisis centers in the United States. Additionally, we did a benchmarking study of our peer institutions which revealed that no university has a brick-and-mortar 24-hour rape crisis center.
SVR has taken steps to enhance our after-hours call answering protocol based on feedback from the SAAFE petition and our own benchmarking of best practices. We concur that survivors should always speak with someone who is trained to be a sexual violence first responder when calling the SVR helpline. With our implemented changes, when a student does call the helpline, the call is transferred to the SVR professional advocate on-call (24/7/365) immediately. The SVR professional advocate on-call is then always available to meet with a student in-person, either on campus or at an off-campus resource (e.g., hospital, NYPD, court).
SVR is also exploring improving access and service provision through technology (e.g., an online chat system, an app with Health resources and information).
3. Allow students to have both moral and legal support throughout the reporting and adjudication process. Students should not have to choose between having a loved one or lawyer by their side.
It is important for students to have support throughout the reporting and adjudication process, if they choose. For this reason, students have the right to an advisor of their choice to provide support throughout the investigation and adjudication process. This includes a right to have an attorney advisor provided at no cost. If a student chooses to have an attorney, they can also bring a loved one or other supporter with them to the Gender-Based Misconduct Office. This person can be present in the Office throughout any stage of the process, and students are permitted to take breaks throughout the process to speak with their support person. The Office has made the professional judgment that this practice enables students to receive support while also enabling the authentic exchanges of information that are essential to the investigation and adjudication process.
4. Remove the exception for GBM that requires the Office of Disability Services, Health Services, and all other normally confidential services to report cases of GBM. Survivors should be able to request accommodations without triggering an investigation.
Regardless of whether a report results in an investigation, Case Managers are happy to work with students to discuss accommodations, including class schedule adjustments and connections to partner offices. Case managers regularly liaise on students' behalf with faculty and academic advisors and other appropriate university offices to address housing concerns. We empower students to make their own decision about their level of participation in any disciplinary process,and when appropriate, enable students to play an active role in deciding whether to pursue an investigation at all. For more on this, see the Gender-Based Misconduct Policy for Students. None of these decisions has any effect on a student's ability to work with a Case Manager to obtain accommodations. While the Office of Disability Services is not a confidential resource, Health Services is a confidential resource and is not required to report gender-based misconduct incidents (there are narrowly limited, legally-mandated exceptions to this confidentiality, such as incidents involving minors).
5. Educate all first responders to be culturally sensitive and aware of resources on campus, including immediate support to feel safe navigating campus, STI testing and reporting options.
SVR professional survivor advocates are New York State-certified rape crisis counselors whose essential function is to inform survivors of all options and resources including medical, psychological, adjudication, criminal and legal (e.g., NYPD, Orders of Protection), and academic and housing accommodations. SVR professional survivor advocates can serve as a source of ongoing support and provide ongoing assistance to students who pursue any of the above-mentioned options.
Testing for STIs is available on campus at the various health services offices and from off-campus resources.
SVR also offers first-responder training to members of the Columbia University community so that students, staff and faculty are equipped to respond sensitively to disclosures.
Public Safety staff members undergo first-responder training as well. Included in this training for uniformed staff is training about gender-based misconduct and Title IX from experts in and outside the University and training about SVR's services and resources from SVR staff members.
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1. Revise the policy language to remove unnecessarily complex and inaccessible legal jargon. The policy's language should be clear and easily understood by any student.
The Gender-Based Misconduct Policy for Students has been written in a way that aims to be clear and easily understood by every student. The Policy's very first page invites students and all community members to share comments: "Comments and questions, which are always welcome, may be directed to studentconduct@columbia.edu." The update to the Policy for this academic year incorporates numerous comments and suggestions from students and other community members. Clarity remains a priority and we continue to welcome both comments and suggestions.
2. Provide students, especially those who cannot afford an attorney advisor, with more options for legal representation, such as alumni, members of the campus legal community or other volunteer attorneys.
The University will provide an attorney-advisor at no charge to all students who request one, as detailed in the Gender-Based Misconduct Policy for Students. To provide this service in a high-quality and evenhanded way to all students, the University has partnered with highly-trained lawyers who have specialized expertise in our policy, our process, and the issues involved in gender-based misconduct investigation and adjudication. The policy also makes clear that students can elect to work with any lawyer they choose and are not limited or obligated to work with an attorney provided by the University.
3. Make aggregate data about processes available to all students, including instances of repeat offenders and specific information about accommodations granted.
The University has, for the past two years, issued an extensive report on Gender-Based Misconduct Prevention and Response, and will continue to issue a similar annual report going forward.The reports for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic years can be found on Columbia's Sexual Respect website. Each report provides information about resources, training, incident reports, and cases.
The reports also explain that, in sharing information about cases, they are careful to provide only anonymous data and to not disclose information that might indicate the identity of any students who brought or who were the subject of complaints. There are very few reports of incidents involving the same respondent; treating those reports differently from others by providing additional information about the respondent would carry a significant risk that the identities of students could be discerned by those familiar with the report.
The reason for taking care to avoid disclosing the identity of students involved with the gender-based misconduct office is to make clear that students can report gender-based misconduct without concern that the University will share identifying information or comment publicly on their individual reports. Without this clarity, we know that some students will be reluctant to file reports.
The Policy is the location for specific information about the accommodations that are available to students both in and outside of the investigative and disciplinary process. (The term "interim measures," sometimes used interchangeably with "accommodations," refers to measures put into place during the course of an investigation or disciplinary proceeding and describes a subset of all accommodations.) Under appropriate circumstances, accommodations may include, but are not limited to: moving a student's residence; adjusting a student's work schedule for University employment; changing a student's academic schedule; allowing a student to withdraw from or retake a class without penalty; providing access to tutoring or other academic support; and issuing a "no contact" order. The Gender-Based Misconduct Office will evaluate any request for accommodations in light of the circumstances and information available at the time of the request and will liaise with the relevant offices to facilitate responses to these requests. The University will reveal information about the accommodations only to those who need to know in order to make them effective.
