The angelfish was popular from about 1955 to 1986. Listed in a late 1950's catalogue at $12, it was the most expensive item made by Blue Mountain Pottery at the time.
In many areas of antiques and collectibles, it is sometimes curious why a particular item catches the attention of collectors. Possible reasons include: rarity, colour, size, style, price, age and designer. When it happens, acquisitive desire drives the price higher and faster than it would otherwise go. The angelfish made by Blue Mountain Pottery in Collingwood, Ontario, provides a fascinating case study.
First produced in the mid 1950s, the angelfish was illustrated in the earliest known Blue Mountain Pottery catalogue as number 58. Its popularity continued into the mid 1980s when it was discontinued. A 30-year production run of any item in the burgeoning trend-conscious consumer market of the postwar period is quite remarkable.
The cover of the 1981 Harvest Gold catalogue featured an angelfish to highlight the impressive glaze effects Blue Mountain Pottery could achieve.
"It's a very imaginative design," says Dr. Richard Winterbottom, ichthyology curator at the Royal Ontario Museum. "It doesn't really look like any specific kind fish, but has some similarity to the black crappie found in Georgian Bay. I think, however, it's more an impressionistic interpretation of a South American freshwater angelfish that is common in the aquarium trade -- but with a big bite out of the top of it!"
Although the angelfish was usually made with Blue Mountain Pottery's traditional streaky green glaze, it did appear in the company's harvest gold (brown and yellow) collection and was featured on the cover of the 1981 Harvest Gold catalogue . Examples in other popular glazes such as mocha, slate, jade, red or blue have not been seen by collectors or found in known Blue Mountain Pottery catalogues. But a few collectors do have a rare green example with a blue base. Since the angelfish itself is supported by a pedestal of waves, it seems only appropriate that the water be blue. "The angelfish looks more interesting when its base is blue," says collector Sharon Bennett of Parry Sound. "The all-green fish are very attractive too, but the blue reminds me of a sparkling lake in summer. This angelfish is one of my prized pieces of Blue Mountain Pottery."
The angelfish was designed by Dennis (Zdenek) Tupy. Born in Breznice, Czechoslovakia in 1929, he completed the three-year program at the Strední prumyslova skola keramicka (Secondary School of Industrial Ceramics, founded 1884, www.keramichkaskola.cz in the town of Bechyne. Tupy graduated at the top of his class, specializing in design and mould making. Escaping military service in his homeland, Tupy came to Canada in 1951, eventually settling in Collingwood where he worked for fellow Czech Jozo (Josef) Weider (1909-1971), owner of the Blue Mountain Winter Park ski resort. With Weider's assistance Tupy began Blue Mountain Pottery in 1953 at the age of 24. "Dennis, do something big!" Weider said one day according to Tupy who is now 76 years old and still living in Collingwood. "So I made the fish," explains Tupy. "It's what came into my head. My ghost told me to do it." Tupy often uses the word "ghost" to explain the source of his design inspiration. It seems a fitting term, similar to "voice" or "muse." It's the unpretentious way he puts his superlative talent into words. It is how he explains the way his mind and hands work together.
Exactly where the idea for a huge flat fish came from is anybody's guess. It was, after all, a half century ago, and Tupy doesn't remember everything his muse told him that day. No matter, the angelfish design sprung from his genius. And equally important, it was exceptionally stylish for the time.
Since these pieces had unglazed footrims, stilts were unnecessary.
The angelfish was a popular item when it first appeared around 1955. Although early examples, including the ones with blue bases, have flat glazed bases that bear no maker's mark, they were identified with factory stickers and hangtags. From 1967 to 1972 angelfish were moulded with the Three Trees mark, from 1972 to 1976 the BMP Canada mark, and from 1976 to 1986 the Vase and Waves mark.
Surprisingly, the long term popularity of the angelfish did not inspire other potteries to copy it. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, if one pottery produced a commercially successful item, others would often copy it to reap windfall profits. But the myriad of production challenges facing Blue Mountain Pottery in their efforts to make the angelfish would have been immediately obvious to pirating potters. For them, the difficulties were too great. And they could never successfully replicate that streaky green glaze. This clearly demonstrates the high level of ingenuity and technical expertise at Blue Mountain Pottery. One known exception, however, was Danesi Arts (1937-1975), a Toronto plaster and pottery giftware manufacturer. Their ceramic items (produced from 1955) were cast from original designs created by founder Primo Danesi or commercial moulds. A Danesi copy of the Blue Mountain Pottery angelfish appeared on eBay in June and sold for $45. Its slightly smaller size indicated that it was moulded from a Blue Mountain Pottery original.
An early angelfish is often immediately recognizable by the slight iridescent look of its glaze. This is a natural ageing effect that happens to the surface of certain types of glass, as well as glass-based formulas such as ceramic glazes.
Although designed as a vase, few examples of the angelfish are found today with water marks or scaly residue. It seems that most buyers appreciated its bold sculptural design.
