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Sail training resumes from Monday, May 10th and sailing competitions from June 7th under COVID regs Credit: Afloat
Golf and Tennis Doubles competition returns on Monday, May 10th in a further relaxation of Government COVID rules that has not extended to sailing.
Sailing clubs had been urging officials to lobby the Government's Sport Ireland's Expert Group to classify sailing with sports such as golf as a non-contact, outdoor and low-risk activity but there has been no such green light for sailing so far.
The latest Golf Ireland protocols confirm that from next Monday 10th May, golfers will be allowed (1): Casual-play rounds for handicap purposes for members and visitors, with no restrictions on numbers of household per group, and (2): Club competitions for members.
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It's been a frustrating time for the sport over the last ten days attempting to grapple with vague guidelines that have led to some inevitable consequences, including the cancellation of Ireland's biggest regatta.
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By: The Associated Press February 18, 2013 Comments Off on Gun ban would protect more than 2,200 firearms
WASHINGTON — Congress' latest crack at a new assault weapons ban would protect more than 2,200 specific firearms, including a semi-automatic rifle that is nearly identical to one of the guns used in the bloodiest shootout in FBI history.
One model of that firearm, the Ruger .223 caliber Mini-14, is on the proposed list to be banned, while a different model of the same gun is on a list of exempted firearms in legislation the Senate is considering. The gun that would be protected from the ban has fixed physical features and can't be folded to be more compact. Yet the two firearms are equally deadly.
"What a joke," said former FBI agent John Hanlon, who survived the 1986 shootout in Miami. He was shot in the head, hand, groin and hip with a Ruger Mini-14 that had a folding stock. Two FBI agents died and five others were wounded.
Hanlon recalled lying on the street as brass bullet casings showered on him. He thought the shooter had an automatic weapon.
Both models of the Ruger Mini-14 specified in the proposed bill can take detachable magazines that hold dozens of rounds of ammunition. "I can't imagine what the difference is," Hanlon said.
President Barack Obama has called for restoring a ban on military-style assault weapons and limiting the size of ammunition magazines.
A bill introduced last month by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. would ban 157 specific firearms designed for military and law enforcement use and exempt others made for hunting purposes. It also would ban ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds.
Yet there are firearms that would be protected under Feinstein's proposal that can take large capacity magazines like the ones used in mass shootings that enable a gunman to fire dozens of rounds of ammunition without reloading.
Feinstein said in a written response to questions from The Associated Press that the list of more than 2,200 exempted firearms was designed to "make crystal clear" that the bill would not affect hunting and sporting weapons.
The December shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., that left 26 students and educators dead forced Washington to focus on curbing gun violence, a risky political move not tried in decades.
The gun industry, which is fighting any sort of ban, says gun ownership in the U.S. is the highest it's ever been, with more than 100 million firearms owners.
Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden have traveled around the country in an effort to gain support for new laws. Feinstein's proposal is the only sweeping piece of legislation designed to ban assault weapons currently being considered.
But some gun experts say the lists of banned and exempted firearms show a lack of understanding and expertise of guns.
"There's no logic to it," said Greg Danas, president of a Massachusetts-based expert witness business and firearms ballistic laboratory. "What kind of effect is it going to have?"
Feinstein's bill defines an assault weapon as a semi-automatic firearm with a detachable magazine that has one of several military characteristics that are specified in her legislation. Examples of those characteristics include a pistol grip, which makes a firearm easier to hold, and a forward grip, which makes the firearm easier to stabilize to improve accuracy. The definition is similar to the one in Congress' original ban on assault weapons, which went into effect in 1994 and was widely criticized for outlawing firearms based on cosmetic features.
Feinstein was behind the 1994 law which, at the time, protected more than 600 firearms. The current bill would exempt by name and model more than 2,200 firearms by name and model.
Feinstein said her staff had worked for more than a year to draft updates for the ban that expired in 2004, and it was apparent in the wake of recent mass shootings that now was the time to introduce a new bill. She said her staff consulted with law enforcement agencies and policy experts for months to create the expanded list.
Naming firearms that would remain legal under an assault weapons ban is a politically motivated gesture that was used to help pass the original ban in the early 1990s, people familiar with the process said.
Any firearm that does not fall within the law's definition of an assault weapon would not be banned. As a result, the list gives vulnerable politicians cover from constituents who do not want to give up their firearms.
For example, a politician can look at the list and assure a constituent that the government would not ban the firearm he or she loves to use for deer hunting. Under the 1994 law and the currently proposed one, the government would not have the authority to take away guns people already legally own. The ban would only apply to specific firearms manufactured and sold after the law is enacted.
A list of exempted firearms was not part of Feinstein's original assault weapons ban two decades ago, said Michael Lenett, one of the lead congressional staffers on gun control issues in 1994. A separate bill in circulation exempted far fewer hunting and sporting firearms, Lenett said.
The purpose of creating such a list was to assure people that the government was not going after any legitimate hunting or sporting weapons. "The other purpose of the list was to have a high profile way of assuring certain folks — including legislators — that we would not be going after their weapons that they use for those legitimate purposes," Lenett said.
"It was a win-win situation," Lenett recalled, because, he said, if the list could help pick up votes needed to pass the bill and temper some of the opposition, it could assuage some opponents of the ban without making the law less effective.
But gun experts say the lists in 1994 and the expanded lists of today don't make much sense.
"The bill demonstrates a shocking ignorance of the product they are purporting to regulate," said Lawrence Keane, senior vice president of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade association based in Newtown, Conn., that represents gun manufacturers. "I have no idea how they arrived at this list. It would seem to be random, bordering on throwing darts at a dart board."