Students seek and are granted accommodations - one time or ongoing - through a variety of resources committed to such support. Because the Gender-Based Misconduct Offices is one resource that facilitates accommodations through partner offices, it cannot tally all accommodations that are granted. Students may also seek assistance on their own or directly through a particular office; through a confidential resource; or with the assistance a Case Manager.
Revise policy language to clarify procedures for requesting academic and other interim and post accommodations and grant students more agency over academic and other accommodations by:
4. Removing the Student Conduct and Community Standards Office from the decision-making process around academic accommodations, such as exam extensions and course withdrawals.
Students regularly work with the Gender-Based Misconduct Office's case managers or SVR for assistance with accommodations.The case managers serve as liaisons to various departments to facilitate requests for assistance and accommodation; ordinarily, it is these departments that make the decision on the request.The protocol is that all reasonable requests are granted.
5. Allowing for increased coordination between the Office of Gender-Based Misconduct, Disability Services and the various CU schools to increase access to accommodations for student survivors. Academic accommodations should be handled by same university offices that handle these issues in other, non-sexual misconduct contexts.
There is substantial coordination already in place among the Gender-Based Misconduct Office, the Office of Disability Services, and schools within Columbia. The Gender-Based Misconduct Office's case managers facilitate accommodation requests for student who make them. The same university offices that make the decisions regarding accommodations in non-sexual misconduct cases make the decisions for gender-based misconduct case (e.g. the academic department, the Center for Student Advising, or an individual faculty member will handle the decision at issue, as appropriate).
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1) Allow a wide variety of students to be consistently involved in the revision and oversight of campus policies and programs.
A wide variety of students from nearly every school is consistently involved in campus policies and programs. Many students belong to the Gender-Based Misconduct Task Force; students also serve on the President's Advisory Committee on Sexual Assault. In addition, students work with SVR, provide feedback to the Gender-Based Misconduct Office, and continue to be instrumental in contributing to the Sexual Respect and Community Citizenship Initiative. As noted above, numerous students were also involved in providing ideas and guidance for the Gender-Based Misconduct Policy as issued in 2014 and 2015, and the Policy continues its open invitation to all community members to pose questions and provide comments.
2) Revise Clery Crime Alert protocols to include information about on-going threats posed by university-affiliated individuals. Additionally, revise language of the alerts to include trigger warnings and replace victim blaming "tips" with resources for survivors.
We continue to work on developing and refining language within Clery Crime Alerts to best serve all members of our community.
3) Explicitly recognize students' right to record all interviews and meetings with Student Conduct and Community Standards staff to ensure the accuracy of all parties' accounts and the legitimacy of the overall process.
Students have the ability to take notes, just as the Gender-Based Misconduct Office does, during any part of the process. Any record created by Office staff for the purpose of the student file is reviewed directly by the student (and the attorney advisor) and the student has the ability to propose additions/modifications to any written documents. The Office has made the professional judgment that recording has the potential to distract from the authenticity of the conversation in interviews and meetings, and that note-taking, together with the opportunity for students to review any notes included in the records of the discipline process, has proven sufficient to ensure accuracy.
4) Increase transparency around employee training and qualifications, especially for legally mandated reporters, GBM investigators, and hearing panelists.
Existing reports already include information about employee training and qualifications. We will find ways to further expand that information for sharing with the University community.
5) Establish a feedback mechanism that allows students to share their experiences with Columbia's prevention programs, resources and adjudication processes. This survey should be widely publicized and received by an independent body that does not control any of the previously mentioned programs, potentially composed of faculty, to avoid further conflict of interest.
The Gender-Based Misconduct Office provides all students who are parties in the disciplinary process with a link for anonymous feedback. Students receive this link regularly in communications from the Office and can complete the survey at any time. In addition, anyone can submit feedback to the President's Advisory Committee on Sexual Assault via the Sexual Respect website. The Office of University Life also welcomes all feedback about students' experiences with Columbia's prevention programs, resources and adjudication process. For the Sexual Respect and Community Citizenship Initiative in particular, students are invited and encouraged to complete an evaluation, and we have received more than 3,000 evaluations to date. In addition, the Office has conducted and will continue to conduct independently-run focus groups regarding the Initiative. Anyone interested in participating is encouraged to write to universitylife@columbia.edu.
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1) Increase the number of investigators and case managers to ensure appropriate responses to conflicts of interest requests. For example, a student should never be reassigned to his or her alleged assailant's case manager after submitting a conflict of interest request.
Resources have been allocated so that the Gender-Based Misconduct Office is appropriately staffed to ensure that students do not share the same Case Manager as the other party in their case. Additionally, the current staffing model was designed to handle effectively the number of reports and cases reviewed by the office.
2) Make the SVR peer advocate and peer educator jobs paid positions of at least $15/hour to reflect their value in our community and increase accessibility for low-income students.
Historically, rape crisis centers have been staffed primarily by volunteers. In New York City, rape crisis advocates are primarily volunteers who respond to hospitals upon request. Rape crisis centers typically rely on on-call staff/volunteers for coverage outside of regular business hours.
SVR has asked our peer advocates and educators their opinion on the question of volunteer pay. The foremost peer response has been that their fellow students making demands on behalf of the peers have not asked the SVR student volunteers their opinion. Within our SVR student volunteer cohort, there is a range of opinions regarding volunteer pay from supporting the idea to being adamantly opposed to being paid for a cause they believe in.