William Rolling was employed at Blue Mountain Pottery from 1964 to 1979 as the factory superintendent. Born in Collingwood and now retired, Rolling worked in the town's Kaufman Furniture factory before coming to Blue Mountain Pottery. In addition to his managerial duties, he also prepared the clay, and cast, glazed and fired angelfish. "I worked in a barn on Jozo's farm that had been converted into a self-contained pottery," explains Rolling. "This location was in addition to the two main factories, the one on Pine St. and the other on Mountain Rd. We didn't call them angelfish then. Each model had a number. I still remember them all today. The angelfish was always referred to as number 58."
Following the first meeting of the Blue Mountain Pottery collectors in Collingwood in July 2003, and subsequent club formation a year later, the focus on collecting has sharpened. The closure of the Blue Mountain Pottery factory in December 2004 has further spurred collector interest. These events have brought many vintage pieces of Blue Mountain Pottery into the market (antique malls and eBay), and prices for the more unusual colours and shapes have been increasing rapidly.
The popularity of the angelfish received an unexpected boost when it appeared on the cover of the Winter 2005 issue of the Toronto-based Antique and Collectibles Trader magazine. It promoted the magazine's feature article, Blue Mountain Pottery: Canadian Icon. During January and February, 15,000 copies were widely distributed throughout Ontario. About a dozen magazines have been offered on eBay, either individually or as a bonus with the purchase of a piece of Blue Mountain Pottery.
Although the angelfish was used as the lead photograph in the magazine article to illustrate Blue Mountain Pottery's renowned streaky green glaze, it was not intended by the author to be the cover shot. The preference was for a grouping of pieces to illustrate the colourful range of the company's glazes. But the magazine editor chose the angelfish, making it instantly symbolic of all Blue Mountain Pottery production.
Once the "must have" desire was ignited among collectors, angelfish prices began to climb. In 2001, they sold for about $10. Last summer, angelfish could be bought for under $50. But by April the price had risen sharply to $250. Since then, prices have softened, but remain in the $150 to $225 range. In May, an angelfish in Harvest Gold, a much rarer glaze colour than green -- sold for $385. But it is not only Blue Mountain Pottery collectors that go after the angelfish. Since its look is so 1950s, many buyers eagerly seek out this piece to complement their retro style décor.
Oddly enough, an angelfish appeared on eBay in late January with its tail completely broken off and missing. The long-time U.S. seller included 10 large photographs showing every angle of the fish, including the area were the tail had been. Still, the opening bid was $24.99US. Needless to say, there were no bidders. It was re-listed at $9.99US and ignored yet again. In June, an angelfish was listed on eBay with two minor chips on its fins. The opening price of $9.99US did not entice a single bid. Unless a piece is so rare that minor condition problems can be forgiven, collectors only want perfect examples, regardless of price. Sometimes good repairs can be difficult to detect. When buying an angelfish, check the fin tips. It is easy to disguise repairs in these areas once they have been sprayed. Also, check the sides of angelfish to see that they have not been accidentally pushed in or dented during the production process. Make sure that all the fin tips come to relatively sharp points. Sometimes the tips were broken off in the factory, but to save the piece it was still glazed but sold as a second. A noticeable glaze drip on the bottom tail fin would also make an angelfish a second.
Collectors sometimes enjoy a particular piece so much that they keep buying more examples of it. Bryce Eaton in Brainerd, Minnesota, has 26 angelfish. "The style and shape really appeal to me," says Eaton. "I bought the first one at auction 14 years ago. I don't really need any more, but I find it hard to resist bidding on them. They're displayed as a "school" on my dining room buffet."
With a collection that large, it is easy to notice slight differences. Some angelfish are an inch taller or longer than others. Sometimes the vase opening is slightly wider or longer. These variations were the result of the shrinkage characteristics of the various clays that were used during the long production period of this piece. Also, as the moulds wore out, new ones had to be created. Minor size and design variations would invariably occur during this handmade process. A recent sampling of eight angelfish gave the following results: lengths ranged from 15-1/4 to 16-1/4 inches, base widths from 3-1/2 to 3-3/4 inches, and heights from 16-1/2 to 17-1/2 inches. When the angelfish were lined up by date of manufacture, no correlation was found between size and age. From a survey of existing catalogues, the 1974, 1976 and 1977 editions list the height as 17-1/2 inches, while the 1969 catalogue says that it is only 16 inches.
A survey of existing Blue Mountain Pottery catalogues shows that the price of the angelfish steadily increased to $39.95 in 1986, its last year of production. Compared to other pieces, it never ranked lower than the seventh most expensive item (topped in different years by a tea service, three-tier buffet tray, bottle vase, four large animals, two types of hanging planters, and two versions of a lazy susan).