For instance, Feinstein's current proposal includes exemptions for three specific types of the M-1 Carbine, an assault rifle designed for the military that the U.S. currently bans from being imported. A draft of the legislation, created and modified in November and early December last year, banned the M-1 Carbine and didn't exempt any models, according to a copy obtained by the AP.
Feinstein said there was disagreement among firearms experts, law enforcement and gun safety organizations about whether to include the M-1 Carbine on the list of banned weapons.
"It has been used in multiple police shootings, and was originally used by U.S. soldiers on the battlefield," Feinstein said. "On the other hand, it comes in models that would not meet the military characteristics test." She said she decided to limit banned weapons to those that met the definition outlined in the bill.
At a Jan. 30 hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee on gun violence, National Rifle Association President Wayne LaPierre said Feinstein's bill is "based on falsehoods to people that do not understand firearms, to convince them that the performance characteristics of guns that they are trying to ban through that bill are different than the performance characteristics that they're not trying to ban."
The Ruger Mini-14 is a perfect example.
The model that has a fixed stock would be exempted by Feinstein's ban; the weapon was protected in the 1994 law as well. A Ruger Mini-14 with a collapsible and folding stock would be illegal.
The guns fire the same caliber bullet and can take detachable magazines that could hold dozens of rounds of ammunition. The folding stock only reduces the gun's length by 2.75 inches, according to the manufacturer's website.
"It's irrelevant," Edmund Mireles, an FBI agent who survived the Miami shootout, said of the differences in features. "They're equally dangerous."
Mark D. Jones, a senior law enforcement adviser for the University of Chicago Crime Lab, said the folding stock does not affect the firearm's lethal potential.
"Given that both firearms will accept a 30 round or larger magazine, it renders the differences between them entirely cosmetic," Jones said.
Kristen Rand, the legislative director at the Washington-based Violence Policy Center, said the Ruger Mini-14 model that would be banned under Feinstein's legislation is easier to hold while firing because it has a pistol grip, and it's easier to hide because it has a collapsible stock. That's what makes it more dangerous that the Ruger Mini-14 with the fixed stock which would be exempted under the Feinstein bill, she said.
"And that's supposed to save somebody's life?" asked Hanlon, the FBI agent shot alongside Mireles.
Hanlon considered the differences between the two models and whether the events of April 11, 1986, would have been different if the shooter used a Ruger Mini-14 with a fixed stock. "I don't think it would have changed a damn thing," he said. "I don't see what makes that gun less dangerous."
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by Jim the Realtor | Nov 9, 2010 | Fraud, Market Conditions | 18 comments
From nytimes.com:
Save Florida Homes Inc. and its owner, Mark Guerette, have found foreclosed homes for several needy families here in Broward County, and his tenants could not be more pleased. Fabian Ferguson, his wife and two children now live a two-bedroom home they have transformed from damaged and abandoned to full and cozy.
There is just one problem: Mr. Guerette is not the owner. Yet.
In a sign of the odd ingenuity that has grown from the real estate collapse, he is banking on an 1869 Florida statute that says the bundle of properties he has seized will be his if the owners do not claim them within seven years. A version of the same law was used in the 1850s to claim possession of runaway slaves, though Mr. Guerette, 47, a clean-cut mortgage broker, sees his efforts as heroic. "There are all these properties out there that could be used for good," he said.
The North Lauderdale authorities, though, see him as a crook. He is scheduled to go on trial in December on fraud charges in a case that, along with a handful of others in Florida and in other states, could determine whether maintaining a property and paying taxes on it is enough to lead to ownership.
Legal scholars say the concept is old — rooted in Renaissance England, when agricultural land would sometimes go fallow, left untended by long-lost heirs. But it is also common. All 50 states allow for so-called adverse possession, with the time to forge a kind of common-law marriage with property varying from a few years (in most states) to several decades (in New Jersey).
The statute generally requires that properties be maintained openly and continuously, which usually means paying property taxes and utility bills.
Mr. Guerette, who now faces up to 15 years in prison, insists that his business is legitimate and moral. He said he got started last year, driving around working-class neighborhoods in Palm Beach and Broward Counties, looking for a particular kind of home: not just those with overgrown lawns and broken windows, but houses with a large orange sticker from the county reading "public nuisance."
The stickers signaled owners out of touch: the county or city was unable to reach them.
Mr. Guerette filed court claims on around 100 of these properties, which appear to be in the process of foreclosure. Then he chose 20 that could be most easily renovated and sent letters to the owners and their banks — presumably overwhelmed — to make them aware of his plans.
Florida does not require notification. One state lawmaker tried and failed to close that loophole last year with a bill that never passed. But it hardly mattered. Nineteen of the owners and their banks did not respond, Mr. Guerette said.
So he set about fixing up the unclaimed properties. In some cases, he just mowed the lawn and replaced stolen air conditioners or broken windows; in other cases, like with Mr. Ferguson, he let tenants make improvements in lieu of rent. At his peak last year, he said he managed 17 homes with renters, some of whom he found on Craigslist, others through a Christian ministry in Margate, Fla.
Copies of leases show Mr. Guerette included an addendum noting that he was not the legal owner. Tenants like Mr. Ferguson and his family, who had been homeless before moving in last year and paying $289 a month, see Mr. Guerette as a savior.
And neighbors generally agree. "There is no telling who was in and out of that house," said Rawle Thomas, who lives next door to Mr. Ferguson and his family. "I like them, and I'd much rather have someone in there than the house empty." <!–156f81810d104f078398d79f126f28ff–>
MarkB on November 9, 2010 at 12:14 pm
And the entertainment continues!
He is (in my opinionated reading of the situation) sponsoring squatters and charging them a fee (rent). I actually admire his initiative in targeting the public nuisance properties. However, 19 properties time 290 a month rent is serious cash and what really is he going to accomplish?
He says to himself "aha! I make almost 6 grand a month in 'rent' AND I make a fool of stupid owners AND I throw a lifeline to some really needy people AND maybe I make a difference!"
But my jaded eyes don't see past the 6 large monthly revenue. Even if the owners are stupid public nuisances, unless there is a law that they are breaking, they have the legal right to be stupid and Guerette has NO legal right to collect fees on their property.
