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Could Hydrogen Replace the Need for an Electric Grid?
How Do You Recover from Corporate Corruption? Argentina Shows the Way.
February 27, 2019 Alejandro Guerrero Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Marsh Argentina
Argentinians protest against the possible reelection of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and corruption.
Photo: Daniel Garcia/AFP/Getty Images
Stories about corporate corruption are becoming more and more common in the mainstream media. Last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission whistleblower program had its largest annual payout in history; the so-called Fifagate scandal revealed an international scheme of criminal activities in soccer, and the "Lava-Jato" (Car-Wash) scandal in Brazil included not only huge private companies, but also a long list of politicians including two ex-presidents of the country.
Corruption appears to be a plague that no country is immune to.
Argentina has its own case: The recent explosion of the notebooks of corruption ("cuadernos de la corrupción") case has entangled high-ranking officers and shareholders of private companies, along with politicians and former government officials—and yet another ex-president.
What To Do When a Company Stands Accused
When managers confess or are indicted, it throws a corporation into a crisis that can jeopardize the future of hundreds of thousands of workers. The potential fines, the withdrawal of financing and the exclusion from government contracts usually impact contractors, suppliers and the entire supply chain of a business.
Clearly, there is an ethical dilemma that must be addressed: Regardless of the individuals that have confessed or are proved to have committed criminal acts, the corporations they own or manage may also have profited from wrongdoings and, in many cases, enabled such crimes to happen.
How Much Reparation Is Necessary?
Reparation from the corporation in the form of fines or some sort of monetary reimbursement for any unethical profits made from illegal activities is not only appropriate, but also necessary to further prevent improper conduct in the future. It sends a message to the public that prosecution is not limited to the individuals and that such corporate conduct will not be tolerated in the future.
At the same time, while reparation should be of a magnitude proportionate to the crimes, it should be surmountable by the company. Dragging companies down into bankruptcy due to unpayable fines generates the same negative outcomes and will most likely prevent the fines from being paid. And, of course, it is not helpful to compound the depletion of a workforce in a country like Argentina that is already facing very high rates of unemployment.
Corporate Continuity
Corporate continuity is a delicate balance that needs to be handled, not only from a financial aspect, but also from a transparency and compliance aspect, since corporations must submit themselves to external scrutiny.
The notebooks of corruption scandal has already snagged major construction groups and will probably extend to other industries such as banks, public services concessionaires, toll roads and any other business that depended on government funding or concessions. There's even a risk of it causing a slowdown in the Argentinian economy, especially considering the government's limited ability to obtain additional financing.
The Principles of a Solution
The principle of any solution demands three specific considerations that must have buy-in from the government, political parties, businesses and the general public:
1) Corporate continuity through conduct conversion and economic reparation
2) Retroactivity through voluntary admittance to a new regulation
3) Public/private administration of the recovery program
To achieve corporate continuity, the remaining management must show an indisputable dedication to abiding by new corporate conduct regulations of transparency and corporate ethics. This means collaborating with ongoing investigations, establishing and enforcing internal rules of compliance and submitting to external auditing of the implementation of the new policies.
Acts of corruption between private businesspeople and government officials generate a loss to the society as a whole.
Getting a Corporate Conduct Pardon
Economic reparation should be determined by expert evaluation that must consider a company's ability to pay throughout a period of years, similar to a probation period, until full reparation is achieved.
Once achieved, the company should get a corporate conduct pardon to enable it to continue operating and be re-admitted as a potential government contractor. Such a pardon must also limit further investigations about acts committed in relation to the specific cases of corruption they have acknowledged. Related crimes such as money laundering, tax evasion, illegal political contributions and any other irregularity in direct relation to the cases identified should be waived to ensure that continuity is achievable.
This will allow the entity to be eligible for private financing, both locally as well as internationally, as it would abide by international agreements and covenants such as Basel II or Solvency II.
Handling the Reparation Funds
Acts of corruption between private businesspeople and government officials generate a loss to the society as a whole. Therefore, the funds recovered under reparation need to be directed to community projects.
Private parties cannot and should not determine the projects to be handled by these funds. This is unequivocally the duty of the government.
If a single administrator supervises the administration of the funds and the execution of the projects, that administrator should be able to create a single fund that would concentrate all payments over the period determined. This fund could project a conservative flow of funds in order to issue bonds to raise funds to embark in the different projects.
A Rescue Plan, Not an Escape Hatch
In short, the flow of funds from the punitive damages would act as the collateral and source of repayment of advanced funds to execute the designated social and sustainable infrastructure projects.
Such a matrix of implementation should make investors willing to participate in such a scheme. The role of the administrator is thereby twofold: On one hand it controls the flows of punitive income, both from an investment and an execution standpoint; and, on the other, it maintains proper oversight of the actions of "rescued" companies to assure completion of the conditions for the rescue.
Clearly a project of this nature is extremely difficult to achieve. As mentioned above, it would demand a great deal of mature and steadfast leadership. However, the alternative of not finding common ground and simply sitting idly in the expectation that companies will find their own way in overcoming their critical future is negligence.
A "company rescue program" of this nature brings along direct and indirect benefits to the entire community, as well as to the economy as a whole.
The bottom line is the need to create a framework to protect the business and workforce community from the negative consequences of corruption. It should not be construed as an escape hatch for guilty or confessed parties, who must confront the full extent of the law for the crimes they have committed. Such parties should not be allowed to return as active business players until they have properly paid their debt to society.
Boardroom Corruption Regulation
Alejandro Guerrero
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Marsh Argentina
Alejandro Guerrero is the managing director and chief executive officer of Marsh Argentina.
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Looking at BilliardEx "white glove" install video I'd question the competency of their installs - considering the guy in the video is using a carpenters level rather then a machinist level on the slate setup. No superglue between the slate seams and while beeswax has been used for years the current preference by top shelf installers is to use bondo.


This thread is driving me crazy... I've got some explicitly Transhuman music coming (and it's good in its own right), from my band The Land Canaan (myself and the little woman, Jodie, ha ha, just joking, she's watching as I type this) along themes of mortality/immortality, changing yourself with technology, uploading, and the idea that in the unknowable future we'll still be 'us' in the kind of way that most would find important. There's also more general human issues in there, the most focused on is change, transition, leaving something and going to something new.
In terms of PR, big budget movies, computer games, etc are overkill, and only really introduce the ideas to people. I suspect that many people already have been exposed to proto-transhuman memes, and are ready for more directed effort that can actually be far more achievable than big-budget mass-media handwaving. How many of you were "converted" by transhumanism, and how many found that it merely provided a vocabulary for beliefs you already held?
I have a plan, which comes directly from the dark, tainted vaults of PR and marketing. Any interest?