When Robert Blair bought Blue Mountain Pottery at the end of 1986 (becoming its last president and owner), the angelfish was replaced with a realistically sculpted version, called Tropical Fish, number 132 (see photo). It was almost as large: 12 inches long, 4-1/2 inches wide, and 16 inches tall. It was made in green from 1987 to 2000, in blue from 1998 to 2004, and in white (with a white clay body) in 2000. The Tropical Fish remained in production until the factory closed in 2004. It was always among the highest priced items and ranged from $29.95 to $39.95 (exceeded only by a large elephant made from 1980 until the factory closed, the Romar Collection from its introduction in 1997, and the Robert Wilson Collection from its launch in 2002).
Coincidentally, this fish was also designed by Dennis Tupy. He left Blue Mountain Pottery in 1960 to open his own pottery, Canadian Ceramic Craft, in the earlier Blue Mountain Pottery factory in the village of Craigleith, 11 kilometres west of Collingwood. (Tupy later built a new factory and showroom in Collingwood, renaming his company Rainbow Ceramics.) At Canadian Ceramic Craft, Tupy's second angelfish was in production by the early 1970s (Tupy also made a very complex piece, number 100, combining two angelfish positioned at different heights and angles.). When he retired in 1984, Robert Blair took over the factory for two years until his purchase of Blue Mountain Pottery. (Blair had been a manager at the Blue Mountain factory from 1971 until his retirement in 1982.) At Rainbow Ceramics, Blair used the existing moulds which included Tupy's fish (originally called number 88 and renumbered by Blair as 132). When he became the new owner of Blue Mountain Pottery, Blair continued the production of the fish, a far more stylish version for the 1980s than the earlier angelfish.
The appeal of the first angelfish, both then and now, is its design. Having a relatively flat profile, it can easily sit on a window sill, mantel or shelf. Its distinctive outline is instantly recognizable and its broad flat sides gave the Blue Mountain Pottery company a superb opportunity to demonstrate its unique glazing abilities. Many collectors agree that the design of the angelfish is stylish, dramatic and timeless. Beyond that, it is just plain fun. All this is a reflection of the magic of Tupy, an exceptionally talented artist who, working with his muse, created a ceramic masterpiece for Canada.
For membership and convention information contact president Bruce Dyer at oakpoint2002@yahoo.ca or call 705-878-0444. Visit the Club's website at www.oldfriends.ca. To join, send your name, address, phone number, email and dues to Diana Buckley, 597214 2nd Line Mulmur, RR 3, Shelburne ON L0N 1S7. The membership fee is $20 Canadian (make Canadian cheques payable to the Blue Mountain Pottery Collectors Club), or $16 US (payable to Diana Buckley). You can also make a PayPal payment of $16 US to dbuckley@bmts.com (please put "BMP Collectors Club" in the message title).
Both authors are avid researchers and collectors of Blue Mountain Pottery and members of the Blue Mountain Pottery Collectors Club. Conrad Biernacki is the programs manager at the Royal Ontario Museum and writes the weekly Objects of Desire column for the Toronto Star (email conradbiernacki@sympatico.ca or call 416-586-5636). Todd Milks is the president of EstateNet.ca, a Toronto-based estate evaluation and antiques business (email todd@estatenet.ca or call 416-929-2011).


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Box Butte County - Alliance. Copyright © 2021 HTL, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Includes some frequently used court forms and links to fee-based court records databases. The Nebraska Counties section of the gazetteer lists the cities, towns, neighborhoods and subdivisions for each of the 93 Nebraska Counties. There are 93 counties in Nebraska. Nebraska Territorial Counties. It is the only county in Nebraska to have over 500,000 people. Clay (1855-64) Formed from un-organized and dissolved into … When many counties were formed, the bills establishing them did not state the honoree's full name; thus the namesakes of several counties, including Brown, Deuel, Dixon, and possibly Harlan, are known only by their surnames. Click on the county to view the high schools located there. The projected win puts an electoral vote in … The second-smallest county in Nebraska is Blaine County, which has a population of 476 people. The State of Nebraska was created as the 37th state on March 1, 1867.. 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Sea cucumber protein used to inhibit development of malaria parasite
Scientists have genetically engineered a mosquito to release a sea-cucumber protein into its gut which impairs the development of malaria parasites, according to research out today (21 December) in PLoS Pathogens. Researchers say this development is a step towards developing future methods of preventing the transmission of malaria.
Malaria is caused by parasites whose lives begin in the bodies of mosquitoes. When mosquitoes feed on the blood of an infected human, the malaria parasites undergo complex development in the insect's gut. The new study has focused on disrupting this growth and development with a lethal protein, CEL-III, found in sea cucumbers, to prevent the mosquito from passing on the parasite.
Human blood infected with malaria contains parasitic gametocytes – cells which can create parasite sperm and eggs in the gut of the insect. These then fertilise, kick-starting the parasite reproductive process and life cycle by producing invasive offspring called ookinetes.
These ookinetes then migrate through the mosquito's stomach wall and produce thousands of 'daughter' cells known as sporozoites. After 10-20 days these are ready in the salivary glands to infect another human when the mosquito takes a subsequent blood meal.
The international team fused part of the sea cucumber lectin gene with part of a mosquito gene so that the mosquito would release lectin into its gut during feeding. The released lectin is toxic to the ookinete and therefore kills the parasite in the mosquito's stomach.