Interesting times, Interesting times!
GeneK on November 9, 2010 at 12:16 pm
If the state law provides for "adverse possession," he notified the owners of record of his intent (which, according to the article, he wasn't even required to do under the state's laws), they didn't answer and his tenants are receiving full disclosure that he's not the legal owner, I can see how this could end up in a civil court to decide the validity of his court claims, but what is the basis for the fraud charge?
Seems to me that what the state really ought to be doing is changing its laws to give owners of orange-tagged "public nuisance" properties a deadline to fix 'em up and then open them to the first comer who agrees to rehabilitate and occupy them.
sdbri on November 9, 2010 at 1:06 pm
They should simply cancel this law. Are we still living in the dark ages where abandoned property would go unnoticed for decades? Wow.
I think where he will probably get into legal trouble is that he's profiting from usage of property that's not his, which is illegal irrespective of adverse possession laws. As opposed to actually occupying these properties themselves. Bottom line, one law doesn't allow you to break another.
Fraud is always harder to prove since he will claim ignorance, but he's misrepresenting the legality of renting out someone else's property. Adverse possession laws do not trump any other laws.
GeneK on November 9, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Under traditional adverse possession, the desseiser is supposed to use and assume responsibility for the property as if is was his own. Whether this includes renting it out as well as living on it or farming it, and who should be entitled to any revenues the property generates should the owners of record come forward to reassert their ownership sound like more questions for a civil court than a basis for criminal charges.
Lyle on November 9, 2010 at 3:07 pm
Actually the owners could trump this guy by saying pay us instead, since then they would be asserting their ownership and the Guerette would just be out the money he spent. Now if the banks are so stupid as to not respond then they get what they deserve just like anyone who does not pay attention to their property does.
emmi on November 9, 2010 at 3:56 pm
MarkB,
My impression was he put up the cash for the fixer up part of the deal, so he has to make that back to break even, hence the "renters" who could use sweat equity to avoid paying him anything. If he brings even 1-2 properties online a month, 6k is not going to go very far. Just sayin'.
I'm with GeneK, isn't this guys' operation symptomatic that the muni is not playing its role in protecting the public and raising community standards?
bigwavedave on November 9, 2010 at 4:16 pm
Hey Jim, when you going on vacaction for a couple of weeks, I like your house.
Brad Warbiany on November 9, 2010 at 4:29 pm
I can't find anything he's doing wrong here — and that's as a libertarian who takes property rights VERY seriously.
It seems the state has pretty simple laws explaining that if property is truly abandoned, it's possible to basically "homestead" it and assume ownership should the original owners not attempt to claim it — and seven years is PLENTY of time.
Potentially there could be a B&E / grand larceny charge, but I don't see any but the most headline-seeking prosecutors being willing to press charges here, and unless Guerrette or the tenants are unwilling to vacate should the owners claim the property back, I can't see a jury being willing to acquit.
I do see a potential for a civil suit where the owners attempt to recover rental income from their property if they reclaim, but that's about the only likely negative I can come up with for anyone in this story…
Kingside on November 9, 2010 at 6:27 pm
In California at least, "rent skimming" is considered a crime.
California Civil Code 890(a)(2): For purposes of this section, "rent skimming" also means receiving revenue from the rental of a parcel of residential real property where the person receiving that revenue, without the consent of the owner or owner's agent, asserted possession or ownership of the residential property, whether under a false claim of title, by trespass, or any other unauthorized means, rented the property to another, and collected rents from the other person for the rental of the property. This paragraph does not apply to any tenant, subtenant, lessee, sublessee, or assignee, nor to any other hirer having a lawful occupancy interest in the residential dwelling.
Further someone should tell the renters to stop paying rent, and when Guerette goes to evict he will be laughed out of court when the renter says prove you own it. You have to own the property to be able to evict someone, so the renter has 7 years at a minimum, or until the real owner goes to evict him.
ChrisP on November 10, 2010 at 9:12 am
When I took a real estate based class in Cali. the instructor spoke of the California law which stated the "squatter" needed to pay the property taxes for 7 years and occupancy. His comment was that the owner should let them stay and pay for 6 years and then beat them to the punch on the 7th year… Risky behavior for sure…
Kingside on November 10, 2010 at 10:15 am
That behavior would be beyond risky since California's statute for adverse possession is 5 years, not 7.
Josie on November 10, 2010 at 11:51 am
Somewhat similarly, Clairemont residents accuse city of trying to seize property:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/nov/10/residents-san-diego-over-line-property-dispute/
GeneK on November 10, 2010 at 11:51 am
"Actually the owners could trump this guy by saying pay us instead, since then they would be asserting their ownership and the Guerette would just be out the money he spent."
I think this is the risk inherent to anyone who chooses to try to acquire property through adverse possession.
GeneK on November 10, 2010 at 1:24 pm
I'd be willing to bet there's some provision in most adverse possession laws that excludes publicly owned land for which there are no taxes for the desseiser to assume payments of.
Seems to me the question of whether this situation constitutes "asserting possession or ownership of the residential property under a false claim of title, by trespass, or any other unauthorized means" depends on whether Guerette has complied with the requirements and process of the state's adverse possession law. Again, it seems more like a question for a civil rather than a criminal proceeding.
Former RB Resident on November 11, 2010 at 12:32 pm
I think Lyle has the best answer here.
Adverse Possession, by the way does hold a useful purpose. In most modern cases, it is things like a fence is in the wrong spot and the property assessors make it part of the plot in surveys. Similarly, in weird cases (usually family related), where someone takes over living in a house and takes up the upkeep and payments they can get the property. (Some state require the possession to be "hostile", meaning that if I say "you can live in the house as long as you pay the expenses" and you do, then it isn't necessarily adverse.
Using it offensively, like this guy is doing, isn't really the intent, but it could work if you don't get arrested first. Note that traditional squatters usually don't qualify under modern rules, since their idea is to take the property without any payment at all.