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Terror in the Skies: Series 1
While plane crashes are rare, near misses in our crowded skies are anything but. Thanks to modern technology, these terrifying experiences are being captured more and more, as they happen, on cameras, mobile phones, and cockpit recordings, providing insights that are as informative as they are horrifying. See firsthand how recent pilot errors, technical failures, small mistakes, and big storms have placed passengers in life-or-death situations. Then discover why these incidents happened, and what must be done to prevent them from reoccurring.
Part 1: Pilot Error
A pilot falls asleep in the cockpit. Another suffers a panic attack in the cabin. Yet another overshoots his destination by 150 miles. Are these freak occurrences or the new normal in air travel?
Part 2: Technical Meltdown
Any plane could experience a technical meltdown at any time. Witness recent failures captured by passengers' videos and hear their stories as we investigate air disasters caused by faulty equipment.
Part 3: Small Mistakes
It takes over a hundred people to keep one airliner flying, and almost everyone involved perform safety-critical roles. See how a loose bolt, a fatigue crack and other small issues have led to big problems for pilots and their passengers.
Part 4: Nature Strikes Back
As passengers, we expect to be able to fly anywhere, anytime. But sometimes nature has other plans. See what happens when wicked storms, wild turbulence, and angry birds strike modern airliners.
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Junot Díaz
Pulitzer Prize Chair
April 2018 – May 10, 2018[1]
Eugene Robinson (interim)
Junot Díaz, 2012
Novelist, professor, writer
American, Dominican
Rutgers University (BA)
Cornell University (MFA)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1999)
National Book Critics Circle Award (2007)
Pulitzer Prize (2008)
MacArthur Fellowship (2012) Inducted into American Academy of Arts and Letters (2017)
junotdiaz.com
Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican-American[2] writer, creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and fiction editor at Boston Review. He also serves on the board of advisers for Freedom University, a volunteer organization in Georgia that provides post-secondary instruction to undocumented immigrants.[3] Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience, particularly the Latino immigrant experience.[4]
Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Díaz immigrated with his family to New Jersey when he was six years old. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University, and shortly after graduating created the character "Yunior", who served as narrator of several of his later books. After obtaining his MFA from Cornell University, Díaz published his first book, the 1995 short story collection Drown.
Diaz received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and received a MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant" in 2012.[5] Appointed chair of the Pulitzer Board in April 2018, he stepped down soon after amid controversy over allegations of sexual harassment were made by the author Zinzi Clemmons and several other female writers.[6] The issue sparked controversy in feminist circles regarding the role of race or ethnicity in the public and media response to such allegations.[7]
2 Work
2.1 1994–2004: Early work and Drown
2.2 2005–11: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2.3 2012–present: This Is How You Lose Her and other works
3 Activism and advocacy
4 Allegations of abusive behavior
5.2 Short story collections
5.3 Children's books
Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.[8] He was the third child in a family of five. Throughout most of his early childhood, he lived with his mother and grandparents while his father worked in the United States. Díaz immigrated to Parlin, New Jersey, in December 1974, where he was re-united with his father. There he lived less than a mile from what he has described as "one of the largest landfills in New Jersey".[9]
Díaz attended Madison Park Elementary[10] and was a voracious reader, often walking four miles in order to borrow books from his public library. At this time Díaz became fascinated with apocalyptic films and books, especially the work of John Christopher, the original Planet of the Apes films, and the BBC mini-series Edge of Darkness. Growing up Diaz struggled greatly with learning the English language. He comments that it "was a miserable experience" for him, especially since it seemed that all of his other siblings "acquired the language in a matter of months; in some ways it felt overnight". As his school took notice Diaz's family was contacted and he soon was placed in special education to provide him with more resources and opportunities to learn the language. [11]
Díaz graduated from Cedar Ridge High School (now merged to form Old Bridge High School) in Old Bridge Township, New Jersey, in 1987,[12] though he would not begin to write formally until years later.[13]
Díaz attended Kean College in Union, New Jersey, for one year before transferring and ultimately completing his BA at Rutgers University-New Brunswick in 1992, majoring in English; there he was involved in Demarest Hall, a creative-writing, living-learning, residence hall, and in various student organizations. He was exposed to the authors who would motivate him to become a writer: Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros. He worked his way through college by delivering pool tables, washing dishes, pumping gas, and working at Raritan River Steel. During an interview conducted in 2010, Díaz reflected on his experience growing up in America and working his way through college:
I can safely say I've seen the US from the bottom up ... I may be a success story as an individual. But if you adjust the knob and just take it back one setting to the family unit, I would say my family tells a much more complicated story. It tells the story of two kids in prison. It tells the story of enormous poverty, of tremendous difficulty.[14]
A pervasive theme in his short story collection Drown is the absence of a father, which reflects Diaz's strained relationship with his own father, with whom he no longer keeps in contact. When Diaz once published an article in a Dominican newspaper condemning the country's treatment of Haitians, his father wrote a letter to the editor saying that the writer of the article should "go back home to Haiti".[15]
After graduating from Rutgers, Díaz worked at Rutgers University Press as an editorial assistant. At this time Diaz also first created the quasi-autobiographical character of Yunior in a story he used as part of his application for his MFA program in the early 1990s. The character would become important to much of his later work including Drown and This Is How You Lose Her.[16] Yunior would become central to much of Diaz's work, Diaz later explaining how "My idea, ever since Drown, was to write six or seven books about him that would form one big novel".[16] He earned his MFA from Cornell University in 1995, where he wrote most of his first collection of short stories.