Additionally, SVR currently employs seven student interns. The interns have been trained in sexual violence first-responder skills and have participated in parts of the 40-hour volunteer training. These interns greet and triage survivors, plan and host outreach events and lend their voices and perspectives to the work of SVR. They are all paid $15/hr.
3) Fund mental and physical health services so survivors don't have to face weeks of wait times.
Counseling and Psychological Services has substantially expanded its staffing at the beginning of this academic year and has a substantial trauma support team. For more on CPS, please see above. We have not received reports about weeks of wait times for survivors seeking physical health services. If you have those reports, please do share them.
4) Institute and publicize regular support groups for survivors of varying kinds of violence.
A host of support groups are available to survivors both on and off-campus including groups serving survivors of childhood sexual abuse (through Counseling and Psychological Services), sexual assault (CPS), domestic violence (Crime Victims Treatment Center [CVTC at 1090 Amsterdam Ave], PTSD (CVTC) and holistic healing (CVTC). This information is available from both SVR and CPS; information about off-campus support groups is also widely available online. Case managers can also assist survivors in accessing this information.
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1) Clarify enforcement mechanisms to ensure the policy works as written.
It is not clear what is intended by this request. The Gender-Based Misconduct Policy has clear provisions regarding its rules and procedures.
2) Remove conflict of interest from adjudication by appointing objective administrators or faculty.
The University's priority is to have the adjudication process be fair for all students involved and sensitive to the array of issues that may arise in connection with a report, investigation or adjudication. For this reason, all involved with administering the process receive ongoing training to insure that their ability to perform their roles fairly, effectively, and with sensitivity to the issues involved.
3) Include a process for the investigation and removal of investigators, case managers and other employees, who fail to adequately and appropriately carry out their duties on behalf of survivors.
The Gender-Based Misconduct Office informs students, in writing, that they may request a staff member be removed from a case and substituted for another professional staff member. Students may, with appropriate cause and during any point of the process, describe the reason for requesting a change to AVP Jeri Henry, for consideration.
4) Create and require more robust prevention programs with professional oversight to ensure all students participate in a meaningful way.
From the moment students enter Columbia University, there are opportunities to participate in robust interactive prevention programs from Step Up! bystander intervention training during NSOP to the various Sexual Respect Initiative offerings to programming throughout the academic year sponsored by SVR and many other campus departments and student groups. Genuine participation in these activities, as in others, is ultimately incumbent upon the student who is participating.
5) Allow students to file an anonymous report so it can be counted in Clery Crime Statistics without initiating an investigation process.
Students can always file an anonymous report with the Gender-Based Misconduct Office (including via the Sexual Respect website), but it would be more helpful if they work with a confidential resource, such as SVR or Counseling and Psychological Services, to better understand how they might obtain further assistance or access to resources, if necessary.
References/Resources:
Fisher, B.S., Cullen, F.T., & Turner, M.G. (2000). The Sexual Victimization of College Women. National Institute of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Bein, K. (2010). Core Services & Characteristics of Rape Crisis Centers: A review of State Service Standards http://www.ccasa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Core-Services-and-Characteristics-of-Rape-Crisis-Centers.pdf


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Borax is used in pottery glazes.
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Borax combines with cobalt, copper, chromium, manganese and nickel to form colorful compounds, according to the University of California. Because of this property, the mineral has been used as a pottery glaze since the Middle Ages. Borax is also a weak base and is used in photographic developers and buffer solutions. It is also an ingredient in everything from laundry detergent and household cleansers, to houseplant food and toothpaste for dogs. Due to its boron content, borax has a low chemical conductivity that increases substantially when heated. The boron behaves as a semiconductor, at some temperatures. It is also added to germanium and silicon to increase conductivity, according to the University of California.
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On a separate note, BABA's LST, a B2B eCommerce platform, announced partnership with Ele.me in last mile delivery. Through LST, Ele.me will provide logistics services for Tmall convenience store franchisees. Ele.me currently operates 3,000 delivery stations nationwide.
iResearch's view: We think the incremental spending through Ele.me would likely pressure BABA's margin in September quarter. The competition in local services could get even more intense in the future, as Meituan would invest the capital raised from IPO to compete against BABA, a potential threat to BABA's margin. The partnership between Ele.me and LST would help BABA to improve its B2B merchant services capability. We expect to see more cooperation between BABA's retail units and Ele.me in offline services going forward.


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NO SLEEP RECORDS WELCOMES LEE COREY OSWALD TO THE LABEL
Posted by UG Official on April 14, 2014
LEE COREY OSWALD
April 14, 2014 – Los Angeles, CA – Huntington Beach based No Sleep Records is proud to announce that Portland based indie/punk group Lee Corey Oswald to the label's eclectic roster. The band is currently finishing their new album, which is expected out later this year.
"Portland, the land of vegan food, amazing trails and LCO. When I was sent some songs from their upcoming record I immediately fell in love, and knew that No Sleep needed to be behind these guys," says No Sleep president Chris Hansen. "Listen for these guys to be in your ears very soon."
"We've always been huge fans of what No Sleep is doing in terms of reinstating originality to the music scene," adds the band's Lee Ellis. "Their roster is awesome and we're beyond stoked to work with them on this release. Fans can expect 90's esque indie punk numbers along the lines of Weezer and Knapsack as well as more stripped down acoustic jams in the vein of what our older stuff sounds like but more focused."
What do you get when you take a classical music teacher, a philosophy student, a nanny/barber, and a professional poker player and stick them in a house in Northeast Portland. No, its not a house of mid-20's retirees nor is it a Portlandia Skit. It's the up-and-coming indie/punk quartet Lee Corey Oswald.