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Portland, with two close by wine areas and numerous celebrated eating places, is captivated with wine. It's the basis of an entire portion of the food and drinks trade, from Champagne-specific wine bars to eating places with booklet-sized wine lists. But with a brand new proposed tariff on European wine imports, that complete trade is going through a disruption of seismic proportions.
Portland's restaurant trade is entwined with European wines. At the bustling bistro Le Pigeon, diners pair rosés from Bandol and syrah from Northern Rhône with their crispy pork shoulder and beef cheek bourguignon, whereas subsequent door at Canard, servers chat with their prospects a couple of sauvignon blanc from Loire to pair with the duck stack. Nights at Nostrana see bottles of Barbaresco and Barolo paired with pastas and seared steaks.
And then, after all, there are the gorgeous wine bars. At Dana Frank's cozy Bar Norman, imbibers socialize over glasses of hard-to-find pure wines from rural France and Italy; Pairings, the eclectically adorned wine bar from the eccentric and gregarious wine steward Jeffrey Weissler, options whimsical however passionately curated flights that match wines to TV characters and astrological indicators; and over at Ambonnay, the intimate, elegant home of Champagne, new proprietor Michael Knisley amiably educates wine geeks and neophytes alike about the bubbles of their glasses, examples of the well-known wine area that aren't accessible virtually anyplace else in the state, at the least by the glass pour.
But all of that might change, dramatically and in no way for the higher, after Monday with the implementation of 100 p.c tariffs on imports from the European Union. That consists of all wines: these celebratory bottles of Champagne subsequent to oyster towers, the weeknight bottle of tempranillo at the neighborhood tapas bar, these Alsatian rieslings beloved by wine geeks. The trigger is an ongoing battle between the United States and the European Union over subsidies granted to EU aerospace firm Airbus. In brief, the Trump administration sees the subsidies on Airbus as a leg up for Europe that the U.S. didn't get, so the U.S. determined to closely tax European merchandise to even the enjoying area. Though the struggle is totally unrelated to wine, these retaliatory tariffs on European merchandise will hit American bars, eating places, and importers with probably hundreds of jobs misplaced, in line with publications like Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and the New York Times.
The Tariffs, in Brief
In October 2019, the World Trade Organization finalized its resolution that European subsidies to the firm Airbus — a multinational, European aerospace company that manufactures airliners — had been unlawful, and that they'd price American aerospace enterprise, particularly Boeing, billions of {dollars} over the final 15 years. The U.S. was granted the proper to position tariffs of as much as $7.5 billion yearly on European items with the intention to recoup these billions of {dollars} that Boeing misplaced in competitors to the backed Airbus.
Almost instantly, the U.S. applied a 25 p.c tariff on quite a few wines, spirits, and different agriculture items coming in from European international locations like France, Spain, Germany, and England. Though the tariffs excluded blended malts and glowing wines, they hit the trade arduous. According to retailers and distributors, many importers and distributors swallowed the price themselves, not eager to go it on to the retail facet of the trade.
Then, in early December, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) threatened two new tariffs. One was in response to France's Digital Service Tax — a 100 p.c tariff on Champagne, successfully doubling the value of importing Champagne. CNBC experiences that the French taxes can be a "3 percent levy [that] applies to revenue from digital services earned by firms with more than $27.86 million in French revenue and $830 million worldwide." This consists of corporations like Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
In addition, in early December the USTR threatened to increase its battle in opposition to Airbus by rising the current 25 p.c tariffs to 100 p.c and increasing the record to incorporate basically all wines from Europe, in addition to cheeses, olives, and different sundries and items. Those tariffs are paid for by American importers earlier than they will obtain these merchandise and distribute them to U.S. companies.
"Decimated" Wine Bars
The results are easy to know: With 100 p.c tariffs, wine costs will double. What might need been a $12 glass of rosé at a popular wine bar or restaurant will probably be upward of $20, much more. The pricier bottles of wine, wine consumers and enterprise house owners say, will merely be too costly to buy. The locations most affected by this will probably be wine bars and retail retailers, the place serving cheap, geeky European wine is a core a part of the enterprise mannequin.
Champagne bar Ambonnay virtually closed final yr earlier than it was bought by Michael Knisley. Now, he's pondering it would shut as soon as once more, not even a yr into his possession. "I'm nervous, to say the least," Knisley says. "If it happens and it gets reversed quickly, it's something that maybe can be waited out. If it drags on for any amount of time, it really is as dire as everyone is saying." Knisley's wine program is nearly totally Champagne-based, and in his eyes, pivoting to American wines is simply not sensible. "People come to Ambonnay for Champagne," he says. "I can't run a enterprise on Oregon glowing wine — most of it's finished in such small portions proper now. It prices greater than even some grower's Champagne that's the basis of my record. It's not a like-for-like substitution. And it's not what I do. What I know is Champagne."
Dana Frank, the proprietor of SE Clinton pure wine haven Bar Norman, has comparable issues. "85 percent to 90 percent of our wine sales are European, and I sell pretty much all of our wines at $12 a glass because we want wine to be accessible," she says. "If I have to see wine going to $18 or $20 a glass… who is going to come in and spend that kind of money on wine? […] I would say that the heart and soul of the bar would be diminished."
For individuals like Frank and Knisley, it's not nearly the rising value, and switching to an inventory of home wines isn't an possibility. The proprietor of wine bar and store Pairings, Jeffrey Weissler, worries the tariffs will impression the soul of his enterprise. "It's not sustainable; it's ridiculous. I won't be able to cover staff, there's no chance," Weissler predicts. "On a personal side, this is passionate people doing passionate business, and educating. France is the core of what we educate about; there is no story without French wine."
At Shift Drinks, the downtown trade bar recognized for its all-hours "happy hour," its esoteric $7 pours of wine may be a factor of the previous. Co-owner Anthony Garcia, like many different wine consumers on the town and all through the nation, has constructed relationships with wineries and distributors over the years that permit him to search out the distinct wines he serves at a low price. His issues are echoed by others: that if the wine and spirits tariffs go into impact and keep there, or even when the 25 p.c tariffs proceed unabated for a while, many wines will probably be erased from the U.S. market.
"It's not as though if the U.S. didn't buy the wines, they wouldn't have someone to buy them," says Brian Martin, the import model supervisor for Mitchell Wine Group, a neighborhood distributor and importer. He shares issues that Garcia and others have: that when producers discover new markets, there can be no incentive to return to the U.S., particularly after the uncertainty raised by tariffs. "We would be cut off from wine that would never be back again. Some of it might get back, but the bulk of it never would."
The Impact on Restaurants: "Terrifying for small business owners, [because] the margins are already so small"
While eating places is probably not as devastated as wine bars, they'll definitely really feel the tariffs. Andy Fortgang, the wine director and co-owner of the decadent French bistros Le Pigeon and Canard, expects the wine lists at each eating places to shrink and prices to go up. Despite the truth that the majority of the eating places' revenues come from meals, they'll nonetheless take a monetary hit. "It'll affect our revenues and bottom line," he says. "Most likely it would cost some jobs."
Austin Bridges, wine director for Nostrana, shares these issues. "Wine is 30 percent of our total sales every year," he explains. "With [the tariffs at 100 percent], it would instantly eliminate the high-priced wines we work with. It would greatly shape the quality of wines that customers would be able to enjoy and that we would be able to offer by the glass." He additionally factors out that the cheeses, olive oils, and even the canned tomatoes the restaurant makes use of in its well-known tomato butter sauce can be taxed at that charge.
Amanda Cannon, the wine director and co-owner of Normandie, the coastal-France minded bistro on Southeast Ankeny, has extra than simply wine to consider: The Calvados and brandy-based cocktails that outline the bar's identification and its connection to its namesake, Normandy, are additionally threatened by the tariff. "To have not just wine but spirits and cheeses have a 100 percent tax would impact us in a hugely negative way," she says. "The most frustrating thing is that we try to make it affordable so that you might try a wine or spirit you haven't tried before. If the $10 glass of wine is now $20, it means people can't try these new things. It's terrifying for small-business owners, [because] the margins are already so small."
What about Oregon Wines and Foods?
A widespread suggestion that restaurant house owners have heard currently is to pivot to a gr internetfocus on home wines. After all, Oregon wines are positively a supply of delight, and sometimes make their method onto restaurant and bar menus. However, Oregon wineries depend on small, unbiased corporations to deal with their distribution. Few of these distributors primarily work with native wines; most rely closely on European imports for their enterprise. "The distribution chain is going to be threatened," says Scott Frank, proprietor and winemaker for Bow & Arrow Wines. "It's an ecosystem, and European wines are a keystone species. For most of our distributors, retail shops that carry our wine, and restaurants that do… European wine is the centerpiece that keeps the lights on. Domestic is not the core of anybody's book. It's a small category."