Díaz teaches creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing[17] and is also the fiction editor for Boston Review. He is active in the Dominican American community and is a founding member of the Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation, which focuses on writers of color. Díaz was a Millet Writing Fellow at Wesleyan University, in 2009, and participated in Wesleyan's Distinguished Writers Series.[18]
Díaz is related to American journalist Nefertiti Jáquez.[citation needed] He lives in a domestic partnership with paranormal romance writer Marjorie Liu.[19]
Work[edit]
1994–2004: Early work and Drown[edit]
Díaz's short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker magazine, which listed him as one of the 20 top writers for the 21st century.[20] He has been published in Story, The Paris Review, Enkare Review and in the anthologies The Best American Short Stories five times (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2013), The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories (2009), and African Voices. He is best known for his two major works: the short story collection Drown (1996) and the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007). Both were published to critical acclaim and he won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the latter. Diaz himself has described his writing style as "a disobedient child of New Jersey and the Dominican Republic if that can be possibly imagined with way too much education".[21]
Díaz has received a Eugene McDermott Award, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writers Award, the 2002 PEN/Malamud Award, the 2003 US-Japan Creative Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was selected as one of the 39 most important Latin American writers under the age of 39 by the Bogotá World Book Capital and the Hay Festival.[22]
The stories in Drown focus on the teenage narrator's impoverished, fatherless youth in the Dominican Republic and his struggle adapting to his new life in New Jersey. Reviews were generally strong but not without complaints.[23] Díaz read twice for PRI's This American Life: "Edison, New Jersey"[24] in 1997 and "How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)"[25] in 1998. Díaz also published a Spanish translation of' Drown, entitled Negocios. The arrival of his novel (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao) in 2007 prompted a noticeable re-appraisal of Díaz's earlier work. Drown became widely recognized as an important landmark in contemporary literature—ten years after its initial publication—even by critics who had either entirely ignored the book[26] or had given it poor reviews.[27]
2005–11: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao[edit]
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao was published in September 2007. New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani characterized Díaz's writing in the novel as "a sort of streetwise brand of Spanglish that even the most monolingual reader can easily inhale: lots of flash words and razzle-dazzle talk, lots of body language on the sentences, lots of David Foster Wallace-esque footnotes and asides. And he conjures with seemingly effortless aplomb the two worlds his characters inhabit: the Dominican Republic, the ghost-haunted motherland that shapes their nightmares and their dreams; and America (a.k.a. New Jersey), the land of freedom and hope and not-so-shiny possibilities that they've fled to as part of the great Dominican diaspora.[26] Díaz said about the protagonist of the novel, "Oscar was a composite of all the nerds that I grew up with who didn't have that special reservoir of masculine privilege. Oscar was who I would have been if it had not been for my father or my brother or my own willingness to fight or my own inability to fit into any category easily." He has said that he sees a meaningful and fitting connection between the science fiction and/or epic literary genres and the multi-faceted immigrant experience.[28]
Writing for Time, critic Lev Grossman said that Díaz's novel was "so astoundingly great that in a fall crowded with heavyweights—Richard Russo, Philip Roth—Díaz is a good bet to run away with the field. You could call The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ... the saga of an immigrant family, but that wouldn't really be fair. It's an immigrant-family saga for people who don't read immigrant-family sagas."[29] In September 2007, Miramax acquired the rights for a film adaptation of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.[30]
In addition to the Pulitzer, The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao was awarded the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize,[31] the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Novel of 2007 [32] the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, the 2008 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction,[33] the 2008 Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, and the Massachusetts Book Awards Fiction Award in 2007.[34] Díaz also won the James Beard Foundation's MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award for his article "He'll Take El Alto", which appeared in Gourmet, September 2007.[35] The novel was also selected by Time[36] and New York Magazine[37] as the best novel of 2007. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Los Angeles Times, Village Voice, Christian Science Monitor, New Statesman, Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly were among the 35 publications that placed the novel on their 'Best of 2007' lists. The novel was the subject of a panel at the 2008 Modern Language Association conference in San Francisco.[38] Stanford University dedicated a symposium to Junot Díaz in 2012, with roundtables of leading US Latino/a Studies scholars commenting on his creative writing and activism.[39]
In February 2010, Díaz's contributions toward encouraging fellow writers were recognized when he was awarded the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, alongside Maxine Hong Kingston and poet M.L. Liebler.[40]
2012–present: This Is How You Lose Her and other works[edit]
In September 2012, he released a collection of short stories entitled This Is How You Lose Her.[41][42][43] The collection was named a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award on October 10, 2012.[44] In his review of the book on online arts and culture journal Frontier Psychiatrist, Editor-In-Chief Keith Meatto wrote, "While This is How You Lose Her will surely advance Diaz's literary career, it may complicate his love life. For the reader, the collection raises the obvious question of what you would do if your lover cheated on you, and implies two no less challenging questions: How do you find love and how do you make it last?"[45]
One reviewer wrote, "The stories in This Is How You Lose Her, by turns hilarious and devastating, raucous and tender, lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weaknesses of our all-too-human hearts. They capture the heat of new passion, the recklessness with which we betray what we most treasure, and the torture we go through – "the begging, the crawling over glass, the crying" – to try to mend what we've broken beyond repair. They recall the echoes that intimacy leaves behind, even where we thought we did not care ... Most of all, these stories remind us that the habit of passion always triumphs over experience, and that "love, when it hits us for real, has a half-life of forever".[43]
In 2012, Diaz received a $500,000 MacArthur "Genius grant" award.[46][47][48][49] He said "I think I was speechless for two days" and called it "stupendous" and a "mind-blowing honor".[48]
After Oscar Wao, Diaz began work on a second novel, a science-fiction epic with the working title Monstro. Diaz had previously attempted to write a science fiction novel twice prior to Oscar Wao, with earlier efforts in the genre "Shadow of the Adept, a far-future novel in the vein of Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer, and Dark America, an Akira-inspired post-apocalyptic nightmare" remaining incomplete and unpublished.[50] Part of the appeal of science fiction to Diaz, he explained in an interview with Wired, is that science fiction grapples with the idea of power in a manner other genres do not: "I didn't see mainstream, literary, realistic fiction talking about power, talking about dictatorship, talking about the consequences of breeding people, which of course is something that in the Caribbean is never far away."[51] In an interview with New York Magazine prior to the release of This Is How You Lose Her, Diaz revealed that the work-in-progress novel concerns "a 14-year-old 'Dominican York' girl who saves the planet from a full-blown apocalypse".[52] but he also warned that the novel may never be completed: "I'm only at the first part of the novel, so I haven't really gotten down to the eating," he says, "and I've got to eat a couple cities before I think the thing will really get going."[50] As of June 2015, the novel-in-progress appears to be abandoned – in a June 2015 interview for Words on a Wire, when asked about his progress on Monstro, Diaz said "Yeah, I'm not writing that book anymore ..."[53]
Diaz's first children's book, Islandborn, was published March 13, 2018. The story follows an Afro-Latina girl named Lola whose journey takes her back to collect memories of her country of origin, Dominican Republic.[54][55]