The band got their start in the vibrant and vivacious punk scene of Scranton PA, alongside bands such as Title Fight, Tigers Jaw, and The Menzingers, before relocating to Portland, OR in 2009. Though they inevitably drew influence from the laid back elements of a West Coast lifestyle and the indie/folk scene of Portland, their sound never shook that sense of emotional urgency and intensity that is so familiar with bands out of the Northeast.
After releasing a split with Scranton/Philly's Three Man Cannon in the winter of 2012 the band toured the U.S., sharing the stage with The Lawrence Arms, Titus Andronicus, Title Fight, The Menzingers, La Dispute, Pianos Become the Teeth, Broadway Calls, Touche Amore and The Sidekicks among others.
Lee Corey Oswald is now readying the release of their biggest effort yet, which is due out on No Sleep Records. Follow the band now at https://www.facebook.com/LeeCoreyOswald for additional news and updates.
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I know that when I moved here I was in love with you. I really was – I'd come from darker places, and you seemed truly stunning in comparison.
But I've matured and grown and been out to see the world. Maybe I'm shallow, but I've looked beyond the horizon and I can't forget what's there.
And then there's the way you treat me. Where once I thought you kind to me I now see that you didn't really care for me at all. I know that you do your best to tolerate me, but really that's not the same thing at all.
I have to tell you that I just don't love you like I used to. I once thought that change was just around the corner – but I don't believe that now.
And I do know that you're trying to change – in many ways you're trying quite hard – but you've not really committed yet. You're still trying to hold on to the old-you – you're trying to change and not change both at the same time. So far the new-you is not all that much more than a glossy front covering over the old-you – and you know yourself that in places it's really not that glossy either.
Don't get me wrong – some of the change is to be welcomed. Some of it is helpful. There are glimpses of something different where there were none before. But this isn't real change, and it's oh so incredibly slow. Once or twice you've made a real effort – but each time you succeed with what feels like a tiny (if important) first step you seem to rest on your laurels, feeling that the job's just about done. Perhaps real change is coming – but where once I thought I'd benefit directly, now I'm wondering if I'll live long enough to see anything significant happen at all.
So the truth is that my heart is now promised to other cities, other towns – places that treat me like a full human being even when I'm just a temporary visitor. Cities that started to change decades ago, which worked out that to stay beautiful, to stay healthy, they needed to throw away ideas of a bright but entirely metallic future which had once seemed so alluring.
And you know what really did it? What made me really fall in love with these places. It's that despite being decades ahead these places continue to make improvements every year which are greater than anything you've done in decades. Step by step they continue to develop into healthier, more beautiful, more vibrant places.
Well I know that you know that I use a bike, and you're probably thinking that I'm going to ask you to be pro-cycling and pro-cyclist. But you're so so wrong. That you see the world this way – where 'cyclists' and 'cycling' is a separate thing from the very fabric of life – is part of why I don't love you any more.
If you really do want to understand then consider this: The places I now love aren't so much pro-cycling as pro-human. They treat their citizens as people, with a rightful place on the street, not as animals to be herded, not as something which gets in the way of the important stuff. They see that people ARE the important stuff. They see a person on foot, a person cycling, as the life and soul of the city… and motorised vehicles as something that might need to be tolerated in places – a necessary evil, a tool with a definite role to play, but they don't equate noise and fumes and wide stretches of black tarmac and the smell of exhaust with progress any more.
In these cities I feel like I have a full right to be on the street whether I'm on foot, on a bike, or just standing on a street chatting. Those things are seen as valid uses of the street. You think that you see the world that way too. You have policies and pronouncements which say that you see the world that way. But these are just words and they bear little relation to the truth on the ground. The cities that I now love have made these things happen already.
Local customers, local shops, thriving town.
And before you start on that 'share the road' stuff, or tell me that I'm anti-motor-vehicle or anti-car or anti-driver just don't bother. Did you notice that Waze recently declared that the Netherlands was the best country to drive in? Let that sink in why don't you? The country where cycling is easiest and safest, where motor traffic in towns and cities is more controlled than anywhere else, is the best one to drive in. Not just 'OK' to drive in but the 'BEST' to drive in.
So I've said my piece. Maybe you can still learn? I never give up hope. This place really has the potential to be such a stunning location. It pulls tourists in from the other side of the planet after all….
So let me tell you this to finish.
When I visited Amsterdam for the first time I thought I'd be staring open mouthed at the cycle tracks. I thought that I'd come back home with lots of photos of these – with lots of learning about what a good cycle track looks like. I didn't. The cycle tracks were great, and I did bring back some photos – but in the end they're just bits of stone and paint.
What I actually carried home with me were things that had registered in my heart, not my intellect.
This is just a photo of a car waiting for two people to cross, but what really matters is that it's out of the picture. It's out of the photo – but that's not what I mean. While these people crossed it was 'out of the picture' in every other way, in the background, irrelevant and quiet.
I have a memory of a children's play park in a spot where once people would have parked cars.
I have a video of a major junction where movement never seemed to stop – where there was traffic passing in all directions, but where queues were tiny, and waiting times brief.
I remember seeing friends talking on the way home, where shared routes meant an opportunity for chatter, despite them being in different vehicles heading to different destinations.
There are images of young couples holding hands… while cycling efficiently around the city. And there's the realisation that once cycling with a passenger is made safe then bicycles can be used to offer a lift to a friend.
With these things the whole nature of cycling changes absolutely.
There's the image of one adult accompanying a whole group of children – popping down to the shops with them, but without a car.
There are small towns which still had shops.
Then there was the moment when, on a trip out of the city, we had a woman stop her car to let us cross a major road. This was just a simple gesture, absolutely the same thing as happens between those driving here. A moment of common politeness. But we weren't driving. We were on bikes.
And then finally there's the quiet. The wonderful peace. Here's a key road 5 minutes after rush-hour close to the very middle of Amsterdam. And that's not to say that rush hour had been noisy by the way.