In a letter written to congressman and chairman of the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Earl Blumenauer, winemaker and proprietor of Oregon's Eyrie Vineyards Jason Lett presents an impassioned argument in opposition to the tariff — regardless of the proven fact that he'd theoretically profit from it:
In the United States' highly-regulated home wine market, we rely on wholesome distribution networks with the intention to promote our merchandise legally, state by state. Our monetary survival relies on our distributors' skill to promote a variety of wines along with our personal. Curtailing the skill of distributors to promote a broad portfolio of wines cripples their enterprise, impacts the monetary well being of the gr internethospitality trade, and limits shopper selection.
Though wine bars prioritize European bottles, they promote native wines as nicely. A lack of European wines would seemingly drive many out of enterprise as a result of they couldn't promote the wines which can be produced domestically, and the similar goes for retail shops and wine retailers. "Imagine if you operated a record store," Scott Frank says. "Suddenly they banned all genres of music except country music. You might think it's a boon to country music, but all of those record stores would go out of business. No one goes there to buy just the one category; it needs to be supported by all the genres that the public is demanding."
There's additionally a matter of numbers — there merely isn't sufficient home wine to fill the gap left if European wine costs doubled. The United States makes fairly a little bit of wine — 800 million gallons in 2016 — but it surely's nonetheless dwarfed by Europe: Italy, France, and Spain, which collectively make up greater than half of the world's wine market. "You run into supply and demand issues when everyone is looking into new avenues all at once," says Bridges.
Unfortunately, these tariffs should not meant to bolster native merchandise — their intention, as said by the govt department, is to punish European nations for offering subsidies to an aerospace firm. But in line with an virtually limitless sequence of shops, the results may very well be devastating to the wine world, and to working-class jobs.
"The jobs, the thousands and thousands of people employed by the warehouses, truckers… working-class jobs that support this multibillion-dollar industry," says Scott Frank. "All of them will be adversely affected by this."
Because of this, Portland trade staff have spent the previous few weeks organizing and talking out, together with assembly U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon's workplace and with Rep. Blumenauer. "We're trying to be really open with what's going on," says Dana Frank. "Not to be alarmist, but to be realistic about how serious this is. It's not just your Monday-night bottle of wine; it will have a profound impact on the whole industry."
"I don't want it to come across as the tiny Champagne bar with two part-time employees is some significant casualty in all this," says Knisley. "The bigger story is the wide-ranging effect this has on people whose total livelihood is in true jeopardy here."
The Office of Trade Representative has its remark part open till the finish of the day immediately, January 13, for individuals to remark with their issues. After that, the tariffs may very well be applied at any level. This is a growing story and will probably be up to date with additional info.
"At the end of the day, put the politics aside. This will impact everyone, no matter what your politics are," says Cannon. "Potentially in a huge way."
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N Krishnamurthy in Cricket Age, 10 January 2019 …. https://www.cricketage.in/2020/01/10/exclusive-full-icc-report-on-banned-former-slc-president-thilanga-sumathipala/
Exclusive! Full ICC Report On 'Banned' Former SLC President Thilanga Sumathipala
In October last year, then Sports Minister Harin Fernando achieved a miraculous feat by banning former Sri Lanka Cricket Board President Thilanga Sumathipala over his involvement in betting and gambling through Sporting Star, who was acting as Immediate Past President at that time. For decades, Sumathipala remained as the undisputed king of SLC. Harin Fernando, most courageous, transparent, active and result oriented Sports Minister in the Island's history, however, managed to erase Sumathipala from the Cricket scenario, with the support of International Cricket Council (ICC). However, with his never ending greed for power at Maitland Place, Sumathipala is trying to make yet another comeback, in the changed political dynamics of the country. Harin Fernando, however though not a Sports Minister now, is not ready to let all his mountainous efforts get wasted.
On January 7, Harin held a press conference and explained everything in brief, why he had to ban Sumathipala.
According to Sports Ministry insiders, the decision to ban Sumathipala was taken based on a 900 pages comprehensive report against him, that justifys the move.
Most importantly, a 12 page ICC report proves that Sumathipala was actively involved in betting and gambling, while being in the SLC setup.
These are all important points, have been mentioned in the 12 page ICC report:
The Anti Corruption Unit (ACU) of the ICC initially contacted Glyn Palmer(GP), UK national, having identified him as a potential witness in a live investigation. At first he declined to share material with the ACU, but later contacted the ACU alleging he had evidence of corruption in SLC. The information ACU hold relates to claims and associated documents which concern the betting industry and alleged corruption
Glyn Palmer (GP) is a former senior manager in bookmaking businesses in the UK. For many years he says he worked for Thilanga Sumathipala (TS) as his adviser in setting up Sporting Star a bookmaking business. Palmer says he stopped working for TS in 2009 and since then has been paid 1000 GBP a month which he says is a pension.
A number of documents have been photographed by the ICC but Palmer retains the originals.
On Monday 8th July 2019, the ICC met with GP at his property in the United Kingdom in pursuance of ACU investigations into corruption in Cricket. The purpose of the meeting was to conduct a scoping of the material and evidence that he possesses which he claimed related to corruption in SLC and financial irregularity. The meeting was recorded and the ICC has a transcript of it.
GP described his history with UK regulated bookmakers, particularly Ladbrokes. He said he was at one point a senior manager responsible for large parts of the UK, his expertise was in growing the business which he claimed made him ideal for TS purposes in setting up a bookmaking business.
GP stated the events started because many years ago TS sent an individual called Karunaratne to the UK to buy equipment for setting up bookmakers, this ultimately led to GP and TS meeting when TS was 21 years old. From that they became friends and GP travelled to Sri Lanka 2 or 3 times a year to help with the business. As the relationship progressed it is clear that GP was used to move irregular payments, that GP describes as bribes, through his accounts or companies in the UK.
Over a number of years there are 3 accounts that this scoping has identified were used;
1. GP personal account with Midland bank account no 71220470
2. GP HSBC business account 01826867
3. Euro Com link. UK registered company with GP and TS shown as Directors.
GP claimed that in 1997 the TV rights for Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) were sold to Mark Mascarenas (now deceased) and his company World tel Inc. GP claimed that a 100,000 USD bribe was paid to TS for these rights. GP supplied a copy of a cheque for 50,000 USD from World tel to him and a paying in slip along with his bank statement and a letter confirming the credit into his personal account with the Midland bank. GP says he facilitated this for TS.
Bank statements provided by GP showed 3 further payments totalling 35,750 USD paid into the same account. GP says that TS did not personally benefit from the money paid into the account, it was used to pay bills associated with Sporting Star activity, such as the provision of runners and riders and event information which was initially given down a phone line from a betting shop in Wales enabling Sporting Star to operate real time betting. The same service was later provided by a company called SIS.
In the 12 page report, GP also talked about an individual he called 'Tanga', this individual made a number of cash payments into the HSBC account. He described how money was paid into HSBC after funds were paid to a contact in Sri Lanka and then transferred in a way similar to the Hawala system used in the sub-continent. Copies of some bank statements from the HSBC account were provided showing substantial payments. The purpose of these transactions were (according to GP) to evade currency controls in Sri Lanka at the time.
In the report, GP said that Euro Com link is the UK company set up to facilitate UK payments for Sporting Star. GP said that TS and GP were Directors, in May 2004, GP provided a letter as the company secretary to a Lloyds TSB bank manager in connection with TS application for a mortgage. The letter states that TS is the Managing Director of the Company earning 150,000 GBP per year. GP says that TS did not take a salary from the business and that the information in the letter is false. GP says the mortgage related to a property at 104 Olyffe Avenue, Kent.
GP says that he was frequently asked to run errands for TS. He said that on 13th December 2002 on the instructions of TS, GP travelled from Bristol to London, collected 40,000 GBP in 20 pound notes from an HSBC in Queensway and delivered it to 'Tanga', who at that time was using a mobile 07768 005960. The handover took place in a car in Wimbledon and he then returned to Bristol. GP made notes regarding this transaction and he allowed them to be photographed.
As well as being an adviser in setting up and growing Sporting Star, GP says he has been a facilitator for hiding and moving illegal payments including relating to TV rights deals.
In the report, the ACU also mentioned that Some of the allegations made by GP may constitute evidence of serious criminal offences in Sri Lanka. The ACU requested Sports Ministry to review these aspects and consider passing such evidence to the relevant law enforcement agencies in Sri Lanka.
(Note: The ACU has mentioned Thilanga Sumathipala as TS and Glyn Palmer as GP in its report)
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Châtenois est une commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Saône en région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