In laboratory tests the research team showed that introducing lectin to the mosquito's gut in this way significantly impaired the development of malaria parasites inside the mosquito, potentially preventing transmission to other people. Early indications suggest that this sea cucumber protein could be effective on more than one of the four different parasites that can cause malaria in humans.
Professor Bob Sinden from Imperial College London's Department of Life Sciences, one of the authors on the paper said: "These results are very promising and show that genetically engineering mosquitoes in this way has a clear impact on the parasites' ability to multiply inside the mosquito host."
However, Professor Sinden explains that there is still a lot of work to do before such techniques can be used to combat the spread of malaria in real-world scenario. This is because although the sea cucumber protein significantly reduces the number of parasites in mosquitoes, it does not totally remove all parasites from all mosquitoes and as such, at this stage of development, would not be effective enough to prevent transmission of malaria to humans.
Professor Sinden says he hopes studies such as this one, which improve scientists' understanding of the complex process by which malaria parasites are transmitted, will lead to new advances in the quest to prevent malaria.
"Ultimately, one aim of our field is to find a way of genetically engineering mosquitoes so that the malaria parasite cannot develop inside them. This study is one more step along the road towards achieving that goal, not least because it has been shown that more than one species of malaria can be killed in this way."
About 40% of the world's population are at risk of malaria. Of these 2.5 billion people at risk, more than 500 million become severely ill with malaria every year and more than 1 million die from the effects of the disease.
Malaria is especially a serious problem in Africa, where one in every five childhood deaths is due to the effects of the disease. An African child has on average between 1.6 and 5.4 episodes of malaria fever each year.
Citation: Yoshida S, Shimada Y, Kondoh D, Kouzuma Y, Ghosh AK, et al. (2007) Hemolytic C-type lectin CEL-III from sea cucumber expressed in transgenic mosquitoes impairs malaria parasite development. PLoS Pathog 3(12): e192. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.0030192 (www.plospathogens.org)
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So, what was going on in Australia in 1983? The red rocky thing in the desert was already there, so Black Alice decided to use it for their album cover. My young self found that cover so appealing that I bought the record, hoping to find something along the lines of Exciter or Battleaxe, I don't know, this artwork looks very speed metal to me, doesn't it? Maybe, but the music is completely standard hard rock, pretty close to AC/DC (mainly because of the vocals) and British Steel-type Judas Priest, and Metal On Metal-era Anvil. And most importantly, it is great, close to classic! I love this record. It rocks in the sand and makes your hair grow faster. There is a bump on song 2 on side B that I could not edit out, sorry. Super very excellent hard zerring album anyway!


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Muhammad Yunus, in his signature handloom kurta and vest, is an unassuming and slight man with a disarming smile. He is not only an economist, an entrepreneur, a banker, a Fulbright scholar and a recipient of the Noble Peace Prize for his work with microcredit and the Grameen Bank, but he is also a very good storyteller.
He will tell you about how a loan of 27 dollars in 1976 expanded into an enterprise that has dispersed over 9.54 billion dollars with 8.29 billion borrowers who own 95 percent of the total equity of the bank, 97 percent of whom are women. And the recovery rate on these loans—97 percent.
But that is not all. In his latest book, Building Social Business, one compelling story follows another, making the case for the kinds of businesses he thinks we should be building. He calls them social businesses. They run on the same principles of profit and loss as other companies, but with one essential difference – the main objective of such a business is a social cause such as providing affordable healthcare, housing, nutrition, safe drinking water or renewable energy for the poor.
Prof. Yunus will tell you, with zeal, about his plan to eliminate poverty by 2050 and move it to museums. And then he will invite you to join him.
Winner of numerous awards and author of three major books, including Creating a World Without Poverty, Prof. Yunus (he has taught economics in Tennessee and Bangladesh) currently chairs the Yunus Center, which connects various Grameen and Grameen-inspired networks and companies around the world.
Prof. Yunus engages and excites people who are looking for alternatives to current business models—especially in today's climate of collapsed banks and widespread predatory loans and mortgages—by giving them real-life examples of success. But he has also attracted critics who point out that though Prof. Yunus positions his ideas as radical, they are not quite radical. They cite that many of the social businesses are essentially subsidized by larger businesses and the increase in loans by the poor also demonstrates that they are stuck in a cycle of borrowing.
But what cannot be denied is that Muhammad Yunus has brought the debate around poverty to the mainstream in a unique way. He also speaks not as much about charity as about social responsibility and the need for solutions that include providing those who are poor access to financial means as well as an opportunity for active participation.
While Prof. Yunus was in Atlanta, he sat down with Khabar to talk about his ideas, his work, and his favorite topic, the social business.
When you were in the United States in the 1960s, were things harder because there was not as much integration in the South?