With regard to his own writing, Diaz has said: "There are two types of writers: those who write for other writers, and those who write for readers,"[56] and that he prefers to keep his readers in mind when writing, as they'll be more likely to gloss over his mistakes and act as willing participants in a story, rather than actively looking to criticize his writing.[56]
A poll of US critics in January 2015 named Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao as "the best novel of the 21st century to date".[57] In February 2017, Diaz was formally inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[58]
Activism and advocacy[edit]
Díaz has been active in a number of community organizations in New York City, from Pro-Libertad, to the Communist Dominican Workers' Party (Partido de los Trabajadores Dominicanos), and the Unión de Jóvenes Dominicanos ("Dominican Youth Union"). He has been critical of immigration policy in the United States.[59] With fellow author Edwidge Danticat, Díaz published an op-ed piece in The New York Times condemning the Dominican government's deportation of Haitians and Haitian Dominicans.[60]
In response to Díaz's criticism, the Consul General of the Dominican Republic in New York called Díaz an "anti-Dominican" and revoked the Order of Merit he had been awarded by the Dominican Republic in 2009.[61][62]
On May 22, 2010, it was announced that Díaz had been selected to sit on the 20-member Pulitzer Prize board of jurors.[63] Díaz described his appointment, and the fact that he is the first of Latin background to be appointed to the panel, as an "extraordinary honor".[64][65]
As of September 2014[update], he is the honorary chairman of the DREAM Project, a non-profit education involvement program in the Dominican Republic.[66]
Allegations of abusive behavior[edit]
In May 2018, the author Zinzi Clemmons publicly confronted Díaz, alleging that he had once forcibly cornered and kissed her.[67][68][69] Other women, including the writers Carmen Maria Machado and Monica Byrne, responded on Twitter with their own accounts of verbal abuse by Díaz.[7][70][71][72][73] The author Alisa Valdes wrote a blog post alleging "misogynistic abuse" on the part of Díaz some years prior;[69][74] she said that she had been rebuked for attacking a fellow Latino author when she had called attention to Díaz's behavior in the past.[7][75][76]
Literary and feminist circles were divided between supporters of Díaz and his accusers.[7][77] The issue of how sexual-harassment claims might be handled differently depending on the race or ethnicity of the accused provoked particular controversy.[7] Several weeks before Clemmons made her allegations,[78][79][80] Díaz had published an essay in The New Yorker, recounting his own experience of being raped at the age of eight, along with its effect on his later life and relationships.[81][82] He addressed the essay to a reader who had once asked him if he had been abused, writing that the childhood abuse he experienced led him to hurt others in later life.[75][83] While the essay was widely praised as honest and courageous, others accused Díaz of trying to defuse allegations about his own behavior.[77][84]
The author Rebecca Walker along with a group of academics, including educators from Harvard and Stanford universities, protested the media response to the accusations in an open letter to The Chronicle of Higher Education, saying it amounted to "a full-blown media-harassment campaign."[85][86] While not dismissing the allegations, they cautioned against an "uncritical" and "sensationalist" handling of the issue that they said could reinforce stereotypes of blacks and Latinos as sexual predators.[85][86][87] Linda Martín Alcoff, a professor of philosophy at Hunter College, wrote an essay in The New York Times placing allegations of sexual assault such as those against Díaz within a larger political context, writing of the need "to develop critiques of the conventions of sexual behavior that produce systemic sexual abuse".[7][88]
MIT, where Díaz teaches creative writing, later announced that their investigation had not revealed any evidence of wrongdoing.[89][77][90][91] The editors of Boston Review also announced that Díaz would stay on at the magazine,[77][92] writing that the allegations lacked "the kind of severity that animated the #MeToo movement".[79][90][93] Both decisions were criticized; the magazine's poetry editors resigned in protest.[77]
Following an initial statement where he wrote of taking "responsibility for my past", Díaz later denied having inappropriately kissed Clemmons; he stated that "people had already moved on to the punishment phase" and that he doubted his denial would be believed at first.[94][95][96] The Boston Globe later described the case as a "turning point" in public response to the Me Too movement, largely because Díaz faced less institutional backlash than other prominent male figures who had been accused of sexual misconduct and "the deluge of #MeToo stories his accusers predicted" did not materialize.[79] Díaz voluntarily resigned as chair of the Pulitzer Prize board soon after the allegations were made public.[6] After a five-month review by an independent law firm, the board announced it "did not find evidence warranting removal of Professor Diaz".[97][98]
Novels[edit]
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. New York: Riverhead, 2007. ISBN 978-1-59448-958-7
Short story collections[edit]
Drown. New York: Riverhead, 1996. ISBN 978-1-57322-041-5
This Is How You Lose Her. New York: Riverhead, 2012. ISBN 978-1-59448-736-1
Children's books[edit]
Islandborn (with illustrations by Leo Espinosa). New York: Dial Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0735229860.
Essays[edit]
"Homecoming, with Turtle" (The New Yorker, June 14, 2004)
"Summer Love, Overheated" (GQ, April 2008)
"One Year: Storyteller-in-Chief" (The New Yorker, January 20, 2010)
"Apocalypse: What Disasters Reveal" (Boston Review, May/June 2011)
"MFA vs. POC" (The New Yorker, April 30, 2014)
"The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma" (The New Yorker, April 16, 2018)
2002 PEN/Malamud Award[99]
2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao[100]
2007 Salon Book Award for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao[101]
2007 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao[102]
2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Fiction) finalist for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao[103]
2008 Fellow of the American Academy Rome Prize
2008 Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Fiction) for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao[104]
2008 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (Fiction) for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao[105]
2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award shortlist for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2011 The Nicolas Guillen Philosophical Literature Prize, Caribbean Philosophical Association
2012 MacArthur Fellowship
2012 National Book Award, finalist, This is How You Lose Her [106]
2012 Publishers Weekly Best Books, This is How You Lose Her[107]
2012 Kansas City Star Top 100 Books, This is How You Lose Her
2012 New York Times 100 Notable Books, This is How You Lose Her
2012 Goodreads Choice Awards, Best Fiction, finalist, This is How You Lose Her[108]
2012 Story Prize, finalist[109][110][111]
2013 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, winner, "Miss Lora" from This is How You Lose Her[112]
2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award longlist for This is How You Lose Her
2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction finalist (Fiction) for This is How You Lose Her[113][114]
2013 Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Letters), Brown University[115]
2013 Norman Mailer Prize (Distinguished Writing)[116][117]
2017 Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters[58]
Dominican-Americans in Boston
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Best TV shows of 2021 ranked, from It's A Sin to Succession and Mare Of Easttown
And what a year it's been (Picture: Channel 4/Disney+/HBO)
The last 12 months have been some of the strongest for TV in years – and thank goodness, really, because we don't know what we'd have done without it.
When lockdown hit at the start of the year – after a Christmas which many of us spent away from our loved ones, don't forget – we needed picking up.
And in a year full of challenges, TV has provided us with moments of joy when we needed it most.
We've had the return of some of the most acclaimed dramas in living memory to enjoy since then, as well as police procedurals that gripped the nation and more binge-worthy reality shows, capable of transporting us from our sofas to sun-kissed locations.
While pubs, restaurants and cinemas have opened up (hopefully for good now), there are dozens of shows which have provided us with more than enough reason to stay indoors in 2021.
These are our picks of the best TV shows of the year.
20. Vigil
All at sea (Picture: BBC/World Productions)
Martin Compston was front and centre of the trailers and marketing ahead of Vigil's launch back in August (was it only back in August it was on our screens?), but he lasted just minutes before he was bumped off in the opening scenes of episode one.
Then, it was up to Suranne Jones to cross-examine a host of shifty characters (Paterson Joseph as Cdr. Neil Newsome and Adam James as the wonderfully slimy Cdr. Mark Prentice were both standout performances) and discover the truth behind his murder.