In Amsterdam I could hear my children talking to me.


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Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552-1630)
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A soldier and Protestant writer, he first took part in the wars of religion with Henri de Navarre and later told of the sufferings endured by the Protestants in his work Les Tragiques.
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Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552-1630) © S.H.P.F.
Born in Charente-Maritime in 1552 of a Calvinist family, he received a classical education in Paris, Orleans, Geneva and Lyon. At the age of sixteen, he enrolled in the army of Prince De Conde and became Henri de Navarre's friend and companion. He took part in the wars of religion both as a soldier and as a writer, earning a reputation as a staunch advocate of the Protestant cause.He escaped the Saint Barthelemy massacre.
He never forgave Henri IV his conversion to Catholicism and remained hostile to various attempts to reconciliation between Protestantism and Catholicism.
Published in 1616, his Universal History (Histoire Universelle) deals with the times of the wars of religion. However much the author tried to be unbiased, his book was condemned (Chatelet court decision of 1620) and burnt.
The poet : «Les Tragiques»
Les Tragiques by Agrippa d'Aubigné © S.H.P.F.
Agrippa d'Aubigné is especially known for Les Tragiques. A heroic poem of over 9 000 lines, it was inspired by the persecutions undergone by his fellow believers. He reshuffled it several times between 1577 and 1623, when an expanded version was published in Geneva.
Les Tragiques is the work of a whole life, the epic of the war, of persecution, and of faith. Using an unusually violent language, d'Aubigné depicts the hardships endured at those times of religious wars, about which he felt he had the duty to testify. In fact, the poem is a prophetic vision inspired by the Bible, a journey of initiation beginning with the portrayal of present sufferings and leading to the ecstasy of the last verses, the triumph and glory of God.
Les Tragiques did not in fact become known until the XIXth century.
Agrippa d'Aubigné was the grandfather of Madame de Maintenon, born Françoise d'Aubigné, whom Louis XIV married in 1683. She was said to have influenced the king against Protestantism and to have instigated the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
AUBIGNÉ Agrippa (d'), Histoire universelle, Droz, Genève, 1981-2000, Volume 11
AUBIGNÉ Agrippa (d'), Les Tragiques, éd. établie par F. Lestringant, Gallimard, Paris, 1995
DESCHODT Éric, Agrippa d'Aubigné, le guerrier inspiré, Laffont, Paris, 1995
FANLO Jean-Raymond, Tracés, ruptures, la composition instable des «Tragiques",, Honoré Champion, Paris, 1990
FRAGONARD Marie-Madeleine, La pensée religieuse d'Agrippa d'Aubigné et son expression, Didier, Paris, 1986
SCHRENK Gilbert, La réception d'Agrippa d'Aubigné, Honoré Champion, Paris, 1995
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Governing Legislation and Resources for Workers' Compensation (7:II)
A. Legislation
The Workers Compensation Act [WCA] is the legislation which creates and governs the Board. In 2002 and 2003, the WCA was substantially amended and the key transition date is June 30, 2002. Workers who were injured before or on June 30, 2002 (with a few exceptions), have the former WCA apply to their claims whereas workers who were injured after this date are under the amended or "new" WCA.
The new WCA revised sections 99 and 250 of the Act to make Board policy binding on all Board decision-makers and appeal bodies (i.e. Review Division and WCAT). The courts have since determined that the effect of these provisions is to give Board policy a legal status equivalent to subordinate legislation (see below).
The WCA amendments also changed the appeal structure for Board decisions. Since March 1, 2003, there are two levels of appeal for most Board decisions:
i. an internal review at the Review Division (RD); and
ii. an external de novo appeal at the Workers Compensation Appeal Tribunal (WCAT), which is an independent tribunal.
In 2004, the Administrative Tribunals Act, SBC 2004, c 45 [ATA] came into effect. The ATA applies to all administrative tribunals in B.C., including WCAT. The ATA sets out certain procedural requirements for WCAT and also sets a 60 day time limit for filing a judicial review from a WCAT decision. The ATA does not apply to Claim or Review Division decisions.
Citations for the WCA, key amendments and other relevant legislation are attached in the Appendix. All legislation and Board policies are available on the Board website. Applicable ATA provisions and their effect on WCAT procedures are also incorporated in WCAT's Manual of Rules, Policy and Procedures [MRPP], available on the WCAT website.
B. Binding Policy for Compensation Claims and Appeals: RSCM II
Section 99 of the WCA requires the Board to apply any applicable Board policy which has been passed by the Board of Directors. This means that published Board policy is binding on all Board decision-makers, including the Review Division; a similar provision makes Board policy binding on WCAT [section 250].
Section 99 of the WCA also states that all decisions "shall be given according to the merits and justice of the case and where there is a doubt as to any issue and the disputed possibilities are evenly balanced, the issue shall be resolved in accordance with that possibility which is favourable to the worker". This means that in WCB cases there is a unique standard of proof: the "as likely as not" standard. This is less than the balance of probabilities ("more likely than not") and, properly applied, should favour compensation for the injured worker.
In practice, Board policy confines, or attempts to confine, the nature of relevant evidence and to provide the framework for how evidence is to be assessed and weighed. Therefore, in appeals, it is important to identify the correct applicable Board policy whether or not it is identified in the initial Board decision.
Compensation policy is set out in the Rehabilitation Services and Claims Manual, Volume II [RSCM II]. The current RSCM II is available at the WCB site under the "Law and Policy" tab, followed by the "Compensation Policies" link under "Claims & Rehabilitation". On the sidebar, there are tabs for both RSCM Volumes I and II. Volume I applies to claims initiated before June 30, 2002 [RSCM I] and Volume II applicable to any claims initiated after June 30, 2002.