Vanderbilt University was integrated in 1964. Until then, it was a white school. And Nashville was very much racially divided. There was this small coffee shop right outside the campus that could accommodate 20 to 30 students, which was not integrated. Along with many other students I participated in demonstrations to integrate that. Being a Bangladeshi at that time, I was not considered black, and as a foreigner, I had access. But it was ridiculous that they wouldn't let black people get in just to have a cup of coffee. From there, I also saw a lot of the [Civil Rights] movement started by Martin Luther King. I used to take trips from Nashville to Memphis to hear him speak. And when he was shot, there was such an explosion of anger throughout the whole country. And then there was the transition, and the laws for integration, and today, after all these years, a black president. That's such a long journey.
These days, immigrants and Muslims have become targets of increased discrimination. As a Muslim, what has been your experience while traveling here?
When I show my passport, they look at the name and the moment you have a Muhammad in your name, you're in trouble. So you go through special security and all that.
Even though you are a Nobel Prize winner?
When you have a Bangladeshi passport and a name that arouses their suspicion, you become a suspect. You go through all these things as you're checking in—somebody's looking at your passport and suddenly you're politely taken out of the line for more questioning. My passport is a very special kind of passport because it's very thick. I have many, many passports because the pages are full of lots of visa stamps. So anybody can see that this guy travels a lot.
Finally, the harassment became so much that the State Department had to pay attention to my case. They wrote down a whole sentence in my visa: This is Professor Yunus who has received a Noble Peace Prize.
When you spoke at Agnes Scott College last week, the hall was packed. People seem to be hanging onto your every word. What is it about you and your ideas that inspire people?
People are looking for something better to happen. They are disgusted with all the problems that have accumulated—poverty, health problems, children dying of malnutrition, maternal deaths, and unnecessary deaths caused by diseases that shouldn't be there—environmental problems, food scarcity. When I speak, I don't just talk about ideas but tell people what I've actually done, complete with examples. People can relate to that and feel that they can do it, too. I'm not demonstrating on the street with placards, but showing people that if I can do it, they can do it. If we get together, everything becomes more forceful, solutions become implementable, and problems get solved. I'm showing people that these are the problems I'm solving, and this is just the beginning.
And what inspires you to act?
The work itself is so exciting. When you can see that what you're doing touches people's lives. Families that we have been working with, their children are now going to colleges, studying mathematics, physics, economics, chemistry—subjects that any other young people are studying anywhere in the world. They are as intelligent as any other young people anywhere in the world. That poor, shy, skinny woman who was raising chickens, her kid is now a medical doctor. So the transition is not happening over a period of centuries but just in one generation.
You are always seen in a handloom kurta and vest. Would you say that you're a modern-day Gandhi?
[Laughs] My attire came out of something I'm promoting. Our handloom products have a long history. But the handloom weavers of Bangladesh are very poor. When you talk of eliminating poverty, always the traditional answer is that poor people are poor because they have no skill. They say, teach them a skill and they can make a living. But the two million weavers of Bangladesh have the best skill in the world. Nobody can make these fabrics the way they make them, and yet they are poor because they cannot sell their product. So I created a company to market our handloom fabrics internationally. And when people see me wearing this, they ask me questions about it.
We had a fashion show in Paris with these fabrics. The models were young schoolgirls from Bangladesh. They absolutely impressed all the Parisians. I ask, why should these weavers be poor? Your secondhand, discarded clothes are sold in our markets in tons, not yards, and they're so cheap that our handmade products cannot compete with them. When you go to the villages, you see an old, sickly-looking man plowing the field with a sickly cow, wearing a cheap foreign T-shirt, because he cannot afford the handloom clothes woven by his own people.
Women constitute 97 percent of Grameen Bank's borrowers because you discovered that when women borrow they spend it on their families to a much greater degree then men. But if these women are already breaking their backs trying to take care of their family and the household, don't you think that pushing them to take additional responsibility for the finances unduly burdens them?
Women were not able to show their talent because they were always under the command of men. So they couldn't be themselves and were always busy pleasing men. When we started giving them finance, women gradually began to see that they could do things, too. It was a process of self-discovery. The women didn't know they had any talent in the beginning. That's why they were afraid to approach us. But once they begin, they blossom, and learn that they have all the qualities they need for success. And if those qualities impress the man, he changes, too. And a mutual respect begins. Their relationship changes for the better, because earlier she was just taking his orders, and now because of the mutual respect, there is a new closeness in the family.
Eventually, do you see a shift happening with men taking a more active role with household work?
Sure. Men will be impressed with women's success, and will become more responsible for children, etc. And the children will grow up differently. The daughter will see the new, changed relationship between the father and the mother, and know that her own role as a wife when she marries will be more important. She will ask questions and not just obey.
Even though 97 percent of your borrowers are women, in your experience are there instances where the money is still controlled by a man in the house?
That's possible, since these are the first winds of change. Change cannot be 100 percent right at the beginning. Sometimes, even when the woman is very strong-willed, she allows her husband some control because she doesn't want any trouble in the family. So she goes about it very diplomatically. Women are very good diplomats.
The saying goes, money can't buy happiness. Do you think we're missing something if we focus on money and finance as the means to achieve social change?