The plot was at times as intentionally murky and unnavigable as the North Sea, but it was immersive from the off. Like Line of Duty, there were similar themes of institutionalised corruption and ineptitude at play, with excellent performances thrown in the mix.
Vigil is available to watch on BBC iPlayer
19. What We Do in the Shadows
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You might have been forgiven for thinking the premise of What We Do In The Shadows would have run dry after three seasons, but things kept going from strength for the quirky vampire comedy in 2021.
Matt Berry continued to deliver his finest performance since Toast of London, with Kayvan Novak and Natasia Demetrio proving themselves as two of the best performers in comedy. If you're in, you're in with this bloodthirsty hit – and the good news is, it's coming back for season four next year.
What We Do In The Shadows is available to watch on BBC iPlayer
18. Angela Black
Right from the gnarly, nasty opening of Angela Black, the ITV series fronted by the ever impressive Joanne Frogatt got under our skin and stayed there.
The drama was a sensitively handled look at the all-encompassing emotional pain of domestic abuse. The series followed Angela, a woman with a seemingly idyllic home life and charismatic husband, who patched her wounds and maintained a facade in a bid to keep her family together, all while striving to discover the truth. Gripping from start to finish.
Angela Black is available to stream on ITV Hub
17. Impeachment: American Crime Story
It went a little under the radar in the UK, aside from a few controversies surrounding Sarah Paulson's decision to wear a 'fat suit' to play character Linda Tripp making headlines, but Impeachment marked one of the strongest iterations of the American Crime Stories yet.
The third season told the story around the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, and the ever-impressive Beanie Feldstein delivered what could be her strongest performance yet as Monica Lewinsky, with the series taking a sensitively handled look at one of the most fascinating times in US politics.
Impeachment: American Crime Story is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
16. Clarkson's Farm
Clarkson's life in the country (Picture: Amazon)
Who knew watching Jeremy Clarkson herd sheep would be so compelling?
The Grand Tour star went rural in his latest series, taking to farming in his own inimitable way, in a series which became one of the surprise hits of the year.
There was an oddball bromance with local farmer Kaleb Cooper to look out for, as well as some of the most unusual takes on the ancient art of farming ever seen. It was also oddly emotional in parts too, as the presenter forms emotional bonds with the animals he rears – before he eats them for his Sunday dinner, of course.
Clarkson's Farm is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video
15. Only Murders In The Building
The unlikely trio (Picture: Craig Blankenhorn/Hulu)
Steve Martin and Martin Short made the unlikely decision to team up with Selena Gomez, who starred in her first major TV role since Wizards of Waverly Place, in this quirky whodunnit, which subverted expectations at every turn.
They star as true crime aficionados turned amateur detectives in this quirky series, which took a lot of people by surprise earlier this year. There was murder mystery blended with odd couple (odd trio?) comedy, and just like the relationship between the comics and their much younger co-star Selena, its unexpected dynamic never jarred for a moment.
Only Murders in the Building is available to watch on Disney+
14. Showtrial
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The team at World Productions have been on fire this last 12 months, bringing us series six of Line of DUty earlier this year, as well as The Pembrokeshire Murders, Vigil and Showtrial – a drama with far more to say than your average Sunday night legal drama.
The gripping series begins as a female student is reported missing. It's not long before the maddeningly brattish daughter of a wealthy property developer, Talitha Campbell (Céline Buckens, outstanding), is held under suspicion after unexpected ties to the suspected victim are revealed.
It was another excellent addition to the BBC's dramatic output this year, and by this point, it seems the makers of Line of Duty can do no wrong.
Showtrial is available to watch on BBC iPlayer
13. Starstruck
The Queen of quirk, Rose Matafeo (Picture: BBC/Avalon UK/Mark Johnson)
A quirky, inimitable and sensitive take on modern relationships, Rose Matafeo wrote and starred in this sharply observed comedy about a young woman accidentally falling in love with an A-list actor (played by Nikesh Patel). It's a deserved step up for Rose, whose previous special Horndog marked her out as one to watch.
The pitch-perfect ending sets up a second series – and after HBO Max renewed it back in July, we're waiting with bated breath for a new run in 2022.
Starstruck is available to watch on BBC iPlayer
12. Back to life
Daisy Haggard brought us one of the most original shows of the year (Picture: BBC/Two Brothers Pictures)
There aren't many shows out there that can move to tears and make you crack up with laughter – often within the same scene. Back to Life is one of those shows, and series two picked up where the unmissable first run left off.
After serving a sentence of 18 years in prison for a terrible crime she committed in her teenage years, the programme follows Mira Matteson as she attempts to recalibrate to life in a small town. If you haven't seen it yet, we implore you to go back and enjoy. Daisy Haggard's comedy drama creation gets in your head, and doesn't leave in a hurry.
Back to Life is available to watch on BBC iPlayer
11. Lupin
Crime dramas don't come much more suave than Lupin, which returned earlier year after a long time away. And not a moment too soon.
The second collection of episodes focused less on the world of heists and more on the father son relationship at the heart of the drama. Paris, as ever, looked stunning on screen, and Omar Sy is a captivating screen presence throughout. Safe to say we're excited for season three.
Lupin is available to stream on Netflix
10. Framing Britney Spears
It wasn't just Britney's redemptive story that made Framing Britney Spears a heartbreaking watch at the start of the year.
The eye-opening retrospective – which came as part of The New York Times presents TV series – of the singer's early career and subsequent 'breakdown' that lead to the ongoing conservatorship held by her father Jamie Spears was a revealing look at celebrity culture as a whole, taking an often uncomfortable look at the dark side of fame and the way it commodifies young stars.
It stunned viewers by looking back at some of the singer's disturbing earlier interviews as a teen star. It also didn't shy away from following the mother-of-two's mental health issues, making it one of the most impactful pieces of TV of the year.
Framing Britney Spears is available to watch on NOW
9. Ted Lasso
When a show's concept is as inspired as Ted Lasso's, it makes you wonder why no-one did it before. Picking up from a hit first series, the inspired second run of the fish-out-of-water comedy focused on Ted, an American way out of his depth coaching a British Premier League football team.
Jason Sudeikis is perfect in the role, which has helped the show become a real, old-school word of mouth hit. Wholesome and brilliantly done, there's really not much to like.
Ted Lasso is available to watch on Apple TV+
8. Line of Duty
The biggest mystery in police procedurals was finally answered, as H's identity was finally revealed in the sixth (and possibly final) series of Jed Mercurio's endlessly compelling drama.
After years of keeping fans in suspense, Detective Superintendent Ian Buckells (Nigel Boyle) was unmasked as the big bad at the heart of corruption with Martin Compton, Vicky McClure and Adrian Dunbar (not to mention Jesus, Mary and the wee donkey) finally getting their man.
The outcome divided opinion – and Jed Mercurio had a few things to say about the reaction – but the series provided more blockbuster TV moments than most could ever dream of. We just hope there'll be more episodes in the future, with more bent coppers in our lives in years to come.