The RSCM II has eighteen chapters. Each chapter focuses on a particular entitlement issue or benefit and contains the policies relating to that issue. Each policy is numbered and dated and is typically 1-3 pages long. The RSCM II index (also available through the RSCM II link) is very helpful for locating any relevant chapter and policy.
Board policies change frequently. Each new version of a policy is passed by the Board of Directors and is published with both a specific effective date and a determination as to whether or not the changes apply to appeals. This information is set out at the end of each policy. Each new Board policy is incorporated into the electronic version of the RSCM II available on the Board website. When handling an appeal, students should determine the relevant applicable policy (especially for old claims) and should also review the electronic version of newer policy to ensure that it is still current. The Board website also contains all the former or "archived" policy manuals so that any relevant policy is accessible, even for old claims.
If a particular Board decision quotes part of a policy, it is good practice to read the whole policy and also to look at the surrounding policies to understand the full framework for that type of benefit. Also, although a particular policy may be quoted in a decision, the decision-maker may or may not have applied the right policy. It is best to assess the worker's issue and determine whether or not alternative policies may be the correct applicable policies.
Lastly, Board policy must be consistent with the WCA. If someone considers that a Board policy is inconsistent with the WCA, they are entitled to challenge that policy in a WCAT appeal in which it is relevant. If the WCAT panel agrees that the policy is not supported by the WCA, the panel will refer the matter to the WCAT Chair; if the Chair agrees, they will refer the policy to the WCB's Board of Directors for ultimate determination and possible policy change (s. 251, WCA).
C. Non-Binding Practices
Both WCB and WCAT also provide useful interpretive guides that combine policy, important decisions, and best practices. WCB issues Practice Directives (PD) that advise on many particularly complex issues such as chronic pain, mental disorders, and overpayments. These are accessible through the "Law and Policy" tab at the WCB site under the title "Compensation Practice Directives and Reference Guides". WCAT's guidelines are published in the MRPP discussed above. These publications can be extremely useful and are worth exploring though neither are binding on their respective bodies.
D. Arguing Medical Evidence
As in any legal arena, at all stages of the Workers' Compensation process it is vital to support claims with evidence. Often this can be especially challenging when dealing with medical issues for many reasons. These issues require specialised knowledge, they often do not lend themselves to certainty even for professionals, and most injured workers have limited time and money to spend collecting evidence. Conversely, WCB has salaried Board Medical Advisors (BMA) and WCAT is "presumed to be an expert in all matters over which it has exclusive jurisdiction" (Fraser Health Authority v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal, 2014 BCCA 499 (Fraser Health)). Nevertheless, WCB and WCAT are not presumed to have medical or scientific expertise and as such they are not permitted to ignore uncontradicted expert advice (Page v. British Columbia (Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal), 2009 BCSC 493) particularly in light of the "as likely as not" standard. While it may be useful to document subjective claims of injury, pain, and limitations, workers should bring as much objective expert evidence as possible. This may include physiotherapists, massage therapists, chiropractors, and dentists in addition to a family doctor. If necessary and possible, ask to be referred to a specialist.
Also recall that medical diagnosis and medical causation does not need to be proved to the level of scientific certainty and that the finder of fact is permitted to make common sense inferences (Snell v Farrell, [1990] 2 SCR 311; McKnight v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal, 2012 BCSC 1820).
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Mrityunjay Chatterjee
Mrityunjay Chatterjee is a designer who conceptualizes and coordinates creative (digital and print) productions for both Sarai and Cybermohalla.
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Micz Flor is a flexecutive cultural producer and media developer with a special interest in video and streaming media.
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Robert M Ochshorn
Nomadic artist, programmer, and musician. Split background including passionate forays into media and journalism, electrical and computer engineering, and sonic/visual art.
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The Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies is a research initiative of the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
The ACGS is part of the Research Priority Area Cultural Transformations and Globalisation.
globalisation,
Nina Czegledy
Moderator of Enduring Post Communism: Networks of Patronage- An independent media artist, curator and writer, Nina Czegledy has been involved in collaborative international projects and cultural exchange focusing on Eastern European initiatives since the mid eighties.
Collaborative Futures, 2nd Edition is now available
Collaborative Futures is a collaboratively authored book about the theory and practice of collaboration, with a focus on social media and peer-production. The true nature of collaborative culture as a form of creative expression in the context of digital and network technologies has remained elusive, a buzzword often falling prey to corporate and ideological interests.
participatory media,
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Brett Stalbaum is an artist and research theorist specializing in information theory, database, and software development. A serial collaborator, he was a co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater in 1998, for which he co-developed software called FloodNet (http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html), which has been used on behalf of the Zapatista movement against the websites of the Presidents of Mexico and the United States, as well as the Pentagon. As Forbes Magazine put it "Perhaps the first electronic attack against a target on American soil was the result of an art project." For EDT, this was all learned behavior taught by the example of the Zapatistas. Stalbaum has been part of many other individual and collaborative projects, and has published widely on digital art, its context and aesthetics, and location aware media. He is a past editor of Switch, the new media journal of the CADRE digital media lab.
Omar Robert Hamilton is an independent filmmaker and the producer of the annual Palestine Festival of Literature. He was born in London in 1984, and studied English Literature at Wadham College, Oxford. He now lives in Cairo.
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Derrick de Kerckhove is the former director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology. He received his PhD. in French Language and Literature from the University of Toronto and a Doctorat du 3e cycle in Sociology of Art from the University of Tours. From 1972 to 1980 he was an associate of the Centre for Culture and Technology and worked with Marshall McLuhan for over ten years as translator, assistant and co-author.