Géographie

La commune de Châtenois est située à mi-distance des trois villes de Vesoul, Lure, et Luxeuil-les-Bains, au cœur de la campagne haut-saônoise.

Communes limitrophes

Géologie
Le territoire communal repose sur le gisement de schiste bitumineux de Haute-Saône daté du Toarcien.

Urbanisme

Typologie
Châtenois est une commune rurale, car elle fait partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Vesoul, dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire, qui regroupe , est catégorisée dans les aires de  à moins de .

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des forêts et milieux semi-naturels (51,4 % en 2018), une proportion identique à celle de 1990 (51,4 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
forêts (51,4 %), prairies (35,1 %), zones agricoles hétérogènes (13,5 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Histoire

Le site de Châtenois fut occupé très tôt : on y a retrouvé des vestiges d'habitat gallo-romain.
Au Moyen Âge, la commune de Châtenois était une baronnie. Celle-ci possédait un château qui fut détruit à la fin du .
Le nom de Châtenois est issu du grand nombre de châtaigniers qui poussent (encore aujourd'hui) sur la commune.
Quelques vestiges du château sont encore visibles, et notamment le grand portail qui est intact.

Châtenois possède deux grandes fontaines toujours en eau. L'une fut construite en 1890 en grès rose. Elle est surmontée d'une petite croix et faisait également office de lavoir (le bac de lavage étant séparé du bac de rinçage) et d'abreuvoir. L'autre fontaine, un peu plus modeste, date de la même époque.

Quant à l'élégante église de Châtenois, elle fut construite elle aussi au  dans un style néo-gothique. En la contournant, on peut découvrir un charmant parc verdoyant où se niche une petite chapelle. La façade de celle-ci est ornée des armoiries de la famille de Saint-Mauris

Politique et administration

Rattachements administratifs et électoraux
La commune fait partie de l'arrondissement de Lure du département de la Haute-Saône,  en région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Pour l'élection des députés, elle dépend de la deuxième circonscription de la Haute-Saône.

Elle faisait partie depuis 1801 du canton de Saulx. Dans le cadre du redécoupage cantonal de 2014 en France, la commune est rattachée au canton de Lure-1.

Intercommunalité
La commune faisait partie de la communauté de communes du Pays de Saulx, créée le  et qui regroupait 17 communes et environ .

Dans le cadre des dispositions de la loi du 16 décembre 2010 de réforme des collectivités territoriales, qui prévoit toutefois d'achever et de rationaliser le dispositif intercommunal en France, et notamment d'intégrer la quasi-totalité des communes françaises dans des EPCI à fiscalité propre dont la population soit normalement supérieure à , le schéma départemental de coopération intercommunale de 2011 a prévu la fusion des communautés de communes : - du Pays de Saulx,  - des grands bois - des Franches Communes (sauf  Amblans et Genevreuille), et en y rajoutant la commune isolée de Velorcey, afin de former une nouvelle structure regroupant 42 communes et environ .

Cette fusion est effective depuis le  et a permis la création, à la place des intercommunalités supprimées, de  la Communauté de communes du Triangle Vert, dont la commune est désormais membre.

Liste des maires

Démographie

En , la commune de Châtenois comptait  habitants. À partir du , les recensements réels des communes de moins de  ont lieu tous les cinq ans. Les autres « recensements » sont des estimations.

Économie
L'économie de Châtenois est liée aux villes de Vesoul et Luxeuil-les-Bains. L'activité communale est essentiellement orientée vers l'agriculture  en particulier l'élevage bovin pour la production de lait de vache et de viande.

Lieux et monuments

L'église, les fontaines, le monument aux morts et les calvaires.