Line of Duty is available to stream on BBC iPlayer
7. WandaVision
Not many shows as big as Disney Plus's WandaVision are brave enough to base entire plot arcs around metaphysical quandaries. But WandaVision certainly was.
The final episode of the multifaceted and hugely ambitious series saw Paul Bettany's Vision tackle his adversary – counterpart White Vision – by applying the logic of the Ship of Theseus thought experiment.
It was just one element of the show that featured some of the best writing we've seen for a long time on a major TV series (anything that features lines like 'What is grief, if not love persevering?' is worth persevering with, in our book). Plus, we could listen to Kathryn Hahn performing Agatha All Along on a loop forever.
WandaVision is available to watch on Disney+
6. Drag Race UK season 2
The best season yet? (Picture: BBC/World of Wonder/Guy Levy)
Could this have been the most life-affirming, uplifting series of the show to date? The second run of Drag Race UK might have been delayed by the pandemic, but it didn't stop it making a huge impact on fans.
Whether it was introducing new Drag Race royalty in the form of Bimini Bon Boulash, featuring iconic quotes (the nipples truly are the eyes of the face, after all), or bringing us one of the strongest ever final three in the form of winner Lawrence Chaney, Bimini and Tayce, the show's UK iteration really excelled in 2021 and helped us get over our lockdown blues week after week.
Drag Race UK is available to watch on BBC iPlayer
5. Dopesick
It felt like 2021 was the year Disney+ really arrived. As well as all the Marvel series it treated us too, gripping drama Dopesick marked one of the most acclaimed series on the platform to date, with viewers calling it the 'best drama of the year' after just a few episodes.
Featuring a killer cast, including Michael Keaton, Will Poulter and Kaitlyn Dever, the show tells the story of the American opioid crisis in the 1990s, which left thousands addicted to prescription painkiller OxyContin. It shined a light on one of the most shocking moments in recent US cultural history, and marked the streaming platform's coming of age.
Dopesick is available to watch on Disney+
4. Squid Game
Word of mouth hits don't happen all that often anymore. But Squid Game became the most talked about show of the year all over the world, and all without the usual marketing campaign or A-list cast familiar to western viewers to entice them. Like an episode of Black Mirror on steroids, and with more bloodlust than we can remember seeing for years on telly, it transcended language barriers to become the biggest show in Netflix history.
It was visually striking (and responsible for the simplest, but best Halloween costumes of the year) and with character development that added emotional heft to the unforgettable set-pieces. It more than deserved its place as a cultural phenomenon – and while still feel hoodwinked by that twist ending, we're holding out hope for a second series.
Squid Game is available to watch on Netflix
3. Mare of Easttown
One of the first big hits among critics and viewers alike earlier this year, this HBO limited series starred Kate Winslet as Mare Sheehan, a detective who is investigating the murder of one young girl and the disappearance of another with audiences joining the quest to find out whodunnit.
Shock horror, Kate Winslet is fantastic. She delivered an endlessly compelling performance in her first major TV role here – we just hope it's not her last.
Mare of Easttown is available to watch on Now
2. Succession
Jeremy Strong might not quite grasp the appeal of Succession, but just about everybody else did in 2021.
The actor said recently that he takes his character Kendall Roy 'as seriously as I take my own life' recently. He might think he's acting in a Shakespearean tragedy rather than one of the most biting, bitter comedies of recent years, but the critical acclaim the show has received for its third season makes it just about the best received programme out there – and for good reason.
Universally excellent performances, whipsmart writing and grit lurking beneath the glossy surface make it one of the most compelling new series in recent years. We don't know what we'd do without it.
Succession is available to watch on Now
1. It's A Sin
We didn't have to wait long to see the TV event of the year play out on our screens, with the masterful Russell T Davies drama It's a Sin arriving back in January.
An incredible 18.2million tuned in to see the story of Ritchie (Olly Alexander), Jill (Lydia West), and the friendship circle of the Pink Palace play out at the start of the year.
The beautifully realised, and often harrowing drama followed a circle of queer friends who live in London during the HIV and Aids crisis in the 1980s. Not only did the drama spark a cultural moment, but it had an incredible real-life impact, too, with the Terrence Higgins Trust charity also announced the show caused a 600% surge in HIV testing.
It was a timely reminder of the power great TV can have, and without doubt one of the most breathtaking moments of the year.
It's a Sin is available to air on All4
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BIARI AT BROWN 2017 - JUNE 3-17
Humanitarian Response and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Increasing Effectiveness and Accountability in the Age of Complex Emergencies
"Natural" disasters and political unrest pose chronic threats to human security. Separately or in tandem, they turn citizens into refugees and displaced people, stretch government capacity, and, increasingly, spark chronic disorder, instability or military conflict. What are the implications of complex emergencies, where natural and man-made factors combine, for the future of humanitarian action? This institute will convene an interdisciplinary and international group of academics and practitioners to develop a better understanding of the underlying political, social, and environmental factors that affect human security before, during, and after humanitarian emergencies. Topics will include the effectiveness and sustainability of existing disaster preparedness systems in different regions; best practices in humanitarian assistance delivery, training and monitoring; and the politics of compassion in disaster and conflict zones. Discussions will focus in particular on the ethical issues that arise at the intersection of human security and humanitarian assistance; rights-based approaches to humanitarian relief; and the potential for new technologies to transform humanitarian response.
Adam Levine is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of the Brown University Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship. His research focuses on improving the delivery of emergency care in resource-limited settings and during humanitarian emergencies. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief for the Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review, published annually in Academic Emergency Medicine.
ROBERT BLAIR
Robert Blair is Joukowsky Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs at Brown UniversityRobert Blair's research focuses on peacekeeping and statebuilding after civil war, with an emphasis on rule of law and security institutions. He has conducted fieldwork on these and related topics in Colombia, Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire, and has worked in various capacities for the UN Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions, the Political Instability Task Force, Freedom House and the Small Arms Survey. He holds an MA and PhD in Political Science from Yale University and a BA in Education Studies and Comparative Literature from Brown University. His research has been published in the American Political Science Review and other venues.
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With reporting rules being implemented for margin FX and CFD trades in Australia, TRAction Fintech is launching a solution for
Ron Finberg | Regulation ( Retail FX ) | Thursday, 27/08/2015 | 09:23 GMT+1 2015-08-27 08:23:22
Following the 2008/09 global financial crisis, one of the results was the initiation of more rules surrounding over the counter (OTC) derivative trades. In relation to the forex and CFD market, this has meant the rollout of reporting requirements across several jurisdictions.
The most notable of these reporting rules are those that have been set forth in the EU through the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) that was initiated by the European Securities and Market Authority (ESMA). With the new EMIR reporting laws, it has led to any institution (even non-financial firms) in the EU that is involved with certain types of derivatives to report their trades to a trade repository such as the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC).