I will not disagree with that. Money to just keep under lock and key is useless. But when you use it to bring happiness for others, you get much more from it. If you see that the life of even one family has changed because you did one small thing for them, it can bring you so much happiness. Credit is just one part of the whole thing. Credit is not the whole story. Credit comes only because these banks never give you the money if you're poor. You have built a wall in front of them. So, they are pushed to the loan sharks. Their world is one of loan sharks and pawnshops. If you break that wall by giving them credit, they will do well. And we have demonstrated that it can work very well.
What you're saying is that the money just serves as the means?
That's on the microfinance level. I'm talking about a much broader idea, the social business. If you have the money, you can create a company, or the business, not for making money for yourself but to solve the problem.
Then financing is integrated to this vision of social business?
No, social business is the broader idea. Financing is one of those social businesses, one of thousands of social businesses. When someone is terribly sick, a cure for her disease is the most important thing for her. Money can't do much.
How would you modify capitalism, which is essentially driven by selfishness?
Broaden it, so it can allow both selfishness and selflessness to coexist.
When you say the system needs change, why call it capitalism at all?
Because the same fundamental principal still remains intact in my system. All I'm saying is that something is missing, so fix it. You build a whole house but it doesn't have windows and doors. I say, create some doors and windows. So, you are not destroying the building, but adding a piece which will make us more comfortable.
And how can we modify the system?
You say you have one business—the whole edifice is built on the basis of one business, to make money. I say no, have two businesses. It's a two-wheeled thing. When it's one-wheeled, it's wobbly, and doesn't work. If you have a two-wheeled thing, there's a balance. With one, you accumulate [money], and with the other, you use the money to solve the problems that you have created along the way because you created a problem in doing business the wrong way. You ask yourself why and how you're creating the problems, and you go back to fix them again. And then you'll find a way of doing it right.
During your lecture, you talked about the social business venture with the French dairy giant Danone (Dannon) and another one for affordable shoes with Adidas. But in both these cases, aren't the companies just subsidizing the social business with their other more lucrative ventures? Could a social business be sustainable on its own without a way for the company to also make money using the current model of capitalism?
First of all, these are not subsidized programs. These are separate companies. If it is not sustainable, then it's not a social business because in social business, the company has to be sustainable. Otherwise, it becomes charity. It's not like when big companies take some money from their profits and say, okay, here it is, here's some social responsibility money.
You see this as being different from corporate foundations or other nonprofits?
Yes. This is an investment. This is just like any other company. At the end of the year, you show what profit you made, what losses you incurred, how you plan to overcome the losses and make use of the profit. The only difference is that the owners of this company promised that they weren't in it to make money for themselves. The company will profit, and the profit will stay with the company. My interest in the company is to solve the problem that we designed to solve.
Then why go to big corporations?
I'm not going to big companies. They have come to me. I never knew there was a company called Danone. There is no Danone in Bangladesh. But I met the chairman of Danone, and I discussed this idea [of affordable nutrition-fortified yogurt for malnourished children] with him. He said let's do it, and that's how it happened.
Do you think that these social business ventures have changed the big companies in any way?
The total investment from Danone for this tiny little company [Grameen Danone] is about a million dollars. But Danone is a company worth several billion dollars. For them, this is small change, but this little company has influenced their employees and the management so much. Danone is in the U.S. and in Brazil, and they are talking about what is happening in Grameen Danone. And they want to do something similar at Danone in their own country. The employees want to do it because it excites them. So far, they had been working hard for the shareholders to make a good profit. But now they see that they can work hard to change people's lives. Their skill and knowledge can help people solve a problem. Many things are now being done differently in the mainstream because of lessons learned there. People are asking why we do it this way, why can't we do it like we do in Bangladesh.
In your book, you give another example of how business can be done differently.
Yes, the example of the yogurt cup. The first question I asked Danone about the product was what kind of material they were going to use for the cup. When they said it would be plastic, I said that we don't want to see Bangladesh filled with plastic cups. They said plastic was what they used all over the world. I told them that here they were doing social business, so here they would have to use biodegradable cups. I was told it would be impossible—they just didn't have the materials. I told them to look for the materials. Four to five months later, they found material for biodegradable cups in China. It was made from cornstarch. I asked them, are the cups edible? After all, poor people would be paying for the cups. Why should they just throw the cups away? Why not make them edible and nutritious? Something like an ice-cream cone? Again, they said it would be difficult to make something like that. I told them that if anyone could do it, they could, since they had the big research facility in Paris. Some months later, when I met the research team, they were happy that they had been asked these questions and given that challenge, because the solution would benefit the big company as well as little Grameen Danone. You see—it was a simple question, but it transformed the whole thing.
In the example you just shared, the material was bought in China, you're building it in France, and finally selling the product in Bangladesh. What's your view on using local goods and resources so that the business is sustainable and benefits the local community?
We cannot build walls, whether it's a district wall or a state wall or national walls, because walls are against your interest. In the beginning, it looks like we are protecting our interest. Then you find out that you're working against your interest. If you had done business with each other, you'd have done much better. So, walls are not a solution.