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Participationism (re: Re:Group: Beyond Models of Consensus)
From: beka economopoulos
Date: June 10, 2010 6:07:12 GMT+02:00
Subject: [iDC] Participationism (was "why do we need physical campuses")
(...) Below is (one of) the curatorial statement(s) of a show that Not An Alternative has curated with Upgrade NY! and Eyebeam, called Re:Group: Beyond Models of Consensus, about the subjects of collaboration and participation. After constant debate, the curatorial committee never came to consensus about the thesis for the show, and so we've presented two distinct positions.
Below is that of our group, Not An Alternative. The opening is tomorrow, with a curators talk at 5pm, so if you're in NY and you're ready for a rumble join us there.
Best, Beka
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Carbon Defense League
Carbon Defense League (CDL) is a collective of media artists, technologists, activists and critical theorists working to explore the intersection between radical theory, traditional activism, and technology subversion through the creation of tactical media projects utilizing communication system technologies. The collective began in Pittsburgh, PA in 1997 and now has international membership with concentrations in areas including Michigan, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Spain, Australia, Amsterdam, and the United Kingdom.
Connected Archives @DEAF 07, in Rotterdam
Expert meeting (morning) and public presentations (afternoon) during the Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF) 2007.
Organised by de Balie and Portsmouth University, ISEA and V2_ In collaboration with Virtual Platform.
Thursday 12 April
Expert meeting: 10.00 ? 13.00
Public presentations: 15.00 ? 18.00
Art is not 'Bioterrorism'
Oliver Ressler
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What will you do with the bandwidth?
The European Cultural Backbone was founded as an initiative of 16 Trans-European Media Institutions. They baptize their baby with an extensive "We want Bandwidth" campaign, starting in a medium near you any minute. What to do with it and what to make with it?


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Vincent J. DeSimone explains the importance of wind tunnel testing to facade engineering
By Anna Bergren Miller • August 11, 2015
Grove at Grand Bay, Coconut Grove, Florida, BIG with Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe Associates and DeSimone Consulting Engineers. (Courtesy DeSimone Consulting Engineers)
In South Florida, where hurricane "season" occupies a full six months of the calendar, AEC industry professionals are especially attuned to the challenge of designing for high winds.
One Thousand Museum Tower, Miami, Zaha Hadid Architects with ODP Architects and DeSimone Consulting Engineers. (Courtesy DeSimone Consulting Engineers)
Vincent J. DeSimone, chairman of DeSimone Consulting Engineers, has been there—and knows just where to look for answers. "The most useful tool that structural engineers have to determine the forces on the building skin is wind tunnel testing and the ensuing results," said DeSimone, who will deliver a talk on "Innovative Facade and Building Design Through Modern Wind Tunnel Engineering" at September's Facades+ Miami conference.
During a wind tunnel test, explained DeSimone, engineers place a scale model of a building inside a tunnel, then vary the wind speed and direction to determine the pressures on the structure. Sensors detect these pressures, which are then translated into forces acting on the facade. Forces on the facade vary from low to high, he noted, and some "hot spots" on the building envelope can achieve local forces in excess of 200 pounds per square foot. The load for the structure as a whole are generally determined by average these minimum and maximum forces. Per the applicable building codes, Miami-area structural engineers base the wind forces used in wind tunnel strength tests on maximum wind forces for a 50 year wind cycle.
Panorama Tower, Miami, Moshe Cosicher with DeSimone Consulting Engineers. (Courtesy DeSimone Consulting Engineers)
Building movement is another matter, said DeSimone. For architects and builders in Miami, the allowable lateral displacement—the height of the floor divided by 360—is determined using a 25 year wind cycle. In a building with a story height of 12 feet, in other words, the allowable movement is 0.4 inches.
"In seismic zones where movement is expected to be much higher during a seismic event, facades are allowed to be much more flexible," observed DeSimone. "Knowing that facades do not determine the allowable movement of a structure, doesn't it stand to reason that here in Miami we are designing buildings much stiffer than they need to be?"
Recalculating allowable movement according to a 10 year wind cycle, for instance, could reduce the building's shear walls by 22 percent. "This reduction—which, by the way, is used all over the country—results in a true sustainable reduction in material," he said. "Remember, the most sustainable building is the building you don't build and, conversely, the building which uses the least material."
Learn more from DeSimone and other experts in high performance envelope design and fabrication at Facades+ Miami September 10–11.
DeSimone Consulting Engineers Florida Miami Structural Engineering
July 3, 2019 ROSSETTI designed a partial-pop-up tennis stadium for the Miami Open
July 2, 2019 Zaha Hadid's completed One Thousand Museum joins the Miami skyline
June 12, 2019 Arquitectonica's second finished building is being torn down


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Travel News: February 18th 2021
February 18, 2021 by Treska - Travel Smart with Koloman, posted in News
United Arab Emirates Lifts Boeing 737 MAX Ban
According to Al Jazeera, the United Arab Emirates cleared Boeing Co.'s 737 Max jet to fly again in its airspace, marking another step toward the aircraft's global return to service.
Local airlines must first provide a plan for bringing the plane back safely, and develop a strategy to address differences between requirements set by U.S. and European regulators, the UAE's General Civil Aviation Authority said Wednesday in a statement.
Clearance in the UAE is important for Boeing because the country serves as an international air-travel crossroads via hub airports in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. It's also home to state-owned Flydubai, which has ordered 251 Max jets as it pursues an aggressive regional expansion. Those planes are meant to feed into longer-distance flights by its partner Emirates, which is also government-owned.
Flydubai has idled 14 Boeing Max jets it had in March 2019, when the model was grounded worldwide in the wake of a second deadly crash in five months.
Airlines in the U.S. and Brazil began to restart commercial flights with the Max late last year, after regulators there cleared its return. On Wednesday, TUI AG became the first company in Europe to begin flying passenger services with the 737 Max. For further details, please click here and continue readong on aljazerra.com
Virgin Australia to introduce new routes and expanded frequencies
According to the official web page from Virgin Australia, today the company announced it will introduce two new routes and expand frequencies over the Easter holidays, strengthening its network and growing capacity in the leisure market.