Personnalités liées à la commune

Voir aussi
 Liste des communes de la Haute-Saône
 Liste des anciennes communes de la Haute-Saône

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Liens externes

 Châtenois sur le site de l'Institut géographique national

Chatenois
Aire urbaine de Vesoul

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Bargain Berths no longer exist, and the sleeper is now in the hands of a different franchise. So all information you find on my website about the sleeper and the old Bargain Berth tickets is redundant so please ignore this post. Find information about the Caledonian Sleeper from the current company running it.
You may be aware of the handful of blog posts I've written about Scotrail's Caledonian Sleeper service between various Scottish stations and London; and in particular the posts about the bargain berths. These are the cheap – supposedly as little as £19 – fares you can get for berths on the sleeper, meaning you can get a good night's sleep and an eleven hour journey almost the length of the UK for less than the price of a good night out.
To cut a long story short, a major tone of my posts has been the rather infuriating difficulty with which one can grasp ahold of these limited and blink-and-they've-been-snapped-up bargain berths. The most recent post documented my frustration at Scotrail removing the ability to search purely for bargain berths and bunging them in amongst the morass of general price tickets on their website, a search facility known as the "mixing deck". Basically, it means it's now even more difficult to catch the bargain berths, never mind the often-advertised £19 fares.
I'm not the only one to be frustrated, as the (at the last count) 63 comments on the post testify. It's worth at least skim-reading them because it shows the range of comments from people who have searched in vain for these elusive £19 tickets. The comments have become quite a place for sharing anger and frustration at this, so much so it is in danger of becoming something of a community. I feel I ought to host a party for all the contributors in five years time or something.
Anyway. In amongst the tide of comments are a few from someone called Lou, who has wondered about whether there is a breach of advertising rules by claiming that there are £19 while hardly ever delivering on that claim. Lou has taken it as far as complaining to the Advertising Standards Authority, the UK's advertising regulator, and – again, to cut a long story short – won an early resolution, though remains unhappy with the outcome.
If you share Lou's frustration, as I do, it's well worth complaining to the ASA about their inadequate response to the situation. You can make a complaint to the ASA via this page, and the ruling to refer to is here.
As ever, I'm grateful for feedback or any reports people have of responses to their communications.
Update (January 2014): Lou has just commented again, below, to say that ASA have replied with a further judgement on the matter. It seems that not everything has changed as complainers might have liked, but at least there is no major discrepancy between what is being promised and what is being delivered. The Bargain Berths are still hard to find, but nobody's promising otherwise. Well done Lou.
By coincidence, I received an email from the ASA today.
They have agreed to re-open my complaint under a new reference number and will contact me as soon as they can. I should say that communication with the ASA has proved very slow but they do finally get there!
I have again stressed that Scotrail are effectively advertising a product it is impossible to buy since the closure of the old website. I have even challenged the ASA to find a Bargain Berth fare themselves!!
If any other reader of your website is planning to complain to the ASA (and I think that would be an enormous help) then please do point out the fact that they are advertising fares that are impossible to find therefore is false advertising. Whether they use the word "from" or not is beside the point!
Great stuff Lou, thanks for the update. Keep us posted!
I add my thanks for your efforts so far Lou. I'm definitely following up too.
I have today emailed Scotrail regarding this issue.
Hopefully if more people raise this issue with them, it will prompt them to change the Bargain Berth booking system to what it was before.
I just managed to find one £19 Bargain Berth and a few £29 (Euston to Inverness) booking well ahead on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. However, if you try to book two together you never get a figure which relates to any recognisable combination of prices. Suspicious.
The obvious thing is to try buying them separately, but that risks the second passenger getting stranded with a much higher fare.
Has anyone ever managed to buy two BB's for the same train, either separately or together?
I have, Mark, but not since last year. I managed to get two £39s, if I recall.
Thanks for commenting Emma. How odd that you can't book two tickets together at a low price. Have you complained to Scotrail about this?
Well done on the £29 ticket though – it proves they do exist!
Been meaning to update on this for a while. Apologies but here goes!
Having asked the ASA to relook at this issue they have have finally concluded that they can do no more on this issue. First Scotrail have agreed to remove the "from" element to their advertising and the ASA say this is afar as their remit allows. They argue that while it might be frustrating that the Bargain Berth web site has been withdrawn, they cannot make First Scotrail re-instate it despite saying they intended to.
I can't, in all honesty raise a complaint along those lines because it IS possible to see Bargain Berth fares when using the Mixing Deck, it is just very rare and frustrating. Which is where I came in!
Sorry this has not been more positive – the only action that has resulted from my compliant is a modification of the advertising, not the ease of searching.
Thanks for the update Lou, and well done on your persistence.
I can see ASA's point in a way – if Scotrail have changed their message to suit the product, then they're not doing anything wrong. They may still be doing something a little underhand by making the fares harder to find, but at least they're not making any incorrect claims. Well done again on delivering this win!
Perhaps the next stage is to embarrass them publicly, either in one of the Money pages in the weekend papers, or on Watchdog etc.
Last call for bargain berths on 30th March 2015.
Serco axes Bargain berths and drives up quality on the sleeper.
Hi Jonny. There was going to be money anyway, whoever won the tender, to improve things. Whether Serco does a good job with it or not, well, time will tell.