At the same time, you don't want to dismantle the wall all of a sudden. Then people get upset because the floodgate opens, and we lose everything. So, you gradually adjust. I have to be cheaper than everybody else, or my product should be so special that people will still buy my product (whatever the cost). So, I have to learn how to do this. And those who are running the country, they have to be careful how to make this adjustment process work. For them, for politicians, the easy solution is to build a wall.
Have you heard about the New York Times exposé about the Koch Brothers funding an anti-Obama agenda with the Tea Party movement? What's your view on billionaire businessmen getting involved in politics this way?
This has been my continuous complaint, that there is nothing called free media. The media is also a business—somebody owns it. And I'm saying why can't we create a social media, not for making money, but for upholding the truth? Because today, if you're on one side politically, you can make a tiny little news the headline of the day, or bury a news item on the third page in the bottom, just because it does not serve your political interest. As a reader, I give you free access to my mind, and you manipulate me all the time. Why should I subject myself to this kind of media where you can bring anything you want, and I have no say about that? My mind is continuously manipulated by the news you provide, and by the advertisements you provide. You tell me my life is worthless if I don't wear this shirt, which is a lousy thing anyway, but you tell me again and again in all those fancy ways. So, why can't we stop that manipulation?
As a representative of media right now, I want to thank you for your time.


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It takes more than health care to be healthy. There are many factors that affect your health outside of the doctor's office—how much money you make, where you live, and access to resources like fresh food and clean water, for starters.
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Medicare is becoming proactive by designing programs that address these very issues. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) believes doing so will reduce healthcare costs for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries alike. More importantly, it will help to promote public health programs that keep people healthier longer.
Social Determinants of Health Care
Healthy People 2020 is an initiative taken by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with the goal to decrease preventable diseases and injuries, eliminate healthcare disparities, improve quality of life, and promote health for all people. The initiative has identified five social determinants that affect our health.
Economic stability: The ability to pay for food, housing, and other life essentials (i.e., prescription medications) has an obvious effect on health. Access to job training, jobs with a livable wage, and opportunities for stable employment are also key.
Education: Level of education and literacy affects health and well-being. Not only are people more likely to have increased job opportunities, but they are also more likely to adopt healthy behaviors if they have more education.
Social and community context: Communities with high rates of crime, violence, or discriminatory practices have a negative effect on health while safer communities that are more accepting of different cultures are more likely to thrive.
Health and health care: Access to health care, especially primary care, helps to decrease illness and promote health.
Neighborhood and built environment: Access to local food markets, quality housing, and transportation has a direct effect on your quality of life. It can be harder for people to thrive in neighborhoods with concentrated areas of poverty and fewer resources.
These are only some of the many ways social determinants can affect your health.
Accountable Health Communities Model
CMS is aware that social determinants affect health. For example, lack of food could lead to malnutrition and with it a number of medical complications. Lack of housing could increase someone's risk for physical injury. Lead found in paint or copper pipes of old buildings could cause poisoning in young children. Poor ventilation in some buildings could trigger breathing problems for people with asthma, COPD, and other respiratory conditions. Low income could lead to an inability to afford life-saving medications like insulin.
These situations can cause people to become sick or otherwise have flare-ups of their chronic medical conditions, increasing their need for healthcare services. When they are healthier, their health expenditures are likely to go down. In that way, addressing social determinants of health can improve health outcomes and decrease healthcare spending.
For these reasons, CMS initiated the Accountable Health Communities Model in 2017. They know there are many community-based resources available. The problem is not everyone knows about them. The goal of the Accountable Health Communities Model is to close that gap and to raise awareness of these programs.
As of March 2020, a total of 30 organizations are participating, receiving funding of $1 million each to use over a five-year period. Clinicians in these organizations are tasked to identify local resources that are available to the people in the communities they practice. They must also screen all Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries to determine if certain social needs are being met. When they are not, clinicians will refer their beneficiaries to community organizations that will hopefully address those needs.
The government funding is not intended to develop community-based programs that address health-related social determinants directly. Instead, the Accountable Health Communities Model is a public health model that aims to boost awareness and establish community partnerships. The model is expected to run for five years. At that time, CMS will assess the effects on health outcomes and healthcare spending. Hopefully, in time, funding will be provided to expand on those public health programs.
The biggest social determinant of health is financial instability. Low income and outright poverty make it difficult to pay for medically necessary care. Whether it is the cost of doctor's visits or prescription medications, not everyone can afford it.
Thankfully, CMS has multiple programs in place to help people that cannot afford Medicare copayments, coinsurance, deductibles, and premiums. There are four different Medicare Savings Programs (MSP) that cover certain expenses for Medicare Part A and Part B.
Qualified Disabled & Working Individuals (QDWI): This MSP is not available to all Medicare beneficiaries. Specifically, it is intended for people under 65 years of age who qualified for Medicare based on a disability but who were no longer eligible for premium-free Part A when they went back to work. The program covers Part A premiums.