New direct services between Adelaide-Sunshine Coast and Melbourne-Ballina Byron (Byron Bay) will initially operate across the Easter holiday period from 29 March 2021 until 25 April 2021, with lead-in economy class fares available from $129 one way*.
Operated by a Boeing 737 aircraft, the new direct services will add more than 13,000 seats across 37 return flights to the airline's network, as well as offer a range of benefits such as time-savings and convenience for travellers. Virgin Australia expects to extend the flights beyond the Easter period subject to easing border restrictions.
Expanded frequencies to key leisure destination such as Cairns, Hamilton Island, Whitsunday Coast (Proserpine), Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast, Ballina Byron (Byron Bay), Launceston, Hobart, Broome and Kununurra will also be added across the Easter holiday period as border restrictions ease and the airline shifts its focus to rebuilding domestic capacity.
Recognising the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine from next week and an end to Victoria's circuit-breaker action today, the airline's flexible flying policy is supporting travellers by waiving change and cancellation fees for bookings made before 30 April 2021, for travel until 31 January 2022. For further details, please click here and read the official statement from the company.
Source: Virgin Australia
Zagreb Airport Drops Fees For New Routes To Lure Back LCCs
According to Jakov Fabinger from Simple Flying, Franjo Tuđman Airport Zagreb is venturing into new territory. Following an 81% fall in passenger traffic in 2020, the airport serving Croatia's capital city of Zagreb is launching a subsidy program to attract new airlines and new routes. The discounts are significant, and, as a result, they might finally attract a low-cost airline to base an aircraft in Zagreb.
Following several years of unsubstantial growth in passenger traffic and a major drop in figures of 81% in 2020, Franjo Tuđman Airport Zagreb is on the look for new airlines that will launch new routes from there. To make this happen, the airport is finally going to start reducing its fees.
When Zagreb opened its modern new terminal in 2017, it attracted several large legacy airlines through a similar program of discounts. However, the discount arrangement at the time was short-lived. Within two years, almost all new routes were discontinued. This included airlines converting their year-round routes to summer seasonal, cutting some routes permanently, scaling back capacity on others, or pulling out of the airport altogether. This was all before coronavirus.
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Airlines Transported 60 Percent Less Travelers in 2020
According to Joe Cortez from Flyer talk, the COVID-19 pandemic caused U.S. airlines to lose 60 percent of their passenger business compared to 2019. The preliminary numbers from the U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics shows the declines were worse than after all major economic and transportation tragedies.
The COVID-19 pandemic is now officially the worst event in U.S. aviation history, as year-over-year passenger traffic dropped by 59 percent in 2020. The numbers are part of a new data set issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
For December 2020 alone, the 22 reporting U.S. carriers say they only carried 30.4 million passengers, down from 79 million flyers in December 2019. The drop reflected a 62 percent decrease compared to the previous year.
Both domestic and international travel suffered equally during the holiday month. Airlines carried 27.2 million domestic passengers and 3.2 million international flyers in December. The passenger load was only 38 percent compared to the number of flyers in 2019.
The data came from the preliminary information sent to the DOT as of Feb. 4, 2021. The full data for December 2020 and the full-year traffic data will be released in March. For further details, please click here and access Flyertalk.
Source: Flyertalk
India fine-tunes medical tourism visa
According to ttrweekly.com, in its latest product newsletter is presents the case for an early start saying a recent government announcement allows "foreign nationals to visit India on medical visas for Ayurveda and Naturopathy treatments."
The Creative Travel newsletter emailed to a global B2B travel planners list says "this is a great time to take a detox trip to India, and specifically Kerala where wellness centres and retreats have opened up with enhanced safety and hygiene measures."
But difficulties still remain for travellers even if they qualify for medical tourism visa entry. International flights from the Middle East, Europe and countries in the Asia Pacific are limited, which will hamper efforts to generate a flow of medical tourists from traditional source markets.
In addition, domestic flight capacity is strained with reduced services between major cities in India which is likely to remain for many months to come. But as a recent Times of India report noted the government has an eye on restarting international tourism in 2021 and medical tourism is high up the agenda to gain momentum.
India's government is all set to roll out insurance policies that will provide visitors with a cover that will include treatment for Covid-19. For the rest of the article, please click here and continue reading on ttrweekly.com
Source: PlanetWare
Cathay cuts flights from Hong Kong
According to ttrweekly.com, Cathay Pacific will reduce flights from 20 to 28 February according to the airline's website information. In the Asia Pacific, the biggest cuts reduce services to cities in Australia, leaving just five weekly flights to Sydney operating.
Flights to Bangkok reduce to just one flight on Wednesday and Thursday and two flights on Friday. Singapore is served by four flights a week. Reduced services are scheduled to Manila in the Philippines (Wednesday Friday and Saturday), Jakarta (Thursday, Friday and Saturday), and Surabaya (Friday and Saturday) in Indonesia, Tokyo in Japan (five weekly).
A one-way flight from Hong Kong to Tel Aviv will operate once in the initial two-week flight reduction period, on 23 February.A single service from Hong Kong to Cebu in the Philippines will operate on 26 February. A flight to Kaohsiung in Taiwan is scheduled for 27 February. Reduced services to Taipei continue.
Services have been cancelled to Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane in Australia, Frankfurt, San Francisco and Vancouver. Services to London were suspended earlier in the month. In Asia, services are on hold to Seoul, Ho Chi Minh City and Kuala Lumpur. It continues to fly to Toronto, Canada, New York and Los Angeles. Amsterdam remains on the schedule. Continue reading the full statement here.
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