Following the initiation of reporting requirements for retail brokers in the EU, among the next jurisdictions set to rollout new rules for margin forex and CFD trading is in Australia. Supervised by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), brokers will be required to report their forex and CFD trades starting on October 12th. Similar to other jurisdictions, the DTCC has been designated by the ASIC as the trade repository for brokers to report to.
With the initiation of reporting rules taking place around the globe, initial feedback has been the difficulties of matching reports from trading platforms to trade repository formats. As a solution, several products in the EU have sprung up to assist firms with converting their trading reports to satisfy EMIR requirements. With the requirements for forex and CFD brokers coming in Australia, a new firm, TRAction Fintech has recently launched to provide reporting services.
Headed by Quinn Perrot, former executive at AxiTrader and Sophie Gerber who also operates a compliance legal consultancy firm for brokers, TRAction Fintech will be offering an automated solution for Australian brokers to report their trades to the DTCC. Speaking about the new venture with Finance Magnates, Gerber explained that TRAction Fintech has "custom built a software suite to connect to MetaTrader." The product then "extract, covert, reconcile and submit the relevant trades and positions required under the OTC Derivatives reporting rules." Gerber added that for brokers using platforms other than MT4, TRAction Fintech will work with them to customize the extraction and conversion of data. .
Explaining the friction involved with reporting, Gerber stated, "If a broker works on their own, they need to extract data from MT4 or other platforms and covert into the DTCC format." She added that the difficulty is due to a "mismatch between MT4 and DTCC requirements."
As the October 12th date approaches, Gerber stated that there are currently around 35 ASIC regulated retail brokers that will begin to fall under the new reporting requirements. In terms of TRAction Fintech, Gerber cited that the product will be available as a volume-based offering with prices similar to those being charged by the DTCC.
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"Gerber stated that there are currently around 35 ASIC regulated retail brokers that will begin to fall under the new reporting requirements. "
can you guys post a list of the 35 brokers which have to comply?
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Storage Conditions: MCS= 28% (Hu et al., 1993, 1994) to 53% (Boyce, 1989) Moist storage has been recommended; for example, no loss in viability of seeds stored moist (100% r.h. ) in polyethylene bags at 5°-7°C was reported after 9 months (Sebastiampillai & Anandappa, 1979), 2 years (Katsuo et al., 1970), or even after 6 years at 1°C (Amma & Watanabe, 1983).Desiccation sensitivity has been reported. For example, seeds harvested at 52.8% mc tolerated desiccation to 27.5% mc when dried rapidly, but further desiccation to low moisture contents reduced viability considerably (Boyce, 1989; Grabe, 1989). LSMC= 30%, 46% seeds germinated on desiccation to 23% mc (Barman, 1990). LSMC= 23% for seeds harvested at 40% mc (Chaudhury et al., 1990), and none survived further desiccation to 18% mc (Chandel et al., 1993). Chandel et al. (1993) found that embryonic axes excised from seeds harvested at 42% mc were at 51.3% mc, and while the whole seeds were killed on desiccation to 18% mc, about 70% of excised embryonic axes survived desiccation to about 12% mc. Excised embryonic axes were successfully cryopreserved after drying to 13% mc (Chaudhury et al., 1991; Chandel et al., 1995). In contrast, Wesley-Smith et al. (1992) reported that 100% of embryonic axes survived liquid nitrogen after they had been rapidly dried to 62-52% mc, but only 50-60% survival was observed in liquid nitrogen when they were rapidly dried to 41-28% mc. Berjak et al. (1993) found that embryonic axes excised from fruits harvested on trees before natural dehiscence had 66-70% mc and tolerated desiccation to 28.6% mc when dried rapidly (flash drying), but only tolerated desiccation to 47.4% mc when dried slowly. Desiccation tolerance was reported to increase if seeds are harvested when more mature. For example, seeds harvested at 41-46%mc tolerated desiccation to 23% mc, 61% seeds germinated on desiccation to 17.3% mc, but none remained viable when the mean moisture content was reduced to 11.5% mc (Sebastiampillai & Anandappa, 1979). There are some reports of considerable desiccation tolerance. Visser & Tillekeratne (1958) reported that 50-70% seeds germinated following 20 weeks storage at 0°C with 10% r.h. (mc not reported), while 100% and 20% germinated following 15 and 42 weeks of storage at 0°C with 55% r.h. (mc not reported), respectively. Similarly, Hu et al. (1993, 1994) reported that 50% of the whole mature seeds harvested at 26-28% mc survived desiccation to 9.2% mc, and that 20% survived following 55 days subsequent cryopreservation in liquid nitrogen. A loss in viability of about 28% occurred after 1 year's hermetic storage at -25°C with 9.2% mc, but there was no loss in viability following 118 days cryopreservation with seeds at 13.8% mc (Hu et al., 1993, 1994). Similarly, 20% whole seed survival (mc not reported) after 55 days cryostorage in liquid nitrogen was also reported (Guo & Shi, 1990). COMMENT: Camellia sinensis has been classified as recalcitrant (e.g., King & Roberts, 1979; Chandel et al., 1993; Berjak et al., 1993) because of repeated reports of short life-spans in open storage at room temperature (Anonymous, 1955; Bonheure, 1962; Andrews, 1967; Rashid et al., 1973; Amma, 1978; Amma & Watanabe, 1983), and desiccation sensitivity (Anonymous, 1955; Amma, 1978; Sebastiampillay & Anandappa, 1979; Berjak et al., 1993; Chandel et al., 1993). We have questioned the assumption that the species shows recalcitrant seed storage behaviour (Ellis et al., 1985c), and indeed it is now clear that seeds of C. sinensis are not recalcitrant, since 41% of the seeds survive desiccation to 8.7% mc (Hu et al., 1993, 1994). The results provided by Visser and Tillekeratne (1958), in which viability may have been maintained better at 55% r.h. than at 10% r.h., suggest that they may show intermediate seed storage behaviour. Misinterpretation and misclassification of seed storage behaviour as recalcitrant may result from investigations with immature seeds (seed moisture contents >50% at harvest), and secondary dormancy may be induced by drying to low moisture contents. The requirement of specific dormancy-breaking treatments (Dirr & Heuser, 1987; Hu et al., 1993, 1994) and the delayed imbibition of water by dry seeds reported by Sebastiampillai & Anandappa (1979) support the view that drying to low moisture contents may induce hardseededness or secondary dormancy in Camellia seeds. Further investigations with mature seeds (when MCS <40%) are therefore needed to clarify seed storage behaviour.
Species Distribution: The probable centre of origin of tea is near the source of the Irrawaddy River and from there it spread to S.E. China, Indo- China and Assam.
1970.0; (Cromarty et al., 1982); Seed; Seed mc not stated, but weight is likely to refer to air-dry seed.