Qualifying Individual (QI): This MSP covers Part B premiums.
Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB): This MSP is the most extensive and covers Part A premiums, Part B coinsurance, Part B copayments, Part B deductibles, and Part B premiums.
Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB): This MSP covers Part B premiums.
In order to qualify for any of these Medicare Savings Programs, you need to be eligible for, if not enrolled in, Medicare Part A. You must also meet certain income and asset requirements. To find out if you qualify, reach out to your state Medicaid office or call 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227; TTY 1-877-486-2048) to apply.
Part D Prescription Drug Coverage and Policy Changes
CMS is taking action to drive down prescription drug prices. This includes lifting pharmacy gag clauses that prohibited your pharmacist from discussing lower-cost options. Medicare Advantage plans use step therapy for medications covered under the Part B benefit. This encourages doctors to prescribe less expensive options to start and to use more costly options only when treatment has failed.
In March 2020, CMS proposed the Part D Senior Savings Model to specifically decrease insulin costs for Medicare beneficiaries. Insurers would decrease insulin copays to a flat rate of $35 per month, saving an estimated 66% off current prices and pharmaceutical companies would adjust costs and contribute more towards the coverage gap known as the donut hole. These changes will not take place until 2021.
CMS also proposed changes to Part D plans to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies for medications that are in the six protected drug classes. That includes antidepressants, antipsychotics, chemotherapy agents, HIV/AIDS drugs, immunosuppressants, and seizure medications. Traditionally, nearly all medications in these classes were covered. This policy could make some options less expensive but could potentially make it harder to access certain medications.
While these policies may help to decrease costs to the health system at large, they may not always be beneficial to the individual. Simply put, some people may not respond to certain lower-cost medications and may need a more expensive drug. They may need a medication that only has a brand name option. Oftentimes, out of pocket costs can be prohibitive.
Part D Prescription Drug Coverage and Extra Help
If you are having a hard time paying for your medications, consider getting Extra Help. Similar to a Medicare Savings program, this program subsidizes costs for Medicare beneficiaries. To be eligible, you must be enrolled in Part A and/or Part B, live in one of the 50 states or the District of Columbia, and meet certain income and asset criteria.
There are two versions of Extra Help. For the most needy, Full Extra Help covers Part D premiums for plans with premiums below your state's benchmark amount. As of 2019, you are then only responsible to pay a $3.40 copay for generic drugs, an $8.50 copay for brand-name drugs, and no copay after $5,000 is spent in out-of-pocket drug costs.
If your income and assets qualify you for Partial Extra Help in 2019, you will pay a monthly premium that depends on your income, an annual deductible (an $85 deductible or your plan's deductible, whichever is cheaper), and a 15% coinsurance or plan copay, whichever is cheaper. After you spend $5,000 in out-of-pocket costs, you will pay either a copay ($3.35 for generic drugs and $8.50 for brand-name drugs) or a 5% coinsurance, whichever is greater.
You can apply for Extra Help online, call Social Security at 1-800-772-1213 (TTY 1-800-325-0778), or apply at your local Social Security office.
A Word from Verywell
Access to health care is only part of the equation. There are many social determinants that affect our health ranging from how much money we have to where we live. Resources that address these social needs can improve the health of not only individuals but also whole communities. Thankfully, CMS is taking action to address unmet social needs. By building community partnerships through the Accountable Health Communities Model, subsidizing healthcare costs for beneficiaries with low incomes, and enacting policy changes that will decrease drug costs, Medicare is paving the way towards better health for all.
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U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Medicare Savings Programs.
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CRLN's Immigration Program is rooted in our history of hospitality and advocacy during the sanctuary movement of the 1980s. Since then, our Immigration Program has transformed and expanded through the work and support of our Immigration Organizer, Immigrant Welcoming Congregations (IWC's), members, and partner organizations. We believe or faith calls us to practice prophetic action that takes the lead from directly-affected communities. Our work is rooted in challenging the criminalization of immigrants, supporting local deportation defense efforts, and holding each other accountable as faith communities committed to working towards the end of detention and deportations for all. As we uplift the call for Expanded Sanctuary, we participate and mobilize our members towards campaigns locally, at the state level, and nationally.
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The pandemic put many things on hold and caused much strife, but it did not diminish our work for justice. We joined the calls for justice for immigrants, especially those in detention and pushed for ICE to release all people. One of our members challenged us to do more, especially for those who were released. Not everyone has a safe place to return to, or family here in the United States. In response, members of the Organizing Committee decided to dedicate time, energy, and resources to helping immigrants and asylum seekers as a part of our response to the pandemic.
That effort kept us connected and on mission. And it has kept forged ties with the people who are being directly affected by anti-immigrant policies. We created a beloved community that accompanies, supports, and learns from immigrants and asylum seekers.
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We helped house a young man who lost his DACA status and wanted to protect his family.
We also helped housed family from Central America and gain stability here. This also helped prevent them from being placed in detention.
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