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A new Faunalytics blog looks at the past and present of advocacy for animals used in research, and offers context for potential future action.
In 2012, I released the film Maximum Tolerated Dose, which I had worked on for the previous two years. I toured around the world with the film, doing both screenings and participating in protests/demonstrations at nearly every city where it was screened. The insights that I gained from directing and producing the film, touring with it and discussing it, as well as demonstrating, have given me a unique perspective on research animal advocacy that I'd like to share with other animal activists.
Advocating on behalf of animals in laboratories can often feel like trying to hit a moving target, or at least a blurry one: the industries involved in animal research are secretive and opaque. Animal breeders and animal labs are often protected by regulations that allow them to operate behind closed doors and away from public scrutiny. They also benefit from a sort of scientific privilege, where scientists and researchers are often able to dismiss public concern about ethics as a lack of understanding by laypeople. In this blog, we'll be looking at these obstacles and much more as we explore ways that animal advocates can make a difference for lab animals.
The history of animal advocacy on behalf of research animals is long and full of countless examples of creative and effective work.
Going back to the beginning of the modern animal welfare and anti-cruelty societies, some of the earliest forms of animal advocacy in the U.K. and the U.S. were against animal experimentation and vivisection. Anti-vivisection groups began forming in the mid-to-late 1800s, and some of the first anti-cruelty laws – and animal advocacy groups that exist to this day – were focused on fighting vivisection.
In the mid-20th century, the attitudes around animal experimentation were quite different. U.S. government agencies and others would proudly showcase experiments on informational film strips as part of promoting scientific advancements. However, by the 60s and 70s, a sea change in animal ethics and philosophy, specifically the publications of Peter Singer's Animal Liberation, and later, Tom Regan's The Case For Animal Rights, would change many hearts and minds, often using examples of vivisection to get at ethical philosophies.
Fast forward to the 1980s and 90s, and I would be remiss if I didn't also mention that research animals have been a particular focus for illegal direction groups such as the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and groups that advocate more "grey area" tactics such as Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC). Indeed, it is arguable that the current level of secrecy of animal research is a direct result of such campaigns in the late 80s and throughout the 90s and 2000s. While most advocates do not engage in such tactics, it's worth noting that much of the earliest documentation of conditions inside laboratories came from ALF raids. Now, undercover investigations are much more common, and seem to generate much less contention within the movement and in press coverage.
In the present day, research animal advocacy operates on many fronts. First, there are consumer actions such as animal-testing boycotts and awareness campaigns, as well as demonstrations to raise awareness about lab animal cruelty and thwart construction of new labs. Secondly, there are pressure campaigns directed at different facets of the industry, such as lab animal breeding and transport. Thirdly, there are organizations that advocate for the "Three Rs": replacement of animals in experiments, reduction of animal experiments, and refinement of experiments using animals. This includes groups that are developing and advocating alternatives to using animals in research. Finally, there are academics who are using ethics as well as science to show that animal experimentation is not only wrong, but misguided and ineffective.
One of the biggest problems with doing advocacy on behalf of lab animals, however, is that public opinion on the subject is splintered and clouded. Part of this is due to the nature of the industry: animal research is secretive (both in practice and in the eyes of the public), and even when information is available, most of the general public is not trained in scientific language or procedures to be able to understand it.
Our Animal Tracker survey and other sources show, however, that opinion in the U.S. related to animal research is splintered and a bit less simple. While a study from 2011 showed that 72% of U.S. adults were opposed to animal testing for cosmetics, our most recent AT survey shows that only 33% of people say they have ever purchased a product labeled as "not tested on animals" (although that number jumps to 42% for just women). When it comes to medical experiments, 67% think scientists are either significantly or moderately credible on the subject of animal welfare, which underscores a key problem: those trusted to be credible about animal welfare are those who are designing and conducting experiments on them.
Underpinning this splinter in opinion is a scientific knowledge gap, which may be hard to bridge, and successful PR on the part of the animal research lobby. The old ethical question of "Who would you rather save, your child or a dog?" — as much of a fallacy as it may be — still strikes a chord with people, so much so that animal research lobbyists still use it in advertisements to manipulate public opinion. On both fronts, advocates may be able to step in to both inform the public on scientific practices and procedures, and also inform them about the actual tradeoffs of animal research outside of the "child vs. dog" fallacy. Indeed, many groups are doing such work on a daily basis.
The debate about animal research has stayed contemporary and in the public consciousness for decades, thanks to a combination of factors. It many ways, it is not an organized effort or a "campaign" coordinated by all actors involved, but rather involves many different actors working in concert to make change.
Advocacy groups such as PETA, CFI, and HSUS help to push the issue by continuing to release investigations exposing the horrors of vivisection, and underground groups create splashy media moments by actually breaking into labs and rescuing animals – though this has slowed in recent years. Corporations such as the Body Shoppe, Lush, and others play a big role in mobilizing and engaging consumers on the issues. At this point, cosmetics testing using animals is banned across the EU, and in other places around the world; companies such as Lush are carrying the torch forward in a big way, refusing to test their products on animals, supporting anti-vivisection campaigns, and with their foundation of the Lush Prize, which lauds scientists working on research alternatives, and more.
However, I would argue that cosmetics testing represents only minority portion of the industry, and perhaps even only a small minority. I believe the majority of animal research is done at the university level to generate data and publish papers, or it is done as part of the biomedical industry, which will always be a shaky ground on which to boycott. What's more, there is a great deal of animal experimentation being done at the behest of government agencies, or with government funding. That being said, it's nearly impossible to determine the proportion of animals are used for cosmetic testing and those used for biomedical or other research.
For argument's sake, let's assume cosmetics testing represented 50% of the industry… what do we do about the other half? There is very little we can do to boycott a university doing locomotion experiments on dogs or monkeys, and it's hard to imagine that many heart patients would boycott a medicine that was brought to them after animal trials. Yes, we may be able to protest at universities and ask them to change policy, or pressure them to be defunded, but there is little precedent for such protests having an effect.
Understanding this, many advocates around the world have turned their attention to placing pressure on different parts of the industry, the most public pressure campaigns being those targeting lab animal breeding and transport. The lab animal transport campaigns that have emerged in recent years, spurred by investigations from groups such as CFI and others, have shown relative success. Currently, only three airlines in the world – Air France, ABX Air, and Vietnam Airlines – will transport monkeys around the world for vivisection.
The future of animals used in science, and for other forms of experimentation, may depend on the balance between advocacy and scientific discovery.
Firstly, advocacy will always have a place in any animal issue and animal experimentation is no exception. Whether it is pressure campaigns targeting primary, secondary, and tertiary industries related to animal research, product boycotts (when possible), advocacy for change from within academic institutions, or advancements in philosophical / ethical understandings, animals in labs need animal advocates. We must continue pushing for changes, even when the potential victories are small, and keep the issues in the public consciousness. Many people in my generation remember the "against animal testing" campaigns of our youth, and spent many years believing that issue had been "taken care of," which is still not the case.
Secondly, scientific discovery will play a crucial role in reducing the "demand" for animal research. Part of that discovery will include scientists and institutions auditing themselves and each other, digging into the data and scrutinizing the effectiveness of animal research. Some scientists have already begun to do this, with startling results. The other part of scientific advancement will be to continue to push the field of alternatives forward, including computer modeling, in vitro studies, "organism on a chip" research, and much more. Advocates can contribute to this indirectly by helping to fund organizations doing research alternatives and by informing themselves about research alternatives to help educate the public.
For more information on laboratory animals and some statistics on lab animal issues, check out our recent Faunalytics Fundamental on Research Animals and browse our library with filters set to give you research related to animals used in science.