549.45; (FAO, 1975); Seed; Seed mc not stated, but weight is likely to refer to air-dry seed.
2041.0; (Felfoldi, 1980); Seed; Seed mc not stated, but weight is likely to refer to air-dry seed.
1500.0; (von Carlowitz, 1991); Seed; Mid-point of 1000 seed weight range 500-2500g; seed mc not stated, but weight is likely to refer to air-dry seed.
Amma, S. 1978. Rapid germinability test with sugars exuded from tea seed. Study of Tea, 55:1-6.
Amma, S. and Watanabe, A. 1983. Long-term storage of germplasm in tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O.Kuntze). Bulletin of National Research Institute of Tea, 19:29-57.
Andrews, D.N. 1966. The cold storage of tea seeds. Revue Agricolte et SucriFre de l'Ile Maurice, 45:303-304.
Anon. 1955. Effect of desiccation and seed dressings on germination of tea seeds and the resulting plants. Annual Report of the Indian Tea Association Scientific Department, Tocklai 1954/1955:116-120.
Barman, T.S. 1990. Postharvest storage of tea seeds. In Proceedings of the International Congress of Plant Physiology, New Delhi, India, 15-20 February 1988. Volume 2. New Delhi, India: Society for Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, pp. 1392-1395.
Berjak, P., Vertucci, C.W. and Pammenter, N.W. 1993. Effects of developmental status and dehydration rate on characteristics of water and desiccation-sensitivity in recalcitrant seeds of Camellia sinensis. Seed Science Research, 3:155-166.
Boyce, K.G. 1989. Report of the seed storage committee 1986-1989. Seed Science and Technology 17 Supplement:135-142.
Chandel, K.P.S., Chaudhury, R. and Radhamani, J. 1993. Biological mechanisms determining the recalcitrance in seeds of tea, cocoa and jackfruit. IBPGR- 93/23.
Chandel, K.P.S., Chaudhury, R., Radhamani, J. and Malik, S.K. 1995. Desiccation and freezing sensitivity in recalcitrant seeds of tea, cocoa and jacfruit. Annals of Botany, 76:443-450.
Chaudhury, R., Lakhanpaul, S. and Chandel, K.P.S. 1990. Germination and desiccation tolerance of tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O.Kuntze) seeds and feasibility of cryopreservation. Sri Lanka Journal of Tea Science, 59:89-94.
Chaudhury, R., Radhamani, J. and Chandel, K.P.S. 1991. Preliminary observations on the cryopreservation of desiccated embryonic axes of tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O.Kuntze) seeds for genetic conservation. Cryo-Letters, 12:31-36.
Cromarty, A.S., Ellis, R.H. and Roberts, E.H. 1982. The Design of Seed Storage Facilities for Genetic Conservation. Rome: International Board for Plant Genetic Resources.
Dirr, M.A. and Heuser, C.W. 1987. The Reference Manual of Woody Plant Propagation. Varsity Press, Athens.
Ellis, R. H., Hong, T.D. and Roberts, E.H. 1985c. Preliminary seed germination and seed storage investigations with the winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) D.C.). The Winged Bean Flyer 5, 22-36.
FAO. 1975. Forest Tree Seed Directory. Rome, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations.
Grabe, D.F. 1989. Report of the seed moisture 1986-1989 working group on recalcitrant seeds. Seed Science and Technology, 17S:87-93.
Guo, C.G. and Shi, S.X. 1990. Conservation of tea and camphor seeds at very low temperatures. Crop Genetic Resources, 2:16.
Hu, J., Guo, C.G. and Shi, S.X. 1993. Partial drying and post-thaw preconditioning improve the survival and germination of cryopreserved seeds of tea (Camellia sinensis). FAO/IBPGR Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter 93, 1-4.
Hu, J., Guo, C.G. and Shi, S.X. 1994. Partial drying and post-thaw preconditioning improve the survival and germination of cryopreserved seeds of tea (Camellia sinensis). FAO/IBPGR Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter 94, 25-28.
Katsuo, K., Toyao, T. and Kayumi, S. 1970. The germination of tea seed. Part I. Relation of the picking period and conditions for storage to the seed germination. Study of Tea, 39:14-19.
King, M.W. and Roberts, E.H. 1979. The Storage of Recalcitrant Seeds: Achievements and Possible Approaches. International Board for Plant Genetic Resources, Rome.
Rashid, A., Alam, B. and Chakraborty, H. 1973. Storage of tea seeds. Tea Journal of Bangladesh, 9:12-15.
Sebastiampillai, A.R. and Anandappa, T.I. 1979. The influence of moisture and temperature of the germinability and longevity of tea (Camellia sinensis L.) seeds. Tea Quarterly, 48:8-20.
Visser, T. and Tillekeratne, L.M. de Waas 1958. Observations on the germination and storage of tea pollen and seed. Tea Quarterly, 29:30-35.
Wesley-Smith, J., Vertucci, C.W., Berjak, P., Pammenter, N.W. and Crane, J. 1992. Cryopreservation of desiccation sensitive axes of Camellia sinensis in relation to dehydration, freezing rate and the thermal properties of tissue water. Journal of Plant Physiology, 140:596-604.
Felfoldi, E. 1980. Seed Counts (Numbers of Seeds Per Unit Weight). Technical Report Series, 32. Government of Victoria, Department of Agriculture.
von Carlowitz, P.G. 1991. Multipurpose trees and shrubs: sources of seeds and inoculants. ICRAF, Nairobi. USDA 25.


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It was unbelievable how ill Cotton was when Carmen Morales first met him.
The hungry little white cat was in a lot of pain when she was found on living in the streets of Florida. Mange had spread out throughout his entire body, even his eyes.
Having fostered dozens of rescued cats over the years, Morales created a quarantine ward for Cotton. There, in the bathroom, he was fed meals and treated with arsenal antibiotics. And even though the furry animal was itchy and uncomfortable throughout the process, the healing result in a few days time was worth it.
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Cotton overcame his health issues and, after a few months, he seemed like an entirely different cat than the one he was when he was found.
Without surprise, Morales was shocked. In fact, even Cotton was shocked! The newfound energy in him as he was able to see after such a long time, perhaps even months.
The 6-year-old cat seemed like a new cat after three full months in recovery. And doubtlessly, she formed an unbreakable bond with Morales. He followed her everywhere she went, and she was the only one with the special privilege to pet him for longer than others. Around new people, Cotton was small and nervous, but with Morales's help, he slowly adjusted and became more comfortable.
Morales considers herself very fortunate to have found Cotton. After the life he's had, she's determined to give him the best, most pampered life of a cat.
And it's clear that Cotton considers himself just as lucky!
Without a doubt, Cotton is very happy to be a part of the family. Now, he spends his days lavishly, relaxing, playing and following Morales everywhere!